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Check out your friends Google Reader bundles here: http://www.google.com/reader...
Dusty Edenfield, Anton Tanderup, Niklas Morberg and 5 other people liked this
Here are mine:
- Kol Tregaskes
10 tech site: http://www.google.com/reader...
- Kol Tregaskes
8 art sites (mainly CG art): http://www.google.com/reader...
- Kol Tregaskes
21 photo and photoblogs: http://www.google.com/reader...
- Kol Tregaskes
50 photography sites (it's about 15-20 posts a day): http://www.google.com/reader...
- Kol Tregaskes
If you want to know what the sites are click on the links above and you have the option to expand the list at the top.
- Kol Tregaskes
I'd be very interesting if I'm 'missing' any sites from my categories above. :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
Here is mine: http://l.clipotech.com/lifestr...
- Svartling
Thank you, Svartling. :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
I imported Leo Laporte's bundle, 125 feeds. http://ow.ly/kcKn
- Willem (@wim66) ☠
You are welcome Kol :)
- Svartling
14 games sites: http://www.google.com/reader...
- Kol Tregaskes
anyone know of a good alternative to Twitterfeed, to auto update twitter with rss. Twitterfeed is no longer working for us, unfortunately
Svartling, Fábio S. and mike fabio liked this
http://pingvine.com/ , not easy to get it working but when it does work it's really nice. http://easytweets.com/ , better than Twitterfeed but you need to pay to use the full version.
- Canal Chile
You could have a try with http://tarpipe.com
- Armando Alves
http://microplaza.com/ maybe?
- François Dongier
Twitterfeed has some problems again...
- Svartling
hootsuite has similar options as I recall. w/o the Google analytics integration.
- George Moga
Trying Google Reader?.. Share your friendfeed feed WITHIN Reader. (groups work too)!!
brainno722 (Peter), Roberto Bonini, Mike Chelen and 20 other people liked this
Use the FF Tools Embed > Feed Widget http://friendfeed.com/embed (Image version) and paste the HTML into Reader using the "Your Stuff" > "Shared Items" -> "Have some thoughts to share?" textbox. Let them know where you came from!! Check out http://www.google.com/reader... to see the results (I used the Note on Reader bookmarklet on my FF homepage and THEN added the HTML).
- Chris Myles
Interesting idea. I have a 'lifestream' bundle and share some of my posts that way. Unfortunately you have to delete them once FF imports them back, but not too much of a pain.
- Kol Tregaskes
Chris, what embeds would you share from there? I imagine sharing individual entries would be good but not sure what could be shared from the embed page?
- Kol Tregaskes
Kol.. It's more of a hack to show people where you came from, and gives you (and those you share with) a quick place to check your FF updates within reader. Since the image auto-updates, it's perfect!!
- Chris Myles
GROUPS: You can also embed groups but not directly. Just change your username to the group name.. width is a cool option as well!! http://friendfeed.com/embed....
- Chris Myles
BTW: this is ONE of the MANY reasons I think FriendFeed kicks ass.. Most products aren't even thinking about embedded versions of their content, let alone dynamic images for sites that don't support iframes (or when javascript is disabled). It just adds to the flexibility and power of the platform.. (Facebook.. hint hint)!!
- Chris Myles
Just tried this in GR and it works. Thank you Chris.
- Polly Potter
No worries Polly. I saw yours in Reader.. You might want to make it wider to get more goodies in the same height. I set my width to 600!! BTW Where are you getting feedback from the Reader team? I've got a some stuff logged into their help site.. haven't heard a peep from anyone (some stuff has been sitting there since last November). http://friendfeed.com/akiva...
- Chris Myles
Fixed FF widget in GR to 600 as you suggested and it looks a lot better. Thank you.
- Polly Potter
Chris, if you are referring to the comments of Jenna Bilotta that I shared in GR, I found them in FF and parked them in GR for ease of finding again.
- Polly Potter
Ok thanks Polly, glad to know the width looks better, I'd have a look but I can't .. http://ff.im/7JFoG
- Chris Myles
Pipes: FriendFeed API v2 (proof of concept) - http://pipes.yahoo.com/loucyph...
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zeaz, laura, Imabug and 33 other people liked this
Thanks a lot.
- Ahmet Alp Balkan
LouCypher, I filled in each type of field (except audio) and clicked Run Pipe, but nothing appears to have happened.
- Micah Wittman
Micah, it worked for me. I posted this entry using this pipe itself.
- LouCypher
Lou, you declare explicitly »This Pipe may require all fields to have values before it will run successfully. Please provide values into any empty field above and press "Run Pipe."« but then your [=this] posting has nowhere near the number of apparently required elements. If the values/args can be [nil] or »""«, or maybe »" "«, please indicate that. Above all, I'd like to read a usage scenario in which this could be of, hmmm…, use [over and above mere proof of concept].
- ianf ⌘
Yay. Generated http://friendfeed.com/thedod... like a charm, audio and all. Well done
- ĎÚβĨŐÚŚ Dod
How much time did it save over posting that in the old, "missionary" fashion?
- ianf ⌘
@ianf, only fields with * are required, you can leave the other fields empty.
- LouCypher
so, you're essentially using a pipe to post to friendfeed?
- chrisofspades
@Chris, I do sometimes, using v1 API http://pipes.yahoo.com/loucyph...
- LouCypher
@Micah and @Genie, did you enter the correct remote key? http://friendfeed.com/remotek...
- LouCypher
Lou, I just re-tried in Chrome and it worked! (I used the remotekey each time). My first attempts wre in Firefox - my guess is there's was a conflict with Firebug (or maybe NoScript, but I allowed all domains *shrug*).
- Micah Wittman
I see. I don't have Firebug on my Firefox, that's why.
- LouCypher
Firebug in the latest version of Firefox has been temperamental. Frequent browser restarts while dubugging JS helps.
- Micah Wittman
Anyway, nice job on the pipe, LouCypher. Just released, and there's already exciting things popping up using the new API v2 :)
- Micah Wittman
I used this image URL http://friendfeed-media.com/1dbdccc... (no extension) and it worked for me. What's your image URL?
- LouCypher
I may be misreading things in a wider [than Pipes] context, but I thought the new FF API v2, as per recent Firehose announcement (which presumably relies on it) no longer required RemoteKey use? "[FF Firehose] is controlled by simple OAuth. This also means users of FriendFeed-based applications will no longer need to get their special key to manually enter as was previously required" <http://staynalive.com/article...> - right, this isn't an FF-app…
- ianf ⌘
Unfortunately, that's the problem with Yahoo Pipes, you can't use OAuth with it.
- LouCypher
This looks cool, but with FriendFeed's 3 mp3 files a day limit - you could only use it once a day to upload audio files.
- Chris Loft
That's for upload only, the API is using/hotlinking mp3 URL from other server. You can post as much as you want. http://friendfeed.com/zoolcar...
- LouCypher
Is there any way to add video attachment support? Thanks
- Mike Chelen
@LouCypher Thanks for the group invite! :D
- See-ming Lee 李思明 SML
The one search company most likely to get purchased by Microsoft to crush Google that I saw in Cambridge UK? PrismaStar.
rowlikeagirl, hecho en eu, Sunny (The Geek Lord), Roberto Bonini and 24 other people liked this
Reasons for saying that?
- Ahmed
Why?
- Jim Connolly
why ?
- Kashif Khan
"crush google", wow sounds interesting.
- Rich Lazzara
I hope this is the same PrimaStar Robert is talking about
- ashish
Rich: Google crush sounds more interesting - like the name of a drink.
- Jim Connolly
Why? You'll have to see our Building43 video to see why. :-) But let's just say they did the search technology for several camera stores and the conversion rate went WAY up. Why is that? Because they offer a new way of searching things that really rocks. I can't explain it in text. Gotta show it to you.
- Robert Scoble
looking fwd to it
- Rich Lazzara
Primestar's AnswerOil UIX is a good fit for #Bing's decision support platform, combined with shopping cart & checkout optimization products from www.allurent.com would yield further eCommerce results.
- Alexander Ainslie
I'm interested.Do they support dynamic search/ads via keywords/tags? I sent them a message, and like what I saw. Very feature driven search.
- Mark Essel
Robert: direct link to the building43 video?
- James Kuypers
Several people asked which product categories we support -- here's a site that uses over 1000: http://translate.google.com/transla...
- Joshua Z. Tabin
(on the right-hand side of that translated page are some samples...)
- Joshua Z. Tabin
Also, Mark Essel: YES, we do support dynamic search/ads via keywords/tags. :)
- Joshua Z. Tabin
Thanks Joshua, great talking to you.
- Mark Essel
Most likely to get purchased by Microsoft with the intent to crush Google, perhaps. But Microsoft intends a lot of things. Maybe they'll buy PrismaStar, then rebrand MSN, er, Live Search, er Bing, and the market will be less confused.
- Andy Bakun
But Jessops the camera retailer is losing money: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/money...
- Jelly Roll Morton
Jessops has been losing money as long as anyone can remember, which is hardly Prismastar's fault. The point is though that Jessops has a very good search tool with Prismastar's AnswerOil and has seen a substantial increase in its conversion rates since adopting Prismastar's technology. It could be Answeroil which has kept them going this long (nobody would have expected them to still be around in late 2009 eighteen months ago)
- John S Cameron
John, did Jessops really see a substantial increase in conversion rates? I respectfully suggest that this is not a fact. Can anyone actually verify this claim? It is on record that Jessops are still around because HSBC Bank saved them, rather than because of their business performance.
- Jelly Roll Morton
Posting from another feed: here is the prior art that someone was looking for on Interconnected Sliders : they existed back in 2004 in the public domain - download this FLA file for free and build your own interconnected sliders: http://www.senocular.com/flash...
- Jelly Roll Morton
I just paid $3.99 for Newsie a iPhone app for reading Google Reader. So far I like it but it is not perfect. Still want a great reader.
ffcode, Svartling, Andres Montano and metalerik liked this
yes, I saw that one pop up as new. It did look pretty good. What are the not perfect parts?
- metalerik
Whats missing Robert?
- James Harnedy
Integration with Google Reader's Friends. Also, good sharing features. Sharing is my #1 thing and reason why I use Google Reader. It's amazing how bad all these apps are (and I've bought $15 worth just tonight).
- Robert Scoble
Finding a news reader app on the iPhone is hard enough let alone one that integrates with Google Reader. I've given up and just using Safari for the time being.
- Chris Lawrence
Same situation on Android
- Asgeir
I think Newsie is great. Really fast and the mail feature is really great on this one. But I cant find the tweet option though.. I have Tweetie 2 installed.
- Svartling
The Google Reader mobile version looks awesome on my 800x480 Archos 5 Internet Tablet with Android, which I got since yesterday..
- Charbax
trying to port everything to iPhone? plans for world trip?
- ffcode
Seesmic, Friendfeed and Twitter next to each other in a test version of Twhirl. Adding tons of Friendfeed experience improvements in there, Marco rocks.
Nicholas James, Rahsheen ™, Coach of FF, Wins Fern and 95 other people liked this
I love this version. And Seesmic in Twhirl is so addictive
- Loic Le Meur
nice improvements Loic!! bring it on!!
- Susan Beebe
can't wait - gimme more ;o)
- Marco Sascha Sven Hoppe
from twhirl
very interesting. The friendfeed integration looks way better than before. Will have to give this a look when it is released.
- Rob Diana
okay, so FF and Twitter are in the latest? but not Seemic correct?
- Lou Paglia
This might get me back into Twhirl.
- Akiva Moskovitz
and it has FF rooms support!
- Loic Le Meur
The question is when ?
- Gilles Meiers
from twhirl
wow, looks great. remind me http://twitku.com/ for a second there...
- Orli Yakuel
looks very cool. exactly what we need. but what about plurk ;)
- Phil Coyne
from twhirl
yes... when?
- Mike Wills
@LouPaglia - correct, Seesmic is not integrated with Twirl desktop app yet
- Susan Beebe
in a few days I think for the new FF integration. Seesmic comes next.
- Loic Le Meur
from twhirl
Super! When!??!
- Florin Grozea
from twhirl
looks like it might replace alert thingy as my RIA of choice
- Steve Lynch
from Alert Thingy
Great ! Thanks
- Gilles Meiers
from twhirl
integrate into one window, is all i ask, make it indisputably the best
- Ruben Llibre
none of them working in linux TOO BAD!
- Yassin Alvandi
Is twitter's api actually back up at 50 req/hr?
- Shawn Farner
The old Twhirl works for me in linux for me, it just won't remember my password.
- Daniel E. Renfer
from twhirl
Yes Marco does. Twhirl is becoming my info hub. And if Twitter dies, who cares I'm sure Pownce, Jaiku or whatever could be swapped in
- Tris Hussey
from twhirl
so is seesmic cool now?
- Soulhuntre
from twhirl
How do we score the test ver? :)
- Soulhuntre
from twhirl
You tease. Where do I download it?
- Rafe Needleman
Cannot wait, big Guy!
- ledretch
I want... When?
- highcenter
from twhirl
Can't wait!!
- Danish Khan
from twhirl
actually it will be pushed in an hour or two
- Loic Le Meur
from twhirl
Can't wait!
- Tris Hussey
from twhirl
Nice teasing. Do you have any release date or will you take the "it's done when it's done" side?
