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Re: How our digital lives are spreading out

briceachang — Fri, 29 May 2009 18:14:45 -0000

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Chel — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 10:44:00 -0000

Have you considered adding the Friendfeed plugin that allows you to embed those comments into your blog too? All the bits of conversation coming together.

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avedan — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 04:56:21 -0000

Good start, chances to bacome a hero...

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John — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 07:42:43 -0000

You do not need to be a hero to start, however you have to start to be a hero. Good start which promises a lot of interesting things... A bottom line of this idea is "to start a conversation" and it does not matter in what blog you will have your start. Let me not to agree with you. The question here that actually bothers me is whether all blogs will be given equal opportunities and will be presented equally or some of them will be given a number of privileges and will always be in the first line. Don't you think that it is already high time to create a platform of equal competition? May be, only then it will hardly matter where you start.

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bauertim — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 07:35:14 -0000

FYI, I took some detail notes as I reviewed this webcast and saw some interesting implications from FriendFeed for those that might want to evolve into a product category evangelist.

Basically, a movement back to the 1920's and Burma-Shave style of marketing.

If you are curious, here is the link:
http://timbauer.bauerfive.c...

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dhingana — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 02:03:55 -0000

very interesting read...i would have loved to attend your talk...FriendFeed is a very interesting concept

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Steve Murch — Sat, 05 Apr 2008 20:26:57 -0000

Here at BigOven.com, a social network about food, we just went live with FriendFeed support. Using the FriendFeed API was quite simple and straightforward, and it appears to work well.

BigOven is a social network about food, and will automatically place notices on your FriendFeed (with your permission, of course) when you rave about a recipe, post a cooking video to the site, post a photo, or receive a medal from another user for something great you've done in the community.

What it means for sites like us is not only a development-cost savings (not having to roll our own friending/broadcast platform), but also to be able to participate in a much, much bigger platform. I argued that Microsoft ought to buy FriendFeed (or ShareThing) immediately and drop the Yahoo bid, on my blog recently.

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Richard Callaby — Sat, 05 Apr 2008 17:36:46 -0000

Robert,

A "friend divide" that is new one to me. I would love it if the Internet friends were my "real" friends but since many of these "friends" use social networking as a marketing tool it is hard to believe that I would consider them real friends. Do you actually meet any of these friends in real life? I am sure that the vast majority of them you have never met in person, like myself. I would have a beer with you if i met you in person but since your such a globe trotter then i do not see that happening. Just my thoughts on the subject.

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Jeremy — Sat, 05 Apr 2008 17:14:48 -0000

Your self-absorbed narcissism has reached a new high.

My prediction: your readership has peaked.

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Christopher Coulter — Sat, 05 Apr 2008 12:38:01 -0000

Lee a Cylon? Omigosh...

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Erik van Roekel — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 15:32:36 -0000

Great interview with Robert from Amsterdam at:
http://www.marketingfacts.n...

Dutch Marketingblog, but don't worry interview is in English :-)

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Alex Forrow — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 08:25:30 -0000

Just doing a follow up to Nick to show a conversation - showing this at thenextweb to scoble

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nick halstead — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 08:15:50 -0000

just showing Scoble how our conversations work

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W3G — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 06:48:09 -0000

I do not know what services do FriendFeed and Twitter will offer in the future. But it is pretty interesting how social network sites go bloom..I wonder what will they offer next or will they offer good addon services on it.
-W3G

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El Cheapo Soy Sauce — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 03:00:34 -0000

The friend divide reminds me a lot of the talk in the early 90s about the global village. I think it turned out that some people live perfectly content only having real connections to people, while others prefer the virtual connects made through Twitter and the like. I'd be interested to hear how many people you have real connections with that you meet in Amsterdam.

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AlienJazzCat — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 15:39:36 -0000

Wow.. I certainly had these ideas for a long time.

I've definitely been able to implement many of them (where else can you uniformly Comment/Tag Search Results or Feed Items and share with friends, or Post to Topics, all within an overarching framework of interconnected Memes..?)

