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We have received numerous reports of excessive FriendFeed posts showing up in Facebook this evening. While we are not 100% sure, it appears to be an issue on Facebook's end due to ignoring application settings. We have disabled all FriendFeed updates to Facebook until we are sure the problem is resolved.

July 29, 2009 - Comment - Like - Share

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See http://www.techcrunch.com/2009... for more information - it seems to also have impacted Twitter's Facebook app. Again, we are not sure if it is a problem on our end or not, but we are investigating now. - Bret Taylor

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Thanks Bret! FWIW when I checked the FF app settings in FB they were not the same options as I saw when I first set the app up. - FFing Enigma

my freindfeed application is not working on facebook, and fr rest of.. - Madhav Tripathi

Click. Flip a switch and that's it. You guys rule. - Pete D

Thanks, Bret. I've disabled it on my FB page and hope that cures what ails me. Appreciate the FF peeps being on top of it. - Derrick

Yet another reason I'm happy I don't have a FaceBook. :P - Trey Crossan

Good thing I only posted once to Twitter tonight. The duplication only happened once. Thanks for letting me know. - Louis Gray

Yay for communicative admins! - Brett Kelly from iPhone

*looks at own FB account* HOLY SHIT, WTF?!? - Joe The Sausage

Yep, I have drug references now due to not having context. Thanks alot FB. Thanks alot. - Jimminy, CoG of FF

I had the same with Twitter - Mo Kargas

Thanks Bret! - Andrew C (✓)

No problem, if I knew it was on your end, I wouldn't have cared, but thanks for letting me know about the situation. I was confused because it happened right as I was trying out a new twitter game. This was compounded by the fact that the game has no controls for turning off public messages. I'll bet they plan to add them later, but right now they want everyone to hear about it. It’s a... more... - Michael Fidler

Is it fixed? I'm afraid to go look:) - Michael Fidler

So, is it fixed?Every tweet, every everything is showing up as individual news feed posts for all my friends, this is too much and I'm likely to piss them all off. Options ... 1.Stop tweeting etc. 2.Ditch the FF Facebook application. Hmmm, it's a no brainer. Anyone got any updates on this? - Michael M Bailey

AJ Batac :)

http://twitpic.com/6kxxc - sweet dreams

June 3, 2009 from Twitter - Comment - Like - Share

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Thanks for nothing, AJ. - Steven Perez

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I hate you AJ! LOL - Jorge Escobar

:D - AJ Batac :)

lol - Anna Haro

People always clowning around.... I say, let it float. They all float. - Moody (Sweet FA 4 Life)

Trying to give us all nightmares. - John (bird whisperer)

Not CLOWNS :( - comix aka martha

Look into the deadlights... - Moody (Sweet FA 4 Life)

Awesome movie. Book was even better. - Beau Liening

I never finished reading this book... - Rah-PM 2012

CLOWNS DIE. - Steven Perez from IM

One of the scariest characters in a Stephen King book, which is one of Stephen King's stupidest books (judging just by the end). - iTad

I saw it when I was 5. Now I'm eternally scared of clowns. :s - Faraz Mullick

I had a girlfriend who was terrified of Nuns! If she saw one walking down the street, she'd cross to the other side! - Jorge Escobar

*cries* - Carmen wBabby

really don't like clowns =( - Jhoy Imperial

Can't sleep... clown'll eat me... can't sleep... clown'll eat me... - GeekDads.TV

WHY DO YOU HATE US?!?!?! *faint* - WoH: Minding her Steves

Hoooo! Mai! Gaaaawwwwwd!! - Dean "Karnatos" Michaud

AJ I'm gonna hate you for 10 mins. - The Amber

He thrusts his fists against the posts and still insists he sees the ghosts. - Anika

farrrrrrk - Bec Rowe @d0tski

Can't sleep, clowns will eat me. - Neal "thePuck" Jansons

Hiding! - m9m, Crone of FriendFeed

AHHHHHHHHHHHHH! OMG! OMG! OMG! HAHAHAHA! This reminds me of this video I saw a few days ago, MUST WATCH! http://www.tjvids.com/the-ama... - Michael Forian

Gee that's not creepy AT ALL - Josh Haley

Oh geez, thanks. if you only knew how clowns creep me out. even benevolent-looking ones. ugh. - Karoli

awesome :))) - Alejandro

Good Morning Mr Clown! 8oD - David Cook

I just love Tim Curry. :) - LB shining

I was waiting for the sudden change of that face, scary:( - K.D.

Still creepy. - caj needs a haircut

am hiding the clown now. it keeps showing up at the top of my feed like Stephen King's monster. ugh. - Karoli

i want to hide just because its creepy - Tyler Gillies

My wife is terrified of clowns. I have an evil bone that wants to show this to her. ahahahahah >:) - Bwana ☠

Nobody enjoys a circus any more. - John Hardy

I met this guy last night. Is it good? - Maxim Grinev

#CLOWN - AJ Batac :)

eff yeah - Josh Haley from iPhone

Victor Ganata

A single sperm has 37.5MB of DNA information in it. That means that a normal ejaculation represents a data transfer of 1,587.5TB - http://inothernews.tumblr.com/post...

December 17, 2009 from Google Reader - Comment - Like - Share

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So I had to calculate this out: the HGP estimates that the human genome is about 3 billion base pairs (3Gbp) long (Their count includes 22 chromosomes+X+Y) which can be used as an estimate for how many base pairs are in a haploid gamete. Since each base pair can have 4 different values (A-T/T-A/G-C/C-G) a base pair basically encodes 2 bits of information. So 3 billion base pairs = 6 gigabits = 750 MB. On average, there are about 250 million sperm per ejaculation, so that comes (pardon the pun) to 1.875 petabytes of information. Of course, there's a lot of redundancy in that information, but 1.875 petabytes in about 2 teaspoons of volume is impressive in terms of information density. (Bear in mind, my mathematical skills are fairly weak, and I could've gotten this calculation very wrong.) - Victor Ganata

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Oh. Victor. =) - Anika

http://xkcd.com/386/ Can you tell I don't want to do my charts today? - Victor Ganata

Jeez, now that's all I'm going to be able to think about... - Jack&Cleo

LOL @Cristo - Mo Kargas

No wonder I feel tired all of the time. - Akiva

Well, an ATTEMPTED data transfer. Sometimes it's kinda like wadding up a bunch of 1TB USB keys and tossing them in the trash. :D - iTad

That's just about the coolest stat ever. - iTad

This could be really really bad if women take their lead from mobile broadband. $60 for 5 GB would add up in a hurry! - Mark J Colonel Colonic

It's like spamming. You're sending out all that data and only 37.5 MB of it will be used. - Morton Fox

And that, my friends, is why every sperm is sacred! http://www.youtube.com/watch... - Mark J Colonel Colonic

Another great post! :-) Informational, true, and funny. :-) - Mathew A. Koeneker

I don't think it's possible for me to love this entire conversation more than I do RIGHT NOW. And I love all of you for making it happen. - Hookuh Tinypants

EPIC. - ha3rvey (Hugs 50% off!)

does a vasectomy result in a lower data density I wonder? - jeff hammond

@jeff: it shouldn't; the testicles will still produce the same volume of sperm as before. They just won't go anywhere. The body reabsorbs the sperm over time. So...kind of like performing a regularly-scheduled defrag? - Hookuh Tinypants

Precisely. - Hookuh Tinypants

I wonder how much data a virus contains? It'd be interesting to compare a virus attack to a pregnancy attempt just in terms of data transmission. I'd think virii carry much less data... - iTad from fftogo

Aaagh! It's viruses!!!!!!111!!!1111!!111 - Victor Ganata

Sorry, Tad. Major pet peeve of mine ;) - Victor Ganata

You OK, man? Srsly, here, sit down. Have a beverage. Relax a bit. Maybe read a few entries over at FML or AwkwardFamilyPhotos... - Hookuh Tinypants

Isn't the overwhelming fraction of the human genome "junk DNA"? - Andrew C (✓)

Agreed 137%. - Hookuh Tinypants

"Junk DNA" is kind of a misnomer, though. It's more accurate to say we don't really know what they do. Some sequences are pseudogenes, which are evolutionary relics. Other sequences are retrotransposons--molecular parasites that embed themselves into an organism's genome and copy themselves endlessly. But there are areas of non-coding DNA that are involved in the regulation of gene... more... - Victor Ganata

But to answer your question, Tad, apparently a cough can contain up to 200 million viral particles http://www.livescience.com/health... The size of the rhinovirus genome is about 7,000 nucleotides http://blogs.america.gov/science... while the influenza genome is about 13,000 nucleotides long.... more... - Victor Ganata

And you might possibly cough both or more out at once. Plus bacteria, etc etc - iTad from fftogo

For the record: I just totally hit on my boyfriend using information gleaned from this thread. - Sparky, lurking

This? Is why I love Sparky. - Hookuh Tinypants

p.s. we have determined that we have sufficient enterprise storage capacity to continue with the release. - Sparky, lurking

I think Petabytes is a very appropriate term for this discussion. - Kenton

Now I'm wondering if it's possible to ejaculate as often as you cough when you're sick.... Still, you'd have to be sick with the flu and cough 3,000 times to match the throughput of a single ejaculation :D - Victor Ganata

Thinking (with some regret) about all those sperm I lost so casually in my youth, and how much smarter I might be today if I'd listened to my spiritual mentors! - Mark J Colonel Colonic

#HelpRobertScobleGetSmarter - April

Shéa Bennett

Buffy, please come back. We have a vampire we need you to kill. http://i.imgur.com/iYQbq.jpg

December 14, 2009 from Twitter - Comment - Like - Share

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Robert Scoble

Email is saved! Inbox2 rocks. Here is why: - http://ourdoings.com/roberts...

June 10, 2009 from Robert Scoble - Comment - Like - Share

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Waseem Sadiq, CTO (left) and Khuram Hussain are showing me how you can send emails and messages to Twitter, Facebook, and others. It is in private beta now, will launch later this year. http://www.inbox2.com Does all sorts of useful stuff like forwarding, copying, etc. "It is really hard to build a good email client," says Sadiq. They nailed it, must try it. - Robert Scoble

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Can we get an invite code? :) - Aaron Myers

Invite Code please! ? - Jigar Mehta

Yeah Robert, ask them to let you post some invite codes to FriendFeed! - Ben Kessler

Get us all hyped up and no codes? C'mon Robert, score some codes for us. - Jim Graham

Robert, score a code, for a Pie ala mode...:) - Fred Tabsharani

Codes, or it didn't happen! - David Lloyd

Invite code :) please - Susan Beebe

Well now we're all interested. So invite codes would be awesome. Please. - Vlad Bobleanta

sounds awesome - yes, codes! - Karma Martell

another request for some codes... - Paul

Very cool. I can imagine this being something to tie me over until Google Wave is released. I presume the transition to Google Wave from Inbox2 will be a ease? - Vinko

me want codes now, give um me code - David Lloyd

Yep yep, give us some codes please. - Bhavishya Kanjhan

I think I can see you from here :) - Richard Walker

Just go to their site, they will send you the codes in an email. - Elizabeth Good

sometime next year maybe! - David Lloyd

Robert, thx for the plug! Everybody that wants an invite just leave your email address on the website (www.inbox2.com), will take a few weeks before you get one tho, due to the infrastructure we're setting up to serve u all :-) - Waseem Sadiq

'a few weeks'!! we'll have all forgotten about it by then! -- you've got our interest now (it's about 20 people, how much infrastructure would be required?) - Paul

Hehe that is true, but if I let you guys in now I might end up spoiling the zen like email experience once its good enough. I'll tell you what, if you are willing to try out the product and tell us how we can improve it, or blog about it, Í will get you an invite (waseem at inbox2 dot com) - Waseem Sadiq

we are btw also on twitter @inbox2 @waseemsadiq and our blog http://blog.inbox2.com (shameless self promotion) - Waseem Sadiq

Eh, looks like an AIR app. - Akiva

What a tease! I have already requested for an invite and now waiting...thanks Robert. - Rahul Mirakhur

Yeah, ditto -- and after they asked us to email them so they could add us to the beta list... - Paul

You guys allready seen this? http://www.inbox2.com/account... - Waseem Sadiq

Robert, was this post sent directly from your phone? How do you do that? - Skyler Call

Skyler, http://ourdoings.com/ourdoin... - Bruce Lewis from fftogo

Hey, it'd be nice if you invite me to try Inbox2. The 'Request Invite' feature is not working. - Dnyanesh

Robert Scoble

Welcome Ryan!

September 19, 2009 from email - Comment - Like - Share

گاما, حُسین‍‌ آفلاینـ, Yunus Yalçınkaya and 508 other people liked this

Congrats Robert... best wishes to all - Rhys Amos

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Congrats. Now the fun begins!!! - Mike Shields

Awesome! - dstamand

Congratulations! - Stephan Planken

Congratulations! Welcome, Ryan! - Lance M. Brown

Awesome - RetiredTeacherD

Yay! Congratulations! - Jesse Stay

YAYAYAYAYAY! Congrats to you and Maryam!@#!@#! - drew olanoff

congrats Robert and Maryam, Welcome Ryan. - rick

Welcome to the world. - Dave Mora

Congratulations!!! - Mike Doeff

!!! - sean percival

Born 11:32. - Robert Scoble from iPhone

Yay! Congratulations to you and your wife! Now off to buy RSS and iPhone - Lise

Congrats!!!!! - Mark Evans

Congratulations! - Kenneth

I hope you're well rested, Robert ... ;-) - Hieronymus Murphy

Congrats Robert! - Charlie Anzman

Congratulations! - Antoniu

Congratulations! - Mahendra (SkepticGeek)

Congrats to you all - JanLawrence

Congrats Robert and welcome RSS! - Robb Brock

Congratulations! Happy Birthday Ryan! Lots of love to the whole family. - Jodi Church

SUBSCRIBED! - drew olanoff

Hello World! - CannonGod

Congratulations!! Welcome to the world Ryan!! :) - Laura Zickus

<rss> awesome! </rss> - sean percival

welcome to the new world little one! all hail our pink squirming screaming overlord! - bear (aka Mike Taylor)

20.5 inches long. 7 lbs. 13 oz. - Robert Scoble from iPhone

nice alpha version. welcome RSS ! - Kaïs Miled

congrats!! welcome rss! - Barbara R. S.

