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Getting used to the new MBP trackpad is going to take time. Not having a dedicated button is throwing me off as I typically keep one finger on the pad and another on the button; never removing either when not typing. This doesn't work so well with the new trackpads.

August 19 - Comment - Like - Share

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I have sorta gotten used to it but I have yet to find myself liking it. Hopefully you will figure out the latter :) - matthew john ernisse

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Maybe I'm just lucky but I acclimated quickly. Then again, I've always had tapping turned on other laptops I've owned so I was kind of used to it anyway. - Akiva Moskovitz

I've heard that you can do a lot with that trackpad much like the iphone it is supposed to recognize multi touch functions like pinch to zoom etc. - David C. Cooper

I now keep all but one off the pad when moving around. As long as only your thumb is kept at the bottom, it shouldn't be a problem since that software update. The multi finger gestures are unbeatable though. Four fingers expose swiping up and show desktop swiping down rocks! - Brandon Titus

It took me quite a while. I actually bought the new model but kept using my old Macbook for months. Finally I forced myself to get used to it and it wasn't too bad once I committed to it. I don't think I use it very well, though. - joey

I have the older type with the button and Nadine has the newer one. Really throws me off when I use her computer for a minute. - Jason Wehmhoener

Once you get used to it you'll never turn back. Get to know the gestures, too - huge help. I can't stand normal trackpads now. - Jesse Stay

I, too, am getting acclimated to the pad. I'm getting burned every 58 minutes by a mis-select of text and/or failure to double-tap when I should have tapped, or single-tapping and not remembering to single-tap again to turn off select. Craziness often ensues, but ends with a single tap. Going back to a 'classic' pad bites me in the butt, for the first few moments, too. - Jason Miller

Just use it as if it had a button. It's ok to keep your thumb resting in the area where the button would be (it doesn't count as an extra "touch" for the multi-touch gestures). - Ben Darnell

I'll second Ben. The less you think about it, the better it works. - Kevin Fox

Thanks Ben. I must not have had my thumb far down enough before. It does work reasonably well. - Benjamin Golub

Like Ben, I use the "invisible" button too. Also, very useful: 2 fingers for scrolling and next/previous, three for page up/down, four to hide apps/exposé. However, I can't get used to the horizontal four fingers move to switch apps since it requires to swith *and* click :( - Jérôme Flipo

It took me a day or two, now I would hate to go back. - Sean O'Connor

I have the same issue as you describe. I guess the only solution is time. - Angus Burton

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True FRIENDFEED addicts please check in:

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shuffles quietly at the back - Ivor Whitten

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++ - jacek

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alive and well. - Tyler Molamphy

present - Jeff Weber

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I love that Bret, Paul, and Kevin checked in. They probably are looking at their screens and asking "what do we do now?" how about ship some new features before Facebook overlords take you off to do bigger things? - Robert Scoble from iPhone

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Not an addict but I like it. - Joao Alves

I got the papers in my glove box....you ready to make a beer run? - Morgan Haley

Is Friendfeed a safe place to bring new friends? - Christian Burns from iPhone

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present. - Trish Haley

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Yo ¡Aquí! - David Austria

present - Albert Maruggi

Yo! - Mathew Barnes

presente - Eric Gagne

Not sure I'm an addict yet but I'm here and working on it. - Paul Goldsmith

I'm checking out not in. Friendfeed is on its way out kind ladies and gentlemen - Mark Essel

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Checking in - Richard Gallo

Here - Darrell Madore

Present! - MsJosay

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I survived the night. - Frankie Warren

yes - Matthew Schrock

Hello - Sue

Present - Joshua Kahn

I do like FF and use it almost every day. Wouldn't it be great if FB either left it alone so we can continue to use it as "professionals," or somehow incorporate it into a more "mature" version of FB that didn't have all the annoying, time-wasting apps, games, etc. I'd much prefer a totally customizable FF "wall." - Cathryn Hrudicka

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are there fake friendfeed addicts? - acedanger

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here - John Kitchen

:) - Lindsay Davies

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hello from a german FRIENDFEED addicted :-) - Simon Zeimke

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Not an addict, but defiantly a user. Wish there was a desktop client though. Or TweetDeck integrated it. - Michael

:) - Joe

Present! - Denverken

Aye, Mon. - Gordon Swaby

PRESENT - Kamilah Gill

Check - Jason Heppler

It's nice seeing new comments drop down, sexy as fuck, bye friendfeed *snifs* - Gordon Swaby

president - Dennis O'Neil

Aloha - Nathan

Where else would I be? Facebook? Pfft ... - Kevin Mohr

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Sorry I was late.. I have a note from my parole officer. - Mike Shulman

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I CAN QUIT ANYTIME!!! - Jim in Real Time

here - Rahul Gupta

just getting started - Patrice Vizzone

Aye! - Joshua

hello there - Murilo Terrabuio

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here - Gary Prechtel

Present! - Diego Barros 

I'm not here often, but when I am... it's a happy place indeed... I hope they don't take away my fix! - Robyn Miller

Hey Robert - got a separate thread for people who have a healthy, positive relationship with FriendFeed? - Edward Coffey

Check - tristan

Marco! - Tomy Thomson

it's gonna take 11 years for FaceBook to catch up to where FF is now....isn't that how tech "progress" works? - Marg Uerite

Ahoy - Brett Kelly from iPhone

aye - chaz2b

Polo! - m9m, Crone of FriendFeed

Ere I am in Aust standing up with my right hand raised yelling out HERE! - Bob Heath

Count me in. - Sebastian

Present - Charlie Anzman

Knock on wood! - Giorgio Zarrelli

O Hai! - Mathew A. Koeneker

Check - Erik Boles from iPhone

What's the qualifier for addict? If you believe the MacLean researcher, addiction is a choice! - Sally: reading a book

I MEAN IT!!! ANYTIME!!! - Jim in Real Time

O Captain, My Captain ;) - Stuart Miniman

hey! - Imran Jafri

yes - Steve Mott

I'm here. Now what? - Christian Collins

Actively fighting addiction to anything on a daily basis, but I'm still a FriendFeed fan! (I'd have been here sooner but I've been staring at Phoebe Cates pics for longer than I realized.) - Mark "Mr Bolivious" J

Thank you Robert Scoble to be here. :) BTW is this looks interesting for FF replacement? : http://streamy.com/ ? May be... I'll try it to see. :) - Claude LaFrenière

Checking in! - MVB (Curmudgeon of FF) from fftogo

Count me in too please! - RobinDotNet from iPhone

raises hand! - Bhowmik Shah

not addicted but perhaps in a state of advanced 'like' - Threepwood

Yep Yep - Rahsheen ™, Coach Rah

Yeah. Going to miss this if it morphs into something else for real. - Robert Anderson

I need my FriendFeed! - Brandon Titus

I really Need Friendfeed! - TheHenry

Ya, that's me. - Sweyn Venderbush

Yo. - James (!?)

HOOAH. or something - mjc

Here. At the Rack proctoring an exam. - Stuart Rath

here - Bluesun 2600

Everybody sing: "They tried to make me go to rehab I said no, no, no " - Laurent

•_•*b - videopixil from Nambu

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check - Jaica Kinsman from iPhone

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yo! - tomit

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hola! - Oğuz Serdar

Aren't we all here? I guess that's the point why we adopted Friendfeed, while others just "heard about it", isn't it? - Wolfgang G. Wettach

What is the differential diagnosis for this condition? - Matthew DeVries

and many of us in Europe are sleeping. - Luca Sofri

better late than never. - Brian Daniel Eisenberg

Some of us in the USA are just busy, too. - Duncan Blake

Man, this check-in line is pretty darn long... must be Southwest. heh - Daynah

<raises hand> - Jack (a.k.a. Jeber)

please excuse me while I pretend to be one of your guys - Kirk

i am - Brian Hendrickson

I'm not addicted, I'm just a social FriendFeeder. - Joe Pierce

here i am - v per vitzbank

check 1,2 - Wayne Sutton

Here. - Bill Scherer

Here - Bora Zivkovic

.-.. --- --. --- ..- - - constantinos alexacos

hello - echostreamer

YOYOYO! - Mathew™ one of a kind

Eccomi, presente! - Alessandro

checking in from Tejas - George Dearing from BuddyFeed

Finally turned the corner. - Liza

trying to figure out how to use it... - Ted Kinzer

There sure are a lot of people in here. It's a good thing Robert got the big room with extra chairs. - RobinDotNet from iPhone

Here! - Zulema ◕ ◡ ◕ from BuddyFeed

Reporting! (My next blog entry will be called "Social Media Is My Crack".) - Dennis Jernberg

present. - Jim Halligan @jim

:( - Angus Burton

Roger, Roger! - Jim Bergman

late but here - Heather Solos

Yo. - Steve Lowe

all present and accounted for sir ! - John Wallace from BuddyFeed

Nah, I'm too busy posting #badjokememe stuff. - Ladybug Heather

I am in. - Gabe Taviano from iPhone

Present. - Christopher A Carr

Depends. - Nick Humphries

Not an addict yet, but I'm starting to work on it. - Alex Hellstrom

I'm working hard to get an addiction. - Minu Nianda

never left - Josh Haley

Robert, Now that you have us all here (or some of us), what are you going to do with us? - RobinDotNet

Here I am... sad but I am! - ¡amFrancesco!

Hiya. Still here. Don't plan on leaving for the foreseeable future. - Jason, Craving from iPhone

still here - echostreamer

Yes? - Fajar Nurdiansyah

here - Holly is Happy from iPod

I'm here, but is this FF or FB? - Dana Fosburgh

Guilty as charged. Use FF more than any other social network, including Twitter. - Larry Hawes

I can stop anytime I want... - mikepk

I can stop mikepk anytime I want... - Akiva Moskovitz

here - mike "glemak" dunn

holy cow that is a serious list...oh yeah here and dear!!! - Braden Douglass

the real time chat feed is simply amazing and what makes FF phenomenal! - Travis Tasset

I tried to get addicted but none of my friends could afford it. Now I just have bad dreams about Scoble. - Mr Saturday Morning NFG

Merhaba! - Barış (beyn.org)

here, too. - browneyes from iPhone

Yep. - joey

Here...and cloaked with sadness... - Anthony K. Valley ©

True. What will happen to FF now? - Barış (beyn.org)

Alright - Rodfather

:P - Phillip Stewart

Roger that - Rob Fahrni

(from Streamy) - Marcos

yo - Gus

cello! - Joe Silence is ashes

You called? - Jeunelle Foster

you called? - pea

reporting in. - Randy Shapiro

ola. - anna sauce

hello my name is Kim and I'm a Friendfeedaholic - Kim Landwehr from BuddyFeed

1st Step - Thomas Page

True FriendFeed addicts don't need to report in. :P - Tad

yep - The Letter M

true friendfeed addicts are there.. always ;) - alphaxion

Tad: and yet you did! - Joe Silence is ashes

Chiggity-Check! - Richard Merritt

Still following Robert the Wise. - Phil Boiarski

that's a *boolean true* - Peter Renshaw

check - Tim Ake

I'm here. FriendFeed will have to leave me, before I leave it. - Tyson Key

ayo... - Lipanantsi

Fashionably late ...BOOYA! - Rich Weaver

Chris Martin checking in - Chris Martin

Present - Craig Eddy

present but in 12 step for addiction - Criz

'Ere - Darren Heydon

yo ho ho! - Ferdinand Perez

I'm an addicted lurker. Does that count? - ax0n

Solid Copy - Drew Lucas from iPhone

Checking in by phone while on vacation. :) - CAJ, somewhere else from iPhone

here. anecdote: a friend of mine just signed up for FF this evening. apparently the FriendFeed hype of the last 24 hours pushed him over the top. leaves me wondering whether FF has actually gained users today?it would be a crafty way of marketing the service. I'll wake up tomorrow to discover that there was a problem with the paperwork and the FriendFeed team have had a change of heart. - JSLeFanu from BuddyFeed

late, but present - George Deane

Present and accounted for - John Pfaff

hello hello - shaun mclane

yo yo yo. ladi-dadi. - berchman

"raises hand" - Brian Appleby

i have been locked out of twitter since first attack on friday so just got into friendfeed and loooove it! - Alannah Ryane

We are truly the coolest bunch on the internet. - raphaeL

·[▪_▪]· - Desirade

Whats up? - AJ Batac

Present and accounted for! :-D - Amy Flynn

Hello, my name is Pete, and I am a FriendFeed addict. Will there be cookies and coffee at this 12-step meeting? - Pete Delucchi

Here stopped over on my way to Brightkite. - John C Ferron

I'm a Facebook junkie - Molly, New Ears :P

Yo. - Neal Jansons

Hi. - Trent Olson

is this a load test/friendly dos attack? :p - ௸ (k2g)

I'm not as active on FF as I used to be but I'm back. - Bob Gannon from iPhone

more than 2 days ago - Alistair (alpinefolk)

Little late but yes, I am still here. So to speak. - Martha

yo.. - Ricardo J. Valle

I'm new but i like it... - Jose Antonio Trujillo

Count me in even though I was just starting to get hooked. I guess it's time to find a rehab and get all sobered up until the next relapse with some other new addiction. Isn't life grand? - Usman Bashir

addict.. - Peter

Define addict. - Carl Black

Here too, lol - Ange Recchia/angesbiz

ANYTIME!!!! - Jim in Real Time

addict: currently 02:53 and I've failed to even start this weeks script because I've been messing about on friendfeed ;) - alphaxion

Not exactly addict but very close. - ashish from iPhone

03:01 in the morning in the UK and I am here! - Travis Koger

Since we are logging time its 5:05 AM in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia and I am here too. :) - Usman Bashir

Travis get some sleep! - Arleen Boyd

Aloha! - Peter Liu

guten tag! - imabonehead

hmmm. - Carlos Ayala

hello hello - Tate DA FF MVP from BuddyFeed

define addict :-) - Duane-PreppyDude

Gonna miss you honey. This is Facebook for adults - Alan Morris

Is it just me or is the FF interface just plain usable? Clean! Uncluttered! Simple!. - Alan Morris

Yo - Ahsan Ali aka. Slick

Check is in the mail. - Louis Trapani from iPhone

Wow Peter, Are we all that crazy for friend feed and twitter? - Marilyn Jansen Lopes

Aloha! Mahalo Robert... now WHAT IS the plan??? - Arleen Boyd

Hello there. this is today's last....go to bed now. - Carloe Stamp

present - Alex Scrivener

Allo - Jan Ole Peek

selamat pagi,, bon dia ,, good morning=)) - zʍıɔ

^_^ - HealingBrush

I could be an addict if there was an app for my phone like one for the winmo! - Andy Ghozali

Presente - patrick

Checking In.... - Chris Jackson

Not quite addicted yet here. - Mike Pennell

Where's Holden? Maybe celebrating his birthday early. - Myrna

Yes SIR!! - Mark Guadalupe

Present! - Adam Turetzky

Reporting for duty SIR! - Jack Humphrey

Yes - Christopher Galtenberg from iPhone

Checking in. - John (a.k.a. dendroica)

¡Presente! - Luis D. Santos

On it constantly! - Tobin Truog

West Coast evening shift reporting for duty. - Kryptic

Connected across all social media.Who needs open social? - Lori Laurent Smith

Here! - David Cook - 2010!!!

addicted for sure - Gersham Meharg

hola. - Sean Oliver

talk about a name and shame list... - Nathan Vingoe

Yo! - Walt Ruppar

Count me as an addict. - Joey Gibson

Till the servers shut down and they boot us off forever. - Haggis (Sean Loyless)

check - Kate

Always here! - Michael Cuff

need more, need more friendfeed than any one has needed before - Robert Higgins

Present. - Lucas

I am present and accounted for...well present anyway - Keith Murray

Here! - Barry Owens

You rang? - JA Castillo

I'm not sure is "being addicted to lurking on FF" counts, but I'm chiming in. - Christian (Simply X)

I JUST joined and am trying to figure it out. - Janine Nickel

Oui - J.D. Deutschendorf

I quit everytime I go to bed - Jeff (the マクダジ of FF) from iPhone

check. It rocks - Richard J Placide

I'm checking in from 37k feet on a Delta flight with GoGo Internet. If that's not addict I don't know what is. :D - Jay Cuthrell

Jay, you win ;) - Jesper Lind

oh hey, look, the added an "add comment" link to the end of the comment list. Huzzah! - Brett Kelly from iPhone

++Jay. I was going to do the same thing yesterday but I didn't want to pay the money. - David Cook - 2010!!!

David -- this was a $9.95 session but you can get them for $7.95 and there are also 25% off coupons if you do online check-in prior to your Delta flight. That's an incentive for folks to use that service and offload kiosk use at the terminals. Very savvy marketing by the folks at GoGo and Delta combined. - Jay Cuthrell

Present and accounted for - johnpiercy

Yo Scobey! I like Dave Winer's thoughts on user owned tech companies ... been thinking similar things. - Jason Cronkhite

Scobey Scobey Doooooooooooooo! - Jason, Craving

check. - Justin Korn

here - Steve C

Ozgur reporting - Özgür D. Cyric from iPhone

in - sirishkumar

Present - Herb Hernandez

Yo! - Aaron Draczynski

Me too - Peter Hollard

Junkie - Genaro Bardy from iPhone

Seems like there's not much point being a FF addict, now. Bummer. - Kathy Fitch

Hola! - George The Writer

Checking in! - Glenn Slaven

whatup! :) - simran

Still here :) - 1x29

Here as always. - Jeff Smith

Here. - Parth Awasthi

Do you even have to ask? - Johnny Worthington

Aquí! - Miguel

moi. - amygeek

Are we doing anything today? - Shea from iPhone

nano nano - Eran Even-Kesef

ok, I'll play - chrisofspades

yes master - Weird Shanghai

:) - Susan Beebe from iPhone

I like this list of people, good crowd - Jack DeWitt Smith

Yo. (And what is the point of this thread and why are we all saying Yo?) - Bob Morris (polizeros)

Howdy! - Bec Rowe @d0tski

. - Rob Michael (Atmos Trio)

aye - WorldofHiglet

And if you're a *real* FF addict, comment twice. - Dennis Jernberg

Robert. What's up? :D - DO ANYBODY NO MONIQUE

Arrrr!! - Adrian

Here! - Peter du Toit (S.Africa) from fftogo

Here at 06:55 A.M. from iPhone. - Pasquale Grimaldi from iPhone

late, but check and still here. - Rocky

No matter how many times "ff!" is met with "??" I still preach. - Garin Kilpatrick

Another one for the books - Greg Birch

YO! - Eric @ CSTechcast.com

Here - Véronique Rabuteau

Sup dawg I be in your feed, checkin in - Geoff Schultz

Hey. - Kevin Pedraja

I'm late, sorry. :) - jcunwired

so... - Meg v. Meg v. 1.0.0.1

well, it's 12:12 a.m. and I'm perusing FF from my iPhone via BuddyFeed before turning in. so yeah, I guess I count. "Here!" (raises hand) - Don Faulkner from BuddyFeed

Here - Paola Bonomo

Here..from Shanghai - Marc Dong

My name is John, and I am a FFolic.. :-) - John Serra

Here from Hong Kong! - Dan Van Hoy

Here - Musa Yılmaz

Good morning from Finland. I'm here again. - Tapio Kulmala

Can't stay away. - Tanath

Checked in ...How can I check out - Sriks7

Sorry I am late - Emre Öktem

Becoming more so. - Travis B. Hartwell

Present - Sandra Large

Here here... - Alemsah Ozturk from iPhone

Here! - Jeff P. Henderson

here.. - Chris Myles

Hello I am here! - Chris Bellinger

hmm. Friendfeed response rate running about three times as good as a banner ad and about as good as a well placed Adword. - Steve Wilhelm

Am I too late? I've been out crying at my personal Friendfeed funeral :-( - Jannifer @wordsforliving

Ci sono - zuck from fftogo

Just woke up and saw this thread. Addicted ? I guess so... - Jacque from f2p

✔ I'm not addicted. I can quit any time I want. I just don't want to. ;o) - RetiredTeacherD

still lovin it - Mark Sorsa-Leslie

Teacher: Awesome checkmark ;) - Fajar Nurdiansyah

Jauser - Flynn (Michael A. Volz) from BuddyFeed

Yes it does ! :) - Veda Informatics

Oh I'm late, just spend to much time at Streamy - Michael Zehrer

:) - M F

merhaba - Sinan İŞLER

Here I am, having my first coffee in the morning. - Federico Bolsoman

wazzzzup - Andrew Salnikov

Breakfast FFeeding.... - David Peacock

Wof Wof, WOF ! - valerio fiandra from iPhone

addiction check! - ӊooқ

First site I launch - Patrik Arwengrim

checked in - Sarper Sılaoğlu

All present and correct! - Paul M Evans

Présent! (for how long?) - Zackatoustra

here I am - nessuno

I send newbies straight to FriendFeed as the base for all of their online activities. I wonder how it will change. - Sally Albright

I'm here - Mackley ॐ

ata ata hoglo hulu - Dan H. Racek

[DEAN HOLMES] - Dean Holmes

I recommend FF to some of my clients, and there are some companies and nonprofits with presences here—not like Twitter, but I'll be curious how that will be affected when FB takes over more. Most have FB fan pages, groups and/or causes, too. - Cathryn Hrudicka

Still here.......as always. - Iain Baker

huh? - bora "head" basman

Still here, but I don't know until when - Roberto from fftogo

Here I am - l'Ego di Gigi

Because.....? - Andrew Terry from iPod

checked! - Federì

yup - Thomas Power

Wassup? - Winston Teo

in - paniaguai

howdy! - Nir Ben Yona

I can give it up any time. I swear. - Matt G

Here! - Brome

Hey i'm in the hospital and I still checked. - Steven Cogswell from iPhone

Me definitely one of these. :-) - Kol Tregaskes

Trying to keep the addiction low. - Muthu Ramadoss

Buongiorno - alex

Just another one. - M. Elena

Yo. - Carlton Hackett

What are we checking in for? Just to start a long thread? - Adam Helweh

in - MobilAdam

Where's duty free? - Paul Downing

sorry i'm late :) - Doruk Bayer

Late, but here I am. - Filippo Ronco

Not an addict but I'm here anyway :-D - Graham Lawrence

Reporting for duty. - Mark H

Here I am! Would you collect 50M$ to "buy-back" FF? :) - Marco Dal Pozzo [mdp]

Yo - Franz Binder

I hope I'm not an addict... ;-) Oh, well. - Hanna Wiszniewska

вписался - Alex Kapranoff

I'm here - Nick Bristow

8 hours later? i passed it! - Avi Joseph

yop! - zooz

привет чятег! давайте зохватим этот тредик? - Махатма Бугоганди

Yeah, me too. I just saw the request to have a comment link at the bottom of the comments from one of your friends just yesterday and here it is. I'd say they are listening. Thanks FF. - Keith Rowland

ЧАТЕГ МЫ ТЕБЯ ЗАХВАТИМ!!!111 - ОТЛИЧНО

заходит чувак к Scoble, а там чатег - $this->

Boom - Simon Wicks from iPhone

это наш чятег камон - ОТЛИЧНО

а сколько у них тут каментов? - Махатма Бугоганди

Давайте дадим чувакам ссылку на истинный чятег, пусть бояццо - ОТЛИЧНО

пиццот - ОТЛИЧНО

смешные - Махатма Бугоганди

Свободу попугаям! - Кеноби с кемпа

НАПИШИ ЗДЕСЬ ДВЕ ТЫСЯЧИ КАМЕНТОВ И ФРЕНДФИДИК ОСТАНЕТСЯ БЕСПЛАТНЫМ!!! - ОТЛИЧНО

бггг - Махатма Бугоганди

zdrastvitze! - anna sauce

check! - Maxim Getman

КТО ВСЕ ЭТИ ЛЮДИ??? - Нервный гик

Right Here! - Ümit Orhan

present - Tamara

http://friendfeed.com/ideali... MORE THAN 7000 COMMENTS IN SOVIETFRIENDFEEDIK - ОТЛИЧНО

ОНИ ПРИШЛИ В НАШ ФРЕНДФИДИК! - ОТЛИЧНО

слабаки, до нашего чатега им ещё работать и работать - Нервный гик

Да здравствует народ Чятега. Скобл мы следим за тобой™! Let our friendfeed alone! - ideali

это не тру чатик - Нервный гик

^^ KAKIE VASHI DOKAZATELSTVA? - Zen Zero

кстати, все помнят, что у Даши сегодня день рождения? - Махатма Бугоганди

The view is better from here - Anthony

ЧО, БУХАЕМ? ДАША ПРИВЕТ - ОТЛИЧНО

Ин совьет унион чатег чатит тебя - ОТЛИЧНО

они виноваты сами. пускай теперь терпят. - ideali

о, зайка пришол! - Махатма Бугоганди

здравствуй Зайка. ты кого сегодня сделал счастливым? - Махатма Бугоганди

*facepalm* - Alex Kapranoff

Дашенька, в этом уютном подобии чятега мы поздравляем тебя! - ideali

All your base are белонг ту ас - ОТЛИЧНО

Дашенька ушла в салон красоты, но я ей передам обязательно! - Махатма Бугоганди

路过：） - K.D.