- Romain Péchard
from twhirl
I would love some "best practices" guide for how to get the most out of all that information that will be flooding in.
- Brendan Cosgrove
from twhirl
How do I add my Seesmic account into Twhirl 082? It's not showing up in the "accounts" list.
- Rafe Needleman
from twhirl
We should have a Twhirl + Seesmic preview in the very next days
- Loic Le Meur
from twhirl
wait, what exactly is the difference between Twhirl and Seesmic? I thought Seesmic was replacing Twhirl...
- Piero Ardizone
This looks awesome!
- Svartling
I think this what im looking for!
- Michael Scott
Wow nice work, I really like the improvements made :)
- Jeunelle Foster
awesome!
- barbarars
wow - one of the furthest back boomerang ff threads i've seen
- mike "glemak" dunn
nice!
- .LAG liked that
Wow, this is pretty old. I got excited for a second, thought Loic had seen the light and was starting to care about Twhirl again. NOPE.
- Shawn Farner
BTW, while you're waiting for wave invites, check out @threadsy to unify the rest of your communications. Love it! https://www.threadsy.com/
Svartling, Eric Logan and Kenton liked this
Not 100% convinced as there's still a lot of functionality missing.
- Kenton
Kenton; it's still in private beta. I have several suggestions for them too, but I've already noticed that I'm not missing important messages as much, and I'm getting things done a lot faster. It has serious potential.
- Michael Fidler
Any invites for Threadsy ?
- Eric Logan
Agreed Michael, lots of potential.
- Kenton
Eric, I haven't seen any yet. Perhaps they're hiding somewhere, but I'll check for you. I submitted a request for one last week and I recieved an invite yesterday.
- Michael Fidler
Tried it... liked it for a bit... wanted more. Waiting to go back... agreed with you both.
- SAM
Do either of you know what will get posted to Facebook If I grant them full permission. I don't want all my tweets going to Facebook. I disconnected twitter and Facebook a long time ago. I would like to be able to choose which tweets get published there. I know Facebook connect allows for this, but I wonder if they know.
- Michael Fidler
It allows you to select. At the top of the Unbound column there are checkboxes for Twitter and Facebook. You just have to remember to uncheck one or the other as I think it defaults to both.
- Kenton
Thanks, Mike I requested one during the TC50 Conference perhaps it is coming soon, More interested now on your recommendation. I felt the same way about the Gist beta which I now regularly use,
- Eric Logan
Eric, hang on. Maybe I can get them over here. I just received a tweet from them.
- Michael Fidler
Sent a message; let's see if he replies.
- Michael Fidler
Here's the review from TC-50; http://www.techcrunch.com/2009...
- Michael Fidler
Try Twingly Channels too. Beta released today. http://twingly.com/ use beta code: THENEXTWEB
- Svartling
from iPhone
hey guys, Scott from threadsy here. Thanks for the support! Yes we have a lot of work to do and are working hard to make it better. Invites: anyone who requested one the week of TC50 should have one by now. If not (Eric) pls email support@threadsy.com and we'll get one to you. More invites coming out in batches every day.
- scott
Facebook: Yes, Kenton said it right. threadsy never posts anything to Facebook without your permission. You can choose if you want to post an update to Facebook, Twitter, or both with the checkboxes under the new post box at the top of the right Unbound column.
- scott
Also: what functionality is missing that you really want to see? Please let us know; if you can stoamch the sign up requirement for Get Satisfaction, that would be my preferred channel: hrrp://getsatisfaction.com/threadsy
- scott
Thx, Scott and Mike. Will send E-mail.
- Eric Logan
Else you can email us at feedback@threadsy.com. Thx!
- scott
Already have a suggestion or two in Get Satisfaction. Keep up the good work.
- Kenton
Scott, thanks for stopping by! I think there are two other people who would like invites as well. I'll ask them to email you. I have some suggestions as well, but I'm still loving it!
- Michael Fidler
Google Chrome Injects Itself Into Internet Explorer With Chrome Frame - http://www.readwriteweb.com/archive...
Svartling liked this
Google gör det möjligt för Internet Explorer att kalla sig en "modern web browser" (underhållande citat från Google I/O 2009) genom att skapa en plugin till Internet Explorer som helt enkelt ersätter renderings- och JS-motorn med WebKit+V8.
- Daniel Chow
Cleaner FriendFeed (04/29/09) | userstyles.org - http://userstyles.org/styles...
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Nilesh, Tyson Key, Mark Jepsen and 35 other people liked this
Update (04/29/2009) -- As suggested by Kristian Salonen (http://friendfeed.com/krisu), now using Data URI. The new FriendFeed logo isn't transparent.
- AJ Batac
from Bookmarklet
I'm going to have to try this. I use Chrome and know nothing about greasemonkey scripts, but I'm going to give it a shot.
- Jen (SquirrelGirl)
I've used AJ''s script from almost since I joined FF. I don't know how anyone can use FF without it. ;-)
- Kol Tregaskes
Hmm, Firefox isn't picking up the new version when I click "Find Updates".
- Rochelle
Thank you for updating!!!! That was driving me nuts.
- Carmen
Rochelle, please use the new one. ;)
- AJ Batac
It's not wide screen!
- Rochelle
Rochelle, the next one on my feed is the widescreen.
- AJ Batac
Rochelle, here -> http://userstyles.org/styles... :)
- AJ Batac
YAY! Thanks.
- Rochelle
Thanks... AJ... liking this a lot better... I was starting to look for something to replace friend feed... still going to look, but it doesn't have to be found tonight.
- Harold
I like this style except that it makes the fonts small.
- Vezquex: God of FF
Comment font is too small. How to enlarge it in the script? I've already replaced font color in script with #000000 for clarity. Thanks for doing all this AJ. Otherwise, I would drop FF.
- Polly Potter
Nice - loading it now
- Dan Morrill AKA Techwag
yawn
- Ryo / Fuck Facebook
Ok, - this is very nice, except for the bouncing that happened in firefox on first use of script (screen bounce, firefox, vista) otherwise, this is nice.
- Dan Morrill AKA Techwag
Hey AJ, Finally got around to writing the Google Chrome tutorial to install this: http://www.dailyhaggis.com/2009...
- Haggis (Sean Loyless)
Nice AJ it's like coming back Home again. Haggis Chrome? Why am I not surprised :)
- sofarsoShawn
Because Chrome pwns all other browsers? :D
- Haggis (Sean Loyless)
PShaw, next you'll be hat'n on MAC's when everyone knows they're virus proof ;) #Chromechini
- sofarsoShawn
Sean, awesome! Nicely written tutorial. :)
- AJ Batac
Woo hoo! going to give this a shot.
- Jen (SquirrelGirl)
Tried it and it didn't work. When I relaunched chrome, it launches to an error page (Oops! This link is broken) with this in the search box "enable user scripts 475k". Sure I'm doing something wrong. Just can't pinpoint it.
- Jen (SquirrelGirl)
I think I found my mistake. Going to try again.
- Jen (SquirrelGirl)
Great tutorial Sean! My problem was that I was copying/pasting your "–enable-user-scripts" line from IE which put it in as an odd hyphen rather than a double dash. When I typed it myself, it worked fine. It was looking at your screenshot that clued me in.
- Jen (SquirrelGirl)
The cleaner FF style is a little clunky when it refreshes from page to page. Does anyone else notice this? Or is it just in Chrome?
- Jen (SquirrelGirl)
AJ, great tutorial on enabling scripts on Chrome.
- Mike Reynolds
Mike, It was Sean for the Chrome tutorial. ;)
- AJ Batac
In that case, thanks Sean!
- Mike Reynolds
@Jen Ooh, thanks for pointing that out! I'll make sure to note the double dashes in the article. I did that the first time as well
- Haggis (Sean Loyless)
Polly, to enlarge the comment section and sidebar font sizes (this is just rough), edit stylish script as follows: [CHANGE]: .main ul li a, .section ul li a { font-size: 13px !important; } [CHANGE]: .info,.likes,.comment,#footer,.pager,.bottom,.hidetoggle { font-size: 13px !important; } [ADD after ".searchbold" line]: .content {font-size:13px }
- Micah Wittman
Wow, does this using this on FireFox 3.5 make a world of difference. FriendFeed is actually easily readable. Thanks so much for this!
- nadezhda
Belated thank you to Micah for the tips about font size. FF soooo much easier to read now.
- Polly Potter
Just installed it, and it looks great! Thanks!
- Mark Jepsen
This is an old script, check out the scripts with theme support here: http://userstyles.org/users...
- Kol Tregaskes
Custom Themes for Posterous. Also supports Tumblr themes OTB.
Zachary TG, Cristiana Danila Formetta, Alex Schleber and 79 other people liked this
Not official yet I think, but the screenshot is real and provides some info. The "Porting Tumblr" tab explains that you can use Tumblr themes as is, but all Tumblr blocks in the code won´t be supported at first.
- Thomas Bøhm
Where is the screenshot from?
- Daniel Sims
Looks exciting! I'm glad we'll be able to do completely custom themes from the beginning.
- Andrew
@Daniel: Just add "/theming" to your Posterous url :) (http://posterous.com/theming) Not visible in settings yet though. EDIT: Blocked now.
- Thomas Bøhm
Shhh guuuyys it's seeecret!!!
- Garry Tan
that'll be great if there comes a WYSIWYG creater tool for this...
- 麦克.疯
At last! Looks great, especially because users can build their own themes! Can't wait to put my hands at work on this!
- Jordi Soler
Finally! Thank god, love this service
- James Tenniswood
Can't wait!!!
- Rubin Sfadj
The folks at Posterous are really hard at work. I haven't seen anything exciting coming out of Tumblr lately
- Andre P. Siregar
Wow! That's really cool!
- Svartling
Can we use widgets and javascript code?
- Svartling
I think it will spawn quite a large number of available themes and probably cannibalize Tumblr quite a bit. @Garry: Sorry, but it wasn't a very well kept secret;) Google blogsearch showed it to me on a search I had surrounding Posterous.
- Thomas Bøhm
from BuddyFeed
@Svartling: No, not at first it says. But knowing Posterous it'll probably come along.
- Thomas Bøhm
from BuddyFeed
Things just got intriguing...
- JA Castillo
So, when does this theming feature become available? ;-)
- Rubin Sfadj
So are we any closer to getting an official date for the launch of custom themes? Or have I overlooked something?
- Andrew Eglinton
They could have custom backgrounds just to tide us over. Full themes may already be possible if the API is good enough.
- Vezquex: God of FF
where's this exiting screenshot? Please, let me know how's possible to implement my posterous with theming options ..(
- Cipriana Maiameraime
WOW, nice scoop !!!
- kOoLiNuS
Awesome... just set up two sibling Posterous blogs last night... it will be cool to style them!
- Her Lindsay-ness
...........that's great !!
- Marco Castellani
Dude, this was not suppose to be leaked
- Wayne Sutton
from iPhone
But since you did, custom themes is going to be nice !
- Wayne Sutton
from iPhone
I love leaks!
- John Graham
It's been leaking for a while now ... any update on projected availability? There have been a number of new features added since this was posted here.
- Allan Besselink
Theming is live! http://blog.posterous.com/postero...
- Garry Tan
Cool.
- Zachary TG
Kol Tregaskes to Kol's feed, Question of the Day, Posterous, Social Media, Social Media Club, Social Media Enthusiasts, Appetite, TheNextWeb Forum
What is your #Posterous profile/blog URL? Mine is http://posterous.com/people...
Mark Povey, Daniel Rowley, mlazopoulou and 74 other people liked this
http://browneyes.posterous.com/ for daily iphonegraphs. :-)
- browneyes
Thanks guys! :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
http://loopper.posterous.com/ (great tool I am testing it over the last 2 weeks - Love it and thinking what will be the correct use)
- Johni Fisher
Johni, it's really good as it's so easy to post using the bookmarklet. :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
I'm subscribing to you all now (if I can read it in English, that is). Subscribe back, will you?
- Bill Scherer
Haven't used it much, but maybe more friends will change that - http://PhilBaumann.posterous.com
- phil baumann
from Android
Niron :-)) nice one(the FF embed there,shabat shalom )
- Johni Fisher
Johni, thanks mate shabat shalom :)
- Nir Ben Yona
http://jetsam.geekhold.com/ (which is a CNAME for dgentry.posterous.com)
- DGentry
http://jamesslater.posterous.com (I think)
- James Slater
http://lelapin.posterous.com/ basically photos and sketches
- lelapin
http://bonnerj.posterous.com Updated infrequently but I'm trying to get better :)
- Joe Bonner
from fftogo
http://jacek.posterous.com/ mobile (mostly) photoblog
- jacek
Mine is http://snowboardcast.posterous.com mainly for photos and as contributor to http://jackgordon.posterous.com which is my son's photo blog that feeds his FF, Twitter and FB
- Nicholas Paul Gordon
from iPhone
http://moby74.posterous.com/ - moby74
- Mohsein Sani
www.bradendouglass.com, post up!
- Braden Douglass
I'm a very inconsistent blogger, but here it is: http://supherb.posterous.com/
- Herb Hernandez
http://jezlyn.posterous.com I really like using it to feed content to my Wordpress blog and other sites at the same time. It's the only easy way I know of to e-mail posts "to" my Wordpress.com blog.
