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“[FriendFeed]: Am I the only one who doesn't give a flying fcuk about Facebook? http://bit.ly/gzJ8L”

July 23 at 5:21 pm - Link

Kishore Balakrishnan, Tsega Dinka, Svartling and 22 other people liked this

Dave, me neither. I had an account for less than a month and then cancelled it because I didn't find it that interesting compared to the hype I've heard from my friends. - imabonehead

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I can see maybe connecting with old school chums. But I don't really see its use in business, and I have an 18-year-old daughter who's made it clear it's HER TURF. Seems to me we've got plenty of other places to play -- here, and associated spaces, plus blogs, plus LinkedIn, which is big-ish in St. Louis. And in my field, I really like AdGabber. - Mary Baum

I'm with you, most people I know are on it and active members, been trying to avoid it. Not 100% sure why, just never got into it. - maxim shevertalov via twhirl

i don't like any other sites,i got an account 2 an it's boring,lmao - amy

I'm an FB user, but only minimally. I mostly use it to keep in touch with friends long since lost. But actually logging in... not much, I get my updates and such via an imaginary friend setup here at FF and also I get updates in SocialThing, consequently I almost never log straight in to it unless I need to reply to someone, so as long as they don't lock anything off from access, I could care less about it. - nick carrasco

The rest of the planet doesn't seem to care much about facebook either. So you're definitely not alone. - Luis Figueiredo

I am still a member over at Facebook - but purely to remain connected with old school friends. - Jonathan Beckett

I stay for the Scrabble, pure and simple. - Kevin C. Tofel

I like to have my FB pge automatically updated by other apps like Twitter, Last.fm etc. so I don't actually have to go to FB and do anything. That way it looks like I'm somewhat active to people who are interested and I don't have to bother. - Todd Brunner via twhirl

I do like the FB private video mail, especially to connect to friends who are on FB & noplace else. - Brian Rendel

I don't, but I also don't give a flying fcuk that you don't give a flying fcuk - in the same way that you don't give a flying fcuk on my views on Bebo, Google, Seesmic et al, for sure - Ivan Pope via twhirl

i don't use it much but we're out of the demo - watch a gen y interacting w/ their tribe sometime on fb - they're it - mike "glemak" dunn

I agree. I tried to use for marketing purposes, it failed miserably. Then I tried to use it for fun and it was worthless. - Globecode

I think Facebook is a good tool. Maybe if you are Dave Winer you don't need it. - Vic Podcaster

May be user error, but FaceBook didn't seem as useful as hoped. I thought it'd bring cool convos together. I still have to hunt. - MiɳiMagɘ (Sexy Scimitar)

I've been a Facebook user till recently when they decided to disable my account. Here is the link to the whole saga http://friendfeed.com/e/500756... - Vic Podcaster

It was a great way to communicate with close friends and family while 5000 miles away - Sally Church

No me too. I never liked facebook - Svartling

Facebook started off with excitement, and ended up with apathy. FF started with curiosity, and has ended up with real social interaction. I know where i'm spending my time... - Iain Baker

You're clearly not alone. I have yet to sign up. - Tsega Dinka

Oh is that what that FB stands for on my FF nav bar. Now that scrabulous is gone, not sure what the appeal is, unless you're trying to reach the younger crowd. YUK. I do like Knighthood though, let's you paWn your coFBers. - JMac of Earth

Thomas Hawk published a photo on Zooomr

Windows Vista New Ad Campaign

July 22 at 10:16 am - Link

fbrunel, Holger Eilhard, Alexandru Savu and 18 other people liked this

seriously? Who are they trying to reach with that lame ad? - Jasmin Smith

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I must agree with Jasmin. Is this really the right ad for this demographic? - AJ Kohn

It's not like you can set out on a 2 year journey to 'discover' that Vista doesn't actually suck. And Columbus died still thinking the earth was flat, so how does that figure in to the metaphor? - Kevin Fox

Thomas modified the original ad in response to the comments at http://friendfeed.com/e/11ce54... - Alan Le

The ship is looking for a Fail Whale ;-) - AJ Batac

Pirates ROCK! Go Pirates! Pirates are much cooler than Columbus ever was. - Thomas Hawk

Ninjas are way cooler than pirates, though. - ha3rvey

++AJ Batac ;) - Sean Savage

It's about time they did something....anything - maxim shevertalov via twhirl

AJ, great idea on the Fail Whale theme. I added a second targeted ad around the concept of Microsoft looking for Twitter's lost fail whale. http://thomashawk.com/2008/07/... - Thomas Hawk

