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Uh, Snow Leopard? Safari?
Mark Alves, Robert Scoble, John E. Bredehoft and 2 other people liked this
Looks like I'm not the only one - this one on Windows 7 RC7: http://friendfeed.com/iphwin...
- Jesse Stay
Maybe a Webkit bug?
- Jesse Stay
Interesting. More than one post, both from Twitter.
- CAJ, somewhere else
I'm not having that problem, and I'm using both Windows Vista and Windows 7 RC, as well as both Firefox and Safari.
- Thomas Ward
I would have never noticed the other one on Twitter - thank goodness for native images on FriendFeed
- Jesse Stay
I'm seeing it for a few people now.
- Jesse Stay
This one, for instance: http://friendfeed.com/christy... - looks similar in my browser
- Jesse Stay
Interesting, clicking through to Twitter takes me to a dead link.
- Jesse Stay
It's the same Tweet.
- CAJ, somewhere else
Yeah - seems like a Twitter bug?: http://twitter.com/kevinro...
- Jesse Stay
I wonder if someone has hacked his account and trying to take advantage of the Twitter Ruby Cross Site Scripting vulnerability
- Jesse Stay
It was binary/unicode related
- Jesse Stay
Original tweet: http://twitter.com/rsteven...
- CAJ, somewhere else
Ah, looks like it was on purpose then: http://twitter.com/rstevens
- Jesse Stay
http://www.eeemo.net/
- Jesse Stay
Very odd.
- Hunt
from FreshFeed
toppsy-turrvey
- L Stephen Cleary
Spicy thai soup... Why are you so delicious?!?!
goldberg_sizzles liked this
You had me at "spicy".
- Thomas Ward
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- Thomas Ward
@JonAston who the heck are you to judge my effectiveness? http://twitter.com/scoblei... is something you can't do with RT's.
Gregg Morris liked this
Damn, that was uncalled for. Alex is right.
- Gregg Morris
I don't understand why Robert even bothers with those types of people...
- Chris Heath
Robert ignore the trolls, the moment people start using words like lame/stupid etc. they are just doing it for one of two reasons. Be be big anuses :-p or to bring attention to themselves. Ignore and move on.
- Rasmus Lauridsen
from iPhone
Yeah, sorry. Sometimes I just like answering people.
- Robert Scoble
This was stupid and ineffective. Nah ... just kidding, Rob.
- Thomas Ward
the trouble maker indeed;p
- zʍıɔ
Was that the little thread with the word LAME in it? Yeah, troublemaker. @scobleizer, you're the man.
- Rob Schieber
I am starting to like that favorites idea. Maybe it will take some more time...
- Flynn (Michael A. Volz)
Ever wonder why we remember Woodstock as a cultural bellwether when so many other similar festivals fade down the memory hole? Ummm, maybe the rapaciousness of the promoters to sell this cultural moment as a cottage industry.
Vezquex: God of FF, Adam Turetzky and Dave Martin liked this
yeah and Brian Epstein made the Beatles
- Steve Gillmor
Because its just one of a few things we old hippies can remember :)
- jcunwired
It's remembered due to the social climate that surrounded the event. Woodstock took place during a time of great turmoil in the United States: the Vietnam War. It is also remembered due to the incredible sights that were seen there (Jimi Hendrix playing the Star Spangled Banner, for instance). It was not promoters who made the event memorable. It was the people and musicians who experienced it.
- Thomas Ward
Every contemporaneous event was in the same social climate, but they didn't have an industry behind them constantly trying to sell product to the attendees and the wannabe attendees. Continuing through Woodstock 99, which was a lot like Altamont 69 with a lower body count.
- Dave Slusher
Woodstock was a free concert. The only sales made then were for condoms.
- Steve Gillmor
Also, Steve's Beatles comparison is apt because 40 years after the guys recorded together, there is still Extruded Beatles Product to buy every Xmas.
- Dave Slusher
my beatles comment was to suggest that the promoters being responsible for its historical impact is nonsense, just like Brian Epstein putting the Beatles in suits made them successful.
- Steve Gillmor
Steve, it wasn't free by design. There was some set of suckers that paid full ticket price and then a bunch of people that knocked down the fences. However, there were plenty of movies, albums and other Woodstock (TM) product for sale ever since, up to and including today.
- Dave Slusher
My point is that the warm feelings are great, so great that the baby boomers have been paying to have them sold back to them ever since.
- Dave Slusher
yes and they only sell well because the concert featured all the major acts at a time that had never happened before (or since by the way)
- Steve Gillmor
If you were there, or anywhere near there at the time, and then later at Altamont, you knew the difference.
- Steve Gillmor
Why the Woodstock hate Dave? I don't get your point.
- jcunwired
the industry you decry is a reflection of the actuality, not the driver of the nature of the event.
- Steve Gillmor
Altamont was the same year wasn't it?
- Matthew DeVries
it's like saying the innovators are suspect because they are funded by rich people, and that open is better. Oh wait, that is exactly like that
- Steve Gillmor
wasn't free by design? Of course not. What is?
- Steve Gillmor
jc, I care exactly as much about Woodstock nostalgia as the people of 1969 cared about flapper era nostalgia.
- Dave Slusher
At last count there were over 5 mil who claim(ed) to have been there ;-)
- Dave Martin
well then dave, thanks for bringing it up
- Steve Gillmor
I retract everything. I forgot Sha-Na-Na led into Hendrix. Fantastic stuff.
- Dave Slusher
The music festivals of 69 were a nice alagory of the hippie movement. Woodstock - "See what the hippie movement can create" Altamont - "And this why you can't have nice things"
- Matthew DeVries
To quote Mike Watt's song (that itself is now at least a decade old): "The kids of today should defend themselves against the 70’s/ It’s not reality, just someone else’s sentimentality/ It won’t work for you... "
- Dave Slusher
It's not sentimentality, it's the shit
- Steve Gillmor
Great acts, great music, great party = something worth re-selling. what's the debate?
- Jeff
Our next baby's initials spell out RSS. I won't reveal the name until we register the name.
ravi karandeekar, Susan Beebe, Devon Govett and 55 other people liked this
by register the name you mean domain name right?
- sean percival
RSS? That's kinda awesome haha.
- Tomy Thomson
Regis Sanford Scoble?
- drew olanoff
Robert, do you subscribe to that RSS feed?
- Adam
wow.........
- xero
At least it's not CRS.
- Derrich
Adam: he will fill my feed for sure!
- Robert Scoble
from iPhone
Really Simple Scoble?
- Laura Norvig
Redford Scott Scoble
- Eric
Yeah. Domains and Facebook, etc.
- Robert Scoble
from iPhone
Robert Stay Scoble?
- Jesse Stay
Romeo Stuart Scoble
- Eric
My initials are my name in pig-latin when you spell them backwards: SEJ
- Jesse Stay
epic EPIC win.
- Justin Gerard
Robert Scott Scoble
- Scratch5150
Rupert Scott Scoble
- Eric
Ruth Sarah Scoble
- Mr K
His middle name will be Soroush. That means divine calling in Farsi.
- Robert Scoble
from iPhone
Rihanna Sylvia Scoble
- Eric
Rowan Soroush Scoble
- Joan Lockwood
RSS is due September 26th.
- Robert Scoble
from iPhone
Congrats, Robert!
- Joan Lockwood
Ronald Stuart Scoble
- Eric
Reginald Scott Scoble
- Eric
Really Small Scoble...of course
- Derrich
Robert (named after you) [insert a middle name starting with an s] Scoble
- Chris Martin
Randy Super Scoble.
- Tomy Thomson
Robert Silent Scoble
- Ninoo
Really Sneaky Scoble
- Lon Cohen
Eric that has the best cadence. its a drumbeat name. will be easy to remember: Redford Scott Scoble
- Melanie Reed
You should Pubsubhubbub and get RSS here instantly.
- Andrew Smith
from fftogo
Excellent. I will subscribe.
- Louis Gray
Great way to get your wife on the RSS bandwagon :-)
- Jesse Stay
Robert Seymour Scoble (sorry, I had to say it).
- Rodrigo Jaroszewski
My sons name was available the day he was born and then two damn days later some guy in Australia grabbed it.
- Hunter
With a nickname of Dave :)
- jcunwired
I'm sure he'll be a Winer, too
- Jesse Stay
Really Simple Scoble?
- Lindsay
Rakiva Smoskvitz Scoble. (The R and the first S are silent.)
- Akiva Moskovitz
akiva
- Yolanda
Will commoncraft make a video of the birth?
- jcunwired
Haha I know the name but I'm not saying! :-)
- Dave Winer
Awesome.
- Stefan Holmes
Rave Siner Scoble
- jcunwired
OMG IT'S EMBARGOED.
- Akiva Moskovitz
This is not the child's actual name: Really Simple Scoble. :-)
- Dave Winer
l dont think its difficult to name a child yall wn l had mine l had to create one which l later found found out to be a beautiful one..as long it has a meaning just do it..
- Pam Gwenzi
Its Robert Socble Second
- Sidharth Dassani
___ Soroush Scoble. What a fun game! Robert and Rasputin are likely out. And what a marvelous melding of names; American techie communities are full of cultural mashups. Here's to looking forward to 9/26 for mystery's end.
- Alex Howard
but RSS is a dead technology! </sarcasm>
- Tim Hoeck
Tim: well RSS's birth will be Twittered.
- Robert Scoble
from iPhone
Hahahahahahhaha Robert!!!!
- Mona Nomura
My daughter's initials spell MES, and let me tell you - IT'S PROPHETIC. (be careful of the initials).
- Ken Stewart | ChangeForge
Pfft! Robert's following in my footsteps. Audrey's birth was Twittered!
- Akiva Moskovitz
Akiva: Milan's was too and his first cry beat Obama to BlogTalkRadio by two years. ;-)
- Robert Scoble
from iPhone
my guess is Rasputin S. Scoble
- Logan Lindquist
I'll ponder a guess: Richard Scott Scoble?
- Thomas Ward
Damn you, Robert! [shakes fist]
- Akiva Moskovitz
Gerber just announced a new line of baby food called RSS Feed. ;o)
- Louis Trapani
from iPhone
My own initials spell out RSS. LT, good one.
- Rob Schieber
Maybe that's not such a good idea, with Steve Gillmor parading around claiming it is dead. XMPP would be more apt, but don't ask me what the initial would stand for. One gnarly name.
- Steven (optionshiftk)
Robert Scoble Scoble?
- Ryan Kuder
Or B.S. - I know someone who has a kid with those initials!
- Carrie Lynn
Robert Senior's Scoble?
- sebastian☆rocket brother
That reminds me of a humorous website where you could input letters like these and it would give you a humorously formed acronym - I remember bookmarking it and cant seem to find it...
- TrafficBug
Robbie St. Scoble?
- Bas
Robert Stanley like my dad?
- Yant
Streamy - http://wakoopa.com/softwar...
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Iván Abrego, John Rubier, Edgar Rodríguez and 7 other people liked this
interested in your thoughts. the ajax drag to share feature is pretty nice. seems like a few bugs to work out before it's ready for prime-time but a great start.
- michael sean wright
would imagine more services are coming shortly.
- michael sean wright
Interesting - but it's no Friendfeed.
- Leo Laporte
Fundamentally different, to be honest. Try to take it with a clean palate :)
- Don Mosites
I don't mean to compare it to Friendfeed - it's definitely something else. But I'm not sure it's something I'd use.
- Leo Laporte
Fair enough, as long as there's an idea of what you think works / doesn't.
- Don Mosites
I would like to see more social networks added to this service. Perhaps include YouTube, Last.FM, Likaholix, and TwitPic?
- Thomas Ward
@Don. I am checking out Streamy (nice work) and was wondering where do the "Stories for you" come from? Point me at a FAQ if I am asking questions that have been frequently answered ;)
- Tom Horn
I think it's a great idea to aggregate the social networks into a single page but... not sure they pull it off well enough to use... i'll try it for a while though.
- Scott Naples
Also, I may well be missing something, but does Streamy do the aggregation of your "own stuff" that FF does?
- Tom Horn
Am trying it here as well...certainly not FF, but am going to keep an eye on it.
- Jack Wilson, K4SAC
@Tom The front page stories are popular today (and eventually tailored to you once we learn more about you). The fundamental difference that I mentioned was that we don't currently aggregate your "own stuff". In fact, we decided to leave the lifestreaming stuff to FriendFeed and others. May change.
- Don Mosites
Nice to meet you, Don. I'll give Streamy some more time. (I'm leolaporte there, too.)
- Leo Laporte
@Don Thanks Don. That's interesting. Looking forward to watching as Streamy develops. I realize how difficult this stuff is to get right and appreciate the great work you have done so far.
- Tom Horn
x "is friends with" y -- y "reads" z ... <--- wish I didn't have to wade through these in the "New from People" feed.
- Christopher A Carr
Streamy is the failed genetic outcome of mixing Google reader, a comment system and status updates. Definitely needs work... P.S. Hello Chief TWiT!
- Randy Shapiro
Thanks Tom. @Randy, Streamy is not an outcome, and will evolve and improve. We appreciate everyone having taken a fresh look at us in the last few days.
- Don Mosites
Nice to meet you as well Leo. Cheers.
- Don Mosites
@Don. I will indeed take a look as the service improves.
- Randy Shapiro
Hi Leo ;D
- 'Like' robot (frɐnc)
Ok trying out friendfeed....any suggestions?
Jason Huebel, Tyson Key, funkyboy and 162 other people liked this
try streamy!!!
- Alejandra Benevento
I am trying it to. Hope you will follow me.
- Charlotte Frum
Just a request; can you teach me once you've learned, I'm still learning Facebook! I'm good on twitter...lol, love ya DM
- Justin Dee
Had the same idea at nearly the exact same time... Great minds... ;o)
- bethany
I love facebook. Had trouble at first but love it now. The games are fun.
- Charlotte Frum
Make a theme in your settings :) FriendFeed is much better than twitter.
- Sam Guzman
Yeah! Vote and RT for @BodeSunValley for cutest puppy! :) thanks! http://www.cutestdogcompetition.com/vote...
- Lauren Zondag
Well, give it a good go, and you will love the way it all works, compared to twitter, other than that, it may seem a bit of a lot to deal with at first, but there is so many threads of help and advice here, it won't take long to get to grips with ;o) Welcome by the way... leave hubby outside tho lol.. friendfeed may crash! ;o)
- Rob Sellen :o)
Okay I'm here too! Seems cool, have you dicovered anything new and different?
- Tracy Ferry
How are Demi? What are you working on?
- Charlotte Frum
Oh, you will see this is way better for conversations.
- Sam Guzman
trying it too it beteer then twitter you can see the feeds instead of waiting great thank you mrs moore
- antony march
It's like chat. Right? can anyone read it or only people following you,etc.?
- Charlotte Frum
Charlotte: Yes, anyone can read it. It's different than chat in that it doesn't dissappear. Conversations are accessible months later and with their own url. Make sense?
- Sam Guzman
oh. i like this more! interaction!
- Keilah Sanchez
me too, i just join this friendfeed right now!
- charlene chua
Oh thanks Sam. That's great! Love it. Hope it catches on.
- Charlotte Frum
demi, lets start a secret chain.... i'll say one of mine and you contine. i borrow cleaning gear from my apartment complex & replace before anyone sees :)
- Keilah Sanchez
Start following people on here... ;o)
- Rob Sellen :o)
Uh!!!! Oh nevermind, I just can't...lol
- Bill Heslin
Holden, considering it just posted to her twitter account, it seems like it is.
- Sam Guzman
Holden.. yeah it is. ;o) hopefully more "ordinary" people join.. lol.. no offence to anyone here... :o) :P Just.. you know what I mean ;o)
- Rob Sellen :o)
hook up your twitter, facebook, blog sites, whatever. This is so much cleaner and neater.
- Kimba Rudd
I'M JUST TRYING FRIENDFEED ITS NICE!?I LIKE IT?
- Rosa
This is great Ashton gets me addicted to Twitter and now Demi gets me hooked on this LOL you guys are great <3 to you both
- Jessica Williams
Hey Rob, I know what you mean. I wish more people would use FF. Too bad it just got bought by Facebook!
- Sam Guzman
like it
- antony march
yeah.. 100% right there Holden, and she gets to keep tweets together ;o)
- Rob Sellen :o)
This site is great ! I love this. This is going to catch on no troubles
- Jessica Williams
Demi, Welcome to FF and all the new FF'rs in this thread, Check out http://friendfeed.com/friendf... for some great starter tips. Oh and listen to Holden...He is the God of FF :)
- Bill Heslin
Thanks Bill !! checking it out now :)
- Jessica Williams
I thought you would like that Holden :)
- Bill Heslin
i don't get this?
- Tina Haight
what don't you get Tina?
- Rob Sellen :o)
What makes me laugh is that everyone is loving friendfeed all of a sudden, when it's been around for like two years, as awesome as ever. No one knew about it though! I really think it could have been a Twitter killer if the right people joined.
- Sam Guzman
i'm not sure- it doesn't tell me who is who
- Tina Haight
Really this was around 2 years ago?
- Jessica Williams
You are right Sam... it WILL be too... if it stays..IF faceache don't drop it that is ;o)
- Rob Sellen :o)
is demi seeing this right now? i don't get it. lol
- Tina Haight
she can see this if she is watching it
- Jessica Williams
so it's just like a chat room?
- Tina Haight
tina.. what you mean?
- Rob Sellen :o)
Sam, I think all the tweets that generated from here about the Facebook buyout is bringing more people in now. Unfortunately as we know, it's a little too late..but we are going to hang in there... :)
- Bill Heslin
NO tina.. its like twitter but in REAL time... and threaded.. demi WILL see this.. then go.. WTF?? how did that happen.. ;o)
- Rob Sellen :o)
so essentially it is a chat room that mated with twitter?
- Jessica Williams
Bill... I think it was PART of the plan.. why techcrunch broke it.. and why they sold to faceache.. ;o)
- Rob Sellen :o)
Or she is watching this right now going WTF?? and laughing
- Jessica Williams
This is great i love this lol
- Jessica Williams
i just got here 16 min ago i have demi and ashton since that is how i got here through her twitter
- Jessica Williams
jessica... Tina... sub to me.. oh.. just saw holden post.. and him ;o) then just ask if ya get lost. ;o)
- Rob Sellen :o)
Im working on it kk
- Jessica Williams
Real time rocks...Oh shit...I can't keep banging the drum! Or can I? LOL sure I can....
- Bill Heslin
how to sub.. hover over our names... use the pop up..
- Rob Sellen :o)
ok ok im subin im subin !!
- Jessica Williams
how do i find my friend list
- Lynn
now.. click do you ONLY have this post in your home tab?? if so.. you see it as it grows.. i opened this thread in new tab alone.. do that by clicking the TIME stamp under demis pic.. ;o)
- Rob Sellen :o)
never heard of this, but I am willing to try new things.
- Nita Wertz Ernst
lynn.. do you sub to anyone yet?
- Rob Sellen :o)
k rob thanks i got it woots i subbed !!!