I just never had enough in the way of friends.. Stayed away from Facebook because I wanted to code.. Always though MySpace was ugly.. Had a couple friends who coded with me but got tired..

Its clear that the will to code and good ideas simply aren't enough.. I've slowly watched Google implement things I had going (Notes on Search Results..? Search History?)

Damn you Titans!! :)

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Christopher Coulter — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 14:51:10 -0000

It's just more ways to talk to yourself and fellow worshipers. The conversations are all so much fluff and randomness, but at least, in the past, some blog posts have been well-written thought-pieces, now everything is either straining-to-make-a-point quickie posts, controversially sensational or a mere pointers to things done elsewhere, as so many other new-new-hot-hot things to focus the short attention spans on.

Friend Divide? How seriously condescending. Just because some people don't play gotta-collect-them-all Pokemon games with software Social Services doesn't mean they don't have friends, in fact offline, the friendships are wider, deeper, richer and more focused on things other than the latest Web 2.0 or Web-personality-cult of the moment. Besides, you (personally) don't so much as "have" friends in these spaces, as much to "broadcast" to them.

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Thomas Hawk — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 12:23:46 -0000

I like friendfeed and Pownce more than Twitter. This bias is probably because these services show photo thumbnails while Twitter does not.

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Shay — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 12:20:45 -0000

Commenting on your blog post to say that the discussions on FriendFeed and Twitter this past week have been much more dynamic and interesting than those in the comments on your blog in the last week.

I finally opened a FriendFeed account and started following people immediately - I feel like I have a much better pulse on what is going on on a daily basis in the tech industry.

FriendFeed is almost like a 24 hour CNN or Stock Market TV program...except it has news you care about!

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Simon Brocklehurst — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 10:27:27 -0000

It'll be interesting to see how services like FriendFeed and Twitter do in the future. I can't help but wonder if these are serving rather small niches, though. More on this thought on my blog @

http://www.psynixis.com/blo...

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Justin Thorp — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 09:15:09 -0000

So does your friend feed quickly become your main digital identity online?

If there is going to be one place online that is Justin Thorp, I'd rather it not be part of one centralized system. My blog is the center of my online identity and everything branches out from there.

FriendFeed is too much of a centralized decentralized social network.

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Dario Salvelli — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 04:42:12 -0000

I think that blogging is still the best way to develop the conversations and idea. But yes, there is Twitter, Google Reader (do u know the gReader extension? you can send comment on Google Reader with Disqus) Flickr, FriendFeed: this is a part of our digital identity that we can summarize in the blog.

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Daniel McVicar — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 23:46:48 -0000

Hi Robert
I prefer your blog to a conversation held elsewhere. It's like a party that you are hosting, instead of floating around at other events.

You make a great host.

Re: How our digital lives are spreading out

Luke — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 23:32:11 -0000

My biggest concern with FF, FB, Twitter, and most other sites that want to host my conversations is that some of them are going to go under and take my conversations with them.

The Social Media I am going to get excited about is the one that makes it easy for me to make a back-up of both sides of any conversation I am a part of.

Also it took us forever to get a working blog search. How on earth do we find the conversations we are interested in now that they are spread all over the place?

Re: How our digital lives are spreading out

Herschel — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 22:48:45 -0000

The trouble with technology geeks is that they are in lala land with their assumptions. People still use fax machines because they are easy to use and serve a purpose. People still use those old simple telephones that they've had in their house for the past 20 years because the technology works and is simple to use.

Scoble is on the way far bleading edge and technology adoption isn't going to happen over night. The mainstream is just now "getting" the Internet.

I found Ken's comment, "the act of commenting is much like bird droppings to me in that people will leave them wherever they frequent," ironic seeing how he left his poopoo here... Commenting, it's so last year.

You know, to be honest with you, all this "new" Web 2.0 technology is great. It gives the VC's a place to employ well meaning people. But what matters is how will these startups find real revenue streams and sustain them for years to come. That boring old telephone technology that A.G. Bell invented a century ago is still bringing in revenue around the world. Hell, I'll be impressed if Facebook, Friendfeed and the lot of these social expierments are around in ten years.