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Silicon Valley Elite Flock To Y Combinator Demo Day - http://ycombinator.posterous.com/silicon...
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I liked Bump (http://www.bumptechnologies.com/) RethinkDB (http://www.rethinkdb.com/) definitely looks interesting.
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Living near a popular beach on 4th of July has overloaded my "get off my lawn, kids!" reflex.
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Here's an interview I did on the @mobileorchard podcast talking about iPhone development, Three20, and Facebook Connect http://www.mobileorchard.com/intervi...
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CNN Rick Sanchez Catches McCain Spokesman Mike Goldfarb Lying - http://www.youtube.com/watch...
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"Rick, we both know who number two is."
- Paul Buchheit
Amazing.
- Russellreno
Is John McCain #2?
- Derek van Vliet
"Who does Number 2 work for?!"
- Alejandro
It can only be... Mister Hanky!
- Cyndy
i have a feeling in know the "#2" he was implying/referencing and i still for the life of me cant understand why
- Marco(aureliusmaximus)
Who is #2? You are Number 6. I'm not a number, I'm a free man!
- AJ Kohn
i love the dude's smug smile at first like "check out my awesome answer"
- Deva Hazarika
everybody say it with me: "douchebag!"
- Cee Bee
Now they're using NUMBERS to scare people? HOLY SHIT.
- jeneane sessum
Pretty sure #2 is Rev Wright.
- Dave Winer
Dude...this video is hilarious. He sits back in his chair and does the poker face, but it's obvious he's bluffing.
- Rahsheen the Dream
@Rahsheen: It's true, big tell in poker is sitting back in your chair. Usually means a weak hand.
- AJ Kohn
OMG! he hangs out with Number 2!!!
- Nathan Eckenrode
its a REALLY good thing they ran out of time - had the interview continued he would have held up a piece of paper with several horizontal slashes and a gallows and made sanchez guess the letters in the name of #3
- Marco(aureliusmaximus)
So...#1 is Commander Riker....#2 is....DAMMIT...Who is #2?!
- Rahsheen the Dream
lol
- Kyle Weller
I'd say he's referring to Osama Bin Laden. Obviously he can't say it, because only the dumbest of the dumb would believe it, but for those who DO think that because Obama sounds like Osama, it's like a mad-lib for dummies. I wonder how many (dumb) people feel vindicated in believing this rubbish because it's being spewed like this? Lots, I'm guessing.
- Will Higgins™
“Okullarda AB"C" yi öğrendikten sonra böyle olur :p” - http://friendfeed.com/e...
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LOL!
- yjl
It's official, the Navy is funding Bussard Fusion - http://www.reddit.com/r...
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FriendFeed Blog: Keeping it real with the FriendFeed Real-time API - http://blog.friendfeed.com/2008...
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"If your application uses the FriendFeed API, you can now show FriendFeed updates to your users in real-time using the new FriendFeed Real-time API. We're providing access to the same underlying technology that's used by the real-time view on FriendFeed to all FriendFeed developers."
- Bret Taylor
from Bookmarklet
This is the gamechanger for FriendFeed - just wait and see
- Ed Dale
sure it is! but hope friendfeed can scale better than twitter...
- Aziz
Bret, IMHO, instead of providing such "fantasy" features for the API, you should raise the limits you told me that you weren't able to raise some months ago... But, heh, you decide :)
- directeur
from NoiseRiver
Nice work guys. Keep up the innovation and stay focused.
- Louis Gray
directeur: mind sending an mail to api@friendfeed.com detailing what limits you are referring to? Sorry if we dropped something - it was likely just forgotten due to something else, but we can address your problem now with all the details.
- Bret Taylor
Nice job. I would have preferred that the term "Real-Time" be reserved for an XMPP like implementation. As of now this feature is great but it is not exactly real-time. It is polling after all. This is a massive improvement though. Great work FF crew. Keep pushing the envelope. Don't fear the fire hose!
- Rolf Schewe
Bret: Thanks for the answer, I'll send you an email ASAP with the details! Again thanks for the attention
- directeur
from NoiseRiver
Rolf, this API supports "long polling" -- it's every bit as realtime as XMPP.
