Alright, for some reason this reminds me of the phone call I had with my mother Sunday, when we both started talking in really crappy Sean Connery accents. Fabuloush!
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
If it's a school picture, you KNOW it's Olan Mills! At least, that's the way it was around here. Those folks had a lock on the uncomfortably posed photo market.
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
uncomfortable pose? looks pretty comfortable to me lol :P
- Rob Sellen :o)
I wonder if this isn't overthinking the problem a bit. This market has been untapped for ages. I had to buy a 13" MacBook for my family because there wasn't anything else that fit the bill. As time goes on, I just want machines that take less and less time to deal with. OSX is almost there: as long as I have a time-machine backup, I can wipe and reinstall. Chrome OS just takes it one step further.
- Matt Mastracci
(disclaimer: I have practically no direct involvement with ChromeOS. These are just my thoughts). I think Vijay's analysis is pretty reasonable. It is in Google's best interest (and I think everyone's, with the exception of those selling proprietary OSs) that people not be locked to particular devices. The web may be far from perfect, and we have a lot of work to do to make it a full competitor to native apps, but it's our best bet to get away from the proprietary silos of decades past.
- Joel Webber
This is clearly not my cat. If this was my cat he's have one arm shoved down into the printer trying to tear up all the internal whirling bits with his bare claws.
- Soup
Too Funny! Reminds me of the San Mateo Cat Shelter where one of the cats loves to sleep on top of the laster printer where the paper comes out...
- Greg Lato
1600+ to beat the FFundercats live chat thread. I think with this real time now on all threads we're going to see some truly epic comment numbers.
- Simon Wicks
Ivan, no the picture speaks for itself. ;-)
- Kol Tregaskes
Petr, I have no idea what you mean, but thank you. :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
@Kol .. :] that, partially, might have been the purpose.... I don't know it exactly either. :] .. was I reflecting on a cat under the fax, and that it is hard to fax that way ... /?:] ... "underfaxing at its worst" ..
- Petr Buben
there ya have me ! :] .... see, to be honest with you, i saw this pic couple days ago, but i let it go, without posting it ..... what does that make me? :]
- Petr Buben
even a flat cat... faxes just can't handle the hair. You'd have to shave the cat first, else the hair will burn and stick to the drum... a mess! (I am extrapolating from transparencies, mind, i don't have access to a cat to test)
- Joelle Nebbe (iphigenie)
Hehe, Joelle. This is now tied for the 'likes' top stop. One more then, hehe. :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
Hehe, Greg. Blimey! Erm, is that not far from 500 likes now? ;-)
- Kol Tregaskes
Bloody marvelous, Kol. Wish I could like it again... too cute (and help u to 500 likes).
- Roberto Bonini
I couldn't believe it when I logged on from the morning over posting it and saw it was at something 200 likes! You all have a strange fetish with cats and fax machines, hehe. ;-)
- Kol Tregaskes
Am I the only one who saw this and their first thought was - My goodness did someone break that cats neck? It still freaks me out a little
- Steve C
Steve, it does look a little out of place, but cats are pretty bendy. ;-)
- Kol Tregaskes
They fax much better if you flatten them first. What?
- Kevin Pedraja
So we can put this post to rest now. :-) 505 likes final count, wow! :-D Good night all!
- Kol Tregaskes
My like is the last one so far :) - 509 afaik
- getalifejerk
did 3 people really un-like this? now at 506. wtf (edit: uh, oh, yeah, me and 2 + 506 others makes 509. dammit, jim, i'm an artist, not a mathematician)
- ɐ ɯıʞ sıɹɥɔ
One of the best funny cat pictures I've seen! :-)
- John Collis
Kristian, it appears to be. Hehe, John.
