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Discovery, absolutely - Soulhuntre from twhirl

It's a 50/50 split for me. - Mike Fruchter

I want the signal in a feed, and I want the discovery in a field. Does that make sense? - Phil G

@Adam - thanks. Sounds like a short order cook barking at you. - Hutch Carpenter

I'm probably more on the signalist side than I think, but I've been slowly migrating toward the discoverer camp as I get used to FriendFeed. I'm becoming more open to subscribing to people than I was before. - Hutch Carpenter

@J. Phil - maybe a little more context for "discovery in a field"? - Hutch Carpenter

I posted this on Hutch's blog: I'm a discoverer according to Hutch's table, but I don't necessarily want to wade thru tons of stuff to discover, at least not all the time. It would be nice to have a discovery filter, though I don't know how that would work. I like the new "best of" filters. But I also think we have to be careful to not equate relevance with popularity (if that's how the... more... - Tom Landini

@Tom - you bring up an interesting point. People with large subscriber bases will exercise a large amount of control over each person's "best of" listing. There's a good argument to be made that people with large followings know what they're doing, and thus are good sources for determining "best of". But good content that misses the attention of those with large followings may suffer. - Hutch Carpenter

How bout have both, Hutch? Setup 2 FF accts. One where you are very narrow with your subscriptions limited only to feeds you are interested in, and also use it for primary communications, and then set up another where you just add like 1000+ of random interesting, or just whatever so that you can poll the spectrum of friends of the feed while still remaining more narrow than the "everyone" tab so you can actually catch content - - Anthony

Sorry Hutch. If I compare it to radio it suddenly becomes a very simple analogy: Signal is signal, and discovery is the entire AM/FM range of wavelengths.. all I need is a tool to find what I like, and the signal comes through. - Phil G

just reposted Hutch's chart in this post - Why Online Noise is Good For You http://www.readwriteweb.com/archive... thanks for the useful visual Hutch! - Marshall Kirkpatrick

No no no lads and lasses! This is far too civilised a discussion for a bitchmeme. - Matt Harwood from fftogo

@Anthony - that's an interesting idea. I find myself not using the "best of" features a whole lot yet. But maybe setting up something with people that fall outside my current subscriptions would be interesting. I know Colin Walker was contemplating something like this as well. - Hutch Carpenter

@Hutch. Thanks. I had the idea one day, and found out FF makes it really easy to do that if you start subscribing to people at once when FF offers you the option at setup. I started just hitting subscribe on all the people with the most services added, then just started going for everyone that posts in English, lol. Also a good idea to set up a daily poller, or discussion generator account that people can watch for the best of one type of news...even tho FF offers you that option now... - Anthony

@Marshall - great post (and not just because my chart's in there). "Why Online "Noise" is Good For You" really does a good job outlining the "why" and joy of discovery. And you're speaking Robert Scoble's language! - Hutch Carpenter

@Matt - LOL! Someone's got to thrown down the absolute POV in here. - Hutch Carpenter

@J. Phil I like your radio analogy; we need tools to find what we like and it'll come to us. And we all want that. But it's the stuff I might not know I like until I'm exposed to it that I don't want to miss. - Tom Landini

del.icio.us recomends that I tag the blog post 'noise' - Ashton

If I hang out with the same folks all the time don't I just learn the same things over and over. I love friend of a friend - just wish it were easier to track bios - MaryAnn Chick Whiteside

@Ashton - Ha! Really? Well, the recommendations come from whoever previously bookmarked it. Guess that's the category for it. - Hutch Carpenter

Hutch: re your Definition of Noise, I think that in addition to Signal, Discovery, and Noise you should also consider another factor - Too Much Signal. I think this could easily have the same effect on the user as Noise, but in this situation it's harder for a user to (a) realize this is happening, and (b) feel the need to do something about it in order to allow for more Discovery or exposure to other Signals of interest. - Aviv

@Aviv - that's a really good thought. When do you need to stand up and get away from the signal? Marshall Kirkpatrick's post http://www.readwriteweb.com/archive... has some perspective along those lines. - Hutch Carpenter

