Comments on: As a Developer, Who Should You Follow?

By: Are We Following The Wrong People? | Regular Geek

Are We Following The Wrong People? | Regular Geek — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 11:30:19 +0000

[...] People? Published in February 4th, 2009 Posted by robdiana in Social Media Just two days ago, I presented two lists of people to follow in software development for blogs and Twitter from Jurgen Appelo. The funny [...]

By: Nic

Nic — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 15:20:47 +0000

Well, I found your post via Twitter before I even saw the lists. You are being followed now

By: robdiana

robdiana — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 10:50:34 +0000

tablewhite,

Thanks for the kind words, but Jurgen Appelo is the person to thank. I was happy to see the list as well because software developers are not the people that gain tons of popularity or followers. This makes them hard to find sometimes.

By: robdiana

robdiana — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 10:48:00 +0000

Daniel,

On FriendFeed the process is definitely easier because you can see who is commenting or liking the same content as you or other people. I have been using that method since the summer and it works great.

By: tablewhite

tablewhite — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 10:11:16 +0000

What a great post, short, to the point, wonderfully honest & beautifully insightful.

Having been using twitter, del.icio.us, blogging etc for over a year now I still struggle to find software/application developers in the finacial world, online in a social capacity. This I find odd as web 2.0 tools have been around for a decade used by developers and picked up recently by marketers. But – It’s getting better everyday thanks to articles like this

By: Daniel J. Pritchett

Daniel J. Pritchett — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 17:51:07 +0000

Congrats, Rob! It’s nice to have lists like this to help find others with similar interests.

Some times when I’m in the mood to build a new list on FriendFeed I think of the few people who most embody the topic I’m interested in and then I scan their recent history looking for relevant “likes”.

For instance, when Hutch Carpenter likes an E2.0 article from another FriendFeeder that’s a good clue that I might want to put ‘em on my E2.0 list.