Web20Critic - Comments

FriendFeed is the easiest way to share online. Learn more »

FF2Disqus has re-emerged and is in private beta. Just leave a comment here if you'd like to participate. (*UPDATE:* please go to http://friendfeed.com/rooms... for more information)

January 9, 2009 - Comment - Like - Share

Sarah Perez, Daniel W. Crompton, Jean-Charles and 22 other people liked this

I'm interested in this service but it still won't work with Tumblr, correct? - Boris Gordon

112 more comments

It works, provided you have Disqus enabled on your Tumblr blog and that the link in FF points that back to your Tumblr entry. Look at Fred Wilson's Tumblr entries on FF as an example: http://friendfeed.com/e... - Carter Rabasa

Well sign me up please! :) - Boris Gordon

Done! - Carter Rabasa

I see you are only syncing one way at the moment so comments made on tumblr items in friendfeed should show up on the disqus comments on the tumblr blog? Still not doing that for me at the moment though. - Boris Gordon

See: http://friendfeed.com/e... - Carter Rabasa

please sign me up - Fabio Giglietto

Done! - Carter Rabasa

@cubanlinks I'd like an invite to FF2Disqus. Thanks ;-) - Czar

Is the mulitple post item fixed? FF has been a mess because of this service. - Admiral Anika

@Anika, the short answer is "I believe so". It was a caching issue outside of my control. The more important point is that comments are no longer pulled into FF. That "feature" just isn't worth the mess it makes, even without dupes. - Carter Rabasa

I'm game for helping you test FF2Disqus. - Joe Burnham

Okay, then sign me up! - Admiral Anika

Sign me up. - Håkan Dahlström

@Håkan @Anika @Joe @Czar Invited! - Carter Rabasa

I'd like to sign in. Thank you. - lelapin

@lelapin Invited! - Carter Rabasa

I'd like to participate. Thanks! - Erica Toelle

@Erica of course! invited. - Carter Rabasa

I'd like to participate! - Mark "Rizzn" Hopkins

@Mark invited! - Carter Rabasa

This is another welcome Disqus app, and I would like to try the private beta version. I already use Disqus to integrate Facebook Connect with my Blogspot blog (manofmanywords.blogspot.com) and this would be the perfect addition. - Will Conley

@Will invited! - Carter Rabasa

Please invite me :) - GOTTi

@GOTTi all set - Carter Rabasa

Please invite me too,thx - Nicholas Paul Gordon

@Nicholas done - Carter Rabasa

I'd like to participate! - Jesse Stay

I was sure that it will survive Carter! :) - directeur

Just read your email Carter, thanks for the link to the issue in GAE, I wasn't aware of it! Glad you're back even in private beta :) - directeur

Sign me up, Carter. - Bill Sodeman

@Jesse @Mohomed @Bill all set! - Carter Rabasa

I would love try it out. Thanks. - Ignacio Rodriguez de R,

@Ignace invite sent! - Carter Rabasa

invite still possible? thanks - mersenne

Hi, could I get an invite too? - Rutger Blom

Invite please.. :) - Thomas Bøhm

damn straight! very interested - Noah David Simon

@mersenne @Rutger @Thomas @Noah Invited! - Carter Rabasa

@Noah, check-out the FF room I invited you to. It'll have the link to the hosted application. - Carter Rabasa

Carter, does it mean that what I set previously needs to be re-set? Can I get an invite? Thanks - Flavio

@flapic, yeah I wiped all users due to the glitches the app was having. plus, I no longer need your FF remote key, so that was nice to erase (I hate storing credentials). anyway, you're invited! - Carter Rabasa

@carter: tnx - Flavio

Yes please! Gimme Gimme! - Rahsheen ™, Coach Rah

@Rah boom! - Carter Rabasa

Please. :-) - Chris Baskind

@Chris you got it - Carter Rabasa

am interested. thanks - Fatmanur Erdogan

@Fatmanur invited! - Carter Rabasa

I'd like to participate. - deden m. ihsan

@deden all set! - Carter Rabasa

Man of Many Words suggests this is worth checking out. May I please :-) - MaryAnn Chick Whiteside

@mcwflint the more the merrier! - Carter Rabasa

Count me in, please. daniel@dmiessler.com @danielrm26 - Daniel Miessler

@Daniel, I've invited you to our FF room - Carter Rabasa

I'm interested in trying this beta too. - Rodrigo

I would like to participate. - Alexander Kahn

@Rodrigo @Alexander You've been invited. Please read the room description and first few posts! - Carter Rabasa

I would like an invite please :) - Anne Haynes

@Anne done! - Carter Rabasa

Hi, can I please get an invite. - Dan Liebke

@Dan you got it! - Carter Rabasa

I too would like to get on this service. - Kurt von Schleicher

@kurt invited! - Carter Rabasa

wait, why is it private beta now again, since it was open some days ago? pls let me in again to sync my friendfeed/disqus commets. may i have an invite pls? - natadd

@natadd there were a few kinks that caused some issues. I wanted to make sure that a) I knew who was using the service b) people knew it was a beta and c) people had a place to leave comments and feedback. You've been invited! - Carter Rabasa

thanks for the invite, but where/how should I get it? Email? twitter? - natadd

I sent you an invite to a private FF room. - Carter Rabasa

okay, thanks, but I didn't get an invite yet. how should i receive it? twitter? email? - natadd

You should get an email. There should also be a link in the upper-left of FF that indicates that you have requests waiting for you. I'll try and invite you again. - Carter Rabasa

I'd love to participate. Thanks for your work on this! - Brent Evans

@Brent room invitation sent! - Carter Rabasa

I'm interested - Creeva Murkado

unfortunately I received the ff notice only, but nwo email invitation. can u pls send to lordnatadd@googlemail.com? thx! - natadd

@creeva you've been invited! - Carter Rabasa

Would love an invite. :) - Chris Nixon

@Chris invited! - Carter Rabasa

I would be interested in using Friendfeed to Disqus on http://kevintunis.com/ - Kevin Tunis