Congratulations :) - امیرعباس

RSS is finally here! Congrats Robert & Maryam - Dennis Jernberg

Congrats Robert... best wishes to all - joupy

Congratulations! - Aaman (Clone of FF)

Blessings, and the best Robert! - Nakeva Corothers

Cute! - Charlie Anzman

مبارک باشه Congratulations - آقای هامد

Congrats!!! - Jim Williams

Grats! - Denverken

مبارکه رفیق رابرت . خدا حفظش کنه - جـوان ایرانی

If Dave Winer comes on here and claims to have invented RSS I will smack him. - drew olanoff

Congratulations! - joey

Congratulations and all the best. - Bryce Roney

Welcome Ryan!!! - Phil

Welcome Ryan :) - giuseppe c. | markgreene

Awesome. Congratulations! - John McCrea

Congratulations! - anna sauce

Congratulations :) Welcome Ryan :) - Mohamed Marwen Meddah

Congrats, Imagine where RSS and the web will be when he turns 30! - James Watters

Congratulations to you both. - Don McAllister

congrats Robert and Maryam :))))) - CNFRMST

congrats to the family!! - erik yuzwa

Welcome to RSS in Pubsubhub mode :) - Ouriel Ohayon

Congrats to you all!! We had our second child, a boy, on Tuesday. Enjoy!! - Alex Cordiner from iPhone

Yay! Congrats to you, but mostly congrats to your wife for doing all of the hard work. ;-) xo - Jennifer Leggio

Mazel Tov! - Robb Vaules

Congrats Robert....wishing all the best to your family.... - Carlos

Congratulations! Wow! Seems like we were there just the other day! Looking forward to your late-night feeds and tweets and blog posts! - Louis Gray

You rock! Congrats. Thanks for sharing. How's mum doing? - Steve Lacey from iPhone

Congrats Robert - It is a fine family.... - Simarprit Singh

"beautiful new baby" by Robert Scoble, photojournalist. I stepped away for coffee and bang! RSS - Brian Hendrickson

nice! - Josh Haley from iPhone

Thank you so much for sharing - Sherrie Belken

:) congrats - Shandiz

Born on Talk like a Pirate Day, too! Yarrrr! - Josh Haley from iPhone

congrads ms & mr scoble, :) - chaz2b

congrats!! ^_^ - Christine Lu

Steve: mum is sleeping but got to hold Ryan. Instant love! - Robert Scoble from iPhone

Welcome, Guest dear to our world / Now the world is on your own - CNFRMST

that feels good - Brian Hendrickson

Congratulations! - Parth Awasthi

Congratulations. Hope Maryam iis doing well - Rachel Clarke

Congratulations! Wish him all the best! - philos

Welcome Baby Ryan!!! My baby Ryan (17 years!) and I are honored to welcome another superstar to our planet! Love, hugs, and lots of kisses to Baby Ryan, Mommy Maryam, Dad Robert and big brothers Milan & Patrick and of course Grandma!!! My guess on Ryan's arrival (predication) was only 23 hours off. I thought he would arrive on Friday, Sept. 18th at 11:45 pm. Love to all, Kelly & Ryan Kim - Kelly S. Kim

Congrats, Robert and Maryam. - Derrick

Congratulations Robert, and well done Maryam! You are truly blessed :) - Nicola Quinn

So happy for you Robert and Maryam. Yeay...another FF baby! - Mark Krynsky

Congratulations! - Surachart Opun

What a moment, eh? I remember when my daughter came into this world, it was so exciting there were no words for it. Congrats on your wonderful baby boy! - Michael J. Carrasquillo

Congratulations - testbeta

Congratulations! Welcome to the world, Ryan. :-) - Yvette Ferry

Congratulations Robert and Maryam! And welcome Ryan. If I was having a baby today, I'd begin a blog for him/her straight away as an online diary they could look back on when grown up. - Technogran

he's so cute... - Sinem Vural

Robert, Congratulations to you and Maryamie! - Mike Fruchter

Wow, congrats to all of you! - Paul Salzman

Congratulations to you both! - Forrest W. Kobayashi

Great news guys! All the best! - Chris Nixon

الهــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــی چقده ناز نازیه.اینو فارسی نوشتم مریم جان بخونن ....راستی به باباش که نرفته:)) خوشگلتره:)) پس به شما رفته - joupy

congratulations!! - Jeroen De Miranda

Congratulations to you and your wife Robert! - Randy

Congrats Robert! - Terry Jones

congratz and welcome RSS! - Jon Winters

Congrats Maryam :-) - Terry Jones

Felicitations and humble prayers for your new son. - Victor Panlilio

congrats and best wishes! - Mike Chelen

Congratulations Robert! Welcome Ryan! - Jeff P. Henderson

Congrats!! - Tan Kaiquan

congrats and best wishes to all. :) - Naor Mark

I was a c-section six week preemie in an era when that was seriously life-threatening, they didn't know if I would make for the first week. It always gets me a see a c-section / preemie come howling into the world. Welcome, little guy! - Bob Morris (polizeros) from iPhone

Beautiful baby! Congratulations daddy man :) - Gary

:) Congrats Robert... best wishes to your family! Get her name in twitter and ff! - Business Blogger 【ツ】™

Congratulations to you and Maryam! - Elwin Witzke

AmazinG!! congratulations :) - Nakul

cutie pie baby - Debby Bruck

Ryan, good to see you. - Burçak Çubukçu

تولدش مبارک ^_^ Congratulations! - ‎‎Emad

Warm wishes and congratulations. Love that you posted him crying. - Irene Koehler

Congratulation to all of you! All the best for baby ryan!!! - Arne Krueger

Congrats to both of you :) - zephyrlily

Congratulation....best wishes to all - Opium

woooow like :) - کلـیـشه

Congrats M. & R. - Giuseppe M.

Congrats Robert and Maryam, Welcome to geekdom Ryan! - Andrew Wardlaw

Contrats!!! I'm so excited!! - Jannifer @wordsforliving

Congrats.That pic brings back memories of my own baby's birth only ten months ago. C-section baby boys rock! - Georgiana Comsa

Mazel Tov to you and Maryam. - Michael Markman

Congrats... a few more Scobles make the world a better place ;-) - Aad 't Hart

Congrats... and Welcome Ryan. Good to have you among us. - Sativa

Congratulations! I - Michael Fidler

Wonderful news. Congrats. - Keri

Congrats Robert, and the best to you, Maryam, and of course Ryan! - Chris Charabaruk

Congratulations Congratulations !! - Farzad

Congrats - Sandeep Swaminathan

looking to to the same in 3 weeks - ROBIN SMITH

Congrats on the blessed event! :D - Joel Lovato

Congrats Robert and Maryam. Welcome Ryan !!!!!!!!! - Nir Ben Yona

Congratulations, Robert! - Mark Trapp

Congratulations to Robert and Maryam. - George Hall (Australia)

Right ON! I am so happy for you. I have 4 kids of my own and they are my greatest joys. Take care and I hope all goes so smooth for him and mom. - Robert Anderson

Daddy Scobleizer!!!!!!!!!! First things first....when will he be signed up for Twitter and FF? - krystyl

Congrats!!! - eric susch

welcome Ryan, it's a beautiful world - Michele Costabile

Congrats!! - Olivia Lovag

Congrats to the Scoble family from South Africa! Welcome to the world @RSS - Shaun Trennery

Congrats, Robert! :-D - Kol Tregaskes

Congratulations Robert, and welcome Ryan! - ↂGiorgiँ Zarrelliↂ

Congratulations Robert and R.S.S.: "Hello World" Cheers! - Louis Trapani

warmest congratulations - Peter Holland

what a beautiful baby=)Congratulations=) - Candan Celik

Such a miracle and a blessing - Congratulations to you and Maryam and "big" brothers! - Marla Schulman

Congrats, Robert. Amazing pictures! - Jordi Soler

Congratulations to all of your family! Enjoy! - Ed Richardson

Congratulations ... enjoy! - Hitesh Parashar

Congratulations!!!! He's beautiful! Welcome little one! I'm proud to share a birthday with you! - Martha

Congratulations Robert and Maryam! Welcome to the world Ryan :-) - Rasmus Lauridsen

happy birthday BABY - ≤ M@RzI

Best congratulations!!!! :) - CantorJF

Congrat Robert. It is wonderful what this new media could do to share your joy! - Gianto Widianto

congrats! - Pradhap Nirmal Natarajan

Congratulations! - Steve Garfield

به به . قدم نو رسیده مبارک مریم جان . خیلی نازه :) - RokhSaare

Hope the baby and mum are well. Congratz. Happy Ied Mubarak =) - ciw

WoW,Congratulations! - atalmatal from MojiPage

Congrats on the blessed event! Welcome to the world, Ryan - Jazz Baker

Congratulations! - Vicarbott

Congrats :) - Maryam Ardakani from FreshFeed

He was delivered by a Blue Man? - paul mooney

Congrats Robert. It's allways a special moment. I still have my child birth in my memory! - Rui

What a happy day! A healthy new Scoble and mom. - Dave Winer

آخي ، بچته ؟؟؟ مبارك باشه تو روز به اين عزيزي به دنيا اومده ، بت نميخوره بچه انقدري داشته باشي شيطون - غلام یحیی

My goodness, congratulations! - DGentry

Congrats! - Ivo Mortani

Congratulations!! and best wishes - Johni Fisher

congrats! - Il fu mass

Congratulations! I hope everyone's ok?! - Holger Eilhard

حاجي خانومت ايرانيه جدي ؟؟؟ پس خيلي مباركه ديگه - غلام یحیی

Congratulations, Scoble family! - scherbi: bottom dweller

wonderfull - Claudio - braciolanet from BuddyFeed

Congratulations to you and your family Robert! A very handsome baby boy! Cant wait to see more pictures! - TiffanyCarr

Congratulations, Robert. - motownmutt

Congratulations! - :: Kim Sherrell ::::

congrats :) - £lham

مبارکه :) - خیزران

Congrats! - Roozbeh

Congrats to Robert and Maryam! - Bec Rowe @d0tski

WooHoo! My best to the whole family. I hope Maryam is getting some rest after all that hard work! - Robert Couture

Congrats to you and your fam, Robert :) - LANjackal

Ryan was born when the Berlin Marathon was finishing. Perhaps he'll be a long-distance runner. Congrats. - Carl Jacobsen

Congratulations to you and the wife, Robert! Job well done. I see he is gonna take after his Daddy! ;-0 ,hehe:-) - Duliece

One more congrats won't hurt, right? Thanks for sharing the pics. - Kevin Sablan

Congratulations :) - A35G

Congrats - Exciting & now the fun begins :-) - PXLated

Wishing you and yours the best on this wonderful day! Congratulations! - DJ Stevie Steve

Congrats on the RSS feed update :) I hope you've pinged both rsscloud and pubsubhubbahubba ! - Ahsan Ali

Starting today. Sleep will be nothing more than a fond memory. :) Congrats. - Richard

Congrats! - Herb Hernandez from iPhone

Congrats! - {o şimdi candarma! }

Congrats Robert!! - Taehoon Kim

Congratulations! - Thomas Hawk

Congratulations to all! - malackey

fantastic !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! - michele ficara 

Awe!! Congrats =) - Brodie Beta

Congratulazioni!! ^______^ - Andrea | amnesiak1978

congrats!! - clarita

Welcome Ryan! Congratulations Robert and family! - Tim Probst from iPhone

Congratulations!!! God bless.... - Bob DeMarco

Congrats! - Jason Williams from iPhone

Congratulations Robert, Maryam and Milan! All the best to the four of you. - Eiso Kant

Congratulations :-) - Jalada

Congrats! Enjoy. - Jim Peake

Congrats - Bee

Congratulations!! - Paolo Leonardi

Congratulations! - John (bird whisperer)

Congratulations. - Ashish

oooww wonderfulll :)) - Ucandepik

Well done, my son's name as well. - Robert Kenney

Congratulations - Caleb Scribner

Congrats - Manuel Mas

Congrats! Best wishes to you, Ryan and all your family! - Lenny Post

congrats ^_^ - Furkan Tunalı

Conga Rats! - Michael R. Bernstein

Wonderful! Enjoy! - Alan Morris

Hello! - N.G. Gordon - RadarSync

Absolutely wonderful. Welcome to the world Ryan! - Loren Heiny from iPhone

Congrats :) - Hasan Al Shehabi

Congratulations to both of you. - Roberto Bonini

Congratulations to everyone! He looks healthy! I am sure you must all be very happy! ;) - Altan Khendup

Congratulations! May your tribe ever increase in happiness, joy, and fulfilment. - trey pennington

Congrats! - Ben Parr

what would be ryan's reaction when he would read this post someday, so many folks who knew dad congratulating him! - testbeta

Congratulations! - Anne Bouey

hiya RSS! - Laura Norvig

Yah!! Congratulations. - Micah

Congratulations to the whole Scoble family! - WoH: Minding her Steves

Congratulations to the whole family! Enjoy these most precious times. - Marylene Delbourg-Delphis

best wishes to all - Hamza Şamlıoğlu @TEAkolik

congrats Robert and Maryam - Kevin Tunis

Congratulations, Robert! - Sabri Küstür from FreshFeed

Wonderful. Best wishes to Ryan... - Mitchell Tsai

Congratulations to the whole family :) - Chris Saad

Congratulations - Samaneh

Congratulations. First picture on twitter! - Cindy Makonin

I just came to make sure you were getting a proper congratulations - Sherrie Belken

congrats;) - Elham ( خاتون )

Congratulations to the Scobles! - Carlton Prest

Congrats Robert! - Jorge Escobar

congratulations, Robert and Maryam. - Valeria Maltoni

congrats! - Daniel Brusilovsky

WOW - what a miracle - congrats! - Mark Harai

Congratulations Robert & Maryam! - Rodrigo Jaroszewski

Congrats from Italy, Ryan! - Federico Bolsoman from iPhone

Congratulations Robert and sorry for delay, Best wishes - erfan

He is crying: "I want an iPhone". Felicitations! - William Mougayar

May he be blessed throughout his life! God bless you, Robert and Maryam! - Melanie Reed

