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Louis Gray

McCain Moves Against Net Neutrality Rules - http://www.eweek.com/c...

October 23 from Google Reader - Comment - Like - Share

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And once again a politician is bought! - Travis Koger

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@Koger: Because obviously no one could be against net neutrality without being bought. - 321

321, assuming your statement is sarcastic, what are some good arguments against net neutrality? - Cristo

I seem to recall last year one of the telecomm's gave him his own personal cell phone tower so he could get cell phone service at his wife's secluded ranch in Arizona. - Ed Millard

@321, Ummm, that's right because Net Neutrality is *BAD* right? WTF? - Travis Koger

Steve Gillmor to Steve's feed, RealTime Network

Gillmor Gang recording live 1PM Pacific http://www.building43.com/realtim...

October 15 - Comment - Like - Share

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We are close to being live now. Just a couple more minutes. - Robert Scoble

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http://twitter.com/dens Dennis Crowley, co-founder of Foursquare is our special guest. - Robert Scoble

I'm still not clear on what's good about this... - Cliff Gerrish

please ask Dennis when Foursquare will roll out in europe - HansVanRock

Cliff: there are three things that I get out of Foursquare: 1. I see what my friends are doing. That lets me meet them in real life and keep track of what they are doing. 2. It's a game, so I can play it to compete with my friends. 3. I can get tips from my friends for the location that I currently am at. - Robert Scoble

Hans: it just launched in London last week. - Robert Scoble

Robert, the tips seem good. Do you need to check in to get them? - Cliff Gerrish

Checking-in is like closing the "sales" loop for venues. FourSquare is a disruptor in mobile marketing and users are happy and engaged.... - Antonella Stellacci

Cliff: yes. Because checking in is how you tell the system where you are. - Robert Scoble

Robert: London i don´t consider as europe, it´s an island lost at sea ;-) - HansVanRock

re new places, check their blog http://foursquare.tumblr.com/post... for a list of new cities - Antonella Stellacci

Can you privately check in, or is it alway a public gesture. - Cliff Gerrish

Cliff: yes. You can keep your location secret. - Robert Scoble

HansVanRock: They also have Amsterdam. - 321

321: who will be brave enough to check in at a coffee shop? :-) - Robert Scoble

:-)/ - HansVanRock

Geolocation, augmented reality, etc. Foursquare seems like a simple entre to this world. - Cliff Gerrish

Cliff: it looks simple, just like Twitter looks simple. But that's deceiving. - Robert Scoble

Robert, I meant 'simple' in the most complimentary way. Simple works. - Cliff Gerrish

Regarding real people in augmented reality, check this out: http://blog.brightkite.com/2009... - Martin May

Mobile advertising is a multi-billion dollars business. ....even Twitter with geo-location API and Facebook mobile will want a share of it.. - Antonella Stellacci

Loop and latency are also key elements. - Cliff Gerrish

Hey, Gillmor, nice camera angle of your studio! - Robert Scoble

Are these features or companies? - Cliff Gerrish

widgets will soon start talking to each other and exchanging data. that's when user constructed solutions start getting interesting. - scott anderson

Are there enough economics in a distributed widget mesh? - Cliff Gerrish

widgets will be front end for services. that's where the economics come from. - scott anderson

If you wrap up 5 widgets in a package - high risk, great leverage, low economics - Cliff Gerrish

If you are dependent on more systems, doesn't that increase your risk? It seems like it's a downside unless you have failover to other services - Martin May

Do we really want our phones making decisions for us? No matter how much context they have... - Cliff Gerrish

Thanks for adding San Antonio, @dens! - Robert J Taylor

Cliff - they are making suggestions, not decisions. - Rob La Gesse

A better frame might be, here are the place gestures your social graph has generated. Does that suggest anything to you... - Cliff Gerrish

that's super smart :) - Antonella Stellacci

Have any houses been broken into based on negative location information? - Cliff Gerrish

Cliff: I heard of one, because of a Facebook post (or it was just a bad coincidence). But I've also heard of thieves getting caught because of Google Latitude. - Robert Scoble

As long as thieves are also on foursquare and check in as they are robbing your place -- I guess that's ok... - Cliff Gerrish

No 4square in Reno yet. So there must be a population threshold for cities covered at this point? - ursi

Cliff: if someone tries breaking into my house while I'm not here they might be a little shocked. :-) - Robert Scoble

Homeless people will "check in" the easy mark homes for their roaming buddies... - Robert J Taylor

Aren't explicit place gestures fictional? That's their important social information content... - Cliff Gerrish

I'd love to be able to check in on the Gillmor Gang. - Robert Scoble

Sounds a lot like MS Mesh... - Cliff Gerrish

Right...but the tough part is "verifying" that a person is actually at a certain place. You can make it difficult to spoof, though. - Martin May

We're working on some interesting stuff with QR codes to do that. - Martin May

Identity becomes a real key here. - Cliff Gerrish

Good thoughts...totally agree with @dens - Martin May

Steve - I like the new "studio cam" view - Rob La Gesse

Do we run into the Facebook Beacon problem here? - Cliff Gerrish

Steve - I like the studio cam view, too: http://img.skitch.com/2009101... (color me green for jealousy!) - Robert J Taylor

yes, i also liked the cam angle: http://twitpic.com/lnkdg ..... great show Steve & guests! - HansVanRock

Leo Laporte

If you use iTunes on Mac and aren't using Pollux you're missing a treat. http://polluxapp.com/ - free but I just donated. It's so good.

October 3 - Comment - Like - Share

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Too bad I don't trust anyone's genre assignations other than my own. - Akiva Moskovitz

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thanks for the tip. - Edgar Rodríguez

thanks leo,now i may have to download it and try it out! looks nice :) - pcguru626

It just tagged one of my original tunes to Edie Brickell, but otherwise it seems to be getting them all correct! - B Bagby

I'll give it a try, thax for the info Leo - Alex

Looks cool, any Windows support coming? - lawrence kenski

Did you bring down their server? It says something went wrong and to try again later. Or maybe it is not working. - Alex

it's awesome, i too shall donate - Paul Meyers

Anything like this at all for the PC. - Mark Wolvin

It get's my highest praise, "Doesn't suck." - Steve Feinstein

ok, im amazed. just correctly corrected 162 out of 170 tracks with "track xyz" as their title. - Jamie

Addons like this, and programs like Coda, are the things pulling me toward buying an iMac. Just can't get myself to do it yet. - Andres

I don't get how you can get your iTunes library in such a state: http://polluxapp.com/Screens... Without using this app, my iTunes library has all the necessary metadata, and I didn't make any effort to have it like that. - Paul Grav

Anything similar on windows, on iTunes or foobar or winamp or anything? I'd like to see a program that has a "search for year info on Wikipedia" option. Actually, why isn't there an app where I can manually correct track info on my iPhone while I'm listening and have the corrections sync back? - Chuck Kahn

Paul, mainly by downloading music illegally from places like Kazaa (is that even around anymore?) and torrents. - Akiva Moskovitz from BuddyFeed

Thanks for the link leo! - Jan Persiel

It may be a coincidence, but I sent this link to my husband and when he tried to download the application he had to force quit Safari and it triggered all kinds of virus messages! He said he was not willing to try to duplicate the problem! - Ginger Campbell, MD

So, don't run this on compilation/greatest hits albums, unless you want the songs retagged to the original albums. - Demian Johnston

@Chuck Kahn - A cross platform (albeit more complex) tagger is Jaikox - http://www.jthink.net/jaikoz/ I've been using it on the Mac for about a year, much more complicated - and not free... but it works. - Christopher Aloi

It just gave me errors. F that. - Fnord

I liked it until it ended up misidentifying a great deal of songs, now I have to take the time to manually edit them back. Or just break out the CDs and rip them all over again. It can't tell the difference between tracks from a live album versus their studio recorded counterparts. It gets an E for effort. - Bryan K Erickson

It also gets in this state if you were managing music well before iTunes came to PC. - Eric @ CSTechcast.com from iPhone

When I used to do stuff in Windows, I used MP3Tag. - Akiva Moskovitz

Hooo-Rah! - Eric Anderson

This app worked perfect for me. Well done! - Mike Shulman

Gonna try it now ... [edit] Not bad, but made too many mistakes for me to unleash it on the rest of my library. - Timothy Griffin

I downloaded it and it did not do anything. - Kelly J

@Kelly J: You need to highlight some songs in iTunes and then click "Tag selected iTunes tracks". - 321

Very cool idea, but I have tried it on two albums and it got one song wrong both times. It also hasn't grabbed lyrics on any song I've tried so far, and that was main reason for trying it. All my stuff is tagged properly already. Any apps that just grab the lyrics? - Justin Luey

...well, it is 'beta' software, or has that label lost all meaning these days? - .LAG liked that

I think some of the data it uses is a bit suspect. One artist, two versions of the same song but different lengths, and they're classed as being from the same album. What's with the lyrics bit - where do they appear? - Mike Caine

Akiva Moskovitz

Can't figure out any reason to have Dropbox on my iPhone. How are you guys using it?

October 3 - Comment - Like - Share

Alex Scoble and Bruce Lewis liked this

Syncing photos - Johnny Worthington

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Clearly, not many people are using Dropbox for the iPhone. - Akiva Moskovitz

Is it a box that catches it in case you drop your iPhone? - Louis Gray

I hope so because I didn't have a case for my last iPhone and there's a nice little break up the back due to an unfortunate 2' drop. - Akiva Moskovitz

I like having access to my files on my iPhone, which can open Word documents, PDF files and other formats. - 321

Kol Tregaskes to Kol's feed, friendfeed Gamers, electronical games

What do you think of OnLive? Have you signed up for the beta (US only), do you think it will work? If not why not?

October 2 - Comment - Like - Share

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Watch the demo here: http://www.onlive.com/ - Kol Tregaskes

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I signed up for the beta and I would like to get in. I think it's a great idea. To be honest, I'd be sorta surprised if it works though. - Aram Zucker-Scharff

I dismissed it as not possible originally but other companies, including nVidia have been showing off similar projects recently. - Jimminy Fuller

Jimminy, any info on these similar projects? - Kol Tregaskes

I don't remember the titles of the other ones, let me see if I can find the nVidia one, because I just came across it while I was trying to fix my video card on monday. - Jimminy Fuller

SpawnLabs was one that I saw, not streaming from a database but still an interesting streaming project as it is using your console at home while you're on the road. http://www.spawnlabs.com/ - Jimminy Fuller

I would be very surprised if it actually works, but I've signed up for beta. - 321

Don't think it will. And if it will... what if they get out of Beta and the service get really popular? Every game will run from their servers. just imagine the farms they'll need. - Remo

Robert Scoble

Welcome Ryan!

September 19 from email - Comment - Like - Share

Yunus Yalçınkaya, Debra Moore, Free will and 573 other people liked this

Congrats Robert... best wishes to all - Rhys Amos

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Congrats. Now the fun begins!!! - Mike Shields

Awesome! - dstamand

Congratulations! - Stephan Planken

Congratulations! Welcome, Ryan! - Lance M. Brown

Awesome - RetiredTeacherD

Yay! Congratulations! - Jesse Stay

YAYAYAYAYAY! Congrats to you and Maryam!@#!@#! - drew olanoff

congrats Robert and Maryam, Welcome Ryan. - rick

Welcome to the world. - Dave Mora

Congratulations!!! - Mike Doeff

!!! - sean percival

Born 11:32. - Robert Scoble from iPhone

LOL He was keepin ya'll on yer toes. CONGRATS! - Danny Minick

Yay! Congratulations to you and your wife! Now off to buy RSS and iPhone - Lise

Congrats!!!!! - Mark Evans

Congratulations! - Kenneth

I hope you're well rested, Robert ... ;-) - Hieronymus Murphy

Congrats Robert! - Charlie Anzman

Congratulations! - 321

He looks like you. - Cjay

Congratulations! - Mahendra (SkepticGeek)

Congrats to you all - JanLawrence

Congrats Robert and welcome RSS! - Robb Brock

Congratulations! Happy Birthday Ryan! Lots of love to the whole family. - Jodi Church

SUBSCRIBED! - drew olanoff

Hello World! - CannonGod

Congratulations!! Welcome to the world Ryan!! :) - Laura Zickus

<rss> awesome! </rss> - sean percival

welcome to the new world little one! all hail our pink squirming screaming overlord! - bear (aka Mike Taylor)

LOL at CannonGod's comment. It's like he started a Wordpress blog. XD - Danny Minick

When does he start micro blogging? - Cjay

20.5 inches long. 7 lbs. 13 oz. - Robert Scoble from iPhone

nice alpha version. welcome RSS ! - Kaïs Miled

congrats!! welcome rss! - barbarars

Ryan is no longer in beta! LOL :D Congrats, Scoble! - Danny Minick

Congratulations :) - امیرعباس

RSS is finally here! Congrats Robert & Maryam - Dennis Jernberg

Congrats Robert... best wishes to all - joupy

Congratulations! - Aaman (Clone of FF)

Blessings, and the best Robert! - Nakeva Corothers

Cute! - Charlie Anzman

مبارک باشه Congratulations - هامد - Just Like that

Congrats!!! - Jim Williams

Grats! - Denverken

مبارکه رفیق رابرت . خدا حفظش کنه - جـوان ایرانی

If Dave Winer comes on here and claims to have invented RSS I will smack him. - drew olanoff

Congratulations! - joey

Congratulations and all the best. - Bryce Roney

Welcome Ryan!!! - Phil

Welcome Ryan :) - giuseppe c. | markgreene

Awesome. Congratulations! - John McCrea

Congratulations :-) - ѕнαнιη

Congratulations! - anna sauce

Congratulations :) Welcome Ryan :) - Mohamed Marwen Meddah

Congrats, Imagine where RSS and the web will be when he turns 30! - James Watters

Congratulations to you both. - Don McAllister

congrats Robert and Maryam :))))) - Conformist / Unforgiven

congrats to the family!! - erik yuzwa

Welcome to RSS in Pubsubhub mode :) - Ouriel Ohayon

Congrats to you all!! We had our second child, a boy, on Tuesday. Enjoy!! - Alex Cordiner from iPhone

Yay! Congrats to you, but mostly congrats to your wife for doing all of the hard work. ;-) xo - Jennifer Leggio

Mazel Tov! - Robb Vaules

Congrats Robert....wishing all the best to your family.... - Carlos

Congratulations! Wow! Seems like we were there just the other day! Looking forward to your late-night feeds and tweets and blog posts! - Louis Gray

You rock! Congrats. Thanks for sharing. How's mum doing? - Steve Lacey from iPhone

congrats! and welcome ryan - Daniel Levine

Congrats Robert - It is a fine family.... - Simarprit Singh

"beautiful new baby" by Robert Scoble, photojournalist. I stepped away for coffee and bang! RSS - Brian Hendrickson

nice! - Josh Haley from iPhone

Thank you so much for sharing - Sherrie Belken

:) congrats - Shandiz

Born on Talk like a Pirate Day, too! Yarrrr! - Josh Haley from iPhone

congrads ms & mr scoble, :) - chaz2b

Thanks to the good Docs! - Keith Rowland

congrats!! ^_^ - Christine Lu

Congrats! - Mycaptain

Steve: mum is sleeping but got to hold Ryan. Instant love! - Robert Scoble from iPhone

