Do people still use email signatures? I never have and likely never will. If I think someone needs my phone number then I'll put it in the email. If they want to learn more about me I'm the number 1 hit in Google for my name ssoo it should be easy. - Benjamin Golub
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One of my biggest pet peeves is crap email subjects that are so indescriptive that you need to actually read the email. And email threads going off-topic without the subject line being updated. I think signatures are useful in business more so than in personal emails. If it contains your job title, department and phone number, it saves people looking you up in the address book / management hierarchy to find out who you are. I hate signatures that contain images and other crap, like quotations, etc. - Tony Ruscoe
with volume of emails' that we get nowadays, its best to keep the main content in the Subject line itself !! Many of the conversations begin like that. Where it begins with a question /decesion and then the meat of it unfolds as to/fr continues..When using central archiving systems that works darn well !! - Peter Dawson
why not treat like Twitter and limit 140 characters in the Subject line - Ivan Pope
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My job requires that we have a sig line with pictures. For some reason, I can't get the pictures to imbed. ;) IT just has not made it a priority to resolve. :) - Mathew A. Koeneker
I was against signatures in personal emails, but you turned me around, Chris! - Rubin Sfadj
My company requires that we embed our lame "slogo" in html format (with colors) in our signatures. I object on the grounds that I was on the internet when the internet wasn't cool. Html email is not the way. What are they gonna do, fire me? - ha3rvey (That One)
Can I insert a mini-rant about people who email the helpdesk instead of calling? They invariably send stuff like, "My computer has a grey screen with error messages." - ha3rvey (That One)
@Harvery, I normally reply to that type of stuff like "oh dont worry, thats an error between the keyboard and the chair. Just reboot yourself" :)- - Peter Dawson
how do you use pimpmynews on iphone without Flash? - Jane Pyle
Does anyone know when they are letting more iPhone developers into the program? I signed up when they launched and they send me things like I am "in" but I am not! - Kelly Johns
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Are you using Twitter Tools on your blog? One of my blogs is down and I can't get it back up I wonder if it is related... - Kelly Johns
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Well I use a custom made code snippet. But in my case it did slow my blog down when loading. Imagine a page timing out, that can take an awful long time, especially if that's how long a visitor has to wait for a page to load. - Rosana Kooymans
And I thought that moving off of joyent was supposed to make twitter more reliable. - Josh Smith
I did confirm that the Twitter Tools plugin in my Wordpress blog took my blog down when Twitter was down, I had to delete the plugin to get my blog back online http://ulltimatewarriortv.com/... - Kelly Johns
“Did you know you could share pics, links and text on FriendFreed using Twhirl? Try it and let us know what you think, we are working hard to have the best client experience, suggestions welcome!”
Suggestion #1. Release a version that merges Twitter and FriendFeed in a single window. All other features should be held off until this has been completed. - Mark Krynsky
Am I the only one who thinks they shouldn't be merged. I like keeping them distinct - Deepak
@Deepak, if done elegantly I think you'd be ok. For instance, a toggle button to swtich from either service would be nice. The challenge on a merge is that I follow folks on Twitter that don't have FF accounts and conversely I follow users on FF who I don't on Twitter. So handling the Tweets from these 2 types of users may be a bit challenging. - Mark Krynsky
with the comment about merging Friend Feed and Twitter... although have AlertThingy already! - Laura Whitehead
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I like Twhirl but I can't use it because it won't remember my login info, every time I load it I have to enter everything again.I have uninstalled and reinstalled 10 times and no luck. I posted something on getsatisfaction.com and no answer. - Kelly Johns
I think they should remain separate, too. I'm not enough of a fan of FriendFeed to want them merged. However, I would like a way to keep tweets of people I follow on Twitter from appearing in the FriendFeed window. Right now, I see the tweets twice; once in each window. - Gregory Pittman
