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Sent. - Wins Fern

okckilinc@gmail.com thanks :) - Oguz Kaan C Kilinc (okck)

reydans@gmail.com - Andrey Maslak

Brainteeth@gmail.com - Mony Quran

jesi.nieves [at] gmail - Jesi

The invites for all the above are sent. - Wins Fern

snhasani@gmail.com please - Nasser Hasani

caleb.elston@gmail.com thanks! - Caleb Elston

This invitation is inactive. We’re sorry, the invitation you received is no longer active. :( okckilinc@gmail.com - Oguz Kaan C Kilinc (okck)

Oguz, I can log on to my account. I can add the listed services. What does that mean? I have sent a feedback. Let me wait for their reply. Others could open account? - Wins Fern

vladzaharia [at] gmail [dot] com if you still have some. :) - Vlad Z

TJT2003 [at] gmail [dot] com if any left - Tim Tunnicliff

sheasmith916[at]gmail[dot]com Thanks! - Shea from BuddyFeed

prosman@gmail.com - Osman Erdoğan

TJT2003 [at] gmail .com Thank you :+) - Tim Tunnicliff from email

i think you sent me an invite but it said the link isnt active anymore could you send another please - Mony Quran

Mony: I am trying to sort it out with Nebul.us. You are the second person to have that problem. - Wins Fern

can i have one 2? hmnunes(at)gmail.com Thx - HN

Received this reply from Levi, regarding Nebul.us invites problem. Hi Wins, Thank you so much for pointing out the problem, it should be fixed in tonight/tomorrow's release. All the best, Levi - Wins Fern

Mony, will you pls. try again to hook up? Thank you. - Wins Fern

I too still await an invite TJT2003 [at] gmail .com - Tim Tunnicliff from email

Invite has been sent to Tim Tunnicliff - LouCypher

one to flankermail@gmail.com please - Flanker

My thanks to you Lou, very much appreciated! :+) - Tim Tunnicliff from email

i need invitation plz can u send me at rashidimran84@gmail.com...thanks a lot - Rashid Imran Aslam

I need an invitation....plz sen me one at nihar.uce@gmail.com - Niharjyoti Sarangi

I'm g4daddy@gmail.com if any invites remain! - Greg

ssamantha - thks! - samantha

Can you send me one? nicogranelli [at] gmsil.com thxs - Nico Granelli

Sorry, Tim, I could not send an invite to you. - Wins Fern

Greg, sent an invite to you, pls. intimate if you could log into nebul.us. So I can send another two to others. - Wins Fern

No need to send me one Wins, I already have nebul.us but thanks anyway :-) - Tim Tunnicliff from email

Nihar, sent an invite. Check ur email, pls. - Wins Fern

Thanks Wins.......I got it - Niharjyoti Sarangi

Have any left? I'll take one. jhuebel@gmail.com - Jason Huebel

Jason Huebel, invite sent. - Wins Fern

Thanks Wins! :-) - Jason Huebel

The singularity hath arrived? - Itachi

haha, they would have to make sure they don't allow that :) - Caleb Elston from IM

Stupid me, failed on the post title on Twitter. Should be Acquire FOURSQUARE. haha - Caleb Elston

You can edit in FriendFeed tho.. - Itachi

Just fixed. Thanks - Caleb Elston

No prob - Itachi

I think you just hit the other side of the same coin. A great insight differentiates you from competitors, but quality of the algorithm will help you lead the pack of competitors that are bound to appear Good post :-) - Alexander van Elsas

Alexander: I agree that these companies are also the keepers of the best algorithms for their respective approaches. I think trying to play catchup with only a slightly better algorithm is not a winning strategy. Did you listen to it or read it? - Caleb Elston

@Caleb, I did both actually. I think it is quite nice to hear a voice with the post. It makes me wonder if I should do that too. I think the correct order is 1 Great insight, 2. Better algorithm. But 1 cannot live without 2 ;-) - Alexander van Elsas

Thanks Louis! I can't wait to get out to the Bay Area and experience all the awesomeness. - Caleb Elston

Congrats! - Oğuz Serdar

Thanks Oguz :) - Caleb Elston

Congrats Caleb!!! Awesome move and looking forward to seeing the fruits of your labor. - Corvida

