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Screenshots of Twitter’s Admin. Take a look a look behind the scenes. - http://thenextweb.com/2009...
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cem baspinar, Müjdat Korkmaz, Baturalp Torun and 29 other people liked this
Masking the display pic is useless, just do a search for the latest update.
- Jalada
you are quite right Jalada
- Zee.
Wow, someone could of really messed with that info and kept it quiet.
- Simon Wicks
It looks like they have a fairly traceable system of actions, so it probably would be spotted quite quickly. It's interesting though.
- Jalada
This shows that Ashton Kutcher blocks Perez Hilton, as does Lily Rose Allen. :)
- Louis Gray
LOL, really? haha...awesome find
- Zee.
And lily allen is :)
- Simon Wicks
Haha. Awesome.
- Jalada
Even after it was in the paper about her ranting with him over Twitter. Guess she gave in after that and just blocked him instead of fighting back.
- Simon Wicks
I was just going write that, Gray ;)
- coldbrew
Also, apparently the Twitter fire hose is called "Hosebird", wtf?
- coldbrew
I wonder what 96 people did to be blocked by Obama!
- Charlotte M
bumping in case you guys hadn't seen them yet - some really interesting facts too
- Zee.
Charley, that's probably when the account was more closely monitored. During the campaign perhaps?
- Louis Gray
sheesh Louis, you're up! How many hours of sleep did you get?
- Zee.
You mean from 6:30 to 8:30 after midnight to 2?
- Louis Gray
Leo Laporte loses it with Mike Arrington...seriously. - http://www.youtube.com/watch...
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update from Arrington: http://www.techcrunch.com/2009...
- Zee.
Pretty amazing
- Dan Morrill AKA Techwag
go leo!!!
- Jay Martinez
wow. I've never seen that side of Leo.
- jbrotherlove
naa, no way Cristo.
- Zee.
Mike later said "it was important to disclose that. Palm canceled [TC's] review unit after [TC] wrote critical articles".
- Jérôme Flipo
i've never seen Leo lose it like this before
- Zee.
What Cristo said.
- Anthony Citrano
from BuddyFeed
"I can assure you Mike Arrington will never be on anything I do again. - Leo Laporte"
- Jérôme Flipo
discussion here: http://friendfeed.com/twit-co...
- Zee.
I don't get Arrington's point. Many journalists/bloggers get free review units all the time, and Leo said he had to return his. *shrugs* Arrington is rapidly becoming the Mark Cuban of the tech world.
- LANjackal
C'mon, even Arrington's Wikipedia entry says he's a troll: http://en.wikipedia.org/w... (I didn't do it).
- Rob H.
can't stop watching Leo say "fuck you guys..."
- Zee.
I laughed my as of. I mean holy shit man.
- Matt Ruiz
Cristo: Arrington is quite frankly an asshole. I don't get why anyone reads TechCrunch or anything related to the site, I've blacklisted it from my news sources
- LANjackal
@Cristo: I don't doubt that's the case. That's why I deliberately refrain from reading articles by bloggers who behave in that manner or are venomously biased.
- LANjackal
@cristo: but Dvorak is smart, nice, and well-rounded.
- Anthony Citrano
from BuddyFeed
Can someone give me a quick play-by-play? The network here at the library is too slow for video.
- cecily
:D Thanks, Cristo.
- cecily
Leo Laporte has always been classy, even way back in the 90's when he was doing his tech radio show. That's why people listen to and respect him. The gillmor gang started out interesting like 5 years ago and quickly devolved into a sour morass of bitter tech journalists talking over each other, fighting, blathering and pontificating. They try to act as wise, old sages dispensing salient...
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- mike
That's weird, I mean sure Arrington is being an ass - every single pre-launch review you see was a "free Pre" there's no reason anyone would think otherwise, but why suddently turn things off after that? That said, I've never seen that show before.
- Richard Lawler
Oops - accidentally deleted my comment. The jist was GG needs Leo (a professional broadcaster) more than it needs Arrington (a professional writer). That said, it looked a bit staged to me.
- Martin Bryant
did this happen today?
- J. Abdul-Qahhar
@J yep
- Zee.
@mike: embarrassment requires self-awareness.
- Anthony Citrano
from BuddyFeed
Sorry Leo, but you just fed the trolls. Entertainment at its finest.
- Shannon
Are we going to find out a week from now this is like the MTV movie awards ala Eminem and Bruno, that it was all staged?
- Laura Zickus
I think they've already kissed and make up
- Jerome Gotangco
Laura, it definitely wasn't staged. I can tell you that Steve & Tina Gillmor were shocked, and then Steve furious that his show was cut off without his say-so. What bothers me about the whole thing is that the one who didn't do anything (steve) ends up looking like an asshole in the aftermath, inviting the Twit community to a free-for-all at his expense. He's a big boy, can defend himself, but it's undeserved and does a disservice to his work.
- Karoli
His perception was that his integrity of an honest review was questioned since he had a special hi tech unit for 7 day review. When a person is honest and their integrity is questioned it's extremely insulting. Whether the person intended it or not. From what I've seen Leo Laporte is genuine and authentic as well as transparent. Hopefully this gets resolved in the best possible way for both of them.
- James Stratford
I was watching Leo's twitlive.tv stream for hours leading up to this. Unless they palnned it the day before, which seems unlikely, it wasn't staged. Even if I hadn't been watching I would have a hard time thinking it was staged. Leo hasn't ever done a stunt like that before so why would he start now?
- jccalhoun
Leo went a little nuts. Yikes.
- Johnny
Leo rules. It was time that someone said it live and public in his shit face. Arrington is an asshole. Leo +1000;
- Ryo / Fuck Facebook
Part of it is jealousy on Arrington's part that he was promised a pre-release review product and didn't get it. Whereas Leo did. Jealousy is what this is.
