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LOL LOUIS!!!! - Mona Nomura

This will replace the pencil markings on the wall as a measurement of growth. - Hutch Carpenter

Way too cute! - michael sean wright

will there be an unboxing at some point - Allen Stern

The TiVo remote has hardly changed at all in 10 years. - Robert Seidman

WOW, they are SMALL! cool pics!! I love the one with the baby on the couch with 3 devices - Susan Beebe

Okay that's just really damn cute :) - justine

one day these kids are going to say, 'dad used us as props for his gadgets!'...and then there will be blood! lol - .LAG liked that

@.LAG, then I'll remind them how when we parked in what I thought was acceptable shade outside Babies R Us today, they both went nuts, and I had to extract them from their car seats and walk into the store (using the exit), with the pair held tight to my chest, to commiserate with their mother. I'm sure I was quite the sight. "Hey! Look at that guy! He's in over his head!" (fingers pointing) - Louis Gray

Hey! Someone should say you - this is really unhealthy!! : ( - Erhan Erdoğan

@Louis - You definitely look in over your head. However, I was that way with only one. Now my children are 21 and 18 and I still remain in over my head. ; ) - Rex Hammock

This made Maryam crack up and say "that's cute!" - Robert Scoble

@Rex, I look in over my head? Definitely? Where's the proof on that? I disagree. :-) - Louis Gray

Maybe good idea to get the RF away from the newborns? Just sayin'. Amazing scale comparison pics though Louis. Thanks for sharing. Now get those radio wave emitting devices away from the generation that will hopefully save us all :) - Brian Daniel Eisenberg

I don't believe you all - Robert, Louis, Maryam, all likes, comments - i urgently need a judge for this photos! : ) Your tech love is get out of control!! - Erhan Erdoğan

now let's see the Touch duke it out with the Blackberry - Paulo Elias from twhirl

I'm so going to do this one day when I have one. haha - Daynah

@Erhan and Brian, 1) They're not sleeping with the gadgets in their cribs (yet) and 2) I am not worried about that nonsense. I might as well unplug the microwave and TV while I'm at it, no? - Louis Gray

We always left a computer keyboard in our kids cribs as a toy -- they loved it. - Oldengrey (Jay)

The important thing to remember is that if Louis were forced to choose between his children and his gadgets,,,well, I'm sure the kids would find a good home. (JUST KIDDING!) - Ontario Emperor

Yeah, I know I know Louis. I'm just waiting for the time I go to the Dr. to get the "news" after having gone through life carrying 3+ mobiles around in my pocket. It's safe to carry 3+ phones + EVDO + Cradlepoint wifi in my pockets right? - Brian Daniel Eisenberg

lmao I'm so reporting you for this. Too hilarious - Corvida

Hey guys you have to see this related post... Scoble is competing with Louis' over coolest kid toys! http://friendfeed.com/e... - Susan Beebe

OMG! that's priceless! I <3 it! Put the device on vibrate and see what happens! I bet it would sooth any crankiness. Can you say iTunes visualizer? Better than Baby Einstein. Makes us AND them drool into relaxation. My son has gumdrop iMac in his bedroom specifically for that reason (glorified nightlight). Hey! We have to do what we have to do, right? Why not have some fun with it? Hellz ya! - Melissa Davis from twhirl

You know Louis, most parents use a wall and a pencil to show height and growth, you choose electronic equipment, what comes next? comparisons to the wii and ps3? then a macbook, then macbook pro, then dell blade server, where will it end?!!?!? - Allen Stern

Oh what beautiful little souls! I'm sure they are very precious to you :-). - Heather Colman

umm... it's not too heavy on him?! - Orli Yakuel

those photos are really embarassingly sad. Please leave the kids alone. - Claudio Cicali

A coochii coo! They are too cute! Twins are born small but they'll catch up in no time! Congrats! - Zulema ⋅ spicy cocoa tart

LOL.. awesome pics - Aviv

apparently Amazon S3 is down - Shey

Total weirdness - the cuteness overload causes the pics to show for me even when S3 is down! It might be just my cache, ofcourse, but I like the first theory better :) - Yuvi

