Freedbacking

ve been tracking these suggestions internally on a private Scuttle instance (of course running as a JumpBox).  Austin made an interesting suggestion last week though and we’ve decided to take a page from Chris Pirillo’s “Freedbacking” concept and expose this list in a decentralized and transparent manner.   So, in a bit of an experiment, we’ve assembled what may be the most comprehensive list of valuable open source server applications on the planet in such a way that allows

as well as “edited�? dates on notes, and (optionally?) show them on generated output Oh, and why is it “stu.dicio.us�? instead of the much more reasonable “stu.dio.us�? ? freedbacking stu.dicio.us What is Freedbacking?

(If you don’t use the feed reader Bloglines, this post will be a snoozer. Consider yourself warned.) I’ve got a little freedbacking for Bloglines. OK, well, actually, a lot … this is software I use every day, so any of these little improvements would go a long way with me. In order of importance: 1) Show the sub name. When I click “j” to go to the next item, and I’m viewing a

Palm, Social Software[IMG ]The term certainly doesn’t roll off the tongue as well as ‘feedback’, but in this case, that’s an advantage. ‘Freedbacking’, a melding of ‘free’ and ‘feedback’, is a new tag proposed by Lockergnome’s Chris Pirillo that bloggers can use to let developers know their apps are being talked about. The idea is that by using a 100% made-up term that search engines have never heard of, users who have something (ideally constructive) to say

there. They should be back soon. I really wish though that del.icio.us would find a way to make their daily blog posting tool compatible with Blogger. Or maybe they could work together on it. So, you know, del.icio.us, give Blogger a call. There’s some freedbacking for you. I also wanted to ask for some help on a little project I’m working on. I’m currently working on a new design for my blog. I got a template from Open Web Design by a guy named Kevin Cannon. It’s called

the search box). 2) The keyboard shortcuts implementation is interfering somehow. Just guesses, I should really get dirty amongst the code.] It’s only a small thing but please Bloglines, make it stop! Tagging this post with “bloglines freedback” (Chris Pirillo’s freedback idea is a ripper) ought to alert the Bloglines team that this is feedback for them – we’ll see how we go!

Freedbacking Mossa intelligente: capitalizzare su tag, feed e Google per organizzare il feedback sui prodotti da parte degli utenti. È un’idea di Chris Pirillo e ne approfitto. Con una lista, così posso sempre tornare ad aggiungere qualcosa. bloglines

originally Chris Pirillo’s) is that they’ll pick up the term “freedbacking” and their product name, “bloglines”, and get feedback for free. I met someone from bloglines after a panel at SxSW. I gave her some feedback then, which she said was useful, but I’ve not heard

Freedbacking

t make them feel stupid or tell them thier crazy; or ask if you can help them buy something? Ha, I think not. You can’t kick you customer in the balls then ask them to buy something from you. Chris Prillo has a great post on Feedbacking. A process to help users and developers communicate easier. I love it. Great thought Chris.

Earlier this week, Bloglines announced in their news weblog that if you included the words freedbacking (what an utterly awful word, even if the concept behind it is sound) and bloglines in a post, they’d automatically pick it up and read any suggestions it contained. Well, I’ve got one. It’s a simple one, and the fact that I haven

to a friend who is about to become a first-time daddy, but here goes. You know how Sex Columnist Dan Savage created a new usage for the name of a Senator from PA? Well, Chris Pirillo has proposed the term Freedbacking. It’s a way to give developers feedback on their web-based products. Since I first heard of Freedbacking using Bloglines, I’ve included Bloglines in this post. But I propose a different meaning for the word:

needs an “Are You Sure” prompt for marking a lot of … | 2006 September » TinyScreenfuls.com | [Technorati] Tag results for freedbacking | Freedbacking ~ Chris Pirillo | Freedbacking ~ Chris Pirillo | Freedbacking ~ Chris Pirillo | Blog of Leonid Mamchenkov | Blog of Leonid Mamchenkov | OddThinking » Bloglines Feedback |

credits krijg voor het idee), be my guest. En als ontwikkelaars of webdesigners met het hart op de juiste plaats me willen aanspreken om samen iets dergelijks op te starten: geef me een seintje. Wat ik hier aanbied, heeft trouwens een naam gekregen: freedbacking

