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Re: Save Yourself: Learning to Lifestream Using Posterous

netvolution — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 03:33:49 -0000

One thing that confused me when I first heard about Posterous was why would I use Friendfeed and Posterous? But after some digging I finally clued into the fact that Friendfeed focuses on lifestreaming links to your content and activity around the Web whereas Posterous actually stores the content and, from what I can tell, only the content you post directly to Posterous (although you can import your blogs). I must be missing something more with posterous though, because if it were truly a lifestreaming service, then you should technically be able to also record your activity on the internet in a pull in fashion as opposed to it being mostly a push out application. Just thought I'd throw this in for those like me, trying to figure out where this service fits in to their workflow. However I think it was in another post where you mentioned the importance of redundancy in your social networks. I couldn't agree more!

Nevertheless, I know all these different apps are too overwhelming for the average user, which is what I believe Facebook is trying to address. They want to be the majority's posterous/friendfeed combination.

Interesting times.

Re: Could Google Reader Become the Next Friendfeed?

netvolution — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 01:57:05 -0000

I also rely on FriendFeed for my 'send to' functionality. Although I like the idea of commenting directly within Google Reader it does bring up the same dilemma as FriendFeed. Should I comment on the post directly on the Blog or within Greader? I think the power of keeping it within google, is that if you develop a close nit community of people whose opinions you value, then you have yourself a somewhat moderated comment system. I think this would work well for popular sites like Techcrunch where you might have 200+ comments for an article, but for more intimate blogs that don't see a lot of comments, it's probably more valuable to comment on the blog direction.

Re: http://www.zoliblog.com/2009/03/17/are-you-left-brained-or-right-she-can-tell/?nucrss=1

Phil Ashman — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 11:39:10 -0000

When I first looked at it straight on, it was clockwise. Wouldnt switch on me.

However, if I looked down and away to the right and used my peripheral vision (left eye toward the screen), then it would spin anti-clockwise. If if I looked down and way to the left (right eye toward the screen) then it would flip back.

Awesome illusion!

Re: Why Facebook is Failing Me

netvolution — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 13:11:16 -0000

It'll be interesting playing around with the new facebook updates to see if this is going to help.

Re: Mashable, Disqus and UberVU Launch Social Media Comments

netvolution — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 03:19:58 -0000

Just looking down this list of comments I think it's quite easy to see what the issue is going to be. I'm sure you'll get to select which social media systems to include, so It'll interesting to watch which applications people end up importing into their blog comments. IMHO, for example, I can only hope that most sites using this don't incorporate the Twitter stream. Twitter is not a great platform for commenting, and I think you'd distract from worthwhile comments. Does disqus allow tracking of comments on sites that don't have their comments powered by disqus? Like coComment for instance?

Re: Why Facebook is Failing Me

netvolution — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 01:09:51 -0000

I've been
commenting

about the same thing recently. It is definitely an issue that I believe Facebook has an uphill battle to overcome. I've long had a separate FB account for Business & Friends. Being an instructor I just found it the only way to separate my personal from my professional activities. However even doing this I've yet to see much if any in the way of business activity on FB. I've continued this over into most of my social network circles. However as some of the excellent comments above have mentioned, most people haven't taken the time to be so diligent with their media distribution.

How I handle my social media input seems to be like a torrential rapid lately; spiraling toward finding the most efficient way of handling things. However I think we'll see more applications look to ways of data mining aggregators; similar to Feedly. This has been my latest darling. I've always wanted to love Friendfeed, but it is just too fragmented for my liking. Feedly allows me to hone in on good discussion within Digg and FriendFeed without having to follow too many people in those applications directly. I think the comments to this post are indicative of the fragmented commenting that exists within Friendfeed. There are probably many other people that have reshared this blog in FF and have comments other than those listed in your FF comment section (about 10 according to my Feedly minibar..;)..). However judging by the number of comments posted directly on this blog as opposed to Friendfeed, it seems most people still like to come directly to the source; my preference still.

Let's hope the big networks get this dialed in pronto!

Re: Thanks and Lessons Learned

netvolution — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 00:19:47 -0000

I think I'm going to use that one! "My thinking is never final..." Couldn't agree more.

Re: Thanks and Lessons Learned

netvolution — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 01:42:16 -0000

Sounds like you're talking from experience! It is true that we open ourselves up for scrutiny, but I think as professionals, most of us keep this in the back of our minds as we post. In addition, in making this conscious decision, we know we are going to have to thicken our skin.

