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January 18 from Reddit - Comment - Like - Share

"submitted by reddit to blog." - Alensa

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Pulse + Signal: The Adventure Begins - http://pulseandsignal.com/uncateg...

February 9, 2010 from Backtype - Comment - Like - Share

"Very best of luck to you Andre, wish you lots of success !" - Alensa

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How to save $290 billion in health care in America? Improve medication adherence - http://www.healthpopuli.com/2009...

August 27, 2009 from Backtype - Comment - Like - Share

"Excellent blog post. Great to get some stats on this. You may want to check out this post I wrote on what role pharma companies could play http://cli.gs/PGJ75z" - Alensa

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50 Successful Open Source Projects That Are Changing Medicine - http://nursingassistantguides.com/2009...

July 7, 2009 from Backtype - Comment - Like - Share

"Which of these, if any, is for pharmacies / e-prescription ?" - Alensa

Robert Scoble

THIS CONTEST IS OVER, PLEASE DO NOT COMMENT ON THIS ANY MORE. Thank you.

March 14, 2009 - Comment - Like - Share

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THIS CONTEST IS OVER. THE MONEY HAS ALREADY BEEN GIVEN AWAY. I'm giving away $4,500 of my money. The contest will be here in friendfeed between now and Tuesday afternoon. Ends 3 p.m. Austin, Texas Time. Winner will be picked live on http://www.ustream.tv/studio at 4 p.m. Austin Time. Two ways to win: First way to win ($1,000). Leave a comment here. We'll pick one winner out of a hat randomly. Second way to win (Two prizes of $1,750 each). Leave a comment about how you will use the money (use only one comment here). I'll pick my favorite two messages and announce a winner on Tuesday afternoon. Good luck! - Robert Scoble

1417 more comments

Good way to keep us engaged Robert :) - bcultral

only that? too easy Robert! :) - directeur

Robert "Ben Stein" Scoble :) - Mattb4rd

Will it be tax free? :P - imabonehead

pinched nerve in back from military accident.. might be outta work for a bit. - WithoutInk

I'm in. - Paul Grav

Sweet awesome robert! - TheHenry

Simple is good. :) - Heather Solos

Robert, Ben Stein beat you to that game. Try and be first rather than a fast follower. :P - Lorin Olsen

What are the rules? International ok? :) - Holger Eilhard

I'll happily leave a comment here. - Aaron Crews

Congrads on the new venture:) - Rob Cairns

Lets be honest- there are few people who literally put their money where their mouth is. Mr. Scoble you continue to impress me. And I have said this before the contest. - Alyx

I declare myself ineligible for the first way to win :) - Douglas Gourlay

Do you have to be an American? Cause I could use a new laptop :) Plus the USD>AUD exchange rate is pretty good at the moment ($1000 USD = $1500 AUD) - Bryce Roney

Cool ....I need new Laptop - Michael Holzinger

Prediction: this will be the most commented thread on FriendFeed ever (chance to win $1000). - Mike Doeff

be sure to let us on the detailed result of this new experiment of yours - Georgios Kasselakis

really? :) - K.Fatih Özçelik

oh...pick me pick me pick me :) - Stephanie Segel

Will you give me more if I say rackspace.com? - Jason P. Brown

woohooo! Anton like this. - Anton Johansson

c'mon fingers. find me in the hat. - Jason Kane

OK, I'm changing my comment to go for one of the $1750 prizes. I will offer to donate all of it to a mutually acceptable charity in exchange for an appearance with you and Steve on the Gillmor Gang. If Jason can buy his way onto Twitter, maybe I can buy my way onto the Gillmor Gang! - Kent

Are you still going to the XMPP meetup on tuesday? - J Allen

Good luck to everyone! - Amit Nangare

money talks :-) - Dobromir Hadzhiev

Leaving random comment here for $1000 yo! Can I get that all in pennies and not rolled up? Preferably in gallon milk jugs! - Jason Moffatt

I think Mike will be right - Henrik Johansson

I would use the money to 1. Donate and support our local Milwaukee tech community (events like web414.com, BarCampMilwaukee.com, and Bucketworks.org) and 2. purchase some more tech items (i.e. mac mini, video camera, webcam) to enhance and encourage more interaction with development and the tech community. - Sam Dodge

I'm in too ... - Leo

$1000 for a random comment. I suspect we'll have a record number of comments. But what kind of hat will you be pulling the name out of? Austin Cowboy hat? - Andrew Leyden

well, this is one way to get me to actually use my friend feed account =) - Travis

I could use it. Ill be out of a job in 2 weeks. - Armando

sweet. i like free money =) - Arin

Second way to win (Two prizes of $1,750 each). Leave a comment about how you will use the money (use only one comment here). I'll pick my favorite two messages and announce a winner on Tuesday afternoon. Good luck! - Robert Scoble

I'm game. But don't shoot me. - Steve Lowe

why would you do that? - Burçak Sayınsoy

is this part of the bailout? - Thomas Jelonek

Pick me! - Henry Irish

hook it up! - Zachary Poley

Robert , Congrats for Building43.com ! - Rocky

Open to anyone in the world. It's my money and if I get sued I'll make fun of you on Twitter. :-) - Robert Scoble

So let me get this straight, I just leave a comment here? Will this $1000 be reported to the IRS? :) - Craig Eddy

If ever there was money that could be used to buy gadgets guilt free it is Scoble money! - Joe "The Enforcer" Pierce

Building 43 sounds interesting. Can't wait. - Andrew Bashore

need cash for new company my wife and i are starting -- to help offset the cost of adopting our next child. - WithoutInk

all i have to say is, more cow bell please :) - Ivan Stegic

I LOVE RACKSPACE!! - CG

I'll talk about the contest later on http://www.ustream.tv/studio - Robert Scoble

Isn't this a nice way to test how scalable Friendfeed entries really are? :-) - Yuval Atzmon

Will use it to buy Arrington a hairpiece after the TIME article. - Mike

Please, no, you're better than Ben Stein (although that's not saying much) Are you trying for the most comments ever on a Friendfeed post? Because I can certainly see that coming. - The Web's Wendell Wittler

What kind of hat? - Geoff Schultz {TF}

Scoble--congrats to you and Rocky! Keep up the great work! - Joey Hayles

Neat! I'd spend the money fairly selfishly... on bandwidth bills for http://enjoysthin.gs - Ted Roden

How would I use $1750? Three words: Pay. My. Rent. - Stephanie Segel

Are friends and family excluded? - Tina Chase Gillmor

Oh well, why not! maybe the hat's lucky! - vanweerd

I'm just here for the cash. - Jim Mitchem

Nicholas - would like to work with you at Rackspace, was a senior systems design engineer for Sony Broadband SW Development + Broadcast Integration Division(s) SW Systems Integration and testing, also senior technical project manager on Google's infrastructure upgrade + Verizon's FIOS fiber-to-the-premises nationwide. I also spent ten years in post-production in hollywood as a senior tech support engineer / consultant to the stars. I like bad food, long hours and the warm glow from completing projects. - Nicholas Chase

Hmmm, how do you post a comment on FF...??? :-) - I Spy

Feel free to donate lol - hiphopgame

I would use the money, to help buy a mac for the family. We are in need of a new one, and right now our current one (a powerbook) is starting to die out. I already have some money saved up, but not enough. Thanks for doing this Robert! :) - Techno Todd

thanks for making friendfeed notifier go insaaaaaaaaaaaaaaane - Caio

I'll use the money to buy a laptop for my soon-to-college daughter, as well as to fund her scholarship searches& college visits this summer. She's leaning towards working in special education, continuing the volunteering she's done with her high school's Options Program (http://www.paulvi.net/academi...). - Craig Eddy

My friend (14) and I (15) are working on a subscription web service that we want to launch this summer and some additional runway and start-up capital would really be helpful. We do have some experience with this stuff -- we did iJailBreak (www.ijailbreak.com) a year or so ago and had millions of hits and a million downloads and a lot of coverage (Gizmodo, TUAW, Digg front page multiple times). - Ben Feldman

I want Robert's stimulus package. - Daniel Sims

This is my random comment for the random pick! - Mona Nomura from fftogo

Hi Robert - Pick me! :) - Susan Beebe

if i didnt know you, i would have un-friended you for a post like that. "i'm giving away money. details to come." Congrats on the new gig! - fansnap

$1,750? Ok, I'll give the half of it to a charity, that is: $875 — and the other half will be my contest's gift. My contest? The one who donates the most to that charity wins those $875. And yes, I'm serious :) - directeur

I don't know about the tax consequences. I'll try to find out. Basically this money is money Cisco paid to me and I'm just shipping it back out. So, this money will be counted pre-tax, I'm sure, and you'll probably need to pay tax on it. - Robert Scoble

First comment: Hope my comment gets chosen! - Kevin Poirier

Fabulous - Jon

Sweet! $1000 would be lovely - Vanessa Scanfeld

I'd be using the money to finance my freelance work and get a half-way decent video camera. I'm working with a friend of mine on tooloftheday.de (nothing to see there yet) to produce videos of popular tools, tips, tricks, howtos, etc... - Holger Eilhard

Throwing my piece of paper into the hat. Crossing my fingers! - Troy Malone

man, my feed is going crazy... stop it guys :) - Ingo Di Bella

OK Robert, I'll bite and leave a comment here. - Herne

Second comment...I will use the money to buy as many clever domain names that I can in hope that one day, when you are creating your "next big thing" that you will have to purchase the domain name from me realizing that you had in fact, through me, had purchased these domain names in the first place. - Kevin Poirier

I'm also available for 1/2 time work for $185/week (Rails sites) http://tefflox.net/JesseCr... Thanks :-) - Jesse Crockett

Thats a internet first i guess, good luck to all contestants :) - Yunus Tunak

For the 1500, I will donate all proceeds to #smackdown. - Mona Nomura from fftogo

If I win: I will use the money to lend out some of it on Kiva.org, give my brother (12 years old) his own domain/hosting so he could start a wp-blog there and maybe buy Spotify premium =) - Anton Johansson

I would buy a new macbook pro with it. I have the old one, and Was hoping to buy the current one. I would then give the old one to my brother and I would use the new one! :) - TheHenry

I'm in!! - DanDan

I would use it for the prizes I'm giving out daily on my twitter game @I_spy_treasure. Robert, you can win it back... (and so can anyone else...) - I Spy

Lasers. - Lasse Johnsen

I will use part 2 to donate to Kiva.org and match it with Cisco's matching gifts program - Douglas Gourlay

I would donate it to my homeless shelters. - imabonehead

I'm giving my winnings to congress to spend wisely : ) - Joseph

Congratulations to both you and Rocky on the new jobs. - Ron Schott

Count me in! Could use the extra $$ to buy a mac and see what all the hype is about. - Tim

I would create a company called One Laser Per Child. - Lasse Johnsen

This is my comment. I would use the extra $1750 to pay for me and Lindsay's trip to Gnomedex this year. It would probably be enough for us to come up and stay a few extra days in Seattle. - iTad

That'd put a dent in my taxes. Ugh, freelancing has its pains. - Andrew

nice! i could use some money :) - krist80

Would be silly not to comment... although I have nothing interesting to say right now. - Jen

umm..ok i'm in! - Michael Lemmon

Even I can manage that! - Jeremy Brooks

Everyone else is doing it... - Rochelle

Is there a third way to win? I'd use the money to offset part of the costs of moving to Portland in the spring. Moving from New York with next to no connections to see what it's like living on the west coast for a while. - Mark Trapp

Did I win yet? - Robert Collazo

What I'd do with $1000? Get them converted to Euros :) Would most likely be spend on "offline" needs, like a new bathroom - dieck

I suppose spending it on crack and hookers wouldn't win the prize, would it? - Ian Betteridge

I will use the $1000 plus 119,000 more dollars to buy a spot on the Twitter "Suggested Users" page. - Sprague D

And you r giving your money away why? - Andrew Finkle

it'd go toward my first Mac - Jeff Mincey

118 comments in 17mins, progress report.. :) - Yunus Tunak

Count me in! - Wim Mulder

Interesting; I'd give a bit more than the the money to an unemployed friend for necessities(car repair, rent, food, getting back her phone with Nana Lemon singing Nena's famous anti-balloon protest song) in cash and perhaps a small gift - RAPatton

I would use the money to go biking in Tibet and give everything that's left to the Tibetians. - Henrik Johansson

Robert why are you giving away money - not that I am complaining- but curious! :) - Susan Beebe

I'm game - Ken Nicely

I'd spend mine on women, booze and a Mac. - Ed Hudson

I'd use it to stretch the time I can work for equity-only before our startup gets funded! (Why doesn't federal stimulus money go to something like this which actually creates jobs and innovation instead of banks and auto companies?) - Dale Larson

this should be interesting - Robert Accettura

The chances of winning Scoble's money are slim. But the comments are hilarious. Love them. - I Spy

This is easier than a lottery ticket! We must be in an experiment or something, knowing Robert. - Cesar Arevalo

Sure why not - Rodfather

I will use the money to go PyCon, learn new skills, network, mention how generous Robert Scoble is, and do a sprint to improve FriendFeed PyAPI--which, by the way, you should use to select the random winners from this thread. https://launchpad.net/friendf... Thanks in advance. - Chris Lasher

Clever way to show the power of friendfeed! - Emee Pumarega

For $1750: I would pay a portion of my wife's college tuition, buy my daughter a netbook, and my son a practice guitar amp. - Mattb4rd

Great idea! Count me in. I think you should give your money away monthly. - Grace Ciccone

I'm Here. Wow. I''ve thrown the laptop up on a 56" JVC LCD HD. Convergence! Just watched you on the Gillmor Gang. Feels like TV to me. It's great. Something's definitely happening. - Stephen Pickering

Love it...I'm in - gavin

I'd spend the money on a new display, I really need one - Dobromir Hadzhiev

Not my first comment on a Scoble posting here, but first with a potential payoff. - Tom Landini

I'm in. How I will use the money? will buy server for XdbE project - Elmira Gazizova

With $1,000 I could buy all 57 Used & new "Naked Conversations" books from Amazon and still have enough to buy bottle service at the club. - Andy Fields

would like to be able to try new technologies while still being a student and on a student's income = ($0) - Shane Grant

Cool, count me in :-) I would use the money by buying 2 HTC Fuzes for me and my love. - Sarah Peterman

Count me in! (for the first way I guess :P). - Mauro Borione

What can I do to get your $$$ Robert? How about a virtual dance from my dogs? - Jeff

get Diabla my pit bull puppy hip surgery sooner rather than later - shayne catrett

haha, what is it all about? - Лёша

I would use the money to help fund a small-scale electronics lab, which has been a dream of mine for some time. It would serve as the perfect place to plot and create the robotic army that will eventually take over the world! Also it would teach me lots that would make me very attractive to an employer, or capable of creating a business of my own. - Daniel Bruce

It would be hard for me to decide how to spend the money. There is so much, yet so little, being given. Because I'm a crazy Linux-lover, I think I should take the selfless route and donate at least part of the money to various Linux/open-source programming projects. Though, I would have to be careful to make sure that the money is not wasted in the style that Jeff Atwood describes (http://www.codinghorror.com/blog...). - Rishabh Mishra (p248)

<cold><oddsized><red>here's my comment</red></oddsized></cold>. I've made my comment colored and differently shaped because supposedly those will get drawn before all the other regular looking comments. It's cold too because that's how the Knicks got Ewing first in the draft. - Todd Hoff

Well, I need a new kidney, and there just happens to be one available on Ebay for $1000. (The previous portion of this comment is an utter lie; both my kidneys are doing fine, I am gainfully employed, do not need the money as much as so many on this thread, but Mastercard would really love to have it.) Congrats and good luck with the new venture, Robert. - Phil Essing

Very cool! - Josh Haley

Hey as long as were giving away money - count me in ;) - Rob Jones

sweet, a thousands eh? converted to $ JMD that's 90k, groceries for 2 months:P - Gordon Swaby

i'd like to thank my good friends olasofia and tav for mentioning this opportunity to win $1000 randomly, and if gratitude to one's friends isn't enough, how about this: i will give the $1750 for the best answer to this question: now that there are 100,000 people paying attention, what single action can we all do next tuesday that has the greatest social impact globally? - happyseaurchin

For either amount, I would look to pay down some of my pressing debts and apply the rest towards a rainy-day fund. The 10% paycut I took three months ago has not helped things. - JA Castillo

I'm on spring break now and my school was nice enough to lend me a Canon 20D (a little old, but I'm still glad to have borrowed it). Usually, only people who are part of the after school photography club can take it out, and seeing that I'm not, I was quite lucky. They gave me a 28-135mm lens, which looked ok to me. It was the last lens they had available, so it was take it or leave it.... more... - Michael Forian

hmmm just leave a comment for a $1,000 dollars, not sure what to say... - Kevin Tunis

$1750 for a cheeky mobile app, any more would be telling - Yant

i am somehow reminded of ben stein - Adam Singer

Testing the mix, testing, testing, one two, one two, - is this thing on? - Martha

I would use the money to do what I do with all of my money...support my wife through graduate school :p. Thanks for the opportunity, Robert. - Neal "thePuck" Jansons

Give it to Michael Forian! He seems so well-meaning! - RexEveryhting

Big Spender Robert. Who knew? - Michael Fidler

I'm feeling lucky. - Laura

Cool! I saw your new venture announcement (live) earlier on my old iMac, which I would love to replace. :) - Rob

I'm an unemployed community manager formerly of Silicon Valley. Hoping to spread new technology from NorCal to SoCal. - Kimberly

Pick me, I've got medical bills to pay-off. Boring I know, but it's really how I'd use any extra money. - Curtis Phillips

I'll donate the money to GM. Nah, forget it. I'll worry about it if I actually get it. - Hal

I will throw my virtual hat in the virtual ring for the not-virtual $1000. What is the other $3500 going toward? - Lindsay

Working on a little something in the review space with a friend of mine, $1000 could cover a bit of initial hosting. - Jack Bogdan

Hmm, adding that to a house down payment would be nice. I imagine there's others here that could use it much more, though. - Jordan Hofker

peace on earth..... - imran

Awesome. With $1,000, I'd use 50% to buy shares of F, GM, BAC, etc... and we'll have even more money to hand out. With the other 50%, we could also make 20 $25 loans at a Stanford MBA microfinance project, so the money recycles and has more impac (and have FFers decide which projects to support). Gumball Capital http://news.newamericamedia.org/news... or Kiva.org http://kiva.org Ideally we could even start a fund to support out-of-work FF'ers. - Mitchell Tsai

@scobleizer - please give me your money. if you do i will use it wisely to help pay for a macbook & if i get more than the random $1000 prize i will use it in a philanthropic manner - Chris Heath

I'd have to use it all to put toward the $1,900 deposit due next month for the Friends school for which we got an acceptance letter, on behalf of our 10 yo, earlier today since my partner's reaction was that all I needed to do was to go out and get a job Monday! We've tried public schs (& their lotteries) in Boston & DC and have come to this... If that wasn't pressing, I'd use it to put... more... - Angela E. Taylor

updated to say - please give the money to someone in need. If I were to have the money to give away, my choice would be to http://www.theanimalrescuesite.com. - BEX

Wait, in this economy, you giving away money?! - Adi Rabinovich

So...dear! Did you sign the cheque? Yes? Now send it to me! LOL - Lora Lufark

all your money are belong to us! - Geek Cowboy

It would be really cool if this money went to a charity in need, in increasingly tough times. - jjprojects

posting comment. crossing fingers. knocking on wood for good measure. - Anita

I'd use the money as a donation for my favorite charity, www.4everhomes.org, helping orphans and foster children get adopted. - Lynn Owens

I will use the cash to invest in a MacBook for my wife so she can be mobile and still do her school work and finish that degree finally!!! - Geek Cowboy

Well after the football team I support (Nottingham Forest) lost 5 -0 today I would spend the money on buying myselft a place in the squad. I can't be any worse than the current goalkeeper - Paul Bainbridge

I'd give the money to children of San Diego http://www.alphaproject.org/ - David Krug

I'm in - Jack Kendall

Putting my entry in the hat. Hope this is truly random because I don't have anything interesting to add! :) - Matt Baron

With $1750 I'd buy Canon PowerShot SX1IS 10 MP CMOS Digital Camera with 20x Wide Angle Optical Image Stabilized Zoom and 2.8-inch LCD @ $600, a 2nd Gen Drobo populated with four 1TB Western Digital Green Drives @ $849 via TwipPhoto and a GigaPan Epic 100 as soon as its available (probably about $500). All of this will support my GigaPanning habit: http://www.gigapan.org/viewPro... - Ron Schott

James (imabonehead) & Robert, $13,000/yr is allowed by gift tax limits,... so no tax if it's from Robert's personal money. - Mitchell Tsai

Great idea. I'm in. - Bill Romanos

I would use the $1750 to pay for the laptop that my daughter wants for her 11th birthday at the end of the month. She will be entering Jr. high next year and could use a faster more up to date computer than the 5+ year old hand me down desktop PC running Win2000 that she is presently using. - Jeff P. Henderson

Craziness. That kinda money could feed my voracious tech and gadget habit for quite a while. - Brooks Bishop

OK, I'm in. Though not for the money: I want to know waaaay more about Building 43! - Jordi Soler

I'd use the money to invite (pay for flight/hotel, etc.) someone really cool (Harold Varmus?) to the next ScienceOnline conference. - Bora Zivkovic

Building 43 and Rackspace FTW! - Bill Koslosky, MD

I'll use it to buy 2 new monitors. 1 for tweetdeck and 1 for Alert thingy - Jeff (Team マクダジ )

Hi Robert. A noble venture to be sure. We would put the gift to use saving our art studio. The after effects of dealing with the Basin Complex Wildfire that burned Big Sur have left us in a precarious postiion. Truth be told, we'd rather have a big commission than the gift. Work is always better on so many levels. Perhaps we can bootstrap ourselves back to where we were and afford to offer the same gift to others in need one day not too far off--Pay it forward. Best wishes on Building 43 & thanks. - B.E. (BJ) Johnson

I'm in for the $1,000 random drawing (because my $1750 answer would not be memorable - pay my bills). - Laura Norvig

Give half to charity, then spend the other half on upgrading my skills (educational resources) - Mo Kargas

What did I miss? - Rob Michael (Atmos Trio)

Do Canadians qualify? - Brian Sullivan

I just caught up with what the other money is for. If it was awarded to me I would use it to help a couple I know get started in Aikido. Their kids are in our kid's class, and they had been trying to find the finances to join for almost a year and had just figured out how to start and then the husband got laid off... They're having a hard time making ends meet and I know that they would... more... - Lindsay

I'll donate the entire $1,750 to Phoenix Children's Hospital if I win. Same goes for the $1,000 if I win that one. - Aviv

paypal address to follow ...... :) Good luck with the new gig Robert - Charlie Anzman

With $1750 I would help that YouTube girl scout girl, Wild Freeborn, reach her goal of selling 12,000 boxes to send her whole scout troop to camp. Got to give the girl some credit for thinking outside of the box. - Tyler Brownfield

_/\_ Namaste (greetings) from India. This is simply awesome Robert. Would be great to win a cool 1000 USD. That's a lot of money in India. ;-) - Shinil Payamal

Here's my comment. I would use the money to fight against DRM - Marcos Marado from fftogo

My mother has been an avid Obama supporter doing a great deal of volunteer work before & after the election. She recently lost her job & wants to start something new. She will need an audience. Robert, I'd love to use your money to hire YOU to coach her on how to do that most effectively. - Rob Michael (Atmos Trio)

Money..! Will use the money to travel to India this summer, visiting, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki..., http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... with my family :) - Karthick R

maybe because I'm the first Italian to write about it :) http://www.fluxes.it/flussi-... - Contz

Haha a single thread from Robert turned us all (briefly I hope) into marketers :) - Mo Kargas

What the heck I'll throw in a comment...I would use the money to fix up the bathroom at my parent's house. - The Amber

This comment is random. - Dave Roth

Great idea Robert! If I won I would take your portrait for free :-) - Bill Pennington from twhirl

Cheese and rice! This comment thread is giving FriendFeed Notifier a run for it's money. It's an interesting character study on what people will do with free money. Me? I'd pay the IRS & give to my favorite charities. - Anthony K. Valley ©

If this comment gets chosen at random, I hereby refuse the money (always test the exception conditions of any algorithm). If I win one of the other chunks, I commit to donate the money to @eff (EFF - Electronic Frontier Foundation - the leading civil liberties group defending your rights in the digital world). - Tinfoil 2.0

I thought I already commented on this? - Herne

And the other way to win? - Scoble, Alex Scoble

I would find 17 worthy people under the age of 16, who are helping their community through volunteerism or have started businesses and give them $100 each to help them reach their goals. IMO, helping young people is the most noble thing those of us above the age of 40 can do. And I'd spend $50 on take-out dinner with my wife. - Scott Duffy

You win if you're last on the thread, Alex ;) - Josh Haley

here and ready to spend the money for new ipod touch :) - nahnu

why? - Anthony Farrior

Hi Robert. I can haz $1,000 plz? kthxbye. - Joey Gibson

DONT PICK ME!!! </ reverse psychology> - Alfredo 亜瑠布れっど

If I win the prize money will go on my school fees and the rest will help me to buy a netbook with a full-size Scoble sticker :D you crazy! - İbrahim Uzun [ j ]

ROFL, Chris. - Scoble, Alex Scoble

Money would help so much you have no idea. :) - courto

I'll use the money to send 2 teachers in my school district (Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools) to a technology conference somewhere to learn about Web 2.0 technologies. - Tim Cooper

If I win I'll use the money to buy a copy of Autodesk Maya 2009 Complete. Then build cool things. Thanks for the chance Robert. - Andrew Smith

pick.me - Bob Stewart

bring it on - jkkmobile

Hi, and who are you? Thanks Robert. - Daniel Buckley

Sounds good, here is one comment. - Grant Bierman

I would channel the money to ongoing biomedical research in the lab I work in (UCSF). - Pedro Beltrao

*wave* - Jan Schwenzien

How will I use the money? With pleasure, thank you Robert. - Tomi Itkonen

I will use the money to start my non profit and purchase educational/tech material for my son's school. Warm thanks Robert. - Yanik Falardeau

And as for what I would do, I'd build a new desktop pc (and switching my current one over to act as my media/web pc), buy a true dSLR and donate some to charity. And if there is any left over, pay back some minor 'loans', which I guess I really should do first... - Grant Bierman

Hi! İ m not speak english so not comment writing :D(ingilizce bu kadarmı berbat olur ya:II) Thx You Robert. - mehmetakif

Hey Robert, If I were to win the money would go to a project myself and a few other early stage entrepreneurs are starting to help get people who have lost their jobs back to work in the startup community. I know it wouldn't go very far but it'd get it kicked off. Otherwise just give us some help (which would be better anyway) and give the money to the guys who have to pay school fees or rent or buy food for their families. Their need is greater. anton@udoogoo.com if anyones interested in helping - Anton Mannering

Great.I'm in. - onurc

this post is going to get a hell of a lot of comments. - Thomas Hawk

Random is random, Chris. :) Thanks for the thought though. - Scoble, Alex Scoble

Just another random comment. :) - Zian Choy

Why am I giving away the money? Because last week we did a job for Cisco where they paid us to do some videos. I am giving away my cut because what Cisco is doing is important to pay attention to without you worrying about whether I am paid off to say so. Also, I'm very fortunate to be in the position where I can do it. I thought about paying Jason Calacanis to buy some of his tweets, but thought that money could help someone out of work more. - Robert Scoble

liked - Y. Esenkal

I think you should give it all to Jason ;o) - Ken Morley

I would use one of the $1,750 prizes this way. I'm currently photographing people that ask me for money. I give them $2 for their portrait. Instead of the two dollars. I will use the the money to add $50 to each $2 (total = $52) to the next 35 people that I photograph as part of this project. After I photograph them for the $2 I will give them the extra $50 and tell them that it is from Robert Scoble and will document each person's story, photo and reaction in a blog post. - Thomas Hawk

i'd like to thank my mother, my father and all the people who helped me win this :p - Sofia Bustamante

interesting !! - mcd

Hat off! - Alemsah Ozturk

Sounds good to me. - Herb Hernandez

I changed my mind. Give it to Thomas! ;o) - Ken Morley

Hmm I like Thomas' innovative idea - Mo Kargas

I couldn't tell you what I would do with $1750, but I do know I would give some away to good causes like my underfunded state school or the public school drama and music programs, and I would probably keep a little to save or update my home technology. - Steve Lowe

This is my first comment : Gods of Randomness, choose me ! - Alemsah Ozturk

how many others have signed up for Friendfeed to try and win $1000? Scoble, you should be a Friendfeed spokesman... :) - chelle

Best of luck with the new gig! Have fun at SXSW! - Trevor Little

I wonder how many new FF accounts this thread has been responsible for? Many first-time posters here. - Ken Morley

This is my second comment: I will gonna put your $1.750 to eBay tagged as “Robert Scoble's first FriendFeed Competition money“ and I'm gonna wait & see what happens :) - Alemsah Ozturk

Sounds fair to me. I'm in. - Henry Burger

Random rules - ted perlmutter

My niece in Mexico is on a partial sports scholarship at the university she attends. She's been supported by her mother who worked at a liquor store to help pay my niece's way. My niece's mom recently lost her job and fears she cannot financially support her daughter's education. $1,750 would pay for six months of university studies. If I were to win, that's where it would go. Good luck everyone. - Andrew

Thanks for the opportunity Robert. Good luck on your new gig! - andy

What would I do with the money? Well I'd put some towards my debt and paying my Mum's house bills. But I think my family could do with a nice break or trip away somewhere - my Mum hasn't really gone out since the death of my Dad last January! Time away from the house would do her the World of good right now. - Kol Tregaskes

Really? - Vinay | विनय

My second comment (for the 1K). This would go to the same niece...it's 3 more months of school. - Andrew

i dont want it... { reverse psychology } - Cem Öztürk

laykk! - Taylan GERDAN (Tylolhot)

My wife has put up with a lot of sacrifice as I've worked on http://ourdoings.com/ and money's been tight so I haven't been able to make up for what she's done. I'd use the money to take her somewhere special, and of course I'd share a picture/map of where we went here on FriendFeed. - Bruce Lewis

Oh for peats sake, it should at least be easier than winning the lotto. I'm in. - Eric - 100% Choice Cuts

I'll comment and be random...it's a good day to be giving away $$$ :) I would use any money won here to help my friends who are in such horrible need right now. (the story is on the blog and all over my FF stream). I may be unemployed, but I have a roof over my head, food on the table and can make some $$ freelancing. My friends are hanging on by less than a thread, already stretched way too far. - Karoli

Hey man, I love money. Also, I have no job. Also, I will say some incitement here: LEO LAPORTE IS AN ALIEN - Mike Nayyar

Make me your AIG! On the cheap no less. - Tracy Viselli

Well here goes nothin'. thxbye - April Miller

I'm pretty random... I'm in. - Jamie Grove

I wish I could be at SXSW. - Christopher Knopick

i'm feelin lucky :-) - Cardeen winedrunk

Interesting promo Scoble. Comment and win money. Cool - Sam R

so this is how you comment on friend feed.... - Noel Gomez

looks like i have a 1/300 chance of winning (right now). i'm predicting this number will diminish to 1/950. - Kevin Pruett

just to be safe.. - Cardeen winedrunk

Count me in! - Aaron Draczynski

good luck :) - Ömer Karapınar

I'll throw my name in the hat. - Chris Owens

Sounds like a plan. Let's see if FF has scalability issues with their comments. - Michel Goldstein

Yea! I need some money! :) - emdot

Why, not... Thanks Scoble! - Jim Porett

Welcome to the ScobleCashMachine. Enter your comment. - Olivier FAURAX

Put my name in a small hat and draw from it. - Ken Worley

I'm in. - aykut

If I win then I'll donate 0% of my proceeds to charity. Even more than that, I'll DOUBLE it. - Cody Robertson

Trust me I am still looking for the details.... Can't find them! - Ricky

Who wouldn't want to win? - Tom Silk

This is my first year of trying to "make it" on my own, with a camera and no "real" job. Just trying to scrape by ... to be perfectly honest I'll use the money to help pay off some debt that I have acquired since I started, which has definitely been causing me headaches and frustration. My husband has been a gem, paying the majority of the bills since I make very little, and I want to be closer to breaking even with my debt so I can start to help him out. :) - Nicole Young

new sponsor ? paypal ? - Gökmen Karasu

robert başkan parayı buraya getir. - bahadır canberk

Wow! I've outgrown my entry camera and this price is just what I need to be able to fulfill my dream; a Nikon D300! Please make my dream come true, Robert! - Graphfruit

Hit me, Fortuna. Papa needs a new MacBook. - Will Parker

robert are you a photographer - Dixon Hamby - Dixon Hamby

Geez, it's 2:10 am here in Berlin and you start just another interesting stunt. I will take the 1.750 US and pay a programmer to finish our "Virtual intelligent chatbot" project which offers affordable AI Avatars with personality for all kinds of virtual worlds like Second Life, Gaia, the web, Opensim etc. They'll be our 24/7 virtual workforce and a way to create immortal interactive portraits - Gaby K. Slezák

I like this idea. I'm talking with some friends this evening about how they'd each allocate $1750 if they were given this much money today to do anything with--most would share with friends and acquaintances that are going through tough tmes. One would help a friend who just closed down his company and is in need of dental work. Another would help co-workers whose hours have been cut... more... - Loren Heiny

I own Cisco stock. love that Co. - Christopher Mann

Count me in - Peter Szaro

a subject very interesting, congratulations in advance:) - Serkan Cura

An interesting way to find out what the limits (if any) of FriendFeed comments are. Also: show me the money. - Richard Akerman

Damn Robert Scoble: I meant "overly engaged" this thread is off the charts! - bcultral

I'll get me some of that - Phil Coyne

It's very interesting to see how many new people your offer has attracted to friendfeed. - Anne Bouey

Great idea! Count me in. - Mike

A comment for the $$$ - Jess Gibson

this sounds fun. - Wesley Robin Guerrero

I'd like to win :) - Sam Houston

i will love you forever. and evah evah. money would be spent on a nice camera (i'm studying photography) and supplies. working with a 5 year old p&s is getting tiring. :) - shannon

How can anyone NOT click 'like' or comment? I definitely 'pLike' (the p is silent - btw) this thread. :-D - Sean Hanna

a stunt? sure, but I could use an extra $1k. count me in, scoble - Seth Long

If I win the $1750 it will be applied to my son's tuition as he starts college this fall. - Jess Gibson

Is this stimulus money??? If so I'll use it to build infrastructure. There's a giant pot hole in our alley. I'll buy bags of cement and repair it myself. The neighbors will love me. - Greg

Who am I and what am I doing here? - Kris

I'm on it like white on rice. - Jay Lara

Wow, I'll take some money - I need hard drives for my Drobo. Seriously, I need to start up an emergency savings account. - Bryan Villarin

A chance to get paid to comment? Love it! - Ginger Kenney

Could really use some money to help plant some seeds for the future - Leonard Nelson

I'll buy an Iphone and with the rest put in my IRA to reduce my tax bill. Hey, helping economy and investing in business. Not bad. - Stephen Pickering

i would spend for my interrail trip.. - Yasin Müderrisoğlu

This is my lucky day, an email today said I won the UK lottery. - Bob Gannon

I'm going to buy half a Canon 5D Mark II. Or pay my bills. - Andrew Trinh

If i win, i triple win , because i live in a third world country (Argentina) and for every dolar y get $3,60 on our local currency, which is a good ammount of money here, for example, i could eat for 1 year or more :D - Ignacio Guerra

Ok. I would donate my winnings to the Bernie Madoff Defense Fund!@#$%^ - bcultral

I have dreadful luck when it comes to these kinds of things but I could really use this money. I have no car & desperately need to buy one. - Mattie Kenny from fftogo

Cool. And speaking of cool, PlanetHeidi.com is very cool. - dunsany

between building a new house, a new baby and a new job, I am sure I can put it to go use, btw congrats Robert on your new venture, I shall be keeping an eye on it. - Shane Wolsey

Cobble Sorter (anagram of Robert Scoble) = my random comment for the first part of the draw. - Daniel Rowley

Wow, there's like a lot of comments here! Great idea for publicity, Robert. Carry on... - Kevin Trotman

Watching Robert on Ustream right now. - John Rubier

$1000 USD goes a long way in Canada :) - Ryan

Thanks for sharing the wealth in more than one way - Matt Penning

I could have an actual vacation and pay down some more debt. - Todd Tripp

$1000 is mine! please? thanks Robert - planetMitch

1. my comment for 1k, 2. $1750 would be split into 3 gifts of $250 a piece to encourage the best new open source projects, and the other 1000 I would invest and reinvest in http://kiva.org , selecting entrepreneurs in third world countries to invest several microloans in. Its' a gift that, over time, can be reinvested over and over to benefit many! - David Silvernail

Take my hardworking wife on an overdue vacation - she supports me thru the IT bubbles. Thx hun! - mal