The original ad is here: http://blogs.zdnet.com/Bott/?p... - Philipp Lenssen

I think this is smart. They can't directly go up against Apple on "coolness", and they're not. This is more of an end run. In a way, it's similar to the Think Different (sic) campaign: popular wisdom says that Vista is bad, but those who are dispensing the popular widsom, though well dressed, are uninformed. - Jon Galloway

i guess i'm super old school... in my early days of modem surfing (circa late 80s), this ad would essentially have windows saying: it is cool to illegally copy us! - Rob Reed

I do not get it. - Dan Parsons

I've already been through this with some other people the FriendFeed thread mentioned by Alan Le above. I'm not going through it again but I will say that I think it's a great ad campaign and I wish Microsoft the best of luck with it. - Akiva Moskovitz

This is in no way real. - Aaron Myers

the campaign appears real; the crap on the bottom seems to have been added by somebody in photoshop. I like this quote from the zdnet article: "Vista is now actually better than its reputation. That’s a marketing issue" - Paul Whitaker

Not the new campaign. - Sean Alexander

Alright so this is the real ad: http://www.tothepc.com/pic/vis... -- They're trying to say "Everyone thought the world was flat" saying "Everything thinks Windows is the same, but get the real facts about Vista, etc, etc," or something like that. Who knows, it's not very straight forward. - Aaron Myers

are you sure that they are not just trying to say everyone should just be pirates because pirates are cool? ;) - Thomas Hawk

Who messes with Pirates? Nobody, that's who. - Kristopher Tate

I'm laughing because reading it out loud or in your head sounds stupid. - Outsanity

Pirates Of The Caribbean: Vista Gold - Outsanity

is this real? - Jeff Woelker via twhirl

Searching my registry for Spanish dubloons. - Akiva Moskovitz

But if everyone is a pirate, then it wouldn't be cool anymore, because everyone is doing it. Thankfully, not everybody is a pirate, though, so it's still cool to be one. Argh! - Jason Shultz via twhirl

I think the ad says everyone should drink Cutty Sark. Odd tack: if you don't love our product you're a blighted medieval-minded slug. - Michael Markman

Zzzzzzzzz - Sally Church

Arrrgghhhhh, ahoy matey, off to Limewire to get this pirate some new tunes for my zune. Arrrghhhhhh.... - Thomas Hawk

Arggggghhh, need me some Captain Morgan's spiced rum to go with my Microsoft Wording this morning. - Thomas Hawk

Hehe, I can't get the image of Ballmer as the annoying parrot sitting on Bill Gates' shoulder out of my head - JC unwired

Ballmer should wear a pirate eye patch to the meeting with analysts tomorrow. Arggggghhh. - Thomas Hawk

Do I smell a tie-in with Pirates of the Caribbean 4? ;) - Jorge Escobar

Thomas Kincaid EAT YOUR HEART OUT ARRR. Seriously, it's like those crusty-old 70's paintings you can find in your mom's attic. - Eric Rice

Weird. Don't get it. - fbrunel

Dead Macs tell no tales. - Thomas Hawk

Fifteen men on a dead man’s chest — Yo-ho-ho, and a bottle of Microsoft Word. - Thomas Hawk

Lindsay Donaghe posted a message

“What song is stuck in your head right now?”

July 22 at 10:30 am - Link

Brian Ries, zoblue (Zulema), maxim shevertalov and 2 other people liked this

Yesterday, it was America the Beautiful, sung to the theme from MASH. Don't do it...it'll be stuck in yours too. - Bradley McSpinn

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Band on the run - Paul Mccartney - Mike Fruchter

take my breath away - Berlin (top gun is on in the background). Just before that and for that past few days it's been the freeze ray song from Dr. Horrible. :) - felix

The theme to Burger Time. - l0ckergn0me

Well, thanks to Nick Munsun, it's frickin' Black Kids - I'm Not Gonna Teach Your Boyfriend How to Dance With You. - Akiva Moskovitz

Thanks Mike. Now it's stuck in my head too. :-) - Jill, Superhero Librarian

Momma Said Knock You Out...weird, didn't realize it until you asked - Trent Olson

Something from Jethro Tull. (Damn, I'm from the freaking previous generation, musicwise) - dario

in a jar -- dinosaur jr - Cee Bee

Cee Bee, that is definitely not a bad song to have stuck! - felix

Kangal Irandaal from Subramaniapuram - Caught ya guys off guard, didn't I! Truly awesome song :D - you folks donno what you are missing :D - Yuvi (has IRL friends!)

