FriendFeed’s Progress Out of the A-Listers’ Garage « I’m Not Actually a Geek (13)
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Photo courtesy of jo-h on Flickr One of the earlier complaints about FriendFeed is that it is primarily the playground of the early adopter set, particularly the A-Listers. Remember the recent discussion around Allen Stern’s post about FriendFeed’s recommended members? That they are so heavily weighted toward the top A-Listers? Robert Scoble, Dave Winer, Steve Rubel, etc… Well, over the past month or so, I’ve noticed a trend where sub-groups are forming and are very ...
Jennifer Van Grove shared as favorite Personal & Corporate Brands. They Interdepend on each other (10)
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[Personally branded. Scoble ponders what it means. Photo by Shel] There's lots of talk these days about corporate and personal brands and in my opinion some of the speakers have very different ideas about what a brand is than I do. It takes me back to my last years in PR when the dotcom bubble was being inflated by dumb money backing dumber ideas. I remember more than one conversation in which someone holding a ...
Tag Clouds for Our Lifestreams (20)
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We are marching down the lifestreaming road. There are a proliferation of lifestream apps, such as FriendFeed, SocialThing, Strands, Swurl and others. Lifestreaming is getting hotter, and there’s some thought that lifestreaming will be the new blogging: Sites and social tools like these and many others encourage more participation on the social web than ever before. Although the social participants on these sites are often more active in socializing than they are in blogging, there’s ...
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Eric Rice said:
I'd want this with a historical timeline cloud, something organic to display greater context of me and me over time
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Mark Dykeman said:
Sure, I'd like to have something like Hutch describes in his post.
Dave Winer for CTO of the United States (8)
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One of the promises of the Obama campaign is to appoint a Chief Technology Officer (CTO) of the United States should he win in November. It’s recognition of tech has a driving force within the US economy, and it’s an idea that I know I’d want copied in my native Australia. The question is though, who will become the first CTO of the United States of America? There’s no set criteria, no precedent, no rules ...
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Bwana said:
Because blogging and RSS are essential to a safe America. . Puhlease. Give me a break.
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Rizzn said:
OMGWTFBBQCTO?
How I Photosynth’d my family room (22)
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I just put up a Photosynth of my family room. Unfortunately you need a Windows machine to view it. But, this is a combination of 50 images I made this afternoon with my Canon 5D. It took only a few minutes to upload them all and complete the Photosynth. Very easy to do. Anyone can do it, you just need to plan out your Photosynth a bit. Sort of like a big stitched panorama, except ...
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runbuck said:
Interesting technology here. Can take 3D Surround of a home.
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Vishy007 said:
sounds like kind of thing that google uses for street view
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Shane Conder said:
Looks like the site has been "Scobleized"... I had missed the fact that they opened it up for creating them from any images. Dang, that's great!
How I Photosynth’d my family room (11)
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I just put up a Photosynth of my family room. Unfortunately you need a Windows machine to view it. But, this is a combination of 50 images I made this afternoon with my Canon 5D. It took only a few minutes to upload them all and complete the Photosynth. Very easy to do. Anyone can do it, you just need to plan out your Photosynth a bit. Sort of like a big stitched panorama, except ...
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Shane Conder said:
Looks like the site has been "Scobleized"... I had missed the fact that they opened it up for creating them from any images. Dang, that's great!
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Vishy007 said:
sounds like kind of thing that google uses for street view
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runbuck said:
Interesting technology here. Can take 3D Surround of a home.
My Three Nits with FriendFeed’s iPhone Interface (6)
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On my recent trip to Hawaii, I had a chance to road test my brand spankin’ new 3G iPhone. My web surfing largely consisted of FriendFeed. So I had a good chance to try out the iPhone interface for FriendFeed. Overall, it was great experience. The links, pictures, comments and Likes came through well. But a week of living only with the iPhone did make me see some things that could be improved: The text ...
Why I'm late to embrace Shiny Things (4)
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Why Thomas Hawk is my iPhone Canary. [Thomas Hawk at work. Photo by Shel] I sat smugly this morning reading Thomas Hawk's compelling five reasons not to upgrade to the new 3G iPhone. I stroked in comfort my the one I obtained in the quaint old days of September 07. Still works works fine. The battery lasts me up to three days. It has a killer app that lets me actuall talk in real time ...
Scoble, Brainstorm & Braided Journalism (10)
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I have continually regretted the animus between traditional journalists and bloggers. I think both sides have become increasingly entrenched in their partially accurate complaints about each other and I do not think the public, the press or bloggers are served by the standoff. These are not new thoughts for me. But they came recently when Scoble reported on a cultural bump he experienced during his talk at Fortune magazine's Brainstorm Conference. Scoble wrote, "The audience ...
Changing the Twitter Conversation - Adding Talk (1)
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A good week ago my father said to me I know when you are busy you stop blogging. It’s never really intentional it just gets cut out of my day and each day forward makes it more difficult. For many reasons I’ve also been spending more time on Twitter. When Twitter first launched I thought it was pretty cool. Few of my friends instantly followed. Yet today more of the conversation in and around blogging ...
Why It’s Cool Not to be an A-Lister (2)
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Obviously, despite all the talk of long tails, quitting blogging, and all the other issues flying around lately, there are a hell of a lot of perks to being an A-List blogger, or indeed an A-List anything. One huge perk of not being an A-List blogger occurred to me the other day, however - being able to actually use all these cool new services how they were intended. Take services like Twitter or Friendfeed, for ...