кетайцам напалм привет - ОТЛИЧНО

нитрогай кетайца, у него там коммунизм, ему тяжело - Махатма Бугоганди

then ? - alper*

чо сразу нитрогай, я превед передаю - ОТЛИЧНО

превед кетайцам - Нервный гик

И так чятег, пока Скобл не поговорит с нами представителями СовиетФрендфидика, все мои записи теперь можно читать в этом тредике. Пользуясь случае передаю Парню Бухайту и его команде большой привет, в связи с тем что [He can has sleep naw]. - ideali

превед кетаец! давай сегодня сделаем тебя счастливым! - Махатма Бугоганди

а кто такой Скобл? - Нервный гик

кстати да - Махатма Бугоганди

И ещё десять твоих друзей тоже сделаем счастливыми, китаец, у нас сегодня акция - ОТЛИЧНО

Мой Мир, вернись уже - ОТЛИЧНО

в чатег призывается Цукенберррггг! - ОТЛИЧНО

Greetings from Australia. Im here :-) - Aussie_Camper

кто такой Скобл. и вообще, объясните мне плз про звезд американоязычного френдфидика - кто там есть кто? - Махатма Бугоганди

зырьте, как притихли гики - ОТЛИЧНО

фтыкают в кириллические интернеты - ОТЛИЧНО

кто все эти люди™ ? - brain

у них там ночь, они спят еще. вот проснуцца - прифигеют - Махатма Бугоганди

Triple check - Geer

не там а здеся. звёзды американоязычного френдфидика здеся. давайте их спросим - ОТЛИЧНО

фаак, точно ночь - ОТЛИЧНО

а чо удобно. утром мы говорим, вечером они - ОТЛИЧНО

их спрашивать бессмысленно - сейчас они спят, а когда проснуцца, комменты уйдут далеко вверх - Махатма Бугоганди

а мы ещщё напишем - ОТЛИЧНО

хоть тысячу каментов-то мы им сделаем сейчас? - Махатма Бугоганди

а чего там делать - ОТЛИЧНО

:) - Florent Morel

http://ff.im/6umOQ - ОТЛИЧНО

для тех кто в контексте урбаншипа канешн - ОТЛИЧНО

All your base are belong to us - brain

дурик - ОТЛИЧНО

I am here Jedi master. - Steve de Mena

про этого Скобла статья в википедии есть. он евангелист. работал в мелкософте и в фаст компани. известный блоггер. - Махатма Бугоганди

кстати, можно обсудить вчерашник эпиктредик тут - ОТЛИЧНО

я уже спрашивал у Зайки, кого он сегодня сделал счастливым, но он молчит - Махатма Бугоганди

Митрич, этот скобл? http://be.wikipedia.org/wiki... Яндекс выдал - ОТЛИЧНО

here - Ahmet Soyata

точно! поэт, пародист, переводчик. известный блоггер. - Махатма Бугоганди

я вчера был в издательстве, с меня сведения об авторе просят. давайте, говорят, напишем, где учился, что генеральный директор. и что известный блоггер. - Махатма Бугоганди

пиши что генеральный блоггер - ОТЛИЧНО

Here - Kevin J Hatton

here I am - Vedran Rudelj

да ладно! - ОТЛИЧНО

чо ладно? - Махатма Бугоганди

blessed are the sick - fo sho

Бесков, не ругайся - Махатма Бугоганди

http://www.youtube.com/results... - Sinan İŞLER

мафия засыпает просыпаются гики - ОТЛИЧНО

а можно получить профессию известного блоггера? какие экзамены сдавать надо? какую специализацию лучше выбрать - микроблоггинг или аудиоподкастинг? - Махатма Бугоганди

*где можно получить профессию* - Махатма Бугоганди

экзамены надо не сдавать а принимать - ОТЛИЧНО

тогда все скажут вот блоггер и будут хлопать хлопать - ОТЛИЧНО

а кто сертификат дает, что экзамены принимать можно? - Махатма Бугоганди

настоящий генеральный блоггер можно афтограф и ещё экзамен хачу здать - ОТЛИЧНО

сам себе выдай что как маленький - ОТЛИЧНО

юноше, обдумывающему жутьё - ОТЛИЧНО

себе полайкай! (с) - Махатма Бугоганди

только щас понял, что мы в тредике у Скобла разговариваем. Скобла, привеееет! - ОТЛИЧНО

чо? - Лучше не знать

всё! - ОТЛИЧНО

ой чатег - payalnik

паяльник привеееет - ОТЛИЧНО

давай Скоблу сертификат выпишем? - Махатма Бугоганди

сертификат "русский блоггеръ"? - ОТЛИЧНО

известный блоггер - Махатма Бугоганди

пусть с али поразговаривает. будем щитать што экзамен и сертификат сразу опа и выпишем - ОТЛИЧНО

в псто призывается Фил, рисовать сертификат для Скобла - Махатма Бугоганди

Checked-in - Ozkan Altuner

согласен. экзамен принимает Зайка, сертификат рисует Фил. роли распределены. - Махатма Бугоганди

чорт. я опаздываю. убежал. сделайте, пожалуйста, тысячу. я буду иногда появляться. - Махатма Бугоганди

ок - ОТЛИЧНО

привет всем в этом чате - Химия и Жизнь

только до 7 тыщ ему всё равно не дорасти - Химия и Жизнь

привет этому чатегу. в прошлый раз не участвовала, но тут грех не поддержать. - Teinett

ээ, зачем второй чатик сделали? - Один дяденька

показать американцам, где раки зимуют - Химия и Жизнь

кстати, вы в курсе, что сегодня Россия играет с Аргентиной в Москве - отборочный матч на ЧМ-2010? сегодня в метро будет ЖЕЕЕЕЕЕЕСТЬ - Teinett

http://ff.im/6urbH - Скоблу привет - ОТЛИЧНО

пока они спят - nundesign

О, кукуц пришол - ОТЛИЧНО

сегодня в метро на машине не поеду ок - ОТЛИЧНО

and here! - Arnaud Fischer

Here! - Simone Tedeschi

а кто-нибудь хоть раз катался в метро на машине? в рекламе это показывают, а реально? хотя бы слышали что-нибудь про ваших знакомых? - Teinett

Фесйбук, где наши деньги? Мы ёрлиадоптеры, дай нам тоже бабла! - Химия и Жизнь

me too, me too! Facebook baaaad, friendfeed gooood!! :-) - Chris Pantazis

Скобла, защити наши интересы! - Химия и Жизнь

не не слышали - ОТЛИЧНО

О, греки пришли. Греки привееет! - ОТЛИЧНО

girls, send your photos here -> - Химия и Жизнь

let's chat!!!!1111111oneoneeleveneleven - Химия и Жизнь

но только чтоп по-русски - Химия и Жизнь

а ещё кстате можно всем дружно переименоваться в "Robert Scoble" - ОТЛИЧНО

тема - Химия и Жизнь

сиськам да! - ОТЛИЧНО

кстати, IM пропускает 90% сообщений. :( как вы следите за этим чатегом? - Teinett

МОНЕТИЗАЦИЯ - Махатма Бугоганди

по русски не катит, они там не поймут - ОТЛИЧНО

как как, из веба - ОТЛИЧНО

yeah - Amber, Random Time Lord

МОНЕТИЗИРУЙ @ ЛАЙКАЙ - ОТЛИЧНО

а работа стоит? - Teinett

Чятег вы молодцы! - ideali from iPhone

Guys, you russians are best! - Химия и Жизнь

yep! - ОТЛИЧНО

Австралийцы призываются в пост, где Бацек? - ideali from iPhone

уук - Химия и Жизнь

опять русские с балалайками наперевес - Один дяденька

руски блоггир привет - ОТЛИЧНО

с блаблаблайками - Химия и Жизнь

Митрич сегодня Скобл будет счастливым когда прознает силу Чятега. - ideali from iPhone

БАЛАЛАЙКАЙ - ОТЛИЧНО

Ждем на машабле статью "после слияния с фейсбуком в уютный френдфидик ломанулись русские" - $this->

это напоминает мне одну историю про Сосидко - Химия и Жизнь

не помню - ОТЛИЧНО

это что еще за на? - Непротивлени Злу Василием

I'm still here. You won't get trid of me that easily. - James Myatt

а ты не был на канале #2ch - Химия и Жизнь

это не на! это чятег! - ОТЛИЧНО

привет чятег! - Sergey Juchkov

here! - Emanuele Guicciardi

Старый добрый френдфидиик - ОТЛИЧНО

ыч - Billy

Фил по вашему указанию прибыл. Чо рисуем? - Ph

привент ивангелистам - Непротивлени Злу Василием

Скобла и Митрича - ОТЛИЧНО

менья зовут Иван Гелист - ОТЛИЧНО

И чо они должны делать? - Ph

тусня Скоблов - Непротивлени Злу Василием

а ты почитай тредик) - ОТЛИЧНО

Фил, рисуй все подряд :) - Sergey Juchkov

Скобла привеет! - ОТЛИЧНО

Вот еще, тредики читать! Я настоящий Friendfeed Addict - я пишу и рисую, а не читаю. - Ph

русиш фантастиш скоблз - Непротивлени Злу Василием

ок - ОТЛИЧНО

Скобл - это чувак с самым большим на данный момент количеством friends of в Френдфиде. - $this->

dı rırı dı rırı dı rırı cant touch this :P - Sinan İŞLER

сериаладдер штоле? - ОТЛИЧНО

ну значит мы пришли в нужное место - ОТЛИЧНО

чятег, превед! - тут не место для

Наскоблил себе друзей. - Ph

Руски френдфидик выходит на международную арену - ОТЛИЧНО

Have I accidentally clicked a translation button or something?!? - Nicola Quinn

массфрендер, масс его - Непротивлени Злу Василием

Скоблогер - ОТЛИЧНО

中文用户飘过 :) - Roger.Wei

транслейшен ему, смотрите - ОТЛИЧНО

^^^ гыгыгы - тут не место для

Дебютирует так сказать - Непротивлени Злу Василием

Учу албанскому - ОТЛИЧНО

from Russia with Love - $this->

hello - Ru Viljoen

privet - ОТЛИЧНО

интересно в каком словаре можно перевести с русского массфрендер - Непротивлени Злу Василием

На ифоне этот тредик не справляецо уже, и я перестал понимать кто чо говорит, когда кругом Скоблы. Чуть не проехал свою станцию. - ideali from iPhone

чего и добивались - ОТЛИЧНО

нет, не сериаладдер, просто популярный чел. - $this->

Придёт настоящий Скобл и зобанит всех! - ОТЛИЧНО

да не важно кто что говорит, Скоблись - Непротивлени Злу Василием

Грядёт настоящий Скобл - ОТЛИЧНО

от скобла слышу! - ОТЛИЧНО

Один чувак пришол в чятег и говорит я известный блоггер кто тут тру на первый второй рассчитайсь. А ему говорят чувак у тебя сертификат есть что ты известный блоггер? Вот иди Зайке экзамен сдай потом приходи. А Зайка стоит такой с топором и улыбается. Щас думает счастливым его сделаю. - Махатма Бугоганди

ты кого скоблом назвал? - Непротивлени Злу Василием

Yeah still kickin - Dobromir Hadzhiev

А другой чуваг пришол в чятег и говорит mi sami ne mestnie chekin pozhaluisto - ОТЛИЧНО

Holy moly - ◄ani625Ξ

I'm hererererererererere - FFTornado

всем учить русский! - Непротивлени Злу Василием

Скобла знаишь? - ОТЛИЧНО

Кого ищё знаишь? - ОТЛИЧНО

каждый день в зеркале вижу - Непротивлени Злу Василием

албанский - Sergey Juchkov

learn albanian! - Sergey Juchkov

oh, now it's all water, all water... - K.D.

i can speak albanian ok ok - ОТЛИЧНО

время от времени прорываются addicts забавно - Непротивлени Злу Василием

зобанить их - Непротивлени Злу Василием

@pozorro, на сертификат отдельно опубликуй, как нарисуешь! - nomoretears

они оскоблевают чо - ОТЛИЧНО

аддикты чятега - $this->

do you know the longest thread in friendfeed is in Russian?:)) link http://ff.im/2OQex - K.D.

если забанить - с кем трепаться? - Sergey Juchkov

http://friendfeed-media.com/a4d4902... – ы. %) - nomoretears

you lie - ОТЛИЧНО

Почему каждый использованием Роберт Scoble как зовут? - Matthew Horton

ЧО СКАЗАЛ САМ ПОНЯЛ ДА - ОТЛИЧНО

ololo - Непротивлени Злу Василием

Nice Russian Robert, Bulgarian isn't far off, be happy to teach you :-) - Dobromir Hadzhiev

it's very smal thread in russian - Sergey Juchkov

гугл транслейтерс камон - ОТЛИЧНО

Google Translate тебе в помощь - Непротивлени Злу Василием

Болгария привееет - ОТЛИЧНО

ё - Sergey Juchkov

here is the link http://ff.im/2OQex - K.D.

привет и добър ден :-) - Dobromir Hadzhiev

я так думаю веселье только начинается - ОТЛИЧНО

@dobata hello - Sergey Juchkov

партизанщина сплошная - Непротивлени Злу Василием

Здравей, България! Как ви времето? :) - nomoretears

линкер, все ещё впереди - Sergey Juchkov

@grantape да без разницы, nevermind - Непротивлени Злу Василием

Он придет и молча забанит всё. - Махатма Бугоганди

Вавилонская башня, realy ((= - brain

I'll still be around as long as this site exists. - Neurario

Polacy? - Sergey Juchkov

Да я полиглот прям - ОТЛИЧНО

Češi mají jedno? - Sergey Juchkov

хрена тебе. это я польский и чешский знаю :) - Sergey Juchkov

Here, Mostly! - Kreg Steppe

Хере Мостли - Непротивлени Злу Василием

@sergey morning @nomeratears мрачно...чакаме слънцето - Dobromir Hadzhiev

@Dobromir 早上好！：） - K.D.

wombata misserious - fo sho

ОМГ. На меня подписался китаец, который тут в чятеге разговаривает! Чувак, тебе зачем? - Махатма Бугоганди

он руски учит я думать - ОТЛИЧНО

here I am ! - Giovanni Cappellotto

各位早安 - Roger.Wei

вдруг и ты взаимностью ответишь... - Непротивлени Злу Василием

а иероглифы можно копипастить из википедии - ОТЛИЧНО

А, он сразу же и отписался. Сириалэддер? Может, у него скрипт? - Махатма Бугоганди

да можно из постов чувака повыше - Непротивлени Злу Василием

Доктор, у меня скрипт. - Махатма Бугоганди

приссал - ОТЛИЧНО

(я ушел на час) - Махатма Бугоганди

пей масло - Непротивлени Злу Василием

доктор, выньте скоблу - ОТЛИЧНО

汗，上面的Robert都是假的_ _!!! - K.D.

vi a ze chempionz - fo sho

亲眼目睹的事情，有一年过年，深圳梅林一个邮局，很多人排队寄钱回家，有个民工等着等着睡着了，抓在手上的几张钱撒了一地，保安就过去叫醒了他，让他小心钱，他说没办法，连续加了几个晚上的班，眼睛都睁不开了，保安马上和VIP室的 ... - Непротивлени Злу Василием

НЕПИЗДИ! - ОТЛИЧНО

Митрич, ему байки интересны. - Sergey Juchkov

I'm alive :) - Dimitar Tsonev

Скобалайзер мод он. - Непротивлени Злу Василием

Ехал Скобл через Скобл. Видит Скобл в Скобл Скобл. Сунул Скобл Скобл в Скобл. СКОБЛ СКОБЛ СКОБЛ СКОБЛ! - Кеноби с кемпа

what's with all the Russian? Can I have a large Calzone please? - MercyFlush

я запутался в своих двойниках. - Sergey Juchkov

终于发现了，这些人都是专业的”俄国闪客“！！！ - K.D.

ема, палево - Непротивлени Злу Василием

кальсоны себе сам надень федя - ОТЛИЧНО

就看这楼刷刷的升啊 - 拓 | wavesand

надо двойников забанить. пойду забаню - ОТЛИЧНО

Большой Калзоне и счёт товарищу! - Один дяденька

Скобл сломал Фэйсбук! У меня пароль не принимается и не ресетится. :( - nomoretears

моя китайская сущность скобла, ты о чём там иероглифируешь? - ОТЛИЧНО

страна СКОБЛЯНДИЯ - Непротивлени Злу Василием

Russians! - Jacque

Аре югангстерс? Нот ве а рашенз ага ага - ОТЛИЧНО

King Midas 2.0 — breaks every startup he touches - fo sho

БЛЯЯЯЯЯЯЯЯЯЯЯЯЯЯЯЯяяяя - brain

Линкер - не надо - Sergey Juchkov

чего не надо? - ОТЛИЧНО

о, наконец-то просыпаются. "рашнз! рашнз!" - кричали они и прибегали смотреть и тыкать пальцем. - Teinett

НЕ НАДО - Непротивлени Злу Василием

Türkler sohbet! - Sergey Juchkov

ещё чуть чуть и нас по телевизору покажут! Течкранч привеееет! - ОТЛИЧНО

может им еще вприсядку станцевать? - Непротивлени Злу Василием

главное не заблудиться по дороге - Sergey Juchkov

и медведя показать? - Непротивлени Злу Василием

НАДО - ОТЛИЧНО

VODKА PUTIN MATRESHKA - Непротивлени Злу Василием

просто НЕ НАДО - Sergey Juchkov

MEDVEDEV - Sergey Juchkov

HE HADO! - ОТЛИЧНО

BALA-LIKE - Один дяденька

SGUSSCHYONKA is the brand new real thing - fo sho

Будет ли комментарий самого Роберта по поводу творящегося здесь пиздеца? - Никита Бегун

MEDBEDEB - ОТЛИЧНО

BANYA - Непротивлени Злу Василием

EDuHAR POCCuR - ОТЛИЧНО

SNEGUROCHKA - Sergey Juchkov

DED MOROZ - Sergey Juchkov

TETRIS! - ОТЛИЧНО

DEAD MOROZ - Sergey Juchkov

TOPOL - Непротивлени Злу Василием

BALET - Непротивлени Злу Василием

TOPOL-M - Sergey Juchkov

CCCP - ОТЛИЧНО

Пользуясь случаем хочу передать привет своей маме. Hi, mommy! - Кеноби с кемпа

SATANA-22 - fo sho

Wow I was so confused before I started mousing over your names guys. - Neurario

Теперь в подарок иностранцам дарят не только воду и матрешек, но и балалайки с ГУСЛЯМИ. - Teinett

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... - Sergey Juchkov

Скобл хотел видеть аддиктов? Скобл их получил. - Ph

Yes I have revealed your secret mwahaha. =) - Neurario

Введем новое слово в обиход инстранцев: GUSLI - Teinett

Такой сиртификат пойдет? http://friendfeed.com/pozorro... - Ph

чятег!?? - Ня!

замолчали чото аборигены - ОТЛИЧНО

скоро тыща каментов - ОТЛИЧНО

кто посмел замолчать? - Sergey Juchkov

it's hide time. Enjoy yourself. - Luca Sofri

Эй! Разбудите там главного Скобла, у него в камментах русские! - Ph

ТРУ РАШН СКОБЛЗ - Непротивлени Злу Василием

@Лёля, нет, только Скобл - Sergey Juchkov

КОМЕНТЬ@ХАЙДЬ - Непротивлени Злу Василием

404 других пользователя/-ей оценили этот материал - Sergey Juchkov

hide,hide,hide,hide,hide,hide,hide,hide,hide,hide,hide,hide,hide,hide,hide,hide,now~~ You guys are playing with Robert's name :( - K.D.

А есть же игра такая Скобл, не? - ОТЛИЧНО

No - Matthew Horton

hide yourself K.D. :) - ОТЛИЧНО

wow LONGEST post I've seen on ff 8) ...checking in too! - 'Like' robot (frɐnc)

ОУ НОУ - Непротивлени Злу Василием

Дайте им ссылку на лонгест пост. А то эти ламеры думают на этот. - Sergey Juchkov

This post is goes to hided posts folder - Jacque

панислаась! - ОТЛИЧНО

@ocurro, it's not longest. Longest is 7k comments long. %) - nomoretears

на самом деле они нам наш чятег засрут если ссылки давать - ОТЛИЧНО

Robert Scoble, Robert Scoble and 404 other Robert Scoble liked this - brain

проснулись черти - Sergey Juchkov

тогда не надо давать :) - Sergey Juchkov

Crazy russians! - sottovoce

да пофиг что думают, каждому не расскажешь - ОТЛИЧНО

ок - Sergey Juchkov

ИХ ЖЕ ТУТ ТЫЩИ! - ОТЛИЧНО

Это хромой. Вы знаете, это, верно? - Matthew Horton

it's small post. - Sergey Juchkov

ok - ОТЛИЧНО

I still love it. - Paul Kinlan

i just unhide, and I see the true Robert is coming :) - K.D.

@ocurro Check in: http://friendfeed.com/ideali... - post with 7020 comments. Russian comments. - sottovoce

strange thread. what went wrong? - massagin

WE ARE ALL THE TRUE ROBERT - ОТЛИЧНО

@Robert Scoble sorry. Уже спалил. - sottovoce

сам ты странже - ОТЛИЧНО

schizofriendic delirifeed - massagin

The cake is a lie - brain

lol: 7020 coments - longest post. - Sergey Juchkov

Доктор, я Скобл. - ОТЛИЧНО

НАПИШИ ЗДЕСЬ ДВЕ ТЫСЯЧИ КАМЕНТОВ И ФРЕНДФИДИК ОСТАНЕТСЯ БЕСПЛАТНЫМ!!! - ОТЛИЧНО

Следующий! - Ph

а вот если китайский френдфидик придет в наш чатег будет уже не так весело - Непротивлени Злу Василием

Интересно - топикстартер подписался на получение комментов на почту или нет? - Sergey Juchkov

Серьезно. Качество> количестве - Matthew Horton

Gotcha! Scoble's discovered his nature - this situation looks much alike Agent Smith's multiplication )) - massagin

hide time... enjoy - Armando Grati

НА АЙФОН - ОТЛИЧНО

^^^^^^ like - Sergey Juchkov

АГЕНТЫ СКОБЛЫ - ОТЛИЧНО

all your base are belong to us - 13pm

Scobble Agents - ОТЛИЧНО

怎样用假名的呀？ - 陈浩小贤

Тема эта должность была ясна. Давайте не будем принимать его. - Matthew Horton

怎样用假名的呀! - ОТЛИЧНО

ЭТО ХАЙД ТАЙМ - Непротивлени Злу Василием

Чо пытается нам донести некто Хортон? - ОТЛИЧНО

here i am and using the all new add comment feature :) - Ali

НЕ ПОНИМАЮ - Непротивлени Злу Василием

что-то о качестве и количестве - Непротивлени Злу Василием

о должностях ещё - ОТЛИЧНО

ну раз просит не принмать, не будем отказывать, чтож - ОТЛИЧНО

и всё типа по теме - Sergey Juchkov

тема ясна чо - ОТЛИЧНО

Here I am - wolly

The theme of the post was clear. Let us not take it. - brain

Фигасе! ) - 4shir from fftogo

Word. - Charles LePage

^^^ оценил/а - Кеноби с кемпа

Сочи привеееет! - ОТЛИЧНО

@matthewhorton -What do you want to say? - Sergey Juchkov

@matthewhorton write in english pls, i don't understand your russian - Непротивлени Злу Василием

up^^ - FIGHT DA POWAH!

i don't understand russian - Sergey Juchkov

Таким образом весь русский френдфидик перезнакомится. Тусовочка лопнет - ОТЛИЧНО

ЧМОГЕ ЧАТЕГГГ!!!!! - Двадцать

that thread is crazzy : P - 'Like' robot (frɐnc)

Yes please to Google Translate integration. - Kol Tregaskes

merde alors! - Tom Horn

\o/ - Jemm

http://friendfeed.com/search... - Sergey Juchkov

наивные. гугл транслейт ага ага - ОТЛИЧНО

пусть переведёт "чятег" - ОТЛИЧНО

какая гугля транслята? - Sergey Juchkov

я видимо так и не узнаю чо имел ввиду Хортекс - Непротивлени Злу Василием

http://translate.google.com - Он работает лучше, чем вы думаете. - Matthew Horton

Google Scooble - ОТЛИЧНО

ОЙ - ОТЛИЧНО

Hi, Steve - Непротивлени Злу Василием

will echo have this? - Mark Essel

@matthewhorton мы знаем, что он работает плохо (а теперь переведи себе обратно, дурик:)) - ОТЛИЧНО

@matthewhorton давай все же на английском, моя твоя не понимай - Непротивлени Злу Василием

Это делает работу плохо, но работает достаточно хорошо, чтобы понять. - Matthew Horton

а давайте агитировать алиенов в одноклассники и вконтакт? - ОТЛИЧНО

*waiting for real Robert Scoble* - nomoretears

@matthewhorton speak englich please - Sergey Juchkov

we don't understand your barbaric language! pls speak English here - 13pm

какая тема чятега? - Двадцать

}{O}{O CMешНo - ОТЛИЧНО

I'm real!!!! - Sergey Juchkov

I will gladly. Robert is asleep, I'm sure. Now please stop this. People are getting very annoyed. :-) - Matthew Horton

Скоблятина - Непротивлени Злу Василием

И общение с иными мирами френдфидика - Непротивлени Злу Василием

если анноит - вали отсюда мудак. - Sergey Juchkov

I don't know if I'm a true FF addict, but I'm here nonetheless ;) - Peter Kruit

О как! Кого-то уже забодало. - Teinett

а eщё мoжнo мeнять английскиe бyквы в русских словах (фиг nepeвeдeт) - ОТЛИЧНО

Так, не надо тут на алиенов бычить - ОТЛИЧНО

@Matthew Horton НИВАЗМОЖНА - Непротивлени Злу Василием

red dawn - bopm

I sense the inspiration for an April Fool's Day gag... - Neurario

Ехал Скобл через Скобл, видит Скобл в реке Скобл, Скобл Скобл Скобл Скобл... - 13pm

@matthewhorton Just hide post :) Use the power of frf) - ОТЛИЧНО

А вообще, кажется, не хватает еще парочки Хортонов для полного счастья - 13pm

Задолбало? Дави на "блок"! - Двадцать

НА АЛИЕНОВ НЕ БЫЧЕТЬ - Непротивлени Злу Василием

АЛИЕНЫ НАШИ ДРУЗЬЯ - ОТЛИЧНО

Wow! - Вело из нержавеющей стали

unicode power! - bopm

МЫ ПРИШЛИ С МИРОМ - ОТЛИЧНО

BALALAIKA POWER - Я б в стагнации помéрла

наконецто алиены видят не кракозябры а чтото неведомое хохо - ОТЛИЧНО

Привет, кстати. - Я б в стагнации помéрла

babushka force! - bopm

кревед - bopm

КРЕВЕДКИ! МЫ ВАС НЕ ТРОНЕМ! СОЛДАТ РЕБЕНКА НЕ ОБИДИТ! - Двадцать from IM

11 друзей Скобла - ОТЛИЧНО

Таша! - Кеноби с кемпа

@matthewhorton let me hug you, we are friends, we do no wrong, juss bring happiness to people around, join us in rejoice! - fo sho

