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Track SEO rankings and Sitelinks with Google Analytics II - http://yoast.com
If you love statistics, this is something you have to know.
- Umit Namli
One Speed Reading Trick That Does Work - http://www.dailyblogtips.com/one-spe...
I might as well give it a try. Got nothing to lose.
- Umit Namli
Facebook Pages to Automatically Publish to Twitter - http://www.readwriteweb.com/archive...
Freaking awesome. Good way to "connect" Facebook with Twitter
- Umit Namli
The Number One Google Killer: Google - http://blog.searchenginewatch.com/090820-...
I'm having the exact same problem (I think everyone is) and it is p*ssing me off.
- Umit Namli
Aaron Greenspan: Why I Sued Google (and Won) - http://www.huffingtonpost.com/aaron-g...
Funny story to read. Sometimes you just think: "What's going on with Google?"
- Umit Namli
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Optimizing Twitter Titles - Twitter / Name: Tweet Snippet ... - http://www.seoconsultants.com/twitter...
It are the little things you do that make the big difference in the long run. This certainly is 1 of those little things.
- Umit Namli
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We just launched a new backend system for FriendFeed that should make things a lot faster. Let us know if you see any problems or unusual changes in your feed. Thanks!
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even faster? :)
- directeur
Even faster :)
- Bret Taylor
is it like the backend of the new mac mini -- 80 USB ports?
- MG Siegler
You're crazy. I'm in the 3rd world with a 128kbits/s and it's the fastest site after google! :)
- directeur
Increasing the number of USB ports was vital to this upgrade :)
- Bret Taylor
Nice... you were doing what I was doing today... see you can make major upgrades WITHOUT down time. Nice Job FF!
- Brian Roy
Ok! Being behind a proxy makes my way somehow difficult but not that bad, I'll comment on that with stats if I see changes. Thanks Bret!
- ElijahBailey-Zu of FF <0,
Without a downtime, great! FF for president ;) Maybe you can give us an insight into Friendfeed's architecture?
- Waldemar Schott
I will write something up at some point in the near term. Maybe after it has been running for a couple weeks so we know it works like we think it will :)
- Bret Taylor
Hopefully this helps with the lag time that I'm seeing from Twitter. I like using FF as a Twitter client; it's been tough lately with tweets taking over a half hour to get here. Nonetheless, well-done, guys. :)
- Jared Smith
faster in what respect Bret?
- Zee.
Sweet bejeesus, you guys rock! I like new features without taking down the whole site. This is efficiency baby.
- Scott Jarkoff
Zee: loading your home feed, especially if you have many subscriptions, will be a lot faster. In general, viewing feeds with lots of people in them is much faster.
- Bret Taylor
Bret, what about the RSS machinery? Will it fetch more feeds more often?
- directeur
That is somewhat independent of this change, directeur. However, it should improve feed publishing a bit over the course of the next fews weeks as we completely decommission the old system - it will improve some aspects of our publishing throughput. However, most of the feed fetching improvements are coming as sites like BrightKite and Identi.ca adopt SUP (http://simpleupdateprotocol.go...)
- Bret Taylor
one of the reasons I use ff so much is that I can often open a new tab, load friend feed, and read a couple of entries in the time it takes for some other site to load; nice to see that speed remains a priority :-)
- Karl Rosaen
Thanks for the details Bret, I like the SUP concept and I actually use it on my Jazz blog and on SocialWhois too :)
- directeur
Bret great to hear:) Keep up the great work.
- Rob Cairns
Improved performance? Bret, it's like you're reading my mind.
- Nick Dingle
Fast is better than slow, after all :)
- Joel Webber
Bret - good stuff. Any effect on the delayed Twitter feeds? Or is that out of FriendFeed's hands?
- Hutch Carpenter
Yeah, we need way more USB ports! LOL :)
- Susan Beebe
i have not found FF faster at China
- 阿石
It was quite fast to start off with, didn't notice any big differences. (Good nor bad)
- Umit Namli
2Bret: According to Alexa traffic graph, FF doubled its traffic in this week. Is it real and if its real what was the reason for that? If its not confidential, May be you can share with us :)
- Ömer Faruk Kurt
Ömer: Alexa is like a Ford T, it's a bit old. Don't know what to make of that service.
- Umit Namli
Damn, now it's _too_ fast.
