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I'm going to make Deep Fried Pickles now. - http://www.associatedcontent.com/article...
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"Although most people are trying their hardest to avoid deep fried foods; few can resist the deep fried pickle. If you've never tried one, you owe it to yourself to indulge in this unusual culinary delight. Nearly everyone who tries them agrees they are unexpectedly delicious and incredibly addicting! While it's hard to determine who made the first deep fried pickle, research indicates it originated in New Orleans. Today, deep fried pickles are served in restaurants and bars across the country, with each having a unique recipe and flavor. Deep fried pickles can be made from just about any type of pickle including pickle slices, pickle spears, and whole pickles. It doesn't matter what flavor of pickles because they all taste great when they are deep fried. The most common choices include regular dill and garlic dill, but bread and butter pickles and baby gherkin pickles make excellent choices as well."
- Anika
from Bookmarklet
Never had them. hmmmmm
- Shevonne
I tried them last year, and nom!
- Michelle M
Hmmm. Not the biggest pickle fan. I'll eat them on a burger. But deep frying = good. You could deep fry a sweat sock, and I'll reach for the hot sauce.
- Derrick
I bet I'd love those.
- Heather Solos
I love deep fried pickles!
- John Flynn
omg, I freaking LOVE fried pickes - there is this place in Memphis that makes the BEST fried pickles...but I can't remember the name of it.
- acedanger
Where can I get some? What do they taste like?
- Shevonne
I firmly believe that you can deep fry just about anything (food-wise) and it would taste good.
- Kelly W.
WANT WANT WANT. I haven't had any since I moved out here - everyone thinks I'm weird when I mention them. I'll just have to do some myself.
- Jandy
FRICKLES!!!! OMG *drool* Anytime I find these on a menu, I force everyone at my table to eat them with me. Lucille's BBQ in Brea has some of the best I've ever had outside of the South. :)
- SOMEBODY!
They're in the freezer now. Just thinking what sauces I'm going to make to dip them in.
- Anika
I adore deep fried pickles!!
- Rachel Lea Fox
voice of dissent - yuck
- Jenny Morman
I should delete ^this^ comment. ;P
- Anika
I still want to come over.
- @CrystalinaB
Thanks for letting me stick around Anika :)
- Jenny Morman
You're welcome. Don't make it habit now. ;P
- Anika
Have you ever done this with whole pickles, Anika? I was thinking about it, but only because I am too lazy to slice.
- Michelle M
i had them first at hooters a year or so ago... they're awesome!
- Chris Heath
Girl, slice those pickles! ROFL I know how you mean. I hate the slicing part too, but just do it.
- Anika
I think I'll wait until next week when Joelito is gone. Maybe I won't feel so lazy. I have 80 ounces of pickles to use up!
- Michelle M
WANT
- Glen, on vacation
I love the ones they have at Hooters!
- Marissa
I want to try this with bread and butter pickles. A little sweetness could be interesting.
- Eric - 100% Choice Cuts
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- acedanger
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- Himanshu
My novel idea: a software dev gets kidnapped by terrorists, who, having watched too much TV, believe he can get them millions via tech.
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Wait. Which season of 24 was that?
- Akiva
I'm pretty sure it was most of them
- acedanger
Yeah. The fact that the "geek that can hack into the bank and transfer millions to our Grand Cayman accounts" is so common in these shows is what could make for an interesting plot. A normal geek who *can't* do that gets grabbed by terrorists who believe 24, Alias, CSI, etc. are all literally true but insist that he steal them money or die would be a tense, but funny situation.
- J Wynia
jQuery add table row - Stack Overflow - http://stackoverflow.com/questio...
$('#myTable').append('<tr><td>my data</td><td>more data</td></tr>');
- acedanger
www.scripting.com is dead. I blog at scripting.com now.
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Not twitter.scripting.com?
- Jesse Stay
access denied @jesse
- acedanger
I like your style. :)
- Micah
ace, I believe that would be a Fail Whale :-)
- Jesse Stay
welcome to the no-www movement (ever seen this site? http://no-www.org/ )
- Chris Heath
dave, looks like you're a Class A No-WWW site (both www. and . work) Class B is my preference (where www. will 301 redirect to . ) http://no-www.org/faq.php
- Chris Heath
[edited your name correctly in previous comment] sorry
- Chris Heath
Enjoying a "Jurassic Park" movie marathon, but watching them in reverse order. This way, they get better.
haha
- acedanger
Fuck. Apparently I'm looking at either a layoff or going to part-time contract with a 50% cut in pay...
Billy Warhol, Gordon Saunders, Peter and 40 other people liked this
oh no! :(
- The Silence
damn...
- Zee.
no! wtf?
- Jim the Blatant
WTH????
- Jorge Escobar
Ouch, sorry to hear. =(
- ronin
time to start the job search sounds like
- Logan Lindquist
To say that sucks is probably an understatement.
- caj
Damn, Tina.
- Derrick
whoa! this is so sudden! wtf???
- vijay
Sorry to hear that. Time to update LinkedIn, I guess.
- Michael R. Bernstein
oh no! I'm so sorry.
- Rachel Lea Fox
Oh...that bites. I'm sorry to hear it.
- ‘-.-’ Tutivillus Grift
Would the cut equal less than unemployment? If so, go for the layoff.
- ‘-.-’ Tutivillus Grift
Sorry. When will this happen?
- Tom Landini
Sorry to hear that. :-(
- John (bird whisperer)
Oh no! I'm sorry.
- joey
Yeah, pretty out of the blue. Taking the contract would put me about $400 a month ahead of unemployment (both before taxes) and in theory I could work elsewhere while doing it. It's the finding work that's the question: unemployment is high around here.
- FFing Enigma
Looking at my calendar, I realize I started with this company 3 years ago almost to the day. Don't know what that matters, but it just struck me.
- FFing Enigma
Oh yuck....
- Just Katie
Oh crap. So sorry.
- Ken Kennedy
Aw that sucks! I'm sorry that's happening.
- vicster
crap. double :((
- ɐ ɯıʞ sıɹɥɔ
I'm so sorry :(
- Jennifer Dittrich
unlike
- Georgia
What?? Damn. Maybe time to re-examine that going out on your own thing?
- Yolanda
Sorry to hear, it's a domino effect happening everywhere! If you can at least take the cut and go part time. better than having nothing.
- orionstarr
=( Sorry
- Shevonne
Sorry to hear, Tina. :(
- Tyson Key
When i got let go from last design job, I pleaded! I said cut my pay etc. I even made less than the other designer(s) and said cut one of them not me. Still didn't work. Desperate times!
- orionstarr
:(
- xero
Yolanda, I thought about that too (the whole going out on my own thing), but I don't know about it yet. I don't want to to websites or design or coding, I'm not good enough at it to be competitive. Ditto photography...
- FFing Enigma
That sucks! In regards to the 3 years thing, is it possible some benefits change then and they are being cheap about it?
- Justin Korn
That sucks Tina. :-( Hope you find something quick.
- Jordan Hofker
Ugh. I am so sorry.
- Heather Solos
i am so sorry Tina :((
- اکانت قدیمی خیزران
sorry to hear this news.
- .LAG liked that
The shock of of sudden uprooting alone is terrible. :( Tina
- Micah
Oh, no. :(
- Rochelle
I too am sorry to hear this Tina. Its one thing if you can see it coming...quite another when you don't. Good luck Tina, I hope this gets resolved for you quickly. Start making moves girl.
- Carlos Ayala
You said it from the start. Fuck. Sorry you are going through this. I hope things get better for you starting right....NOW.
- Morgan
Not really, Justin. I took a bit of a benefits cut by staying with the company once Boss bought it from the previous owner: I liked the working environment enough that it was worth it. Luckily my health insurance is through Dave's job (but unluckily he works in the newspaper industry).
- FFing Enigma
Brush up the resume and start looking before it all comes crashing in. Easier to make a lateral move... Good luck! xo
- Fossil Huntress
Ugh, so sorry
- Rodfather
:(
- Jimminy, CoG of FF
Oh, no. So sorry to hear this, Tina. Hope you find something wonderful soon.
- Blatantly LB
That sux, Tina. Maybe you can find someone with complementary skills to partner with on your own thing.
- Kevin (barely visible)
I'll be honest, I'm not all that interested in a lateral move or staying in this industry if I have the option, but the question then becomes where to go if I don't stay where I am. I'd love to get back into training again but I don't know that I can after being out of it for 3 years...
- FFing Enigma
sorry tina. lots for you to process... you're a talented person so just decide what you want and then go get it. i believe in you.
- Trish Haley
I'm so very sorry to hear that. I hope you'll get things sorted soon :(
- Niki Costantini
Sorry to hear that! :(
- Bo Stern
چرا حاجي ؟
- جوابتو نمی دم ضایع شی
Damn. I may have to swallow that low offer I received this week :S
- LANjackal
Oh no!
- DGentry
Alright, EVERYONE has to keep their fingers crossed that I hit a jackpot in Vegas now, mkay?!?? =D
- FFing Enigma
sorry :-(
- YoYo_P
Sorry to hear this Tina. Hope you win big bucks in Vegas!
- AJ Batac \(o_o)/
&%*$ sorry Tina : (
- Marco(aureliusmaximus)
haji tavakolet be khoda bashe.
- جوابتو نمی دم ضایع شی
Sorry to hear this news. Rooting for you in Vegas, though. :) And it's a cliche, but sometimes these things happen for a reason. You know, when one door closes, another opens. Will be keeping good thoughts for you.
- Joe Bonner
Sorry *HUGS* my advice (if it matters) take the contract while you look for both contract and F/T work and let the universe help you figure it out
- Sean Reiser
:(
- mjc
Oh NO! :(
- Gunnybear ™
Sorry to hear that Tina - it really sucks (like this year hasn't been trying enough!). After the news settles in your brain will start doing it's thinky-thing and things will get moving. There are so many people here that you can bounce ideas off...((hugs))
- WoH: Minding her Steves
Sorry to hear that ... :-(
- Rene, Pro Button Pusher
So sorry!
- Katy S
How awful. Boo hiss.
- Richard Walker
Getting laid off is the new black! Not really, but someone said that when it happened to me and it's kind of true. All the coffee shops during the day are filled with us. Come make friends...and learn about all the unemployment tricks. If it helps, everyone I've met in the past 5 months has found new opportunities and are happy.
- Jess
What sort of work do you do? What sort of work are you looking for in the future?
- Scott Magdalein
My current job is (was?) a mismash created as the result of me filling in where it was needed over the years. I do Linux server admin, Oracle admin, Lotus Domino admin, and Lotus Notes development; I don't do any of it exceptionally well, just good enough. If I leave here I don't intend to stay in the same technologies (or even in tech at all), but other than that I have no clue.
- FFing Enigma
ugh. :(
- Wirehead
Sounds like you're not really digging what you're doing anyways. Look at this as an opportunity for change. Change is usually good. :)
- Mr Saturday Morning NFG
I'm ambivalent about what I do but enjoy who I do it for. Perhaps to be more specific: I don't like what I do enough to be willing to do it for another company (and honestly, I don't have the credentials necessary for another company to hire me to do what I do now).
- FFing Enigma
That bites! Can anyone help Tina find a new gig?
- Shane
DO ANYBODY NO HOW TO GET PAID FOR FRIENDFEEDING?!?
- FFing Enigma
1UP Tina (and if you find out, lemme know?)!
- Derrick
Ouch...
- Neal "thePuck" Jansons
Tiffany, it's not even a matter of being good enough: I'd have to go get several certifications to get hired doing what I do now with another company just to meet the minimum qualifications. I don't enjoy it enough to do that.
- FFing Enigma
I am so sorry to hear this news, Tina. I wish you the best in deciding what to do and then pursuing it.
- Anne Bouey
Thanks for the kind wishes all, and I'm sorry for the language. Sometimes, though, foul words are really the words I'm looking for. This is one of those times...
- FFing Enigma
I totally fucking know what you are fucking talking about. Fuck yeah. Sometimes the fucking fucks is all the fucking fuck that fucking allows the fucks to fuck the fuck fuck. Right? Fuck Yeah! So you go girl. Cut loose!
- Morgan
Ouch. That sucks.
- James Myatt
Crap. What kind of work do you do / want to do? I know you were dealing with a couple of servers before (and DNS setup stuff) and that it was somewhat technical. Depending on what you're looking for I could check my network.
- mikepk
I'm so sorry. :(
- David Cook
from fftogo
I appreciate it Mike, but I'm going hold off for just a little bit. I'm not really certain what I want to do or even if 'want' can come into the picture in this economy. I'm more than willing to telecommute if need be, but moving isn't an option.
- FFing Enigma
So sorry, Tina! :( Hope this means an even better opportunity for you around the corner.
- Ayşe E.
Ow!
- MoTO Poppet
:(
- Steven Perez
:(
- Tracy Benham
I'm really sorry to hear that, Tina. I hope you get a brainstorm as to which way seems the best way forward. And I hope something really cool you'd very much like to do drops in your lap.
- Spidra Webster
Sorry to hear that and hoping something even better comes along for you.
- adf
*don’t like* this
- Stephanie•CogSciLibrarian
Take the cut and start looking...big breaks always start this way.
- claudio alegre
from iPhone
Fuck fuck fuck. Here's looking at you. FF has got your back. Looking for a job as an oil tycoon maybe?
- Mike Nayyar
Tina, you're smart and and you have a good network, one way or the other you'll land on your feet. The short-term uncertainty is teh suck though :(
- Tinfoil 2.0
I took a full time job and lost 40% in pay for the same company; sad thing is that I do a LOT more work now...
- acedanger
Sorry to hear Tina......that really does suck!
- Bonnie Foster
Sorry to hear that Tina. Hope the rest of your time gets filled quickly with rewarding freelance projects or similar.
- Patrick Jordan
Tina: I noticed you said you don't have the credentials to perform your current job for another company ... are you sure about that? Nearly all employers value experience doing something over raw qualifications. You might want to test the waters first before making that assumption
- LANjackal
from IM
:O
- Josh Haley
Oh ouch… I'm sorry. :-(
- Absentee
Because my current job duties were so varied and scattered about, LANjackal, I never became proficient enough at any one thing to warrant a position in another company without credentials. And to tell the truth, I'm ok with that; the biggest reason I enjoyed my job was because of where I worked, not because of what I was doing. I don't enjoy Notes/Domino/Oracle enough to want to do them at another company. I've got 10 long days to mull everything over in Vegas, so hopefully I'll come up with something =)
- FFing Enigma
Oh, and James: LOVE your display name =D
- FFing Enigma
Aww, thanks, Tina. And again, I'm sorry. Here's hoping that something better's on the way for you.
- Absentee
Bummer. Good luck. Do you have any other companies/people in mind that you'd like to work with? If you connect with me on LinkedIn, you can look through my LinkedIn contacts to see if there's anyone where you might like to work... (or I can e-mail you some PDFs). I can also look through my 2nd & 3rd level contacts to see if anyone's interesting.
- Mitchell Tsai
:( sorry to hear that
- Bee
Wow, that's terrible! G-d willing, something better will come from this.
- David C. Cooper
Oh, damn...so sorry to hear that, Ms. Tina. :(
- JA Castillo
Very sorry for you, Tina. Hope this becomes a new beginning for some better opportunities in the future. All the best.
- Mahendra (SkepticGeek)
Sorry, Tina. I agree with claudio...I would take the PT contract, spend free time looking for a new job (I have faith you'll find something you like!), and give them 2 weeks notice when the next gig is rdy2go.
- Hao Chen
:-( sorry to heat that...
- Live4Emma (L4S)
Oh no, sorry to hear this, Tina! :-(
- Kol Tregaskes
Sorry to hear to that, Tina.
- Andrew Terry
:-( I'm sorry, Tina. That really is the massive fucking suck. Hmm... hey, Morgan! Do you know whether women get severance whores, too? http://ff.im/3tgPa
- Alleluiabug Heather
Roberto, there are currently only 2 people at my company: Boss and myself. All of my main job duties revolve around handling our biggest client, so the offer to got part-time contract is so I could take care of their issues when they arise. Boss handles most of the remaining clients But they are all smaller contracts.
- FFing Enigma
Sucks.
- Michelle
Time to find something else then.
- Richard A.
oh that sucks...sorry to hear the bad news
- (jeff)isageek
:( I'm so sorry, Tina.
- Michelle M
Sorry to hear Tina, not to worry because if you are strong peeps will find and love you work
- Braden Douglass
Sorry, Tina. :(
- Mathew A. Koeneker
Do not like. :(((((( Good luck with everything. :(
- rowlikeagirl
Sorry to hear it. Solidarity! I too was let go not long ago. Good luck.
- Eric - 100% Choice Cuts
:(
- Grant Bierman
Solidarity: I had to go on furlough two days a week starting several weeks ago. Effectively a 40% pay cut.
- DGentry
Boooooooooooooo! Ssssssssss! That sucks, I'm sorry Tina. Chin up, you'll get through it.
- dpurrington
from iPhone
So sorry to hear about that Tina. :( So not cool
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
Full sympathy Tina -- go pro skating?
- Stephen Mack
LOL! Stephen, I'd have to be able to skate well for that to be an option. I'm good at hitting and controlled falling, but skating isn't my strong point just yet.
- FFing Enigma
"Pro" just means they pay you, not that you're good at it though!
- Stephen Mack
Well, then that takes roller derby out of the question, no one gets paid in flat track derby. Actually, we all pay dues to be on the team...
- FFing Enigma
And the roller derby t-shirt sale profits go to?
- Stephen Mack
They go into the team fund, which pays for renting out the place we have our bouts. It's a new team, no cash right now. Our league is setup as a non-profit, though, so once they have enough capital to cover expenses then profits from our bouts and merch sales will be donated to a local charity (we're actually in the process of picking one). EDIT - I just realized, that might mean that my monthly dues are tax deductible. Dunno...
- FFing Enigma
I see. Ah well. There may be more to explore with the pro skater angle that. Warped Enigma World Skating Tour?
- Stephen Mack
layoff, you will have more time for tweeting, like me. Come to kosovo, like me. Life is cheap here. 50Cents for a Cappuchino.
- James Michael Mike DuPont
James, that is very tempting, I'll have to add it to my list of inexpensive places to live =) Actually, if I were willing to move I'm actually now capable of moving to Argentina: even this li'l bit of contract cash would be enough to set Dave and me up comfortably in Cordoba. Hrm....
- FFing Enigma
Very sorry to hear this, Tina.
- Kamilah Reed (K. Gill)
dat Sux da Big Kahuna!!
- Billy Warhol
Doh! That's what "entrepreneur" means! Recently laid off! Thanks, Jason! Much catchier than "consultant" :)
- Richard Walker
Tina - Would you be interested in applying for this Continental Airlines position? http://ff.im/6S4bZ Continental is my favorite airline & has been making good efforts to relate to their customers. Their rep "CO Insider" has been very active on the FlyerTalk forums, and it feels to me like they "get" internet communication better than any other US airline. "CO Looking to Hire Facebooke'r/Tweeter/Social Media Guru" [Weatherboy, FlyerTalk Forums - 8/15/09]
- Mitchell Tsai
I just read this post - you say "My current job is (was?) a mismash created as the result of me filling in where it was needed over the years." - I'm in the same kind of position and also in layoff jeopardy. No one appreciates the glue until it's gone. I'm sorry.
- Amy℠
{selects "don't like" and clicks mouse}
- Bryan R. Adams
I want to read but cannot keep my eyes open.
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Watcha reading?
- Derrick
at the time, I was reading Teacher Man by Frank McCourt.
- Jim the Blatant
I hear (from bugs bunny) that toothpicks will only bend and eventually break, if used to prop your eyes open, so don't use those!
- acedanger
Metaphysical question: if FriendFeed is "dead" why do I see the fail whale almost daily on Twitter but not on FriendFeed?
Fuad Arshad, Alleluiabug Heather, Susan Beebe and 35 other people liked this
duh, the answer is *always* 42
- acedanger
Something like that.
- Robert Scoble
from iPhone
because twitter has more users and use more resources?
- Stalyn☂
Stayly: wrong. Absolutely wrong. Twitter crashed all the time before I even had 1,000 friends.
- Robert Scoble
from iPhone
I think Twitter's model may not be scalable enough....it was fine when the geeks are on it. . .but after the "Oprah" effect everyone from celebrities to the the Tom,Dick and Harry generation....Twitter cannot take it. Correct me if I am wrong, but FF -may- go down that path, but we have yet to see the same number of people jumping on FF like Twitter. Maybe the founders of FF should have an interview with Oprah?
- Wei-Yen Tan
from IM
Twitter hasn't gotten any new features in almost three years, either while FriendFeed has gotten tons.
- Robert Scoble
from iPhone
At this point it doesnt matter why FF will never be what it was. the only thing certain is its end.
- Stalyn☂
Just being realistic hannahnicklin
- Stalyn☂
hannahnicklin: that isn't why I joined Twitter. I liked having a blog that was like IM.
- Robert Scoble
from iPhone
I can't see us here having a conversation about FF by next august. FB don't have time to invest on FF the domain.
- Stalyn☂
Prediction: Twitter will be the next Friendster/Altavista/AOL.
- Gary
Stayln I disagree. Lots of things are "dead" but still are popular. Hotmail. Delicious. Flickr. Etc.
- Robert Scoble
from iPhone
I guess, after all plurk still around. somehow.
- Stalyn☂
So long as they use the Facebook social graph., I'm not sure that they would care. They could use FriendFeed as a premium brand under a larger Facebook umbrella.
- Gary
It's all trending. MySpace, AOL, and Friendster are dead, but at least the first two have more users than FriendFeed and maybe even Twitter.
- John E. Bredehoft
from fftogo
hannahnicklin thats funny
- Wei-Yen Tan
from IM
I need to know why plurk still alive?
- Stalyn☂
Hannah, not everyone will wear blue. Enterprise users will all wear red. Remember that Oracle buys stuff. :)
- John E. Bredehoft
from fftogo
Because there are less people on Friendfeed. A lot less!
- Devon Govett
from iPod
Edward http://www.plurk.com
- Stalyn☂
The Russian Mafia.
- Dean Clark
Dean you fail.
- Stalyn☂
When Louis Gray did a panel with Bret Taylor, he talked about how when they were at Google how obsessed they were with page load times. It's built into their DNA.
- Stephen Pickering
Twitter was not built to scale. Their infrastructure is not redundant and is not catching up with their growth. FriendFeed has also had the benefit of fewer users, and a smart, experienced team that knows how to build for growth.
- Louis Gray
Plurk is more popular than Friendfeed so maybe that's why they are still around? http://trends.google.com/website...
- Stephanie
sometimes have to wonder if Twitter has jumped the shark #failshark now that would make an interesting graphic...
- George Hall (Australia)
from BuddyFeed
Maybe Twitter jumped the shark when the celebrities competed for 1M followers. #failshark
- Dennis Jernberg
Devon: totally wrong. Twitter fail whales when it had a lot fewer people on it than FriendFeed does.
- Robert Scoble
from iPhone
Twitter cant manage itself and with out a quick investment soon they will not be able to pay the hosting ,the site is working like shit and they do not care,maybe a deal with Google is done and they just dont publish that
- Johni Fisher
FriendFeed +is+ my reality.
- Robert Scoble
from iPhone
Because twitter has been able to capture people's imagination. Friendfeed has/had a much better team/technology/feature set, but one ingredient seem to have been missing. I am not sure why they gave up so early.
- Edwin Khodabakchian
So who's going to come up with an actual "fail shark" pic/graphic?
- George Hall (Australia)
"fail shark" http://dl.getdropbox.com/u...
- April
If anyone else wants to take a crack at it, I found some free, royalty-free shark vectors here: http://www.vectorjungle.com/2009...
- April
Mark: 42
- Roberto Bonini
4207869677
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(Not a phone number except possibly by coincidence. Please don't call.)
- Bruce Lewis
Its a Wisconsin number
- Joe Hall
Heh. That's why you shouldn't put a postbox where a searchbox usually goes. ;)
- Chris Messina
totally, call
- acedanger
It's not a phone number (or at least it's not a phone number to me). Please don't call.
- Paul Buchheit
The actual amount of the fb deal?
- Jim Norris
Whose number is it?
- Liza + = ?
well, mayb a revised deal of the friendfeed buyout by facebook
- Gtp19
I am curious
- Liza + = ?
My bad its not a Wisconsin number, infact its not a phone number at all the 420 aea code doesn't exist anymore
- Joe Hall
Joe, you called it
- Liza + = ?
sure is a hefty number
- Gtp19
Since I had the first comment (stays visible), I edited it to tell people not to call.
- Bruce Lewis
Paul's password to his bank account :-)
- Shakeel Mahate
$4,207,869,677
- Chris Messina
Number of friendfeed users
- Shakeel Mahate
Total number of entries in ff database
- Shakeel Mahate
When I copy/ paste that number into Garageband, it plays Revolution Number 9
- Rob Michael (Atmos Trio)
$42,078,696.77 -- how about that?
- Jim the Blatant
Morton, did not know wolframalpha was still around.
- Liza + = ?
I doubt it's money, that's not Paul's style (and surely wouldn't be legal). It'll be fun to watch this comment threat. I'm crap with number games.
- Carter ♥ HTML5
Another puzzle from Paul, this is why friendfeed is fun.
- Ashish
A social security number?
- Akiva
Social security number has 9 digit limit.
- Ashish
Guys, it's not a hard puzzle. I got it.
- Bruce Lewis
well, it may not be a $ number... but if it were...!
- Jim the Blatant
Don't overthink it and you'll get it.
- Bruce Lewis
Er, actually it does take a certain amount of geekiness to get it, but it's the kind of geekiness you'd expect.
- Bruce Lewis
I think I got it! Addition?
- Liza + = ?
gah! Bruce, you're killin' me here!
- Jim the Blatant
Liza, is Paul mainly known as a math geek, or some other kind of geek?
- Bruce Lewis
lol, paul shud be having some fun reading the comments
- Gtp19
I have to go take care of some things now, but I know other people will get it. It's cute.
- Bruce Lewis
got it
- Vishy
So if we get it we're not supposed to tell?
- Vlad Bobleanta
Well, it doesn't validate as any government issued ID#... :P
- Tanath
The new facebook moto. The number of people you want to connect to deliver on the promise of connecting the planet.
- Edwin Khodabakchian
I'm guessing it's something FriendFeed database-related
- Eric Florenzano
what is the # of FF users? - I mean posts/entries/items :-)
- Chris Heath
FriendFeed is the first social network to reach 4 billion users ;)
- Paul Buchheit
Only 4 billion? C'mon... I'm disappointed. Deleting my account now. :D
- Vlad Bobleanta
YIKES
- anna sauce
Yet only 1K or so "addicts" via Scoble's thread
- anna sauce
Vlad, the other 1/3 of the world don't have access to a computer.
- Jimminy, CoG of FF
That shouldn't stop them from having an account. Nothing should.
- Vlad Bobleanta
Wow Paul. That is amazing.
- Yolanda
Yolanda: He was being sarcastic :)
- Eric Florenzano
Is he?? How much does facebook have 2billion?
- Sherif Mansour
Sherif, ~300 million
- Jimminy, CoG of FF
sorry, forgot to add *eyeroll*
- Yolanda
The number of FriendFeed posts since inception.
- Tinfoil 2.0
Nobody has even a billion. Think about it, there are around 6.5 billion people in the world.
- Eric Florenzano
Jimminy, in that case there is no way FF has 4 billion?!
- Sherif Mansour
Bruce, come on and spill the beans!
- Friar Will
It's hard to verify any of our hypotheses since FriendFeed uses nonsequential identifiers for everything. Can't really deconstruct the uuid to see what number it is.
- Eric Florenzano
i feel like an idiot.
