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Real-time search. We have it. It's here. - http://blog.friendfeed.com/2009...

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Try http://friendfeed.com/search... It's also fun to watch the embedded search on the blog blog post (http://friendfeed.com/search...). You can see people discussing the blog post, from the blog post, in real time! - Paul Buchheit

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cooool - Dobromir Hadzhiev

coooool - zsafwan 

GREAT ! - Stanislas Jourdan

Eeee. Awesome. - Mark Trapp via iPhone

Impressive! Now you can save real time searches as embeddable widgets. That's just awesome! This is a massively POWERFUL feature. Thank you FF team! - Brian Daniel Eisenberg

Lol, you flipped the switch before the post came out as far as I can tell. I was searching for it and I couldn't see it. - Daniel J. Pritchett

Yowsa. Makes quick easy work out of social media monitoring, don't it? - Ian Wilker

YAY!!! FriendFeed staff rocks, that's all there is to it =) - FFing Enigma (aka Tina)

Congrats Paul to you and your team! Another one bites the dust! - Jorge "JungleG" Escobar

WAAAAAAAAA.. meta real time search.. love the concept of embed a real-time search !! Way to Team FF -- luv u guys !! :)- - Peter Dawson

Do you guys sleep? Honestly, love the constant output and attention you guys pay to user feedback. I know this highly requested and probably not easy to implement. - Frankie Warren

Twitter Killer! - David Schmidt

Thanks so much Paul & Co. Excellent work! - Leo Laporte

hey love they way they launched search.. espcially when its close to "Search Marketing Day 2009" !1 - Peter Dawson

Thanks Leo. Jim and Gary did most of the work on this one though. - Paul Buchheit

Track is back! This is a gamechanger. - Mike Doeff via iPhone

Track is back! - Christian Burns via iPhone

Excellent news. - LPH™ and his dog P™ via BuddyFeed

I think I'm going to scream if I hear "track" again - someone please define it for me - Jesse Stay

Wow, great work! - Meryn Stol

I stand in awe of your hackfullness. - Ted Gilchrist

Good work. Much-anticipated. - Louis Gray

@Jesse: It's a dead twitter command "track keyword" sends you realtime updates whenever the word is used. Think of it like realtime google alerts for friendfeed. - Daniel J. Pritchett

I'm pretty sure Gillmor et al kept calling it "track" because that's what Twitter called it back when they had it for a week. - Daniel J. Pritchett

On a related note, live embeddable searches mean that I can hack together my own FF embeds for the pages that don't have them yet, like say "comment:dpritchett" http://friendfeed.com/search... - Daniel J. Pritchett

Daniel, Twitter never had this - this isn't "track" - Jesse Stay

you guys rock. - Karoli

...wowsers! Very nice! - JA Castillo (جاسون)

The blogpost said they're working to implement "keyword notifications" Jesse, that will be "track" - Frankie Warren

Twitter's brought back track, it's just no one cares. You can now have updates by keyword on Twitter pushed to you, via XMPP, just like track used to. Gillmor says that's not track. - Jesse Stay

That's why I hate the term "track" - no one knows what it is. The way Paul is explaining it, as real-time search, is a much better way of explaining it. - Jesse Stay

I guess we're still missing the realtime notifications piece that folks want. You can shape the firehose to watch terms in realtime but you can't yet get it pushed outside of FF via email or IM? - Daniel J. Pritchett

Daniel, Twitter has that right now, but Gillmor says that's not track - Jesse Stay

/me prints up a few hundred "That's not track!" t-shirts - Daniel J. Pritchett

Killer feature. I'm watching news about Honduras scrolling by. Very useful. - Chris Baskind

Jesse: Oh, i'm with you... Real-Time Search is a better term :) - Frankie Warren

BTW, integrating this into my blog right now - Jesse Stay

Me too Jesse. Making a new static page for that comment:dpritchett search I mentioned - Daniel J. Pritchett

this is definitely cool and all, but what about API? We are falling way behind on feature sets :) - Tim Hoeck

It's like an alternative to watching TV, in a literary sort of way. - Ted Gilchrist

awesome!:) - m.0

kewl! - phil baumann

Yay! This is the killer feature (once it's in the API, of course ;) - Brandon Titus

I'd love to see a blog post about how this is implemented. Real-time search has some interesting problems. - Chris Lamprecht

I take it back - I can't integrate this into my blog until I can filter it to a single list. I really need an embed for "comment:dpritchett list:e20" except lists are still virtual in that no one other than me can see them unless I use the atom export. - Daniel J. Pritchett

Awesomeness! I'm loving this right now. - Anthony K. Valley ©

Wow you guys rock! - Alfredo

I am sloooooooooooow. But what/where is the template to make the embeddable widget. please? - Marg Uerite

You're right Jesse - it's not exactly Track but it's getting a lot closer. The old Twitter Track allowed you to set up multiple search terms (e.g. track iphone) and get those delivered to your IM with zero time lag. At any time you could type "track" to see what you're currently tracking and "untrack" to untrack something - e.g. "untrack iphone". There are some third party tools that... more... - Mike Doeff

Paul, is there a way to change the title of the embed? The long search string looks kinda bad. - Jesse Stay

Mike, Twitter offers that today. Gillmor says it's not Track. - Jesse Stay

Marg, after you do a search, click the "Share / embed search" link to get the embed code. - Dan Hsiao

Jesse, are you sure? Can you provide a URL describing this feature? I think you're referring to Twitter Search (and saved searches) which is totally different. - Mike Doeff

Mike, it's in beta and available to developers, but it's back, minus SMS support: http://staynalive.com/article... - Jesse Stay

Jesse, when / where did Gillmor say that isn't track? I'm pretty sure that Steve just wants the old track brought back, with some filtering capabilities added (the old Track didn't filter out blocked accounts). - Mike Doeff

Yay! Have been eagerly awaiting this. :) - Rick Turoczy

Mike, he's said in various comments. Looks like Track to me... Heck, it's even called "track". - Jesse Stay

BTW this is on staynalive.com now (look in the sidebar): http://staynalive.com/ - Jesse Stay

for my italian friends: stica... - Alberto D'Ottavi via fftogo

Jesse - you can hide the ugly search bar with a little quick CSS - it's <h1> under an easily identified class. - Daniel J. Pritchett via IM

Daniel, good idea - I'd love to change the title more than that though. - Jesse Stay

just a few minutes work and I have a FriendFeed realtime search embedded in a blog http://www.amsterdam20.nl (web 2.0 event) - Jeroen De Miranda

My #laterzheenu tags can be of some use nao. Like right nao. - Mohomed Abdullahi

Yeah - Brian Sullivan

FF guys: we like your style :) --- way to go!! - Harscoat

I think I'm going to cry - Bwana

awesomesauce! - Simon Wicks

This is a really great innovation, congrats friendfeed team! - (Garin Kilpatrick)

Thanks, Jim and Gary! Lots of hard work for a very cool result! - Anne Bouey

HhhhhUuuuuuGggggEeeee !!! - Harold Cabezas

I want to 'Like' this *twice*! many thanks! - topo

The first step in a storystreaming platform! - Kevin Sablan

Whoa. Wow. And Yes! Fantastic work, FF team. - Micah Wittman

Good stuff although should support negative operators such as I should able to search my name in the all posts NOT coming from me. I've tried "from:-username" but it doesn't seem to work. - Ferruh Mavituna

OK, you guys are wicked talented! It's kind of scary, but I love it. So what's next? Just kidding:) - Michael Fidler

Ferruh: you just have it a bit backwards... try -from:username instead :) - Ross Miller

WOOOOOOOOOOW. Friendfeed is really pushing some cool features out :). Friendfeed is the best :) - alfred westerveld

How can we embed FriendFeed search? - Mike Reynolds

Mike - There's a link at the top of the search just beneath the red bar. - /Users/mitch/

A box will pop up, take the HTML code from the bottom of that box. - /Users/mitch/

Thanks Mitch! - Mike Reynolds

Nice the embedding code can be dynamic.... <iframe src="http://friendfeed.com/search..." frameborder="0" height="600" width="400" style="border:1px solid #aaa"></iframe> - Mike Reynolds

Thanks @Ross it works fine now, love the RSS output. - Ferruh Mavituna

tabbr likes this - tabbr

Woo! So: will this cause a FF server meltdown anytime soon? - Tim Tyler

very good! - standin

Highly addictive--great stuff! I did notice that if you do a search like [google] you'll see dupe stories streaming by quite a bit (e.g. the TechCrunch story about Google Voice shows up over and over right now). Not sure if it's possible to de-dupe based on destination url a little bit more? - Matt Cutts

two months after redesign, we have access to real-time search. good news bc my preferred search engine is friendfeed. ;) - Franc ☺

We are there, in the battle against Twitter - Michael_techie

Best search engine became better :) - Chirag Chamoli

I can't say enough how amazing this is. So, I ordered a bottle of real-time translation to go with this magnificent feast of real-time search :D http://friendfeed.com/friendf... - Micah Wittman

Just to show what is possible now with this feature, I've built SteroidFeed: Go here to see it as well as download the files: http://friendfeed.com/lph... Latest version is 1.01. - LPH™ and his dog P™

It's amazing! - Lizunlong

I've been waiting for this since the new UI, excellent, thank you Paul and FF! I'll give this a play later. :-) - Kol Tregaskes

Micah, really looking forward to having your scripts work in Chrome. :-) - Kol Tregaskes

This is great. Well done, guys. - James Myatt

Awesome :D - Praveen Vasudev

great!! - Mike Chelen

Jesse Stay

Who says blogging is dead? @photomatt says posts to Wordpress.com have almost doubled from 2008 to 2009: http://wordpress.tv/2009...

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The only place I ever hear about blogging being dead is right here on Friendfeed. Meanwhile, back in the real world, my wife blogs every day and her friends are always talking about this blog and that blog. Why do all these social media types keep claiming blogging is dead? - Luke Stay

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Because they're on FriendFeed and aren't blogging anymore would be my guess. :) - Bryan

Luke, what Bryan said. With the advent of Twitter and FriendFeed the "experts" are all saying you don't need to blog any more. I was on a panel with a few of those several months ago and I had to argue with them why these technologies have actually gotten me to blog more than before, not less. The early adopter types are usually the ones that start a trend, and eventually the rest of... more... - Jesse Stay

I just signed on with word press. Very nice site for blogging. - James Hague

Yeah, sorry social media folks, Friendfeed will never replace blogging in the real world. In fact, Friendfeed will never catch on in the real world. Facebook has too strong a hold on mainstream users. Yes, I understand that they're very different, but the average Joe doesn't care about those differences. - Luke Stay

Luke, sites will change and FB dominance will die just as MySpace died. It'll take time but will happen. - LPH™ and his dog P™ via BuddyFeed

Luke, whether it's FriendFeed or some other site Facebook can't hold onto their dominance forever. Others will compete - never say never. At the same time FriendFeed and Twitter are far from replacements for blogging. - Jesse Stay

I agree, FB dominance will die someday, but not any time soon, and FriendFeed certainly won't be the one to cause its fall. FriendFeed attempts to add features and solve problems on the internet that the average Joe just doesn't care about. Show your mom FriendFeed and watch her reaction. I predict you will see complete indifference, "What do I need that for?" Any of my non-geek friends... more... - Luke Stay

Jesse, I never said Facebook will never lose it's dominance. I said FriendFeed will never catch on in the real world. - Luke Stay

Luke, that's the same with Twitter - they each have their niche. Is Twitter mainstream? "Mainstream"'s such a vague word. - Jesse Stay

Jesse, the minute Twitter was featured on Oprah, it became mainstream. Not to mention all the local news coverage across the US and the huge feature on the cover of TIME magazine a couple of weeks ago. - Luke Stay

Luke, yet millions of moms and dads still don't use it, despite Oprah. - Jesse Stay

But they know about it. Mainstream is not a vague word, it's a relative word, and relative to the US, Twitter is mainstream. You can't watch Prime Time television without hearing it mentioned at least once. - Luke Stay

I asked someone at work if they were on twitter and they just gave me a blank stare- they never even heard of it! OR Facebook for that matter. - James Hague

James, wow, Twitter is one thing, but Facebook too? That surprises me. They are in the minority, that's for sure. - Luke Stay

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Gross Alert: In Texas we have "fire ants." This is what a bite looks like a few days later.

