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A small group of us are getting together for a pub lunch and a chat in Goudhurst, Kent tomorrow. 1pm
September 3 at 8:52 am - Link
this went really well - we had Tim Brocklehurst, Kevin Brown and Martin Avis there :-) There will be another one next month. Same place/time - not sure on the date yet. - Robert O'Callaghan
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Ed Dale posted an entry on Thirty Day Challenge
Air Hammer Brings Us HIS follow up video for this years challenge…
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August 31 at 3:58 pm - Link
thanks for a great challenge ed dale. I'm only on lesson... 8 :( but i'm gonna finish and i've already learned a ton!!! thank you thank you - washwords via twhirl
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ha ha ha. there's.... google notebook. lolol - washwords via twhirl
This guy got....balls (?) - Umit Namli via twhirl
hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha - Robert O'Callaghan
ROFL.... - DirkF via twhirl
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Robert Scoble has a "Social Problem"
May 26 at 12:54 am - Link
I'm going to talk about this post a lot more over on FriendFeed at http://www.friendfeed.com/scob... -- participate in the conversation there. - Robert Scoble
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So, Rob La Gesse now you lose all control of the conversation. See how this happens? Now I'll comment on your things twice: once in Google Reader (I used the note feed to post the comment above to all my readers there) and now I can talk on FriendFeed all about what you said here. - Robert Scoble
Here's his points with my counter point: >He loves everything new on the web and often tells us how great it is. MY RESPONSE: I don't love everything new on the Web. I have a folder of more than 10,000 emails from PR people in the past two years. Most of which I've never talked about anywhere. Why? Because they don't deserve getting passed onto you. I read a lot of blogs, follow a lot of conversations, and try things after the earliest of early adopters try things out. I wasn't the first to use FriendFeed.. - Robert Scoble
>>Maybe FriendFeed (but I think that lasts another three months for Scoble, tops). RESPONSE: Rob, tonight, guaranteed I'll never comment on his blog ever again and will always respond here on FriendFeed. That will last a lot longer than three months. - Robert Scoble
>>And like any other "Sales Pitch" - people need to know how it will help them. RESPONSE: Absolutely true. Our new show, called WorkFast.TV, will be VERY FOCUSED on productivity and helping people get more work done. Tools that don't reach that bar will be discarded and won't make the show to waste your time. We'll have lots of experts on to make sure that the best stuff gets on, and also that only stuff that actually helps people gets on. - Robert Scoble
The topic of comment deletion and control of where conversations can happen on FriendFeed or on original blogs (which this post started) is being discussed here: http://friendfeed.com/e/e4fa46... - Robert Scoble
lol - This feels very much like http://garfieldminusgarfield.n... - Robert O'Callaghan
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Jeremiah Owyang posted a message
“Friendfeed could benefit from a profile description, I want to know more about people, sometimes it's hard to tell from their shared items. Do you AGREE or DISAGREE?”
June 12 at 3:03 pm - Link
Agree. I believe this is already in the plans, and has been requested for some time. - Louis Gray
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At first blush, I would disagree. What could be more "profile-ish" than dozens of blog posts, tweets, photos, StumbledUpon items and more? I guess there's no downside to including it, but part of the beauty of FriendFeed is its simplicity -- and I'd hate to see that ruined. - Mike Keliher
I was thinking that just a moment ago when someone new subscribed to me...it's hard to figure out who they are, and why they've found you... - Trent Olson
Definitely agree. - Chris Rossini
Agreed, but let's not go crazy with it... Location, maybe age.... - Chris Reed
that will save the click to the user's twitter page - Dobromir Hadzhiev
I want to be able to add in my dailymugshot profile so people can see how FriendFeed addiction ages me ala Whitney Houston style! - Joe Dawson (beta)
AGREE. My usual process is to click over to their Twitter page and read their profile there. - Damon Cortesi via twhirl
