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New sign at Twitter HQ http://twitpic.com/ty0w9
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So if the team makes "better mistakes tomorrow", what do they have planned? :)
- Louis Gray
It's hard to get the taste of irony out of my mouth.
- Kevin Fox
I really feel bad for these guys
- Mehmet Aydin
iRan
- Will Higgins™
I do to, and I'm sorry to even kid. I'm sure Twitter is being attacked constantly from various directions, from hackers to script kiddies to governments. I'm impressed they hold up as well as they do.
- Kevin Fox
I think we all share Kevin's views. The timing of Ev's share was very unlucky. But nobody wants this kind of trouble. They have been stressed to the limit with growth, which in theory is a good problem to have, and they are maturing. Tonight was a rare exception to recent continued good news.
- Louis Gray
Do the have a huge whale on top of their office?
- Jemm
LOLLLLL Onwards + Upwards to IRIDIUM!!
- Billy Warhol
2010 Paris Eiffel Tower
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Did You Get A Magic Mouse This Holiday? Download MagicPrefs Immediately. - http://www.techcrunch.com/2009...
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Which specific holiday are you referring to?
- Paul L. McCord Jr.
Beautiful Photographs of Winter - http://sixrevisions.com/design-...
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Louisgray.com -2009 Internal Year In Review (Month by Month) - http://blog.louisgray.com/2009...
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“MAKE WAY!…” (via jimpg2) - http://emmeffe.tumblr.com/post...
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A high school made a 1-shot video thru their whole school to the song...Oh, and the whole thing was filmed backwards. Amazing. - http://www.youtube.com/watch...
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guys, you gotta watch this - will bring a BIG smile to your face. I assure you
- Zee.
Yeah, that is ONE BIG SMILE!
- Christopher Harley
That's wonderful. Very nice diverse looking school too.
- Admiral Anika
Great video, love it.
- Rasmus Lauridsen
Classic.
- Andrew Leyden
Bump!
- Christopher Harley
from iPhone
ingenious!
- imabonehead
Must watch!
- TrafficBug
WOW.
- Andrew C
There's no contest IMO. Shorecrest's one-take video is amazing but Shorewood doing a one-take _in reverse_ is crazy awesome.
- Andrew C
Kol Tregaskes to Kol's feed, FriendFeed Feedback, FriendFeed Talk, FriendFeed Announcements, The Facebook Experience
FriendFeed will now update your Facebook status when you update your FriendFeed status (or statuses pulled into FriendFeed from other networks like Twitter)! - http://www.facebook.com/apps...
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There seem to be no official news so I've posted this as I've just found it on Facebook. Is this a good or bad thing? If I didn't want this but still wanted FB to import my FF posts what would I do? Basically I'm after a filter of what is imported from FriendFeed to FB. I'd like to filter out @replies and certain services. I don't want GReader posts being imported from FF to FB, can I filter these without affecting FF or GReader?
- Kol Tregaskes
Quote from the comments: "The reason for this change is the old Facebook API methods the application used are being deprecated very soon: http://wiki.developers.facebook.com/index... If you don't want FriendFeed updating your status please uninstall the application or revoke permissions at: http://www.facebook.com/editapp..."
- Kol Tregaskes
i've been doing this from my FF settings for a awhile.
- Thom Kennon
It's done this for a while. Back 6 months ago or so, the FF app for facebook was really buggy and didn't work for me anymore. Wonder if they ever fixed it.
- Bill Kinney
No, it's been importing the status updates but they've not been turned into FB status updates. That is the difference. Bill, works fine see here: http://www.facebook.com/koltreg...
- Kol Tregaskes
similar to how Twitter has worked then? that's cool. i turned that off recently, as my family kept complaining that i was too noisy. i could only imagine if I sent FF there.
- Bill Kinney
Actually it appears to be a half-worked job. The imported status updates from Twitter via FF in FB still have the FF icon and it seems that is putting people off. The imports need to be turned into proper native FB updates. These imported updates could also be in people's filters.