- Cheryl Jones
from BuddyFeed
Mine is http://twiddle.me but I don't use it very much
- Glen Campbell
NIr, that's a great idea on embedding FF.
- Kol Tregaskes
Mine is http://ahr19.posterous.com/ .. gonna start to use it more.
- Amani
Kol - it's great how one FF post can start a little movement. I've used it more today than since I signed up whenever a long time ago. Thanks.
- phil baumann
Hey cool, Phil. :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
Kolin: u can add the FF widget as well to the side bar ,just go to the profile and post the (instead of javascript choose image) over here http://friendfeed.com/embed... you can see it at my posterous http://loopper.posterous.com/ I got this tip from http://friendfeed.com/svartli...
- Johni Fisher
this posterous: http://this.posterous.com :)
- directeur
How do I embed my FF stream on Posterous?
- phil baumann
posterous is so quick uploading 3gs video to its sites ... amazing
- johnpiercy
I've embedded this thread on a Posterous entry: http://e-lusion.posterous.com/what-is... :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
@phil couldn't you do the embed feature... ? post something to posterous.. and then 'edit' the post and paste the embed? Or maybe simply email it?
- Sean
my posterous: http://mystrongmedicine.posterous.com
- Sean
Phil, click on the 'Share' link of the FF entry, then copy the embed code. Create a new Posterous entry, select HTML mode and paste in the embed code. You'll need to edit the width and height (looks like 500 for width). Then post. :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
@ Phil Kol beat me to the explanation
- Sean
Kol I made the same :-))
- Johni Fisher
Kol - thanks.
- phil baumann
I see, commenting via my Posterous entry. ;-)
- Kol Tregaskes
What is the best width? 500 seems good?
- Kol Tregaskes
Kol - is there a way to embed in the sidebar (I've seen others place it on their Posterous). Not just a post...
- phil baumann
Phil, see Johni's comment above.
- Kol Tregaskes
http://revrev.posterous.com but I rarely use it.
- mike fabio
Does that work with both the embeds and widgets?
- Kol Tregaskes
And mine is http://mhdbadi.posterous.com :)
- FFTornado
Only with embeds. It's too bad we can't email these friendfeed embeds directly to Posterous. They get garbled. I've tried.
- Svartling
My Posterous profile: http://posterous.com/people...
- Svartling
It flows through here, usually just for photos: http://lagtime.posterous.com/
- .LAG liked that
Svartling, shame we can't do that with the widgets, it looks untidy on our profile pages. Yep emailing would be cool.
- Kol Tregaskes
Maybe some of the Posterous developers see this and could add that feature? Please :)
- Svartling
Good thread; got some new subscriptions! http://notratched.posterous.com
- Megen
Don't forget to tag your posts like this ((tag: posterous, friendfeed)) in the subject line of your emails. That way your posts will be seen easier by all other Posterous users when they use the global posterous search.
- Svartling
Svartling thx again :-)
- Johni Fisher
mine is http://dave6.posterous.com jokes and funny videos :o)
- David Gross
http://bryansays.posterous.com/ but I rarely update it.
- Bryan Lee
I'm new to posterous. I wonder how everyone manages to avoid double posting..
- David Gross
from email
I don't have a lot at mine, but it's http://martinsfp.posterous.com/
- Martin Bryant
My Posterous blog: http://thesixonefournine.com/ My Posterous profile: http://posterous.com/people...
- Judd6149
Thanks everyone.
- Kol Tregaskes
just made mine http://alfredo.posterous.com/
- Alfredo
http://chachafance.info (using my own domain)
- ChaCha Fance
Kol, I don't embed FF that often, only when it comes to interesting threads :-)
- Nir Ben Yona
Nir, either way, a very good idea. Thank you. :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
My Posterous blog is at http://pauljacobson.posterous.com
- Paul Jacobson
My moblog is http://tysonwilliams.posterous.com/
- Tyson Williams
Thanks guys. :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
My Posterous is http://quackofdawn.com (using my own domain)
- Quackofdawn
I just embedded this thread... How cool is that?! :-) Didn't even know about it before...
- Quackofdawn
Yep, useful, can embed any FF entry anywhere you like. :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
http://midorinpolou.posterous.com/comic-c... that's my recent entry @ posterous
- polou/indigo_bow
I tried embedding a twitter gadget on my posterous profile but it did not work.. How do you embed your friendfeed profile?
- David Gross
from email
David, I'm not sure it accepts all HTML. For the FF widgets use the image not the Javascript version.
- Kol Tregaskes
Kol, yes I see.. I added it, I guess Twitter does not have anything but javascript and flash widgets.. It doesnt matter, since I autopost to twitter there is a button there..
- David Gross
from email
http://posterous.com/people... is my profile where you'll find a couple..
- Mo Hall
How do you all add the little twitter and friendfeed images with links to your profiles here on posterous. I don't know the code to do that. :( Help when u can.
- Amani
http://mylescrew.posterous.com/ Right now I'm just testing, the import from Blogger was REALLY easy. I'm trying to "port" BlurbBits (http://ff.im/4tlY2) to make them work better on posterous. The iframe style parameter gets removed, which is different than Blogger (there is *always* something).
- Chris Myles
Amani: If you set up autopost, they will appear. Here's the link: http://posterous.com/autopost
- Nick in Manila
Amani, the little images for twitter etc you get if you autopost to those sites but you might end up with duplicate posts that way. There is a friendfeed badge you can put in your posterous profile at http://friendfeed.com/embed... use the image format, not javascript.
- David Gross
from email
Check out Wayne Suttons Posterous (he posted his URL in this thread). You see that he has changed some colors. That is a private beta feature that is coming soon to the public.
- Svartling
mine is http://reflectionof.me/
- Işılay Erol
I've changed my Posterous site to my own domain now, so update your links :) http://pingmicro.com/
- Svartling
I've made a fast Posterous post on how to add a friendfeed widget to the Posterous sidebar. See it here: http://pingmicro.com/how-to-...
- Svartling
Thanks for the post, Svartling. :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
Svartling, thanks for the tips on adding a widget!
- Michael Fidler
http://maryannedavis.posterous.com getting to this late. :)))
- Mary Anne Davis
http://posterous.com/people... or the actual site http://posterous.matt1604.com/ I haven't posted in a while, but I generally post iPhone app reviews and such.
- MλTT
Thank you all.
- Kol Tregaskes
jazzjeppe.posterous.com
- "Jazzperous" Isaksson
You can also add an image version of the OnlyWire button so people can bookmark and share your site. http://onlywire.com/thebutton
- ChaCha Fance
ChaCha: That is a great tip! Thanks!
- Svartling
http://lizasperling.posterous.com/ Thanks - you are making this a very helpful Sunday:) AND for those of you trying to embed other images, etc...I did it in my profie and mash in friendfeed, zemanta, gmail, wisestamp,etc..FUN - happy to help.
- Liza
YOU are a great example of engaging followers and using tools to help us connect in many other ways. THANK YOU.
- Liza
:-)
- Kol Tregaskes
the usual: bigstarlet.posterous.com. I use it as alternative picture posting device to Pixelpipe and also as an alternative to Ping.fm. Thanks for subbing to me there, Kol. :)
- Helen Sventitsky
deadsimple.posterous.com
- Parvez Halim
armchairtheorist.posterous.com
- Jonathan Wong
Thanks everyone, don't forget to add the http:// so the URLs resolve and we can click on them here. :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
@koltregaskes, my posterous is at http://alexschleber.posterous.com "Quick Hits Business Mindhacks". Had been using it quite a bit the first 6 months of this year. I'm a big fan of Garry & Sachin, but really wish posterous would hurry up with some of the much needed feature upgrades (skins and/or CSS, Retweet button - just use Tweetmeme, custom sidebar HTML, WYSIWIG bookmarklet, etc.) Seems like they're stalling a bit right now, no?
- Alex Schleber
Everything/nothing blog: hikes, etc. http://andrew.leahey.org
- Andrew Leahey
I'm here http://krynsky.posterous.com/ but haven't done much. I plan to test it this week primarily as a workflow posting tool.
- Mark Krynsky
Mine, in case you speak French: http://sfadj.com
- Rubin Sfadj
Thanks again. Alex, yeah the potential is huge, hope more features come along. :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
The camera part of Code, Camera, Action: http://elstudio.us
- Eric Johnson
just started it up a week back or so but have been very much enjoying the interface thus far http://jeffreymarsh.posterous.com/
- Jeffrey Marsh
Thanks.
- Kol Tregaskes
@koltregaskes weird that you're "what's your GReader/Posterous/FB?" entries from the last few days seem to presage in a way what happened today..
- Alex Schleber
Keep 'em coming, I'll add you all later today. :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
Thank God for this thread. I'm going to (slowly) subscribe to all the people I'm subbed to on FF. I have a hunch posterous is going to replace part of the puzzle for me. Thanks Kol.
- Ahsan Ali aka. Slick
I Will also add all Posterous users on this list because I Will now use Posterous as Friendfeed :) See here: http://pingmicro.com/how-pos...
- Svartling
from iPhone
I just started mine fresh with a single introductory blog post: http://jbug.posterous.com
- Dennis Jernberg
http://pivic.posterous.com - music snippets galore!
- Niklas Pivic
Right: here's mine: http://highandwild.posterous.com (will start posting from now on)
- Ahsan Ali aka. Slick
http://socialgeek.posterous.com - As the title suggests, I post about geeky social enthusiast stuff.
- Mahendra (SkepticGeek)
Kol, thanks for doing this! :)
- Mahendra (SkepticGeek)
I tried a post asking everyone to share their Google Reader shared items link, but I guess I don't have many followers. Maybe you can?
- Mahendra (SkepticGeek)
I think I've subscribed to most of you now :) I skipped some in languages I don't understand :)
- Svartling
Thanks for all the subscriptions! I subscribed to everyone who subscribed to me. =)
- Andrew Leahey
Thank you all.
- Kol Tregaskes
Mahendra, see here: http://ff.im/6mh5s
- Kol Tregaskes
Thanks.
- Kol Tregaskes
mine is http://mhdbadi.posterous.com/
- FFTornado
http://wangyip.posterous.com - mostly music for now but that may change later
- Wang Yip
Thank you.
- Kol Tregaskes
Holy crap Batman, this is a big list.
- Brent - Long Live Rock
And if you want lists for other services see: #whatsyoururl
- Kol Tregaskes
Once again: http://jbug.posterous.com/ Plus my profile: http://posterous.com/people...
- Dennis Jernberg
http://andria.posterous.com. "Marketing & Contenus" - I post about marketing & content
- Andria Andriuzzi
http://martymcpadden.posterous.com/ - Marty McPadden: technology, social media and other fun stuff...
- Marty McPadden
My url is http://dave6.posterous.com I just tried out the "((nogallery))" feature that lets you post pictures not in gallery format by putting ((nogallery)) in email subject http://dave6.posterous.com/where-d... only problem is that it takes a while to load pictures if not using really high-speed internet.
- David Gross
from email
http://pingmicro.com/ - http://news.pingmicro.com/ and the Swedish: http://swe.pingmicro.com/
- Svartling
my is http://mbravo.posterous.com/ - not that there is much content there yet
- Michael Bravo
I think that's the 5th you've posted your link on this thread, Svartling. ;-)
- Kol Tregaskes
mine is http://waynesutton.net
- Wayne Sutton
Here's mine: http://posterous.com/people... Custom Domain address: http://thesixonefournine.com
- Judd6149
really just started toying around with it. mine is: lynneluvah.posterous.com
- Lynne d Johnson
surely someone has figured out how to add Friend connect to posteorus...keep searching, and love the cool mashups, but no Friendconnect....
- Liza
Oops and forgot to note, my posterous is http://lizasperling.com -- Thanks, Kol!
- Liza
Thnx for sending the big list Kol =) http://brodiebeta.posterous.com/
- Brodie Beta
No worries, thanks all.
- Kol Tregaskes
this is mine - http://posterous.com/people...
- Laurentiu
http://mlazopoulou.posterous.com/ Love it! So simple - mine has to do with food ;-)
- mlazopoulou
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I don’t feel safe with Wordpress, hackers broke in and took things - http://scobleizer.com/2009...
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Well, if you have fixed the hole by upgrading; you should feel a lot safer now. I guess strong user adoption does bring the wrong kind of attention.
- Anindya Chatterjee
Anindya: we're watching. Looks like they haven't gotten back in since the upgrade and some of the other changes we made. Knock on wood.
- Robert Scoble
I'm very tempted to switch to a SixApart install. As a Perl programmer I'd be much more familiar with the backend.
- Jesse Stay
Robert, btw, I'm sure between all your users you can find a backup. I have a bunch via Google Reader I could get to Rackspace to import for you. I'm sure others have even older entries than I have. Let us know if you want help restoring the old scobleizer.com!
- Jesse Stay
robert - i can tell you this - you need to watch it like a hawk - when i thought i was safe - i wasn't - InsideTransit continues to get hit - and I still believe there is some patches and stuff that RS can do as well - the bigger issue is what's on the server - because that's where they put the shells and then they can do whatever they want.
- Allen Stern
Not cool, hopefully things will work out.