- Robert Konigsberg
Bret: you guys rock. Friendfeed is so freaking fast.
- Davide D'Incau
Now FF is so fast I'm seeing posts from next friday.
- dario
FF is Fantastic.
- Russellreno
♥FF!
- Mattb4rd
I still seem to get the FF is unavailable screen quite a bit. I'd say about 50% of the time when trying to do searches, filter by service (especially FF itself) or look at best of day. Usually after getting the unavailable screen if I refresh one to five more time eventually the page loads. Annoying though.
- Thomas Hawk
What? was FF slow??
- Andru Edwards
Thomas: yah, your account has been a stress test for our system for a variety of reasons. We hope to make progress on the Best of Day and search ASAP, and I will let you know. Sorry for the trouble.
- Bret Taylor
w00t!
- mike fabio
from twhirl
Great work. I second the fact that it is only second to Google homepage in load-time
- Varun Mahajan
Very cool, kudos!
- Dave Martin
Woo-hoo!
- Joey Gibson
@Bret: is this update related to the stuff mentioned in your 'Schema-less MySQL' post?
- MikeAmundsen
Mike: yes, the new backend uses the approach described in the schema-less MySQL post
- Benjamin Golub
Woot! (Does that explain my excitement well?)
- Danielle Closs
Friendfeed gets fast, Twitter gets slow; all on the same day.
- Eric @ CSTechcast.com
really? dosen't feel any differences.
- Lira.H.C
iTunes U Proves Better than Going to Class - http://www.readwriteweb.com/archive...
Listening to a podcast when you want is, for me, a much better way to learn stuff than to attend lectures on pre-set times. Podcasts are just something different.
- Umit Namli
11% of American Adults Twitter - http://thepowerofinfluence.typ...
Dutch folks should be ashamed, we're way behind!
- Umit Namli
Deeper Facebook issue: it's a walled garden, & FB controls rules completely. Don't like that? Don't put your data there. That's why I don't.
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Imagine in 30 years when all these people are trying to get jobs that have an intense scrutiny of every joint ever held, every beer ever drunk. It'll all still be there!
- Don Schuetze
Trying to construct my utopia for a post-Facebook online social world, I think it has to be based on user-controlled domains (or portable subdomains), easy setup of widgets that use open protocols for communication and sharing, and granular privacy controls (with options like Picasa's authkey AND like Flickr's login requirement). But I also have to be able to put my own arbitrary HTML and JavaScript on it (take note, Google Sites team).
- LogEx
If in 30 years, they're going to have to live in a world where a joint and a beer make so much difference, as opposed to their ability or the person they've become, then we have far more serious issues to worry about.
- Robin Barooah
@Robin - I have a feeling my parents said those exact words back in 1979. And perhaps their parents before them in 1949.
- DeWitt Clinton
duh? except the TOS wasn't revealed till now, but you must be prophet
- sofarsoShawn
Totally agree with Matt here. I don't, either.
- Roberto Bonini
I think all web properties are walled gardens to some extent. Google could flip a switch tomorrow and all my email would be gone. My data needs to live in a container I own and I give permissions to services to access it. That's how I hope (and expect) web services to evolve.
- Hayes Haugen
Hayes, Gmail supports easy export of your email and has for years. You can access it via POP or IMAP. Just fire up Thunderbird and you'll have a local copy of your email. Facebook doesn't make it easy to get your stuff out of FB. That's the difference in my mind.
- Matt Cutts
I'am agree. YouTube remove my videos when i delete my account, true?
- Dario Salvelli
Yes, good discussion. I get value at facebook so ... I leave my data.
- Gerd Leonhard
Facebook invited youth to get in on this bandwagon.. and they know young people are stupid.
- Jason Francis
Chris White: If you (or anyone else for that matter) have something to hide or don't want "strangers" to know about, don't share it. Can it get any simpler than that?
- Umit Namli
@dewitt - I think they are just a true today as they were then. It's absurd how much human potential is lost worrying about stuff like this. Perhaps the way to overcome it is for enough people to share about how they really live that the discrimination becomes impossible.
- Robin Barooah
@Matt - agreed, that's what's cool about gmail. but to get my full vision in action I need to have my own imap server and use gmail as the value added interface to that. for full action would need multiple imap servers synced to each other so if one goes away i have a hot backup. Now how to make that work easily for the average consumer?
