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Adobe Launches Free Photoshop iPhone App - http://thomashawk.com/2009...
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Nicholas James, Arnaud Fischer, Rob McNair-Huff and 29 other people liked this
I played around with the app a little bit this morning and have to say that I think it’s very cool — especially for a free app. The app allows you to do some of the most basic edits with your iPhone photos including cropping, adjusting exposure and contrast, converting an image to black and white, rotating an image etc. It also has a very basic set of effects that you can apply and filters that you can add to create effects (like an image border, sketching or blurring effects, and the effect that I liked the most, an effect called “warm vintage”). I especially liked the cropping tool of the app and found it reasonably robust (for a free mobile app) allowing you to do things like constrain crops to certain aspect ratios (a square crop for example). You can also use the app to offload your iPhone photos to a free photoshop.com (2GB storage limit) account freeing up storage space on your iPhone. You can also easily access your photoshop.com account via the app to share show people photos from that account via the app later.
- Thomas Hawk
Very cool. Going to download now.
- Spencer
US and Canada only
- CJPhoto
Looks awesome. I only need an iPhone. Idiot parents.
- Zachary TG
I loved the app. Pretty straightforward and surprisingly powerful for such a small application.
- Roberto Teixeira
Downloaded it earlier tonight. Played with it a little, looks very cool!
- Jeff P. Henderson
I can't wait to try it!
- Michael Fidler
App not available in Europe at this moment, Adobe sucks and fuck you globalization. And by the way Adobe: instead of Photoshop i now use Pixelmator on my Mac and instead of Audition (Windows) i use Reaper (Mac/Win), both apps are way cheaper, slicker and don´t tend to crash. One more thing: i hope Flash will die soon ....
- HansVanRock
I wonder why it's not available in Europe.
- Thomas Hawk
I suck at Photoshop, and I'd already bought Photogene long ago, but I'm downloading PSM.
- MiniMage, sheeple of FF
No Australia either... Can't access Photoshop.com either...
- Johnny Worthington
from iPhone
Loveing to live in Canada now. Well, sorta!
- Zachary TG
Crime Fighter Win - http://failblog.org/2009...
Updating my iPhone and backup is taking FOREVER. Be prepared to spend an hour. And I don't even have that many apps!
Susan Beebe, Courtney Engle, Morgan and 7 other people liked this
About 20 minutes for me - have about 30 apps.
- Jon Mountjoy
minw took probably 20 minutes tops. I think ye be unlucky. But you probably also have a giant contacts list.
- Rasmus Lauridsen
I think one of the biggest time sucks for the backup step is the number of photos you have in your camera roll.
- Christopher A. Wichura
It took about 20 minutes to update about 300 songs or so. Was kind of annoying.
- Andrew Leyden
Mine took like 10 min.
- Benjamin Golub
10 min here
- Spencer
I have 11 pages of apps and a bunch of content. 10 min.
- Andru Edwards
Mine took about 15 minutes.
- Travis Koger
Same here, it took 50 min I think to back it up
- Tyson Williams
I'm pretty sure it was an hour for me.
- Darrel Davis
It was over an hour for the whole iTunes 9 and iPhone update. However, the new app organizer is fantastic.
- CJPhoto
The New Yahoo Mobile Flickr iPhone App, The Good, The Bad and the Ugly - http://thomashawk.com/2009...
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@jessewright, Stuart Murdoch, Mrsth and 13 other people liked this
My review on the new Flickr iPhone App.
- Thomas Hawk
Thomas, I tend to agree with your review. It seems like a nice start but it needs some features adding in order to be truly good. At the moment I don't see a great deal of reason to use it in preference to the Mobile site. In fact some of the mobile site features such as nearby photos are missing from the app. I addition it seems buggy - it doesn't seem to update properly and shows my...
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- Phil Thomas
I think that they will work these sorts of bugs out over time. Probably the thing that I dislike the most is that a lot of my contact's photos seem to be missing from the experience. I'm not sure why some contacts are included in my case, but others are not. I also suspect, but can't confirm, that they are censoring out any content labeled restricted... even if on your flickr settings...