Welcome, Guest dear to our world / Now the world is on your own - Conformist / Unforgiven

that feels good - Brian Hendrickson

Gonna have to learn to operate that iPhone with one hand. - Keith Rowland

Congratulations! - Parth Awasthi

Congratulations. Hope Maryam iis doing well - Rachel Clarke

Congratulations! Wish him all the best! - philos

Welcome Baby Ryan!!! My baby Ryan (17 years!) and I are honored to welcome another superstar to our planet! Love, hugs, and lots of kisses to Baby Ryan, Mommy Maryam, Dad Robert and big brothers Milan & Patrick and of course Grandma!!! My guess on Ryan's arrival (predication) was only 23 hours off. I thought he would arrive on Friday, Sept. 18th at 11:45 pm. Love to all, Kelly & Ryan Kim - Kelly S. Kim

Congrats, Robert and Maryam. - Derrick

Congratulations Robert, and well done Maryam! You are truly blessed :) - Nicola Quinn

So happy for you Robert and Maryam. Yeay...another FF baby! - Mark Krynsky

Congratulations! - Surachart Opun

What a moment, eh? I remember when my daughter came into this world, it was so exciting there were no words for it. Congrats on your wonderful baby boy! - Michael J. Carrasquillo

Congratulations - testbeta

Congratulations! Welcome to the world, Ryan. :-) - Yvette Ferry

Congratulations Robert and Maryam! And welcome Ryan. If I was having a baby today, I'd begin a blog for him/her straight away as an online diary they could look back on when grown up. - Sandra Large

he's so cute... - Sinem Vural

Robert, Congratulations to you and Maryamie! - Mike Fruchter

Wow, congrats to all of you! - Paul Salzman

Congratulations to you both! - Forrest W. Kobayashi

Great news guys! All the best! - Chris Nixon

الهــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــی چقده ناز نازیه.اینو فارسی نوشتم مریم جان بخونن ....راستی به باباش که نرفته:)) خوشگلتره:)) پس به شما رفته - joupy

congratulations!! - Jeroen De Miranda

Congratulations to you and your wife Robert! - Randy

Congrats Robert! - Terry Jones

congratz and welcome RSS! - Jon Winters

Congrats Maryam :-) - Terry Jones

Felicitations and humble prayers for your new son. - Victor Panlilio

congrats and best wishes! - Mike Chelen

Congratulations Robert! Welcome Ryan! - Jeff P. Henderson

Congrats!! - Tan Kaiquan

congrats and best wishes to all. :) - Naor Mark

Congratulations - Meral Alabaz

I was a c-section six week preemie in an era when that was seriously life-threatening, they didn't know if I would make for the first week. It always gets me a see a c-section / preemie come howling into the world. Welcome, little guy! - Bob Morris (polizeros) from iPhone

Beautiful baby! Congratulations daddy man :) - Gary

:) Congrats Robert... best wishes to your family! Get her name in twitter and ff! - Business Blogger【ツ】™

Congratulations to you and Maryam! - Elwin Witzke

AmazinG!! congratulations :) - Nakul

cutie pie baby - Debby Bruck

Congratulations :) - Baard @ Pixum

Ryan, good to see you. - Burçak Çubukçu

تولدش مبارک ^_^ Congratulations! - ‎‎Emad

Warm wishes and congratulations. Love that you posted him crying. - Irene Koehler

Congratulation to all of you! All the best for baby ryan!!! - Arne Krueger

Congrats to both of you :) - zephyrlily

Congratulation....best wishes to all - Opium

woooow like :) - کلـیـشه

Congrats M. & R. - Giuseppe M.

ووووی مبارکه، به مریم خانوم هم تبریک ما رو بگو - Zahra (raoros)

Congrats Robert and Maryam, Welcome to geekdom Ryan! - Andrew Wardlaw

Contrats!!! I'm so excited!! - Jannifer @wordsforliving

Congrats.That pic brings back memories of my own baby's birth only ten months ago. C-section baby boys rock! - Georgiana Comsa

Mazel Tov to you and Maryam. - Michael Markman

Congrats... a few more Scobles make the world a better place ;-) - Aad 't Hart

Congrats! - George Mitsopoulos

Congrats... and Welcome Ryan. Good to have you among us. - fatima

Congratulations! I - Michael Fidler

Wonderful news. Congrats. - Keri

Congrats Robert, and the best to you, Maryam, and of course Ryan! - Chris, Taskerrific Guy

Congratulations Congratulations !! - Farzad

Congrats - Sandeep Swaminathan

looking to to the same in 3 weeks - ROBIN SMITH

Congrats on the blessed event! :D - Joel Lovato

Congrats Robert and Maryam. Welcome Ryan !!!!!!!!! - Nir Ben Yona

Congratulations, Robert! - Mark Trapp

Congratulations to Robert and Maryam. - George Hall (Australia)

Right ON! I am so happy for you. I have 4 kids of my own and they are my greatest joys. Take care and I hope all goes so smooth for him and mom. - Robert Anderson

Congratulations! - J. Abdul-Qahhar

Daddy Scobleizer!!!!!!!!!! First things first....when will he be signed up for Twitter and FF? - krystyl

Congrats!!! - eric susch

welcome Ryan, it's a beautiful world - Michele Costabile

Congrats!! - Olivia Lovag

Congrats to the Scoble family from South Africa! Welcome to the world @RSS - Shaun Trennery

Good luck beatiful baby. - Oğulcan Selçuk Akbulut

Congrats, Robert! :-D - Kol Tregaskes

Congratulations Robert, and welcome Ryan! - Giorgio Zarrelli

Congratulations Robert and R.S.S.: "Hello World" Cheers! - Louis Trapani

warmest congratulations - Peter Holland

what a beautiful baby=)Congratulations=) - Candan Celik

Such a miracle and a blessing - Congratulations to you and Maryam and "big" brothers! - Marla Schulman

Congrats, Robert. Amazing pictures! - Jordi Soler

Congratulations to all of your family! Enjoy! - Ed Richardson

Congratulations ... enjoy! - Hitesh Parashar

Congratulations!!!! He's beautiful! Welcome little one! I'm proud to share a birthday with you! - Martha

Congratulations Robert and Maryam! Welcome to the world Ryan :-) - Rasmus Lauridsen

happy birthday BABY - ≤ M@RzI

Best congratulations!!!! :) - CantorJF

Congrat Robert. It is wonderful what this new media could do to share your joy! - Gianto Widianto

congrats! - Pradhap Nirmal Natarajan

Congratulations! - Steve Garfield

به به . قدم نو رسیده مبارک مریم جان . خیلی نازه :) - RokhSaare

Hope the baby and mum are well. Congratz. Happy Ied Mubarak =) - zʍıɔ

WoW,Congratulations! - atalmatal from MojiPage

Congrats on the blessed event! Welcome to the world, Ryan - Jazz Baker

Congratulations! - Jim Will Miss SP

appena nato e già dal dentista? - paolo beneforti

Congrats :) - Maryam Ardakani from FreshFeed

He was delivered by a Blue Man? - paul mooney

Congrats Robert. It's allways a special moment. I still have my child birth in my memory! - Rui

What a happy day! A healthy new Scoble and mom. - Dave Winer

آخي ، بچته ؟؟؟ مبارك باشه تو روز به اين عزيزي به دنيا اومده ، بت نميخوره بچه انقدري داشته باشي شيطون - mohammad

My goodness, congratulations! - DGentry

Congrats! - Ivo Mortani

Congratulations!! and best wishes - Johni Fisher

congrats! - masstrovato

Congratulations! I hope everyone's ok?! - Holger Eilhard

حاجي خانومت ايرانيه جدي ؟؟؟ پس خيلي مباركه ديگه - mohammad

Congratulations, Scoble family! - Bill Scherer

wonderfull - braciolanet from BuddyFeed

Congratulations to you and your family Robert! A very handsome baby boy! Cant wait to see more pictures! - TiffanyCarr

Congratulations, Robert. - motownmutt

Congratulations! - :: Kim Sherrell ::::

congrats :) - £lham

مبارکه :) - خیزران kheyzaran

Congrats! - Roozbeh

Congrats to Robert and Maryam! - Bec Rowe @d0tski

WooHoo! My best to the whole family. I hope Maryam is getting some rest after all that hard work! - Robert Couture

Congrats to you and your fam, Robert :) - LANjackal

Ryan was born when the Berlin Marathon was finishing. Perhaps he'll be a long-distance runner. Congrats. - Carl Jacobsen

Congratulations to you and the wife, Robert! Job well done. I see he is gonna take after his Daddy! ;-0 ,hehe:-) - Duliece

One more congrats won't hurt, right? Thanks for sharing the pics. - Kevin Sablan

Congratulations :) - A35G

Congrats - Exciting & now the fun begins :-) - PXLated

Wishing you and yours the best on this wonderful day! Congratulations! - Steve

Congrats on the RSS feed update :) I hope you've pinged both rsscloud and pubsubhubbahubba ! - Ahsan Ali aka. Slick

Starting today. Sleep will be nothing more than a fond memory. :) Congrats. - Richard

Congrats! - Herb Hernandez from iPhone

Congrats! - YusufOzanTasdemir

Congrats Robert!! - Taehoon Kim

Congratulations! - Thomas Hawk

Congratulations to you both :) - 1x29

Congratulations to all! - malackey

fantastic !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! - michele ficara

Awe!! Congrats =) - Brodie Beta

Congratulazioni!! ^______^ - Andrea | amnesiak1978

congrats!! - Clarita

Congratulations to your whole family, Robert :-) - Mistletoe Glen

Welcome Ryan! Congratulations Robert and family! - Tim Probst from iPhone

Congratulations!!! God bless.... - Bob DeMarco

Congrats! - Jason Williams from iPhone

Congratulations Robert, Maryam and Milan! All the best to the four of you. - Eiso Kant

Congratulations :-) - Jalada

Congrats! Enjoy. - Jim Peake

Congrats - BeeLing

Congratulations!! - Paolo Leonardi

Congratulations, Robert and Maryam! - Helen Sventitsky

Congratulations! - John (a.k.a. dendroica)

Congratulations. - ashish

Congrats - Brian Appleby

oooww wonderfulll :)) - Ucandepik

Well done, my son's name as well. - Robert Kenney

Congratulations - Caleb Scribner

Congrats - Manuel Mas

Congrats! Best wishes to you, Ryan and all your family! - Lenny Post

congrats ^_^ - Furkan Tunalı

Conga Rats! - Michael R. Bernstein

Wonderful! Enjoy! - Alan Morris

Hello! - N.G. Gordon - RadarSync

Absolutely wonderful. Welcome to the world Ryan! - Loren Heiny from iPhone

Congrats :) - Hasan Al Shehabi

Congratulations to both of you. - Roberto Bonini

OMG Congrats to both of you, he looks healthy and promising. - Jeunelle Foster

Congratulations to everyone! He looks healthy! I am sure you must all be very happy! ;) - Altan Khendup

Congratulations! May your tribe ever increase in happiness, joy, and fulfilment. - trey pennington

Congrats! - Ben Parr

what would be ryan's reaction when he would read this post someday, so many folks who knew dad congratulating him! - testbeta

Congratulations! - Anne Bouey

hiya RSS! - Laura Norvig

Yah!! Congratulations. - Micah Wittman

Congratulations to the whole Scoble family! - WorldofHiglet

Congratulations to the whole family! Enjoy these most precious times. - Marylene Delbourg-Delphis

best wishes to all - Hamza Şamlıoğlu @TEAkolik

congrats Robert and Maryam - Kevin Tunis

Congratulations, Robert! - Sabri Küstür from FreshFeed

Wonderful. Best wishes to Ryan... - Mitchell Tsai

Congratulations to the whole family :) - Chris Saad

Congratulations - Samaneh

Congratulations. cute :) - FFTornado

Congratulations. First picture on twitter! - Cindy Makonin

I just came to make sure you were getting a proper congratulations - Sherrie Belken

Welcome :))) - Flynn (Michael A. Volz)

congrats;) - خاتون

Congratulations to the Scobles! - Carlton Prest

Congrats Robert! - Jorge Escobar

congratulations, Robert and Maryam. - Valeria Maltoni

congrats! - Daniel Brusilovsky

WOW - what a miracle - congrats! - Mark Harai

Congratulations Robert & Maryam! - Rodrigo Jaroszewski

Congrats from Italy, Ryan! - Federico Bolsoman from iPhone

Congratulations Robert and sorry for delay, Best wishes - erfan

He is crying: "I want an iPhone". Felicitations! - William Mougayar

May he be blessed throughout his life! God bless you, Robert and Maryam! - Melanie Reed

CONGRATS!!!!!!!!! - Greg Ness

congrats :) - Erdinc [bilimdiyari.com]

Congrats Robert & your family :) - Sampad Swain

what a beautiful little guy! congratulations! rock on! - B.L. Ochman

great day, congrats - imran

Wow congratulations to both you and Maryam you must be so proud :) - David Richardson from Android

Congratulations - Eric Logan

Wow, Congratulations, Robert and Maryam!! Ryan looks beautiful.:-) - Cathryn Hrudicka

Congrats man. That's so awesome. - Give 'Em DBizness

Happy Babbie Day! - Jack (a.k.a. Jeber)

Congrats! - Zachary TG

Congrats! I wish a long and healthy life. - Muammer Okumuş

Robert, you newest addition is too freaking adorable. I hope you and Maryam are doing well. Congratulations! Here's to a long, prosperous future! - Mike Nayyar

Welcome, Ryan - you picked a good family! - Matthew Blaisdell

congrats to you and Maryam! And welcome, RSS! - Joshua Allen from fftogo

congrats!!! Welcome to Ryan - Dario Salvelli

Congratulations to you and Maryam! E benvenuto Ryan! - Marco Fabbri

Congrats! :) - Emmanuel Anumonwo

Congratulations! - mlazopoulou

Such auspicious times... Welcome, Ryan! - Red Label

O HAI, Ryan! Congratulations to Daddy and Mommy, too! - Ladybug Heather

What's Ryan's Twitter address? - MVB (Grinch of FF) from iPod

قدم نو رسیده مبارک!congratulations - Jan Valjan

Congrats, best wishes. :) - Hunt

حوزه جان بیا در گوشش اذان بگو - مـــــــــمد

woohoo! congrats! - Tyson

That is a wonderful moment! All the best to momma, baby and the family! - Mary Gilmour

Congrats Robert! Welcome Ryan! - Garin Kilpatrick

Awesome, Congratulations Robert and Maryam! And welcome to the world Ryan. - Mitch Baldwin

Happy parenting! Congrats! - Natallini

Groovy + one geek on the planet - Yann Ropars

Congrats!!! Robert - Steve Chou

To the proud Papa.....Congratulations!! - Bonnie Foster

http://www.youtube.com/watch... - kevin fitts

Congratulations Team Scoble. Best of good wishes to all of you. - Morrie Johnston

Congrats Robert and family!!! Welcome Ryan :) - buvanesh

congrats Robert! - Joshua Guffey

Congratulations! RS - Sean Kelly

Congrats :D - Emre Misvaklı

Congratulations. he's so cute :) - Armando Grati

Beautiful! - Ryan Sholin

Congratulations - Kreg Steppe

Congratulations! - Gordon Saunders

Congratulations! - موسوی Hamid Reza میر

Congrats Robert....How amny more before you have your baseball team :-) - Alex Marrow

Seriously, Best whishes.............God Bless...... - Alex Marrow

Mazal Tov! - Raanan Avidor

All the best! Fun Times!!!! - Jim Turner

congrads now the fun starts, beautiful baby - Debra Moore

congrads ! - ★ Soner Gönül

Congrats and Best Wishes! - Tracy Benham

Looks like the baby's first trip to the dentist - Steve Borgman

Welcome, Ryan! Congrats, Robert! - Thierry R. Andriamirado

Steve Gillmor to Steve's feed, RealTime Network

Gillmor Gang recording live 1PM Pacific http://www.building43.com/realtim...

