"A few weeks ago I talked with Jonathan Heiliger, vice president of technical operations at Facebook, about the challenge of innovating quickly and building stable infrastructure while 250,000 new members are added to the social network every day" - Maki via Bookmarklet
the comments on the original article are lame. The best thing they could do is open the service all the way. - Joseph Rodgers
Wow theres a lot. ...a lot of a lot ... the likely cause was the other day when what's his name pointed his Nokia at his monitor, giving an infinite picture-in-picture of the stream he was running on qik - Dan Covington
All: an API client malfunctioned or intentionally spammed with these comments. We disabled that API client to prevent the problem, and we are reaching out to the developer. - Bret Taylor
"As long as people were focused on documenting the experience, they couldn’t be fully in the experience." - Fu_
Sometimes it can enhance the experience - so it becomes shared with a community. The problem is perhaps more when people document their personal events and interactions. I found this when video recording - you weren't part of the party, just an observer. - David Sim
I'm distracted by cell cameras at shows. It's visually distracting, but also takes away from the shared musical experience by constantly reminding me of the degree to which people's desire for social capital motivates them to go to concerts. It's human nature, and there's certainly nothing wrong with it, but it's not something I want to think about when I'm trying to enjoy the music and truly enjoy something for the sake of how it sounds and makes me feel. - Gabe Ragland
Been disappointed with Facebook lately, just had to write about it. - Andy DeSoto via Bookmarklet
It's not as well geared to group discussion as are things like this and Pownce. But it's also often the main online connection to the folks we know in the brick and mortar world. - Heidi Cool
A thorough, current list of 150+ categorized Twitter desktop & mobile applications, browser extensions & resource links for Twitter users, addicts, social media users & marketers to utilize. Yes, there are a lot already on the Web but a lot of the links are outdated & none of the newbie sites are on it! - ChaCha Fance via Bookmarklet
I think is the logic evolution of that - Alex Barredo
Interesting timing on the article because of Mixx's newest feature of user defined communities. Searching is always important, but social search vs submixxes/subreddits is an interesting question. "Sub topics" give you a filter, which is not a search, but could give you a small enough subset of information to be useful. - Rob Diana
According to investigators, 12 year-old Berta Guevara ran away from home with her 2 month-old baby on Wednesday, June 25, 2008. Police say the teen’s mother was concerned for the safety of both children. - Janet Forte via Bookmarklet
Twitter will only die when the "A" Listers leave and declare it dead ;) - Shane
No, there's still a core of active users on there - who are not A list bloggers. Journalists and News agencies seem to be sticking it out with Twitter. - Gerard Barberi via twhirl
I love FriendFeed and I’ve been spending a lot more time on it recently so I’ve decided to create a Dark Theme for it. Have fun ٩(●̮̮̃•̃)۶ - Brandon via Bookmarklet
"1 Million impressions"...no I'll take the 5 relationships that will help me grow 1 million subscribers... - Anthony Farrior
The thing is, they both go hand in hand. You aren't getting those impressions without relationships, and you aren't getting those relationships without impressions. Usually. What I'm saying is that neither is mutually exclusive. - Ben Parr
Five relationships... although your lead measures are important. The big question - does your 1m impressions lead to relationships and if so, how many? Mileage will vary. - David Sim
The timing & metrics are very important in here. How long does it takes to lead the 5 relationships to 1M impressions & what the current situation is & such questions. - Nikpay
SNSing = five relationships. Real life is a whole different story. - Mona N
I'll take the impressions. Unless Keira Knightley is one 5 relationships?? And I need the adsense for drink and cigarettes. - john conroy
"Know how to win friends and influence people? Advertisers want you to peddle their stuff to peers on Facebook and MySpace.
Internet start-ups out to crack the problem of advertising on social networks are developing ad technology that can analyze which people are most influential to their friends on social networks so that they can target those people with pass-it-on messages about Apple's latest iPhone or The Incredible Hulk movie." - Maki via Bookmarklet
And how much will they pay us to Spam their Wares? Or are we their Slaves and must promote their materialism for Free? - Igor The Troll
Ick. I don't like the sounds of this already. Interesting, but devious... - Andy DeSoto
"We're trying to make ads suck less in social networks," said Seth Goldstein, founder .... should be "we're trying to figure out how to use people to make up for the fact that we keep sucking so bad." - Sara
Sounds like Brands are relying on influential users/customers as their marketing. It is much more personal when a users brags on a company than when a company brags on him self. - Joseph Rodgers
I could see this working in the short term, but I imagine users would get used to the fact that friends are appearing in ads and then begin ignoring them. I could only see this working in the long term if they make sure that social ads only focus on things friends have actually done, such as "Tom scored 1600 in The Space Game app" (info which would have to be provided by the app). If they start just inserting friend thumbnails into any ad just to grab your attention people will quickly learn to ignore them. - Gabe Ragland
Using "influencers" to exploit their established social networks on behalf of paid advertising for the sake of a fast buck is the purist form of opportunistic capitalism. - Susan Beebe
People talk about 'Wave of the Future'. Well, I reckon in this case, the tag is justified. If they can find out a way to dismiss link-train wh%%es etc. and adequately measure social connectedness, they'll be onto a winner here imho. - john conroy
"For any web service there’s bound to be at least a couple dozen Greasemonkey scripts that really enhance its performance or contribute to ease of use, and FriendFeed is no exception. Having been tipped about one nifty script, I’ve dug a bit deeper and found some scripts that I’m definitely going to stick with." - Maki via Bookmarklet
"The problem for marketers is that the most popular video site, YouTube, is filled with user-generated content that is too edgy or unprofessional for brand advertising. Many online videos are too short for people to sit through “pre-roll” video ads that play before the content, and people don’t like “overlay ads” that run during videos because they are intrusive. Another barrier for marketers is having to format ads differently for different video-sharing and media sites — not to mention the challenge of gauging how effective the ads actually are.
But despite all of these obstacles, there are signs that video advertising is finally ready to bloom, thanks to a number of important factors" - Maki via Bookmarklet
It would be nice if they allowed for deeper integration w/ the ability to register users through an API. Developers would be much more likely to integrate something like this into their website if they could just hook up their existing user base to it without needing them to register at Mixx.com. Although this would allow devs to create thousands of Mixx accounts on the fly (with a script) it wouldn't create a spam issue if users were required to validate their email before posting at Mixx.com. - Gabe Ragland
"Friendfeed has a feature called Rooms that you can use to share links with either the public at large, a small group of friends or just yourself. The feature is great on many levels, but it's especially handy as a private info trapping system. Here are two ways I use it." - Maki via Bookmarklet
Dieter, stop agreeing with me, otherwise you will be labeled a Social Troll and blocked by @Scobleizer LOL - Igor The Troll
damn - that would be the worst thing that could happen to someone in web 2.0! Ok: Nothing that Igor the social troll says is true!! ;) - Dieter Schwarz
Yeah, the more someone tries to debunk me, the more vocal and notable I become! - Igor The Troll
Twitturly scans Twitter, looks for links that people are talking about then organizes them by popularity on the home page, and the stories then degrade over time. - Maki
The tools that scan twitter are really bad ass, it would be nice if they were all in one place like a google analytics page, or twitter analytics page. - Joseph Rodgers
I have tons of invites for socialthing and would like an invite to ping.fm. Please post what invites you have (and are willing to share) and what invites you would like from others. Let's help each other out. - Muhammad Saleem