I've been mentally humming this "Believe it or not, I'm walking on air..." since seeing the Greatest American Hero post on FF. - Alan Le

be near me by ABC. i'm such a child of the 80s - sean808080

Phew...now I've got Triangle Man TMBG running through my head. - Jill, Superhero Librarian

The Dizzee Rascal live lounge of the Ting Tings 'That's not my name' in my feed if you are curious.... - Joe Dawson (beta)

that's a great song by abc! - Cee Bee

"can't get you outa of my head" Kylie Minogue :0- - Peter Dawson

The Man In Me, Dylan - Rubin Sfadj

"I'm F***ing Matt Damon"... don't ask why... - Chris Rivait

Too Excited - Tilly and the Wall - JA Castillo

Wish that I could cry Fall upon my knees Find a way to lie About a home I’ll never see It may sound absurd...but don’t be naive Even heroes have the right to bleed I may be disturbed...but won’t you concede Even heroes have the right to dream It’s not easy to be me - Caroline

I have the music from Dr. Horrible stuck in my head. "A man's gotta do what a man's gotta do..." - Dread Pirate PJ via Alert Thingy

so whats the deal with Dr. horrible anyway? - Caroline

"It's a brand new day and the sun is high, the birds are singing that you're gonna die..." I haven't been able to stop singing the songs from Dr. Horrible since this weekend. - Andrea

Satisfaction by Benny Benassi -- b/c it's playing on Pandora - clifflandis

Crystal Lake by Grandaddy http://tinysong.com/13CE - Altruistic Librarian

loving you is easy cause you're beautiful. south park version. - beth rhinelander via twhirl

Pretty little bird by Mark Berube - maxim shevertalov via twhirl

"Crazy Bitch" by Buck Cherry. it's a problem. - ωαřмaiden

none.... at least until this post came along... now there are like 30.... lol - Jaime/Talking Books Lib.

Been singing Christmas songs. - Jill Hurst-Wahl

"Planet Claire" by the B-52's - joshua m. neff

"I love the whole word" ads by Discovery. It's addictive. - eve shot first

@Bradley: Why did I try it? It's stuck in mine now, I can't get it out! - eve shot first

Love Reign o'er Me by The Who. Heard it on their VH1 tribute and loved it. - Brian Zalewski

"The Warrior" by Scandal - RAPatton

Jeremiah Owyang posted a message

“Have you seen the movie Bicentential Man? A thoughtful forecast of the human condition as it meets the android condition. A robot slowly becomes more human, falls in live, and then happily dies --as a human”

July 12 at 1:20 pm - Link

Michael J. Cohen (mjc), James, Alejandro S. and 6 other people liked this

Really enjoyed that movie, and the message over all. Good for rewatch. - Todd Jordan

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I love that movie. - l0ckergn0me

Er...spoiler alert? :D - BISQ

I liked the movie and other Asimov stories as well - maxim shevertalov via twhirl

Fantastic movie, excellent story line, pertinant issues discussed and subtle humor. Highly reccomended - Roberto Bonini

BISQ yeah spoiler alert, but it's an older movie and based off a book by Asimov. - Jeremiah Owyang

Not so thoughtful. Trite by now. That's been the issue in every damn android story since R.U.R. in 1921. (see Terminator 2, I Robot, for the most accessible pop versions. See Blade Runner and Artificial Intelligence: AI for more challenging versions.) see also: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R.... - Michael Markman

Preferred the Asimov stories myself... but the movie was fairly well done. - Lucretia Pruitt

I much prefer A.I. ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE as a good discussion of human/machine evolution: http://www.ddmcd.com/movies/st... - dennis d. mcdonald

I love this genre of movies (like Spielberg's AI, and of course Bladerunner). I think they all get at core questions like 'what is humanity at core?', 'is all of humanity quantifiable?' and 'are qualities like consciousness/free will/the spirit/love' ultimately illusions? Personally, I think we will be able to mimic humanity, leave our 'echo' or 'ghost' (so to speak) --but that there is ultimately a part of us that does transcend the material & cannot be quantified. If not, we must admit no true freedom - Leif Hansen