September 17 - Comment - Like - Share

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If it's Thursday, it must be the Gillmor Gang. - Cliff Gerrish

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Looking forward to it - Kevin Marks

+1 for MG joining GG - Mike Doeff

Nice. Welcome MG - Ken Sheppardson

thanks guys - MG Siegler

Ditto that. - Karoli

And in the room at the same time. Crazy ;-) - Ken Sheppardson

Glad to have the GG back! - Colin

yes, good to see you, MG - Kevin Marks

in black and white even! - MG Siegler

Maybe Saturday for the baby, Robert? Here's hoping all goes well! - Robert J Taylor

social media is dead, huh? wonder how he feels about the public option. :D - Karoli

you should invite @caro on Gillmor Gang, Steve - she'd be great - Kevin Marks

I wish Facebook allowed multiple accounts on threadly - earl wallace

a design comment on this page: If the rackspace sponsor icon were above the video screen, the friendfeed discussion would line up with the video better. - Karoli

thanks Karoli...will look into it - Tina Chase Gillmor

we lost Scoble...Robert call back in! - Tina Chase Gillmor

That happens every day. See failwhale - Ken Sheppardson

Seth has a point. - Antonella Stellacci

Sorry -went out of channel: @Karoli - working on a new site version/update. I've considered that issue as well. Thanks! - Rob La Gesse

What a great looking show. - Rob Michael (Atmos Trio)

What's critical mass these days? How many users have to be using a service for it to be taken seriously? - Ken Sheppardson

So maybe the next big thing is "None of the Above", i.e. lots of small site that don't necessarily have a large userbase. - Ken Sheppardson

Robert's back on the line. we're bringing him back up - Tina Chase Gillmor

User centric vs site/document-centric ala http://www.arcticstartup.com/2009... - Ken Sheppardson

hi Tina no see long time! - earl wallace

hello Earl & everyone - Tina Chase Gillmor

jet overhead! - Tina Chase Gillmor

Posterous just launched customization. Nice. - Ken Sheppardson

I agree with MG. Google does'nt seem to get the gist of social media - earl wallace

Same view, Google isn't moving fast enough. - Colin

Trying to tweet the show URL and my tweet won't go out..can someone help? - Tina Chase Gillmor

I want to try threadsy...I think I'll like it - Tina Chase Gillmor

threadsy wont let me bring in my different private and public Facebook accounts - earl wallace

going to have to catch this on the rerun...kid issues override all today. Hopefully resolved soon. Thanks, all. - Karoli

That doesn't mean everybody wants to do that, Robert. - Ken Sheppardson

talked to women about sharing your location with everyone, robert? - Kevin Marks

yeah, pretty much everyone i talk to isnt ready for that yet - MG Siegler

It would be easy for FourSquare to integrate Facebook contacts - Jesse Stay

eventually it will be the norm, but in no way are people ready for that yet - MG Siegler

Just a few lines of code - copy and paste mostly - Jesse Stay

I'll bet you 99.9% of the population of the US doesn't want their location published. - Ken Sheppardson

1000 followers isn't publishing your GPS location - Ken Sheppardson

and there has been no location-based incident yet, but sadly we all know it's going to happen - MG Siegler

they want their location published to some people, not to everyone - Kevin Marks

No, I'm not, Robert - Ken Sheppardson

Kevin: You realize all your comments here are going out as tweet? (Just checking) - Ken Sheppardson

Facebook Connect integration would make that easy - you can import their friend lists, choose to publish to only those friends, etc. - Jesse Stay

I thought you just said "everyone", Robert - Ken Sheppardson

Ken- I agree. There are some less than savory characters I want to give the opportunity of finding me - earl wallace

Lost video/audio - Ken Sheppardson

wow robert is pissed - MG Siegler

refreshed page and it cam back - Robert J Taylor

hold onfolks... something went down - Tina Chase Gillmor

yep. refreshed here too - Ken Sheppardson

get back up - Tina Chase Gillmor

For me, I'll be much more selective about who I share my location with. And I'm not likely to send a friend request for a location-based system to someone who I haven't met and consider a "real life" friend. - Mike Doeff

works again - Ken Sheppardson

guys, has scoble been saying we should share our location or something ? - Mark

The evidence to me that we're on the path to everybody becoming Scoble one day will be the existence of a second person like Scoble :-) - Ken Sheppardson

geez... weird. Think ustream is messing up - Tina Chase Gillmor

Tina -is there an audio stream url to listen on VLC? - earl wallace

No video. :( - Otto

video down hard again - Ken Sheppardson

I don't mind having my location known if I am in a public place, but I sure don't want that at home. - Francine Hardaway

we're still here...show continues but seems like there is a ustream problem - Tina Chase Gillmor

Trying to watch this is a real chore, and I love you all - Francine Hardaway

video up! - earl wallace

Back up! - Robert J Taylor

It's back up, refresh. - 321

I share my location via BrightKite to my friends, and I use Navizon on my jailbroke iPhone to update a map on my Facebook page every 10 minutes. Kinda fun. - Otto

aaaaaand we're back - Mike Doeff

A friend of mine built out a calendar tool for FB: http://wezaggle.com that delegates well - Kevin Marks

our audience is SO awesome - Tina Chase Gillmor

Fire Eagle enables the sharing of location between services quite well. - Otto

Have to agree with Scoble on the sharing capabilities of things like Foursquare ... not worried about the privacy issue at all - Robert J Taylor

Fun, Otto, but you really don't want people knowing where you live. I have been stalked and it's scary - Francine Hardaway

Francine: The only people that can see my location are people I know. I don't friend people on social sites if I don't know them. Facebook especially. - Otto

I use Foursquare. But once again not in mmy home - Francine Hardaway

I've had people (on FriendFeed and my blog) threaten me and my family. Since then I'm very careful revealing my location. I want control - I think utilizing Facebook privacy controls is the best way to do this. - Jesse Stay

BrightKite offers a neat feature to make specific locations more private than others, so you can use it at home, but only your BrightKite Friends can see it (as opposed to the world) - Otto

Francine, you tweet your location out a lot...I hate the whole idea of letting folks know where I am in real time unless there's some purpose in that notification. - Karoli

But there's a fundamental difference between something like "track" and geolocation serivces. People don't know what "track" is, but they know what "everybody knows exactly where I am at all times" is. - Ken Sheppardson

people make @foursquare venues for their homes that don't have addresses on, so they can check in, but only those in the know can find them - Kevin Marks

yeah i have my place but not my apt number - MG Siegler

Foursquare is crap. It doesn't work in any city within 400 miles of me. How the hell can a company sustain that sort of thing? They're totally ignoring like 80% of the bloody country. - Otto

Because you're an outlier, Robert. - Ken Sheppardson

@Karoli +1 What is the purpose of sharing location, i.e., WIIFM - Dave Martin

NTTAWWT - Ken Sheppardson

Robert that would be cool except those with mental illnesses that catch alot of prejudice - earl wallace

but will we have to arm ourselves? - Tina Chase Gillmor

Definitely am an outlier. I like sharing my location so people who know me (or want to) can join me. Works well in my home town and in towns I'm visiting. - Robert J Taylor

Main reason me and friends use BrightKite is to check in at places so that we can meet up without having to trade texts and calls and such. Much nicer than how it was before, having 20 people call to ask what bar we're hanging at - Otto

Dave, if I were stuck on a country road in the dark and wanted someone to come get me, it would be extremely handy. (that's actually happened to me in the past) - Karoli

Snarf - Brant Walker

Hey Steve--How are you monitoring the show's audio w/ out headphones without creating feedback? - Rob Michael (Atmos Trio)

Tina: good reason to live in Texas...the "Castle Doctrine" applies to home and car. :) - Robert J Taylor

nice plug - Tina Chase Gillmor

yeah i've seen a few things like that coming soon also - MG Siegler

Not to throw a legal question into the mix but at what point do we all become default public figures as a result of our election to disclose personal information? The privacy myth writ large. - Dave Martin

By the way, was talking to someone who work kids trying to get guns off the streets, and they were explaining that one of the biggest problem they have these days is girlfriends with cellphones. - Ken Sheppardson

think flashmobs - Ken Sheppardson

interesting Ken... - Tina Chase Gillmor

Speaking of visiting... I'll be in LA at 140tc next week. Staying at Hotel Angeleno. - Robert J Taylor

taking pictures of guys from gang A, msg to boyfriend in gang B, boyfriend says keep him there, we're on the way - Ken Sheppardson

Big Brother replaced by little sister, Ken? - Robert J Taylor

Robert T. - I like that hotel - Tina Chase Gillmor

with latitude you can choose what to share with who (share best location, city level, hide)... - Antonella Stellacci

@Karoli good point but we would probably agree that you would want to somehow limit those who were made aware that you were alone on a dark road - Dave Martin

another jet - Tina Chase Gillmor

Dave, absolutely. - Karoli

Antonella-Good point which illustrates that foursquare and others should use Goolgle for open standards template - earl wallace

or not - Tina Chase Gillmor

IMO, people think too much of themselves. Nobody cares if you like coffee. - Otto

Yes, location based services have value. Will everyone use them? Probably not. What's next... - Ken Sheppardson

Robert, as long as you control those "where I am/what I'm doing" location disclosures - Dave Martin

Your *friends* might care, but those are the only people. And you'd probably want them to know. - Otto

the interesting thing about @foursquare is that it does encourage you to perform your location - Kevin Marks

Kevin: Only if you live in one of the towns it supports. Nobody I know uses foursquare. - Otto

I remember Kevin and myself being in those early conversations. We've only been talking about this stuff for 8 years now. - Jerry Schuman

the starbucks bot notices you were at peets and asks, why were you being unfaithful to me today at 10:20am - Dave Martin

Gowalla is neater. - Otto

Good show guys. - Mike Doeff

Dave: If that actually occurred, it would be a horrific fail and the backlash would be tremendous. Can you image how many people would get ticked off about starbucks tracking them? - Otto

Otto: I think that the same thing was said about Twitter - who cares what you're doing, besides some friends? Now we're talking about "where are you"... - Robert J Taylor

Thanks Steve, Kevin, Seth, MG, Robert, good show - Dave Martin

thought-provoking show! - Robert J Taylor

Thanks Steve for the wonderful platform, looking forward to more! - earl wallace

@otto true, that was the problem with dodgeball too - it is primarily an urban density app as built - Kevin Marks

Robert: The thing nobody got about Twitter is that "your friends" is enough to make it a useful service. - Otto

thanks everyone ...great show - Tina Chase Gillmor

thanks guys - MG Siegler

Just joking Otto, we agree, there are two issues, having access to the data and application of the data, collection/mining will be the science, application will prove to be the art - Dave Martin

@Kevin: Yes, foursquare supports 21 cities. But I live in the 19th biggest city in the country, Downtown no less, and foursquare doesn't have it. Lame, lame, lame. - Otto

yeah crowd-sourcing cities is coming soon. will open it to a lot more - MG Siegler

I live in the 7th largest city -- no Foursquare love for San Antonio. Always pretends I'm in Austin - Robert J Taylor

Crowdsourcing should have been in there in the first place. Gowalla has 50-60 locations in my city, and I was only the 3000th user or so. What the hell good is a location based app that doesn't work in almost all locations? - Otto

I live in the 10th largest City, San Jose, and I have to tell @foursquare it's San Francisco... - Kevin Marks

Kevin, I had the same problem in Boston. It doesn't work well with suburbia. - Jesse Stay

San Francisco is a suburb of San Jose. If you go by population. - Gabe Wachob

One thing is certain, GPS will redefine "local" to mean not DMA, block code or any other crude marketing/census definition but local as EXACTLY where you are in the moment. - Dave Martin

or san jose is a suburb of SF if you go by white upper middle class cultural associations - mary

Actually, San Jose is part of the so-called embedded San Francisco metro or DMA/SMSA definition. - Dave Martin

MP3 here: http://www.archive.org/downloa... When the youtube version is uploaded presumably without the dropouts, I'll rip the audio and put it here: http://feeds2.feedburner.com/bootleg... - Jack

The real time comments here are interesting but lack much in the depth department. Where do I find the post show comments? - Jason Adams

Leo Laporte to Leo's feed, TWiT Conversations

Live now: Security Now 214 with Steve Gibson of http://www.grc.com/intro.htm, "Your Questions, Steve's Answers #75," http://live.twit.tv. Discuss here.

