It would be really nice if posterous posts were imported with image thumbnails. - Jason Wehmhoener
Yes, please... add posterous support! We'd love to do anything it takes to help FriendFeed add Posterous as a supported feed. You name the API, we'll make it happen in 48 hours or less. -garry (cofounder, posterous) - Garry Tan
Slacker.com is OK from the web but the small software app rocks. - Brett Nordquist
In love w/@pandora. Still need to try last.fm. - James via Alert Thingy
bt.etree.org is by far the best, the live music archive at archive.org is great, last.fm, pandora when I can be bothered to setup a proxy (Canadian) - Ross McKillop
Thanks all !! After checking UI / Spread on Music and quality, I scrobbled on Last.fm. BTW I am more of a CD /Bose Systems type of person, so online stuff is lik 'new' 2 me :)- - Peter Dawson
just post more messages like that... sounds like a pretty obvious outcome to me! ;) if you need a real one - how about 'no more sleeping in'? - Jeremy Toeman
babies are cute and they quickly learn it. Seriously - I second your Father-in-law. Get babies while your young enough to forgive/tolerate all/most of their ... "exagerations" ... - General Kafka
More kids = larger car = larger fuel bill - Glenn Slaven
what my daughter is doing on the floor right now (guess) - David Risley
If you are looking for excuses you are gonna go through with it anyway. - DAVE ID
try this: Set an alarm clock to go off every two hours for 72 hours, and then see if you still feel like having babies. :) - Eugene Huo
Your babies will quickly learn more about social media than you ever will. Protect your turf, Jeremiah. - Tom Cunniff
POOP @ 1am, Crying @ 3am and FEED ME at 5am does it for me! - Susan Beebe
if you have babies you won't be able to spend all day on ff - Allen Stern
Well, one is 8, one is 6, one is almost 5, and one is almost 3. If you'd like, I can send them to you for a weekend. Not only would most people want to practice some form of birth control, but celibacy might be an attractive option as well. - Cyndy
heheheh..... can't really offer any. How about just one? One's not gonna kill you - Jason Kaneshiro
If it's a she, I might end out dating her. - Ross McKillop
i've had my cell phone in my pant pocket for 5 years. have they finished the study on cell phone radiowaves... - Pokai
How about: It really hurts when the baby has to come out? - Morton Fox
i heard having kids ends our indulgent carefree life...and it causes pre-mature balding, greying, and promotes beer belly syndrome. - Pokai
EmbryoFeed hasn't yet been developed, which would severely hamper your ability to follow the zygote's development and preferences. - l0ckergn0me
Why plural? How 'bout one at a time???? - Charlie Anzman
babies turn into teens and teens turn into adults - Outsanity
shouldn't we start with a dog to see if we'd be any good? - Pokai
Give up now itself. Anyhow, one day you will run out of excuses. Try to have it when you are still capable of multi-tasking :-) - Krish
Lay some of this on her: (1) Shitting yourself during delivery... that's no way to stay classy, San Diego. (2) It's not uncommon to crack or displace a rib during pregnancy, and you pretty much have to suck it up and endure it for weeks or months. (3) Two words: perineal tearing. (4) You can lose all the weight you want... your ass will never fit in those junior jeans again. - Roger Benningfield
that's an answer you're going have to share. so ones next up to bat can avoid. - Jeff Leong
no word from jeremiah...i guess we were too late. - Pokai
Thanks everyone for these. Pokai, it's not too late! - Jeremiah Owyang
I will give Jeremiah a recording of Milan crying at 2 a.m. It won't help, though. Human nature to reproduce is too strong to resist. Hey, our house is child proofed now so we are ready! - Robert Scoble
tell them you converted to a religion that insists on no pain medication during child birth - Noah David Simon
@Kevin: But what if your child is the genius that comes up with the amazing renewable energy technology that saves the human race? - Shannon Jiménez
oh and the environment bullshit about babies is the biggest reason I'm voting Republican. That is just yenta stuff... serious. Babies are fine in moderation. - Noah David Simon
If you could predict that success then I would be impressed! - Joe Dawson
Noah: Don't let logic or math get in your way when dismissing things as gossip and yammering will validate your world-view. - Kevin Fox
I gotta side with Noah on this. If we're going to call simply *living* bad for the environment, then what is the environment here for, and why do we care? ... on the flip side of things, Jeremiah, I would say that even though fatherhood is the best thing ever - my wife now wants more babies. Apparently this whole parenting mess is addictive. And addictions are bad, right? - Mark "Rizzn" Hopkins
@Robert: Human nature is actually amazingly easy to resist... I'm almost your age, never had a kid, and never will. What's tough is societal pressure, particularly that which is directed at women. - Roger Benningfield