КЕНОБИ! - Я б в стагнации помéрла

979! - ОТЛИЧНО

oh those Russians. They turn every topic into "chateg". - 13pm

check - Marco Fabbri

Тэш, я скучаю! - Кеноби с кемпа

chyateg - ОТЛИЧНО

Это не настоящий чатик - Anton Volnuhin

Ты не чатег! - и ничего общего

@Maieutic Rejoice of what? - Matthew Horton

CHYATEQ - ОТЛИЧНО

PUTEN WATCH YOU - Непротивлени Злу Василием

and don't believe these Scobles, they're not real. But we are - 13pm

у нас в ебурге солнышко наконецто - Двадцать from IM

millomì - Francesco Cugurra

@juchkov, дизреспект. -1. - nomoretears

Haha, I /was/ beginning to wonder when Scoble had started speaking Russian - Ahsan Ali aka. Slick

But HE IS RUSSIAN - 13pm

ugh, Мы все знаем, вы все фальшивые. - Matthew Horton

Девочки приходите в чятег - ОТЛИЧНО

I'm here! - ★ Soner Gönül

Они выучили слово «chateg»! Чуваки, еще несколько тысяч комментариев, и они научаться великому и могучему - fxf

Мэтью нас раскусил! - Кеноби с кемпа

Да! Чтоже делать! - ОТЛИЧНО

Я ТОЖЕ СКОББЛ - Химия и Жизнь

юхууу!!!))) а если еще весь чатег перечитают!!!! - и ничего общего

ДАВАЙТЕ ПАНИКОВАТЬ - Непротивлени Злу Василием

KGB WATCH CHATEG - fxf

ПАНИКААААА - ОТЛИЧНО

ААААААААААААААААААААААААААААААААААА - и ничего общего

START PANIC IMMEDIATELY! - Химия и Жизнь

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!PAAAAAAAAAAANNNNIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIICCCCCCCCCCCCCCC!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! - ОТЛИЧНО

LET'S PANIC! Uiiiiii!! - Кеноби с кемпа

chateg panic! - Sergey Juchkov

SCOBBLE FACEBOOK KGB CHATEG - Химия и Жизнь

Don't believe Horton. We're real. And he's fake. - 13pm

CHATEG HAS U!!! - и ничего общего

Тыща каментов ок! - ОТЛИЧНО

Checking in. - Robert Miller

А А А А А А А А А А А А А А А А А А А А А А А А А А А А А А А А А А А А А А А А А А А А А А А А - Химия и Жизнь

Checking out! - Sergey Juchkov

Hi, Robert! - Непротивлени Злу Василием

Регистрируемся на рейс. Всем Чекин! - ОТЛИЧНО

PRIVYEEET ROOOBIII - ОТЛИЧНО

поскоблите чатег - Химия и Жизнь

фигота какаято - ОТЛИЧНО

Ладно, я только в нетрезвом состоянии уделять достаточно внимания, недостаточно для того, чтобы верить или укусить вас - Matthew Horton

Hello chateg! - Sergey Juchkov

давайте лучше поговорим о чом нибудь хорошем - ОТЛИЧНО

LOL Robert. :) - Robert Miller

чтобы верить или укусить вас - ОТЛИЧНО

IN SOVIET RUSSIA CHATEG PANICS YOU! - Двадцать

Hortex не надо меня кусать - Непротивлени Злу Василием

опять Хортон тутфту несет непонятную - Sergey Juchkov

POSKROBLITE CHATEG - и ничего общего

укусить нас - Sergey Juchkov

как там Аскарчик, протрезвел ли после вчерашнего эфира? - ОТЛИЧНО

ВСЕ ЯСНО МЭТЬЮ ПЬЯН - Непротивлени Злу Василием

пьяный он видите ли. алкаш. - Sergey Juchkov

пусть у русских пить учится - Sergey Juchkov

а, вспомнил, игра называлась Скрабл - ОТЛИЧНО

VODKA DRINK DRINK DEBOSH - fxf

АЛИЕНЫ НЕДРУЖЕСТВЕННЫ! ХОТЯТ КУСАТЬ НАС! - Химия и Жизнь

и работать после этого - Sergey Juchkov

Robert Scrabble - Химия и Жизнь

Кто притворяется говорящим по-русски Меттью Хортоном? - Двадцать

@Matthew Horton http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_7xzzEA... - Кеноби с кемпа

НЕТ НЕ Я - ОТЛИЧНО

ВЕРЬ! @ КУСАЙ! - fxf

НЕ Я - Sergey Juchkov

Matthew Horton, please stop drinking in chateg - Непротивлени Злу Василием

НЕТ ТЫ - ОТЛИЧНО

Ладно, водка хороша. Я люблю пиво. Сталь Резерв FTW! - Matthew Horton

HE Я - и ничего общего

Америца сейчас вся спит. Где-то в 17:00 по москве там начнется рабочий день. Вот тогда нас всех запалят. :) - $this->

beer - good! - Sergey Juchkov

ГазМяс! - ОТЛИЧНО

НЕТ МЫ - 13pm

у нас есть еще 3 часа - Sergey Juchkov

Это он по сталь резерв какую-то марку подразумевает? - Непротивлени Злу Василием

даже два - ОТЛИЧНО

МЫ — МЯСО! МЫ – ГАЗ! - fxf

тоже ничего так :) - Sergey Juchkov

ЭТОТ ЧАТЕГ ОБОБРЕН УПЯЧКОЙ - Непротивлени Злу Василием

надо притаиться, а потом КАААК ПРЫГНУТЬ! - Химия и Жизнь

кукуц пригласи скобла в яндекс - ОТЛИЧНО

ПОПЯЧТЕСЬ @ КУСАЙТЕСЬ - и ничего общего

всем лежать два саса!!!!! - Sergey Juchkov

Robert Scoble has subscribed to Robert Scoble's feed. Robert Scoble, Robert Scoble and Robert Scoble liked it. - 13pm

зачем он в яндексе? скоблить будет? - Sergey Juchkov

нет слов! - Maria Podolyak

надо призвать Полумрака в чятег - ОТЛИЧНО

Ready to serve! - Anders Dahlberg from iPhone

зачем - Химия и Жизнь

3 часа за скобление! Да вы оскоблитесь! - Teinett

у меня чатик неимоверно тормозит - Химия и Жизнь

ВАС ВСЕХ ЗАБАНЯТ111 - 13pm

Я потерял интерес в данный момент. Я буду скрывать, как и любой другой. Это хромой, что вы захватили этот. Пивные правила. Спокойной ночи. :-) - Matthew Horton

скоблите, скоблите - они золотые - и ничего общего

I am here.. - Burak S. Vanlı

Да, Мэтью, это хромой. Мы старались все скрыть, но ты пришел и обнаружил это. Прости. Таковы уж пивные правила. - 13pm

here too :) - Ali Bahşişoğlu

Buradayım :) - Burçak Çubukçu

опять алиены - Химия и Жизнь

Все, надоело. Когда настоящий скобл придет - скажите. - Ph

Вы все упоротые! Вас всех забанят!!! - и ничего общего

Метью родил новый мем, не подозревая о том. Это хромой, но таковы Пивные правила. - Двадцать from IM

@burcakcubukcu merhaba - Sergey Juchkov

Рекламная пауза - ОТЛИЧНО

Мем-хуем - Я б в стагнации помéрла

это хромой! get in da car! - Химия и Жизнь

I'm here from Italy :) - Ale♫nastrorosa

ola - Durukan Duru

пойду пообедаю что-ли пока скобл не проснулся - Sergey Juchkov

Hi, Alessandra - Непротивлени Злу Василием

BEER RULES - и ничего общего

Hi, Durukan - Непротивлени Злу Василием

hello Italy! - Sergey Juchkov

Hi Roberts! - 13pm

Hi Robert :)) - Fatih Küçükbaltacı

Пойду покурю что-ли пока скобл не проснулся - ОТЛИЧНО

Anseo - Ken Power from iPhone

Говорят, тут всех банит Скобл. Скобл проснулся и боится правды!!! - ОТЛИЧНО

Hey Robert! - Berk D. Demir

Hi my name is Rasmus and I'm an addict - Rasmus Lauridsen

Скобл - Мицгол! - ОТЛИЧНО

Hi Rasmus! - Кеноби с кемпа

Да сражу же видно кто тут настоящщие аддикты - Двадцать from IM

CICITMVI - FlyMeToTheMoon

CHO? - Непротивлени Злу Василием

СИСИтмВИ - fxf

про сиси я понял, а дальше? - Непротивлени Злу Василием

всех не забанишь! - Антискобл

WAKE UP SCOBLE - Непротивлени Злу Василием

ну что, ЭПИГ ЧЯТЕГ или день пропал? - Двадцать from IM

CHATEG AGAINST BLOCKING RUSSIAN SCOBLES! - Антискобл

window, over wing please :P - Yunus Tunak

SCHITO? - Двадцать from IM

More than a friend of FriendFeed, was starting to use it as a full lifestreaming platform and loved it. It's made a whole lot of other sites make sense. - achean

Hi, I'm Bette... I don't know if I'm an addict, but I can't stay away... I keep checking, just to see if something's new... and I cry if I get no responses to a post. Is that addictive behavior? :D - Bette Cooper

балалайка - Нервный гик

His name is Robert Scoble! His name is Robert Scoble! His name is Robert Scoble! - Я б в стагнации помéрла

водка - Нервный гик

матрёшка - Нервный гик

ПОМНИМ! СКОРБИМ! - Антискобл

матрёшка - Нервный гик

нет, не так - Нервный гик

... и скоблим тоже... - mikolka

VODKA - Нервный гик

SPUTNIK - Нервный гик

PERESTROYKA - Нервный гик

PUTIN - Нервный гик

буржуинцы начинают просыпаться. Я начинаю паниковать/ - Двадцать from IM

CHATEG COMES WITH PEACE - Антискобл

мы пришли с миром - Нервный гик

самовар - и ничего общего

was that really Robert Scoble ? or hacked ? - и ничего общего

No. Impersonated. By several. - Dennis Jernberg

NAZDOROVIE! - Двадцать from IM

Кстати, если писать что-нибудь типа «Апруе ылцц оррке валдов», то особой разницы они не заметят. - Я б в стагнации помéрла

^^^ LIKE - и ничего общего

++ - Я б в стагнации помéрла

Апруе ылцц оррке валдов! Апруе ылцц оррке валдов! Апруе ылцц оррке валдов! - fxf

Бедный, бедный гугл-транслейт. - fxf

Yup, I have blocked all the impersonators now. You will still see them, but I don't see them and they no longer can comment on any of my items. - Robert Scoble

Present. - Dean

Yep Addict here :) - Russell G

Check :) in - Connee

addicted. - Miketrevis

горшочек, вари! - напряженная елка

ci penso :D - tiracconto

Checked. - Smeerch

Here! - Tiziano Caviglia

Пуськи бятые! Глокая имериалистическая куздра штеко будланула бокра, и теперь курдячит бокренка, а вы тут чятег развели! - напряженная елка

vabbe', eccomi - punkwithgun

+1 - Borgognoni

@scobleizer As far as I can see you have blocked not only the impersonators (who renamed themselves back the moment they found out you have a problem with this) but most of the folks who chatted there. - Махатма Бугоганди

@meatreach yes, see next thread. Scobble becomes anti-Russian. - Never Impersonate You

here too:) waiting for my mission :) - abdellah

Please only comment here in english, so everyone can understand what you write. The thread was started in english... - Flynn (Michael A. Volz)

Here - PiccoloImprenditore from iPhone

Maxatma: well, that's just too bad. I speak English. Sorry. People who don't speak English really don't have any business commenting on one of my items, except in rare cases. - Robert Scoble

Why you, Robert Scoble, don't block users from Spain or Italy? China or arabic countries? Those users that comments on non-English languages? - Never Impersonate You

I'm an addict so I'm here. - Francesco Passannanti

@Robert, in fact they do speak English. But they also do make fun of Friendfeed and everything that's going on there. You can block them or take part in this fun. ;) - Махатма Бугоганди

Epic SUCCESS - Mark

I'm here! - Bastian

Here! - Martynas

Go & Come ! - JohnDu™

here i am - Howard Trickey

Use it every day. - Nils Sandin

check - arnaldostream

Very nice topic. - sottovoce

кисо куку ;) - тут не место для

Maxatma: I have enough noise in my life. I don't need to have more. - Robert Scoble

Epic success in banning innocent people - Never Impersonate You

Checking in - Johnny Chadda

What if I'm only a friendfeed addict in my current personality? My other personalities don't even use computers, apparently. - MλTT

@scoblezier, really? Why this census of the population is not noise? - Never Impersonate You

Never: no, it's not noise. What's noise is going off topic on a thread. I'm very close to blocking you too. Keep it up. - Robert Scoble

here! - Nilesh

Addicted but it's a love/hate kinda thing. - sean808080

Here! - Danli

I prefer FF over twitter and facebook, but all my friends are on twitter and/or facebook. Maybe facebook will get it right this time now that it has acquired FF. If they simplify it a bit more without removing functionality. Then I would spend a bit more time on FB. Lets hope all goes well with the merger. If not I'm jumping ship and going over to Google Wave. oh wait, I'm going to go with Google Wave regardless! ;-) - Captain Jack

Bu arada Russian friends Turkiye'ye selamlar gonderiyor. - ideali

Red 5, standing by - Danny F Santos

ideali: can you speak English please? Thanks. - Robert Scoble

Yep - Giorgio Burlini from iPhone

for 6 words, this post sure got a lot of mileage. What now Scoble wan kenobi? - shaun mclane

Oh, check FF.. doh FarceBook... my fingers are crossed in hope. - Greig

Me! Me! - DGentry

@scobleizer i can speak english and i beg you to remove bann from all russian friendfeeders, because we are all from it-community, working in internet companies and we came with peace, you asked for feedback from friendfeed addicts — we show you how really it is being frf addicts, we change names, we chat, we making things that are not serious. Why so serious? Unlock people, they are not bots, they just playing the game of real addicts and have fun. Common. - ideali

shaun: I started this post to demonstrate that a lot of us are still here and aren't likely to leave. At least not quickly. So, life goes on after FriendFeed gets acquired by Facebook. Point proved. - Robert Scoble

Robert He says ; Our Russian friends say to hello to Turkey - Osman Üngür

Osman :) - Ergin

Beyler, bana bir sey anlatin, bu kadar ciddi olmaya ne gerek var? Translation: Guys, why so serious? - ideali

Good morning, Robert! - Hector

here - Maitani

ideali: have them send email to scobleizer@gmail.com and I'll unblock anyone who says they weren't impersonating me. - Robert Scoble

Hector: good morning! I need coffee. - Robert Scoble

@robert yes they (we will) stay here, I think tat the migration process will take time and after reading @Paul Bucheit, I think that what we all are trying to get even if we don't say it explicitly is to preserve a kind of intimacy (beeing a part of the Huge faceBook community) don't mean that FF community will preserve their intimacy, why should a community be a plan one, (let imagine a community as a set of sub-community) that all. - abdellah

Wow!! So many likes and comments; is it a record Rob? - میر «عرفان» موسوی

@scobleizer thank you, for understanding. be cool, guys we just want have fun here a little. Take care. - ideali

K - OakleighVermont

Er-fun, This is the largest list of comments I've ever seen on FF... but no idea if it's a record or not - Roy Herrod

@harfehesaab, it's far from record - напряженная елка

whenever you're ready - patrickdh

the record is in our russian community, guyz. - ideali

Roy: it's not even close to being a record. It's nice to see that there's still a nice group hanging out here, though. - Robert Scoble

Totally addicted - Fernando Parra

"fax a cat" has 711 likes : http://friendfeed.com/funny-p... anything else top that? Is there a ff record page? - JSNFLMNG

so is this part of the regular Scoble-cull? :p - Iwan

here - Andrea Contino

totally addicted - zsafwan 

Yes We Do :) - Jan Friman

right here, right now - Hakan İyice

@Iwan --hahaha "we could be so lucky" lol - JSNFLMNG

There is no addiction, only habitual sin :) - Mike Shields

@harfehesaab Уes, it is a Яecord for sиre ! .) - obz

Here - Chris Riewe

Just for the record, yes and loving the "add comment" at the bottom.. it was a long way to scroll back up otherwise. - Rhys Amos from iPod

I'm here captain! ;-) We may be on a dying ship, but I'm glad to have sailed with her. :-) - darnell from BuddyFeed

http://friendfeed.com/sonergo... True FRİENDFEED addict! - ★ Soner Gönül

Хотела остаться в стороне. Но тут такая "пьянка"! Всем привет в этом чатиге:) - Неформат

I feel like such a slacker checking in about 12 hours later. You caught me the one night I go offline early. - Rob Diana

Present And Accounted For - Roberto Bonini

check - Mark Zip

I do. - dstamand

Slow response from me, but still ... - Christian Bolstad

@Robert RE "I have enough noise in my life. I don't need to have more" - isn't it a lot of noise having 26K subscriptions and 46K subscribers on your frf account? I'm kind of surprised - you create a community that large around yourself, yet when you see a new and unusual activity you just block it right away. - Махатма Бугоганди

Good morning from the east coast! - Domingo Rogers

Maxatma: when people impersonate me I have no patience. Sorry. - Robert Scoble

present and accounted for - Shawn Roos

Checking in. - Warner Crocker

here - Tracy Benham

I am in, of course!! - Ronald

Still figuring it out, but liking it - Rob Fisher

'morning and checking in from Washington, DC. - Ken & Kiyomi

Here. - Joe Bonner from fftogo

Red october checking in - James Tenniswood

@Robert, patience? Who's talking about patience? It's about curiosity, not patience. When something strange and unusual happens around you, you can either try to stop it or try to see what it can develop into. You choose to stop - and it stopped. Well, not stopped - just moved to some other place. And do you really know what it was and what it was about to bring you? - Махатма Бугоганди

Pow! - Rolf Schewe

+1 to Maxatma :) - Connee

why so nervous? - Connee

Глядико, чатег) - Кто здесь?

Late to the party but here all the same. - Pete Gilbert

+1 to Maxatma too - Shareli

оО - Monk Albino

Oh Captain, My Captain! - Dan van Moll

yes sir. - James Macgill

please don't go - Zach Scott

here i am! - barbarars

yo ;) - guruvan (Rob Nelson)

check. - Brian Sloane

hi. i can get a note from my wife and kids. - Thom Kennon

here - saskia

I love the fact that I can't read a good amount of the comments here :) FFAddicts without Borders - guruvan (Rob Nelson)

Check - Marco Massarotto from iPhone

да, чатег однако ) - Pavel Rogozhin

here - ahmet bulent

as requested - Al Pasternak

in the process of getting addicted...yo - Chad Gesser from BuddyFeed

Yo addiction as per requested Sir. - Zax Stevens

ну пиздец понеслась - Dolgiy-Rapoport

Here.. yay! - seda irengü özmen

Check - Eric Johnson

There!, Am I wrong or they added "add comment button" at the end of comments? - Antonio Correnti

Guilty as charged :). Hope FF will continue to kick ass, even after being acquired by Facebook. - alfred westerveld

I don't think of it as an addiction though I do get severe withdrawal symptoms for taking a long hiatus.. hmm - Wang Yip

@Паша, чятег был утром, но потом проснулся топикстартер, пришел и молча забанил всех™. - Махатма Бугоганди

here - timepilot

hola - spiros

Hello! - Chris Luckhardt

Yes sir. - Vinay | विनय

howdy - Brandon Ball

My middle name is belated. - Benjamin Taylor

Do I need to state my first name (Hi Robert - My name is Laurie and I am a friendfeed addict! "Hi Laurie" :)))) - Laurie DesAutels

I'm here - Michael_techie

I'm getting there. - Spencer

Sup? - Brent - Loving Life

word. - Ron Wening

Japan here! はい！ - Rick Cogley

here - imran

not sure if I commented already but I will add onto the pile. - beersage

pick me! pick me! pick me! - .i.m.a.r.s.o.r.a.m.a.

oups !!! - Polluxe

comment number 1287... - Yann Ropars

This is trying to become the longest thread in the history of FF, eh? Nice show of hands, definitely good numbers! - Bora Zivkovic

Wut? Oh, HERE! - Noah Gray

Last, but not least - Paul Brannan

Here I am from Italy :-) - catepol from iPhone

from Italy too ;-) - Andrea Colaianni

I;'m currently in Rome, Italy - Danica Radovanovic

Nobody from Russia here already? - Кто это тут у нас

Here I am. - Evan Travers

Addiction came in again, I raise my hand. - ElijahBailey-Zu of FF <0,

Here - and hoping that any changes here are for the better - that nothing goes backwards. - Courtney Engle

check - Dinc Arslan's Alter Ego

Walmartization of friendfeed now in progress - imran

whaddup - Marco(aureliusmaximus)

Если все забанены, то хто ето пишетъ? - Кто здесь?

Present - TheDiva Rockin

Hello and goodbye. - Carlton Prest

Party's not over yet? :) - SK is in fucking love.

I'm here, until the bitter end :p - Patrik Johansson

Well, there is another party here in Chinese and Persian languages :)) Welcome joining! http://ff.im/6uezi - K.D.

Here we are! ;) - Сергей Мартынов

Большой чятег, однако! :] - Сергей Мартынов

Nice to see so many languages. - E-Advocate Network

Better late than never! - Sherry BakerBrio

Here! - David Sharpe

I'm here - Amit Morson

here. - felix

what was that again? - Karthik Sridhar

Ой, да это маленький чятег оказывается. 1300 всего. У нас-то 7000 было :) - Сергей Мартынов

Hey, this chatroom appeared to be quite small - only 1300 messages :) We've done 7000 in our Russian thread ;) - Сергей Мартынов

Present. I'm here in Chile. - Roberto Arancibia

@Сережа Мэ Come to join our chatroom:) http://ff.im/6uezi - K.D.