September 16 - Comment - Like - Share

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I would vote Steve for President! - earl wallace from twhirl

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Love the "No." shirt :-) - Greg McIntyre

Question [ 1 ] – An ANONYMOUS GSM Provider in England UK on GSM Cracking, writes... Hi Steve. I just listened to your podcast on GSM Cracking. I work for a 3G operator and we are VERY aware (and wary) of the issues with GSM’s 2G vulnerabilities. I thought your assessment was mostly fair, so here are a couple of additional points: Data GPRS, doesn't use A5/1, it uses GEA/1 and yes this... more... - Leo Laporte

Question [ 2 ] - Austin Clark in Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin wants Cookie Management: Steve, For the second week you mentioned your favorite Firefox Cookie Manager, but never gave us its name. I'm sure you're driving a number of your listeners, like me, crazy. Could you either tell everyone on the next show? If you don't want to promote it could you at least email me the name? It could be our little secret. ;) - Leo Laporte

The add-on is called "Permit Cookies" - it's sparse but it does the job. http://gorgias.de/mfe/ - Steve sets the cookie "keep until" setting to "until I close Firefox" - then uses Permit Cookies to allow trusted sites to save cookies. The add-on says it's not compatible with 3.5 but the version from the author's site IS. - Leo Laporte

Question [ 3 ] - Mateus Del Bianco in Brazil wonders about "GSM Cloning" Hi Steve! Listening to the last episode on GSM Cracking got me wondering: How easy is to clone someone's cell phone over the air? I can accept that GSM is insecure, and I don't mind someone listening to my conversations, but I DO mind if someone can use my line! Is it possible to do? What about if someone have physical access to the GSM card? How hard is to obtain the 128bit pre shared key that you talked about? - Leo Laporte

Question [ 4 ] - Dax Mars, "visiting earth via second life" wonders... Quick question: Would I be insane to try running my own www server for my website? Cash is short, my hosting is up for renewal, my ISP's personal webspace is very limited and not very reliable, and I'd rather spend the money elsewhere. I'm thinking Win2k or XP of on old PC with Apache for Windows. - Leo Laporte

Where's the chat room or is this it?? - Greg McIntyre

Most ISPs frown on running servers and they will terminate your service! - MarK

Mark Thompson updated his Simple [web] Server for Vista even. I didn't know he was back. http://www.analogx.com/content... - tollie williams

Question [ 5 ] - Tim in Rancho Cucamonga, CA wonders about a router's password strength: Hi Steve, I hear a lot of talk about having a strong wireless passphrase, but what about the password that lets you into the router setup? The same password that will let you see the wireless passphrase unencrypted? If I use your perfect password maker for my wireless passphrase, then a relatively... more... - Leo Laporte

Chat room is http://irc.twit.tv - Leo Laporte

Question [ 6 ] - Poojan Wagh in Chicago, IL wonders whether security in hardware is a bad idea? I was thinking about the security in GSM. It seems to me the problem is that such hardware-reliant security implementations have the difficulty that they can't be modified in the future. They're _stuck_ in the hardware. Perhaps it's a generally bad idea to put security in hardware, because of... more... - Leo Laporte

Question [ 7 ] - Gary McCleery in Oamaru, New Zealand wonders about Proxy Servers: Hi Steve & Leo, greetings from New Zealand (you are probably saying where the heck is New Zealand) I run the school library as well as help look after the servers, desktops, and teacher laptops, never a dull moment. Everyone accesses the Internet via an external proxy server. Some of the students use... more... - Leo Laporte

Re: Q4 Own server: Easy to install and configure and maintain is eBox and SME-server both Linux. Ebox is matained form Ubuntu, and SME from SME contrib I live in Sweden and has had a server on my ADSL connections since 1997. - Erik Trolle

Question [ 8 ] - Chris in Iron Mountain, MI brings the WAY COOL TIP OF THE WEEK! Subject: Cool Google Feature: Safe Browsing Diagnostic Report Hey Steve, I was going some unusual Google searching when I stumbled across a really cool page (feature?) on Google. It's called "Google Safe Browsing" diagnostic page. I have no idea how to access it through Google's own site, but have been... more... - Leo Laporte

There are no mod chips for the Xbox 360, but you can flash the DVD drive with third-party firmware. - 321

The Xbox 360 has a lot going on in the mod scene right now. Modding the firmware on the drives is trivial, but not really what you want. There are Kernel hacks coming along for the 360 now and on some models of the system it is possible to run homebrew software like Emulators. - Filippo Dinolfo

This is leading to a general purpose chip, but that may still be a few months off. - Filippo Dinolfo

iPhone: Silvia Patacchiola

Hello! I'd like to update my iPhone with fw 3.0 (I still have the 2.2.1). I heard bad things about the new one... What do you suggest? Thanks!

September 8 - Comment - Like - Share

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What bad things have you heard? I'm very pleased with the upgrade, it enabled existing functionality that was previously not available (i.e. a2dp), it enhanced performance, and introduced many new features (like copy/paste). I upgraded immediately and was anxiously looking forward to the upgrade while my friend who's husband works for Apple got to beta test it all summer. I'm curious to... more... - Kamala Whitaker

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I haven't had any problems with iPhone OS 3.0 or 3.0.1 (the latest version). - 321

3.0/3.01 made the iPhone finally functional... being on any other software version is like hitting yourself in the face - Ian D. Nock

I'm glad to hear all these positive things from you! ^_^ What about the battery? I heard it goes low in a very short time. And, any issue with the heat? Thanks. - Silvia Patacchiola

Bad things: my iphone feels more unresponsive with 3.0. And with every update my iphone is locked in recovery mode - an update usually takes several hours and many resets for me to complete. Good things: Voice memos, push, spotlight. I found no change in battery life - not better not worse. To be honest, i don't see many improvements in 3.0 compared to older versions, apart from push. Just my opninion. - Nik

And what about the heat? - Silvia Patacchiola

One *very* good thing about 3.0 is copy/paste. I forgot to mention that and that only is worth updating. About the heat, no problems here. - Nik

Everything is good but I feel the iPhone is much slower in 3.0. Plus in India it heats up a lot more than it used to in 2.2.1 - Faraz Mullick

heat? what heat? I've not noticed any changes in temperture; sure it warms up a bit when watching a movie or playing a graphics intensive game, but not anything that I feel is abnormal and certainly not bad enough that I can't continue to hold it. - Kamala Whitaker

@Faraz Mullick: Yeah, I'm very doubtful about the heat... I'm afraid It's going to explode whenever I make phone calls >_< - Silvia Patacchiola

I guess I don't have choice, since almost all the apps from Appstore require fw 3.x to be installed; and, as I still have the old fw I cannot install 'em... >_< Not fair! LOL - Silvia Patacchiola

I'm upgrading my iPhone. - Silvia Patacchiola

What about the new fw? - Silvia Patacchiola

Appetite: Ahmed

Twitter is not down again...is it? :(

September 9 - Comment - Like - Share

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yes:( - K.D.

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It's the Palm Pixi embargo being lifted, I'm sure of it. Maybe. 8^P - Chieze Okoye

Conspiracy Theory #1: we just hit 09/09/09 09:09:09 here in the UK as it went down ;-) - David Peacock

istwitterdown.com says No. - Haitai from Shawshank

istwitterdown.com is broken。。 - K.D.

It's back up now. - 321

it's back! - K.D.

Over capacity. Up and down right now... - Christopher A Carr

Woohoo! - Ahmed

Robert Scoble

Does the iPhone make political statements? When I type @whitehouse into my iPhone it tries to change that to @whorehouse.

September 7 from Twitter - Comment - Like - Share

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The iPhone must be racist. - Craig Eddy

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The iPhone does spelling suggestions based on entries in the user's address book. What have you been up to, Robert? - Mistletoe Glen

Lies, it tries to autocomplete to "whitehorse". - 321

Glen: that is what Maryamie just asked me. - Robert Scoble from iPhone

I tried and it does change whitehouse to whorehouse. - ashish from iPhone

Mine completes to "Whitehorse" - Steve de Mena from iPhone

Mine completes to "whitehouse" but here it suggests white-horse and so on :D - TaaTaa

I never have to write it. Agh, the amazement that comes with living in Canada. - Zachary TG

When typing "Gnomedex" a couple years ago, I recall it always forcing me to type "Gnomesex" instead. What does *that* say about Apple? ;-) - Matthew Gifford

Robert Scoble

AnnCurry: "When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That's my religion." -Abraham Lincoln - http://twitter.com/AnnCurr...

September 4 from Twitter / Favorites from... - Comment - Like - Share

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Abe Lincoln is on twitter?! - Joe

@Deakins Of course, everyone is on Twitter. - 321 from iPhone

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Live now: FLOSS Weekly 85: Randal Schwartz and Jono Bacon interview Jim Zemlin, Exec Dir of The Linux Foundation, http://linux.com. http://live.twit.tv. Discuss here...

September 2 - Comment - Like - Share

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Linus Torvalds works for The Linux Foundation. So does the sysadmin for kernel.org. - Leo Laporte

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The Linux Foundation is supported by individuals and corporations who benefit from Linux. - Leo Laporte

Get the Linux card - it supports Linux developers' travel costs. http://www.cardpartner.com/app... - Leo Laporte

There are more people on the foundation board than employees. - Leo Laporte

How the foundation chooses projects. Three questions: Is this something that forwards Linux, does this require partnerships, does the foundation have the resources and expertise to do the work proposed? - Leo Laporte

Device driver program supporting companies that want to open drivers and work with kernel developers. - Leo Laporte

Fake Linus Torvalds contest - four people twittering at http://twitter.com/linuxfo... - Leo Laporte

Linuxcon is coming up in Portland, OR September 21 - 23, 2009 - Portland Marriott Downtown Waterfront. http://events.linuxfoundation.org/events... - Leo Laporte

Then it's The Linux Plumbers conference, http://linuxplumbersconf.org/2009... - Leo Laporte

Better yet, follow The Fake Linus at http://identi.ca/linuxfo... and get the posts milliseconds earlier. - Leo Laporte

30% discount for Linux con - register at the Linux Foundation site using the code LC_PLUG http://events.linuxfoundation.org/events... - Leo Laporte

The Linux Fund credit card http://www.linuxfund.org/cards... - Leo Laporte

Ohio Linuxfest: http://ohiolinux.org/ - Leo Laporte

Hannah Montana Linux does exist: http://hannahmontana.sourceforge.net/Site... - Adam

Randal will be twittering from Dragoncon: http://twitter.com/merlyn - Leo Laporte

is there any way to find out how popular the hannah linux is? - Xenophrenia

For the OGG version: http://xrl.us/flossweeklyogg - Leo Laporte

The Hannah Montana Linux distro may also be the only distro with its own song: http://hannahmontana.sourceforge.net/Site... - 321

Leo Laporte to Leo's feed, TWiT Conversations

Live now: Security Now 212 with Steve Gibson, Q&A 74. http://live.twit.tv. Discuss here...

September 2 - Comment - Like - Share

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* Steve and I talk about the perils of starting a small business and the benefits of the virtual office. - Leo Laporte

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*VMWare Workstation is updated to fix the libpng exploit - v6.5.3. Full support for Ubuntu 9.0.4. http://www.vmware.com/support... - Leo Laporte

* Chrome updated to 2.0.172.43, fixing a flaw in the V8 javascript engine, http://code.google.com/p/v8/ XML 2 library, and disallowing MD4 and MD2 in SSL certs, http://www.google.com/chrome - Leo Laporte

* Ten state governors' offices have received unasked for HP laptops. http://www.infoworld.com/d... - Leo Laporte

* Next week's Topic In Depth: GSM cracking - Leo Laporte

* Gone in 60 seconds: The WPA Crack, http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL... - Leo Laporte

* We've talked before about hacking TKIP in 15 minutes using packet injection. (see SN 170 http://twit.tv/sn170) - Leo Laporte

* This new attack is similar, but doesn't require QoS turned on in the access point (as the previous crack did), but it does require that the WAP access point and user cannot be within radio range of each other. The attacker is literally a "man in the middle." This attack will NOT work if the user to be hacked is in range. - Leo Laporte

* Bottom line: this crack is no more worrisome than the previous TKIP attack. Steve's recommendation: use WPA with AES, sometimes (inaccurately) designated WPA2 - Leo Laporte

* Ultra-capacitor update, EEstor contracts with Polarity, http://www.allcarselectric.com/blog... which might mean the EESU Ultra-cap is close to production for the ZENN car! Look for a big announcement inSept or Oct. For more about ultra-capacitors listen to SN 177 (http://twit.tv/sn177). - Leo Laporte

* RISC vs CISC vs OISC - can a One Instruction Set Computer be Turing complete? Apparently so: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... - Leo Laporte

that was me who got an op to kick - Preternat (Ken Cadby)

i thought a circular polarizer on a camera's just a regular polarizer that you can rotate - Preternat (Ken Cadby)

* Creating 3D movies using circular polarized glasses (just like camera filters) - using clockwise and counterclockwise polarization. - Leo Laporte

hmm, i thought they did vertical and horizontal on that - Preternat (Ken Cadby)

darken/lightening happens when vertical meets horizontal... a true "circular" polarizer won't change as it rotates - Preternat (Ken Cadby)

this is where someone used to say that kiwinerd's necessary for explaining :) - Preternat (Ken Cadby)

Is bitgravity down, im sure its been mentioned before I just haven seen a response. - Jordan Patterson

down in some geographic locations - Preternat (Ken Cadby)

* Sci-Fi news: Michael McCollum will send the proof copy of the final volume in the Gibraltar series to Steve on Saturday. Leo has been putting off reading the trilogy until the final volume was done. Sounds like we're close. Previous volumes are now available from Amazon on the Kindle or from Michael's site http://www.scifi-az.com/ - Leo Laporte

* If you have two Kindles they will synchronize to the last page read (just like the iPhone app). - Leo Laporte

* Thinkgeek announces a new t-shirt: NO! http://www.thinkgeek.com/tshirts... - Leo Laporte

Audible Pick: Arthur C. Clarke's Fountains of Paradise. http://www.audible.com/adbl... http://audiblepodcast.com/securit... for your free book. - Leo Laporte

Question [ 01 ] - Craig in Chicago is sounding and seeming rather desperate!... Hi Steve, I've sent this a few times now that Ipig is no longer offering its service and I need to use my computer in hot-spots. Listening to you and Leo, I know I need a VPN, but I cannot afford a server as I am not up to speed on running it. I am waiting for your VPN service BUT in the meantime I need a... more... - Leo Laporte

Steve's Answer: it's ad-supported. Read the privacy policy. Steve can't recommend. Stick with http://hotspotvpn.com - not free but private. - Leo Laporte

Question [ 02 ] - Bob Carneim in Oak Ridge, TN says: "web then flash cookies . . . what's next?" Hi Guys… I try to stay ahead of the curve . . . I've been deleting flash cookies for, probably, a couple of years now just using the Advanced settings panel of the Flash plug-in. But what's next? What tracking method is out there that I don't know about yet? - Leo Laporte

Question [ 03 ] - Bill Barnes in Charlotte wonders about "Punching holes in the wall"... I frequently need to get to a computer from the Internet. I figure "OK, I know who needs access, so I'll let them in. Then I open a port in my router pointed at one computer and open the same port in the computer's firewall. Then someone challenged me about opening that port in the firewall: "Isn't... more... - Leo Laporte

Question [ 04 ] - Joe Dorward in Bracknell Forest, England echoes a common question... Steve, Going back over the parent's and passwords "issue" (where people who just don't "get it" cannot be induced to care and take greater precautions) I remember you've mentioned in the past that writing down a really good password is better than memorizing a poor one, and something about assessing... more... - Leo Laporte

leo can you ask him if he has an opinion about passwordmaker? - Preternat (Ken Cadby)

(that's the open source one that you said you were interested in) - Preternat (Ken Cadby)

Question [ 05 ] - Paul Bye in Rochester, MN is being annoyed by DNS results being "altered" by ISPs... Dear Steve, I thought I'd pass this along as you and listeners of Security Now might find it interesting. You've discussed this topic on previous shows but I don't remember you ever mentioning this in particular. My ISP (Charter) recently made changes to their DNS so that, like many... more... - Leo Laporte

... The problem I (and so many other people probably) have is that this is altering the fundamental way DNS is supposed to work, and causing all TCP/IP based programs that depend on DNS to not work correctly. The first major problem I hit after this change is trying to connect to my company's network with their VPN client - something I depend on heavily to do my work. I can still... more... - Leo Laporte

Randal Schwartz recommends Level3's DNS servers: 4.2.2.N for N = 1 to 6 - they return the proper NXDOMAIN when a domain doesn't exist. Steve says they're not quite as stable and reliable as one would hope. They're using Anycast - 4.2.2.3 is less reliable for example. - Leo Laporte

I remember my ISP began redirected traffic like that a few years ago, but it quickly stopped and they haven't tried that again since. - 321

Question [ 06 ] - One for Leo to answer... Rod Duckworth in Sydney Australia wonders about Old Security Now podcasts... Hi Steve, you wont remember me but I have spoken to you on the phone a couple of times some years back re: SpinRrite. I am a long time SpinRite user and always loved it. I have owned an IT company called Hi-Speed Networking in Sydney Australia for some 20 years now,... more... - Leo Laporte

Leo replies: RSS feeds were never intended to include ALL the available files for a show (or blog or whatever). If we were to put al 212 episodes of Security Now in the feed it would be several hundred KB. Multiply that by several downloads a day from 50,000 subscribers and you'll see why we prefer to only list the 20 most recent shows in our RSS feeds. iTunes shows only the contents of... more... - Leo Laporte

Question • [ 07 ] - John Prince in Somerset UK had a disquieting dialog with Netgear re: the WPA Crack: Hello Steve, As a avid listener to Security Now from Episode One, I know you will be discussing this matter on the show, and thought you might be interested in the reply I received from NetGear [see below] about my own Router, which is only a couple of years old. I realize that this... more... - Leo Laporte

every thing is working great now hi how are u from georgia - daveccorey

Question [ 08 ] - Grant McMillan in Brisbane, Australia wonders about "Decrypting Today's Data Trivially in The Future"... Hi Steve, Given the exponential growth in computing power these days it seems that any encryption method used today could eventually be cracked quite easily. Would it be possible for a person to record packets today with the intention of cracking them once it becomes trivial in years or even decades from now? Thanks for the great podcast! - Leo Laporte

Hey! Nice Episode - Zach Cheatham

i'm more optimistic about facebook keeping this around. crossing fingers... - Preternat (Ken Cadby)

Ya... I hope this doesn't go. - Zach Cheatham

Jason Huebel

FF BLOGWATCH: It has been 18 days since the FF team posted anything to the FF blog. They used to post updates every 3 to 5 days.