CONGRATS!!!!!!!!! - Greg Ness

congrats :) - Erdinc Ciftci

Congrats Robert & your family :) - Sampad Swain

what a beautiful little guy! congratulations! rock on! - B.L. Ochman

great day, congrats - imran

Wow congratulations to both you and Maryam you must be so proud :) - David Richardson from Android

Wow, Congratulations, Robert and Maryam!! Ryan looks beautiful.:-) - Cathryn Hrudicka

Congrats man. That's so awesome. - DB Botts - Just DB Botts

Happy Babbie Day! - Jack&Cleo

Congrats! I wish a long and healthy life. - Muammer Okumuş

Robert, you newest addition is too freaking adorable. I hope you and Maryam are doing well. Congratulations! Here's to a long, prosperous future! - Mike Nayyar

congrats to you and Maryam! And welcome, RSS! - Joshua Allen from fftogo

congrats!!! Welcome to Ryan - Dario Salvelli

Congratulations to you and Maryam! E benvenuto Ryan! - Marco Fabbri

Congrats! :) - Emmanuel Anumonwo

Congratulations! - mlazopoulou

Such auspicious times... Welcome, Ryan! - Red Label

O HAI, Ryan! Congratulations to Daddy and Mommy, too! - Ladyepiphanybug

قدم نو رسیده مبارک!congratulations - uɐſʃɐʌ uɐſ

حوزه جان بیا در گوشش اذان بگو - ممد

woohoo! congrats! - Tyson

Congrats Robert! Welcome Ryan! - Garin Kilpatrick

Awesome, Congratulations Robert and Maryam! And welcome to the world Ryan. - Mitch Baldwin

Happy parenting! Congrats! - Natalie

Groovy + one geek on the planet - Yann Ropars

Congrats!!! Robert - Steve Chou

To the proud Papa.....Congratulations!! - Bonnie Foster

Congratulations Team Scoble. Best of good wishes to all of you. - Morrie Johnston

Congrats Robert and family!!! Welcome Ryan :) - buvanesh

congrats Robert! - Joshua Guffey

Congratulations! RS - Sean Kelly

Congrats :D - Emre Misvaklı

Congratulations. he's so cute :) - Armando Grati

Beautiful! - Ryan Sholin

Congratulations - Kreg Steppe

Congratulations! - Gordon Saunders

Congratulations! - Hamid Reza

Congrats Robert....How amny more before you have your baseball team :-) - Alex Marrow

Seriously, Best whishes.............God Bless...... - Alex Marrow

Mazal Tov! - Raanan Avidor

All the best! Fun Times!!!! - Jim Turner

congrads now the fun starts, beautiful baby - Debra Moore

congrads ! - ★ Soner Gönül

Congrats and Best Wishes! - Tracy Benham

Looks like the baby's first trip to the dentist - Steve Borgman

Welcome, Ryan! Congrats, Robert! - Thierry R. Andriamirado

Gina

Google Takes Sides on the Kanye West Meme [Pic] | I Am Bored - http://scribbling.net/post...

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I couldn't believe that! Great pic though! (even if it is doctored) - Nathan Snyder

Ha. - John (bird whisperer)

Greg Mallery

Bitches ain't shit!!! http://yfrog.com/0goc5nj

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Google Mail's Status: Service Outage (http://www.google.com/appssta...)

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It's global my friends. - AJ Batac :)

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Oh my! - Zulema ⋅ spicy cocoa tart

Well that explains it. - Rachel Lea Fox

I think the date is descending. It had some failures this early morning too and was for a subset of users. - AJ Batac :)

interesting - Allen Stern

The fundamentals of Google's server farm are sound! - Daniel J. Pritchett

IMAP is still running fine. If you are using Thunderbird, the setup is easy as 123. The only catch to this is if you've enabled your IMAP on Gmail. If not, you're out of luck. - AJ Batac :)

Google! You Twitter-headed Bastards! - ‘-.-’ Tutivillus Grift

Working for me. Their update from 1:02pm Pacific (30 minutes ago) says: "Google Mail service has already been restored for some users, and we expect a resolution for all users within the next 1.2 hours. Please note this time frame is an estimate and may change. Users can access their email via IMAP or POP. You can find instructions for how to do this here: http://mail.google.com/support.... " - Stephen Mack

1.2 hours, ey? ;) - Anthony Citrano

Still down from the east coast. - JCunwired

Panic in the streets! Dogs and cats texting together! - Daniel J. Pritchett

Even made it to the Gmail blog: http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2009... - Tinfoil 2.0

MASS HYSTERIA! - Zulema ⋅ spicy cocoa tart

Leah Culver

Choose Your Own Adventure books will soon be available on the Kindle! Brilliant. http://jezebel.com/5342799...

August 25, 2009 from Twitter - Comment - Like - Share

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Loved those as a kid, very cool indeed!!! - Jim Graham

Chris Lawrence

Our schools of education are, with a handful of exceptions, a scandal… - http://www.margaretsoltan.com/...

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Fiji Water: Spin the Bottle | Mother Jones - http://www.motherjones.com/politic...

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The closely held company won't disclose basic data about its business (such as total charity expenditures), and it's gone to some length to shelter assets in secretive tax havens: The Fijian operation, according to court documents filed last year, is owned by an entity in Luxembourg, while its American trademarks are registered to an address in the Cayman Islands. Fiji Water, for its part, has trademarked the word "FIJI" (in capital letters) in numerous countries. (Some rejected the application, but not the United States.) It has also gone after rival Fijian bottlers daring to use their country's name for marketing. "It would have cost too much money for us to fight in court," says Mohammed Altaaf, the owner of Aqua Pacific water, which ended up taking the word "Fiji" out of its name. "It's just like branding a water America Water and denying anyone else the right to use the name 'America.'" - Leo Laporte from Bookmarklet

Bottled water has a function but as a daily indulgence should die. This company is exporting water from a small country that does not provide basic access to clean drinking water for all of it's population. - Glenn Williams

Of course the US approved the trademark.... - Ed Griebel

Thomas Hawk

Robert Scoble on the Future of FriendFeed - http://thomashawk.com/2009...

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The downside for me? I invest time in things that WILL BE not that are. That’s always been what keeps my interest and now that I know that FriendFeed probably will not be, even if it takes five years to totally die, I’ve lost a great deal of interest in it. – Robert Scoble - Thomas Hawk

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After sleeping on the acquisition news I have two thoughts. 1. Maybe, just maybe, enough of the really good FriendFeed features will somehow make their way into Facebook and Facebook will actually get tolerable enough to use. Actually I’m not optimistic, but I will begin spending more time and using Facebook more because of this. I logged on yesterday for the first time in a while and... more... - Thomas Hawk

Thomas - agree with you on focusing on who (people/your company) and not what (network). I posted my thoughts about the conversations here and what it means for individuals and organizations today http://www.conversationagent.com/2009... - Valeria Maltoni

Maybe FB folks will read these comments and think about keeping FF. Have they heard about segmenting the market? - Leigh Marriner

Leigh, unfortunately the community of FF users is likely of zero concern to Facebook at all. We are a drop in their proverbial bucket. They probably could care less if we all went away. Facebook has no time to deal with some piddly little one million user community like FF when they've got hundreds of million to serve and need to compete against much larger entities. What remains is a void and I wonder if some talented engineer somewhere might be able to come up with something compelling. - Thomas Hawk

Friendfeed got me to question the way I interact with the web.. one place for my content and conversations, leverage known experts to search through the crap, combined with a flexible open platform that can quickly morphed/integrated into various shapes/forms. After my trip (http://ff.im/4gfo2) I'm starting from scratch.. so I'm looking at friendfeed and asking what CAN'T it to for me?... more... - Chris Myles

I know FF might not be the most popular place for this now, but I <3 Cristo! - Clare Dibble

This just makes me sad. FF is still the best option out there, and though it is no longer a "will be", there's no other good replacement for it right now. FB certainly isn't. Twitter isn't. Posterous isn't... If Robert called for someone to recreate FF (and improve on it) he probably has the influence to make it happen, mold it even more toward his ideal. But instead, just wiping his... more... - Lindsay

FF set a benchmark for how to use the streams of the internet in an open and social way. Paul and Bret along with the awesome FF team demonstrated and inspired the use of communication technologies that gave us a paradigm shift a kin to Ward Cunningham's 'Edit' function (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki...) which gave birth to the wiki ideology. They invented something that we... more... - zeroinfluencer

If you don't know who Ward is: http://www.aboutus.org/Ward_Cu... - zeroinfluencer

Oh, I wrote a blog post a while back, covering some of this thinking about using design to invent. http://zeroinfluence.wordpress.com/2008... - zeroinfluencer

I recently saw something about the founder of delicious, who left for Google when Yahoo acquired delicious. It made me think that delicious is mostly the same as it was before Yahoo acquired it. There have been changes, but it is still a separate entity, with its own domain name and logo. Maybe this could work for facebook + friendfeed too. - Robert Felty

Robert: yes. I don't sense that FriendFeed will be turned off. That would be pretty stupid. But it will be interesting to see what happens to it and how they integrate it into Facebook itself. Unfortunately FriendFeed's systems were built to handle a few million people, not hundreds of millions of people, so it would probably need significant work to integrate it into Facebook. I hope to learn more soon from both teams about what will happen. - Robert Scoble

I was just catching up on exactly what Google Wave is, and I honestly think it has the potential of replacing nearly all our collaborative communication needs, even sites like FF. It seems crazy, but I often think about the digtial communication systems of the past (email, forums, IM) and how they never really went away, but they kept giving way to something 'new' that did certain things better but other things worse. - Ben Reierson

WAVE seems to do pretty much everything that all those past systems did, AND it has the real-time aspects of FF. All you'd need to do is add in the aggregation bit, and you're there. I love the idea of having ONE place for all my communications. No longer would I need outlook + FF + IM + Twitter. I could just have various groups of waves, all of them 'alive' with data. - Ben Reierson

I think Wave has lots of potential too. I got to play with it briefly and it was pretty confusing to use (though it also seemed to be encountering bugs when I was using it which contributed to the confusion). I think it or something like it will eventually replace the standards we use for online communication but it will be a learning curve, definitely. Also, it will need some means of discovery... FriendFeed's FoaF does a great job of finding me people with similar interests. - Lindsay

I like all the ideas I'm hearing here. I was absolutely blown away by the Wave demo, and Building 43 seems like a very logical home for any FF replacement. Then, of course, there's the clone that Akiva says some friends of his are working on . . . - Auntie Buttinsky Botts

Jeff Atwood

Opera is like the honors student who occasionally snaps and goes on a random killing spree. I'll take IE6 "special needs" over that any day

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Paul Buchheit

"I even remember what it was like before Robert Scoble got here!"

August 11, 2009 - Comment - Like - Share

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i do actually recall what it was like before he got here - MG Siegler

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lol lol - Chris Saad

I recall what it was like when he declined to be here. :) - Louis Gray

Who is Robert Scoble? Is he Alex's brother or something? - Jim Norris

What was it like? - Christian Collins

quieter - MG Siegler

a moment of win? - Trish Haley

I try to beat Scoble onto networks I think might blow up so I can experience that quiet. :P - Shawn Farner

I remember FriendFeed when Mona was Scoble! - Zulema ⋅ spicy cocoa tart from iPhone

++Zulema - Bruce Lewis

Hell, I even remember what it was like before I got here. - Kelly Norton

who? - Ivan Kirigin

I remember what it was like before Ivan Kirigin actively participated here. Good to see you commenting. :-) - Bruce Lewis

I remember too!! Haha!!! :D - Susan Beebe from iPhone

Hehe MG. - JCunwired

It was, in fact, even nicer back then. Back when Paul was Leo LaPorte - j1m

Mona was Scoble??? Really trying to imagine that... - George Hall (Australia)

I thought it was Guy Kawasaki that started the downfall of Friendfeed? :) - Ray Cromwell

I am always going to have a place for FF. Just like I will have for gmail. Paul you might have something to do with this. - Akshay Dodeja

beta invites, it seems so distant... - Dobromir Hadzhiev

I remember when FriendFeed was available only through VT100 terminals. - Jemm

I even remember what it was like before Alex Scoble got here. But I never knew a time without Louis Gray. And, before Paul? Well, there was Twitter. I remember that time well. :-) - Robert Scoble

Mark: rrrriiiiiggggghhhhttttt. Write your own, I guess is the option. - Robert Scoble

Mona was a much more attractive Scoble. "Queen of FriendFeed" as I recall. - DGentry

Mark: @god owns those. ;-) - Robert Scoble

I have this site bookmarked as ScobleFeed - Travis Smith

Who? - Will Higgins™

I too was here long before Scoble but thankfully I've gotten to know him much better after his arrival. Death to Scoble...Long live Scoble. - Mark Krynsky

There was a "before Robert Scoble got here"? - Morton Fox

BRS (Before Robert Scoble) will be a new measurement of time. - Jemm

I think BS (Before Scoble) would be better. ;) Just kidding Robert - Keith - @tsudo

I'm pretty sure Scoble was here when I got here, but I followed Louise Gray here and Scoble was quiet back then. His Twitter followers weren't following him en masse to FF like they apparently do now. - Rah-PM 2012

I don't remember but I love that quote anyway. That needs to show up in my feed again. - Martha

Oh now we're starting to insult Robert now? Shame. :( - Mol, FF Music Lover

Molly... how is it insulting him.. he is in this thread joking along with it... not sure he feels insulted, maybe he would say so if he was.. - Rob Sellen :o)

Molly: if you think this is insulting you should read some of the people over on Twitter. - Robert Scoble

I remember FriendFeed on a 28.8k modem. I'm totally being serious. This whole real-time thing would have sucked. Oh, and yes, I remember FriendFeed before Robert. ;-) - Zach Flauaus

Leo Laporte

I left Twitter for Jaiku. Then Jaiku left me for Google. I moved in with Pownce but it died. I went back to Twitter, but flirted with Plurk, Identica, and Rejaw, and even tried doing it myself with Laconica but it was Twitter I really loved. Twitter finally broke my heart so I left it for Friendfeed. Now Friendfeed is leaving me for Facebook. No...