No matter where you work there are always those individuals who make you want to give your head a shake (and maybe their's too..;)..), and when you open yourself up to the Internet you now have an increased probability of exposing your thoughts to a much greater number of those personalities globally. Nevertheless, I think the positive usually outweighs the negative, and if something drastic happens then you just have to roll with the punches and take appropriate measures in proportion to the level of discomfort the event evokes. Many people have been hurt online, but that is the risk we take for the freedom we have. I try to keep optimistic and hope I am lucky enough to have a high percentage of positive encounters and few if any extremely negative and possibly damaging ones. However it is easy to remain positive when you haven't been at the butt end of an online assault.

Re: Thanks and Lessons Learned

darrendraper — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 22:43:27 -0000

Thanks for your comment, Phil.

You know, in thinking more about this, I'm not so sure the metaphor of
"having your pants down" should be applied to our stundents but I'm
glad to see that you understood clearly what I meant. :)

It's just that every little thing we put out there can be scrutinized
by anyone (even the ignorant) and sometimes those doing the assessing
can be both vicious and vocal.

Hang in there and keep fighting the good fight. I know I will.

Re: Thanks and Lessons Learned

netvolution — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 20:13:17 -0000

Love the quote!

I couldn't agree more with your perspective. At the post secondary level I'm dealing with many students who have had no guidance in managing their digital footprint. I even have some students doing vlogs that could make future employment exceptionally difficult.

Re: An observation of Web 2.0, Apple and Openness

netvolution — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 02:40:13 -0000

Couldn't agree more. I've long argued that Apple blew it with their insular approach to the MAC in the 80's and I thought that they were doing the same thing with the IPOD. I figured history would repeat itself and the usual wave of cheaper, open, less restrictive clones would ride in and gobble up that market from them. Boy was I wrong about that market! Their brand name has really powered them through on that front. I've never owned an apple product, and I've definitely given them a fair shake, but I find they just don't play nice with everything else and are missing that little extra bit of 'openess' I seem to need....and now the IPhone seems to be what everyone is raving about....maybe that'll be the one that grabs me.

Re: My Media Center Solution...finally.

netvolution — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 21:22:59 -0000

Well, I'm not sure this was an appropriate comment for this particular post, but I'll throw a response back at ya. I'm sorry you don't find some of these tangents interesting. Since I assume you are talking about the PC Hardware class, I must ask whether you would prefer me to just chalk and talk fact after fact the whole class? You don't have the vantage point of seeing everyone sitting in front of you, but I can assure you that these interludes and tangents (most of which add value to the material we are talking about in my opinion) bring many a student out of their slumber, or sometimes re-engages them in the class.

Anyway, I appreciate the comment. I hope this provides a bit of insight into the method behind the madness. I think you would find the process much more beneficial if you used the my 'tangents' as a time to interact, contribute and share your knowledge with the class rather than switching off and wishing I'd just stick to the book.

Re: Why Twitter can't be conversational for me (Scripting News)

netvolution — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 02:05:11 -0000

The only reason I have twitter around is because some of the community I reach out to use Twitter. Quite frankly, Friendfeed satisfies everything I get out of twitter, but is way more flexible and definitely caters to the threaded conversation. Once again it all comes back to where your community resides. For me, most of my real-life community resides virtually on Facebook, so that is where my FriendFeed utlimately winds up. In fact if Facebook had the lifestreaming capability of Friendfeed I'd probably find myself moving away from FriendFeed.

I find the noise on Twitter (and FriendFeed for that matter if you don't filter well) horrendous. I still think people should twitter their professional lives independently of their personal ones for obvious reasons. For instance, on a personal learning network side of things, I couldn't care less what a person had for dinner, but I do care about an informative blog entry. I think we'll hear more of this as these apps become more mainstream and used for content aggregation.

Re: What Is Social Bookmarking?

eng1ne — Fri, 02 May 2008 09:24:56 -0000

Great observations! Thanks for the feedback. Now I definitely intend on diving in to Diigo. If you wanted to expand this into a whole post here on scribkin, the offer is open. You can email me, phil (at) scribkin.com. Thanks!

Re: What Is Social Bookmarking?

netvolution — Fri, 02 May 2008 03:06:36 -0000

Just installed and played around with Diigo and I must say it has a slew of cool features. However a killer feature for me is the ability to be able to cache the web page if the link no longer exists.

When trying to figure if Diigo supported this feature, I saved a bookmark in Diigo and went to My Bookmarks online,. I saw a cached option underneath the bookmark, but it unfortunately just lead me to a page that said "this bookmark is not cached" and "click here to go to the original". I searched around for an way to force it to cache the page, and noticed that if I click on "comment on the whole page" from the Diigo toolbar THEN it caches my page along with my comment, or annotation as it seems to call it. Not sure if there is another way to force Diigo to cache the page, but this works.