In the house. Long live FriendFeed. - Joel Zehring

presente! - Alex Sauceda

yo - Jeremiah Owyang

What is this 'Russian' thread you speak of? ;) - JSNFLMNG

It was already mentioned here - check this out: http://friendfeed.com/search... - Сергей Мартынов

@yogar thanx, I'm coming to visit you ;) - Сергей Мартынов

Im back! - Lee Kent

Present from Romania - cata b

Present. - xero

İşsiz güçsüz bir sürü adam işte. Dağılın olm. (No, I'm not addicted, I'm just watching) - ilter

Тук! - Valentine Valov

I'm always login in friendfeed - Edgar Rodríguez from iPhone

ehy guys! - marc

me! - prezzemolo

Greetings from Bulgaria! - Valentine Valov

:O) - Jeanne

I'm here all the way from South Africa! I dig this service and I'm not quite ready to give it up. Regardless of the news about the acquisition, this remains an awesome service. - Paul Jacobson

I'm new to ff but find more valuable information here than anywhere else! - Janet Crance

Hello! Here I am! - Maria Gabriella Quadri

Oh hello there! - Jaremy Rich

Here - 1Co from iPhone

+1 - gerri A. from iPhone

Present! - April Buchheit

here too - Flavio

here - Ruchira S. Datta

not addicted yet :) - vinod

presente - Eric Gagne

yo - Thomas Hawk

Not addicted to Friendfeed too, but I really like it. More than twitter, perhaps because of the overview on smalltalk. - Melanie Langenhan

Me! - Satya

Here! - Anne Bouey

Me too! - Tudor Bosman from Android

ok, now what? shall we dance for you? - Trent Shields

You can dance if you want to. - Neal Jansons from IM

Check - پلانگتن

I probably qualify. - Lindsay is in 20-ten

Count me in - Andrei M. Marinescu

I'm here. Still :) - Svartling

yes, we can dance, we can dance, everybody look at your hands! - .LAG liked that

if i leave a comment means I am an addict? - Nikos Anagnostou

1360 is that all out of a so called million hmmm ... must be more like 100,000 users in reality then - Thomas Power

if if I "liked" - does it make me an FF addict ? - Peter Dawson

aye! - vino

I am not a true addict but I checked in to be part of the record :) - میر «عرفان» موسوی

I find FF the most useful of my social networks. - Leigh Marriner

Checkin in - Bryan R. Adams

Got other things to do too :) - Richard Hill

hmmm.. - Krishnamoorthy

Addict? Neh. Loyal, now-more-than-a-little-concerned user? Yeh! - Anthony Citrano

Well, sure. Yeah, fine. Count me in. - Jason Pontin

Just arrived. Is this the way to the next cliff? - goodmachine

+1 - Liviu Barbat

Here - Graham Bunting

Guilty - Ian Wright from BuddyFeed

Still? - Tyler Hurst

a little bit. - Vincent van Wylick

what for? - سیدعلی‏سنائی

Hollah - Greg Santos

I'm Thaths and I am a FF addict! - Thaths

Check me in... - Alb.

present. - Marco

Check. - vic from iPhone

burada ;) hier, here,voilà... - Bengi Kılıç

Present - Dave Martin

Here :) - Holly Rae

I'm late. But Mom got 75. Count me in though. - Ton Zijp

Those Russian impersonators made fun much resembling dance macabre. Feasting friendfeed's transition? ) - massagin

I'm here scoble! - Jason Pollock

presente - Eric Gagne

Yo! - Spiros A. Gianiotis

sup - Kostantinos Koukopoulos

Hi. - Mark Aitken

hmmmm - John Ruth

I'm a friendfeed addict and I'm here! - Bryce Campbell from iPhone

allo - Patrick Janidlo

Here! - Bill Thomas

Here! - Steffan Antonas

Out - Declining Balance from Nambu

Still here - Transcribe It Quick

Here - Shannon

I'm NOT addicted! - Joelle Nebbe (iphigenie)

I dedicate this song to friendfeed addicts :) http://www.youtube.com/watch... - ilter

reporting for duty - Jason Miller

check. a little late. by i'm addicted, i swear!! - Mike

Whoops. I am a little late. But I came didn't I? LOL. Yes, sir. - Zachary TG

ping - Sameer

Here. - Araceli

Ok! - Business Blogger【ツ】™

Here. - Iván Abrego

Been without a computer for a couple of days. The horror! I'm here. Finally. - Julie Barrett from twhirl

:) - Roman Zolotarev

in! - TheBuzzMachine

touch down - Африки

right here - Arash Nightwatcher

✔ - Majento

amilateamilate??! - Sarah Lane

word - Fee501st

New fan but longtime subscriber. - Steven Zenith

is this thread a record ? - johnpiercy

Present! - Gary Gifford Jr

Hello! - dthree

I don't know how I rate my addiction relative to others, but I shared Hitler's reaction upon hearing the acquisition news (despite happiness for Paul and Bret) - Chris Duffy

@johnpiercy check it yourself: how many therads have more than 7k comments http://friendfeed.com/search... ) - massagin

me - John μller

it's my soc media glue. - John Czwartacki

Half here. - Eddie G

Holla. The only way I can keep track of the flowers in all these blessed walled gardens. - saltpeter 【ツ】

I'm new, but I am here - Ethan

Present. - Jandy, ConcertMaven of FF from iPhone

yessir. - Nathan Chase

Present! - Ludwik C. Siadlak

I been Scoblized - again! - Kevin Laverty

Hope this deal preserves FF's power and usability. FF:FB::Mac:Windows. - David Lounsbury

check - Drew S

Count me in. - Nick B.

here. - Scratch5150

Here and accounted for... - Brad

thread of the century. - raphaeL

FIRST! - MVB (Curmudgeon of FF)

presente - Eric Gagne

701 and counting - Julie Williams

i'm here too - Mehmet Fatih YILDIZ

Homer says "Mmmmm .. FriendFeed" - Gary Etie

Check :) - Stijn

There's got to be a prize for doing this! Here! - timedalkat from Nambu

1451st! :) - Eric Geller

1452nd! :P - L'avvocatessa

I can stop whenever I want. Oh, wait... - dario

Here. Or did I check in yesterday about this time? - MaryB, BrandingBroadOfFF

I always am coming back for more... And each time longer than the one before - Bryce Campbell from iPhone

Yes? - Steve Lynch from twhirl

auuu, pa ovo jos traje? - Danica Radovanovic

Here I am. - Andrea Beggi

One more. - Laura_aka_Fujiko from fftogo

Started a "Save FriendFeed" Facebook group, because I love irony ... http://www.facebook.com/group... - Paul Holmes

Checking in 23 hours later, which probably makes me the semi-addict that I am - Eric Berlin

Do I have to check in every 60 minutes? - Louis Gray

I'm checking in again. - DGentry

Louis: you can if you want! I heard you can drink a Diet Coke once a day if you check in! - Robert Scoble

that I don't understand at all - Mark

are you checking to see who has left since the FB purchase? I'm staying here! - Katy Barrilleaux

I just expanded this thing, what a fun ride! - Cassidy

What if I drink a Diet Coke every 60 minutes? Then what? - Louis Gray

presente - Eric Gagne

Yes! I'm 23 hours late. :s That doesn't make me an addict. Damn. :( - Faraz Mullick

so only a few % of rob's followers on here responded? - Mark

Just logged into Friendfeed in the last 24 hours. This seems a lot cleaner than Twitter for certain. I'm an organization freak! - David Kolln

Mark: I have 46,000 followers, but the usual thing is only a percentage of them show up on any week. - Robert Scoble

That's sad - Gianluca Neri from iPhone

I'm sure this is part of Scoble's plot to poll all the people who really read his posts, and unfollow the rest. So I raise my hand. - Shivanand Velmurugan

Just a wannabe. Not an addict (yet). - Carole Hicks

It might also be a way for me to filter down my "following" count (diff (my followers, scoble)) are the only people I really need to follow. Those that scoble follows, I can safely unfollow and use Scoble as my social media filter :) - Shivanand Velmurugan

Roflmao Om Shiva you are destroying us :) - Jeunelle Foster

Loading this thread on the iPhone uses 1% battery life lol - Mark from iPhone

check - Joe Dawson

pardon the arrogance but it really sucks this great forum of sharing will turn into a myspace humdrum. Now I have to find another SM where first adopters and well informed techies won't haft to compete with general "noise" - earl wallace

check. getting close to 1500! - Jordan Brock

Hey - Colin Hendricks from iPhone

How you doin'? :-) - Red Label

Wow... long list! I'm here :) - Frank Da Silva

So, does anyone know the number of actual Friendfeed subscribers? Buehler? Buehler? - Martha

Now that's an excellent question. - Dennis Jernberg

Only 15 more comments to go and this thread will make it into the 1500 category http://friendfeed.com/search... - Jay Cuthrell

Well, here's a comment I can later delete and rob the owner of 1500! - Matthew DeVries

I just mention the 1500 mark since it was such an iconic query to see... that and the 500 Likes club of FF posts. It's pretty exclusive stuff... but it's also sobering to note that the subject matter required to get to these levels isn't always a uniform mix of cares/concerns. - Jay Cuthrell

When I heard the FaceBook news, I tried to quit FriendFeed and I couldn't... I'M HOOKED - The Web's Wendell Wittler

i clicked the "1488 more comments" and my computer nearly exploded. and yes, i am using an amiga 500. - jack

Now that I have instructions (thanks LouisGray) and figured out my Bookmarklet! I am LOVING the ease of use! addict - not quite... - Robyn Hawk

you're addicted to deez nutz - skunkman62

LOL - skunkman62. It's all good, the sun is still shining. - Harold Cabezas

Is this the location of the next FA (Friendfeed Anonymous) meeting? - Cynthia Holladay

LOL - Cynthia - nfan12

Monkey #1496 reporting in, sir. For true ADDICT status, I'd say the cut off is the first hour. The rest of us are wannabes. ;-) - michael silverton

ANY! FLIPPING! TIME! - Jim in Real Time

fftogo ftw - Josette Torres

asdf - Benson Miller

FriendFeed user even before Robert Scoble joined the bandwagon - Shakeel Mahate

I'm a true addict - Jorge Escobar

wow! that's a big social - 1500 some ! :] - Petr Buben

I'm a true FriendFeed addict. - Evaristo

i am japanese! - psychedesire

yeah ! - MisterQ

Sir yes sir ! - Christopher Yeo

president. - Ken Stewart | ChangeForge

present - Laura Norvig

Still here. Its not really a problem yet. - Eric Logan

Here, 1500 comments or so later. - Gus Cuddy

OK I'll check in now that the thread is up to 1500+... - Stephen Mack

yo joe! - Wally Punsapy

I'm just trying to figure this out. Will I get used to i?? - Janet Frasier

holy friendfeed...this thread hasn't died yet? Point made Robert. - shaun mclane

I didn't "check in" yet.. - Tim Hoeck

It's not an addiction until there's an intervention. - Bill Sodeman

Some of us addicts will refuse any intervention. Especially by Facebook. ;) - Dennis Jernberg

I like it!!! I really, REALLY do : D - Ellen Spencer

Yo! - Aram Zucker-Scharff

Actually, I lied. I am not a die-hard friendfeed fan. I desperately want to be but have just not been able to get into a good "feeding" rhythm. Maybe I need to add some more friends - Anant Gairola

Present. - Vijay

:) - Nick Soden

here - Robert Freeze

here I am - Danilo Paissan

all on board - Save As : Panos

actually I am addicted to twitter more. I use friendfeed a lot none the less. - Volkan Özçelik

count me :) - Meriç Dağlı

here - Erdinc Çiftçi

Presente - Ruben Sanchez from Android

i'm in - Anton Noginov х

Add me from Cambridge, UK and DuoFertility the fertility monitor - Philip Baddeley

have we broken the FF comment limit yet ? - David Pascoe

I'm in. - Peter Smulovics

naa-ahaa ... i have seen threads with 4k, 10k+ comments .... right here, on Friendfeed. - Petr Buben

Présent - Harscoat

1537...checking in... - Bob DeMarco

Here - Keith

I don't need to be addict. I'm just here, everyday, absorbing so many geeky info :D There's no place like FF - Lysender

I'm still with ya, Robert. Whatever FB paid for FF, it wasn't enough! - Donald C. Lindsay

New here, but learning. Tips for best use? - Barbara Langham

@bdlangam From my perspective the #1 tip in this category is: Explore and define "best use" for yourself. Despite potential "finishing" impression of some productive consolidations in this collective-collaborative cognition space, the emergent #cognosphere is still WAY too nascent to assert anything other than initial impressions. March to the beat of your own drum; build your own... more... - michael silverton

yeah sorry, late. was at Shambhala Music Festival, I know tardy, sorry... - sofarsoShawn

I'm getting hooked, still figuring it all out - Michele McGraw

I think I do. Not enough contacts to make a impression. - Michael Schlag

Better late than never.. - Ginger Kenney

here - Brady

Late but here. - Kolja

Not addicted enough, obviously... - Daniel W. Crompton

trying to get addicted - OakleighVermont

Definitely addicted. Not sure I want to stop using just because FB bought it. - Rick Cogley

checking.. - Leandro Ardissone ⍨

I'm the 1500th visitor. What did I win? - Ruben

Robert-I'm listening - Dean Holmes

Here we be! - Gary Dale Cearley

here! - Domenico Calojero

Still going on , uh? - Marco Massarotto

*bumps* the Scoble curve: bi-polar maybe? - sofarsoShawn

Hello. My name is Morgan and I'm a FF addict. So who do I have to blow to get a fix? :-) - Morgan Haley

Yo - Aram Zucker-Scharff

Elo govna - Eric @ CSTechcast.com

No - Alex Scoble

check. - Bren -- Making Contact

here! - T. Brent, technopeasant

Paul Buchheit

Obviously I can't provide a lot of detailed plans and guarantees, but I can tell you that I'll do my personal best to ensure that the FriendFeed users and community are treated right. I love this product too, and don't want to see it disappear.

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That's great to read! - Diego Barros 

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Thank you, Paul. - joey

:) - Tad

I hope so. - Mathew™ one of a kind

Good of you to recognize. - Bill Kinney

Thank you, Paul. Hearing something is always better than hearing nothing =) - FFing Enigma (aka Tina)

I think this was a smart move fore FF and FB - Joe Hall

What about the service? - Amit Morson

Ok - Matthew DeVries

That's a start. Thanks for reaching out. - Brian Daniel Eisenberg

Thanks Paul. - sean percival

Thanks Paul - Mike Doeff

We don't want it to go either. - Yolanda

I would not expect any less from such a cool guy like you, thanks! :) - Susan Beebe from iPhone

Please keep it going for as long as you can or until you can make Facebook actually work. - AJ Kohn

That's heartening, Paul. Thanks. - Admiral Anika

We love you guys and FriendFeed.. we are just a little hurt and worried.. just please give us details as soon as possible. - Tim Hoeck

Thanks Paul! - Darren Heydon

FriendFeed lets me use people as filters to turn data into information. Facebook doesn't. Until it does, please, Please, PLEASE keep FriendFeed as a destination alive. - AJ Kohn

congrats guys! facebook needs what you got! - Lorna Herf

I'm sorry that I haven't said more about this. As you can imagine, it has been an extraordinarily busy day (and I've barely slept in the past week). - Paul Buchheit

I'll add my plea to the chorus: Please don't take FriendFeed away from us. And don't make us go to Facebook (because we won't). FriendFeed means a lot to a lot of people and the thought that it will dry up and blow away shortly is very disturbing. - Lindsay is in 20-ten

It's still great to hear from you Paul. Congrats on that new swimming pool full of cash. :D - Tad

Simply glad you're here now. You've always been a very responsive and transparent team. As much as I cringe at the thought of FF going away, I *am* happy for you and the team. - AJ Kohn

Thanks Paul. - John (a.k.a. dendroica)

Thank you kind sir. - Andrew Smith

I request you make it to the next scheduled FFundercats podcast to talk to the community. This announcement deserves a live appearance to the community. - Eric @ CSTechcast.com

Have been dealing unsucessfully with Twitter for two days, trying to get logged in...Their password reset page says"Snap we can't find you." I keep writing to Tech Support at Twitter and get their helpful auto-generated Twitter Trouble shooting email. My problem is not there. =( Hope FriendFeed does not get that blaise about helping users. @EV - SashaKane

If FB can't keep the service running, would you consider open-sourcing the thing, so we can? - Christopher Galtenberg from iPhone

Hi Paul, thanks for the assurances. In the future, I would highly suggest that you make this sort of statement shortly after the initial merger release. Thanks again. - Alex Scoble

Thanks for keeping the passion! - Shane

Nice to hear Paul. Thanks. - Mark Krynsky

I would like to give you a hug right now Paul. However, that would be awkward and April might beat me up so I will just say thank you and press the like button. - EricaJoy

Best news I have heard today. - Angus Burton

Thank you for affirming that. Much appreciated. - Karoli

A few more points that would be nice to have addressed soon. Ability to export data, tool to import friends to Facebook, and will ff.im urls continue to function? - Mark Krynsky

Amelioration?? - heretic_twit

Those that like friendfeed as is should be most pleased with this statement, as it probably means maintenance to keep the current system as is, without as much attention to new features. It's also good news for all those who like both friendfeed and facebook, as facebook will likely adopt the better features from friendfeed - Ivan Kirigin

That means an awful lot to me. - James (!?)

This has been quite a day! Can't wait to hear what is next! - Robert Scoble from iPhone

Thank you, Paul. Thank you for coming out from behind the curtain and finally giving us some communication, some semblance of hope. - Akiva Moskovitz

Thanks, Paul. - Glen, Bespectacled Elder

So we can expect a Facebook adaption of this? I like this technology over everyone else! - Shaggy Jenkins

Eric, my schedule is still a little uncertain at the moment, but I'd be glad to appear on a future FFundercats. - Paul Buchheit

That would be a good thing Paul. Thanks. - Eric @ CSTechcast.com

Cool :) - Susan Beebe from iPhone

I like this. - ashish from iPhone

Thanks for making FriendFeed what it is, and lets hope it stays that way, though there's slim chance of that - Aaman (Clone of FF)

Now that I think about it: are you kidding me? They've already stated that FriendFeed's going to be absorbed into Facebook. What kind of sleight-of-hand are you trying to pull now, Paul? - Akiva Moskovitz

@EricaJoy: I have nothing against hugs. :) - April Buchheit

Thanks! - Vincenzo Piromalli

Thanks, Paul. I've been getting more and more depressed thinking about the bad ways this could go. The reassurances help a bit, at least. In fact, just hearing you speak on the point is encouraging - the open lines of communication between the FriendFeed team and its users has always been one of the great things about FriendFeed that I'm afraid will be lost with the Facebook buyout. And yes, a FFundercats appearance would be a great idea. - Jandy, ConcertMaven of FF

I don't want to read too much into this reassurance but the "personal best" remark made me think like there is not a united FF anymore and that it's up to your personal efforts to prevent it from being eaten by FB :) - Turker Keskinpala

you can sell the tech but the community can not be bought sold transferred or merged - Robert Higgins from f2p

Turker, I do believe that this deal was the right decision -- I'll write a bit more about that when I get a chance. I say that I'll do my "personal best" because I will -- it would be misleading to make promises on other's behalf :) - Paul Buchheit

Hoping so... practicing patience - Majento

Paul: I'm hopeful that this will be the best for both Facebook and Friendfeed. What you and the staff at FF have done is amazing, with only 12 people! I love the service here. I also enjoy Facebook (one I ignore all quizzes and stupid apps), but in a different way. Hoping some coolness can be brought to both. Good luck to you and your team! - Travis B. Hartwell

this echoes star wars galaxies, incredible unique community. but they upgraded it to be like world of warcraft. this is a replay of the devs soothing messages. the forums were livid the community evaporated. - Robert Higgins from f2p

When socialmedian was acquired by Xing they left it alone. I hope the same happens here. I'm sure you will do your best though! - Michael Fidler

http://friendfeed.com/akiva... - Akiva Moskovitz

On behalf of the Dutch citizens our Queen wants to let you know: Thx Paul. - Ton Zijp

Don't know what to say, so lets start with big congrats! from one hand, as an early member of Friendfeed I think we've created here a very cool, collaborative and tech-savvy/passionate community of great people that all probably wish to stick around as much as possible. From the other hand, I know how corporates work and it takes one small decision of share holders to close Friendfeed... more... - Nir Ben Yona

My first reaction is disappointment. I don't believe big corporations do better than small ones. Facebook is inferior to FriendFeed, although it's user base is much larger. Clearly FriendFeed won't survive in the long term, unless it is open sourced. Why not open up and embrace the wonders of the GPL instead of joining forces with the Walled Garden no #1? Facebook don't even operate with permalinks,. - Morten Blaabjerg

Thanks for the explanation Paul. Of course, I congratulate you guys. I think anyone would do the same thing if they were in your shoes :) - Turker Keskinpala

Very bittersweet clicking [Like] on this one. - Nicholas Kreidberg

A big congrats for you guys.. However, I feel kind of sorrow :) - Ozkan Altuner

good to hear - Dobromir Hadzhiev

Thank you - but I would very much like our content to stay intact. :) - Mona Nomura

Of course it is, Ryo. - Christopher A Carr

Ryo: if you delete your account everything goes away. I totally disagree with you about Facebook, but that's OK. - Robert Scoble

Good to hear. Unfortunately I think Facebook are going to download the brains of all FriendFeed staff then kill FF. - Michael McGimpsey

but Paul it is going to disappear - Facebook bought FF not for the site but for you guys. So obviously once its integrated into Facebook, development on FF will stop - Anthony Feint

If FriendFeed and all of it's functionality get integrated into Facebook I'm all for it. - Hugh Isaacs II

Thank you Paul! Congrats on the deal! - Garin Kilpatrick

Paul - that's great news. It surely can't cost a lot to keep this place running and it's a good place to try out ideas before they move to FB. - Martin Bryant

what about improving the product and making sure it gets more users, not only supports those who stay? - Ihar Mahaniok

Ihar - unlikely. Facebook bought FF for the developer talent, not for FriendFeed itself. - Martin Bryant from iPhone

Martin - I also think so, and it is most likely. But I could still have a hope - Ihar Mahaniok

Paul, please - underpromise & overdeliver...they say it works. - A.T.

Nice to hear. Too bad you don't call the shots anymore. - jcunwired

FriendFeed is Dead! Long Live FriendFeed! (nice name for Facebook skunkworks) I'm sure everyone would love to see FriendFeed itself stay around, even if the innovations that happen are geared towards implementation at Facebook. Thanks for this note Paul! :) - guruvan (Rob Nelson)

There are a few promises and guarantees that you SHOULD be able to provide. Like, that our network of friends will remain intact and that the features that make this site great will remain. If you can't make those promises, then you shouldn't have done the deal. I sure do hope that the real-time search engine wasn't the centerpiece of this deal (it probably was), because that certainly... more... - Brad Williamson

Paul you did such a nice job with friendfeed, and I so want to believe you, but I'm not sure I can. Not because of you, but because of your new employer. Because your new employer is no longer you, and while I have kind of come to trust you, I do not trust your new boss. Not at all. Please prove me wrong, if they'll let you. - Jim in Real Time

Paul - thanks for that reassurance. PLEASE stick to that! I was in the middle of reading and participating in a lengthy discussion off of a Robert Scoble post yesterday ... then I came up for air and saw your news. Congratulations - I have no idea what that feels like or how pumped you must be. There are so many things FF does that I LOVE...I know you know that. Please Please PLease dont' go away! Thanks! - Tobin Truog

Thank you, I think everyone here loves Friendfeed. :) - Hunt from BuddyFeed

Thanks for the personal note Paul. - Mike Reynolds

Phewww..relief ;-) - Ritu

This is nice to hear, and I really hope that FriendFeed will keep on living. I still have some pain in my stomach because of this :/ - Patrik Johansson

First zombie/mafia request and we're all outta here.... - Fossil Huntress

+1 Fossil Huntress The partitioning of the networks between friendfeed and facebook was a major feature that many people made use of, lacking appropriate controls for who sees what. Merging the two groups of friends isn't going to work, at all. - Mr. Gunn

It doesn't sound like you understand what has people worried. I wrote this to help: http://friendfeed.com/brlewis... - Bruce Lewis

And we'll appreciate this man! Try to do your best to help FF :( - FFTornado

Maybe Bruce analysis is too imaginary, but the question is THE question nobody answered: why did you do it, Paul? - Luca Sofri

I left a response on Bruce's entry (http://friendfeed.com/brlewis...). I'll write more about this on my blog when I get some free time. - Paul Buchheit

Thanks. - Bonnie Foster

we all know what needs to happen. the question is, where? ... FB needs, - apart from being/it is, a large, general, open application platform, - 1. Smart keyboard shortkatze - and Im a kbsCzar to go to, 2. Aggregating facilities, smart /RSS/ .. 3. Full blogging facilities, capabilities, not 140 chars. 4. Full real time comments facilities, capabilities. 5. Real time, live, but ALSO... more... - Petr Buben

I hope you're being open and honest with us. This time. :( - Kamilah Gill

Good to know , we´ll see :) - Yahya

Thank you! I am sure you will do great things at FB. I just hope that the great app you built here isn't destroyed. I don't know of any other aggregation app that I can embed into my site like this one! - beersage

Congratulations on your successes, best wishes for more. And thanks for continuing to look out for us loyal, addicted FFanatics! - Rob Schieber

I hope it continues, i'm a new user and absolutely love it (wish i knew the value of it before)! Congrats! - Luis D. Santos

As nice as it sounds I'm sorry to say that as a, now, Facebook's employee I'm afraid you'll have to comply to whatever your new boss tells you. Didn't MZ make it clear? - lelapin

and let me add second, obvious, "Facebook needs" - Friendfeed bookmarklet, and Friendfeed tools - widgets, embedding - real time and not - of posts, and groups ...to embedd, to inject oneself into this thing called Internet ..... so, if FB listens to FF engineering long enough, they are going to get it .. right - Petr Buben

Paul, what I am worried is not that you're brainwashed, but that there's simply no business need for Facebook to improve FriendFeed from now on, period. - Ihar Mahaniok

I have confidence Paul. While some of the comments were probably uncalled for, covering an investment (of time and money) in these times to move on and hopefully provide even 'better stuff' makes sense to me. It's pretty obvious there are a LOT of people that don't want to 'lose' Friendfeed. (I wouldn't hold a town hall for a few weeks though :) - Charlie Anzman

Congrats, Paul. It's sad that people have to make these uncalled for hatred comments about Facebook though. Why can't both sites work together. I think Facebook will do better with FF and vise versa. Take the good features of both services. Don't boycott FB, enjoy it. I'm sick of the negative comments going on, that's all. :( - Molly, New Ears :P

Molly: What makes you think there's going to be a "vise versa?" - Christopher A Carr

Because I don't think Paul and the other FF developers would allow FB to do anything. I'm sorry, I am not going to think negative here like some here are. I guess I'm a fangirl for FB. - Molly, New Ears :P

Finally something about the changes on the horizon that isn't all d0o0o0o0o0o0o0o0om and whining. Thank you, Paul! :D - Christian (Simply X)

The time to think about how you could do your 'personal best' to ensure FriendFeed continues to exist was prior to the discussions with Facebook. Not after. - Andy C

Paul, what about the content scam that FB T&C is, does it apply to Friendfeed now? Should we all start writing scripts to retroactively delete all content ever uploaded to Friendfeed? Elaborated a bit here - http://friendfeed.com/mbravo... - Michael Bravo

We know you'll try your best, Paul. But sometimes, you just can't win the dark side... - Winston Teo

Thanks Paul for all your efforts. Founders often want the best, but acquiring companies often have people with political/power issues or different/limited visions. - Mitchell Tsai

*throws a sheep at Paul* is that a good thing? - Joe from iPod

Yeahhhhhhh BOoooiiiiiiiii!!!!!!! - sofarsoShawn

yes, thank you, Sergeant Paul ... well, good to hear we go on ... because if not, how about starting www.anotherFeed.com ... or, www.Letsgofeed.com ...... anyway, lets boost blogging capabilities, post more than current amount of chars, lets have TOP POSTS / clicks count list at the head of each group, some stats, lets index group headers, lets have MORE keyboard shortcuts .. - now ...... more... - Petr Buben

Bret Taylor to Bret's feed, FriendFeed News

FriendFeed accepts Facebook friend request - FriendFeed Blog - http://blog.friendfeed.com/2009...