@Kevin, all set! - Carter Rabasa

Would love an invite - Iván Abrego

@Francisco invited! - Carter Rabasa

I'd like to request for an invite. Tried it prior to the return to private-beta ^_^ Thanks!! - JC John Sese Cuneta

@JC you've been invited! - Carter Rabasa

Count me in, too :-) - Miguel Caetano

@miguel you've been invited to the private beta room (please read the room description and first few posts). thanks! - Carter Rabasa

I'd like to participate. In fact, my blog (Scribkin) is already registered.. I just wanted to change my sync settings? - Phil G

@Phil invitation sent! updating your settings just requires you to re-submit the form and clobber the old settings. - Carter Rabasa

Thanks! - Phil G

Deal me in! - Tom Guarriello

@Tom you're all set! - Carter Rabasa

Hey Carter, i wouldnt mind trying this out. Thanks. - Simon Wicks

@Simon you're invited! - Carter Rabasa

Thanks very much :) - Simon Wicks

Hey! I'd like to try it out, please. Great idea. - Thomas Crampton

I would like to test this also :) - Joe Dawson

Sign me up please, I'd like to try it :-) - Jean-Charles

I never recieved my invite. - Rahsheen ™, Coach Rah

I'd love to give it a go! - Jim Cahill

I would like to participate too:) - Ben Borges

I would definitely love to participate, if there is still room - Martha

interesting would love to try it - BCK

I would like to try it too ! - Krishnakanth Chimalamarri

May i please have an invite? - Web20Critic

I would love an invite please :) - Daryl Milne

Hey Carter, would love to give it a try! - xavier vespa

Genius idea, could you sign me up please? :) - teleute

I'd like to be signed up! - Craig Bellot

It doesn't work for me anymore, do I need to sign up again? If so please sign me up. It's really great. - TobiasVerhoog.com

uh oh... I'm addicted and want more. no work no more - Noah David Simon

Everyone, sorry I missed your requests. I was in Vegas this weekend. I have decided that FF2Disqus no longer needs to be in private beta! So, please check-out http://friendfeed.com/rooms... to learn more about it, or go straight to https://ff2disqus.appspot.com. Enjoy! - Carter Rabasa

@Tobias. I don't see your information in my database. If you "turn-off" FF2D, it deletes your record, so maybe that's what happened? Anyway, feel free to sign-up again. @Noah, I just looked at your feed and it seems like comments are syncing fine. Any more information I can look at? - Carter Rabasa

I'd like to have a play with this, it's something that's I've wanted for a while. - Daniel W. Crompton

Daniel/everyone: If you'd like to try FF2Disqus check-out our FF room: http://friendfeed.com/rooms.... If you have any questions or comments, please post or comment in that room. Thanks! - Carter Rabasa

I'm definitely interested in this integration. Please include. - Kenley Neufeld

Web20Critic

Official Google Mac Blog: Search Without Effort: The Quick Search Box - http://googlemac.blogspot.com/2009...

January 13, 2009 from Bookmarklet - Comment - Like - Share

Add a comment - Web20Critic from Bookmarklet

Richard

Bit.ly Plug-in Extends Tiny URLs, Shows Clickthrough Numbers http://www.readwriteweb.com/archive...

January 7, 2009 from Twitter - Comment - Like - Share

Josh Dilworth liked this

I wish Ping.fm would implement click-counts too! - Web20Critic from FriendFeed MT Plugin

I wonder if this bit.ly extension counts ping.fm - they do count a whole lot of other services. i've got a list in email - Marshall Kirkpatrick from IM

The bit.ly team has updated the plug-in to fix the Wordpress 2.7 bug I mentioned in the previous comment (Disclaimer: I haven't had a chance to play with it yet) https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US... - Andy Sternberg from FriendFeed MT Plugin

Robert Scoble

Internet Explorer 8 is 6,000x better than IE6, but it still bugs me. Google Chrome is the future. Here's why:

January 11, 2009 - Comment - Like - Share

ivanandersson, Srinath, Palak Mathur and 77 other people liked this

1. Google Chrome is way faster. - Robert Scoble

100 more comments

2. Google Chrome is a rethink. IE8 is a bug fix. - Robert Scoble

3. Google Chrome has one box. IE 8 has two. - Robert Scoble

Google Chrome is very light weight (including the UI) - Vaibhav

4. Google Chrome works better with Google Reader and other AJAX sites. - Robert Scoble

5. IE8 has too many menus and icons. Gives a real cluttered feel. - Robert Scoble

IE's been a glorified bug fix since MS relabeled it from Mosaic, Robert - no secret there. :) I'm loving Chrome. - teleken

WebKit is a really good rendering engine. I've always secretly wished IE8 would use WebKit as their rendering engine and scrap IE rendering, and somehow incorporate ActiveX and all of the IE features into it, since WebKit is open-source, not tied to a specific competitor (as opposed to Gecko and Firefox) and is fast and stable. – Have to agree about Google Chrome as well. It's a great browser. As much as I love Safari, I wish Chrome would come to Mac sooner :) - Mark Bao

6. Google Chrome's search integration is magic. Start typing something and it figures out what you want. IE8 waits for you to finish, then brings up a boring web page. - Robert Scoble

Any others? - Robert Scoble

When it finally works on a Mac, perhaps I'll believe you ;) - Jeff

If it didn't bug someone it wouldn't still be Internet Explorer. - Josh Sharp

Looks like WebKit is the future, all mobile browsers have started using it. - Vaibhav

Google Chrome and FLASH don't get along! - paul mooney

Now I just wish Chrome worked better with Flash, or Flash worked better with Chrome. - Dennis Jackson

Google Chrome is focused on internet. IE seems to mix to much other junk in - Mike Scott

By the way, I wrote this whole item in IE8 running on Windows 7. If you are still going to use IE, please do get IE8. It is much better than previous versions. - Robert Scoble

Not a big fan of IE or Chrome... I'll stick with FireFox. - Steven Sanders

Google Chrome is slick...but I still like the simplicity of FireFox. - Charlie Flowers

