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If you want me to subscribe to you please respond to this comment.
Justin Yost, Larry Heim, Chris Foley and 13 other people liked this
seriously, just respond to this message and I'll follow you... looking for all my peeps on FF!
- Jason Calacanis
ok lets check how fast he takes to respond !
- Peter Dawson
Jason: That's a good idea. FF isn't really very interesting until there's a bunch of content in your stream.
- Eric Florenzano
ye
- Maury Estabrooks
It would be great. :)
- Daniel Schildt
sure, thnx
- maxim shevertalov
from twhirl
But hey, you are already following me! Just checked. :D
- Daniel Schildt
I believe you're already subscribed to me, but now you can be double-secret-subscribed...
- Rob Clark
ok
- John Deisher
Thanks
- Tom Landini
I can use some FF street cred. :)
- James
I love Mahalo! :)
- AJ Batac
ok that was quick response ..like approx 75sec :)-
- Peter Dawson
*poof*
- Scott A. Swiecki
Subscribe me up Jason. I am in LA and in post production. You guys at Mahalo looking for staff.
- Ryan Cates
Thanks....Mahalo!
- Chris Rossini
You da man Jason, PS love Mahalo!
- Greg Goodwin
count me in
- Kieran
do you follow canadians ?
- johnpiercy
Thanks, Jason....
- Hugh MacLeod
I'm not sure if you're following me on Twitter, FriendFeed, etc. but I'm ahynes1 on all of them.
- Aldon Hynes
Yes sir, whatever you say sir! @astrout
- Aaron Strout
I'm in
- Mike Doeff
Yo!
- Pascal Sijen
Jason! Still loving your Dash?
- Chris Kuhner
a oh - oh a
- Anthony Farrior
I'm wondering if the "calacanis effect" will move a critical mass of people from Twitter to FriendFeed
- Daniel Robitaille
Hi. You know me, I'm PurpleCar!
- Christine Cavalier
Present.
- Mykl Roventine
subscribe away.
- Mel Francis
Hey jason - can follow me as graubart
- Barry Graubart
Blammo, or perhaps Skidoosh!
- Dan Parsons
Great seeing you at PDF. Look forward to hanging this summer in Cali. Cheers.
- Stephanie Agresta
Hello Jason
- Rutger Blom
I'm in
- Adamo Lanna
The Twitter train is leaving the station.
- Warner Crocker
i'm in!
- wlai
And this is why I don't like FriendFeed. Have to rebuild your list? what the fuck.
- Austin Brown
ok just a few thousand more to go!
- Deva Hazarika
Yep... follow me :)
- Fabrice Epelboin
Isn't there a better way to do this?
- Toivo Lainevool
Moving on over....
- Mark Nassal
You should call up the people at friend feed and have them move your twitter list over for you. I mean, don't they know who you are?
- MrBobDobolina
I'm here too now but where is the iPhone client
- Zack
Hola! fatoracle on twitter :)
- Kamath (नमः)
I could you some more Mahalo in my life :)
- Chris Suspect
I have only been using FriendFeed for a day but im liking it already.
- pcnerd37
Fascinating.
- Ken Sheppardson
Jason follow me as 7thScreen Rod Pitman
- Rod Pitman
yo
- Rachel Luxemburg
Yo Yo Yo
- Eric_T
mahalo
- Eric Doerr
well, when you ask so nice :-)
- Alexander Kucera
Ok, trying FF as well. Still like twitter and will be sad if I have to leave it
- Lide Winburn
Like Napoleon's army after the defeat in Moscow, straggling west, fleeing the hideous frozen hell, we are moving into the (for me, at least) unknown...
- Dave LaFontaine
Hey there Jason, hows i going?
- Daniel Spisak
from twhirl
hey man, I'm a big fan, would be honored by a follow ;-)
- Scott Breakall
So I'm Commenting...
- Jeff Rochlin
http://internetducttape.com/2008... this is the app subscribing on FF to the people you follow on twitter
- Christian Anderson
Sounds fair to me but at some point there has to be an easier way.
- Philip Ferris
put me up in there
- Vincent Guerrero
Yo
- Edward
Sure, why not.
- wrecks
Follow me pleae
- Cody Heitschmidt
following
- MK Gold
Mahalo is awesome!
- Mark Salinas
Hello from Canada!
- Robb M.
+1 Ed Nicholson
- Ed Nicholson
OK. Mahalo!
- phil baumann
Sounds like fun!
- Eddie King
Sounds good to me!
- Oracio
I'm in
- William, CPU Media
me too
- Juan Camilo Galeano Mejia
transporting from twitter
- Nina Walia
Twitter yesterday, Friendfeed for today, what's up for tomorrow?
- Angela Wickenberg
Interesting approach...
- Tim FitzGerald
hola! senor! :+}
- Aronado
interesting way to go about it - but here you go.
- Zee.
For sure. By the way, thanks for the towel!
- E.J. Alcantara
Hi Jason!
- Mike McCallister
Why not.....
- Brad Collins
from twhirl
I thought I could hang w/ Twitter being so flakey but it's really a bugger. Maybe FF is the deal after all.
- Hunter Hillegas
peeps - either a web2 startup or a reality game show
- Phil Wolff
keeping up with the web 2.0 wave
- Mike G
Lets talk.
- Grant Bell
If FriendFeed is the new Twitter, what is the new FriendFeed?
- Adam Hansen
not sure if I am ready to abandon twitter, but I will give friendfeed a shot. Count me in
- Joe Schmidt
Please...follow me.
- Owen O'Malley
If it helps you stay ahead of Dvorak. . .
- Dean Barnett
Yet another comment from a Twitter follower
- Tom
I'm in
- Mark Krynsky
meee toooo!!!!!!!!!11
- Olubi Ezra
me three!
- Handy Lukman
Hello!
- Courtney White
Make it so
- Bill Koslosky
This is destined to be one of the busiest posts for days to come!
- Joel Ordesky
Bam!
- Jim Dye
Happy Saturday.
- David Young
oh sorry...I commented on the wrong post
- Nathan Manley
Yeah :)
- Delete Me
Much obliged Sir.
- Pedro Fonseca
FF really needs an import feature
- Steven Cains
Sure, I'd love for you to follow me. Thanks!
- ComicList
yup, ok.
- Bryan Landers
thx. Guess twitter effed up one too many times, eh?
- Zach
You don't have to if you don't want to, but hi.
- Erin
Rebuilding the Jason Nation on FF. Fascinating.
- Slobokan
Would welcome it
- Dave Kurns
Game on!
- Little Guy
Thanks Jason, tweet on!