- Jessica Williams
yes several
- Lynn
but there is no list like twitter
- Lynn
Welcome
- Alejandro
Ok folks, the difference between friend feed and a chat room is that a chatroom doesn't aggregate all your social media activity. friendfeed pulls in your activity from a bunch of social media sites, like youtube, facebook, twitter, etc. but also provides the functionality of twitter and a chat room. So basically it's your social media life on steroids. Very powerful.
- Sam Guzman
Lynn... on the right hand side.. is your friends...
- Rob Sellen :o)
demi?!?! lol
- Tina Haight
thanks rob & Holden I'll try that
- Lynn
Very cool. If you like PostSecret, you should check out www.SecretRegrets.com.
- SecretRegrets
Demi started this great convo and walked away :( lol
- Jessica Williams
I'm still new at this but it's growin on me, thanks for all the help
- Lynn
piss off with the spam crap.... everyone.. you can BLOCK or hide idiots like secretregrets... ironic.. you will regret the spam.. lol.. NO_ONE will see it.. ;o)
- Rob Sellen :o)
hmmm
- Sparkles
she could be reading and learning like the rest of us
- Lynn
jessica... yeah.. but wit till she pops in.. she will go..WTF!!!!! how the hell.. hang on.. why are all these people chatting!!! ;o)
- Rob Sellen :o)
didn't facebook purchase or absorb friendfeed??
- Mercedes(Chris)Ozcan
in real time...lol....
- Rob Sellen :o)
lol Rob
- Jessica Williams
no kidding
- Jessica Williams
mercedes.. yes, they did.. two nights ago
- Rob Sellen :o)
how do you block or hide spam
- Lynn
Jessica.. you can also send replies to the tweets to titter from here...
- Rob Sellen :o)
Yup figured that out already thanks :)
- Jessica Williams
lynn.. to block him.. CLICK his name.. block ;o)
- Rob Sellen :o)
Engage other people in conversation. Best advice I can give.
- MVB (Curmudgeon of FF)
from fftogo
Lynn. You will not find too much Spam on FF
- Bill Heslin
That then HIDES all of his comments.. thats WHY this place is SPAM free.. and we would like to KEEP it that way.. so use the block with spammers... they will soon go back to...twitter lol ;o)
- Rob Sellen :o)
I really wish we could get a bunch of celebs on here and keep friendfeed from disappearing!
- Sam Guzman
i'm waiting for her- this is my excitement for the night. hah
- Tina Haight
done thanks again this is kinda confusing but fun
- Lynn
EVERYONE who follows her who is on here.. should tweet http://bit.ly/8dSsK << that to her ;o)
- Rob Sellen :o)
What's the difference between this and twitter??
- Annette Baldwin
real time
- Jessica Williams
And yea i was really hoping to just say hello to her i hope she pops on soon
- Jessica Williams
OOHHH thanks
- Annette Baldwin
annete... apples and pips... lol apples being this place ;o)
- Rob Sellen :o)
sry holden didnt mean to step on ur toes :)
- Jessica Williams
yep he gone
- Lynn
Im on here now too!
- Samantha Scheideler
anyone gonna TWEET that link to her???
- Rob Sellen :o)
welcome Samantha !
- Jessica Williams
Well, this should be interesting...
- Michael McKean
http://bit.ly/8dSsK <<< tweet it...
- Rob Sellen :o)
Thanks jessica williams
- Samantha Scheideler
:) ^5 to u holden
- Jessica Williams
Blamedrewscancer.com - pls spread the word
- Liza
are there any size limits to the characters typed?
- Lynn
Just in time for the big moving sale! Enjoy like there is no tomorrow!
- Martha
Rob, so when you post to twitter it auto posts to ff or vice versa
- Mercedes(Chris)Ozcan
i have no idea jsut started. i lik this its like twitter but alsso like a chat room in a way.
- Samantha Scheideler
lia.. don't treat this place like twitter... drew USES this place, and that word gets spread ;o) now I #blamedrewscancer for you doing that ;o)
- Rob Sellen :o)
good I hate getting cut off and I'm no good at the new shorthand
- Lynn
yes merc..
- Rob Sellen :o)
GREAT - @drew is on here, but I am spreading the word as long as he is not on the thread. I #blamedrewscancer that he is missing this.
- Liza
huh?
- Tina Haight
rob s and holden !got it thanks - what else is there to know?
- Mercedes(Chris)Ozcan
No i havent only Demi Moore. I literally just started this im learning how to use it still.
- Samantha Scheideler
I don't believe it is Demi.
- Robert Scoble
from iPhone
don't believe what is demi? her twitter?
- Tina Haight
Robert: it posted to her twitter account..
- Sam Guzman
this is Demi :)
- Jessica Williams
lots merc... just have a look around.. you can create list of people here.. import stuff.. click your settings under your name on the top right.. have a PEEK ;o)
- Rob Sellen :o)
Either Demi is reading the FF beginners group, or she just hasn't figured out how to read FF yet, and doesn't see all this wonderful Real time conversation that can't happen on Twitter..But anyway, back to my regular feed have fun everyone. Any questions...Just ask Holden LOL
- Bill Heslin
it is her.... i knowe for a fact
- Samantha Scheideler
OK I believe! :-)
- Robert Scoble
from iPhone
She brought us all here from Twitter
- Jessica Williams
and then abandoned us. haha
- Tina Haight
ha.. Robert is.. wrong.. (for once he would argue) ;o)
- Rob Sellen :o)
I know :( but im sure she had a reason i imagine she is a busy woman
- Jessica Williams
The biggest user on FF
- Sam Guzman
will do!
- Mercedes(Chris)Ozcan
lol i know right. just like ashton jsut posted on twitter and i responded to somthing he aid and nothig yet
- Samantha Scheideler
Uhm, where is the Friendfeed crew - wish they would chime in since they got the payday.
- Liza
Holden... don't tell them that... its Alex... ;o)
- Rob Sellen :o)
I just had a great dinner in San Antonio
- Robert Scoble
from iPhone
liza... they are all users here...
- Rob Sellen :o)
oops sorry for all the typos i have acrylics on
- Samantha Scheideler
What you have then Robert?
- Rob Sellen :o)
Demi, the major difference to me is tha FF is more engaging; if you play along. Meaning, don't post something and then not interact with other users. Go back to Twitter if you don't want to make an effort.
- Chad Gesser
from BuddyFeed
http://bit.ly/8dSsK <<< post that to her on twitter
- Rob Sellen :o)
Aww Chad that wasnt nice at all
- Jessica Williams
Agreed Jessica...Chad Boo!!!! :) It takes time to get it...give her a chance..
- Bill Heslin
Ya and if she is sitting back watching trying to figure out whens a good time to say something to us all that isnt going to make her want to talk
- Jessica Williams
Robert, do you think we can save FF???
- Sam Guzman
Chad - that is wrong - I got that SO many times - you guys never do it to girls
- Liza
Welcome!
- Stephan Miller
ignore ppl who say go back to Twitter
- Liza
Chad.. please don't go down that road.. a few have done it..I have made mistakes here before.. they stick... look at the spammer earlier in this thread.. ;o) CLICK the timestamp under demi's name here and open this thread in its own tab ;o)
- Rob Sellen :o)
yayy, demi B-) ff is the place for all the action.
- Gtp19
liza... lol.. you start using this place, and you won't want to go to twitter so much ;o)
- Rob Sellen :o)
I am tired of ppl saying go back to Twitter - get over yourself or I will say go back to atari
- Liza
Later Holden...
- Bill Heslin
yep spammers don't last round here
- Lynn
Yes, try Streamy.....
- Janet Fouts
I'm leaving too. I hope Demi comes back and sees how fun FF can be. Bye everyone!
- Sam Guzman
thanks Holden
- Lynn
and to do that use the link in the top bar on this page... email is direct too.. ;o) yeah you can post a DM from your email too.. ;o)
- Rob Sellen :o)
what is streamy?
- Tina Haight
LIZA.. can I have a go on your atari? :P
- Rob Sellen :o)
tina.. http://streamy.com ;o)
- Rob Sellen :o)
sounds dirty, lol
- Tina Haight
Rob - you can,but you have not been an ass to me.
- Liza
Tina - dirty is fun.
- Liza
Geeks will not tell you go to Twitter if you are dirty.
- Liza
http://bit.ly/8dSsK << will as MANY of you tweet that to Demi.... :o) get her over here to see it n action... while you are all busy here
- Rob Sellen :o)
lol Liza.. thanks... :o)
- Rob Sellen :o)
i don't know, rob, my husband and friends make fun of me when i tweet @ celebrities. hhaha
- Tina Haight
LOOK at all this thread... how many comments... in less than 45 mins...
- Rob Sellen :o)
Everyone makes fun of me, ignore it
- Liza
Tina.. we just want to OPEN her eyes.... ;o)
- Rob Sellen :o)
Greetings new FriendFeed users. Welcome to the playground.
- Robert Kenney
WTH, Demi might as well save friendfeed from closing.. bring back demi.
- Gtp19
Hey Demi..I just signed up for FriendFeed the other night. Not sure what to think about it either... hmmm
- Melisa
so.. who needs people subbing to them???? ;o)
- Rob Sellen :o)
Robert, I don't either.
- Martha
so how do I tweet it to her from here?
- Lynn
Its quite funny either way. True or not.
- Matt G
go to your home page... post it in the comments.. with your @mrsaplusk too.. click the CC to twitter . post ;o) as long as you have added your twitter username here that is...
- Rob Sellen :o)
Beginners can find help here: http://friendfeed.com/friendf... and feel free to ask anyone!
- Robert Kenney
I don't know, just gonna feel it out.....
- Brenda Erdman Velasquez
done but I had to do it from tweetdeck, I will keep workin on this though
- Lynn
Think of it as the place where all of your online stuff goes. You see the stuff, say, that your friends on Twitter are liking on YouTube. You can then talk about it, favorite it, etc. just like you do on Facebook. It's a mashup of all of your Web activity in one place.
- Steve Lynch
from twhirl
Lynn... you will like it here, you will notice whenever anything gets commented on, or liked, it jumps to the top of the page...
- Rob Sellen :o)
The key to FriendFeed is following me. :)
- Andrew
She'll never see this but I just have to comment knowing that I interacted with Demi Moore. ;)
- Keith - @tsudo
It's amazing that with all of Demi's followers that she doesn't get more people over here. I'm noticing a trend: not many people engage on Tweets.
- Robert Scoble
ahh that is why nothing is in the order it was posted in
- Lynn
Be sure to add the bookmarklet to your browser. Makes posting to FriendFeed much easier.
- Robert Kenney
It's nice to see so many new people joining up; welcome to everyone! I was going to suggest some of you check out the FriendFeed for Beginners group but I see someone else has already done that. Otherwise, the best suggestion I can offer you all is to do a search for some things that interests you and follow the people that posted them.
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
Subscribe to Holden.
- Gus
Robert..I have noticed that on twitter they tend to struggle..... celebs would be in the element on here..
- Rob Sellen :o)
thanks for that Andrew I knew there was a right way to do this haha
- Lynn
Well I apologize to those that took offense to my initial comment. That's just my take: show me some substance. Welcome Demi!
- Chad Gesser
from BuddyFeed
http://bit.ly/8dSsK <<< IF more of you tweeted that to her with @herusername she may take notice...
- Rob Sellen :o)
Nice to see her here. Yet in this service, celebrities need to participate on the conversation which is what makes this different than Twitter.
- Manuel Mas
It would be deliciously ironic if the buyout that everyone was worried about was the making of FF!
- Matt G
Try not to get all caught up in out techno-babble, but a lot of learning here.
- professor daddyo
Everyone's new at some point. The more the better.
- Robert Kenney
lol.. chad.. the point is.. she probably not come back since posting.. but she will do.. and THEN realise what she missed..
- Rob Sellen :o)
Holden: come now. She has 1.7 million followers. This place should be going absolutely crazy if they were very engaged.
- Robert Scoble
Steve: that's what I meant to say! lol
- Chad Gesser
from BuddyFeed
oh demi- it would make my night if you said something on here to us. :)
- Tina Haight
I like old people.
- Michael McKean
I agree.. but then, how many actually click her links... not many i bet.
- Rob Sellen :o)
hmmm. can't wait here all night, demi!
- Tina Haight
Scoble: engage, engage, engage. That to me is the point, which is very attractive about FF. Might I add connection?
- Chad Gesser
from BuddyFeed
start adding all your other social accounts (if you have any), that's the real kick to friendfeed (at least for me), an all in one feed
- Gubatron
welcome chad, we like that much better
- Lynn
Well I was hoping she would talk with us. Oh well.
- Ben Hanten
Robert Scoble: Most Tweets aren't very... engaging! :)
- Steve Lynch
from twhirl
anyone watch big brother?
- Tina Haight
nope hells kitchen
- Lynn
NO.. not that shit bb.. not on here lol
- Rob Sellen :o)
oh i love hells kitchen too
- Tina Haight
leave big brother on twitter eh... ;o)
- Rob Sellen :o)
I saw that Rob :)
- Mattb4rd
haha! but it's such a great show. and i am still excited about tonight's show. ;)
- Tina Haight
welcome. where is ashton? :P
- Oğuz Serdar
we don't need bb crap here .. I get away from tv and twitter to escape it!!!
- Rob Sellen :o)
Demi just posted to twitter I tried to tell her we were all waiting for her but...
- Lynn
we don't need ashton either ;o)
- Rob Sellen :o)
getting a little testie arent we
- Lynn
Ashton is here http://friendfeed.com/theateam
- Matt G
I think they come as a set
- Lynn
lol
- Lynn
no... I am just sayng.. both in one night would crash the place lol... if they started using it that is...
- Rob Sellen :o)
Ashton was on the Dan Patrick Show today and was hilarious. Gained a bunch of new respect for him.
- Ben Hanten
They could not crash FF....FF FTW....
- Bill Heslin
haha they do generate a bit of traffic
- Lynn
Ashton's FF account is a twitter dump...no engagement...Damn..I got sucked back into this conversation again...lol
- Bill Heslin
I didn't like the way he did things at twitter at all... told him as much too..
- Rob Sellen :o)
i'm not gonna lie- i'm a pretty big deal too.
- Tina Haight
ok i'm lying.
- Tina Haight
ark at you tina... ;o)
- Rob Sellen :o)
;) i DO have 88 followers on twitter. on my way to the million mark
- Tina Haight
wow.. :o) doing good... follow that many on here tonight and see what the power of this place is like ;o)
- Rob Sellen :o)
I never had heard of it before but I'm trying now. Is it fairly new?
- Barry Winters
from iPhone
lol
- Lynn
barry.. no... not so new..as much as sold..lol ;o)
- Rob Sellen :o)
suggestions? Yeah start chatting back while you still just have 175 subscribers :D
- BairdWilliamson
Welcome to all the new visitors. Barry, this is about 18 months old, but lots of new features were turned on recently.
- Robert Scoble
alright- i am giving up hope on demi coming. have been staring at a computer screen all day and night for work.
- Tina Haight
night everyone!
- Tina Haight
night nice chatting
- Lynn
What?! The Scobelizer is a doubter as well? Tack it on to the list...
- iamkhayyam
Yeah, welcome to all... :o) any problems you only have to ask..ask ANYONE lol ;o)
- Rob Sellen :o)
I'm not a doubter anymore! :-)
- Robert Scoble
nice meeting you tina.. night. :o)
- Rob Sellen :o)
Haha! There you go... she's Verified :)
- iamkhayyam
make a group, add all your favorite sites.
- Tyson
What do you mean, Demi, "any suggestions?" What are you looking for? And why aren't you engaging, er, talking with us here?
- Robert Scoble
lmao..... good one robert.. shame she missed it happen in real time lol :o)
- Rob Sellen :o)
lol
- Gtp19
Hi Demi.You're a little late to the party. We are all worried they are going to shut us out of this nice little cozy club called Friendfeed and lead us back to the shark-infested waters of Facebook. We are still makin' hay while the sun shines. :-)
- Karma Martell
Well, if she's turned off real-time she might not even be seeing the comments yet, Robert. Or perhaps she made the post and left for dinner (west coast and all) and will check back later.
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
...cool! welcome to FF. did you beat Ashton here?
- .LAG liked that
this is like a really really private party with only 198 following on friendfeed...Demi leave the party already?
- Rex Gradeless
This is just too cool.
- Sherrie Belken
http://bit.ly/8dSsK << RT that in reply to her... see if she gets to see it at least ONE bloody time lol...
- Rob Sellen :o)
It seems she doesn't care the comments.
- Oğuz Serdar
perhaps just not aware they are here ...
- Tom Horn
Engaging?! Seriously Scoble? Haha... that's a funny one. One msg on FriendFeed and then she's off for some Kabbalah teachings.
- iamkhayyam
probably Demi doesn like to be part of comments, rather she likes to make the headlines, i mean the posts, lol :D
- Gtp19
+1 Robert
- Robert Kenney
ok gettin mean now gotta go
- Lynn
LoL Hi Demi... Welcome to the FF Mob! Now go and spread some hate </extremesarcasm>
- teh Dork Knight aka Kenny
Lynn: see ya, sorry about the meanness. But it would be nice to see Demi actually chat for a few minutes so she could get a sense of the power of friendfeed.
- Robert Scoble
Demi: I see you're here. And welcome to all the new people on FriendFeed. I'd like to see you (and Ashton) take part in the conversations here. ;)
- Dennis Jernberg
aggreed but bein mean isn't gonna make it happen
- Lynn
Hahah! ++1000 tehKenny
- Bill Heslin
Maybe she is too awestruck at the magnificence of friendfeed to type. I am imagining her sitting there frozen with her mouth hanging open watching all of this going on.
- April Russo (app103)
yes, we would love to have Demi here.. long live friendfeed... i mean until its shut down!!
- Gtp19
Well, you're about to get a billion responses of course, but you should hook up feeds from other sites you use too, not just Twitter. Maybe a YouTube channel too? Or Flickr?
- Ciaoenrico
while wondering why twitter just..sits there lol
- Rob Sellen :o)
April: That makes sense
- Matt G
Welcome indeed. You should add more of your feeds to your FF account
- Vinko
sub to some of the others here in this thread.. you all get to learn this place together then...
- Rob Sellen :o)
Maybe she's thinking how on earth she's meant to keep up with the comments, posting from her blackberry/iphone/othermobiledevice :P
- 1x29
@April That could be it. FF in Helvetica mode is hypnotic ...
- Tom Horn
Thanks for that @iconic88 :) Always a good reminder... #love is all there is :)
- iamkhayyam
Welcome to FF!
- Jack Wilson, K4SAC
lol @ Tom
- Gtp19
Thank you iconic88
- Sherrie Belken
FF in any mode is hypnotic. I haven't been able to pull myself away for many months.
- April Russo (app103)
OK, predictions on how many comments this post will top out at? I'm going for 2,000.
- 1x29
Hmm .. no , I think we are done. This is probably the last one ...
- Tom Horn
Now everyone isl just staring waiting for Demi to comment :p
- Gary Gannon
More points if you guess the number of posts before Demi makes a comment :)
- 1x29
lol
- Sherrie Belken
nah...plenty more will come later when everyone else sees it in best of day.