Hutch: great points in your post - I like the "Discovery" idea. Reminds me of the pie wedges: Things I know; Things I don't know; Things I don't know that I don't know. It's what bothers me about twitter -- so hard to catch the signal due to the noise. - Arthur Germain

Very cool Melanie. I'd be interested in other categories you (and your students) would come up with. - Hutch Carpenter

someone on friendfeed said this is false - edythe

This has been confirmed by a bunch of folks talking to both AT&T and Apple reps to be false. No change in activation. - Mark Trapp

I'm with Mark. There are statements that this is false. Best bet is to not spread it until it's confirmed - Bwana ☠

Hopefully this is false. This would be a bad move in my opinion - John Daly

The Apple Store site says "will be available in AT&T stores and Apple Stores" but nothing about the online store. - Cyndy

The Apple site also says the 2 year contract agreement is sold separately. Best to wait for confirmation from Apple/AT&T - Bwana ☠

If it is false, then they should contact Gizmodo and ask them to update their blog post. Right now all it is doing is generating negative PR for Apple & AT&T. - Scott Beale

Also why no links for these mysterious statements saying that this is false? That would help clear things up pretty quickly. - Scott Beale

Does Apple/AT&T read Gizmodo? :) I don't...for a reason - Bwana ☠

I'm seeing confirmation (that the new iPhone requires in-store activation) on a lot of different news sources other than Gizmodo. The Apple Store website says "iPhone will be available in 8GB (black) and 16GB (black or white) models at Apple Retail Stores and AT&T Stores," and does not allow you to purchase online, which supports (but doesn't confirm it). - Bill Jennings

There are claims on both ends of the spectrum (Apple & AT&T rep hearsay). This is why I believe we should wait to hear it from the horse's mouth - Bwana ☠

I don't read gizmodo ether...for many reasons - Jay Martin

Ask and ye shall receive: "Mark Siegel of AT&T public relations has now officially confirmed that AT&T will not offer GoPhone plans for the 3G iPhone and that activation will take place in-store only." http://www.tuaw.com/2008... - Bwana ☠

Looks like the CS reps at the call centers aren't all properly educated on the new change. What a shame. - Mark Trapp

I like the home activation method much better. - Jay Martin

Can of worms? Who do you think is to blame for elimination of home activation? :) - Bwana ☠

Everyone who bought version one, unlocked it, and used it on another carrier? This way you are going to pay AT&T a LOT of money to do that. - Cyndy

Funny that, people deliberately screwed over the old business model and thus forced the companies involved to react. Not that any of the "hackers" involved with accept responsability, of course. - Soulhuntre from twhirl

Bottom line is a percentage of people are going to use iPhones on whatever network they want. In-store activation is formality at this point. It's the cost of business and the effort of many will be overcome by the action of few. They should look at the ROI model again and offer a "free and clear" unit for more $$. - Jay Martin

@Soulhuntre since when is holding your customers' own hardware to ransom considered a business model? - Glenn Slaven

that's ass. one of the best things about my experience first time around was being able to circumvent that. - Blackeyed P

@Leslie And they haven't seen my kids in action, much less 3 hours into a wait at the Apple Store to spend my husband's gift card already earmarked for such a purchase. Four children, people. Ages 2.5 to 8. And they will probably be hungry. - Cyndy

I've watched the Matrix too many times. I'm keeping my hardline. :) - Bwana ☠

That really sucks. - Jonathan Sterling

How will this process work in other countries that the new iPhone will be available in? Same activation process? - Paul Jacobson

Seems like a big step backwards, usability-wise. - jakebf

I can't believe I'm saying this but, if this is all true, I may reconsider the iPhone. One of the draws for me was the iPhone-specific plan with AT&T. If that makes my monthly bill even higher and if I can't use a wireless headset with it... good god, will I have to consider the HTC Touch? - Carla Thompson

anybody know the requirement for registration? I have the feeling they want to get a hold on the numbers for international visitors buying it? - Nicole Simon

not sure though what's the sense in obscuring these URLs in the first place. :) - Ihar Mahaniok