From back in June 2006 Yup, that’s what they’re calling it. From Bloglines: “Chris Pirillo led a “Users in Charge” conversation at Bloggercon this week. Afterwards on his blog, Chris called on all users to provide constructive feedback to product creators and developers by including the term “freedbacking” in their blog posts. Bloglines wants you to know that our ears are wide open. Whether you use the Bloglines reader, search, publish a blog or all

reçu 2700 suggestions et qui laisse désormais les internautes choisir entre 24 finalistes, l’idée d’application qui sera développée par une équipe professionnelle. Via le Guardian. Une réponse simple et efficace au problème qu’évoquait Chris Pirillo il y a quelques mois dans Wired, consistant à mieux relier les internautes aux développeurs. Lors de la Bloggercon, la conférence sur le monde des blogs, il proposait le concept de “freebacking�?

Chris Pirillo led the ‘Users in Charge’ (mp3 here) group June 23 at Bloggercon and then added a blog post about providing developers with ‘freeback’ by tagging your blog posts with ‘freedbacking’. Bloglines, my main aggregator/blog reader thingie, picked up on it and said ‘We will listen’ if you include the terms ‘freedbacking’ and ‘bloglines’ in a post.

Another specific application for tags: Freedbacking. Chris Pirillo has created this tag specifically to encourage (and enable the discovery of) free and constructive feedback. Become a freedbacker – say something! Tell them they’re not doing something right – tell them how they could make their product even better

’re done with the calendar and it syncs seamlessly with a PDA or smartphone, this will be fantastic! [IMG yahoomailbeta.JPG] And in case you’re wondering, I didn’t misspell my title. It’s a new movement on the web and blogosphere to use a never-before-used term to provide feedback to software creators on their products. When you blog or otherwise put something out on the internets about a piece of software, use the term “freedbacking

[...] Freedbacking. a meme is born Freedbacking, labeling the art of offering free (constructive) feedback. [...]

BloggerCon IV…

Most of the time when I attend a conference, I benefit more from the schmoozing/partying than I do from the actual panels. Truth be told, I usually skip the majority of the sessions, hoping to save my energy for the…

Verizon Smartphone training class starts when?…

I know that the Professional Golf Association as a Q school so you can qualify for the PGA Tour, based on this info over at MobileWhack, Verizon might need to start their own Q school. One of MobileWhack’s commenters posted a memo (presumably internal…

Quick, somebody trademark it!

Free user feedback = Freedbacking…

Robert Scoble noted a very interesting discussion that was recorded at BloggerCon. Chris Pirillo spoke about products and user feedback: How a user can make a product better. Chris’ answer is the blogosphere — providing and sharing feedback to the……

[...] Listening to Chris Pirillo’s BloggerCon session on “Users in Charge” I can remember wqhat is was like to use the iPodder and jPodder tools and to seek out the developers and request changes or ask for assistance. It was indeed a Freedbacking experience of the first order. [...]

[...] provide free feedback to anyone by tagging your comments, suggestions and praise with freedbacking. [...]

[...] Big blogebrities like to coin new terms and spread them around. Freedbacking is another such term coined by Chris Pirillo. Just incase you did not know, it is the art of offering free constructive feedback to product creators and developers. [...]

[...] So Chris had a novel idea: a folksonomic Bat-light that developers could “scan the skies” for, one that would immediately let them know where to focus their attention. He calles it “freedbacking” — a verbified portmanteau of “free” and “feedback.” The idea is simple — anytime you’ve got something to say about a product, anytime you have constructive praise or constructive criticism, express yourself — blog it, wiki it, flickr it, whatever — but tag it with the word “freedbacking” and the name of the product. That way, developers interested in gathering and following your commentary will be able to subscribe to search alerts, Technorati feeds or other mechanisms that can alert them as soon as new “freedbacking” of their product hits the blogosphere. [...]

