theblast:
friendzone:
linguineonastick:
Can someone get me all of these? Please?
I want bottom second and third from left
nioce
I have 4 of these. Sad…:( - http://mhking.tumblr.com/post...
sander786:
petapeta:
error888:
aya18:
sarazorel:
friendzone:
damn you internet cosplayers. How dare you toy with my heart!
Whoa this is cool. I don’t think I’ll ever get too old for this. xD - http://shake4me.tumblr.com/post...
kerma:studentloansforbeermoney:plaidgorilla:afrojr:solaravada: A man in a friendzone is a scary scary man. Because he doesn’t follow the brocode… - http://darkerme.com/post...
Sanat: insightful. Paul: Google makes a smart phone OS, and he hasn't resigned, so why would he now?
- Robert Scoble
Zune HD. Looks nice for the first time ever I'm thinking about it.
- Dylan Richardson
Google is talking about it's goals at this point. Isn't Intel trying a netbook OS too that boots fast? It'll be interesting to see which OS features win out here with different implementations. Is instant on to the browser the key or will some other feature shine? Fun times ahead, though really need to see things in action.
- Loren Heiny
from iPhone
Dylan: sorry, that is dead on arrival. They should have combined Zune with a cell phone.
- Robert Scoble
I got a screen photo here: http://ff.im/4WoVE, I don't have much comments yet due 2 that I am using it now, its not much of an announcement.
- polou/indigo_bow
Robert, Zune with a phone hmmm??? I hope ur rite as u said ur embargoed!
- polou/indigo_bow
Robert, because they claim to excuse him from the part of the meetings related to iPhone...computer OS is arguably the biggest segment of Apple. I guess he can stick around for the hardware discussions. I know my argument is elementary, but maybe walking a line here?
- Paul Salzman
What was the last big hit new MS product?
- James Watters
But if they did that would be cool competition is always better for the consumer.
- Dylan Richardson
Robert: Thanks, wasn't hating, just looking for organic momentum from products. Bungie was def a godsend to 360. Bing proved Seth Godin wrong which I greatly enjoyed.
- James Watters
@Robert Scoble: So I looked up Microsoft's last quater's financial report, Microsoft does indeed have a $14 billion business :)
- Long Zheng
Bing is nice I have to say. Here is how I use it .. If I want to Buy or shop a price I use Bing. If I need info its Google.
- Dylan Richardson
MS also has ~6+ B in R&D, is it efficient?
- James Watters
Not new news, but it could be the launch of Silverlight 3.0? Offline mode and all the other nice bits, runs on Chrome and Firefox.
- Travis Koger
from iPhone
Oh, really? When I get something on embargo...I don't write about getting it under embargo. Come on, Robert. You're better than that. Or at least I hope you are.
- Andrew Feinberg
I agree @travis, but google make it like a news
- polou/indigo_bow
James: it doesn't matter, a company like Microsoft needs a product pipeline to remain relevant. Research lets Microsoft remain relevant and on Monday you'll see a bit of how it does that.
- Robert Scoble
OK. Google Chrome OS. Netbook makers say Linux based Netbooks have high return rates. How will people react to a Netbook that only runs a browser? Linux has remained niche.
- Dileepa Prabhakar
Andrew: sometimes you have to take a risk. This is one of those times.
- Robert Scoble
Robert: I will look forward to it. We ALL win when great software comes to the market. Almost nothing better in the world.
- James Watters
14 billion, maybe Office that runs on Silverlight, therefore in the browser properly.
- Travis Koger
from iPhone
Do you all think GoogleOS will just boot up right into the browser? Browser will be in firmware?
- Paul Salzman
BTW, Robert, will Microsoft finally dump IE and develop a Webkit based browser? (Forget Gazelle. Yet another stupid Microsoft research project that will never successfully make it mainstream.)
- Dileepa Prabhakar
Dileepa: I don't know the answer to that. But the demos on Monday (I have a bunch of video coming) were shown to me in Firefox. So maybe that's our answer right there.
- Robert Scoble
James: so you think it will sit on top of Linux or something? Or just be a new flavor of Linux?
- Paul Salzman
Linux flavor of Chrome, thus far not arrived yet
- polou/indigo_bow
Paul: I'd look at Android as a precursor and say yes its going to use a google refined linux kernel, and I believe the post even says a windowing system. I'll check TC again to be sure brb.
