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Where Are We In The Hype Cycle? - http://www.techcrunch.com/2008...
Susan Beebe, Mike Boudreaux, Tom Stocky and 14 other people liked this
i would place idea management on the slope of enlightenment
- Kingsley Joseph
from twhirl
Context delivery architecture? Social computing platforms? Service-oriented business applications? I wonder if Gartner just threw in some made-up technologies to see if anyone was paying attention.
- Jim Norris
context delivery architectures are important for context-less redundant stateful application development in a cloud based architecture.
- peter
Gartner and their charts..... They have a chart for everything... Surprised they dont have a chart to explain all Gartner charts...
- Sherif Mansour
My son is asking another entrepreneur about his business. Makes me proud. Is asking same questions I would be asking: why would I use your service? What makes it special. Entrepreneur answers back "you sound just like your dad." heh.
Lu Tao, James Kendrick, Daynah and 52 other people liked this
what entrepreneur?
- David Silvernail
Daniel Brusilovsky. Starting a teens in tech content company.
- Robert Scoble
yes - but will he videoblog it? Index it? add meta-data?
- Marc Canter
No, but he might talk about it with his Klan in World of Warcraft.
- Robert Scoble
Hopefully he's impressed. We're doing as much as we can to make this service the best for teens. :)
- Sean Quinn
from twhirl
Did he start the conversation with "Who are you?" ?
- Mike Doeff
Sean I think he is about as impressed as I am with Identi.ca. Sorry.
- Robert Scoble
Starting 'well traveled', especially the trip to DC, makes a big difference. Congrats
- Charlie Anzman
hey, thats superb...i'd be proud too no doubt.
- Zee.
Ha, well as true with every aspect of Web 2.0 and life in general, YMMV.
- Sean Quinn
from twhirl
Scoble II coming soon to the web near you.
- Unleash Video
from twhirl
Cool!
- Mitchell Tsai
mini-scobleizer.com (not a real site) :) I saw Loic interview Daniel...Loic said something like it felt too limited, somebody else tried the same thing. He suggested that Daniel do something like organize teen communities for seesmic and he'd be first customer...
- Pokai
Your son should have an account in friendfeed
- میکرودامپ
LOL! Like father like son huh!
- Jack
I wonder - where's Patrick on FF/Twitter?
- Yuvi
Daniel is inspiring - he's living the life I wish I could have at that age. The next Ben Casnocha...
- Jesse Stay
Yuvi: my son is into WoW, not blogging or FriendFeed.
- Robert Scoble
Can I send him after Commissioner Tate? She's obsessed with "protecting children"
- Andrew Feinberg
Andrew: Patrick hates people who try to censor what he sees. But you can't change the minds of people who see the world like that.
- Robert Scoble
*sigh* so, so true...her fact checking is awful though...I've nailed her several times and she runs away from me in heels now. Protection != control.
- Andrew Feinberg
Scoble 2.0
- Gary Bacon II
Funny. Scoble reporting will keep coming from yet another person. :)
- Daniel Schildt
You should have him read Mike Dunn's Due Dilligence series: http://weblog.glemak.com/nomadic...
- Paul Reynolds
Olympics Equipment Gallery - http://www.vincentlaforet.com/Gear...
Jeremy Hall, Stanton Champion, Håkan Dahlström and 11 other people liked this
DAMN!
- Grant Gochnauer
Wow...That is some gear!
- John Ford
yeah, all of a sudden my collection of lenses looks tiny.
- Tsega Dinka
OMG. I don't know how you carry all those things....
- Midori
Too crazy. Just yesterday I was commenting how I'd never want to do sports or huge event photography. Too much stress.
- Cheryl Jones
that should be a sport in itself ... carrying all that would get you a gold ,,,
- johnpiercy
An Introduction to Architectural Photography - http://digital-photography-school.com/blog...
Stanton Champion, Sierra Koch, Stefano and 3 other people liked this
Why I'm leaving Forrester - http://blogs.forrester.com/charlen...
Wesley Barrow, tariqkrim, Rebecca Pruzan and 40 other people liked this
Best of luck Charlene
- David Churbuck
from Alert Thingy
Good luck on your future and your book is outstanding.
- Jon Erickson
I seriously hope you'll continue to be 'visible with your occasional thoughts' in other ways. Best of luck!
- Charlie Anzman
I hope you maintain a blog about your thoughts. Good luck.
- Hutch Carpenter
Best of luck to you in your new adventure! So excited for you. - steve
- Steve Rubel
Congrats Charlene! You've been a great inspiration for women in tech
- Kathy Johnson
I'm sure whatever you do will be most importantly good for you and your family! Good luck.
- Jim Kukral
Good luck. Your book has been a big help.
- Charles Barthold
from Alert Thingy
Congratulations on your decision and best of luck. Enjoy your improved work/life balance!
- Adam Sherk
Good luck in your career! You were very informative at the Web 2.0 Expo SF 2008. I enjoyed your presentation at the Social Media Strategy workshop
- Glenn Batuyong
from twhirl
Best of luck! I liked that post about reinventing your job every 18 months.
- Jeff Woelker
Thanks everyone for all of the good wishes. I'll be blogging again soon and will let everyone know when and where I re-surface.
- Charlene Li
Charlene, best of luck to you and your family. We will all miss your insights and analyses.
- warren sukernek
from twhirl
Good luck, and thanks for being so public about wanting to strike a balance between work & family. Working parents of both genders will be cheering you on!
- Dylan Tweney
Best of luck, Charlene. You're leaving big shoes to fill. I look forward to reading you again soon.
- Christian Anderson
Congratulations on your decision, and best of luck!
- Steve Bauer
good luck with your future endeavors! looking forward to more of your social technologies insights online.
- ~C4Chaos
good luck!!
- Jeremy Toeman
Wish you the best Charlene, I've always found your research, ideas and energy inspiring :)
- Brooklyn Art Project
Congratulations on your graduation and best of luck in this next big thing!! Cheers
- Mark Kingdon
Best of luck Charlene!
- Mitchell Tsai
Best of luck Charlene!
- Marc Dahan
Charlene, sounds like an enlightened and well considered choice. Congrats. Let us know if we can do anything to support your next-next steps. Be Great. Cheers! silva
- mark silva
good luck Charlene!
- Kingsley Joseph
I completely understand your move - being a career mom carries strong feelings of regret and dissonance, which you always need to solve. Thats a tiring process...Enjoy your time of resonance.
- Trendsspotting
Best of Luck Charlene... I think this is a great decision, obviously, one that came after much thought. Finding Balance is sooo key to happiness and productivity at work and home! Good Luck! Keep us posted on how you make out on this change!
- Susan Beebe
Good luck with everything - your research on social media has helped me tremendously! We'll miss you in "the scene". Cheers - Lorna
- Lorna Li
Has/How/Why tech blogging has failed you - http://scobleizer.com/2008...
Yaroslav Nikolaev, Adam, Dimitar Vesselinov and 174 other people liked this
Long rant, sorry, had to clear the air so I can start blogging again. :-)
- Robert Scoble
Wow...I'm very interested and excited to see/hear/read what is to come from Scobleizer land next.