Refreshing and interesting idea Chris.
Let’s just hope against all hopes that this new dillio from from Pirillo doesn’t serve to feed the link/traffic pimps/fiends who trawl around to bastardize the Net in search of the almighty “power” that traffic serves. For IF this new idea can be used for it’s intended purpose we may break down the walls that stand between open communications and the potentials such presents.
What am I saying? Knowing some scum that hold sway over search engine listings/rankings this will become yet another misused tool. It reminds me how next to no one respects and understands what freeware really is or what it represents.

[...] I’ve read a lot of articles lately about people like Chris Pirillo and Dave Winer talking about the power of users. The jist is that people need to move away from the outdated notion that developers are in control, and that the users, in fact, are in control. Software isn’t any good if no one is using it, so why not make those using it as happy as possible? Chris Pirillo gave a talk on the subject at a convention called BloggerCon, where he coined the term Freedback. If you want something changed in the product your using, write an entry about it using the keyword freedback and the product name. Blogines, my favorite online news reader, has jumped on bandwagon and is requesting it’s users try it out. Here is my first attempt at freedbacking. [...]

[...] youwant to contribute to the developers of blogreaders and news aggregators.(From Bloglines News) # posted by Alex Feldstein @ 6/28/2006 07:43:00 AM   Comments: Post a Comment Links tothis post: See links to this post   posted by @ if (typeof BL_addOnLoadEvent == ‘function’) { BL_addOnLoadEvent(function() { BL_writeBacklinks(); }); } [...]

[...] This is in response to bloglines‘ request for feedback, using the term “freedbacking” coined by Chris Pirillo. [...]

[...] Chris Pirillo recently introduced the term “freedbacking” to stand for free feedback from users to developers. Freedback has so far not spread widely either in Wordpress tags or Technorati tags. But the first posts have seen the cyberlight so this great idea is sure to catch on eventually. [...]

[...] Another interesting new word this week from the Blogline people, freedbacking. In his blog, Chris Pirillo introduced the idea of giving free feedback for blog product developers by marking blog posts with the word ‘freedbacking’. This seems an excellent idea and will allow developers to easily find user feedback without reading every blog entry. The word is so new there is no Wikipedia entry at this time of writing. [...]

[...] Have you read about the newest folksonomy to hit the blogging world – freedbacking. The term’s so new that it’s not even in Wikipedia yet (at least as of this posting). The idea of Freedbacking (coined by Lockergnome’s Chris Pirillo) is to use the growing popularity of tags to provide “free feedbackâ€�? (aka freedbacking) to software developers and other providers of service in an effort to “bridge the gap between users and developers.â€�? — Another great idea that I wish I had thought of first. :) Anyway, think library vendors are scanning Technorati and Google Blog Search for mentions of their names and products? – you bet they are (and if they’re not, they’re fools). Include “freedbackingâ€�? in your tags and you’ll have a more targeted way to get their attention and give them feedback. UPDATE: Bloglines (my favorite news aggregator) has already stated that they welcome feedback through this method. Technorati Tags: Freedbacking, Free Feedback [...]

[...] Wired News picked up a new term created by Chris Pirillo in a Bloggercon presentation last week.  He suggested using the tag “freedbacking” when you post comments or feedback about a product or service.  I think it’s a great idea to promote the concept of public feedback that’s easy for manufacturers and developers to find, but not sure if this phrase will catch on. Companies already offer ways for users to provide feedback, for example, through e-mail and forms. But those methods are private, giving users little sense of participation. Frequently suggestions go unheeded, with not so much as an acknowledgement or thanks from the company. As a result, Pirillo said, public feedback postings are more satisfying because they allow users to compare notes with others to see if their complaints are shared, as well as the chance to disagree and debate. [...]

Freedbacking?…

At the “Users in Charge” session at last week’s BloggerCon, Chris Pirillo defined the word “freedbacking” to mean “free feedback from software users to developers.” Later in his blog, Chris asked users (better known as “customers”) to use the …

[...] LINK: Freedbacking ~ Chris Pirillo [...]

So instead of Bug tracking/CRM application – we just use the network with P2P connections directly to developers? Interesting.