- James Watters
Paul: I bet there will be some customization of Linux underneath Google's Chrome OS. I'm intrigued and can't wait to see what they will do with it.
- Robert Scoble
Google says the software architecture will basically be the current Chrome browser running inside “a new windowing system on top of a Linux kernel.” (quoting TC)
- James Watters
I can almost bet that its web based Microsoft Office with some nifty real-time collaboration features.
- sameer
"a new windowing system" leaves the door open for a greater level of abstraction away from the kernel for sure. Probably still with some access to files, devices, etc on the local hardware though which a browser alone would be a clumsy solution too.
- James Watters
If Microsoft's BIG announcements are Web based Office (already demo'ed and announced), Windows Azure RTW (nothing unexpected) or Windows 7 RTM (already announced to be announced!), there is nothing that's going to surprise people on Monday then.
- Dileepa Prabhakar
Dileepa: Windows7i -- the Cloud OS from MS
- Paul Salzman
Jaya: Like as a built in extension to the windowing system? Like IE and explorer?
- James Watters
@Alex Will they be able to match Open Source strategies as followed by Ubuntu,etc??
- Palak Mathur
just another rehashed disaster of windows in another marketing created packing
- Zac Bowling
Dileepa - They haven't talked much about collaboration using Office web. There was one OneNote demo that showed some realtime synchronization. I'm thinking more Wave-like realtime features.
- sameer
Zac: I'm going to believe Robert, but lets give him hell if this is marketing glossy! :)
- James Watters
Paul Salzman: Windows 7i with WGA! -- works only when accessed through IE when running on a WGA validated copy of Windows.
- Dileepa Prabhakar
Dileepa: that's it, we've called it! ;)
- Paul Salzman
Robert you managed to convert a complete google night into a complete MS night :)
- Kiran Patchigolla
James: it's been a while since I've felt compelled to do more than five videos at a Microsoft press conference. See ya on Monday.
- Robert Scoble
sameer: That will be mimicking existing Google Docs feature. Google Wave is at a completely different level and I am not sure if Microsoft is up to doing something like that.
- Dileepa Prabhakar
Till Monday it is, I'm thinking I'll even blog it.
- James Watters
Wave might act as the collaboration platform on the OS. But that leads to another question. Will the OS be tied to Google accounts for login?
- Jayasimhan Masilamani
Dileepa: Let's see, I think there's potential for implementation of realtime collaboration across the web based and desktop offerings of Office that could be of big mainstream impact. It's got to be something related to Office, Robert talks about the "$14 billion business" - The only other Microsoft business I know of that's that big is Windows.
- sameer
sameer: I said that Microsoft has 14 billion dollar businesses. Plural, not singular, but I also said it was one of Microsoft's primary businesses. That narrows it down a bit, yes.
- Robert Scoble
My guess is a MS hardware that will shake the netbook market!!
- Krishnan Subramanian
So that's a Win7 RTM announcement, combined with Web Office. If Web Office will be free to use, the combination of W7 Starter with Web Office will be a huge notebook hit.
- Kirill Petrovsky
If ChromeOS was meant to counter MS, then the logical MS announcement would be some kind of OS project, like maybe a combination of Microsoft Singularity (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... ) combined with Silverlight for NetBooks or mobiles.
- Ray Cromwell
MS Web Office for sure: Scoble said it runs on Chrome and Firefox and it's a multi billion business. Actually, MS Office accounted for 18-19B $ in 2008.
- Jérôme Flipo
I fear that if the tech side of their release if good (but whatever the pricing), Google Apps isn't ready for the fight.
- Jérôme Flipo
Microsoft announces the cloud OS? I'm still not sure about a Google OS though.
- Burcu Dogan
Web Office in Silverlight, together with a mobile version that means we get Silverlight on WinMo and maybe even IPhone would be a win for me
- Ian Blackburn
I cannot wait...:-) but I DO have a clue...
- Eric Denekamp
Lots of people suggesting Office-in-browser but if that were it why would Robert be under embargo given they've already announced it and demo'd it? I'm not saying it ISN'T Office-in-browser but if it is then something doesn't add up!
- Jamie
Good point Jamie - the two primary business in MS are Office and Windows (in terms of revenue anyway), so perhaps this is more to do with a Windows OS in the cloud? How would that look?
- Ian Blackburn
Initially, Google VS Live, Then Chrome Vs IE & Google Vs Bing, finally its Windows VS Chrome OS
- Michael_techie
Ummm... are they announcing an online version of MS Office like Google Docs?