- Diego Barros
way to go Leo.
- Alan Le
Both parts of the show are here: http://feeds2.feedburner.com/TheGill...
- Jack
If you've "been in the valley since '89" and haven't heard of Leo Laporte until FriendFeed, then you've been under a rock in the valley. He's been very well known in tech circles for at least the last 10 years.
- Chris Luckhardt
We each live under our own little rocks. I'm sure everybody involved in pretty much any field can name three or four or six people in that field who *everybody* MUST have heard of. Who you have or haven't heard of is a pretty lame way to keep score.
- Ken Sheppardson
Astonishing. I have watched Leo for years and have always been impressed with his amiable, good natured demeanor. I'm sad to see him lose composure like this, even if he was "provoked". In the space between stimulus and response we always have choice.
- Sean Oliver
Leo is the man!
- Bradley Goetsch
LOL I see someone has come through and sanitized all his comments and deleted himself......again......LOL
- Matthew DeVries
Wow, totally shocking. Leo is nomally so calm, this is really baffling; out of character moment. Leo really lost it there ... Oops! That was majorly ackward
- Susan Beebe
It's obvious this thing is going too far when Arrington's wikipedia page gets hacked with the 'troll' bit.
- George Hall (Australia)
from BuddyFeed
Wikipedia defacer and clueless pottymouth added yesterday's video and a comment to this (stub class) bio. It was reverted by bots. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... - "Note: This page has been semi-protected so that only established users can edit it. " - (edit) I think the pottymouth was some other anonymous troll, my mistake. The first was just a...
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- Richard ¿digame? Walker
Google is the world’s first $100 billion brand - http://thenextweb.com/2009...
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All your base are belong to us.
- Stephen Breen
GE is only 8th.I thought they would be higher on the list.
- Michael Fidler
It concerns me that a company that doesn't make as much money as pretty much all of those brands gets valued higher :S
- alphaxion
Alphaxion... it's the potential. And believe me, Google makes some money :)
- Ryo / Fuck Facebook
can someone kindly tip this to techmeme via twitter. I'll buy you a lollipop in return
- Zee.
@ryo but it makes no-where near the amount of revenue as the likes of Microsoft and Vodafone. Both of which have solid lines of revenue instead of relying solely on adverts. Potential means dick unless you're harnessing it. Now, their positioning to become a content caching firm, if pulled off well would be the best step forward they have ever made!
- alphaxion
Wow. That awesome!
- Drew Lucas
Hmmm all built on little ol adwords too. Wonder when that trick is going to be played out? Not if, but when.
- Damien Basile
"Brand Value" eh? There are several companies with >$100B market cap. Is brand value = financial x hype - peanut butter
- Tech Introvert
LOL @TechIntrovert
- Zee.
Yeah like Tech Introvert I call shenanigans.
- Brian Sullivan
I wonder who will be the first $1Trillion Brand ;)
- Nicholas James
"first $1Trillion Brand" ?? USA in debt :)-
- Peter Dawson
Wow,but where is Apple?
- Steve Chou
Steve, obviously not that important to the common market than to the fans :)
- Ryo / Fuck Facebook
Brands can be "trusted"? -- I reserve trust for people.
- Brian Sullivan
You can always 'trust' a 'brand', in that you can trust they'll do what's best for them.
- Will Higgins™
My favorite brands are Exxon and RJ Reynolds, and they have a bit of revenue to boot ;)
- coldbrew
Expert analysis: Mexican swine flu - the story so far http://www.newscientist.com/article... #swineflu
Stephen Breen liked this
So true RT @sciencebase: Swine flu pandemic panic as WHO moves to Phase V alert - #swineflu cyberchondria?
Stephen Breen liked this
RT @simondingle: Please help spread the fact that swine flu IS NOT transmitted through pork products. #swineflu
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RT @weirdchina Mexico is blaming China for the swine flu outbreak - China says: No way! http://www.jpost.com/servlet... #swineflu
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In theory, a lolcats cartoon about swine flu should not be funny. In practice, however: http://www.facebook.com/photo... #swineflu
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The Photographer King Needs No Tripod - http://i.gizmodo.com/5217989...
Olivier Delorme, Thomas Hawk, Maggie and 18 other people liked this
dear mother of god.
- mjc
I wonder how much a diving enclosure would be for that.
- Matthew DeVries
Wow, and I felt like my zoom lens was big.
- Rochelle
I think if you look in the dictionary under "poser" you'd find this picture. Clicking through to his review on JuzaPhoto: "In my first review, I did an in-depth studio test, but I hadn't many photos taken in the field. I absolutely wanted to try this lens on the field so in April 2009 I loaned again the lens from Sigma and I have spent one day photographing Cristina, a beautiful model. The photos had been taken in Rivalta, a medieval village between the hills of northern Apennines, Italy."
- Ken Sheppardson
What is that? A rocket launcher?
- Rolf Schewe
lol... You sure get problems with a SWAT-Team when using this camera in the wrong place. ROTFLOL. Need this for Geocaching :) O.O
- Ryo / Fuck Facebook
Am I the only one who thinks this looks like MacGyver sans mullet?
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
Unfollowing anyone who mentions Kutcher, Oprah, or uses the word Internets. Satisfying. #unfollowfriday
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... Oh noes... *goes to delete FriendFeed entires*
- Johnny Worthington
God yes! I'm with you Leo. The whole thing just feels so cheap.
- Jeremy
Hehe :-), Leo doing that is quite nice :-)
- Richard A.
But Leo, you just mentioned them arggh! :)
- Scott Dexter
But leo has his reality distortion field. ;-)
- Richard A.
I have cut the cord with twitter. No longer having an account is soo freeing. Going the opposite way of the world.