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So nasty. - Haggis (Sean Loyless) via email

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PLAGUE OF ANTS! - Christopher Harley

When they bite, it fuckin HURTS too. I've got about four more of these on my foot from the tubing campsite. :( - Haggis (Sean Loyless)

Fire ants deserve no mercy. Nuke'em all! - Ha3rvey

Agreed Ha3rvey! They can take those nasty giant flying cockroaches with em. - Haggis (Sean Loyless)

ouch - johnpiercy

I've heard that the only good thing about fire ants is that they eat termites. Not sure which is the worse plague. - Ha3rvey

Bright side? Could have been a tick http://ff.im/4CbNk - Christopher Harley

EEEK. This is true, Christopher. - Haggis (Sean Loyless)

AAKKK!! - Zulema ◕ ◡ ◕

Man that looks like it hurts :( - martha

More annoying than anything else. It itches but I can't scratch it. Here's more on fire ants: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... - Haggis (Sean Loyless)

"Unlike many other ants, which bite and then spray acid on the wound, fire ants only bite to get a grip and then sting (from the abdomen) and inject a toxic alkaloid venom called Solenopsin, a compound from the class of piperidines. For humans, this is a painful sting, it hurts, a sensation similar to what one feels when burned by fire—hence the name fire ant—and the aftereffects of the sting can be deadly to sensitive individuals." - Haggis (Sean Loyless)

Grow some aloe vera. When you're bitten, break off a tip and rub the aloe juice on the bite. Works best on a fresh bite. - Steve Lowe

Yep. I remember those little bastards only too well. - Steven Perez

Pop it! - Rodfather

Already did, Rod. Had to use a sterilized push pin. It was nasty. - Haggis (Sean Loyless)

Did you cry? - Matthew DeVries

I hate hate hate those little buggers! Everytime I go outside to prime stuff they are all over my feet. - Aden

Nope. It wasn't THAT painful. I tear up more from trimming my nose hairs. :D - Haggis (Sean Loyless)

o_O - John

thing is, so-called "fire ants" aren't actually ants at all, they're a type of wingless wasp. so those are stings and not bites. - Dead Silence

The fire ants here know me as Chemical Ali. NO MERCY! - EARL (Born in the USA) via fftogo

:-O - Anna Haro

we have those here too - /Users/mjc

They're primarily in the south, coming from Mexico. They're spreading north quickly though. Little mean ass bastards. - Haggis (Sean Loyless)

Ouch - Tyson Key

When I get those I end up scratching myself to the bone. I just...can't...help..it. - Josh Haley

Every time I see this I wanna scratch it sooo bad! That would probably hurt though huh? - pea ♥ fierce as a woozle

I HATE FIRE ANTS!!!!! And there have been several reports of them here in Virginia so far this summer. :( - Ladybug Heather

They are such hyper-agressive, fearsome buggers. Hate 'em. - Patrick Jordan

Did you video the popping process? Juicy! - Mellissa Doyle

Yikes - BeeLing

And they seem to wait until they are all over your leg then start biting at once. Ack. :( - Mathew A. Koeneker

Fire ants were in the top 20 reasons why I hated living in FL. - April Russo

That's one thing I REALLY don't miss about living in Texas... - Paula W

yikes. - Thomas Hawk

Every Texas kid has at least one summer where they stumble into a fire ant bed. - Akiva Moskovitz

Mississippi has those, that's one of the many reasons I left - Sandra

ouchie... benadryl creme - Yolanda

=O - Shevonne

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I now receive only the information I need « Mark Morrell - http://markmorrell.wordpress.com/2009...

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Wenn mein Blog durch Suchmaschinen gefunden wird, will ich auch an den Einnahmen teilhaben! http://www.heise.de/newstic... #copyright #burda

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lol - Marcel Weiß

es spricht wenig dagegen - kosmar

Oder umgekehrt: Wenn du nix kriegst dann sagste einfach: noindex. willste das? Nur noch 10% des Traffics sofort ;) (Will Burda das?) - oliver gassner

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Last Will Of Michael Joseph Jackson - July 1, 2009 - http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive...

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"JULY 1--A will signed in 2002 by Michael Jackson stipulates that his assets be placed in a family trust and that his mother be appointed the guardian of his three offspring. The will, a copy of which you'll find below, lists three executors, including lawyer John Branca and music industry executive John McClain. The will makes no provision for bequests to Jackson's father or any of his eight siblings, and a court filing indicates that beneficiaries of the Michael Jackson Family Trust are limited to his children, mother Katherine, and six relatives, including his brother Tito's three sons. Branca and McClain believe that the value of Jackson's estate "exceeds $500 million" and consists of "non-cash, non-liquid assets," including Jackson's share of lucrative music royalty rights. In the case that Jackson's mother Katherine were to predecease him (or was unable or unwilling to serve as guardian), Jackson stipulated that singer Diana Ross should be appointed guardian of his minor children. The "Last Will of Michael Joseph Jackson" was executed in Los Angeles on July 7, 2002. (8 pages)" - Thomas Hawk via Bookmarklet

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There were all these rumors that he died intestate. Not much chance a superstar with so many lawyers at his disposal didn't have a will. None of those lawyers would ever work again if that were the case. But my hunch is there's a good chance one or two wills from later than 2002 will emerge. - Stephen Mack

I'd assume that even if more wills show up that his assets were properly titled to the Family Trust which would exempt them from probate and pretty much render future wills insignificant. I'd imagine the estate taxes on his estate will be large. He gets a $3.5 million estate tax exemption and everything over that the Govt. gets 45 cents on the dollar roughly. It will be interesting to... more... - Thomas Hawk

Why is this being reported? This is crazy. - tehKenny

God, this is like a bad bar exam question. It'll probably show up in the next couple of years on the California bar exam as an essay question, I'm sure. - Brian Chang

Dave Winer

"I predict a return to blogging as people discover the power of being able to finish a thought" http://www.scripting.com/stories...

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I had thought blogging has been growing steadily, globally. Admittedly I don't have a good chart/stats for it. - Mark Essel

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I really like this statement - but will people return to blogging as we've known it? - Tony

Are you perhaps over estimating the allure of thinking? - Todd Hoff

Micro-blogging is good for idealets and infotainment, but it really is turning the web into a mindless medium like TV. Of course, there will always be the equivalent of PBS trying valiantly to raise the bar somewhat. Blogs will always have the possibility of transmitting real knowledge. - Paul W. Homer

The interesting thing for me is I think we have lost the definition of what a blog is. Everybody jumped up and down about what Steve Rubel did, but really I see his change as a shift of platform. If he posted that same content on wordpress, nobody would have said a word. Just because he did it on posterous and called it a lifestream, people took issue with it. So, what is our definition then? - Robert

http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/whatmak... - Dave Winer

Dave - I read through the link you sent, thanks for the information. So, in what ways do you think posterous goes against this definition? - Robert via email

I think Steve still has a weblog, he's just submitting posts to it in a "different" way. Like Dave's link says a weblog is "... a hierarchy of text, images, media objects and data, arranged chronologically, that can be viewed in an HTML browser." Pretty much sums it up, I think. Steve's post is going to generate attention, and debate, but in the end it's a weblog. - Rob Fahrni

Robert, I know you're asking Dave a question, but I don't think the Posterious way goes against the definition. If I'm not mistaken Radio could post via e-mail, and I know Blogger supports this feature. Maybe I need to dig into Posterious a bit more but isn't that what it does? - Rob Fahrni

Rob - That is my point. This in my mind is one of the major problems with looking for a "new name" for these social products. We see it as something different because it is called something different. Posterous, from what I can see so far, allows for the writer to interact with their "weblog" in a different way, just as you said... - Robert via email

Huh? - Dave Winer

Dave - I think your "huh?" was towards me... We call Posterous a "life stream", I say it is a blog, that we have given a different name to. That is what I am saying.Rob - I agree with you 100%, and that is my point exactly. I keep reading these post about blogging being dead, or blogging being alive... but those that say they are not "blogging" are still "blogging" Maybe I am not making sense, but I hope I am... - Robert via email

Robert - Precisely! I think Posterious is trying to find a why to differentiate their product, so they've coined a new phrase. It's still a weblog, how the data arrives may be different, but it's just a weblog all the same. When I read Steve's story last night, from his new site, I thought I was going to find a link on it to something "new and innovative", then I realized I was AT the actualy site, his "life stream." - Rob Fahrni

Rob - YES... That is what I am saying... Same with Tumblr in my view, it is a weblog... Blogging is not dead at all in my view... - Robert via email

Robert - Right on! - Rob Fahrni

Blogology is a still too young science, and definitio usually comes when plays are over. What I feel sad for is the lack of opportunity future literature and social behaviour experts will suffer not using post's content ( and graphics ) as sources for studying today's world zeitgeist. Borges prophecy is at work, few understands - too many doesn't even know what they're writing about: a... more... - valerio fiandra via iPhone

Robert, the photo sharing site you've used recently is structurally a blog too. It differs from normal blog software mainly in that the chronology is by date of occurrence, not date of posting. - Bruce Lewis via fftogo

It's funny that this sentence and a few lines from Anthony Trollope's autobiography should have crossed paths in my consciousness on the same day, since it's almost the same idea, thrown back two temporal orders of magnitude. Trollope tells of a correspondent, a vicar, who had enjoyed his clerical novels but was upset by Lady Glencors'a contemplation of adultery in the Pallisers series.... more... - Amyloo

Bruce - Very true! I'm glad that you are not working hard to call it something different. I'm loving it so far, even though I have not had a lot of time to put a bunch of pics up... - Robert via email

This is silly. Blogging isn't defined by the tool, it's defined by who's doing it. Read the piece I pointed to. I don't mean click on the link and hit the Back buttton, click the link and READ. - Dave Winer

Agreed, Dave. Heck, we blogged back in the day via FTP uploads; that's what moved you towards developing "Edit This Page", in fact (IIRC). - Ken Kennedy

Dave - I did read through it, and I agree that a blog is NOT defined by a tool, I think that is what we have been saying. I do not see where we are at odds on our viewpoints, please expound. - Robert via email

This subject keeps coming back - blogging will never die. - Jesse Stay

Before Web 1.0 we listened, conversed, collaborated and then we wrote. Writing was the synthesis of all the thinking that occurred in the first steps. In the new medium, the thinking process is the streams, both personal and community. Blogging is the synthesis of this new kind of community thought process. - Joolio

Dave - haha! - that is awesome :D - Susan Beebe

Pity there's no "Really, Really Like" button. - Chris Baskind

Of course bloggin won't die, but you better have compelling content, because people have little tolerance for long articles. - Todd Dewell

I think a large percentage of bloggers were really microbloggers, they just didn't have the correct apps to do that. The people that actually have something to say will keep blogging and those that just like to say something small or share something interesting will continue microblogging, or lifestreaming, or whatever variant you want to name it. Blogging is akin to publishing articles... more... - xero

This was known since the times of IRC: you can only have idle chatter or quick focused questions at that speed. - Michele Costabile

Michele, if that premise is true, then kids only absorb important life-long lessons from their parent(s) when they're sat down for a full length lecture. No? :) - Micah Wittman

The best food for thought always come in easily digestible chunks, however, sometimes you need to digest some larger/harder stuff to give you the ability to digest that chunk. - xero

Xero - That is an interesting thought... - Robert via email

Agreed, well said, Xero. - Micah Wittman

I thought completing a thought was the beauty of FriendFeed. - Alan Eggleston

Microblogging is very much a product of the times, very ADD, very video-game-ish; so I agree strongly with the idea of longer. - Rick Cogley

Just FYI, when I started Scripting News in 1997, it was entirely "microblogging" -- look in the archive. http://www.scripting.com/1997... - Dave Winer

Dave - I very much appreciate you keeping up this fight. When I heard this past weekend the term "Lifestreaming", and seeing it picking up momentum. No, this has to stop. Twittering is an aside to your thoughts, or a highlight to pull people to your thoughts, if it's you only thoughts, you need put your head below the surface of your lifestream while carrying a big pile of rocks and... more... - Matthew DeVries

LOL, unfortunately, I don't think this problem exists just for blogging :) - Armando & Cindee Edrosa via iPhone

This isn't a fight. I love all this stuff. I was just saying what I think. - Dave Winer

Even calling it a "Lifestream"? That's the creepiest sounding thing in tech, since Steve Balmer was threatening to "Squirt" his music onto my Zune. - Matthew DeVries

Who really quit blogging? Even the most active lifestream addicts never really quit. For me, the blog is and has always been home. Everything else is somewhat ancillary, even when it's the first place I go. Critical thinking sometimes requires the depth of a written post. - Ken Camp

Question: Of those of you out there who use posterous, do you use it as a replacement of your blog, a mirror of your blog or something different? - Curt Mercadante

