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Nick Halstead

the new facebook share button is proving what I already thought - that it is only 10% as viral as Twitter

October 27 from Twitter - Comment - Like - Share

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Steve Rubel

"Three Reasons You Need to Be on FriendFeed *Now*" - http://bhc3.wordpress.com/2009...

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Actually, I'm getting tired of Friendfeed. Most discussion is vapid, banal and inconsequential. IOW, a waste of time. - Dawn

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Me too Matthew. I use it that way to some degree. - Steve Rubel from email

Is there a way to get a friend feed onto a personal web site? - Peter Fletcher

Thanks for posting this Steve. And Dawn, are you deliberately ironic? Regardless, this post is for those who may not have the time to engage actively here, but will still benefit from being part of the service. - Hutch Carpenter

@Peter - try this: http://friendfeed.com/embed - Brian Daniel Eisenberg

Thanks Brian. - Peter Fletcher

Nice work but a lil late on this BNO - sofarsoShawn

Peter, you can also embed an individual thread on your site by copying the code from the "Share" link - Rahsheen ™, Coach Rah

Oh, Dawn, that's rich cause I blocked you for bringing vapid, banal, and inconsequential stuff to friendfeed a while back. All you have to do is look at all the items from the Google I/O conference to see just how wrong you are: http://is.gd/HaUQ - Robert Scoble

"Personal Content Database" is quite apt (especially if we could have our service icons back) - When working in twitter and waiting for twitter's page to refresh a new post, it is quicker to jump to FriendFeed, because the post is there instantly. - Chris Loft

@rahsheen thanks for the tip. - Peter Fletcher

BS, Robert. You blocked me because I'm not one of your sycophants but actually challenge your assumptions, motivations and actions. Like when I said you were neglecting your blog, you retaliated against me, but just two weeks later, Arrington said the same thing and you took that seriously. But I'm just a female, right Robert?...somebody you keep calling stupid, even though I'm sure my... more... - Dawn

Amen to that! - Calvin Ayre

Dawn, I think I love you. - cecily

Dawn: you don't even have a clue about why I blocked you. It's cause you were arguing religion and politics and had no clue who Ralph Reed was and then you followed it up with the lamest posts on global warming I've seen that it made me wonder why I was arguing with someone so clueless (and I forget there were a few other things you were arguing about). So much for that high grade point average. By the way, I don't remember Mike Arrington ever talking about that stuff. - Robert Scoble

BTW: I unblocked her for some reason, I still don't know why. Oh, yeah, my brother stuck up for her and so far I've seen just the lamest additions to the community, like this one here. If friendfeed's discussion is vapid, banal, and inconsequential IT IS OUR FAULT. So, Dawn, this one is on you. Good riddens, I say. - Robert Scoble

Ahh, community. - τorƍue

#4 Bacon - sofarsoShawn

Yeah, right, Robert. I'm so lame that Louis Gray announced both on his blog and on FF that I'm a great person to follow. And you're comment about Ralph Reed just once again shows your bigotry against Christians, lumping us all in one basket - that far right fundamentalist basket that you once belonged to and now despise. I never did belong to it. I'm Catholic, not "born again." I've had... more... - Dawn

Btw, two people have DM'd me that Scoble is best ignored. I can't do that. Being the target of repeated and consistent defamation by Robert Scoble isn't the same as Joe Blow FFer calling you an idiot. Robert's words carry a lot of weight in the tech world. I've asked Robert privately and politely to back off and as you can see, he's refused to do that. I not only have the right to defend myself, but I have a duty to my present and future investors and to my future employees. - Dawn

FriendFeed's usefullness to me would increase 100% if I could automatically filter out every post with "friendfeed" in the title. That way I could get rid of the constant yapping about how great it is, and actually use it usefully. - Ian Betteridge

Bump for the good times. - Mark Krynsky

This is a post from last may! The situation has totally changed since then - DC Crowley

"even though I'm sure my IQ is higher than yours. Were you valedictorian of your high school? Or graduate magna cum laude? Did you get a graduate degree with honors" wow that means even i don't qualify :( - ffcode

I agree, I think we should try to save Friendfeed. - Hunt from iPhone

Jeff Jarvis

I'm going to be on France21 between 1-2p NYT (7-8 in France) re Google & books.

September 8 from Twitter - Comment - Like - Share

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Je présume qu'il est question de France 24? - Laurent

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Non, nos journées de paresseux sont nettement moins longues :) - Jérôme Flipo

Here the live stream: http://catchup.france24.com/en... (cool lab by the way http://lab.france24.com). - Jérôme Flipo

Don't forget your gun, Jeff ;-) - Scheiro

Thanks for the link(s). Will be watching - lelapin

I was sure that L'Atelier would support the settlement. - Jérôme Flipo

What surprises me is that France24 didn't seriously look at the fairness of digitalization without a go from a court (edit: that's what the participant from the Columbia University is saying: Google is probably in its rights in most countries). - Jérôme Flipo

Nice response: digitalize your books, France, do it, but if you don't, please don't prevent others to do it. - Jérôme Flipo

The moderator didn't even try to understand Jeff. Conclusion: we need to digitalize, there's no alternative to Google but if Google want to do it, it's probably because they can profit from it. So, let's ban Google do to the job and see your back in 2030 :) - Jérôme Flipo

Wow. Jeff isn't going to be happy! - Jérôme Flipo

Looks [yes, I am still watching it as I'm typing this in] like there are problems of sound and feedback as attendees don't seem to get the information, at the appropriate time, when it's their turn to speak. I understand Jeff's frustration. - lelapin

It seems to have been fixed after the break. I really think that the moderator hasn't prepared the debate, and doesn't understand the real issue (keep talking about the business difficulties of publishers, which has no relation with this settlement). - Jérôme Flipo

Viviane FTW :) - Jérôme Flipo

Héhé, I was sure Jeff would talk about his Le Monde inquiry story! - Jérôme Flipo

Why Kenneth still thinks Google will have any exclusivity? - Jérôme Flipo

I was unable to make my mind on this. My understanding is that there is a commercial exclusivity for indexing(25 years). Jerome, do you say it's not the case? - Laurent

@Jerome "What's still suprise me, is that France24 didn't seriously look at the fairness of the scanning without a go from a court (edit: that's what the participant from the Columbia University is saying: Google is probably in its rights in most countries)" --> This is why Google are technologists and no intellectual evangelists, they are smart, they take care of others, their culture,... more... - Thierry Lhôte

I think the person from London had a point when he said that there's no denial that all books will eventually be digitalized. Nobody won't dispute either the great advantage of having them accessible any time from anywhere. Now should this digitalization be done by Google alone on account of their current predominant position? He (and me along) seemed to be reluctant to that idea. I for one don't buy the 'for the greater good' Jeff said Google supposedly has as sole motivation in that business. - lelapin

Laurent, that's what I understand from http://www.googlebooksettlement.com/help...: "Rights granted to Google and the Participating Libraries are non-exclusive only, and Rightsholders have every right to authorize, through the Registry or otherwise, any individual or entity, including direct competitors of Google, to use their works in any way,... more... - Jérôme Flipo

lelapin, from my understanding, you (and "the guy from London") are misinterpreting the settlement. It isn't about giving Google "alone" any right, it's about authorizing Google to digitalize orphans books (whose rightsholders are unknown) and letting Google distributing books from agreeing libraries. There's no exclusivity (see my previous comment), Amazon can ask for the same deal. - Jérôme Flipo

What motivation do you think Jeff has in this issue? His position is consistent with what he's been saying for years. - Jérôme Flipo

Jerome, we are not talking about the same thing. It is non exclusive for Rightsholders. The exclusive part is for the libraries, which would not be able, say, to do with Amazon what they are planning to do with Google, during some time. I would love to give you a reference, but as I told nothing seems to be cristal clear, and to my knowledge these contracts are not public information. - Laurent

Jerome, Jeff thinks that if most people are happy with the Google way that's fine. The french/german authors and editors says, roughly, "if I haven't said yes, it means no" - Laurent

Laurent, from Google & The Proper Antitrust Scrutiny Of Orphan Books (Journal of Competition Law & Economics, 2009): "only if future competitors of GBS were unable to negotiate an agreement to use the orphan books would a problem arise. However, as we discussed, the plaintiffs will have an economic incentive to license the ability to use the orphan books to other competitors. Thus, we expect future competitive entry if GBS provides a new and successful service." - Jérôme Flipo

"The commentators who have raised concerns in this regard have misun- derstood the economic incentives that the plaintiffs will have to increase overall demand for books. When these economics incentives are understood, it becomes evident that no antitrust problem arises." http://www.criterioneconomics.com/Google%... - Jérôme Flipo

Jerome I still find there is a confusion. There are two problems: one is between Google and the rightsholders (the authors and editors) and is beeing dealt with under the Google Books Settlement. Under this one, there is no exclusivity (and in my sense there could be none: Imagine you're the rightsholder of Georges Orwell's books: Even if you agree to have 1984 on Google Books, that... more... - Laurent

So your concern is less about the settlement than the possibility for a public library to chose one company to manage its digital assets. When the government decide to build a highway, it gives a company a concession (with exclusivity) for many years. It's competitive, and it respects the public will. I think the public infrastructure can be well managed with private partners, under... more... - Jérôme Flipo

That's my point... Remember, as we discussed yesterday: I have no concerns on my own regarding Google Books settlement, or Google Books digitizing the BNF. But I feel bad when people who shares my - rather - positive view on Google disregard people who oppose "What Google do" (I'm not saying you're one of them) - A bunch of very clever people, with great respect for culture, oppose the... more... - Laurent

Briefly caught it from the hotel room last night. Surprised that France24 was covering the topic simultaneously on their English and French channels. - Nils Sandin

Laurent, I like your position. The problem is that most opponents don't propose any realistic alternative. The EFF seems right to demand better privacy http://www.eff.org/press..., ORG doesn't take position but ask for some enhancements and a substantial reform of European copyright law http://www.openrightsgroup.org/ourwork.... I don't really... more... - Jérôme Flipo

"BREWSTER KAHLE: Correct, that basically Google didn’t put it in their contract. Yet from a library’s perspective, why have a book scanned twice? It’s wear and tear on the books. If they think that—and they wouldn’t have signed it if they didn’t think that the Google thing was a good idea. But now that they’ve signed this with Google, they don’t want it scanned again. And this is a problem, because the books, even the out-of-copyright books, are locked up perpetually. " ??? - Jérôme Flipo

I'd like to hear Microsoft and Amazon promise that if the final settlement prevents Google to get any exclusivity, they will both digitalize as many books as Google and won't offer them at a higher price. Google obtained from the FCC that if they commit at least 4,7B $ in an auction for new wireless spectrum, the winners would keep the network open. Don't lobby, put the money where the mouth is! - Jérôme Flipo

Benjamin Golub

Could you always do this in Google Reader?

