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The Great Google Wave invite thread. Anyone who wants an invite post your Gmail address here and anyone who has invites available please use to invite the people on this list. There are also a bunch of requests in the Invites group here: http://friendfeed.com/invites

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I have a few but holding them for a few people who have already asked me. I'm at kolint [at] googlewave [dot] com btw. A pain I know but if you can, could you update your comment when you have an account or just delete your comment. Ta! :-) EDIT: Try this site for invites: http://googlewaveinvites.com/ - Kol Tregaskes

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ysabelegaspi at gmail dot com. thanks! - Ysabel Legaspi

Kol, my man...I love you, you do know that right? :) jazzjeppeATgmail.com - "Jazzperous" Isaksson

I would like to have one => nessuno.no.luogo at gmail dot com <= :) thank you - nessuno

crap, wrong email...:) jazzjeppeATgmail.com - "Jazzperous" Isaksson

havaslash att gmail dott com thanks :) - Jay

bryce@bryceroney.com if you have a spare :) - Bryce, Low in Sodium

chaz2b2@gmail.com thank you, :) - chaz2b

oceano70 [at] gmail.com - thank's! - ӊooқ

adrian[dot]scicluna (at) gmail[dot]com - Ade

lameei (at) gmail (dot) com - Mostafa Lameei

fanning[dot]steve(at)gmail[dot]com - Steve

(You're really enjoying this, aren't you?) :P - Ade

williswee@gmail.com :) - Willis Wee

manantsoa.david(at)gmail(dot)com - Thanx - Manantsoa

nikicostantini[at]gmail.com :) - Niki Costantini

gloriouslywired@gmail.com Thank you! - Tanya S

Hehe, Jesper. :-) - Kol Tregaskes

tibor.holoda@gmail.com Please! ;) - Tibor Holoda

http://scr.im/jaden Pretty please with a cherry on top :) - Dan Hersam

can i haz en invyte? boycaught-at-gmail.com - .LAG liked that

Please pretty please - wishfully.thinking [at] gmail [dot] com - Harini Saladi

daemith@gmail.com - Лиова

could you please send me an invite as well please email saysunnykapoor@gmail.com - Sunny (The Geek Lord)

If anyone has one to share - martin (dot) starfighterpilot (at) gmail.com :-) - Martin Bryant

tagyboy@gmail.com thanks - fwed

slayerboy [AT] gmail [DOT} com - Ⓐ ☠ slayerboy ☠ Ⓐ

pkhannah@gmail.com - Paul

krz9000[@)googlemail.com i can haz? - Chris Hofmann

yok2504 [at] gmail.com - Sinan İŞLER

melanie.langenhan at googlemail.com - Melanie Langenhan

mdoeff at gmail dot com - Mike Doeff

sadoyle AT gmail DOT com if anyone has a spare invite I would be thrilled. - Simon Doyle from BuddyFeed

rubin dot sfadj at gmail dot com - Rubin Sfadj

grant.bierman at gmail dot com - Grant Bierman

If anyone has a spare one to share........ magic.mridul@gmail.com - mridul

how do we track who got invited & who didnt? - Roshan Ramachandran

magicofpi at gmail dot com for me, please! - Ryan - @magicofpi

kim.landwehr@gmail.com - Kim Landwehr

Roshan, maybe those who got invited could put an X before their email... or delete their comment altogether. - Ryan - @magicofpi

amnesiak1978 [at] gmail.com - Andrea | amnesiak1978 from iPhone

Ryan, yep I've suggested something like that in the first comment above. - Kol Tregaskes

blackice912@gmail.com - thanks in advance. :) - Brad Butner

Ah, yeah, I might've missed that... at least we're on the same page. :) - Ryan - @magicofpi

flaimo [@] gmail.com - flaimo

i guess i am superiphi at gmail - Joelle Nebbe (iphigenie)

marco.marengo [at] gmail.com - gib

aucimen(at) gmail.com (thank youu) - Alper Umut Çimen

EnforcedData@gmail.com (Thanks so much!) - Danny Minick

agentezerozerokappa [at] gmail - ced

hugo.Miguel.Nunes@gmail.com. Thx - HN from iPhone

ceterelealtdileyt[at]gmail(dot)com --Thank you already now - YunusYAMANER(CITRIL)

mguttler@gmail.com - thanks - Matt G

nicolaquinn@gmail.com :) - Nicola Quinn from Nambu

mahendrap[at]gmail.com - Mahendra (SkepticGeek)

somebody who has it please send a message to me too thanks. - Mahmood Padura

petegilbert@gmail.com if anyone has any free! - Pete Gilbert

s8726319@gmail.com , thanks for your invite ! - nancy kao

libyano@gmail.com - Saeed Ashour

and hey, if you haven't already, please sign up here: https://services.google.com/fb.... Better to do it now than later... can't hurt :) - Adam Lasnik

photografr@gmail.com - Chris Nixon

000.cacarr@gmail.com - Christopher A Carr

zekaikiran@gmail.com - Zekai KIRAN

thomas.power@ecademy.com - Thomas Power

arnet.92@gmail.com - arnet

cristian {DOT} vidmar {AT} gmail {DOT} com - thanks in advance! - Cristian Vidmar

selcuke@gmail.com please .thx - Selcuk Ergin

scabrcom at gmail dot com - Igor Poltavskiy

geert.conard@gmail.com - Geert CONARD

krisu0100 [at] gmail.com - Kristian Salonen

Are people on this list getting invites or at least been told they have an invite on the way? You might have to be patient, it could take a long time for one to come through. - Kol Tregaskes

Adam, yep agree. Maybe because I did that (month ago though) helped me get mine through from Vijay so quickly! - Kol Tregaskes

junal53@gmail.com - Junal Rahman

cmiper@gmail.com - cmiper from iPod

lostmoya@gmail.com - David Young

gtpinfobox[at]gmail[dot]com... plzzz, can i hav one invite *makes puppy face* - Gtp19

matthias.debus [at] gmail [dot] com - Thanks! - Matthias Debus

pls send me an invite on dharmubaba[at}gmail{dot]com - Dharmesh

Have you got a Google Wave invite? Please send me one! selcuke@gmail.com :) - Selcuk Ergin

If you're happy and you know it clap your hands (and please send me a Wave Invite) zacrabah@gmail.com - ZacRabah

docdemon at gmail.com. - Dennis Jernberg

keyboardbreaker at gmail.com - Iain Baker

alperekiz at gmail.com - Alper

sercanvirlan@gmail.com hey who invites me ? - Sercan Virlan

mfelat at gmail dot com - mesut felat

dajdavies at gmail.com - Andy Davies

aydogdu13 -_at_- gmail.com - Ugur Aydogdu (jnbn)

bahaid at gmail.com - Kilian

arwengrim@gmail.com i'd love an invite! - Patrik Arwengrim

niman24atgmail.com - Stian Torgersen

i'm waiting for months please an #invite m.furkantunali [\at/] gmail.com - Furkan Tunalı

matteocampofiorito@gmail.com - Matteo Campofiorito

I would love to have one: patrik.bjorn.johansson AT gmail DOT com :) - Patrik Johansson

yunust at gmail please.. thanks.. - Yunus Tunak

could you send invitation to koraym /@/ gmail .com address please ? =) Thank You! - siniradam

ludwig.gatzke [at] gmail.com Thank You! :) - Ludwig

veovix [at] gmail [dot] com - I'll be your best friend!! :) - veo

jmatalon - Jacque

yildirayatas (at) gmail (dot) com - Yıldıray Ataş

bkoknar@gmail.com - morkedipatisi

fsakbas@gmail.com - F.Selçuk AKBAŞ

paulasimoes [at] gmail [dot] com - paula simoes ☃

inkoola#gmail.com - qibo

a7med.magdy[at]gmail[DOT]com - Ahmed Magdy (Pr0fess0rX)

chrisloft@chrisloft.com - great idea Kol, fingers crossed -/ - Chris Loft

pamirg@gmail.com - Pamir Gündüz

angelo.mariano@gmail.com please invite me - Angelo Mariano

melamerito@gmail.com :D - Andre Fvini

Thanks and i want one ,my mail is: bao3.cn[at]gmail.com - 黑莓极至

ibgeronimo[at]gmail[dot]com - jan geronimo

soulruins[at]gmail[dot]com THX!!! - Philip from BuddyFeed

cristianconti -at- gmail.com - Cristian Conti

hndrk.nmnn@gmail.com - Thank you! - Hendrik Neumann

piotto [@] gmail.com thank you a lot!! - Matte

wilka.hudson@gmail.com - cheers muchly! - Wilka Hudson

newelvin [at] gmail.com - Thank you! - Elvin

This isn't working...over in the UK we have decided it's all a late April Fool's joke. - Pete Gilbert

buckflow@gmail.com please ;-) - Alistair (alpinefolk)

I want one. (.==@, @==^) siva@rs^gmail.com - siva s

darkiself@gmail.com pls. - Ergin

yassersouri@gmail.com - میکرودامپ

@Kol, the invitation process seems to be based on nominations. For example, everytime someone nominates/invites you, you get bumped up the queue for an account until you're at the top and you get sent an invite by the team - Ysabel Legaspi

mdfidler[@]gmail.com Thanks Kol! - Michael Fidler

Ysabel, ah I see, So lots of people must have nominated me. Darn, so a few users I have nominated could be waiting a looooong time. :-( - Kol Tregaskes

kicha1978{@}gmail.com. Thx :) - Krishnamoorthy

Please nominate me? petegilbert@gmail.com :) - Pete Gilbert

soxgal@gmail.com - gracias! - Sally Robinson

mdduru > gmail dot com - thanks in advance. - Durukan Duru

I would love to help! jesi.nieves at gmail dot com - Jesi from iPod

anil(at)anileren.com - Anıl Eren

cjj1019 [at] gmail.com thanks - telefan

itslebigz_at_g mail com thank you!! - Le Big Z

emailforhelp.thomson@gmail.com please please and thank you - Richard Thomson

vince.degeorge AT gmail.com - Thank you! - Vince DeGeorge

philoglot(A)gmail(*)com, pleeease. :) - Rodrigo

emailforhelp.thomson@gmail.com please - Richard Thomson

vahid.archography@gmail.com - Solaris™

gdalziel@gmail.com - Glenn Slaven

need invite:) selcuke@gmail.com - Selcuk Ergin

Late to the party, but would love one demoncatch@gmail.com - Alan Simpson

rfavini[at]gmail[dot]com, thanks in advance :D - Roberto aka postoditacco

chiara.silvestri@gmail.com - candy

saghee1@gmail.com - I need an invite too, tanx - Saghee

oskarnrk@gmail.com - thanks! :D - Oskar NRK

ronin.ben@gmail.com - ronin from iPhone

tosh54 at gmail.com Thanks! - Peter Hoffmann

if that voting system is right I'm very annoyed. I asked for an invite months ago, now all the numpties are all over it I'm not going to get a look in. It's like I've been sat at the front of a shop queue and everyone's just walking right past me into the shop. I am British but I detest both queuing and waiting, so this is pretty tough going - Toby Graham

koukopoulos at gmail.com - Kostantinos Koukopoulos

librarysupporter@gmail.com pretty please? - MLx

Oooo yes please jon.pittock@gmail.com - Jon

Pretty please with sugar on top? OneLuvGurl@gmail.com - April May

i'd like an invite if anyone has one to spar. i'm wardseward(you know the rest). thanks! - Ward Seward

any generous soul: afcontact@gmail.com THANKS!!! - Arnaud Fischer

deniz.gurbuz@gmail.com thanks mate!! - Deniz Gürbüz

cabvolt@gmail.com thanks in advance and toodlepip and all that.. - sean808080

possible248@gmail.com :D - Rishabh Mishra (p248)

I'd love a Google Wave invite. cindy.stanford [@] gmail.com - Cindy Stanford ~ hci from fftogo

Can I play too, please? nzbuu1 [at] gmail.com - James Myatt

alessandro.minin gmail and all the other stuff - scriptabanane

greg.smithsa@gmail.com - thanks ! - Greg Smith

vinod1980 at gmail dot com please send me one. - vinod

please send me inv. : mustafayasinhalici@gmail.com - Mustafa Y. Halici

Not yet. Im still waiting. - Robert from email

same :( - Jay

bobonline at gmail.com - Bob Wilson

Like most other people, yesterday I wasn't aware of that I «needed» a Google Wave invitation this badly...but now I am!!! quackofdawn at gmail dot com - Quackofdawn

Please I want a invite :( jesi.nieves at gmail - Jesi from iPod

Pleaaaase.... Hmgn@sapo.pt thx - HN from iPhone

darius.mdev at gmail.com - Matthew DeVries

jpiercy@gmail.com - johnpiercy

mertheper@gmail.com thanks ! - mert

.... danielsoar at gmail.com - Dnl

Please invite me: marklayton at gmail.com - Mark Layton

marco.bonomo@gmail.com thanks! - Marco Bonomo <radel>

hbemisschurtz at gmail... hope to wave with education in mind .. thanks, Kol;) - Holly Rae, FFer from BuddyFeed

alideemir(@)hotmail.co.uk - Ali Demirci

jason (dot) a (dot) castillo at the gmail - JA Castillo

daryl@learnscapepro.com - Daryl Hunt on FF

cih95.exe (at)gmail (dot) com Please Invite - wincih (NET ÖKÜZÜ)

I would love an invite. barryowens(@)gmail.com - Barry Owens from iPhone

Invite tehKenny, plz parkingstones(@)gmail.com. - teh Dork Knight

jokin.lacalle (at) jakintza.net - Jokin Lacalle

Anyone have an invite to share? whumesatgmaildotcom Thanks. - Will-Pastor of FF

If there's any left: christopher.owen at gmail.com - Christopher Owen

Send one to rutger.blomatgmail.com. Thanks - Rutger Blom

aamanlamba@gmail.com - I had a wave sandbox, but seem to have forgotten my password and they've got poor support, Google-style - Aaman (Clone of FF)

Memememememe!!! hedwyg at gmail dot com - Ladybug Heather

I'd really love one - Wave is the coolest! - MaryB, BrandingBroadOfFF

invite please. zlatko.zivlak@gmail.com - zlatko zivlak

link2future (@) gmail.com - Sahandram

jordanpw at gmail - Patrick Jordan

aloneart@gmail.com - yakoo

peace.apple@gmail.com Thanks! Arigato!! - Shoichi from iPhone

andrea DOT romoli AT gmail DOT com - Andrea Romoli

alain DOT geenrits AT gmail DOT com or alain AT geenrits DOT net (Google apps hosted) - alaingeenrits

farzaam.net@gmail.com - farzaam

rmorrill@gmail.com thanks, although probably too late. - Alternating Reality Books

weaver423@gmail.com - Tony, Paradox of FF

butriga at gmail dot com - Angelo

norba1@gmail.com - TheNorba

logical.extremes{at}gmail{dot}com - LogEx

If you have any left, please can I have one? (tyson.key@gmail.com). Thanks. - Tyson Key

would love an invite - liechti@gmail.com - Martin Liechti

I am vmnayyar@googlewave.com - Mike Nayyar from iPhone

brian.j.krueger@gmail.com - Brian Krueger - LabSpaces

me too? ctaloi@gmail.com - Christopher Aloi

On the off chance - onegear1972[at]gmail[dot]com - 1x29

Please^^ dahiicocuk@gmail.com - dahiçocuk

miiisagh[at]gmail.com - Misagh

jagrap at gmail.com - RAPatton

jordanbrock@gmail.com - Jordan Brock

i don't think there is anymore left but theaob[@]gmail.com - Onur Baykal

Let's try this too: ilmondodieta (at) gmail (.) com - Eta from FreshFeed

this thread is spammers paradise but [shedali at gmail dot com] - Franz Sittampalam

Beau at liening . us - Beau "Slick Foot" Liening from iPhone

mark.d.vandenberg at gmail - MVB (Curmudgeon of FF)

neternity@gmail.com and i promise to send a wave of 100,901 twitter followers to your doorstep each of whom will have averaged 1 tweet in their existence - this might not get me an invite but surely it will get some notice - must have that something special - my google wave invite special sauce ingredient is twitter juice PS Not to be construed as an offer, not valid in any of the 53 US states, do not try this at home, caution: contents are hot. - Ross Button