- Kol Tregaskes
Do. Not. Want.... I stopped Twitter updating my FB status because my FB friends complained I was making their streams too noisy. I want to cross-post my FF stream into my FB stream, but now there doesn't seem to be a way to prevent FF from making a status updates without disabling the whole app...
- Andrew Terry
yeah, i gave up on that app a while back. native facebook can pull some things like Youtube likes, flickr, etc. It's slow to update but it works.
- Bill Kinney
What the heck is a FriendFeed status?
- Michael R. Bernstein
Starting a thread, no more, no less.
- Richard A.
I'd rather continue to syndicate into FB from here using the feed. I like the idea that each one is a little advertising link for my FB peeps to click and find out about Friendfeed,
- Thom Kennon
Michael, anything that is a status update, such as Twitter and Gtalk. if you post a tweet and it comes into FF it will then go into FB as a 'FB status update' but it's not a native FB entry and still had the FF icon which is annoying. :-(
- Kol Tregaskes
Kol: the FriendFeed icon is there because the story (or status update) was created via the FriendFeed application. There is no way for us or you to remove that icon. It is for all intents and purposes a "native" FB entry
- Benjamin Golub
I love that the friendFeed team is still working on updates. Any chance you can make it on a "per-update" basis though? For instance, I don't like Twitter going to Facebook, but I may not mind others. Or, at a minimum, I'd love to check a box on my Friendfeed status and have it go to Facebook instead of Twitter.
- Jesse Stay
I've noticed one slight difference between application posts and native (link) posts.. The "view in applicationx" replaces the share button, which makes sharing an application posted link a multi-step process!!
- Chris Myles
Benjamin, so will these updates appear on the status updates filter: http://www.facebook.com/home...? I can't see any atm. Also, I'm still after filtering out each service from FriendFeed in FB, e.g. Google Reader, etc. and also @replies. ;-)
- Kol Tregaskes
Kol: the status update filter I don't think will work on them. But the app filter does: http://www.facebook.com/home...
- Benjamin Golub
Benjamin, yeah already have that filter. This is what I mean but it not being a true FB status update. If people filter on status updates they won't see the imported FF updates.
- Kol Tregaskes
Thanks for all comments! Yes, I definitely do not like the same things, posted simultaneously, from 1 person, to all accounts. May be I am ancient,hm :(
- Slavomira Vladimirova
What Andrew Terry said.
- Anthony Citrano
My facebook people and my friendfeed people get completely different input from me. Totally different audiences.
- m9m, Crone of FriendFeed
m9m .. I agree!! My friends would be overwhelmed by my geekness!!
- Chris Myles
I wish this had an off switch, or at least would only pick things up with some hashtag.
- Christopher Granade
That would certainly help.. or by allowing you to share only a group feed so you can configure it automatically based on services and via the bookmarklet/status TO: values. (i.e. cmyles-facebook).
- Chris Myles
FB ha comprado FF/ FB bought FF / FB a acheté FF alors....
- ladeloslibros
i dont see that option.. it updates the facebook stream not your status... i have friendfeed posts in my stream but my status still says twitter...
- Jay M
The 100 Best Sports Photographs of 2009 - Part 1 - Big Shots - Boston.com - http://www.boston.com/sports...
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This baseball photo abso-friggin-loutely blows my mind!
- vicster is...
from Bookmarklet
Not bad at all! I'd be even more impressed though if it was a bullet! :D
- Adrian
That's taken with a lightning fast lense!
- Rene Wirtz
Yeah, I'm guessing that lens is worth about six months' salary. At least. Something that's got a long focal length and able to be wide open enough to bokeh the pitcher AND sharp enough that you can just about count the stitches on the baseball...better make that worth a year's salary. :-)
- vicster is...