It should show you entries from the last time you started it only, so I don't re-read old posts. - Ranjit Mathoda
I second the request for a status-aware version that only shows new entries. No need to re-read old tweets. And **please** keep twitter separate, or at least enable an option to keep twitter/friendfeed separate. - Kevin Donahue
I like the fact that I can keep twitter/ff separate, but an option to combine them would be nice. Plus, right now commenting on FF works much better in alertthingy. - Will Johnston
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having both open in twhirl is pretty much awesome (when they are both up) - Chris Jones
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Merging would be great, but only if it would automatically de-dupe at the same time. - Chuck Lawson
I prefer them merged in one window. Agree comments are easier in Alert Thingy. - Sally Church
Thanks for asking Loic! I too like the idea of merging, but add the *option* of having 2 windows merged into 1, but maintain current functionality (let folks choose this). DeDuping would be a must for the merged option. Alternately have 1 window with 2 TABS - for twitter or friendfeed. - Susan Beebe
Loic, now if only it didn't have two screens..... - Duncan Riley
I with you would allow for scrolling within a post to get to more comments when they are over a page long - Sweyn
I am not sure about the merged window. I like being able to keep the streams separate. FF would push twitter content offscreen too fast. As an option? Sure. What I DO want is an option to reply to FF about a tweet right from the twitter stream - Soulhuntre
For one it would be great if it didn't delete my FF post while I'm writing when it updates. I prefer the separate windows as well over a merged one. Tabs could work but only up to a point. My suggestion is to use some contextual UI that could include having just one single window with an update bar to show the user which services have new entries. The user could then click on the items in the bar and open the respective feed. I like the idea of separation but I don't think a window for each service is the answer given the limits of screen space. - Devlin Dunsmore
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Perhaps the update bar could show/hide itself only either when it has updates or when the user mouses over a particular part of the window. That way the navigation is only temporary but reveals itself either on demand or when it is relevant to the user. - Devlin Dunsmore
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I'm not a fan of Thwirl's UI. Too much clutter. Who came up with the color scheme? Click targets (buttons) are too small. - Ole Begemann
nothing for me beats visiting the website itself at the moment - Ian Rathbone
@sebmos just like seesmic, functional but as ugly as sin - Duncan Riley
I like Twhirl and don't find it ugly at all! Just my 2p. - laurence timms
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@sebmos Tru the different color schemes, I never use the default - Garrido
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wew that is a lot of feedback thank you all so much! - Loic Le Meur
I have yet to find a FF client which I feel comfortable with. Although twhirl is a cool application, it just does not provide the same experience as visiting the FF web site. Maybe the interface is too busy compared to the FF web interface? - Scott Jarkoff
I love the picture idea, and I don't have much use for FriendFeed features quite yet, although if you want the bleeding edge adopter love, that would be the way to go. But yeah, personally I'd like to see more ways you could allow people to connect with content other than text. And if you could get video in there...whoa. - Justin Gardner
did not know you could do this. Cool for a quick share. But for adding video - do that to FeedFriend via seesmic or YouTube, Images - do that via flickr. Feed your existing services into it and take advantage of the "quick" features like commenting etc in FeedFriend. Otherwise the echo is going to get too loud. Nice idea - like it. - Dave Gray
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so much for the theory that @panopticons hurt the biz. - AnotherⓃⓄⒶⒽ
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I would think twitter users are collectively responsible - Michael VanDervort
Didn't we see something else like this recently, and it was pointed out that this doesn't even count tweets that originate from clients other than the twitter.com website? So the traffic is probably even larger than this shows. - Alan Cheslow
This is a great confirmation that some good publicity from the media can raise the awareness and adoption of these social tools.