- Que Sarah Sarah
i'm sure it's not money related.
- Que Sarah Sarah
420 - 786 - ???
- imran
paul, didn't you do this a month or two ago? and it was the number of database entries for items/entries?
- Chris Heath
Non-programmers do not need to feel like idiots here. Programmers do. :-)
- Bruce Lewis
grrr! I'm not a programmer and I still feel like an idiot. It's some sort of code. Each number means something else.
- Jim the Blatant
It's not 2^^32
- Tinfoil 2.0
Ah, got it. That's cheeky, Paul.
- Carter ♥ HTML5
@Carter Rabasa care to share?!
- Sherif Mansour
Uhh... is that bad etiquette? I'll let Paul do the big "reveal".
- Carter ♥ HTML5
4276989964
- NaHi
from m.ctor.org
Btw, you don't need to be a programmer. Spend time do graphic design or working with CSS? You could get this!
- Carter ♥ HTML5
Carter: Good hint. Hiroshi: Awesome!
- Bruce Lewis
-87097619
- Jim Norris
0xFACEFEED - amirite? :)
- Morton Fox
Oh Morton....
- Carter ♥ HTML5
Hah!
- Eric Borisch
oh for pete's sake!
- Jim the Blatant
*groan*
- Michael McKean
Hint (don't kill me, y'all): http://www.easycalculation.com/decimal...
- Vlad Bobleanta
pure geek.
- Jim the Blatant
it really should be called that
- MG Siegler
Haha! We'll see.
- Anne Bouey
Google can do the conversion. Search for "4207869677 in hex"
- Morton Fox
wolframalpha could do it... if you put 'hex' into the query
- Chris Heath
4276989964 is interesting too ;) -Hiroshi: +1
- Vlad Bobleanta
hahaha
- Friar Will
OMG LOL
- Rishabh Mishra (p248)
i think paul got pissed off over something and pressed some numbers to vent...wondering wat pissed him off ;-)
- Gtp19
Ok, so you have our attention now...
- Glenn Slaven
from NoiseRiver
lol, "facefeed"
- Nicholas Kreidberg
667269656E6466616365 -- heh. Goodnight!
- Jim the Blatant
275766947196940
- Bruce Lewis
14
- DB - Just DB
Bruce: Yup. That too.
- Vlad Bobleanta
11111010110011101111111011101101
- Chris Messina
4277009102
- Charles Ying
hmmmm, for real or just being funny?
- Keith - @tsudo
__MMMMCCV__ _MMDCCCLXIX_ DCLXXVII
- Micah
Number of users who complained that Facebook acquired Friendfeed, added up across all alternate universes.
- Philipp Lenssen
70 117 110 110 121 32 58 45 41
- Willem (@wim66) ☠
Bank account you expect to get wire from FB ?
- Jacque
?
- Charlie Anzman
FriendFeed 181202413 to Facebook. Some here claim this was a 195944173, but I am not among them. I think it is great, and will help bring this technology to a whole new 1554098974 level.
- DGentry
Has anyone asked Jeeves?
- Joe Dawson
+2 DGentry!
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
number of records contained in FriendFeed database ? (sorry, I need more coffee & math skillz)
- Susan Beebe
Paul's Company ID # @ Facebook
- AJ Batac \(o_o)/
6911
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
42
- Aaman (Clone of FF)
And don't forget your towel. It will be most useful after a proper 4207869677 - Those can be pretty messy at times.
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
I'm with jvjannotti. $42,078,696.77 :-). The hex part is purely a coincidence.
- Ken Sheppardson
Adapting a quote from Douglas Adams, "I may be a pretty sad person, but I don't make jokes in base 16"
- Victor Ganata
Morton wasn't kidding.... In hex it does indeed come out as Facefeed
- Roberto Bonini
I for one welcome our new 4207869677 overlords!
- travispuk
I love how when you do a GOOG search for it, "4207869677 in hex", this post comes up as the search result, after the answer is given... nice!
- travispuk
haha got it in 2 minutes.. nice!
- Paul Stamatiou
FACEFEEEEEEEEEEEEED :) Feed my face - sounds like a new restaurant or something! LOL :D
- Susan Beebe
I'm a programmer, yet I couldn't figure out the answer on my own. How did you guys think of just converting it to hex? lol
- Rishabh Mishra (p248)
here's a session log after reading "you're idiot". just brute-forcing :) : http://gist.github.com/167573 (idiot tried to divide a prime)
- NaHi
from m.ctor.org
Rishabh, looking at your extensive creativity with the "bitter" post, I think your mind probably wandered through too many possibilities. The first things to pop into my mind were simple/obvious codes.
- Bruce Lewis
+1 Travis! (SEO method 4532145321)
- Charlie Anzman
Bruce: Thanks for the compliment. We all think differently, I guess. :)
- Rishabh Mishra (p248)
True FRIENDFEED addicts please check in:
K.Fatih Özçelik, Antika İnsan, Basak Sarica and 766 other people liked this
Here.
- Damond Nollan
Check.....
- Amit Nangare
*raises hand*
- MoTO Poppet
here
- Mel Buckpitt
""
- Richard Brock
yo.
- Zee.
Present
- Clifford Kennedy
Addicted... checkin' in
- Rob Schieber
addiction check
- Edgar Rodríguez
I checked in before you even posted this.
- Akiva
here.
- Luca Sofri
'sup
- Nolan Alston
shuffles quietly at the back
- Ivor Whitten
tap tap
- Que Sarah Sarah
Present...
- George Hall (Australia)
here
- Kimberle Kelly
I'm not an addict. I can quit any time I want.
- Ha3rvey (heavy duty)
jawohl.
- Spidra Webster
I am here. How about you?
- Robert Scoble
from iPhone
Check Check
- Robert Burgin
here
- Ray H
check
- Amani
yo
- Bill McFarland
I'm here!
- Bonnie Foster
HeRe!
- Bruno Mertins
Hooah!
- Kevin Fox
Till they kick me out.
- Tony Miller
here but i can stop anytime
- phil baumann
In!
- Pon
Here!
- Oracio
here
- tevfik bülent öngün
I'm not, uh, like an addict, or anything. I can quit anytime. yeah
- jeff hammond
w00t!
- Shane
hi:P
- K.D.
here
- Panayotis Vryonis
I don't have time for this...I'm too busy liking stuff
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
Yep count me in!!
- Guillaume Foutry
Yo
- Bret Taylor
Present and accounted for.
- Colette
Here
- TonyatMATC
Present
- Mike Doeff
It is amazing to see how fast these discussions fill up.
- Damond Nollan
Present
- Olympia Scott
yep!
- Sets Turan
Howdy.
- Daniel Morgan
Present.
- Alonis
Sir Yes SIr!
- Robert Kenney
Word
- Matthew Horton
not an addict, but check in often
- Göze Sencer
I'm only addicted to the email service
- joebrooks
As always :)
- Paul Buchheit
wassup
- Alejandro
here
- Ken Kennedy
here
- Matt Ruiz
Yup, that would be me =)
- FFing Enigma
Here Here!
- Benjamin Golub
was going to be, but not anymore
- Lo the Baker
here
- ebru
Here!!! :P
- Chris Zlatis
++
- jacek
Phew, still here ...
- Tom Horn
I'm not here LOL
- Rob aka Cerberus
Here I be -/
- Chris Loft
I'm Free
- kenneth glenn
Damn: a lot of addicts here still!
- Robert Scoble
from iPhone
Well, I *was* an addict until yesterday.
- Rishabh Mishra (p248)
present
- Jeff Weber
alive and well.
- Tyler Molamphy
yes we R
- Johni Fisher
Hey, I can stop whenever I want. No, really.
- Tom Landini
I'll leave kicking and screaming.
- Andrew Smith
---...---
- constantinos alexacos
Where else are we going to go?
- Christian Burns
from iPhone
Yep, here
- LANjackal
Check
- Jesper Lind
So addicted I said I was addicted twice. < g >
- Rob Schieber
Hello everyone.
- Ryan - @magicofpi
Here.
- tehKenny
always here!
- Marco Ramirez
Hip hip...
- Gary Gannon
Still here!
- Lee Watters
Still around :)
- Sean Powell
Always here!
- Louis Gray
staying put until they kick us out.
- michael sean wright
still not here :D
- Rob aka Cerberus
Yo!
- Libraryman
*cough cough*
- John Robert Ladd
Here.
- Jonathan Hardesty
from Android
I am here. Isn't it now FACEFEED?
- Francine Hardaway
Here!
- onurc
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
Not an addict but I like it.
- Joao Alves
I got the papers in my glove box....you ready to make a beer run?
- Morgan
Is Friendfeed a safe place to bring new friends?
- Christian Burns
from iPhone
I'm here - and staying here until Paul and Bret kick me out the </door>
- AJ Kohn
yup. Guess I am.
- Mark Interrante
+1 happy user... till now
- giuseppe c. | markgreene
What am I doing? I don't even know.
- Suzanne
Here!!!
- Felipe Aneudi Campana
from iPhone
That hitler thing was amazing. That is all.
- James Watters
Yo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
- Stephen Pickering
present.
- Trish Haley
What of it.
- Rochelle
"So, Who are you?" "very cool, very cool"
- Stephen Pickering
what?
- Nine
Just my luck. I got to this party about a month ago and NOW they decide to sell.
- Ian Paul
FF4EVR. :D
- David Vasileff
02:10 am and still here :-)
- Willem (@wim66) ☠
Yo ¡Aquí!
- David Austria
present
- Albert Maruggi
presente
- Eric Gagne
Yo!
- Mathew Barnes
Not sure I'm an addict yet but I'm here and working on it.
- Paul Goldsmith
Checking in!
- Marci Golub
Checking in
- Richard Gallo
Here
- Darrell Madore
Present!
- MsJosay
Here and ready for duty sir!
- David Damore
I survived the night.
- Frankie Warren
yes
- Matthew Schrock
Present
- Joshua Kahn
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, CoG of FF
yo
- Rahul Krishnakumar
here!
- Greg Louderman
are there fake friendfeed addicts?
- acedanger
Oh I'm still here :)
- Owen Greaves
here
- John Kitchen
:)
- Lindsay Davies
Hello?
- Vaughn
you betcha
- Rick Bucich
holy crap, looks like master and commander ;-)
- Aad 't Hart
Not an addict but still here.
- Brandon
hello from a german FRIENDFEED addicted :-)
- Simon Zeimke
On in real time
- Mike Lizun
Money rules! Money rules! Money rules! The world doesn't change!
- ¡amFrancesco!
O HAI
- Ambar Pansari
from iPhone
Not an addict, but defiantly a user. Wish there was a desktop client though. Or TweetDeck integrated it.
- Michael
Present!
- Denverken
Aye, Mon.
- Gordon Swaby
PRESENT
- Kamilah Reed (K. Gill)
Check
- Jason Heppler
It's nice seeing new comments drop down, sexy as fuck, bye friendfeed *snifs*
- Gordon Swaby
president
- Dennis O'Neil
Aloha
- Nathan
Where else would I be? Facebook? Pfft ...
- Kevin Mohr
Bueller, Bueller, ........ Bueller
- manielse (Mark Nielsen)
Sorry I was late.. I have a note from my parole officer.
- Mike Shulman
I CAN QUIT ANYTIME!!!
- Jim the Blatant
here
- Rahul Gupta
just getting started
- Patrice Vizzone
Aye!
- Joshua
hello there
- Murilo Terrabuio
Here, I am
- Luca Ciccarelli
Sorry I'm late. I was on Facebook. It works on a cellphone.
- Paul Puri
here
- Gary Prechtel
I'm not here often, but when I am... it's a happy place indeed... I hope they don't take away my fix!
- Robyn Miller
Hey Robert - got a separate thread for people who have a healthy, positive relationship with FriendFeed?
- Edward Coffey
Check
- tristan
it's gonna take 11 years for FaceBook to catch up to where FF is now....isn't that how tech "progress" works?
- Marg Uerite
Ahoy
- Brett Kelly
from iPhone
aye
- chaz2b
Polo!
- m9m, Crone of FriendFeed
Ere I am in Aust standing up with my right hand raised yelling out HERE!
- Bob Heath
Count me in.
- Sebastian
Present
- Charlie Anzman
Knock on wood!
- ↂGiorgiँ Zarrelliↂ
O Hai!
- Mathew A. Koeneker
Check
- Erik Boles
from iPhone
What's the qualifier for addict? If you believe the MacLean researcher, addiction is a choice!
- Sally - Skyrimmin' It
I MEAN IT!!! ANYTIME!!!
- Jim the Blatant
O Captain, My Captain ;)
- Stuart Miniman
hey!
- Imran Jafri
yes
- Steve Mott
I'm here. Now what?
- Christian Collins
Count me in too please!
- RobinDotNet
from iPhone
not addicted but perhaps in a state of advanced 'like'
- Threepwood
Yep Yep
- Rahsheen the Dream
Yeah. Going to miss this if it morphs into something else for real.
- Robert Anderson
I need my FriendFeed!
- Brandon Titus
I really Need Friendfeed!
- TheHenry
Ya, that's me.
- Sweyn Venderbush
Yo.
- Absentee
HOOAH. or something
- mjc
Here. At the Rack proctoring an exam.
- Stuart Rath
here
- Bluesun 2600
Everybody sing: "They tried to make me go to rehab I said no, no, no "
- Laurent
•_•*b
- videopixil
from Nambu
check
- Jaica Kinsman
from iPhone
Here!
- Michael Hocter
Aye!
- ωαřмaiden ☆Team O'Otto☆
yo!
- Sullivan
hola!
- Oguz Serdar
Aren't we all here? I guess that's the point why we adopted Friendfeed, while others just "heard about it", isn't it?
- Wolfgang G. Wettach
and many of us in Europe are sleeping.
- Luca Sofri
Some of us in the USA are just busy, too.
- Duncan Blake
Man, this check-in line is pretty darn long... must be Southwest. heh
- Daynah
<raises hand>
- Jack&Cleo
please excuse me while I pretend to be one of your guys
- Kirk
i am
- Brian Hendrickson
I'm not addicted, I'm just a social FriendFeeder.
- Joe "The Enforcer" Pierce
here i am
- vitzbank (aka claudio)
check 1,2
- Wayne Sutton
Here.
- scherbi: bottom dweller
Here
- Bora Zivkovic
.-.. --- --. --- ..- -
- constantinos alexacos
hello
- echostreamer
YOYOYO!
- Mathew™ aka Youngblood
Eccomi, presente!
- Alessandro
checking in from Tejas
- George Dearing
from BuddyFeed
Finally turned the corner.
- Liza + = ?
trying to figure out how to use it...
- Ted Kinzer
There sure are a lot of people in here. It's a good thing Robert got the big room with extra chairs.
- RobinDotNet
from iPhone
Here!
- Zulema ❧ spicy cocoa tart
from BuddyFeed
Reporting! (My next blog entry will be called "Social Media Is My Crack".)
- Dennis Jernberg
present.
- Jim Halligan @jim
:(
- Angus Burton
Roger, Roger!
- Jim Bergman
late but here
- Heather Solos
Yo.
- Steve Lowe
all present and accounted for sir !
- John Wallace
from BuddyFeed
Nah, I'm too busy posting #badjokememe stuff.
- Alleluiabug Heather
I am in.
- Gabe Taviano
from iPhone
Depends.
- Nick Humphries
I'm working hard to get an addiction.
- Minu Nianda
never left
- Josh Haley
Robert, Now that you have us all here (or some of us), what are you going to do with us?
- RobinDotNet
Here I am... sad but I am!
- ¡amFrancesco!
still here
- echostreamer
Yes?
- Fajar Nurdiansyah
here
- Holly is Happy
from iPod
I'm here, but is this FF or FB?
- Dana Fosburgh
Guilty as charged. Use FF more than any other social network, including Twitter.
- Larry Hawes
I can stop anytime I want...
- mikepk
I can stop mikepk anytime I want...
- Akiva
here
- mike "glemak" dunn
holy cow that is a serious list...oh yeah here and dear!!!
- Braden Douglass
I tried to get addicted but none of my friends could afford it. Now I just have bad dreams about Scoble.
- Mr Saturday Morning NFG
Merhaba!
- @barisunver #beyn.org
Yep.
- joey
Here...and cloaked with sadness...
- Anthony K. Valley ©
True. What will happen to FF now?
- @barisunver #beyn.org
Alright
- Rodfather
:P
- Phillip Stewart
Roger that
- Rob Fahrni
(from Streamy)
- Marcos
yo
- Gus
cello!
- The Silence
You called?
- Jeunelle Foster
reporting in.
- Randy Shapiro
ola.
- anna sauce
hello my name is Kim and I'm a Friendfeedaholic
- Kim Landwehr
from BuddyFeed
1st Step
- Thomas Page
True FriendFeed addicts don't need to report in. :P
- iTad
yep
- Marty
true friendfeed addicts are there.. always ;)
- alphaxion
Tad: and yet you did!
- The Silence
Still following Robert the Wise.
- Phil Boiarski
that's a *boolean true*
- Peter Renshaw
check
- Tim Ake
I'm here. FriendFeed will have to leave me, before I leave it.
- Tyson Key
ayo...
- Lipanantsi
Fashionably late ...BOOYA!
- Rich Weaver
Chris Martin checking in
- Chris Martin
Present
- Craig Eddy
present but in 12 step for addiction
- Criz
yo ho ho!
- Ferdinand Perez
I'm an addicted lurker. Does that count?
- ax0n
Solid Copy
- Drew Lucas
from iPhone
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
late, but present
- George Deane
Present and accounted for
- John Pfaff
hello hello
- shaun mclane
yo yo yo. ladi-dadi.
- berchman
i have been locked out of twitter since first attack on friday so just got into friendfeed and loooove it!
- Alannah Ryane
We are truly the coolest bunch on the internet.
- Vezquex
·[▪_▪]·
- Desirade
Whats up?
- AJ Batac \(o_o)/
Present and accounted for! :-D
- Amy Flynn
Hello, my name is Pete, and I am a FriendFeed addict. Will there be cookies and coffee at this 12-step meeting?
- Pete D
Here stopped over on my way to Brightkite.
- John Ferron
I'm a Facebook junkie
- Mol, FF Music Lover
Yo.
- Neal "thePuck" Jansons
Hi.
- Trent Olson
I'm not as active on FF as I used to be but I'm back.
- Bob Gannon
from iPhone
more than 2 days ago
- Alistair (alpinefolk)
Little late but yes, I am still here. So to speak.
- Martha
yo..
- Ricardo J. Valle
I'm new but i like it...
- Jose Antonio Trujillo
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
addict..
- Peter
Define addict.
- Carl Black
Here too, lol
- Ange Recchia/angesbiz
ANYTIME!!!!
- Jim the Blatant
addict: currently 02:53 and I've failed to even start this weeks script because I've been messing about on friendfeed ;)
- alphaxion
03:01 in the morning in the UK and I am here!
- travispuk
Since we are logging time its 5:05 AM in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia and I am here too. :)
- Usman Bashir
Travis get some sleep!
- Arleen Boyd
Aloha!
- Peter Liu
guten tag!
- imabonehead
hmmm.
- Carlos Ayala
define addict :-)
- Duane @PreppyDude Myers
Gonna miss you honey. This is Facebook for adults
- Alan Morris
Is it just me or is the FF interface just plain usable? Clean! Uncluttered! Simple!.
- Alan Morris
Yo
- Ahsan Ali
Check is in the mail.
- Louis Trapani
from iPhone
Wow Peter, Are we all that crazy for friend feed and twitter?
- Marilyn Jansen Lopes
Aloha! Mahalo Robert... now WHAT IS the plan???
- Arleen Boyd
Hello there. this is today's last....go to bed now.
- Carloe Stamp
present
- Alex Scrivener
Allo
- Jan Ole Peek
^_^
- HealingBrush
I could be an addict if there was an app for my phone like one for the winmo!
- Andy Ghozali
Presente
- patrick
Checking In....
- Chris Jackson
Not quite addicted yet here.
- Mike Pennell
Where's Holden? Maybe celebrating his birthday early.
- Myrna
Yes SIR!!
- Mark Guadalupe
Present!
- Adam Turetzky
Reporting for duty SIR!
- Jack Humphrey
Yes
- Christopher Galtenberg
from iPhone
Checking in.
- John (bird whisperer)
¡Presente!
- Luis D. Santos
On it constantly!
- Tobin Truog
West Coast evening shift reporting for duty.
- Kryptic
Connected across all social media.Who needs open social?
- Lori Laurent Smith
Here!
- David Cook
hola.
- Sean Oliver
talk about a name and shame list...
- Nathan Vingoe
Yo!
- JR
Count me as an addict.
- Joey Gibson
check
- Kate
Always here!
- Michael Cuff
need more, need more friendfeed than any one has needed before
- Robert Higgins
Present.
- Lucas
I am present and accounted for...well present anyway
- Keith Murray
Here!
- Barry Owens
You rang?
- JA Castillo
I'm not sure is "being addicted to lurking on FF" counts, but I'm chiming in.
- Christian (Simply X)
I JUST joined and am trying to figure it out.
- Janine Nickel
Oui
- J.D. Deutschendorf
I quit everytime I go to bed
- Jeff (Team マクダジ )
from iPhone
check. It rocks
- Richard J Placide
I'm checking in from 37k feet on a Delta flight with GoGo Internet. If that's not addict I don't know what is. :D
- Jay Cuthrell
Jay, you win ;)
- Jesper Lind
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
Yo Scobey! I like Dave Winer's thoughts on user owned tech companies ... been thinking similar things.
- Jason Cronkhite
check.
- Justin Korn
here
- SteVe "Glory Juice" C
Ozgur reporting
- Özgür D. Cyric
from iPhone
in
- sirishkumar
Present
- Herb Hernandez
Yo!
- Aaron Draczynski
Me too
- Peter Hollard
Junkie
- Genaro Bardy
from iPhone
Seems like there's not much point being a FF addict, now. Bummer.
- Kathy Fitch
Checking in!
- Glenn Slaven
whatup! :)
- simran
Here as always.
- Jeff Smith
Here.
- Parth Awasthi
Do you even have to ask?
- Johnny
Aquí!
- Miguel
moi.
- amygeek
nano nano
- Eran Even-Kesef
ok, I'll play
- chrisofspades
:)
- Susan Beebe
from iPhone
I like this list of people, good crowd
- Jack DeWitt Smith
Yo. (And what is the point of this thread and why are we all saying Yo?)
- Bob Morris (polizeros)
Howdy!
- Bec Rowe @d0tski
aye
- WoH: Minding her Steves
And if you're a *real* FF addict, comment twice.
- Dennis Jernberg
Arrrr!!
- Adrian
Here!
- Peter du Toit (S.Africa)
from fftogo
late, but check and still here.
- Rocky
No matter how many times "ff!" is met with "??" I still preach.
- Garin Kilpatrick
Another one for the books
- Greg Birch
YO!
- Eric - 100% Choice Cuts
Here
- Véronique Rabuteau
Sup dawg I be in your feed, checkin in
- Geoff Schultz {TF}
Hey.
- Kevin (barely visible)
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
Here
- Paola Bonomo
Here..from Shanghai
- Marc Dong
My name is John, and I am a FFolic.. :-)
- John Serra
Here from Hong Kong!
- Dan Van Hoy
Here
- Musa Yılmaz
Good morning from Finland. I'm here again.
- Tapio Kulmala
Can't stay away.
- Tanath
Checked in ...How can I check out
- Sriks7
Sorry I am late
- Emre Öktem
Becoming more so.
- Travis B. Hartwell
Present
- Technogran
Here here...
- Alemsah Ozturk
from iPhone
Here!
- Jeff P. Henderson
here..
- Chris Myles
Hello I am here!
- Chris Bellinger
Am I too late? I've been out crying at my personal Friendfeed funeral :-(
- Jannifer @wordsforliving
Just woke up and saw this thread. Addicted ? I guess so...
- Jacque
from m.ctor.org
✔ I'm not addicted. I can quit any time I want. I just don't want to. ;o)
- RetiredTeacherD
still lovin it
- Mark Sorsa-Leslie
Teacher: Awesome checkmark ;)
- Fajar Nurdiansyah
Yes it does ! :)
- Veda Informatics
Oh I'm late, just spend to much time at Streamy
- Michael Zehrer
:)
- M F
merhaba
- Sinan İŞLER
Here I am, having my first coffee in the morning.
- Federico Bolsoman
wazzzzup
- Andrew Salnikov
Breakfast FFeeding....
- David Peacock
Wof Wof, WOF !
- valerio fiandra
from iPhone
First site I launch
- Patrik Arwengrim
checked in
- Sarper Sılaoğlu
All present and correct!
- Paul M Evans
Présent! (for how long?)
- Zackatoustra
here I am
- nessuno
I send newbies straight to FriendFeed as the base for all of their online activities. I wonder how it will change.
- Sally Albright
I'm here
- Mackley, bibliotecario
[DEAN HOLMES]
- Dean Holmes
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
Still here.......as always.
- Iain Baker
huh?
- bora "head" basman
Here I am
- l'Ego di Gigi
Because.....?
- Andrew Terry
from iPod
checked!
- Federì
yup
- Thomas Power
Wassup?
- Winston Teo
in
- paniaguai
howdy!
- Nir Ben Yona
I can give it up any time. I swear.
- Matt G
Here!
- Brome
Me definitely one of these. :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
Trying to keep the addiction low.
- Muthu Ramadoss
Buongiorno
- FullSite
Just another one.
- m. elena
Yo.
- Carlton Hackett
What are we checking in for? Just to start a long thread?
- Adam Helweh
in
- MobilAdam
Where's duty free?
- Paul Downing
sorry i'm late :)
- Doruk Bayer
Late, but here I am.
- Filippo Ronco
Not an addict but I'm here anyway :-D
- Graham Lawrence
Reporting for duty.
- Mark H
Here I am! Would you collect 50M$ to "buy-back" FF? :)
- Marco Dal Pozzo [mdp]
Yo
- Franz Binder
I hope I'm not an addict... ;-) Oh, well.
- Hanna Wiszniewska
вписался
- Alex Kapranoff
I'm here
- Nick Bristow
8 hours later? i passed it!
- Avi Joseph
yop!
- zooz
привет чятег! давайте зохватим этот тредик?
- Господа старой школы
заходит чувак к Scoble, а там чатег
- в поле сахариды
Boom
- Simon Wicks
from iPhone
а сколько у них тут каментов?
- Господа старой школы
смешные
- Господа старой школы
Свободу попугаям!
- Ⓚⓔⓝⓞⓑⓘ
бггг
- Господа старой школы
zdrastvitze!
- anna sauce
check!
- Don Digidon
КТО ВСЕ ЭТИ ЛЮДИ???
- Танаев!
Right Here!
- Ümit Orhan
present
- Tamara
слабаки, до нашего чатега им ещё работать и работать
- Танаев!
Да здравствует народ Чятега. Скобл мы следим за тобой™! Let our friendfeed alone!
- ideali
это не тру чатик
- Танаев!
^^ KAKIE VASHI DOKAZATELSTVA?
- escaping character
кстати, все помнят, что у Даши сегодня день рождения?
- Господа старой школы
The view is better from here
- Anthony
они виноваты сами. пускай теперь терпят.
- ideali
о, зайка пришол!
- Господа старой школы
здравствуй Зайка. ты кого сегодня сделал счастливым?
- Господа старой школы
*facepalm*
- Alex Kapranoff
Дашенька, в этом уютном подобии чятега мы поздравляем тебя!
- ideali
Дашенька ушла в салон красоты, но я ей передам обязательно!
- Господа старой школы
路过：）
- K.D.
нитрогай кетайца, у него там коммунизм, ему тяжело
- Господа старой школы
then ?