I love Google Chrome, I just wish the addon's started rolling out. - Michael Fidler

Because the browser is a commodity... Connecting (correction - Deep Integration) with Google's cloud based services is the secret sauce. - Brian Roy

Charlie: simplicity of Firefox? You've gotta be kidding, right? I love Firefox because of its complexity! (Plugins keep me there a lot of the time). - Robert Scoble

I still need to play with Chrome in order to form an educated opinion. I'm just too hung up on Firefox still. :P - Korey

Timely thread. I literally installed Google Chrome on my home computer within the last half hour (hey, I'm slow at these things - I'm not trendy). Just poking around a bit now, liking the speed. StumbleUpon support is an issue, but I'm reading up on it and other stuff. Just read Sarah Perez's post on privacy. - Ontario Emperor

I h ave never been a fan of ActiveX. The fact that several websites still rely on it versus better technologies irks me and I refuse to use them. - Jason Shultz from twhirl

hope they add the tabs preview to Windows 7 when you hover over the taskbar chrome icon - Vaibhav

Paul: Google Chrome gets along fine with Flash here. What are you experiencing? - Robert Scoble

Yeah, I have to admit, IE8 is a pretty good browser, relatively speaking (relative to IE7 and IE6.) Renders my pages a ton better than previous versions. - Mark Bao

Flash slows down Chrome for me pretty significantly, sometimes to where it's not even usable. Maybe it's just my computer. - Dennis Jackson

How is IE6 a basis for comparison to anything anymore? Totally agree about Chrome. - Bob Starr

loved chrome until I found out it wasn't compatible with my Roboform. I'm lazy and not too security conscious. - BEX

IE 8 was supposed to be more compliant with standards, but it breaks a lot of websites which work in IE7, FF, Chrome. (Scratching my head) - Vaibhav

Amen on the 'IE mixing other junk in' thought. I hate typing a hostname into it & it tries to hit a UNC or whatever the heck it's doing... - Steven Byrnes

Chrome has a whole list of niggling problems and has had since day one -- they just never seem to get fixed. I like the speed and simplicity but Chrome will become the next IE unless Google starts paying attention to detail. - Brian Sullivan

Chrome lets you create 'desktop applications' that don't get lost in all of those tabs and don't waste space with the address bar! - Jon Issler

I use Chrome from time to time, but it just feels wrong when I do, I think I'll be sticking with Firefox. - Randy

I am with Vaibhav on "webkit is the future as well" - Peter Finn

Val: Privacy is dead. I really don't care. - Robert Scoble

Chrome's biggest shortcomings right now are password security and the lack of plugins/extensions... Have to give Firefox a nod for having those two nailed! - Jon Issler

I think Chrome is Google's paid service platform... http://www.johnworthington.me/... - Johnny Worthington

Google Chrome is like FireFox back when it was Phoenix: Sleek, sexy and satisfying. Beta 2 adds autocomplete, profiles and a Greasemonkey style scripting. - John Rubier

Chrome has built in Task Manager.... anyone? ..... alright, never mind. - Vaibhav

@Dennis check your fans. If your on a laptop the fans and/or exhaust may be blocked with dust. that happened to me on my laptop, any flash video slowed my laptop down. realized one day (after reinstalling windows and still having the problem) that my fans had a lot of dust. used compressed air to clean them out, problem solved. happy laptop! - Jason Shultz from twhirl

One thing I know I liked about Chrome: The web-comic! http://tiny.cc/9Ck9L - Korey

I'm amazed at how many flash/chrome issues there are. Ive never had any? - Mike Scott

Looking forward to chrome coming out for the mac - Kevin Whalen

I still see that firefox is the future! unless google chrome will be a 100% organic software http://snipr.com/9u3ld - Mark Guadalupe

I love firefox and plug-ins, but does Chrome need plug-ins? I thought their deal was to run current and next-gen online applications better, which will likely preclude the need for the plug-ins we firefox users can't live without now. - Bill Garrett

Robert, I really like Chrome too. The universal address/search/history bar is the future of browsing. There are only a small % of sites that do not work with Chrome... usually old school corporations, such as ones that I have to pay bills online at. Grr. Works 99.8% of the time for me otherwise. - Brian

I just installed the Windows 7 beta. I fired up IE 8 and it didn't correctly render a nonprofit's Web site I administer as a volunteer (www.spauldingcenter.org). IE 8 didn't correctly render some of the CSS. I installed Chrome and Chrome got it right. IE 8 is obviously not yet ready for release. - Rod Bauer from twhirl

I love Chrome and it is my default browser now. In fact all my flash problems in Firefox and IE went away in Chrome (video paused many times during playback, audio kept going). They are both memory hoars. Maybe a problem with too much Flash on websites? The lack of plugin support is very troubling. - Chris Mayer

I'm keen for getting mac version of chrome too, though its going to be interesting to see how they're gonna handle interface - Mike Scott from IM

Re: 6. The search bar autofill? Err FF has that too for recently visited sites. If you get an Add-On it'll do the potential sites too. - Adam

Google Chrome may be nice, but there was an "Epic Fail" on my system when Chrome decided that it was the default browser (out of four browsers) and would not directly allow me to un-check the Default-Browser checkbox. It was quickly removed. - Robert Miller

I don't care about Internet Explorer any more. I switched to Firefox + Foxmarks, and solved a nagging problem - synchronization of bookmarks across multiple Windows *and* OS X machines - that the 'softies *still* haven't managed to solve, despite wasting a few developer-centuries on Live Mesh. - Pat Rice

Love Chrome. Use it whenever I can. It does have problems with some sites, and I'm always having problems with flash crashing in it. - cjmart

Kind of ironic that Chrome and Firefox and both performing much better for me under Windows 7. The beta Chrome release is really sweet. - Charlie Anzman

@Pat: I use live mesh to sync my bookmarks between machines all the time. Add your favorites folder to mesh and you are good to go. Mesh for mac is available too. - Chris Johnson

