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Robert Scoble

I swear every single person at the Half Moon Bay Ritz right now has an iPhone.

August 22 from iPhone - Comment - Like - Share

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Are you taking a survey or something? - Eric

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Very scary! - Eric

We need another device besides iPhone :) - Eric

Eric: everyone is fingering theirs. It is a weird behavior. One that I am joining. :-) oh and this Ritz is one of the best hotels in the world: http://corporate.ritzcarlton.com/en... - Robert Scoble from iPhone

Well, prefer to see iPhones than seeing WinMo phones! :P - Rom Feria

I have been waiting 5 years now on a patent I filed for a device that will be better than iPhone. - Eric

Is there an event going on? - Spencer Schoeben

Sounds like you are in good company ! :) - Zahoor

Robert, any chance in hell they (Apple) ever develop one with a REAL keyboard? Deal breaker for me and tons of others I know...all smartphone users. LOVE the apps (bought my fiancee a 3GS about two months ago) but basic functionality is a deal killer. I got big fingers! New software update is STILL tough and a deal breaker. - Dan Ross

I just need some funding and genius tech people like Scobleizer to build it :) - Eric

Looks like the Ritz is a fun place to stay :) - Eric

So Robert, when are you going to host a conference at the HMB Ritz? - Jesse Stay

What the Ritz is giving away iPhones! ..... Definitely an over popular phone. - Kyle Thomas

but of course! - BEX

Dan: get a Palm Pre or an Android. - Robert Scoble from iPhone

Jesse: that is an idea! :-) - Robert Scoble from iPhone

Robert, I'm so there - Jesse Stay

BTW, there may be a chance I'll be in SFO area next week. I'll keep you updated. Maybe we can get Louis and go crash Twitter or something. - Jesse Stay

Jesse: hope you come to the Ritz! - Robert Scoble from iPhone

iPhone FTW! - Kevin Nunez

Careful ... you guys are gonna overload AT&T :) - Charlie Anzman

Robert, I'll try to make sure that's in my plans. :-) I'll be in the MountainView area. - Jesse Stay

Ritz Twitz 2009 - Ken Sheppardson

So, if I am in HMB, I should look for you at the Ritz? :-) I miss going to the Pumpkin Fest. - Larry Walker

But can they get signal from at&t? - Robert J Taylor from iPhone

"everyone is fingering theirs" - Damn - BEEN to those parties with Scoble. - Rob La Gesse

Steven Perez to Steven's feed, Alex Scoble, Internet's Tad

I HEARD WHAT YOU SAID, TAD. CILANTRO DOES NOT SUCK. by silas216 - http://cheezburger.com/view...

August 22 from Bookmarklet - Comment - Like - Share

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Tad says "Yes, It does!" - Alex Scoble from IM

And not even a DAMN YOU STEVEN PEREZ. Obviously, Tad is not drunk enough. - Steven Perez

I was too drunk to remember to say DYSP! - Internet's Tad

Andru Edwards

Apps on the Zune HD! I knew it! :D http://zunited.net/index... (via @columnbreak)

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Steve Gillmor

Excited to announce The Gillmor Gang will return to the network Thursdays at 1PM Pacific, starting Thursday August 27th. Stay tuned.

August 20 - Comment - Like - Share

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Because someone needs to get it out of the way... "Screw You Arrington. Screw You!" - Bastard Operator From FF

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yay! - Rasmus Lauridsen

Which Network? - George MacDonald

Excellent news. I've missed the show. TWiT? - No Agenda Forums

Good, good. - Jonathan Brown

Looking forward to it. Always pop new shows to the top of the stack. - Paul Grous

*shudder*.. I hope not... The show wasn't the same by a wide margin when it was on TWiT... - Rasmus Lauridsen

That's great news. Love the show. - Kahlil Lechelt

nice one - can't wait to tune in again - pablo

Tremendous news. Looking forward to it. - Mike Doeff

Sweet. - Gillmor Gang was one of my favorite couple hours of the week. Dave and Marshall are doing a nice job over at bad hair day - but I am definitely excited for the return of GG. - andrew

Will it be available for download again? - nick

Excellent. - Jay Cuthrell

Hallelujah! - Dan Weinstein

Show must go on. - Mindaugas Dagys

Truly glad to hear it! Also like the NGL sign on your Twitpic. :) - Karoli

Whooooooooooo----f'king hoooooooooo! It's on my Calendar-in-the-Cloud - Francine Hardaway

More comebacks than Sinatra, yay :-) Will there be a podcast of it too, pretty please for your *fans* that can't make the time schedule? - Scottish Lass

Steve: This is great news! - Jim Connolly

Somebody better update the Wikipedia entry... - Cliff Gerrish

YES! YES! YES! Thank you Steve - this makes me happy! - Michael Pinto

For those on the other side of the planet will you be able to grab the show via RSS - oh I forgot RSS is dead, right? - John Chrisoulakis

So happy GG is coming back (again). Literally the highlight of an otherwise rough day. Don't care what network it's on, as long as Steve gets to herd his intellectually stimulating mix of "cats". Thanks Steve. :) - Dr. Apps from twhirl

Good! - John Wright

yay! Best news of the week! All I guess this an announcement that the Gillmor Gang is dead as well! - Phillip Molly Malone

I might be able to come out of hiding now... we'll see. - Aron Michalski

Excellent news to end the week! Look forward to it. - Diego Barros 

What a one-two punch. Gillmor serves it up on Thurs aft and the Bad Hair Boys knock it out of the park in the early evening! :-) - Dave Winer

Good news. So who's on the show? - Michael Metz

Probably too much to ask, but for posterity, please repost the GG archives! There, I said it. - Scott Mace

There go my afternoons! - Robert Scoble from iPhone

Will be interesting to see, will Mr. Arrington be participating...lol - Johann Diaz from Nambu

Missed the Gang so much and with the NGL Studio, it will be a tough act to follow for the Bad Hair boys :) #TechThursday FTW - Alberto Saavedra

why wouldn't Arrington be in it sometimes? It really was Leo who was a "take my ball and go home" crybaby - Rasmus Lauridsen

Way to go. Looking forward to it. - Oliver Kohl

YAY!!!!!!!!!!!! - Susan Beebe

This news has made my month! I can't wait... - Chris Aldrich

i'm hoping that timeshifting options will be available - i probably won't ever be able to catch it live - Chris Heath

But, but, but...what about podshow? - Mark Hunter

Very happy to hear this, but I also wonder about RSS support. - Robert

w00t!! - Kevin Nunez

Now that's what I'm talkin' about. - Vezquex: God of FF

Where can I find it? - Richard South

Steve's back! - Harald Felgner

Robert Scoble

I wish Twitter would sell to Google so it would die like Jaiku and Dodgeball. But I won't post this over on Twitter. I really don't have much love for the service, even though I know I'll be stuck using it for the indefinite future. Jesse Stay has it figured out. It's a horrid place to try to communicate anything other than a bit of self pimping.

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Here I can write the equivilent of an entire blog post. And even make changes. And even have a conversation. And use it as many times an hour as I want (Twitter rate limits my apps after a while cause I'm too heavy of a user). - Robert Scoble

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werd. - imabonehead

I can sense already that FriendFeed is slowing down now that it is joining Facebook, while Twitter still has the best flow (and best system for following people and best mobile clients). So, we're stuck with Twitter, which is too bad, because the technology here is a ton better. - Robert Scoble

Twitter is a piece of crap - BUT it's where the audience is (currently). - Jim Connolly

Now it is starting to feel like FF again with you bigging it up again Robert ;) - Travis Koger

Twitter is the new MySpace. - imabonehead

Maybe google wave will change the way we use twitter, etc. again. Haven't tried it yet, but it might succeed where friendfeed "failed" - getting enough people to use it. - Frank S.

Travis: I had to go and clean out my Twitter and Facebook accounts and spread out my usage. - Robert Scoble

Agreed! - Friendfeed is so much better (for as long as it really lasts in Facebook world...) - Matthew Blaisdell from iPhone

Robert: I'm thinking of setting up a facebook account for my Marketing blog - what do you think? - Jim Connolly

@Scobleizer I don't think Friendfeed would be quite so popular if it weren't for twitter - Prolific Programmer from IM

Twitter is the new Myspace - HAHA - this quote made my day. For me it is just becoming a multiplicator for my friendfeed but it is important for that! - Sascha Pallenberg

Prolific: I'm not so sure. Blogs made Twitter. So, what if there were no Twitter? We would still talk up something else. But maybe FriendFeed wouldn't have thrived anyway. Twitter hit a sweet spot with its easy to program API, it's easy to use interface, and its cute name and branding. - Robert Scoble

Twitter works extremely well on mobile devices. I constantly see people tweeting whereas it's more difficult to do with FriendFeed's interface for a typical user. - imabonehead

Really think that Twitter is annoying it's users too much. There's some problems out there that are really being ignored. Here's an example of a problem that could be solved very simply, but no action is being taken (if it was solved it'd create a lot of goodwill) http://getsatisfaction.com/twitter... - Edd McArdle

Robert, now that FriendFeed's people are working for Facebook, and since Facebook has already been making changes to make it more "open socially", do you think eventually that Facebook will become the best place to have serious conversations? - Carlton Hackett

Carlton: yes. - Robert Scoble

I've been thinking so too. Although, I wonder how the non-Soc/net junkies will respond to that? - Carlton Hackett

Robert, two thoughts. #1 - do you think Google really would let it die? Acquiring Twitter would be more like its YouTube acquisition than Jaiku (in terms of price and # of users). Secondly, what would Twitter have to change for you to change your opinion? - Ben Parr

I really, really, really want Twitter to work out is the thing. It's just a pain in the neck to communicate without either losing the conversation or spamming useless banter over multiple Tweets because you can't fit it in 140 characters. That's just my experience. Those still spending most their time there don't mind it I guess. - Jesse Stay

I like Twitter. The conversation flows pretty well for me, and to be fair, I get more @replies there than I get replies here to my posts. - Chris Nixon

I think a combination of the Retweet API and a true threaded replies architecture and UI could change some of my opinion on that though if they do it. - Jesse Stay

Jesse: It's NOT just your experience. Twitter is getting less valuable the bigger it gets. The spam / porn / bots issue is insane and ruining the experience. - Jim Connolly

Chris: I have a twitter account with over 20,000 followers and get ten times as many replies here as I get there. Here I only have a small following. The calibre of people I connect with here is better too. - Jim Connolly

Jesse, have Twitter improved their communication with developers since you wrote about it in April? - Edd McArdle

Edd, over the last week I have noticed a difference, yes, but it's hard to tell if it will remain that way. They now seem to have a project manager over the API dev team (Ryan Sarver). He seems to be putting a filter on some things and keeping devs updated elsewhere. They're still learning though, much slower than FB or FriendFeed. - Jesse Stay

agree on spam and bots, but it still is a nice little thing, if it remains what it was made for! marketing and reviewing thing isn't/shouldn't be there, true friendfeed is more effective as a tool for sending your message across, it is simple and strong - testbeta

Testbeta: ... and FF works. - Jim Connolly

Jim, Jesse, Robert: Value varies. For me, Twitter value continues to increase. I use it to find out what's happening, meet up with people, get random insights into how people are doing, find new people. It all works well. There are many different use cases and one tool does not have to do them all. - Rachel Clarke

i couldn't agree more! - lilian

Rachel: "It all works well"? Really? Twitter? - Jim Connolly

Rachel, I agree with you. I just don't think Twitter works well for conversations, that's all. I use FriendFeed and Facebook for that. I use Twitter for different purposes, and I agree it does still have value. - Jesse Stay

sometimes i think of Automattic's intense debate, but well friendfeed is intense debate, such a experience was never had on blogs, the commenting, liking, and so fast it propagates, even disqus commenting systems can't achieve what we have here on friendfeed, but i can't just throw away twitter, twitter still is good, true for the serious types it's word limit, reply system is a bit of... more... - testbeta

I would love to have FriendFeed as the commenting system on my blog. - Chris Nixon

Chris, there are a few plugins that do that. I haven't tried them though. - Jesse Stay

Chris: Check out what Scoble's doing with FF on building43.com - Jim Connolly

Jim: yes. It works well for what I want it to do (I'm ignoring the ongoing issues with the DDOS). It's a free tool that adds far more value than it costs me to wait for odd outage. - Rachel Clarke

Just checked your Twitter account and now understand exactly what you are saying. - Jim Connolly

Jesse: agree, I use Facebook, Friendfeed, blogs, comments etc, all for different things. I even use the phone as a phone occasionally to talk with people ;-) But the assumption that one tool/service can do everything - and should do everything - is something I have a problem with. If something does not work for a person, don't use it. - Rachel Clarke

The twitter ecoverse is cool, can do Psychological Profiles, can do Social Network Analysis. All those services that spawned as a result are amazing. I am also amazed at how dense Asians Languages are on Twitter, think about it they get about 60% more per tweet. - Robert Higgins

Ben: at this point I am not sure what Twitter could do to win back my love. I will use it just like I use AT&T and United Airlines. I have very little love for those even though I use them frequently. Twitter wins because it is simple and flat and has great clients. I wouldn't cry if it disappeared, though. - Robert Scoble from iPhone

So why do you hate it? - Raanan Avidor

You are a hypocrite! I remember you use to sing the praises of Twitter all the time. Another toy comes along and you start bashing it. If I was Friendfeed management I would cancel your account now before you start bashing them. Robert Scoble is nothing but a follower of crowds anyway. - Paul L. McCord Jr.