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It's like the internet version of Days of Our Lives - Jonathan Hardesty

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HAHAHAHAHA.... - David from IM

Haha. ROFL - Roberto Bonini

is friendfeed going anywhere or will it just get better? - Craig Shipp

I'm with you Leo. - Oracio

It reads better than Soap - my roadmap is very similar but I'll forgive FF and live happily ever after with it (for the time being, anyway) - Nicholas Paul Gordon from iPhone

You're the best Leo. Canadians are the funniest people. - Dan Lessard

I'm betting they'll slowly digest it into the Facebook news feed. They claim that Friendfeed is staying put for now, but that won't last. - Ken Bauer

And we keep following Leo all over the place! - Robert Scoble

When will we all get in a long term relationship and stop getting our hearts broken? - Nate Pilling

so what is more important, the medium or the people, hope that FF will let us export our content, and our social netork :) (in my wild dreams) - abdellah

Need ice cream? I'm new to FF, and kind of sad I didn't jump on the proverbial wagon sooner! - Elizabeth K. Barone

I hope you leave your standard breadcrumbs so we can find you in the next chapter of social interaction. - JCunwired

Feels to me like maybe it's time to go back to building a distributed network, rather than hopping from service to service. - Ken Sheppardson

But where to next? That's the question. Wave sounds great, but the implementation will be a PAIN. So where? Oh LeoMoses...where is our path in the desert? - ‘-.-’ Tutivillus Grift

Sounds like a hurtin' country song in the making. - Bill Rodman

Well you can't say that what is happening in the 'social sphere' is boring by any means! - Matt Cassem

I think Leo's audience is more likely to click "Like" or "comment" than Scoble's is. When Leo and Rob are both posting on FF, Leo gets more likes and comments - Mark

Didn't you leave a post earlier saying how funny it was that people complain anytime there's a change (referring to the FF buyout)? This sounds like a complaint to me. - Fleagle

Not complaining - just thinking about the future. I think a little Friendfeed DNA will vastly improve Facebook. And I think Facebook is already the big winner with the general populace. I also think we geeks need a corner somewhere else to hang out in. - Leo Laporte

And I have no plans to leave Friendfeed. Yet. - Leo Laporte

Yet being the operative word..... - Roberto Bonini

sounds like a country song to me - gavin

As for this geeky alternative, http://a.tinythread.com/ just showed up in my feed this morning. Thoughts? - Craig B.

I feel more of a personal connection with the FriendFeed team than I have with other services I've left, and that will be a big part of why I will stay as long as possible. - Louis Gray

^^^ replace "team" with "community" and there's my reason for sticking it out. - JCunwired

Its also going to take a very long time to go through content and bookmark/store it elsewhere. Evernote is going to be used heavily in the weeks to come. - JCunwired

The only way to have control is to use your own URL - Craig Shipp

Wait till you meet Facebook's randy cousin Overly Friendly Book =) - Cynthia Yildirim

what Louis gray said. I'm going to hang around until the lights go out. - Jordan Brock from BuddyFeed

What they said, I don't see any reason to leave FriendFeed unless something actually changes that makes the service worthless to me. - Craig B.

And many times you cheated Twitter, she was always loyal to you. Thats mean someting! - Jacque from m.ctor.org

yup me too Louis and I don't know any of them - Thomas Power

Plurk's not worth leaving anyone for. - Rachel R.

Leo, I think you need to change your FaceFeed status to "It's Complicated" ;) - Daynah

Play this thread off, keyboard cat. - Fleagle

You have to go back to your blog. It still loves you Leo. - Dave Winer

Screw you, Friendfeed! - Andrew Leahey

Users today are investors too - only the 'exit' for us is not lucrative.... its the other way sometimes :) - Mrinal Desai

I just had the idea: wow, how good will Faceboook become though this input? (JUST imagine tagging ppl in FB the way U can Tag them in FF.) - oliver gassner

Love Stinks. - shelter watch

Leo Laporte listed his relationship as: "its complicated." - Randy Shapiro

Damn thats complicated - drmacintosh

Don't worry Leo, its not you, its them... - Steven McGurn

I agree with Jonathan Hardesty "It's like the internet version of Days of Our Lives" - And sites keep getting killed off only to come back to life a month later! - Amy Flynn

very true, however on the other hand, we are getting closer to that one service which everyone will be on... and I dont think twitter is going to be that one - Bryce Campbell

Facebook buying FriendFeed is like having to MOVE just when you got your house all dressed up and made into a comfy HOME! I don't feel like doing it again! - Arleen Boyd

Now that Facebook and Friendfeed have married, I'm waiting for Twitfacefeedplebospacening. - Anthony Marco

Leo, u by your self made two companies (services) out of 3 famous and made Google interested enough to buy 2 of them (Jaiku & FF). Google also tried to flirt with Twitter as well. So which one u choose now? Cause we will follow u :P - Sam Ehsan

Sounds like some of my past love affairs. Of course, I'm married now. That, um, was prior. - Paul Chaney

lmfao, its so true leo, so true! - Derek Bender

Feeling a bit worn around the edges? ... me too! - Susan Beebe from iPhone

Speaking of Days Of Our Lives: Didn't that show jump the shark when the serial killer was unmasked as Marlena (a character I used to have a mad crush on, and who's now mostly a professional victim)? Then all the "killed" characters came back to life, since they were only what I call "soap opera dead"... - Dennis Jernberg

And if everyone follows you, then your all having affairs all over the place! LOL - Technogran

I think it's back to the TWiT Army! - Paul Salzman

It's not like we have proposed Healthcare reform, or anything really important, going on in the U.S.A. - Steve de Mena

it's getting ridiculous, FEDERATED is the word! - Dobromir Hadzhiev

who is actually leaving FF? have many people vowed to do so yet? I'd like to but there isn't any alternative. - Denise Young

the joys and sorrows of everyday social IT folks... :-) - Thomas Lee

Streamy seems to be crashing left & right tho. - Rick Cogley

Not to mention Pownce was shutdown as soon as it got good! - Kenneth Reitz

No mention of Microsoft Vine? - Robert MacEwan

I've decided I'm not going to tell ANYONE which site I'm favoring... not even myself! I swear! As soon as I decided that FF was my new place (a couple months ago) THIS happens! It's like magic, but in a bad bad way... - Mark J Colonel Colonic

Why do we all assume this is a bad thing? Maybe the FF Facebook combo will be better?? - Craig Shipp

Maybe they'll keep both open -- FF is the open side, and FB is the closed side. - John Flinchbaugh from IM

Social Networks are sluts? - TheDiva Rockin

It sure is. - Jason Hill

I know exactly how you feel. What's a person to do? I am mad at Twitter for suspending some of my accounts. First, the accounts kept causing the password to reset, then they were suspended, all around the time of the DOS attacks. All I ever used Twitter for was to advertise my businesses, and for fun. Now I don't know where to go. - DogPatch

Here's some thoughts on what's going to happen:http://kennethreitz.com/blog... - Kenneth Reitz

It's like my beloved Archie comics romantic twists from childhood! Archie loves Veronica who loves Reggie who loves Betty who loves Archie... ;) - Shawn Zehnder Rossi

More like "As the worm churns" - Houseofmax

한글 와서~ 루거 .. 당신은 정말 잘 생기고있다 누드 사진 기다리다 :] - HealingBrush

One of the funniest sad stories I've heard in a long time... - Aviva Gabriel

Gotta find one who is a lady in public and a whore in the bedroom. One who looks like a woman, but thinks like a man. One who tells you you're the only person in their world and worships the ground you walk on. One who's from Venus but want's to live on Mars. One who you know will always be there even when the chips are down. One who looks like a movie star, but doesn't bust the credit... more... - Jan Simmonds

I think a lot of people LOVE to think negatively and don't want to think positively. They think FB is BAD and will ruin FF, but I think if they do it well, FB won't be the bad guy. I think most people who are irked about this are irked because they think the FFers "sold out" to the "man". - Mol, FF Music Lover

@Mollyanna - I disagree. I am irked because the future of FF is completely uncertain. It's more likely that FB will let FF flounder and close it down than it is that FB will invest time and resources in maintaining and enhancing FF. FB has other interests and is splitting up the FF dev team. That does not bode well for FF. I don't begrudge the FF devs for taking the money. I would be... more... - Lindsay

Leo, I hope you mention FriendFeed in your Dubai TED talk ! :) I'll try to be there ! - Ahsan Ali

@Jan You're an asshat. - Ian Wright from BuddyFeed

leo, check out Streamy.com. I'm actually commenting to friendfeed from there right now...you may like it better. - Casey Petersen

Haiku Laporte - Outsanity

that was cute! :O) - Jeanne

@ian - "Wordsmith. Public relations undergraduate at The University of Texas. Feminist Capitalist. WordPress geek. Future commercial rights attorney"...surely that kind of asinine comment is beneath you! - Jan Simmonds

Maybe they're just not that into you. - Elizabeth Johnson

Wait... who's on first? - Michael Rosenau

Logged in to suggest that many of us have tridden a similar path, but a lot of people have beaten me to it! I miss Pownce - Gary Purvis

wow, Leo. You've got relationship issues! - Justin Bradshaw

there there, Shawny's here... - The Real sofarsoShawn

I sense a pattern here.. maybe you always seem to go after web2.0 services that are bent on ditching you :) - Shivanand Velmurugan

Susan Beebe

Is there any connection between Twitter being down & Facebook being super buggy this morning? What do you think? Discuss:

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OMG, I can't even stay connected to Facebook at all. Been trying to chat with a friend (using Adium) and connect...disconnect...connect...etc. - Kenley Neufeld

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I just reset my router twice thinking it was me. - Kenley Neufeld

A feedback loop that keeps knocking both services down? - Paul Jacobson

Helen :) - Susan Beebe

This is teaching us something about the framework of the current Internet traffic patterns. We're watching cascade scale problems from one major Internet program going down. - Melanie Reed

Mashable article: Twitter Down: Twitter Doesn’t Know Why ---> http://mashable.com/2009... - Susan Beebe

Just checked with my FB peeps, and the weather over here is much better. Was very hard to get posting done over there. - Brenda Young

This is the longest outage twitter's had in a LONG time... something is definitely wrong... ouch - Susan Beebe

Yes, FB is receiving more traffic and twitter says its a DOS attack http://status.twitter.com/post... - cheapsuits

interesting possibility: a massive DoS attack on all SNS properties at the same time! with no SNS people might go at each other tooth and nail. this would make a great Onion report! - MikeAmundsen

I'm with Helen on this one - after Scoble's Great Unfollow, Twitter's database is so full of holes they're having to do a massive reorg... - Andrew Terry

Twitter Status: "Update: we are defending against a denial-of-service attack." http://status.twitter.com/post... -- 11:00 am EST - Susan Beebe

(can something be *full* of holes or is that oxymoron?) - Andrew Terry

Andrew -LOL - Susan Beebe

Posterous seems to be down, too, for what it's worth. - Eric Johnson

Posterous is working for me (for now) - Susan Beebe

You can read "panic tweets" from Twitterers about Twitter being down: http://bit.ly/lA7HK - Gus

@ Andrew - there's a model in Chaos Theory where you take a cube, hollow a hole in the exact centre of each side, then keep repeating the process - end result? A finite cube containing an infinite number of holes :) - Iain Baker

Susan - Posterous is back for me, too. And was a 500 server error, so probably not DoS related. - Eric Johnson

So I guess we ought to help the folks at Twitter out and shut down our Twitter clients? I expect that zillions of API calls aren't helping their situation right now... - Eric Johnson

Facebook, LiveJournal, and Twitter all down, to much of a coincidence to be a coincidence? API calls all the way - courtney benson

Wondering now if that suggestions a massive DDoS attack launched against a bunch of sites, or possibly also infrastructure issues as well? - Susan Beebe

@Iain - Really? That's so cool! - Andrew Terry

Some post mentioned a major core router being down in GA, not sure how reliable that is. - Jack Wilson, K4SAC

TWITTER suffering a dDOS attack official at 11am EDT - OLDBEACHBUM

Jack - Thank you, something big is brewing here...not looking good - Susan Beebe

Ooooh - let's blame North Korea! (or are we not allowed to since they let the reporters go yesterday?) - amygeek

I'm assuming this will take CNN a few days to report. - Derek Huether, PMP, CSM

Derek - hahaha good one! - Susan Beebe

my FF has crashed every time I've tried to subscibe - WarLord

It does feel like everything's either under treacle or attack. I'm hoping it's treacle. - Dan Biddle

@biz ---> Thursday, August 06, 2009 Denial of Service Attack On this otherwise happy Thursday morning, Twitter is the target of a denial of service attack. Attacks such as this are malicious efforts orchestrated to disrupt and make unavailable services such as online banks, credit card payment gateways, and in this case, Twitter for intended customers or users. We are defending against... more... - Susan Beebe

Thought that was just my slow Australian connection - or the huge full moon in the sky tonight o) - Chris Loft

Of course there is, the two sites are highly interconnected and trouble with one will cause problems with any service which continues to access twitter to update their users profiles - Lillian Banchik

http://whentwitterisdown.com/ - SKAgnozzo

http://istwitterdown.com - Susan Beebe

Chris Loft - of course everything takes longer to get to Australia! I'm with amygeek - let's blame it on N. Korea... - Baffled from fftogo

Ohhh... I don't recall Twitter being down for such a long period of time, although I must say I've seen a sudden rise of spam lately. - Bruno Mertins

God, just figured out that we would all have to go back to talking to one another in person or on the phone if this continues. - courtney benson

cnet article, "There has been no indication that any of these various attacks are connected. But it's probably not a coincidence that they all coincide with the annual Defcon hacker convention." (Twitter crippled by denial-of-service attack) -- http://news.cnet.com/8301-13... - Susan Beebe