The photographer's name is Isaac Brekken and here's his website: http://www.photobrick.com/
- Adrian
And with a picture like this it pays off the lense :-)
- Rene Wirtz
My guess is it's probably a 300 or 400mm prime. The lens doesn't have to be fast. Most likely the body was though (like in the 10fps range). He most likely just manually focused it to a particular point, waited for the windup, and then jammed down the shutter button.
- ronin
Ronin, that sounds very plausible.
- Adrian
It's interesting that all these photos are technical/aesthetic achievements, but they lack the news aspect of much sports photography. None of those photos are documenting moments that anyone will remember years from now.
- s t e v e
I think you're right, ronin. @steve, I've always thought of The Big Picture and Big Shots as catering to the photo nerds more than the photojournalist crowd (though there is occasionally overlap). So the photojournalist part of me kinda thinks "harumph, what does the photo *say*?" but the photo nerd in me went bonkers for it.
- vicster is...
Vicster, that makes sense. They are certainly great photos; I think I just expected more of a mix of styles given the title of the feature.
- s t e v e
Canadian police chase - http://meme.yahoo.com/erdem...
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Wow this is so full of win
- Itachi
:))
- Ehsan Diary
Find people faster with LinkedIn’s new faceted search - http://blog.linkedin.com/2009...
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Marissa Mayer: An omnivorous Google is coming - Telegraph - http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technol...
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The next big breakout area for Google is going to be language, according to Marissa Mayer. "Imagine what it would be like if there was a tool built into the search engine which translated my search query into every language and then searched the entire world’s websites," she says. "And then invoked the translation software a second and third time – to not only then present the results in your native language, but then translated those sites in full when you clicked through.” Right now if you type a search query into Google in English, the servers crawl only English-language sites and deliver only English-language results. But this will change and Google are working on it. In the last 70 days there have been 38 new Google search products and one woman has overseen them all. Marissa Mayer, Google's vice president for search products and user experience, is both the innovator and gatekeeper for Google’s core product – its search engine. She scrutinises every slight tweak or change to the...
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- Eric Logan
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Forget the Web 2.0 Glamour - the Money's in the Enterprise - [ReadWriteEnterprise] {"Posterous for Business," is coming} - http://www.readwriteweb.com/enterpr...
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Police Dog, Tess, 29/1/35 / by Sam Hood - http://emmeffe.posterous.com/police-...
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Gowalla Gets $8.4 Million Series B For Geo-Networking. Attracts All-Star Investors. - http://www.techcrunch.com/2009...
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What is the ideal number of 30" monitors, ignoring cost?
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For a moment there, I thought Al Gore had decided to go into radiology.
- Victor Ganata
Well, let's see... the Apple 30" is 27 inches wide, and standard ergo recommendations says you want a viewing distance of 20-40"... 6 would give you a polygon with a 23" viewing distance... 7 would give you you 28"... I'd say 7. Actually 14. Two "rows" of 7.
- Ken Sheppardson
It's really the 360 degree chair/desk rig that's the hard part, btw.
- Ken Sheppardson
Doesn't that leave you stuck inside, Ken?
- Tim Tyler
I too thought it was Al Gore & a post about his many computers' effects on global warming!
- beersage
I think the right number ignoring cost is the same as the right number including cost -- the massive energy consumption exerts downward pressure, just like the cost. But now the ideal number of 30" monitors if you ignore both cost and the effect on the environment...well I still think it's 1. Doing what Al Gore's doing here, to me, is like sitting in the very front row of the movie theatre.
- j1m
30" monitors are very effective internal wall insulation.
- Bernie Goldbach
I think maybe a 10' high by 30' wide wall of them would be about ideal. I can't decide if I would want the wall to be linear or circular, though, or what kind of seating choices I would like.
- ⓞnor
He should convert all those books and papers in his office into electronic format. Use his bookcase as a monitor wall with nine 30" monitors. A setup like this would rock: http://friendfeed.com/imabone...