- Scott H
Oh no, so you do unfollow Robert Scoble? http://beta.friendfeed.com/scoblei...
- Ryo / Fuck Facebook
Oh, did Twitter enabled the functions?
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Hey, good idea. I think I might do the same.
- Adam Martin
I like it
- Tendonitis' Bitch
from twhirl
Agreed! Those people are hurting the internet...
- Nenad Nikolic
from twhirl
Why so many people do not like Oprah?
- Irina Yakhneeva
lol
- Aaron S
re: #unfollowfriday Whoa, Leo, do we unfollow you too since U used the "O" name in yr last post? I am a tech who loves and follows your show and websites for years. My boyfriend was on your show. I hope you retract this one quickly as it is not like you. Some of these you will unfollow are your readers and viewers too. I will have a few tech questions to come later. But I had to say that, Hope you don't mind. Still love ya.
- Cher A
Why so many people like Kutcher ?
- Haluk-TechnoFeed
I don't understand why so many people like him either? Hes a little punkass.
- Tom
This must be "Jump the Shark" day.
- Charles George
from twhirl
Amen!
- Mary DeSive
How about unfollowing anyone who Britney Spears? lol
- Greg
Kutcher, Oprah and Spears, oh my! It's the twitter trifecta. I'm gonna do it!
- NikkiPixel
Oh noes! What about da intertubes? Or da interwebs? Verboten as well? #unfollowfriday is interesting concept. Q: Will it blend?
- CAJ, somewhere else
I bet you still talk about it ad nauseum on Twit though... ;o)
- halfmanhalfgeek
i wish i could get you to follow me (on friendfeed), let along have to worry about you unfollowing me #unfollowfriday #greatidea
- Chris Heath
Even if you were following me, it would be worth loosing 1 follower to post "CNN declares Ashton Kutcher: The World's Biggest Twit". Finally, we have it from a respected source.
- Jeff Fischbach
I seriously don't understand the indignation of all the tech geeks over this publicity. Who cares? Does it impact your social network, your reach, your audience? How is it a bad thing? Twitter, like FriendFeed, is a tool that can be customized to your own maximum benefit. The whole Kutcher/Oprah mania is only on your radar if you want it to be. It personally doesn't hit my radar except for all the geeks being indignant about it.
- Jeremy Hall
What haz happened to teh internets??
- Josh Haley
[HAL] : I'm sorry Leo. I'm afraid I can't let you do that.
- You.
How about adding Fail Whale to the list?
- tojfs7931
Will the follower contest between Kutcher/CNN and Oprah getting on twitter be remembered as the point at which twitter jumped the shark?
- Andy Bakun
Probably not andy, although many already are/have been - i don't think 'jumped the shark' is the right term for what's happening here... maybe it is...
- Chris Heath
Leo, your 'bromance' used "internets" this morning...do I smell a breakup?! Oooh controversy ensues. Great shows, love TWiT and the network.
- Michael Johnson
I'm thinking of unfollowing @aplusk at least because twitter has started to be more of a celebrity contest. Note: I followed him before this whole tweeteace thing.
- Howell Selburn
from BuddyFeed
Leo doesn't follow me anyway, so never mind.
- Morton Fox
following isn't your style anyway from what I can tell. If you ain't the lead dog, the view never changes! So keep on leading and let the rest of us sniff you butt on the path to success! I for one will happily sniff, but no licking will be done (for free, anyway....)
- Morgan Haley
does that mean you will be unfollowing Ashton Kutcher? because apparently you can't: http://www.flickr.com/photos...
- alexia tsotsis
@alexia You can type "off aplusk" as a tweet. "off USERNAME" is another way of unfollowing someone.
- imperator3733
from twhirl
LOL
- Hutch Carpenter
Ashton Kutcher and Evan Williams Talk Twitter With Oprah
- Haluk-TechnoFeed
The tipping point for Friendfeed? When celebrities join. I don't see that happening for a while.
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Target brands, and they'll come
- Jesse Stay
but do we want brands here?
- Jeremiah Owyang
There are already tons of people working on behalf of their companies here. I think the tipping point for me will be when I see Jon Stewart mocking the talking heads about being in a "kerfuffle" over FriendFeed.
- Mitch
Personally, I like it more when experts of a given subject gather around that subject. Be it the LOLCAT talk way :)
- directeur
The tipping point for FF is when CNN and other media outlets use the FF service to expand their own reach; through self-interest they will use FF.
- LPH™ and his dog P™
We (pitchengine) have been enabling brands to engage on Twitter in a more conversational manner. We're considering ways to integrate FF, but quite honestly, it takes a different level of sm understanding and I don't think marketers are there yet.
- Jason Kintzler
What??? You mean Robert Scoble doesn't count as a celebrity????
- Her Lindsay-ness
When I overhear the local weather person directing me to his/her FF page like I've heard with Twitter and Facebook recently.
- Tony, Paradox of FF
Balderdash! Did Google get there via celebrities? Or AOL? Or Facebook? Or WordPress? Or any number of other sites. Just because Twitter brought celebrities to the forefront doesn't mean that every new site must have celebrities to reach critical mass.
- AJ Kohn
The other thing FriendFeed needs is better mobile support - SMS at the very least. Celebrities understand that. I'm not saying I want it, but for them to hit that point, that's what they need.
- Jesse Stay
Lindsay: I am only a celebrity with 18 geeks.
- Robert Scoble
Robert, you missed a few zeros ...
- LPH™ and his dog P™
It will probably happen on Monday when the new UI is rolled out. Look out for fail whale sightings to come as a result.
- Alex Scoble
from fftogo
I'm not sure. FriendFeed really isn't a 'broadcast' platform. Those who are 'successful' are those who interact :D
- Johnny Worthington
I think many celebrities would just be confused.