I'll take the electronics when the kids are all grown up. It won't matter to me that the stuff is decades old. - Rishabh Mishra (p248)

oh this is ROFL! - susan mernit

Ok, from one tech geek to another, that has to be the most cute thing I've ever seen. =) - David Cook

It's February 21, 2009. I'm in the middle of a music search on FriendFeed and found these pictures from July 19, 2008. How time flies... - Ontario Emperor

Wow, where'd you dredge this up, Haggis? - Kevin L

Just showed this to Matthew, and he says, "That's Braden!" - Louis Gray

Lil' Wayne has a problem with the lean. I can point you to some rappers that actually make sense. - Eric

Perhaps this is also some form of Old English???? - Kevin Shannon

It's probably just my translation. - Leo Laporte

word - Grant

If it gets more people to wear condoms, I'm all for it. - xero

Lil Wayne... the man, the myth... the linguist. - rykos from twhirl

Lil Wayne also sez: "Gangstas and pimps, Love lobsters and shrimps, Kool-Aid and chicken, Flashy things and women. " - These are a few of his favourite things. - Johnny

a better sermon than my pastor's - Andrea Baker

I actually thought you meant to type "weird" cause in my head that made more sense. - Ryan Cates

He drinks cough syrup all day, babbles incoherently on a mic, and people eat it up like he's the best rapper ever. It's amazing. - Rah-PM 2012

women and chicken! excellent off rhyme! - edythe

Not gonna lie, the man says some awesome stuff. I hadn't realized 50 was that important as a rapper...HAH. I avoid radio/videos though, so what do I know... - Rah-PM 2012

Favorite rapper. 2nd best to Jay-Z. He says things that are just...GENIUS! Love him. - Corvida

So many nuggets of knowledge built into Tha Carter III, Leo. This is one of many, my friend. - Liz

andrea: ! :) - edythe

I'm still a BTH man myself, but then again I most listen to rock/alternative. - xero

Leo foshizzle! - Jim Bednarz

That's a misquote. It's really: "Safe sex is great sex, better wear a latex / 'cause you don't want that late text, that "I think I'm late" text" - Hashim Warren

One for true techies: "I got game like EA, but I wanna let you play." - Sean Quinn from twhirl

@brian norwood - Leo got the line wrong...Hashim corrected him. It makes plenty of sense and it's promoting safe sex. Not sure why that's worth ignoring? - Angel Smith

Thais pretty fly, Leo. - Mike Lewis

Yeah, I mean. Sometimes I do feel like kicking Wayne in the chest...watch him fall into a bottomless pit...but that's just me :) - Rah-PM 2012

It's just depressing how much money he'll make from this... - Brooks Guthrie from twhirl

ACtUALlY liL WAYNE SAYZ 'SAfE SEX iS GREAt SEX; bETteR WEAR A lAtEX kCAUSE YUh dONT WANt tHAt lATE tEXT tHAT i THiNK iM lATE tEXT !!' dUhh ACtUALlY liSTEN tO thE lYRiCS. ANd YES liL WAYNE iS thE bOMb LiKE tiCk tiCk(= - Dawny

lmfaooo u don't know what your talkin about. i agree with dawny. that is what he says - gef

damn if yall gonna make fun at least quote the lyrics correctly...... - tae chills

love leo and love weezy! I wanna hear Leo bust out some lil wayne raps - Casey Reed

HI to the crew good show HAVE A SAFE AND HAPPY 4 TH - daveccorey

it does make sense "Safe sex is great sex, better wear a latex, cause you don't want that late text, that 'I think I'm late' text." its not laid its late - Yocelin Martinez

Exactly :D - Johnny

I hadn't anticipated it, but it seems so evident now. - Micah

Some how I think people's hidden filters should be reset just because it's a new way to see FriendFeed. Before people probably just hid all these services because one person kept flooding it. - Andrew Trinh

I never liked how FF posts get more activity than posts from other services. I always saw FF as meta to all the services you can import so why should it matter if an item was shared on Google Reader or posted directly to FF. The other trend I don't like to see is people ripping off Reddit or Digg by copying and pasting the headline and linking directly to the article, giving no credit to the original. - Graham English