Also, Michael: Your wikipedia link to R.UR. turns up nothing -I think you meant this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R... - Leif Hansen

Thanks, Leif, for the better link. When I read R.U.R in high school, nobody bothered to tell me that Spencer Tracy played one of the robots. Bless you, wikipedia. - Michael Markman

For a longer list of movies with android themes, see http://snurl.com/2xyp7 - Michael Markman

Leo Laporte posted an entry on LOL: The Life of Leo

24 Hours of iPhone

July 10 at 8:18 am - Link

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Our wall-to-wall coverage of the iPhone launch starts in two hours and continues until the last Apple Store opens in Honolulu at 11a tomorrow. Watch me kill myself with 24 hours of non-stop coverage at http://twitlive.tv - Leo Laporte

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Leo, shouldn't you be sleeping? - John Denver

How are you going to do the radio show afterwards? - Chacha via twhirl

Don't Worry Leo! Ill happily be coding my clone of Twitter while watching you - Chacha

Well.. since I couldn't give a rat's a** about the iphone I guess some of my time just freed up. :) - Jeff Jones

Good luck staying alive - maxim shevertalov via twhirl

Good luck Leo! - Mark

Break a leg Leo! - Michael Nally via twhirl

Since we are all waiting for the new iPhone the only news story on Friday will be some guy waiting in line to buy a Blackberry. - Bob

A life of leisure and a life of laziness are two things. There will be sleeping enough in the grave."--Benjamin Franklin - Jacob

Oh boy! - Pedro Fonseca via twhirl

24 hours sitting down? Guard against DVT Get up and walk around @ least every 2 hours. http://www.ehealthmd.com/libra... Good Luck, Leo. - Cory Brown

You're crazy, but I love it :) - Jonathon

why would you do that, for money? - Gregory Lent

Veronica posted a message

“debating not having my twitter in FF -- but I love the added conversation element. I don't think I twitter that frequently that it's a problem on here, but let me know what your opinion is. after all, you're the ones that have to read it!”

July 9 at 4:53 am - Link

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i say keep it on, the conversation is key. 30 people yesterday commented on my tweet about killing spiders :) http://friendfeed.com/e/f9eb77... - MG Siegler

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keep it on. cross platform promotion doesn't hurt. - Don Martelli via twhirl

It's conversational cross-pollination, and I think it works. Let it bloom. People can reply here back to Twitter, so you're letting friends and followers choose the method that works best for them with minimal noise and maximum informational/conversational opportunity. IMO, start worrying when you Pownce and Twitter a blog entry that you're auto-feeding to FF, and all three show up here. Then folks might get annoyed. ;) - Kevin Hessel

Leave it. If people don't like it, they can hide it. That's the beauty of FF! - Paul Reynolds

It's easy enough for people to filter out if they don't want to see it. If you remove your Twitter feed from FF, then you end up with these weird conversation silos. - Pete Brown

I removed mine awhile ago via slusher scenario - my friendfeeds go "to" twitter via twitterfeed instead - so depends on your level of original tweets to ff's - agreed with paul, hide works fine here - mike "glemak" dunn

I think you should keep it :) The key here is 'interaction' .. - Saad Kamal

Definitely keep it. Leave it up to the users whether they want to see it or not. Less is not more... MORE is more! ;) - StephenTorrence

Veronica - My solution some time back was to hide Twitter on FF. You then get a 'refresh page to see hidden items' at the bottom which you can view as often as you want. My stream here is much cleaner now and I do use it more than a few times a day. (Fun show yesterday :) - Charlie Anzman

Please keep Twitter in your FF. People can hide your Twitter (or all of Twitter) if they want to. I, for one, would like to still see your messages on Twitter. - Robert Fischer

i say keep it. - (jeff)isageek

I would say keep it, several conversations can start with a simple answer to the question 'What are you doing?'. Not all the while is one in the mood to 'share something' or has something worthwhile sharing. - Parth Awasthi

I asked the same question recently-- should I yank Twitter? People just said" why?" It's just that some Tweets stand out as irrelevant in FF context. But people can always hide feeds on their end I guess. I'm keeping Twitter in,by that reasoning you should too - Doug Haslam via twhirl

I'd definitely rather have your twitters here. I barely use twitter anymore, mainly just for the folks who won't or haven't moved to friendfeed. - Kyle Johnson

Keep it. The crossover and conversation threading makes for amusing reading. What else am I going to do at work? - Keith Smith