Please Please Please Please ( mhd.badi@gmail.com ) Please Please - FFTornado

Purdy Please! (expecting [dot] rain) - Jeremy Kunz

please?:) msnoulten@gmail.com - Matt Snoulten

jamar78@gmail.com if its not too late... - jamar78

ueritemarg@gmail.com - Marg Uerite

andrew@leahey.org if you please, will give back to this list - Andrew Leahey

tmcclanahan@gmail.com - Teel McClanahan III

Please, and thanks in advance.. mightyfib@gmail.com... - Jeannette Høvring

please send me one...thanks! http://scr.im/webgirltj - Terry Johnson

jasonw22 at gmail - Jason Wehmhoener

ahrob19[at]gmail.com ... here is to dreaming of a wave!! - Amani

Thanks zsafwan at gmail dot com - zsafwan 

Thanks pengwen [dot] not [dot] penguin [at] gmail [dot] com - Parvez Halim

If there's any left! kahlanmnel at gmail dot com - tinypants - Hagitha of FF

dahiicocuk@gmail.com thanks:)) - dahiçocuk

fsakbas@gmail.com - F.Selçuk AKBAŞ

griffith.pt@gmail.com thank you in advance! - Marco Jardim

prosman@gmail.com - Osman Erdoğan

semihmasat ( at ) gmail.com - Semih Masat ™

rkshinobi@gmail.com Thanks :D - RK

ageor7 at gmail dot com, thanks :) - Alexandros Georgiadis

juanpg at gmail dot com, thanks as well! - Juan Pablo González

citro06 at gmail.com, thanks! - Citronella

batduccio at gmail dot com - thanks - batduccio

braden.douglass [at] gmail [dot] com - Braden Douglass

vjf111@gmail.com - Thanks - Vincent Fry

charbax@gmail.com Thanks!! Wave is revolution! - Charbax

kreg.steppe (at) gmail dot com .. Please? - Kreg Steppe

jianyuan [at] gmail - thank you! - Jyuan

francois dot granger at gmail dot com - François Granger

Anyone have already a wave invite?. I'm a developers anxious to take a look at wave. jmiguel.rodriguez at gmail.com . Thank you very much in advanced! - jmiguel rodriguez

trentono gmail com...thanks in advance, mysterious stranger... - Trent Olson

Russellreno at Gmail.com - Russellreno

stevebryson@gmail.com - Karma will bless you abundantly. Thanks! - eEditor

slowfinger at quidtum.it, please. - Slow

michelle.girl2fall4[at]gmail[dot]com I really didn't want one till everyone started talking about it! - Michelle Marie Miller

ernbstn [invite] gmail.com - Eren BOSTAN

bob.morris@googlewave.com. Have a few invites, also, please add me as contact - Bob Morris (polizeros)

Hey bob morris, can you invite me ? tagyboy at gmail dot com ! - fwed

apleyden (at) gmail.com - Andrew Leyden

myturkey AltGr + Q gmail.com - Varol AKSOY

@Bob Morris please! (above) - Slow

what a long list! steve at sharpers dot com please! - Steve

this list seems hopeless, but I'm firstname.lastname@gmail.com - Laura Norvig

WTB: Google wave invites, will trade for 200 gmail invites :) chatman31@gmail.com - Man Of Chat

manielse[at]gmail[dot]com thanks! - manielse (Mark Nielsen)

Plz. Invite me on Google Wave. Am i on a HIGH? - Nitin Nanivadekar

bizsumpark182@gmail.com; I still don't know what to think about it, but I really want to test it out. - Mathew™ one of a kind

Welcome an invite at jackstone3643@googlemail.com. Thanks. - Jack Stone

Hey! sappho at gmail, thanks in advance to anyone who send it out. - Priscila Zanuzzo

vincentxcode@gmail.com - Vincent X

tamara.weinstein@gmail.com Thanks for the thread Kol! - Tamara

paulwhit@gmail.com - prz? :) - Paul Whitaker

lol at this point i gotta think that by the time an invite makes it this far down the list i may already be at the top of the official invite list but doesn't hurt to try right? marco [dot] nunez @ gmail - thanks! - Marco(aureliusmaximus)

I'm also trying. As Marco said, it doesn't hurt :) iamclem at gmail. thanks! - Clément Simon

Hello, I would love to have a google wave invite too. ilteris@gmail.com thanks! - ilteris

hell, why not: jamiesmind@gmail.com - Jamie Mack

Please!! jrblazespam at gmail dot com - Jeff

Oops! You said gmail address: marybaumcreative (at) gmail. Although I run marybaum@marybaum.com through gmail servers too. - MaryB, BrandingBroadOfFF from email

mc@audiocloud.org (Google Apps account) - Cloud

mrtbzkrt at gmail.com thanks - Aquacultural (Mert)

alan.le at gmail.com - Alan Le

nursel.zdemir@gmail.com - nursel

ibrahimuzun /// gmail.com - İbrahim Uzun [ j ]

robynahawk - you know the rest! ;-b this is me - always late to the party! - Robyn Hawk

Here I am super duper late. sound [dot] of [dot] dust [at] gmail [dot] com. I know the email is a pain. - Faraz Mullick

Looking for wave invite to use in Vegan centered site hook a vegge brother up, jtwilkins *AT* gmail *DOT* com - Josh Wilkins

Invite me please mthwsnd01@gmail.com - Ned Garcia-Mathews

gah, I'm so late but I need one. kmward (at) gmail (dot) com - Kate

I'm at jwilliams [at] live [dot] com but with the length of this thread I'm not holding my breath. Lol - Jason Williams from iPhone

jacopo.paoletti@gmail.com - Jacopo Paoletti

payne.lucius@gmail.com please? C-: - Lucius Payne

gattoo at gmail dot com - Nitin Nanivadekar

brallsplp@gmail.com much appreciated - Brian

amitnangare@gmail.com thanks.... - Amit Nangare

demircancelebi@gmail.com - Demircan Celebi

onur[et]sharebus.com - OnuRC

itsmyjoyride @ gmail . com - Mac Sharp

adolfo at nerdstlaker .com please - adolfo foronda

barijaona ... gmail ... com - Barijaona Ramaholimihaso

mike.hellers at gmail.com thanks. - Mike Hellers

Wow, with all the people here, the chances of getting one is slim. Still, there's no hurt in trying... phoenix713[at]gmail[dot]com - Eduardo Ruiz

wordsforliving@gmail.com - DRAT! I'm last in line! - Jannifer @wordsforliving

niguel[dot]valley@gmail[dot]com - Valley

LOL, One could build a good spam email list from this post!!!! - Brian

stan.thieman at gmail.com - Rodzilla

louisrbourque@gmail.com - an invite would be greatly appreciated, and I'll pass it on! Thanks - Louis Bourque from iPod

can you send me invite for google wave to i.igors (at) gmail (dot) com - Igor Krstev

If any kind soul has an invite to spare, it would be gratefully received and shared on once GOOG get around to inviting me in. :-) The key piece of information belatedly being andy.bold@gmail.com kthxbai - Andy Bold

Looking for one myself at alexscrivener (at) gmail (dot) com - Alex Scrivener

sopmac21379@gmail.com - Ivan Campos

erdem.g ⓐ gmail - Erdëm [virtus] GULTEKIN

lara.ak@gmail.com - poker face

looking for an invite - ritup2@gmail.com - Ritu

axin.on [att] googlemail [dott] com - Achim Brueck

Wow, thanks in advance! ryanpc@gmail.com - Ryan Christensen

I would love an invite： xiatwo[at]gmail.com - Dalek

christopher.hewlett@gmail.com Thanks! - Chris

tom@thomashawk.com - Thomas Hawk

Thank you very much! tkpglobal@gmail.com - Leslie Carothers

wow.... even Thomas Hawk doesn't have an invite yet or atleast seems like it... I feel better now :) - Amit Nangare

I would definitely appreciate an invite, if you have one to spare... bette.cooper@gmail.com - Bette Cooper

etoelle@gmail.com - Please and thank you!!! - Erica Toelle

I'd love one but I can't even get subscribers on here so I anticipate failure. :-( scurran24@gmail.com - Simon Curran

silverhage@gmail.com - Thanks everyone, really looking forward to trying google wave. - Silver Hage

To everyone thanks from PR, waiting for the wave richietj77@gmail.com - Juan R Perez

Erenkumcuoglu@gmail.com thanks in advance. - Eren Kumcuoğlu from iPhone

Please, gwydion[at]oletros[dot]com - Iñaki Rodriguez

/me is tired to see this post at the top of his home :) - fwed

giving out my invites -> http://brudtkuhl.com/want-a-... - andy brudtkuhl

I'd love an invite. I was sort of expecting to get one from Google, as I have been in all of their other betas, but to no avail :( carlton.prest@gmail.com - Carlton Prest

jamesrhull {at} gmail - James Hull

prguy85 at gmail - Manuel Mas

If anyone has a Google Wave invite to share I would like one. ampptt (at) gmail - Robert Anderson

I so want one... drusoicy <at> gmail.com - Andru Edwards

I'd like one, too. ha3rvey at gmail - ha3rvey (free hugs!)

sd11208 at gmail thanks. - Stalyn☂

d.patti (at) email.it thanks! - Davide Patti

navid.htb att gmail Thanks - Navid Ht

mithandir at gmail dot com - Marius Quadflieg

Pretty please. richardlusk at gmail - Richard

like it,allwell at gmail dot com - coze

fatmazehra@gmail.com - FZ

Plesae send an invite! jwatson820@gmail.com - Jonna Watson

damn, the pretty please guy will get one for sure, that steve guy @hotmail.com is likely last on the list - but we all will get one if that scobilizer guy notices that we are all here and asking and so cul cuz we are all on friendfeed - maybe if we twitter too it might help - hello google !!!! - Ross Button

how do we know which ones are sent? I'm just doing my own thread. - Vezquex: God of FF

sculptor [at] gmail.com thank you!) - Habi

teekotkl [at] gmail.com thank's! - Teeko

Yes please.... cherkoff at gmail ;-) - James Cherkoff

joe.azzara@gmail.com - Joe Azzara

all good now - metalerik

tukonx@gmail.com thanks! - Chris Reichow

asif328462@gmail.com ...thanks in advance for an invite... - Asif

koaxil@gmail.com thanks a lot! - коаксильчег

lifeofjim@gmail.com thanks in advance! - James Campbell from iPhone

at gmail dot com I'm suezanne - SuezanneC Baskerville

tateblaze @ gmail dot com - Tate DA FF MVP

christophe.ceccon AT gmail.com thanks a lot! - Christophe Ceccon

who have wave invite ? - Sinan İŞLER

right everbody write self mail but who have ?! :D come on google !!!!!! see the ff :D - Sinan İŞLER

gecici@oceangray.net - send please. - Muhammet K. (oceangray)

joe.dawsons@gmail.com x - Joe Dawson

If someone can send an invite to azuckerscharff@gmail.com I'd be much obliged. I'd really love to check out Wave. - Aram Zucker-Scharff

plzzz libyano@gmail.com - Saeed Ashour

ggelardi at gmail dot com, thanks in advance - giorgio gelardi

navid.htb att gmail :-) - Navid Ht

Thanks Krazy! john dot mcgeehan at gmail dot com - John McGeehan

gobozov@gmail.com Thank you - Kaspar Minosiants

timepilot68 at gmail dot com, thx!! - timepilot

1jsr86@gmail.com .. Thanks! - Yourmagz

Shmoetheho [at] gmail dot com -- much appreciated! Will reciprocate. - Mike Kogelman from iPhone

halilazak at gmail dot com i ll be happy to try wave .. thanks.. - ♪♫ halil ♪♫

If anybody still has one, I'd be happy to have one if you wouldn't mind. zach @ zachflauaus.com - Zach Flauaus

cargun [at] gmail dot com, please wave me... - Cem ARGUN

thattalldude [at] gmail [dot] com - Shawn Kirsch

pbeugnot@gmail.com - Pierre Beugnot from Android

sd11208 at gmail dot come - Stalyn☂

marcojperez@gmail.com - Marco

brnwatkins at gmail dot com - Brian Watkins

vizpix at g mail dot com TIA! - daviza

nixnet [at] gmail [dot] com - Paul Nixon

I have an Audible Credit for someone that wants to shoot me an Invite .. - johnpiercy

Audible Credit for a GW invite jpiercy@gmail.com - johnpiercy

slippy.lane@gmail.com would like an invite ... and some friends, lol - Slippy "Threadsbane" Lane

plz send me too - kanidor [at] gmail [dot] com - thx - Rydhold

proglot at gmail dot com - Vadim Smelyansky

ourhomeplanet@gmail.com - Nick Soden

I would love an invite if anyone has an extra! startoestudio@gmail.com - Martha from BuddyFeed

Would like one if there's one to spare. :) rowlikeagirl [@] gmail.com. - rowlikeagirl

billgiltner at gmail.com - bill giltner

kr.doyle@gmail.com - Many Thanks! - Kevin Doyle

blogbloke@gmail.com Please send the Blog Bloke an invite. Thanks muchly! - BLOGBloke

I would love one sweyn3 [at] gmail [dot] com - Sweyn Venderbush

kidlay16 [at] gmail [dot] com thank - Larry T. Ruiz

jlarche [at] who else? [dot] com. Thanks!!! - Jeff Larche

jason.charnov@gmail.com THX!!! - Jason

scottph at gmail.com - Scott Phillips

This is probably futile, but it can't hurt: SphereCat1@gmail.com. I'll love you forever! Or at least for a week. Whatever. - Billy Doyle

boqing@gmail.com |Thx! - shallop

coffeenated@gmail.com - DO ANYBODY NO MONIQUE

rivahratt@gmail.com - Stephen

rpa4email@gmail.com - Robert Couture

meemmtype at gmail dot com Thank you! - Jonathan Kong

paul.mccord [@] gmail dot com - Paul L. McCord Jr.

I would also like an invite if anyone has one -> aaron915 at gmail.com - Aaron Berman

I'll take one if you can give it...desktopsbyduck@gmail.com - RICHARD E. MOORE

id love an invite - allen074 - at - gmail.com - thank you - Allen Stern

john.seals@gmail.com - John Seals

one for feeling.zen@gmail.com please! - Jason

I've been too busy to get on FF the last few days....figures something important happening and I missed it! I knew about Google Wave but didn't know there would be a thread to post a request. In any case, better late than never, I'd love an invite at madeliene2007 at gmail.com. :) - Bonnie Foster

I've been on Twitter all day trying to get one, I'd love it if my day can end by me finally getting an invitation :) I'll be sure to send some invites to other people in this thread! andryou@gmail.com - andryou

re.renus@gmail.com somebody please send me a invitation... ^_^ : ) - ‎‎Emad

johnsr4@gmail.com PLEASE! - John Rath

wimmulder@gmail.com. Am really excited to try this out for a collaborative research project I'm working on. Hoping someone has an invite to spare! - Wim Mulder

giuliocc@gmail.com . Keen to see if we can shake M$'s cage about messaging and collaboration. - Giulio Campobassi

Would love an invite - jonathonc at gmail.com - Jonathon

cygnion at gmail.com woah mate. - hellonm

ericsizemore at geeeemaill - thank you! - Eric Sizemore

john.kitchen@ Thanks in anticipation!! - John Kitchen

Ryan.Singer@gmail.com Thanks! - Ryan Singer

ebruerdem@gmail.com please invite me:) - Ebru ERDEM

Adding to the list -- john.spyers at gmail.com - John Spyers

mishef [@] gmail dot com -- Thanks! - techWALL

Would realy like to get an invite: mithandir at gmail.com - Marius Quadflieg

legrand at gmail.com — Thanks! - Mathieu

sajidahinakhan at gmail - Sajida H Khan

fatihkurtoglu@gmail.com - M Fatih Kurtoglu

wiivanil (at) gmail.com - Ivan Carlesso

thailunn (at) gmail.com thanx ! - Taylan Kılıç

VitaArdiyana (at) gmail (dot) com, Thanks before Kol. I will delete my comment when i have my google wave account. - Vimala Vita

Just digging into the comments now but let me begin by saying that you did an incredible job with this thread Kol, 473 (474 after I post) comments! - Nicholas Kreidberg

Google Wave : Could anyone invite me ? : jean.charles.blondeau[at]gmail.com Thanks - Jean-Charles

zybler <AT> gmail.com - Hao Wooi Lim

Would appreciate an invite. joe@joeperrin.com (Thanks!) - Joe Perrin

selyay@gmail.com thanx - olmayanaergi

can anyone please invite me? I'd love to have a play with wave! ian@ianrathbone.com - Ian Rathbone