August 12 - Comment - Like - Share

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do what? - Ahmed

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Fine tune what items "Mark all as read" affects. - Benjamin Golub

Certainly not when I was working on it. Jenna? Is this brand new? I like it! - Kevin Fox

nope, that's new. - Jordan Brock

I haven't noticed that before. - ha3rvey (sup homepants)

I don't have it - Roshan Vyas

Yup...def. a new one :) - Ahmed

That's great... hadn't noticed that yet. Edit: I don't seem to have it, even after refresh. - Shannon Jiménez

It's still rolling out. Courtesy of our newest engineer, Arif (http://friendfeed.com/arif). - Mihai Parparita

oh goodie! I want! - BEX

Well played Reader... well played. :) - Michael Leggett

I never Mark All as Read anyway, so this is not required. :) - Louis Gray

@Louis imagine leaving your GReader for 4 days and come back with 4000+ new items waiting for you...I check it every hour and I find 100+...read the first 50 and Mark all as read :) - Ahmed

Just pushed it about 20m ago. - Jenna Bilotta

lazy coders!!! - Hüseyin Mert

Now that's handy to have. - Andrew Trinh from iPhone

Jenna: serious bug... I marked all items older than two weeks as read, and it did that, but also marked all items newer than 2 weeks as unread! - Shannon Jiménez

@shannon We just tested this and couldn't replicate it. Could you give some additional detail? - Jenna Bilotta

Jenna: I selected one of my folders (that contains many feeds) and selected "Mark older than 2 weeks as read." I'm using IE8. - Shannon Jiménez

I think that's new! I got it as well, good to have. - Cassidy

@ben cool, thanks! (we'll chat about adding it but in the meantime you can add it as a custom service on the settings page) - Jenna Bilotta

Jenna: Just for further info-- it does not happen when I select an indivdual feed, only when I select folders. - Shannon Jiménez

@shannon can't replicate that here. :-/ (looking into it some more) - Jenna Bilotta

This is new. Good idea though. - Diego Barros 

Saw it yesterday for the 1st time - funkyboy from iPhone

hey that's NEW!! :) - Susan Beebe

new - Shevonne

@Jenna: still having the same problem (tried it in both IE and FF). Also, discovered that it doesn't happen if everything is already marked as read in the folder. It only happens when some things are unread. Edit: based on Joelle's comment below, maybe this happened because I had marked everything as read in that session, not because everything was marked as read... - Shannon Jiménez

I have just had the same problem as Shannon - was coming here to share the warning - what a horrible horrible bug! (I have 400 feeds). My google reader experience is more and more a love/hate thing (certain things are just a pain when you have 400 feeds) :S Although for me it did it in every feed except the ones that didnt have posts in the last 2 weeks (obviously), including ones that were totally marked as read - Joelle Nebbe (iphigenie)

note: actually i did not mark as read items I had read this very session, but all others - Joelle Nebbe (iphigenie)

Louis Gray

Just Got Exclusive Early Access to the Latest Wired Magazine Cover! (Disclaimer: Not Really)

August 11 - Comment - Like - Share

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seriously? - Jim Hearts FF

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And we all know how *that* one ended... :) - Ian Betteridge

Heh--well, I never did like the similarity of the logos--foreboding. - Kathy Fitch

wow....I so love the graphics in Wired ..even if this is bogus! - Chad Gesser from BuddyFeed

Is this for real? - David Damore

Disclaimer: This is not real. And yes, it's based on the famous 1997 Mac cover. - Louis Gray

well, brilliant even so. Good show. - Jim Hearts FF

@Louis Gray Thanks. Was wondering what the article said if a link was available. - David Damore

Original cover from Wired is here: http://gizmodo.com/368903... - Louis Gray

should of done it as OMNI - Robert Higgins

Louis: w: disclaimer, need a na na na booty, tongue out - Chad Gesser from BuddyFeed

God speed. - Vezquex: God of FF

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Robert Scoble

Wow, I just saw something stealth coming out at TechCrunch's real time Crunchup on Friday that's going to bring blogging back. Big time.

July 8 - Comment - Like - Share

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http://www.techcrunch.com/real-ti... is the CrunchUp. Stick around for the after lunch session. Very cool. - Robert Scoble

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i thought rubel said blogging was dead? :) - Allen Stern

Do Tell! - Bill Heslin

Allen: Steve Rubel will bring his blog back after Friday. - Robert Scoble

wow nice - Allen Stern

Bill: I can't tell, agreed to an embargo, but you're already getting a preview. Just think about your blog now (or mine). :-) - Robert Scoble

Oh shoot..this is Real time web..can't wait till Friday - Bill Heslin

Blogging was dead? - Ara Pehlivanian

Real Time is where it's at. - Robert Scoble

too bad sites like mine can't be ready to post about it :( - Allen Stern

Ara: have I blogged this week? If I had what is coming on Friday I would blog a lot more. - Robert Scoble

Uhmmm tablet tablet... - Francisco Espinoza

FriendFeed Pro? - Chris Saad

<pops thread out> - CAJ, somewhere else

Allen: embargoes suck. I know. But you should be one of the first sites to use this. - Robert Scoble

FriendFeed Pro....oh no please :S - Francisco Espinoza

i dont even have an embargo robert - oh well, no worries - Allen Stern

Shhh...nobody tell Steve Rubel. - Judd6149

Oooooh! like that Chris...FF Pro - Bill Heslin

Chris: no. Not FriendFeed Pro. Although if FriendFeed were smart they'd buy the company after Friday. - Robert Scoble

Data Portability Exporter 1.0 ? :-P - Allen Stern

blogging never died. Some things make it easier and better. http://posterous.com - Dj Skunk Diesel

Oh your bad Robert...lol.... - Bill Heslin

Allen: there is a lot of data portability in what I saw, yes. - Robert Scoble

i think Data Portability is the future :D </obvious statement> - Chris Saad

Dj: it is going to be interesting to see how this changes people's approach to blogging and Tumblr/Posterous. - Robert Scoble

Dj: it is going to be very interesting to talk with Steve Rubel on Friday afternoon after the demo. - Robert Scoble

it's the first ever virtual blogging tool - you just imagine your posts and they appear! - Allen Stern

Allen: I imagine that you appear and you do, how do you do that? :-) - Robert Scoble

Another service of "tumblog"? - Francisco Espinoza

He's funny like dat...lol... - Bill Heslin

oh i just bought guy's package - i have hired a team of allen's - for example, i am the evening shift allen (allen2.1 internally) - the night allen arrives at 11pm (allen 4.2 internally) - Allen Stern

Am I that far behind? Why is blogging dead, and by real time you are talking about more than live stream video? - ASKJDOG

Hmmm. Sounds like FF benefits from this. - Nick in Manila

Nick: FriendFeed might benefit, yes. JDOG: we are talking about real time text. Just like here. - Robert Scoble

Allen: you are cracking me up. So fun! =) - Miiko Mentz from iPhone

miiko - sometimes we all need to smile, that's my job as Allen2.1 - Allen Stern

Allen: personally I like the morning shift better. Since I'm in London I'll go to sleep now and wait for him to show up. - Robert Scoble

Got it: real time text stream = "blog." Blogging is dead; long live blogging!! - Tom Guarriello

remember when techCrunch said they were gonna break embargoes... you should, too - Marco

aah still in london! get off ff and have some fun - Allen Stern

Allen: I was off FriendFeed all day! - Robert Scoble

How can you bring something back that isn't gone. Have you seen the WordPress growth numbers? They have been very consistent and very impressive for many, many months. - Missionary Broadcasting

Missionary: well, I have definitely left a lot of my blogging due to real time interactions like these, but I don't have page views to worry about. - Robert Scoble

Now ur both making me laugh. Good times! - Miiko Mentz from iPhone

Can we mere mortals watch it online - Mark

Mark: I don't know about video, but I'm sure that the second this gets announced it will be discussed on FriendFeed to death. - Robert Scoble

miiko - be nice or i get out the voodoo doll! - Allen Stern

Thanks Robert. I'm starting to "get it" just thinking how to implement this in my niche - ASKJDOG

I just add a lot of this other stuff to the blogging I'm already doing. Most savvy bloggers are doing the same thing. They sort of all fit together in my world. - Missionary Broadcasting

it's after 3am in London - Ian May

somehow this feels like a test of the "tc50 and demo broadcast system" - im sure we will see more of these "oh hot damn i just saw x but i cant talk about it until y" posts come sept. - Allen Stern

Allen, why do companies talk to people about products and then tell them they must tell no one about it? I mean, since no one can talk about it, no extra excitement is generated? I don't really get it - Mark

Allen, gotta luv the voodoo doll. ;) - Miiko Mentz from iPhone

@Allen, to give the individual an opportunity to form an opinion and write a well thought out article when the service launches. - Darren

Mark, tomorrow's event will be streamed live. Hopefully it all goes smoothly. - Miiko Mentz from iPhone

Mark - embargoes give writers a chance to test and play before the tool goes live - so the posts should be better than just press release copy - i rarely ever mention a product before it goes live - scoble likes to build excitement about what he sees. i just wish that more companies learned that excluisves are bad for startups - Allen Stern

Thanks Allen - Mark

Mark: PR people tell me they use embargoes so that they can brief a large number of people without pissing anyone off. If I wrote about this stealth company tonight, for instance, lots of other journalists would get pissed off at the company. Some, like TechCrunch, even refuse to write about companies if they aren't given equal access. It also, like Allen says, gives writers a chance to produce videos and test out products so they can write more authoritatively about them. - Robert Scoble

So its largely to stop competing blogs, sites etc from complaining that Site X got earlier access than Site Y for example? - Mark

Robert/Allen, well said. Mark, in theory, yes. But it doesn't always work out that way. - Miiko Mentz from iPhone

So what was all the fuss Arrington was making last year about embargoes? Didn't he say he would violate every single one? - Mark