- JoLynn Braley
you follow me on twitter. so you can follow me here if ya want, too. I'm trying to do the same.
- Lise
Me too! Thanks Jason ;)
- Darren Lee
there should be an easier way to do this
- Jon Pederson
love following the J-Dawg!
- Brad Williams
Follow ME!
- Austin Hamilton
Follow please :)
- Jeff Gordon
Yo, Jason, thanks for the Mahalo Beach Towel..my boys love it! :)
- Anthony Bossuyt
Sir yes sir!
- Matt Samuels
from twhirl
Welcome to FriendFeed Jason
- Jeff Hoard
Anyone for Tea?
- FunkydoryStokie
It seems to me this is kind of a moot point. You draw those who follow you into your convesation and if someone makes a comment that continually intriques you all you have to do is simply subscribe to their ff. No need to wage a big dick contest with numbers of followers here. Its all about the conversation. Just an observation at this point.. I'm just now starting the migration from twitter to FF myself;-)
- Curtis "Billy" Cross
from twhirl
Just subscribed to you, feel free to follow back!
- KyleM
Great to meet you at PdF2008
- David Price
Yo, Jason
- Brad Barrish
This page is gonna get long if all 20K+ comment :)
- MissM
Yes, please
- Jim Milles
I think spammers have infiltrated Twitter and will not let me block them completely.
- Derek
I'm all for moving as many over to FF as I can, so yeah, follow me if you'd like.
- Lee Adkins
wow is this a complete switch from Twitter?
- Jarrad McInnes
Wow! Now you know what you'll be doing the rest of the weekend....
- Kevin Shannon
Okie, Dokie, subscribe away :)
- Michael Lehman
is Fondue on friendfeed yet?
- Benton
glad to hear it.
- berkay
Aloha and mahalo... MsInformation from twitter here.
- Donna Mugavero
howdy
- Nicholas
Hello.
- Jason
hey
- Adrian Bye
Sure, why not?
- Andrew Feinberg
I am in for it.
- Michael Tefft
Follow me
- Faust Gertz
w00p w00p :)
- Toby Weston
Okey-doke
- Peggy Gartin
Indeed twee on!
- Justin Yost
ok, me too :-)
- marc uhlig
Follow the yellow brick road!
- Linda Wishman
I'm moving my stuff to FriendFeed as well. Let's see how this is.
- Kyle Johnson
Over here! Over here!
- Ian Schafer
Raises hand! Here!
- Melissa
here I am
- Borriz
Hey Jason - follow me up.
- Gareth Jenkins
Excellent job with Veronica Belmont's replacement and all the Mahalo episodes leading up to it. Mahalo Daily. FTW! :)
- Mustafa K. Isik
Yes sir, can I have another?
- Greg Schwartz
So many comments! This would have broken twitter...
- Stephen Breen
Jason - love to get you as a subscriber.
- Hutch Carpenter
Yup.
- Karl Sackett
sure, I'm in.
- todd lucier
Just starting with ff - I'm off now to find Leo . . .
- Michael
I'd appreciate it.
- Patrick Moore
Interested to see what you think of Ramsay's food, mostly hear about the man..
- Paul
Holla from New Orleans! Moving from Twitter as well. Whatever happened to Jaiku?
- Gregory Schultz
Sign me up!
- Chris Johnson
Follow me. Mahalo Power!!!!!!!!
- Grant
Sounds good!
- Jeremy Tymes
why not?
- Ed Ryan
adding myself to the list.
- Kevin Cearns
Count me in, but I like Twitter better, even though its broken...
- Trae Ruge
OK
- Larry Heim
Sure, why knot?
- ThePicMan
Can ALWAYS use more FriendFeed folowers! Still like SocialThing and Twitter best though!
- Jeff Garlick
What's the worst that could happen? Sign me up :)
- Joel Rickenbach
I enjoy following your tweets and would love for you to follow mine as well
- ken bavier
so when you gonna be on twit again?
- Prk60091
Aren't all Mahalo members worth following? :)
- Jack (a.k.a. Jeber)
Raising hand tentatively
- Dan Sleezer
Follow me please! Have fun at dinner tonight!
- Benjamin "Zeus" Heide
Response Generated. I think i'm going to follow your lead on abstaining from Twitter/pownce so I can get into FriendFeed properly.
- Tom Cheredar
Ke aloha nô me ka mahalo kâua!
- Todd Libby
Always loved your work. Keep it up and thanks for the follow.
- Chris Rodgers
Interesting idea, count me in!
- Daniel Rowley
Follow me! Follow me! Ooo! Ooo! Ooo!
- Mitch Wagner
Hi there !
- sergiooo
Follow!
- Mr. Wiggly
Follow please!
- Micah Maziar
I'm there!
- Herb Myers
in!
- Morgan
As amazing as it is, you already follow me. But feel free to unsubscribe, it will not remove what is interesting in YOUR feeds ;-)
- Myriam
ok
- Jeff Quinton
Mahalo's "Guide Note" and "Fast Facts" are reason enough do the research here
- Rick
cool
- Cezar Harabulă
follow me
- Kevin Doohan
I'm caught up in the technology...another "me too"
- Bryan Waters
oh...okay
- Carolyn
Ummm....errr...hmmm. Follow me
- Greg
add me when you get a minute
- Daniel Ehrlich
si
- Sean Malone
hey
- Emad
sure! add the feed from a Brazilian perspective...
- José Murilo Junior
Boo ...
- Cathy Brooks
beep
- Oldengrey (Jay)
I will attempt the same but without the response I"m sure
- Stuart Froman
sounds good
- Arvind Raman
Friendfeeding from Japan...
- Brian
sure add me, love the week try your doing
- David
You should be following me anyway since I'm all up in your site manipulatin' yur dataz..
- Tim Moore
this way
- Michael Chin
Easy enough.
- Doug Smith
done
- Eric Haber
In the house - mutual followship requested. :)
- ijalob.
Here I am
- Martin Gordon
good idea
- Graham English
Well, here we go !
- Atul Karmarkar
As we say in the South, come on in y'all!
- Allen Fuller
yep
- Sagar Jethani
Thanks!
- Todd Wickersty
from twhirl
ping!
- Ricardo Vidal
What's up Jason
- Matt
Please what ever you do don't follow me...i'm way too popular to have another tech industry millionaire following me.
- Sean Montgomery
Better late than never. Now I am on FF only have to work out how it works... Thanks for the tip
- Paul Greeve
Are you going to rebuild the entire nearly 30k ish over here? That would be insane.
- Lucretia Pruitt
Im In
- Comptr
Follow please :)
- Peter Dawson
Hi Jason, thanks in advance for the follow.