For me it helps sort whether content is likely to be original or shared. Now I still look for that first, and it just wastes my time, having to find it amongst the rest of the text. - Lix

What difference does it make if the content is original or shared? If it is interesting and brings about a discussion or enlightens another user then it has served its purpose. - Andrew Trinh

Of course original content (and the conversations around it) matters... it's FriendFeed, not DataFeed. Stuff like Digg bugs me because it's several clicks to get to the meat, just to see if it's interesting enough to talk about. Also, I may not care about person X's tweets, but I may care about their last.fm (for example). Service identification and discrimination is valid for many and varied reasons. - Tinfoil 2.0

It depends on what your purpose is, Andrew. Mine is to usually get to know individuals better. - Lix

I never said you can't ignore a particular service, that's what the hide is for. But let the users see the information first without any bias and then let them decide. - Andrew Trinh

Alix, if your purpose is to get to know the individual better then you deserve every right to hide feeds of a user because of which services they use more. But don't let the same bias affect posts by other users, hide it for once and not for all. If after you've considered it that you may not like tweets overall hide it, you don't need to see a service icon to see that. - Andrew Trinh

Isn't the service part of the information? - Andy Bakun

Andrew, it's attention prioritization. Especially in a faster-moving realtime page, with user avatars and service icons (like the old realtime feed) I can instantly hone in on where to focus my attention, before I even start reading any titles, comments, or other text. - Tinfoil 2.0

Actually, there is a great risk of people being unfairly labeled as moronic without the icons, if their posts make little sense, as is the case with a lot of stuff from twitter. I can excuse moronic posts from twitter if I immediately know that's where they are from. Without the icons, I can't really do that. That means everyone I follow has to be a twitter poet, or I might mistaken them for idiots. - April

But the service has never disappeared, under each post it still states where each post originates from it's just not the main focus any more. The question is, if you have to filter out so much of your feed that you need icons to see which ones to read why do you have it shown in the first place? - Andrew Trinh

I don't ignore or hide based on service. The icon just often tells me in an instant if this is something the person created or something they think is worth sharing. I never felt the icon was the focus, just an organizational tool. - Lix

Andrew, I think you might be misunderstanding something, The service icons have informational content themselves, allowing certain types of information to be given greater or lesser or just different weight from the rest. So instead of "allowing people to focus on the content itself" it forces you to focus on all the content equally, which is clearly inappropriate. Twitter posts are different than delicious items which are different than blog posts which are different than things shared directly. - Mr. Gunn

Exactly. I agree with Mr Gunn. Now we have less information than we had before. - Chris Loft

Andrew, agree with you. #betakoltag-ob - Kol Tregaskes

The service icons represent in part the information that is being presented and how/what services that information was found. Without those it makes it more difficult to tie the information together. Plus those little icons are cute. :) - The Real sofarsoShawn

Also the service icons are a way of filtering the information, for example: by clicking on a user's stumbledupon icon all their sites fall into a nice column which is FAR simpler then the complex filtering system in the beta - The Real sofarsoShawn

I have noticed that Friend Feed users are more likely to respond to a post based on the person doing the posting not what service it is rolling out of. - Tony C (Unrated)

I think there is an important point here that I've made on other items. I think there are two qualitatively different modes of using friendfeed. One is person-centric, similar to friendfeed or Twitter. People interested in what a specific person has to say. The other is content centric, the person is secondary to the content they are bringing in or promoting. My guess is that the content-centric viewers do a lot of filtering based on the source of the information, as well as the people it is coming through - Cameron Neylon

Also that the research community (e.g. Life Scientists rooms and others) are more content centric than the general user community. I would think the UI can support both modes of use with a few display options (do don't display service icons, using filtering over service type/number of comments/liks etc.) - Cameron Neylon

That's a good point, Cameron, and considering that the Life Scientists room has over 700 members, one would think their collective opinion would carry some weight. - Mr. Gunn

Just loaded the stylish scripts that remove the personal icons and put back the service icons (HT to Neil Saunders) so I'm happy now. - Cameron Neylon