I'm looking at you, Ben Golub! :-) - Louis Gray

I have thought the same things as Ihar. Why obscure shared item URLs? Aren't they meant to be shared? google.com/reader/shared/username, anybody? - Voyagerfan5761

So if it was Cyndy who wrote it, why haven't the Profy authors claimed a multi-author blog and correctly shown that it was Cyndy who posted it, eh? Svetlana, must you always try to grab Cyndy's glory? - Louis Gray

@Louis - I'm not actually trying to steal the glory here - I honestly have not seen it possible to claim a multi-author blog here the way it can be done on MyBlogLog, for example. Though of course I'd prefer to do just that - Svetlana Gladkova from twhirl

Go to "Account", click "edit/add" next to services, click on the RSS icon for www.profy.com, check the box for multiple authors, and then add your name. (And yes, I know you weren't trying to steal Cyndy's glory...) - Louis Gray

@Louis - Thanks for the explanation, I'll see if it's really as simple as it sounds right now :) - Svetlana Gladkova from twhirl

Yes, it was really that simple! How could I not notice it when I first added the Profy feed here. Thanks a lot for pointing that out to me! - Svetlana Gladkova

It's funny to see Amazon mentioned. I remember when everyone was laughing at them as being "unsustainable", and saying that they would be out of business as soon as B&N started a website. I also remember when Google was a "obscure niche player in an already mature market". - Paul Buchheit

Paul, very true, for some reason people tend to think that new companies in already established markets with strong players have no chances to survive - and only months or years later we don't even remember who originally were the strong players. - Svetlana Gladkova from twhirl

People (including managements of dominant companies) consistently underestimate how successful new players with useful solutions will be because they consistently fail to understand how much current solutions still suck. - Ranjit Mathoda

Yes, that's probably the key to continuous success - actually listening to what your customers want to be improved. And I guess many startups do this much better than established companies - Svetlana Gladkova from twhirl

*insert handshake action here* Thanks everyone, good job guys. - Andrew Dobrow

Helping along by Twiiter outages too, nice of them to participate ;) - jjprojects

So, it's over? No more twit-out fun? Let's reschedule this next week too. - Rishabh Mishra (p248)

Awesome job there Andrew, Bwana and Shey - we're a great team!! Shey was the brain child, Bwana the visionary and Andrew the organizer! and all I did was supply the Twit-Out name. You guys did WAY more work than I did! - Susan Beebe

Not that fast, possible :-D We've got 3 hours left, me and Bwana are going around 26 hours since we started at 10:30ish yesterday. - Andrew Dobrow

now do you actually think it was effective to show the issue with twitter? Will people stay away from twitter even after today? I believe in most cases both answers would be no. - Philip Evans from twhirl

I really enjoyed the collaboration and am very impressed with the results of our efforst! WOW!!!! neat, huh?! - Susan Beebe

yee, job awesomely done, keep up the good work feeple - Dobromir Hadzhiev

totally agree. kudos to shey, bwana, andrew, susan, et all. i'm just mad i was too busy to actively participate till just now. - Brian Daniel Eisenberg

I've read a lotta cool things about Twitter and FriendFeed. One thing I noticed though, was as soon as there was no Twitter to complain about, there were some complaints about what was wrong with FriendFeed. I don't know, just an observation. - Sean Hanna

Also wondering about FriendFeed's capacity. What if everyone from Twitter came here tomorrow. Would we see massive outages? Dunno' - swhitley

Add that to one of the things I learned -- that's powerful. It was a very controversial topic tho, that helped it spread. - Shey, Jamaican of FF

@sean people like to complain, you stop them from complaining about one thing they will find something new. - Philip Evans from twhirl

Just wanted to say that looking at this, we are viewing it through a very specific filter. Those that are likely heavy users and early adopters. What % of folks would we be of Twitter users if we all stopped using Twitter period. - Todd Jordan

