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Has Mahalo Found its Hook?
October 11 at 12:53 pm - Link
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Calacanis: Apple to release networked HDTVs - Nate Lanxon, MP3 & Digital Music Editor - Technology Blog at CNET.co.uk
October 11 at 6:19 am - Link
These LCD HDTVs will be fully networked, with the ability to stream all your iTunes content from your Mac or PC. In fact, Calacanis told me they'll function like a standard TV with an Apple TV box, only without the need for the box. - Leo Laporte
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This doesn't sound likely to me. Few people replace TVs on the same regular basis that they replace their computers. - flammable
That's true, specially for those of us who already have Apple TVs. There must be more to this story if it is true. - Ash Matadeen
A STB does sound more likely. Would it need Blu-ray to succed? - Robert Hafer
I don't think it's a wild-ass idea, it's kind of obvious that they're going that way. Look at it this way -- who needed a portable hard disk that had a headphone jack but no keyboard in 2002? Yet it was one of the products that defined the decade, not just in computers -- but across the board. - Dave Winer
Gee, I wonder what they are going to be talking about on TWiT this Sunday ;-) // Something tells me Calacanis might be there and Dvorak.org/blog AKA @therealdvorak won't be - LMAO. - Darrell Bell via twhirl
It's definitely cheaper and easier to replace a little AppleTV box than to replace an entire television. There are still so many avenues Apple hasn't explored yet - iPod/iPhone docks on the AppleTV, for example (for playing movies and music without needing A/V cables handy). - flammable
If they did it it would be a good idea to introduce it before the Feb 19th DTV switch. I will be in the market for a TV in Feb and and Apple product would make the decision interesting. - Erik Weese
I don't see this happening at this event at least (and they need to do it at an event). This will be focused solely on notebooks since that's what everyone is expecting. Also, why would people toss the HDTVs they already have in such bad economic times for something they could do with a simple box? - Brandon Titus
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michael arrington posted a message
“I keep thinking I should blog something, and then I look out at the ocean and go play with my dog instead”
June 27 at 3:13 pm - Link
Yes dogs are nice life and stress balancers.. - Fred Grott
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Go enjoy the ocean w/your dog! Fresh ocean air on a nice day can't be beat. - Carmen via Alert Thingy
Richard - I think the fact that my dog likes me says a lot about me. :-) - michael arrington
As Bill Clinton, or someone, once said: "I'm trying to be the person my dog thinks I am" - Chris Nuttall
I'm with you there. I think I'm enervated from the smoke and haze we've had all week in California from the brush fires. I feel like an old man. I turned off the cameras and went home. - Leo Laporte
Don't blog, take pictures of the dog and send them here via mail2ff.com - Robert Seidman via NoiseRiver
This is why you'll never make it in the industry, Arrington - john conroy
Such a nice day in the PacNW. Finally! - Brian Daniel Eisenberg
ty very much for reminding me that I am not living at the ocean anymore ;-) ah well - have a blast! - Gaby Benkwitz ☼
Laguna is a cute dawgy.. and spending time with animals is a de-stresser too ! - Peter Dawson
Why do you keep your dog in the ocean? - Glen Campbell
But you just blogged something! Heh. I need to get outside. - Dave Winer
Relax, the Universe will wait for you... - Pokai
Well Michael, maybe there is still hope for you! - Igor The Troll
I've been in a blog rut. I have ideas, yet not the energy or non ADDness to actually come out swinging. I blame it on the rain. - Andrea Baker
@Andrea: Hey, leave Milli Vanilli out of this! - AJ Kohn
I like Laguna. Friendly dog. - Mike Butcher
Blog about your dog? - Gregorio Magini
I'm in a similar situation today. I could have been hacking away at my game but opted for reading and a swim instead. - Vezquex இ
Can the dog blog? Maybe he does now! Kidding. - Steve Rubel
Steve, maybe Michael is a dog, and the dog is Michael. lol - Igor The Troll
saw the qik video. nice! made me think I need a break! - Edwin Khodabakchian
I vote for the ocean! - Mitchell Tsai
Having a good break is good for your health.. Think long-tern! ;) - Darren Lee
when you need to take a break from work...you need to totally switch off if you can.... - John Kotsaftis
You're a great writer, blog :) - dlilienfeld
Go for the Ocean! Its much more fun - Chacha via twhirl
Blogging, like life, is a marathon, not a sprint, IMO - Alex Hammer
Alex - blogging is like a marathon that you sprint. - michael arrington
I don't blame you! Some times you just need a break. Relax and enjoy the ocean view and your dog. - Jeff P. Henderson
