Tim Cooper

I hope these two photos are not a cometary on the public opinion of photographers ;-) - Jeff P. Henderson

Not commentary on photographers... I juxtapositioned the two specific photos for comedic effect :) - Alan Le

I was just being sarcastic... - Jeff P. Henderson

39 truly amazing pictures. Also, very amusing juxtaposition, Alan. - Stephen Mack

There are two misguided notions: 1) that Identi.ca is a "federated" service out of the box (it isn't), and 2) that because it's open source, it automatically means all features anybody wants gets put back into the identi.ca service (it doesn't). It does allow you to run your own microblogging service and hack it up, if you want. Number of people who are going to do that? Very, very few. - Mark Trapp

Yeah, I get "playing around" with it. I do that with everything too. But after playing around with it it just seems like Twitter, unless I'm missing something. If I'm going to invest time in something it needs to be a step forward, not backwards. Feels like a step backwards to me from FriendFeed. - Thomas Hawk

the open sourced potential distributed hosting nature of it is whats interesting to me thomas - not a replacement for friendfeed which is conversation & discovery central for me but it could be an interesting experiment in what a short msg'g platform could be if architecturally done right - very early though - mike "glemak" dunn

It is an interesting point and brings up the question of how viable an open source FriendFeed clone would be. The primary motivation for the Twitter clones has been performance, but perhaps there would be other advantages? Just a thought. - Ray Grieselhuber

We like the concept as you can tell.. Just like twitter but not buggy!!!!!!! - JegerPhil - Phil

@thomas: what about http://utterz.com/ ?? - mhmazidi

Actually, now that I think about it, identi.ca will never be a real player until FriendFeed starts working with it. - Akiva Moskovitz

I see no point to go backwards, of course first you have to try it if you want to compare it. http://ubervu.com/ this is what I wanna try when will be public. - dan

I signed, but will use twitter for post feed distribution and the occasional chat, but i agree that this platform is where we should spend most of our time, when we are not creating content. - Mário Pires

i keep my ff twitter free! micro-blogging belongs to twitter and co - Dieter Schwarz

I second utterz, also left a message asking to intergrate its cross posting with FF, this way we can select if we want some or all messages input to FF. - Tony C.

Damn, I wish you could "like" comments, because what Winer said here is exactly what I'm feeling, even if I'm not a developer. - Mike McCallister via NoiseRiver

I agree and I still find that I post to twitter. My network on FF is really limited and I get absolutely no feedback here. So until more people i know get on board or I become more interesting I post on Twitter and look enviously at people who can get feedback here. Either way, I've signed up for identi.ca but I'm not using it. - Jeremy Kunz via twhirl

People want all these new things because it's "trendy" to have a bajillion social networking tools. I have trouble keeping up with the ones I have, but then that's the product of a 9+ hour workday coupled with a 3+ hour round trip commute and finding time to spend with the family. - jerry

Great dialog Thomas. Think most of us would agree that FF and Twitter are essentially two different avenues and that if a SOLID replacement to Twitter came along (with an importer) before they fix it .... could (will) see an exodus of a lot of users. - Charlie Anzman

Amen to that! FF is a winner, hands down in my opinion! - Jason C.

Hi Thomas. You make me wonder where are Pownce, Twine, and the whole. of course it's definitely the triumph of less is more: less functions, more community, that's why we're still twitting - - Alberto D'Ottavi

FF will be the clear winner of this all when it gains SMS functionality - Glenn Batuyong via twhirl

I second Glenn Batuyong, SMS support is really a selling point for twitter IMO - Jeremy Kunz via twhirl

@Glenn that would be a great feature! - Joe Dawson

twitter (when it works) is still better at being distributed and easy to understand - Samuel Bostock

What's great about Indenti.ca is that IT IS a Twitter clone. No need to make it "fancier" or "Feature-packed", and what was great about Twitter is that it did ONE thing well (when it's available). FF is only useful for people like you, Winer and Scoble who have followers commenting on YOUR posts. For me, with 0 followers, I rely on my "friends" timeline to read what you guys are writing, and there's WAY too much noise. Especially the most annoying feature the "friend of a friend" posts. - Terry