Google Chrome doesn't know what's RSS!!! FAIL - carrotmadman6

I feel like people are debating the relative merits of tn3270 emulators... - Brian Roy

I like the speed/lightness of Chrome, however i dont think it will be big anytime soon with anyone other than techies. Doesnt run many addins/plugins etc... Unlikely any enterprise will adopt it either. Its a great reference app. - Chris Johnson

Chrome certainly is clean and renders fast, but until the experience can be customized via extensions like Firefox, there is no one way I can make it my primary. I just loaded Win. 7 on my laptop and the only thing I ported over from any of my other machines was my FEBE. - George Rogers

Important point for me is that Chrome opens more of the monitor for the content on the page, not for toolbars that i do not need while browsing a page. no loss of functionality without the toolbar. - Jeff DiStanlo

I wonder how many people even know what tn3270 is used for :) I know I do all too well. - Patrick Allmond

+++ on this. FoxMarks is awesome. Just wish FoxMarks had an iPhone browser sync also :( - Patrick Allmond

Any Flock 2.0 users here? If Chrome comes out for the Mac, I may take a look as well - but Firefox/Flock has been great for me for now. - Erich Miller

@Robert: Maybe simplicity wasn't the right word..."ease of use" might be a better term. I think that FF's layout is not as radically different from the browsers I grew up with (IE & Netscape), as Chrome seems to be...maybe that's why I find it simpler to use. Having said that, Chrome is by no means complex, just not as intuitive as FF. As you mentioned, the plug-ins add to the ease of use. It seems you can get a FireFox plug-in for anything. - Charlie Flowers

BTW, have you tried FF's AutoPager plug-in. That thing is amazing! It "automatically loads the next page of a site inline when you reach the end of the current page for infinite scrolling of content"...it's perfect for things like Twitter, Google, and yes it works for FriendFeed too. :D - Charlie Flowers

I'm using Flock 2.0 on both Mac and Windows. I've uninstalled Chrome -- didn't care for it much since Flock does everything I need it to. - Victor Solanoy

:hits the Googles to figure out what the Flock you guys are talking about: - teleken

IE8 (and Firefox) offer a lot of tools to supplement your browsing experience. Chrome just gets out of the way. I'm not sure one or the other is a fundamentally superior approach. - Toph Tucker

Installed Flock for all of 5 minutes. Sticking with Chrome, thanks. - teleken

ctrl+t takes forever on IE8, and for what? A blank tab. I like Chrome's approach - Andrew Smith

Firefox's is simple and extendable. Firefox' strength comes from its pluggability and ease of developing new plugins. Chrome needs to beat that. - Angsuman Chakraborty

Chrome needs to support Linux before it can even think of replacing Firefox. Chromium port of Chrome on Linux isn't very stable. - Angsuman Chakraborty

firefox plugins are the new activeX. there's too much functionality i use for me to shift *now*. i *do* like chrome, though. - moogs

I like moving tabs into new windows, but does crashes alot w/ Flash - Da

7. If one tab crashes, all the other tabs are unaffected. Let's see ANY other browser do that. - Nathan Chase

i think i'll stick with firefox. so much more you can do with it.. - Terry O'Fee

Chrome is fast (unlike IE), has a very minimal UI (also unlike IE), and you can move tabs to other windows. I have never been able to get Firefox to open new tabs next to the tab they're opened from, instead of at the far right, plus I don't really care about extensions. Plus, I've never had any issues with Flash. The only problem is that my school email won't work in Chrome (but that's minor). Chrome wins for me. - imperator3733 from twhirl

Robert - how is the performance of IE8 compared to Chrome and Firefox? Personally, I'd be using Chrome if I had my add-ons and greasemonkey scripts. I love Chrome's mult-tasking / memory management - very nice - Susan Beebe

@Imperator, Firefox's UI can be slimmed down, and you can fix the tab issue with Tab Mix Plus. Also, Firefox 3.1 is faster than Chrome. - Tanath

how bout: Chrome is CSS compliant? IE8 isn't, I know this by experience - Duncan Riley

@Nathan -- as far as I know, IE8 separated tabs into different processes first.... - Toph Tucker

I think FriendFeed should put a comment button at the bottom of the comments... that said, Opera is the fastest, but it has a few shortcomings. I use FireFox or Chrome depending on what PC I'm at. Some sites only work in IE. - Gus

Google Chrome uses your screen real estate more efficiently - Aad 't Hart

Chrome focuses on the web and not on the browser and that's what a browser's supposed to do. - Rohit

May be when there are basic extensions available for Chrome then it will be fair to compare with Firefox. For now, I don't see Chrome that useful, even though it's clean, a bit faster and provides more screen space. After a couple of days of using Chrome, I switched to Firefox as I felt less productive without the powerful extensions in Firefox. - Amar Shah

When Chrome has an extension like Better GReader, TabMixPlus, and NoScript, then I'll switch, but FF has everything I need with the extensions. NoScript is about the ONLY addon I absolutely need to use for security of my computer. - Ⓐ ☠ slayerboy ☠ Ⓐ

You can install extensions on the Chromium Builds! Go for it! - Will Higgins™

love chrome as much as the next guy, but it does crash sometimes over simplest things, like downloading sth from gmail or greader. & it's not just one tab that goes - it all goes & only one comes back, either gmail or greader... - siggimus

Chrome also crashes when importing Firefox Bookmarks, which makes it awkward to switch. But yeah, I would still use Firefox over IE 8. - Todd Brunner from twhirl

my mother understands the search-thingy-box in chrome. - Svensonsan

@scobleizer I think this would have made a good blog post. Would have been easier to read you view points. The discussion could then have happened on friendfeed. Too many comments to read properly - Sidharth Dassani

Chrome and WebKit are the future - just hope there's still room for Firefox. Remember how Firefox became Firefox? - Mona Nomura from fftogo

I agree. Chrome focuses on opening fast, which is critical for impatient people like me. Firefox and IE are way too slow. - Richard Crocker