I need this for the enterprise!! - Lyndon Washington
I'm sure it doesn't tell the whole story, but it's interesting directional info nonetheless. - £ogical €xtremes
This is why I say who you follow matters a lot more than who is following you. Are you listening to the smartest people? Reading the smartest stuff? Your inflow does pay off in smarter outflow. - Robert Scoble
It's worth noting who Steve Rubel says he thinks of as "influentials". :-) - Louis Gray
Im really trying to like friend feed, I feel like its a mess, Am I not leaving my twitter followers if they are not on friendfeed? Do i have to post on twitter and friendfeed? HELP ME! Am I missing the bigger picture here? - Britney Mason
I post some things on Twitter, some things on FriendFeed, and some things in both places. I'll do a Seesmic video about this, be back in a few minutes. - Robert Scoble
I definitely prefer FriendFeed over Twitter now (although I still do pay attention to both). - Akiva Moskovitz
I live in FF and check twitter cuz some friends are sloooow adopters - darn it! - Susan Beebe
Love the comments feature on FF; it's fun. But since there is only so much time to spend with this stuff, blogging suffers. - Tom Landini
I bet there are examples of people who can easily add FriendFeed and Twitter to their social media consumption without decreasing their blogging... Scoble is a very busy guy, and has a day job too, so something had to give. - Louis Gray
I guess im having trouble understanding how the conversation flows here in ff. Maybe I need more time, Say a learning curve? I need to keep up with the cool kids! ;) Now where is that twitterfone invite i need? - Britney Mason
There's something I just can't grok with FriendFeed.. I guess I 'lose my place' all the time and I feel like I'm missing stuff. And then, other things that are active float to the top over and over again. - Phil Glockner
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Phil: I have the same complaint, but I think we both are looking at it wrong. Maybe we're not supposed to see everything. Maybe we're supposed to "snack" on cool stuff and not worry that we're missing something. There are ways to see more of a standard reverse-chronilogical view, though. But I gotta go watch @garyvee on CNBC. - Robert Scoble
Thanks Robert. Off to Tivo Gary Vay-Ner-Chuk.. hehe - Phil Glockner
Phil, Im with you on that. I feel like im missing out. But i guess im getting more info then i did on twitter. Like this conversation. Is there where i comment? - Britney Mason
Why do you think the conversations are much more fun on FF than elsewhere? Is there something which makes the conversation more appealing on FF? - Scott Jarkoff
Scott: it's more fun for a few reasons: 1. It's threaded. 2. I can comment simply by liking a conversation. 3. I am not limited to 140 characters. 4. If I want to send something back to my Twitter followers I can right from here. - Robert Scoble
OK, created FF account, configured it as I wanted it. Nice. I love Google Reader so I just added the feed back in to Reader? Acceptable use? Seems to work OK. - Michael Pardee
I expect some of my Flickr and Twitter contacts will migrate to FF over the next 3 - 6 months. The format in FF better, plus the community is much larger here than elsewhere. - Russellreno
@britney, yes, these conversations on friendfeed are great.. I guess I just need to avail myself of the filtering options a bit. - Phil Glockner
BTW, @thomashawk started only two weeks ago and he has almost 400 contacts here. I would guess 50% of those are also on Flickr. - Russellreno
All those reasons make complete sense, and I have to wholeheartedly agree. I really love the Twitter integration. All in all, FF rocks! - Scott Jarkoff
FriendFeed is increasing your GReader sharing, which had also gone down recently. - Mo J.
Twitter is good for 1-to-1 or 1-to-some chatting. The fact that people have hacked Twitter to link-blog, or Twitter-gram, is an exception, and not what Twitter was intended to be. FF *is* intended to link-blog, photo-share, etc. And best of all, the comments and likes surrounding these are broadcast, so I can discover Scott Jarkoff, Mo Jawhari, and anyone else who's part of the conversation. You know what happens when I hover over @scobelizer on Twitter.com? NOTHING. - Carter Rabasa
@scobleizer hey, what if you use some tool (there are few of them) to push you twits also to Jaiku (I mean both to twitter AND Jaiku) - they got down lesser and have better structure, so MAY BE it will help you to substitute twitter in first place? ;) - silpol
Agreed I am loving the evolution of our communication as well (Blog, Facebook, Twitter, FriendFeed...) and FriendFeed is a great source of interaction! - Joe Dawson
Add Disqus-comments to your blog and ask FriendFeed for better Disqus-integration (collect all Disqus-comments to one central place), then you can blog again without compromising your FriendFeed-experience. :) - sebmos
I would actually prefer if an @ reply on Twitter shows up here as a comment, but it only works from Friendfeed to Twitter. - Morton Fox
