Imagine active and dynamic environments dedicated to ‘newproducts,’ ‘Q4sales,’ ‘HRpolicies,’ ‘ERPimplementation,’ ‘thecompetition,’ etc. in which employees were zipping their thoughts around to each other in way that was easy to monitor, consult, join, and participate in. Would this be a valuable complement to the other activities and conversations taking place within the enterprise? Your answer to this question, I think, reveals a lot about whether you think people should just keep their heads down and do the job that was assigned to them or lift their heads up once in a while and participate in the broader work of the organization. Do you believe that there’s a substantial ’cognitive surplus‘ (to use Clay Shirky’ s great phrase) in your enterprise? If so, let the twitting begin. - Erhan Erdogan
""Ultimately Captchas are useless for spam because they're designed to tell you if someone is 'human' or not, but not whether something is spam or not. Just because something came from a real human being doesn't mean it isn't spam, which is why content-based solutions like Akismet are the only long-term solution to the spam problem."" - Erhan Erdogan via Bookmarklet
Reading 1000 captha is priced as 1 dollar in India - I mean like that! - Erhan Erdogan
anyone can hire captcha-workers at freelancer sites, i also heard that some porn sites show other sites captchas to their users, so that they can continue to spam. - Bager Akbay
Meet The cfhusband My name is Nathan. My wife, Tricia has Cystic Fibrosis (CF) and had been preparing for a double lung transplant until we discovered we were pregnant. Tricia is the most incredible person I've ever met. She keeps me humble and in love. Gwyneth is our beautiful, new, baby girl, born 15+ weeks early. Tricia is now breathing with the help of donated lungs, and Gwyneth is on her way out of the NICU and into our hearts. This is our story from my perspective... - Erhan Erdogan
* Number of network operators: 5 * Number of mobile connections: 74 million * UK mobile retail revenues: £15.1bn * Number of mobile voice calls: 115.6 minutes per month per subscriber * Number of SMS and MMS messages sent: 59.1bn * Average time spent texting and calling per mobile connection: 10 minutes per day - Erhan Erdogan
Nice case: "How much does an old Web 1.0 startup go for these days? Well, here’s an indication. Pub listings guide BeerintheEvening.com - running since the late 90s - was for £30,000, confirms Chris Hughes of new owner Neransk, a UK-based communities operator. The sale actually happened about a year ago but Neransk only just got back to me with the confirmation. Would it have been better to use the cash to build a better Web 2.0 site? Leave your thoughts in the comments." - Erhan Erdogan via Bookmarklet
"Apparently, Coca-Cola is on an innovation binge! In addition to introducing new design to their bottles, the world’s largest beverage firm is planning on unveiling a proprietary fountain system capable of pouring 100+ different flavored beverages from a single unit." - Erhan Erdogan
If you've ever been to World of Coca-Cola in Atlanta, you can sample Coke products from around the world. Some are so full of Fail, you'd think they were a practical joke rather than a viable brand. - Dave Roth
I don't drink conventional sodas, but that is pretty nifty. @Dave - they have (had?) something like that in miniature at Epcot. Most of them were just awful. - Alix Whitmire
Across from the magic fountain is the other half of Club Coca-Cola: "Tastes of the World." Here, visitors are given the opportunity to sample 18 soft drink flavors which Coca-Cola sells in other countries, but not in the U.S. There's Cappy, a non- carbonated sour cherry drink from Czechoslovakia; Mone, a Japanese honey and lemon drink; Beverly, an Italian quinine apertif; and so on. The sodas are distributed from three cafeteria-style dispensers; above, a TV screen provides information about each country represented.http://bit.ly/2TaVMD - Dave Roth
I've been there, I tried that when I was about 13, early 90s - Kamilah Gill
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“Waiting my 500th follower now! : ) What's his/her name?”