I can't wait to hear about it! - Joshua M

Mark: Arrington just said he reserves the right to break embargoes when he wants. Usually if the company deals with him straight up he'll agree to the embargo. What I hate are companies that give some people special deals. Apple does this all the time, which is why I never go to Apple press conferences anymore. - Robert Scoble

a good example of poor choices are YC startups - they go to tc/sent to tc/etc and miss so many more opportunities for coverage - works well for TC tho - they always get a HN frontpage. - Allen Stern

Hint? - Scott Williams from BuddyFeed

scott - he said "after lunch" so check which startups are presenting after lunch lol - Allen Stern

Notes like this really make me long to be in the Bay area. One day Sheryl and I will move there. It's our plan. - Ken Camp

Thank you Backtype for bringing this to me. I can't wait to hear about whatever this is. - Steve Rubel

Robert how will we know when this thing your talking about is public? How will you update us? - Chris Saad

@Chris - you won't miss it. He will be on a unicorn that everyone is talking about. JK - looking forward to this - Steve Rubel

@Steve haha true - Chris Saad

So I wonder what this would mean for newspapers. - Michael from iPhone

Can't wait to hear more. I hope it's a tool to make it easy to aggregate content into blog posts -- that's what I've been wishing for lately. Sometimes I have up to ten browser tabs open to pull in all the urls, images, videos and quotes I want to include in a new blog post. - Andy Kaplan-Myrth

cool ... buzz .... buzzz!!! :) - Susan Beebe from BuddyFeed

It will be interesting to see what it is. Maybe my guest bloggers will cover the story. I am on a worklife summer break! Blogger since '02. - Martin Lindeskog

Robert Blogging has never gone away! Not in my book. - Sandra Large

Scoble, are you referring to LazyFeed ? - Ahsan Ali aka. Slick

We here at Posterous are looking forward to the announcement. Innovation is always great -- can't wait to see what's going down on Friday. - Garry Tan

Sounds a lot like LazyFeed: http://www.louisgray.com/live... - twitscoop

Just what we need! - ZuDfunck

Lazyfeed sounds like a combo of feedly and backtype, with categories - Ahsan Ali aka. Slick

Blogging straight from my brain coming tomorrow! Hook me up! - Mike Buechele

@Michael For the love of gods, don't invoke Zobzee! - Sam Harrelson

All this is making me wish Friday comes sooner. For me it will be another 24 hours away as I presume @Scoble is referring to US PST. - Vinko

Robert! U R such a TEASE! *giggle* - Arleen Anderson

hmmm I wonder what this is.... - Marko Saric

I guess it's this: http://www.techcrunch.com/2009... ... The WordPress Jabber client - Marko Saric

No, the blog is not dead by any means http://lifestreamblog.com/should-... but Lifestreaming is almost a necessary component needed for supplementing them with the advent of real-time http://lifestreamblog.com/you-say... - Mark Krynsky

so TC has come out with 300 invites to LazyFeed (which are sadly gone), any going here? :P - Marlin Forbes

It's Friday. Who's the stealth company that's gonna "bring blogging back" and how are they gonna do so? - Brad Williamson

According to the presenter, Echo is the service: http://js-kit.com/echo/ - Brandon Titus

Thanks Brandon ;-) - Brad Williamson

I really don't like being forced to spam my tweetstream just to sign in for an Echo invite. I won't do it. Bad bad practice, guys. But fascinating service concept. - Nick in Manila

I understand scoble's statement now. I was all ready to shift 97% of my publishing off my blog and onto platforms like FriendFeed till I just saw how Echo and the new Disqus features are enhancing the conversation on the blog. It's dragging me back. - Nick in Manila

Glad to hear you will be blogging more Nick - FriendFeed and other services are fantastic for virality and discussions with your friends - We feel that Echo makes those services even MORE relevant while putting your blog back in the picture. - Chris Saad

Chris - interesting. This certainly isn't an either/or thing. Well, not any longer. Heh. - Nick in Manila

It rarely is :) Communication systems rarely go away - they only find their place - Chris Saad

loling at "blogging is dead" comments - Jeremiah Owyang

Just to confirm: you were referring to the pubsubhubbub demo at the real-time crunchup? - DGentry

Zee. to Zee.'s feed, TheNextWeb Forum, Startup Success

Tom Williams: Hired by Apple at 14. His full story. - http://sivers.org/tom-williams

July 6 from Bookmarklet - Comment - Like - Share

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Real cool story and a fellow Canadian... thanks Zee. - Robert Freeze

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It's a great story. Thanks for sharing - Bogdan Costea

Finally got around to reading this story, and its great. Thanks for posting it Zee - Rasmus Lauridsen

That's an amazing story. - Andrew Trinh

Inspiring story - Michael_techie

Robert Scoble

Everyone is giving me heck in London about how I'm a FriendFeed cheerleader. Truth is, I don't understand FriendFeed either. Talk to me:

July 6 - Comment - Like - Share

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LOL! A FriendFeed Cheerleader! - Matt Ruiz

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I don't understand it either - Doubledown_inSL

If you don't understand FriendFeed then I must be really lost - Susan Beebe

Of course these are the same people who told me three years ago "Twitter is lame" so not sure I should listen to them. - Robert Scoble

Robert- what don't you understand? - Brett Kelly

Gimme an F! Gimme an R!.... - Jeremy Brooks

friendfeed will make sense a year from now - Doubledown_inSL

Robert - listen to your gut. :) - Matt Ruiz

Robert wants to know how to gain 100,000 followers in 3 minutes - Doubledown_inSL

Well that is a bit of a problem, it has a steep learning curve! - TobiasVerhoog.com

Brett: I don't understand how FriendFeed will beat Facebook. ;-) - Robert Scoble

friendfeed's learning curve looks like heaving boobies - Doubledown_inSL

LOL, nice. Easy to beat Facebook. Friendfeed is way safer, and can connect to other services. - Zachary TG

Brett: and I don't understand why being a cheerleader for something is bad, especially when I'm right. - Robert Scoble

And when you shake the iPhone app, it updates! (wait... no... that's not FriendFeed....) - Linda Mills

FriendFeed is like the new geocities - Doubledown_inSL

Does Friendfeed have to beat Facebook? - Kim Landwehr

Anyway, this is what happens when I get drunk with traveling geeks and Paul Carr. :-) - Robert Scoble

Sounds like everyone in London is going to be viewing this conversation soon. So, don't wonder, just look. - Martha

If the web tool is adding value to what you are doing, nothing wrong in being a cheerleader for it - Tejas Patel

London is asleep right now - Doubledown_inSL

Martha: I don't understand how to make Paul Carr understand. :-) - Robert Scoble

Doubledown: London is just getting started right now. - Robert Scoble

Robert, if you were a FriendFeed thought leader we would all cheer. - Dutch Driver

Let's all cheer for Friendfeed. Gooooo Friendfeed! - Asgeir

I don't understand it either, but I still love it. - Oracio

Twitter is lame. FF rocks. - CW™

I really WANT to like friendfeed more, just seems good in theory though - Doubledown_inSL

Oracio: I'd say something sexist right now, but even though I've had too many glasses of wine I won't. - Robert Scoble

Surely cheerleaders don't really understand what they're drawing people's attention to anyway ;-) - Katie Dob from iPod

The only reason I really have a FriendFeed account is to talk to you. Facebook has commoditized just about all the other 'niche social services' into a familiar interface for the masses. So as far as 'friend feeding' is concerned, there's really only one site shaping up to matter the most — and that's Facebook. For that reason, I don't see FriendFeed reaching past the early adopter crowd anytime soon. - Colin Anawaty

I've been trying to figure it out. As a result liking it more. That's normal. - Bob Morse

Robert lets go home , dont drink so much there :-))) - Johni Fisher

Robert: Don't let me stop you. Ha. - Oracio

Look what happened to jaiku, same will happen to Facebook. They will try to become something they will never be or beat, Twitter. - Zachary TG

You could be called worse things than cheerleader! - Rene Wirtz

Hey Robert - need any London restaurant recommendations? - Patrick Jordan

Colin: based on the reactions I've had in London I think the mainstream is coming within six months. This is how people used to treat me when I cheerleaded Twitter. - Robert Scoble

I just love logging on seeing interesting things role before my eyes :) - Asgeir

Patrick: no, we were eating dinner at the top of the BT Tower tonight and it was awesome. Even if I had to take some ribbing about my love of FriendFeed. - Robert Scoble

its a feel good kinda place.... - Bob DeMarco

Friendfeed wont be the shiznit until I can invite all of you into my vampire mob guild - Doubledown_inSL

Patrick: I'll post photos later, gotta go back to the bar cause Rocky is calling me. :-) - Robert Scoble

Bob DeMarco: That could be Friendfeed's slogan. lol - Zachary TG

Robert: perhaps you're right. I like some of FriendFeeds features and they are uniquely different, but is it enough? I'm not convinced... yet. - Colin Anawaty

Its a social data sharing/discovery space to me. - Darren Stuart

London feels good, especially after some wine. :-) - Robert Scoble

Hi everybody, FF newbie doing his first "chat" comment here... cheering since a couple of weeks, though - Fritz Feger

meanwhile....i never saw the comments box move this fast - Bob DeMarco

we're all newbs - Doubledown_inSL

I am not new - Zachary TG

Zachary....i'll share the royalties with you - Bob DeMarco

FriendFeed smells like new car - Doubledown_inSL

FriendFeed is a community. 'Nuff said. - Jorge Escobar

lol. - Zachary TG

Doubledown_inSL: How does it? - Zachary TG

Zachary: thank you, I just passed 43,000 today. Wild. Where did all these nobodies come from? Jorge: shhhh, quiet, you don't want the celebrities to hear you, do you? - Robert Scoble

No idea, Oprah mush have said something. LOL. - Zachary TG

poor me...still in the blue nowhere of freindfeed - Bob DeMarco

HAHA! You do read me, Mr. Scoble ;) - Jorge Escobar

I still don't figure how to find unread comments in between all that masses of text... any hints? - Fritz Feger

Sorry, Operah must have said something - Zachary TG

Feger..just read every fifth one - Bob DeMarco

Love to know how many people on this thread aren't techies. Bet it's close to one. That's counting me. - Jeff Strank

