Welcome Baby Ryan!!! My baby Ryan (17 years!) and I are honored to welcome another superstar to our planet! Love, hugs, and lots of kisses to Baby Ryan, Mommy Maryam, Dad Robert and big brothers Milan & Patrick and of course Grandma!!! My guess on Ryan's arrival (predication) was only 23 hours off. I thought he would arrive on Friday, Sept. 18th at 11:45 pm. Love to all, Kelly & Ryan Kim
- Kelly S. Kim
What a moment, eh? I remember when my daughter came into this world, it was so exciting there were no words for it. Congrats on your wonderful baby boy!
- Michael J. Carrasquillo
Congratulations! Welcome to the world, Ryan. :-)
- Yvette Ferry
Congratulations Robert and Maryam! And welcome Ryan. If I was having a baby today, I'd begin a blog for him/her straight away as an online diary they could look back on when grown up.
- Sandra Large
الهــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــی چقده ناز نازیه.اینو فارسی نوشتم مریم جان بخونن ....راستی به باباش که نرفته:)) خوشگلتره:)) پس به شما رفته
- joupy
I was a c-section six week preemie in an era when that was seriously life-threatening, they didn't know if I would make for the first week. It always gets me a see a c-section / preemie come howling into the world. Welcome, little guy!
- Bob Morris (polizeros)
from iPhone
Beautiful baby! Congratulations daddy man :)
- Gary
:) Congrats Robert... best wishes to your family! Get her name in twitter and ff!
- Business Blogger【ツ】™
Right ON! I am so happy for you. I have 4 kids of my own and they are my greatest joys. Take care and I hope all goes so smooth for him and mom.
- Robert Anderson
Congrats! I wish a long and healthy life.
- Muammer Okumuş
Robert, you newest addition is too freaking adorable. I hope you and Maryam are doing well. Congratulations! Here's to a long, prosperous future!
- Mike Nayyar
Has this ever happened to you? You go to your computer with a purpose in mind, and of course the first thing you see is Friendfeed (because that was the last thing you were doing on your computer before going offline to do something else), you become distracted with some stuff your friends shared and before you know it...
It happened to me yesterday. I was innocently checking some facts, working hard when I noticed the FFundercats were on and this Paul dude came on the line and then....it was two hours later!
- WorldofHiglet
Also known as: "WWILF" and a pretty good reason to do your more important things in the morning before opening your e-mail, Friend Feed, Twitter etc :-)
- James Kuypers
The trick is to incorporate FF into you computer time!
- professor daddyo
I actually love and hate hibernating my pc because of that =)
- Gökhan Çeliker
from iPhone
almost. every. freakin'. morning. I just wanna check the weather to see if I can ride my 2-wheeler to work, and there FF is, sucking me in, trying to make me late.
- MiniMage TKDteacher of FF
Just happened a few minutes ago. I forgot what I was looking for and find myself browsing FF instead. Then I opened another tab to look for this post and write about it here, but was distracted by something else and found myself meandering on FF again.
- Brome
Even worse, using the employer's network to visit and post to FF during breaks and lunch is now verboten, so it's even more tempting to just check a few threads before I scurry into the dead zone. I know I can tether to a phone for emergencies, but I chose to have a half-hour lunch, so I generally don't bother. I've switched off the iPhone's wireless a couple of times and hit one of my FF apps (got amigo after MotherFeed stopped working).
- MiniMage TKDteacher of FF
Digital distractions, they are aplenty - I keep opening new tabs all the time in my browser and find a hard time trying to close them down to keep num of tabs at manageable level.
- TrafficBug
"I was sorry to hear that the current version doesn't work properly on Snow Leopard. Nambu is my favorite (only) Twitter client on the Mac and I don't look forward to change... Many complain about crashes, but I've no such problems.. It's reliable and sweet.. Please keep us updated on the progress on version 2.0... but I'm pretty sure many of us are waiting.. For feature request I would suggest: - Synchronization between groups on the Mac and iPhone client - Image sharing... I've moved this to Posterous.. so may be you can support that.. Suc6 with Version 2.0"
- Aad 't Hart
its a nice post which i enjoyed reading. Thank you
- Simple
"Yes we are ALL news junkies, however we all consume news in different ways.. Real-time is great when you can focus on following, however there are also 'offline' moments where aggregation thru readers is great. Is the last more boring, probably yes... but it's still very practical. RSS can be sexy too, but with a different purpose. I like Lazyfeed, because it suits lazy people like me. I sometimes just want to wander around the web to learn something new. Lazyfeed gives me a starting point by searching for some topics."