- Kol Tregaskes
ای بابا این پیشول بی خیال نمی شود، بابا پاشو برو دنبال یه بازی دیگه ، از هفته پیش تا حالا تو فکس ولو شدی حوصله ات سر نرفته، پاشو اقلا بپر رو کیبوردی چیزی
- Maryaminaa
It's really only social convention which regards it as inappropriate, same with Xeroxing it, like one does with their b__tocks. Wait are we still talking about cats cats here or...
- sofarsoShawn
OMGosh 700+ likes now!! LOL. Thank you all 702 of you. :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
"The Volkswagen Microbus is a classic - even to those of us born after its time. Arguably unlike the newly remade Beetle, this remake of a VW classic is remarkably true to the original on the outside - but on the inside it is a bio-diesel hybrid stuffed full of high tech gadgetry and eco-friendly innovations."
- Kol Tregaskes
from Bookmarklet
Super cool VW Bus making a comeback...
- Walt Ruppar
First of all, I'll cop to wanting one of these. That being said, Jason is right. This is for rich hippies (who probably aren't hippies at all). The VW microbus became the darling of the Flower Power crowd because it was cheap, easy to repair, and big. You could camp in it. Is there a car today that fits this bill?
- Chris Baskind
wow, you can buy an awful lot of pot with $129,000.
- Thomas Hawk
I don't know a self-respecting hippie that would prefer this over a really nice indoor greenhouse. ;-)
- Chris Baskind
@Chris, Most cars today aren't as simple, but with the wealth of knowledge online, it just takes more time. The minivan/SUV can become a camper van with a few mods. They'll never take the place of the VW, but they're an updated version of the 70s panelvan conversions (hopefully without shag carpeting & a disco-ball).
- Steven Cains
Nope: there will never be anything that simple again. That's not all bad: I can't imagine a 1960s VW Minibus would satisfy *any* federal safety standard these days. You're right. A used minivan might be the closest thing.
- Chris Baskind
Very Cool. You can't drive your house but, you can sleep in your Van !!!
- Eric Logan
Very intriguing. How much steel is in that thing? Chris, that would be my next question after fuel consumption: how safe is this thing? And I agree, when we can go back to making transportation that costs less than a small home, we may have achieved something amazing. ;)
- Melanie Reed
However, I have heard (and I'm not remembering where at the moment) that there has been a movement growing of people seeking alternative housing and substituting things like this as the new "mobile" home.
- Melanie Reed
Everyone is loving this! We should have an FF one and use it to travel to all the FFers around the World (like Pea seems to be doing ;-)). Hehe. :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
cool idea, kol. the ff-stream of this tour would be alltheawe. just imagine the photos.
- esther ♥ ♫
I've owned 5 VWs, two of which were split window vans. I'd love to have another, this is awesome!
- Rick Bucich
from twhirl
I have had more VWs than other cars...starting with a 71 Superbeetle, and a Split Window Microbus. I would LOVE to have something like this.
- Kreg Steppe
Good for grandparents to visit grandchildren and children through the European continent (or another one as well)...nomadism-revival!
- Isabelle Ayel
wow i posted this a while back and now can't seem to find it for some reason. friendfeed's search function really sucks!
- Cee Bee
So after reading this article yesterday, I found myself this evening in front of a local place that specializes in reconditioning old VWs. It was closed, but there's an awesome red and white microbus out front with a For Sale sign on it. Ugly, underpowered -- and probably dangerous, by modern standards. Want. ;-)
- Chris Baskind
Cee, really? I find FF search is pretty good.
- Kol Tregaskes
I love this Mobile...owned a few Vdubs, lived in a VW camper, but this is off the hook..I would become a true nomad with this...
- bcultral
I'd like to have something like this, something small. What do you really need? A bed, perhaps a TV and room for your computer. Then you can live anywhere you like, in theory.
- Kol Tregaskes
Who is this Canadian designer Alexandre Verdier? Seems like he is on Facebook, Linked In but I can't seem to find anything else about him.