The population of every species follows one of two functions: an S-curve, which indicates a long period of stability following a period of rapid growth, or a J-curve, which indicates a population crash following a period of rapid growth. The ceiling of either curve is represented by K, which is the carrying capacity for the species. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C... - Jason Wehmhoener
My last comment was true, this one is speculation: I have this hypothesis that intelligent people have the means to alter their biological drive from reproduction to conservation. I believe this neurological shift that has physiological consequences is triggered by an innate sense that humanity is approaching its carrying capacity. Other species have been proven to reproduce less as population density increases. - Jason Wehmhoener
Blogging brought out the fact that I've something to give to everyone. Knowledge. I made money. And I came into contact with a variety of people around the world. And let me be honest... I'm still dying for some press coverage ;-) - Shankar Ganesh
i'm making a living out of my blog...what else one can ask for :) - Mayank
The biggest thing to happen to me so far is becoming a MakeUseOf writer, and the ability to meet and talk with so many interesting people. - Kyle
The first most thing...changed me from being a total introvert and the list continues... - Joel Thomas
I'm not sure what the biggest thing is.. I was interviewed by Fox Business, Kathy Sierra left a really cool comment on one of my posts, having my picture on Lifehacker (tho with a mask, search them for webcam security), I'm able to make a living doing it, I've met a lot of wicked cool people like Shankar.. lots of good things :) - Ross McKillop
@Ross Haha lots of things. Infact I admire the way you present your blog posts. Just fantastic :-) BTW, give me the link to the Fox interview? - Shankar Ganesh
Hmm.....well....Gave me the oportunity to do something really big with myself and making lot of friends and meeting Cool People like you :) - ashwin chandra sekhar via twhirl
"Alexa was founded in 1996 and acquired by Amazon in 1999 for $250 million". Those were the days. - Sanjeev Singh
Alexa died many years ago, measuring traffic patterns based off tool bar install worked good 10 years, times have since changed. - Mike Fruchter
Alexa has always been useless, but I beg to differ w/ Paul - the "updated" data was slightly closer to correct. And for what it's worth, they've updated once again since that one "last month". - Ross McKillop
if any active FF users want to help boost FF's rank with Alexa you can consider installing Sparky for Firefox. I've got it installed now. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-... - Thomas Hawk
I've never been a fan of Alexa. If you measure any of what are generally considered to be top blogs, they all show drastic declines going back almost a year. Clearly something is wrong with that. - Mark "Rizzn" Hopkins
Replace "FriendFeed" with "Facebook" and it gets a lot smarter. Indeed, it describes the experience of the average Facebook user. - mrshl via Alert Thingy
Your comment isn't helpful. Tell us why you think it's "dumb." - Kenneth LeFebvre
I have often thought this myself. While I use the address bar when i know where I want to go (ie facebook) if I'm not totally sure of the URL I just use the google bar - Nathan Manley via Alert Thingy
I've been waiting for someone else to make this point. I see investors making decisions purely based on domain names. That's nuts. When is the last time you didn't find what you were looking for when you knew what it was? Right... - Jonathan
I even use Google to find old posts of mine... just by putting in my domain name and keywords or the title. Google finds it faster than I will - Louis Gray
Let me just say I've met people who didn't know you could type a URL into the bar. They get around through their home page, bookmarks, or search engine results. - Jason Kaneshiro
Wasn't there a time when "www.yahoo.com" was one of the most popular search terms on Google and vice versa? - Ole Begemann
@Ole Begemann - that time is now. Google just doesn't report it. I've seen the stats for (the largest) broadband ISP in the US. Their portal has a search bar, and the most commonly searched phrases are, in this order: google (ironic, because it uses google search), yahoo, amazon, ebay. The rest of the top 10 most searched for phrases are sex, yahoo.com, ebay.com etc. - Ross McKillop
Seth Godin suggestion of “Drop the dot?” is not cool. I do a *.org and *.tv sites. - Mitchell Tsai
Lots of people (used to be 40-50%) type URLs in any search box they see (not just Google). At HCI (Human-Computer Interface) conferences in 1993-2000, a lot of companies presented data that URLs were 40-50% of the items typed in their search boxes. I'm 8 years out of the loop, and don't know the data for today. But I help a lot of people who still type URLs in any search box. - Mitchell Tsai
