I joined on April 23, 2009. - 1 day. Took me long enough, right?
- Angus Burton
You don't need to use some third party site, this information's in user info available via the API. Just look for "created_at" in the url http://twitter.com/users..., using your user ID, of course.
- Ken Sheppardson
I deleted my account at one point, and have subsequently shuffled and renamed some stuff, but it looks like KenSheppardson's been there since November 5, 2007
- Ken Sheppardson
218 days ago. Now how about whendidyoujoinfriendfeed.com
- Kiran Patchigolla
617 days -- more important though - when was the last time I actively used it (not sure -- is there a similar tool to tell me when I joined FF? :-) )
- Brian Sullivan
Or just click on your profile in tweetdeck / many other "clients" -- it will tell your joined date. I joined Fri 07 Mar 2008 23:57.
- Nicholas Kreidberg
I make it 279 days if my math is correct.
- Sharron Field
I joined April 2007. wish I could figure it out # of days...the link above isn't cooperating :( Loving tho that I have been on over 700+ days ;) --- thanks Sharon McPherson for the redirect. It worked - 748 days
- enza (aka iVenus)
July 13, 2007 for two accounts, April 10, 2008 for the other.
- Kathy Fitch
19 March 2007 - 768 days ago. Just set up an account for my company and was explaining to my coworkers - when I mentioned I'd been on Twitter for about two years, they were like, wait, I thought it was only a couple of months old! *sigh* Funny that my guesstimation was so close, though!
- Jandy, ConcertMaven of FF
I'd sure like to see a personal Twitter timeline similar to coverflow where I can easily go back and forth through tweeting history and see what I've said over the years...
- Glenn Batuyong
772 days - i was invited much earlier but didn't see the value for me (in nyc) since it was all about what silicon valley folks were having for lunch, wait has that changed ;)
- mike "glemak" dunn
I joined on March 28th 2007 (759 days ago).
- Daniel Rowley
769. What's next? Slashdot user numbers are now passe. What's the next measurement of geek coolness?
- Andrew Leyden
at least 943 - one account Oct 2006, but I can't find the date for my main one.
- randulo
Ok, I'll admit it, I've shamelessly hitched a ride on Robert's coat-tail by embedding the feed from this discussion into a page on my website. http://twitclicks.com/rlrn
- Sharon McPherson
"As an educational tool, this article will describe how to re-engineer a familiar application, email, as a Web Service using HTTP and the principles of Web Architecture and REpresentational State Transfer."
- Chris Messina
from Mento
Robert -- while not a one place checklist, visit http://forums.digitalpoint.com/. I've implemented some of their recommendations thus far and I feel like it's already making a difference.
- Aanarav Sareen
I've recently heard Google changed their algorithm, plus with aggregating sites indexing for us (FriendFeed, Facebook, Twitter), there are many outlets and methods of people reaching our media -- that is, if we remember to segregate to keep various audiences interested. ie: staying away from ping.fm like services.
- Mona Nomura
I'll let other folks suggest additional outside info. There's everything from Eric Goldman who talks about legal aspects of search http://blog.ericgoldman.org/ to SEO by the Sea http://www.seobythesea.com/ which talks about patents related to SEO/SEM/search. It's a really broad field. It's almost like asking "What are some good sources for information about blogging?" :)
- Matt Cutts
What a timely question Robert :) I'm just studying up on this whole subject for my own site, and didn't really know where to start. Nice
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
"Does anyone have a good checklist?" We wrote an SEO beginner's guide at http://googlewebmastercentral.... that I proofread before it went live. You can also do searches like [wordpress seo guide] and there are several good resources in the search results.
- Matt Cutts
Mona, Yes. something like 90% of all traffic starts with a search engine, so unless you are a destination site ,you rely on search to send your traffice. There are times when RSS Subs can be more valuable, like when you are doing loyalty building, but generally NEW users are finding you through a social media or through search. More people are in search than social media..Ergo its still relevant
- Brandon Wirtz
Aanarav, I would recommend some caution regarding Digital Point. Some of the more aggressive stuff that gets pitched in corners of DP can get you in trouble.
- Matt Cutts
Matt: this went to Twitter too. I have good PR's on both friendfeed and Twitter.
- Robert Scoble
What about excellent content? Is that still important? I mean, useful material for human beings? Shouldn't that be well ranked by search engines? And of course, a usable and web standards compliant site.
- Alexis Bellido
Thanks for this list. It finally showed me that value of FriendFeed over Twitter and Facebook. Good answers. Rock on. :-)
- Martin Seibert
I just want to mark this for building43 which I just did with this comment. Oh, I wish I had invisible comments to add metadata/metatags to items like this.
- Robert Scoble
Leather: I never liked delicious. It isn't setup to have a conversation like what happened here.
- Robert Scoble
www.SEOmoz.org, www.SEObook.com , www.SEOquake.com and also www.webpagefx.com is quite useful.
- Hayk H.
As Alexis Bellido says, "a usable and web standards compliant site." I recommend http://www.w3.org for brushing up on the compliance side of things (even if it gets a bit technical). It's the standards by which the web runs, from the horses mouth, so to speak.