- Larry Kless
Yes please - it is a challenge how to parallelize your twitter connections on FriendFeed. They really need a good import interface with automatic notifications via DM back to twitter followers.
- Jed White
Yo, follow me please! Thanks.
- Todd Jordan
Do I get a large coke with that follow?
- Elias Bizannes
why not... you might like it :)
- Allison
me too
- Ashish Tonse
ping
- Steve Trefethen
Am I too late?
- Winston Teo
interesting posts, would like to hear more of your podcasts
- Brian Staker
and me ...
- Diana
Hey Jason; I'm in! Got so fed up with Twitter not working, thought I'd follow your lead and go FF all the way.
- Martin Betts
from twhirl
ok
- ahmet bulent
hmm... i think you subscribed to me already when i first started this account months ago.,
- excalipoor
giving it a shot
- eric Norlin
I'm up for it.
- Ivan
I'm in
- Peter Ghosh
I'm in.
- Tim Kress-Spatz
check it.
- Michael Leis
Word!
- Will Boyd
pimp me, pimp you
- Andrew Spencer
click me. i'm a whore
- Nan San
Hi Jason, ok so does Foundue have a FF account yet? l like his Flickr pics!! ha, ha!! (BTW, I am @smbeebe on twitter)
- Susan Beebe
Hi Jason, it will be nice not to have the Twitter out of service page, Gotcha in San Diego
- Debra Oliver
m'kay.
- AJ Kohn
Lets all make one big happy family :)
- David W
That...is a lot of comments. But I'd like to join this ragtag crew.
- Ben Parr
Dude this is the longest chain of answers I've seen in FF. But I'm in :)
- Alex Popescu
Does this mean twitter is dead? or did that happen a while ago?
- Jed
Okie, here I am commenting... follow me, or something!
- Vermyndax
Connecting.
- William Meloney
You asked for it, Calacanis!
- Mike Lewis
Some day we'll all have biological implants for social networking. And, this will be all so 2008!
- Walter McNabb
Reciprocate :-)
- David Peacock
Add me in
- David Daniels
CalacanisNation on the move...
- Pete Arden
Good luck, converting the entire list is difficult, So add me!
- Jason Kintzler
At least this seems to work :-) ... please follow
- pool101
Please add me to the list
- Tom Carroll
just signed up for FF myself!
- Mark Fusco
Hanging out at the bottom of the list
- Dominik Hofmann
FriendFeed is about to take over
- Miguel Carrasco
Great stuff Jason, fan of your work. It would be great to have a Twitter/FriendFeed contact sync application. I'm sure you know some peeps to make that happen. =D
- Grahm Skee
Just discovered friendfeed. Pretty cool stuff.
- George Gray
Thanks, Jason.
- Joe Colacurcio
Just joined FF. I'm headed to Brentwood next week, any tips on restaurants?
- Brian Blankenship
Hey Jason
- Akshay Dodeja
Actually, you know what? I rescind. Please don't follow me.
- Phil G
hello
- isky
Sure, count me in. I quite rule!
- Akiva Moskovitz
Sure Jason... shoot me a line, I'll be your friend
- Dave Senior
Enjoying Friendfeed. Come join the party!
- Mindy Koch
Checking in...
- Chris Hileman
Count me in too! Thanks!
- Michael Gianasi
For sure Jason :)
- mark.kemperman
add me.......
- Jeff Crace
post
- russ nelson
add me in
- Don Rogers
I just created my Friend Feed account.
- Durwin
finally registered for friendfeed. it's awesome ~
- wilson
hi jason...friend me up! or friendfeed me up!
- Laura
My hat there are a lot of comments here.
- Paul Jacobson
Wow, I am late to this party but if its still going, I am in
- Andy Breeding
Hi Jason, add me in!
- Hilary Marsh
How much longer before other gaming strategies are invented to increase the value of your friendfeed persona?
- Shakeel Mahate
Who *wouldnt* want to have JC following them? :)
- Jeremy Toeman
Please do.
- Robin Barooah
hope you are still fallowing this Jason
- Gaspare
I'm on board
- Mark Alves
one of the greatest things i ever did was make people think i didnt exist
- Randy
Add me... Thanks... (Why are you doing this? I mean, really...)
- Carlos Caridad Montero
This is actually quite interesting. I wish I had thought of this.
- Rishabh Mishra (p248)
hm.
- Amund Tveit
Hey follow me. I rule.
- Shawn Farner
add me toooooo
- tarraguna
I would like a follow. Thanks
- Sweyn Venderbush
sounds good to me.
- Mark Chandler
Yes, please.
- Morton Fox
whatever you say boss :)
- Myke
i think the efficiency is lost in this method
- Andrew Wise
freedfeed is - how they say - the bomb
- Jeremy
I have you on mine, following me may or may not be boring :D
- Renee Hendricks
following you on twitter and now on friendfeed
- Robert Wheeler
Apple flipped Rogers Canada the proverbial middle finger. Hooray!
- Steven Elliott
Thanks Jason, Go Mahalo!!!
- Bobby Edwards
Social Network of the week? Why not?
- Jay Savage
boop!
- Sam Purtill
I'm in.
- jered reynolds
Liking FF the more I play with it.
- Todd
alrightee
- James Joyner
Yooo hoooo.. ;-) Thanks Mr. Calacanis!
- Da-Chief
Yes.
- Russ Johnson
Count me in and you might like my webcomics
- Joe Chiappetta
From Twitter to FF, here we go!
- Catherine Juon
Ok I'll bite!
- Sean Kelly
Hey Jason! Listen to me! :)
- Simon Plashkes
I'll simply cite Rob Clark, who so eloquently put it: "I believe you're already subscribed to me, but now you can be double-secret-subscribed..." ;-)
- Carlos Granier-Phelps
Hi there. ;).
- Ernesto
subscribe to me!
- Wesley Barrow
Hey Jason how the Super Car going bud....
- John Spencer
Sure! Join!
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OK, I am responding
- Matt M Perez
Wow Matt, way to dig up an old post :)
- Simon Wicks
Ok, here is a comment!
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- wlai
obama is a fool if he does not select hillary.
Kamath (नमः), Peter A. Mello and Robert Scoble liked this
I think she just did herself a big favor in that. I agree.
- Robert Scoble
Obamas voters will be drastically cut if he takes hillary as a running mate and the same for her. She ruined the democratic party, but in the same sense, I would hate to have only one option for a dem candidate, so props to her for being a trooper, but she left a trail of destruction behind her
- Anthony
Not sure I agree with that... clinton "baggage" may be too heavy... I'm just glad she's planning on helping
- Michael Lehman
My fav is the über-mashup of Obama-Bloomberg, but that's probably not going to happen. Obama-Clinton is probably the next best thing.