- Eric @ CS Techcast
Alex, I hope the new UI is as good as the expectations.
- LPH™ and his dog P™
FF definitely isn't as user friendly when compared to twitter. It doesn't have the same "mainstream" appeal, more of a niche appeal.
- David Spinks
What do you mean David that FF isn't user friendly. Is it easier to just shout into the wild (twitter) or have a conversation requiring listening (reading) what others have to say? Or did you mean something else?
- LPH™ and his dog P™
Adding facebook status updates and replys may push them over the edge.
- Brian Kenyon
I'm not a celebrity. No one is sending me free tequila for a PR stunt.
- Alex Scoble
Wait you want Tequila? All you had to do was ask.
- Eric @ CS Techcast
I can imagine certain celebrities kicking it here. Like Jimmy Fallon.
- Rodfather
So what is the purpose of saying this here, Jeremiah?
- Louis Gray
Celebrities? Not sure. At some point even celebrities are going to say ugh I have to have another profile. Utility, discussion and a little fun will push friend feed toward greater adoption. Rapidly liking friend feed more than fb and twitter but that is because it is because it compliments both vs replacing them.
- Patrick Boegel
- 1 because, editing is funky on iPhone friend feed
- Patrick Boegel
Never happen. Thank god.
- Leo Laporte
Wil Wheaton (aka weasley crusher) is on here :)
- Roberto Bonini
Wil Wheaton's Twitter and Flickr are imported here, but he has no comments or Likes. I don't think you can really call that "on here."
- Ken Sheppardson
Maybe I don't want FriendFeed to have a tipping point then. I don't know what celebrities would add to the conversation. I'd rather have all "experts on the sidelines" here, and even better, experts NOT on the sidelines but actually up high in business and government. John McCain, hold your next "town hall meetings" here!
- Meryn Stol
Not that Mccain would. He doesn't understand the internet. But I sure would like to see representation from political parties here.
- Meryn Stol
How significant will text messaging be? Twitter has the 140-character limit because of that, FriendFeed doesn't. Though I hear too many complaints from Twitter users, saying that the FriendFeed interface just isn't as friendly - maybe this will change tomorrow.
- Colin Charles
from twhirl
My theory on this: Most celeb's have been texting for years. They've mastered the160 char format and Twitter is a natural fit for them. FF feels more like a discussion forum and most celeb's aren't used to that format.
- Mike Doeff
"celebrities" are not a monolithic group. It will click for some based in part on their personality and part on the fluidity with which they find it a useful curatorial and communications venue. My judgment will be based on creativity, level of interesting info contributed, and authenticity of conversations with whomever comes. I won't hold their celebrity-ness against them, and it's no free pass either.
- Micah Wittman
Well one measure of "success" for friendfeed is that spamming has started.
- Alex Scoble
CNN should have thier own room.. for each of their shows..
- CW™
FF Success will be like Twitter, when marketers subscribe to you and tell you how to make money on FF...
- CW™
First, FF needs to change their recommend list. New members only see tech people.
- LPH™ and his dog P™
LPH: I have an account with only Iranians on it. Friendfeed does not recommend tech people there. The recommended list is based on who you follow and who they follow.
- Robert Scoble
Robert, has this changed recently? I recall signing up and only tech people being available on the recommend list. As time went, and I subscribed to different people, then the tech people recommendations decreased.
- LPH™ and his dog P™
Robert, you *what*? You've just been added to a few anti-terror watchlists I think. ;) I bet you gonna tell me next that you can actually read and write Iranian. That would make you really suspect! ;)
- Meryn Stol
when the best of the day post ends up being this one, you know where FriendFeed stands in terms of "mainstream." Best of the day usually is a post about FriendFeed, Twitter, or something other social network anyway...
- Vincent van Wylick
I felt the same thing about Twitter a year ago.
- Jamie
yea I thought the same thing....the trick is making it so twitter can still be popular. Friendfeed will just be the method that I use to access Twitter. Friendfeed needs to be able to post/get info from all of my networks seemlessly, that way I don't have to ever go on Twitter.com
- Jason Stephens
Why do we want Twitter and FF to be popular? I'd rather they stay a bit underground. Celebrity on the Internet doesn't mean the same thing to me. I get a lot more useful info out of non-celebrities.
- Dave Sanders
coming soon; demi uses FF to rescue timmy from well. too bad lassie can't tweet
- Todd Randolph
Stardock Fences - Organize Desktop In Beautiful Way - http://www.speedytown.com/index...
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My wife and I both love this thing. And she is super-picky about messing with her desktop.
- Roger Benningfield
I don't get it, isn't that just grouping desktop icons? I hope Stardock makes Expose instead
- Nestor
I'm trying Fences and still trying to decide whether to keep it. I have Stardock's ObjectDock and the Stacks Docklet from Wincustomize. Add stacks to the dock using either regular or system folders. Click on a stack to open a view of the contents. Click on an item to execute/open AND the stack closes automatically.
- Greg GuitarBuster
Downloaded it and started trying it out, until now it makes a good impression.
- Johannes W.
Loving it. I sometimes simply hide all my desktop icons cause I finally get so many. This is awesome.
- Paul Wade
It's a good Windows app
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Finally taming those extra shortcuts that mess up my desktop. :)
- Neurario
So ... am I the only one that doesn't save stuff to the desktop? My computer has what's called a "file system". So does yours
- sjjh
My favorite feature is the ability to hide the icons with just a double-click, but I am biased of course. ;)
- Spencer
Jim, no icons, files, or folders on my desktop either
- Greg GuitarBuster
3 icons on desktop, get Launchy :)
- Keith - @tsudo
Going on my short list.
- Ron Bailey
very nice one!
- Dudu Bekel
Very nice - great idea. I personally don't use any desktop icons though.
