"Twine is the site where social bookmarking meets social networking, and it’s recently been hot on the heels of Delicious in terms of traffic."
- Kol Tregaskes
"Moving full steam ahead, the site has just launched a redesign to their home page, Google Reader-like functionality for processing items in Twines (groups of feeds for example), and a number of new features to make the experience more intuitive to new users. Twine is also ready to start cashing in on user behavior, adding social product ads that will evolve to become semantic in nature."
- Kol Tregaskes
I used to get on twine first thing in the morning and check out what new cool things it would show me. Now FF has completely taken over.
- Jim:Rockin the Helvetica
I use Twine to find stuff to put on FF. ;-)
- Kol Tregaskes
Obviously though, one thing they need to add is FriendFeed integration or at least FF share-to options.
- Kol Tregaskes
Just found Twine a couple weeks ago. Great potential for aggregating interests & conversations with really fascinating people. Much like FriendFeed :-)
- Alex Williams
Alex, I think it's brilliant, find lots of interesting stuff there.
- Kol Tregaskes
Maybe it's time to dust off my Twine account
- Kevin D. White
Kevin, worth another look I'd say. :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
Ok, let's try also twine (in all similar challenges ever Google reader won.. )
- Lucio Riccardi
And the new & improved interface is grand. Very straight-forward.
- Alex Williams
I used Twine for some weeks but left it because I didn't found value in it to overcome the interface misses. Now with this redesign I'll give it another try.
- Luis Enrique León
I joined Twine, and I have no idea what to do with it.
- Peter
Peter, I'd searched for "twines" of your interest and follow them. What I do is rely on the digest of my selected favourite twines and go through that each day. I find some interesting articles this way not shared elsewhere. I've not really go into using the site but I have RSS feeds for most things now. :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
That's the sort of GUI that FriendFeed should have.
- Keith Bennett
I agree with the GUI of twine being better than FF, but is it more useful? Interactivity is a big plus which FF has atm, and Twine has a HUGE barrier of entry! Heck I don't even know how to use Twine atm but im trying. Just imagine for those peeps who are not as computer savvy as I am (well I'm not much better either!).
- RJ Rea Culli Gan
i've been checking out twine here and there and i'm really starting to like it. i've used ff in a quasi-social bookmarking manner over the last few months and will still continue to post here primarily, but the bookmarking aspect on twine seems excellent though i could use more media-rich options (the ability to use more than a single images, as i'm heavily into design, visualization, art, etc)
- Cee Bee
as you know, i really like twine- i'm seeing more fragmentation though, would like to see many of these 'twines' consolidated into one. why am i subscribing to three 'mind/ brain' twines? too many dupes. don't know how to fix this - any suggestions?
- nicefishfilms
I've added all these groups onto a separate 'Twine' friend list. The bonus you get with doing that over using Twine is duplicates are detected, in theory. :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
Hi. Does your media injection enables us to "import our twine interest feeds" into FF? It doesn't look that way, and, I was looking for some sort of "integration" between the two services EDIT :Ok, I got it. You "just" have to 1. create a group in FF name as closely as possible as the twine, mentionning "Twine" in the name for easier search. 2.grap the rss url of the twine 3."Import a...
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- Zackatoustra
i have no idea what a "twine interest feed" is, but feed-buster should work on any rss/atom feed. if you can explain your problem a bit more, i can try to help you out in finding a solution for the problem.
- Ivan Zuzak
I'd *love* to have my interest feed imported but it's a generic RSS and you can import it anywhere! :-( This is why I've picked out my favourites and added them separately, then put all the Twine groups into one list.
- Kol Tregaskes
How to import Twine's feeds into FriendFeed in 4 steps : You "just" have to 1. create a group in FF name as closely as possible as the twine, mentionning "Twine" in the name for easier search. 2.grap the rss url of the twine 3."Import a blog" and paste the twine's url. Optionnal steps : Grap the picture and the description from the twine and past...
I've created a couple of "TwineFed groups" : Twine Food For Thoughts, Twine Hope, Twine Personal Tools and Twine Social Learning Net. The process of building them is quite cumbersome, so I guess we'll have to ask Nova to help us with that. At least, if he wants Twine and FriendFeed to be friendly-connected services.
"It turns out that people are following more than just their friends online. Look at the comScore chart above comparing unique visitors in the U.S. to FriendFeed versus Twine. Yeah, I was shocked to see that Twine has more than three times as many unique monthly visitors as FreindFeed (714,000 vs. 188,000). On a worldwide basis, comScore shows FriendFeed still slightly ahead of Twine. ComScore doesn’t always do a great job with small sites, so I checked Compete, which shows Twine with 2.25 million monthly visitors in April versus 998,000 for FriendFeed (see embed below). Different numbers, same story."
- Kol Tregaskes
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