Probably will give it back to you, winning could be cool enough - Burcu Sarar

LOOKING for work but hand out will help - Ron

I'm in as well. - OyaD

C'mon Robert money or not now ya still benefit more with the insane publicity - Mrsth

well, we are curiously waiting the result, and also i'm in.. - Mücahit Yılmaz

Smart one - Heni Hazbay

Word Of Money. I am in:) - Yunus Arslanoğlu

I'll take it if your giving....it will go towards the camera fund! - Noelle Bell

I would use it to promote my tiny little super niche social news site http://HeavyAsHell.com The campaign would involve helping bands go DIY and avoid evil record companies. - MarkCarras

What kind of sick social experiment is this? :) - Oren Shomron

I'm in - Josue Fontanez

mmmmm, austin. i miss Trudy's, El Mercado, Magnolia, Wanfu, Kerbey, Chuys, Fonda San Miguel, Dog & Duck, Thundercloud, Waterloo, Amy's, Little City, Hut's, Green Mesquite. aw heck and Taco Cabana and Whataburger too! if i win, i'll spend it all on restaurants in Austin! - poxaV

pick me - Ryan

OK Robert, add me to the pool.... - Gregg

You can't win unless you play! Ok, I better start praying now.... :-P - Brian

:) - Orhan Yediyıldız

Hello, giving away your money randomly? I can comment for that. Best of luck to all! - Ronald Paul Corbin

Will you next tell us its limited only to Americans? I hate contests on the Internet, or anything on the Internet, that says "limited to the USA". The Internet is borderless... so should its contests and prizes - Colin Charles from twhirl

Thanks. I would use the $1750 to help my grandparents. My grandfather is 73 and my grandmother is 72. They just lost their 15 year home to foreclosure and are pretty much starting over with not a whole lot of time left. They are both on fixed income of SS and are now renting a house and trying to survive with the help of friends and family. When he as younger and had more money he was always the first one there to offer money to friends or family to help, even if it meant he went without something. - Jonathan Gotcher

Robert please consider partnering with (Facebook) Seattle's Seeds of Compassion 2.0: The Compassionate Action Network (Twitter: @SeedsCAN) -- this organization is building a supra global network of "Compassionate Action Networks" (a bunch of ex McCaw, Softies and CISCO) -- currently in the throws of leveraging Social Media and Seattle's creative communities (music, tech, film). Last... more... - dakini_3

I wanna buy a jet ski, that's my MONEY! - sofarsoShawn <Pop-Rocks>

Random commenting! I hope FF doesn't fail whale! - Zulema ❧ spicy cocoa tart from BuddyFeed

If I won, the money would go into putting insulation in my daughter's room & closet. Any leftovers would help buy a gas stove & fridge. :D - Zulema ❧ spicy cocoa tart

My, there has been some very good comments about what people would do... And some very needy people out there. - Grant Bierman

Like most, it would be an unemplyment extension for me. As mine ran out, no jobs in the area, and times are tough. But hey, BUCK UP not DOWN! the only obstacles that exist are in your mind. - Ronald Paul Corbin

I'll put some of the $$$ into donorschoose.org for some local classroom requests and the rest to fix up my car. - Pete D

comment left here - Brad Nickel

Count me in. - Keith - @tsudo

This is a cool idea. - Bluesun 2600

I would take the $1750 and go and get myself a root canal, so I could finally get out of pain. And if there was any left, I'd donate it at www.kiva.org - Bec Rowe @d0tski

Will comment for money, any time. - Dinah

Alright, I'm a sucker for free money so here goes... $1750 would be enough for me to buy an oven, sod my yard, and still be able to donate half to a charity. - FFing Enigma

I wouldn't say "no" to $$ - Ted Louie

I could use $2,000 just to pay off my credit card. That's about it - Outsanity

A $1000 would be geektacular. $1750 would buy my way into the cult of Mac. - Melinda

Monkey? - Penguin

$1750: Others need the money more than me, I'm sure of that. But ... that said I'd give $500 to a local library or literacy charity. $500 toward my home down payment fund. $150 to a kidney charity (my daughter only has one kidney). $100 for flowers for the wife. $100 for a bike for my daughter. $200 for a brake job. $200 to send at-risk kids to a Giants game. - AJ Kohn

I would pay off our one remaining credit card and put some portion toward a down payment on a new car. In fact, I'd probably give a slice to the EFF as well. I haven't given to them regularly since my last layoff. - Ha3rvey (F please!)

why would you do that? It's a sort of social experiment? - Niki Costantini

Will invest the money in my new unique microblogging startup :) - Sergey Bulaev

I wonder how many comments in this thread are their first on FF. Well I'm in. If I won money, some will go into savings and some will go to my favorite charities: Autism Speaks and Atlanta Boxer Rescue. - Carmen

yay first comment ever, though I suppose I should be commenting more - Wang Yip

Wow, a lot of people commented just while I was writing my own! For me, half the money would be for savings and health insurance while I'm still trying to get a job (recently graduated). The other half would be for the non-profit arts organization my friends and I just founded in our hometown, which has no supportive creative outlets for its youth. The money would help produce the tri-high school theatre competition we are currently planning and hope to put on soon. Great offer, Robert. - Kelly

One comment, coming up. - Michael R. Bernstein

For $1750 I'll either blow it on more photo or computer equipment. Or sock it away in my kid's college fund since it'll probably cost more than half the organs in my body to pay for by the time he's of age. It's a tough choice. - ronin

I'm all for free money Robert! - Michael A. Baydoun

Who wouldn't comment for a chance ... lol ;) - Brandon

If I win the money I'm going to establish world peace & have tons of sexy bitches serving me grapes. - sofarsoShawn <Pop-Rocks>

I would finally upgrade components in my PC and pay off some of our upcoming wedding debt! - Shmoe

I'd put it on black - John Kitchen

A percentage would undoubtedly go toward the health care fund, unfortunately. I'd allocate some for art and film supplies and give away the remainder. I've seen several comments here mentioning worthy projects and needs that are certainly deserving of attention and support. Thanks for sharing, Robert! - Chris Weige

Circuit City lay off would use on BILLS, BILLS, and oh yeah BILLS - Ron

I want to win your money!!!! - Andrew

Wow. This is kinda cool. If I were to win anything at all from this, I would ask that the money be instead given to fellow FF'er Anika Malone because it breaks my heart that her and her family are having to go without hot water, a dryer, their stove...due to their gas being turned off. Hard times have struck too many good people right now. :( - SOMEBODY!

400+ comments...wow! Guess 1000 bucks is motivation. I'd put the cash toward my photography efforts or go the boring route and invest it for now. - Justin Korn

The pure capitalist social media business model: simply pay users to come. - Michael Krigsman

It's so easy a caveman can do it!! - Fireman17

I would use the money to pursue my passion of creating LOLcats & bring endless joy to all the world forever. - sofarsoShawn <Pop-Rocks>

I sit here naked as I type. By the way, they're real, and they're SPECTACULAR! - Abbie Kendall

If I won, I would ... go to Disneyland! - Jerry Chacon

lol, great Seinfeld reference!! - Michael A. Baydoun

If I won the non-random cash prize, I'd use it for expenses while I was off work, recovering from my (upcoming) third brain surgery. - Abbie Kendall

I would love to use the money to stimulate the economy by purchasing a new hot water heater. Our current one is in need of being replaced. - Vaughn

Cool, this would help me stimulate the economy while I wait for my California state tax return. - Stephen Ip

Question: Is it one comment per way to win or one comment in general? I've made one comment above that says how I'd spend the money. Now I'll just be random: PURPLE MONKEY DISHWASHER - Bryce Roney

Okay, I'll play. I would return your money to you with a "let's do something better than this" remark. I would then ask you to actually read (reread?) the email I sent you about helping me get in contact with NPO's re: starting an OLPC-esque SMS-device project for said devices to be delivered in care packages around the world (via Red Cross, etcetera, etcetera) so that the poverty stricken and people in disasters could actually communicate with the world in real time. - trench

Good job ! - Alper

I am making this comment as the IT/Communications Director of FHL International, Inc.http://fhlinternational.org I want to feed babies of poor working and nonworking single mothers. I want to change the oil in their cars when they can't afford it or know how to. I want to feed their children good wholesome food. I want to give the refugees and the lost some hope for another day. If we spend it carefully and wisely we can make it stretch to cover a 3-4 outreaches and give you a write up. - Melanie Reed

random random random. macro lens, macro lens, macro lens. - Andrea Ewald

I would probably also tell you (via your infamous digits) why facebook sucks, why friendfeed pretty-much sucks, and why Twitter sucked but no longer sucks. And then I'd educate you on why we - yes, you and I (and Thomas?) - need to visit Turkey ( http://is.gd/7yQr ) and discuss these things further. Yes, k... logging back out now. Thanks. Make coat not war. - trench

@Robert as the IT/Communications Director, I would invite you to one of our events to cover it, put you on one of our videos and underscore the digital divide and what we can do about it. I would invite you to our UB cafe for the best pancakes in the world and have you look over our IT training provided by the IndyChristianGeeks in Indianapolis, Indiana and meet Dr. Thomas Ho, former... more... - Melanie Reed

Robert, I would also introduce you to my "boss", Merlin Gonzales, who started FHL International, Inc.: http://www.youtube.com/watch... - Melanie Reed

I'd use the money to pay off debt, and take some time this summer to work less and volunteer more. - Michael Kacer

What else would I do with some extra cash from Scoble? I'm thinking about making a difference via http://www.heifer.org/ and http://www.kiva.org - Anthony K. Valley ©

want the money for my project - Abubucker

Would love some money of course! I plan on using at least 3/4 of it to fund a new project I'm working on involving the iPhone and a web service. It would most likely go directly toward the cost of the project (registration fees, hosting fees, learning materials, etc.) - Brandon Titus

can you imagine if I actually won? - vijay

This is really cool. I love seeing all the people who would donate part or all. - Pixie

@qtbrowneyes - get in here :) We are making FF history. - vijay

That took a long time to scroll down here to make a comment. - David McDonald

Me FTW - Brian

Good luck with building 43—great name, great concept. - Dave

Interesting experiment. Can't wait to see the final results. - Shamir Katsu

< insert winning comment here > =P - vijay

I'm spending my winnings on wine and women - Zik Daniel from twhirl

Great contest. I'll give it a go. - Michael Molinar from twhirl

Why, thank you kindly, Mr. Scoble. - Victoria Plautia

I'd use the money to get a new iPod Touch and maybe pay the rest to my medical bills. :P - Mol, FF Music Lover

As far as how I would spend $1750: I'd love to say that I'm going to donate it all to a worthy cause like the EFF or the local mission, but I know I'll be selfish and just end up spending it in a blaze of glory at Fry's or during the next Woot-off. No point in trying to kid anyone here. - Michael Molinar from twhirl

hi! :) - امیر؟

Cool way to gain money :) - Richard Holas

I can definately use some cash. :) - Shawn Whitmire

I am in! - Edwin Khodabakchian

I would spend all the money for entertainment :) - Sinem Co

$1,750 or $1,000? In any case it would be a good stimuli to open a startup in Belarus - Aliaksandr

Wow, popular contest! I would use part of it to buy the Rosetta Stone package to help me learn French. I'm taking time off between my undergrad and graduate degree, and I figure learning a foreign language would be a great use of my time. I would use the rest to help pay rent when I get my own place, I'm going to be a Congressional Staffer in D.C. and the living is expensive while the pay sucks! Thanks Robert. - Keenan

If i get the $1,750, i'd give the money as $100x10 and $50x15 AdWords Coupons to the people who searched for the website/blog on pageboss.com for promote their projects like sponsored by Scobleizer.. And if Scob gives me $1,000, i'd spend all of them with my sweetheart Sinem :D - N.Onur ATAHAN

I would use the money to buy a laptop for my wife, a Kindle for myself and one year worth of school for two children that we know and support in Nepal :) - Sam Grover

i need money :-) - Dan

:) If i am lucky enough, i'll pick a random comment on this thread to give this money + 1$. Just to see how loop can be created. - Guy Vander Heyden

One more random comment - sam b-r

I'm in too :) - Eray Korkmaz

1 Timothy 6:10: "For the love of money is the root of all evil." If that's the case Scoble bring on the EVIL! WHOOOOOO YEAAAAAHHAHH EVIL!!! - sofarsoShawn <Pop-Rocks>

Beautiful, beautiful link bait. ;) - Chris Nixon from BuddyFeed

Most commented post :) - romanzolotarev

Wooow this post will be the most popular post of all times :-) I'm in! - Alp B.

$1750 would get me a DSLR and new macbook - Duc Nguyen

Wow, great idea to make new friends ;) (but a bit expensive?) - Pascal Hertleif

This is totally insane. I'd probably buy my mom the Palm Pre and 10% will go to charity (like always). - Nir Ben Yona

In a rich man's world! http://www.youtube.com/watch... ain't it sad! - sofarsoShawn <Pop-Rocks>

I need a netbook for my projects :) - Gepetto

That's a big hat you need... - Orli Yakuel

Yay! - Rich

I will by my wife a flight home so she can go and see her parents who she misses lots. Which means i'll have sole access to my (our) laptop instead of having to share it. I could just use the money to buy a new laptop but then i wouldn't get teh good sofa and control of the remote as well! - Jamie Vidamour

meow! - zenya isaychew

Let's see if I'm still the unlucky guy I used to be - Boubacar Balde from twhirl

I could be homeless soon, lost my job due to the economy, and getting unemployment that just doesnt cut it, I could really use the money to pay my rent, bills and feed my kitties, contact me via email Kyle.M.Weller+scoble@gmail.com or you could just hire me and I'll help you in any way possible, check my blogs, I could be useful. And I would return the favor 10 fold if I can, matter fact I'll search for 2 other people to help and blog about it/take photo's - Kyle Weller

I would keep half of $1750 and give the other half to the author of the comment I liked most, but only if he/she promises to do exactly the same. - stark

.I need a new Laptop - Selçuk Hoca

I`ll use 1000$ of the 1750$ to buy a lot of comments on FriendFeed :) - Vlad

I thought these kind of things happened only countries like mine which the goverment tries to build a begging culture just to keep the hope alive and dependent to the authority at the same time. Each reply begging for money is adding another brick on the wall of shame. And Bob, couldn't you find another way to publicize this? - M. Serdar Kuzuloglu

If I win I will invest it back for advertising! Just say my name 3 times on twitter like "Candyman". - Los Angeles Dj

So what would I do with the money? Half of it would go to the good cause. I want to create value for people and who other than the less fortunate, handicapped and so on deserve this? Right. The other would go to a business I'm building. One for the people, on that will change our lives fundamentally and is here to stay. - Kris

If I dont win this, i'll be happy to donate my time blogging or helping someone in any way right now, im jobless in Phoenix Arizona, I could do yard work or hook up pc's/fix pc's or help you with your website if I can - Kyle Weller

I'd invest half of it in Google Stocks, then the rest I would pay my rent, get kittie food, and try and advertise www.phoenixstickers.com with adsense so my girlfriend makes some money with it, its new and not very popular right now ;\ - Kyle Weller

Here is my comment : the best way to talk about something is to let people talk about, and 4500$ is a pretty advertising investment. but it is really interesting :) now the question is ; is there any way to gauge the effectiveness of word of mouth? good luck. - abdellah

Mmm....are u crazy Rob? :) Ok! I wanna a netbook give to me only 300$ ;) - Dario Salvelli

I'd give the money to Comic Relief (http://www.rednoseday.com/) to buy 250 mosquito nets for Africa. Two hundred and fifty saved lives? Bargain. - Robin Stacey

you are so generous robin you deserve to win :) - abdellah

why? - catepol

I don't need this money :) Because I'm still working. But you can donate to a charity organization if I win. - Süleyman Sönmez

I will spend the money attending game design workshops in when in San Francisco, to improve my theory about the use of game design techniques in social web applications (playfuldesign.org). - Federico [Kurai]

@abdellah Hehe. Anything that stops someone from dying of Malaria is all right by me. Besides, it's simple economics. With $1750, no matter how I invest it, I can't do more that what 250 people could do with the rest of their lives. - Robin Stacey

you are right, so let resume (generous, logic, awesome, and with a sens of humor), let ask the question differently Robin : who has no reason to win the money win the money ;) (it seams that all have at least one reason) human are really amazing creature. (ps: me too) - abdellah

I agree, I'd buy a jet ski and have so much kick ass fun! - sofarsoShawn <Pop-Rocks>

i'm in is too easy :) - Valentin Sandu

se vinco devolvo tutto a Mantellini - Luca Sofri

Trying to overload the comment stream? - Örjan Lundberg

I am here~~~LOL - K.D.

l'uomo a cui appiopparono la santità - azael عصير للمشيمة

I'll create a new world :] - ahmet kakıcı

yes please and I'll give half to my love oh and a bit to greenpeace - Julian Edward

if I win I will give $1 to everyone - Giuliastro

great idea, Robert! hope i'll win it.. i'll pay for my flight ticket, so i can finaly see you:) - Martin

Dear Robert, sağa sola para saçmak yerine gidip bi türkçe kursuna kaydolsanda türkçe öğrensen olmazmı? Hem bu yorumu anlardın bak ne güzel. Paran çoksa işe yarar bişeyler yap canım. - Ahmet Karaca

Robert! :) - Anıl Eren from fftogo

If I win, I will use them to finance my trip to L.A. next August. - Fabio Cristi

I'm in. - Tiziano Caviglia

Count me in. - Alexander Arsky

of course, I'm in. - Lorenzo

I'm in :). - Demircan Celebi

I'm in :) - Rıza Selçuk Saydam (RSS)

Ecchime. :) - Maxime

I'll take "I'm a Nigerian Prince" for $1000, Alex, err, Robert.! - Kevin Leroux

I have some debts.... and I have 11 sons... 34 grandchildren... 22 dogs... 16 cats... and I am a liar... a neeedy liar :-(((((((:-D).... GIVE ME CASHSHSHSHSHSSH... Ah... Goodmorning Mr Scoble - Daniel

I'd invest the money to my wife's startup that she starts next month. She'll be working around social media, blogs, photography etc. :) - Jemm

send all the money to germany :D - Carsten

whee! I'd use it to open my deli :) I see free lunches in your future *laughing* hell, I'd even dedicate a booth to you.. with a cool plaque and everything! - russa

This is going to be the longest thread ever - Manuela

I hope the money goes to someone that really needs it - Kyle Weller

Love to know your motivation for doing this Robert. Social experiment? See what people will do for money? You have a financial backing in Friendfeed & are aiming to stimulate usage? Either way, if I win, please donate the money to your favourite charity - Lindsay Davies

if I win I'll make a gift to my girlfriend - Ciccsoft

yo free money? I'm in! - danslarue

I would give it to a friend who is unemployed; buy a new computer, smart shirt and tie, give him his dignity & confidence back. It saddens me to see so many friends hurting right now. - Sally Church

I'll use the money by not using it (well, except for that 4pt escape clause written down below in the yet-to-be written contract between me and Mr. Scoble about the prize) - Daniele V.

oh, WOW! - Viditu - Umberto

This is the FriendFeed equivalent to leftover pizza in the breakroom. I could certainly use some $ right now. - Phillip

if I win I'll make a gift to Lehman Brothers - azael عصير للمشيمة

I'd rather type in nonsense, can I have Kaan's spot? - sofarsoShawn <Pop-Rocks>

awesome robert!! are you part of pres obama's stimulus package? LOL! hope i win the random $1000 contest =) - Melissa Solito

I'll stay tuned :P - Tiziano Tassi

In regards to the first prize, I'm in. - Armin Talic

crazy guy you are! "You're only given a little spark of madness. You mustn't lose it." (Robin Williams) - Johannan Edelman

I'm in too ;) - saicharan123c

So. this is my comment: I would use the money to buy a ticket to fly over to meet you and discuss if I could support you as some kind of correspondent over here in Europe (I'm in Germany). - Till

In regards to the second prize, I'd like to use the money to buy my brother and sister their first macs. I grew up on encyclopedia britannica CDs on Windows 95, they deserve Wikipedia on a Mac. - Armin Talic

@danslarue, "free money" these two word combined are more powerful then a TNT, if you can conceive or even think a second about a concept of "free money" then implicitly agree with the concept of "free work" and beside voluntary work they call it salvation . - abdellah

I would use the $1750 in part to purchase some equipment for the part time photography business (about $500). The rest would go to 2 friends who are hurting right now with Flagler County, FL's unemployment rate at just over 14%. - Jay Caruso

strange that no one, think to reverse the money to the 43 startup!! boys oh boys buy some action some part of this 43 startup may be it will be worth million :) - abdellah

At first i thought i'd start a similar thread and give the money i win :-) but, here's the truth... I'd use the money to pay the next month of dev, working with a partner on our hope to be successful web service. I'm jobless 9 months now, 3 months since we started pushing the idea forward, all done @ home. Will use the most to pay my bills, with the rest i'll buy dinner for some of the homeless people i usually ignore. - Majento

i need a new macbook)) - pet's

advertorial? - Elif Yılmaz

really? - Moses

gonna go to hollywood - Özkan Altuner

With this money, I am plannig to start a new company that develops social media applications. So if I win, I can give a job to you :)) - aydınn

the entire amount of money will be used to help the local communities in eastern congo and sustain conservation of the virunga national park in congo. if you prefere, you can do it right away without giving me the money, visit www.gorilla.cd/blog for a one-time donation / all donation are tracked and transparent :) - giulio

Brilliant idea and very noble of you, Scoble! (Sorry...I should leave the humor to my husband, who does a much better job!) LOL! I would use all the money to buy as many Radio Flyer kids wagons and send them out free to those that win a contest similar to this one! (I get them wholesale because I am an authorized dealer, so that would stretch the budget a bit more). - Pat Graham Block

I'd spend the money for future trips: I have ever wanted to see the milky way from the earth or see the Northern lights. But maybe, I could put the money aside and spend it for a parabolic flight when I have enough money (that's another lifelong dream). I would also love to go on safari in Africa and see all the amazing animals in the savanna. But maybe I should rent a car and feel the American dream at Route 66? Ah Robert, your money lottery helped my thinking about all my dreams again. Thanks! :) - Timo Heuer

I would use part of the money to donate to some podcasters or webcomic artists who are selling things on their website, like T-shirts, mugs and stuff like that. And buy a couple of domain names. Things I already do when tax return time comes, only this time more. - Derek Coward

Each post you make will promote this thread more and more thus decreasing the expected value, with this rate a post made a few hours from now will probably have an expected value of a few cents. This will be a very nice data . - Tuna

I need a new woman, please Robert choose me! - Francesco M.

cool :) I would use $1750 to buy cabinet-type gas-control point for cottage - Igor

I would spend the money of webhosting running free-of-charge computing services for open drug development (using open source utilities), such as used in Open Notebook Science and sorts. - Egon Willighagen

what's up. - pastas9

I think we will use the money to develop a desktop application for facebook very simple, actually, but that still does not exist in optimal form. I thought with a friend, but, since we are both students, we need a bit of $ $ $ to get technical advice from someone for some parts that relate to writing code (I study Marketing, and my friend is the final year of a degree in computer engineering). - Tiziano Tassi

Okey I give in. Scoble, finally you made me signup for friendfeed - shafiu

i'm in. also if this a psyco socialexperiment... - FedericaB.

hahah interesting to see anyways .. how many comments on the one thread - Terry O'Fee

Alright. This is my first entry. Chances are that I won't win....but it is exciting waiting to see if you do. :-) - Thebluestbutterfly

1) I'll spend the money to end my fear for airplane: so I can travel again. 2) i will organize a free public movie show here in Milano, all people sits in the night to watch the screen in the spring air - FedericaB.

@FedericaBellag, interesting :) and what if it is just a plain and simple contest? it may be more "word of mouth advertising" tracking experiment then psyco social one. (love the smile face) - abdellah

Who wouldn't want to join FF for $1000? - Samuel Driessen

I will use the money for paying up my college fees and taking up a course related to VOIP. People like Craig and Vincent of Grandcentral (which I use for 3 years almost), pat Phelan and more VOIP experts keep pushing me to do something great in that area. Also, great its open to any1 iin the world. Most competitions are US ONLY, which is something I HATE BIG TIME. I m in India Mr.... more... - Hardeep Singh Dang

@samuel, no the question is are FF team ready to pay $1000 for any on who join!!! - abdellah

@abdellah ok, let's be tracked then! that's my face at the office ;-) - FedericaB.

I will save the money. I'm an italian student studying abroad (Master in Digital Library), and those money could just be useful. They could be also a way to go in Jerusalem, following my girlfriend. Anyway, goo viral Scoble ;-) - Aubrey McFato

I bet half of the money, the prize goes to the 1000th commenter. - funkyboy from Posty

notice : the headline is "win my money" not "take my money", so we have to make effort, it is not a "free money" it is a make effort and win, so remember it is not "take my money" :) - abdellah

im in :) - shaff

Adopt me Robert! - Özer (Wrzl) Dölekoğlu

It's so hard to see whole of the comments. 620 including me now. :) - Meriç Dağlı

I would get an iron if I have been searching some water in the desert and I would be the ass part of the Voltran, when we have been arising it.... bacause I am so unfortunate - Lokman Köroğlu

.oO(i SHOULD be able to get D90...) - browneyes

you wanna DDoS FriendFeed :). I will use the money for a ff-contest when i pay people for the best comment. obviusly you can partecipate and win back your money. :P - ez

nice ;) - tbr (nicola) √

I'll donate some charities with 750$ of it. Buy a macbook with 999$ it, and set up a " First commenters win the buck. " contest via friendfeed. :) - Meriç Dağlı

It shouldn't be about the money? What kind of game is it? We still need to wait Is it somehow related to SXSW? - Aziz

Sure do wish I could be there at #sxsw - Gil Rodriguez

Hi, with that sum I would probably take a chance to stop and take time to smell the roses, at least for a while. - ziomau

nice way to see if there's a limit on the number of comments a ff post could get.. - Nicola Maggi

I could qualify for the $1,000, but not the $1,750 as I have two jobs. The only basis I could see is for a complete donation to an organization helping out of work people. We have a food pantry here in Beverly Mass called Bootstraps and a women's shelter in Gloucester, Mass called Wellspring that both would know just where that money could be best used. - Martha

Damn... money can do anything... - Eyal Shahar

I'll be practical when I win the money and invest it in the future....my childrens' education! - Kevin Dugan

@Eyal no, you can't win a contest even if you give money :) money don't do anything ;) - abdellah

@nicolas interesting question, and what do you think? does a thread have a comment limit or no? it all depend on the limitation, will this run eternally?no so there is a number of comment that people will post here it is a kind of buzz after the momentum there will be no comment let say there will be 50000 comment, FF are able to store such data. - abdellah

So being completely unbiased, with little if any interest, if I were Robert Scoble, handsome fella, I'd give the money to whoever stated first they would buy a jet ski due to the fact they are super fun! Oh, who knew, that's me! - sofarsoShawn <Pop-Rocks>

Great...I was juts talking over in TechCrunch that Robert does not need luck in his new venture "Building 43" and not it seems I am the one that needs luck to win the $1000 ....:) Thanks Robert Joao/TechFuga - TechFuga

a little is better than none. :) - Geyik Mühendisi

Well I started reading this thread, but I got a 1/4 way through & gave up, >650 comments, that's got to be some kind of record. What post does have the highest number of comments? - Glenn Slaven

Interesting... I guess there's nothing to lose by trying - Adi Sheleg

Ok, can't hurt to put one's name into the "hat"...p.s. good luck dude on the new gig... will be following closely... thinking cloud myself :) - Michael Lehman

Hmmmm. That is my comment - Darrell Bell

Commenting away in the Great Scoble Sweepstakes. - Warner Crocker

With $1750 I would spend half to get to next years SXSW which I am missing this year :-(. and the other half I would spend on sponsoring a deluxe drop in-childcare at the Austin Convention Center for the parent bloggers. - Emee Pumarega

I'm in too:) I would use the money for keeping an exhibition - Neya

Comment! This is the Robert Scoble Stimulus Package - Kreg Steppe

Spinning the wheel. FF FTW ;) - Daniel Krech

10% to charities of my choice, the rest to pay bills and allow me to keep working in the nonprofit sector. I'm at that level where I still need to do outside consulting to come out ahead at the end of each month, and $1600 would give me 4 months where I wouldn't need to get a consulting gig (yep, the budget is that tight) - Jeff Stern

The 4 minihawks would like to donate to their california school district to help offset the 1.5mm cutbacks. - Mrsth

I'm in too! - LJ Kyser

Of course MRSTH could use an overdue marathon weekend away with Mr. Hawk. - Mrsth

I can promise nice pics? - Mrsth

I'm in... - Halil Ahmet ÇAKIR

This thread will explode in 3, 2, 1... - Marta

I can upgrade to a macpro by winning :-P - Richard A.

wow this is the most comments/likes i've seen! - andy brudtkuhl

If I won either sum of money, I'd probably put it toward buying some camera gear, like a Nikon D90 and another lens. I have a couple family events that I'll be taking pictures at, and it'd be nice to have a D90 for them. :) I could go for a D700, but the D90 has video, so that's why I prefer it right now. - Cheryl Jones

@Jason H - Whether or not either of us wins Robert's money, I have a timeshare near Disney that I haven't had the opportunity to use in the past few years. If you can get yourself airfare, a rental car and park tickets, I'll be happy to let you use the week, no charge to you. The dates are October 24-31, 2009. - Sally - Skyrimmin' It

what r we copying Ben Stein now? - clarke thomas

Congratulations to you and Rocky on the new gig. - Aron Michalski

With $1750 I'd give money to the National Multiple Sclerosis Society, to help fund research for a cure and treatments so my mother and others with MS can have an improved quality of life. I'd also give money to the American Diabetes Association to help my father and others living with diabetes. I'd give some to @smallcanbebig to help needy families locally (Boston) and hope to have enough left over to take my son to visit his grandparents in FL. He's 6 mos. and they've only seen him once, at Christmas. - Sally - Skyrimmin' It

Robert, I want your money. Do I have to work for it? - Aidha

I'm in. I wanne buy ı mac pro. - Rıza Selçuk Saydam (RSS)

I'm in robert! - Junal Rahman

on that money is the side of the monte man. what's this it :) scoble iki dakka delikanlı ol lan paran fazlaysa git yardım kuruluşlarına, özürlüler, kimsesiz çocuklara ver mngoduum kapitalist pçleri. - Volkan Yılmaz

hehe :P - Geyik Mühendisi

Yes please. The odds are way better here than playing the lotto - Christian Burns

I can't wait to see the effect of putting my name on this illustrious list of luminaries - David Gallagher

that's a smart way to get attention :) - PaperDoll

With USD1750 I could finally prove that friendfeed is not a complete waste of time... - Morten Josefsen

I would probably go for a D90 :-) - Nils Sandin

if you come to shanghai/China, we can have a dinner and go to bar :) - 赛林（土耳其）

I enter not because I need the money (I'd give it away too) but because me entering slightly reduces all of the rest of your chances to win. MUAHAHAHAHA - Nate True

My Scoble $1750 stimulus package spending plan: Give my son (the struggling Mac/iphone developer) $1,000 in "angel funding", get a Drobo ($500), and put $250 in my Grandson's (future Mac) savings account. - Al Degutis

Just for fun :) - حسن

Pick me, pick me, pick me for the $1000 giveaway (if you don't pick me for the $1750 Scoble Stimulus). - Al Degutis

more people should do this. Many people or businesses could afford to give $1,000 - Lady Lovely Heart

i would donate some of it maybe half to a local worthy charity, the rest would go into a fund that would be used to encourage this type of activity. Conversation building, with the right questions a lot of solutions can be found by crowds - Tweet Feeds

My intent for the big prize would be to replace windows in my home with energy efficient ones. the ones in the house now are cracked from the house settling. they are the original 1959 windows, and they rattle every time a plane goes over the house. very distracting when we are trying to concentrate or stay warm - Lady Lovely Heart

I can haz money? - Bryan R. Adams

Big money. No whammies. STOP. | I would use the winnings towards upgrading my equipment (Mac Pro) since my current setup is pretty bad for video. I would sell my current MBP (2006 First Gen) and use the proceeds towards the new machine. I would pump out twice as much HD content with better equipment. Thanks for all you do Robert..I know whoever wins will make the best out of the cash. - Bwana ☠

Take my husband to the Grand Canyon for that honeymoon we never had--that's what I'd do with some extra cash. - joansjewels

I agree, nice way to get people engaged. - Gary Gifford Jr from Nambu

Show me the money! :) - Ale♪nastrorosa

actually, I don't want your money - Manuela

That's quite ingenious =) - Count Caturday

I'd buy a laptop so that I don't have to wait for the missus to get off the ruddy computer and let me have my go on it!!! - Andy

a nice way to test the limits of commenting feature on a bunch of real people just for US$1000. - 9000

I will use the money to buy $1 stocks in companies that will re-bound or will be more successful in the next 2-5 years due to the ongoing financial crisis. My choice will be guided by those companies that care, share and have flare for others...a community stimulus...hope others will join and build what the "financiers" could not. - Gordon Montgomery

It seems too easy, but.. here ya go! - Scott Breakall

You'll be my best crazy friend! *LOL* - Andrea Spedale

1. Cool 2. Travel for VC meetings so I can finally provide some solutions for RSS that we argued/discussed 2 years ago (delivery of premium content possibly over open channels) - Andy Beard

here I am :) - Fran

Yo Robert, did you give it away yet? Here's my chance to win! ;^) - Michael Bailey

@manuela, but personally I want more comment from you. - abdellah

awesome idea. by the way, how goes life without diet coke? - tracy

I'd use it to help an independent artist with their career. Rentals for video equip on shows and music videos with stories that would otherwise remain untold. - Frank Jonen

I'm in - Lucas Araujo from twhirl

I refuse to comment in this thread. - Akiva

How can I win? - Gloria Gordon

Woah! So is this part of the Scoble Stimulus plan? Anyways, if by some chance I did win the money I would use either towards moving out of my parents house later this year or put it towards my student loans. - Mathew™ aka Youngblood

@Akiva you also deserve to win., I insist please comment this thread please. - abdellah

I'd use the money to go to Korea. - Mark Woodson

I would use the money to fix the economy. - Andy Bakun

Andy: you get it right, please fix that economy. - abdellah

Its enough to buy one toliet seat for the government :) - Roberto Bonini

Robert could fund nails and shingles for building a small seminar facility in the Adirondack State Park. - Jeff Archambeault

With $1750 I would buy a lot of toys for the baby we are waiting.... - roberto ferorelli

I count at least 6 references to "donate to kiva.org" so far. Pretty cool. That is what I was going to write, but looks like many other's beat me to it. But hell... If I got it, I would donate to Kiva.org. :) (make it 7 now). - Shannon Bauman

JET SKI! - sofarsoShawn <Pop-Rocks>

Sounds like a great idea. - Tyson Key

awesome idea. - Jessie

Give me $10,000 in unmarked bills or I tell Maryam your giving away $4800. - shelisrael1

joy and joyness! - Jenn Castro

Nothing special here, just want to pay some outstanding bills and get supplies for my 3mth old =) - Mat Finch

Quickly put in a reply while thinking about a smug way of spending 1.750... - Stefan Kolle

Yeah, I think I'll stick with the Kiva donation too. I'm pretty prolific there (a true believer), and have about that amount outstanding in loans, so the chance to double my Kiva loans in one go would be outstanding. - Stefan Kolle

is this gonna have like 1000+ comments? - Jorge Murillo

I'm bummed I couldn't get to SXSWi so I came to Robert's ATM machine instead. :) - Laura Zickus

in. - Richard Lawler

No comment :-P - Richard A.

