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Re: louisgray.com: MyBlogLog's Blog Stats Offer Good Insight to Readers' Destinations

Duncan Riley — Tue, 13 May 2008 03:51:57 -0000

Can Google Analytics not do something similar in terms of history? I'm only just rediscovering it now but I've been really impressed with the ability to break down posts by day or the historical data.

Interesting figures though: Readburner in particular.

Re: Blogging 2.0: It’s All About The User

Duncan Riley — Mon, 19 May 2008 00:34:34 -0000

Glennn Slaven's FriendFeed Comments WP plugin http://blog.slaven.net.au/w... It immediately picked up the formatting with only a minor tweak

Re: Blogging 2.0: It’s All About The User

Duncan Riley — Mon, 19 May 2008 00:36:56 -0000

microrahsheen
It is a new perspective, but it also throws out a lot of the established practices many of us have grown up with (pardon the phrase) in blogging. It's literally blogging 2.0, finally the social networking/ mesh of other services is transforming blogging as well.

Re: Blogging 2.0: It’s All About The User

Duncan Riley — Mon, 19 May 2008 01:49:26 -0000

as can I, although I'm not sure this is so much havok and confusion (revolution) as opposed to evolutionary change. We've since bits and pieces of this in the past with the original coComment, some of RSS readers even.

Re: Blogging 2.0: It’s All About The User

Duncan Riley — Mon, 19 May 2008 03:09:04 -0000

Andy
you've touched on a broader move in mindset towards valuing UGC as well. The days of build it and they will come (or perhaps will comment) have now passed.

Re: Why I Intensely Debated But Decided to Disqus

Duncan Riley — Mon, 19 May 2008 03:24:57 -0000

Great post, and you touched on one of the things that has impressed me with the Disqus team, their strong dedication to the end user. Lots of companies preach customer service 2.0, not that many practice it.

PS: You should pitch me on Lijit some time, I've seen it around the place, both for a post + I might even run it on The Inquisitr.

Re: Blogging 2.0: It’s All About The User

Duncan Riley — Mon, 19 May 2008 04:04:00 -0000

Hi Jitendra
Not an issue in my case as I've implemented the Disqus API plugin (not the JS one) so in theory all of this content should be seen by Google and others, it was one of the selling points to me in implementing it.

Re: Blogging 2.0: It’s All About The User

Duncan Riley — Mon, 19 May 2008 19:17:05 -0000

I wouldn't go as far as saying copyright is dead, but I'd question the moral rights anyone has over comments contributed on a blog. Content yes, participation by others...not really.

Re: Blogging 2.0 and Professional Blogging

Duncan Riley — Mon, 19 May 2008 22:16:19 -0000

I think they're evolving (particularly with attention over page views) but I'm still a little old school on the metrics side: there is still a case for page views and advertising, we're just seeing the way attention circles a page become more fluid. Shyftr aside the other services give back, so if you are engaged and there is decent conversation people will still end up back on a site. As I noted in the post, blogging 2.0 shouldn't mean anyone loses, if anything embracing the new paradigm should result in a win/ win all round, at least over time.

Re: Twitter may have more serious issues than its downtime

Duncan Riley — Fri, 23 May 2008 00:56:23 -0000

Ive decided that Twitter is really French for Fail. On the brightside, at least Twitter knew in theory how to solve this problem, unlike their core business.

Re: Omnidrive: Lessons in Failure

Duncan Riley — Fri, 23 May 2008 03:06:33 -0000

messy is one way of putting it :-) I just think that if Nik had at least tried to communicate what was going on, his predicament would be less worse than it is today.

Re: It’s Time For FriendFeed To Kill Twitter

Duncan Riley — Fri, 23 May 2008 21:33:32 -0000

shey
you've hit it on the spot "But if there can be a way to separate Twitter-type conversation from the other aggregated content in FF, then Twitter will be in trouble." I believe of every company scaling in the 2.0 conversation space, FriendFeed is best qualified to offer this in the future.

Re: Her political career is over (Scripting News)

Duncan Riley — Sat, 24 May 2008 03:13:08 -0000

she said what?!?!?!
You are wrong on one thing though: she shouldn't pull out of the race, she should simply try and run for the GOP instead. Consider that Beliefnet ranks Hillary a 9 and McCain a 1 :-)

Re: FriendFeed won’t kill Twitter but Twitter might

Duncan Riley — Sat, 24 May 2008 19:26:29 -0000

I don't disagree with the statement that they are both different things, but I'd still argue (as I did earlier) that of any company or startup, FriendFeed is best placed to move into that space and kill Twitter. They aren't the same now, but like FF Rooms it wouldn't be a huge leap for FF to start offering a Twitter style clean, simple, short messaging service as an option; think the current FF messaging/ direct posting but refined and delivered quasi-standalone for those who just want the Twitter-type experience.