Does that officially make you popular? ;) I have a whopping 13 and get no comments or likes. Such is the life of a newbee whose actual real life friends have whatever crazy issue with trying out friendfeed... - mortisha
Mortisha: I'm not popular - only Scoble and Louis are popular in FF. : )) Upps also Mona. ; ) - Erhan Erdogan
Mortisha: If you've just joined, chances are you'll get more out of FF by getting in to other people's content with likes and comments. There's a lot of pressure to become a content generator as soon as you join, but trying to do so gets really frustrating. - Stupid Blogger (aka Tina)
Very true Tina, very true! Being popular isn't really a big deal, it's not necessary to validate anyone's worth or existance. Although on occasion it is nice to know that you're not talking to a wall, which is what it especially feels like on blogs where the blogger doesn't really communicate with their commentators. - mortisha
Like uShip, Dubai-based Darrb (which means "way" in Arabic) is a delivery service marketplace that aims to connect people who have something to send with people who are willing to do the delivering. In eBay fashion, the process begins when a user posts an item they want to have delivered. Those interested in handling the job—known on the site as "Darrbers"—then bid for it with the lowest price and fastest delivery time they can offer. - Erhan Erdogan
"We’re moved by this new work by Banksy spotted in New Orleans. The prolific street artist created these pieces to serve as bold reminders of the devastation Hurricane Katrina left in its wake, and to pay homage to the citizens of New Orleans who continue to endure it." - Erhan Erdogan via Bookmarklet
To Kemal Y. :"The web enables us to listen to music, watch tv shows and follow the latest news all without paying a cent. But while things are slowly but surely becoming free, I still believe people are willing to pay for certain value propositions." - Erhan Erdogan
Scoble: You are always in my first page with your all feeds - there is no need to make you a favorite. My best friend :..( Don't do like this! : ) - Erhan Erdogan
Note: Bigpoint.com's usage in Turkey is absolutely impossible - from about section of the web site: "...with 31.952.458 registrations on the biggest registered Online Game Portal in Germany: Bigpoint.com" %23.3 is Turkey's active users. (between 7.5-3 millions of users are coming from Turkey) - Erhan Erdogan
@hasan its a german site, but turks most active users i think - Sinan Kaplan
bigpoint.com is the 25th most visited site by Turkish users according to Alexa Top 100. I really didn't expect that much - Ugur Aydogdu (jnbn)
bigpoint'le ben ekolay oyundayken işbirliği yapmıştık (ben de ilk web.de'nin oyunlarını araştırırken keşfedip iletişim kurmuştum kendileriyle), ayrıca Türkiye'de hengame ile işbirlikleri bulunuyor. kendileri de son derece aktifler aynı zamanda. Oyunlarını da çok severim, ekolay içerisinde gerçekten severek oynadığım oyunlardandır. özellikle action league'i tavsiye ederim :) http://oyun.ekolay.net/cok_kis... - murat kahraman
"According to SpeedDate.com, it hosts over 100,000 online speed dates a day. Part of this growth is surely due to the fact that SpeedDate.com is also a very popular application on MySpace, Beebo, and Facebook (though it was banned there for a while in July)." - Erhan Erdogan via Bookmarklet
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“Guess: ?? percent of Friendfeed users still using old site design.”
now using beta in a tab instead of twhirl, find it easier to read and i use it more - MattRandles
just updated my bookmark to the beta one as i kept forgetting - Simon Wicks
switched to beta > made a userstyle & using it with Stylish - slax
Louis: "306 were from friendfeed.com and 273 were from beta.friendfeed.com(=%53)" Great, thanks. Anyone else? Robert? What's your score in your blog? Is it OK to share? Your 85% is a different great case for beta test. I think you should ask the same question to your followers now. - Erhan Erdogan
Checked out the beta...but the fingers still bring me to the old site. Didn't notice much difference. Not worth the effort to switch before it becomes default, IMO. - Scott Rollins
I've been too lazy to switch. I always click through from iGoogle. Maybe I should check for a new widget? - Alix Whitmire
Wonder what will Alexa say one week later. Now It's %2 for beta. Hmmm maybe FRIENDFEED TEAM(#PING) will share real numbers in this comments? : ) - Erhan Erdogan
What about those like me that rarely log in and just use Twhirl - Andrew Fielding via twhirl
I'm generally using the old one, mainly because I'm too lazy to change the bookmark URL. I do like the new version though, I switch to if it I'm here longer than 5 minutes. - xero
Andrew: +1, Nice question. : ) Do you have "adding photos" feature now in Twhirl? - Erhan Erdogan
I checked out the beta. Prefer the old design and switched back to the old. - kamla bhatt
65% like i do:) the new design doesn't extremely attract me - Elif Salar
I pretty much just use Twhirl to be honest, I rarely login. I haven't even seen the new design yet. - Sam via twhirl
I've been using the beta since I first tried it. I prefer the design and I've actually started using the friends lists, so I won't be heading back to the old version. - Cyvros/fyc
"users also hated the News Feed so much when it came out that 587,715 of them joined a group called "Students against Facebook News Feed" in just one day" - Erhan Erdogan
I actually like it now that I've made myself switch and get used to it. - Alix Whitmire
I constantly switch back due to features not available as easy as before and the emphasis on "LOOK AT ME WRITING SOMETHING" in the newsfeed which is just making the newsfeed unreadable ... - Nicole Simon
Well, *I* am, but that's because Facebook shuts it off on Camino. And that's where I banish it to. - Cyndy
"Walking directions to Mountain View, CA
40.5 mi – about 13 hours 31 mins
San Francisco, CA
1. Head south on Van Ness Ave toward Grove St
0.4 mi
2. Slight right at Mission St
5.7 mi" - Erhan Erdogan via Bookmarklet
Google Earth is getting a nice plug from Olympic Gold Medal cyclist Kristin Armstrong. When she did her time trials in December, 2007 in China, she took along her husband’s GPS unit to capture the elevation along the route. Then she used that data to find the best training route back home. - Erhan Erdogan
"I was driving to work a couple of days ago, and as a MINI passed me from the opposite direction, the owner stuck his hand out the window, making the victory sign at me. I smiled, and responded by raising my hand. This sort of thing has happened countless times since I bought my MINI." - Erhan Erdogan via Bookmarklet
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“"You have 395 subscriptions and 508 subscribers. Here's how they break down:
104 people you are subscribed to. 291 people who both sub to you and you sub to. 217 people who only subscribe to you. "”