Bump! - Tyson Key

I'd love to say I'd do something altruistic with the money, but I'd invest it all in my startup (we're doing cool things with information and emotions online). In this economy every little helps :-) - jennielees

Out - Roberto Bonini

Awesome. Looking forward to what's next. - Andy Sternberg from fftogo

Yay, the Scobleizer Grand Prize Giveaway- Still more chances than the National Lottery! - Tyson Key

FriendFeed Scales! - Tyson Key

with $1,750, I would I would set up 7 performance art / photoshoots uptown here in Charlotte in the center of Bank Town at lunch time, wordlessly demonstrating some of the problems (as I see them) with our current corporate culture. I have the first one of these ready to go but don't the cash to set up the others (yet). If I only got the free $1000, I would buy some more studio lighting equipment (much to the chagrin of my roomy). - Shannon J Hager

Why? Why? Why? - Ashish Rangole

in - Roozbeh

Bella idea! :) - Daniele_MD

with $ 1.750 I would buy a laptop + microphone + router for my parish and start broadcasting with kids. - astridula

Hey Robert, I think this is the most commented entry on Friendfeed. btw I don't want your money :) Cheers - cihanergur

just testing my luck :) - DenizEdincik [bluesign]

sure, I'll play. as for how I'd use the money, I'd probably use it to help offset the cost of my lasik surgery. - chrisofspades

I would use the money to fund my own open source development work (within the php symfony framework) as well as supplement my wife's pending maternity leave. Realtors don't get paid maternity leave... Thanks! - Jon Issler

Scoble rocks, count me in! - Chris Pugh

I would use the money to assist my parents in their move back home closer to the adult children. They are currently existing on 18k a year, their Medicare and Secondary insurance cost them 10k. It would help buy their medications. - Janet

I'm sure that there are a lot of deserving people who need this money so best of luck to all. I would give this $ to my mother who had to sell her business after working so hard, cause she was diagnosed with lung cancer. Now she has to work for someone part time cause still sick, husband laid off in Florida, trying to pay off house, med bills, prescrip, barely making it & gov't no help cause not appv'd for Medicare cause married, what? so considering divorce just to afford medical bills & mortgage. - M.E. - monica Edwards

I've blocked u, so if u wanna get back on my list....:) - Koba Yaschi

This is really good. I'll buy a Nintendo Wii. :) Thx. - marrup -serkan-

Here's the rundown with what I'd do with $1750: I want to do a Power Rangers fan film. No joke. Stop laughing. No really, you can stop now. Power Rangers has been on the air for the past 17 seasons, and it's finally getting canceled. This has inspired me to shoot a film short inspired by the show I grew up with. The $1750 will be invested to bump it up to looking professional. Scoble can be the Executive Producer! Don't pass up on that chance. Ok, you can stop laughing now, lol. - Lisa J

I want money - Tyler (Chacha)

Tuition for 2010 Iowa Summer Writing Festival courses, at Iowa Writers' Workshop. - Paola Bonomo

It would go into the funds I am raising to start a new print venture, tbnl, which will publish great, timeless stories (fiction & nonfiction) in a limited edition (subscriber only edition), a print-on-demand edition available for years and a digital ebook reader. Paying writers & artists on an ongoing, fair basis - Shannon Clark

I'd love to have some Scoble Dollars. They'd help fund my exit from technology to academia. - Tom Morris

Hi Robert, Congrats on new opportunity with bldg 43 Can I share your money with my 18 month old daughter AKA the Joy transmitter or perhaps I could drop it form the sky with my tandem paraglider over the Microsoft campus... - John Clifford

It's impossible not to comment - although if it wasn't Scoble saying this, I wouldnt bother to be honest, as I'd suspect a con ... - Ian

760 comments and counting... - Mike Doeff

I guess a SECOND MacBook would be nice… - Alexandre Testu

Is it for VAT? - Onur ALMIŞLAR

I'd use the money to buy crack. I mean books for children. Oh, wait, it's random... - Jules Morgan

Wow! I think I would invest them for developing an iPhone application - Nicholas

Hi Robert, my first comment on friendfeed, I couldn't resist the chance. You do know that Tuesday is St. Patrick's Day - I'll buy you a leprechaun hat from the parade in Dublin to celebrate! - Niall Sisson

Leaving Comment here. Hope it finds a good home. I would use the money to start a shelter for lost comments. - Joe K

No 419 scammers yet? ;) - Tyson Key

Great! As this 'WTF' crisis in Madagascar is causing everything to be sooo difficult now! - Thierry R. Andriamirado

better try... - grouchomax

That's like a lottery :) I'm in ! - Il gareth in Milano

I would put together a new computer, like to see BOINC running on a quad core. - Willem (@wim66) ☠

Great way to engage Robert! - Sampad Swain

I'm here! And I'd like to switch from PC to Mac... :D - Giovy

Rackspace customer and big fan... Looking forward to this new venture! - Charlie N. Browning

Surprised you have fallen as low as this Robert. Still, been there and done that before so best of luck and best wishes with Rackspace. - Paul Fabretti

Um, awesome. - Nick Humphries

count me in - Edward Kimble

If I win, will post about the same in my blog and you'll be famous in India too (if you're not, that is). BTW your fan following can add upto 45 million Indian internet users (Smirk!). Now how about that Mr. Scoble? Game for it....Oh man, this is quirky fun! Keep up the good work Robert :) - Sampad Swain

I would use the money to fix _my_ economy. And by my economy, I mean I'd blow it all on strippers and blow. - Jon Ursenbach

The amount of comments in here is insane. What's the record for the FF entry with the most amount of comments ever? Because this one feels like a winner. - Brad Butner from twhirl

you lucky! in Italy we can's setup a contest like that one easily and free, we have to pay taxes :( - Maurizio Mazzanti

If I won $1000, it would go to my first Mac since a Mac+ ! - Steve Ellwood

am still undecided on your real motive...... but then again, pecunia non olet..... ;) - denise

787 comments ?? wow!! Scoble u are the Brad Pitt of friendfeed... anyone else see the physical resemblence? - Cody Heitschmidt

Um, no, I don't Cody. Sorry. Scoble is taller. - Roberto Bonini

just leave a comment. well her's mine - Rachel Clarke

well its not identical I know Scoble is a little taller, but other than that Anfgelina could easily confuse the 2. - Cody Heitschmidt

I'm in! - «Weird & Sons»

eh what the heck, im in :) - ralphsaunders

This is interesting, but too many comments to read unfortunately. - Mitch

Simulate me, Scoble! - Robert Owens

That would be awesome, I could put the $$ towards my vacation to Kauai in August. Thanks Scoble, I promise to provide you photos from the vacation PF. - Pentaxfan

I'm bending the corner of my comment so it sticks out - Just Ken

pick me! Pick me! :) - Dania

This is great.. thanks Robert! =) - Timo Ukkola

I'll buy whatever Apple is developing with that rumored 10 inch multitouch display.. - Peter

too much comments..pick me! - magari sul tardi

. - Smeerch

Jet ski, I need one - sofarsoShawn <Pop-Rocks>

If I win this thing, I'll be most hated person on FF. god help me!. - Ozan Caglargil

For a small advance fee, I can take part... - Gordon Joly

i'm in, too.. - Sercan YILMAZ

You're not really going to write down all these names & pull them out of a hat are you? - Mrsth

I'll need a credit card that got no limit-cuz we all just want to be rock stars - Mrsth

Mrsth: I bet he'll find a script somewhere to pull all the usernames into a file, as only Scoble could do. :) Any amount of money would likely go towards my photography business, should I be chosen to win... it would be fun to put a portion of it towards prizes for the photowalks I'll be starting this summer in northern Vermont for area photographers and enthusiasts. - Bob M. Montgomery

Are you trying to create "the most commented thread" on friendfeed? Here's my comment however: what will I do with my 1750$? Probably I'll use them as a "microfound" for a webapp I'm thinking to... :P - Napolux from twhirl

814th post! - Tyson Key

I like free money. Was it already given away? - nsnadell

I'd like to say that I'd do something noble should I win but there's no nobility in ordering cases of wine and giving my liver a good workout. Plenty of enjoyment, though. - Mark H

I'm in! :) - Vlad Rafeev

I would use it to not have an excuse for not recording my album. That is to say after 15 years of putting it off, I would stop procrastinating. - Vicky

wow for real? thats insane - ralphsaunders

I'm in and I'd probably put the money towards building my deck (not super exciting but still...) - Trevor

Starting to think I should post a reason why I want it... - ralphsaunders

I'm in! And I would use the money to buy my mom a present. She just turned 52 :) - Alex Kapranoff

I'm working on a funding for a research application for a semantic web project that I hope will become the next big thing (one of the next big things, anyway). If I succeed, you'll be the first person I ask to cover it! - Sam Kuper

Money, money, money, money ... MONEY! - Great Scott!

You guys do know that Scoble is essentially bribeing you to comment here? Large carrot and a small stick. - Roberto Bonini

Didn't stop you did it? - ralphsaunders

LOL. In my defense, I was performing a public service. *ducks* - Roberto Bonini

Hey I'm in. Is this the most commented entry in the whole of FriendFeed? I'm guessing that it will be. Anyone know what the previous record was? - Peter Kelley

I'd use the money to help get my wife's specialty dessert company off the ground: www.thesweettreatcompany.com - Michael Listberger

Can't wait to win your money... I'd use it to pay for some much needed camera gear and the rest of it to plan a trip to a city I've never been before so I could photograph it. I would love to be able to do something with photography, but it's tough working full time and going to grad school at night, all on my own dime. I don't have it as rough some people, but I've had to earn everything I have so I make no apologies for it. - Michael

Good luck sorting thru the 800+ comments :) If I won the money, I would repeat your experiment and give it all away (though I'm sure I would get no where near as many entrants as you) (P.S. It's not that I couldn't use the money, but I think it would feel good to help someone who needs it more than me). Good luck everyone! - Helen Hoefele

He won't notice if I comment twice, right? ;) Nah, I don't do that. But, holy crap! This is a lot of comments! - Mike Nayyar

I sure could use $1000. Would go straight to funding Taskerrific. $1750 would be even better, because I could get a new computer and a year's hosting, based on my current estimates. - Chris Charabaruk

I would use the money to fund my plastic drumming addiction. Hellooo pro drum set hacked to play Rock Band! - Chieze Okoye

So I wonder how many comments a FF post can handle? - gfurry

I would use the money to pay my taxes so the needy executives will still be able to get their bonuses this year. - gfurry

Hey Robert. Hard to say the best way to spend it without doing too much work to make it be most useful, but if it could be used to do something radical with what is going on with the Fed, I'm sure you know that Ron has a bill in Congress to Audit the Fed. Very soon things are gonna be way worse for us on this planet if things are not done to stop the insane people from making some really bad choices. So the money should go to someone willing to do something really radical to save our country from ending. - mikehedge

Weird. I was just thinking about how I needed about $1750 in ones to sew together and waterproof in an effort to make myself an umbrella top to fix the one I ripped yesterday. So...yes, that's what I'll do with it. I'll even give you a free picture of it in exchange for your dollars! (Leftovers will be donated to credit card debt. :( ) - Brett

what is going on here? - potatohai

mortgage and beer, yo! - Adrian

I'll put the money into microlending; a good social/economic ROI. - Phil Wolff

I want to say something conservative like pay down my debt or put it in the kids college fund, but I'm going to go out on a limb and say that I would use the money to buy myself a bass guitar. Just something I've been wanting but don't have the discretionary income to afford it. - Eugene Huo

850+ Comments? That has to be some sort of record for friendfeed in just over 24 hours. - WiseYoda (aka Patrick)

Win money? Count Me IN! - Dave

I want to win money! - Matt Bebich

hi Robert Scoble :D yeah count me in! - OmniDragon

$4500 closer for next TED. Plenty of time to work on the invitation! jgx - Jennifer Green

Bring it on! Love your feed from SxSW! Now, send me the money! - Gene

OH good money for college... or to buy a new computer... - Laaabaseball

I want to win so that I can buy me a Macintosh,so count me in. - frank harvey

Hey, Rob help a sista out! Give me da money! - Jackie

saw you on Chris's live stream @ SxSW...free money count me in! - Jason

Money rocks - Shawn Farner

If I won $4500, I would install central heat and air in my house. You would make my life so much happier! - Auriette Lindsey

$1,750 would go to the nonprofit volunteer org I'm trying to get off the ground :P - Shawn Farner

Diapers for Newborns. $1750 split evenly to the most socially active on http://bebepool.com (my free web service enabling expectant parents to run their own baby pool contest). Most active meaning the 10 pools with the most participant guess entries Jan-Feb. I will paypal $175 to each winner and blog the results inclusive of the funds origin & any statements from the families impacted. I've seen the bebepool community show their own generosity (http://burnurl.com/YvHNL0 ), so would love to full circle it. - Micah

Scoble the human Roulette wheel. - Rob

wow. must be the post with the most comments i've seen on friendfeed so far. - simonpure

With 1750 I'd do the ever boring "keep paying off the wife and I's credit cards" - Steve Boerner

Any and all the money I win will go for building this charity app we are planning. Every cent spent will be accounted for and would be posted on a web site (TBD). Additionally, we will be spending our own money and time on this. @scobleizer, please ping me if you would like more details. - Ashish Rangole

lame - Vezquex

Behold, my comment. Hi Robert, I saw you at SxSW. - Michael Lee Wise

I'd put up the first Bldg 43 Billboard - http://tinyurl.com/1750-00 - Rob

Tipjoy $1 each to the first 1,000 or 1,750 (depending on prize) commentors in this thread who have a Twitter account. - Hao Chen

With $1750, I'd put up another "Win my money" post on FriendFeed, and see if people bite more or less than for your money. And then figure out why they liked your money more (social-networking experiment 2.0). - Ivan Zuzak

Robert kardes kusura bakma Ingilizcem iyi degil. 1750 gaymeyi bana verirsen sirket acarken kullanacagim. toparlarsak : $1750 + 10 000tl = design company :) - Uur

Interesting. :) /sits down and waits - PiDave

Emergency is an independent, neutral and non-political Italian organization, provides free, high quality medical and surgical treatment to the civilian victims of war, landmines and poverty. http://www.emergency.it/index... - Cristian Conti

If i won the money, I will write a easy to use friendfeed app for iphone :) - cem

very cool idea - Kate

$1750= Paying off my medical bills... no, not enough. Gas, food, rent... mmm, scratch that. Funding my craving for more, new camera equipment.... perfect. You, rightly feeling good for what you want to do,... priceless. - Kate

mi piegherò al Dio denaro, ma almeno lo farò nella mia lingua madre :) - Tambu from twhirl

I will use the money to put towards a deposit on a flat. Currently I am living between my parents and my partner and daughters. I have two children from a previous relationship so will use the money for a deposit on a place which is central to both location - Joe Dawson

I'll use the money for a much needed, long overdue, 2 month break and go to India to relax from this hectic world… - Adi Sheleg

hard to win easy to spend. - ismail ünal

Scoble, fund me a startup! - Toni @ NavinoT

i'll use the money to get out of this place and start running my own business - Claudia

I'll fund prototype of my p2p language learning startup - Artyom

In case I win, I'll upgrade my networking status to "notworking" status. At least for a month. During that time, I'll have more time to make blog posts and enlighten self taught musicians and producers who are fighting to make music in their bedrooms. And I will buy some cookies for myself, in case I forget to eat - ilterocktive

I'll get a haircut, and get a real job. - Adrian

Comment #895 - Anthony K. Valley ©

I would donate the money to Warchild.com, whose cause is to give children in war zones around the world a peaceful future. - Alexander van Elsas

lascio un inutile commento pure io - AdamoLanna1(chiuso)

Sei un chiattone, bob. Simpatico, però. - jokerulez

Considering some people worrying about taxes, I'd just like to state that up here in Canada, lottery and contest winnings are not taxed. At all. - Chris Charabaruk

Sorry, I don't want money, we've got too much ! - Benoit Bourdin

Benoit: I'd be happy to help you get rid of some of your surplus, if that's really the case. ;) - Chris Charabaruk

In response to happyseaurchin's question above, I propose tiprojx http://tiprojx.wordpress.com/ ... If anyone reading this who has a twitter account tweets an idea for a (social change) project with one or more of the hashtags #tipme #tipshare #tiptodo #tipif ... a whole lot of new projects have the potential to 1. gain crowdsourced funding and 2. be collaboratively refined in the process. I'll split the money between my favourite tagged ideas posted before midday (GMT) next Tues 24 March. - Hannah Lewis

If I won $1750, I'd use the money to hire a local (Austin) freelance UI/dev to help me finish my social sports service (commi.sh) and pay for hosting for a year while we grow it. - Carter ♥ HTML5

OMG. Robert Scoble jumps into "paid per comment". This is the end. My only friend, the end. - Davide Pozzi

ok, this is definitely a test for building43.com. does friendfeed run on rackspace? Rob, you trying a massive test of comments or live commentary, or something like that. i can bet you're analyzing this data on rackspace. you're making the new friendfeed search of organized live conversations/streams. - Reji

did i win? lol - Ivan Stegic

Another social experiment?!? Sure, I'm in for a little bailout money!!!! - Ferwin from Nambu

If I win I will hire someone to keep track of these little contests ppl like Scoble play from time to time.(since this kinda contests will be the newest #trend from now on) - Manoj

Comment 909 and counting. New pool ~ When will Robert break his own record. - Russellreno

910! - Tyson Key

Will Tomorrow be my Lucky Day? I will buy $1750 dollars of PowerBall tickets and then give 90% of the winnings to help feed children in Africa. - David Clements

This money could really help me in my current situation. Unfortunately I recently had a tumour removed from my bladder, which has really turned my life upside down. Overall, this has resulted in me having to miss and therefore finance two extra years at University. I’m currently 21 and studying BA Hons Economics at Newcastle University, England. I’m pleased to say that my health seems... more... - Daniel Rowley

Very funny! :D Did I win something??? :D - Matte

ain future economic prosperity! I would also donate $250 to Malaria No More: http://www.malarianomore.org/.... Thank you for the opportunity. - Daniel Rowley

wow..If I win I will buy a bike.. and travel around India... God bless me!! - sirishkumar

If I win I will buy a ticket to SxSW next year and watch Scoble get totally wasted and take pics of legs with his camera... - Ross

Pick me, pick me. - Amit Morson

As for the $1,750 - I will donate it to the first children related cherish organization that approaches me. - Amit Morson

With $1,750 I would be able to afford the flight back to Austria and support my dad who has to undergo his 3rd surgery and eventually also the 4th. - Verena Fuchs

I would sell it! =) honor would be enough for me... - Goktug Gedik

I would use the money to purchase a head stone for my mothers grave. - Ardail Smith

i would use the money for a long hot summer :) - Samuel Kreuzer

I'd buy $1,750 worth of green energy stocks, most probably geothermal - Fabio

Robert - I would use the money to buy good microphones to make an internet video series about Nerd Revolt. http://www.numeriklab.com/2009... I would then use them to document the 2009 Decibel Festival in September: http://dbfestival.com After that, who knows - but I promise to come up with something good! You can't document musicians without good sound :) Thank you, Erica - Erica Toelle

I would use the money to pay my out-of-state tuition! - Kevin Mohr

i would like it in a brief case... small unmarked bills please - ray parisi

I'd use $1750 towards a down payment for a first home. My wife and I recently had a son, and our apartment is shrinking at an alarming rate. - Chris Heald

i'll be a materialistic bastard. i'd pay my bills while still trying to search for a job in this life sucking, non-forgiving city. yup. that's what i would do. ramen noodles are no fun when you're not in college... - ultimate_loser

if i win this money i'll use to buy some equipments for the university, but not only for me. i'll buy two computers, one printer, and so we can do our university newspaper. this money will be a contribute for the free press, in a nation like italy, where every voice is subdued to the power. give us a chance! - Riccardo

Leave a comment here, and I can win. Ok, done. What's next? There's something about a second way to win, that looks like I need to state what I'd use the money for. Simple: to continue to make uplifting films, like I did this year for the 168 Project. Need to make a few payments still. The rest will go towards next year's film. - Mike Shields

Way too easy ;) - Gregg Wenger

I'd put it towards a computer and software I need for my new small business I'm setting up after 4 years off work with a broken back - Rob Bell

Mee Two :) , i'll use it for world Piece - Chirag Chamoli

Mike: watch http://www.ustream.tv/studio at about 4 p.m. today (Austin Time, which is about 2 p.m. Pacific Time) and we'll pick the winners live on that show. - Robert Scoble

I'd like to join this competition to make a chance for the money for my new developing start-up. Could use it for sure, development is costy these days! - Coen Jacobs

I'd use the money to pay for an artist to help me out on a Palm Pre/Windows Mobile app that I'm working on. - Alastair Maggs

Robert, great gesture! I would give all of the $ on your behalf to this worthy cause: http://friendfeed.com/e... - B2B Specialist

Took the challenge. Opened account from my couch with iPhone. Curious to get the rest of the story. - Georgiana Dearing

Generating metrics I presume Mr Scoble? - Stefan Szo

OK heres my comment! - Randy

OK, first the 'leave a comment here' bit - here it is. As to what I'd do with the money, my wife has been made redundant and two days later someone crashed into my car while it was parked - so I guess I'd put it towards replacing the car and rebuilding our lives. Actually that sounds a little melodramatic, it's only a car, but it would be useful. Unless of course UK residents aren't eligible for this in which case I guess I'll just sit at home and sulk! - Guy Clapperton

I'll switch SocialToo from Amazon EC2 to Rackspace if I win - Jesse Stay

Win money? No, thanks. but I DO wanna earn your money :). Send details to onno@media44.nl or visit http://www.media44.nl - MEDIAFORCE

$1750? My answer is simple. I would use it to help fund our movie. To purchase wanted equipment, better food for cast/crew, throw an awesome wrap party. Then, if we had any left over, we would use it towards our next movie. Also, you would get a free copy (format of your choice) and an Executive Producer credit. It'll be on IMDB and everything! This could be an awesome help for a trio of tired, driven, motivated filmmakers who want to change the game for movie-making. - Anthony Thompson

I would spend $1,750 on a iPhone App using fbConnect for my financial services startup which I otherwise wouldn't allocate a budget for. - Abhimanyu Chirimar

Gosh, there are a lot of comments. Is this a FF stress test? - Morton Swimmer

I'm in! - Simon Holliday

I would use the money for development of gCaptain 2.0 with the goal of dethroning the oldest magazine in continuous print, Lloyds List, from the maritime news sphere of influence. - gCaptain

I will hire a scholar to make my research few hours a day so I can follow your tweets!!! :D - Jesús

I'm in, what would I do with the money? well, I'm a teenager from Cairo, Egypt, and I plan to start podcasting during my vacation "first video podcast in Egypt" and work on my blog, I don't have enough money to buy an HD camcorder so I would use the money to buy that and get a domain name for my blog and go pro, and if there is enough money I would buy an iPhone. - Ahmed

I'd take the family out for a meal at the Gaucho grill http://tinyurl.com/3pc8ur - mike williams

I would give the money to this young man in his fight against hodgkins lymphoma. He is the nephew of my daughter's preschool teacher and I would do anything to help him out, but we don't have much. As a former soccer player, current coach and human being... my heart goes out to him and his family. Anything would help. http://tinyurl.com/cch2uy - Jason

Not yet in the position to give like you give, I do what I can. Giving spirits garner unselfish hearts! - http://budurl.com/ynkm - Carlo At Your Service

This is the most epic thread ever, i put off replying all weekend but i think its about time i joined in. I think if i won i'd propose to my girlfriend because id be able to afford a ring! Or, we'd go on a nice much needed holiday. - Simon Wicks

I'd give the money to Daniel Rowley (comment above). Seems like he has a genuine need. - Dustin Curtis

Interesting (and a few not so) comments. Most people are here for the easy money, leaving a random comment and then closing a tab. No blame here, since it's the rule of the game. Do you know that in order to permanently change the world you just need just a little bit compared to the big picture to get you over that hard to reach top? Well, that's what I would use it for, to get that jolt, break the barriers and climb over that first, impossible top. - Lorand R. Minyo

hey! easy game Mr Scoble :) I'm here :D - Guillaume

What a cool idea. I would definitely use the money towards taking another class. Assembly? Lernin is espensive. - sarajchipps@gmail.com

I'm in too - Judging by the entrants, I'll have better odds on winning the lottery - Shaf

I'll donate the money to AIG executives. - Filipe Marques

I would use the money to bid on Gaius Baltar's Robes at the Battlestar Galactica Auction in May. Those costumes get pretty pricy! ~Matt http://BSGcast.com - Matt

I'd use to money to stimulate the US economy by buying all your stuff - Magnus

I'd pay the 4000 I owe in tuition. I've paid off all but this last bit, so it'd be my first move. Still looking for a job... - Linda Margaret

I liked that :) - MobilAdam

I would use the money to buy a laptop. I bought one in December and was getting a friend from the US to bring it to me (I was in Dubai). The laptop was stolen from her luggage at JFK and I got no compensation. I was out 1500$, laptopless, and highly depressed because the euphoria of getting a new laptop was not realized. - Bhavishya Kanjhan

If I win the money - its going straight to helping my startup - creately.com get to Public Beta. We're so close and every cent counts! - Charanjit

Good way of generating a lot of comments :-) I'd use the money for reducing some debts... - Diego Zamboni

Whoaaaa, there. $4,500? Really? Boy am I glad I follow you on Twitter. Since when does money grow on tweets? If I ever had the good fortune of being plucked out of a hat, I'd spend all of it on the tuition bills that have racked up in my family name (mother, brother y yo). - amira

I'll make a social network for BitTorrent. - KN

Hm. Maybe I spend it on a Nikon D90 or a camcorder. - Stefan Michel

Money is the root of all evil, they use to say. But it can blossom into good things. - Nick Palffy

I would use the money to update my photography equipment and software. This would update my pet photography as needed - Randy Nacol

I am in - Bronchart

I would use the money to get my girlfriend @Tatty, who I met on Twitter, from Norway to the US so we can start living happily ever after. :) - Foul Bastard

Pay off the credit card and get a return airfare to the USA from Sydney! - Nathan Davies

Sounds crazy but why not :-) - Cyril Hanquez

I need 980 dollars to go to school to be a cheesemonger. So tired of waiting tables and am ready to pursue something I am passionate about. - Miles Laird

I'd use the money to take some time off with my daughter... - Fredrik Wennberg from twhirl

I'm saving to buy my first house later this year and working to start my freelance design business. - john

$1750...I would use them for a wonderful trip to San Francisco! Plane tickets from France and visit of the best web start-up / companies :) Enjoy!! - Guillaume

I'd have to assume I'd use the money to buy a Nikon D90, then hunt you down to thank you and take your picture with it. - Richard Finucane

How can I mute this thread? - Richard A.

I'll use it as a "Pay It Forward Ponzi Scheme" (In these crazy Maddoff days, it's about time we revert the wheel.) - Vivian Cohen- Leisorek

Hi Robert! I would use the money to put into a bank account. I will become a daddy within the next weeks and this would a be a 'scolar fund' for my first kid! - Bas van Breugel

Count me in. $1750 would go to the IWK Children's Hospital for Xboxes and Wiis. - M Langille

Great idea-- and I'd use the money to create workshops to bring younger and older gay men together to discuss the history of the AIDS epidemic in Philly. http://gayhistory.wikispaces.com - Chris Bartlett

What am I going to do with the $1750? I will reveal that secret in my second comment :) - Bari Hossain

Great idea Robert. I'd do four things: I'd pay for a ESPN360 season and play-off pass to watch NHL games over here in Europe. Then I'd hire a graphics designer to redo http://www.speakingenglishpodcast.com to have it not only appeal to learners but also sponsors. Third, I'd take my wife out to dinner and fourth I'd give the rest back to you - I wouldn't need it all and you have a family, too. - Sebastian Keil

Sure, count me in. - Barty

First of all, thanks for the heads up on "Free Money" also thanks for being such a great conduit. So throw my name into the hat please. I know I usually push for giving to Cancer foundations and etc. But am going to change it up a bit.... If I would happen to win the money there is hugely talented Photographer on Twitter that needs only $6,000 to sustain his enrollment at some artsy Ivy... more... - SashaKane

Seriously? I'll start a "Mini-ITXs" fund to replace all the desktops in my home with Mini ITXs. Power saving ftw! - Nimish Batra

I'd start a foundation dedicated to bringing the finance crooks to justice and redistributing the stolen funds from whence they came. - Alistair Knock

hmm...I'll rather invest it in gold. That's the least volatile thing these days. - Kunal Gangar

i would finally finish my thesis and rent a lot servers with mosso after that to incorporate a company dealing with enterprise mashups and cloud computing in germany - tmetschke

im in - Jason Walke

I would tell my boss he is a noob and that I quit my job and start my own business. - Gary Schubert

oh, and i'd also KILL for a macbook. but i'd probably go to school. but you should totally give it to someone who needs it more. - Miles Laird

simple way to enter :) - Cristian

Robert, I would probably spend the money in a relatively futile manner. Therefore, I'll let others who need it more have a chance at the $1,750 prizes. I'd be happy to be chosen randomly for the $1,000. Great initiative, by the way. - Antonio Cangiano

This is just what we need in order to launch AllRise.com: hosting + legal expenses +company registration fees. - Erez Eden

richard, by giving a way more money, are you ready? - abdellah

I'll give YOU $500 and give $100 to twitter (since I heard about it there). The first should make it easier for you to part with the money. The twitter donation will conclusively prove that they have a viable business model :) - Ebrahim Nalwala

Our band would use it to buy a PA system so that we could play anywhere/practice with proper sound. I`d treat this as a loan and donate the money in your name to the VH1 Save The Music Foundation. - Reuben Fortes

It would help me pay for my wedding in Ottawa in August, rather than having to borrow money! (PS nice way of getting people on FriendFeed!) - Paul Lomax

Robert, please pick me. I need the USD1000 to get myself an iPhone 3G (cost HKD6200.00 from Apple Hong Kong) so I don't have to borrow my girlfriend's, and the rest of the money, I will use to pay for all the data usage I will be using when testing review copies of iPhone apps. How can I be borrowing an iPhone to write iPhone app reviews? That is just ironic. - Vinko

I need to do something completely luxurious and pampered for a week. Oh, I would really like to take my brother along because it was his birthday two weeks ago and would like to surprise him. That's right, a very belated birthday present. Very much would be a surprise. How about a cruise out of Miami to the Caribbean or out of Los Angeles to Mexico? We need to see the water! Sure we have the Fountains at Bellagio but we would like to sail on an ocean. There it is. I have our bags packed and ready to go. - Vegas Bill

I need money for my first startup! - kunal jain

Buy a nice camera for making better videos for my blog & invite my family having a nice evening at a greek restaurant - Wittkewitz News

Show me the money - TJ Polczyn

I would develop an innovative iPhone app using the money and when sales pick up, return the amount to you so u can run another contest. - iPhone Dev Guy

I am a poor student who really could use a new Laptop.. I will Ustream and take pictures of the unpacking so you know I didn't spend the money on beer ;) I could put SPONSORED BY SCOBLE stickers on the new machine. Please Scoble, I could really use this. Cheers, patrick. - patrick detlefsen

a new laptop to replace the almost 6-year old one would be nice for a developer. give me the other prizes, too and i'll donate 'em to schooling a kid in a 3rd world country! - moogs

*wonders* Do we have to leave two comments, one for the $1000 and one for one of the $1750? - Linden A. Mueller

Ok, Scoble if i get this money somehow, give my money to this student (patrick detlefsen) - Thanks - Junal Rahman

If you pick me, I will lend out the money via Kiwa.org - Henning

So just in case, here's the second one. :) I would save it. We'll be making our second international move in two years in September, and this time, we'll be settling down. I would use it for part of our down payment on our first house. - Linden A. Mueller

Right now $1750 is worth $2700 Aussie (sounds a lot better) I'd ask Robert to JV with me and share how to turn that $2.7k into $270k in 6 months. If we didn't like each other after that we needn't continue to turn it into $27M. Jim Beasley (Twitter: whoisJimBeasley) - Jim Beasley

Would love to start an online business for my 7 yr old as a college fund!!!! Have the idea, just not the funds to start it!!! - Charles Bovard

I could use the money to pay some of my student loans that I had to take to study the one true thing worth studying, the Internet! - Shane Tilton

I would spend the money on bourbon and porn. - Kari Holtz

I'll use to finance our new project of social publishing with Friendfeed. Thanks for the opportunity. - Massimiliano Mancini

if I win: I'd give half of the money to Emergency (http://www.emergency.it/) to help their medical work in war areas. - andrea

In New Zealand his will go along way. Id use it for language resources for our indigenous Maori - Bradley Walker

I want I want! I will restore my VW 1974 with it! :-D true story: http://www.facebook.com/home... - Pierre Lapointe

I'd love to use your money to send kids with disabilities to CampASCCA.org! With the $1750, 3 children would get to go to camp this summer. Or, it would send maybe a dozen to a weekend camp this spring! Either way, I'd love to see you help these kids out. In this kind of economic environment, places like Camp ASCCA are the first to be forgotten ... that means the kids are forgotten, too. Thanks, Robert! - RD French

Before I reveal the secret of what I would do with $1750, I really need to know the secret - "Why are you giving away this money,Robert?" - Bari Hossain

Will use it finally upgrade my powerbook to a MBP so I can write an iPhone app as part of my CS Degree Dissertation. - Shaun Bohannon

$1175 to my all time favorite musician's (Diana Krall) chosen charity: Vancouver General Hospital's Leukemia Bone Marrow Transplant. Would use the rest to cover my tuition expense for a Nancy Duarte slide:ology seminar. Trying to figure out ways to tackle mindnumbing government PowerPoint decks. Happy St Patrick's Day! - Bud

With our terrible exchange rate here in the UK, I'll probably buy myself a week's worth of groceries with the prize money! Seriously though, I may treat myself to a video camera, so that maybe one day, I can be like my favourite technology evangelist! - David Swallow

I can't wait to read followup posts to your contest. I would invest the money in my children's college funds. - Erick Tyack

I think I will buy some books on how to get my daughter to sleep past 4AM... Seriously, any advice? :-) - James Marino

With the money I would invest in a Home Server to better provide for my familys digital needs ;-) The rest will be given to SOS childrens village - A good and worthy cause. - Ken-Tore

I will use the money to spend it to bloggers in germany to promote the german blogos- and twittersphere! They arn't as big and importnat as in the us, but they have the mbition for it, serious and current content... - Simon Rabente

The money will enable me to buy some much needed toys and gadgets that mortgage/wife/2kids/etc to not allow! - Matt Groves

I was thinking on how to win the money and then I read comments by others. I realised there are more ppl who need the money more than me. So good luck to everyone! and Robert, pls make sure the winner really deserve it. - Gerald Neo

If I won I would donate every cent to Red Nose Day (http://www.rednoseday.com/) to help children in the UK and Africa and I'll put up $200 of my own money (about 10% of my salary) into microloans through Kiva. - Peter Curd

Strike one for the South African - Iwan

I doubt this would be a winner, but I need a new set of effin tires. - Patrick Kay

I will use my winnings to purchase books to better understand how to use all the great social media tools out there and will also earmark a portion of the winnings to use to attend SXSW 2010. - Promising Projects

I'll use the money to finance bailing out of my apartment in light of this recession and my current status of gainful underemployment. :) - teleken

Cool! I'd love to spend it on a netbook and a good (web)cam and start using it to lifestream/share some nice events using kyte or qik. What's left after buying the gear, I would spend on tickets for events such as The Next Web Conference, Lifehacking Academy, etc. Btw: have fun at Rackspace! - Alex Vermeule (@alexve)

ok deal, you talked me into it - IrishWonder

it is really interesting to see how much "I" in this thread, ok if I (+1) - abdellah

Cool. So 80% of the dough goes on a Twitter API developer as I have a great project in mind. And the other 20% provides a stake for the blackjack table, for when we launch. Combined earnings will be sent back your way, so you can do this all over again. - Econsultancy

I'd put it towards my TED application fund! Made too many promises about speaking there one day soon... - Oliver

First I would buy an engagement ring for my lady and take her out on a romantic evening and propose her. And of course 300$ would go for a Wii. - Andy Gongea

Hi I have never won anything so i dont think i will win,but hope never dies so here i am.. - Dimi

My boyfriend got made redundant a while ago so I'd use the money to take him on holiday to get away from it all for a bit and help him refocus. - Katie

thats cool to hear...thanks for the competition.i will love to buy macbook... - Mohammed Moyeen

Hmmm... Give it to charity is the easy answer.. But I would find and elderly person who needs home renovations etc but cant afford it.. and then get someone down on their luck to do it and pay them.. Double the satisfaction and impact - Christopher Blake

Comment for one of the $1750 prizes. I will offer to donate the money to bail out some more fat cats living high on the hog, and give them a bonus to boot. - TJ Polczyn

Don't get pinched - wear green today! :) - Ricci Neer

If I won, I'd donate it to Comic Relief (http://www.comicrelief.com/). Cheers! - Graeme Coleman

I am saving money to go out of my usual work to start a startup, so it will be helpful for me in my saving and allow me to come out of my daily job soon. - Mohammed Moyeen

If I win I will twitter my followers and people in Seth Godin's tribe to find the most excting youth oriented project I can, then come back to you, Robert Scoble, and see how we can involve your followers in offering knowledge or connections to make the whole thing take off, good on you. - Sarah Farrugia

I would put the money to good use and kick start the economy with it... should work... - Alex P

wow! this is by far the longest thread i've ever seen! :) - David Clifford

I'll use the money as a super lucky contribution to http://www.TweetLuck.org, an initiative of my startup nonprofit, http://www.EpicChange.org. Tweetluck is raising funds to build a technology lab and boarding facility/orphanage for a school with which we're partnered in Arusha, Tanzania. The locally-run school recently performed #1 out of 117 schools in their district on national exams, and I can only imagine what's possible if we get the children at the school web access ;) - Stacey Monk

This is one way to get me to use friendfeed... I'd use the money to enter a poker tournament in vegas this week at MIX. (at least I'm being honest) - Jason

Wedding Ring deposit, new mac, or broker's fee to get the hell out of this apartment. Probably one of those three. I'm a huge fan of Kari Holtz's answer of bourbon & porn, but my early thirties have got the better of me and must try for something vaguely more responsible. - Travis

Hey, why about trying, great idea ! For the second part of the contest, i'd prefer to let more chances to people who really know how to make something really usefull and interesting with it ;) ! - Christophe Michau

I hope to be one of the lucky few. Happy St. Patricks Day! - ian ross

I wish I could come up with something clever or generous but other needs are too pressing. I don't even want to think about it really. Health insurance, upgrade to CS4 (priorities, right?), art supplies, new shoes, vet visit for the cats, whatever else I could squeeze out of it. But I would put some portion toward charitable use, or else use it to create something that I could give, because generosity deserves to be honored in kind. - Rebecca Lasley

I'll buy some of the gadgets Scoble is talking about... - Alexander Benker

In Malaysia, I'll give the money to the women's aid organization to fight discrimination, women are first to go in a layoff. - Carolyn Chan

Great idea. I'd probably put the money towards a good camera for a live video project I'm working on. - Alan Chamberlain