- Daniel Shaw
Obama isn't a fool which is why he probably won't pick Clinton. She gave a good speech & will work to help him win. But there are republicans & independents who won't vote for her because of the Clinton years who would be open to voting for him. And she would also help mobilize the right - many of them think McCain is a RINO (even though he is actually very conservative) and aren't very enthusiastic.
- Steve Rhodes
Picking Hillary would go against his entire schtick: a new way, a new day. And it has nothing to do with age. It has to do w/her being a Clinton.
- Alison Byrne Fields
I think he shouldn't pick Hillary. She is too divisive a figure at this point. Many independents will jump ship. What he needs is a nice moderate democrat to run with him. I know everyone says "he needs a woman"! but the fact is there are no women in the race anymore and therefore it is no longer essential to his success. Women will vote for Obama over McCain in large numbers, anyway.
- Zach Landes
I don't know if that's such a good idea. They are both competent but I don't know if they make a good team. They have very contrasting styles and I think Obama's msg would get diluted if he did.
- Kamath (नमः)
from twhirl
How about someone like Diane Feinstein? Who are the leading candidates for VP after Hillary? I hope it's not a dopey white guy just to appease the South.
- Robert Scoble
I don't Obama can pick a woman if it's not Hillary, seems just wrong.
- Michelle Martinez
I would think a foreign policy brain. It really should not matter if its a woman or man..who cares anymore seriously? But Obama needs somebody who has his back on foreign policy given how Bush is leaving him this world and the World's impression of the U.S...
- Kamath (नमः)
from twhirl
why not Mc Cain as VP, it would be easier for each American, wouldn't it ? :-D
- Ulysses Saloff-Coste
Bloomberg would be an interesting choice for him
- Chris Lamping
I like Wesley Clark, but I doubt that it will ever happen.
- Michelle Martinez
You mean the same Hillary Clinton who threatened to "totally obliterate" 70 million Iranian men, women and children (an act of genocide), who boasted about being the candidate of "white people," and who let neoconservatives like Mark Penn run her campaign? Not even Bush and Cheney have made as inflammatory statements as these. There is not the slightest chance that she will be VP. She may not even have much of a future in American politics.
- Sean McBride
+1 Sean
- Karim
I don't agree, but that it was interesting response.
- Leif Hansen
from Alert Thingy
Give her a cabinet job or put her in charge of health care reform. After the campaign she's run, she doesn't deserve to be a heartbeat away from the Presidency.
- Rick Powell
@Scoble Oh man, don't bring that up. I think an Edwards VP would be suicide.
- Daniel Shaw
I've blogged about my choices months ago. Clinton is definitely NOT one of them. She would be a huge mistake. My personal choice would be a female governor (Sebelius of Kansas or perhaps Janet Napolitino) though I'm also somewhat partial to the idea of Bloomberg. My biggest issue if that the ideal VP should be a great Presidential candidate in 8 years (as well as well qualified now) - past successful Governors would fit this well.
- Shannon Clark
Can't be Hillary, it goes against his base. Can't be Edwards because Obama already has the South.
- AJ Kohn
I'd really like to see him pick Richardson. If he picks Hillary after the way she's acted for the last several months I'll have a hard time voting for him in November. Picking her would be a sign of very poor judgment.
- David Worrell
Obama is a fool if he DOES select Hillary. She has spent months trashing him. Now she comes up to him with $20-30 million in debt with a husband who has insulted him relentlessly....why should Obama cut them a deal? He should tell them to go back to New York and get lost!
- Mark O'Neill
OK I just think it's worth pointing out that this thread reflects a mostly male point of view. I've talked to several women indicate that they would like to see an Obama-Hillary ticket (and a few women who can't stand Hillary but that's another thing altogether). I don't see so many posting here. Just pointing it out because I suspect that this is not fully representative of the entire population. Hopefully Obama isn't just looking at blog feedback for inspiration.
- Dan Pacheco
You should never select someone whose instinct is to climb over anybody's corpse to power, let alone your own. Psychodrama of both the Clintons in an Obama White House? Please, you've got to be kidding.
- wlai
While there might not be a lot of women commenting here, there are definitely women who have vehemently opposed her candidacy. Peggy Noonan on the Right and this group on the Left: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jon-wie... I'd love to vote for a woman for President; just not this woman.
- Rick Powell
She gave a great concession speech, but she doesn't win him any states he doesn't on his own.
- David Weiner
Amazon, Twitter, Disqus down. Do you really want your data in the cloud? - http://dondodge.typepad.com/the_nex...
Justin Yost, .LAG liked that, David Risley and Dan Liebke liked this
this is crazy, knee-jerk reactionary talk. how else am i suppose to purchase a book, engage in a conversation, and discuss a blog post without a cloud? where else should these data live? typically microsoft head-in-sand'ness.
- wlai
better than having it useless and static on my machine. that's just a silly question. we make trade-offs. we make them because we gain when we do so.
- mrshl
redundancy, that's all I ask
- Michael W. May
from twhirl
I left a comment on the blog, but in essence, if you have a co-lo or any other hosting provider, you have about the same amount of control. Maybe I just need to write a whole post on this bitchmeme. Wait... haven't I done that already?
- Cyndy
so Obama wins the nomination I guess? Hillary VP? thoughts?
Kevin D. White liked this
too much bitterness on hillary's side, maybe a good solution to at least to clean the bad air between both camps
- Giancarlo Angulo
after what she said about rfk, no way she should be vp. plus she'll hog all the attention to herself and distract from the message.
- wlai
why not? if obama wants to be president, HRC can increase his odds. may not be perfect, but perhaps practical.
- Travis Parsons
The last thing the dems need is Obama/HRC. The idea is to win this election AND the next. Those two working together will have a hard time getting things done and jeopardize the 2012 election. It's that a president can get anything significant done in 4 years, and whoever follows Bush will need 8 years to fix the mess we're in.
- Marc Ryan
Had she shown some humility and conceded, or at least recognized the significance of the event, I would say yes. However, its very apparent that its all "me me me" in Hillary's world, so I would not even consider the partnership were I Obama.
- jcunwired
Nixon was able to go over Ike's head with his "checkers" speech. Won't work for HRC
- Chuck Boyce
from twhirl
Obama will not get to choose a VP. No one's concerned about that? Also, why should HRC concede? She's been winning states for the past 2 months! I wouldn't concede yet either unless I was actually losing..