- April Russo (app103)
and if she happens to engage it'll explode
- Gary Gannon
yeah, its jus warming up... plenty more to come.
- Gtp19
http://bit.ly/8dSsK << could tweet her that link.. its this THREAD .. ;o)
- Rob Sellen :o)
Demi this is my first time trying this after you. What is the difference between this and twitter? How did u find this?....Kim Goedde
- Kim Goedde
Kim: Look through the thread. There's lots of advice.
- Christopher A Carr
Kim, Demi hasn't been back on the thread to respond yet. I can't speak for her, but for me the biggest difference between FF and Twitter is the organization. If you send out a tweet you have to watch for @replies in response to that tweet, and they're kind of easy to miss. On FF when you make a post, all the replies to it are lined up underneath and it's much easier to follow (and take part) in the conversation.
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
Tina...You are one of the best Ambassadors for FF..Well said
- Bill Heslin
That's the whole deal Tina
- Sherrie Belken
Well, that's a big part of it Sherrie. The inclusion of media is another big selling point (for me, at least). Here people can include images, files, audio, or video on their posts and I can see/hear it here. On Twitter there's always a clickthrough, an extra tab or window, etc... Perhaps I'm lazy, but I like being able to interact with it all in one spot =)
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
Demi-are you getting paid to promote these sites? I have posted comments now and again and have never got 1 response from you......Kim Goedde
- Kim Goedde
Yes, I see posts that include the pics from my twitter account. Very cool.
- Sherrie Belken
PJ WRONG.. whatever Scoble says is the right thing for HIM to do... and it may work for you, or not.. just use the place and find you own rhythm here. :o)
- Rob Sellen :o)
Kim... why does THAT bother you.... do you think you could repsond to all those 1.7 million odd? THAT is why we are trying to say to her here... you should see this thread.. but she hasn't yet been back it seems... NO-ONE owes you a reply.. we learn that the hard way ;o)
- Rob Sellen :o)
250+ subscribers and counting. I'm holding off for now, even if all the rest of the geeks are subscribing. Not following her on Twitter. Demi, you'd better give me a good reason to subscribe. *switches to wait & see mode*
- Dennis Jernberg
Robert:Same thing here as on Twitter. Only a "handful" of "followers/subscribers" engage.
- Dana Fosburgh
My one suggestion to you, since FriendFeed will probably be a high traffic place for you - check out Robert Scoble (scobleizer) and see how he handles high volume.
- John E. Bredehoft
from fftogo
i like this so far..
- wendy smith
A good suggestion
- Sherrie Belken
Learn from the master. ;)
- Dennis Jernberg
'Crickets'
- Robert Kenney
sheesh... her subs are crap... subbing mainly to people who never use the place???
- Rob Sellen :o)
That was just imported
- Sherrie Belken
Yeah. When you join FF, it imports your Twitter follows. That's why I have over 120 subscriptions when I have only 75 subscribers: people on Twitter join, and I subscribe to them automagically.
- Dennis Jernberg
was also useless lol ;o)
- Rob Sellen :o)
Hey Demi, welcome to Friend Feed. Hope all is well with you and those you love. Think about adding Robert Scoble to your Friend Feed list. He is the leading expert on all things Friend Feed, and usually is the first to give us heads up when something new is coming down the pike. Take care of you! =)
- SashaKane
If you use Firefox, download Yoono --a Firefox add-on that allows you to see Twitter, Facebook, Friendfeed in Firefox, and gives a central place where all can be updated simultaneously.
- Danny Groveman
thats what I wanted
- Sherrie Belken
Can be overwhelmed by Scobles feed at times..not ideal for a new user..
- Rob Sellen :o)
Hi. Welcome to FriendFeed.
- Steven Perez
DYDMoore than steve perez. :o)
- Rob Sellen :o)
Welcome to FriendFeed, Demi! I will definitely be sure to subscribe to you here!
- Thomas Ward
comment, like, share!
- Sean Oliver
+1 Sean ...that's really FF in a nuthsell!
- .LAG liked that
never take it too seriously, always keep a sense of humor with FriendFeed
- sofarsoShawn
started using friendfeed recently. i love the imaginary friends feature
- Patricio Rocha
*waves Link FF with Tumblr ...I love pictures in my feeds. PEACE!
- Rich Weaver
Hi!! :)
- Susan Beebe
from iPhone
This is post is why FriendFeed had to sell their goods Facebook. I am now convinced. Geek mob rule.
- Alex C. Williams
Hello Demi ❤ Glad to see you here!
- Jannifer @wordsforliving
I honestly only use FF to compile all my sites, almost never for discussions
- Allison Warnock
what a strange turn of events considering the situation at hand..a bit late. but better late than never i guess. Welcome to all the new users.
- Carlos Ayala
Glad to see you are here Demi, It's a pleasure.
- Sherrie Belken
Suggestions... Well, stop being cool about it and write something!..
- Timsah memet
just play around D and you'll figure it out
- Thomas Power
She still not been back then??
- Rob Sellen :o)
ok, i'm trying it too. just hope she doesn't try jumping off a bridge or i'm screwed
- Laurel howard
I' m new and trying this too. I see your comments from Twitter on this thing too, are they linked?-confused : (
- Rose
Glad to have you both join us, Laurel and Rose =) Rose, Demi is importing her Twitter stream into FriendFeed, that's why you see her Twitter items here. When you comment on one of her Twitter items here, there's a checkbox that will allow you to send that comment to her on Twitter as an @reply.
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
its like when kawasaki popped in for a single conversation last month. must be hard to deal whe you get so many replies
- Robert Higgins
So many replies that aren't very welcoming don't help matters either.
- pea
In reality all we've gained by Demi Moore's brief appearance is a number of celebrity stalkers hoping to cut her off at one more cyber pass and get the one reply they're living their lives for. The best demonstration yet of Scobles 'who you follow, defines you'?
- 1x29
demi! we love you. just showed my daughters your 1986 classic movie about last night. they fell in love with you as i did!
- JNez
Has Scoble ever had 385 comments here? What's the record? ;O
- Rob Schieber
Yes, Scoble has had 385 comments on FF. His post just this week re: FF geeks got over 1200.
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
Start by subbing to the peeps who comment on this thread.
- Thom Kennon
Scoble has a thread from this week re FF addicts that i think has 1500 comments and counting.
- Thom Kennon
yeah @Robert Higgins, Kawasaki kindasorta just disappeared pretty quickly didn't he?...
- Thom Kennon
a few said he would tho... no surprise to see them ignoring the threads... daft really, why bother even starting one....
- Rob Sellen :o)
Like, share, follow and be merry. Welcome.
- Jim Goldstein
from iPhone
FF can be fun, emotional, crazy, and always entertaining. Just speak up when you see something interesting. Like Twitter, but more rounded. And don't mind the doom and gloom chatter that wanders around... some folks just don't handle change well. :D Welcome...
- Bette Cooper
I've had lots of threads more than 385. Here's a list: http://friendfeed.com/search... -- this is why the search here rocks. Click on "Advanced Search" and you can find answers to all these kinds of questions.
- Robert Scoble
Why can't you like a comment on FF? I hereby like that comment.
- Amy℠
we say +1 amy ;o)
- Rob Sellen :o)
i dont get this
- Lin Hill
bye
- Lin Hill
bye
- Daniel J. Pritchett
Do you have any specific questions, Lin?
- Christopher A Carr
i dont know how to do this
- Lin Hill
You can sort of think of it as Twitter + a searchable, multimedia chatroom, that aggregates your web activity. You can have FF pull in your Youtube favorites, Amazon wish list, etc...
- Christopher A Carr
oh right.. maybe i should try again 2morrow when i havent had a drink, cause i dont get that at all
- Lin Hill
Try the friendfeed bookmarklet: http://friendfeed.com/share... - There's a short video tutorial.
- Christopher A Carr
ok thanks, i will try that
- Lin Hill
Lin, what exactly would you like to do on FriendFeed? Are you just wanting to aggregate your items from around the internet, have conversations with other people, etc? There are lots of different ways to use FriendFeed depending on what you'd like to get out of it =)
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
Interesting to see what this thread has become, especially since Demi Moore has not checked back into FriendFeed since posting this.
- Justin Korn
ummm not sure what i want, think maybe i should leave quietly by back door
- Lin Hill
Lin: How do you use Twitter?
- Christopher A Carr
just follow people and comment now and then, thats all
- Lin Hill
Lin: I ask, because you are essentially tweeting with multiple people right now, without having to use @...
- Christopher A Carr
FF has *really* good search. Look for content that interests you. Comment and like, and people will subscribe to you...
- Christopher A Carr
Nah, leaving's not necessary Lin. Especially if you've had a drink: Friday nights on FriendFeed can be fun! If you'd like to see what FriendFeed looks like to be, check http://friendfeed.com/isthiss... That page is what FriendFeed looks like to me because of the people I follow (which is a lot, so you might want to pause it). I use FF to have fun and find good conversations. Other people use it for research, or business, or just to aggregate their material online.
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
well, this is the most i`ve been tweeted to since i started, i dont feel invisible anymore!
- Lin Hill
Don't just import your Twitter like that ditz, Kim Kardashion. But do import what you feel and read and participate in posts. The key thing is participation on here from teaching something to learning something.
-
whos kim k
- Lin Hill
Taking a look at your profile, I see that you're only following 12 people and not really commenting/liking all that much. That's probably why you're not getting a lot of interaction. Find some people that are interesting and interact with them on their posts. Once you start having conversations with people on their material, they get interested in what you have to say and are more likely to follow you back.
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
Imagine if Twitter included video and pictures in Tweets, and provided you with a threaded conversation to discuss your tweets... well, that's what you have here -- and that's just the beginning.
- Christopher A Carr
i didnt realise i even had 12, where did you find that out?
- Lin Hill
Has Demi checked back with us yet?? It will never be too late.
- Amani
Click on your name in the upper right hand corner, Lin.
- Christopher A Carr
it sounds good, i will keep at it 'practise makes perfect' and all that
- Lin Hill
That's exactly it, Lin =) Let us know if you have any other questions: it can be kind of confusing when you first get going...
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
And can you imagine people helping you like this on Twitter? ;-)
- Christopher A Carr
Oh, and try out different themes..
- Christopher A Carr
half the people i`m subscribed too i didnt even choose!! whats that about??
- Lin Hill
Never drink and FriendFeed at the same time
-
i didnt subscribe to red nose day!!
- Lin Hill
Do you follow them on Twitter?
- Christopher A Carr
not all of them, just a few
- Lin Hill
Did you sign up to FriendFeed with your Twitter credentials, Lin? If so, it will subscribe you to the people you follow on Twitter that are on Friendfeed. It's not a big deal, really: all you do is hover over their name and click 'unsubscribe' if you don't want them.
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
ok, thanks everyone, i`ll subscribe to all of you instead
- Lin Hill
This one post may beat the longest post by Robert Scoble
-
You kidding. The record is well beyond 1,500 comments....
- Roberto Bonini
from iPhone
7k if I recall. wait! why am I commenting on this? .p
- 'Like' robot (frɐnc)
خانم دمی مور استریپ تیز دو رو کی بازی میکنید ؟؟
- مـــــــــمد
Haha. Funny Franc. Thats what I thought when I wrote my comment ...
- Roberto Bonini
from iPhone
I doubt she'll participate in this post now
- Mac Sharp
Welcome!
- Andrea Contino
friendfeed is now part of facebook :)
- gareth【ツ】
Welcome, where is Ashton xD?
- Francisco Espinoza
from BuddyFeed
FriendFeed has gone mainstream :o
- Nicholas James
@Nicholas And soon, Friendfeed will go offline!
- Ethan
http://twitpic.com/dr606 - Do you love my sunglasses?
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★ Soner Gönül and Karsen Mitchell liked this
too big. :)
- Gus
Welcome back to the 80s.
- Mike Shulman
Love for this ladies sunglass phase to exit soon, no offense, i just don't dig them!! they cover more flesh than clothes do
- Joey
Absolutely adorable!
- Thomas Ward
HUGE!
- Sean Oliver
no :)
- hermansji.:./tiracconto
No.
- Rochelle
http://twitpic.com/dstx1 - Just a funny sign
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Look at that guy, Justine! Wouldn't you be screaming too!?
- Thomas Ward
I agree landscape keyboard would be an excellent feature for Tweetdeck on iPhone.
I'd like to see landscape keyboard integrated into any iPhone Twitter application!
- Thomas Ward
What is your Last.fm URL? Add me here if you like: http://www.last.fm/user...
★ Soner Gönül, Patrik Johansson, Karma Martell and 51 other people liked this
Don't forget about the FriendFeed group on Last.fm too, more details here: http://ff.im/62vKL #whatsyoururl
- Kol Tregaskes
We are already friends Kol but just for fun: http://last.fm/user/niczak
- Nicholas Kreidberg
Cool, thanks, Nicholas. :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
Here's mine: http://www.last.fm/user...
- Shevonne
I was gonna say...doesn't the FF group on Last.fm take care of this?
- Spidra Webster
It's me! http://www.last.fm/user...
- MicahBear78
here I am: http://www.last.fm/user...
- sean808080
I finally found one person on my friends' list who we are "Very High"
- Shevonne
Mine : http://www.last.fm/user...
- Faraz Mullick
Low? Strange, I like (and listen to) most of your top artists. http://www.last.fm/user...
- Marcos
I think you befriended me on it, but mine's http://last.fm/user/vmlemon.
- Tyson Key
Crud - dropped this on the wrong FF post. Ah well! Sorry to whomever I apparently spammed! http://www.last.fm/user...
- Ciaoenrico
http://last.fm/user/haggis - 84k plays! :D
- Haggis (Sean Loyless)
And frankly, I like adding friends with whom I have a low compatibility. It helps me hear music I never would have found in the first place. I never would have listened to a lot of my favorite music if someone hadn't said, "just try it."
- Ciaoenrico
http://last.fm/user... --- Tis I
- Jay Martinez
Heh, "Music you have in common includes ABBA and Depeche Mode"...
- Tyson Key
Last.fm profile exchange? I'm at http://www.last.fm/user...
- Czar
Haggis, your link didn't work.
- Kol Tregaskes
Fossil Huntress, you have the highest compatibility so far. Low but still the highest. ;-)
- Kol Tregaskes
ABBA and Depeche Mode are killer. Whose said that? Whom should I be friending there? :)
- Ciaoenrico
No me. ;-)
- Kol Tregaskes
Czar, yep basically it is. :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
Your musical compatibility with koltregaskes is Very Low. Music you have in common includes Sneaker Pimps, Hybrid, Snake River Conspiracy, VAST and The Boxer Rebellion. (that's because I listen to a lot of obscure stuff) http://www.last.fm/user/app103
- April Russo (app103)
http://www.last.fm/listen... BTW, I send my Blip.FM feed to Last.FM. I fell asleep several times while listening to Blip, so there's some music in there that I don't necessarily like. But, for the most part, it's mine.
- Michael Fidler
http://www.last.fm/user... Here you go. :-)
- Mathew A. Koeneker
user/tofu916 I LoVe last.fm!
- Tofu De la Moore
from BuddyFeed
http://www.last.fm/user... - I'm going to leave it playing scrobbing my 5 stars over lunch so it can log some of my favourite tracks
- Toby Graham
http://www.last.fm/user... - I share a lot of my "love it" back to twitter by funneling through here :-)
- Courtney Engle
I've listed my top 25ish songs of the moment here: http://ff.im/6diug if anyone is interested.
- Kol Tregaskes
If I played my 'best of the best' playlist one day would anyone be interested? It's 45 songs and iTunes tells me it's 4 hours. I can post a FF message when I start and finish and you can check the tunes out.
- Kol Tregaskes
Thanks for all the friends request BTW, I work up this morning to 30 of them in my inbox. :-) I've added you all.
- Kol Tregaskes
Love Last.fm! I'm here: http://www.last.fm/user...
- Elizabeth Parmeter
Glenn, I get a high compatibility with you. :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
I am going to add you right now...I am http://last.fm/user... :O)
- Harold Cabezas
Don't use it as much as I used to, but it's -> http://www.last.fm/user...
- Matthew Horton
I barely use last.fm as a site - but I scrobble all the time. Like everywhere else I am finalcut there.
- Bill Rawlinson
Bill, that's pretty much what I do. What's your URL? :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
My Last.FM URL is http://www.last.fm/user....
- Thomas Ward
Keep 'em coming, I'll add you all later today. :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
Thank you!! :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
Last.fm/user/iMJR
- Matt Ruiz
Thank you.
- Kol Tregaskes
hi! http://last.fm/user/legaria I frankly don't see the value in adding friends there though ??'
- 'Like' robot (frɐnc)
Franc, you can recommendations and more choice in your Neighbourhood radios stations.
- Kol Tregaskes
Welp. Ya'll have been friended and oddly enough I only had 4 with high compatibility. Lucky for me that means there is a lot more music our there that I need to be turned on to. Thanks, Kol! :-)
- Mathew A. Koeneker
Mine is http://www.last.fm/user...
- Chris Rogers
hm - and looking at my last.fm page, I'd say I need to use my ipod more and Pandora a bit less ...
- Chris Rogers
oh. I get it, thanks Kol. I'm still finding my way through it.
- 'Like' robot (frɐnc)
I signed up back in 2005: http://www.last.fm/user... Not using it anymore since they pulled that stunt. Scrobbling to http://alpha.libre.fm/user...
- Irma Vermaat
http://www.last.fm/user... Of course ;)
- ★ Soner Gönül
Is it me, or is there an anti-Robert Scoble vibe going on here? I don't see anything wrong with him or Alex. I find them both interesting and I follow both of them and am not ashamed to say that. Quit the Scoble hating. Give them Scoble luv. *lol*
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Wait whut? Where's this coming from?
- Alex Scoble
I just get a vibe for some reason by some of the posters about Robert and the whole Facebook/FF thing. Maybe it's just me. :/ I love Robert and your posts.
- Mol, Santa Claws
I always figured the anti-Robert Scoble vibe was coming from Alex. ;)
- Cristo
Who's talking badly about Robert and Alex? I haven't seen any such posts. I know that Robert caught some crap about unfollowing people, but that's all I knew about.
- Thomas Ward
ROFL...Yeah, I haven't seen much in the way of anti-Scoble sentiments.
- Alex Scoble
I saw some dude complain about my rants, but he did so on Twitter, which is ironic.
- Alex Scoble
Uh, great. I guess I can't post photos of my new anti-Scoble tat. THANKS A LOT, MOLLY!
- Admiral Anika
Weird... I'm subscribed to a Patrick Scoble. There's more?
- MVB (Curmudgeon of FF)
from iPod
As I said, maybe it was me. *lol*
- Mol, Santa Claws
FriendFeed comments are up 10,000% since Twitter went MIA.
Geoffrey Wiseman, Rob Michael (Atmos Trio), MVB (Curmudgeon of FF) and 3 other people liked this
friendfeed rules
- Craig Shipp
I've noticed that as well, Chris. And it seems like Twitter is going MIA more and more often these days. Could the era of Twitter be coming to an end?
- Thomas Ward
FriendFeed + Facebook might indeed be the combination that brings the Twitter 15 minutes to a close.