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- Thomas Hawk
Yeah I'm sure bugs will get sorted over time. It'll probably be a lot better in a version or two. Not sure I can be bothered reporting bugs to Yahoo though, I wouldn't mind putting them in the help forum for Flickr but the Yahoo page looks too much like hard work. Shame the devs won't look at the Flickr help forum. I hadn't noticed any missing pics but I haven't used it a lot yet... seems to kill my battery.
- Phil Thomas
I can't really comment since I can't even get signed onto it. I'm gonna give it another shot when I get home and can get on wifi.
- ChiliMac
It took me a long time to get it to work yesterday as well. The authentication page wouldn't load for about 4 hours and that was on a wifi connection. Finally got it to take at the end of the day.
- Thomas Hawk
ok
- MUSTAPHASMA
It is a good start. Provided they continue to update it, it has potential. Facebook keeps improving their app so there is no reason Flickr shouldn't.
- CJPhoto
Thomas, check out darkslide for the photos near me feature. Nice app. They make a free and a paid version. http://bit.ly/sjJh9
- gfurry
peterrojas: Is it weird that the nano gets a camera but the touch doesn't? http://bit.ly/14Fswa - http://twitter.com/peterro...
Joey Gibson, earl wallace, Kevin Pedraja and Tomy Thomson liked this
Yes
- Ryan
FAIL.
- Tomy Thomson
I know it's selfish but I'm kind of relieved after jumping in and getting one only the other month. Although, I'd have sold it quick sharp and got a new one had they put a camera in it.
- 1x29
Probably just LATER.
- Sam Pullara
Definitely weird.
- CJPhoto
And does it just to video. It could have been the ultimate travel device if it also did still photos.
- CJPhoto
Flickr Finally Goes Native With An iPhone App - http://www.techcrunch.com/2009...
Pete Delucchi liked this
Unfortunately it doesn't work in lots of countries. Anyone know a good reason why they restricted it?
- CJPhoto
The Flickr App for iPhone will be available in the following regions: The United States, Canada, France, the United Kingdom, Singapore and Hong Kong in English, French and Traditional Chinese. http://www.flickr.com/help...
- CJPhoto
There appears to be a work around. follow this link: itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewSoftware?i...
- CJPhoto
Auckland City
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Tyson Williams, Uwe, CJPhoto and 3 other people liked this
TimboDon posted a photo: Who can go visit a country without a tokin panorama of its capital...well I guess I can't. I wish I had taken a bit more time on checking the exposures as one was a little blurry. Now I can appreciate all those tutorials about sharpness when using a zoom lens. I guess you can get a bit spoiled when always on the wide angle. Anyway, its a 4 image stitch using a Cokin GND8. Got some lines in the sky during the resize/compression as they don't seem to be in the main file. Next time yet again Thanks for looking
Great photo. But Auckland isn't the capital (Wellington is).
- CJPhoto
It is interesting to see the anti-Facebook reactions here. I have my arguments with Zuckerberg too but overall this is MUCH better for is than going to Google or Twitter.
Brent - Long Live Rock, Gordon Saunders, Helen Sventitsky and 26 other people liked this
I'd take Google over Facebook any day
- andy brudtkuhl
I've always said that FriendFeed was like Facebook with no apps, and a much better piece of technolody than Twitter. I love the merge, AS LONG as I don't start seeing apps on Friendfeed.
- Eli Juicy Jones
It's a bit too early to tell
- Benjamin Taylor
Do tell (and by that, I mean please elaborate)
- Brett Kelly
Not sure about that.
- Clément Simon
Rather go to google.
- Matthew DeVries
My 3rd eye indicator is twitching overtime. I don't know guys.
- Jeunelle Foster
Google doesn't need it, they're going to try to control the stream with Wave anyway. It's their Meta-approach.
- Eli Juicy Jones
I understand the anti-Facebook sentiment, but on the other hand, Facebook is not all *that* bad, IMHO, and they can definitely benefit from FriendFeed's technology.
- Rene Wirtz
Via Kashif, Friendface == > http://www.youtube.com/watch...