- Mike Lewis
No, no, no. Worst decision Obama could make. Hillary holding a gun to his head to try to force the choice only makes it worse
- David Jacobs
from Alert Thingy
If her being on the ticket would help him get elected. If she would be more of a detriment, no.
- Bill Bittner
And what if Obama choose a yet to be known VP?
- Ben Borges
from fftogo
Obama has run his campaign on moving away from the wedge politics of the 90's that the Clintons are apart of. I think Gov. of KS, Kathleen Sebelius would be a great choice. It would mark Obama's and DNC chair Howard Dean's 50 state strategy
- Erik Weese
FriendFeed is NOT taking off ... why? (I gave some reasons over on this blog post but wonder why we aren't seeing a LOT more FF activity?) - http://www.profy.com/2008...
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I've been showing FriendFeed to tons of people and most try it out for a few minutes and then leave. It's clear to me it's not really taking off the way, say, Twitter did. I am getting pretty consistent feedback from people who say they don't see the value in it -- I left my ideas of how to get FriendFeed participation to go to a new level on the post I linked to on this cluster here. How about you?
- Robert Scoble
no great desktop client; too complex, particularly compared to twitter; web ui sucks
- wlai
wlai: yeah, the desktop client is tough, because of the two-level commenting system here. But if they implemented XMPP that'd solve that pretty quickly.
- Robert Scoble
@wlai i'm using MySocial 24x7 Sidebar. a pretty good firefox extension, but still not as convenient as Twitter IM bot.
- Jansen Lu
Why hasn't FF added any new feeds in several weeks? There are plenty of sites they could add.
- Elliott Plack
Has Robert found a new toy? Is it Plurk? ZubHub or whatever? lol
- Aviv
I made FF my home page but still struggling with it. I could just about keep up with Twitter but on here I get to see what the friends of my friends say on a tricky to navigate webpage. It's too time consuming for people that have normal jobs (no Robert, you job is not an average normal job).
- Gerard van Schip
No, FF is THE toy for me right now. I just want to get other people in here and I'm getting a LOT of resistance when I sit down with people and watch what they want to do with it.
- Robert Scoble
I think all these social apps need beter interop
- Charles Rice
from twhirl
Cyvros: links work in Google Talk. Just convert them to URLs.
- Robert Scoble
Cyvros: mostly I want XMPP for listening to the system. Not for posting.
- Robert Scoble
The value in FF is the potential of personal relevance and engaging in discussions without feeling overwhelmed or lost. Threads with 30+ comments are becoming more common these days, and so are 50+ likes. The thing is, Robert, I think super-users such as yourself with 2000+ friends expose individual entries to... too many people. Some complain that FF is fragmenting the conversation. Quite the contrary - I think FF will need to find ways to fragment it even more as it grows.
- Aviv
from ffreader
Cyvros That's the part I don't get. FF seems quite intuitive to me -- whereas other tools don't. That's not to say some refinement is not in order, mind you.... I need to give this some more thought (i.e. WHY is FF intuitive to me?).
- Joanmarie
Robert, I actually like how Friend feed is right now and understand people's dislikes about it but I think it still has some potential that we will see in the coming months!!
- Paul
Aviv: if you read my feedback, being able to hide completely some users is very important. The fact that I am able to "leak" into every conversation here is a huge negative for many people.
- Robert Scoble
Aviv: not being able to control the noise (and the noisiest users) is a major reason why people get turned off when they first see FriendFeed.
- Robert Scoble
I think part of the reason is that FF is billed as a lifestream aggregator - for people to combine their blogs, twitter, delicious, shared items, etc into one stream. But the average person doesn't have that many feeds that they need a lifestream aggregator to manage, in my opinion. Also, the desktop client thing that you guys have mentioned is important as well.
- Derrick Kwa
Well the obvious answer is that for people that aren't on Friendfeed the value isn't all that clear. I'm on Friendfeed and for me it's a tool. I don't like the aggregation aspects of it, but enjoy the discussions that float around. But the main issue with ANY aggregation service imo is that it lacks intent. To me it seems that unlike early-early adopters most people don't really have a need for a constant stream of unintentional shared content. Intentional personal sharing is much more valuable to them
- Alexander van Elsas
Paul: of course it has potential! Think about everything that's in the FriendFeed database that we can't yet pull out. Can I show you every item that has "n" likes? No. Can I show you every item that has "n" comments? No. Can I show you every item that has those things but with Robert Scoble hidden? No. So, YES there's HUGE potential locked up in the FF database that isn't yet available to us.
- Robert Scoble
Robert, we are very much aware that FF needs a lot more work (it's a young product), and that not everyone "gets" it right away. We are definitely working on making it more intuitive and approachable. That said, the blog post you linked two was written last month, and activity on FF has grown about 3x in that time :)
- Paul Buchheit
FF is very confusing - People who don't use many web2.0-sites can't profit from the unification of your web-presences. Using FF just for the coments is simply not appealing enough for the mainstream user.
- sdfx
Alex: You are right the intentional personal sharing is much more valuable to them but that makes it that much harder for the unintentional shared content. it makes FF just that more harder to understand. I know they are working on this little problem of FF, and I'm sure it will get fixed but I also know they will have to wait and see attitude!!
- Paul
Paul: awesome. I think the reason you are getting this feedback is cause you've built something that has huge value already, it's just frustrating for those of us who are being FriendFeed advocates because we don't have the right tools to convert other people into FriendFeed lovers too. For those who don't know who Paul Buchheit is, he's one of the co-founders of FriendFeed. I'm happy it's growing, but it could grow a lot faster if we had a few more tools to show people the value locked up in FriendFeed.
- Robert Scoble
I use them both (Twitter and FriendFeed), and I actually see more and more people (among my friends) that use FF a lot more than before. I posted some little stuff that I wish FF to add (here: http://friendfeed.com/e...) but those are really simple changes compared to what you ask for Robert :-)
- Orli Yakuel
It's two things for me: 1, Twitter gives me all the info I have time to digest and 2, to make full use of FF I'll need to sub to all the people I'm linked to elsewhere. Did I mention time was an issue?
- Rod Nicolson
While the room feature is a step in the right direction, we need to be able to create filters, that are accessible easily and are nondestructive to the main page. Perhaps Like Gmail, we could see all of the stuff at once, or just one filter at a time. In this case I'd have one for tech luminaries that post a lot, and people I really know.
- Elliott Plack
FF is a great way of aggregating al my feeds, and I love it for that. If all my friends were on it rather than just Facebook, then they'd find out more about me, because I don't just post to Facebook. Why should they have to get a signon and subscribe to a dozen different services just because that's how I chose to publish my content?