If I was lucky enough to win I would use the money to attend http://www.web09.org/. It would cover the cost of the airfare, accommodation, and registration fee. I would then be able to Tweet and blog about it so those who read me would get some benefit from me being there. Anything learned would be put to good use in the open source projects I contribute to. Unlike some of the others here, I can't be altruistic about this - I want to go to the conference and can't afford it! Charity begins at home after all - Elpie

It will probably help me to keep one of my employee, until we bounce back in our feet - Boubacar Balde from twhirl

I'm definitely in and I'd use the $1750 to buy my first macbook. - Robbin

I would use it as nice start for my first house loan ;-) A man has got to start somewhere doesn't he ;-) - Pieter-Jan Adriaensens

get lasik after reading all of these #CCCCCC comments on friendfeed! - Landon

What I would use the money for? Well, I have been eyeing up some netbooks and need to replace my aging television. So, this would pretty much go there in my lone attempt at reviving our moribund economy/ I'm doing my part to help us out of these troubled economic times! - Jason J. Thomas

Here is my initial entry comment. - Hal

I'd learn how to code in Cocoa, and create a salsa dance iPhone app :) - Tom Tubbs

Clever idea. If I win, I would put half the money in the bank, as my husband is currently unemployed; and would give half the money to my friend and her family, as her son & daughter-in-law were in a serious car accident in Oct. 2008 and my friend quit her job to help take care of her premature born grandson, 2 yr old grandson, so her own son can then take care of his now brain-injured wife. http://jennifersmiracle.blogspot.com/ - Traci Knoppe

Half to a couple of back bills, the other half here: http://bit.ly/6XTBn - Hal

My first comment didn't show up! REPLAY: With the $1750 I will expand my business working with energy and transformation in the area of money & prosperity (Money Reiki Healing) attuning people to their Source resulting in personal and planetary shifts around money and abundance. I will also donate a portion of the winnings to a few favorite charities (including Water is Life and Charity:Water). - Amy Flynn

Wow, Just needed that money to buy me a trip to the states at last! I'm from Paris and I just keep reading your feeds on twitter, ff etc... - anciaux

Should I win, any money would be invested in upgrading some piece of computer equipment, or a software purchase... and a celebratory dinner with my wife, of course. - Chris Grayson

Heads up, Twitter! I would put the money into real competition to Twitter. - David Baum

To quote Han Solo - "Got some old debts I gotta pay off with this stuff" - Cliff Forster

I need yet another bicycle. Choose me! I promise not to give it to AIG for bonuses! - mrbrown

I'd put the cash toward a new unibody Macbook - I broke the screen on my Macbook Pro and it's difficult to use now because I have to us my iPhone as my screen (Jaadu VNC). I'll take care of my new Macbook, Robert, I promise. Please pick me? Please! - David Mozingo

I got married on last saturday, 14th ( http://trauung.steudtner.info sorry only German ) and I got a whole bunch of photos and videos. I would take the money and buy a new iMac to organize them and my videos too. Pictures will be published on that website. - Mayads

My cat has been very sick since late last Thurs. He's was jaundice, probably some level of renal failure - all likely diabetes. Been having to force feed him with a syringe because he wasn't eating on his own. I'd like to be able to use this money to offset the vet costs towards all this - doctor would like to run more tests but I can't afford it. This money would help with this. - Todd Perlmutter

I'll stimulate my economy. - Chris Dickerson

I will buy you a Twitter shirt. :P http://tr.im/twittershirt - Valentino Valdez

Howdy Scoble. I graduate University in July with an IT degree and am planning a Trip to South East Asia (Laos, Cambodia, Thailand, Vietnam) in September for a bit of fun and adventure. The money would greatly improve my trip. I'll blog the whole thing personally for you (I'll go to anywhere you suggest) and do my best to send you at least one ridiculous photo a day along with a video diary and a few interviews of people I meet along the way. - Michael Gross

My kids, who've lost their mother, really need something positive. So I would use the money to redecorate their two rooms as a surprise. - Jorg Jansen

Thanks Robert. A great idea! I could really use the money to finance my startup "Big Red Zebra", the world's first truly useful Location-Based Service for Everybody (not just people with Smartphones, iPhones, Blackberrys). Check it out at http://www.bigredzebra.com - David

If I won the $1750 - I would put $1600 towards a kick-ass web project I have been working on (code-named Daily Bird Feeder). Then, $100 would go to dinner with the wife to make up for the late nights I've spent working on the project. $30 would go to an action figure I have been dying to get. And $20 would then go to flowers for my wife, to make up for buying the action figure. - Michael Withrow

I will spend it all on me - on daft 'there is no way I would buy this under any other circumstances' things. - Alison

I would follow your example: I'd run a contest and ask my followers to choose how I would spend it. - Gail

Show me that money! - Alison

How about this.... My wife http://twitter.com/erincos... and I are expecting TWIN SONS in August. ANY contributions would be GREATLY APPRECIATED! - Jeremy Osborne

congratulation jeremy. - abdellah

That $$ would buy me a lifetime subscription to Fast Company!!!! - CJ

My dinosaur-like mind is inexorably on its way to extinction. It's been ages since I bought a new book. And reading online just doesn't satisfy that ancient craving. So if I win I'd use it to buy Kindle2 e-reader. The ultimate revenge of a deprived bibliophile. :) A little memento of my fabulous good luck, courtesy of you sir. The rest I will donate to a Philippine charity of my choice. Good luck to us all, if that were possible. :) - jan geronimo

Would like to take my wife to NY for our 15th Wedding Annv. - Timothy Love

Count me in. Can't work out if I should sound worthy or greedy, so shall be neither. - David Eedle

I'd use the money to start a software company for mobile devices with heavy lifting done in the cloud. - Jim Bergman

You got me Subscribe :). I will apply for a distance education in Actuarial Science at Leicester University. - Bruck Sewnet

I will not use this money for unmerited bonus pay - Craig

If I won the money, I'd pay for my GMAT & Grad School applications with it. That way, I'll hopefully be able to do the same kinds of contests soon. I'd also adopt two cats for my parents farm and pay for their cat food - you can't have a farm without cats! Lastly, I'd increase my number of Kiva loans. - Edwina

what is interesting in this thread, is the fact that there is more and more reason and ways to spend that money, now let please see for what "you can't spend this money". - abdellah

I'm just getting a project going that could be really helped at this early stage with some "free cash" to help complete the prototype. The idea is for an engine that aggregates content from originators and then filters and distributes it according to preferences to the consumer through a variety of touch points. Very focussed on one specific interest area. - Alex Guest

I'll place my bet for the $1750, although my chances are thin. Lots of things to do, get Dad treated, pay my bills et al. - Rajtilak Bhattacharjee

would like to get one of these for each kid http://bit.ly/pnbkv - Visit Finger Lakes

I'll buy something amazing and the one who finds out what it is will receive it. Just a way to see if it is possible to get more comments than you do :o) - Zack Brandit

I will gift the money to my husband's business,( http://www.funketabla.com/ ) so that he can focus a little more on music and thus spend more time happy and not in a programming job that bores him. It's not much, but it'll pay for the upcoming Das Dhoom album. - InPerpetualMotion(Gina k)

Hate to admit it in public, but I owe parents, friends, and credit cards money borrowed while searching for another job. This would give me some breathing room and let me get some stuff done that I've put off, like fix the brakes on my car. - mark zero (Jason)

I will give the money to my 18 year old son. He's getting ready to enter college for the first time and needs it. - Lisa Saul

$1,750 will feed me for a year! :-) - Chinny

Mr. Scoble - Use of funds should I become one of your winners... ala Dave McClure and Y Combinator... I'd turn right around and invest it in equity positions in two local startups neither of which is mine. Should there be any kind of exit of either, I'd just keep plowing proceeds into local startups (we need early stage, non-debt seed capital in Oklahoma). - Gerald Buckley

these funds would help at a very diffcult time for my family would be a very big blessing for us - Diane Brixey

i would put the money in my future start-up. i really could use the money for. the main problem is that i have to wait for maybe 2 years, because of uni. so i could invest it at the beginning in something safe and could make more money for the start-up. - Alexander

Pool Table - Dale Fraser

Sadly, I would put this toward my taxes. My contribution toward the bailout I guess. A new tv or trip might be nice though since I'm not getting that Australia blogging job. - Dave

I would put the money in our twin boys college fund, which will be in inflation-adjusted treasuries for the next year or two. (PS: This is the most effective way to gather the most comments on a single thread in the history of friendfeed) - DGentry

OK, just give it to me already and quit all this fuss... - Garrido

Hey Robert! You finally got me to sign up for FF. If awarded the money I would finally get that Gibson Les Paul I've always wanted and go back in the studio to create my opus. - Kyle Shay

Split it into 495 $2 donations, for charities selected by fellow Friendfeed and Twitterers, with the remaining funds for a pizza while organizing the aforementioned discussion. - Mike Chelen

Count me in. I would blow the money on Tacos. No burritos. No Tacos. Well Tacos or Burritos. Just imagine me eating over $1000 worth of tacos/burritos. - Franklin Pettit

Fund small-scale Appropriate Technology projects in Africa where I live: http://mumena.blogspot.com/2009... - Rick Love

I would put the money to good use-- - Dennis Shlaen

First! Oh wait, maybe not. :) Boring but I'd use the money to get my 60,000 mile service on my car before it falls apart. Anything left over would go to paying down CC balances. I know, I'm dull... - Pete Smith

I need a new tv I'm a poor seminary student in new york with a family http://www.use.salvationarmy.org/use... - kevin

count me in! How to use 1750$: buy four cheap pocket cameras (200$ each), announce a "movie making contest" on the blog, give four cameras to best four ideas, take the movies, post on youtube & blog, make users vote, give first prize 950$. - Tudor Galos

Robert, Congrats on joining Rackspace & I'm eagerly awaiting Building 43!! I would use the prize money to fund my sisters education. - Roshan Ramachandran

I'd go for a piece of electronic equipment. I haven't owned a computer since a nice visit from an unknown burglar a year and a half ago. Luckily my work provides me with a nice Macbook Pro 15" but that doesn't really help much during the weekends. So I'd go for a 13" MacBook and then of course a round of Hero Rats (http://www.herorat.org) for the change. - René Clausen Nielsen

Hi Robert. I would use the money like Tudor, but I would get two good pocket cameras, the Sony pocket 1080p ones, not the Zi6 or the Flip. To take better quality videos. - Odi Kosmatos

Hi Robert, my intention isn't to partecipate to your contest but my comment is just to say that you are a genius. I appreciate this social experiment and on Sunday I have analyzed it in this post on my blog: http://tinyurl.com/c3rwxw. If I were to the place of the winner, I’d give this money to you because you really deserved it. The previous most commented thread on FF probably were Italian (http://tinyurl.com/8k64zg). Chapeau - Roberto

G R E E D .... - Kai

I would use the money to jump start the economy as part of my stimulus-package plan - Mitchell Schneider

Not sure, but I'll try to heed the advice my grandmother used to give me when I got a dollar "Don't spend it on crap." - Steven Stark

There are things I want but nothing I need so I'd donate the money to Philabundance. http://www.philabundance.org/ - Bob Gannon

I will sponsor new web-service development at http://jumpidea.com - romanzolotarev

i would use the money to help pay for school - Shane Grant

I would use the money to get into photography. I have always wanted to but have never had the funding to do it. It would be great if I had the funding to get a decent body and a couple nice lenses. - Sweyn Venderbush

I'm in as well. Will use the money to get into iphone apps development - Arnaud Fischer

Woohoo! I'd buy either a home automation setup or a home server :D - Robert DeBord

Yes! I could use some green on St. P's Day! Would get that D90. - Kevin Crader

I will help @romanzolotarev. - Форсайт это артефакт

Don't give us money, give us ideas ! - Ahsan Ali

If I came into any type of money this year it would go towards a trip to London to see my family and friends; and see my favourite band, Blur play live for the first time. Leftover cash to the Red Cross. My honest answer. - Chrissie M

I would use it to help fund a startup website to help diabetics find proper products to help manage their health and lifestyle - Erik Schmith

I would love to win. Would probably spend the money on one of two things: my 17 year anniversary is coming in early April, so a present for the wife is a necessity - thinking a nice hot springs overnight trip in Izu, south of Tokyo (where I live). Otherwise, I would also consider using the money to help bootstrap TechMiso.com, a new blog I co-founded and launched on Jan 1 with my good buddy Rich. - Scott Jarkoff

I want to win soo soo bad... lol... I would use the money as a deposit on an apartment so I can move out of the country and actually have High Speed Internet (cant even use a cellular card cause im so far in the country) Ive always wanted to start a blog and website but cant since Dial-up is sooo sooo slow... This would be the Happiest Day of my Life!!! :) - James Boyd

While thinking trough this all day since I've read about it, I think that I should spent it for 50/50 on my own project and on the stuff that you just don't get to while being a son of divorced parents. My computer upgrade is more than welcome, switch to Mac OS X would be greatly appreciated. Great action Robert, thanks for this opportunity from Holland! - Coen Jacobs

If this comment picked randomly, then goodbye to MacBook Pro...(paradoxal comment including 2 answers in one way.) - Olcayto Cengiz

Growing up, my parents would always tell me that considering the amount of time I spend on the web, I should be making money out it. But I desire that the content I put out there be free. Over the years I've spent a lot on pursuing this passion but never earned a buck out of it. Now would be a great opportunity to finally do so. I may not be the most deserving or the most in need out of everyone here but if I did win I'd do something nice for my parents and tell them it was courtesy of the Internet. - Michael Josh Villanueva

I would use the money to donate back to all of the open source projects that I have been using for the past 5 years. Many of the products that are produced are outstanding and need to be supported. - Anthony Schelling

I'll take Scoble to block. Actually; I would use the money to complete my dedciated streaming studio. While I have the mics & cams set, I'm still working on the furniture, and the servers for the encoding. Then I could be a guest on your show and show it off. - Keith Barrett

Will take a trip and visit you at your new project :) - Liviu Lica

I'll use the cash to attend sxsw next year, following the twitter feeds this year has proved its worth to me. I'll get you a beer in too, unless that seems coercive. - Simon Kirrane

I would use the Money to help my daughter who is 13, to Travel Europe this Summer as she has been selected to be a Student Ambassador Representing the US and The State of Kansas. A Life changing experience, for our young people to learn and experience other cultures. People to People select 40 top Students from each state to represent the US. This experience is to teach our young people... more... - Joyce

Hey new friend I sure could use that money to repair some of the debt my bipolar wife has put our family in. Ever have any questions about what goes on in a max security prison, let me know. - Tom Lord

Both me and my SO need computer upgrades at home to better work from home but that's not very much money. Just don't have it. The rest would go towards savings or to fix the collapsed porch out back. - Paul Wade

Nice discussion thread. Any extra cash would go to my newly-widowed uncle, who found himself with a mountain of vet bills to pay after his dog, and only remaining companion, spent a week in ICU in an O2 tent. - Hooeyspewer

Hey Robert - I would use the money to pay some bills and refit the computer my kids use. Thanks for making the world interesting! - Tim Ake

It's a real and nice chance to win a pretty good amount of money, which can help me in making my dreams about lighting equipment for home studio to became true! :) - PWR

I would pay off my burning man debt. - Andrew Stein

This looks like its a record breaking thread. - Roberto Bonini

Count me in! - Alvin

I would use the money as part of a down payment on a new car. I commute 100 miles a day and my car is dying at a most unfortunate time. Well, that's what I SHOULD do. I would probably buy some gadget like a Kindle and some books because my geek gene gets the better of me most days. - Amy Anuszewski

I would like to use it to buy a Mac Mini but I first have to deal with Wife Tax so I might be able to get a snickers bar. Love you honey! - Wesley Snider

I would buy a slice of taxes that I owe Barack Obama. - Chris Wallace

I'm in! - James Ferguson

I would use the money to finally launch my puppet sitcom. My seven month-old daughter already loves the live version, and it would be great to have the video version for anytime viewing. Plus I think lots of other people would love the show as well. It's like the Muppet Show but more "Seinfeld" and less "Lawrence Welk". But there will still indeed be musical numbers. - Mike Janicke

I would give the money to my wife. She is trying to get custody of her son back. Thanks for the chance Robert! - Brian

I would use this to upgrade my camera. - Evan Travers

Oops almost forgot to leave a comment for the random drawing. :) - James Boyd

I would use the money to take my wife on a nice vacation for our anniversary. - Jonathan Gardner

I`ll take some of that money :) - Steven Shvartsman

What would you like me to do with the money? - Simon Hicks

An Irish Toast on my favorite Holiday that is St. Paddy's Day: "Here's to the ones we love we love. Here's to the ones that love us love us. For all those that don't love us, F@%$ them and here's to us." I'd use the money to spend on friends & strangers drinking and eating on a random day enjoying the moment and making memories you'd never forget. - Lyn Graft

What a great idea Scoble! So sad I missed sxsw this year! I would use half the money to go towards a new lift for my step mother who has MS and I would use the other half to purchase a small fishing boat to go fishing with my boy who's birthday is this weekend. - Bryan

Robert, dude! You are awesome. Would use money to help find a teaching job! - Patty Pinkley

If you pick me I will put the money towards the trip to China I'm taking in July. - Kris

Better idea of what to do with the money - promote LTSP - Linux Terminal Server Project http://www.ltsp.org. Continue to bring low cost desktop solutions to the masses. - Erick Tyack

Robert, congrats on the new job. Look forward to seeing the new ways you are going to invigorate rackspace and the community. There are some great comments here already. This is a great thing you are doing, take care - Michael Bazzoni

Action Figures. I would use the money to buy lots and lots of action figures. And maybe a dwarf horse. - Aaron Linne

I would put that money towards buying a couple of iPod Touches and a Mac for three friend of mine. We've just finished a short, free game that took us two years to finish on evenings and some weekends, and are talking about trying to make a game for Apples platform in our spare time since we work so well together as a team. - Jonas Eriksson

This will kill FriendFeed. DO they have a FailWhale...? ;) - Frank Koehntopp

Pay 4 months rent. And, I swear I'm not trying to sound pious, but I'd donate to Food for Lane County, an awesome local organization that gives away food. - tracy

I'd do some traveling, getting to know new things is always great... - Fabian

$1750? I'll buy Facebook and sell to Twitter. - Bob Withers

I'd use the cash to pay back my employer all the time I spend reading Scoble's comments on FriendFeed. ha. - Jon Mason

Jumping into your hat. Randomly pick me. - Ben

I'll finally buy that wide angle lens that I've been hankering after for my Olympus E-400... - Peter Holloway

Hmm... $1750, eh? I'd buy a few of those unlocked Android phones to create custom firmware that does end-to-end encryption of calls... I've been wanting to do that for a while for fun. - Matt

I will use the money to help me get to OSCON. - Mike Canzoneri

I will buy an iMac for my local school who only have PCs ... boo. www.woolastonschool.com. They currently do basic animation with PCs but I would like to get some of the older kids using iStopMotion, FCP and possibly Motion also. Would be an honour to spend ALL the money on this. - Nick Pearce

Was laid off a month ago from my job at one of the big 4 record companies. In this down economy, seems like a good time to start a new business. I'd use the cash to help get my new business started. - SJ

Ha! Joined friendfeed just to win this! - Solomon King

I'll buy a new computer for my wife... now that she's a blogger and podcaster, I can't do anything on my computer anymore! Then I'll get a decent shared network storage device that makes a lot of sense for my expanding network. - Chuck Stanley

A chunk to charity and a chunk to fund some development on some crazy web thing I am cooking - Nigel James

$1,750 would go a long way in Africa! That's like 8 months salary for my small team! - Solomon King

I believe I would take a vacation to the Keys. - Ryan Dadey

Or wait, I could get two decent laptops for my developer and tech support guy! - Solomon King

I'll do my part in stimulating the housing market! I'm buying a house in a couple of months, and savings for the down payment. An extra grand or so would allow me to stop doing some work for other people, and focus on doing work for myself in the way of publishing my ideas, and creating web-apps that would be useful. Reading your blog posts has really got my excited to share my thoughts and ideas with the web. - Jim Rubenstein

I'm wondering if this is a test to see if FF can handle a few thousand comments in a short amount of time. May the winners enjoy what they get. - Matt Silva

I would continue my educational pursuit of an IT degree. Plus buy a few Xbox 360 games! Awesome way to use FF Robert! ;-) - Carlton Hackett

I'd buy the iPhone tablet that's being announced today. Good gosh, I hope it comes out today! - Robert Hinojosa

I'm looking for a new camera. I've been trying to take pictures of my son's Scout troop and swim team with an old Canon G3, and it's a real struggle to get any decent pics. I'd love to pick up a 40D and a lens or two. - D. Lambert

I would send my parents on a vacation and I would buy my wife a NEW HD Tivo - Andrew Yeager-Buckley

Debt reduction? - Lenny Post

I run a small business with two brands http://www.GeekLoot.com and http://www.PodGizmo.com, I will use the money to advertise on blogs and facebook. - Mike Down

Pretty cool news. I love this kind of capitalist competition. I've been reading your blog for about a year and I'm glad you're using it more now. I'm a college student, I think I would use the money I win to start a site which rewrites the Constitution and basically the entire American governmental system in a wiki, user-edited style. I've got a url that isn't taken picked out, and I just need some money to startup and learn html all the rest of that stuff. - Brian Wilson

Hello Robert, I will use the money to help create a web startup which will allow you (and other people of course) to use their fame and reputation to help promote other people who have talents, skills, experience, and a willingness to work, but who are not necessarily able to reach a wide enough audience on their own. The focus is to allow people who network with entrepreneurs to refer... more... - Ivan Lukianchuk

This is damn awesome, Robert! What would I do with some nice cash? I'd probably buy myself some new-to-me Canon camera gear, a lens or two (depending on price), and maybe some Alien Bees lights. Probably soup up my PC a bit more too. Either that, or just buy a MacBook Pro instead. At least that way I'd be able to edit photos and audio worth a damn haha.. :D I just REALLY need some extra money to be able to enable me to start doing what I love doing more, and a day-job less. :) - Lou

I'll use it to obtain my CISSP cert. There has to be a better way to reduce/eliminate these zombie bot-nets that are used for very bad activities! - Craig Macfarlane

Hello Robert, I would use to money to keep developing and expanding affordable wildlife photo workshops to some of the most amazing destinations in the US. You can see my last Yellowstone Winter Photo Workshop info here: http://wildnaturetours.com This workshop was very successful and managed to fit in both natural history of one of the most amazing places on earth with some spectacular photography (and video). I am in the processing of editing some of the content that will then be made available. Thanks. - Juan Pons

I would use the cash to buy some of the new netbooks with touchscreen to get some seniors online: grand parents deserve to enjoy the real-time web goodness too! - Mathieu Ayel

So with Scoble's latest post http://friendfeed.com/e... this thread is now closed. LAST! - sofarsoShawn <Pop-Rocks>

50D + Decent Lens, and a six-pack. - Than R

Donate it to charity - Allwin Agnel

I would use the prize money to stimulate the economy by purchasing a new MacBook Pro! :) - Matt O'Keefe

you are hardly last :P I'd use the money to put more down on a down payment for my first home :D - Jonathan

I'd help fund my husband's work on his first graphic novel and send his butt to Comic Con to pitch it to publishers :) The most empowering thing is to help other people reach their goals, and I like that this contest is all about that, so I'd pass that gift along. - Tiffany Monhollon

NIKON D90 for my wife... PS3 for me... the rest toward the house... - Jason Womick

Here's my entry. Thanks for the contest, Robert! - Paul Maez

hey Robert, great competition! I'd use the money to fund my startup creating mobile apps that offer powerful messaging possibilities, including gmail-style threaded messages for all kinds of networks. - Dirk

I'll use the money to pay for my certification in Cisco's Unified Computing System - Andrew Mitry

Good luck with the new direction, Scoble. - Mike Smith

I'd use the money to further my tech addiction. Too many gadgets, too little money...that's where you come in! - Paul Maez

I'd take my daughters to see their grandparents in Florida, upgrade to a (used) Intel Macbook, sign up for PHP training, and renew my NPR membership, Cheers, and thanks! - Jim Akin

I'm not going to even pretend that I would use it for charitable causes. A new MacBookPro and a 30 inch display. I'd then use it to start my development projects. - bjmac

Hey there, Robert. I'd use the money to finance my teeny-tiny iPhone game development company (basically a programmer and myself doing art and everything else). Cheers! - karchesky

I'd use the money to start my "LIFE IMPROVED" fund: personal use, philanthropy, and anywhere in between. The only stipulation is that it improves someone's quality of life. - Tamikka

Hey there Robert! I would use the money to either pay for my coming semester of college so I could actually finish....or I would upgrade some tech in my life (for example, acquire an HD video camera and various other tech for studio and/or podcast recording) - Gerardo R. Monreal Jr.

Oh man...new netbook, finally getting a smartphone, and renewing hosting on new blogs... Anything left after that will be split between my son's saving account (investing in the future) and probably the Dog's Trust charity. - Badger Gravling

How would I use the money? I need to purchase one of the new 24" iMacs to further my Design & Photography careers. - Herne

I will use the money to invest in myself and my future career. By that I mean make my side business of portrait photography into something more real and tangible rather than just a haphazard event. - Ryan

I would most likely spend the winnings on gifts for my daughters, a little something for my wife and (of course) a tech toy for myself. There's nothing more enjoyable than spending "found money". Cheers! - Kevin

Interesting idea, thanks! - Loïc Dumont

I will donate half to the local computers for kids program that helps underprivileged kids with access to to computers, education and the internet. It is a great program where soon I will be teaching parents about social networking so they can communicate with there kids in the same language. The other half, I'm helping pay for my wedding. - Chris Rippe

I would use the money for my ceramics art studio. Part of the money would go to setting up a live 24/7 multi-camera stream where people can watch and learn. - Greg Ashbaugh

You rule! - Happy

top o' the mornin' to ya - (from boston>austin!) - clewellyn

We're having our third child in July, so I'd use the money to re-do our upstairs. The office will be a casualty. - Tim Trentham

Robert, I just returned from a Alexandria Rotary (alexrotary.com) Board meeting. I am hoping to go on a trip to Tanzania to work on a school called Peace House (http://www.peacehousefoundation.org). Funding is the hold up for me as part will come from the Rotarian and part from our club. If I win, I am definitely going as the amount that I will likely be responsible for is $1,500-1,700. - Craig Mische

We are hosting an event to celebrate the International Creativity and Innovation Day (April 21 which is Da Vinci's b-day). It is the first event within a telco culture. I'd use the money to buy some creative tech prizes for the day like CS4, an entry level Wacom product, a mind mapping subscription, SXSW 10 pass, etc. - Krystal

I would use the money to put a dent in the mountain of cc debt I have from a couple of failed ideas that I've poured money into. - Joel

($1,750) - Open a phonebook, randomly pick a name, follow that person 7 degrees out. Each degree of separation tell that persons story through audio interviews, video, writing, and online media. We need to remember life is interconnected and everyone has a story. - Tim Shisler

Hi Robert. I'd use the money to help fund construction of a computer that will reveal the Ultimate Question to Life, the Universe and Everything. It's a small start, but then everything's small in the light of 10 million years... - Andreas Strothmann

Everything old is new again---make it green on St Paddy's Day! - Carolyn Baehr

I would probably buy the most expensive meal I ever had.(6000 Chicken Fajitas) - JC Lima

Thanks for spreading the wealth out Robert! As for me, should I win the money, I would first take my wife out to dinner (priorities!), and put what's left toward software to help me in my fledgling freelancing work. - Sam Hetrick

Hmm... A shot at $1,000 just for commenting? - HackingNeflix

First Comment: Awesome idea, great way to draw attention to a great conversation - Jason DeBoer-Moran

Second Comment: I would use part of the money to get my SxSW travel fund off the ground for next year. The other part I would put towards paying off my travel to ETech this year. - Jason DeBoer-Moran

Well, I fell in love this year and I'm saving money for an engagement ring. So I'll be using it for that! - Ben Pettit

My wife and daughter live in Ohio, and I took a career job in Virginia. It being difficult to sell a house in Ohio, I would put any and all moneys toward that goal. - Shawn Lockard

Sounds good to me - Austin Garrod

if i win the prize, I will spend my money to build a new and free web 2.0 web project (i will anounce it here) - Abdullah Özgün

and with the money, i would probably invest in getting a new computer for me and the family, the one i'm using now is 7 years old and i could barely start it up to write this - Austin Garrod

Very interesting to read some of the comments and start the conversation. I would use it to help offset expenses for bringing an 11yr old girl from Egypt to the Philadelphia Shriners for surgery. She suffers from arthrogryposis multiplex congenita (amc--multiple joint contractures and fixed limbs). For dolagy her knees are folded up around her shoulders with arms locked straight at her... more... - margaret chaidez

Lost my job last year after 3 yrs and checked my 401K yesterday and had a whole $77 in the account. Will use the cash for the mortgage and training. Thank you! - David L. Crooks

I'll be using the money to fly to the bay area to see if it's worth it to quit my job and follow my dream. - Mike

I would use the $$ to kick my fledgling start-up into gear. Even without your money would love to talk to you about it. - Philip

Marketing at its finest! Excellent idea Robert. - Simply Boulder

Roll the cash, baby! - Wisdom Works

I'd give every cent to my mom, who is struggling with her mortgage, so she wouldn't get behind. - Andrew Green

Free internet access for a year! - ReeltimeDVD

Hey, you are always creative... - Ömer Faruk Kurt

Really not sure what I'd use it for. Probably bills, but most likely I'd see something shiny, realize I have $$$ in my wallet and just spend it :) - Hal Thompson

I'll use the money to fund my random venture over the summer. - Hung

I'll use the money to buy a DSLR and attempt to learn how to be a photographer - Ryan

I have no idea what I would do with the money, but it would likely end up in a project for my kids school.... - Samuel DeVore

I will take 750$ and use it for my project and I will give 1000$ part back to you for another contest. Maybe I can win it again... :) - Ömer Faruk Kurt

Student loans, here I come :) - Sigoya

Pay for my trip to Japan, as well as entry into a Ironman race! - Chris Lewis

Does FF pay you to get them users? - Thomas Amberg

If I could be chosen to receive the $1750, I'd give it all to Kiva.org to support women entrepreneurs who need technology to build their businesses. the condition is that you join me for drinks/dinner at Presidio Social Club. - Lydia Sugarman

I would use it towards the downpayment for a new house J - Eber Irigoyen

I will use the $1000 to create a quick prototype of a friendfeed like social network (of course better, but can't tell you the secret yet) and put aside $750 to hosting at mosso for the next 7.5 months. - Jeffrey Yan

yes please - Christopher Bell

No whammies! No whammies. STOP! - Michael Pearson

I'd use the money to make my commute much greener - either for a good bike or an electric scooter. Additionally, I would purchase through a nearby vendor so the buy is also helpful for our local economy. - Paul Marino

Hurrah for free money. If i won the money i would take my wife to paris disney as were both disney nuts and are feeling very broke and in need of a holiday. Anything i had left woudl go towards my macbook fund - Jamie Vidamour

My wife is going back to school to become a physical therapist and I'm trying to update my resume/portfolio in case I need to look for a new job in web marketing, and we need new computers to replace the 6 y.o. desktop and 3y.o. laptop that gets daily BSoDs. - Benjamin Lipsman

Half goes to Heifer International and half goes towards paying down personal loans. :) - Rylan

with that money we would hire 4 programmers for 1 month in eastern europe to develop a product that would change the world of e-commerce ;) - Alensa

I would use the money to pay one of my brother's bills. The tech sector in MN is not in good shape. - Matthew McCowan

I wouldn't mind the money, I would put it in my pool of cash that I'm growing for a startup. Thanks for giving the chance! - Tim Broder

I'll use half the money to help me and my family pay some bills and get a small breather from the recession. I'll donate the other half to the jQuery project to help foster more development of their projects like jQuery UI and to help with their infrastructure costs. - Ralph Whitbeck

I would like to pay some pending bills, also I would like to share the money with a cultural association here in Costa Rica - Víctor

I would use the money to makeup for market losses on March 16th - srinivasufeed

I would use the money to hire a designer to design a good looking website for a Jewellery store site that I'm working for my wife. She's currently using blogspot along with google checkout(http://lajouels.blogspot.com/) and has being asking for a website for ages. - Praveen

I will fund my childrens picture book startup (http://www.memetales.com) and have 1. one of my cool illustrators create a super cool illustration of you or 2. have one of my writers include you as a character in one of my picture books. 2 cool offers - personalized just for YOU!! Imagine that !! You pick 1 or 2. (picking both would probably cost me as much as the prize money ;)) - Maya

With either of the prizes I would put a tiny bit away, and use the rest to buy some film equipment/time to finish my series about artists in the DC area called "The Form Appears". I'm guessing I should write something here about give the money to a non-profit doing amazing work for the planet, but honestly, it would just be used for my own artistic needs. - Emmett

I'd create the Scoble Blogger Scholarship. I'm just getting established as a pro blogger. I would use the money to invest in my business to take me to the next step. I would pledge to double the money this time next year and make it available to another blogger in a similar position, with the proviso that they would also continue to pay it forward. - Mike Cliffe Jones

probably would use it to knock of a bit of a 30k hospital bill. Or decorate my 5 yo daughters room. Nah .. definitely the room, if we can get the house lol - vanweerd

I'd get my 15 seconds of internet fame, and laugh at my fortune. I would not forget the little people. - Viajero

If I win, I'm going to donate the money to SproutPoint, a local non-profit org that helps business people refine their business plans, and seeds them with investment capital. The only way out of this recession is if we rebuild the economy with hard-working entrepreneurs. - Rob Stevens

I'd use it for a new MacBook, which of course I would use to spend lots of time following @scobleizer on twitter, friendfeed, and anything else - Chris Brakebill

though I should note I'm not as obsessive and creepers of a follower as that made me sound. just love the good content @scobleizer puts out - Chris Brakebill

Thomas: I am not paid by, nor compensated by friendfeed in any way. I push friendfeed because it's the best service out there. Period. - Robert Scoble

This must be the all time record for comments! Great idea. - Victor Ryden 美久太阿

i'm in for the $1k. i haven't read all the comments, but my two cents says give one of the other amounts to margaret! - Scott Sorheim

would use the $$ for much-needed computer upgrade - b Anthony

In case you're not following me yet on FF, find me here. - Scott Mace

Robert, agree with FF being the best service out there. Thanks for promoting it and thus getting more people involved and more great content shared and commented on. :-) - Kol Tregaskes

great. I will buy lots of books on Amazon :) - Математический стендап

I will pick today's winner with http://www.random.org live on http://www.ustream.tv/studio at 4 p.m. Austin Time (2 p.m. Central). - Robert Scoble

A new fire hoop I would buy. - Donovan Watts

I would probably use the money on a family vacation (or at least an upgrade to a family vacation). - Andrew Gorohoff

Great contest. I'm in. - Patrick Jordan

Wondering if this has broken a record for most comments on FF. /random comment - Rachel Walden

Friend feed should have a back to "topic", if the comments are huge like for this thread. :) - Swaroop

Will the winner need to contact you right away? Because I won't be able to watch at that time or anything. - Chris Charabaruk

@Rachel It hasn't. There's at least one thread with more comments. http://friendfeed.com/search... - Chris Lasher

If you choose me, I ask that Rackspace donate's the money directly to OLPC. Enable everyone! - David Lynch

Chris: no. I'll post the winners on friendfeed and have them email me. - Robert Scoble

If it's not too late, I'd love the extra funds; both sons need dental work and the employer's dental coverage is pretty slim. - Jill O'Neill

If I win, I would use the money to go see my son and granddaughter. - Sandra

Wow, Robert, this thread is incredible! I would use the money to pay for some improvements to my home and to pursue a nonprofit idea I'm trying to grow. - asiriusgeek

Count me in! Well ,I'll order Kindle 2 and plan a vacation to Europe! - Krishnamoorthy

If I win second prize, I will send money back to you! :) - Vlad Rafeev

With $1750, I'd repair the windshield on our 2000 Impala and then pay off the remaining debt on our "overdraft protection" credit card. - Daniel J. Pritchett

This is great! I've been working on helping very small businesses (pizza shops, dry cleaners, bowling alleys, etc) use SM tools to promote with very little overhead. A lot of shops have gone out of business recently because they didn't know how to promote outside of the Yellow Pages. If I were to win, I'd use the money to help these businesses with some basic costs like reprinting a menu to mention their facebook fan page, some hosting for a blog or a webcam. I don't charge for my services. - Dave Ferrick

Robert, the $1000 would be nice, but having you visit my site plexav.com to see a demonstration would be even better. - Kenneth Stein

My wife and I are a statistic, but we break the trend. We were "friends with benefits" in college and she got pregnant. I married her. Not because she was pregnant but because I realized that's what I wanted all along. This June we will have been married 9 years and we have 4 amazing sons between us. For our anniversary this June I want to re-propose to her and tell her I want to renew our vows for our 10th anniversary the following year. I love her so much and it's time she has some proper wedding photos! - George Clingerman

How I would use the money: I would have Robert donate the money to a charity, to be decided later. Or perhaps to low income student athletes in California who may have to 'pay to play' this year due to budget cuts. - Rodfather