WebKit can do CSS3 gradients, and I have only seen it in WordPress for creating actual images with gradients. Chrome is the future indeed! Extensions? heh, I use javascript bookmarklets to do my bidding! Chromes bookmark manager is more powerful than I expected. Passwords can be imported from FF but there is no backup option yet. - Web20Critic

Chrome is really promising, but still incomplete imo. Being a web developer, I have deep connections with firefox plug-ins like FireBug (with Yslow), dev. toolbar and a couple more. But looking at the future, I think the final round of the browser wars will be between Safari and Chrome (ofc IE will still have at least 50% market) because Firefox gets slower and more agonizing with every new release, and lacks the support Apple and Google offers for Safari/Chrome - Onur Cengiz

If chrome crashes, report it! Make a note of what you were doing and blog it, microshare it, post it on the chromium blog etc. This way all of us can help make it work for us! Nice thread for tech support, Mr Scoble! - Web20Critic

7. Because Chrome has a new and improved version every week/month/quarter (depending upon the distribution channel) whereas IE version comes once in 3 years. - Varun Mahajan

Robert: How did you get IE8 on Windows 7??? The installer refused to run when i tried. - Roberto Bonini

Roberto: it came with Windows 7. Or so I thought. I already had it loaded on this machine before I upgraded. - Robert Scoble

Web20Critic

Comment on: Bit.ly Plug-in Extends Tiny URLs, Shows Clickthrough Numbers - http://www.readwriteweb.com/archive...

January 7, 2009 from FriendFeed MT Plugin - Comment - Like - Share

I wish Ping.fm would implement click-counts too! - Web20Critic from FriendFeed MT Plugin

Jeremiah Owyang

Who here is new to Friendfeed? Use this thread to ask questions, we'll do our best to support you as a community. welcome!

January 5, 2009 - Comment - Like - Share

John Coslovich, frank barry, Stuart Miniman and 44 other people liked this

Me. Although I've figured out how to leave comments :-) - David Ing

58 more comments

I'm not new, but wanted to *wave* and say welcome to those who are =) - FFing Enigma (aka Tina)

Welcome David - Jeremiah Owyang

I 'm not new but revisiting Friend Feed as I abandoned it. Hey all! - Jay Gilmore

I'd just ask few #Gaza tweeps to make a room on FriendFeed.. my guess they're new here - Pico Seno

Here is a PROs and CONs to using FriendFeed conversation: http://friendfeed.com/e... - B2B Specialist

I just signed up. I have been using Twitter but I'm looking for an easier way to follow conversations. Hoping Friendfeed will workout better. - Kent

A week new. Learning the ropes. Love the data concatenation though (across SM). thanks Jeremiah. - Jim Mitchem

Is a room for new FF members? That could be nice. - Amani

I think there is a room that gives a general introduction, and I know there's a room for user profiles (that gets sporadic use at best). But having a thread like this out in the wild for users to ask questions is always a good thing. - FFing Enigma (aka Tina)

pico, i set up a gaza room a couple of days ago, haven't used it yet. - ernie yacub

Pretty new, ca 1 month, heard about it a long time ago but never bothered with social networks (eg. twitter and facebook) , registered and got hooked on FF ! :) Not really a question though ... - Thomas Bøhm

GAZA room is now #gaza which connects with twitter group - ernie yacub

i am wat you could call a novice to the hole social networking joined up to the so called most ratted still trying to get to grips with it lol - eric

(Raises Hand) - Jesse Stay

Welcome new folks! If there's anything anybody needs, just ask! Don't be shy, everyone here is happy to help. - MVB (Grinch of FF)

I like turtles - Josh Haley

Jesse - you have a question? - Amani

Amani, I have many questions - Jesse Stay

@jeremiah: generous and brilliant. you're putting the 'friend' into friendfeed. kudos! - .LAG liked that

Hi Jeremiah. Another new FF user here. - Greg Guitarbuster

hi everyone, im fairly new with a day or 2 of experience - Web20Critic from twhirl

Thanks LAG, and welcome! - Jeremiah Owyang

I am relatively new here and appreciate your reach out..I have found Robert Scoble approachable and have gained my greatest insight from Bill Romanos. This is a very important move on your part to assist newcomers...I have great respect for this offer of assistance to us newbies.. - bcultral

I also have a software that I have designed and I went broke having the prototype built by a firm in southern India. Ephrontech.com I want to change the world and I have been following this Vision for many years, starting in the jungles of Belize. High Tech Retribalization..the architect is a genius IT Solutions guy formally a IT manager at GE...I need direction!!!! Please point me in the right direction..SpokenWord.Tv - bcultral

I just absorb - bcultral

My Story: http://www.dailykos.com/story... - bcultral

Just joined--so why is this better or more useful that other services? - Parth

Joined a few months ago but never used it....trying to navigate through but love it so far! - Alison

Just politely chiming in. See, there may be some action happening around these parts. - Scott M Iseman

I am new to FF, I saw a "post" by Mr. David (Dave) Winer and now I would like to contact him, but I do not know how. I am Pat patrick.omahony@gmail.com. Is this the " - pomahony2

@Parth-I believe this service allows you to share and discuss in a deep fashion. It also allows you to discover and learn many, many new things. Even by just going to rooms or following people, your world will open up. I think the community and depth of info here separates FF from other sites. @Patrick - if you click on some people who have posted in this thread (including myself) and... more... - Amani

Patrick, go to his feed page, find his Twitter page and contact me that way (well if you're on Twitter). - Kol Tregaskes

I'm relatively new. Is there a way to shut off a certain person's specific feeds but not others (i.e. I want to see their blog posts but not their Flickr uploads, for example)? I'm assuming they haven't necessarily broken them into separate lists. - YieldBuild-Jason Menayan

Jason - hide an item, then click "hide other items like this one". You'll get choices about what to hide for a single person or service for everyone. - Hutch Carpenter

@Hutch - sweet, thanks! - YieldBuild-Jason Menayan

Wow, look at all the cool new people, awesome!! :) - Susan Beebe

Welcome everyone! :) - Mona Nomura

Took me minute to wrap my head around its value--now I'm kinda hooked. - Rob Michael (Atmos Trio)