That may be true, but I still miss the icons :'( - stanjourdan

I appreciate the help, but I'm on chrome ! - stanjourdan

I'll cast a vote in favour of showing service icons whereever they plausibly make sense. - Karl Knechtel

especially getting back filtering per service would be great. And not only between twitter, flickr etc, but between various RSS/Atom feeds in same room/feed - Peter Efland

I ignore certain icons too especially when it's the source of most of the content that I find to be boring. Makes sense to me. - Corvida

Bump. - Kol Tregaskes

I always was a fan of the service icons. I still run the old school realtime FF in the Firefox sidebar, so I get my service icon fix that way ;) - Tinfoil 2.0

Nope, I hit a special URL (using curl via cron from my server) and App Engine does the crawling - Benjamin Golub

Oh yeah, that makes perfect sense - Aviv

Yes, and it's crazy fast! - Benjamin Golub

what about rssmeme? or is there too much crawling involved? - Aviv

technically with rssmeme you could have the crawl super fast if you add all the google shared feeds to google reader and then have AppEngine hit up Reader (although not sure if urlfetch supports cookies). That should make for an interesting hack - Aviv

I'm going to look into getting RSSmeme on App Engine next, it's just a "bit" bigger than FriendFeed Stats :P - Benjamin Golub

After DNS propagates the old URL (http://www.friendfeedstats.com) should point to the App Engine...I hope - Benjamin Golub

Nice! Looks like it went pretty well. Of course, that means all the data is gone now :P - Brandon Titus

Yes, it's gone, I could import it all if people get really antsy, but it's not like it was running for very long in the first place. People won't even notice after a few weeks. - Benjamin Golub

trying to search user gets file not found- must be that missing data - Nathan Eckenrode

Yup, if it doesn't find you then it 404s, use FriendFeed more often and it will find you! http://friendfeedstats.appspot.com/bgolub... works for instance - Benjamin Golub

Only my stuff for April is on FFstats now. Will this be fixed? - Corvida

I'll look into importing the old data from my server to App Engine....but it might be a little while (or never). - Benjamin Golub

Wow, appengine is turning out to be painfully simple to implement. Congrats on such a quick port! - Bwana ☠

It's simple to port if you originally developed in Python :) - Benjamin Golub

Does BigTable prevent you from doing complex db operations? It seems like the inability to join or use "OR" is limiting? - felix

Ya, it is limiting (and that's why I doubt RSSmeme will be ported to it) - Benjamin Golub

I doubt it. - Michelle M

FAFEBOOK LOGIN - iTad

I just asked my mom and dad if they know what tethering on a phone is. They said no. I conclude that average customers do not - Holden Page

I do--does not mean I'm not average? - Kelly W.

It's a pole with a ball on a string attached to it that you used to play in grade school, right? But seriously... no. :) - Dr. Apps from twhirl

I was doing it before I knew what it was. It seems to be a major feature as far as people who are all about the HTC Evo. - Rah-PM 2012

I doubt it. - Corvida

I dont know what it is, but i'm below average. - SteVe C

probably not. - edythe

What is tethering? Does it mean that the phone is tethered to your ears? I need some clear explanation. - Ashish

Nope. - imabonehead

A small percentage does. - Jimminy, CoG of FF

I'm not even sure I totally do. - Spidra Webster

The meaning got mixed up recently with the emergence of WiFi hotspots. A year ago meant using your phone as a modem via USB or Bluetooth PAN/DUN. - Rodfather

It's much better to buy your little ones a tethering ring than to let them chew on your phone. - April

I'd think it's more common outside of the US, because I first saw cellphone tethering around 2001-02, in Digimon. - Jimminy, CoG of FF

Sure. It's when you have an extra lead to the anchor. - I like big Botts

In this case, knowledge follows necessity. How many 'normal' people carry around a device (besides a phone) that requires connectivity? - Johnny from iPhone

What are your thoughts on the Incredible Brian. Battery life? Apps? Camera? - Corvida

