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Saw this a few moments ago, it reminded me of the Twitter fail whale.  Maybe at some point in the future once it learns to fly on its own.
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So maybe hancock can save twitter - Christian Burns
That scene in Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy was just hilarious :D - Horst Gutmann
in the movie of "Hitchhiker's" anyone know who played the voice of the Whale and the Patunas? - Noah David Simon
It's from Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy? Haven't read the book or seen the movie. - Vincent X
someone photoshop some birds into that thing - Michael Narciso
"Ground! Ha! I wonder if it'll be friends with me? Hello Ground!" - dario agosta
I laughed like crazy when I read this in the book. A whale and petunias! Only Douglas Adams could think that up. - Rahul Das
@Michael Narciso - Tweets would have to be disabled for the fail whale to be that strong. - exador23
still wondering who was the voice of the whale in the movie. Anyone know? Anyone? this isn't a test. I really want to know the answer..... and it isn't 42 - Noah David Simon
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Read on and find out how to make outstanding comments that will increase your online reputation and even traffic. - Alex Cristache
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David thank you for starting this dialog! - Igor The Troll
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FF To Go: Benjamin Golub posted a message
11 hours ago - Link
No time to develop it now; will get it done tomorrow morning. - Benjamin Golub
They just turned in on in the API I guess? Schweeet! - J. Phil
Yeah, good to hear... thanks for being so on top of things and releasing new features as the API updates come out from FF. - Susan Beebe
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tough decision! I really don't like the lack of "Social skills" resulting from Home schooling. I'm just talking from personal experiences though - Anthony Farrior
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Basketball: Ryne Nelson posted a link
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"Whether Marbury will be traded, bought out of his contract or simply waived is yet to be determined. But people with close ties to Donnie Walsh, the team president, and Coach Mike D’Antoni consider Marbury’s departure a near certainty." - Ryne Nelson via Bookmarklet
who are the players on the Knicks again... I'm in NY and I forgot - Noah David Simon
Marbury is due to have his bags permanently moved to NJ. - tony
@tony - What do you think about Marbury to the Heat? Wade, Beasley, Marion, Marbury and Haslem...man! - Ryne Nelson
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Twitter: Tim Wright posted a message
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do you mean just your activity? - Niall Connellan
If you want to see your activity you can look here: http://friendfeed.com/tgwright... - Aaron Myers via Alert Thingy
If you mean JUST Twitter, however, I don't think you can do it here at FF. That's an interesting idea though. - David Chartier
If you want to see your friends activity you can look here: http://friendfeed.com/?service... - Aaron Myers
That's only your FF friend's Twitter activity. Is there an easy way to get FF to display your Twitter w/friends status rss feed? Tweets by people you follow on Twitter but who aren't on FF? - Niall Connellan
Seems like that's where Imaginary friends come into play. - Niall Connellan
yea...I get the imaginary friends thing. I just do not want to create all of them. I know I can get an rss of my home page for twitter, I just can not add it as a blog for an imaginary friend. - Tim Wright
I think I understand now, I guess you can't do that. FriendFeed only shows updates for your FF friends, not people off your Twitter feed. You would need a client like AlertThingy or something to view your Twitter account (atleast for now) - Aaron Myers
Apparently there was a way to do it on Windows, but it doesn't work anymore: http://internetducttape.com/20... - I'd really love to do that. I already added some imaginary friends, but it's time-consuming if you have many Twitter contacts. - Opensource Obscure
That looks alittle confusing, no thanks :) - Aaron Myers via Alert Thingy
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l0ckergn0me posted a message
Friday at 1:38 pm - Link
WOOOHOOO! Exactly what I've been waiting for! - Spinn
And now...we see if FF will kill Twitter. Probably not but, I bet a lot of others will remove their Twitter feeds as well. - Candace Holly
