well, perhaps i could segregate based on the service -

for instance, for twitter, there are varying input methods & access points with varying UIs … but there are ways to measure the time &/or value expensed – here is what it might look like :::

1) value &/or expense of 140 characters – ASCII through ISO definitions providing context; 2) value of a tweet – post on friendfeed with or without a link (more bandwidth after all including any hashtags or similar efforts to preserve space at the expense of computation); 3) value to re-tweet exactly (such that a 3rd party would not know the difference, or similar context); 4) value to retweet inexactly (3rd party could determine at least one difference); 5) not enough value &/or expense to tweet again

but the reference to “interestingness” is more likely a not-so-veiled-reference to a term being used as if it had meaning to one having ordinary skill in the art – specifically – it is a word that folks from Yahoo have been pressing as part of a patent filing (specifically butterfield et al. appln 11/350,981)

not knowing why this is not included in the article, i presume the push for the term is quite ironic in light of the push for patent reform by those who profess innovation … & those who profess to be “inside” the innovation

“willingness to pay” – that is the filter i want on all of my feeds

anyone know where that filter is … i think i have a hunch

In the last few weeks I’ve added: del.ic.io.us, twitter, plurk, friendfeeder, soup.io, drop.io, facebook, digg, reddit, stumbleit, a few (google, flock, bloglines) readers, meebo, me.dium, hmm I’m sure there are more … I literally can’t keep track. oh right, twhirl, flock, technorati, flickr, picasa, adium, youtube….etc. ad infinitium

I’m completely overwhelmed and find I’m having less time to blog, let alone clean my house or go to my actual job. I find this all completely fascinating and can literally spend days (weeks) mulling each service, playing on it and … well, you get the idea.

I’m sure I am less tech-savvy than most of your readers, but I’m savvy enough to be dangerous (and geekish, social media addicted to my loved ones).

What’s my point? I don’t know, besides having a headache. And oh yeah, to ask… where do I start? where do I end? I literally find something new and wonderful EVERY day and I’m starting to run out hours for… life. help!?

washy.

http://carlton-...pock-today.html

“Interestingness Filter”… Even if you put a total crap online Arrington their algorithm will still think that it’s interesting. I know you won’t even read what I’m writing (too “shy” to share with individuals of your kind?) but the fact is it doesn’t filter on “Interestingness”, it does on “popularity” and this VERY different. Hear me? Very different

It’s cool for the tech crowd, but that’s about it.

Today’s feature is but the first step. To show you what your social circle found interesting on FriendFeed in the last day, week, or month. A simple page for discovery.

Begin to apply this concept to search more broadly though and it becomes far more powerful. As more and more of the web gets filtered through the FriendFeed experience, strong interesting stories getting voted up, weak uninteresting stories getting voted down, by your peers.

So eventually you want to see stories on dogs or cats or TechCrunch or photography or whatever and one of the search views that you get back are search results filtered by the likes of your social circle. Perhaps a far more relevant filter for your own personal taste. The more of the web that gets indexed through FriendFeed, the more complete and powerful this concept becomes.

If FriendFeed can capitalize on the concept of social search, that Yahoo has largely fumbled, it could be something quite a bit bigger than the “little aggregator that could” that some people might see it as today.

Also, to extend Esther Dyson’s phrasing that I heard (I belive Michael also said something similar), if Google is the next Microsoft, and Facebook is the next Google, then I would add that Friendfeed strongly appears to be the next Facebook.

@ Michael/Everyone – I would lose heads up to Sameer Mishra in a spell-off hands down, [if you haven’t seen this yet then you must be under a rock: http://www.yout...h?v=VjzrNWPul9E would it kill someone to create a nice add-on app to do a quick spell check for sites that allow comment submitions? LOL, am I the only one that is deathly afraid of the occasional monumental typo that gives your post about as much credibility as a 3 year old banging his head against the keyboard?

Friendfeed becomes your own personalised Techmeme (according to me)
How ?
[Underneath the search box on your FriendFeed homepage, you now have links to see the “best of” FriendFeed from the past day, week, or month according to the people y…

Let’s wait and see it it works. So far the majority of the algorithms have failed. Think of crappy Facebook app invites, Twitter followers with 92573 friends and so on.

Their new feature now has me jumping into the damn fishing boat instead of merely being hooked.

These guys are on to something as friendfeed continues to get more interesting and useful; while twitter is just struggling to keep afloat.

it’s been 6 hours, for sure it’s out of the state now…

@michael

Oh great another feature to make me even more addicted to this micro-blogging phenom.