- Luke Addison
from twhirl
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"See where your friends are with Google Latitude" - I'm NOT interested. Stop telling me where you are. When I wanna know, I'll ask.
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Hear hear! And I don't mean I'm here.
- MiniMage TKDteacher of FF
I am SO using Google Latitude to tell the world when I'm having dinner with Pirillo. :-)
- Robert Scoble
Liked for Robert's comment!!
- Her Lindsay-ness
Agreed.
- Rochelle
What Lindsay said.
- jcunwired
Scoble, you'd better not. :)
- l0ckergn0me
If it doesn't end up on the iPhone, I say FAIL.
- Jonathan Torres
Jonathan - It's already on your iPhone = BrightKite
- Dave Gambrill
My friends would want to know where I am only to know how to avoid me.
- Rich Harris
I like latitude
- Richard A.
Latitude -- isn't this just so Google can deliver location specific advertising a la Minority Report ? Good for a police state as well-- how long before it is mandatory?
- Brian Sullivan
New logos after the financial crisis... - http://kemmeyer.typepad.com/less_cl...
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"New logos after the financial crisis..."
- Zee.
from Bookmarklet
ouch
- Josh Haley
Any reason Apple's logo is here? Their recent financials are still consistently beating Wall Street expectations
- Glenn Batuyong
it's only a joke...
- Zee.
Hah
- Tyson Key
sheesh Glenn... dont take things to seriously mate. :o) its the cos zee took a big bastard bite or three out of it. ;o)
- Rob Sellen :o)
too soon Zee
- Amber, Random Time Lord
sheesh, it is CRAZY that anyone is taking this seriously...
- Zee.
my tires are good year. OUTRAGE.
- Shawn Farner
Pretty funny and applicable. I would 'LOL' but in these uncertain times, I feel it would better just to GQ (giggle quietly)
- Morgan Haley
I thought it was funny
- Josh Haley
How to Piss Off a YouTube User - http://www.youtube.com/watch...
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You must have mentioned the Samson Strategy
- adam garrett
Microsoft and Yahoo Explain Google Better Than Google - http://www.labnol.org/interne...
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Leo and Dane demonstrate iFight - http://www.youtube.com/watch...
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That was hilarious.
- Dan Fitek
The Day Google Broke. - http://thenextweb.com/2009...
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pushed out a new thing, now crack :-)
- Richard A.
I just noticed this. How annoying!
- Simon Wicks
1/31 NEVAR FORGET!
- teh Dork Knight
*marks the day on calendar*
- embee
Hello TWiT topic :)
- Simon Wicks
I'm glad I'm not alone. I thought I had a virus for a sec...
- Peter Ghosh
can anyone confirm that it has been fixed for them?
- Zee.
fixed on google.ie and google.com for me
- Stephen Breen
Fixed for me now
- Simon Wicks
This is the kind of thing that'd really hurt Google if it lasted longer then 30 seconds.
- Will Higgins™
Works for me. @ Will it lasted for abuot 10 minutes if not more
- Gordon Swaby
It freaked me out for a minute. http://friendfeed.com/e...
- David Cook
I knew we'd break it someday.
- Steven Perez
Amusing from my desktop computer. Debilitating from my iPhone since copy/paste was needed to get past the malware info page.
- Dylan Parker
“A Kindle For Every Student!” Vote! - http://thenextweb.com/2009...
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As a student who does as much of reading on my computer as possible, I can totally appreciate this initiative. However, I have a bunch of friends who absolutely refuse to read anything on their computers, choosing instead to print out hundreds of pages of articles per week. While I haven't used a kindle, I think this might be a case of "too soon! too soon!" for many students. I also wonder what age these students are - the point about students losing their kindles should not be ignored!
- Zach Landes
why a kindle and not some of the other reading devices out there? There are far more open devices that would make more sense. BUT whichever device it is, it needs a better ability to take notes, highlight and share
- Joelle Nebbe (iphigenie)
Joelle, which "far more open devices" are you talking about?
- Zach Landes
"Far more open devices" need to be replaced as "other e-book readers that wont cause Amazon domination"
- TrafficBug
100 Applications and Services I Use Daily - http://paulstamatiou.com/2009...
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so annoying when you subscribe to a blog only to find out they are publishing partial feed, amazing that some blogs are still doing that
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Agreed.
- Ari Braginsky
I was slightly annoyed that the whitehouse.gov blog does this. They should be publishing full feeds, IMO. Also (note to self), no need to block out the /includes/ directory in robots.txt and they probably want to use the NOODP meta tag. They should plan to add some additional protections on their "Contact Us" page eventually too. Overall, quite a solid launch though.
- Matt Cutts
Matt, I noticed that as well about whitehouse.gov, but they did just launch so maybe they will change it in time. Also it's great how much attention their robot.txt file has been getting. I bet a lot of people are finding out what that is for the first time because of all of this, which is great.
- Scott Beale
I set my blog/feed up years ago and never realized it still was still partial until someone commented. I know reading partials was a pain so I quickly made it full
- Chris Miller
I unsubscribe and forget about the blog if it is a partial
- Ryan
On the tech side--I'm surprised how many Apple oriented blogs publish partial feeds. It seems to be a standard. They're not the only group that seems to do this, but I think in some cases a handful of popular blogs that publish feeds encourages others follow suit, just because.
- Loren Heiny
super annoying and so short sighted. i blogged about this a while back http://ablog.gawley.org/2007... and to be honest 14 months ago I thought we'd have seen the end of partial feeds by now...
- Alex Gawley
ChiliMac - I think you nailed it, unfortunately most bloggers that do it just for the money, have low to crap quality blogs on the whole.