Agreed. Brief bio + web link would be fantastic. - Evan Sims
Agree - Hutch Carpenter
Amen - told the same to Paul else its always the usual suspects - Mrinal Desai via twhirl
One alternative would be to have the opportunity to import profile data from somewhere...say openID or something. I do think ff needs access to profiles, but I don't think I need yet another place to create a profile. - Trent Olson
Fine import in, that's fine! FYI not everyone is going to be a twitter user. - Jeremiah Owyang
I agree, but make it smart! Import data if possible. Data Portability is the way to go :-) - Magnus Jonsson via Alert Thingy
I've been thinking this as well. Why not have more detailed optional info, a link to their profile could easily be ignored by those craving simplicity. - Leif Hansen
Ok, so if we want to import profiles from somewhere, what options would we like? - Trent Olson
what about having something similar to retaggr, where your avatar allows to supplement a lot of info about you, without having to peruse lots of pages? - Kara Carrell via twhirl
Definitely agree-not enough to see their feed icons and avatar - Mark Forman via twhirl
yes, importing is the way to do it! Have you thought about how much effort would be required to update ALL of your profile(s) if you moved, for example? - Thomas Ho via fftogo
of course some basic profile would be good but not another duplicate profile, rather an integration with a profile we could chose would be best, so a blog about page, linkedin or fb profile or even the basic ones of twitter or seesmic would be good - having to many diverse profile locations is such a waste in today's easily integrated online world - mike "glemak" dunn
sorry one more point - this is not about authentication but rather information right, so a good transparent about page or the public linkedin profile is what I've been looking at and sometimes flickr because I find you can get a sense of someone by the photos they publish - but maybe that's just me ;) - mike "glemak" dunn
Agree wholeheartedly that there is a need for profile info. If it's done by leveraging information from an existing source, the user needs to have the ability to specify the source, in order to control the messaging. - Andrei M. Marinescu via twhirl
AGREE - Mark Dykeman
agree! - petermello via Alert Thingy
Agree! - Carla Thompson
agree! - sergiooo
Agree. Many things I'm inclined to share with the world don't necessary define me. Sometimes I share 'cause I believe others will benefit from something more than I would. So yeah, a proper place to better define myself would be nice. - Jim Stanger
Agree. Because there are people behind names like mine. - IRWebReport.com
how about a room called 'about me?' that way you can opt in or not - sergiooo
AGREE Was just thinking the same thing this morning. - Marc Vermut via twhirl
If you hover with your mouse over someone's name, the profile pop-up gives a short profile plus an indication of whether that person has subscribed to you, rather like Twitter Karma but hundred times better ;) - Mario Olckers
Yes, a short profile would be of great help. kamla - kamla bhatt
mario - true but its not a profile, its the list of aggregated sites, so from there you can go look at one of the about pages of a blog or a true profile page like linkedin - mike "glemak" dunn
it would definitely be helpful to know a little more about people, but short profile - Carolina Velis
Agree. - Chris Nixon
Agreed. - Holger Eilhard
Agreed. - Thomas Hawk
Agreed. Was thinking that a couple weeks ago. I tend to click on people's Twitter or blog link to find the "about" info. - Brian Daniel Eisenberg
Totally. If you go to twitter and see my reference to "nude Oprah" you would then be completely disappointed when you arrive at my blog http://tinyurl.com/582z7o I vote for a profile on FF. - Dan Covington
Agreed - Rubin Sfadj
DISAGREE . They should keep it simple and avoid feature-creep. - john conroy
I don't know. I tend to disagree. I want to get to know someone by what they feed, by how they comment, not by what they say in a profile. Not everyone can express themselves that way, but you can by what you feed, like and comment IMO. - AJ Kohn
Jeez, Jeremiah. You've got access to my photos, videos, two blogs, and all the feeds I read. - Christopher Harley
For now, you can always mouse over someone's name and see where it takes you. It's a good practice anyway because you can subscribe to their feed if you wish - Charlie Anzman
AGREE. Going over to the ever-slow twitter just for the bio is, err, slow. - Yuvi (has IRL friends!)