- Brian Sullivan
We had a wesvalia built Micro when I was a kid. I loved that thing. It was a little flimsily built; but boy it was perfect for my family of campers and road-tripping warriors. Too bad this one is so pricey
- Bill Rawlinson
Nah, Big Things(TM) are going to happen. As an ardent supporter, and someone watching them closely, I have every faith that they'll haul through, for better or for worse.
- Tyson Key
Did I mention that the recently released kernel code is pretty high-quality stuff? I know developers complain about the S60/AVKON UI layers on top, but the low-level stuff is very concise, well-commented, and nicely sized as far as codebases go. (Barring external dependencies and header files, the kernel directory contains 30.8MB across 1,809 FS objects. The largest portion is naturally drivers, at just over 5MB, and the core nanokernel that the rest is built upon is just 632KB for the non-SMP version)...
- Tyson Key
Naturally, they have a performance and openness advantage over Android from a developer perspective, too, thanks to the fact that native C++ (using POSIX, Qt, and Symbian-specific APIs), Java, Python and even .NET development is possible, without being confined to a proprietary non-standard Java VM and implementation.
- Tyson Key
Unlike Android, or even Windows Mobile, there's no ulterior motive with Symbian, either. (As mentioned in the article). That is - the platform doesn't exist to be a pure advertising/profit funnel due to being controlled by a for-profit organisation, and very little information is withheld from the public regarding the product plans.
- Tyson Key
Although I came to that conclusion quite some time ago, independently.
- Tyson Key
@winckel - "Blew it" in which way, out of interest?
- Tyson Key
Not sure if it's a British thing, or of what sort of answer I'd get from an American, but I generally sense xenophobia to an extent around the US market, for what it's worth - i.e. "If it wasn't created by/for an American corporation, it simply doesn't exist at all"...
- Tyson Key
Ironically, that mindset doesn't appear to exist, or at least isn't made as obvious, when Linux is involved, though.
- Tyson Key
@TK - I'm meant "is it the smartphone platform of the future".... I suspect it really isn't......
- winckel
Aah. Nobody knows the answer to that question, given that everything is incredibly dynamic. For all anyone knows, Microsoft or RIM could announce something Earth-shattering, Apple could dramatically change their application distribution and content policies, Palm could go bankrupt, or any number of events could occur. I don't even pretend to know the answer to that question, but Symbian need to do what they can to avoid turning into "a party of one".
- Tyson Key
I'm not wishing death and doom on anyone, though.
- Tyson Key
They have the right people, the right attitude, the drive and determination, and the tools and source code, which are being prepared and distributed at a decent pace. Now, all they need is interest and support from developers, enthusiasts, device manufacturers, and other parties... Who'll give them that is another matter, altogether.
- Tyson Key
I know that the Foundation is not owned by Nokia, and that they have about as much say in it as other members (i.e. one council seat) and interested parties, but there's still the stigma of "Symbian is Nokia's baby" that they need to eradicate, if they're going to make it.
- Tyson Key
As for the Platform itself, work is under way to modernise it, in the places that matter the most to the most vocal people. Touch-support has been in place for a while, and a new graphics architecture is being developed, based upon the ScreenPlay product/infrastructure that Symbian Software Ltd developed, prior to the announcement of the Foundation, along with a new, Qt-based UI framework. In addition, a new PHY-independent network stack is being developed, based upon the previously announced FreeWay code.
- Tyson Key
(That'll bring support for being able to seamlessly transition between low-level media, and other nice features. I believe that more features are also being worked on).
- Tyson Key
Still, it'd be nice if people actually used the product for an extended period of time and reserved judgement until they can make up their mind, instead of looking at a screenshot of an old version briefly, and bitching about it "being like Windows 95", without justification, and deriding community and Foundation members as being blind and ignorant...
- Tyson Key
@Tyson I guess the reason I'm perhaps not so optimistic about Symbian is that there was an opportunity for them (which it seems they weren't really able to take) and now competition has intensified greatly - Android , Apple etc - so it's even more difficult. As you say, hard to know how these things will turn out and in any case, consumers will be much much better off.