Would LOVE an invite. bizservicesbroker at gmail dot com - Wazza T

gladstone at gmail.com - Gladstone

takuhito.sotome (at) gmail.com - takuhito from iPhone

killahkrew (at) gmail (dot) com - Sebastian

cornelius<DOT>toole<AT>gmail<DOT>com - Cornelius Toole

Please pretty please....jazzjeppe AT gmail.com - "Jazzperous" Isaksson

Please... luthiano [at] gmail [dot] com - Luthiano Vasconcelos

nico[dot]morgan[at]gmail.com - many thanks! - Nico

imran3000(at)gmail.com......thanks - imran

An invite would be much appreciated: daveholmesprojects (at) gmail.com Thanks. - David Holmes

Guys, try this: http://googlewaveinvites.com/ - Kol Tregaskes

System Messages Invite Status: 17559 invite requests in the system. 7 invites confirmed as received by requester. 199 invites claimed as sent from giver. - oliv21

andyzweb@gmail.com - Andrew Euell

laetSgo{at}gmail{dot}com... can't wait !!! have to :-( - laetSgo

Me me me ... sam@lavacoms.com - Sam Stone

lhasa(dot)jack(at)gmail(dot)com !! Thanks!! - Jack Lhasa

sd11208 at gmail dot come - Stalyn☂

mifajunior@hotmail.com - Michel from iPhone

romanzolotarev@gmail.com - Roman Zolotarev

mehrdad_network@hotmail.com :( thanks - Mehrdad Nayeb

ozcelik@gmail.com - gökhan özçelik

khawro@gmail.com - Konrad

jazzjeppeATgmail.com - "Jazzperous" Isaksson

reza.ahmadi.co[AT]gmail.com - سینه سرخ

hurstel[AT]gmail.com - hurstel

srikyada at gmail dot com - Srikanth

How does anyone know if someone has already been invited? You could go back and edit your comment when you receive an invitation, but since that takes days, it could be ages before you know. - marziah

siavash [dot] tehrani [at] Gmail.com ... thanks - خان دایی سیا

evansims at gmail dot com. Thanks! - Evan Sims

@marziah If you receive a second invite you could fwd the invite link to another person here :) - Bicentennial (Franc)

psiketto AT gmail DOT com. thanks. ;) - Andrea | pSiko

ali.aliakbary@ (Gmail.com) tnx - Conformist بـی نظرگـاه ™

ayoubi [at] gmail [.dot.] com - Soroush Ayoubi

msnoulten@gmail.com please?:) - Matt Snoulten

alex.kh58@gmail.com if I get an invitation I'll... - Amin

karmacomincAT gmail dot com Thanks !! - Karma Martell

Hello I would like a google wave invite. my email is philliptombs@gmail.com - ZOD

much appreciate a kind invite: foistudy@gmail.com - reedman

doauto [@] gmail.com - neswell

MR.foolish @ gmail.com PLEASE - Joe

ace0cc AT gmail.com <3 - Colby

got an invite today, so I deleted my comment above. Thks anyway. - François Dongier

I'd really appreciate an invite. 4 phlebas at google mail dot com - Sung W. Lim

praveenvasudevis at gmail dot com. thanks! - Praveen Vasudev

I've had three nominations already and still no invite :( What's up with that Google? :( - RK

zerdale @ gmail.com - Ayhan Kocak

eric77lv@gmail.com - Eric M.

vdoria92@gmail.com - Vincent D'Oria

I've not even had a nomination, RK. At google dot com I'm suezanne , in the event anyone wants to make a nomination. I've asked before on friendfeed. It's kind of humiliating to beg. - SuezanneC Baskerville

i have decided that if i do indeed get an invite, i will decline, forward my gmail account to windows live and put ie back as my default browser and i will bing it - Ross Button

@Ross: why punish yourself for something you didn't do? :) - François Dongier

I just want some google love; just like the rest of us do; but n,o they wave at us as they have their private, invite only party; thumb to nose, fingers a waving - that's the google wave; we need a tshirt - Ross Button

al86shaw@gmail.com :) Not expecting anything, but thanks anyway! - Giraffes Up In The AIr

kosmoh@gmail.com - Константин

vixted at gmail.com Thank you. - victed from iPhone

stefan.grosz at gmail.com thanks very much. - Stefan Grosz

mattb4rd@gmail.com - Mattb4rd

time2die4u@gmail.com - thanks a lot - time2die

stefigno @ gmail . com -thanks. - Stefigno

fabiocurzi @ gmail . com - Fabio Curzi

silaoglu@gmail.com - Sarper Sılaoğlu

hossini.h@gmail.com - حسن حسینی

salah201085@gmail.com can i have an invitation plz - salah

refugee_an@Hotmail.com Thanks!!! - China Internet Rumors

Send to me plz ,,, mxina.com {a} gmail {dot} com - Mohammad Sharifi

Has anyone received their invite? I haven't yet. - Rodrigo from email

I'd love an invite to Google Wave pls. non-geeky bf got one before me! that's just not cricket.. hehe :) icetigerza (at) gmail - Kim

Hello, if there's any invite left, you'll make me more than happy ;-) matthieu.beauval [at] gmail [dot] com, thank you ! - matthieu beauval

If there are still invites left daryl@learnscape.com.au - Daryl Hunt on FF

Of all the people posting here the chances of me getting an invite are slim but I'm still willing to try. If someone wants to shoot an invite over to jcallahan126@gmail.com I'd REALLY appreciate it. - John from iPhone

khawro at gmail.com - Konrad

Aww Did I miss the Wave of invites? Come on Kol... Hook me up! :) - Walt Ruppar

It looks like it, although you might be able to use the hyperlink on the front of the Wave homepage to request an invitation, if it's still available. - Tyson Key

Google Wave Anybody? I needz one plz... walt {dot} ruppar {at} gmail [dot] com - Walt Ruppar from iPhone

dsenior at the gmail - Dave Senior

I'll give this a try: j.linkola at gmail - anyone have invites left? - Jussi Linkola

Anyone can provide a Google Wave invite? bmtrocks@gmail.com - Brian

Hi guys I realy Waiting impatiently, but still have no invite... can anybody sent me invite please please simplisityzehra@gmail.com thanks in advance - Zehra

firatdemirel at gmail.com just needs an invite for Gwave. Thanks. - Fırat DEMİREL

Does anyone have an invite to share? Can you send it to v9y.rec at gmail.com please? Thanks. - Vinay | विनय

Can somebody send an ivitation to terror@gmail.com . Thanks in advance. - Yiğit

Please send an invitation to me at trivedi.knz@gmail.com. I got tired waiting. - Kandarp Trivedi

I'll be glad to invite others on this thread once I get mine. Thanks in advance.. Keep the thread alive. - Kandarp Trivedi

rodgerdb@gmail.com ha oh man am I late to this thread =( Here's to hoping! - Rodger Ballard

really need one, would be so grateful thacker90184@gmail.com - brandon

I want Google Wave invite too, please sent it to: ric4p5 {at} gmail [dot] com Thanks - jose manuel

If anyone has invites, could I have one please? tekked - gmail.com - TechKid

Thanks in advance mgkbull(at)gmail.com - Bull

In case there is still someone with spare invitations: piotr.byzia at gmail.com - Piotr Byzia

teeeya@gmail.com - Anyone with a sparee invite and feeling generous! (thank you thank you thank you in advance!!!) :D - Simply Teeeya

Anyone with a spare would be my hero! Someone bought out my buddy who was going to give me one. robert@idealfusion.com - Robert Coombs

antonyat AT gmail DOT com If anyone sends me an invite, I thank you greatly - if I receive an invite, I'll make sure to return to this thread :). - Antony Jepson

Heh :d Majid.aligol@live.com Heh :D - majid

Please send invitation to me: aminsabeti@ Gmail. Com - Amin Sabeti from iPhone

If anyone has a spare invite - please send me one: crystaleagle@gmail.com -- many thxs :) - Frank Da Silva

Hooman.Moeen [at] Gmail [dot] com - هومن معین

omega_fire2004 [ at] yahoo [dot ] com - alirz

ragcaoili {at] gmail [dot} com - Robert Agcaoili

I have Google Wave invites available anyone interested let me know - Kim Landwehr

kingnightstar@gmail.com plz send me google Wave invites - MΞĦЯDДD

Id like an invite - Robert Agcaoili from email

Still waiting for an invite. :-( - MicahBear78

amir60@gmail.com - amir farahani

COULD SOMEONE SEND ME AN INVITATION: EMAIL: khoshzaban.s@gmail.com - benedict

I am really desprate for this!!!! email: khoshzaban.s@gmail.com - benedict

Could you invite me to wave please? I will invite anyone you want after i get invited! khoshzaban.s@gmail.com - benedict

vickywoozy@gmail.com Thanks a lot~ - vickywoo

hozhabr.s@gmail.com - Hozhabr

gabelerner@gmail.com thanks! - gabegabe

Can I Get one keroque@gmail.com Thank You !! - Prasad Panthanghi

crying.loser@gmail.com - random person

karmacomincATgmailDOTcom Muchas Gracias - Karma Martell

simoneau.louis@gmail.com Much thanks if anyone has any! - Louis Simoneau

seaverq@gmail.com - Mr.Seaver

Still need an invite, please. msnoulten@gmail.com - Matt Snoulten

rl_chap@hotmail.com ... feel so left out without wave! - Richard Lishingman

maxphoto85 [at] gmail [dot] com, thanks. - Max Batsyn

leonid.vladimir [@] g m a i l . c o m Thanks a lot - Leonid Vladimir

jdblaich[@]gmail dot com -- much appreciated. - jimbo99

Got one from Trish a couple days ago. Now, looking for folks to wave with: marybaumcreative (at) googlewave (dotcom). - MaryB, BrandingBroadOfFF

scott.j.emerson[at]gmail[dot]com Thanks - Scott Emerson

If you have any more invites, I would love one. - Wayne Ramlogan

milad2h[@]hotmail[dot]com thanks - Milad

Kamilah Gill

Alex Scoble, if you get a minute, please kindly inform your brother that I'm not some nitwit newbie that needs to be told to hide things that annoy me. I'm seriously pissed the fuck off now. Who does he think he is?? EDIT: Okay, a resolution has been reached. I'm alright for now.

October 20 - Comment - Like - Share

MASTER OF THE OBVIOUS, Bryan R. Adams, Liz and 24 other people liked this

Wow! I just looked at that. He got a bit testy with you. - Katy S

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I'm posting a copy. I may not be some techie genius, but I wasn't born yesterday, and I've been online since 1995. I can't have been on computers much longer than that because I'm not as old as he is. I feel like he's just telling me to sit down and shut up in effect. He wouldn't answer my legitimate question: what does he hope to accomplish by telling everyone over and over that FF is about to die? He just told me don't shoot the messenger. - Kamilah Gill

While I agree with you, Kamilah, asking Alex to talk to Robert probably won't help. Edit: Er, I think you made your point yourself, in your later comments - WorldofHiglet

Preparing people for the the day when FF dies is probably his goal. I don't think he's playing chicken little with this idea, unfortunately. The sad fact is, relatively small startups like friendfeed get acquired then shut down a year or two later by the acquiring company. There is always outrage from the userbase (nobody told us!) & I think Robert may be trying to get someone to say something for the users. Just my .02. - EricaJoy

Alright, fine, but that's not what he said. He seemed to just brush me off. I know he's got thousands of followers, he's some kind of web celebrity, whatever, I don't care. I just was commenting on how it looked to me. - Kamilah Gill

I'm here. You are being unfair to me. I'm starting to expect that from this community and that's not a good thing. You aren't willing to face the facts that http://siteanalytics.compete.com/friendf... is showing you. This isn't my doing. I'm just asking what you are going to do about that line? - Robert Scoble

And Kamilah who do you think you are? - Robert Scoble

REAL TIME SEARCH! - Dragon Goldmaple

Maybe I'm being a typical middle child peacemaker here, but I think everyone's been a bit touchy the past few days. I want to be able to call a time-out and then have everyone gather around a table and mediate. - Katy S

I wish FF would just die so that I would stop having to read about it. And yes, I've been hiding it all - I just started blocking users who won't stfu about it. - Dragon Goldmaple

I'm someone who knows how to use Friendfeed, Robert, and doesn't need to be told how to use it. I've been on the Web since 1995, I've used computers since the mid 80s. (I'm only 30, so I can't go back any further than that.) I'm not anyone large online, but you've insulted my intelligence, and I really don't appreciate it. - Kamilah Gill

Andrea - I've hidden a lot of it, too. A lot of people seem to be talking past each other, and that's never productive. - Katy S

He thinks he's an expert, and he hates it when people question his authoriteh. Seriously K - do NOT get all riled up over that bag o' wind. - cecily

Cecily: I see what this community has become. Look in the mirror. - Robert Scoble

*mourns the decline of civil discourse* - Katy S

Cecily, I watched this go on for days before bothering to respond to any of it. I didn't let it rile me until tonight. Robert, you let it get to you, so you're not above it, either. I don't like for things to degenerate into ad hominem attacks, either. Just rewind a little bit and think back to how you responded to me earlier? That was insulting. - Kamilah Gill

Oh, I feel you, K. I've gone a couple of rounds with him too. He has done this to people online before- sort of bullies people by insinuating that because they're not using the service the way he thinks it should be used, that somehow they're doing it wrong. Then when you call him on it, he tries to backpedal. I'm glad you stood up to him. *fist bump* - cecily

Kamilah: I have looked back at it. You want someone to cheer for your team and you get mad when someone isn't. I said to "hide" because it obviously was riling you up too much. And Cecily: got it. You both like to cheer when someone beats up your enemy. Got it. That says VOLUMES about the kinds of people you are. I'm out of here. You deserve each other. - Robert Scoble

OK, since I'm the only qualified mediator here I'm willing to offer my services at a reasonable rate. Both of you kids get into your respective corners, take 10 deep breaths and wait for my signal. - BLOGBloke

I don't know where he got that I like to cheer when someone beats up my enemy? Huh? Whatever. You still don't know me. I'm one of thousands of blips to you. I don't even know how he had the time to come down and bother with someone insignificant like me. - Kamilah Gill

K - I think he was referring to Cecily with the cheering comment, but I don't know if it matters at this point in time. -- oops! correction, he was referring to both of you. Regardless, I don't really get that either. - Katy S

I've done 31,466 comments here (about 3x more than you have, by the way) talking with people like you over tens of thousands of hours. It's clear you have no idea about who I am or what I do and are just still in name calling mode. Sigh. - Robert Scoble

I know. I looked back at the original source of this breakdown, and I see that his post didn't mean what I thought it meant, after you talked to him and got it clarified. People "like me"? Who are these people like me? - Kamilah Gill

And FWIW, I blocked him a long time ago, so I don't know (nor do I care) what he says about me. Friendfeed is nicer without his bloviating. - cecily

I'm all about the clarification. Working through the words is what I do. - Katy S

I like his brother, though. But I know, they're two separate people. Even if they'd happened to be twins. - Kamilah Gill

Yeah, Alex is all right in my book. Not that I want to turn this into sibling rivalry. - cecily

I'm losing some people over this, I guess. Scoble fans? That's alright, I can take it. I had to say something. - Kamilah Gill

Oh. One of those losses was Robert himself. That's just pathetic. I always wondered why he was subscribed to me in the first place. I never did subscribe back. Not only did he unsubscribe, he blocked me? Am I that bad? Kamilah=Troll?? =/ - Kamilah Gill

no loss, I would take 50 Kamilah's before 1 RS. - Dragon Goldmaple

Aw, thanks Andrea <3 - Kamilah Gill

I didn't see any trollish behavior from you, and as tired and cranky as I'm getting, I'd be quick to say something if I did. I suspect that he had no idea that he would get this kind of reaction and now he's having trouble dealing with it. - Katy S

Hm. In the end, I'm slightly saddened that this happened. He annoyed me, but I never wanted to make him into an enemy. I even did a picture of his new son after he was born. I guess Robert never saw it and might never see it. Oh, well. - Kamilah Gill

You have to put his name in a post, I am 100% positive he has an alert set up or he just searches his name 1500 times a day, because he will comment like 3 minutes after I post something with his name. - Dragon Goldmaple

He has a vanity search set up. If you use his name, he comes. It's kinda like the bat signal. - Katy S

Interestingly, on this post, I said Scoble, but I didn't say Robert. - Kamilah Gill

I wouldn't worry about it. When he first subbed to my feed, I almost automatically un-subbed him b/c I saw how many people he was subbed to and determined he was one of what I like to refer to as "the collectors." You know, those who sub to everyone in sight. I don't like to be part of a collection. Anyway, I should have gone to bed a couple of hours ago. I'll probably be totally cranky tomorrow, which means there's a chance I'll be verbally aggressive. Not one of my finer traits. - Katy S

I'm getting to bed soon, too. This whole little mess kept me up way too late. - Kamilah Gill

Robert Scoble has always come off as a petulant little D-Bag when people question his little turd nuggets of wisdom. If this was on twitter he would have unleashed his minions upon you. - Nemo

Heh, Robert and I aren't twins...He's 6.5 years older than me. - Alex Scoble

Kamilah, Robert is going through an emotional decision right now and is touchy. He'll get over it and apologize tomorrow for anything bad he said. Robert, Kamilah is a great contributor to the FriendFeed community. She gets an undue amount of patronizing at work, so you're pressing a hot button when you say something that sounds patronizing. You two could probably just block each other and then unblock after a day or two, and you'll probably get along. - Bruce Lewis

Hey Alex, isn't it "fun" being a younger sibling. - Katy S

Thanks, Bruce. Is the emotional decision related to FF, or is about something more personal? Either way, I missed him saying something about it going on. If I'd known something was going on, I might have pulled my punches. I'm not usually just mean for the heck of it. - Kamilah Gill

Bruce's counsel is apropos here I believe. - Micah Wittman

Mr. Fastcompany better look after his own business http://siteanalytics.compete.com/fastcom... - A.T.