On this "FriendFeed on the other hand is a pure aggregation tool"...well it started this way, but I'm seeing more and more direct conversations on it, particularly when Twitter is down. If FF follows a similar path to Twitter (remember Twitter was originally a mobile/SMS style service) users will start demanding more refined messaging tools, so perhaps FF becomes more Twitter like (and eventually a Twitter killer) by evolution.

Re: Keep Your Eyes On FriendFeed: It May Be The Google Of Social Networks

Duncan Riley — Sat, 24 May 2008 21:28:51 -0000

Definitely on the right track, although FF is still lacking some of the features to get it to the point you suggest...although I think that it is definitely heading in that direction. Once it enables full two-way social networking interaction (as Google's never launch SocialStream proposed) we have destination No. 1 online for everything.

Re: Omnidrive: Lessons in Failure

Duncan Riley — Sun, 25 May 2008 04:57:33 -0000

when you say "they" you actually mean him though :-) I find it hard to believe, and last time I heard most people had stopped using it as well due to the downtime, so a new release targeted at who?

Re: Social Networking Cold War: FB To Open Source Platform

Duncan Riley — Tue, 27 May 2008 05:33:25 -0000

Honestly, I started with FB on the left because of the blue, then I realized Open Social didn't have read and then I was stuck so I went that way instead. I think overall it fits though, Google being the borg etc... :-)

Re: Considering Shyftr

Duncan Riley — Wed, 28 May 2008 02:15:53 -0000

I'll disagree on this: it will never happen for the same reason there will never be ads on Google News: copyright. While Reader and similar services are ad free it's a personal utility play that's a value add as part of a bigger picture/ service, once it had ads they're profiting off other people's content. Under copyright law the line is probably very gray, but it's where everyone has stood now for years.

I can remember if it was Denton or Calacanis (or maybe both) who a couple of years ago actually blocked their full feeds from feedreaders who ran ads against (it has been tried before, at least once or twice). I think the resistance today would be less, but ads could have been added for the better part of 5 years and no one has so far for a reason.

The flip of course is that the lack of revenue has really stifled innovation in this space...well until now anyway. Bloglines nearly died a slow death, and even Reader has been only slowly developed.

Re: Considering Shyftr

Duncan Riley — Wed, 28 May 2008 02:17:32 -0000

Sorry, that last comment on Louis' comment, not Matt's.

Matt, I think the rev share side has validity.

Re: Friendfeed is leveling the playing field

Duncan Riley — Wed, 28 May 2008 07:28:59 -0000

Spot on and great post. Dare one say that FF is egalitarian, and that's a good thing for us all.

Re: The Important Thing With Leopard 10.5.3: It’s Safe To Install

Duncan Riley — Wed, 28 May 2008 21:51:31 -0000

My bad, it would appear later reports are saying this is for iPhone users only, apologies haggaret + Kambiz. Why it's iPhone only though is a mystery

Re: My FriendFeed Wishlist

Duncan Riley — Thu, 29 May 2008 03:44:15 -0000

Robert
on 2. I think this is where a FF message service would come in, so sitting there waiting to happen.
on 1. I think that a positive idea and I know people like receiving content that way...I'm just not one of them, the idea that GTalk would pop up every time something happened on FF would kill any chance I had of doing any work in a given day :-)
4: advanced search definitely.

Re: My FriendFeed Wishlist

Duncan Riley — Thu, 29 May 2008 03:44:59 -0000

below the Disqus thread, least it is in Firefox.

Re: My FriendFeed Wishlist

Duncan Riley — Thu, 29 May 2008 03:47:35 -0000

true, but the good will is wearing thin. People stay with twitter because they don't see an alternative where they can interact with the same people/ community. FF has the skills, scalability, but the killer feature is community. I want to love Twitter, and its really shaped this space, but eventually we all have to say enough is enough. If only I could dump it tomorrow, I see some people are, but I still value my Twitter friends/ contact too highly to leave it until such time that FF can offer a similarly featured substitute.

Re: My FriendFeed Wishlist

Duncan Riley — Thu, 29 May 2008 03:50:09 -0000

bios are a good idea, moving into social networking though, and there are possibilities there if FF can deliver links into Facebook and similar. Duplication though is a risk.
Private messages: excellent, half way to a dedicated message service.

The only thing I disagree on is the leaderboard. I love that everyone on FriendFeed has a fair shot at attention, it's egalitarian and levels the playing field, the moment we start ranking people, we create elites and we're only re-creating the A, B, C lists of blogging 1.0 in a different form.