- Harold
Given the reaction to the acquisition since yesterday, won't be surprised if 9,999% of that increase was due to comments criticizing the deal.
- Kamath (नमः)
Do you think the Facebook acquisition of FriendFeed will be good or bad for FriendFeed users?
Mac Sharp, Kol Tregaskes, TeraDyne Azurepaw and 13 other people liked this
Just say "good", "bad", or "unsure". No explanations. :)
- Rishabh Mishra (p248)
Bad.
- Akiva Moskovitz
Bad.
- Justin Korn
Bad
- directeur
Bad
- Semih Masat ™
bad
- DO ANYBODY NO MONIQUE
Unknown
- Bette Cooper
Good.
- Chris Baskind
BAD
- vijay
Bad
- Emre BAHADIR
BAD BAD BAD.......!!!!!!!!!!
- Gtp19
bad
- Jacque
The numbers so far: 1 "Good", 10 "Bad", 1 "Unsure"
- Rishabh Mishra (p248)
Unsure
- Roberto Bonini
from iPhone
was that an intelligetn question at all ?? In the history of FB, they have screwed up more often then doing good. !! One word - BAD
- Peter Dawson
Bad.
- Ryan - @magicofpi
Good for the FF founders, but bad for its users.
- Joey Gibson
What do you call Friendfeed? The team? This is great for them. The community? It will no longer exist.
- Alejandro
friendfeed is the users, this will be bad for users so it will be bad for friendfeed...
- paula simoes ☃
without users what is friendfeed?
- paula simoes ☃
BAD
- Remo
Bad.
- Vince DeGeorge
from iPhone
Bad.
- John (a.k.a. dendroica)
damn bad
- jcunwired
bad
- andy brudtkuhl
Unsure with a side of bad.
- Steven Perez
@Joey, +1
- Arda Çetin
Good for Friendfeed and presumably, not so good for us though!
- Sampad Swain
Mostly bad
- Zulema ◕ ◡ ◕
The numbers so far: 2 "Good", 23 "Bad", and 3 "Unsure"
- Rishabh Mishra (p248)
And for clarification, I am asking whether this is good or bad for FriendFeed users. I have edited the main post to reflect this.
- Rishabh Mishra (p248)
BAD! TERRIBLE...:)
- dafire
Bad.
- Alex Scoble
Without a doubt, bad.
- Johnny
Also unsure - to me FF is a vital resource, if it was wrapped in the facebook page - I'll stop using it, I have a facebook page, but find that it is limited.
- Dan Morrill AKA Techwag
Bad
- Adi
Bad
- Pete Gilbert
Bad.
- Rochelle
Bad.
- Christopher A Carr
The numbers so far: 2 "Good", 30 "Bad", and 4 "Unsure"
- Rishabh Mishra (p248)
unsure
- Rodfather
"bad"
- tony bland
bad
- m9m, Crone of FriendFeed
The number of people that think that the FriendFeed/Facebook deal is bad is startling. Though, personally, I am not optimistic about this deal either.
- Rishabh Mishra (p248)
unsure
- xero
unsure
- Julia Ault
Interesting, we're up to seven "Unsure"s
- Rishabh Mishra (p248)
I don't it will be bad, but I'll give it a chance
- Bruno Miguel
Bad
- Matthew Horton
BAD!!!!
- Jimminy
bad
- F. Batuhan Icoz
Bad.
- Thomas Ward
Bruno: I'm writing you down as "Unsure"
- Rishabh Mishra (p248)
Bad for us as the service will be eaten up with FB at some point.
- Kol Tregaskes
Bad. Friendfeed will lose their brains as brains are what Facebook is looking for.
- Jose Maria Cuellar
from iPhone
I have VERY mixed thoughts about Facebook Acquiring FriendFeed!!! What do you guys think??? REALLY! For FF subscribers!
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I'm with you on this one, Arleen. I just hope that Facebook doesn't do to FriendFeed what it did to its own site.
- Thomas Ward
FF and FB? nothing in common, FF is communication, FB is noise :(
- hermansji.:./tiracconto
Not wure what it means to FF vets like us, but I do hope it means a lot, in terms of "cashing out" and recognition for the hard working people who have worked on FF since the beginning. Hopefully, there are a dozen very happy peeps in the FF offices today. Thans to all of you for everything you've done and congrats!
- Mark Edwards
If FF staff get to do what they want, I'm fine with the acquisition. FB needs better discussion tools.
- Bill Sodeman
I keep my content separate on each. And each has their own sets of people I "friend/subscribe" to. I keep FB mostly personal, so I'm not really looking forward to it.
- John Wang
I think it's a big win for Facebook and feel FF has set a direction FB will improve on with their resources. short term: bad, long term: good
- Ryan Lewis
+1 Ryan
- Bill Sodeman
Do you think that Twitter stands a chance now that Facebook and Friendfeed have teamed up?
If Facebook does to FriendFeed what it has done to its own site, I don't think Twitter has anything to worry about.
- Thomas Ward
Thomas: it will be every interesting to see what Facbook does now.
- Jason Pollock
See, a lot of people don't understand how powerful FriendFeed is as a Twitter client. It has better groups. Better search. Better block. etc
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It just doesn't have all my twitter friends, unless there's a way I can add folks who aren't already here. Is there?
- Sam Grover
there is : https://friendfeed.com/setting...
- Stanislas Jourdan
You can NOT create a need, Robert
- directeur
I know about that. Is there a way to automatically add those that aren't already here?
- Sam Grover
But there could be better ways to add non-friendfeed twitterers.
- 1x29
Calling FriendFeed a twitter client is a bit inaccurate. It can post to twitter and you can read people's toots and reply, but you can't do many of the things that an actual Twitter client (star messages, send and receive DMs, follow/unfollow easily, etc.) I'm not complaining because I don't want FriendFeed to be a full-blown Twitter client- just saying :)
- Brett Kelly
In all fairness FriendFeed has made it as simple as pie for people on Twitter to easily sign in/up with Twitter OAUTH. I just think my Twitter network are brave enough to make new friends :-P
- CannonGod
Yea, since FriendFeed has the twitter firehose, I would like to have a simple way to add all the people I'm following. That may still not work for protected twitter feeds.
- Sam Grover
Sam: You're right, it doesn't. I'd like it to be able to do that thought (add private feeds). I'd have no need to go to twitter.com at all then :)
- 1x29
I curse myself for going back to Twitter everytime I enjoy friendfeed. It's just that I as a media-nobody get more interaction and with more diverse people on twitter; probably my fault.
- Alex 'BuckyBit' Covic
That's the truth. I admit, I certainly don't. But I don't see it as Twitter client.
- nicky jameson
No way to add someone's twitter if it is a protected feed. That's where imaginary friend fails.
- Nick B.
@Nick example?
- Sebastian
Add your account or a list to this search ( http://friendfeed.com/search... )and the pop out makes a GREAT twitter app. I have a list called Twitter that I made of people I want to keep up with.
- tomit
Where could I read more about Groups? Did they call it "room" in the past? Best practices and cases? Could it be used as a customer forum and member place?
- Martin Lindeskog
I totally agree scoble! i dont use tweetdeck or seesmic as my twitter client.. i use friendfeed! i read most tweets on twitter from my friendfeed page.. the lists of users here are the best!
- Jason Pollock
Enough already, Rob! You've sold me on FriendFeed!
- Thomas Ward
I hardly visit Twitter anymore - I just sync up my followers every couple of weeks
- Anthony Feint
I like that it has more than 140 character, comments and easy importation of fb and twitter friends.
- Ron Hagenhoff
I do just about everything in friendfeed now. I still use twitter, but I don’t watch it anymore. I still need to implement lists here. I could use some advice on the best way to go about it. I just want the time I spend here to me more productive than it is right now. I’m hoping a little organization will help with it.
- Michael Fidler
@sebastian - create imaginary friend - "starsparkle". Then add the twitter account starsparkle to it = "we could not find the give account". RSS feed is available but password protected - suggestions welcome!
- Nick B.
@Nick Yep, 401, http://twitter.com/statuse... doesn't reveal its contents to the public. Thanks.
- Sebastian
better everything
- andy brudtkuhl
Critics who do nothing but criticize on social media are COWARDS Anything you DON'T like change it - Darren Scott Monroe
I'm assuming that this comment is made in response to the criticism that has been thrown toward @Scobleizer?
- Thomas Ward
NO I was unaware that he made ANY comment what did Scob say?????
- Darren Scott Monroe
Everyone on Mashable/Twitter wants to tell me how lame I am and how I'm doing it wrong. Here's your chance to tell me I'm clueless:
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Lots of people are saying I was always doing Twitter's following wrong. It's funny how social media experts have it all figured out. So, here's your chance to tell me how screwed up I still am.
- Robert Scoble
you're clueless.. :P
- Rob Sellen :o)
I think you tried a noble approach. It just was ruined by spammys. You did what you had to do to fix the problem.
- Drew Lucas
from iPhone
Tell me something I don't know. And tell me why. :-)
- Robert Scoble
Everyone thinks they're right in Social Media. I try to ignore them.
- Jesse Stay
were you? In hindsight? now you have done this big purge?
- Rob Sellen :o)
Drew: the real reason why I'm clueless is cause I am on FriendFeed, where I can put people into lists. Which, by the way, make AWESOME filters for searching.
- Robert Scoble
which list am I on?
- Alex Scrivener
Robert - I think you're always interesting and thought provoking.
- Andy C
I agree with Jesse, everyone thinks they are a social media "guru". I loved your approach, well done.
- Johnny
Alex: pay me $20 and I'll tell you. :-)
- Robert Scoble
Robert: I don't think you're clueless...just so cutting edge it doesn't make sense! haha I really like friendfeed, and if more people would more over here, I would use it more than Twitter. Actually, I'm already starting to use it more than Twitter.
- Sam Guzman
Your clueless Robert. You have no clue how to do the whole social media thing. Please teach me your cluelessness Master. :-P
- Rasmus Lauridsen
Everyone needs to "reboot" their twitter strategy once in a while, there's no harm in it at all. It's just those out there who still think that thousands of followers is the only metric that everyone should go by to determine if you're using twitter successfully.
- Richard Arblaster
Richard: bing!
- Robert Scoble
What? That's ridiculous. You don't look anything like Alicia Silverstone.
- John Craft
There is no right or wrong way to use (except maybe spam). Who cares what other people think about your social media habits.
- Shawn Hickman
I covered the topic of mass unfollowing awhile back when @Loic and @AriHerzog unfollowed everyone. I think you might enjoy the comments in particular. http://blog.tweetworks.com/2009...
- Mike Langford
Scoble is clueless like Socrates was foolish.
- Pierce Presley
Rob: in hindsight, yes, I was clueless. I just didn't get quite how clueless I was, because on FriendFeed I could follow small groups, like everyone else.
- Robert Scoble
Pierce: Good point!
- Sam Guzman
Loic is not around much anymore
- Mark
The reason you are clueless, is because we ALL are at the start.. how could you have known the "right" way at the start?? Couldn't.. so you NOW changed things... :o) Big difference now then?
- Rob Sellen :o)
the thing you HAVEN'T been clueless about is friendfeed... ;o)
- Rob Sellen :o)
your clueless, just like the rest of us !! We are all trying to figure things out.. each have their own way of doing it. To each thier own posion !
- Peter Dawson
The only way to know if your Twitter/Social Media approach is working or not is by looking to see if it is accomplishing your goals. There is no "one-size-fits-all" approach in a dynamic growing space. This Right/Wrong game is tiring at best.
- Bill Sanders
I have learned that there is no one set way to do social media right or wrong. Is there an echo in here?
- Mike Lewis
For half a sec I thought it was a FAB publicity stunt! Seriously Robert I adore and respect you. There are 2 different views. Twitter is different things to different people. You and I can agree to disagree. But, won't you MISS the amazing view of your HOME stream???
- Arleen Anderson
Arleen: the thing is I was looking at that screen less and less. Now I look at it a lot. Well, except for today cause Twitter has been mostly down.
- Robert Scoble
I find that alot of people are a bit... selfish in social media. I follow people I find interesting. They don't need to follow me back. Maybe they don't think what I post is interesting even if I find theirs to be. We got to cut down on our ego tripping sometimes and let people enjoy the social tools, the way they enjoy em. I bet ya, there are not two people out there, that use all of this in exactly the same way, and that is great.
- Rasmus Lauridsen
Steve: that's absolutely not true. Sit next to me sometime. I can follow many thousands of people.
- Robert Scoble
Your comments make the conclusion that everyone that disagrees with you is a social media expert, spammer, or non-techie. Are you sure you are not a politician in disguise? LOL Putting people in groups on Friendfeed did not require a massive un-following on twitter I know what you are doing. I like FreindFeed. I would not like twitter near as much if FriendFeed was not there. I am grateful for FriendFeed and it champion. Cheers for Robert
- RetiredTeacherD
Sorry Scobe, but you innovate, care deeply about all of this, and are fun to read. You don't even budge my Lame-O-Meter. (As for lame, well, AP is the King aren't they. And Reuters just told them to stop whining. Heh.)
- Bob Morris (polizeros)
Seems funny to me that everybody is still talking about this issue. What's the difference between this and telling people what you're having for lunch? Twitter is chatter but from time to time, a clear interesting idea comes through and sparks a reaction. Reminds me of the thought process in my own brain... tons of ideas, lots of chatter and some gems. Meditation helps me quiet my mind... perhaps unfollowing does the same. In any case, less chatter is always better.
- Yanik Falardeau
RetiredTeacher: heheh. But, sorry, the main reason I did the unfollow isn't the home feed, but DM's. They just became more and more filled with spam and useless stuff. Getting my home feed back is like icing on a cake.
- Robert Scoble
@Robert, There's no right or wrong answer to social media usage. Only you can decide your goals and if you're successful in achieving those goals, that's all there is to it. You're anything but clueless, not that you need me to tell you that :)
- MiaD
I was a big critic of your Swisher/Mossberg article as I think you are misguided about where in the social chain FF falls-- HOWEVER... although I had a FF account for awhile doesnt mean I 'tried' it. In light of the non conversational approach twitter is taking ( @replies) and the fact its getting spammy and many people are talking AT me not WITH me I concede. I don't agree with some of your tactics or selling points but I do agree FF IS ABSOLUTELY on to something in a big way.
- cheapsuits
Auto following everyone is not good idea...
- k00pa
ROFLCOPTER!
- k00pa
IMO. Your following deletion was good thing :)
- k00pa
I just use Twitter differently than most. Regardless whether I "follow" you or not, I still follow millions of people because I mostly use search for getting what I want.
- Jesse Stay
you did an experiment. you learned something. take the learning and move on. economic theorists are doing the same thing:-) maybe spammers were Twitter's Black Swan.
- Francine Hardaway
from BuddyFeed
Let's assume for a moment that you are, indeed, clueless. Since you follow the same methodologies as most other "social media experts", then they, themselves, are clueless, as well. Since most "experts" (like yourself, Pirillo, and Conn) are generally smart people, then all clueless people are geniuses. Therefor, you are a genius and are, beyond a shadow of a doubt, not clueless.
- Thomas Ward
Thomas: I like your thinking! :-)
- Robert Scoble
So Ashton Kutcher can have 3+ Million followers and only follows a few, so why can't you filter the noise too? Double standard...
- manielse (Mark Nielsen)
Robert: Glad you liked it. Hell, I'm glad you understood it! Even I began to believe I was only rambling!
- Thomas Ward
would you please change your green #Twavatar ? .. my baby cries .. Thx :)
- Marcel Bloingo
My favorite thing about you is that you do your own thing. Go with your gut.
- Ted Murphy
Marcel: that will also cost you $20. This is how I will monetize social media! :-)
- Robert Scoble
An 'auto-follow everyone regardless' is just nuts. I don't think you're clueless. I just think you *were* nuts :)
- 1x29
Ted: In this case his "own thing" is what many of us have been telling him he should be doing for months now ;-)
- Ken Sheppardson
It's your SM experience, so you get to do as you wish. Personally, I think it's great you're not chasing numbers so much anymore. But the next time I experiment and you tell me I'm doing it wrong, I'm gonna remind you of this and demand a one-time pass, OK?
- Chris Baskind
OneGear: my heart was in the right place. I was doing that so everyone could DM me. Of course that let in spammers and other bad actors. So, turns out you are right.
- Robert Scoble
Chris: we're all doing it wrong. :-)
- Robert Scoble
I think you did it right: the conversation is going again and everyone is thinking about things. Job done.
- WorldofHiglet
Surprised you lasted this long with that many users.
- Mark Chandler
Forget about them, Rob. Heck, I may even follow in your footsteps! Seems like all I'm getting anymore is links to products I don't want or sites I have no interest in visiting. Oh ... as far as the green avatar goes, you should have it say "Scoble Smash!" underneath you!
- Thomas Ward
I miss the Robert Scoble with long thoughtful blog posts and video interviews. I understand that it is not easy to find the balance between the conversations/interactions thingy and the content thingy.
- Edwin Khodabakchian
Edwin: I've been posting a LOT of video. But, yeah, need to get back to doing long blogs.
- Robert Scoble
I'll give you that $20 for your lists! *giggle*
- Arleen Anderson
We should remember Twitter is Sociability.
- Felipe Aneudi Campana
from fftogo
Hmm. Do you post all your videos on your blog? different content on blog, building43, somewhere else? I liked the Office 10 videos.
- Edwin Khodabakchian
you were telling people that they didn't "get it" for doing exactly what you are doing now
- Eber Irigoyen
Edwin: I post them all here. Pro videos at http://www.building43.com Videos shot with my Canon 5D on http://scobleizer.blip.tv Finally, live videos at http://www.kyte.tv/scobleizer -- but they all are aggregated here.
- Robert Scoble
lame, wrong, and awesome. Keep it up!
- motownmutt
Eber: yes, I told Loic that. Again, my heart was in the right place. I wanted to get DM's from everyone who wanted to follow me. Turned out that was a bad strategy because of spammers. So I was wrong. I'm often wrong. Keep that in mind when I tell you off. :-)
- Robert Scoble
Twitter is the one doing it wrong. They should just read our minds and learn what information we need and publish it to our home page. No need to follow anyone in that case.
- Sumanth Kolar
dont worry Sumanth, google will take care of that ;)
- Kashif Khan
There could come a time when I reverse strategy, in six months, as you did, and you can mock me then. But right now, I am keeping the door open to new contacts and not wiping them away. FriendFeed is my high quality network.
- Louis Gray
Thanks Robert! It just occurred to me one alternative to domain squatting is embarrassing Avatar adoption. Your $20-at-a-time strategy is more credible than most monetization schemes (scams?)
- Richard ¿digame? Walker
It would seem to me you did it "right" as it brought a strategic challenge to light. It's been the source of some great posts and conversation. It's not as though things are unsalvagable even if you made a miscalculation. As a strategist I don't think there is a generic right or wrong way. You have to align your social media activity to meet your goals. If your approach on Twitter wasn't working to meet your goals then you did the right thing.
- Jim Goldstein
There is no wrong way to use a resource that is infinitely customizable. Well, perhaps there are illegal or immoral ways, and thus "wrong." But not the case here.