- Justin Korn
I hope I make your list and if not, please let me know why so I can potentially improve.
- Allen Stern
Glad to see that you are starting to realize, despite Techmeme that the world doesn't revolve around just the bay area.
- Harold Gilchrist
from twhirl
Gotta say you're bang on the mark there. Tech blogging should be about the tech, not the biz.
- Luke Robinson
Allen: I like your blog. It's just that I love hanging out with all of you and talking geeky stuff a lot more than talking about this deal and that deal and all that.
- Robert Scoble
Harold: I've always realized that. I feel I got unfairly tagged with believing the world only was about the Bay Area. I guess I deserved that to some extent, but this area is quite dominant in the world of tech (including the tool you're typing on right now) so some of my boosterism is to be expected. Funny that the top Israeli company has offices here too.
- Robert Scoble
Kudos to you Mr. Scoble, what a very bright post you delivered today! Thank you for bringing some fresh perspective, that's always refreshing and welcome. I'm also happy you cite Lifehacker as an example. They focus on the smartest digital experience possible and help us improve ourselves. That's the biggest deal of all. Techbloggers should never forget it.
- c0wb0yz
I love the tech first and foremost but the business is important too, especially in respect to the sustainability of said tech.
- Jamie
Jamie: I agree. But the business needs to serve the customers and the customers/participants/users or whatever you want to call you and me aren't coming first in this industry anymore and that's worrying.
- Robert Scoble
Wow funny enough thats the way i have been feeling for a while now I am looking forward to seeing what is next from the Scobelizer...
- John Spencer
from twhirl
I agree overall - CN has only a small percentage of biz - most is trends, analysis, and reviews. I had an interesting discussion about this with someone last week - if i had a computer that could handle video, i'd make a quick video to explain - there's an important part you are missing
- Allen Stern
Next is to get some sleep. Gotta be up at 7:30 to be at Fortune Conference at 8 a.m. for breakfast. It's an incredible conference, hope to see some of you at the Tweetup at 5:45 p.m.
- Robert Scoble
Allen: will be watching in the morning for what I was missing. I'm sure I'm missing a lot. I had to stop ranting at some point, it was getting too long! :-)
- Robert Scoble
This is often relevant from major blogs/ celeb bloggers. The smaller and more personal blogs are still focusing just on tech ;) Perhaps you need to update your feeds :-)
- Dennis Bjørn Petersen
from twhirl
Dennis: I know. It's why I spend a lot more time here lately than on blogging. The smaller stuff shows up here a lot more regularly and I see a lot less "Yahoo business news."
- Robert Scoble
Excellent post Robert. It's why I don't read Techmeme as much as I used to. The life and joy in exploring, playing with and dissecting tech, the geeky exuberance in 'new stuff' has been lessened across almost all tech sites in general, leaving a bland veneer that is just business talk. Things a geek like me doesn't care about, as I'm not an investor.
- Mo Kargas
Techmeme has suffered because most of the tech blogs they follow have become nothing more then PR outlets like you said.
- Harold Gilchrist
from twhirl
As I posted in your comments, that's a really good post. It's great to see the old Scoble back - the one who I started reading back when your "latest thing" was Tablet PC! Welcome back, mate.
- Ian Betteridge
Robert, blogging is becoming commercialized, as it becomes popular. I do not see it as a problem. It just might mean that you and a bunch of other likely minded people have to move on to a greener, more fascinating and less populated pastures. Like friendfeed, etc. Luckily, there are lots of them around and tons in the pipeline. Enjoy!
- Павел Романовский
I don't know, Robert. On the one hand I agree 100%. And can I say that as editor of WebWorkerDaily I am the one who gets those 15 press releases a day and I *constantly* have the "is this useful?" filter on. I hope that's clear in our postings. Anyway...Your post is kind of like the person who is used to picking their own corn complaining about the supermarket because it's not the same garden. It's not. The grocer has to pay its bills, as does the paid tech blogger.
- Judi Sohn
I know I am a newie to all this but I have been reading blogs for a while. I've bee thinking up a response and I'll post later. Long comments on the iPhone make for one queasy bus ride.
- Derick Valadao
Finally. Thank you. I follow 357 feeds. Everyday. Granted I have many pop-sites (lifehacker, engadget, etc) on the list. But not one is of these "new breed" of tech bloggers out there. Even though I am in the industry, they do not speak to me. They are just another form of CNN to me. Linking to each other and regurgitating the same gibberish, no matter how relevant or important, it does not speak to me. Anyway, welcome back! This is very refreshing news to me. I will be following it with much interest. TY!
- Carlos Ayala
We should all just organize a "Tech Blog Strike", unsubscribing to those blogs that only push press releases. Let's see how they sweat when they see their subscriber count falling...
- Jorge Escobar
Obviously my previous comment was "tldr". I just wanted to say how great it is that a person in your position is able to repurpose his content to better fit the goal you are trying to reach with your content. It's a great direction to take in a time where most blogs are just trying to echo up to the top.
- Derick Valadao
Excellent post on the state of the blogging nation.
- Sheila Thomson
My only real problem with tech bloggins is how easily ideas take hold and spread to get page hits. This is very easily seen in the Vista hatred - there was never any objective reasonf or it... but it was so useful for traffic generation and looking cool that it was rampant.
- Soulhuntre
from twhirl
It's probably less about the business/tech divide, and more about me-too echo blogging
- Dave Pelland
I think so... tech bloggers are jsut as easily victims of peer pressure and memes as anyone. Once an Idea ("love google") defines someone as "getting it" then few will look at it objectively.
- Soulhuntre
from twhirl
This is a welcome breath of fresh air. Fantastic.
- Pete Gilbert
Scoble. Great post. Agree completely.
- Tom Quinn
Super excellent post and, ironically, exactly what blogging is all about. One good thing about an economic downturn, it will weed a lot of fluff out of the infosphere -- with less incentive to act as promotional platforms for startups, blogs may get more informative about using established tech.
- Sprague D
Great article Robert. It is your authenticity even more than your tech blogging that has made you the great writer that you are. Anyone can report Apple's earnings yesterday. You have always had an honest voice though that makes your writing stand out.
- Thomas Hawk
The take away is 'sensational headlines'. Add to the "Rumor:" and we don't need this stuff unless it's coming from a tabloid format site
- Charlie Anzman
Blogging is about saying what I want to say, and sharing things that I like with anybody who cares to listen. I'm not interested in driving traffic (thank goodness) or repeating what others have said, but contributing to a discussion.
- Chris Nixon
Great post Robert. Very good read and right on the mark. I religiously read feeds in Reader, but only a few that help me. I love Lifehacker. Almost everyday I find something new and useful to my job.
- Gary Schmidt
The Techie audience thirsty for knowledge is much smaller then the Get-rich-quick audience, but the largest demographic are the Free-lunch boys. The blogs with the most revenue have tricked their advertisers into believing teenage boys are business decision makers.
