ugh. good to see pictures like this every once in awhile. found via boingboing - Marshall Kirkpatrick
Images of political and cultural distress, no matter how disturbing, are always so interesting. It's a moment caught in time that you'd never see otherwise, preserved for history. Brilliant. - Andrew Dobrow
I'm going to guess it was taken from 1 Rincon - a.k.a. "The Middle Finger" building. - Mike Doeff
Mike's right, it was taken at 1 Rincon. I'm working with the building developer on photos for their advertising. It's the tallest residential building in San Francisco at present. - Thomas Hawk
Fantastic photo - wow!!! bling! bling! I love it... great colors... soo cool... - Susan Beebe
oh. sounds like developers, developers, developers... :p - Pico Seno
I love friendfeed for the community. Period. This is about the only place on the web where I really feel safe to post my thoughts and connect with other people, outside of facebook. ff technology is amazing in that there's very little friction to adding/sharing/commenting. I've run into very few bugs or issues, and I'm not overwhelmed by choices and levers. Plus, it handles like a turbo volkswagen beetle in terms of responsiveness. - Ginger Makela
That's awesome, never even knew that place existed. ...via AlertThingy - Devin Anderson
With the increasing food prices all over the world, my guess is that Russia with (probably underutilized) areas that could be used for food production in the relatively near future will become an agricultural superpower. - Amund Tveit
that's debatable. at the moment our government is focused on becoming an energy superpower and combined with high oil prices this leads to agriculture becoming less and less profitable - digbea
Nice, let's go. They're really into the columns - j1m
I don't believe it; probably just CGI rendered by some Russian programmer... =P - Dan Hsiao
Not only Sochi, the whole Northern Black Sea shore, divided between Russia, Ukraine and Georgia - is beautiful. I spent dozen of vacations there and IMO the reality is even more picturesque then on the photos. You can probably disregard pollution for a short vacation, so if you're not afraid of likely food poisoning - go there. - Eugene
pics are beautiful tho i'm not sure whether Sochi is itself that good - silpol
Love Alert Thngy even more now. Just have to get AIR alpha to work on my Linux system now :-(. Getting spoiled by this Mac. ...via AlertThingy - Tony
Blogit is the new AlertThingy. ...via AlertThingy - Dan
I am just testing it since today but I am liking it. However, I think it could use some filters (per source, with comments, etc.) ...via AlertThingy - Andrés David Aparicio
alertthingy is not as polished as twhirl yet, but it's getting there. And yes, they could definitely merge, I wouldn't mind. ...via AlertThingy - Stan Schroeder
Still buggy, but has great potential. I also love the regular daily updates. ...via AlertThingy - Joshua Kerr
Social Thing has nice FB integration. Would love that via FriendFeed and Alert Thingy. ...via AlertThingy - David Smith
I like Alert Thingy better than Twhirl for what it is worth. ...via AlertThingy - David Evans
Yeah, I with the other poster that wants to get Adobe Air to work on Linux! dammit. - rambn
I'm loving AlertThingy. The Twitter thing is great! Just wish they'd get rid of the "via AlertThingy" signature at the end. I'd even pay for a premium version. ...via AlertThingy - Brandon Titus
Totally in love with Alert Thingy! ...via AlertThingy - Daniel Spradau
Commenting on this post, via Twhirl, now with FriendFeed support! Yeah! ...via twhirl - Michel Bechelani
Twhirl also adds a via thing. But I can't seem to download Alert Thingy. The button doesn't render, and it says I need to install the latest flash player even though I installed it. So due to the process of Twhirl being the only thing I can get, it becomes my choice. ...via twhirl - Lucas Kjaero
Twhirl has upped the ante this morning with 0.7.9 though! ...via twhirl - Tris Hussey
I am confused... ...via AlertThingy - David Kaspar
Yeah I noticed that Twhirl added FriendFeed support to stay in the game. I tried it but like AlertThingy better. Neither are as good as they can be but AlertThingy has the better implementation in my opinion. ...via AlertThingy - Rolf Schewe
I think it looks a lot better than Alert Thingy, I do really want it to be integrated into the Twitter window though ...via twhirl - William Spaetzel
So far I think Twhirl is doing it better. Integrating the windows will be almost the final step. After that, filter the FF tweets so I dont see dupes. ...via twhirl - Soulhuntre
I just downloaded the new Twhril with FriendFeed support ...via twhirl - Mike Wills
To me the lack of integration is the problem. Neither are as good a twitter client (for just twitter) as Google Talk. The real-time updates squashes any features these other cleints have. I use Google Talk as my main twitter interface with AlertThingy on the side to track my and other people's social content. At this point the layout of AlertThingy is a little nicer. ...via AlertThingy - Rolf Schewe
Seems to me AlertThingy is in the lead, and Twhirl is trying to keep up. I like Twirls Twitter features and AlertThingy's friendfeed features, ummm.... ...via AlertThingy - Ashley Williams
still prefer twhirl. As soon as they can integrate into one window I'm removing AT ...via twhirl - Ryan
They are both lacking. Until I can either integrate all my follows into FF or filter my Tweeple from FF neither will be perfect. I think that the twhirl team will get there faster as Loic has more resouces. Who knows maybe @snookca will intgrate FF with snitter? ...via twhirl - Jay Gilmore
Just bvecause you can tweet doen't mean you can read your tweets. this is a non-event. ...via AlertThingy - Matthew