Ken - Rubel quit blogging. - Matthew DeVries

One of the things I like about blogging is the ability to not finish a thought, not to try so hard to say all I have to say or say come to any definite conclusion in a single post. The unfinished thought is what encourages conversation. Let someone else add to your thought. Let others challenge your incomplete premise. I don't know everything, why pretend I do? My thoughts are never finished. - Jack Carlson

Wow, you're right Dave, scripting news was indeed VERY much a microblog. Interesting & thanks for pointing that out! - Rick Cogley

Just last night, my sister sent out a vague tweet that made no sense to me out of context: http://twitter.com/awarnoc... So I suggested she blog about the topic so that readers like me would understand the context. http://twitter.com/awarnoc... http://zelzega.blogspot.com/2009... - Peter Warnock

Just because you can finish a thought, doesn't mean people will read it. - Will Higgins™

Tell me about it. That happened earlier in this very thread. But at least you ca read it yourself. - Dave Winer

Just as your diary became your journal and then your log, your log has become your stream. The web has become your life..... AND SO IT WAS, that in the year naught-nine, the web-log was renamed to life-stream, dissected, and it's pieces scattered about the hundreds of "cloud" services, from which it could fall as raindrops of thought, pinging here and there in an attempt to spread ideas to where they were needed the most. - Joel Bennett

No time to read it. Can you give us the gist of it in 140 characters or less? Thanks. - Diego Barros

Here's a picture, even easier than 140 chars. http://tr.im/qrBb - Dave Winer

Haha, love it! - Rick Cogley

Love the idea! - Sampad Swain

Come on, Dave. Where's your sense of humor? - Diego Barros

Where's yours? - Dave Winer

If you were joking, that's cool. I can take it. :) (I was joking, honest) - Diego Barros

Me too. :-) - Dave Winer

Blogging is still the platform of choice for sharing a clear/uninterrupted flow of thoughts from a single perspective. Then comments rapidly add value to the original post's material (most of the time). We're witnessing the link power of blogging decline because that functionality (which is monetizable) is moving to social media. We are left with the question, how best should bloggers monetize if they're losing link passing strength? I'm working that issue now by frankensteining several parts together - Mark Essel

Personalized/Customized ads based on public user status. Semantic tools (via API), memory (local user profile database), and the passing of information to an ad aggregator will help produce custom (dynamic web matched) advertisements. It should serve all parties involved (social media, bloggers/front ends, semantic processing houses, and advertising aggregators). - Mark Essel

What do you mean, I have always been able to finish a ... ooh a nice shiny object... - Marcel de Jong

Isn't it ironic that this post contained a clear and concise thesis, in under 140 characters? - Mike Chelen

Good point Mike... - Mark Harai

There's NOTHING wrong with brevity. There is a time and a place for discussion and lengthy discourse. - Will Higgins™

Mike Chelen - "a pretense of ignorance and of willingness to learn from another assumed in order to make the other's false conceptions conspicuous by adroit questioning ... the use of words to express something other than and especially the opposite of the literal meaning." - Nope, not ironic - Matthew DeVries

Matthew DeVries: that covers definitions 1 and 2, yet the 3rd is an "incongruity between the actual result of a sequence of events and the normal or expected result," where in this case the expected result was to explain how new platforms prevent thoughts from being finished, and the actual result was to the contrary :D - Mike Chelen

If you say so. I never saw that definition, but I have no reason to doubt you, or motivation to find the source myself, so, I'll allow it. - Matthew DeVries

aren't we all copying from the same online dictionary? http://www.merriam-webster.com/diction... - Mike Chelen

No, I rattled mine out of something I memorized years ago. - Matthew DeVries

wow, you got it perfectly word-for-word, remind me to pick you for my crossword puzzle team :) - Mike Chelen

Tad, Anti-Immanentizer

Poll: When did you first discover the internet, and what were your first impressions?

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1999. blew my mind. - vijay

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Oh, and if you discovered the internet before the WWW existed, what was your first impression of that? - Tad, Anti-Immanentizer via fftogo

I first started playing on the internet back in 1991 or 1992. A buddy showed me telnet bbs's and I was off to the race. I became an internet stud back in the time when the net was like 95% men. I think all of my dates in college were with women I met on internet bbs's. I met Lindsay that way. When I first started hearing about web browsing back in 93 or 94 I thought it was pretty stupid. Who'd want to look at that? It took a year or so for me to really "get" it. - Tad, Anti-Immanentizer via fftogo

1997 and :O - EARL (Born in the USA) via fftogo

First time on the WWW and not a BBS? '91 or '92. Thought it was BORING. Only scientific papers. Never thought it would fly. BBS was much fuller, had a broader scope of items. We had were Prodigy customers from '87 - '91, IIRC. '93 or '94, I saw someone selling their stuff online. Told the record company I was at (worked in the licensing dept. then) that it would be awesome if they put... more... - Anika Malone

i remember netscape and those aol discs i got in the mail. wanted to try the "free trial" - Alfredo

I remember playing a mud and when I realized that these guys couldn't understand me because they were playing in BRAZIL it totally blew my mind. I couldn't get over how amazing it was to be having conversations with people all over the world in real time. SideNote: room mate failed music appreciation the summer we found Muds. - Tad, Anti-Immanentizer via fftogo

around 1997 I would guess. I swiped a 14.4 kbps modem out of our computer parts box and got all the settings off my dads computer and got it all set up. I think I was about 14 at the time. It was the cats pajamas. It was also a little disturbing once you got to like line 300 of that 400 line jpg and you found out you were actually looking at a shemale :*( - Geoff Schultz

wait wut? - Geoff Schultz

1994 but the school only had a 4800 baud modem so we were limited to BBS and usenet. Used it to read up on xfiles episodes before they were broadcast over here. I knew I'd be spending a lot of my adult life on it! - alphaxion

1991 - 1992 and I experienced what Geoff said until my parents got the bill for ~ $600. - Dave - SustainedEuphoria

It was 1995. We had AOL and Compuserve. I knew that I was in love. - Shevonne

92 or 93. I remember trying to figured out how I'd find anything. - FFing Enigma (aka Tina)

Those were some expensive shemales Dave! - Geoff Schultz

I don't really know. I was in Young Astronauts in the fifth grade when I started coding and they had a networked computer that talked to some different things. In the nineties I ran a hacker BBS with a friend and his brother. I guess I first ran into unbound net in the early to mid nineties. - Neal Jansons

1987. But it wasn't until a couple of years later that they had SLIP and then PPP so my first few years were all through a terminal connection. Although I was fascinated with Mosaic, I was an NNTP die-hard and didn't see the need of the web over it and Gopher. It wasn't until about 1997 or so that I finally got over my attachment to NNTP and embraced the web in all of its horror show glory. - Akiva Moskovitz

A friend in high school and I would modem-talk, so that was late 80s, we would call each other's computers. I'd say like '88. The first time I got excited was with the WWW, using Mosaic to download satellite infrared images of the world. I was working tech support in college, and I kept telling people how cool it was- it was my desktop image or something. - anna

1995 and I couldn't understand what all the hype was about. - Kenton

My first impression was Groucho Marx. - Nine hates realtime.

2005. And I was like, OMG WTF AWESOME! - Yuvi

Oi - Geoff Schultz

lol Akiva you make me feel so young...I was writing Hello World when you first hit the net. - Neal Jansons via IM

I remember using it in 1993. I was 11 at the time. But I have vague memories of my father using the AOL BBS prior to that. I loved it when I started using it. Having your own computer and a modem is a great relief to an only child, let me tell you. - Soup

And ofcourse, I was 15 at that time. - Yuvi via IM

Neal, I started programming in 1982. Oof. - Akiva Moskovitz

Akiva, you're old! o_O - Yuvi via IM

Yuvi, not really. I was really young when I got my first computer. - Akiva Moskovitz

Akiva, I would have been 5. Started programming '87-'88 with BASIC, LOGO, and eventually C. - Neal Jansons via IM

80s and newsgroups, I thought that sci.energy.hydrogen was going to change the world. - Robert Hafer

You were programming 9 years before I was born. That's old! :P How old were you when you started? - Yuvi via IM

1976 or '77. A school friend's dad was an astronomer and we used his university account to get on the network. We used to change people's account passwords, download files, etc. We also played games that people had available to others on the network. Nothing truly malicious, just kid jokester stuff. It was a world I'd read about but hadn't yet seen. - Heather

1995/1996-ish....holy crap! there are nekkid ladies on that internet thang! yowzee!!!! - Morgan Haley

Hey, the first computer I programed had 8 switches on the front panel for entering bytes. young whippersnappers - Robert Hafer

Robert, you got on the internet with that? :D :P - Tad, Anti-Immanentizer via fftogo

1991, when I went to college. I thought it was going to be an endless distraction. :) - Morton Fox

1995, awesome way to get and give information and interact with others around the world. - xero

1995, when I first went to college. At first I wasn't sure what to do with it. - John

1992, university of florida - had to ftp/telnet host to host, then started building it when I got to spain for the USN. God that was fun - thanks for the happy memory jog tad. :-) - Dan Morrill AKA Techwag

I was in college, and we could dial into the school's network. I also had an AOL disc. I think my modem was like 9600 baud? Probably 1993-4? - Derrick

Do you remember getting the new version of AOL that was on multiple disks? The whole Internet stuffed onto two 3.5" disks. - Dave - SustainedEuphoria

Tad, the most interactive I/O device for that was a Western Union teletype. When I got on a mainframe that supported VT100 terminals, that was something. - Robert Hafer

1987 - used "med-line" online BBS service @ $50 bucks an hour to conduct medical research for college (that is now a FREE service on the 'net). Also used Lexis-Nexis, CompuServe, and a variety of interesting "chat" services. Mostly research. I learned how to login to various University library ListSrv, gopher, and card catalogs online (using kermit for file tx) - from my green screen... more... - Susan Beebe

Late 80s/early 90s; BBS boards, *Prodigy, then eventually Netcom. - Pete D

1997. WOW! - Steven Perez

Late 1994 in college; remember one prof. very carefully explaining what a 'browser' would look like years later. Most students thought she was crazy. - Jennifer Dittrich

1989, gopher was the bomb. - /home/jhuebel

Had to be sometime in the late 90's I was at my friend kennys house and he was trying to teach my how to post on a BBS... I was like "Man this sucks! I'm never gonna use this Interanets thing." - J. Abdul-Qahhar

1989. I finally had something to keep me company. - Michael McKean

Probably '94... I think that's when CIS turned on Usenet access. Before that, all I knew were BBSs, CIS, and The Well. My first web experience came via GNN... I was a little indifferent at first, but fell in love with if a few weeks later. - Roger Benningfield via BuddyFeed

Wait. There's an Internet? Why wasn't informed? - BEX

1998 or 1999 probably. I was very impressed at the time, although I only started to use it in earnest around early-mid 2000s when I got around to creating a now inaccessible random-pseudonymous e-mail account, discovered the joys of "free" DRM-infested music via a proprietary application for Mac OS 8 from LiquidAudio (RIP), and spent several hours browsing, fighting with streaming radio and trying to download stuff over a fairly expensive dial-up connection that maxed out at 33.something Kbps on a good day. - Tyson Key

Oh, don't forget Tripod (doubles as an ersatz file sharing system between myself and a friend via FTP), GeoCities (the time I dabbled with HTML) and ICQ... - Tyson Key

I 1st discovered the internet in 1995 (Worldnet, France). Impressed but continued to use & B SysOp of BBS and french RTC ;) - Thierry R. Andriamirado

1994. I ended up in a dorm that didn't have Ethernet, so we had to access the campus network through 14.4k modems. Mosaic was unusable at that speed, so we used Lynx. How did we find anything back then, since search engines didn't exist yet? - Victor Ganata

1994 or so, on the computers in the lab at CSUS. I didn't really get it for a couple years after that. - सत्याग्रह {Bren}

The internet? Well if you count the Usenet, then 1989 with several BBS's that had a connection to the newsgroups. Actual internet with email and everything. PCLink came out sometime in the early 90's. Turned into AOL and the rest is history. - CW™

Quite late for me... i was already 20, in the late 90's. And i think i was just Napster at the time :) - diego morelli

I discovered the Internet as it is today in about '97-98 I think, signed up to MSN. I thought it was OK, I think it took a few weeks for me to 'get it'. I used BBS for many years before this though. - Kol Tregaskes

97 9th grade. Had one classroom with it. Didn't like the prof. Left internet alone mostly until 2000 and had a T1 in dorm. - Amber Spence

My dad got Prodigy in '88 or '89 and I remember finding the bulletin boards and thinking it was SO COOL. I also found an online game that took ages for each screen to load. But we had that briefly so I really remember getting it in '96 when we got AOL and I got all involved in chatting and even met up with a guy! This was when we all had to write down how long we'd been on because you... more... - Lis Miller