- prolificdyslexic
that's why I do not subscribe to Scoble - too many comments on his articles, too much noise
- Павел Романовский
I don't see any noise in here. Interesting conversation!
- Robert Scoble
The MS guy at Portland Cloud Camp said Azure was going to be released very, very <wink, wink> soon. #cloudcampPDX
- Gary Walter (gwalter)
All google apps platform out of beta yesterday, now Chrome Os.. Is definitely the answer to Seven + Silverlight/OfficeOnLine Monday ;)
- CantorJF
from iPhone
@gwalter You’re maybe right. The front end would be MS Gazelle, and the back end would be Azure.
- Bram Pitoyo
Microsoft is finally putting the Zune out of it's (and out) misery and killing it? :)
- Diego Barros
Office Web Apps release to public beta is well overdue - first promised for end of 2008. If this is embargoed then it must involve something new. ScottGu hinted that Silverlight 4 was already in development. SL3 is released this Friday. So maybe SL4 will be released,in beta with a beta of Office Web Apps showing some SL4 features (like more AIR like features)..
- Joe Wood
It seems like "too late" and illogical for Microsoft to come-up with another vendor-lock-in type innovation and expect positive results. Microsoft is not run by daredevils nor wimps. The announcement Robert talking about might be about a web based productivity application suite, which is standards compliant and offers a familiar interface and workflow for people, thus easily adoptable and steal competitors' (G, Y!, Zoho, 37S, Adobe?, etc.) user base.
- Berk D. Demir
The thing thats got me shitting my pants over all this is Games. I need Windows to play all the latest Direct X 10 and 11 games. Linux is hopeless in that regard.
- Mark
Audience in here is mainly composed of technically inclined, early adopters. We feel comfortable with online apps and mainly ready to ditch (or already ditched) many offline applications in favor of our new toys. OTOH, that's a huge paradigm shift for the other majority of less technically inclined and incomparably bigger masses. Microsoft still have the power to lead masses, create...
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- Berk D. Demir
Interesting discussion! I vote for MS Office online !
- Krishnamoorthy
I commented in istartedsomething on Long Zheng theories with this list. so why not here after having read all of Scoble responses?: Safe Guesses (not crazy): 1.- Office Ensemble (Office Web Apps + Office Live Update) and a Office 2010 public CTP (the most likely one) 2.-Microsoft Online Services gets full release along with a full release of Windows Azure while one of the new Data...
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- Avatar X
from FriendFoo
i crammed a lot of guesses that may not have to do with the announcement so maybe robert could say warm or hot to the whole list without having to specify. :P
- Avatar X
I vaguely recollect listening to the GIllmor Gang in June/July 2008 where Robert said he'd just visited Microsoft Research and seen "an amazing new browser". If memory serves me correctly it was said in the context of mobile devices but who knows.....this may be another contender for Monday's announcement!
- Jamie
Microsoft has already made their counter-move to a Google OS. It's called Windows Azure. It'll serve apps to the Google OS with ease and MS will make money in the process. Yeah, I know today the money be nowhere near what the Windows OS makes, but while the Google OS is gaining traction as a desktop OS, Azure will be gaining traction as an app hosting platform for that very same Google OS and others.
- Jeff Weber
More spam news will come in. Azure, Mirot ha ha ha
- Michael_techie
just another social network (where the IE users might hang out)
- Dobromir Hadzhiev
Another huge innovation like renaming Bing?
- Burcu Dogan
Google is initially going after netbooks via a new OpenSource OS. If Microsoft's Next Big Thing is Azure then they are betting that a locked-in cloud-based OS will trump Google's move. It's gonna be VEHLEY INTELESTING to see this play out.
- J.D. Deutschendorf
launching online enabled MS Office, free and beta
- Павел Романовский
I really hope it's not anything Silverlight related, some one is on crack if they think the end game is everything running in a plugin in a browser.
- Scott Kahler
Dr. Schmidt HAS to resign from the Apple board... too many conflicts of interest (iPhone v Android, Chrome OS v OS X, Chrome v Safari). What could he possibly be adding that can't be obtained through someone else?
- Gerald Buckley
pricing of Azure will definitily be one of the announcements; not the BIG one. Office online perhaps...