Keep the FF crossover going...you have the option to jump in on the FF discussion - but you won't have the option if you kill it completely....you supply the topics and I'M SURE you'll spawn plenty conversation...good that you're giving this some thought though... - Live4Soccer

I say keep it on - Alfredo Padilla

I say keep it, but just be aware of how conversations are getting fractured all over the net. - Michael Gaines

I say keep it. But if you don’t want to see Twitter entries, hide one of them, then click “see options for hiding other items like this.” You’ll have the option of hiding all of them, except for the ones with comments or likes. - Guillermo Esteves

i vote to keep it as FriendFeed enables we, the readers, to make the choice to opt out if we aren't interested... - Jeremy Toeman

Keep it, its easier to follow many people on FF. Conversely I don't follow many people on Twitter as its too hard to keep up. IOW, I only follow you on FF :) and also forgot to pick the send to twitter button, duh - ThePicMan

Definately keep it. - jered reynolds via feedalizr

Yah, I think you should keep it as well, you never know what will get everyone going. - maxim shevertalov via twhirl

Let the users decide by hiding them. Plus then we can check twitter with fftogo.com - Sweyn via twhirl

do you use ping.fm? If so, you can cross post... - Robert

keep it - Andrew Fielding

please keep it so users can decide - Mark Kaplan

I finally gave in after everyone told me try it you'll love it. And I'm hooked, but- - Michael Fidler

Cross post... don't let Twitter die *sniff* - Ian

cont., I need to turn my phone off at night. Some people twitter at 3;30AM. Who would do that. Wakey, wakey to 27,000 people.Thats like calling everyone in a small city and waking them all up. I learned my lesson.Any other words of caution,now that I've taken the plunge? Damn girl, you are an early riser. - Michael Fidler

Leave your Twitter in. Your subscribers can hide it if they don't want to see it. - Morton Fox

Please keep it. - Donna

pwnt in favor of keeping it in my O - Vincent Guerrero

keep tweeting here - Jamie

keep it - Thejesh GN

Keep it running! - Jonathon

Kevin Rose posted a message on Twitter

“I get FriendFeed now, a single location to have a conversation around my media/web participation - friend me: http://tinyurl.com/5vcabt”

July 8 at 7:13 pm - Link

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Good to see you joining the rest of civilization now! - Damien Franco

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I added you... welcome aboard - Todd Loren Sinclair

Welcome all, thanks for adding me. - Kevin Rose

friendfeed is pretty dope - Chris Locke

Are we going to see another FF addict soon? - Winston Teo

Some of the a-listers keep saying FF is the death of twitter - but they seem to work well together. I'll keep playing with both. - Mike

Welcome on board, Mr Digger! - SurajLuke

Added you on FF days ago. Welcome aboard! :) - Mike Abundo

Added you a while back, welcome to the conversation. - maxim shevertalov

I can't figure out how to get my comments to post to Twitter... How'd you do it? - Jeff Kopp

Dugg! Whoops - wrong web site. :) - Mike Doeff

Glad to be following you :D - Chris

I think you'll find though that FF is just to cluttered to be useful... - Auburn Elite

i am STILL trying to "get it" - djp

Welcome to the... torrent, for lack of a better word :) - Robyn Miller

Hey Robyn! - Kyle Lacy

Added you. Also new to FF. I think it might be information overload, though... - John Storer II via twhirl

I added you two weeks ago. Guys and Gals - use the hide button to reduce the info overload. - Russellreno

yea I am trying to figure out how to make my friend feed posts go out to twitter - Jason Stephens

Jason: why? post to twitter and bring them in. - klecu

klecu: because then I have to leave friendfeed, I want to do everything in here...when I share I want it to go out to all my services too.... - Jason Stephens

I think you've got it backwards. FriendFeed is drawing in everything, not sending out. - John Storer II via twhirl

exactly my point...I think it could be a twitter replacement though...i like posting to hear better then posting on twitter. I'd like the messages I share on here to go out to my twitter followers to help grow my subscriber list - Jason Stephens

So is it Ping.fm that does that (posts to Twitter) then, not FriendFeed? - Jeff Kopp

That is, of course, a very valid example. Unfortunately, It's sort of like the AIM/ICQ Fiasco. All your friends are on AIM... why should they switch, even when AIM now sucks? I just got into FF, so I am not sure it could handle the excess traffic like twitter is dealing with. - John Storer II via twhirl