You want it to die? Such an odd statement. I have met so many great people through Twitter, and the news information I can find through search or news agencies or even people who are newshounds are amazing. I know it's not perfect and the last few weeks have definately proved that, and the spam is just awful. But to want to kill it, what a strong statement. - PC Easy from twhirl

Twitter is not abot writing blog posts or having conversations, its about small pieces of information being communicated to anyone who wants to listen. You do not have to listen, if you want a conversation use a forum or FriendFeed, use WordPress for blog posts. Stop trying to make Twitter into something it is not designed to be. - Darren Rollett

I really used to like Twitter, still do sometimes. What I don't like is the Twitter hype. I don't seem able to turn on any media channel these days without reading/hearing or watching about it. Even the BBC reported that Twitter was under attack recently on the main BBC news. FFS come on, there must be more happening in the world than a micro blogging site with a few million users... more... - Nick Bristow

If you owned twitter would you sell to google? - cheapsuits from iPhone

Robert, Atleast something positive could come out of it. If Twitter sells to Google they might(though its not guaranteed) make it opensource and then a federation of twitter server(ala wave servers) can co-exist happily and that way we'll own our stuff(as Anil Dash and other points out). Or they might integrate it in Wave framework. Not that people are not gonna complain about it but thats a different topic. - Abhishek

Surely an improvement in the service would be a more positive wish? - Chris Nixon

Say what you want but something with the architecture of friendfeed is far more conversational then twitter could ever be. - cheapsuits

I don't know why people think Twitter is the place to converse. It's really not built for that. I find myself enjoying the flow of conversations more on Facebook and FriendFeed. - Naomi Williams

Self pimping? Hmmm... Perhaps not for all of us. And besides, self-pimping isn't limited to twitter. - @JonAston

PS - Maybe it's just me, but you seem bitter lately. Hope you turn that around for yourself. - @JonAston

Jon: You are right. People pimp on FriendFeed too; as I say in my new book.... :-) - Jim Connolly

@jim, they will do anywhere, this is human nature, they do even in real life, so why not in virtual one? - abdellah

Abdellah: Absolutely. - Jim Connolly

"(Twitter) It's a horrid place to try to communicate anything other than a bit of self pimping." AMEN - Alejandro

Personally I wish Google would buy both Facebook and Twitter so they could both die. - Brian Sullivan

@brian, hey where could I read to you then?!! - abdellah

@Frank S. Google Wave will only be valid if you actually have other friends/collegues who use Google Wave. Otherwise you'll be using it with the *crickets* - Naomi Williams

Oh yeah -- forgot that due to circumstances beyond our control FF is now Facebook. ;-) - Brian Sullivan

oh yeah , they share the same vision, they got the same perception... - abdellah

It's the ff interface (developers) that make it great, but it's really you guys and gals, the people friendfeed attracted that make it valuable to me. Let's consider a real migration to a more reliable long term social media. It has to be open (data portable, unsellable) to get my trust - Mark Essel from iPhone

I hope the FaceBook people will take comments like these to heart. I do like twitter but the functionality FriendFeed brought was the next generation in stream notification. - Chris Jackson

Ohh time to pimp Jim's new book on Twitter ;) - Mark Essel from iPhone

Mark: Yeah - all I need is a title. Oh, and a book....and the time to write one....then I will be pimping like a pro! - Jim Connolly

Wow Robert, I was thinking this the past few days and could never bring it to words...well done - Braden Douglass

Jim: I'm time bankrupt but love sharing and collaborating. Let's hire a ghostwriter to capture our best ideas in an intelligible manner :). Joking of course, there's no easy way to spread our thoughts but doing it ourselves - Mark Essel from iPhone

I was gonna call the Funky Phantom. (That really dates me.) - Jim Connolly

Robert, I challenge you to stop using Twitter for a month and then blog about the experience. And that includes hiding all Tweets in FF. - Mike Doeff from iPhone

Lets face it, Twitter was built as an update service - a big Internet megaphone. The natural transition has been from update service to marketing service. Big Internet Megaphone. It's good at that, but it's not at conversations nor at discovery. The larger problem is people still approach Twitter like a true social engagement tool - and it's simply not. The disconnect between perception and reality results in the poor adoption numbers and other soft metrics. - AJ Kohn

twitter is noise. filter it and you can find some gold. imho, that's beyond mere self-pimpage - Rob Schieber

Agreed Rob. I'd prefer semantic algorithms applied to all tweets. I'm interested in real time search and datamining. And semantic extraction on all status would allow for real time "sorting" - Mark Essel from iPhone

i'd love to meetup with fellows and see what api scraping is going on - know where threads are for that? - Rob Schieber

Idk, This seems so much better then twitter. - SeanParnell

It does have a lot of noise, granted - but if it went away now, I'm not sure where everyone would run to. Facebook is too silly, Linkedin is too stolid, and everything else is too fractured for me to communicate with all the people I want to in a single shot. Guess I'd end up doing everything through ping.fm after all. - Ciaoenrico

Wow, Isn't online chit-chat such a fuss? :) - SeanParnell

Robert, just a week or two you were saying that Twitter is beating FriendFeed because of scanability http://friendfeed.com/scoblei.... And you had lots of complaints about the FriendFeed user interface. You also talked about how Twitter was much better after you un-followed everyone and hand picked who you're following. I have to ask, what has changed in the past few days to make you say that the service should die? Feels like you're flip flopping. - Mike Doeff

Can't you apply for extended API limits? - Tristan Seligmann

love the single post/status page, i mean like this: http://twitter.com/twitter... - testbeta

I noticed that in the past two weeks, the tweet intensity has greatly decreased from all my follows in Twitter. Granted, I'm not following too many, but the ones I do follow have traditionally tweeted a lot each day. Is this a trend (has Twitter become a has been) or is this simply a coincidental anomaly? - Jeff Sayre

Robert I find myself on friendfeed more these days - (jeff)isageek

@brian would you consider myspace if both facebook and twitter die?!!(ps: sorry I forget the LOL) - abdellah

Myspace -- don't know. I haven't really tried or paid attention to it. But probably not -- isn't it Facebook like? Maybe usenet? ;-) - Brian Sullivan

brian, let forget all those techie and go irc :) - abdellah

IMO, people who don't like the limitations of Twitter and whine about it hampering them are using it wrong. Twitter is not a place to pimp your blog or drive traffic to your site. It is not an SEO tool. It's not a place for you to compete in order to get more 'followers'. If you've ever tried to do any of these things, or if you ever followed more than a few hundred people, then yes, no... more... - Otto

Well said Otto - Chris Nixon

Jesse Stay: you should stop complaining so much about twitter when you build an entire business based on their lack of functionality and other issues. - Mihai Secasiu

Mihai, I'm not complaining - they can do what they want. As I said I really want them to succeed. It's a matter of fact that they do have their flaws - I'm hoping to help them fix those, assuming they're listening at all. What are you doing to help Twitter get better? - Jesse Stay

it is like twitter if for what,where, when and friendfeed is for why, how - testbeta

Mike: just because I use a service doesn't mean I love it. I use ATT and United all the time and they suck too. - Robert Scoble from iPhone

And yes Twitter has some good things about it. Doesn't mean it is all good. Personally it is overused and overhyped and YES I am partially responsible. - Robert Scoble from iPhone

Apostol I get value out of Twitter. You aren't listening. I get value out of AT&T too but it COULD be so much more. Chris I tried to be positive but Twitter just doesn't respond to positivity. Plus they are cynical AT BEST about their users. Read the Twittergate documents to see just how cynical they are. - Robert Scoble from iPhone

Twitter was just there at the right time. It's not the best solution to the problem (microblogging), but it's good ~enough~. - Trent Hamm

You seriously think Twitter will die once it gets bought by a 'bigger' company? - Mike Shields

Mike: do you use Dodgeball? It was bought by Google. So was Jaiku. - Robert Scoble

Trent: did you just call Twitter the Microsoft of microblogging? Yeah, that's sorta what I was trying to say too! ;-) - Robert Scoble

I just find it amazing that all the early adopters get really snobby about Twitter now it is getting more mainstream. There is something snobby about people's attitude to Facebook as well. I'm not a fan of Facebook but I know more people who use Facebook than use Twitter or Friendfeed combined. Even my mum has a Facebook account but she'd never be on Twitter or Friendfeed. Twitter... more... - Paul Nash

I liked Pownce. I wonder what SixApart has cooking up for them. So there's really no chance for Plurk to make a comeback and take back the community? With all the outage problems Twitter has, I would think Plurk would try to capitalize on that. Guess not. - John Wang

now if the Google Reader team could just get their new commenting system streamlined and real-time ... :) - Peter du Toit (S.Africa)

Paul: it's not hard to understand if you are in our shoes. Here's why. When a company is young and struggling to get noticed, they love having early adopters. After all, that's the ONLY WAY a company gets to the next stage. I've never seen a company go straight to Oprah stage without getting early adopters excited. Then once the company gets enough traction they usually start mistreating the early adopters. In this case Twitter stabbed them in the back. Leo Laporte, for instance ... - Robert Scoble

...got me excited about Twitter and was THE REASON it was the big huge deal at that 2007 SXSW. He had more followers than Mashable last year. But did he get put on the Suggested User List? No. So now Mashable has more than a million and Leo has a knife in his back. And you think it's amazing that early adopters turn their backs on Twitter? Really now. - Robert Scoble

I don't see how Leo has a knife in his back. There was no preconceived notion that anyone would be added to that list. Who cares? He was fine before that list was created, and he can be just as fine now, and just as engaging. - Andru Edwards

Andru: when he was hyping up the service and telling his users to use it, he was getting something in return: being at the top of the follower lists. When Twitter artificially put its own people at the top of the follower lists, and handed out grants of followers (worth many hundreds of thousands of dollars, by the way -- Mashable has changed its entire business to be Twitter centric) they specifically dissed Leo and many others. Most of whom won't point it out in public. - Robert Scoble

Sadly true. I'm in much the same boat -- Twitter is a necessity for professionals and bloggers to stay on top of things, but other socialnets like Brightkite and FF are light years beyond it, which doesn't look to be changing any time soon. Don't even get me started on the spammers and the get-rich-quick'ers. - Ryan Meader

But before the SUL was released, didn't Leo abandon Twitter in favor of Jaiku, due to Twitter having "Twit" as part of its name? Just saying, if I owned a list that I had complete control over, and someone showed that behavior towards me (whether it was right or wrong, I am not judging), I would think twice before putting them on a list that will result in many people seeing they they... more... - Andru Edwards

I can't agree with you more, Robert. - Jon Ursenbach

Scobe: I very much disagree that it is about self pimping. Perhaps your senses are mush because you follow too many? I absolutely love getting that link to a new article or research, or to get a tweet from that celeb that makes me think and provides insight into a new world. I also use it as a research tool, for exploratory purposes. Twitter, as you know very well, is about what you make it, and that is a tenuous notion that really is influenced by who you follow. - Chad Gesser

Andru: again, the list did NOT exist in the days when we were hyping up Twitter. So, there was a "promise" to early adopters that if they invested time in the service they could be at the top of the follower lists. Sort of how PlayFoursquare is today promising users that they can become mayors of places they frequent more than anyone else. What Twitter did was the equivilent of PlayFoursquare telling everyone that their "mayorship" doesn't matter anymore and that Oprah is now mayor of everywhere. - Robert Scoble

Chad: one thing you have to remember about me is that I see that Twitter has 1,001 uses. Stop seeing the world as black and white. This is one post I'm making about Twitter among thousands. Translation: I already agreed with you. But you have to admit that many people use Twitter for self promotion. - Robert Scoble

Andru: and anyway, the SUL is hardly the only reason to diss Twitter. Twitter still goes down all the time, it still has stupid rate limits. It still can't block spam effectively. It still has no friend management. It still has no features that didn't exist a year ago. And it is, in many respects, behaving worse. I'm hearing from developers that Twitter is becoming more closed, not more open (to monetize) and we're seeing them pick winners before the marketplace is done (bit.ly anyone?) - Robert Scoble

The nice thing about Twitter is that it keeps your message short and to the point. Friendfeed is great but it doesn't lend itself well to an external app out of the browser. Also FriendFeed and any of these services you don't own your content - Seth Goldstein

Seth: bing! So, back to the blog we will go. Except, why are we still here? ;-) - Robert Scoble

