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Facebook Buys FriendFeed For War Against Twitter - http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009...
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It's #followfriday on Twitter today! Here's how Follow Friday works: http://mashable.com/followfri/
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Top 10 Beers of 2008 - http://foodandwineblog.com/2008...
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Two Dogfish & two Clipper City make their list.
- Matthew J. Targarona
New York City Is Breathtaking Following Google Earth Update [Google Earth] - http://gizmodo.com/5113131...
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Evernote Adds File Syncing [Evernote] - http://lifehacker.com/5112721...
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You use evernote? I love it and have scanned all sorts of important stuff for OCR. It's a great app
- Elliott Plack
Cheese-Filled Bacon Roll, Too Much of a Good Thing? - http://www.seriouseats.com/2008...
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I know what i'm having for breakfast tomorrow!
- Matthew J. Targarona
Holy crap man that looks good!
- Elliott Plack
Yahoo Maps market share: 40% to 13% in 2.5 years - http://blogs.zdnet.com/Google...
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According to Hitwise (not a particularly reliable source) Yahoo maps share was 41% in July 2005 and 13% in Jan 2008. Above link is for 2008. 2005 data is here: http://blogs.zdnet.com/ITFacts...
- Simon
I'm astonished that Mapquest's market share is still > 50%
- Ole Begemann
Typo in the heading: should be 41% not 40%, not that it really matters given the precision of Hitwise data...
- Simon
Ever since Lazy Sunday declared that Google Maps was the best, the others were doomed. Double True!
- Andy Roth
Can someone please explain the mapquest market share to me? And why are the numbers on marketingcharts.com (who also get their data from hitwise) slightly off? http://tinyurl.com/3prphn
- sdfx
Do people still use Mapquest? Isn't that the internet map of 1998?
- Keith Bilous
Mapquest is the epitome of Web 1.0 versus GMaps at 2.0
- Elliott Plack
I'm always amazed when I see someone still using Mapquest, but it happens more than you would think.
- Bryan Clark
The last time I tried Mapquest, it was easier to read than Google Maps, and occasionally more accurate. I still use Google Maps most of the time, but I don't see much wrong with Mapquest's current product. Could you Mapquest haters enlighten me?
- Amit Patel
I'm with Amit. There was a time when Google Maps' routing algorithms were so bad that I would have to tell people to use MapQuest to find my house.
- Piaw Na
Are you hyperconnected? - http://www.churchofthecustomer.com/blog...
Alejandro, Mike Reynolds, Todd Mundt and 11 other people liked this
If you're reading this here then you are.
- Steve Rubel
Me? Hyperconnected? Heheh.
- Robert Scoble
@Scoble did you write the study???
- Steve Rubel
It's only hyper compared to the rest of the population. This is what should be normal. We're just ahead of the curve on the way to posthumanhood.
- Tad
if Scoble had written the study it would have mentioned FriendFeed ;)
- Thomas Hawk
The actual study, which I downloaded, says " Not only is 16% of the global information workforce already 'Hyperconnected,' more significantly, another 36% will be joining them soon!" That 36% must be Scoble's followers!
- Steve Rubel
By reading it here, all it means is that we've subscribed to Steve Rubel or one of his friends. If you were my only contact, would I still be hyperconnected?
- Louis Gray
I made her list of devices, sites, and tools look weak. I must be Hyper-hyperconnected! Woo-Hoo!
- Brad
Without seeing the site I can comfortably say yes
- Elliott Plack
If I am, can I get a badge or sticker or something? Oh look, another update on Twitter....
- Bwana ☠
Louis: How many FriendFeed or Twitter users have only one contact? I'm asking seriously.
- Brent Newhall
Ok, back. Someone make a logo or something. I want a t-shirt with this :)
- Bwana ☠
@Brent, my guess is very few. I have no insight there.
- Louis Gray
Yep. I/we definitely are.
- David Orban
Most definitely I am... with the exception of a landline phone. Completely unnecessary.
- Vince DeGeorge
DirecTV is also unnecessary. Canceled that 2 months ago. A media center PC with a dual HDTV tuner for network OTA programming and a Netflix subscription gets you better content for less money.
- Thomas Hawk
Yes, but only to some people.
- Mike Reynolds
Track Your Domino's Pizza Order from a Terminal [Friday Fun] - http://lifehacker.com/388708...
