DISQUS

StealthMarketer · 2 years ago

Learned about you from my friend Erica O'Grady. My twitter is @MarineAg. Looking forward to following you and collaborating! Thank you for your openess. God bless.

Steph · 2 years ago

Ooh, I can't believe you hadn't heard of Lijit. I blogged about it months ago! (you should start reading my blog ;-))

Robert Scoble · 2 years ago

Steph: I can't try EVERYTHING that comes through my Google Reader! If I did I wouldn't have any time to eat, sleep, or travel to Paris! :-) But while we're at it, anything else I should try?

Stormy · 2 years ago

I think people still see their friends as "their friends, their resource" like sales people see their rolodex. Something valuable to be horded. It's changing but slowly. And as long as the people that could change it still horde their rolodex, they're never going to understand that you are giving yours away. So keep blogging, twittering, talking, videoing, ...!!!

neverness · 2 years ago

Robert, have a look at noserub.com, they've got something you might just like. I've been playing around and it surely helps keeping track of what's happening (it's open source, so you can install it on a server, or just use one of the available service providers.

Nickie · 2 years ago

I don't see a lot of bloggers pay attention to livejournal, but it's where I blog. There are ways there to see the friends of users. On my blog, for example, you can go to the "friends" link at the top of my blog and see my friends. As a writer who's always looking for other good writers and others who share interesting experiences, I think it's a great feature. I never did understand why the feature hasn't spread.

Matt Thazhmon · 2 years ago

This is the future of the web that we at http://FreeMyFriends.com are trying to enable. We've just released v101 of the FreeMyFriends API and are looking for feedback on the API.

http://freemyfriends.com/Api/

We can be contacted at freemyfriends@freemyfriends.com

lgedeon · 2 years ago

Semantic Assertions should solve this for you. I have a pretty boring description at: http://luke.gedeon.name/semantic-assertions.html
I will let you know when we have a working solution.

Paul Roberts · 2 years ago

It would be fascinating, Robert,like they did with a Buddhist monk,
http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/191
to take you to somewhere like the University of Berkeley where they have one of those fancy machines that looks at brain structure, pattern and functioning so we could then see what parts of your brain, and in what ways, had developed as a result of your ceaseless activity

John John · 2 years ago

last.fm ftw

I'll be your friend there.

Christopher Coulter · 2 years ago

Or you know, they could pick up a phone, or (gasp) email. If you need a byzantine network of 20 differing applications to keep in touch and keep up on the news, they aren't friends, just a rather wide-reaching over-complicated incompatible advanced PIM of sorts, or a "Jeremiahish Marketing-Spam Rolodex". Friends you talk with near daily, this is just a web creature geeky once-a-year Christmas Card list, people you don't much care about now, but don't want to lose contact with either.

Robert Scoble · 2 years ago

Christopher: sometimes you are just an idiot. Like I really want 7,000 people to call me and tell me what they had for lunch! (or, more seriously, what cool events they started or are attending).

Mike Cohen · 2 years ago

I just found out about Lijit when I read about it here. It's great! It automatically found all of my profiles just from my usual nickname, including some I forgot about like ma.gnolia & StumbleUpon.

morambler · 2 years ago

Well Dang! This is a great subject! YOU just opened up a whole new world for me Robert.
I have been spending all my time at a BSN called APSense....

Jon Moss · 2 years ago

Very impressed with lijit - very, very slick and great sign up process - painless and informative!

Oyvind Solstad · 2 years ago

What's your iLike nick then, Robert?

ZT · 2 years ago

LiveJournal has got this functionality! You can discover your friend's friends and read what they're writing easily. It works well for >100 friends. But when you have like 5000 friends it'll loose value.

andrew korf · 2 years ago

Isn't what you are looking in some respect same thing that dave winer was talking about a month or so ago? digg for friends?: http://t-l.cc/2nb

It's something my friend Andreas (a very smart man on the mashup front) http://www.digitalistic.com/ are working on ... purely aggregating rss feeds, but hella interesting - I personally need my filters/filtered.

Interesting discussion and opportunity.

Karson · 2 years ago

At http://www.trustedword.com you can find out about trusted local services recommended by your friends and their friends. say goodbye to the yellow pages.

Rachael loggie · 2 years ago

ok surre i will do that tonght

John · 2 years ago

How the hell do you have the time to keep track of everything online with everything you are subscribed to, etc...???!!!

Robert Scoble · 2 years ago

John: I read fast.

Christopher Coulter · 2 years ago

7,000 people, less than 1% of 1% are real friends, but knowing what 7,000 people had for lunch, is what Twitter is all about, duh. Or is that not a valid conversation? I thought ALL conversations, even the small and naked ones, are all so so important. (btw, note the irony). And idiots are people who can't understand irony or the definition of a "friend".