- alperyz
превед кетайцам
- Танаев!
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!
- Господа старой школы
а кто такой Скобл?
- Танаев!
кстати да
- Господа старой школы
Greetings from Australia. Im here :-)
- Aussie_Camper
кто такой Скобл. и вообще, объясните мне плз про звезд американоязычного френдфидика - кто там есть кто?
- Господа старой школы
кто все эти люди™ ?
- brain
у них там ночь, они спят еще. вот проснуцца - прифигеют
- Господа старой школы
Triple check
- Geer
их спрашивать бессмысленно - сейчас они спят, а когда проснуцца, комменты уйдут далеко вверх
- Господа старой школы
хоть тысячу каментов-то мы им сделаем сейчас?
- Господа старой школы
:)
- Florent Morel
All your base are belong to us
- brain
I am here Jedi master.
- Steve de Mena
про этого Скобла статья в википедии есть. он евангелист. работал в мелкософте и в фаст компани. известный блоггер.
- Господа старой школы
я уже спрашивал у Зайки, кого он сегодня сделал счастливым, но он молчит
- Господа старой школы
here
- Ahmet Soyata
точно! поэт, пародист, переводчик. известный блоггер.
- Господа старой школы
я вчера был в издательстве, с меня сведения об авторе просят. давайте, говорят, напишем, где учился, что генеральный директор. и что известный блоггер.
- Господа старой школы
Here
- Kevin J Hatton
here I am
- Vedran Rudelj
чо ладно?
- Господа старой школы
blessed are the sick
- undisclosed recipient
Бесков, не ругайся
- Господа старой школы
а можно получить профессию известного блоггера? какие экзамены сдавать надо? какую специализацию лучше выбрать - микроблоггинг или аудиоподкастинг?
- Господа старой школы
*где можно получить профессию*
- Господа старой школы
а кто сертификат дает, что экзамены принимать можно?
- Господа старой школы
себе полайкай! (с)
- Господа старой школы
чо?
- внезапно!
ой чатег
- социальный люфт
давай Скоблу сертификат выпишем?
- Господа старой школы
известный блоггер
- Господа старой школы
в псто призывается Фил, рисовать сертификат для Скобла
- Господа старой школы
Checked-in
- Özkan Altuner
согласен. экзамен принимает Зайка, сертификат рисует Фил. роли распределены.
- Господа старой школы
чорт. я опаздываю. убежал. сделайте, пожалуйста, тысячу. я буду иногда появляться.
- Господа старой школы
привет всем в этом чате
- Серик, Берик и Ербол
только до 7 тыщ ему всё равно не дорасти
- Серик, Берик и Ербол
привет этому чатегу. в прошлый раз не участвовала, но тут грех не поддержать.
- teinett
ээ, зачем второй чатик сделали?
- голова Альфредо Гарсии
показать американцам, где раки зимуют
- Серик, Берик и Ербол
кстати, вы в курсе, что сегодня Россия играет с Аргентиной в Москве - отборочный матч на ЧМ-2010? сегодня в метро будет ЖЕЕЕЕЕЕЕСТЬ
- teinett
пока они спят
- nundesign
and here!
- Arnaud Fischer
Here!
- SimoTed
а кто-нибудь хоть раз катался в метро на машине? в рекламе это показывают, а реально? хотя бы слышали что-нибудь про ваших знакомых?
- teinett
Фесйбук, где наши деньги? Мы ёрлиадоптеры, дай нам тоже бабла!
- Серик, Берик и Ербол
me too, me too! Facebook baaaad, friendfeed gooood!! :-)
- Chris Pantazis
Скобла, защити наши интересы!
- Серик, Берик и Ербол
girls, send your photos here ->
- Серик, Берик и Ербол
let's chat!!!!1111111oneoneeleveneleven
- Серик, Берик и Ербол
но только чтоп по-русски
- Серик, Берик и Ербол
тема
- Серик, Берик и Ербол
кстати, IM пропускает 90% сообщений. :( как вы следите за этим чатегом?
- teinett
МОНЕТИЗАЦИЯ
- Господа старой школы
yeah
- The Amber
а работа стоит?
- teinett
Guys, you russians are best!
- Серик, Берик и Ербол
уук
- Серик, Берик и Ербол
опять русские с балалайками наперевес
- голова Альфредо Гарсии
с блаблаблайками
- Серик, Берик и Ербол
Ждем на машабле статью "после слияния с фейсбуком в уютный френдфидик ломанулись русские"
- в поле сахариды
это напоминает мне одну историю про Сосидко
- Серик, Берик и Ербол
это что еще за на?
- Пустотностьобусловленного
I'm still here. You won't get trid of me that easily.
- James Myatt
а ты не был на канале #2ch
- Серик, Берик и Ербол
привет чятег!
- Sergey Juchkov
here!
- Emanuele Guicciardi
ыч
- Billy
Фил по вашему указанию прибыл. Чо рисуем?
- Asphalt and Trouble
привент ивангелистам
- Пустотностьобусловленного
И чо они должны делать?
- Asphalt and Trouble
тусня Скоблов
- Пустотностьобусловленного
Фил, рисуй все подряд :)
- Sergey Juchkov
Вот еще, тредики читать! Я настоящий Friendfeed Addict - я пишу и рисую, а не читаю.
- Asphalt and Trouble
русиш фантастиш скоблз
- Пустотностьобусловленного
Скобл - это чувак с самым большим на данный момент количеством friends of в Френдфиде.
- в поле сахариды
dı rırı dı rırı dı rırı cant touch this :P
- Sinan İŞLER
чятег, превед!
- пора менять скриннейм
Наскоблил себе друзей.
- Asphalt and Trouble
Have I accidentally clicked a translation button or something?!?
- Nicola Quinn
массфрендер, масс его
- Пустотностьобусловленного
中文用户 飘过 :)
- R093r-
^^^ гыгыгы
- пора менять скриннейм
Дебютирует так сказать
- Пустотностьобусловленного
from Russia with Love
- в поле сахариды
hello
- Ru Viljoen
интересно в каком словаре можно перевести с русского массфрендер
- Пустотностьобусловленного
нет, не сериаладдер, просто популярный чел.
- в поле сахариды
да не важно кто что говорит, Скоблись
- Пустотностьобусловленного
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.
- Господа старой школы
ты кого скоблом назвал?
- Пустотностьобусловленного
Yeah still kickin
- Dobromir Hadzhiev
Holy moly
- ◄ani625Ξ ಠ_ಠ
всем учить русский!
- Пустотностьобусловленного
каждый день в зеркале вижу
- Пустотностьобусловленного
албанский
- Sergey Juchkov
learn albanian!
- Sergey Juchkov
oh, now it's all water, all water...
- K.D.
время от времени прорываются addicts забавно
- Пустотностьобусловленного
зобанить их
- Пустотностьобусловленного
@pozorro, на сертификат отдельно опубликуй, как нарисуешь!
- nomoretears
аддикты чятега
- в поле сахариды
do you know the longest thread in friendfeed is in Russian?:)) link http://ff.im/2OQex
- K.D.
если забанить - с кем трепаться?
- Sergey Juchkov
Почему каждый использованием Роберт Scoble как зовут?
- Matthew Horton
ololo
- Пустотностьобусловленного
Nice Russian Robert, Bulgarian isn't far off, be happy to teach you :-)
- Dobromir Hadzhiev
it's very smal thread in russian
- Sergey Juchkov
Google Translate тебе в помощь
- Пустотностьобусловленного
ё
- Sergey Juchkov
here is the link http://ff.im/2OQex
- K.D.
привет и добър ден :-)
- Dobromir Hadzhiev
@dobata hello
- Sergey Juchkov
партизанщина сплошная
- Пустотностьобусловленного
Здравей, България! Как ви времето? :)
- nomoretears
линкер, все ещё впереди
- Sergey Juchkov
@grantape да без разницы, nevermind
- Пустотностьобусловленного
Вавилонская башня, realy ((=
- brain
Он придет и молча забанит всё.
- Господа старой школы
I'll still be around as long as this site exists.
- Neurario
Polacy?
- Sergey Juchkov
Češi mají jedno?
- Sergey Juchkov
хрена тебе. это я польский и чешский знаю :)
- Sergey Juchkov
Here, Mostly!
- Kreg Steppe
Хере Мостли
- Пустотностьобусловленного
@sergey morning @nomeratears мрачно...чакаме слънцето
- Dobromir Hadzhiev
@Dobromir 早上好！：）
- K.D.
wombata misserious
- undisclosed recipient
ОМГ. На меня подписался китаец, который тут в чятеге разговаривает! Чувак, тебе зачем?
- Господа старой школы
各位早安
- R093r-
вдруг и ты взаимностью ответишь...
- Пустотностьобусловленного
А, он сразу же и отписался. Сириалэддер? Может, у него скрипт?
- Господа старой школы
да можно из постов чувака повыше
- Пустотностьобусловленного
Доктор, у меня скрипт.
- Господа старой школы
(я ушел на час)
- Господа старой школы
пей масло
- Пустотностьобусловленного
汗，上面的Robert都是假的_ _!!!
- K.D.
vi a ze chempionz
- undisclosed recipient
亲眼目睹的事情，有一年过年，深圳梅林一个邮局，很多人排队寄钱回家，有个民工等着等着睡着了，抓在手上的几张钱撒了一地，保安就过去叫醒了他，让他小心钱，他说没办法，连续加了几个晚上的班，眼睛都睁不开了，保安马上和VIP室的 ...
- Пустотностьобусловленного
Митрич, ему байки интересны.
- Sergey Juchkov
I'm alive :)
- Dimitar Tsonev
Скобалайзер мод он.
- Пустотностьобусловленного
Ехал Скобл через Скобл. Видит Скобл в Скобл Скобл. Сунул Скобл Скобл в Скобл. СКОБЛ СКОБЛ СКОБЛ СКОБЛ!
- Ⓚⓔⓝⓞⓑⓘ
what's with all the Russian? Can I have a large Calzone please?
- MercyFlush
я запутался в своих двойниках.
- Sergey Juchkov
终于发现了，这些人都是专业的”俄国闪客“！！！
- K.D.
ема, палево
- Пустотностьобусловленного
就看这楼刷刷的升啊
- 拓 | wavesand
Большой Калзоне и счёт товарищу!
- голова Альфредо Гарсии
Скобл сломал Фэйсбук! У меня пароль не принимается и не ресетится. :(
- nomoretears
страна СКОБЛЯНДИЯ
- Пустотностьобусловленного
Russians!
- Jacque
King Midas 2.0 — breaks every startup he touches
- undisclosed recipient
БЛЯЯЯЯЯЯЯЯЯЯЯЯЯЯЯЯяяяя
- brain
Линкер - не надо
- Sergey Juchkov
о, наконец-то просыпаются. "рашнз! рашнз!" - кричали они и прибегали смотреть и тыкать пальцем.
- teinett
НЕ НАДО
- Пустотностьобусловленного
Türkler sohbet!
- Sergey Juchkov
может им еще вприсядку станцевать?
- Пустотностьобусловленного
главное не заблудиться по дороге
- Sergey Juchkov
и медведя показать?
- Пустотностьобусловленного
VODKА PUTIN MATRESHKA
- Пустотностьобусловленного
просто НЕ НАДО
- Sergey Juchkov
MEDVEDEV
- Sergey Juchkov
BALA-LIKE
- голова Альфредо Гарсии
SGUSSCHYONKA is the brand new real thing
- undisclosed recipient
Будет ли комментарий самого Роберта по поводу творящегося здесь пиздеца?
- Профессиональный зануда
BANYA
- Пустотностьобусловленного
SNEGUROCHKA
- Sergey Juchkov
DED MOROZ
- Sergey Juchkov
DEAD MOROZ
- Sergey Juchkov
TOPOL
- Пустотностьобусловленного
BALET
- Пустотностьобусловленного
TOPOL-M
- Sergey Juchkov
Пользуясь случаем хочу передать привет своей маме. Hi, mommy!
- Ⓚⓔⓝⓞⓑⓘ
SATANA-22
- undisclosed recipient
Wow I was so confused before I started mousing over your names guys.
- Neurario
Теперь в подарок иностранцам дарят не только воду и матрешек, но и балалайки с ГУСЛЯМИ.
- teinett
Скобл хотел видеть аддиктов? Скобл их получил.
- Asphalt and Trouble
Yes I have revealed your secret mwahaha. =)
- Neurario
Введем новое слово в обиход инстранцев: GUSLI
- teinett
Такой сиртификат пойдет? http://friendfeed.com/pozorro...
- Asphalt and Trouble
чятег!??
- политична и асоциальна
кто посмел замолчать?
- Sergey Juchkov
it's hide time. Enjoy yourself.
- Luca Sofri
Эй! Разбудите там главного Скобла, у него в камментах русские!
- Asphalt and Trouble
ТРУ РАШН СКОБЛЗ
- Пустотностьобусловленного
@Лёля, нет, только Скобл
- Sergey Juchkov
КОМЕНТЬ@ХАЙДЬ
- Пустотностьобусловленного
404 других пользователя/-ей оценили этот материал
- Sergey Juchkov
hide,hide,hide,hide,hide,hide,hide,hide,hide,hide,hide,hide,hide,hide,hide,hide,now~~ You guys are playing with Robert's name :(
- K.D.
No
- Matthew Horton
wow LONGEST post I've seen on ff 8) ...checking in too!
- Ac0n (former Franc)
ОУ НОУ
- Пустотностьобусловленного
This post is goes to hided posts folder
- Jacque
Дайте им ссылку на лонгест пост. А то эти ламеры думают на этот.
- Sergey Juchkov
@ocurro, it's not longest. Longest is 7k comments long. %)
- nomoretears
Robert Scoble, Robert Scoble and 404 other Robert Scoble liked this
- brain
проснулись черти
- Sergey Juchkov
тогда не надо давать :)
- Sergey Juchkov
ок
- Sergey Juchkov
Это хромой. Вы знаете, это, верно?
- Matthew Horton
it's small post.
- Sergey Juchkov
I still love it.
- Paul Kinlan
i just unhide, and I see the true Robert is coming :)
- K.D.
The cake is a lie
- brain
lol: 7020 coments - longest post.
- Sergey Juchkov
Следующий!
- Asphalt and Trouble
а вот если китайский френдфидик придет в наш чатег будет уже не так весело
- Пустотностьобусловленного
Интересно - топикстартер подписался на получение комментов на почту или нет?
- Sergey Juchkov
Серьезно. Качество> количестве
- Matthew Horton
hide time... enjoy
- Armando Grati
^^^^^^ like
- Sergey Juchkov
all your base are belong to us
- 13pm
怎样用假名的呀？
- 陈浩小贤
Тема эта должность была ясна. Давайте не будем принимать его.
- Matthew Horton
ЭТО ХАЙД ТАЙМ
- Пустотностьобусловленного
here i am and using the all new add comment feature :)
- Ali
НЕ ПОНИМАЮ
- Пустотностьобусловленного
что-то о качестве и количестве
- Пустотностьобусловленного
и всё типа по теме
- Sergey Juchkov
Here I am
- wolly
The theme of the post was clear. Let us not take it.
- brain
Word.
- Charles LePage
^^^ оценил/а
- Ⓚⓔⓝⓞⓑⓘ
@matthewhorton -What do you want to say?
- Sergey Juchkov
@matthewhorton write in english pls, i don't understand your russian
- Пустотностьобусловленного
up^^
- обнятый фенхелем
i don't understand russian
- Sergey Juchkov
ЧМОГЕ ЧАТЕГГГ!!!!!
- ʕʘ˕̥ʘʔ Нейродинамика
that thread is crazzy : P
- Ac0n (former Franc)
Yes please to Google Translate integration.
- Kol Tregaskes
merde alors!
- Tom Horn
\o/
- Jemm
какая гугля транслята?
- Sergey Juchkov
я видимо так и не узнаю чо имел ввиду Хортекс
- Пустотностьобусловленного
http://translate.google.com - Он работает лучше, чем вы думаете.
- Matthew Horton
Hi, Steve
- Пустотностьобусловленного
@matthewhorton давай все же на английском, моя твоя не понимай
- Пустотностьобусловленного
Это делает работу плохо, но работает достаточно хорошо, чтобы понять.
- Matthew Horton
*waiting for real Robert Scoble*
- nomoretears
@matthewhorton speak englich please
- Sergey Juchkov
we don't understand your barbaric language! pls speak English here
- 13pm
какая тема чятега?
- ʕʘ˕̥ʘʔ Нейродинамика
I'm real!!!!
- Sergey Juchkov
I will gladly. Robert is asleep, I'm sure. Now please stop this. People are getting very annoyed. :-)
- Matthew Horton
Скоблятина
- Пустотностьобусловленного
И общение с иными мирами френдфидика
- Пустотностьобусловленного
если анноит - вали отсюда мудак.
- Sergey Juchkov
I don't know if I'm a true FF addict, but I'm here nonetheless ;)
- Peter Kruit
О как! Кого-то уже забодало.
- teinett
@Matthew Horton НИВАЗМОЖНА
- Пустотностьобусловленного
red dawn
- bopm
I sense the inspiration for an April Fool's Day gag...
- Neurario
Ехал Скобл через Скобл, видит Скобл в реке Скобл, Скобл Скобл Скобл Скобл...
- 13pm
А вообще, кажется, не хватает еще парочки Хортонов для полного счастья
- 13pm
Задолбало? Дави на "блок"!
- ʕʘ˕̥ʘʔ Нейродинамика
НА АЛИЕНОВ НЕ БЫЧЕТЬ
- Пустотностьобусловленного
Wow!
- Велопрограммист Аркадий
unicode power!
- bopm
BALALAIKA POWER
- Taša Orbita
Привет, кстати.
- Taša Orbita
babushka force!
- bopm
кревед
- bopm
КРЕВЕДКИ! МЫ ВАС НЕ ТРОНЕМ! СОЛДАТ РЕБЕНКА НЕ ОБИДИТ!
- ʕʘ˕̥ʘʔ Нейродинамика
from IM
Таша!
- Ⓚⓔⓝⓞⓑⓘ
@matthewhorton let me hug you, we are friends, we do no wrong, juss bring happiness to people around, join us in rejoice!
- undisclosed recipient
КЕНОБИ!
- Taša Orbita
oh those Russians. They turn every topic into "chateg".
- 13pm
check
- Marco Fabbri
Тэш, я скучаю!
- Ⓚⓔⓝⓞⓑⓘ
Это не настоящий чатик
- Anton Volnuhin
Ты не чатег!
- даже
@Maieutic Rejoice of what?
- Matthew Horton
PUTEN WATCH YOU
- Пустотностьобусловленного
and don't believe these Scobles, they're not real. But we are
- 13pm
у нас в ебурге солнышко наконецто
- ʕʘ˕̥ʘʔ Нейродинамика
from IM
millomì
- Francesco Cugurra
@juchkov, дизреспект. -1.
- nomoretears
Haha, I /was/ beginning to wonder when Scoble had started speaking Russian
- Ahsan Ali
But HE IS RUSSIAN
- 13pm
ugh, Мы все знаем, вы все фальшивые.
- Matthew Horton
I'm here!
- ★ Soner Gönül
Они выучили слово «chateg»! Чуваки, еще несколько тысяч комментариев, и они научаться великому и могучему
- fxf
Мэтью нас раскусил!
- Ⓚⓔⓝⓞⓑⓘ
Я ТОЖЕ СКОББЛ
- Серик, Берик и Ербол
юхууу!!!))) а если еще весь чатег перечитают!!!!
- даже
ДАВАЙТЕ ПАНИКОВАТЬ
- Пустотностьобусловленного
KGB WATCH CHATEG
- fxf
ААААААААААААААААААААААААААААААААААА
- даже
START PANIC IMMEDIATELY!
- Серик, Берик и Ербол
LET'S PANIC! Uiiiiii!!
- Ⓚⓔⓝⓞⓑⓘ
chateg panic!
- Sergey Juchkov
SCOBBLE FACEBOOK KGB CHATEG
- Серик, Берик и Ербол
Don't believe Horton. We're real. And he's fake.
- 13pm
CHATEG HAS U!!!
- даже
Checking in.
- Robert Miller
А А А А А А А А А А А А А А А А А А А А А А А А А А А А А А А А А А А А А А А А А А А А А А А А
- Серик, Берик и Ербол
Checking out!
- Sergey Juchkov
Hi, Robert!
- Пустотностьобусловленного
поскоблите чатег
- Серик, Берик и Ербол
Ладно, я только в нетрезвом состоянии уделять достаточно внимания, недостаточно для того, чтобы верить или укусить вас
- Matthew Horton
Hello chateg!
- Sergey Juchkov
LOL Robert. :)
- Robert Miller
IN SOVIET RUSSIA CHATEG PANICS YOU!
- ʕʘ˕̥ʘʔ Нейродинамика
Hortex не надо меня кусать
- Пустотностьобусловленного
опять Хортон тутфту несет непонятную
- Sergey Juchkov
POSKROBLITE CHATEG
- даже
укусить нас
- Sergey Juchkov
ВСЕ ЯСНО МЭТЬЮ ПЬЯН
- Пустотностьобусловленного
пьяный он видите ли. алкаш.
- Sergey Juchkov
пусть у русских пить учится
- Sergey Juchkov
VODKA DRINK DRINK DEBOSH
- fxf
АЛИЕНЫ НЕДРУЖЕСТВЕННЫ! ХОТЯТ КУСАТЬ НАС!
- Серик, Берик и Ербол
и работать после этого
- Sergey Juchkov
Robert Scrabble
- Серик, Берик и Ербол
Кто притворяется говорящим по-русски Меттью Хортоном?
- ʕʘ˕̥ʘʔ Нейродинамика
@Matthew Horton http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_7xzzEA...
- Ⓚⓔⓝⓞⓑⓘ
ВЕРЬ! @ КУСАЙ!
- fxf
НЕ Я
- Sergey Juchkov
Matthew Horton, please stop drinking in chateg
- Пустотностьобусловленного
Ладно, водка хороша. Я люблю пиво. Сталь Резерв FTW!
- Matthew Horton
HE Я
- даже
Америца сейчас вся спит. Где-то в 17:00 по москве там начнется рабочий день. Вот тогда нас всех запалят. :)
- в поле сахариды
beer - good!
- Sergey Juchkov
НЕТ МЫ
- 13pm
у нас есть еще 3 часа
- Sergey Juchkov
Это он по сталь резерв какую-то марку подразумевает?
- Пустотностьобусловленного
МЫ — МЯСО! МЫ – ГАЗ!
- fxf
тоже ничего так :)
- Sergey Juchkov
ЭТОТ ЧАТЕГ ОБОБРЕН УПЯЧКОЙ
- Пустотностьобусловленного
надо притаиться, а потом КАААК ПРЫГНУТЬ!
- Серик, Берик и Ербол
ПОПЯЧТЕСЬ @ КУСАЙТЕСЬ
- даже
всем лежать два саса!!!!!
- Sergey Juchkov
Robert Scoble has subscribed to Robert Scoble's feed. Robert Scoble, Robert Scoble and Robert Scoble liked it.
- 13pm
зачем он в яндексе? скоблить будет?
- Sergey Juchkov
нет слов!
- Математический стендап
Ready to serve!
- Anders Dahlberg
from iPhone
зачем
- Серик, Берик и Ербол
3 часа за скобление! Да вы оскоблитесь!
- teinett
у меня чатик неимоверно тормозит
- Серик, Берик и Ербол
ВАС ВСЕХ ЗАБАНЯТ111
- 13pm
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
скоблите, скоблите - они золотые
- даже
I am here..
- Burak S. Vanlı
Да, Мэтью, это хромой. Мы старались все скрыть, но ты пришел и обнаружил это. Прости. Таковы уж пивные правила.
- 13pm
Buradayım :)
- Burçak Çubukçu
опять алиены
- Серик, Берик и Ербол
Все, надоело. Когда настоящий скобл придет - скажите.
- Asphalt and Trouble
Вы все упоротые! Вас всех забанят!!!
- даже
Метью родил новый мем, не подозревая о том. Это хромой, но таковы Пивные правила.
- ʕʘ˕̥ʘʔ Нейродинамика
from IM
@burcakcubukcu merhaba
- Sergey Juchkov
Мем-хуем
- Taša Orbita
это хромой! get in da car!
- Серик, Берик и Ербол
I'm here from Italy :)
- Ale♪nastrorosa
ola
- Durukan Duru
пойду пообедаю что-ли пока скобл не проснулся
- Sergey Juchkov
Hi, Alessandra
- Пустотностьобусловленного
BEER RULES
- даже
Hi, Durukan
- Пустотностьобусловленного
hello Italy!
- Sergey Juchkov
Hi Roberts!
- 13pm
Hi Robert :))
- Fatih Küçükbaltacı
Hey Robert!
- Berk D. Demir
Hi my name is Rasmus and I'm an addict
- Rasmus Lauridsen
Hi Rasmus!
- Ⓚⓔⓝⓞⓑⓘ
Да сражу же видно кто тут настоящщие аддикты
- ʕʘ˕̥ʘʔ Нейродинамика
from IM
CICITMVI
- FlyMeToTheMoon
CHO?
- Пустотностьобусловленного
СИСИтмВИ
- fxf
про сиси я понял, а дальше?
- Пустотностьобусловленного
всех не забанишь!
- Антискобл
WAKE UP SCOBLE
- Пустотностьобусловленного
ну что, ЭПИГ ЧЯТЕГ или день пропал?
- ʕʘ˕̥ʘʔ Нейродинамика
from IM
CHATEG AGAINST BLOCKING RUSSIAN SCOBLES!
- Антискобл
window, over wing please :P
- Yunus Tunak
SCHITO?
- ʕʘ˕̥ʘʔ Нейродинамика
from IM
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
балалайка
- Танаев!
водка
- Танаев!
His name is Robert Scoble! His name is Robert Scoble! His name is Robert Scoble!
- Taša Orbita
матрёшка
- Танаев!
ПОМНИМ! СКОРБИМ!
- Антискобл
матрёшка
- Танаев!
нет, не так
- Танаев!
... и скоблим тоже...
- mikolka
VODKA
- Танаев!
SPUTNIK
- Танаев!
PERESTROYKA
- Танаев!
PUTIN
- Танаев!
буржуинцы начинают просыпаться. Я начинаю паниковать/
- ʕʘ˕̥ʘʔ Нейродинамика
from IM
CHATEG COMES WITH PEACE
- Антискобл
мы пришли с миром
- Танаев!
самовар
- даже
was that really Robert Scoble ? or hacked ?
- даже
No. Impersonated. By several.
- Dennis Jernberg
NAZDOROVIE!
- ʕʘ˕̥ʘʔ Нейродинамика
from IM
Кстати, если писать что-нибудь типа «Апруе ылцц оррке валдов», то особой разницы они не заметят.
- Taša Orbita
^^^ LIKE
- даже
++
- Taša Orbita
Апруе ылцц оррке валдов! Апруе ылцц оррке валдов! Апруе ылцц оррке валдов!
- fxf
Бедный, бедный гугл-транслейт.
- fxf
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
Present.
- Dean
Yep Addict here :)
- Russell G
Check :) in
- Connee
addicted.
- Miketrevis
Checked.
- Smeerch
Here!
- Tiziano Caviglia
vabbe', eccomi
- punkwithgun
+1
- Borgognoni
@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.
- Господа старой школы
@meatreach yes, see next thread. Scobble becomes anti-Russian.
- Never Impersonate You
here too:) waiting for my mission :)
- abdellah
Here
- PiccoloImprenditore
from iPhone
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
I'm an addict so I'm here.
- Francesco Passannanti
@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. ;)
- Господа старой школы
Epic SUCCESS
- Mark
I'm here!