[...] LoginSearch Citation for “freedback” Catchword: freedback Part of Speech: n. Quotation:Freedbacking. Tag it, use it, share it. I’ll post a unified feed for the keyword as soon as our OPML-to-RSS script is ready, but don’t let that stop anybody from posting to their own space (read: blog) using the word “Freedbackingâ€�? somewhere within a post. You’re giving free feedback to the developers of your favorite programs, or the creators of your favorite Web service, or anybody who’s making something that you use (or want to use, or need to use). Become a freedbacker—say something! Tell them they’re not doing something right—tell them how they could make their product even better—tell them what you want! Users own the word: Freedbacking, labeling the art of offering free (constructive) feedback. Article or Document Title:“Freedbacking” (URL) Author: Chris Pirillo Article, Document, Publication, Web Site:Chris Pirillo Date Recorded Here: Jun 30, 2006 Date of Publication:June 23, 2006 Related: English — Online — New or Nonce This catchword has yet to be researched. Comments? | Permalink | Tell a Friend Posted 30 Jun 06 | Permalink | Tell a Friend [...]

[...] I’m not sure I am convinced by this particular product, but this does show an interesting (intentional?) use of  YouTube to  get free feedback on product development: [...]

[...] Freedback Chris Pirillo launched this idea to have the world’s feedback channeled: freedbacking. As he writes on his blog: “[…] So, in my effort to make this world a little better – fostering open feedback between users and developers, I’m creating a new tag that doesn’t exist in Google (which means it doesn’t yet exist): Freedbacking. Tag it, use it, share it. […] You’re giving free feedback to the developers of your favorite programs, or the creators of your favorite Web service, or anybody who’s making something that you use (or want to use, or need to use). Become a freedbacker – say something![…] [...]

[...] Urheber des Begriffs ist Chris Pirillo, Gründer und Betreiber des Technikportals Lockergnome, der seine Idee vergangenen Freitag auf der Blogger-Konferenz Gnomedex in Seattle vorstellte. Wer den Terminus bei Google eingibt, kann nachvollziehen, wie er innerhalb weniger Tage an Bedeutung gewinnt. Pirillo sagte, ihm gehe es darum, eine “Brücke zwischen Anwendern und Entwicklern zu bauen”. Letztere bekämen sofort eine Vorstellung davon, wo sie bei der Verbesserung ihrer Produkte ansetzen müssten. Zu den Unterstützern der Idee gehören die Betreiber des RSS-Readers Bloglines, die einen Aufruf an Blogger gestartet haben, den Terminus in entsprechenden Postings zu verwenden. (hv) Seite:1 [...]

[...] I like this whole idea of Freedbacking. Here is some Freedback on Digg 3.0: [...]

[...] Just some freedback for Joel !  [...]

[...] Ci sono delle cose che volevamo chiedere da un po’: le metto qui alla rinfusa e senza un filo logico. Dai, freedbackizzaci!1.usi del.icio.us? con che username? ce lo lasci nei commenti? (usi digg? stessa cosa).2.idem per flickr.3.conosci un hotel centrale a Roma dignitoso e che non costi un occhio?4.hai un romanzo da consigliarci per l’estate? o un saggio?5.si capisce che i maestrini sono bonariamente cazzeggioni, o ti sembrano troppo aggressivi?(Quando rispondi, riporta il numero della domanda, se no non capiamo niente)(Se sei uno/a che legge solo senza mai commentare, questa è la tua occasione per uscire allo scoperto)Grazie. [...]

I have just freedbacked Apple about the notorious sharp edges on the new MacBook, and while I was at it I mentioned you and the Bloggercon podcast on freedbacking. Many thanks for the freedbacking word, tag, and idea.

[...] Recently Chris Pirillo coined a new word, freedbacking, suggesting companies to be open about user feedbacking, and suggesting users to start speaking their minds and giving away free feedback about products and services they like. [...]

[...] The invention of freedbracking is one more way of filtering the feedbacks from the customers. It stands for free feedback which should be immensely useful to developers. If any of the feedbacks can find their way in the roadmaps then the customers know they are being heeded. If not then they should be explained, and nothing better than a blog to do that. [...]