Baffled I've been trying to post this to you at Twitter -- I knew a hooter / thought - did she have a suitor / or was I too late? /// #haiku #haikuchallenge - Chris Loft

I wonder how much impact (think overhead) those stupid Spam Bots cause for twitter? 24% of all twitter traffic is due to spam bots - augh! - Susan Beebe

Courtney - LOL ... that is too funny! - Susan Beebe

They're probably both the government. Real talk. - professor daddyo

military is testing inet/SNS preparedness/vulns. - MikeAmundsen

They're being hit by a DOS attack, http://status.twitter.com/post... - Rob Fahrni

CNN finally picked up the story. Slooooooow - Derek Huether, PMP, CSM

About 8-12 hrs ago, Facebook kept giving me "Database Write Failed" errors: "An error occurred while writing to our database. Please try again later or contact customer support." - Mitchell Tsai

Yep, I've been getting all kinds of Facebook "transport errors" while attempting to wall post, comment, etc. - Susan Beebe

Derek - that was slow, but CNN is getting better! LOL - Susan Beebe

Twitter Status Blog - 2nd Update: "Ongoing denial-of-service attack -- We are defending against a denial-of-service attack, and will update status again shortly. Update: the site is back up, but we are continuing to defend against and recover from this attack." - Susan Beebe

my Blog post --> http://www.susanbeebe.com/social-... - Susan Beebe

Coordinated attack by FriendFeed? ;) - Jemm

No way! Remember Paul Buchheit, one of FriendFeed's founders, coined the term "Do No Evil" when he was at Google. The FF team is really cool, no bad dudes over there! - Susan Beebe

YAY twitter is back up!!! :) - Susan Beebe

@Susan: I know, just kidding by stating a thing which is way too absurd to be true;) - Jemm

LOL - Susan Beebe

FWIW, I always thought Google's catchphrase "do no evil" would have been better when qualifying a statement, like this: "Let the old lady finish crossing the street; don't be evil" - Richard Walker

See GigaOm's VISUAL on the Twitter outage (web traffic data provided by AlertSite.com) -- http://gigaom.com/2009... - Susan Beebe

Twitter Status Blog UPDATE [12:46pm EST] : "Update (9:46a): As we recover, users will experience some longer load times and slowness. This includes timeouts to API clients. We’re working to get back to 100% as quickly as we can." - Susan Beebe

Update: Now FACEBOOK admits they too were subjected to DDoS attack today too!! --> RT @AdamOstrow: Facebook Problems Also the Result of DDoS Attack - http://mashable.com/2009... (via http://ff.im/6fTyC) - Susan Beebe

Here's a Facebook "Database Write Error" I saw repeatedly last night ~1-3 am ET, before the DDoS attacks this morning. http://ff.im/6fUfO I'm not sure if there weren't precursors to the main DDoS attacks at 6 am today, but Facebook was having weird issues a few hours earlier. - Mitchell Tsai

Facebook kept giving me the ol' "transport error" messages - tons of 'em too! - Susan Beebe

Funny. I could not log into Twitter, Tweetdeck or Facebook for over an hour. Then I had this sudden horror that an aweful event, such as a terrorist attack, would flood both sites with traffic and cause this. I went to CNN- there was the story of Twitters DDoS Attack. - E-Advocate Network

Pretty scary stuff, huh? I wonder who would be behind all this. Hope they catch 'em and lock 'em up! - Susan Beebe

Susan, I also got lots of AJAX transport errors & long delays at Facebook, but those happena ll the time. This was the first time I've seen the "database write error". - Mitchell Tsai

I blame North Korea - Jim Goldstein from iPhone

To deal with future network problems, we need an emergency backup mechanism to access twitter: carrier pigeons. http://crankypm.com/2009... - DGentry

Hope they catch them too Susan. I sure was releived to find it was a cyber attack causing the flood instead of people reporting on a real life attack though! I do worry about real time events right now that are lagging coverage due to this: #iranelection. - E-Advocate Network

Yay!! Google, facebook and twitter are investigating the DDoS attacks today! See Mashable's post about it here: http://mashable.com/2009... - Susan Beebe

Seriously, even Friendfeend, via Buddyfeed client, was unavailable a few times. I'll venture a guess the DoS attack targetted a whole heap of social media at the one time. - George Hall (Australia)

That bird pic at the top of the thread is intriguing. Is it public domain? - George Hall (Australia)

Hardly use Facebook. When I update facebook it's when I do a mass update through Ping.fm, other than that I hardly use it. - Patrick

Where did you get the dead bluebird icon? I love it. - shelisrael1

I think this is a definite competitor for the Fail Whale! - Justin Davey

Are they both routed through the same Bay Area server network? Just askin'. Maybe there's a rapid growth of Twitter-to-FB feeds that's screwing up everything? I also like the dead bluebird & upside down FB graphics! - Cathryn Hrudicka

I had much trouble w/ FB this morning as well. It got better after the rain stopped. A day w/o SM is a day without sunshine. - shelisrael1

AP reports that a pro-Abkhazia activist blogger, who uses the account name "Cyxymu," (the name of a town in the Republic of Georgia) is related to the attacks on SNS. Whether the pro-side (Georgia) or con-side (Russia) coordinated the attacks is unknown. "There's very little way of distinguishing which side was taking this action, because either side could hypothetically benefit from... more... - Mitchell Tsai

lots Blogger as well and Livejournal. It was a concentrated attack. - Rob Cairns

Photo credit for dead twitter bird ---> http://iStockPhoto.com. - Susan Beebe from BuddyFeed

Mitchell - wow, thank you for the awesome insights into the DDoS attack story. I truly appreciate the info and citations you kindly provided here. Good stuff, as always!! - Susan Beebe from BuddyFeed

Cathryn - I flipped the facebook logo upside down - glad you like it! - Susan Beebe from BuddyFeed

Thanks for the photo credit details, Susan. - George Hall (Australia)

I think the dead twitter bird is cute! - Jannifer @wordsforliving

yes, I belive there is close connection. - eva

Iran - heretic_twit

wondering what the final verdict will be on the DDoS attack and how we can prevent them in the future .... hmmm - Susan Beebe

Down but not own................. - Kevin J Hatton

seems like whatever Google did mitigated the attack on their end, it'd be interesting to see what data google could provide to twitter and facebook on how to protect from ddos attacks in the future - Ⓐ ☠ slayerboy ☠ Ⓐ from IM

Mike - agreed!! Google's insights would be really important for future hardening of systems to defend DDoS attacks - Susan Beebe

Fri 8/7 UPDATE: @Twitter: "Due to defense measures some Twitter clients are unable to communicate with our API, and many users are unable to tweet via SMS." - Susan Beebe

Fri 8/7 UPDATE: Twitter STATUS Blog: "Restoring API and SMS [12:42pm EST] Due to defensive measures we’ve taken against the ongoing denial-of-service attack, some Twitter clients are unable to communicate with our API, and many users are unable to tweet via SMS. We are working as quickly as possible to restore our full service. " - Susan Beebe

Why do you use Facebook ? I mean it's a site for < 17 years old - Thierry Lhôte

Robert Scoble

Facebook is unusable? That's what I'm reading here. Well, please explain how 300 million use it then. Including my wife, my son, me, and ALL of Maryam's elementary school friends from Iran.

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I think most mean it's not as comfortable as FriendFeed. - Amit Morson

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I think some of the stuff I'm reading about Facebook is laughable. Really? I went over and used it tonight and the news feed is very similar to FriendFeed. The technology from here will fit right in. - Robert Scoble

Actually, Robert's right. FriendFeed's basically a superior version of the Facebook news feed. - Dennis Jernberg

I wish Friend Feed was keyboard navigatable though. Google Reader and GMail have spoiled me; making me think that web apps can be usable as well. I don't like using the mouse so much. - Travis B. Hartwell

It's gotten a bit easier since they started copying Twitter/Friendfeed...but its the third-party silly stuff that puts me off. Serious stuff was always better here in Friendfeed. - George Hall (Australia)

George: I ignore all that stuff, it never bothered me. - Robert Scoble

When do do we get hear what the plan actually is? I have used the FF app in facebook from time to time. But the problem is facebook is clunky due to it's massive membership so I tend click back to here. Is FB really going to get faster? It be smart to have both running in tandem methinks no? - BairdWilliamson

Facebook is like the social housing estate next door. There are some decent people living there, and there are some pockets of nobs who will steal the hubcaps off your car and throw them through your windows while trying to sell some dodgy dvd's on the street corners. - Gilbert Harding

Almost everyone I know IRL uses Facebook, but increasingly grudgingly. - Tinfoil 2.0

I know millions of people who use four remote controls to watch TV. - Luca Sofri

It is not usable in the way that friendfeed is (I know there are problems) - Paul Kinlan

but facebook is soo complicated - Paul Kinlan

I'll go with the train. If the train heads to Facebook I suppose thats where I need to go as well :) I'm absolute certain that FF staff will have a great impact on the user experience of FB. Trying to be positive I also think it's a great thing that FB still strive to evolve. - Patrik Arwengrim

Facebook is ugly, looks like a corporate site and very slow and clunky, like a busy factory with adds at every corner - Thierry Lhôte

Baird: software takes months. Paul is right. But Paul, you can just ignore a lot of the complexity there. - Robert Scoble

hhahaha, sth. like that i thought this second too, Luca :) - Ronald

Facebook is unusable to do the things that FriendFeed can do - Anthony Feint

lol, the #1 excuse I hear for people migrating from FriendFeed to Facebook is the annoying applications on the home feed. You can edit those out of your view you know. Same for people you don't want to converse with (privacy settings). - Hugh Isaacs II

@Robert - I find Facebook extremely useful... for playing Mafia and FarmTown style games. Engagement is just difficult there. I'm not sure if it's the UI, the crowd I have there, or what, but I just don't get into a comfortable conversational groove there on FB the way I do on Twitter or here. - Mark "Rizzn" Hopkins

in fact, the four founders of Friendfeed recieved a trader bonus, for doing real-time search on Facebook, not changing Facebook to become Friendfeed - Thierry Lhôte

Robert - you're confusing number of users with ease of use. Millions of people of all ages used to be happy with their cellphones, but it wasn't until the iPhone came along that those people saw how usable a phone *could* be. - Andrew Terry

Anthony: like start a mob war? :-) - Robert Scoble

robert: I think it is hard to ignore the complexity, it took me ages to upload a phote once (or even find where to do it) - Paul Kinlan

robert: and there is no discovery... I love ff for its friend of a friend features and best of the day.... oh and my discussions. - Paul Kinlan

I think someone hit the nail on the head. The one thing really missing from the Facebook experience is the sort of engagement we have here at Friendfeed. - George Hall (Australia)

robert: no sharing content is what im talking about. I actually don't personally know the people I follow on FriendFeed. many are influencers like yourself. This is where I get my news. On Facebook you have Friends not Followers - Anthony Feint

anyway, the key way to tell something is not friendly to someone, it is listening to that someone. That someone says it's not. You can't go and tell him he's wrong in what he doesn't like. - Luca Sofri

Anthony: that's changing and quickly. My Facebook looks exactly like FriendFeed. - Robert Scoble

Why are you using FF and Twitter and not FB then? Besides, they totally hid the applications so anything not out of the box is hard to get to. Advanced functionalities are hard to get to. It's the only site I can think of that I had to use the Help section to find stuff... - Eran Kampf from iPhone

@Anthony Actually Facebook has a following feature http://startupmeme.com/faceboo.... - Hugh Isaacs II

That and facebook is full of punk teenagers that I don't want to talk to ;) - Paul Kinlan

@Paul, Then delete them from your friends list, or don't add them. - Hugh Isaacs II

You choose your own friends on facebook, right? - TobiasVerhoog.com

also I do believe the UI on Facebook is terrible. It took me 5 attempts to try and create a page on Facebook and I still have to do a search for it when I want to view it - Anthony Feint

Robert, its all the poking and quizzes and other jejune stuff on Facebook - Aaman (Clone of FF)

Of course Facebook is usable. The point is what do you want to use it for. It was the one place where I could have family and close friends in a CLOSED network. I don't want the world and his missus to see my birthday party - sorry. Friendfeed is a completely different thing. Use it as a lifestream - have all sorts of friends/ acquiaintances/ whatever on there. They are not one and the same and I don't see how they can be. - sofiagk

@Aaman, block the quizzes from your home feed. - Hugh Isaacs II

Aaman: I've been on Facebook for a long time and I just ignore that stuff. No harm to me. - Robert Scoble

Facebook is cluttered. It's not a platform for sharing information and discussion. They're intended for two entirely separate purposes. That being said, I definitely am looking forward to what the FriendFeed team can do with Facebook. If real-time search is where they stop, it'll be hell. - Adam Reyher from Alert Thingy

On Facebook you choose your friends, just like here. Some differences, plus over there you have to decide whether you're going to be public or private up front. - Robert Scoble

So why you were then one of the sincerest ambassadors for FF and NOT FB? But taste changes... - Ronald

@Hugh what I was implying was that FF is open participation, so I am talking to you, I might not be following you but I am still talking to you; FB is open to 300 million users most of which I couldn't stop talking to me even if I wanted. Usage wise (from my perception) FB is closed to your personal groups, FF is discovery, the twain shall never mesh - Paul Kinlan

Robert Scoble was more interesting when he actually had a defensible opinion, rather than just went along with whatever the industry seemed to be doing and worked to egg people on. We remember those times, don't we? - Andy Bakun

I always laugh at people saying "what's the problem? Just do this, and it is ok". But the reason we use computers and software is we don't want to do this. We want to have things exactly the way we need them, not the way we need them if we just do this and this. - Luca Sofri

Facebook is not designed to be a public tool - think back to its roots. It's more of a private thing. If I am forced to use it like Friendfeed then I am deleting at least 80% of my info - sofiagk

@Paul, I think that's going to change with the FriendFeed acquisition. Facebook's aiming more for the public stuff instead of only focusing on close relationships now. - Hugh Isaacs II

cool, I used the word twain (evern if it is wrong) - Paul Kinlan

@sofiagk, Everything on Facebook is choice, I doubt they'll force you to be public, it'll probably be very tightly controlled. - Hugh Isaacs II