- Benjamin Taylor
I'm not sure what to feel about this, I all but abandoned fb and twitter for friendfeed and now I feel like I'm getting sucked back in. We'll see where this goes.
- Danny F Santos
Main problem (besides the fortune cookies) is that the majority of us use Facebook and Friendfeed differently: Facebook for "real" friends, Friendfeed for "geek virtual" friends. Both groups don't mix so well...
- Jordi Soler
Thanks guys, it was nice meeting you all and share quality feed with everyone. I guess we're back to Google reader.
- Nir Ben Yona
Rene - Friendfeed had the better product, the better technology, and the better experience. It should have been Facebook agreeing to be ruled by Friendfeed.
- Matthew DeVries
I would have liked Friendfeed merging with Google Reader..
- John Serra
I am NOT happy. Unless they keep the two services separate, I may need to desert my Friendfeed account as quickly as their office did.
- manielse (Mark Nielsen)
Well, Louis said it very well. Nice point Jordi. I do use both differently. Robert, how is this better than Google? I would have thought Google would have been content to just acquire FF and let her be what she is. Your thoughts?
- Melanie Reed
I had installed the Facebook FF app quite awhile back but I never liked the interface OR working with FF inside Facebook
- Melanie Reed
I'm thinking Facebook could do for friendfeed what google did for jaiku !!! Friendfeed was where people ended up that had been shafted by jaiku and pownce. Where to we run to now ???
- Adrian
1+ Andy + Danny
- Sebastian
I do not like facebook. Friendfeed has way better high quality content and functions than facebook. I hope not to see ads which asks me, if I like them or not.
- ashish
Now we need someone to teach us how to filter our friends etc on Facebook to give us the same user experience that we have on Friendfeed. Also how to tweak the interface to be more comment oriented without all the other distractions.
- Alan Morris
Friendfeed has a terrific signal to noise ration - Facebook has an unchanging noise to noise ratio.
- Matthew DeVries
Friendfeed I trust. Facebook I do not given their track record of ToU changes, Beacon, etc.
- Jim Goldstein
This really is a good case in point for Captain Jack Sparrow's quote ""Me? I'm dishonest. And a dishonest man you can always trust to be dishonest. Honestly, it's the honest ones you want to watch out for, because you can never predict when they're going to do something incredibly... stupid."
- Matthew DeVries
totally different social network for me..not sure what will happen if they get mashed together
- Gordon Corte
Merging the two will create more spamming bumrush from Facebook to Friendfeed, however it will also help to filter out the good quality content and users if there are any left inside Facebook. When we get to that stage wake me up out of bed. It would be interesting to see what Friendfeed does with the remain aftermath of good users if they survive the coming stampede.
- Jeunelle Foster
Well apparently this all was in the works since 2007 according to Ben Parr of Mashable: http://mashable.com/2009...
- Melanie Reed
Google over Facebook? Hell yeah!
- Patrik Johansson
AGREED! Let the shock, pain and disbelief on both sides wear off and a year from now it will be a rockin' social force. *MIGHT* become the 'google' of social networks. ( I say that trepiditiously)
- cheapsuits
The potential is there but only if they keep their eye on the road yet not step in dogpooh while walking the path. If they succeed in keeping this platform fairly clean and increase the good quality content this place will rock. There comes a time when you must make a separation from the good, the bad and the ugly :)
- Jeunelle Foster
It's true that Google didn't (and doesn't) need FF, and in fact may not have benefited from it at all. However, FF would have been much, much better off without facebook, and Google would have helped them. If FF adopts any of facebook's many detestable policies, I will quit. I still use facebook only because almost all of my friends use it, and it's one of the only interaction tools.
- Californian
Not sure why you think that Scoble. You like FF because it is open and you can get your data out. With FB, it is a walled garden. All your posts will be trapped, screaming "let me out!!"
- CJPhoto
Was hoping friendfeed would be a herald for smaller interoperable networks that would not require mass adoption to be usable because they could communicate between services better. Seems very unlikely now. Facebook does not not want to change the ecosystem to allow innovative networks to compete without mass adoption.
