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Facebook says... "NOM, NOM, NOM!!!"
Valentina*, Niranjan, Scratch5150 and 39 other people liked this
This makes me weep.
- Brad Williamson
Why is everyone reacting so violently? You have no idea how it'll play out.
- Gus
Because, thanks to FriendFeed's inability to give a single clue as to what's up, the only thing we can do at this point is freak the eff out.
- Brad Williamson
Is that really all you can do?
- Gus
Yeah, a lot of things are being kept quiet, and I don't think that the original FriendFeed will stay the same. Chances are that it will either be changed to the point where we don't like it, or just removed completely--but with FriendFeed's real-time and search features implemented into Facebook. It's a big win if you want Facebook to become more like FriendFeed, but bad if you like FriendFeed itself.
- Rishabh Mishra (p248)
Is everyone a prophet these days? sheesh...
- Gus
I like this!
- Eduardo
FB took the people behind FF and plenty of users are not terribly confident that FF will continue to be developed or maintained as it has been in the past.
- Joe Silence is Dr. Teeth!
If you want to know how the FB acquisition of FF will turn out, look at Google's acquisition of Feedburner. Feedburner is still a very useful service, but it innovation stopped once it was bought, and you can no longer get questions answered.
- ComicList
Comic: All they will commit to is not shutting down FF in the "near-future," or "near-term," or however it was phrased. FF is going to go away, so I don't think that analogy will hold -- this situation is even worse than that.
- Christopher A Carr
ComicList: the question is - how many services have facebook acquired? google aquired alot and learnt through trial and error what the best practice is - facebook hasnt had that expirience yet!
- Chris Clayton
make me sad
- 阿石
THIS IS EXCITING!! the only reason i joined FF in the first place!!
- Ann Okafor
@Ann - it may be exciting for you who have invested no time in FF to see it consumed but for those of us who've actually participated and cultivated friendships and relationships here, it is quite disappointing.
- Lindsay is in 20-ten
Fwd: Facebook acquires FriendFeed. Interview with Paul Buchheit, cofounder of FriendFeed. - http://btre.blogtalkradio.com/74_2996... (via http://friendfeed.com/scoblei...)
Phillip Stewart, paniaguai, Bart LePoole and 173 other people liked this
Well that was fast, Robert.
- Adam Reyher
Wow. I honestly did not see THAT coming....
- Carter Rabasa
Nice work Robert.
- Alex Calic
ya talk about real time news, thanks
- sean percival
listening
- Chris Saad
This is beginning to resemble journalism.
- Ian Tindale
im not sure its such a great thing facebook and friendfeed sitting in a tree.
- Eran Even-Kesef
Good job Robert
- Ruchit Garg
Definitely, I'm listening now. Wow! This is breaking news!
- Manu Ullas
hopefully this turns out okay, don't want friendfeed to get ruined. great interview, that was fast reporting!
- Dakota O'Neill
What are your thoughts Robert?
- Amani
WD mate
- Chris Saad
Hoping this will lead to an improved/cleaner interface for Facebook...I prefer Friendfeed
- Rick Bucich
That was quick. Thanks robert.
- Akshay Dodeja
so, so sad. I like(d) Friendfeed much more than facebook
- Francisco Kemeny
home run for FF.. Facebook will be able to give developers a treasure trove of data one thing that Twitter is dominating on right now. Twitter has a huge developer community but isn't managing that. Here FB is poised to be huge
- John Furrier
So classic that Robert has the first interview about this...Where's Louis? :)
- Anthony Farrior
Wow!
- Ideas At Random
I think FriendFeed can help Facebook more than the other way around.
- Manu Ullas
"very cool...."
- Carter Rabasa
How do they plan to mix the teenagers with the geeks?
- Jordi Soler
Amani: I am excited! Facebook has 800 employees and 300 million users. This makes both companies much more important.
- Robert Scoble
from iPhone
here was a comment on SiliconANGLE blog .. very funny .. "Hey, since we've copied almost every innovation you've had, guess you might as well play on the company softball team!"
- John Furrier
Nice strategic move - Interesting to see how this will integrate and looks in 12 months
- Alex Vermeule (@alexve)
to be honnest I was predicting google offer, then facebook preceed google on this, they are doing well, now rarding FF this is great, the sucess is to know when to pass to something else, the future will make the abtle wave, facebook rude for all geek it is time to code.
- abdellah
You rascal Robert, bet you had wind about FriendFeed and FaceBook merger before today? Yes? Have not used either SM apps. much UNTIL Twitter locked my account. May have been a fortunate mishap as it turns out. Getting to know the beauties of both apps. =)
- SashaKane
Awesome. Thanks.
- M. Kong
Should be so very interesting.
- Adam
Robert wastes no time on the reporting. CNN needs reporters like this.
- JonInteractive
Not sure I am so jazzed about it....but congratulations to the FF crew.
- Kreg Steppe
Honestly, I won't get used to following Robert Scoble in Facebook. Seems out of place to me.
- Jordi Soler
Wow! I was not expecting that.
- Devon Govett
Letter 'F' affinity and alliteration merger, classic playbook move.
- James Watters
Did I hear someone laugh in the background when you asked about FF users being disappointed?
- Paul Saarinen
Agreed Jordi
- Rick Bucich
A good interview Robert.
- Thomas Hawk
Thanks Robert! - shared and linked over on Phreadz : http://tech.phreadz.com/v...
- kosso
Robert, mind if I transcribe this? (Unless someone else already has.)
- Bruce Lewis
from fftogo
Congrats on getting this story Robert. I agree--this is great, realtime journalism!
- Sunshine
No mention of twitter?
- Ivan Kirigin
Hahahaha...all that time you invested over here on FF paid off today! LMAO
- Francine Hardaway
Francine: just watch what happens now. :-)
- Robert Scoble
from iPhone
do you have a small amount of FriendFeed shares Robert?
- Torsten Eckert
NOOOOOOO. Damnit! I am praying that Facebook doesn't wall up Friendfeed. I was starting to build a site around Friendfeed :(
- beersage
beersage: as Facebook is trying to break their users into a more public world, I doubt that you really have anything to worry about there.
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
Starting to listen to this now. Hoping you are right, Rob.
- beersage
I hope so to. But regardless, I think that it was in reality necessary for FriendFeed to sell to really put the technology in front of a sufficient number of eyeballs. Facebook is probably the best acquirer that FriendFeed could have. (I would have not felt the same had FF been acquired by Google)
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
The thing with Friendfeed though is how I can share things outside of a 'wall.' I prominently feature the FF widget on my site. I'm just concerned of losing that capability as I was tinkering with delivering a new site w/ content primarily running through my Friendfeed account. I am to this day unable to do much outside of the wall. I am unable to subscribe to Fan Page updates in Google reader for instance. That is what concerns me about FB acquiring FF given my goals.
- beersage
Robert sounded quite breathless in that interview. Thanks Robert.
- Roberto Bonini
Great interview great Job!!
- Kevin J Hatton
Wow! I'm in shock. I can't wait to hear this interview.