Awww Twitter the "me" network :) - Wayne Sutton from iPhone

Anyone tried Streamy? - cheapsuits

because the interraction is in real time - abdellah

Wayne: retweet me. :-) abdellah: I thought it was because of all the sex. ;-) - Robert Scoble

that was my expectation too ;) - abdellah

I like friendfeed because of its realtimeyness, but I like twitter because it requires you to be concise. I have seen some brilliant tweets done in 140 characters or less. I think that's always been the allure of twitter, its sheer simplicity. How many features can you add to twitter without actually changing the core of what twitter is? - Tomy Thomson

Robert: But what do you want from these companies ? Chaps like you give them the oxygen of publicity they need and they court you and then when they become successful you suddenly start to criticise them. Friendfeed has become successful (in great part to your endless plugging of it) and the founders will now go on to make money through their company being taken over by Facebook. You,... more... - Paul Nash

Scoble: no doubt....I can deal with the self promotion, the e marketing and spam garbage though to me is what has gooootttt to go - Chad Gesser

Paul: my role in life is to use what will be, not what is. I don't turn on many companies, but Twitter isn't one that dealt with early adopters on good faith. - Robert Scoble

nick: I explained why above. - Robert Scoble

Is there a "social media" company that has dealt with early adopters in "good faith"? Facebook, FriendFeed, Flickr I suspect don't qualify ? Any that do? - Brian Sullivan

all platforms seem to have self pimpering styles, why so passionate against twitter? Objectional question, not one of rhetoric. - nick tadd

Brian: I didn't know that any of those have actively dissed their best early adopters. Facebook kicked me off, but only because I broke the TOS. It's always been straight up with me. Same with Flickr, although I do watch Thomas Hawk's talk about their censorship. - Robert Scoble

none as brian says, they all deal with them, and "the earlier adopter" contribute to their evolution until they sell (sorry) - abdellah

nick: because it's so prevalent there. "Look at my blog post about xxx" is almost a staple on Twitter. It's a new RSS reader. Which is fine, I use it too for that! :-) - Robert Scoble

Robert, I think you may have the makings for one of your future blogs here. Perhaps you do it for that reason? ;) The thing about Twitter is always going to be its LBE. It's a mainstream LBE to Social Media. For that very reason its perfect for business, government, and non profit to take public temperature and promote. The other "noise" is the "MV", the "mainstream voice". The conversation is 4 way.(and yes sometimes only 1 way) but there it is and its not going to go away any time soon. - Melanie Reed

Yes, indeed, Twitter is the Microsoft of microblogging. It's good enough, but not the best - but it has the huge advantage that everyone is using it, so you have to use it for compatibility reasons. - Trent Hamm

I still use Twitter for more than just updates. I converse, I crowdsource, and I read through to see what other people are thinking and talking about. FriendFeed is the one that I have a difficult time finding use for, but I'm trying. - Dave Huston

DAMN Robert I HATE that you are right on this one!!!!! - Arleen Anderson

Hopefully you use it for positive self pimping and not for negative pimping... which is inevitable - Kevin Burrell

If FF would have taken mobile seriously, the game might look different right now - Alex C. Williams

Alex, they are taking mobile seriously - they sold to Facebook. :-) - Jesse Stay

I can't see how Twitter can survive Facebook now. FB will bring Twitter down, the only chance they got is to sell to Google. - Patrik Johansson

What makes people think Facebook or Twitter is all-conquering? There's a new generation coming through, and they aren't using these services. It's very important not to get sucked in by the hype of a service you use. Fanboys will talk up the positives and ignore the negatives, giving you a skewed message. The truth is somewhere in the massive grey area in between. - Chris Nixon

The new generation uses Facebook a lot, but not Twitter. - Steph (sh_skew) from email

Let me say that it is not twitter per se. It is the population of twitter to make it the place it is at the moment. Whenever there is a (free entrance) place crowded of people, there will be spambots to pollute it. - funkyboy from Posty

Twitter is just a temporary solution for a quick mixture of instant messaging + status updates + chat forum. - Bora Wiemann

Just having a discussion today that Twitter will eventually go bankrupt when the hype is over - Khuram Hussain

I don't agree with you Robert. Twitter is easy to use, succinct and versatile. I've made multiple very meaningful connections through my use of twitter. I do like friendfeed's threaded conversations which are great but in a way it only helps those who have big followings like yourself, because people are more apt to comment on your thread than say mine because they know the conversation... more... - Lon Cohen

For example - how do I message you directly so you know I'm speaking to you (i.e. Twitter @ reply) but all your followers and my followers know that we're having a conversation in Twitter back and forth so that they can follow and interject when they want. Everytime we do that we have to start a brand new discussion thread and I have to "tell" you somehow that I'm talking to you. Twitter is like email/phone conversations and friendfeed is like collective blogging/commenting. - Lon Cohen

Amen, Robert. - Lindsay

The power and beauty of twitter originate from limitation. Think of it as conversation haiku. - Brendan

Robert Scoble

Seattle PHOTOWALKING Gnomedex alert! EARLY Friday morning with @chasejarvis (did the Nikon videos). Details:

August 19 - Comment - Like - Share

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7 a.m. Friday morning. We'll get to Gnomdex in time. - Robert Scoble

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Meet at Chase' studio: 3333 Wallingford Ave. North, Seattle, WA 98013 - Robert Scoble

Chase is on FriendFeed too: http://friendfeed.com/chaseja... - Robert Scoble

I'll totally be there! :) - kk+

Sample of his work with Nikon: http://blog.chasejarvis.com/blog... - Robert Scoble

kk now it's getting even better! I wish we could get Thomas Hawk there. - Robert Scoble

there's a super solid group of photographers attending gnomedex as usual. my 'gig' this time around is to do a photo recap in the last 15 mins before closing. make sure you jump in front of my lens. :) - kk+

Robert, I'm there! Thanks for the heads up. Looking forward to it. - Alberto Lopez from iPhone

kk: Oh, I will! Can't wait to see who shows up at 7 a.m.! Alberto, see you there! - Robert Scoble

Can me and my little point and shoot come? - Liana Shanes

OK count me in! - Elliott Ng

Oh man... that's early, but how could I not? - randy stewart

*grumble* 7am. guess i'll just stay up all night. why not make it 5am?! ;) - kk+

Chase's video was one of the factors in my deciding to get a D90. Hope to see you guys. - Kevin Pedraja

I'd be there but that just doesn't fit into our child-directed morning schedule. - Akiva Moskovitz

Robert Scoble

It's at times like these that I'm sad that Gillmor Gang remains shut down. Oh @stevegillmor what will it take?

August 10 - Comment - Like - Share

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I know Steve, Jesus. You got the people, just get them all on the call and do something. - Mark

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Wondering what you have been doing for the last few months other than 1 post a week on TechCrunchIT. - Mark

I miss the Gillmor Gang so bad :-( - Panayotis Vryonis

You are so right. - courtney benson

DITTO! - frankiecarl

Yep - Bring it back Steve!!!! - PXLated

Start your own. You, Leo, Loic, Gina. - Jeff Harbert

I fear, knowing what I know have seen about Steve that where with others getting as many people as we could to tweet/FF "Bring back the Gang", with Steve a better response would have been for everyone to not even mention it! ;-) - Phillip Molly Malone

Get Leo? No, I love Leo but his shows are the antiGang. - PXLated

we need a catchy slogan to bring back Steve - Andrew Euell

Don't worry, Winer has it covered...besides, this isn't big enough news to bring back GG... - Aron Michalski

The Gillmor Gang rocked. It MUST come back. - Alberto Lopez

What shut down GG? Was it the argument between Leo and Arrington? - Travis B. Hartwell

Leo Laporte to Leo's feed, TWiT Conversations

Live now: Leo Laporte is The Tech Guy on the Premiere Radio Networks, http://live.twit.tv. Discuss here...

June 27 - Comment - Like - Share

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Here we go! - Eric Geller

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Oh hey Leo! you're on Tokyo Metro / Internet map! http://bit.ly/19RpWQ near to ArsTechnica in their "Opinion Line" haha. - Divya Mistry

leo, its udp not tcp - Jayesh

birds have monocular vision - FW

Geek Continuing Education Credits provided gratis? - shelter watch

Love the Plex app that lets me watch this on my TV, and the new update for it! - Bush Williams

Robert Scoble

http://www.highdefnow.com - Watch, upload and share videos in HD for free - now available on your TV through Boxee (via http://friendfeed.com/e...)

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Boxee is an amazing app. I am looking forward to the beta. - Bob Blunk from Nambu

DO ANYBODY NO MONIQUE

Monique is laughing out loud at the lady who called 911 because they didn't put enough shrimp in her fried rice.

April 8 from Facebook - Comment - Like - Share

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The audio from the 911 call sounded like those "THEY GOT NACHOS UP IN HERE?" ladies so prominent here in Dallas. - ha3rvey (sup homepants)

wow... - Jay

Come to think of it, I'm surprised she didn't say, "skrimps" - ha3rvey (sup homepants)

Jeremy Zawodny

I wish to ban "Experts Exchange" from all my Google Search results. Always.

April 6 - Comment - Like - Share

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There's a greasemonkey script to at least remove the link from the results page - Topbit

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The greasemonkey script mentioned earlier: http://userscripts.org/scripts... - Aral Balkan

the link: http://userscripts.org/scripts... And there are others there - Topbit

Google needs FriendFeed filters :) - Susan Beebe

Don't you mean Expert Sex Change? - Jim Norris

I tend to include -experts-exchange.com if I'm googling for anything technical. I shouldn't have to do that. - Mark Trapp

Would be nice to get the ability to get rid of all paid service. - Tyler (Chacha)

There is never ever a reason to include EE in search results. What, I'm going to pay to get a technical question answered? Are you kidding me? - You.

Stack Overflow is the best alternative. - Rich

If you click on the cache link in Google, the "paid" answers are cached at the bottom of the page-- no signup required. :) - Jeremy Felt

Yeah the cache trick is nice but isn't that a violation of Google's TOS? providing different results to the crawler? - Bill Pennington from twhirl

No need for the cache...if you scroll all the way to the bottom the answers are there. - Brian Newman

Interesting... if you open the link (non-cached) in a new tab, the answers don't show, but if you follow the link through google in the same tab, the answers do show at the bottom. Weird. - Jeremy Felt

The answers are generally way, way on the bottom and only visible if you visit the thread from Google's search results. Frustrating: yes, but there is also a lot of good information in there... - John μller

I'm not alone. I'd like to bad about.com too. - Paul Grav

«Interesting... if you open the link (non-cached) in a new tab, the answers don't show, but if you follow the link through google in the same tab, the answers do show at the bottom.» This is even officially allowed by Google these days, it's called "first click free" (others might call it "sort of cloaking"). - Philipp Lenssen

I feel the same way about anything from Associated Content. - EricaJoy

CustomizeGoogle extension for Firefox (or something similar) allows user to define filters for search to make it more usable. - Daniel Schildt

Go ahead and allow the results to Experts Exchange to show, and when you get there use this script on the page. http://draconislabs.net/upload... If you need to, save a copy of the info in case you need it later. - April Russo (app103) from NoiseRiver

Amen - Shey, Jamaican of FF

Jeremy, set up a Firefox Quicksearch bookmark for Google searches and just exclude the bad domain there, using the following string in the Properties/Location field: http://www.google.com/search... -inurl%3Aexperts-exchange.com - Erik Dafforn

Sorry, that truncated the URL. After .com, add /search?q=%s -inurl%3Aexperts-exchange.com - Erik Dafforn

I was able to use info from EE only recently. I would just scroll down to see the answer. Even after they'd done something to prevent that, I would still hit a link that allowed me to scroll down and read what I needed. - MiniMage TKDteacher of FF

Totaly true. Everytime I search for JEE stuff this freaking pages pops up ... - Marius Quadflieg

am I the only who can kick off *wrong* (in my opinion) links in Google output? http://www.google.com/support... - A.T.

add "-expertsexchange.com" to your search query? just a thought. - Dossy Shiobara

@dossy sometimes you have a dream to have it as permanent filter, preferably with feedback to original website that they are classified as morons by 10.000.000.000 users :) - A.T.

