Thanks to Ross (my cousin, FriendFeed intern) and Robert Scoble for being the sources for my analysis (little did they know!). My talk focused on the signals we are looking at to create better automatic filtering and ranking interfaces for FriendFeed. (Emily is Ross's sister by the way, if you are wondering why he likes her entries so much.) - Bret Taylor
Josh -- we've barely scratched the surface of analyzing social media and networking. The AI-based social network analysis software of the future will optimize the interactions and experiences of billions of people. We are still at a very primitive stage in figuring this stuff out. - Sean McBride
Imagine a rapidly self-evolving global superintelligence firing on all cylinders, maximizing the productivity and self-actualization of billions of people simultaneously. That is the long term strategic objective of AI-based social network analysis, collaborative filtering, recommender systems, etc. We're barely at step 1. - Sean McBride
I love this path. FF makes me increasingly less likely to use my reader. Yet, I know there are some worthwhile nuggets in there that I am missing. This kind of intelligence improves the chances that I am predictably surfaced everything I would want to be. I love it. - Christopher Sacca
Awesome. I'm going to buy Emily cookies so she likes more of my posts. :-) - Robert Scoble
Did someone record this talk? I'd love to see it, since I'm one of the sources. Hey, Bret, want to get together when you get back? I'd love to talk more in depth about this with you. I think you're onto something very important. - Robert Scoble
I wonder what effect I had vs. my brother. :-) - Robert Scoble
“Paul Bucheit, co-founder of FriendFeed, says new features are coming "soon" (possibly next week if tests go well). He wouldn't tell me much about what the new features will be, though. Oh, and did you know that the "Show best of" feature works in rooms and lists?”
On my TechNews list, for instance, it shows only people who are on that list and THEIR most favorite items. This is freaking awesome and another HUGE reason to use lists and rooms. - Robert Scoble
“Friendfeed becomes less fun for me each time someone posts about what is and is not appropriate here. Don't lecture about what you want to read on FF: that's not my responsibility. It's yours. Filter, unfollow, or leave.”
Truer words have never been spoken. People join socnets, then proceed to tell people in the "social" realm how to behave. Control issues abound. I guess if people put things up that distract from the face time of the important folks, The important folks get nervous. - Eban Crawford
Personally, I think the people who constantly bitch about it look like idiots. Learn how to use FF and adapt it to your personal needs or just say buh bye. When the noise from my TV or radio becomes bothersome, I turn it off. - Trish R
Please hold while this thread vanishes in a puff of logic! - Daniel J. Pritchett
Whoops -- a bit of a paradox here. :) Think about it. - Sean McBride
The only time something bugs me is when I bring up FF at work and there's a giant very, very NSFW photo on the main feed. :/ Other than that, I'm loving that hide button! - Rochelle
I openly use FF at work!! I agree one must not shift the responsibility of one's choices on FF. Well put, Chris. - Hayk Hakobyan
Rochelle, I agree, the pictures are sometimes a shocker when it pops up and I'm not expecting it. - Trish R
You get it, Daniel J. Pritchett. :) If this thread doesn't peg your illogic meter, nothing will. :) - Sean McBride
post to FriendFeed Feedback room asking for a way to option linked photos as NSFW? I;m not sure how that would work with imported Flickr pics, but it would help with uploaded photos.. just an idea (That way you could set in your personal options to to display NSFW photos from 8-5 or something like that) - JasonTFleming™
I agree with the sentiment expressed in the OP, I just found this whole thing funny. - Daniel J. Pritchett
i'm beginning to think the people whining about "noise" or what's appropriate, are just mad when their oh-so-clever post doesn't get comments. - Faboo Mama
+1 @chris... although, when you think of it, your comment about hating comments that lament what constitutes an 'appropriate post' is effectively just the same thing, no? you're post is just bitching about people bitching about posts...but it's still, er, bitching... but not bitchin', which is cool, dude! lolz - .LAG
Are you sure this is the place to complain about FriendFeed? ;) - Soulhuntre
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lolz! i'm with you @chris: people should just learn how to use the filtering tools. that being said, FF could improve said tools vastly, methinks. we can hope. - .LAG
Excellent post Chris. Sweet, to the point, and my thoughts exactly. That being said, I hope you can agree that there is a bit of a learning curve with getting the tools of Friendfeed here to work for you instead of against you. I enjoy the hell out of this service, but I've read dozens of blog posts from people that know what the hell they're doing and have given tips on how to make this service manageable and more fun. You have to make the experience here work for you. - Pete Delucchi
right on Chris! FF is like TV - change the channel if you don't like what YOU are watching - Susan Beebe
"If you had purchased $1,000 of Delta Air Lines stock one year ago,
you would have $49 left.