- paul mooney
I love tech bloggers and the things they write about. The good ones will always come at a common topic from a different angle and I just LOVE that because it makes me think outside the box and start connecting dots all over the place. Robert you are definitely one of those bloggers that I love to read and I don't think any of the ones I read have failed me.
- Devlin Dunsmore
from twhirl
Awesome reading! THX a bunch!!
- Ronald
I have to agree about the comments system though. One thing that we started to see a while ago was data portability and being able to communicate accross services. I think Disqus does that quite well and it's a great first step to making sure that the comments system becomes a little more useful on blogs.
- Derick Valadao
Well said Robert, left a comment, said my piece, cheers!
- Steve Spalding
Wow, an impressive and honest assessment of some major issues in the techblogosphere.
- Richard Akerman
Robert - I'm not in the tech industry. But I love what lots of tech stuff has done for learning stuff in my life and for others. And I want to keep on learning. You've certainly helped me here - I wouldn't know a fraction as much about using Friendfeed productively, for example. Glad we're going to see more of this kind of stuff. Welcome back.
- Tom Landini
Knocked it out of the park. If we can just get back to being geeks again, a lot of this drama will calm itself...
- Jared Smith
Great read, but kind of depressing the way things have gone. I just like being a bit geeky and all things will work out in the end.
- Alan Ashley
from twhirl
Shripriay, you hit it on the head. It is a shame that all the tech bloggers just wants to be Engadet or Gizmodo these days.
- Harold Gilchrist
from twhirl
Nice writeup Robert. I enjoyed your detailed analysis & history of the situation. Perhaps you can lead us in a new direction?
- Mitchell Tsai
i read the tech bloggers then try to actually use the gadget. would like to hear more results from the usage angle.
- Lee Kent
Shripriya, I agree with you wholeheartedly. My original comment was much longer but got cut due to length. I wish more blogs were like Louis Gray and Lifehacker which take a step back and then hit us with posts that are useful/interesting almost 100% of the time. Zero Punctuation is a great example for the gaming crowd--one post a week, internet fame.
- Derick Valadao
Hmm... A Scoble article I like.... Is this the Seventh Seal? Seriously, you're right on in that the echo chamber of groupthink has made tech blogging boring and predictable. I think there's a few people out there fighting it, and FF makes it easier to find them. I think you're off on the business side, though... I think it SHOULD be about the technology, but the entrepreneurs coming out of the Valley have made it necessary for us to discuss the business side by not having solid business plans.
- Jason Carreira
Anyway, hope this is a sign of things to come from you.
- Jason Carreira
Thanks Robert. Great read, and perspectives. Love to see more on productivity, like Lifehacker. Just became a GTD convert BTW and loved the David Allen piece.
- Jericho
Thanks for that Robert -- perspective is key.
- Shey, Jamaican of FF
I'm sorry but those that don't scale are toast, from a commericial and traffic standpoint. I know that is part of the point (varying aims and objectives of blogging etc.)
- Alex Hammer
Slap your self and get back on that horse Robert. You have NOT failed us. Human nature makes us want what we do not have. For some it's page views/revenue, for trolls it's attention, and others it's n-list status. The rest of us are looking to quench our thirst for knowledge. And please give our group a little credit. We have become ever-so-skillful at weeding out those sources that do not provide this knowledge. I repeat...You have NOT failed us.
- Andrew Smith
I appreciate what you are saying, and am glad that others share the same opinion as myself. What happened to being the guys who always had some tech trick that seemed like magic to the uninitiated? The joy of tech for me is showing that magic to others and getting them interested in what's out there too, and lately we have all become business whores a little bit. I look forward to the future content coming from you, and getting back to what made tech cool in the first place, the tech itself.
- Aaron Krug
One of the things I value most about Robert is his inner homing mechanism. He's very prone to get lost, but something always shakes him loose and he re-calibrates. Or is that re-boots? (Kind of like iPhone 2.0 now that I think about it.)
- Michael Markman
I agree w/ your article, Robert. The wonder that makes so many of us interested in tech does get lost at times- I never saw tech blogs as the place for that stuff, but appreciated it when I found it there.
- anna sauce
Alex: While scaling is necessary if you want more people to view your content, why should that come at the cost of the content itself? Too many startups are trying to replace a solid marketing plan with social media and end up trying to use big blogs as a means to advertise their product and ride the traffic tail to customers. From what I gather, this tends to make jaded bloggers who...
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- Derick Valadao
I kinda find this funny.. the comments are so distributed between FF channel and Scobles blog channel ? which one am I too follow ? I mean yesterday we had this big huge augments about cluster and fragmentation of conversations. So Robert, here's a suggestion. Turn off comments on your blog and let your readers comment on FF only. Else dont post your blog entry to FF and break your own...
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- Peter Dawson
I just approved a bunch of comments that were held in moderation. Now there's 88 comments over there. Whew.
- Robert Scoble
melmcbride: good point. It's easy to just stay on FriendFeed all day. It's hard to come up with something new to say that takes more than a short paragraph. Damn, I'm sounding so old school. The neat thing is when I do a longer blog is comes in here and improves everything.
- Robert Scoble
i think this is part of the echo chamber that is the silicon valley. people who live there use the "new" thing for so long they soon get sick of doing it. they are same people who think everyone elses use technology the same way they do and feels the same way they do.
- Jonathan Jesse
Scoble steps out of the bubble and takes a breath of fresh air... hopefully more follow or we're going nowhere fast.
- Harish V
I thought this was great! Robert, I think what I hear is your desire to just do whatever the hell you want to without regard to "The Man". Go for it. You of all people can do that!
- Elliott Ng
Robert the real issues is that everything really only needs to exist once. Conversations don't neeed to exist in many different places. Your blog comments and the conversation here are all the same conversation. I'd love to explain the solution as i see it but it'd take too long.
- Anton Mannering
Robert I am still lost- How can you profess to be be a convo aggregator , yet approve 88 comments on your blog ? @Anton, no Blog comments and these comments on FF, are two different sets of conversation happening on the same topic. Lets not confuse this fact !! There is a fork in the convosphere.
- Peter Dawson
@ Anton: I sort of agree with you, but i don't think comment fragmentation is all bad. Sometimes well-written comments appearing somewhere else can draw attention to good ideas. If I don't subscribe to a particular blog but see the feed posted here on FF, I'll pick it up and then maybe I'll go straight to the blog. There's value in fragmentation along with the frustration.
- phil baumann
I think a service like disqus should be used so that friendfeed comments on links to blog posts (with comments therein) will all show up no matter which medium you use to discuss them. Does this exist yet? I thought disqus would have this covered by now.
- Derick Valadao
Great points as always Robert. We're with you on this.
- Missionary Broadcasting
Peter: I approved about 40 that were being held in a moderation queue. I don't let newbies post a comment on my blog because then it'd be overrun with spam. FriendFeed has a much better system to protect against spam than my blog's comments. I think that it'd very cool if I could replace my blog's comments with FriendFeed, but that'd require an API that would make a URL, return it to my blog, and get it linked in, all really quickly.