Robert who? Websites aren't for "Tech Superstars" only. REAL PEOPLE use them. - Gunny Wallen

Exactly, Who are these guys anyway ? they're not even in my contact list... The Web is not their possession. Frankly, get rid of them, you do not need their advice. - Thierry Lhôte

FF is an emotional thing for him given how much he's invested in it. He chose a really poor way to communicate that when he compared his likes/comments/etc to yours. - Bruce Lewis from fftogo

I'm curious Bruce - and I really, really don't mean this in a negative way - but why are you interested in spinning (or explaining) Robert's behaviour here? - cecily

Why Robert keeps wanting to quantify someone's worth based on the amount for comments, followers, etc someone has, confuses me. I like Robert, but he isn't much fun these days. - Rodfather

Huh? - Shevonne

Cecily, I like Robert and I like Kamilah. It will be really awkward if they're enemies. Unfortunately one of the things I like about Robert is that he doesn't think too much before commenting. That can be good, but can also cause problems like this one. - Bruce Lewis from fftogo

Enemy is a strong word. I haven't blocked Robert yet. - Kamilah Gill from email

Time for a group hug! - Herb Hernandez from iPhone

Robert doesn't work for Fast Company, btw, AT and hasn't for months. - Alex Scoble

I don't think a block makes someone your enemy. It just means you don't want to see them right now. - Bruce Lewis

Wow, what a complete jerk. - Liz

Alright, I guess this has a happy ending. R. Scoble seems to have forgiven this ugly incident and has subscribed to me again. I have to give the man some credit for that. That inspires me to go forgive and resubscribe to at least one other person who offended me once on here, but has otherwise been cool. - Kamilah Gill

Duncan Riley

For the love of God Paul Buchheit, be a man and put FriendFeed out of its misery - http://www.inquisitr.com/43743...

October 20 from The Inquisitr - Comment - Like - Share

Lora Lufark, milus, Mike Nencetti and 17 other people liked this

Article FAIL. - Louis Gray

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Liked for Louis Gray's comment :) - Eric Florenzano

Comment WIN! - Jesse Stay

Inquisitr, they are too tabloid - Kirill Bolgarov

Completely agree that this is Article FAIL Louis! - Travis Koger

On another point, why is Duncan still posting his articles to FF if he thinks it should be put out of its misery? I mean it is posted by his blog link, but still. - Travis Koger

Traffic. - Cristo

BURN IT WITH FIRE - Johnny Worthington

LOL Noone read the story, he was calling for a time when it would be no more, he feels we as users should know when the end will be, nut running around with our heads cut off. - Jimminy

You mean you're suppose to READ Inquisitr stories? I thought it was just the headlines :P - Johnny Worthington from iPhone

Jimminy, I read the story. - Louis Gray

TL;DR your comment Louis. :D - Jimminy

Louis, what was fail about it, I'd like to at least know when the service ends, prior to it ending. - Jimminy

The article suggests that the only way out is to pick a date it closes. - Louis Gray

Ah well that is true, I'm trying to archive the service now, but I don't think that's going to get anywhere, far too many legal restrictions. So it all depends on how the deal was structured and if any of the team are still in control of the service. *sigh* - Jimminy

I guess it's time to rejuvenate, er .. I mean transform the old Facebook account. - BLOGBloke

I thought it was Zuckerberg who gets to shoot the old dog. Buchheit & co. sold it to him. Remember? - Dennis Jernberg

Dennis, no one knows who is actually in charge of the decision, and Buchheit can let us know prior. They won't have an abrupt shutdown, I'd assume. - Jimminy

But I don't think that if they do shut it down (and for all we know they likely will), it'll be anytime soon. And of course it won't be abrupt; Yahoo's shutdowns of 360 and Geocities weren't. If FB shut down FF abruptly, they'd have to face a whole lot of angry FriendFeeders. - Dennis Jernberg

I don't understand all this "friendfeed is over, pick a date" stuff. friendfeed has hit pause on the evolution of features, but it was always the community that brought me here. The world will eventually move on to the point that it will no longer make sense to have a separate site here, but that will likely be a popularity vote made by us (and measured in traffic), not some arbitrary... more... - Clare Dibble

Clare, I don't mind hitting pause on new features. I think EVERYBODY expected that, to some extent. But when I look at http://ff.im/74ECA where current advertised functionality has been broken for almost two months and they haven't yet taken the time to fix it, THAT (to me) says volumes. This place has been given up for dead and nobody's bothered to notify the users. (Also, FF was... more... - Scott of Two Countries

Comment WIN, Louis. - Roberto Bonini

Death "Throws"? Dictionary FAIL - Iain Baker

UGH. - Joe Silence is not dead

AGREED, Iain. - Joe Silence is not dead

Duncan wants it killed, and has blocked the most important members of the community.....why does he even spout an opinion about the service? He wants it killed and just used it to piss on when it thriving.... - Matthew DeVries

I don't see where this idea of us being given fair notice of the shutdown comes from. Kevin Rose gave Pownce users what, an hour to get their shit and get out? - Matthew DeVries

Perhaps all of Facebook will be transitioned to FriendFeed. If so, how will I access Farm Town? :) I commented more fully at the post itself, after seeing a link to the post on Rahsheen's feed. And no, you're not seeing this level of conversation in Google Reader's social features, and if you are, you can't find the comments. Google Reader's a good sharing mechanism (I'm with Louis on that one), but it's socially awkward. - John E. Bredehoft

Google reader's Comments engine and sharing engine are fracking perfect, but where it fails is in the conversation searches, and the "What/who the fuck was I talking about/to" and the "what are my friends talking about" function. - Matthew DeVries

+1 Iain - Daniel J. Pritchett

I will miss the FF search when it's gone. It's been an extension of my memory for a good year now. Oh well, I'll always have GMail... right? - Daniel J. Pritchett

Zee. to Zee.'s feed, TheNextWeb Forum, building43, Appetite

“Friendfeed is not dead. It’s transforming” says Friendfeed Co-Founder - http://thenextweb.com/2009...

October 19 from Bookmarklet - Comment - Like - Share

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ORLY? O_o - Derrick

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Well, THAT was quick - teh Dork Knight

#facebook is moving it to the coffin, that's how it's transforming mate :( - Prolific Programmer from IM

*stops in tracks* - Micah Wittman

http://friendfeed.com/paul... - J. Abdul-Qahhar

So what do you think? I bet we log in here one night and get taken right to facebook.. - J. Abdul-Qahhar

Zee, you are on the ball - thanks for the rapid blog posting. - Micah Wittman

I know more about the "Last Days" and heaven than I know about what's going to happen to FriendFeed as we have come to know it than was given in Paul's rather cryptic answer. And while that may not be a fair comparison (God actually gave details and signs), there is something definitely not forthcoming about his response. You usually withhold details that affect another party and to... more... - Melanie Reed

Re: "transforming" into something beautiful. Isn't that the same thing Buffalo Bill said in Silence of the Lambs? - BLOGBloke

great news. - Melrose Stamp

It puts the lotion on the website or it gets the Zuckerberg - Jordan Brock from iPhone

i just can't wait for the metamorphosis - Chris Heath

I don't like this "butterfly" thing. - Guilherme da Rosa

Except that's not what he said. The quotation marks in the title are misleading. - Ken Sheppardson

Don't you hurt my FFdog! - Morgan Haley

Nice post Zee... you've nicely captured my sentiments on FF - Susan Beebe

Ken: good point, i almost stopped to mention it after my comment about metamorphosis since it doesn't really make a lot of sense if paul says ff is transforming (which he didn't he said it's in chrysalis - which means it will be transforming, but not yet) - Chris Heath

Except he didn't say FF is in chrysalis either, Chris. He could be talking about Facebook. - Ken Sheppardson

But honestly, I haven't seen this much interpretation, re-interpretation, reading between the lines, hashing and rehashing and "what he probably/really meant was..." since the last time Alan Greenspan testified before congress. - Ken Sheppardson

What's Greenspan's stand on FF. I must know. Now. - Micah Wittman

ken: http://friendfeed.com/paul... "Consider this the chrysalis stage" - Chris Heath

Ken: maybe he's talking about facebook there, but i thought he was responding to the accusations that friendfeed is dead, not 'why hasn't facebook added any cool features recently?' - Chris Heath

More like Facebook is changing. ;-) - Kol Tregaskes

Duncan Riley

Bosses Who Bully Likely Feel Incompetent - http://www.inquisitr.com/43470...

October 19 from The Inquisitr - Comment - Like - Share

I've always suspected it was an inferiority complex .. and rightly so in most cases. - BLOGBloke

Robert Scoble

The most damning thing is that no one from the FriendFeed team or Facebook has joined the community here that is talking about it to tell us what's happening in the future. That, more than anything I've written or said communicates the future of FriendFeed.

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I keep hoping someone will tell me I'm wrong and will post a slide deck about the future of FriendFeed. But the lack of information is confirming what I'm hearing from my sources. - Robert Scoble

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So true - nail in the coffin! :(... - Susan Beebe from BuddyFeed

It's Sunday. - Anika

Anika: geeks in both companies are online and working on a Sunday and last night is NOT the first time I've been talking about the lack of direction here. Also, over the last week lots of blogs have been posting about the traffic hit that FriendFeed has already seen. - Robert Scoble

If there really was a team working on FriendFeed you BET they would contact us on a Sunday. They used to in this old days. - Robert Scoble

Remember, Facebook has a PR team of more than 10 people. You think they aren't watching what people are saying about Facebook nearly 24/7? Not in my experience. They are the most engaged PR team in a new company I know of. - Robert Scoble

The reality is that this is still a very useful service, and people stay because of the functionality and the community. There is no other service out there that accomplishes what this one does. There is still nowhere else to go. - LogEx

LogEx: that's true, but it's also true that most people will go places where there's a clear future. Unless it's just to post non-consequential things. Me? This is both my fun time (which is why I'm still here) as well as my business (I won't be betting any of my business decisions on doing stuff here because of this lack of direction which tells me that no one is really working on FriendFeed actively anymore). - Robert Scoble

Robert, I understand the perhaps reasonable conclusions you're reaching, but breaking the silence could send too much signal to FB's competition when they'd rather send more silence which ends up, really, being noise. - Micah Wittman

FriendFeed is like an old dying dog left out in the pasture alone; abandoned by its Master to die in the silence. - Susan Beebe from BuddyFeed

Most social network content is ephemeral. If people really want their stuff to have a clear future, they should own and host it on their own domains. - LogEx

Robert, so maybe you're not giving their PR _enough_ credit. It's speculation on my part, granted. - Micah Wittman

Micah: sorry, that dog don't run. Healthy companies signal future directions, even under NDA. It would be pretty easy to meet with a few members of the community, NDA them, and tell them what's going on. If Louis Gray came on here and told me he's under NDA and that I'm wrong then I'd feel much better. The truth is I've talked with people inside Facebook and I know what the former FriendFeed team is working on. Hint: it isn't FriendFeed. - Robert Scoble

Logex - yup! - Susan Beebe from BuddyFeed

I still wish they'd make it open source or something so that people could continue to develop on it. :S - Her Lindsay-ness

Susan, I don't think "human master - canine pooch" analogy really applies to Friendfeed team - community that's formed. - Micah Wittman

By the way, Facebook meets with bloggers/journalists all the time to give us secret hints at what's coming. I've been to Facebook several times this year for just that. Facebook has no serious competition, by the way, so they don't make PR decisions based on what Twitter is doing. - Robert Scoble

I guess I'm not most people then. If I find something that works, I prefer to stay put as long as it meets my needs. New things are nice, but I don't have time to constantly try out new services to see if they are better that what I am presently using. (That's why I follow people like Robert ;-)) The new shiny service would have to be significantly better than what I presenlty use to make me want to switch. - Jeff P. Henderson

Do you have any services that offer the same functionality, are widely available, and actually have a future, Robert? How about offering a solution for once instead of just bitching? - LANjackal

Robert. Can you reveal the information you have from your sources. Discussions where one person has information they won't reveal is frankly frustrating. If you have some inside knowledge yet continue to make statements like this and FriendFeed is dead? then it really is frustrating to the community. - Johnny Worthington from iPhone

If your business is posting to social media, and you think your content is "consequential" based on how long it will be around on the web ... I think you've misunderstood the current moment in social media. - Joel Bennett

There's much less interaction than there used to be - but I still have faith in the users. This (was) is a vibrant and interesting place to be - and that's testament not only to the people that made the site, but also to the people who breathed life into it. I'll be following friendfeed still, but i'll also be following the friendfeeders i've met here. I'm not sure where the future is, but it'll be something to do with the people here. I'm sure of that. - Iain Baker

+1 - LANjackal from IM

Micah - lack of innovation and development on FF platform will cause obsolesence soon. Social web apps must innovate or die. When Facebook acquired FF, we all knew that FF would wind down due to this. Communities will migrate to current platforms that meet their needs. I am sensing a large contingent of the FF community is about to leave FF, myself included. - Susan Beebe from BuddyFeed

Re Tina: IIRC she got laid off and is prolly busy trying to find new employment - LANjackal from IM

@Susan: "social web apps must innovate or die" really? tell that to Twitter, lol - LANjackal from IM

Robert, did Wolfram-Alpha indicate their future direction being a $50 iphone app? All I'm saying is Facebook's strategy may include support to FF that's not in a time-frame worth pushing through PR yet. - Micah Wittman

My favorite thing about this whole "Facebook is dead, move on" campaign is that these guys are basically just trying to shoe you BACK to the service they talked most of you OFF of in the first place: Twitter. I'm still looking for their motivation. - Joel Bennett

Only one thing to say. Jaiku - Moved to Facebook

FB is dead? Anyone who's saying that in view of their soaring stats and the roaring success that FB Connect has been needs their head examined - LANjackal from IM

The way I see it, Robert, your constant bitching and declaring friendfeed dead is what is killing the community. While the software it runs on may be dead, the community is not. I have to separate it and explain it to you, because you don't seem to understand the difference and how being a vocal part of this community affects it. The more you put it down, the more people won't come here... more... - April Russo (app103)

^ My thoughts exactly. http://friendfeed.com/friendf... - LANjackal from IM

Susan, social web apps need utility/affection by a set of users. If cutting/bleeding edge aficionados is the particular user set in question, then what you said generally holds true. But it's not the general case unless a true replacement (in this case for FF) is available. - Micah Wittman

I don't think he's killing the community, he's just killing the community's participation with him. - Alex Scoble

Robert. Can you advise the information you have from your sources? - Johnny Worthington

I am stuck in the middle on this one... - Allen Stern

Fair point, Alex. I think this issue needs the two Scobles to put their heads together and clear the air. - Micah Wittman

http://ff.im/6HqPf - Chris Lasher

Naw...I like friendfeed. I'm not going anywhere as long as my friends are here. - Alex Scoble

Me neither :) - LANjackal from IM

Amen, Alex. - Jack (a.k.a. Jeber)

Is Friendfeed dying ( if it is) because of it being purchase by Facebook, or by members reaction to that purchase? Did people forecast the death of Friendfeed and then leave, therefore creating the exact scenario they predicted. - Kim Landwehr