@swhitley That's a good question and remains to be seen. So far when Twitter goes down and FF activity explodes, it's been flawless. - Shey, Jamaican of FF

if you really want to sabotage twitter best way is to willingly give me the rights to your rss with others and create a giant consentual panopticons. that would screw the server architecture and if everyone would agree to cooperate there wouldn't be a thing @Jack could do. now that would be a REAL twit out. for starters we convince the fake Colbert to cooperate with all those followers - Noah David Simon

Looks like something cool coming soon. I can't login. - Robert Scoble

Aviv posted the link earlier this evening. It's apparently a different reading interface for Friendfeed with more filters and such built in. But I don't think it's quite ready yet. - Morton Fox

FF on steroids - Aviv

I can't log in yet either. Aviv, is it in lockdown right now? - Clay Newton

It is.. but not for long ;) - Aviv

For those of you not sure what FFreader is, here's what Aviv wrote earlier, I tracked it down "For those not sure what FFReader will be, here is what Aviv said earlier "http://ffreader.com might be just what you're looking for. Many have emailed me saying they either don't like to manage Greasemonkey scripts or simply don't use Firefox.. so I've been working on a FF wrapper with all the goodies and filters built in. Hope to have it ready by the end of the month. Lemme know if you'd like to test it :)" - Andrew Dobrow

And oh, I'm so in for the testing when it happens. - Andrew Dobrow

I would try FFreader too when it is ready. - Morton Fox

SO in for testing. I was only looking at all the FF goodies this morning and thinking "what if I'm the uncool kid who doesn't use firefox??". Awesome. Where do I sign up? - Brad McCrorey

I don't use Firefox either. In theory, it is possible to hack some Firefox extensions into K-Meleon but that could get messy. - Morton Fox

Btw - for those on Safari - most scripts should work on a Fluid FF app (fluidapp.com), which has Greasemonkey support - Aviv

@aviv - Awesome! Hadn't heard of it.. I'll definitely have a look. - Brad McCrorey

Count me in for testing! - Capn' One Eye - adrift

and me - viki saigal

Hey Aviv, I'd like to be in the testing bunch too, please!! :) - Lindsay is in 20-ten

Andrew...send me an invite too... I am a complete invite junkie, you know. - Susan Beebe

I would definitely be down for testing...I have some ideas for tweaks to the FF interface and filtering is a high priority for me. - Tyler Hannan

I've seen that, looking forward to it, and yes I'm available for testing :-) - Dobromir Hadzhiev

"Full blogging suite" really tells smthng valuable. Thanks for post! ; ) - Erhan

Could happen even before 2018... that's 10 years from now... think what was popular in 1998... - lilbyrdie

LOL! that's great! - Lindsay is in 20-ten

LOL!!! - Bwana ☠

It may outlast Twitter if it goes for 10 years! - Morton Fox

In 2018, FriendFeed will be on an island in Second Life! - Tad

Full blogging suite? Someone's listening ;) - Colin Walker

I'm borrowing a lot of code from my Vimscript Twitter client and then dropping in friendfeed.com/api/share and seeing if it works. At least, that's the plan. - Morton Fox

I want to get it to the point where Vim can post messages and images. I can already post links from K-Meleon so I can leave that for later. - Morton Fox

Okay, posting simple messages from the FFeedVim plugin works already! See samples here: http://friendfeed.com/mftest but don't subscribe to mftest because it'll be only test messages and junk. - Morton Fox

that's easy, with one click import all my friends on twitter, tumblr, and mybloglog - wilg

I'd like to see a mobile interface as well as email/sms options. Jabber/XMPP are also some things I'd like. - Bwana ☠

I'd like FriendFeed to convince my Twitter friends to start using FriendFeed. - Nathaniel Payne

lol, good one Nathaniel - Bwana ☠

I would love a mobile interface that's optimized for Verizon phones. As far as I know, no one has done that yet. - Dana Franks from twhirl

manage comments with Disqus. - Karl Sackett

I just created an account, and I think I like it. Still feeling my way around, though. I'll have to check it out on my BlackBerry after I get home. - ha3rvey (wants confit)