- Hayes Haugen
Hayes, Gmail provides the IMAP interface, so as long as you run Thunderbird, you can have a copy of all your Gmail. I think Outlook can download email via IMAP too? So I don't think the bar is too high for an average person to export their data.
- Matt Cutts
Facebook proves how lame it is – steals from Twitter and FriendFeed - http://www.inquisitr.com/17793...
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I liked it immediately for the title
- sofarsoShawn
Well it's true. ;-)
- Kol Tregaskes
What, 'like' is a proprietary feature now?..
- Andy Connell
I don't believe that is being said but you have to agree that fellow social site, FriendFeed, had a 'like' button and now Facebook has the same thing.
- Kol Tregaskes
Kol - the headline states that fb 'steals' from ff. For you to 'steal' something from me, I must first 'own' it. Fairly proprietary, I'd say. Wouldn't you?
- Andy Connell
I'm not talking about the headline I'm talking about the act; that FF had a like option and FB have now introduced the like option. If the article writer wants to call it 'stealing' then that's up to them, but let's state facts here. :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
It better to "steal" functions that work, than to create new functions and hope it "might" work. But than again, how low can you go? What will FB's next "new" function be?
- Umit Namli
This is why you're fat. - http://thisiswhyyourefat.com/
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Best. Site. EVER. Thanks, J <3
- Mona Nomura
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Hey, that's what I had for lunch.
- Steven Perez
LOL This website combines ALL of the gross food we've ever posted in one LOL
- Mona Nomura
from IM
wow, that is pretty gross
- Justin Yost
I felt my arteries harden. Not good.
- Martha
Or ... it's criticism of people for being overweight by sites like this that depresses them and causes them to seek comfort in delicious food like this, exacerbating the issue.
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THIS is my dream come true. I want to try every. single. thing on there
- Mona Nomura
from IM
This reminds me of that Kim Basinger movie "My Stepmother is an Alien." Yummmmmm
- Shevonne
Part of that sandwich looks good...I think I'm going to have a grilled cheese sandwich for lunch now.
- Tamara
Hey, I have my weight issues, god knows, but nothing on that site makes me remotely hungry. I think a better name for the site would have been, "This is why people have heart attacks." imo. :)
- ♥patricia♥
It says underneath: "where dreams become heart attacks." :)
- Mona Nomura
Spaghetti and meatball. on a stick. coated with corn dog stuff http://19.media.tumblr.com/i2dw5nf... OMG WANT
- Mona Nomura
رونوشت به مهران گرسنه:دی
- joupy
I'm not fat :'-(
- Alfredo
I want to try everything on there. EVERYTHING.
- Mona Nomura
from IM
Mona, heh. Well then, I guess they've covered all the bases, huh? :) Still, ick.
- ♥patricia♥
you and your super metabolism. *sobs*
- Alfredo
Deep Fried Cheese-Stuffed Ground Bacon Burger http://22.media.tumblr.com/i2dw5nf... <--omg GROSS LOL
- Mona Nomura
from IM
is there an opposite site to this. "thisiswhyyourenotfat"? for people who want to lose weight
- Alfredo
hahaha. or rice cakes
- Alfredo
or tofu LOL
- Mona Nomura
from IM
no oh god no not tofu
- Alfredo
Yuk... this is bad...
- Jorg Jansen
But where are the torta cubanas?
- Andrew C
It got over shadowed by the GINORMOUS burrito.
- Mona Nomura
Now we simply need to wrap the oreo stack in bacon!
- Ken Stewart | ChangeForge
Awesome site!
- Nicholas Kreidberg
My friend and I are going to try every single one of them LOL Too bad the hot dog covered in french fries is only available in Korea!
- Mona Nomura
Mona: Count me in as a test subject on that experiment!
- Nicholas Kreidberg
I am supposed to be on a diet, damnit!!
- Mona Nomura
I know for a fact that neither of these is the reason why *I'm* fat.
- ha3rvey (Ho)^3
LOVE this site... totally hilarious stuff .. getting queezy just looking at all that gross food!
- Susan Beebe
Yum. Where do I sign up?
- Louis Gray
right where the bacon slides off the clipboard :P
- Susan Beebe
Oh. Your. God. ^_^
- Ron Bailey
I just gained a pound just by looking at these pictures.
