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Re: Did Not Know It Was Blog Day

cliotech — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 03:25:58 -0000

Thanks for the mention - didn't realize it was Blog Day either. I'll have to catch it next year.

Re: Did Not Know It Was Blog Day

mfruchter — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 12:29:31 -0000

Amber, Thank you so much for the mention. It is truly appreciated. :)

Re: Did Not Know It Was Blog Day

shey — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 00:13:39 -0000

Thanks Amber, much appreciated :)

Re: Did Not Know It Was Blog Day

thesimian — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 23:17:24 -0000

Things like this make me keep my list of other blogs on a page by themselves. It is so easy to keep finding great ones to recommend to others.

Re: Did Not Know It Was Blog Day

Lorraine Ball — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 22:52:58 -0000

Glad you saw the post in time. I have read Mike and Shey's blogs, but I will need to check out the other three. This has been so much fun today. I have found so many cool new blogs to check out, I may never get any work done!

Re: Fake Follow Is Stupid

Tsali — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 13:59:30 -0000

Oh I know, just posting a comment about how ridiculous the concept is by giving you a completely useless comment and story that is not related to the original post at all lol.

Re: Fake Follow Is Stupid

thesimian — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 09:30:42 -0000

James its a feature on Friendfeed Beta where you subscribe to someones feed, but then change a setting where it never shows up on the service. It shows up like they are a mutual friend who reads your content when they are mostly committing a selfish act to look good even though they are not reading it. ---Like people who buy a bunch of books they don't read because it looks good. I keep forgetting you still haven't signed up for FF man.

Re: Fake Follow Is Stupid

Tsali — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 22:32:59 -0000

I fake follow this site daily. Oh, wait, that means I have to daily come here to not follow it. That's like a judge telling a convict he'll sentence him to 6 years if he tells a lie, 4 years if he tells the truth, so the convict tells the judge that he will be sentenced to 6 years. If he is telling the truth, then the judge has to sentence him to 4 years, thusly making the statement false, which would sentence the convict to 6 years, but again that'd make the statement true. The judge finally just said "Screw this, you're executed at high noon"

Some people say the judge let him go free because of that, but I like my version better.

So I totally just didn't follow anything about this post.

Re: Fake Follow Is Stupid

microrahsheen — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 21:08:52 -0000

Fake following just goes against the whole point of Social Media. If you don't want to be social, don't try to fake it. This is the internet, you have the option to not bother.

Re: SocialGO = Meh

Alex Halliday — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 13:12:40 -0000

That's why were looking forward to the maturity of the portable identities which will be a big plus for offerings like ours.

Re: Fake Follow Is Stupid

thesimian — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 02:09:05 -0000

I'm mostly annoyed by the fact that you have to do something to fake follow. You don't have time to do something, so you take extra time to not do it.
I get why its done, its just ridiculously self serving and arrogant.

Re: Fake Follow Is Stupid

shey — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 01:41:13 -0000

I hate the idea of fake following as well. So much for transparency.

Re: One Sided Conversations

Tsali — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 19:19:16 -0000

True dat, true dat.

One of these days, when I'm no longer involved with this blackhole that is draining my soul, I'll be more responsive and read into things that you send more., but alas, that would require a venue change for me, whoa, what's this I see to the right? A Job Finder? Whoa, I totally need to check that out.

Re: SocialGO = Meh

thesimian — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 16:32:55 -0000

I was already associating the issues I had with the time of morning I was trying to setup the network. I'll take a closer look at the video. Social network burnout is not your companies fault. Its a bunch of early adopter fatigue lately.
I think a point that was made on Friendfeed was "I'm tired of putting in my birthday all the time." Its great when autofill can be used, tedious when it can't.

Re: SocialGO = Meh

Alex Halliday — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 16:12:28 -0000

Hey,

We hope to change your mind over the next few months. We don't actually limit video length, would be interesting to know which video caused you that problem because that is something we certainly want to resolve quickly.

