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I'm seeing a TON of new people on both twitter and friendfeed. Welcome and let us know if we can help!
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Great.
http://www.kyte.tv/scobleizer#uri=channels/6118/301757
has a video about friendfeed that I did that ...
Thanks for getting me more involved in both!
You helped already with the video you posted up on ...
Thanks - I would have probably waited on joining FF ...
Hello :) that's a good video, I actually started coming ...
you can help by paying attention to the massacre in ...
was just watching it; gave me some new ideas on ...
ernie: I don't comment on it for several reasons. For ...
Twitter is a great place to give your opinion without ...
ditto for me as well Robert. first introduced to FF ...
One more thing: friendfeed is an aggregator, so if you ...
If any of you new starters are interested in video ...
If I accidentally hide something, how do I unhide?
Rutger: if you realize your mistake in time you can ...
Robert: Thanks!
@Robert
I'm liking your comments here... A room for each ...
I refer you to my FF post from this morning ...
Matthew: I'm gaining more than 100 per day here (more ...
Robert, that's interesting. More new followers in twitter than FF. ...
Well yeah, but you say things people care about. People ...
AND I haven't changed at all since friday.
Matthew: people have this believe that the one who dies ...
Robert, do you sleep? Seriously :)
not much last night.
I'm here because I saw your zillion posts on it. ...
Robert: Really? Disappointing really - I'd rather have less than ...
poor Robert :) Get some Zzzzzzzzzzzs!
Bullo: that's what I figure it is. But Twitter is ...
Well, I may be playing wrong, but after the first ...
Great initiative, thank you Robert! What I'd like to know ...
Zack: I'm following about 6,000 here and a good percentage ...
Question - if you're subscribed to someone on FF, is ...
Matthew: I quickly stopped the "courtesy followback" - and I ...
Susanne: That could become a horrible Mash-Up tweet as well.
Matthew: Oh the horror!
robert, u don't have to comment, you can like/rt, which ...
ernie: as opposed to their propoganda, right? Got it. This ...
Here is a PROs and CONs to using FriendFeed conversation: ...
Careful Robert. This is a battle you don't want, I ...
robert, you are wrong, which is why you need to ...
gaza =/= hamas, who Israel is fighting. Don't want to ...
Seems we're quickly straying WAY away from the original topic ...
What she said.
well, he asked how to help us noobs - this ...
Robert: I recently joined both friendfeed and twitter and with ...
Robert: In case of an emergency would you call 911 ...
Going through your video now...very helpful!
its getting strange when my mom's 65-year old best friend ...
Parents, grandparents and friends of parents may actually become a ...
I posted a Diary on DailyKos mentioning Twitter and FriendFeed ...
Robert, thank you for subscribing. I'm honored.
Thank you for subscribing to me, I never thought you ...
Robert, is TON the measure of user body mass or ...
best think about friendfeed, still up now without the fourty ...
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Interesting blog about what's wrong with friendfeed's interface
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Joshua Porter does an awesome job here of explaining what's ...
I disagree with almost every one of those suggestions. [edit] ...
AJ: why?
Friends of friends represent huge potential value. I think getting ...
The interface I never knew I wanted - but I ...
+1 AJ. The first suggestion might be valid but others...
@Robert
: I'd be okay with the ability to select how ...
+1 AJ The reason more lines are shown as well ...
GreaseMonkey does have a script that allows you to filter ...
I'm all for compressing more content into the scarce vertical ...
If they had everything in a single line, the vertical ...
As somebody in the article comments already posted, you can ...
It appears he wants to use FF primarily as a ...
I do disagree on de-emphasizing the people though, it is ...
@saeba
Bang on. FF is all about the commentary. Any ...
saeba - snooty? I see it as a headache bypass. ...
We have to think about new users. I've read enough ...
Most of the things he doesn't like are things that ...
Interesting observations, although I don't feel there's any major problems ...
@TK
There are definitely problems with the UI. As a ...
"Randomness helps us discover. It can create interest. It can ...
@Susanne
Isn't that what hide is for?
saeba - I was just commenting on the "snooty" part. ...
This from a guy that seemingly has never commented on ...
site is down. I didn't do it.
Went to read post and got this message "Error establishing ...
Sure, FF could (and will) make some improvements, but it's ...
Every suggestion is bunk -- this is clearly not a ...
I really like the fact that FF shows you who ...
I have to say that I agree with a lot ...
What barce said +1. Scanability is *not* the point of ...
OK, link works now, and now I can comment on ...
There are two major problems with Implementing his suggestions 1. ...
While I don't care for his suggestions personally, when I ...
title here should read: "Uninteresting blog about what's right with ...
This would be a cool little tweak - make links ...