- winckel
Indeed, I'm a big supporter of platform diversity and productive competition, if it keeps people honest, but on the other hand, that can create issues... Is too much diversity a bad thing? (Witness the over-hyped, yet undesirable myriad of closed, incompatible mobile Linux efforts, with insane amounts of wheel-reinvention taking place)...
- Tyson Key
Hell, I'm sure that Palm have burnt through 3 or 4 different OSes, before arriving at WebOS. Not forgetting all the times when they thought - "Hey! Let's spin off the folks making the PalmOS", only to later regret and reacquire, just so that they can sell it off again. Naturally, Microsoft don't know where they stand - their product also fails to compel, and they obviously realise, if all the name changes and re-categorisations are anything to go by...
- Tyson Key
(I've got nothing personal against Palm - if anything, I was hoping that they'd have a "phoenix moment" and prove that they're still capable of making something viable, only to be pleasantly surprised when they finally made the WebOS announcement and SDK release).
- Tyson Key
@winckel - Apologies to yourself, and whoever decided to unsubscribe and/or block (although that's another matter), I didn't mean my previous comment (about using the product and reserving judgement) as an attack, by the way. It was aimed at a number of vocal critics that have appeared over time, and some people who posted Tweets of complaint recently.
- Tyson Key
Sure, nobody gets things right straight away, and mistakes are made, but as with everything, there's still room for forgiveness and fresh starts, in my rather humble opinion...
- Tyson Key
@Tyson not a problem. On your fresh starts point, yes I'm sure it's right some businesses just screw it up and then come back later with great products / services. One or two have sinned greatly against us though to my mind - I would put our friends in Redmond in that category.
- winckel
Can Redmond redeem themselves? I don't know... Only if they were to fire a load of management staff, rebrand, and focus on making decent products fairly, or something like that...
- Tyson Key
Still, Microsoft is a strange beast - parts of it want to change, and embrace outside influences more (e.g. the folks trying to subvert processes from within to supposedly be more friendly to Open Source technology and developers, and the recent "interoperability" drive), but others are stuck with the same dated mindset of "screw the customers, lock 'em in, break everything that they have" that seems to have permeated them for decades.
- Tyson Key
Now you're just getting lazy with your scripts!
- Mike Nayyar
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- LogEx
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- LogEx
So it's since Tuesday huh? The ultimate thread. How will the thread die then? We must have a limit for that, let's say 24h without one comment.
- ElijahBailey-Zu of FF <0,
As a side note, I do have to applaud the endurance and pettiness of those of us on FriendFeed. No one on Facebook gave this status update a second look!
- Mike Nayyar
We pride ourselves in our pettiness and obsessiveness. Um, wait.
- LogEx
Remember. It's not whole Scoble likes. It's who likes Scoble.
- Akiva Moskovitz
According to FriendFeed, that's everyone. And some Twitter marketers and SEO experts.
- Mike Nayyar
Mike will get in the last word. Eventually. Everyone else is an idiot for playing his little game. Me included. :-)
- Robert Scoble
I'm not actually playing. Or, if I am, I'm playing to lose.
- Akiva Moskovitz
HAHA! You see that? Robert Scoble acknowledges I will eventually win! HAHA! FINALLY! For once in my life, I win! :) :) :) :) Unless Logical shows up...
- Mike Nayyar
Only mostly dead. There's a big difference between mostly dead and all dead. Mostly dead is slightly alive. With all dead, well, with all dead there's usually only one thing you can do.
- LogEx
We're testing the limit on the number of comments.
- DGentry
Nah, the FFundercats live chat pushed that one way over the top. We are, however, testing the limits oh how sick people are getting of setting my face.
- Mike Nayyar
This thread has a lot of comments, that must mean Mike is an expert of some kind...or maybe an A-Lister. Must stalk^H^H^H^H^Hinvestigate him...