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We've been acquired by Facebook! We are really excited about joining the Facebook team. (Note: FriendFeed will continue to operate - see the blog post for details) - Bret Taylor from Bookmarklet

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Boom. - Louis Gray

Grr! - directeur

Woah... - Brandon Titus

Uh. Well, that's the end of that. - Akiva Moskovitz

Argh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! - Roberto Bonini

What does this mean for FriendFeed, Bret? - Kol Tregaskes

Lame. - Mark Trapp

great title bret. well played. - MG Siegler

WOW - Bindu Reddy

Congrat! So, what does this mean to your team and to FF in general? - Dilip Dand

wahhhhhhhhhh - Myrna

maaaan - Jamie

wowow - Harry Wolff

congrats - brainno722 (Peter)

Nooooooooooooo - Mushin

Wait... seriously? - Ken Sheppardson

oh, noooo - Welcome 2KX

Congratulations to the friendfeed team. I know this is huge for y'all. Please don't let us spoil your parade as we weep. - Ladybug Heather

Seriously?!? ..... - sebastian☆rocket brother

oh boy. - Carlos Ayala

I am hoping this will lead to nice integration for cross posting! Currently using Twitter App on FB to post and I hate those ff.im links that end up on Facebook. - Ivan Zlatev

it was good while it lasted, Friendfeed. :( - holly

division by zero - Onur Cengiz

OMG - Onur Gündüz

"FriendFeed.com will continue to operate normally for the time being. We're still figuring out our longer-term plans for the product with the Facebook team." Those are NOT encouraging things to read as a FF user. - Scott of Two Countries

gratz - Ali

My heart is sinking as I type this. Please tell me that it isn't a late April Fool's joke. :( - Tyson Key

Wow, it's true!! - Kevin Whalen

Big news! I second Kol & dilip's request for what this means for the team and FF's future. - Brandon Titus

O_o - Joe Silence is ashes

So it IS true. - Hector

Nicely done Bret - Jennifer Van Grove

Congratulations btw, guys! - Kol Tregaskes

Sniff... not sure if I'm excited about this. But I have enormous respect for the FriendFeed team... so, I assume they believe in the move as more than an exit strategy. - Michael Leggett

Congrats, Bret. - Jordan Hofker

This is just horrible - Matthew DeVries

Congratulations, I suppose. A bit worried Facebook is going to ruin everything though. I'm not fond of Facebook, to say the least. - Irma Vermaat

Um. - Barry Mitchelson

Oh my... Hopefully FriendFeed won't vanish and good luck :) - Tarmo Aidantausta

Do we call it FaceFeed? FriendBook? - Tyson Key

Oh no.... - Ben Hanten

What does mean for us? - Rich from iPod

Terrible fit. - Matthew DeVries

damn here it is... :( - Edgar Rodríguez

FriendFace!!! (i love it crowd) - Bahriye

*waits for wall-to-wall ads and constant spambots* - Joe Silence is ashes

Die. - Zio Bonino

Congrats - Zoltan Szendro

I dont want FF to end - Fee501st

Wow - Shevonne

Oh mon dio ! - Umar

What did you do? WHYYY! - Zachary TG

Ostregheta. - Reloj

Congrats guys, in a bittersweet sort of way. - Hutch Carpenter

guess there's no way of denying this anymore :( - BCK

Just another lesson in why you shouldn't put your love and trust in a company...... - Matthew DeVries

Oh no! - Erdinc YILMAZEL

Congrats, but I hate Facebook. - Zachary TG

I like Friendfeed and I do not like Facebook. Gratz to you guys though, I think. - Mark Sorrell

"Oh shit..." came to mind immediately. :( - Tyson Key

Scott, yep not encouraged by that comment. :-( - Kol Tregaskes

Congrats on the deal, best wishes to the FF'ers in helping facebook get it together! - Sean O'Connor

This could get exciting, especially concerning twitter :-P - Malte Steckmeister

Congrats for Friendfeed team, but I'm seriously worried for us :((((((((((( - Roberto

Congratulations... I'm sure this is pretty exciting for everyone at FriendFeed... We're all looking forward to where it takes you! - Nathan Chase

And FriendFeed was just getting popular. Not any more. - Zachary TG

Wow - Rodfather

*Sobs* - Tyson Key

wow - Jack Wilson, K4SAC

to the dump - Zachary TG

Wow, very disappointed - Randy Pollock

come on. Bret, facebook is so closed. so different from Friendfeed. besides that. Congrats to the team - Edgar Rodríguez

As am I - Zachary TG

machecazzo - Sba

VERY disappointed. - Joe Silence is ashes

horrible decision - Randy Pollock

Booo. But, you know, congrats. - Chris Nixon

i'm not sure i'm happy about this. - Taylan Aydınlı

OMG WHAT HAVE YOU DONE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! SH*T - Alp

Congrats for u guys... probably too bad for us ;-( - Laurent

God, I can see FB shutting down FF just like Six Apart shut down Pownce. - DarknessFalls

arg. - Aron Michalski

Good for you, don't know for all of us - Cristian Conti

@#$& that's all I have to say. For now. - Zachary TG

Facebook should have been aquired by Friendfeed. Why they hell would you give up your better product to a worse one? Did none of you give a shit about this service to begin wiht? - Matthew DeVries

Congrats! - Alix Whitmire

Coolest web 2.0 site I've ever seen & used. I hope things don't derail. Ads will be coming soon, which is fine, but.... then what 's next? Please no quizzes! - Ben Hanten

Who would have thought that after Facebook were shamelessly being "inspired" by FriendFeed, the inevitable would have happened? - Tyson Key

I'm pissed off. I wan to throw away the whole Internet : - DarkBls

Congrats! - Moushumi Kabir

Congrats guys. :) - Meryn Stol

Congratulations. This is awesome for you and for Facebook. - Mike Sego

mommy? - Josh Haley

Hey guys, keep in mind that Facebook is blocked in workplaces across the nation. 250 million casual users commenting about last night's party does not intelligent conversation make. - Hector

FFail - rael

What will happen to my 92 subscribers? - Zachary TG

yes you have just failed at failing, no it is not a double negative. - Bahriye

Tragic. - Shannon

I really can't see how FB would buy FF only to shut it down. There are way too many innovations and features FF has that FB honestly needs. I'm looking forward. - Harry Wolff

congrats! - Jay from ViewPoint

here come the comments - Zachary TG

Congrats? Everybody who's saying Congrats doesn't know what he's saying. Go to hell. - Zio Bonino

Yeah, quizzes are EVIL! - Tarmo Aidantausta

Wow. - Zachary TG

Oh, this does not make me happy. Not at all! I've stayed off of Facebook intentionally and FriendFeed is my favorite social network. This is like when the Red Sox traded Babe Ruth to the Yankees. :>( - Larry Hawes

i have stopped using FB for the most part and liked FF alot more. now FF will go the way of FB. screwed again. - Joe Silence is ashes

Congratulations. Enjoy the new challenges of acquisition, and I'm looking forward to the result! - Wade Dorrell

Berge Gazen beat your score in Mafia Wars - Berge Gazen

Feedface or Facefeed? - Fee501st

FUCK THAT ! [Anyways good job guys ^^] - TiTi

Enjoy your fat paychecks, guys. You've sold us out. - Akiva Moskovitz

Bravo Bret! Been following your successes ever since we had the opportunity to work together on the YellowPages.ca / Google Maps Canada deal. Congrats! - Sebastien

I wished it was Google or even Yahoo!, instead... - Tyson Key

i really hope ff stays as it is. fb is kinder carder while ff is a great tool. - jkkmobile

Facefucked or Fuckfeed? - Matthew DeVries

Not sure what to make of this. It could eiter be a big win or a huge fail. - dorn

It could have been Microsoft, which would have been worse for everyone. :( - Tyson Key

Can I take this opportunity to say I HATE facebook? - Alex Scrivener

seems the only ppl happy here are the ones in the biz or who stand to profit from the merger. - Joe Silence is ashes

I guess we should get ready to get poked by our supposed friends and have various shit thrown at us? Plus 5,000 requests by apps that nearly all suck. - Joey Gibson

There is zero way this could have been a win for anyone, but the now rich founders. - Matthew DeVries

duh - aybars badur

I HATE facebook - Pedram

this is simply awful. - Joe Silence is ashes

If I have to go to FB to use FF then it's a lost cause - Randy Pollock

Painful. And apparently I completely misunderstood what FF was trying to accomplish both technically and as an organization. I guess Facebook must have dangled a pretty big bag of money in front of them. - Ken Sheppardson

FriendFeed is Dead! Long Live FriendFeed! :/ - Tyson Key

Awesome. Please fix Facebook email :) http://fudge.org/too-muc... - Jay Cuthrell

Facebook is going to acquire the web! - l'Ego di Gigi

To me, FriendFeed is like Porsche and Facebook a Kia. I'm curious to see which will become which.. - Moushumi Kabir

Oh noes! - Burcu Dogan

Congrats Bret! - Robin Dindayal

I will reserve judgement, i don't like or use FB but if FF maintains it's current goodness i don't care who cuts the checks. - Steve C

I hope this doesn't turn into an APP filled hunk of crap. I love FriendFeed, it was the untouched gem of microblogging. I don't want Mafia Wars invited in my FriendFeed!!! Congrats on the sale though. - Jay Farmington

Where's the "dislike" option? - Gregor Morrill

+1 Gregor - Tyson Key

accipicchia che pessima notizia - massimo mantellini

I SEE WHAT YOU DID THERE!!! -_- - Bahriye

I just realized this is like when K-mart bought Sears ... - DarknessFalls

/ponders the meaning of "FriendFeed.com will continue to operate normally for the time being." - Philipp Lenssen

And I will officially be leaving FriendFeed today. - Michael Forian

omg - John μller

@Philipp: until the new masters start flexing their muscles and bringing in their own people to enforce their own vision. - Joe Silence is ashes

I read the blog post and one statement stands out to me "FriendFeed.com will continue to operate normally for the time being." The time being. This is not just bad, I think it may be #FAIL - berchman

Such great news! - Steve Rubel

Not sure what to think of this. - Matthew Speicher

where is dislike button ? - Osman Üngür

OMG! - Zac Bowling

now where did I put my twitter password - Randy Pollock

big mistake :(( - emresezgin

I suppose it will be called FriendFace? http://www.youtube.com/watch... - Phil Harrison

Congratulations, guys!!!!!!!!! - Jess Lee

Oh. Hell. No. - CannonGod

Oh My God! They Killed FriendFeed! - Tyson Key

so the (once)new facebook homepage was actually the tip of the iceberg? - Onur Cengiz

It's a win/win! congrats all. - Alan Le

Time to roll your own Frienfeed clone. - Fırat Can Başarır

Congrats to you. - Evan Travers

Congratulations. I look forward to seeing what this new partnership means for users. - Aren Grimshaw

FF will surely be integrated into FB at some point? - Kol Tregaskes

damn Ken is spot on! +1000 Ken! - vijay

not good. - Jacque

Oh. My. Gosh. - Enrico Lamperti

Facebook obviously liked FriendFeed a long time ago. Why would they have copied so many features (feed item comments and the "Like" action, to name a couple) otherwise? It was only logical for this to happen eventually. Doesn't mean I like it, but acquisition is part of the game. I have the same feeling I did when SocialThing! was acquired by AOL, though. - Voyagerfan5761

"Relationship Status: It's complicated" comes to mind. ;) - Tyson Key

Wow, I finally sign up, and read this. This could end up being a very bad thing for FF fans: "Your FriendFeed friend just signed up on this poll, would you like to too?" - Brian Bommarito

sad... - Marvin

Congrats guys. And thanks for your continuos effort in helping promote and integrate web services, like mine, Wakoopa. That's awesome and I hope FB gets better because of it. - Robert Gaal

This will give FriedFeed the attention it deserves. Otherwise it would have been a geek thing forever. - Michael Netsch

Will there be a super poke feature launched tomorrow? - Matthew DeVries

aw, this sux!! Congrats to the Friendfeed team though! - acedanger

please don't merge logins!!! please - earlyadopter

They are deceived when they suffer themselves to be drawn after the image of things, without seeking for the true reason of them. - The Complex Days

I hope it works OK to you guys! - Rodrigo Jaroszewski

D: - Chris, Taskerrific Guy

+1 Netsch - I still like FF more but this finally legitimizes FF to the mainstream. - Daniel J. Pritchett

Friend request una beata fava. Pecunia non olet. - Federico Bolsoman

Yeah, I really can't wait to see what value the Ashton Kutchers and Oprahs of the world have to add to FriendFeed. - Akiva Moskovitz

Please tell me this is a delayed April Fools' Day joke. - Rochelle

Facebook & FriendFeed: don't cross the lifestreams! D:< - CannonGod

I guess this means I'll have toget a facebook account after all.... Hope the API stays up and running.... - Roberto Bonini

"Were rich B!tch!" - Chappelle - adolfo foronda

Another good thing: This ups the bar for Wave. - Wade Dorrell

What a bunch of greedy assholes. - Zio Bonino

So ? - Ercan Bülbül

Does this mean that we'll be seeing an influx of webcam spammers, a la Twitter? Along with abolishment of the rooms feature, crappification of the search feature, and more "privacy features" that really just put more nails in the openness coffin? - Tyson Key

:( - Pavlo Zahozhenko

Some people will do whatever their friends request........ - Michael Muller

I really don't see why people would be anything but excited about this Facebook freindfeed deal. Great news as far as I am concerned. The Friend feed team is going to go over facebook and make it that much easier to connect, share... isn't that what the social web is about? - Kevin Murray

I know a lot of people who use Facebook and enjoy it and that's fair enough. It's just not my cup of tea. The chaps from Friendfeed will get rich and the technology will get absorbed in Facebook but I can't see Friendfeed continuing in anything like it's present form. - Paul Nash

Don't be so negative, something good might eventually come of this... - Tarmo Aidantausta

The End. - Kaan Ertürk

Congrats! I know you all must be crazy excited right now. - Michele Lorito-Chase

chance for FriendFeed to become more mainstream... congrats FriendFeed team! - Jeroen De Miranda

Nothing could make me happier than if they integrated the good tools from FriendFeed into Facebook, which is where all my friends are. So a big "yay!" from me. - Ian Betteridge

happy for you guys, but not for all of us - Flavio

congratulations. this is going to be interesting. - Dave Beckett

I think I preferred the non-mainstream version of FriendFeed... - Tyson Key

I'm turning on my black shirt, my black trouser, my black socks, my black shoes. Although I probably must be happy for you. - Ton Zijp

NASTY NASTY BAD BAD. But we'll see... - Daniel Morgan

Game over. - stark

yeah removing feed also works. - Bahriye

Reminds me so much of Last.fm fall... - Marcos

Given that the FriendFeed team has never been anything but awesome & respectful of its community, I think it's unfair for people to assume that the Facebook acquisition is going to change that. - Jess Lee

Why in god's name are we flying over this shark?!?!?!?!??!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!??!?!?!??!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!??!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?! - Matthew DeVries

Facebook is like a giant who listens to nobody. Please keep your attitude but I don't think you will be able to do so. - Burak "cyrus" Bayburtlu

Noooooooo...... - Sung W. Lim

yeahhh - Çağrı Burak

NO - Cristian Conti

Congrats! That sucks. - Rutger Blom

Where is that evidence Jess? - Matthew DeVries

I don't know, Like it? or dislike it? - Ömer Balamir

What happens to all the content that we've created and imported here, and the associated metadata? Will all that disappear into the ether? - Tyson Key

If the FriendFeed guys can make FaceBook useful and responsive again, this seems like a pretty positive step! - Robin Barooah

Robin, the Facebook users don't want that I'm afraid. - Rutger Blom

I have big loss of data concerns. See http://ff.im/6pHjo Is there any way to archive all my FriendFeed posts, likes, comments, and pictures (friendfeed-media.com) off-line? Can some Archive.org-like snapshots of FriendFeed be made (Once a month starting Sept 2009)? I'd like to see the cross-links between my posts & other people's posts, even in 2020. - - Mitchell Tsai

Mitchell: the FriendFeed site is not shutting down. Your data will not go away any time in the near term future - we are committed to our users. - Bret Taylor

I just overheard a coworker mention FriendFeed. This is how the world ends... - CannonGod

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Then provide us with a way to easily make a back-up of all of our posts and all of the posts we have Liked and Commented on. - Akiva Moskovitz

Same question as Mitchel Tsai. How do I export my data? I don't want it to be handed off to Facebook. - Zio Bonino

Near term future? - Kol Tregaskes

I don't see good things coming from this. Although I like Facebook, I liked Friendfeed more. Partly because of the environment and the smallness of it. That is now going to be ruined. So, 10-1 odds that Friendfeed will be no more within a year after it gets intergrated into Facebook? - Mathew™ one of a kind

I doubt it Robin. Bret can only give us assurances about the "near future." Here's what I think will happen. Just like Twitter acquired Rael Dornfest and his awesome web services, Stikkit and I Want Sandy vanished (and so did he), Facebook will acquire all the talent from Friendfeed, shut this service down and Facebook will continue to suck. - Jim in Real Time

Same question as Mitchel Tsai. How do I export my data? I don't want anything to be handed off to Facebook. And I don't want to lose anything. - Zio Bonino

Congrats obviously, but im not sure about the feeling,, different user groups which can not integrate but collide.. hope there wont be an huge integration in the future. - Yunus Tunak

I'm happy for FriendFeed! But, at the same time a bit worried about the future. Hope you guys convince FB to not be evil too. - Vishal Verma

http://friendfeed.com/sunipey... - sunipeyk

Let's hope this is like Disney's acquisition of Pixar - wherein the Pixar guys ended up in control of the animation studio... - Robin Barooah from IM

Where the f*ck is this option to undo ? - Laurent

Odd that this thread gets modded? - Matthew DeVries

I seriously thought this was a joke. Looks like its not. I don't like it, sorry. - Michael Lynton

Does anyone want to start a bounty to purchase Facebook? ;) - Tyson Key

#FAIL #FAIL #FAIL #FAIL #FAIL #FAIL #FAIL #FAIL #FAIL #FAIL #FAIL #FAIL #FAIL #FAIL #FAIL #FAIL #FAIL #FAIL #FAIL #FAIL #FAIL #FAIL #FAIL #FAIL #FAIL #FAIL #FAIL #FAIL #FAIL #FAIL - Jacque

Congratulations! - John Craft

can't be, shouldn't be... - Kemal

It is! Change is inevitable, my friends. - Bill Sodeman

Jim, I'm less cynical than you - the FriendFeed founders wouldn't do this just in order to become 'talent' at FaceBook. - Robin Barooah

So will we be playing FriendFeed Mafia Wars at some point in the future? Ugh. - Alex Hellstrom

I feel if I should be wearing a black arm band. But I guess when I think about it.............. - Kevin J Hatton

Oh No! I don't like this at all :( - Peter

WTF! Horrible Bret, this the death of FriendFeed.. you know that right? - CW™

I still think Apple will acquire Facebook, Twitter Friendfeed and Google Twitter. - Thomas Power

Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo! - Stephen Francoeur

My condolences to all Friendfeeders! RIP! - Evgeni Leshtanski

AAAAwwwful! - carolh

I can't believe it! damn! facebook tos will apply to friendfeed too? should i start to move to another service? why anyone would think that facebook public is friendfeed public?! damn! friedfeed was my favorite! I can't understand this move! they want to kill friendfeed or what? - paula simoes ☃

"I bet I can find 1.000.0000 people who dislike this deal."...Welcome to FriendBook. - Jacque

Well, huge congraulations to you and your team, you deserve every success. To be honest I had presumed this would happen sooner or later - the only business model cool little startups have is to hope they get bought by someone bigger for their brains and technology. I'm going to be in San Francisco in a couple of weeks and was going to stop by your office to bring you a cake and thank you for a great product - maybe I still will if you're still there and there's still a FriendFeed! - Alex Lomas

The FF founders must have know this would be a very unpopular move. Most users I know here are not too fond of FB. - Rutger Blom

damn, damn, damn... - Kemal

One of the sadest news for Internet and web creativity :( - DarkBls

Woah woah... This is real? - Jason, Craving

"Your data will not go away any time in the near term future - we are committed to our users" There's a bit of a contradiction in your statement, Bret. Nice try though. - jcunwired

Now I can break my Internet plan at home. - DarkBls

Grats Bret and the rest of FF. To all the naysayers... Lets see what happens before we start bitching.... - Rasmus Lauridsen

wow!! dazed and confused!! - Roberto Arancibia

I don't hate Facebook, but for sharing things Friendfeed is MUCH MUCH better! - Mathew™ one of a kind

I wonder if that Ben Darnell guy who *just* left the Google reader team knew about this beforehand? Wonder what he's thinking now? (http://friendfeed.com/friendf...) - Daniel J. Pritchett

Just great. I'm certainly not very happy about this. Let's just hope FB doesn't ruin FF. Ugh. - Elena

Who cares? Nothing's gonna change in our pitiful lifes. - bluretina

:| - Amin BZ

This ties in nicely with the fact that you soon will have the opportunity to make your Facebook profiles public and get followers there. - Michael Netsch

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Congrats Bret! this is so great! many congrats!!! - Jason Pollock

That is capitalism for you. Luckely, there still good 'ol usenet. - Peter

Is it April 1st somewhere in the universe? - Robert Felty

#ROFLMAO Is there anything more important than money? It seems NOT #ROFLMAO - Lora Lufark

I don't mean to be negative but there's got to be a win-win logic to each merger&acquisiton. Audience high in only quantity is clearly not a win for friendfeed in the long term by considering its unique selling points. Let's wait and see who will benefit from friendfeed's death now. - ayca

It's all about the money. I would have payed a couple of dollars each month to use FF. - Rutger Blom

#DONTSELLMYFRIENDFEED - sunipeyk

Seriously, what is this? It's like Bret just announced that he's killed all your mothers or something. It could turn out good, it could turn out bad, but at the end of the day, who cares, it's just a website (I mean honestly, come on). I could see it going either way, but in the near term, this is a pretty big win for the FF team, so congrats guys. - Chieze Okoye

OMG! - keso

To be honest, my heart sank a little but I am happy to congratulate you and the team for building such a good brand. Well done. - Kevin J Hatton

I'm just surprised, that's all. I'm not saying this is a bad thing (it certainly isn't for the owners of FF). I'm willing to sit back and see what happens. - Jason, Craving

Wow, I specifically use friendfeed b/c it is not facebook. Sounds great for the friendfeed team, but not necessarily for friendfeed users. - Evan Parker

Born to be sold, like in the old "new economy" era. Remember the late nineties? - Federico Bolsoman

Sudden desire to check out Strands again... but hey, kudos on the incoming $$ for FF team - Leslie Poston

#DONTSELLMYFRIENDFEED - Kemal

This is wisdom. Bracing for Google Wave is a good idea............. - Kevin J Hatton

this is clearly a talent aquisition... why am i not excited about this? could it be because facebook has been blatantly stealing features from friendfeed shamelessly. Likes were clearly not an original facebook idea...realtime feeds is another i could go on... - Tate DA FF MVP

While I'm sad, because I suspect this means the best things about FF will disappear or I'll be forced to use FB in some way, if the buyout was for some awesome amount of money, I can't say I blame 'em for taking an offer -- I would. - Andy Bakun

I came to FriendFeed because I don't like facebook. Now the question is, will facebook become more like friend feed? or will they just take friend feed and turn it into facebook? - Tom Ray

FF could be a good R&D arm for facebook. - Andy Bakun

My biggest concern here is that FB has a completely different audience than FF. - Rutger Blom

Fucking morons. FriendFeed is doomed now. Think logically. Facebook has NO REASON to keep FriendFeed alive. It will simply take FF's best features, suck the life of out of it, then trash FF. Way to go, FirnedFeed, damn. - Jeremy Buff

Fail. - Big K

Big Fail! - OnuRC

This announcement should have been held off until the plans for Friendfeed were known. Regardless, this is *bad* for FF users. Best case: it continues on, but with stagnated feature development. Worst case: it's gone. - tollie williams

wtf ?! - Umut

I need to install "super PUKE" application ! - Bart LePoole

http://ff.im/6pQcu - Bahriye

FFail. - rowlikeagirl

I don't want my FF feed on Facebook :( I use both, but maintain both profiles separate - Leandro Ardissone ⍨

Sigh... Happy for the team if this is what they want, but baffled by the move. The users that are going to leave because of this will make FF a graveyard and the users it gains, well... Hello spam? Sorry, but I don't like it. - Vince DeGeorge from iPhone

JEREMY+++++1 - Ahmet Alp Balkan

Wow! - felix

Well, I guess it is time to dismantle my friendfeed. We all know where this is headed. So, so glad I didn't move all my rss feeds from greader to friendfeed like so many cheerleaders suggested. - Matthew Speicher

Jeremy +1 - F. Batuhan Icoz

so what's next? where should we go? - Flavio

It's been fun here. - Capn' One Eye - adrift

Dang, and just as I was starting to get used to how FF works. FF is useful on it's own. I hope this only improves FF's system, rather than having it disappear into Facebook's wake. - Don Faulkner

My big question to everybody here is this: What are the potential downsides / upsides to this acquisition? I mean on paper I just don't see what the pros OR cons are. I don't care for Facebook but I don't see how them acquiring FF is going to change everything. - Nicholas Kreidberg

furthermore they are 2 different things: I follow a lot of people here that are not in my facebook list, which is for IRL friends! - Flavio

I don't know where to go next either. I had just settled down to make imaginary friends for all my non-FF tweeps, etc. now, I'm not sure if I should bother. - Don Faulkner from IM

I hope friendfeed continues to operate normally but it does not look good. - ashish

integrate best features of ff to fb, then try to innovate in fb if possible, then kill ff... that's it, cheers, all the best. grrrr... - Kemal

niczak has good points. FF & FB aren't exactly competitors, but they aren't orthogonal either. Let's hope FB's smart enough to see the difference and improve both platforms. - Don Faulkner from IM

Nicholas: The upside for Facebook is they just bought an engineering team that's built many of the feature's Facebook's going to need to stay competitive. The upside for FriendFeed's engineering team is $$$ and the ability to build system for a wider audience. FriendFeed's user base is small enough that it'll either get absorbed into Facebook or move on, and FF will become a footnote on the Internet timeline. - Ken Sheppardson

Don, I don't think FB wants to maintain two platforms. - Rutger Blom

first tr.im (heard about it yesterday), now this. I wasn't a heavy tr.im user (yet), but sad to see it go, even if I think url shortening is silly. - Don Faulkner from IM

As FB said they're interested in the people and not in the site, what if the community will keep running FF without its current staff? - Flavio

Congratulations! - Sam Grover

Flavio, that's not very realistic I'm afraid, but I like the idea. - Rutger Blom

rutgerblom, I don't expect they do either, thus my angst over this. - Don Faulkner from IM

if there's a team willing to do it and money, and if we accept some ads as everywhere else, we could make a new FF without FB - Flavio

I have worked hard in avoiding signing up for FB. Does this mean I now automatically will be on FB by virtue of my FF account? - Tony Vota from iPhone

Tony, most likely - Rutger Blom

read carefully: http://blog.socialthing.com/2009... - Kemal

I'll have to go with Flavio's position too. Given this news (plus tr.im and who knows who's next), I'd tend to favor community supported or federated services for things like this in the future. - Don Faulkner from IM

I am purposely not on facebook because I don't really want to talk to people I have not talked to in 20 years. - Andy Bakun