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TDavid said:
Brad is onto something here.
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Obviously, despite all the talk of long tails, quitting blogging, and all the other issues flying around lately, there are a hell of a lot of perks to being an A-List blogger, or indeed an A-List anything. One huge perk of not being an A-List blogger occurred to me the other day, however - being able to actually use all these cool new services how they were intended. Take services like Twitter or Friendfeed, for ...
Who Is Your Information Filter? « I’m Not Actually a Geek (45)
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This comment by Michael C. Harris on FriendFeed the other day caught my eye: Heaps of fantastic shares from unknowns get almost completely ignored and yet Scoble shares “Scoble” and gets 50 comments Michael is hitting on something very important. In FriendFeed, not all shared items are created equal. I’ve noticed some people are really good at getting people to click through on a shared item and start a conversation. I think of these people ...
Scoble、「コメント荒しはDiggへ帰れ」とビデオで主張 (1)
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Robert Scobleは昨日、「ブロガーは読者を満足させるのに失敗している」と主張してブロゴスフィアにちょっとしたショックを与えた。 「われわれは似たような話を追い回し、PRエージェントにいいように利用され、一つの話題を読者とじっくり対話することができない。数日もすると次の目新しい話題に飛びついて前の話題を忘れてしまう」とScobleは嘆く。私はたまたま（ひどい眠気を催す） Fortune BrainstormカンファレンスのビデオでScobleがこの点について話しているのを見つけた。彼はコメントがトロルに荒らされるようになる前の牧歌的時代のブログを懐かしんでいた。Scobleは、トロルどもはDiggから来たのだから、Diggに帰ればいいと考えているらしい。しかし本当のところは単にブログがより広範囲な読者を獲得したことの反映だろうと思うのだが。とにかく、彼の見立てでは、問題はこうだ。現在のコメントシステムは全然ダメだ。…何か強い動機がある人間しかコメントしない。つまり、たいていの場合、利害関係者だ。だからブログは面白くなくなっていしまった。われわれがコメントの荒しを野放しにしておくから、普通の読者は現在のコメントシステムに近寄ろうとはよもや思わないようになってしまった。そればかりではないだろう。良いアイディア（たとえば、安価なウェブタブレットPC)について、ブロゴスフィアのあちこちで1ヶ月以上議論が行われることだってある。さまざまなブロガーから多様な意見が出て、アイディアが次第に改良されていくだろう。たしかにわれわれはニュースの奔流に流されがちだ。みんなが同じ事件に殺到し、1日、2日で別のテーマに移っていく。しかし、かならずしも、いつもそうだとは限るまい？[原文へ]（翻訳：Namekawa, U） タグ: Scoble
The New Facebook Newsfeed: Slow. Over-engineered. I Like It. (12)
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Facebook recently rolled out several changes related to activity streams and commenting. As TechCrunch’s Michael Arrington noted, these changes represent the “Friendfeedization” of Facebook. The changes include the ability to import activities from other services (e.g. Twitter, blogs, Last.fm, etc.). Before looking at these changes, let’s take a moment to understand Facebook’s market position. Recent numbers indicate that Facebook continues its tremendous growth. Mashable’s Adam Ostrow reported that Facebook had a terrific June in the ...
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Putting the Social Back In Social Media, How to Communicate Online (10)
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My session at PodCamp3 Boston was called Breaking Into the Conversation, Busting the Clique. It was about how to use social media to its fullest potential for you. Basically, how to be heard online and what social media tools are your best option. So many people assume that to be a success when using social media, or to have it be productive for them, that they must follow the A-List or only vie for the ...
Video: Scoble Tells the Comment Trolls To Go Back to Digg (33)
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Robert Scoble caused a stir yesterday with a post on how tech bloggers are failing our readers. We all chase the same stories, get spun like a top by the PR machine, and can’t sustain a conversation about a single topic for more than a few days before we all rush to the next shiny object. I caught him on video at the (surprisingly snoozy) Fortune Brainstorm conference. He pines for the old days of ...
Techmeme and TechCrunch's Detractors Prove It's Hard to be On Top (17)
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One downside of being in a visible leadership position is that you often have a bulls-eye on your back. Sometimes it's from your competition. Sometimes it's from people who feel what you offer isn't benefitting themselves personally, and other times, it can arguably be your biggest fans, who want to change what it is you do to serve their whim of the day. In the tech blogosphere, there is no single blog more influential and ...
Registering for SxSW 2009? Read This First. : Tod Maffin (9)
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* Best read out loud with a few of your colleagues standing within earshot. Dear God, it’s happening again. People are starting to plan their Fall and 2009 calendars, deciding which tech conferences they should take in. After all, in this business, money to fund flights, hotels, and registration fees doesn’t just drop out a sky filled with angels. (Excepting, of course, those companies for which money is, in fact, dropping out of a sky ...
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BillDeys said:
Funny as Hell, and some very valid points too!
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Sean said:
I wholeheartedly agree :)
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Josh said:
+1
Should I Buy the Apple 3G iPhone or Nokia N95? (7)
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I’m in the market for a new phone. And I’m pretty damn easy. Apple has now released the next version of its phone, the 3G iPhone. With all the buzz around it, it’s hard not to consider buying one. But before taking the plunge, I wanted to understand what I’m getting myself into. I also wanted to consider what many people claim is a superior phone on the market, the Nokia N95. But first, about ...