- Jeroen De Miranda
Very interesting indeed. Chrome OS sounds like a great companion to Windows on a netbook+ device, for those times when you do need instant web/email. Looking forward to your videos!
- Will Johnson
Since the event on monday is WPC I'm guessing that Steve Balmer will present MS view on future of the Enterprise and showing off some of what Ray Ozzie has been working on. Coming full circle with Azure (computing infrastructure), Mesh (powering collaboration), SilverLight (future of runtime enviroments on all platforms) and of course all of this software+services has to be powered by Windows Enterprise Servers on the back end.
- Daniel Chow
Also the new Office is the first application to launch under the above stack. Scoble, did I get anywhere close to any of the embargoed announcements? :)
- Daniel Chow
They are going to announce the release of IE 9 - the even worse with net standards addition.
- Bobby Griffith
Windows 7 Home/Business/Ultimate Netbook Edition. Each with different capabilities and things disabled for no reason other than to confuse users and make more money.
- Scott Koon
heh - i know now what the announcement is and i am not embargoed - i should make a post :)
- Allen Stern
Go for it, Allen! Inquiring minds want to know!
- Rudy Amid
Well if you do know, you owe it to your readers to report the news,
- Mark
Mark - That's if you see tech journalists (which I don't think Robert even classifies himself as) as true hard hitting journalists (think woodward and burnstein, ed Murrow) or if you think of them in the vein of Sports writers. Sports writers, like tech writers, need to foster relationships and have their names known and have to cross closer into the friendzone to get us the day to day...
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- Matthew DeVries
Mark: sorry, I signed an embargo. That's the way these things go and I'm not willing to burn this relationship, sorry. You'll know on Monday. Matthew is exactly right. And even with Woodward and Burnstein, they played this game. You didn't know who Deep Throat was, even though that was news too.
- Robert Scoble
Not even going to go for the Deep Throat joke... I swear, I'm not going to... :p
- Bill Heslin
I didn't mean Robert should report it. I meant Allen Stern who commented he was not under an embargo. He knows it, he has no NDA, he should report it.
- Mark
RT Allen Stern "heh - i know now what the announcement is and i am not embargoed - i should make a post :)"
- Mark
I hope its not Gazelle. If it is I respect Robert for abiding by the embargo. It seems as though no one in tech abides by embargoes any more. If it is Gazelle, might as well discuss since it is all over the tech blogs already.
- Keith Beucler
As they keep it under the blanket till now! It should be software only thingy! speculations about xbox, zune phone etc are free to leave!
- Amir
It's not Gazelle. At least I don't think so, because I have no clue what Gazelle is. I'm off to find out.
- Robert Scoble
Ahh, nope, what I was thinking of is not Gazelle. But now that I see the rumors I wonder if Microsoft has more than one major announcement on Monday?
- Robert Scoble
My Guess: They enabled Live Mesh Web Desktop to run applications, So in future all applications are going to be hosted in Live Mesh
- Amir
maybe i want use chrome all day,,just for internet surfing
- qian
Hey Robert, on a scale of 1 to 10, with 1 being an announcement that version 8.1 of IE includes a better spell-checker, and 10 being that Windows 8 is coming out in 2010 and is free, how many out of 10 is the announcement going to be in terms of having an impact?
- Mark
btw I have had this single chrome window open for about a week, and because each tab has its own process I don't get memory leaks like with firefox.
- Mark
I hope Google comes up with a great OS. I have tried any different Linux versions on my netbook but have never found the perfect one. Looks like they have connected the right partners as well so I am very excited. 9 0ut 10 for me. This could change everything
- Asgeir
it will be a sigh of release for people come to fear those massive, massive office purchase/downloads. still a pain for when you travel and have no access online though...
- Terry O'Fee
While Google's forays in the OS and office productivity arenas are great for consumer choice, are they playing w/ fire? Google's core revenue stream is search, which has a much lower switching cost than any of MS's multiple revenue streams: Client, Office, Server. It seems like the two are pitching for a protracted fight that could be costly to both. But in a battle of attrition, it seems to me that Google could lose $ faster than MS.
- lingb
If you could never figure out how to tell apart a potential from the friendzone and “OMG!HAVEMYCHILDREN”, I think this diagram will help you. A LOT.
(via kapi) - http://doomz.tumblr.com/post...
"This little app grabs all the subscribers of the person you enter and also all their subscribers - so it defines your zone as everyone up to two steps away from you. It then simply tabulates how many people are following everyone in the zone and presents the top 100 influencers in that zone and a graph of the top 25."