1999 I think. I thought it was a great place with fun games for a long time. - Mohomed Abdullahi

Around 95/96 on Uk dial-up and heading to UK University. But the real discovery was coming to the U.S in around 98/99 and suddenly realising pages could load in less than 30 minutes a time...the only bad thing was coming back to the UK and AOL dial-up but once that was gone, it was all plain sailing... - Absolute Radio

Around 1994-95. I was working in book publishing doing licensing and started reading about the WWW. I thought that there could be a lot of opportunity for book publishers to license their content websites. - Lisa Kagel

1995. Used it for info and thought of it as an elektronic encyklopedia that spared med the trip to the library. - Martin Liechti

1995 I was given a laptop at work to take home and sort out some stuff, I noticed it had a modem, plugged in and dialled up. I believe it was Compuserve I only remember seeing photos of Mars. I didn't stay too long because I did not have a clue about how much it was going to cost me. I bought my own PC the following year. - M F

in 1980 my summer job was working in a computer room for Mohawk Data Sciences. (yes I am old) Was active in BBS's in the early 90's- Actual internet as we know it today - was using Trumpet Winsock in 1995, with Netscape 2.0 - i think.... - Mike Nencetti

It was around 1992 in the University. First it was email, gopher, and later WWW, which we browsed using Mosaic. - Peter Sedik

1995: A friend an me sat in this internet cafe for hours and browsed the homepages of LucasArts and Sierra to find walkthroughs and announcements of new games. - Michael Netsch

1990 in the offices of the East-West Center in Honolulu, a friend showed me Usenet over a VT-100 connection. I'd already heard of the Net from Jeffrey Hallett, former president of the Naisbitt Institute, but this was my first chance to see it live. - Shel Holtz

2001. can't remember, sorry :( - Timo Heuer

For me it was 1994. I was a SAHM but always interested in new things. I'd heard the word "internet" and wasn't even sure what it was other than it connected computers but somehow I knew I wanted access to it and that it would be important. I had to do a lot of searching and asking around to find anyone who knew where to get service in my area. I went through over $500 in "credits" or hours online in my first 2 months. Been hooked ever since ;) - Merlene

in 1.994 i was studying architecture and i decided to change my life working with internet - cpons

1988. It was awfully boring back then, just ftp and email. - DGentry

I don't really remember my first impressions, as it was back in 1986-1987 and it wasn't that big a deal. I was working for the University of Michigan computer network as a student back at the time--helping out in the computer labs--when UofM connected it's Merit network up with NSFNET from MCI and an IBM network into an "internetworked" system. Later, I vaguely remember using Gopher, IRC, USENET, and remember reading a USENET post from some guy in Switzerland talking about some web of hyperlinked pages... - Ken Sheppardson

Hard to say. I used Promenade (now AOL) when I got my first PC in 1992. I didn't consider that the Internet though. It felt like a box with closed doors where you were able to explore sites and communicate with friends. In fact, I remember getting a {Netscape?) issued computer in '95 or so with all these websites prefixed by http:// and I threw out the magazine since I thought AOL was... more... - Tamar Weinberg

1987 and have been hooked ever since! - Ray Block

it was mid 1994. It was slow, boring and expensive... - Tahir Zaimoglu

1997. I lived at thepark.com. I thought it was awesome to be able to chat with people who didn't know me. - Bec Rowe @d0tski

circa 1995. High school. "WWWhere have you been all my life?" - Kamilah Gill

1993-1994 round about. I thought it was amazing but didn't yet see how it would really explode. - AJ Kohn

1994 - I couldn't believe I could send a letter (email) to my family without any postage. I was writing them a letter weekly and I realized that this would be much easier. - Travis Murdock

I guess that would be junior high, 1987. I was on the academic decathlon team and our advisor showed us how to research information from a local university's "online" papers. I remember thinking the modem was a hoot...one of those acoustic coupler jobs...but being online irritated me. I preferred going to a library in person. I didn't touch the internet again until 1992-ish. A friend... more... - tinypants (Amanda H)

88/89 for me - started thru AOL - still remember my old AOL email address - tombuckob2! They got hooked on the rec.windsurfing newsgroup - where I found my tribe. - Tom O'Brien

1992/93, right as Mosiac was coming into the picture, but I didn't have it on my PC so it was all text.I thught it was cool but a bit confusing and hard to navigate, but couldn't get enough of it! - Kelly W.

1994. Was kinda young so it didn't make a huge impression other than a new way to make pen pals and play games. - Katie For Miss USA

Circa 1984 with my Commodore 64 and an attached 300 baud modem. I still recall the text scrolling across my screen from my first connection to a BBS. I was impressed. - J.D. Deutschendorf

after bbs, I remember buying a book full of newsgroups.. didn't see the point at that time.. then we went to Aol :0 should have stuck with the newsgroups ;) - Tim Hoeck via AndFeed

1995, my freshman year in college. ESPN online, at any time I want? I'm sold! - Jason D Barr

1996. "Lynx is not a very good web browser." - Guan Yang

1999 - Frederick Bvalani via fftogo

around 1989, I think. I wasn't enough of a geek to truly appreciate it at the time, though I did recognize the potential it had to make the world a much smaller (as in more connected) place. - vicster

About 1992, when I got a Netcom shell account. Had been BBS'ing since '84, so it wasn't utterly foriegn. - Bob Morris (polizeros)

'91 when I first entered college. And yeah, MUDs took up way, waaaaaay too much of my time at one point. - ronin

MUD! I use to be all about it - Shevonne

Mine will be 1991 when I was expose to VAX and Sun's machine. I still remember the good old days of gopher and usenet. And email attachments using uuencode/uudecode. YEAH and MUD too which also took out much of my college time - Thomas Chai

Probably '92 or '93. Went online through AOL and a 2400 baud modem. Was too slow to be of much use, though, so I stuck with AOL and dialing up local BBSs. Once I upgraded my modem to a 14.4, though, I was able to browse the Web at reasonable speeds and had my mind blown by the sheer mass of information on totally obscure topics that was available online - info that was previously only available in micro-run niche zines. - Eric Tatro

Late 80's, gopher, usenet, WAIS--"Who's getting all this info together and who's paying them?"--early 90's, Mosaic--"Needs some color and movement. Someone's going to want to put an ad on that." - S. Charles Balazs

Getting my first out of network SMTP email from my wife who was in Nepal and fiddling around with AOL in the early 90s. Browsers were so clunky then. - Colin Campbell

1993 (I think). I just enjoyed mailing lists and USENET. - Cecily

Oh, wait - BBSes count? Then my first foray was '92. - Cecily

If BBSs count, my first foray was probably 1983. However I don't think BBSs would count: they were modem-connected islands, not using what is now the Internet. - DGentry

Yeah, unless the BBS had an Internet gateway. A local WildCat BBS had an NNTP connection around 1988 or so. Before then, they were either independent or linked by FIDOnet (and boy do I miss me some FIDOnet hacking). - Akiva Moskovitz

around 1995 through AOL disk. - Kim Landwehr

https://friendfeed.com/akiva... - Akiva Moskovitz

1994. first intro was irc via an eskimo north shell during lunch @ high school. - Jason Wyttenbach

it was the summer of 1997. America Online 3.0 to be exact. - MicahBear78

Dick and I saw Netscape for the first time in late 1994. We signed up with our first ISP, mo.net, in early 1995, and I could have pitched my Maritz client's first web site in spring 1995, but we went to a funeral in VA instead. Later that year I came up pregnant with our son and read Usenet alt.something-or-other.breastfeeding voraciously until Jojo was born - made all the difference... more... - Mary Baum

It was 1993, on Prodigy. - Jason Runyan

1993 on a local ISP...all text. loved it! - (jeff)isageek

1988, dialup to the local .edu, then browse their minerva Library system, emails to others outside my domain, telnetted out to various usenets and ircs and so on and so on, progressing and expanding tyhrough the years ever since. LEGEND OF THE RED DRAGON 4LIFE! - Tsali

1991 -- couldn't get my parents to get me a $20/mo Netcom Shell account. It was still years later before I got an Internet connection! - Garry Tan

1990 - I was consulting for the old DEC and they had a funky connection to the internet but you could get to USENET via a proxy. I loved rec.arts.books and the tech news groups. I thought woaaa, there's a wide world out there. - Dan Perlman

1999 - Brand new USR 56K Sportster as a gift - flavio

2000 at the local library in the small country town I lived in. I didn't really know what to do with it, came across as a fast card file. Strangely my school had apples in 83 so was quite computer savvy. I didn't get my own computer till 2007 after backpacking for five years and using cyber cafes. - Yant

Around 1994 through IRC. Thought it was the greatest thing since swiss cheese. Immediately got sucked into chat. Took my first job designing websites soon after. - Leigh

Dave Winer

It's true, I am writing this in a Berlin Hotel Room.

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Next time i am filing my tax statement, i'll add a note: spend my money wisely! I am really angry about spending 50m tax money for quelle!

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50m like in 50 millon? - Loic Le Meur

yep loic, like in 50 million. we are saving companies that have political cloud left and right ;) - Oliver Thylmann

@loic yes. german gov just saved a mail order company "Quelle": http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki... (de) - Timo Heuer

Jan Tißler

Xing To Give Up China And Make Way For LinkedIn In The US? - http://www.techcrunch.com/2009...

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"LinkedIn has bolstered its position as America’s leading business social network by the month lately, with Germany-based Xing as the only company regarding itself a worthy competitor in the last few years. But now those days seem to be over - in the US and China, at least." - Jan Tißler via Mento

Andrea Vascellari

Generation Y Research - Ashridge - http://www.ashridge.org.uk/GenYres...

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Are Generation Y actually different? What has made them the way they are? Are there appropriate new ways of working and learning? - Andrea Vascellari

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Is Blogging Evolving Into Life Streams? - http://www.web-strategist.com/blog...

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I have been looking at Posterous since Steve has been talking about it so much. It really is quite a powerful tool. Always interesting times. - Sean Brady

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good one Jeremiah. The bits and bites of lifestreams often leaves thoughtful long form pieces behind, while offering on the other hand the immediacy and rapid breaking news approach. I guess I like/need and want some of both - Richard Binhammer

I of late have certainly turned to lifestreaming more than blogging. Given my current lifestyle, I only have time to find interesting content and interact with short conversations. I certainly think blogs have their place but I think they will morph into smaller "lifestream-compatible" posts. - Dilip Dand

Life streaming happens all the time. Blogging is what I do when I stop to reflect on what has been happening. Real-time vs Context. - Dominic Jones

Blogging for me is for essays. Life Stream: information and random thoughts and ideas - Melanie Reed

I've been using Posterous as a "Quick Hits" outlet to post excerpts & brief responses to - http://alexschleber.posterous.com (granted, some people have felt like they'll just post those same items to their main blog, but I wasn't quite ready for that), so I can see Steve's need for a shorter outlet. After all any solo-blogger is now in some way competing with armies like TechCrunch,... more... - Alex Schleber

Jeremiah, slightly OT, but where did you get the widget that shows FriendFeed likes and comments on your blog post? I've been using FriendFeed's embed, but yours looks different (e.g., all the "likers" being listed out in bullet point format; avatars for the commenters) - Mark Traphagen

A Blog is an essential component of a lifestream. It always has been, but these days the term "lifestream" is just becoming popular and many people do not yet know what it means. It is a stream of all activity on-line. Friendfeed is a real-time lifestream. - (Garin Kilpatrick)

i think you're mistaken about scoble's loss of voice. i think the difference is that he's directly engaging a more active community. i still think blogs are disconnected compared to something like FF. The thing about FF is that it's social and it's directional. It's a conversation and a broadcast. - Scott Magdalein

I've made quite a few updates as Scoble has returned to blogging, and Louis Gray has posted some very helpful graphics - Jeremiah Owyang

Mark, I'm not sure, but my web designer Mitch gives answers http://www.web-strategist.com/blog... - Jeremiah Owyang

Have to agree with Dominic ... It's all lifestreaming but in different forms based on context and the need to express yourself at the time. - Jonathan Greene

Joanathan, Dominic is right. We're life streaming all the time. Blog posts force us to stop, think, and sort through the constant stream, without this, we're always swimming. Come to shore once in a while. - Jeremiah Owyang

Yes but it will happen when having a iPhone 3Gs class mobile phones with full Wave protocol integration becomes the norm worldwide and normal people begin to post blogs about life events & WTF events from their phones. - Michael Mooney

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I've got the power! - http://iamkhayyam.soup.io/post...