God help us - Johnny

Once again. I'm happy for the FF team. They worked hard and now collect. That's fair. Wonder if they're sitting in a bubble pool drinking champagne while we cry out here ;-) - Rutger Blom

Congrat Bret!! :)) - Cihan Cepni

trouble is (from my perspective), that the philosophies of the two platforms are at odds. FB wants to bring people to the site and keep them there, while FF is a hub, bringing people in and then sending them back out. (That's part of why it's hard for the newcomer to understand, IMHO.) - Don Faulkner from IM

This almost confirms FF will disappear: http://www.techcrunch.com/2009... - Kol Tregaskes

Great point, Don. - Rutger Blom

+1 Don - Johnny

Does this mean I can throw someone a sheep on FriendFeed now? - Pinksy

I sure hope so, Rutger. I glad for their success too. I just hope there's a next best thing out there for us. - Don Faulkner from IM

Congrats all. Nice work, in spite of any naysaying out there. Keep up the innovation. - Tomas Remotigue

LOLI FFAIL - rael

lame. - andy brudtkuhl

This should be good news for Twitter. - Rutger Blom

post the picture to failblog... - Kemal

Quote «Taylor and Cox say that the Friendfeed product will live on independently, and eventually Friendfeed will be merged into Facebook. But the Friendfeed team is not being kept whole. Some employees will now report to Cox, others to engineering head Mike Schroepfer. In my opinion that means, long term, the Friendfeed product itself is unlikely to be a big priority.¶ But Facebook is... more... - Philipp Lenssen

+1 Kol for the techcrunch article! - Don Faulkner from IM

techcrunch: "Cox agreed, noting that Facebook is focused on being a platform and a service, and not just a destination site." I certainly hope so! - Don Faulkner from IM

Brilliant move by both Facebook and friendfeed. Congratulations!!! I have theories of what they have planned, but I doubt you would verify any of them. This is going to go so well with their SocialTV which they have been developing. I'm so happy for you! - Michael Fidler

Really saddened by this news. - Doug Beeferman

Noooooooooooooooooooooo! - LouCypher

I don't see what's so bad about it since no one knows right now what the outcome will be, everyone is just making assumptions that could possibly be wrong..... Might help just sitting back and seeing what happens first before complaining. - ChaCha Fance

Nooooooooooooooaaaaaaaaarrrrrrrghh! I´ve resisted getting a facebook acct for so long... - Thomas Bøhm

ChaCha, if everybody would do that there would not be much discussion would there? This is part of the fun. - Rutger Blom

I wonder how the discussion over on facebook would compare to this? - Don Faulkner from IM

Drat! - Gee Ekachai

congrats guys! - Elad

Don, I doubt there is any discussion going on there. They're too busy throwing quizes at each other. - Rutger Blom

Congrats, FF! I'm approaching the situation with cautious optimism. A lot of my friends only share stuff via the Facebook wall/feed, so if Facebook is able to make their feed more like the FF feed (i.e. good, instead of sucktacular) through this acquisition, it's mostly a win for me in the end. - Brian Chang

At least my Feedburner stats might go back to normal again. - Rutger Blom

/me pokes Rutger. (just getting in practice. ;) - Don Faulkner from IM

Where will we go for the FFunderCats, bacon memes, and angry artists fighting over photo reshares now? ;) - Tyson Key

Don, LOL :-) - Rutger Blom

If anybody has doubts as to what happens to the FriendFeed community or our stored information here, read this statement from Bret (in this thread) "Your data will not go away any time in the near term future - we are committed to our users". Now maybe you can see "whats so bad about it" and curb your optimism. Not good. - jcunwired

Congrats FF. Fix their live feed situation please. - Edward Barnieh

@josh: do you think FB will throw away all the crap people use? various quiz, pick 5 and so on? - Flavio

@jc: our data will not go away in the near future. what will be in few months? in a year? - Flavio

Let's see if you can do a bit better than just not being evil this time around. - Tim Tyler

Wooohooo!!, seems like we are being sent back to "good" old Facebook. Congrats Bret!! - Danli

Looks like I'm going to repeat the same thing many others did. My first reaction was "Oh my..." I have refused to join Facebook due to its philosophy while I have been with FriendFeed from the beginning for its. I'm sad and somewhat apprehensive. - Sean Leather

Congrats. I suppose this means the end of FriendFeed but hopefully a better Facebook. - Harry Toon

Hmm. Interesting. - Ralf Becker

Add me to the fearful group. - beersage

Please say that facebook.com will be shutting down, and the combined company will still be called FriendFeed... I bet it won't happen, though. - Tyson Key

"Regarding FB/FF - Here's how it's [probably] going to work. You will most likely have an account merge, all of the services FriendFeed supports will now be aggregated on Facebook, and all of your FriendFeed friends will be in a "list" on Facebook. The FF Groups will become Facebook Groups. The FF lists will become Facebook Lists." http://ff.im/6pNxq - Ozgur Uckan

Nothing like an early retirement payout :) - Owen Greaves

Congrat Bret - Nimaa

Panic attack. Congratulations, however! :) - Frère Noël

Congratulations Bret. For me this merger makes a lot of sense. Facebook will provide the "quantity" of users, which friendfeed deserves :). - Karthick R

:( - goodmachine

FriendFeed + Facebook... Oh noes FriendFace is coming (http://www.youtube.com/watch...)! Now sorry for that link, and seriously, thanks for your work, guys. Please don't let the spirit of FriendFeed to be blown away =) - Anton

СУКИ-СУКИ-СУКИ!!!! - Viktor

hey, that is great guys! interested to see how you integrate. - Brian Walsh

Mind blown. Never expected this. I'm also disappointed, yet optimistic at the same time. - Angus Burton

Kinda curious to see how this will all pan out...although i wouldnt want the friendfeed stuff just integrated into facebook. I feel like im among a group of people who i genuinely share interests with here...dont want to lost that. - Cassidy

Best case: Facebook will continue to support and develop FriendFeed. Worst case: this is great news for Amplifeeder. - David Gaw

aieeeeeeeeeee - Richard Akerman

FAIL. Facebook is the new myspace, and now friendfeed will become a part of that BS. Can't say I'm too surprised because eventually we all sell out. BTW I don't see friendfeed lasting more than the rest of this year, if that. The good news is that we can all be subjected to add 'Are you related to a monkey?' and Blackjack apps while having annoying personal ads on our profile pages. Fuck this shit. - Tomy Thomson

Well done, well deserved, I hope FB's means and infrastructures empower your guys to even better things. But if quizzes appear in "my" friendfeed, evil things will haunt you and your descendents for 3 generations. - Joelle Nebbe (iphigenie)

:( - Eph Zero

Well done Bret! - Alemsah Ozturk

♪ ♪ This is the end.... beautiful friends ♪ ♪ - All for design

Well, I don't see the point of sticking around here if I have accounts in both and this is going to get swallowed whole into Facebook anyways. Put simply, goodbye. - Micah Collard

It was fun while it lasted. - Mr. Gunn

NNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!! This place will be just like twitter... - The Count Rob

Congrats to the FF team - you've built a wonderful product! - Michael Nielsen

Whattttttttttttttttttttt??? - Nibi

The social community that has been behind FriendFeed creators have built a wonderful product. Only problem is, we don't have Zuck's checkbook :( - jcunwired

friendfeed is a beautiful product, only god knows what facebrook will do to it. Hopefully the ability to upload files (such as mp3s) will not be removed. Zuck is a tool. - Nibi

Congratulations. I'm sorry to say that I don't plan to move with you. - Lars Juhl Jensen

I don't like this.... - Zeki Pehlivan

"Like" to follow this thread. Not because I like what happened. I'm horrified. FF could disappear now. - Kamilah Gill

Same here, Kamilah. - Tyson Key

If FriendFeed had invented the "don't like" button, today would have been the day to press it. - Vishal Verma

and I just bought BuddyFeed for my iPhone this weekend. :( - Don Faulkner from IM

Oh, joy, Facebook's privacy policy is upon us! - Joris

WTF?? NOOOOO!!! Why do such good things have to be ruined by greed? Screw Facebook, and goodbye Friendfeed. - Jason R. Hunter

congratulations! - Loic Le Meur

Facebook is lucky to have such a talented group of people ... Congratulations FriendFeed! - Rob Kurrus

doesn't look like a bad joke, better be for the good then, but... Well congrats anyway guys, you did something AWESOME now let's see where Mark takes it - Dobromir Hadzhiev

That's too bad. Liked the openness if FriendFeed, and the lack crap that is on Facebook. Once FriendFeed dies, it will be Twitter only. - Mike D.

Congrats, but concerned that FriendFeed and its tools may disappear. Merging the tools with Facebook seems impossible. - Mike Reynolds

Congrats guys (and gals) ! - Benjy Weinberger

So, what does the acquisition of FriendFeed by Facebook mean to us, users of both websites: Can I make a friend request from FriendFeed, and be approved for both, on one click - Reyna Carlos

Exciting news guys. I am actually looking forward to your collaboration with / work for FB. No matter what people may or may not like about FB, it does succeed in reaching a more "diverse" audience compared to most other Web 2.0/social web companies. Paired with your team's excellence in realizing features that succeed in pleasing the geekiest of Web 2.0 affine individuals, I think you are steering towards exciting waters :) - Mustafa K. Isik

*heart sinks* actually a bit of shock - I think that Facebook will leave Friendfeed as-is but I don't think there is hope for future innovation in Friendfeed since their best superstar team members will be pulled onto 'more important' Facebook issues... - Pon

And the metastasizing, walled-garden that is Facebook, continues to eat the Web. Bring on Google Wave. - Christopher A Carr

:-) + :-( very happy for the team, huge achievement, hoping to see export of innovation but not a shut down of this unique community and location - Majento

There goes FriendFeed down the toilet. well I WAS having a good day. until hearing this crap! - Scratch5150

Congratulations, and best wishes for your future together! :-) - Ruchira S. Datta

Wow, I was beginning to use Friendfeed as my defacto social site...Facebook is more for real life friends. They'll just take what makes Friendfeed great, add it to Facebook and slowly kill this site. - Manuel Mas

What is the big deal? I think it'll make FF bigger and better. You should be happy about that! - orionstarr

Somebody has to got pay for it. - orionstarr

I am disappointed. I don't want to have to go to Facebook to do what i do here. I can not imagine they will port over all the features we enjoy here. We lose a lot for only a slight benefit to Facebook. - Robert

It could be worse, myspace could've bought them lol... - orionstarr

Awful news for users but congratulations to you guys. Ideally, FB will run FF as a distinct service but I'm not hopeful. I don't want the diversity and noise that facebook brings - people doing quizzes on which movie star they resemble and playing silly games. I also wanted to keep my day to day social activity distinct from the targeted information and discussion I use FF for. - Rajit

Only just started taking a serious look at FF after hearing acquisition by FB. Sounds like I'm laggard rather than a leader in use of web 2.0 - ManojRanaweera

I think how Pon said it is what I'm feeling: *heart sinks*. - Andy Bakun

Congratulations, i am really happy for you guys!! :) - Mona Nomura

I'm not a Facebook fan, but can't begrudge the FF gang their chance to reap the rewards for all their hard work. However, it would be a shame if FB ruins the good thing we all have going here. - Ken Morley

So what now? a name change too? FriendFace? FeedBook? FaceFeed? god Facebook really sucks. oh well. Adds anyone? - Scratch5150

Congrats to the FF team... I hope the service doesn't disappear into a fold of light and heat. - Brandon

if all the things that make FF great are brought to FB then I'll be happy to use it - Mike Chelen

The community won't be there. Been on FB longer than any other, don't have nearly the relationship or sense of community there that I do here or on Twitter. - Karoli

Karoli: that is due to the effectiveness of the FF platform and interface, which help to join conversations and find interesting people more so than FB does - Mike Chelen

Mike: I suspect that FB wants FF for the search possibilities, not the community-building aspects. But we'll see. - Karoli

i guess congrats are in order, but I'm going to now go and remove everything I have that feeds into FF, and I have to ask -- do I have any rights over my archive? I have a private feed, and I have no interest in offering up my lifestream to the FaceBook data-miners. I hope the FF folks get what they hope for out of the deal, but my FriendFeed experience has been effectively killed. - RudĩϐЯaЯïan

I just learned about the FF acquisition by Facebook - WOW~! Congratulations Bret, Paul and FF team!! holy cow ........Mooooooooo! Where's the FF Acquisition Party? :) - Susan Beebe

Friendfeed after Facebook http://ff.im/6q5EY - Ozgur Uckan

Wow thats cool! - AbZ from Nambu

RT @alirizaesin FriendFeed, R.I.P. Home tweet home!.. - Ozgur Uckan

Congrats to facebook. Now, Twitter is the best. - Ebru Baranseli

Congratulations to the FriendFeed guys on the Facebook Acquisition. Not a big fan of Facebook, so I hope my favorite Uber Aggregator, Realtime Social, Microblogging site of awesomeness is not entirely absorbed into the Facebook infrastructure. I wait with baited breath to hear what "normally for the time being" means ;). - Tom Horn

Can I now have comments propagate in both directions as far as Facebook/Friendfeed is concerned? - Piaw Na

*checks date*. Damn .. not April 1st, must be for real. While I'm happy for the FF team, since I guess this is what they wanted (congrats guys!), I can't help but think this is the beginning of the end for a great service and a vibrant community. There are reasons I don't spend any time on Facebook and do spend lots of time on FF, and some kind of "FF integrated into Facebook" just won't cut it. I hope this service will live on for at least a few more years. - Andrew Perry

Gratz to the FF team but as a user I'm not completely happy. In short, I like the FF team/product much more than I like the FB team/product. Best of luck to all. - timepilot

Dang! I've killed another site! Sorry guys... FF was doing fine until I started coming here again! Same with Pownce! Went there and liked it... went underground for a spell... came back and still liked it, so I stayed. A few months later... BOOM! I have the touch! (I'm thinking I'll start devoting a lot of time to Twitter... maybe I can kill that one, too!) - Mark "Mr Bolivious" J

Все, блядь, пиздец! - ǝuǝƃnǝ

WOW - very happy for all of you :-) - Kishore Balakrishnan

Bret, congrats on the acquisition. You guys put in a lot of hard work to create this community. I just hope you learned the mistakes Pownce made, Jaiku etc, and ensured that you didn't sell out your community, but that you helped it evolve into something as great as this into something better. Good luck in future endeavors! - Mike Lewis

Oh yeah? Ok: take tour money and go to the hell. :-((( - Claude LaFrenière

Yay for you guys, I mean that seriously, I 'like' what this means for you personally, but -1000000 cool points for doing it with FB. Sad day. - Threepwood

Karoli: FF search is so useful because it is integrated with all the other great features that help to find relevant content. if FB wants to have a similar capability, they must also develop the underlying architecture. - Mike Chelen from IM

Sucks big time. - Drea

Sadness - Yasin Jason

I can't believe this happened - Johnny

Suggested name: FailFriend. :-((( - Claude LaFrenière

Friend facebooks feed (FFF) - Filiz Koyuncu

«Experience shows that those who never trust anyone will never be disappointed.» Leonardo da Vinci - Claude LaFrenière

So what exactly is going to happen? Is FF eventually going to disappear? Will it merge into the Facebook interface? Please don't do that - Ethan

Gimme my OPML export - Sriks7

Money is the root of all evil - Shakeel Mahate

shakeel, the reasons for friendfeed to join facebook are probably about other things besides money, since many of the FF staff left high-paying jobs to join in the first place - Mike Chelen from IM

Well I've thought about it, and I'll stick around until I start seeing that crappy Facebook logo, I only have 71 subscribers here, I hate to do it but I'll probably scrap the whole thing and start over somewhere else. still can't believe that shit. - Scratch5150

Congrats, team! It's bittersweet, though. - Anne Bouey

So now we will have FriendFeed blocked at work too. Darn. - Mark Scrimshire

"Your data will not go away any time in the near term future" is not exactly inspiring for the long term for those of us who came here to escape Facebook for a) it's walled garden and b) privacy concerns. Nice for the Founders to make a pile of cash but for the many of us, it feels like we got sold down the river. Sad. - Sally Church

This is tragic. Tragic. Tragic. - Ahsan Ali aka. Slick

cacarr: updates for FB have progressed rapidly in the past, count how many months since new features such as api calls and site redesigns have have been implemented - Mike Chelen from IM

I can't believe it either. I feel as if — for the moment — I am lost in the wilderness, adrift. - roamin

Congratulation to the FF team! You guys deserves this. I just hope that Facebook does not change the directions of FF. - Vinko

congrats, I'm happy for friendfeed... - amelia arapoff

Congrats you guys, well deserved. - Shey, Jamaican of FF

Congrats Bret! Hope the transition goes smoothly for you guys. - Cristo

I hope this means better integration: liking here will auto-like on fb and such :D if that's the case, I won't mind the ads *wink* *wink* - 'Like' robot (frɐnc)

Franc, cant stand facebook ads in their current format, hope they will be fixed eventually :P - Mike Chelen from IM

Grats, dont spend it all in one place..... - Robert Higgins

congrads. I think it will be good for BOTH companies. - Logan Lindquist

boo. - kelly

The Borg has struck. Alas. Prepare to be assimilated. (Will FB add my FF subscriptions to my FB friends list?) - Dennis Jernberg

Boo - Amit Morson

Logan: What do you mean by "both" companies? - Christopher A Carr

Now that you guys have $$$ you should swap out the not so very pleasing default avatar! - See-ming Lee 李思明 SML

Hope you guys enjoy your new jobs. Meanwhile we get to watch a great alternative to Facebook with a promising future go down the tubes. A really sad and unfortunate day. - Todd Holmes

BOO! Hiss! Mondays really do suck. - Dale

Congratulations to all the FriendFeed team. I hope you'll be able to keep the FriendFeed spirit up at Facebook. Kudos for all the great work you've been doing. - Paul Papadimitriou

Congrats and good luck.. - Can Koklu

Thanks for all the fish. Saving the so long... for now. - abacab

Goodbye FF, it was wonderful.. - Francesco Cugurra

I use FriendFeed and Facebook so it would be awesome to see FF features in Facebook. Congratulations! - krzychukula from IM

judging by the nearly 600 comments as i type this, including my own earlier one, FF could use a Don't Like button as well. or would, if we were going to be using it much longer. - kelly

Nice, i like to wish you all the best for your new job (and it's really hard, i know). I'm happy, but... don't let die FF!! - Seo (ignobile) Guru

Hope FriendFeed remains open. Love the spirit of FF - Bernaldo Barrena

Seriously, what a coincidence! Just on Saturday I claimed to be both twitter- and facebook-free. I loved FF product and personally helped to bring at least a dozen of my friends into the community. I'll stick around for a while though. - ǝuǝƃnǝ

This deal makes sense, now fb developers do not need to figure out how ff does it because they can just ask! Congrats facebook and ff! - Garin Kilpatrick

I suppose Facebook had to do it, with Twitter and Google Wave as competitor... - Alexander Kruel

обычные дела. http://www.youtube.com/watch... - ǝuǝƃnǝ

Congratulations Friendfeed :D - paniaguai

Ok. I'll quit friendfeed, so. Goodbye. Ciao - valerio fiandra from iPhone

I am noticing a lot of people going to re-esumate their lifestream.fm account now! - Flavio

I don't think FB acquiring FF is bad. But I don't think it's good either. We'll see. :-) In the meantime, keep up the good work! - Alexander Gieg

Oh shit. Love FF, hate FB. I'll NEVER, EVER merge my two accounts. I'd rather unsub from both than merging. I'll wait for the developments, and in the meantime look for an alternative. - Alliandre (la Ippe)

How long until ex-FriendFeed employees start jumping ship from Facebook? I wonder... - Tyson Key

Thomas Power still believes that Facebook/FF/Linkedin (2010) will be acquired by Apple (2011) and this is a transitional acquisition in the SN market cycle. The world is shifting to Mac, iTunes, iPhones and FB own the next generation. Apple have $29bn of cash on deposit price is not an issue. Google must jump for twitter while MS fiddle in the sticks with Yahoo. BillG will be back at the MS helm 2012. - Penny Power

:( Happy for FF people, sad for the service. Was going to move from fb to ff this week.. - Martynas

congrats! - Ronald

thts good!so i can workin both in my Fb online next - Arini dewi muchtaram

Flavio: never heard of lifestream.fm before, but I'm going to go check it out. I'll reiterate, though, that I'm now shy of any service like this, since it can disappear just as it's getting good. I heard about sweetcron.com last night (via http://ff.im/6pR2w). Maybe it's time to move from centralized to distributed again. - Don Faulkner

Just finished setting up my lifestream.fm at http://lifestream.fm/dfaulkner. Lifestream does what it says, and no more. FF's search blows lifestream away. FF is more flexible about adding source feeds, but lifestream does fine without the flexibility I suppose. FF still wins, or would, if I thought it would be sticking around. :P - Don Faulkner

Must See - Hitler blows up over Facebook / FriendFeed - http://friendfeed.com/dffrnt... - Ahsan Ali aka. Slick

Dave, I'm not happy. That video gave me some much needed comic relief .. after waking up to this news. - Ahsan Ali aka. Slick

good for you, bad for us - Zachary Earl Strader

I also hate facebook, not because of their silly quizzes and pokes, but because I suspect they would like to maintain massive user base as the determining factor in choosing a social network. I would love to switch to orkut as I use so many other google services, but I can't because nobody else does. That should not be my criteria.... I thought friendfeed would try to make social networks work together. - Ru Viljoen

I don't understand why everyone is so negative about the situation? - orionstarr

@orionstarr - it's like Starbucks buying your neighborhood coffee shop and saying it still cares about the customers. You know it's just not going to be the same as what you've come to love. - Robin Barooah

Presumably FF will go on the back burner - and the team will try and "fix" Facebook. - Tim Tyler

sad, sad, sad. - scott willeke

Congratulations! That's huge. I hope all is well. - Juan Bruce

bad bad bad - kakilang

bye bye friendfeed! - Jonathan Crossland

Why-eee!!! ??? What next? - Wayne Lewis

I've watched Facebook morph from a relatively organised and well implemented social networking tool into the hulking mess it is now - and I really, really hope that a similar thing doesn't happen here with the inevitable changes this will bring about. - Leslie Moore

Come on guys, out with the long-term game plan, this is tedious. - Andrew Eglinton

NOOOOOOOOOOOOooooooooooooooooooooooooooo, I mean Cool. - sofarsoShawn

Teach Facebook how to be FriendFeed. Let the small but fast teach the big but slow. Don't forget what Paul says - don’t be evil. - whatidiscover

Robert Scoble

I guess I need to start using my Facebook Page at http://www.facebook.com/scoblei... more. How about you?

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I only post stuff there that I don't care about Facebook owning - Bwana ☠

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No,I think friendfeed is lot better for my use. - ashish

You need a fan page not a regular one! :-) - Gregg Morris

We've already got a list going: http://ff.im/6pQHM :-) - Kol Tregaskes

And no, I'm not using Facebook more. - Kol Tregaskes

Why? Do you think FriendFeed will soon be useless? - Angus Burton

I think it is a good thing. - Paul L. McCord Jr.

I'm not sure how I feel about Friend Feed joining facebook - Robert Freeze

Didn't, don't and prbl will not LOL - Lora Lufark

This won't make me use Facebook more. It'll just make me look for a FriendFeed alternative. - Richard Akerman

FF will be integrated into FB in the long term. - Kol Tregaskes

I don't use facebook for several reasons, chiefly closed-data silo and too much noise - so probably will not follow anyone on facebook like I did on friendfeed. - bear (aka Mike Taylor)

Again, I think people are being a bit fatalistic about the FB acquisition. It's the first frigging day and people are already jumping ship? Relax people. Let's see what happens. - Jason, Craving

@Jason I think it's fair to say that friendfeed's days are numbered, seeing as how the entire friendfeed team will soon be working on FB full-time. - Tomy Thomson

Tony agree: http://www.techcrunch.com/2009... - Kol Tregaskes

+1 Bwama - Jim Goldstein

That's what they want you to do...don't do it! - beersage

I'm personally starting a search for something else instead, because Facebook cannot possibly hope to be as useful as FriendFeed is. - Otto

I'll have to reopen my Facebook account first :( - Burçak Çubukçu

The FF team is splitting - http://www.techcrunch.com/2009... This is the beginning of the end of FriendFeed (as we know it) It's only a matter of time. - Bwana ☠

I have reopened my account this evening. Sucks though, I closed it because I didn't need it due to FF! - Travis Koger

No change for me. Friendfeed is still my de-facto SocNet aggregrator. - Rudy Amid

Plus I need to eat more roughage. - Tom Landini

I did it today. It's getting a bit better, compared to what it used to be. But it *is* very FriendFeed-y. - Rodrigo Jaroszewski

I deactivated my Facebook a couple of months ago. Not a fan of pokes and useless apps. - richrecruiter

Why do you "guess" you have to? - Bas

Bas: because when I interviewed FriendFeed and Facebook today they didn't have a good roadmap of where they were going. So everything we do is guesses from now on. - Robert Scoble

Already have been. http://www.facebook.com/melanie... I also do all our NP's social media there for the past year. It's great for business orientation . I was using both services equally but for different things. I liked the geek community here. I think that will be gone and I will miss it. - Melanie Reed

I am so strongly prejudiced against facebook. They are all cool with information going in but not out. Hate how they cornered the mass market. How is a competitor ever going to exist unless they make their data portable? In the mean time, I will resentfully continue to find it unbelievably useful... - Ru Viljoen

I think Facebook should work on image/page loading before trying to acquire companies. Sad day. - Johnny

Correct Robert they don't have a good road map and they are still tracking dog pooh all over the net with the spam issue. They are failing to take responsibility for that smut and clean it up and put in some very strong defensive measures to counteract this crap from running into any new promising services and networks. Unbelievable - Jeunelle Foster

I only use Facebook because so many old friends from real life are there: high school, college, former jobs. But it's all noise, little signal, and they have such a blatant disregard for their users that it's not a network I care to invest in. That they acquired Friendfeed just means I'll be using it less. I pretty much use FF to stay tuned into what social media folks are talking about... more... - Criz

No. My content is mine not Facebooks - Edward Craddock

Why not start using this one? http://www.profilactic.com/mashup... - April Russo (app103)

strange, I just started mine and decided to consolidate on FB for now to cut time. - http://www.facebook.com/pages... - Sid Burgess

Nope. Not going to do it. Wish you the best though. I'm heading to Google Reader and back to IRC and old forums that I used to hang out at. Subscribe to my google reader feed if you wish. - CW™

I am probably going to use this a lot more, maybe regain my status in the top 10 posters on the site. http://www.donationcoder.com/Forums... I'll never be top poster there, not possible, but #2 is doable with a lot of hard work. - April Russo (app103)

Nope, not interested. - Jeff P. Henderson

I use FB for a completely different circle of people. I continue to be disappointed by the desire by SNS to smush every time of relationship into one or two buckets (mostly one..."friend"). There is very little overlap between my FB "friends" and my FF ones, and I won't change that. If there's an attempt to force a convergence by the FF/FB team, I'll just shut this down. - Ken Kennedy

@april russo - would Profilactic still having a link to Summize on their front page be a good indication that they might be dragging their feet a little - Andy Beard

ok, so how do we roll our own? - April Russo (app103)

Facebook is Mafia Wars - Mattb4rd

I am doing the same thing. - Chris Lentz

Robert Scoble

Oh, FriendFeed is now Facebook’s “official” R&D department! - http://scobleizer.com/2009...