You managed to get insane weather here in Seattle. I'm hoping the whole summer looks like this. - Ryan Stewart
good call - Jason Calacanis
you're sooo right. - Eric Sausse
It's not fair to the dog if you deprive him of stuff like the ocean. - Francine Hardaway
I just noticed you finally uploaded your pic to Friendfeed Michael, great move towards using it, now try it in Twhirl too :0 - Loic Le Meur via twhirl
the simple things... - Jαmes Cooρer
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July 7 at 1:51 pm - Link
This is a dollar bill taped to the floor of FriendFeed's headquarters. It's a bit of social engineering. They figured out it kept people from tripping on the cord cover because people noticed the money on the floor. - Robert Scoble
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Hahaha, now that is brilliant stuff. Awesome. - James Mowery via twhirl
This is a fantastic idea. - Jeremy Botter
Wouldn't last long in my office. - Ralph Whitbeck
Amazing.. think I could use this idea in a few places. - Roberto Bonini
Clever! i love it. - Federico Fasce via twhirl
Simple, clever, great idea. That FriendFeed crew is a bunch of smart fellers! - Brandon Wood
My employer is too frugal to do that. - Jonathon
Inexpensive risk management. - Dave Pelland
Ha! Very clever. - Brent Newhall
brilliant - Michael J. Cohen (mjc)
Wow! I'm speechless. - directeur via NoiseRiver
nice - Mike Collett
The dollar bill trick doesn’t work with strippers though ;) - Earl E Morningwood
@Earl: Consider it a stripper-filter, then. You know someone's a stripper if they trip over it. - April Buchheit
for some reason i expect a "stripper filter" to be something coded using regular expressions. sad, i know. - Karim
The message here is that Web 2.0 companies are so ignorant of money and revenue that they even step over a dollar on the floor - Jason Carreira via twhirl
Genius!!! - Joe Dawson (beta)
Interesting. The photo has been viewed more than 500 times, but has only earned 62 likes and 19 comments. So, for every 1 thing we can see here there's another 9 people hanging out lurking in the shadows. - Robert Scoble
@Scoble the old 90-9-1 rule :) (well almost) - Naor
You could always just superglue some road kill to those things. Nothing gets people's attention more than a dead opossum. - Andrew Leyden
wow, that's funny smart! - Susan Beebe (Santa Claus)
I stubbed my toe on that dollar. - Michael Muller
Heath And Safety in the UK would not approve....but I do! - Toby Graham
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Obama to Deliver Rock-Star Acceptance Speech before 75,000+
July 7 at 10:47 am - Link
Does anybody know if DNCC's charging for this? My guess is yes, but I don't know. - Karen Mohler
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This is a very smart move. This is the kind of venue where Obama shines. Plus, you can get a Bronco Dog with onions and peppers! I hope the beer guy will be there. - Eric @ CS Techcast
I want to go. I saw him Jan 2007 in South Central speak to 150 people. I was a volunteer. Such a journey! - Felicia
Fantastic idea.. Will be interesting to see how the GOP counters this, if they can. Have a hard time seeing McCain getting 50,000 to show up to the Metrodome for his speech. Maybe if it includes a monster truck pull at the end. - Chris Reed
@Karen: It will be a free event, according to an email sent out by his campaign - Nathan Reale
I'd just like to see him in a Debate with McCain, sure Obama sounds great reading from a teleprompter or reciting a prepared speech, but lets see him go head to head with his opponent.. - keith
Wish I could be there. I saw him in Houston at the Toyota Center and in San Marcos, and both times were amazing. - Jeremy Botter
Great commuicator but little substance. Bill Clinton reincarated - Brent
@Brent: And what is McCain's substance beyond "I served in the Navy, so make me president so I can keep us in Iraq 100 years." - Chris Reed
90%'ish chance I'm going to this - Kevin Rose
Brent - agree completely - JackRyanBauer via twhirl
Obama and Clinton both think of themselves as another JFK - hmmm, can you say Lloyd Bentsen - JackRyanBauer via twhirl
I agree as well, Brent. People are easily fooled by a smoothly delivered speech. "It's all about the tax rates, stupid" - John Denver
I totally want to do this. I wish I lived closer to Denver - Phillip Jeffrey
@John: On the tax rates, you mean you're making more than $500,000 a year? Congrats! The rest of us will get a tax CUT in an Obama administration. - Chris Reed
Chris, I would love to see your sources on that. Everything I have read has Obama's definition of "wealthy" at about $120K of household income... hardly Calacanis-esque here in SoCal. - John Denver
This will continue I'm sure. Obama does poorly speaking "off the cuff". Look for more prepared speeches and less debates. - Robert Hafer via twhirl
less pandering and flip flopping please - Bjorn Tipling
More importantly I want to know more about Digg's spot in the Big Tent.... - Erin Kotecki Vest