- Ru Viljoen
@Jeunelle: They stepped into it by stepping into this deal.
- Californian
no brainer for ff team - they are being bought for their expertise and not for what friendfeed represents in worth as a company (does such a thing even exist? Is friendfeed a company anyway?)
- patrickdh
@Jeunelle: "They stepped into it by stepping into this deal". - Californian - BINGO and this is why my eye keeps twitching. I know that most people today cannot seem to separate themselves from bad associations. Somehow the spammers will get through here to because SOME OF YOU WILL HELP TO LET THEM IN.
- Jeunelle Foster
I think it will be a good thing if Facebook integrates the real time feeds in their system.
- Paul L. McCord Jr.
Maybe now my integration of FF with FB will work
- Giorgio Burlini
from iPhone
Twitter would have been better. Now I have to use Facebook more. Crap.
- Zachary TG
Opinions wanted (because I'm too lazy to go do the comparison myself): what's your favorite site for maintaining your photos? Not necessarily looking for a professional solution because I'm just not that good, but would like something that has good embeddable widget. Anything other than the usual suspects?
Kol Tregaskes, edythe, Dragon Goldmaple and 22 other people liked this
I'm using myphotoalbum.com http://thewallens.myphotoalbum.com/albums...
- Tendonitis' Bitch
I'll stick probably to Picasa in the future, because of integration on our phone :) Plus, I expect that Google will do a one-for-all storage for pics, mail, etc... and I'll have that for everything else. If you aren't afraid of the big G, I think their storage will be the way to go.
- Tim Hoeck
problem with the Picasa is the piddly storage and the cost for extra is high compared to other choices. Myphotoalbum is 20 a year for unlimited storage.
- Tendonitis' Bitch
have you thought of smugmug?
- Ryan Gerritsen
I host most of my photos using Gallery and also use Picasa for a subset of photo albums from my Gallery collection. I also post a selection on Flickr. I have a number of friends that use smugmug and seem to like the service.
- Imabug
Well, integration with the G1 isn't be a make-or-break for me since most of my G1 photos get mailed into FF and then deleted, so those photos would already appear on the site via a FF embed. This is mainly for photos from the DSLR. I've definitely thought about SmugMug but am leery of the pay-only option when so many others offer a paid upgrade (essentially, a try before you buy).
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
Follow-up question: do any of the sites recommended (or not yet recommended) offer a mail-in option? I'd love to be able to email in a zip file and have it uploaded to the site for me (perhaps wishful thinking).
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
I use smugmug and like it very much
- J.D. Deutschendorf
myphotoalbum does via email or mms.
- Tendonitis' Bitch
Is that for all options, Gunny, or only the paid option?
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
Not sure /off to investigate
- Tendonitis' Bitch
looks like the free account has the email upload option too.
- Tendonitis' Bitch
Thanks for checking, Gunny =)
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
No one said Flickr? Are we avoiding the obvious for a reason? I love Flickr. As far as their service and their features, they're perfect. The only place to be leary of Flickr is in their policies, where they're deleting and destroying pictures and comments for people who violate TOS. But if you're sure your pictures will never approach that line, then Flickr is freakin sweet, and integrates with the G1 very well also.
- Matthew DeVries
Posterous is completely free and lets you email images.
- Vezquex: God of FF
http://www.flickr.com/photos... And the geotagging integration with the G1 is sweet too.
- Matthew DeVries
Nothing is completely free. They may not take your money, but they're making money off your pictures somehow.
- Matthew DeVries
I like prefer Picasa because the software is freaking awesome.. it will auto-sync to your picasa account (if you prefer).. it also has upload via email (I don't think zip format .. unsure)... by the way, I am not "disagreeing" with Gunny... I haven't heard of myphotoalbum (maybe its a big site) .. but I prefer to stick with someone I know will be around for the long haul, especially for...
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- Tim Hoeck
I've used Flickr before and personally am not a fan: their uploader takes forever. And like I said, this isn't for photos from the G1 (those come to FF 99% of the time), but from the DSLR. Geotagging is of no interest to me. Vezquex, I've got a Posterous but I don't consider it an option because it's doesn't have album capability (nor does it offer a photograph widget that I am aware of).