- Paul Buchheit
@Rolf: with long polling, you get updates as soon as we have them, so it is as real-time as XMPP, just a different delivery mechanism.
- Bret Taylor
Bret, what's real-time in the case of Friendfeed? Really? I still have the picture of an axajy widget that refreshes and sends queries... It's pulling from the server, not the other way, right?
- directeur
from NoiseRiver
Gentlemen, Friendfeed 1.0 is a cool service. With RealTime API, I think we're looking at "killer app" with a huge breadth of applications. Well done.
- John Craft
So it is also dependent on the delivery on the other end I suppose. I just don't get why I get some content fast such as Twitter and some after a long delay such as Google Reader shared items.
- Rolf Schewe
Google Reader shared items are definitely not real-time.
- Rolf Schewe
From a community building perspective - this real-time is more than enough. If your a programmer designing an app with the API - here is the NUMBER 1 request - Make sure your app doesn't jump out of the stream when you comment or like something
- Ed Dale
on long polling vs xmpp: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki...
- Karl Rosaen
I added Facebook today and tested to see the delay. The status message came through 1 hour later. I actually timed it.
- Rolf Schewe
@rolf: ff servers have to decide how often to crawl the feeds; they don't have the luxury of a realtime api to all of those services. if you post something to ff directly, however, you'll notice it show up immediately
- Karl Rosaen
Rolf- As Karl says, for incoming content we're at the mercy of the external providers. Our proposal for solving that side of the problem is called SUP: http://blog.friendfeed.com/2008...
- Casey Muller
Casey, suppose I write an entry and delete it just after. Will it still be in the ral-time view for other users?
- directeur
from NoiseRiver
it will increasingly be helpful to know which feeds FF does have realtime access to
- Steve Gillmor
So in essence the real-time feature is in some terms conditional on the outside services. Kind-of real-time.
- Rolf Schewe
help us to put pressure on them by listing those who have XMPP pipes in
- Steve Gillmor
directeur- Yes. Anybody (including API clients) monitoring the real-time feed will already have received the entry before you deleted it
- Casey Muller
casey can you guys publish a list of inputs with polling frequency please
- Steve Gillmor
The real innovation (sorry to insist on this) will be to process feeds on the user's level. Attention is the keyword. I DEFINITELY don't care about real-time. I want intersting stuff not fastly delivered ones... just sayin' :)
- directeur
from NoiseRiver
Steve, Twitter is the only service that sends updates by XMPP. All other services (except things posted directly on FriendFeed or via the API) arrive via RSS/Atom feeds, which are generally checked once every 1/2 hour. However, we also monitor several pinging services and utilize SUP to discover feed updates much faster and can often get new entries within a minute or two.
- Paul Buchheit
out of curiosity, what does the ff realtime view set the timeout to? (i should clarify: I'm talking about calls from the client JS to the realtime APIs; what's the timeout of those requests)
- Karl Rosaen
Karl, it's currently about 60 sec, but that's mainly due to concern about browser and proxy timeouts. The server responds as soon as there is an update, so there's no disadvantage to using a larger timeout.
- Paul Buchheit
@Paul, thanks, i was wondering for a comparison to the timeout you'd need to use if supporting such an api from an app engine app (where you have to respond within 10 seconds or so I think)
- Karl Rosaen
Thanks for the feedback and the links. It helped a lot. Maybe down the line we will be able to get RSS data in a little faster. The Google Reader floods can get a little heavy with the current polling interval.
- Rolf Schewe
Paul would other sources who provide XMPP be accepted? Or is Twitter exclusive?
- Steve Gillmor
Steve: We would be happy to support more XMPP services depending on the ease of implementation. It is certainly not exclusive to Twitter.
- Bret Taylor
great to hear Bret
- Steve Gillmor
Yeah, the long-polling isn't the long pole.
- j1m
How many people out there a using FriendFeed Real-time?
- wiredgnome
moi
- Zee.
oi (and remember, you're just asking friends of Bret, in this thread)
- Christopher Galtenberg
I don't use the Real-time a lot but It's not bad
- wiredgnome
Guess Who's Building Nuclear Power Plants. [pic] - http://www.reddit.com/goto...