Bob DeMarco: Like that is going to work - Zachary TG

Oprah. Opera. Oprah. Opera. ... I'm confused - Doubledown_inSL

I'm a techie - Zachary TG

hahhaa - Bob DeMarco

Bob, that's what I do, but it's usually the important comments I'm missing by this - Fritz Feger

Just put this convo in its own tab. You do use a tab-enabled browser, right? - Jorge Escobar

Doubledown_inSL: I mean that when Operah said something about Twitter, everyone got a Twitter account - Zachary TG

i'm a non techie...which explains why i am in the blue nowhere of friend feed - Bob DeMarco

Techie too... - Fritz Feger

Who's Operah? - Jorge Escobar

People didn't just join for Oprah, they also joined for her KFC coupon too! - Doubledown_inSL

oprah's big sister - Bob DeMarco

oprah winfrey, sorry, multi-tasking - Zachary TG

Wine... You have not seen the real London before you been to a few bars drinking Stout :)) - Asgeir

this is kinda like Plato in 1974 - Bob DeMarco

Asgeir: we've had stout. We've had whiskey. We've had wine. What else is on the menu? - Robert Scoble

I am using the opera web browser and talking about oprah winfrey. LOL - Zachary TG

No Ale, Robert? - Jorge Escobar

scoble...a few more and you will understand FriendFeed - Bob DeMarco

I'm trying to imagine Robert in a cheerleader dress, that's all I can think right now. - natalia ventre

It connects people who like to talk. LOL. - Zachary TG

why must FriendFeed "beat" Facebook? - Brett Kelly

@Natalia, you already can see him in a surfer suit, no need to imagine - Jorge Escobar

Because it is easy - Zachary TG

Jorge: I have had ale too! And some cider. I'll post photos later and you'll see why this all matters. - Robert Scoble

Zachary...that explains it...nobody likes to listen - Bob DeMarco

That sounds more like it. Welcome to London. - Asgeir

Brett: so that Paul Carr will stop giving me heck about being a FriendFeed cheerleader. - Robert Scoble

LOL - Zachary TG

is this the end? - Bob DeMarco

Friendfed is better then Facebook, and will always be - Zachary TG

yeah..i am in the blue nowhere over there also - Bob DeMarco

Was nice to meet you and Rocky last night Robert. Albeit only for a minute as you were about to leave the bar :) - Simon Wicks

What matters is that I don't have access to your secret room, Robert. I hate it. :) - Jorge Escobar

I want access, he won't let me. LOL - Zachary TG

Bob: hopefully this isn't the end. But if it was the end I wouldn't be posting. My wife would be and it wouldn't be happy. - Robert Scoble

Robert - have Paul ask a question on the site through you and compare it to what he might see if he poses the same question through you on Twitter and Facebook. That might convince him. - Martha

Jorge: have I met you face-to-face? Only people I've met face-to-face get access to @secretscoble. - Robert Scoble

Martha: that's an unfair fight. - Robert Scoble

I know the rules, Robert. Doesn't mean I don't hate it. - Jorge Escobar

scoble...go over to my friendfeed...meet my fact and send me the key - Bob DeMarco

opps face - Bob DeMarco

Robert Scoble: Yes you have. I saw your profile pic, and you follow me on FriendFeed so you have seen my profile pic too. LOL. - Zachary TG

You didn't explain that the fight needed to be fair - just effective. - Martha

I am also a Friendfeed cheerleader :). It simply rocks. Cool features, super stable. It's the best - alfred westerveld

Jorge: you just gotta meet me and buy me a beer. :-) - Robert Scoble

i wanna be a FriendFeed cheerleader - Bob DeMarco

Robert Scoble: Yes you have. I saw your profile pic, and you follow me on FriendFeed so you have seen my profile pic too. LOL. - Zachary TG

Damn. How many have you had Robert? LOL - Jorge Escobar

Zachary...exactly - Bob DeMarco

LOL - Zachary TG

Jorge: I lost count. - Robert Scoble

Twitter is lame... but I still wouldn't listen to them :) - Tim Hoeck

i wish i had a bigger screen like all you techies - Bob DeMarco

I only have three 30" and an iMac with a 24" - Zachary TG

:: Doing hypnosis to Robert :: Tomorrow, when you wake up, you'll remember we met the day before. Snap! - Jorge Escobar

wooooooooooo - Bob DeMarco

Bob: I'm stuck in London with a 15-inch MacBook, no big screen. Jorge: funny! - Robert Scoble

Someone Please make the bad mental image of Scoble in a cheerleader's uniform go away!!! - Bastard Operator From FF

And I haven't had anything to drink - Jorge Escobar

yeah...well i am stuck in delray beach - Bob DeMarco

LOL, I do not even have a laptop, just lots of iMacs. And a crappy netbook. One of the first - Zachary TG

We stopped at 123 comments, lol - Zachary TG

Gooooo FF! Robert is like the captain of the football team here. - Tracy Benham

Robert..do you look like the Hulk when you are drinking? - Bob DeMarco

All the time is more like it, lol - Zachary TG

Robert, indeed it's time to change the avatar - Jorge Escobar

I second the motion - Zachary TG

don't do that...i won't be able to find you..since i can't get in the secret room - Bob DeMarco

lol - Zachary TG

Zachary...do you think if i get a cool image like Robert I could pop out of the blue nowhere? - Bob DeMarco

I think Robert is a goner. He must be snoring, his face in the counter. - Jorge Escobar

Not really. I wouldn't describe his avatar as cool. - Zachary TG

Bob: you don't want to see me angry. You either Jorge. :-) - Robert Scoble

is the ripley guy here yet? - Bob DeMarco

LOL, he forgot about me. LOL - Zachary TG

Any plans for Cambridge? - Philip Baddeley from iPhone

Philip: survival as we punt on the Cam. - Robert Scoble

Oooo... my knees are trembling, Robert. LoL. BTW, you should be Qik'ing this right now. - Jorge Escobar

Yes you should - Zachary TG

Jorge: no we shouldn't. :-) - Robert Scoble

What cell do you have Robert? - Zachary TG

HAHAHA - Jorge Escobar

could be jail - Bob DeMarco

A great time to bond with your community, and you throw it away? - Jorge Escobar

Zachary: in London I'm carrying an iPhone and a Nokia N79. I also have a Palm Pre but it doesn't work here cause Sprint didn't turn on the International plan. - Robert Scoble

This has to bee the fastest amount of comments on any post on Friendfeed - Asgeir

Cool. Too bad I don't have a Palm Pre yet, they aren't in Canada yet. Stupid Bell. - Zachary TG

Jorge: have a beer and bond. Heheh. - Robert Scoble

just shows you what can happen when people get lonely - Bob DeMarco

Will do, after I process all the wine I consumed over the weekend ;) - Jorge Escobar

Bob: I'm not lonely. Just had lots of wine and beer. - Robert Scoble

i meant those of us that are not drinking and in london - Bob DeMarco

How hard is it to get people to visit a website? Like mine - Zachary TG

Bob: that's no excuse. Have a beer and find someone to share it with! - Robert Scoble

Robert, when's the next time you're in NYC? - Jorge Escobar

Jorge: I want to visit again soon. Lots of cool stuff happening in NYC, but not sure when I'll be there next. - Robert Scoble

I'm sorry, London England or London Canada?........ - Zachary TG

London England - Mark

ook - Zachary TG

AKA Best City in the World - Mark

Zachary: come on! Would I really be talking about London, Canada? - Robert Scoble

Aight. I'm right here in Union Square. Have a great time and hopefully we'll meet P2P. - Jorge Escobar

Is that why he is Drunk, because he is in wine countru - Zachary TG

test - Bob DeMarco

Zachary: no wine country around here. Just a great city. - Robert Scoble

London is great at night, but try working there thru the week. AWFUL - Mark

Robery Scoble: Sorry, I live in CANADA. WHAT IS WRONG WITH LONDON, CANADA? - Zachary TG

Be back later, gotta upload photos. - Robert Scoble

The man who tires of London, tires of Life. - Ian May

what the heck..friendfeed through me out - Bob DeMarco

LOL, haha - Zachary TG

Bye all, follow me on Twitter, I'm @ZacharyTG, and go to my tech site, http://whittv.wordpress.com - Zachary TG

Now that was tasteless - Jorge Escobar

I think someone needs to photoshop your icon and change the hulk hands to some green cheerleading pompoms - Tamara

Zach: Plenty wrong with London, Ontario Canada. Its exactly too far from Toronto, Niagara, Windsor and anywhere else you would want to go to do something on a Friday night and get home at a decent hour :) - Luke Kilpatrick

How did this conversation go from FF to alcohol consumption to where the best city in the world is? Ahhh, its because of number 2! Have fun all! :-) - Brandi Madrid

I think this is true - Bruce.d.Stewart

Ian May I love that: he man who tires of London, tires of Life. Very true - Asgeir

It was Samule Johnson who said "When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life" in 1777 - Ian May

Robert, I'm not sure the cheerleader outfit would suit you... :-) Cheers in the UK. - Ken Stewart | ChangeForge

Ken: I can cheer "rah, rah, rah" along with the best of them. :-) - Robert Scoble

You mean that Oprah isn't a web browser named after a web browser? ;) /me ducks - Tyson Key

Scobleizer in Lycra.. .I don't think so :) - Rhys Amos

Mind you, Samuel Johnson seemed to be a man of much higher intellect, than Boris, who is a bumbling, bungling what-ho public schoolboy twat type. - Ian May

I think the little white socks are hot, Robert. - Oldengrey (Jay)

Tyson, LOL! - Ken Stewart | ChangeForge

Pompoms? ;-) - iconic88

Damn I wish I had some pompoms! *giggle* Give me an "F" "F" it again! What's "F F" stand for? FriendFeed! Robert! Those gloves in your avatar should be able to shake things up enough! - Arleen Anderson

FF is cool! - Randy Allen Bishop

It's not a food bank? - John D Reasor

FF has way less spam, and supports actual conversations, choir - Ian Orekondy

+1 Ian. The signal-to-noise ratio is much easier to handle on FF than on other sites. (Yes, @Twitter, we're talking about _you_. Again.) - Bill Sodeman

Bill, yes, for sure! - Myrna

Robert, @secretscoble? Why not just DM. Hey are you going to sleep tonight? - Myrna

Everyday, I discover the power and flexibility of Friendfeed. - ashish

Myrna: yes I'm going to sleep now. Enough craziness for one evening. - Robert Scoble

I wouldn't say you were a cheerleader, more a bell ringer for the service - Joe Dawson

Growing up on IRC and AIM, somehow Twitter seemed natural and familiar, while Friendfeed has taken me outside of my comfort zone. Which is exciting! - Mike Chelen

It's kinda weird. So what is Friendfeed about? It seems to me that everyone just subcribes and never does anything else. - Chip

Robert, you're *always* a cheerleader for something. When I first started reading you, it was TabletPC (happy days!). And there's nothing wrong with that - you're a natural enthusiast. The only time it ever gets to be a problem is when you forget that whatever you're being enthusiastic about isn't the right way for everyone. - Ian Betteridge

You are doing with FriendFeed what you do with anything you love, talk about it all the time, get people engaged, then stand back and let them figure out how to use it for themselves. Whats to understand? ^_^ - Dan Morrill AKA Techwag

Great. Now I've got a mental image of Scoble in a short skirt and pedal pushers, carrying pom-pons. (You don't really have the legs for this look, by the way.) - John Craft

John, that's an image I really didn't want at lunch time :) - Ian Betteridge

Oh, those whingeing Poms in ol' Mother England...ignore them and keep on cheerleading. - George Hall (Australia)

How do I block all of John Craft's thoughts from making visuals in my head? :-) - James Schipper

Paul Buchheit

Real-time search. We have it. It's here. - http://blog.friendfeed.com/2009...

