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Tonight is the beginning of the end of the "geeks-only" phase of FriendFeed. Now that Guy Kawasaki is here the marketers will start showing up.

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I'm showing Six Flags tomorrow...lol - sean andersen

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*doffs hat in respect to the passing of the time of geeks* - WorldofHiglet

So what's next? - Kevin Arth

yeah but unlike twitter, I'm not so sure internet marketers would feel successful on FriendFeed with everyone blocking them - Ⓐ ☠ slayerboy ☠ Ⓐ

Now on to Google Wave! - sean andersen

And the spammers too, I guess. Great.. - Citronella

And ghost posters / commenters. - Ben Hanten

Slayerboy: good marketers won't get blocked. I really appreciated getting cuts in line at Six Flags because of their Twitter contest. - Robert Scoble from iPhone

Good marketers aren't most marketers :) - Brett Kelly

Brett: only good ones will survive here. - Robert Scoble from iPhone

Or they will drown. - sean andersen

Only if Guy likes it will they come. Friendfeed.alltop.com and all that. - Pete Delucchi from iPhone

Robert: I don't mind good marketers, as long as they're genuine. Too many of them (particular the "social media marketing gurus") are just unforgivably obnoxious and fake in their attempts to pimp their own garbage services/blog. So, I really hope you're right :) - Brett Kelly

Bad marketers on FriendFeed will survive in search results. Do a search for a couple of terms like 'canon 135mm' and you'll see plenty of entries that are just links to people selling the lens. You're not going to block them all. I don't see that as a big problem, but I suspect they'll be successful enough there to keep them coming. - Edward Coffey

Start? I've been here for a loooong time. A few of my 'marketing' friends have been too. - AJ Kohn

Marketers phase has already started in Turkey. Friendfeed is generally used by them, or I think like that... - Sabri Küstür

we need like a freindfeed costranostra to keep the peace, and make things just poof into the ethersphere - Robert Higgins

so wish i was a freindfeed coder and i could merge with the stream and provide some community services... :AKA Hiro Protaganist - Robert Higgins

@Robert: +1 for Snowcrash reference. - AJ Kohn

I'm in Marketing, and I've been here from the beginning. Are you slandering my craft, Mr. Scoble? :) - Louis Gray

Louis: you don't work for a big brand. When you sell your souls and work for a big brand let us know, OK? ;-) - Robert Scoble from iPhone

Robert, wait, don't you work for a big brand? - Jesse Stay

Jesse: sssshhhhh. - Robert Scoble from iPhone

"Now on to Google Wave! - sean andersen" Exactly. Unless the FF core team is over there on the sandbox right now, doing all they can to start the scrambling scrum RIGHT NOW, the big GWave will assimilate all. At least until the assimilation wave after that. FF has maybe a one year window -- if that -- to make it's move, whatever that might be, starting right now. - michael silverton

Citronella - I like that the spammers are vaporized almost instantly here. Decent built in tools for group reporting. - BairdWilliamson

If I got here before Guy and I'm geekless does that give me any special designation? - Kimber Scott

michael silverton: Wave sandbox already looks like Gmail. I bet when they release it, it will be Gmail 2.0. I hope Bret & co. are studying it close... - sean andersen

Kimber: you are geeky because you were here before...whether you like that designation or not :) - WorldofHiglet

Louis has more than *one* soul? Or is this a left-foot, right-foot thing. Colour me confus`ed :D - Micah Wittman

LOL! Well, I guess I could be called an amateur geek... - Kimber Scott from email

Pot. Kettle. Black. - Gilbert Harding

@silverton, agreed that FriendFeed has a limited time window to figure out what it wants to be when it's all grown up.. in other news, can't believe it took Guy this long to show up here to play. Nothing wrong with a little marketing, especially if it's of the "Moving the Freeline" variety.. +1 Gilbert, LOL. - Alex Schleber

If I were Guy, or the head of any company, be it a camera shop or whatever, whenever I had a little free time, I'd tweet out, "Hey, I'm going to be on FriendFeed for an hour or so, answering any questions about Alltop, telling you about its features, advantages, and benefits, come join in!" or something like that. That's a vertical that feeds off Twitter and really enriches both platforms, utilizing them both for their strengths. - Stephen Pickering

With Leo, Steve Rubel, and Guy K now all here .. this landscape is about to change ... agreed. - Charlie Anzman

I'm reading Crossing the Chasm, only 18 years after it was published. Can I blend in as a "marketer" now? - DGentry