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Teens and the Internet (via feedly) - http://www.bizzia.com/buzznet...

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I miss the old days of blogging where the developers ruled. Who is coding and what are you coding?

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I'm coding SocialToo and eventually will be working on a pretty cool Wordpress Facebook Connect plugin (expanding the very first one I developed) - Jesse Stay

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Those old days aren't gone, btw ;-) - Jesse Stay

I'm coding a sex oriented contact site :p - Per

Currently coding a PHP Framework and something like a "Social Media Experiment" - Nocebo

I'm coding my portfolio website and always working on various graphic designs. - Sam Goldfield

@Nocebo i WAS coding a PHP framework but gave it up...Learned alot doing it though! - Per

@Jesse -- Got a mailing list? I'm interested in the WP-FB Connect. :-) - James

I'm looking for a coder for a cool new iphone app to give situational business advice. Know anyone good? - James Watters

@Per Yeah the things I learned / will learn are probably much more worth than the result. But it is just too much fun to stop it. =) - Nocebo

just starting on FF integration for us. Someone requested a feature that I'm currently exploring. - Jerry Schuman

James, not yet, but I should create one. Let me get around to where I can devote some time to it (hopefully soon) and I'll start organizing it. I've got some great ideas that I think would kill any other Facebook Connect plugin out there - also thinking of integrating FriendFeed and possibly eventually Google Wave into the same plugin. - Jesse Stay

James, have a strategic partner that has done a few iPhone apps now. They're in Costa Rica and are very good. - Jerry Schuman

piecing together my personal site - jalbert

Jerry: cool, if you have any info contact on them DM to me? I hate not knowing how to code iphone myself - James Watters

Working on some nitty gritty in Drupal to showcase local tweets but filter out all the spam. - Dean Clark

Dean, cool. My other project is sadtweets.com to show an emotionally specific set of twitter feeds, maybe the two could mix - James Watters

I'm coding a multi-profile openid-centric distributed open source twitter clone which already has more than 5000 downloads. More than 200 of these "tweet networks" have lit up my ping-based "recentralized" search engine. Soon, anyone will be able to get a network just by making an account at http://twitteronia.com :-) - Brian Hendrickson

I'm coding a real-time social tool for bloggers and blog readers, a browser-based app that can replace google reader/feedly functionality, but works more like twitter/frieendfeed, beeing an effortlessly and easy tool to share your activity stream on the blogosphere. Does that sounds good? :p - Diego Sana

Continuing to add services to my little web console http://wcons.s3.amazonaws.com/c... as more interesting JSON and JSONP apis become available. Let me know if you know of any other good ones. - Zachary Poley

I'm coding in php on http://sleepindex.com - Dennis Goedegebuure

James, yes mine is much more simple. Using it as a great way to get more comfortable with Drupal. Digging around the FeedAPI trying to see the best/fastest way to ignore all the spam tweets. Very small, but useful because we used to have a good local twitter community here we had some Gurus who up. - Dean Clark

I'm coding a social mapping service on App Engine in Python. - Mohamed J

I'm working on Feed-buster: http://feed-buster.appspot.com/, an AppEngine service that enables better RSS/ATOM feed media importing into FriendFeed. - Ivan Zuzak

Dean: I look forward to checking it out. I've followed you. - James Watters

hmm..widgets for Vodafone using HTML5/CSS/Javascript etc.. :-) - Dimitris Rakopoulos

an API for Real time train departure info for across Europe... - Joel Haasnoot

Hah, back to the original post, that's how i feel about Digg, and Twitter. Found the content was always more forward thinking and at the edge. - Malcolm Bastien

Little time to code with all the tech/internet related bullshit I have to deal with, but there are a number of things in the hopper.. now to find the time. - Andy Bakun

How about you Robert? :) - Djordje Lukic

I'm building an asynchronous messaging app/framework that can run workflow-driven enterprise/integration -applications or web apps that need to support complicated (long-running) processes. A bit like BizTalk Server, but simpler to build apps for. Posting data from apps is instantenous (non-blocking) and reliable as a separate gateway-process takes care of collecting/queueing data which is then sent (or pullled) to the actual ESB/BPM -service. Coding with .NET/C#. - Jemm via fftogo

I'm replacing Wordpress with a hand built blogging system. And I'm rewriting my stats app. And I'm interning at a place, doing web dev stuff. I'm having fun! - Yuvi

And yes. Too much fluff :( - Yuvi

Packet processing for switches and routers. In C and assembly: I know how many instructions the common paths execute. In other words, I'm a complete relic. - DGentry

And one of these days, I should build an emulator for an ancient computer with a high level language. And see it perform *totally* better :) - Yuvi via IM

I'm coding this: http://www.youtube.com/watch... Going to leverage cloud computing for cheap scale and social networks to build a community around the game. - Jeff Weber

A 3D modeling application in Flex/Papervision3D, VSTS development and iphone dev in my personal time. - Kamath (ಮೆತ್ತ ಭವನ)

I'm coding vooices.us which is a way to control web content by phoning the webpage and then using your voice to control tge content - Paul Rawlings

Cleaning up and augmenting the backend of all of GoldMail's products -- Windows services, SQLServer, web services; working on the desktop WinForms app to add some Facebook integration features. All In .Net. - RobinDotNet

Also wrote a nifty Outlook Add-In on my own time to enable the users to send GoldMails from Outlook with embedded HTML; our PM likes it so much, we're going to release it as a beta! I was just trying to play around with VSTO and the deployment thereof. - RobinDotNet

actually: coding an eCommerce site in Drupal + Ubecart + Facebook integration (ajax & json stuff) - Vincenzo Errante

I'm building a lightweight gateway to integrate couple of applications. It's based on .NET/C#/WCF. - Tapio Kulmala

now everyone is coding for the iPhone, hoping to make a lot of money - Konstantin

I don't remember how to code :( - Rahsheen ™

Robert, so many developers are busy coding... @steyblind built me http://links.ryansholin.com on a whim; he and @nicksergeant from @lionburger build http://afeedapart.com for An Event Apart in Boston last week. And the same team is almost done building version 2.0 of my Knight News Challenge project, http://reportingon.com Most of that is getting built in Django and hosted at Slicehost. - Ryan Sholin

I'm working on my FFDirect (wordpress->friendfeed) plugin. - Panayotis Vryonis

If I had the time I would build a mashup service on top of Google App Engine. - Edwin Khodabakchian

Obviously, I am writing code for YackTrack. That is mostly social media stuff, but I am also getting back into various types of analytics, mostly for work but other stuff too. Of course I was gone for a few hours shopping with the family, and I needed a monitor cable for my new (used) mac mini :) So, yeah, there will be some toying with iphone development. - Rob Diana

I'm the lead developer of Brandopoly (http://brandopoly.com), a platform that allows businesses to create custom marketing materials in minutes without the use of a design department or expensive software. - Mark Trapp

Doing it right now on Microsoft's campus, dude. ;) - l0ckergn0me

There are 60k apps almost now; I'm not coding to iphone to make money, but because it is a unique platform for the kind of app experience I want. - James Watters

Working on an iPhone app (my 3rd). - Donald Forth

Don: I'd love to hear about it and learn from your experiences. I've followed now I hope you discuss it. - James Watters

I am redoing our Prescription Monitoring product's architecture and base classes in C# 3.5 today, and is also working on a Photo Lineup Wizard - RAPatton

I'm coding my own blog & website (Drupal), hopefully other websites soon, & various Linux Softwares including a social media one (multi-platform) ;) - Thierry R. Andriamirado

I am coding a bunch of A-life sims with processing, trying to migrate a site to the Typo3 CMS (which is huge) and coding bespoke site plugins for a Joomla user. - dannystaple

film - nicefishfilms

I use MATLAB to model systems that enable other people to go make science. - James Myatt

I think I'll hack some embedded code for my light painting today. I take the honorific seriously of being the only person who has to put away the assembler code to go off and photograph naked women. - Wirehead

Lukic: I am a copy-and-paste programmer! :-) - Robert Scoble

I recently made a twitter specific tokenizer. rips words, links, and @ addresses out of a tweet stream as fast as possible. Now to figure out what to do with it.... - metageoff

Just launched a new version of au.reachout.com running on Rails. Today are some enhancements to an old client project running PHP/CodeIgniter. - Toby Hede

Upcoming project will be using Erlang and Nitrogen, and my play time is spent with HTML Canvas, JQuery, Processing and Burst. - Toby Hede

Building an iPhone app, of course. Not going to say what it is yet, but hopefully it'll be finished in the next couple weeks. I think you'll dig it, Scoble. - Aaron Brethorst

Working on a side project that I think could be a very unique approach to solving many problems that most 'normal casual users' face on the internet. I hope it can also hold its own to the power users as well but not my initial target (though I'm afraid the power users will turn into the early adopters). Feels like I'm building a Death Star some nights... - manielse

It's a secret - Glen Campbell

no time to write all the stuff i'm coding... at least the stuff that isn't secret :-) - Charles Ying

built a twitter file sharing app late one night last week. a throwback to FTP. http://tweetFTP.com. actually looking for small group of test users. - sull

Sull: Very smart app. Would all of you please rule blogging again? I am CSS/HTML/PHP, but off to school to learn more of the above. - E-Advocate Network

Of course something fancy with JavaScript in a mobile context, but I have to admit that my developer focus has shifted ... - bishoph

Developers aren't gone at all, just look at FF, Twitter, FB, and the zlllions of third party apps for them - Bob Morris (polizeros)

I am writing an application that sends SMS messages from excel spreadsheet. Like mail merge with SMS as an output. - Nitin Nanivadekar

I am working on porting some of my existing Windows apps to *nix...Mac will be next. - April Russo

Habari, core, plugins, and themes. - Michael C. Harris

trying to only use copy/paste as model to build very functional blogs e.g. http://www.jeroendemiranda.com - I like the WP2.8 / Thesis combo very much; 'TS custom widgets' (idea taken from http://www.building43.com/site-cr... !) and new WP widget setup allows for quasi subsites within my blog (different set of widgets/plugins displayed on various catagory pages). Still need my coding background when problems arise; e.g. memory errors in WP ;-) - Jeroen De Miranda

advantage of the copy/paste model of buidling websites and weblogs is that this enables much higher productivity when building very useful and functional sites. My target still is to build a fully functional blog 1 1 working day tops (including CSS; setting up all plugins, RSS, feedburner, Friendfeed, twitter, js-kit, ...). Now playing around with SVN and http://www.liquibase.com for easier database upgrading and enabling better OTAP support (especially for the wp-options table) - Jeroen De Miranda

I am writing a collaborative Timeline project for World War Two and the Napoleonic Wars (going to add other projects later on). I also mashup Google Maps and the Patrick O'Brian Napoleonic Age of Sail Books (Master and Commander). http://www.cannonade.net - Tom Horn

Tom: I'm really interested by the Napoleonic Wars's timeline. Congrats for this brilliant idea ;) - Thierry R. Andriamirado

Thanks very much. I have only recently got the user contribution stuff going, but I have high hopes for the system collecting some great user data. My motivation was basically that the volume of information for World War Two was too much for one person to enter (ie me), so a friend suggested a community mode. - Tom Horn

Working on a script to send database updates from one server to another server via CURL in PHP. - Bari Hossain

Actually, not gone yet, started as Developer, moved to management Oracle and Adobe, and back to coding (www.intellijuris.com)! Refreshing believe me! - Jeremy Chone

Working on a modular magazine-ish theme for Habari using soon to be added features to the theme engine, think WP widgets for grown ups. - Michael B

Coding an app that conforms to Apple's HTTP live streaming spec and will be able to push live streaming content to Amazon S3. - Carson McDonald

I am coding a firefox add-on called Omture [ http://www.omture.com ] - Arvind

Right now, a Drupal/Flex fashion ecommerce site - Mo Kargas

I am coding ColdFusion on several projects, as well as playing with Jquery and other JS libraries. - Luke Kilpatrick

Building a video codec to handle low-bandwidth streaming of three-dimensional works. The color distortion caused by sites like youtube mutates the effect and can lead to motion sickness, headaches, and general lack of enjoyment. :P - Connor Towle

Right now I am coding a game for children with learning disabilities. As soon as that is done, I'll get back to the second version of our in-house time-tracking app. - Andrés David Aparicio

I'm working on Python web apps (large on App Engine) using Zope technologies and libraries. I don't want to talk about the specific apps I'm working on right now, but you can see a few I've released publicly here: http://www.webappwednesday.com - Michael R. Bernstein

Joi Ito

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Jeremiah Owyang & Robert Scoble on Flickr - Photo Sharing! - http://www.flickr.com/photos...