That's exactly what happened - LANjackal from IM

Robert, doesn't this put the denouement on the donkey for all those who thought it too sharp a call to say what was going on in that sale and before it? It seemed fairly clear to me what had been going on mainly from seeing the actions at the time of the sale and "doing the math". As Aristotle said: "Plot is character" - Melanie Reed

Some times the lab rats do understand and stop sniffing for the cheese, looking up at the lab coats above them with a knowing twitch of the whisker. - Melanie Reed

Can FriendFeed be another StumbleUpon two years later? http://stumbleupon.com/sublog... EDIT: "I don't want it happen though. I hope FFers let me entertain us again on FB" (excerpted from http://ff.im/6pO0a in Japanese) - NaHi from f2p

I'm more of a social media *consumer* than I am a participant. From a consumer's point of view, FF is more interesting than its competitors. A nice place to hang out, enjoy, learn, and sometimes discuss. Less guesswork is involved in deciding whether to click through to sources. From a consumer's perspective, as long as it remains interesting there won't be a reason to move on. - howard shippin from BuddyFeed

Johnny: yes, my sources inside Facebook tell me that the FriendFeed team has been split apart and is working on Facebook items only. So far no one has refuted that. - Robert Scoble

April: you can believe that I'm personally killing the community but that really is giving me far more power than I actually have. The community has dramatically changed in the last two months. The alpha geeks I follow and that I build my business around have largely left. Everytime I meet geeks at conferences they tell me they are not spending as much time on FriendFeed as they did before the sale to Facebook and that the lack of direction from the team is largely responsible for that. - Robert Scoble

And, April, if you read my blog post you'll see that I believe a new community is already moving in here -- one that doesn't care if the technology will see new features. - Robert Scoble

I'm not on FB that much, but do people from their team actually get involved on the site? Is that even possible, with the privacy controls? I said it on another thread: you can't serve two masters. If FB is paying the bills now, that's probably where erstwhile FF staff must spend their time. - .LAG liked that

I agree with Robert here - Matthew DeVries

.LAG: yes. I have dozens of Facebook employees as friends over on Facebook and they do engage all over the place. - Robert Scoble

.LAG: the head of PR at Facebook, Brandee Barker, even has a Twitter account: http://twitter.com/faceboo... and there are TONS of employees who hang out on both Twitter and Facebook like Dave Morin, head of Facebook's platform team. - Robert Scoble

Kim: I did one of the first interviews with the FriendFeed and Facebook teams after the sale was announced (within the first hour) and even then you could tell that Facebook had no plans for FriendFeed's technology and mostly wanted the team. The fact that Gary Burd (who ran the Google Talk team and is VERY influential in Seattle technology) has already left speaks VOLUMES to what is going on behind the scenes. Guys like Gary don't leave if they are having fun and making a huge impact. - Robert Scoble

April - Robert actions and Roberts threads have nothing to do with the death of Friendfeed. Robert's threads still have traffic and activity. The place where I see, where Robert would probably not ever be able to appreciate is the fact that there was once a time when a postless thread was impossible. Every single one of my threads had traffic. Even if it was one or 2 silly posts of... more... - Matthew DeVries

http://friendfeed.com/bwana that right there.....that is the saddest thing. That was once what I considered to be the most important account on Friendfeed. - Matthew DeVries

That's a stupid call he made for himself - LANjackal from IM

I'm a new user. i quite enjoy what's here, at the moment. I can't say that I'm a sophisticated social networker, but I have already grown to trust many of the folk i've met here. Like someone earlier in the thread said, if enough of my friends on friendfeed decide to move on, i'll likely follow. i don't suspect that that kind of 'distant early warning' would arrive via Facebook. - T. Brent, technopeasant

My experience on FF does not hinge on Robert. The community of thinkers and feelers will find a way to interact, here or somewhere else. By the way, some of us are left out of the loop 99% of the time when it comes to knowing what's next. Welcome to the club. - Aron Michalski from BuddyFeed

Matthew: you aren't the only one to notice this or tell me the same thing. Many won't point it out in public, either, because they just don't want to piss off those who are still here. Me? Being public with what I'm hearing, experiencing, deciding, etc is the way I deal with life and the conversations with others tend to either confirm the direction I'm aiming in, or they pull me back from the brink. So far not much has changed my opinion, and, in fact, has augmented it. - Robert Scoble

Aron: Twitter is about to turn on lists. That's one feature FriendFeed had over it. Within six weeks they will turn on a new retweet feature that looks more like FriendFeed's "likes" than it looks like RTs, so that's another feature. Twitter is working on real time search and I'd expect them to turn on a much better search within six months. So, what's left? Comments. Those are added on... more... - Robert Scoble

I still get a lot of activity on my posts but it's not what it used to be. The big thing I've noticed is a rarely get new subscriptions yet I'm still quite active here. Going from getting several or more a day to one or so a week is a big indicator to me of FriendFeed's decline. - Akiva Moskovitz

It's time to open source FF. Start the chant. - Todd Hoff

is it possible that things are levelling off, naturally? can growth, here or elsewhere, expect to be exponential forever and ever? - T. Brent, technopeasant

Brent, you bring up a salient point. For some, the constant movement is what they are really excited about more than the community. This is not to say that these ones don't enjoy the community, they obviously do. But they enjoy the "building" up of it. It's like getting trapped in the "I always want to be falling in love" feeling and never, as you bring out, get to and enjoy the natural leveling off. Some do enjoy that part. And there may be enough of them to keep this version of FF going. - Melanie Reed

There's a problem with stasis, though. For one, it almost always leads to entropy and, for two, it means that there isn't an influx of new blood. It's the same people doing the same things having the same conversations. It decreases how dynamic the experience is. It becomes stale. - Akiva Moskovitz

I'm not saying that FriendFeed's hit that stage yet but it most likely will. I'm still having a great time here but it's not nearly as exciting as it used to be and, no, that's just because the honeymoon period's worn off. - Akiva Moskovitz

Akiva, I respectfully disagree. It's like exploring a new path in an old garden. This is the place most people are either afraid to traverse or have not developed the discipline to want to go there. There are always new things yet to be discovered in the same relationship. We just get "ants in our pants" not wanting to sit still long enough to discover it. ;) - Melanie Reed

Melanie, oh yeah? Well, you're WRONG! In all seriousness, I think it's two sides of the same coin. And I want both. It's why I hang out both on Twitter and FriendFeed. I get different (but good!) experiences out of both. - Akiva Moskovitz

Matt - Yup, I've experienced the same thing as I have over 2,500 FF followers and now see a very low user engagement; whereas, in the past, I could get a ton of likes / comments on any topic. Now I see only crickets!! FF is dying. - Susan Beebe from BuddyFeed

Akiva, Its more about learning to "exult in monotony". ;) - Melanie Reed

Hah. Sorry, Melanie, but when it comes to social networking, I'm definitely polyamorous. - Akiva Moskovitz

Akiva, I've just come to appreciate the wisdom of Solomon: that there is "nothing new under the sun". lol Or as Shania Twain would say: "That don't impress me much." - Melanie Reed

With Friend Feed I can go to the site, and watch in realtime all the action going on with those I follow. I see Likes, Comments, Pictures, Nicely grouped and can type more than 140 characters if I want to. With Twitter, it's all a kludge to add on this and that and this client or that client and I just don't see how Twitter compares technically to FriendFeed at this time. Twitter was... more... - Keith Rowland

Yeah, the 140 character cap is the most baffleing thing that makes me wish FF wouldn't die and Twitter become king. I want more than 140 characters, I want it in real time, I want it in conversation, and I want it 100% free of super poke and my highschool neighbor's grand mother following me. - Matthew DeVries

It is the weekend and some people sleep :) At least that's how I'm looking at it ..for now.. plus I'm begging: Friendfeed please don't go away.. - http://new2me.posterous.com/friendf... (via http://ff.im/a57K2). - Chris Myles

FF activity is like the Bears defense tonight... far less vibrant than you'd expect - Jay Cuthrell from BuddyFeed

sorry 2 say that Scoble friendfeed is slowing down 2 :( - polou/indigo_bow

Not dead yet. Thank goodness. - Aron Michalski

The truth is we know nothing more than a few weeks after the sale when the team commented that they will keep it going as long as they could. We all knew development would stop. We all knew it would run on auto-pilot. No one here seriously expects FriendFeed to continue forever but a lot of us aren't pulling the plug and walking out the door. Interaction is down, to be expected, and I'm... more... - Johnny Worthington

well-put, Johnny. - T. Brent, technopeasant

Agree Johnny.. - Chris Myles

Here we go again... - BLOGBloke

OH MY DEAR LORD! THE FRIENDFEED TEAM ISN'T INSTANTLY AVAILABLE ON A SUNDAY AFTERNOON TO TALK ABOUT THEIR STRATEGIC PLANS! ALERT THE MEDIA! - Glen Campbell

Glen, the last 13 words took your statement from accurate to inaccurate - Matthew DeVries

What Twitter client are you using these hours anyway Robert? Have you checked out CoTweet? - Matthew DeVries

Regardless of the Friendfeed team's lack of comments, the volume on some threads like this does prove to me that life still exists on FF. I will agree that the volume is lighter but nothing has officially shown me that Friendfeed is dead, only bogus news articles trying to create news... - manielse (Mark Nielsen)

Look at FriendFeed. Look at Facebook. Which one needs improvement? Of course the team isn't working on FriendFeed now. But they're still using it, and would be upset if Facebook killed it. Facebook values them. They won't kill FriendFeed. - Bruce Lewis

strictly speaking, since the time of the sale facefeed staff have added new features http://friendfeed.com/friendf... posted news about technology development http://friendfeed.com/friendf... and responded to user support http://friendfeed.com/friendf... - Mike Chelen

Mathew: I use Tweetie on iPhone for almost all Twitter tasks. - Robert Scoble from iPhone

You also started it at 3am in the morning on Sunday - kind of a bad time to get their attention, don't you think? - Jesse Stay

Social Media Epertistes are vampires, they'd shrivel up and die otherwise after a night full of exsanguination orrrrrrrrr we could just fwd. this to the Feedback Room [done] - sofarsoShawn

Great, so its over? I wonder how many times the community is going to be willing to put themselves into something like this before we realise that all this stuff needs to move over to an open platform. I have a few great great communities die because of financially/politically motivated owners. shitty. - Jason Strachan

Which reminds me: Anybody know how the OpenFF project's going? - Dennis Jernberg

We had this discussion about the future of Friendfeed back when the buyout was first confirmed. We assume it's treading water, and maybe some day we'll be surprised by an update. - Vezquex: God of FF

Shawn, well done - Jesse Stay

Vezquex, yeah - how many more times do you predict this will come up again? FriendFeed just gave an excuse for people to say something's dead. I predict this will happen many more times until it is actually dead or they start really vamping it up again. No one in this thread has the authority to know that. - Jesse Stay

Maybe we will just roll our own waves. - Sean Oliver

Re: Shawn http://bit.ly/g7zYA - Matthew DeVries

Let's stop comparing elephants to fleas. Even if having 10 PR people allowed Facebook to be the "most engaged" new company, adjusted against the number of inquiries originating from members, 10 people cannot support that volume. With 250 million (or how ever many more) members, the right level of PR staffing would have to be closer to 250 (one PR person per 1 million members) to get... more... - Rich Reader

Wow, I hadn't realized Bwana had completely left. Did he blog about it? - Laura Norvig

I'm not sure if he blogged about it, Laura, but he certainly did talk about it...I'm surprised that he made his feed go dark as abruptly as he did. - Alex Scoble

Laura, Alex, yeah that abruptness took me by surprise too. My iphone shed a pixelated tear. - Micah Wittman

screw this thread.... Robert Scoble crushed my friendfeed fantasy... and you people are still talking about friendfeed being dead, Now let the damn thing die quietly thank you...... - Cjay

Start using Hide, Cjay - Alex Scoble

All Hail FriendFeed. FriendFeed is dead. Long Live FriendFeed. I like it better than wave, twitter, fb. If anything the signal to noise ratio has improved. - Robert Higgins

Paul's Response on Read Write http://thenextweb.com/2009... - Robert Higgins

You guys do know that Paul did post about this,right ?? Rendering Roberts shock a moot point. - Roberto Bonini from iPhone

Paul Buchheit speaks up! http://ff.im/a8LNU - Susan Beebe

Every time I see this, I keep thinking that "damning" is entirely too strong of a word... - Rahsheen ™, Coach of FF

The walrus replied - Steve Gillmor from iPhone

Roberto (and the walrus): oh, really? Did you READ what Paul wrote? How does that differ from anything I've said? - Robert Scoble

Robert, you said FriendFeed is dead and Paul said it isn't. Keep in mind you're using said "dead" site to respond. - Allred

Twitter is undernourished FF is chronically ill. FB is fat with clogged arteries and 10% of its users have disabled accounts including me. - Darrell Hudson

Robert Scoble

How I know FriendFeed is dead? Louis Gray's feed doesn't have many comments: http://friendfeed.com/louisgr...

October 18 from iPhone - Comment - Like - Share

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also mine doesn't have :) - Enes TAYLAN

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What comments? - Jesse Stay

The rate of new subscribers to my own feed has slowed to a crawl. That's how I know. But Louis Gray's feed with hardly any comments? That's even worse. - Dennis Jernberg

It's a Saturday at 1am, and the end of Blogworld Expo - Jesse Stay

FriendFeed has never been all that busy on a Saturday night. My inane screencasts aren't helping. :) - Louis Gray

Thank you Mark Zuckerberg. You're the God. - Ahmet Alp Balkan

If you want comments / conversations, maybe you should learn another language: http://friendfeed.com/search... I see lots of turkish, italian & iranian commenters - arjo

I'm still here... - Patrick

Jesse and Louis: I love that you two are keeping a stiff upper lip, but, sorry, it's been very apparent to me that FriendFeed is changing. The influential geeks, if there were any here, have largely left and now FriendFeed is changing and will not be the same service a year from now that it was three months ago. I am writing a post that it has a future, but a different one. Be back in a... more... - Robert Scoble

The scary thing is that I know Louis & Jesse are in the same room commenting on this :) - Mark Krynsky

My feed is always bustling, except on weekends (especially weekend nights). - Beau "Slick Foot" Liening

With every negative post about FriendFeed the community dies a little. It's the MGs and the Scobles and the others that will kill FriendFeed. - Jesse Stay

How do you know that, Mark? #wherestheproof - Louis Gray

Regardless of the community I will always use it as a tool - Jesse Stay

A community is only what you make of it. - BLOGBloke

How you know Robert Scoble has nothing to do? He posts how a service is dead on said service. - CW™

CW: true. But part of it is I'm hoping a thousand comment thread starts (that used to happen in the old days) telling me I'm wrong. So far five people have liked this thread and 12 have commented on it. That's not really a stunning refutal. Even for a Saturday night. And it's not the first time I've made this claim and it's not the first time I've gotten such a lukewarm rebuttal. - Robert Scoble

Starting a post in the middle of the night on Saturday early Sunday, traditionally slow dead times for FF won't help. - CW™

Sorry Robert, I'm not seeing the death. With any social network, there is a constant flow of people coming to and leaving the service. Sure, the early adopters will leave to play on the next new shiny service to come along. But there are still new people joining and still a core group of users that have been here for quite a while. Just because you are leaving doesn't mean everyone else is. - Jeff P. Henderson

CW: again. This isn't the first time I've made this claim and at Blog World I had quite a few discussions with people who are noticing the same thing, even if they won't admit to such in public. - Robert Scoble

Were back to the point in the cycle where Robert Scoble calls Friendfeed dead/dying. - Andy Bakun

Jeff: I'm not leaving. You aren't listening. - Robert Scoble

Could it be that everyone is sick of social media / tech reporting... NO... never... it couldn't possibly be the content... IT MUST BE THE SERVICE THAT'S WRONG... BURN IT, BURN IT WITH FIRE. It's frankly laughable that you base a service purely what you personally can get out of it in a professional sense Robert. Maybe FriendFeed is more social and doesn't fit into your self-promotion regime but my feed is still active. FriendFeed isn't dead... maybe you are just dead to FriendFeed. - Johnny Worthington

It takes simple engagement to encourage comments on FriendFeed. I'm not seeing any less comments than I used to. If you ask the right questions, actually like things on FriendFeed (note that Scoble has stopped this), and encourage your audience to comment they will comment just as much as they always have. - Jesse Stay