@Jeremy, just as a hack I made you a Custom Search Engine called 'All But Experts-Exchange'. Compare the results of [http://www.google.com/cse...] with [http://www.google.com/search...]. You can access the CSE here: http://www.google.com/coop.... - DeWitt Clinton

A better solution would be for us to enable something per-site with SearchWiki [http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2008...]. I actually thought we could already, let me look again. - DeWitt Clinton

I would like to do this as well, Experts Exchange is the biggest joke. Stack Overflow has everything any more... w/o hiding their answers. - Nicholas Kreidberg

How do you configure a Custom Search Engine to exclude specific sites? - Paul Grav

@Paul - once you've set up a CSE, follow the link that says "[Edit this search engine]" and look at the left-hand column under Control Panel for a link that says "Sites". Find the section called "Excluded sites" and then "Add Site". I think our user experience here could be better. The Custom Search Engines are incredibly powerful, but not nearly as discoverable as they could be. - DeWitt Clinton

DeWitt, thanks for the reminder about CSE. It's an incredibly cool feature. - Jason Wehmhoener

Include this in your query site:-expertsexchange.com - FFing Enigma (aka Tina)

totally agree, I hate those wankers - Toby Graham

@Jason - thanks! Custom Search Engines are perhaps my favorite power feature that Google offers. Come to Google I/O and I'll show off something neat with them. - DeWitt Clinton

There should really be a search experiment to do this. Exclude the follow sites from your results. SearchWiki doesn't do it AFAIK. I've thought about suggesting the search experiment at work but never got around to it. I think I shall today. - EricaJoy

me too... hate experts exchange - mikepk

Erica: Google *does* offer a way to do this in your query. Try searching for YourKeyWord site:-siteIhate.com site:-OtherSiteIHate.com The "-" verbiage is how you tell the engine to *not* return results from those sites. Conversely, you could search "keyword site:MyFavoriteResource.com" to only return results from your intended target. - FFing Enigma (aka Tina)

Scroll to the bottom works for me. And sometimes there's good answers. I think it's ridiculous that I have to scroll to the bottom but... for me it's not worth adding yet another extension or greasemonkey script. - Robert DeBord

Haven't seen it in the comments, but you can always use the SaerchWiki Labs feature to remove any unnecessary results from view. I think you can go as far as 'ban' a domain. - ElijahBailey-Zu of FF <0,

firefox addon which applies custom css styles to some websites will be very useful for EE. to show only questions and answer. hide all other crap from pages.. - Turkey banned Bloggum :(

How to have an answer to a question, in 110 comments. I love it when we help someone figure out something, FF exists with that underlying community feature: help. 9) - ElijahBailey-Zu of FF <0,

Me too! I hate that site. - Jess Lee

Jason, it has nothing to do with being ugly. It has to do with them cluttering my search results with information that's behind a paywall. - Matthew Gifford

It's a good thing they put that hyphen in there, "Expert Sexchange" is obviously not their business model! - Ryan

Google's results have, IMO, been degrading over the years and EE is just one of the problems. - Michael McKean

They are a PITA, show up everywhere but only display 1/2 of what you are looking for, very bothersome. - Allen Harkleroad

+1 the same. I really hate them - shuvalov

experts exchange sucks - leonardobag

Amen - Ahsan Ali aka. Slick from IM

I hate them too. - Enrico Lamperti

Chris Messina

Apple Tablet will feature voice-driven & multi-touch interactions and a spoken UI. Discuss.

April 6 from Twitter - Comment - Like - Share

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I think Apple try to innovate too much. People like computers. They don't need to change that. The iPhone on the other hand... - Larry Hudson

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Wow, is it time for the bi-monthly "Apple Tablet" rumours to resurface already is it? :) - Jordan Brock

Things that make me yawn: netbooks. tablets. Either choose a laptop or a PDA already. ;) - Leslie Poston

and will mutter at you condescendingly should you fail to navigate the UI properly. - ian kennedy

Steve Rubel

Made the digg homepage today. First time in a looong time.

April 6 from Twitter - Comment - Like - Share

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Congrats! - Mattb4rd

Way too go, Steve. - Alberto Lopez

Robert Scoble

I'm shocked that no one has posted a "get rid of Scoble" filter yet.

April 6 - Comment - Like - Share

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It's coming. ;-) Only joking. - Kol Tregaskes

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Is there a way to share filters?!? That'd blow my mind! - Pat Hawks

That would kill FF - don't do it! LOL - Susan Beebe

to mesmerized by the hands for that. - Ted Bradford II

I will arm wrestle the fool who tries such nonsense. - Janet

Pat: yes, filters are just searches. - Robert Scoble

Scoble Smash! - Rob

aaaaaand done! :P - Shey, Jamaican of FF

Scoble is required for load testing purposes - Ben

Here's one: put this in your search box: italy earthquake likes:1 - Robert Scoble

See all of Scoble's friends: http://beta.friendfeed.com/search... - Pat Hawks

would not get rid of you lol btw, nice display pic :) - David Gross

Ari: that's a two-for-one special. Get rid of both with one filter! :-) - Robert Scoble

That was the first thing I thought of - James Myatt

Scoble who? - Kreg Steppe

That Green Giant. Peas for lunch anyone ? - Jaffer

probably because those who wanted to filter you out figured out how to do it long ago & right off the bat, and those of us who enjoy reading you don't care to help people do otherwise? - Lucretia Pruitt

How do you exactly do that? :)) - Alex Puchianu

@Scoble Should be more like "Show messages without Scoble, Scoble'sm, Scobleizer" :D - Swaroop

That's great as long as you don't like what either of us has to say, LOL. I wonder how many people out there are like that? I probably don't want to know. - Alex Scoble

isnt that the 'hide' button? - chaz2b

Did somebody say something? I could have sworn I heard something... - Mike Lewis

Robert Scoble

FriendFeed Isn’t Dying, Although It’s a Nice Line - http://www.inquisitr.com/14164...

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It's interesting that there's so much noise about friendfeed. It is growing much faster than Twitter did in its first year and is much more important to the new web. The problem is that not very many people know they need an aggregator. At least not yet. But, the truth is that friendfeed has always needed features that I've just started to call "track" in honor of Steve Gillmor. I asked for those features back in February and still haven't gotten them. Until we get those kinds of features then the real time web will not go to the next level. - Robert Scoble

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I'm confused about the real-time web (there's no Wikipedia entry!). I thought all of the ping services that emerged years ago were in the business of capturing updates from blog posters. Wasn't that what Dave's weblogs.com, among others, did? - Scott Loftesness

I'd love to give Bret or even the loyal power users who help ff, some feedback. They're too close to see some things. Some NON technical things. - Ed Shahzade /NextInstinct

yes scott as you would have seen if Feedburner worked, because it's all about ping servers. Check back in another hour or so. - Steve Gillmor

Twitter is an input to FriendFeed; that's why the comparisons don't really work. Comparing Twitter to FriendFeed is like comparing pasta to lasagna. - Daniel Miessler

I message people who follow me on Twitter to follow me on FriendFeed. Most all of them are not familiar with FriendFeed, but are willing to give it a try. This means there is room to grow. However, many people who have used FriendFeed in the past say they prefer Twitter. But it is not an either/or. Twitter and FriendFeed are not competitive. They serve different functions and people *don't* understand this. I think once they understand this they will adopt it in greater numbers. - Bill Romanos

Scott: ping servers are centralized. The real-time web that's evolving now is decentralized. Getting it all to work together is what TRACK is all about. - Robert Scoble

I use Twitter, FF and FB. Not everyone I know is on all three sites. I like Twitter for rapid-fire snapshots, but am coming to appreciate FF more and more for its texture and the ability for people to engage on a deeper level. - Sue Radd

I have Friend Feed, Plurk, Twitter, and Facebook running all at once. For some reason FF doesn't catch it all. - MarkCarras

I'm all for decentralization, but it seems to me that FriendFeed and Twitter are pretty centralized! - Scott Loftesness

I have no desire at all for FF to go mainstream. The slines can keep FaceBook and MySpace. - Internet's Tad

I use FriendFeed to post to Twitter. I learned this from Scoble. Thanks - Bill Romanos

@Robert Hehe, I wrote a post this afternoon claiming that the real time web isn't important at all. Am I in trouble now? http://vanelsas.wordpress.com/2009... - Alexander van Elsas

I have no idea what I would do without FF right now, it is my gateway to the world, much more so than any other system I have ever used. - Dan Morrill AKA Techwag

Real-time isn't nearly as important as getting the right information at the right time. Big difference imo. - Alexander van Elsas

Friendfeed is miles better than Twitter but too complicated for the masses to go mainstream. Twitter is a training course for Friendfeed. Once Twitter is swamped in noise FF will rise 2011+. - Thomas Power

Friend feed will become more relevant and important as Twitter fills up with auto dms and spam and more - Richard Binhammer

sidenote: Don't understand why Friendfeed would be better than Twitter. They serve a different purpose. And they both get filled with crap at times - Alexander van Elsas

FriendFeed is alive and well. - ka3drr

using FF is a diversion from my normal work right now, but I have high hopes that soon enough it will become integrated with my workflow. once it gains critical mass (read: popular beyond you 1st adopter web-types, sorry to typecast) FF will be a useful communication tool for business as well as fun. - grant fox

Alexander, it's easier to add delays to a real-time system than it is to add real-time to a delayed system. My response to your blog post is here: http://friendfeed.com/e... I also want to answer the people who commented two months ago. Scott Loftesness, are you still reading this? - Bruce Lewis from fftogo

Robert Scoble

I'm watching the news and getting depressed. So, I'm turning it all off and heading to NYC. See ya from there tomorrow. Please post something nice while I'm flying.

February 5 - Comment - Like - Share

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Hit me up, Rob, I'll show you around ExpoTV, we're by Union Square and a true NYC startup ;) - Jorge Escobar

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You have nice hair. - CW™

Jorge: unfortunately I don't have any free time, spending the day in meetings at Fast Company. - Robert Scoble

you sooo fiinee Robert! - Zee.

Well considering the "news" is pretty much one-sided, I would take the time to look for the good that is happening. ;) - Spencer

What news? Did I miss something? - andy brudtkuhl

I understand completely. I turn away when i see CNN or any other news channel on TV. Even twitter sometimes can get a little depressing. But realize that (1) depressing news gets ratings (2) there will always be things depressing to report and (3) generally speaking there are always his and lows. For example, I just found out I will be the father of twins. - David Bisset (sn)

The news is always depressing. Why I tend to use the net to get my news. If I hate a freaking story just flip to a new page. - Shawn aka ringking

andy: most of the news lately that I'm paying attention to is the economy. It really does suck. No other way to put it. But one bright spot is the startups. Many, like Playfish, are doing great. I'm uploading a video on that now. - Robert Scoble

@robert - Yeah.. I just assume it's all fear-mongering and try not to pay attention :) ... heard good things about Playfish awaiting the upload! - andy brudtkuhl

try and have a week without CNBC. you'll feel much, much better. - Jeff Sandquist

Jeff: I'm not even watching TV. I'm watching Google News, a secret news tool, Twitter, TechMeme, Memeorandum, and friendfeed. - Robert Scoble

Secret news tool? *wink wink* - Andre

ooooh what's the "secret news tool" - andy brudtkuhl

Despite sad things in the recession, I'm seeing people spend more time at home, in their neighborhood, and that community angle can't be bad. - anna sauce

Heading for NYC? Coming from stunning Half-Moon Bay? That is far more depressing than the news. And you can't shut it off. Advice of a 20-year New Yorker. - Douglas Hopkins

I have not watched the news in 1 year and I have not missed an important thing. If its truly news or big people around you will talk about it. Then I inform myself if it interests me. "my 2 cents" - walterh

Robert is a handsome man - Bob Sonin

Douglas Hopkins: Sorry to hear the greatest city in the world doesn't impress you. The current cold, on the other hand, doesn't do it for me. - Tom Harrison

I was watching the news earlier, and got the same feeling Something positive. That's easy! Robert your one of the most generous, and giving individuals I've encountered on the web. There's people like Michael Arington that view all of this as just business, but I think your the best because you truly love it! The generous part comes in the way you want to share your enthusiasm of it with others! I also appreciate that your man enough to admit when you wrong! Don't change! - Michael Fidler

Something nice while you're flying ... - Rene Wirtz

I can see you're at the airport :) - Nicola Quinn

Nicola: are you stalking me? :-) - Robert Scoble

We're all stalking you :) - Simon Wicks

Robert did you see http://friendfeed.com/e... - Sinan Ata

Simon: in that case join me at gate 80 for UA 14. :-) - Robert Scoble

Have a safe flight, Robert. - Alberto Lopez

Sinan: no, I hadn't. Thanks. Thanks Alberto! - Robert Scoble

Have a good trip. - Tyson Key

Tyson: thanks. I wonder how many things you will click like on while I am in the air? - Robert Scoble

Robert: As you can see by my marker (amongst the other 100's you have) I'm just a little to far if you're already at the gate :) How is it having that many people on the list, must be a bit full up in places without being able to filter by groups or search for who you want to check out? Or have i missed someting.. - Simon Wicks

@Robert - It seems that I've hit an arbitrarily defined limit, so I can't Like anything, or at least not without waiting for several hours before trying again. :( - Tyson Key

is 10000 likes not enough in 3/4 of a week then ? ;) - Simon Wicks

Simon: so far Google Latitude isn't too crowded but I only have about 150 friends there so far. I will let you know how things scale. - Robert Scoble

what are you using it on Rob? Can i call you Rob? :) - Zee.