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Also quite cool
- Elliott Plack
Band "shoots" video by sending Data Protection Act requests to CCTVs that caught them performing - http://www.boingboing.net/2008...
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That's pretty awesome
- Elliott Plack
What is wrong with Facebook? http://20bits.com/2008... Easy: early adopters are abandoning it.
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I haven't been on Facebook in probably 4 months. Deactivated my account after Beacon & Scoblegate broke. Shouldn't be that hard to delete your personal data.
- Brian Daniel Eisenberg
dropping Java support is quite telling
- Dave Hodson
lol! And by early adopters you mean, people who were on it long after college students? We still use it.
- Shawn Farner
from twhirl
That explains why I don't understand the sudden disdain for Facebook. The cool kids are taking their ball and going home... no wonder it was a mystery.
- Bwana ☠
Shawn: good point. OK, early adopters who were not college students. :-)
- Robert Scoble
I've noticed a definite trend amongst college students, they'll hang out on Fb for about a year, and then they steadily use it less and less. Fb is geared for college, lots of people use it here and there, but kids currently in college are on it A LOT.
- Shawn Kirsch
I never bothered with it to begin with... so cluttered.
- TranceMist
I've stopped using facebook as well. It started feeling like MySpace.
- Beau Liening
Heh this api will bring you back to Facebook -- it did me! See if you can get it to run on 5,000 friends lol http://apps.facebook.com/density...
- Prokofy Neva
I just don't feel like I'm on the internet when I'm on Facebook.
- Michael Turro
from twhirl
To FB: turn off the firehose of app spam and vampire biting and we might come back
- Christian Anderson
from Alert Thingy
While Friendfeed has many advantages over Facebook, Facebook has others over Frienidfeed. Facebook has a better developed repetoire of friend capabilities (before but also including chat). Friendfeed profiles pale in comparision to Facebook. The Friendfeed threaded conversations is a major advantage for them, witih the feed including many popular services.
- Alex Hammer
but you get sucked into some of those apps with the returning of plants and eggs and superpokes and it starts to get painful and obligatory...
- edythe
Never liked Facebook. Don't know why.
- Svartling
The developer issues for Facebook is centered around that their is now competition for the developer's resources at a time when the new rules are being enforced and the low hanging fruit has been picked. For users, the issues are that there are too many repetitive apps, too many apps that require use and propagation to get value and an interface that has issues under the weight of too many applications.
- RAPatton
Facebook apps managed to spam out the early adopters...
- engtech
Yes, the Facebook apps spammed me out. I now use Facebook like LinkedIn: I politely answer friend requests and occasionally post stuff.
- Francine Hardaway
Facebook might get interesting again if Microsoft makes a play for it.
- Rafe Needleman
from Alert Thingy
Facebook just functions as an address book for me. They squandered the opportunity to make newsfeed useful. Which is why we are all here. :)
- Christopher Sacca
I use Facebook to reflect my friendfeed. That's it. I login once a month from the iPhone to see what's going on.
- Magnus Jonsson
from Alert Thingy
e things in other places, as well. I've moved on certainly.
- Rich Palmer
from twhirl
facebook's old. twitter is where it's at
- Chuck Boyce
from twhirl
I think tech savvy early adopters are moving off it, but a lot of the rest of the world is staying on it and moving onto it. Everyone I know knows what Facebook is and can understand what they get from it, even if they don't use it. No one I know who isn't a tech person knows or even understands what the point of twitter or friendfeed is. Different strokes and all that... it doesn't have to be a zero sum game, not yet at least. :)
- felix
That's what early adopters do, they come, look around, and eventually move on. I still use Facebook to be social with the regular non-geek people that don't know about the other 5000 ways to be social on the web.
- Shey, Jamaican of FF
In a way it is such a shame that facebook has lost its momentum because that's where I was starting to find all my old friends, taking them elsewhere after that. If they don't register at the least techy site - will they register at all?
- Alex von Halem
i completely disagree, robert. the early adopters of facebook were college students. "early adopter" bloggers didn't join until a year or two after facebook started from what i've seen. and facebook -- as far as i know -- is still dominating colleges. also, it's grown to more than 70 million monthly active users. in other words, early adopters in the tech world have never mattered to facebook, and they still don't.
- Eric Eldon
It is sad that a consumer focused site is losing so much momentum, especially after picking up all of that Google tallent. I am beginning to believe that Yahoo has it right, here: social networking is a feature that should be implemented in a suite of services. The opposite--social networking is a platform on which serivces should be built--is bound to fail the test of time. Even with...