Welcome ha3rvey - Bwana ☠

I'd love to see threaded comments. - Andy Kaufman

I think I'd like to "like" individual comments (sub-comments?) - ha3rvey (wants confit)

Starting some love for ff. Still need an IM bot so that ff can message you updates. This is probably one of the best things I like about twitter. - Shaf

I'm new to friendfeed. I'm beginning to understand how it works thanks to twhirl., but I think it's a little bit messy to use it via web. Maybe threaded comments could help. - Markingegno - Donato from twhirl

Can you make it more like twitter? kidding. - Trevor Lee

Heh, seriously Trevor, that's what a lot of the feedback looks like - Bwana ☠

Trevor: Only if you don't mean make FF go down more often. :) - Morton Fox

Integrate with Flickr, ie one click add and comments from FF. - Russellreno

Great feedback guys, keep it up. The FriendFeed team does read the comments on such topics - Bwana ☠

@MortonFox - same here! we need FF to work with Opera mini browser... ;-( - Susan Beebe

oh and more visual /typographical means to help filter all the different feeds - wilg

I still have trouble following conversations, maybe its just me. I feel like im missing out. Be nice if comments with most comments were at top or such. My little brain needs guidance.. - Dave Peck

@BritneyMason - Hi! NEW comments appear at the bottom of the thread. ;-) - Susan Beebe

Britney, use the Hide feature. You can hide everything that doesn't have comments or likes. - Bwana ☠

twhirl puts new comments at the top - nesman89 from twhirl

threaded comments and service filters on the right side of the screen. I don't like to type service:googlereader so often. ;) - Alejandro

@Susan Beebe @Morton Fox FF works fine for me on Opera Mini 4.1, what gets broken for you? thx - Nuno

an s60 app, location support, a better inbox - kosmar

and a count of followers. fame is everything. - kosmar

@kosmar I'd rather not turn it into the popularity contest that is Twitter follow snobbery. - Shey, Jamaican of FF

Kosmar, you can see how many followers you have here: http://friendfeed.com/setting... - Thomas Hawk

friendfeed-statistics - who is #1 friendfeeder ;-) - Benedikt Koehler

a verb. twittering sounds good. feeding friends does not. - Benedikt Koehler

thx @thomashawk - kosmar

filters /Pipes and Search. If FF has a tab where I can create my own pipes across 'friends' and then display results of personalization into a separate tab, then its becomes one of the most powerful vehicles on the internet for content management and sharing. Secondly, an 'alert; tab for terms also would be great - I make and break alerts using google,but this can be implemented on FF (I think). BTW FF can have openid - - Peter Dawson

I don't know about you, but twit out or not... my twitter bookmarks are moving out of the way for friendfeed bookmarks. that says something more then anything - Noah David Simon

@benedikt How about eff effing. - Vince DeGeorge

@nuno In Opera Mini, after I enter my username and password at the Friendfeed sign in form, it just brings me back to the sign in form. Is there a setting somewhere that I have to change to make this work? - Morton Fox

what about a short sentence to describe my profile? - Benedikt Koehler

i think it would also be more helpful if it reflected the people who's content i am liking/commenting on the most - Jeremy Toeman

Or the ability to ignore/delete/hide some recommended people, as Facebook now has. I am guessing that most people have the same recommended people on their list because they follow people like Scoble and a few other top users who have similar contacts, it seems to recommend people that more than one of your contacts has. - cmiper

yes, Jeremy, I agree that it would be nice if it based its recs on the people you're having the most interaction with. - edythe

Haha, yes! Welcome :) - Shey, Jamaican of FF

Jeremiah you were always here for us! :D But here is not an "another" place only : ) - Erhan

What took you so long ;) - Sally Church

FriendFeed is *the* place conversations are happening. The good news is that it can incorporate a lot of the previous places you've been going. - Thomas Hawk

Heheh. Got another one. - Robert Scoble

It was only a matter of time :) Welcome! - Devlin Dunsmore from twhirl

Welcome aboard! - Morton Fox

It's really scary to see the Friendfeed mob take yet another prisoner. People, get a life. It's just a tool, real life is happening around us while we are all watching our screens - Alexander van Elsas