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The Silicon Valley VC Disease - http://scobleizer.com/2008...
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I actually read the title as "The Silicon Valley VD Disease" ..and nearly jumped out of my seat !! :)-
- Peter Dawson
I think the bigger issue is the fact that startups want to scale quickly. What happened to starting slow and small and letting the product naturally develop, grow a natural user base, before getting VC and super expanding? I guess it's not as sexy...
- Johan
Johan: startups have this attitude forced on them by the VC's. The VC's only give you enough money to go a year or two. If you don't build a business by then you either have to convince more VCs to give you another two years of cash, or you have to have a business up and running and generating more revenues than expenses by then. And the VCs don't like it if you just sit on the cash. They are hoping you come up with some dramatic business success.
- Robert Scoble
I hope it's not contagious
- paul mooney
Good post - my phone is not used to connect to the web but to text message. I can't get a handle on the iPhone yet, though. My daughter loves it and that's good enough for me.
- LPH™ and his dog P™
The other term for this: Short-sightedness.
- Eric Florenzano
ok I jumped off the seat and now back w/beer. :)_ yeah but if you have the right product and appliations , you dot need to shop for VC funds in the first place. The issue is that too many startups are in the markets and nothing really is getting innovated. VS are in to make money. Show me the money and I'll show you my term sheet. Simple investment talk. DOnt waste our time
- Peter Dawson
+1 for Peter's "Silicon Valley VD Disease" .... LOL
- Mitchell Tsai
Unfortunately VCs are not the best investors. Most are running scared. Even with their efforts, 85% of their investments fail (50% for the top firms). Creates a me-too mentality evident also in the Pharmaceutical industry. Real break-throughs may have less than 1% success rate. That is too scary for most VCs and pharma companies.
- Mitchell Tsai
And you can only imagine how frustrating this is for biotech (and explains the lack of funding). Takes 10 years to see some results, 3-5 if you are providing services)
- Deepak Singh
Thanks for writing this post, Robert. You're saying better than a lot of us what I'm sure some of us are thinking. It's unfortunate that this kind of thinking can actually prevent innovation and seems counter to the original American entrepreneurial spirit. We all lose when a good idea doesn't get funded to grow as well or as quickly as it could.
- Cathryn Hrudicka
There's also the ROI and IRR disease in the VCs. Typical businesses have maybe a 50% success rate (where success is not the VC - 5X my money in 5 years, but includes I-just-want-to-pay-my-salary companies). The VC pressure to provide decent returns pushes many companies to failure. Rule of thumb: If you aren't willing to take out a loan at 40% annual interest (because your company's opportunity is so big & needs fast speed), don't ask VCs and smart angels. "Inexperienced" angels is ok.
- Mitchell Tsai
P.S. I'm sitting on a lot of worthless pre-public stock. It's tough to be an investor too.
- Mitchell Tsai
basically VC are getting funding via the global Hedge Funds bowl, w/multi legged swap options. so they (VC's) need ROI's to ensure that they can pay back what they took and make a profit at the same time. They win some and lose some, its a gamble.. Follow the money trail for dynamics of this landscape
- Peter Dawson
VCs want companies to make money so they can recoup their investment and it's called a disease? The sickness is that many of the companies that get funded get funded when there is no hint of a business/revenue plan in place or even on the horizon. If more VCs had a strategy to invest in companies destined to actually make money of course there would be less SV whiny minor millionaires and more real business.
- Brian Sullivan
VC/Angel is the "lottery for the rich": (A) ~15-20% annual returns (B) lottery chance to make $25 million on your $25,000 if you hit a Netscape, Yahoo, or Google. Most mathematicians who make a profit at Vegas gambling move on to stock markets, futures/commodity trading, financial derivatives, hedge funds, etc...
- Mitchell Tsai
+1 for Brian: In the VC biz, that's called "pressure to invest". Not enough good ideas & teams to invest in. Conservative VCs won't find enough investments, thus the "pack" disease of VCs all funding hard drives at the same time. Much more fun chasing pictures on the internet. :-)
- Mitchell Tsai
Brian: the companies that get funded that have no obvious business model (PodTech and Twitter, for example) are part of the VC Disease of go for a home run. They were hoping that PodTech would turn into the next YouTube and that Twitter turns into the next Google. Remember, Google didn't make money for the first four years of its existence, and, in fact, were almost shut down because they weren't paying their bills at Exodus.
