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Google In Final Negotiations To Acquire Digg For “Around $200 Million” - http://www.techcrunch.com/2008...
Chris Heuer, Jennifer Fader, Michael B. (SearchBuzz) and 2 other people liked this
Good for GOOG? Good for Digg?
- David Weiner
Good for both as long as they keep Digg alone. :-)
- Ethan Jaynes
That's a good gigg.
- Connie Crosby
Google In Final Negotiations To Acquire Digg For “Around $200 Million” - http://www.techcrunch.com/2008...
Mo Kargas, Michael B. (SearchBuzz) and ~C4Chaos liked this
Is this a good thing for Google?
- David Weiner
from Bookmarklet
After I read this ( http://www.techcrunch.com/2008...) a few days ago, it kinda makes sense. Perhaps the digg codebase will be integrated in some way?
- Mo Kargas
MR AWESOME - http://www.shockandawesome.com/
Andy Sternberg and Michael B. (SearchBuzz) liked this
just had a call with Mr Awesome himself (from king of kong), he will be at twiistup tonight. There is a good chance he will be in costume, that is all I can say for now.
- sean percival
from Bookmarklet
For those who want more backround, or to laugh hysterically for several hours, I recommend this interview w/ Mr. Awesome himself: http://www.youtube.com/watch...
- Lon Harris
from twhirl
love that interview, oh man is this guy going to make a scene? how could he not.
- sean percival
wow I'm jealous... that is just... ooohsam.
- Andy Sternberg
only a couple hours left for me to perfect this Billy Mitchell costume.
- Andy Sternberg
he calls him "SILLY BITCHELL" lulz
- sean percival
'lol' is not punctuation; it is not the equivalent of a period, exclamation, or question mark. So cut it out. You know who you are.
Ha3rvey (Free hugs!), Karim, Roger Benningfield and 11 other people liked this
Preach it!
- Yuvi
And if you're not actually "laughing out loud" then it shouldn't be used.
- David Worrell
lol
- Igor The Troll יִצְחָק
David, yep. Same goes for ROFL and all of those variants.
- Akiva Moskovitz
lqtm?
- Lisa L. Seifert
OMGLOLWTFBBQ
- Akiva Moskovitz
that's too funny lol
- Phil G
lol
- edythe
IDK my BFF Jill?
- Andrea Baker
lol
- Karim
+5 Andrea Baker
- Akiva Moskovitz
I should start an official pledge for people who actually "laugh out loud" when they type "LOL".
- Ha3rvey (Free hugs!)
Can we buy laugh-out-loud credits to make up for LOL deficits, Harvey?
- Mark Trapp
We will have to establish some sort of lol exchange commission.
- Geoff Schultz
If Obama gets elected, you can guarantee there'll be some kind of government LOL program.
- Akiva Moskovitz
3G iPhone Blues - Original Song by Leah D'Emilio - http://www.youtube.com/watch...
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David Vasileff, pcnerd37, Michael B. (SearchBuzz) and 2 other people liked this
this is great!
- sean percival
She did a fantastic job. The song's hilarious. It's definitely going in the inevitable Leah's Greatest Hits DVD box set.
- Lon Harris
from twhirl
I can't wait to get my white 16gb tomorrow morning...anyway great video, Leah looks really good in it too. BTW is Mahalo Daily going to cover the TSP iPhone Launch?
- Andrew Fielding
Awesome video, great job. Very musically talented and a great voice.
- pcnerd37
Plurk: A Welcoming Microblogging Community - Inside CRM - http://www.insidecrm.com/feature...
Michael B. (SearchBuzz) liked this
20 Firefox Extensions for Social Media Addicts | Traffikd - http://traffikd.com/smm...
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Jared is Alive and Well - http://www.snopes.com/radiotv...
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Good to hear....we all like Jarred!! :D
- Michael B. (SearchBuzz)
The Twitter Versus FriendFeed Debate? No One Cares! » Adrants - http://www.adrants.com/2008...
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"long-held belief we've had around here at Adrants that most of this social media, web 2.0 crap is fleeting and mostly invisible to anyone outside the geek club."
- David Weiner
Ahhh this line is KILLING me: "Imagine if all the @aol.com or @hotmail types decided to hop on Twitter. " I like to call them Regular People, but this defines them as well LOL.
- Liz
It really is unfortunate that there has to be such elitism surrounding such interesting stuff. Because it really isn't just a problem of "regular people" not wanting to use social media, it's also a problem of current users wanting to keep it as a private club.