- Alex Kapranoff
from Bookmarklet
Any hints how I can analyse my ff interactions to figure out who I am following but have never really interacted with? So i can put our non-relationship out of its misery?
A FriendFeed user, felix (FriendFeed: http://friendfeed.com/nybble), created three tools that could help in making that determination: FriendZone, which finds the influencers in your network: http://ff.deasil.com/friendz..., FriendFeed Like Compatibility, which ranks how many times a person's likes, comments, or posts intersect with your interests (as defined by your posts, likes, and...
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- Mark Trapp
figured out why I have so many subs to people i dont interact with, it is the twitter import that did it - people who have a ff account but dont really use it, but use twitter
- Joelle Nebbe (iphigenie)
The best way is to chose wisely before you subscribe.
- ashish
yes, very true - alas my future-reading skills are very rusty :) Pretty much all the people I subscribe too had enough interesting either in their feed or their comments when I subscribed - of course some have changed, or turned out not to be that interesting, or simply we never interacted. Some I thought were subscribed to me but perhaps I have been talking too much on ff lately
- Joelle Nebbe (iphigenie)
Definitely, one rule of thumb is if their friendfeed stream pathology is largely consisting of Twitter & it's whopping 140 characters.
- sofarsoShawn
I probably should worry more about non-relationships. Maybe in the future.
- Brent - Loving Life
Why not start a new list containing *just* the top 10 or 20 or 30 or however may people who you *do* want to keep track of? Make that your primary feed, and dip back into the home feed whenever you feel the need for the firehose?
- Andy Bold
I just recently started using friendfeed and fortunately I did not use the import function.
- ashish
The FriendZone isn't about who you're subscribed to, exactly. It looks at who subscribes to you (first level) and then all the that subscribe to them. Out of that pool of people, it then orders everyone with the people at the top (R Scoble here) having the most subscribers out of that specific pool of people (the people that follow you and all the other people they follow).
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
So basically, Lindsey shows up on your chart not because you're subscribed to her, but because a lot of people who subscribe to you also subscribe to her.
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
No one will be your friend unless you're your friend first or something like that. It's just friendfeeds way of teaching you deep life lessons you don't understand.
- Steve C
You have to like yourself before anyone will like you?
- CAJ, somewhere else
Ouch. I just looked at mine and I'm not in my own top 25!
- CAJ, somewhere else
I guess I'm ok with it as long as I'm not my #1 friend. ;-p Or should I be? Hmm...
- ronin
Man. I'm not even here. Arg. I'm really gonna start inserting myself in these results. :)
- felix
"This little app grabs all the subscribers of the person you enter and also all their subscribers - so it defines your zone as everyone up to two steps away from you. It then simply tabulates how many people are following everyone in the zone and presents the top 100 influencers in that zone and a graph of the top 25."
- CAJ, somewhere else
Top 51 FriendFeed Likeaholics - You've helped make my FriendFeed experience lots of wonderful... Thanks for your cool links! :-) WARNING: Subscribing can be hazardous to your feed...and bring WAY too many cool articles/pictures/links...
I guess I'm just more stingy with my likes - only 1422 from me
- Nathan Chase
Sorry, but my one pet peeve about FriendFeed are those who Like EVERYTHING. It tremendously devalues the feature when these Like-happy FFholics start OCD'n with their trigger finger.
- Brad Williamson
Brad: From my experience, these heavy likers all have really good taste. If you surf 20,000-100,000 entries/day, you still have to be pretty damn selective to choose 400 to like. There's a huge amount of dedication (or addiction) to look at so much stuff... Take a look at their discussion feeds before you pass judgement. :-) Surfing these people's discussions is a great way to waste (...use) time.
- Mitchell Tsai
Some people aren't looking at anything except the link that says Like
- Rahsheen ™, Coach Rah
Sorry Mitchell, but there's just no way to absorb anywhere near 20-100k pieces of content in a single day. Honestly, it's probably impossible to even adequately peruse a thousand in one day.
- Brad Williamson
Brad: Watch the live feed on Friend for just an hour. How many items do you think you're seeing in an hour? Some studies show that our brains can visually recognize pictures in 1/3 of a sec (and get about 1000 words of information). Many of the people on this list are on FriendFeed 4-12+ hrs/day. They might be liking only one item every few minutes, and still have 100-400 likes/day. FriendFeed's got quite a few people with AMAZING taste. It's a joy to have so many people helping me filter the news!
