Not digging because I think the commenters will be brutal. The headline says he is going on a Twitter hiatus but when you read the post he is clearly still using Twitter. - Mike Doeff
BTW I totally get what Jesse is saying bit I don't think the Digg crowd will get it. - Mike Doeff
I have been debating this for some time - but wonder if it is more from lack of substance than from outage of service. What saddens me most is that there are some fine people I have met that I would not have otherwise met... to your other share... - ChangeForge via twhirl
Mike, they've been brutal enough already. I'm used to it at this point in the day. :-) - Jesse Stay via twhirl
Some recent shots from the last week or so, showing Matthew and Sarah
together, whether they like it or not. No additional guest appearances
required. - Louis Gray via mail2ff
I like the third one, with Sarah's tongue out. Too funny. They have the best faces. - Louis Gray
Cute kids and great pictures. I'm sure you'll have a ton of these types of things to come, and it will be interesting as they grow older how the interact. - Jeremy Neal via twhirl
I suck at baby watching, but how do you know who is who? - Yuvi
hehehe.. wait till one twin turns on the other and begins to suck on their nose. Its sooooo commical ! - Peter Dawson
I could leave Twitter though, b/c I only use it to feed FF. However, I now have followers on FF that I engage w/far more. It was a day or two before I realized twitter had even dropped s/of my followers, b/c I likely have already subbed w/most on FF before the Internet Duct Tape importer stopped working properly - which is probably when I lost more interest in Twitter. I luv the photo and conversation features of FF, that is why Twitter did not hold my interest for long. Besides, I do not care if you are driving to the grocery store, unless you bringing home my bacon...LOL. - Ruth Ferguson
Ruth excellent point - that's why I think Gaping Void could do it too now. It's now much more possible to leave Twitter than it was back then, and for the most part (about 1/2 my followers and people I'm following are on FF now) you won't be leaving your followers and the great networking tool behind. - Jesse Stay
How did you compile this? Was there a tool you used? - Jesse Stay
Jesse, that's from the Trends link in Google Reader. Select Shared and display the top 40 from the last 30 days. Then, it's boring Excel for charts. - Louis Gray
Oh cool - I never noticed that! Heh - you're #5 on my list. It goes first, TechCurnch, second, Inside Facebook, Third, Mashable, Fourth, VentureBeat, and then you (last 30 days) - Jesse Stay via twhirl
"Hank, it wasn't that long ago that I sent you an e-mail and said I've admired your work on your personal blog and on Silicon Alley Insider. I'm glad the data here proves it true in a big way. Keep up the excellent effort." - Louis Gray
I like Hank's work - we met at F8 and he's a cool guy in person too. - Jesse Stay
Silent typing. Interesting. I haven't had much experience with Apple's multi-touch, but most touchscreen keyboard annoy me. Perhaps I need some practice. With the "silent typing", the iPhone would be great for ninjas. - possible248
I am considering getting an iPod Touch (2.0 Upgrade), what's the battery like? - Joe Dawson
@possible248: Not exactly, as it would still give off light. - Michael Ryan
I wonder if they thought about "the ability to not wake small children" during a design meeting? - Michael Bekiaris via twhirl
Whether they thoought about it or not, it really works. Now with Exchange support I can review home and work email, FriendFeed and Twitter, watch baseball highlights and more. Meanwhile, Matthew is thankfully sleeping on my chest and is none the wiser. - Louis Gray
The battery life on the Touch is awesome - I rarely worry about the battery since I dock it every evening. I don't think I've ever run out of juice. - Tad Donaghe
Agree. I posted elsewhere that the best iPhone battery extender is - an iPod touch! ;) - John Samuelson
Thanks for the weekly Friday tips. Many tricks I didn't know... I think Mail2FF also allows you to send 25 pics in a message (unlike the 3 limit in bookmarklet), but I haven't tried it yet. - Mitchell Tsai
Thanks for the tip! This is very useful information. - SharnAtlanta
Considering that many other social networking services allow posting by email, it's good to see that FriendFeed does too. Thanks for the information! - Anthony K Valley
"I'm glad you could find it useful. There are a number of features that are less-known by new FriendFeed users which we've been taking for granted for months. Sometimes I think I'm stating the obvious, but it's good to know this will benefit you. The Mail2FF addition is something I use frequently and I'm pleased to know they've adopted it so whole heartedly." - Louis Gray
"Steve Jobs has asked me to write a posting every other day or so to let everyone know what’s happening with MobileMe, and I’m working directly with the MobileMe group to ensure that we keep you really up to date. In the 14 days since we launched, it’s been a rocky road and we know the pain some people have been suffering. Be assured people here are working 24-7 to improve matters, and we’re going to favor getting you new info hot off the presses even if we have to post corrections or further updates later." - Louis Gray via Bookmarklet