- Robert Scoble
I haven't read the comments here, but feel I can comment. Robert, as someone who as known you for five years now - just before the mania began - I am pleased to hear this. What got me into your blog in the first place was your ENTHUSIASM for technology, particularly GTD. Never let that go. You be you. I will be me. And everyone else will be everyone else. In the end, you gotta follow what you love. It works for everyone from Steve Jobs to the Pope. Your friend online and off - SR
- Steve Rubel
@ phil bauman Ok 2 things. First of all I didn't say it shouldn't appear in many places. I'm saying that if you're in Roberts comments and I'm on Friendfeed then we should be able to see ALL the conversation from both. But it need not exist in a whole bunch of places only be visible from there. Second I think the argument that there is value in fragmentation is similar to saying there is value in using a ploughshare pulled by an ox. Ther is but not to most people.
- Anton Mannering
@ Robert Scoble: Interesting you should mention your blog comments being friendfeed. I know a startup or two working on those problems. In reality though the issues become way bigger when such a service is subject to really large numbers (non-tech crowd). Solving those problems is where the fun and games are and I only know one startup with a real solution for that.
- Anton Mannering
Ironic, isn't it--the influences (PR, marketing, big media) the original bloggers were trying to break away from are--surprise-- still here and the game hasn't changed as much as we thought. PR people still push their stories, tech and news blogs focus on a few big name co's and start looking like traditional media, etc. What's needed is more of the energy, enthusiasm and original thought that Scoble and others brought to the game earlier on--otherwise, we've only duplicated the old media on a new platform.
- mark ivey
I send you a tweet also but I believe that I must also write here how spot-on was your post... I can't wait to see more real Tech news coming from you and I hope that this will force other bloggers to remember how they started back then...
- Manos Matsakis
This is clearly your best post ever. Thank you for all of your hard work. I read your blog because it entertains me. I would love more posts "sharing geeky things." On the other hand, if you blog about news, technology, and a few pro-company biases, that's nothing to be ashamed of. Just because you (or any other blogger) do not provide a perfect balanced news experience does not mean that you have failed. People are responsible for finding their own news this day in age.
- Brian Wilson
Great post and I totally agree. "What's needed is more of the energy, enthusiasm..."
- Eric_T
Great stuff Robert. As blogging and social media continues to spread outside of tech and into other niche industries and verticals, those of us facilitating and evangelizing that spread should continue to look back at this post so history isn't repeated. See you at the Ritz tonight.
- J.J. Toothman
"I think that it'd very cool if I could replace my blog's comments with FriendFeed, but that'd require an API that would make a URL" - yeah I second that motion. If I had a widget that could do that but with bi- directional flow , that would really be a convo aggregator. This will certainly be an interesting challenge to some of the geeks out here !
- Peter Dawson
You can, if you're willing to give up the content. Glenn developed a great plugin that allows for bi-directional flow. It works for Wordpress and (I think) Blogger http://blog.slaven.net.au/wordpre...
- Steve Spalding
Great timing :) I got strange looks this weekend when I said that I don't review anything that has been 'pitched' to me - but rather things I discover that I think are cool. I discovered something this weekend at BlogHer that I will review. But no one sent me a press release. :) It's just a really neat gadget!
- Lucretia Pruitt
I think you should watch the movie 'Resurrecting the Champ' - its about a Writer. Drew the analogy to your post and the movie (that I just happened to see yesterday) http://mrinal.vox.com/library...
- Mrinal Desai
Enjoyed that rant, Robert. I'm not a tech geek, I don't read techmeme or techcrunch as the gist and trends can be followed here on FF, but I do read blogs like yours, Louis, Jeremiah and Hutch's, mainly to learn new things. Before FF I had never heard of Rescue Time, Jott, Evernote or TSheets for example, but hearing about new ideas and then experimenting with them myself, well that gets me interested and excited. The corporate enterprise stuff leaves me cold, it isn't nifty or flexible enough for users.
- Sally Church
Nice post. The PR influence bit reminded me of this article by Paul Graham: http://www.paulgraham.com/submari.... Agree to the fact that Tech blogging has been less 'tech' than it was a couple of years ago.
- Nikhil Dandekar
I loved the rant earlier yesterday, and even more impressed by the ff reaction. My take on your blogging, having followed you since MS days. Stay on what you think, not what others think. Avoid the whole Gillmor Gang bs, and associated groupthink.
- Bankwatch
I think that every new medium matures as it becomes possible to make real money at it - this is inevitable. I don;t think it will be the death of blogging certainly but we are in a new phase. Older blogs will mature and still keep that flavor or they will stagnate and die. The personalities will decide that. One of the things I like about your work Robert is the enthusiasm. Sometimes it makes you a bit naive, others it makes you a little to fast to declare something game changing but it is always good input
- Soulhuntre
Robert, just read your wonderful post now, and I'm still fascinated by it. I'm commenting here because I know you'll read here first. You know, this competition that you were taking about, almost cause me to stop blogging, but then I realized that I'm writing because I like it, so as far as I'm concern, I'm not trying to compete anyone, this is why I'm taking things easy and on my own...
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- Orli Yakuel
Orli: you know me too well! :-) Yup, agreed. Just do it because it's fun. The problem is that posts that make us all smarter don't stick around very long because of the flow.
- Robert Scoble
Robert, maybe it's because 'blogs' are not so unique anymore. Lets take Friednfeed for example: everyone can get noticed here just because they favorite picture on Flickr or dugg story on digg (regardless if they writing a blog, or giving any other opinion in the subject) this and other massive content mixed up together on a daily basis is flowing so fast, it almost seem that if you'll...
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- Orli Yakuel
true: "...When you hire someone,...you 'hire' his or her network..."
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cmon all you ff'ers - let's see what you say about this one!
- Allen Stern
You're 97% right. Lots of great companies have started elsewhere. But where you go wrong is in the reasons why companies move here (like Seesmic, Atlassian, BluePulse, etc). There are some people who are pretty much only available here. Want someone with experience working at Google or Yahoo on huge databases and scaling? Gotta be here, for the most part. Also, the tech press is very heavily centered here (or in New York). So, if you want old-school PR you gotta at least visit here often.
- Robert Scoble
Also, lots of VCs will only work with companies that are local.
- Robert Scoble
Not a bad article. True, there are VCs who have never had offices in Silicon Valley. But really, start where you start, you can always move.
- Greer Trice
Robert, this is also a strong reason for employees to be here as well. I moved from Ann Arbor, where there were only two companies that need the type of 3d animation I do. Here, there are literally 100s of companies and many operate on a large scale. I and most tech workers like the security.
- Doug Brooks
Doug: that's true. I've been all over the world and there's no place like Silicon Valley in terms of the expertise that's available here (and the number of choices available to those geeks). If you are a geek in NY and get fired, there aren't many choices. Here? You'll have hundreds of choices.
- Robert Scoble
Isn't the article more about do's and don'ts of a startup?! Either the title was written to get people to look at it or, the plot was lost after the first half :) I agree with most points you make. Like, starting a company in Silicon valley just coz of things like "talent", "Vc"s is just lame. If you believe in an idea worth believing in, it wouldn't matter where you are.
