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Overridding Firefox 5.0 Add-Ons Compatibility Check

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Comcast Quality Control

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Gotta love the Internet

2:12PM Jan 13th: 80Peeps at Sigouriney town meet.

7:17AM Jan 12th: 150 people at 730am DeWitt TMeet. CNN taped full hour. U mite want to watch. Jogged 30min at 530Am Weather comfortabl 4jog. Many issues

1:35PM Oct 23rd: Whoevr cites Wo Health Organ study that US ranks 37th in world on Health Care shld read WSJournal Oct 21 debunking study. I’m embarasd I use

8:17AM Oct 10th: Did a 5Kplus(they didn’t measure accurately) Sat for pro adoption organ POTTERSHAND.Shamed to post time. But I was fastest for those ovr 60

8:01AM Jun 23rd: I’m being interviewed PBs rite now. I’m happy to be interviewed. I’m going to a meeting

8:28AM Jun 16: I’m getting my picture taken now for a prees>tory on my tweeying

5:04AM Jun 8th: My carbon footprint is abt 25per cent of Al Gore. I’m greener than Al Gore. Is that enuf?

11:28AM May 6th: Sitting in on a Farb Bill Meeting

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Chuck Grassley on Twitter

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Foursquare! Down!

From Hyderabad Dec

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Guesthouse Fail

In all of these platforms, people I know, follow, or am friends with send their updates across all their platforms. At first, this was useful – I could see which platforms were being used by which friends. Yet, in an edge case that’s increasingly becoming the norm, I experience instances where someone writes a blog post. Great! I get it in Google Reader because I follow their blog. But then…

- They share their own blog post in Google Reader, which shows up a second time in the “Friends I follow” category.

- The blog post gets noted in Friendfeed.

- Friendfeed updates Twitter and sends a tweet

- The tweet updates Facebook.

One post ends up being shared in 5 different locations. And each time I visit another platform, I see the same update, shared by the same person. In no way can I follow comments on the post, since discussions can happen on any platform – reader, Friendfeed, Twitter, Facebook. Even LinkedIn if you want to take it to the extreme.

Another example I see is on Twitter. Someone influential in my network sends a tweet. About 5 other people end up retweeting the message. While it’s great to see the information being passed on, this is all redundant to me.

In my ideal world, products would offer their own filtering mechanisms. In Twitter’s web interface, I would love to be able to ignore RT’s of people I specify. In Google Reader, I would love a feature that would automatically mark as read a blog post that was already read by me but shared again without any new unique comments.

In my ideal world, someone’s first unique Tweet, Facebook status, Friendfeed update, or blog post would NOT show up in any other interface. It’s fine if you want to share it, and that’s the point of social networks. But as these platforms compete for users, they offer plug-ins and API’s that share information across all networks, making information redunant. I find myself increasingly tired of checking into all of these interfaces to see the same content repeated over and over, trying to find a few unique pieces of information from friends who are (smart enough?) to use only one platform to share what they’re up to.

Sadly, I’m guilty of this too. I’ve linked Facebook/Twitter to my Friendfeed. (Sorry for anyone who follows me there, because I almost never log into Friendfeed to change any settings.) I linked Twitter to Facebook. My original goal was to make it possible for me to update one interface and then reach multiple audiences. In practice and for a blogger, this helps expand your reach, so I do sympathize on why this happens. On the flip side, as a consumer, and ultimately the individual who makes a choice on whether to stick with Google Reader, Facebook, Twitter, Friendfeed, etc (and while you may use multiple platforms, which one to log into first and spend the most time in matters), I’m getting tired of all the duplication.

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A Problem with Social Media

Cuil claims to have an index of 121,617,892,992 web pages.  Spiffy!  Before doing an actual search, I clicked around…

Let’s check out those “About Cuil | Your Privacy” links:

Uh oh!  Seems that both pages are not accessible at the moment. [Update: both links are working intermittently]

Well, their search is working, which is good news.  Unfortunately, when I searched for this site, using the queries ["Reid Yokoyama"] and [reidyokoyama.com] my blog was not found.  =(  Guess it didn’t make it into the top 121 billion web pages.

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Cuil – Page Not Found!

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Welcome to Web 2.0

Note – besides my immediate family, I have never met another Yokoyama.  I grew up in St. Louis, so finding another Japanese person was rare to begin with, but at Stanford and while working (where there are tons of Asians), I haven’t met another person who shared my last name.  I guess my brethren (can I call them that?) were smart enough to stay in Japan, while my great-grandparents were foolish to come over to America.

Anyway here’s two Yokoyama’s I discovered:

Ken Yokoyama appears to be a very popular heavy metal rocker.

Koji Yokoyama is a world class Yo-Yo-ist. Is that what you call an elite yo-yo-er? Watch this video – I can’t believe you can successfully yo-yo at such speed/angles.

There’s obviously more Yokoyama’s out there, but these two were at the top, and their videos are entertaining. I suppose the Yokoyama’s are full of unique and strange talents. I think I’m definitely bringing down the clan of side mountains, so I’m currently open for odd talents to develop.

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Famous Yokoyama’s (according to YouTube)