A search technique - "Manual Trackbacks" - I used in the days of AltaVista/Hotbot was to (1) type in the URL of an article I liked (2) look at all the webpages that referenced that URL (3) track back using the URLs to other webpages (4) Often, I could find an expert in the domain who had made a master page for Domain X linking to all the top pages. - Mitchell Tsai
Awesome point! I sat on a couple of podcasting domain names a few years back, but after about a year of talking to people and thinking about people's search habits, I realized that the domain names really aren't as important today. It is much more effective to be in the first page of hits in a google search. - Phil Ashman
"Try Philadelphia before you bag on TO too much. In fact, point for point - 1. Philadelphia has seen more than one killing a day this year, totaling 127 as of Monday afternoon. New York, Chicago and Los Angeles — whose populations are much larger than Philadelphia's 1.5 million residents — have had fewer homicides this year (2007) 2. You just try the SEPTA subway once. You'll be so insanely disgusted that you'd be willing to eat off the floor of any subway station in TO. Unless of course you like the smell of urine, in which case SEPTA is for you. 3. Deleware River = oil. 265,000 gallons of crude oil spilled from the Athos 1 tanker (2004) 4. The I-76 makes the 401 look like an empty 30 lane highway. 5. It's cold in Philly too, just less snow. But the humidity in the summer is far worse than the cold and snow in TO. In fact, the only time the city of Philthadelphia doesn't smell like piss is in the winter, because pee freezes." - Ross McKillop
Arrlington on the business of blogging. Very honest. - engtech
I agree with this statement "In short, I believe the money is being, for the most part, wasted." It's $12,000/mo for a 125x125 on TechCrunch, w/ a minimum of 2 months. THAT'S a waste of money. - Ross McKillop
"Amen my brother. I could not have said it better. Just like eng, I've unsubscribed from people who have their blogs RSS feed imported to FF, then tweeted, then stumbled, then submitted to digg, then del.icio.us, etc. One of my (many) questions is - that shit doesn't even work, don't people realize it? It's not worth the freaking effort. Spend that time writing something USEFUL and it'll get found." - Ross McKillop
I am really liking this. Goodbye AlertThingy. - Carla Thompson
Very nice work! Much better than the current desktop alternatives. - Aviv
just hijacking this to try to comment from MS24x7 - hope it doesn't have a "via MySocial 24x7" message attached... Edit: and no - it doesn't - Frederic
@Aviv .. you would classify MySocial as a desktop app? - Steven Hodson
It is already my most used app today. sticking with it until something better. I love the competion. - Russellreno
@Steven - not so much, not in the traditional sense. Unlike Alert Thingy and the likes - MySocial 24x7 is only available to you when your browser is open and actually being used. It makes sense to do that, as opposed to interrupting the user even when the browser is closed and actual work needs to get done ;) A browser add-on is a more natural place for FriendFeed at this early stage. - Aviv
You have to manually refresh MySocial 24x7. I'm conflicted about whether or not that is A Good Thing. - ron k jeffries
@ron .. if that is the case then that would be the deal breaker for me - Steven Hodson
Very easy to edit comments... a little too easy to delete comments - engtech
Like all good things, it should be a toggle. I'm getting work done since it's not going HAY HAY LOOKATME LOOKATME. Soylent Networking apps are totally like needy girlfriends. (Well so are Adobe products with the non stop Registerrrr meeeee syndrome every 2.54 seconds) :) - Eric Rice
I'd like it a lot better if it automatically loaded the next page when you scroll. That's the kill app for me with the webclient + greasemonkey. - engtech
I just hope enough people read it. I killed a few of my friendfeed streams for the exact reasons you cited - why duplicate. My dilemma is now centered around Twitter. I use one of those services to tweet my blog posts, but I also have my blog posts show up as a stream. Duplicate? Yes. But I have some friendfeed friends who aren't on twitter. What to do. - Ross McKillop
I discovered i was duplicating so I corrected that. - Russellreno
Comes back to why we need one social community! - Phil Ashman
Excellent point. I will be cleaning mine up momentarily. - Rob Diana
I became more acutely aware of the duplication issue after joing FF. The only duplication I have left is cross-posting blog to Twitter. However, I think that is justified because I suspect I have different readers on each channel. - Andy C
I now feel foolish that I commented on this post on the actual website. How stupid of me to not use FriendFeed instead... ...via AlertThingy - elroy
It happens a lot here, some people shares everything in several services and all of them show up in their streams in FF. I understand why people promote their blog posts in Twitter, but sharing the same thing in StumbleUpon, gReader, delicious, etc? - Alejandro S.