[...] Chris Pirillo of Lockergnome and Gnomedex fame has come up with a great way to enhance the communication between developers and users. It’s called Freedbacking, and it relies on tagging and RSS to make the communication happen. Here’s how it works. The next time you’re writing a blog post about a bug or something that’s broken in a new application that you downloaded or some gadget that you just bought, tag that post with “Freedbacking” and the name of the product. Developers can track the tag at gada.be or Bloglines and see free, open feedback about their product from users everywhere. Luke at Gordian-Knot has branded it “a folksonomic Bat-light.” The idea grew out of a talk that Chris led on Friday of last week at BloggerCon. He led a session where we all discussed methods of improving the relationship between developers and users. The session was helpful for many people in the room, but a few pointed out that traditional methods really only work for getting your feedback to small developers. Larger developers like Apple and Microsoft want your feedback in a web form or over a 1-800 number, not in a blog post. Maybe this method will change all of that. [...]

[...] Freedbacking – http://chris.pirillo.com/2006/06/23/freedbacking/ [...]

[...] Durante la reunión de BloggerCon en San Francisco, Chris Pirillo habló sobre productos y feedback del usuario: En qué modo un usuario puede mejorar el producto. La respuesta de Chris es la blogosfera, compartiendo y dando feedback a los desarrolladores de los productos. Un MP3 de la sesión, “Users in Charge”, está disponible para la descarga en el sitio web de Bloggercon. En ésta sesión apareció la palabra “freedbacking“, que en pocas palabras significaría el libre feedback del ususario. [...]

Hi Chris,

Kudos on creating the ‘Freedbacking’ tag in google.

We thought about how we could best let our users get Freedbacks. Thus added a feature wherein users can get Voice Freedback from visitors to their blogs, web pages or even their email recipients.

Basically works by pasting an html code provided by us on any web space. The user can then check the freedback in his/her mail box in NowPos.com.

Who are we?
We are a bunch of techies who developed http://www.nowpos.com, a voice e mail service wherein users can record their voice message and email the same to any id. The recording goes as a link and streams from our servers instead of hogging space as an attachment.
Because of our core voice encryption technology, voice streams fast.

We would like your Freed back
http://www.nowpos.com/freedback.php?ownerid=teamnowpos

just copy and paste the above url in the adress bar.

yours,
Amith
NowPos

[...] Create an open public dialogue on your site – Chris Pirillo proposed the idea of “freedbacking” recently whereby site owners encourage their visitors to tag their pages with the term “freedbacking” and make comments in the notes field to enable public feedback viewable to all. This is essentially what we’ve been doing on our Grid7 site since January via an iFrame on this page. You can do the same on your site and create this type of open public dialogue with your visitors. Keep in mind they may say bad things about you and it will appear on your site but doing it this way creates a “public whipping post” and forces you to deal with it immediately at risk of continued public embarrasment. Ultimately this creates an active community and more loyal following around your offering because people know you aren’t burying their criticisms and feedback. [...]

[...] July 22nd, 2006 by admin Posted in Freedbacking Chris Pirillo, recently at Bloggercon have used a new word that is having its buzz on the blogosphere. The term is freedbacking and it is to be used on the tags of the blog posts where you are commenting on a product or a service. It is a way for you to give public free feedback of a product/service in your own weblog, open to the discussion of your own readers, instead of just filling their form  to give the feedback. [...]

[...] A ideia das tags recebeu novo fôlego nas relações públicas com o aparecimento do conceito de freedbacking, introduzido por Chris Pirillo. A ideia é simples, é uma tag que indica feedback espontâneo. [...]

[...] Create an open public dialog (freedbacking) on your site. [...]

[...] UPDATE: I guess this is an example of freedback, so I’ve added that category/tag. (More freedback here) [...]

[...]  The first announcement of the term “freedbacking” and its usage is here. Technorati Tags: Blogosphere, Co Creation, Freedbacking, Marketing Loyalty [...]