- Robert D. Fraser
But you can introduce ads into RSS now like the nytimes, which I think is icky. I also think it's important for bloggers to subscribe to their own feeds in the various formats (atom, rss 2.0) and using different readers (google reader, Mac Mail, Thunderbird, etc.).
- barce
I just added 1,382 new friends on FriendFeed by synching up with Twitter. The new feature launched today. - https://friendfeed.com/setting...
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I made a new list called "Twitter Clone" and will slowly migrate folks to more frequently viewed lists. Check out the new feature here: https://friendfeed.com/setting...
- Louis Gray
*GULP*
- Josh Haley
Oh lord. I need a separate list for you and Robert and all your FoAFs... :\
- Mona Nomura
Just added 904 :)
- Michael Forian
Mona, that only is true if I'm active on a ton of other friends' activity. Theoretically, unless my total activity per day increases, you won't see a change, just new people!
- Louis Gray
Added 184, nice feature
- Tejas Patel
Added like 51 I believe!! ;)
- Paul
I actually don't want to sync them. I follow people on FF for different reasons than Twitter.
- mikepk
The only downside is that it also sent 184 subscription requests to private feeds. So that means when those private subscriptions approve the request, it hits the home feed. Then I have to move the new adds to the lists manually. And they can accept at any time.
- Louis Gray
Lost count but maybe I saved myself some future work. I added new ones on a separate list just in case I want to see later what I've got in there :)
- Carlos Lorenzo
0. Done and done. That was easy. Presses big red button.
- Mark Wilson
just added 302 subs
- Rahsheen ™, Coach of FF
Sweet, finally! Now for the FF team to add syncing for other connected services too.
- Chris, Taskerrific Guy
This is great. Thanks for the info.
- Bill Romanos
Thanks again, Lou.
- Bryan R. Adams
40 new friends and two requests (private feeds? ick!)
- Chris, Taskerrific Guy
how do you honestly filter all these information flows? What king of filters features would you like to be able to set up? would you like APML based recomndation?
- duprat julien
I should have done what Louis did. I just added everyone to Home feed, and now sorting it out is a total mess. Oops. :|
- Chris, Taskerrific Guy
My number was similar. Now come all the e-mails showing they followed back.
- Jesse Stay
added 370-ish
- Justin Yost
as mentioned above, by several people, add these people into their own list, before moving them across to your 'main' lists. Also, running this script / feature needs to be done on a regular basis to keep up with your new followers
- martin english
I added 240 and put them in their own list like Louis until I decide what to do with them
- Sally Church
Just checked that out. Funny thing, is none of those people, save one guy who I thought I was subbed to here, are actually active on FF. Which is why they are either in my Dumpers list or I unsubbed from them.
- Anika
I wouldn't do that. I am not so sure I like the feature.
- rampantheart
I just did this, started a new list for these... but how do i see how many it was? can't see that anywhere?
- Rob Sellen :o)
Rampantheart just create a Twitterimport Friend list and then you can sort them out from there. (Imported 183)
- Keith - @tsudo
Just added 444.Cool feature!
- Igor Poltavskiy
It was about 400 for me.
- Amani
I added 887, now I'm subscribed to over 1500. I'm putting them into a list for now, til I can sort them out a bit better.
- jjprojects
for me more like ... 50 or so? a nice number anyway
- Snipergirl
Olá sou willian su brasileiro , bom dia!!
- Willian
I just added 176, now I see loads of tweets asking what's going on with all the new FF subs :)
- Nicola Quinn
wow, 1382 sounds pretty noisy...
- Peter Efland
so, its now i get hit in the face for having auto-follow back on twitter. I have no clue who all those people are, probably marketeers... but dont want them to clutter my friendfeed stream... Guess the most important thing I´ve learned today is that I need a total Twitter clear up
- Peter Efland
I only added 40, that is either good in that I was following the people already, or bad cause that was not a lot of people. I'll go with the good bit. :-)
- Dan Morrill AKA Techwag
Not goanna do it. Organic growth ftw :)
- Yuvi
Most of the ones it wanted to import for me I didn't recognize -- does this feature really work as intended?
- Brian Sullivan
very smart move by friendfeed
- Marcel LeBrun
I did that too. Now I am wondering how to organize it.
- Martha
This is something that should have been done a long time ago, but I am glad it is now available. Would be nice if they ran it for you every N days. If I follow you on Twitter auto add them in FF.
- Scott Watermasysk
Done. 184 new people subscribed at FF. I hope some are following back here on Friendfeed. I found out, that people here follow less back than on Twitter.
- Ryo / Fuck Facebook
I added a whole bunch... my FF lists need to be revisited
- Bwana ☠
Same here, 200ish.
- Mike Reynolds
OMG you're an ff'n freak Louis!
- sofarsoShawn
wooo i love the new feature!
- andy brudtkuhl
I just brought over 264 friends - very cool!
- Bill
Firefly Proves "Darn" Is More Bad-ass Than "This Is Sparta!" - http://www.youtube.com/watch...
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For everyone who is taking this whole 'Scoble thing' seriously, I have one, very simple question.
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I FUCKING LOVE THIS!
- Lindsey is Fierce!
AWESOME
- Mark Wilson
I don't know, but the US navy has a carrier group assigned to protect his head. http://friendfeed.com/e...
- Alex Scoble
Hahahahhahahhahah!!!
- Robert Scoble
Need to get a life? (everyone, I mean) Boring issue, from both sides.
- Ricardo Galli
I have a GIGANTIC man crush on Patrick Stewart. Verily, he can forsooth me at his leisure.
- matthew john ernisse
Aaaand my work here is done! G'nite everybody! Enjoy the rest of the show! Remember to tip the veal and try the waitress! I'll be here all week!
- MVB (Curmudgeon of FF)
That is so cool!
- Robert Miller
Seriously, what is the "Scoble Thing?"
