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Re: Emini Futures Trading Analysis for Thursday 11/05/09

Dhalsey — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 12:43:59 -0000

You can email me if you have any questions at eminiaddict@gmail.com

Re: Amazon Affiliate Links On Twitter: To Tweet Or Not To Tweet

Tim_Jones — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 13:46:35 -0000

I agree with Geno -- the way I understand the FTC, the advertiser/merchant does bear responsibility, also. I'm leaving that to Amazon -- I know I disclose when I post the links.

You can customize the tweet, Eric. -- I've changed it every time I've done it and added a disclosure statement of some kind.

Re: Amazon Affiliate Links On Twitter: To Tweet Or Not To Tweet

Tim_Jones — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 11:30:37 -0000

Thanks for the question, Geno! I guess I should have been more specific about what the button actually does. It automatically shortens the affiliate link to a bit.ly link, but there is no disclosure. Amazon leaves that up to you. I pretty much take responsibility for that, anyway.

Re: Services Need to Stop With the Twitter Kool-Aid

Scobleizer — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 13:25:27 -0000

Paying customers know how to get support via more traditional channels. But, remember, most of our customers are hard-core geeks and Twitter is the fastest way to interact with a large group of geeks.

Re: Services Need to Stop With the Twitter Kool-Aid

Scobleizer — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 13:24:12 -0000

Email is fine, but lots of them get sent to junk mail folders and will be missed. Why is Twitter so paid attention to? Because it's public. Answer a question once and it is answered for everyone. Most people who don't like Twitter know to use our blog or our chat support or, even, gasp to use the old-school telephone (a real human will answer your call 24 hours a day at Rackspace).

Re: Why I switch services so often (why I don’t use Google Reader anymore)

Scobleizer — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 00:09:45 -0000

Andrea: I've actually found I like Twitter better because there's more brands and more news flowing through it. And, anyway, everytime I look at my RSS reader I see stuff that is mostly already on Twitter or on TechMeme. The stuff that's left isn't really all that interesting and if it were, it would get shoved to me by my 12,000 friends I'm listening to now on Twitter.

Re: Why I switch services so often (why I don’t use Google Reader anymore)

Scobleizer — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 23:58:06 -0000

It's not incredibly silly. I have that many friends on Foursquare. I have 10x that many on Twitter. I have 10x that many on Facebook. 10x that many on FriendFeed. Just because I don't use the tool in the same way you do doesn't mean it's incredibly silly. If it were so silly, why do they let you add more than, say, 100 friends?

Re: Techmeme vs. Twitter lists?

Scobleizer — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 23:31:04 -0000

And, again, Twitter is changing to be "RSS lite." Only it's a lot better and the feeds are easier to find and easier, for most people, to use than RSS. Look at my news feed. But if you are only following a handful of feeds and it works for you, wonderful. It just isn't working for me anymore.

Re: Techmeme vs. Twitter lists?

Scobleizer — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 23:29:12 -0000

I do a favorites list over at http://www.twitter.com/scobleizer/favorites -- that's where the value is. But there IS value of having all this news aggregated together in one place.

Re: Louis Gray’s “five stages of early adopterism” chart

Scobleizer — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 20:54:39 -0000

Yes. Actually on Friday I had a talk with NK, who wrote the object database underneath these new features and the new list features and I'm even more excited now.

Re: Techmeme vs. Twitter lists?

Scobleizer — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 17:42:44 -0000

I can do that, but Techmeme is great at that. I'd rather have a complete list that shows news that Google News and Techmeme don't display. By the way, you can build your own lists!

Re: Techmeme vs. Twitter lists?

Scobleizer — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 17:38:53 -0000

Dave: that's cool! Thanks!

Re: Techmeme vs. Twitter lists?

Scobleizer — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 17:38:38 -0000

Keith: tools are coming so you don't need to refresh. I'm already using a prerelease version of Seesmic Desktop that absolutely rocks. Full text feeds just don't do it anymore. They need to be gone through one at a time. Very unproductive.

Re: Techmeme vs. Twitter lists?

Scobleizer — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 16:24:36 -0000

Loren: true. So, we have the answer: Twitter Lists are for people crazy about tech news. Techmeme is for lazy people who want all their news in 10 minutes? Heheh. Very fun!

Re: The chat room/forum problem (& an apology to @Technosailor)

Scobleizer — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 15:47:41 -0000

Good point about Slashdot!

Re: The chat room/forum problem (& an apology to @Technosailor)

Scobleizer — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 15:47:06 -0000

Google Wave takes the Forum Problem and makes it 10x worse. For me Twitter is it, maybe with some RSS aggregator (but one stripped down so it loads fast, Google Reader can't deal with being a social network -- my instance takes more than a minute to startup).

Re: The chat room/forum problem (& an apology to @Technosailor)

Scobleizer — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 15:46:09 -0000

Good point, best on this thread, I think.

Re: The chat room/forum problem (& an apology to @Technosailor)

Scobleizer — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 15:44:56 -0000

You are right. Twitter has another kind of noise, but that's for a different post. And, lists are GREATLY reducing even that kind of noise. If someone gets noisy you can move them to a "noisy list." Here, are there any "cereal problems" on this list: http://twitter.com/Scobleizer/tech-news-brands ? No!

Re: The chat room/forum problem (& an apology to @Technosailor)

Scobleizer — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 15:37:24 -0000

Twitter does NOT have ANY spam on my home feed. None. Nada. And it doesn't have a single person I DID NOT INVITE THERE. Not like other social networks.

Re: The chat room/forum problem (& an apology to @Technosailor)

Scobleizer — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 15:36:31 -0000

No, even if you filter to "just louis" you will get likes and comments made by other people. Unless you explicitly block everyone. Which is just too much damn work.

Re: The chat room/forum problem (& an apology to @Technosailor)

Scobleizer — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 15:33:42 -0000

YOU deleted your account, FriendFeed didn't. There was no reason you needed to delete it. But, whatever. I'm over it and I apologize for calling you names and blocking you over it.

Re: Sorry FriendFeed, But I Agree With Robert Scoble

Scobleizer — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 15:14:50 -0000

Sorry, Republicans are idiots. :-) Geesh, it's politics. If you want to identify yourself as a member of a group then expect to be called an idiot. I get called an idiot all the time. I'm sure you're calling me one under your breath. At least I'm transparent about it.

Re: Louis Gray’s “five stages of early adopterism” chart

Scobleizer — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 15:12:02 -0000

Thanks!

Re: The chat room/forum problem (& an apology to @Technosailor)

Scobleizer — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 15:10:00 -0000

At least all I do is "TELL" my users what to do. You DELETED MY CONTENT AND YOURS OFF OF FRIENDFEED AND FORCED them to move to follow you. Which is worse?

Re: Louis Gray’s “five stages of early adopterism” chart

Scobleizer — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 14:44:38 -0000

Twitter search has always been messed up for me, which is why Louis and I still love FriendFeed's technology. But even there I'm hearing major changes to Twitter's search are coming. It's just taken them some time to rebuild the technology stack underneath (Twitter's @nk told me Friday they rebuilt the database underneath Twitter from scratch, which is letting them build new features at a pretty quick pace now).