OpenID still confuses me - isn't the idea to have one login for everywhere? But now I have at least four different OpenIDs (gmail, yahoo, livejournal, and the one I actually use that's linked to my blog). I still think the underlying ideal is good, but the implementation is...not. - Jandy Stone
Jandy: Nailhead meets hammer. What good are a dozen "universal IDs" when no one accepts them? - Stephen Foskett
first time notice this today i think... when signing up for unltdworld account and it asks to sync data, but not a full openid implementation it seems. been using yahoo earlier tho for twitterfeeds etc. - Pajama Domain
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Try getting a Magnolia account without one. They require it now. - April Russo
Also, isn't one of the largest security rules is to NOT have the same login for every online account? - Wizetux
Tux, this is slightly different since there is only one authentication, and you could theoretically reclaim that if it was hacked. So the loss of security is offset. - Stephen Foskett
mmmh... FAIL, at this stage (the stage where OAuth is not yet mainstrem enough). Using an email as an OpenID will be a big win, I know, but for now it will only confuse people, and we - OpenID supporters - really don't like another seed of chaos in that domain. "Sign in with your GMAIL account" is NOT "Sign in with OpenID". Sad. - Claudio Cicali
Well, the problem I have, and granted, I have not done much research into OpenID, but if you can login to my GMail and my bank supports OpenID, then would you not be able to login to my bank with my GMail account? - Wizetux
@wizetux yes, you're right there. Not a good idea to use OpenID for critical apps if the provider isn't secure. I use my own provider, and it's much more secure than gmail since it is OpenID only. - Stephen Foskett
Indeed, OpenID is not a trusting system, so I don't see it used in high secure area. - Claudio Cicali
Well, then I pray and hope that my bank or Credit Card will never go to OpenID. - Wizetux
Your bank or credit card can pick and choose which OpenID providers it supports. OpenID doesn't dictate how the providers authenticate you; it can be as secure as anything else. - Bruce Lewis
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Cee Bee: she's a small time politician who's more inexperienced than Obama. Plus, she allegedly used her power as governor to attempt to fire her brother-in-law, who was locked in a child custody dispute with her sister. When the public safety commissioner refused, she fired him: http://beta.friendfeed.com/e/e... - Mark Trapp
So let me get this, if mccain has a stroke or something cause he is like 72 this is our filler? - orionstarr
beautiful Sarah Palin! now Barack Obama will be in trouble for not selecting a woman (Hilary Clinton).... - Pajama Domain
orionstarr: Yup. Scary thought, isn't it? A person who's held a political office for less than 3 years would be next in line for the presidency. They used to joke that Bush put Cheney as his VP so no one would try to impeach him, as you'd be left with someone even worse. I think this was a ploy by McCain to get God not to send him packing. - Mark Trapp
I know a little about her (probably more than most in the lower 48) and this just comes off solely as a calculated risk to win over disgruntled Hillary people (who don't pay attention to policy) while appeasing the pro-life base ... with a touch of that "drill, drill, drill" chanting thrown in. Not exactly my idea of a wise executive-type decision, but YMMV. - M. Donaldson
I want a fast forward button. I want to fast forward to the VP debates. I want to see Palin try to use her beauty pageant answers against snarky old Joe Biden and then watch him make her look foolish. - Jason Carreira
Republicans want to drill, she and alaska wants drilling. Guess it truly is all about the oil. Explains why Mccain won't leave Iraq - orionstarr
More fun to look at than any candidate in History. Which is like saying more fun than a root canal, but still... - Brian Norwood
While I do think being a woman was the primary reason she was selected, she's a good match for McCain and looks very interesting. Killing 'The Bridge to Nowhere' should win her points in anyone's book. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S... - David Knight
oh and she totally looks like Tina Fey - David Knight
Looking like Tina Fey is her only redeeming feature - Jason Carreira
You're a fan of the bridge to nowhere? - David Knight
We'll have to see, I don't know much about her. She better be more than a lightweight or Biden will crush her in the VP debate - David Knight
I'm looking forward to it... I think the Dems should push for 5-10 VP debates ;) - Jason Carreira
Mark: Agreed wholeheartedly, it's a scary choice. Loved the email from my christian conservative Reaganite buddy, "Who? OMG!" - Sally Church