- Justin Long
I've seen everywhere (it seems) that social media is all about the user's experience, that they should determine what's best for themselves. Yet, I constantly see posts and threads about how to do it right. I don't care what Robert is doing, because he has other reasons for using it than I do, and on down the line. Too much of social media "time" is spent discussing social media.
- Steve Lowe
One question, Robert: What would you guess is your reach in terms of unique users? (if you combine all the channels you are on?)
- Edwin Khodabakchian
Do your thing man. You know leaders are always jeered before they are applauded -- don't wait for the applause <grin>
- Pam Baker
Very much in agreement with what Steve Lowe just argued.
- Marcos
" Too much of social media "time" is spent discussing social media. - Steve Lowe " SOOO TRUE!!!
- cheapsuits
Robert I agree. The lists feature is one of the most valued.
- Drew Lucas
from iPhone
Robert, "right" or "wrong" is immaterial here. Each user gets something different out of their use of social media. So each user constantly adjusts their social media experience to fit what they want to receive. Your mass unfollowing is not wrong. Your user paradigm changed.
- Jack Wilson, K4SAC
Not clueless. You're simply learning more-and-more about web 2.0 and social media as you go. Trying different approaches. Ultimately it's your #Twitter account and you can do with it as you please.
- Eric D. Wilson
Robert: My heart was in the right place too when I followed back my first porn tweet follow from an email notification - I honestly didn't realise at the time ;-) Boy did that open up the flood gates! My main advice on twitter now is to stay away from any girl with three numbers as her surname :D I can only imagine the spam you got from auto-following to 106,000 follows. Each day we get older and wiser :)
- 1x29
Robert: can you write a blog post about how you setup your groups in friendfeed? I this it would make for an interesting read.
- Bryan Lee
When you were using auto-follow, it made the most sense to do so. Twitter changed, you examined what was working and what wasn't working, and made some adjustments. You are still doing it right. You also invested your time in FriendFeed pretty early on. That was also a good decision. (That will be $25, thank you.)
- Mark Davidson
from BuddyFeed
I'm no expert and I don't care how you handle your tweeples... I'm just curious how you were able to avoid being suspended for mass unfollowing. My account was suspended after I cleared out 20 or so folks I didn't want to follow any longer. It's against their latest TOS to mass unfollow or follow. Your celebrity in the tech world probably gets you the free pass on the TOS violation, yeah?
- Michelle
I'm not of that mindset, if all adopted that mindset and only followed very close knowns what would you have? A phone call
- JuneM
Tinym: He used one of the premium services on SocialToo.com You have the ability to either Unfollow everyone that isn't following you back or you can unfollow everyone.
- Bryan Lee
Thanks Bryan. I used a third party service to unfollow too - I still got suspended. I guess my third party service wasn't as good as SocialToo...
- Michelle
i dont really understand their argument...i had to mass unfollow some people as well, as I was getting spam and it was clogging up the stream.
- Crackle
I just joined FF today due to a few factors: 1) Twitter went down and a light bulb went off 2) I've been following you for quite awhile and you're not lame nor do I think you're doing it wrong and 3) I finally acted upon all the advice you've shared about FF. If you follow me back, fine. At any rate, I'm following you here. I do like the threaded message form, which trumps any Twitter app. I'm also looking for value, not noise.
- MR
It just signified your preference to communicate with high numbers on FriendFeed where everyone can be organized, searched and found- it is thus more meaningful. On Twitter it was chaos for you that way and everyone lost. Why lie?
- E-Advocate Network
MR:Welcome to FriendFeed.
- Bryan Lee
I thought you should've done it sooner.
- Ben Parr
agree w/ Ben
- michael sean wright
LOL. Just a theological point: God's following everyone (or not) is not a theological explanation for why bad things happen to good people. But I'm guessing you're speaking tongue-in-cheek?
- Justin Long
Change is natural. It's part of innovation. We adjust to new tools and technologies as they evolve, and because our methods of using them change, the tools evolve. Sometimes they (or us) take even a bigger leap and revolutionize. Then we get the next big thing, or take the next significant step in history. It's far better that you adapted, Robert, based on your findings, needs and experiences, than continued on with previous use patterns.
- Cathryn Hrudicka
People are haters. Ignore the idiots.
- Nile Flores
I second Nile even when I disagree with you Robert! (((pu liki))) spreading Aloha!
- Arleen Anderson
New blog post: you are SO unfollowed! http://scobleizer.com/2009... I'll follow on FriendFeed anyone who comments here:
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- TheHenry
TheHenry: I already am! :-)
- Robert Scoble
Please don't unfollow me!! :)
- Carlo Nasuti
Very interesting approach Robert. If it is working for you that is awesome though. Hope all is well. Give Roc a big hug for me.
- C.C. Chapman
Yo...
- MVB (Curmudgeon of FF)
Not too much unfollowing please.
- Tim
i'm in
- Tai Hsia
Can you follow me?
- Giorgio
ok I'll allow you
- Derry O Donnell
What's going on here?
- Andru Edwards
I think you're already following me Robert.
- Andrew Leahey
well ok )
- Denverken
Lead, follow, or get out of the way.
- Robert Kenney
[comments here]
- Nick Humphries
I will comment here! :)
- John Ptacek
Great blog appreciate all of your "likes" that I would not have noticed before. Thanks for all the time you spend educating us.
- Gary Prechtel
auto-follow always seemed like a bad idea. people can always msg you but your stream will get totally cluttered if you dont do a little bit of housekeeping.
- William Kapes
"baby I'm a star" -Prince (off purple rain)
- Michael J. Carrasquillo
novel approach, seems sound
- Danny Ayers
Consider me available for following. :-)
- Eric D. Wilson
Okay, I'll bite..
- Tanya
Bring it Scobleizer.
- Todd Pringle
I agree, Twitter is much better this way.
- Ryan W
I appreciate your work, and your passion for social media.
- Evan Travers
sounds simple...
- Mateo Yadarola
Scoble follow me baby
- Jadito
Oh you are getting quite a response here!!!! I'm commenting so you'll follow me but the thing is you're going to LIKE following me because you'll learn all about Sedona through tons of videos and you'll love it so much you'll want to pack your camera and head out here! =)
- SedonaTV
Thanks for the mentions, Robert (and you know I'm not commenting just for the follow - I just like to follow you, which is what counts!)
- Jesse Stay
Actually Robert, now I've seen you've tidied up your twitter, I'll probably follow you there again too. :-)
- Tim
hey follow me scoble
- Andy Jenks
Meh, who cares really, not like you read everyone you followed. Plus unfollowed you anyways, not like you have to say that's interestined except friendfeed spam.
- Steve
joining the crowd - good move Robert.
- Adam
follow me
- Tai Hsia
welcome to Boulder
- Andrew Hyde
@scobleizer just created the most important tech follow list on Twitter.
- Christian Anderson
aww shucks, and here I was thinking it was just me who you unfollowed.
- Jess Sloss
I underwent the same situation, Robert - I unfollowed almost everybody on Twitter who duplicated their accounts here on FrF. I got a tempest of fury for this action. web3 is too personal still ))
- massagin
Scoble in Boulder = Trouble.
- Jim Halligan @jim
I feel fortunate that you're still subbed to me on FF. I haven't even noticed whether you unfollowed me on Twitter. But you following me, still hasn't gotten me the chicks. :P Always fun seeing your posts, long as you don't block me, it doesn't matter if you follow me or not. :)
- Arlan Koizumi
I did the same thing some weeks ago after avoiding twitter because it got too noisy. It was instantly better. But in the mean time I started to use FF more and I like it better here so I hardly go near twitter now.
- Murray Barton
You already follow me here on ff, which i use more than twitter.
- dthree
What's up?
- Kevin Whalen
from iPhone
Hey Robert, so for following >1,600 is it that right way taken by Philtro and Filttr?
- Martin Adamek
I'm glad you mentioned Loic, he caught a lot of flack for doing this earlier.
- Steven Cains
Hey Robert - fight the tweetspam !
- Michael Neale
Don't think you are following me on Twitter anymore..please do and best regards
- Karma Martell
I'm still trying to figure out the following... so I'm watching how you do it scoble.
- Matthew Schrock
Good plan. I'm looking forward to your results. I'm trying to figure out all these social media elements. I would appreciate your Twitter follow.
- David Stanley
hope this new approach works for you!
- timepilot
Oh, so now you are only easy on FF.
- James Watters
Odd internal response, I don't follow everyone who follows me cuz of the very noise you talk about. And, there's no good reason for you to follow me since I'm unlikely to deliver news of interest to you. And yet, here I am, posting on FriendFeed so you have the OPTION of following me, a stranger who is not the same kind of SMART as you. Who'd have thought...
- Della Mauler
Interesting statement about original content value of FF independent of twitter. Twitter is where you keep your noise level down...
- James Watters
This seems like asking for trouble to me, Scoble. But, it's your time and bandwith to do with what you will. Since only a handful of people (by that I think I mean just one) follow me on Twitter, it's pretty easy for me to weed out the bots. The people I follow are my internet nerds (mostly the Rev 3 crew) so I know their interests are in line with mine. Hit me up for some edifying conversations about Lost and video games, Robert.
- Jeremiah Green
Here you go Robert! [also via twitter: @Scobleizer Therefore: only approx. 1.7 million "active" human @Twitter users contribute 50%+ of all activity, right? #engagement] Regards, @AAinslie
- Alexander Ainslie
The green avatar is so disturbing mate. :)
- Jordan Windebank
I'll lead, you follow. So where are we going?
- Tom Sheppard
I was sad to see you unfollowed me, but now you may follow me again, so all will be well in the world.
- Jodi
following the leader...
- John Munro
You're still following me - does that mean I'm a smart feller? ;)
- Brett Kelly
so glad I mail Robert a business card every month :)
- Christian Anderson
Della: the thing is here I can follow you and put you into a list and watch you less frequently than some of my other people. So everyone wins. But only here on FriendFeed. :-)
- Robert Scoble
Some of us have been doing this from our start. Kind of cool, eh? But our numbers don't grow quickly so we were tagged as "slow." Nice to see you catch up with us! Also, this may shock you, there sre folks who follow and communicate with only 3 folks on twitter and they are HAPPY! Imagine....
- lynda spangler
Yay. Now he will follow a librarian.
- joe is...
Follow this dot!!! .
- Bwana ☠
I've long thought the entire Twitter "etiquette" of always following who follows you to be a bit of a folly. I'm following 114 at the moment, and the stream still moves too fast for me to keep up with.
- Darren Landrum
Comment!
- anna sauce
ok
- Vasu Srinivasan
Good test, count me in... I don't follow tons of people, I follow a few prolific Scoble-types and the rest are more focused in areas I'm interested in.
- David Ziembicki
I'm not following tons of people, just a select few. More to follow on FB when facebook has completely integrated Friendfeed-funcionality. ;-)
- Wolfgang G. Wettach
I only follow people I know or have something interesting to say, did you really have 160000 people that said something worthwhile???
- Gerard van Schip
Well I commented via your Blog so instead of repeating myself I'll link to comment http://disq.us/1ms9
- Keith - @tsudo
Gerard: everyone says something worthwhile once in a while. The trick is to see it when it happens. Here on FriendFeed, by the way, you have a better shot because good stuff usually gets liked and commented on, so it pulls up higher into my view.
- Robert Scoble
come join us here folks http://ff.im/6dUHN xxx
- Mark
Okay. But will you read and comment on my stuff?
- Mellissa Claus
Robert, I posted this after Loic's decision and it looks like it will need another update. http://www.knowthenetwork.com/blog... I think there is value in stating your follow policy.
- Keith - @tsudo
cool
- Zach Cheatham
Hello?
- Vicky
following all the discussion of you unfollowing everyone on twitter has made me think about doing the same thing and starting fresh.
- (jeff)isageek
not unless we beat you in the Ashes
- Mark
Nice post Robert, and no surprise it's an improvement. ;o) I have seen it for me too.
- Rob Sellen :o)
1 thing I find Robert still worth following @Scobleizer when I am not on friendfeed & on my Hootsuite or PeopleBrowsr. therefore not much affected, not much 2 bother me, ego not gone at all. luv your post Robert it is a frank posting
- polou/indigo_bow
Follow me Robert, I promise I'm not annoying. :) @cluteman
- Greg Clute
from iPhone
You've piqued my curiosity.
- Kathy
Robert, thank you! I follow you and enjoy your "likes" and your energetic takes. I also enjoy your Building43 interviews! I am a constant FriendFeed user now. Thank you!
- Tobin Truog
This made me realise I must be more active on FF and comment/post more :-).
- Mats Pettersson
I think I'll give FriendFeed a go! Never tried it, but looks easy and I need to understand the interwebs better. @CodeSamurai_Com
- CodeSamurai
butt-kissing is not a prerequisite for being followed, he will follow you anyways :D
- Mark
Count me in! (Please??)
- Ricky Maveety
lol @mark. ;o)
- Rob Sellen :o)
You can follow me, but since you follow a lot of people, you probably can't pay attention to the stream of tweets.
- Alex Knight
Alex..that's the WHOLE point he did this... ;o)
- Rob Sellen :o)
IMHO 1,647 is still way too many people to follow.
- Alex Knight
I will NOT get baited into ... ah CRAP. I follow very few people on twitter, mainly only to find info from Android developers (my topic of choice). If you mention anything about the food you are currently eating, etc.. you will probably not be followed. If you post 80,000 times a day, you will not be followed, since Twitters interface sucks (not so for FF). Also, no offense to other social users, but if you resend your FF/FB/<insert other social site here> entries to twitter, I probably won't follow.
- Tim Hoeck
http://socialspark.com/blogs... Chris Pirillo is Scum.
- Mark
good move IMO
- Joanna Nicol
Love the post, love the response.
- Chris Rogers
from BuddyFeed
nice hanging out at with beach w/ you last week! follow moi!!!
- Raina Lee
I always feel like scoble's following me
- Rodney J Woodruff
from iPhone
Don't forget your Dunbar number, Scoble! There are only so many people you can have meaningfully connect with online.
- Steve Lynch
from twhirl
Mark is right. No butt kissing. Ew.
- Robert Scoble
"I always feel like, somebody's watching me..."
- Wizetux
Comment!!!! Ohh wait but you already follow me...
- Amit Nangare
Follow me, if you aren't already....please. Thanks,
- Steve de Mena
here is my comment ZOL
- Shane Gibson
Comment? What kind of coomment, Robert? :-)
- Mitch Featherston
Whoop there it is! On Twitter @jimgoldstein
- Jim Goldstein
from iPhone
Oh..Oh... Mr. Kotter...Mr Kotter..follow me!
- Scott Booher
Glad to see you're writing more than 140 characters on that blog. Doesn't that feel liberating? Maybe we should be allowed character# based on your metric for powerful/smart/newsmaker
- Noah Bloom
You already follow me here on FF, for which I thank you. So, I'll just say thanks for the phone call the other day. :)
- Jeff Harbert
I'll take a follow!
- Jeff Weber
@shaunhess
- Shaun Hess
Ok, so follow me again and I will follow you back. Thanks!
- Audrey
Robert - I fail on most of your criteria so I'm not expecting you to follow me. The thing is I don't care if you follow me back - this is social media and everyone has their own choice. I choose to follow you because you entertain and inform me. The relationship is 100% one way and I am more than happy with that!
- Pon
Robert - Last night at GDGT Party the person at the Blackberry booth said: 1) She had 'heard of Twitter, never friend feed' uses neither 2) Is SCOBLE is coming tonight 3) Wow, your Blackberry is really "archaic" and find out when contract lets you upgrade. F-D UP? Booth babes need primers.
- Liza
Interesting theory... people who comment more apt to contribute?
- Mark Philpot
I know someone else who tried this strategy last year, with similar results. I've been debating it. Once I got over 3K followers on Twitter life just got weird. Started to spend X amount of time every day blocking porn spam.
- Patricia F. Anderson
Liza: yeah, sorry for not coming to the party. I went and saw Obama's CTO instead.
- Robert Scoble
Steve Lynch: my Dunbar number is higher than yours is. :-)
- Robert Scoble
Nice summary Robert on the whole Unfollow thing, but would it be too repetitive if I re-post on my FF?
- Keith Rowland
What is the best friend feed aggregation strategy of non-friend streams (eg RSS, twitter, etc)? Imaginary friend per service, then add to lists? Multiple services per imaginary friend or 1 to 1? Or add the services to a group? What are the considerations?
- John Brown
Keith: you can repost anywhere you like, thanks!
- Robert Scoble
I'm in!
- Craig Shipp
still wondering how you are able to handle such a big load of subscribers here and e.g. so many followers with twitter o_0. I am already (sometimes) lost with the few i got till now. Lately with one sweep almost 40 to 50 contacts in twitter disappeard and i have no clue why ... boah, how are you handling the noise? Hell, with so many ppl in, you might have a terrific noise? Or you wear just good headphones ;)?
- Ronald
I very much agree that being choosy is the key to Twitter. I'm not nearly on the scale that you are, but in my experience, freely following people (whetther they follow me or not) and then mercilessly cutting back on them over and over again results in a kind of darwinianly better and better signal to noise ratio.
- Tim Maly
Touche!
- Steve Lynch
from twhirl
Count me in
- Johnny
Hi Robert
- Randy Allen Bishop
Liked the blog post and totally agree. I've been meaning to do something similar. What I do is occasionally prune and then add some "better" replacements, so my total is always 2000 follows.
- Bora Zivkovic
I don't see how anyone can manage so many users without groups. Then again, with groups you could just make an "ignore" group.
- Oscar M. Cantu
from iPhone
Great blog post. I totally agree on the noise level. I figure I have blocked a few hundred accounts on Twitter, and my noise level has dropped dramatically. Thanks for the follow!
- Tony "Frosty" Welch
Hello Hello!
- Sam Goldfield
Robert - I figured you were in DC from FF, but she had NO IDEA what a CTO is. Point is, she was eager to give you a Blackberry, but not me, and I wish I had a Scoble costume to pretend for 5 minutes.
- Liza
@Robert I think you are starting another mass follow again.
- Steve Chou
from fftogo
Steve: that's not the problem. As long as spam doesn't enter the system I can deal. Keep in mind here I can choose how I follow. I can put you all in a folder that I never look at, if I wanted to.
- Robert Scoble
my feelings were hurt that you unsubscribed to me on twitter, but i agree with your methods
- Brian Appleby
I'm in!
- Chris Rossini
Brian, yeah, but I follow you here. So there.
- Robert Scoble
really doesn't matter as long as i can follow you, that's the beauty of these services
- Brian Appleby
How did you come to follow so many to begin with? I get annoyed with ppl and unfollowing is easier than sifting through their garbage constantly.
- R1CC1
Autofollow was a horrible idea to begin with.
- David Chieng
I kind of tired to keep an eye on who follows me now,the ones I'm following is much more important.:-)
- Steve Chou
from fftogo
Whoa lots of comments I'm following you longtime lol
- Edgar Rodríguez
from iPhone
Robert: we need more intelligent spam-follower-filtering on Twitter! We need to fix this.
- Steve Lynch
from twhirl
@David +1 I think auto follow is such a bad idea to begin with,and people like Robert now even need to pay to unfollow these people.