Great. Now we can't hide your Twitter updates without also hiding your FF updates. There's a trade-off for everything! :-) - Josh Bancroft
I gotta get an invite /code to ping.fm. Anyone have any? Let me know at evanstj (at) gmail. - Tim via Alert Thingy
@Tim - Tell them to use beta code "pingyoulater" so they can get in on the beta action! - Spinn
Josh, I don't think you understand - I've completely removed my Twitter account link from here to keep from reposting the same stuff unnecessarily. This makes things better for everyone, not worse. Ping.fm is becoming an indispensable "native updates" tool. If you use both Twitter and FriendFeed, you need to use Ping.fm to post the same thing to both places (and then, potentially remove Twitter from FriendFeed). - l0ckergn0me
Can I ask sort of a dumb question as I try to to unify my online world? I can see how ping.fm will help me send the same message to various networks, but how are most of you then reading all the responses afterwards? Aren't we stuck having to go to six different networks to read all the various and separate responses? - Neil Kramer
I've been waiting for this as well. Awesome! - Joanmarie
Chris, I understand what ping.fm does, and what you're doing. Partly, I'm giving you a hard time. And partly, I'm making the argument that Twitter is just as good a "native updates" tool - a place to write - as ping.fm. This is why I love FriendFeed - I don't have to care, and be on the same tool, to get updates. Let us know how it goes! - Josh Bancroft
Neil, I don't think that's a dumb question -- mainly because I've been asking it myself lately. :-) Maybe we need a reverse ping.fm to get all of those updates in one place. I've considered using friendfeed to make a bunch of "imaginary friends" to add their services, but that will take a long time. So.... I dunno.... It is an issue. - Joanmarie
Whoooooooo! Ping.fm FTW! - Joe
Thanks! I just did the same. The other thing I just did was to remove Tumblr from Ping.fm -- I'm going to use Tumblr primarily for images, video and audio and put them and an occasional text post there directly. So far everything is making it across as I want it to Facebook too. I have the Ping.fm and Tumblr apps installed there. It was a bit wacko figuring out how to glue everything together correctly - and be able to do it from my iPhone. Swurl can have it all however it gets there. Now -- about WordPress :). - Jeff Evans
i had already removed twitter from ff - ping.fm rocks! - Dieter Schwarz
What is ping.fm? ... Ah, got it. - Ansgar Wollnik
What web page or app (for OS X, Ubuntu, & Windoze) reads all I'm following on Twitter, FF and indenti.ca ? Facebook I can do direct. - Jeff Evans
Agree ... but haven't figured out a good SIMPLE way to reply to a "tweet" using ping.fm ... FF comments stay "in house" - Christopher Perry
Not bad reply tweet in friendfeed,twitter is also a social web service. - Chris Qie
Thank gawd someone finally sees the light - Steven Hodson
I'm trying the same thing, but now I have to browse my microblog sites (twitter, pownce, identi.ca) sites manually in order to see replies. Unless I take the time to bring in all my friends to FF. - Bill Bittner
My name is Bwana, and I approve this message - Bwana McCall
I didn't add FriendFeed to Ping.FM, only Twitter. I guess it is the reverse situation, but works. - David Risley
Nice so doing this - adolfo foronda
I tried updating Friendfeed from Ping.fm using the @ff but it didn't work. - Steve Rubel
so just a sec, does that mean no more responding via friendfeed to twitter if everyone does this? We'd have to visit both sites no? - Zee from WeDoCreative
No way. Thanks for the major education session. I just checked out Ping.fm for the first time and - this should be good. I wish I could give this a triple 'like'. - Sonciary Honnoll
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Erin Kotecki Vest posted a message on Twitter
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Robert Scoble posted a message on Twitter
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jjprojects posted a message
Friday at 5:13 pm - Link
Hopefully because women have more of a life :D - Mark Forman
Ah yes, that must be it. More of a life than to subscribe to me anyway, heh - jjprojects
There's a lot more women over on Plurk, at least looking at the people who are adding me lately. - Robert Scoble
Maybe it's the thought of being tracked everywhere online, not sure. Maybe it's the kind of conversations that go on here. Maybe it's not the case at all? - jjprojects
because the import sources are limited... where's my Twitter import? @robertscoble Plurk has better importing - Cait