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Jason Calacanis posted a link
loren says it's over for twitter in this video... it's not over, but the tide is turning big time
July 7 at 11:44 am - via Bookmarklet - Link
Big time... - Anthony Farrior
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the nice thing about friendfeed is that you can bring twitter with you and the comment threading rocks. Many conversations start in twitter but they now finish in friendfeed. - jered reynolds via feedalizr
Agreed. You would have thought the lack of a business model would be their biggest problem. - Scott Watermasysk
i'm done with twitter myself, i have my own social network to worry about that and all that friendfeed goodness - Jay Martinez via twhirl
Funny thing about the tide.. It goes out just as fast as it came in.. - mark
I really like ff. So much more interesting here with pics vids links - loren feldman
And to add to everything: ff just works. - Holger Eilhard
Isn't the Honeymoon over yet for FriendFeed? It's getting really old. Twitter is NOT dying and they will eventually fix their issues. Also, I don't see how everyone is doing a competition between the two products. They are completely two different products that serve different purposes. I will continue to use both Twitter and FriendFeed they go hand in hand together. - Chris Rodgers
If Loren says it it must be true? - Brian Sullivan
Music too Loren. I'm loving the new music I listen to as a result of people sharing Last.fm, Pandora, etc. - Brian Daniel Eisenberg
I have to disagree. I don't think Twitter is dying. I think Friend Feed is helping Twitter in a lot of ways. I still use Twitter and, update from my phone and other apps. My updates come right onto FF and, people comment. That's the same a lot of us do. Yes, we're all getting tired of Twitter's constant issues. Isn't that the real problem though? Twitter's constant issues it's what is the most frustrating. - Candace Holly
You guys are drinking WAY too much of the Kool-Aid. I love FF but Twitter isn't going anywhere. - Mike Doeff
Certainly FF is more stable, but I still enjoy the quick update nature of Twitter. I think that both can exist alongside one another and actually enhance each other. - Mark
Hey Kool Aid! http://friendfeed.com/e/7ad048... - Mike Doeff
How about Twitter and Pownce coming together, maybe they can make it that way. I think friendfeed is cool, but will it replace Twitter. I'm hoping for Twitter to change!!! Listen to the users!! Twitter!!! - Jorge
I gotta agree with Chris R. Twitter and FF don't seems to serve the same purpose. I use Twitter for conversation and FF for following the stream of what my friends are doing. - Robert Chute
Twitter just bought Summize - paul mooney
saying Twitter is dieing because of FriendFeed is sort of like saying Yahoo IM is dieing because of Adium or Trillian. Two different products. One is a mobloging site, the other is a social media aggregator with the ability to interact with other social media/moblogging services. If Twitter did die out and close it's doors, FriendFeed would lose it's ability to communicate with it. - The Geek Media
Twitter is still king of micro blogging although with identi.ca's open source platform, we'll see what happens. So far I don't like Plurk and Pownce can't stay up long enough to use it. - David Ward
Truthfully, I grew tired of Twitter two months ago. It served its purpose during conferences I've attended over the past year, but I just couldn't get enough of my friends to adopt it to make it worth my time. FriendFeed, however, is much more informative, and it seems like I'm finding something new and cool every few minutes. - Jeremy Botter
twitter's only assets are a user base and a variety of data entry points. That is not an unsurpassable moat. If friendfeed added SMS and IM updates they could steal a significant amount of twitter's traffic. - Occasional Headbanger
Prediction - Twitter hits 5 million users by Feb 09 - Sean Kelly
this is for @1938Media ...kiss it http://www.southparkstudios.co... - Ⓝ〄ⒶⒽ ⒹⒶⓋⒾⒹ ⓈⒾⓂ〄Ⓝ
Friendfeed will outnumber Twitter sooner rather than later because it already controls a significant part of conversation streams. Plus, it aggregate every other webservice produced content that's a main part. Add those features @Andrew Burd is talking about and you will definitely talk about Twitter as something from the past. - yvons
Yes but people (except JC) still using twitter beside, I would like to use more FF, but people keeps answering me on Tweeter ! - Jean-François Amadei via twhirl
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Thomas Hawk posted a message
“The number one way I find people to add on FF? Nope, not FFs recommendations, finding little white bubbles next to people making interseting comments in conversations. These are the people that I want more of. Folks that participate intelligently are far more valuable than A listers who don't.”