- Trae Ruge
That's one of my favorite episodes!.... wait was I supposed to share that?
- David Wynn
Did we ever find any Star Trek porn with Picard or Number 1 with the beard?
- Lindsey is Fierce!
ahahahahaha.
- Jon, the Beartato of FF
Jason there's about 50 different posts around here and Twitter about blocking Scoble, not blocking Scoble, etc... I thought this picture put it all in perspective.
- MVB (Curmudgeon of FF)
+1 to Lindsey for calling rule 34 on season 5 #1 :)
- matthew john ernisse
Hilarious. Look what you did Robert!
- Umit Namli
Great one :D
- Nia
This never gets old.
- Steven Perez
haha nice
- Mattb4rd
Never, never gets old
- Lindsey is Fierce!
Seems this becomes relevant every few days...
- MVB (Curmudgeon of FF)
Love the image. It may seem tiresome, but I think many people are soul searching for what all this social media / new media *means*. I think most realize that for it to be sustainable, markets must form that provide real value exchange. Otherwise we're all just f@#ing around, and if that's the case, this show _will_ come to an end in the not too distant future. I don't think anyone wants that.
- mikepk
mikepk Gets it! I called 'social media' a "morass of bacon-wrapped LOLcats" a while ago. Without a reason (aka revenue) what is the point of all of it?
- MVB (Curmudgeon of FF)
Revenue isn't the only reason for things in life, Mark. It's but one. Finding friends and learning new things are also reasons behind actions in real life, why not online life?
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
I think it was a huge learning experience for all involved. First thing I've seen something happening in real-time. On top of that, I was also participating.
- Meryn Stol
So, if I spend eight hours a day in Tina's kitchen, use her utillities and eat stuff in her fridge, it would be okay as long as I am meeting a steady stream of new people trapsing through her front door? At some point she will want some beer money.
- MVB (Curmudgeon of FF)
Mark, that would make you one of my cats =) My cats pay me nothing, and I shell out a bit to keep them up. Why? Because they bring me warmth when I'm cold, a listening ear when I rant, laughs when I need them, and undivided attention when I have something that interests them like a toy or treat. They are my original FriendFeed =)
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
@Josh my comment about revenue is not limited to FriendFeed, but all 'social media.' I assume that the rest of them are supposed to generate revenue as well, thus agreeing with your point of diversification.
- MVB (Curmudgeon of FF)
@Tina 1, 2, even 5 critters is one thing. FriendFeed has hundreds of thousands of house pets. Too many cats and you become the neighborhood 'Crazy Cat Lady.'
- MVB (Curmudgeon of FF)
This is a lot like that photo of the two kids next to a pond, one with a string of fish and the other with a scowl on hos face. It just keeps on giving.
- Mattb4rd
That's just an indicator that the analogy isn't accurate. FF isn't my house, FF is a neighborhood park, a library, a pool hall. Lots of people file through and take advantage of the service. There is a revenue stream that maintains it, though that revenue may or may not come directly from the people using the service.
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
I think the cat statement highlights the value exchange idea. Your pets do provide value to you, so you invest your own resources (money and time) into supporting them for the value they provide. You can only do that if you accept that it's worth it for you to work at a job to make $$ to exchange that for pet time.
- mikepk
Value exchange isn't always direct monetary revenue, *but* these "public" spaces must be paid for in time and money somewhere. If it's not, these public spaces will get shut down and sold to the next strip mall. :)
- mikepk
Point taken, Tina. The park and the library obtain revenue from all citizens via taxes, regardless of usage. Throw them out. I like the pool hall analogy! The hall itself makes revenue from the patrons in various ways. To continue the analogy, my only reason to shoot pool in a pool hall (or anywhere) is to win bets placed on the games. That is a personal revenue stream inside the structure. That is the same as social media: working within the structure to produce a personal revenue stream.
- MVB (Curmudgeon of FF)
Ah, then your usage of a pool hall is different then say my husband's. He's on a pool team in a league and pays yearly dues to be a member of the organization. He also pays a weekly greens fee to the org to play in a match. The pool hall where they play doesn't get any of this money, but they sponsor the teams and host the matches (including free table time) in *hopes* that the team members will buy food and drinks. And FWIW the library and park analogies still work within the light of a freemium model ;-)
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
Also, this is why I think there's the obsession. People say "advertising" or "freemium" but no one has figured out exactly how to make that work reliably. In addition, unless you understand the market incentives for both the service providers and the participants, you set yourself up for danger.
- mikepk
So, the APA is Twitter?
- MVB (Curmudgeon of FF)
lol!
- Moushumi Kabir
mikepk: Exactly. The obssesion is everyone continuing to try different methods to produce revenue because no one has a reliable model.
- MVB (Curmudgeon of FF)
What's my answer to people who believe conspiracy theories? Everything you read on the Internet is true. Heheheh.
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The earth faked the moon formation!
- Mitch
Robert Scoble really is a member of the Illuminati! He must be stopped before he Immanentizes the Eschaton!
- Internet's Tad
Some people will believe in anything. I want to run away from those people as fast as possible. All they do is waste your time.
- Robert Scoble
Telling them that everything on the Internet is true sends them in circles.
- Robert Scoble
It's like a computer program that overflows its stack.
- Robert Scoble
Totally agreed.
- Internet's Tad
If it was on Twitter than it must be true. Anything on FriendFeed, however is up for debate ;-)
- Andy Sternberg
I know two people who thought the MacBook Wheel was real...
- Dean Clark
Conspiracy nuts already go in circles. Part of being schizophrenic is going in circles. Around and around all the way down the rabbit hole.
- Internet's Tad
Half my office thought it was real Dean...
- Internet's Tad
Wait, the MacBook Wheel isn't real? I just pre-ordered one from a Nigerian Prince.