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- James Urquhart
from Alert Thingy
Facebook needs to start providing content and become a true portal. Even your frinds get annoying after awhile.
- Alex C. Williams
from Alert Thingy
I'm enjoying Facebook because ~90 of my dance friends have moved there from Tribe.net (fears of Tribe.Net collapsing due to lack of critical mass outside SF, and lack of funding). My 227 Facebook friends average age 37 (age 17-72+), so it's not quite the college set. I play rock-paper-scissors with an old Orchestra friend who's now a history professor in Texas. I can listen to my MSR friends "status" about their kids winning skiing awards or their surgery issues (and these MSR guys DON'T use Twitter).
- Mitchell Tsai
My "geek friends" from 1976-2008 are 99% not on Twitter, much less FriendFeed. These guys mostly run MSR research areas, CTOs/CEOs of companies, CS professors, Internet lawyers... Many were major hackers in their day, & most of our population would call em "geeks". Only 1 out of all those geek friends uses Twitter, and he's a very light user. Facebook & LinkedIn statuses are great because I can hear if they are "feeling sick", see new pictures of their kids, or hear a blurb about their latest projects.
- Mitchell Tsai
the comment that sums it all up? "I think everyone is just incredibly bored" nail/head.
- Iain Baker
Twitter is down. Now we can all get some work done.
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Switching to my feed reader... not panicking...
- David Bisset
from twhirl
Down here too. WOW!!
- Grant Griffiths
from twhirl
Yup - switch to FriendFeed.
- Hutch Carpenter
I'm reduced to playing with Brightkite. The humanity...
- David Bisset
from twhirl
FriendFeed has never gone down. Or even gotten slow. It's like the guys who started it worked at Google or something. Oh, wait, that's right, they did.
- Robert Scoble
@Scolbe: Watch it Robert, or you're going to jinx it.
- David Bisset
Did they just yank out Rails?
- Puneet Thapliyal
Twitter out here, also. Good thing, because I have to get some work done. Hoohoo.
- Cesar Cardoso
I didn't know about this until I saw this message. I tried going to m.twitter.com on my phone and got a 500 Internal Server Error. Didn't even get a birdie.
- Ontario Emperor
You CAN turn Twitter off you know.
- Chris Wallace
from Alert Thingy
Scoble what did you do to break Twitter?
- Bryan
Had to LOL about that. I mean, we just switched service, the noise's still here with Twhirl!
- Rodrigo Jaroszewski
from twhirl
Michael Arrington killed Twitter... yeah, that's it.
- Rudy Amid
You've been coming up with some pretty good quotables lately
- Charlie Anzman
Yet FriendFeed comes to take its place...
- Shawn Farner
from twhirl
@Scoble do you want Jaiku invitation? it is more reliable than twitter and some time ago moved to Google's infra...
- A.T.
silpol I've been on Jaiku since the first days. I like FriendFeed a lot better.
- Robert Scoble
Robert, I'd love to see a demo of how you use FriendFeed - I keep trying to move over but just can't figure out a productive way to use it.
- Jesse Stay
@Scoble i wish FF gets sms mechanism for push one day, as twitter or jaiku
- A.T.
Jesse, I'm writing a blog post right now about one aspect: liking and commenting.
- Robert Scoble
I'm excited to see it - I'd also love to see how you browse your feeds. When do you use Twitter vs. Friendfeed, Reader, etc.?
- Jesse Stay
Jesse: I don't have a set routine. I watch FriendFeed the most, though. I also use Google Reader quite often, watch Twitter on either Twhirl or Google Talk or Tweetscan (not to mention FriendFeed), and still look at TechMeme too. I just posted the thing about listening on FriendFeed on my blog at http://scobleizer.com
- Robert Scoble
I've started watching both friendfeed and socialthing - playing with both trying to work out which best suits my needs. It is quite possible that both will, but it also means seeing duplication.
- Mick Adams
i watched frienfeed, socialthing, and twhirl and kept refreshing twitter. all this after working 12 hours. maybe i have a problem.
- lisa church
Twistori, a First Person Visualization of Twitter - http://feeds.laughingsquid.com/~r...
karl dotter, Augusto Becciu, Jordan Hofker and 11 other people liked this
Pretty neat
- Elliott Plack
from twhirl
Wish we could see who the tweets were from. Does this grab all tweets or do I need to follow someone?