- Kim Landwehr
Jesse: luckily it was July and August, when I wasn't doing much blogging. No biggie. Thanks. Allen: yes, Rackspace Cloud has a security team now and they are actively looking at ways to make Wordpress safer for our customers. It really sucks getting hacked. Let me know if you find any other ways to protect the systems.
- Robert Scoble
Robert: Yea getting hacked sucks. My early days with my blog aboutonlinematters.com I got hacked and luckily my ISP had a backup. Since then I have treated my Wordpress blog like any dev site - with a subversion repository and complete backup. But there are days... like today... when I think strongly about a platform like typepad.
- Arthur Coleman
what i have found is locking down the files helps - but you need to ftp into your site and make sure that nothing has been edited or added - in my case, on all my sites, the hackers put files all over that were base64 files - and what they do is include them into WP or they just run them direct - nearly a full shell. i've asked RS to create a way so that i can be notified of any changes to files - they say it's too heavy to run.
- Allen Stern
Robert, I just miss the traffic from your "You are SO Unfollowed!" article. (one of the casualties) ;-)
- Jesse Stay
There's a lot of great info they deleted - I'm a little ticked they would be completely insensitive like that to prove a security flaw. It affected much more than just you.
- Jesse Stay
Jesse: yeah, that's probably the one blog that I miss. It's also the one that got me to notice they deleted a couple of months.
- Robert Scoble
Jesse: that still is cached over on Google at http://74.125.155.132/search...
- Robert Scoble
No way "You are SO unfollowed" is out? I loved that one! :-( thanks for the cache Robert
- Sofia @ SoMaFusion
If you have no time to take care of yuors blog, maybe it's better if you choose the pro offer from wordpress.com ( I think scobleizer.com can have the minimum requirement to stay there).
- wolly
here it the VIP hosting http://en.wordpress.com/vip-hos...
- wolly
wolly: it's not just about time, attacks come from all directions so you've gotta have a holistic approach to security. How many of you regularly change passwords and make sure they are really good ones? (Twitter got broken into not because of hacks, but because they didn't practice good password security).
- Robert Scoble
It saddens me: it is morally reprehensible your hosting company convinced you to switch with the seduction of plugins and customization without emphasizing or handling the increased responsibility of upgrades. Your blog was not unique and not a special target, the worms sweep across millions of blogs indiscriminately and hit whatever is vulnerable. If your host is lax in upgrading, the...
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- Matt Mullenweg
that's true :-) I use password very strange and very verylong that I cannot remember and I use a service like clipperz.com to login.
- wolly
wolly, Robert was hosted on WordPress.com for about 4 years -- he was actually the very first VIP. Although there were dozens of security updates to WordPress in that time, his blog never had a problem because it was always up-to-date. He only switched away a few months ago.
- Matt Mullenweg
Ciao Matt :-) I didn't know that, so scoble come back to the light side :)
- wolly
Matt: yup, that's true. I've learned my lesson. Running your own servers are a lot harder than just having them hosted on Wordpress.com.
- Robert Scoble
To be frank, it completely breaks whatever trust I had in Rackspace.
- Matt Mullenweg
But Matt, I've been talking with many blog owners, including at TechCrunch, and they say that Wordpress' updates break their custom plugins. That's why they don't upgrade immediately. So, sounds like Wordpress has a mess on its hands that the hosted version of Wordpress didn't have (I couldn't run a lot of plugins and video embeds and other fun things on the hosted version of Wordpress). So, to blame it on my hoster/employer (Rackspace) exclusively isn't really a good attitude either.
- Robert Scoble
Robert, It happens. We were hacked too. My observations lead me to believe that this summer was the worst in a long time. Its a war and its going to be a war until the attitude towards hackers changes. Let's stop being fascinated in the least bit by how they do it (this goes towards Kevin Mitnick and his supporters- I don't ever want to pay good money to read about your scams on the...
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- Melanie Reed
Matt's got a point that with greater power (self-hosting) comes greater responsibility (more need to keep an eye on security), but I think to say that Scoble's blog was not a special target is a bit disingenuous. High-profile sites are always a higher-value target.
- Rachel Luxemburg
Matt: I think you need to really look at all the damage that's being done to a wide range of sites, many of which are NOT hosted at Rackspace, before throwing more barbs. That's bull. Sorry. But I added a link to this conversation to my blog so people could see your point of view.
- Robert Scoble
If a plugin is preventing you from upgrading (did it?) then let's figure out how to fix that plugin. All I can do in WordPress is build in the notices (your blog was asking you to upgrade for months) and the one-click updates for both core and plugins. I agree it's not your (Robert Scoble's) fault because I don't think you made the conscious decision to take on the increased responsibility.
- Matt Mullenweg
Matt: the reputation around the Net is that upgrades on Wordpress break things. This wasn't a Rackspace recommendation. It's also a problem with all upgrades. I've gotten hosed by upgrades elsewhere. Look at all the people upgrading to Snow Leopard who are having things break.
- Robert Scoble
Matt: TechCrunch hasn't upgraded its blog either and it wasn't hosted on Rackspace (at least not until a couple of days ago).
- Robert Scoble
I'm not saying there isn't lots of misinformation around the net, I'm saying "how can I help your blog, please." If it's a plugin preventing you from upgrading, let me know the plugin and we'll fix it even if we didn't write it. That's the beauty of open source.
- Matt Mullenweg
Robert -- Avoiding upgrades because they're annoying to deal with isn't a viable longterm strategy.
- Rachel Luxemburg
they need to take care of Scoble's blog, well for he is a VIP and the smashing they would have would do a lot of damage to your customer base and otherwise, would they reply to an ordinary guy say like me? i think not,well wordpress/automattic is having their tough moments, hope things get well and they get their repute back
- testbeta
Matt - you blaming Rackspace for security vulnerabilities in YOUR software platform is kinda like blaming Dell when a Windows box gets hacked. I think you are being irrational.
- Rob La Gesse
Matt: in my case it was the REPUTATION of Wordpress's upgrades that was keeping me from upgrading. I was waiting to see what other people reported broke. I didn't realize the severity of the security problems. But, I am now upgrading automatically. So I'm fixed. But you still have a reputation problem. Lots of people are reporting things break when they upgrade.
- Robert Scoble
Rob, I'm not blaming them. I'm saying it's the responsibility of any host, of any software, to stay up to date. If there was a SSH vulnerability on Robert's box I would say the same thing. Software updates are inevitable, there is no such thing as bug-free code, so staying up to date is a must.
- Matt Mullenweg
Isn't all this open source code? If it's broken, why not fix it? Doesn't everyone have the responsibility to do that? It's not any one source's fault in that case.
- Jesse Stay
Matt - I agree with you. So make Wordpress upgrades SAFE, automatic AND do some internal validation of plugin code to let users know they may be running something that is potentially insecure.
- Rob La Gesse
Matt, agreed. Not when its turned out as fast as people are yelling for it. People can't have it both ways.
- Melanie Reed
Matt: all Rackspace was providing to me was a Linux host. I was responsible for getting my upgades done on anything I ran on that system. But now we have a team making sure we're following best practices. That is NOT Rackspace's problem, though. That's like blaming Microsoft for a bug in Adobe software.
- Robert Scoble
I never listen to the reputation, I always upgrade as a security upgrade is out, and if a plugin doesn't work or I deactivate it or I fix it. Security is much more important than a plugin and Matt knows how many plugins has my blog (when he looked my backend he was very sad ad he said that it was the first time for him to see so many plugin in a blog :-) ) To have a self host blog it's difficult and time expensive.
- wolly
There are several very useful plugins specifically addressing security issues; and monitoring WP for suspicious activities (both on file and database level). Here are some articles with tips to harden your blog http://bit.ly/sZgh6 (delicious bookmarks). I only install plugins from authors from whom I know that they implement top level php; no breaking of upgrades on my 3 WP blogs has taken place (2.7-2.8-2.8.4)
- Jeroen De Miranda
Yeah, plugin issues are the responsibility of the plugin developer, not Wordpress's. I don't see how this is Wordpress's or Rackspace's fault.
- Jesse Stay
By the way, Matt, Sheamus, over on my comments on my blog, says he has the latest upgrades in place and he's still being broken into. You might help him figure out how the hackers are breaking in still.
- Robert Scoble
Sorry, I was under the impression Rackspace had recommended you move away from WordPress.com and taken responsibility for the system. I was worried about your blog -- I emailed you about this in August but never heard back. It breaks my heart when someone's WordPress gets compromised.
- Matt Mullenweg
I understand the feeling though - if people are still being broken into after being told a fix was made, especially if you're not a developer, that can be a little scary. I'd look to other solutions in that case if it were me, and it's no one's fault. It's just perception and fear, very valid fear.
- Jesse Stay
I do believe there is a false sense of securty that WORDPRESS fosters by hosting plugins. I think many assume that because they download the pluging VIA Wordpress, and FROM Wordpress, it is somehow vetted.
- Rob La Gesse
Matt: no. I wanted to move to my own install of Wordpress so that I could run many more plugins and start doing stuff other professional bloggers were doing. I am learning very quickly just how much work goes on behind the scenes to make sure my words were protected.
- Robert Scoble
Once you've been hacked once if you don't clean up every trace (preferably a systems person does this) it's very likely something is left that allows the spammers to easily break back in, regardless of what version you're on. That's why the trouble with upgrading is worth it, it's much, much less than the trouble of fixing a hacked blog.
- Matt Mullenweg
Jesse: yeah, at Microsoft when a box got broken into they wouldn't let you use it anymore. They forced you to reinstall it with all patches loaded. They assumed that it was compromised and that someone stuck a back door in somewhere. That's a lot of work too.
- Robert Scoble
install either wp-backup or wp-dbmanager and configure database backup: every day; download to your local pc (or to a system other than your hosting provider); run a check once a month to see whether you can reconstruct the blog in case of calamity, That is my procedure; works fine.
- Jeroen De Miranda
if a commoner gets hacked, then he should move to wordpress.com services or what?
- testbeta
they should just make it not have any security holes!
- Mark
Robert, if you like I'd be happy to host your blog for you (and I'm on Rackspace servers). I can keep it secure as well. I'd only ask some mention of SocialToo somewhere (or payment of some form in order to cover the cost of bandwidth).
- Jesse Stay
I would also be able to keep it backed up for you.
- Jesse Stay
So the take away messages are: 1) hosting services like Rackspace support the hardware and OS layer and you're are on your own for everything else, 2) maintaining your own website is difficult work, even for experienced IT professionals, 3) social media experts may not really know how to use the social media tools they are recommending, and 4) while hosted applications like Wordpress.com provide less flexibility, they take less effort and can be more reliable for the average small business.
- Steve Wilhelm
I'll also install any plugins you're interested in trying
- Jesse Stay
Jesse: in my case, I now have a team of the top security guys at Rackspace working on it and making sure my system is up to date and backed up. They also are learning a lot about this and other people who have had problems and are building a list of best practices.
- Robert Scoble
This is eventually why I didn't go with Mosso. The service looks good, but you still have to manage your app yourself which opens you up to problems like you've experienced. It would be cool if they offered another layer of management on top so apps could be completely hands free.
- Todd Hoff
the alternative (i.e. strong vetting of all plugins) would turn the whole WordPress ecosphere into something such as Ning.... only some 300 addons (as far as I know); little flexibility very intransparent how to get your addin accepted .... Not an attractive model for me....
- Jeroen De Miranda
Robert, excellent - just wanted to make sure the offer was out there. Maybe that could be a tiered service for Rackspace, although I'm not sure it's something Rackspace wants to get into. Bluehost barely makes any money off of that type of service.
- Jesse Stay
Steve: I think that's a reasonable set of assumptions. The grass is always greener on the other side of the fence. When I was on Wordpress.com I was always jealous of blogs that were able to run the latest plugins and use the latest embed codes from various sites.
- Robert Scoble
Robert, it's even more fun when you can customize the plugins and themes as a developer. :-)
- Jesse Stay
@testbeta wrdpress.com is a very good choice if you don't have time or you don't know how to manage security on yors self hosted blog
- wolly
wolly: that takes out the open source fun part ;) well i have nothing much to do on my blogs so i keep mine updated ;)
- testbeta
I agree with you :-) but many people love blogging non update theirs blogs :-)
- wolly
when my sites were hacked - a wordpress employee reached out to me- i dont remember her name but we sent a few emails - i could write for days about what happened to my 5 sites - my take is simple - i think the issues are a combo of rackspace (my host) and wordpress (my software) - i can tell you this - in 3+ yrs on drupal, i was NEVER hacked. and Matt is right - the real issue is that...
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- Allen Stern
Allen - what version of WP are you running today?
- Rob La Gesse
Robert, just left you a suggestion on your site from my experience of being hacked.
- Holden Page
2.8.4 on all of them
- Allen Stern
Allen - good :)
- Rob La Gesse
If there's a shell script on the same server as you, even if it's not your account, everything on that server is at risk regardless of the software or its version.
- Matt Mullenweg
Matt - that is NOT true
- Rob La Gesse
I would switch to a new server if I were infected at this point.
- Jesse Stay
Properly configured, user space can be isolated and these scripts cannot cross-pollinate.
- Rob La Gesse
It can be -- but publish a shell login on your server and we'll see. ;) The right answer is to scrub that sort of access.
- Matt Mullenweg
Matt - that comment on the "shell script" is silly. What are you actually trying to say?