- Micah Wittman
from iPhone
This deal was about getting Paul and the team and nothing else
- Stephen Pickering
@stephan, are you serious? FB is buying a concept, a technoloie, a structure, a content and a user list
- abdellah
Unconvincing Paul Buchheit, the team is more exited of being part of bigger story - logical for them to move on
- patrickdh
now how could a team that left google resist under a unique perception system, where the leader vision is upon any thing
- abdellah
They want a way to turn their white pages into a yellow pages and the only guy on Earth who knows how to do it, is Paul
- Stephen Pickering
It was only about the technology and the people. Most people are on also FB anyway.
- James Myatt
My guess is that Paul got a tooooooooon of options and will soon be the No.2 guy at Facebook
- Stephen Pickering
Glossing over of that "short term" question by the FF boys. It just seems more about the individuals at FF than it does the users of FF. "Their (Facebook) long term goals" Nice interview, Robert!
- Melanie Reed
Well, it looks as if pass-through of FriendFeed Likes, Comments, etc. to Twitter is down. Will it be for good? Did Twitter do this in response to the acquisition? Or is it just a regular (though curiously timed) hiccup?
- Alex Schleber
twitter dow!!
- abdellah
Alex, my Facebook posts have been going through FriendFeed to Twitter today. :)
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
How did you record the phone conversation with Paul Buchheit? I went to BlogTalkRadio.com but... it‘s not clear at all :-(
- Florin Grozea
Florin, rough transcript here: http://friendfeed.com/brlewis...
- Bruce Lewis
I have a few choice words. @#%&. That is all.
- Zachary TG
To do this call I used BlogTalk Radio's Cinch: http://cinch.blogtalkradio.com/
- Robert Scoble
dugg: http://digg.com/tech_ne...
- Gaith
Thanks for this, Scoble.
- mp3WatchWorld
this is why your own personal website is always more important than friendfeed, Twitter and all the rest. that's never going anywhere
- Terry O'Fee
from BuddyFeed
FriendFeed Office Deserted: Whole Team Already at Facebook [Pics] - http://mashable.com/2009...
FFTornado, Vincenzo Piromalli, Eric Sizemore and 5 other people liked this
LOL! ♫ ♫ "ooh, take the money and run"!! ♫ ♫ ;)
- JA Castillo
Is Google spending $106.5m to open source a codec? - http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009...
Susan Beebe, Tyson Key, Mike Chelen and 38 other people liked this
"After acquiring On2's video compression codecs in a deal valued at approximately $106.5 million in stock, will Google simply turn around and open source them? It certainly looks that way. In both the press release and the blog post announcing the acquisition of On2, Google makes a point of saying that it believes "high-quality video compression technology should be a part of the web platform" - and that On2 is a means of achieving that goal. As is typical of Googlespeak, this tells us close to nothing. But if you also consider the company's so far fruitless efforts to push through a video tag for HTML 5 - the still gestating update to the web's hypertext markup language - the On2 acquisition looks an awful lot like an effort to solve this browser-maker impasse."
- Paul Buchheit
from Bookmarklet
Reporters are always asking me if I think that Google is still "good". My answer is always yes, and this is an example of why.
- Paul Buchheit
That was my first thought, too. The HTML5 group has been having conflict over using H.264 (licensing) vs Ogg (no penetration, worrisome quality and CPU usage). This could solve the whole thing.
- Don MacAskill
Study Finds Big Butts are Healthy - http://inventorspot.com/article...
April Russo (app103), amelia arapoff, Ruchira S. Datta and 54 other people liked this
"Do you worry about having a big butt or those unsightly “thunder thighs”? Researchers state that having a little extra weight in the butt and hips may protect you against type 2 diabetes. Researchers at Harvard Medical School found that subcutaneous fat, which is fat found just beneath the skin, actually aided in improving sensitivity to the hormone insulin, which regulates blood sugar." - original post: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health...
- Kol Tregaskes
from Bookmarklet
You gotta have much back!
- Shevonne
I'm healthy as a horse, guess I know why =D
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
Now we all know why I test positive for the diabetes gene and never presented, even in pregnancy! *sigh* Someone proved the answer is "yes, your butt looks fat," for me.
- Heidi Jeffers Thibodeau
So what you are saying is that we need to start prescribing red beans and rice...I'm ok with that.
- jamar78
and they do not lie
- Tony C
I just can't understand why some women want a flat butt...LOL
- Rahsheen ™, Coach Rah
♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ ;)
- Zulema ◕ ◡ ◕
from BuddyFeed
I'm with you, Rah.
- Akiva Moskovitz
That picture is hot. ♥
- Matt Ruiz
With Rah. :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
Matt++
- Rahsheen ™, Coach Rah
I'm with you Rah, but I've always been and ass man
- jamar78
Someone had to: http://tinysong.com/oGR
- Mattb4rd
Mattb4rd - about time.
- Matt Ruiz
LOL....I'm surprised it took so long
- jamar78
And healthy is good.
- Bryan R. Adams
This is what Sir-Mix-A-Lot was trying to tell us all along.
- Kurt Ricketts
+1 Kurt
- Colette
I feel so much better *giggle*
- Arleen Boyd
I'm a firm believer that women should embrace their curves!!!
- jamar78
Once a great prophet said "Red beans and rice didn't miss her," and all was well.
- Haggis (Sean Loyless)
Good to know I'm really healthy! :)
- Carmen - Happy 2010!
Just keep eating the red beans and rice Carmen LOL
- jamar78
PICS!
- Rahsheen ™, Coach Rah
I second the request for pics, for research of course.
- Kurt Ricketts
Sorry, you'll just have to take Dave's word for it...
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
BEST. STUDY. EVER.
- Steven Perez
How did they post for study subjects? NEEDED: Some of those "Rap Guys" ' girl friends for a study.
- Matthew DeVries
Dilemma - one hand:my wife would enjoy this story. other hand: if I send it to her, I'm in trouble.
- Mark "Rizzn" Hopkins
Solution: leave it lying with lots of notes in magic marker. :-)
- Steven Perez
from IM
Social Apps:$700M annual revenue,70M daily active users(DAU),$5-12 annual revenue per DAU.Google:$21,800M/200M/$100-135 http://code.google.com/intl...
Nick O'Neill liked this
iPanties: Slide to Unlock - http://www.facebook.com/ext...
Tanath, HealingBrush, Rick Cogley and 228 other people liked this
Too bad they're grannies.
- Mona Nomura
from Bookmarklet
No.
- Derrick
you call those grannies? Honey, you don't know grannies.
- Laura Norvig
Derrick honey, you are biased. ;) Laura - those are totally grannies!!
- Mona Nomura
Locks? I'm not sure I like the lock idea ;-)
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
Look at where the slider is positioned, people!
- Mona Nomura
i like 'em.
- ♥patricia♥
You have a sexy, sexy granny Mona.
- Tad
Is it a worry that you had to call out the lock location? And as far as grannies go... they're alright :-)
- Rob Kramer
Where's the t-back version?
- AJ Kohn
those are plain ole' bikini underwear. These are granny panties: http://bp3.blogger.com/_svG_Pa...
- Laura Norvig
@Laurie, Oh man. Those are serious granny panties!
- ♥patricia♥
I'm thinking Mona likes the kind of underwear that covers her womanly bits with dental floss. [EDIT: Not that there's anything wrong with that. I bet she looks smokin' in em.]
- Laura Norvig
+1 Laura
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
Speaking as a heterosexual male, I think these are great.
- Tudor Bosman
from email
Partial to the floss ;-) and LOL @ Rick
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
Rob, you do seem to have the physique to be able to wear floss appropriately...