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I didn't see you guys! :( next time - anna

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Where I come from (Bavaria, Germany) you'd be executed for drinking beer with a melon ; ) - Michael Völker

I didn't notice that before Michael, good one - anna

Michael: That's what I enjoy after moving to NYC from Munich - you can do all those weird things without people getting upset about it. Although, I agree in this case - melons on a Weissbier seems very odd to me. - Oliver Bouchard

"Prost" from the land of Oktoberfest and beer - Bavaria ;) - have a nice weekend! - Ronald

We should do a FF-tweetup at Trappe on Columbus, great german beer in SF, cave-like ambiance too - anna

What's up with the melon? - Burcu Dogan

It's watermelon beer! - Jeremiah Owyang

Anna: sorry about that. I had to go give a speech across the street so cut out early. - Robert Scoble

Concerning beer (and wine too of course) I'm very puristic normally. But if you like it - cheers guys! - Michael Völker

I make a very light beer like this in the summer, I call it lawn mower beer, because I drink this light beer after I mow the lawn! :-) Looks very refreshing with the water melon garnish! - tom

Saying it's watermelon beer doesn't really make up for having a slice of watermelon on your glass :-D - TobiasVerhoog.com

Finally I see these guys drinking beer, do they have melon in their beer. In the shop I'm working at this moment I would've chased you away. - Ton Zijp

love the caption on robert's face - and them be some big beers! - Allen Stern

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Google Street View 1969

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:D - M F

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Ha! - RAPatton

Genius. - Toby Graham

new mashup -- Beatles vs. Google Maps - Stephanie Segel

Ha! Very clever. - joneilortiz

My favorite remix of this photo had them all on Segways. - Ladybug Heather

THIS is awesome. - Mona Nomura

Oh, so that's where Abbey Road is. ;) - Nimabeckie

awesome - y266_2000

Awesome! - David Cook via fftogo

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a must-read essay on the future of the web by @timoreilly and @johnbattelle http://www.web2summit.com/web2009...

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Finde den Unterschied – Zeit Online vs. Printausgabe - http://www.unpolitik.de/2009...

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"Das nennt man wohl, wie Fefe so schön schreibt, Ausrichtung an der Zielgruppe. Ein kleiner aber feiner Unterschied, der (mal wieder) unser Anliegen in der Öffentlichkeit ins völlig falsche Licht rückt. Danke liebe Zeit-Redaktion, genau sowas brauchen wir. Nicht." - René Fischer via Bookmarklet

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die Unterschrift in der Print-Ausgabe ist wirklich dämlich (um das mal vorsichtig zu formulieren) - Torsten Eckert

nicht nur dämlich, einfach irreführend und FALSCH. Lässt sich aber natürlich viel besser vermarkten und passt sicherlich auch haargenau in das Wunschkonzept von Zensursula. - taline

unfuckingbelievable - Marcel Weiß

Zeit Online entschuldigt sich für den Fauxpas bei Twitter http://twitter.com/zeitonl... und soll nächste Woche korrigiert werden: http://twitter.com/zeitonl... - Waldemar Schott

Sehr gut. Alles andere wäre gegenüber Franziska Heine auch eine Unverschämtheit gewiesen. - Marcel Weiß

sehr gut. Alles andere wäre nicht nur unverschämt, sondern für F. Heine evtl. sogar ein Grund zu Rechtsmitteln. - taline

Schön, wenigstens nimmt die Zeit Kritik ernst und kann auch Fehler eingestehen. - René Fischer

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FriendFeed Blog: You can now share files on FriendFeed - http://blog.friendfeed.com/2009...

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"To share files on friendfeed.com, simply click the "Files" link underneath the post box and select which files you want to include. You can also share files by including them as attachments on emails sent to share@friendfeed.com." - Bret Taylor via Bookmarklet

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That's the new hawtness! - Alex Scoble

wow - nicefishfilms

whoa! - vijay

SEKRIT PLANZ! MWA HA HA HA - Josh Haley

Excellent news, thank you Bret and guys! :-) - Kol Tregaskes

the game just changed - chrisofspades

Haha! Nice... - WorldofHiglet

nice - endiaferon

This feature will help with using FF solely as a email mailing list. - Kol Tregaskes

Now we just need page branding and some enterprise integration, and we can replace Sharepoint... - sean andersen

Plus as a mail client too (kinda of anyway). I will have to get auto-forwarding my emails to my ff.com address again. - Kol Tregaskes

yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes. i'm trying to be coherent but that's all that's coming up. Thanks... whats the file size limit? - Frankie Warren

this has awesomesauce all over it - Alfredo

is video an option? - Zee.

We have a rolling 24-hour limit for the number and size of files you can upload, but you probably shouldn't hit it unless you are sharing really big stuff. - Bret Taylor

Are the files public when accessed via direct link? Or do they require authentication? - Mark Trapp

No video at the moment, Zee. - Ross Miller

Bret, will this work for attachments sent to share@friendfeed.com? - chrisofspades

So tell me, how will you send email verification emails to new users when FF has successfully replaced email? </paradox> - nickrw

nice! - Mike Bracco

So, no BluRay rips, then :p - Josh Haley

Mark: right now they are public when access via direct link (though the links are not at all predictable). - Bret Taylor

Yes, file attachments to share@friendfeed.com work as you would expect. - Bret Taylor

Very Nice - Brent - Mugwumps R Us

neat-o! - tinym dot com

Bret - is music an option? - Zee.

WIN - Dobromir Hadzhiev

Any other files that don't work with it? - Kol Tregaskes

What's the file attachment size limit? - imabonehead

Kol: i assume you can attach video? it just won't play in-line? or did i misinterpret that? - Frankie Warren

@imabonehead, from Bret's comment above: "We have a rolling 24-hour limit for the number and size of files you can upload, but you probably shouldn't hit it unless you are sharing really big stuff." - Dan Hsiao

@Dan, thx - imabonehead

Liked Liked Liked (*99999) "You can now share files on FriendFeed" This is.. GREAT! - Thierry R. Andriamirado

Frankie, video attachments aren't currently supported - Dan Hsiao

Frankie, Ross says no to video, see above. - Kol Tregaskes

MP3s? - Kol Tregaskes

Kol: there is a stricter limit on audio files (3 per day). - Bret Taylor

Yay, no more rapidshare! :) - Kaan Ertürk

OK, but any format? - Kol Tregaskes

I tried it with both a txt and a rar file but neither seemed to work (the message was posted without a file attached). [Update: works now for me] - Philipp Lenssen

Gonna give a big W00T!! to this before I even read the whole thing... - FFing Enigma (aka Tina)

LOL, Tina. - Kol Tregaskes

Awesome!!!!!!!!!!! - Roberto Bonini

Perhaps we need a list of file types (and their limits) that are supported? - Kol Tregaskes

pretty cool! - Bryan Penczak

Tina++, Holy Crap! :) - Rahsheen ™

music files work! awesome! example here http://friendfeed.com/fredyga... - Alfredo

Bret: What about attachments to comments? - sean andersen

Swwwweeeettttt!!! - Jannifer Stoddard

Now all I need is a number where I can call and leave a VM that gets changed into an audio file, and I can get rid of drop.io for good! Yeah, we're never happy are we? Sorry.... - FFing Enigma (aka Tina)

Greatissimo :) - Stanislas Jourdan

Bret, does animated GIFs now work btw? - Kol Tregaskes

Thanks for the clarification on video :) how long will the files stay on the server? - Frankie Warren

Tina - Perhaps if we leave a VM for the FriendFeed IM bot on Google Talk? That would rock. - /Users/mitch/

Can we paste URLs into the box like we can for images? - Kol Tregaskes

Seriously, guys, when and where do we start donating? - Akiva Moskovitz

I'd prefer buying private shares, Akiva. :) - Carlos Ayala

I think you can support them by buying the FF swags. - imabonehead

cool - Siavash

and sharing from URLs works! - http://ff.im/4o1RY - chrisofspades

NIIIIIIIIIIICE - Pedram

Pair this w/ a private room and you have instant office and/or project collaboration. Drop.io may have some competition. :) - JA Castillo (جاسون)

JA, agree. - Kol Tregaskes

Chris, cool. :-) - Kol Tregaskes

All we need now is a calendaring system and support for source code. - imabonehead

mp3 sharing works in FriendFeed? Just when I'm thinking to share some 'musiclets' from time to time via Tumblr! mhh.. interesting, really! - Thierry R. Andriamirado

Thierry, yep MP3s are supported. - Kol Tregaskes

this is awesome, i was literally just trying to do this last night on one of our team feeds and had to post links to published google docs instead. going to try it out now. it's like they read my mind. - Mike Elliott

Kol...we use Drop.io all the time here at my office. This would be great as it is supremely simpler. But approved file types and sizes needs to be understood. - JA Castillo (جاسون)

Mitch, that would be an option, but I can only imagine the opportunity for the wrong voice file to go to the wronge feed... - FFing Enigma (aka Tina)

And Akiva is right...where do we start donating?! - JA Castillo (جاسون)

If we had basic HTML support for first comments on FF, it could almost be used for mail (at least for forwarding and reading mail to and on it). - Kol Tregaskes

JA, a list of supported file types, limits and sizes is needed... please. :-) - Kol Tregaskes

Cool stuff - Tyson Key

Any limits on the number of times a file can be downloaded, per day, out of interest? - Tyson Key

Reminds me of Pownce :) Great addition! - Holger Eilhard

NaFFster! :) - jcunwired

Does this mean that the days are numbered for various Pownce clones and Jaiku? Facebook, start your photocopiers! ;) - Tyson Key

this is GREAT! - Cee Bee

Now cue Facebook adding this feature in 3.. 2.. 1.. - Daniel Sims

Yay! Friendfeed is yet another step closer to complete emulation of IRC :) - Victor Ganata

Hey Bret, are these virus-checked? - Jordan Hofker

@Jordan - good question - andy brudtkuhl

Jordan, good shout. - Kol Tregaskes

The moment I read this I updated my AV program. - jcunwired

Are the shared files located in the enclosure tag of the feed? And can we filter feeds by enclosure type? - Cliff Gerrish

Jordan- yes, we virus scan them. - Casey Muller

Cool, Casey. :-) - Kol Tregaskes

LOL Victor ... true that. Well done FF team. - Amani via IM

Awesome, thanks Casey. - Jordan Hofker

Cliff- only media files (images and audio) are included in feeds at this time. - Casey Muller

Haha, Victor. :-) - Kol Tregaskes

Uh, question two: how long before one of the **AA's gets all pissy? That would be sad. Is there a size limit? - Jordan Hofker

search by file type? - Jason Wehmhoener

Jason, good shout. - Kol Tregaskes

Jordan - what is **AA's ?? - Jannifer Stoddard

This will go a long way in convincing some of my Yahoo Groups to move to FF. Although we must have a list of file types supported, retention times and also if there is a max number of d/l's. - Gil Francisco III

This is awesome but I'm also concerned about the type of people this might bring to the FF community. - Johnny Schroepfer

Gil, I'm seriously considering moving my Y!Groups list members from there to FF. - Kol Tregaskes

This is one of those features that people don't complain about even though they didn't ask the community prior to launching ;) - Frankie Warren

Dare I ask about Boobies.jpg.virus.exe? - Oops Casey says they are virus scanned - Richard Walker *popcorn*

Jannifer: RIAA and MPAA, specifically. Say someone shares a copyrighted song or something...RIAA gets cranky. - Jordan Hofker

Am I the only person that thinks this is an incredibly bad idea? - Jason Nunnelley

.m4a files sent from the iPhone's Voice Memos feature aren't given a player but are making it through the mail to FF feature. Any support for a player coming down the line? - Christopher Harley

How about .zip s that are password-protected? Reject I hope... (edit) .zip not supported at all, I gather, good! - Richard Walker *popcorn*

yeah search by filetype absolutely! filetype:pdf, filetype:mp3, filetype:zip, filetype:doc etc. - Nathan Chase

Christoper: (via Bret) "Unfortunately we only can play back MP3s at this point. The iPhone voice memos are in M4A (AAC), so we really want to support them, but it is a bit more difficult with Flash and our media setup at the moment." - Ross Miller

\m/ - metalerik

abi allah tuttuğunuzu altın etsin **love** - Ahmet Alp Balkan

Jason, I might be with you on this one. - Johnny Schroepfer

Awesome! Nice job, guys - Evan Sims

This is nice! Very nice! - ‘-.-’ Tutivillus Grift

Yippie-kai-yay :)))) - A.T.