Think of the privacy settings. - Hugh Isaacs II

@Hugh, I would love FB to change to be more like FF but I can't see it happening, I would love to get to see the real-time search (someone said they just released it). - Paul Kinlan

sofiagk: I completely agree - Facebook was built for closed and private networks. Which is the complete opposite of FF. I don't want to setup complex privacy settings becasue I don't want my family to be inundated with php and coding articles. - Anthony Feint

If we are talking about privacy settings you might want to check out my FB app http://www.knowyourprivacy.com - Paul Kinlan

FB's great strength was for the private stuff. If I'm forced to choose between public and private, I'm going to stay private, because that's where my IRL friends are. Sorry, FFers. - James Myatt

@Michael A. "Flynn" Volz +1 - sofiagk

@Paul, I don't think Facebook plans to continue as just a closed network anymore, I think their goal is to cover all types of social interactions on the web so it's very likely they'll have FriendFeed like features. - Hugh Isaacs II

We use each tool to our own purposes but that doesn't mean that each tool is not better suited to a type of use. - sofiagk

@sofiagk, What's to say Facebook can't act as two tools instead of one? - Hugh Isaacs II

@hugh, the had better change their API to support that type activity then. - Paul Kinlan

@Paul, They already did. - Hugh Isaacs II

Hugh, I'm sure it can, but it's going to be really awkward. Like using a Swiss army knife to put shelves together and then skin a rabbit. - James Myatt

@James, Yea, I can't defend that, lol. - Hugh Isaacs II

@Hugh Isaacs II well if they are planning to open up then half of the apps are more or less redundant I would guess. You spend all of your time becoming something and then strip down to become something else? What's the point? I'm sorry I just don't understand what is the point with competing with twitter. Facebook vs Twitter is just a silly question, how would you compare them? Using some ff feature to make the stream on facebook better - sure I get that. - sofiagk

I think Facebook really need to sketch out what they're going to do with Friendfeed, and that might help people adapt to the idea better. At the moment, too much speculation and people really have no idea what to expect of this. - George Hall (Australia)

I've never beeon a big user of FF. I still don't quite get it. I use FB to keep in touch with people I know. As far as I can see FF is more for discovering stuff and discussing it with people I don't. Or have I missed the point? - Marc A. Price

@sofiagk, When you look at what Facebooks done so far, it seems like they just want all of the internets social interactions in one place. I mean it does sound silly but sticking to one thing is what killed off Friendster, Classmates, MySpace and so on. - Hugh Isaacs II

Marc, I think that is exactly the point - James Myatt

Being on FF is like publishing only things you want. With advanced privacy settings, you can just filter what to share on FB. BUT (a big but) I don't trust Facebook and I've seen it enabling stuff like alerts and configuration settings just because they had some error in their system. I don't share my private life on FF but I share family pictures, my personal details like my cell phone because I only allow people I know personally on FB. - Burak "cyrus" Bayburtlu

My biggest problems with using Facebook like Friendfeed are lack of friend-of-friend content (if someone else likes / comments on something, I don't get that in my feed), barriers to engagement (subscribing to someone you don't really "know" on FF is fine; sending a friend request to someone you don't really "know" on FB is not cool), and the fact that stuff falls down the feed too quickly because likes / comments don't bump it to the top again. - Tristan Seligmann

@hugh, they haven't changed their api at all, the status stream is a bit of a joke. - Paul Kinlan

@Hugh Isaacs II if they want to get all of social interaction in one place they have grossly misunderstood the nature of social interaction generally. People do not have ONE identity which they use to interact with EVERYONE. Rather we have MULTIPLE. I don't talk to my boss the same way as I talk to my friend. That's why I need multiple tools. So if there is only one on offer I will not use it. - sofiagk

@sofiagk, that's what the privacy settings are for. In real life you don't take on multiple personas (well at least I don't think you do) so why do it on the internet? And in real life certain conversations are private, kept from others. You shouldn't require separate identities for that. - Hugh Isaacs II

And you can't expect them to know the perfect network for human interaction. The fact that they're trying gives me confidence though. It's like Googles goal to store all of the worlds information in one place, it won't happen but it definitely made some great products. - Hugh Isaacs II

@Hugh Isaacs II do you really trust facebook with the complicated settings and permissions and groups. I don't. I will agree with what @Burak "cyrus" Bayburtlu said above. I get what you are saying about trying. But at the end of the day Google has multiple product offerings. Facebook doesn't (for now). - sofiagk

Hugh, you do need separate places for that so that there's no risk of being overheard accidentally. - James Myatt

@sofiagk, I don't honestly. I'm defending them based off of idealism not favoritism. And yea, handling all of that stuff will probably end up in a million mistakes but it's a product, that happens. Also what's to say Facebook can't have multiple products? (That could be apart of this whole FriendFeed thing) - Hugh Isaacs II

@Hugh Isaacs II well - let's see what's gonna happen. Btw thanks for the lively chat a blog post is being drafted in my head as I type :-) - sofiagk

Your welcome, also if it's of any help, the maker of FriendFeed posted up something of reassurance http://friendfeed.com/paul... - Hugh Isaacs II

I think it makes more sense to have multiple "spaces" (work / private / whatever) in the same tool than arbitrarily dividing those up across multiple tools. - Tristan Seligmann

For example, most people would probably not create a Yahoo email account for emailing some people, and a GMail account for emailing others; they would just create two GMail accounts. - Tristan Seligmann

@Tristan, It's funny alot of people on FriendFeed are talking about migrating to Google Wave because of the whole Facebook thing, and in reality that's what Wave is going to do. - Hugh Isaacs II

All of the big companies whether open or not are aiming at owning your internet identity, they don't want separate identities because it doesn't define everything correctly. That's why Google has their profiles feature, why so many companies support OpenID, etc... It may not be something you're used to but over time it will just be one account per person, based on how social networking evolves. - Hugh Isaacs II

I bet even FriendFeed had that idea (Hint: Google, Facebook and Twitter log in feature). - Hugh Isaacs II

Carefully observe how someone communicates on phone call versus a face-to-face conversation. It's different—for one thing speaking in a louder volume on the phone. The medium influences the communication itself (but don't get me started on McLuhan ;) So multiple tools can help achieve a certain dynamic that would not have happened just by using another feature inside a single service/construct. That's certainly been my experience on FriendFeed. - Micah

@Micah Wittman +1 - sofiagk

@Micah, Wouldn't Facebook count as multiple tools in itself. You can have a toolbox, that doesn't mean all of it's contents equal one tool. - Hugh Isaacs II

Well, I guess this is more of a Swiss Army knife, but the analogy still applies. - Hugh Isaacs II

Hugh, typically, the same culture/available resources produce stuff under a certain paradigm. - Micah

@Micah, I doubt they'd just stuff all of your social interactions under one blanket. - Hugh Isaacs II

They've already separated all of my friends by relation. - Hugh Isaacs II

I mean, look at FriendFeed, I used the Facebook Connect feature to log in, but I don't interact on here as I would with my friends - Hugh Isaacs II

Facebook is just really cluttered, and it's UI looses focus on so many fronts. Take the start page - i've missed events, birthdays and other stuff because its burried with a million things on one page. But that's where the people are. I - Shawn Roos

Or you are SO wrong here. People pretend they are using it - then their wife asks - btw, honey, how did you create that fan page about me? And he says - WTF? :) - Sasha Kovaliov

Apostol, lol :) The idea is that usability could have been much-much better! Right now it's a total mess and there is a lot of room for improvement. Yes, people use it everyday, but do they use all of it? - Sasha Kovaliov

@Sasha, do you use all of FriendFeed? (Example: Last.Fm, Brightkite, desktop notifications, google talk integration, etc...) - Hugh Isaacs II

Then why use people not using all of Facebook as an argument? - Hugh Isaacs II from iPod

FB is not unusable, but it is bloated. Tough to set things up the way that I want. Too many new toys/apps popping up almost in every second. I'm tired of hiding this, hiding that from the feeds - ilterocktive

It's still pretty simple and pleasant to use provided you don't install any applications IMO :P. - James Stephenson

James: what about not being able to stop some favorite friends from installing any applications? :) - ilterocktive

ilter: Ummm ... I guess you could start selecting your friends based on their Facebook Applications :P? That would be a sad, sad day... - James Stephenson

Maybe we need a seperate facebook application. Wait... are there ANY facebook desktop applications? AIR-free preferred (for now) :) - ilterocktive

Throws a sheep at Robert. - Mark Davidson from BuddyFeed

Hat tip to this discussion and to @Hugh Isaacs II - I explain my point on facents and identities better here http://www.digital-era.org/renditi... (I know this is a shameless plug - Robert fee free to delete, I just thought it is relevant) - sofiagk

@sofiagk, I read your blog post and understand your argument but the same rule still stands. You only have one body. As with the friend list feature on Facebook you have social barriers that keep some people away from what others may see. I know it sounds foolish to push all of your social interactions under one service, but if that service can recreate the same personas you use in real life, the only argument against it would be ease of use, comfort and bugs. - Hugh Isaacs II

@Hugh Isaacs II with you all the way if we can find some way to meaningfuly separate functions and feeds - to actually control what info we send to whom. - sofiagk

@sofiagk, that's what I've been getting at this whole time. I mean I know Facebook in it's current state doesn't do a great job of controlling who sees what, but I'm sure they've been working on that. The FriendFeed acquisition is probably to cater to that. - Hugh Isaacs II

Facebook has lots of usability issue. For example, they hid all the apps in that ridiculous bottom toolbar making them less accessible. It took me a while to find that my events are now there... If you want to do anything a bit more advanced than the basic functions then you'll probably lost without their help site (took me a while to figure out how to set permissions to different groups... ). Facebook should be way easier to use... - Eran Kampf

@Eran, Windows does the same thing. Hides all of the apps in that ridiculous bottom toolbar. ^_^ - Hugh Isaacs II

scobble: it's close to unusable. - Gal Granov גל גרנוב

If its so good and usable... why do you use FriendFeed\Twitter? - Eran Kampf

@Eran, Facebook doesn't let me hold public conversations like the one we're currently having (which I think is bound to change). - Hugh Isaacs II

It's not unusable... it's TOO usable. Too easily gamed by spam apps, too visible to employers who want to block it, too easy for advertisers to target your feed and use your stuff. And way, way too cluttered. It's like the boardwalk in Atlantic City... I avoid it if I can but every so often I make the mistake of going and find that it hasn't changed. Friendfeed on the other hand has none of the crap, while it does have a boatload of interesting, engaged people. - Vicarbott

well said Jim.... +1 - Kim

++++jim - BEX from iPhone

I totally (!) agree with Jim *thumbs up* - Ronald

@Jim, you know you can actually filter out the applications from your view, even keep them from posting on your wall. - Hugh Isaacs II

You are spot on, Robert. The proof is in the pudding. - thinkQuick

Hugh... yes, I know. But while facebook is very easy to begin using it requires a fair amount of effort to set up all that stuff and get the look/feel you want. For all the talk I've heard about how Friendfeed is difficult to figure out, I've never had that problem here. - Vicarbott

@Jim, yea but FriendFeed is a very young website. I'm not content just knowing that I can't filter out which of my friends can see what. If FriendFeed lasted longer it would've probably gotten more complex and you would've lost interest, or it would've stayed the same and you would've lost interest. Either way judging from your comment I think you would've moved on to something new at some point (this is Facebooks attempt at being relevant to you). - Hugh Isaacs II

Hugh... I guess you missed the part of my comment that spoke about interesting, engaged people. I will not be losing interest in them anytime soon. In fact, I've been (and still am) on facebook longer than I've been here. I've never been that interested in facebook and still am not. It was just the opposite on FF. I was skeptical and used it very little at first but as the service (for... more... - Vicarbott

Slow... Bogged down with apps... And who wants to refresh a page or discussion manually? Although it does allow me to stay connected with people I would have otherwise lost touch with. - JR from iPhone

@Walt, Facebook + Realtime experts = Facebook in Realtime. It's an assumption but not one without merit. - Hugh Isaacs II

Good to connect with friends of friends but do not like the stupid apps - Randy Allen Bishop

people who barely know the net are ALL on facebook. you know what i would like? friend group settings. think about it. post photos to your personal group, your online friends or something else entirely. and WHO KNOWS - with the smart people working for the boogie men, it might happen too! - Terry O'Fee

@Hugh yes I know it is coming... Just wanted to share my top three issues with #facebook and why I use it to help this wonderful R&D discussion... :) - JR from iPhone

I think Facebook is perfectly usable. I just can't use it for the same sort of things. Honestly, most people think Facebook is unusable because of all the applications that their friends use, and which those people are too lazy to block. There are some legit problems though, like the quiz applications which, literally, make new applications, so that they show up and you have to block... more... - Otto

Logging into Facebook means a 10-12 minute commitment just to catch up on a half-day's worth of communication. By contrast, I can get in and out of Twitter or Friendfeed in a minute or two if that's all I have. Facebook is just...heavy. - Ed Moltzen

I know people that work at Facebook. They're good people. But I have serious doubts about their abilities to make an interface that doesn't totally suck. Face facts, Facebook's interface absolutely blows. It is very difficult to do anything that you actually need to do. A good friend of mine is a teacher, and she stopped using Facebook because she didn't want to reject her students on... more... - Otto

I think FB is/has reached a level of importance as SOFTWARE that there needs to be detailed guides/documentation/tutorials. Think about it, most of FB's functionality is simply put out there for people to discover. When you sign up you aren't introduced to a 1/4 of what is available or provided any kind of best practices guidance. Software we buy for our systems generally comes with some type of manual or instruction. Most webapps like FB do not, you have to go to the community or hunt through the interface - Martin Johnson

It's not unusable but it is quite a challenge to new users. I wrote this post about how Twitter is the gateway drug to social networking. http://blog.adam-jackson.net/2009... - Adam Jackson

It might come as a shock to the designers out there but usability is not the most important aspect of an application. Facebook's success in the face of its sucky usability proves that. People are on facebook, and other on-line social networks, because they want to interact with the other members, not because of usability. - sjjh