- David August
You may want to try #Neil_Patel & his #Quick_Sprout outfit http://www.quicksprout.com/about... See his post: "How to Optimize Your Blog for Search Engines" http://bit.ly/JeXq1 - informative & good free advice. I've been digging into this subject myself for the benefit of a product one of my companies is incubating and this chap and his firm keeps rising to the top of my list. I am also fairly certain that he will advise you for free in return for a good word to your "subjects" ;) @AAinslie
- Alexander Ainslie
This post and more importanly the timeline of the replies are in and of themselves useful as a measure of which SEO/SEOm firms are paying attention online. Not that this is an automatic measure of capability or quality, but you gotta question how good any site is that doesn't link drop on this particular post, be it a self drop or otherwise, given who the author was/is. I*'m, amazed there haven't been more. This might be tell us a thing or two about FF and the SEO community.
- Eric Ward
Just a comment regarding Digital Point, they commonly recommend greyhat/blackhat techniques, and offer lots of stupid stuff for a price. The same advice can be had for free on BlackHatWorld.com. Information wants to be free. ;)
- Lee Ingram
http://www.seobook.com with Aaron I rate highly, digital-point is probably a good place for short term success on splogs but nothing sustainable long term for a proper business.
- Mark Edmondson
Eric, thanks for your offerings. I think that maybe the lack of SEO people here may be down to the fact that we are all working hard implementing all these techniques for our clients. There are plenty of SEO companies who merely do the work, rather than write down what they are doing and share with the rest. http://dragonsearchmarketing.com/blog... , the shop I work at part time is running really hard right now, with 3 new hires in the last 2 months.
- Mark Zip
As to the reflection on the Ff community, perhaps that is because FF is bleeding edge and most work in the trenches of SEO is being done short of the bleeding edge, where there are more "regular" folks.
- Mark Zip
Just joined StomperNet . Not a plug as I am still new with them (1 Week) http://stomping2.com/ and would like to know how others view them. They provide very detailed info through video. Seem to have an impressive staff on board. They are a paid subscription but think it is worth it so far. Would especially like to hear what Matt Cutts has to say about them. Should I cancel my subsription or not?
- Jonathan
Jonathan: I know some of the StomperNet folks, they are very smart.
- Robert Scoble
It does feel special to be using this service and be so connected in such a varitey of topics. Just tried the similar search (after reading comments on Matt Cutts ff) and did my usual search to see how a system works. http://similar-images.googlelabs.com/images... Need to get more non naked pics going :)
- Jonathan
Jonathan, that would be a longer conversation than the FF textbox has room for.
- Matt Cutts
SEOMoz is good, Seobook is good, I would also recommend WebmasterWorld as well. Supporters area on WebmasterWorld has some of the best minds hanging out there...
- Bill Hartzer
Nicholas: now THAT is an interesting question and one that I'd need to do some homework on. I think that's a more interesting definition of friendship, by the way: can I create a magical experience for you? Not have I met you, etc.
- Robert Scoble
Wow. This is great. Very good analysis of what makes for magic moments. I will DM you some info re: a magic moment opportunity. Also, your analysis in your prior post about "regular" businesses is spot on. It is great to hear this because that concept is central to our strategy at my company! Thanks for the great thoughts...
- Troy Malone
This is why Francisco Dao created "Francisco's Fun Club - No Business Cards Allowed." Robert the best time I ever spent with you was around a fire pit at the Ritz. I don't think we spoke business once. I remember that I was hoping to get an interview with you for The Business Maker's Radio Show...but the moment wasn't right. It was in a word - Magical.
- Erica OGrady
from Friend Deck
Erica: I agree, we should do a fire pit meetup again soon.
- Robert Scoble
I've known my best friend for over 40 years (since Grade 1). We see each other's families about once a week. We agree far more than we disagree, and we bounce ideas off each other. Our wives laugh at our similarities (including quirks we share in common). Happy is the man or woman who has at least one such friend, because then the magical experience happens more often.
- Victor Panlilio
That is a great post. Those moments are something special when they happen.
- Jeremy Brooks
So was our interview with Ev and Biz last year a "Magical Experience?" ;-)
- Jesse Stay
I realize it's not really the point of the post and that you're going for the number four as a theme, but my experience is that a birth with a midwife instead of doctor an a nurse is definitely more magical.
- Tim Trentham
Wow Robert, I love the bit at the end about bringing three guests. You could try and bring three locals to *every* tour you land, regardless of the venue. It would really add to the perspective!
- Daniel J. Pritchett
This is going to have a profound effect on my thinking. I have a Twitter account that built a failry large following, but I ended up creating another (closed) account where I only invite and accept close friends for noise-free conversation. Find I'm spending much more time there; my old account mostly just gets stuff I "like" on FriendFeed now.