- Bastian
Here!
- Martynas
Go & Come !
- JohnDu™
here i am
- Howard Trickey
Use it every day.
- Nils Sandin
check
- arnaldostream
кисо куку ;)
- пора менять скриннейм
Maxatma: I have enough noise in my life. I don't need to have more.
- Robert Scoble
Epic success in banning innocent people
- Never Impersonate You
Checking in
- Johnny Chadda
What if I'm only a friendfeed addict in my current personality? My other personalities don't even use computers, apparently.
- MλTT
@scoblezier, really? Why this census of the population is not noise?
- Never Impersonate You
Never: no, it's not noise. What's noise is going off topic on a thread. I'm very close to blocking you too. Keep it up.
- Robert Scoble
here!
- Nilesh
Addicted but it's a love/hate kinda thing.
- sean808080
Here!
- DanDan
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
Red 5, standing by
- Danny F Santos
ideali: can you speak English please? Thanks.
- Robert Scoble
Yep
- Giorgio Burlini
from iPhone
Me! Me!
- DGentry
for 6 words, this post sure got a lot of mileage. What now Scoble wan kenobi?
- shaun mclane
Oh, check FF.. doh FarceBook... my fingers are crossed in hope.
- Greig
@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
Beyler, bana bir sey anlatin, bu kadar ciddi olmaya ne gerek var? Translation: Guys, why so serious?
- ideali
Good morning, Robert!
- Hector
here
- Maitani
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?
- Erfun
@scobleizer thank you, for understanding. be cool, guys we just want have fun here a little. Take care.
- ideali
K
- Glenn Fay
Er-fun, This is the largest list of comments I've ever seen on FF... but no idea if it's a record or not
- Roy Herrod
whenever you're ready
- patrickdh
the record is in our russian community, guyz.
- ideali
Roy: it's not even close to being a record. It's nice to see that there's still a nice group hanging out here, though.
- Robert Scoble
Totally addicted
- Fernando Parra
"fax a cat" has 711 likes : http://friendfeed.com/funny-p... anything else top that? Is there a ff record page?
- Jason (not an Argonaut)
so is this part of the regular Scoble-cull? :p
- Iwan
here
- Contz
totally addicted
- zsafwan
Yes We Do :)
- Jan Friman
right here, right now
- Hakan İyice
@Iwan --hahaha "we could be so lucky" lol
- Jason (not an Argonaut)
There is no addiction, only habitual sin :)
- Mike Shields
@harfehesaab Уes, it is a Яecord for sиre ! .)
- ритуализованная эмпатия
Here
- Chris Riewe
http://friendfeed.com/sonergo... True FRİENDFEED addict!
- ★ Soner Gönül
Хотела остаться в стороне. Но тут такая "пьянка"! Всем привет в этом чатиге:)
- a little bit crazy
I feel like such a slacker checking in about 12 hours later. You caught me the one night I go offline early.
- Rob Diana
Present And Accounted For
- Roberto Bonini
check
- Mark Zip
I do.
- dstamand
Slow response from me, but still ...
- Christian Bolstad
@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.
- Господа старой школы
Good morning from the east coast!
- Domingo Rogers
Maxatma: when people impersonate me I have no patience. Sorry.
- Robert Scoble
present and accounted for
- Shawn Roos
Checking in.
- Warner Crocker
here
- Tracy Benham
I am in, of course!!
- Ronald
Still figuring it out, but liking it
- Rob Fisher
Here.
- Joe Bonner
from fftogo
Here.
- Joe Bonner
from fftogo
@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?
- Господа старой школы
Pow!
- Rolf Schewe
+1 to Maxatma :)
- Connee
why so nervous?
- Connee
Глядико, чатег)
- Кто здесь?
Late to the party but here all the same.
- Pete Gilbert
+1 to Maxatma too
- Shareli
оО
- Monk Albino
Oh Captain, My Captain!
- Daniel van Moll
yes sir.
- James Macgill
please don't go
- Zach Scott
here i am!
- Barbara R. S.
yo ;)
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
check.
- Brian Sloane
hi. i can get a note from my wife and kids.
- Thom Kennon
here
- saskia
I love the fact that I can't read a good amount of the comments here :) FFAddicts without Borders
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
Check
- Marco Massarotto
from iPhone
да, чатег однако )
- Мистер Вульф
here
- ahmet bulent
as requested
- Al Pasternak
in the process of getting addicted...yo
- Chad Gesser
from BuddyFeed
Yo addiction as per requested Sir.
- Steven J. Ram
ну пиздец понеслась
- Dolgiy-Rapoport
Here.. yay!
- seda irengü özmen
Check
- Eric Johnson
There!, Am I wrong or they added "add comment button" at the end of comments?
- Antonio Correnti
Guilty as charged :). Hope FF will continue to kick ass, even after being acquired by Facebook.
- alfred westerveld
I don't think of it as an addiction though I do get severe withdrawal symptoms for taking a long hiatus.. hmm
- Wang Yip
@Паша, чятег был утром, но потом проснулся топикстартер, пришел и молча забанил всех™.
- Господа старой школы
here
- timepilot
hola
- spiros
Yes sir.
- Vinay | विनय
howdy
- Brandon Ball
My middle name is belated.
- Benjamin Taylor
Do I need to state my first name (Hi Robert - My name is Laurie and I am a friendfeed addict! "Hi Laurie" :))))
- Laurie DesAutels
I'm here
- Michael_techie
I'm getting there.
- Spencer
Sup?
- Brent - Yes I am
word.
- Ron Wening
Japan here! はい！
- Rick Cogley
here
- imran
not sure if I commented already but I will add onto the pile.
- beersage
pick me! pick me! pick me!
- .i.m.a.r.s.o.r.a.m.a.
oups !!!
- Polluxe
comment number 1287...
- Yann Ropars
This is trying to become the longest thread in the history of FF, eh? Nice show of hands, definitely good numbers!
- Bora Zivkovic
Wut? Oh, HERE!
- Noah Gray
Last, but not least
- Paul Brannan
from Italy too ;-)
- Andrea - womarketing
I;'m currently in Rome, Italy
- Danica Radovanovic
Nobody from Russia here already?
- Кто это тут у нас
Here I am.
- Evan Travers
Addiction came in again, I raise my hand.
- Zu from AOD
Here - and hoping that any changes here are for the better - that nothing goes backwards.
- Courtney Engle
check
- Dinc "Cтахановец" Arslan
Walmartization of friendfeed now in progress
- imran
whaddup
- Marco(aureliusmaximus)
Если все забанены, то хто ето пишетъ?
- Кто здесь?
Present
- TheDiva Rockin
Hello and goodbye.
- Carlton Prest
Party's not over yet? :)
- Sasha Kovaliov
Well, there is another party here in Chinese and Persian languages :)) Welcome joining! http://ff.im/6uezi
- K.D.
Here we are! ;)
- Осторожно!!! Я кчшч
Большой чятег, однако! :]
- Осторожно!!! Я кчшч
Nice to see so many languages.
- E-Advocate Network
Better late than never!
- Sherry BakerBrio
Here!
- David Sharpe
I'm here
- Amit Morson
here.
- felix
what was that again?
- Karthik Sridhar
Ой, да это маленький чятег оказывается. 1300 всего. У нас-то 7000 было :)
- Осторожно!!! Я кчшч
Hey, this chatroom appeared to be quite small - only 1300 messages :) We've done 7000 in our Russian thread ;)
- Осторожно!!! Я кчшч
Present. I'm here in Chile.
- Roberto Arancibia
@Сережа Мэ Come to join our chatroom:) http://ff.im/6uezi
- K.D.
In the house. Long live FriendFeed.
- Joel Zehring
presente!
- Alex Sauceda
yo
- Jeremiah Owyang
What is this 'Russian' thread you speak of? ;)
- Jason (not an Argonaut)
It was already mentioned here - check this out: http://friendfeed.com/search...
- Осторожно!!! Я кчшч
@yogar thanx, I'm coming to visit you ;)
- Осторожно!!! Я кчшч
Im back!
- Lee Kent
Present from Romania
- cata b
Present.
- xero
İşsiz güçsüz bir sürü adam işte. Dağılın olm. (No, I'm not addicted, I'm just watching)
- ilterocktive
Тук!
- Valentine Valov
I'm always login in friendfeed
- Edgar Rodríguez
from iPhone
ehy guys!
- ɔɹɐɯ
me!
- prezzemolo
Greetings from Bulgaria!
- Valentine Valov
:O)
- Jeanne
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
Hello! Here I am!
- Maria Gabriella Quadri
Oh hello there!
- Jaremy Rich
Present!
- April Buchheit
here too
- Flavio
here
- Ruchira S. Datta
not addicted yet :)
- vinod
presente
- Eric Gagne
yo
- Thomas Hawk
Here!
- Anne Bouey
Me too!
- Tudor Bosman
from Android
ok, now what? shall we dance for you?
- Trent Shields
You can dance if you want to.
- Neal "thePuck" Jansons
from IM
Check
- Elf
I probably qualify.
- Lindsay
Count me in
- Andrei M. Marinescu
I'm here. Still :)
- Svartling
yes, we can dance, we can dance, everybody look at your hands!
- .LAG liked that
if i leave a comment means I am an addict?
- Nikos Anagnostou
1360 is that all out of a so called million hmmm ... must be more like 100,000 users in reality then
- Thomas Power
if if I "liked" - does it make me an FF addict ?
- Peter Dawson
aye!
- vino
I am not a true addict but I checked in to be part of the record :)
- Erfun
I find FF the most useful of my social networks.
- Leigh Marriner
Checkin in
- Bryan R. Adams
Got other things to do too :)
- Richard Hill
hmmm..
- Krishnamoorthy
Addict? Neh. Loyal, now-more-than-a-little-concerned user? Yeh!
- Anthony Citrano
Well, sure. Yeah, fine. Count me in.
- Jason Pontin
Just arrived. Is this the way to the next cliff?
- goodmachine
Here
- Graham Bunting
Guilty
- Ian Wright
from BuddyFeed
Still?
- Tyler Hurst
what for?
- Ali Sanaei
Hollah
- Greg Santos
I'm Thaths and I am a FF addict!
- Thaths
Check me in...
- Alb.
present.
- Marco
burada ;) hier, here,voilà...
- Bengi (Kılıç) Kepkep
Present
- Dave Martin
Here :)
- hollyrae
I'm late. But Mom got 75. Count me in though.
- Ton Zijp
I'm here scoble!
- Jason Pollock
presente
- Eric Gagne
Yo!
- Spiros A. Gianiotis
sup
- Kostantinos Koukopoulos
Hi.
- Mark Aitken
I'm a friendfeed addict and I'm here!
- Bryce Campbell
from iPhone
allo
- Patrick
Here!
- Bill Thomas
Here!
- Steffan Antonas
Out
- Declining Balance
from Nambu
Still here
- Transcribe It Quick
Here
- Shannon - GlassMistress
I'm NOT addicted!
- Iphigenie
I dedicate this song to friendfeed addicts :) http://www.youtube.com/watch...
- ilterocktive
reporting for duty
- Jason Miller
check. a little late. by i'm addicted, i swear!!
- Mike
ping
- Sameer
Here.
- Araceli
Ok!
- Business Blogger 【ツ】™
Here.
- Iván Abrego
Been without a computer for a couple of days. The horror! I'm here. Finally.
- Julie Barrett
from twhirl
:)
- romanzolotarev
in!
- Andrew David
right here
- Nightwatcher☣
✔
- Majento
amilateamilate??!
- Sarah Lane
word
- Fee501st
New fan but longtime subscriber.
- Steven Zenith
Present!
- Gary Gifford Jr
Hello!
- dthree
me
- John Mueller
it's my soc media glue.
- John Czwartacki
Half here.
- Eddie G
Holla. The only way I can keep track of the flowers in all these blessed walled gardens.
- saltpeter 【ツ】
I'm new, but I am here
- Ethan
yessir.
- Nathan Chase
Present!
- Ludwik C. Siadlak
I been Scoblized - again!
- Kevin Laverty
Hope this deal preserves FF's power and usability. FF:FB::Mac:Windows.
- David Lounsbury
check
- Drew S
Count me in.
- Nick B.
Here and accounted for...
- Brad
thread of the century.
- Vezquex
presente
- Eric Gagne
701 and counting
- Julie Williams
i'm here too
- Mehmet Fatih YILDIZ
Homer says "Mmmmm .. FriendFeed"
- Gary Etie
Check :)
- Stijn
There's got to be a prize for doing this! Here!
- timedalkat
from Nambu
1451st! :)
- Eric Geller
1452nd! :P
- ---
I can stop whenever I want. Oh, wait...
- dario
Here. Or did I check in yesterday about this time?
- Mary B, VALUE author
I always am coming back for more... And each time longer than the one before
- Bryce Campbell
from iPhone
Yes?
- Steve Lynch
from twhirl
auuu, pa ovo jos traje?
- Danica Radovanovic
Here I am.
- Andrea Beggi
One more.
- Laura Fujiko
from fftogo
Started a "Save FriendFeed" Facebook group, because I love irony ... http://www.facebook.com/group...
- Paul Holmes
Checking in 23 hours later, which probably makes me the semi-addict that I am
- Eric Berlin
Do I have to check in every 60 minutes?
- Louis Gray
I'm checking in again.
- DGentry
Louis: you can if you want! I heard you can drink a Diet Coke once a day if you check in!
- Robert Scoble
that I don't understand at all
- Mark
are you checking to see who has left since the FB purchase? I'm staying here!
- Katy Barrilleaux
I just expanded this thing, what a fun ride!
- Cass
What if I drink a Diet Coke every 60 minutes? Then what?
- Louis Gray
presente
- Eric Gagne
Yes! I'm 23 hours late. :s That doesn't make me an addict. Damn. :(
- Faraz Mullick
so only a few % of rob's followers on here responded?
- Mark
Just logged into Friendfeed in the last 24 hours. This seems a lot cleaner than Twitter for certain. I'm an organization freak!
- David Kolln
Mark: I have 46,000 followers, but the usual thing is only a percentage of them show up on any week.
- Robert Scoble
That's sad
- Gianluca Neri
from iPhone
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
check
- Joe Dawson
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
check. getting close to 1500!
- Jordan Brock
Hey
- Colin Hendricks
from iPhone
How you doin'? :-)
- Red Label
Wow... long list! I'm here :)
- Frank Da Silva
So, does anyone know the number of actual Friendfeed subscribers? Buehler? Buehler?
- Martha
Now that's an excellent question.
- Dennis Jernberg
Only 15 more comments to go and this thread will make it into the 1500 category http://friendfeed.com/search...
- Jay Cuthrell
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
you're addicted to deez nutz
- skunkman62
LOL - skunkman62. It's all good, the sun is still shining.
- Harold Cabezas
Is this the location of the next FA (Friendfeed Anonymous) meeting?
- Cynthia Holladay
LOL - Cynthia
- nfan12
Monkey #1496 reporting in, sir. For true ADDICT status, I'd say the cut off is the first hour. The rest of us are wannabes. ;-)
- michael silverton
ANY! FLIPPING! TIME!
- Jim the Blatant
fftogo ftw
- Josette
asdf
- Benson Miller
FriendFeed user even before Robert Scoble joined the bandwagon
- Shakeel Mahate
I'm a true addict
- Jorge Escobar
wow! that's a big social - 1500 some ! :]
- pb:
I'm a true FriendFeed addict.
- Evaristo
i am japanese!
- psychedesire
yeah !
- MisterQ
Sir yes sir !
- Christopher Yeo
president.
- Ken Stewart | ChangeForge
present
- Laura Norvig
OK I'll check in now that the thread is up to 1500+...
- Stephen Mack
yo joe!
- Wally Punsapy
I'm just trying to figure this out. Will I get used to i??
- Janet Frasier
holy friendfeed...this thread hasn't died yet? Point made Robert.
- shaun mclane
I didn't "check in" yet..
- Tim Hoeck
It's not an addiction until there's an intervention.
- Bill Sodeman
Some of us addicts will refuse any intervention. Especially by Facebook. ;)
- Dennis Jernberg
I like it!!! I really, REALLY do : D
- Ellen Spencer
Yo!
- Aram Zucker-Scharff
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
Present.
- Vijay
:)
- Nick Soden
here
- Robert Freeze
here I am
- Danilo P.
all on board
- Save As : Panos
actually I am addicted to twitter more. I use friendfeed a lot none the less.
- Volkan Özçelik
count me :)
- Meriç Dağlı
here
- Erdinc Ciftci
Presente
- Ruben Sanchez
from Android
i'm in
- Anton Noginov х
Add me from Cambridge, UK and DuoFertility the fertility monitor
- Philip Baddeley
have we broken the FF comment limit yet ?
- David Pascoe
I'm in.
- Peter Smulovics
naa-ahaa ... i have seen threads with 4k, 10k+ comments .... right here, on Friendfeed.
- pb:
Présent
- Harscoat
1537...checking in...
- Bob DeMarco
Here
- Keith
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...
more...
- michael silverton
yeah sorry, late. was at Shambhala Music Festival, I know tardy, sorry...
- sofarsoShawn <right here>
I'm getting hooked, still figuring it all out
- Michele McGraw
I think I do. Not enough contacts to make a impression.
- Michael Schlag
Better late than never..
- Ginger Kenney
here
- Brady
Late but here.
- Nicolai Butzki
Not addicted enough, obviously...
- Daniel W. Crompton
trying to get addicted
- Glenn Fay
Definitely addicted. Not sure I want to stop using just because FB bought it.
- Rick Cogley
checking..
- Leandro Ardissone ⍨
I'm the 1500th visitor. What did I win?
- Ruben
Robert-I'm listening
- Dean Holmes
Here we be!
- Gary Dale Cearley
here!
- Domenico C.
Still going on , uh?
- Marco Massarotto
*bumps* the Scoble curve: bi-polar maybe?
- sofarsoShawn <right here>
Hello. My name is Morgan and I'm a FF addict. So who do I have to blow to get a fix? :-)
- Morgan
Yo
- Aram Zucker-Scharff
Elo govna
- Eric - 100% Choice Cuts
No
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
check.
- Bren
double present
- sirishkumar
Here.
- topernic
Here
- نقطه
not #FEEDwithHITS
- Yusuf Temur
проебали юбилей тредика
- Eril
чудище #скобло озорно и лаяйяй ;)
- Отборнейший бред
Present
- StefanoHungBaoShi
Türk bir başkan :D
- Özgür KARALAR
Ya
- ⓎⒶ➌ⒺⓇ یاسر
up
- چوب سیگار
چقدر معتاد ، اوه اوه ، وا فرفرا
- آقا هادی
بله بله
- جنابـ(ع)ـالی
up
- ⓎⒶ➌ⒺⓇ یاسر
here :D
- §╠╣/~\╠╣R /~\ /\/\ ♛
he he he :D
- میر آق دایی آرش جون ®©℗™
yup
- JSLeFanu
chateg up.
- Cibron Nethis
и снова торжественно проебали юбилей!
- Peter Fedin
Is hug. He likes. Really - http://icanhascheezburger.com/2009...
Blatantly LB, Sarah Slaven, Gtp19 and 13 other people liked this
that might be my favorite ever.
- SteVe "Glory Juice" C
hahaha, awesome
- acedanger
So, who is leaving FriendFeed?
Gail Gardner, sofarsoShawn <right here>, Mitchell Tsai and 138 other people liked this
And go where? Back to Twitter or...Facebook?
- Manuel Mas
no idea yet.... see what happens.
- Rob Sellen :o)
I have nowhere else to go. No where else gives me the high level of interaction that FF does.
- Mel Buckpitt
Same FriendFeed as before, I'll still use.
- Ben Parr
Of course if Paul hands me a few hundred shares of stock ... just kidding. Sigh.
- Robert Scoble
I was going to ask how you felt about the purchase, but now I see
- acedanger
Depends how much it changes.
- Andrew Leyden
Why leave?
- Mike Shulman
+1 Mel - I am gutted and don't know what to do if the main FF site closes
- Matt Hooper
Why would I leave friendfeed? This place works well enough for me.
- Talon Lardner
Manuel: back to my blog and Twitter, probably. I'm playing around with Facebook but it doesn't quite do it for me.
- Robert Scoble
I'm sticking around unless there's some sort of mass exodus which I don't see an immediate reason for.
- Mike Elliott
Not leaving 'til it closes, and I'm certainly not going to facebook or twitter even then.
- Jim the Blatant
Mike: because I expect it will get shut down eventually if it doesn't get invested in, and if it gets no new features it will fall behind Google Wave and other projects.
- Robert Scoble
This feels like that HBO Documentary about Brooklyn Dodgers going to LA haha.
- Manuel Mas
And, actually, Google Wave seems to be the most obvious thing for me to try out from now on.
- Robert Scoble
I will stick around until they move the features I like from friendfeed onto facebook.
- BRҰANSAҰS
Isn't it a bit early to make decisions? Has there been an announcement that I missed that FF is going away? Even if it isn't where else is better at this point?
- iTad
there used to be a kind of message board system ages back with FB. disppeared one day never to return, lets hope this will bring something of that back, who knows..
- Terry O'Fee
I can't wait to try out wave. ;o)
- Rob Sellen :o)
Waiting and watching. Robert, I know you have a discussion tab on FB but its not the same. ;)
- Melanie Reed
How soon before google wave becomes available to the early adopters/public?
- BRҰANSAҰS
Mashable just published a How To Take Advantage of FriendFeed's Unique Features. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA. A little late for that, no?
- Stephen Pickering
I'll stick around to the bitter end.
- Dave Metzener
Bryan: I heard they weren't handing out beta access to non-developers until September. Cold be wrong but that's what I heard
- Mike Elliott
Robert, if you believe this is a good deal for both FF and FB - why are you leaving?
- George F. Snell III
When should we cue in Titanic's last song by the band as FF sinks below leaving us all behind?
- Manuel Mas
Why leave now? Until it is changed or killed, it still works just the same.
- Jeff P. Henderson
Same assessment as you, I'll stick around but I need to find an option B now. I guess I'll go wherever Louis Gray recommends
- Alberto Saavedra
I plan on sticking around for a little while longer. Not ready to jump ship yet.
- David Finch
Melanie: yeah, real time really has me going. I will wait until I get a better sense from the FriendFeed team about what will be done here. I just am not getting the right signals from the team that there will be any investment in this. If that's the case, I'd rather invest my time somewhere else. Google Wave. Ning. Vanilla on Building43. Twitter, now that I got rid of the spammers. Etc.
- Robert Scoble
I'll watch and see what happens. IF I feel that it would be useless to stay, I'll leave the site.
- TeraDyne Azurepaw
I think the features of FF will be incorporated into FB (guilt free) and FB profiles will be more tied into FF. That's about all we'll see...
- Gus
Scoble: Ning?!?! Really?
- Manuel Mas
Manuel: hey, Pirillo is over there. :-)
- Robert Scoble
I'm staying here until something else catches up.
- Bruce Lewis
Robert, I can definitely see the value of your invested time on any service, but for the average user, what is the downside of sticking around here as long as the site still exists?
- Jeff P. Henderson
hmm, ning. unexpected, but understandable
- Alistair (alpinefolk)
@Scobleizer: The big crowd is not even at Friendfeed yet and you are already leaving? Someone will be by in a few minutes with a drink. Please help yourself and stick around for the conversation. You will be greatly missed should you choose to leave so soon.
- David Damore
Social Media is a set of tools--I appreciate the connections I make, but I'm not getting too emotionally worked-up about the tools changing. FF probablywon't function as my Social Media hub much longer.
- Rob Michael (Atmos Trio)
I like it here, so I'll hang out as long as possible.
- sean percival
Not making any set plans yet, but keeping my eyes and ears open.
- Martha
And when Google buys Twitter, won't that be interesting
- Stephen Pickering
Bruce: have you played with Wave yet? I'm wondering how good that is? I gotta get an invite. Off to beg someone cooler than me. :-)
- Robert Scoble
I will continue to use it until it closes down in its current form.
- Ashish
Google/Twitter vs. Facebook/FriendFeed
- Stephen Pickering
I'm a little pissed that we haven't heard much from our other "rock stars". Where the hell are they? This concerns them, yet I can hear a pin drop. I think there secretly plotting. Roflmao
- Jeunelle Foster
I'd bet Microsoft buys Twitter before Google does.
- Gus
I haven't played with wave yet, but from what I've seen it's got potential. FriendFeed's got polish.
- Bruce Lewis
I wasn't planning on going anywhere, but I guess I'll be spending more time on Social Median. Perhaps someone should start putting together a decent buddypress site?
- Aram Zucker-Scharff
I might leave only because I quit facebook - I hate the mindset, the shallowness, and am afraid (make that certain) those people will come here
- Aaman (Clone of FF)
Gus: Microsoft and Twitter deserve each other. They are both somewhat buggy and don't come up with new features very often. ;-)
- Robert Scoble
I think I'll be heading back to Twitter until Google Wave is publicly available
- Aaman (Clone of FF)
Robert: Since at the end of the day all these platforms are businesses and have to eventually make money does it make sense to keep investing time and effort into building communities on them when they can sell/merge at any time and dismantle the tools that keep the community in place? it seems like the portable community concept of something like Google FriendConnect now makes more...
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- Mike Elliott
The other rock stars are drinking. :-)
- Robert Scoble
If Facebook had an easier way of connecting with people but not showing them all the personal stuff I'm willing to show to my close friends (and the stuff my friends post about me), I don't think I'd need anything like FriendFeed or Twitter.
- Edward Coffey
Robert: I've played with Wave and I wouldn't really put it in the same category as FriendFeed at the moment. It's not really about sharing and conversing in mass form IMO. Its really conversation with maybe 20 people or so but its much more difficult to focus conversations about shared content. Let everybody know when you get an invite and your address so we can add you! :)
- Brandon Titus
I'll stick around until the end.
- Mathew™ aka Youngblood
It kinda proves a theory I have about us all being reduced (if I can use that word) to channels. I don't think social networking will go away, but as the internet and deals increase, so does the noise. Don't worry Scobe, you still show up in our Google reader every morning!!
- professor daddyo
Man, what are we going to do without these discussions like this?
- Stephen Pickering
Mike: No community is permanent. It's worthwhile to participate even if it's temporary.
- Bruce Lewis
@Gus, Well MS has large stake in FB so I'm not sure about that. I'll stick around here till it peters out. The tech news rooms here are top notch.
- Arawak
I don't use FF much other than for private rooms, so I'll stay for those. Whatever other activity I have (which is sporadic and generally not personal) will also remain.
- Cheryl
I'll stick around until they pull the plug.
- Morton Fox
Leave friendfeed? what's the alternative I'd really like to know. Is it facebook?
- Tate
I'll stick with it as long as it's here and people are still active. FF4L!!
- Cass
What is the next thing? Where do we go now? Not FB! But where?
- Michael Liss
I heard it's MySpace
- sean percival
I'm staying until the end as well.
- Mitch
quick! everybody back to MySpace!!!
- acedanger
what? leave and create a better version of Twitter? or start FriendsterFeed?
- Andy Sternberg
The downside for me? I invest time in things that WILL BE not that are. That's always been what keeps my interest and now that I know that FriendFeed probably will not be, even if it takes five years to totally die, I've lost a great deal of interest in it.
- Robert Scoble
Michael: I don't think anyone knows today where to go next, because there's no good substitute out there. We can only hope that the next destination will be obvious before they pull the plug.
- Bruce Lewis
With the price of bandwith/computing halving every year, there will be a new one of these popping up pretty quick
- Stephen Pickering
I'll just go to twitter. I have a facebook account but I hate it. Facebook is the walmart of the web.