Gov. of one city, cause that's all Alaska really has...hehe - orionstarr
80% approval rating!? That seems a little suspect, there aren't many politicians whose approval rating, when added to bush's is > 100 - David Knight
do people really think you can just substitute any woman for Hillary and that will fool voters? I think Hillary supporters like Hillary for her stands on issues (especially issues that affect women), her experience/her lifelong political career, not because she's got 2 X chromosomes. Odd choice, I'm with Jason - can't wait for the debates. - JoEllen
@JoEllen You overestimate the intelligence of the American voter. - stretta
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JoEllen - Most Hillary voter will surely go for Obama since their platforms where sooo similar, yes?. It might pull some who feel like their party let them down but wouldn't have voted for 2 old white guys. - David Knight
@JoEllen I agree... Here's her stance on issues: She's a creationist, she's pro-life, and an NRA member. She's the anti-Hillary. - Jason Carreira
in fact, HRC supporters supposedly warned Obama if not HRC, no woman on the ticket. They did not want just any woman, they wanted her. So most of them won't fall for this trick. Also her pro life stance won't work for many of her supporters and some of them feel as passionate on that issue as conservatives. - Ruth Ferguson
So she hates science too? Way to round out the ticket McCain! - Tad Goes to 11
Jason: I wasn't aware of her creationist views until you pointed it out. Looking online just now I see she did indeed advocate teaching creationism (or whatever name you want to give it) in science classes in a governor's debate. Barf. http://www.dailykos.com/storyo... - M. Donaldson
mccain, unsurprisingly, given his feelings about women, thinks voters were excited about "a woman" when they wanted "a woman named hillary" - eric mortensen
This is just a prescription for McCain's wet T-shirt comment, the trollop, "c word" comment, and his membership in the he-man woman haters club from his stint on the "Our Gang" series. - JoEllen
"Yup. Scary thought, isn't it? A person who's held a political office for less than 3 years would be next in line for the presidency" You were talking about Obama's 143 days as a senator, weren't you? I agree. Obama is too inexperienced to be president. - Dave Roth
This proofs, that Twitter is not able to do a stable service. They know only few will pay. FAIL for the masses ! - Ryo
Dude, you're like one of the few that gets to have more than 2000. I want to say I'm jealous, but I'm already over twitter. - Pete D
Investors, save your money, before it's gone! - Ryo
really? thought there's at less three ppl with over 50,000 followers, one of them being @barackobama - Pajama Domain
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@Ev says its not true. There's no limit to Twitter followers one can have - Christian Anderson
I think Ev is going to say that limits do exist but there is not a hard limit at 2,000 - i.e. the limits are different for everyone based on various factors that they won't make public. That's their party line (for now) but there is a lot of evidence piling up that new users can't get past following 2,000. - Mike Doeff
I wish everyone I follow on twitter will move to FF as well, will make everything so much easier. - Amit Morson
And I don't follow new people on twitter, all my new follows are on FF only. - Amit Morson
Yeah it is a stupid move. Can't they be a bit more inventive in preventing spammers - Michael McGimpsey
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The limit is not on the followers you can have but on the number of people you can follow. Big difference I'd say. - Alexander Kohlhofer
A lot of bad info making the rounds on this. They're not limiting followers. They're limiting *follows*... the number of people you can follow. That's a much more reasonable thing to do. - Mark Jaquith
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Yeah, I've gotten a ton of "followers" who follow 3k+ and are followed by around 100... I'm not adverse to limiting these types of people so that they will only follow me if they're actually interested in what I have to say. - Frankie Warren
Aah, this is a nice exercise in seeing how quickly mis-information spreads. First it was that Twitter cuts the ones you follow, then the ones that follow you, and the whole time @EV denied the whole "meme." http://twitter.com/ev/statuses... Long live social media! - Vincent van Wylick
The follow limit SUCKS. There's a group of us who are petitioning Twitter to get rid of the follow limit. Yes, and to clarify, they are limiting the number of people you can follow, not the number who follow you—it has to do with the ratio. If you get above 2000 people you're following, and it's even a few hundred more than are following you, they suddenly (without warning) put you on the follow limit. It's very frustrating and does not work well for those of us who have corporate clients on Twitter. - Cathryn Hrudicka
