“I'm seeing a TON of new people on both twitter and friendfeed. Welcome and let us know if we can help!”
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Great. - Roberto Bonini
http://www.kyte.tv/scobleizer#... has a video about friendfeed that I did that shows you around. You might find it helpful. - Robert Scoble
Thanks for getting me more involved in both! - mrkeroppi
You helped already with the video you posted up on Kyte.tv (http://tinyurl.com/7spgrp) - I was a member before and I had tied in all my RSS and various social network feeds, but I didn't really use Friendfeed. Just felt like a knock-off to Google Reader if I'm honest. Now, I know it's a tool not to mess around with. Extremely powerful, easily one of the best ways to get news for myself outside of Google Reader and I will be certain to explore it further once my exams are done. - Gaurav Patel
Thanks - I would have probably waited on joining FF if not for your video. The idea of cross-SM concatenation is brilliant, even if it's not quite there yet - FF is my SM portal of choice right now. - Jim Mitchem
Hello :) that's a good video, I actually started coming here more often after seeing it - Sebastian Dadał
you can help by paying attention to the massacre in gaza - people on twitter are, but there is hardly any discussion here - why is that? - ernie yacub
was just watching it; gave me some new ideas on how to use FF - Donald Townsend
ernie: I don't comment on it for several reasons. For one it's such a hot botton issue that I know that engaging on that issue will cost me 80 hours and I just don't have the 80 hours to give. Plus, no matter what side I'm on, there will be people on the other side and I still have bruises from the Obama election that are still healing. Finally, it's not something I can do much about. I'd rather focus my energy on things that I can control and have some influence in. - Robert Scoble
Twitter is a great place to give your opinion without too much risk that you'll get dragged into a long conversation. Friendfeed is a much better place to have a long conversation, which changes the dynamic of what you will find useful to discuss here. - Robert Scoble
ditto for me as well Robert. first introduced to FF by ed dale, but finally took the leap after your encouragement. am grateful most days! - Gregg
One more thing: friendfeed is an aggregator, so if you care about Gaza and Israel, I would open a room here on that topic, and start posting tons of stuff to it. If you are blogging about it, I'd make sure your blogs are being aggregated here. Those topics will find people who will engage. It's just that I'm resisting because this is CES week and I don't have the time. - Robert Scoble
If any of you new starters are interested in video games, http://friendfeed.com/rooms/el... could do with the extra life :) - alphaxion
If I accidentally hide something, how do I unhide? - Rutger Blom
Rutger: if you realize your mistake in time you can just "undo" right there. But, hidden items are at the bottom of the page in a link. Just visit there and click hide again and it will unhide. - Robert Scoble
Robert: Thanks! - Rutger Blom
@Robert I'm liking your comments here... A room for each side probably will do more... - Pico Seno
I refer you to my FF post from this morning http://friendfeed.com/e/84f580... Like literally I'm picking up 2 followers an hour, and I have no clue why. I just know I haven't suddenly became interesting, important, or influential. I'm the same screw off I've always been. - Matthew DeVries
Matthew: I'm gaining more than 100 per day here (more than 1,100 since Arrington's intervention with me) and more than 200 a day over on Twitter. These things are gaining steam. - Robert Scoble
Robert, that's interesting. More new followers in twitter than FF. Have you noticed any changes in that trend? - Tapio Kulmala
Well yeah, but you say things people care about. People lining up to follow me? In the world view? Come on.... - Matthew DeVries
AND I haven't changed at all since friday. - Matthew DeVries
Matthew: people have this believe that the one who dies with the most followers wins. It's just a game at this point to collect more followers. - Robert Scoble
Robert, do you sleep? Seriously :) - Bwana
not much last night. - Robert Scoble
I'm here because I saw your zillion posts on it. I like it! - Dave Gambrill