- Darrel Davis
Should we move to where?? haha
- harri78son
I'll be here until something actually changes for the worse
- Dennis O'Neil
harri78son you could come back over to my blog and we could setup JS-Kit Echo. :-)
- Robert Scoble
Damn now I need a drink :)
- Jeunelle Foster
That's right, Scoble is the catalyst for these longer threads anyway, so it might as well move to his JS-Kit
- Stephen Pickering
Robert, that's a pity. I'm lucky to deal in things that only get more interesting as they get older.
- Bruce Lewis
I'm torn. What are our options?
- Kelly Mitchell
yeah~ definitly! @Jeunelle foster please come down,
- harri78son
I see now...This whole thing was a ploy to get everyone visiting Robert's blog! I am outraged! :P
- Brandon Titus
Brandon: OK, we can go over to YOUR blog. Got Echo? :-)
- Robert Scoble
Bruce: Very true. I've tried to get into FaceBook but it's hard to get the clean conversation feed along with lifestreaming content. It just seems to be full of distracting noise even with the ability to filter with lists.
- Mike Elliott
I'm here till the end.
- Nolan Alston
Robert, the same could be said about Flickr, they haven't had much inovation since Yahoo bought them, but people still use the service in droves.
- Jeff P. Henderson
Don't worry Kelly, a new one of these will pop quickly, if they kill this
- Stephen Pickering
Kelly: we don't need to leave tonight. Let's trash the house first! :-)
- Robert Scoble
HAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
- Stephen Pickering
Brandon, that's funny. At the Boston FriendFeed meetup, everybody else had learned about FriendFeed through Scobleizer. I was the only one who found him through FriendFeed.
- Bruce Lewis
I'm leaving my account here for now but I'll be removing all my feeds.
- Got80s
Let's make the longest thread in FF history
- Stephen Pickering
Anyway, for the rest of today at-least I reckon I'll be off FriendFeed - real conversation is being drowned out by the echoes of this deal.
- Edward Coffey
Damn it. Why is Arrington always right!
- Stephen Pickering
Jeff P. Flickr is different Yahoo bought them for their user base. Facebook bought Friendfeed for their features.
- BRҰANSAҰS
Got80: why do that? Who cares if your feeds are going in here?
- Robert Scoble
Edward: that is true. It caught us all off guard and we're still processing it.
- Robert Scoble
Kind of huge things in this time,.hmmm
- harri78son
Facebook bought FF for Paul Bucheit
- Stephen Pickering
I'm staying here until there is a reason to leave. Though I don't hold out hope they'll keep the service alive forever... obviously, I'm always enjoysthin.gs too, but it's not quite the same. I REALLY can't see myself using facebook as much as FF though.
- Ted Roden
I need an adult beverage. then I'll trash the place...
- Kelly Mitchell
I despise FB. Please let them not just trash FF.
- Adam Webb
Considering the free Google Wave protocol implementation and ejabbered work together, it shouldn't be too hard to quickly build a FF type service that's scalable. Combine that with EC2 and S3 and you could probably get a lot of runway before funding is needed. Robert, I think the next service you switch to should be part owned by you, considering I bet a lot of the traffic here was originated from you evangelizing.
- Chip Ramsey
Bryan: it's worse than that. I'm hearing that Facebook bought FriendFeed for its team. Google Superstars. Makes Zuckerberg get out his wallet.
- Robert Scoble
Where will be the next pasture Mr. Scoble?
- Rami Taibah
Stephen: lol. Yes, the 50 million dollar man. But seriously, there's no doubt what they really want is the tallent.
- Brandon Titus
I'm gutted about this, but I knew that Virb account would come in handy eventually... sorta... maybe...
- Linda Mills
Holden, yeah, but it doesn't make sense to invest energy here when its eventually going to die anyway
- Stephen Pickering
I'm new on FF so I wonder, are people leaving FF because you'll have to use FB to participate?
- Christopher Doiron
Stephen: not only for Paul. The guy who started Google Talk is at FriendFeed. So is the guy who started Google Maps.
- Robert Scoble
Among other ex-Google superstars.
- Robert Scoble
Christopher, it's that the FriendFeed team's new bosses will turn priorities away from the site we love.
- Bruce Lewis
They'll probably cannibalize FriendFeed... nom nom
- Kelly Mitchell
funny how many people are joining friend feed on the news of this acquisition. i'm seeing lots of my twitter followers starting to join.
- mark silva
Go where, do what?
- frankiecarl
I say its WAAAYYY too early to speculate what will happen to friendfeed next. Let the drama of today die down.
- BRҰANSAҰS
Yeah lets all get drunk and start a fight. This whole thing is hilarious to me. Funny how media can start a panic. I ain't goin no where, I like to coloring.
- Jeunelle Foster
Bill: I said I won't leave until I hear more from the team. Why must you always be a drama queen?
- Robert Scoble
Kelly, I wish they would absorb FriendFeed, but despite the talk I don't think openness and Facebook are compatible.
- Bruce Lewis
Robert, Ex-Google Superstars is how I see it too. I don't see big plans for FF the sense was we were the last thing on their minds.
- Melanie Reed
Can't help being an attention whore, its what I'm good at :)
- Jeunelle Foster
Okay so we sit tight and wait and drink. lol
- Kelly Mitchell
but there is no time to wait a special direction on internet, It's too fast!!
- harri78son
Kelly: My analogy for this is like the female praying mantis luring the male for sex, then it bites its head off. You can see the pic in my story http://bryansays.com
- BRҰANSAҰS
I'm in the eyewear business and so I always know how to make a spectacle of myself :)
- Jeunelle Foster
Bruce: I agree. Wouldn't it be feasible for them to simply keep the two properties separate then? FriendFeed would be the open/public portion of Facebook and Facebook could stay closed and keep its current private user base.
- Brandon Titus
Bryan, pretty graphic and right on the money.
- Kelly Mitchell
Why shouldn't he pull out his wallet. FB needs to monetize. The ex Google Rockstars know just how to do that
- Stephen Pickering
I'll stick around and see what happens, but might not bother so much with another 'social' web site again.
- Grant Bierman
There's this optimistic talk about keeping FriendFeed around as R&D. I'm skeptical about it.
- Bruce Lewis
I'll leave FriendFeed as soon as there's somewhere to go to; currently, I'm not convinced there is.
- Tristan Seligmann
Also when you are hanging with the Master of the Universe for four hours, its sort of like Bill Clinton going to Korea. Kind of influences you.
- Stephen Pickering
Rami: I don't know. That's why I'm talking with you. I just know I won't continue to invest my time in something that will soon get no more investment. That's not who I am. I will hang out with Louis Gray until he finds something cool. By the way, someone gave me Google Wave already, thanks!
- Robert Scoble
This should be a reality television show. This is where the real drama queens will come out to play.
- Jeunelle Foster
Leo's going to need a new show, TWIF
- Stephen Pickering
This week in Facebook
- Stephen Pickering
Anyone here ever feel like we're just being tossed around from website to website by the big players?
- Christopher Doiron
Thanks Kelly :)
- BRҰANSAҰS
Chris, Yep
- Stephen Pickering
Bruce: I disagree with you about Facebook and openness. They are a lot more open than they used to be and are MUCH more professional and friendly than, say, Twitter is.
- Robert Scoble
Robert, I look forward to your review of Wave.
- Bruce Lewis
Openness and Facebook are not one and the same.... polar opposites. Bah humbug.
- Kelly Mitchell
Yup the big dogs are sitting back laughing at this whole thing
- Jeunelle Foster
It doesn't necessarily have to be "R&D" but really a completely separate product. Something like YouTube is to Google. Although that's a terrible analogy...I guess the products are too similar to keep separate.
- Brandon Titus
I'd pay-per-view to see Scoble and Sebastian Bach fight
- Mattb4rd
The Chinese government is much more open than it used to be. It still doesn't meet my standards.
- Bruce Lewis
Bruce: also, Zuckerberg is seeing the real money is in search. So he HAS to be open to really do great there.
- Robert Scoble
Robert: Any chance you could share your Wave address?
- Brandon Titus
Did anyone get a chance to see Youtube HTML 5 Demo?
- Stephen Pickering
Brandon: I don't have my own address. Someone gave me theirs so can't share.
- Robert Scoble
Zuckerberg doesn't make money from other companies' search engines, so he's still limiting what data can go out. I see FB getting more open about what data they take in.
- Bruce Lewis
Bruce: Wave is very geeky. I think the UI has a lot of FriendFeed's problems x10. We'll see how that first impression sticks.
- Robert Scoble
And Wave will only be as good as how many users it has
- Stephen Pickering
Where will I go? Probably no where. Friendfeed was the first time I really got to feel like I found a home. Other places don't interact and blend multiple social services like Friendfeed does/did. Just as plenty of other people have said, I'm waiting for Google Wave at this point. I'm already a Google whore, might as well wait for the Wave to come through.
- Matthew Horton
Bruce: data that goes out can be embedded on blogs and websites and interact with things. Also, if you get into Google's search engine you can get a LOT of traffic, which then you can monetize on your own service.
- Robert Scoble
Not necessarily nailing the coffin shut yet here. Going to hang around and see what develops....what seems likely at the moment may be a totally different thing tommorow :O)
- Jack Wilson, K4SAC
I am leaving at midnight. 2 accounts will be deleted, mine and one I manage for another site.
- April
Robert: Hope you enjoy Wave! The UI is definitely way off for content sharing (at least in my first impression) and more suited for group communication for the very scenarios they threw out in the demos. Get much beyond that, or have too many people and the system starts to break down. Obviously, the underlying Wave infrastructure could be used to create something similar to and better than Friendfeed.
- Brandon Titus
Yeah, the cool thing about Wave is the problem they solved with the protocol. Not really their UI implementation. I think there are huge opportunities with both Open Social and the Wave protocol.
- Chip Ramsey
OK, I have been out of touch and I guess I missed something. I see nothing wrong with staying with all the feeds I am tied to!
- Dave Sickmeier
April, please don't delete your account. We lose interesting history when people do that.
- Bruce Lewis
There is no Facebook and no FriendFeed, it is now called TwoFacedFriend...
- Kelly Mitchell
Bill: I'll be around but probably a lot less. Actually I was thinking that this was good timing. We have a new baby due in September and my other son is just starting to learn to talk, so want to spend more time hanging around with the family.
- Robert Scoble
I am gonna wait it out. If the community as a whole migrates I will go with them, but I don't want to overreact.
- Neal "thePuck" Jansons
it's time to have another serious look at Plaxo. There are some very clever people there too, I believe?!
- Matt Hooper
Truth is, being addicted to FriendFeed isn't a good lifestyle.
- Robert Scoble
Well said Robert
- Kelly Mitchell
April: why so sudden and why delete accounts? I don't get that.
- Robert Scoble
depends what they do with the service - I like friendfeed and facebook so I think it will probably work okay for me
- Nick Stone
Brandon: oh, oh. You said it "Wave doesn't scale." Not good.
- Robert Scoble
FF also has good tools for using it in moderation -- best of day, week, which you can get by email. Lists help.
- Bruce Lewis
I have been spending most of my time on Brightkite. It's a smaller community and more fun. A better alternative than twitter or facebook.
- John Ferron
Robert, and yes when he does that (Money in Search), it will change the playing field in lateral ways across the Internet, especially in ePortfolios and other like applications that don't need to be walled gardens
- Melanie Reed
Your right, Robert, but you would eventually learn to moderate your use, and a service like this is going to be needed
- Stephen Pickering
so much DRAMA
- Kevin Pruett
Kevin, the Drama is warranted
- Stephen Pickering
Will there ever be an app that just leaves facebook out of the equation - we could only dream
- Ryan Gerritsen
i'm leaving, watching from twitter would be a better option for me.
- rama mamuaya
I am not likely to invest time in another community that I don't have a stake in. If I contribute it will be because I have a personal interest and am part of the team that runs the show. That is the only way I will feel comfortable investing my time & energy into it.
- April
If we could get the other "Rock Stars" who are obviously having a "virtual prayer meeting" somewhere to get together and talk about what changes they wish to see and what they would like to see develop for social media, Twitter, Facebook, Friendfeed and now this Google Wave, we would probably all feel a little better as we might be able to see down the dark cold tunnel but they're out...
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- Jeunelle Foster
i think that I'll keep posting to friendfeed until it fully integrates with facebook
- Carlos Leiva Burotto
Did you guys see Dave Winer's URL shortner, http://rp.ly? Genius.
- Stephen Pickering
Jeunelle: Rizzn and Louis Gray and I did a podcast earlier where we talked through some of our feelings. It was very, um, theraputic.
- Robert Scoble
hahaha I must of missed it, I'll dig it up. A bit quiet still though. Haven't heard peep from Chris Brogan and all them other STARS
- Jeunelle Foster
Louis's blog post was classic.
- Bruce Lewis
Man, I can understand Louis' feelings. Look how much he and Scoble have put into this
- Stephen Pickering
I'll continue to use FF until there's reason not to. I'm patient enough to see what happens to it. What's the hurry?
- Cathryn Hrudicka
I just started on Friendfeed. It can't go away!
- Paul McElligott
Lets start FeedFriend - the Bizaro friendfeed minus Facebook integration
- Ryan Gerritsen
Well, I was rather hoping for some sort of joint deal between Twitter & FF... I'm not sure if I'll stick around in FF or not. I'm definitely not a fan of Facebook
- Tim Bergman
Paul, that's what so frustrating. Just given time, we know it would have caught on
- Stephen Pickering
I'm staying...
- Luis
Thanks for feeding the flames, there, Scoble. *WHAT* on earth is so scary about all this?
- Brad McCrorey
Brad, FF has died. Scoble made this thing. And what does he get out of it? Nuttin
- Stephen Pickering
Stephen: I got you all as friends.
- Robert Scoble
:-)
- Stephen Pickering
This really SUCKS because when you don't have great "developers" to put something together like FriendFeed, you're really just gonna have to either take it up the ass or commit suicide. I'll hang myself 1st with all my clothes on :)
- Jeunelle Foster
Jeunelle HAHAHAHAHHAAHAHHAHAHAHAHAH
- Stephen Pickering
I'm wherever good, smart peeps are ('cuz I'm not smart enough). I don't invest much in tools - it's the people I care for. I'm not gonna abandon FF now but I understand that we'll need a way to foster the kind of community that got fostered here. Nothing lasts forever - and that's mostly a good thing in the long run.
- phil baumann
from Android
i'll be here until either the bitter end or something else comes along ... i'm really hoping that the ff-team will turn facebook into more of what it was before the apps came along... i think that's when FB really took a downward turn for me
- Chris Heath
I follow the Cheese!
- Rich Weaver
Venues like this will come and go, the whole social media landscape is in a constant state of flux I don't see why so many are up in arms. The life cycle of all the current venues are short and most of the leaders are nearing the end of their lives as we know it. But fear not, many new shiny toys will be bestowed upon us to play with. Now let's be social again! (ps. I'm sure we've seen NOTHING yet!)
- Paul Monaco
Tweet: the cheese is in Zuckerberg's office! :-)
- Robert Scoble
And for anyone that wants to know why I am deleting my account and not just moving away and leaving it to rot like i would normally do...just read the policies of facebook. Anywhere I have an account with data I don't want to be exploited commercially, in a way that exploits me personally, I'd delete it just as fast if the service were bought by facebook.
- April
Zuckerberg is Master of the Universe. He spent 4 hours with Paul Friday. That would have an effect on anyone
- Stephen Pickering
Kevin, when God, ie Mark Zuckerberg, says you can
- Stephen Pickering
I love FF but I think this is a great move. If FB takes the best ideas from FF and they open it up theres is so much potential for a great community.
- Gary Gannon
Definitely see what happens... Not looking forward to Facebook turning this into a free-for-all like Facebook :-)
- Maria Reyes-McDavis
Gary a potential for $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$
- Stephen Pickering
Not going anywhere for the time being. I'm not a big Twitter fan, and unless FB makes some big time changes, it just doesn't do it for me. Will be listening for any other social media that might come round the bend.
- Bonnie Foster
We are getting tired of all those constant platform changes, aren't we?
- Harald Felgner
Harald Yes!
- Stephen Pickering
I say we all leave Facebook instead.
- Larry Roth
Herald and Stephen, Yes! More and different is not always better, just more and different.
- Melanie Reed
I can't leave Facebook. I have too much built up there. And that won't do anything anways. It will just be a small blip to them.
- Mathew™ aka Youngblood
so what content aggregator in the absence of FF?
- WarLord
My apologies if this has already been asked, but Robert you are very close the FF team. You had no idea this was coming?
- Ben Hanten
I'm not leaving. I like FriendFeed and Facebook.
- Kimber Scott
Ben: not one iota. I did sense that they were struggling to figure out how to compete, but didn't think they would sell. Paul always told me he didn't want to sell.
- Robert Scoble
WarLord: there isn't a good aggregator. That's why it's stupid to delete your feeds.
- Robert Scoble
OK, a friend talked me down. He told me I'd be saying sorry for starting this post by the 400th comment. He's usually right. So, instead of saying sorry, I'm going drinking. See ya in the lobby in 10 minutes!
- Robert Scoble
I may be dense about this, but why would you leave until you saw which way it was going?
- Jerry Kidd
Good question, Jerry. I wanna know this, too.
- Brad Williamson
Robert, I think he struggled with it, but 4 Hours with Mark is a big persuasion
- Stephen Pickering
Matthew: I expect that the engineers will get put onto Facebook. So, if the smartest people are working on Facebook and not on FriendFeed, why would I stay here? Why wouldn't I start moving my work and social graph and all that over to Facebook?
- Robert Scoble
The people I've come to know on FriendFeed are what I'd miss though, so I'd like to take my social graph with me wherever I might end up next. There's a business opportunity right there.
- Aaman (Clone of FF)
Dunno if I'll leave the ship...
- Wario
When I think about it - I found your post as well as the TechCrunch article via Google Friend Connect. So maybe it is time to join that Wave!?
- Harald Felgner
Jerry: I said I was going to wait until I talk with the team more, but the things I'm hearing tell me they've already been bought to work on Facebook proper. So, unless someone tells me that's wrong, that tells me I should spend more and more of my time over on Facebook and not here. But my friend convinced me I'm being hasty and emotional. :-O
- Robert Scoble
Mathew: Scoble said early on in this thread that he invests his time into emerging networks, not things that "are already here" I think thats why he will be moving on to the next big thing, like google wave or watchever new social network emerges out of this. I suspect that another startup will emerge to try and fill the shoes left behind by friendfeed. This is always the case. When napster left, you had morpheus and kazaa, then bit torrents.
- BRҰANSAҰS
Matthew: FriendFeed=Facebook. It's a great day for both. Cause I'll end up at Facebook either way! :-)
- Robert Scoble
Anyway, these are just the emotional ramblings of someone trying to figure out how the world shifted today. Have fun!
- Robert Scoble
clue to the denouement: where is the most valuable processing of this event. Right here.
- Steve Gillmor
I'm just curious what new startup will roll into the limelight because of this announcement?
- BRҰANSAҰS
Robert, FriendFeed != Facebook - look at the quality of commentary/people here
- Aaman (Clone of FF)
FriendFeed can stop improving right now, and I'll still stick around until something else catches up. Maybe that something else will be Facebook. I'll wait and see.
- Bruce Lewis
I'm probably out. Back to open source for me at this point. Time to take another look and see how things have progressed with Laconica, JaikuEngine, NoseRub, and some of the other secondary options. I may also go crawling back to Twitter. Given a choice between Twitter and Facebook... sigh...
- Ken Sheppardson
++Steve Gillmor
- Bruce Lewis
Ken you'll be back.
- Steve Gillmor
I don't think FB will change it all so quickly. But I do like Laconica, too.
- Monique Hodgkinson
Steve you're making it hurt worse! ;-(
- Stephen Pickering
Monique: It's not about rapid change, it's about where to invest effort. I don't really have any interest in investing my time and energy on Facebook... so why wait?
- Ken Sheppardson
stephen how so
- Steve Gillmor
I don't know where to go :(
- K.D.
I'll make up my mind when I figure out what better alternative there is to Friend Feed.
- Anthony Teegarden
Because we know FF has died
- Stephen Pickering
Steve: Yeah, you're probably right. I appreciate the work Bret, Paul, Benjamin, et al have done, and I was really looking forward to where they were taking things... before they were taking it to Facebook.
- Ken Sheppardson
Stephen: FF has died? Well, then, how am I typing to you?
- Robert Scoble
Tomy, why change? You can listen to the Beatles and the Stones!
- Stephen Pickering
Ken: it's all good. they're moving to a radically larger playground, and they can't afford to abandon those who appreciate them
- Steve Gillmor
They will keep FF just will make it better
- Johni Fisher
Choose I meant
- Stephen Pickering
Please stop with FF has died chatter!
- BRҰANSAҰS
I'll wait to learn more before making any decisions
- Herb Hernandez
Robert, well, metaphorically. Whether its a few months or a year
- Stephen Pickering
Tomy: Twitter is like Facebook but without likes and comments. Oh, wait, Facebook is a lot like FriendFeed already. I just commented on Louis Gray's item there. Oh, and there's applications. We can play games! :-) Herb: I'll try to go see the team next week. I'm also interviewing Yelp.
- Robert Scoble
But Steve, what if the larger "playground" turns out to be very different from the one pitched to them? What if the FF team finds that their vision isn't shared after all?
- Bruce Lewis
Robert, ok maybe you are right. Maybe it will be like the R&D. That would be great!
- Stephen Pickering
Stephen: are you trying to get on the Gillmor Gang? We seem to kill things before they are really dead there too.
- Robert Scoble
Hey Robert , you make friendfeed slower ! I guess you should leave here really x)
- Melissa Taylor
Anyway, I'm going drinking. For real this time.
- Robert Scoble
Robert, HAHAHAHAHAHHAHAAHHAHAHAHA
- Stephen Pickering
they can go build it again. but zuckerberg has been wanting this for some time
- Steve Gillmor
need to wait what will happen to FF
- Toni @ NavinoT
I'm planning on easing out of Friendfeed in the next couple of days, so I can get the contacts of people I know on here and who's opinions I value.
- Jonathan Hardesty
Pickering: RSS is dead, not FF
- Steve Gillmor
Steve, oh yes, If I were him, I would pull out all stops to get this team. I totally understand from a business perspective, all perspectives
- Stephen Pickering
business is design
- Steve Gillmor
HAHAHA great comeback Steve. On that note I think I'll have a beer. :)
- BRҰANSAҰS
Steve, OK, I'll keep the faith that maybe Scoble's idea that this could be a Facebook R&D could happen. That would be great!!!!
- Stephen Pickering
Steve, did you see the post about this being an opportunity for Google Reader? I think it was by Jorge Escobar.
- Bruce Lewis
Reading through all this is hilarious. We really should have a social media reality show Robert
- Jeunelle Foster
no bruce, how so
- Steve Gillmor
Jeunelle, Robert went drinking :)
- Stephen Pickering
So he ain't all that. Just kidding hehehehe :)
- Jeunelle Foster
He was saying Reader has most of the features of FF, and this could be their chance to expand and fill the niche FF filled: http://friendfeed.com/social-...
- Bruce Lewis
disagree bruce GR has no explicit contract with users
- Steve Gillmor
Contract or contact?
- BRҰANSAҰS
Wave might be boosted, but has similar immaturity at the social graph level
- Steve Gillmor
I don't understand the part about the contract.
- Bruce Lewis
If Ning is 750m why FF is just 50m ?
- Johni Fisher
users consciously contribute metadata to FF
- Steve Gillmor
Do we want Google to buy Twitter?
- Stephen Pickering
@Steve @Bruce, here's the post http://jungleg.com/2009... -- it's a crazy idea but GR could make an extra effort and put up a better web experience
- Jorge Escobar
I like FriendFeed, a lot, but too few of my friends use the service to make it really useful. So I guess I'll leave.
- Adam Washington
Adam, stay, if even only for the aggregating features
- Stephen Pickering
You are testing us Scoble.
- Özer (Wrzl) Dölekoğlu
YES he's sitting in the back laughing while drinking Peppermint Schnaps
- Jeunelle Foster
Scobles outta here. He went to get a life! hehehehehehehe
- Stephen Pickering
totally staying....this really is just the beginning....and, i just built FF into all of my Intro to Soc sections!!!!
- Chad Gesser
I thought you said you'd hand in there until they turn the last server off. What changed your mind?
- Paul Chaney
Speaking of Google. What was the point of them buying Jaiku and doing nothing with it?
- BRҰANSAҰS
I'll at least stay for aggregation and extending 140 character tweets, and pray maybe it will become Facebooks R&D, but I know that's a longshot
- Stephen Pickering
I should get a life too but alas the temptation is too great for "attention whoring"
- Jeunelle Foster
Jeunelle HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH
- Stephen Pickering
hehehe lol
- Jeunelle Foster
Regarding the "team's plans", I really don't expect to hear anything from Bret, Paul, et al. At this point I'm happy to let the Facebook (i.e. the non-FriendFeed) folks try to convince me that they're ready to do things differently. That involves more than just hiring a team.
- Ken Sheppardson
Well, maybe Paul can influence Mark not "to be evil"
- Stephen Pickering
those who think FB has any choice but to go down the FF road are not thinking this through
- Steve Gillmor
Steve, Oh, I totally understand. It was genius of them. Proves how Mark is indeed Master of the Universe
- Stephen Pickering
Steve, self-interest does not guarantee anything. People and companies can act irrationally.
- Bruce Lewis
So Steve, do you see two separate properties indefinitely? Or does Facebook just slowly start too look more FF-like, then one day they redirect friendfeed.com to facebook.com?
- Ken Sheppardson
yes bruce take twitter for example
- Steve Gillmor
But Paul could end up being a great influence on Mark
- Stephen Pickering
not indefinitely Ken, but long enough to transfer enough value to avoid making twitter look like the good guys
- Steve Gillmor
Steve, will Google buy Twitter?
- Stephen Pickering
you're "VERY excited" about the deal, but plan to leave friendfeed? why, exactly? i don't get it...
- Shawn C. Reed
dunno, don't really care
- Steve Gillmor
ff was the important value, not twitter
- Steve Gillmor
Oh sure, who do you want in your office, Ev or Paul Bucheit? Paulllllll!
- Stephen Pickering
Stephen, didn't the TechCrunch article say that the FF team would be split between two bosses, neither of which was Mark?
- Bruce Lewis
matthew who says they didn't
- Steve Gillmor
That's right. Paul may end up running that thing, or at least be No.2
- Stephen Pickering
ff has been running dev for a year
- Steve Gillmor
Wow - isn't this jumping to conclusions? No one has said anything's going away, nor do we know what they're doing to do with it. Stick around, wait to see what happens, then jump. Nothing's happened yet - I think it will all be for the better in the end and you'll know where to go when the FF Team says Jump.
- Jesse Stay
Kurt, he's gonna sit on it for a while, see what shakes out
- Stephen Pickering
jesse skip to the bottom for the apology
- Steve Gillmor
The FF Team hasn't let us down yet, have they? I still trust them - only when they break that trust do we jump.
- Jesse Stay
@Scobleizer I've been on Google Wave for about a week working on an interesting idea I have for it. It's very promising but its very alpha right now. You won't find it worth your time just yet.
- Noah White
jumping is bullshit, no place to go
- Steve Gillmor
Ah - sorry Robert - didn't see the clarification towards the bottom. Thanks Steve.
- Jesse Stay
Jesse, you still in the Boston area?
- Bruce Lewis
Why rush to judgment? Even if the "team's plans" are off-base, what's the base? And what's off? Experience, resourcefulness, respect for users and smarts under fire all matter more than "plans." Wait & keep seeing.