- Robert J Taylor
Some sort of backdoor that allows a remote user to execute code -- it's super common.
- Matt Mullenweg
rob/matt - that wsa one of the biggest issues with my RS account - i had all the sites together in one "client" so when they hacked one - they were able to move around with their shell script into all my other sites - now each site is in a sep. "client" so the damage can only hurt me on one site - and believe me it does hurt :( i believe insidetransit and centernetworks are hit in google
- Allen Stern
@Scobleizer I'm sticking with @wordpress it doesn't worry me that much, plus I always update and have backups of db and site emailed to me
- Justin Yost
Allen - that was within one user space though. So what I stated above still stands true.
- Rob La Gesse
Allen and Robert are big enough that if they had a problem they could contact us and we'd help them, though as far as I know neither did, but I worry a lot more about smaller folks who get hit in the same way. The knowledge for how to properly clean up after a hack is more systems than software and not widespread.
- Matt Mullenweg
As Allen mentioned above, he did have a conversation with Wordpress.
- Rob La Gesse
matt - thanks for putting me in the same category as robert! *blush* - i did reach out to you - and your security guy was helping me big time - it seemed to turn out that the WP Contact Form 7 was the thing that caused it to start - i didn't document it all online because the security guy wanted time to get the plugin developer to fix the upload hole. - btw his name was mark jaquith and he was great
- Allen Stern
So why not some scheme where Wordpress vets a plugin and "blesses it" - perhaps a small charge for this service? As long as Wordpress is advertising plugins on the dashboard I think there ample reason to hold Wordpress to some level of accountability for those plugins
- Rob La Gesse
rob - that's what i told mark - they should offer that service for a tiny fee - stamp a "certified" stamp on it.
- Allen Stern
Just updated all my sites, doesnt look I was hit.
- sean percival
sean - no one would hit you - they know you would lala all over them
- Allen Stern
sean - happy for you!
- Rob La Gesse
I've read almost all of the comments here, not hearing these mentioned once: Robert did not backup, kept the default 'admin' username and failed to update. These are three of the most basic security measures out there. Not blaming it on Robert, because we all fail on this sometimes, but these basics really are important!
- Abounding Media
http://twitter.com/markjaq... warning of Mark in April - kept me away from WP contact form 7
- Jeroen De Miranda
Abounding: yup. And the lesson here is don't host your own version of Wordpress unless you have a security team making sure you're doing it right and backing up (something I never did on Wordpress.com, by the way). Oh, and Twitter taught us that even if you do all of that you've gotta make sure you pick great passwords and think through ways that social hacks could be done to get into your accounts.
- Robert Scoble
I've written a much longer post on this: http://wordpress.org/develop...
- Matt Mullenweg
http://markjaquith.wordpress.com/2008... some great tips of Mark Jaquith on writing secure plugins - I use these and other tips when scanning the PHP code of new plugins that I intend to use (before deploying them)
- Jeroen De Miranda
Jeroen, thanks for posting that. I've had phishers getting into one of my WP installs recently, but couldn't tell which plugin it was. I deactivated two plugins, including CF7, the other day, and haven't had any more problems. And a shoutout to Ryan Boren on the WP dev team for helping me to de-infect.
- John Craft
Robert: Welcome to the world of web development for impatient users and disgruntled hackers
- Melanie Reed
http://wordpress.org/develop... great post of Matt Mullenweg about WordPress security!
- Jeroen De Miranda
john - the CF7 is what killed me a few months ago - it's because the form allows uploads even if you don't actually have them on - i believe they patched it but i have not gone back there.
- Allen Stern
anybody know if a little smily face appearing in the lower right hand corner of ones footer is a sign of a compromise on a self hosted wp blog?
- Richard Reeve
John, your are welcome! SQL injects attacks specifically exploit data entry fields used by the plugin; one should at least scan the PHP code of these plugins, and look at what kind of escape functions are used around handling of the data entry.
- Jeroen De Miranda
"it's because the form allows uploads even if you don't actually have them on" - wow. That's bad.
- John Craft
Richard is wp-stats smily :-)
- wolly
"anybody know if a little smily face appearing in the lower right hand corner of ones footer is a sign of a compromise on a self hosted wp blog?" - if you didn't put it there, it probably is. In your admin go to appearance, theme editor, and read the footer.php file.
- John Craft
Richard - are you using the WordPress.com Stats plugin?
- Andre Natta
some plugins worth considering to install are: wp-exploit-scanner, wordpress file monitor, WP security scan, anti virus
- Jeroen De Miranda
I don't understand why people are worried about a plugin breaking when it comes to upgrading WordPress. If a plugin does break, disable it for the time being. I rather have a secure installation of WordPress running and would worry about fixing the plugin afterwards.
- Jason Hansen
Hmmmm . . . I run WP Stats, but see no smiley face.
- John Craft
ah...thanks folks...stats it is. phew...so I'm not paranoid...
- Richard Reeve
There appears to be some a-holes who can break into wordpress blogs very easily. I'm not sure at this point that the new Wordpress Thesis blog that I'm interested in getting is safe either. There is some security issues with Wordpress and their incompetence to fix the problem is growing every year. They keep coming out with new versions to replace the old versions yet they still have a problem. This is serious guys.
- Jeunelle Foster
The problem with WordPress is that it forces you to upgrade. Imagine if Microsoft forced everybody to upgrade to Vista/Windows 7 in order to get their security holes plugged. WordPress should release security patches for the current and at least for the previous version.
- Nikolay Kolev
They dont force you to upgrade. If you dont want to patch, you can leave it at the current version ( but with a risk )
- Kashif Khan
Where's the patch for the 2.7 version then?
- Nikolay Kolev
Their versioning strategy bumps up numbers even for patches . And how many versions behind should they support ?
- Kashif Khan
Many of the WordPress security issues are not coming from the WordPress itself, but from the poorly written WordPress plugins. I think it would be nice if Automattic starts an "Automattic Certified" program giving blog owners the peace of mind they need. Every hacker can upload a plugin at WordPress.org, advertise it as something great, bloggers install it, see that it's nothing as advertised, uninstall it, but the WordPress instances are already hacked.
- Nikolay Kolev
Plugins are open source and free and nobody (well, with some exceptions) would pay to get their free plugin certified. The only way to do this is by having a community review process, based on some credibility score and voter authority system where 1,000 fake hacker accounts won't, for example, outweigh Matt's or Mark's votes.
- Nikolay Kolev
part of the problem is the cry wolf syndrome - if i updated every day wordpress had a security problem i'd want to be salaried on the payroll :D Wordpress needs some sort of alert notification - twitter or something that indicates if there's an update AND the severity and if its severe enough sends it to my phone.
- mal
let me play the other side of the coin - i've been using vbulletin for my forums for probably more than 5 years - and it's never once been hacked - why is this - is it because it's paid? is it just more secure? would love to get some input on why wordpress seems to be the attacker's gold.
- Allen Stern
@allenstern because it pays back better to have wp hacked
- A.T.
Another devil - I have clients using Expression Engine for years (with plugins) and haven't had a problem either. Checking security sites, EE has had very few vs the many with WP and some with Drupal. Matts suggestion that one hosts with him to avoid problems and keep updated just isn't in the cards for business sites. Just too many vulnerabilities with WP over the years for me to recommend it.
- PXLated
i can tell you that within 2 days of moving from drupal to wp, my sites were hacked - all of them - and it made me seriously question the move - the reasons i moved were because wp is a bit easier to edit/code than drupal and because the admin panel in wordpress is awesome compared to the crap panel in drupal - i wrote up a whole post about why i moved - i'd like to see matt write a post about their qa and security procedures for their releases
- Allen Stern
Alen, once Drupal 7 get released, you may actually go back. :)
- Nikolay Kolev
Robert - If I were you I'd move away from Wordpress and fast. Its security record is dire and has been for ages. Other solutions are a lot more stable, whereas Wordpress seems to have security bugs every second week. Why anyone puts up with it is really beyond me. I moved to MovableType and haven't had to worry about caching issues or security problems
- Michele Neylon
#somethingpersonal WP calls you "technical evengelist", Robert. When you say «Yes, I didn’t have a backup. I should learn to do backups» I call you a mediawhore. Nothing TECH-NI-CAL, just bulled ego. Learn Security, Performance, Reliability, you ignorant piece.
- Ontology Nazi
Robert - "the reputation around the Net is that upgrades on Wordpress break things" I'm sorry but that's just not true, I use many many plugins across about 20 sites and I've only ever ONCE had a plugin break during a WP upgrade.
- John O'Nolan
Definitely check if Google Reader has your lost posts - as of a few months ago, it didn't handle deletes very well :)
- Michael Herf
This recent wave of WordPress incidents shows the negative side of using open source software. Matt says that there are many people looking into WordPress' source code, but the problem is that probably half of those people have malicious reasons for doing so.
- Nikolay Kolev
@Matt - why not have a module that adds *automatic* upgrades? The one-click update feature is very nice, but zero clicks is better. With a decent snapshot/rollback system you could update most people securely right away--email them and let them rollback if something breaks.
- Michael Herf
@robert: we might be able to help you recover the lost blog posts if you want. Google Reader has an archive of them and we helped another blogger in the past recover her losses. Let me know if we can help.
- Edwin Khodabakchian
@matt when do you start to care about poor people unlike robert... who can't afford *VIP* i am willing to pay $25+ per month of course with my adsense ads :}
- Imran Jafri
@robert by the way you made one of the worst choice to move away from wordpress.com i think it wasn't price issue rather you wanted to be brand *ambassador* for rackspace which was only possible if you host your blog on their damn servers... if i get enough visitors i would switch to wordpress.com vip without taking 2nd breathe........
- Imran Jafri
I run just a few plugins, and research and vet them first. And upgrade to new WP versions within a week. Look, attacks happen, running self-hosted can get complicated. But this is true with any software or OS
- Bob Morris (polizeros)
from iPhone
Nikolay, it's always better to have more people looking at the code, because a bug that's been found is better than a bug that hasn't. WordPress used to get almost no security problems and people thought it was because it was coded differently, when in fact it was coded far worse than it is today it just didn't have enough users to make it worthwhile to target. Also where many...
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- Matt Mullenweg
Nikolay: I would also push back against your assumption that using Open Source software equals less security. Microsoft Windows and OS X are both closed source and both have security holes - there is a competition each year to help MS and Apple find them and fix them. Both Apple and Microsoft came away with security holes to fix this year. So just because it's open source doesn't...
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- Tim
that's what you get for the fun of installing and hosting your own installation, instead of using "the cloud".
- Ihar Mahaniok
Robert - I recommend WP S3 Backups for backing up your database to off-site storage. Amazon S3 is a great place to host backups of your Wordpress database and is relatively inexpensive. You *always* want backups *off* the server so in case the server is compromised, the backups are still clean. This plugin works like a charm, is automatic and could have saved you. Cheers!
- Scott Jarkoff
anybody know of a test that can be done to see if a wp blog has been compromised? Has a few strange user subscriptions about a week ago...but not noticing any thing else...I did upgrade weeks ago, but soon enough?
- Richard Reeve
bug exploits keep security IT folks in their day job, sad but true.
- Jim Posner
In IT it keeps me busy but the reality is if you update your software on a regular basis you can minimize these from affecting you.
- Rob Cairns
Robert, any chance archive.org has some of your old blog posts? Google Cache?
- drew olanoff
Matt, another thing to note is that Wordpress.com is often blocked in China (even if you have your own custom URL like scobleizer.com). There are advantages to NOT being hosted by Wordpress.com although your point about increased responsibilty for keeping up with security patches is still valid.
- Elliott Ng
Drew: yeah, but what do I do? Just republish them?
- Robert Scoble
from iPhone
Sure why not. Scoble's best of. Reason why I hate stuff on the net sometimes is good stuff gets lost.
- drew olanoff
Give a try to the "WordPress Database Backup" plugin for WordPress and you'll receive regular backups on your email
- Francois Lamotte
Robert, You can get all of your lost blog post html out of Google Reader. I'm not exactly sure how to link Disqus back, maybe it's as simple as re-adding the old posts with the same title/date i.e. Url (I don't use it). Yet another reason to use FULL RSS feeds (instead of summary). See RSS isn't dead.. it's now a backup tool too! (http://ff.im/7JrlC)
- Chris Myles
Wordpress is a great blogging tool. It is however the largest target now - much like how Windows gets a crap-top more virii because it's the most used system. Someone used Drupal as am example of security... well I'm sure if Drupal was anywhere near the scale of usage Wordpress is you'd see hacks for that too.
- Gregory Wild-Smith
Robert: Just repost them with the dates set to the original dates they were posted. Simple, and no-one will ever know ;)
- Gregory Wild-Smith
I have always had a bad feeling about Wordpress. YMMV.
- Gordon Joly
from twhirl
Robert It could be a Rackspace problem and Not a Wordpress Problem. They might to increase there security on the Rackspace!!! You should checck into that!!
- Paul
One of the reasons I waited 2 years to switch from MovableType to WordPress was due to the security issues. I felt that the track record improved over the past year and moved 11 sites over. I can say this I employ a very extensive back up scheme but still worry about it. The ability to upgrade with a single click of a button has made it much easier to upgrade, but I always worry which plugins are going to break as I use a lot of plugins.
