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“Just a test for now, let’s see if Twitter picks this up. Hopefully it does and then all I have to do is wait for IM to work.” 16 hours ago -
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November 07
Okay so I went ahead and started pulling in my micro-posts. Don’t worry it’s only going to be my short posts that I make on Google Reader and FriendFeed. The posts wont be displayed on the homepage, they’re going to be hidden for a while, until I re-tool my theme. I might even turn off … Read More »
August 06
I’m so pissed right now. My throat has been feeling horrible for the last few days, my tonsils are swollen, the pain is unbearable and it’s actually hard to breath. So, I went into a medical center today to be declined because of my insurance. Then I went to a place that accepts our insurance … Read More »
I just wonder how nervous Twitter is right now. A few months ago a few said Twitter didn’t have a structural problem, they clearly do – people are leaving.
For what? First FreindFeed, now identi.ca. Both have their upsides: freindfeed has true conversation and identi.ca has the potential to replace twitter’s functionality.
FriendFeed is not a “communication service” but it is a great conversation service. Their issue is integration; Twitter replies was a great start but it shouldn’t stop.
Identi.ca, running the open source tool laconica is clearly gunned at replacing twitter. It’s creating buzz, probably because of the open platform. However, I wish the buzz was about its ability to federate, of course we would then would have to explain federation (federation allows you to run the software yourself and be tied to all the others running the the same software. Think of a thousand independent twitter servers all connected).
Which leads me to my hopes that FriendFeed would WAKE UP!!…
FriendFeed should run its own federated laconica service, making it a one stop shop for conversation and communication. What about Identica? Identi.ca wins because freetards groping identi.ca right now will refuse the “walled garden” and more importantly the federation would automatically give identi.ca a large majority of FreindFeed’s base.
So twitter looses right? They could, then again “I wonder how nervous twitter is right now”. They may not be nervous at all. Because they see the numbers behind people leaving vs. talking about leaving.
Regardless: Twitter should fix their current situation; FriendFeed needs to partner and integrate more; Identi.ca needs a user base.
view the services I currently use at friendfeed
I recently added Disqus commenting to my site. Having a service manage my comments has a lot of benefits:
Functionality – Seesmic integration is pretty cool, not like I’m expecting any video comments but it’s going be be cool when that first one is made.
Ownership – not only should I own the comments on this site but the commenter should too. I’ve always liked the idea of a service that collects your comments (I had the idea well before CoComment 
) and since Disqus is taking off it’s seems appropriate to allow my commenters to take their comments with them.
The list of ancillary features stack up, especially for the commenter.
How I’ve enbled it here at Scattered:
I’ve only enabled it for new posts and existing posts without comments, so I haven’t started over…even though I would prefer starting over.
Without Disqus allowing for importing of historical comments I’m not about to throw out years of comments. It already allows for you to export all of your site’s comments and knowing that allowed me make the move over the weekend when I enabled the service.
There are somethings I’d like to see:
FriendFeed integration. I’d love to see comments made from friendfeed show up on site’s using Disqus.
Twitter Integration. Not sure how this would work or what purpose it would serve but people like to comment on posts with Twitter and it should be shown on the post page.
Importing. Allow us to import our comments, finally. There are a few older posts I have that really need Disqus’s threading and voting features.
I’ve been giving FriendFeed a second chance and I’m glad I did. At first I really didn’t know what to think, it seemed to be comprised of noise which led me to think of it as a social RSS aggrigator on par with Google Reader.
Now that I’ve been using it for the last week I’ve really enjoyed it. Even though I may not be participating as much as I want, it’s a wonderful way follow other’s social streams and more importantly have conversations around them.
Rooms are extremely useful. I’m only participating in one but having a place to share links and feeds (something the group I’m a part of doesn’t allow) is excellent. facebook groups, probably the only other good option I can think of is…the modern day forum, too complex with about no additional functionality. FriendFeed keeps rooms simple and that’s where it excels.
That simplicity works into the interface. The homepage gets to be a burden at first but don’t fret, it’s an easy fix. Not sure when they added the “hide” feature but this is the feature that allows me to use the service. What I do: not saying it’s the perfect solution, is to hide all of the blogs and other items that I would normally get in GoogleReader and I don’t want to comment on at FriendFeed. I’m currently keeping Twitter in the mix so I can comment on the tweets with it being sent back to twitter as an @ reply. More importantly I keep twitter and other feeds that thrive in conversation, which are just about impossible to follow or find on twitter.
Those conversations run ramant on FriendFeed and they really make the service. I just wish more people were using the service, not just my “real friends” but I would like to see FriendFeed aggrigate conversations no matter where they originated.
I’ll try to expand on what I mean by aggregating conversations in another post, I should also bring up the terrific FriendFeed bot after I get more use out of it.