Unnecessary to chew gum. But it's called billion dolar industry. - Burçak Çubukçu

there are more stranger things that people do, not everything could be explained, asked a wrong question. like say if there aren't any ghosts why more than half the world believe, if there is any god or isn't why are people theist/atheist. why men cut their hair both head/facial when they are there for sexual and heat exchange purposes at first places, you asked it out of your sentiment for facebook and i wrote it because i don't like facebook ;) - testbeta

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That's nice. Just random, or in response to something. :) - τorƍue

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Does that mean you got a little sleep? - Anne Bouey

Good news? People like Paul don't usually get in the office so early especially after a lack of sleep, on a Monday morning, if there wasn't a great reason. - Louis Gray

this could be big. - vijay

Aww Man, see now I am not going to get any sleep tonight! DAMN YOU PAUL and your teasing little smiley face. OK, must go and get some coffee! - travispuk

O.k., I'll smile too :) (and open my ears and eyes) - Martha

10 bucks says that they add emoticons soon. :) - Joe Beda

This emoticon makes a little more sense now... - Stephen Foskett

Guessing this was about the Facebook announcement? - Ben Hedrington

Cheshire cat? - Hutch Carpenter

Good for you, Paul. I can't help but feel a little let down, though. - Matthew Gifford

well done! - michael sean wright

Congrats! Let us (well, our chef) cook you lunch before you're no longer walking distance! :) - Don MacAskill

I have the same feeling as Matthew Gifford... Congrats to you, Paul, but I'm not sure this bodes well for the rest of us. - Lindsay

Congrats, Paul. :-) - Jordan Hofker

Congratulations! - Ethan Herdrick

Congratulations to the whole team, Paul! - Ryan Kuder

yeah they signed away the community :(- - Peter Dawson

Congrats Paul if they're truely in order :) - Jason Cronkhite from iPhone

No!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! - andy brudtkuhl

congrats to the team, but to be honest i'm not liking it at all - bear (aka Mike Taylor)

Good news or bad news? :) - Arda Çetin

Congrats Paul! I was really hoping this would happen. Friendfeed and Facebook need each other. Cheers! - Akshay Dodeja

Now I get it. Congrats on the $$. - Yolanda

Now I know...and knowing is half the battle - Bwana ☠

:( - TiTi

Congratulations!!!! A 'worthy' smiley ... ;-) - Bo Stern

I think Paul's emoticon was charming and that Louis Gray is either super discerning or super informed. - Michael Muller

Congrats to the FF team you guys are awesome (keep this place awesome) - Ryan

WHAT'VE YOU DONE!!!! THAT'S TOTALLY SH*T! - Ahmet Alp Balkan

http://bit.ly/jC1DE - Bo Stern

congratulations, may your road ahead be smooth... - Nathan Chase

That can imho only mean good things for the FB UI ... - Bo Stern

Congratulations, definitely. - DGentry

congrats! - Peter Warnock

Congrats to you and the entire FF team. I hope you guys are in it for the long haul. - Mike Doeff

hey congrats to the FF team! I look forward to seeing what the future holds - (jeff)isageek

Congratulations Paul & FF team! - Charles Ying

congrats dude - Jason Pollock

:( - Alex Scrivener

Congratulations. - Antoniu

congratulations.. but liked the whole UI & funtionality of ff than fb!! it'll b gone!! - Gtp19

You're totally ::stpd:: - Ahmet Alp Balkan

its business after all, sell it but get back to make a better product for your old users. dont 4get the users !! - Peter Dawson

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

:( - acedanger

the results of good work - Juan Pablo Ruiz

congratulations! - Hareesh Nagarajan

Congrats! - DS

GZ! - Sarp

:) we will learn from the process - abdellah

Paul, will you respond to this? This is *bad* for FF users. Best case: it continues on, but distracted by Facebook and with stagnated feature development. Worst case: it's gone. Middle of the road: Facebook forces its ads into the timeline and friendfeed starts acting like Facebook by ignoring its users. - tollie williams

@tollie, I imagine Paul's ability to respond is now constrained, which is just one of the changes we'll see coming. There's new management in town, folks. - Ken Kennedy

scared!!! - abdellah

Good luck Paul... it's gonna be a great partnership. - Andrew

Congrat's Paul. Great news, and I'm really happy for all of you! - Michael Fidler

Congrats to the whole FriendFeed team! - John McCrea

Way to go Paul - bet you sleep like a baby tonight whilst Biz and Ev scratch their heads once more! - Jan Simmonds

Sure congrats to you!!! - susan mernit

http://friendfeed.com/markzuk...... Hold on! markzukerberg?!?! - Lora Lufark

Congrats! - fbrunel

congratulations! - Loic Le Meur

Congratulations Paul - I am very proud of you... no wonder you couldn't sleep! :) Now we know why! As you know, I am a huge fan of your FriendFeed product. I am very happy for you guys and hope you keep your fabulous culture of innovation going strong. This is really amazing.... nice exit! :) - Susan Beebe

I have been wishing facebook could get more like Friendfeed :) awesome. - Christian Burns from iPhone

Nice job, Paul and team. Congrats! - Rob Shillingsburg

many congrat. from UK. ;) @GarethWong - Gareth

I bet you never forget your anniversary EVER ever now. - Pete D

boo-urns - Vezquex

:D - paniaguai

:-( - Jannifer @wordsforliving

Congratulations, great for you and the team. - Rocky

i like the way the deal was done! - Siddharth Parmar

G.Z.s - Ugur Akdmr

Paul Buchheit

Wow!

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Paul, we'd all love it if you'd tell us how long we can keep using FF as is. A lot of the bitching and whining might stop. - iTad

Wow that was fast ! - Susan Beebe from iPhone

I second Tad as will several hundred others, you created a mob engine and now you have to answer to it. - Jimminy, CoG of FF

feel sorry for this acquision - kang

Congrats on the acquisition, y'all! - Adam Barker

If Friendfeed's a "sharing service", how about sharing thoughts about its future with its users? ;) - Jack&Cleo

Paul we are really glad that you are making money with your fantastic product. Congratulations. We are just a bit concerned that Facebook will integrate more feeds and real time search and leave the community in the dust. - Keith - @tsudo

Jack++ - Tanath

v. awesome! congrats paul and company! - zhanna

If I'm not mistaken, this brings Mark's collection of 2003 Googlers very near completion. ;) Congrats, guys. - Jared Jacobs

No way, Jared, not even close. ;-) - Daniel Dulitz from iPhone

wonderful :) and congrats - Chirag Chamoli

I like seeing which ones are purple and which ones are blue. :) - Louis Gray

Totally groovy! - david beckwith

Seriously... share some info that this community can value. We know you guys are diggin' all this, but, as far we can tell, we're all about to be divorced from each other. We need details, TODAY! - Brad Williamson

@Brad: Divorced? Do we get 50%? ;) - Jemm

You missed one or two important clicks :) - Charlie Anzman

@Jemm Nope! At this point, all you get is a swift kick in the ass ;-) - Brad Williamson

Until the sellouts start opening up to the community they helped create, I'm hiding each and every bragging entry from them. - JCunwired

++jcunwired - Kamilah Reed (K. Gill)

Looking at all of the text in that image reminds me of FriendFeed. - Hugh Isaacs II

well deserved PB - Thomas Power

Yup, huge news. Well deserved coverage. - DGentry

Robert Scoble

Twitter is down. Oh, what will the SEO experts, the celebrities, the spammers, the bots, and the social media experts do?

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Come to FF! - Simon Wicks

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Give Friendfeed a shot? - Rubin Sfadj

Hopefully they don't come to FriendFeed :) - Robert J Taylor

Hang out on FF - Roberto Bonini

they will spam friendfeed instead? - Denis

They are so freeeking out. - SolidSmack

I couldn't tweet about it, so I told my wife instead. - Patrick Lightbody

Big ups to the FriendFeed massive! - Josette

I tried retweeting that. *sigh* - Andy McIlwain

Call them to join friendfeed, and make - Madhav Tripathi

Hopefully FF won't get killed by the Tweeters flocking over here. - phil baumann

ok.. here ya go..twitter being down has forced me here. Haven;t tried FF yet so... - cheapsuits

just like ya possibly twiddle their thumbs... - Baba

I suspect the bots will rejoice.... - walidmREALTOR

Let's see where these so-called "social media experts" go to fill the void of Twitter. - Christian

I can't open twitzap.com - ybs

Can FF servers manage such a massive movement? - Samuel Goëta

since bots supply at least 25% of Twitter traffic, should we feel the worst for them right now? - Kevin Norman

write a post about twitter being down as a threat to humanity, may be?:) - Nikos Anagnostou

Twitter down... can't post on Facebook,,. so it's FriendFeed! - carrotmadman6

So your're not responsible for that ? Strange... :-) - Enikao

lay on the floor and spin in circles - SolidSmack

Maybe the SocMedExperts will go back to Plurk since Scoble likes Friendfeed. :) - Jay Gilmore

thank God, now we can get back to work - E.P. Scott

if they are the experts they claim to be then they should be here! - Mark V. Fusco

Facebook seems frakked too. - Gregg Le Blanc

I get tweet trough tweetdeck... - Giorgio

I need serious help with FF. For an idiot like me this isn't so intuitive really. Help section is nice but I need someone to hold my hand ..bleeech. Don't get me wrong I am sorry I was reluctant to try FF before - cheapsuits

I blame Scoble. It's always his fault :-) - Keith Barrett

but how am I going to tell the world I need a cup of tea???? nooooooo - Rachel Clarke

Giorgio - I'm seeing some activity through the Twitter API, too (that's what TweetDeck uses, I believe); not a lot, but some - Robert J Taylor

I thought it was just my connection. ;-) I'm also having problems with Facebook today. - Timothy Federwitz

yeah, it seems the web interface is down but the api is working.. - Giorgio

I think the social media experts are going to spend the next hour talking about Twitter being down - Keith Barrett

Maybe read a book for a change? - Yiorgos Adamopoulos

Scoble's followers where the glue keeping Twitter together! now that he's 'pulled the pin' and released them all, Twitter has fallen down and can't get up. - MikeAmundsen

I'm so lost this morning without my cup-o-Twitter - frank barry

They'll comment on it, much like I just did. - Marlin Forbes

Man imagine if this had happened on #followfriday... - Rob Paller

Yiorgas: read a book for a change? I do that anyway, but only about 10/month. need more twitter time to balance it out - Rachel Clarke

Facebook is copying twitter too closely...even to going down at the same time - Robert Littlejohn

Does Twitter have what it takes to be a big player? We've been working with their API on a project and every time there is something out of whack. Anyone else have the same issues? - Chris Nadeau

twitter is really down, I think twitter itself should have a site that tweets when it's down :) - Ata İsmet Özçelik

They will use FF to inform their friend that twitter is down - Didier Girard

No actually the blog: http://status.twitter.com/ ("We are determining the cause and will provide an update shortly.") - Patrick Mackaaij

Show up here I'm thinking. :-) - Dion Hinchcliffe

Huge exodus to FF! - akihito

We will start feeding friends and keeping up our identi.ca 's - JuneM

What's been the longest twitter outage on record thus far? - Dusty Edenfield

hmm at least they found a solution with a blog :) - Ata İsmet Özçelik

I don't understand why you maintain an account when you have such contempt for Twitter & those who use it. - Liz

they will cry in their soup - Bobby Griffith

holiday - Ronald

Well Robert, where will you go when they all come here? - Tokyo Dan from iPhone

it's back up. made ya look - Kevin Norman

Strangely, search.twitter.com is up. - Marlin Forbes

Tokyo: I already have a private group setup. Sort of like a bomb shelter in case the rats take over. - Robert Scoble from iPhone

i noticed that twitter is down... anyone know how facebook is ssOOO slow 2...???? - Sebastiaan van den Akker

Just noticed it... - k00pa

twitter outage and news of the PubSubHubbub feature in Google Reader (http://is.gd/24YvH) make FF look pretty good right now. - Dusty Edenfield

friendfeed is having some issues but for the most part is still up and going :) - (jeff)isageek

find another medium such as friendfeed ;). - rick

Roger, Mr. Scoble! - akihito

@Sebastian they connected somehow... ahhh scary :) - Dani Martínez

good. so not the only one with issues with FB.. wel atleast is FF is going strong.. - Sebastiaan van den Akker

what we all are going to do??? =) but if seriously i remember this video on youtube - trouble with twitter: http://www.youtube.com/watch... - obolonskyi

They will all sit in their chair and stare at their monitor! - Gabe Diaz

@Dani, who knows... the might merge or something... explain the strange twitter is pulling fb down 2.. - Sebastiaan van den Akker

Did Scoble bring Twitter and FB down as he unfollowed everyone ? winks -) - Del_

This is very interesting that it is impacting more than one social network ... can't even speculate what the cause is yet. Not getting much work done today I'm afraid, going to be following these conversations.. - Joe Magennis

I haven't been on twitter for days. I guess I picked the wrong morning to jump back in. - Jeff Stannard

Robert: The most important question>> How many new sign-ups for FF today? - K.N. Ajit Narayan

...and who wins? FF great :) - Dani Martínez

Was just able to post to Facebook but took several tries. Wow. FF FTW! - Tom Guarriello

so!! - abdellah

The smart ones will go to FriendFeed ;) - Helene

The spammers should go to MySpace... - Dennis Bjørn Petersen

Tweeple will come to FriendFeed! - LauraLee Dooley

That's why I joined FF a while back. Then I found all the useful features- and the bonus is having Scoble here to show the way. - Brenda Young

No, the smart ones are ALREADY on FriendFeed :) - Susan Beebe

and? - abdellah

@obolonskyi nice. vid.. ROFL... never seen it before... - Sebastiaan van den Akker

GUILTY ! I have had a FF account for awhile just never used it-- - cheapsuits

What the celebrities like you do. Talk about it on Twitter. - Tad Chef

This actually made me laugh out loud, because I was thinking the same thing! - Dan