- Shey, Jamaican of FF
Poetic.
- Mike Reynolds
reminds me of a display I saw at the guggenheim a few years ago showing a stream of lines off of websites and IRC based on a word like Love, Hate, etc... interesting
- Bastard Operator From FF
from twhirl
Try bTT! the ultimate FriendFeed-Twitter client :-)
- PlaTyPuS
awesome!
- Augusto Becciu
from twhirl
@carlo's http://twerpscan.com is a great idea. Can't use it myself though - it chokes.
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Twhirl with Friendfeed support final version 0.8 just pushed http://www.twhirl.org/ what a day!!!
Johnny Sewell, Baard @ Pixum, Joe Dawson and 38 other people liked this
This is soooo not ready for primetime. Looks great, but I cannot get the damn thing to work properly!
- Corvida
from Alert Thingy
Loic, this looks great to me. So far, no problems, and the pic droplet and twitpic integration is awesome!
- Daniel Rothamel
from twhirl
Friends/Followers isn't working for me in Twitter client. Am I missing something?
- Ellen Moore
from twhirl
the screen w/ replies, directs, etc.
- Ellen Moore
from twhirl
great - except I keep getting alerts for this message over and over and over and over again!
- designdyke
from twhirl
every time someone posts a reply...
- designdyke
from twhirl
ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh I need to update!!
- Mike Lewis
Using Twhirl Version 0.8... It's great! The only thing I would like more is the ability to use one feed which would push FriendFeed and Twitter into the same stream and allow me to post to both from the same stream!
- Dustin Mooney
from twhirl
Great job Loic!
- Elliott Plack
from twhirl
hey super ! alert thingy vs twhirl
- net
from Alert Thingy
Good stuff - nice addition! I would love to have it in a single integrated window with some nice filtering, but the addition of FF is a nice start.
- Kevin Johnson
Excellent Loïc, un billet en parle déjà chez moi ( http://blog.accessoweb.info ) Il ne manque plus qu'à réunir les 2 modules
- philippe
from Alert Thingy
Jaimini both streams from Twitter and Friendfeed in the same windows is planned soon
- Loic Le Meur
from twhirl
seems to be working very well.
- Jeremy Kunz
from twhirl
thank you all for your feedback. @Rick Mahn definitely looking on to this one
- Loic Le Meur
works great for me here!
- Jerome Gotangco
So far it is working great.
- Chris Patterson
from twhirl
Excellent! Works great!
- Andrew Ruess
from twhirl
Can I suggest to make it an option to combine the windows? I would want the feedfriend to be separate to my twitter - I also want to be able to decide to have one open and one closed. Like you can now for different twitter accounts. Sure make it an option to do so but also not to.
- Dave Gray
Working well most of the time. The friend feed window sometimes locks up when I try to navigate between friends and any of the other view buttons. OS X 10.5 Intel. Anyone else have those problems?
- Jeremy Kunz
from twhirl
Awesome. Do I still need Alert Thingy?
- Rick Farris
from twhirl
Agree with David, I'd love to see this integrated into the same window as twitter.
- Richard Giles
Seems fine here - no problems yet
- Dennis Howlett
I like Alert Thingy's UI better but if twhirl goes single-window, it'll be hard to beat.
- Akiva Moskovitz
from twhirl
I must say, I do prefer Alert Thingy (still). It looks prettier and i like that it expands comments in its own window instead of going to the FF site like twhirl. If I wanted that, I'd be using the site not twhirl. Still, the first client to integrate twitter/FF into one stream, and eliminate duplicate tweets will get my vote
- David Adam
from twhirl
If you follow too many Twitters and FriendFeeds, there is a need to have two windows to sort out everything. How about having the option to use one or two windows. Two windows works for me.
- Freddie Avalos
from twhirl
Interesting point Freddie makes. Perhaps remove the Twitter messages from FF if you allow merged Windows. That way you only see the Twitter messages once.
- Richard Giles
from twhirl
Perhaps the combined window could be an option. I don't know which I would prefer. Right now, I think I like the two windows. But, as others have said, it will be great when we are able to filter out Twitter messages so they don't show up on FriendFeed window as well as the Twitter window.
- Gregory Pittman
from twhirl
Loic, please get Twhirl to open links in a new tab, not a new window. Skype can do it.