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My reactions to today's news! - Robert Scoble

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SCOBLE YOU MUST GET THEM TO KEEP FRIENDFEED PURE-- and RUNNING!! AAAGGGH [ i just heard 5 minutes ago. I'm on vacation ] :) - Schneider Mike

Interesting thoughts. - Angus Burton

Bummer - not likely to be an improvement - Internet Strategist

Friendfeed is no longer .. all that's left is the flick of the switch. - John Blanton

It's nice for the FF peeps. They'll see what it's like to deliver new features for a decent size user base. - mrshl

Mike: I wouldn't worry about FriendFeed. I see it as Facebook's R&D department now. We're the test bunnies for what 300 million people will get! :-) - Robert Scoble

Now Friendfeed will be able to go head to head with Google wave! So long as the team are allowed to lead from within Facebook how can this possibly be bad? - Ade Lack

I want a FB test bunny t-shirt ;) - Jeff (the マクダジ of FF)

Nice comments. Also looking forward to realtime search and 300M+ users ... watch that in realtime! My screen will melt I guess. - Peter van Teeseling

I'm only really sad because it completely breaks my on-line life. I'm excited for the FF team and for FB but that's only one aspect and I don't see how it can be merged. - James Myatt

I think it'll make fan pages even cooler. - Gus

Mark: can you verify that this is a real account somehow? Tell us something about what we did in Davos together that I didn't share. - Robert Scoble

Robert, the user name for Zuck misspells his name, just like he misspelled yours. - Louis Gray

Mark, if that is really you. Please don't let people on FB find users on FF. Some of us are looking for the anti-social web. Private groups and no friend requests from long lost classmates was a big plus over here. - Chip Ramsey

Username is "markzukerberg"? .. - Mads Kristiansen

Robert: from what I can tell most FF users do not share your enthusiasm or optimism. From what I can see FriendFeed team members will be absorbed into Facebook R&D, FriendFeed as a property will whither and most will cash out as soon as they can. Do you have some other information that you can share that supports your optimism? - Brian Sullivan

My reactions to today's news! ~ http://ff.im/6pPEE :D - CannonGod

One of the worst things for me is that many employers, including the site I'm working at, block Facebook, but not Friendfeed. - James Myatt

James - www.anonymizer.com/ ? - Jeff (the マクダジ of FF)

Robert: Do you have *any* reason at all to believe that friendfeed will survive as a distinct entity? - Christopher A Carr

How does everyone know what's going to happen? I prefer Rob's tone of "what should happen" - fear vs possibility - Ankush Narula from iPhone

Really interesting perspective you provide here. I was thinking this whole time that this would hit Twitter hard, but I see now that Google might be the real target, because of the whole real-time search. Nonetheless, I love all the Google employees that are hoping facebook becomes more "open" in the process. Something tells me facebook doesn't care about being open, but being a... more... - Rahul Krishnakumar

Christopher: http://www.techcrunch.com/2009... It clearly seems that facebook will use friendfeed to be a playground for future features. - Rahul Krishnakumar

Rahul: That's not encouraging. I don't see how you get that from that article. - Christopher A Carr

Wait I owe Scoble an apology. I read several places that he had a financial interest in Friend Feed. That information , if true,clouded my perception of his commentary of FF. If you believed that true, he comes across as a shill trying to protect his investment IMHO. In his blog post he denounces any financial connection. Now I feel stupid because good practices dictate that he would have disclosed such in his writings. I suck sorry Robert. - cheapsuits from iPhone

Hmmm - I keep my FB social, private, and mainly family. I keep FF public and work-oriented only. Will I need two accounts? Or just delicate messing about with privacy controls? I'm not looking forward to shifting - may FF last a long while still. FB is too busy, and FF is lightweight and gives me exactly what I want, with a much cleaner interface. Thanks very much Robert, your blog post is much appreciated! - Allyson Lister

cheapsuits: Robert has said 1,000 + times that he has no financial interest in ff. - Christopher A Carr

Robert, how can you say you don't get how FF users are sad and up in arms? FB's attitudes and culture are different enough for this to be a serious shock. In short, lots of people think FF=good, FB=bad, for better or worse. Your own list of cons is enough to get FF users up in arms. - Don Faulkner

Christopher I see it now. Easy to see what he said when it isn't filtered by FF haters. What more can I say then I suck? I surely am not going to kill myself over it. - cheapsuits from iPhone

Thrilled for Paul, but amused that FB's first big land grab is another biz that isn't monetized properly either! Arrogance or Ignorance? - Jan Simmonds

Jan, FF has some great technology and some great people. It's not about the service itself. - James Myatt

cheapsuits: I'm sure you are forgiven. ;-) - Christopher A Carr

Here's why people are up in arms: I think it's in the company's best interests to keep the properties existing separately ... especially since like you said, it's a geekier community on FF. Why not integrate the cool *features* FF has within Facebook but keep friendfeed.com as-is? - Tamar Weinberg

I agree this is more of a play against Google. I think eventually Twitter and Facebook will team up more to provide real time streams of user updates between the two systems. I wonder if the first step is using FF for the collection of these streams and the next step is acquiring the method of pushing these streams or content. - CodeSamurai

FF = Facebook Labs - Andrew

I like the separate sites and maybe they will allow both options, Facebook is too busy for me and Friend Feed cuts to the chase and I hope we don't see "FaceFeed" with everything combined without options. - MedicalQuack

They got some talented people at FriendFeed. - Kenneth Yeh

Alex Scoble

There is no defense against Denial of Service (DOS) attacks. The bad guys can always throw more bandwidth at the attack than you can.

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Can a DoS attack be traced? - Dave "Freedom 35"

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The datacenter really needs to handle this in their routers and packet filtering. Expecting web sites to deal DDOS attacks won't work. - Todd Hoff

Just tuning in right now - is Twitter down from a DOS attack? - Dean "Karnatos" Michaud

Twitter (web) is back up. - Dave "Freedom 35"

A DOS is very hard to trace since it's typically done with a zombie network. And you can't route your way out of a DOS attack. - Alex Scoble from IM

There are ways to defend against DDOS attacks. Generally, you run out of CPU before you run out of bandwidth. - Wirehead

No, there really isn't any way to defend against a DOS these days. - Alex Scoble from IM

A lot are accomplished with broadcast and other techniques that can be stopped at the router. - Todd Hoff

I disagree, Alex. - Glen, Bespectacled Elder

That's crazy! - Kelby

And as pointed out by Mashable - the trending topics on twitter were "Tweet Created" and "Twitter Zombies" - guruvan (Rob Nelson)

they are just shutdown their system to make us talk about them. - abdellah

DoS attacks can be traced, but are rarely used, Distributed DoS attacks originate from so many different points there is no point in tracing the sources - guruvan (Rob Nelson)

Well, you want to see how good your DOS defenses are? Put up a website saying "Our systems are able to withstand a DOS attack so do your best" and see what happens. :) - Alex Scoble from IM

Entities having large zombie nets are difficult to defeat in a DDoS attack. Unless you're the ISP, they have more than you do. - guruvan (Rob Nelson)

Google is probably very DDOS resistant because of how distributed their stuff is, but most places can't duplicate that defense. And it's possible for a zombie net to be able to chew up more bandwidth than an ISP has - Alex Scoble from IM

And I guarantee you that friendfeed is just as vulnerable to a DOS attack as Twitter is. - Alex Scoble from IM

And you'll notice that I'm not differentiating between DOS and DDOS, because a DDOS is a DOS and is now the most common type of DOS. - Alex Scoble from IM

Alex - that worries me the most about FF. :) - phil baumann

Depends on the class of DOS, but bandwidth exhaustion DDOS attacks are certainly one of the hardest to defend one's self from. - ax0n

I suggest you all take the time to tour the rest of the Internet! Remember there's more than AOL...I mean Twitter out there! - ‘-.-’ Tutivillus Grift

Yeah, ax0n, that's what I'm saying. :) - Alex Scoble from IM

I don't give two poos about Twitter being down - but broadly speaking, can't good IPSes doing packet inspection mitigate this shit (if the attack is not too high-octane in its own available bandwidth, that is.) Although as Wirehead said, you'll be melting CPUs before anything else, I'd think. - Anthony Citrano

Here is some research. http://nms.lcs.mit.edu/papers... I'm not fond of words such as impossible, or technical discussion that lacks technical detail. - Jason Wehmhoener

Well, let's just say it's a lot harder for a service provider to make it impossible to do a DDOS than it is for an attacker to make it impossible to use your service. :) - Alex Scoble from IM

I can't post a new thread on FF - ERROR! - Liza

But yes, the title of this thread should be "For most of the world, there is no defense..." Large organizations like Google can do some things to defend against DOS attacks, like run behind distributed server farms...but 99.9% of the world is not Google. - Alex Scoble from IM

Then again, this is probably why a lot of people are interested in cloud computing. If distributed systems are the best defense for a DOS, then cloud computing would be a great way to run public web based services. - Alex Scoble from IM

If these DDOSes are coming from zombie machines, those machines are probably prone to infection, which means you need your own botnet to attack the zombies and install your own botnet software on them. Whoever makes a botnet that uses DDOSes as a way to find more machines will eventually grow the biggest botnet out there. ;) - Amit Patel

Heh yeah, and you are starting to see more sophisticated zombie attacks that harden the zombies that they take over to make it harder for other zombie attackers to take over their zombie nets. - Alex Scoble

just boot your machine in safe mode with networking and run Spybot Search & Destroy, Malwarebytes Anti-Malware, and your anti-virus scans - if it's not cleaned out by that then you might as well re-install windows (which is a good idea from the start since you never really know if you got rid of any rootkits) sometimes it's quicker to reinstall windows than to go through all that - Chris Heath

Yeah, that doesn't defend you from a DDOS attack though. That just cleans out malware if your PC has become a zombie and is part of a DDOS attack. :) - Alex Scoble from IM

Actually there are companies that sell protection against DDoS. It works. - Leo Laporte

Agree with @Jason here is another link to share for DDoS Attack/Defense Taxonomies http://www.lasr.cs.ucla.edu/ddos.... I think the key to remember is that the DDoS attacks evolve over time. I can see even clouds being vulnerable in that conceivably one can use linked clouds to launch large enough attacks to overwhelm a single vendors ability to scale. Has not happened yet but possible. - Altan Khendup

There is tremendous vulnerability if they can take Twitter down. - rob

Twitter just isn't that large, or that distributed. I'm impressed if they can take down Facebook, or Google. (it seems that Facebook was suffering at the same time, and my suspicion is from the same attack - but maybe not) - guruvan (Rob Nelson)

Does anyone know at this point who is responsible for the attack? This would require a huge bot-net and some serious bandwidth. - Angus Burton

Great FF conversation here about outages, cause, impacts, etc. ----> http://ff.im/6fF0t - Susan Beebe

Yeah, Alex... I was commenting in reference to the hardening of the zombies - Chris Heath

There is a defense, employing a network element which can route around obstacles: carrier pigeons. http://crankypm.com/2009... - DGentry

There's a denial of service attack that can be used against pigeons...requires a shotgun and someone who knows how to use it :) - Alex Scoble from IM

DGentry: There's a follow up to that IP over Carrier Pigeon, IP over Tanks. Paint the 0s and 1s on the side of a tank turret, and such. Helps to defeat Alex's DoS attack on the pigeons. At least to DoS it you need a bigger gun ;) - guruvan (Rob Nelson)

Chris Heath: more simple way of defeating rootkits: Run the machine as a Virtual Machine, and always roll back to a clean snapshot on reboot. I've employed that method for a long time. Defeats rootkits, viruses, stupid users, and all that. Works for any OS you can run in the VM. - guruvan (Rob Nelson)

Still not 100% effective. There are ways to take control of the host machine that is running a VM. - Alex Scoble from IM

Nothing is 100% effective, short of sealing the machine 1 mile underground in a concrete-filled missle silo. - guruvan (Rob Nelson)

And FWIW: I have not yet heard any significant news of bare-metal hypervisors (which replace the host OS and which I was referring to above) being compromised (but it will come, or is here already and quiet) - guruvan (Rob Nelson)

Which breaks rule #1 Must meet business needs - Alex Scoble from IM

Ahh, sorry, when you say VM I think of the more traditional VMs running on a traditional OS - Alex Scoble from IM

LOL. Yes - but it does make the point of what must be done to truly secure a machine. There is no such thing as 100% security with any remaining functionality - guruvan (Rob Nelson)

I mostly meant things like VMWare ESXi (which doesn't even use a traditional OS for management purposes any more. (ESX is a bare-metal hyper visor, but uses a RH variant as a management box) - guruvan (Rob Nelson)

Yeah, that stuff is pretty sweet. - Alex Scoble from IM

And ESXi is free I believe. If the virtual hardware would just run a video game, I'd run everything like that ;) - guruvan (Rob Nelson)

Great point Rob (bringing up virtualization) -- and for anyone interested in this stuff, Hak.5 has done a lot of virtualization in season 5 http://www.hak5.org/categor... They get into ESX and ESXi in the later half of the season but virtualization is often a topic for one of their segments. - Chris Heath

@guruvan (Rob Nelson): there is the alleged Blue Pill hypervisor root kit. http://bit.ly/JCmmP - Nick Lothian

Not to mention the experimental (allegedly) work of installing viruses on things like graphics controllers - Alex Scoble from IM

I wouldn't doubt if it was completely real, Alex. You read about the Apple keyboard bit? - Matthew Horton

No, I missed that one...got a link? - Alex Scoble from IM

Granted it's not done remotely yet - http://www.engadget.com/2009... - Matthew Horton

@Alex Scoble: most DDOS attacks aren't designed to use up your bandwidth - they generally hit others limits a long time before that. The most common type of attack opens up lots and lots of connections to your website at once. That makes your webservers fall over. For added variety some hold the connections open, so they appear just like a slow web browser, making it harder to detect. - Nick Lothian

Yep, but if an attacker so chooses, they may rent out a botnet from various individuals and jam your internet connections as well. - Alex Scoble from IM

And Matthew, that keyboard hack is crazy awesome. - Alex Scoble from IM

The biggest mistake that any designer, engineer or programmer can make is to forget about layer zero in the OSI model...the user layer. - Alex Scoble from IM

My bad...I meant layer eight. - Alex Scoble from IM

If you ever hear a designer/developer/programmer/engineer say "a user would never do that", fire them on the spot. - Alex Scoble from IM

Alex, why is it that CERT website dont get DoS'ed ? - Peter Dawson

This website? http://www.cert.org/ - Alex Scoble from IM

Alex - if the virus that's designed to hit the graphics controller doesn't have access to the correct host OS, it's going to write to the VMs graphics controller. Which just won't do much. - guruvan (Rob Nelson)

Nick: The Blue Pill is an attack on a Windows machine that has virtualization in the processor - it converts the running Windows into a VM and becomes the bare-metal hypervisor on the fly. Using an actual hypervisor defeats that. (though it is a pretty impressive attack) - guruvan (Rob Nelson)

@guruvan (Rob Nelson): I'm not sure. http://www.zdnetasia.com/news... says "The researchers claimed Xen hypervisors could be subverted by compromising flaws in Xen software to gain access to Domain 0, Xen's privileged administrative domain. Once that administrative domain is compromised, the virtual system controlled by the hypervisor is compromised." - Nick Lothian

At least now we're getting a better idea of what happened Thursday. Though it's intriguing how it was aimed at just one person who had different services each of which were affected. - George Hall (Australia)

i'm not following george... did I miss something? - Chris Heath

Yep, Chris...the fact there's a pro-Georgian blogger who wrote on all the affected services. Seems all his pages were targetted. A bit more of the Russian/Georgian cyberwar. There's at least a few articles/posts about that across the net. Though, I summarized it at http://geehall1.posterous.com - George Hall (Australia)

Twitter, Facebook, LiveJournal, YouTube, Google attack was not a botnet, just tons of people manually clicking spam ... related to pro-Abkhazia activist blogger Cyxymu. This is the theory of Bill Woodcock, research director of Packet Clearing House, a nonprofit that helps network operators when they come under attack. CNET (4:32 pm PDT) seems to be the main source of this story, which... more... - Mitchell Tsai

erro not so you can block the suspisious ip addresses / country - Maurice Walshe

Alex, I when I said CERT I meant this site http://www.us-cert.gov - Peter Dawson

You _can_protect your site against DoS attacks. Tier 1 ISPs offer DDoS protection using CiscoGuard appliances (see http://www.cisco.com/en...) + BGP + GRE tunnels. They deflect extortion attempts every week for banks and other sites. - Paul Lindner

Very interesting stuff, Paul. Thanks for the link. I wonder how long it will be before the bad guys find a way to shut those Cisco boxes down and make them cry to mama. It's like a grand game of cat and mouse. - Alex Scoble from IM

eh Paul, some of em systems are also vectors for DNS posioning and route hijacking.. ant that a DoS too ? - Peter Dawson

Peter: Yes, DNS poisoning can be a DoS attack, as well as route hijacking. Typically those are done to deny users access to a given site or service. Occasionally those are used to hijack a service, which has the effect of DoS, but not the primary intention (the primary intention is often to change the message that web site visitors would see, or perhaps to collect sensitive data such as passwords or financial information ) - guruvan (Rob Nelson)

@GuruVan, " change the message " is more like "man-in-the-middle", thats a totally different vector !! - Peter Dawson

Not quite Peter. MiTM is usually executed differently than a straight hijacking. (though the data collection I mentioned is usually a MiTM attack) - guruvan (Rob Nelson)

off course, MiTM is executed differently !! Hey, anyway feel free to jump onto my FF bandwagon.. http://friendfeed.com/cloud-d... f:)- - Peter Dawson

I may be simplistic but couldn't these hackers just doing something worthwhile with their talent? - Kevin J Hatton

They are often affilliated with elements of organized crime in various countries - Alex Scoble from IM

Or affiliated with seedy people who don't like ketchup on burgers - Jeff (the マクダジ of FF)

yeah but remember, in some countries they (hackers) have to protect their young sisters from being sold - so they (hackerS) use their talents to keep the family together. Its an't always what you think it is ! - Peter Dawson

Okay, but are those guys 'hackers' or 'crackers'? AFAIK they're crackers.. no? - Thierry R. Andriamirado from email

They are both. :) A cracker is a black hat hacker. - Alex Scoble from IM

Or h4XX0r$ ;) ( or god forbid, the evil and feared script kiddies ) - guruvan (Rob Nelson)

Interesting analysis of Twitter's network: http://www.blyon.com/blog... - Todd Hoff

Mark Trapp

Race for the 2016 Olympics - http://www.idsgn.org/posts...

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From Idsgn: "Two months from now the International Olympic Committee will name the host city of the 2016 Summer Olympics. If the decision were based solely on design, which candidate would win?" - Mark Trapp from Bookmarklet

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Chicago's looks like a logo for the *winter* Olympics. Based on these, I like Tokyo and Madrid best. [edit: I really like Tokyo best] - Kevin Fox

Yeah, it's got too much of a snowflake effect going on. I like Tokyo's the best: modern and clear. Madrid looks too childish, and I don't know what's going on with Rio. - Mark Trapp

Chicago's also seems to hearken back to Salt Lake's 2002 logo: http://www.sportslogos.net/logo... - Kevin Fox

I like spains childish one, it's olympic games not olympic calculus. - Steve C

The highlighted middle finger in the Madrid one needs to change. - Brett Slatkin

Remember that these are bid logos and they usually change. This is what Vancouver 2010 started with http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... and what we ended up with http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... - Andrew Smith

agree with Brett- looks like Madrid is giving the finger. My vote goes to Rio with Tokyo the runner-up. I like that the Brazilians "have heart" and were bold enough to NOT use the primary colors in the logo. - Karma Martell

I don't understand why ANY city wants the Olympics anymore. It's such a money loser. But I like Praha... I like trees. Can't figure out what the hell is going on in Doha's and Baku and Rio seem to have missed the color memo. So I'll vote for Germany. - Mark Novak

I like Pragues, but I really want them to be in Baku. - Will Higgins™

From the Madrid logo's description: "The city’s bid slogan is “Hola everyone."" And all I can see/hear is Dr. Nick Riviera waiving his hand at the camera saying "Hello Everybody!" - Kevin Fox

I like Madrid's the best, though Tokyo's is nice as well - Angus Burton

Madrid or maybe Tokyo based on design, but I'd really like to have the Olympics in Chicago 'cause that way increases my chances of going - Ethan

Angus Burton

Kickstarter - http://www.kickstarter.com/#

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"Kickstarter is a funding platform for artists, designers, filmmakers, musicians, journalists, inventors, explorers..." - Angus Burton from Bookmarklet

Angus Burton

JP's Blog: New Arctic Monkeys - Red Right Hand (Nick Cave Cover) - http://jp917.blogspot.com/2009...