Agreed.. Infact, I requested this before a long time.. http://friendfeed.com/e/a2a2a4... - Jigar Mehta
Agree - I tend to hover over their blog button to see what the name of it is - Sarah Perez
Agree. Although Most Profiles don't really convey much directly, you can infer a lot from what the person is trying to paint. - Parth Awasthi via twhirl
Completely disagree. As someone said already, your stream is your profile. - Neil Saunders
Agree - Their blog URI is the main thing. - Franklin Pettit
It's especially bad when people don't have a blog feed to get an idea. - Cyndy
I agree. Making the profiles searchable would also add value - Mike Sansone
Agree :) - Maryam Ardakani
agree.... web links are most important - Stefan Hayden
yeah, I'm Definitely agree with you - Zahra HB
DISAGREE. A think max you could you a profile sentence a la twitter, but it's almost more fun to infer/learn facts about the person from what they like, blog about, read and listen to. - Cat Laine
Just for fun, I'd like to remind people that this is called FRIENDFeed. If you don't know who someone is, and you're not intrigued by what they've shared here, what would a little bio do to change that? - Mike Keliher
I would have to say that FF is more of an aggregator with some bells & whistles. Some of the others services (blogs or facebook for example ) tend to be the places I'd expect to go for more info. Maybe the ability to add a link to the profile you wan to people to see? - Joel Gray
agree...but, jsut need a link to a profile from linkedin, facebook, myspace, etc. all that i need to know is who is that person. w/o a blog (most have them though), it's hard to figure out from the screen name. - don loeb
Agreed. - mojay via fftogo
Agreed... I sometimes wonder why this person wants to follow me. - Mike Wills
Not really. After all, FriendFeed links to many of the places where I have profiles - including a direct link to my LinkedIn profile. - Simon Bisson via Alert Thingy
FF is elegant enough as it is. I think that FF, as said above links to more that one place where my profile is stored. Which reminds me, it needs updating. Any tips?? - Roberto Bonini
AGREE! I've asked the FF team for this specific feature. Hope they're listening. :) - Don MacAskill
I like the basic simplicity of it. If you want to know more about them, go visit the blog page they linked. - TranceMist
It would actually be kind of cool if FF kept track on the things you share and comment on and then build a profile from it. It could be just as much about self discovery! How exciting! - Geoff Schultz
I like either reading in the Twitter bio or an excerpt from an About page from blog. Also, title and company from LinkedIn could be read. That alone might suffice. - Adam Darowski
Agree. For those who want to use it, a FriendFeed profile saves the trouble of digging through countless posts, tweets, etc. And if you don't want to use it, you don't have to use it. - Ontario Emperor
Would be nice if they could instead pull in your profiles on all your feeds and allow your to tab thru them - Robert O'Callaghan
Disagree. Not knowing who everyone is here on FF keeps it more objective keeps some from being influenced on how they may post. It gives newcomers a chance to be noticed without be 'overpowered' by the 'well-known' names which is very good. This is one of the reasons (Late adopter?? :) that I just re-opened my Linked-In account. - Charlie Anzman
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I'm the Mighty Stephen Hawking - Today's Tune. ;)
I'm the Mighty Stephen Hawking - Today's Tune. ;)
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June 6 at 1:38 pm - Link
...that bitch got no phd... i've lost count of mine, i got stupid wack degrees... - Chris Hollander
Who said white men can't rap :-) - Robert O'Callaghan
Mi-mi-mighty Steven Hawking - Tad, TV's Patrick Duffy
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“Who thinks that gas prices in the US will be just about the same as gas prices in Europe (general statement) in about 2 to 4 years and all of our large vehicles will be replaced by the much smaller, more fuel efficient cars that most of the world owns/uses?”
June 6 at 1:28 pm - Link
Gas prices in Europe actually go up higher too when they go up here. If you mean will our gas taxes increase to match Europe's, I doubt it. - Morton Fox
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that's a good point - I read that the tax rate there was 70% and in the US it was around 11% - acedanger
If I am not mistaken they also use a ton more diesel autos and unlike here their diesel fuel is less expensive rather than more expensive than regular fuel. - Marco (aureliusmaximus)
our purchasing power makes this unlikely. the US buys significantly more fuel than any European nation. this plus trade incentives makes it likely that the US can keep prices down relative to Europe... - Jeremy Toeman
I'm actually looking forward to car companies starting to build smaller, more efficient cars. I laugh every day at the herds of late-eighties Caprices, Monte Carlos and Town Cars with 20+inch rims I see around town. I noticed that the neighborhoods with these crazy cars have the highest gas prices. My big concern is that higher gas prices may seem to disproportionately affect lower-income people. - ha3rvey
Diesel is more expensive than petrol in Europe, but you get more mpg so it's cheaper in the long run. - Chris Nixon
It would be so great if the US would raise gas taxes and use the money for public transportation alternatives. The idea is also political suicide in the US and not at all likely to happen. - Jason Wehmhoener
Its all tax here in the UK on gas (Petrol)... We are suffering even with small cars. - Robert O'Callaghan
$11.53 a gallon at the moment in London - Phill Price
This really isnt a bad thing I don't think - krug
It can't happen soon enough. Next: we need fast trains. - TranceMist
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Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova Live at Sundance!