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Try http://friendfeed.com/search... It's also fun to watch the embedded search on the blog blog post (http://friendfeed.com/search...). You can see people discussing the blog post, from the blog post, in real time! - Paul Buchheit

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cooool - Dobromir Hadzhiev

coooool - zsafwan 

GREAT ! - Stanislas Jourdan

Eeee. Awesome. - Mark Trapp from iPhone

Impressive! Now you can save real time searches as embeddable widgets. That's just awesome! This is a massively POWERFUL feature. Thank you FF team! - Brian Daniel Eisenberg

Lol, you flipped the switch before the post came out as far as I can tell. I was searching for it and I couldn't see it. - Daniel J. Pritchett

Yowsa. Makes quick easy work out of social media monitoring, don't it? - Ian Wilker

YAY!!! FriendFeed staff rocks, that's all there is to it =) - FFing Enigma (aka Tina)

Congrats Paul to you and your team! Another one bites the dust! - Jorge Escobar

WAAAAAAAAA.. meta real time search.. love the concept of embed a real-time search !! Way to Team FF -- luv u guys !! :)- - Peter Dawson

Do you guys sleep? Honestly, love the constant output and attention you guys pay to user feedback. I know this highly requested and probably not easy to implement. - Frankie Warren

Twitter Killer! - David Schmidt

Thanks so much Paul & Co. Excellent work! - Leo Laporte

hey love they way they launched search.. espcially when its close to "Search Marketing Day 2009" !1 - Peter Dawson

Thanks Leo. Jim and Gary did most of the work on this one though. - Paul Buchheit

Track is back! This is a gamechanger. - Mike Doeff from iPhone

Track is back! - Christian Burns from iPhone

Excellent news. - LPH™ and his dog P™ from BuddyFeed

I think I'm going to scream if I hear "track" again - someone please define it for me - Jesse Stay

Wow, great work! - Meryn Stol

I stand in awe of your hackfullness. - Ted Gilchrist

Good work. Much-anticipated. - Louis Gray

@Jesse: It's a dead twitter command "track keyword" sends you realtime updates whenever the word is used. Think of it like realtime google alerts for friendfeed. - Daniel J. Pritchett

I'm pretty sure Gillmor et al kept calling it "track" because that's what Twitter called it back when they had it for a week. - Daniel J. Pritchett

On a related note, live embeddable searches mean that I can hack together my own FF embeds for the pages that don't have them yet, like say "comment:dpritchett" http://friendfeed.com/search... - Daniel J. Pritchett

Daniel, Twitter never had this - this isn't "track" - Jesse Stay

you guys rock. - Karoli

...wowsers! Very nice! - JA Castillo

The blogpost said they're working to implement "keyword notifications" Jesse, that will be "track" - Frankie Warren

Twitter's brought back track, it's just no one cares. You can now have updates by keyword on Twitter pushed to you, via XMPP, just like track used to. Gillmor says that's not track. - Jesse Stay

That's why I hate the term "track" - no one knows what it is. The way Paul is explaining it, as real-time search, is a much better way of explaining it. - Jesse Stay

I guess we're still missing the realtime notifications piece that folks want. You can shape the firehose to watch terms in realtime but you can't yet get it pushed outside of FF via email or IM? - Daniel J. Pritchett

Daniel, Twitter has that right now, but Gillmor says that's not track - Jesse Stay

/me prints up a few hundred "That's not track!" t-shirts - Daniel J. Pritchett

Killer feature. I'm watching news about Honduras scrolling by. Very useful. - Chris Baskind

Jesse: Oh, i'm with you... Real-Time Search is a better term :) - Frankie Warren

BTW, integrating this into my blog right now - Jesse Stay

Me too Jesse. Making a new static page for that comment:dpritchett search I mentioned - Daniel J. Pritchett

this is definitely cool and all, but what about API? We are falling way behind on feature sets :) - Tim Hoeck

It's like an alternative to watching TV, in a literary sort of way. - Ted Gilchrist

awesome!:) - m.0

kewl! - phil baumann

Yay! This is the killer feature (once it's in the API, of course ;) - Brandon Titus

I'd love to see a blog post about how this is implemented. Real-time search has some interesting problems. - Chris Lamprecht

I take it back - I can't integrate this into my blog until I can filter it to a single list. I really need an embed for "comment:dpritchett list:e20" except lists are still virtual in that no one other than me can see them unless I use the atom export. - Daniel J. Pritchett

Awesomeness! I'm loving this right now. - Anthony K. Valley ©

Wow you guys rock! - Alfredo

I am sloooooooooooow. But what/where is the template to make the embeddable widget. please? - Marg Uerite

You're right Jesse - it's not exactly Track but it's getting a lot closer. The old Twitter Track allowed you to set up multiple search terms (e.g. track iphone) and get those delivered to your IM with zero time lag. At any time you could type "track" to see what you're currently tracking and "untrack" to untrack something - e.g. "untrack iphone". There are some third party tools that... more... - Mike Doeff

Paul, is there a way to change the title of the embed? The long search string looks kinda bad. - Jesse Stay

Mike, Twitter offers that today. Gillmor says it's not Track. - Jesse Stay

Marg, after you do a search, click the "Share / embed search" link to get the embed code. - Dan Hsiao

Jesse, are you sure? Can you provide a URL describing this feature? I think you're referring to Twitter Search (and saved searches) which is totally different. - Mike Doeff

Mike, it's in beta and available to developers, but it's back, minus SMS support: http://staynalive.com/article... - Jesse Stay

Jesse, when / where did Gillmor say that isn't track? I'm pretty sure that Steve just wants the old track brought back, with some filtering capabilities added (the old Track didn't filter out blocked accounts). - Mike Doeff

Yay! Have been eagerly awaiting this. :) - Rick Turoczy

Mike, he's said in various comments. Looks like Track to me... Heck, it's even called "track". - Jesse Stay

BTW this is on staynalive.com now (look in the sidebar): http://staynalive.com/ - Jesse Stay

for my italian friends: stica... - Alberto D'Ottavi from fftogo

Jesse - you can hide the ugly search bar with a little quick CSS - it's <h1> under an easily identified class. - Daniel J. Pritchett from IM

Daniel, good idea - I'd love to change the title more than that though. - Jesse Stay

just a few minutes work and I have a FriendFeed realtime search embedded in a blog http://www.amsterdam20.nl (web 2.0 event) - Jeroen De Miranda

Yeah - Brian Sullivan

FF guys: we like your style :) --- way to go!! - Harscoat

I think I'm going to cry - Bwana ☠

awesomesauce! - Simon Wicks

This is a really great innovation, congrats friendfeed team! - Garin Kilpatrick

Thanks, Jim and Gary! Lots of hard work for a very cool result! - Anne Bouey

HhhhhUuuuuuGggggEeeee !!! - Harold Cabezas

I want to 'Like' this *twice*! many thanks! - topo

The first step in a storystreaming platform! - Kevin Sablan

Whoa. Wow. And Yes! Fantastic work, FF team. - Micah Wittman

Good stuff although should support negative operators such as I should able to search my name in the all posts NOT coming from me. I've tried "from:-username" but it doesn't seem to work. - Ferruh Mavituna

OK, you guys are wicked talented! It's kind of scary, but I love it. So what's next? Just kidding:) - Michael Fidler

Ferruh: you just have it a bit backwards... try -from:username instead :) - Ross Miller

WOOOOOOOOOOW. Friendfeed is really pushing some cool features out :). Friendfeed is the best :) - alfred westerveld

How can we embed FriendFeed search? - Mike Reynolds

Mike - There's a link at the top of the search just beneath the red bar. - Mitch

A box will pop up, take the HTML code from the bottom of that box. - Mitch

Thanks Mitch! - Mike Reynolds

Nice the embedding code can be dynamic.... <iframe src="http://friendfeed.com/search..." frameborder="0" height="600" width="400" style="border:1px solid #aaa"></iframe> - Mike Reynolds

Thanks @Ross it works fine now, love the RSS output. - Ferruh Mavituna

tabbr likes this - tabbr

Woo! So: will this cause a FF server meltdown anytime soon? - Tim Tyler

very good! - standin

Highly addictive--great stuff! I did notice that if you do a search like [google] you'll see dupe stories streaming by quite a bit (e.g. the TechCrunch story about Google Voice shows up over and over right now). Not sure if it's possible to de-dupe based on destination url a little bit more? - Matt Cutts

two months after redesign, we have access to real-time search. good news bc my preferred search engine is friendfeed. ;) - 'Like' robot (frɐnc)

We are there, in the battle against Twitter - Michael_techie

Best search engine became better :) - Chirag Chamoli

I can't say enough how amazing this is. So, I ordered a bottle of real-time translation to go with this magnificent feast of real-time search :D http://friendfeed.com/friendf... - Micah Wittman

Just to show what is possible now with this feature, I've built SteroidFeed: Go here to see it as well as download the files: http://friendfeed.com/lph... Latest version is 1.01. - LPH™ and his dog P™

It's amazing! - Lizunlong

I've been waiting for this since the new UI, excellent, thank you Paul and FF! I'll give this a play later. :-) - Kol Tregaskes

Micah, really looking forward to having your scripts work in Chrome. :-) - Kol Tregaskes

This is great. Well done, guys. - James Myatt

Awesome :D - Praveen Vasudev

great!! - Mike Chelen

Jeremiah Owyang

Brands focused on tools (Twitter, Facebook, Blog) without a strategy is like buying a hammer without having a blueprint for a house.