- Todd Cochrane
It's interesting to me to see the number of people who are "afraid" to implement a security update because it might break a plugin. I wonder if these are the same people who don't run system updates on Mac or Windows because it might break SIMBL or some other haxie. Your core = your core... without it you're smoked. Case in point: Scoble. If your plugins aren't working after an update, let the author know and request an update, but BY ALL MEANS don't ignore security upgrades.
- Kevin Donahue
hmm... I think that a lot of this conversation is missing something. Most software security updates are usually tested in hosts and thus delayed in their own releases by at the minimum of a week's time usually. This is due to hosting internal testing of patches before rolling it out to all servers. Now, whether or not RS actually performs these types of procedures, I don't know... but I...
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- Ben Hwang
First: I keep my blog up to date. Always. Fuck plugins, I decided that when I made the decision to use WP for my blog that updates would be a priority, only because of all the security issues that I remember from the early early days. Having said that, I have to agree with Robert that the perception with WordPress, despite all the work with auto-updates and in-blog notification is STILL...
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- Christina Warren
from iPod
I am spending the day finally making a back-up of my web space, then the upgrade.
- Sebastian Keil
you are right to not feel safe: when you are on the dominant platform, holes get taken advantage of really fast. At least it being open source you know it will also get plugged fast
- Joelle Nebbe (iphigenie)
"what do I do? Just republish them?" - Robert, you can set the published date to the original July or August date in the "new post" form. Where it says "publish immediately," click "edit".
- John Craft
I couldn't disagree more that the reputation is that an upgrade will break a plugin. How many plugins reach into the Wordpress core and screw around with it? Less than 5%? Any examples of plugins that broke w/ 2.8.4?
- beersage
Somebody hacked into my WordPress blog earlier this year as well. It was a bummer because I was working on a draft copy of a blog post that was very rough and had not been edited and they published it. I was on vacation shooting in Chicago and didn't figure it out until several hours after they'd already published it. Fortunately they didn't seem to do anything malicious other than...
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- Thomas Hawk
@Robert: "[Rackspace] are learning a lot about this and other people who have had problems and are building a list of best practices." Is it possible this list is something RS might share?
- John House
@Matt Mullenweg: I do like WordPress (even though we had a public argument with you and another Automattic employee on TechCrunch a while ago) and I am a passionate supporter of open source software - don't get me wrong. But sometimes open source code makes it a bit easier for hackers! For example, one hacker hears about an exploit and without communicating with others, finds the hole independently by just looking into the source code and starts exploiting it on his own.
- Nikolay Kolev
Gregory Wild-Smith Bingo!
- Melanie Reed
Social Media Club blogs got hit as well as several of our personal blogs (still sorting it all out). We try to keep up on most upgrades, but every time we do, simple plugins (like the Event calendar) break. Seems silly, but we have hours of work after each upgrade to try and keep everything intact, and sometimes, we end up downgrading until the 'essential' plugins catch up, which...
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- Kristie Wells
I have 2 wordpress blogs. One on my own domain and one at wordpress central. Still can't get my head around their upgrade gymnastics - may just stick with eBlogger after all.
- Houseofmax
i don't know what will happen in times to come but from the existing platforms, i love wordpress and i am not going anywhere, but that doesn't matter for wordpress right? ;)
- testbeta
Robert, at the end of it is just only your bloody laziness in upgrading that led you here :) Jokes aside, please at least be honest and say you didn't upgradede twice... :p.
- Matteo Flora
Nope. I upgraded to 2.8.4 as soon as it was out but the hackers had already broken in.
- Robert Scoble
from iPhone
The fact that WordPress is currently being exploited doesn't mean that other platforms are immune. For example, the recently discovered XSS issue with Ruby on Rails makes not only blogs, but every unpatched site a target. So, the only issue I'm having is forcing us to upgrade to a new major version without much time to do proper testing (I'm not talking about personal blogs here). I...
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- Nikolay Kolev
So Techdirt was hacked a bit ago. See their reaction: http://www.techdirt.com/article... it is the reality of owning a web site guys - ANY software is hackable if someone really wants in.
- Adam Singer
@Robert: as I see it Wordpress is as vulnerable as any other web app. Upgrading does good, but preemptive security does more and better. I know Matt and he knows I'm in awe with him and Automattic but simply spoken I DON'T TRUST WORDPRESS as I don't trust any other software. A little WebApp Security Firewall (or at least a little .htaccess rules for admin and preemptive locking of...
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- Matteo Flora
i find it interesting, and depressing that people are blaming Rackspace, they're blaming Wordpress, they're blaming Robert, but no one, *no one* seems to be willing to blame the only, ONLY people who deserve blame: the evolutionary failures that attacked Robert's blog.
- John C. Welch
Thanks to your post, I found backdoor Admin in my own blog (created yesterday apparently). Promptly deleted it, upgraded blog and took other measures, which I blogged about
- Adi Rabinovich
@Matt Mullenweg: "so staying up to date is a must. - Matt Mullenweg" You gave the birth to one of the coolest piece of free software on the net, also your community is strong an love-full, you can do some PRs listening to Scoble that is crying, but you couldn't do anything better than you did. Take it easy man, all your competitors still suck. (PS. also a cleaning utility to understand better if everything is ok on our hosts would be cool ;-)
- righini riprova
Matt: What does a user need to provide, in order to be considered for a VIP wordpress.com account?
- Jim Connolly
caveat operator
- Mike Chelen
Take technology out of the picture. Something bad happened by some bad person. Happens every day... it's called crime. If a bad person got into my house because I had a weak lock or left my door unlocked, what do people usually say? "That bad person shouldn't have done that!"? Well, sure, but bad people do bad things... nothing we can do to stop them other than make it harder or...
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- Chris Hearn
I would simply like to reiterate the point that if you're going to put free open source software on a rented web server, you need to either know how to administer it or hire someone to do it for you. Neither Rackspace or Wordpress are to blame here. We discuss this with our clients all the time who view web development as a one off expense, then get upset when their site is hacked because it wasn't maintained.
- JP Maxwell
One more point, I think there are way too many false lines drawn over aras of responsibility - "I'm systems, not a PHP programmer. I'm a PHP programmer, not a Javascript person. I'm a designer, not a programmer or a systems person." If you are a WEB developer or responsible for maintaining hosted WEB applications, you need to know a bit about it all. It simply isn't sufficient to demarcate your knowledge sphere and point your finger at the other guy.
- JP Maxwell
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- ★ Soner Gönül
So FriendFeed's growth is flat, why do you think that is and how do you think that could be improved?
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It's a shame that FF is not growing yet has all better features over the likes of Twitter and Facebook but what is causing the lack of growth and what could be done to increase growth in FriendFeed?
- Kol Tregaskes
FF is too much work. Consumes time, needs a lot of effort and most people are happy with one-to-one than one-to many interactions. Twitter wins.
- vijay
FriendFeed fits in a space in between Twitter and Facebook. There is very little reason to join FF if you are already using both Twitter and FB.
- Daniel Sims
Is it down to 'missing' features? Is the poor introduction for new users to blame?
- Kol Tregaskes
Also what Daniel said.
- vijay
Daniel, I did. ;-)
- Kol Tregaskes
Vijay, yeah it can be pretty complicated for the new user, how would you make is simpler?
- Kol Tregaskes
if you make it any simpler it becomes twitter. Only way to go is to get users to replace their Blogs with FF. I think that's what they are working towards.
- vijay
Vijay, you meant for writing your own blog articles? Yep, that would be great. All I'd really need it a few HTML options in the first comment to do this. Nothing too fancy. Then I could blog from FF, embed it on my site and everything is synced, comments and all. :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
Svartling, I've done the same thing also.
- Ashikur Rahman
I think what needs to be done is have a clear "walk-through" example of setting up one's full social media life on FriendFeed. It's a great box of toys for exploring and tinkering -- but trust me, new users will be quite daunted at first unless they have some hand-holding
- Ashikur Rahman
It only targets content producers
- Genaro Bardy
Ashikur, I see this all the time as I seek out new users to welcome them each day. A lot post their first entry as "what do I do now?". Once new users have completed the registration process they are put on friendfeed.com with no other explanation. A nice Flash anim is needed here to show the new user the basic features of the service.
- Kol Tregaskes
FF should go all the way and become a fully-featured Twitter client. People will join and stay for that, then eventually fall in love with FF. Right now, FF's integration with Twitter is just half-way done and causes more confusion.
- Daniel Sims
Make it a fully-featured Twitter client with better blogging functionality.
- Svartling
If I could import my non-FF Twitter friends, keep it refreshed if I unfollow them and swap them to FF users if they join, then I'd use FF as my Twitter client. But the likes of Seesmic Desktop provide all sorts of useful features like RT and tabs for replies for multiple Twitter accounts and DMs.
- Kol Tregaskes
FF requires more time to enjoy. Many of the features are probably difficult for new visitors to see or find. The interface may be overwhelming and it may be a bit too "Zen" in appearance for most people. People used to Twitter may find it harder to connect to others (they may find the lack of @ replies as a communication hurdle). The API isn't exploited as widely as Twitter's. Mobile...
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- phil baumann
FF hasn't gotten the buzz Twitter has. It's seems harder to find like minded people on FF. Maybe, I just don't know how to do it. I love the pictures and the ability to have real conversations. I hate 140 character rule of Twitter. Twitter more people are just talking. Not as many listeners. Lots of marketers and life coaches on Twitter. Don't like that. I like "rooms" on FF. I like...
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- Kimber Scott
Kimber, absolutely agree with you.
- Ashikur Rahman
What I dont like is to properly track watch my friends, I have to follow FF, twiter, and facebook.
- MikeDeal / ZoneDancer
Kimber, interesting points there. Twitter is definitely a broadcast tool whereas FF is a discussion tool.
- Kol Tregaskes
I have noticed with friends that FF requires some usage on the part of the individual, so it's a hard sell and steep learning curve that way. Most of my friends I introduce here see a relatively blank page, with just my posts. They're timid to subscribe, and thus see a really whitewashed space.
- anna sauce
Anna, agree about it being a hard-sell. I think the email features should be plugged more. I think there is a big market of users that I used to emails and know nothing about social media beyond Facebook. I'm trying to tempt a few friends onto FF via the email features, to them it's a matter of registration then emailing me to a different address. Eventually they may move onto the site and use all the regular features.
- Kol Tregaskes
I think FF is too much for people new to social media I don't know. I think the realtime thing kinda pushed a lot of people away as well. I'm finding myself finding more people I'd rather interact with on Twitter and Facebook than FF. Discussions are nice, but they are time consuming. For anyone with a job that doesn't allow them to be online, a family to take care, a house to take care...
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- Ⓐ ☠ slayerboy ☠ Ⓐ
I'd also like to see it pushed as a collaborative tool. It works really well in this sense. Businesses could use FF.
- Kol Tregaskes
Another thing that bothers me on FF is a user issue, but I think with some encouragement from FF is could be improved: There are too many blank profiles. People should be encouraged to say 'something.' It takes a lot of work to see if you want to follow somebody, if they have a blank profile. Also, private feeds are so off putting. I know they should be an option, but it's very hard to...
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- Kimber Scott
from email
Personally I like the rate of growth, after all a good wine needs time to reach its full potential.
- Kevin J Hatton
Heh, Kevin. I'm not after Twitter or FB like growth but any growth would be nice. ;-)
- Kol Tregaskes
Some of it is habit. And herding behavior. If their friends use it, then they want to. Maybe FF should be all about quality rather than quantity. I stepped through many people to help them start up. Showed them how to use the bookmarklet. None of them wanted to use it. It's a new technology in its own right. Sometimes peeps are just set in their ways?
- Marg Uerite
Peeps have to have a certain level of computer literacy sophistication, just to appreciate it!
- Marg Uerite
Kimber, the user settings page is presented to new users when they register but the description is only optional. I'd like to see an explanation of how and the benefits to why to fill in this be displayed with the tutorial.
- Kol Tregaskes
Kol, exactly what I was thinking - a little education will solve so many issues.
- Kimber Scott
from BuddyFeed
:-)
- Kol Tregaskes
FriendFeed needs to think through its use cases, & survey users for their preferences between them. Examples are FF as feed reader (needs a "Subscribe to this blog" bookmarklet), or the FF as Twitter client++ mentioned above by several people, which I'm also big on. Then, once decided, make it clear for new users through usage videos, UI "obviousness" improvements, etc. how it works....
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- Alex Schleber
the main reason why friendfeed doesnt catch fire is its lack of complete profiles...i cant search for people from munich,...or from my schools, etc, etc,... FAIL
- Chris Hofmann
Good point, Chris!
- Ashikur Rahman
from iPod
... and, why do I have to go all the way up to the start of a conversation to comment? Especially when it's a long one?
- Ashikur Rahman
from iPod
Chris makes a very good point and so does Ashikur. No complete profiles. On FB you can pretty much trust that the person is a real person by looking at the profile, you get a sense of community, you can find people you know, or used to know, etc., etc. Ashikur's point should be very easy to fix.
- Kimber Scott
from email
Mass media is driving twitter adoption nothing else.
- Geoff Schultz
Odd, isn't it. Traditional media pushing the latest "new media" trend.
- Jason Nunnelley
Having just switched over to using Friendfeed for all my social networking, I can say that making this a full-featured Twitter client would bring more people in. Once here they'd realize that's not what it's really about. But the halfway method that exists now is a major deterrent.
