Broadstuff

He's on here and is one of the recommended initial follows. - Stupid Blogger (aka Tina)

heh. I'd be happy to make it to 50 - Alan Simpson

You're like those Swatch-watches back in the 80's...EVERYone had to have one. - Josh Haley

I'm happy if I have toys to play with, I love Social Media and the cool information that's floating round. I just enjoy sharing with people. I did discuss yesterday - with a friend I'm working on a stealth project with - that I really want people I know to subscribe more than I care about the anonymous masses subscribing. My father and a couple of my best friends read my blog, and they are the people I write it for. Now if I could just get them to follow my Twitter or FriendFeed... :) - Daniel W. Crompton

I just passed 21,000. Wild. - Robert Scoble

Lucky fellow :) - Robin Monks via IM

Thats a big growth in 15 hours. Might want to get it checked.. - Simon Wicks

I think I've heard of this.. Elephantitis of the Followers Gland.. - Angelo Rodrigues

wow! 21,000 amazing! I am about to hit 800 and twitter's growth is simply wild - Susan Beebe

"When can I sync my Facebook friends' contact information with my iPhone's address book?" Maybe if people keep asking, they'll relent. - Mark Trapp

"Maybe if people keep asking, they'll relent. - Mark Trapp" . . . Wow. A pig just flew by my office window. - John Craft

Ask the Mercury News people how they plan to change their business model and stay profitable as they, and other print media, move away from printed media. - Mark VandenBerg

"I would just love to know what they think of FriendFeed, if they feel their app is 'too heavy' in comparison, whether it makes many aspects of Facebook superfluous, and if they have any plans for a leaner and meaner Facebook to compensate for the heaviness that keeps many of us away (and makes FF feel so comfortable in comparison)." - Christopher Galtenberg

For Matt: How does Matt see blogging evolving in the face of tough economic times and web 2.0 consolidation? Does it go the way of Geo Cities? Does it fall off due to micro-blogging and life-streaming? Will Automattic develop a highly targeted display ad network using wordpress blogs? For Facebook: How do you get to profitability? And when? - AJ Kohn

"If you could be a tree..." (no?) - techPR

For Mullenweg: What i like about MovableType is it doesn't handcuff you to Perl, so you can integrate it with your platform. Are there any plans to allow Wordpress to operate outside of the PHP ghetto? - .LAG

"If you could have any superpower, what would it be?" - Zee. Just Zee.

Zee: Mullenweg already has superpowers. :-) - Robert Scoble

Ask Facebook what their target demographic is, and whether they see FriendFeed as a different market. - Chris White

"Ask Mercury News if they concur with Rupert Murdoch's recent statement that "we are moving from news papers to news brands" http://friendfeed.com/e/69c4d5..., and what that means for news brands like theirs... And whether unaffiliated organizations like AP gain more or less power in a world where news brands need to provide more customized news." - Christopher Galtenberg

Hi! I'd like you to ask facebook to open up their "phone book" for export to iPhone address book. Why would users want two address books, and why would users not have the right to "remember" a friend's phone number locally? - Mason Lee

Oh, please: For Matt Mullenweg, ask about Automattic's long-term plans for Intense Debate. Is this a platform for some sort of unified World-of-Wordpress login? Something which ties together self-hosted WordPress, WordPress.com -- perhaps even bbPress? Do they have it supporting Yahoo IDs yet? It was failing at last attempt. - Chris Baskind

I'd love to know if Matt will allow a FF widget in my sidebar on wordpress.com. I've been waiting ages. Please, please please ask. Pretty please. Thanks Robert - Roberto Bonini

Ask Matt what he is going to do about the incoming links section on the wordpress dashboard. the google links works less effectively than technorati ever did. its a shame. i want to see inbound links from the console. but how? - James

Roberto: there's a ton of those kinds of things I want on wordpress.com. Will focus on what Matt thinks will be the future of wordpress.com. - Robert Scoble

Mistakes made, lessons learned from them by examples. - imran

for SJMN - do they consider the SJMN "the voice of Silicon Valley" or are they just another "big City newspaper" ? . can they reveal some stats on their online version like who "reads" or "feeds" - Geographically, what content etc. - SnakeDoc