- Shivanand Velmurugan
Original ideas may better come from outside of Silicon Valley initially, but it will almost always come to a point where VC's want to keep a close eye on their investment and plan their exit strategy.
- Jeremy Campbell
from twhirl
Shivanand try and hire 30 animators in a couple days in the mid west :) Talent is a very good reason to choose location.
- Doug Brooks
Shivanand: you're wrong. It's pretty clear you've never started a business that needs talent to grow, particularly certain kinds of talent. There's a reason why Marvel Films and Lucas Films are both located here.
- Robert Scoble
Alot of good points, but I still wonder about a few points. If its about who you know... wouldn't proximity to influencers, investors, and pioneers in your field be an ideal advantage? At minimum, just in "starting" you start-up. You could be an actor anywhere in the world, but wouldn't Hollywood be the most opportune place to get a start?
- Adam Helweh
“Another quick note. A friend of mine said ot me recently "The Silicon Valley is the only place you can tell off your boss one day and walk across the street and get a job with the competitor the next." Same reason why so many come to the U.S.... opportunity in abundance.”
- Adam Helweh
robert - hundreds of choices of what?
- Allen Stern
i like @adam's take: you can be an actor anywhere but if you want to be in big-studio, high-production value movies with worldwide distribution potential, you improve your chances by being in hollywood, and if you want to be a big-time high tech entrepreneur, living in silicon valley has to be a big advantage in the startup stages, and perhaps beyond.
- .LAG liked that
Adam, the one thing to watch out for is that very boss might be hired by the competitor the week after :) This is true though, I was with a start up 3 years ago and started my current gig exactly 3 days after that company went south. It blew me away since it took 6 months to get out of Ann Arbor prior to that.
- Doug Brooks
Allen: tech companies to work for.
- Robert Scoble
There is no job security in this world anymore. One thing is for sure when we talk about start-ups or anyone else starting a business.... unfortunately most of them fail. Talent will usually root itself where failure can turn into a quick rebound.
- Adam Helweh
I don't see many actual statistics in the article, which IMHO would put the lie to some of the words from you and the VCs. It takes a village. The Silicon Valley ecosystem and web of personal contacts has yet to be xeroxed. Half the VC in the world flows through Menlo Park, and half of that stays between route 280 and route 101.
- Indio Apache
from twhirl
Agreed starting up a company in the rural U.S. would be quite challenging, but at the same time many of his points hit home - plus, I enjoyed the NYC hometown-love throughout the piece. Tim's a sharp guy - he and I had a great discussion during this past Internet Week NY about... guess what... all of the superb talent and fantastic ideas floating around the Alley lately that get overshadowed by the Valley, but have the potential for a significant impact on the future of technology.
- Tom Harrison
10 Ways to Take Stunning Portraits - http://digital-photography-school.com/blog...
Stanton Champion, Jeff P. Henderson, Bryan Villarin and 3 other people liked this
Hasselblad ups the max from 39 to 50 megapixels - http://www.hasselblad.se/product...
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It's just a D-SLR, only bigger than most of us use.
- Brian Johns
That's just insanity. Will be great to whoever can shell out for it.
- Tsega Dinka
I liked the closing line on engadget "anyone who buys a 39 now can trade up to the 50 later for the difference in price and instructions on how to properly sleep on beds made of money"
- Mel Buckpitt
Ts ts, you know - who really needs that ? I would have a big fight with 39MP on my Macbook - but that ?
- Martin Gommel
A Hiking Stick? A Tripod? Yes, It’s Both! - http://www.geocachingonline.com/2008...
Mitchell Tsai, Stanton Champion, Wayne Schulz and 10 other people liked this
Man, now that is indeed nice. I swear I may have seen some people with one when I went to the fireworks show.
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Gah! I need to stop spending money :-(
- Andrew Feinberg
Rare earth magnet mounting of a digital camera would seem slightly risky to me. Or am I just being paranoid?
- Ken Sheppardson
This a great idea. Will work that into my budget.
- Khürt Williams
from twhirl
168 Billion reasons to stop using Google Analytics - http://www.diorex.com/168-bil...
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Any idea how can I see all the public rooms from FF?
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This isn't all of them but it is the best place I have found for a directory: http://ffrd.appspot.com/
- J Allen
To see them ALL, the best way is via Google- http://www.google.com/search...
- Ben Parr
thanks Ben and globecode--very helpful. However, GEEZ why is FF so "secret" about the public rooms? Feature or bug?
- BISQ
thanks! I think it's just a limitation for now.
- Stelian Iancu
They only have so many resources and people to code thing. A room directory isn't a high priority most likely.
- Ben Parr
Some Thoughts on The Nikon D700 - http://www.luminous-landscape.com/reviews...
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Interesting scuttlebutt on Nikon's resurgence from Michael Reichmann: "Apparently, (at least according to my friend) in about 2005 Nikon's board had a break with the company's senior management. After some 50 years as a dominant player in the Pro camera market Nikon was losing not only marketshare but also "face", because of Canon's dominant position in almost every market segment, but particularly with regard to Pro cameras and Nikons lack of a full-frame competitor to Canon 1Ds series. In short – Canon had been cleaning Nikon's clock, and the board was pissed. It seems (or so the story went) that the board removed some of Nikon's more conservative senior management and replaced them with more aggressive "Young Turks", along with a mandate to rebuilt Nikon's reputation and market position."
- Jason Chen
from Bookmarklet
"If Canon serves us up a warmed over 5D, with just the mandatory upgrades and a slightly higher resolution sensor, then they'll fall into Nikon's trap" - this is my concern, that it's back to the drawing board for Canon and 5Dii.
- jcunwired
C'mon folks, it's not gonna be the end of the world for Canon if they don't blow our socks off with the 5DII just like it wasn't the end of the world for Nikon for the past however many years while Canon was having their way. Canon can cede the field to Nikon for this generation of bodies and gear up for the next round. Of course if they mess up the next round... ;-p
- ronin
The article wonders if the D700 is a masterstroke or misguided because it will cannibalize the D3. I vote masterstroke. You don't worry about cannibalization if you're trying to make yourself relevant again, especially when the real money is in expensive add-ons (lenses, flashes, etc).
- Stanton Champion
Wall-E is a copyright criminal - Boing Boing - http://www.boingboing.net/2008...
JA Castillo, Mitchell Tsai, Keith Pelczarski and 20 other people liked this
"1. WALL-E records audio from his favorite movie, XXXXXXXXXXX, putting in onto his own digital recorder (bypassing the macrovision DRM on the tape). A COPYRIGHT CRIME UNDER C-61 2. WALL-E archives the audio, he doesn’t merely time-shift it. He listens repeatedly! A COPYRIGHT CRIME UNDER C-61 3. WALL-E shares his DRM-broken music with his friend, another robot named XXXXX. A COPYRIGHT CRIME UNDER C-61"
- Benjamin Golub
from Bookmarklet
I knew there was a reason I liked that little guy!