Robert, I agree, there are far more wormen on Plurk. I've been using it quite a lot in a last couple of weeks, and that is definitely the case. I saw your question there about that, hence my question here really. Twitter is about 50/50 I think, well for me anyway. - jjprojects
We're here. But maybe we just wait to comment until there's something worth commenting on... <heh> - Linda Mills
yes, not a 50/50 mix, but definitely more. It's a more enabling platform for all people to be heard - Duncan Riley
lol. well....since you asked.... - Erin Kotecki Vest
Yes, there is something unsettling about the tracking; that's why I rarely post on BrightKite. But I've imported most of my twitter feeds here (a la Dave Slusher), and I'm loving the one-place reading and listening (to those who post audio files here). - Linda Mills
I'm here. I'll try harder to make my presence known :). - Annie Boccio
The majority of people online ARE women. We've also evolved to a point where we find blogging 'mainstream' according to recent studies. So it's only natural we're about to out number the boys as early adopters for social services like this.... - Erin Kotecki Vest
Linda, does that mean most of the conversations are about things men are more interested in at the moment? - jjprojects
so in other words, it's just you :) - Erin Kotecki Vest
women mostly follow attractive men hahahhahaha Seriously, it depends what type of woman you mean, the technically minded/employed are definitely here. Plurk doesn't appeal to me, the "forced" interaction is artificial I find. And I am all about information, not conversation... - Allison
Allison, Oh thx :P Yes, the conversations on Plurk are a bit forced sometimes, because of the whole Karma thing. You get points for being active and responding everywhere. The conversations are a lot more informal than here too, usually. - jjprojects
I find SNSing females (in general) to be attention whores that unnecessarily post useless pictures and videos of themselves. I prefer engaging in light, friendly interactions with an emphasis more on information exchange, like FF. I'm a huge fan of the female representation in here. Quality > quantity - Mona N via fftogo
Importing is screwing up the numbers for FF... Women are more social online than email. There are dozens of services I can import 20+ women from (each service), but FF doesn't support it - Cait
Mona, you don't think men can "attention whores" as well, but in a slightly different way? Oh I think they can. - jjprojects
John, I don't think that's the conversations are uninteresting. It's just that the huge preponderance of action in my feed is tweets, which are pretty much like brain farts, not requiring response. I'm here now! - Linda Mills
@jjprojects FF updates very slowly for me, not enough contacts... and I'm not looking up everyone's email to invite them - Cait
@jjprojects of course. Hence the reason there are more males on FF... HA! - Mona N via fftogo
@jjprojects don't you fnd that generally there are more men than women on the 'net? technology is more of a man magnet - Allison Miller
@Allison, do you mean sites and services or the Internet as a whole? - Mona N via fftogo
Is this your first day on the internwebs? There's like only 2 girls on this whole thing. And even THEIR gender is in question until we get pics! ;-) - Adam Turetzky
i think more men... girls where are you?? - hunee
HERE! @mona I just posted a pic of the keg setup at this party I'm at. How is that for useless ;) - Michelle Miller
The good thing about the women who ARE on the web - they, at least outwardly, appear to be more thoughtful and intelligent than the "common woman." (Am I going to regret saying that?) - Vince DeGeorge
@michelle NO braggage rights until there's one of you doing a keg stand! ;) - Mona N
@vince. YES hahahahhaha! - Mona N
male attention whores? scoble jumps to mind - Allison
Allison, actually no, I think that used to be the case, but these days I think the gap in narrowing, especially in social media. I'm really talking about social media. If you look at Facebook for instance, there are just as many women as men, if not more. - jjprojects
I don't have many women following me, of course my profile pic ain't that flattering - Dedric
I think there's a lot of women around too, but not as many on FriendFeed. Although I also have a limited number of contacts on here so less inclined to comment. I get people who follow me on Twitter but do not follow me here. It feels (IMO) that FF is much more formal, but then I said that to you the other day, didn't I John! :) Meanwhile, I like FF a lot for this reason.. the comments and conversation. - Penny
We keep saying that ff is quite formal, but I've actually had some quite informal conversations here too, mostly with people who've responded to tweets in ff. I might experiment a bit with trying to start different types of conversations here, not just tech or industry related ones, and see what happens. - jjprojects