And insofar as "pictures" go, most are what I like to call "ego-snaps", not family pictures or things of import, just show-off evidence, where been, what important people talked to, what cool event attended all so much 'see and been seen'. It's like your own personal show-and-tell Pan-Pizza People Magazine. And 95% of the news is artificial turf generated anyways, buzzhive PR and Marketing parasites attempting to game the system, lucky for them, bloggers make such willing hosts. Easy enough recipe: pay attention, warm up to the buzzwords (act like you "get it", play the silly reindeer games), throw in some freebies, "sponsor" them, and they are bribed for life.

I claim ownership of these "buzzwords" if they take off, and if people don't credit me, I will break down and have a Dave Winer-like temper-tantrum for all of eternity. (note irony again).

Loser Generated Content

Ego-Snaps

Artificial Turf Generated (AFG)

WIHFL (What I Had For Lunch)

BFF - Best Fake Friends

Headlining - "Fast" reading, headlines or first paragraphs only. Greatly increases chances for misinterpretation, and not getting the joke.

RSS 2.0 - Really Stupid Stuff 2.0

RMT - Reverse Midas Touch. What certain bloggers are made of, dust. Scoble likes Longhorn, we get Vista. Scoble backs HD-DVD, BluRay gets it. Likes Xbox 360, ends up with biggest failure rate in retail history. Scoble likes Apple, it starts having cracks in the system. Scoble sponsors Seagate, FreeAgent line has problems and kills the Linux market. Sort of like a Bladerunner curse, not limited to Scoble, although he's the best known practitioner.

Robert Scoble · 2 years ago

Christopher: you gotta point there. I hate the Kindle and it sells out. Same with MSN Spaces. Heheh. Can you define "real friend" to me? Just wanna know so I can count them up.

dahowlett · 2 years ago

Define friend: someone who doesn't judge.

Anjuan · 2 years ago

I think a similar problem is keeping track of my disparate online profiles. How do I keep track and archive in one place all of my blog comments, Facebook wall writings, message board posts, SMS messages, IM chats, etc. Even better, can it all be stored in chronilogical order? I fear that five years from now 95% of what I have written online will be forever lost to me (especially as blogs go dark and companies like Facebook go out of business).

Chris Brogan... · 1 year ago

See, people get hung up on the "friend" word. Because if we just said "flows of human-guided information," people would think it's too cynical, and it wouldn't really get at the point that there's a living person with a personality driving the information, and yet, that's what this really points to:

In the first Web, we took what was given on the page, if we could even find the page. That's why search was so vital.

In today's Web, we jetset around our own points of interest, and then share these up in such a way that other people with shared interest can benefit. It's a human network effect.

Today's Web is people, and Robert's near-the-end points about removing the gatekeeper after effects is truly where the next work is headed. Others have pointed at it, and I think it's right. Faster flowing information, even if it's dragging around ads for support behind it, will rule 2008-2009(ish).

And you're right: your Upcoming is the best in the business.

Phil Whitehouse · 1 year ago

Robert, Re: #3, I can see how having as many Twitter contacts as possible brings you a stream of interesting stuff. Fab for you, given that your job as a commentator is to spot and comment on new and emerging trends. But many of us have a different day job, and we have less time than you. We love Twitter for the ambient intimacy it gives us. We follow less people, and want to see what the people we care about are saying - and this is getting drowned out because of the sheer volume of A-lister tweets.

So here's my suggestion. There's nothing bad about you following as many people as you like, but I'm suggesting that you reduce your output (higher quality, less quantity). At times, it's like listening to someone on a conference call (because we're not following the people you're talking to). Perhaps use Direct Messages a little more often?

I think a new form of Twitter etiquette is developing - and A-listers who are commenting to everyone all the time will get frozen out.

I'm drawing up a Ten Commandments of Twitter at my blog - comments, improvements and submissions welcome.

http://philwhitehouse.blogspot.com/2008/01/twee...

Good luck for 2008!

wayne sutton · 1 year ago

This is a great list that shows the value of each online network.

Rachael loggie · 1 year ago

thanks your welcome

BFrank · 1 year ago

Wow. You're excited about 200 news items in your inbox and 700 Facebook applications you have yet to try? You are an incredible loser.

amie · 1 year ago

i want to be in stuff like this because iv waited all of my intire life i love bingo so i want to be in if bingo is on i will be so happy my mum wich is a nan now is on facebook
iv been so happy in my life so can i be in one please im a fan of all kinds of stuff i am a princess now so can i please be in one if im not in im going into a differnt website iv got two babys two boys there are still a baby we go to tesco all of the time i go on lots of websites they are so good i go on them all of the time