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
Flickr also accepts camcorder clips from our phone as well.
- Matthew DeVries
I'm using Flickr. I was using Picasa, but when I finally had to get more space, they wanted like $80/year. Flickr only charges $24.95/year and this includes unlimited storage of photos and videos.
- Shevonne
Smugmug - I am an absolute fanatic about smugmug.
- Dan Morrill AKA Techwag
I'm giving a spin to ourdoings with my new G1, I like it organizes photos automatically by date http://ourdoings.com
- Jorge Escobar
OurDoings has a slideshow widget. Scroll to the bottom of http://ourdoings.com/jungleg... for an example. It also accepts zip files by email. If you think you'll be doing most of your uploading by email, you can get started by sending an empty message to begin@ourdoings.com with Subject: b
- Bruce Lewis
Thanks for the heads up on OurDoings: I've heard of it but had never really looked at it. Accepting zipped email attachments is really a nice feature, but there's no albuming at all? Hmm...
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
Yep. Instead of creating an album, you put a headline on (at least) the first day of the events that would comprise the album. It's designed for real life doings, that don't always fit neatly into albums. Disclaimer: I'm biased because I made it.
- Bruce Lewis
from fftogo
Hey, nothing wrong with having two asses ;-) (sorry, old Saturday Night Live reference). The only reason albuming (or at least, the option to have them) would be a sticking point for me is because I take photos that are related in subject or location but not time. For example: pictures of my tomato plants as they go through various stages of growth. Chronological sorting only would make it neigh on impossible for me to group those photos together.
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
You can make a separate ourdoings site for your tomato plants. You just ignore the little paragraph telling you to question whether you really want a separate site because chronology works better than albums for most doings. If you have multiple ourdoings sites, crossposting means just checking one more box.
- Bruce Lewis
from fftogo
Ahhh, ok. Question then (since I have you here): would cross posting be a viable option from email? I.e. send it to 2 separate OurDoings email address to include it in two different sites? What about organization after the fact: would it be possible to include old photos in a new OurDoings site (say, my azaleas).
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
You can have different email addresses for different ourdoings sites. Organization after the fact is what ourdoings is really about, so definitely old photos are good. The subtle difference between ourdoings and blogs is that the operative date is when the doings happened, not when they were published.
- Bruce Lewis
from fftogo
Thanks for the details, Bruce. I'm taking a look at all the options given so far (except of course SmugMug, since there's no way for me to try them without purchasing =( ...)
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
I use Flickr. Rocks. If you haven't used the Uploadr recently, there has been much work done on it (it does still have some warts). I personally am using the website one now (it's very capable now). In addition there are about a zillion 3rd party tools that work well w/ Flickr upload API...even if you don't like a particular upload tool, I imagine you can find one you're happy w/. I just email pics and vids from the G1; works fine.
- Ken Kennedy
I use Flickr and like the tagging and sharing capabilities. I haven't tried any of the embeddable widgets, though.
- John (a.k.a. dendroica)
I've been using flickr for a few years, and while I like the features (even if I don't use 80% of them), the overall quality of the site has gone down since Yahoo bought it. There are times when it just runs SO SLOW. Also, never post a picture of tights, you get put on some kind of pervert watch list, which flickr's staff is apparently completely unable to assist with.
- Dragon Goldmaple
We use the Flickr API for the Antarctic site: http://antarctic.fury.com and my personal photo blog: http://stories.phoenixfeather.net I love my SmugMug, but I use Flickr for most of my everyday things.
- Rachel Lea Fox
OurDoings sounds like the simplified solution that would get me taking more pics, but Tina you just made me think a private.room on FF wouldeven do the trick. What do I lose by doing that?
- Edward Zwart
from Android
You wouldn't lose anything, Edward, other than the ability to create an album type setup (thought it could be hacked in by creating another private room, similar to the OurDoings solution of another site). Also, a private room on FF wouldn't be embeddable onto an external site (the room would have to be public, though you could restrict it to just you being able to post). ETA: also, you'd have to do some CSS magic to make it look right even after the embed.