Could this mean that CNBC was right??? Nooooooooooo! - travispuk

I was planning to unfollow a bunch of followers due to Twitter's follow limit rule kicking in at the ~#2000 user level. I have to wait with that then... ;) - Martin Lindeskog

FF FTW - Eran Even-Kesef

Let's see how well Friendfeed handles this Twitter outage :) - Rene Silva

Re previous comment of mine, 'Nooooooo!' was for CNBC being right, not that twitter is dead. ;) - travispuk

life goes on - Eran Even-Kesef

Hey don't tell anyone about this FF thing, its our little secret - Jeff Wiant

Twitter better be back up by the time Rick Sanchez is on CNN this afternoon or he won't know what to talk about ;) - cjcubs

telnet 80 twitter.com ? - Gordon Joly

@gordon wont work - k00pa

FF was down for me for about 10 min just now. - Dusty Edenfield

Blogger's having some trouble as well - Crispin Heath

No address associated with nodename (twitter.com) - Gordon Joly

If friend feed ever gets as popular as twitter were will everyone go to to avoid the popular crowd? - JP Holecka - Jaypiddy

Panic? - Dean Clark

@scobleizer I'm seeing issues with twitter and facebook. Social website attack? - Michael Fierro

Panic? Aren't we all used to this already? :) - Sasha Kovaliov

if this is the North Koreans with a coordinated attack I WILL laugh - cheapsuits

@scobleizer I'm seeing issues with twitter and facebook. Social website attack? - Michael Fierro

Robert, please follow back 106,000 and everything will be ok))) joke =) - obolonskyi

I can not play 140mafia!!! This sucks sooooo bad :( - Sam Beckett

Twitter outage is causing issues with both facebook and friendfeed. I guess we know where everyone is going instead of twitter. - April

facebook? no way :) - Sasha Kovaliov

Twitter being down is a a relief to me this morning! Now I can stay OFF it rather than fitting it into every 30 second change of task! n - Arleen Boyd

at this rate they will have to start sending out junk mail via the post office again... oh the humanity - Terry Bruce

Nothing seems to work, I think it will be the Friend Feed greatest traffic boost ever - Jacob Kobi Gamliel

guys, is it Ddos attack? or smth like that? as I understand twitter is hosting somewhere and this datacenter is down. am i right? - obolonskyi

FriendFeed traffic is rocking now... - Jacob Kobi Gamliel

social media "experts" might need to actually find other work to do. - Luis Sandoval

thanks God, Youtube is working - obolonskyi

More info needed. Where is there an alternate feed to real time news? - SenderOK

seems unlikely I'll do anything productive in the interim - WarLord

http://theloopzilla.blogspot.com/2007... - Gordon Joly

Hopefully they will move to FF :) - Martynas

it could be ff provocation - obolonskyi

I feel like we are all stranded on a tropical Island together - Jeff Wiant

was afraid for a moment that out IT blocked all social networks or something horrible like that. Thank god FF came back up quickly. This might have gotten me to use FF more. I often neglect it. - Ryan Cummins

Wondered why tweetdeck wasn't loading anything. actually got some programming work done. lol - Justin Long

friendfeed rules! - Kevin Dolan

twits will move, but only until twitter is back online, then there will be a mass exodus. Remember during all of the 2007/2008 fail whales users still flocked back to it regardless. - travispuk

Twitter, Facebook, now Posterous... 4chan organize an attack or something? - Sam Harrelson from IM

Thank goodness FF is still working. :) - 3Cinteractive®, L.L.C. from twhirl

http://status.twitter.com/post... - Martin Lindeskog

Friendfeed + Facebook :) - Rafa Lacerda

http://whentwitterisdown.com/ - Josette

From status.twitter.com: "Site is down 1 hour ago. We are determining the cause and will provide an update shortly." - Martin Lindeskog

Touché Robert, Touché - Jeff Woelker from twhirl

"We are defending against a denial-of-service attack, and will update status again shortly." from Twitter Status - Kurt Jarchow

North Koreans I tell ya.... - cheapsuits

took inordinate amount of time to get into ff today as well - A Zmaj

Hmmm DoS attack...someone wanting a ransom from Twitter? - Mike Gargano

Guess they'll have to either pick up the phone or do some work :) - Graham Bunting

Can someone with 94k followers really mock the the celebs and experts devoid of Twitter? - Augie Ray

Hey, no bogus follow messages in my inbox for a while! ;-) - Julie Barrett from twhirl

This is teaching us something about the framework of the current Internet traffic patterns. We're watching cascade scale problems from one major Internet program going down. - Melanie Reed

Facebook is giving up the ol', "Transport error (#1001) while retrieving data from endpoint `/ajax/inline_comments.php': A network error occurred. Check that you are connected to the internet" message now. - 3Cinteractive®, L.L.C. from twhirl

http://downforeveryoneorjustme.com - Martin Lindeskog

I think this is bigger than Twitter and FB... I think it's some interweb routes or something. I had a VoIP call going with a party local to me and two across the country and I lost the two across the country, but maintained the local party. And others are commenting on other sites showing signs of outages. - Timothy Federwitz from Alert Thingy

Twitter is Down....panic..run.,,SOS! - Veetrag

What will they do? Use FriendFeed! - Chuck Huckaby

It's official. Twitter's problem is a DoS attack per twitter/status. - Roger Jennings

http://status.twitter.com/ - giuny

shhhh they'll come here - andy brudtkuhl

The real bummer for me is, now I actually have to listen to the radio to get the word of the day! - Travis Owen

is twitter connected with FB or Friendfeed? I am having page errors with both, Ajax issues with FB intermittently , I am no tech geek so I have no clue whats up and come here to learn - lisa coultrup

Maybe Ev's interview on the BBC last night didn't go down well with the Iranians! - Andrew from iPod

Status Blog says "We are defending against a denial-of-service attack." Mmmm... http://status.twitter.com/post... - akihito

Friendfeed it is then. - Aren Grimshaw

Now, It's up! - Martin Sliacky

Posterous isn't working properly either, at least for me. - Steven Melfi

What does DoS mean? - Kimberle Kelly

denial of service - Justin Long

I meant what does denial of service mean? (dumb blonde here sorry) - Kimberle Kelly

If it's true..or is it propaganda? - Alex Schleber

It's down, again. - Martin Sliacky

Thank you :o) - Kimberle Kelly

Ev coming onto the BBC last night and saying that they were asked by the US Goverment to keep Twitter up and running during the Iranian protests cannot have gone down well in Tehran! - Andrew from iPod

DoS on large portions of the internet. Is this 4Chan... Chinese... N. Korea... durkadurkastan... - Ryan Cummins

now having trouble getting to Friendfeed - Justin Long

look, few days ago Clinton back home with two imprisoned american journalists from North Korea and today Korea is attacking twitter? it is revenge))) - obolonskyi

maybe Robert's great unFollowing crashed the servers... no loss! Go FF - Jay Shapiro from BuddyFeed

some government is DDOS'ing the real-time internet to cover up something :-) http://leeprovoost.posterous.com/the-twi... - Lee Provoost

hmmm - abdellah

As I said, I predict a baby-boom in 9 months... wait and see! - Jordi Soler

SEO Experts can analyze their charts, celebrities and wannabe's can entertain us with video (maybe some cool Twitter Whore like stuff) , and social media experts can quickly become Fail Whale Experts. - Michele Lorito-Chase

@Lee Provost don't you thing you're going to be a little apocaliptic ? :-) - Filippo Ronco

Twitter downing has to be a lesson for all of us. if sometimes gmail or even google will be down. what we all are going to do in that situation??? - obolonskyi

@Filippo i've been suprised many times that reality is often more wacked up than the conspiracy theories of geeks :-p - Lee Provoost

I'm hoping the social media experts go away and do something useful. - Parvez Halim

@Lee this is true too :-) - Filippo Ronco

@Jordi LOL, considering that there are a vast amount of single male computer geeks out there in the twitter community, baby boom effect might be negligible :-D - Lee Provoost

what is bad here? here doesnt exist reply button =( - obolonskyi

@Lee single male computer geeks - LOL)) - obolonskyi

Go back to MySpace? - Juliana

The twitter bots are rebelling - Charles

@Flynn, go check out this Greasemonkey script, solves it: http://userscripts.org/scripts... - Alex Schleber

Come here and moan about it! - Kami Huyse

Read post on 100k unfollow - I love how people are commenting and blaming Twitter being down on that! lol - Helene

AAANND.. it's back. At least for a moment I guess.. - Alex Schleber

AAANND it's GONE! ..Again. At least I managed to send out a quick FriendFeed SOS, as in: "Still think you shouldn't have all of your favorite tweeps in a "backup system" on FriendFeed? Join here: www.friendfeed.com/alexschleber " - Alex Schleber

Either collapse or back to use their phones in voice only mode, do some shopping, get eye to eye contact ... Blame god, and then. Give a serious try on FF ;p - Marco ILLESCAS from iPhone

They will still be able to Tweet to themselves - not sure if they will realize it is down until it comes back up. - Phil Harrison

I hope everyone will be ok...lol - April Mendez

Hey, can I hang out here on FF while my Twitter is down :) - Kevin Krewell

Welcome to FF Kevin! You can tweet from here too! - Arleen Boyd

Thanks Arleen. I hear all the kool kids hang out here now - like Scoble and you! - Kevin Krewell

I'm glad I joined FF yesterday, great timing! - CodeSamurai

I also micro-blog or create my own Twitter, but in more than 140 characters. - polou/indigo_bow

FF and Tumblr are working fine! :-) - Tim Moore

A good FF day- new familiar faces on this thread. - E-Advocate Network

What will the blackhat SEO experts, the SM spammers, and the social media experts do during a widespread outage? The answer is obvious: While sitting out the crisis they're fine-tuning their methodology. Seriously, your question offends me. There's a gazillion of SEO experts out there who do not abuse social media. - Sebastian

Sebastian there can't be a gazillion SEO experts! What's 10,000 keywords times 20?? (and that's being generous!) - Arleen Boyd

Would a social media expert consider it to be a crisis? If they rely so heavily on just one or two tools that it's enough to throw them into a tizzy, their expert status would seem to me to be ... questionable, at best. - Gord McLeod

Agreed. - Greg

Arleen, 10,000 keyword phrases times 20 is a tiny fraction of the search terms that are worth optimizing for. Think of the long tail. Also, consider lots of webmasters and even publishers / site owners / bloggers / Web developers ... SEO experts who are able to optimize their stuff quite successfully but don't sell or publish their expertise. Many of them, and even many SEO consultants, do make sensible use of social media, as plain users. - Sebastian

Gord, in a social media spammer's book 2 hours of outage, IOW 2 hours w/o sales from sneakily distributed links to questionable sales pitches, can sum up to way more than a good day's beer money. ;) However, "crisis" might be a term too strong for this potential loss. - Sebastian

+1 Sebastian - Bill Sodeman

I'm hung up on hop 12! - bev

I love FF! - John Giglio

come to Friend Feed? Not - Rob Cairns

You must be dying of laughter now Robert! - Arleen Boyd

Arleen: yes, reading this is fun. Sebastien SEO types are so easy to wind up. ;-) - Robert Scoble from iPhone

Gotta love it... @RobCairns says "come to Friend Feed? Not" and then his page shows ONE POST from Twitter in the past 18 hours! And that one talks about how Twitter seems to be slowing down again! (Sorry Rob, but that's just too good to let pass!) - Mark J Colonel Colonic

Robert, admit it, you broke Twitter by massively unfollowing people. The DDoS attack reports have just been a ruse to cover up the fact that you were the backbone of Twitter all this time. - Louis Trapani

Louis: that is true. I pissed the bots off. - Robert Scoble from iPhone

Keep running into the wall a few times then find alternate outlets such as ff, linkedIn, etc... - Kirsten Mitchell from iPhone

Looks like the devious plan to move everyone to FF is working well. LOL :) - Geer

Ha! The whole Facebook Twitter slowdown may have been just people clicking on spam (not a DDoS botnet). How funny! Manual DDoS. See Bill Woodcock's theory at CNet, AP, SF Gate, and The Register http://ff.im/6gLmO - Mitchell Tsai

There you go again implying the only ones that use twitter is SEO experts, the celebrities, the spammers, the bots, and the social media experts - This is definitely SPIN. Perhaps you should join CNN also LOL - RetiredTeacherD

Ironic, given your status as a celebrity social media expert who constantly spams about bots... :-P - David Kettler

Now they'll have time to shower and do their laundry! - momonalona

Paul Stamatiou

all i want to do is twitter that twitter is down. sigh. this will have to suffice.

August 6, 2009 - Comment - Like - Share

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Feels so weird... so quiet... so little... distractions right now heh. - Hector

Wonder how long Twitter would have to go down to get people to consider using something else. - Daniel Sims

hector - yeah i know! i dont constantly look at my second screen which is full-screen tweetdeck haha - Paul Stamatiou

Andy Ihnatko

Can you think of ANY fanbase LESS likely to handle an arbitrary schedule change than that of "The Big Bang Theory"?

August 3, 2009 from Twitter - Comment - Like - Share

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Louis Gray

RSS Is Doing Great, But Stand-Alone Feed Readers Are Collapsing - http://www.louisgray.com/live...

August 2, 2009 from louisgray.com - Comment - Like - Share

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I see no reason to use a stand alone RSS app when I can use Google Reader from any computer anywhere without having to install any software. - Jeff P. Henderson

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I still think Google Reader could have even greater adoption if they integrated the interface into Gmail. I am hoping someone on the Reader team is working on a lab product. - Kevin Mohr

Google Reader will win when they add item recommendations based on likes. - Charbax

GReader rules! I'm waiting for two improvements: 1. Integration with Gmail (I hate to keep 2 tabs open, and don't want to use a custom script). 2. The Top Recommendations (http://www.google.com/support...) considers your subscriptions, your web history, and your location. I would rather it consider who I'm following. - Mahendra (SkepticGeek)

I humbly disagree, Louis - in fact, I've just gone the opposite direction from cloud apps to rich local ones which sync with cloud apps. http://www.technovia.co.uk/2009... - Ian Betteridge

Greg Mallery

One of my fave Seinfeld episodes. http://www.youtube.com/watch...