- imabonehead
Put some of them on a hinged or sliding wall and the trapped problem goes away.
- Andrew C
I just hope his computer desktop isn't as messy as his actual desktop.
- j1m
I am only staring at two at the moment... (actually 2x30"+23"+20")
- Paulo Gaspar
I was thinking of some sort of turret-like setup where you climb up into the ring of monitors... or better yet: hydraulics
- Ken Sheppardson
Yes, ideally you'd want something that would make Professor X jealous. Maybe they could fold down from a petal-like ring arrangement from the ceiling.
- Andrew C
Aha... or think Darth Vader meditation chamber.
- Ken Sheppardson
Ken, now I'm picturing Al Vader surrounded by monitors, hilarious!!
- Lo
I'd say 3. Anymore and you'll start neglecting one of them.
- Mr. Gunn
Whoa—check out the flip chart!
- Glen, Bespectacled Elder
Empirically speaking, zero. I've stopped plugging my laptop into my 30" monitor at work. All the windows get messed up. Plus, I have this theory that sticking to a single laptop screen helps me focus better.
- Jim Norris
Fighting climate change one flat screen at a time. Just think how much power he is saving when he turns it all off to go out. Does he have eyes in the back of his head or is the TV on just because he hates polar bears?
- John Cooper
Jim, I agree with you. When I had two monitors, I used one for actual work and the other for mail, friendfeed and other distractions. I do prefer using a 24" screen to my laptop screen.
- Gary Burd
@Jim, personally, I find that my laptop screen is too confining. I plug into a 23" LCD at work. I use the LCD for TextMate and a couple of Terminals, then I keep a browser open on the laptop for testing and search. That works really well for me. If all I have is my laptop screen, I spend a lot of time Alt-TABing between apps.
- Jason, Craving
Why get 30" monitors when you could just get a couple CRVD monitors (since we're ignoring cost, and all)? http://www.ostendotech.com/crvd...
- Curtiss Grymala
I've settled in on a 3-screen setup: Center (24") has 2-4 terminal windows, either half of 1/4 of the screen each; Right (22") has a Chrome window, IM, and often a couple more terminal windows monitoring processes or logs; Left (20") has either media player software or live.twit.tv in a Chrome window :-)
- Ken Sheppardson
Ken - Are you using any special software to organize the windows on your screen? I'm using a 30" monitor at work as my main screen and my 17" laptop screen as my secondary. On the 30" screen, I use a proggie called WinSplit Revolution to split my screen into sections. It's a lifesaver. Keyboard shortcuts automatically move and size the focused window to any portion of the screen you choose.
- Curtiss Grymala
No, Curtiss. I've tried different apps over the years, but nothing ever really clicked. However, I just discovered that the Windows key plus arrow keys in Windows 7 will now resize windows, e.g. Win+Left expands the window to the left half of the screen, Win+Left again moves it to the next monitor, etc.
- Ken Sheppardson
Nice. That's kind of the way winsplit works, except it uses ctrl+alt. Ctrl+alt+left moves window to left monitor, ca+rt moves to right screen. It also uses ctrl+alt plus any key on the number pad to move the window to any quadrant/half of the screen.
- Curtiss Grymala
from iPhone
OMG. His secretary must hate him.
- Kate Schmidt
The ideal number is as many monitors as he needs to lecture us about saving the environment.
- Morton Fox
Jackie to Jackie's feed, Architectural & Interior Design, Architecture, Ideas & Inspiration, Creative Design, Design {Sweet} Design, Designers Who Design Things, Fun Stuff, Fun Stuff, Amazing Things, Cool!, Crazy Gadgets, FF Gadgets
Incredible Underground Residence in Switzerland | Interior Design, Decorating, Furniture, Architecture, Home & House Design Magazine - http://freshome.com/2009...