Thanks, Ross. The paid app, iProRecorder http://www.iprorecorder.com/ suffers the same limitations. - Christopher Harley

NICE!!! Been waiting for this... thanks FriendFeed team! - AJ Batac

Cool! FF is becoming more of a platform of choice for me. Thanks guys :) - Dilip Dand

Very Cool !!! - Eric Logan

I'm not sure that I'm going to use that feature (I rarely share docs over the internet that weren't created in Zoho or GDocs, anyway), but still it looks pretty neato. - Miss Elle

Bret, do you have any restrictions to protect against music filesharers etc so you do not become an RIAA target? - Travis Koger

@ Travis: I was just wondering the same. - Brian Chang

Bret Taylor, a friend of mine uploaded 1 mp3 and it disappeared. Now he can't upload any mp3 file, seeing a [The "" file type is not supported]. Broken message? - Jason Nunnelley

"You can only upload 3 audio files every day. Please try again later." Too bad because I was really just trying to see what files worked. .wav aint one of them. No audio notes from Evernote, iPhone, iProRecorder. I soooo want to love this but It's not doing what I need it to do. This feature needs to support some kind of multi photo post with a recording appended to the message. That should be right out of the box. Video needs to come right behind it. Music is cool but citizen journalism is even cooler. - Christopher Harley

seriously useful. - Calvin Ayre

I haven't tested this but, how exactly are you determining audio file types, just using the file extension. If so there is a work around with a simple file rename, an example would be if you change an .mp3 to a .pdf and let people rename it once it becomes local on their machine. EDIT: This workaround would also allow video to be transferred. - James Fuller

Maybe I don't know enough, but doesn't this kind of open the door to slipping malicious code to unsuspecting users? - Fleagle

this is the best thing I know this morning when I open my eyes, well done! - K.D.

that is AWESOME! - Lindsay is :)

Fleagle: It is possible that someone would do that but FriendFeed is fairly well self monitored. It is still a small group of people in comparison to other networks. - James Fuller

Glad for this feature, though perhaps close partnership with Box.net or similar could keep FF storage costs better contained? Not criticizing, just hoping Core Team doesn't get distracted by extending (and babysitting) commodity services. Keep up the great work! - michael silverton

Kudos on the added features! - Eric @ CS Techcast

可以分享文件，friendfeed更好用了。 - 老巫师

哇塞，这个强的。 I like it. - xiawinter

Wow. Just wow. Thanks. - Laura Norvig

NICE! Thanks for the info. - SoMuchMoreThanAMom

Tell us more. Tell us EVERYTHING about the file "FF secret plans.pdf" shown in the blogpost <http://friendfeed-media.com/0fe9b6e...>. - ianf ⌘

Oh, very awesome! - Scott Magdalein

It's *machine code*. - Karl Knechtel

Karl: FFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU- - Chris Charabaruk '_'

So we can setup private groups and share questionable files ? :) - Ahsan Ali

That's pretty much what I was saying, Ahsan. I did one earlier as a test to prove my point, (NOTE: it is a clean file, direct from Revision 3) at http://friendfeed.com/jimminy... - James Fuller

Excellent! Thank you! - Diego Barros

What? No way, this is marvelous! Great. I hope who have enough space on our servers. You'll need it. :) - Ryo

"Rapidshare Fined $34 Million for Copyright Infringement" (http://mashable.com/2009...) - Ozkan Altuner

Speaking of copyright etc. I thought it instantly. I already saw copyrighted mp3 files here, and it will be only a matter of time before all kind of questionable stuff will be available here. How will Friendfeed solve this problem? It's a great function and a major step for FF, but I hope you guys have really thought about it extensively before you made that decision. - Ryo

Ah and on that audio files... Please consider to support .3gp sound files, too. So Android users can upload voice recordings from their phones, too. That would be nice. - Ryo

Hmmm @Ryo, good catch, posting directly from Android to FF your voice messages, would be cool! - Ozkan Altuner

Can we tell the lawyers that they "won" and give them all the money? Then start over with a new set of I.P. laws and a new currency? Pretty please? - Richard Walker *popcorn*

Must you force downloads on HTML files? - ...Vezquex

This is great. I'll try this instead of posting to Ipernity. - Rick Cogley

Seems like a good step in the right direction indeed the concerns are founded based on previous experiences but it is a good start. - Ubuntu101

Is it possible to set it up as part of the feed like a podcast? - Ubuntu101

Excellento - inline playing of mp3 files at last - this will be dangerous. But is there are limit?? - Chris Loft

embedding mp3's is just fine when it works .. I've been trying to get a podcast rss feed I have setup imported for the past 8 hours straight only to find out that each time it's not importing squat. - John Blanton via twhirl

I take that back it worked once but everything in the description tags showed up twice. - John Blanton via twhirl

:( Apparently not *.pdn files (Paint.Net) - ...Vezquex

Thx! FF continues to rock :) - Krishnamoorthy.K

why the limit on audio files? - ☠ Tyler Gillies ☠

Can us folks with Symbian OS-based devices have some Adaptive Multi-Rate codec/AMR file love, too? I believe that some Samsung and NEC phones also use that audio file format... - Tyson Key

Oh, and Google Earth KML files, and Ogg Vorbis files aren't supported right now either, for what it's worth. Still, it's a nice idea, so far. - Tyson Key

wow :) - Mucio

I'm disappointed that the PDF of your secret plans is only 1.2 mb. Surely there's more? - Dnl

anyone know the file size limit? - Julian Seery Gude

thanks for the heads up on this feature - Freemor via IM

To add to the comment made by Tyson Key: That's the same format that Android uses. AMR .3gp. So this format is used by some phones. - Ryo

My old Motorola Que made .3gp files too. Facebook can process them. You want to be at least as cool as Facebook, right? - Daniel J. Pritchett

Niiiiiiiiiiiiiiice! - Micah Wittman

FYI Micah, it works with *.user.js files... you know what that means... - /Users/mitch/

*happy dance* this is really innovative and highly useful...thanks FF :) - Susan Beebe

oh heck yes - Shey

Tried to share an .hta file with Micah yesterday....couldn't attach it. Tried to zip it and still couldn't attach it. Ended up tossing it in my dropbox and posting the link. :-( - April Russo

Myrna to Myrna's feed, The Iranian Green Wave

(persiankiwi) on Twitter [This is BAD! Her tweets start 4 hrs ago and stop at 2 hrs ago.] - http://twitter.com/persiankiwi

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4 hrs ago: 6PM Iran Time: "just in from Baharestan Sq - situation today is terrible - they beat the ppls like animals - #Iranelection RT RT RT. I see many ppl with broken arms/legs/heads - blood everywhere - pepper gas like war. they were waiting for us - they all have guns and riot uniforms - it was like a mouse trap - ppl being shot like animals. saw 7/8 militia beating one woman with baton on ground - she had no defense nothing - #Iranelection sure that she is dead. so many ppl arrested - young & old - they take ppl away - #Iranelection - we lose our group. ppl run into alleys and militia standing there waiting - from 2 sides they attack ppl in middle of alleys. all shops was closed - nowhere to go - they follow ppls with helicopters - smoke and fire is everywhere. phone line was cut and we lost internet - #Iranelection - getting more difficult to log into net. rumour they are tracking high use of phone lines to find internet users - must move from here now. reports of street... more... - Myrna via Bookmarklet

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from:http://aricmayer.blogspot.com/2009... "nicole said... I have been following Persiankiwi since last week, and I was thinking the same thing this morning. I think about this person(s) and what he/she/they are going through as I sit at my desk and ignore my work to follow the story. However, persiankiwi dropped off the grid a couple times last week and scared me, only to resurface with more hope and inspiration. I'm crossing my fingers that we hear more..." - guruvan (Rob Nelson)

I also had not seen anything from @oxfordgirl in some time today, and just saw a couple tweets come through from her. - guruvan (Rob Nelson)

Yes, I saw them today also. We get the real 'nitty gritty' from these brave souls. I'd like to meet them some day. - Myrna

I had been following @persiankiwi as well. I wish there was a way to more easily follow this post without using the term "Like." - tollie williams

I went through the same feeling about not wanting to click like and then someone said, here it means support or RT. You RT things on twitter that are important so just think of retweet when you click like. - Myrna

:| - shandiz

As I reminded some folks on twitter. Twitter accounts are disposable. People are not. We can hope and pray that both @Change_for_Iran and @PersianKiwi have laid low for a bit, gotten some new, as yet unknown gear (IP addresses, phones, proxies, etc etc) and likely some new accounts on twitter.) After rereading PK's last handful of tweets - I'm certain if there is anything left to their group, they had to scrounge new net connections, and would have ditched the account. (for now). - guruvan (Rob Nelson)

Rob, did you see Jon Stewart tonight with Reza Aslan? If not tomorrow it will be posted. - Myrna

I can proudly say that I've never owned a TV! (well, for 1 month I had a 9" b&w) - So I watch the next day :( I keep jumping up and down that I would watch at showtime if they would just broadcast it on the web already! I can also say that my TV news comes from Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert. ;) - guruvan (Rob Nelson)

I can proudly say that I own a TV...lol - Myrna

Gregoire Japiot

Frau mit Mikro - http://www.youtube.com/watch...

June 24 from YouTube favorites - Comment - Like - Share

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"i thought its pepper" lol :D - Timo Heuer

Jason Pollock

Teens Don't Twitter—Why? Interesting analysis by Cringley: http://www.cringely.com/2009... via @Twitter_Tips @dudeman718

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I work with a lot of teens as a Scout Master and have asked around and found it interesting they don't twitter... not sure what that means... - Robert Freeze

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Tried to get my (18-yo) son interested. They see no compelling need to broadcast; all their communication is direct (1:1) - Glen Campbell

Just wait, they're coming. - Mona Nomura

A small minority do, I must inject - Mohomed Abdullahi

Interesting, Glen, Robert. I think back to high school ... even university in the early 90s, and really the only kids who wanted to broadcast were the small slice doing the school newspaper or an underground rag. - Micah Wittman

So maybe it should be no surprise. - Micah Wittman

My 15-year-old says "I don't know how to explain teenagers." then said he likes texting because it is easier to have a conversation through that. My niece who is 17 agrees. - Robert Scoble

A valuable minority at that, Mohomed :) - Micah Wittman

Maybe it's the networking aspect that doesn't really register until later. *shrugs* - Micah Wittman

It has nothing to do with texting, it has to do with teenagers wanting and needing to always be the center of attention. With Twitter, unless you are 'a legacy' or celebrity (read: insta-followers) it's really hard to gain "friends". But the early adopters from Myspace and Facebook are already there. It's only a matter of time. - Mona Nomura

they're too comfortable with facebook. why tweet when you can update your status? - Johnny Schroepfer via BuddyFeed

This is different conclusion: http://www.zephoria.org/thought... - Bora Zivkovic

agree it is a matter of time, because facebook is popular and it is the precursor to twitter - Mike Chelen

Bora, good take. Yes, the under the radar private account networks exist, we just don't know to what extent since by nature it's difficult to count. - Micah Wittman

It is definitely an interesting comment thread on Cringley's. I wonder if danah boyd has seen it. - Bora Zivkovic

Bora, I really like that post - it is interesting the way the teens mentioned use twitter for private groups and cliques... they should check out Friend Feed and private groups here. - Robert Freeze

Robert, ff is where the subset within the subset come for some 'off the record' breathing room :) - Micah Wittman

I totally agreed with Bora's post, but my teenage boy and his gang (mostly boys) preferred to use FB with strict privacy settings. SMS is the main communication medium though. They used to use MSN messenger, but now they seem to have outgrown it. They see it as a toy. - John Serra

Mona...I like your theory; I think it's worth exploring. - .LAG liked that

I don't think they're coming. While they grew up with computers and use social networking sites like Facebook, they just aren't as techy as some of us are. They also aren't interested in promoting anything. Those two factors alone make Twitter look pretty damned useless. - Rahsheen ™

Mona stated it well, but there is also the lack of integrated apps, the lack of privacy by default, lack of features like photos, videos - Brian Hendrickson

Rahsheen: my son is geekier than most people I know. He just isn't impelled to use Twitter. - Robert Scoble

Rahsheen, some of them have stuff to promote (not sell though), they just don't want to promote to everyone, just to their own circle of friends and maybe friends of friends.. - John Serra

A teenager wants to be cool, not geeky, and all the celebrities/athletes are on Twitter... Man, did you all forget what it was like being a teenager? ;) - Mona Nomura