- Doc
What the hell? Just because someone buys FriendFeed everyone has to ditch it? ABORT SHIP, ABORT SHIP! Doesn't really make sense so soon. Has anything changed yet? Is it the end of the world? Don't just leave because everyone says they will either. Stick around, the ship is still afloat.
- Nick Humphries
the doctor is in the house
- Steve Gillmor
But, if they did pull the plug, with bandwidth and computing halving every year, there would be another one of these pop up in no time
- Stephen Pickering
I don't see a point in leaving Friendfeed until the doors close on us... if and when that happens.
- Alex Knight
Actually facebook is the most popular rss reader of all time :)
- Christian Burns
from iPhone
Bruce, we just left today. I'm actually in Niagara Falls, NY right now. Just finished watching a beautiful view of the Falls at night.
- Jesse Stay
There's a house?
- Doc
Steve, is that Doc Searls?
- Stephen Pickering
of cards
- Steve Gillmor
hover over the name stephen
- Steve Gillmor
Jesse, if anybody can persuade me (us?) that Facebook is going to be good for the FF team it's you. Maybe write a blog post or something.
- Bruce Lewis
Don't get so close.
- Doc
unfollow please sidney
- Steve Gillmor
Doc, Calacanis recommended your book to his audience on THis Week in Startups. Can't wait to read it!
- Stephen Pickering
I just left facebook a couple weeks ago - hope friendfeed doesn't devolve into quizzes and walled gardens
- Doug Holton
It's the Gillmor Gang in a perpendicular universe.
- Doc
yes it is
- Steve Gillmor
and about fucking time
- Steve Gillmor
Stephen, make sure it's the *new* 10th anniversary edition of Cluetrain. Both it and the old one are being sold. 8 extra chapters in the new.
- Doc
No doubt, Steve
- Christian Burns
from iPhone
Because of Quantum Wave effects there are an infinite number of Universes, some of which The Gillmor Gang is still broadcasting
- Stephen Pickering
Bruce, I'll be working on a post really soon. Also, Louis Gray and I are going to record a phone call about it tomorrow, which I think should prove useful. I've got a lot of knowledge about Facebook, and he does about FriendFeed.
- Jesse Stay
we never stopped stephen
- Steve Gillmor
Heheheheheheheheh
- Stephen Pickering
JFC, I was gonna go to bed, and here we are. Wherever this is. Do we all really live in Scoble's butt?
- Doc
Doc comes through with yet another metonym: the perpendicular universe (= FF).
- Nick in Manila
I would have had something out sooner but I've been driving a car all day. :-)
- Jesse Stay
no it's Marshall McLuhan's butt
- Steve Gillmor
Is this SRC?
- Doc
Kurt, oh yeah, I totally get that and so does Scoble, but you've got to understand his short term hurt. Look at how much energy he put into this thing, and what did he get? Nuttin
- Stephen Pickering
You mean McLuhan is in Scoble's body? He's in the movie Being Robert Scoble?
- Doc
Nonsense Stephen he gets paid in attention every single time
- Steve Gillmor
Social relay chat?
- Christian Burns
from iPhone
No who's on first
- Steve Gillmor
Scoble Relay Chat.
- Doc
the medium is the message
- Steve Gillmor
OK, OK, Steve. I admit, I listened to Dave Winer's chat this evening about it
- Stephen Pickering
yeah I read the liner notes instead
- Steve Gillmor
Confessions of Stephen and Steve
- Jeunelle Foster
And the medium is the network?
- Stephen Pickering
Are we paying Scoble now? Are we his excreta and are those a form of currency?
- Doc
as richard manuel used to say the check's in yr mouth
- Steve Gillmor
Doc, HAHAHAHAHHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
- Stephen Pickering
I thought it was "the check is coming in your mouth." Just looking for accuracy here.
- Doc
no, doc it's a contraction of 2 of the 3 promises
- Steve Gillmor
I forget what the 3rd is
- Steve Gillmor
I'll love you in the morning?
- Doc
could be
- Steve Gillmor
Well, it's almost morning here. I'll tape this show and watch later. G'night or g'morning, all.
- Doc
Goodnight, Doc!
- Stephen Pickering
Part of beauty of FF: all their shows are taped. And yet open ended.
- Nick in Manila
It depends how much FF changes. No reason to leave until and unless it gets annoying.
- Igor Goldkind
It's "I'll respect you in the morning."
- Sean Gallagher
Oh, I'm not leaving. Hell, I even still have a myspace account. It's just a question of engagement
- Stephen Pickering
Good night all. Tip for Jeunelle: You get more attention if you make your feed public. Make a group for your private stuff.
- Bruce Lewis
they'll have to scrub this one pretty good before they shut it down
- Steve Gillmor
Maybe Jeunelle doesn't want attention.
- Sean Gallagher
Hell, they keep Orkut going. Storage and bandwidth keep getting cheaper. Might as well keep this going
- Stephen Pickering
Orkut! The favorite social network of 9 out of 10 Brazilians.
- Sean Gallagher
And 9 out 10 of the best looking women!
- Stephen Pickering
True.
- Sean Gallagher
@scobleizer that means half of the total activity on friendfeed will be reduced
- Sidharth Dassani
Maybe if Facebook hadn't stolen all Scoble's data, he'd stop worrying and learn to love them.
- Sean Gallagher
Actually even os Brasileiros are coming over to FB
- Stephen Pickering
My mother is on Facebook. The end is nigh.
- Sean Gallagher
"Maybe Jeunelle doesn't want attention" - says who? I only stepped away to pour me a nice glass of Sauvengion Blanc", and thank you Bruce for the advice I'll look into that tomorrow. After all tomorrow is another day. Twiddly Dee
- Jeunelle Foster
there is no reason to leave. I seriously doubt facebook will kill it.
- Logan Lindquist
What's the record number of comments?
- Stephen Pickering
Logan, I hope your right
- Stephen Pickering
Maybe if I blog my twitter of Scoble's FriendFeed and then link it from Facebook via a Digg of a del.icio.us bookmark, it will create a singularity and this thread will have never happened.
- Sean Gallagher
Sean, you may even create a time machine!
- Stephen Pickering
Can someone comment on what April Russo said about Facebook content policy? Seems like a very important piece of the puzzle.
- metalerik
I wouldn't worry about it. The markets will take care of it. If Facebook becomes evil, the masses will fork somewhere else. We're in the age of Openness
- Stephen Pickering
I will only leave friend feed if it becomes a facebook clone. I can't stand facebook but I still use it cause my friends and family use it, but if friendfeed becomes annoying like face book then I see no point in staying here.
- Colide81 (James)
from iPhone
James, Touche
- Stephen Pickering
You know Sean maybe smarter than he looks....hmmmmm :) and what's with that bird head?
- Jeunelle Foster
It's a starling fledgeling. The perfect symbol for social networking-- it eats whatever you give it, then poops on you.
- Sean Gallagher
That's what I want to reincarnate as....an angry poopin bird
- Jeunelle Foster
Just reading all the news about FF and FB. Disapoints me personally, biz wise nice job. Um not a huge FB user so I don't know what my plans are yet. Like you wait a bit and see....
- Bryan Thatcher
from iPhone
I won't leave FF until they make me or there's no community left. Whichever comes first.
- FFing Enigma
We'll never get to talk to Robert Scoble again. :-(
- Jannifer @wordsforliving
on to Google Wave.
- Jason Wilson
from BuddyFeed
Jannifer, Yes we will on his JS-Kit Echo commenting system he will put on his blog. It's real time like this
- Stephen Pickering
I'm leaving. Google Wave, Twitter, Reader will plenty suffice now. Farewell, former friend.
- Californian
Oh Stephen - I'm not sure what that is... but it won't be like Friendfeed. :-(
- Jannifer @wordsforliving
At some point I imagine I will. I have no interest in joining facebook. When I do depends on what facebook does with ff.
- Quasar
I'm sticking around till FB screws it up. But I was keeping FF separate from FB because most of my FB friends are my born-again Christian relatives who won't like the controversial stuff of mine that makes it onto FF's news feed. Still, I'm going to look for other similar sites. Posterous is one.
- Dennis Jernberg
I really want a Google Wave invite now..
- Peter
I'm not leaving but I'm not moving to Facebook. The main thing for me is to keep the contacts I've gained from FriendFeed and hope we all can meet on another similar service somewhere somehow.
- Kol Tregaskes
Ditto what Kol just said.
- Tinfoil 2.0
ditto on the Google wave invite
- Kim
you hit the nail on the head there Kol
- Kim
Maybe. But i really want Google Wave invite.
- ★ Soner Gönül
It's hard to say at this point. The only thing that's changed is who pays the server bill. Ask me in a week. And yes, a Google Wave invite would sure go a long way to make this better for me.
- Dale
Joined Posterous. http://jbug.posterous.com Wouldn't mind a Google Wave invite, though...
- Dennis Jernberg
Me too, Dennis. :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
I will wait and see.
- Matt G
Oh yeah, and I added my Posterous blog to my FriendFeed feed, so you'll be seeing whatever I post there in your home feed here. That is, if you subscribe to me here, or if one of your subscribers likes or comments. Me, leave? Not yet! ;)
- Dennis Jernberg
I'll be sticking around just a little while longer.
- April
I'm here for the duration
- Charlie Anzman
I'm loyal until they make it worth me leaving.
- Jesse Stay
If you want to be sure that I quit Friendfeed you have to see my burial. I will never quit while being alive! :-)
- Nicolai Butzki
I'm staying but it's like when you know that the company you work for has been bought by someone else and might close it, you lose motivation and start looking for another job, it's hard to invest time and energy if there might be no future. Not that the future of FF was guaranteed before but now it does not look good at all.
- M F
I'm heading to Plurk! who's with me? *tumbleweed*
- Iain Baker
Like I said before, I'm staying here until the end.
- Mathew™ aka Youngblood
Friendfeed is two totally different things: the original RSS aggregation service, and a social network service/community. Lifestream.fm is a reasonable replacement for the former. As to the latter, it's the people, not the tech they're using, that makes FF special. I've benefited greatly as a 'consumer' here, reading posts - if that continues on Facebook, it will probably get me to...
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- SteamCentral
i'll be around until it becomes unbearable, probly until it's been damaged badly by FB style feature creep and riddled with ads and spammers. oh, and absolutely stupid censorship policies. that'll be a real killer.
- The Silence
not leaving. NEVER hoho I haven't left FB nor friendser.
- Ac0n (former Franc)
The CloneFeed group has given me some interest. It gives some hope in case FF really goes away or merges badly with FB. I like FB but just don't want to fully mix the two activities/audiences.
- manielse (Mark Nielsen)
I'd rather keep my Friendfeed as my "professional aggregation" and Facebook as personal stuff. I blog, tweet, etc. stuff that a lot of my friends could care less about. And I post stuff to Facebook that isn't interesting or relevant to clients / followers.
- Gregg Le Blanc
Google Wave is what I am looking for. The problem with moving to Facebook is that I use it for close friends and family so things like comments and pics etc that I post to it I would not want to have available to all of the contacts I have on FF at the moment. Mainly because I like to separate those I know from those that I converse with if that makes sense. I loved that on FF I could...
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- travispuk
Whilst I am not 'leaving' FF, I will not be investing anywhere near the type of interaction I have done previous to yesterday's announcement as I just see it as wasted time.
- travispuk
I have to wait & see what, I don't want to lose the community; where do I go? This feels like Pownce all over!
- clarke thomas
What becomes of the broken hearted?
- Joe Dawson
I'm staying on!
- Charles Lau
FF is my first big social networking investment (or time) - I'll stay and then move, if forced. I'll certainly investigate other tools in an effort to fill any gap left by FaceFeed.
- Jason Miller
I just saw that a woman's twittering her childbirth made the front page of BBC's world news webpage. I don't know to make of it, but I don't want to hang out at Twitter much anymore.
- Mitch
Mitch: we Twittered our childbirth in 2007 and we will again in September, but probably not on our main account.
- Robert Scoble
i think i'm stayin, and wait what's goin on facebook. i will feel upset if they dont allow the users to make their choice of using one or other site, but looks like they gonna force to use FB instead of FF :(
- Dani Martínez
Not sure how on board with FriendFeed I ever was to begin with to be honest...
- Gurpreet
FriendFeed will be fine - FaceBook is fine - and so is Twitter - I might check out AmpliFeeder, I suspect quite a few FriendFeeders will migrate there as the days go by.
- Chris Loft
Not leaving FF but I can't wait till it's properly integrated with Facebook. Interesting thing: Wave's API is open so there's nothing to stop Facebook creating an app to make Facebook & Wave work great together. Not so much either/or as and... and..!
- Matt Moran
Has anyone tried amplifeeder? edit: so far don't see any friending abilities though
- metalerik
Why leave? But will be open to see other options - facebook doesn't (currently) provide to me what I get here.
- amygeek
Facebook bought friendfeed http://adage.com/digital...
- Rob Johnson
I stay on FriendFeed, on Twitter, on Facebook, etc.
- Emmanuel Gadenne
I won't delete my account, but as FF morphs into the ball of confusion that is Facebook, I won't be very active.
- Jeremy Brooks
I will. No point sticking around when you know it is going to die sooner or later. With twitter you still have the hope....
- Davide D'Incau
I'll leave Facebook if FF gets harmed. And go back to Identi.ca... ;-)
- Torrid Luna
I'll stay on FF, FB and T, and BK, and other, BrightKite is not well utilised, is good even on beta.
- Andy Ghozali
Robert: If you're looking for an awesome real-time discussion platform, you should migrate to Fluther. http://www.fluther.com
- Ben
I'm staying put and watching the ship sink. I'd really like to believe that FriendFeed will have some longevity, but I won't hedge my bets.
- Tyson Key
Steve Gillmor said "clue to the denouement: where is the most valuable processing of this event. Right here." so for now, FF looks like the space.
- Barbara K. Iverson
I intend to stick around to see what Facebook have planned. I think the takeover has everything to do with the direction FB's been heading in lately, what with their open challenge to Twitter
- Dennis Jernberg
I don't see it as leaving, but rather seeing the possibility that it might leave us. FF was and still is just about my favorite site and uberaggregatorthing that I ever saw....
- Rob Schieber
+100 Rob Schieber
- Tyson Key
I will stay. Facebook will not Win.
- TheHenry
depends. if they stay seperate services, i wont like the acquisition,but i'll stay. if they become 1 service, i'm out. and where is every1 going from friend feed anyhow. what else is there?
- echostreamer
Will wait and see what happens with FB
- Ted Kinzer
fb ruins everything. Have the Privacy policy "not "changed since fb came into the pic? Can they not build their own ideas instead of buying everyone else's? leave us geeks to play in our playground and stay in yours. greedy buggers. The second they pull a skanky fb move i'm out. bitches.
- seastarerrin
I'm here till the ship goes down.
- Lee Watters
Leaving no. Checking out other venues yes.
- Martha
Just maybe Facebook will listen to the Friendfeed engineers in charge of user interface/usability starting with the type size and fonts. Not all marriages are made in heaven. Culture clashes are sure to pop up.
- Alan Morris
I am leaving Web - Back to Telnet
- Dominique Rabeuf
Dominique, too late. The web already assimilated it with the telnet: url schema.
- Bruce Lewis
OK so only snmp/ssh
- Dominique Rabeuf
Hell no, not leaving. Best service on the web.
- Christopher Galtenberg
from iPhone
gonna ride this one out to shore.
- Sean Oliver
hu?
- Dries Grobler Jr
back to blogs :-)
- Mostafa Lameei
I was about to focus a little more on FF but since I heard about the purchase and read rumors about FF being integrated in FB and being shutdown and all this, I'm getting a little ... well.. undecided.. Just checked Streamy, didn't like it. If a.tinythread.com get's more development, this might be the next thing to migrate to. I'm sure not moving to FaceBook. I have my account, I have...
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- Daniel van Moll
Minitel 3815 (?)
- Dominique Rabeuf
Not interested in being part of Facebook. Goodbye, FriendFeed. :-(
- TranceMist
I wish more folks would see the big picture. We need to focus on independent projects that are NOT part of the Google-Yahoo-Microsoft borg. As soon as a site gets absorbed it is time to find another independent site. Yes, I do realize that some may have actually been part all along and only pretending they were independent in the first place - especially if they were founded by...
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- Gail Gardner
This post was in response to facebook's purchase of friendfeed... Robert is asking who is leaving because of the purcahse
- Chris Heath
not because of the facebook purchase... he left a month ago or so... he comes back from time to time ... mostly because we're talking about him
- Chris Heath
I am seriously pondering about creating a mini-clone of FriendFeed. #lordgivemethestrength
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Do it!
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
would you need some help from a modest coder? :)
- directeur
I'll bring the lulz
- Josh Haley
from iPhone
I have a feeling that this thread will be historical
- directeur
doooooooooooooo eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeet
- acedanger
I could open up enjoysthin.gs to things other than likes... it's already got a realtime feed. Anyone have any interest in that?
- Ted Roden
@Ted: if needed, I'd be willing to offer up some time to do some javascript coding...
- Harold
I can code and design database backends (been teaching this in Univ.) and I'll happily help with the frontend too! Just make an announcement AJ, and I'm your man :)
- directeur
I also posted a bit about it here if anyone is interested: http://bit.ly/k4BHc
- Ted Roden
Wow... we can already build a team here. I can design the UI and code the frontend. I'm also good in testing and user experience. There seems to be a huge vacuum left by FriendFeed.
- AJ Batac \(o_o)/
Ted, open it up. It will definitely be a good move. ;)
- AJ Batac \(o_o)/
DO IT DO IT DO IT DO IT DO IT DO IT DO IT DO IT DO IT DO IT DO IT DO IT DO IT DO IT DO IT DO IT!!!
- Mathew™ aka Youngblood
Meanwhile, I'll try to write an opensource import/export app for people to use? :)
- directeur
OMG
- Charlie Anzman
Need another coder?
- Glenn Slaven
I was already working on a FriendFeeed clone that was focused on the gaming community.... but with today's news, I am tempted to make it more generic
- Daniel Sims
Great stuff guys and an export app would be super, directeur!
- Sally Church
Daniel, I'd like to test the app when it's ready or better yet open it to us so we can help you out. Speed up the development.
- AJ Batac \(o_o)/
Before you guys go down this path take a look at all the resources I have over at Lifestream Blog here: http://lifestreamblog.com/create there are plenty of scripts / projects that could provide a starting point.
- Mark Krynsky
Mark, that is a great list! Wow.
- AJ Batac \(o_o)/
in
- Mattb4rd
Yea, the section under Open Source community apps would probably be the most interesting.
- Mark Krynsky
It also depends on what part of FriendFeed you want to clone... as Mark's list shows, the lifestream and importing features are easily reproduced. FriendFeed's real magic IMO is the ease of discussion & discovery, which is what I am more interested in.
- Daniel Sims
Totally agree with you Daniel.
- AJ Batac \(o_o)/
Clone it goooo
- Will Higgins™
I'm in.
- Barak B
There was actually a great article posted a few months ago about the FF database structure and how it's designed for high speed access and whatnot. What would be neat would be to create an open source friendfeed clone. Of course this whole thread will probably be used in a lawsuit eventually.
- Andrew Leyden
Hells yeah.
- Yolanda
I was just considering this, too.
- Kevin L
Kevin, over here: http://friendfeed.com/clonefe...
- AJ Batac \(o_o)/
Is there any chance when the FF gang make off like bandits they leave the keys in the API running? With a possible service level agreement?
- Andrew Smith
AJ, please do and use the Google Wave protocol. ;-)
- Kol Tregaskes
Yay!
- James Myatt
I'm with you AJ! If you want some coders, you can find them [PHPUGPH]. hehe!
- Randy
I can help with backend/DB/scalability. Dev on MS platforms (Azure, anyone?), too.
- Jemm
I have 10G of space, 50G of monthly bandwidth on a friend's SoftLayer dedicated server. Lots of perks, permission to install anything I want or need. Somehow I don't think that is enough for a project like this, but I am willing to contribute some of it if it can be of any help.(I am only using a small portion of it to host a few sites. I own the domain name wtfcat.com. might be good for a cute url shortener. It ain't doing anything else useful at the moment.
- April
unless you find social magician, you fail on taking user base of any significance to justify infra maintenance
- Отборнейший бред
Please please please make it open source.
- Dennis Jernberg
FriendFeed accepts Facebook friend request - FriendFeed Blog - http://blog.friendfeed.com/2009...
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We've been acquired by Facebook! We are really excited about joining the Facebook team. (Note: FriendFeed will continue to operate - see the blog post for details)
- Bret Taylor
from Bookmarklet
Boom.
- Louis Gray
Grr!
- directeur
Woah...
- Brandon Titus
Uh. Well, that's the end of that.
- Akiva
Argh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
- Roberto Bonini
What does this mean for FriendFeed, Bret?
- Kol Tregaskes
Lame.
- Mark Trapp
great title bret. well played.
- MG Siegler
WOW
- Bindu Reddy
Congrat! So, what does this mean to your team and to FF in general?
- Dilip Dand
wahhhhhhhhhh
- Myrna
maaaan
- Jamie
wowow
- Harry Wolff
congrats
- brainno722 (Peter)
Nooooooooooooo
- Mushin
Wait... seriously?
- Ken Sheppardson
Congratulations to the friendfeed team. I know this is huge for y'all. Please don't let us spoil your parade as we weep.
- Alleluiabug Heather
Seriously?!? .....
- sebastian☆rocket brother
oh boy.
- Carlos Ayala
it was good while it lasted, Friendfeed. :(
- holly #ravingfangirl
OMG
- deerstep
"FriendFeed.com will continue to operate normally for the time being. We're still figuring out our longer-term plans for the product with the Facebook team." Those are NOT encouraging things to read as a FF user.
- Hiding in Two Corners
gratz
- Ali
My heart is sinking as I type this. Please tell me that it isn't a late April Fool's joke. :(
- Tyson Key
Big news! I second Kol & dilip's request for what this means for the team and FF's future.
- Brandon Titus
O_o
- The Silence
So it IS true.
- Hector
Nicely done Bret
- Jennifer Van Grove
Sniff... not sure if I'm excited about this. But I have enormous respect for the FriendFeed team... so, I assume they believe in the move as more than an exit strategy.
- Michael Leggett
Congratulations btw, guys!
- Kol Tregaskes
Congrats, Bret.
- Jordan Hofker
Congratulations, I suppose. A bit worried Facebook is going to ruin everything though. I'm not fond of Facebook, to say the least.
- Morgaine LeFaye
Um.
- Barry Mitchelson
Oh my... Hopefully FriendFeed won't vanish and good luck :)
- Tarmo Aidantausta
Do we call it FaceFeed? FriendBook?
- Tyson Key
Oh no....
- Ben Hanten
damn here it is... :(
- Edgar Rodríguez
*waits for wall-to-wall ads and constant spambots*
- The Silence
FriendFace!!! (i love it crowd)
- Bahriye
Die.
- zio bonino
Congrats
- Zoltan Szendro
I dont want FF to end
- Fee501st
Wow
- Shevonne
Ostregheta.
- reloj
Congrats guys, in a bittersweet sort of way.
- Hutch Carpenter
Oh no!
- Erdinc YILMAZEL
I like Friendfeed and I do not like Facebook. Gratz to you guys though, I think.
- Mark Sorrell
"Oh shit..." came to mind immediately. :(
- Tyson Key
Scott, yep not encouraged by that comment. :-(
- Kol Tregaskes
Congrats on the deal, best wishes to the FF'ers in helping facebook get it together!
- Sean O'Connor
This could get exciting, especially concerning twitter :-P
- Malte Steckmeister
Congrats for Friendfeed team, but I'm seriously worried for us :(((((((((((
- Roberto
Congratulations... I'm sure this is pretty exciting for everyone at FriendFeed... We're all looking forward to where it takes you!
- Nathan Chase
Wow
- Rodfather
wow
- Jack Wilson, K4SAC
*Sobs*
- Tyson Key
come on. Bret, facebook is so closed. so different from Friendfeed. besides that. Congrats to the team
- Edgar Rodríguez
machecazzo
- Sba (stolto birrafondaio)
VERY disappointed.
- The Silence
Booo. But, you know, congrats.
- Chris Nixon
OMG WHAT HAVE YOU DONE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! SH*T
- Alp
Congrats for u guys... probably too bad for us ;-(
- Laurent
God, I can see FB shutting down FF just like Six Apart shut down Pownce.
- DarknessFalls
arg.
- Aron Michalski
Good for you, don't know for all of us
- Cristian Conti
Congrats!
- Gypsy
Coolest web 2.0 site I've ever seen & used. I hope things don't derail. Ads will be coming soon, which is fine, but.... then what 's next? Please no quizzes!
- Ben Hanten
Who would have thought that after Facebook were shamelessly being "inspired" by FriendFeed, the inevitable would have happened?
- Tyson Key
Congrats!
- Moushumi Kabir
Congrats guys. :)
- Meryn Stol
Congratulations. This is awesome for you and for Facebook.
- Mike Sego
mommy?
- Josh Haley
Hey guys, keep in mind that Facebook is blocked in workplaces across the nation. 250 million casual users commenting about last night's party does not intelligent conversation make.
- Hector
yes you have just failed at failing, no it is not a double negative.
- Bahriye
Tragic.
- Shannon
I really can't see how FB would buy FF only to shut it down. There are way too many innovations and features FF has that FB honestly needs. I'm looking forward.
- Harry Wolff
Congrats? Everybody who's saying Congrats doesn't know what he's saying. Go to hell.
- zio bonino
Yeah, quizzes are EVIL!
- Tarmo Aidantausta
Oh, this does not make me happy. Not at all! I've stayed off of Facebook intentionally and FriendFeed is my favorite social network. This is like when the Red Sox traded Babe Ruth to the Yankees. :>(
- Larry Hawes
i have stopped using FB for the most part and liked FF alot more. now FF will go the way of FB. screwed again.
- The Silence
Berge Gazen beat your score in Mafia Wars
- Berge Gazen
Feedface or Facefeed?
- Fee501st
FUCK THAT ! [Anyways good job guys ^^]
- TiTi
Enjoy your fat paychecks, guys. You've sold us out.
- Akiva
Bravo Bret! Been following your successes ever since we had the opportunity to work together on the YellowPages.ca / Google Maps Canada deal. Congrats!
- Sebastien
I wished it was Google or even Yahoo!, instead...
- Tyson Key
i really hope ff stays as it is. fb is kinder carder while ff is a great tool.
- jkkmobile
Not sure what to make of this. It could eiter be a big win or a huge fail.
- dorn
It could have been Microsoft, which would have been worse for everyone. :(
- Tyson Key
Can I take this opportunity to say I HATE facebook?
- Alex Scrivener
seems the only ppl happy here are the ones in the biz or who stand to profit from the merger.
- The Silence
I guess we should get ready to get poked by our supposed friends and have various shit thrown at us? Plus 5,000 requests by apps that nearly all suck.
- Joey Gibson
duh
- aybars badur
I HATE facebook
- Pedram
this is simply awful.
- The Silence
Painful. And apparently I completely misunderstood what FF was trying to accomplish both technically and as an organization. I guess Facebook must have dangled a pretty big bag of money in front of them.
- Ken Sheppardson
FriendFeed is Dead! Long Live FriendFeed! :/
- Tyson Key
Awesome. Please fix Facebook email :) http://fudge.org/too-muc...
- Jay Cuthrell
Facebook is going to acquire the web!
- l'Ego di Gigi
To me, FriendFeed is like Porsche and Facebook a Kia. I'm curious to see which will become which..
- Moushumi Kabir
Oh noes!
- Burcu Dogan
Congrats Bret!
- Robin Dindayal
I will reserve judgement, i don't like or use FB but if FF maintains it's current goodness i don't care who cuts the checks.