- Umit Namli
my sister linked this to me earlier today. It must be making the rounds for some reason.
- Zach Landes
My ViewSonic just became Smell-o-Vision!!!! Oh, the heartburn!!! =) i'm really craving Oreos though now. =(
- Beau Liening
speak for yourselves guys huh!
- sofarsoShawn
Corn dog pizza looks pretty good though. =)
- Beau Liening
Eating this yourself is one thing, but feeding your childeren with this shit is child abuse IMO.
- Rutger Blom
How many Oreos?
- Tyson Key
Oh that's nothin. I saw Paula Deen cooking an egg and bacon breakfast sandwich with glazed donuts instead of bread. Now that's American!
- sean808080
Well, can we be fat and happy eating all that? :-)
- Carol Linden
Sean - that's called the Luther Burger and it's featured on that site. The picture is from the Google cafeteria. WHY do I know this?
- Mona Nomura
Now I'm hungry.
- Tamar Weinberg
And now I want to go get a Garbage Plate for lunch (http://thisiswhyyourefat.com/post... and http://flickr.com/photos...)
- Benjamin Golub
@Ben, I feel sick looking at that.
- Jauder Ho
Although I did have a Bakesale Betty's Fried Chicken sandwich for lunch today and that was pretty tasty.
- Jauder Ho
"Deep Fried Peanut Butter-Covered Brownie Wrapped In Cookie Dough" want
- Christopher Galtenberg
This is bad: Google Uses Pay Per Post To Beat Yahoo In Japan http://www.techcrunch.com/2009... A clear signal commercial interests are winning...
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RT @EdWords Bad: Google Uses PayPerPost To Beat Yahoo In Japan http://cli.gs/eYpdS4 A clear signal commercial interests are winning
- Umit Namli
I thought Facebook was going 2 kill Twitter. Now Twitter is going 2 kill Google? I miss reading blogs for 1 day and da killer switches on me
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Killing always fascinates people
- Shevonne
Reddit is still trying to kill beedogs.
- Bruce Lewis
Wait. Twitter is trying to kill google?????
- Roberto Bonini
By reading all the blogs and all, you'd think it's a carnage out there. Meanwhile, everyone is just doing his thing, Being killed or not :)
- Umit Namli
Twitter will peck it to death.
- Phil Boiarski
Google's First Real Threat? Twitter. - beyond 140 for @lewmoorman - http://lewmoorman.com/googles...
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Someone who gets the value of the twitter feed data. I've been preaching ever since I ran my first search on summize (now search.twitter.com). The data in twitter is absolutely priceless.
- Eric Price
Twitter (and FriendFeed) search are perfect for when you're looking for specific data. With FriendFeed it's even better. If you know what you're doing, you can get a LOT more information than you could get with Google, thanks to FriendFeed's advanced search. And the Twitter and FriendFeed data keeps growing every day.
- Umit Namli
13 Things Your Hairstylist Won't Tell You - http://www.rd.com/living-...
I'm surprised it's only a list of 13 :)
- Umit Namli
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5 Steps to Getting Traffic to Your New Blog on a No-String Budget - http://www.bloggingtips.com/2009...
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Great, basic tips for all bloggers just starting out :-)
I'd say good tips for all bloggers, not just starters.
- Umit Namli
Man, does it feel good to get recognized! I wrote this, lol.
- Leo
I Had Dinner With a Stranger. Here's What Happened.. [PICS] - http://digg.com/arts_cu...
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What a great story
- Umit Namli
Has it been worth the wait? - http://community.joomla.org/blogs...
Glad to see Joomla! is heading the right way with this new feature. Keep on going Joomla! team!
- Umit Namli
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8 Late Predictions That Will Change the Web in 2009 - http://staynalive.com/article...
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That's a lot of "Twitter" in these predictions. My predictions? Twitter will explode, FriendFeed even more so.
- Umit Namli
The New York Times should buy Friendfeed, perhaps using Carlos Slim Helu as a sugar daddy. Then they might get on track towards a survivable and profitable future.
- Sean McBride
Umit -- I predict a massive migration from Twitter to Friendfeed, once Twitter users begin to figure it out and move up on the learning curve.
- Sean McBride
all i twitter is on FF, all on FF is not on Twitter, doesn that make Twitter just as valuable if not more ? or am i just bleary eyed and tired ?