Of course, I just realized you hit "hide", then "see more options...", then "hide all friends-of-friends". That's a big fail in my book. - Terry

Terry (and everyone else pissed off about noise), protip: if you don't like noise, don't start using a service only following A-listers. Those people are interacting with hundreds to thousands of people, and will introduce you to a huge amount of noise, even on Twitter. If you can't find people to follow that aren't A-listers, maybe being on that service isn't the best thing for you at this time. You can't have your cake and eat it, too. - Mark Trapp

The stole the whole thing from Zobzee.com anyway. - Jim Kukral via twhirl

You know if they were an EXACT clone of Twitter (minus the downtime) I think they'd do very well. - Leo Laporte

It's just another tube that feeds into FriendFeed, to me. - Josh Bancroft

their IM works, me and another were having a convo through indenti.ca with IM which i miss with twitter. i just like playing around with new things as well, that and "reserve" my username on the new launches, just in case. - Chris Harris

@Leo Yeah, They just have to do all the same features, and then we will just need a skin on it that makes it look 'exactly' like Twitter. Fail-Whale and everything :P Honestly, I've kinda moved away from the conversation on Twitter and Identi.ca. I mainly post on it with Ping.fm, but I don't really look at replies that much until I get a app. I don't know why, but I really just need something that will Pop Up, tell me what happened, then fade into the background. Browser won't do that - Chacha

Mark, I'm one of those very very few people then. Already talking to a developer about adding identi.ca's platform to The China Business Network's re-launch. Let the hacking for niche communities begin. :) - Christine Lu

Christine, don't get me wrong: that's really, really cool. And I'm sure there are going to be others like you that find uses for laconi.ca. There's this notion that open source = perfect software, and it's really being pushed today and yesterday with identi.ca. It's not a game changer. The "it has potential" argument only goes so far. Many, many, many projects have potential. It's what an enterprising person or group of people do with it that matters. - Mark Trapp

@chacha - you want Twhirl - Leo Laporte

@thomas hawk. you nailed it - rob zand

hopefully as identi.ca comes along they will become more feature rich and faster. I for one like their support of open standards. And the fact that they are hosted outside the U.S. and thus perhaps subject different laws - Freemor

I couldn't agree more. Why have a new service that is just a clone of another? Unless identi.ca can do something that Twitter can't, then thanks but no thanks. - Brandon Wood

@Mark Trapp I totally understand about the A-lister noise, but up to certain point I LIKE the noise. I don't really care that one of my friends is about to take his dog for a walk, but I AM interested in Dave Winer's thoughts on whatever-new web app. Twitter for me is the perfect blend of quasi-feedreader and cult of personality. FF seems to be "everything that everyone's doing everywhere and sometimes more than once". Plus, I like the @ reply system. - Terry

@leo, but it won't work; also friendfeed I think is more prone to take over a huge chunk of say what facebook does, rather than a huge chunk of what twitter/etc does. you still need the pipes to feed into the main. I'd also add that a more dynamic/distributed way to have a microblogging like community flow between IRC style chats and twitter like status blogging, so sort of the way to go... - tycho garen

Let me just say, for once, I am enjoying my FriendFeed experience. Maybe it's all about participation. On Twitter, I can just read what others are saying and make an occasional stupid post... but here, it seems more enjoyable if you're actually INVOLVED in the conversation. - Terry

Looked at Indenti.ca and could say, for the moment, it wasn't my thing. Besides, it's all I can do to stay current on FF and Twitter (when I actually go to twitter, which hasn't been for the past few days). - Les

SMS support isn't important to me. I prefer managing my interaction with a microblogging site myself rather than be interrupted. For me, and I may be unique here as a photographer, photos are also extremely important. That's why I liked Pownce a lot more than Twitter when it came out. But FF has them all beat hands down, so I'm still not sure why I'd invest time in something like identi.ca now. - Thomas Hawk

I would have to agree with you on identi.ca. If twitter has this many problems already, would identi have the same issues as well. I really like FF much better then twitter or identi. - Jeff Chilton