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June 5 at 9:33 am - Link
Such a lovely sound - Robert O'Callaghan
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Voyagerfan5761 posted a message on Jaiku
“Apple makes the iPod, the iPhone, the iMac, the iBook... All of them successful. When will Apple produce an iFAIL?”
June 2 at 10:35 pm - Link
do you use a mac primarily, Voyagerfan? - edythe
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Dude, I want an iFAIL. - Tanath
@edythe: Nope, PC. :-) XP, not Vista. I might have to switch to Linux when my current computer goes away, just to avoid Vista. The Mac UI bugs me, honestly. I like my separate menu bars and top-right window controls. What about you? - Voyagerfan5761
@Tanath: Now that your comment has hit my conscious processing... Why would you want something with FAIL in its name? :D - Voyagerfan5761
Reality Distortion Field - just that whenever something that's from Apple fails, we just kinda "forget". Newton anybody? Apple TV? - Yuvi (has IRL friends!)
I initially said it for the humour value, but now that I think about it... it would be useful to have a record of your failures to motivate you and learn from... - Tanath
@cyvros/fyc: *obligatory Windows ME/Apple Me Marketing Campaign metaphor joke.* "You belong to Apple now." Are you kidding me? Do Not Want. - Mark "Rizzn" Hopkins
How long ago was the Newton, Yuvi? And it failed in terms of sales but not in terms of influence, like most Apple products. And Apple TV is yet unproven. I think it's premature to call it a failure. The Cube, yes. Anything else? ;-) - Rick Powell
To be annoying and take this seriously, the Mac cube was a highly desired item but it failed.They'll miss the target again if and when they produce something we either don't want, can't use or can't afford.There are times when I think they could make an iBrick and it'd sell. - Emsquared
Wasn't there a hubbub over one of the early updates turning iPhones that had been jailbroken into iBricks? - Voyagerfan5761
@Rick Powell: The Reality Distortion field in effect :P You gave me proof! - Yuvi (has IRL friends!)
Segway. - Tanath
They have small failures recently but kill them off before anybody notices. Cube. Apple HiFi. Jury still out on Apple TV, MacMini, .Mac, iWeb, iWork. - Jason Kaneshiro
The Apple HiFi is one of the best things ever! We bought one and love it. The iSight got obsoleted. We had a couple that we weren't using anymore and were able to sell them on ebay for well over their MSRP. I'm not going to buy apple stock, just apple accessories that they won't be making a year from now. :-) - Ginger Makela
Anyone else notice how Jason and Ginger mentioned even more iProducts that I forgot about? :D - Voyagerfan5761
Sucessful for apple or its users, I wonder how many jail broken IPhones are out there.... - Robert O'Callaghan
@Robert: I remember reading about speculation involving the number 250,000, but that was way back when... I don't have any idea about current figures. - Voyagerfan5761
Yeah it's skillful - underperforming products are discontinued before they start affecting the bottom line and become public failures. - Jason Kaneshiro
Anybody want to mention Vista? Oh wait, I will! Microsoft should have learned from Apple and cut Vista when it wasn't selling! :D - Voyagerfan5761
sorry, but wtf is Apple HiFi? - Rick Powell
And the iSight was the best webcam I ever used. - Rick Powell
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I think I need more screen real estate for all...
June 3 at 2:41 am - Link
Dual monitor set-ups seem to be almost a necessity now. - Ro (Lilyhill)
if only I had room for a 3rd.... - Duncan Riley
I have 3 monitors, two laptops and two mobile phones on my desk ... Still not enought pixels... - Robert O'Callaghan
Yep, it's a case of never enough I fear. 3 would do me :) - jjprojects
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3G, Thinner, Better Battery Rumors, And More
June 3 at 3:27 am - Link
So will the camera be better, battery last longer than a train journey and can I run anyones app? - Robert O'Callaghan
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preneur: You know you're obsessed with the #30DC when... http://twurl.nl/n13148 [very cool thread on the challenge forum]
June 3 at 12:33 am - Link
You know you're obsessed with the TDC.... when you tweet about it instead of picking the kids up from school http://twurl.nl/n13148 - Robert O'Callaghan
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June 3 at 12:33 am - Link
Not sure if this is good or bad given how slow bugs are fixed... will we now see a facebook worm if there is any holes in the code? - Robert O'Callaghan
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