Hmm. I haven't got a sob story that would make anyone sob on my behalf. And yet I would like to take your money, Robert, so very badly. If I were to win, I would be tempted to use the money for a good cause but ultimately, after putting away money for taxes, I would end up spending the remainder on fripperies and possibly airfare someplace that is not here. I would have a very good time (but nothing illegal!) and might even send you a post card. Or in your case, a tweet. I could do both, I suppose. - Carolyn Jewel

Hello Robert. If i win i'll use the money to hire a coder to create part of the platform for www.chartempire.com. - Frangino Lucarini

I'll donate the money to Our Lady of Perpetual Help (OLPH) food pantry in St. Louis, which has also become a facility that provides medical / vision care and training (in addition to feeding several thousand people each week) in the most hard-pressed neighborhoods in the metro area. We'll then use the money to improve the OLPH infrastructure (basic stuff - network switches, nics, etc.) that supports that medical / vision care, as well as the training. The labor is donated by local tech entrepreneurs. - Bob Lozano

With $1750 from @scobleizer, I'd pay for a little freelance graphic work to get the redesign of http://wiredjournalists.com rolling. - Ryan Sholin

Many people are saying they will donate to charity and this kind of stuff, but I will be honest. I will use about 150 to buy a new printer - I really need it for college, it is a pain to ask my neighbor to print stuff all the time. 450 will go to 6 months of my grandma's medicine fund, so I don't have to worry about it. The rest I will probably save to buy a Palm Pre when it comes out or something cool and amazing. - Kiko Cherman

I would use the $$ to make a dent in the pile of debt that is looming over my head and making my life hell!! Not a very exciting use of the money... but getting out of this debt would make a BIG difference in my life!! - Meredith

With $1750 I'd finally get a laptop that wasn't owned by an employer. - Richard Byrne

To my new FriendFeed friend - always remember: "a friend in need is a friend in deed" but a "friend with money is the friend we need" - Huw Pendry

There's only one thing that's been on my mind that the money could go towards: An Open Source Command Center which will be named "0pie: Reb0rn". The current 0pie isn't doing so well, with a 40lb monitor that flickers in a way that really seizes you, and RAM that was considered top of the line when Megabytes were the highest feasible unit of measure. However! 0pie: Reb0rn will surpass... more... - David Wynn from fftogo

I'd buy something nice, like a vacation, for my mom. - John Piekos

I have a feeling this just made me an accesory to a crime. - SteVe "Beefy Miracle" C

Nice! I would add the money to what I'm saving to buy a garage for my house. - Orville Chomer

I would GIVE the money to my former admin who's husband is hospitalized awaiting a heart transplant. - Bob Stewart

Hi Robert. Not one person above me said PLEASE I would like 2 win because........ can I remind everyone that manners cost nothing so may I be the first to say please count me in to your generous offer and Thanks - garth

I would give my fiance the money so she could register for real estate training. - Ryan

I would use the money to help buy monitors and computer to have a good setup to kickstart my graphic design freelancing career. I'm very poor and won't be able to afford it for YEARS. - courto

A thousand bucks is plenty. How would I use it? First I'm going to get myself a Flip Mino HD that I read about on your blog. I'm running the Mexico City Marathon in August and that Flip looks the perfect way to record my effort! I'll even get it in custom colours to match the Marathon blog I'm doing! That takes care of $200. Another $300 will get me the Canon SX1 instead of the SX10 I'm about to buy. The rest will go to the charity I'm raising cash for by running the marathon. - Gary

I'm from Costa Rica, I'm Sculpture from UCR, in case you think on me, I'll use that money to help me and my friends to get tools and work materials, maybe you can get some of our sculptures in spirit of fairness! :) - Mauricio

Hope everyone here for the money sticks around for the people! I would love to win the money - I would buy my first Mac ever, the new Mini looks amazing! Pick up a Kindle and some books and pay for our family vacation before the new baby arrives! I will also renew the domain and actually write on my secret identity's parody site. DM Tygerdave on Twitter if you need to know the site before you decide :) Thanks for doing this and pluging friendfeed at the same time! - David Knight

http://friendfeed.com/e... - Manuela

I would use the money to buy a new lens or two for my Canon - Marcus McCurdy

It's very generous of you to do this giveaway Robert! I'd use it to help keep my wife's new law practice wiith some additional marketing. She just got set up in her little office but is still working on building the business. She does Immigration law. Her Twitter handle is @mainstlawyer. - Jesse P. Luna

i am in! i would use the other money to promote a new online project that i am working on that deals with the graphic design. thanks. - Ethan Bodnar

Hi, i'm Jose Daniel from Costa Rica, i work in web programming. I hope win the money to start a little personal projects. By the way, in this moment i have not job so would be nice the prize :) - Jose Daniel

I would use the money to start a company in my spare time - John Munro

I'd use it to help pay for my wife's medical school expenses - loans topping $250k... - Dave

If I win the $1750 I will buy me a Nikon D300. - Philipp Mertens

Want to create great conversation? Start giving stuff away! I would use the money to finally finish my iPhone development project by hiring some graphic designers to customize graphics for the program and then release it via a Scoble announcement! - Matthew Strickland

If I win the money I would use it to continue my studies in Reiki healing and teaching, so I could assist in healing people in these tough times. - Louise

Robert, if I win, I'll give half to the Charity Smackdown cause I'm supporting, Stand Up To Cancer (see: http://charitysmackdown.com/team_SU... ). The rest will help 'stimulate my local economy' - food from the green market, some purchases at local stores, probably pay the plumber to fix something that's been on the list for a while. - Howard Greenstein

Hey Robert- Thanks for the offer and I gladly accept the possibility of winning! Normally I am a giver and have been all my life, but this time, due to my financial situation, I have to be a receiver. So I would share the money with myself. But that will help along the road to be able to give back again. It's all good! Thanks to you for being a giver! - Candace Davenport

Congratulations. You made me log into FriendFeed this week. - maczter

Sweet. Free money! I'll take me some. - Jason Packham

With $1750 I'd use it to travel to California and try to get my startup in Y Combinator. Even if I don't, $1750 would be enough to fund my business in Mexico for 3 months! - Mariano

I'd use the money to jumpstart my new pseudo teleportation company. Details on the concept can be found here: http://pushingthepulldoor.blogspot.com/ - Rick Popko

You could just be my destiny! - Alejandra Luthmer

Robert, I'll use the $ to take a trip to SF to meet YOU! if you take me up on it I'll pay you for a few minutes of your advice :) - Francois

Robert, thanks for sharing... I'll take the money and give it to the hard working developers (2) of our Startup www.kontexto.com They deserve a bonus and due to the economic times and our need to be frugal we haven't given anyone extra $. These guys deserve a little extra for all their hard work behind the scene - David http://friendfeed.com/dclarke - David Clarke

If I win the money I will (1) give some to family members in need, (2) purchase a computer for myself (using a very, very old one), (3) save some for the future and (4) fund some acting career necessities, i.e. classes, etc. Thank you for this opportunity!!! - Cynthia Fellowes

You are very generous to be doing this. Ignore the haters!!! - Cynthia Fellowes

I'd buy an iphone to start doing dev work for cross platform (bb, symbian, etc) apps. - Ben Vear

If i would win id buy as many good engineering books as i can find ( The art of electronics, the art of computer programming, blodgett), Buy some propper tools like a good soldering iron, power supply, occiloscope and a microcontroller programmer, get loads of components and start learning to make cool electronics stuff. - Pim de Groot

i'd donate it to my dad's after school/summer program for inner city kids in toledo, kids unlimited. http://www.kidsunlimitedtoledo.org/ - john

I'll buy the arcadexl.com website on sale on sitepoint and then donate the adsense earnings to my Kiva account - Dave Nixon

If I won, I would use it to be able to get some of the gear that I've been looking at and try to learn how to develop on it. I've been trying to piece together the parts to be able to build a smaller linux computer to do what the droboshare does (the drobo's not as interesting if you're technically minded). As a student, that gear's hard to come by. - robbie nakamura

I would give up $1 greasy McChicken sandwiches and bump up to $2.50 Subway sandwiches--this might help me make better decisions--you know, more veggies for better brain power. :) - exoticat

When will it be Announced? - TheHenry

Congrats & Thanks for getting me started with FF !!! - sathya

Love it. I'd like to buy the world a coke> - Ben

Good Stuff! I do like the XML API - definitely a universal interface. - Terza

I'll pay a UI person to work on my pet project, i suck at it. - mehdi

If I win, I'll stimulate the economy by hiring someone to fix my roof. - Roy Jacobsen

I'm ready. I could use it to pay for ridiculous prescription costs. - Jen (SquirrelGirl)

For $1750, a Kindle 2, some e-books to go with it, and maybe a nice Canon lens. :) - J Wang

If I won the money I would buy a HP MediaSmart home server. My wife and I just got married, and suddenly we have gigs and gigs of photos and videos that we want to keep forever. The idea of automatic, incremental backups gets me all aflutter. I love technology that makes life easier :) - Tony Fendall

I'd give $750 to my Fav charity, Mobile Loaves and Fishes, @MLFNOW, and Split the $1000 between my two children to start a college fund. - Karen

I could come up with no good reason - except that I probably would get myself the Wii and one more console and probably a NAS server - the rest (f anything remains) can go to some charity. Oh and get a drobo too if I can:) - Brijesh

I would use it to upgrade my teenage son's Mac and camera equipment for his stop-motion Lego movie. - MaDBooM

I would celebrate the crash of the GBP against the USD as I convert it over to spend in Harrods - Emma Dunstone

I will get myself a new laptop that doesn't take 10 minutes to start up, and by the way I'm a teacher that taught four sections of a "Thinking and Writing: A Blog of One's Own" at a state college, using (among other readings) your Corporate Weblog Manifesto and Scobleizer--I want to equip myself to further use social media for fun and education. - Tracy Mendham

I will spend the money on my wife and mother of our young kids. A day of pampering at a spa, new clothes, nice meal, etc. - Clif Mims

Robert, I would use the money to but my 17 YO daughter her first car....or at least a down payment on one.. Nothing fancy, just something to get around in. - Nick

I would use the money to buy a decent server and some memory upgrades for the Linux Lab we are setting up at a local community center. It's all donated hardware and will be used for computer literacy in the underprivileged North Charleston community. http://www.csclug.org/... - Dan T

A handful of Nikon SB-900's - chris tirpak

I believe in randomness :D, so if I get your money I will buy a "random" airplane ticket to a "random" country and blog about it - dimi3limb

Buy a used Canon 5D and a decent lens - Alain Breillatt

Hello! I'll take that money and buy half a laptop. - Anthony

I'd invest it in my startup - MixedInk! - Vanessa Scanfeld

I would tithe to Kiva and use the rest for my startup (change the world, baby!) - Toby Hede

What do we get for pointing out that you didn't follow your own rules? Made fun on of twitter? http://twitter.com/tefflox ! - Jesse Crockett

Attention addict. Nice one. - Tom Beardshaw

Is that your diagnosis, Dr. Beardshaw? - Jesse Crockett

$1,750 would be great to put toward training for leadership training: http://klemmer.com/worksho.... I'm launching a business to train rookies on using social media and more advanced users how to tie it all together. This training on leadership is to equip me to better serve them. - Courtney Engle

i have a great idea for a twitter reader, but dont have the money or coding skills to build it, btw congrats on the new job scoble, cant wait to see the new site/content - patrick

Looking forward to more Scobleizer blog posts soon. Are you going to be able to keep up your blog with the new Rackspace gig? - Jack Nork

I can only wish you get more paid gigs :) I would use the money ( along with my small nest egg) to start a direct to doorstep solution/service company. - Mohan Ramkumar

Random wins! I'll jumpstart my freelance biz... - Derek Markham

I just want the $1000, and I'll finally buy a DSLR I've been craving for a while now. - Mike Estes

If I win I'll spend the money exclusively on a device that allows me to liveblog (videos, photos, etc) from my trip to Tahiti this year. This is my lifetime dream vacation, which is already booked, and I want to have a device that allows me to upload instantly (so, no computer in between, no transfer of memory cards and then upload, just straight upload!) anything and anytime I want to :) Of course, it must be able to allow me to follow up comments from people who check it :) - Vitor Spencer

Robert, I'll use it to contact as many local/national government as i can. :) Building an app that allows citizens to help each other fill out those god-awfull form's, by implementing a Forum style plug-in on the webpages of local and national government bodies. I'd use it to take time off from the dayjob and convince as many municipalities and agencies of my plan! - Tom

OMG Tom, brilliant freaking idea. I have a notebook full of forms for my aged parents and trust me, the gov really needs to get into this century, such as programs talking to other programs and not so much repeating of information. - Janet

Robert, I'd give the $$ to a friend of mine in California who is down on his luck, got laid off from the school system, lost his house, and has kids to support. He has finally decided that the only recession-proof job in California is to become a wildfire firefighter, but is in desparate need of some bridge cash until he gets his certification in June. His family is living in a friend's... more... - Marc Monplaisir

wtf! I'm upset at the possibility of someone getting scammed here. - Suvarshi Bhadra

Well how can you resist an offer like that. I will use the money to help my sister who is struggling to pay for her last semesters in college so she can get her degree. - Andromeda Edison

mmm..... donuts! - Adam Lasnik

I would go with Jess Lee's cause, UNICEF - Pico Seno

Joining! - yannick

i'm in - stanescu adrian

btb, where's the original cisco data center post? - priyanhere

CIAO Robert! I'm ready to win :D - lyonora

is it too late? here i am, however! :) - Alessandro

i haven't money.i will buy laptop with this money. - Kadir a

kadir my friend the game is over :) I mean the contest is closed, someone else get the prise, may be an other time, good luck. - abdellah

I'd probably buy a nightstand for my wife, since she wont let me buy a laptop unless there is a stand to keep it on. - mka

I'd use the money to send my older daughter (8yo) to The Country School Farm summer camp. http://www.tcsfarm.com/ - Shad Aumann

Thanx for this hope u gave us first of all. I use the money for a laptop or macbook because my computer is killin me. But to be honest im not really expecting to win anything.Im tired of hoping and losing even this kind of comment & win style events always..Anyway thanx a lot again.. - Bilal

If I win the $1750 I will buy me a new pc :) thanks. - Oğuzhan Başar

hacı bizim para vardı ne oldu o ? bu kadar yorumu okutma bana. kazandıysam el salla. - ahmet kakıcı

12 saat oldu. ne mektup geliyor ne haber senden, söyle de bileyim bıktın mı benden :) - ahmet kakıcı

I'd use the money to set up a comfortable home workspace. - Ian Yang

Wow, Robert, I'm ready to win. For $1000, this will be enough to start my personal iPhone App Dev studio; For $1750, this will be enough to start both iPhone App Dev and Android Dev studio :-) - Yingfeng Zhang

spend the money create another friendfeed. - xia

new friendfeed?twitter? oh,I will send some special gifts to you from China,Robert,if I win the $1750 .haha ,I am not kidding. I really like the friendfeed. - 老巫

for SanGu.me!!! - hugh

Never mind the money – you frieinds just feed me more religion! - kelvin

嘿嘿，from china - loading...

Random. $ to Haitian Clinic. 4 chances 2 win. http://tiny.cc/6JZfi - Douglas Hopkins

I just sent out the checks. Thanks everyone! - Robert Scoble

I won!!!!!! - Micheal

I'd get a new macbook and a mac mini for myself, buy a little something special for the girlfriend, and save the rest for my summer in NOLA and grad school - Chris Brakebill

Good luck everyone. Spread the love and the money :) - Nir Ben Yona

You're nuts... anyway I'd use the money to buy a new porch... or perhaps go to Velocity (not sure my boss won't think 3 days if San Jose is too much like a holiday - I know get a new boss) - Andy Davies

So, with Roberts money I'd pay down a debt & buy a domain/hosting for a web app I'm building to try and earn some more $. Thnx Robert. - Mr K from Nambu

My one comment - money would be used for a mouth make-over. - Randal

I'm in, as for the reason should I not win the random drawing, pc parts and save the rest for the new iphone. - Michael Breslin

THIS CONTEST HAS BEEN CLOSED FOR A WHILE. THE PRIZES HAVE ALREADY BEEN HANDED OUT. CONGRATULATIONS to everyone. But this is now closed. - Robert Scoble

Robert, perhaps putting that notice in the first comment or the original message itself might be even better. - Chris Charabaruk

If I had my druthers, I would get my wife a new set of hooters. But, since my wife thinks most of my ideas are juvenile and self serving, I'll end up saving the money or something responsible. - Demian Vonder Kuhlen from Nambu

How would I use the money...hmmm well my wife wants to take the kids to Texas to see her sister or there are about a million home improvement projects that I have at home and at my parents - Brian Allen

I would use the money to buy my mom a basic laptop. I would hand-deliver the laptop and give her some basic lessons on connecting to free wireless (probably at her public library). Naturally, my internet instruction would include such basics as "beware strangers on the internet -- and some are stranger than most" and "even your dog is a celebrity on the internet" and "blackmailing neighborhood teens via facebook and myspace". - JoJo

I need money, I used to be a stick-up kid / So I think of all the devious things I did / I used to roll up--"this is a hold up; ain’t nothing funny / Stop smiling, and still! don’t nothing move but the money"... - Uche Ogbuji

I will happily take your money. Most will go to a good cause. Okay, all of it will. Me :-) ---> - Robert Kenney

I would like to win the money in order to use it to cover the remaining $1,250 I will owe Drexel University after scholarships and federal loans, Fall '09. - Andrew Leahey

Tuition. 'Nuff said. - Kevin Mohr

Brilliant! I love watching the social experiment evolve... I'm a pro photographer dreaming up my next career as a content producer. I would use my winnings as a piece of the cost to purchase a Red camera. http://www.red.com/epic_sc... - Michael Angelo Truncale

ололо! =) - пора менять скриннейм

give it to a little girl going to school who need it. - Can Turanlı

I"ll use the money to buy two airline tickets from NY to SC so that both of my granddaughters could come to stay with me for the summer. If anythings left over, I really could use an external hard drive. - Leigha Baer

epic thread - nm

I'm in, winnings will go towards a new Mac Pro. - timepilot

What would i do with $1,750? Pretty simple. I will establish a limited in Hong Kong and a branch office in Taipei. This would give me a visa and work-permit for Hong Kong and Taiwan and the blogosphere the chance to get always the hottest hands on and news from the Netbook and mobile computing hot spots in Asia. So yeah, i would use the money to establish a company in Hong Kong and i would even send you copies of all the documents and let you know about the success of it.;) - Sascha Pallenberg

i would buy a Mac, so i could be cool, too ;) since the contest is over, i'm afraid i have to stay uncool :( Or buy an HP.... :) - Marco Schmidt

I'll donate $1,750 to Austin Free-Net, which teaches Austinites with limited means how to use the Internet to improve their lives (find jobs, get healthcare information, stay in touch with family ...) www.austinfree.net - John Sirman

What a good idea for a survey. :) - Technical Support

I will start my phone system support website to deliver cost effective dialing and installation for small to medium business that needs a break from their local phone company. - Technical Support

This is a poll :) - CantorJF

.With the prize i think i can donate more then half for charity to People of Abruzzo that are victims of Earthquake in italy, then pay hosting of website for another year and buy a 2nd-hand reflex... I'm Sincere, and sincerly i know it's near to impossible to win, but for sure will be the best thread ever :) - CantorJF

Did you make a bet with Michael Arrington for $4,500 that you would get 1000+ replies on Friendfeed to prove him that people do use this? i would pay of debt - the best investment. - CJPhoto

We are three 20 somethings who have been working on a web start-up here in Seattle for the last 18 months. We've taken a salary at less than $2,000 per month for this whole time to make this work, we are that passionate that the idea will impact the Food Industry. Building a B2B platform for the food industry that is one part business, one part networking, two parts sourcing with the potential to integrate the social web with Food Manufacturers. The money would tie us over to round 1 of funding. - Matthew Wall

Hi Robert. Great contest. i would give the money to our local animal shelter. I went in there a few weeks ago and saw their desperate need for cat litter and dog supplies - Mike

I would use the money to start building a photography business. - Evan Travers

Happily commenting for $1k and use the other money to go Zorbing in New Zealand with my Flip Mino recording the man-girl scream coming out of my face. - Dutch Driver

I'd buy a FriendFeed Pro account - Pat Hawks

Some much needed financial assistance for our wedding in 2 months would be great! :) - Shmoe

The winners were announced here: http://beta.friendfeed.com/scoblei... - Robert Scoble

a Comment ;-) - Allen Harkleroad

I would pay for my daughters summer and fall college tuition with the winnings. - Allen Harkleroad

I'm amused that people are still commenting on this, saying what they'd do with the money, when the contest is long over. - Rochelle

maybe he has more money still! - Iphigenie

Should I win the money would be donated to the Janesville, WI food pantry which has been hit hard with the GM plant closings. Too many children and adults (and their pets) going to sleep hungry. - Dave Martin

I would use the money to follow in your footsteps and purchase a camera for how-to and web related videos. - Damond Nollan

Yay, I like free money! Give some to me. - tabbr

Wow, as I leave my comment, there are 1,510+ comments ahead of me. I would get a digicam so as to be able to interview peeps around town and upload to the Special Sections portals. Create community, let voices REALLY be heard. - Denise

SORRY TO BURST YOUR BUBBLE EVERYONE, but it's over. Robert already announced the winners A MONTH AGO. http://beta.friendfeed.com/scoblei... - Chris Charabaruk

To Tweet or not to. I will use the winnings to purchase a Netbook so I can finally have a mobile computer for class. My Dell died 2weeks outside warranty. I'll also use it pay down my Charter Bill. - Arawak

If I win the Money I am going to buy a 60 inch pioneer plasma. - John Wood

The money will most definitely be used to pay bills. And buy food. I'd also probably but a secondary monitor for Friendfeed. Real-time is real neat. - Matthew

So, where is the money? - Özkan Altuner

I am in! I will use this money to invest in a small social media project that I am doing geekscene.tv! - Frank Da Silva

Mr. Mack: This is a good target. "1513 more comments" and 400 likes. - Steve and 3 other people

allright.i know i'll win this: ) - umut

Pick me Robert, pick me! I promise to give it all to KIVA.com *and* match it with my own money. - Joseph

Why me? I promise to give it all to KIVA.com (or Charity:Water or Gates Foundation) *and* match it with equal amount of my own money. - Joseph

Rebuild my circa 1999 website, get logo redesigned, build it out and link to anywhere my investor wishes. Build in more social media tools, perhaps Y!OS and G's Friend Connect. - Mike Valentine

There's no way to win anything with this huge number of people , but thanks mr .Robert Scoble for this quiz . - ahmed nabil

I was wondering that, too...who won? - Thebluestbutterfly from email

This was over a long time ago. I gotta dig the winners out again, sorry. - Robert Scoble

Would love to spend your money on my credit cards and my wife!!! - Brady

if I win, I would buy Ads on scobleizer.com - Alex Sauceda

Okay, I'm commenting. :D - amygeek

IT'S OVER PEOPLE. March 14, yo. - Josh Haley

i think the confusion about this post lies in the inability for FriendFeed to appropriately show a date and time stamp on each comment. I just figured it out that you have to scroll the mouse of the comment bubble to see the date and time stamp of the comment... they should make it more visible. - Jason Pollock

If I won, I'd give the money to donorschoose.org because it's obscene that in the US, public schools don't have money for pencils & paper. & my employer would match the donation. & I'd get a nice little tax writeoff for myself. :D - amygeek

You are a developer's dream beta tester ! Way to push a system to its limits ! - Benoit Cazenave

This giveaway is over. Has been over. Ugh. - Mattie Kenny

This makes a Thursday that much better. I would use the money to fly myself and the family back home to throw my son his first birthday party. =) - Robert de Castro

I would buy iPods and cameras for students in my sixth grade class in Tucson, AZ. 7 Kodak Zi6 models and 14 iPod Touch models. Or 7 iPods with $1750 - Joel Zehring

That's certainly a cynical strategy for getting comments... but I love cynicism! How will I spend it? Sending my GF and I back to DisneyWorld! - Ciaoenrico

oooooo visit me!! http://www.mygirlfund.com/Chris_R... - Chris

buy a new cleaner/envirmnt friendly car - Harscoat

No impressive story on how I would use the money... buy one netbook and put the rest against my credit cards. It's tough times! - Jan Ole Peek

I'd use the money to fund my son's mission - http://billy.soistmann.com/ - Bill

Money is great! - Fred Hsu

I would use it to pay Obama's tax increases. No spend it to stimulate the economy. No pay new taxes on health insurance. Naw, buy a Mac or I-phone. I-phone, friend feed hard to use on the Dare. 10% to charity though. - wowfreeze.blogspot.com

Put in my children's college fund. - wowfreeze.blogspot.com

Is this the record for the most comments ever? I'll use the money to replace the lens that was stolen by a United employee at ORD on the way from SFO. I will invest the remainder in stocks; if I show profit, I'll hold a similar contest to give away the profit. - Hiro Asari

I'd use some of the money to get my 4 year old into music class. Its not super expensive but beyond my reach right now. Neither myself or his mother are musically inclined at all. But he is. - Capn' One Eye - adrift

============= with the money, Il register a lot of domains, and not only .com ! I'l start new websites, new web app services. I want at least one of them to be that BIG one. I have an idea. Just not that money. :] ......... If money enough, Il commission userscripts, to facilitate internet browsing in general ! ....... I'm open to share in the results. ================ - pb:

If you still reading it means you did not like any of the 1575+ comments here. This is a very good reason to pick me. Second comment about what I am going to do with this money; probably will go to a holiday, order a champagne and remember you. - Jacque

I have to comment again now. - Mattb4rd

is this still running? - Zee.

I WOULD LIEK TO SPEND THE MONEYS ON ALEX AND BUY HIM MONSTER CABLES - Akiva

probably buy a lense for my D90 to take some pictures of the baby that is due in june. - Zach Scott

This thread might be due for another *bump* - Jay Cuthrell

Office - Steve and 3 other people

OK, I won't. - John Craft

Sure. - امیر؟

not #FEEDwithHITS - Yusuf Temur

up - eksi21

hacı biri özet geçsin - eksi21

dedim bu ne ameka.. - serdar

you wrote nobady NOT COMMENT :) - Davit Channa

Is it over? - CarlC

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Do you think the new friendfeed sucks? Tell us why here:

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Doesn't suck... needs improvement. - Daniel Zarick

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No auto-refresh when you pause the site - Outsanity

No. It's a bit painful at first, but it's useful, clean, and beats Twitter. - Jason Nunnelley

1. Better design/colors/layout - Daniel Zarick

It's wicked! - Ewan MacLeod

I rather like it. - Michael McKean

argh. I just train a company yesterday on FF. Now I have to redo it... :) - Gianluca Diegoli

FriendFeed is cool. Wondering why bots are not in here yet! Lot of services around Twitter, but not many for FriendFeed! > - Kannan from email

Like it more than twitter... desktop pop-up is great. - Joshua

I like it, def better than twitter - Jan Zimak

I think its great!! - DanDan

The colors are nice. - Rishi Talreja

It has a higher learning curve than the old friendfeed - Tony C

Powerful search tools and the bookmarklet update is awesome - Peter Kelley

didn't begin using friendfeed on a daily basis until the changes were initially implemented in beta...so in other words i am a fan - Jeffrey Marsh

Hehehe. I did this too, bringing some colleagues to do some discussions in 'rooms' - Zu from AOD

I like it, seems more intuitive. But then I also liked the new Facebook. - Bob Morris (polizeros)

Scoble trolling? - Chris Poulson

beta is better than first iteration. cleaner ux. however value prop of friendfeed over twitter is still unclear - Sean Scott

Just showed it to a pal. He says awesome programming - ThinkEzy

It doesn't suck at all. Maybe it takes some time for you to get used to it, but once you do, it's great. - Diego Espinoza V.

I've seen lots of mention of the learning curve--to me, this has been a duck to water experience. Seems sensible, flexible, fluid. - Kathy Fitch

when I am commenting, I can still see "real time" like or comment by other people, I think it rocks! - K.D.

I miss the time updates on the rooms, and I don't like the color scheme... Also don't really like the real time view and keep it paused. I do like DMs however... that's the best new feature. - Lindsay

i like it ! - patrick

doesn't suck at all..guys at friendfeed have done a real good job..keep it up guys - Arvind

The old colour scheme was better in that it was clearer and gave the impression of a weight and richness. Now FF looks like a cheap blog. Sorry guys - Dan Stuart

The color scheme is a little gaudy and the "look" inelegant. Like going from a Mac desktop to Windows. It's still perfectly functional. Just not as comfortable being here. - Jeff Guin

grey for a background… so pathetic. Imaginary friends added in a really cool way to a mental model of friendfeed, now gone. - Лёша

more like twitter now - Wei Xia

Just imagine if this was on Facebook. All the hundreds of millions of clumsy Facebook users would start hundreds of thousands of hate groups. Since FriendFeed is mostly geeks & early adopters, they are more open to change. Once this thing hits the mainstream, this sort of innovation on the UI will be impossible to implement. - Ben Ackles

That's it? No one else thinks friendfeed sucks? Come on now. Facebook changes and everyone is up in arms. - Robert Scoble

socialcoop: maybe Arrington is right and no one is using friendfeed. - Robert Scoble

Since it 'pulls-in' so much content...well, that's kind of like sucking--but I guess the old one did that too. The new FF is better--I used th RT mode in the old one too. - Rob Michael (Atmos Trio)

Maybe that's because facebook's changes actually sucked - Keith Barrett

But facebook is used by people that don't understand why the internet changes. They are used to desktop software, not web applications. Facebook is the first true webapp most of those users have used. - Daniel Zarick

Still up for debate. - David Cohn

We can see the stream and the person who did it, but it's hard to see where it comes from(twitter, blog,..). In the old version, there was an icon to see it but it has disppeared. (sorry for my poor english, I'm french...) - tristan

Hard to tell - because I just hate change. I'm not a fan of being able to see LESS about who is posting and what they're posting with. - Ciaoenrico

Remember, it's 2am on the East Coast now, Robert. Even _I'm_ about to hit the hay. *grin* - Ken Kennedy

I'm still annoyed that FF offers no option for the real-time displays to show newest post at top - Keith Barrett

I've been using the beta all along, and even with all of the lists I've set up, I find I'm looking at the main feed/lists less than I used to. That's my only real negative. Saved filters are wonderful, and embedding is sometimes useful. - John E. Bredehoft from fftogo

Baard Overgaard Hansen: We still have rooms, they're called Groups now. And for me, the comments and likes links at the top of my profile page distinguishes them quite well. - Sharon McPherson

Only complaint is that I wish it was easier to see where any given piece of information came from. - Angus Burton

No, it's sweet. It's my favorite thing right now, its the coolest thing on the internets. It runs so smoothly too. - Stephen Pickering

no complaints. works for me - Jim Goldstein

welcome to the real world,it sucks but you will like ti,^_^ - 阿石

I much prefer it. - Jamie

There's gonna be some pushback on this one. I've gotten used to it because I switched to the beta over a month ago. I've almost forgotten what the other layout looked like. To those complaining about not being able to see the source service the posts come from. I think that's the point; don't leave here, it doesn't matter where it came from, discuss it here. :) - Adam Turetzky

Was just learning the old but between being able to use rooms/groups and auto-updating of comments in a thread, I like it. - Jim Espinoza

Hate the new FF. Hate the lack of icons for other services. And though I haven't dug around yet (hint! I shouldn't have to!), I can't seem to find a way to parse out different services (ie, just look at Last.fm imports from my friends, or pull out the "internal" RSS feed for content I've personally entered into FF). And right now I'm annoyed by new comments popping onto this page while I'm typing. - Kevin Hessel

Kevin, thereis a Pause button at top right of the column to deal with your annoyance. - Jim Espinoza

Just want "Best of" for my friends list then all will be fine again. It was in the beta, right? - Dominic Jones

Jim, I'm on the unique link (http://friendfeed.com/scoblei...), not on the base FriendFeed page. There's no pause button here that I can see. - Kevin Hessel

i will probably appreciate new functionalities when using them, but i definitely miss the old look'n'feel, looks very much like twitter now, has lost "personality" - Adriana Ripandelli

Ah, I learn something new too. Thanks, Kevin - Jim Espinoza

Looks ugly but an improvement over old version. Workflow on new version is a step back than before. Seems untested and unfinished. I'm seriously looking for something better now. - Chris Nixon from BuddyFeed

the gray background is ugly - Peter Warnock

Just 4 things I'd like to see implemented. First, as mentioned above, a pause button - comment link placed under the last entry so we don't have to scroll all the way back to the top on long posts to enter comments - the ability to send Retweets, and make posts sticky. - Sharon McPherson

Another thing, new FF appears to have been designed for those like you with lots of followers. Most of us hardly ever get comments, likes etc. So it's great for the A-list, but shitty for the rest of us. That might change if more people join. - Dominic Jones

I can't say anything about the new features because I'm too annoyed to look at them. The layout and theme sure sucks though. I thought I clicked onto my twitter page by mistake. Now I need to find TweetDeck for FriendFeed and avoid the web page like the plague to make it tolerable, just like twitter. Why don't they narrow this column down a few more inches - there's really like so much more space they could be wasting. Why only waste 40% of the page? - Christopher Brocious

not at all intuitive... user interface get a grand 2/10.... if that is fixed, could be fantastic... the concept of real time (even though its simulated, as its still doing "pulls" from the browser rather than "pushes" to the browser) is great, the data itself is rich, but it should focus on either being an aggregator, or syndicator... trying to be both is misadventerous. - simran

Sharon--click on the time stamp to pop the thing into a new window. Puts the comment box on the bottom, and allows new comments to scroll in without disrupting your writing. - Kathy Fitch

Whoa, thank you Kathy! - Sharon McPherson

Nope, it doesn't. It's just different. I'm not getting why people hate it. - Hubert Taler

You're welcome! ;-) (Oh, and isn't that cool? I love it.) - Kathy Fitch

Dave Winer hates it, by the way: http://friendfeed.com/davew... - Robert Scoble

FriendFeed is no longer focused on connecting individual services, it's blending them and that's wrong. Aesthetically it's spiraling and that matters too. - Andrew Smith

Define "sucks" - Jack Humphrey

I have yet to fully realize the new features which I'm sure are tremendous. From a UI perspective--design wise? It is very, what I can only describe as, 'early BlogSpot'. It's pretty hard on the eyes and that's the absolute most diplomatic way I can say it. I'll be sticking with the previous incarnation(http://friendfeed.com/realtime) and the real-time pop-out window(http://friendfeed.com/realtim...). - Gregg Scott

Almost forgot, please FF, give administrators the ability to delete groups. - Sharon McPherson

I dont like this friendfeed! I want my old and sweety FF! Return my FF, plz...! - Exir

Agree with Sharon - how do you delete groups? - Liviu Lica

what sucks about friendfeed is that all people talk about on it is friendfeed or other meta issues. also too many buttons to press to distract. No ecosystem of desktop apps. I am sure its a useful utility for pros like scoble, but for everyone else, twitter is ideal, your mum can understand it. - Michael Neale

Too much like facebook and twitter. I come here for news and great discussion not status updates of people I don't know, unfortunately, all my friends are on facebook. - Andrew Royer

Michael: all the "normal" people in my life are on facebook which is more complex than either Twitter or friendfeed. By the way, Facebook adds more people every month than are even on Twitter. So your thesis is TOTALLY WRONG. Users CAN put up with a LOT of complexity. Try again. - Robert Scoble

fine tuning and control on real time flow is missing. - Ouriel Ohayon

I miss the additional features of the old UI for posting. You had separate fields to add links, photos, comments as well as the text of the post. How do you add text and a link now? - Mark Krynsky

FB is daunting, I think. I just hate having to wrestle the danged thing to the ground every time I try to use it. This seems to me to be simple, flexible, fluid, nimble. - Kathy Fitch

I just did: http://ff.im/2sTvr and there is more, I goes too fast now, It looks like a blog, and friendfeed is not a blog... and I don't like it at all... - Aline

Too little content on to much space, I only have a 13inch screen. FAIL - Gerard van Schip

I think it is far away from suck, yes it needs a bit more tweak. But I think its great and more useful than Twitter. - MoRiza

I would like to see the words subscriptions/subscribers dropped from the profile pages and use friends/followers instead.. - Arvind

Why is everybody taking about Twitter? The question is do you think the new FF sucks? And that anser is YES! - Aline

because of a twitter-like interface, even if in realtime - Nicola Junior Vitto

But you can not compare Twitter and FF, that are two realy diffrent things... - Aline

avatar pictures instead of service pictures. this is getting too social for my reading habbits :) and also, text used to span all over the page now it's trapped in the middle. why. my sides of the screen are upset :) - Dani Radu

There's very little "twitter-like" other than the use of avatars to bring the focus to people rather than services. And here I thought FF was all about the people to begin with... - Kevin Kuphal

Hmm. Maybe I'm unperturbed because I've been using the beta from the get-go. - Kathy Fitch

Thats it! The absence of service icons to ID my stream, thats the only sucky part. - MoRiza

You'll get used to "from Twitter" under the post in very short order, people. - Kevin Kuphal

Design is okay, but interface is broken (I've made a detailed list a couple of weeks ago — http://friendfeed.com/friendf...). Here's why: - Yury Vetrov