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
Or why where any at all?
- Charles Alden
HA! I didn't mean for myself!
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
I've always liked the bikini cut...
- matthew john ernisse
Charles: the seam in blue jeans can be quite irritating for some people, knickers help prevent that.
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
With my luck I'd get the endless, spinning color wheel.
- MVB (Curmudgeon of FF)
from fftogo
instructions, pffft...i dont need no stinkin instructions!
- Carlos Ayala
++MVB!! LOL And Laura, those are horrific!
- Mona Nomura
OHHHHH SNAP
- Andru Edwards
*calls wife to ask if it's okay to "like" this*
- ha3rvey (wants confit)
from fftogo
Hahhahahha! Harvey!
- Mona Nomura
I'm surprised Apple wasn't like, NOPE SORRY. "Objectionable content." Lawsuit.
- Shawn Farner
Charles: Try riding a horse bareback while going commando. You'll become a believer (at least part time!)
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
Wow, Gizmodo faked the model shot. That's dedication to your craft right there.
- invariant - farewell FF
Where's Leather Donut?...weighing in with his intuitive thoughts??? Myself: Granny nope :/
- sofarsoShawn
Me doing my LD impersonation: RAWR!
- ♥patricia♥
Me doing my LD impersonation: easy & easy access double RAWR!
- sofarsoShawn
Wow - I've seen this on a T-shirt, a doormat but THIS is awesome!
- BEX
Awesome.
- Sean Oliver
Bloomers = grannies
- Outsanity
Plus, if they were granny panties, shouldn't a grandmother be in the photo? lol
- Outsanity
1up Outsanity...but, ewwwww
- sofarsoShawn
For Shawn to say ewwww I am terrified of reading Out's comment. So I will not loolllll!
- Mona Nomura
You know you're going to... Your finger is just itching to click the more comments link, lol
- Outsanity
I can slide it with open arms. :)
- Alp
This beats all other iterations of the "slide to unlock" schwag...
- Jon, the Beartato of '10
Out, I am not loll! You're freaky deaky dude. And you guys are all missing where the actual slider is positioned. Cha-Chiiiing!
- Mona Nomura
from IM
Mona, I know you are hinting at something so but I've been rubbing my screen for the last hour trying to work it out and all Ive done is worn a hole....what am I doing wrong?
- Threepwood
lollll!!!! Hahahahhahahahhahahhahahha!!!!!
- Mona Nomura
I love that people on this thread mimicked another user's comments. That is just so great. And Laura- those grannies are criminal.
- anna sauce
OK random comment, what is the nailpolish doing in the granny pants photo?
- anna sauce
Anna!! I didn't even look at the granny-roos Haha!
- Mona Nomura
notice how everything predicated with an "i" now a days....now iPanties...what's next...by golly?
- sofarsoShawn
iWin7? lolll!
- Mona Nomura
from IM
iAn Ziering started it!
- Joe Pierce
Its all nice but please get it off Celina Jaitley, she is yuck and she talks weirdly. Please photoshop it on someone else. Then I would enjoy it more. =P
- Faraz Mullick
supper :)
- Serkan URHAN
Mona these are not grannies, Laura's url was grannies. seriously!
- anna sauce
These are TOTALLY grannies!
- Mona Nomura
They dont' look granny like to me. I'm just sayin'
- Joe Pierce
whatever you call them they look good on her :)
- (jeff)isageek
@Jeff, yeah, but they'd look even better on her floor! Bah-dump, cha! Thank you, thank you. I'm here all week.
- Joey Gibson
* _ *
- yasin ghasemi
From what Kevin Smith told me, every woman has a pair of granny panties.
- Steven Perez
MONA WINS THE HOLY FUCKING SHIT AWARD!
- tehKenny, Dork
I agree: NOT GRANNIES! SHEEEEESH!! I would call these normal undies :)
- Zulema ◕ ◡ ◕
want
- Baard @ Pixum
Is there an API for that? ;)
- Jason Williams
Or just an Auto-Lock = Never setting ...
- Patrick Jordan
Aren't those things always permanently on Auto-Lock?
- Kittyburgers
This would sell AWESOME in the Chicks with D*cks/ Wangs demographic (hermaphrodites/pre or /during op Trannies) market, so as to jump the lines at sporting venues etc. & YES they ARE GRANNIES!
- sofarsoShawn
面白い。けど、パートナーがこれつけてたら大ウケしちゃって、Un-lockどころじゃなくなりそう（笑）。
- Sakurai.Catshop
それよりムードが・・・（汗）あはw お初です。萠と申します。てきとーによろしくです☆
- Mona Nomura
これをつけているときはok.のサイン……いや待て、そもそも下着を肉眼で確認できるときは、すでにStartしてるよな……？
- 椎出啓
椎出啓氏：だと思われますw
- Mona Nomura
@mona 初めましてです。monaさんのポストは、よくlikeされるみたいで、実はちょくちょくお見かけしておりました。
- Sakurai.Catshop
from fftogo
ありがとうございます！レス、いつでも大歓迎ですよー 日本語打つ機会あまりないしw てか最近日本語忘れ気味でヤバイです。かなーり・・・（汗）w
- Mona Nomura
With my luck, they'd be password protected.
- Robert Hafer
Mona, if these are granny undies, what exactly do you wear? lol
- Daynah
Anna, apparently the nail polish is there to give perspective on how giant the panties are. Full story (towards the bottom of this post): http://metalia.blogspot.com/2007...
- Laura Norvig
Liked 滑动解锁 裤衩 XD http://is.gd/x2pF
- sG
creative :-)
- Rick Cogley
@Mona - ウケる。これ見たらなんもできないね。
- Rick Cogley
@Mona: checkout http://ipanties.weebly.com. They are real!
- david braginsky
STOCKS NEWS US-Source says GM in intense bankruptcy prep | Markets | Market Movers | Reuters - http://uk.reuters.com/article...
SiskaceskaB-InKLady©, Tapio Kulmala, Mona Nomura and 2 other people liked this
"Shares of General Motors (GM.N) tumbled on Tuesday, after a source said that the automaker was in "intense" and "earnest" preparations for a possible bankruptcy filing. A plan to split the company into a new company, made up of the most successful units, and an "old company" of its less-profitable divisions is gaining momentum, another source said."
- Mike Reynolds
from Bookmarklet
About time.
- Mona Nomura
But is GM preparing for the inevitable or the merely probable?
- Kevin D. White
Breaking: Facebook Unveils the New Facebook Pages (and Other Product Updates) - http://www.allfacebook.com/2009...
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Facebook Opens Status API, Say Goodbye to Twitter - http://www.allfacebook.com/2009...
Daniel Rowley, Alberto Otero García, Philip Lei and 13 other people liked this
As mentioned, Facebook has made it easier to set a user’s status. Get ready for streaming Facebook status tools galore. Just over one month ago I suggested that opening up that status API would be the first step toward Facebook killing Twitter. Now we will see if this really has as large of an effect as I claimed it would.
- Leo Laporte
Interesting. Do people really think that Twitter is going to die? It has been fairly resilient so far...
- John T Brady
I personally don't fell that setting my Facebook status and posting stuff on Twitter are even in the same class. That's just my opinion.