With Fannie Mae,
you would have $2.50 left of the original $1,000.
With AIG,
you would have less than $15 left.
But, if you had purchased $1,000 worth of beer one year ago, drunk all of the beer, then turned in the cans for the aluminum recycling REFUND, you would have $214 cash.
Based on the above, the best current investment advice is to drink heavily and recycle..."" - Bret Taylor
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I'll be the buzzkill: recycling refunds are based on the deposit fee that is built into the price of the beer. So, based on the numbers above, you are simply returned the $214 that you gave as a deposit on the cans and, on the $786 you spent on the beer, you get a 0% financial return, though you get tons of beer. Also, at 5 cents per can, $214 in refunds equates to 4,280 cans...and with a $1,000 purchase price, that translates to 23 cents per can. Barring wholesale costs, WTF beer costs 23 cents/can? - Chester
you can call it your 401-keg...or in Chester's example above...a 401 - keg fail... - Skye Miller
A more damning "investment" comparison is that: you could have bought a Hummer last year and it would have retained more value than the stocks listed above. For that matter, one-year-old beer would probably have retained more of its original value than those stocks. - Chester
Chester, not a very effective buzzkill. ~2000, I had a friend who used to joke that he had outinvested everyone else with his "*non-interesting-bearing* checking account" - j1m
Well, anyone with a non-interest-bearing mattress is looking pretty good for 2008. - Chester
I went 100% into cash Apr 2007. The lousy 4% interest is looking pretty good now. Waiting to cost-average back in... Since I was in private equity in Feb 2000, I saw the loss of traction in deals, and also exited the market except for $20,000 ($2,000 in 10 stocks). Missed the internet crash also... - Mitchell Tsai
Since I started investing just after graduating college in 1986, I saw the 1987 crash first-hand and have a healthy respect for economic downturns. When I feel the market is too risky, I exit... Maybe I'll miss some gains. That's ok by me. - Mitchell Tsai
I'm making more money from the interest on a savings account than I would if I put it in a CD (of any length of time). These are weird times. - Andy Bakun
Stephen Colbert might be onto something by investing all his money in cans of soup. - Constantinos Michael
“Oh Noes! The clock struck midnight on my 28th birthday and I got old! I didn't know it happened this fast!! No gray hair yet, at least I have that going for me :p”
has anyone told you how similar you look to Ricky Gervais? - chet
Wow, lots of birthdays this week! I turned 27 on Monday -- have a great one Matt! - Nicholas Kreidberg
Thank you so much everyone!!! Everyone's birthday wishes have really made my day! :))) It makes having to work today tolerable!! Thanks again!!...@Nicholas Happy belated birthday to you!! - Matt Musgrave
Happy Birthday. You are still handsome even in your OLD age. - Yolanda
Building cool stuff, I've always wanted to be an eccentric, traveling inventor. - Steve Spalding
Learning, traveling, exploring, going on digs, programming, occasionally doing art, building things, helping research teams. Ok wow, I didn't realize how much of a geek I really was until now...I mean, I knew, but it just hit me again. ;) - xero
Whatever I want, whenever I want without having to worry about money. - Jeff P. Henderson
Sewing and traveling the world in search of sensuous fabrics ;) - zoblue (Zulema)
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producing hit records. Oh & if any record labels are reading this - i want to make this abundantly clear. i have a talent....give me a set of 100 tracks and i'll tell you all the ones that can get to number 1 on the charts. No kidding. :) - Zee from WeDoCreative
My attention span's too short to do one thing for the rest of my life, but perhaps I can paint a REALLY broad stroke by simply saying "learning." - MiniMage LightBlueRanger
Starting a blog and going to different places and interviewing different celebrities I like. - Molly, the Muse