- Mitchell Tsai
Oh, sorry. Didn't see edythe. Can't say I noticed RAP, but maybe he just doesn't Like my stuff :) (or doesn't like as fast)
- Rahsheen ™, Coach Rah
LOL Rasheen! "Quality" likeaholics. P.S. Brad, in the "old days" the speed limit on likes was ~60/day. I hit it quite a bit in my like-a-holic days. It was raised for people like Polly Roberts and Robert Patton who brought so many non-tech articles to my feeds before I started following 700+ people and reading the Everyone feed (Thanks to Robert Scoble who first brought me here...)
- Mitchell Tsai
Oh, and Mitchell, I'm not sure everyone would appreciate their full, real names posted here for all to see.
- Akiva Moskovitz
@Tina I know, I know. I was afraid you might think that. I'm talking about those who knock out about 5k a week. That's nowhere near the degree I believe many of you might think I'm hinting at.
- Brad Williamson
@Rasheen That's what I'm thinking, too ;-)
- Brad Williamson
Akiva: Simply click on people's Facebook icons & you'll see their names... If there's no easily-found name linked to FriendFeed, I'm not posting it. (Kind of confusing "edythe" is "furry" is Polly Roberts. And so many Farzads...)
- Mitchell Tsai
Good point though Akiva. If anyone wants me to blank their name from this list, just tag this entry, and I'll edit your name (and delete your entry)...
- Mitchell Tsai
You might as well add me to this list. Because I'm well on my way to getting there. BTW, there is nothing wrong with liking a lot of things. If your worried about things getting buried then use the tools available on Friendfeed to filter things.
- Mathew™ one of a kind
Apologies to anyone I left off this list. I thought of this when reading Kol Tresgaskes' “I just hit 15,000 likes on FriendFeed!” post http://friendfeed.com/e... and people were asking about other people with lots of "likes".
- Mitchell Tsai
Sorry I didn't include you on the list Amber... I was originally just doing 15,000+, but stretched down to 8,500 before I got worn-out. By a strange coincidence, I think (not sure of my count) it's exactly 50 people... People have been quite active. Last time I looked at "like" counts, Polly was the only person over 20,000. It was nice to see new names in the list!
- Mitchell Tsai
I was pointing out that even with that many likes... I wasn't in the top 50. And it made me happy. Means lots of good shares and conversation.
- Amber, Random Time Lord
:-) Amber, I was worried you felt bad that you weren't on "the list" (many people seem to worry if they are on or not-on any list). There are SO many amazing people here. I started making a short list of people with amazing pictures http://friendfeed.com/e... that aren't on my older lists.
- Mitchell Tsai
Great list, thanks for this. Mitchell. :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
To be fair, a good portion of my likes are songs that appeared in the lastfmfeeds room, so my like totals may be somewhat inflated. (Then again, I created the room, so I guess I should claim the likes and shut up.)
- Ontario Emperor
Any statistic is going to be possibly meaningless. Even if one looks at comments instead of likes, those may be skewed from commenting on your own things (e.g. if you share something from Google Reader and add a note).
- Ontario Emperor
I guess the takeaway from here is that anyone on the top 50 list, or for that matter anyone on the top 5000 list, is using likes and comments to engage with others. And that's a good thing.
- Ontario Emperor
[Update: May 11, 2009] Wow! Morton Fox is at 107,095 likes
- Mitchell Tsai
[Update: May 11, 2009] You guys have been so busy here at FriendFeed. Morton Fox has 107,095 likes, Robert Patton 76,251 likes. Polly's 58,458 likes. ....means I have 110,000 items to catch up with (no counting all the commented items). Whew...
- Mitchell Tsai
Yup and I've definitely moved up in this list a bit too, hehe.
- Alex Scoble
Question: Any way to make lists like these automatically with the new search? (e.g. people with the most comments/likes) I've love to have a way to make topical lists for science, music, movies, etc... (e.g. in simplist form - people with the most comments with "keyword alpha") I made this list by hand...
- Mitchell Tsai
Mitchell, perhaps question to pose to the guys in this group: http://friendfeed.com/ffss. As for topical lists I've gone through loads and loads of groups and found my favourites. I've created lists for each of my favourite topics and added relevant groups to each list. Then I've created saved searches for each topic list showing me entries with x likes and x comments. Works pretty well though took a while to set-up.