- Rahsheen ™, Coach Rah
Wow losts of comments...shame this is the last comment though.
- Nicholas James
Olympus too? Good thing Logical doesn't know any Japanese mythological figures.
- Mike Nayyar
All right, if you're going to play that way, Raijin AND Ajisukitakahikone are BOTH mad at you. And Raijin was especially unhappy because you interrupted his NOMmage of children's bellybuttons.
- LogEx
Dude, my best friend's sister's boyfriend's brother's girlfriend heard from this guy who knows this kid who's going with the girl who saw Raijin put down the platter.
- LogEx
We'd be content, of course, if you (Mike) issued a public retraction of the assertion in your post, followed by allowing someone else to post the last comment in the thread ;-)
- LogEx
LE: Someone is going to go "last" again and it will continue ;)
- Nicholas James
Logical made it into a competition and now alot of people want to hold the title as the last comment on this thread. It will eventually stop when people give up and/or another one is made ;)
- Nicholas James
Gordon: No-one is going to give up. Well about 85% of the people on here already have...its just time to wait for the remaining people to give up and let me post "LAST"
- Nicholas James
Someone will eventually win this. However, since everyone else will have clicked "Hide" by then, they won't be able to tell anyone about it.
- Glen Mistletoe
You know at some point, expanding this comment will really put a strain on mortal browsers. It already has a 3 second pause to expand it.
- Mark Philpot
I wonder if at some point we will hit a soft limit and FF won't let it keep going. That or they look at this as a great high-bounds test case for the system.
- Sparky
I'm scared to expand the comment thread :)
- Roberto Bonini
There are few computers with the processing power capable of handling the comments in this thread. Except for, you know, quantum computers.
- Mike Nayyar
from iPhone
i'm afraid to click on the link to see all comments. so i'm just typing this so another guy (or gal) can read it and comment to make this comment disappear.
- Alfredo
If anyone gets these emails in their gmail and got sick and tired of them like me, just press 'm' to mute the conversation (if you have keyboard shortcuts enabled) (haha i got the last word)
- Daniel Morgan
No you just don't know I posted this.
- John D Reasor
cant the person that started this block the comments now? and thereby win.
- Morgan Haley
If you can get buddy buddy with mike and figure out his schedule, you can prevent him from stopping the comments because you'll always be able to get the last word in. We must prevail for great justice!
- Jon, the Chilled Beartato
That would be cheating, and he knows it :)
- LogEx
That's how the FriendFeed Mob rolls. :-D
- Steven Perez
from IM
you didn't disable the comments yet? you could comment and then do it and then you really would get the last word. but then again, that's cheating. and cheaters never prosper.
- Trish Haley
You're not supposed to make sense of it. It exits only as an opaque, monolithic data structure that is constantly being updated and evolving. ;)
- Tyson Key
Attempting to parse it in a manner that is not approved by FriendFeed, Inc may result in disruption of the space-time continuum, and a series of Bad Things(R) occurring.
- Tyson Key
Understood, Akiva. Sometimes the big plans we all hoped for don't come to pass. It's no coincidence I'm still in Vegas writing that. It sure would have been nice to have some other hopes come true this week!
- Louis Gray
True enough. I just hope that Robert's also right about these other awesome features that Twitter plans on introducing. I just can't get past the 140-character limitation as always crippling the long-term experience there.
- Akiva Moskovitz
I think Robert's right, as usual. Friendfeed is still insanely useful for me during our shows (see the TWiT-Conversations room) and I hope I can continue to use that functionality here or somewhere, but I find myself no longer using it all the time. Twitter is back, alas.
- Leo Laporte
Akiva: there are lots of ways around the 140-character limitation. I actually like it because it enables mobile phone usage. FriendFeed is very hard to use on my iPhone compared to, say, Tweetie.