Robert: Thats interesting too. When one looks at how Windows Live as a whole group of services has re-imagined itself as a social network of sorts. Will wordpress re-imagine itself along similar lines???? - Roberto Bonini

In my mind, wordpress is awesome because it's extensible. The plugins make it great. So why doesn't wordpress.com let bloggers use them easily? Perhaps they could set up an app store like the iphone's, let users buy plugins and then split revs with developers. - mike

Thats a great idea mike, to expand the existing upgrade selection. Gets my vote. - Roberto Bonini

For Facebook: How do they intend on reaching more users if their site ain't optimized for slower connections? I've got 2mbps in Pakistan which is pretty expensive for lots of ppl to afford here and sometimes facebook takes it's own sweet time to load up on my connection too. Just imagine for ppl with slower connections? Many ppl still use dialup here! So does facebook have any plans to have a 'lite' version for developing nations instead of having ppl turn to other social networks instead? - Eldon via fftogo

Ask Facebook execs when they're going to expand their business offerings - last I heard there was some internal strife about this. - Jesse Stay

For Facebook: Why do they hate freedom?</angry> - Chris Charabaruk

$0.00 +Heather - Carmen

EDIT: Whoops, I just posted an anti-TweetValue rant. I should've said "I like microblogging but the internet will route around twitter if it stops being so useful". - Daniel J. Pritchett

same - Shevonne Polastre

$0.00 - Why paying when there are dozens of services that do the same or much more for free? - Ryo

I don't know Ryo - you build ties on a platform, friends, contacts, followers, and unless everyone agreed to move to the same other platform (which might also need to charge as soon as the volume hit it) you'd be starting from scratch again. I am unsure what I would do if they did charge, and I guess it would depend on the pricing model chosen. Say it was $8/year, the price of what, 2 coffees? - Joelle Nebbe

It is interesting to think about how the pricing would work. Who gets the biggest value? The people who tweet a lot? The people who have lots of people following them? The cell phone companies with their data plans? The companies that want to mine the stream for information and insight? - Seth "No Meme" Gottlieb

$0. exactly. - Nathan Chase

It's interesting how many people want services, but aren't willing to pay for them. I don't see any service staying alive for long without a revenue stream. - Joey Gibson

buck a month, micropayment - Gregory Lent

If I were a company with customers, I'd be willing to pay for Twitter to support my social marketing efforts, such as customer support and outreach, branding, relationship management, surveys, and so forth. - Rod Bauer via twhirl

somethng between 1 and 3 dollars a month I guess.but I think I would wanna have a few more features and a pretty good iphone app for that money. - Sebastian Küpers

buck a month, micropayment² - Rodrigo Jaroszewski

$1 a month - Tom Mack

What are they going to give me for $$$ that they already haven't? Would kill for stats I suppose. Probably embedded pictures and video. - Dion Hinchcliffe

I'd have to say: wait and see what the rest of the community does. The reason I use twitter is that there are so many people on it...if that dropped off because of a fee, then I'd go somewhere else with everyone else...if it seemed like most people were staying on, then I'd be willing to pay maybe a few bucks a month - Louis Simoneau

Joelle, I did that with Friendfeed, too. Started from scratch. Why not? Otherwise no new, better service would have a chance ever. And, when a service is free, I see no problem for friends to move to the new service or combining it (twitterfeed or rss to xyz), instead of pushing others to pay for "being friends". No way. In addition, if Friendfeed would do that, I would go, too, and it has tons of more features than Twitter. Twitter is obsolete anyway, even for no costs. - Ryo

Ryo - that is a fair point, but I started with FF because I really rated what they were trying to do. It didnt replace anything for me. I think it is when they added imaginary friends and custom feeds, i was hooked. Then @FOWA when I heard first hand where they were going, and that they were willing to discuss it all so openly, I suddenly moved to use FF more. Moving to something identical just because of a charge makes less sense, the time is a cost too. - Joelle Nebbe

