"DOORBUSTER SPECIALS! Enjoy special savings on all Comments and Likes. Today only. All feeds open at 5am. Please, no trampling." Can you do better? - Paul Buchheit
How about: "Avoid the lines! Follow all your friends in one place! Instant rebates on all Comments and Likes. While supplies last..." - Wesley Barrow
think that you should be aware that the blackfriday and the turkey thing are american centered only and that most of the users friendfeed is aiming at (I assume) are not american. So it makes it a bit violent (without talking about the bad taste)... - Oaksun
Does any other country have a shopping day like this? I noticed a "schwarzer Freitag" ad here in Switzerland, but I can't help to think that most people will have no idea what it's about. - John Mueller
Australia has a similar 'crazy shopping day' on Boxing Day (Dec 26). It's when the after Christmas sales start. In extreme years the bargains on sale have led to riots and stampedes. - Reto Meier
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"Our customer don't camp outside overnight... They camp in it!" - Johnny Worthington
@John Mueller: The UK has their "January Sales" but that supposedly lasts for the entire month. Although in recent years, it's kind of been overshadowed by constant sales all-year round. I guess Boxing Day sales are also popular now. - Tony Ruscoe
how about: "you can try our service for free today?" =) - Davide D'Incau
no interest for 18 months, sitewide! (the bad kind of interest - plenty of the good kind :P) - bob
What about "Well, Twitter's for sale, why can't we be?" :P - Johnny Worthington
Silence might be best. Saying something would compete with the logo's intrinsic wittiness. - Bruce Lewis
Buy Friend, Get Feed Free! (Actually, you get Friend free too... so I guess that doesn't work.) - Tony Ruscoe
Interesting new logo. Well it's Fri on a tag, so for FF today it's not Friday it's Fritag! - Jeremy Campbell
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We need a FriendFeed room just for logo messages. That way we can look back and see all them in history. - Robert Scoble
Fri-EndFeed! For that End of Friday Feeling! - Tyson Key
We also need a way to publish FriendFeed messages to Identi.ca. They say the ball's in your court. - Cliff Gerrish
not bad at all..after coming in from working black friday it made me smile - Samuel Lewis
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Put a limit on posts, comments and likes. While stocks last. - Andrew Trinh
The folks at FriendFeed never tire, they never sleep, they don''t even stop to go shopping on the biggest shopping day of the year. They continue to fill FriendFeed with more and more AWESOME! Thanks guys! - Josh Haley
"I feed, you feed, we all feed at FriendFeed!" - Siddharth Deb
@Tony Ruscoe - You hit the nail on the head about sales over here in the UK. It seems that some companies seemingly have a permanent sale all year round (DFS and "SafeStyle UK" come to mind) given by their advertising... - Tyson Key
Ron Diorio, or av_producer on Flickr, is a photographic and video artist living and working in New York. This selection of images from "Coming around again" a trilogy (Anytown, Around here and Home town) examining the ambiguity of place in the early 21st century. Ron is represented by Peter Hay Halpert Fine Art. - Thomas Hawk
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I'm finally getting over mine, (full bronchial works, 5 weeks of hell) Be happy you live in a more temperate clime... but you've been gallivanting around the world now, haven't you? :) - Krash Coarse
Apparently you did not take my advice.. more alcohol - Socom
I hear you - I had a cough for about 6 weeks. It's finally gone. - Squirrel Girl
yeah, the traveling isn't helping! lucky we're having thanksgiving at home, so i'll have a 4 day break :) - Veronica
well, it never leaves me, so be glad you will be off in one month :P - Dan V
Susan - got bored enough with your flu to join Twitter huh?? haha! - Justin Korn
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yep!! lol I was checking things out on the net and found twitter! - Susan Beebe
HEY EVERYBODY - check out all the FriendFeeders on this site.. .click the little ".t." at the end of the tweet to add these folks as your friends on twitter! - Susan Beebe
http://myfirsttweet.com/1st/lo... "Just maybe I'm reserving my ID so nobody else can take it. Then again, just maybe I'm in serious denial. Only time will tell. Anti-Twittite?" - Louis Gray
Louis - now THAT is a first tweet! HA! - Justin Korn
Zee - you actually joined Twitter 6 months BEFORE Louis...according to your first tweets - Justin Korn
Trying 2 understand why I would want to use Twitter? I guess it adds to the narcissistic culture we have grown into. ME!ME! Hear me! 2007-05-08 - Briana Franco
Didnt use the site, just added page=xx in batches of 10 until i got there. My first tweets were what i games was playing and books reading, photos posted to blipfoto, then things from my 160km walk. Phew, nothing embarrassing :D - Joelle Nebbe
Tyson - did your world change for the better or the worst? ;-) - Justin Korn
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@Justin Korn - Good question, I've certainly found it engaging and strangely fun enough to have made 668 posts and used it nearly every day for almost 2 months. - Tyson Key
Nope I listen exclusively in Google Reader. - Dave Gilbert
What I do is subscribe in iTunes and then subscribe also in GReader. That way if I'm out of town, I still have all my subscriptions. - Nate Pilling