@Alexander - resistance is futile... - Hutch Carpenter

More the THE place for conversations ;) - Akshay Dodeja

I remember seeing an episode where Captain Picard resisted and saved the day. I love that one ;-) I'll use Friendfeed as a tool, nothing more, nothing less. I like it, but I like a lot of tools. I use GMail all the time too, don't discuss that every day either. And don't get me started on Firefox, the best open source tool have ever used ;-) - Alexander van Elsas

@Alex I guess we could say the same for any Twitterer or Blogger for that matter - Shey, Jamaican of FF

Late adopter. What kind of Web Strategy is that? :-) - Louis Gray

@Alexander I shall change my name to Jean-Luc in that case. Make it so! - Cyndy

I never 'looked' for conversations before so I'm happy with FriendFeed as my only source of conversations. - Capn' One Eye - adrift

What is everyone using to view friendfeed? Web, Twhirl, rss? - Doug Brooks

@Doug Create a new post for this : ) - Erhan

Looks good! - Barbara K. Baker

Excellent read. - Mathew A. Koeneker

Thanks! - Mitch Wagner

Of course I'm still following you on Twitter, Mitch :-) - Marcie Lascher

I made the switch. . .it is spectacular. - Tyler Hannan

Here you are sir... http://tinyurl.com/6yeruz - Eric Berlin

"Game over"- enough said - Anthony Farrior from twhirl

why would i carry a klugey device just to read books when i can do it on my good looking phone? - Morgan from twhirl

I think the Apple device would have to be bigger then the current iPhone/Touch...much like the mockup in the blogpost...but I also think it would be game/set/match to Apple. - Chris Rossini

Delivery of books through ITunes...peachy - Kamath (नमः) from twhirl

Thanks for pointing my way, Louis. You've factor'd up my web traffic with your "like" designation. - Rex Hammock

@Jason..good point...and after thinking about it, I doubt Apple will make a larger device. I'm sure many people, myself included, will want their phone, music, photos, web (and ebooks) on one *small* device. - Chris Rossini

I want a mobipocket (Kindle's native format) reader for the iPhone, plus Kindle syncing through iTunes (including 'last read' point) Done right, I could switch between Kindle at home and iPhone on the go, and never lose my place... - Chuck Lawson

Twitter: The Musical - Andrew Dobrow

Twitter the Musical would be silent with curtains down for periods of time. :) - Morton Fox

Two days after Act One, Scene Seven went dark, the theater would distribute a sheet with the one sentence statement "We had problems with Act One, Scene Seven a few days ago." - Ontario Emperor

And the theater program would say "Something is technically wrong" - Morton Fox

@morton - HAHAHAHAHA. You beat me to the punch. Actually.. Shouldn't that be the name of the show?? - Brad McCrorey

@MortonFox - awesome! love your name for the theater program!! LOL - Susan Beebe

Oh and then in the middle of the program the power would go out... and mass exodus to the bigger theater down the street... - Susan Beebe

Agreed Bwana, as a recent Netvibes convert, gReader has shown me the way. I can go through feeds much more efficiently than I ever imagined. - Vince DeGeorge

Google Reader is one I moved to after a long struggle with othere contenders. I have not been drawn away, and I can move through the collection of feeds quite efficiently. - Lyndon Washington from twhirl

Google reader ... specially with new notes capability - John Fleming from twhirl

Two words, my friends: j k - Tom Landini

GR FTW! - Shey, Jamaican of FF

Google reader! Tried netvibes today, looks nice, but in comparison it's useless. - Rich from twhirl

Anyone remember the original version of Google Reader? It was awful! Glad they went back to the drawing board and created such a beautiful tool that we obviously have grown to depend upon. - Nathaniel Payne