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"Have you ever thought how it would be like to live in a bunker or an underground tunnel? Well, today we bring you the upgraded version of that, which is an all-equipped underground home. Situated in the Swiss village of Vals, deep in the mountains, the house is very hard to spot, which makes for a perfect gateway. The unusual architecture plan comes from SeARCH and Christian Muller Architects, and includes all the facilities a common house has, such as a guest room, an entertainment area, but also 「specialized」 interiors like an underground pathway. The entrance is a wide oval opening that you are driven to by some traditional stairs made in stone. Large windows make it noticeable and draw attention to the inside décors- that is when the people living there are up for some company. – via Trendir"
- Jackie
from Bookmarklet
SimplyTweet goes free just for today http://justanotheriphoneblog.com/wordpre...
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I think I was passed by the @googlecar today and took some video. http://www.youtube.com/watch... notice the spinning camera on top at 70 mph!
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What's even funnier is they probably had their cameras out taping the Scoblemobile as just as fascinating an attraction ;-)
- Jesse Stay
Huh-uh - I guess someone is going to appear on Google Street View. :)
- Olivia Lovag
What is the normal turn around time from the car taking pictures to appearance in street view?
- Brian Sullivan
Other pictures I have seen of Google transport carrying out shots for Google Maps Street View have had the Google logo on the vehicle... I have never seen any of them in the UK yet. Heh
- Geoff Jackson
My brother saw one in Manchester, probably a year ago. I suspect that Google are taking a more incognito approach these days after all the objections from the general public: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1...
- James Myatt
Quick, someone make stickers, this is clever: Badges for Bloggers To Appease FTC http://blog.louisgray.com/2009... by "Mad Dog" @louisgray
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"Mad Dog"? :)
- Louis Gray
StockTwits closes 3M from our friends at @trueventures and @foundrygroup http://www.filtrbox.com/article... congrats @howardlindzon @sorenmacbeth
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How To Create the Perfect Facebook Fan Page - http://www.techipedia.com/2009...
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Knocking app lets you see through your friend’s iPhone camera [Via @anthonyha on @VentureBeat] #iphone #mobile - http://digital.venturebeat.com/2009...
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I am beginning to finally get it... If you post on Friendfeed you get comments... If you post on Twitter, you get followers. If you are marketing something (e.g. your blog/brand, your product/service) getting followers is much better than getting comments.
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And if you are not wanting to get marketed to?
- Cristo
You need to than unfollow those users...:)) Twitter is a lot more about broadcasting and getting followers is like a drug.. the more you broadcast the more followers you get :)
- Bindu Reddy
Are you getting high right now? :)
- Cristo
Getting followers doesn't really mean anything: 390 of the 400 followers I have on Twitter never act or do anything with what I say on it. Getting them to convert is the meaningful part of the marketing proposition, and conversations, I've found, are far more effective at that.
- Mark Trapp
Mark is right.
- Robert Scoble
So, what's the FAQ for interaction on Twitter? I had a post that got 100+ comments the other day here on Friendfeed but no response on Twitter. I must be doing something wrong over there.
- Eric @ CSTechcast.com
twitter seems to be great for people who are lazy and not really savvy about marketing. it's sort of like shouting into the void, and you might get a few people to respond, but do you really get people to act?
- Bren -- Making Contact
@Mark, I agree with you.. However to a lot of people having a follower number like 10K/20K, which seems like a relatively easily thing to do on Twitter, is not only just a high but it is also a good way to keep in touch with your audience without spending too much time... Here keeping in touch with your audience is way more time consuming
- Bindu Reddy
Bindu, but keeping in touch doesn't mean anything if they're not listening. You can have a million followers, but if you're not getting any of them to act on what you're saying, it doesn't mean much. Getting conversations going with people, who may or may not be followers, which Twitter is pretty bad at, are more effective at getting people to convert. I just had a relatively popular...
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- Mark Trapp
Bindu, I'm following you (FF) and I just commented too :)
- Micah Wittman
@Mark, Curious how did you get them to go to your website?