If only I understood what "doing our best to support you as a community" means - bcultral

It means we don't know how to welcome you and answer your questions if you don't 1) say hello and 2) ask a question when you have it =) - FFing Enigma (aka Tina)

Jesse - What's your first question? - Amani

good response...What can I do to introduce a open portal software design that will bring live video social networking to the pc/tv/phone convergence? With tvs being built with a wi-fi chip and white space opening up under new FCC rulings? I have been trying to find a listening ear to this social enterprise... - bcultral

Hello - bcultral

I am one those "unknown" persons seeking to make a difference - bcultral

a prototype has been built - bcultral

For those new to friendfeed I put together a video that will help you discover its features: http://www.kyte.tv/scoblei... - Robert Scoble

Thanks for reminding me that I am already subscribed to the profound info source at ScobleizerTv..@bcultral :) - bcultral

Robin - your question is a bit complex. We must be patient to get a proper answer. - Amani

I am best friends with patience..I.know her/him well...thanks, I am encouraged...really - bcultral

As others commented I'm not "new" in ff but I still try to figure out how to best take advantage of it. I am extremely attracted to the all-in-one, rich-media concept. It will be interesting to see how it complements/competes with twitter. - Maurice Politis

I'm pretty new and I like it, but it's hard to keep up with. Sometimes I worry that I'm intruding on someone's conversation or something like that. I guess that's why it's here, though. - Amy Boyack

I had FF account for a year but have not used it much until Scoble passionately endorsed it over Twitter. I like the aggregated feature and threaded discussion. I'll use it more often. - Gee Ekachai

Hi welcome all new comers ... lets keep this thread "bacon free " please , all kidding aside .. if anyone needs help , I'll do my best to help . - johnpiercy

Hi, I joined both FF and Twitter a few months back and although I've got the Twitter bug but not really 'got' FF yet but I'm kind to play with it and meet people. - Steve Sponder

I'm relatively new to FF (joined in March, but came back last month) - with Twitter I had people who I knew personally and could grow my network and join conversations; seems a little harder to find followers on FF; maybe it's just me following too many big fish and not knowing smaller groups since my Twitter crowd (mostly storage industry) isn't here - Stuart Miniman

I am also new to FF. When/if I write a message - how can I see if - IF - anyone has answered it? Thanks. - pomahony2

If you are new to FriendFeed here is a nice conversation started by @jowyang - frank barry

I'm new to FF. I'm trying to get the hang of it. - Romey Louangvilay

Is there any way to find FF users by subject or interest? - Internet Strategist

Robert Scoble

I'm seeing a TON of new people on both twitter and friendfeed. Welcome and let us know if we can help!

January 5, 2009 - Comment - Like - Share

Bill Romanos, Anne Bouey, Tyson Key and 68 other people liked this

Great. - Roberto Bonini

52 more comments

http://www.kyte.tv/scoblei... has a video about friendfeed that I did that shows you around. You might find it helpful. - Robert Scoble

Thanks for getting me more involved in both! - mrkeroppi

You helped already with the video you posted up on Kyte.tv (http://tinyurl.com/7spgrp) - I was a member before and I had tied in all my RSS and various social network feeds, but I didn't really use Friendfeed. Just felt like a knock-off to Google Reader if I'm honest. Now, I know it's a tool not to mess around with. Extremely powerful, easily one of the best ways to get news for myself outside of Google Reader and I will be certain to explore it further once my exams are done. - Gaurav Patel

Thanks - I would have probably waited on joining FF if not for your video. The idea of cross-SM concatenation is brilliant, even if it's not quite there yet - FF is my SM portal of choice right now. - Jim Mitchem

Hello :) that's a good video, I actually started coming here more often after seeing it - Sebastian

you can help by paying attention to the massacre in gaza - people on twitter are, but there is hardly any discussion here - why is that? - ernie yacub

was just watching it; gave me some new ideas on how to use FF - Donald Townsend

ernie: I don't comment on it for several reasons. For one it's such a hot botton issue that I know that engaging on that issue will cost me 80 hours and I just don't have the 80 hours to give. Plus, no matter what side I'm on, there will be people on the other side and I still have bruises from the Obama election that are still healing. Finally, it's not something I can do much about. I'd rather focus my energy on things that I can control and have some influence in. - Robert Scoble

Twitter is a great place to give your opinion without too much risk that you'll get dragged into a long conversation. Friendfeed is a much better place to have a long conversation, which changes the dynamic of what you will find useful to discuss here. - Robert Scoble

ditto for me as well Robert. first introduced to FF by ed dale, but finally took the leap after your encouragement. am grateful most days! - Gregg

One more thing: friendfeed is an aggregator, so if you care about Gaza and Israel, I would open a room here on that topic, and start posting tons of stuff to it. If you are blogging about it, I'd make sure your blogs are being aggregated here. Those topics will find people who will engage. It's just that I'm resisting because this is CES week and I don't have the time. - Robert Scoble

If any of you new starters are interested in video games, http://friendfeed.com/rooms... could do with the extra life :) - alphaxion

If I accidentally hide something, how do I unhide? - Rutger Blom

Rutger: if you realize your mistake in time you can just "undo" right there. But, hidden items are at the bottom of the page in a link. Just visit there and click hide again and it will unhide. - Robert Scoble

Robert: Thanks! - Rutger Blom

@Robert I'm liking your comments here... A room for each side probably will do more... - Pico Seno

I refer you to my FF post from this morning http://friendfeed.com/e... Like literally I'm picking up 2 followers an hour, and I have no clue why. I just know I haven't suddenly became interesting, important, or influential. I'm the same screw off I've always been. - Matthew DeVries

Matthew: I'm gaining more than 100 per day here (more than 1,100 since Arrington's intervention with me) and more than 200 a day over on Twitter. These things are gaining steam. - Robert Scoble

Robert, that's interesting. More new followers in twitter than FF. Have you noticed any changes in that trend? - Tapio Kulmala