July 7 at 1:12 pm - Link
Agreed, when I find a thread I really like, I tend to add a bunch of commentors from it. - Phil Glockner
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I'm only just now starting to use FF, even though I signed up months ago...and I agree, this tool is far more useful than even twitter. - Jeremy Botter
I agree 100% Tom. That is how I have been finding a lot of people. I am relatively new to FF so that and friend of a friend posts are the only ways I am finding people. - Matt Donders
Personally - that's why FriendFeed is differentiating itself from a lot of other sites. It caters to those active people that want to discuss, learn, inform - which makes it a resource that I come back to over and over again... - George Smith
I'm in absolute agreement but have to admit that I've added some of the A listers just to see who's talking to them intelligently. Granted, the ROI's a little low, but sometimes watching the fawning is reward in and of itself. <insert sarcasticon here> - Linda Mills
You get what you give - Dave Martin
Good point, this is one of the reasons why I'm spending more time on FF now - great way to discover and interact with new people that have relevant information/comments to share - Gabriel Biguria
So very true. My page of "recommended" friends is nothing but a bunch of A-listers that would fill my FF pages with mostly junk, and not a lot of substance. - Brandon Wood
ditto ditto and ditto - just added Gabriel and Jeremy in fact - Marco (aureliusmaximus)
When I am looking for people that share my interests, I search for a headline I really liked on the everyone tab and check out others who shared it and see what they are all about. It is kind of time consuming but fun. - Geoff Schultz
we use the same technique - Fred Grott
I'd also add that you don't have to add a whole lot of people to get quality content thrown into your FF stream. I'm slowly adding people and the value of FF went up 10 fold. - Otto R. Radke
The goal of adding friends here is to have intersting stuff in your Friendfeed. And you do that by carefully watching the dicussion not just in terms of comments and likes ( as mentioned above multiple times), but what items are posted by people. Thats whats I look for. - Roberto Bonini
I've been getting annoyed at the amount of junk, repetition, and endless Twitter vs. FriendFeed talk from the so-called "A-listers". It's high time to start unsubscribing and find some new "friends". - Matt
the ancient toad style of social networking - Anthony
Actually if you do that you soon realize that there's more content by interesting people here than time you have to read that. Then, the question stops being how to find interesting people (that you'll keep finding and following) but how to reduce the noise... - ☂Marcos Marado via fftogo
So Marcos the task at hand is to become Jedi of the Hide button and learn how to fine tune everything. - Mark Forman
Hide is awsome, but I'm feeling it is not enough. I hope noiseriver ends up being the solution, but... it still hasn't the hide feature implemented :-) - ☂Marcos Marado via fftogo
Hah! I just added everyone in this post who I wasn't already subscribed to. - Thomas Hawk
Ha! Prepare to be inundated with my brand of minutia! - Geoff Schultz
If the same friend of X comes up often, and I find them interesting, I will subscribe to them. - Hao Chen
No white bubbles here for me. - Robert Scoble
Thomas: I do the same thing too - Sally Church
like me! - John Cozen
I get zero comments on FF to my posts. I'm not A-list of course. I'm more like a lesser known Baldwin brother. - Jason Shultz via twhirl
LOL @ Scoble's comment!! ha, ha! - Susan Beebe (Santa Claus)
@Jason Participation is a two way street. - Hao Chen
amen brutha! - Scott Jarkoff
I, too, am just getting more involved in this social networking thing ... - Robert Couture
This taps into what for me is the stand-out experience FF. 'Common Interest' is _one_ facet, but there's more going on in deciding to Subscribe or not. It's like a first impression in person - the brain takes a bunch of behavioral cues builds a profile in seconds upon which decisions (sometimes lasting) are made. To balance the split decision weakness of not enough information, just cruise through the person's feed for 'background check'. All common sense I suppose. - Micah Wittman
