i'm poking my little toe into the list waters first - building some personal lists and seeing what others have created
- bear (aka Mike Taylor)
I'm so loving the folks who have made public lists. Only problem I can see is that there will be quite a bit of crossover--same folks on numerous lists. Still, I love the one click follow of presorted lists. Very useful, fun to play with and explore.
- Kathy Fitch
If you follow a presorted list, do those people show up in your home feed as well?
- Jordan Hofker
Jordan, no, they don't, unless you are already following them. You have to click on the list to read that list's stream. And, you can follow a list without following any of the individuals on it, which is awfully nice, I think.
- Kathy Fitch
What, they don't feed their tweets through to FriendFeed?
- Bruce Lewis
Kathy, that sounds perfect. Can you select individuals out of the lists to follow, then?
- Jordan Hofker
Jordan, yes--and that's really useful. You can follow a whole list that someone else has devised, or you can follow individuals that you discover on another list, or you can pick and choose individuals to add to your own lists. Really nice that you can follow someone via a list without following them in your general stream.
- Kathy Fitch
I could say something like "you'll get it soon" and "you won't like it anyway", but at least half of that would be a lie. Let's just say it makes commenting on FriendFeed feel slow.
- Louis Gray
Very cool. And so much snappier. Lovin' it already. And Paul, I'm assuming you're going to try to move Facebook in that direction.
- Johan Bakken
I love it. Now if only we could use it in Facebook.
- Faraz Mullick
Good stuff! I've been using Facebook Lite to get straight to the content I care about without having to sift through gobs of application notifications, but this looks even better.
- Roger
Don't see the added value yet, but you can tell their working with Friendfeed is starting to pay off.
- Vincent van Wylick
Excellent! A bit of real-time here, a bit of hiding there and now we have the best Facebook client. Congrats!
- Andrés David Aparicio
The implementation of read state in kind of confusing. I look forward to more iteration in this space... long overdue.
- Michael Leggett
Paul: does the BSD-CC license apply to code files in the dev URL?
- Andrés David Aparicio
how come that it does not update in realtime ? ah, okay,it's not ff...
- Lode Nachtergaele
I'd like it more if I could hide individual posts on a one by one basis like I can on FriendFeed.
- Thomas Hawk
It also seems like it only went three pages back for me. Would be better to page indefinitely.
- Thomas Hawk
To clarify, this isn't something that I or anyone else from FriendFeed created -- it's just a cool app. I don't know anything about the licensing terms.
- Paul Buchheit
I wonder who is behind it, I'll repeat my question in the Fan Page then...
- Andrés David Aparicio
it may not be something that FF created, but it's something along the lines of what the FF team ought to consider creating -- maybe as a place to test and experiment with engagement before considering features for broader roll out at Facebook. Creating a FF version of Facebook's news feed, complete with hide functionality, thread bumping, etc. would seem like a far more interesting way to interact with Facebook.
- Thomas Hawk
Paul, thanks for sharing it. Andrés, it is indeed BSD-CC licensed and the code is hosted on GitHub: http://github.com/nshah....
- daaku
have any of you guys running windows seen the recent beta release of evernote? I've never been a fan of the windows UI so I'm really stoked to play around with it more. http://blog.evernote.com/2009...
- metalerik
Amazon has done a nice job of solving this on the Kindle iPhone app by introducing a rotate lock on the lower right. http://www.taptaptap.com/blog... Apple should add that on Safari.
- Mike Doeff
I wonder if anyone is working on a good curation system for the real time web. So far I haven't seen one that puts it all together.
- Robert Scoble
I don't quite get it... Does a curation system create a topic and then you are able to drag in bits and pieces from other sources?
- Nicholas Orr
Congratulations on your son, Robert! Is it true he is RSS? Just to clarify, are you saying that this is a service and a client/reader that allows all your tweets, photos, posts, and all the comments from all of those show up in one place?
- Susie Wee
This sounds a bit like Gist to me. Only problem, is that Gist is complete brain overload and as it offers so much it kind of becomes useless. Not to say that it won't get better or someone else won't do it better.
- redeye
redeye: nope, Gist is great for keeping track of people. An important part of curation, for sure, but not the important parts.
- Robert Scoble
I also didn't get it. Is that something like your post in friendfeed and then all related content from all the other services (photos, videos, facebook comments...) are like comments threaded under?
- Martin Adamek
Susie: yes, our new son's name is Ryan Soroush Scoble.
- Robert Scoble
thinking about it some more - kinda sounds like Google Wave + Robots...
- Nicholas Orr
Nicholas: except I haven't seen a really great publishing tool in Google Wave yet. Certainly nothing that comes up to the quality of Tumblr or Posterous. And I haven't seen a great Twitter reader in it yet either.
- Robert Scoble
Martin: right. Except my curation tool would NOT have a forum turned on underneath like FriendFeed does (by default). It would be optional. FriendFeed got so close it isn't even funny!
- Robert Scoble
Yeah true - I was really thinking about the concept of a wave and it's replay/edit abilities - they seem like good things to have...
- Nicholas Orr
Robert, you're not trying to centralize things that can't/shouldn't be centralized are you (as in conversations) ;-)
- Alexander van Elsas
Alexander: hmm, I'm trying to get one place to post all my thoughts on what's coming across my screens. So far the industry hasn't given me that.
- Robert Scoble
I understand the need. You can already post in one place, but the problem is that not everyone follows you at that one place, right? I personally kinda like that conversation is distributed and hard to catch. It's like real life. Before you know it we will have aggregators that aggregate other aggregators that....
- Alexander van Elsas
Alexander: actually I don't know of some place that lets me put everything I do into one place. Not nicely, at least.
- Robert Scoble
I've seen a few dozen real good Real Time curation tools over the years. Onespot had one geared towards the blogosphere. Nowpublic, I think it was, has a tool geared towards journalists trying to decipher the twitterstream
- Mark "Rizzn" Hopkins
@Robert. You are right (FF got close). That is what all these services you mention attempt. Waste of energy and duplication. It would be better if you would simply own a place on the web where you can do all that. Anyone connected to you would (if you grant them access) see your flow of information as soon as you are connected. #user-centric-web.
- Alexander van Elsas
Maybe it could be a relay - whatever comment is made on FF is made on your thing and vice versa, except your thing relays to FF,Facebook,Twitter,RSS,etc :) As Alexander says, unless people actually connect your thing the people wont see anything. Some people only know one thing..
- Nicholas Orr
@Scobleizer You are right on the Money. We need the 6 things that we like from the 6,588,555 things Check this out:... http://post.ly/5sPB
- Vasu Srinivasan
Released that yesterday -- http://docs.40twits.com/ -- not all that you describe but a lot of it. More coming in River2 possibly today. We had a good start in Radio, which I think you used.
- Dave Winer
Seems like this could be solved with a fairly simple web application that can post a selection of tweets, liked items, etc. to a blog API as a draft entry.
- Ankush Narula
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- James
Like like like. Been waiting for this. I have a couple of family WordPress.org blogs I maintain that I want to move to Posterous. For non-geeks, posting by attaching stuff to email is SO much easier than logging into a WP site and writing a post there.
- Josh Bancroft
Anyone know some good tumblr themes that work well with posterous? I tried a couple and they did not work completely.
- Bryan Lee