- Ciaoenrico
I'm a noob and, and not an especially stupid one - it's definitely a bit intimidating and takes a while to figure out what is going on with these rolling conversations. I really wonder what will happen if/when the fools rush in. I remember "CB" on compuserve and how the internet kinda destroyed the idea of public chat. I'd bet this is a good-ol-days waiting to happen.
- Wade Rothermel
People digest information in different ways. I never understood some folks who couldn't see the simplicity of Facebook's toolsets compared to MySpace's horrendous so-called layout system but to each his own.
- Glenn Batuyong
from twhirl
A unique Friendfeed feature would be: A visual map that shows how ideas/links/submissions are spread from one person to another via 'like'. This would show influencers, networks, and communities of interest
Nikpay, Frank Meeuwsen, Sudha Jamthe and 33 other people liked this
awesome idea Jeremiah! Ooooh I WANT this feature bad!!
- Susan Beebe
firstly , time stamps are needed, secondly 'likes on multiple same URI could be difficult. I may Like an entry from a friend's del.ious entry or maybe from another person who actually posts the URI on FF. How can this mapped out ? A visual map normally has one start point/seed and then spawns outwards to various nodes and then branches even more.
- Peter Dawson
heres a classic e.g of a like in multiple places from the same user but different URI http://friendfeed.com/e... and the other URI http://friendfeed.com/e...
- Peter Dawson
Exactly how do you determine who or what an influencer is? This is less obvious than it appears. I've seen "big names" retweet ideas of someone with a lower social profile. The original idea came from person A but person B has a larger social network. So, who is the influencer here, the person who came up with the idea or the person who told all of their friends? If it is person B, doesn't that discount the substantial influence person A had on them? You're privileging social capital over creative capital.
- Liz
+2 for Liz
- Hutch Carpenter
This would be another tool for creating elites. Is that really what we want?
- Chris Baskind
A brand manager's wet dream.
- Sprague D
Chris: good point. But my curious side really want to know how all this stuff is really happening!
- Susan Beebe
I like the idea of charting how information moves virally to see who the influencers are. Hopefully, this would let you see who infuences the so called "elite", "a-lister", "agent-of-change".
- Mathew A. Koeneker
from fftogo
Ohhh, that would be awesome. I'd love to sit back and watch an idea spread.
- Summer
Mathew, all these ""elite", "a-lister", "agent-of-change" are actually pretty mch just with large Social capital. not the creative capital ( +3 goes to Liz !!). This AM, I saw a lot of chatter on Lumosity, to me this was wickedly old in terms of tech tech. http://friendfeed.com/e... however, when looking back onto FF you will find Leo Laporte posting it and many peeps then repurposing that twit/post via many methods, digg, rooms etc.
- Peter Dawson
@spragued please no more brands and managers for them
- A.T.
To respond to those: The influencer could start at the source node (creative capital) as well as those who are sneezers (spread to many others) it can serve the purpose of both.
- Jeremiah Owyang
It could look like Digg's swarm ... that would be pretty cool
- David Weiner
Steven...Read Seth Godin's work, yeah it's like boogers ;)
- Jeremiah Owyang
Hey Jeremiah, I just posted about a new Google patent to do exactly this http://www.socialtimes.com/2008...
- Nick O'Neill
love the idea.
- mjc
Lay Off Me, I'm Starving! (PIC) - http://www.flickr.com/photos...
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"Sorry we're OPEN" sign [Luckyred, Pixdaus] - http://pixdaus.com/pics...
!["Sorry we're OPEN" sign [Luckyred, Pixdaus]](http://pixdaus.com/pics/1215178892eFGuLbq.jpg "\"Sorry we're OPEN\" sign [Luckyred, Pixdaus]") |
Robert Occhialini, Pascal Sijen, Tom Landini and 30 other people liked this
ROFL! I have had those days!
- Karen Swim
from Alert Thingy
For some favorite pics from the past 3 days, try http://friendfeed.com/mitchel.... My teeth are super-lousy with very weak tooth enamel. If I don't take care of them, my next dentist visit has 4-6 cavities. :-(
- Mitchell Tsai
I *JUST* saw the same sign at a bar in Key West last week.
- Gary Bacon II
FAIL
- Voyagerfan5761
From Rucker Park Documentary to Top of the N.B.A. Draft - NYTimes.com - http://www.nytimes.com/2008...
Shaw, Ryne Nelson, Mike Chang and 2 other people liked this
The trailer looks sick. Has anyone seen the entire documentary yet?
- Ryne Nelson
Mathias Pastwa, Roger Benningfield, Bradley Goetsch and 3 other people liked this
Five Great Plurk Tools - http://plurkable.com/2008...