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
Edward, the main difference would be that FriendFeed orders items by how hot the conversation is on them, while OurDoings keeps them in order of occurrence. I think the best approach is using both: http://ourdoings.com/ourdoin...
- Bruce Lewis
from fftogo
Right, thanks u2, gonna try the combo.... I really hope this gets me taking more pics.
- Edward Zwart
Flickr no contest. Have images on the Eye-Fi card automatically post photos there as private. It'll automatically create Sets based on the date the photo was taken. From the phone, I have 3 emails addresses set up. One for posting public images, another for private, and another that will create a blog post with the image. For multiple photo attachments, I'm starting to use Posterous but also have it send the images to Flickr.
- Rodfather
the ones ive seen the most are (of course) flickr, tumblr, and some yfrog site
- echostreamer
Not sure if they are still offering it, but when I tried smugmug out they had a free trial period.
- Aaron Choate
from Nambu
I'm happy with Picasa, but Flickr was great whilst it lasted. I'd return if there wasn't that little problem of needing a Pro account to store more stuff, without the last 190-something items disappearing into the abyss/becoming unavailable.
- Tyson Key
I love Picasa
- Ⓐ ☠ slayerboy ☠ Ⓐ
I tried smugmug but found it overly complicated. I have a flickr pro account that I enjoy and the community on flickr is pretty entertaining.
- Morgan Collins
from BuddyFeed
Just checked out Picasa's cost. The first 1GB is free and 10GB costs $20/yr. 10GB is a buttload of space. Probably 10,000 to15,000 screen sized images (1280x1280). Unless you are uploading full resolution images from your 5D Mkii, I doubt most people would be able to use up 10GB of space.
- Jeff P. Henderson
I am using Flickr with the uploader plugin for lightroom. I have a free pro account through my internet provider. I use to use Zooomr but have moved most photos across to Flickr so cant comment on them recently.
- CJPhoto
I use Flickr and had used SmugMug until recently. I really don't like Flickr's policies, so I might go back to SmugMug at some point, but I like the community aspect of Flickr. SmugMug are more expensive though.
- Rick Cogley
Flickr for me. Great features, good community and options for free and pro accounts.
- Kol Tregaskes
I mix it up between Flickr & KodakGallery. My family likes password protected photos, and printing things, so we started at KG early on. Flickr I use for blogging. I kind of hate their interface. But I like having a static link I can refer to, and some of the groups.
- anna sauce
Microstock Photography Is Getting Big. iStockphoto Projects $200 Million In Revenues - http://www.techcrunch.com/2009...
Mona Nomura and Roberto Bonini liked this
"The microstock photography business is growing out of nothing. The leader in the market, iStockphoto, is projecting $200 million in revenues this year. When iStockphoto was bought by Getty Images three years ago for $50 million, its revenues were about $23 million, according to COO Kelly Thompson. In 2007, revenues were $72 million, and the company never disclosed 2008 revenues. (Update: Thompson says 2008 revenues were around $150 million)."
- Jeff P. Henderson
from Bookmarklet
Two comments: 1) "The microstock photography business is growing out of nothing" I'm pretty sure it is growing at the expense of the established traditional stock photography houses and at the expense of those photographers who used to sell RM images at prices that actually represented the true value of the images. 2) The article says that iStockphoto pays out $1.2M per week in...
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- Jeff P. Henderson
By 'true value' of an image, I mean that selling (giving away all rights to an image) 20 times in a year for $1 each does not cover the cost of creating the image. I would much rather license an image a couple of times per year for $200 each instead.
- Jeff P. Henderson
When microstock started, it was selling photos that had no value (high quality but just snap shots in reality). Now, the quality is as good as the RM agencies and is therefore eating into their sales.
- CJPhoto
The Wells Fargo ATM asks me what language I want. I choose English. It then, in English, asks me to confirm that I really want English. What the hell is up with that? Goddamned stupid machine.