August 31 - Comment - Like - Share

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Uhoh, do you think something bad happened to them? I hope they're alright. - Jimminy Fuller

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Facebook ate them. :-( - Jason Huebel

Since they're focusing on Facebook now there probably isn't much to write about that pertains to FF. - 321

at this point, no news is good news I reckon. be thankful. - pea

I agree with Pea. - Jim Will Miss SP

Zee. to Zee.'s feed, TheNextWeb Forum, FriendFeed Feedback, building43, Appetite, Startup Success

Friendfeed still here in a year? Yes or No?

August 26 - Comment - Like - Share

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I’m going to go out on a limb and say yes. - Evan Brown

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I wanna say yes but I think I fall more in the "Hell if I know" category. :) - pea

Yes. But I don't think new features will be implemented. - imabonehead

FriendFeed with "improvements" ? FriendFeed as we know it today? Or friendfeed.com as a site? Yes, no, yes are my guesses. Two years no, no, no. - Brian Sullivan

Yes, but that's just a guess. - 321

Yes, most probably more users - victed

Yes, i hope so. If more users would see the possibilities here... - Flynn (Michael A. Volz)

Well, very probably. But I don't think that I'll be here, myself. - directeur

Yes, it will exist. And it will have more users. But with the expected demographic associated with the anticipated influx, I doubt I will be as interested in the service. For me, I'll wait and see who the Friendfeed community will be before I decide to invest further or cut my losses. - Lorin Olsen

:) you've said that since Friendfeed launched directeur! :) - Zee.

Zee ;-) - directeur

what does ff have that others dont? - Micheal Condon

That may be an indicator - Micheal Condon

If people stop itching and moaning it will. If they don't I have a feeling there won't be any community worth it left. - Rasmus Lauridsen

yes - Mac Sharp

Friendfeed has always been about community and dialog. And I used the tool to test/sense the zeitgeist of tech luminaries that I respected. Twitter is a megaphone; Facebook is the shopping mall. I wanted Freindfeed to be the quiet coffee shop. But Friendfeed may now be over-run by a collection of nattering nabobs. If so, I'll go find a quieter shop where I can have deep and meaningful discussions. Disqus, anyone? - Lorin Olsen

Easily yes, although "here" could mean "the website is still searchable." - John E. Bredehoft

i hope so! - Francisco Kemeny

Yes! - Michael Fidler

Yes - johnpiercy

yip - Micheal Condon

Yes......? - Kristian Salonen

I fear not. The equation is [FF = (feeds+people+conversation) * interesting]. If interesting people and contents will migrate in another place, all their friends will follow them. Since FF will be not mainstream, no other people will replace them and so maybe there's not reason to let this service open. I'm afraid about this, really, but I think that a cloud architecture could be the right place for early adopters - Roberto

Yes if we all stick by it! Maybe. - Matt G

It will likely still exist but the real question is if it will keep it's popularity. - Stephen

Yes, in one way or another. The problem is, people are fleeing just because FB bought it...if too many goes away, whats the point keeping it up? Websites like this has to grow bigger and bigger or else they'll die. If FB wouldn't have bought it, I think FF would have died sooner or later anyway. - Patrik Johansson

Yes, it will probably be around. Will it be recognizable as the Friendfeed we all know and love? I am much less confident about this. :o( - Seth Greenblatt

Yes, and hopefully with many more users than now, thanks to the fb acquisition. - Garin Kilpatrick

Yes :) - Susan Beebe from iPhone

Yep. - Akiva Moskovitz

No - Alejandro

Yes, because they aren't treating it like a back-burner project: http://friendfeed.com/brlewis... - Bruce Lewis

yes. - Gus

yes... but we'll probably be using it differently. - .LAG liked that

Give me 6months and I'll tell you, yes or no. For now yes. - Jimminy Fuller

no - Alex Scrivener

Yes. - Robert Scoble

Yep - just like Del.icio.us is still here - Chris Saad

A more thoughtful response here: http://blog.areyoupayingattention.com/2009... - Chris Saad

Yes - still the cleanest way to have intelligent conversations. - Alan Morris

yes - they serve different markets. Facebook is for keeping in touch with friends. Friendfeed is for sharing ideas with people who share similar interests but who you may have never met. - Simon Hicks

Yes..It is going to be here as it provides a cusp of Twitter and Facebook.. as i see it so there is a room for it to stay here longer - Sardar Mohkim Khan

Well I get the impression from Paul that it will be around for a while so I'd say yes but Facebook will gobble it up at some point (whenever the contract states). The team have been split up and thus fewer people are working and maintaining it. Let's hope some sort of FB Lite will accommodate us... but I doubt it. - Kol Tregaskes

Hope so... - David Cook

Maybe it will be integrated in facebook, but the innovations that friendfeed have will then move over to facebook, because they are awesome - alfred westerveld

Friendfeed yes, the need to use it, no. - Dani Radu

Depends on us :) - Véronique Rabuteau

Yes. It's Facebook's R&D dept....they might as well bucktest the stuff here before rolling it out on their 'main' site ;) - Nicholas James

no - Gaith

Louis Gray

So let me get this straight. RSS is dead because one guy stopped reading Google Reader? I am reading more feeds than ever.

August 26 - Comment - Like - Share

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That's up and to the right. I am now reading almost 30 percent more feeds than I was reading a month ago. Bring it on. And RSS powers everything - not just feed readers. - Louis Gray

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I just started... - Johnny Worthington from iPhone

Pubsubhubbub is making RSS even faster. RSS is behind FriendFeed, LazyFeed, and every relevant aggregator. This argument is so silly. - Louis Gray

Twitter's a great basic RSS reader for headlines and more realtime/'now' stuff. Not ditching NetNewsWire/Google Reader for actual post material anytime soon though. - BeauGiles

I agree, but RSS could do with a few upgrades here and there though (I just want to comment on blogs straight from the feed itself). - Hugh Isaacs II

Couldn't agree more. Sure, it might turn into more 'plumbing' for many users, but RSS is far from dead. - Brad Kellett

900 articles a day? Now that's a lot! - 321

Louis: I am writing an article about this. It will be in your reader a few minutes after it hits Twitter. :-) - Robert Scoble

RSS: 1. Really Simple Syndication ; 2. Rich Site Summary => I like the interpretation #2 better. - Ethan Gahng

That's fine, Robert. We're already discussing it here, though. :) - Louis Gray

Louis: http://scobleizer.com/2009... - Robert Scoble

My headline? RSS: interesting or boring? (Hint @marshallk and @louisgray, we’re not normal) - Robert Scoble

I never said I was normal. Just that I am kicking ass at my job. :) And that anyone else who wants to ought really read feeds. imho - Marshall Kirkpatrick

Agree with Marshall (and Scoble). I believe the best information producers are those who consume lots of information. Know your craft and use the best tools. - Louis Gray

Marshall: you can read the feeds. The real news lately is being broken in Twitter. But I'm glad someone reads all those feeds so I don't have to! - Robert Scoble

The signal to noise ratio in feeds is 10x to 100x better than Twitter, though. Even if you do prune your list of Twitter folks (as you have), much of what is there is not news-related. - Louis Gray

Twitter is the news ticker. If you rely on the ticker to inform your opinion of the world... Good luck - Johnny Worthington from iPhone

I had no clue why anyone would use Dave Winer's Twitter OPML tool to get all tweets from friends via RSS. But I tried it anyway and discovered that it's easier to find the really relevant stuff when you get tweets via RSS. I can skim through 1,000 tweets in a few minutes and separate the signal from the noise much more efficiently. And, of course, it's all searchable in GReader. - Dominic Jones

I'm with Louis on this. RSS is far from over. Like Louis, the number of feeds I'm subscribed to is on the increase, too. Services like Lazyfeed and Toluu are making it far easier for me to discover great new content. - Andrew Terry

RSS is critical to the growth of the social web, and is growing quickly. It will eventually be replaced by friendlier, less protocol centric technologies that shield the user from the mess that is ATOM/RSS etc. - William Toll

Me too. Feedly has rebooted my RSS reading. - Roberto Bonini from iPhone

completely agree. google reader is a great feed reader and is getting better GUI wise by the week. great avenue for syndication via friendfeed - James Butler from BuddyFeed

Taking into account that Im far from been an expert, I want to leave a thought. What if the way of use is simply different I mean, ok twitter is real time while RSS has some minutes delay, but in any case if I receive 900 hits/day I will not be able to read them all as they come so I dont see the problem on getting some delay.To me is just a question of leaving the noise on Twitter as is much more quick to read and pass through the news & info and get the selected ones on RSS for better storage and record. - Luis Guijarro

RSS needs a proper comment API, so you can fetch all recent comments on all posts in one call from a blog - with threading if the site supports that. - Richard Cunningham

That particular person was serving up link bait - Dave Hodson

Dave: links are dead. Or so says the same person (Steve Gillmor). - Robert Scoble

I stopped using Google reader a couple of years ago and I now just read it in the stream with my Twitter, Facebook, Flickr mixed in (in FriendBinder [disclosure: I wrote FriendBinder]) I'm not sure why other people don't do something similar. - Richard Cunningham

Stuart: life streaming is a headline with a link. For the most part. - Robert Scoble

The reports of my death are sadly mistaken - quote Mr. RSS - Dan Morrill AKA Techwag

Google reader is a great tool...if you keep it to only important and feeds that matters to you - testbeta

louis agreed I love using google reader. great tool. - (jeff)isageek

I love RSS and losing it would change how I work (and play), but I really wish it would be more mainstream. I work in technical sales and I bet <30% of that group even uses RSS day to day. I bet for the non-techies it is closer to 10%. - Bill Grant

Love RSS and Reader both, my feed reading is rising day by day! - Ahad Bokhari

i'm with you on this louis - Andy Jenks

RSS is dead. Long live RSS! - Aaron Strout

I can't seem to stop reading. Anyone else using Feedly in conjunction with Google Reader? - ronnieledesma

RSS is an essential part of many things now. The argument is irrelevant and though I'd never say they were wrong, they are misdirected or trying to get a reaction. :) - James Stratford

I use FF, Twitter and Google Reader for different things. Twitter and FF are far more about Buzz and the conversations around the topics. In Reader I aggregate many different original sources together. There is less need for it to be on-the-spot live, but it needs to be deeper and more detailed to be of value, and it is. They serve different purposes for me. - Robert

Lately, I've been dumping select Twitter & FF feeds into Google Reader, as well as Posterous feeds, so even though I'm using all of these services, GR has now become more of a hub for me. Also: gReactions gives me a sense of how popular a feed item is. I would wish GR would incorporate these kinds of services so I could get more metadata about a feed item. - phil baumann

Ughh, no, I believe the RSS is dead mantra arose from the real time Twitter phenomenon, however, us smarties know you gotta verify your sources & our attention spans MORE than the space of 140 characters. Catch that, the dual use of metaphor...attention "spans" MORE...As per myself, I read more articles via RSS feeds than ever as well. - sofarsoShawn

So am I but not in Google reader, I read mine on my desktop in my e-mail program, they come to me, I don't go 'looking for them' I love RSS! - Sandra Large

Say, don't Twitter streams have RSS feeds? The icon's right there at the bottom of the sidebar... - Dennis Jernberg

RSS? It'll never displace Usenet. - Ian Tindale

RSS is very alive and well and dare I say, even young. With tech news, there aren't necessarily thousands of sources like with general business news, etc. Where RSS will be big is in who can create the best filters for those larger niches. But the RSS readers we have today don't support all the features we'd need to create those filters. Google Reader management taps out at maybe 1500 feeds in Chrome, the most of any reader that can export opml (not just rss like Friendfeed). - beersage

I agree that the problem with RSS is filtering. If something changed the way I use the Net was RSS, but now the volume is so great that unless you prune your feeds regularly you can end up with a lot of garbage. Most average users don't have any idea of what RSS is and that's something that can't cease to amaze me. - Angel B

RSS & EMAIL are not dead. They are getting better and faster. PUSH tech can push anything. Push Email on mobile devices is just as fast as twitter. And now we are going to PUSH RSS/ATOM. Twitter is different, yet the same. Sure, maybe a news headline will break first on twitter but will I see it before I see it in my inbox or reader? Prob not because I'm not frozen staring at a twitter... more... - sull

Robert Scoble

FAIL: @twitter I can't get the stream on my Mac from the Schwartzenegger conference. Why not use UStream? Or what @leolaporte uses? Lame.

August 26 from Twitter - Comment - Like - Share

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Well, it works on my Mac (MB, 10.5.8 in Safari). Nice relaxed conversation with Arnie. - Nils Sandin

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i'm on 10.4 and it works but you're not missing anything - Brian Hendrickson

Working for me on Mac OS X 10.5.8 using Firefox. - 321

Works well with Mandriva Linux :) (Firefox 3.5) - Norbert Evenich

It would seem that you're the only one having this problem.... - Mike Shields

Johnny Worthington

I just paid $AUD 3.99 for Tweetie... A Twitter app... I feel so dirty...