Robert: Really? Disappointing really - I'd rather have less than 10 interesting and informative people following me than 5,000 drooling idiots. I see enough of the later crowd on a daily and face-to-face basis to cover the "moron" category of my life. - Susanne "Renee" Bullo
poor Robert :) Get some Zzzzzzzzzzzs! - Susan Beebe
Bullo: that's what I figure it is. But Twitter is growing remarkably quickly now. People are figuring it out and with Mr. Tweet and other directories, you are probably on one of those as an influencer to check out. - Robert Scoble
Well, I may be playing wrong, but after the first 5 or so I stopped playing the "Courtesy Followback" game and started actually looking at their content and blogs and interests and made an informed decision on following back. Damn near almost followed some kind crazy PETA scientist bomber - Matthew DeVries
Great initiative, thank you Robert! What I'd like to know is how many people forward their tweets to their friendfeed account. - Zack Brandit
Zack: I'm following about 6,000 here and a good percentage do. I hope people use friendfeed to aggregate their lives together here totally. We can hide things on the reading side if it gets to be too much. - Robert Scoble
Question - if you're subscribed to someone on FF, is it relevant to also 'follow' them on Twitter? Seems a bit redundant. No? - Jim Mitchem
Matthew: I quickly stopped the "courtesy followback" - and I do the same, check their profile, look at their website, etc. If people are offended, so be it. I really don't want to spend time reading about how your last bowel movement was or how cute your cat is. - Susanne "Renee" Bullo
Susanne: That could become a horrible Mash-Up tweet as well. - Matthew DeVries
Matthew: Oh the horror! - Susanne "Renee" Bullo
robert, u don't have to comment, you can like/rt, which you do a lot with other posts as do many of your colleagues, but curiously not about gaza which is immediate and critically important, especially for the people in gaza - they need to know that not everyone in the western world believes the msm propaganda. - ernie yacub
ernie: as opposed to their propoganda, right? Got it. This is why I stay out of this fight. Who threw the first missles? It wasn't Israel. - Robert Scoble
Here is a PROs and CONs to using FriendFeed conversation: http://friendfeed.com/e/03d22b... - Chris Herbert
Careful Robert. This is a battle you don't want, I don't think. (even though i agree) - Jim Mitchem
robert, you are wrong, which is why you need to engage in the conversation, or at least read some history - gaza is a prison camp with 1.5 million people cut off from the world, food, fuel, work, money, etc by israel - most are refugees who were driven from their homes by israelis. - ernie yacub
gaza =/= hamas, who Israel is fighting. Don't want to get bombed, don't stand next to a guy wearing a hamas sticker. - Matthew DeVries
Seems we're quickly straying WAY away from the original topic - take it elsewhere ernie, sheesh - Susanne "Renee" Bullo
What she said. - Matthew DeVries
well, he asked how to help us noobs - this one wants to pay attention to what's really needed from people like you who have the resources, tools, knowledge and experience to help prevent such atrocities - you were all excited about mumbai, why not gaza? - ernie yacub
Robert: I recently joined both friendfeed and twitter and with the help of my blackberry I'm becoming horribly addicted. I will admit that you were the first person I followed and I'm glad because I agree with your opinion that it's not about followers, but quality conversation. That said, I'm curious about how rooms work. You have any pointers? - Chris Brakebill
Robert: In case of an emergency would you call 911 or tweet? ;-) - Rutger Blom
Going through your video now...very helpful! - Alison
its getting strange when my mom's 65-year old best friend starts following me on twitter. How many a social media accounts lie dead after 1-2 posts? - karyn
Parents, grandparents and friends of parents may actually become a problem for many young users of Twitter, as karyn indicates. Might see an increase in private update accounts. - Ian Holton
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I posted a Diary on DailyKos mentioning Twitter and FriendFeed and got comments like "what isTwitter" I gave them Sarah_Palins twitter username and tauted this new means of information exchange. Will be doing a follow up posting later. today.http://www.dailykos.com/story/... - Robin
