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Robert Scoble posted a message

“TechMeme has three humans helping rate the news. My FriendFeed has 4,780 bringing me the news. If one human is good, 4,780 are...”

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Underpaid? - Louis Gray

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...much more complete and much faster. Plus, more interesting because we all get to participate no matter what "list" we're on. - Robert Scoble

underpaid :) - Glen Campbell

Heh. Underpaid and overworked! - Robert Scoble

paid at all? - Jeff Douglass

So true!!! - Susan Beebe (Santa Claus)

Loquacious Lemmings. - Colleen

Radical democratization of media filtering. What's the tradeoff? - Chris Kenton via twhirl

splendid - Duncan Riley

... really good at scraping up bacon and LOLCAT images. ;-) - Chris Baskind

I have a new slogan. FriendFeed, free crowdsourcing at its finest! - Mark Krynsky

Increasing the number of people doesn't necessarily make the selection of material better. Plus, you also end up with a lot of duplication. - Morton Fox

Louis Wins! Flawless Victory! - ♫ Rahsheen ™ ★

Morton: heh, the repetition tells me it's important! :-) - Robert Scoble

Morton, with the new grouping feature, the duplication just bubbles the story up again. This promotes the "importance" angle while complimenting the "freshness". - Rob Diana

"FriendFeed: The Freshmaker!"? ;) - Tyson Key

Robert- Here is something interesting... you were asking about the permanence of the Newspaper... http://ckwebb.com/publishing/b... - Colleen

Quantity does not always equal quality - Jason Shultz via twhirl

Jason: here's the deal, though. I have 4,800 smart people reporting to me. I've hand picked them all. No stupid people allowed. And even there I've taken the best and put them in a separate list of only 200 people. I'm getting news that never makes it to Techmeme. - Robert Scoble

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“Congrats to the Google Reader team on the redesign! Nice job!!”

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YAY! - jenna

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i'm having trouble in differentiating the focused/read/unread, previous design had more contrast - Mateo Yadarola

Am I the only one who thinks its super ugly? - Steve Lacy

@Steve No. - Erica Baker

I like it - Roshan Vyas

I think it's a huge improvement for a variety of reasons. I also think that Arial is one of the worst fonts in existence. You can't win 'em all. - Andrew Bonventre

@Andrew Completely agree. Helvetica and derivatives (Arial) are great for print, but not so much for screen. I force all content to be rendered in Verdana via a custom stylesheet (Safari) or Fonts settings (Firefox). - Manas Tungare

Its Faster and Crispier than before, but too much white on the screen. My eyes hurt if I read for long in this new UI. Probably that is an intentional design to break Google Reader Addiction :) - James Ramya Rajan J

I'm fine with everything; like it even...buuuut the color scheme now really blows. Why not pull the Gmail themes over at least? You guys all work for the same company, right? ;) - abacab

I was like "Whoa" this morning. Like it!! :) - BeeLing

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I'm starting a trip to London today.

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I'll be there from December 5th until December 7th. See more in my Dopplr profile. - Robert Scoble

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excellent weather this time of the year - Dave Hodson

"excellent weather" = "bring insulated, waterproof clothing"... - Jules

Nice to have you visiting our fine country for the weekend. Gives me hope that you're maybe able to tell us all about some amazing "something" from the UK. :) - Matthew J Hendrickse

I am here in London for the first time and loving it. Working on getting a visit to Google's HQ with no luck so far. - Johnny Makkar

Bring thermal undies, the weather is atrocious at the moment. Not that it's great under normal circumstances. - KateB

Look forward to hearing what you're up to here Robert - Drew B

welcome. it's a lovely place - Sofia Gkiousou

Robert, nice to have you in London. What about the Sunday meet up, you talked about earlier today? - Bastian

I feel like I haven't seen much of you. When does LeWeb start? - Francine Hardaway via twhirl

Have fun... http://portlanders.ning.com is the best place in the uk ::o) here we have the only olympic site yet to be finished. the sailing. :o) - Rob Sellen

Drew: mostly we're just here to visit with Maryam's brother, but I'm looking to meet up with geeks and on Sunday night we're doing a meetup, too. Email me scobleizer@gmail.com for details about that. - Robert Scoble

Robert Scoble posted a message

“VC shutdown underway? One entrepreneur told me her deal with Intel Capital fell apart after they lowered valuation from $5 mil to $1. Ouch.”

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I think we have not reached the bottom until now. Worse luck! - Marcel Janus

Robert Scoble posted a message

“How bad is the economy worldwide? Last night at our Tweetup a guy who works on the docks here says some bus is down to 20% of last years.”

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It's bad times...... - yanchao

This is for Barcelona? - Paul Denlinger

Yes, Barcelona. - Robert Scoble

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3 Ways To Utilize Google Friend Connect

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I tried to use the "Set up custom gadget" to include an iGoogle gadget, but it didn't work. :( Also, if you click on the little arrow in the upper-right-hand corner of the GFC widget, it takes you to a custom view using the "canvas.html" file.. but at least on my site, it is super-generic. - Phil Glockner

I noticed that too. And I had to edit my canvas.html to change the hard coded Site Name to be the name of my site. - Don Campbell

Nice article Bwana. I'm only going for the 1st way. In my opinion items 2 & 3 seem to compete a bit with functionality that should stay on the site, but it's clear how Google wants you to get that on to your profile. More decentralization...oy vey. - Mark Krynsky

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Robert Scoble posted a message

“Oh, my, I just signed into Wordpress.com and my editing screen has totally changed. Looks really nice so far.”

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Yeah. i noticed too. Super easy to do stuff now. Not the annoying tabs everywhere. Looks great. - Nathan Gilmer

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Google Reader got an interface update too. Its like Christmas on the internet. - Nathan Gilmer

Sweet, that must mean that version 2.7 is eminent. - Mark Krynsky

Played around with 2.7 a bit on WP.com and really looking forward to the WP.org release. Nervous about upgrading though with all the plugins and all. - Graham English

They had a countdown to roll-out, too! Hey Robert. :) - Mona N.

I'm also really looking forward to the 2.7 release on WP.org. Ditto the concerns of Graham on upgrading though especially since the Podpress plugin already doesn't really support the current version. - Phill Ramey