- Robert Scoble
Robert, what do you think about a 140-character truncation hiding a longer post?
- Akiva Moskovitz
Akiva: it doesn't bother me. There are already post shortening services like that that work with Twitter.
- Robert Scoble
If you could just auto-add every twitterer you follow as a "ghost friend", Friendfeed becomes a superset of twitter...
- Kevan Emmott
Robert, true, but those links take you outside of Twitter where there is no guarantee of the target site being mobile-friendly or even up and available. And this doesn't even get into the fact that it's impossible to have discussions there.
- Akiva Moskovitz
And by there I mean Twitter and not a particular target site.
- Akiva Moskovitz
Btw, Arrington was right. Scoble was wrong.
- Dawn
This saddens me too. I keep trying to like Twitter, but it just doesn't have the engagement Friendfeed has/had. Will stay cautiously optimistic about new features.
- Martha
Kevan, you've always have been able to do that and in May or June, it was made easier to add people you follow on Twitter, Facebook or Gmail.
- Admiral Anika
Wish things were different, but that's a solid write-up, Robert. +1 Akiva for all your points above.
- Micah Wittman
Dawn, you may have correctly prognosticated the impending demise of FriendFeed but you did so using all the wrong reasons.
- Akiva Moskovitz
why is 140 limit of twitter been so hated? i think it is the reason for twitter's popularity
- ffcode
No, I mean auto-create *ghost users* for people who don't have Friendfeed accounts who you follow in Twitter. You can easily add the ones that have accounts - I've already done that - and you can create ghost users, but that's a bit of a pain.
- Kevan Emmott
ffcode, just because something's popular doesn't make it good. It's tough to have a real conversation about anything on Twitter because of that limit. Try having a conversation with more than one or two people at once. Each @reply eats up some of that precious space.
- Akiva Moskovitz
friendfeed is a great place for discussions better than forums/blogs/wave
- ffcode
Akiva: agree with you on that, but as a nibble logger it is still a great place
- ffcode
'Nibble logger'. Well, that's something I'm going to be repeating constantly for the next few days.
- Akiva Moskovitz
I can speak that from personal experience, during an acquisition it is the most important thing to keep the team acquired in place. Some acquisitions are made purely for the product or technology. Others might be arguably for the customer base. However, successful acquisitions always focus on 1) successfully keeping the core leadership and customer-touching teams in place, 2) augmenting...
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- Ken Stewart | ChangeForge
Akiva, the essential reason FF is failing is because it's always been too much like Twitter, even when it was "better" than Twitter. FF needed to differentiate themselves in a remarkable, unique way, and they failed to do that. Twitter had already won the public's imagination in this space, so the window of opportunity for FF as a real competitor was closed a long time ago. That you and Scoble and others are just now waking up to the symptoms doesn't mean I'm wrong about the cause.
- Dawn
I don't think any of us are just now waking up. Most of us came to terms with it in the wake of the Facebook buy-out. And I still believe it is that that spelled FriendFeed's doom and not the change to the UI.
- Akiva Moskovitz
Dawn: I have talked with hundreds of people about Twitter and FriendFeed and NONE came to that conclusion but it doesn't matter.
- Robert Scoble
from iPhone
Sadly, I have to agree with everything Robert's said (which is slightly painful). I love this place, but Friendfeed's going nowhere. That is, unless something BIG happens and happens quickly.
- Jim Connolly
I just have to say that I incorporated FF into my Introduction to Sociology courses, with over 120 students, and it has been quite useful, dare I say extraordinary. It is an extremely useful "aggregator" of sorts, and a fantastic organizational tool for me as instructor. I can do some pretty cool, nearly real time integration of information with my students with my iPhone, Google Reader, Twitter, my blog, etc...and FriendFeed.
