Paul Buchheit - Latest Comments in Overnight success takes a long time

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m2m — Fri, 16 Sep 2011 02:55:02 -0000

Great good work.

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Prasanna — Mon, 10 Jan 2011 00:34:06 -0000

Nice thoughts Paul. I do agree. I think its the courage to continue which matters. Its always better to look at something from a long term perspective. If our thoughts & are clear & if we work hard towards it, I think success is just a matter of time.

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Popcorn ceilings removal — Fri, 12 Nov 2010 02:20:58 -0000

Nobody in life gets exactly what they thought they were going to get. But if you work really hard and you’re kind, amazing things will happen.

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Mark Essel — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 19:21:39 -0000

Wow, just came across this. Love the long term evolutionary vision you have for the product and company Paul. Good stuff on all levels. I'm happy to host some killer friendfeed embeds in my blog and look forward to fantastic features in the future.

I'm working now on a product that can tie users social media status to contextual ads. It's jury rigged to work with twitter-> zemanta's semantic tools-> and google adsense search at the moment but the tool works (it's just ugly as hell at the moment).

If you're interested I'd love to chat with you about why I think this type of tool that will connect ads directly to user interest is a great (and non-intrusive) way to monetize from social media. It's the tip of the iceberg as far as Intelligent Media Management goes.

I imagine continual web searches using friendfeed like real time search for meta data of interest to me being funneled back to a central scanning repository. This is the type of virtual assistant technology I'd eventually like to work on. My thoughts are that contextual advertising may help fuel research in this direction.

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blowind — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 08:04:49 -0000

yeah
i agree with you

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theszak — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 00:53:57 -0000

There's got to be some way to workaround gmail or develop a mechanism to sort gmail messages alphabetically by subject, but how?...

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iridiumcao — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 03:04:41 -0000

thank you for sharing this interesting story.
I like gmail which is my main web mail.

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Daniël W. Crompton (webhat) — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 10:06:38 -0000

I just remembered I wanted to be able to tag items or comments posted by me (or others.) And have them automatically added to my Folksonomy Provider, such as del.icio.us.

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Daniël W. Crompton (webhat) — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 09:10:45 -0000

I would like a way to access the site with my BlackBerry, iow I would like a mobile version where I could comment on any postings I make with any of the other services I use.

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Greg — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 14:28:00 -0000

Don't really have and comments on FriendFeed but just wanted to say "Great Post". It gives inspiration to a weary IT worker on a Monday morning.

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Site O Rific — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 22:25:46 -0000

What a great story. I LOVE Gmail! I mean compare it to AOL, come on! I had no idea that it was in the works for so long and that it struggled against such nay saying. I experienced the same thing with my first dot com, everyone said I was nuts. 5 years later they all want to know how I became an overnight success. 5 years of steady work and rock solid intuition.

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jon — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 09:01:34 -0000

Since it's still in beta after nearly 8 years can you really claim "success" ?

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Dallas Cao — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 23:53:23 -0000

One enhancement I can think of is language filtering. If one is subscribed to many multilingual friends, his homepage can be messy with messages of several languages and many people can only read one language.

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paulbuchheit — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 22:22:35 -0000

Sure.

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Mrinal — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 21:27:41 -0000

Its interesting to note that you EVEN have to write this post - Good to Great would be a great read for those seeking silver bullets.

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.LAG — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 21:16:57 -0000

"My expectation is that big success takes years...This notion of overnight success is very misleading..."

Well said. In the music business, there's the notion of overnight sucess, but even if you look at something that looks like that, such as American Idol, you'll find that the winners have been performing and honing their skills for years. I like FF a lot, and I see the potential, and hope to go along for the ride as you shape it into a product that even you have no complaints about. Great post.

.LAG

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Mohammed Shahbaaz Hussain — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 13:32:41 -0000

well, i think gmail and friendfeed both are entirely different services and it is not good to think friendfeed in the gmail way.

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Martha — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 12:04:55 -0000

I love Friendfeed and hope that it continues to evolve. One can never expect perfection, but I am more than happy to put my two cents in as I see areas for improvement and hope with all my heart the Friendfeed goes the route of Gmail (another tool that I have adopted over the past year and have found love for). I definitely had some ramping up with FF because I initially found it complicated and harder to jump into than, say, Twitter. But now that I understand it, I am definitely seeing its promise. I don't think I am adequately using all that it has to offer, but I will get there.

For the very short term, I would love more discussion on how to use it and all of its benefits. Twitter has volumes much written about it for such a simple product. I find it astounding that I haven't seen more on FF - a tool with so much more to it.

Martha

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Dallas Cao — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 11:48:32 -0000

Hi Paul. Can I translate this article and then republish it at weeyee.com or some other places?
I didn't realize gmail had such an interesting history. Gmail is the most brilliant, ingenious product I have ever seen (no exaggeration).

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Scobleizer — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 06:49:16 -0000

Now THAT is interesting! What is the right kind of behavior? I think you're onto something there, but want to hear a lot more of what you consider the "right" kind of behavior.

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Koffee — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 05:05:49 -0000

FF is awesome, just not for 99.75% of the population who lack the smarts/interest in such a noisy thing IMHO. Niche is fine but it needs a dramatic overhaul to appeal to the masses and not just Louis and Robert.

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charlieanzman — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 04:41:16 -0000

Paul - The fact that you immediately engage the Friendfeed community when there are questions, suggestions or blog posts (as the FF team has all along right on Friendfeed) speaks volumes for the future of the product. (Keep it comin'!)

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Glen Meyburgh — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 03:39:43 -0000

Thanks for the insight on making an overnight success! This gives a wonderful insight to the process involved.

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Laura Norvig — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 03:34:00 -0000

Yeah, Paul, tell George about your home based business!

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Chethan Thimmappa — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 03:14:45 -0000

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