friendfeed is definitely a sausagefest - Cee Bee
We're tools for our tools. - Andy Wibbels
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Ben Gold had a new status message on Gmail/Google Talk
Friday at 5:09 pm - Link
You put a suit on, walk into a big conference room, shake some hands, explain what you are trying to do, listen to what they are trying to do, and then look them in the eye, gulp hard, and ask for them to fund your dreams. If you are lucky you'll hear yes. If unlucky, they'll say no. That's when the real fun begins (I've heard no and yes). - Robert Scoble
Guess its as simple as that. If we are not afraid to hear "no" then we are almost halfway there. - Muthu Ramadoss
Or you can buy a bunch of puppets and make some videos - Mike Doeff
OK, now how do you do it if you are not Robert Scoble... and don't own a suit - Ben Gold
Mike: that only works if Mike Arrington is on your side and does the sales for you. The rest of us will have to work harder than that. - Robert Scoble
get kid and video camera? - Fred Grott
Good point Robert! - Mike Doeff
Ben: I've talked with lots of people who've gotten sponsors and that's pretty much how it's done. OK, OK, maybe you don't need a suit. I didn't wear one when pitching Seagate. - Robert Scoble
The suit works well on you, Robert. Anderson Cooper watch out! - Andrew Feinberg
craigslist - Mona N via fftogo
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Allen Stern posted a link
Friday at 4:57 pm - Link
Ha! That was cute. - Candace Holly
thanks candace! - Allen Stern
That was fun. I do want off at FriendFeed. :-) - Robert Scoble
bing bong! - Hao Chen
you are off your head! :) But i love it. - Zee from WeDoCreative
original! - Anthony Farrior
funny stuff ... but I wanted to get off at FF as well ... identi.ca is a station half-built :) or else at least let me off at Kwippy since I just wrote about LOL - Steven Hodson
well you have to pull the cord or something to get off Steven! - Allen Stern
Very creative dialogue. I think I'll just continue a mad hop between the various stations. - possible248
I think they just opened up - John Cass via Alert Thingy
thanks possible! - Allen Stern
whaat, no Toeman? ;) - Jeremy Toeman
Great video. You would look better in a Boston Red Sox hat though. - Russellreno
You gotta listen to this ... Bing ... Bong ... Allen, you're a rip - Charlie Anzman
Do we have to get off at identi.ca? I want to keep going! Thanks Allen, that was fun! - Jesse Stay
boston red sox hat? are you kidding me? - Allen Stern
Notice he didn't even let me on the train. I would have hijacked it for sure. - Cyndy
I don't kid about the Yankees. I grew up as a SF Giant fan. My wife grew up in NY. Your vid was entertaining. - Russellreno
glad you enjoyed it russell - Cyndy, I will certainly use you on the next social media train! - Allen Stern
Allen your videos are always fun to watch, keep them comming pls - Dobromir Hadzhiev
Great video Allen :) - Gary Bacon II
thanks Gary! I will do my best Dobromir - might have some serious ones coming too - Allen Stern
stepping up the game ha, looking forward to those - Dobromir Hadzhiev
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Jennifer Leggio posted a message
Friday at 8:29 am - Link
The whole karma thing bugs me. Turns microblogging into a competitive sport. - Hutch Carpenter
The threading is really nice, but for some people the simplicity of twitter is much more appealing. - Rob Diana
Look at what's happening on identi.ca. The race for the most amount of followers. Same difference if you ask me. - Bwana McCall
I haven't found Plurk to be usable. The sideways scrolling, the constant "You have an update!" notifications: it gives me a headache. - Mark Trapp
i tried plurk -- a little too bubblegum for me to be honest. plus the karma points make me feel like i'm in some competition. - Cee Bee
I enjoy the threaded conversations while I'm there. Really really easy to have conversations. It took me a week to get used to the timeline, but when I did, I could see the value. It's a totally different animal from Twitter. (literally) - Bwana McCall
I haven't used Plurk THAT much, but it seems to be carving out its niche as a chatty, lightweight application. There's clearly a group of people who really like it. It won't appeal to everyone, but I think it will find its own audience, probably at the expense of Twitter or FriendFeed. Shrug. If nothing else, it shows that people are interested in conversations, just as they have been for the past 20+ years. I will probably be an occasional user at best, but it probably wasn't designed for me either. - Mark Dykeman