@Kol one of the best things I learned about being a photographer (advice given to me by a fashion photog I shot under years ago) is to not be reluctant to call yourself one. :) - Anthony Citrano
Mike, I think so. Steve plays to our strengths, and adds something unique to the mix as well + I'm looking forward to the first time I can disagree with him in the comments ;-) - Duncan Riley
Congratulations, Duncan and Steven. Should be fun to watch. - Louis Gray
Faboo Mama: Drop Table is a SQL command. It deletes the table specified. The No.1 rule in databases is to screen input to prevent this. - Roberto Bonini
The next time someone does a web report like "who are all the 9th grade students" the search will stop when it gets to Bobby and then delete all student records at once. - Daniel J. Pritchett
I thought the first rule was not to talk about SQL? - Josh Haley
this is SUCH a classic..! luv it! - Kim
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I gotta print this out and stick it on my database textbook.... - Roberto Bonini
So funny! Always sanitize EVERYTHING in your programs. Bit-flips in computers can always cause data to go bad. Check ALL your inputs. - Mitchell Tsai
This is probably the best webcomic of the year for me. - Phil Glockner
I have this comic on my wall at work, definitely a classic. - Nicholas Kreidberg
OH! I gets it! DROP TABLE! Hahaa! Because...it's, like, a table....of...data, or students...with...wait, I don't get it. I think I was the guy on the other side of the phone. Seriously, I was a teacher for 5 years because I never had to learn about SQL database calls or DBA or any of that "high tech" stuff. Although the fact that I know what SQL and DBA are, I give myself ten points. - Pete Delucchi
i've been rereading this all day long and i think i get it. the clue is in ');DROP TABLE Students;. and that's how the student records got lost. BWHAHAHAHAHA - Faboo Mama
من دیدمش/ خوشم نیومد/ همینجوری اینترستینگ المنت هستن به نظرم/ یه وبلاگ انگلیسی هست هی بر می داره چیزا رو رنگ می زنه فکر می کنه خیلی خوب و خلاقیته/ یاد اون افتادم - shandiz
البته این یه نظرشخصی بود/ با احترام به لایک کنندگان:) - shandiz
Should we start a pool? It seems that's the only way to make money now. - Eric @ CS Techcast
Ooooh, now there's an idea! Except we'd have to bet items like a bag of rice or pound of beans, to avoid the internet gambling laws ;-) Then again, at least rice and beans will keep their value... - Stupid Emoo (aka Tina)
Roberto, it's doing a roller coaster today so I think it's pretty much a crap shoot as to whether it'll end up or down at the close of trading. - Stupid Emoo (aka Tina)
I see what you mean. Just checked again and its down 83, Whoa. at least not as bad as last week plus monday and tuesday. - Roberto Bonini
Maybe Bernanke should've cut interest rates all the way to 0%. :) - Morton Fox
Anyone else notice the difference between the US rates (cut from 2 to 1.5 today) and Britain's rates (cut to 4.5 or so today). Even with exchange rate differences, what's the deal with such vastly different interest rates between 'us' and 'them'? Any thoughts as to whether or not rates here have been artificially low (or Europe's artificially high)? - Stupid Emoo (aka Tina)
@Morton: the shock alone might just be enough.... - Roberto Bonini
Down 185 now. Talk about a rollarcoaster ride. - Roberto Bonini
they should shut the market down entirely and create a better way to assess and trade a company's equity and value.I can't stomach how dependent we are on the cyclical irritability of the market. I think we high 8500 next monday..and be around 7000 before christmas. - Terence Washington
And the numbers go back down again... Somebody could make a fortune designing a roller coaster ride off these charts. - Stupid Emoo (aka Tina)
Rate changes were smaller than expected and other figures coming out today look bleak, I'm going for friday - Cains
There's not much left that the Fed can do at this point to artificially manipulate the markets. They're really running out of time. - Aviv