Bryan Villarin, Moved to Facebook, Seek Ground and 9 other people liked this
I'm surprised it didn't ask me to confirm just one more time after that, I mean to be super safe and all. I've only been telling it I want English every single transaction for the past ten years. But who knows maybe today I really made a mistake and meant to try out the Chinese version just for kicks. Better to be safe than sorry I suppose.
- Thomas Hawk
:)
- CloudBeyond
At least it didn't ask you to confirm in a different language! :)
- Sandra
We dont have mulitcurrenty in NZ but remember this from when I was overseas. The card is powerful enough to have access to my millions (maybe not millions) but not remember what language I speak. Bring on smart cards I say.
- CJPhoto
If you're married, do you share an email address with your spouse? My high school reunion was this past weekend and several people are exchanging emails to keep in touch and I've received 5 or 6 emails that are couple combos, saying this is their only personal email account. I want my own email account, married or not!
Mitchell Tsai, Aaron Kurtz, Moushumi Kabir and 32 other people liked this
Hell no.
- Akiva Moskovitz
Um...that would be a NO...
- JA Castillo
Never! I have seen it done, but I think it's weird.
- Shannon Jiménez
The way both my wife and I use email, joint account would be utter chaos.
- Mark Traphagen
Heck no. There's no need to share. I don't understand that.
- Rochelle
Nope.
- CAJ, somewhere else
No. How would I email Dick - or the kids, for that matter, before we raise the issue of the family email address?
- MaryB, BrandingBroadOfFF
A friend of mine and her husband did that. I resorted to text messaging.
- Derrick
Absolutely not.
- Lucas Parker
Um, no. I love my wife, but have you seen her inbox?
- ha3rvey (free hugs!)
Share an email address? Um - not a chance.
- AJ Kohn
Yes we share an email account, we also share a facebook account. but I have my own email, twitter and friendfeed account....well, many email accounts.
- Mike Nencetti
Mike, why share an email account? I don't get it. What's the benefit over having separate accounts?
- Rochelle
I would never. I wouldn't share email, facebook, twitter or anything else. He'd be mortified.
- Karoli
I'm not quite married, but we certainly will not be merging email accounts.
- joey
Rochelle, the shared email account is for family stuff. we both have separate emails also. but we like having 1 shared account.
- Mike Nencetti
I find that to be completely bizarre.
- Christopher A Carr
Sorry, my own email, now and forever.
- David Cook
i think we shard for about 3 months after moving back to the US in 1998. as cited above, it's mostly about keeping track of your correspondence and not losing track of things.
- Joe Silence is not dead
Hell no. That makes absolutely no sense unless one of you has no interest in managing an email account.
- Rahsheen ™, Coach of FF
Separate accounts. If there's something the other needs to know we just forward the email. I don't think we'd like a joint account.
- Alex Hellstrom
No and Harvey, it's just the opposite with me. Mine is buried in stuff and she has about 3 e-mails.
- Brent - Long Live Rock
No way, no how! I've seen some friends with joint email and never quite understood why.
- Kevin Whalen
Trish, a good question to post next. "is it OK for your spouse to read or have access to your email account."
- Mike Nencetti
Nope, but most of our married friends do. To me, it's just as wrong as sharing a bank account or chewed gum.
- Anika
My parents do, but they are both edging towards 70 and they don't receive that much email - and normally it is intended for both of them. My dad has a separate one for his amateur radio contacts, although I think my mom could access it if she wanted to. Still, different era/way of thinking about these things.
- Katy S
Is it just my friends, or do the female half of straight couples seem to be the ones managing the joint emails? My gay and lesbian couple friends don't share email accounts at all.
- Anika
Katy, that makes sense. My dad has an email account but my mother doesn't use email. So if I want her to see something, I just email it to my dad. But his account just has his name on it. My mother has never sent an email, and she's only 61. The people I"m talking about, though, are 36-40 years old.
- Trish R
Anika - I think my parents use their's equally, that is, neither seems to manage it more than the other. Then again, compared to many people's marriages from that generation, their's is pretty egalitarian and always has been. I think the idea of a joint account, for them, is as natural as their joint financial accounts. People today - especially women - might balk at not having their own account. For them, this was natural.