I also have the Incredible. It does what I need it to do. No need to compare it with any other phone. I like the camera. Only had it 1 week, still testing stuff. (EDIT the battery is fine, unless you forget to turn off the camera ) - Mike Nencetti

@Mike as with most phones lol How long is fine? A good portion of the day? The entire day? - Corvida

new iPhone here - Wayne Sutton

I am the type of person who recharges at 65% sorry I'm not the best battery expert. - Mike Nencetti from Android

Abhishek :) - Abhishek

Silence - Joe The Sausage

Alex "The Other Alex" Scrivener - Alex Scrivener

Hey everyone! What are you doing at this very moment? - Corvida

Just testing - Charlie Anzman

Did you win? - Louis Gray

It's hard Charlie, it's hard... - Hutch Carpenter

You could just write about Cyndy and use my name instead? - Louis Gray

Louis isn't really a person. He's a 'bot'. Mention his name. With 22 seconds, he's there. Faster than TechMeMe - Charlie Anzman

You got lucky, this time, Anzman. - Louis Gray

Yeah, I think that's my new policy. Anytime I link to a profy.com story, it's automatically going to say, "Louis Gray posted some interesting..." - Hutch Carpenter

Cyndy's been getting way too much attention lately what with the DJ stuff and all. How 'bout, 'You should really check out Friendfeed on Saturday night. It's Saturday Night Live - Live Worldwide' - Charlie Anzman

Think I just sounded like Scoble - Charlie Anzman

..."Live Worldwide Talk Show" - Hutch Carpenter

He couldn't do it! A new kind of (Mini) Venture Capital was 3 days later. http://tinyurl.com/6p8ggr - Louis Gray

Louis is the man! - Thomas Hawk

oh, hilarious. lol! - Sarah Perez

I'm counting down the days until a Chuck Norris-styled Louis Gray website pops up. Here I'll start you off: Louis Gray didn't invent the internet - he invented Al Gore. - Marco(aureliusmaximus)

Marco: just registered LouisGrayFacts.com :-P - Mark Trapp

LOVE IT - now we need a Louis Gray Facts room so we can centralize the facts lol. 50 years from now Louis Gray will be talked about by the Gen Y's children's children as a mythical digital being - Marco(aureliusmaximus)

Once you create the room, let us know...I got a couple brewing in my head region :) - Bwana ☠

All set: http://friendfeed.com/rooms... Should create a Twitter account too, could get all integrated with this. - Mark Trapp

Louis Gray doesn't type. His keys duck out of fear. - Shawn Farner

Slippy: don't be silly. Chuck Norris doesn't need to think. Ideas beg his brain for a place :) - directeur from NoiseRiver

Hey, you guys! I'm typing in an EPIC THREAD! - Hao Chen

Who is this chuck norris guy I keep hearing about? I am too lazy to google him, so friendfeed should do the job for me :P - Yuvi

Too lazy to Google something? You're in trouble, Yuvi. - Shawn Farner

@Shawn: Notice the (:P). I just figured that Chuck Norris is some kinda celebrity that I needn't need to bother knowing about till it's thrust into my face. :) - Yuvi

Poor, Yuvi :( You were a deprived child! - Hao Chen

@Hao: Guess I was just born into the wrong part of the world :P - Yuvi

Ah but can you manage it without Twitter/FriendFeed posts too? - Lawrence from twhirl

Louis is the new chuck norris? Neat! - Corvida

louis is trying to be scoble 2.0 - please stop now :) - Allen Stern

@Yuvi you don't find Chuck Norris, he finds you ;-) - Dobromir Hadzhiev

That's it! You're right Allen. I'm not mentioning Louis for at least 5 days .... - Charlie Anzman

@Dobromir: Is it from russia? :P - Yuvi

ive done facebook-free week and twitter-free week, you are doing gray-free week, i should counter with scoble-free week - Allen Stern

Allen - It's kinda like 'fasting'. I finally cheated - Charlie Anzman

Bump. - Louis Gray

I agree. And the themes have improved alot since I last jailbroke my iPhone. - Fox

Great app and review!! You da man Patrick! ;o) - Ron Thompson

Ha - thanks Ron. This one really is an outstanding app - one of those 'never give up your jailbreak' types :) - Patrick Jordan

