DISQUS

Congratulations Josh and Kate!!! Way to go on the ring too Josh!

Soon-to-be US House Speaker Dennis Hastert told the Columbian military not to worry about congressional restrictions on US military aid that required them to cut ties to paramilitary squads that cut peoples' heads off with chainsaws in order to soften villages up. He said the restrictions were due to a leftist dominated congress and that he'd work to remove them. See National Security Archives at George Washington University, this post http://tinyurl.com/3ehvc8 Document #52 in particular.

It's no coincidence either. Hastert et al. are in league with those folks who said "I made that food stamp cartoon with Obama, watermelon and chicken because watermelon and chicken are food, that's all!" http://tinyurl.com/49jqj8

These people know exactly what they are doing. What's my point? That I'm not so sure Mark Zuckerberg knows what he's doing.

See also this other post of ours http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/meebo_main... where we ask "Is Meebo really worth a $200m valuation?" and answer "hell yeah, it is." Agreed that this company is really interesting. Thanks for reading RWW, too, Robert.

This is an interesting list and a great exercise in social media marketing as well! If you displayed those bloggers' names as text instead of in an image they would show up in ego searches and be clickable though. A trackback to their most engaging recent post would also be very effective. What do I know, though, am I on that list? No! lol, good stuff as always though AideRSS folks!

Whatever Gregory, go f*ck yourself. I think the video David posted here spells it out pretty well. Imagine any of those kids being executed for what they are doing here. Nobody said Iran wasn't a beautiful country, you creep.

i saw rick give a kitten a dirty look once, but other than that i love the guy too. :) his blogging skills are a model for us all

The UI is still unappealing to me. I'd really like to use Toluu to manage a few thousand feeds but it doesn't feel set up for that. Maybe I'm barking up the wrong tree and should use it for its intended purpose :)

Thanks Chris! What an honor to be mentioned here like this. I really appreciate it. Hope things are going well on your end too and I hope to see you again soon!

Hot stuff.

Thanks for the post on this project Ilya and thanks for all you do over there. I love AideRSS! This is just one of so many things I like to use the service for. Keep up the great work.

I take that back, after looking at these a bit more I can see that viral spread is already happening. Top pics app for example notified my friends and sat on my profile, so anybody could be adding it now.

MySpace is rolling things out in stages and hasn't done any promotion of the apps to users at all yet. While interesting, I think these numbers probably say more about tech blog readers than MySpace users in general.

Hey Bret, sorry I left such a hostile comment, I'll have to look at the FOAF file too - I'm sure you know what people would like to take with them if they leave FF. Good luck, M

Sounds funny as hell. I like it.

Bret, that OPML file contains only the feeds that I brought in with me, not the feeds I subscribed to in FriendFeed. I understand that you work with more than just RSS feeds, but I presumed when I read your comment that you meant I could export the feeds of the friends I'm following. That way, the work I put into your service wouldn't be lost if I decided to go to another lifestreaming service. As it is, you're holding all my subscriptions to yourself - creating a barrier to me leaving. Why do that? Why not just win my loyalty through good faith and superior service?

Thanks Dave. The link to the interview with FriendFeed founders that we discussed is http://is.gd/2ab

wish I could have seen that!

I think you hit the nail on the head. Looking forward to seeing what you can do with it.

Robert, thanks for all the work you've done around this already. Your experimenting with the Plaxo scraper and then doing all that media around it to discuss the issues was great. Very controversial and I don't think there are clear-cut answers but your work was a real service to users in terms of forcing the issue and discussing it articulately.

Good post, though I'm afraid that turning back the privitization of state functions is going to be a very difficult sell because of the arguably superior efficacy of the private sector. It's hard to know which approach incurs more waste, less accountability and more opportunity for abuse - isn't it?

I look at Walmart's responses to recent natural disasters as a great example. It's easy (for me at least) to imagine just how bad that could turn out, but it's also hard not to scoff at the public sector's ineptitude.

sorry 'bout that!

Where's the Twitter messaging option? I'm not seeing that, or much of anything beyond the photos as screensavers - which is nice :) but...

Where's the Twitter messaging option? I'm not seeing that, or much of anything beyond the photos as screensavers - which is nice :) but...

Where's the Twitter messaging option? I'm not seeing that, or much of anything beyond the photos as screensavers - which is nice :) but...

Fwiw, Google Reader doesn't scale well over 1k feeds and Bloglines is publicly moving to support protocols like OpenID and APML. The way that Ask.com blogsearch leverages Bloglines subscriber numbers to fight spam is another thing Google Reader could learn from. I don't use Bloglines myself (I use Newsgator's NNW on the desktop) but I'm just saying, total Google Reader triumphalism isn't warranted imho.