Well hopefully communities will coexist in open social media, we aren't defined by what or where we login to right? It's just information we share, the platform is merely a pipeline. The communities need to exist beyond the platforms - Mark Essel from iPhone

<LOL> - Allen Harkleroad

Say it isn't so Joe! It will be interesting to watch the transformation, will FriendFeed go to the dark side or will it make a stand :) - Owen Greaves

true.. true.. - Cesar Sanchez

So, do you think the population will tend to shift to more casual people than the creme de la creme people. I feel so, since there are only the innovative, open-minded people on FriendFeed right now; and I think the change is pretty near. - Yiğit Arda Türkoğlu

Marketing guys have always been here. The difference... tactics and respect. That being said change is always happening and even still I'm not sure Friendfeed will hit the critical mass Twitter has with marketers. The friendfeed brand will likely be defined differently than Twitter and attract different people. Time will tell. - Jim Goldstein from iPhone

why? can't marketing guys and geeks get along? - kakuei

No. We cannot get along. This war has been waged for too long, and too much blood has been spilled. Most of us no longer even remember why we are fighting, but it doesn't matter. Victory is all that matters. - DGentry

The marketers are already here, but most of them are totally clueless about how friendfeed works. They somehow think they can dump their stuff here and it will get "found" and when that doesn't work, they just go back to twitter. The ones that do understand how it works either feel it is too much damn work to fake being real to be worth it, or they are the real deal and it works quite well for them. - April Russo (app103)

April: I think there's some cost-benefit analysis going on there. There's a smaller crowd at FF and it takes a lot more work. Plus, most people here are marketing jaded. - Trent Hamm

The craft of marketing. That's priceless. - Big K

Guy is a marketer, sure, but also a geek. Geeks phase ends when the Celebs show up. - Garin Kilpatrick

well if they start selling, just dont click "like" or "comment" and they will drop off the page in minutes - Mark

I think some marketers are already here..but anyway, you think Guy being here will change things much? - Rob Sellen :o)

Robert, you might have to make a stand for geeks everywhere. Prepare yourself. - Joe

Robert, "Wanna learn how to get 1,000's of Friendfeed friends in no time. Click here http://somespammylink.com to learn my patent pending, amazing, fantastic, game-changing, and revolutionary way to gain residual income through the magic of your Friendfeed friends." Don't click yet, I was just brushing up! - Sean Powell

I'm so honored to have read this message from scoble. I'm grateful for our "geeks only" days that we've all shared! LOL - Jason Pollock

No Kidding! Welcome Guy Kawasaki, who ever your are. - Houseofmax

Yes I agree - Randy Allen Bishop

thats unfortunate, but who is GuyK? - echostreamer

When the marketer wagon shows up I'll be going private. - Geoff Schultz

Yeah, Jim Goldstein sez it: those of us from the dark side that stumbled into these sweet precincts have kept a low profile... sorta like taking your hat off when you go to church ; > - Thom Kennon

he's actually been here awhile, just not posting, mr scoble - chaz2b

Some ppl cannot be stopped. Like me! Not geeky enough, a girl, too wall st. Watch out, cause tenacity wins every time. - Liza

well then lets learn from Twitter and not follow every stupid command that celebrities give us to rocket them to the top of friend feed. BOYCOTT ALL CELEBRITIES ON FRIEND FEED to save this from becoming the punchline that twitter. save the whales, then save friend feed plez :) - echostreamer

Jason Pollock liked this, that is HILARIOUS! He posts the most redundant links on Twitter...a notorious spammer. At least Guy admits what he does, still somewhat annoying. Not sure why Leo Laporte was mentioned, I don't see him fitting that GK mold at all. - Benjamin Taylor

In retrospect ... it seems to have been a hit and run for now ?? Hoping not. Would be great to see him actively engaging here. A LOT to offer. Marketing crowd? ... No worries - There's always 'block, tackle and hide .....' here - Charlie Anzman

Robert, I think this is such crazy talk, you're a marketer too ;) - Jeremiah Owyang

Umm, I'm pretty sure that Guy is also a geek. Regardless of what his cool cred is...then again his cool cred is totally geek cool cred. - Alex Scoble

LOL Robert. What is wrong with you. I lol'd. - DO ANYBODY NO MONIQUE

Guy Kawasaki does have magic initials, I will give him that. - Garin Kilpatrick

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doh! - Jonathan Blundell

The social media experts are coming! The social media experts are coming! Head for the hills, they are bringing their spam with them! - PJ Edwards

Oh god the end of the world is near :) - Daryl Hunt on FF

Well now with the FB acquisition this post just seems like a jab in the eye. Poor FF. - Her Lindsay-ness

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