Well yeah, but you say things people care about. People lining up to follow me? In the world view? Come on.... - Matthew DeVries

AND I haven't changed at all since friday. - Matthew DeVries

Matthew: people have this believe that the one who dies with the most followers wins. It's just a game at this point to collect more followers. - Robert Scoble

Robert, do you sleep? Seriously :) - Bwana ☠

not much last night. - Robert Scoble

I'm here because I saw your zillion posts on it. I like it! - Dave Gambrill

Robert: Really? Disappointing really - I'd rather have less than 10 interesting and informative people following me than 5,000 drooling idiots. I see enough of the later crowd on a daily and face-to-face basis to cover the "moron" category of my life. - Renee Hendricks

poor Robert :) Get some Zzzzzzzzzzzs! - Susan Beebe

Bullo: that's what I figure it is. But Twitter is growing remarkably quickly now. People are figuring it out and with Mr. Tweet and other directories, you are probably on one of those as an influencer to check out. - Robert Scoble

Well, I may be playing wrong, but after the first 5 or so I stopped playing the "Courtesy Followback" game and started actually looking at their content and blogs and interests and made an informed decision on following back. Damn near almost followed some kind crazy PETA scientist bomber - Matthew DeVries

Great initiative, thank you Robert! What I'd like to know is how many people forward their tweets to their friendfeed account. - Zack Brandit

Zack: I'm following about 6,000 here and a good percentage do. I hope people use friendfeed to aggregate their lives together here totally. We can hide things on the reading side if it gets to be too much. - Robert Scoble

Question - if you're subscribed to someone on FF, is it relevant to also 'follow' them on Twitter? Seems a bit redundant. No? - Jim Mitchem

Matthew: I quickly stopped the "courtesy followback" - and I do the same, check their profile, look at their website, etc. If people are offended, so be it. I really don't want to spend time reading about how your last bowel movement was or how cute your cat is. - Renee Hendricks

Susanne: That could become a horrible Mash-Up tweet as well. - Matthew DeVries

Matthew: Oh the horror! - Renee Hendricks

robert, u don't have to comment, you can like/rt, which you do a lot with other posts as do many of your colleagues, but curiously not about gaza which is immediate and critically important, especially for the people in gaza - they need to know that not everyone in the western world believes the msm propaganda. - ernie yacub

ernie: as opposed to their propoganda, right? Got it. This is why I stay out of this fight. Who threw the first missles? It wasn't Israel. - Robert Scoble

Here is a PROs and CONs to using FriendFeed conversation: http://friendfeed.com/e... - B2B Specialist

Careful Robert. This is a battle you don't want, I don't think. (even though i agree) - Jim Mitchem

robert, you are wrong, which is why you need to engage in the conversation, or at least read some history - gaza is a prison camp with 1.5 million people cut off from the world, food, fuel, work, money, etc by israel - most are refugees who were driven from their homes by israelis. - ernie yacub

gaza =/= hamas, who Israel is fighting. Don't want to get bombed, don't stand next to a guy wearing a hamas sticker. - Matthew DeVries

Seems we're quickly straying WAY away from the original topic - take it elsewhere ernie, sheesh - Renee Hendricks

What she said. - Matthew DeVries

well, he asked how to help us noobs - this one wants to pay attention to what's really needed from people like you who have the resources, tools, knowledge and experience to help prevent such atrocities - you were all excited about mumbai, why not gaza? - ernie yacub

Robert: I recently joined both friendfeed and twitter and with the help of my blackberry I'm becoming horribly addicted. I will admit that you were the first person I followed and I'm glad because I agree with your opinion that it's not about followers, but quality conversation. That said, I'm curious about how rooms work. You have any pointers? - Chris Brakebill

Robert: In case of an emergency would you call 911 or tweet? ;-) - Rutger Blom

Going through your video now...very helpful! - Alison

its getting strange when my mom's 65-year old best friend starts following me on twitter. How many a social media accounts lie dead after 1-2 posts? - karyn

Parents, grandparents and friends of parents may actually become a problem for many young users of Twitter, as karyn indicates. Might see an increase in private update accounts. - Ian Holton from twhirl

I posted a Diary on DailyKos mentioning Twitter and FriendFeed and got comments like "what isTwitter" I gave them Sarah_Palins twitter username and tauted this new means of information exchange. Will be doing a follow up posting later. today.http://www.dailykos.com/story... - bcultral

Thank you for subscribing to me, I never thought you would! - Web20Critic

Robert, is TON the measure of user body mass or the weight of their tweets/FF posts? Which leads to the next logical question: how much does a 140 character tweet weigh? The Guardian said 2 years ago that the entire internet weighs at most two ounces (60 grams)! http://www.guardian.co.uk/technol... - Micah Wittman

best think about friendfeed, still up now without the fourty minute delay that twitter is suffering from. - Richard A.

Marshall Kirkpatrick

Co.mments bites the dust http://www.readwriteweb.com/archive...

January 6, 2009 from Twitter - Comment - Like - Share

Mark Krynsky and AJ Kohn liked this

I use Google Friend Connect and Disqus. - Web20Critic from FriendFeed MT Plugin

Bummer, they were the pioneer in this area but I always felt the functionality wasn't quite there. - Mark Krynsky

Web20Critic

Comment on: Co.mments Bites the Dust - http://www.readwriteweb.com/archive...

January 6, 2009 from FriendFeed MT Plugin - Comment - Like - Share

I use Google Friend Connect and Disqus. - Web20Critic from FriendFeed MT Plugin

Tamar Weinberg

It's my birthday today!