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Which is great if you just want to smash things :) - Chris Saad

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Jeremiah is right and Chris is right. - Louis Gray

+1 Chris & Jeremiah - Dobromir Hadzhiev

smash brothers? - Jeremiah Owyang

...or buying a blueprint for a hammer without having an house where to use it - Gabriele Cazzulini

Jeremiah Owyang

Friendfeed Management Team: Noticed their slow yet steady pace of product enhancements. Only once did they do a large revamp, this tool is slowly being evolved. What are they doing? Agile development? Rapid deployment? I like to suggest they are "slowly changing the water in the fishbowl so the fish rarely notice" gulp gulp.

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Feels a bit like scrum. Something new every few weeks to a month. I wonder how they keep track of tasks internally? - Daniel J. Pritchett

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what is a "scrum" - Jeremiah Owyang

aha http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... - Jeremiah Owyang

I love the incremental changes - Mike Doeff from iPhone

Um... Daniel, we use friendfeed to keep track of tasks internally :) - Ross Miller

No calendaring or deadlines of any sort? - Daniel J. Pritchett

It's odd how slow they are compared to how fast other, similar products evolve (like Posterous). - Brandon Mendelson

the mind boggles - Daniel J. Pritchett

Also wow @ Posterous as a similar product. Posterous is similar in that it allows you to post multimedia stuff to a lifestream, but show me their realtime commenting and content discovery engine and granular search features... - Daniel J. Pritchett

As long as they haven't put the fishbowl over a stove top and are slowly turning up the heat. - John E. Bredehoft

I have started using Friendfeed as a research clip board via bookmarklet to a Private Group and an outliner for writing tasks. Getting close to 101 uses for FF. - Deano @ Byron New Media

You lifestreaming? Like it! - Steve Rubel from iPhone

John: LOL. That thought came to me as well. - Joe Bonner

I would *love* to interview the FF team on their Product & Project Management methodologies, etc. - Susan Beebe

Have you noticed they've also stopped blogging about these changes? Fewer people talk about the "little things" when you don't make it obvious. - Jesse Stay

Great observation, Jeremiah! Google has been accused of following an "under the radar" product enhancement as well. It seems to be very effective in both cases. - Larry Hawes

Smells like agile, scrum or other extreme programming type of situation. I, personally, enjoy those environments. You get things out faster and can iterate or destroy with intelligence. - AJ Kohn

I live near Ben Golub, a FF developer, here in Rochester NY - OK Ben can we have an Dev process interview? I'll by lunch!! :) - Susan Beebe

We use the obscure "just get it done" methodology. Unfortunately, I don't think that there are any books written about it :) - Paul Buchheit

@Paul: Well, I think you just found the title of a new productivity book. "Just Get it Done" You know, for all that free time you have to write. :) - AJ Kohn

...where i work it's: "...just get it done...NOW!!!" - .LAG liked that

Paul - I know that one!! LOL :) - Susan Beebe

Jesse: We don't blog? - Kevin Fox

Doing things and talking about them, or worse, talking about the process used to talk about them, are (surprisingly to some) not in the same order of magnitude of productivity. Big companies like to make the assumption that talking is the ONLY way to do things. Excellent small teams operate like "expert brains" that just get stuff done. Bravo to "just get it done"! - Michael Herf

Kevin, you blog, but my point was you don't blog every new feature. Often you just launch features and let people gradually discover them. Maybe I just missed a few blog posts or something, but that's been my observation. - Jesse Stay

I'm not saying that's a bad thing, either - I think it's smart. - Jesse Stay

My only concern when I hear the Agile, Rapid, SCRUM or the "Just get it done" methodology mentioned is the fact that some developers who use those methods don't use them correctly. Without proper testing and documentation, developmental work is just looking to fail. I hear plenty of developers use the words but not understand the correct method. Beta testing is NOT the work of the demographic you are marketing to, and upgrades are no laughing matter if you don't know what you could be breaking or changing. - Kathleen Forden

I just checked and you can still monitor updates by viewing their changelog which is still live at http://changelog.friendfeed.com/ although it may not be updating. - Mark Krynsky

This I mentioned during our video at Plaxo. It's like being a frog in boiling water. - Louis Gray

Louis, you act like we're all dying here ;-) - Jesse Stay

good observation! combined with the rockbottom stability; very fast solving of bugs I conclude that the development process must be top-notch. Otherwise this incremental releasing of new features would be much more difficult. No suprise if you know that Paul and some other Friendfeeders previously have developed Google mail and Google maps; Google mail now having more than 100' mailboxes (must be very solid architecture and very scalable as well) - Jeroen De Miranda

Releasing things frequently increases quality independent of any testing simply because things get *really* tested (by real users) and fixed at a much faster rate. Weekly code pushes sound more stable, but they require an order of magnitude more testing inherently, because when you find a bug, you can't push out a fix for seven days. - Bret Taylor

Thanks Bret... - Jeremiah Owyang

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Right on the money shot. Its so true. The way its evolving, I fear that - Sampad Swain

Mainstream Media has always set the standard of what is "mainstream" no one dares to try something different in fear of losing - Eric James

Eric, is it possible... just possible, that people are pretty much the same animals they were five years ago and they respond to the kind of product mainstream media pumps out? Yes, it's crap. A decade ago an administrator commented that the beginning of the end for the internet was when they created the image tag for HTML. Academics once ruled the "internet," and bemoaned the birth of the commons. The IQ of internet users is plummeting. It's bound to effect its content. - Jason Nunnelley

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Do you Poken? Click here to see a Poken in action and learn more about how business cards might go away:

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http://wwww.doyoupoken.com is what you're looking at. Here the founder, Stephane Doutriaux is demonstrating them. - Robert Scoble

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My Poken is the pink one. You hold it against his. They automatically have "poken sex" and trade your information, which you can then see up on the DoYouPoken website. Very cute and would have saved me a lot of money in scanning business cards in. - Robert Scoble

That is, if everyone had them. Right now they are too expensive to go really viral, though. - Robert Scoble

Most stupidest thing ever IMHO. - Peter Kruit

Robert, I have one. I agree with You, too expensive (15 euro each one) - Luca Conti

I can't wait until these are cheap and available to everyone, which hopefully will be soon. - Trish R

12 of them costs about $189, which is way too much. If they can get the cost down to $1 or $2 a piece, then I could see them taking off. Until then, they are fun game if you get one for free at a conference or something like that. - Robert Scoble

in italy poken is amazing and overbooked !!!! - michele ficara

This is hilarious! Poken sex is better than no sex! I actually heard something about the iphone app that sort of does this by exchanging info as you get close to another iphone user who also has the app. I do think physical cards will go away. - Sheryl

I would get one seems like fun - Matt Bebich

probably wont catch on here in the states, but cool idea - sean percival

It's a cool technology, though, and lots of fun to do at a conference if everyone has them (they are building them into badge holders, too). - Robert Scoble

Way too expensive, and would you really ask a client "Do you Poken"? - Bruce Fraser

Pondering Facebook pokes in a whole new unhealthy way... - Ken Camp

They need to make one of those with "The Big Blue Monster" from GapingVoid on them :) - Sean Kearney

If I asked questions like that in some of the pubs I go to it would be the last question I asked :-) - Gordon Wheeler

What happens if someone just walks by and they have one do they automatically get your information - Matt Bebich

Gordon: I wouldn't advise using that as a pickup line! :-) - Robert Scoble

Matt: no. They have to touch to exchange information. - Robert Scoble

I have one but at the moment not so many people have a Poken! - Michela Cimnaghi /cimny

Oh, and they have "executive" versions coming out that don't look cartoonish. - Robert Scoble

Sean, when they go down in price, they will totally catch on in the U.S. I went to a conference here in Houston where your badge was also a thumb drive with everyone's contact info on it and we were talking about how handy these will be when people are using them. - Trish R

embed this tech into a mobile and you have a winner - Richard Spalding

I just checked them out... The price for one isn't ridiculous. Under $20. I've spent more on memory keys and Walkie Talkies in the past. :) - Sean Kearney

Consider the cost of a box of business cards before saying these are too expensive. Richard +1 - Justin Hopkins

Business cards can be used with everyone, these things can't (yet) Cards are still king. - Bruce Fraser

I thought you couldn't buy them individually yet. - Trish R

I like the idea. It's definitely neat. I would pay for a "Poken" with a custom logo on it. It definitely is unique. - Sean Kearney

FireBox sell then here in the U.K. - Bruce Fraser

This won't even last as long as sending vcards via IR. - Hartley Spurlock

Would love to have one but can imagine me never encountering anyone to Poken in my world. At least not in the near future. - suecosby

We do Poken Robert! And we also organized a Poken Party for the launch of the new FIAT 500 Cabrio in Milan: http://www.flickr.com/photos... - Marco Massarotto

If they are going to replace business card maybe they should not make them look like something that comes with a Happy Meal. - Brendan Clancy

Maybe they should give them away with Happy Meals, then we'd all have one... - Bruce Fraser

There are new models coming that look very "executive." - Robert Scoble

And if they really went viral, and someone Pokened profligately and started spreading PSTDs that ruined your Poken's ability to replicate... - MiniMage TKDteacher of FF

Scoble: $1 or $2? $10 seems worth it, the savings in business cards alone could justify the expense. executive would be a plus... (i'm picturing a monkey in a suit.) - Marco

Saw these about six months ago and thought it was a fart in the wind. Can't believe this is still around. - Chris Menning

I'm all for adding a bit of fun to productivity. We take ourselves so freaking seriously all the time. This seems like a useful step away from somber zombiefication. Now for the corporate types who want faceless uniformity, surely custom Poken with suitably unremarkable appearances and all the functionality could become reality. Am I FFing myself out of my next job? Maybe I should go for a ride. - MiniMage TKDteacher of FF

Robert -- i've got a cute little Geisha girl one. They're up to cool stuff. The cool thing is, the info isn't stored so if you lose it, you don't give up info. It's just an exchange of ID's. I love them. Ok, i'm partial. Had dinner with Renate and she rocks. Don't write cuteness off just yet guys. They're up to stuff. :) - Christine Lu