I'd like to note that ProSwitcher was a memory hog on my iPhone 3G. Not sure how it works on the 3GS but this app ate up a lot of memory. Previously I tried Multifl0w, didn't notice a memory issue with that so I might return to it. Haven't done so yet because I want to try out Kirikae first. - Corvida

If you like these apps you should also check out Backgrounder, Orbit (Expose-ish) app, and SnowCover - Corvida

This one relies on Backgrounder for enabling the background-running of apps. All the app switchers I've seen so far rely on Backgrounder for that part. - Patrick Jordan

It seems more and more that the JB community has some great apps/ hacks for these devices... Slowly but surely some of these are making it into the Apple's sanctioned "app store" Video on 2G and 3G's...? What's next? "Backgrounder, ProSwitcher" Only time will tell? I hate to think 'the Android invasion" has anything to do with the sudden "openness" from the app store? - Ron Thompson

Yup - I think for some time now - ever since back in 1.x firmware days really - a lot of innovation and improvements are driven by the great work of jailbreak devs. I guess this is far from shocking, since Apple ties things down so tight on the App Store side (though it's loosening a fair bit lately). Even something as simple as search within Contacts was done on the jailbreak side a good year before we ever got it within the 'legit' app. - Patrick Jordan

And normal people do this kind of stuff over on Facebook (I watch my wife talk to her elementary school friends there). - Robert Scoble

While the "pros" have figured out you can't get paid for doing work online here or on Twitter, so they just put links to their blogs. - Robert Scoble

"I think we're just tired of all online socializing" I do it every minute of everyday on FriendFeed. - Johnny

Johnny: the world isn't like you and me. And, anyway, even though you and I do it here, most normal people do it on Facebook. - Robert Scoble

Most normal people do it on email. Facebook is still a distant 2nd. - Bruce Lewis from fftogo

Most plans and communication is still happening over SMS and phone calls. I understand I'm not normal. I sat around a table with 9 people last week. Everyone had a computer, 4 had an iPhone, no one knew what Android was, 7 had a Facebook account, 3 had a Twitter account (2 only tweeted less than 5 times) and everyone knew of FriendFeed because of me doing the podcast. We're niche. - Johnny from iPhone

The elite players are having secret walled off conversations in Google Reader. - Louis Gray

Louis: exactly why Google Reader is dead. :-) - Robert Scoble

Robert you're awesome for starting this thread. As for your first comment, I'd have to disagree because we're no longer socializing. We're marketing and the shit is about to hit the fan. I can just feel it coming down my Twitter stream. - Corvida

The (read: my) problem is that with Facebook it's too intimate. People wouldn't understand the things I talk about at home and on a personal level because it's usually race related and people of a different race would feel some sort of way about engaging in such a conversation. Either way, that's not what I want to talk about online. - Corvida

I want to go back to talking and sharing the topics we're all interested in. I want to go back to discussing the cool little gems we find around the web. I don't want to just review them. I want to DISCUSS them. We used to do that a long time ago. Myself, Louis, Steven Hodson, Jeff, Rahsheen, Sarah Perez, Shey, Frederic and a host of other people. We DISCUSSED Friendfeed. We DISCUSSED Twitter. We DISCUSSED RSSmeme which half the world no longer knows or cares about.... - Corvida

We discussed everything topic related and we loved it. We built our own hype instead of getting sucked into major blogs and what the rest of the kool-aid drinking web was saying. WE did that and it felt good. It felt like a community. Now, I really do feel like I'm screaming in a crowded room...and no one really gives a fuck. - Corvida

Johnny, we're niche, but not invisible. I want to have conversations with people who have related interest. I don't want to talk about dogs, cats, what your kids did. Fuck that, I hate kids, dogs, and (usually) cats. I want good tech conversations 24/7. That's what the old days used to be like. That's the FriendFeed and Twitter I remember instead of all this marketing BS - Corvida

This thread remember me the reason why I've started following Robert Scoble or Corvida: not because they were famous or glamour or something like that but because they were able to create deep and brilliant conversations... - maxilprof