Sandie Law, Sharon Hurley Hall, Michael B. (SearchBuzz) and 2 other people liked this
The Village - http://www.netflix.com/Movie...
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Stephen Jones, Marcelo Nobrega, Urbansheep and 8 other people liked this
Dont do it! Disappointing !
- Dave Peck
It's a good movie. Everything Shyamalan does is great.
- Svartling
Totally - look away from the light, Carol Ann!!!
- Steve Isaacs
I liked this movie, but took nothing away from it. It is rather predictable though.
- Enrique Gutierrez
from twhirl
Overall I liked it, but the "surprise" ending was far too predictable.
- Brandon Wood
I had to respond to "Everything Shyamalan does is great". The Sixth Sense is his only end-to-end great movie. Other movies had glaring flaws, either related to plot, pace or ending. And Lady in the Water was an unmitigated disaster.
- Carter Rabasa
My favorite is "Signs". It's fabulous!
- Svartling
worst film ever. please don't rent it.
- Jason Calacanis
"Everything Shyamalan does is great" -- well, that is partially true, because all of his movies end eventually, which is great. It's the part in between the beginning and the ending that is not so great.
- Jeremy Brooks
Good watch...3.5 out of 5
- Michael B. (SearchBuzz)
It is only worth seeing if you have somehow made it all these years without ever hearing anything about it. Even then, it is not great.
- Jordan
just wait till you see "The Happening". Let's just say you might want to go the the budget show, or wait until it comes out on DVD.
- Jeff Day
Shyamalan is trying to too hard to come up with the "revelation" ending for all of his movies. Now I find myself just waiting for the "a ha" moment and the last few just haven't been able to meet the 6th Sense threshold.
- George Lee
from twhirl
Probably the best "a ha" moment in a movie better than the end of the 6th Sense is the one of Usual Suspects... don't you think ?
- Fabien Spina
The movie isn't bad, has some good suspense, but is part of the downward spiral of Shyamalan's career ending hopefully in "the happening" (read: terrible movie)
- Tony
The Happening is so awful it's actually interesting just for its awfulness.
- Dave Winer
Here's the twist at the end: it was Earth all along. What a twist!
- Mark Trapp
Plurk Karma Secrets Unraveled - http://plurkable.com/2008...
Michael B. (SearchBuzz) and Sandie Law liked this
and for any Sphinners http://sphinn.com/story/53922
- David Harry
I call bull on most of that article. Most of my Plurks don't get responses because I don't write the kind that encourages feeedback (also, no friends :P) and my Karma rises 1 or 2 points a day. Most of the rest of the points seem nonsensical as well.
- Arron Washington
SEOmoz | Don't Create False Expectations, Especially When It Comes to Baked Potatoes - http://www.seomoz.org/blog...
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Folks, something just happened, and it was exceptionally tragic. Outrageous. Unheard of. Unbearable. To prevent this same travesty from happening to you, I thought I'd share my experience and give some handy marketing advice while I'm at it (this being SEM Tuesday and all). Jeff and Arden each wanted a sour cream and chives potato, while Scott opted for broccoli and cheese and I wanted to stuff my face with a bacon and cheese potato. I took down everyone's orders and we ventured out to find the nearest pigtail'd ginger girl grinning down at us. We got to Wendy's and I had the following exchange with the employee:....
- Igor The Troll יִצְחָק
SEOmoz RickRolling LinkBaitting and Spamming the Internet! Rebecca, can you tell us what Backed potatoes and Backed beans have to do with SEO?
- Igor The Troll יִצְחָק
Igor, it's baked. You must be a yankee.
- Joseph Rodgers
Set proper expectations Igor -- damn Yank! ;)
- Michael B. (SearchBuzz)
Can't I make fun of Rebecca in my natural twang? lol
- Igor The Troll יִצְחָק
Free beer!
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but I won't say where, when, or how much...
- Mark Dykeman
5 reasons why you should be using Plurk - http://www.huomah.com/Interne...
Sandie Law and Michael B. (SearchBuzz) liked this
guest post on the Trail from LeftTheBox
- David Harry
Seven reasons FriendFeed Sucks - http://weblogs.goshaky.com/weblogs...
nick carrasco, Alexander Tsang, Benedikt Koehler and 46 other people liked this
I agree about the recommendations. Every time I get the same ones. I'd like a button that says "Not Interested" and let me have some different ones. It's all the usual suspects all talking about each other. Bleh.
- Dave Winer
Wow, thanks for the share, Dave. I'm deleting my account. This guy is right. Can't believe I've been so oblivious.