I have one, KPMG gave some Poken at a professional forum for my school. I think, there are two problems. First it really doesn't look business, but as you said, a business version is coming. And, it only works with another poken, it should works with Iphone or blackberry using the bluetooth and a free application we can download for Iphone or Blackberry. - tristan

If you poken, what's your poken score? I'm "Fan 244 points" - KyleHase from twhirl

I still have a few Pokens that I'm willing to give away... Read: http://www.aadjemonkeyrock.com/2009... - Aad 't Hart

Yeah, I still remember when Palm's IR beaming was going to kill business cards... - Joel Bennett

This is the most bizarre idea I have ever heard of, but I like it. I doubt this will ever catch on though, unless it becomes cheaper and more "professional". I can't see cute little avatars being taken seriously in real world business. - Angus Burton

they could be free and then it would be possibile to buy and exchange virtual goods. I do not see any future for business card: it is something that you can do with your mobile phone and I wonder why it is not yet implemented in the address book. - Nicola Mattina

Really strange idea to replace personal cards... - Marcos Vicente

you can get them in States at www.startpoken.com - Roger Huitt

Mobile phones need to adopt/embrace this technology. I think it'll be a hit. - Richard Merritt

There's also an app that does this for the iPhone... http://www.bumptechnologies.com/ Just need one for the BB. ;-) - cmiper

I really think that business card will go digital. - Keven

... the business card already has gone digital. Check out Contxts http://contxts.com -- I've been using it for a few months now... Works Great. And Saves Trees! - Richard Merritt

Try it here if you'd like to see it in action... SMS/Text the word: RichardMerritt to 50500 - Richard Merritt

I do poken. It's been a while :-) - Paul Papadimitriou

If u meet a sexy babe in a club, a sure way to turn her off is to pull out your poken. - Tokyo Dan

I met a girl. I gave her a good poken. It was her first poken. Now she gives every man a good poken. - Tokyo Dan

If you want to get arrested in Japan, walk into a police box and pull out your poken. - Tokyo Dan

Need a design that more effectively accommodates the Japanese meishi-kokan culture. - Daniel Fath

I like this. Even tried to buy a 12-pack. Link is broken. This does not bode well for this company. - Leo Laporte

Once they get Poken with a bigger size limit (I think you can only store the contact information of 12 contacts at one time), maybe add a few more useful features in there as well, then we'll have a good product. Make them look like real high-tech business cards and THEN it will really catch on. - Malcolm Bastien

@LeoLaporte Yes the website is their biggest weakness. The "card" information editor is abysmal. - KyleHase

Cute and all but seriously, no businessman outside silicon valley is going to carry one of these things around. - David Jacobs

Good point tristan: "it should works with Iphone or blackberry using the bluetooth and a free application we can download for Iphone or Blackberry". - Jadito

Reminds me of that line from Singles when that once character is trying to convince everyone that they will want to ride the train but everyone answers, "but i love my car". People love business cards for better or worse, it's a way to be a designer without being one. - adolfo foronda

You can store 64 identities on the current model. Once you reach that limit, it erases the first one. The device signals you at 60. I have three poken, just in case, but most of the time, I don't reach that limit. As soon as I go to my Mac and connect with doyoupoken.com, contacts are saved. - Paul Papadimitriou

Note: beware of putting multiple pokens in one pocket: they talk to each other ;-) - Paul Papadimitriou

I love the idea/bought 12 and have tried to push them a bit with my networking group however the lack of effort on the companies part to promote them in the US is really slowing things down. Adoption will not come with out some serious evangelism and seeding on the companies part. - Joel Ordesky

Poken are doing great here in Japan. I helped the launch at a blogger event a couple of months back and there's been steady progress since then. I'm helping evangelize Poken here. The company has really done a lot of thinking in order to make Poken a success. Will definitely be interested to see whether they can get to a critical mass. I certainly hope so as they are are a huge time and cost saver. (If you think of the cost of one business card, one unit will pay for itself in a short amount of time). - Andrew Shuttleworth

@ashuttleworth You're the Poken Pimp of Tokyo. Most people I've pokened said they got it from you. - KyleHase

Always happy to pimp a good thing :-) - Andrew Shuttleworth

@papadimitriou The Poken are conspiring against you. Quick, wrap them in foil before they know too much. - KyleHase

The Poken are clearly conspiring against me :-) Hey, I'm the official evangelist along with Andrew, so I had to test things out for you all ^^ - Paul Papadimitriou

Had a nice chat with Robert Scoble a few weeks back where I offered him a Poken by mail. He didn't know what I was talking about at first but then realized he had forgotten he had received one at SXSW. I mentioned how popular and relevant they were becoming and didn't receive a response. Wondering: what has changed to make them interesting now? - Robert Sanzalone

Poken hype or no hype ? In the Netherlands it's a great success and Belgium is following. - Mike Verdugt

robert do you remember when i first showed you that at last LeWeb08 in Paris in the cab? - Ouriel Ohayon

No I don't (yet), what about you? - Gianluigi Cuccureddu

I have one but I haven't met anyone else with one yet in the UK. Think it's a great idea and reckon it won't be long before businesses are using them. - Lindsay Davies

what do they say about a fool and their money? - Gee Ranasinha

Why can't this just be on a phone, seems like a waste of money to have a separate piece of hardware - Ben

Complete waste of space. Buy a Poken but nobody has one. Pointless. Should be a phone as everyone else says. It's been said over and over with this product, why don't they just patent the technology and sell it to a mobile phone maker? Job done. Tired of these bullshit Web 2.0 gimmicks... - Andrew Eglinton

Cucat, anyone? - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... - John Craft

I actually think http://www.mynameise.com will appeal much more to people actually using business cards. The connector is coming and brings much more than people giving each other an online card to look at. They did not win The Next Web Award for nothing :) - Ruud van Wijngaarden

There's a free app on the IPhone called 'Bump' that does the same thing as far as I can see. - Rob Bell

They have been available in the United States for 2 months at www.startpoken.com - Roger Huitt

Cool! Poken are available in Japan too, at http://poken.jp/en/ . Buy one and get poken! - Rick Cogley

They are here in NZ but I don't know anyone who has one and it's all about mass adoption - I prefer the snapdat iphone app - you can get someone to download it on the spot and bam - you got their details. - James Stewart

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I love it. Everyone is complaining that friendfeed is going too fast. Welcome to my world! Now, learn to use lists!

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yea not sure about this.. it's basically "real time view" with a better UI - andy brudtkuhl

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This is awesome! I need to start following more people NOW! - Lise

I'm trying it based on your recommendation. So far, so good! - Denise Polivy

Wow it moves real fast - coze

It's like IRC now. - Andrew Leyden

And there's always that Pause button up there to slow things down - Craig Eddy

Can I drag people to lists yet? That'd make it easier to organize. - Jordan Hofker

Hee hee, it's like being turned into a pinball! - Mark Dykeman

too awesome - Marco(aureliusmaximus)

If it's too fast, you're too old. - Justin Doub

Why use lists when the people I subscribe to are the ones I want to see? Only reason i have lists is to see specific people that I like to follow and catch up with at the end of the day. Kind of like RSS. - CW™

no one likes change ,, change is inevitable .. - johnpiercy

It's going to make HIDE much more important. - Andrew Leyden

wow! this is crazy cool - patrick

the list options create great filters. - Peter van Teeseling

FriendFeed as the same potencial than Diigo and the same problem: not easy to use... - António Teixeira

How dare you tell me how to use FriendFeed! (Except that you're right, of course; time to address my lists usage.) - Akiva Moskovitz

I think that we have to introduce segmentation in our reading :) it is fun and exciting :) - abdellah

I would like the icons back saying what type of service the post is from...possibly in the bottom right corner of the avatars. - Paul Arterburn

My parents will hate how active the page is - the next generation, who go at the pace of Wall-E, will eat it up - Christopher Galtenberg

haha, yeah I need to up my game in the lists - haven't had to use - but now I will. But I love it! - Tony

That's dangerous. Lists require lots of thought, work, organization. If there's one thing we know from running Grazr, people do not want to do that (well most non-organization obsessed people). I think essentially forcing the use of lists is a big mistake for broader adoption. - mikepk

I suspect people will trim their subscribe list, while they adjust - Joelle Nebbe (iphigenie)

Or the pause button! - Paul Jacobson

so what's the first thing to do that's going to slow this down? - Todd Jordan

I don't mind the speed, but I think there are more elegant things they could do with the UI during live updates (ie: fading to/from colors) and of course letting the user control speed of updates and UI effects. - Ryan Stanley

when he name list, it mean filtering :) - abdellah

Hmm... a few rooms (feeds now?) I created seem to be missing or just not easy to find. Will check out the tour to see if I'm missing something - Dave Ferrick

the one problem with the speed is that what you are scanning suddenly jumps off the page. perhaps a way to "pin" what you are reading temporarily... - Joelle Nebbe (iphigenie)

woah neddy.....wouldn't tabs for search terms in the main page be a good idea... - Paul Fabretti

Yikes, is there a pause button somewhere? - Sally Church

This mega-threaded replies really do float to the top. - Andrew Leyden

I guess your world sucks then. - Brian Sullivan

I feel a bit like @scobleizer now. - Mike Reynolds

pause button in upper right corner on blue strip. - Thomas Hawk

+Joelle I think I'm benefiting by having relied on FOAF a lot more than subscribe to everyone interesting. - Micah Wittman

pause top right || - Andrew Leyden

@Sally yes - Ryan Stanley

Sally, Pause icon in top blue bar, right side. - Micah Wittman

i think we'll get used to it. I already use lists, but still it's the motion of what you are reading that is tricky - Joelle Nebbe (iphigenie)

So is this just live in the BETA area or is it going live system wide today? - Andrew Leyden

it's amazing to see the comments pooring in here. - Peter van Teeseling

needs a keyboard shortcut for pause. Or a contextual gesture (like hovering over some part of a story). Having to scroll to the top to pause is clunky - mikepk

Wow, the likes pop up fast! - Steve Rubel

Weird when what you're reading wobbles because there are things going on above it - if the L&F remains, we can dub this the 'newquake' :) - Christopher Galtenberg