Corvida: I will be sure to keep you posted, gotta get you streaming on Justin.tv now :) - Caleb Elston

Welcome to the SF Bay Caleb! - anna sauce

anna: Thanks for the warm welcome! Still gottta decide where to live. Using AirBnB.com to experiment with different neighborhoods. Any suggestions? - Caleb Elston

Congrats! - Nicholas James

Well done. Great news. - Ian May

Thanks Nicholas and Ian! - Caleb Elston

Welcome to SF - Alan Morris

Awesome Caleb! Great for you, and glad you'll be out here. - Hutch Carpenter

Congrats:) - Mycaptain

Thanks Hutch! Can't wait to finally meet and grab a drink! Looking for places to live atm. - Caleb Elston

Best of luck Caleb! - Charlie Anzman

Sounds challenging. Best wishes. - Jack (a.k.a. Jeber)

What a great move for you! Congrats - MaryAnn Chick Whiteside

Thanks Charlie, Jack and MaryAnn. Now the apartment hunting begins. - Caleb Elston

congrats man! - Marco(aureliusmaximus)

Caleb- what kind of places do you like to go out at, at night? Do you like a quiet neighborhood, or don't mind a scene? - anna sauce

You might want to try Russian Hill- I love it up there- and isn't J-TV there? - anna sauce

There are some new exiting neighborhoods like Nopa and old standards like The Mission, but thre are some undeniably nice places to live, like Russian Hill/North Beach etc - anna sauce

Been looking at SOMA, Nob Hill, and Pac Heights the most so far. I def want a bit of a neighborhood feel with good tie ins to the public transport. - Caleb Elston

Check craigslist of course- and at the end of the day it really depends on how much you can spend. There are variables like- require parking, live near a park for running, live near north side/southside for commuting. Since you don't have to worry about commuting, It makes it easier. Another cool hood is lower nob hill. - anna sauce

Yeah, what would say is a fair price for a nice apartment with a new kitchen and hardwood floors. No need for parking. Sub 2k? Trying to understand how much I should wait for the "perfect" place. - Caleb Elston

Studio or shared housing? - anna sauce

If you're in a hurry you can try a broker, though most people don't do that. The end of the month is a frenzied time, but if you are flexible with your schedule and can couch-surf in the city, it's a lot easier and will go faster. - anna sauce

Congrats Caleb! - Mike Reynolds

Thanks Mike! - Caleb Elston

congrats! - mikepk

you wanna hear the neighborhood steroetypes? You'll encounter them sooner or later, haha. - anna sauce

sure, hit me :) - Caleb Elston

cool - mike "glemak" dunn

hey that is cool!! awesome job!! have fun :) - Susan Beebe

I liked hotpads.com for my last search. You don't have to sign up -- and you can contact people through the site, I got responses back from landlords and management companies. Here you are in russian hill: http://hotpads.com/search... - Richard pancakhaus Walker

Thanks for all the tips on apartment hunting guys. It really is a pain in the ass. I decided to write a bit about the whole process and what I think would make it better. What do you think? http://bit.ly/Ka44C - Caleb Elston

Micah: good point, wish they were too! but I am the guy moving lol. - Caleb Elston

Caleb, Congrats! - Mike Fruchter

Congrats Caleb :) - Nicholas James

Thanks Mike! - Caleb Elston

All the best, Caleb :) - Micah Wittman

Well written, accurate and concise with no spelling errors. I also agree with your analysis about the viral power, technique and cost mitigation of what is a fairly new paradigm changing marketing platform. :) - Eric Logan

Eric: Thanks I appreciate the feedback. It is surprising to me how few companies are really taking advantage of the benefits of Facebook and others. They seem to be building little toy apps rather than integrating the strengths of the platform into their main marketing initiatives. - Caleb Elston from IM

I am seeing an increase in my local market initially through establishing a presence. I am not sure that the old guard who own the local landing pages and affiliate marketer / developers that advise and develop for many of the local businesses know how to best deal with this emergence yet. - Eric Logan

Very cool. Yeah, local business' have an even larger opportunity here, because they have been relegated to bad tv ads or the yellowpages. Now they can create groups, pages, and get out real information and deals to their customers. - Caleb Elston