1) It's now harder and longer to read. First, all posts look the same because of service icons absence — it was needed for visual filtering of the posts. Then, post header are now come in two parts — text and link (it means more text, more clutter, harder to click — every link begins in it's own place). Third, only one comment in a collapsed discussions — you can't see answer-question pair, just an answer. - Yury Vetrov

I did not use the Beta, because it would like to see Icons, and I like to see alle services anyone uses, now I have to click my way troug FF, and when I want to read something, it goes very fast... - Aline

2) It's hard to use FriendFeed as an RSS reader now. Imaginary friends are totally broken. You can still create a private group, but it's inconvinient, it's separates old and new IFs in two lists (subscriptions and groups). I've used FrF as an RSS reader in the first place. - Yury Vetrov

3) It's impossible to use FrF as a browser of your aggregated content — no more filters by service in user's profile. It was very useful for sites with no proper bookmarks system (Vimeo, SlidShare, YouTube etc). - Yury Vetrov

@Kevin, FF is all about people. But people are not avatars (yet). We are what we share online, and untill real avatar interaction - we share via services. That's why imho it makes more sense to use service icons then static avatar pics. - Dani Radu

Naw...tis just different and back to the firehose. :-) - Mathew A. Koeneker

Only thing I don't love is the "more" dealie. Harumph. I'm wordy, I confess it. No need to rub my face in it, FF. Makes me feel scolded every time. <wry grin> - Kathy Fitch

Someone on seesmic who thinks new seesmic sucks http://new.seesmic.com/threads... , I think he's right about imaginary friends but we can still create groups or rooms. - tristan

I don't hate it, I don't like it either, it looks much alike the HTML kiddies designs of 10 years ago. - Amit Morson

I used to filter the content by its source (like http://friendfeed.com/balau...), now it's broken.Apart from that, new FF seems a step in the right direction. - Francesco Balducci

Here's a link to some Greasemonkey scripts for the new FF http://userscripts.org/scripts... Of note is the one that adds service icons to entries. - Mark Krynsky

Cool, Mark, thanks. - Kathy Fitch

I like the concept, but not the look. At least the horrid gray should go. - Johan Aulin

Sing for Absolution: Please let people use the old version of friendfeed via a sub domain address like old.friendfeed.com. We do prefer to use the old version instead of the new. This new version does not match the low speed connections and users with so much subscriptions. Thank you friends. http://friendfeed.com/friendf... - Exir

@ Exir, Yes that's a great Idea... :D - Aline

Just a tweak to what Mark (hey, Mr Krynsky!) pointed out: some FF scripts don't have the word "beta" in the name, so http://userscripts.org/scripts... will show more (non of mine http://userscripts.org/users... use the term beta, but most are designed for the beta/live-as-of-today features). Oh, and the add service icons script is here: http://userscripts.org/scripts... - Micah

Thanks for the clarification and more details Micah...Many of the older scripts may not work on the new site and that's why I filtered to 'beta'. - Mark Krynsky

Why oh why did they feel the need to become *more* like twitter?!?!? - Scott Gould

Good point, Mark. Another tip is to sort by clicking the "Last Updated" link to look at everything that's been updated since beta-to-live (April 29 or later). - Micah

New features have negative suck. Layout has small amount of suck - seems less information dense than old layout, with right side space lost to navigation stuff. - David Lounsbury

takes some getting used to. i've gotten more subscribers since this change than in all the time i've been on FF. - Alensa

I could like it more if only they could move all the Twitter members over here. :) - Ed Grant

It's aight.. I can't see how to collapse FF down to see JUST delicious links or JUST Digg links from a specific user or group by clicking on the feed icon. Maybe I still can but I don't see how. - Jesse Newhart

Yeah there is definitelly less on the screen. More difficult to scan. Is the font size larger. Did they get a coder to design it rather than an interface designer. - Chris Nixon from BuddyFeed

i think it's great but may need a bit of work on the actual design. also scoble==totally trolling for a big discussion! - Snipergirl

I simply want my old FF back... I have the feeling that I use my mobile phone with so much simplicity... - philos

Bring back imaginary friends!!! the greatest FrF appeal for me was ability to consolidate of all online relationships. Some of these contacts eventually convert and become FrF users, some will never covert and following them via imaginary friend is essential for me. - Maхx Tee

Everything I liked at FF, is now gone... :( - Aline

Strange. The impression is we had lots of features and now almost of things are gone. Strange. It definitely needs UX improvements. - Tiago Vieira

It's good but still had a whole of work to be done to it, as I've stated here: http://friendfeed.com/search... :-) - Kol Tregaskes

The effect each medium has on the human sensorium vary with the medium. This medium will change our way to use it. The New FF completely change the way we use it. This is another tool: more LIVE, more confused, more dispersive. I love the old FF for the ability to create conversation in a simple way. Now the coversation is absolutly disordered because I can't control how to enjoy the conversations. Good attempt ... to create something different. - Giovanni Calia

the old FF interface was much better, why is gone the support for icons for feeds? This was a better way to recognize on what channel was generated!! Is not possible to have both Interfaces???? - Dan Romescu

i dont care! - auburn

Quite the opposite - Michael McGimpsey

It's great.. but seriously miss the icons that indicate the source of the message... e.g. how to easily filter out all blogposts - Aad 't Hart

I woudl show them your post about ugly design. Visually I liked the previous interface, not beautiful but personal. This one with rounded corners and wide borders looks like a default theme. I read beta on a nokia and it is not bad, but I would stay very very simple. Content is king. - Michele Costabile

Friendfeed's new look gives me a perfect antidote to Twitter and I appreciate that, thanksverymuch. - Bernie Goldbach

who cares, friendfeed could be the future. I've known ever since Scoble's Twitter told me so. - Kemp Edmonds from twhirl

it seems a Wordpress comments management :-| - Ikaro

agree re the need to bring back imaginary friends. - Matt Hooper

The new FF is ok, kinda ugly, but ok. I still need to get used to it. - Shawn Hickman

It doesn't suck at all! I like it! Only want a customizable background please - schwindt-pr

too much wasted white space. The old version was much more compact (and BTW it let us immediately see where the original news was posted). Is it really so difficult to redesign friendfeed so that we can choose the stylesheet we prefer to display our feed? - .mau.

+1 for .mau. even gmail (the most powerful terse interface I know of) has themes. Gmail is my web 2.0 style guide. - Michele Costabile

there's a lot of comments, and we still didn't reach the goldwin point. Maybe, there's not a of people on FF, but people on FF seem to be smarter than the others ;) - tristan

+1 Service icon not being present irritates me at so many levels - Swaroop

briefly: cool features, wrong interface. as someone already said: it looks like a cheap blog; it doesn't have any kind of personality, sorry. - cedmax

just used it for the first time and I have to agree with ced, right format weak design, - Kemp Edmonds from twhirl

the new version doesn't suck :-D but not having the old version around still kinda does :-/ re:themes if we have to have them, can they be 'me only' themes or can i tick a box saying 'hide all user themes' ;-) - immaterial

please keep it light and simple! no threaded comments! - Maхx Tee

I liked the fact that you could see images before. Also the gray background, could be nicer. - Avi A

i don't like the gray background, I think kills readability. Other than that, it's huge. And hope it's going to be much more so. - dario

Come on..you can use also Fftogo!!! http://fftogo.com - Dario Salvelli from fftogo

and, with a giant IMHO, service icons are *not* the point. Once you hit publish, wherever you do, it's "out there", out there (or as good a representation of it you want it to be) being FF, I like this side of it the most. - dario

hated the beta at first, but for some reason I kept using it and now I really like it. not perfect, but better. - Robert DeBord

Ugh... Why do these sites have to try and be like Facebook? FriendFeed was a great tool for me to aggregate all of NAPP's feeds and share them on Twitter at a glance. Now I can't tell what's coming from what feed. ((sigh)) - Photoshop User

Dario, thank you! Fftogo is so much better than this Twitter wannabe, space wasting, regressive disaster of a UX. - Christopher Brocious

next point of order: Being ahead of your user base: good or bad? - dario

Overall, it's good. Biggest complaint: Bring back imaginary friends! Private Groups are for something else entirely. Also, what do I do about my existing imaginary friends? How do I delete them if they happen to join FriendFeed? Would that be different if I made a private group with their name? All kinds of questions there! - Don Faulkner

Bring back imaginary friends - otherwise FF is useless for me. A load of my friends just won't spend the time setting up their FF accounts (no need for some of them they perhaps only have a small online footprint) so its back to monitoring shed loads of other sites ie. myspace, delicious, flickr, twitter, etc. etc. Otherwise its great - significantly better than before! - Angus Neil

I can't post through the bookmarklet to my groups. I was very dependent on this feature, and It doesn't work anymore.. Fix IT! - Joe Spake

i think user experience isn't much more better.. - Tolga Arıcan

Thank you for calling the Official FriendFeed Helpline, brought to you by Robert Scoble. Leave your message after the beep. BEEP - Mike Nayyar

Joe Spake: You can still use the bookmarklet to post to groups, just takes a few more steps. Click the X to remove your feed, enter the first letter or 2 of the name of the group(s) you want to post to, then choose the group from those you'll see listed. - Sharon McPherson

The commenting here has no formatting so I made this .txt file: http://dazetheory.com/scripts... - Joshua Hatfield

Actually, now that I've used it a little, one thing I HATE is that I can see the number of subscribers and subscriptions anybody has. This is what's wrong with Twitter, as it makes it less about socializing and more about winning at a Ponzi scheme. I'd hate to see that kind of pessimism come over to FriendFeed. - Ciaoenrico

hate the colors - Sarah Perez

Doesn't suck, just agree with Daniel: "Better design/colors/layout" please - Christopher Galtenberg

Ask this again in a few weeks. I started as an immediate hater thinking I would stop using if it continued but it quickly grew on me. I suspect there will be fewer haters then (of course this wait period may provide a self fulfilling wish -- those that really don't like it may leave by then). - Brian Sullivan

No, it doesn't. Those new to it should use it for a few days and then see how they feel. - AJ Kohn

I'm still undecided. I still think real time makes it harder for me to find new and interesting contacts and get noticed by other people. - Kevin (barely visible)

Sucks - not usable at work any more because it's so obvious. Plus I'm losing conversations. Give us an option to keep the old interface! - Victor Ryden 美久太阿

It's funny, I didn't even realize that I had even gone over to the regular FF. I didn't start really using FF until the beta, despite having an account for quite some time, so I've been used to the beta. - Aaron Kurtz from IM

Not for me. I used Real-Time all the time in the old version. The only things are A. the mini window is lacking B. The pause button doesn't work like the original pause button so I still feel like I miss stuff when I leave my computer C. The amounts of clicks it takes to do something is a little too much Ex: Refreshing a feed Other than that, I don't see anything wrong with it - Shevonne

Just need a good desktop app to be able to run vertical stream. Or I need 5 screens. I tried AlertThingy yesterday but it's only one pipe. Ultimately, I think a good micro-blog app needs to deliver a mix chosen streams and of organic news which you may not run into via traditional streams - Yann Ropars

Good but lake of filters to remove a source from a view and lake of icons that show from where the entry is (RSS, twitter, ...) - Severin

Don't care for the layout (have to scroll too much to use saved searches), update rate and opening links awkward, seems like features missing, colors not so much. Is beta.FF my default FF anyway? Yes. - Loren Heiny

It sucks. This is a cramped primary-color room. Cramped, dumbed-down, isolating. Hate it - where is the wide-open white that is the FF I know and like? More to the point, what has been achieved by changing it? - david

Meh. I like the readability in general - but for comments it's hard to scroll without going too far (on posts like this with a billion comments. I also miss the buttons for Twitter/blog/etc. - Tabz

I just like to say things suck in general - Jbizzle

Apart from the excellent points raised by everyone here, I'd like to add that FriendFeed now makes Firefox3 consume much more CPU and and makes my laptop's fan run faster too, thereby reducing battery charge too fast. Please bring back the old energy-efficient FF!. It's all a blur now! - Siddharth Deb

Like the new features but the look is blah. - Jessica Lee

I hate the color and overall look/feel of the UI. If I was tech savvy enough, I would try to install the cleaner ff greasemonkey script for chrome... but I'm not. May try anything. But I find the new colors and spacing annoying. - Jen (SquirrelGirl)

I love it... beta is LIVE :) - Susan Beebe

I like it actually. Layout is great. - fbrunel

I don't think the new FF sucks, but I wish they hadn't diluted the imaginary friend feature because I just wrote a post extolling its virtues. - Karoli

Since every post, like this one for that matter, becomes quicky a chat room, I say I hate reading comments in gray! I also would like to be able to close the comments I opened. Be simples, give me helvetica and black, say hello to round corners and margins. Do not waste one quarter of the screen for a short sidebar, maybe put commands at top and content on two columns. - Michele Costabile

it's hard to differentiate between the different services now. It all looks the same. - richrecruiter

I installed the greasemonkey script recommended by Micah which enables me to see both the avatars and service icons - http://userscripts.org/scripts... Double the pleasure, double the fun. - Sharon McPherson

Sharon, Micah - thanks so much for the greasemonkey script link. Friendfeed without the services icons was really starting to bug me. I hope Friendfeed brings service icons back to the stream as well as imaginary friends. Taking away features = bad. I don't mind the beta but Friendfeed should integrate previously available features into it IMHO. - Jesse Newhart

I like the new look, would like to customize the way it updates, move newest commented topics up. - James Rowe

right James, new comments shud stack upwards...not at bottom. wat say Scoble? - Roshan Ramachandran

New comments at the bottom is ever so much nicer for archives, though. Makes it easier to scan the conversation after the fact, to catch up on a long one late in the game, and to catch the flow at a glance. - Kathy Fitch

It seems a bad and old Wordpress theme. - Gianluca Neri

FoaF hiding doesn't seem to be working the way it used to... http://friendfeed.com/kenzoid... - Ken Kennedy

Ken, nice point. - Alp B.

Kathy: FF being realtime service, updates are easier to read as they "drop in"...specially when you are watching a discussion in separate window, where comments are not collapsed like here. To read an archive, doesnt matter u read upwards or downwards...sequence will always be there...IMO. - Roshan Ramachandran

No, the new Friendfeed works for me. But then, I watched the launch videos and participated in one of the those Scoble Salons that pop up here. Without those learning aids, I probably would be disoriented here, at least for a while. And that's one of the problems with Friendfeed attracting new users: it's powerful, but it's not really that simple. - Tom Landini

but ya...then the comment box also need to move to top :) - Roshan Ramachandran

I have never used FF as much, as I have since the new beta - Props to the FF team!! - Jim Connolly

Love the new FF except for when you hover over a DP it only shows max 5 services and has a "more >>" link. Wish FF showed all of the services on hover still. - Garin Kilpatrick

The new FF has become.. Twitter. I used it as a different service: to gather all my feeds. Now next to my avatar only 4 icons are shown! More, next to each entry it doesn't appear anymore the logo of each service (fb, twit,...). FF is now like an RSS reader, but definitely less funnier, so boring, so similar to twitter (which I like anyway). Another great social network is dead :( - marilena

I like it lots. Twitter is down half the time. - tojfs7931

Alright guys, I made a Greasemonkey script: http://dazetheory.com/scripts... I'm not the popular one on here, but I couldn't take the background any longer so I fixed it. Screenshot: http://dazetheory.com/scripts... (Share this!!!) - Joshua Hatfield

1. I would like a widescreen option, now it is just wasting space for long texts, 2 how can I see e.g. all my posts from one of my feeds, only, e.g. only the linkedin feed? This function was great, now I can not find it back. - joergkurtwegner

@joergkurtwegner: go to your feed and type in the search field "service:linkedin" - Alejandro

I just think the "pop up" link should be more obvious. - stanjourdan

You could use ◥ for clarifying the entry "pop-up" link. At least temporarily: the pop-up link is the time stamp in Twitter, too; who doesn't use/know Twitter? - Jérôme

@Jérôme : ?? (it's not really for me, i'm used to the current link location) - stanjourdan

@Stan, You = FF team :) I read lots of complaints about this "hidden" link. I can't find an easy way to make it obvious. The mouse-over idea they tested few days ago wasn't well accepted. Addind a "link" link would take some unnecessary space, etc. The UTF character in "16 hours ago ◥" , as ugly as it may be, could shows that the timestamp is popable. This character or another (the Gmail chat pop-up icon would be far prettier). - Jérôme

Ok Jérome! That's a nice idea ! - stanjourdan

The new friendfeed is great - Joe Azzara

It looks a little better, but I still don't get it. It introduces more noise and is really weak in the filtration department. - Brian

I think the main feed area looks better, but the side areas are wasted. The things that niggle me the most are: the rows are (1) too close together in the lists of feeds etc on the right hand side (and i don't like the font) and (2) The Me Feed has gone. That was a really quick, handy way of checking whether i'd already posted something on a topic. - Eyoki

side bar is a bit wasted.. but like the overall feel of this better :) - Rachael Depp

It's taking time to readjust, but I'm liking it. I like the real time updates, I like the layout (couldn't give a fig if the graphics are 'sooooo 1990s' as I saw one comment. It does what I want - it aggregates and distributes my social networking life. It does what it promises. I just hope FF doesn't become distracted by bolting more bells and whistles on eg personally couldn't give a toss about the new email function. - David Eedle

OH, God I hate it. If the changes were optional, if I could pick and choose which ones to enable, that would be one thing. I am a recovered epileptic, and the constant scrolling and jumping on screen makes me QUEASY!! Ugh, I can't look at it, and I can't stay here if they don't give us a way to override it or stop it. I loved picking fave FF posts and tracking the whole conversation and linking back to it, but haven't figured out how to do that yet. - Patricia F. Anderson

Found the pause button - thanks, folks. That is (shall we say) not intuitive? - Patricia F. Anderson

Robert, they might want to create an option for people who don't want to express there info on "how many people they follow/subscribe to" and "how many people follow/subscirbe to them". - Michael Forian

A big step backward. They removed features I rely on (imaginary friends, the feed icons), made the UI generally more obtuse, and failed to add any features I particularly want. Real time update is particularly awful: a nice gimmick for ~30 seconds, until you realize that in a feed with a slow update rate it makes no difference, and in a feed with a fast update rate it make the page unreadable, and forces you to pause the stream, putting you right back into non-real time, but with extra effort required. - David Gaw

give me icons please - Rubin

joshua hatfield: I just installed the script for your background, definitely an improvement over the default gray. Thanks - Sharon McPherson

The name SUCKS. Really. Twitter wins hands down. Ever read Jack Trout on Positioning? - ThinkEzy

I just Wordled this thread to visualize the comments. http://www.wordle.net/gallery... - Andrew Smith

major suckage. to use a profession term. - michelle lamar

and where are all my friends? Can't see the friends. Grrr. - michelle lamar

michelle, do you have a friend list in place? if not, make one. (go to friends and start picking 'em out to put on the list...) - Karoli

Not working from FB feeds... Not mine... Not yet... - derek Bee

I think this thread sucks, OP and all 254 previous comments. - ianf ⌘

Old ff didn't suck & neither does the new - this thread alone provides a great example of why I love ff in ways I'll never love Twitter - Forrest Cox

Yeah, kinda, because some things are harder or impossible for me to do now, but some things are way cooler. The concept of real time is important and I'm glad they're going for it. I'll deal. I'm here, aren't I? - Laura Norvig

I'm not using #FriendFeed so much now - without 'imginary friend' feature. Going back to Tweetdeck and others to group new twitter only follows - Julian Edward

it's really slick. - Aldrin Calimlim

I can't quite imagine reason that #imaginaryfriend taken out - unless friendfeed aiming to be alternative to twitter ? surely not. Universality suits friendfeed Perhaps it is to do with data volume and the marketing effectiveness of specific data flows. Would love to know more. In meantime I'm going back to Tweetdeck and looking for a web alternative to grouping twitter friends. - Julian Edward

well - Tweetdeck still too slow and unstable! Surprised by that after all this time. Seesmic a little slow too but beta. - Julian Edward

Poor layout, twitter-like, and I hate twitter - Daniele S.

It's OK. I prefer the layout to the old FF but the old version felt more 'friendly'. Disagree about Twitter btw. I love it. Its simplicity, you could say its limitations are what i like about it. Sometimes FF overwhelms me and i when i log on feel like someone who's just arrived at some kind of high-powered party, i.e. an outsider. I never get that with Twitter: it always feels like 'mine'. - Eyoki

Friendfeed has been down for sometime now and not working at all - Calming Sounds

It has to auto refresh rss/feed... - Rahul Pal

Alensa

MiVitals Can’t Find Pulse For Online Health Records - http://www.techcrunch.com/2009...

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"PracticeFusion seems to be doing really well with their SaaS, Adobe Flex, no-setup fee solution. http://cli.gs/1gr2UG" - Alensa

Robert Scoble

SkyGrid Launches Free Real Time Financial News Service - http://www.techcrunch.com/2009...

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"Jim Jim I was not paid or compensated in any way by Sky Grid. I use SkyGrid a lot as you will see if you watch the video I did with Kevin today." - Robert Scoble

I wonder what is the real differenec to similar products like ScoutLabs. Just packaging ? - Alensa

Alensa

57 Internet Possibilities to Investigate - http://www.chrisbrogan.com/100-int...

March 3, 2009 from Backtype - Comment - Like - Share

"Very interesting post. Thanks for some good ideas." - Alensa

Buddypress: Mark Leonard

Buddypress is going to take wordpress to the next level. It will empower not just the site owner but the member, because they are not boxed in like all the big social sites. - http://testbp.org/members...

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good luck on your BuddyPress installation. customization is kind of tricky. - Alensa

ianj bachelor project: Ian

mHealth and Mobile Telemedicine - an Overview | Making the eHealth Connection - http://ehealth-connection.org/content...

February 24, 2009 from Bookmarklet - Comment - Like - Share

"Currently, there are over 3.5 billion mobile phones in use across the globe; this figure is set to double in the next decade. At the same time, telemedicine’s role in clinical care, education, research, and training in the health sector continues to grow from continent to continent." - Ian from Bookmarklet

are you aware of 3G Doctor? - http://cli.gs/meTEEh - Alensa

Robert Scoble

New Twitter movement: unfollow everyone. Discuss why or why not this is a good thing:

February 23, 2009 - Comment - Like - Share

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@loic started this with a script he had built. He unfollowed everyone yesterday and now only is following 22 people. - Robert Scoble

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@loic told me it feels like he took a bath. - Robert Scoble

@loic says that having a small number of people he intimately follows lets him build real relationships online again. - Robert Scoble

i just think people shouldnt take all of this so seriously. - Terry O'Fee

@loic says that if you try to follow thousands of people there's no way to see all the tweets. That is true. If I refresh Twitter.com as fast as I can I can't see all the Tweets coming into my account. - Robert Scoble

I have been actively unfollowing--not everyone--but anyone that seems not directly relevant or familiar to me on some level. Twitter has become a far richer experience since employing this technique - Rob Michael (Atmos Trio)

Well how will you will you filter than or get to the things you like? A group of people you follow is in my experience one of the best information filters you can have. - rick

I'm now following just over 100 people anyway - VIVANO

there is more than one way to do twitter. both the @loic and @scobleizer way are right. - Peggy Dolane

Oh, I'm sure it's an annoying mess with about 400 items per minute that mean absolutely nothing to you - Dorian Muthig

i have some really good friends i talk to on a regular basis. some i have conversations with. some proper celebrities because i cant help myself. the rest i suss out. if all they can talk about is ff and twitter, i may unfollow myself. - Terry O'Fee

@loic and I see that there's something new happening. First, search like http://search.twitter.com is totally changing our inbound. Second, using services like friendfeed lets you group and manage large numbers of followers, so you'll still have the inbound, especially as more and more people join both friendfeed and Twitter. - Robert Scoble

instead of unfollowing, I use FriendFeed to filter/group the tweeters according to their priority for me - Alexander Benker

I agree Robert- following folks sometimes can be a total waste of time and waste of twitter. Quality over quantity seems to be the new movement of late and I have to agree fro the most part-I am tired of getting spammed and DMed by spam which we all have to delete. But I have always followed quality- and that is why I am responding to your tweet dude. - DougFirebaugh

Sure when you have the amount of followers that you do and they will just listen it makes sense. But not for the average user of twitter. It's not about just being followed. I think you may have lost touch with the whole thing. You two are in the top 2%. Twitter is a completely different user experience than the other 98%. - JP Holecka - Jaypiddy

So are we calling this Follower Bankruptcy? - Mike Doeff

This one of the reasons to have track, so you can follow your real friends and still discover new people - Christian Burns

Robert, Twitter is a river of 140 char messages. Dive in when you feel like taking a bath. Get out when you had enough. Loic and you should stop whining about the drawbacks after you start following thousands of people ;-) - Alexander van Elsas

let's see robert unfollow everyone in friendfeed too. hah, that'll be the day. - Terry O'Fee

Reuben: I haven't decided to yet, but @loic sure makes a good case for it. - Robert Scoble

IMO, it's not a great idea. People will see this as a negative action toward them and unfollow you. If everybody were to unfollow everybody they know, twitter would become a meaningless array of nothingness. "If it ain't broke, don't unfollow it." - Zerhynn

I have never bought into the mass followers approach and find that I have to find at least 2 or 3 tweets interesting within a page or two, in anybody I would choose to follow. I am interested in connection with people with similar interests and I don't think it makes sense to just build up volume. - Kirti Vashee

There's certainly a buzz around this, we just talked about it on our podcast tonight. What sucks about unfollowing is losing the news-stream of information you're trying to capture--stuff you may not have notice/found. Maybe Twitter should implement groups, a'la tweetdeck? - Paul Salzman

Although I do agree that you do not need to follow thousands of people. - JP Holecka - Jaypiddy

interesting concept - guess that is what I use tweetdeck, friendfeed and socialmedian for to allow me to focus on issues because I carefully selected the people I follow after reviewing their sites I see merit in unfollowing everyone just as I see in using third party apps - it depends on the individuals preferences - Lionel Spearman

It's both good and bad. For one if your reduce the number of people you follow to a minimalistic amount you can build richer and more vibrant relationships with the select few. The bad however is that your world view is now much smaller than what it would have been. I'm actually thinking about unfollowing a mass of people to get back into a manageable range where I can read all of there tweets and then search for anything else. - Jimminy, CoG of FF

Why is it a new movement when SM gurus start doing it? I follow those that have similar interest or to learn different point of views. I have no goal to have the most followers or the best twitter grade. Twitter is about the relationships you build. Friends are relationships that I have built over years of trust and loyalty. - Kyle

I would consider it, but I would have trouble shutting out that many. I am following 1000 and being followed by 1500 - Christian Burns

Having just decided to join the follow you movement I think unfollowing everyone is an unfriendly move, why not make a group for the 22 friends you really want to follow:) - Suzie Cheel

Then there are some who follow then unfollow and follow again. lol. - Carolyn Chan

One problem with not following everyone: only people you are following can send you direct messages on Twitter. That's one thing that's keeping me from running @loic's script. @loic points out, though, that most of my DM's are now spam. He's right. - Robert Scoble

I've been speaking about that for a weeks, and applying it, glad it's finally trickling to the a-listers. - Richard A.

So the question is, when will FF get DMs? - Christian Burns

you still have email, robert :P - Terry O'Fee

Not sure I agree. Even with a small "following" I get real nuggets via DMs. Besides - it is rude to mass unfollow :) - Rob La Gesse

I kind of wish I could limit my follows to 150 - Christian Burns

I have been thinking about this a lot. Recently I blogged about how opening up my Facebook to everyone who wanted to connect was not really resulting in meaningful relationships. We don't have the time to be engaged with that many people. We can put content out and discuss when they respond, but to actually use the medium in the way I used to when I had just a couple friends on there is no longer possible with so many people. Likewise, with Twitter. - AV Flox

I won't be sad or hurt if @Scobleizer unfollows me. Frankly, not all my tweets are that relevant to the guy. Just so long as he checks his @replies and answers me every blue moon, that still falls in the category of a good relationship on Twitter. @shelisrael has an unfollow/follow as you go motto described on his blog, it makes sense to me. - Phillip

It was my script. I'm the new guy at seesmic. I wrote it for loic today. if anyone wants it, I've got it. kick this movement into high stream. If you look at the first person in loic's follow list, its me now :-) - Zac Bowling

But Robert, I thought you couldn't check your DM's? I remember seeing quite a few tweets from you saying "DON'T DM ME - EMAIL ME INSTEAD" etc. - Brandon LeBlanc from twhirl

What a load of BS. Do the math. - Stephen Grant-Jones

Since I run much smaller number that Loic & Robert, my systematic subtractive technique works--if I had thousands of spamming DM--I would run Loic's script. - Rob Michael (Atmos Trio)

Brandon: I tried getting people to not send me DMs. Doesn't work. People were trying to do business with them (and still are). It's probably the single reason why I won't run the script. - Robert Scoble

I love the spontaneity and surprise of many friends. I would never give it up. I discover things every day that delight me. - John Kremer

Besides, if I really need to send Scoble a DM I can just call his Cell phone - Christian Burns

A lot of the conversations that are still happening are interesting but the relationships built are no longer as close as they were when I had only a couple of followers. It's funny that you tweeted about only having 150 followers on Friendfeed and that's more conducive to quality relationships. Isn't 150 the Dunbar number? Loic's movement is worth reflecting on. I've been making use of Tweetdeck again to scale down the groups. It's helped but Loic's solution is seductive. - AV Flox

This can be very short sighted. A great way to send the message, I don't want your business or money. - Sylvia Webb

it would almost be a good idea except for one thing - @reply can only be seen by followers. It would be great if this were not the case, and I can see the spam potential if it were, but limiting @reply to followers, if you;re not following anyone, means everyone is in a big room shouting over each other instead of conversing. - Brian Benz

New craze for newbies to twitter, following a small number of people and filter the rest for useful conversations. Quantity is not quality! - Carl Plant

i'm far more suspicious of those following me than i'm concerned about who I follow. I'm always looking to prune my Twitter follows and -- what can I say -- it's hard... lots of people in my twitterfeed tend to add value more often than not! - Andy Sternberg

Also, does this approach not create a new A-list in a different place? - Brian Benz

Just goes to prove that Steve Gillmor is always right, eventually you will see it his way :) - Christian Burns

Do what works for you. If it stops working for you then make a change. I don't think there is any reason for debate here. To each his/her own. - Katherine Druckman

@Robert it isn't possbile to say to people not to use DM. And if you feel like you should build up such a large crowd you follow or that follow you then accept the consequences. You get value because it lets you be an information hub and provides you overall sex appeal in the tech community. In return you will have to accept that people try to get access to you to get back some of that value for themselves or their products. - Alexander van Elsas

if it ain't broke. don't fix it. i wouldn't unfollow everyone but i do find myself filtering more. being open and keeping channels 2 way has allowed me to meet some amazing contacts interested in doing business in China. to unfollow people would be to cut off these channels for me. a lot of these contacts are via DM. everyone's got a different way of using twitter. - Christine Lu

Brian: why? Not sure what you're getting at there. - Robert Scoble

It's not necessary to see all the tweets. You can use Tweetdeck and other services to make sure you don't miss your favorites. I still love the nuggets I discover -- like this post -- that I would not discover if I stopped following so many people. - John Kremer

I can make it easy for @loic. Nuke the account and start over following the 22 people. - Christian Anderson

Am I wrong to say that if you use Twitter search @yourusername you can't see @replies from people NOT following you? I tried it and it seems to work for me. - Phillip

Christine: it's all broken, it's just that I have gotten used to routing around the fail whales and the stream flowing through Tweetdeck. I "media snack" and just sample from the stream flowing by. It doesn't bother me too much either way. I do find that friendfeed is a far better place and it's great to see more and more people discovering that. - Robert Scoble

Phillip: bing! Oh, by the way, I'm following everyone on this thread. :-) - Robert Scoble

Geez, Loic is like the drama queen of the web. - Orli Yakuel

Christian: actually that's probably what I would do if I was tired of a high-flow account: just start a new account with only a few friends and lock down the followers. Maybe that's the solution for true addicts like me. :-) - Robert Scoble

I'm unfollowing everyone on twitter and friendfeed who I don't know personally or isn't local. Sorry peeps, Twitter and friendfeed works best like that. Once I get everything clean, feel free to let me know you're still following me and I'll follow back. - Ⓐ ☠ slayerboy ☠ Ⓐ

Orli: oh, if you can't have some drama what fun is social media? ;-) - Robert Scoble

I have a simple, less radical set of rules: 1) use groups, 2) un-follow anyone who spams you with direct messages and 3) move questions/conversations to friendfeed. - Edwin Khodabakchian

Robert, stay as you are, please. - Orli Yakuel

Orli: don't worry, I'll always follow you. :-) - Robert Scoble

I too use FriendFeed's and TweetDeck's group functions to prioritize the tweets that comes in from my followees. - Vinko

52 pages, 1025 people I follow on twitter. Each one was added by me for a reason. No auto-follow. First person ever followed was Jason Calacanis over two years agao. - Christian Burns

My twitter name is @infoliberation. I find that Twitter is short and sweet and Friendfeed is for a much more robust conversation. I love the marriage of the two. I think Friendfeed is helped greatly by Twitter's jumping off point. What else can you say to that? - Phillip

damn...right when my followership just started taking off. :-( - Jason Salas from IM

I agree with Katherine, to each his own. I've got just a wee 2000 followers, but enjoy popping in to respond to whatever random tweet catches my eye or relevant tweets I've found through saved topic searches. Hey, I even got a new client today - so I'm doing just fine with how things are now. - Cheryl Allin

please people, let's try for tomorrow for a day on this where we dont talk about twitter or friendfeed. there's other stuff to talk about... - Terry O'Fee

Robert, come on... this is not what I'm worried about. I think that you really know most of your friends, or for at least trying to communicate with people you don't know. With Twitter you get to know new friends & content based on the same taste/interests - to follow only people you know, is like taking two steps back. (and thanks for following me!) - Orli Yakuel

Not sure why you would need to unfollow everyone to keep track of what your important people tweet. Just form a group of high-profile folks in TweetDeck and it'll do the same thing, plus you can still follow everyone else for when you want to jump in the stream. - Cory OBrien

i just unfollowed a couple of folks, it's true, we can live without twitter,facebook and friendfeed. How about for lent we give up facebook, twitter and friendfeed? - Dh'ennis Dömingö

Robert - Limiting followers = limiting DMs and replies and tweets you can see from others - In Loic's example 22 invitees (followers) that get to have a seat at the table while the rest of us can watch the action passively. TO me this would be as exciting as C-Span. :) - Brian Benz

I think everyone will find their own Twitter preferences. I'm following 606 right now. In a week or two I may clean out some of the driftwood - people who've gone silent or have switched to topics that aren't interesting, but then I'll add some new folks to make up for it. I don't catch every Tweet, but the stream keeps running. So long as it's populated with interesting folk, the Tweets that I do catch are more likely to be interesting as well. - Heidi Cool

Orli: I've decided that @loic is wrong. But he's also right. Twitter, you see, is really broken for interacting with large numbers of people. Friendfeed is much better. - Robert Scoble

I think Loic let things get out of control. Robert, considering how many followers you have, you seem to be able to manage your account better than anybody. If your truly are looking for a quality experience, you have to decide what works for you. I always thought it was about quality not quantity:-) - Michael Fidler

@loic I think its cool that you rebooted who you follow - Christian Burns

On Pownce I used to try to keep track of all posts (and followed fewer people) but Pownce was more indepth. On Twitter one can glean a lot from just a small percentage of what's there. - Heidi Cool

Robert, with that I agree: FriendFeed is better for long and real conversations. - Orli Yakuel

I agree groups in tweetdeck help you filter very well without missing some occasional random tweets. keeping up with your @replies is more critical than every single tweet. - Alistair (alpinefolk)

Robert - you should unfollow everyone and see what happens. make sure that script stores everyone you are following in a db in case you want to re-follow after the test. - Gerard

While I didn't unfollow everyone, I cut out a lot of who I was following. Might be rude, but it's not meant to be that way. i no longer have the time to follow so many people. - Ⓐ ☠ slayerboy ☠ Ⓐ

Gerard: it would cause too many messages to fly around. People get their feelings hurt if someone unfollows them. - Robert Scoble

If I unfollow people, then I'd be digitally talking to myself. I can do that IRL - Outsanity

My feelings wouldn't be hurt - I'd doubt if I'd even realize it - that's not what I'm using Twitter for - just silly to me. - Cheryl Allin

Outsanity: that's not true. Who you are following is your inbound. You can get inbound other places, like http://search.twitter.com or http://www.twittervision.com - Robert Scoble

Twitter is what you want it to be. That's one of the fascinating things. My own view of it has changed a dozen times since I started. Everyone has their own philosophy about how to use it, and they are all valid. As for me, I'm simply not going to follow anybody who doesn't follow me, and I will follow anybody (as long as they are real) I just unfollowed loic. The World is flat. Will I miss out? Perhaps, but if I want to know what the 'important' people are thinking I can just go to their sites. - Stephen Pickering

Robert: You're currently "following" 69,188 people on Twitter. If one of those people has their feelings hurt because you unfollow them and they no longer have 1/70,000th of your attention, they have a screw loose. - Ken Sheppardson

Twhirl gives you inbound with saved searches, each search a tab stream. I love it. Create a saved search for keyword 'RT' and see what's hot or a saved search like 'chrisbrogan' and follow him and all who @ him. - Cheryl Allin

I say bite the bullet, clear things out, add some searches in Tweetdeck or one of the "track" services, and follow people manually as your real relationships warrant. You can alway run a script to just follow everybody later if you miss the noise. - Ken Sheppardson

Robert: I unfollowed according to three criteria 1. Does the person follow more than a thousand 2. Does the person respond 3. does the person tweet links and RT rather than content, the fourth is whether you're unlucky enough to tweet when I'm in unfollow mode. Result: A more social timeline. - Richard A.