Jeff: Denial isn't helping. Discussions and activity are down. Robert's reduced use can't be given all the credit for that. The radio silence from FF/FB leadership is troubling. There are absolutely a lot of conversations here, but not in all the places they used to be. - Louis Gray

Watch Jason Pollack's threads. - Jesse Stay

Jesse: I am. And most of the traffic he gets is coming from his Twitter accounts. When I do that I get engagement too. Even here. - Robert Scoble

Robert, you HAVE for the most part left. A majority of your posts now come from twitter and your frequency of comments and participation on this site is way down. - Jeff P. Henderson

http://friendfeed.com/jasonpo... - Jesse Stay

it is disheartening, well Robert you are part to this "death" - ffcode

Robert, therefore your community will follow wherever you take them. It's not "FriendFeed's community". It's "Your community". Bring them back to FriendFeed and you'll see it change. - Jesse Stay

Jeff: I can't keep focusing on a site that isn't getting developed. Sorry. That's not what I do. - Robert Scoble

You people make me want to just shoot myself in the head,, cant you just let me have my fantasy for of a social network and let me pretend that your all my friends. Screw you robert... stop that crap,, your depressing me,,, I thought you followed me because you actually cared, or was that your damn autofollow bots ,,,,, and then he says friendfeed is dead hmmm wonder why..... - Cjay

Louis, true, things have changed here on FF, but isn't some of that attributed to the normal ebb and flow that is seen on any social network? Not everyone stays engaged forever. It frankly takes a lot of time and effort to continuously participate at a significant level on any social network. Most of us have full time jobs that have nothing to do with social networks as well as family and other obligations for our time. - Jeff P. Henderson

Robert, there's a difference between "not focusing" and "focusing on something else". Why be negative about FriendFeed when you can be positive about something that's better? - Jesse Stay

Because Robert is scared of being left behind. He has to trash the old thing so everyone thinks he knows what the next thing is. - Johnny Worthington

Jesse: I'm mostly just poking the bees nest by my negativity to see what comes out. So far crickets. And that is making me spend even more time elsewhere. - Robert Scoble

STHUP! your killing me!!!!!!!!!!! - Cjay

Yeah, I guess, in contrast, twitter has had a lot of development. They reskinned it inconsistently, and threw the hardcore tweeters a bone with adding "lists". Twitter has been stagnant for way longer than Friendfeed has. - Andy Bakun

Robert, you do realize that it's 5AM on the east coast, right? - Chris Heath

Jeff, I am as big a FriendFeed supporter as everybody here. If I hadn't pushed it early, this place would be very different. But I agree that people are moving elsewhere, even if this is still the best platform. We need to hear some guidance. Johnny, I understand your position, but Robert is not that thick-headed. He's trying to work with what is passed his way, and FriendFeed is stalled right now. - Louis Gray

Chris: social media is world wide. When I was on the BBC the other night a ton of people all over the world contacted me. - Robert Scoble

i'm just sayin' - Chris Heath

Heh, everytime there's a "friendfeed is dead" comment, I notice that I had gotten 2 or 3 more subscribers in the previous couple of hours, _while_ I was sleeping on the couch. - Andy Bakun

Robert, I totally understand your perspective, but I think you are a unique case. Most users criteria for using a site does not hinge on the rate of development of the site. Flickr is an excellent example. Flickr is a mature social site that receives few updates to its core functionality, yet it still has dedicate users that invest a significant amount of time there on a daily basis. - Jeff P. Henderson

Johnny: at our neighborhood block party my neighbors have hardly even heard of Twitter or Facebook. Being left behind? I'm three years ahead of normal people. And I will go wherever the geeks go. - Robert Scoble

I'm still on FriendFeed. - Jesse Stay

Jeff: I never want to be most users. But the problem with FriendFeed is that most users had never even heard of it. - Robert Scoble

that happens to me too andy, i'm about to hit the couch in a minute as I've been up for 21 hours and it's 5am - if i had been drinking tonight there's no way i could hold this conversation. - Chris Heath

Jeff: Flickr was a huge success with the early adopter crowd before it went to Yahoo. FriendFeed isn't even close to being in the same league. - Robert Scoble

Part of my love with FriendFeed was what it COULD BE in the future. So now that part of my fantasy is gone and I must see FriendFeed for what it is, not what it could be. THAT is a HUGE reason why I have moved much of my attention elsewhere. - Robert Scoble

I will always use the best tools for the job and thus far this is it. I admit there is a lot of opportunity out there right now though so long as FriendFeed has slowed down their development. Until that happens, FriendFeed is the best tool for the job. That's not changing in any way for me. - Jesse Stay

So why stir up crap like this post Robert. Smacks of arrogance and teasing - Johnny Worthington

oh come on! - Cjay

robert, if only friendfeed had a userbase the size of twitter, or facebook for that matter... maybe that's what i'll try and dream about tonight... - Chris Heath

zzzzz - Chris Heath

Maybe Friendfeed sold too soon then. - Jeff P. Henderson

But Robert even if friendfeed looses all of its userbase the fact that it is a great place to have conversation can't be taken away - ffcode

friendfeed is elite twitter is for everone else. - Cjay

Johnny: now you are just being nasty. Why is it when a conversation doesn't go your way you have to bring up arrogance or teasing? This isn't coming from either of those places with me. - Robert Scoble

ffcode: yes. And I'm pointing that out in the post I'm about to hit publish on. - Robert Scoble

I think that this thread is evidence that FF is not dead yet... - Jeff P. Henderson

So Robert, where are the geeks going? FaceBook? I would doubt it. Its a closed system. Geeks don't like that. Wave? Well there is no one there and its a service that is a collaboration mostly. So where are the influential geeks that you are speaking of going? If they are not here why are you not with them instead of causing a commotion here with blatant comment bait threads? Don't get me wrong you start some great conversations. This though is a old one that seems to be on repeat. - CW™

friendfeed posts on twitter doesn't make sense even though the reverse is still legit - ffcode

This is NOT teasing with me. I've dedicated more of my recent life (thousands of hours) to FriendFeed. This is SERIOUS business for me. - Robert Scoble

Well if you want someone to tell you you're wrong, the last time I checked FF was not your own private Idaho for just you and your pals. I'm sure it's not in FF's business model either. Check your attitude at the door and make this place a little more 'friendly' and inclusive and maybe (just maybe) things will warm up a little. On the flipside, I'm sure your tongue is also in your cheek and hoping that FF management is listening and will get with the program. Am I right? - BLOGBloke

CW: I'm studying 5,000 geeks over on Twitter. Most of whom are investing time there but not on Facebook or FriendFeed. Businesses? BIG TIME on Twitter. Celebrities? I had dinner last night with the guy who works with tons of them and he said they all are very dedicated to Twitter (except for what's her name). Facebook is getting some adoption, though, in the geek community. - Robert Scoble

Guys, even if Robert is outnumbered here, let's suggest he is most likely right and not make it personal. Robert has been a longtime evangelist of the platform and is personally invested at risk to his personal reputation. (By invested, I mean in time, not money, lest that get asked) - Louis Gray

BLOGBloke: sorry. You are wrong. FriendFeed has NO PEOPLE WORKING ON IT. - Robert Scoble

Digging in our heels doesn't help. We need to learn if this can be a place to participate with no further changes ever, or if we want to scatter to the winds. Today, most people are happy enough with Facebook and Twitter, and that's not debatable, even if we know there is a better alternative. - Louis Gray

No. You are not right BLOGBloke. I do not expect Mark Zuckerberg to dedicate any more resources to FriendFeed because of my nastiness. - Robert Scoble

Robert and Louis well you are two awesome guys i have ever met and this happened through friendfeed, met a lot of great folks here. i think i know/ have some idea how you guys work and like you work till death attitude, and i respect that. but i would love you guys doing friendfeed more, remember the good old days ;) - ffcode

Robert, I wish you were leading entrepreneurs to the opportunity and not leading them away. I agree there is a lack of leadership here from Facebook and the FriendFeed team, but to me that means there's opportunity. People won't discover that opportunity unless they are using FriendFeed. I'd rather focus on that in my posts and blog and elsewhere, rather than talk to the community itself. It's the entrepreneurs and opportunists I want to target, not the community. - Jesse Stay

Interesting, I just received three new followers in the past 10 minutes. Not Dead Yet... - Jeff P. Henderson

ffcode, I don't think my activity on FriendFeed has decreased at all. - Louis Gray

I'm using FriendFeed just as much as before as well (maybe even a little more) - Jesse Stay

Jesse: I tried that for 18 months. It was OK when I thought FriendFeed has a cool future that was different from where it is today. Sorry, it isn't good enough for most people. For us, yes. For mainstream? No way. - Robert Scoble

Louis i was pointing to Robert's i know you are here and it is great to have you here :) - ffcode

I must have misunderstood you Robert... "How I know FriendFeed is dead?" is the perfect way to start a conversation on FriendFeed about FriendFeed... - Johnny Worthington

Johnny: sorry, FriendFeed +is+ dead to most of the tech community. - Robert Scoble

hey hey I left twitter for a reason..... its just you guys are still chewing on it, im sorry but i spit that grisil out right away.. - Cjay

Perhaps this thread will shake things up around here. Let's hope so. - BLOGBloke

Robert, not sure you're understanding - I'm saying now that FriendFeed has stopped development this is an opportunity for other entrepreneurs to take the lead ahead of FriendFeed. Let's push them to do so rather than pushing the community away from FriendFeed. When someone has something better than FriendFeed, then we can all say "jump ship". - Jesse Stay

Robert, my point is the rest of us outside the bubble don't care. The world exists outside the Valley - Johnny Worthington

BLOGBloke: Facebook has 300 million users and you think a thread with 20 people in it will shake things up? Sorry, that's not how things work. Now, if there was a thousand message thread, that might get some people to wake up. - Robert Scoble

Johnny: really? Where? :-) - Robert Scoble

Johnny: when I talk with people outside the bubble they are barely discovering Facebook right now. Twitter is something they've heard about. FriendFeed? GIve me a freaking break. - Robert Scoble

We're working on that thousand as we speak. - BLOGBloke

BLOGBloke: so far I see 20 people participating here. When we hit 1,000 I'll come over to your side of the yard. - Robert Scoble

Not everyone ON FriendFeed is inside the bubble... or frankly CARE about social media. You love talking about the car and it's parts, I love talking about where the car takes me. - Johnny Worthington

Friendfeed to me is quality, an addtion to a mature social network like facebook. - Cjay

Johnny: sorry. Everyone on FriendFeed is inside the bubble. If you claim otherwise you lose all credibility. - Robert Scoble

Robert... I don't HAVE credibility... - Johnny Worthington

Remember, it is after 2am here on the west and 5 am back east. Unlike yourself some geeks still like to sleep. - BLOGBloke

i am with Robert his sample sizes are way larger than anyone else here and he studies them as in "study" yeah my friends laugh when i sent them my account link on friendfeed - ffcode

Johnny: FriendFeed, at its height, only had a few hundred thousand users. THAT IS A BUBBLE. Actually, it's a pimple on the ass of Twitter which is a bruise on the ass of Facebook. - Robert Scoble

Come on if its that bad then go back to myspace and twitter and see what you get... - Cjay

Cjay: my friend Luke and I had a drink at the Ritz tonight and I guarantee that was better than what you get here, but that isn't any way to build a movement. - Robert Scoble

Still don't care about that either... That's my point... I'm here for the people and the interaction. - Johnny Worthington

Robert, with all due respect, just because you don't get quality out of FF doesn't mean nobody else does. - Beau "Slick Foot" Liening

Johnny: cool. That keeps me coming back too, but it isn't any way to build a business or a movement. Most people don't care and if they do most people just want to talk with their friends on Facebook. Really, does FriendFeed give most people a hugely better experience than Facebook? No. - Robert Scoble

The whole FF/FB comparison seems irrelevant to me - FB is a walled garden, and if they move far from it they will disenfranchise the current user base who wants a closed community of their friends. FF has always been about public aggregation, not followers. If we wanted walled communities, we should have all stayed on AOL. (I keep waiting for FB to buy an old media news company - we'll definitely know they are the AOL of the future then.) - David Lounsbury

Beau: you aren't listening. I'm here cause I like the people here. but that's not what we're arguing about. - Robert Scoble

David: you are wrong. Facebook is no longer a walled garden. You must have missed Facebook Connect. Check into it. Look at Huffington POst. They use it. - Robert Scoble

DO ANYBODY NO WHY FRIENDFEED IS DEAD? - Louis Gray

Robert. That is where you and I disagree. I get a better flavor of interaction here then Facebook. I have friends and have made friends here from all over the world I wouldn't have just through my circle of IRL friends on Facebook. - Johnny Worthington

David: most people DO WANT walled communities. Most people, when they post their baby photos are NOT like me and Louis. They mostly want to keep those private to just their real life friends. - Robert Scoble

Friendfeed is not dead.......whats dead is twitter..... - Cjay

Johnny: you and I and the rest of the people here are weird. - Robert Scoble

100% agree - Johnny Worthington

Cjay: I really wish that were true. I hate Twitter (the company). I put a good effort into bringing Twitter here. I failed. It's done. Let's move on and admit that. - Robert Scoble

Friendfeed is dying, not dead. And to use Louis' posts at this point in time is ridiculous, 1. It's mostly BWE stuff which I don't give a damn about, no offense Louis. 2. It's the weekend. 3. It's 5:30 on the East Coast. - Jimminy

And that is why I like FriendFeed :-) - Jesse Stay

Jimminy: FriendFeed is not really dead. Remember, when a blogger says something is dead that just means it isn't interesting anymore. - Robert Scoble

Isn't this an argument that the best technologies don't always win? People gravitate to Twitter because any lamebrain can use it. Same thing for FB. - BLOGBloke

I wonder if people had this discussion about Geocities, Hotmail and Altavista... We like to think that the current time is the peak of innovation... - Johnny Worthington

Weird, hey I resemble that comment! - Jeff P. Henderson

well robert you keep what your kill I guess... - Cjay

Johnny: yes, we did. Geocities IS dead (gone). So is Altavista. Hotmail is still doing OK. But among early adopters it's dead. - Robert Scoble

My homepage is still Geocities - Jesse Stay

facebook can be classified most folks there are just for that boy-girl thing or just to interact with the friends they know in real, friendfeed misses its good old days and i blame Robert for that, for my feed doesn't look that good now even with so many subscriptions - ffcode

Robert, I forgot that, following my 3rd point about it being 5:30. - Jimminy

if Mark is adding FF inside the FB feed then he needs to extend this silly 5000 friends limit as I can't use FB properly until he does - Thomas Power

BLOGBloke: oh, did you just call FriendFeed the Betamax of social software? - Robert Scoble

Jesse: Geocities is closing down, you will soon need to find a new home page. - Robert Scoble

Anybody who would rather talk to the 'puter instead of people in the real world are weird. Goes for me too. - BLOGBloke

I wonder if in 10 years we will talk of Twitter and Facebook in the same sense... - Johnny Worthington

I will move to Freeservers then - Jesse Stay

Johnny: I think we will know a lot more about how the future will be by the end of 2010. You won't need to wait 10 years. - Robert Scoble

Betamax! How old do you think I am anyway (*_*) - BLOGBloke

RE FB Connect, maybe, but they're positioning it as a way to pull people in to the garden. From the site: "Enable over 300 million Facebook users to share your content with their friends on Facebook. " There is a pattern in that sentence... - David Lounsbury

Jesse: what's weird is I'm not even sure what my home page is anymore. I mostly use Tweetie on my iPhone. - Robert Scoble

I am going to ask my Uncle to revive Freeservers (actually, freeservers.com is still around). That will be the new FriendFeed. - Jesse Stay

Robert, by the way thanks for follow on FF,,,, see like i said Friendfeed is Quality, its not about quantity... - Cjay

David: of course. Facebook Pages are open to the public and Google. That's where you'll see some "FriendFeed-like" innovation. - Robert Scoble

Cjay: the real question is whether I will add you to one of my Twitter lists!?! - Robert Scoble

bahhh 8D - Cjay

FriendFeed is dead (isn't interesting anymore) for Ex-FriendFeed employers, no new features, no upadates, no documentation.. and this is sad, because (hope) we'll see FF on FB in months.. and FriendFeed is still the most interesting way to discuss on Internet (sorry Wave, sad but true for now). - Lucio Riccardi - CantorJF