- Bindu Reddy
Bindu, if I knew that I'd have it made. Near as I can tell, people were doing Twitter and Google searches for "twitter list," and then started retweeting it and sharing it from there.
- Mark Trapp
Following is such a low-risk endeavor that people don't put thought into it: they'll follow anyone and everyone. You even have people thinking it's common decency to automatically follow people if they follow you without even thinking about if their content is interesting. Following is the 21st century equivalent of receiving a phone book or the yellow pages: you do it just in case you need to contact or get ahold of someone in the future, but nobody ever realistically does.
- Mark Trapp
Yep, it's like collecting business cards that get neatly filed into a big binder. It's about the self-satisfaction of the collection - you feel more connected / networked / important and avoid doing the hard work of cold calling or meeting with people and building something or whatever.
- Micah Wittman
I agree with following being a low-risk effort... However I have also heard of ppl gaining value from Twitter without much effort. Take for example this coffeshop I am a big fan of - sightglass coffee. They get a lot of customers from Twitter. It takes them relatively little time to tweet and they get customers. It would be very hard to achieve the same on FF.
- Bindu Reddy
Bindu, I get lots of conversation on Twitter, too. One of the reasons I am there more than here is because people with common interest in my political obsessions are there, but not here.
- Karoli
Karoli - Yes, the Twitterverse is way more diverse than the FFverse. Curious do you get more comments/conversations per post on Twitter as compared to FF or is it that you you post more stuff because time spent per post is lower on Twitter
- Bindu Reddy
Bindu, I get very little response to political conversations/comments on FF - a couple of folks follow here but a very small percentage compared to twitter. I tried to pull people over here, but they didn't understand why they should leave tweetdeck and their twitter setup for new territory.
- Karoli
Geeks (+ early adopters, influential folks, the elite ...) are on FriendFeed and the proletariat on Twitter? Long live the dictatorship of the proletariat? Calls for action work best when the audience actually cares, so prolly that's all about choosing the right medium for the targeted punters?
- Sebastian
Sebastian... yes agree the geeks and tech bloggers are on FF... However if you are marketing say a fashion or beauty blog. You won't get much interest here. twitter is the place for you :)
- Bindu Reddy
I disagree with that statement, Bindu. There's a LOT of non-tech getting traction on FriendFeed. So much so that it's the number one reason Scoble no longer enjoys being here: he says he doesn't see enough tech for his liking.
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
Just butting in here to mention that there are tons of uses for both twitter and friendfeed that have nothing whatsoever to do with marketing. In fact, once could make the argument that social networks such as these were designed to get away from marketing. Unlike radio, TV, or even a web search, you choose who you'll be receiving information from. If you're looking to exchange...
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- Mr. Gunn
Marketing, schmarketing.
- Christopher A Carr
Bindu, what I'm sick of is marketers broadcasting their sales pitches to all social media outlets out there, regardless whether the audience might fit or not. Anyways, i'ts possible to attract a few somewhat intelligent responses to geeky topics at Twitter, at least when xmas and independence day share the same date. Most probably I wouldn't try to sell wonder bras at FF, though.
- Sebastian
@Tina ... umm I have not been an avid user of FF lately so maybe it has become pretty diverse. Are you saying there are a lot of people on here with specific interests such as politics, beauty etc?
- Bindu Reddy
Sebastian - LOL.. agree :)
- Bindu Reddy
Bindu: Ning is a better place to go if you have very specific topics you want to talk about. They are growing a FriendFeed every 12 days (they are getting a million new users that often and have just passed 38 million registered). FriendFeed is fun if you aren't sure what you want to chat about and you're cool with seeing lots of family pictures and goofy stuff. Tina is right that the hard-core geeks are mostly on Twitter or Facebook now, I keep watching here, though.
- Robert Scoble
Karoli I get all kinds of action here on political topics. I have more followers on Twitter but rarely get a response there. Here I got 80+ comments yesterday.
