DISQUS

So can I fave flickr photos from within cooliris yet?

Scoble, wherever you end up they will be lucky to have you. Great hanging out and shooting yesterday. I've appreciated your friendship over the years and put more of my thoughts on this news on my blog here: http://thomashawk.com/2009/03/good-luck-scoblei... Here's to many good days ahead!

Scoble is a personal friend but a couple of things that I'd point out.

1. I think you should change the part about "for a small fee" Scoble would interview your company. That's simply not true. Scoble pretty much interviews as many people as he can and he never takes money for the interviews. As mentioned before Seagate did sponsor his show and I suppose he interviewed them at times, but he was always very clear in disclosing that Seagate was his sponsor.

2. I follow Robert most of all for one simple reason. He is on the cutting edge of what tech I should be using. He is the early adopter's early adopter. My general rule is that once Scoble mentions something about 10x then maybe I ought to start checking it out.

It was Scoble's constant promotion of techmeme that got me checking it out. It was then his constant promotion of Twitter that got me checking that out. More recently, it was Robert's pounding the table over and over again on FriendFeed that got me checking that out.

Robert is a social filter for new and cool tech and I appreciate that as his finds are sometimes some of the best new things online.

3. Robert having an editor wouldn't be the same thing. Part of the beauty of Robert's style is that he simply keeps going fast and furious. He's uncensored. Every day in some way shape or form he's someplace on the web talking about what he finds interesting and what you might find interesting as well. I want that. I don't want some editor deciding that this or that shouldn't be said because it doesn't quite sound or read right.

http://www.twitter.com/thomashawk

A great year my friend. Glad we got to go out and shoot a bit during 2008 and looking forward to more in 2009!

Excellent!

Pretty strong endorsement. Will check it out.

I still use Techmeme every day. But I used to hit the site maybe 50 times a day, now I might hit it once or twice. FriendFeed has taken traffic from literally every other service that I used to use. FriendFeed is far more efficient for browsing Flickr, for instance, than Flickr itself, ironically. You can also slice and dice your Flickr contacts with FriendFeed in ways that you can't do on Flickr itself.

As part of my obsession with FriendFeed I've also given up my RSS reader. For RSS feeds that I really care about where the blogger or site is not on FriendFeed already, I'll just create "imaginary friends" on FriendFeed incorporating their blog or site.

Friendfeed is probably the most revolutionary thing I've seen on the internet since YouTube. And it is especially good for getting the best of news and not just tech news. Socially filtered content is the future.

Thanks Robert. I'm going to go through this list when I have some time and add anyone on it that I'm not already following.

Very well written Scoble and very solid advice.

Great comparison piece Dave. There is a conversation going on about this over on FF too if you are interested. http://friendfeed.com/e/07917f2c-56ef-fdae-7da3...

It seems like for whatever reason there are a lot of folks feeling threatened by FriendFeed right now. It will be interesting to see how ma

Nah, if you want to know about Flickr and you're in North Carolina you ought to look up Beebo Wallace.

Congrats on the new opportunity Dave. Whatever it is and whoever it's with they will be lucky to be working with you. Looking forward to hearing more about it.

What's RSS? You mean that thingy before FriendFeed back in the olden days?

I should be able to seamlessly synch my social graph across any social network I want. It sucks that I can't auto add all of my facebook contacts into my flickr account or my friendfeed account. It sucks equally that I can't auto add all of my flickr contacts into my facebook or friendfeed account.

And it definitely sucks that I can't add all of my facebook contact's email addresses into my gmail or Mac mail.

I disagree. The hide feature dramatically reduces noise on FriendFeed as opposed to Twitter or other services. I'm spending more and more of my time there.

I don't care if the conversation takes place on my blog or wherever. it's just fun that it takes place. I love FriendFeed. It's orgasmicly terrific. Well maybe not ograsmicly. But it's pretty cool.

Possible positives for Flickr users.

1. Increased exposure of user's photography by integrating Flickr's algorithm into MSFT image search.

2. The possibility that Flickr/Corbis could put a deal together allowing Flickr photographers the ability to monetize their photography through an opt-in stock photography program.

3. Increased exposure of Flickr user's photography by integrating Flickr in better with Media Center, which is an ideal platform to show and share beautiful and amazing photographs in the home.

What's Twitter?

You mean that thingy that I can see on FriendFeed?

I'm tired of Facebook and don't really use it anymore. It's boring. FriendFeed is a far more interesting place to hang out.

What a great post. I'll have to think about my own when I've got a moment. One thing I have noticed blogging over the past 4 years or so is that how I consume social media changes so rapidly all the time. It seems that new social media tools are coming out almost daily. FriendFeed has done more to help me consume social media than anything in the past year, but two months ago I wasn't even using it.

I think one thing that those who consume social media most efficiently get is that change is indeed good. And that you have to condition yourself to begin trying new things (even if only to throw them out after a few tries) as quickly as they come out and as quickly as you can.

Nice post Louis.

Also we were told to have 4WD to get up to the Glacier Point site where we shot.

t’s a bit blasphemous to spent your time in Yosemite driving around in an SUV.

Tom, the SUV was my fault. If it's any consolation we did carpool in it.

I've got four kids and two dogs and for our family at least there are not many cars that fit all of us and our kid's friends in.

Unbelievably fantastic time. Thanks Robert to you and Marc and Rocky for putting it all together.

I did another write up here: http://thomashawk.com/2008/04/scobleizer-on-our...

I'll put some more thoughts out in the next few days. Once in a lifetime experience for sure.

I like friendfeed and Pownce more than Twitter. This bias is probably because these services show photo thumbnails while Twitter does not.