- Kol Tregaskes
Kol: Yeah. But I'm in the position of trying to catch up again on 3 months. It's be nice for some automated tools, or way to share groups.
- Mitchell Tsai
Mitchell, 3 months!? Gosh, good luck. ;-) I can barely catch up a missed day. :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
but it doesn't help find interesting people as much as it used to. Last time I used it, I was already sub'ed to the top 100 people. Today, I found 2 new people - #93 Winckel http://friendfeed.com/winckel, #100 Brian Sullivan http://friendfeed.com/briansu... Does this mean FriendFeed's community is becoming more stagnant, or that groups are staying more separate?
- Mitchell Tsai
I can still surf other people's FriendZones to find people...
- Mitchell Tsai
This little app grabs all the subscribers of the person you enter and also all their subscribers - so it defines your zone as everyone up to two steps away from you. It then simply tabulates how many people are following everyone in the zone and presents the top 100 influencers in that zone and a graph of the top 25.
- Aviva Gabriel
This little app grabs all the subscribers of the person you enter and also all their subscribers - so it defines your zone as everyone up to two steps away from you. It then simply tabulates how many people are following everyone in the zone and presents the top 100 influencers in that zone and a graph of the top 25.
- Aviva Gabriel @avivao
"This little app grabs all the subscribers of the person you enter and also all their subscribers - so it defines your zone as everyone up to two steps away from you. It then simply tabulates how many people are following everyone in the zone and presents the top 100 influencers in that zone and a graph of the top 25." - my top 25 are above.
- Kol Tregaskes
from Bookmarklet
I like this nice list of names but I'm lazier than June. Mitchell named that as "center of your universe" at June 2, 2008(7 months ago). (http://friendfeed.com/e...) Steve Rubel, Dave Winer, Calacanis and interestingly Thomas Hawk are the hot ones.
- Erhan Erdogan
Occasionally. I find the like compatibility checker (linked at the top of the page) to be more useful in finding new people to follow, though.
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
So how does that work, I put my username in and hit submit?
- orionstarr
this may seem like a stupid question, but why is there no way to tell how many people are subscribed to someone who you are thinking about subscribing to? isn't that an indicator of the quality of their posting over time?
Justin, click the person's name to go to their main feed. On the righthand side you'll see a list of several subscribers and a link to X more subscribers.
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
You could look them up on ffholic, but their estimate of mine is 73% higher than my actual number of subscribers.
- April Russo (app103)
Tina, aren't those the people the person is subscribed to, not the people who are subscribed to them?
- Kamilah Gill
Shouldn't their content answer that question for you though? Quality over quantity?
- Nancy M.
Ahhh, so it is...That's what I get for helping on a handful of sleep =D The closest to what you're looking for is the FriendZonehttp://ff.deasil.com/friendz... Enter the username of the person (the name in their URL). It'll parse through that person's subscribers and their subscribers subscribers, and then give you a list of the FF users that appear the most frequently. Not a subscriber count, but an indicator of how many people in a circle choose to follow a specific person.
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
Tina, that doesn't seem to work. I don't see a link to subscribers. I do see a link to subscriptions.
- Justin Long
nancy, that's not always the case. I would like to filter my larger list down to a more manageable list to reduce noise. I thought I'd start by segmenting out people who I don't know well but who have large followings, in order to see if there's a value-add that way.
- Justin Long
The gem from Bruce's post: "On FriendFeed you have to establish your identity by what you like, share and say, not by how you describe yourself. "
- Clare Dibble
I like how people have completely gotten around this via ridiculous meme throwing: "They've also been deliberately slow in adding profile features. On FriendFeed you have to establish your identity by what you like, share and say, not by how you describe yourself. The theme seems to be that they want a community of substance, not superficiality, even if it means slower growth."
- Mark Trapp
yep Mark & others. hope it stays that way. Please let it stay that way. This is my haven from too constant internet trash
- Kamilah Gill
I think FriendFeed offers excellent social graph exploration capabilities, making it very easy to see the sort of interactions one has, the sort of people they find interesting, the nature of their posts. Why do you need some number that may or may not correlate to with usable statistic or measurement?
- Andrew Badera
eh, chiaro. ma in un dato momento sarà definito.