- atul abraham
from twhirl
Umit, Twitter is a pretty big story this year. I think that's why a lot will happen around that story. However, I mentioned Facebook, iphone, FriendFeed,FastCompany, and RSS all as separate predictions. I think only 2 of those included Twitter.
- Jesse Stay
Starting Your First Blog? 29 Tips, Tutorials and Resources for New Bloggers - http://www.problogger.net/archive...
Great list of resources for people who want to start a new blog (Also for folks that already got one)
- Umit Namli
Today, 1/24/09, is the 8th anniversary of when I started at my current job. (1/24/01) Eight years in the Valley is an eternity... and so much has changed!
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Just makes me feel old.
- Louis Gray
keep going u doing great;)
- Aida.B
Weird. Today, 1/24/09, is the 9th anniversary of when I started at Google.
- Matt Cutts
So when do we head out to celebrate, Matt?
- Louis Gray
How about in one more year? :)
- Matt Cutts
Louis & Matt - Congrats to you both! wow 2 old timers! :) Seriously cool!!
- Susan Beebe
Matt - is that a record for Google? 9 years is amazing!! congrats! \o/
- Susan Beebe
Congratulations to both of you gentleman. 8 & 9 years in the Valley, that's quite something.
- Umit Namli
There's at least a double-digit number of people who have been at Google longer than me. :)
- Matt Cutts
congrats
- Mike
Congratulations! I've been a Virtual Assistant about that long - amazing how much has changed (and how much smarter I am!)
- Cheryl Allin
from twhirl
Louis/Matt, congrats to both of you! Cheers!
- AJ Batac
Ultimate list of Dofollow Social Bookmarking sites - http://www.dailyseoblog.com/2009...
Looking for backlinks to your site or blog? Try SOME of these.
- Umit Namli
Is Twitter Killing Blogs and Blogging? - http://www.markevanstech.com/2009...
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"Twitter +is+ blogging."
- Robert Scoble
in a nutshell, yes, its taking attention to satisfaction away from blogging, its an easier, low cost to entry way to your mind out on the web
- Dan Rockwell
from twhirl
Blogging is, and always has been, just cheap and easy content creation and management which is pretty different to Twitter. Twitter basically replaces the role of blogs for some of the things that people used to use blogs for when they first appeared - dashing off quick links, status updates, and so on. And disagreeing with Robert, i think it's worth thinking of the two things as separate - they'll play different roles in communications in the future.
- Ian Betteridge
Twitter is microblogging, Twitter enhances blogging and Twitter can be used separately from a blogging platform for many specific tasks, including blogging. Sure, they are separate, but they work together and reinforce each other.
- Chris Loft
I don't think this is a competition, it's quite hard to resume a blog post in a couple of twitter messages and, at the same time, be relevant ... especially when people following you are already following tens, hundreds, <number here> of people!
- Lucian Nicolescu
No, but Friendfeed is.
- Rutger Blom
Agree with Rutger. Friendfeed is more of a blog killer...
- Håkan Dahlström
No, not really: Can I write a 500 word post on FriendFeed? FF is a blog *comment* killer, but that's only part of the story with blogging.
- Ian Betteridge
from twhirl
Ian, it all depends what you want to achieve. If you want to create a discussion or debate I think you can bring it on Friendfeed directly instead of a blog with disqus. The author of the FF-post can if necessary post additional comments to further develop a statement. This is something you see Scoble doing more and more these days.
- Rutger Blom
Rutger, good point. As I mentioned, blogging is really "just" cheap, easy content creation/management. The discussion element is, to my mind secondary - not in the sense of being unimportant, but not really at the core of what defines it. And, of course, what you're describing is basically a freeform discussion forum :)
- Ian Betteridge
from twhirl
What Rutger said.
- Steven Perez
Ian, that's true. I agree with you that as things are now Friendfeed is a bigger threat to Disqus/Intense Debate than to blogging platforms, but I can see how that can change just by adding one or two more features to Friendfeed.
- Rutger Blom
Twitter is nothing more than IRC, sure a lot of people think it's microblogging but that's only because they use it five minutes a day. Blogging is more interesting than ever now. Friendfeed and the way it's used show how interesting blogging is at this moment. Show me a person that uses twitter as passionately and I may believe twitter is killing blogs.
- Richard A.