Feel free to drop me an email if you like alex @ socialgo.com,

Have a good day!

Alex Halliday
SocialGO

Re: Bloggers On Vacation

thesimian — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 09:39:28 -0000

At first I just hated the idea of Twitter. Then I decided to stop being so hateful and sign up for Twitter. I followed some people, got bored and dropped it, angry with the hype. I started reading a couple of blogs more often that were about social media. Those convinced me to give Twitter another chance along with the fact it was integrated in Digsby. Since its connected to my chat program, it updates my status thru that and Twitter kicks it to my facebook. But I also use Twitter to reply to other Twitter stuff in Friendfeed.

I find Friendfeed much more interesting than most of the other stuff around.

Re: This Is For The Cuil In You

thesimian — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 09:31:32 -0000

Well as stated in the post, I hope they get better. I also hope the same for the folks @SearchMe.

Re: Impressive Argument Against OpenID

thesimian — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 09:28:12 -0000

We can only hope something better comes along. And we have to hope its not Google taking over the world.

Re: MyBlogLog

thesimian — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 09:26:14 -0000

MyBlogLog has quite a few communities to work with, its just difficult to do alot due to the UI. Most of the traffic I get from MyBlogLog is not from networking from the site, but from widgets on the blogs I have visited. They see our crazy looking name and logo and have to see the weirdo that visited their site.

Re: A Good Comic You Might Not Read Already

thesimian — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 09:18:02 -0000

Ok. I am checking out freak angels....it is pretty. It screams anime-ish right away, so I will have to check it out in depth later.

Re: A Good Comic You Might Not Read Already

Kim Jackson — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 07:15:16 -0000

I hadn't heard of Questionable Content before but from quickly looking at the site, it looks pretty neat. You seem to like comics and webcomics, so I was wondering if you have checked out http://www.freakangels.com/ by Warren Ellis? I don't like the story as much as I like the drawing. But it is a pretty cool comic overall.

Re: MyBlogLog

Kim Jackson — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 06:57:12 -0000

If you use MyBlogLog and/or BlogCatalog, do you find them to be good social networking tools? I don't know, all these social networking tools still boggle my mind and I never really catch on to any of them. Perhaps it's just social ineptitude on my part, and I'm not well suited for these types of applications.

Re: Impressive Argument Against OpenID

Kim Jackson — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 06:34:37 -0000

I like the article. I also read Warpspire's reasons for not using OpenID. Your post and his made me rethink some of the lectures I attended in college, I remember back in college that the words "pervasive" and "ubiquitous" were the computer science buzzwords. And that was all I thought they were at the time; buzzwords that would be replaced the next year by new ones. My assumption seemed to be correct at the time. But now "social media" and "web 2.0" are the new buzzwords and they do not seem to be going away anytime soon. And to me these buzzwords are eerily similar to pervasive and ubiquitous computing. Everyone wants multiple ways to be interconnected. I think solutions like OpenID naturally lend themselves to this type of distributed social networking environment. I agree that the implementation is not the best, but as more players enter the scene the better implementations will rise to the top.

Re: This Is For The Cuil In You

Kim Jackson — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 05:57:35 -0000

I agree with you that lack of search results is definitely not playing in their favor right now. However for the keywords that they do have a fair amount of search results for such as technology and programming, the contextual matching is absolutely mind-blowing. I can't wait until they are farther along in development. It seems to me that if the cuil development team can actually pull off what they promise, they could bring about the much needed search engine revolution. I think everyone is ready to look at the search engine in a new way.

Re: Bloggers On Vacation

Kim Jackson — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 05:42:26 -0000

I was wondering do you find Twitter to be an inherently good social media app? I've tried to get into it but don't find it that useful. The only thing I currently use it for is updating blog posts. But that is probably not that useful either if you don't have followers. I guess to me it's kind of like screaming into the wind. How do you use twitter?