- Steve Chou
from IM
How much did SocialToo charge for running the unfollow script?
- Shane
I'm in!
- rich brant
from iPhone
I heard its 25 dollars.
- Steve Chou
from IM
I've always been very picky in who I follow on twitter. I follow 40 people, and I can't guarantee that I see every single tweet. I don't scroll back usually, unless it's my "Real Life" column in Tweetdeck that couldn't fit on my screen.
- Tom Ribbens
My birthday is also January 18th, therefore you must follow me Robert! ;)
- Chris Luckhardt
from BuddyFeed
Thanks Steve! $25 is pretty reasonable. Wonder if anyone else will be jumping on the bandwagon
- Shane
Haha....I also threw the devil horns for Scobleizer...that should count for something. ;) http://www.flickr.com/photos...
- Chris Luckhardt
from BuddyFeed
OK, let's try it! And what about Twitter?
- Alexei Zheglov
Thanks for your post. Last time I checked you follow me here on FriendFeed. OK not to follow me on Twitter.
- Pilgrim Five
Smart way to clean house.
- Jeremy Chone
u have already subscribing me although i am just a-staying-at-home mum =)). thanx scoble. u are really a nice geek. haha!
- zʍıɔ
Let's do it.
- Kate
this is like an awesome commentfest
- Edgar Rodríguez
You can follow me, but I never say anything. Oh.. wait....
- James Macgill
follow me!
- Tate DA FF MVP
from BuddyFeed
Sometimes the tortoise beats the hare after all... building organically based on getting to know people and interactions tends to avoid the ghastly spammers, seo peeps and bots
- Sally Church
Tap, tap... is this thing on?
- Yanik Falardeau
This is the best place to follow you. On twitter you only see post headlines, but friendfeed is where the conversation takes place.
- Michael Fidler
Ah crap. You're already following me :)
- Jason Nunnelley
I'm outside your sphere, but bootstrapping is bootstrapping right?
- Travis Bedard
Tuesday night for the first time in 2 months I UNfollowed everyone on Twitter who wasn't following me. Since you had UNfollowed me, yup I unfollowed you. My Twitter account is so /FUBARed! It only goes to page 506 to show who I'm following and after that it is BLANK! I don't even know if they show in my Home stream. So Robert, I value what you say. Know I can tweet profusely - but it's as @replies to others with the occasional micro-blog thrown in. Question, what DID I do to cause you to UNfollow me?
- Arleen Anderson
I hope you'll follow me...
- Shane Tilton
Follow me, eh?
- Joey Gibson
Trying to fill out those dropped Twitter follows?
- Jamie Elgie
Scoble: Have you convinced Guy Kawasaki against his "follow everyone that follows you" mentality?
- Kevin Pruett
please do what you must to have the most effecient feed mr scoble, the random will still creep through the cracks, ;)
- chaz2b
I still haven't really adopted FriendFeed, but I will get interesting here in time if you follow me.
- Lance M. Brown
How are your cleanup efforts coming along?
- Jennifer Ruggiero
Oops - I also meant to ask, Robert: how are you managing to follow the couple thousand that you are now re-following on Twitter? You must be using groups, I guess...any other methods? I find ~500 people to be a near max in terms of how many folks I can fully read.
- Lance M. Brown
Following your inspiration, I unfollowed almost 100 people last night and blocked about 1000 spammers, cam girls, MLM marketers, and the like. Twitter is more like it was a year ago, its almost like I gave my Twitter account an enema and it worked. Thanks for the original idea.
- Mark Edwards
Excellent!
- Don Strickland
Robert, I started out only following those I know and those I am genuinely interested in. I've only followed back a few of the people who've followed me. I have a second account that I decided to experiment with. I followed about 700 people on there. It has had about double the followers of my main account consistently. I am about to try some new tricks there with an auto-follow script I'm writing but I think I will stay the course with my main account.
- Paul The Raven
Robert, I tried the "follow everyone" (almost) method for a short time - then I'd unfollow about once-a-week. Now I try to schedule a "follow new" once a week. TweetDeck's group feature makes following lots of folks bearable. So does FF, but you've been saying that for-ever!
- Kathy E Gill
I am just taking it slow.
- Rick Cogley
from iPhone
Hey.
- Kreg Steppe
I will follow you if you follow me (Genesis)
- Keith Barrett
I may not be smart, but I'm smart enough to follow you!
- John Pfaff
It occurred to me (and surely to someone before me), that different definitions of "following" might be a big factor here. If I'm following someone, it means I'm following along with their updates. But others might see themselves more as becoming part of a person's "following". Not that they are necessarily reading the person's stuff, but they are willing to be considered part of that person's inflated Twitter posse, as part of the influence-trading aspect of Twitter.
- Lance M. Brown
Robert, I think that the biggest thing that changed is not that you were "wrong" (to follow everyone) before but that the Twitter population has changed so much. A year ago, pretty much everyone on Twitter was real, and interesting - now there's so much automated gaming the system going on that the signal to noise ratio has gotten unbearable. So I think anyone who cares about more than...
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- Matthew Blaisdell
I can't imagine how it would happen technologically, but it would be great if there was a way to ditch followers who weren't actually reading your tweets.
- Lance M. Brown
Enjoyed recent posts and look forward to more from you! Keep it up.
- One Degree Connected
I don't want to be left out please!!
- Jannifer @wordsforliving
Your most active followers are on FF. No loss.If you really wanted to make a bold statement you ought to have blocked all of your followers and started from scratch.
- Benjamin Taylor
Been a while since I put you and Shel On the record...Online
- Eric Schwartzman
blah.
- imabonehead
Good article Robert. I honestly enjoyed the perspective. I found the same to be true, but on a much lower scale, of course ;-)
- Ken Stewart | ChangeForge
i'm in!
- Criz
I don't get it - so now you are using Twitter kinda like a normal person, and its some kind of miracle that it works better?
- Nick Lothian
I'm impressed you can keep up with 1600 people. I have trouble enough with the little amount I have. I did find that making FriendFeed imaginary friends and putting them in groups for those I'd like to read occasionally (but not on a regular basis) has helped a lot
- Tamara
Follow....how about some promotion!
- Bob DeMarco
i'm in
- Joshua Smith
from twhirl
9/11 Was an Inside Job
- bill giltner
Stop it, or I will have to get a restraining order.
- Sriks7
In my mind I'm important enough to follow ;-)
- Jonathan Callahan
Hello Robert....Whatever your favorite genre is...http://listen.grooveshark.com/#...
- Michele Lorito-Chase
Looks like you have a lot of work to do following everybody.
- Corbett Barr
now i'll have to write something interesting...
- Robert Littlejohn
me! i offer nothing but the warm feeling of having accepted a ff reject.
- Marco
ok. so how will you filter the noise now
- Kfir Pravda
Ooo, I've won the lottery. You'll follow me now. Wheeee! (how do you have the time to go through all of the names by hand? VA assistance?)
- Peggy Dolane
Great :)
- Baard @ Pixum
Interesting trend on twitter - I always wondered what sense it made to follow tens of thousands of people, too much noise. I'm finding it hard enough to follow 2900 (looking to cull even that down as I mostly tweet about 30 people!)
- Tia Singh, Life Coach
211th comment: WTF
- Geer
Good :)
- ★ Soner Gönül
I like your ability to influence so many people. I'm following you (mostly here - on FriendFeed) because it's one of the ways to learn how you do it (but, please, do not follow me if you do not see anything you could learn from me :-).
- Hanna Wiszniewska
I would come up w/ a better vetting process.
- Joe
why would you do that?
- james
got to get a pic up so i can fit the criteria, I only follow 45 people and some of them are on thin ice ( Im lookin at you Scoble)
- James Hunter
"Where in The Net is Robert San Diego?" (cit.) :-)
- Luca Perugini
from iPhone
I'm not kissing your arse,but i do learn a lot listening to you.
- Paul Downing
@scobleizer why would you randomly follow people who comment in this post when you just got done knocking FFollo and having to unfollow a gazillion people on Twitter?
- Bryan Zirkel
Bryan: because I'm following people one by one and putting them into lists on my screen. Autofollowing means you aren't doing ANY of that thinking. Also, autofollowing will get you spammers, if they ever show up (and they will).
- Robert Scoble
@Robert: Read your blogpost and that's indeed what I look at to follow people too. No autofollow and even close friends have to tell something interesting for me to (keep) following. Friends who are new to Twitter (no tweets yet) get the benefit of doubt.
- Patrick Mackaaij
If you follow me, great, but if you don't I'll understand. :) And I ought to do some pruning myself...
- Grant Bierman
Let's give it a try. :0)
- Toma Kazakov
I still don't understand how you want to follow someone who just writes a comment over here. Well, this is not the first time. I did not understand why and how you followed 100k people. I find it hard to properly follow 100 people.
- Sumanth Kolar
Sumanth: obviously there are degrees of "following." When you read the New York Times, do you read the entire paper word for word? I don't. Same when I'm following. I only get random slices of some of my lists. Others, which have 500 people on them, get 100% read.
- Robert Scoble
I'm still here . . . although tired after teaching all day. Louis Gray came to my PR class at SFSU and WOWED the 50 students [except for one who thinks we are making too much of social media] We won't be following him.
- Shari Weiss
I like cheese!
- Paul Puri
Shari: Louis wows me too. Glad to see the class is getting into it.
- Robert Scoble
He he :)
- Richard Holas
I still like the "stranger stream" of Twitter vs "friend feed" of other applications. I don't feel the need to read all tweets from everybody - and tools let me check my fave tweeples. I think mass unfollowing destroys some of the social contract - Robert you are lucky because you are well liked and can do some risky things but companies for example (not Brands of One) would be in...
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- Laurel Papworth
As @charleneli predicted back in January, 2009 will be the year of de-friending on social networks. It's here.
- Mark Evans
Laurel: yeah, you have to navigate these waters carefully if you are representing a brand, that's for sure!
- Robert Scoble
you can put me on your boring list...
- Charles Tanton
i will not get followed back: not powerful, don't have a brand, not a news maker... but i kinda understand the reasons
- Dani Martínez
I still think it all goes into how you use twitter. If your using it as a communication tool it depends on if you are looking for broadcast or 2 way. Its interesting to watch as some of the bigger names turn back from the broadcast and go back to the 2 way.
- Luke Kilpatrick
@Robert so when you're taking in information from FF do you have a feed of several dozen/hundred "key" people and then categorize the rest, or are you mainly searching? Do you utilize groups at all or mainly just rely on what comes across your feeds? I guess I'm curious as to how you're using FF to collect information.
- Bryan Zirkel
I have found Twitter becomes noise rather than a conversation once the following/follower thing gets over a certain mark. I think this is the dirty little secret of Twitter - if it just turns into white noise, rather than a filter, then it becomes less than useful.
- Michael Liss
I'm interested in how we'll all feel over the next few years as social networks continue to change and more people and organizations get on them. Obviously, many of us are getting fed up with spammers and are unfollowing them on Twitter and Facebook. I am also having a hard time keeping up with new subscribers on FriendFeed because I know less about them from their profiles and have to...
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- Cathryn Hrudicka
BTW, I feel like I'm finding lots of interesting new people to follow from these discussions that Robert and others are holding on FF. Cool!
- Cathryn Hrudicka
Am I too late to comment and get followed?
- Hichame Assi
I'm definitely around :)
- KyNam Doan
Aren't you following me already? If not, you should be! LoL
- Thomas Ward
I'm definitely late to be followed. :D
- Faraz Mullick
I don't get it but ok :)
- Parvez Halim
LOL! I follow those I find interesting and which can give me useful information. And hope someone follows me for the same reasons.
- Flavio
Very interesting post - I've always thought that you guys who follow loads of people must get completely swamped by noise! Like you, I've found it useful to follow companies I use that have interesting products like Zoho and Evernote as a way of keeping up to date with their latest innovations. Excellent idea spelling out your "follow criteria" - it needs to become standard etiquette for social networks so that people don't get offended when they aren't followed back :) .
- David Meredith
aren't you doing the same thing here, that you did in Twitter? Choose carefully who you follow, filling your brain with pollution doesn't make you smarter
- Allison
Just finished reading the Mashable post on your unfollow exercise. It's attracting attention from all the other big names now.
- George Hall (Australia)
Very interesting indeed, I only to unfollow a few, cause I just never had auto follow on.. So now I just unfollow the ones I'm bored of..
- Jaap Willem
Seems like a good idea. Although Louis Gray also has a few valid points on his latest blog post why it might be a mistake http://bit.ly/19UKxk
- Silver Hage
I've never understood the auto-follow procedure on any social network. Even on Facebook, where it is obligatory, one can still lower the noise by simply hiding the updates of those who want to follow you, but perhaps also have little personal connection and therefore can be hidden.
- Noah Gray
It seems like the unfollowing was the easy part. Choosing who to follow again must have been a chore. I think it is crucial in twitter (and FriendFeed for that matter) to have a clear out every six months or so otherwise you get bogged down in an information feed you don't really care about.
- Chris Nixon
I can totally understand why you had to do this. I'm following 2700-ish folks on Twitter and I need 3 groups to manage it (using TweetDeck). I feel I am keeping up with most of my local community and the general tech community at large though I'm sure I'm still missing quite a bit of stuff from people who are not in the 3 groups. I also wonder how much more I can actually handle.
- Ken Seto
Um... well, I made something of myself, but then I didn't like what I made, so now I'm doing it all over again. Not sure how that fits with your criteria! Plus, I really don't have a brand or any influence to speak of. I do look great in boxers, however.
- Mark Jepsen
OK, OK, changed my picture. Instead of a green clock (a clock is my personal brand) I put a picture of myself. A lot of people told me to do that....
- Bora Zivkovic
I am still looking for info on holographic technology being used for news delivery. Perhaps it's a technology that hasn't even been invented yet or is sitting on a shelf somewhere. What say you? http://specialdee.wordpress.com/2009...
- Denise
Hoping your new look account has had the desired effect. No need to follow me, I'm not the interesting type, I'll just be glad if your insights, links & content continues. Congrats & good luck
- JanLawrence
Here's what's interesting, Robert, I've noticed an uptick in followers even if you reply or RT or like someone's tweet, not just if you follow that person. Then again, perhaps that's the intent - if you like or RT someone's idea, that's a kind of stamp of approval.
- Aaman (Clone of FF)
Hej hej!
- Peter
The Scoble Pendulum.. How long till we go back to FOLLOW!! FOLLOW!!! FOLLOW!!!! ? :)
- Adrian Scicluna
I did a purge on Facebook for the same reasons a few months ago. It's under 300 and it's people I actually care about. I've come "this close" to running a purge on Twitter but haven't yet. Maybe this will spark me to do it. I've kept FF tight from the beginning.
- Rob Williams
moving from FB to FF ... fewer, longer, more meaningful threads. welcoming your follow. cheers
- marc calamia
ok, you´re following me already :-)
- Torsten Eckert
alright - follow me... - thx in advance Robert Scoble...
- Nilesh
All that commenting in the past counts for nothing?
- Kevin Gamble
Hey Robert... Great post... On FriendFeed, I increasingly put people without meaningful and valuable content on a separate feed that I rarely check... Its a more "sensible" way to unfollow, i think... I only unsubscribe if I get pissed at someone etc. I wish, FF gave users the option to only unsubscribe from comments and likes (but keep the main feed). This would be a good tool to control the noise...
- Onur Kabadayi
I agree with Robert (duh!). I very briefly made the effort of checking out the new follows and deciding whether to follow back. I think once I hit a thousand I shifted to a model of occasionally saying, "If you want me to follow you, talk to me." Hit two thousand and quit saying anything or checking followers. I don't care if they follow me as long as they either say useful things like real people or don't talk at all. I've never autofollowed back. This strategy works for me.
- Patricia F. Anderson
I have a large difference between people I follow (around 2000) and people who follow me (around 1800) - I choose people who are important sources of information. People choose me if they think I am an important source of information to them. I never thought it would have to be a one-to-one relationship as to who is useful to whom: some are informative, others are good listeners and learners. I learn from people I follow and I hope my followers learn from me.
- Bora Zivkovic
I also think that those of us who follow larger numbers of people don't use the stream in the same way. It is more dipping in and out of the stream, trusting that the important stuff will be repeated enough to float to the top, engaging with conversations of the moment. I wrote a blogpost on this earlier this year: http://etechlib.wordpress.com/2009...
- Patricia F. Anderson
Someone told me twitter can be separated into two types. (id say at least two)
- Kay Proskin
Scoble, I am beginning to think you are a cult leader :). Look at all these comments! I am using FF more and more these days... Useful for eGuiders.com that's for sure.
- Marc Ostrick
I'm not sure your following me.
- Amit Morson
Hey Scobie :D Follow me !
- paniaguai
I like Robert. He was one of the first people I followed on Twitter and brought me to FF. But I don't understand why people are desperate to have him follow them. Status? Some kind of virtual autograph?
- Tech Introvert
What the heck. Follow me if you like. I'll be as entertaining & informative as I can.
- Aaron Schaub
from iPod
Been considering doing the same. Your post just might be the flame that lights a fire you-know-where to get it done.
- Kate
Well done! Who need followers that aren't reading your tweets anyway.
- Sean Rasmussen
I just want a toaster!
- aTechDude
I'm considering doing same once I'm more confident in my use of FriendFeed. I RT'd this and it resonated with at least one of my followers.
- Tony Hollingsworth
'Hand-crafted personal network' is the meme of the moment, and whilst I can see the workmanship, where's the value going to be for you, Robert, in following this rag-tag (no offence people :) ) of folks from a gazillion different verticals. (OK, so they're mostly life scientists).
- Andrew Spong
I use to want to be Bob Dylan. Now I am not so sure.
- aTechDude
um.....
- Spencer
My take: you can't be an authentic, credible voice to your community if you let 'sex & dollars' spammers hang on to your coattails. Spam followers matter.... in a bad way. Allowing them to be associated with you diminishes your potential value to genuine followers. It's a pain. It takes time. It's worth doing. More on this, if interested: http://tr.im/vJwb
- Andrew Spong
I'll have mine to go.
- aTechDude
Hope to see more "old fashioned blogging", like it better than tweets. Tweets are bound to disappear into oblivion the moment they're posted.
- Willem (@wim66) ☠
"Spam followers matter.... in a bad way." - I certainly agree with this. I block pornbots just as quickly as they follow me. I'm less vigilant about the commercial follows, but usually they go away by themselves after a while.
- John Craft
You're already following me here (don't care about twitter tough), so i just hope you don't un-follow, even though you probably don't understand what i'm talking about most of the time, since it's in portuguese.
- Diego Sana
So what happened to the advantages to following so many people you always talked about?
- Bas
Thanks for connecting here, still learning all the advantages of FF
- carece
@Andrew Regarding spam followers and the idea that allowing them to follow you somehow dilutes your credibility, I just have to disagree. To me that places the burden on the wrong person. I don't have time to waste pruning those who follow me, unless they are overtly annoying.My stream is public, they can follow me anyway. What matters to me is that the spammers leave me alone. If they don't, I block them. If they keep quiet, I don't care.