The method to comment and reply is much better on friendfeed, I think this definitly should either be bought by twitter or find a way to cross integrate them better. I see the option to "also send this comment as an @reply twitter from jpstephens" but thats not EXACTLY what I mean - Jason Stephens

Jason: I totally agree, if you can post out to all your socials then someone tell me how. If not, then FF should have the option or I smell yet another social network for social networks. ;) - Mark

You could try Mahalo share to post to a lot of your socials at once, but wouldn't this create a bit of a spam effect to FF if all of those socials are showing up here? Interested to hear comments from anyone with that experience, because of course you don't want to spam your FF friends, but not everyone is using FF... conundrum - Dave Earley

Glad you got it Kevin. Friendfeed lends it self to more engaging conversation and sharing. - Larry Kless

Problem is, you have to Friend back. :) - l0ckergn0me

Did Scoble block you for begging for followers? - Ryan Kuder

yeah there's real potential. but it's so damn hard to manage your friend list! same as with twitter - this is a huge barrier to the usability of the site. there should be a subscribe/unsubscribe button next to every post from anybody. - Mickipedia

ditto l0ckergn0me - MiɳiMagɘ (Sexy Scimitar)

Friendfeed is awesome Kev. Everything at your fingertips. - Vipin Chamakkala

This is a common refrain - people admitting that it takes them months to get FriendFeed. And for those of us who aren't honest enough to publicly admit this, it takes us months to use FriendFeed effectively. Is there a way to reduce this learning curve, so people can productively use FriendFeed from day 1? - Ontario Emperor via fftogo

There are all sorts of things they could do to improve FriendFeed. I guess we have to remember it is version 1.0 - Jonathan Beckett

haha me too - today. - gfox

There goes the freinderhood. - sage brennan

@Kevin, so u lost love 4 twitter too :) - Arjun

Twitter should be relegated to what it was originally intended and is good at. It's a status forum, not a communication forum. - ·[▪_▪]·

I got it and got blamed for saying it. - Franklin Naval

You don't get it Kevin unless you're willing to friend us back. I believe same goes for Twitter. Why add you to our community if you're not willing to listen to us? - Jesse Stay

So the question now is: Will Kevin friend us back? All of us? Or selective friending? - Winston Teo

Oh boy. Now he's hooked on the FF crack. Duck and cover FFrs - Brian Daniel Eisenberg

FFDugg it:) - Igor Poltavskiy

congrats - saee:Dsharif

First you have to unban me from Digg! - Igor The Troll

welcome! - Chris Abad

Yea, welcome on Board Dude ;) Good to see you here ... - Martin Gommel

FriendFeed's concept does take a bit to grasp at first because we are sooo used to Twitter (uni-directional, broadcast communications tool) and FF is truly a multi-directional comm tool designed to illicit conversation around cool stuff you share via FF directly or thru nearly 50 Social Media "feeds" you can port over here. I love FF and have been super happy since I joined back in March! ;o). Glad you're here and having fun!! - Susan Beebe

I still don't get it. There seems to just be too much noise. I get crap from people I don't know and I'm not following. Every item that hits my feed and has any comments takes up stupid amounts of space so it's hard to scan through. Twitter is just light weight and simple, and in that way it's more effective. If you could have a 1 or 2 line summary for each item then it'd be great, but as it is it's cluttered and overpowering, and I only have 6 follows, I can't imagine what it's like with 100s - Mark Benson via twhirl

About time you showed up. Now I can remove your twitter's entry in my Imaginary Friend. Real handy feature to track non-adopters. - klaatu

I've explored every nook and cranny of Friendfeed now, grasped the interface and culture, and I am fairly certain that in its current incarnation it will catch on with only a very small percentage of Internet users. I have a fairly good track record in spotting major trends in Internet technology, and I don't think this is one. The main problem: way, way, way too much noise and redundancy, and not enough tools to whittle it down effectively. For most busy people around the world, a Drudge Report-style interface -- a few dozen important headlines packed on a single page -- is ideal. - Sean McBride

I like FF because you can have more conversations. I think the look/feel of FF needs some work though. Not enough easy ways to search and sort through. - Geoff Peterson

Jason Calacanis posted a message on Twitter

“classic: http://tinyurl.com/6sya7w”

July 4 at 8:59 pm - Link

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classic - maxim shevertalov via twhirl

Jason Calacanis posted a link

oh SNAP!!!! The Dark Knight First Five Minutes is out!!!