- SteVe "Glory Juice" C
I hope this doesn't turn into an APP filled hunk of crap. I love FriendFeed, it was the untouched gem of microblogging. I don't want Mafia Wars invited in my FriendFeed!!! Congrats on the sale though.
- Jay 'Farmington'
Where's the "dislike" option?
- Gregor Morrill
+1 Gregor
- Tyson Key
accipicchia che pessima notizia
- massimo mantellini
I SEE WHAT YOU DID THERE!!! -_-
- Bahriye
I just realized this is like when K-mart bought Sears ...
- DarknessFalls
/ponders the meaning of "FriendFeed.com will continue to operate normally for the time being."
- Philipp Lenssen
And I will officially be leaving FriendFeed today.
- Michael Forian
omg
- John Mueller
@Philipp: until the new masters start flexing their muscles and bringing in their own people to enforce their own vision.
- The Silence
Such great news!
- Steve Rubel
OMG!
- Zac Bowling
big mistake :((
- emresezgin
I suppose it will be called FriendFace? http://www.youtube.com/watch...
- Phil Harrison
Oh. Hell. No.
- CannonGod
Oh My God! They Killed FriendFeed!
- Tyson Key
It's a win/win! congrats all.
- Alan Le
Congrats to you.
- Evan Travers
Congratulations. I look forward to seeing what this new partnership means for users.
- Aren Grimshaw
FF will surely be integrated into FB at some point?
- Kol Tregaskes
damn Ken is spot on! +1000 Ken!
- vijay
not good.
- Jacque
Oh. My. Gosh.
- Enrico Lamperti
Facebook obviously liked FriendFeed a long time ago. Why would they have copied so many features (feed item comments and the "Like" action, to name a couple) otherwise? It was only logical for this to happen eventually. Doesn't mean I like it, but acquisition is part of the game. I have the same feeling I did when SocialThing! was acquired by AOL, though.
- dgw
"Relationship Status: It's complicated" comes to mind. ;)
- Tyson Key
Wow, I finally sign up, and read this. This could end up being a very bad thing for FF fans: "Your FriendFeed friend just signed up on this poll, would you like to too?"
- Brian Bommarito
sad...
- Marvin
This will give FriedFeed the attention it deserves. Otherwise it would have been a geek thing forever.
- Michael Netsch
aw, this sux!! Congrats to the Friendfeed team though!
- acedanger
please don't merge logins!!! please
- earlyadopter
They are deceived when they suffer themselves to be drawn after the image of things, without seeking for the true reason of them.
- The Complex Days
I hope it works OK to you guys!
- Rodrigo Jaroszewski
D:
- Chris Charabaruk
+1 Netsch - I still like FF more but this finally legitimizes FF to the mainstream.
- Daniel J. Pritchett
Friend request una beata fava. Pecunia non olet.
- Federico Bolsoman
Yeah, I really can't wait to see what value the Ashton Kutchers and Oprahs of the world have to add to FriendFeed.
- Akiva
Please tell me this is a delayed April Fools' Day joke.
- Rochelle
Facebook & FriendFeed: don't cross the lifestreams! D:<
- CannonGod
I guess this means I'll have toget a facebook account after all.... Hope the API stays up and running....
- Roberto Bonini
"Were rich B!tch!" - Chappelle
- adolfo foronda
What a bunch of greedy assholes.
- zio bonino
So ?
- Ercan Bülbül
Does this mean that we'll be seeing an influx of webcam spammers, a la Twitter? Along with abolishment of the rooms feature, crappification of the search feature, and more "privacy features" that really just put more nails in the openness coffin?
- Tyson Key
:(
- Pavlo Zahozhenko
Some people will do whatever their friends request........
- Michael Muller
I really don't see why people would be anything but excited about this Facebook freindfeed deal. Great news as far as I am concerned. The Friend feed team is going to go over facebook and make it that much easier to connect, share... isn't that what the social web is about?
- Kevin Murray
I know a lot of people who use Facebook and enjoy it and that's fair enough. It's just not my cup of tea. The chaps from Friendfeed will get rich and the technology will get absorbed in Facebook but I can't see Friendfeed continuing in anything like it's present form.
- Paul Nash
Don't be so negative, something good might eventually come of this...
- Tarmo Aidantausta
Congrats! I know you all must be crazy excited right now.
- Michele Lorito-Chase
chance for FriendFeed to become more mainstream... congrats FriendFeed team!
- Jeroen De Miranda
Nothing could make me happier than if they integrated the good tools from FriendFeed into Facebook, which is where all my friends are. So a big "yay!" from me.
- Ian Betteridge
happy for you guys, but not for all of us
- Flavio
congratulations. this is going to be interesting.
- Dave Beckett
I think I preferred the non-mainstream version of FriendFeed...
- Tyson Key
I'm turning on my black shirt, my black trouser, my black socks, my black shoes. Although I probably must be happy for you.
- Ton Zijp
NASTY NASTY BAD BAD. But we'll see...
- Daniel Morgan
Game over.
- stark
yeah removing feed also works.
- Bahriye
Reminds me so much of Last.fm fall...
- Marcos
Facebook is like a giant who listens to nobody. Please keep your attitude but I don't think you will be able to do so.
- Burak "cyrus" Bayburtlu
Noooooooo......
- Sung W. Lim
yeahhh
- Çağrı Burak Sürer
NO
- Cristian Conti
I don't know, Like it? or dislike it?
- Ömer Balamir
What happens to all the content that we've created and imported here, and the associated metadata? Will all that disappear into the ether?
- Tyson Key
If the FriendFeed guys can make FaceBook useful and responsive again, this seems like a pretty positive step!
- Robin Barooah
I have big loss of data concerns. See http://ff.im/6pHjo Is there any way to archive all my FriendFeed posts, likes, comments, and pictures (friendfeed-media.com) off-line? Can some Archive.org-like snapshots of FriendFeed be made (Once a month starting Sept 2009)? I'd like to see the cross-links between my posts & other people's posts, even in 2020. -
- Mitchell Tsai
Mitchell: the FriendFeed site is not shutting down. Your data will not go away any time in the near term future - we are committed to our users.
- Bret Taylor
I just overheard a coworker mention FriendFeed. This is how the world ends...
- CannonGod
Then provide us with a way to easily make a back-up of all of our posts and all of the posts we have Liked and Commented on.
- Akiva
Same question as Mitchel Tsai. How do I export my data? I don't want it to be handed off to Facebook.
- zio bonino
Near term future?
- Kol Tregaskes
I don't see good things coming from this. Although I like Facebook, I liked Friendfeed more. Partly because of the environment and the smallness of it. That is now going to be ruined. So, 10-1 odds that Friendfeed will be no more within a year after it gets intergrated into Facebook?
- Mathew™ aka Youngblood
I doubt it Robin. Bret can only give us assurances about the "near future." Here's what I think will happen. Just like Twitter acquired Rael Dornfest and his awesome web services, Stikkit and I Want Sandy vanished (and so did he), Facebook will acquire all the talent from Friendfeed, shut this service down and Facebook will continue to suck.
- Jim the Blatant
Same question as Mitchel Tsai. How do I export my data? I don't want anything to be handed off to Facebook. And I don't want to lose anything.
- zio bonino
Congrats obviously, but im not sure about the feeling,, different user groups which can not integrate but collide.. hope there wont be an huge integration in the future.
- Yunus Tunak
I'm happy for FriendFeed! But, at the same time a bit worried about the future. Hope you guys convince FB to not be evil too.
- Vishal Verma
Let's hope this is like Disney's acquisition of Pixar - wherein the Pixar guys ended up in control of the animation studio...
- Robin Barooah
from IM
Where the f*ck is this option to undo ?
- Laurent
I seriously thought this was a joke. Looks like its not. I don't like it, sorry.
- Michael Lynton
Does anyone want to start a bounty to purchase Facebook? ;)
- Tyson Key
Congratulations!
- John Craft
can't be, shouldn't be...
- Kemal Y.
It is! Change is inevitable, my friends.
- Bill Sodeman
Jim, I'm less cynical than you - the FriendFeed founders wouldn't do this just in order to become 'talent' at FaceBook.
- Robin Barooah
I feel if I should be wearing a black arm band. But I guess when I think about it..............
- Kevin J Hatton
Oh No! I don't like this at all :(
- Peter
I still think Apple will acquire Facebook, Twitter Friendfeed and Google Twitter.
- Thomas Power
Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!
- Stephen Francoeur
My condolences to all Friendfeeders! RIP!
- Evgeni Leshtanski
AAAAwwwful!
- carolh
I can't believe it! damn! facebook tos will apply to friendfeed too? should i start to move to another service? why anyone would think that facebook public is friendfeed public?! damn! friedfeed was my favorite! I can't understand this move! they want to kill friendfeed or what?
- paula simoes ☃
"I bet I can find 1.000.0000 people who dislike this deal."...Welcome to FriendBook.
- Jacque
Well, huge congraulations to you and your team, you deserve every success. To be honest I had presumed this would happen sooner or later - the only business model cool little startups have is to hope they get bought by someone bigger for their brains and technology. I'm going to be in San Francisco in a couple of weeks and was going to stop by your office to bring you a cake and thank you for a great product - maybe I still will if you're still there and there's still a FriendFeed!
- Alex Lomas
damn, damn, damn...
- Kemal Y.
Grats Bret and the rest of FF. To all the naysayers... Lets see what happens before we start bitching....
- Rasmus Lauridsen
wow!! dazed and confused!!
- Roberto Arancibia
I don't hate Facebook, but for sharing things Friendfeed is MUCH MUCH better!
- Mathew™ aka Youngblood
I wonder if that Ben Darnell guy who *just* left the Google reader team knew about this beforehand? Wonder what he's thinking now? (http://friendfeed.com/friendf...)
- Daniel J. Pritchett
Just great. I'm certainly not very happy about this. Let's just hope FB doesn't ruin FF. Ugh.
- axolote
Who cares? Nothing's gonna change in our pitiful lifes.
- bluretina
This ties in nicely with the fact that you soon will have the opportunity to make your Facebook profiles public and get followers there.
- Michael Netsch
чатег номер два
- старина хэнк
Congrats Bret! this is so great! many congrats!!!
- Jason Pollock
That is capitalism for you. Luckely, there still good 'ol usenet.
- ˈpɛbə
Is it April 1st somewhere in the universe?
- Robert Felty
I don't mean to be negative but there's got to be a win-win logic to each merger&acquisiton. Audience high in only quantity is clearly not a win for friendfeed in the long term by considering its unique selling points. Let's wait and see who will benefit from friendfeed's death now.
- ayca
Seriously, what is this? It's like Bret just announced that he's killed all your mothers or something. It could turn out good, it could turn out bad, but at the end of the day, who cares, it's just a website (I mean honestly, come on). I could see it going either way, but in the near term, this is a pretty big win for the FF team, so congrats guys.
- Chieze Okoye
OMG!
- keso
To be honest, my heart sank a little but I am happy to congratulate you and the team for building such a good brand. Well done.
- Kevin J Hatton
Wow, I specifically use friendfeed b/c it is not facebook. Sounds great for the friendfeed team, but not necessarily for friendfeed users.
- Evan Parker
Born to be sold, like in the old "new economy" era. Remember the late nineties?
- Federico Bolsoman
Sudden desire to check out Strands again... but hey, kudos on the incoming $$ for FF team
- Leslie Poston
This is wisdom. Bracing for Google Wave is a good idea.............
- Kevin J Hatton
this is clearly a talent aquisition... why am i not excited about this? could it be because facebook has been blatantly stealing features from friendfeed shamelessly. Likes were clearly not an original facebook idea...realtime feeds is another i could go on...
- Tate
While I'm sad, because I suspect this means the best things about FF will disappear or I'll be forced to use FB in some way, if the buyout was for some awesome amount of money, I can't say I blame 'em for taking an offer -- I would.
- Andy Bakun
I came to FriendFeed because I don't like facebook. Now the question is, will facebook become more like friend feed? or will they just take friend feed and turn it into facebook?
- Tom Ray
FF could be a good R&D arm for facebook.
- Andy Bakun
Fucking morons. FriendFeed is doomed now. Think logically. Facebook has NO REASON to keep FriendFeed alive. It will simply take FF's best features, suck the life of out of it, then trash FF. Way to go, FirnedFeed, damn.
- Jeremy Buff
Big Fail!
- onurc
This announcement should have been held off until the plans for Friendfeed were known. Regardless, this is *bad* for FF users. Best case: it continues on, but with stagnated feature development. Worst case: it's gone.
- tollie williams
wtf ?!
- Umut Balkan
I need to install "super PUKE" application !
- Bart LePoole
FFail.
- rowlikeagirl
I don't want my FF feed on Facebook :( I use both, but maintain both profiles separate
- Leandro Ardissone ⍨
Sigh... Happy for the team if this is what they want, but baffled by the move. The users that are going to leave because of this will make FF a graveyard and the users it gains, well... Hello spam? Sorry, but I don't like it.
- Vince DeGeorge
from iPhone
JEREMY+++++1
- Alp B.
Wow!
- felix
Jeremy +1
- batuhan
so what's next? where should we go?
- Flavio
It's been fun here.
- Capn' One Eye - adrift
Dang, and just as I was starting to get used to how FF works. FF is useful on it's own. I hope this only improves FF's system, rather than having it disappear into Facebook's wake.
- Don Faulkner
My big question to everybody here is this: What are the potential downsides / upsides to this acquisition? I mean on paper I just don't see what the pros OR cons are. I don't care for Facebook but I don't see how them acquiring FF is going to change everything.
- Nicholas Kreidberg
furthermore they are 2 different things: I follow a lot of people here that are not in my facebook list, which is for IRL friends!
- Flavio
I don't know where to go next either. I had just settled down to make imaginary friends for all my non-FF tweeps, etc. now, I'm not sure if I should bother.
- Don Faulkner
from IM
I hope friendfeed continues to operate normally but it does not look good.
- Ashish
integrate best features of ff to fb, then try to innovate in fb if possible, then kill ff... that's it, cheers, all the best. grrrr...
- Kemal Y.
niczak has good points. FF & FB aren't exactly competitors, but they aren't orthogonal either. Let's hope FB's smart enough to see the difference and improve both platforms.
- Don Faulkner
from IM
Nicholas: The upside for Facebook is they just bought an engineering team that's built many of the feature's Facebook's going to need to stay competitive. The upside for FriendFeed's engineering team is $$$ and the ability to build system for a wider audience. FriendFeed's user base is small enough that it'll either get absorbed into Facebook or move on, and FF will become a footnote on the Internet timeline.
- Ken Sheppardson
first tr.im (heard about it yesterday), now this. I wasn't a heavy tr.im user (yet), but sad to see it go, even if I think url shortening is silly.
- Don Faulkner
from IM
As FB said they're interested in the people and not in the site, what if the community will keep running FF without its current staff?
- Flavio
Congratulations!
- Sam Grover
rutgerblom, I don't expect they do either, thus my angst over this.
- Don Faulkner
from IM
if there's a team willing to do it and money, and if we accept some ads as everywhere else, we could make a new FF without FB
- Flavio
read carefully: http://blog.socialthing.com/2009...
- Kemal Y.
I'll have to go with Flavio's position too. Given this news (plus tr.im and who knows who's next), I'd tend to favor community supported or federated services for things like this in the future.
- Don Faulkner
from IM
I am purposely not on facebook because I don't really want to talk to people I have not talked to in 20 years.
- Andy Bakun
Congrat Bret!! :))
- Cihan Cepni
trouble is (from my perspective), that the philosophies of the two platforms are at odds. FB wants to bring people to the site and keep them there, while FF is a hub, bringing people in and then sending them back out. (That's part of why it's hard for the newcomer to understand, IMHO.)
- Don Faulkner
from IM
This almost confirms FF will disappear: http://www.techcrunch.com/2009...
- Kol Tregaskes
Does this mean I can throw someone a sheep on FriendFeed now?
- Pinksy
I sure hope so, Rutger. I glad for their success too. I just hope there's a next best thing out there for us.
- Don Faulkner
from IM
Congrats all. Nice work, in spite of any naysaying out there. Keep up the innovation.
- Tomas Remotigue
lame.
- andy brudtkuhl
post the picture to failblog...
- Kemal Y.
Quote «Taylor and Cox say that the Friendfeed product will live on independently, and eventually Friendfeed will be merged into Facebook. But the Friendfeed team is not being kept whole. Some employees will now report to Cox, others to engineering head Mike Schroepfer. In my opinion that means, long term, the Friendfeed product itself is unlikely to be a big priority.¶ But Facebook is...
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- Philipp Lenssen
+1 Kol for the techcrunch article!
- Don Faulkner
from IM
techcrunch: "Cox agreed, noting that Facebook is focused on being a platform and a service, and not just a destination site." I certainly hope so!
- Don Faulkner
from IM
Brilliant move by both Facebook and friendfeed. Congratulations!!! I have theories of what they have planned, but I doubt you would verify any of them. This is going to go so well with their SocialTV which they have been developing. I'm so happy for you!
- Michael Fidler
Really saddened by this news.
- Doug Beeferman
Noooooooooooooooooooooo!
- LouCypher
I don't see what's so bad about it since no one knows right now what the outcome will be, everyone is just making assumptions that could possibly be wrong..... Might help just sitting back and seeing what happens first before complaining.
- ChaCha Fance
Nooooooooooooooaaaaaaaaarrrrrrrghh! I´ve resisted getting a facebook acct for so long...
- ɯɥøq sɐɯoɥʇ
I wonder how the discussion over on facebook would compare to this?
- Don Faulkner
from IM
Drat!
- Gee Ekachai
congrats guys!
- Elad
Congrats, FF! I'm approaching the situation with cautious optimism. A lot of my friends only share stuff via the Facebook wall/feed, so if Facebook is able to make their feed more like the FF feed (i.e. good, instead of sucktacular) through this acquisition, it's mostly a win for me in the end.
- Brian Chang
/me pokes Rutger. (just getting in practice. ;)
- Don Faulkner
from IM
Where will we go for the FFunderCats, bacon memes, and angry artists fighting over photo reshares now? ;)
- Tyson Key
@josh: do you think FB will throw away all the crap people use? various quiz, pick 5 and so on?
- Flavio
@jc: our data will not go away in the near future. what will be in few months? in a year?
- Flavio
Let's see if you can do a bit better than just not being evil this time around.
- Tim Tyler
Wooohooo!!, seems like we are being sent back to "good" old Facebook. Congrats Bret!!
- DanDan
Looks like I'm going to repeat the same thing many others did. My first reaction was "Oh my..." I have refused to join Facebook due to its philosophy while I have been with FriendFeed from the beginning for its. I'm sad and somewhat apprehensive.
- Sean Leather
Hmm. Interesting.
- Ralf Becker
Add me to the fearful group.
- beersage
Please say that facebook.com will be shutting down, and the combined company will still be called FriendFeed... I bet it won't happen, though.
- Tyson Key
"Regarding FB/FF - Here's how it's [probably] going to work. You will most likely have an account merge, all of the services FriendFeed supports will now be aggregated on Facebook, and all of your FriendFeed friends will be in a "list" on Facebook. The FF Groups will become Facebook Groups. The FF lists will become Facebook Lists." http://ff.im/6pNxq
- Ozgur Uckan
Nothing like an early retirement payout :)
- Owen Greaves
Congrat Bret
- Nimaa
Panic attack. Congratulations, however! :)
- Count Caturday
Congratulations Bret. For me this merger makes a lot of sense. Facebook will provide the "quantity" of users, which friendfeed deserves :).
- Karthick R
:(
- goodmachine
FriendFeed + Facebook... Oh noes FriendFace is coming (http://www.youtube.com/watch...)! Now sorry for that link, and seriously, thanks for your work, guys. Please don't let the spirit of FriendFeed to be blown away =)
- Anton
hey, that is great guys! interested to see how you integrate.
- Brian Walsh
Mind blown. Never expected this. I'm also disappointed, yet optimistic at the same time.
- Angus Burton
Kinda curious to see how this will all pan out...although i wouldnt want the friendfeed stuff just integrated into facebook. I feel like im among a group of people who i genuinely share interests with here...dont want to lost that.
- Cass
Best case: Facebook will continue to support and develop FriendFeed. Worst case: this is great news for Amplifeeder.
- David Gaw
aieeeeeeeeeee
- Richard Akerman
Well done, well deserved, I hope FB's means and infrastructures empower your guys to even better things. But if quizzes appear in "my" friendfeed, evil things will haunt you and your descendents for 3 generations.
- Iphigenie
:(
- Eph Zero
Well done Bret!
- Alemsah Ozturk
♪ ♪ This is the end.... beautiful friends ♪ ♪
- All for design
Well, I don't see the point of sticking around here if I have accounts in both and this is going to get swallowed whole into Facebook anyways. Put simply, goodbye.
- Micah Collard
It was fun while it lasted.
- Mr. Gunn
NNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!! This place will be just like twitter...
- count
Congrats to the FF team - you've built a wonderful product!
- Michael Nielsen
Whattttttttttttttttttttt???
- Nibi
friendfeed is a beautiful product, only god knows what facebrook will do to it. Hopefully the ability to upload files (such as mp3s) will not be removed. Zuck is a tool.
- Nibi
Congratulations. I'm sorry to say that I don't plan to move with you.
- Lars Juhl Jensen
I don't like this....
- Zekeriya Pehlivan
"Like" to follow this thread. Not because I like what happened. I'm horrified. FF could disappear now.
- Kamilah Reed (K. Gill)
Same here, Kamilah.
- Tyson Key
If FriendFeed had invented the "don't like" button, today would have been the day to press it.
- Vishal Verma
and I just bought BuddyFeed for my iPhone this weekend. :(
- Don Faulkner
from IM
Oh, joy, Facebook's privacy policy is upon us!
- Joris
WTF?? NOOOOO!!! Why do such good things have to be ruined by greed? Screw Facebook, and goodbye Friendfeed.
- Jason R. Hunter
congratulations!
- Loic Le Meur
Facebook is lucky to have such a talented group of people ... Congratulations FriendFeed!
- Rob Kurrus
doesn't look like a bad joke, better be for the good then, but... Well congrats anyway guys, you did something AWESOME now let's see where Mark takes it
- Dobromir Hadzhiev
That's too bad. Liked the openness if FriendFeed, and the lack crap that is on Facebook. Once FriendFeed dies, it will be Twitter only.
- Mike D.
Congrats, but concerned that FriendFeed and its tools may disappear. Merging the tools with Facebook seems impossible.
- Mike Reynolds
Congrats guys (and gals) !
- Benjy Weinberger
So, what does the acquisition of FriendFeed by Facebook mean to us, users of both websites: Can I make a friend request from FriendFeed, and be approved for both, on one click
- Reyna Carlos
Exciting news guys. I am actually looking forward to your collaboration with / work for FB. No matter what people may or may not like about FB, it does succeed in reaching a more "diverse" audience compared to most other Web 2.0/social web companies. Paired with your team's excellence in realizing features that succeed in pleasing the geekiest of Web 2.0 affine individuals, I think you are steering towards exciting waters :)
- Mustafa K. Isik
*heart sinks* actually a bit of shock - I think that Facebook will leave Friendfeed as-is but I don't think there is hope for future innovation in Friendfeed since their best superstar team members will be pulled onto 'more important' Facebook issues...
- Pon
:-) + :-( very happy for the team, huge achievement, hoping to see export of innovation but not a shut down of this unique community and location
- Majento
Congratulations, and best wishes for your future together! :-)
- Ruchira S. Datta
Wow, I was beginning to use Friendfeed as my defacto social site...Facebook is more for real life friends. They'll just take what makes Friendfeed great, add it to Facebook and slowly kill this site.
- Manuel Mas
What is the big deal? I think it'll make FF bigger and better. You should be happy about that!
- orionstarr
Somebody has to got pay for it.
- orionstarr
I am disappointed. I don't want to have to go to Facebook to do what i do here. I can not imagine they will port over all the features we enjoy here. We lose a lot for only a slight benefit to Facebook.
- Robert
It could be worse, myspace could've bought them lol...
- orionstarr
Awful news for users but congratulations to you guys. Ideally, FB will run FF as a distinct service but I'm not hopeful. I don't want the diversity and noise that facebook brings - people doing quizzes on which movie star they resemble and playing silly games. I also wanted to keep my day to day social activity distinct from the targeted information and discussion I use FF for.
- Rajit
Only just started taking a serious look at FF after hearing acquisition by FB. Sounds like I'm laggard rather than a leader in use of web 2.0
- ManojRanaweera
I think how Pon said it is what I'm feeling: *heart sinks*.
- Andy Bakun
Congratulations, i am really happy for you guys!! :)
- Mona Nomura
I'm not a Facebook fan, but can't begrudge the FF gang their chance to reap the rewards for all their hard work. However, it would be a shame if FB ruins the good thing we all have going here.
- Ken Morley
Congrats to the FF team... I hope the service doesn't disappear into a fold of light and heat.
- Brandon
if all the things that make FF great are brought to FB then I'll be happy to use it
- Mike Chelen
The community won't be there. Been on FB longer than any other, don't have nearly the relationship or sense of community there that I do here or on Twitter.
- Karoli
Karoli: that is due to the effectiveness of the FF platform and interface, which help to join conversations and find interesting people more so than FB does
- Mike Chelen
Mike: I suspect that FB wants FF for the search possibilities, not the community-building aspects. But we'll see.
- Karoli
i guess congrats are in order, but I'm going to now go and remove everything I have that feeds into FF, and I have to ask -- do I have any rights over my archive? I have a private feed, and I have no interest in offering up my lifestream to the FaceBook data-miners. I hope the FF folks get what they hope for out of the deal, but my FriendFeed experience has been effectively killed.
- RudĩϐЯaЯïan
I just learned about the FF acquisition by Facebook - WOW~! Congratulations Bret, Paul and FF team!! holy cow ........Mooooooooo! Where's the FF Acquisition Party? :)
- Susan Beebe
Friendfeed after Facebook http://ff.im/6q5EY
- Ozgur Uckan
RT @alirizaesin FriendFeed, R.I.P. Home tweet home!..
- Ozgur Uckan
Congrats to facebook. Now, Twitter is the best.
- miocaro
Congratulations to the FriendFeed guys on the Facebook Acquisition. Not a big fan of Facebook, so I hope my favorite Uber Aggregator, Realtime Social, Microblogging site of awesomeness is not entirely absorbed into the Facebook infrastructure. I wait with baited breath to hear what "normally for the time being" means ;).
- Tom Horn
Can I now have comments propagate in both directions as far as Facebook/Friendfeed is concerned?
- Piaw Na
*checks date*. Damn .. not April 1st, must be for real. While I'm happy for the FF team, since I guess this is what they wanted (congrats guys!), I can't help but think this is the beginning of the end for a great service and a vibrant community. There are reasons I don't spend any time on Facebook and do spend lots of time on FF, and some kind of "FF integrated into Facebook" just won't cut it. I hope this service will live on for at least a few more years.
- Andrew Perry
Gratz to the FF team but as a user I'm not completely happy. In short, I like the FF team/product much more than I like the FB team/product. Best of luck to all.
- timepilot
Все, блядь, пиздец!
- ✔ ǝuǝƃnǝ
WOW - very happy for all of you :-)
- Kishore Balakrishnan
Bret, congrats on the acquisition. You guys put in a lot of hard work to create this community. I just hope you learned the mistakes Pownce made, Jaiku etc, and ensured that you didn't sell out your community, but that you helped it evolve into something as great as this into something better. Good luck in future endeavors!
- Mike Lewis
Yay for you guys, I mean that seriously, I 'like' what this means for you personally, but -1000000 cool points for doing it with FB. Sad day.
- Threepwood
Karoli: FF search is so useful because it is integrated with all the other great features that help to find relevant content. if FB wants to have a similar capability, they must also develop the underlying architecture.