- Aad 't Hart
Simple things like direct manipulation, keyboard shortcuts, reasonable-sized clicktargets, popup notifications and, you know, not-ugliness. These are things whose absence I miss.
- Kevin Fox
I had to use it last week due to an imap outage at work. My least productive e-mail experience ever.
- Stephen Mack
Exchange 2010 has major improvements to the experiance.So i hear. But i've only had minmal contact with the current OWA
- Roberto Bonini
Back to the Lotus Notes Mail gallows for you ;)
- Micah Wittman
omg. you have to use outlook? horrible!
- Jenna Bilotta
That's what an MS investment will get you. Conditions. I want a photo of Paul using it. :)
- Louis Gray
Outlook is teh suck. Outlook web interface is worse. i feel your pain, i was in that spot in 2004/2005.
- Joe Silence is not Santa
Hey, at least you have webmail. When I need to check my company email I have to fire up my laptop, log in, load up the Cisco VPN app, and then start Notes.
- Daniel J. Pritchett
Yeah I converted my company (local branch) to GApps almost two years ago now. Best decision EVER! Now the rest of the group wants to standardise on Outlook... worst idea EVER! Aaaggghhh!
- Travis Koger
I hate using outlook too. RIT just switched student account so that they can be used through Gmail instead. I am hoping it is successful so they provide it to staff soon too! http://google.rit.edu/switch...
- Lyndsey McGrath
My university forces it upon me. It has no spam filter either. Plus it's not possible to redirect the email to my Gmail inbox. Basically, don't go to INHOLLAND University in The Netherlands. Ever.
- Bas
The OWA on Exchange 2003 is great, as long you use Firefox or Safari and don't get all the 'copy Outlook in Internet Explorer' stuff
- Aad 't Hart
Outlook Express all the way. Old school, baby!
- ilter Kalkanci
The 2003 version blows, though I like the simple version you get with Firefox vs the IE one. The one from Exchange 2007 is much better. I think Google needs to license ActiveSync and allow you to hookup Gmail to Exchange. Just use it as a mail client for the Exchange backend.
- William
William, they have licensed ActiveSync, and currently use it for their iPhone mail connections.
- Travis Koger
from iPhone
@Rick, I am a bit anti-pets, but at a stretch, probably puppies. ;)
- Travis Koger
from iPhone
I've been using Lazyfeed and like the clean interface. Similarly, it won't replace my regular RSS reader (Firefox livemarks and FeedDemon), but it's a good intro for people just getting into feeds
- brainno722 (Peter)
I love that Bret, Paul, and Kevin checked in. They probably are looking at their screens and asking "what do we do now?" how about ship some new features before Facebook overlords take you off to do bigger things?
- Robert Scoble
from iPhone
I feel sorry for all you addicts. My use of it is purely social.
- Bruce Lewis
I do like FF and use it almost every day. Wouldn't it be great if FB either left it alone so we can continue to use it as "professionals," or somehow incorporate it into a more "mature" version of FB that didn't have all the annoying, time-wasting apps, games, etc. I'd much prefer a totally customizable FF "wall."
- Cathryn Hrudicka
I think FFundercats HO!!!!! would have worked but I'm here anyways.
- Jimminy Fuller
Actively fighting addiction to anything on a daily basis, but I'm still a FriendFeed fan! (I'd have been here sooner but I've been staring at Phoebe Cates pics for longer than I realized.)
- Mark "DerBingle" J
Thank you Robert Scoble to be here. :) BTW is this looks interesting for FF replacement? : http://streamy.com/ ? May be... I'll try it to see. :)
- Claude LaFrenière
Why should I? Whats in it for me? You doing some sort of survey of people to send out the police to do a "Safety Check" on when the site is shutdown?
- Santa CW™
here. anecdote: a friend of mine just signed up for FF this evening. apparently the FriendFeed hype of the last 24 hours pushed him over the top. leaves me wondering whether FF has actually gained users today?it would be a crafty way of marketing the service. I'll wake up tomorrow to discover that there was a problem with the paperwork and the FriendFeed team have had a change of heart.