Thank you for using paragraphs. I read so many blogs that are essentially one long sentence. Unreadable. You post is readable and informative. - Jack (a.k.a. Jeber)

ah nice, that rocks. - Caleb Elston

That would be better if forgetly could send the saved note back to gmail everyday for backup. - Lizunlong

that's an interesting idea. If you create an account, or signin with Twitter, Facebook or Google Account, it is stored on the Forgetly system. - Caleb Elston from IM

Yeah, I signin with google account, so maybe forgetly has already known my gmail address, right? - Lizunlong

yeah, for sure! next iteration hopefully! - Caleb Elston from IM

the visual style looks very familiar... - Caleb Elston

a time stamp was added (or i just noticed it) sweet :) - mike "glemak" dunn

Yeah, that happens when you "merge' notes. So you are not logged in, and are writing, then you remember you have an account so you login, we take the notes you have in the page and then merge them into your main forgetly account. - Caleb Elston

ah got it - tried it on my blackberry tour but it wouldn't let me login - iphone worked fine though via twitter oauth, digging it as a memory augmentation tool ;) - mike "glemak" dunn

Happy Birthday! - Zee.

Happy Birthday, Ben! - Mark Trapp

Happy birthday to my favorite creator of fftogo! =) - Admiral Anika

Mirthful Bornday, Sir Golub. - PurpleZoe

Happy Birthday Ben - you are just 7 days apart from me (at least by day and month) - Jesse Stay

Happy birthday! - Shevonne

Happy B'day BG!! :) - अभिषेक(Abhishek) Das

Joyeux anniversaire ! - Stanislas Jourdan

Happy Birthday, Ben#1! - Tudor Bosman

Happy Birtdhay - Neska

Happy Birthday! - Kevin Fox

Happy Birthday Ben - fftogo RSSmeme master! :) Perfect day here in Rochester for your b-day :) - Susan Beebe

Thanks! - Benjamin Golub

Happy Bday, and thanks for all your contributions to FF! - Tim Hoeck

Happy birthday indeed! - Brett Kelly

Happy Birthday! - Michael Fidler

Happy Birthday, Ben!!! - Ross Miller

Thank you. A little early, but thank you anyway. - Ben Hanten

Happy Birthday Ben! - Dobromir Hadzhiev

Congrats! - Mitchell Tsai

Happy Birthday, Benjamin! - David Cook

Hey, happy birthday, Ben! - Micah Wittman from iPhone

Happy Birthday, BG ! - Ahsan Ali aka. Slick

Happy Birthday Ben - Charlie Anzman

Happy Birthday, Ben! :-) - Kol Tregaskes

Happy Birthday Benjamin - Burak S. Vanlı

Happy Birthday! - Caleb Elston

It's true, I started a blog. Finally decided it was time to make time and write. Let me know what you think really appreciate all of your guys feedback. - Caleb Elston

Great start for a blog, Caleb! You should add it to your FriendFeed. - Meryn Stol

Enjoy the concept exposed in the headline, have to dig it more. - abdellah

thanks Meryn will do. - Caleb Elston

Thanks Abdellah, it's great to hear it resonates with you. - Caleb Elston

I don't like that thing - Jeff (the メガマクダジ of FF) from iPhone

Diggbar is greedy. - Shawn Farner

Just commented on this post. Very well written and a lot of excellent points. - Jim Connolly

I love the Diggbar, this is much too emotional and picky of an article. - Mitch

Diggbar annoys the hell out of me! - Nicholas James

Anything from digg is a joke - Johnny

i dont understand why people dont love diggbar - Ahmet Soyata

seems very short sighted of digg to have gotten so greedy. - Caleb Elston

Caleb: They only have so much funding and they keep taking people (Google) down the alter and get jilted which means they will either die (running out of cash mainly) or they'll grow up get a revenue model and become self-sufficient - which is what they're doing now ;) - Nicholas James

Simply put, I see the OS slowly fading into the background. It will remain essential (a browser needs an OS, period) but it won't matter for innovation. - Meryn Stol