Yes: FriendFeed could evolve into a really interesting blogging platform, if that's the direction they want to take - or, of course, offer better integration to existing platforms.
- Ian Betteridge
from twhirl
No, it's helping. Link sharing is the de facto way to be a good community member. The 140 character field is a perfect teaser, and the link is perfect to extend the conversation. FriendFeed is a wonderful enhancement to this process as well.
- timedalkat
from twhirl
Why are we still having this discussion? Microblogging is here to stay. Twitter and Friendfeed *can* make you smarter bloggers. But so can any time you spend away from your own blog and focus on *others* and their work. Seriously.
- Barbara K. Baker
It is killing link blogs and "superficial" blog uses, so overall probably helping in terms of substance and quality.
- Randy Holloway
from twhirl
@randy, so it's keeping those that shouldn't blog too busy to post ;-)
- Richard A.
Both Twitter and FriendFeed are sources for information. If you know how to use them, it can enhance your blog. So I don't think Twitter nor FriendFeed are blog killers. I'd say it's the opposite.
- Umit Namli
I don't think so. Two very different media encouraging different types of interface. I think they are complimentary rather than antagonistic.
- Martha
For me FF did (Twitter not so much) -- I used blogging as a catharsis and found FF fufilled that need so I stopped blogging - http://friendfeed.com/e...
- Brian Sullivan
twitter enhances blogging it creates conversations , it stimulates ideas , people share knowledge
- johnpiercy
Umit: it's always worth remembering that media doesn't just serve as source of information, but also engagement through entertainment. People like commenting, because it entertains.
- Ian Betteridge
from twhirl
True Ian.Guess it all depends on how you use Twitter and FriendFeed. But if you'd ask me "Is Twitter killing blogs and blogging", my answer would be "No".
- Umit Namli
Robert - Twitter is a Micro Blog and it gets people talking. This is good for society. I don't believe Twitter hurts blogging - it just enhances it.
- Rob Cairns
Doesn't this depend on how people are using this? I liken this to CNN Headline News vs. The Newshour with Jim Leher...if you want the quick hit of info. to share and/or discover, Twitter is a great platform; alternatively, if you want to dive into a deeper conversation, research, experience, blogs play that role.
- Christian
Robert, Madagascar is going through troubles now. So many people are awaiting for news but events are feeding too fast: Malagasy people is discovering Twitter and FriendFeed's power as writing blog articles take long time and you need to find many infos in ONE page. You can visit http://twitter.com/Madagas... and http://friendfeed.com/rooms...
- Thierry R. Andriamirado
I usually don't have time to maintain my old blog, but I think twitter allows me to share to the community anyway. Combining twitter with sites that allow for comments and discussions give me more value than posting a blog that hardly anyone reads...
- Frode Stenstrøm
I am cowed into speechlessness.
- Moses Kpetigo
I post my tweets on my blog so I see it as an adjunct.
- Phil Boiarski
so twitter as blogging is therefore committing suicide ~ ie this person's next blog post. Ie. someone missed the mark by a long shot.
- sofarsoShawn
I think that it is. It has killed my blogs. Twitter is a lot more interactive and fun.
- Adam Jackson
Twitter is interactive live blogging but I won't say it's killing blogging. Twitter is to blogging what a video clip is to a feature film.
- Donald Townsend
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How the Bogus War between Google and Twitter/Friendfeed begins http://friendfeed.com/e...
- ewing2001akaNicomedy2010
Killing blogging, no way. I personally think its taking blogging to an all new level. Not only can you promote blogs on twitter, the readers can now interact with you in a entirely new way. Twitter fills the cracks that the blog leaves behind.
- Sloan Bowman
I've dabbled with "full-blown" blogging but most days don't have the time to write "essays". Or anything to say that's worth that number of words. I like Twitter for its immediacy and the way it makes you express the thought succinctly. Equally I like FF for being somewhere between the two. "Medium" blogging rather than full blown or micro. It's a mood thing yanno.
- CdL Creative
Twitter is blogging -- just 140 chars per chunk.
- David Feng
If we agree that the predominant consumption of blogs is via RSS (as opposed to visiting the site) - then blogs are indeed being superceded (by all the tools that allow you to share media - whether Twitter, Digg, Youtube or Seesmic). They all end up being posts in an RSS feed mashed and consumed in increasingly sophisticated ways.