Sounds like Loic needs to fix Twhirl to manage his followers better. He doesn't have to pay attention to every single one, but he does need a way to build relationships with those he wants to. Twhirl is horrible at this. - Jesse Stay

@Jesse Stay, I use twhirl and it's fine for what I do, but that's because I culled my follow list removing all those that aren't active conversationalists. - Richard A.

Reuben, My timeline is far more fun now as a result :-). Took a few experiments to find the right method though. - Richard A.

At a certain point if you had autofollow on you have no choice but to start over because a) you can follow the number of tweets and b) you will stress the Twitter servers out. - Jason Calacanis

Reuben. I don't use auto follow, For me to follow someone new I want to see how converstional they are first. That's when I might consider them on twitter. - Richard A.

Robert: Is this the flip side of what Jason and Michael were taking you to task on a few weeks back on GG? Is it time to do more meaningful *listening*? - Ken Sheppardson

Robert: I 'think' I was the first person with over 20k followers to do this. Though in my case, I totally reset my account - zero following / zero followers. http://jimsmarketingblog.com/2009... it has been a universally great experience to me and massively increased the value of Twitter to me. - Jim Connolly

Ken: yes, I think this has a big part to do with addiction too. You keep trying to follow more and more until you snap. - Robert Scoble

An interesting idea, as I have found I have followers but a very select few who actually respond regularly, I wonder if it is matter of depersonalization, losing what it once represented as a means to an end. Certainly it could be a good idea, but many of those who I have found were those who had spoke on something of interest in the wide swath of sea that is twitter. So I will consider it, but am not sure if there will be follow through anytime soon. Though I guess it would depend also on how effective. - Raymond Marr aka Knatchwa

As someone has probably already pointed out in a more eloquent fashion, Loic's company makes a Twitter client. Surely he should build tools into that client to make the overload problem more manageable and certainly not try to set a trend of "hey it's cool to unfollow lots of people now". That sort of sends the wrong message to people about your company and it's thinking. - Pete Gilbert

I don’t see how this is even an idea to be considered. If we unfollow everybody and everybody else unfollows the rest, then Twitter will become a very lonely place. Boring place with no use what so ever… I strongly disagree with this. - Spyros Papaspyropoulos

This the Loic Le Meur trend he catch big head, because he is personnal friend of Sarkozy , the small napoleon - Yann from twhirl

agreed @peter, it's nonsense, companywise, to promote that kind of message when you try to spread your twitter tool.Anyway, I think it's more a trend problem, the 2009 fashion is to unfollow everyone and @loic cannot do unfashioned thing because this is how he builds his reputation and his company notoriety.Dommage... - Jean-Charles VERDIE from twhirl

There is no point being on twitter if your purpose is to broadcast. For broadcasting blogs and other platforms are more interesting. If you take dialogue away from twitter you undermine the most active members of the community because they will feel people are using the site too passively. Why do you think social networks fail, lack of involvment. At least by reducing the number of people you follow you increase engagement on a per person basis. It becomes personal once more. - Richard A.

@ J-C verde, as you said is dommage, Loic catch the big head , i guess when he will realize that will be too late - Yann from twhirl

It's beginning to feel like the @1938media technique--in reverse--sans personality shift. Loic will now certainly be the topic of many blog posts in the next day or two. - Rob Michael (Atmos Trio)

Spyros: totally wrong. We'd still be here at friendfeed and http://search.twitter.com would still show us other people. - Robert Scoble

@Robert and what is the criteria to detect people in such a huge stream? Come on, this is a network thing: you follow someone because someone else you share interest with has followed him, much more than picking up in twitter "all" stream... - Jean-Charles VERDIE from twhirl

Jean: I am very adept at scrolling through a huge list of names and telling you something about most of them. Friendfeed is where I spend most of my time, though. - Robert Scoble

GREAT idea Loic, way to prove your software really can't handle the numbers. This is a weird move from a very smart man. - Jim Connolly

Understand, Robert, but I think that setting up filters (like you did) is a better way than unfollowing people, which seems to be a "2009 trend" with no real reason, even more when you promote a twitter tool.You barely say "my tool suck, so I can't do anything but unfollow you'.Bad move, IMO. - Jean-Charles VERDIE from twhirl

I think Loic displayed a certain degree of immaturity in handling twitter as a tool. It is as overdone to follow everyone as it is to unfollow radically. Inspired by the debate, I felt a bit like Moses today ( ;-) ), and subsequently assembled bloggi's Ten Commandments of Twitter: http://bit.ly/ten-commandments - Mark Jacobs

Jean: agreed. I like friendfeed as an answer a lot more. Just open up a list and put the people you want to really follow in there and keep everyone else out. - Robert Scoble

for the one devellop a twitter tool like Twhirl , i admit is a strange behavior, maybe is normal he is french - Yann from twhirl

@yann I'm also french and I don't understand too. - Jean-Charles VERDIE from twhirl

As Twitter's user numbers have INCREASED it's usability (to me) has DECREASED. Is it just me? - Jim Connolly

I can understand Loic's reasons, but I don't agree with it. I don't personally know 95% of the people I follow on twitter. It is however neither relevant nor important for that to be a pre-requisite to starting an interesting conversation. I don't auto follow people and i only pay attention to whoever I want to irrespective of the number of people i am subscribed to. Moreover, a large number of people have occasional sparks of interestingness. So if one can learn to ignore; the more the better. - Parth Awasthi

@Jim_Connolly It is the old law of decreasing returns when new media trivialize. But usually, I am pretty untouched by it since (having been around since February 2007 in twitter) I only follow some 350 people to this day. So I get a good result from my circle of followees. Also, I try to give by helping out new twitter users who have questions. - Mark Jacobs

@Parth_Awasthi I think, lioc created a big mess by first auto following, and now seeing no other way out than to unfollow. Somehow, it makes me giggle a bit :-) - Mark Jacobs

You guys have way too much free time on your hands with this nonsense. - Wayne Schulz

Too much drama. It's funny how many social networks bemoan lack of users and with Twitter, the opposite problem is the subject of complaints - "there's too many bots and DMs! oh my!" Bleh. - Eric Gonzalez

hey guy don't confuse is only one Guy got the big head this is not a trend - Yann from twhirl

I really don't share opinion about Loic putting this on a personal way. This is a strategy mistake (company-wise), a trend mistake (2009-ish fashion)...But not a big head problem. Loic had thousands reasons to have a huge head issue before and did not, so I don't see why it would be the case now - Jean-Charles VERDIE from twhirl

this become a hot topic, maybe to much for that - Yann from twhirl

at always promote himself as rock Star , finally he catch the big head - Yann from twhirl

Robert Scoble: What about the people that are using only Twitter? What about the ones that don't use FriendFeed? Ok, we might be crazy having many many accounts on most of all social platforms, but other only use one or two. By unfollowing everyone, there is no Twitter as Mark Fletcher said. - Spyros Papaspyropoulos

I'd agree with someone earlier Loic wants to keep his followers but follow less bet he wouldn't have started that policy at the beginning otherwise he would have a few k followers at most! If he had real balls then he would delete his account like @jimconnolly did and start fresh but he wont as he still wants to 'use' the big following he has, talk about one way! - roger byrne

don't have to start unfollowing anyone as i didn't start following everyone in the first place.. never really understood the auto-following of twitterers i started following.. you've got twittersearch to find people with common interests.. - Johannan Edelman

@scobleizer @loic So much as issues matter, people also matter. Unfollowing people because there is an alternative way to search for issues or interests is limiting the scope to generate them in the first place. Following more people signals belongingness and interests or issues heard. On the other hand, small followings signals selfishness and is the same as 'greed is good'. - Moses Kpetigo

Interesting: so would @loic also encourage all his followers to stop following him? so he could stick with his few twitter fellows? If I remember, he was the one all about numbers and authority. It seems like, once you've reached enough, you're safe ppl will follow you no matter what, you have good "authority" and then you can unfollow all the mass and become a Twitter snob? It sounds too much like a strategy to me. In which he succeed, no doubt. Will he lose credibility? I wonder. - May

I like Robert's snack analogy: I consider Twitter as a news source roughly tuned to my general interests via who I decided to follow. In this respect I could follow lots of people, since it makes sure that each time I go to Twitter, I will find something interesting to me. I know I won't be able to read everything, but I don't care, it's just like in a book store I know I can't read all the books, but I like to sample in the sci-fi shelves - Antoine Bertier

@loic is becoming way too elitist lately. i didn't hear him complaining when he was following thousands of people to promote seesmic! - Alensa

@antoine Exactly right imho most have never claimed and quite the opposite actually specified they don't/can't read every tweet but when they are on they are on and dip into the party! Loics party just got real small! ;) - roger byrne

while search.twitter.com is useful, twitter puts you on the front of the wave not searching to catch up afterwards - Mark Parssey

i constantly wonder how you keep up with sooooo many followers. doesn't it drive you nuts???? - Francisco Kemeny

My twitterverse contains people I pay attention to, people that I have so I can search and some that I just follow for a moment and then remove. - Josef Finsel from twhirl

Human attention spans (and time) are limited. Twitter and IMing are a large 'experiment' , still a work in progress--the jury is out! - JimmyJet

If you have so many followers that you have to unfollow because you didn't follow based on what the people were saying, but instead followed to up your "network", then Twitter probably isn't the venue for you. Check out MySpace and do that... - Nicki Laycoax

*yawn* what's new here? nothing. @fidlr and others started the twexpire type experiments (look up the script if you care) long ago; not loic or scoble. i specified the #egosphere vs. #cognosphere usage scenarios long ago. @JimmyJet and @DidierLahely sum it up well. In another sense, all of this is IRC and Usenet for dummies. - michael silverton

it's a good exercise to see how much you really miss the tweets of those you unfollow. And also see how many of them will remain followers after you unfollow. - Mihai Secasiu

I'd argue that having 23k followers is 'doing it wrong' & you should unfollow and start over. I follow 329 right now and the signal-to-noise ratio is manageable. It's a mix of people I know intimately, casually and professionally, and that's where I have the conversations and relationship-building. Next is a handful of news and interesting/high # of followers people. Then, a few individuals with similar numbers as me I found interesting, which has allowed for Twitter-specific relationship-building. - Laura Hall

I agree with @Johannan Edelman I have never used the autofollow function and have felt those I do follow provide value to me. - Jill Howard Allen

As an additional note, if I were to increase my activity and wanted to manage those relationships, I'd start doing filtered lists. - Laura Hall

Groups/filteting seems to be a more sensible and positive sltuion to the "too many followers" problem. eh. - Doug Haslam from twhirl

It's nice that people find what works for them, but there is no "doin' it wrong" There is only "doin it with clue" or "doin it clueless" ... if one doesn't know WHY one is doin' it, no life coach, guru, or A-lister can help. Form your own experiments and execute them. You need no approval or permission from any seeming authority figure. Look up #cognosophere and #egosophere if you care. P.S. PeopleBrowsr breaks ALL these assumptions; it's a completely new kind of literacy beyond Twitter and Friendfeed. - michael silverton

Loic forgot how he use Twitter for promte seesmic ...... why not unfollow him too ?? - Yann from twhirl

I guess I just like to see what people are up to. Isn't that what it was all about before the marketing types took over? Now it's about "getting value" and "managing relationships". I joined so I could tell people what I was having for lunch. - Shawn Farner

I like being in your Twitter stream, I like the idea that thought leaders and influential people like yourself occasionally get to read my updates. You know, once in a blue moon I come up with a great idea, and it's cool to know that in turn this might just inspire Scoble, or Fry for that matter, too. - Terje Fjelde

On the other hand I hate reading about strangers "spending the entire day in bed" or "being bored," so I only follow people who add quality updates on my own account - Terje Fjelde

the main issue comes from the fact Twitter does not help users follow and decide efficiently on new followers. Robert if you are interested we have created a new service called Topify.com. if you are interested i ll drop you an invite - Ouriel Ohayon

Twitter has provide me a way to build a network of people and experts very quickly in fields where I previously did not have contacts or experience. To blanket unfollow would be like cutting my nose off in spite of my face. - Stephen Terlizzi

How will this help...what will it do? - John Flynn

ouriel: sure, send it to scobleizer@gmail.com - Robert Scoble

robert: you ll get it in a few days, just after we migrated servers. i am sure you ll love it :) - Ouriel Ohayon

That's not new. Loic didn't start a trend. I've only bee using these services since May and I've done it on several occasions and not just on Twitter. Several people have. - Anika

I did that for a while on my first (now private/personal) account, and found myself going to 5-6 follower's Twitter pages to read the news (ala RSS reader days) a couple of times a day. Now that I have a public account, I creeped up to 75-100 again but am consciously rotating folks in and out of my "Top 50." My Twitterstream is like a living, breathing being, I guess! But by intensely following different people at different times, I learn something new and can move on. It's quality, not quantity. - webojunk

Robert - the idea of reducing who you actively follow and relying more on search notifications is the premise of this post: "2009 Prediction: As Social Connections Reduce, Keyword Tracking Increases" http://bit.ly/hfQq - Hutch Carpenter

Chris: on friendfeed just stick the people you want to rarely follow into a list, or do what I did: put the people you REALLY want to follow into a list and read that everyday. That way you'll still have the massive inflows somewhere else when you want those too. - Robert Scoble

Chris: there is something to that, by the way. But you've only touched the surface of the breakage that happened the past month. Go deeper there and you will find the truth. - Robert Scoble

Chris - Lists have answered this quandary for me. The bacon memes are fun, but I didn't want them filling up my main feed. And during the day, I have a professional need to focus on the world of e2.0. Lists really do serve the purpose Loic set out to accomplish. - Hutch Carpenter

unfollow everyone on twitter, FB and every other social network. UK scientists sez that these SN sites actually rewires the nueural network within the brain and thereby making an individual more selfish and self centered. Thus cause pyschological damage to themselves.. :(- (p.s Link will follow- I just heard it this AM on FM while communting to work !!) - Peter Dawson

Chris: even the petty ones are deeper if you dig beyond the ego damage. - Robert Scoble

Bad thing, and if you do it, you will confirm that you A-listers only exploited social media as your broadcasting tool for your own political agenda and not as a true conversation. - Prokofy Neva

I got over the ego damage quickly cause # of followers never did matter. But what remains? Twitter has harmed its community. This is an easy mistake to make and it's one that comes out of @ev and @biz's arrogance. They rarely use their own tools, by the way. Look at @ev's account and tell me he's really a great Twitterer that talks with tons of people. He does not. - Robert Scoble

What's even funnier is that the guy who actually came up with the idea for Twitter, @noah, is not one of the suggested followers while other people on the team are. I should write a book about how funny this all is. - Robert Scoble

@loic seems to have quit over inane DM spam thanking for following, etc. Is there no way to stop automated use of the tools? - Prokofy Neva

Prokofy: that's not really a good reason to follow everyone. But there are plenty of other good reasons, so I keep doing it. @Ryo you're off the rails. Get back on track. You're close to the track, but not on it. - Robert Scoble

BS meme! the unfollowers just want to blast their mouths off and not listen to what others have to say - DC Crowley

Prokofy: no. Twitter's DM feature really sucks. It always has. I just use it because everyone else wants to. - Robert Scoble

Twitter's DM is a reinvention of a wheel named EMAILS. - directeur

directeur: only done in the most lame way possible. - Robert Scoble

Much like the FF comment system is a reinvention of vBulletin/phpBB, done in the most lame way possible. - Ken Sheppardson

Lame? I like it. - coldbrew

Everything is a reinvention of Usenet or E-mail, or N. Just like everything on the Internet is a repost of a repost. - Sam Levine

Let's play this out...if everyone unfollowed a significant % of those whom they don't care about...then it would INCREASE the ability to communicate with those they do care about without all the noise. I'm sure we would all agree this is a good thing. However, if we were to unfollow EVERYONE...are we little more than individual broadcasters that never allow for a two way dialogue? This would dramatically change the landscape of Twitter because a profound hierarchy would emerge: "follows" and "follow-nots" - Drew Sams

Drew, I've been writing about that topic for a while now, but especially in recent weeks with the influx of new twitter users who don't attempt to converse yet. - Richard A.

Don't you think it has incremental feature improvements each time though, Levine? - coldbrew

Depending on how you use FF, it is much like IRC combined w/ Usenet - coldbrew

Richard: most new twitter accounts I'm seeing lately are bots. Not real users and provably so. Real users display random behavior. The new accounts do not. Humans are never consistent. - Robert Scoble

Maybe they had a falling out and Noah is no longer welcome? - Tony C

Richard, thanks for sharing...this has been a topic I'm really interested in. I'll head over to your blog and check out what you've written. Cheers! - Drew Sams

One way in which the FF comment system is lame: comments on Scoble threads move so fast that in the time I've typed this, there will probably be five other new comments. Yet FF will chose to hide some of them and instead say "20x more comments". When I click on that, the thread expands into 5+ pages of comments, and I have to scroll down and try to remember what I saw last. Lack of read/unread status and/or visible (non-mouseover) timestamps are pretty significant time sinks/inefficiencies. - Ken Sheppardson

Enough off-topic. I think this is ironic on a number of levels: - coldbrew

A way to think about Loic. There are a lot of gamers who follow huge numbers, then unfollow massively to look A-List. Loic is A-List. But even so, ask yourself what *you've* gotten from Loic. If you can't answer that question, your unfollow decision should be clear. - Hutch Carpenter

Matthew: Workin' on it :-) Coldbrew: Who appointed you guy who gets to decide what's off-/on-topic? ;-) - Ken Sheppardson

Sheppardson, not sure. Just using the convention of looking at the post title. Do you have another metric by which to judge objectively?\ - coldbrew

There's the 1st piece of irony, DeVries, " There are tools to filter and refine your communication with Twitter and Friendfeed." Le Meur's company, Seesmic, makes one of them, but it can't do its job ;-) - coldbrew

coldbrew: I'd explain, but that'd be off topic :-P - Ken Sheppardson

2nd piece of irony comes from the fact that Scoble is disseminating it, but he seems to be keeping a very objective stance, neither agreeing nor disagreeing with Le Meur's justifications for his actions. - coldbrew

Scoble, of course, is "well known" for following so many people all over the ecoshpere [edit: and that is ironic to me] - coldbrew

I find the trend puzzling especially (as @Jim Connolly pointed out) when it's someone like Loic who actually built a tool to help bring method to this madness. Robert, you make it seem so easy and I am in awe as to how you manage to respond to thousands of your followers, both here and on Twitter. It's obvious that not everyone can do it, it's probably getting overwhelming for some. - MiaD

Matthew: TOTALLY agree with you. I probably wasn't the clearest in my comment above. While I choose to unfollow bots and spammers, I prefer to use tools like Tweetdeck and others to filter conversations. The second half of my comment is what I think will happen if we go the nuclear route: Social media will just become a marketplace where ideas are broadcasted but never sharpened through the dialogue process...I don't want another place where ideas and products are hawked at me without my ability to dialogue - Drew Sams

Well played, Sheppardson. - coldbrew

Anyway, promiscuity in public isn't good? - coldbrew

Unfollowing enmasse isn't good business. GKawasaki "gets" Twitter. @Loic either doesn't get it or doesn't know what 2 do with it. I unfollowed him back. - Now Voyager

first the morons were all bout braggin bout how many followers they had, now they realize "oh shit, I can't figure out who said what and when" so now they get to un-follow & that is news. Give me a fucking break, follow or don't follow for the right reasons.In reality at the most people can have 300 odd relationships with people and sustain it beyond that it is just Hello and good bye and that's about it. - Baba

"I unfollowed him back" Oh did ya' now? - coldbrew

This is like watching a movie about a young passionate teen as he slogs his way the the world, making mistakes, and learning right before your eyes. - coldbrew

If you can't do the time, don't do the crime. Unfollowing is always an option, but why do it without criteria??? - Jorge Martins Rosa

I could clean up a little, but I like following several hundred. I started in 2006 by following the broadcasters and some of the people that followed them and that they followed. I've slowly increased the number I follow since then. Some days I add about a dozen and unfollow about eight. I like to slowly see what people are saying, participate a little and really meet people. I can manage following hundreds. - Bill

this is you invite people in you're house and studently you kick everybody out without reasons, i remenber when L L M always ask to be followed on twitter . anyway i also kick out from every where and delete my seemsic account .................... some french people when they become famous they got big head - Yann from twhirl

Not sure I agree with @loic but have been thinking the same. The relity is you can only carry relevant conversations with a limited number of people. - RicardoSilva

I think you should do it. Just look at that number. 69,394. It does no good to follow that many people. Wipe the slate clean. - techky

I really think Twitter should have group and thread (at least one level) - Jeremy Chone

I found the original mail on the twitter-dev list:So I have kind of weird request. My boss, who is following 24,386 people (and has 22,752 followers) came to me and wanted me to hack something to wipe out all the people he follows so he can start clean again for various reasons. I'm curious if there is any tools internally at twitter that could help with this maybe because this seems to... more... - Daniel W. Crompton

It's insanely easy to "follow" lots of people. With groups and search in Tweetdeck (sorry @loic) and filters plus tag-focusing services like Twitterfall, I can now focus attention on a "slice" (i.e., a window pane or dialog box). It is very rare that I look at an unfiltered stream. I am almost always looking at a refined view of the entire stream. It kind of reminds me of the Matrix. The "operators" were able to see small nuances in the unadulterated feed. - Lorin Olsen

Nevertheless, I am intrigued by reducing the number of people I follow. I want to have "intimate" conversations and not just blast tones into an echo chamber. In fairness, that is one of the reasons I am doing more in Friendfeed. - Lorin Olsen

I think it may be good if people with large followings and who follow a lot of people had two Twitter accounts. One for broadcasting and having the ability to DM many people in your network and the second one solely for listening to quality and engaging with your core network. Doing this may solve the problems referred to above. - Bill Romanos

@Hutch is quite correct in saying "ask yourself what *you've* gotten from Loic. If you can't answer that question, your unfollow decision should be clear." Exactly!! that should be the criteria for everyone, A-list or not. I've unfollowed some "A-listers" who are focused on things which don't tickle my fancy. Nothing personal of course, the goal is to get focused. - Eric Gonzalez

By the way, I don't mind an unfollow, but what's up with the "tell me why I should follow you back?" business. Doesn't that seem odd? - Eric Gonzalez

what is this twitter of which you speak? - mike "glemak" dunn

Mike, I assume you are not following anybody so you don't need not to take any action. The proposed procedures only concern people who follow somebody else on this thing called Twitter. :-) - Tapio Kulmala

is there an auto unfollow ? - Antoine Bertier

Antoine, No. There was once a rumor that they have tested auto-unfollow in their lab. The performance testing results were alarming. They noticed that they should get rid of 90% of their servers in 2 weeks. The CFO decided that they could not afford that kind of capital losses. - Tapio Kulmala

I just went through my follows on Twitter and removed a bunch of people I'd never heard of before. I forgot I had signed up with socialtoo.com when Scoble mentioned it and it's all turned off now anyway. We'll see later if my own followers suddenly will now go away cause they're using the same type of tools. - Paul Wade

People feel slighted when unfollowed - decidedly unsocial. And with tools like Tweetdeck and peoplebrowsr allowing you to create groups (i.e. 'core people', or 'people I know' etc), there's no reason why you can't continue to follow loads of people and focus in on the ones who matter to you. It's social to follow back, and helps build relationships, but that doesn't mean you can't focus on the people who matter to you - there are tools. - Tom Beardshaw

I even had someone I'd met (and we'd made friends on Facebook) unfollow me then add me to a "<name>monitor" twitter account, saying "this is the account I use to keep track of a wider network" - which pretty much tells you they're not paying any attention to you at all. I promptly unfollowed him. Social is multidirectional relationships - I don't like one way relationships - they're bad for your health! I follow everyone who follows me unless they're trying to sell me something - Tom Beardshaw

loic did a reverse feldman trick http://twitpic.com/1nx2l - henry michel from twhirl

So that's what happened--Loic unfollowed and then refollowed me.;-) Someone constantly keeps doing that on my FB acct., too. I must say, the more followers I get lately who are trying to tell me about how to use social media and internet marketing to get rich, the more this option sounds good. Way too many spammers lately, or just folks who aren't bothering to find out about who you really are and how to have a conversation. Ugh. - Cathryn Hrudicka

Loic method may have been extreme, but I understand where it is coming from, at a certain number, its hard to follow who you are interested in and maybe starting over again is the way to go.. I actually created a second twitter account just for companies and organizations, because I was noticing they were taking over my original account. - Kim Landwehr

Well - Loic simply has one big problem: He doesn´t use Tweetdeck and the Group feature! LOL - Dieter Schwarz

Signal vs noise. - Steve Rubel

OMG huston we have a problum - Victor

I've already noticed a drop in my followers number. Doesn't matter to me though. - Paul Wade

Drop in follower, but any increase in participation. That's why I unfollowed so many. - Richard A.

With tools such as TweetDeck I can setup groups and searches for those tweets I care about the most. Makes number of following irrelevant. - Robert J Taylor

I give me a chance. follow them for bit see if there interact post anything of value reply to my tweets . If not its just pointless. - John Cusick

That may work for the twitter elite, but for users like me, it defeats the point of twitter, which is to build community by networking. - Kelly

My comment is ...I have no comment :)) - SRivera

I semi regularly prune for my following list for relevance (for multiple values of relevance) - Alec Clews

Terrible idea unless you want to experience true hermit status through the rate of being unfollowed prior to deleting your account. - Roney Smith

Loic Le Merde is a pompous French whiny assehole LooooooooooooooooooooooooL - Yann from twhirl

I have always kept a limited number of people I follow. The noise level has been very manageable. T is only one of the conduits for info. - Dave Ploch

thats retarded - tommy payne from twhirl

Like Dave, I'm careful about who I follow in the first place, and I've only had to unfollow a couple of people who got out of hand. - Julie Barrett from twhirl

I'm a careful user, and this realm showed me how people can react rapidly to certain things. I've been unfollowed more than I did unfollow. Note that I'm a curious type of guy and love discovering things in everyone. I think that can be a good thing for those whose critical to the point of stopping everything second to witness being too much analyzing those to unfollow. Else, why be that critical to the point of massive cleaning? Is digital managing difficult and tiring for some? Reminds me: GReader refresh - Zu from AOD

I got 0 value out of following @loic, so I lost nothing. I also unfollowed. - Mike Lewis

I can do the same thing via a Favorite list in FriendFeed. - Bill Bittner

my god the annoying post that never ends!! :P hahah - Terry O'Fee

Time, there is not enough time to follow everyone. It has to be narrowed at some point to still be productive in your business. I do not mind visiting a stream and subscribing..just like I do not mind unsubscribing. Just doing a total following everyone or not following anyone is absurd. - Brian McClure

At the moment this post has close to 400 likes plus comments. Which provokes the thought: rank Friendfeed posts by likes plus comments (for the total life of Friendfeed). Might be interesting. - Sean McBride

I deleted 700+ people just two weeks ago and it was the most FUN I have had on Twitter in 6 months. - Daniel Zarick

the one unfollow everyone help him to promote is business and push all follower to create a buzz , and decide when he have acheive is target , just take himself as Guru but in fact that will return straight on his face , he will kick out by the community ..... - Yann from twhirl

[∞][twitter needs to make an second time line to US [...] so, we got one to friends and other to network ][ I have 2 accounts to do this] - dbalieiro

Similar to the concept of declaring e-mail bankruptcy. - David Pappas

Then it becomes a broadcast, not an exchange. How about unfollow everyone that doesn't add value to your life. - Martha

Wow, that is interesting timing. Is it spring cleaning time for everyone or what? - Ken Stewart | ChangeForge

At least once a week I go through several pages of twitter stream and take a look at everyone on it. I end up unfollowing at least five or six people. I still have hundreds, but it's much less than I would otherwise. - Sandra Fernandez

as for me, good reasons for unfollowing are ppl following you then unfollowing you immediately, or people not posting in ages, or people where after a while you see having absolutely no exchange on any subject or no common interest. I try to keep my following list clear under these criteria to avoid a bloated following list - Jean-Charles VERDIE from twhirl

i prune my list every few weeks and add and delete, keeps it fresher - susan mernit

I only follow a few people anyway. The "follow everyone you don't know" thing always seemed crazy to me. - TranceMist

I have no plans of unfollowing any of the people I follow. My setup fits my marketing strategy just fine.. Don't need to jump on the bandwagon. That's the beauty of twitter... do what works for you!! - Jim Turner

The best tool I've found for getting the most out of twitter is Tweetdeck. Set up groups to stay on top of the conversations generated by the folks you're the closest to. - Jim Turner

I do a combination of things. I've always been selective about who I follow; if anyone gets to noisy I unfollow them; I filter it through my FriendFeed; I have specific lists set-up in Friend-Feed (even one for "chatter"); I grab the rss feeds for the Friend-Feed lists I want to focus on and have those directly imported into the RSS feed section of my email client (Thunderbird at the moment.) My email feeds have folders and message filtering rules set-up to move everything to the appropriate sub-folders. - Gail Guy

... I can then quickly identify and scan my favorites, but best of all, I can use my email client functions to "tag" a message a certain color or "star" it as a favorite -- making it easy to find and review at a later time. - Gail Guy

I think this is brilliant. Curbs the spammers, takes away some incentive from the fakes and keeps Twitter honest. More of my thoughts http://tr.im/gMZ8 - Chris Leonard

As soon as I got Tweetdeck I started following by subject instead of by the person. - Carl Pruitt

Robert Scoble

@loic: Twitter is broken and we all know it. But we muddle along anyway. Bring us better tools so we can view groups we care about.

February 23, 2009 from Twitter - Comment - Like - Share

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And of course first you'd have to turn Friendfeed into an app that could actually function as a direct replacement for Twitter. - Ken Sheppardson

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The "feature" that FF is missing that twitter has is reduced feature set and limits in the face of performance issues. - Andy Bakun

Twitter is probably worth alot more than FF at this point, especially with the recent explosion in users. - Maciej Matyjas

Is twitter broken ? No - it is saturated because it was overhyped. When people stop looking for the next big thing and realize that all of these tools that come along are just another nice thing to have in our toolbox the hype will die down. Until then people are going to keep racing to see who has the most followers. - Patrick Allmond

Patrick: Twitter is broken in many ways. The community there no longer has integrity. Why does Veronica have 115,000 followers, most of whom are spam, while her boyfriend, RyanBlock has 13,000 followers (Ryan used to run Engadget and should have way more followers than Veronica should). I'll tell you why: the system is corrupted and broken. And we won't even go near the fail whale problem. - Robert Scoble

Maciej: well, are we counting all the fake users in the explosion, or real ones? I'm not sure anymore. I can demonstrate that new accounts lately are heavily fake. Twitter's executives seem not to care about this issue. - Robert Scoble

I don't think Twitter is broken, but I do think it is reaching the end of its life. I wrote about it more sensibly: http://blog.jamesmarshall.org.uk/2009... - James Marshall

I think "broken" is a strong word...changing yes. - John Flynn

John: Twitter is broken, it's just that you haven't seen the damage. I've shown it off on other threads if you care. - Robert Scoble

James : you joined Twitter in Nov08, have done almost nothing on it (like follow lots of cool people) and yet somehow you seem to think you know a lot about twitter. strange. - Alensa

Alensa: +100 - Robert Scoble

+1, Alensa! (oh, Robert beat me, and by two orders of magnitude. Too slow on the draw! *grin*) - Ken Kennedy

Robert, Social media is "broken". Not only twitter... And until the web sees and understands efforts of people like Chris Saad, Ashley Angell, Messina, Tantek... (and very humbly mines) it will remain broken. I mean it's not a "technological" issue, it's a design one. - directeur

directeur: innovators get rewarded often in other non-credit ways. But I agree with you. By the way, the fact that you know all those people demonstrates that they are getting SOME credit. I follow all of them and share anything remarkable that they do, by the way. - Robert Scoble

directeur: some social media is more broken than others. Twitter takes the easy coding route out of problems and it costs us all. That's why you see the fail whale so often (more than 10,000 times more often than I see it here on friendfeed) and why they have corrupted their communities through poorly-thought-out features. @ev does this, though. He spends "just enough" to make a service highly profitable. Did that with Blogger too. I can't blame him for taking the low road. It pays off. - Robert Scoble

Robert, I agree, they're getting "some" credits and they deserve it A LOT. Maybe, you and me, know them because of our common and particular interest in these subjects... But, trust me, most people don't know yet what "attention" or "microformats" are, thus those efforts remain invisible to the masses. And since startups success is first about getting the "average user's" satisfaction, people who manage these startups don't really care about innovation and innovators :( - directeur

Robert, I agree also about the "low road", and that's what I'm saying in my precedent comment too. I've worked with a highly successful marketer and one thing he thougt me is: Don't try to be smart, just sell! - directeur

directeur: I think smart does sell eventually. Word gets around that one system has integrity, another is corrupted. It does matter in the long run. In the short run, though, Twitter will make lots of profit, just like Blogger did. Blogger never worked well for me. Always was slow, both before Google bought it and after. And always had lots of spam. Sounds a lot like Twitter, doesn't it? - Robert Scoble

The only thing I would add to Robert and directeur's conversation (which I agree with in whole) is that "groups" is a flawed concept. It relies on you adding people to your social graph... then grouping them out into contexts. I would argue that the context (subject, topic, event) comes FIRST - conversation comes second and adding the person to your social graph comes last. The challenge with Twitter (and to a lesser degree FF) is that the social graph is the only way to discover content (and people)... - Brian Roy

Robert, you just nailed it! Smart sell "eventually" and in the long run. Let's hope that FriendFeed -which still lacks some more smartness like: Attention Profiling- will be to twitter what Wordpress is to Blogger :) - directeur

@Robert why you keep talking to someone delete you in one clic and forgot when he need you're help for promote his business ?? - Yann from twhirl

Brian: friendfeed is a friend discovery system. Here, try it out. If you "like" a friend's item that I've never seen before all of a sudden that item and your friend is put into my view. But I agree with where you're going. We need even better systems. Search is one way, but we still need more ways to find the really great content out there. - Robert Scoble

Robert, one word and I know people hate me because I'm repeating it a lot: APML :) Seriously, we've discussed this a lot, you and me, and I know that you do care. Brian is right. This is what FriendFeed lacks. Sharing, rating, finding people AND content with "interests" (Personal interests) is the way to go. I've tried with Feedego (remember, you tweeted it) NoiseRiver, and now SocialWhois. But ironically one NEEDS "popularity" to get "attention" on ATTENTION :) - directeur

No, we don't need to complexify Twitter. Just make alts and have some of them with a very small group to reduce clutter and others to surf the noise. - Prokofy Neva

directeur: you should put URLs to all of your projects. I just never took to your stuff for some reason. But, yes, you're right. Attention breeds attention. :-) - Robert Scoble

directeur - Enable popular contexts (like I'm trying to do with Peter Himmelman's Furious World http://furiousworld.com). People interested in the context will aggregate there, discover one another, and the power of the social graph actually gets utilized to add more interested people to the context. Sorry (but not really) for the shameless plug. - Brian Roy

Robert - I agree - FF has better discovery tools than Twitter. But is certainly doesn't make context based discovery easy. This isn't about search... it is about participating in real time conversations about topics you are interested in. - Brian Roy

Brian, I totally agree on both suggestions! Kuddos to your efforts on the furiousworld project too! I'm getting some nice and kind noise about it and wish you a great success with it! Please let me know if I can help in any way! I'm a bit overwhelmed lately but i'll very gladly work with you on these subjects :) - directeur

Brian: give me an example of what you want to do. I have lost the context and need to understand more about what you're thinking of. - Robert Scoble

Robert - There are two live examples today - One at http://ushealthcrisis.com and one a http://furiousworld.com - These are destinations about specific topics. Tools to "tune" Social Media (Twitter/FF) so that on that site you get JUST stuff about that topic (signal) and can engage in conversation with other interested people. The magic is it is still public... so my social graph sees that I'm talking about - for example HIPPA, and can come join the conversation... - Brian Roy

I get to discover new interesting people talking about subjects I find interesting... the site owner gets more traffic by leveraging my social graph... we all get rich conversation centered on specific topics (contexts). - Brian Roy

We're conditioned to use software that is broken. The thing is, Twitter works well enough for the people who use it. - Victor Ganata

Mark: it worked better before February 6, yes. And at least I could trust the follower numbers as lame and petty as they might have been. But your point is a good one. Twitter has always been busted and yet we still use it. - Robert Scoble

I think the fact that twitter is "broken" inherently leads to more innovation as groups and individuals find their own ways to use the pure raw potential that's there. - Amie Gillingham

The beauty of FF is that every person can create his own view of the content and people. Like Robert said, some people see FF as a friend discovery system but for me it's primarily a content agregator. Everybody can choose how they create and consume content. I don't follow too many people but on the other hand I love the friend-of-friend concept. Follow, unfollow, share, comment, like... more... - Tapio Kulmala

In the spirit of Mark's prediction - The SM aggregator/network that does the best job engaging the developer community to extend/add value to the offering will "win". None of them are doing a great job today (FF is best... Twitter is becoming openly hostile to DEVs, Facebook is only interested in getting content INTO FB). - Brian Roy

It's ridiculous to think of SM as a zero-sum game. I bet there are a quite a few of us who use FB, Twitter, and FF all on a daily basis. I doubt any of us who do want any of them to disappear. You use the right tool for the right task, and for the right audience. - Victor Ganata

Kol Tregaskes

What are you essential WordPress plugins?