- Aviv
My employer's browser is blocking your site? Hmnnnn? :)
- Mathew A. Koeneker
the site in the link kills IE (and please don't tell me to use Firefox instead; I'm not on my "normal" machine)
- Andrew Terry
For a service that's just getting started, FriendFeed's doing a great job. I know his points are mostly recommendations, but the blog post title is cynical link-bait. Given the thoughtful article content, he could have done better.
- Edd Dumbill
from twhirl
I like all of these suggestions except the "getsatisfaction" one...this is a small company, and there is no way they can be all over the place. In fact, company-customer interaction would most appropriately take place within friendfeed, perhaps in a room. I have never before heard of getsatisfaction.com
- Zach Landes
great post from lars. agree in all and more comes in mind.
- kosmar
Attention grabbing headline but good post, I like the rework of the black Friendfeed Widget with Fluid
- Joe Dawson
"bad customer service" he must not be visiting the same FriendFeed I am; I think the "customer" (we aren't really customers are we?) service here rocks.
- Benjamin Golub
Good suggestions. I'd take them more seriously without the sensationalist headline, though.
- Tom Harrison
I like Lars' post, except he was way too harsh on the customer satisfaction bit. Bret and Paul are REALLY responsive and actively engaged in FF development and improving their product based on *customer* feedback, that's why they created the FriendFeed Feedback room. So Lars just doesn't get FF yet. However, the rest of his feature requests / improvements are really good. I especially like # 2 in his list. Not bad.
- Susan Beebe
@Andrew the link works find in Safari and Firefox .. the reason it stalls in IE is because of a "doc" rewrite back to the page page. I did a google on the error given and this is a known bug in IE7
- Steven Hodson
@Tom I didn't like the headline myself - smacked of linkbait more than anything else
- Steven Hodson
Yes the LINK BAIT was super lame and annoying... don't insult your readers.... gees.
- Susan Beebe
#1, irrelevant if you are not using an RSS reader. RSS is dead. #2 I don't mind fragmentation. #3 recommended contacts could definitely be improved. #4 agreed. #5 Facebook is irrelevant, #6 small team better spent working on customer service here than at getsatisfaction. #7 nah, maybe down the road, better to build a plug in to handle comments on Blogger (at least in my biased opinion).
- Thomas Hawk
@Thomas I would love to see a comments plugin for Blogger!
- Joe Dawson
@Thomas Hawk - excuse me? how do you see RSS as being dead? That's a fairly big limg you're hanging yourself out on there
- Steven Hodson
Steven, it's dead to me. I abandoned my RSS reader when I found FriendFeed a far better use of my time for finding interesting content on the internet. Social filters beat the random mess I previously used called RSS hands down. I don't need RSS feeds out of FF.
- Thomas Hawk
Joe, so would Louis Gray and I. A plug in to allow FF to become the default commenting system for Blogger blogs would be slick.
- Thomas Hawk
Thomas, do you want FriendFeed comments on Blogger? I've got them running right now. See: http://tinyurl.com/58hqn5
- Louis Gray
I think what's most awful about this post is that he didn't even put ads on the page. What's the point of blog trolling if you're not going to make money from it? Needs to read my sure-fire strategy to get rich quick at blogging: http://friendfeed.com/e...
- Mark Trapp
Thomas, with FF as the default commenting system on Blogger, only folks with a FF account will be able to comment.
- Dewald Pretorius
Interesting.
- Alex Hammer
@Dewald. Good, maybe it will encourage more of them to sign up for FF ;)
- Thomas Hawk
just installed Pat Hawk's Blogger comments FF plug in by the way. Seems to be working well so far. Wish it included a link back to the FF post directly, but other than that it's pretty damn awesome, thanks Louis!
- Thomas Hawk
I can only think FF will improve... and far more quickly than Twitter.
- Bill Sodeman
@Thomas Do you follow any blogs regularly? RSS in a sidebar is a much easier way to follow someone and make sure you havent missed any of their posts than trying to find their name in your friendfeed friends list - at least I think so.
- Zach Landes
By the way...check out my number one friendfeed feature suggestion at my blog, I think everyone will agree it's a must have: http://snipurl.com/2jgrb
- Zach Landes
Zach, I used to use Google Reader and Newsgator before that and Bloglines before that. I've used RSS for many years. The fact of the matter is that an RSS reader quickly clogs up with boring stuff. On FF the best of blog posts get promoted and even if your favorite blogger isn't on FF you can add their blog as an "imaginary friend" FF is far superior to any RSS reader I've ever used.
- Thomas Hawk
Thomas, why does it get clogged up? Perhaps you're using the wrong reader. Not fair to blame it on RSS, it's the software designers that did this to you, not RSS.