Oh man I do Nathaniel!!! I hated it with a passion. It was SO wrong on SO many levels. I ran back Feedlounge with the quickness. Ever since the new version, I haven't looked back. - Bwana ☠

you could write about it - just like everyone else - Aspi from twhirl

Google Reader FTW. - Tanath

This was not an innovative post. Not impressed. - Louis Gray

GR hands down, enough said. - Mike Fruchter

I think it's a good discussion too. Needs to be put out there. - Bwana ☠

Dear Twitter, fix your s**t please. We're all lost and confused without you. - xxdesmus from twhirl

Twitter and Facebook are both down. You can almost hear the collective worldwide gasp :) - zsafwan 

Maybe Icahn needs to take them over and fix them. - Robert New

What can it be, this failover connection between Twitter and FF ? :P - Dani Radu

Twitter's been having serious troubles scaling with their user base... it's pretty bad to see a company with that kind of foresight. - Enrique Gutierrez from twhirl

Yeah, it's down. Again. I'm thinking of re-wording my 404 pages so they say "I blame Twitter" - Trevor Lee

http://istwitterdown.com/ says that Twitter is still working but as far as I can tell, it ain't. - http://andrew-long.name

It says yes to me. Is twitter down? yes. Which means it ain't up. - Bwana ☠

Yeah, it has that whole double negative thing going for it. - Andrew Dobrow

wouldn't that be a double entendre? - nesman89 from twhirl

Well whatever it is, it's a double. - Andrew Dobrow

Did anything big even happen today to cause this outage? - Devlin Dunsmore

Okay, now it says "Yes" and the double-negative thing is a negative thing, doubly. - http://andrew-long.name

it must have been that 141 charachter message i wrote - nesman89 from twhirl

Hey look we can still twitter it's called FriendFeed :-) - JP Dubois

And....IT'S UP! - Devlin Dunsmore

Here's some folks ideas for while Twitter is down - http://www.toddrjordan.com/thebroa... - Todd Jordan

It is up right now, but mighty annoying. - Francine Hardaway from Alert Thingy

time to go home - nesman89 from twhirl

Twitter needs one, so when it's down we can all go see if we can crash Facebook's servers by Twittering within FB. - Jack (a.k.a. Jeber)

Actually there is a Twitter group http://www.facebook.com/group... - Alex Sauceda from twhirl

If you've written about FriendFeed on your blog, post it on Facebook. http://www.facebook.com/topic... - Louis Gray

Isn't it odd to discuss FF away from FF? I feel like the community is already here, why try to replicate it on another service. Just click the "everyone" tab and dive in! - Carter Rabasa

i hate the way @replies work.. its a pita to figure out what the reply is about.. assuming you DO want to know. What is wrong with attaching the @reply to the original message, so you see them in the order the occurred, with the msg they were about? Isn't that how forums work and have worked for some time? If it ain't broke, don't mess with it. - Tim Hoeck

Well, the @ link is approximate. Oft times, it points back to the wrong thing. - Jauder Ho

Agree -- it's more confusing than helpful in my mind. - Charles Barthold

it'd be nice for less ad hoc method to arise. @ replying to multiple people is kind of disfunctional, for example. - felix

LOVE the way @replies work. it is finely tuned to show me EXACTLY what I want to see... conversations within my Twitter social graph. LEAVE IT THE WAY IT IS but explain it better... - Elliott Ng

@ works fine for me -- just wish Twitter web would pick up @s anywhere in the tweet - Shey, Jamaican of FF

Kevin Donahue is on FriendFeed. I plan to read through his feed when I get a chance. http://friendfeed.com/kevindo... - Ontario Emperor

Wow, what a moving and powerful account. - Mike Doeff

As one who lives daily with undiagnosed chest pains, Lipitor, nitroglycerin patches and daily dose aspirin I can relate to this honest and fantastic post. thanks OE for sharing it and my thoughts go out to Kevin and Merrin. - Steven Hodson

Thanks, yall. I've been moved by your outreach, but also of the emails saying that you/your wives/husbands will be getting checked. Yall, hug your peeps and take care of yourselves. - Kevin Donahue

Thanks for sharing Kevin. And thanks for the reminder of how important it is tell tell our loved ones that we love them. - Mike Reynolds