- Jason Dean
Nope, it's not going anywhere. As long as it does one thing and makes it easy, it's going to grow. But interesting. Plus as Jason says, the two are very different
- Deepak Singh
i'd still use twitter. Facebook is for friends. Twitter is for friends and strangers. I don't want just anyone seeing my facebook info.
- Sidney
Don't forget that Facebook status messages have a person's name prepended to them, which, combined with the potential for tools and such, will likely lead to even more garbage in the FB ecosystem. I'll stick to Twitter, thanks.
- Chris, Taskerrific Guy
I hate Facebook and the only reason I use it is for conversation, but yeah I prefer Twitter. Less noisy.
- MarkCarras
Twitter won't die. Does this mean that we'll be seeing support for Facebook Status updates in Twhirl and similar, soon?
- Tyson Key
Twitter has more mature users than Facebook, too, ones who won't complain if you unfollow them, generally.
- Chris, Taskerrific Guy
Just a linkbait blog there. They are too different to even think they are competitors. I'm not a fan of Facebook, too insecure. Twitter FTW.
- No FB
FB's API is a mess. Every time they update, something breaks. The apps speak for themselves: http://adonomics.com/about... - don't get me wrong, I am happy (hate FB applications!) but FB is known to be developer unfriendly. I don't see FB killing Twitter any time soon.
- Mona Nomura
this will have not impact on Twitter I think.
- Davide D'Incau
Tough Times for TechCrunch in ‘09? - http://www.markevanstech.com/2008...
Nicholas James, Bill Sanders, Jens Christian Freund and 21 other people liked this
"I should note that Mashable’s traffic is up recently, according to Compete, which is also troubling for TechCrunch. I don’t get that, though. Mashable lately hasn’t been as interesting as ReadWriteWeb, in my view. I think there’s a blog post in there about that. http://siteanalytics.compete.com/centern..."
- Robert Scoble
Robert, just curious how you define interesting in this context? I suppose that's probably pending information coming in the blog post you mention.
- Jennifer Van Grove
I'm not sure how much trouble they are in. TechCrunch still has enough brand power to last at least several years of drought. Ad rev will take the biggest hit, so I expect Arrington to look for other ways to generate cash, more things like the TC50.
- Alex Wilhelm (FF BLOWS)
Techcrunch is still around? Why?
- Bob Blunk
But seriously, this will be the year of consolidation. And we need it. Services need to combine into complex websites, instead of just linking together...this includes tech news sources.
- Bob Blunk
According to Om, the compete data is in-acurate. http://tinyurl.com/8k5knk
- Kiran Patchigolla
Easy answer Robert: Mashable's content has a wider appeal. It's not narrow niche, it mixes the startup reviews with practical how to's and guides etc....
- Duncan Riley
Duncan: which is why you're going for the celebrity news, right? I get that's where most of the audience is. I am just going to follow my heart and talking about Britney Spears just isn't me.
- Robert Scoble
I believe if Mashable is increasing in traffic, it's due to their policy of writers frequently doing lists, with a goal of gaming Digg. They've gone lists crazy.
- Louis Gray
I commented on the post itself but it's in moderation. Mashable has been disappointing to me for awhile now. They're one of those I dropped from the feed reader.
- Karoli
Agree with Karoli. Also the sheer volume of mashable posts on a daily basis caused me to unsub it in my Greader.
- Atul Arora
I've been disappointed there, but for different reasons :-p. I can't really speak to all of that publicly, unfortunately, since it's a very interesting conversation. Broadly, though, I can say that if you look back at the Mashable/TC/RWW compete graph several months back, you can see that we all rose and fell in almost perfect parity. I think there's an editorial on Mashable somewhere from March '08 where I talk about the need for early adopters and big brand blogs to think about the mainstream if they ..
- Mark "Rizzn" Hopkins
... want to continue to expand.
- Mark "Rizzn" Hopkins
"What TechCrunch, GigaOm, et al have going for them is strong brands that should give them the wherewithal to weather the storm." I agree they have a strong brand, but users are looking for quality content. I find breaking news via TC, better writers via GigaOm and better 'how to' with ReadWriteWeb. But all I need is a link from Twitter or FF. The network with best SEO & understands Google Chrome is the one that will be around to celebrate 2010. I would not bet against Arrington.
- Julio F ~ @SocialJulio
So often I have found that the worst content gets the most traffic, but since those sites do not go for quality it is short lived and they end up going under a few months later.
- MarkCarras
Robert, but having said that we're also mindful you might not want the celeb stuff (from the record it's 11% of traffic) which is why we offer category specific pages and feeds. But sure, in the broader gist, our going wide was inspired given the market now. If we were stuck in a niche we'd be dead by now.
- Duncan Riley
mashable ftw just coz hes hot
- Rachael Depp
@ rachel I'd tap that
- sofarsoShawn
rachael: how do you know mashable is male? But it is pretty hot!
- Robert Scoble
Jason: I'm # 24, but I'm not worried. I have a Google tent and can sleep on the beach.
- Robert Scoble
Agree with Duncan. You cant be focussed on niche content. Techcrunch has tried to diversify but they are basically in tech related field only (crunchgear, mobilecrunch, enterprise) whereas inquisitr has someting to offer to everyone. They also dont force you to read all the news by having different feeds
- Sidharth Dassani
I suspect there are many people who actively dislike TechCrunch - you can generally get the same news and analysis from elsewhere without the attitude.
- Andy Davies
every reporter throws in their two cents when reporting, unfortunately TechCrunch frequently throws in a shiny quarter.
- Bob Blunk
Andy: what fun would that be?
- Robert Scoble
Sez @r "Someone should write a history of all the things that were going to kill Techmeme" At the very least, it would probably hit Techmeme
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In my post I took the position that the Blogsearch page is very different than Techmeme; both sites are part of my daily surfing.
- Matt Cutts
Obsessive self-awareness like this will kill techmeme
- Andrew Warner
blogsearch has no RSS - not useful until it has RSS
- Jesse Stay
from twhirl
Jesse - if you search for a keyword phrase you do have an RSS (and atom) feed e.g. http://blogsearch.google.com/blogsea...
- Atul Arora
Atul I want the firehose though.
- Jesse Stay
from twhirl
Jesse - you are right. No RSS for techmeme like firehose.
- Atul Arora
Jesse, I'll pass that feedback on.
- Matt Cutts
Breaking News: John McCain is suspending campaign and calling on Obama to do the same and join him in DC to work on the rescue package.
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bait & switch. old coot
- Cee Bee
I'd be surprised if we even have elections this year. Bush will probably declare Martial Law before Nov
- Bwana ☠
Politics aside, I think it's a good idea for our all of our Senators to be doing their jobs in DC at the moment. Am I really alone in that?
- Mike Lewis
Holy shimones. Would that leave Biden and Palin to duke it out? Might be more entertaining.
- Wilson Craig
the obama campaign is claiming that obama initiated this early this morning asking to release a JOINT statement. mccain agreed, but then went at it on his own taking the spotlight making it look like he was the one who came up with this idea.
- Cee Bee
Interestinger and interestinger. I'm guessing that while McCain is busy helping the other senators, Palin, who's a LOT more popular will continue the campaign. Great idea there John. If they're going to call a complete and total truce it will be really interesting.
- Tad
This will be interesting.
- Bonnie Dean
Via Twitter: McCain is suspending his campaign. I hope Obama will do the same. As right now, figuring out what to do about the economy is #1 priority.