What's worse here is that the positive Robert Scoble is dead. Assuming that Robert posts on this, his last posts will be on FriendFeed slowing down (Negative), on Startups paying to pitch (Negative), Digital iPhone cheapskates (Negative), Google Wave x 2 (Negative and Negative), Why Office 2010 will be locked out (Negative). That would be zero positive posts in October. I want the happy Robert back. - Louis Gray

Me too - Jesse Stay

Louis: I'm bummed out because FriendFeed is dead. Sorry. - Robert Scoble

+Like Louis :) - Lucio Riccardi - CantorJF

Personally Twitter is a horrible service and Ap. Mainly because it has turned into MySpace. Everyone is there. YUCK. I've been going back to some of my old Forums and IRC Servers/Channels. Plus here on FF. I've been able to keep all of it up. Different groups for different interests. Look just because my Geek friends are not on here, but are on the IRC server they own and manage doesn't... more... - CW™

I like the happy Scoble - Jesse Stay

As am I. In the meantime, I am excited about Pubsubhubbub and innovation in other places. I am stoked about the Salmon Protocol. I hope people saw that. - Louis Gray

Louis: I've been more positive, though, about the iPhone and the app and business models there (developers there are rocking and rolling). - Robert Scoble

I think we need to a (real) life. Maybe that's the answer. - BLOGBloke

oh the new feature yeah yeah I saw that twitter lists god now my world has changed forever heheheh... - Cjay

BLOGBloke: like I said, I was at the Ritz with a friend tonight. That was real life and was pretty damn good! - Robert Scoble

homepages have lost their relevance, things are all spread now, people get to know you better from your social profiles - ffcode

Louis, I don't want happy Robert back, I want to know what Robert wants and thinks coming in the future. - Jimminy

Jimminy: I think we're in a period of consolidation and that pisses me off! :-) - Robert Scoble

Agreed, Jimminy. Just talking openly, as he is. I have a great respect for Robert, and on most days, I assume the feeling is mutual. I brought Robert here. Can he bring us somewhere else, or should I keep looking and let you guys know? :) - Louis Gray

There's your answer and I've been coming to the same conclusion myself. - BLOGBloke

Louis: I will follow you anywhere. But I will ask Jesse for confirmation to see if you are really onto something. ;-) - Robert Scoble

I'm all for going to a new/better service than FF....but so far, I haven't seen any. - Beau "Slick Foot" Liening

I like this - together, the 3 of us will rule the world ;-) - Jesse Stay

yes, the thruth is that if FF is dead I would miss it - Luigi Centenaro

Beau: truth be told, me neither. But FriendFeed's limitations do piss me off. It got so close to something really brilliant. - Robert Scoble

Jesse: I thought we already ruled the world. - Robert Scoble

;-) - Robert Scoble

Robert, shhh - they're not supposed to know that! - Jesse Stay

Have you guys read Seth Godin's "The dip" Friendfeed is facing the dip right now. The dip is where success happens.If you manage to get through the dip, you can become one of the best in the world. - Tapio Kulmala

What's really amazing is Rob is having a conversation with all of simultaneously and still managing to keep ahead of the curve. How fast do you type? 5,000 words a minute" - BLOGBloke

Tapio: I would agree but FriendFeed's team has already been disbanded. So the dip is going to be permanent. At least that's my thesis and I'm waiting for someone to prove me wrong. - Robert Scoble

I've been in the "Dip" for 10 years. There's still hope. - BLOGBloke

BLOGBloke: I typed 35 words per minute with two fingers. Then I took a typing class. I'm a bit faster now. (Best class I took in college, by the way). - Robert Scoble

I do agree that since the buyout, development has ceased. Hopefully that won't last too much longer and they'll make FF even better. I really hope FF doesn't get fully integrated into FB. - Beau "Slick Foot" Liening

Funny all this is just RSS, and it would seem that if you want more, then you should focus on what RSS can really do for you, and not what you let a service like FF and TW do with RSS for you. - Cjay

Beau: FriendFeed can NOT be integrated into Facebook. FriendFeed was designed for a million users. Facebook has 300 million. It would need to be rewritten for Facebook's infrastructure. That is NOT going to happen! - Robert Scoble

That makes me feel much better. =) - Beau "Slick Foot" Liening

My major was typing. I still have the diploma to prove it. Momma is so proud. - BLOGBloke

What WILL happen is that some of the better stuff you see here WILL be rewritten for Facebook. Like Real Time Search. Or real time comments. Or better aggregation. Or better messaging. - Robert Scoble

Still leaves FF in the dust though. =( - Beau "Slick Foot" Liening

Paul Buchheit wrote Gmail. If I were Zuckerberg I'd have him working on messaging. Google Wave is a freaking disaster. Put a nail in that! - Robert Scoble

I'm sure most of you know what RSS is right...and you do realize that this is the backbone of these services. - Cjay

Beau: like I said, FriendFeed is done for the most part. If we see any more features I'll be very shocked. I'm just happy that the servers are staying up for the most part. - Robert Scoble

yup google wave was a ripple if that.... - Cjay

Cjay: one of my best friends is Dave Winer. My son's initials are RSS (seriously, they are). I know a little bit about the subject. - Robert Scoble

Not that I've gotten a wave invite...but from everything I've read about it, its way pre Alpha....I'll wait for the beta... - Beau "Slick Foot" Liening

Jesse: the criticisms will probably end up bringing more curious users to friendfeed :) - Mike Chelen from fftogo

Beau: I don't think the beta is going to be able to save it. The only reason we're all paying attention to Wave is because it's from Google. Heck, that's really the reason I paid attention to FriendFeed instead of SocialThing or Jaiku. - Robert Scoble

It would seem to me that an open social network based on RSS wouild be the way to go. - Cjay

would love to have more features on ff and i am amazed by this phenomenon called Robert Scoble and Louis keeping such a low profile, way to go guys - ffcode

Mike: in my experience that isn't happening. The growth of new accounts here is slowing way down. - Robert Scoble

Leo laporte was talking about this at one time - Cjay

Cjay: RSS is making a comeback, but I don't think it's fast enough. We're not using RSS here to talk with each other. That's XMPP (which is one of the protocols Google Wave is built on). - Robert Scoble

So if the 3 of us (Robert, Louis, and me) rule the world, and Louis and I both say stay on friendfeed who wins? ;-) - Jesse Stay

get it? "Stay" on FriendFeed (just noticed that) - Jesse Stay

Robert, I thought we were using SUP, though it probably is on XMPP's backbone. - Jimminy

It's 2:45am on a Saturday, and Robert is getting a stream of comments. I wish I had something to hire him to promote. - Cristo

Jesse: again, I'm not leaving FriendFeed. So I'm a "Stay" vote too. But the three of us isn't enough, unfortunately. - Robert Scoble

hmmm I thought this was just an updated xml file that everyone can tune into kinda like your blog feed - Cjay

Robert, but are you encouraging others to stay on friendfeed? :-) - Jesse Stay

Jimminy: I thought SUP was only used for aggregating stuff from services. - Robert Scoble

(/me likes "Stay" votes) :-) - Jesse Stay

Jesse: truth be told, not anymore. I spent 18 months doing that. To do that now would be a losing proposition for me. - Robert Scoble

Robert, you're right, I think it's time for bed. - Jimminy

Jimminy: yeah, I gotta finish this blog and then work more on my Twitter lists. - Robert Scoble

I have the answer. We'll all pool our resources and buy FF. I've got 25 cents in my pocket and I can always raid the kid's piggy-bank. How about you? - BLOGBloke

Robert, therefore you are outvoted by Louis and I ;-) - Jesse Stay

BLOGBloke: I left Vegas with $100 in my pocket because I was too busy to gamble it away. So there y ou go! :-) - Robert Scoble

And we also have a Realtime Distributed Environment in Socnodes, but Tornado is definitely where it's at. - Jimminy

well jaiku is all open source now might go real good with google wave....8p - Cjay

Identica is opensourced also, lets build a better Twitter and Friendfeed. - Jimminy

I'm leaving Vegas with Louis Gray's money in my pocket - I can contribute that :-) - Jesse Stay

truly - why the hell can't FF be integrated into the FB feed when they open FB up? - Thomas Power

See Robert you just cant get this love anywhere else but on friendfeed.... - Cjay

Wrong Scoble, Chris. - Jimminy

I was almost blocked by him, I had to talk my way out of that one. - Jimminy

Thomas: again: FriendFeed's infrastructure can NOT deal with 300 million users. - Robert Scoble

Thomas, it's up to you and me to make Ecademy the next FriendFeed. - Louis Gray

Cjay: you haven't seen my Twitter account, have y ou? :-) - Robert Scoble

Looks like I was wrong. There's lots of love to go around here. Can you feel it? - BLOGBloke

Here's my blog post, titled "The Second Life of FriendFeed?" http://scobleizer.posterous.com/the-sec... - Robert Scoble

Does it involve Second Life? - Cristo

So we should jump to Posterous? :-) - Jesse Stay

No. Other than Second Life received a lot of hype, then a lot of derision, and now is a growing and profitable business. - Robert Scoble

Jesse. You can. We'll wait here. - Robert Scoble

Thomas: again: FriendFeed's infrastructure can NOT deal with 300 million users. - Robert Scoble - are you absolutely sure, because why buy it if they can't? Thomas, it's up to you and me to make Ecademy the next FriendFeed. - Louis Gray - Thomas Power

Thomas: my friends at Facebook tell me they bought FriendFeed for the talent, not the product. - Robert Scoble

Louis what would you like us to do, we can only build it slowly not overnight? - Thomas Power

This is one of those epic quickfire Scoble threads that I haven't seen in a long time. There's life in the old gal yet. - Roberto Bonini

I think Guy Kawasaki is the next FriendFeed. He has involvement in Posterous, Tweetmeme (link tracking), SocialToo (utility), and Objective Marketer (analytics) - Jesse Stay

I understand the need for talent Robert but why throw away the best product in the world when FB relatively speaking cannot hold a candle to FF? - Thomas Power

Thomas: sorry, that is simply not true. FF can't hold a candle to Facebook. Why? Because Facebook runs with 300 million people on top of it. FriendFeed can NOT do that. - Robert Scoble

Nope it's not Guy he's already too famous - only real geeks can build the best mousetraps - Guy's a marketing man - Thomas Power

FriendFeed was built on a handful of servers. Facebook is running on 30,000 servers. TOTALLY DIFFERENT SCALE. - Robert Scoble

And TOTALLY DIFFERENT INFRASTRUCTURE. Not even close to the same thing. - Robert Scoble

Exactly right Scoble. - Roberto Bonini

Facebook and Twitter were both built on a handful of servers. Let's not kid ourselves. None of these services started out big. - Cristo

@Thomas .. the best doesn't always win. Just ask Microsoft. - BLOGBloke

Cristo: it doesn't matter where they started. It matters where they are now. - Robert Scoble

Robert, of course it matters where they started. How else would you be motivated as a startup company starting now? Should Microsoft or Apple not tried because IBM was big? - Cristo

Cristo: most of the startups I know are building on cloud servers like Rackspace Cloud or Amazon S3. Not on their own infrastructure. Facebook might be one of the last companies to build their own infrastructure. - Robert Scoble

Facebook is the next Microsoft. You heard it here first. - BLOGBloke

Cristo: Steve Wozniak told me they didn't start Apple to compete with IBM. And building a PC isn't like building a web service. Not a good analogy. - Robert Scoble

Does that matter? It's whether you should try, not how you implement it. - Cristo

I understand FB is winning the market cap game and will likely IPO next year and acquire Linkedin too but they are NOT winning the best mousetrap game, that's FF. - Thomas Power

BLOGBloke: Facebook is the next Google. Google is the next Microsoft. Microsoft is the next IBM. IBM is the next DEC. :-) - Robert Scoble

Thanks Robert for that info. I worked at both Apple AND Microsoft. But I'm sure you have better info. - Cristo

I stand corrected. - BLOGBloke

Thomas: you sound like one of those guys I sold a Betamax VCR to. - Robert Scoble

Cristo: sounds like you can't hold a job! Just kidding. I'm the same way. - Robert Scoble

Robert: it seems a competition for attention exists between the more popular and the more esoteric platforms - Mike Chelen from fftogo

Infrastucture is mostly hardware. Facebook's architecture is not perfect. They only allow us to have 5000 friends. It tells something about the scalability of the architecture. We don't know how well Friendfeed's really scales.. - Tapio Kulmala

Robert: I agree.. nobody I know either knows about or uses FF, and I barely scratch the surface. I was one of the most active users I know on Facebook until my account was "disabled" this week. I won't be investing any more time into that unless they re-enable my account. I love FF but doubt that my audience will adopt it any time soon... wish I had been at bwe09! - ASKJDOG

Mike: that's always true. Every once in a while the more esoteric becomes the more popular. I was hoping that was the case with FriendFeed but it wasn't to be. - Robert Scoble

I'm not arguing about scalability Robert I understand 300m is 300 times 1 million but FF remains the best mousetrap so Mark Z MUST integrate the best bits of FF into FB that's all. I loved my Betamax and thank you for being so cheeky to an Englishman in this place. - Thomas Power

ASKJDOG: heh, I've been through that. My Facebook account was disabled two years ago. - Robert Scoble

Thomas: I KNEW it! :-) - Robert Scoble

are you saying they are going to hold the 5000 limit because of scalability? - Thomas Power

Robert: I read about that fiasco.. I can't get over the fact that they get away with taking away your access to your own data.. with no real way to dispute or contact them. - ASKJDOG

Thomas, I don't know the reason. Architecture and/or scalability could be one. - Tapio Kulmala

Anybody remember what was the most popular service 18 years ago? Yes, you all laugh about it now. It's not that different. - Cristo

ASKJDOG: lots of Web 2.0 companies do that, unfortunately. It's one reason why I spread my attention out across a number of different services. At least that way you can find me somewhere. - Robert Scoble

Facebook threw me out too. Gotta love it. - BLOGBloke

So what replaces FF? ..or not replaces but would be more widely used by less techy people? More Twitter? Echo via one's blogs? something else? - ASKJDOG

Someday, I'm going to be interviewed by Robert, and it's going to be super awkward. At least for me. ;) - Cristo

From Robert's Blog Post. I couldn't agree more... "Will FriendFeed turn out to be like Second Life? I think it could. There will always be some people who want to be on some service other than the popular ones. There ARE people out there who hate Twitter and Facebook and want to hang out on a tool that more fits their personality. FriendFeed DOES have a future there. " - Jeff P. Henderson

Cristo, the telephone or Usenet? - Jimminy

Jimmi, AOL. - Cristo

well I'm still on FB and completely stuck at 5000. FB is punishing me for building their network with my friends. Why do they do that? - Thomas Power

ASKJDOG: we're all waiting for Louis Gray to answer that question. But why does anything need to replace it? If it stays the same as it is now we'll be just happy staying here. The problem is that no one else will join us. As long as we're OK with that FriendFeed is just fine! - Robert Scoble

Ok Robert so I took a look at your "The Second Life of FriendFeed?" post... Do you think friendfeed will be another feature of facebook or will friendfeed stand on its own? You do know that facebook added some kind of tab feature to add friendfeed right into the facebook profile. - Cjay

Chris, AOL was around back then, I can't remember I was a tot. - Jimminy

ASKJDOG: I drank a glass of whisky tonight. No one sits around asking "what will replace that glass?" - Robert Scoble

Jimmi, I can remember, but I keep drinking to try to forget. ;) - Cristo

Cjay: I think they will be separate forever but that some features might come across. Real time search is definitely one I expect to see (Facebook was already working on that itself). - Robert Scoble

Robert: lol.. good point.. I'm looking for ways to engage my web audience but it's a very different audience to yours. I like the whisky they don't necessarily :) - ASKJDOG

LOL @ "a pimple on the ass of Twitter which is a bruise on the ass of Facebook" - nice one Robert Scoble! And very much agree with Jesse Stay: writing is on the wall and it may spell "Huge Opportunity" for the next upstart SN hub that gets the UX just right. - Dan Freeman

We need to create a million bogus accounts on FB. Raise a little hell, watch it implode and buy FF for pennies on the dollar. Anyone up for a barbecue? - BLOGBloke

being able to write efficient server software is definitely one of the talents brought by the ff team, so these services should scale as well as anyone's - Mike Chelen from fftogo

Robert's problem is that I think he doesn't know who to listen to online. It's just a random walk through whoever's-online. - Cristo

Cristo: oh, wait until you see my lists over on Twitter! - Robert Scoble

Robert, I haven't been given a good reason to actively use Twitter yet. - Cristo

Oh, and Cristo, I interview a lot of people I have taken on online. Actually those are some of the most fun interviews because we both usually are surprised! - Robert Scoble