- Nathan Henderson
actually, since it's hundreds of years later all of that stuff would be in the public domain :-)
- mathew ingram
If history is any guide, Disney's copyrights will never expire.
- Kevin Fox
+1 for Kevin. They don't call it the Mickey Mouse Protection Act for nothing.
- Cyndy
Since Disney owns Wall•E and Wall•E is violating Disney's copyrights (which never expire as Kevin points out), I'm hoping Disney would end up in some sort of lawsuit infinite loop and implode, leaving Pixar to make good movies.
- Scott Johnston
As long as Pixar continues to produce hits, Disney will leave Pixar alone. Even better, Pixar's influence will be felt stronger in Burbank and animation will improve there too. BOLT! this fall is the first to have Pixar's Story Method imposed upon it. Look for much better results than recent Disney animation.
- John Frost
Someone censor that movie before it becomes a threat to the MPAA et al!!!!
- Roberto Bonini
Wouldn't some sort of reverse Statute of Limitations apply since he doesn't do any of this until the year 2815?
- Ken Sheppardson
The D3, D700 and Canon - http://duncandavidson.com/2008...
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"As has widely been reported around the net, today marks the introduction of the new Nikon D700. In my eyes, this release pretty much seals the deal that Nikon is back in the game and in a huge way. More to the point, the domination that Canon has enjoyed since 2000 in the mid to high-end digital SLR market is well and truly over. To be sure, Canon isn’t out of the game yet and no obituaries need to be written. But, a big and fundamental change has happened."
- Jason Chen
from Bookmarklet
Canon must wow people this year or else they're going to face a serious brain drain of customers. I'm not even sure they're doing that well in the low-end consumer market, like the article suggests. People I see with SLRs are 2 to 1 carrying Nikons.
- Stanton Champion
Yup, I'm seeing this trend too. Amazing turnaround, I'd love to know how they got it done. I wish Microsoft would learn from Nikon. They are facing similar challenges.
- Robert Scoble
If the D700 has similar low light capability (to D3) it will be significant -- but it is still going to be priced way above the 5D according to most reports (and a new 5D is due out soon). I think some waiting is still in order to declare that Nikon has a winner here
- Brian Sullivan
Of course the D700 is priced way above what the 5D costs now. The 5D cost $3k too when it first came out and is now 3 years old. The D700 will still be a great camera no matter what Canon does with the 5D successor. And that 5D successor better be all that and then some if Canon expects to slot it in at the same price point.
- ronin
It seems as though the torch has been passed, and Canon is now the follower after many years as leader. I hope this is not the case, and Canon release some announcement of new products soon to counter what will inevitably be a jump in the prosumer market from Canon to Nikon. Since my trusty old Nikon F2 kit was stolen 7 years ago, I've been without SLR. Recently I've overcome my disgust...
more...
- jcunwired
As a 5D owner, I have to admit that I'm intrigued by the D700. My only hesitation with moving to Nikon would be what seems to be a dearth of prime lenses on par with Canon's L's. But I don't know the Nikkor line-up or terminology that well, so I could be mistaken.
- Jason Chen
got to SAT 2 hrs before flight like southwest airlines recommends. first flight @ 6, no agents until 5. line was 100+ deep w/ unhappy custs.
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And let me guess, by the time you made it through security, your flight had fully boarded and you were running to the gate with your shoes in your hands?
- Stanton Champion
WSJ: "Most Corporate Blogs Are Unimaginative Failures", http://blogs.wsj.com/biztech... most don't get traction.
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Not having read the report, my initial reaction to the headline based on my experience is that it is probably the outreach strategy, if that headline is true.
- John Cass
from Alert Thingy
My thought is that many corporate blogs push their agenda, without considering the readers first.
- Jeremiah Owyang
before Corporations blog, they need to understand (a) the clue Train Manifesto and (b) the market is luaghing, at them !!
- Peter Dawson
The power of social media isn't so much in giving the leadership an online megaphone, but to economically service niche parts of a company's business. If a blog doesn't generate some arbitrary number of comments... WHO CARES!?! If the blog is about an arcane technical topic... WHO CARES!?! Does it reach the right people? Does it get the job done?
- Phil Gomes
I'm sure they're unimaginative, but are they really failures? The blogs may be dull and provide little new information, but at least corporations are blogging. Isn't that a step in the right direction?
- Brent Newhall
Nice to have an employer which gives me pretty complete access to Forrester material. Mmmm, feel the learning :-D
- Justin Guy Souter
from twhirl
I read a reasonably good article somewhere that said the problem is that instead of finding the internal blog champions, companies push blogs out through their same constrained traditional marketing and communications channels. Also, I liked the Greg the Architect video, even if it is viral marketing for TIBCO.
- Richard Akerman
agree w/ richard that the companies that do blogging via their traditional marketing/communications group don't normally do a very good job of it
- mike "glemak" dunn
now for my reaction to this article - ben worthen of wsj did a terrible job on this one, title is linkbaiting, the report he references and that makes up most of the content is from forrester and is related to b2b companies only - i'm sure its a valid report based on a valid study but how ben could then extrapolate this into all corp blogs (including b2c companies) is beyond my comprehension - do journalism much ben? boy i wish i could get back the 3 minutes it took me to read his fluff piece and write this
- mike "glemak" dunn
I would like to 'like' Mike's comment.
- Brian Oberkirch
I've been foloowing EMC's efforts at enterprise 2.0, as blogged by Chuck Hollis, VP Tech Alliances. He gives great detail about how they're doing it. In this blog post, he talks about grooming internal employees as bloggers, and graduating them to interact externally. Also some very good thoughts about corporate blogs. http://chucksblog.typepad.com/a_journ...
- Hutch Carpenter
This is the article about corporate blogging I was referring to http://www.canada.com/ottawac...
- Richard Akerman
What's really ironic is that Forrester puts itself out as THE social media analyst firm. Which begs the question: WTF are they doing?
- Dennis Howlett
from twhirl
hutch & richard - those are two good links to thoughtful well done posts/articles on corp blogging - hope ben finds this thread so that maybe next thing he does for wsj is more like those (thanks brian btw)
- mike "glemak" dunn
Wow: TWIP Host Scott Bourne is Switching to Nikon - http://twipphoto.com/index...
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Heresy! Who will represent the Canon Nation on TWIP? ;-)
- Jeremy Brooks
Hell, if I could afford to just go out and drop cash on a nice full frame camera and new matching lenses, there would be little guilt involved in brand jumping too.
- jerry
@Taylor he answers the "why" question in the post...
- Aaron B. Hockley
He found the perfect combo for what he shoots: D3 + 200-400. Not a bad reason.
- ronin
Yes, the post makes sense. There's really not a wrong choice -- Canon and Nikon both make great gear. Just have to find what works best for you.
- Jeremy Brooks
Canon really seems like they've ignored their customers. There's some Canon gear I need, but I almost want to hold off buying and wait and see. If Nikon manages to leapfrog Canon and stay ahead, the less I have to sell to switch the better.