- Mathew™ one of a kind
@cee - I wouldn't be surprised if that were true - do you have a source for that?
- Frederic
Matthew - so you think McCain taking a few days off is going to help fix our economy? reality is right front of you. reach out, sqeeze hard, and get a firm grip
- cjmart
yeah, they just mentioned this on cnn claiming it came from one of the top staffers of the obama campaign
- Cee Bee
A shrewd move...a win-win ploy...if Obama says "no" and forces McCain to debate, then he can tell everyone, "see, I wanted to work on the economy for you and he wants to campaign..." If Obama agrees to it, then it was McCain's idea and not Obama's...despite Obama's protest, the news is reporting it as McCain's idea...someone in Obama's camp dropped the ball...he can't complain too much about it or he'll be seen as being petty...what a crazy election season...
- Live4Emma (L4S)
I agree, the Senators must get to DC and do their job. There's plenty of time for campaigning and debates.
- David Ward
If McCain is really claiming this as his idea, and if Obama really came up with it first, I'm going to fisticuffs with that ol' codger and any of the trolls who are in his camp. It's amazing how these threads make my blood boil. I think I actually turn to them IN ORDER to get my blood boiling!
- Marko Bon
I guess it's a smart political move by McCain, but it just doesn't feel right... Live4Soccer is right - this election seasons is crazy... and absurd...
- Frederic
I agree with Live4Soccer. Obama almost can't win here.
- Michelle Martinez
how is this not seen as a transparent campaign ploy?
- cjmart
Is McCain gonna send Palin back to Alaska too?
- Tad
Well that's an interesting way to get out of the debate Friday night.
- Trish R
cjmart -- it's absolutely patronizing
- Cee Bee
I'm actually not opposed to this, unless McCain plans on keeping other elements of the campaign going full steam.
- Tad
I didn't see McCain working on the economy today during the photo ops at the UN with Palin.
- Trish R
wtf - mccain to the rescue? he's no lone ranger. and palin is definitely no tonto!
- cjmart
" McCain also requested that Friday's presidential debate be postponed" Crap. I was looking forward to it.
- Rochelle
It's cheesy...it's a ploy...McCain's campaign handlers are just shrewder, it seems...it's like Obama's crew are reacting instead of setting the agenda..."I'll see your stadium acceptance speech and raise you a Sarah Palin"...and now this. Fascinating. I never thought in a million years thought McCain could distance himself from his party's unpopular incumbent president to really have a shot at this thing...
- Live4Emma (L4S)
Sure, let's add two more people to the mix, that won't slow things down. "Hey everyone!! Hurry up and wait for us!!" It's like my management meetings. 12 managers sitting around nodding and repeating eachothers thoughts. That's efficient.
- Steve Sebestyen
from twhirl
+1 cheesy ploy, stole obama's idea
- Steve Lynch
Obama reached out to McCain to discuss the economy issues but it was McCain's idea to postpone the campaign. McCain has no reason to want out of the debate so stop going there. If they have it fine, if not they will reschedule.
- David Ward
Running scared.
- Chris Nixon
You can't call 'time out' when you're President.
- AJ Kohn
[Scripting News]: McCain to suspend campaign? - http://x.techwheat.com/2E9
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"Just heard an announcement on MSNBC that McCain has requested that Friday's debate be postponed so he can focus on the economic plan in front of Congress."
- newsjunk.com
i don't know what to think. is this just one more rung in the ladder leading to the worst campaign in history? this can't really the true reason, could it?
- cjmart
Surge #2?
- Bill Koslosky
I can haz multi-tasking?
- AJ Kohn
Isn't the economy one of the main focuses of the debate?
- James Ferguson
If it gets delayed then I would assume that *every* minute will be dedicated to the economy and *none* to any stump speeches, ad strategy, or other sundry political tasks. I mean, essentially he's saying he's a single-threaded entity - only one thing at a time, right?
- AJ Kohn
Now's the time where we see if the Democrats have the balls to stand up to McCain and Palin.
- Tad
Is ShareThis the next Digg? - http://news.cnet.com/8301-17...
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i've been tinkering w/ it a tad. I think i like the naitve bookmarklets better from individual sites.
- Jeff (the マクダジ of FF)
I remember people calling Mixx.com the next digg almost a year ago now.
- alphaxion
Market is going to take one HUGE dive Monday. Fannie & Freddie govt takeover http://www.reuters.com/article...
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"It is not possible to calculate the cost of any bailout, but the huge potential liabilities of the companies could cost taxpayers tens of billions of dollars and make any rescue among the largest in the nation's history, the paper said."
- Hutch Carpenter
Yikes - thanks for tweeting this. Not good...
- Kim Mahan
Actually, I think this will make the market go up. The markets go down when things are uncertain. The government bailing out Fannie and Freddie will inject a bit of certainty into the financial markets. Something they need right now.
- Alex Scoble
crikey!
- Laura Norvig
HSBC bought tons of subprimes...they're in a mess. HSBC holders = bankrupcy, dismissal, bankrupcy again...ad nauseum
- Cheryl Allin
from twhirl
as usual, i'm sure i'm the only one on the planet who has no idea who you're talking about. who the hell are fannie & freddie??
- Trent Olson
from twhirl
I don't mean to be the conspiracy theorist, but clearly the Treasury department knew something was up to pre-emptively get approval to bail them out. Hope the down turn on Monday isn't as bad as I fear. @AlexScoble lets hope you're right, but I can't imagine the market won't react. This is going to have a huge impact on the govt. and perhaps the value of the dollar.
- Jim Goldstein
Bummer. The gov't has to bail out other people's poor decision making yet again.
- Jason Shultz
from twhirl
The markets most likely have already reacted to this and priced things accordingly. We all knew it was coming. Now that it has, I think that everyone will shrug and go about their business. The financial sector can't get much lower.
- Alex Scoble
+1 Alex - interesting thought but isn't "priced in" news impossible to game, unless your knee deep in the industry? having said that, sure hope your right. i'm too young to stress about the ups and downs, but most of my dad's money is in the market and he has to sell positions on a monthly basis to live on. these ups and downs are damn near killing him.
- cjmart
Yeah, I hope the market stabilizes. The last 10 years have done nothing for my retirement account.
- Alex Scoble
Alex makes a good point...do you have a sense that the markets thought it was this bad? I'd heard news reports about the two companies, was it expected to come to this?
- Hutch Carpenter
Let's keep that war going!
- jeneane sessum
If only this war actually turned the economy around. Unfortunately, even that didn't happen.
- Jason Shultz
from twhirl
There go my dreams of home ownership.
- Sparky
Fannie Mae & Freddie Mac have *already* fallen about 90% from their 52-week highs. Combined, it's "only" about $10 billion in suddenly worthless shares at this point :-D almost all held by institutional investors. So yeah everyone saw something bad coming. Still, Monday will be interesting :-D
- Karim
FRE shares are down 90% compared to one year ago. Yes, the market has already priced in a disaster.
- DGentry
So far today the market is up a little (except for NASDAQ which is down). In the morning, the markets reacted favorably to the move by the government, but the markets trended downwards from there.