- Robert Scoble
Liking mostly because you say not to listen to Dave Hornik. I think I might actually be starting to like you, Robert.
- Cyndy
Echoing Robert: Google burned through $26 million before finding profitability with Bill Gross's (IdeaLab) http://idealab.com/about_i... sliding-scale ad fees http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... I would have been too chicken to put that much money into Google. The sliding-scale ad idea of Goto.com wasn't a "proven" revenue model either. "In November 2001 Gross defaulted on a $50 million personal loan he had taken from the Bank of America to invest in Idealab".
- Mitchell Tsai
Using Google as an example of a company that didn't have a business plan but ended up a big success is getting tired as an argument for support of investment of clueless "businesses" and their founders. Investors in Google and the founders won the lottery -- that doesn't justify investing in the lottery as business strategy. Investing in Iphone apps in my mind would also be a waste of...
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- Brian Sullivan
VCs have to see a deal in this way: 3-5 years to get to 10X return. They can't wait 10 years for a payback, their fund is usually only 10 years as far as I know. So they can't fund things that are too far out. Although it seems clear that the iPhone can create opportunities that fit in this framework of 3-5 years to 10X return, so not sure why Hornick was down on it. Nice, controversial post to get us thinking... I think the disease is more like "groupthink" than it is "lack of long-term vision"
- Elliott Ng
+1 Brian
- Cyndy
Interesting post Robert. May be what Dave is saying is that when a company has proven their concept on the iphone is ready to scale to other platform, then the time is right to actually go after a bigger VC round. I think that both people like Jeff and Dave are key to the entrepreneurship ecosystem: they just target different stages of the company lifecycle. Another way to prove that is...
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- Edwin Khodabakchian
Brian: when I went to Israel a high percentage of developers there proudly showed me their iPhones. And there's not even an Apple store in the country. I HAVE GONE outside the country. Tons of the best iPhone apps are from outside of SV. I also totally disagree about iPhone not being the winner in mobile computing sweepstakes. At least not as the market is today. But I hear Nokia is coming out with something cool in January, so we'll see. And Microsoft told me they are bringing out something cool next year.
- Robert Scoble
Brian, maybe the iPhone will wind up like the Atari, who knows. And I would add that many times investments are at least as much due to the people than to the initial technology. However, the iPhone is a game changer. I find that I'm using it more and more to read news, check the weather, etc--some which is new behavior for me, but also some of which I used to do on my notebook. The iPhone is winning out. Is it perfect yet? No. I want more, but there's a systemic change going on here.
- Loren Heiny
Loren: the problem with people who don't own iPhones is they just don't see how big a game changer it is. I wish I could get Brian to carry around the four phones I currently have to see how bad these things all are compared to iPhone. The iPhone isn't perfect, either, but it's years ahead of the others. Of course, back in 1989 the Macintosh was years ahead of everything too and see what happened...
- Robert Scoble
Deepak: Agreed, look at Amgen and Genentech as classic Biotech examples
- Sally Church
Scobles , are yo sure that iPhones are just not hype ?
- Peter Dawson
Mr. Scoble - I'll tell you... this disease causes Myopia too. There are SO many fine business opportunities being pitched right here in Tulsa, Oklahoma City, Wichita... Sevin Rosen Funds has a guy here in Tulsa. EARLY stage oriented. Pre-money oriented. Why KPCB or Charles River (or whoever) doesn't grab some initiative and park a good couple of partners in middle-America and work some new land is beyond me.
- Gerald Buckley
You'll get little disagreement from me on this one, Robert. But it's not just VCs, it's inertia. OTOH, Brian Sullivan a few comments up makes a great comparison...iPhone (and Facebook for that matter) are heading the way of BetaMax and MiniDisc, and MemoryStick. I may not use MySpace, but they're the VHS of the Social Network game right now. What we need is for someone to invent the DVD.