Twhirl is still better i think. ...via twhirl - Tina K.J
Why can't we get rid of these via "...." messages. That's the killer for me. I don't care what client someone is using and it's just a distraction. Really not much advertising benefit either. - Brandon Titus
I agree. I still need to have Twirl for Twitter to be useful at all. ...via AlertThingy - Ainsworth Boyle
I don't know: I'm liking the possibilities of AThingy; less resource-intense than Twirl. ...via AlertThingy - Chris Judson
Brandon, the "via .." thing has been fixed. The clients need to update to use it. Check out a preview of how it's going to work here: http://friendfeed.com/e/b1d68a... - Bwana McCall
i am running the latest version. let's see if the "via.." is fixed. ...via AlertThingy - Anand Sharma
I didn't see comments. Or should we just comment here? - Ontario Emperor
@Ontario Emperor: There's a Disqus box there, I think... - Voyagerfan5761
@Voyagerfan5761 .. hmm they should be full feed .. I'll double check .. @OE .. there is a slight problem with the Disqus integration I have a holler into Daniel for some help .. in the meantime just click on the post title and the will take you to the comment page for the post - Sorry about that - Steven Hodson
OK, just for the heck of it I'm adding a comment here, but it exemplifies my previous post regarding things that work well enough being "enhanced" to the point of being unusable by all but the experts, or requiring yet another layer of software to manage. - Mac Beach
couldn't agree more. FF makes all those services more usuable. After only a few days, FF has already become one of my key web apps. haven't been to facebook, since I started using FF. - timepilot
Pretty interesting theme for your NextWeb-talk. Shows some good self-awareness ;-) - Johannes Kleske
Love the theme of your next talk...let me pose an interesting question/observation about this issue of the "Friend Divide" - I am a full time finance executive and entreprenuer that does his very best to stay up to date with social networking technology, I have a twitter account, Facebook, Meebo, Google Reader (too many RSS feeds!!!), LinkedIn account, iGoogle home page, Flickr, my own blog (which i don't have time to post to), etc., etc...even with Friend Feed, there are just too many things to stay on top of...it's overwhelming!!! Not to mention, all the things I want to do (e.g., create an account on Vimeo (spelling?), etc. - until we can find an easier way to have a true end to end solution where I can call "web-HOME", I don't see how we will ever get the masses (aside from us tech geeks and teenagers) to participate in all of this...this issue is going to have a huge impact somewhere down the road on all web stakeholders....is anyone as overwhelmed as me trying to keep up with all this innovation?! :) - Bob DeCecco
@timepilot - yep. Everything is becoming more distributed. Yet it is also becoming easier to centralize because sharing is now an absolute ground floor requirement. That is why FF is so important and why tools like it will kill the social country clubs (Facebook, MySpace, Bebo,...etc). FF thrives on sharing. The country clubs can't be completely open. - Kevin D. White
You cant comment in FeedReaders on blog postings. FriendFeed understands that...the blog platforms do not. I can't even see comments in the feed when I read a blog posting in a feed reader. Yes, you can get the individual comments in an RSS feed, but the conversational experience is lost. This seems like a simple fix for the RSS generator code of a platform...Wordpress listening? - Brandon Watson
I don't have a blog, so maybe that's why I don't get it, but why is it necessary to have the comments in the blog? You still have the control over the design, the length of the posts and the kind of topics you talk about. Why do you need the comments there? I really like how FriendFeed works. You have the links to everything, and you can comment right here. I even think the "what are you doing?" question is better answered here, because you can comment below the post no matter when it was made. - Alejandro S.
I think people are too scattered. They have too much content all over the place. Loic had a good idea when he said he wants his blog to be the central place of all things internet. - The Dude Abides
Safe travels Robert. I left a bigger comment on your blog itself. - Elliott Ng
makes total sense. if we're going to preach distributed content to media folks, etc., then why shouldn't we ahve distributed community? also, i agree...blogging a ton less because of flickr, twitter, link sharing, etc. - don loeb
"Below is the a list of the top 20 ways we saw people tweet and a graph showing the Twittersphere share of the top 10 post methods:
1. Web 56% (20734)
2. IM 8% (2975)
3. Twhirl 7% (2754)
4. Twitterrific 7% (2462)
5. TXT 5% (1683)
6. Twit 3% (1182)
7. TwitterFox 2% (1114)
8. movatwitter 2% (718)
9. P3:PeraPeraPrv 1% (459)
10. Netvibes 1% (266)" - Paul Buchheit
"For all the press that FriendFeed got last week for allowing people to post replies directly to Twitter, it was still 65th on our list and registered barely a fraction of total tweeting activity. Some analysts think FriendFeed is a threat to Twitter's existence, but remember that 56% of users still interact with Twitter on the main site, and Twitter makes up 44% of activity on FriendFeed. So which service is really more reliant on the other" (Well that sure was grumpy) - Louis Gray
The "44% of activity" stat is very misleading. Number of entries is not the same as activity. As a fraction of content, Twitter is very small (because a single blog post, for example, provides much more content than a single tweet). - Paul Buchheit
Twitter and FriendFeed are like a newly dating couple they both feel the love we will see if the nuptials ensue - John Anthony Hartman