- Mike Chelen
from IM
Sadness
- yasin
Gimme my OPML export
- Sriks7
Money is the root of all evil
- Shakeel Mahate
shakeel, the reasons for friendfeed to join facebook are probably about other things besides money, since many of the FF staff left high-paying jobs to join in the first place
- Mike Chelen
from IM
Congrats, team! It's bittersweet, though.
- Anne Bouey
So now we will have FriendFeed blocked at work too. Darn.
- Mark Scrimshire
"Your data will not go away any time in the near term future" is not exactly inspiring for the long term for those of us who came here to escape Facebook for a) it's walled garden and b) privacy concerns. Nice for the Founders to make a pile of cash but for the many of us, it feels like we got sold down the river. Sad.
- Sally Church
This is tragic. Tragic. Tragic.
- Ahsan Ali
cacarr: updates for FB have progressed rapidly in the past, count how many months since new features such as api calls and site redesigns have have been implemented
- Mike Chelen
from IM
Congratulation to the FF team! You guys deserves this. I just hope that Facebook does not change the directions of FF.
- Vinko
congrats, I'm happy for friendfeed...
- amelia arapoff
Congrats you guys, well deserved.
- Shey
I hope this means better integration: liking here will auto-like on fb and such :D if that's the case, I won't mind the ads *wink* *wink*
- Ac0n (former Franc)
Franc, cant stand facebook ads in their current format, hope they will be fixed eventually :P
- Mike Chelen
from IM
Grats, dont spend it all in one place.....
- Robert Higgins
congrads. I think it will be good for BOTH companies.
- Logan Lindquist
boo.
- kelly
The Borg has struck. Alas. Prepare to be assimilated. (Will FB add my FF subscriptions to my FB friends list?)
- Dennis Jernberg
Boo
- Amit Morson
Now that you guys have $$$ you should swap out the not so very pleasing default avatar!
- See-ming Lee 李思明 SML
BOO! Hiss! Mondays really do suck.
- Dale
Congratulations to all the FriendFeed team. I hope you'll be able to keep the FriendFeed spirit up at Facebook. Kudos for all the great work you've been doing.
- Paul Papadimitriou
Congrats and good luck..
- Can Koklu
Thanks for all the fish. Saving the so long... for now.
- abacab
Goodbye FF, it was wonderful..
- Francesco Cugurra
I use FriendFeed and Facebook so it would be awesome to see FF features in Facebook. Congratulations!
- krzychukula
from IM
judging by the nearly 600 comments as i type this, including my own earlier one, FF could use a Don't Like button as well. or would, if we were going to be using it much longer.
- kelly
Nice, i like to wish you all the best for your new job (and it's really hard, i know). I'm happy, but... don't let die FF!!
- ''Ignobile''
Hope FriendFeed remains open. Love the spirit of FF
- Bernaldo Barrena
Seriously, what a coincidence! Just on Saturday I claimed to be both twitter- and facebook-free. I loved FF product and personally helped to bring at least a dozen of my friends into the community. I'll stick around for a while though.
- ✔ ǝuǝƃnǝ
This deal makes sense, now fb developers do not need to figure out how ff does it because they can just ask! Congrats facebook and ff!
- Garin Kilpatrick
I suppose Facebook had to do it, with Twitter and Google Wave as competitor...
- Alexander Kruel
обычные дела. http://www.youtube.com/watch...
- ✔ ǝuǝƃnǝ
Congratulations Friendfeed :D
- paniaguai
Ok. I'll quit friendfeed, so. Goodbye. Ciao
- valerio fiandra
from iPhone
I am noticing a lot of people going to re-esumate their lifestream.fm account now!
- Flavio
I don't think FB acquiring FF is bad. But I don't think it's good either. We'll see. :-) In the meantime, keep up the good work!
- Alexander Gieg
How long until ex-FriendFeed employees start jumping ship from Facebook? I wonder...
- Tyson Key
Thomas Power still believes that Facebook/FF/Linkedin (2010) will be acquired by Apple (2011) and this is a transitional acquisition in the SN market cycle. The world is shifting to Mac, iTunes, iPhones and FB own the next generation. Apple have $29bn of cash on deposit price is not an issue. Google must jump for twitter while MS fiddle in the sticks with Yahoo. BillG will be back at the MS helm 2012.
- Penny Power
:( Happy for FF people, sad for the service. Was going to move from fb to ff this week..
- Martynas
congrats!
- Ronald
thts good!so i can workin both in my Fb online next
- Arini dewi muchtaram
Flavio: never heard of lifestream.fm before, but I'm going to go check it out. I'll reiterate, though, that I'm now shy of any service like this, since it can disappear just as it's getting good. I heard about sweetcron.com last night (via http://ff.im/6pR2w). Maybe it's time to move from centralized to distributed again.
- Don Faulkner
Just finished setting up my lifestream.fm at http://lifestream.fm/dfaulkner. Lifestream does what it says, and no more. FF's search blows lifestream away. FF is more flexible about adding source feeds, but lifestream does fine without the flexibility I suppose. FF still wins, or would, if I thought it would be sticking around. :P
- Don Faulkner
Must See - Hitler blows up over Facebook / FriendFeed - http://friendfeed.com/dffrnt...
- Ahsan Ali
Dave, I'm not happy. That video gave me some much needed comic relief .. after waking up to this news.
- Ahsan Ali
good for you, bad for us
- Zachary Earl Strader
I also hate facebook, not because of their silly quizzes and pokes, but because I suspect they would like to maintain massive user base as the determining factor in choosing a social network. I would love to switch to orkut as I use so many other google services, but I can't because nobody else does. That should not be my criteria.... I thought friendfeed would try to make social networks work together.
- Ru Viljoen
I don't understand why everyone is so negative about the situation?
- orionstarr
@orionstarr - it's like Starbucks buying your neighborhood coffee shop and saying it still cares about the customers. You know it's just not going to be the same as what you've come to love.
- Robin Barooah
Presumably FF will go on the back burner - and the team will try and "fix" Facebook.
- Tim Tyler
sad, sad, sad.
- scott willeke
Congratulations! That's huge. I hope all is well.
- Juan Bruce
bad bad bad
- kakilang
bye bye friendfeed!
- Jonathan Crossland
Why-eee!!! ??? What next?
- Wayne Lewis
I've watched Facebook morph from a relatively organised and well implemented social networking tool into the hulking mess it is now - and I really, really hope that a similar thing doesn't happen here with the inevitable changes this will bring about.
- Leslie Moore
Come on guys, out with the long-term game plan, this is tedious.
- Andrew Eglinton
NOOOOOOOOOOOOooooooooooooooooooooooooooo, I mean Cool.
- sofarsoShawn <right here>
Teach Facebook how to be FriendFeed. Let the small but fast teach the big but slow. Don't forget what Paul says - don’t be evil.
- whatidiscover
Friendfeed is not as huge as Facebook but you're doing such terrible work on it. Friendfeed is facing so many many problems these days though facebook doesn't seem to have one. Why?
- Sing For Absolution
+
- حُسین آفلاین
Never commented on this post. 2.5 years later, from a purely selfish persepective, the best thing that ever happened. It allowed me to drop out of the "Which social network is best", Scobilian crap and get down to the main reason I'm here... to communicate with my friends and share experiences.
- Johnny
Funny. Two years later to the day, Rochelle took me to court to sign our temporary divorce papers. The day after my birthday in both cases. Huzzah!
- Akiva
There's nothing new under the sun.
- Micah
from FFHound(roid)!
Congrats to Paul, Bret, and the whole FriendFeed gang. But I hope you bring a big shot of openness into the Facebook ecosystem, because it doesn't feel that way right now.
TheHenry, Misha, Eric Johnson and 121 other people liked this
Exactly.
- EricaJoy
Very sad day I think.
- travispuk
Congrats!
- Daniel Brusilovsky
+100 Matt
- Jorge Escobar
congrats indeed, but damn, this seems like it's going to be bad :(
- acedanger
exactly
- mike "glemak" dunn
NO Congrats or whatsoever "to Paul, Bret, and the whole FriendFeed gang. But I hope you bring a big shot of openness into the Facebook ecosystem, because it doesn't feel that way right now." Matt, dear! You Stole My Words! ROFL :)))) Just curious - is there anything more important than money? It seems NOT ROFLMAO
- Lora Lufark
lots of truthiness in that statement.
- Sushubh
I am sad. No congratulation at all.
- bellegarde-webb
Besides being closed, Facebook has never adequately addressed serious privacy issues in its past. I strongly distrust them as a company and I'm sad to hear that they're gobbling up a service and a group of people I do trust. But if both services end up being elevated to FriendFeed's high standard then this will be a great day in hindsight.
- Doug Beeferman
Well put doug, I feel same way: I trust FF, I dont trust FB. I'm skeptical this acquisition will change FB enough for me to trust it, but we'll see.
- Evan Parker
from Android
Facebook is a cult
- Joe Dawson
Has anyone got an idea for a friendfeed alternative?
- Ru Viljoen
Ru, I think Hellotxt.com might be a decent alternative to Friendfeed (it can also post to Friendfeed for you so you can keep your feed if you wish). I may start using it instead. Not sure. There's also identi.ca which claims to be adding more features for cross-posting. They use the Opensource Laconi.ca platform
- PurpleZoe
thx for suggestions but looks like those are both exclusively microblogging platforms.
- Ru Viljoen
no congrats, but I agree with the rest.
- Kamilah Reed (K. Gill)
Identi.ca is mostly a microblog (I hear cross-posting networks should be enabled soon), but Hellotxt.com is a lifestream (you can cross-post and etc across networks) I believe. Unfortunately it's slow at times. I'll miss Friendfeed if it gets sucked into the Facebook network, instead of remaining a stand-alone app. Not at all happy about the acquisition.
- PurpleZoe
3 other possibilities: lifestream.fm, Socialthing.com and possibly Streamy.com
- PurpleZoe
Now might be a good time for socialthing to exit private beta and enter public
- Ru Viljoen
Agreed.
- PurpleZoe
You know who you need to pay attention to in a post-FriendFeed world? @louisgray He'll have the next big thing on his blog I'm sure.
Majento, Kol Tregaskes, Iván Abrego and 12 other people liked this
On to Yahoo! Message boards, everyone!
- Louis Gray
I'm setting up a gopher server!!
- Akiva
I thought we were heading back to MySpace?!
- acedanger
Google Groups + Reader + Wave ... or Friendster
- Ken Sheppardson
I'm commenting here from Streamy - which Sara Perez says is the new hotness http://bit.ly/9a8vP sure enough, it is hotness
- Marshall Kirkpatrick
I'm setting up a server using a squirrel, a cage wheel, some gum, a paperclip and an old floppy disk.
- Jim the Blatant
Thread started on Twitter no less. @louisgray always doing the heavy lifting for the rest of us. Thanks Louis
- Rick Bucich
You got that right!
- Michael Fidler
Siddharth Parmar, Nate Pilling, Gordon Saunders and 98 other people liked this
That's nice. Just random, or in response to something. :)
- τorƍue
Does that mean you got a little sleep?
- Anne Bouey
Good news? People like Paul don't usually get in the office so early especially after a lack of sleep, on a Monday morning, if there wasn't a great reason.
- Louis Gray
this could be big.
- vijay
Aww Man, see now I am not going to get any sleep tonight! DAMN YOU PAUL and your teasing little smiley face. OK, must go and get some coffee!
- travispuk
O.k., I'll smile too :) (and open my ears and eyes)
- Martha
10 bucks says that they add emoticons soon. :)
- Joe Beda
This emoticon makes a little more sense now...
- Stephen Foskett
Guessing this was about the Facebook announcement?
- Ben Hedrington
Cheshire cat?
- Hutch Carpenter
Good for you, Paul. I can't help but feel a little let down, though.
- Matthew Gifford
well done!
- michael sean wright
Congrats! Let us (well, our chef) cook you lunch before you're no longer walking distance! :)
- Don MacAskill
I have the same feeling as Matthew Gifford... Congrats to you, Paul, but I'm not sure this bodes well for the rest of us.
- Lindsay
Congrats, Paul. :-)
- Jordan Hofker
Congratulations!
- Ethan Herdrick
Congratulations to the whole team, Paul!
- Ryan Kuder
yeah they signed away the community :(-
- Peter Dawson
Congrats Paul if they're truely in order :)
- Jason Cronkhite
from iPhone
No!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
- andy brudtkuhl
congrats to the team, but to be honest i'm not liking it at all
- bear (aka Mike Taylor)
Good news or bad news? :)
- Arda Çetin
Congrats Paul! I was really hoping this would happen. Friendfeed and Facebook need each other. Cheers!
- Akshay Dodeja
Now I get it. Congrats on the $$.
- Yolanda
Now I know...and knowing is half the battle
- Bwana ☠
:(
- TiTi
Congratulations!!!! A 'worthy' smiley ... ;-)
- Bo Stern
I think Paul's emoticon was charming and that Louis Gray is either super discerning or super informed.
- Michael Muller
Congrats to the FF team you guys are awesome (keep this place awesome)
- Ryan
WHAT'VE YOU DONE!!!! THAT'S TOTALLY SH*T!
- Alp B.
congratulations, may your road ahead be smooth...
- Nathan Chase
That can imho only mean good things for the FB UI ...
- Bo Stern
Congratulations, definitely.
- DGentry
congrats!
- Peter Warnock
Congrats to you and the entire FF team. I hope you guys are in it for the long haul.
- Mike Doeff
hey congrats to the FF team! I look forward to seeing what the future holds
- (jeff)isageek
Congratulations Paul & FF team!
- Charles Ying
congrats dude
- Jason Pollock
:(
- Alex Scrivener
Congratulations.
- Antoniu
congratulations.. but liked the whole UI & funtionality of ff than fb!! it'll b gone!!
- Gtp19
You're totally ::stpd::
- Alp B.
its business after all, sell it but get back to make a better product for your old users. dont 4get the users !!
- Peter Dawson
:(
- acedanger
the results of good work
- Juan Pablo Ruiz
congratulations!
- Hareesh Nagarajan
Congrats!
- DS
GZ!
- Sarp
:) we will learn from the process
- abdellah
Paul, will you respond to this? This is *bad* for FF users. Best case: it continues on, but distracted by Facebook and with stagnated feature development. Worst case: it's gone. Middle of the road: Facebook forces its ads into the timeline and friendfeed starts acting like Facebook by ignoring its users.
- tollie williams
@tollie, I imagine Paul's ability to respond is now constrained, which is just one of the changes we'll see coming. There's new management in town, folks.
- Ken Kennedy
scared!!!
- abdellah
Good luck Paul... it's gonna be a great partnership.
- Andrew
Congrat's Paul. Great news, and I'm really happy for all of you!
- Michael Fidler
Congrats to the whole FriendFeed team!
- John McCrea
Way to go Paul - bet you sleep like a baby tonight whilst Biz and Ev scratch their heads once more!
- Jan Simmonds
Sure congrats to you!!!
- susan mernit
http://friendfeed.com/markzuk...... Hold on! markzukerberg?!?!
- Lora Lufark
Congrats!
- fbrunel
congratulations!
- Loic Le Meur
Congratulations Paul - I am very proud of you... no wonder you couldn't sleep! :) Now we know why! As you know, I am a huge fan of your FriendFeed product. I am very happy for you guys and hope you keep your fabulous culture of innovation going strong. This is really amazing.... nice exit! :)
- Susan Beebe
I have been wishing facebook could get more like Friendfeed :) awesome.
- Christian Burns
from iPhone
Nice job, Paul and team. Congrats!
- Rob Shillingsburg
many congrat. from UK. ;) @GarethWong
- Gareth
I bet you never forget your anniversary EVER ever now.
- Pete D
boo-urns
- Vezquex
:D
- paniaguai
:-(
- Jannifer @wordsforliving
Congratulations, great for you and the team.
- Rocky
i like the way the deal was done!
- Siddharth Parmar
G.Z.s
- Ugur Akdmr
3 Reasons Why the Facebook Acquisition of Friendfeed Sucks - http://mathewballard.com/blog...
Hassan Ibraheem, Chris Charabaruk, Alleluiabug Heather and 2 other people liked this
Today Facebook announced that it bought Friendfeed for $50 million. For this Friendfeeder it is a very very sad day and I’m just going to go ahead and jump right into my five reasons why this acquisition sucks.
- Mathew™ aka Youngblood
from Bookmarklet
haha, nice
- acedanger
First Day of School
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Cute! Love the bag
- Shevonne
Such a big day!
- RAPatton
When did they start moving up back to school so early? Feels like the kids - esp. your cutie-pie here Holly! - are being cheated of a month of lazy, hazy summer vacation!
- Thom Kennon
My 5yo starts school next week - I'm nervous, he's happy :)
- acedanger
I agree Thom.. I remember going back to school after Labor Day. Trust me, the olest one was not happy.
- Holly is Happy
Everyone Chill The F*ck Out! Obama will take care of everything...
Patranila, Louis Gray, Alfredo 亜瑠布れっど and 122 other people liked this
lolz
- Yolanda
heh
- sean percival
haha
- Shevonne
LoL
- Matthew Horton
from iPhone
Just as long as Obama doesn't say that Facebook has acted stupidly :P
- Rene, Pro Button Pusher
YES WE ... um, maybe not this time.
- Steven Perez
Is there going to be an official Presidential Statement on this matter?
- Adrian
you win!
- Kate
LOL *back to crying now*
- Dobromir Hadzhiev
Yep, an official LOL, thanks Rasheen :-) I needed that.
- Threepwood
ROFL! :-)
- Mathew A. Koeneker
thanks Rah!
- Tim Hoeck
lmao
- acedanger
hahahaa best picture of the day :)
- Cesar Sanchez
nice one
- Logan Lindquist
excellent
- anna sauce
hehehehe
- Jonathan Hardesty
Rah, you're hilarious!!!
- Mohamed J
"Look! Listen!"...
- Holger Eilhard
Facebook Acquires FriendFeed - http://www.techcrunch.com/2009...
bibeduck, Stig Nygaard, Lars Clausen and 30 other people liked this
"Facebook has acquired FriendFeed, we’ve learned. We’re gathering details now."
- Kol Tregaskes
from Bookmarklet
"At this point details on the acquisition are still very sparse, but it’s clearly a good match. Over the last year or so, Facebook has “borrowed” quite a few of features that FriendFeed popularized, including the ‘Like’ feature and an emphasis on real-time news updates."
- Kol Tregaskes
"Obviously Facebook has already built out some of FriendFeed’s functionality so there is some overlap, but there are still numerous ways FriendFeed beats out Facebook’s News Feed setup. One of these is the way stories are ‘floated’ to the top as new users comment on them. And FriendFeed’s system is truly real-time, unlike Facebook’s feed which users have to manually refresh."
- Kol Tregaskes
What the hell!
- Alex Scrivener
What does everyone think about this report?
- Kol Tregaskes
Is it April 1st?
- Jordan Hofker
I don't like this. On the flip side, I think it just became more likely to see competition. I think Facebook will do a good job hindering Friendfeed development.
- Shawn Kirsch
This will be unfortunate for the future of FriendFeed I expect.
- matthew john ernisse
am not able to access facebook, coz it goes down wenever am browing through it.. watever will happen to friendfeed!!! will friendfeed be the same ?!
- Gtp19
I'll await further news before I give opinion, like what would Facebook do with FriendFeed? There are some obvious overlaps between each service.
- Kol Tregaskes
See the blog, it's official: http://blog.friendfeed.com/2009...
- Kol Tregaskes
Bret's thread on this: http://ff.im/6pFNz
- Kol Tregaskes
Wow, lots of people not happy about this and there is a comment on the blog that doesn't sound encouraging too. :-(
- Kol Tregaskes
So, where to go next? FF was the best sharing/lifestreaming experience for me, but I cannot cope with Facebook way of doing things.
- Marcos
Why no news on Facebook about this?: http://blog.facebook.com/ :-(
- Kol Tregaskes
I don't like to hear this.
- Ton Zijp
Is this a joke ?
- Jacque
is anyone worried about this content now possibly becoming the property of FB? That's the main reason why I don't use it now!
- Valeria Maltoni
Seriously - this is a JOKE right? I HATE Facebook!!!!!
- Jannifer @wordsforliving
holy cow
- Marco(aureliusmaximus)
Post your thoughts and aspirations here: http://ff.im/6pF1O
- Kol Tregaskes
I don't like it :( that's horrible
- acedanger
Oh no, this doesn't sound good. I really like the look of Friendfeed and the friendly user experience. Seems like the developers were really focussed on user needs. Facebook is just so bloated. The best result will be if the Friendfeed developers help improve Facebook and Friendfeed continues to exist but it sounds as though the future existence of Friendfeed is questionable. Only time will tell. Facebook definitely needs some work.
- Dan Smith
Way better than Facebook copying all the features of FriendFeed and not paying anything! Besides, I don't think Facebook's team is as competent as FriendFeed's team (an inability to efficiently recreate FriendFeed's quick response).
- Mitchell Tsai
Good for Facebook, can be both good and bad for Friendfeed. The FF technology will become mainstream. I think Twittter is the company that has most to loose by this deal.
- Frode Stenstrøm
I'm mainly *worried* that Facebook won't let the FriendFeed guys do what they have done so well. A *very* common tragedy of acquisitions. Sometimes, CEO's end up buying their companies back in a few years. :-)
- Mitchell Tsai
Mitchell - you hit the nail on the head with your comment there.
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
Kol: Facebook announcement is http://facebook.com/press... I'm also personally worried about "Important: Is there any way to archive all my FriendFeed posts, likes, comments, and pictures off-line? I'm worried that I might lose access to older stuff after a FriendFeed/Facebook integration." http://ff.im/6pHjo
- Mitchell Tsai
1.5 yrs of posting stuff to FriendFeed (using it like del.icio.us). I've saved off-line all of the pictures which I posted; however, I was not so diligent about (a) articles/twitters/internal posts I made (b) pictures/articles I liked/commented on (c) Even if I saved pictures, it's very hard to track the original sources, which is why I add so much info to my FriendFeed posts (e.g. all the videos & pics I recently saved about Lilia Stepanova (the handstand archer) http://ff.im/6lWT8 )
- Mitchell Tsai
I post stuff to Facebook, but generally consider that info "lost" since there's no search function.
- Mitchell Tsai
Rutger - I think it's a great day! FriendFeed guys will have lots of money for their investment, we have a shot at improving Facebook, and possibly the FriendFeed team will have more money/people resources for growing their project (scaling it to 250 million users & adding features).
- Mitchell Tsai
Thanks, Mitchell.
- Kol Tregaskes
+100 Rutger
- Jim the Blatant
Horrified about this news. This has ruined my day!!!
- Jannifer @wordsforliving
That's too bad Jannifer. This actually made my day. Gives me the promise that Facebook will be more likely to work well. And my profile and my stream will soon be integrated. I think that's great, myself.
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
Feeling "betrayed" over the whole #Friendfeed buyout? Think about getting out of the house a bit more often. Or just be happy for the developers instead.
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call the waaaaambulance!!
- Terry O'Fee
Terry: Bwahahaha! Thanks for the likes guys. Glad I'm not alone.
- Brad McCrorey
I think it sucks, but I'm extremely happy for the FF engineers and developers; they built an awesome product and they deserve every penny of what they got; I just wish they were acquired by a company that fit their "personality" better
- acedanger
I'm not sure if any company (bar Google) would have been good enough for those of you that are worried. I'm not saying Friendfeed's not going to go away, or turn into a huge piece of shit, I'm just saying.. CHILL THE FUCK OUT! It's only day 1. We have no idea what's going to happen yet.
- Brad McCrorey
Well, damn... Even Robert Scoble has declared FriendFeed a sinking ship. Sigh. - http://friendfeed.com/scoblei...
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Robert: "I will stick around a few more days, but, yes, I am probably not going to pour a whole lot more time into FriendFeed. I'm just not getting signals that FriendFeed will see anymore investment. I'll wait to see if that's right and go over and have chat with the team when I get back. By then they'll probably have a better sense of what they are going to work on. Let's set a date for our big "goodbyes" soon."
- Lindsay
from Bookmarklet
Really really really really really really really really sucks. I've got the FooFighter's song stuck in my head: "Why'd you have to go and let it die?"
- Lindsay
Lindsay, not sure why you wouldn't stick around here as long as all of your friends are still here. Besides the time spent, is there some long term equity that is built up here that I am not aware of? The benefit of being here is immediate and short lasting, not withstanding the friends we make, but they can still be our friends even if FF goes away.
- Jeff P. Henderson
let him go
- Josh Haley
from iPhone
wow, that's insane - Scoble not at Friendfeed anymore O.o he's their unofficial spokesperson
- acedanger
You know what really makes my brain explode? Some people who are saying with a kind of disdain "That's business, you idiots!" —I too do Business every single day, I am not employed, I run my own business, but here I'm a USER. So please y'all stop repeating this, for it's simply a lack of tact. Respect people's (I mean users) feelings. No one said that feelings are logic or objective.
- directeur
I've lived in the times of many services that let people talk to other people digitally. FriendFeed is the first one that just felt right and had so many compelling features. The more I read, the more I expect that it will not exist as we know it. The unfortunate thing is that there really is no replacement that is at all close.
- Tinfoil 2.0
@Jeff - the first comment was from the linked thread... Robert said all that, not me. I'm going to stick around as long as there's something to stick around for, but if the popular spokespeople for FF are going away then FB has even less reason to keep it alive for us little folks.
- Lindsay
It's better to have Friendfed and lost than never to have Friendfed at all.
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true - it's raised my expectations for web services
- acedanger
Facebook eats Friendfeed | BryanSays.com - http://bryansays.com/blog...
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I have to say that is a good graphic for my story. :)
- BRҰANSAҰS
from Bookmarklet
I just came back to friendfeed too after spending too much time on twitter. I still hope facebook keeps this site afloat. I'm not ready to jump off just yet. Facebook does not promote good conversations...yet and twitter conversations is pretty much non existent.
- BRҰANSAҰS
pretty picture is pretty
- acedanger
Can you please implement an export function so that I can move everything I have on Friendfeed to somewhere else?
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Where would you move it too.
- Paul Kinlan
Tumblr seems like a good alternative. Or a Wordpress blog with FriendFeed-like theme.
- Burak "cyrus" Bayburtlu
export to where though?!
- acedanger
I think we should all just wait and see what happens
- Paul Kinlan
And could/should you be able to export all the comments attached, given that I (for example) might not want you to be able to export my comments?
- Ian Betteridge
Paul: I agree, we should wait and see but I want an export function. I don't like the idea of facing the unfriendly Facebook staff when I face a problem.
- Burak "cyrus" Bayburtlu
+1 Burak - Facebook staff has been totally unresponsive to any of my e-mails.
- Mitchell Tsai
Ian: exporting comments would be really difficult. I believe it's a very important part of discussion. What do you suggest?
- Burak "cyrus" Bayburtlu
Mitchell: that's what I'm afraid of. Some of my friends lost their accounts and robotic informative messages were all they could get.
- Burak "cyrus" Bayburtlu
How do you think the comments should be exported? Should Friendfeed provide OpenID functionality for authentication on blogs?
- Burak "cyrus" Bayburtlu
My scenario: Friendfeed will provide authentication, people will migrate to Wordpress based blog that's authenticatd via Friendfeed account, everyone will keep on sharing information on their personal space. Entries will be blog posts, comments will be comments on those blog posts. I would be happy with that.
- Burak "cyrus" Bayburtlu
What about subscribers?
- Burak "cyrus" Bayburtlu
An Adorable, Unsuspecting Kitty CRUSHED. Witness the Unspeakable… (video) - http://www.zee.me/blog...
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