@Simon - Heh, I'm having to resort to comments now. I doubt I'll use them up that quickly, though. - Tyson Key

yeap ! we are waiting that " a secret news tool " , by when is the beta ? or anything ? Nice trip Robert !! - Rocky

News Flash (in flight). When you land ... the same depressing news is on in NY .... - Charlie Anzman

that's why I don't watch news anymore. too depressing. They want you to feel bad about everything. So I spend more time on friendfeed or twitter. Yesterday's trending topic on twitter #nerdpickuplines was amusing to follow. - Davide D'Incau

Charlie: I was sitting next to a VC and an economist in the plane. I think CNBC was more optimistic. - Robert Scoble

William St. / Liberty St. NY now? (3.25am) Checking for accuracy :) - Nicola Quinn

Robert, No one reports happiness: First steps are being taken, first words spoken, the first robin of spring, temps modulating to 50 over the weekend, Find something to celebrate. Ordinary life is extraordinary. - Phil Boiarski

I think many relate. Learned about YayNews at She'sGeeky, focuses on news from the Positive Psychology discipline (including popular prof at Harvard Tal Ben-Shahar, Daniel Gilbert, etc.) A nice break from usual tech and current events conversations: http://pos-psych.com/ - Casey

We're sitting on what is, for all we know, the one rock in the whole universe capable of sustaining life. That seems pretty nice to me. :) - Toph Tucker

David Bisset: Did you just say that you are going to be the father of twins? If so, I did not see anybody say anything. CONGRATS, and best of luck with the projected new arrivals ;o) - Seth Greenblatt

Thomas Hawk

What Do You Do When Flickr Deletes Your Paid Account Without Warning Not Once But Twice? - http://www.flickr.com/photos...

February 5 from Bookmarklet - Comment - Like - Share

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This guy seems sort of angry. Apparently, he says, Flickr deleted his paid account not once, but twice. - Thomas Hawk from Bookmarklet

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"Here is a picture I took of the letter "F" letter. I took it just hours after FLICKR SHUT DOWN YET ANOTHER ONE OF MY PRO ACCOUNTS WITH NO WARNING! Thank you flickr. Thank you for being such an awesome photosharing site. You are a gift to the worlds artists! And thank you for choosing what people should see! I'm glad people can't chose their art freely. Wouldn't that make the world... more... - Thomas Hawk

Cannot imagine why anyone would pay for a second Flickr account after having the first one deleted. I'd be completely done after the first time. - Karoli

You've got to admit though, at least his response is creative. - Thomas Hawk

Probably I'd switch to a different service - Brett Kelly

Looks like some moderators are getting a little paranoid and trigger-happy with the delete button. - Rene Wirtz

Love the response. I'd definitely go elsewhere, there are plenty of sites around and you can generate your own traffic. - Kenton

Hmm, there's always Zooomr, and the folks at 23 (http://www.23hq.com/), if anyone wants an alternative, although I don't know how long they'll stick around for. - Tyson Key

Rene, that's an understatement. It seems to be getting worse and worse. It sucks. Yes, there are alternative sites, but none with either the mass of community or richness in archive. I quit Flickr once over a censorship issue, but you come back in the end. It's too hard not to. It's like crack for photographers. Sad though that the censorship runs so rampant. And it sucks that people routinely are deleted so frequently without warning. - Thomas Hawk

If a particular deletion gets enough attention, Flickr usually just ends up calling it a "mistake," Still even "mistaken" deletions can't be restored over there. - Thomas Hawk

At least this guy seems to have at least somewhat a sense of humor about it. - Thomas Hawk

Thomas - love your statement Flickr is "like crack for photographers." - AWESOME! - Susan Beebe

Flickr is 1 step away from KGB mentality - ultra lame for a social photo site - Susan Beebe

I keep each photo that I post online (both to Flickr and Storm-Artists.net) on my local machine, so if my account gets deleted I'll be upset but at least I will still have my photos. But, it's pretty bad that the instant reaction to a possible violation is deleting an account, that is just premature, immature, irresponsible and very poor business practice. - Rene Wirtz

Exactly! They should disable NOT delete accounts - Susan Beebe

the problem isn't so much losing your photos. Hopefully nobody is stupid enough to put their only copy of their photos on *any* photosharing site. Although sadly some have been and have lost photos. The problem more though is that when you're deleted you lose so much of a social archive that went along with your photos. - Thomas Hawk

When Flickr nukes your account *everything* is gone. The social metadata around photos are significant. Whole conversations have happened in photo threads. Many, many are like blog posts. Truly creative collaboration can happen in interacting with photos. It's not just Flickr killing your stream. They kill everyone's interaction that ever touched your stream as well. - Thomas Hawk

When Flickr nukes you all of that is permanently erased. And even though there are tools to remove your photos off of their servers, there are no tools to salvage the metadata around photos. Even if they deleted the photos they should leave that in place. - Thomas Hawk

Think about some of the amazing threads we've seen on FF even in it's short life. And imagine if someone just came in and deleted all of someone's threads without warning. They're not just killing and punishing the person. They're punishing anyone who interacted in those threads. Many of these threads may seem stupid and even silly, but I believe that many threads also have important historical and archival value that we may not even realize today. - Thomas Hawk

I just realized that you could always use the Wayback Machine to get your photos. - Admiral Anika

Hmm, as far as I know, they don't embed the geotagging data into the metadata of the image files, so you've effectively lost it. - Tyson Key

A long explanation, but a bit on why I feel objecting to the censorship on Flickr is so important. - Thomas Hawk

Tyson that is why you should not use Flickr or any photo sharing site to geotag your photos. Do it yourself at the file level. I use Geotagger (free) and Google earth (free) on my Mac. Microsoft has a free geotagging program at their Pro Photo Tools page. Both of these are easier and faster than doing it on Flickr and *you* retain this data at the file level. - Thomas Hawk

All of the metadata is available via the API, isn't it? Regardless, losing all of the comments is an enormous loss of data in some cases, it seems baffling that a company owned by a search giant would be so willing to destroy data willy-nilly. - Tyler

Anika, I'm not sure that you can use the wayback machine. On many Flickr pages I've tried it in the past and it hasn't worked. I tried it on one of my photos that Flickr deleted a while back and for whatever reason it wouldn't work. Here's an example of one of my current photo pages not indexed by archive.org. http://web.archive.org/web... - Thomas Hawk

Thomas, You've had problems with Flickr before? I can't believe they would delete one of your photographs. They should consider it an honor that you even use their service! - Michael Fidler

Interesting Flickr fact and then I'll get off my soapbox. In the "Adult Flickr Members How Not To get Deleted" group (a group set up for the main reason of figuring out how *not* to get your account deleted off of Flickr), there are 17,664 members. That's a lot of people worried about getting deleted. - Thomas Hawk

In the forums and in Flickr Ideas all you see is referral back to the Community Guidelines and these are pretty vague, so basically this means that Flickr staff can do what they want. - Rene Wirtz

And you are right, it would be a waste and a shame to lose all the comments (human interactions) when account gets deleted. - Rene Wirtz

"You come back in the end. It's hard not to." Very true. With its massive user base of talented pro and amateur photographers, Flickr has a lot of weight to throw around when these issues come up. I wonder what level of vocal user frustration around Flickr's account deletion policies is enough to force them to implement an "undelete" administrative tool and step back to take an objective look at their process. Obviously the current level is not near enough. - Tom Harrison

Obviously undeleting a deleted account isn't as simple as creating the tool - it implies an investment of time and manpower to handle appeals. I suppose that means there needs to be at least two motivating factors: a viable competitor and enough paying members switching over to that competitor out of frustration in order to justify the investment in such an appeals process. - Tom Harrison

Usually hitting them where it hurts, the wallet, may help, but especially now you have to wonder if Flickr is really a moneymaker for Yahoo? And is it even core business for Yahoo going forward. They may not be motivated at all to really do something about it ... - Rene Wirtz

I really think that we flickr users with pro accounts should start a petition, after writing up some reasonable demands to yahoo about fair play. Because really, this is a yahoo company. - Paula W

I have no problem with a petition, but it still boggles my mind that Flickr/Yahoo is so incredibly arrogant about this policy. This is not brain surgery. Users have paid, and while Flickr retains the right to have the final say, there's no excuse for not allowing a paying customer to pick up their toys before Flickr tosses 'em in the trash, irretrievably. - Karoli

Oh wow - Nicholas Kreidberg

Eventually we'll move back to our hard drives. - Jordi Soler

Still don't understand why there is not for suspected offending users a blocking of all their photos being visible to everyone, freeze on messaging/commenting etc and an email dialogue with the user about the issue so that they have a chance to rememdy and resolve. Also why not a 3 strike rule where if they need to take this action 3 times its then a ban. - Rob Brammeld

What I find surprising is the fact that this profile with all the letters is still up... - Holger Eilhard

Flickr needs an ombudsman. - coldbrew

Scott, a suit wouldn't work. When you sign up for Flickr you basically say they can delete your account for anything that they want really. It's part of the TOS. You agree to it when you join. I guess in part it's just a hope that if eventually the issue got enough attention that they might budge. Maybe someday if/when Flickr has different ownership things might change. Yahoo obviously just doesn't care. I would think they'd care more about their reputation as censors but they do not seem to. Sadly. - Thomas Hawk

i left flickr some time ago - Oliver Hörold

I have come across to something similar with the biggest online art website, DeviantArt, where some admins couldn't resist going on powertrips and banning people left & right, just because they could. And from there I learnt there really is only one way to make them change: get a large group of people to not renew their subscription to hurt them in their pocketbook. If they don't hurt financially, it is nearly impossible to make changes. - Rene Wirtz

The Apple Room: Thomas Bøhm

Snow Leopard to Include CoreLocation and Multi-Touch APIs - http://www.macrumors.com/2009...

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"Since Macs don't include GPS technology like the iPhone 3G, CoreLocation will utilize a Mac's existing networking hardware to triangulate the system's location in a manner similar to the way the original iPhone was able to use the technology to emulate a true global positioning signal." - Thomas Bøhm from Bookmarklet

With the price of chips nowadays, why *can't* Macs include GPS technology? - Carlos Granier-Phelps

Kol Tregaskes

"...when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

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:-) - Kol Tregaskes

I just saw the episode of ST:TNG where Data goes around quoting that. - Mark "Rizzn" Hopkins

Induitably, mark, induitably. - Roberto Bonini

Sarah Perez

FriendDeck: Now an Adobe AIR app for tracking FriendFeed...can you tell how much I love this? - http://www.readwriteweb.com/archive...

January 27 from Bookmarklet - Comment - Like - Share

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Whee! - Håkan Dahlström

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Can it do Twitter? Seriously, twitter + friendfeed are the two that need monitoring. Until we all have access to the new Twhirl, consider it the holy grail no matter how unrefined the interface... - Glenn Batuyong

Ok, I'm trying it now - M F

omg that's so fucking sweet seriously - Snipergirl

If they could get this and TweetDeck into a single app, I'd be on it. Until then, I'm sticking with Twhirl. Good start, though - Bob M. Montgomery from twhirl

@Bob: I track most of my Twitter friends on FriendFeed, thanks to FriendFeed's new Twitter/FF friend list sync tool: https://friendfeed.com/setting... - Sarah Perez

For once... just once... would somebody building a client for FriendFeed support "Hide"? Please? - Ken Sheppardson

I don't want to track only certain topics, but it's a good start :) - Zulema ◕ ◡ ◕

@zo: you don't have to! You can track your lists, your rooms, your friends, comments, anything...I track topics, but that's just me - Sarah Perez

ZOMG - Iain Baker

I had to hop back to Sarah's original article for the search syntax. I think most people want "friends:<your_username>" at a minimum. - Ken Sheppardson from Friend Deck

Installing as we speak. Probably will still use FF directly, but I gotta try this out. - Chris, Taskerrific Guy

Hot stuff. I've been waiting on this one. Glad he got it going :) - Bwana ☠

Love the list and room support... not obvious how to use it, but that can easily be fixed. Web <-> client sync is killer..KILLER I say. I think the layout needs tweaking, when you expand threads, it's a little busy. I'm gonna blog a review later - Bwana ☠ from Friend Deck

I like this one. I find Twhirl a pain to use for FF so time to try this. - Rob Cairns

Don't forgot to join the room Paul set-up: http://friendfeed.com/rooms... - Kol Tregaskes

@Sarah, I'd like to log in and see what I get on the home page, you know, my 'everything' :) - Zulema ◕ ◡ ◕

I'm having problems with any of my lists showing up, especially those with spaces in the name. - Chris, Taskerrific Guy

@Chris: check the *actual* name of the list. For example, my list "Social Media Favs" (with spaces) is actually "social-media-favs" when I look at its URL. So I type in list:social-media-favs to make it show up in FriendDeck. Yes, should be easier, but it definitely works. - Sarah Perez

Looks like my tweetdeck will have to share my second screen with frienddeck. - Sonya Smith

Now I wish I bought the 17" MBP instead. - Rutger Blom

Ah ha... RWW points to http://frienddeck.com but it should be http://www.frienddeck.com/ - Michael Lehman

@Michael Thanks, I fixed that. (Note to Paul - make both URLs work!) - Sarah Perez

Hi eveery one, thanks for the comments. I have loads still to do on both the web app and AIR app. - Paul Kinlan from Friend Deck