I try not to compare it to Twitter and judge it on its own merits. I just feel overwhelmed having to collapse every single thread just to see if I might be interested in the convo. And having to collapse every thread to see if anyone responded to time. I can't even fathom how a business might use it as some folks have suggested. - Jennifer Leggio
Regarding Jennifer's question, I sincerely believe people who say they like Plurk. Of course there are some who simply must be right as that is true with any situation, but the people I've observed and talked to on Plurk use it for meaningful purposes. You hate it and it seems like you hate to see people like it. :) It's not a black and white type thing though. The term "reality" doesn't have a factual meaning here because liking Plurk is purely opinionated. - Bwana McCall
I disagree that Plurk can be used for business purposes. In my opinion, it's a social, fun tool to be used between friends and family. - Bwana McCall
Regarding following threads, the technique I found to work was selective reading. To "catch up" on Plurk, you will drive yourself nuts if you try to read every thread. What I do is skim the conversations and find the 2 or 3 I'm interested in and I read those. With the new "mute" functionality, I have a rule that if a unwanted conversation shows up 3 or more times when I catch up, I mute the thread. This workflow allows me to catch up on hundreds of updates in minutes. - Bwana McCall
Even with that technique, many don't want to bother with all that. That's perfectly fine. There's nothing wrong with disliking it. Plurk can be a huge timesink even with efficient techniques. That was a big reason why I cut back my usage. I would spend hours talking to people. No time for that :) - Bwana McCall
@Bwana "You hate it and it seems like you hate to see people like it." That was an incorrect, unfounded and unnecessary judgment. Just trying to understand it as all. I don't have that much free time to sit around and play with all of these tools so I ask questions to get other people's insights. I expressed an opinion but that does not mean I hate the other people like it. I don't understand why other people like it. Big difference. That comment kind of discredited your whole statement. - Jennifer Leggio
It was a joke Jennifer, hence the smiley. Text sucks for wit. - Bwana McCall
There are lots of things I dislike -- baseball, pork, country music. I may ask questions to better understand the appeal and in doing so I might express my own opinion, but that doesn't mean it bothers me if other people like it. I just may never agree and may always look at them with a raised eyebrow. ;-) - Jennifer Leggio
@Bwana - Yeah, hard to tell if comments with a smiley online are jokes or passive aggression. lol. In that case ignore my statement. But I still dislike Plurk, baseball, pork and country music. ;-) - Jennifer Leggio
Plurk took away the ability to delete an account about 2 weeks ago... I wonder why that is...? I'm guessing Account Retention due to an increased frequency of deletions... sad though that they would prevent you from deleting your account. They don't answer support inquiries either. Fail across the board. Oh, I should mention that I exploited the site to add thousands of friends at once and it broke the functionality of the site for many of the people on my friends list. They still haven't fixed those issues - Brandon
I'd like to know how in the world people would use Plurk in their business. A far stretch would be to gather feedback from their products (as businesses do on Twitter, etc). Other than that... I can't see it at all. - Bwana McCall
I find the headless graphic disturbing. - Angel Aviles-McClinton
@Bwana Yeah, I'm trying to figure it out. I've seen a lot of claims made but nothing in action. If I hear of anything concrete I will let you know. - Jennifer Leggio
@Brandon I'm actually interviewing the Plurk folks sometime in the next week so I'll ask them about the account deletion and support. - Jennifer Leggio
Angel - so did I at first. You can change that graphic, but it's not obvious - Bwana McCall
I think the Karma thing bugs me the most. The timeline, is kitschy and I think needlessly complexifies the UI, but ultimately is just a personal preference. I could see businesses using it the same way they use twitter, but with greater potential for starting a dialogue since it is trivial for anyone to track the full conversation. - felix
@Jennifer That sounds great, thanks. - Brandon
have a plurk but check it minimally - never really had what i was looking for, but neither did jaiku or pownce - think identi.ca will be the same way - am liking swurl so far though but friendfeed is the real keeper... - mike &