- Chad Gesser
It seems to me that the integration of information into FriendFeed has been incredibly overlooked and undervalued. It remains to be seen what kind of impact Wave will have in pulling people back to their laptop/desktops, but there is an interesting trend of the use of mobile devices for learning, and FF has made that possible in ways for me this semester that I have never thought. Granted my iPhone is a very important part of the capabilities.
- Chad Gesser
Am happy for you guys mine is like hell
- Pam Gwenzi
Ken Stewart: Another reason to do acquisitions is to just kill a competitor. Since apparently FB didn't lock in the FF engineers you have to wonder about their motivations. It will be ironic if the FF acquisition just strengthens Twitter, FB's biggest competitor, which is mostly what it seems to be doing. If I was on the FF team and FB didn't lock me in, I would take whatever they got out of the deal, leave and start a new FF, under a new name, assuming there isn't a no compete.
- Ed Millard
I sure would like to read the contract for the FF/FB deal. It seems.... odd.
- Ed Millard
Chad: FriendFeed might turn into the equivalent of Notepad. Useful for some things but no one ever talks about how cool Notepad is. It hasn't gotten many new features in decades, but it still is used every day by probably thousands of people, maybe even millions. If FriendFeed turns into that I'll be happy, and FriendFeed will indeed see a second life as a lightweight conversation tool. Google Wave sure shows what happens when you get a ton of features. Yuch.
- Robert Scoble
I would be *very* happy if FriendFeed lasts as long as notepad. The main reason I started posting stuff on FriendFeed was to make an on-line notebook where I can search for previously found items. Along the way I surprisingly found that some people actually like looking at what I post. I miss the more active FriendFeed days, but I would be ok if the activity moves to Facebook etc...,...
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- Mitchell Tsai
+1 Chad: "integration of information into FriendFeed has been incredibly overlooked and undervalued". I continue to get high value for that reason.
- Hutch Carpenter
I do think FF will get its "second life", probably soon. I still think it's the best social media aggregator by far. It's what I use to bring all my social media stuff together. I even use it as my preferred Twitter client when I'm not on the Twitter website. Still, I don't think Facebook realize what they've got here other than just another competitor to squash, Yahoo/Google-style...
- Dennis Jernberg
Robert, then nobody in Silicon Valley understands mainstream dynamics. What a surprise. :)
- Dawn
*raises hand* doesn't this beg the question why the hell's he been on FF all day? I can recall a time when Twitter was vile & corrupt according to Scoble, so he must've misread those chicken entrails as he's back cheaping cheaping away like Tweeting was life giving air
- sofarsoShawn
Sofar: Twitter is still corrupt. But it is where the things and people I want to read are.
- Robert Scoble
from iPhone
Thank you to my 50,002 followers. Look through my followers here and compare to my Twitter followers and what do you notice? I see fewer spammers. Fewer bots. Fewer social media experts. Thanks for joining me on FriendFeed! It has been an awesome two years!
You're welcome ;-) A question though, where do you think we geeks will congregate next? I'm thinking that since Facebook now owns the Friendfeed devs, FF will eventually starve to death... hopefully not.
- Roberto Teixeira
But I notice a lot of users interact on FF via Twitter not directly on FF. Also FF faces tough competition from the likes of Posterous and Tumblr which offer more functionality with similar ease of use as FF.
- Roger
Roberto: Not so long ago this very FF post from scobleizer would get something about 300+ likes and 150+ comments. Sadly, FF users are surely looking elsewhere.
- Arvind
FF is ok, but its not the be all and end all Robert.
- Micky
I too think that friendfeed is still a winner... people that left just filtered themselves out of my conversations. They are no longer discoverable here to me. Their loss (imho)
- Chris Heath
Your welcome :). Friendfeed really really is awesome
- alfred westerveld
Yes Robert and Friendfeed is massively technically superior - Makes it even sadder that the platform here's being ignored by the new owners.
- Jim Connolly
Still the best place for discovery to me despite less interaction.