- Mark Traphagen
Does anyone else feel like Robert Scoble is getting boring? Or is it that there is nothing interesting going on in the tech world. Techcrunch/Techmeme all feel the same, mashable and readwriteweb are wordy and not too original, Huffpost is an ok read for someone desperate like me, but i can't believe that there is no revolution going on somewhere...maybe we need a new breed of bloggers that can identify the revolutions ..... am talking about it at http://beta.friendfeed.com/tweetfe...
- Tweet Feeds
Tweet Feeds: Robert Scoble has ALWAYS been boring. Hope this helps.
- Robert Scoble
Isn't your family about to increase to more than 4. Could be trouble there. ;-)
- Brian Sullivan
Nice, especially from someone who is known for his many connections.
- Meryn Stol
Robert, maybe we are all stuck in web 2.0 land, is the internet still interesting? I understand that most enterprises still behave like the web just happened, but it didn't, its old and infrastructural, like highways, someone somewhere is inspiring and empowering someone, magical experiences can be able about changing people's lives not feeling the buzz from the brandy or the bong ;)
- Tweet Feeds
Magical experiences can occur in mundane, everyday circumstances. When my wife and I get together with another couple (whom we are seeing this very evening), we can sometimes talk for hours, listen to music together, etc. Eric Schmidt in an interview last year said that four things are at the core of human happiness, regardless of political ideology, culture, or religion: (1) freedom from war (2) a healthy family life (3) good education for the kids (4) happy times with friends. That's it. I agree.
- Victor Panlilio
When Scoble can write articles like this, that remind us that what we do on the web must never be divorced form our "real life" experience, he will never be boring.
- Mark Traphagen
Today, Allen Stern added support for FriendFeed accounts to business card contacts on CloudContacts. If your business card has a FriendFeed account listed, your FriendFeed badge will be displayed alongside your account, as well as those on any cards you submit that have FriendFeed accounts.
- Louis Gray
from Bookmarklet
a) Was he trying to break his longest touchdown dive record? b) Was it something that worked during training sessions? c) Is he excessively stupid? d) All of the above
- Nenad Nikolic
#4 for those interested, great post Zee, the animated gif gave a feeling on that first FF beta day that was inexplicable, modern times type of feeling, that things were changing for the service in interaction gathering. 8}
- ElijahBailey-Zu of FF <0,
bring on the multitouch screens! the iphone touch screen is so logical to me. i have been pressing other small screens and for a sec perplexed when nothing happens...
- edythe
I'm glad I'm not the only person who has reflexively touched a small screen expecting something to happen that couldn't.
- Chris Baskind
I keep trying to stretch images on my Blackberry Curve. FAIL on my part.
- ha3rvey (just a friend)
Thomas - if you're OK with it, I'd like to switch over my various social media avatars to one of the pics here. Much better than anything I have!
- Hutch Carpenter
Couldn't you have gotten pics of them all making bitchlips?
- Derrick
Hutch, feel free. Honored that you'd like to use on of my photos and love sharing them.
- Thomas Hawk
Great shot of Ana and Robert's Hulk picture is EPIC.
- Mona Nomura
The bitchlips meme slipped my mind Derrick. Why does it seem that the most important details are always overlooked! Grrrrrr...
- Thomas Hawk
ok, just finished updating all of the captions on my Flickr photos. Each caption should have a link to the person's FF account if you want to add or follow them. I had a really good time last night and it was great to finally meet a bunch of online friends in person and face to face. :)
- Thomas Hawk
I want to be at an event with Thomas Hawk so I can have nice pictures taken of me
- Jesse Stay
Jesse: come to Half Moon Bay on April 26th. Thomas and I are leading a photowalk at Dream Machines.
- Robert Scoble
Robert, let's see how SocialToo is doing (we're close to becoming profitable) - if we're making money I'd love to take a few trips out there.
- Jesse Stay
The dream machines show is one of the best autoshows I've ever been to. Looking forward to the next one. Here's my set of images from the last one that Robert and I shot: http://www.flickr.com/photos...
- Thomas Hawk
Oh man, web geeks, cameras and cars ;( why the hell do I live way the hell on the other side of the world? *sigh*
- Mr K
from Nambu
why did i have such a different vision in my head of Louis Gray? Great picture of Ana Yang.
- edythe
Can I just say that "The Incredible Scoblehulk" may be my favorite picture ever?
- ha3rvey (just a friend)
Probably because I'm not usually black and white, Polly.
- Louis Gray
his site is pretty cool though i wish photographers wouldn't watermark their pictures. i know why they do it, but it takes away from the really great photos
- Cee Bee
i wonder how many times he's gotten really caught up in a bad wave
- Cee Bee
San Onofre SB had shore breakers with pebbles on the beach. Hurt like a motherF'r. Granted the water was warm from the near by Nuclear Plant.
- Santa CW™
I rode a 20 footer like that in Hawaii on a boogie board... Dropped me straight onto the sand, and then proceeded to drench me with 3 million gallons of water... In retrospect, I'm probably lucky to be alive right now.
- LarchOye
that might be "thrilling" the first time around, but after continually getting pounded like that i'm sure it can become a bit of a "challenge" to deal with
- Cee Bee