- Stanton Champion
I'm waiting until September for potential 5D successor announcement from Canon. If it doesn't come, D700 is looking good.
- jcunwired
FriendFeed: A Guide for Twitter Users - http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r...
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Why Don't Managers Think Deeply? — HBS Working Knowledge - http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item...
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Please, pretty please! FriendFeed's team: Enable "Hide" in the API ! Fellow friendfeeders please vote this :) - http://groups.google.com/group...
Steve Daly, Tyler Gillies, Andre and 39 other people liked this
Must have for me. Won't even look at a client until it's implemented.
- Ken Sheppardson
Seriously? Never used it. Someone have a precise use case?
- fbrunel
For me it's "Marked as Read", but beyond that... once you hide an individual post, you have access to the best hidden feature of FF: the "See options for hiding other items like this" link. Once you hide an item you can hide all the posts from that user on a particular service, hide them unless they have comments... plus a bunch of other context sensitive options. Very, very, very handy.
- Ken Sheppardson
What do you want to hide? Just do not read it if you are not interested.
- Igor The Troll יִצְחָק
Thanks, I guess I've to try.
- fbrunel
fbrunel: we often hide redundant stuff, or whole services. I, myself don't use it that much actually, but many people can't use FriendFeed without it
- directeur
from NoiseRiver
Igor: it's not about "censoring". It's more about managing your reading page :)
- directeur
from NoiseRiver
Ah, hiding is not available from the iPhone version.
- fbrunel
Honestly I think it is a good experience for users to see he whole picture. But I understand what you mean especially if you are new.
- Igor The Troll יִצְחָק
Igor: Well it's a choice... noone has the same time availability, nerves, mood as you and me :) I believe, like you surely do, that the user's experience should the center of any service or UI
- directeur
from NoiseRiver
That's a big FAIL. I would've expected hides to apply to all output generated for a user stream.
- Dewald Pretorius
Nope. hiding's not available anywhere but on the FF site. That's the point of directeur's post. :-)
- Ken Sheppardson
do you mean the ability to hide without going to friendfeed? because the api already has a "hidden" field for each entry, though I haven't verified if it works.
- Kevin L
Kevin: I'm already using that field in NoiseRiver to hide the already hidden entries. The problem now is to be able to hide in the client app (NoiseRiver, FFToGO...)
- directeur
from NoiseRiver
here, here, would love to see hide in FFToGo.
- Thomas Hawk
Thomas, Thomas :) Follow the link and add your voice please ;-)
- directeur
from NoiseRiver
added it in the link as well! Seriously. Hide is such an important feature. It sucks not having it in the API. Why don't they have this in the API by the way? What's the logic or reasoning?
- Thomas Hawk
Thanks Thomas! You're right! They should at least add the very basic "hide" like Ben said.
- directeur
from NoiseRiver
Bill Gates On Microsoft: Damn, Our Usability Sucks - http://mashable.com/2008...
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New App: FriendFeed Room Directory - http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r...
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No problem, I did it for myself. I was frustrated at not being able to find rooms. :) I hoped to leverage the power of the crowds to build this bad boy - I'm sure that eventually FriendFeed will do something to make this obsolete, but for at least a short while it could be good. :)
- felix
OH. You rule. The. End.
- Leslie Poston
ok, ok, I'll say it... "BOOM"
- Ha3rvey (not Akiva)
Thank you. I'm still getting lost in the halls. Enough rooms for a major hotel now ??!!
- Charlie Anzman
nice, rooms are underutilized and hard to find
- Chris Miller
Sorry, here's a link to the original announcement: http://friendfeed.com/e... And yes, it's a post on felix's site.
- Phil G
Thanks everyone! :) It's filled up a good bit in the couple hours it's been public! Charlie, I'm going to look into sub-directories, but want to let it fill up more to see how any sort of sub division ought to look. (and thanks J, for the link to the original! :)
- felix
Thank you. I will add the couple that I created in.
- Mathew A. Koeneker
Well done! :)
- Bwana ☠
what if you added a routine to scrape the google search for rooms to prepopulate the list of rooms and then let users categorize them?
- Kenneth LeFebvre
from fftogo
I added most of the rooms I know about. A few errors. Also, I can't change my mind and move a room to a different category. Maybe some rooms do fit in more than one category too.
- Morton Fox
oh, and expose a simple api so someone can make a grease monkey script to add to your directory while creating the room!
- Kenneth LeFebvre
from fftogo
I wonder why this isn't something friendfeed has. They should rip off the irc entirely and allow both public and secret rooms exactly like the irc.
- Doug Brooks
Morton, I didn't make any public admin interface because there's no backup of the BigTable on App Engine and I worried about someone coming in and messing around. So for now, it's just me - if you have things shoot me an IM or so. :)
- felix
Kenneth - hm.. wonder if anyone'd care to greasemonkey that, but it's super easy for me to build, so I'll throw something together for next rev.
- felix
Nice job felix :)
- Shey, Jamaican of FF
well done felix :)
- directeur
really cool, thanks!
- Iain Baker
tis broken on June 17th
- Capn' One Eye - adrift
ARGH App Engine!! It has like no data and still... Methinks I need some memcaching going on, apologies for this.
- felix
good luck with that, felix!
- Phil G
[scribkin] The 6 Best Ways to Rock FriendFeed - http://www.scribkin.com/2008...
![[scribkin] The 6 Best Ways to Rock FriendFeed](http://friendfeed-media.com/old-9efc680635dc11dd821d003048343a40.jpg "[scribkin] The 6 Best Ways to Rock FriendFeed") |
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Useful advice as I try to make FF my new Twitter. There's lots to understand about the FF interface. Anyone else have any "secret" tips/?
- Leo Laporte
My mobile app of choice: http://fftogo.com
- Bwana ☠
Louis Gray's FriendFeed tips: #1 http://www.louisgray.com/live... #2 http://www.louisgray.com/live... #3 http://www.louisgray.com/live... #4 http://www.louisgray.com/live...
- Bwana ☠
I can't seem to find it, but there's a Windows Twitter to FriendFeed converter script that will send invites to all your Twitter friends to subscribe to your FriendFeed.
- Jesse Stay
from twhirl
Thanks for linking up my article, Leo!
- Phil G
Jesse: Not sure about the script you're referring to but this script - http://internetducttape.com/2008... - will add your Twitter friends to FF. I've been meaning to run it but haven't yet. I'll do it tonight and report back.
- Leo Laporte
That's cool Bwana - for iPhone users - anyone have a Blackberry FF client?
- Leo Laporte
Jesse, I think you are talking about Internet Duct Tape's Twitter to FriendFeed importer: http://internetducttape.com/2008...
- Phil G
Leo, also if you're a Greasemonkey user, I highly recommend bookmarking http://ffapps.com
- Bwana ☠
Leo, here's another handy Greasemonkey script for filtering your FF stream by service http://snurl.com/2en81 e.g. view only Flickr, view only Tumblr, etc.
- Mike Doeff
@Leo, http://fftogo.com is a decent friendfeed blackberry client. I do not use it much but it is way better anything else I have seen.
