oh come on robert, you're not still comparing your growth on twitter to that on friendfeed are you. don't you remember you were the default recommended user on friendfeed that's the reason you have experienced such "growth." Friendfeed recommended new users to follow you (along with loic/etc). why don't you watch the video allen from centernetworks made on this issue.
i'd love friendfeed too if it recommended every single new user to follow me.
J
Dave Martin
· 1 year ago
Robert, things are getting better b/c they are getting different. What a difference a year makes. Twitter and FF add to the convo, enhance discovery, enable a deeper, richer sharing. Cognitive diversity is a good thing.
Robert Scoble
· 1 year ago
Jacob: that is absolutely not true. Mike Arrington is listed above me on the "recommended" list. He has far fewer followers on FriendFeed (even though he's my #1 most "Liked and commented on" FriendFeed account). Why is that? You can't explain that. We should have exactly the same numbers, or me, fewer, if the recommended list mattered much. Oh, and when I joined? I wasn't on the recommended list at all.
trextor
· 1 year ago
I agree with Robert on this one. My iGoogle home page has a column for Google Reader and a column for FriendFeed. I effectively treat FriendFeed as a second RSS reader alongside Google Reader. I still visit Techmeme but its rare that I need to click through on any stories because I'd already read about it from someone on FriendFeed.
However, the value of Techmeme for me at least, has always been the cluster of commentary around its headlines. It's one of the main reasons I visit Techmeme so many times throughout the day and FriendFeed has yet to change that. In fact, if a story is interesting enough on FriendFeed, I head to Techmeme to see who else is talking about it. And if that fails, Google Blog Search.
Robert Scoble
· 1 year ago
Jacob: oh, and the recommended page doesn't work ANYTHING like when Allen Stern made his video. I just signed onto a new FriendFeed account that has no friends. The recommended page is totally blank. No recommended users. If I add someone who does not have me as a friend, you will NOT see me. You will only see the most popular people on that friend's list. Also, even if that friend has me as a friend, I'm usually down on the list, not in top spot. Arrington and Calacanis and Laporte are higher up on the account I'm looking at. I have far more FriendFeed followers than any of those guys. I just saw you called me clueless over on Twitter. No, you sir are clueless. Don't throw accusations until you really understand how things work. You have no clue about why I'm #1 on FriendFeed. When you figure it out, please let me know. Thanks!
Emil
· 1 year ago
My experience is completely different. FriendFeed and Twitter require a lot effort to get me my news. RSS feeds and Techmeme do not in comparison, and they satisfy my news needs just fine. (I found this story through Techmeme btw)
paul
· 1 year ago
I check Techmeme offen everyday, but it is silicon valley centric
Greg
· 1 year ago
For a good while, I use to digest all my news through Google Reader, and read it often in case I missed a big story.
Then I discovered Techmeme and that now enables me to relax a bit more. Even if I don't catch it on GR, I'll likely see it on Techmeme. Since then Friendfeed and Twitter are continuing to eat into my GR time, but Techmeme is still being used for the same purpose.
That said, whilst GR is slowly losing out on my desktop, it reigns supreme on the Blackberry. As its no iPhone, its nice to have just the content with no frills (menus, graphics etc) that RSS provides.
Dan Thornton
· 1 year ago
I remember the first time I encountered a feed reader, and I still get a lot of my news that way, but for me, Twitter is probably the main channel (I'm still getting into Friendfeed).
It's why I started a blog on microblogging (140char.com), having experienced finding news on Twitter such as Heath Ledger's death, the UK earthquakes, the US and Chinese earthquakes etc before mainstream news channels or my feed list.
And it comes filtered by the relevancy of friend recommendation, which is why I've never really used Digg or Techmeme as much as I could have done for news. It's not the wisdom of crowds I'm after - it's the wisdom of my own crowd...
Rob
· 1 year ago
I'm still addicted to google reader (and your shared items) but I have been getting a lot of information through the TechMeme firehose on Twitter. I haven't found a great way to sort through everything on FriendFeed yet. Do you just watch it "live" on FriendFeed's own page?
JamesGecko
· 1 year ago
Using Stack Overflow as a venue of information in the "tech blogging news world"? Seriously? Now you're just dropping names and buzzwords.
It's a forum for programming questions.
Thomas Hawk
· 1 year ago
I still use Techmeme every day. But I used to hit the site maybe 50 times a day, now I might hit it once or twice. FriendFeed has taken traffic from literally every other service that I used to use. FriendFeed is far more efficient for browsing Flickr, for instance, than Flickr itself, ironically. You can also slice and dice your Flickr contacts with FriendFeed in ways that you can't do on Flickr itself.
As part of my obsession with FriendFeed I've also given up my RSS reader. For RSS feeds that I really care about where the blogger or site is not on FriendFeed already, I'll just create "imaginary friends" on FriendFeed incorporating their blog or site.
Friendfeed is probably the most revolutionary thing I've seen on the internet since YouTube. And it is especially good for getting the best of news and not just tech news. Socially filtered content is the future.
Bruce Lewis
· 1 year ago
How I got my news a year ago was mainly from news.ycombinator.com with TechCrunch mixed in. I started to think TechCrunch wasn't really for me anymore, and asked on news.yc where else I might go. ReadWriteWeb was recommended. I also learned about FriendFeed on news.yc. Now I get most of my news from news.yc and FriendFeed, including the ReadWriteWeb room on FriendFeed.
Zola
· 1 year ago
Robert, I am the face behind elitechoice.org and other gamut of blogs. I agree with you with the video accessibility that is more friendly at Friendfeed than TechMeme. And Twittter again is a real asset to network with friends.
We are friends at Twitter, do add me to your list at Friendfeed.
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i'd love friendfeed too if it recommended every single new user to follow me.
J
However, the value of Techmeme for me at least, has always been the cluster of commentary around its headlines. It's one of the main reasons I visit Techmeme so many times throughout the day and FriendFeed has yet to change that. In fact, if a story is interesting enough on FriendFeed, I head to Techmeme to see who else is talking about it. And if that fails, Google Blog Search.
(I found this story through Techmeme btw)
Then I discovered Techmeme and that now enables me to relax a bit more. Even if I don't catch it on GR, I'll likely see it on Techmeme. Since then Friendfeed and Twitter are continuing to eat into my GR time, but Techmeme is still being used for the same purpose.
That said, whilst GR is slowly losing out on my desktop, it reigns supreme on the Blackberry. As its no iPhone, its nice to have just the content with no frills (menus, graphics etc) that RSS provides.
It's why I started a blog on microblogging (140char.com), having experienced finding news on Twitter such as Heath Ledger's death, the UK earthquakes, the US and Chinese earthquakes etc before mainstream news channels or my feed list.
And it comes filtered by the relevancy of friend recommendation, which is why I've never really used Digg or Techmeme as much as I could have done for news. It's not the wisdom of crowds I'm after - it's the wisdom of my own crowd...
It's a forum for programming questions.
As part of my obsession with FriendFeed I've also given up my RSS reader. For RSS feeds that I really care about where the blogger or site is not on FriendFeed already, I'll just create "imaginary friends" on FriendFeed incorporating their blog or site.
Friendfeed is probably the most revolutionary thing I've seen on the internet since YouTube. And it is especially good for getting the best of news and not just tech news. Socially filtered content is the future.
We are friends at Twitter, do add me to your list at Friendfeed.
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