I've solved most of the problems Joshua mentions by processing ...
Carlos, let's say that you put me behind the wheel ...
Sean, could you post a screenshot of your FriendFeed/GReader-based scanning ...
OE makes a good point and an good analogy. How ...
From a user interface standpoint, hiding items strikes me as ...
I wouldn't want a bunch of line items as if ...
Ontario: a single screenshot wouldn't capture my Google Reader view ...
Sean, assuming the interface isn't omniscient, wouldn't the bare-bones case ...
+1 Barce - yeah if the guy wants an RSS-feed ...
Christopher - you are correct that it takes a bit ...
I discovered this post through GR, by the way.
I also use a Twitter folder in FF to cut ...
Sean, that's actually a pretty brilliant idea, cause I always ...
Nathan: in my FF folder in GR I place FriendFeedLinks ...
Sean: I'm subscribing to you based purely on my respect ...
Wait a sec. Only 5 entries on the page? No ...
More: I find the posts of certain FF users to ...
More: my FF and Twitter folders in GR are nicely ...
Sean - I'll bet your desk is clean too.
Nathan - I've been strongly interested in optimizing my news-reading ...
The only thing I would say about your system Sean ...
Scott - minimizing to the max, getting rid of clutter, ...
Gabe - if I am in the middle of a ...
Sean - More power to you! I also love Google ...
I neglected to mention a key point: ALL the items ...
True but it is not realtime ... it is RSS. ...
For all people who are noting that Google Reader items ...
It can take up-to 3 hours for FriendFeed to push ...
I would hate that interface. I don't agree with any ...
The basic Friendfeed user interface is like logrolling or birling: ...
Gabe - check out the FriendFeedLinks feed
http://friendfeedlinks.com/
Is it ...
I know this is a plug for my own code, ...
Ontario - try this experiment: add the feeds for your ...
Dod: intriguing FF interface. But no features for starring, tagging, ...
Some interesting comments but I don't agree with all. E.g. ...
I'm pretty happy with the interface as it is. In ...
0 minutes ago
Nine ways Twitter could make money:
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1. Look for affiliate revenues
2. Exploit the spaces between content
3. Adopt a freemium model
4. Add Virtual Goods
5. Get recurring revenue, er, find a way to charge ...
6. If you’re going to do advertising, get into creating ...
7. Create “frequent tweeting” programs
8. Look for support, or tips, from your users.
9. Get outside your website. Try to sell schwag. Do ...
Pro features at some point would be nice. An enterprise ...
Inserting geo-targetted ads on Tweets.
Got any others?
what about truncated, collapsable/expandable threading?
And maybe "Nine ways Friendfeed could make money" hehe
Twitter should license their technology to companies for intranets.
TweetSense. Ad Tweets served BY Twitter, who has the best ...
What about platform support via dev tools? Encourage the ecosystem ...
premium blogger services. Cool site integration tools with metrics.
10. add premium support for app developers.
Considering they have had 100% uptime for a few months, ...
Thanks for this article Robert
11. sell inhouse or managed solutions to companies for their ...
Sell the entire background page to brands by the hour/day ...
I'm a little scared of the day all these FREE ...
good point..what is the answer Robert?
Paul: I don't think free is going away. But I ...
By following a brand's advertising account you consent to receiving ...
7.1> Post ad-tweets every half an hour from twitter account, ...
Nine ways to get me to close my twitter account.
freemium is definitely the way, one flavor or another. you ...
Create daily reports for similar types of tweets and licence ...
Chris: in that case I hope they do all nine! ...
ugh, can we please look at ways for twitter to ...
sell email addresses and lists of followers to email advertisers.
Phase 1: Twitter Phase 2: ??? Phase 3: Profit!
alphaxion: most of these are not about advertising.
Every local government needs to be on twitter, on their ...
care to comment about Obama and his 8 million strong ...
Robert, I'm not very active on twitter. I don't think ...
Create a premium 'breaking news' service from data mining existing ...
apart from 6 ;) Tho I'm addressing the others who ...
charge for premium "booty call" service.
Chris: friendfeed has the same business model choices ahead of ...
Selling my email address is NOT a way to make ...
Alphaxion: #6 is actually about Context Optional, a company that ...
squeeze the advertisers...users should not have to pay for service ...
Chris: hah! Actually most of the dating services are going ...
Robin: problem is that advertisers are going away. TechCrunch is ...
Robert, I think FF could probably do pretty well with ...
point taken
How many users on FF at this point?
charge a-list players to use the service. :D
Have Twitter subscribers pick a few products to "endorse", and ...
charge 11 cents per tweet
Robert: not forgetting that comps can simply sing up with ...