- JSLeFanu
from BuddyFeed
Count me in even though I was just starting to get hooked. I guess it's time to find a rehab and get all sobered up until the next relapse with some other new addiction. Isn't life grand?
- Usman Bashir
oh hey, look, the added an "add comment" link to the end of the comment list. Huzzah!
- Brett Kelly
from iPhone
++Jay. I was going to do the same thing yesterday but I didn't want to pay the money.
- David Cook
David -- this was a $9.95 session but you can get them for $7.95 and there are also 25% off coupons if you do online check-in prior to your Delta flight. That's an incentive for folks to use that service and offload kiosk use at the terminals. Very savvy marketing by the folks at GoGo and Delta combined.
- Jay Cuthrell
well, it's 12:12 a.m. and I'm perusing FF from my iPhone via BuddyFeed before turning in. so yeah, I guess I count. "Here!" (raises hand)
- Don Faulkner
from BuddyFeed
I recommend FF to some of my clients, and there are some companies and nonprofits with presences here—not like Twitter, but I'll be curious how that will be affected when FB takes over more. Most have FB fan pages, groups and/or causes, too.
- Cathryn Hrudicka
Yeah, me too. I just saw the request to have a comment link at the bottom of the comments from one of your friends just yesterday and here it is. I'd say they are listening. Thanks FF.
- Keith Rowland
И так чятег, пока Скобл не поговорит с нами представителями СовиетФрендфидика, все мои записи теперь можно читать в этом тредике. Пользуясь случае передаю Парню Бухайту и его команде большой привет, в связи с тем что [He can has sleep naw].
- ideali
превед кетаец! давай сегодня сделаем тебя счастливым!
- Махатма Бугоганди
точно! поэт, пародист, переводчик. известный блоггер.
- Махатма Бугоганди
я вчера был в издательстве, с меня сведения об авторе просят. давайте, говорят, напишем, где учился, что генеральный директор. и что известный блоггер.
- Махатма Бугоганди
а можно получить профессию известного блоггера? какие экзамены сдавать надо? какую специализацию лучше выбрать - микроблоггинг или аудиоподкастинг?
- Махатма Бугоганди
Один чувак пришол в чятег и говорит я известный блоггер кто тут тру на первый второй рассчитайсь. А ему говорят чувак у тебя сертификат есть что ты известный блоггер? Вот иди Зайке экзамен сдай потом приходи. А Зайка стоит такой с топором и улыбается. Щас думает счастливым его сделаю.
- Махатма Бугоганди
Я потерял интерес в данный момент. Я буду скрывать, как и любой другой. Это хромой, что вы захватили этот. Пивные правила. Спокойной ночи. :-)
- Matthew Horton
More than a friend of FriendFeed, was starting to use it as a full lifestreaming platform and loved it. It's made a whole lot of other sites make sense.
- achean
Hi, I'm Bette... I don't know if I'm an addict, but I can't stay away... I keep checking, just to see if something's new... and I cry if I get no responses to a post. Is that addictive behavior? :D
- Bette Cooper
Yup, I have blocked all the impersonators now. You will still see them, but I don't see them and they no longer can comment on any of my items.
- Robert Scoble
@scobleizer As far as I can see you have blocked not only the impersonators (who renamed themselves back the moment they found out you have a problem with this) but most of the folks who chatted there.
- Махатма Бугоганди
@meatreach yes, see next thread. Scobble becomes anti-Russian.
- Never Impersonate You
Maxatma: well, that's just too bad. I speak English. Sorry. People who don't speak English really don't have any business commenting on one of my items, except in rare cases.
- Robert Scoble
Why you, Robert Scoble, don't block users from Spain or Italy? China or arabic countries? Those users that comments on non-English languages?
- Never Impersonate You
@Robert, in fact they do speak English. But they also do make fun of Friendfeed and everything that's going on there. You can block them or take part in this fun. ;)
- Махатма Бугоганди
I prefer FF over twitter and facebook, but all my friends are on twitter and/or facebook. Maybe facebook will get it right this time now that it has acquired FF. If they simplify it a bit more without removing functionality. Then I would spend a bit more time on FB. Lets hope all goes well with the merger. If not I'm jumping ship and going over to Google Wave. oh wait, I'm going to go with Google Wave regardless! ;-)
- Captain Jack
Bu arada Russian friends Turkiye'ye selamlar gonderiyor.