February 22, 2009 - Comment - Like - Share

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For example, what pluings to do you use for Flickr, caching, SEO/meta tags, Google Analytics/Sitemaps, Twitter and FriendFeed? - Kol Tregaskes

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I'm not a big Flickr user, but for some of the others - All In One SEO, Super Cache, Ultimate Google Analytics, Google XML Sitemaps, Akismet for spam of course, WPTouch for iPhone friendly theme, Tweet This, Subscribe Remind (reminder to RSS subscribe for new visitors), Subscribe to Comments - Patrick Jordan

Patrick, I have most of those listed, yes very important. - Kol Tregaskes

Here's what I use: Disqus, All In One SEO, Clicky Web Analytics, FeedBurner FeedSmith, Google Analytics for WordPress, Google XML Sitemaps, MediaRSS, Redirection, WP-Cache, FriendFeed Comments - Michael Hocter

Sean, some new ones there for me, sill check them out. Thanks, Michael. - Kol Tregaskes

Disqus/Intense Debate (different blogs), Zemanta, FriendFeed Comments, FlickrRSS, Feedburner, SEO All-In-One, Most Tweeted Commented, Most Recently Tweeted. Not sure about the names of the Twitter plugins. - Shevonne

Oh yeah Akismet - Shevonne

Sociable, Disqus, MediaRSS (for posting to FF!), the rest are built in now. Akismet (comes with) is necessary. - anna sauce

I'm glad it comes with Akismet now, makes sense. - Kol Tregaskes

disqus/intense debate, ff comments,media rss, platinum seo, feedburner feedsmith, wp cache, YARPP, askimet - The Amber

Amber, FF comments for me too... once I get it working. ;-) - Kol Tregaskes

did you ever get it running? - The Amber

there might be an issue where if you update to FF too fast it confuses it. You may have to manually associate it with a FF thread, sometimes mine does that - The Amber

Amber, never got it working. I was actually very quite on FF this weekend as I worked on my sites for most of it. Posted a few things here and there not much. Ah well, I'll stick to FF until I can get that working. - Kol Tregaskes

i think BudyPress is one of the most innovative plugins . possibly the future of the 'fluid social web' http://cli.gs/Yqh6Gv - Alensa

Akismet. Too much spam otherwise. What else do I use? The Stats plugin is useful. Google sitemaps generator. Reply-to-comments so that emails go out when there are replies to a comment someone subscribed to. I'd like to use the FriendFeed plugin, but my posts don't get discussed on FriendFeed (more on Twitter, which isn't really great for discussion) - Colin Charles from twhirl

I'll try to only include ones I didn't see above...Add to Any, flickrRSS, Ozh' Who Sees Ads, WP Post Ratings, WP-Simple Viewer, pageMash, Social Homes - Justin Korn

Zong is also a great plugin if you are into monetizing premium content - Alensa

Kol, do you use the WP interface to create posts? - The Amber

AVH Amazon, cforms II, flickrRSS, Math Comment Spam Protection, Netflix-X2, Picasa Photos, Publish To Facebook, Search Everything, Sticky Menu, TwitterCounter, Twitter for Wordpress, WP-EMail, WP-Print - Patty Bradley

I use All in one SEO pack, Google XML Sitemaps, Sociable, Tweetroll, No Ping Wait, among others included. - Carlos Lorenzo

Akismet, All in One SEO Pack, Google XML Sitemaps, FriendFeed Comments, Dagon Design Sitemap Generator, and a few others - Tamar Weinberg

Add to Any Share/Save/Bookmark Button http://tinyurl.com/wp-a2a-... - Pat

Pat, I saw that while browsing yesterday. I'm currently using ShareThis which I think covers similar services. - Kol Tregaskes

I would have to agree Akismet sits up there pretty high. - Sean

Alensa

The &8216;fluid social web&8217; &038; owning your own social network | sashsavic.com - http://www.sashsavic.com/2009...

February 23, 2009 from StumbleUpon - Comment - Like - Share

the walls of social networks like Facebook and Ning may come crashing down due to WordPress based technology. - Alensa

Robert Scoble

Epocrates CEO shows me how his company's app is improving the world (video here): - http://www.fastcompany.tv/video...

February 18, 2009 - Comment - Like - Share

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This is a great company and shows that technology can indeed improve the world for both rich and poor. - Robert Scoble

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http://www.epocrates.com/ is a medical app that helps doctors get the latest information about the diseases, drugs, and other things they need to give you a solid diagnosis. It also checks to make sure the doctor isn't prescribing you drugs that could dangerously interact. - Robert Scoble

yeah Web2.0 Apps + Social Networks can Change the World for the Better!! ;)) Rock On Robert!! Peace* - Billy Warhol

This is an awesome iphone app.Useful when away from the computer to check interactions. - rob

I have had Epocrates on my iPhone since I got the first iPhone. I love it - Francine Hardaway

I wonder when would all this technology become commonplace in Asian nations like India. - Arvind

Arvind: I have a second video coming that discusses that. There are a group of doctors who are bringing mobile devices with Epocrates on them to poor nations and giving them to doctors. That's why this technology is saving huge numbers of lives. - Robert Scoble

1 in 4 is an amazing number ! - Alensa

Robert Scoble

Forget Micropayments -- Here's a Far Better Idea for Monetizing Content - http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp...

February 11, 2009 from Google Reader - Comment - Like - Share

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Kachingle is a voluntary pay hub, 'based on activity' to subscribed blogs. Website is still in dev mode, and only accepting blog add requests via email http://www.kachingle.com - David Lynch

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I can't wait to join the facebook group Kachingle - David Lynch

I love this idea! - Meryn Stol

here's the real trick. Allowing each content contributer to plugin their own kachingle account info and share the profit with the website owner. (see, it could also drive quality content creation!) - David Silvernail

I think the hardest part will be to get readers to sign up and pledge to an abstract entity like kachingle. With public radio/tv there is tighter brand affinity. - Seth Gottlieb

Seems like a systematic "make a donation to me via PayPal" approach. It looks to have potential. I'd give it a shot. Hopefully they can weather the downturn in the economy. - Jim Goldstein

what about tipjoy? - matiasjajaja

The problem is that newspapers (and other third party information and entertainment aggregators and distributors) are caught up in the fact that they all have to survive mostly intact-- their buildings, their management hierarchy, their profits, their brands ... the whole ten yards. That just isn't going to happen. - Brian Sullivan

i agree with Brian, great point! - matiasjajaja

I really like this idea, a lot. It seems in theory that it could be even better than DonationCoder's rather successful micro-credits model. Although I don't feel that it can be the only source of monetizing your content. I mean we aren't going to throw the ads away or close our amazon.com affiliate accounts because we have a medallion on our sites. That would be silly. And it might not... more... - April

I suggest it will be more of a balance. I can see how Kachingle would work for the masses but not for the individual interests. Micropayments, so long as they are flexible, can ensure that content is quality. Voluntary payment sounds nice, but I would rather the community value the content first and from that pay micropayments. - James Fridley

Maintenance of assets, production, and distribution are large costs for newspaper organizations, while circulation dwindles. It does not make sense for each paper to maintain these capabilities separately. I'd like to see a pure horizontal play across the printing and distribution of print media. [EDIT: Clarified statement, added justification] - coldbrew

Wow this is really grasping at straws. Do people think this'll really work? - Anton Mannering from twhirl

anton, we won't know until we try it, and try many different models, I'd like to see a subscription->compensation model based on activity on a site like friendfeed. - David Lynch

I don't think it should be based on activity, more like the quality of your activity. And I think the only ones that can decide that is the rest of us. Would be nice if there was a button on everyone's profile page that allowed another member to donate to them from pre-deposited funds. Then I could send some money to those that share & create content that I appreciate, here on the site.... more... - April

Nice thing about Kachingle vs credits or other micropayment is that the consumer doesn't have to worry about budgeting when they are deciding to view a piece of content. Whatever they choose to pay monthly gets split between whoever they visit monthly. Not likely to work though. Not enough people are going to pay right now, and publishers will end up dumping the badges because they don't bring in enough cash. Might work starting in a narrow niche. Doomed if they try to start with the newspapers. - Erik S

Sure, that's good for the sites, but what about individual contributors on a social network? Without those that contribute on a site like this, there is no site. Should they not be compensated for the work they do here that makes this site what it is? How exactly do you do that? - April

I don't want any kind of direct compensation, nor do I wish to interact with people being directly compensated, for contributions to a social network. Once the motivation is not pure interest, it changes everything. - coldbrew

That isn't exactly true. It changes nothing at all. I belong to a community where I can compensate someone for their contributions and they can do the same for me. Funny thing is how many hands the money will pass through before it gets to someone that is actually willing to cash in. And when you do cash in, you almost feel guilty about it (at least I do). The motivation is the same as before because you don't expect it, so you keep doing what you were doing for the same reasons you always did. - April

If the process is formalized there will be those that do come to expect it, just like blogging. It will alter some people's behavior whether or not you specifically would alter yours. - coldbrew

This whole debate is crazy. Content is free people will not pay for it unless it is unique and valuable. Contributions to social networks or news sites are not unique and the price always tends to zero. The current model for newspapers still works, the only problem is that their content isn't good enough and so they are open to a free market where anyone can compete. There is only one way of ensuring you can monetise YOUR content, have better content that's more unique. Then I'll come back all the time. - Anton Mannering

The only content that's ever been monetised directly in the traditional model is books. Guess what, people are still paying for them. Traditional press publications never monetised content they monetised attention. They could guarantee attention because there was no or few other sources of information. The problem they're having is that it's harder to get peoples attention because I can get better information sooner and cheaper from someone else. - Anton Mannering

Actually, people have been paying for newspapers, per copy and subscription, for a long time. Nobody in this thread seems to acknowledge the cost of having a physical product, and that blogs can't be directly compared to newspapers as a result. - coldbrew

we will be testing Znak It as soon as it launches in April. seems like an excellent concept. - Alensa

Content is free and people will never pay for it? We've been doing that for years with magazines, cable TV, etc. Newspaper content blows online content out of the water due to their resources, the problem is they don't know how to adapt to the internet yet. People act like this is easy to do and it isn't. The fact that most blogs can not afford proper analytics resources and cite... more... - Patricia

I should add, the process of IP marrying or modifying the old platforms will not be complete for several years, and it is not just dependent on the platform but also the devices that support it. So, in other words, don't expect anything to right itself any time soon - particularly with so few experienced people trying to lead business in it. - Patricia

This new "platform" or medium will not entirely usurp the old ones, just augment. - coldbrew

@coldbrew, yes - i said replace or modify. Some things it will replace. Regardless, until the process is complete, it wil be very hard for companies to adapt. Retail and entertainment are faring well. Music and print media aren't. It's all about how industries adapt. - Patricia

@Patricia- Some forms of media are already supported mainly by ad revenue though, including newspaper, broadcast & cable TV, and now websites or blogs. - Mike Chelen

Robert Scoble

Who is doing the best job at helping people build best-of-breed business web sites? Discuss here:

February 15, 2009 - Comment - Like - Share

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Amazon? - Varun Mahajan

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I ask because last night I asked a question for Printing for Less CEO about how to use social media to get business and Altan Khendup posted this site http://www.ignitingtherevolution.com/ which I checked out and liked a lot for marketing inspiration. Need the same kind of thing for web site inspiration. - Robert Scoble

Amazon, CafePress, Ebay? - Live Crunch Blog from twhirl

Varun: Amazon's web services would certainly be discussed on such a site, but is Amazon the best place to go and learn how to build a better web site? I don't think so. For instance, would Amazon teach you how to use the Google Keyword Lookup tool at https://adwords.google.com/select... ? or would it be the best place to learn how to use Facebook Connect in the best possible way? - Robert Scoble

http://stackoverflow.com is very close to what I want, although it's aimed at developers only. I want a site that is a bit higher level than that. That shows a little code, but also gives lots of case studies and demos and SEO info and marketing info and eye track results and AB testing results, etc. - Robert Scoble

ignitingtherevolution.com layout is broken with Safari, I get punched in the face with some google ads with some weird layout - Jaanus Kase

I've worked with a couple of usability experts but these guys really make a difference when helping determine best-of-breed sites: http://www.bunnyfoot.com/ although they're mostly UK they just opened an office in Hong Kong - Colin

Well, back in the day, it used to be Siegal, the guy that wrote "Creating Killer Websites". Veen teaches the "art and science of" but I don't know of any off hand that deal with aiming for business right now (including standards for SM use) - Melanie Reed

Colin: yeah, I'm looking for sites that will help for free, not just pitch me on their paid services. - Robert Scoble

Melanie: yeah, I remember Siegal's site. Veen is a good guy, I should interview him. - Robert Scoble

Robert: You might give Adaptive Path a try. Veen used to work there and was one of the founding fathers: http://adaptivepath.com/ Of course the site screams high end not free. :( - Melanie Reed

Melanie: Adaptive Path is doing the work I'm looking for, but they don't share their knowledge on their site that I can tell. - Robert Scoble

http://www.marketingexperiments.com/, http://www.marketingsherpa.com -- neither deals exclusively with websites, but include the tons of case studies, demos, A/B, eye-tracking stuff for marketing best practices across email, web, social, mobile, etc. - Dale Larson

http://www.alistapart.com/ does some of what I'm looking for, but isn't really focused on building bleeding edge business sites that join social networks, java script components, media, and cloud computing technologies together in a fun way that is aimed at building better business sites. - Robert Scoble

Robert, I use a bunch of different sites for building client websites, my list is here: http://itafroma.tumblr.com/post... Absolute must-reads for any web developer/designer are emphasized. - Mark Trapp

Ahh ok - I guess I could point you in the direction of company sites that spend serious cash ensuring targetted users feel like they are looking at and finding exactly what they want? May not be ideal for you though, inevitably they are sites for mass audience and online retailers... - Colin

Dale: those are ingredients in the meal, thanks! - Robert Scoble

Uhm, Joshua Porter? http://www.bokardo.com - Federico [Kurai]

Robert: Yeah, thought it might be. No, they don't share. I'll keep on lookout in my cyber-travels and shoot anything to you if it crosses my path. blessings on your search. - Melanie Reed

Colin: no, these things don't necessarily need to be very expensive. Building Facebook Connect isn't something that's very expensive to do, but is anyone out there showing how to do it right? Along with other things like talking about new cloud computing techniques like cloud bursting? (12seconds.tv uses that, if a file gets popular on its service they move it over to Amazon's web services and redirect all the traffic there). - Robert Scoble

http://2advanced.com/ - they do a lot of rich media sites, but can engineer anything. - David Gosse

The UI resources on Yahoo! are really good too. Maybe not all you're looking for, but it's a start :) - Federico [Kurai]

Federico: bing! Yes, that's very close to what I'm looking for. Not quite in the form I was hoping to see, but it's the closest I've seen yet. - Robert Scoble

This post came at an interesting time for me. I'm trying to build a website for my wife's museum that is a Non-Profit organization. I want to build a site that takes advantage of social media to get the word out about the museum. I also want to design a site that will help build a community online. Any suggestions? Build with straight HTML or use a CMS package like joomla? Their current site is http://amset.org - BRҰANSAҰS

web monkeys back and better than ever with a wiki at its heart and anyone can contribute http://www.webmonkey.com/ Also, um Google and Yahoo have done a great job with their product specific blogs and YUI. Google also has something called Google Doctype http://code.google.com/doctype... for web developers. It includes articles on web security, JavaScript DOM manipulation, CSS tips and... more... - mal

David: that site is ugly. I +hate+ all Flash sites. That's not the web I want. - Robert Scoble

As I said Robert, they can engineer anything - look at their portfolio before you become a hater. Their site is not the way they design all client sites. Very surprised you had not heard of their portfolio of work. - David Gosse

mal: more ingredients in the meal. Wow, I totally forgot about web monkey. This thread is EXACTLY why I like friendfeed. Where else on the web would I have learned about Bokardo and be reminded of web monkey? - Robert Scoble

My company, 9, does a pretty good job of this. We're new but I have a high tech background with 9 years of user interface experience and know a lot of the UI tricks to keep users sticky to the site, etc. We reduce a lot of costs for clients because of our developer relationships. www.whatis9.com - Patricia

Robert: Joshua Porter's book is great also. You should check it out. - Federico [Kurai]

David: I'm sure of that, but to put that up as their calling card sends the wrong message about where the web is going and demonstrates the kind of stuff they probably want to build for their clients. This is how Las Vegas Casinos end up with unusable, but beautiful, web sites that have no human interaction. - Robert Scoble

Patricia: whenever you put a URL onto the web you should ALWAYS include http:// so that it builds a link like this http://www.whatis9.com -- thanks! - Robert Scoble

Yep, Mal, good jog! We used to use webmonkey all the time. I'm still using surveymonkey for some stuff. - Melanie Reed

Well ... depends on scale but WP and Drupal come to mind. Great building blocks. The UI ... well, that's highly distributed and often conflicting in nature. Ion Interactive versus RAMP Digital versus Get Elastic versus Grok Dot Com etc. etc. etc. Plenty of flavors. - AJ Kohn

AJ: exactly. Those are the building blocks of the modern site. What this tells me is that there's a need for information for business people on how to build a modern web site. - Robert Scoble

I think SitePoint deserves some mention as a hybrid-free web design resource. They make their revenue off book sales but you can get enough free-stuff to satisfy. http://www.sitepoint.com/ - Melanie Reed

Robert: do you know http://nettuts.com ? They're articles cover some basic stuff, but some advanced things as well. Might want to check out they're site network too. - Bruno

Robert. This is exactly what I am looking for as well. Great discussion! - BRҰANSAҰS

@Robert, thank you! My company also saw the need for how to build a modern web site. We don't just do that, but also help clients figure out what makes sense to them, so if they have community, it's the right format, etc. There's a definite need for it. - Patricia

Bruno, no, didn't know that one. Thanks! - Robert Scoble

Patricia: I bet you are losing a ton of business because you don't demonstrate what a modern web site looks like. You should build a demonstration site for a fake business (or your own business) and then explain how your designers/engineers will help me build the same thing for my business. - Robert Scoble

@Robert, the site for 9 is part of our branding strategy - it's sort of all tied into a specific asthetic that makes sense if you know our brand. Your site should absolutely tie into your brand and make sense to the look/feel you're trying to create. 9 is not a development shop or an internet company. It's a cross platform consulting and content production comany - our work varies from... more... - Patricia

What makes a best-of-breed business web site? Is it feeds? Widgets? Community? Or just compelling copy. http://friendfeed.com/e... - Peter Warnock

Peter: all the above, that's why I want to find a site that discusses all this stuff holistically. - Robert Scoble

@Peter, relevancy - to its audience/user base, to their needs and how they interact, to the company and what it's vision is. The features are only important to how they're used, if they're used at all, etc. - Patricia

@Robert, if you are interested in learning, I'd direct you over to ecommerce. During web 1.0, companies in that category conducted a ton of research to find what users do and how to keep them sticky to sites. Compelling stuff. If you notice all the top ecommerce sites are very similar. It's not by accident. - Patricia

Patricia, Your concept, as Robert brings out, sounds VERY intriguing! But he's right. You could benefit from a gallery site that gives your user an idea of what to expect. Take them on a visual "tour" of the process for a few example sites and then sell them with your last comment to Robert. - Melanie Reed

@Melanie, thank you! For 9, the corporate strategy and how we work doesn't really rely heavily on leads online. It's all offline, relationship based, recommendations, etc. When a prospective client comes in, we have a deck that shows our work, etc, but for us, the focus is different. I know it's an unusual approach, but that was the fun part. 9's just different. - Patricia

@Patricia thanks for being so gracious. I kind of thought that's how you marketed. But maybe 9 will consider the online market more heavily in the future and that would be great! :) - Melanie Reed

this tweet shows kind of shows the way site design is ideally moving.. sort of on the fly, loose pieces tightly joined... RT @timoreilly: RT @yishaym Want to change the world? learn Python http://is.gd/jv6d | interesting site/tech http://stimuluswatch.org/ - mal

@Patricia, kudos for being different, but I think you'll find through experience, that you only capture the low-hanging fruit this way. In my opinion, a good business web site, at minimum, delivers a powerful "elevator speech". - Peter Warnock

@peter, i don't agree, but i do understand your point. none of our client leads come by way of the web, unless you count email. if the type of clients we're attracting are low hanging fruit, i'm sticking with the plan. :) i realize that it's hard to convince a tech crowd that business can be done this way, but this is kind of why we exist - because not all businesses can or should... more... - Patricia

@Peter not by any chance a Scot, are you? Looks like your icon is a familiar crest. :) Very similar to the McCleod crest - Melanie Reed

@Scoble I am also a big fan of stackoverflow.com - Varun Mahajan

Google has a blog that's a little of what I'm looking for here: http://googlesocialweb.blogspot.com/ - Robert Scoble

lots of unconnected bloggers are the best resource for consulting businesses on how to build cutting edge sites. businesses can easily find this information if they try. - Alensa

Great question. Well worth a thorough discussion and thread! Mashing it up imho is a big part of it. And how do you keep it unbiased? - Rob Schieber

Alensa

Newsportale werde zu Online-Shops - http://www.website-marketing.ch/1740-ne...

February 13, 2009 from Backtype - Comment - Like - Share

"Absolut ! Publishers werden schnell merken das Werbung nicht ihre einzige Einnahmequelle sein darf. Wie schon Daniel Palestran, CEO von Sermo, gesagt hat: “Ads by Google is not a business model”. Ecommerce effektiv in diese Seiten einzubinden ist der Trick." - Alensa

Alensa

Obama Voters Remorse - http://digg.com/politic...

February 11, 2009 from Digg - Comment - Like - Share

"they would rather destroy the whole world but cling on to their anti-abortion stance. you don't mind people being killed in Iraq and other places in the world, but you get upset about abortion. and the worst is you base your political choices solely on this one issue, rather than domestic and foreign policies as a whole." - Alensa

Alensa

Survival Of The Fittest: Drugstore.com Reports First Quarterly Profit - http://www.techcrunch.com/2009...

February 9, 2009 from Backtype - Comment - Like - Share

"Here is our take on this very interesting story http://cli.gs/8UZZDB" - Alensa

Alensa

Online Health Consolidation Continues: HealthCentral Buys Wellsphere - http://www.techcrunch.com/2009...

January 28, 2009 from Backtype - Comment - Like - Share

"Thanks for the news post - would have liked to have gotten more of your opinion on it Mike. Wellsphere was doing very well so they got snapped up. Agree with Steven though that this market will stay fragmented for a few more years yet - still only just scratching the surface in innovation here." - Alensa

Alensa

Kevin Rose: 10 Ways To Increase Your Twitter Followers - http://www.techcrunch.com/2009...

January 26, 2009 from Backtype - Comment - Like - Share

"totally agree with Robert, it doesn’t matter how many people are following you, what matters is that you are following interesting people and tapping into their intelligent comments." - Alensa

Robert Scoble

Health privacy is dead. Here's why:

January 20, 2009 - Comment - Like - Share

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1. By disclosing your weird diseases other people help you out and get you more information than your own doctor can. - Robert Scoble

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2. By disclosing your weird diseases, other people give you ideas you would never have thought of. (This happened to me tonight). - Robert Scoble

3. By disclosing your weird diseases you feel better just by telling other people what's going on in your life. - Robert Scoble

You know about these guys, right? http://www.patientslikeme.com/ - Michelle Riggen-Ransom

4. By disclosing your weird diseases other people can make sure you don't "cheat" on your treatment plan. - Robert Scoble

Absolutely. We got lots of great information from blogs & forums when my husband was diagnosed with liver cancer. It was through social media that we learned the transplant programs in Shanghai probably used condemned political prisoners as donors. Also, doctors sometimes won't tell you things for fear of malpractice or being wrong. - Robyn McIntyre

It's not a violation of privacy if you chose to disclose your health issues. Privacy is violated when others access or profit from your record without your express consent. - David McCallie

Too many doctors, hospitals, clinics, etc. will trust m$ health vault and it will get hacked. - Mathew Packer

David: privacy is dead because you will share your diseases with the world before your insurance company even knows. Why? Because there are too many benefits to doing so. - Robert Scoble

Your disclosure is your business and always has been. It's others disclosures when you don't want it to be that's the issues I would think. - John Rubier

The interaction also provides a feedback loop into the medical community - esp in areas like Oncology where all sorts of mixed/weird treatments are being tried. Many docs are also experimenting with holostic approaches, incl diet and drugs. And the Genetics Testing whirlwind is about to hit - further stretching what we don't know and pushing people to seek out others with same genetic predispositions. - texaszman

5. By disclosing your weird disease, you don't get that job you applied for because they saw you have [insert weird disease here] - John Rubier

John: our ideas of privacy have totally changed. 20 years ago I would NEVER have told my community my weird diseases. Today? There's HUGE benefits to doing so. And, if you are on a medical treatment plan you should put your medications into an online database which can warn you about problems before your doctor will even know about problems. - Robert Scoble

I've shared my health problems to help others. Over time, the replies have been numerous. Eventually someone knows someone close to them, etc. Sadly, the old small blog is gone, now it's just a squidoo page with little traffic :( - Ed Shahzade /NextInstinct

John: that is one risk, yes. But, I think that will change too. - Robert Scoble

#5 will probably be the big reason, actually I recall someone getting busted and losing their medical compensation claim because of a status update on their facebook.. - Mathew Packer

Weird diseases? Oooh! So apart from the kidney thing the doctor told you what, exactly? :) - WoH: Minding her Steves

The real issue is what happens when privacy is lost. Currently, you'd probably lose the ability to get insurance, or perhaps to retain or get a new job. We need to fix the laws to protect us from inadvertent (or willful) disclosure of personal health data. The GINA laws are a step in the right direction, but they only apply to "genetic" information (as if there is any health information that isn't at some level "genetic!") - David McCallie

For the majority of people there is very little value for someone to gain from finding out you are having an invasive procedure such as a colonoscopy, have a health problem or have a funny rash. There are much larger health benefits to be gained by allowing your healthcare provider to openly share you information between providers/organizations. There is also much social value in having information open for research. - Robert D. Fraser

Mathew: the thing is, the insurance world now knows about my condition. So, if they are going to discriminate against me, they already have that info. In the meantime, by keeping it quiet I don't get the other benefits. - Robert Scoble

however, will disease disclosure online prevent you from getting a job much like your drunken myspace pics? - ishak

Robert: the example I mentioned was someone with a back injury from 'work' who was receiving compensation benefits and posted something on their facebook about getting injured in a football game that same week. - Mathew Packer

privacy has been dead for awhile...but just because it's online, doesn't mean your next door neighbor knows your inner truths - clarke thomas

Agree with David - it is you being open, rather than health system not respecting your privacy. Doctors have malpractice issues if advice is given when they can't back up with clinical research and that is years behind what people are trying.It is the advantage of you sharing with your network. Others sharing is a breach of your privacy. - Kate Tribe

Robert Fraser: I disagree. My wife recently shared her funny rash (her doctor thought she had an infection and was trying to treat it with anti biotics. One of her Facebook friends said "looks like you have Shingles." Turns out the doctor was wrong and the Facebook friend was right. - Robert Scoble

I don't think privacy survives when you sign off on that 18 page HIPPA notice when you check in, anyway. - LinkingIndiana

re: health privacy - are people just not getting what scoble means here? if the advantages to being open about these health issues are great enough (and the advantages are becoming greater due to social networks for instance) then health privacy will die because nobody really will want to keep these things private .... nothing to do with the doctor/hospital side of things - Chris Heath

ishak - Well Robert's drunken myspace pics didn't prevent Fast Company from hiring him ;) - John Rubier

Chris: exactly. We are in a weird place where insurance companies can use this data against you (if they don't have it already, which in my case isn't true). There are other cases where diseases are socially negative, like sexually-transmitted diseases. But people will see that for 98% of the health problems they'll have there's a benefit to talking it through online. - Robert Scoble

exactly robert, and even with the socially negative ones there's always the 'anonymity' of the intarwebs - Chris Heath

Certain parts of our medical history have been for sale for a long time, insurance companies, the MIB, been writing about this for 2 years, it's really almost who writes the best algorithms, I post more breaches about government systems than private industry, DOD 2 weeks ago - MedicalQuack

Health privacy died when HIPPA was enacted. Personal Identity protection became compromised when we were stamped with Social Security numbers. Whenever the government enacts some policy to protect us we inevitably become sitting ducks. - Rick Savoia

Don't you owe us 20 more reasons? :-) I became a big believer in sharing when the Internet helped me find others having the same reaction to a new MS drug & discover what other drug we all had in common Happened in 1995! Company was stunned, but soon shared "possible interaction" on warning list - MaryAnn Chick Whiteside

@Robert See dm's? - Ed Shahzade /NextInstinct

Sorry, I meant in there is little value or leverage for hackers to gain from finding out about that rash. I work in healthcare, and the reason we don't have extensive electronic records are because there is a lot of concerns about 'privacy'. The perception is that health records are a huge risk, yet there is no value if some one 'hacked' or stole the information relating to your wifes shingles, but there is tremendous value in having your allergy or related medical info when you move around in healthcare. - Robert D. Fraser

More importantly, there are billions of dollars traded arcross the globe daily and people are still unsure if they want to have an electronic health record, why is this? - Robert D. Fraser

Lately though there are more paper medical records being trashed and found, one guy burned his chimney down trying to burn old med records, one guy paid around $50.00 at an auction for the unknown contents of a storage unit, well it was packed with boxes of medical records, all with the usual SS# and credit card information for patient payments. Lucky he was an honest guy this time, but... more... - MedicalQuack

Robert...here are two beta initiatives you, in part, inspired me to compile. Leveraging both Twitter and FF in the interest of patients and reforming the health financing and delivery systems....www.HospitalTwits.com and www.DocTwits.com. - Gregg

The government is not quite set up to police it at all either, here's a story where many billed Medicare with false claims under dead doctor names, so there was no cross reference on the doctor's ID, so those dead doctors were busy seeing a lot of patients. http://ducknetweb.blogspot.com/2008... - MedicalQuack

One more interesting story about extortion with Express Scripts,, pay up or the thief is ready to throw thousands of records out on the web, FBI and forensics working this case like crazy. http://ducknetweb.blogspot.com/2008... - MedicalQuack

What works for me is posting health woes in a semi-private place like Facebook. I had no idea that several of my friends had thyroid and/or adrenal issues, and we wound up having really helpful discussions. With 225+ friends, I'm guessing there will always be someone who can give advice without worrying about insurance companies finding out. (Although I'm on a high deductible self-employed plan...and barely make a dent in said deductible, so I personally am not worried about this...) - webojunk

Makes me think of this post by Fred Wilson... http://www.avc.com/a_vc... - Mike Doeff

Last week was a big success for the US Attorney's office in shutting down a company called Ingenix that sold your medication data for $15.00 a pop to any insurer and the were using it to deny claims and coverage, and it was owned by United Health care, so not only is privacy gone but we are for sale too! There's still one more company out there doing it and hopefully they will be next,... more... - MedicalQuack

Is it not true though in the US that you can be turned down for treatment if you are found to have had a disease previously that you have not been to your doctor about? That seems like something that should be taken into consideration when disclosing online. Don't the insurance companies employ private detectives to check that kind of stuff out? - Nicola Quinn

Anyone out there know anyone that had nerve/groin pain after suburethral sling surgery? My latest, weird surgical complication... in an otherwise totally healthy and uncomplicated gal. It is being addressed by my great doctors, but just curious if there is anyone out there that went through this and had a great outcome. I would like a place to find this stuff quickly and simply online.... but don't really want to discuss it with Facebook friends or Twitter... Something more annonymous would be good. - Colleen

I agree, you can find a lot of information online that your doctor's will not tell you, and in some cases... ie... when something goes a bit wrong... this is important. Recently happened to me, and I found good information online. Privacy will always be maintained in hospital/doctor's office environment, but yes, people will choose to discuss their own health issues online. - Colleen

The whole health privacy argument is a ruse. If you think your records are private, think again folks. Most IT depts in hospitals have extremely poor security practices, health insurers, well they like to do all sorts of things with your data and for most cyber-criminals, about the only thing interesting in your record is your SS#. The privacy ruse is simply put out there by various parties to insure that he who own the data, owns the customer relationship. - John Moore

Thanks Robert for bringing this issue up. About time it received more balanced "airplay". - John Moore

Could we generalize that to: "Privacy is dead"? :) I think that's the end balance... - Meryn Stol

Not for pharmacies it's not. HIPAA scares the hell out of us. - Jim Shireman

Privacy is your right to withhold that info if you wish. If you're sharing it then good for you, but others don't have to if they don't want to. I think a lot of people don't understand privacy and so they're willing to call it dead. I have spoken about my epilepsy because I wanted to. I'm also aware that you don't trust everything you read on the net - many people are misdiagnosing themselves because of other peoples conversations causing a strain on healthcare as they turn up whenever they feel off. - alphaxion

HIPAA d/n apply when a patient discloses their health records.GoogHealth & MSFT HealthVault don't comply with HIPAA b/c patients, not healthcare providers, disclose personal data. Ever tried to read your (probably mostly paper) medical records? Expect chaos, confusion, scary/confounding notes & references to family history, family members, maybe mental health. Be careful before disclosing. Relying solely on wisdom of non-medical professional crowds for diagnosis or advice has considerable downside risk. - Tom Stitt

Robert: Here is a good example to illustrate some of your points: http://bit.ly/nbcp. - Niranjan Tulpule

One thing I believe is very important is to be careful what you share and where as you never know who's looking, could be anybody, so to discuss a condition you really have, use an alias on discussion forums. On another forum with doctors, one MD was looking to hire a new med asst, looked on My Space and found his prospective new employee sitting on the beach topless, smoking a joint, anyway that's the type of stuff you want to be careful where and when you share. Anyone could be looking. - MedicalQuack

Have you got something to hide? Actually I can see companies sussing out places like this out to expose people who cheat the system. Easier than following someone around for months on end... - Terry O'Fee

the communities that deal with health issues always show users anonymous nicknames - not their real names. - Alensa

The problem always comes back to the fact that a Profit-Making Insurance Company MUST discriminate against those who represent a higher risk of loss/high costs, making Profit-Making Insurance Companies a TERRIBLE thing to include in a Health Care System intended to provide quality care to all. Also, when the employer pays for even part of the insurance it makes health a part of the employment decision, which it shouldn't be. Nothing about privacy, everything about failures of a for-profit system. - The Web's Wendell Wittler

Caution is name of game here... Recognize analogy that is happening FOR REAL with college applications officers. One of the 1st things they do circa 2009 when processing prospective students is to Search FB & MSpace. As adults we have to lead our youth and help to present a respectful outward image. *** Per Health Care, I agree that support groups and the like will yield (and have done so in case of my personal family) COUNTLESS new insights where your GP or Specialist may not be fully up to speed. - Jeff Ploetz

focused support groups / chat rooms such as www.BrainTrust.org were a God Send to me as I grasped for ways to learn, 1st hand, what to expect and how to assist my bro-in-law who is 300+ miles to the west. http://giving.roswellpark.org/NetComm... .. I offer this secure free PHR @ https://www.WorldMedCard.com - Jeff Ploetz

Alensa

Magento team Europe tour: Netherlands, France and Germany - http://thenextweb.com/2009...

January 21, 2009 from Backtype - Comment - Like - Share

"thanks for pointing this out guys. been trying to learn more about open source e-commerce and so this post was spot on." - Alensa

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Pharmacists face ethical questions over sale of dietary supplements and herbal remedies &8211; - http://blog.alensa.com/blog...

January 20, 2009 from StumbleUpon - Comment - Like - Share

A recent study finds two major ethical issues in selling these products, but are these claims valid ? - Alensa

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Why We ♥ MailChimp - http://thenextweb.com/2009...

January 15, 2009 from Backtype - Comment - Like - Share

"thanks guys, we were looking for a good solution and this seems great." - Alensa

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Alensa Generics & Merckle&8217;s Phoenix empire crumbling - UK operations for sale - http://www.alensagenerics.com/2009...

January 14, 2009 from StumbleUpon - Comment - Like - Share

Following the death of Mr. Merckle, the sale of his empire continues at a swift pace. - Alensa

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Oakland killing - America hits a new low | sashsavic.com - http://www.sashsavic.com/2009...

January 12, 2009 from StumbleUpon - Comment - Like - Share

Some of us remember the Rodney King riots 17 years ago. Rodney was beaten, not killed, and yet LA rioted for days with such severity that the national guard had to be called in. Fast forward to today and we see that things in America have gotten much worse, not better since Rodney. - Alensa

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

"great blog post , well done !" - Alensa

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