- Andrew Feinberg
Robert: I have absolutely no need for the Iphone (or any "smart" phone) and certainly would not pay the ridiculous prices some people are paying to use them. These products and their supporters are making a couple of fundamental assumptions that I think are flawed: that most normal people are like California geeks that feel the need to be connected at all times and that people will...
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- Brian Sullivan
Peter D. define "hype"? I can't be sure that iPhone will "win" the mobile space (I seriously doubt it given current pricing). But they're bound to be closing in on their 10 million units worldwide goal, and especially given the price, that doesn't strike me as hype.
- Robert Seidman
What's wrong with investing in Facebook apps, if you get the exposure it's like advertising on Taxi wheels (I've seen this one). As for the iPhone, it has changed the way people are surfing on mobiles and this advertising market is just at the beginning so i see many companies getting inside. The only question i ask myself is either the company can generate money within 3-5 years or not and should i put my money in as if it was after the bubble burst.
- Nir Ben Yona
Brian, here are a couple non-California uses of an Internet connected device like the iPhone. Imagine you're in Nebraska in the spring. A storm rolls in. Tornado sirens blare. If you've got your iPhone with you in the closet or basement or wherever in anticipation of a tornado, you've potentially got access to an Internet radio, weather radar maps, 911, etc in your iPhone. Another...
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- Loren Heiny
Great post. I see no excitement surrounding any other phone. People I know who use Windows Mobile phones have to in order to have access to corporate email. Maybe that will change with Apple licensing AciveSync.
- Brett Nordquist
Peter: I'm absolutely convinced that iPhones are not hype. Brian: mobile didn't get hot in California first. You really need to visit Europe or Japan or Korea. There we look pretty stupid in our usage of mobile. As for "needing" stuff, you probably 10 years ago would have told me you don't "need" a cell phone, but today I can't name a single person that I know who doesn't have one, except my baby. You need to travel more and watch what people do when a plane touches down. Everyone starts up their mobiles.
- Robert Scoble
Has anyone decided if Apple's implememntation of ActiveSync is any good?
- Andrew Feinberg
I guess I'm glad I can have whatever phone I choose, and no need to worry about syncing anything, as I'm not tied to a corporate and all the associated bloatware that goes with it...
- Ian May
"First, our society’s most valuable audiences are getting iPhones." Really our most valuable audiences? Archeticts are these type of people? What about doctors, nurses, firemen, policemen, etc. They are way more valuable then any single architect in LA. Get over yourself.... That comment alone made me snort my coffee. I know 4 people who iPhones, neither of them would be somoen who i would define as society's most valuable audiences.
- Jonathan Jesse
@Loren Heiny I have a co-worker who used his Windows Mobile device in a Tornado to upload video of the tornado, let people know about that he was safe via email all w/o an iPhone. and from the hotel's bathtub which was the safest place.
- Jonathan Jesse
@Loren Heiny: when my son was born i used my windows mobile phone to take pictures and email those pictures to everyone i know from one device.... from a windows mobile phone
- Jonathan Jesse
@Brian Sullivan: I completly agree.. I have a Windows Smartphone from work, it is also the only cell phone I have. try taking a vacation when you get constantly reminded that work needs you through emails. I am amazed about how rude it is for people to interupt converstations and text/sms/email/twitter whatever instead of talking with the person face to face in front of them. this is something that i am strugeling with as my phone is always "buzzing" with someething new.
- Jonathan Jesse
Ok its not hype.. but with over 715Million users of Mobile technology in China alone. What does a 10M unit sold slice in terms of market penetration to these segments ? Just asking.. So you can see how thin of a slice that iPhone really has in terms of market share. A prodcut may have all the bells and whistles on it, but if major user base is not buying into it. then it could be some real issues.
- Peter Dawson
I think the whole VC model is broken. We don't need millions of dollars for our startups anymore, we need $25k or $50k. When I hear about companies getting millions of dollars, I always think, what the hell are they doing with it!?