I've been thinking about a "managed lifestream" app. Like FF except instead of all things going public, they go into a queue where you approve which go into the stream. Defeats the purpose of lifestreaming for most people obviously, but seems like there's room for a middle-ground between blogging and lifestreaming - Jeremy Raines
@Alejandro that bugs me, too. I'm noting who exactly did the stumbling, deliciousing of a blog post. If it's someone other than the blogger, that's a plus, if it's the blogger themselves, it's just noise, and I don't appreciate it. - Jason Kaneshiro
@Alejandro and Jason - I add blogs that link to me to del.icio.us to track coverage, and on rare occasions, I'll add my own posts to del.icio.us, as so far, that's the only way I can find out "who" bookmarked it. I can't search del.icio.us to find out, so it does look odd. Also, sharing via Google Reader does a few things: Adding to the link blog, and contributing to RSSMeme, ReadBurner, etc. - Louis Gray
I dabbled in blogging mid last year, but all it was really was my attempt at a lifestream before I ever heard of services like Friendfeed. I did end up crossing the streams at times. It never felt comfortable since I didnt want to spam. At the same time though I kept thinking "I have differents sets of friends on twitter, stumbleupon, pownce, ect. How else can I make sure they all see it?" Now ofcourse that could be solved if just everyone who friend/follows me on all those different services would just use friendfeed instead, and I post different types of things to different services. But I can't expect everyone to use friendfeed just because I ask. I'm sure it will all sort itself out one way or another - Tony Miller
FF could make this easier and 'collapse' multiple items into one i.e. if I share something from Google Reader and bookmark it on delicious, only one item should appear in FF. I wonder if FF is too focused on where we doing things rather than what we're doing? - Andy Davies
what I'm saying is that, if you add the same links to 2 different services, there's no need to add both services to FF. Just one would be enough. Of course, if there are things that are unique for each one of them, it's understandable. - Alejandro S.
Great article and nice reference to Ghostbusters. I'm guilty of crossing my streams. That's because I'm a mega-consumer of my own streams, so I keep them all completely connected (borrowing term from graph theory). But in terms of output, only a few things get crossed. Overall, I think redundancy is good, but I can also see that it can be annoying too. - Mike Reynolds
@ Andy I second the idea that FF could have an option to hide dupes. Dupes also makes it harder to choose which one to "like" on FF. Say I "like" a blogger's post. Do I comment "like" on the original one, or the delicious link, or the twitter link? Obviously the original post would be best, but the way it's set up now, one has to page through all the dupes to find it. - Jason Kaneshiro
"I don't get what the big deal is. Techmeme is to tech as Perez Hilton is to culture - a joke. Any list of top tech bloggers that doesn't include Gina Trapani (or any of the LH writers) can't be taken seriously." - Ross McKillop
"I can see one possible reason not to advertise on Blog A - they charge WAY too much. Take a look at the laughable rates (and terms) of TC." - Ross McKillop
Man I miss those Friday@Noon shows. I saw so many great bands in small venues that way (Ben Harper, My Morning Jacket, Bela Fleck, Medeski, Martin and Wood.. That's one of the (few) things I miss about Philly. - Ross McKillop
"There's another way to make Techmeme a much more effective source of news. Go to Yahoo Pipes and set up a filter for the Techmeme feed to not include any stories containing the following keywords: Techcrunch, Arrington, Calacanis, Scoble, Valleywag, Scobleizer, Crunchgear and Bitchmeme. Sure you'll only have a few articles a day to read, but at least they're worth reading." - Ross McKillop