August 25 from Twitter - Comment - Like - Share

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Johnny, don't feel dirty. It's OK to use AUD on occasion. :) - John E. Bredehoft

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I am so glad I re-read that. I though you paid 3.99 for a Twinkie. Then I was wondering what would a twitter app called Twinkie do while I was still thinking of the food. My brain scares me at times. - Brent - Loving Life

Tweetie is nice. It's one of the few iPhone apps I've paid for. - Derrick

I hope you used an iTunes card to buy it, cheaper that way. - Bryce Roney

It gets easier...with time.. - Chris Lawrence

I thought I knew you. - Josh Haley

O my. The end is nigh. - Micah Wittman

l hope so..... - Pam Gwenzi

l thought twitter was for freee - Pam Gwenzi

Could be worse. I bought all the FriendFeed apps I could think of so I could do a bake-off post... and then FB happened, so I figured what was the point? Aggregate cost? Between $20 and $30. - Louis Gray

:( - Johnny Worthington

Tweetie is a nice iPhone app though, well worth the price. - 321

Robert Scoble

Reading Twitter is VERY labor intensive @RGreenberg

August 25 from Twitter - Comment - Like - Share

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I'd rather just watch your stuff fly by here on FF. - Keith Rowland

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I'm still trying to figure out whether Posterous is a destination blog or just a means to an end, out sourcing. - Keith Rowland

Agreed, personally I get more out of your likes and retweets, especially if there is a discussion about them here on FF, than favorites. - 321

Yes it is. - Tony "Frosty" Welch

I think the same, though the reason might differ.. primarily because the trouble with interacting with the right people is quite difficult.. plus you often end up without any interaction at all, which sort of wastes all efforts - Sardar Mohkim Khan

Kol Tregaskes

AVG is telling me my chrome.exe file is infected with spyware!

August 25 from Twitter - Comment - Like - Share

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Lol! Funny, but very interesting! - Citronella

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It's a message telling you to use Firefox instead. - 321

LOL, I think it was an advert on deviantART. - Kol Tregaskes

Maybe it's telling you to use IE instead :S - James Myatt

Oh lord, it needs to be *really* bad before I even consider that. ;-) - Kol Tregaskes

Bhowmik Shah to Bhowmik's feed, The Apple Room, All Things Apple

Apparently Snow Leopard is coming to Australia on the 28th of August and the Pre-order link on the Australian Apple website doesn't work. How many of you are going to upgrade and how many are going to hold back for a while?

August 24 - Comment - Like - Share

I plan to upgrade on Friday when it comes out. - 321

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I would try Amazon. - Hunt from iPhone

Hunt: Amazon seems good i actually end up saving 5$ if i order from there :) - Bhowmik Shah

321: i'd love to hear how you go - Bhowmik Shah

Upgrade ASAP. Can't wait. I'm going to see if I'm going to buy it Online or in the shops later today. - Michel

I'm quite keen to upgrade but i think the sensible thing is to wait for a bit before i take the plunge and see what others have to say about it. So i'm going to pre-order but wait until i upgrade :) - Bhowmik Shah

michael arrington

Yes, I'm back on FriendFeed. Move along now. Nothing to see here. Yet. :-) (hi everyone)

August 22 - Comment - Like - Share

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Hi Mike. - Kol Tregaskes

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Welcome back. Don't make an Ass of yourself. You already do a good job at that. :P - Matt Ruiz

Welcome back Mike ignore Matt he's just trying to show you how not to act :-P - Rasmus Lauridsen

welcome back, FF will be more fun! - Jacque

cool. Matt Ruiz Block - Steve Gillmor

Nice to have you back - Christi

Amazing, how people can't take a joke. Steve, lighten up. Michael no hard feelings. Big reader of Tech Crunch. - Matt Ruiz

Matt -- Comic timing support has not been moved from the beta testing area of FriendFeed so reading with a sense of meter is rather limited without prior knowledge of the author or the dreaded ASCII smiley contingent. You might try [emotive wrappers] or ending with a "j/k" or any of a number of items... this is just text after all. Google Wave even lets you stick our your tongue in a given wavelet via :p :P :p variation and dexterous use of delete through blips. This isn't Google Wave. Oh yeah... :-D - Jay Cuthrell

cheers. - motownmutt

Meh. IIRC, the last time you were on FF, your feed was little more than a stream of your RSS feeds with a few comments here and there. I'll extend the welcome mat if you interact and engage more this time around. - EricaJoy

That doesn't LOOK like you… - Mistletoe Glen

HI mike welcome back - Dan Morrill AKA Techwag

Whoo! I feel whole again! - Akiva Moskovitz

That explains the disturbance I felt in the Force. - Mark Alves

Hi Mike... - Roberto Bonini

Welcome back Mike - LPH™ and his dog P™

Smart move. - Pete Delucchi

Very. I guess we have Mike's blessing on the Facebook acquisition. - Roberto Bonini

Welcome back. - 321 from iPhone

Are you going to get the /techcrunch back too?! - Nicholas James

Its already back. :) - Roberto Bonini

Awesome, glad to see you back on FF Mike! I look forward to your posts, comments and insights. Hopefully your experience will be much better this time around. Welcome back! :) - Susan Beebe from iPhone

Just in case no one said it yet: #bitchlips - Rahsheen ™, Coach Rah

You have been eating ... since last time =o) - Jonas Jonsson

Saad says Friendfeed is dead http://friendfeed.com/chrissa... ... Mike comes back. Way too confusing. Time for sleep. ( +1 Akiva :) - Charlie Anzman

This place's story never ceases to be interesting. - Christopher Galtenberg from iPhone

Welcome back! You keeping the lopsided smiley face this time? ;-) - Amy Flynn

Hi... - Mitchell Tsai

Looking forward to some positive, informative contributions from you. - MiniMage TKDteacher of FF

After abandoning the iPhone at a point where it started to be really useful, the most counter-intuitive move from Michael this year. - Oliver Reichenstein

who is michael arrington? :p - DC Crowley

@DC Crowley micheal arrington runs techcrunch.com among a million other things .. - johnpiercy

It's good to see you back! It's a quiet time of the morning on a Sunday so it's expectedly quiet. - James Stratford

Welcome back - Alfonso Pace from iPhone

Zee. to Zee.'s feed, The Apple Room, Appetite

So what are your priority mac apps? The first apps you always have installed when you get a new mac?

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quicksilver, skitch, adium and fluid - Leandro Ardissone ⍨ from IM

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Xcode and TextMate. - Aaron Brethorst

ohh and TextMate! - Leandro Ardissone ⍨ from IM

Quicksilver, TextMate, Xcode, Adium - Aman

no coders on friendfeed then :) - Zee.

This is my first mac; almost two years old now. But when I get a new one next year, the essential ones will be: Quicksilver, Adium, Skitch, Aperture, iWork, Things, Evernote, Photoshop. Prolly Twitterific too, if it is still as good then. - Parth Awasthi

What I run on a regular basis: Launchbar, Adium, Aperture, Evernote, Yojimbo, BBEdit, TweetDeck, Firefox, Photoshop. - ronin

adium, quicksilver, coda, parallels/xp, tweetie/tweetdeck, adobe, firefox, wireshark, truecrypt - Robert DeBord

Firefox, Adium, TweetDeck, VLC, OpenOffice. - 321 from iPhone

Xcode, adium, textmate - mjc from iPhone

adium, perian, growl, apptrap or appcleaner - milus

Chrome, Adium, NetNewsWire, CyberDuck, Seesmic Desktop, Smultron - Matt Ruiz

Adium, Firefox, Dropbox, Evernote, RDC, XCode, Smultron, NeoOffice, Launchbar, Little Snitch, 1Password, Super Duper, Launchbar - Edmund Tay

Last time I bought a Mac: Google Quick Search Box. Sapiens. TwoUp. Firefox. iWork. Adium. Skype. iLife. Evernote. Fluid (for Friendfeed, Flickr, Posterous, Blip). AppFresh, AppCleaner. Superduper. Dropbox. Windows Live Sync. Things. Scrivener. Onyx. LittleSnitch. Growl. Nambu. Spotify. Writeroom. VLC. Lightroom/Photoshop. Etc, etc. - Liviu Barbat

MacVim and Transmit - Brad McCrorey

Every week when I get a new Mac (I wish) it's Adium, Quicksilver, Growl, Fluidapp and Mailplane first. - Peter van Teeseling

Shimo (I guess that also means a Cisco VPN client), Office 2008 (but I've only had one new Mac) [edit: Remote Desktop Client, Firefox, Citrix] - MiniMage TKDteacher of FF

TextWranger, Adium, 1Password, CS4 and Final Cut Pro - dthree

Tweetdeck, Adium, Skype, Firefox, Dreamweaver, and Photoshop. - Garin Kilpatrick

adium, perian, growl, netbeans, smultron, cyberduck - Osman Üngür

I forgot to add Transmit - dthree

What is textmate? - Amani

Growl, Dropbox, Google Quick Search Box, Tweetie, Skitch, Speed Download and Evernote. - Rubin Sfadj

Amani: TextMate: http://macromates.com/ - Liviu Barbat

Used to be Quicksilver, but it's Google Search Box now. - Brome

CoRD, Dropbox, VLC, Evernote, Growl - Anthony

Scott - last time it was CS3 with Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign and Dreamweaver - Robert DeBord

Quicksilver, TextMate, DefaultFolder X, TextExpander, Developer Tools (incl. XCode), iWork, MacPorts and then LaTeX, Hazel, Adium, BibDesk, Carbon Copy Cloner, Colloquy, Gimp, ImageJ, iPhotoLibraryManager, MainActOn, MailTags, Matlab, OmniALL, Snapz Pro X, SpiritedAway, Transmit - Jason Miller

This thread is great for the sole reason that I've asked myself, "ooh, whats that?" about a dozen times already. Ooh, and I'll toss in AppFresh as the first thing I put on. - Mark Howell

growl, Adium, Skype, Firefox, Tweetie, Evernote, Things, MarsEdit, Scrivener, MindNode Pro, Curio, iWork, Aperture, flickery, Phoenix Slides, Coda, Flux, Pixelmator, Lineform, iStudio Publisher, VLC, Tofu, Skim - Sergej Sidoruk

firefox, tweetie, iwork, aperture, and evernote. and more. - Zachary TG

After the defaults (incl. Xcode) & iLife & iWork... Final Cut, Photoshop, Adium, TextWrangler, Handbrake, VueScan, Transmit, SuperDuper, and some additional browsers (Firefox, Camino, Opera, Chrome, etc.) - LogEx

the very first one?perian - Andrea Favini

quicksilver, textexpander, growl - Kim Landwehr

Quicksilver, Growl and Adium. - Andrew Roche

Adium, Colloquy, Firefox, vlc, qsb, textwrangler - EricaJoy

Debian ;-) Seriously, iTerm. But I'm more on Linux than OSX - directeur

Burn - free, open source CD/DVD recording software (lightwight alternative to toast, does everything) http://burn-osx.sourceforge.net - egowrap

wget through macports - egowrap

Xcode, textmate, Posty, coda - funkyboy from iPhone

I can't function without Quicksilver. - Simon Tracey

@Sergej - how do you find Flux, heard mixed things about it? - Robert Mattar

Quicksilver, LittleSnitch, 1Password, Fluid apps, TextMate, git. - Berk D. Demir

Stephen Mack

Now where am I? :)

August 20 from email - Comment - Like - Share

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The Museum of Yarn in Tulsa, Oklahoma? - Mark Trapp

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Eiffel Tower? - Louis Gray

Blizz Con! - Rachel Lea Fox

Behind a hidden panel in a random bathroom in Duke Nuke'm? - Akiva Moskovitz

Can't you see? That's the pyramids in Egypt. Jeez, people can be so retarded online. - James Kuypers

Azeroth, that or the Anaheim Convention Center. - 321

That enclave of German-Americans - Anaheim. It's right to the left of Jotunheim. - Spidra Webster

Oh no. They've got Stephen too. - Brian Johns

Germany - Josh Haley from iPhone

L.A. :( I wish I were there. - Dario Gomez

Siavash to Siavash's feed, FreeFeed, FriendFeed Feedback

Announcing FreeFeed, A Free/OpenSource FriendFeed Client: This is the project I've been working on during the past several days. It's a simple desktop client for *nix systems and enables the user to post entries easily. its not finished yet but I announce it now to get some feedback and also feature requests before I release it next week :)

August 11 - Comment - Like - Share

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where can I get this? - Ahmed Mubbashir Khan

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I'll release it next week, I'll set up a git repository too. - Siavash

Cool. - Kol Tregaskes

Wouldn't you say this is a bit late? I mean FF is closing - Matt Ruiz

Well, I couldn't predict that :) - Siavash

Matt - who said it was closing? - Brett Kelly

@Matt Ruiz: That could be in several years. - 321

nice. .. will you have shortcuts there? and ability to post at least 10000 chars, and widgets, practically a new webpage as a post - that is what FF should have in the first place :] - Petr Buben

Paul Buchheit

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That's nice. Just random, or in response to something. :) - τorƍue

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Does that mean you got a little sleep? - Anne Bouey

Good news? People like Paul don't usually get in the office so early especially after a lack of sleep, on a Monday morning, if there wasn't a great reason. - Louis Gray

this could be big. - vijay

Aww Man, see now I am not going to get any sleep tonight! DAMN YOU PAUL and your teasing little smiley face. OK, must go and get some coffee! - Travis Koger

O.k., I'll smile too :) (and open my ears and eyes) - Martha

10 bucks says that they add emoticons soon. :) - Joe Beda ()

This emoticon makes a little more sense now... - Stephen Foskett

Guessing this was about the Facebook announcement? - Ben Hedrington

Cheshire cat? - Hutch Carpenter

Good for you, Paul. I can't help but feel a little let down, though. - Matthew Gifford

well done! - michael sean wright

Congrats! Let us (well, our chef) cook you lunch before you're no longer walking distance! :) - Don MacAskill

I have the same feeling as Matthew Gifford... Congrats to you, Paul, but I'm not sure this bodes well for the rest of us. - Fa La La La Lindsay

Congrats, Paul. :-) - Jordan Hofker

Congratulations! - Ethan Herdrick

Congratulations to the whole team, Paul! - Ryan Kuder

yeah they signed away the community :(- - Peter Dawson

Congrats Paul if they're truely in order :) - Jason Cronkhite from iPhone

No!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! - andy brudtkuhl

congrats to the team, but to be honest i'm not liking it at all - bear (aka Mike Taylor)

Good news or bad news? :) - Arda Çetin

Congrats Paul! I was really hoping this would happen. Friendfeed and Facebook need each other. Cheers! - Akshay Dodeja

Now I get it. Congrats on the $$. - Yolanda

Now I know...and knowing is half the battle - Bwana ☠

:( - TiTi

Congratulations!!!! A 'worthy' smiley ... ;-) - Bo Stern

I think Paul's emoticon was charming and that Louis Gray is either super discerning or super informed. - Michael Muller