- Neil Barnwell
from twhirl
What would be great desktop clients for FF? Thoughts?
- Prakash
Robert, I read your comment on the blog. Re #2 and #5 - I agree that tracking topics is especially important on FF. I personally don't want IM notifications and all that - I want a pure FF interface play. I played with some ideas a while ago, see http://ffapps.com/stickys... - it doesn't take into consideration min number of likes or anything like that, but this is how I personally think FF should approach the need for real-time tracking.
- Aviv
from ffreader
Robert, it's all because of the user base and the ease of use, I'm guessing. I use Plaxo more than FF. And really, use Twitter more than 10x more than either of them. Not just for making updates, but to get updates from others, headline relays, etc. I use BrightKite and sometimes Twitterfone or Jott when I'm sending an update on the go, but they have value for me precisely because they all feed Twitter. Pownce arguably outperforms Twitter in terms of flexibility and reliability, but who uses that much?
- mark zero (Jason)
@aviv, is this thing works? http://ffreader.com/ or just for you because you built it?
- Orli Yakuel
The comments by Cyndy Aleo-Carreira are pretty apt actually; it is actually irritating to see information repeated; i don't like the reordering either; and discussions stripped from the blogs onto itself is understandably annoying to several people.
- Parth Awasthi
Since it is a lifestreaming application I believe most people use FriendFeed as a secondary application to Twitter. Also I think it would do alot better if the FriendFeed-is-Clunky-on-Twhirl issue would be fixed. For example, half way through writing those two sentences Twhirl updated the FF stream and everything I typed was lost. I almost said screw it and just didn't comment, but...
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- william douglas watson
from twhirl
FF is my all-in-one Web 2.0 Solution and there are enough excellent desktop clients - FF is my new center to the world! ;-)
- Dieter Schwarz
from Alert Thingy
The complaints that FF is too complicated are perfectly valid for a lot of people. Something like FF is geared towards the early adopter, those already on a mutlitude of other services and are looking to pull it all together in to one melting pot with comments. Joe Public doesn't work, think or behave like this - many just want a simple messaging system which is why Twitter clicks and...
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- Colin Walker
Aviv, will be really glad to test it! Robert, take a look at this: http://ffreader.com/
- Orli Yakuel
Scoble: I've not built this, this is not Paul Bucheit. I just know that some of this is coming it has to because if it didn't this wouldn't grow. I also know that people will have there problems just like DIGG people didn't like Digg because it had it's own little problem and you see how many flock to be over there!!
- Paul
having fun rather than using social networking as a serious discussion tool. We need a change of mindset or to just accept that fact that different services will attract different people and ne'er the twain shall meet. A service has to identify its target audience and then fully understand it, providing those features that audience demands rather than trying to convince those outside of...
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- Colin Walker
Orli: I can't log into ffreader.com. I'm using Firefox 3.0 RC1.
- Robert Scoble
It's like I'm living in a bizarro universe here. FF is dead simple to me - and was right off the bat. You add services, you add friends and then watch and participate. Pretty easy to me. I also don't know why people bring up twitter all the time when talking about FF. I don't see them as remotely similar or in any kind of competition. They're two apps that have a similar "audience" but that's it. Two different purposes and needs fulfilled. I'm baffled by some of the responses here.
- Vince DeGeorge
Cyvros/fyc: I am sure they are going to fix the commenting problem. They probably hear about that everyday they check there emails or watch the FF scroll up and down. I also know that the fixed width is not so bad once you understand that it's to show a comment or a link!! I understand how frustrating it can be and can't wait for the changes that are inevitable because without Change there is no community!!
- Paul
Vince: Twitter and FriendFeed are joined at the hip for me. I see them as different things, too, but I'd like to see FriendFeed adopt a few of the things that Twitter showed the world first. IM integration for one. Track for two. SMS capability for three (er, and a mobile client).
- Robert Scoble
Vince: I say you've hit the nail on it's head with Twitter and FF, You can't possibly do this type of commenting and discussion with Twitter!! Twitter only allows 150 characters!!
- Paul
robert, FF is growing. it's growth in the past couple weeks is outstanding. you aren't going to get everyone to use it though. and you really should stop comparing it to twitter. because it's fundamentally different. twitter is a microblogging service. it's where we go to post things that are quick, easy, and brief. FF is a social media aggregation (and hopefully re-aggregation) service. they are both important tools and their growth should happen together. and that's happening. be patient and positive.
- Fred Wilson
FriendFeed needs a better commenting system ie Disqus. I have to confess I joined and then didn't use it for a while. Now I am totally hooked. I think some people try it and leave before they truly understand it. It's up to us to convince everyone to stay.
- Michael McGimpsey
@vdegeorge I totally agree. I found FF completely simple to set up. I just keep adding my feeds until I run out, and give people my FF URL. They don't even have to actually subscribe if they don't want to. It's perfect. Of course, Twitter updates go into it, so they don't need to go to Twitter to see them, or Facebook, or Flickr, or my blog. In fact, I'm not even that bothered about the conversation functionality, which does mess the homepage up a bit, I just want to publish my content so people can see it.
- Neil Barnwell
from twhirl
This is in fact strange; I am not a twitter user, but I am a FriendFeed user. I really like FriendFeed far better then Twitter. And the community part here in FriendFeed is what makes me coming back and check out what is going on. Twitter has too much noise for me...
- Joao
Fred Wilson: patience? Patience? Heheh. Good point. We all want it and we want it now. I don't see where I'm comparing it to Twitter, although, to tell you the truth, if it added a few things it could get me to switch even more of my usage away from Twitter. Twitter is doing that on its own, though, by going down so often. I know FriendFeed wants to be different than Twitter, but it has enough similarities that it begs for a few more.
- Robert Scoble
Part of the thing with whether FF will take off mainstream or not is based on how people want to use it. I think the discussion thing that we're all into here is a mainly geeky tech-person thing to be into (and proud of it!) but my Mom isn't going to bother. However, if like me you're mainly bothered about your friends seeing your new Flickr photos even though they're not personally on Flickr, then it's got mainstream appeal. I mean, people don't even have to actually subscribe to FF to see my updates.
- Neil Barnwell
from twhirl
Robert - you keep talking about how you need and like the noise. I guess some people prefer the signal...
- jeremy ettinghausen
jeremy: you missunderstand what I'm saying. It's pretty clear you aren't reading what I'm saying. +I+ don't mind the noise. I can deal quite well with FriendFeed how it is. That's not the point. The point is that I'm trying to get other people into FriendFeed. They DO NOT deal with noise as well as I do. They want far better tools to remove noise (remove Scoble is just one of those tools). I want more people here, to get even more noise, but to do that we've gotta have better tools. The tools are for THEM.