I'm with Thomas Hawk on SMS, too. I can just open up IE on my WM5 phone and hit Twitter or FriendFeed just fine. - DeathByNinja

"open sourced potential distributed hosting nature," that sounds cool and all but it reminds me too much of stuff like OpenID or Ubuntu, or whatever it's called. Sounds really good but wayyyy too geeky to ever get broader adoption which is what makes a community site work best. FF has the traction at this point and a nucleus of interesting people sourcing interesting content filtered through social interactivity. Beats anything else out there at present. - Thomas Hawk

I hope that things like this with their mobile extensions will see the end of the rip off that is SMS. - John Cooper

I'm finding FF/Twitter great, but am exploring identi.ca - Chris

It could be that folks are just looking (desperately) for something that will be more stable than Twitter, while having all the interesting people on it. - Randy Hall

Sign-up is down, Twitter Part Deux - Ryan Taylor

@leolaporte said it all. I get all of the luminaries tallkng to me in real time, and that reaks of awesome. AIR might just be the killer app of the year. - Adam Garrett via twhirl

Right now, Indenti.ca is Twitter, minus a bunch of things. Comparing Twitter and FriendFeed has always been an apple and oranges comparison anyway—one isn't better than the other, since they do different things. Twitter is essentially in beta right now; things should get interesting when Twitter is completely back with XMPP, track, etc. - Albert Willis

@thomas Hawk and @deathbyninja Being someone with an unlimited data plan, I have to say that the usefulness of SMS should not be overlooked. Not everyone has unlimited data, and in some cases, that data is a walked garden (like T-Zones). Plus not everyone has a smartphone, and in some cases, it's just easier to slam out a text message (especially when in an area with crappy data coverage). I find myself jumping between mobile web, Twibble, and SMS (most often the latter two). Any service that lacks a mobile application or SMS tends to see less use by me (see Pownce, FriendFeed seems to be the exception though). - Ivan via fftogo

@Thomas Yes, I agree "open source, decentralized" sounds very geeky, but all that techie talk will be TRANSPARENT for ALL users once it all just works! http://is.gd/LlY - Hao Chen

i agree. Fun to try different systems! - Harry Myhre

It's the fact that it's open source is what is most alluring, to me. - possible248 via NoiseRiver

Most people just went to plant their flag, get their name, just in case ;-) - Stuart Forsyth

@wrecks same reason i suscribed... _sigh_ /rcphq for me! - Ruben Llibre

http://identi.ca/steve surprised that at least one more steve hadn't signed up. - steplow is Steve

And I could have had that, Steve, I went for iSteeve to stay consistent. Enjoy! ( I also like those one letter pages, like "S" but don't have any. - Steve P

I am http://identi.ca/thomashawk Dave, are you going to use this instead of Twitter going forward or are you going to use both? - Thomas Hawk

I'm http://identi.ca/jeremybrooks - Jeremy Brooks

Somebody already grabbed Scoblizer over there, and it's not Robert :) - Scott Westerman

Comcast concerns? We're over at identi.ca now, too. http://identi.ca/comcastscott - Scott Westerman

FF room http://friendfeed.com/rooms/id... - Hao Chen

I'm http://identi.ca/holgereilhard - Anyone got scobleizer yet? ;) - Holger Eilhard

I'm http://Identi.ca/ninthart - Brad Brooks via twhirl

http://identi.ca/a7an - Alan Le

Just secured "tad" w00t - Tad - the Fresh Maker via fftogo

Here we go again... http://identi.ca/mortonfox - Morton Fox

http://identi.ca/jonezy - Chris Jones

http://identi.ca/stephenandrew... - Steve Lynch via Alert Thingy

http://identi.ca/catepol - catepol

http://identi.ca/retorta - Mário Pires

http://identi.ca/cmiper - cmiper

/gezd I could have gone for just gez but that was gone when I joined twitter and it's easier to keep things consistent. - Gez

http://identi.ca/sterlizzi - Stephen Terlizzi

http://identi.ca/christianande... - Christian Anderson

http://identi.ca/akiva - Akiva Moskovitz

Dave, try the feed without the all to get only your notices: http://identi.ca/dave/rss - Nikos Anagnostou

http://identi.ca/susanbeebe - Susan Beebe

YEP, it's another twitter copy, but hey at least it doesn't look retarded or crash! - Susan Beebe