Hrm. I think I have to agree with Corvida here. I was attracted to this whole thing by learning about Twitter on her blog, which led me on a journey to becoming a writer for BlackWeb 2.0. Everything has definitely taken a marketing turn that is kinda disturbing. Even those in the field that are not really marketers still have a marketing approach to it all. Twitter, for instance, is mostly a link farm. I think this is part of the reason I got hooked on FF. People were actually discussing stuff here. - Rah-PM 2012

Patrik: yes, San Francisco is often two to five years ahead of the rest of the world. For fun I just checked into Feedly again. ALL I saw was stuff I've already seen on Twitter. So, for me (and anyone who cares about the tech industry) Google Reader is showing dramatically less utility than it did a year ago, especially if you've put any time into organizing feeds into lists over on Twitter. - Robert Scoble

Rahsheen: funny, I tried to get the rest of the industry over here and failed. Why? Most people don't want to have conversations. Tim O'Reilly, for instance, told me he doesn't have time for that. - Robert Scoble

I agree Rahsheen. The discussions is what got us going on FriendFeed. Too hard to do them on Twitter. How do we get back to those days people? - Corvida

But isn't all that discussion just speculation until you get a critical mass and some time behind it? I love what Facebook and Twitter have done for me, but feel a great deal of fatigue after only a couple of years. Talking to people IRL is very attractive these days. We've gotten ahead of ourselves. - John Kress

John: exactly. Plus, now that blogs have real time conversations thanks to Disqus and Echo we can pimp a URL and have conversations over there. - Robert Scoble

I remember that, Robert. You used to link FF convo's on Twitter a lot. While you're probably correct that some of the big wigs don't have the time or desire to talk, there are still those of us that enjoy discussion. Am I going to notice that people like Tim aren't present? Absolutely not. Just like I don't expect P. Diddy to take the time out to chat with me when I want to discuss the music industry. - Rah-PM 2012

Rahsheen: funny, P Diddy is probably over at MySpace having conversations with his fans. I know a lot of musical groups do that. Why there? Because there's money there. Fans buy music. - Robert Scoble

Patrik: yeah, eventually you'll see that Twitter takes over the world. Even in France most of the entrepreneurs were on Twitter and the media was talking about it a lot. - Robert Scoble

Rahsheen: the reason I don't link to FF much anymore is because I can have real time conversations back on my blog now. A year ago I couldn't. - Robert Scoble

Robert: So when does the big backlash come, and what does it look like? (Online vs real life)? - John Kress

John: a good percentage of divorces are already mentioning Facebook. How do you know the backlash isn't underway? - Robert Scoble

Corvida, I don't think there is any turning back. Ashton, Oprah, Brittany, and all their minions have invaded the space. Eben Pagan, Mike Dillard, Steve Kern and the like have all discovered social media and are making money off of it. I think it's a lost cause in that regard... - Rah-PM 2012

Corvida: those conversations have moved over to blogs like those from Louis Gray and Jesse Stay for the large part. - Robert Scoble

Hrm...I guess most bloggers should be happy about that. There was a time when comment fragmentation and losing the discussion was a serious concern. I wonder what everyone thinks about that now. - Rah-PM 2012

Robert: I think the backlash is underway. But, naturally, the whip has a long tail. - John Kress

Robert: Or a short head in this case. - John Kress

lol @John. Rahsheen we're happy, but that doesn't mean we didn't adjust to the way things have been for the past 2 years before Disqus and real-time web stuff. Twitter WAS the only real-time web, besides FriendFeed, last year. I like that they've moved back to blogs, but I don't talk about every tech topic that comes to mind on my blog. I like the random tech convo's across the web, where either you're there to participate in the convo or you're not. - Corvida

True, I can't say that I've caught most of the convo going on on blogs. I have definitely become used to the blogs being discussed on places other than the blog itself. Maybe I need to change my strategy...again. - Rah-PM 2012

Rahsheen: Exactly! Plus, I don't want to crowd my blog with too many discussions in one day. - Corvida

