Comments on: Who’s in Your Gang?

By: Mayor of Simpleton | Oracle

Mayor of Simpleton | Oracle — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 04:30:45 +0000

[...] I’ve been playing with foursquare, the latest shiny object among early adopter [...]

By: Jake

Jake — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 05:41:39 +0000

Oh boy, imagine all the nefarious side-effects to geocaching. I don't think that's what FourSquare does, although it's similar in intent, more like encouraging you to visit a place and become its Mayor or something. Haven't spent more than a couple minutes with it. We'll see if it takes hold as I get more friends.

By: joel garry

joel garry — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 03:03:14 +0000

Last night my kid, who just started 8th grade, called me over to his computer to show me something. Turns out one of his teachers is using geocaching for the class. So he poked around, and showed me there's a cache right near my work. Guess I'll have to borrow cube-mates iPhone…

It was a bit surprising, as my work is 60+ miles from his school, and I had only mentioned the location to him once as we passed nearby on a freeway IIRC. Then again, he would remember something I've forgotten.

Free beer – just what my 8th grader needs. Wife already freaked out by the idea of kids in middle school wandering around a so-so part of town trying to find caches.

By: Emo

Emo — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 09:40:23 +0000

Nice gang...LOL That's really a gang of cats in that picture huh!
Thanks for sharing that article its fun reading.

- Acoustic -

By: Jake

Jake — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 01:19:06 +0000

Yeah, I too like Louis' work and initially found him via FriendFeed.

Re. Reader's social features, I'm not sold on them, especially since there's no API to surface them in my blog. Bit out of the norm for Google, so maybe it's a matter of time.

Maybe your thoughts on the social features would make an interesting point/countpoint set for us Ping me over email if you're interested.

By: Andy C

Andy C — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 00:24:52 +0000

Jake – you're right. People are quick to criticise and slow to say 'Thank you' so here goes.

I've always enjoyed Louis Gray's blog and he played a big part in my adoption of FriendFeed and again, more recently, with Google Reader's social features.

I also think there's an element of 'Clash on TOTP syndrome' too. The early adopters tend to be torn between the niche service (identi.ca, FriendFeed) making it successful and keeping it all to themselves as the world's best kept secret. Or maybe it's just me

By: Jake

Jake — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 00:23:12 +0000

Ah, I did not know that obviously. I'm not very knowledgeable about news in general, especially from across the pond.

Fail fail fail.

By: Andy C

Andy C — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 00:17:12 +0000

Psst – just so you know. Gary Glitter was convicted of sexual offences with minors.

By: Jake

Jake — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 22:46:33 +0000

Didn't get the invitation? I think you're in a lot of people's gang. Maybe they just don't thank you.

By: Jake

Jake — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 22:45:38 +0000

Honored to be in your gang, making a note about Gary, not sure why, but hey, if you say he's out . . .

By: Louis Gray

Louis Gray — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 21:27:23 +0000

There is a gang? How come I didn't get informed about this?

By: Andy C

Andy C — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 21:08:24 +0000

Pretry much all the big names, Robert Scoble, Louis Gray, Rob Diana, Duncan Riley, Eddie Awad, that Jake guy and me (obviously).

In fact, I am so promiscuous, pretty much anyone is welcome in my gang.

Well, everyone apart from Gary Glitter.