- Alex Scoble
@AlexScoble while listening to the news this morning I was cringing. I am no market seer LOL We'll see how things play out the rest of the week. From my perspective and what I was hearing on the radio this is just lipstick on a pig. It's not addressing any of the fundamental problems. Time will tell
- Jim Goldstein
Yeah, well it did dip again but ended up for the day. Not such a big surprise...Markets go up on good news and down on bad. Government propping up Fannie and Freddie is good news to the market. Large institutions like that going belly up would be very very bad news to the market. Which is exactly why the government did what it did. Our government is here to, among other things, provide for a stable environment...people often forget this when they make their "let them die" comments.
- Alex Scoble
Looks like you were a day late on your prediction, Jim...but I'm not sure that it took a dive because of Fannie and Freddie...Just more bad news for the economy.
- Alex Scoble
Some day you Californians are going to get a quake that separates you from the U.S. and destroys all your Internet and phone access. THEN WHO WILL BE ON TOP?!
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The rest of the US will not...they will have just lost the most productive farmland in the world and the 5th largest economy in the world.
- Alex Scoble
I don't know, but I have a feeling that it'll be a Scoble of some sort ...
- ::Kristen::
We'll have our iPhones and our superiority!!
- B. Hatin
Arizona residents will cheer for their new found, and totally mythical, beachfront property!
- Pete Delucchi
Killer surf waves on both sides? LOL
- Cheryl Allin
from twhirl
Most populous, rich and diverse state in the nation with the most progressive smog laws. You better believe that they are better than you. I used to think like that, but I'm an Oregonian now.
- Alex Scoble
That's called diversification and redistribution of wealth...it's a good thing Sean, particularly if you own a home in the area. Although personally, you can have Texas and the whole south to yourself. It gets way too hot down there for my tastes...which is why I'm in Oregon and not CA...oh and I can afford a house here, unlike in the Bay Area.
- Alex Scoble
We should give names to earthquakes, like hurricanes have.
- DGentry
Sean - you can live up in Redding or someplace if you want space. It's like 5 hours from San Francisco to the Oregon border. Lot of land up there.
- Hutch Carpenter
Yeah, but where are you gonna get your silicon chips? Oh yeah, they're manufacturered overseas now. Never mind.
- Ontario Emperor
Friendfeed is there. Can't happen. Hundreds immediately in re-hab
- Charlie Anzman
Ham Radio FTW!
- Jesse Stay
So, the hippies will drift off into the ocean? Problem? I think not.
- Art Lindsey III
I have a cell phone, so there ;)
- Jeremiah Owyang
Your cell towers will break down and all you will have is a large island with palm trees and earthquakes... Mark my words!
- Ben Parr
I suggest somebody starts a "Free Satphones for California" initiative.
- Slappy Line
They will, they will suddenly have thousands of extra miles of beach-front property.
- Steve Spalding
+1 Kaia
- Cyndy
There’s Something In All That Nothing - http://mashable.com/2008...
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" ...they are trying to go the route of resetting the popular perception of Microsoft. Windows will come later but first they have to get the point across that the Microsoft of this generation is not the Microsoft that just about all of us have grown up with. Tie that in with the face of a comedian who is still popular with people in the real world and it is a plan that could work."
- Chris Baskind
from Bookmarklet
first commercial tried to be funny, but it was pretty dumb actually. and no, i'm neither fanboy nor hater..
- cjmart
I'd like to get my next pair of sneakers at Shoe Circus.
- TDavid
Platinum Clown Club member?
- Ernie Oporto
Thanks for the mention, Steven.
- Chris Baskind
Great perspective on the commercial
- Nick O'Neill
np Chris :) you wrote a good post worth reading
- Steven Hodson
The opening of the ad would have been better as a silent sight gag. It ruined it when Jerry had to read the sign, tell us who he saw...
- Jack (a.k.a. Jeber)
Is Linking to Yourself the Future of the Web? - http://radar.oreilly.com/2008...
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God, I hope not.
- Slappy Line
that would be the modern form of Narcissm and lead - if I recall correctly - ultimately to death... :-)
- Gaby K. Slezák
For the ultimate self-linking experience, I tried piping my feed on FF back into FF as a blog feed. Surprisingly, I was not prevented from doing so.
- Slappy Line
@Slippy how did that end up?
- Jason Shultz
from twhirl
Messy. It (obviously) re-linked a number of my entries in one big lump. I panicked when it hit a hundred new items :-)
- Slappy Line
Coming Soon: A Post-American World, With The Rise Of China And Other Economies, The "Golden Age" Of American Influence May Be Coming To An End - CBS News - http://www.cbsnews.com/stories...
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No "may" about it
- Brian Sullivan
"Zakaria worries that one day historians will write about how the United States globalized the world, but forgot to globalize itself."
- Dave Winer
it could be a "may" if it were written a few years ago... otherwise....
- Jeremy Toeman
It's not such a terrible thing. It's a world economy. What we had going here couldn't last forever. Now we just have to stop doing things that disadvantage us, and we'll do okay. We need to get to work on our education system, health care, infrastructure, and stop borrowing all that money for things that don't create value -- like the war in Iraq.
- Dave Winer
You know if McCain started talking like that he might win the election. The thing that's scary is that he doesn't seem to understand where we fit in. Our army isn't going to convince a lot of our adversaries and all of his bluster is going in the wrong direction.
- Dave Winer
And still, people are overlooking South America. China and Russia are slowly building alliances with other countries, bypassing the United States...
- Mona Nomura
BTW, I think it's very cool that the Chinese are opening plants in the US. I'd like to dig into that and find out why it was economic for them to do that. Maybe they just did it for PR purposes. It's hard to imagine that our labor costs less than theirs.
- Dave Winer
For those who follow the recent goings-on in the Anglican Communion, it's intersting to note that much of the debate is North-South centered, with some concluding that the North is moving toward a phase of Laodicean irrelevance.
- Ontario Emperor
In *only* 30 yrs. China has been steadily moving from the centralized planning of socialism to free markets and capitalism....Meanwhile the U.S. has been moving in the opposite direction...U.S. citizens would be wise to go back to their roots, because the China horse has left the barn.
- Chris Rossini
There is obviously a lot for the US to be concerned about and I don't think it's necessary for the US to be the sole superpower. It's probably better for us if we're not bc obviously we aren't very good at it. That said, I have some real concerns about what we're seeing from China and what's really going on. If I had a lot of money, I would probably spent more investing in India than...
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- Ray Grieselhuber
This makes the same amount of sense it did when Leo Laporte proposed this idea during the opening ceremony - that is none at all.
- Mark "Rizzn" Hopkins
Technically ... until China floats it's currency, we're subsidizing them. Free trade at some point needs to be fair free trade.
- Charlie Anzman
we made our bed. soon, sleepytime!!
- Anthony Citrano
boy 'yall thinks this is a good thing? I'm just glad to be here and not there. if the rest of the world wants to bend over for tyranny, cheap labor and unrestricted industrialization... then let them destroy their land. ...and they can hate me all they want. ah yes the joys of socialism that is not sustainable, so now they have to be a bunch of predators. I'm just glad we aren't voting Obama for president or we might end up like them. A green ghetto makes a carnivore
- Noah David Simon
Bull shit bunch of Propaganda! American imperialism is not finished but just starting! Watch for New World Order!
- Igor The Troll יִצְחָק
they should of put you in the gulag Igor. Goodnight!
- Noah David Simon
Noah yes Solzhenitsyn! I speak the Truth and Fuck U!