- Rob Diana
Leo: fftogo works well on the blackberry (so I've heard) but you need to change your font size in fftogo (scroll to the bottom and click on settings). I'm the developer for fftogo so if you want any improvements I'm your man.
- Benjamin Golub
from fftogo
So it does, Benjamin - but I hate going to the BB browser. What font size works best? Trying 9 right now.
- Leo Laporte
I'm not sure since I don't have a BB but I've heard that the default (which works great on my Moto Q9c) is way too big on the BB.
- Benjamin Golub
@bgolub thanks for implementing font size :)
- Alex Gawley
Just joining FF, it's different but it does seem nice and simple =)
- John Tyra
Lots of folks who have not used the "hide" feature have not seen the options available. I love the g-monkey script tabs, but hey -- why not also try what's already here. BTW, here's Duncan Riley's great index of FF tabs: http://userscripts.org/users...
- Dan Covington
This post has helped me to understand FriendFeed better than anything else I've read. Thanks.
- Larry Huffman
Good, common-sensical ways to be relevant and get the most from FriendFeed
- Ron Emrick
from Alert Thingy
FriendFeed doesn't seem to work very well for timeline-based discussion. It orders it by latest comment/like so you don't get the latest 1st
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I noticed that as well, and there is not an option to change the view. =(
- John Tyra
perhaps plurk would be better for this?!
- acedanger
But it does work well for identifying hot topics. One option is to attach comments to an item and use the comments as a timeline.
- Ontario Emperor
from fftogo
Yah, we should fix this, especially for events like this.
- Bret Taylor
Plurk is frustrating if you are following more than a few dozen ppl.
- Rafe Needleman
Bret, when is FF getting Plurk support?
- Rafe Needleman
Bret, how would you "fix"?
- Ontario Emperor
from fftogo
Offer the ability to sort things by date published I think is the simplest way.
- Bret Taylor
Perhaps a room based setting that admins can set; "do not bump entries"
- Benjamin Golub
i actually like this feature because the interesting stuff bubbles to the top.
- Seth Gottlieb
from twhirl
God I love Web 2.0! Market research at its best!
- Stanton Champion
Simple is good.
- Ontario Emperor
from fftogo
I actually had success just following the main "Friends" feed because you catch all the new posts there, and it's close to a "newest first" at least. I still don't get Plurk.
- Jesse Stay
Very happy FriendFeed stayed up and fast through the WWDC. Good work, everyone at the FriendFeed HQ!
Tyler Gillies, Mohamed J, Arjun and 114 other people liked this
rock solid
- Dobromir Hadzhiev
Go FriendFeed!!!! EPIC WIN!
- Steve Isaacs
FriendFeed was rock solid throughout. Way to go Bret, Paul, and the rest of the FriendFeed team.
- Brian Daniel Eisenberg
I never had any doubts. Nice job, guys.
- Louis Gray
Love Ya Friendfeed!
- Parth Awasthi
from twhirl
Indeed ! that's was very nice! Have you done anything special about this Bret? (Like twitter's folks)
- directeur
very nice. anyone could guess Friendfeed would make it.
- SolidSmack
from twhirl
way to keep the fail whales away
- Jeremy Raines
We did move a few things around, but nothing temporary - the event inspired us to optimize a few things we had been meaning to optimize anyway.
- Bret Taylor
yay scalability!
- Neha Narula
Bret: Big! Congrats! You've done a very nice job ! :)
- directeur
I guess that I will be hanging out with ya'll for the rest of the day. :)
- Mathew A. Koeneker
FriendFeed FTW!
- mathew ingram
unlike the oh so much stress Twitter will be having FriendFeed will be up and running
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I'd like to second this notion: well done Friendfeed, you guys have your shit together and I respect that.
- ryangraves
Rob (Radez) actually just said the same thing. Good work, guys!
- Gabor Cselle
Even wordpress hosted sites are down! FF is well hosted and manged!
- Lakshman Prasad
from twhirl
well done you guys.
- Tsega Dinka
Me think FriendFeed cousin Googawl...
- directeur
It rocked... simply the best place for live updates.
- Vince DeGeorge
FF rox!
- anna sauce
This was great! FF had updates faster than the folks liveblogging the event.
- Jennifer Dittrich
ya, man, FriendFeed Rocks!
- Ralph Poole
from twhirl
Kudos..It was your stress test
- Varun Mahajan
nothing beats FF!
- Dieter Schwarz
FriendFeed triumphs yet again
- Shey, Jamaican of FF
well done! friendfeed deserves all the hype it can get!
- Chris Hofmann
Does it count as hype if it's true?
- Amit Patel
pity we cannot say the same for twitter :)
- Photo Larry
from twhirl
Amit: A wise man once said it isn't bragging if it is true.
- Russellreno
iPhone 3G Price: $199!
Chris Hofmann, Mohamed J, Anthony Farrior and 36 other people liked this
BOOM
- MG Siegler
8 gigabytes
- MG Siegler
Wow!
- Benjamin Golub
BOOM
- Caleb Elston
yes, the 3G one
- MG Siegler
now that was a BOOM
- Frederic
bang
- Dobromir Hadzhiev
Okay, I'll take one.
- Andre Heinrichs
affordable to almost everyone
- MG Siegler
Holy Hell!
- JA Castillo
Yes!
- Mike Doeff
16 gig: $299 and in WHITE
- MG Siegler
Subsidized?
- Cyndy
That means Touch will be cheaper, too
- Andre Heinrichs
Yes,
- Ben Parr
Incredible. I will get two.
- Lars Trieloff
one for the wife - one for me
- Frederic
wOOt! who's shorting NOKIA :p
- Blake Burris
when will it ship?
- Andre Heinrichs
stocks heading up
- Frederic
I think I can see why they dried up the channel a month ago. Nobody can complain they *just bought* a $399 iPhone.
- Kevin Fox
The contract lasts your lifetime and the lifetime of your children though. Gotta read the small print.
- Chris Ridenour
BOOMSHAKALAKA!!!
- Tadhg Kelly
finally an affordable version of the phone
- Chris Jones
FF needs a Super Like for things like this.
- Stanton Champion
That sound you heard was Twitter crashing as everyone simultaneously typed "$199!!!"
- Ken Sheppardson
omg
- Alexander Marktl
wonder if this involves a rebate
- Nicholas Molnar
I want one of these.
- Andre Heinrichs
no rebates - sounds like that's the price
- Frederic
If only the service wasn't twice as much as what I pay for exactly the same thing. Sprint gives me 3G, unlimited data, unlimited text for $30 / month. The only thing that sucks is I'm using Windows Mobile and not an iPhone :(
- Benjamin Golub
Reminder: 199 USD that is 126 EUR.
- Lars Trieloff
@Ben That includes voice??
- Cyndy
Cyndy; yup, $30 gets me 500 minutes, 7pm nights and weekends free, unlimited data/text see here: http://delivery.sprint.com/m...
- Benjamin Golub
The bigger annoucement will be how this affects the tarrif!
- Joe Dawson
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