- John Ladd
Kol, IMHO: 1) The barrier to entry increases with the character limit and inversely to the photo count. 2) Let's face it, the biggest differentiation from twitter is not comments (twitter has @ replies) or the better search (although, that's big) or attachments (twitter has 3rd parties for that) -- the differentiation is groups, yet the process of finding a group is still pretty awful (by searching - the results are cluttered at best) or non-obvious (by clicking on someone's subscribers and scrolling down).
- tollie williams
The easiest thing about FF is the aggregation. The harder elements at first are saved searches and building up new friends on FF. overcome these two harder elements and it should move better.
- George Hall (Australia)
from BuddyFeed
We all need to be hiding more people
- Charlie Anzman
biggest reason is publicity. no Oprah, no plusk. no MarkZ.
- MikeAmundsen
Better RSS reading-support would be great - I use FF instead of GReader now for simplicitiy but it's not ideal. Searchable profiles too. Searching by location would be great. I'd love to sub to more people in the UK, London or even locally in Kent but that's hard unless that stated they are from that place or join a local-based group.
- Kol Tregaskes
Ashikur, yeah little, basic things like that are still missing.
- Kol Tregaskes
For a "complete profile" what would you like to see included?
- Kol Tregaskes
Should FF should status updates, e.g. on our profiles?
- Kol Tregaskes
tollie, agree that group search results need a lot of work, what would you like to see on such searches? Number of subscribers, group description?
- Kol Tregaskes
George, how could FF overcome those two issues?
- Kol Tregaskes
Read FriendFeed Feedback, there's loads of ideas there...
- Marlin Forbes
Marlin, what suggestions have you seen in FF-Feedback that you think would help FF in growing?
- Kol Tregaskes
Kol, Re: improving group search. I think the Find groups page should look a lot like WeFollow.com, except where WeFollow has category titles, FF should be organizing the groups by "Most (subscribed/active) among (friends/everyone) (today/this week/this quarter/this year/all time)."
- tollie williams
(Yes, that's 2*2*5=20 possible groups. But you would design it to show 3 categories, with the switches I put in parenthesis as interface elements.)
- tollie williams
Oh, and I forgot to say: the text visible should be "subscribers", but clicking on the INFO button would reveal the group's description and an estimated activity count (similar to the new subscriber emails- "about 10 posts a day" eg).
- tollie williams
We don't tolerate trolls. Hence, flat.
- Steven Perez
Steve's point is most likely it. Trolls don't have an outlet here, which limits traffic to truely useful and entertaining content, rather than purely emotionally focused content. FF may have uncovered one of the core reasons for lack of traffic on any social site, in tandem with xkcd's "someone is wrong on the internet": users empowered to effectively ignore trolls limits rate of growth.
- Andy Bakun
from Android
Turn FriendFeed into an embedded comment system and information stream for websites. Make the fact that it's a widget less obvious, replace the commenting system of the host. Host the conversation outside of FF, and bring it back.
- Marlin Forbes
Post, Kimber added you as a friend on Goodreads. We need you to confirm that you are, in fact, friends with Kimber. To confirm this friend request, follow the below link: http://www.goodreads.com/friend... &utm_medium=email&utm_source=invite - Kimber (kimberscott.art@gmail.com)
- پـرستووو
from email
Interesting idea, Marlin.
- Kol Tregaskes
It's almost impossible to be a 'casual' friendfeed user. You either go all in and comment like crazy and spend A LOT of time reading and posting and being witty, and if you're really good you might start to get some subscribers. If you don't invest a lot of time, you don't get anything out of it and your feed sits in obscurity with very little social interaction and you wonder whats the...
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- veo
I agree with veo, and with anna http://friendfeed.com/friendf... it happened the same to me when I joined. I thought it was just another MyBlogLog.
- Bicentennial (Franc)
..which reminds me, ff needs to adopt @reply model to be more engaging. :/
- Bicentennial (Franc)
I think it just needs to be more traditional. Comments start out very compact in my monitor here. Very unlike a forum and has tinier fonts. The post also feels too grayed out. The rest could be improved by discovery. Related posts like blogs. Better integration of services. Finally better unification of comments from all the things it aggregates. For ex. Posterous really won me over...
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- Fake Name
Do you think alien life will be discovered within your lifetime?
Pete Delucchi, Niranjan, Саман=Saman and 32 other people liked this
Why or why not? - today's Plinky: http://www.plinky.com/prompts...
- Kol Tregaskes
I really hope so but I guess the best I could ask for is something boring like a single cell organism.
- Kol Tregaskes
The question could also be "Do you think the existence of alien life will be revealed by the powers that be within your lifetime?"
- Brome
No. We're either too advanced to have not received contact or we're alone in this neck of the woods.
- Jason A. Nunnelley
I would love it to be, I could use there medical abilities :)
- Brendon Wadey
not in my lifetime. atleast I won't see them reach earth. Scopes have scanned areas 100s of lightyears away. So even if aliens exist they will lie outside the area scanned by scopes and even by assuming they could travel at the speed of light, it would take them over a 100 years to reach earth. I would be dead by then.
- vijay
I'm afraid too that the boring microbe would be the most we can expect.
- Citronella
of course, there is always the possibility that they're not from outer space, but of a parallel space - beings from a different dimention.
- alphaxion
'Alien Life' does not presuppose intelligence, much less a faster-than-light space-faring civilization, so I'd be *very* surprised if we didn't find non-terrestrial life hiding somewhere in our solar system.
- Michael R. Bernstein
I hope it is.
- Joe
If I were an alien, I'd keep far away from Earth...
- Jemm
Jemm, good idea. ;-)
- Kol Tregaskes
I would also be surprised if SETI didn't come up with something within my lifetime.
- Michael R. Bernstein
They've certainly found a lot of possible Earth-like planets out there.
- Kol Tregaskes
Then again, 'lifetime' doesn't mean what it used to.
- Michael R. Bernstein
Michael, I'd like to believe I'll live longer than my grandparents (and be able to do something with it). But, reality is I've cared for my body as poorly as anyone from my ancestors and good nutrition and cancer treatment advances will only take me so far - likely no more than a decade. Add to that, it's looking less and less likely that expensive life-extending procedures will be legal or affordable in my elder years and I'm looking for other existence extension solutions... like faith.
- Jason A. Nunnelley
And considering the Kepler Mission just started, we can definitely expect to find more earth-like planets. Still, could we detect the signatures of life?
- Citronella
Isn't Europa our solar system's best bet for life?
- Kol Tregaskes
Maybe Men In Black is more fact that fiction....??? haha
- Jimmy Watson
What are the odds on us finding another large animal with a trunk that's not an elephant, here on earth? It could be similar odds on us finding "intelligent" life elsewhere. Another way to look at it: Maybe we already did discover life, but didn't recognize it as such, since it's not the same kind of life as we are or how we would define life. Maybe the rocks on the moon are actually...
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- April Russo (app103)
If the speed of light stays the same I have a doubt. :)
- Mahmood Padura
Finding edible life in space would be great, as long as it isn't intelligent, or protected by intelligent life.
- Wallace
If we do, the first thing we will do is declare war. But at least people will stop screwing around with racism and nationalism...now we'll have a REAL other to take out and/or exploit.
- Neal Jansons
Nah, they are watching us, everyone knows that. They won't let us find it out that easily. I'd say we will have to wait for another 1000 years or so.
- Faraz Mullick
Jason, I don't know how old you are, but I'm 39, so I almost certainly have another ~40 years to go. As far as garage biohacking is concerned, the 'scene' is now the equivalent of the Homebrew Computer Club ca. 1976. I think we're in for a heck of a ride over the next couple of decades.
- Michael R. Bernstein
Hope so, but know will not :)
- `aziz´ Alihan ÇETİN
I'd love it if it happened during my life time, but I don't think it will.
- Bonnie Foster
I'd love to see some proof during my lifetime. Hard proof.
- AJ Batac
Sadly, no.
- Kevin Pedraja
no
- mikepk
I sure hope so only if they're friendly though. had enough wars. plus we'd be easily defeated, die and extinct.
- Kamamiya
Aliens taste like grasshoppers.
- Gus
just keep working on π.
- Shawn McCollum
I just hope so.
- Duff
I go with April Russo, only if we are able to recognize alien life. As long as we keep looking for life as we know here on earth, we won't find any.
- Nik
well, if you want a good idea of how alien life might be so.. well, alien to us, just look at plants - they exist in a timeframe that is imperceptable to us unless you really pay attention over a period of time, they communicate in ways that we are unaware of (gases and pheromones) yet we are only just discovering how intelligent and alive they are.
- alphaxion
Hey, I live with an alien! He has an alien registration number and everything!
- Ladybug Heather
why not?!
- Betül
Or we can spend some time & money on a number of space travel programs so that we might become the Aliens that land on other planets you know something as fast as or faster than speed of light or maybe even a Stargate or a hyper-drive. Technologies like these might sound science fiction but so did flying & going to space which are facts.
- Usman Bashir
unless some breakthrough discovery in physics is made that allows for faster-than-light travel, we are confined to our Solar System for the remainder of our lives (even if they are prolonged to more that 100 years). So our only chance would be to find life on Mars or one of the satellites in the outer Solar System (Europa/Ganymede, Titan/Enceladus, even Triton). Or maybe even a comet!
- George Moga
hayır
- Sinan İŞLER
Yes, but it will be some kind of bacteria, protist or such.
- Oniony
Paul, exactly. Something very unspectacular.
- Kol Tregaskes
maybe :) the life is complicate, dont think just do it :P
- Sinan İŞLER
A Google Map of FriendFeeders - http://maps.google.co.uk/maps...
Bicentennial (Franc), Holly Rae, FFer, SmiteMe (I <3 elitists) and 235 other people liked this
If you click on Edit you can add yourself too. Original created by Mark Krynsky: http://ff.im/5rwh #whatsyoururl
- Kol Tregaskes
I can not edit? :(
- Matt Ruiz
I see ThenWang:)
- K.D.
Matt, do you have a Edit button at the top-left of the page?
- Kol Tregaskes
Very Cool! Just added myself!
- TheHenry
i add myself too.
- Semih Masat ™
If you don't see an "Edit" button, you have to log in and add it to your own maps first.
- John (a.k.a. dendroica)
To add your picture instead the default blue marker, you have to click on the blue marker at the top-right, click on "add an icon" link and type the url of your avatar
- Roberto aka postoditacco
Excellent, thanks for sharing
- lelapin
I thought there were a lot more FFers in LA than is shown on that map.
- Spidra Webster
Cool!:)
- Patrik Johansson
FYI.. your picture can be: http://friendfeed-api.com/v2...
- Tim Hoeck
Thanks for that, Roberto. :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
Finally I understand the coolness with Google Maps:)
- Patrik Johansson
I see I'm not the only one accidentally editing the title. Today I learned how to make a custom icon for Google Maps :)
- Nick B.
I did that as well, I think :)
- Tim Hoeck
Nick, I've edited the title and description, don't touch. ;-)
- Kol Tregaskes
Yeah, it seems pretty simple to edit the title by mistake.
- Patrik Johansson
:-)
- Kol Tregaskes
done
- RAPatton
i can't do it....every time I try, I edit the title...
- laetSgo
Yay! Scott and I are on it now. :-)
- Ladybug Heather
Cool!
- Kol Tregaskes
D'oh! It wasn't showing me, so I kept adding. I ended up with three markers after I logged out and back in!
- Laura B coughin'
Oops. :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
This is pretty cool.. We need more scandinavian FFeeders though :)
- Anton Tanderup
Anton, perhaps post something here: http://friendfeed.com/ffdirec... and copy in: http://friendfeed.com/europea...
- Kol Tregaskes
I'm on! (and sadly, the only one in Calgary - nice to see a few in Red Deer, though)
- Nathalie, Dreamer of FF
I added it, but the photo looks rather large. Just used the url of my profile pic. Very cool! thanks for setting this up! http://www.friendfeed.com/lizaspe... SF, CA
- Liza
K, I'm on there.
- David Cook
I should be there now...
- Alejandro
Added myself. :)
- Jon, the Beartato of FF
Adding myself now.
- Evan Travers
Added! :)
- AJ Batac
Finish & Finito - Something Like that Just Added my Name to the List
- Raymond Marr aka Knatchwa
hmm, it works
- A.T.
Nice job... Way to go Kol!
- Mitchell Tsai
Just added myself, nice idea.
- ialla
Probably being a bit thick here. Can add placemark, but how do I get it to appear in the list at the side with a link to it?
- Gordon Herd
I find the UI horribly confusing. No idea how to add.
- Stephen Mack
added :)
- Mert Alemdar
Okay, surely I'm not the only one from Hawaii?
- Ryan - @magicofpi
Cool！
- mingqing
This is a cool service! Search Feature is too gud.
- eva
Thanks for adding yourselves. Mitchell, it's actually Mark Krynsky's map: http://ff.im/5rwh
- Kol Tregaskes
Note everyone, we can add this as a layer for Google Latitude/Maps on our mobiles.
- Kol Tregaskes
Why my changes are lost after saving and refreshing the map? I just click edit, saved and done: where's my mistake?
