Disqus - Friends of sufiantv

Re: Turn FriendFeed Into Your Start Page With These Greasemonkey Scripts

Ben Parr — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 10:04:18 -0000

Greasemonkey for Firefox 3.0 (Beta Release): http://arantius.info/gm/gre...

Couldn't stand not having Greasemonkey anymore.

Re: FriendFeed Greasemonkey Scripts Round Two. Smaller Tabs, More Choices

Ben Parr — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 10:11:51 -0000

Greasemonkey for Firefox 3.0 (Beta):

http://arantius.info/gm/gre...

Re: FriendFeed – How to use it to track the chatter

Ben Parr — Sat, 07 Jun 2008 18:27:54 -0000

Test.

Re: Youniverse.com – How Social and Dating Websites Should Work (or at least a step in the right direction)

Ben Parr — Sat, 07 Jun 2008 19:53:19 -0000

I absolutely agree that you won't meet someone on Youniverse.com yet. It's not a functional dating site, but fun to use.

And thank you for Dating DNA. I'm not a heavy user of dating sites, so I'm glad to learn of it. I'll have to do a comprehensive ranking or review of dating sites at some point.

- Ben

Re: Mazy Kazerooni - New Office!

Ben Parr — Sat, 07 Jun 2008 20:18:10 -0000

It's an office! OF AWESOMENESS!

Re: FriendFeed Blog Comments - A Disqus competitor? Or something even bigger?

Ben Parr — Sat, 07 Jun 2008 21:08:28 -0000

Damn, don't know why FriendFeed comments aren't appearon in this post, of all posts, but appearing on most of the other ones.

Re: What new service should FriendFeed add next?

Ben Parr — Sun, 15 Jun 2008 13:03:21 -0000

A favicon could confuse people. You wouldn't IMMEDIATELY know it's a blog. Even the 3/10 of a second it takes to read to the right and see its a blog post might be too long.

If there's a way to put both Favicons or combine them so you know it's a Blog post and see the unique one is best in my opinion. But I'd like to see some personalization with my favicon in FF

Re: Am I Bored With “Web 2.0”?

Ben Parr — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 18:38:24 -0000

If the product isn't solving a real issue, it's almost certain to eventually die. The issue is that not all problems are created equal. The problem of being bored on a Saturday afternoon is not the same as the problem of creating a new form of energy, a better form of transportation, or a new era of space travel.

Web 1.0 was about turning hard data into digital data. Web 2.0 is about finding ways to share that data in better, larger, and more efficient ways.

Web 3.0, Fred, is about finding ways to take that shared information and come up with solutions to the world's problems. Using social graph data to detect trends. Finding mental illness before teens suicide. Collectively using our shared resources to improve energy efficiency.

That's what I'm waiting for.

Re: Did You Know Barack Obama is the #2 Google Result for Searches of Facebook?

Ben Parr — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 20:11:19 -0000

I find that really interesting. I tried it multiple times to be sure, but now Obama doesn't even appear in the top 50. Google doesn't fluctuate that much, does it? It had to be on the Facebook end.

Re: Power Rangers where are they now: on murder charges and cutting their manhood with a razor

Ben Parr — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 09:25:14 -0000

....wait, this is serious? What the hell did they feed the Power Rangers on the set to make them so F***ed up?

Re: Who Do You Follow?

Ben Parr — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 16:38:07 -0000

My FriendFeed is definitely more interesting than my Twitter. But I'm glad we're following each other. Now back to work on the new blog...

Re: Who Do You Follow?

Ben Parr — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 17:07:28 -0000

http://friendfeed.com/benparr

Re: 7 Things Google should (and probably would) do if it buys Digg

Ben Parr — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 10:21:14 -0000

Re: For Frak's Sake - Digg is dead. You heard it here first. For reasons...

Ben Parr — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 20:29:26 -0000

So long as Digg has the users, it is the king.

Re: The rise of the social media professionals

Ben Parr — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 08:21:51 -0000

Louis, two points.

First, I have to disagree that "social media expert" is short lived. You won't get burned and shunned by your customers because you don't have a webmaster (more likely just ignored). You WILL be blindsided if you don't have your eye hovering over social media, just as Comcast, Sony, and hundreds of companies have been. Social Media is about spreading the word rather than managing a website as a webmaster (a job, mind you, that still exists).

Second, I don't disagree that it will eventually melt into marketing and PR - like I said in the article, the job title may change, how its addressed will absolutely changed. But social media-related jobs will NOT vanish - those responsibilities will only grow. Rather than become small parts of a marketer's jobs, those parts of the job will grow as social media grows and more users plug in.

And thanks for the mention, Eric!

Re: rizzn's personal blog

Ben Parr — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 16:35:30 -0000

You know Mark, I came into writing that article thinking I was going to say that Social Media Jobs were going to vanish, but with the research my opinion switched. What might happen though is social media responsibilities being spread out to more people in an organization. Thus no need for singular Social media jobs

Re: I has a following!

Ben Parr — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 11:04:44 -0000

I'm very honored to be called fantastic!

Re: Obama: Name your Cabinet (Scripting News)

Ben Parr — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 15:55:49 -0000

Dave, you need to really, really take a realistic look at what you're suggesting and saying, both good and bad.

1) Showing your government is all campaign/politics doesn't look good in the end. They can understand the VP being more of a political pick, but then all of your cabinet positions are political picks as well rather than picks based on qualifications.

2) It takes TIME to pick these people. Months of research Obama doesn't have time for. I want him to research all these people

3) Most cabinet members are HORRIBLE campaigners. Most aren't even politics.

4) You underestimate the depth of the GOP. You need to look at the big picture - most cabinet members are not politicians. There's depth when you ignore politicians. Plenty of economists, business leaders, and current directors to pull from. I mean, do you think the Secretary of Labor or Veteran Affairs should be a politician?!

5) Now for the compliment: The strategy could work IF YOU JUST LEAK A NAME. "Obama intends to name ___ to the Secretary of Defense Post." That person is sly in answering questions while campaigning, speculation comes back to Obama, talks about how smart the pick is.

6) Hillary would probably never accept a post pre-election, only post-election.

7) It makes Obama sound to presumptuous to have chosen even part of his cabinet before he's sealed the deal. People hate "cocky" and that's what it looks like.

Re: The end of standard blog design [Mashable rocks]

Ben Parr — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 20:31:24 -0000

Mashable indeed rocks. Enough said.

Re: Business Cards 2.0 – The Pros and Cons of a Customized Card

Ben Parr — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 13:03:14 -0000

I should mention that the card is front and back!

Re: The Inquisitr welcomes Steven Hodson to the writing team

Ben Parr — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 21:20:54 -0000

Congrats! Inquisitr is one of my favorite blogs (next to Mashable, of course), and I know you're going to add a lot here.

Good luck

Re: Pro Cycling on Twitter: 48 People Who Aren’t Lance Armstrong

Ben Parr — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 17:35:31 -0000

Wow, that's one hell of a list. Good job!

Re: When Government Funds Business

Ben Parr — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 09:05:31 -0000

The market's designed to weed out losers, take out inefficient sections and businesses, and replace them with new ones.

That's the path we should have taken. At the least, let them massively restructure.

Re: Mashable, Disqus and UberVU Launch Social Media Comments

Ben Parr — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 21:44:57 -0000

...

So Freaking Awesome.

Re: HOW TO: Manage Multiple Social Media Profiles

Ben Parr — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 13:04:37 -0000

Interesting. I'll be sure to ping them about it, I'm sure it's just temporary. Thanks for the heads-up!