Comments on: Alert Thingy Helps Make FriendFeed Indispensible

By: CloudiD | The Echo Chamber…talk amongst yourselves.

CloudiD | The Echo Chamber…talk amongst yourselves. — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 17:37:16 +0000

[...] good post about Oprah and his suprise at how she admitted to not really knowing too much about it, Chris Brogan just posted about Friend Feeder tools. Mathew Ingram talks about twitter verses facebook news feed. [...]

By: Karen Swim

Karen Swim — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 03:19:31 +0000

Chris, I have been grappling with how to make Friend Feed work for me. I use Twhirl and I’m now going to download Alert Thingy. Thanks for the tip.
@Whitney, there is nothing more thrilling than the library or bookstore. While I use Amazon to buy and browse books for convenience and Google and other search engines to browse for info, it’s just not the same. @Andrew you are right. I’m 44 and many baby boomers remain loyal to our old fashioned ways.

Grabbing my rocker to read a book. ;-)

By: Dianne Murphy-Rodgers

Dianne Murphy-Rodgers — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 19:36:38 +0000

Chris, I’ve been meaning to call and say how much I have appreciated receiving your updates by RSS feed recently.

So, inspired to do it TODAY by the lovely Darren Rowse … thank you! Your posts are always interesting and often directly useful, and your generosity in sharing your experience is much appreciated.

As a hero of mine for a while (am even more impressed having checked out your linkedin profile!) it really made me smile to see you in my followers on Twitter, so thank you for that too!

Have a lovely week!

:o)

By: Domestic Diva

Domestic Diva — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 14:24:43 +0000

This looks neat. Thanks for sharing, I’m going to have to go check it out.

By: Rick Mahn

Rick Mahn — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 14:14:31 +0000

Trying it out this morning, and liking it so far. We’ll see by the end of the day. It needs a few tweaks, but I’m sure users who like it will give feedback on it.

Overall, I see this making FriendFeed more accessable to me. Instead of one of dozens of tabs in my browser, it sits side-by-side with Twhirl on a second monitor. Nifty. ;-)

Thanks for the tip Chris.

By: Dennis Bjørn Petersen

Dennis Bjørn Petersen — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 13:30:22 +0000

The review done by Corvida at shegeeks.com “convinced” me not to look more into this.

http://shegeeks.net/alert-thingy-friendfeed-desktop-app/

Is she right or wrong?

By: Jasmin Tragas

Jasmin Tragas — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 13:09:24 +0000

Thanks for sharing this. In a sea of information, I’m guessing this might be nice when I feel like dipping into feeds of a few select people. I don’t know if I could handle multiple friend feeds, as I do on Twhirl for Twitter updates.

I could get to know several people I already know, better through Alert Thingy/Friendfeed, while acquainting myself with many people new and old through Twhirl/Twitter. So then where does this leave Facebook?

By: Sue Murphy

Sue Murphy — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 12:56:16 +0000

hmm. this might just bring me back to FriendFeed.

Love Adobe AIR apps!

By: david usher

david usher — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 12:18:26 +0000

Im personally having trouble keeping up with it all, friends feeder doesn’t really help me. i just dont have the time. when your core business isnt social media it all gets to be a bit much. feeds of all the blogs i follow on google reader is about all i can handle right now. between making music, blogging music, blogging social media, never mind kids, its a lot.
question – who outside the echo chamber has the time?

By: Andrew Badera

Andrew Badera — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 10:14:30 +0000

@Whitney: as far as the “personal touch” goes … I think that might be a generational thing. Me, I think you get that same sort of discovery-by-proximity over the wire as you do in brick-and-mortar. I discover new books on Amazon while searching for a single book of interest all the time — sometimes same or similar topic, sometimes same author, different topic, sometimes completely unrelated.

I think the Internet in general, especially with Wikipedia, StumbleUpon, and of course, Google, is conducive to exactly this sort of serendipitous discovery of new and interesting things. And that’s me at 29. I see plenty of younger sorts to whom this sort of learning and discovery is second nature, and I’d bet they’d find your form of discovery to be just as disconnected as their own.