- ideali
@scobleizer i can speak english and i beg you to remove bann from all russian friendfeeders, because we are all from it-community, working in internet companies and we came with peace, you asked for feedback from friendfeed addicts — we show you how really it is being frf addicts, we change names, we chat, we making things that are not serious. Why so serious? Unlock people, they are not bots, they just playing the game of real addicts and have fun. Common.
- ideali
shaun: I started this post to demonstrate that a lot of us are still here and aren't likely to leave. At least not quickly. So, life goes on after FriendFeed gets acquired by Facebook. Point proved.
- Robert Scoble
Robert He says ; Our Russian friends say to hello to Turkey
- Osman Üngür
ideali: have them send email to scobleizer@gmail.com and I'll unblock anyone who says they weren't impersonating me.
- Robert Scoble
Hector: good morning! I need coffee.
- Robert Scoble
@robert yes they (we will) stay here, I think tat the migration process will take time and after reading @Paul Bucheit, I think that what we all are trying to get even if we don't say it explicitly is to preserve a kind of intimacy (beeing a part of the Huge faceBook community) don't mean that FF community will preserve their intimacy, why should a community be a plan one, (let imagine a community as a set of sub-community) that all.
- abdellah
Wow!! So many likes and comments; is it a record Rob?
- میر «عرفان» موسوی
@scobleizer thank you, for understanding. be cool, guys we just want have fun here a little. Take care.
- ideali
@Robert RE "I have enough noise in my life. I don't need to have more" - isn't it a lot of noise having 26K subscriptions and 46K subscribers on your frf account? I'm kind of surprised - you create a community that large around yourself, yet when you see a new and unusual activity you just block it right away.
- Махатма Бугоганди
@Robert, patience? Who's talking about patience? It's about curiosity, not patience. When something strange and unusual happens around you, you can either try to stop it or try to see what it can develop into. You choose to stop - and it stopped. Well, not stopped - just moved to some other place. And do you really know what it was and what it was about to bring you?
- Махатма Бугоганди
I'm here all the way from South Africa! I dig this service and I'm not quite ready to give it up. Regardless of the news about the acquisition, this remains an awesome service.
- Paul Jacobson
I'm new to ff but find more valuable information here than anywhere else!
- Janet Crance
I don't know how I rate my addiction relative to others, but I shared Hitler's reaction upon hearing the acquisition news (despite happiness for Paul and Bret)
- Chris Duffy
I'm sure this is part of Scoble's plot to poll all the people who really read his posts, and unfollow the rest. So I raise my hand.
- Shivanand Velmurugan
Just a wannabe. Not an addict (yet).
- Carole Hicks
It might also be a way for me to filter down my "following" count (diff (my followers, scoble)) are the only people I really need to follow. Those that scoble follows, I can safely unfollow and use Scoble as my social media filter :)
- Shivanand Velmurugan
pardon the arrogance but it really sucks this great forum of sharing will turn into a myspace humdrum. Now I have to find another SM where first adopters and well informed techies won't haft to compete with general "noise"
- earl wallace
Well, here's a comment I can later delete and rob the owner of 1500!
- Matthew DeVries
I just mention the 1500 mark since it was such an iconic query to see... that and the 500 Likes club of FF posts. It's pretty exclusive stuff... but it's also sobering to note that the subject matter required to get to these levels isn't always a uniform mix of cares/concerns.
- Jay Cuthrell
When I heard the FaceBook news, I tried to quit FriendFeed and I couldn't... I'M HOOKED
- The Web's Wendell Wittler
i clicked the "1488 more comments" and my computer nearly exploded. and yes, i am using an amiga 500.
- jack
Now that I have instructions (thanks LouisGray) and figured out my Bookmarklet! I am LOVING the ease of use! addict - not quite...
- Robyn Hawk
Actually, I lied. I am not a die-hard friendfeed fan. I desperately want to be but have just not been able to get into a good "feeding" rhythm. Maybe I need to add some more friends
- Anant Gairola
I don't need to be addict. I'm just here, everyday, absorbing so many geeky info :D There's no place like FF
- Lysender
I'm still with ya, Robert. Whatever FB paid for FF, it wasn't enough!
- Donald C. Lindsay
New here, but learning. Tips for best use?