Chris: adsense is shit. Pays low CPMs. HotorNot makes $10 ...
Turn "following" into a Multi-Level Marketing pyramid!
very interesting discussion, robert. thank you! after 2 months of ...
Robert, if you want to pay $10 to put poo ...
the sale of commercial API keys so that software such ...
How about paying to block people? Not just for me, ...
:)
Charge for Groups feature ala Yammer
They should Plax-ify Twitter and create a premium service to ...
Rick: I thought following already was a multi-level marketing pyramid! ...
I think you forgot data mining (which links directly into ...
bravestface: there are about 250,000 registered users of friendfeed (it's ...
At least two of those registered users are Robert Scoble. ...
cant we think SMS as a strong income model?
If you're a company trying sell/advertise via Twitter...I would expect ...
How about a search engine. Soon there will be so ...
A variant on #5 - develop tools for professional/advanced use ...
Joanna:
http://search.twitter.com
has tons of places to monetize. I'd pay ...
Which social network/media companies do you think will fail first?
Chris: there are quite a few that I don't even ...
Emphasis on 'could'
AOL, CompuServe, and Prodigy were the big three online services ...
Robert: I'm with you on that! Once companies are using ...
Joanna, kind of like restaurants paying to be higher in ...
The key is for Twitter to charge advertisers and not ...
@jim
they would make orders of magnitudes more by selling ...
alphaxion, couldn't some team reproduce a more robust version of ...
Rent the logo space. Good ad spot.
If you tell Toyota or Coke that their constituency is ...
I like snorting coke, and my friend Trisha Toyota does ...
@chris
- that's cool, just don't snort coke and drive ...
@chris
their software is a product they can sell, the ...
Chris: exactly. Done right, who wouldn't pay?
What's the source of the current online culture of entitlement? ...
Colin, I'm not sure it's always entitlement, but that might ...
I pay for reliability and accountability - a free service ...
I would pay for additional features = pro account (stability, ...
ok, so maybe Toyota was a bad example
http://tinyurl.com/99gkj7
enterprise version already exists look at
http://www.yammer.com
Great ideas Robert. Twitter execs will appreciate it but I ...
Forgot one ... make people pay to use it but ...
yes, i think acquisition was their business model - but ...
content partnerships,
Following on from the discussion re FF UI - this ...
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Useful gadgets of CES past
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Thoughts on the Friendfeed interface
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"Excellent points! I too wish I could toggle a view ...
8 hours, 44 minutes ago
I don't do real work. Real work = putting a roof on a dallas building in July. I don't do anything close to that.
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bollocks, and I hate to hear it coming from someone ...
I think I'm Robert's token blue collar friend. :D Card ...
me neither.
I understand what he's saying. I was there. I agree, ...
Been there. Done that. Don't want it.
I've done that, but worse - in Houston
Ah yes, the myth of physical labor vs mental labor. ...
Mark, some weeks I work 18 hours a day, 7 ...
What I do every day is VERY real. That some ...
perhaps "labor" vs "work"?
Growing up in Dallas, and having a brother-in-law in the ...
A summer roofing in Beaumont convinced me that I wanted ...
I'll bite. Work is work. Putting your full attention and ...
I like my job.
Writing is one of the most stressful jobs ever - ...
...and I doubt I am the only person that feels ...
Robert: It's work. Just not the kind of work your ...
I googled "real work" ... lo and behold, "The Real ...
@bwana
,
@mona
: well said. we're comparing apples to oranges. technological ...
If you love what you do, you never work a ...
"...poncing off to Barnsley with your coal-mining friends..." - the ...
Working is the dead of creativity.
I work hard at my job - but it is ...
Doing carpentry on a 200K sqft concrete slab in Dallas ...
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What real-time keynotes need (VentureBeat wins Apple keynote race bigtime)
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"I’ll add Gizmodo. JD: if you only care about what’s ...
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Ooppsss, sorry for missing GeekBriefTV and Gizmodo from my coverage. Added them to
http://tr.im/30yy
-- doing live reviews of live streams!
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When Livestreams Go Wrong
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"I reviewed all the live sites, including TechCrunch and Chris ...
new audio feed from the keynote -
http://www.ustream.tv/channel/mactips-podcast
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Watch MacWorld keynote from VentureBeat in real time:
http://friendfeed.com/rooms/venturebeat-macworld-2009-keynote-l/realtime
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whats there to like bout a link to view some ...
I guess this is a case in which you DO ...
me too, is this the best friendfeed room for macworld ...
anyone out there live streaming (Video) the event ?
Chris Pirillo has a ustream:
http://www.ustream.tv/channel/chris-pirillo-live
OMG. Phill Schiller ATE STEVE JOBS.