- MVB (Curmudgeon of FF)
from iPod
MVB, Karoli is a prolific voice on twitter. Twitter seems quite effective for political advocacy/activism even though longer form convos have to break out somewhere else. Also, just like friendfeed, volume / steady presence can make all the difference. Your tweet count is ~2K; Karoli's over 63K.
- Micah Wittman
My presence here is similar to Kaoli's on Twitter, then. So, presence is a mitigating factor. But, Micah, as you so deftly point out, for a long conversation there needs to be a move to another venue. That's where here works better, since it can stay right here.
- MVB (Curmudgeon of FF)
from iPod
We agree, and can agreed at length right here, folks :)
- Micah Wittman
So link your twitter to your friendfeed. Get followers and comments. The best of both worlds.
- Hareesh Nagarajan
Does it make any difference here whether the original post was to Twitter and reposted here automatically or the original post was directly here? In other words, does the FF community prefer to comment on direct posts rather than Twitter reposts?
- Jimmy Walker
Jimmy: it honestly depends on who you interact with on FriendFeed. There are people who get irate about people only posting to Twitter and openly advocate using FriendFeed directly, and yet, there are interesting people who always get a conversation going around their tweets. One thing that sometimes helps is coming back to FriendFeed and elaborating on your tweet, or to do more than...
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- Mark Trapp
Mark, that sounds like good advice. Thanks.
- Jimmy Walker
B.Reddy is right.I complately agree with her.A good view,and a good advice for us.Thank you Bindu...
- Dedegi
Following only happens after several good comments. Consistency is the key.
- Jeremy (on vacation)
Jeremy, I am not sure... Someone body or the other seems to come and follow you based on pretty much anything you twitter. Of course most of these ppl prob. do that expecting a follow back?
- Bindu Reddy
Bindu: I meant on FF. Twitter...they're pretty loose.
- Jeremy (on vacation)
I don't get followers from posting on Twitter; the only people who see what I post there are my followers.
- Glen, Bespectacled Elder
I post both places and get almost nothing... so where's your hypothesis now, huh!? ;-))
- Jim in Real Time
Post more pics of Johnny in a dress.
- Jeremy (on vacation)
If I was marketing something, I would do both...
- Johnny Worthington
Bindu: As you had said earlier, most of the followers at twitter don't read what you are tweeting. So it is actually better to get comments as you know those who comment read whatever you post.
- Amit
Amit, I completely agree with you about the comments and how no one reads your tweets. As an example I posted a tweet about "anchors" On FF there are 7 likes and 14 comments.. None on twitter. However at the end of the day for every 20 new followers I get 1-2 new friends. On FF much less of that happens. So from a marketing point of view Twitter is better.
- Bindu Reddy
Bindu, how many people are subbed to you on FF and on Twitter? What are the total number of subs to each? What is the ratio of your subs to the total subs of each? I bet a crisp dollar bill that you are subbed to a higher percentage of subs on FF than on Twitter.
- MVB (Curmudgeon of FF)
from fftogo
MVB interesting point of subs. # of subs on Twitter and FF are about the same but the quality of subs is much better on FF. As far as ration goes... yes FF is much better than Twitter and that does have an impact. However I am going to contend that even for people who have many more subs on Twitter (e.g. scoble?) there is much more engagement on FF than twitter. he probably adds more followers though on twitter
- Bindu Reddy
Bindu, exactly. Unlike you, I, and most others, are not here to market a product or service so we see a different function of Social Media.
- MVB (Curmudgeon of FF)
from iPod
Social Media 101: It's a two-way street - relationships are formed via interactions, not uni-directional broadcast. :)
- See-ming Lee 李思明 SML
This, btw, is true for all forms of marketing / business function - consider a customer support hotline that never get answered by anyone but just sits there as a 1-800 number.