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"Arctic Monkeys performed some tracks from their new album "Humbug" for their Web Transmission last Thursday. They played some new tracks and a cover of Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds' 'Red RIght Hand', the track will be released as a bonus track on the Japanese release of "Humbug". I had previously posted the cover from when it was performed in New Zealand but this version is of higher quality. The video of the performance was posted by Domino on Youtube, I took the liberty of ripping it for you guys in case you wanted to hear it. You can watch the video of the performance below and download the cover." - Angus Burton from Bookmarklet

Robert Scoble

I am going to unfollow everyone tonight (on Twitter.com/scobleizer) and then will follow only those that @notsecretscoble is. Talk me out of it:

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That will bring me down to 1,000 or so friends and make Twitter useful to me again. - Robert Scoble from iPhone

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No need to talk you out of it - if that's what you think is the right thing for you then go for it. It didn't hurt you last time you cleared things out. - WorldofHiglet

I love it...its like twitter/friendfeed bankruptcy. - sean andersen

Hows the weather? - Brent - Loving Life

By the way is there any way to delete all my DMs too? - Robert Scoble from iPhone

There is no wrong. What's easier? What works for you? - CAJ, somewhere else

why talk you out of it? - Richard Binhammer

Are you going to stop using @notsecretscoble, then? - Kathy Fitch

Finally turning down the firehose eh? Even with those big a$$ monitors you've got, keeping up with that amount of noise is maddening at times. Are you going to use Jesse's site (http://socialtoo.com/) to nix all your followers? - Brian Daniel Eisenberg

up to you, dude. :) - Josh Haley from iPhone

How are you planning on unfollowing all those people in a reasonable time frame? - Alex Knight

Kathy: that won't be needed much but I will keep that as my R&D account. - Robert Scoble from iPhone

Alex: I will use SocialToo. - Robert Scoble from iPhone

Check this link for a program to help you delete the DM's: http://www.obnoxiousacorns.com/2009... - Rod Uding

Richard: I just wanted to see if anyone could come up with a good reason not to do that. - Robert Scoble from iPhone

Haven't you always maintained that it's WHO YOU FOLLOW, not who follows you that matters? Exactly what you are doing by re-tuning the firehose. Will be curious to see if you get bored with a much slower moving river streaming by. - Brian Daniel Eisenberg

What are you going to use to watch the patterns in the noise with? An Anon Account? - BairdWilliamson

This is gonna create a new era on Twitter, “if Scoble thinks quantity does not matter let's unfollow everyone too” ;) - Jacque from fftogo

Brian: yes but I got distracted by the DM feature which only works if I am following you. - Robert Scoble from iPhone

Yup. DM on Twitter is useless. DM here on the other hand.... Are you going to do the same thing with the 25k you follow here on FF? - Brian Daniel Eisenberg

Baird: I will still be following 25,000 here. There is plenty of noise in my life. - Robert Scoble from iPhone

Brian: here on FF we have groups. I already have a few small groups. - Robert Scoble from iPhone

Exactly. Groups and lists make it a LOT easier to manage the noise. - Brian Daniel Eisenberg

noop. twitter is just a (narrow) pipe. friendfeed where (my) content aggregates. - jacek

Robert: Do it! - Jim Connolly

Do it Robert. I think it will do a lot of good - Roberto Bonini from iPhone

I say do it, and I say that as someone you will no longer be following. Thousands upon thousands of people only provide background noise. By the time something bubbles up enough to be noticeable in the feed of that many people, its on techmeme anyway. - DGentry

You can unfollow me on Twitter. I don't even feed to it from Friendfeed anymore. :) - CAJ, somewhere else

DGentry I follow you here anyway. - Robert Scoble from iPhone

Feels sort of sad to be getting unfollowed by one of my favorite peeps! :-( But yeah, totally understand - Jannifer @wordsforliving

Robert: Are you actually going to do it tonight - or is this just a topic for debate? - Jim Connolly

Do it. Following merely to allow a DM that may very well never come is not worth it. - Meryn Stol

A man's got to do what a man's got to do. DM Whacker (discovered it today myself), deletes all received and sent DM's.. - Citronella

do it. I unfollowed 500+ and I can actually use Twitter again.... - Johnny from BuddyFeed

I have dropped about 200 people today. I like your idea and I agree it might be lead to a movement of quality over quantity. I also think it might wake up the Twitter execs to see that groups and better list management are need. - Ben Hanten

I am curious, though: I remember about a month ago you said that you follow a ton of people and it was invaluable because you could see trends, etc. What has changed? - Ben Hanten

How does one mass unfollow? - I was trying to find ways to do that and can't find a way to do that easily. - Jannifer @wordsforliving

Use SocialToo - Robert Scoble from iPhone

robert i have some scripts to delete all DMs, but they appear to be broken now. the new way twitter handles pagination (the more button) makes it difficult - sean percival

Jennifer: There are a few well known tools you can use to mass-unfollow. One that Jesse Stay @socialtoo developed is supposed to be very good. - Jim Connolly

where is jesse? i see a future for socialtoo here. create an akismet like system as part of the auto follow. as i get new followers, give them a spam score and only follow back those who pass - sean percival

Liza: I don't know what Blackberry users can do for FriendFeed. - Robert Scoble from iPhone

your autofollow didn't work on me for some reason, so it doesn't matter to me. in fact, yea unfollow everyone =] - Özgür D. Cyric

I won't talk you out of it. Who cares? :) - Jason Nunnelley

I think you should do it, actually. - Eric Florenzano from iPhone

I don't even know what twitter is for anymore. I check it sometimes but enjoy reading and sometimes joining the conversation on here much more. - Aidan Mann

Hey, I don't need Scoble to follow me on Twitter. I've got Kim Kardashian following me on FriendFeed! ;) - John Craft

I've observed 2 good people go through mass unfollow on Twitter, and they were both happy they did it. Do what works for you, Robert. It's your time. :) - Veronica Sopher

My only argument is as a news junkie, you'll feel like you're missing something. In reality, you'll eliminate a lot of noise though and miss only "some" things. - manielse (Mark Nielsen)

I'm changing my Twitter avatar to a screenshot of my DM box in protest of auto-dms. Hoping others will too. - Jesse Stay

Sean, SocialToo does offer that - it needs to be improved, and will be. I'm just trying to get time to do it (on a very limited budget). - Jesse Stay

I say go for it. Change is good. Having two accounts would make one schizo. The times they are a changin' Like @loic said it will fill like taking a shower - Stephen Pickering

Dont just look at the comments here :-) RT the Tweets http://twitter.com/seanper... and http://twitter.com/Jesse... - Johni Fisher

Dont do it I only have like 20 followers then. 21 was a good number. - James Hunter

Either you know how to use the API, or it's going to take you a very long time... - David Semeria

Knock yourself out. I don't pay much attention to Twitter anyway. - Jason, Craving

Great idea! But it sounds like a lot of work. Besides, they're your accounts and it's your name/brand that you're experimenting with. Do whatever you want with it. How are you going to get people to watch a live feed you're doing. Are you shooting for a smaller audience too? - Michael Fidler

Why not? It's your Twitter account Robert and you don't have to follow everyone who follows you. My Twitter experience improved dramatically when I unfollowed a lot or people and only followed those I like interacting with (mostly from FF or friends IRL) or have a common interest business-wise. Following under 2K made the interaction easier and more interesting. - Sally Church

Talk you out of it? I'd encourage it - Keith - @tsudo

My only suggestion is to encourage you that after you dump everyone considering following a few of us that haven't had a chance to meet you in person. (yet) - Keith - @tsudo

i've been meaning to do the same...good suggestion scoble - Kevin Pruett

great way to start afresh, weed out all the spam from the post oprah-aston effect, now you will only have engaged followers, hopefully most that are also friendfeed loyalists - Tate DA FF MVP

No need to talk you out of it. It's a smart move. - Andru Edwards from iPhone

Robert since friendfeed is a place 2 follow 1 another, there might not be a need 2 follow on Twitter unless u meet the person via face 2 face. In which I would love 2 @ some pt when we do cross path some pt. - polou/indigo_bow

I wonder if you could organize a time when a bunch of us do this together to make a stand against the lack of user-friendly tools on Twitter. The fact that there are no groups or lists is ridiculous. This could make a big difference. What if there were a million unfollows? Would that get their attention? - Ben Hanten

Eh.. No interest in that? Ok. - Ben Hanten

Good decision! Now twitter will be useful to you :) - Angus Burton

just unfollowed you myself - have fun! - Mac Sharp

Mac: you lie. You're still following me here on FriendFeed. - Robert Scoble

IMHO forget Twitter, for me, following Robert on FF is where the value is. - Mo Kargas

I agree with Mo completely. - Akiva Moskovitz

Personally, I look at search results and @ replies mostly, once in a while I'll scroll through my follow stream. Of course, thanks to @RackerHacker, I have several searches running via a ruby Twitter search bot that alerts me to interesting items via Jabber and email. Following is no longer a priority for me. - Robert J Taylor from iPhone

Whatever gets you through the night, Robert! :-) - Lon Cohen

Why do you need to unfollow to ignore? You do that well already :-) - RetiredTeacherD

im going to do the same - sean percival

You are doing the right activity to move the Twitter founders ,most of us are using Twitter long time but we never made anything against the SPAM or the porn users that are following by robots and posting so many links to porn sites ,it is so simple to block this activity but no one cares ,Twitter should learn much from Myspace links policy ,we can open new #tag #noporn and post there all the PORN tweets - Johni Fisher

Don't want too unfollow you here Robert, that would be your choice. - Mac Sharp

I believe the issue is more time and the medium you use everydsy, obviously the iphone. If you had three high powered connected desktops with dual monitors and could spend your time just with twitter, friendfeed, etc. it would not be so much of an issue. The truth is time for you to treat people as you would like to. I believe you are being realistic in your time management. I do not believe it is a lie for others to be able to deal with more than 2000 followers or subscribers. - RetiredTeacherD

Jesse, my Twitter DM inbox is dead. - Jason Nunnelley

@ariherzog did the same about three months ago. You might want to ask him how it worked out for him. http://ariwriter.com/why-my-... - Kevin Sablan

I get it. I get overwhelmed and I'm only following around 200. I think you'll get a lot more out of it by following fewer people. - Kate

Yup..it's better if you follow ust the 'right' people. Otherway you are losing yor time and your patient. Go on! - PiresMachine from twhirl

Yep, I did that three months ago and again last night. http://twitter.com/ariherz... - Ari Herzog

Did you break Twitter today...might slow:) - Liza

Great news! Caught up with this late, but a welcome addition to the stop auto follow movement. Just putting up a post on my http://stopautofollow.com site - imrat

i did the same yesterday - egza

Robert Scoble

Want me to refollow you after the great unfollowing? You better be listed on http://wefollow.com/twitter...

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Yawn. - Steve Council

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Ha ha, your new twitter is not on the list. It is not in your friendfeed either. - RetiredTeacherD

Robert, I like you but I'm not going to beg or audition for a follow. Either you like what I do or you don't. If you expect me to perform a trick for you, I'm a tree and you're a misplaced bark. - Akiva Moskovitz

The problem with WeFollow is that it has different levels of specificity. So someone can be classified under Python, Ruby on Rails, Google, Development, or whatever which technically is Tech but those other tags are more helpful. - Eric Florenzano

?! Don't let popularity burn you. - Enrico Lamperti

If you want to read what I post, follow. If not, don't. One nice thing about not being internet famous is that those who do follow me are more likely to be genuine, folks I'd enjoy talking to in person. - Jack (a.k.a. Jeber)

What is the value of wefollow? The site doesn't explain what it does. - Brent Logan

Robert I am @ wefollow, but I am under photography, socialmedia sigh is that okay? - polou/indigo_bow

Good points on wefollow Eric Florenzano - wefollow also limits to 3 choices. I have far more interests than 3. I program, develop, build automated machines, but I do not want to be known as that. I like being a people person for people. I am a tech person for the machines. - RetiredTeacherD

+10 Akiva - Jason, Craving

My thoughts are very similar to Akiva's on the matter. - Jon, the Beartato of '10

Robert: I thought you were only going to follow those followed by @notsecretscoble? - Angus Burton from iPhone

I will go to sleep tonight, confident that Robert will follow me, not because I'm on wefollow.com (I'm not), but because of my sheer awesomeness. - Glen, Bespectacled Elder

I don't think Robert followed me on Twitter anyway, no huge loss. He finds me when necessary...LOL - Rahsheen ™, Coach Rah

And I will go to sleep tonight not really giving a shit that he's not following me. Actually, I don't know that he ever has. Never cared to check. O.o - Penguin It's Cold Outside

1UP Akiva and Penguin. I simply do not care. - Rochelle

You are a trip Scoble but I agree with your thinking here. I had also arrived at those same conclusions about followers & DM's. I remember first knowing you back in 96 or so when beta testing the Winnov Videum Cam Traveler. I found that thing in a box. Still a GREAT camera by the way. Have fun - Robert Anderson

Robert I like your stuff but I must agree with Akiva. I'm not going to register in wefollow under "tech". There are 32M people in that list. I'd like to be followed because I share interesting content and enjoy conversation but I'm not going to jump through some sort of hoop. - Keith - @tsudo

Most of us are glad you are mass unfollowing on twitter so it will be useful for you but this is a bit much - Keith - @tsudo

Robert: Please tell me which of your accounts I should follow. I'm confused. Cause it's who you follow that counts right? - Andrew Smith from fftogo

Andrew: follow @scobleizer or just follow me here, since that's the best place to follow me. - Robert Scoble

Akiva: anyone cool doesn't need to worry. I am already following you here. - Robert Scoble

It would be more interesting to just create a new account and start updating that and ignore the old account, and see how long it took for people to find you on the new one. - Andy Bakun

And FriendFeed's where the real action's at! - Akiva Moskovitz

thanx Robert @ least I'm not a bore, but irregular in shape lol - polou/indigo_bow

I'm on wefollow, it's good. But why is it important for people to be on it for you to follow them? - jjprojects

Robert: why do you care if someone is on wefollow? - Nick in Manila

Robert: @scobleizer make a deal - I have enjoyed the brief interaction, I will follow you if you follow me - Geer

not a fan of the wefollow, but i'll always keep my eye on your streams. - MikeAmundsen

I registered in tech when I joined the industry over 30 years ago. Wefollow? Thanks, but at a glance it doesn't interest me. I'll follow my choices handcrafted as always. And some of them will also handpick me. Following and followers based on some other criteria just doesn't hold water for me. I think you're off the mark here Robert, but I've been nusy with moving and settling this week. - Ken Camp

There goes the quality of #tech on @wefollow as the spammers join to get in front you. Nice. - Peter Warnock

Peter: I doubt that this announcement will change the quality of #tech on @wefollow - spammers generally post a picture of a girl they find on the internet and then get followed by guys thinking "ooo she's hot i'll follow" ;) - Nicholas James

I think wefollow is a useful starting point, but I'd be hesitant to use it as my gatekeeper, unless I was focused on celebrities and social media people. - Ho John Lee

I'm #46 under Tech... But why is that a determinant? - Mark Davidson

Wefollow only lets you enter 3 categories at a time. Some of us fit in more than 3 categories. I don't think wefollow is particularly helpful in guiding people. - Cathryn Hrudicka

Mark: because I'm mostly interested in geeks. It was my way of signaling to the world that I wouldn't be following non-geeks unless I had a good reason to. It was my way of causing a conversation. Wefollow is interesting, by the way. I wish I had other ways to look at the database than just numbers of followers. - Robert Scoble

The 15,000th "tech" member, by the way, has 53 followers. I found that on page 600: http://wefollow.com/twitter... - Robert Scoble

I am not listed there because I don't want to spam Twitter with the Wefollow nonsense. - Louis Gray

So is the thought that you will sync Twitter to wefollow all the time so it becomes your master list and everything else is pruned? - Todd Hoff

Holden, you don't have to, thanks to lists. - Louis Gray

Holden: no. Because FriendFeed has groups. If I get tired of who i have followed I'll just open up a new group and start clean. - Robert Scoble

The following count on http://twitter.com/Scobleizer couldn't keep up with the big unfollow (currently showing 79,249). This reminds me how YouTube used to miss the view count :-) - Majento

Ohai! I've been following you on Twitter for 2.5 years, on a protected account on which I only follow 5 people (hyperbole). So, yah, we may not have met yet IRL, but I noticed the drop in my follower count, immediately, and I feel like I've lost a friend. While I AM listed on wefollow on my public account, I am most probably listed under categories that do not apply to you. I respect... more... - Yvette

Yvette: I am following you here, so no worries. - Robert Scoble

I know. Isn't it funny how something so simple and non-personal can create an emotional response? I feel like clinging to your pant leg! It's utterly irrational and un-called-for. (And unnecessary.) Please do your thing. Don't mind me. :-) - Yvette

re: #wefollow: on the first try got this: " Error 503 Service Unavailable Guru Meditation: XID: 166617335" this is truly a new age web ;) whether 3.0 or 2010. - jacek

I wish you could search for people on wefollow, not just under tags, so you could see what tags certain people have used. Unless people have a lot of followers, it's hard to find them. Not all interesting people have a lot of followers. - jjprojects

I wish Wefollow allowed more than 3 tags. I am listed under podcaster there, the other two are also important to me professionally as is tech, but I could only pick 3. Oh well, I may have to re-think one of my tags. - Louis Trapani

Wefollow does seem to be a limited implementation of a good idea. A hierarchy would be good, too: what is #web as opposed to #webdeveloper? Isn't one really a subset of the other? Perhaps tagging yourself with #webdeveloper automatically puts you in #web as well, but it doesn't say that. - James

how can i find myself on their lists? and what is their ranking algo? - Chris Heath

but then, you follow people according to their tags and not for their content :) - Apostolos Tsompanopoulos from twhirl

Don't bother refollowing me on Twitter. The channel we can talk has been here for some time - Mark Essel from iPhone

I just didn't want to send the wefollow spam message back to twitter; so I won't be on there. Oh well. - Phil Crissman

Let me know what my signal strength will be in your input channel. I'm already missing way too many good tweets due to following 2k in twitter. The 1k or so I sub to here feels more manageable - Mark Essel from iPhone

+1 Mark Essel - FriendFeed messaging is much better than Twitter DM - Stuart Miniman

It may be more fun for you if you just follow people you find interesting. - Citronella

+10 Akiva - Johnny from BuddyFeed

Robert who? - Big K

Thanks Stuart, before I had a friendfeed account I clinged to DM. now, not so much. - Mark Essel

I'm on WeFollow but not under Tech. Photography and Social Media yes, but not under Tech. Best of luck with the Unfollowing. - Jim Goldstein

I've been putting it off, but I've been thinking about doing this, on a much smaller scale, of course ;) - Jason Preston

I am. - Zachary TG

Yup - tomit from iPhone

OK, I'm listed there under tech, but also other categories. One can be a geek and still tweet about other things, like the arts, science, health care, good causes, etc. I'd like to see more "geeks" expand their horizons and follow people who have multiple interests and tweet about them. Certainly some geeks are multi-faceted and find the applications of technology in all areas of life... more... - Cathryn Hrudicka

How many tweeps are you looking to refollow? - Justin Hileman

I find the sentences "anyone cool doesn't need to worry" and " I'm mostly interested in geeks" to be somewhat contradictory. ; ) I'm not sure what people mean by WeFollow spam, it just sends out one message when you select the tags to be listed under. - Liz

wefollow is a joke - it's a pumper of the default list that's all. - Allen Stern

I am listed - have been for a long time - but do not see any real value. I work as a project manager. Friendfeed and Twitter still needs more people from my profession to be competitive to other forums I use. I wish more folks from PMI would join Friendfeed. - Frode Stenstrøm

Angus Burton

Kid Cudi interview by Complex - http://www.complex.com/CELEBRI...

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Robert Scoble

Here is why I have two Twitter accounts and what I'm learning:

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1. Because my main account needs to follow everyone who is following me for DM reasons. - Robert Scoble

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2. But that means I can't closely follow my friends and people I've met face-to-face. - Robert Scoble

3. Following 100,000 means you'll only randomly see Tweets, and you'll miss too much good stuff. - Robert Scoble

4. There's no way you can completely follow more than a few hundred people. So, if you've followed more than 1,000 you need two accounts. - Robert Scoble

5. I've been using this technique here on FriendFeed for more than a year and it really rocks (FriendFeed lets you split your friends up into lists, while Twitter forces you to get more than one account). - Robert Scoble

http://twitter.com/notsecr... is my second account. - Robert Scoble

or use TweetDeck, right? I haven't used it, but I understand it lets you group/prioritize the people you follow - Joshua Maurice

Scoble, this solution doesn't seem to scale. In another year does this mean you'll have a supersecret account that only follows select people from the secret account? - Ryan Jones

so one account for people you really want to follow and one for everyone that you follow back at both FF and Twitter? - bev

Guy Kawasaki does this right?: - Steve Rubel

Robert: makes sense...but what is the advantage of 2 accounts compared to Groups - Edwin Khodabakchian

I use TweetDeck to organize my close friends into a list. That way, it's really easy for me to just follow those who are close to me, but still get DMs from everyone. - Eric Pender

Is there a client aka Tweetdeck that allows you to pull in your Friendfeed friend's lists? - Stephen Kennedy

... or any other BETTER filtering service than Tweetdeck, like PeopleBrowsr. - Alan Veeck

Edwin: none, except that Twitter does not support groups and I'm not going to invest the time to build them in, say, TweetDeck when there's so much innovation going on in Twitter clients. - Robert Scoble

There are more than a few Twitter usability issues that I'd like to see changed in addition to the required multiple accounts, deleting of DM's being easier and organizing of people as well....Tweetdeck allows this but Twitter should have thought of this internally... - Walter Schwabe

This seems like a lot of effort to deal with the problem of courtesy refollows. Why not just follow those 500 people or so on your main Twitter account? If you don't care what people say publicly and they're just noise, why deal with the acres of spammers sending you DMs to shill for some crappy product? - Trent Hamm

bev: right, I think. Ryan: yeah, this probably doesn't scale. But for now it does. - Robert Scoble

My Twitter numbers are strikingly similar to my FF numbers - when it comes to followers / followees. I've never broken 1000 when it comes to people I follow and every so often I go through and prune my list to help tune the noise. I've given up on Twitter and really focus most of my effort on my FF friends. - Brian Daniel Eisenberg

I see. the 2 account approach makes it portable across twitter client. smart - Edwin Khodabakchian

With Seesmic Desktop I created groups like "China, Hong Kong, France, Ogilvy, etc etc" and it works fine - Jean-François Amadei

Alan: for instance, if I had spent the time doing that on TweetDeck, now I'm using Seesmic Web. So I'd have to recreate the groups. - Robert Scoble

Robert: What is you 2nd FF account? - Amir

Tweetdeck became a necessity after 100 follows. I have groups and I rarely add to them- which means that me following you on twitter means virtually nothing as I rarely read the main feed. I can see this really corrupting your % followers to followed, which I do care about. Anyways, FF does make this a more feasible situation, to follow lots of people and still interact with them. Whereas with Twitter I'd have to resort to 2 accoutns. - anna sauce

Amir: I only have one, but I have several lists of friends. - Robert Scoble

Robert: Do you recommend that technique to everyone? - Amir

I jus noticed, you don't follow me on twitter for DMs. heart breaking, that must be why you never answer me on twitter :P - Özgür D. Cyric

Has anyone tried http://www.grouptweet.com/? I like its features, makes it easy to have private groups on twitter. - Nagesh C

I do the same, and it greatly improved my twitter experience. now i never miss what my close buds are saying. - sean percival

Looking through the list, I noticed you follow lots of people, but not a lot of feed type accounts. No newspapers, rss crossposts, etc... It's all people, maybe discuss why? - Jim Graham

Seesmic is a good little program, not as "weird feeling" as Tweetdeck. - Gus

will they add tags/filters on twitter? would be nice, but one thing which makes twitter great is its simplicity - diegovanegas

Amir: either that technique or join FriendFeed. :-) - Robert Scoble

I follow millions at a time with my one Twitter account. :-) - http://staynalive.com/article... - Jesse Stay

Jim: because I want to view my news through the filter of people I know. - Robert Scoble

Functionality and usability are key I'd say most of the 3rd party apps that are good give you that work for grouping Twitter properly, I prefer TweetDeck, but it is just a matter of comfort I had tried Seesmic and others, I guess I really liked the go anywhere connectivity of Tweetdeck when it went iPhone. - Patrick Boegel

To me the conflict between DM and tweets proves a weakness in the twitter concept, so why not pushing them to address that. You can set up a massive vote for something like this. - Jcm Manuel

Jcm: if Twitter listened to me they would get rid of the Suggested User List. I'd rather not beat my head against a brick wall. - Robert Scoble

So this new one is basically Scoble using Twitter the way everyone else does? - Jan Dawson

There must be a proper way to combine things. Twitter is all about limitations, but if they force people to have 2 accounts, there's clearly something that sux. - Jcm Manuel

Jan: most of the people I'm following have thousands of friends. This one is more picky. - Robert Scoble

I don't see how you keep up with them both. - Kevin Montgomery

Kevin you can keep up by using tweedteck or seesmic (allow for multiple accounts) - Jcm Manuel

Kevin: multiple screens. And I don't look at 100,000 people very often. The noise there is extraordinary. - Robert Scoble

With your 2nd twitter account, you pretty much can ignore the first one, but use second one to broadcast to a much bigger group. One for socializing, one for broadcasting? - Nagesh C

I know.....I use tweetdeck, but between email, myspace, facebook, twitter......it's ALOT of noise. I'm struggling to actually engage on twitter they way I would like. Robert, do you remember me from the Himmelman/Skin tour? - Kevin Montgomery

I bet that your DMs will diminish on the first account pretty soon, if not already - Nagesh C

That's a great idea, especially for someone like you. How can you even keep up with all of these comments on your posts? FF is definitely much more logical and organized than Twitter. I only use Twitter for those who don't have FF, and then I just have imaginary friends. I hardly ever go to Twitter (in any form). - Californian

Nagesh: the smart people DM me on FriendFeed already, yes. - Robert Scoble

I don't have the problem of thousands of people I follow, but I do know that before I follow someone, I look to the posting behavior. If he/she's posting just a few good messages per day I follow, it it's a spammer like Scoble I don't follow - unless he's called Scoble of course LOL. But my approach is to choose very carefully. - Jcm Manuel

By the way, the whole LINKING between services sux too. For instance, I follow Scoble on another twitter account. But when it linked to friendfeed, it logged in with my other account (I have 2 accounts there as well) - because in the browser you always log in with the account you last logged in (unless the session has expired). I didn't even notice that I didn't "friendfeed" with the account that sent me here. There's very little control over all these things - I make errors like this very often. - Jcm Manuel

Aren't most of the people you've met face to face on Friendfeed with feeds from Twitter/blogs/facebook/etc..? In terms of broadcasting, feed the main Twitter account and use FF to filter, as you mentioned. Seems simple enough, am I missing something? - Benjamin Taylor

Some 2 hours ago I was looking on the Seesmic site if they had some public planning of developments, but I couldn't find it. I would love to know what they plan - e.g. if they plan to add friendfeed to Seesmic desktop. And myspace feed of course. - Jcm Manuel

Loic says they were waiting for FriendFeed's new API to work on FriendFeed support. I'd expect that's coming soon now. - Robert Scoble

ok that's great anyway. I find it strange though that myspace is so often ignored - that's 250 million people as well. Seesmic, Flock... etc. they don't seem to care a lot. - Jcm Manuel

This is the exact reason why the number one new feature Twitter needs is user groups. With user groups you can manage the information and pay attention to what is important. I find it surprising and actually ridiculous that they haven't been able to implement this feature yet. Scoble is right about not investing time in Twitter clients to create user groups; the innovation in this field... more... - Angus Burton

I do the same thing. My second account I call the "PIMP" group, People I've Met Personally. Two accounts is better than Tweetdeck groups because I don't like to be stuck in tweetdeck. - Scott Jangro

for me, Twitter is biz, Friendfeed can serve as both personal and biz. Originally, my 1 twitter account was meant 2 be personal, but now its more than that, its 4 advocacy and social purpose. Therefore I find if I want anything personal, friendfeed and identi.ca would be better serve 4 me! - polou/indigo_bow

I've said it several times in several places, and again here just to hear myself ramble. Tweetdeck misses tweets very often. I've created columns/groups/whatever you wanna call it to follow family and friends. It misses their stuff more than it catches it. So, for me, and several other people I know, it's unreliable... and therefore unusable. I'm not too keen on using Peoplebrowsr or... more... - John

I have 3 twitter accounts and manage a friendfeed & twitter account for someone else, so that makes 4 twitters and 2 friendfeeds I have to keep my eyes on. - April Russo (app103)

@April u r one busy person! - polou/indigo_bow

I have opened a second twitter account to stream there most of my links I feel like to (re)share w/o comments, and reserve the "main" account for more "conversation-like" stuff. Not sure yet if it will work, I am still experimenting. I also realized that I can use that second account to filter my twitter feed when I am mobile (follow real people on one account and news sources on another, for example...) - Ashalynd

It'll be interesting times when Twitter does implement some kind of filtering function and you'll want to merge multiple accounts. - Vincent van Wylick

I usually find that interesting things I find on Twitter already has been filtered through to Friendfeed, so I have to say I care less and less about checking Twitter - Asgeir

Just suspending my experimental automated one. Apparently A LOT of people don't dig that :) The TOP SECRET address is ..... - Charlie Anzman

All of this just so you can get DMs on Twitter? Your email address (and your cell phone number) are right on your blog. Do you have so little faith in email? Or do you want to force people into 140 character messages, so you get less lengthy emails? By creating convoluted systems, you haven't solved anything. You're not addressing an obsessive need to be in touch with everyone through... more... - Joost Schuur

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