[...] If you use any Internet service regularly (such as Technorati), you will occasionally want to send some feedback to the company. Sadly, though, the company is unlikely to be reading those emails of which they must be receiving thousands daily. In order to add to your chances of being noticed you may want to tag your posts as freedback, a word coined by Chris Pirillo to be used as a tag for open letters of feedback so that, for instance, Technorati may want to watch out for posts that contain both its name and the new word. [...]

Surely an instrument for highlighting your feedback must be created. This is really hard for those big companies to read every email they get.

[...] A nerd even among geeks. Freedbacking the intro — BH @ 08/28/2006 23:39:18 Freedbacking is a term coined by Chris Pirillo. Short for Free Feedbackthe idea is that bloggers blog about products and services they are using and tag them ‘freedbacking’. By simply scouring the internet for these tags developers and service providers can find valuable information about problems and suggestions to improve products that are used and loved all over the Internet. The desired affect is that users are brought closer to the those that bring them there products. [...]

[...] With or without the Freedbacking tag, it seems Chris Pirillo’s plea last June to channel and leverage constructive developer feedback is finding shape. I personally submit loads of bug reports to all kinds of software vendors. Some do follow up, some unfortunately don’t. A logical question might be: in such an exponentially growing landscape of bloggers, software and web services how can feedback submitters and their followers monitor which of the issues that they bring up has adequately been addressed? Can we have a conversation on that particular aspect of consumer interaction? Oh, and to close off for today, here’s a friendly, freedbacking wink to all my fellow TagJag lovers: [...]

[...] Die Idee dahinter ist simpel:Wer im Blog oder Wiki oder wo auch immer im Netz etwas konstruktiv Kritisches zu einem Produkt sagen möchte, soll den Eintrag mit dem Wort Freedbacking und dem jeweiligen Produktnamen taggen. Entwickler können dann beispielsweise über Google-Alerts, Technorati-Feeds oder sonstige Mechanismen fortlaufend Feedback zu ihren Produkten und Programmbibliotheken beziehen und diese verbessern. Urheber des Begriffs ist Chris Pirillo, Gründer und Betreiber des Technikportals Lockergnome, der seine Idee vergangenen Freitag auf der Blogger-Konferenz Gnomedex in Seattle vorstellte. Wer den Terminus bei Google eingibt, kann nachvollziehen, wie er innerhalb weniger Tage an Bedeutung gewinnt. [...]

[...] Meine Lieblingseigenschaft von Web 2.0 ist seine sprachliche Produktivität. Innerhalb der Folksonomy gibt einen long tail von Begriffen, die mir genausoviel Freude bereiten wie ein Schluck kühler Orangina. Nur Freedbacking finde ich ein wenig verwirrend. Dachte ich erst an einen taktischen Spielzug, später an eine Art von non-safe Sex und zu guter Letzt an das Ablegen von Kleidung, um den darunter liegenden Schwimmanzug zum Vorschein kommen zu lassen, erscheint mir seine letztendliche Bedeutung doch eher so, wie es das etwas unsensible compounding schon andeutet: wie Fanta. Technorati: freedbacking [...]

[...] Tagging XmasGifts – This isn’t an app so much as a suggestion on another creative use of del.icio.us. As I run across things online that strike me as perfect Christmas gifts for certain people, I’m tagging them privately with the tag “XmasGifts” and then putting the person’s name in the note field. Then when it’s time to purchase all gifts, it’s just a matter of looking up that del.icio.us tag. This in itself isn’t too interesting but there are interesting possibilities if you incorporate the social tagging features and remove the privacy feature. The reverse would be to tag the items YOU are interested in and expose your bookmarks to friends/family so everyone can see everyone else’s xmas list. Similar to the “freedbacking” meme proposed by Chris Pirillo, this would be a good meme to launch amongst the geek community – a universal approach to a wishlist based on del.icio.us. No doubt online retailers would support it. [...]

[...] Freedbacking : Freedbacking ~ Chris Pirillo, Wired News: Are you Freebacking? [...]

[...] Just a little bit more freedbacking for the Blackboard dev team. After all, the Podcast tool is a beta product. [...]

[...] I wrote this before I read this. Chris, does this count as Freedbacking? If not, here’s some "freedback" for Verizon [...]