- Dawn
I'll offer this, just me speculating. I'm not sure that the price point of the iPhone is the biggest factor these days. I think we're more bottled by the thought of paying ridiculous prices for sub-par mobile web. I mean seriously, what the heck is with the current rates for cell phone plans. Also, the thought of paying for SMS in 2008 is just silly. It should be included in all plans. Not for the purpose of cutting profits from our providers but rather for American's to catch on to the technology.
- Ben Pettit
@ben I vaguely recall Mr. Scoble interviewing someone (was it the FCC commissioner conversation maybe) that had the US basically foregoing SMS and being off & onto the next big thing. SMS won't really stand a chance against what's coming is what I heard. Robert...? Care to put that in better context for us?
- Gerald Buckley
Dawn: $25K, $50K, $100K These are the lower-price points for qualified angel investors, who work the lower levels below the first tier of $500K-$3M VCs. One VC person can maybe manage 10-20 investments, so you can divide the size of fund by the number of active partners (x10-20) and figure out what size investments are in a VC-fund's sweet spot. Complicating the issue are some micro-VC funds, angel-type funds, and $5-20K Y-combinator-type-groups.
- Mitchell Tsai
Scoble: Great post. Hornik is a very smart guy, but he is hamstrung by the current VC model. VCs need a huge upside because the model dictates that they need to put in a ton of cash on the front end. Most of today's web startups don't require the kind of cash that VCs are used to putting in. That's why Hornik doesn't want to invest in iPhone apps. He wants to invest in companies with hundreds of millions in near-term valuation, not tens on millions. Imho, that is the VC disease -- in SV or out.
- Christian Anderson
from fftogo
Robert, I left a long comment on the post with my thoughts. I appreciate that some investors don't have the patience to bet early and let an idea run its course. That said, I don't think I am a good poster-child for that problem. August Capital has a long history of betting early and supporting our companies for as long as it takes to create an interesting business.
- David Hornik
@cyndy Curious what I said or did to deserve your comment?
- David Hornik
David: thanks, I just wrote a new post about this new world where people like you help us arrive at the truth by participating. Appreciate that a lot.
- Robert Scoble
Gerald: SMS is seeing some pickup here, but, really, look at Twitter, which is what my son is using now increasingly, or Facebook. If you have an iPhone both of those are a lot better than SMS. Also, my phone is increasingly getting SMS spam, which will really piss people off and keep them from adopting that system.
- Robert Scoble
This is not too dissimilar from the Innovator's Dilemma concept by Christensen. The "right" business decision ("right" as in profit-maximizing) would be to invest in big, rich markets: that's precisely why there is an opportunity for disruptors to enter the market.
- Tito Costa
+1 for Michael Sheehan.
- Mitchell Tsai
None of this seems like rocket science. Valley VCs want big returns in short amount of time. Asking them to invest in small slower-growing but sustainable markets is like going to Ford Motor headquarters and asking to buy a windshield wiper. It isn't the scale that they're working at.
- Michael
While you make some valid points, Robert, I don't it is fair to call it a disease. Looking for investments with a short-term return potential is certainly a legitimate investment strategy. I can't fault them for opting for perferring lower risk, quicker payoff investments, rather than longer-term (and thus higher risk) investment that *may* payoff huge in 10 years. That said, there are other types of investment strategies out there -- I think your post highlights a void that needs to be filled.
- Mark Carey
from Moopz
I still think, after reading the post, the follow up and this thread, that a VC is perfectly entitiled to pick and choose investments based on the return. And I'm sure there will be a few start-ups that have a Walmart business plan - take two asprin and call me in ten years. Because thats the way it is in technology (not just SV). The issue here is that we don't hear form these companies. We may well get the next Google, Microsoft, Sun, HP, etc from there.
- Roberto Bonini
I thing this disease is more of a symptom of greed and ego vs. making a difference in the tech world. But then again, isn't that what business is about? It is very hard for traditional business to grasp this concept, and is why real innovation wont be found there.
- Venson Kuchipudi
We finally got job titles at FriendFeed
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Can I be the staff photographer?
- Thomas Hawk
Awesome times two!
- Wm Scott Rees
where's your bret ? :)-
- Peter Dawson
"Supreme Allied Commander"
- Bret Taylor
do you get business cards with the titles too?
- Thomas Hawk
So who's getting "Final Cylon" then?