- Robert Scoble
Jeremy: That's a good point. The feeds are the signal (Flickr, Twitter etc) and the FF comments are the noise, as far as I'm concerned. However the comments are the feedback, so depending on your point of view, they're arguably more interesting to the originator.
- Neil Barnwell
from twhirl
Fred Wilson: where in this thread did I compare FriendFeed to Twitter. I went back and reread everything I've written about this and I don't get why you are saying I'm doing that? Just because I want IM/XMPP? Is that a Twitter exclusive feature that no other "live web" service should have?
- Robert Scoble
Neil: to me comments (and likes, which are just really a different kind of comment) are the signal that the original post or tweet or photo, etc isn't noise and is worth paying attention to.
- Robert Scoble
robert, i am not talking about this thread, i, like many people, follow what you say and do. it's the entirety of your stance on FF and Twitter that I am talking about. but that's not really the point i am making. FF is an amazing service. so is Twitter. and i believe they are both going to get better and better, and easier and easier to use.
- Fred Wilson
I think a bare-bones FF platform might serve it better in the long-run, since it will undoubtedly result in a bunch of third-party products and add-ons that enhance (or even finally enable) the FF experience for specific audiences or purposes (meme-tracking, desktop photo browsers, etc.). Either way, I think right now we're not seeing much innovation from third-parties beyond basic FF...
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- Aviv
from ffreader
one of the lessons from Twitter and other services we invest in is if you let the activity happen outside of the web service (via the API and other things), you actually get more users back to the web service itself. so that's why I am so interested in getting these discussions pumped elsewhere, like my blog via disqus (when the discussion is about a blog post i wrote). if that happens, then FF becomes even more relevant, more important, more useful, and more used.
- Fred Wilson
Scoble: Which is a perfect illustration of my point - people want different things out of FF, and we all have our own terminology. For you "noise" means something different to me. Of course, comments on my own FF entries isn't noise, it's "feedback", and that's different :). Anyway, when it comes to "FF isn't taking off", I think it could be a target market issue. I'd say FF has more...
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- Neil Barnwell
from twhirl
I'm going out on a limb here - the reason people don't understand FF is because no-one has really defined it yet. Egs: If I saw it for the first time and saw a thread with 50 replies, I'd think it was like a forum. If I only saw lists of feeds I could subscribe to, I'd see an aggregator or feedreader. Seeing an item rise to top when comments were left, I'd think it was like digg, etc. I'd want to know the implications and results of using it in order to be more interested.
- Paul Short
>>For you "noise" means something different to me. Here's a definition: NOISE: you talking about lunch. SIGNAL: me talking about lunch. Heheh.
- Robert Scoble
>>so that's why I am so interested in getting these discussions pumped elsewhere, like my blog via disqus. Fred: I am totally in agreement here. It's one reason why I put the FriendFeed widget on my own blog (and am evaluating other schemes to integrate comments here and there).
- Robert Scoble
@Paul Short - good point. Is FF trying to be too many things to too many people and is this why it doesn't appeal? The information on the About page is minimal and, whilst it conveys what FF is about at its core level, the way the service moves on is determined by the way it is used. I have no doubt that FF would be a completely different animal if it were populated by a different set of people rather than the usual suspects we find here.
- Colin Walker
Colin: We agree. I still maintain it's a target audience issue. The people using it will make it what it is. This is exactly what happened to Twitter. It started as "answering one simple question: 'what are you doing?'" and turned into a messaging/communication system by virtue of the way people used it. The same will happen to FF over time. I'm using it in a totally different way to...
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- Neil Barnwell
from twhirl
dying already? I thought it will get the necessary traction and kill socialthing before it gets launched.
- Palin Ningthoujam
Palin: I'm not using Socialthing, am I? :-)
- Robert Scoble
SocialThing is pretty much dead in the water anyway. Scaling back on services supported, too long in closed beta, not supporting the most popular web browser - all bad decisions which caused it to get left behind.
- Colin Walker
As compared to Twitter, I get to see more meaningful conversations here in FF (no word limit.. yay!). It's more difficult to follow conversations in Twitter too even with those 3rd party tools like: Quotably etc, and I think I get to socialise with more people on FF. But I agree that it's difficult to sell the concept of FF to friends.. It's either you get it, or not.
- Winston Teo
@Winston, there is a word limit it's just significantly higher that's all.
- Colin Walker
@scoble: In http://secondbrain.com we have a different approach to aggregation.We organize all the content into personal content libraries where it can be browsed by tags and remixed into collections among other things.
- Lars Teigen
@Scoble - I *totally* agree with you. FriendFeed adoption rate is impacted by lack of end-user tools to manage the frenzy of information aggregated in FF. For example, when I scrolled down to "catch up" this morning, I was notice this 1 post had over 97 comments! Holy crap that's way too much information. *Sigh*. This application is geared towards users that have a high capacity for information and can navigate a complex weave of conversations, posts, photos, blogs & other social media widget outputs!
- Susan Beebe
I think FF only starts making sense once you get a nice, active network of friends. It's the conversation that makes FF interesting to me. Without it I might not be here.
- Benjamin Golub
Susan: You're totally right, unless it's not the comments you want. If you just want to use FF as a content aggregation tool though, you lose the "noise" that is the comments.
- Neil Barnwell
from twhirl
The Comments is my *favorite* feature! but this is where most users would give me the deer-in-the-headlights look and close the application
- Susan Beebe
Susan: Which goes back to my point (buried in the previous comments :)) that it depends on what people want it for. People who glaze over at the comments might not want it for that.
- Neil Barnwell
from twhirl
In my opinion, FF needs to focus on the Feed. Think of the current web UI as a "default" presentation of the Feed that underlies it. This means, make the API the most capable API possible; even at the expense of the UI. Things like import, integration, automatic creation of Imaginary Friends, etc. *Other* people will innovate on the UI, if the API is at least as capable as friendfeed.com is. When I import a new service, I would like to carry my network of friends from that service into FF, creating...
- Kenneth LeFebvre
...Imaginary Friends as necessary, to keep my network complete. Give me the ability to merge Imaginary Friends, so I can manually make the connections across networks. Give me two-way participation from FF back to all those other networks, and I will use FF as my client for everything. ...just my 2¢... :)
- Kenneth LeFebvre
Neil - true. Need a way to "hide" comments as well perhaps for those users who don't want to see them. I will *not* be in that use case! ;-)
- Susan Beebe
At the risk of repeating: I think that FriendFeed is one of those tools designed for Mavens, Connectors, and Salespeople (i.e. Tipping Point concepts). Gather and discuss info, form opinions and ideas, crystallize thinking. Is it the best tool for broadcasting back out to the world? Don't know, maybe that's where Twitter/Pownce/Jaiku belong.