- Patricia F. Anderson
What is important is not who follows me, but who *I* follow.
- Patricia F. Anderson
Follow me if you want, but I gotta warn ya, it's scintillating stuff!
- Pierce Presley
Funny my twitter feed is much noisier but I have been very selective on who I follow. I have tried to make the feed relevant and actionable. At times I post things that seem out of the norm on my twitter feed but that is mainly for the few people who follow me that don't get it but I am trying to keep up their interest level. I also control who follows me, yes this breaks the model but I think the follow everyone model was broken and reckless
- Richard Gallo
Am I interesting? Dunno. I'm often controversial, tho. ;) BTW, we met in person at a Pittsburgh Blogfest, but I really don't expect you to remember that.
- Eric Williams
Enjoyed the post. I just started Twitter a few days ago to get away from Facebook. I like friendfeed the best - can't wait until it becomes more mainstream.
- Robby Parker
Awesome move. Consider that my comment please :)
- Charlotte Barker
friendfeed is definitively more evolved that Twitter. Conversely, user bases of Twitter is still its real (and unique) point of strenght...
- Marco Castellani
Don't want you to follow me (unless you find my stream of interest) but it's quite interesting the number of people that comment to get you to follow!
- Ben Drury
Hey Robert! So, I would like to talk to you about a social media company I'm working with right now. They launched a few months ago and their trajectory and momentum is pretty amazing. Oh, and I started unfollowing the noise in my Twitter after I commented on your blog post.
- Gregg Le Blanc
I'm asking the same thing Bas asked... what about your video on the benefits of following so many people? I took a stab at that method of madness by starting to follow all kinds of people, and following anyone that followed me... but I always felt like I was missing good content from good people because of all the "spam". I started to use TweetDeck to create groups/columns for...
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- Timothy Federwitz
@Patricia - reminds me that I should probably review all my twitter followers and thin things down. :)
- JA Castillo
thanks
- Keith
I like conversing with interesting people. Sometimes that means commenting to get followed, @cogiva. ;)
- Eric Williams
Hi Scoble!
- Pete Gilbert
I did almost the same thing - unfollowed about 1000 from my 1500, no attention is way better
- Maarten den Braber
Couldn't agree more. It's about time we all grew up. BTW Don't follow me. :-)
- Gee Ranasinha
Robert what's the deal with Twitter?
- stockmanmarc
Your post makes good sense. I didn't auto-follow & still find folks to unfollow because their noise gets too loud.
- Debra Ellis
Very clever. I imagine the signal to noise is sooooo much better.
- Chris Brogan
I've been thinking about unfollowing a bunch twitter folks as well. I'll look at SocialToo again. My initial experience with SocialToo wasn't good. However, it was during their infancy.
- Ron Hudson
I don't blame you at all. Leo was all over that yesterday.
- Daniel B. Honigman
why would simply leaving a comment prompt you to follow me?
- David Wescott
You're not going to change your mind and mass unfollow us are you?
- walidmREALTOR
Sup! :-)
- Jon Winters
I suspect it identifies you as a real person interested in dialog, David.
- Eric Williams
Followers are currency and you have plenty to spend
- Lee Odden
Bob, did you do anything on Twitter recently ? Did you massively refollow people ? Seems like you screwed up Twitter : down for a while... ;-)
- Enikao
Follow me! @carloscomputers
- carloscomputers
very cool timing with just before twitter goes down hard! well done Robert! @crbrowning
- Colin
@davidorban
- David Orban
I've followed you and have really enjoyed your posts. I think I would miss that
- Tom
Good to hear that your experiment has stopped the spam @lindsaydavies
- Lindsay Davies
ciao Robert!
- alex
Your ego is amazing. You make it seem like it is a special deal to be followed by you. I'm glad there are many very bright, talented people here who follow others, regardless of class, education, social status and not based on some snobbish criteria.
- RuthNH
DON'T follow me! I write in Italian :-)
- Lorenzo Strambi
Here I be
- Robert
Wow, this is a lot of comments. And kudos for following Followable people who have something interesting to contribute to your day. I'm glad you did it, because that means you'll find AND share more interesting things. This, in turn, makes you more followable too. Thanks for seeing the light, so to speak.
- ax0n
You killed twitter.
- Melissa Pierce
and now with twitter down, many will flock to here!
- Mark V. Fusco
Did this take down Twitter this morning Robert?
- frank barry
That must of taken a long time :-) I've always been a fan of twitter, but I must say they have struggled in the last few weeks. We are working with their API on a project and their seems to be an issue every other day that causes problems. Do they have what it takes?
- Chris Nadeau
I follow under 200 people and it's great. I can't imagine 1k+ . I add about three or four a month.
- Mike Janicke
I unfollow people when I find I ignore their tweets/updates. After reading your blog, I think we ALL need to be more judicious.
- Janet Barker-Evans
Is this why Twitter is down? LOL! Can't check to see if you unfollowed me. Hope not. You, Shel Israel, and Jeremiah Owyang were some of the very first people I followed way back before Twitter even had 100,000 people on the service. -- It's been a fun ride but, of course, the spammers always show up to make things difficult.
- Brenda Young
How do you really know if you should be following someone until you follow them for a while? Sometimes I don't start talking to someone until I see a common interest, then I tweet back and we start talking, but that could be months later. I don't follow everyone back, but I follow back those that interact. I will unfollow once I see that won't happen, or I don't like their tweets.
- Nadine Gilden
Twitter is victime of it own success, they have to re learn how to scal better, but more important they have to learn to share better.
- abdellah
looks like you'll need to follow at least 343 people LOL
- Shari Weiss
Friendfeed takes over for twitter finally?
- Thomas Resing
@Patricia I don't want potential followers to be put off by who is following me. I wouldn't want them to think I care more about have n+1 followers than I do about what they're going to see if they review who I've allowed to follow me. Not to cull spammers suggests I care more about my experience than theirs. To a great extent, the quality of their experience will determine the quality...
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- Andrew Spong
1600 ... isn't that a big number too? It could be you'll think again before you follow every one here :)
- Mario Gastaldi
Hi... do I get a follow?
- Jason Mayoff
If you are already following me. Will you double follow me? :)
- Brady
Still waiting for my Building 43 t-shirt. Not that I'm bitter or anything. ;-)
- Donna Tuttle
Respect your opinion Robert but we'll have to agree to disagree. Yes I despise all the FakePornSpamBots who follow me. I block as many as I can, but can't keep up. Our views differ regarding what is important to SEE! I treasure home Home stream! I read it, refresh, read, refresh and in minutes I have the pulse of the world... at least MY world! EVERYONE has something of value to share at some point. If I UNfollow tens of thousands, I will miss so much worthy of consideration.
- Arleen Anderson
Just another reason why it's good to diversify, I can still read your posts here. :)
- Luis Sandoval
Cheers!
- Jeff Wiant
Funny. I was catching up on news on Friendfeed for some odd reason. Great post; plenty for new and long-time users alike to consider there.
- Alex Howard
I'm still waiting for the ultimate tool to manage my followings - I can only manage to keep up with about 1/3 of those following me. I'd love to see something that can tell me what friends of mine also follow those that I am or those that are following me. Maybe it's out there and I missed it?
- TheDiva Rockin
Anyone interested in assessing the quality of their followers should check http://tweetblocker.com. It's pretty chastening. I aim to improve on my C rating. http://www.buzzom.com is a fun, fast way of decoupling yourself from non-reciprocal followers. You can select individuals to purge, or flush 50 random non-reciprocal followers at a time.
- Andrew Spong
Robert, your timing could not be better. ;-)
- Dave Martin
Great post, with perfect timing! Dang it, Dave Martin just took it off my lips.
- Vadim Lavrusik
I hereby rename this comment thread neoTwitter <waves at followers>
- Andrew Spong
/me waves
- Kevin Johnson
from iPhone
Awww, you gotta admit, saturation, the level of influence that you have, because of your high follower, count, is a tool of mass destruction. Seriously, did you think if you recommend an online service that people would not try it out? Was this an asassination attempt
- Peter Murphy
I'm glad i'm not the only one who misses /me actions from IRC, Kevin. ;)
- Eric Williams
With today's Twitter outage your timing is pretty stinking good, Robert. :)
- Chris Cree
Now to get the rest of the world to follow that same logic when it comes to follow/unfollow! I only started being more selective as Twitter (and everyone else) started getting aggressive with spammers or anyone that even remotely did a single spammy tweet. Now if only there were the same contact management tools available for the other social networks as with Twitter. No matter what though, I'll continue updating my status when I eat a peanut butter sandwich! (With Fluff of course!).
- Paul Monaco
Twitter couldn't handle the mass unfollow load, blew up...
- manielse (Mark Nielsen)
I've been followed by Robert Scoble :-)
- David Finch
Follow iPolitics
- Jacob Kobi Gamliel
Now I think that it is time to think about a way to make money using Twitter.
- abdellah
@Mark, +1. When in doubt, the default delegation of blame goes to Robert.
- Dave Martin
what is critical mass for twitter? Too few and nobody interacts, Too many and spam bots overwhelm, Is it 1K or 2K needed to get a real experience?
- WarLord
Hmm can you unsubscribe from "comment notification via e-mail" in FF on a *specific* topic? This one :-)
- Patrick Mackaaij
Of course I thonk it is a different experience if you hand follow reading each bio from the beginning then these mass purges are unnecessary
- WarLord
I thought you already followed me. lol
- Duane-PreppyDude
Not sure if you do, but here I am...
- Aron Michalski
I am intrigued how RT addict will RT now?!! (ps: FF please don't post this to my twitter)
- abdellah
I have been keeping my twitter account private a majority of the time lately b/c I am going through a divorce, but I really kinda like it. Have been reducing followers as well as the number I follow.
- Jackson Miller
You should follow me here in FF and on Twitter too!
- Karthi
hopefully most of us have proven our worth beyond commenting on this single thread
- andy brudtkuhl
I like the way you operate, Scoble. Thanks in advance for the follow!
- Dr. Frank Ramblings, Ph.D
Nice way of doing it...
- Charles
No need to follow me unless you are actually going to engage in conversation with me.
- Jeff Hurt
If you're already following and we comment, will you unfollow? *wink Hoping all is well your way!
- Dayngr
4&5 are my favorite! Those are big reasons I decide to follow someone too.
- Kelly Mitton
I'm lucky. Have never had Twitter spam. But then again I'm no Scoble either :)
- Lori Reed
I am the peanut butter eating bot
- Benjamin Spector
If you are already following me on ff does that mean I get a cookie or something? ;-)
- Tomy Thomson
I'll add my name to the list. I came back to FF after the Twitter DoS outage. Maybe Scoble broke Twitter by all his unfollowing. He was the "glue" holding Twitter together. :-)
- Tom Newman
Robert: Here's the bit you missed off the end of your title here: .... and put them in that group I don't read :-)
- Jim Connolly
Hi Robert, greetings from germany.
- Flynn (Michael A. Volz)
add me for your social media and the practice of law news!
- Rex Gradeless
Great post. I'm sure that some people might say that this kind of mass unfollowing will hurt Twitter, but I think it's just the opposite. Users who are following people they have no interest in just to pad their own numbers are diminishing the meaning of "following."
- Mark Denton
@Ulrichmargarita
- Ulrichmargarita
To stave off being unfollowed we need to comment here ya say?
- Jason
you are already following me here... perhaps you'll consider re-following me on twitter too
- Michelle
I don't know how you ever did it the other way. I am not in the tech world near as much as I used to be, which wasn't a whole lot. I just followed some random people I saw on SMugMug-related people on here when I started. You were one of them. I had no idea who you were (and still don't :-), but you talked about Twitter a lot too, which got me on there as well. Both services have really...
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- James Schipper
Follow away!
- Ferdinand Perez
ok 400 jackpot
- abdellah
Quality over quantity in all things, including (perhaps especially) Twitter. Loved your friending methodology -- those are the same rules I've applied since being on Twitter. Posted them onto Posterous to share the love with credit to you: http://lorilaurentsmith.posterous.com/
- Lori Laurent Smith
it's not about unfollowing, it's about filtering...
- Barak Hachamov
I started out following everyone on Twitter.Then I got wise. When someone's stream becomes more noise than signal, that's when I consider unfollowing. I realize that threshhold is different for everyone, but I'll take "what I had for lunch" over a dozen bogus "marketing tips" any day.
- Julie Barrett
from twhirl
Well, I am trying to use FriendFeed more after watching Scoble's video on all those monitors he had up. I'm not a big consumer of information and don't own a TV but this online social stuff has been a perfect fit into my life because I can connect with people who are fountains of knowledge on a specific subject or are "human mashups". I like both!
- Adria Richards
Why !?
- Bertrand Soulier
from iPhone
I've been reading al of this unfollow bits, and this point of yours:
- Donna
Hey, I think that today you might make your point about FriendFeed being more interesting than Twitter. Hope you are well. Talked with @fransteps this morning and she is excited to work with you at Rackspace.
- Kami Huyse
hi
- George Desmyter
I would appreciate the follow, thanks!
- Jeff Reisdorfer
I've been reading all of this un-follow posts lately, and this point of yours in WHY you unfollowed: "#2 Because I personally care about everyone I am following their noise level is a LOT lower. ." Is exactly what I do. And now I am starting to understand Friendfeed more. and using posterous to do aggregate posts. So is this overload making more people sit up and think first? I think so. At least the intelligent ones.
- Donna
I love you Scoble! ;)
- Carol Levesque
with all due sycophantism :)
- jeff hammond
This is a great move, Robert. It's also a lot more human...I was almost convinced that you were the only person who could actually drink from the fire hose without choking.
- Steffan Antonas
That sounds fair. After this morning, I've renewed my love for FriendFeed and Tweetworks. Until the next DDos attacks, of course. I will miss the fake porn stars, but I did when I moved from L.A.
- Scott Pierce
Steffan; I agree...there is no way anyone else could do what Robert S. does. It's good to see him become human.
- Robert Jones
This has been my problem for about the past six months. I routinely go in and unfollow, get the noise level down to where I want it, and then end up following back a bunch of new people, some of whom I'm incredibly grateful to get to know. When I had track, it was a whole lot easier to manage the stream, but I suspect even that tool would now be out of hand. I have a set of rules for...
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- Karoli
hee hee. i am commenting not so much to beg your follow but what a clever pitch:)
- Tresha Thorsen
Robert - I have not read all 416 comments so if this was asked and you answered forgive me. What was the all of a sudden revelation that caused you to reverse stance on Twitter Followers?
- Jeff Vreeland
It's difficult to maintain and filter a list on all the social networking sites. I cannot even imagine maintaining the kinds of lists you must deal with, Robert.
- Jeremy Brooks
Dude, you broke Twitter! When you unfollowed all of your 100,000 the other day you pulled the rug right out from under it, so it fell down and now it can't reach its beer. :-)
- Robert Morrison
Actually I felt rather sad being fav'ed by you on FriendFeed then dumped.. But again. I get more from you from FriendFeed, so oh well, stop talking about Following and Get on more with Tech! :P
- Du Senyao Peter
Me Me! lol!
- Bill McGehee
i like the idea of importing favorite tweets into friendfeed. i haven't used that favorite feature much because i haven't seen any real use in it. thanks!
- Jonathan Blundell
When twitter is down I always wish I could tweet: checkout friendfeed. Nevertheless, how will following folk that leave a message here really improve the quality of your input? While I don't want to judge many of the fine folk on this thread, are they all that interesting? In other words, isn't this the start of the same problem you had on Twitter...
- Jon Mountjoy
what like here? this is a comment :)
- michelle harris
Barak - isn't filtering just unfollowing while pretending you're still following? ;)
- Matthew Blaisdell
Well to bounce back on your Twitter is down comment I think it is time to watch this video again http://www.youtube.com/watch... Hilarious!
- 77Agency
Robert, I'm glad you decided to stop auto-follow (finally). :)
- Veronica Sopher
I'm in
- Jeroen Sangers
from Nambu
works for mw
- Brendan Jackson
from twhirl
Robert, but why clutter your FriendFeed stream? This comment is not to get you to courtesy follow me on FriendFeed, think you've established you've changed your thinking. :)
- L.P. NEENZ FALEAFINE
OK, I have enough people to follow so I will close the comments on this thread. Thank you everyone, I will try to get to everyone today.
- Robert Scoble
Can't contain my tweet excitement about moving! And I can paint a wall green!!!!
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Where are you moving to? You mean, you can actually have a full scale green screen?
- Thomas Ward
Stickers on the laptop: Geeky fanboy or too much like a giddy teenager? Do you modify your computers? #laptopstickermeme
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Meme would be cute so feel free to share yours. This one is mine.
- Louis Gray
not my cup of tea to be honest...
- Zee.
Hells yeah...gotta do something with all the swag.
- Neal Jansons
no stickers on mine. I like the clean look.
- John Wang
I used to have it "clean" as well. Then I switched jobs. So never having to give the laptop "back" to anyone meant I could do whatever I wanted.
- Louis Gray
you put cn next to seesmic? i thought we were friends
- Allen Stern
Cry me a river, Allen. Yours is the first to come off. :) (Besides the shape of the CN and the Lijit and Seesmic logos just flow)
- Louis Gray
ROFL@Allen. BTW, Allen, you should send me CN swag :)
- Neal Jansons
from IM
I don't, but my job buys my computer. Technically, it's there's.
- Derrick
The correct answer is both . It's a computer, not a skateboard. Anyone who has to express their individuality by advertising their favorite online"hangs" is likely devoid of any more meaningful expression. Or, more simply, stickers suck.
- Ciaoenrico
I'd put my site logo onto a netbook, but I prefer the clean look of my laptop.
- Steve Farnworth
BTW - The TiVo guy is really for glass windows, so he had some assistance with double stick tape which is visible on his right leg.
- Louis Gray
same opinion regarding bumpers stickers on cars - not cool
- Mike Bracco
There's a group for this http://friendfeed.com/laptops...
- Jorge Escobar
Stickers suck? Do you hate balloons and glitter, too, you heartless fiend? Screw that...I am off to plaster my lappie with Hello Kitty.
- Neal Jansons
from IM
Sorry if that's harsh, but I see that in meetings and wonder, "am I supposed to take this person seriously?"
- Ciaoenrico
I never mess with the exterior of my computers, but my virtual desktops are typically quite the mess (or so folks tell me--they seem perfectly logically arranged to me).
- Kathy Fitch
I love stickers. But laser engraving beats it hands down: http://www.mobypicture.com/user... @marlooz was given a new MBP after hers was stolen at the 140char conference. The names of the people who donated are on it. Forever.
- Ruud van Wijngaarden
I do not own a personal laptop, and I'm not sure if my employer would look kindly on a FriendFeed sticker on my work laptop.
- John E. Bredehoft
Love the Building43 one! I have stickers all over my laptop.
- Robert Scoble
Neal Jansons LOL - Hello Kitty would rock! But Friendfeed and Twitter? Why not Dupont and Allied Waste while we're at it.
- Ciaoenrico
Ciaoenrico, my "meeting" Dell laptop is blank. But this "stickered" laptop is great for social media and blogger meetups.