I think therefore I am http://identi.ca/gbatuyong ...looks like it's time to find larger profile images gah! Gravatar pics are too small - Glenn Batuyong via twhirl

just what everyone needs, another twitter clone. then we can all talk endlessly about twitter vs friendfeed vs identi.cal ... yay! - Stuart Forsyth via twhirl

http://identi.ca/px - rob friedman

http://identi.ca/barbara - just like "dave" I am "barbara" - nice. - Barbara K. Baker

I am Sparticus. - Chris Baskind

I am http://identi.ca/tojosan doh - Todd Jordan

http://identi.ca/felix - felix

I am http://identi.ca/danyork - I also posted my views on the importance of identi.ca vs Twitter at: http://www.disruptiveconversat... - Dan York

http://indenti.ca/sarahintampa - Sarah Perez - Sarah Perez

http://identi.ca/desertjul :) - Julia

I'm http://identi.ca/theinfovore - Troy H

I'm http://identi.ca/thecptrgod - Adam C.

Good call, MK - Aaron Brazell

Can't they already track it back to you anyway by doing a google search for "your name" + Friendfeed? I stopped worrying about what my employer will think of my comments. Part of my new 100% transparency campaign across socnets. I got nothing to hide from anyone. - Brian Daniel Eisenberg

Mine is on FF, and I've been noticing my LinkedIn profile has been ranking higher in Google searches lately. Maybe they've improved their SEO, because I haven't changed my profile for a while, as far as key words. Thanks for the reminder, I should update it. - Cathryn Hrudicka

Good placeholder until FriendFeed adds a true profile page for users. - Hutch Carpenter

I just checked, I already linked mine. Feel free to stalk me now.;) - Andrea Baker

ouch - Marc Canter

Agreed, FF should pull in data perhaps from linked services to populate a user profile page. Lack of user profile info here is one of the strangest things about FF imho. - Marshall Kirkpatrick

"strangest things about FF" - but thats what makes it different. Tell me seriously do I care where you worked or what you did ?? I care about what you say or linked into FF and/or commented in this space. If I wanna to know more about MK, then there are other methods to accomplish that :)- - Peter Dawson

Good tip. Had mine in place since day 1. I believe having Linked-in added increases the chances that someone will subscribe to you as well. - Mark Krynsky

Okay, I just followed your reco. - wrecks

I think at this point in time, I won't link in. in the future yes, but currently going through transition of new owner @ moment - clarke thomas

And... done... It's a little more complicated to "go public" on LinkedIn than it should be! - Ben Hedrington

I agree 100%. In fact, one of the first things I do before friending someone is seeing if they have a LinkedIn profile. - Mike Reynolds

Now this is sexy. Can it pull my subscriptions from Google Reader? If so, this might be one of the cooler apps I've seen. - Shawn Farner

Export from GReader to OPML and import into Snackr. I like this a LOT. - Shawn Farner

Great Find I like having my newin the ticker format but the only problem I will have is I will end up reading the news all the time and not do what I am supposed to be doing. - Jeffrey Blais via twhirl

This is bad news for us with ADD. - Russellreno

Wow, cool find Bwana... thanks! Excellent time sink!! love it! - Susan Beebe

Been using Snackr for a few days now, and absolutely love it. It has replaced my refresh-news-site addiction, and Narciso, the developer, is really friendly and responsive. Design is gorgeous. - Matt Harwood

this is crazy -- oh the possibilities - Shey

Gosh, I really love this, but SO distracting... - Vince DeGeorge

LOL, instant productivity killer... I had to close it...seriously. - Bwana McCall

This is sweeeeeet!! Thanks Bwana. - JohnBfromMemphis

miss in NetNewsWire. - Sean Quinn via twhirl

This is great for all the things I miss in NetNewsWire. Thanks Bwana! - Sean Quinn via twhirl

This is really impressive; thanks for the heads up! - Evan Sims