Therein lies the question, Meryn. I don't know that Apple would simply discontinue the operating system and get out of the business, right? So whatever they would call it would have to work in this new environment, whether it has a version number or not. So how do they adapt? And when will they communicate to customers these planned changes? - Louis Gray

I think the people who are truly short-sighted in this are those who believe it's an either/or proposition: either it's OS-driven or browser-driven; either it's local or cloud; etc. The next step isn't ditching the OS in favor of the browser or the hard drive for the cloud, it's making the two completely indistinguishable from each other. In a way, Microsoft was ahead of everyone when... more... - Akiva Moskovitz

I think Microsoft sees this too and they're really starting to come back. Apple's got some serious pressure to start innovating again. - Jesse Stay

Louis, I think they're slowly adapting to making "web devices". Iphone was meant to have web apps only at first... I think there's still a lot of money in making superb web devices. A strong OS is a part of that, but it won't really be a selling point. For Iphone, you see Apple de-emphasizing tech specs. It's a gradual retreat from lower layers towards U/X and hardware design only. But that's exactly the place Apple always has shined. I think the OS really can be cut out between without hurting Apple. - Meryn Stol

MSFT has a bigger problem... Windows 7 is about the end for them too. Many people can still get around with XP. It's all about the browser nowadays. - Meryn Stol

Also, don't forget, there's more to the OS than just providing a means to get to the Internet. Although I think we'll one day see on-demand access to games even more advanced than the ones that require two DVDs to be installed on a local drive, we are far, far, far away from that. In many ways, gaming drives hardware more than anything else. - Akiva Moskovitz

PC Gaming is a weird phenomenon. Somehow, I'd expect it to move to consoles... But it's seemingly hard to "extinguish". But I think we'll definitely see on-demand downloading of game content. The actual game engine doesn't have to be that big. - Meryn Stol

I'm glad that gaming hasn't been 'extinguished' on the PC. It drives innovation more than any other aspect of computers. Even if other products might have brought about 3D graphics to computers, it would have come much later and at much slower of an acceptance rate and at a far higher price to consumers. Gaming is as vital as ethernet. - Akiva Moskovitz

Another option is just like the Wizard of Oz. "It was right there in front of you this whole time!" as the iPhone OS moves to the desktop. (Photoshop and Office I am ignoring for now) - Louis Gray

For me it is all about the apps. The OS has always been about abstracting the hardware so that developers have a stable and predictable environment to create their apps that serve people's needs. Apple has built more "Apps" and app like functionality into their core OS and I expect they will continue to do so. What we really want are the OS's of the future to not only abstract the local... more... - Caleb Elston

Google Reader? Check. Toluu? Check. Lazyfeed? Check. My6Sense? - Louis Gray

I depend on my Google reader much more than Twitter or Friendfeed - William Harryman

As my students would say, "RSS reader for the win!" - Miss Elle from fftogo

There's great RSS hidden in the corners of the newspapers and public broadcasters too. - Simon Hamer

Apostol... I wouldn't say that. Both have different uses. I use both. - Louis Gray

Louis: My6Sense: I don't have an iPhone. I've signed up for their Firefox Add-On private alpha, waiting for an invite. - Mahendra (SkepticGeek)

lol. The idea of an online password manager is a bit scary to me. Anyone using them? - Caleb Elston

I've downloaded keepass again recently; I'm trying to make sure that I use it more and more... - acedanger

I use the one on my Mac - Shevonne

I use short, funny sentences. That usually involves a capital letter and punctuation, so it makes them fairly complex. - Jennifer Dittrich

Wow, Jesse! Congrats! You've been working hard for it. Great job. - Daniel Zarick

Yay... That is cool!!! - Susan Beebe from iPhone

Jesse - Congratulations! - Atul Arora

That is fantastic! Can't think of a better place for you! - Martha

Atul I owe a lot of it to you - thanks for your great tips! - Jesse Stay

I can't remember the old site vividly, but from what I remember, I think this one is 10 times better. It has a solid look. I never tried the app so I can't say anything about that. - Meryn Stol

Thanks Meryn, Brian - Shaun are you on pc or mac? - Allen Stern

looks fine in chrome for me - tony bland

COngrats! - Caleb Elston