I suspect companies and marketeers might pay to use twitter - it is a great tool, used smartly, to have easy (as in light in cost and resources) conversations with the customer base. I would say twitter is indeed easily replaced, but that infrastructure is not cheap, so the problem would recur. Or things might go open, with a microblogging network of products all interchanging, through a network structure like that of newsgroups or irc. Share the costs around. That might be interesting to try - Joelle Nebbe

$0.This is Real Web life. - Igor Poltavskiy

Nowt, I'm afraid. I only pay for about 2 social-type accounts, and that's because they offer a really big incentive. As standard, Twitter is awesome and my biggest addiction, but a payment barrier would see a large number of those people migrate very quickly. - Badger Gravling

$1/year - I do understand that there's no money making idea here, and advertisements in my stream would make me quit - clarke thomas

Good stuff. - Aram Zucker-Scharff

Great work, Mike. I have a bunch of lists that I never use already. My main list is called "Web 2.0" and it has a zillion people on it at this point. I think I might declare list bankruptcy, nuke them all, and start over. Wait no, I am keeping my Memphis list and my Wife list. Everything else is toast though. - Daniel J. Pritchett

I love that you are having more and more guest posters. Have you considered adding a right sidebar that lists them and offers profiles of them? - Laura Norvig

Laura: I think it's fun. I think eventually everyone on FriendFeed is going to be on Louis Gray's blog. I am trying to come up with a good post for him too. Unfortunately the competition is tough! - Robert Scoble

@Laura, I definitely need to make some updates to the site. It might even take changing the domain, and I've thought about all that. Soon there will be more clarity I hope, but for now, I'm lucky that Mike and others have been so very helpful. - Louis Gray

@Scoble, it's not the competition that will kill you. It's filling out the application forms in triplicate! - Louis Gray

I use lists by context - in a way which hat I am wearing at the moment I want to see different things. And yes, some people are in several lists. I know FF say they are working on conceptual filtering in some way, but that is a very tricky problem especially across languages - all i can say is bring it out, even very incomplete. Yes, people will complain and bash it, but it could still help. - Joelle Nebbe

U make some great points, I cannot boast many followers as of yet but I have just really begin this journey, having someone who has travelled this route before certainly helps so thanks for taking the time to share it. - Ray Marr

Everybody I subscribe to is in my home feed. Anybody who is active on FF is in my "FF Users" feed (which doesn't have my imaginary friends). A small number of people I know from outside FF are on my "Personal" list. I have one topic-related list that I should drop since it hasn't been developed. The only other list: Rooms. There are some rooms that I don't include in the Home feed, so I check this one somewhat regularly, too. But I'd say 90% of my FFing is from the home feed. - Scott from Canada

Louis left out the fact, that the application forms are for background and credit checks. This man is serious business :) - Mike Fruchter

i have been hesitating adding people to follow, need to organise things better before I do - Joelle Nebbe

@Daniel, Press the red button. I dare you. - Mike Fruchter

@Daniel, you have a Wife list? How many wives do you have? Are they all on FriendFeed? - Louis Gray

@Ray, start with your core interest list first, and build from there. Keep it small. Create a list for unclassified members, or dump them in your home feed automatically. When you have your list interests established, start picking people off your home feed, and add them to the appropriate lists. Oh, and welcome to FriendFeed. - Mike Fruchter

Louis, it's really the 'Chandler' list. She's the only one I've got! - Daniel J. Pritchett via fftogo

I'm a huge fan of lists.Having them has helped me filter for specific people and content I would miss otherwise as it flowed down my stream without ever seeing it without having to click on individual people's profiles. This was also a sorely lacking feature that I wanted on Twitter as well and today I finally got it in the form of TweetDeck's grouping feature. I'm a happy camper. - Mark Krynsky

Oh and you other guest posters only had to fill out triplicates? Louis asked me to send in an audition tape. Don't ask. - Mark Krynsky

I have stopped looking. I try to work out instead. - Edwin Khodabakchian

My idea of working out consists of baby lifts and the Wii Fit. But the only thing losing weight is my wallet. - Louis Gray

That looks my kids' 529s. Misery loves company. Or whatever. - Rick Turoczy

The mega millions lottery has a $86M jackpot currently, looks like a worthwhile investment to me. - Nigel Stolting