- Eric Logan
Robert - I love the community and friends here on FriendFeed. I am so happy I was on FF in early 2008 and got to experience it's wild and wooly growth path. Chatting with you and all these cool geeks is really fun. I've learned TONS from you guys and I truly appreciate the friendship too! :)
- Susan Beebe
I agree, way less marketing gurus and spammers =)
- Brodie Beta
Wewt! We are awesome, especially me </ego>
- Danny Minick
In my experience, I've been using ff more rather than less since the fb aquisition. I don't see why I would migrate to another community ATM. To me, Friendfeed is king. :) King of social media, that is.
- 'Like' robot (frɐnc)
Me, I'm sticking with FF for the foreseeable future. I'm even going to do my part to promote it, at least to my (right now) 1K+ Twitter followers.
- Dennis Jernberg
Friend Feed is the Future Robert and you just may be our Faithfull leader! :)
- PeaceMakersInc
Thank you, Robert. I have learned quite a bit from you-and you have created/moderated some tremendous discussions/issues. Best wishes to you and your family.
- Harold Cabezas
LOL. I agree. I have 413 followers on Twitter. When I ask a question, I get no responses. Same here. Does nobody like me?
- Zachary TG
zachary check their subscriptions against their subscribers and you might have an answer there
- ffcode
yup! there is a decline...don't know what friendfeeders are upto...foursquare might not be the complete answer
- ffcode
I'm still here. I tried doing the Google Reader thing. While it's a great reader, I think it SUCKS as a social platform. I still use it, but I don't expect as much out of it as I used to. FriendFeed and posterous are what I like best for what I do. Facebook is getting a little chaotic for me. I've made lists, but I think I need to start pruning... LONG LIVE FRIENDFEED!
- Kimber Scott
U do like normal folks like us, who does have a life, like having hobbies such as movies, taking pictures, making jokes and listening 2 old radio jokes on the Internet lol...and wondering why spell check doesn't work somedays
- polou/indigo_bow
Has it really been 2 years? OMG that was fast.
- Elliott Ng
ROFL! No bots; just wait! The bots are coming, they always come.
- Brandon Smietana
In twenty years I would be surprised if the bots were not more human than the humans. "Statistical Natural Language Processing: When Humans Fail the Turing Test", coming to a research journal near you!
- Brandon Smietana
@chrisbrogan I agree with you at a philosophical level that self-regulation is best; but, as a community, we bloggers have brought it upon ourselves by not always being above-board .. community monitoring does not always work to dissuade the bad apples..
- Anindya Chatterjee
congratulations does that mean 100,000 or 10,000 individual people?
- Thomas Power
Thomas, that's a great question. Stats are easily manipulatable. 10,000+ connections here or other networks doesn't mean that many are engaged. Total visits to each story are less than the total subscribers to RSS (about 20k), etc. I would hope the number of unique visitors would be closer to 100k than 10k.
- Louis Gray
Stats are easily misinterpreted you are right, perhaps you should add the Quantcast tag. We have been running it now for 25 months and it is spot on http://www.quantcast.com/ecademy.... That's our audience and it tallies almost exactly with Google Analytics.
- Thomas Power
How long does a set last you. I know I leave mine on until they break. But then, no one has ever suggested I play a nylon string professionally. And, I don't see any such requests on the horizon.
- surf guitar
I usually play a set for a month or so--then change the bass strings (they wear-out faster than the treble strings). The intonation is the deciding factor-- after awhile, they won't play in tune and must be replaced.
- Rob Michael (Atmos Trio)
from iPhone
Rock on and thanks for sharing. I had no idea there was that much of a difference between the nylon and metal strings.
- Ken Stewart | ChangeForge
Josh--did you try to do a performance with brand new nylon strings? Too funny...
- Rob Michael (Atmos Trio)
Performance? Oh no no no... just had to keep tuning it when I should have left it alone. I don't think I have ever done a performance on nylon guitar.
- Josh Haley
from iPhone