- Roberto aka postoditacco
from izmir ;)
- Ali Bahşişoğlu
added
- Thomas Power
added myself =)
- Seyhan Çelik
Roberto, so you click on Edit, add your marker, hit Save then Done?
- Kol Tregaskes
Just added myself to the map. The Google placemark positioning tool sucks, too.
- Tyson Key
The larger icons are smashing the smaller ones. Oh well.
- Bradley Farless
@Kol Yes, my name appear in the list, but the marker is missing in the map (tried with and without the avatar).
- Roberto aka postoditacco
from fftogo
anyone finding difficulty to add yourselves on the map? 1.click on the map-this will bring you to google map site 2.you have to sign in your google account to get the edit button on the map 3.then click on the edit button and add yourselves on the map. cheers.
- Hamid Mat sain MD
Added. Antananarivo, Madagascar
- Thierry R. Andriamirado
done
- Bogdan Costea
done!
- Rick Cogley
Just added myself, although, I slightly moved my placemarker, just so people don't know where I live :)
- MλTT
From what I've noticed: When I'm at the first page of 2, I only see those markers on the map...from the people that are on the first page. Do you know what I mean? I'm added on the second page, so when I browse through the first page I won't see my marker on the map...only when I go to the next page. I don't know if this makes any sense hehe.
- Patrik Johansson
hey, i'm feeling alone i my north of quebec ;)
- BotchChiKii
Added myself with little icon. I am so proud!
- Gordon Herd
added my self also
- Demetrios the Traveller
Cool!
- Kol Tregaskes
Here be I, woo.
- Tsali, The Native of FF
Thanks, Patrick!
- Roberto aka postoditacco
Added
- Michael Fidler
Done
- M F
added myself :)
- Baard @ Pixum
Added - very neat to see pins all over the world.
- Alex Hellstrom
Excellent Presentation!
- Naseem Ahmed
I'm in! :D
- CannonGod
just added myself
- Bill Rawlinson
:-)
- Kol Tregaskes
Added :)
- Sergey Juchkov
wow
- Ahmet Soyata
Whoa, great job reviving this project Kol. Awesome to see all the new users!
- Mark Krynsky
No worries, Mark. Thanks for the map. :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
Quite surprising how many of the US states are empty. The word has yet to spread inland.
- Nick B.
Okay I'm in too. Thanks for the map, great idea!
- Paria Sabooki
Added. Hope to see more North Carolina markers added. Surely I'm not the only one?
- Chris Munro
added myself too... :o)
- Rob Sellen :o)
The map! I'm on there! :-)
- James (!?)
it starts to load and i can see an edit button, but before even clicking it another old custom map of mine comes up instead o_O
- Mike Chelen
Added my pin :)
- Simon Wicks
:-)
- Kol Tregaskes
I forgot I was on this!
- Martin Bryant
Somehow I managed to not be on this, fixed now!
- Glenn Slaven
:-)
- Kol Tregaskes
I added myself, plus I got to learn how to make a custom icon for Google Maps.
- DGentry
Cool. :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
I'm in!
- metalerik
Cool!
- Kol Tregaskes
Any more for the map? :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
Ta-da!
- Timothy Griffin
anyone can find me from now on right ;)
- Burçak Çubukçu
added!
- Leandro Ardissone ⍨
Cool! :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
I had temporarily, accidentally "hijacked" the title...it's fixed now...
- Ciro
cool
- Brent - Long Live Rock
Added!
- Simon Curran
Blame FriendFeed II - http://www.techcrunchit.com/2009...
Nicholas James, Bicentennial (Franc), Rex Hammock and 39 other people liked this
Always an odd thing to find my avatar stuck in someone else's screenshot. Thanks, Steve Gillmor. :)
- Louis Gray
"FriendFeed is still a parasite on a pimple on Twitter’s ass." // lmfao, why don't I read his stuff more often? haha
- Holden Page
Wow, and Steve Gilmore can sure turn a phrase, also: "I still can’t get past the reality that when Twitter farts, FriendFeed becomes a complete and total gasbag." It goes downhill from there.
- Rex Hammock
Rex Hammick
- Steve Gillmor
lmao, I am not sure what I got outof this post but a good laugh
- Holden Page
I didn't understand a damn thing in that post.
- Matt Ruiz
I think Steve needs to stock up on Activia.
- Dave Winer
What's ironic is the content of the screenshot and Louis's avatar :-) (Last I heard, Louis is liberal)
- Jesse Stay
what is activia dave?
- Steve Gillmor
I don't get it.
- Kimber Scott
get what Kimber
- Steve Gillmor
Steve: that post, it was odd. I am not sure what you were trying to say either lol
- Holden Page
oh, well, that's never happened before :)
- Steve Gillmor
holden: can u splain the activia ref?
- Steve Gillmor
The whole article, Steve. Why does he blame FriendFeed? Is it like blaming Drew's cancer, or something? And why anyone thinks Twitter is better than this is beyond me. (Just realized you're the Steve who wrote it.) Still don't get it. Why do you think Twitter is better?
- Kimber Scott
Kimber: Where do I say Twitter is better. It just is. And FriendFeed brings out whatever that is.
- Steve Gillmor
Steve, what was the point of this post?
- Holden Page
Steve - Twitter is better at giving voice to teeth whitening moms and life coaches. You can't use Twitter without using some sort of third-party thing. (I use Tweetdeck and FF.) I much prefer spending my time here and checking in there. I have my rooms here. I don't have to click on anything to see a picture. I can talk as long as I want in one post. Liking is much better than RTing and...
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- Kimber Scott
That was funniest Gilmor post I've read. Read it three times and still trying to understand the point but it was great.
- manielse (Mark Nielsen)
Yeah. Yet another journalist who doesn't know how to use FF. Why do I think this? B/c in his screenshot Louis or Robert were telling him how to use it! haha.
- anna sauce
No offense, Steve, but I'd like someone with a big following to review FriendFeed who actually knows how to use it. Perhaps the ease-of-use is way past these folks? I doubt it. Or whip out the old "I don't have time/ I have a job." Yet, these people spend their time reviewing, and using, technology. So.... still unclear on why the non-power-users are reviewing it.
- anna sauce
As I said, I'm not a geek and I had no trouble figuring FriendFeed out. It's really not that hard. Really. Actually, it's easier than Twitter. First: You don't have to figure out what it's for. You "get it" right away. It's obviously a communication tool. Second: if you want to jump in on a conversation, which you can actually have on FriendFeed, and as I did with this one, you don't...
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- Kimber Scott
anna I am a power user. Kimber I love FriendFeed but also know why it exists. How hard is it to understand that there is a hugely dynamic symbiotic relationship between the two platforms, dominated by Twitter's reach and FF's depth. Holden, the point was to communicate, which it definitely is doing. And even developers like Dave choose not to explain some of what they write. Activia means what?
- Steve Gillmor
Activia is a company that makes yogurt that aids in getting the bowels flowing...
- Ryan
So, Steve, what you're saying then is there is a symbiotic relationship between a parasite on a pimple on an ass and a body as a whole? That seems like a one way relationship to me and it doesn't reflect kindly on FriendFeed. So, I guess what I don't get, getting back to my original comment, is how you can love FriendFeed and still call it a parasitic ass-pimple eater.
- Kimber Scott
from email
Ryan ahh thanks I use Metamucil when I have that problem, but this piece came easily
- Steve Gillmor
Kimber it's a reference to the original post, and it represents a size relationship in the post Oprah Twitterscape. And one organism's pimple is another's home sweet home. I love host and tenant, one more than the other -- which you'll have to ask elsewhere for the "answer."
- Steve Gillmor
Couldn't you just blame Friendfeed once and be done with it in under 140 chars?
- ianf ⌘
is anyone else wondering where gillmor gets off not googling things for himself? steve... double click the word, right click it, and do the search google option in the context menu... i really is that simple
- Chris Heath
Guess it's nice that you think you're a power user, but you haven't really shown here that you are. Upset with the "gasbag" of FF? Follow new people. Create lists. Get off the main feed. Trim your subscriptions. You can't complain about the content (well, I can) unless you either know the various ways around it. Then you can complain. Otherwise, it just seems that you, like most of the people reviewing FF, have no idea how to use it.
- anna sauce
This whole thread is one the funniest things I have read in a long time, including the post that started it all! Thanks to everyone.
- frankiecarl
Unfortunately Steve is right, if Twitter goes down, the quality of realtime information in FF decreases... it is still the best client for Twitter but sharing and discovery still happens first on the fail whale network
- Alberto Saavedra
from Nambu
Holy smokes! I agree w/Frankiecarl, this is hilarious.
- Mark Evans
from iPhone
I commented on Steve's article, because I felt there was way more he could have written about the actual problem, the DDoS attack. However, there is one thing that bugs even me sometimes. It's one thing to have the best platform amongst social media, but it needs to be demonstrated in times like this. Needs a few more people using the strengths of FF to do a bit of citizen journalism.
- George Hall (Australia)
Alberto, that's exactly my concern in the future as Friendfeed grows. As mass mainstream enters, quality the way we think of it decreases to Twitter Trending Topics.
- manielse (Mark Nielsen)
ianf: no. anna: what makes you think gasbag is not a term of endearment? George: it's really simple, FF's fault. Chris: I don't use search except as a spell checker, and I trust Dave WIner's spelling implicitly.
- Steve Gillmor
This is a hysterical thread in response to one of the funniest posts i've read in a long time. the stuff about Steve not Googling for himself...that's just rockin' funny. thx for the laugh. I needed it.
- Karoli
ba-da-da-da-da I'm lovin it
- Holden Page
ff's fault only in that they don't always take opportunities to demonstate FF in such times NOT for what's happened.
- George Hall (Australia)
from BuddyFeed
how could you possibly know what happened. Me, I Blame FriendFeed
- Steve Gillmor
Why is Blame always capitalized? I feel like I'm missing out on something.
- Jonathan Langdale
Why, Steve? Why? What did FriendFeed do? I shouldn't even respond to this silly post anymore. It's almost like you're an artist who's painted a mess and is being vague about it with the hope that people might get the impression it must really "mean" something. Twitter goes down from a DOS attack and you Blame FriendFeed, but you love FriendFeed. You sound like my ex-husband.
- Kimber Scott
from email
Give the resources of TechCrunch to Twitter and just stop spreading shit like this over the web. Everything will be good.
- Ryo / Fuck Facebook
Alberto, when Twitter went down, my FriendFeed folks continued to serve me quality contents. Really.
- Thierry R. Andriamirado
Steve, your article made perfect sense to me. Sorry others didn't agree. It's clear that the tweetstream is the core of FF's value to most people, even if FF has oodles of other features that we "native" FFers get a lot more mileage out of.
- Daniel J. Pritchett
Well said, Daniel.
- anna sauce
Why doesn't everyone just pick a horse and ride it? This quibbling over platforms is tiresome.
- ZuDfunck
Daniel: wasn't too hard, was it. thx
- Steve Gillmor
i'm a tad inebriated, but still... wha? if twitter is the be all end all of online communications then we're f'd... seriously (in an inebriated kind of way)
- Chris Heath
and by 'be all end all' i mean 'end all be all' and by that i mean 'core of FF's value to most people'
- Chris Heath
Is it because I've just exited the 25-54 demo and now face the death panel, or does anyone else detect some ageism in comments about Steve's opinions on tech? I noticed it when GG was on Leo's network, too, from commenters who needed to teach the old men about things only a gen-xer or younger could possibly comprehend. I get it from younger people, too, who KNOW I won't be able...
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- Amyloo
like which comments Amyloo? sometimes stuff like that can be unintentional just because a younger generation's social norms deviate from the past generation and your perceptions are different than their intentions - misunderstandings and miscommunication are some of the pitfalls that are abound in life (and even more so in online life where there's not facial expression or tone and inflection of voice to give other social weight and cues to our words).
- Chris Heath
in regards to steve, his style, and the reactions that his writings and online activities provoke: I think steve is either 1) trying to 'stir the pot' to 'get a rise' out of a certain type of person in a john c dvorak kind of way, 2) maybe he's really just a crotchety old man, and i mean that in the kindest of ways that a stranger can say that about someone or 3) something else -- and i...
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- Chris Heath
chris: I write something, people comment, I comment back. Pot is constantly stirred, doesn't need any extra. some people are trying to inflict damage by calling me old, or fat, or whatever. it usually say more about them since I am 60, fat, and whatever. The ageism thing is subjective: I could outlive all of them or none of them. WHo knows. Their problem, not mine.
- Steve Gillmor
cool, fair enough
- Chris Heath
Video: Nokia N900 put through its paces... in Italian - http://www.engadget.com/2009...
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We're sure to see a whole lot more of the Nokia N900 as Nokia World gets underway this week, but in the meantime we're super into this video walkthrough posted up by Kiamanokia.it -- and not just because the Italian narration makes using the N900 seem absolutely delightful. Nope, we're much more into the extremely-responsive interface, the rotary-zoom gesture in the browser, and the overall slickness of Maemo 5. We'll withhold judgment until we spend some time with an actual production N900, but things are looking promising -- head after the break to check the video for yourselves. [Via The Nokia Blog] Continue reading Video: Nokia N900 put through its paces... in Italian Filed under: Cellphones, Handhelds Video: Nokia N900 put through its paces... in Italian originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 01 Sep 2009 21:04:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments
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