July 2 at 4:15 pm - via Bookmarklet - Link

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joker looks sick!!! - Jason Calacanis via Bookmarklet

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Oh man. So torn between watching it and waiting for the theater... Great find! - Eric

The way the vid ends makes me think it's not the *first* five minutes but maybe an intentionally leaked scene. Very "Point Break" with the masks and bank robbery motif. - C. K. Sample III

This just gets me more excited for the final release :¬) - CannonGod

So excited. I like this joker a lot. He reminds me of the Joker in The Dark Knight Returns, he wasn't just a super-villain, but a totally insane homicidal maniac. - Kilgore Trout

glad I watched it, now I am more excited for the movie... Good marketing on their part! - Mark Williamson via twhirl

Awesome. can't wait. Thanks for posting that. Good start to a film. - Dave

This is just as cool as the first time I saw it ... last year. :) - Keith McDuffee via twhirl

Macabre ... just as the Dark Knight should be. - Donna Mugavero

ooooo that's going to be fun - maxim shevertalov via twhirl

i don't think kids will appreciate this movie. :-( - AJ Batac

Thomas Hawk posted a message

“Just applied for an invitation to flickchart. Looks interesting. Netflix doesn't do a very good job of suggesting movies for me.”

June 5 at 2:02 pm - Link

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we just sent out the latest batch of invites, and launched new features, updates, and bug fixes -> http://snipr.com/2snxs - Flickchart

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Wouldn't it be great if Netflix let you take your ratings with you. Instead they're holding onto your data, as if that's all that keeps you there. Feh. - Dave Winer

try asking in the 'invites' friendfeed room for any beta invites. Normally they are really helpful - Chacha

yeah as soon as I quite Netflix I was super pissed all my movie ratings were there... it takes forever to rate all those movies. - Stefan Hayden

singed up for an invite as well... I'm such a betaholic - Alan Le

I truely love beta sites because they are the new stuff that not many people have seen, and you get to truly test them to their full potential (most betas are free), for awhile. Often you also get some extra benefits when it comes out full fledged - Chacha

Have you tried criticker (www.criticker.com) I've used them on and off for a bit now, they seem pretty good. Though I've never had much problems with Netflix's recommendations. - maxim shevertalov

I had never heard of Flickchart before, but I just signed up for the beta. This sounds pretty cool. - James Williams (willia4)

Flickchart is a great site because of its simplicity and clean design and the guys who run it nice - Marc Vermut via twhirl

Jason Calacanis posted a message on Twitter

“Filed under holy f@#$%#$ sh@#$%t -- Starbucks Close 600 Stores: http://tinyurl.com/5ua6b4”

July 1 at 3:44 pm - Link

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That's what they get for oversaturation - Jeff Quinton

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Wow, and I just swore off Starbucks last week... - Wilma Stoneflint

Official press release: http://www.starbucks.com/about... - Steven Buehler via twhirl

Perhaps a dead location in LA can be replaced with a Blue Bottle I hear so often about from Bay area folks. - Mark Krynsky

I guess the "we want a store every two blocks in U.S." strategy didn't pay off. Too bad we've all gotten used 2 burnt coffee - Kevin Hessel

Can we get Peet's in perhaps 1 out of 6 of these closed stores please? - AJ Kohn

i hope this doesn't hold up the opening of the fifth one by my house. - Christian Anderson

AJ, I think you're on to something. I bet a lot of smaller chains try and pick up these locations and maybe even equipment. - Delete Me

@Scott: Equipment! Yeah, some will cherry pick the real estate, others just an equipment grab. Anything but Starbucks, like Kevin said, they just burn the hell out of the beans. - AJ Kohn

To be fair, it's about time. Even the joke about having 5 starbucks' per block is geeting old. At least at the place I work at there is a huge blow back against them.... - maxim shevertalov via twhirl

Aye.. good riddance. maybe the takers will make good coffee and free up the wifi. - James

When I lived in S.F., there were 52 Starbucks within *2 miles* of my house. A yp.yahoo.com search shows there's still ~40. - Kevin Hessel

Does anyone else ever notice that when the news starts talking about ways to save some extra money the first thing they tell you to do is ditch the $5 cup of coffee every morning. I don't think that advice helped Starbucks any. - Tim Flint

I remember discussing the ramifications of a potential recession with my father last year, and I SO called Starbucks being heavily impacted. - Granteezy

Tim Hortons FTW! - Granteezy

Starbucks, the McDonalds of coffee.... Not a big loss to me. I prefer to visit local coffee houses, preferably ones that roast their own coffee on site. - Jeff P. Henderson

I heard that French SB are loosing a lot of money as well (people prefer go to traditional bistrot, more "warm" - Jean-François Amadei via twhirl

About time - Britney Mason

No fan of Starbucks, but their quest for ubiquity has enabled some smaller towns to attract more business. - Adam Garrett

Holy Moly! Oh well, I like Coffee Bean and Tea Leaves better anyway. - Winston Teo

Leo Laporte posted an entry on Netflix Movies At Home

Who Killed the Electric Car?