- Louis Gray
I don't have any stickers because I do not want to disappoint those whose sticker I could not put on.
- ashish
Well, I don't have FF and Twitter...I have event stickers, a WP sticker because I am into Wordpress, Social Media Club, Digg, Laughingsquid, and Rev3 to support people I know/knew over there, and so on. Mostly I put them on to plug people, projects, and companies I like, same reason I wear band t-shirts and so on.
- Neal Jansons
from IM
Louis Gray For what it's worth, my vision may be clouded as a co-worker of mine did this with his machine, and he happened to be a complete tool. :)
- Ciaoenrico
I have Eli Manning Giants mini FatHeads on mine.
- Jim Graham
neal - you can have a cn sticker - i have a ton of them - just dm or email me your addy (anyone else too) - trust me louis is nothing special, everyone can have a cn sticker (lets not tell louis tho he likes to think he is special) HAHAHA
- Allen Stern
Yes stickers!
- Elliott Ng
i have in the past. last lappy had a full custom wrap on the back > http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2003...
- Jason Wyttenbach
Ciaoenrico, I have found that whether or not your coworkers are complete tools is typically independent of their laptop sticker choices.
- Louis Gray
i have stickers from bands and musical instrument makers on my lappie.
- Joe Silence is not dead
Louis Gray Fair enough. But I don't think it's the choice in stickers, it's the need to show off what you're into. Whether it's my cup of tea or not, it certainly is fanboyish, isn't it?
- Ciaoenrico
whatever floats your stoat, eh?
- Joe Silence is not dead
I tend to agree with Roberto, except that I do love temporary tattoos. If I could have laptop *clings* (stick, peel, move, and remove at will), then I might think about it.
- Kathy Fitch
Laptop Sticker Meme!!!
- CAJ, somewhere else
My girlfriend's laptop: http://www.flickr.com/photos... (the lapschtick was a gift of mine)
- Marcos
Marcos: Nice art :) Mine is not as arty but I preferred it to 'plain mac' :) http://www.flickr.com/photos...
- 1x29
Kathy: The one I have is removable without major issue - it's a gel skin rather than a traditional sticker. There was a range of them in Fry's Electronics, Phoenix, AZ. Not sure where to get them online, I'm afraid.
- 1x29
I created a hashtag to track it easier: #laptopstickermeme is what I tagged my pics with. I customize the hardware I own personally as you can tell. I'm taking the zen approach with my new netbook though. I have a few stickers on my company issue Dell laptop that are easy to remove.
- Brian Daniel Eisenberg
A-ha! Found this http://www.gelaskins.com/artist...
- 1x29
DORK! :)
- sofarsoShawn
So far, I have not done it with any of my computers. My first car (used) and second car (new) were both solely transportation means of getting me to point A to point B, so I did put stickers on them. The car I have now, I enjoy the beauty and style of it as much as its function, so no stickers on it except for some inside window static cling Apple logos. Having said that, I don't have anything against people wanting to make their stuff unique or reflect their personality.
- Louis Trapani
I can't seem to hold it up in view of the webcam…
- Glen Mistletoe
@Adrian, pretty nice!
- Marcos
Only one, but it's a large one--FriendFeed!
- Anne Bouey
Nice and clean. Although, I might change my mind if I came across a nice decal that wouldn't leave a mess.
- LuluGirl896
from Viigo
look at marro.ws sticker http://twitpic.com/59zcw
- Aykut Karaalioğlu
See if someone I knew gave out LouisGray.com stickers, I might have one on my laptop for this meme! ;-)
- Ken Stewart | ChangeForge
LouisGray.com stickers are here: http://www.cafepress.com/louisgr..., Ken.
- Louis Gray
Swag... where's the swag I ask! ;-)
- Ken Stewart | ChangeForge
$27 for 10 pack? Wow... I don't have 10 places to stick your bumper stickers. I'm still waiting for most of South Carolina to figure out what Twitter is...
- Ken Stewart | ChangeForge
I keep a "My Name Is" sticker ony laptop with all my account logins. (Just in case I forget them.)
- Mark Davidson
from BuddyFeed
My MacBook had stickers - mostly either hangouts I loved back in NC and my "W The Coach" sticker in UNC colors. I saw Rebecca MacKinnon at BlogNashville a few years back and the stickers she had on her iBook and vowed that I would get my own when I could afford a decent laptop. My MacBook lived from the week after the product line lauched until last December, God rest its soul.
- Dana Franks
Mod computers? Ya, check out the computer I won at PDXLAN, http://mikedeal.smugmug.com/gallery...
- MikeDeal / ZoneDancer
I only have four stickers on my PC (five if you count that I have both of my Apple iPod stickers on there): Apple logo from iPod package, Mest (punk band), FirePower Airsoft and Accessories, and Limozeen from Homestar Runner.
- Thomas Ward
I have one sticker on my laptop and it says brighkite because i'm a location based fanboy who wishes he lived in boulder, CO
- Wayne Sutton
from iPhone
Ok that does it I want a sticker.
- Kim Landwehr
I put a couple of stickers on my Mac, just so I know it's mine.
- Bill Sodeman
I used to have tons of hacker stickers on my laptop but after I got the new Thinkpad I've decided that it should be sticker free
- Keith - @tsudo
These stickers just help me realize how much swag I'm missing out on. I have no stickers. Chi.mp is the only service that showed me any love. Wait, no. Myxer also sent me a bunch of stuff. :)
- Rahsheen ™, Coach Rah
BTW, SocialToo has stickers at http://cafepress.com/socialtoo - those will do until I can get some better stuff together.
- Jesse Stay
Stickers on personal lappies rock! On a work laptop, not so much, other than perhaps a sticker of the place you work. But I've got an Apple sticker pacmanning my hp logo, a Bunny sticker (bunny-comic.com), a Bob the Fish sticker (Grand Cayman memories), and a Get Out of Hell Free sticker, just in case... the husband is rockin' an old-school Apple sticker over the Apple logo on his MB, very cool at night with the light shining through. He also pays homage to Bunny and CN (he appreciates you, Allen ;D).
- Bette Cooper
I need to pick up some stickers for mine I think, its bare right now. The seesmic one looks cool.
- deakaz
Yeah I think its time to suck up to Loic a bit :-P That seesmic logo is perfectly stickeriffic.
- Rasmus Lauridsen
My laptop only has a "Property of MATT1604" sticker on the bottom of it :)
- MλTT
bet that specific laptop has scratches under those stickers
- Braden Douglass
I have an Apple sticker on the HP desktop that I use at work.
- Big K
How do you sell the laptop on Ebay when you're done with it if it's covered in stickers?
- Jesse Stay
jesse you sign it and sell it as a collectors item - maybe it helps sell for more
- Allen Stern
Allen not with my signature - I'll get you to sign it when we see each other in the next few weeks. (still working out a date for that)
- Jesse Stay
not me either - mine would decrease the value :)
- Allen Stern
Allen, maybe a sticker with your autograph on it :-)
- Jesse Stay
Jesse! NO brown-nosing! (Louis - I'll take one w/ an autograph!) Jesse - I'll take yours too =)
- Arleen Anderson
I have three small stickers on my Macbook pro; firefox, Ubuntu and Ableton live. I have seem some artfully stickered laptops, but too many company stickers is just too cheesy
- Deepak Singh
I never add stickers on my computers, they make it ugly. Sorry.
- Zachary TG
Wow! That's your laptop? I thought it was a photo of a freezer door full of magnets.
- April Russo (app103)
I will repair something with a sticker if I can't find the duct tape.
- Rob Michael (Atmos Trio)
I dont have any stickers ...:(
- johnpiercy
About a year ago, I created a special room here on FriendFeed called "Laptop Stickers" so we could share and exchange cool laptop stickers!! #fanboi #laptopstickers
- Susan Beebe
Where did you get all these stickers from?
- Melanie Langenhan
Stickers! http://www.flickr.com/photos... It may be geeky or whatever, but xxxxxxx doesn't sponsor my blogging so no advertising for them. Besides, if ppl think that it does not look "professional" I probably do not want to work with them. Just sayin'
- Stephen Smith
I'll only allow certain stickers: http://enjoysthin.gs/stickers
- Ted Roden
my laptop & netbook both sport Songbird stickers. I'd do friendfeed stickers for sure if someone offered.
- Trent Olson
Once upon a time, I put a Mandrake Linux sticker to cover a windows one on a laptop. Angry of having to buy windows with my PC before having the right to install Linux in it. My children still use this old and broken laptop, and the sticker is still there ;)
- Thierry R. Andriamirado
BTW, I'd be happy to put a 'FriendFeed' sticker on my Laptop! For when I have to talk about FF or to arouse questions about it.. "What's FriendFeed?". No FB nor Twitter stickers: everybody know them now.
- Thierry R. Andriamirado
Confused at how some of my blog posts that I think are interesting don't get traffic while other's I don't give much thought to do.
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I feel the same way about things I post here. As a matter of fact, my most "liked" post, I was seriously going to pass on. It wasn't a big deal to me.
- Michael Fidler
I was referring to my blog posts but you're right Michael. The same can be said about FF posts. Unless of course you're posting a LOLcat.
- Mark Krynsky
I've been the same way. When I filmed the Google Android video, I figured nobody would really care. As of right now, it's my most viewed episode. Guess you can't really predict what people will find interesting, huh?
- Thomas Ward
Friendfeed is the closest thing I have to blogging, so it's the only way I could relate to your comment. But, I'm glad you understood what I meant.
- Michael Fidler
Yeah, this is the closest thing I have to blogging too. I've been a lurker in most of my on-line existence until I came to FF.
- Adrian
Twitter Dreams of Being a Cash Machine, Leaked Docs Reveal - http://gawker.com/5315545...
Steve Nelson, Jimminy, Andre P. Siregar and 4 other people liked this
"TechCrunch has published financial forecasts assembled by Twitter Inc in February and obtained from management's personal files by a computer hacker. They project $400,000 in revenue this quarter, presumably from those adorable "concept definition" ads."
- Brad Williamson
from Bookmarklet
Hmm... isn't this the point? I think it unethical to post leaked documents without consent of the company, but hey - I suppose that's what accounts for news.
- Ken Stewart | ChangeForge
I'm not sure this really should surprise anyone either.
- Danny F Santos
Not really, Ken. As journalists, the people at TechCrunch have made it their duty to provide the best in tech news, by any means possible. Granted, the methods used by such media outlets isn't always the most ethical, but it is the most effective. I neither condemn nor praise TechCrunch. I am, however, glad that they've made this news public.
- Thomas Ward
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Let me be the first to say that you look awesome with an eyepatch!
- Thomas Ward
Ok, who else is left-handed besides me, @leolaporte, @veronica, & @kevinrose? (not to be elitist but we're obviously the chosen people)
invariant - farewell FF, Rob Michael (Atmos Trio), Morgan Haley and 16 other people liked this
My dad.
- Alex Scoble
Me, President Obama and Clinton, the guy from Burn Notice
- John Flynn
right minded here.
- Jason Wyttenbach
Me, Me Me! Only the best make the cut.....Oh and Obama too
- Randy Willard
Me. Ever notice that lefties seem to attract other lefties? I worked one job where more than half of us were left-handed...
- Internet's Tad
from fftogo
I am!
- Yolanda
My roommate and my cousin are
- Haggis (Sean Loyless)
moi aussi
- Todd Hoff
My brother-in-law, two of his children, my two children and me.
- Ivan
I am a leftie
- Mark
Does it count if I only write leftie?
- ronin
I am.
- The Letter M
Me, and any other real American
- Richard Lawler
I am though I'm trying to also use my right hand a lot too
- Wang Yip
Me!!
- Mel Buckpitt
Hell's Yea we're Chosen People. Leftelitists of the world unite!!!!
- kenneth glenn
*raises left hand* Sinister peeps represent!
- josh neff, geek at large
I'm sinister in more ways than one.
- Jack (a.k.a. Jeber)
me!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
- Caroline
ronin- hmmm, I would say writing leftie makes you technically a leftie, even if you do everything else right-handed. Anyone disagree?
- Sarah Lane
raises *left* hand. my parents thought there was something wrong with me.... my teachers and parents kept taking the pencils out of my left hand and put it in my right hand when they were teaching me how to write. T_T
- John Wang
-------->
- Pete Delucchi
from iPhone
We are elite. :). I too am left handed.
- Chad McCoskey
from iPhone
me too
- George Hall (Australia)
from BuddyFeed
Tres gauche ------>
- Stephen Mack
LOL Stephen
- Todd Hoff
Not me. They call it "right" for a reason ;)
- Josh Haley
I'm sinister.
- Kevin Fox
lefty by accident, broke right arm as toddler and developed left handedness. Vision still wired for right handedness, though.
- John Frost
from fftogo
I never knew the "sinister" connection until today! Proud to be sinister! South paws unite!
- Sarah Lane
I used to switch hands half-way across a page. At some point I asked a teacher which was the "correct" hand to use and, seeing that I was using my left at the time, she answered that that was the correct hand. From that point on I was a left-hander.
- Edward Coffey
I didn't even know you were left-handed, Sarah! Being a leftie myself, this just makes me love you more! LoL
- Thomas Ward
Semi-ambi.
- Mike Reynolds
Me! ofcourse ;) lefthanded
- Alemsah Ozturk
from iPhone
<-- This Guy ;)
- Scott Graham
I am!
- Charlotte M
PLEASE refer to left handed people by the preferred vernacular, which of course is : 'Retards'...also acceptable in some states: 'Wrong Handed'....
- Morgan Haley
Lefty here--If we go out to eat, I'll now know who to sit next to and not worry about poking them with my elbow.
- Rob Michael (Atmos Trio)
Lefty, but forced by our right handed oppressors into doing some things right handed - scissoring, mousing, and batting in particular.
- invariant - farewell FF
I am left-handed but I do some things right-handed, like throwing a ball or using a mouse... always have to sit at a table without anyone sitting on your left!
- Erin
We the lefty elite rule the world, while right handers do what they do... crazy right handers and their right-handed ways...
- Poor Gamer
Google gets a facelift - http://google.com- what do you think?
I haven't really noticed a difference in Google's home page, to be honest. What did they change?
- Thomas Ward
Hashtags are ugly. There. I said it.
Tyson Key, Daniel Rowley, Vit Kolesnik and 26 other people liked this
I find them appealing and primitive at the same time.
- Kamath (नमः)
Lindsay: What's your address. I will mail you one of these LOL - http://www.zazzle.com/hashtag...
- Mike Bracco
They're just distracting to me. In a forum like FriendFeed where you can do full text searches, I'm not sure what they really do but clutter things up. Personal preference, I know, but I don't like them. I am big on regular tags though. There should be a way to tag a post without using hashtags that would also not be displayed unless you wanted to look at the tags.
- Lindsay
@Mike - that's the most attractive hashtag I've ever seen. :)
- Lindsay
I rather like them. #affection
- Gordon Herd
@Jason - are they really? How do you make sure everyone is consistent? They're no good unless everyone plays.
- Lindsay
Right now people are abusing them because they're new... I think once the dust settles, they will be utilized properly (read: sparingly)
- Bwana ☠
I hope so, Bwana!
- Lindsay
I use Delicious for tagging resources I want to find again.
- Peter Warnock
Yeah, they're kind of a punch in the eye, visually. And you can't eat or smoke them, which, if you're gonna throw 'hash' in the name, you should be able to consume in some non-virtual way.
- ɐ ɯıʞ sıɹɥɔ
from iPhone
I agree. I don't think it's needed. It's ugly and distracting. I mean, we have threads. It's not like twitter where everything is a individual post and the need for tagging came about.
- Rodfather
From a semantic perspective, they are powerful. How about a setting that filters the hashes from the view?
- Peter Warnock
Gordon points out that a hashtag creates a link to the ff search query for that keyword.
- Peter Warnock
I don't find them very attractive either.
- Anne Bouey
I have to agree with you. I abstain from using hashtags, unless I absolutely have to use them. Seems that, more often than not, you can simply search FriendFeed (or any other social network, for that matter) through the use of keywords. Only time I see hashtags being useful is for organization, like during a conference.
- Thomas Ward
Ok, who's on the Gadget Site with the coolest domain name ever...? Lets get following! (add urls please just your username!)
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I thought long and hard, and decided to go with: http://user.gdgt.com/Zee/ -
- Zee.
http://user.gdgt.com/dsims Zee, you have no gadgets!?
- Daniel Sims
You can find my shenanigans at http://user.gdgt.com/options...
- Steven (optionshiftk)
http://user.gdgt.com/DariusM... it's 10 seconds old, don't expect great yet
- Matthew DeVries
Did Peter and Ryan start a gdgt room on Ff yet?
- Matthew DeVries
i submitted a product, but it goes to like "under review" or something. wonder how long it takes for a submitted product to get added.
- John Wang
This site makes me feel like I have a lot of old lame shit LOL
- Matthew DeVries
http://user.gdgt.com/vzx Neat site!
- Vezquex: God of FF
http://user.gdgt.com/LANjackal no surprises there, haha
- LANjackal
BTW, no user RSS feeds? No site RSS feeds? WTF, I'm shocked. Even Hulu generates an RSS feed for each user's activity. I'm disappointed, looks like the site launched half baked IMO. Don't see myself being there much.
- LANjackal
Can't verify my account. Just keep getting error messages and there is no contact point or help on this issue. Oh, well, Sigh.
- Martha
http://user.gdgt.com/chinster im adding everyone who comments on here btw
- Cassidy
Yup, I've added you all as well.
- Steven (optionshiftk)
there are some weird oddities with things not appearing on top of other things (hellooooo, widget) and no visual indication of a follow going through, but overall, a pretty slick site, so far.
- Chieze Okoye
http://user.gdgt.com/JoshuaJ... - Original, no?
- Joshua
posted site on likaholix - http://likaholix.com/she...
- SportyGeek Adj.
Why, Zee why? Now I own 1 gadget but not really, and tried to add my Asus 1008HA to the db.. aaaaaargh! Messy! (edit: HTC Dream != Android dev phone 1)
- Richard ¿digame? Walker
I'm not on the site. What's it about?
-
bragging rights, apparently... (edit: that's not fair of me!)
- Richard ¿digame? Walker
/jeremy - sweet
- Jeremy Toeman
http://user.gdgt.com/buru/ profile management is rather unintuitive, btw
- Pavlo Zahozhenko
Mine is http://user.gdgt.com/eng1ne
- Phil G
Just like almost everywhere else ;-) http://user.gdgt.com/holgr/
- Holger Eilhard
What the heck is up with the indignation? The site is about sharing info about your gadgets and gadgets that you might want. If you can't afford more than the iPhone, who cares? Go to the forums, discussions etc and talk about your iPhone, learn tips and tricks, review stuff, etc. That's the point of it. It's all about easing that type of interaction. Edit: oh wait, I might have missed the joke. I can't tell. I hate the internet, sometimes.
- Chieze Okoye
http://user.gdgt.com/amygeek of course!
- amygeek
Plain and simple: http://user.gdgt.com/thomasw...
- Thomas Ward
My username is "tamar," obviously :)
- Tamar Weinberg
http://user.gdgt.com/glemak/ - duh ;)
- mike "glemak" dunn
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