add SMS - FF already allows you to post to Twitter thereby breaking the "just an aggregator" concept - SMSing comments to FF would be a welcome addition - Ron Emrick
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Does anyone still use Toluu or is FF good enough? - ydfeed
FF is so much better than Twitter. The hide feature is invaluable. The best thing about sites like FF is that they increase competition for some of our most favorite social networks and encourage them to innovate faster. - Thomas Hawk
Anyone who defines themselves by their followers is bound to be disappointed. It's a lot better to define yourself by who YOU are following! Are you following smart people? Or stupid ones? - Robert Scoble
Yep, if I felt that I wasn't enjoying the interaction then I would be doing it for the wrong reasons! - Joe Dawson
jesus, I'm not walking on eggshells just because someone might unfollow me. If they don't want to hear about when I'm walking my dog, then they should. To me, it's about lifestreaming. - rambn
For awhile there, it was like I was trying to develop my 'Twitter personality'. Forget that. Just go nuts with it and let your followers filter themselves. I'd rather blather honestly to 3 people than to try to please 300. - Akiva Moskovitz
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I haven't been promoting my Twitter that much. I guess I should try it. - Morton Fox
@SteveHodson You're right! FF sure did get a lot noisier tonight - after all, it's open mic night at Scoble's World Wide Show.on Friendfeed aka "ScobleFeed" :-) sorry Robert, I couldn't resist the fun!! <FF poke?!> - Susan Beebe
I sent you a link to me on twitter. now here's another. i still want you to go see the trailers for "man conquers space," too. http://twurl.nl/nlc2ev - mark zero (Jason)
Issue I've noticed re: FB vs LinkedIn - as an employee you can be active in FB without the perception that you're looking for a job. Not sure that's the case with LinkedIn. It's great for entrepreneurs, salesmen, and jobseekers. FB seems better for steady job holders who want to connect. - Kip
The vast majority of my LinkedIn contacts aren't looking for jobs. That was a mis-perception I heard before I used LinkedIn. It might depend on if you are age 20-29 or age 40-79. More of my age 40+ friends are partners, doctors with private practices, division heads, CEOs, etc... Not to say they aren't movable for the right offer (which is why it's fantastic for recruiters). - Mitchell Tsai
There are a lot of other professional reasons to us LinkedIn. I've used it to find funding sources, or to identify resources for advisory boards. People on FB don't really want to be found the wy people on LinkedIn do. We formed the board of the American Biofuels COuncil on LinkedIN. - Francine Hardaway
The majority of my LI connections are not looking for a job but quite a few consulting opportunities have come my way through it rather than FB. My target market (pharma and biotech) are there in huge numbers. FB is where I connect with my friends and family. - Sally Church
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LI is well worthwhile as a professional resource, and as an effective online resume (in combination with a professional blog etc). I'm still not sure how effectively it's being used by recruiters or traditional non-tech companies. But certainly trumps Facebook, which I think doesn't really have any business functionality at all. - Robin Cannon
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I agree with @mitchelltsai. Most people on LinkedIn want to manage their long-term professional career, not a short-term search. - Mike Reynolds
Facebook was never meant as a business site. LinkedIn was always more professional. Almost all of my co-workers, including several managers are on LinkedIn. - Mike Hussein Cohen
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In my brother's industry (Computer Graphics), almost all of the industry is on LinkedIn. People shift jobs in graphics so much, that networking is essential. Some of the very top people don't use LinkedIn so much. - Mitchell Tsai
Facebook was on track to be THE social network utility, used by everyone for the various facets of their lives. Is that destiny derailed now? I always want to be mindful of the difference between the crowd here and the larger mainstream population who continue to engage on the site. - Hutch Carpenter
I don't see a difference between the day when everyone loved Facebook to now. If anything, it's better than it was back then. I'm doomed to misunderstand these sometimey trends. LinkedIn is the same as it was back then except for a few *minor* add-ons. What caused this big shift? - Bwana McCall
For me the big shift in LinkedIn is "critical mass". When I first joined in Oct 2004, barely 1.2 million people were on (e.g. almost no one I was interested in). Now I can find 20-25% of my college classmates on-line. Likewise, Facebook may be more useful for the age <25 cohort where 99% of college students are on. Facebook is almost non-useful for my business colleagues or college classmates. - Mitchell Tsai