- Igor The Troll יִצְחָק
absolutely..."no 'may' about it'
- Harold Cabezas
from feedalizr
It already ended. Depression mode ahead!
- Michael Forian
Just added Fareed Zakaria's book to my Amazon.com wish list.
- Mike Reynolds
Agreed with Dave Winer. This doesn't mean some post-apocalyptic future for America; just less American dominance in various areas.
- Brent Newhall
you can have your Chinese mob glut of human meat and I will take America and it's breadbasket of food, plentiful natural gas and running on Chevy Volts in a few years. Wind and Solar going faster then any other country. America is BACK! I just hope I can hold all of you to live outside of America's borders in a few years. Socialism and Dictatorships are flip sides of a coin. America might hit a few bumps down the road to energy independence, but I will take this road over any other.
- Noah David Simon
"one world, one dream" indeed but certainly not the american dream
- Brian Sullivan
mahnah mahnah
- Noah David Simon
中国的黄金时代即将到来
- terababy
Is it just me or are people being overly self-promotional in blog post comments lately? And then people get pissed at me for calling them out. How about proper networking etiquette? That's not how you get on someone's radar...
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Desperate times! I noticed it a while ago though. Like when I first started blogging. As things like social media and blogging get more and more popular, you are bound to see more and more people bending/breaking the rules to get ahead. In most cases it works against them though.
- Howard O'Berry
from twhirl
I love how some guy commented on my "Best Internet Marketing Posts of 2007" post with a YouTube video he created and wrote about in 2008. Not only that, but the guy even added fake "testimonials" for his barely-viewed video! Definitely desperate times. It's sad. It's not hard to sign up for social networks like FriendFeed, use them effectively, and become known. But commenting out of the blue about oneself is not genuine. (And this isn't the most recent case either...)
- Tamar Weinberg
well i would say that a large number of social media blogs are fairly self-promoting, so that's probably in your radar... really depends on what you read...
- Jeremy Toeman
I think it's about time that a blog post be written to address this... in the radar, I guess. What else peeves you about blog comments?
- Tamar Weinberg
i get annoyed by the lack of follow-up in a comment thread. people let the conversation just 'die' too much
- Jeremy Toeman
Strangely yesterday I received a sincere apology from a guy who was promoting his service in comments that were almost off-topic (and he definitely did not seem to read the post itself). And that's my point: I hate it when people submit comments with their thoughts without actually reading my thoughts in the post. The irony is that I may have already described the same ideas right in the post itself.
- Svetlana Gladkova
@Svetlana, I totally agree -- people like to hear themselves but may not actually want to hear you -- and they're using YOUR blog comments as a sound board. Ironic indeed.
- Tamar Weinberg
@Tamar: Ironic indeed but very natural. After all, people have been taught for a while now that blog comments can be used as an efficient marketing and promotional tool and so we see the results now.
- Svetlana Gladkova
from twhirl
The best way to network is to help other people. Also, that's the *only* way to promote yourself on other people's blogs -- leave an interesting comment, and put your URL in the space provided for that.
- Mitch Wagner
Spluch: Simply Unbelievable Egg Stacking! - http://spluch.blogspot.com/2007...
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=O This man stacks eggs. STACKS THEM..expand!
- Mona Nomura
You should see what he does with the chickens.
- Chris Baskind
I havethis urge to gently push only 1 egg to see what happens .. :)-
- Peter Dawson
oh btw, there are all hardball eggs.. I just made that up ...lol
- Peter Dawson
LOL@Chris, I've been meaning to tell you this but you're one of the wittiest people on FF. I crack up ALL the time at your comments haha
- Mona Nomura
Michael: Like follow the leader?? What a nightmare
- Mona Nomura
"What a great way to enter the world" ? don't you think it will be similar to how Neo comes of "being" in the Matrix ? IMHO, That would be a horrifying way to be born ! <Edit> No just think of it ..all your unborn brothers and sisters stacked up all around you when u r born ?? What would e your first thoughts ?? Holy Crap, lets get the ef'ing hell out of this scray zone. ok ok.. I digress from this convo. My imagination runs pretty wild at times !!
- Peter Dawson
WOW
- aliatrvash
Wow, WTF!?
- Andrew Baron
No, really? I wonder what he felt like when he first figured out he could do this.
- Yolanda
Something about 1.5 billion peopel that make labor and scaling non-issues.
- Mark Forman
so magnificent building!
- ieruo
WTF
- Derek
TY, Mona. :-)
- Chris Baskind
I'm with Mona, Chris's comment was a classic. Can we vote for a "Comment of the Week"? I've read two contenders today.
- Toby Graham
There's a guy at my grocery store that stacks eggs too
- Josh Haley
Whoa, what in the.. where did THIS come from?! Posted July 13th? wow!
- Mona Nomura
good morning Mona! :p
- Josh Haley
he's a genius when it comes to egg stacking
- Seckoa
Impressive, but why?
- Morton Fox
Best Spam Mail Ever - http://www.flickr.com/photos...
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Ok, seriously you win. What does spam like this hope to achieve?
- kathleen wiersch
I still have yet to receive your reply.
- Louis Gray
it's the nutrient
- Allen Stern
+1 @Louis -- but in all honesty as @kathleen brought up, what in the world does this message (or the millions of others like it) intend to accomplish?
- Nicholas Kreidberg
Don't you see?!?!? XY is crap cause it only has DNS! XX has both DNS and nutirent, therefore making your homosexual woman be child! It's so simple :)
- Johnny Worthington
Wow, and I was worried Miss Teen South Carolina wasn't going to find work, and such!
- ɐ ɯıʞ sıɹɥɔ
@Nicholas, my guess, and I'm not an expert here, is that it's essentially a test to see if an e-mail is received successfully, and the random text is actually to avoid filters which would be marking it as spam. Once past the filter and delivered successfully, a "real" business-oriented spam message can be sent from any other account. Tamar's account has now been given the "All Clear" message for spammers.
- Louis Gray
@Louis Sounds like a perfectly logical explanation, thank you.
- Nicholas Kreidberg
Louis - good theory. I've received odd e-mails like this and always wondered what the point was.
- Anthony Citrano
Sometimes the emails which make no sense are designed not merely to evade the filters, but actually de-tune the Baysian algorithms which power much of the spam filtering technology out there. By slipping these messages through right at the hairy edge of what is considered spam, they train the algorithms that particular phrases are not strongly associated with spam. A future spam mailing will then take advantage of these phrases to slip through the filters until they tighten up again.
- DGentry
Well, FWIW, I marked it as spam. :D
- Tamar Weinberg
The Repetition of The Blogosphere - http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r...
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Thanks for sharing your experience...
- Mitchell Tsai
Interesting post, Corvida, as I've felt the same boredom in recent weeks. I do think August ennui has set in and once fall approaches, with all its myriad tech conferences (ahem), new excitement will spring up.
- Carla Thompson
LOL Carla. We've always known it as the "pre-DEMO doldrums" when NOTHING new launches and everyone just churns the same content.
- Cyndy
Why didn't you send me a memo about that Cyndy. DEMO needs to hurry up and get here.
- Corvida
Corvida, we haven't had a good bitchmeme in weeks either.