- Mick Liubinskas
this is exhausting!
- Sarah Perez
Why does Twhirl insist on using IE instead of my default browser (Flock)? is it only me? gngngngn
- Kamath (नमः)
from twhirl
Thanks for the release! I wish it has "per web service" filtering just like MySocial 24x7. That would make the thing much more useful.. :)
- Leon Ho
Not sure if this is the best place to comment about this, but on MacOSX 10.5.2, there's some weird kerning issues in the FF comment box, specifically with the 'w' eg where is that space coming from - http://skitch.com/jordanb...
- Jordan Brock
from twhirl
would also be great to collapse a FF notification, because this particular one looks like it is going to consume the top of my FF window for a while, and I'd like to see others :)
- Richard Giles
from twhirl
So what's it gonna be, thwirl or alert thingy? both have pretty much the same features now I guess..
- Leo Koivulehto
from Alert Thingy
Hidden entries integration keeps me with Alert Thingy for the moument. I'll also add my voice to having the option to combine windows, auto removing the dupes, and expanding comments in the client.
- Tony, Paradox of FF
from Alert Thingy
And I really hope one or the other lets you sort by service soon.
- Tony, Paradox of FF
from Alert Thingy
I'd like to be able to filter by friend or by service. Like ffapp's greasemonkey script http://www.ffapps.com/filters/
- David Adam
cool
- accesine
Also, both clients are missing an in client player for the things like YouTube favorites and Seesmic posts. Come to think of it, the only reason I end up keeing either client running is for the desktop notifications. Other than that the Friendfeed website itself is still a much better experience. But I guess its all still new and will be sorted out over time.
- Tony, Paradox of FF
Not a lot of luck getting this to work. Comes up fine but doesn't update the screen, unable to open anything.
- 2WheelTech
Twhirl 0.8 work GREAT for me :)
- Scott STEPHEN
from twhirl
I have replaced Alerty Thing with Twhirl. Good acquisition!
- Jeremy Abbett
Dropping comments direct into FF from the Twhirl client would be a nice addition
- Dennis Howlett
@Dennis This is already working. What do you mean ?
- Scott STEPHEN
from twhirl
@Scott - how? I can't see any way to do that as I can on the web or with AltertThingy
- Dennis Howlett
aaah - just found it. Very light grey in comment area. FF post area
- Dennis Howlett
from twhirl
@Dennis ;)
- Scott STEPHEN
from twhirl
great, looks cool!
- Timo Heuer
from twhirl
Twhirl is bugging out on me here ! Scroll to far down the FF window and it disables all the buttons and freezes updates ?
- David Smith
from twhirl
very cool indeed
- Baard @ Pixum
Using Twitter to Friend Feed Importer (version: 0.0.4) - http://InternetDuctTape.com/tools...
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Twitter to Friend Feed Importer finds all of your Tweeps on Friend Feed and subscribes them.
- engtech
Yep. Just used this. I'm now 48% FriendFeed / Twitter Followed. Not bad.
- Elliott Ng
This works great. I was waiting for a report.... Not sure what 48% @elliott NG but great product.
- Russellreno
thank you for the application, helped me get more friends on friend feed.
- Ellen Moore
from Alert Thingy
Video for my Friendfeed friends - http://www.seesmic.com/video...
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Thanks Loic, now go to bed! PS your comments about.. comments reminded me of an idea. It would be cool to be able to post comments on twhirl back to twitter, when replying to a twitter comment, as you can in the FF web app. ...via twhirl
- Elliott Plack
Elliott, yes, I already suggested this to Marco who created Twhirl
- Loic Le Meur
Great news! Thanks for the quick reply! ...via twhirl
- Elliott Plack
c'est très sympa de penser à nous Loic ;) j'espère bientôt avoir la possibilité de lire les vidéos Seesmic directement sous twhirl ... c'est dans les cartons ça ?? ...via twhirl
- Denis COUTURIER
The first question asked these days if you meet somebody: "do you have an API?"
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Smart people, they. :-)
- Dave Winer
more importantly, does that API cover things that aren't part of your rss feeds?
- Stepan Mazurov
Also, does it not have a very restrictive time limitation?
- Yuvi
Well, this is obviously a key success factor...
- Julien
LOL
- Stephan Osmont
It is, definitely, the first question I think. :) ...via AlertThingy
- Tyler Hannan
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