Monday Night Thoughts (a mostly FriendFeed edition)
Just a few thoughts on Monday night after taking a long weekend off:
- I got an email telling me that Robert Scoble had become my friend on FriendFeed. At first I was honored, but then I realized that Scoble had subscribed to pretty much everybody on FF. To me, that is not an efficient way of using FF at all. To me, FriendFeed works best when you subscribe to your actual friends and stick to that circle. It quickly becomes unwieldy and useless if you subscribe to everybody on it.
- Congrats to the guys at FF for opening up after a very successful and productive beta and raising $5 million in Series A funding. I’m not exaggerating when I say that FriendFeed is so far the best new web service I have found this year.
- One thing I really like about FF: no statistics, rankings, leaderboards etc. It makes for a far more relaxed environment.
- The GoogleTalk chatback widget seems cool, so I put it on the site to test for now. I’m afraid that if it gets popular, I will have to kill it, though – after all, as much as I love my readers, how much time can I really devote to chatting with everybody?
- Adobe’s AIR is now out of beta as well. I have used it mostly because of Snitter and I’m surprised how well it has worked. I’m developing a real liking for web-enabled desktop apps and some of the best I have seen so far are written with AIR.
- I went to tour the Boeing Everett factory near Seattle, WA on Saturday. If you see five 747 standing in a row behind each other and they seem small, that really tells you something about the size of the Boeing operation. Definitely the most impressive factory tour I have ever been on. Also got to gaze on the first ever 787.
- It’s nice to see more and more people ‘getting’ Twitter. If only I could convince my own family…
- I didn’t watch the Oscars. Instead, I played Wii tennis on my newly acquired Wii. Apparently I didn’t miss much because that’s what they did on the Oscars as well.