- Rob Diana
early stages of blogger burnout. i've seen it happen to hundreds before. if it were me -- and i've blogged since '99 -- i'd step away from the computer -- and the mobile device -- and do other things for a while. however long it takes. and put the de rigeur 'on hiatus' page on my blog. lol
- .LAG liked that
Unfortunately it hits harder if you are blogging on your own. I agree with what Aaron said in the comments. Guest posting. You could find a friend of yours that does not want to start their own blog and just ask them if they want to contribute to yours every now and again. Its likely they would give you great ideas on where to take things.
- Amber, Random Time Lord
I wondered where you went. :) Don't worry, it's just a little case of burnout. You'll be excited again soon.
- Sarah Perez
There are tons of stories, even in Silicon Valley. I just visited Meebo and learned a ton. They have 10x the users of Twitter. But why is Twitter on Techmeme every week and Meebo isn't?
- Robert Scoble
Sometimes you gotta hit the pause button.
- Bill Sodeman
I just watched Roberts Qik Video on Meebo and installed a chat room on a web site..Interesting for sure
- Ian May
Robert, Meebo mostly just rides the backs of other instant messaging services. Do you want to read about AIM, Yahoo Messenger, Microsoft Messenger -- things that haven't really changed much in years? Isn't some of the reason folks are so enamored w/Twitter because it is a big change vs. those services?
- Robert Seidman
@LAG @Sarah Perez - I don't consider this blogger's burnout. Sarah, we had a talk about my stage of blogger's burnout lol. I still have my desire to blog. I'm just having a hard time finding something of value to blog about.
- Corvida
i think it's just temporary burnout - i get it for a week or so here or there - feels like i've been blogging about the same subject forever (more than 1100 posts on the same subject anyway) but then i get back in to it from a spark. it usually starts by me getting out of my comfort area and checking out new blogs and personalities - there's something about fresh powder that stirs the old desire to write.
- Morgan
@Corvida: the desire to add value to your posts is why people enjoy reading and following you. more power to you.
- .LAG liked that
Corvida - A little confused here. Are you still doing RWW and Mashable, or did you switch? Just curious (I'm sure I'm not the only one ?!)
- Charlie Anzman
Charlie I've only worked for RWW and Guidewire Group, not Mashable.
- Corvida
I've been feeling the same way the last couple weeks
- John Duff
I start my morning getting info from Friendfeed before anywhere else.
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I start to more and more do the same: 1. Friendfeed 2. Jaiku 3. GReader
- Niclas Strandh
from Alert Thingy
First I consult the oracle that is my coffee cup, and then FF and Reader,
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
Google Reader for information. Then FriendFeed for information and discussion.
- Ontario Emperor
from fftogo
is there a room for FriendFeed addicts? :) I belong there...
- Baard @ Pixum
You can add feeds using imaginary friends
- Jeremiah Owyang
I always start with FriendFeed, then Reader, and then, and only if I don't decide to blog, I'll glance at my email.
- Kevin Gamble
Start with email (need to deal with fires that occur overnight) then GReader then friendfeed.
- Jon Erickson
Coffee first before FriendFeed :D
- AJ Batac
I think we all do. :) FriendFeed before breakfast. :D
- Daynah
Ditto.. but I have a coke first
- Dave Peck
FF first.
- kamla bhatt
This last week being away from the PC has seen me use Facebook the most out of all the sites I frequent!
- Joe Dawson
Me too. A long way to go before a "More people get their news from FriendFeed than from any other source" tag though.
- Ben Wern
Same here.
- Mattb4rd
i start w/GR and then FF
- R. Ferguson
FF is my home page. i go FF, reader, and then a few MSM news sites.
- Morgan
I have a feeling that I'm not getting all the news because I'm relying on FriendFeed as the source.
- Rishabh Mishra (p248)
I always start with DrudgeReport and then move to Huffington. Then I open FF.
- Tad
Email > Reader > FriendFeed > Social Median
- Louis Gray
I wake up at 2pm, so I don't have a morning. email > twitter > rss > FF
- Louie
Coffee<>Friendfeed<>Facebook<>News<>Then I get yelled at by my wife =0)
- Jonathan.Rivera
+1 louis. rinse and repeat
- Christian Anderson
Friendfeed has moved to the top of the list, even before my email
- Pascal
1. NetNewsWire, 2. Internal Wikis, 3. eMails, 4. elsewhere (friendfeed et al.)
- Gerrit Eicker
Morning:Techmeme,FriendFeed,Twitter
- Igor Poltavskiy
River Gym, The Human Powered Excercise Boat | PSFK - Trends, Ideas & Inspiration - http://www.psfk.com/2008...
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If only they could take this to regular gyms and give a little power back to the power grid as well.
- Jesse Stay
White House is Briefed: Phoenix About to Announce "Potential For Life" on Mars - http://www.universetoday.com/2008...
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"It would appear that the US President has been briefed by Phoenix scientists about the discovery of something more "provocative" than the discovery of water existing on the Martian surface. "..... Holy. Fucking. SHIT.
- dave mcclure
from Bookmarklet
Wow! That would be something else! For real! Mars Phoenix FTW!!! However, later in the article, they make the following statement: "Scientists are keen to point out however, that this secretive news will in no way indicate the existence of life (past or present) on Mars; Phoenix simply is not equipped make this discovery." Still AMAZING science!
- Brian Daniel Eisenberg
would our president even know what they're talking about? And why would "the president" need to be "briefed" about this? Because if Martians have oil we'll need to bring them democracy first?
- Adam Turetzky
If Phoenix has detected a carbon signature in the soil samples, it's huge. Provocative, indeed: we'd have to go and look for ourselves, most likely. But if we found life so close to Earth, and under such hostile conditions, it would speak strongly to life being more common than previously imagined.
- Chris Baskind
Wow, this is MASSIVE. :) Very cool to see this story unfold.
- sergiooo
I'd be afraid W might launch a massive attack against mars...
- Tad
Extremely awesome news though! :)
- Tad
OMG!
- Andrew Baron
Maybe they found Atlantean technology...
- Tad
Turns out the ice they previously found was in a glass, with scotch. And there's a seriously pissed off martian who wants his/her/its drink back :D. Seriously, the "wet chemistry" sensors won't detect organic compounds or "life building blocks" like sugars or aminoacids, but there's lots of unexpected things up there, apparently. It seems that Mars is way more Earth-like than previously thought. Time to pick up "Pale Blue Dot" again, folks.
- dario
This time around Bush will tell the public that he was given fals information .......
- John Blanton
from twhirl
Reading a newspaper article this morning - pictures suggested new sediment deposit since last imaging of the same area. Am I right in thinking that means liquid water has moved across part of the surface of Mars in the seven years between missions? That's pretty freaking amazing if you ask me. Dunno about life, but it seems almost inevitable we'll find some kind of organic compounds there sooner or later, even if it IS stuff we've deposited ourselves!
- Slappy Line
Bush will never believe there is life in Phoenix; he is a Texan, after all. He won't hear anything after that.
- ɐ ɯıʞ sıɹɥɔ
So there is intelligent life in the Universe, then we could stop pretending we're it :)
- Dani Radu
@dario: clap, clap, clap :)
- dave mcclure
President Bush, the answer is 42
- Jesse Stay
from twhirl
Very interesting... but no announcement until after the Olympics and maybe the GOP convention, I bet.
- Bill Sodeman
Driving Nightmares versus Beauty...Simply Awesome
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