- Kevin Bondelli
I suspect me and @enroc are the only real people on Twitter. The rest is Robert Scoble and all his aliasses. No. Really. I read that in a newspaper. So that is really true.
- Ruud van Wijngaarden
Dean - score! You now know what to get them for their next birthdays :)
- Micah Wittman
My tin foil hat keeps Scoble's tweets from entering my brain directly. :)
- David Andrzejewski
I pick up Robert Scoble's tweets via the iron fillings in my teeth.
- Internet's Tad
See, that's funny, because I have this Facebook friend who has a Twitter follower who has a 3rd cousin who worked as MS who said Scoble was a 3rd gen AI bot. No lie...
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
Twitter search is disabled. I'm sure it is Bush's fault.
- Dean Clark
@Tina You forgot to mention that the Facebook friend works at a yogurt shop.
- MVB (Curmudgeon of FF)
everything you read on the internet is most certainly true, is it not? are you trying to inject a little sarcasm in your answer?
- Scott Jarkoff
Tad: 5 tons of flax says Robert is really Hagbard Celine in disguise.
- Chris, Taskerrific Guy
Aluminum pull-tabs STILL buy one minute of dialysis because the costs are set by the man.
- Christopher Harley
After getting laid off the first time I quickly started believing conspiracy theories. I blew off all the conspiracy things when I worked there, but it turned out everything we were imagining was true. If we could imagine it, it was probably, and turned out to be true. Since then, even out of the job I'm much more prone to believe, or try to at least understand things people claim to have heard or seen or believe.
- Jesse Stay
every one believes in some thing ridiculous, its just that "conspiracy nuts" are brave enough to say their's out loud.
- J. Abdul-Qahhar
I believe conspiracy theories are a conspiracy of conspirators!
- Kevin Leroux
It's interesting that the Bush 43 administration and neoconservatives have been the foremost purveyors of false and demolished conspiracy theories over the last eight years. Just a few of the delusional assertions: 1. Saddam Hussein and Iraq were behind 9/11 2. Saddam Hussein and Iraq were behind the 9/11 anthrax attacks. 3. Osama bin Laden and al-Qaeda were behind the 9/11 anthrax...
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- Sean McBride
@scobelizer so you and "Kindle Gate"??? I've now lost my faith in humanity
- sofarsoShawn
Governments around the world spend many billions of dollars each year both to engineer and to uncover real conspiracies -- what line of work do you think that agencies like CIA, MI6, Mossad, ISI, FSB, etc. are in? Smart people take real conspiracies very seriously -- they have a powerful influence on human affairs. Many bogus conspiracy theories are the handiwork of government agencies...
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- Sean McBride
Just like in the movie MIB. All the supermarket tabloid stories are actually true; we've been conditioned to not believe them.
- MVB (Curmudgeon of FF)
Apparently everything is true - Snopes was faking all their debunking. http://www.techchuff.com/web-2-0...
- cian
Sean: I like your take on things... aligns with my views... I would like to subscribe to your newsletter, but your FriendFeed will probably have to do for now. ;-)
- Chris Heath
P2OG (Proactive, Preemptive Operations Group) was of course a mere literary invention.
- Sean McBride
Chris -- one of the most interesting and challenging intellectual activities available to thinking human beings is separating out real conspiracies from conspiracy theories, and especially separating hard conspiratorial facts from deliberate conspiratorial disinformation. Conspiracy theories are often the conspiratorial artifacts of real conspiracies. :) That's a concept that's too...
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- Sean McBride
A few real conspiracies (among thousands explored by reputable, mainstream political analysts and historians): Bernard Madoff, Gulf of Tonkin, Iran-Contra, Jonathan Pollard, Watergate. Do you have any doubt that prosecutors are now developing various conspiracy theories about the Madoff operation? This is what they are paid to do; it's their job. But they try to nail down their theories with facts, and let the facts lead their theories.
- Sean McBride
Sean: oh i'm with you 100%
- Chris Heath
People who get this stuff are not easily bamboozled by official misinformation and disinformation. They keep their criticial and skeptical intelligence intact, which is a very far cry from blindly embracing any conspiracy theory that comes down the pike. Most conspiracy theories are disinformation. Many of the best mainstream historians conduct conspiracy research on a regular basis. Historical research is largely the enterprise of cutting through official lies.
- Sean McBride
I wish people would care as much about things that really matter and affect the world. But hey, let's pretend there isn't a bailout we should be bitching about, a economic situation we should be more deeply investigating and a chance for change in our country that we should be rallying for. Caring about the wrong, irrelevant and sometimes silly things is exactly why we lived in a country that is presently a little fucked.
- Patricia
And what forces produced the bailout and the current economic crisis? Is there a conspiratorial dimension to the bailout in particular? Certainly its operations have been shrouded in secrecy. Why? Inquiring minds want to know. Where is this money being allocated? Who benefits? Who are the key players controlling the bailout? What are their affiliations and interests? What does their social network look like?
- Sean McBride
I now think you are part of the conspiracy to hind the conspiracy!!!!
- John D Reasor
the Apollo never landed on the moon
- sofarsoShawn
Certain elements of the military-industrial complex used the Iraq War as an opportunity for war profiteering. Conspiracy theory. :) And: certain elements of the military-industrial complex played a key role in engineering the Iraq War. And Dwight Eisenhower, who first raised alarms about the military-industrial complex, was a "conspiracy theorist."
- Sean McBride
Wait, what are you hiding? Does that mean everything is not true? <head explodes>
- mikepk
Everything I've stated in this thread is disinformation. :) (Actually, it could be.)
- Sean McBride
“Why don’t you guys leave me alone -- why is this important?” Jobs said. http://www.bloomberg.com/apps...
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