Yeah but I frikin HATE the moment I add 1 person from a thread i like, I get bumped out of the thread & have to go back & search for it again to see if I want to add anyone else. - Mrsth
@mrsth, I agree 110% w/ that. It's easier to open a new tab then scroll down and locate the topic again... - Czar
Nah...I add completely based on superficiality and looks. :-P - Live4SoccerVacations
@Czar- ah I didn't realize you could do that. I'll give it a whirl. Thx!!! - Mrsth
@Carlos Perez- Ahh. that explains alot. You can only see my legs:-) - Mrsth
i guess just a 'me too' here would be totally wrong. - MLx
I think the only way to find those interesting people you don't know is to subscribe to the popular people. I've been finding some interesting folks that way. Otherwise, no one posts comments to your own stuff. Oh, to be unpopular. Sigh. - Eric @ CS Techcast
That's exactly correct. I don't auto-follow. I add people who comment and like and share things I'm interested in. - Louis Gray
wow, that's a super-excellent observation. i'm taking the hint with a few 'white-bubble' folks here too. altho i wonder if the FF folks shouldn't cue that behavior up with mouse-over info on the bubble icons... i had no clue why the color was showing up at first. (then again, i'm often an idiot) - dave mcclure
awesome. this reaffirms why i like ff better than twitter. the failwhale is kind of endearing, though. - Marissa
Couldn't agree more! The Fancy Pants people are too fancy, I just want interesting conversation(s)! - Cheryl
Totally agree!! Wish I could get some of those people as my friends too!! - ChaCha Fance
I can't stand FF posts with more than 10 comments. I want to filter them out but there is no option for that. - Sam Pullara
What client are you using? twirhl makes comments on FF OK, but just OK. It's a shame that we're all this way and still don't have clients that support threaded conversations as good as tin or slrn on usenet... - David Molnar via twhirl
Good tip:) - Igor Poltavskiy
david let's agree on 'as good as on usenet' - i never could stand neither tin nor slrn *g* but yes. it is now 10 years ago that most decent usenet clients had a feature set still not rediscovered for everything feedish ... - Nicole Simon
Agreed as well I look out for the white speech bubbles as well to see what value they add to the FriendFeed community! - Joe Dawson (beta)
and little like icons ;) - Tyler Gillies
Occasionally I'll wander over to everyone and 'browse'. it's really eye opening as FF grows - Charlie Anzman
Charlie, I like doing that too, but we need a language filter badly! - Hao Chen
The number one trick A-listers use and I never liked? " hey I'm here now on friendfeed, comment on this if you want me to follow you". I don't want them to follow me because they are important. I want them to follow me because they feel I'm important to them! - Alexander van Elsas
Agreed- when I see opinions I like from someone several times, I check to see if I've subscribed to them yet. - Brian Carter
My first time on FF and I like the interaction I'm seeing. The "white bubbles" are a great way to find new and interesting people. - Tom Newman
That's a great way to find friends with whom you can actually talk and count as friends. And the comments are a great feature of FF. I'm just getting to know how to make FF useful for me... - Dan V
I haven't found FF list of recommendations terribly useful either. Although this is a bad example, because it brought me to this entry. - TDavid
The criteria of "participate intelligently" is a relative word. What is "intelligent" to you may sound "stupid" to others? I guess the more appropriate term would be "value-adding to the conversation".. But I agree 100% on how "comments" can really uncover hidden gems! - Winston Teo
I do this too. I consider the comments a kind of signaling (a concept I learned from economics). Too bad there are so little interesting people in FF (to me at least, my interests are a little "off" from the median). - Meryn Stol
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