it sucks but for only a minority of the twitter users or so... - ouriel
This is a new follow limit, and seems somewhat arbitrarily enforced (see my previous comment). This is not smart for Twitter, either, as they are creating a climate of frustration, distrust and general unhappiness among loyal users who have professional reasons for needing to be able to add people, and we are in a position to recommend Twitter to our corporate clients—Twitter's business development says they want more corporate clients. How can we recommend Twitter to clients if THEY will be limited, too? - Cathryn Hrudicka
this doesnt concern me much for the moment :) i wonder if all followers actually read and digest info or it is merely for stats. - Hayk
Look guys, stop the groupthink-inspired panic. There is no limit. @Scobleiser, whom you're all responding to, is following & followed by 30K people. - Vincent van Wylick
And the downfall of Twitter continues. The ride was good while it lasted. I guess this means that FF will replace it. - Bob Blunk
what's up with all the limitation everywhere? it doesn't matches to the web evolution! - Orli Yakuel
Aren't there a bunch of apps that rely on follows to function? Doesn't this severely limit their adoption? - Hal
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This really limits community building. They should do a percentage rather than hardline the ceiling at 2K - Mike Sansone
Do you guys even read the comments that other people are writing in this thread? - Vincent van Wylick
99.999999% of everyone who will ever use twitter will have less than 50 followers. Let's be honest here - even if this limited existed (and there is good reason to think it does not) it woudln;t limit twitter for regular users one bit. As for FF... good tool but totally different value than Twitter. "Move to FF" is a odd statement to me... I cant do what I do on twitter on FF. - Soulhuntre
I work for a large magazine printer. This isn't very encouraging but I agree. - DivemasterDoug
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The only thing I know of that FriendFeed doesn't do that Twitter can is SMS. Which I couldn't possibly care less about. Yet I can think of many things FF does better than Twitter without needing a bunch of 3rd party websites. - Paul Reynolds
The 99% argument is flawed. It's the same with homeland security and surveillance. 99% should have nothing to hide. - Benedikt Koehler
@ouriel: This is even worse! No more than following 2000? Twitter is dead. Long live Friendfeed! - Ryo
Umm.... civil rights issues are INTENDED to favor the minority. Software services are developed for the majority of the users they serve. You do see how flawed that analogy of yours is, right? - Soulhuntre
When FF is easily used via SMS, and supports the thrid party services and is easy to teach to the only semi-nerd folks who use twitter but woudl NOT sit down and use FF (SMS is good for that) then call me. - Soulhuntre
Follower limit st'oo'pid.Despite early mover status,catchy name,deer in headlight fawning press,another reason to look at alts. - JimmyJet
I thought Facebook was wrong only allowing 5,000 friends, now Twitter only allows 2,000 followers? What is this Web 2.0 world coming to? - Jeremy Campbell
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@Biz on Twitter said you could have as many followers as you want. - PC Easy
Robert, does that mean they will be limiting your followers? - Nicholas James
No way, this is for new people, if they start a cull they will lose everyone! - Joe Dawson
I see a pro twitter feature coming soon - Wayne Sutton
Flickr tried this a while back and there was enormous backlash. They tried limiting your contacts to 5,000. They later rescinded the limit and changed it to you could have no more than 5,000 *non-reciprocal* contacts. Since most people don't add spammers back, this easily deals with the spammers while letting those with larger social networks still manage their larger pool of contacts. A smarter way to deal with the problem. - Thomas Hawk
Twitter is limiting the number of people you can follow depending on a ratio of how many people you follow to how many follow you. Personally I have no issues with this flexible limit as it prevents idiots who run bots and follow 30K worth of people and only have 1,000 following them. This will keep the idiots at bay - BCK
That will lead to lose followers, too. Now one have to decide who is important enough. Twitter sucks. - Ryo
yes - I have not been able to reciprocate any followers for a while and I am at 2000......so I wonder if my following limits will ever be lifted? very frustrating......anyone know if they will change this? There are people I would like to follow too to see their updates.... - Big Paw Designs