- Jim
the one evolution that social networking services like FriendFeed and Twitter have over blogs is that we really can't see who's interested in our stuff. we can track RSS views, but we've no idea who they are.
- Jason Salas
from IM
Jason very true.. no easy way to monetize and measure. Athough I think Friendfeed has the right idea with its stats feature and this may be a the next step for Google Analytics/Feedburner. Perhaps this is why the growth and popularity of social network is proportional to the richness and openness of the their APIs.
- Jim
Jim - the closer we get the traditional media demographic data, coupled with the new metrics, the real value of social apps will really shine through
- Jason Salas
The days of stand-alone blogs as a primary revenue source are over
- Bob Sonin
Mac Trojan Horse Found In Pirated Photoshop CS4 - http://cultofmac.com/mac-tro...
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Another week, another Mac trojan ;)
- Ian Betteridge
More Mac usage = more viruses. At this rate, it's just a matter of time before the Mac becomes what a PC (Even though a Mac is a PC) is today. Unless of course, something drastically is done about this.
- Umit Namli
Worldometers - real time world statistics - http://www.worldometers.info/
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So cool. Where comes the data?
- Frederico Marques
from twhirl
great!
- Sasha Kovaliov(.com)
Impressive!
- Rui Pires
So frightening to see the world population increasing so rapidly :)
- Onur Özdemir
but the total world pop. doesnt match with the numbers in stopthehunger.com "in real time"
- Onur Özdemir
Great recommendation. Thanks for sharing.
- Donald Townsend
from BuddyFeed
The yearly book titles published in a year is wrong which makes me nervous about the rest of it. Cool but ... accurate?
- AJ Kohn
Quite like the idea, but the accuracy of the numbers is to be questioned.
- Umit Namli
UNBELIEVABLE: T-Mobile kills iPhone newsletter with +70,000 members - http://t-mobile.emessaging.nl/ext... (Dutch)
70,000+ members, imagine what kind of money you could generate from that amount of people. Guess T-Mobile doesn't need the money :)
- Umit Namli
Technology News: Operating Systems: Living on Windows 7: Can It Bring Back the Windows 95 Glory Days? - http://www.technewsworld.com/rsstory...
amygeek, Daniel Rowley, Susan Beebe and 11 other people liked this
I'm running Windows 7 too and find it great, but, sorry, it won't be Windows 95 time of lines in front of stores to get it. I'd be shocked if that happened.
- Robert Scoble
from Bookmarklet
highly doubt it. Too many players (Mac OS X, Linux and even Solaris) on x86 platform compared to Win95 era.
- Rom Feria
Thing is that at a glance, it's Vista. Win95 was drastically different in appearance from Win3.11 or NT4. One way or another, that was part of its allure (though the fact that many people were still on DOS also helped) and by learning the 'Vista lesson' of not changing too drastically, MS may have made the Win7 sell all the harder. It just comes of too much as a service pack for Vista - I know that's always the criticism of new Windows releases but it's a fact.
- mattpovey
I think MS has the means, and talent to make it happen, but are top heavy. I'm hoping W7 can be their Renaissance but it means a very careful release to market, unlike Vista
- Mo Kargas
Definitely, I have my 2 laptops and 3 desktops on Win 7 now, they work so well together. Can't wait for Win 7 to hit RTM.
- Tom Warren
it works great on my netbooks, so it will work great on platforms with some more performance. The look and feel... yeah i am barely switching back to my XP and Ubuntu system. I think i like it :p
- Sascha Pallenberg
Windows 95 glory days? From a retail perspective, yes, from a user perspective, no. I remember IE constantly crashing whilst bringing down the rest of the OS? If you think Vista is slow, then Win95 on 4Meg was horrific, even 8Meg was terrible.
- Paul Grav
Win7 rocks. It's not Vista, it does a lot more. People won't be standing in line to buy it but they'll be downloading it like crazy during the betas and installing it in droves when it releases if this momentum continues.
- Randy Holloway
from twhirl
I'm yet to try Win 7, but with all the positive reviews I'm reading, I'm sure it's pretty good compared to Vista. But whether it will bring back the glory days of Windows 95, I doubt it. And Microsoft can thank (partially) Vista for that.
- Umit Namli
Absolutely lovin' Windows 7 since I 'adjusted it' to my own needs. It's fast, adaptable and friendly for non-techies.