very interesting... I haven't had problems this week, but they do need to fix issues quick before the fail whale wags her tail. - Bill Sodeman
hmm. for Jobs to request this says that he is supremely pissed at what is going on. heads most likely rolled. - Jamie
Someone at Apple may call it "a posting," but there's nothing about it that's a blog. Also, how is it promoted to MobileMe subscribers. - Rex Hammock via twhirl
Oh good, you reminded me to cancel the trial. It's pretty but quite unstable. - Aviv
an excellent perspective from phil - i do think the glass is way to small & the view is myopic by most currently labeling "themselves" as tech bloggers - mike "glemak" dunn
The other day I was looking around, and couldn't find the baby - I asked my wife, and she told me to look in my arms. I was actually holding the baby and didn't even know it! - Jesse Stay
I read that it's not uncommon to mark them (at least at first) till you can distinguish. - Kaia
The new solution is to let my wife sleep and I get both! But this of course limits my mobility. As for telling them apart, that's never been a problem. You can't have identical twins of different genders - Louis Gray
how come you don't have tiny color bands around their wrists ? - Peter Dawson
secondly these color bands help in ensuring the right baby gets the right medication /attention when required. This is whatbuddy did for his identical twins. and also each baby gets equal share of both parents :)- - Peter Dawson
FriendFeed needs a way to collapse these multiple references to the same article into just one post on here... Call it the "Louis Gray Rule" - Jason Carreira
Federation is simply the beginning of the solution for a micro-blogging service. You'll also need a dynamic load-balancing system that is capable of spreading the load of requests for content acroll multiple servers. For example, a popular microblogger (eg. Scoble) might be replicated across all servers, while a mid-level microblogger may only be distributed across a few. The average microblogger may only be on two or three servers depending on the redundancy requirements. - Jim McCusker
Jason, for some reason I did not connect you with babelnote. Besides scalability and reliability, what will make babelnote different than other microblogging services? - Rob Diana
this reminds me of "get you people to talk to my people and we'll work it out" :)- - Peter Dawson
@Rob, Well, I can't talk about all of it. Let's just say that there are some features Twitter has disabled, some features that have been partially implemented by 3rd party apps outside Twitter, and one truly game-changing feature. I also have a very solid, very profitable revenue / business model that scales up with the number of users. Out of the gate all you may see is a scalable, reliable Twitter, but that's not where the vision ends. - Jason Carreira
@Jason, now the obvious question I forgot, when? Can we get this two months ago :) - Rob Diana
Here! Here! to Calicanis' call for item consolidation! Fewer instances of discussion fragmentation would really make FF more attractive to me for day-to-day use. - Daniel Smith
psst... Daniel... it's Carreira, not Calacanis. - Cyndy
@Rob, well, as they say, it depends... Know anyone keen on being an angel investor? - Jason Carreira
@Daniel, you can tell I'm not Calcanis because I mentioned revenue and profit ;) - Jason Carreira
@Jason, I wish. I could use some funding myself. - Rob Diana
Jason & Rob: You guys are east-coast & I'm not well-connected with the east coast Angel networks. :-( E-mail me at tsai [TA] cs.ucla.edu and perhaps I can help with "find-an-angel advice". Unfortunately, I haven't loaded any of that info onto my Del.icio.us or FriendFeed accounts. Maybe I can help you guys connect up. It's often not just about "money" for the investor, it's about 95+% ideas failing, and how to connect ...past... that mindset, and speak the language of the investors. - Mitchell Tsai
@Cyndy: Thanks for letting me know in a whisper. Now I can go back and edit it before anyone finds out the silly mistake I made! Oh wait... ;) @Jason CARREIRA: Guess that should have been a dead giveaway. Sigh. - Daniel Smith
great thread... jason cracks me up, and impresses as well - gregory lent
@Jason - Just checked out your site and, after the initial surprise of not being on Mahalo (har), read your post. I think your project is interesting and one to keep an eye on for sure. Oh but just FYI, babelfish.com without the www redirects to a domain parking page, might want to fix that! Cheers. - Daniel Smith
"I have encouraged Yuvi before to use his Stat efforts to start making real money. I for one, would pay real cash to have him do some custom analysis. I even made some recommended price bands. Hopefully, when he wants to do it, we'll see some real effort there. As for me, I'm not a statistician. I just play one on TV." - Louis Gray