July 1 at 3:01 pm - Link

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This movie made me so angry that I couldn't have an EV-1. It even fit my commute when I drove a lot further to work. - John Flinchbaugh

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Better yet...who will succeed in reviving it? http://www.progressiveautoxpri... - Mark Krynsky

i'm addicted to documentaries - Justin

don't know who killed it but tesla is bringing it back:) - Grant

Geat film: http://www.louisgray.com/live/... - Louis Gray

awesome.. saw this on tv a little while back.. very interesting - Tim Hoeck

If you're addicted to documentaries and like getting mad, Netflix "The Corporation". Saw it a few years back and it had me steaming. >_< - thepete

That was a really good movie - maxim shevertalov via twhirl

Jason Calacanis is buying or now owns a Tessla. The guy from Mahalo - Harry Myhre

Added to the Blockbuster queue. - xero

I remember seeing an EV-1 in someones drive way. They drove it every day!! - Eric_T

Saw it, good documentary. What's even more interesting is that cars like the Tesla and Volt are on their way... - Andru Edwards

Leo, you owe it to yourself to talk to Bob Lutz from GM about this... http://chris.pirillo.com/?s=el... & http://chris.pirillo.com/2008/... specifically. - l0ckergn0me

I'm buying a Tesla Sedan just to beat Chris Pirillo. He always gets cool stuff before me. :-) - Robert Scoble

Growing up in Michigan, we saw a couple of these on the roads. Our neighbor who worked for GM had one. It was so quiet! - Betsy Weber

This was a great documentary and made me sad about how far back this set the development of the electric car in the US. The industry could have had a US contender, but now it's up to the Japanese to decide our fate. - Phil Glockner

I sort of have my eye towards http://greenvehicles.com/ - John Flinchbaugh

they need to re-elease this with a new title - "who THOUGHT they killed the electric car" :) - Simon

Great movie, and I'm still pissed I can't buy an EV-1. - Brandice

Great documentary, watched a few years ago. Almost shed a tear when they showed the footage of the last few cars being crushed. - Phil Glockner

Oh, please. The laws of physics and electrochem killed the electric car. The EV-1 died because its market niche was too small. An EV would do fine for 90% of my driving, but what am I supposed to do for the other 10%? Just say "I won't do that any more"? - Jamie Hanrahan

this movie makes me sooooo upset! - claudio rivera

Tesla just announced their new sedan will be made in SF and available in 2010 for $60,000. Can't wait to buy one! - Leo Laporte

At $60,000 for a sedan, I guess there is still money in radio. - Ryan Cates

i wouldn't mind an electric car.. damn Detroit. - Adam C.

CARB killed the electrical car. But hell, we can also say it was GM, they paid CARB off O_o - Michael Forian

In realaity, is was most likely the EV-1 that killed the electric car the same way the Edsel killed inovation in the auto industry. Once bitten, twice shy. - Robert Hafer via twhirl

http://www.theaircar.com x The Air Cars Compressed air is an energy vector that can be used, in a viable way, to transport both people and goods. The main goal of Air Car Factories is to develop and manufacture a vehicle driven by a compressed air engine with a level of performance that will respond to the actual needs of todays market. With this aim we have drawn up a full agenda and an R&D plan of action for production start up. - alexandrek

Sorry but a compressed air tank has even less energy density than a lead-acid battery. See the "energy density comparisons" table at www.tinaja.com/glib/energfun.pdf - Jamie Hanrahan

Tesla is the way to go. The Menlo Park showroom is opening in late July. - Darrell Holmquist

Just got this one too. I was prompted to move it to the top of my queue by the Tesla announcement the other day. - Martin Gordon

Great movie, I can't believe they killed it the first time around, but GM almost killed it the second time around. Currently the Volt is supposed to launch in 2010