Congrats to the FF team you guys are awesome (keep this place awesome) - Ryan

WHAT'VE YOU DONE!!!! THAT'S TOTALLY SH*T! - Ahmet Alp Balkan

http://bit.ly/jC1DE - Bo Stern

congratulations, may your road ahead be smooth... - Nathan Chase

That can imho only mean good things for the FB UI ... - Bo Stern

Congratulations, definitely. - DGentry

congrats! - Peter Warnock

Congrats to you and the entire FF team. I hope you guys are in it for the long haul. - Mike Doeff

hey congrats to the FF team! I look forward to seeing what the future holds - (jeff)isageek

Congratulations Paul & FF team! - Charles Ying

congrats dude - Jason Pollock

:( - Alex Scrivener

Congratulations. - 321

congratulations.. but liked the whole UI & funtionality of ff than fb!! it'll b gone!! - Gtp19

You're totally ::stpd:: - Ahmet Alp Balkan

its business after all, sell it but get back to make a better product for your old users. dont 4get the users !! - Peter Dawson

http://friendfeed.com/sunipey... - sunipeyk

:( - acedanger

the results of good work - Juan Pablo Ruiz

congratulations! - Hareesh Nagarajan

Congrats! - DS

GZ! - Sarp

:) we will learn from the process - abdellah

Paul, will you respond to this? This is *bad* for FF users. Best case: it continues on, but distracted by Facebook and with stagnated feature development. Worst case: it's gone. Middle of the road: Facebook forces its ads into the timeline and friendfeed starts acting like Facebook by ignoring its users. - tollie williams

@tollie, I imagine Paul's ability to respond is now constrained, which is just one of the changes we'll see coming. There's new management in town, folks. - Ken Kennedy

scared!!! - abdellah

Good luck Paul... it's gonna be a great partnership. - Andrew

Congrat's Paul. Great news, and I'm really happy for all of you! - Michael Fidler

Congrats to the whole FriendFeed team! - John McCrea

Way to go Paul - bet you sleep like a baby tonight whilst Biz and Ev scratch their heads once more! - Jan Simmonds

Sure congrats to you!!! - susan mernit

http://friendfeed.com/markzuk...... Hold on! markzukerberg?!?! - Lora Lufark

Congrats! - fbrunel

congratulations! - Loic Le Meur

Congratulations Paul - I am very proud of you... no wonder you couldn't sleep! :) Now we know why! As you know, I am a huge fan of your FriendFeed product. I am very happy for you guys and hope you keep your fabulous culture of innovation going strong. This is really amazing.... nice exit! :) - Susan Beebe

I have been wishing facebook could get more like Friendfeed :) awesome. - Christian Burns from iPhone

Nice job, Paul and team. Congrats! - Rob Shillingsburg

many congrat. from UK. ;) @GarethWong - Gareth

I bet you never forget your anniversary EVER ever now. - Pete Delucchi

boo-urns - Raphael, Raphael

:D - paniaguai

:-( - Jannifer @wordsforliving

Congratulations, great for you and the team. - Rocky

i like the way the deal was done! - Siddharth Parmar

G.Z.s - Ugur Akdmr

Robert Scoble

Talk about Facebook buying FriendFeed here (on FriendFeed, of course):

August 10 from iPhone - Comment - Like - Share

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I'm not sure what it means, but I hope the goodness of Friendfeed stays intact. - Tom Landini

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About time! - Rob Haas from iPhone

I guess Facebook just got real time search engine! - Robert Scoble from iPhone

What do facebook get out of it? - Ruchit Garg

Fact or fiction? - Jason Cronkhite from iPhone

I haven't seen likes and comments stream real-time this fast before. - ydfeed

It depends on who lays claim to our posted and aggregated material. - jcunwired

it could work. if Friendfeed completely replaces Facebook - Edgar Rodríguez

I think it's a brilliant move, although bringing this into the Facebook walled garden would ruin it. - Derek Shanahan

how much for? - Ruchit Garg

Is it true Robert? - Kevin Whalen

BAD 'n SAD :(( - sid 【ツ】

Great match to take on the Twitter machine. - Ryan Cummins

what is next..facebook killing twitter integration...SCORE....?? - Denis

++Edgar - Ryan

Presumably a technology acquisition then, Facebook is buying the team and the tech. - DGentry

Good for Facebook, BAD for us. NOOOOOOOOOOOO - Nir Ben Yona

I don't like it - Jason Hargrove

Bad news, if true. - LogEx

Just because Facebook bought Friendfeed, doesn't necessarily mean they will do anything with the service. At least maybe not right away. People need to chill out. - Alex Knight

hope it doesn't mess w/ twitter integration - Ken Seto

makes a lot of sense - f.b. now has a power house of real-time all-stars. fixes many of the feature 'wish' lists for f.b. - actually a major positive sign for innovation. congrats to the F.F. team. - michael sean wright

How can i shut down my ff account? - Fotis Alexandrou

I need a few hours and possibly large amounts of chocolate - Bwana ☠

If you are right, that "Facebook just got real time search engine", that is good - as FB really, really needed it for a long time. - Bora Zivkovic

:( - Sinem Co

yes, this is fast. Reminds me of a few hours ago when I was on Freenode - Ian Tindale

There goes your data. - Jason Hargrove

This will probably be bad. like all purchases, it will be an "afterthought" and never be fully allowed to develop and flourish. - Ryan Jones

Man this is really SUCKS!! :((( we all know Facebook strategies on the web :(( Whey will drive FriendFeed to the helll and I'm pretty sure of this :((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((( BAD SUCKS SAD :((( - FFTornado

Funny thing is, if you posted about this on Facebook, 99.9999% of it's users would go "huh, what's FriendFeed anyway?" - Richard Matthias

It almost seemed inevitable since Facebook has been copying so much of Friendfeed in recent months. It's good for the founders of FF and may benefit those of us who use both on a regular basis. Maybe they'll just leave FF alone? - Kenley Neufeld

someone tell me what they will do with it? Nothing maybe? Kill it, maybe? - Francine Hardaway

Wonder how they'll integrate, separate services with more interaction or FF swallowed by Facebook. - Steven Cains

Buy as is use it's IP and close it down or run as separate business? Either way, didn't see that coming. - Keith Bennett from BuddyFeed

It was bound to go down. Like we used to say on the block shootin' dice "Big Bank Take Little Bank" - professor daddyo

I do, however, wish tha tmore sites would implement this commenting engine. - Ryan Jones

Fotis: haha, wait too long, and you'll never be able to close your FF account ;) - Jason Hargrove

not believing it until another source confirms... - Benton

Congrats to the friendfeed team. Worried about the future though. - Andy Roth

Whats FriendFeed anyways? - Marco Horta

so that Facebook can maybe copyright the "Like" button? lol - Than R

How are we going to abbreviate it now? FBFF? FFFB? F^3B ? - Harry Wolff

I receive the breaking news via BNO News at this moment: Facebook acquires FriedFeed... - Torsten Eckert

haha you're right Richard - Ken Seto

Wow - Rodfather

I am stuck in Texas and have not confirmed myself. - Robert Scoble from iPhone

OMG. - Nathan Chase

maybe they can implement threads? - Jeremy Toeman

It looks like a defensive move. I think it's better fro FB to acquire FF than incorporating twitter functionalities in their status feature. - Pablo Paniagua

double wow. - Brian Daniel Eisenberg

Friendbook? Facefeed? - Jeff Harbert

If it's true, I suspect FriendFeed as we know it will be gone, but Facebook will be greatly improved. - Costa Walcott

bah. i will go do something else. this news isn't helping - Edgar Rodríguez

trying to look on the bright side - maybe we'll get those iPhone/Blackberry apps for better access to FriendFeed - Stuart Miniman

But if it isn't true we would have heard by now. - Robert Scoble from iPhone

apprehensive about this - Liz Polay-Wettengel

Official: http://friendfeed.com/friendf... - Brandon Titus

I want to hear the $$$ number - moo yu

Congrats to ff team...but how does this work? I have 2 different accounts...and I like it that way...I don't want to share/spam my friends on facebook with what I have here... - brainno722 (Peter)

@robert no we wouldnt have - Jeremy Toeman

It's official: http://blog.friendfeed.com/2009... - Costa Walcott

Originally posted this to your other FF/FB post before you astarted this one: I don't see the point of Facebook acquiring FriendFeed. They are pretty much identical services (well, FF represents just the News Feed portion of Facebook) I don't see how they can incorporate FriendFeed into Facebook. If they really did buy it, then I see this as them going for programming talent more so... more... - Christopher A. Wichura

From FF blog http://blog.friendfeed.com/2009... - Tom Landini

I'm hoping this improves Facebook (just like everyone else). Facebook has gotten horrible stale for me of late. - Harry Wolff

Bad bad bad bad bad bad ::runs screaming down the hall:: - Kandeezie from fftogo

This stream itself is the evidence of WHY Facebook bought FF. - Steven Walling

What's looking shiny and new now? :-) - Rob Michael (Atmos Trio)

I've been needing a reason to get re-interested in Facebook, this could be it. - JonInteractive

Friend management will need to be enhanced/overhauled. Otherwise, the noise will make the combined product unusable. - Peter Ghosh

No! I am going to cry! I HATE FACEBOOK! I have a Facebook account, but FriendFeed is way better. Life is over! Apocalypse. - Zachary TG

Seriously, how can i shut it down? - Fotis Alexandrou

We'll have to wait for more details to see exactly what Facebook is planning to do with FF. - 321

Bodes badly for FriendFeed. --rj - Roger Jennings

Bad bad bad bad bad bad ::runs screaming down the hall:: - Kandeezie from fftogo

I think this is more of a "send the friendfeed traffic to facebook" than any kind of technical leverage. My biggest concern here: in order to exchange dialogue with people on facebook I need to be friends with them vs. being able to do it on friendfeed without having to friend them up. I find this valuable as there may be a topic or 5 that I want to engage with user "X" on, but I don't... more... - Erik Boles

I am disappointed by this news... I don't like Facebook at all... And I'm afraid they will just kill FriendFeed with their awful cluttered interface... - Fa La La La Lindsay

It depends on how they integrate it. Did they buy it for the search engine, or did they buy it as a potential for extending the reach of Facebook into real time conversations? It's all about the life stream now right? So probably Facebook's attempt to stake a claim there. - Tony "Frosty" Welch

bad days are coming - Ahmet Soyata

Fotis, why do you want to shut down our FF account? - Alex Knight

This is bad news for Yahoo 360°. Oh wait, too late. - Ian Tindale

Bad bad bad bad bad bad ::runs screaming down the hall:: - mary

Crap! - Zachary TG

This is disgusting. - Zachary TG

First of all, I love the name "Facefeed." ROFL Second, this is business boys. Happens all the time. Why do you think innovation keeps happening. FB will integrate or kill off FF, and something else will happen. It's a natural cycle. - Francine Hardaway

For a second I thought it was a joke, but then I checked Friendfeed's Blog. http://blog.friendfeed.com/2009... Damn it. - Alejandro

Nir Ben Yona +1 - Muge Cerman

Turmoil - Ian Tindale

wondering if i should continue aggregating all my online activity in frienfeed now that facebook owns it!! - Gtp19

Geeks and fb not a good mach - thomas elton from iPhone

I can't begin to process this right now. Too much work to focus on. Later when I read this 10,000 mile long thread and have a glass of Cab in hand. - Michele Lorito-Chase

We fear change - Ian Tindale

Not feeling real good about this, hope fully Facebook will do right by the FF community, but I'm not holding my breath. Glad for the FF team though - Kim Landwehr

Twitter dissed again. - JonInteractive

if you look closely at FF the large majority of FF posts are twitter posts, so there was not that much original content on FF in the first place... - Ingmar

So FB failed to buy Twitter, - so they buy FF which is just a UI for twitter.. - Nick Halstead

Makes a lot of sense for Facebook. And we find this very healthy ^^ - twitscoop

People need to stop freaking out. The Facebook/Friendfeed buy out was just announced. Wait for details people. - Alex Knight

It could be bad, it could be good. As long as Facebook doesn't try to port their functionality over, I'm fine with it being a financial acquisition. - Adam Reyher

Crap, its official ! - Peter Dawson

This is really bad... a wonderful tool based on killer technology will go over into this mass market teeny poking culture. Bah! - Markus Tressl

then again it is great for linking FB, TW, flickr and so on - Ingmar

Here is the FF post on the acquisition: http://blog.friendfeed.com/2009... - Mrinal Desai

Great, why did I bother creating an account here? I could have held out. - desinole

if this is true, for the love of god, please don't Facebook go and mess up FriendFeed as they have their own system, Facebook is a mess these days, Friendfeed is one of the 2.0 sites that actually has concentrated on doing a few things well, complete opposite to Facebook. - Carl Grint

I suppose Friendfeed was considerably lacking in LOLcats. - Ian Tindale

Cuz we all know that facebook doesn't respect user's privacy and you've got basically everything on ff, youtube, twitter, digg whatever you do - Fotis Alexandrou

http://blog.friendfeed.com/2009... - tollie williams

Paul Buckheit will now be a house husband:-) - Francine Hardaway

Confirmed by FF http://blog.friendfeed.com/2009... - David Peacock

Smart for Facebook but I prefer Friendfeed the way it is.What, we'll be throwing rabbits next? - Janet Fouts

FriendFeed listens to the community. Facebook doesn't. Not to mention they're ENTIRELY different communities. - Adam Reyher

If true, congrats to the FF Founders! - Jason Cronkhite from iPhone

If they keep FriendFeed as a separate site, and still upgrade regularly, this is fine. If FriendFeed winds up in the dead pool, then it sucks. - Steve Sill

Maybe I should rediscover my Orkut account. - Ian Tindale

I was just thinking how Friendfeed had stayed out of recent takeovers, mergers and hence cyber attacks. Will Friendfeed now be taken over by celebs and spammers too? - Nils Geylen

Not sure why this news makes me nervous. Please tell me it's going to be ok Scoble... - Lucas

FF has been FB's incubator for awhile. - Peter Warnock

it's true damn!!!! - Edgar Rodríguez

How can I spam on this thread please ? Any idea ? - Toucouleur

Quickest/Biggest thread ever - Ian Tindale

Facebook has ZERO respect for users' wishes... Friendfeed is incompatible with that. Friendfeed will be going away. :( Their blog post says as much: "FriendFeed.com will continue to operate normally **for the time being**. We're still figuring out our longer-term plans for the product" - tollie williams

Ideally, FB will leave FF to do the sweet innovating they are doing and just take the awesome features and put them into FB - Ryan

This is the first time I've used Friendfeed in a year. Good move on their part. - chantelle

How Much ? $$$ ;-) - Jacopo Gio

I'm heading back to Jaiku where it's nice and quiet - Ian Tindale

So, where do we migrate to now? - Byron McCollum

FriendFeed functionality on Facebook would be nice. The reverse, not so much. They're trying to address two entirely separate purposes and as such, need to remain completely separate. - Adam Reyher

back to the twitter - emresezgin

I want numbers. how much did facebook pay? - Zac Bowling

soon friendfeed will = Jaiku - johnny2009

Hum...let's see what happens. - Chip Hanna

Stay here until FB does something dumb with FF - Ryan

The rhetoric seems a bit too "Facebook will do what they want with us" and not "we will remain FF and continue forward". Seems as if FB went for the tech and we could lose FF as a seperate entity. Boo. - Derek Shanahan

confirmed by facebook press release. - Zac Bowling

Love 'em or hate 'em....Facebook made a phenomenal purchase. - Kevin Pruett

I see a ton of Wall Spam. Facebook users just don't get it when you port your twitter updates over. There is too much for them to wrap their heads around. This will be a hard transition. - Ryan Cummins