- Mark Dykeman
@Paul B It was written last month, but the increase in traffic over that month has made the points I made in my post even more obvious. More activity doesn't fix the problems; it only makes them more apparent. It's the main reason why I don't follow Robert, but pick him up on occasion as FOAF. He shares something. Then odds are Louis shares it, or Duncan shares it. Then Corvida shares it and Diggs it. Sarah Perez shares it. Then maybe Steven Hodson shares it.
- Cyndy
taking off with early early adopters or early adopters? This seems a tad premature. Twitter is 2 years old...it didn't take off until..what.. a year into it? year and a half? a month ago?
- Bwana ☠
@Bwana Twitter is 2 years old, uses a much less "early adopter" mentality for its premise (messaging vs. aggregating), and, well, isn't doing so hot at the limited amount of "taking off" that it's doing.
- Cyndy
Is it just me is or are aggregators like FF not going far enough in aggregating? I want to comment to a blog post fed here and have the comment go back on the blog. I want to frigging import my twitter followers/ees into friendfeed without manually creating an imaginary friend for each one that isn't on FF yet. I want to go to one place and not have to worry that i'm missing some part of a conversation. FF is aggregating, it's more of a window on different pieces of different fractured conversations.
- S. Charles Balazs
Being in the minority (e.g. not in the Internet / Web industries or one who's presence is across a multitude of services), I came to FF due to the aggregation aspect. I don't have much to aggregate (I only have three services connected), but I totally grooved on the commenting and interaction aspect of the service. I found FF to be quite intuitive and the sharing of so many "tidbits"...
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- JA Castillo
@Bwana - I was just thinking the same thing. @Robert - Not taking off the way Twitter did? Twitter really just hit its inflection point in March of this year. Let's look at where Twitter was at this time in its life to get an apples-to-apples comparison.
- Hutch Carpenter
Clay Shirky nails it in the WSJ: "It’s almost universally the case with social software that the software that launches with the fewest features is the stuff that takes off...nobody wants a door with 37 handles. Twitter has six features, and it launched with only one. A brutally simple mental model of the software that’s shared by all users turns out to be a better predictor of adoption...than a completely crazy collection of features that ends up being slightly different for every user."
- Michael Nielsen
Michael- but by that logic FriendFeed should be huge and Facebook should've flopped...
- Mike
wow this entry has ganied a lot of comments- 90++ , a harvest of users thoughts for FF :)-
- Peter Dawson
Have to agree with Hutch. It took Twitter a year to get beyond the techies and early adopters. A couple of weeks in the bigger spotlight doesn't determine whether FriendFeed will make it or break it. Give it a chance. I'm placing my chips on it.
- Robert Sanzalone
Reasons -- too much info flowing in; hard to figure out. Twitter is about as basic as it gets. The Ipod of IM.
- Charles Barthold
Mike - Everyone I know described Facebook the same way early on: "It's a way of connecting and keeping up with your friends". I've never heard two people give the same explanation for FF. "It's like Twitter, but with longer tweets". "It's like Twitter, but with other stuff." "No, it's an aggregator for information!" There's no shared mental model, and so the network effects are much weaker than Facebook.
- Michael Nielsen
FF's complexity (which is really elegant simplicity to those who get it) is its greatest asset. FF exposes the Z axis in an otherwise XY web. If that were represented visually on FF (as a toggle?), more noobs would adopt - more topics would appear, more friends, more feeds, more goodness.
- Noah Carter
FF doesn't seem complex to me, but it does take a bit of time at first to see what one can get out of it. FF seems to be different things to different people - but that's one of the things I like about it. It's useful in more than one way. Aside from the echo effect, the posted link doesn't seem to have much in the way of good criticism. People keep complaining about noise; that's what the hide feature is for.
- Tanath
I fully admit that I tried out FriendFeed for a day and quit. It initially wasn't easy for me to pick it up. But, I kept hearing about it on Twitter and gave it another try. I now use FriendFeed much more than Twitter.
- Patrick
The thing with Twitter is that peeps can just post and answer any echoes back, it's low intensity. FF however, requires the user to be a bit more ballsy, if you like. To get the most out of it, you have to be prepared to chime in, post and have a debate or convo with a multitude of people you've almost never met. The two are very different.
- Sally Church
I like Sally's thinking. I've often thought Twitter is for all people comfortable with chatting/instant messaging. Friendfeed seems geared more towards the type of people who'd post in forums or leave comments on blogs (a smaller group). However, I don't really have a sense for what % of FriendFeed users are voyeurs or what its potential is with people who'd like to view it all (even the conversation threads) without participating.
- Robert Seidman
@Parth Thank you, and I agree. Love that it's generated 100 comments, though. ;) @Mark Dykeman I think you have the core demographic nailed there. @Robert I love forums, but forums are WAY more organized and have nowhere near the duplication as FF does.
- Cyndy
Feature request - Place a # next to each comment so I can refer back to # x comment above. This is a standard feature on many blogs' comments. This post with over 100 comments in reply is a perfect use case to justify this feature!!
- Susan Beebe
Susan: that's called anchors :) http://www.w3.org/TR...
- directeur
Main reason I use it: condensing all my feeds into one spot, both those I read and those I produce. Main gripe: no way to quickly highlight what I haven't seen.
- xero
Another feature request - Let me subscript my friend's tweet only(not including flickr etc). This can be done by `Imaginary friend` but it would be more useful with one-click feature.
- satoko
News Spectrum - http://www.neoformix.com/Project...
To view this content, you need to install Java from java.com
- wlai
Suck Up to Sweet Success: Try the 'Heroism of Flattery' | The New York Observer - http://www.observer.com/node...
You're Too Kind: A Brief History of Flattery , by Richard Stengel. Simon & Schuster, 315 pages, $25.
- wlai
Time Out New York: NYC Shopping Guide - http://www.timeout.com/newyork...
Explore the NYC shopping scene through various store listings and reviews for all of your fashion and home needs in Time Out New York.
- wlai
FOXNews.com - Credit Cards Dominate Young Consumer Spending - Business And Money | Business News | Financial News - http://www.foxnews.com/story...
Plastic payments — including online commerce — now account for 50.4 percent of the spending among consumers ranging from 18- to 24-years-old, with cash and checks making up 41.1 percent of their spending.
- wlai
Zicasso: Have Someone Else Plan That Perfect Trip - http://www.techcrunch.com/2008...
trip planning
- wlai
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