- Barbara Langham
@bdlangam From my perspective the #1 tip in this category is: Explore and define "best use" for yourself. Despite potential "finishing" impression of some productive consolidations in this collective-collaborative cognition space, the emergent #cognosphere is still WAY too nascent to assert anything other than initial impressions. March to the beat of your own drum; build your own...
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- michael silverton
yeah sorry, late. was at Shambhala Music Festival, I know tardy, sorry...
- sofarsoShawn
I'm getting hooked, still figuring it all out
- Michele McGraw
I think I do. Not enough contacts to make a impression.
- Michael Schlag
I don't want to police the items I post to the Feed because a family member who is on Facebook, but wasn't ever on FriendFeed, might find something to be offensive.
- Brad Williamson
quizzes, events, stupid ass game requests... grrrr just thinking about it annoys me so much
- andy brudtkuhl
I don't want the Facebook limit of 5,000 friends to someday halt the development of a hearty friend list that was previously able to be created on FriendFeed.
- Brad Williamson
I like the one-way follow of FriendFeed. Hopefully we get to keep that (and FF pags don't become Facebook fan fages.)
- Mitchell Tsai
Hopefully Facebook-FriendFeed (Friendbook or FaceFeed) will keep (1) robust search for the entire posting history (2) fast speed and quick visibility of lots of articles (3) ability to easily sequester annoying people (4) *RESPONSIVENESS* of the support them. Thank you FriendFeed team for listening & responding timely in your blogs & messages. Not a Twitter/Facebook thank god...
- Mitchell Tsai
+1 Tristan & Mitchell. I think you're basically saying the same thing.
- Don Faulkner
from IM
No Mafia Wars.. or whatever other intrusive spam...
- Aad 't Hart
I don't want a any friggin' Pokes interfering with my FriendBooking.
- Brad Williamson
I'm sickened by this news. One of the reasons I'd begun devoting so much time to FF was because I was sick of facebook. Now like some sociopathic ex FaceBook creeps right up on me again and contaminates my space on me. This is very annoying.
- JSLeFanu
from BuddyFeed
I don't want to see FriendFeed's killer search functions to go away. (FriendFeed beats the hell outta Twitter search)
- Brad Williamson
I don't want Facebook to have to approve the creation of a new group like they do with certain fan pages on their site.
- Brad Williamson
i don't want to see any ads, i don't want my data/content retained once i've deleted it. i don't want my personal information shared or sold to anyone. i don't want to be hounded by apps vying for my attention. i don't want my settings to magically get lost becos someone decided to tweak some portion of FF/FB. i don't want to be lied to.
- Joe Silence is not Santa
This won't work for me at all. FB is for FB stuff and FF for FF stuff the two should never meet. FB is a placholder for people I've known. FF is for getting to know new people and for saying the sort of things you'd never dream of saying on FB. That's why I'm here for frigs sake. I'd bet that's why most of us are here (along with the aggregation and search etc). I really don't see any upside to this for FriendFeed users, I just don't. Now, next item on the agenda is where to migrate to next?
- JSLeFanu
from BuddyFeed
They should remain separated. I don't want my Facebook friends in FriendFeed, and I don't want to log in to FriendFeed with my Facebook account.
- Peter
I don't want to have to have this conversation. Until proven otherwise, this looks like it's gonna suck HARD. I'm sitting here casually enjoying FriendFeed and I just don't see how Facebook is going to implement it into their system. I'm certain they're not going to want to initially overwhelm their users who aren't familiar with the feed, so that probably means that a lot of the features we currently love aren't going to be implemented in the new setup.
- Brad Williamson
Yes, I'd love to block all FB apps by default.
- Bill Sodeman
Doesn't Facebook only allow you to make, like, ten posts per day? I don't know about you guys, but I have way more than ten items to share each day.
- Brad Williamson
"I hope they also read my quick observations on readability: http://www.aadjemonkeyrock.com/2009...... I also concluded that TweetDeck rocks.. although I do currently use and prefer Nambu on the Mac"
- Aad 't Hart
"The Hide seen messages and Hide all messages now have a different behavior. At first they would operate on the group independent from the home view. The same behavior as TweetDeck. This allows you to make all messages seen in the groups and than delete those from the Home view. Thus making the home view easier to process. Now it does not only delete them from the home view but also from the group. This basically means all your messages go lost.."
- Aad 't Hart