- paolo beneforti
infatti. E' un elenco in continuo movimento e di fatto illimitato
- Niki Costantini
c'è la buddy list che permette di vedere chi tra i tuoi amici ha commentato, postato o messo un like negli ultimi 10 minuti
- Adamo Lanna
come illimitato?! ci sta solo il secondo livello, eh. cioè solo gli amici e gli amici degli amici, punto. al limite posso anche trovarlo a mano, questo elenco, ma è un po' lungo.
- paolo beneforti
non solo fino al secondo livello paolo. se tu segui A, e A commenta un post di C commentato da B, tu vedi A, B e C, anche se la relazione è solo Tu -> A -> B -> C e via così puoi arrivare dove vuoi.
- Michele Campeotto
michele: sì, nei commenti si vedono tutti quelli che commentano, chiaro. intendevo come poster.
- paolo beneforti
ma credo, allora, che Paolo voglia un elenco di tutti gli amici suoi e degli amici dei suoi amici, a prescindere dai commenti e dai like... o credo male?
- Niki Costantini
non fa differenza, in quel caso tu vedi il post di C, che è a tre livelli da te
- Michele Campeotto
va be' torno a pettinare le bambole che è meglio :)
- Niki Costantini
michele: no, non credo di vederlo. io vedo solo post di amici e amici-di-amici. cmq cercavo l'elenco che dice niki.
- paolo beneforti
difatti vedo solo post di amici (che mi appaiono con il loro nick) o di amici-di-amici (che mi appaiono con la dicitura "amico di")
- paolo beneforti
in effetti mi sa che c’hai ragione. altrimenti che ci scrive in (friend of Pippino)?
- Michele Campeotto
This is a new one for me, not tried this one before: "This little app grabs all the subscribers of the person you enter and also all their subscribers - so it defines your zone as everyone up to two steps away from you. It then simply tabulates how many people are following everyone in the zone and presents the top 100 influencers in that zone and a graph of the top 25."
- Kol Tregaskes
from Bookmarklet
I don't think this stuff really matters anymore. I subscribe to a ton of people, but only rarely scan through my entire feed. Mostly I read through the entries of my unabashedly-labeled "Favorites" group :). Just wasn't happy firehosing anymore. I wonder how many other folks have taken advantage of FF's awesome Friend-grouping options.
- Adam Lasnik
"I am going to tell you a secret. It is one all women – but only a handful of men – know. It is this: most men are awful. And I mean awful: lazy, tedious, defensive, chippy, selfish, patronising, ignorant, insensitive donks, box-fresh from the Planet Clunk. It's not that women are much better, but the point is that if you want to snare Miss Right (or any old floozy), the first step is to understand the outstanding badness of the competition. Then all you have to do is not make the same mistakes. You don't need to be the wittiest, the most suave, the best-dressed, the richest or the best-looking to get the girl. You just have to not be a lazy, selfish, thoughtless prick. It is almost always as simple as that."
- RAPatton
from Bookmarklet
Every girl I ever tried to get by being the awesome guy I never got. Every girl I tried to get by being either a jerk or by being aloof, I got.
- Akiva Moskovitz
This so true and so false... my friendzone history and the amount of women I've know in life with dickweed's for long-term partners proves the bit that is wrong.
- Michael W. May
Just likey'd cuz the colors are cool on this monitor :)
- Charlie Anzman
Charlie good enough :) I started to compile some data on the top 10 people I follow according to FF. The data set is based on likes vs comments.
- Mike Fruchter
Very cool. And I'm both glad and envious Charlie beats me in likes + comments by so much.
- Mark Trapp
Cool graphs. Thanks for sharing them Mike. It'd be neat if we could see everyone's graphs, like how Felix's tools work for anyone (e.g. we can see anyone's FriendZone or Like Compatibility list).
- Mitchell Tsai
(1) Andrew Baron's 'More Iranian Missile Photoshopery' (2) Mona N's 'this is why your server is cranky =O' (3) Paul Buchheit's 'Baby' (4) Me!
- Akiva Moskovitz
Mitchell - interesting that we have the same #1 and #2, but in reverse order. Things that make you go hmmmm...
- Hutch Carpenter
Bret and Paul? What is your algorithm? : )
- Erhan Erdogan
Hutch: I guess FriendFeed weighting is something like Felix's FriendZone. Bret Taylor is #4 in my FriendZone & #5 in yours. Maybe that slight difference shifts the ranking?
- Mitchell Tsai