- Mark Dykeman
whatever happened to the "aggregated aggregator?"
- Marc Canter
Awww. I liked "FriendFeeder". :-(
- Mitchell Tsai
huh, that's odd, I was under the impression that you were the Senior Executive Vice *Group* Director of VP Coordination & Vision... did you not allocate your synergies properly and get demoted??
- felix
"Senior Executive Vice Director of VP Coordination & Vision" and "Deputy Senior VP of Strategic Synergy" Fantastic! SEVP of VPCP and DSVP of SS...
- Mitchell Tsai
Ah! Interesting :) The funniest is that these guys don't even wear shoes at work, and play with thier bicycles in the office
- directeur
from NoiseRiver
ok pauls title is really wacky - "Sr. Executive Vice Director of VP Coordination & Vision" - like wtf does that mean ? SERIOUSLY !! btw what does "VP" stand for ?
- Peter Dawson
Scott Adams (?): "If it's more than two words, it's not a career"
- Philipp Lenssen
I want Senior Fetchit Boy reporting the Staff Photographer.
- Russellreno
These are beyond fantastic. Can I be your Human Branding Liaison?
- Ginger Makela Riker
ahh good quote Philipp :)-
- Peter Dawson
I know a guy who runs a 600-person company, and walks around the offices barefoot! Not even sandals. My brother works there - Rhythm & Hues Studios - http://rhythm.com
- Mitchell Tsai
Another company I helped rented a house at the beach - rather than a traditional office. Lot of fun having meetings there. They took surfing breaks for lunch.
- Mitchell Tsai
I think i need to include those in full in all posts from now on
- MG Siegler
longest title i've ever seen - you could have thrown in an acronym!
- Allen Stern
awesome job titles!
- Susan Beebe
this is hilarious :) liked it! what lies in the name of title-fame?
- Aditya Kothadiya
...China, Korea, India, WYOMING, Singapore... HA!
- Clare Dibble
LOL, how about numbers like in movie Brazil "010046"
- Pokai
any Historian-on-duty ? :)
- Отборнейший бред
Did you guys steal these titles from Yahoo?
- Eric Eldon
Is Ana still the "Chief Miscellaneous Officer" or does she go by a different title these days? Also, I'd like to know the other FFers' titles.
- April Buchheit
Did you get to make up your own? The coolest title I've seen has been for a Microsoft employee - Professional Geek (before he worked there his title was Amateur Geek)
- Craig Thomler
I actually have an outstanding diplomatic relations issue with wyoming. Who would I talk to about that?
- Phil Glockner
So Bret, what's your title ? (This kind of culture is the kind that spawns neat stuff. Always has, always will. Keep it up!)
- Charlie Anzman
Mine is "Supreme Allied Commander." I was always jealous of NATO.
- Bret Taylor
I'm a little scared that some people don't seem to realize it's a joke.
- Alan Cheslow
And here I was soo confused thinking Bret was the CEO! hehehe (ok he really is guys!!)
- Susan Beebe
I just noticed Casey has Asian strategy in Wyoming? yo what?! - that's funny!
- Susan Beebe
Do you have any Master Squirrel Hearders (project mgrs) yet?? that's my specialty
- Susan Beebe
I really want a title too. If I bring all the Mommybloggers over...I better get one dammit
- Erin @queenofspain
So is Casey's job to reach out to those parts of the world that twitter works?
- Nancy Babyak
What's yours, Jim?
- Anne Bouey
+100
- Josh Wills
Kind of funny, but hey, that FriendFeed business card in the background looks nice.
- Daniel Schildt
@bret NATO is not cool - seen them through cross-hairs back in end-of-80s, they ain't that cool as they try to pretend :)
- Отборнейший бред
Wow!
- Yuvi
I got mine this morning: "Kevin Fox - Comptroller Third-Class, Tiger Team V" We are so going to kick Tiger Team III's ass at this year's interoffolympics!!!
- Kevin Fox
I'd like to be the senior vice associate president of all things that the senior executive vice director of vp coordination and vision doesn't see.
- Robert Scoble
Nice job title Paul! Did you try to max out the characters that would fit? :)
- Alex Barbara
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