Thanks Sarah, but how do I get my home feed as well? - Chris, Taskerrific Guy

:D got my home feed by typing who:[username] - Baard @ Pixum

I am adding Home feeds in soon.... It was an oversight of mine in the first version. - Paul Kinlan from Friend Deck

Echo? :) - Bwana ☠

If you are trying to get lists you have to use the nickname and not the pretty name. I am working on that. - Paul Kinlan from Friend Deck

Would lovelovelove tweetdeck and frienddeck all in one. I might actually use it then - Doug Haslam from twhirl

whoa! Trying it (FriendDeck) - Drew Lucas

who:username is like the home feed but not exactly the same. - Paul Kinlan from Friend Deck

Yes, TweetDeck & FriendDeck together! As it is, I have my FF friends set up in categories and have key tweetstreams feeding through them, sort of a work-around, but not as slick as this could be. - Cathryn Hrudicka

Uh, what is it supposed to do? It's just a search box. Do I need to have interests before I can use it? - Matthew DeVries

@Matthew: No. There are a lot of ways to use it. You can follow friends, comments, lists, rooms, and more. Read about it :) (Of course, it is good to have interests, you know, in general. In life). - Sarah Perez

...definitely an app that could use a good 30" monitor... - JA Castillo

has anyone had trouble with frienddeck on linux ? it keeps freezing the screen strange - eric

It's cool - but I'm suffering for just having a poorly organized set of feeds, i.e. a chubby 'Home' one.who:username isn't the same. - David Ing

@David: Hang tight, Home feed will be added in the next release...coming very soon. - Sarah Perez

I haven't tried it on Linux yet, will need to get a VM running so that I can test. - Paul Kinlan from Friend Deck

My "Dalek" search column has a peculiar order, not really chronological, not alphabetical, not Fibonacci..... - Matthew DeVries

Not sure if I'll use it? - Sean

Matthew: It's the same as it would be on FriendFeed itself, as far as I can tell. Check to see if there's new comments. - Chris, Taskerrific Guy

Matthew, Chris is correct it is in FriendFeed order, which I think is last "action" time i.e the last time something happened on the article such as a like etc. - Paul Kinlan from Friend Deck

wow, definitely gotta try this out again... if its just half as cool as tweetdeck is for twitter, then... - Peter Efland

frienddeck, great *going online to price 2nd monitor...* - Anthony Farrior

That was quick. I only tried the web version the other week.Well done. - Emsquared

for friendfeed power! - Sharad Lunia

v0.2 will be out soon, I finally have a cert so it is a signed app (by comodo) Just testing some features now. Still have lots more to do though. - Paul Kinlan from Friend Deck

Next up for 'playing with'. Thanks Sarah! - Charlie Anzman

Thanks! This may be much more useful to me than Tweetdeck. - tomit

Loic Le Meur

Re: I am upset at a few "friends" sorry to say - http://www.seesmic.com/video...

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So now that ustream is on the iPhone how long until we will see a seesmic app? - Christian Burns

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ustream plays on the iphone right? I don't think it records yet - Loic Le Meur

Ustream does not record on the iPhone yet. But I would like to view seesmic videos on the iPhone. - Christian Burns

Ustream does not record YET, but I think Chris Pirillo was demo'ing a recording function the other night that is still in beta. - Andrew Leyden

only unofficial apps perform recording on iphone, like cycorder, qik and flixwagon. - Jean-Charles VERDIE from twhirl

Solution 1: Ignore. Solution 2: Create a page and send them a generic email with that link. Solution 3: Send them the link of that Seesmic conversation! ;) - Monnard

Thomas Hawk

10 Reasons Why You Should Sign Up for FriendFeed - http://thomashawk.com/2009...

January 22 from Thomas Hawk Digital Connection - Comment - Like - Share

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I wish there was a AIR client for FF though. - barl0w

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Twhirl works well for FF and it's an AIR client. - Bob M. Montgomery from twhirl

Great article. I want to learn more about the dumping the RSS feeder part. You should share some tips with that. Good stuff. - Amani

Love seeing FF through the eyes of someone who's not a traditional techie =) - FFing Enigma (aka Tina)

Thanks Bob! - barl0w

A big part of why I wrote this post and have it running in my number one photo spot on Flickr right now is because I want more of my photography friends to sign up for the service. I *love* seeing photos here on FriendFeed and there are so many talented photographers who are not here yet who need to be. If we can get more of them to sign up, you guys will love their work. Of course there are many great photographers already on here but still a lot more who could join. - Thomas Hawk

I had to re-share this with all my FB friends. :) - Kelly W.

Still trying to figure out this whole friendfeed experience. I've had the account for a while and see lots of my twitter friends posting via ff - Demetri Mouratis

great piece! - mashable

Hi Demetri =) Different people use FF different ways because they want to get different things out of it. What are you hoping to get out of it? - FFing Enigma (aka Tina)

Thanks for the tip. I had FF but really never 'got' what it was for. This helped! - Molly Nichelson from twhirl

Great work. - Nation Hahn

Nice post Thomas. - Paul Wade

TH - for those photographers that are not on here, I put their flickr id into my Flickr Imaginary friend and see their images that way. However, it would be nice to get more photographers on here with their reader shares and such... - Justin Korn

This is definitely the best "Why Friendfeed" post I've seen. - Nick in Manila

Justin, agreed. I have a bunch of imaginary friend accounts for Flickr/Zooomr users as well. But it is nicer when they actually have accounts here, their work can be liked and commented to the larger FF community, etc. It seems like a few new people signed up today based on this post so I'm happy for that. Thanks Nick! - Thomas Hawk

I have AlertThingy FriendFeed Edition as well as AlertThingy v2 - Outsanity

Well said, Thomas. :) - Josh Haley

Nice list of reasons, all well thought out. While I'm at it, I wanted to tell you that I really like your new blog design too. - Karoli

Good point on getting a domain you like. - Kevin Whalen

Do most folks use FF in Standard or Real-time view mode? - Scott Loftesness

Only ever real-time.. it sits nicely on the second monitor as a Chrome App. - Greg Gannicott

Realtime here... - Chris Gulker

Did you just reformatted your post, Thomas? It a lot easier to scan through now. - Alan Le

Alan, a lot of times I post first and edit later. I probably shouldn't do that, but yeah, after posting I broke up some of the paragraphs better, bolded a few things etc., to make it easier to read. - Thomas Hawk

That's great. Make sure to check out Windows Live Writer for formatting blog posts if you haven't already yet. By the way, I love the new blog design. It's much better than when I helped you with the html way back. http://thomashawk.com/2006... - Alan Le

Barlow, Im currently developping an Adobe AIR tool for FriendFeed: we comin' ! - David Guyon

Y'know... I must've spent two months randomly Tweeting things like "Will someone PLEASE explain to me why I should be using FriendFeed?" ... And then two days ago I start using my account (I'd had one for a while)... and NOW someone finally makes a post outlining why I should be here. You're two days late, Mr. Hawk, two days late. :P - Lou

actually, there's no search for Russian word forms on Frf. For me that looks as if there's no search at all - orie

hmmm.. I didn't know that orie. It seems like there is a lot of international users on FF, that's surprising to me. - Thomas Hawk

I've been trying to make sense of FF for months now, but every time I come away confused. As it is I feel like I'm drowning under all the social networking sites available. I use Twitter, Plurk and Facebook the most, and I use Ping.fm so I only have to post status updates once. How can I integrate FF into this without making things even more confusing? - Chris Taylor

oooh! I found the zooomr version of this post with no formatting and I whined somewhere else in my FF feed. This one with all the formatting is better :D - Tamar Weinberg

Friendfeed rocks! - rampantheart

I really liked how you did a post on Flicker - MaryAnn Chick Whiteside

All good reasons but #10 is my #1 reason :) - Mark Krynsky

Mark - agreed. Also, Thomas ... very nice blog. I like. - Amani

Good post Thomas. I was thinking it would be hard to find 10 points, but I agree with all your points, and am sure there are probably many more. - Peter Efland

@Tamar, the unformated text was a problem on the Zooomr image. Kristopher's fixed that bug now so text in descriptions on Zooomr photos should format correctly now. - Thomas Hawk

I wasn't using FF, but signed up after your post. Now let's see if it is really so useful ;-) - Marcel Körner

@Marcel also take into consideration who you are subscribed to. Aside from maybe four on your current sub list, they are not very active at all on FF. This will affect your experience here. - Carlos Ayala

Didn't know there was a "Porn" room on FF (see screenshot)... - David Young

how did you see that they are not active on FF? - Marcel Körner

David, the "porn" room on FriendFeed isn't all that active actually. I'm not really interested in porn per se, just thought it was a good group name to claim in the great FriendFeed land group name grab of 2008. - Thomas Hawk

@Marcel by their numbers, and the fact that i know most of them and can tell you first hand that they are not. (if you hover over people's names you will see their numbers) - Carlos Ayala

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Steve Rubel

I love Robert Scoble. Here's why:

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Robert Scoble is starting to use Friendfeed like a blogging platform with his chronic "here's why" postings. I think that's pretty cool. If FF expands the text field and supports domains, it could get interesting here. - Steve Rubel

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Supporting domains would be HUGE - andy brudtkuhl

The practice is very good if you have enough followers who can engage with you and their comments are interlinked with your own, unlike the typical blog that has the body and comments below. But if you don't have a following, you're talking to yourself. - Louis Gray

Robert is the only one who can do this effectively right now. In order for FF to become an effective blogging platform, it needs more features which I fear would hinder it - Bwana ☠

Robert's coverage of CES using FriendFeed was good too. As he walked around he took pictures and posted them right away to FriendFeed along with simple captions. Details could be added later. - Loren Heiny

@Louis - Agreed... Sometimes it does feel like you are talking to yourself on FF - especially if you are posting topics. But it's easy to get into the conversation, and that part I love - andy brudtkuhl

I would seriously consider doing this for the real-time interaction but for one thing: don't the FF "blog" posts become ephemera? It seems like in a day or two they disappear. A blog lives forever and is Googleable. - Leo Laporte

Scobez is fearless and willing to try anything new and seems to be constantly trying to improve himself and his relationship with his audience. Even with his Jupiter-sized ego, he seems to be a genuinely nice, honest guy. That's why I'm one of his legion of fans. - Internet's Tad

You could subscribe to your FF via RSS and archive it with a 3rd party app/etc. is something that comes to mind if FF themselves don't provide a way to directly store everything forever. - Ari Braginsky

Let's not forget that folks can interrupt you as you blog... that will get annoying for the blogger and the reader - Shey, Jamaican of FF

Leo: FriendFeed gets indexed: my FriendFeed page has a PR of 5. And posts exist forever, you can bookmark and link to direct posts from the start of FriendFeed. The big issue is the pager, which only goes back 21 pages right now. - Mark Trapp

Leo, every FF post has a permalink even if you can't get to it via the pagination at the bottom of your feed. Older items show up no problem via search (FF or search engine) or again via that permalink. - FFing Enigma (aka Tina)

Leo, ephemera is part and parcel of the internet in general. :) - Internet's Tad

@Leo I would think better support for multimedia too. - Steve Rubel

I think that FF should be both a blogging platform (with support for long, paragraphed posts and inline media) and an RSS reader with ability to have full feed popups (a la iGoogle's Google Reader widget). Those that don't want those features don't have to use them -- I want them. - Brian Sullivan

Rob, please no cussin' in my stream. Please edit. Also, why do obscenities fly here more than they do on Twitter or blogs? - Steve Rubel

dont know... ask ya mate scoble why he said it in a 14 year olds stream? I dont cuss mate... just stating what he said. sorry... - Rob Sellen :o)

Deleted your comment. Sorry. This feed is family friendly. Happy to have your point but without the word. - Steve Rubel

Rob, without a profile at FF it's really hard to know anyone's age so I don't think your connection of calling a 14 yr old a name is valid if he didn't know that person's age. I knew the person you're referring to is young but not everyone else does. I just found out a few days ago there's another 8th grader subscribed to my feed, even though based on conversation I would have assumed he was about 5-10 years older. - FFing Enigma (aka Tina)

Steve: I blocked Rob so can't see his comments. I also blocked the 14 year old for being a jerk too. - Robert Scoble

Yeah....but it was already stated in the tread he was 14....just shocvking.. i got a 14 yr old..well nex week he is... and i would be funing if scoble or anyone said that to hm.... its not good...and yet people stick up for scoble here... censoring me as steve did, no problem, it shows true colours of peoples perspective... we all learn from it, but just saying we should be seeting an example to younger ones. - Rob Sellen :o)

Rob, I am not censoring you. Your last comment remains. I just remove curses since these all end up in my lifestream feed which has a few thousand subs. - Steve Rubel

No worries steve... :o) - Rob Sellen :o)