- Dave Winer
Dave FF is a far better social filter a certain type of almost AI if you will that no RSS reader that I'm aware of incorporates. I've used many different RSS readers though. They are one dimensional. FF is two dimensional. You can read any RSS feed inside of FF. No need for any other outside reader. I still have an account on Google Reader, I just never go there anymore.
- Thomas Hawk
@Dave. Hide is enormously helpful in getting through the clogs. The main reason my RSS reader gets clogged up is because even the best bloggers (myself included) mostly blog about uninteresting things. Despite their ability to serve me something super interesting one out of ten posts. FF gives you the "best" of the bloggers that you love to follow.
- Thomas Hawk
Well I know a thing or two about RSS readers and I've talked with hundreds of users, and I recognize your concerns, you've been using RSS readers that think RSS is email and RSS is not email. FF is the first reader you've used that doesn't. However Thomas, there are other readers that don't think it's email, and work much better. I'm not trying to sell you something, or argue, just wanted to state an opposing viewpoint, since this is a thread I started. Peace.
- Dave Winer
The article is wrong on multiple accounts. For instance, RSS feeds are available for nearly all pages.
- Mike Reynolds
Dave, is there any RSS reader that filters and recommends via a social network as powerfully as FriendFeed? And if not, and if the natural filtering that FF provides is your thing, maybe FF is the best RSS reader of all?
- Thomas Hawk
First of all, thank you Dave for linking it and sorry for the sensationalist title, I will not do it again. I would like to comment on some of the points mentioned here in the discussion: #1 no feeds for summaries: at the time of writing my article, it was not there yet, now we have the feature, but if you subscribe to the feed, you will see that it is not really useful as long as all comments are in one line and as long as the images for service icons are missing.
- Lars Trieloff
Regarding #6, bad customer support: you can use FriendFeed rooms for customer support, but it is not the best tool for it. getsatisfaction offers a good tool (that allows you to track status of your suggestions, instead of scrolling out of mind), and there are already people asking questions and waiting for support. I've been also subscribed to the FriendFeed google group and have not been impressed either. Relying purely on social media for support, means the biggest attention grabber wins (today it's me)
- Lars Trieloff
Regarding #7, having URL-based search is essential for everyone trying to build a blog plugin. If you do not want the FriendFeed guys to dilute their time spent with building plugins for each and every blog platform out there, ask them to provide an API to do it on your own. The hack I am using on my blog got my original post in my feed, but not this, more intense, debate.
- Lars Trieloff
38 ways to optimize and speed up your WordPress blog | WordPressGarage.com - http://wordpressgarage.com/tips...
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Wedding Invitations For Nerds [pics] - http://www.reddit.com/goto...
Michael B. (SearchBuzz) liked this
@searchbuzz Any left overs for me? Mitch Oriso tells me that you make "decent" Chili Verdes for a white boy :)
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35 Web Analytics &038; Internet Marketing Experts You Should Be Following (on Twitter) - http://rich-page.com/web-ana...
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"35 Web Analytics & Internet Marketing Experts You Should Be Following (on Twitter)"
- Fumi Matsubara
We're here. We're sexual. GET USED TO IT. by Barbara Miner - http://www.colorlines.com/article...
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Michael W. May, edythe, Michael B. (SearchBuzz) and Amir Beitollahi liked this
"“We’re not at the point where we have accepted that teenagers are sexual beings, and if you talk about that too much it’s a one-way ticket out of teaching.” AS BEFITTING AN ARTICLE about schools, here’s a pop quiz taken from the sex education website Teenwire.org: In 1937, studies claimed that nine out of 10 children caught masturbating were: a) severely punished; b) told they would go insane or blind; c) threatened with having their penises cut off or their vaginas sewn closed; or d) all of the above. The answer? d) all of the above."
- Colby Olson
yes, i would have guessed d.
- edythe
Project Abstinence is a failure neo-cons, failed then, failed the last 8 years
- Michael W. May
from twhirl
Photographers » Blog Archive » This one is worth a thousand words | Blogs | Reuters.com - http://blogs.reuters.com/photo...
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mr-mojo-risin, Michael B. (SearchBuzz), Mohammad Ali and Andrew Badera liked this
"An indigenous woman holds her child while trying to resist the advance of Amazonas state policemen who were expelling the woman and some 200 other members of the Landless Movement from a privately-owned tract of land on the outskirts of Manaus, in the heart of the Brazilian Amazon March 11, 2008. The landless peasants tried in vain to resist the eviction with bows and arrows against police using tear gas and trained dogs. REUTERS/Luiz Vasconcelos-A Critica/AE (BRAZIL)"
- Colby Olson
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