I use Tribe.Net for "Burning Man" and cool San Francisco dance/DJ events. Way better than sfgate for my favorite alternative stuff. MySpace for New York City, Nashville, and Boston musicians and bands. So much depends on the community, not the particular tool - Facebook, LinkedIn, MySpace, FriendFeed, Slashdot, Citeseer, ArXiv.org, Wikipedia, New York Times favorite articles, Wall Street Journal, SEC postings, Violinist.com, etc... THE social network? Will it happen? Don't know. - Mitchell Tsai
From the days I was at LinkedIn to today, there is just nothing more powerful than LinkedIn for business introductions, referrals. What is missing though is a good way to sustain/add value to relationships once you have connected - aka the hunting versus farming analogy - Mrinal Desai
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If you're searching / applying for a job, you MUST be cognizant of the fact that the first thing someone will do is Google your name. You're going to want your LinkedIn profile to be found first. It's the second thing that comes up under a search for my name (with FriendFeed being the first thing ;)) - Vince DeGeorge
Vince: Unfortunately I was so slow to LinkedIn that I don't have "mitchelltsai". Google refuses to show my "mitchtsai" profile, since it thinks it's a duplicate of the Houston, TX "mitchelltsai" - Mitchell Tsai
Mitchell, you bring up a good point, actually. I hope that the OTHER mitchelltsai is a decent person. The other Vince DeGeorge that comes up is a choreographer, so it could be worse for me, but I'm sure he's a decent guy. Luckily he's not "infamous." - Vince DeGeorge
Good post Robert. I wrote a story today on why people should be Lifestreaming. you cover one of the reasons in your post, but there are many others. You can read it here: http://lifestreamblog.com/why-... - Mark Krynsky
Ok, this is seriously cool. I'm starting to like Friend Feed more and more. - Don MacAskill
I use my "Comments and Likes" page as a newspaper, to see what's happened on these articles/posts/Twitters since I last saw them. Without the Comments/Likes, stuff would get totally buried (even only following 50-80 people. How do people follow 10,000? Ouch.). 2 weeks ago, I barely used "comments" and "likes" and stuff moved so fast on FriendFeed, that in a few hours, everything was so far down the pages...lost. Good post. - Mitchell Tsai
I may put a "like" on something interesting, so I can (1) come back in a few hours (2) see if any cool discussion is going on (3) remove the "like" if it's boring (4) gives me time to Del.icio.us the article if I was too lazy/busy when I first saw the article. (5) Remove the "like" if I make a "comment" so I don't hit that FriendFeed "like" limit .... uhhh speed bump. :-) - Mitchell Tsai
What Robert Scoble and Louis Gray really nailed in their two posts. - If I like person X, I can easily see what person X also likes. Waaaay better than reading one blog. Better than a set of RSS feeds. Combines (1) the power of "light-weight communication" - interaction without e-mail/phone (2) the ability to make "50 million personal newspapers" (3) the building of a community with multiple layers for everyone (e.g. asymmetric links, you don't have to follow your fans) (4) imaginary friends - Mitchell Tsai
@Mitchell Shaulis: I am clearly not in the big league on FriendFeed as I didn't realise there was a limit to how many posts I could Like. I need to up my involvement clearly! Great post Scoble, I enjoy reading both yourself and Louis Gray! - Joe Dawson
This is great thnx for the heads up - John Spencer
We should ALWAYS remember that blogo-something is a two-way road. Commenting helps keep stuff healthy. Not commenting is unhealthy to the network. - Cesar Cardoso
It is apparent that FriendFeed is one of those services that you should know very, very well. - Alex Williams
I'll try to comment on the original blog post rather than FriendFeed. If they're not using Disqus my comments won't show. - Andy Murdoch
Andy: what you doing commenting here then? - Robert Scoble
The power of blogs over traditional publishing is the two-way communication channel. Many times the post is just the jumping-off point for the good stuff. Those that forget that intrinsic fact usually are suffering from a fit of an inflated sense of self-importance. - Morgan
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I didn't realize this page existed - wow! cool! and it has its own feed. circle of life. nice - Sarah Perez
Excellent tip!! I did not know you could do that. I am checking my subscriptions and really, very few "famous" people take the time to discuss. Sad but true, it seems that the communication is only one way. - Arturo Servin
This is why FF keeps me coming back, is all about the great conversation and the discovery of interesting articles that keeps me interested. - Gadiel Rivera