I worried that the new oh my god it refresh so fast kill the conversation in FF, I havn't to worry robert thread will be there as long or may be longer then ever - abdellah

Andrew: just in beta area. - Robert Scoble

Oh... the room I created is now under Subscriptions. Okay... - Dave Ferrick

love your new avatar!!!! - B.L. Ochman

wow, love the way the comments roll in...Robert, is your video up? good tips in it? - Richard Binhammer

Pop Up! - Jeff Stannard

I can't WAIT until the twitter-only crowd starts bitching about all of the friendfeed meta convos that are "cluttering up" their twitter streams - Marco(aureliusmaximus)

@Thomas, thank you, thank you! I was getting dizzy just trying to read anything. I hate the fugly UI and the RT speed. Going back to Twitter, at least one can read in peace at own pace there. - Sally Church

Lists are the only way to fly, it seems. :) - ha3rvey (sup homepants)

The world is a river... - Marcelo Nobrega

I use lists but for a completely different purpose. - Brian Sullivan

Hey Scoble, which desktop client do you use for FF? - David Alfaro

LISTS are the only sane way to manage FriendFeed. I've had to learn that once I past a 1,000 subscriptions - Susan Beebe

what happened to the block button - Russ Jackson

I want an RSS feed for a list - Dave Ferrick

dave!! do you want to read your FF list in an rss reader? - abdellah

It pays to be a newbie right now I guess. The speed is to slow. I actually appreciate it being slow right now, gives me a chance to better understand it - Russ Jackson

Yeah, I have my list paused now. I think we will get used to it anyway. It is fun to watch so many different reactions in so little time. - Carlos Lorenzo

Have to say -- the message threading is now very nice indeed. Love the automatic update of comments, too. As I typed this, a couple others came in and didn't disrupt. Sweetness. Now I need to learn about lists. - Anthony Baker

This is really nice so far..liking the realtime comments -DMs are a great addition. Time for more exploration :) - guruvan (Rob Nelson)

I said the same thing, but then everyone told me I gotta use Filters instead.... - Bwana ☠

Lists are king :) Also, just figured out that ROOMS ---> "FEED" - everything is a "feed" type now - Susan Beebe

Your green aura frightens me, Mr.Grinch. - Terence

As I'm one who thinks the quality of interaction went down when lists were added, being forced to make more lists doesn't seem a positive. - Todd Hoff

I thought the whole point of FF was that you didn't have to "learn" a lot about the interface in order to enjoy the experience. Lists kinda ruined things for me, so if that's the only way to enjoy the new FF, I guess I won't be. - Jennifer Dittrich

David: I am using Safari as my FF client. Jennifer: that's never been true. This is a lot easier to learn than the old interface. - Robert Scoble

This will force me to better use lists... - Seth Meranda

You are the Captain Ahab of social media, Robert. ;-) - Chris Baskind

Hehe really fastt :) - Alp

The problem is using lists more actually decreases conversation IMHO. I dunno..... - Ⓐ ☠ slayerboy ☠ Ⓐ

There's also the pause button at the top of the page to stop the auto update. - John F Morton

Yep, agreed. Learn to use lists, use filters, ya gotta learn that sooner or later. I had to do it in Facebook some time ago. - Tom Parish

Do you have a formulas that you use for your lists? - Ed Entrepreneur

The filters are only marginally useful. I don't see any way to filter stuff out of a feed. The options for searching/filtering seem just too basic to be any real use. - Brian Sullivan

Robert, if this is how you've been following Friendfeed ever since you've started, you've become my personal hero. Either you have superpowers or you were born in Krypton. - Jordi Soler from twhirl

you need the pause button accessible from anywhere on the page. I'm 70 plus comments down on this conversation and the screen keeps pushing it down and makes the screen "jittery" to keep your eye on what you are reading. Because the screen is moving fast, you probably need 'comment' 'like' and 'hide' links on each nested conversation on anything over 30 comments - Lou Paglia

now robert may we ask you to share with us some tip about list?!! - abdellah

Brian: what would you like to see in filters? - Robert Scoble

if you think the new FF is too fast, stop trying to follow Scoble's threads ;) - Ryan Stanley

I'm gonna start on the lists :) Way too fast. - Roberto Bonini

Any way to pause on an individual user's page? - Aaron Fowler

abdellah: you need to build lists around interests and personality types. So "noisy jerks" go in one list "quilters" go in another "posts lots of bacon" goes in another "tech geeks" goes in another. Jordi: my life has been real time for more than a year now. This takes it to a new level, though. - Robert Scoble

I would like to see negative searching for one thing -- I want to see everything that doesn't have LOLcats in it for example. - Brian Sullivan

we need a keyboard shortcut for pause. Would help read comments, etc - shaun mclane

We asked for ways to better track our discussions - and now we have an improved version (due to convenient link). - Mike Reynolds

@Brian Sullivan search for cats -lolcats should eliminate them from your results - Ryan

robert, I was thinking like hope that some will not screw the schema of filtering, notice that when we filter using keyword some will may probably try to target some keyword in their feed title . - abdellah

Robert - yep - this definitely is not for the faint hearted. Must be on crack to use this! LOL - Susan Beebe

It's an interesting interface. I'll be looking to see if conversations can still occur with this type of flow. - AJ Kohn

Im curious Robert how many subscriptions do you show under your Subscriptions box. I have 9 and than 90 more. - Russ Jackson

'welcome to my world' ha ha. i think with all the love the RS gives friendfeed on a regular basis it only made sense to improve it - AJK

14221 more. - Robert Scoble

Agreed. I'm going to have to learn to make new feeds to keep using this. Also, I may have to do something to get rid of this light grey background. - Ted Roden

Would you agree that after clicking on the more link there needs to be better organization of that page or can that be organized through lists as well. - Russ Jackson

I need to be able to post updates from a list if they're going to be encouraging me to use lists. - Jesse Stay

The lists/filters system is too complicated - DarknessFalls

The problem is that lets say a video is shared, and I'm watching the video - the page keeps going down, and I can't finish watching the video inside FriendFeed! That's not sharing, is it? - Daniel Brusilovsky

My problem is the lists and the filters create more feeds which create more need for more organization. - Russ Jackson

@Daniel Good point. Perhaps they could open Videos (and similar stuff) in a modal window, allowing the content to scroll ? - Ahsan Ali aka. Slick

I think if they auto-pause the UI while I'm mousing over it that might help. It wouldn't need to pause long, just a few seconds. - Matt Griffith

I don't foresee myself being a pioneer on the new FFeed, so hoping to see some interesting articles now that the embargo time has passed - AJK

Just clicked pause for a minute but the counter for queued items doesn't show! - Damian Holmes

Another suggestion on the new real-time updates. Give me keyboard shortcuts to pause the feed. Using my mouse is too slow in a fast-moving feed. - Jesse Stay

There's alot to complain about FriendFeed and it's UI. Still has alot of problems to address. - Chris Rodgers

+1 for Pause keyboard shortcut. - Matt Griffith

Agreed. - Russ Jackson

I think the number of comments went from zero to +100 in les then 45 minutes. - Peter van Teeseling

Ryan -- the "-lolcats" search doesn't do that from what I can tell -- it returns an empty feed. I would also like to be able to search for posts having less than a certain number of likes/comments as well as more . I would like to be able to set up searches/feeds for complex expressions ("-lolcats and -loldogs" or "-lolcats and -loldogs" from a group of people with more than 10 likes and 0 comments for instance). - Brian Sullivan

I Can only image a multi-column FF layout... - Greg Lato

it will happen Greg... has to... would probably actually lessen the jitter effect - Christopher Galtenberg

UI Tweaks, please: keyboard pause, pause button/key on every page with live updating, comment link at end of comments - Aaron Fowler

I love how fast it is going. It's really real-time. - Peter Kruit

Needs a "slow it down" toggle - maybe a slider for the speed? - Jesse Stay

OMG! I see why you bought a separate monitor. - LeighaB

or we have the option of ignoring ff just like twitter gets ignored when I tried to reciprocate even a portion of the followers - Susan Reynolds

@Leigha: Yeah, I can definitely see the need for another monitor for this version of FF. I'm considering it myself. - AJ Kohn

OK, Now I see how the lists work. Much easier to manage. - LeighaB

FriendFeed should take that as a sign - you shouldn't *need* a second monitor to use their service. - Jesse Stay

@Jesse: I view this as a better way to access the data flow - which is what I believe FF is at the end of the day. Why not have a separate place to conduct my data queries while I do other things? - AJ Kohn

@Brian The negative searches work, but you can't just search for "-lolcats". That's just a blank search. Try "cats -lolcats" - Aaron Fowler

For Twitter, the only way I listen in is via search.twitter.com or pure luck. Or via FF for that matter. I view more Twitter content on FF than on Twitter itself. - Mike Reynolds

Brian, yeah I badly want to filter out lolcats too; -cat friends:maverickny seems to work so far - Sally Church

Yeah following 11.5k people is hard. I really need to use lists - Nicholas James

Andrew Leyden is totally right. It's like IRC. - Ian Betteridge

one of my favourite descriptions of twitter: "like IRC meets the whole world" - Dean Whitbread

I'm sorry @scobleizer but your world must die ;) - A.T.

I use lots of lists and filters - I'd love to TURN OFF the real-time updating, please. - Bill Sodeman

I could use a tutorial on how to use lists but do not have the time anyway :o) - David Gross

the new friendfeed filters are awesome. even better than friend lists. - Mike Bruder

by the time i have made a list, this page would have vanished :) - Tatty Gibson

I'm back home & trying to catch up with what's up with the new FriendFeed - I'm assuming it's now live?? Also, I'm not noticing things moving too fast... is that because I'm not following as many people as many of you??? - Jannifer @wordsforliving

ill admit friendfeed looks pretty damn compelling. certainly complex at first blush. - doubledrat

how to use lists? - kang

filter is really a cool thing - kang

certainly faster than twitter right now---still down... - ChaoSurfer

so...when there are a lot of comments...it's not easy to read... - kang

many fail whales tonight - Colin Clark

Moving people from out of my home feed to a different list one at a time is extremely slow. If there's a way to move people out of a list and into a different list in bulk, I haven't found it yet. - Chuck Baggett

Is there any way to select almost everyone on your home list and move them to a different list in one operation? (Similar to how you can checkmark hundreds of messages in Gmail and perform an operation such as tagging or archiving on all of them at one time.) - Chuck Baggett

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