And I was REALLY getting fond of FriendFeed. From now on only downhill applicationwise? - Bart

Not happy about this. I use Facebook, but don't like it. It reminds me of AOL from 10 years ago. - David Sharpe

I agree that I don't want FB to mess up FF, but this will also give FF a higher profile and bring in many more users...which we may or may not like, judging by what happened on Twitter. I hope FF doesn't die off like Jaiku because I really think FF offers a more valuable and useful interface. - Cathryn Hrudicka

One thing to consider is this: If we have "trusted" the FriendFeed people not to screw things up, hopefully we can trust them to make sure they're still in control in the terms of the acquisition. - Adam Reyher

What's it going to be called? Failbook? - Ian Tindale

Its going to be called Facebook. - DGentry

I hope this is a joke.. Damn it, I dont like Facebook now there is nowhere to go... F*** - Jacque

I am trying to imagine how this will be a good thing for existing FF users. It feels so right and so wrong all at once!...Maybe at least my kids and wife will finally get what I've been ignoring them for over the past year. - Thom Kennon

FeedFace - Ian Tindale

Is that means we're going to see more extremist groups around, now that FB has acquired FF? - Nir Ben Yona

so where do all the cool kids go now? we need another startup, stat! - h1ro

I am afraid... what johnny2009 have said can really be the future... soon friendfeed will = Jaiku - Ahmed Mubbashir Khan

Damn,I've just"got friendfeed,and i love it.I definately don't like facebook.What does it mean for twitter? - Paul Downing

Any investors want to predict the buyout price? - Kevin Pruett

am gonna wait for google wave... coz in facebook, i cant access the complete stream for a month ago, the site goes down very often while browsing, and privacy issues galore!! congratulations for friendfeed but its jus me!!! - Gtp19

Maybe we´re seeing here one of FriendFeeds biggest discusions ever. I´m sceptic about the future of FF as a standlone service... - Torsten Eckert

What concerns me most is what happens to my friends here (and that I have to interact with my friends THERE). Will we have to be friends to interact in the same way we have the last couple of years? - jcunwired

This is very good for FriendFeed as long as Facebook doesn't corrupt them. I would have preferred to see Google buy FF but I know with their focus on Wave I don't think it would have been a good fit. I like the Facebook platform, but they have done too many shady things in the past for me to trust them. - Adam Teece

all of the conversation is happening on FriendFeed and Twitter - nothing on Facebook. Think we'd scare away Facebook if everyone starts having lots of conversations there - like on Scoble's fan page? - Stuart Miniman

They can or don't have to fix FF's FB app now. - ydfeed

Is Twitter going to buy Myspace? - marcus bösch

Ha Stuart - great point *Facebookers take cover* - Kimberle Kelly

That does it. I'm going back to usenet. - Ian Tindale

What's next- Macy's buying Gimble's? - Thom Kennon

Apple buys China - Ian Tindale

what do you think Robert? - courtney benson

All I can think of is now a lot of people can feel the pain the dedicated Pownce community felt, but at least you're not getting shut down, just yet. - Mike Lewis

I'm not a big facebook user, but my gut feeling is that like twitter buying summize, it will mark the end of major innovations. I hope I'm wrong. But they should totally go with the facefeed mashup name. - motownmutt

I dont see any potential for competition with twitter FB and Twitter serve different purposes as does FriendFeed - iluvblackwomen

Sorry but renaming Facebook to 'Facefeed' is utterly stupid. - Alex Knight

It'll be called ScobleFeed - Ian Tindale

does making google reader more social has anything to do with this buyout??! - Gtp19

yeah this was good for facebook. bad for anyone who liked friendfeed. - Liz

FriendFeed is very good, a better way to use Twitter & etc. Knowing this, I still rarely use FF. Not going to start using Facebook more. - Nicole

Actually, this could be death for Twitter when you think about it. The people I know who are in FB are not likely to add TWO more nets to their lifestream. FriendFeed makes more sense for them. Maybe Twitter just stays as the dumb pipe it's become for many of us here. - Thom Kennon

Echoing what others have said - My guess: Facebook will get better, Friendfeed will get worse, Twitter will matter a lot less. - Matthew Blaisdell

Good for FB UI and search, questionable for the FF community and its independent spirit ... - Bo Stern

last comment 2 hours ago on FF by Paul Buchheit, FF CEO, was just " :)" http://friendfeed.com/paul #friendbook - Jacopo Gio

The main reason why I came to FF was because when I tried to treat FB the same as FF, i was talking to a wall. At least people interact here. At FB, it's all about the cheesy games/apps. - Matthew Horton from iPhone

http://friendfeed.com/sunipey... - emresezgin

Just like most acquisitions, it could be good and it could be bad. I trust that FriendFeed will live on as FriendFeed, only sharing their tech with Facebook. Possibly more integration between the two sites. If you were FF/FB, what would you do? - Nick Humphries

Twitter, Friendfeed and Facebook are three entirely different animals. Facebook eats Friendfeed and poops out little bits of content that once belonged to us. Twitter continues to thrive as the broadcast conversation-wannabe that it always was. - jcunwired

Nick - think again. Its going to go away - read the tea leaves in this statement: "Your data will not go away any time in the near term future - we are committed to our users" - Bret Taylor in this post https://friendfeed.com/friendf... - jcunwired

Please no. I don't like FaceBook... - Svartling

We need a Friendfeed alternative: http://www.fftogo.com/e... - Marcos Marado from fftogo

Facebook must want real time soc-net search badly... - martin smith

The biggest thing here, at least within the Twitter context, is that this merger will combine 'verified' identity (in terms of Facebook user ID being slightly more 'real' than Twitter) with real time status updates. - Dan Patterson

I'm looking forward to what this brings to Facebook. I have enjoyed both networks but wondered when FriendFeed/Facebook would face-off and/or be absorbed by the other. I think FriendFeed's tech will improve the Facebook experience. - Jacob Sloan

FriendFeed + Twitter = disruptive. FriendFeed + Facebook = one more app for FB . Facebookers dont know the power of FriendFeed. I agree with : "" So FB failed to buy Twitter, - so they buy FF which is just a UI for twitter.. - Nick Halstead "" - Rocky

Most likely scenario is Facebook assimilates the FriendFeed guys, has them work on improving Facebook newsfeed/realtime/status, and lets FriendFeed die a slow unmaintained death. - Richard Akerman

Well, my friends on FB doesn't give a damn about sharing links, news, pics, vids etc. So I'm not sure how I will use FB+FF now. I don't think FriendFeed will exist, just implemented in Facebook. The name FriendFeed will die. And: on FB you don't want the whole world to see everything you're doing, just your friends. And it will stay this way. So the question is: Who will build the new FriendFeed? - Patrik Johansson

Do this mean, by the way, that we (the FriendFeed users) should start to connect with each other on FB? How will they like that? People who get's 2-3 maybe 4000 connections? - Patrik Johansson

Robert, it means all the time you invested building friends lists and updates there will go to Facebook :-) - Loic Le Meur

could someone start to develop a Frienfeed clon , please ? ASAP ! - Rocky

Seems bloody terrible from this users perspective. Good for Friendfeed the company though. - Quasar

Given Facebook's past, this could be really bad. Given FriendFeed's past, this could be really good. No real way to speculate without talking to the FF crew. - xero

+3273 Quasar! (one for each of my Likes, already on a death march) - jcunwired

Robert, do you know if Facebook is going to put on limits here at FF??? Oh crikey... so much for our citizen journalism here.... Admittedly I am bummed. Uber bummed. - Arleen Anderson

EndFeed. - Alex Schleber

your blog is the most important thing you can own on the web. these sites can come and go. it's a great social point but true friends you've made here you talk outside of ff, right? - Terry O'Fee from BuddyFeed

It's a good time to sell to Facebook, cause Google Wave is imminent and is going to destroy all of Facebook, Twitter and FriendFeed. I think FriendFeed employees might even go back to Google eventually as soon as their contracts with Facebook are up. - Charbax

Robert - wow. just wow I am stunned. Sorta sad actually. I love FF innovation and don't want to see that stop !!!!! - Susan Beebe

(RE: Your tweet earlier) When you say the minor league team going to the majors, I don't always feel that this is a positive thing. As in this case, it's like Ferrari being acquired by Ford. I don't think I like this acquisition. - Richard Merritt

the free ride couldn't last forever. I know it sucks that things will change, but they've got a lot more sense than Twitter has about these things.. - Terry O'Fee from BuddyFeed

You must all assimilate to the new FaceFeed - Jonathan.Rivera

From what I'm gathering, this acquisition is more about FB acquiring the talented engineers of FF than it is about the FF software itself. A smart play by FB. Unfortunate for us that value FF. I personally feel that FB is just slowly becoming the new Myspace. Which I don't think I need to explain how lame that is. - Richard Merritt

According to WSJ — FB paid $50 million — a mix of cash and stocks. http://bit.ly/SVTA5 - Richard Merritt

If you ignore all the crappy apps and just comment and post photos, your main feed on Facebook is fundamentally a pretty similar experience to FriendFeed - people post stuff, people comment on it. That is, at-least, the way my network tends to use Facebook. The main difference is that Facebook defaults to being very closed and private while FriendFeed defaults to being very open and... more... - Edward Coffey

edward - pretty much. it's FF for the layman. remember back in the day they used to have forums too? - Terry O'Fee

friendfeed is very cliquey. you have your group of people who usually gather round for conversations. now imagine some of this friendfeed stuff in facebook. done right it will help them a lot. - Terry O'Fee from BuddyFeed

I don't think I am liking this but FB does need to add the "edit" feature like on here. - Marika Dye

FriendFeed is Facebooks Summize. It’s All About Search. http://bit.ly/11ZW6l - paul mooney

Thinking Out Loud: Echo issues during a high profile tech show http://www.talkshoe.com/talksho... - Alex 'BuckyBit' Covic

FF acquisition is expected. But, as a user, I would be bumned, if FF would become a feature of FB. As, I tend to use Twitter as my social network and not FB. - Vasu Srinivasan

It doesn't make much sense talking about 'Facefeed" and 'Friendbook'... Facebook simply bought a cool 12-people company called Friendfeed for its great search technology paying 15M plus some shares, which is really very cheap in this context, given the value of FF's technology (as it is perceived by us). They are also hiring the talented FF team, which makes the deal even more interesting for FB. Probably there are also some deeper hidden motives and implications that I am not able to get. - Liviu Barbat

I would love it if Facebook integrated the FriendFeed features. I would love it if Facebook had FriendFeed's flexibility with Facebook's privacy control. It sucks that the world may lose FriendFeed, but it is great the Facebook will likely get better. - Andrew

Andrew, Facebook will get better - over time. There won't be any Vulcan website meld of FB and FF overnight. - Bill Sodeman

thank god someone understands that, andrew. it's like "i liked this band better before they went to a major label!" ;) - Terry O'Fee

Bill - But we can dream, can't we? :) I mean, what I love about Facebook is that I'm interacting with my friends as my friends, not as usernames and avatars. But I hate their bookmarklet, the weird delays when I post anything, the comment system, and I hate the Photo gallery tech. I love the FriendFeed community, but would love bringing the FriendFeed technology over to Facebook even more. If only Facebook could buy Flickr next... - Andrew

as long as fb start thinking in creative commons terms... one day .. - Terry O'Fee

they are both great services I think will be a good thing - Logan Lindquist

oh NO! I don't spend much time at FB (everybody there's too busy playing stupid games, at least in my little network), and besides it's more private unlike FF. And now they've gone and bought FF? And I just joined! I guess I won't be around here for long, since FF won't... - Dennis Jernberg

I don't like it... - Harry Mahardhika

No mention of Yahoo. Totally irrelevant these days. Sad. - Scott Schnaars

This deal makes sense! Now fb developers do not need to figure out how ff does it because they can just ask! - Garin Kilpatrick

One of my facebook accounts got closed up. Into this account I fed my friendfeed. And into friendfeed I fed for example my socialmedian shares, diggs, stumbles etc. - Wilhelm Bauer

Time for the next generation app. *Taps foot impatiently for Google Wave* - Karen Masullo

I don't think it's about getting Friendfeed it's self; but having the developers and the information about real-time search. - Chris Martin

Steven Perez

Well, FriendFeeders, if you've been meaning to get IM and e-mail info from your favorite folks here, I guess today's the day to get that done, huh?

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Do you think they will keep this site running or just fully integrate? - Johnny

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Why not wait to see what happens down the line. They may still be run separately. - Rene Wirtz

WTF, Haggis has me blocked now....I was hoping he would do a last days extra special compilation of Zooey and the redhead from Weeds...... - Matthew DeVries

@Johnny: They have stated their interest in integrating in the long term, but I doubt that will be happening soon. - 321

Rene: I hope they run separately. I don't think I can start using facebook... I might just end up on Twitter, again. - Johnny

Yeah. Twitter willbe wellcoming anti-Facebook Freindfeed refugees with open arms..... - Roberto Bonini

Mitchell Tsai

First Interview After Acquisition With FriendFeed And Facebook [Michael Arrington, TechCrunch - 8/10/09] - http://www.techcrunch.com/2009...

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Facebook VP Products Chris Cox and Friendfeed cofounder Bret Taylor won’t talk deal terms or even if the deal was stock, cash or a mix (likely all stock or mostly stock). Friendfeed has raised just $5 million in an early 2008 financing, and is backed by Benchmark Capital. - Mitchell Tsai from Bookmarklet

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Taylor said “this is an 11th hour deal,” (sounds like it was finalized last week and there was quite a party) but that the two companies have been talking for some time. “Things heated up in the last couple of weeks,” he said, after the two were on a panel together at the Real Time CrunchUp on July 10. - Mitchell Tsai

We’ve heard from one source that, like the 2007 Parakey acquisition, the deal is largely a talent acquisition by Facebook, and less about the Friendfeed product. Friendfeed has 12 employees, and all but one are engineers. - Mitchell Tsai

Taylor and Cox say that the Friendfeed product will live on independently, and eventually Friendfeed will be merged into Facebook. But the Friendfeed team is not being kept whole. Some employees will now report to Cox, others to engineering head Mike Schroepfer. In my opinion that means, long term, the Friendfeed product itself is unlikely to be a big priority. - Mitchell Tsai

Friendfeed will move out of their Mountain View offices and join Facebook at their Palo Alto headquarters shortly, Taylor said. - Mitchell Tsai

The clearest message about FF's future: "Taylor and Cox say that the Friendfeed product will live on independently, and eventually Friendfeed will be merged into Facebook." - 321

لایک برا مچبند سبزش - MAS

Hey look Leo, Mike got there first! - Kevin J Hatton

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