- See-ming Lee 李思明 SML
I'd like to think getting sales is even better than followers, come to think of it, getting leads are better than followers too. Followers are overrated.
- Justin Hitt
@Justin... completely agree..
- Bindu Reddy
Friendfeed please don't go away.. - http://new2me.posterous.com/friendf...
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I still use friendfeed to "play around" with ideas about how I want to interact with the web, as both a content consumer and provider. Nothing I've found (yet) can replace friendfeed's functionality, easy to explain "common interface" (WRT to twitter/feeds) and the simplicity/flexibility of their embedded pages and widgets.
- Chris Myles
from Bookmarklet
Reddit is another model of qna site when you use the self.reddit section to ask questions and get answers from the community.
- TrafficBug
nice essay Chris, worth reading a couple times to appreciate how many good points you tied together in just a few paragraphs. FriendFeed nails Teh Awesome from so many different angles - should be considered a living museum piece exemplifying how to program a graceful SN.
- Dan Freeman
Dan thanks, "a few paragraphs".. too funny, here I was thinking how ridiculously out of date I am when I can't summarize my thoughts in a couple of sentences, let alone 140 characters. I completely agree about the museum piece and don't understand why the big players "don't get it". I haven't watched those tools "grow up" so I don't understand the history, but as a "castaway" there seem to be some pretty HUGE gaps that make me say WTF? Isn't all this supposed to make our lives easier and LESS complicated?
- Chris Myles
Well probably really not so easy to design and program as the simple grace of FriendFeed might lead one to think. I am starting to appreciate it as a work of art - a rare masterpiece of social software engineering. And your post explained a few reasons why.
- Dan Freeman
Louis Gray just posted his reasons for sticking around (http://ff.im/bS8xj). Notice that neither of us is sticking around JUST for the community, we've found a tool that works and there isn't a suitable replacement (yet).
- Chris Myles
+Dan for referring to Friendfeed as a work of art. It is. I hate to see participation flagging. My own circle has died down a little bit lately. I'm searching for active new users. I see a couple of new people almost every day.
- Kamilah Gill
Johnny Worthington just added his thoughts with lots of detailed reasons (http://ff.im/bVMpo). Nice writeup!!
- Chris Myles
Frozen Niagra Falls ~ Now That's Nifty - http://nowthatsnifty.blogspot.com/2009...
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October search term biggest movers are here! - http://blog.compete.com/2009...
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"October search term biggest movers are here! What terms drove the greatest query volume spike? Let’s take a look at some of the fastest growing terms since this time last year to get a better idea of the trend in consumer search interest."
- Mustafa Duran
from Bookmarklet
"# Facebook, Twitter, and POF continue to outdo last year’s numbers. # In entertainment, the Twilight and Harry Potter series had terms Robert Pattinson, Taylor Lautner, Emma Watson and Harry Potter all in the top 20. Disaster film 2012 was even higher at number 3. # Online media terms from last month (Justin TV, Hulu and free movies online) are joined by Fancast and Java.com (a program powers much online media)."
- Mustafa Duran
Reading: More thoughts on in-Tweet advertising - http://scobleizer.com/2009... via @loic
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France’s First Apple Store Will Blow You Away. [PIC] - http://thenextweb.com/europe...
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Is it called <<pomme>> ?
- Nick B.
its a mac
- Robert Higgins
c'est tres beau, more photos here http://www.macgeneration.com/news...
- alex
wow!
- zʍıɔ
damn!
- Mitchell McKenna
Wow!
- Nicholas Kreidberg
I was at the Louvre Carousel two weeks ago and saw that this store would be opening soon. Very cool!
- TVTechGrl
That looks so over the top it is almost silly. A temple????
- Joelle Nebbe (iphigenie)
bello!
- goldielocks (Laura)
ahah like to Nick B.
- Nicola Greco
Jeff Jarvis on the new ecosystem for news at the NewBizNews Conference [News Innovation] #journallism - http://newsinnovation.com/2009...
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