Rob -- you are really being a troll - Brian Sullivan

I like the echo effect Robert has. If he throws a stone into the pond, you can watch it ripple for several hours on FriendFeed and Twitter. Some of us (and I include myself here), throw stones and they sink to the bottom:-). I think he's living proof that it's not about the number of people who follow you, but how active and engaged that audience is that does. - Brandon Mendelson

you think so Brian? well thats according to whatever definition you give it.... i am whats the word..talking in my definition, I know a troll when i see one, I know what they are like and I dont act that way... maybe I shouldn't have unintenionally hijacked the thread... sorry if I did...never meant that...just sick of the hypocrisy. - Rob Sellen :o)

+ 100 on Tad's first comment on why he's a fan ... - Patrick Jordan

me too me too :) and Steve Rubel Ace. :) - YusufOzanTasdemir

I can live with the occasional profanity but try writing in English, Rob. You sound like Vicky Pollard from 'Little Britain'. - Andy C

Nice anology brandon... shame that in a sense its partly because of what you said about "sink to the bottom comments" is what ultimately will lead a possible divide here on ffeed.... its already starting in my mind..and in my experience it was scoble who started that divide by blocking what i see because it didn't suit him. - Rob Sellen :o)

andy..... how the hell do you make a join like that? - Rob Sellen :o)

Andy, Rob is deaf and it's possible that his method of 'speaking' i.e. his writing might be shaped by that. Seriously FriendFeed, THIS is why we NEED profiles, to keep us from accidentally stepping on each others toes like this! - FFing Enigma (aka Tina)

Nice point Tina. :o) true, my speech was shaped by reading, why i say it is so important to read, write, its communication...the world currency...proud to not ever had to use signing. :o) - Rob Sellen :o)

I signed out so I could see what Rob was saying. I had no idea that the 14-year-old was 14 when I was talking with him. I assume everyone here is an adult and treat them as such until they prove otherwise. I blocked Rob because he is a jerk and a troll and I blocked the 14-year-old for the same reason. Sorry, but I won't get along with everyone here. - Robert Scoble

LOL friendfeed is Scoble's unofficial Blog - sofarsoShawn

shawn...if so...that is worrying! - Rob Sellen :o)

People tend to love the Scobles XD - ElijahBailey-Zu of FF <0,

We all have the ability to act like 8th graders, we just don't need to. - Greg Guitarbuster

Andy....foot in mouth springs to mind..... doh! steve you DID censor me then...removing that post...maybe not censoring me overall, but... I get the picture anyway. .. zu... "people".??.. speak for yourself.. ;o) - Rob Sellen :o)

Back to Scoble's "here"/"here's" posts. It was noted by Mark Trapp last night that his formulation not only works on FriendFeed, but also works when he propagates his FriendFeed posts to Twitter. I have pictures: http://friendfeed.com/e... - Ontario Emperor

I agree that FF is a great blogging platform, but it can also be used to combine with an actual better blogging platform. I use WordPress to blog and then the conversations around the post here are automatically pulled into the post on WP. I think that's the best of both worlds actually. The reader does have to click at least once to the blog but you can also post part of the post here to engage people who don't want to click through. - Thomas Hawk

oh, and I love Robert's enthusiasm in all that he does as well. - Thomas Hawk

I've been asking for blogging features in FF since I started using it. Glad to see Steve supports this point of view: maybe now someone will listen and less people will complain and argue that FF IS NOT a blogging platform (of course it isn't, but it could be MORE THAN JUST THAT!) - Jordi Soler

Scoble is da man. I also enjoy Micro Persuasion greatly. :) :) :) - J. D. Ebberly

sometimes I wish Scoble was my dad - sofarsoShawn

Shawn, he's Luke's father! - Steve Rubel from IM

So just starting a converation by posting a topic is now considered "blogging"? Posting a list of bullet points intertwined with other peoples comments might be interesting to some folks, but I wouldn't call it "blogging", and I really can't get into it myself. There's enough noise in the system now that injecting it in between sentences of a "blog post" really isn't necessary, IMHO. - Ken Sheppardson

I can just look at his "likes" and get all caught up on the day. RS is the editor needed for the real-time web. It's a tough job, but someone has to do it. - Sarah Perez

Relentless, a great quality in a person. - adolfo foronda

http://bit.ly/8I1r @web3ff, @Duma, @oharaville, @TA125, @globalnomad *After* the ObamaWeb2-Hype -what's popular *now* ?” - ewing2001akaNicomedy2010

I'm going to get a tattoo of Robert Scoble, because I can... - Joe Dawson

He should be the nation's CTO - Richard Binhammer

CTO?? what is that? and no he shouldnt...he is a nobody... outside this circle online noone knows who he is... - Rob Sellen :o)

Robert Scoble's smart and fun. - Igor Poltavskiy

I think Scoble would laugh if you suggested that. There is a huge difference between being a blogger/journalist and reporting and analysing, and being a CTO supposed to give technology leadership and guidance, make the decisions and see them through. PS: the best CTOs actually are nobody too, people don't know them. This is something that needs correction as technology is so key to so many businesses. And inventing a more business-ey CIO position is not necessarily the right solution. soapbox off. - Joelle Nebbe (iphigenie)

Robert is a fun mixture of tech geek, open-minded blogger, and a very human and passionate advocate of his interests! - Hayk H.

Cheers for Robert lovers - Rachael Depp

do I have to hang out with terrorist sympathizers like McBride to get love? down with Scoble the fail whale. down with his sphere and spit on his feed. Steve Rubel don't you know that Scoble is bad PR for you? don't you know the only people who appreciate him are people who want to see bad things happen to the guy. He is lower then low. a total scum bag that looks to hang out with turds. - Noah David Simon

I have gone from thinking Roberts feed too noisy to actually searching for his "here's why" posts - great conversations - Peter Efland

amazing that with all the followers he has you can only get under 100 people to comment and say they like the fat jerk - Noah David Simon

Man crush!!!! - Jeremiah Owyang

OK, everyone, back to work. Thanks for the compliments! - Robert Scoble

It's been said above - but very few people on FF can really do this. I think more quality gets missed on this platform than others. There are good posts shared that get 2 comments (if any) and Scoble can write a 4 word post that even he would admit was "noise" and have it get 100. But - it will grow and it's def. a trend worth watching.... - George Smith

George: I think that's bull. I see a LOT of posts here (10s of thousands if I'm active) and you're not missing many high quality ones, believe me. Why? Anything that's decent quality I like and comment on so you see it. - Robert Scoble

Robert - I see lots of posts that are "high quality" that you neither liked nor commented on so I can't help but thinking that there are hundreds or thousands of posts that are "high quality" that you miss either because you just don't see them or your quality standards are different. BTW your statement that you can actually view and digest 10's or thousands of posts is suspect at best. - Brian Sullivan

Brian: it's very easily provable that if I'm online I am able to digest 10s of thousands of posts. By the way, anything you like or comment on I see on my window. I have a very specific bias. I like geeky posts that make me smarter about technology, science, or business. There's lots of funny stuff here that I don't get involved in for the most part. I do see a lot of it, though. - Robert Scoble

By the way you are welcome to check out my inbound and tell me all the cool posts I miss here: http://friendfeed.com/scoblei... - Robert Scoble

"Easily provable" -- not sure how -- so we are talking about 10s of thousands over what period? And what percentage of the total FF posts is that? I am assuming you are referring to English posts only? - Brian Sullivan

It's a small percentage of the ff posts, but here's the rub: good stuff gets likes and keeps coming up. Even stuff I don't touch. There are tens of thousands of people reading here. I always check "best of" lists. So, if something isn't getting attention and you care you gotta figure out why. I read 10s of thousands of posts per day. Provable. - Robert Scoble

So you are saying that you can read and digest 11 posts a minute (that is one every 6 seconds) (assuming a 16 hour day and 10000 posts in that period). I think you are trying to play to your super hero image. I assume you eat, go to the bathroom, and do other things during the day? - Brian Sullivan

I love reading this sentence in your post: "These days, I would rather post to Friendfeed and let Twitter scoop it all up." I was really active in twitter prior to joining Friendfeed, but now I just post to FF and let twitter scoop it up. - Alan Le

My key conveyor/transmission belt: Google Reader > Friendfeed > Twitter. - Sean McBride

MVB (Curmudgeon of FF)

For everyone who is taking this whole 'Scoble thing' seriously, I have one, very simple question.

January 2, 2009 - Comment - Like - Share

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I FUCKING LOVE THIS! - Lindsey is Fierce!

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AWESOME - Mark Wilson

I don't know, but the US navy has a carrier group assigned to protect his head. http://friendfeed.com/e... - Alex Scoble

Hahahahhahahhahah!!! - Robert Scoble

Need to get a life? (everyone, I mean) Boring issue, from both sides. - Ricardo Galli

I have a GIGANTIC man crush on Patrick Stewart. Verily, he can forsooth me at his leisure. - matthew john ernisse

Aaaand my work here is done! G'nite everybody! Enjoy the rest of the show! Remember to tip the veal and try the waitress! I'll be here all week! - MVB (Curmudgeon of FF)

That is so cool! - Robert Miller

Seriously, what is the "Scoble Thing?" - Trae Ruge

That's one of my favorite episodes!.... wait was I supposed to share that? - David Wynn

Did we ever find any Star Trek porn with Picard or Number 1 with the beard? - Lindsey is Fierce!

ahahahahaha. - Jon, the Chilled Beartato

Jason there's about 50 different posts around here and Twitter about blocking Scoble, not blocking Scoble, etc... I thought this picture put it all in perspective. - MVB (Curmudgeon of FF)

+1 to Lindsey for calling rule 34 on season 5 #1 :) - matthew john ernisse

Hilarious. Look what you did Robert! - Umit Namli

Great one :D - Nia

This never gets old. - Steven Perez

haha nice - Mattb4rd

Never, never gets old - Lindsey is Fierce!

Seems this becomes relevant every few days... - MVB (Curmudgeon of FF)

Love the image. It may seem tiresome, but I think many people are soul searching for what all this social media / new media *means*. I think most realize that for it to be sustainable, markets must form that provide real value exchange. Otherwise we're all just f@#ing around, and if that's the case, this show _will_ come to an end in the not too distant future. I don't think anyone wants that. - mikepk

mikepk Gets it! I called 'social media' a "morass of bacon-wrapped LOLcats" a while ago. Without a reason (aka revenue) what is the point of all of it? - MVB (Curmudgeon of FF)

Revenue isn't the only reason for things in life, Mark. It's but one. Finding friends and learning new things are also reasons behind actions in real life, why not online life? - FFing Enigma (aka Tina)

I think it was a huge learning experience for all involved. First thing I've seen something happening in real-time. On top of that, I was also participating. - Meryn Stol

So, if I spend eight hours a day in Tina's kitchen, use her utillities and eat stuff in her fridge, it would be okay as long as I am meeting a steady stream of new people trapsing through her front door? At some point she will want some beer money. - MVB (Curmudgeon of FF)

Mark, that would make you one of my cats =) My cats pay me nothing, and I shell out a bit to keep them up. Why? Because they bring me warmth when I'm cold, a listening ear when I rant, laughs when I need them, and undivided attention when I have something that interests them like a toy or treat. They are my original FriendFeed =) - FFing Enigma (aka Tina)

@Josh my comment about revenue is not limited to FriendFeed, but all 'social media.' I assume that the rest of them are supposed to generate revenue as well, thus agreeing with your point of diversification. - MVB (Curmudgeon of FF)

@Tina 1, 2, even 5 critters is one thing. FriendFeed has hundreds of thousands of house pets. Too many cats and you become the neighborhood 'Crazy Cat Lady.' - MVB (Curmudgeon of FF)

This is a lot like that photo of the two kids next to a pond, one with a string of fish and the other with a scowl on hos face. It just keeps on giving. - Mattb4rd

That's just an indicator that the analogy isn't accurate. FF isn't my house, FF is a neighborhood park, a library, a pool hall. Lots of people file through and take advantage of the service. There is a revenue stream that maintains it, though that revenue may or may not come directly from the people using the service. - FFing Enigma (aka Tina)

I think the cat statement highlights the value exchange idea. Your pets do provide value to you, so you invest your own resources (money and time) into supporting them for the value they provide. You can only do that if you accept that it's worth it for you to work at a job to make $$ to exchange that for pet time. - mikepk

Value exchange isn't always direct monetary revenue, *but* these "public" spaces must be paid for in time and money somewhere. If it's not, these public spaces will get shut down and sold to the next strip mall. :) - mikepk

Point taken, Tina. The park and the library obtain revenue from all citizens via taxes, regardless of usage. Throw them out. I like the pool hall analogy! The hall itself makes revenue from the patrons in various ways. To continue the analogy, my only reason to shoot pool in a pool hall (or anywhere) is to win bets placed on the games. That is a personal revenue stream inside the structure. That is the same as social media: working within the structure to produce a personal revenue stream. - MVB (Curmudgeon of FF)

Ah, then your usage of a pool hall is different then say my husband's. He's on a pool team in a league and pays yearly dues to be a member of the organization. He also pays a weekly greens fee to the org to play in a match. The pool hall where they play doesn't get any of this money, but they sponsor the teams and host the matches (including free table time) in *hopes* that the team members will buy food and drinks. And FWIW the library and park analogies still work within the light of a freemium model ;-) - FFing Enigma (aka Tina)