- Charlie Anzman
win95 was not the glory days.. win95 and NT4 did share a lot of UI design, though the two were different at their core - NT being a native 32bit kernel with DOS stripped from under it.Personally I'd say the move from NT4 to 2000 was their biggest leap. The move from a WINS based system to a native DNS powered OS and the addition of an LDAP based system was such a leap.
- alphaxion
I'm going to agree with 95, simply because 95's UI and organisation was far superior to win 3.11, not to mention the ability to multi-task better
- Mo Kargas
mattpovey, don't mean to nitpick here but NT4 was released about a year after Win95 and (along with other changes) had the Win95 UI style.
- Yuval Atzmon
my biggest complaint about the vista/win7 UI changes is that it now takes longer for anyone with any proficiency to do the most simple of tasks.. want to change the network settings? I used to be able to right click on network places and select properties. Now I have to select a link from the side of the network centre before I get to edit my connections. It's just so frustrating "oh, you want to do more than browse the internet and launch a few apps? screw you, here's 15 more screens to navigate!!"
- alphaxion
It's all right for Windows, but I went right back to my OSX
- Phil Boiarski
The buzz surrounding Windows 7 is electric, I will be installing the beta onto my main desktop replacing Vista later this week. I think MS got it right this time. About time too!
- Nigel Kitchen
I'm still using XP, and I've turned off all the UI bloat to make it as close to a Windows 98 feel as possible. Thankfully, I spend almost no time on my Windows machine - OS X and GNOME solve 95% of my problems, and a rarely turned-on Windows box is there for the rest.
- Tom Morris
@nigel I'd seriously recommend against updating your main system with it.. it's time limited and still in development. There's plenty of bugs yet to rear its ugly head and you could lose data. A good example of this is the media player 12 bug with the default config to pull info from the internet chopping off a few seconds from the start of mp3s. Keep your main rig as it is until the OS ships.
- alphaxion
alphaxion: Vista/Windows7 are customizable. For the Network connections you can create a shortcut.. Use "C:\Windows\explorer.exe ::{7007ACC7-3202-11D1-AAD2-00805FC1270E}"
- Alex Sauceda
@alex point being that as an administrator I can be coming into contact with different machines on a daily basis and shouldn't have to do that for basic OS functionality across them all. I'm aware as to why they included the "network centre" as it's important for the new networking stack, but they should have set it up as a different icon in the control panel instead of altering my right-click network -> properties shortcut.
- alphaxion
I agree that they buried the configuration even more than in XP.
- Kevin L
14 Foolproof Proofreading Tips for Bloggers — Copyblogger - http://www.copyblogger.com/proofre...
Nia, Greg Guitarbuster, Dan Morrill AKA Techwag and 15 other people liked this
"“Proofreading is vitally important, hard to do well, and tedious as hell.” ~Brian Clark That’s the best quote I’ve ever heard about proofreading, but I’d like to extend Brian’s remarks a bit. In fact, I’ve got 14 tips that are just about guaranteed to make you a better proofreader, and maybe make the task a tad less terrible."
- Kol Tregaskes
from Bookmarklet
Ugh. I've actually proofread friends' novels for them. I don't know what's worse...doing the actual proofreading or the staggering number of errors I find. I have one friend who self-published and was in such a hurry to get his stuff out, he couldn't wait for me to finish proof-reading his manuscript. It's so full of errors, it's distracting. Now he's embarrassed but it's printed and on sale at Amazon. Oh well. :)
- tinypants - Hagitha of FF
I have to thank spell-checkers though of course this doesn't catch everything. But I do tend to re-read everything I type and post before actually posting it - even then I must re-read too quickly and miss some errors. :-(
- Kol Tregaskes
I've considered being a freelance blog proofreader.
- Kevin L
I used to be a proofreader. It IS tedious. Fortunately, it was for proofing ads, so it was hardly a brainiac situation.
- Helen Sventitsky
Actually, I'm guilty of barely proofreading my own articles. I'm sure some of these tips will help me do a better job proofreading.
- Umit Namli
prof reading is over valued
- Jemm
I wouldn't say it over valued, I'd say proofreading is underestimated.
- Umit Namli
Effective Learning - Tips for Effective Learning - http://psychology.about.com/od...
Who said Multi-taskers are more productive?
- Umit Namli
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