Robert's lists on Twitter 1) Geeks, 2) Not Geeks - Jeff P. Henderson

Cristo: I've given you more than 6,000 reasons to use Twitter here: http://twitter.com/scoblei... -- you're telling me that none of those people or Tweets sound interesting? I guess that's cool. - Robert Scoble

Jeff: that would be a funny list, actually! - Robert Scoble

"Cristo, I interview a lot of people I have taken on online." -- This sounds inappropriate, but perhaps it is late and I have a corrupted mind. - Cristo

I'm glad you have a sense of humor ;-) - Jeff P. Henderson

Don't forget the "Ignore" list. - BLOGBloke

debated with, probably would be better. - Robert Scoble

Robert, I'd rather you just give me the one reason. - Cristo

Cristo: one URL. 6,000 reasons. :-) - Robert Scoble

The main problem I have with Twitter is that it very hard to hold a conversation there. That is why I much prefer FF. - Jeff P. Henderson

Jeff: that's why most people don't like FF actually. They really don't like talking with you. :-) - Robert Scoble

Perhaps, and it's just a wild guess, it's why we're having the conversation HERE! - Cristo

You call this a conversation? - BLOGBloke

BLOGBloke: it's something, that's for sure! If we did this over on Twitter all of our real followers would have unfollowed us an hour ago. - Robert Scoble

Well it certainly isn't an argument at this point. - Jimminy

This is just chat... a better system for chat is IRC, It's so much faster. I never did really understand why people keep trying to reinvent the wheel.. All of these systems like friendfeed and twitter and whatever else seem really slow to me, but I put up with it because I guess people need it. - Cjay

Right, which is an interesting (and somewhat sad) reality about human nature. A service that you can just send your random thoughts into the ether is more popular than one that enables conversation, because people just want to feel important without getting feedback. - Cristo

Cjay: sorry, IRC sucks. I've gone into why before. But it does and I'm tired so I'll leave the details for another day. - Robert Scoble

Cjay: keep in mind I helped moderate Leo Laporte's chat room in the mid 1990s so I know IRC pretty damn intimately. - Robert Scoble

cristo makes a point - Cjay

Cristo: it's not just about feeling important. It's about simplicity. It's about being able to control who comes into your view (you really can't very well here). - Robert Scoble

Also, most people just don't like participating. For them their 30 minutes on the web every day is more about getting informed and being entertained. Twitter is great for that. - Robert Scoble

Hardly anyone comes into your view on Twitter. On Facebook, lots of people you know and don't want coming into your view do, unforunately. - Cristo

Cristo: weird. On Twitter I have 5,000 coming into my view. On Facebook I have 1,500. - Robert Scoble

I think IRC is to fast for most people to feel warm about it.. - Cjay

Robert, you are getting a lot of SPAM disguised as actual thought on Twitter. On Facebook, you're getting old friends and relatives that are inarticulately trying to communicate with you and sometimes in embarrassingly ways. - Cristo

Cristo: not true. Every single person I've added into Twitter is someone I want on my home page. Not a single piece of spam has made it there. - Robert Scoble

I actually like Facebook for connecting with people.. shame I won't be using it any more. Tho I'm using Twitter more and more It's difficult to see a structured conversation. - ASKJDOG

I will have to say Facebook has crazy ways of knowing who you might know. - Cjay

ASKJDOG: Twitter isn't for structured conversations. But you can include a link to one over here. That's what I do. - Robert Scoble

I'm using SPAM loosely. Any Tweets that are actively promoting something they have no idea I'm interested in is SPAM to me. - Cristo

Cristo: that's noise, not spam. - Robert Scoble

Robert: Yes! I noticed you do that.. and very effectively.. I will try it. - ASKJDOG

I feel spread too thin across too many places - but FF is still quite lively among who I subscribe to - Joelle Nebbe (iphigenie)

I'm off the bed now. Thanks for being a good sport Rob and I hope you're feeling better about FF now. It really is the best SN out there and it wouldn't be same without you. Goodnight to all my friendly FriendFeeders. - BLOGBloke

"Imma gonna let you continue with this thread, but first I wanna say that Rackspace is the best cloud service in the business, ever!" - Cristo

Bed? It's lunch-time here - Tapio Kulmala

BLOGBloke: thanks. nothing I read here tonight changed my opinion unfortunately. But I'm still here. - Robert Scoble

"Twitter isn't for structured conversations." Robert,,, if thats the case then should i go back to letting people know things like "I'm washing my dog and I just ran out of soup, I need to run to walmart, be back in 10..." ?? - Cjay

Our Windows 7 party is over! Actually, it was my wife's but I helped out even though I don't like WIndows. Oops. Maybe I should have tweeted that. - Cristo

Chris, how did it go? - Jimminy

Jimmi, really good actually. We really made a lot of progress cleaning up the loft. It was like two weeks worth of work in a couple days. And the food & wine went over really well. - Cristo

Sorry Cristo, I think you meant to post that on Twitter ;-) - Jeff P. Henderson

Jeff, you mean I didn't? I'm so confused. - Cristo

Chris, you didn't spend enough time staring at the ice cubes you may have liked Windows if you would have stared at them longer. The message was Windows 7 is amazing. - Jimminy

If I say @Jimminy will that send it to twitter? - Cristo

Cristo, I'm sorry, conversation about Twitter comments is not allowed here... - Jeff P. Henderson

There you go, now you have it all figured out. - Jeff P. Henderson

Where is my new Sonos controller @? - Cristo

@Cristo - Jeff P. Henderson

I'll receive it if you do that yes. - Jimminy

#pound her - Cristo

Robert, either way it still feels like 2 hours of my life I will never get back, FFFTW! - Cjay

And of course it takes a Scoble post proclaiming FriendFeed dead to provoke a big chat like this. Of course, with my mere 250 or so subscribers, it would never work for me... - Dennis Jernberg

@Try looking under the couch cushion. - Jeff P. Henderson

If this is the tech elite, I wonder how dumb the conversations are over on facebook. - Cristo

#pound her - Photos or it didn't happen... - Jeff P. Henderson

@Facebook, My cat just did a backflip off the couch... - Jeff P. Henderson

What the matter, did everyone fall asleep? - Jeff P. Henderson

I rarely get a comment on even one post. I guess I'm missing something... - Dennis Jernberg

@The_Club Did you see that chick?? - Jimminy

Robert: earlier adoption of a service ensures a longer delay before observing widespread appeal. this may be a stronger indication your prescience rather than sluggishness by friendfeed - Mike Chelen from fftogo

@Jimmy, we need photos. - Jeff P. Henderson

Clearly Robert went to bed, because I'm not blocked yet. ;) - Cristo

I think Robert just took time out to write another blog post entitled "The third coming of Friendfeed"... - Jeff P. Henderson

Okay, I'm done with this thread. If you guys want to make sarcastic and sophomoric comments. FIne! ..........Let's just do it on another thread. :) - Cristo

Cjay: one nice thing about ff compared with irc is that it is web-browser accessible, without addons like chatzilla or 3rd party sites like mibbit. they have many similarities otherwise, which is one of my reasons for liking ff so much :) - Mike Chelen from fftogo

Robert, the amount of comments is not necessarily a good indicator of the service health; from my point of view their quality is much more significant. A matter of signal VS noise, you know. - Gilgamesh

Well I think IRC is still fast, clean and sleek, you want to follow, you join a channel, you want to be followed you create a channel. Friendfeeds comments are more like a fast forum arena and twitter is more like porno for pundits. - Cjay

I think the killer mac app/shiny new piece of tech/deep-geek-inside-joke friendfeed is dead. But; its days (as a sort of hot-house for geeks) were numbered from the start. What remains to be seen, is what becomes of it between now and the time Facebook pulls the plug. - J. Abdul-Qahhar

Over 360 comments in 3 hours on a platform which is "dead" isn't that bad at all. - Mike Hellers

But I have to wonder if this isn't the natural progression of every social network. Myspace is a ghost town, nobody talks about Friendster... but going back further, how long did anyone stay with their favorite BBS? Why are news groups now only the domain of the totally hardcore? I think Friendfeed, while never a household name, has had it's day. I don't think it has to do with Facebook or Friendfeed's leadership, it just is the way it is. And one day soon, we are all going to be burying Facebook too. - Ciaoenrico

RT @mikehellers Over 360 comments in 3 hours on a platform which is "dead" isn't that bad at all - Thierry R. Andriamirado

Mike - Well, 360 comments on an incendiary post from the guy who's nearly synonymous with Friendfeed. Otherwise tumbleweeds really have been blowing through this place for some time. - Ciaoenrico

It means that users are frustrated because of this FriendFeed's acquisition by Facebook consequences, and want to tell it (once again. Again 'till..?) - Thierry R. Andriamirado

The problem with FriendFeed was that the community broke down. It became far too much about who could gain the most attention, and not about interesting discussion. I think the Facebook takeover was just the excuse people needed to jump ship. Interestingly enough, since the DMU group moved over from Flickr, I am using FF more than ever. There is a proper community in the group, which gives me a reason to come back many times each day. - Chris Nixon from BuddyFeed

wow! I just feel like sombodies bitch here! 8D 8p~"~'"" - Cjay

I'm going to bed.... - Cjay

Robert: Be careful, you might find yourself back in the SUL ;) - Nir Ben Yona

Nir: I never was in Twitter's SUL but I sure am on a lot of people's lists! - Robert Scoble

By the way, I can't wait for you to see Twitter's new lists. Then you'll see that the SUL really is deader than a doornail. - Robert Scoble

Robert: OMG, can't believe you're still awake. You know my opinion, Twitter veterans should be there. Anyway, how on earth can you build the lists if you have to pick those users one at the time? I find it way too annoying. - Nir Ben Yona

Nir: it doesn't matter anymore. Twitter is about to start a new game with "lists" and now it's about reputation and influence and credibility and all that. - Robert Scoble

Robert: Do you think most people will make their lists public? In that case it might be a "game changer", like you've said. - Nir Ben Yona

guess what - 99% of twitter users wont make a list :) and im not sure i agree completely with robert - those on the default list will naturally be added to more lists making it the same game - which is against what winer thought it would be. - Allen Stern

still here, still occasionally comment on LG threads. - Mike Nencetti

Twitter is down again. Not even a Fail Whale which is on my favorite list. Just down. - Eric Logan

Eric: it's up here, mostly. The damn API has been barfing all evening. - Robert Scoble

Allen: I totally disagree with you on the lists thing. I've already added 1,000 new people because of the new lists feature. - Robert Scoble

Unfotunately, I'm finding myself agreeing with Robert Scoble (which is new to me). I've been getting far fewer comments and likes than before. That in turn gives me less to act on, so my activity has dropped precipitously, too. But even with my much lower activity, FFholic says I'm ~400th most active. 6 months ago, I wouldn't have ranked in the top 5000 with such low activity. - Jason Huebel

I knew as soon as FacePOOP bought them the Party was over!! Garbage is as Garbage does!! ;)) - Billy Warhol

It's not dead, yet... - David Cook

Twitter's new list feature is fantastic. And yes, I have made my lists public. This is my take on the whole thing: http://friendfeed.com/app103... It's going to take me quite awhile to get everyone sorted though. If they had come out with this feature months ago when I had only around 200 people to sort it would have been so much easier. But lists on Twitter or... more... - April Russo (app103)

The social media learning curve: many people quickly learn that articles posted on high-quality primary news sites and blogs are more valuable and useful than the comments posted in response to those articles on social media sites. They try to allocate their time wisely, to focus on the more important over the less important. That's why I spend much more time in Feedly than in... more... - Sean McBride

After participating in this conversation, for me there is one obvious truth that has surfaced from it all. Community is not the technology .. it's the people who drive it, and this thread proves there is still a thriving community here at FF. - BLOGBloke

MG Siegler on techcrunch: "Previously, FriendFeed had committed to keeping the site running indefinitely despite their new jobs at Facebook. And it has remained running, but the site’s innovation, always its key attribute, has been completely halted. And perhaps as a vote of no confidence, previously rabid users are now largely staying away." http://www.techcrunch.com/2009... - Gilgamesh

Previously rabid Friendfeed users who are now staying away: to where are they migrating? Have they discovered platforms of equal or superior quality for sharing and discussing news? I haven't. - Sean McBride

So sad, I just discovered FriendFeed around the buy out. We have to talk it up to our friends so it doesn't die! - Nathan Snyder

I'm dieing! - Zachary TG

so sad - michael sean wright

The future of Friendfeed: a team of visionary developers needs to pick up from where the original Friendfeed creators left off, and aggressively push forward the platform's feature set. The basic platform is solid, but still primitive. - Sean McBride

I fail to see why continued innovation is so critical when we have a platform that is already head and shoulders above anything else out there. Seems to me the only people who truly care are the early adopters and uber tech geeks, both of which are prone to jumping ship when the next new shiny service comes along regardless of how good the present service is. For the rest of us, we have... more... - Jeff P. Henderson

+15 Jeff! - Micah Wittman from iPhone

hmm, FF looks alive from here. the apparent halt in development is certainly attempted murder, tho. - Joe Silence is not dead

If the current incarnation of Friendfeed had assembled the optimal feature set, it wouldn't be flatlining (or downtrending) on Compete.com. There is much room for improvement. (I've made numerous suggestions in the past -- consult the archives.) - Sean McBride

Sean, it's pretty dang close. I do agree that over time, other services will either add all of the features that FF has or innovate and develop cool features that FF does not have. So the stopping of development will definitely kill FF in the long run. But in the near term, I have little problem with the present feature set here compared with my options elsewhere. - Jeff P. Henderson

Jeff -- at the moment, I don't see any other platform out there that is as capable as Friendfeed for sharing and discussing news -- despite my lengthy wish list for new features. That is why I am curious about where many former Friendfeeders are migrating to. Are some of them perhaps withdrawing from social media altogether? I haven't seen any alternative platforms recommended here. - Sean McBride

I think many techies are getting their feet wet with Wave right now. Time spent looking elsewhere - whether we find something usable or not - still translates to less time on FriendFeed ... - Dan Freeman

My personal blog post, feel free to share with other non-FriendFeeders http://snyderxc.blogspot.com/2009... - Nathan Snyder

I still go here more than Twitter and it's all because of the comments, pictures, no 140char limit, etc... I vote Not Dead. - Jan Ole Peek

Plus I still don't see how anyone can have a valid conversation on Twitter with more than 1 or 2 people. Certainly not via the web interface. - Jan Ole Peek

I don't think FF is dead. I also hope it won't die because it kicks ass :) - alfred westerveld

I'm sorry, but I must laugh at the First comment by Jan Ole Peek, comments about the 140 Character Limit while abbreviating. (Subconcious?) Anyway, I hope it doesn't die also. - Nathan Snyder

Heh, XC Fan, I'm a lazy typer, that's all. But I don't like to be confined to a certain number of characters. Aside from that, I like that pictures are displayed inline with FriendFeed whereas with Twitter you always have to visit some stupid site to see the image. - Jan Ole Peek

Yeah, plus you can attach any file right to a post for others to see. - Nathan Snyder

While a little crazy to read, where else could you have a discussion like this? I missed the main portion but it highlights the importance of real-time to capture discussions AND a solution to store/manage it. With FF I can join in later; twitter gone, FB out the bottom. Robert you thrive in the full blast from the fire hose, most mainstream users consider that pure torture. Your neighbors could grasp friendfeed, they'll never get twitter (in it's current form). I still love friendfeed http://ff.im/a57K2. - Chris Myles

*sighs* - Holden Page

The irony of 392 comments (so far) on a thread about the service dying is causing my head to implode. - Stephen Mack

you didn't expect such a popular and beloved service to die silently, did you? - Onur Cengiz

++Stephen - David Cook from email

Heya Robert if you're reading this check this out: http://www.victusspiritus.com/2009... - Mark Essel

Advertising for the uber geek ;) - Mark Essel

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Wow wished I can find 1000 following or followers to follow - polou/indigo_bow

You unfollowed lots of people recently. unfortunately, im one of them....though i don't know the reason :S but there is too difference in the ratio of your following and followers...why cant you add more people now ? - Junal Rahman

Mr Scoble, I would suggest you check out a service called FriendFeed. It's starting small, but no silly limits like that that I can see. :D - Micah Wittman

LOL :D - Susan Beebe from iPhone

+1 Micah! - Travis Koger

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