Also, we call it SMS, but it is probably multimedia SMS, so FB or Myspace are better alternatives. - John Serra

crazy kids. they love SMS but don't realize it can do much more when tied to a Web identity - Brian Hendrickson

From a UK point of view,polling my children and their friends,Girls migrate towards F.B. whilst boys seem to use SMS or contact through their gaming machines.When asked why,replies tend towards "we don't get it" or just one of apathy.It's percieved as a playground of the older. - Paul Downing

Cringley hits the nail on the head: Teens believe their conversations & gossip is too private to share in mass. They see celebs twitter publicly, but would never tweet that "so&so has a crush on so&so"... too private. SMS is 1-on-1. I believe that teens will adopt twitter, but not until they outgrow the extreme gossip phase. - Kevin Donahue

Teens don't Twitter? Would it be so bad if they stayed over on MySpace until they turned 30? - Diego Barros

I wonder if there´s any one killer feature that would get teens twittering or the like. I bet I´m not alone thinking about that. What would teen twitter heaven look like? - Elias

WOAH! i just checked my Friendfeed for the first time in a while and saw this massive thread! thanks for all ur amazing comments - Jason Pollock

I was riding the train home from NYC to LI the other day, and was listening to 4 teenage girls talking about who tweeted what. They do twitter. - guruvan (Rob Nelson)

I think better group and privacy controls (beyond what facebook friend list offers) will ultimately allow people to trust semi private or one-to-one communication. There is certainly room for someone (some app) that gets this model right. - Dave

Dave: do you think people don't trust existing 1:1 communications? Think of email for a second. What (a majority of) people don't really trust is the public or mostly public communications. - guruvan (Rob Nelson)

someone thinking that Twitter doesn't allow direct messaging similar to SMS shows a lack of familiarity with the service that will disappear as individuals and groups of friends learn this newer technology - Mike Chelen

they all text and FB...hence no need for twitter - Steve Borgman

Steve: that is what indicates they will come to Twitter eventually, because Twitter shares the same goals as SMS and FB, with better usability and more powerful features - Mike Chelen

Mike: Twitter has more powerful features than Facebook? You must have got up on the wrong side of the web this morning. It is a more powerful broadcasting tool, but it doesn''t really have much in the way of features. (there is great power in broadcasting, don't get me wrong - but teens just aren't as interested in broadcasting a message as more typical twitter user.) Teens do like the... more... - guruvan (Rob Nelson)

Rob: how does twitter include less privacy controls than facebook? although many users make their profiles public it is entirely optional, and anyone can choose to keep their account private and only approve the followers they wish - Mike Chelen

Teens do not have anything to sell. Old people on Twitter are all selling something. Twitter is an excellent tool for self-promotion and communication. Kids communicate naturally and leave the selling to the old folks. - Jamie Ginsberg

It's a positioning issue. They were too young to be part of/inspired by the "ego blogger/web famous" trend that was so 2005-present (thank God, lol) so they're not going to find value in the microblogging/promotional aspect of Twitter, probably. I'm sure they like to share photos with friends, as you would on Myspace, etc. and Twitter doesn't enable that without linking to something... more... - Patricia

Jeremiah Owyang

Many web heads have a strong desire for the open web, the thing is, most normal consumers don't give a damn --hence Facebook and AOL

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Sure. But eventually the walled gardens fail to provide the experience users want, and the open alternatives win. And developers are savvy enough to take the slightly longer view now. - Michael R. Bernstein

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I figure savvy developers are using FBConnect to provide a "have your cake and eat it too" solution. - Daniel J. Pritchett

The open, distributed options ought to win in the long end, because they provide a resilience and flexibility closed systems cannot have (not to mention the ability for you to change where your content is without losing the content, contacts and history). But then I remember that all in all newsgroups lost out to forums etc. (of course there were other reasons). Still, now that there is... more... - Joelle Nebbe (iphigenie)

As with anything, the winning solution is likely in the balance of the two. That is why Facebook has the potential to be a player for a very long time. They are opening up as much as they can, but keeping a lot of control. They also have a huge user base, which counts a lot when trying to determine who you should work with. - Rob Diana

True enough, Rob. Do you want to be right, or do you want to have 200M potential customers? - Daniel J. Pritchett

Well, who is to say that the completely open web is "right"? Developers want it that way, but that does not make it right. Personally, I think being almost completely open is a fantastic idea because you can get an ecosystem built for you, i.e. Twitter. That still does not make one version more "right" than the other. - Rob Diana

it may appear to be a "strong desire for the open web" but it's also a recognition that social media needed centralization to get off the ground, just like the early internet, early blogging, early microblogging. centralization is training wheels, every company's web site will need to be a full participating member of the social web, and it won't rely on technology that's not open. - Brian Hendrickson

They give a damn, they just don't understand the philosophic underpinnings. Just do a google search for why can't I export my Netflix ratings and you'll see people upset about the issue, even if they don't realize it. - Davis Freeberg

Almost nothing that we base our lives on is open. Not cars, phones, planes, work, Starbucks, movies, music, etc. Should software be different? - Todd Hoff

When it comes to software that makes the web work, an open solution can achieve breadth of adoption because it can be fully trusted. -- by developers. - Brian Hendrickson

Little kids do the same: they like staying in a closed garden when they're small. But after some time, they get bored and want to see what's out there. It's called growing up. Hence the internet. ;-) - Ewout

Depending on where you look the internet is actually pretty closed. TCP/IP, communication pipes, DNS, routers, switches, all closed. - Todd Hoff

Most normal consumers don't give a damn.. to begin with. But with experience comes the desire to branch out. - Paul OFlaherty

Where is AOL now, BTW? Probably, you may want to change your comment to "many normal consumers doesn't give a damn initially". Once educated (either through the efforts of web heads or through their own nightmare experience), they don't just give a damn but they DEMAND. - Krishnan Subramanian

Facebook has made huge improvements in openness, such as allowing publicly searchable profiles and providing an API for developers to create add-on applications. While still restricted in many ways, these advances have brought significant value to the user's experience. - Mike Chelen

Tim O'Reilly

How user contribution improved Google's maps of Iran: http://radar.oreilly.com/2009...

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The most unfortunate name in sport - http://www.inquisitr.com/26805...

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Sorry @caterina Hunch is no Flickr. Here's why:

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When Stewart Butterfield, co-founder of Flickr, showed me Flickr in the hallway at O'Reilly's Emerging Technology Conference it immediately captivated me. Hunch? I filled out my first 20 questions and then looked over the questions. None grabbed me. I don't get why we are seeing so many sites that are trying to answer people's questions. And, anyway, Aardvark is getting me more excited. - Robert Scoble

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What is Hunch? - Fee501st

What is Aardvark? - Jennifer Ruggiero

Fee501st: Hunch is http://www.hunch.com/ -- a site that asks you a ton of questions and then presents what it feels are interesting questions for you. Or you can ask your own. - Robert Scoble

Jennifer: http://vark.com/ Aardvark is similar to Hunch, but uses IM to route questions to you, or you can ask the system questions. I've found it to be very cool and much neater because it has that IM feel. When I do have a question that I need a real person's answer to, Aardvark is going to be where I go. - Robert Scoble

Worked for me. It totally helped me choose a case for my iphone. Perhaps what excites you isn't really relevant. Not being snarky, just saying. - Jim Oxenford

Jim: that might be true, but I'm pretty good at picking "hits." Flickr immediately had me excited. Hunch? Nope. Hunch already has well entrenched competitors and I don't see what makes this so much better than any other question service. - Robert Scoble

I have never been into these type of answering engines/services. The only thing in this domain I have used is ChaCha - For simple questions, like "did the lakers win last night"? I am a big fan http://www.chacha.com/ - Mike Bracco

Flickr immediately answered something I needed (a way to share photos with others) and did so in a way that was clearly way ahead of the competitors. - Robert Scoble

@Robert Cool, i just did the questions, then ask which care should i buy, It said Mini Cooper! lol that's not me! - Fee501st

Fee501st: it bored me before I even got the answer. - Robert Scoble

Well, it helped me decide what was important in a case. It's something I've been trying to decide for about a week. Not a life changing decision but important to me. I've not tried Aardvark but certainly will. We all have track records of picking hits and misses so we'll see what shakes out. I just think it's to early to declare it a miss. - Jim Oxenford

Robert: the 'questions' that disappointed you are the user contributed content. Certainly this is not hunch's fault. And how much can you get excited about what 'shoes to buy' anyway? - Nikos Anagnostou

What's really bad is that it asked me what kind of car I'd want to buy, yet it didn't even know that I can't drive. - James

I quit before I answered the question too but then asked "what netbook should I buy" asked the right questions and gave decent recommendations. Better than many mainstream sites can state they do online today... - Ben Hedrington

Do we really need a tool to help us make a 'better' decision? (not totally convinced by the 'better' word though) - Constantine

A smart hunch site would ask for access to my twitter/flickr/friendfeed/facebook feeds and data mine those sites with a smart algorithm and make recommendations based upon the wealth of available data. - Jim Posner

@Constantine I think such a tool is valuable to boil choices down to what's most meaningful for you. It can help clarify your options a bit. - Jim Oxenford

But wouldn't that make humans act more like robots? Malcom Gladwell said something very interesting the other day: it is very hard for people to make a decision out of many options, but the process becomes a lot easier and "more controlled" when people have fewer options to chose from. - Constantine

I have a Hunch thread too! http://friendfeed.com/dariusm... - Matthew DeVries

@Constantine Well, I'm not sure I would go as far as to say that. It was a useful tool for me to use when making a relatively minor consumer purchase. Yes, Malcom Gladwell is 100% correct stating the obvious. That's one reason Apple found success again when Steve Jobs returned. - Jim Oxenford

Robert I agree on the state of the current questions, kinda boring. BUT, I think if they get the user base, the questions will grow and become way more interesting. Where I really think they stand out however, is how quickly and easily they got me to answer 20-30 questions. FAST. I haven't found a site in a long while that has successfully extracted that much information from me without boring me to tears. - Matt Sims

Matt: that's true. It too got me to fill out those questions. - Robert Scoble

There was another site, pretty much identical to this about 6 months ago, asking questions to try to profile you, then bring you content according to your questions, this is no different. What was that other site called? - Matthew DeVries

Plinky! That's it. - Matthew DeVries

I liked the questions about the lounge and kitchen styles. Too bad the pics are small. Would love to answer preferred office furniture and computer specs. - Constantine

it doesn't HAVE to be another flickr either. flickr was/is HUGE. That being said, I prefer smugmug. - Jim Oxenford

Is Hunch even a picture hosting service at all? Cause if it is, it is certainly downplaying it. - Matthew DeVries

I don't get these question services. Are they for people with lots of free time or just those who don't know what questions to ask themselves? - Sal DiStefano

Nikos hit it on the money without realizing it: "the 'questions' that disappointed you are the user contributed content." --- No, this is not Hunch's fault, but it is exactly why every general-topic anything-goes answer site eventually goes to the dogs. Stranger's random questions just aren't interesting. Sites like StackOverflow thrive because they target a specific demographic that... more... - Joel Bennett

Sal: Decision making by humans is generally flawed. We succumb to the pitfalls of our own psychology too easily. We drive with either too much intuition, or too much data, and both of those methods have major traps. What we really need is a tool or service that manages both of those elements better. Haven't seen it yet. (I'll get working on it... ;) - Matt Sims

Robert: You should try playing with http://www.fluther.com. You can ask and get questions over IM like Aardvark, but we also have a rich and active community, with a focus on real-time group discussions. - Ben

Ben - Friendfeed already exists, but without the pesky questions. - Matthew DeVries

Matthew: Touche. Though Fluther's real-time is more like Google Wave than FF. And you'll find the feel of the community is quite different (in part because of the question focus). But we're happy to be in such good company. :) - Ben

ideas like vark.com have been tried before. Most died for lack of community. Same for IM based services. I dont recall any service getting significant traction just cause they had IM connectivity. - Vivek Puri

I'm going to be contrarian here and like both Hunch, Vark and Y! Answers but don't think any of them are really independent businesses appropriate for venture capital, but could be all fine small businesses. - Sam Pullara

I absolutely hated hunch. I had to sit through a tirade of questions that had little or no application to my actual life. They progressively made me feel like an outsider - on my own computer! My own computer in my own house - I live here! Those questions really grated and as the experience wore on became increasingly discomforting. They mostly assumed that I must live in some foreign country, and that that was the only country that could possibly apply to the entire world-wide-web. How utterly infuriating. - Ian Tindale

@Robert, Aardvark is slick. - Jim Oxenford

Just looking at their general information page is quite interesting. That's a clever idea - a completely different angle than machine indexing and processing. - Justin Long

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