Loren: If FF allowed it I would have "liked" your ...
the live feed from Chris P. isn't coming through so ...
frank: it's working well here.
thanks Robert ... i'll close it and try again
*sigh* can't post in the room. Has anyone really touched ...
5 year lifespan advertised for the battery
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What real-time keynotes need (VentureBeat wins Apple keynote race bigtime)
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VentureBeat is kicking ass.
Nope. Pirillo's Live audio via uStream and Ryan Block's photo ...
Rolf: I'm watching all those too. Pirillo's chat room is ...
I am starting to believe you are some sort of ...
I don't know if the FF real-time rooms are suited ...
@Shawn
: I agree.
And looks like macrumorslive.com was cracked by probably 4chan
Shawn: it's a lot better than any of the other ...
I was watching Macrumorslive.com until this happened...
http://tinyurl.com/7npsp4
Oops. Thx for ...
watching the VB-stream in a pop-up window...
GeekBrief for me. Everything else is bogging down, Venture Beat ...
gdgt live hosting got hosed. Switched to Engadget alongside Pirillo ...
Robert: VentureBeat's feed it good and bad. Good i.e you ...
Rolf: I'm seeing photos on the Venture Beat room. Look ...
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My review of all MacWorld live sites:
http://tr.im/30yy
VentureBeat and Chris Pirillo win.
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The Followers - Part 1
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Part 2 has to deal with the return follow (or ...
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Best Small Business Books
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I'll have to add these to my Google Reader. Thanks!
I meant GoodReads
Page not found.
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21 Entrepreneurship Websites Worth Checking Out
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RT svartling Great article about Cloud Storage for Consumers
http://is.gd/eGbL
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Anyone else nervous about trusting the cloud not to crash ...
Cloud computing scares the heck out of me, but I'm ...
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Craigsphone Brings a Better Craigslist to Your iPhone [Featured IPhone Download]
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Already using it. The interface is almost better than the ...
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I could watch TweetDeck all day long. Can you tell I'm running it on a second computer now? :-)
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I have it running on a seperate computer at home, ...
Is a second computer necessary, or could you just add ...
I have another monitor attached to my Macbook, this is ...
You have tweetdeck on a dedicated machine?
I think having a second computer is more productive. You ...
I dont have seperate keyboard/mouse, mines mainly just another screen ...
I had to to do that too...needed a dedicated box ...
Just gave Tweetdeck a try over the weekend, but I ...
mrshl: I use Tweetdeck mainly to watch searches and the ...
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TG Daily - Seagate unveils highest-density hard drive
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Seagate's my sponsor. They have some other new stuff coming ...
they also got seimens HDD patent voided after showing IBM ...
Steve Gibson has stated that current high-density drives are less ...
Mark: I believe that. Bits now are being stored in ...
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Yes,
@leolaporte
you are nuts (he is in line to see the Apple keynote). I am just going to watch it all on TweetDeck and friendfeed.
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Ah... smart idea...me too!
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@adambird
no, I am not backing off of friendfeed or twitter like
@techcrunch
wants me to. ;-)
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Good me neither! :) But, I do have to scale ...
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Other good places for Apple keynote watching? TechCrunch. Engadget. Gdgt.com. VentureBeat.
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gdgt will certainly be interesting.
technologizer might be good too, using CoverItLive
macintouch, macrumors, appleinsider, tuaw will all probably live stream from ...
There is a Venture Beat room here that will be ...
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@stopdoingnothin
my son is probably trying to sneak a look at macforums on his iphone while in class today. Kids these days! :-)
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@CreativeWisdom
a good follower is you. Engaged. Smart. Interesting. Credible. Authoritative. Relevant. Nice. Fast.
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@chiusano
for Apple keynotes I always watch MacRumors. But the real fun will be on twitter and friendfeed.
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Where can we watch the Apple keynote?
It won't be live, but you can subscribe to the ...
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@ericjodom
the number of followers you have really does NOT matter. All you need are one or two good followers.
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hmmm
helps us "unknowns" small fry :)
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RT
@prsn
:
@Scobleizer
Ars Technica should be included in that list. (ooppsss, agreed, another good place to watch MacWorld coverage).
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Putting finishing touches on column for fast company magazine about how Twitter could make money. I got nine ways.
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I wanna be the first to read this! :)
There are so many ways. Enviable position to be in.
speaking now with my team in India (we have 80 ...
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@snowvandemore
if I was rich I'd have three 30-inch Apple monitors with various live feeds flowing around me.
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*dreams* I would love that. Not all for watching the ...
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@willhiggins
I think a second computer is actually good for productivity. Why? Focus is better when you have two keyboards. Less temptation.