I agree. I am very happy with Twitter. Even if it does go down alot. But they are getting better. I haven't seen twitter down all week
- Tyler (Chacha)
from twhirl
Over the last month, I have tended to use Twitter less. During the last Lakers-Celtics game, for example, I was in the NBA Finals FriendFeed room. Ironic, since I spent good chunks of the World Series on Twitter.
- Ontario Emperor
from fftogo
A small bug: after logging into Twitter as required, clicking “change user” brings up an Ajax popup with a mistaken message: “You are currently logged in to Twitter as paultoo”. I just confirmed i did not tweet as Paultoo.
- John Lam
Paul, no apology needed. I'm happy to help, especially against bugs hard-coded to be invisible to yourself but visible to everyone else. :-)
- John Lam
@Paul, thanks for your comment about blog APIs. Does that mean the FF team is looking into auto posting of blog comments into Blogger (assuming that the APIs for that is available)?
- Christopher Yeo
I like this. But I wonder if this is going to reduce Pownce usage?
- Bill Bittner
Nice. You guys just keep listening to your users! In that spirit, I would like FF to read all my email and write my blog posts. Sound good? ; )
- Carla Thompson
I would also like FF to layout my clothes in the morning, make my breakfast and drive me to work. Come on, Kevin... Make it so! :-)
- Chris Reed
Liking comments is technically simple, but it deserves some careful consideration on the UI side. Every feature has a very real cost in terms of added complexity.
- Paul Buchheit
Wow... I can't believe he just blew up like that. It doesn't look like you were attacking him at all and all of a sudden he just comes after you.
- Brandon Titus
The most amusing part is being mentioned as if I positioned as an A-Lister. Anybody who has talked to me or traded e-mails knows I know my place. But... seriously... I'm not engaging here.
- Louis Gray
LOL. Someone needs a hug. If that's what he calls someone "coming after him", I'd hate to see someone really give him some nasty criticism. I hope he lightens up and realizes his overreaction.
- Bwana ☠
Calling you Louise as an insult was a throwback to Jim Rome-Jim Everett. What year is it again? Resorting to LCD insults, nice. Remember this guy called Doris Lessing's comments "the ditherings of an ignorant old woman".
- Jake Kuramoto
Holy cow. Talk about temper tantrum. Personally, I'd say *his* article is about as "useful as tits on a bull"
- Michelle W
lol: "That’s right, I forgot, I’m a complete retard." Ironically, I think his post has just welcomed you permanently to the A-list.
- j1m
Also there are amusing comments, like "Grow up, you immature, ill tempered idiot. You sound like an 5 year old stamping his feet, throwing a tantrum who has just discovered swearing."
- j1m
Not the kind of insight you'll expect from a person who claim to blog for a "bloody long time".
- Carlo Maglinao
Louis, just wondering, are you doing PR for Friendfeed?
- Erick Schonfeld
heh I don't agree with you there Louis... the techcrunch I've read is wrong most of the time, specially this Duncan fellow.
- Mario Romero
If he's not doing PR, he should be. I dismissed FriendFeed just as fast as Duncan until I read his blog post about it.
- Bwana ☠
He responded to my comment on his blog: "his whole tone was Duncan is an idiot and it does these things and its wonderful because I say so. If you can see that you're either up his arse so far the sun isn't shining, or you need some remedial reading lessons." I think he means "can't" in that second sentence.
- Brandon Titus
@Jess, sure... just keep me out of it! :-)
- Louis Gray
It's an odd discussion. One party is saying others who don't like Friendfeed should like it. The other party replies that those who do like Friendfeed shouldn't. Why not just let those who like it use it and let those who don't like it, well, not use it. E.g. I never used Twitter or a (traditional) feed reader and even when others love it, if it's not for me why should anyone worry....
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- Philipp Lenssen
Wow, is there nothing Duncan likes, or do I just keep seeing is negative posts? :(
- Paula Hawk
I agree with one of his points though: conversation at the source isn't enhanced by friendfeed. Certainly it's a different use case, but that doesn't mean it shouldn't be a part of the aggregator. By using APIs, SocialThing is actually able to push comments/replies/likes back to the sources. Then you can have both conversations with friends and with the public. What's yet to be seen though is a service which merges both conversations in a meaningful way.
- taj
Sorry to "get off topic," as it were, but this discussion has revealed a drawback in FriendFeed. When Louis shared this item, a ton of discussion took place, yet (last I checked) there was hardly any discussion at the FriendFeed link to the post in Duncan Riley's own feed. http://friendfeed.com/e... Louis had to go to that entry and manually link to this entry, since FriendFeed didn't automatically relate the two.
- Ontario Emperor
@Ontario_Emperor I don't know if that's a drawback, I don't think FriendFeed would have any problem associating the posts, this is just the way the comment communities work on FriendFeed (I think it's pretty cool). We're discussing with Louis his shared item, which happens to be Duncan's post which also has its own comment thread for his friend circle.
- Mario Romero
With FriendFeed's introduction of search capability, this issue is effectively solved. Try a search for the words more hyped yawn.
- Ontario Emperor
I agree. People say I spam on Twitter because I post too often.
- Robert Scoble
FriendFeed is totally awesome.... My favorite aggregator... so far.. :)
- Paula Hawk
I seriously don't understand why people complain about too many tweets. There is something called unfollow if the tweets piss people off.
- Krishnan Subramanian
People that are very active have a lot to twitter about. I like the large amount of updates, it's easy to scroll down past any if needed.
- Alex Hammer
I detest what Suzemuse is saying about the Lacy flareup: "Conflict is a negative force that causes defensiveness, overactive egos and hurt feelings. In extreme cases, it causes wars." The fact is that there are moral issues of might versus right. .. and there's nothing wrong with conflict. It is heathly. If there are serious issues, fruitless wars are more likely to result from...
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- bill giltner
Bill, my reading of her suggestion is more like "don't make it personal", which seems pretty reasonable. Once people feel that they are being personally attacked, they tend to become irrational and often hostile, and so productive debate becomes impossible.
- Paul Buchheit
Paul, good point. I don't disagree with that aspect (don't get personal). However, as someone who wishes fair treatment for all (women, minorities, etc.), it's only fair to point out that Ms. Lacy seemed to be playing the ancient sex role of cute chatty female instead of intelligent interviewer. I wasn't there. However if what many claim was true, this set of circumstances demands that her performance be called out. It seems impossible to do that without doing what some will call making it personal.
- bill giltner