January 5, 2009 - Comment - Like - Share

Alfredo, Nicholas James, Mattb4rd and 64 other people liked this

happy birthday, tamar - Baard @ Pixum

71 more comments

happy birthday tamar! - Rob Diana

Happy Birthday !!! - Nir Ben Yona from twhirl

happy birthday - have a lovely day - ♥ Stephiepooos ♥

THANKS :) - Tamar Weinberg

Happy Birthday girl! - Orli Yakuel

happy birthday. :o) - Rob Sellen :o)

happy birthday tamar!!! - Danli

Happy birthday, Tamar! - Erhan Erdogan

happy b'day - MiniMage TKDteacher of FF

Happy birthday! - LouCypher

HAPPY BORTHDAY - Amit Morson

Happy Birthday :) - Muge Cerman

Hoppy Birdie! - Michael R. Bernstein

Happy birthday! - Yolanda

Happy birthday!!! - Merry Xmas FFeeders - AJ

Many happy returns of the day! - Vijayendra (V-Mo) Mohanty

A very happy birthday to u!!!! - kunwar

Happy Birthday!@ - Nation Hahn

Happy Happy BD! :) - Sasha Kovaliov(.com)

Happy Birthday! - Steve Rubel

~~~ HAPPY BIRTHDAY TAMAR!!!~~~ Wishing you a fabulous day !! eat cake!! :) - Susan Beebe

Happy Birthday, Tamar! :) - Dee S.

Happy BDAY - Shevonne

happy day to you - Nathan Chase

Happy Birthday Tamar. Have a great day! - Trish R

Enjoy your day :) - Steven Cains

happy b-day! - Shey, Jamaican of FF

Happy birthday!!! - Shawn Farner

and yet, you gave *US* the present: your post summarizing best internet marketing posts of 2008! (happy bday tamar :) - dave mcclure

Happy Birthday Tamar! - Web20Critic from twhirl

thanks Dave, now I hope you're available this week ;) (and thanks to everyone else too!!!) - Tamar Weinberg

Happy birthday :) - Joe Dawson

Tamar, Happy birthday! - Mike Fruchter

happy birthday!!! - Marco(aureliusmaximus)

happy birthday! - Sarah Perez

Happy birthday Tamar! - Mitchell Tsai

Happy Birthday, Tamar! :-) - Kol Tregaskes

yay! happy birthday! - Marshall Kirkpatrick

happy bday tamar - MG Siegler

Happy bday! - Matt Cutts

Think I did this already somewhere else this morning ... but Happy Birthday Tamar! (anyway :) - Charlie Anzman

thanks everyone :) - Tamar Weinberg

PS: This is turning into a great 'starter kit' of people to follow on Friendfeed ! - Charlie Anzman

Happy Birthday! - Trish Haley

Happy birthday! - Morton Fox

Happy Birthday to you! -

Happy Happy, Joy Joy to you!!! :-) - Live4Emma (L4S)

Happy Birthday !! - Mo Kargas

Happy B Day! - Helen Sventitsky

Happy Birthday :) - Kamath (नमः)

Happy Birthday! - Rodfather

Happy Birthday. - Todd Jordan

Happy Birthday again! Hope you're having a great day. Any chocolate cake? Carrot with cream cheese icing? Candles? - Internet Strategist

hsapp[y b-day - MikeAmundsen

Go shorty it's your birfday! - BEX

Happy bday! And remember, no matter how old you get, if you were a turtle, you'd still be too young to leave home. :-P - April Russo (app103)

Happy Birthday!! - Fa La La La Lindsay

happy birthday - Cee Bee

HBD! - Nick Humphries

Happy birthday! - Phil G

What Phil Said! - Bill Sanders

gonna party like it's your birthday - Eric @ CSTechcast.com

Happy birthday. - DO ANYBODY NO MONIQUE from fftogo

Happy Birthday! - Pete Delucchi

Happy Birthday ... pick an ascii art cake: http://www.geocities.com/soho... (and turn up speaker volume) - Micah Wittman

Happy Birthday to you Tamar! =) - Randy

Happy belated b-day! - Mathew™ one of a kind

Happy Birfday! - Darren Heydon

HAPPYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY BIRTHDAYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY - Adriana

Happy Birthday!! (10 minutes left...) - Justin Korn

sorry i missed this Tamar, happy birthday! - Zee.

Matt Cutts

What would you add to this list of blogger/CMS/commenting 2.0/forum software? WordPress, Movable Type, Blogger, Joomla, Drupal, ___? Disqus, Intense Debate, CoComment, BackType, ___? phpBB, vBulletin, Invision Power Board (IPB), bbPress, PHP-Nuke, EzBoard, ___? What big sites or software did I miss?

January 4, 2009 - Comment - Like - Share

Hassan Ibraheem, Anne Haynes, Web20Critic and 14 other people liked this

Plone. Rails and Django both apply, but in slightly different contexts. - Chuq Von Rospach

22 more comments

Matt, why don't you use Google Sets e.g. http://labs.google.com/sets... :-) - Atul Arora

Atul, I want to see what suggestions come from the crowd. Good idea though. - Matt Cutts

SMF (Simple Machine Forums), Simple:Press Forums, Vanilla - Steven Hodson

Textpattern, where is textpattern? :) - directeur

Mambo? - John Wang

e107, b2Evolution, Elgg - Jack (a.k.a. Jeber)

A bunch of non-ISO-Latin 1 centric stuff, I'd imagine. Hatena for JA, Textcube for KO, etc. - Richard Chen

bbpress - Om Malik

sezwho - Om Malik

pligg and roller. - imabonehead

Elgg - Jesse Stay

ZenDesk - Jesse Stay

Laconi.ca - Jesse Stay

LifeType - John μller

django, js-kit, smf. it seems there are more options available so there is better specialization, like wiki and issue tracking for coding projects (trac) or cms designed for courseware (moodle). - Mike Chelen

Blog-City.com - LonelyBob from twhirl

Text Pattern, Expression Engine,Alfresco - Phill Price

Nucleus Cms - anand

My very first message board ran http://www.xmbforum.com/ :) - EricaJoy

Habari. - Andy C

How about Login methods and friend-connectors like OpenID, Google Friend Connect, and...? - Web20Critic

Torrent portal sites also come in CMS &or forum styles. - Web20Critic

Thanks everybody! People mentioned several that I forgot about, and a few I'll have to read more about. - Matt Cutts

Web20Critic › Comments