Diigo certainly appears to be more powerful than Furl and I guess with Yahoo now owning it one can only hope it is here to stay.

Re: Do You Want In On Live Mesh?

netvolution — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 02:13:46 -0000

b/c I totally dug ozzy's 'Groove' back in the day before MS basically butchered it down with office 2007. I'm now dying to jump on board of his next baby. I'm a big fan of the whole cloud computing idea and wanna see how they evolve this product within the social networking realm.

Re: Friendfeed, Twitter & Pipes

netvolution — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 19:46:17 -0000

No problem! Yea there's been a real migration from twitter going on this past weekend as Twitter encountered some serious down time. Of course it doesn't help when someone like Scoble sounds the death knell!

http://snipurl.com/257r7

Re: Tell Me About Flock

netvolution — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 23:56:29 -0000

Good review! I had heard about flock, but never took the time to really investigate the features. Do you actually use it yourself? If so have you found your use of flock's features diminish with your use of friendfeed?

If facebook would only allow the minifeed to become an unfiltered stream of all my friend's activity that I could pull into friendfreed, I don't think I'd need any of the extensions that flock has to offer. My only concern is that the many of the options offered by flock are just not as good as the standalone apps I use. ie Twhirl, Windows Livewriter, GReader etc....

I do like the possibility of the offline/online bookmarks though! Thanks for the thought! However that firefox extension you pointed me to for Del.icio.us probably provides that functionality. When I get a moment I'll give it a shot.

Cheers.

Re: What Is Social Bookmarking?

eng1ne — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 00:14:37 -0000

Ah, I understand what you are saying. No, I don't think Furl does that.. it assumes after you have your existing bookmarks already in Furl, you would want to use that going forward.

However, I can tell you that the web browser Flock has built-in support for both del.icio.us and ma.gnolia, and you can save new bookmarks simultaneously locally and online.

http://www.scribkin.com/2008/04/05/tell-me-abou...

Re: What Is Social Bookmarking?

netvolution — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 22:46:25 -0000

When you say sync, do you mean going into Furl and manually importing your existing bookmarks? I think I had discovered that in the past, but never really looked into a way for my to sync behind the scenes like foxmarks. For instance if I add a bookmark/favority locally, then I need it to syncrhonize with my Furl account in the background at a regularly scheduled interval. Now that would be cool! Either way I do love the cached pages. I sometimes just take a snapshot of the news.google.com page just for posterity!

Re: What Is Social Bookmarking?

eng1ne — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 13:49:41 -0000

Check this out: http://www.furl.net/doc/features#Interoperability
It appears that Furl saves pages (like waybackmachine) PLUS you can sync your existing bookmarks to it. Sounds like a win-win! Heck, I might move over to using it!

Re: What Is Social Bookmarking?

eng1ne — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 20:28:48 -0000

I believe the *new* del.icio.us extension is specifically designed to get all your local firefox bookmarks in to del.icio.us. A word of warning though -- it is pretty heavy-duty -- it installs a sidebar and everything.

As for other extensions for other services, I'm still looking around, I'll let you know if you find anything cool. And let me know if you find anything! Thanks!

Re: What Is Social Bookmarking?

netvolution — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 19:17:58 -0000

Great post by the way..;)

I love the concept of del.icio.us, but I just found that I didn't have the time or energy to visit the site and benefit from the social networking aspect. In addition I discovered that what I really wanted was a way to synchronize my favorites and share them with the world. Couldn't quite get del.icio.us to do that for me and had a bit of a mental block switching from my organized bookmark heirarchy to tags (I now use the firefox extension foxmarks to do this).

I use Stumbleupon mostly to channel surf the net when I feel like just vegging (not often enough these days!) and when I find a cool site I flag it, which will then share it with everyone in my FriendFeed and consequently all my friends on facebook. I don't use it a bookmark store per say, but if I find it it stumbleupon then I'll add it there and possibly add it to my local favorites.

However neither Stumbleupon or Delicious cache pages for you, so that is where Furl fits in for me. Finding an efficient fit for all these social networking apps is a neverending task....and somehow Kevin Rose manages to find time to go climbing almost every day!..;)

Do you know of an app that would allow me to share my local favorites in firefox and keep it synchronized?

Re: What Is Social Bookmarking?

eng1ne — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 18:21:15 -0000

I haven't tried Furl out yet.. how would you compare it against del.icio.us or stumbleupon?

Re: What Is Social Bookmarking?

netvolution — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 16:01:24 -0000

I like to use the bookmarking site FURL. I think it's kind of similiar to Magnolia, but I like the interface and the ability to save the pages is awesome. Over the past little while, I've used the social bookmarking thing as a simple way of saving the snapshots of content on certain cool pages I find.

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