Also, this is why I think there's the obsession. People say "advertising" or "freemium" but no one has figured out exactly how to make that work reliably. In addition, unless you understand the market incentives for both the service providers and the participants, you set yourself up for danger. - mikepk

So, the APA is Twitter? - MVB (Curmudgeon of FF)

lol! - Moushumi Kabir

mikepk: Exactly. The obssesion is everyone continuing to try different methods to produce revenue because no one has a reliable model. - MVB (Curmudgeon of FF)

Robert Scoble

Why didn't Steve Jobs hold his news until they report financials next week? My ideas here:

January 14, 2009 - Comment - Like - Share

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1. Apple did better than expected in current quarter, so they wanted to get the bad news out of the way now. That way the stock will take the hit for Jobs being gone, then go up when they announce great financial results. Making it clear to everyone that the company will go on strongly without Jobs. - Robert Scoble

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He's sick and is going to take time off for treatment, and it can't wait? - Ken Sheppardson

2. Someone threatened to leak the news this week anyway. - Robert Scoble

But I don't know, why didn't they just hold the bad news until the financials came out? If the financials are bad, do you think they would have just blasted both bits of bad news out together? - Robert Scoble

Ken: he could have disappeared for a week without anyone noticing. So that's not it. - Robert Scoble

Maybe he's just not well. I know from family experience that this can (and should) override anything. Anyone suddenly feels as human and mortal as the next guy when given a really shitty piece of news. - Steven Livingstone-Pérez

They could've released the news next Tuesday and buried the lead with the inauguration and all. - Mark Trapp

Wouldn't it be considered a material fact they'd have to disclose in their earnings report, if was already planned? Perhaps earning are worse than expected, and they don't want a double whammy. I think one can make up all sorts of scenarios. - Ken Sheppardson

This gets back to my question : http://friendfeed.com/e... - Will Higgins™

i suspect #2 is closest to the truth. doctors, nurses, folks at work. could be he had an episode in public somewhere... - MikeAmundsen

What financials are you talking about? The Proxy just came out a few days ago - Matt Bennett

Robert: Why don't you just go back to the yogurt shop and ask? - Ken Sheppardson

Probably a requirement under securities laws: timely disclosure of something material that might affect the share price. The CEO's temporary incapacity sure is something material. - Neville Hobson

People have been saying he was sick like this for a while. Not sure if we would have believed a "leak" regardless. Right now i'm more in shock of Steve's letter last week. Either it was a lie or he got some bad news really suddenly. Regardless, have to face the future. - David Bisset (sn)

I do think that Apple just released that because people over there knows that Steve needs some rest, the guy is sick and he needs to take care of himself, and then maybe after he is okay he would look after the company's business once again and I think your first idea might be the right one. - Ahmed

I hope he's better and ready to by next years CES! - Brett Nordquist

I think he's trying to be more open with his employees and customers. I think this is very representative of the nature of our 2.0 world. Knowledge of everything can be found so it's best not to lie and hide behind a mask of supposed truths. Best to just be honest! - Dane Deasy

Brett: me too! Wishing him all the best. - Robert Scoble

Dane: I don't think this is Steve being more open. Just read his message. Just as cryptic, only said what it needed to. Steve Jobs *IS* the Citizen Kane of Silicon Valley. - David Bisset (sn)

btw - IMO, this is not going to get better (sorry to say). i suspect Jobs' condition is chronic and probably progressive. he's proly been putting off this kind of talk for quite some time. it could be a rough year for him and those close to him. and a bad sitch for the company, too. i really hope i'm wrong. - MikeAmundsen

Option 2 seems to be the more plausible. Apple and Jobs have both been lying about this and attempting cover-ups for some time now. - MVB (Curmudgeon of FF)

Interesting that he'll be back in June--in time for announcing the next iPhone on stage? - Ian Mikutel

There are no good ways to bring bad news. But openness is less bad than denial. Hold good thoughts for Steve's recovery. - Michael Markman

Ian: that would make sense. Mess with the Palm Pre and Nokia N97 launches in June. Keep everyone slobbering over the next iPhone. - Robert Scoble

Robert, I think the 'June' return is just an arbitrary date which at this stage, could be either pessimistic or optimistic. - Scot Mcphee

As accurate and truthful as Apple/Jobs have been about this topic... I doubt Jobs will be back at all. - MVB (Curmudgeon of FF)

I think that he wants media to finally treat Apple as a "grown up" company and he plan to do this with shock therapy :) - Hubert Taler

I think he is gone for good. Goldman indicated that he spoke to senior technology person who spoke to Steve who felt Steve was "deluded about his condition". That sounds bad for steve. - themick171 from twhirl

What the hell does a senior technology person know about medical issues, though? - Victor Ganata

@ michael dee - is that the same Goldman (from CNBC) who insisted just recently that Gizmodo were talking bollocks when they said Jobs' health was in serious decline, and that Jobs' health was 'totally fine' ??? - Patrick Jordan

It's that delusion about our conditions that keep us sane. - Todd Hoff

Victor: as much as a yogurt store clerk. - Robert Scoble

Wow, I too am surprised this news was leaked prior to the financials...odd. There's something fishy about that for sure - Susan Beebe

@scobleizer in corporate/ DowJones land bad news MUST be reported as soon as known. Anything less gets you into Enron territory. - Bankwatch

I agree with Ken Sheppardson and Neville Hobson. Apple knew the information and were reponsible by releasing it in a timely manner. - Ontario Emperor

Of course, deliberately witholding critical information to manipulate the stock price is somethign people woudl scream about if any other company did it. - Soulhuntre from twhirl

@bankwatch makes a good point. But if Apple/Jobs knew this before the MacWorld announcement, and if they did and still put out the cokamamy story about hormone levels, Apple still should get a cursory look over by the SEC. - MVB (Curmudgeon of FF)

Jobs is not coming back, ever. The news today was just a "baby step" to that end. - oregon_tony

As a "grown up" company Apple will fail. Their primary tool is the faux elitism of their user base and the "cool" factor that lets them overcharge for minor hardware upgrades. As soon as they grow up (expand) that will fade. - Soulhuntre

I'm sure many companies would like to fail as well as Apple has! Yes, their stuff is pricey, but its demonstrably superior. I guess if you don't value your time you can pretend to save money using XP, or the now obsolete Vista, and if you still haven't learned your lesson then go have fun with Windows 7... - Indio Apache from twhirl

AAPL would have been crucified if they had waited. Mentioning the news now takes away the material disclosure & sharp stock sell off if the news would have been disclosed "next week". Waiting would have opened a mega can of worms in case anyone started selling their insider shares or stock plan shares. Now everyone gets the info at the same time to avoid the SEC trouble Apple had before although they passed the fire trials then. - Roney Smith

yessir soulhuntre, Apple, number 103 in the Fortune 500, 8th most profitable tech company... sounds pretty grown up to most grown ups... - Indio Apache from twhirl

Soulhuntre... Apple has always wisely resisted the temptation to grow too quickly, or address the least common denominator mass market. There are riches in niches, and Apple mines its niches well. - LogEx

re: Mark VandenBerg - thats my thought too, that the earlier hormone announcement may at least get some SEC review. - Bankwatch

@indio - depends on how your using the term of course. @logical - I agree... as a niche product / firm Apple excels but they have been increasingly tryign to go mainstream (sometimes well, sometimes badly). It will be interesting to watch. - Soulhuntre

Robert Scoble

Milan and bacon. Gratuitous photo warning.

January 11, 2009 from email - Comment - Like - Share

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Friendfeed has a thing for bacon so Milan delivers what the people want: bacon! - Robert Scoble from email

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OMG, he is soooo cute. Keep posting pictures. I wonder what he would think of people looking at him all of the the internet? - Sweyn Venderbush

ehheheheheheheeh looks like he approves ... little guy aint so little ... - johnpiercy

Holding him with one hand and taking photo from other, have to say *brave* - Veetrag

OMG Milan! - Mona Nomura

No kid that grows up in this age will have a problem with regular pics of them posted on the net - Christian Burns

I will not like because it has bacon in it! As I must keep with my won't like anything that has bacon in it! - Mathew™ one of a kind

your at a Costco .. Kirkland Bacon - johnpiercy

Man, did that little guy grow up fast! he must be on power bacon..! - hansveld

I find this strangely amusing. - stezton

scobles and bacon. two great tastes that taste great together! - B. Hatin

Great pic, mmm bacon! - Tony Fluharty

Does he grasp the vast significance? The sheer magnitude? Oh my. - Martha

BACON + CUTE KID ALERT! *falls out of chair due to "cute" overload!* - Susan Beebe

I can hear it now "Milan, can you move a little closer to the oscar mayer? Just a little bit more. If you do, I'll buy you a KitKat. Say "Bacon"." - Martha

Bacon is amazing, oh, Cute kid too :-) - John Bellone

Actually that was Maryam holding him. He loves the iPhone a lot more than bacon. He also loves running. - Robert Scoble

He looks a happy kid :-) - Sally Church

Sally: he's so happy most of the time but he is tempermental. If he doesn't get his way he lets you know. I guess he got some of my bad traits too! ;-) - Robert Scoble

I think he is Irish, by the way. He does this funny little Irish-style dance everytime he is really happy. Did it right in the middle of Costco today. Why can't kids stay cute like that forever? - Robert Scoble

Robert, did you have the Bacon Martini at the Double Down Saloon while you were in Vegas? - Joe Lima

Such a cute smile! Soon he will want an iPhone of his own. - TechMama Beth Blecherman

Joe: no, I like keeping my meat and my alcohol separate! :-) - Robert Scoble

Hi, Milan! ^^ - Toni @ NavinoT

I always thought it unfair that you could buy pureed pork baby food, but there was no bacon baby food. - David Thomas

That's not bacon. it looks like just plain ol' pork rashers - Bryce Roney

Can't believe Scoble is fishing for likes on FF ;-) - FFing Enigma (aka Tina)

but which is the bait? Milan or bacon? - ɐ ɯıʞ sıɹɥɔ

He's having fun T. Whatever it takes :) - Charlie Anzman

Babies AND Bacon - how many new followers did you get? ;-) - Jesse Stay

Jesse: I'm getting close to breaking 25,000 followers, so a few. :-) - Robert Scoble

No the question is what will get him on the front of social news sites...cute kid or bacon. - MarkCarras

Something about this that isn't Kosher .... - Charlie Anzman

*rimshot* <--- for Charlie :) - Lindsay

Cute :) - Arvind

Some people... exploiting their kids for photos on FriendFeed! Horrible! - Louis Gray

Bacon Baby Food - who's exploiting whom? (Liver & Bacon Casserole http://www.bbfood.co.uk/product... ) - Micah Wittman

Robert Scoble

I want this many screens!

January 8, 2009 from email - Comment - Like - Share

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Wynn sportsbook is ultimate place to watch football. - Robert Scoble from email

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Multitasker's heaven - Sebastian

Its good to see Rob that your Focused on that one thing, many things!! ;-) - Jason

I'll be there tomorrow night! Open bar in the main ballroom from 7pm to 11pm. Award ceremony, dinner, entertainment all followed by Vegas Baby! Oh, and I'm getting paid to go on this 'business trip'. Sometimes things really get very cool. All I need now is a date....waah. - Morgan Haley

We NEED this many screens to get to next level of interaction. At least the big ones ... and with higher resolution! - michael silverton

@Scobleizer - Are you in the Encore or the Wynn ? I heard no photos/vids are allowed in the Encore at all? - frank barry

I don't want that carpet. - jjprojects

I am in the Wynn. - Robert Scoble

tsk, tsk, how did you snap this photo without security knocking you down? lol - Daynah

Wow! Command central!! - Susan Beebe

Awesome! I cleaned up the weekend I was there in Football. Everything else I....broke even...yeah..I broke even.. - Mike Lewis

Thomas Hawk

My Initial Thoughts on the Canon 5D Mark II After 24 Hours - http://thomashawk.com/2009...

January 6, 2009 from Thomas Hawk's Digital... - Comment - Like - Share

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I'm still getting up to pace with my Canon D60 that I was given by a valuable friend! Hoping to get my hands on a Canon G10 this year. - Ed Richardson

So very jealous! - Justin Korn

Ed: Stop the presses! You'll get much better results continuing to use the D60 over the G10. - Kenny Louie

Kevin Rose

glenn calls shotgun - http://qik.com/video/803183

January 3, 2009 from kevin's Recent Qik Videos - Comment - Like - Share

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LOL amateurs. - Haggis (Sean Loyless)

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Wasn't she on a recent Diggnation episode and said she has never had a beer? If so and now she is shotgunning, she is a keeper! - Craig Mische

should have drank from the hole. works better - John Lord

Definitely should drink it from the hole, hasn't anybody seen 'The Sure Thing'? - Benjamin Watt

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