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Thanks all! The reason I ask - I'd like to listen to more podcasts in a browser. Is there an Odeo-like podcast receiving application out there? I guess I could use GReader, but other options to look at would be great. - Matt "Husher" Harwood
On Windows, Greatnews RSS reader, manually downloaded. Listen to w/ VLC... or sometimes BlackBerry 8820. On OS X, iTunes (rarely). - Dr. Apps
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Akiva, I know one you can listen too :) Seriously though, we have a good percentage that don't use any RSS function, but just listen at the web site. All podcast web sites should have a web based player up front so you can listen instantly. The rest are iTunes, GReader, and a little Friendfeed! Try the Feed Radio room. - Eric @ CS Techcast
I am freakishly unable to pay attention to pure audio. I subscribe to a few podcasts through iTunes, but I don't actually listen to them. - MiɳiMagɘ is EnderMage
subscribe via itunes, listen in the car on the way to work, my drive is about 20 minutes so they have to be short - Bill Pennington
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Itunes or the actual podcast site. My podcast (http://mirthnadir.com) has a player on each episode post. That way you can listen in an instant. Eric @ CS is correct in what he said as well. - Amani
iTunes and iPod Touch with the 2.2 upgrade. I still find unacceptable that I cannot subscribe to the feed directly from the pod, but instead I have to download each episode separately, or sync with itunes on my mac - Nikos Anagnostou
Miro for video podcasts, ZenCast organizer for audio and other video podcasts. I don't have a Zen player but their desktop app is really fast downloading stuff and it doesn't take many resources in memory. If listening to anything in the MP3 player I moved them with Windows Media Player, I will try to play with WinAmp in the future - Cibeles
واقعن پیدا کردن گروهی که شبیه ارا باشه بسیار مشکله . ارا موسیقی قرون وسطی رو زنده کرد .آنسامبل نور که انفاقن در ایران هم فعالیت می کنند شباهت هایی به ارا دارد ولی با شور و حل کمتری.از این گروه یک آلبوم به نام آلبا توسط نشر هرمس منتشر شده . نباید گول لست اف ام رو خورد گروه هایی که پیشنهاد داده ذره ای به ارا شبیه نیست. - vahid
ارا واقعا یک گروه با صصداهای خاص هستن . ترکیب گیتار برقی با سبک نیو ایج معرکه شده - macromediax
The problem is marketing - no one in the early/late majority even knows the term RSS to look up. - AJ Kohn
It's not a problem. As Louis says, you don't need to know what HTML means to use the web. Technology has its place, but it doesn't have to be in your face. :-) - Dave Winer
@Dave: I'm not saying it has to be in your face, but RSS isn't an easy concept IMO, particularly since you have multiple readers from which to choose. Digest. Delivery. On-demand. I think all would be more accessible to early/late majority folks. I love RSS so I'd like to see it gain greater usage. - AJ Kohn
What's even more interesting for me: it shows how far behind Germany is, even behind Netherlands, Sweden etc. - Frank Sons
Anybody know what the latest RSS adoption stats are? I'm looking at a new survey of the audience I serve in my day job (safety managers), and I'll be curious to compare what they said about RSS to a more general audience. Figures for my study (still preliminary) show about 60% never heard of it. Interestingly, it's not the youngest managers who are more aware; 41-50 year olds are most up on it. (BTW I never think these end-user figures mean much; more of the power of RSS happens behind the scenes, IMO.) - Amyloo
@Amyloo: Do you have a link to your study? I'd be interested to see the numbers. - AJ Kohn
No link yet. Responses still coming in so no report. - Amyloo
Here is one item I don't get. I have met almost no teenagers who have heard of twitter, much less use it. I don't get it - these kids send 1000+ messages a month and twitter is foreign. - tim
tim - im, sms & facebook are their tools of choice - twitter is seen as lame, my two teen kids are on twitter but could care less about it, one of my son's though is on friendfeed & actively uses it but he's a comp-sci geek ;) - mike "glemak" dunn
glemak, I've noticed that about kids, too. Those who do know about it associate it exclusively with the original "What are you doing?" purpose and roll their eyes at me for using it. - Amyloo
tried to get both the 22 & 19 to use Twitter. they like it, but in the end their social graphs are in Facebook & Myspace, so the big question is "what's the point, there's nobody on Twitter". The constant discovery of new people online does not really have a corollary in FB, so they don't see that value (yet). - Mark Schulz
yeah mine are 19 & 16 - facebook is their preferred "friend" & "status" environment & they tend to know most in meatspace too, which is different than the percentages of twitter & friendfeed users i'd imagine, it is for me at least... - mike "glemak" dunn
hahaha, well, we have to have fun, too. :) we try to get together on the weekends to do silly things. - Corie
funny story: the girl in the pic and i were told that we're bullies. apparently two 40 year old men in my recruit class think that we pick on them. the two of us together weigh about as much as one of them and yet we're ganging up on them. hehehehe. - Corie
I would love two young women to show me some attention. Cool pictures. Looks like fun. - Russellreno