I'd settle for the days of acknowledging one another. - Kelli Schmith

I don't have conversations on Facebook and I am normal! (as I am not a professional, just a retired Granny) TBH I hate Facebook! Only on there because family asked me to be on there. I'd rather have a conversation on here or a live chat facility. Its better to discuss things on here or in comments on your blogs. I love blogging - Technogran

Robert: you are a couple of years ahead. But you also have a different behavior when it comes to news consumption: we are building feedly for people who have the time to check their favorite websites, topics, brands one or two times a day and want to do it through something that looks like their own personalized magazine. Regarding this discussion I agree that the internet has lost a little bit of something since most people moved to twitter and the conversations on friendfeed dried up. - Edwin Khodabakchian

I don't think it's possible to chug a gallon of egg nog. That ish is thick. - Derrick

Egg nog - Corvida

@Corvida I didnt notice any racist topic, perhaps they don't show up over here. Censoring might not be the answer, but fighting most definitely is! Let's make noise ;-) - Ludwig tdc from iPhone

Another thing - there are no right or wrong stereotypes. All prejudice should fall under the "no-no" category. - Mitch

Installing at the same time on my X70 UMPC (Menlow) - Steve 'Chippy' Paine

Touchscreen working on TabletKiosk 7210. It's installing system.... - Steve 'Chippy' Paine

re-strating X70 UMPC after Joli install - Steve 'Chippy' Paine

X70 failed. FAT32 disk error. Will chkdsk. - Steve 'Chippy' Paine

Aha. No OSK for login. Fail on all tablet PCs! - Steve 'Chippy' Paine

Installing on S5 and Sk3... - Steve 'Chippy' Paine

Can't find any touchscreen calibration tool - Steve 'Chippy' Paine

Its working on the 7210. Cant connect to my hotspot tho. Checking memory usage, it's as much of a hog as any Linux distro. System already wapping and i havent started a single app. 121 processes running. Battery usage doesnt look to good too. - Steve 'Chippy' Paine

Note. All of these installs are via the EXE which installs in a Windows directory and installs new boot loader. - Steve 'Chippy' Paine

Nope. X70 not working. FAT32 error comes up. Even after full chkdsk. - Steve 'Chippy' Paine

Jolicloud provide an uninstaller that works under WIndows. Good for removing failed intstal. - Steve 'Chippy' Paine

Aborting test on 7210. No wifi=no go. - Steve 'Chippy' Paine

Uninstalled on X70. Failed. - Steve 'Chippy' Paine

Testing install on W7 with Sk3. Install crashed. - Steve 'Chippy' Paine

Looks like S5 install has hung. - Steve 'Chippy' Paine

FInal test: Gigabyte T1028. (With SSD, TOuchscreen and 3G) Netbook - Steve 'Chippy' Paine

Gigabyte Touchnote failed at same place as Eking S515. Installer crashed. - Steve 'Chippy' Paine

And that concludes the testing! - Steve 'Chippy' Paine

had fun ? ;) - jkkmobile

Ubiquio 503G - LuluGirl896

HTC TyTN - Mathias H.

Motorola Q9m - Corvida

Dopod C730 (HTC Cavalier) - J Allen

Sprint Mogul - Thomas Ho

HTC TyTNN II - Frank McPherson

HTC TyTN II aka Kaiser - Jericho

Treo 800w - Jordan Hofker

Dopod c730 (HTC Cavalier), where's the wm 6.1 love for Cavalier?? - Alphonsus Lee from twhirl

Another HTC Mogul on Sprint - MiniMage, enterRUPPted

Right now have an LG Voyager but am in the market for an HTC XV6900 - Sweyn Venderbush

Now HP 910 - LuluGirl896

at&t tilt - Robert DeBord

Samsung Blackjack II w/ WM6.1 - Tim Toennies

I'm using a Touch Pro - Wictor Wilén

moto q9h - Czar

Mine is an antique; HP Ipaq rw6815 :) but what i want is a touch pro - Koray AI

Un HTC Touch HD - Françoise Soros

HTC Touch HD - Amit Morson

Still using my Sprint Mogul, but I also have a T-iPhone. - MiniMage, enterRUPPted