the last photo in the series offers some contrast. another great 'big picture' post. - eric mortensen
Awesome shots. In the crazy world of internet, I first saw these pictures from the Czech republic at widelec.org before finally seeing the Boston.com website. - Mitchell Tsai
Wow.. so many.. lots of sites that have sooo many ways to communicate, and of course endless sites to store tasks/timesheets that never get a look in. - David
I second Plurk, sadly. The karma thing annoyed me. Too much pressure. - Veronica
kwippy - but it's so new I could change my mind. There are a few others but sadly I can't remember there names or the proper misspellings. - Jennifer Van Grove
Toluu, Pownce, Jaiku, among many, many others. - Nate Pilling
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Jonathan - wow! Digg and Twitter? Have you replaced them, or just moved on? - Veronica
@ Veronica - Reddit has replaced Digg for me. Just the comment threads alone on Reddit are awesome - thoughtful, witty, and interesting. As for Twitter that's been usurped by FF. - Jonathon
Digg, joost, mixx, catster, flixter, hubpages, technorati, second life, Spock, facebook, librarything, ning, I think there's another thirty I've forgotten. - Jason Kaneshiro
Uber.com I had high hopes for it, but things just didn't seem to work right and I never was really able to get into it. - mathew, keynote not lame
Think I use maybe 10% of the ones i signed on to... my cellphone uses jaiku though, I don't :) - Peder Stray
Plurk, Social Thing, Mixx are history for me. My on the way out list includes Pownce and Digg. - Chris Luckhardt
plurk, that karma thing really turned me off - J. Abdul-Qahhar
Steve, if FriendFeed had a better profile it would be a fantastic idea. Without that type of information, it may be a bit confusing. Twitter is straightforward in what it does, FF is quite intimidating for new people. - Rob Diana
seriously good point Steve. I run ny ff stream on my blog sidebar, and its the most complete view of me. For others, FF has 43 services which can be aggregated into FF. - bankwatch
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My FF URL is what I use now for every time I am asked to share a link.... cool! - Susan Beebe
It would make sense for now as FF starts to be the central place. - Joao
I still think your blog is the way to go - Allen Stern
i use my handle's domain so that i can point folks to whatever my favorite online locations are at the moment - this stuff changes to much... - mike "glemak" dunn
Steve, thanks for the kind words. I think I'm off the fence now and on Allen's side of it. - Robert Seidman
@rob, @ robert, good points maybe steve could put friendfeed in a frame. use steverubel.me, setup a 200px or so frame with business card type info on the left and on the right friendfeed. - Shawn McCollum
shawn's suggestion is good, but instead of redirect you could render the contents of http://friendfeed.com/steverub... in a more "you" way. As other people say, dumping contacts into FriendFeed UI might be a bit much. My opinion is "brand it as you so people know they're talking to the right person, then pass through to FriendFeed (or whatever service) you want to use for them to stay in touch." (And optionally, get the service to pay you for doing so, if the connection is not payment enough.) - Wade Dorrell
stick with the blog only - that should be enough for anyone to find you online as well as any other communities you're an active member of (FF, Twitter, Facebook and so on). - Ron Emrick
She probably signed up just to check out FF To Go. All mums like to know what their sons are up to you know... no matter how old they get! ;-) - Tony Ruscoe
Benjamin, if your mom has a smart phone and wants to keep up with FriendFeed, I have an excellent recommendation for her. (And no, it's not MojiPage.) - Ontario Emperor
Wow your Mom rocks. Mine can barely check her email. I can't imagine what FriendFeed would do to her. - Carla Thompson
My mom's on FriendFeed as well. Who can find her account? - Louis Gray
My mom barely, just barely uses e-mail, but she enjoys watching Taiwanese TV over the internet. It's amazing traveling the world in hostels, watching people IM their moms over the free internet connections. In 1984, going to Europe was a real distancing thing with very expensive phone calls home. Now free Skype at some hostels. Grandma turned 102 this year. - Mitchell Tsai
Wondering what my mother would think of FriendFeed.. :D - Daniel Schildt
why so long? y not just williams.me or james.me? thought me is still quite expensive... are all other jameswilliams.com/net/us etc taken? - Pajama Domain
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Yeah. James, Williams, and James Williams are all pretty common names. - James Williams (willia4)