- Katy S
One of my email addresses is actually shared with my spouse; it's rarely used. It's also shared with my son, BTW. But everyone has their own private email addresses, too.
- Glen Campbell
Nope. That's weak.
- Louis Gray
No way would I share an address with the husband :)
- martha
Remember the date June 16, 2009 - The day EVERYONE on the internet agreed about something.
- Matthew DeVries
LOL @DeVries
- Anika
I see that a lot among the "straights."
- Leo Laporte
We have an alias on my domain that forwards to both of us when necessary. Otherwise, our email is separate.
- Jordan Hofker
Three things I my wife and I do not share: Last name, email address, Fudge Pops.
- Marty Bonner
Yes, and no. Thanks to the wonder that is gmail, we have a joint account that auto forwards to our individual accounts. That way folks that want to send an email to both of us can just type in one address. Simplicity in its complexity.
- Brandt Krueger
As many coupons as my wife signs up for, that would not be prudent. Is it a control issue, or what?
- Ken Stewart | ChangeForge
Several people in my Sunday school class have joint email accounts. I think the primary reason is that only 1/2 of the couple "does" email. Personally its not question I must have my own account. (or 6)
- Keith - @tsudo
Absolutely not.
- Helen Sventitsky
I would always want to keep my own email. A shared email address is so 1990s.
- John (a.k.a. dendroica)
I know some people who do, but I never could. It would make planning surprise parties a real pain, for one thing.
- Jandy, ConcertMaven of FF
no - that always weirds me out.
- BEX
I've encountered that too. Family members, very strange.
- Russellreno
I'm not married yet, and I don't plan to share any email in the future. That's just silly. A shared bank account (along with individual ones), sure, but email? That's as annoying as people who use a picture including their significant other as their main avatar for stuff (sorry if I'm stepping on any toes with that). Conjoined at the hip is not very healthy in my opinion. A couple should be a team, but still maintain some individuality.
- Kamilah Gill
I agree; weird.
- wyclif
Mr. McP doesn't even know how to turn on a computer but there were times that he was asked for an email address so he asked me to set one up for him, he still doesn't know how to access it, but it is his email address. He wouldn't know how to get into my email boxes even if he knew the addresses.
- Sharon McPherson
I've also heard that sometimes, these people will freakin sleep in the same beds too. And before they fall asleep, the boy will give the girl a "special hug". This conjoined at the hip thing isn't healthy!
- Matthew DeVries
For us, just as Jordan described (family domain, separate, and cross-forwarded).
- Micah Wittman
We have a gmail address that we both use as a junk account, but it's hardly touched and mostly by me. I don't even know if I'd call that a shared account. We have our own emails and our own social sites too. I remember back in the myspace days, we knew a few couple accounts. That was really aggravating to make sure you referred to the appropriate person when commenting.
- Carmen
Kevin and I both have several of our own email addresses, but we also have two addresses that are joint emails where that address just forwards to each of us separately.
- Rachel Lea Fox
Everyone who lives in the same house has the same snail mail inbox, I suppose -- perhaps they think of it that way.
- Christopher A Carr
Oh no ! People that use a single email box are generally not very interested by internet and social networks things... Email is for them "just" a message box with attachments.
- DAL
My mum and dad use the same email account ("roneyfamily") simply because they don't ever actually communicate by email
- Bryce, Low in Sodium
Yes, sort of. We don't have specific email addresses, just catch-all-forwarding from a number of domains. Since our forenames both start with M it's easy to just tell people our email address is m@oneofourdomains.com. 99% of emails are for me so it's not a problem.
- Mark H
nope I like my email accounts like my bank accounts separate
- Moved to Facebook
We used to share one, but I created a Yahoo account for my wife about two years ago because I did not want her Spam co-mingling with mine. ;-) She is much more active on-line now and receives a ton of e-mail. So I'm glad we separated our e-mail accounts when we did, otherwise our inbox would be shear chaos by now.
- Jeff P. Henderson
We have a combo as well as private.
- Amit Morson
I find it very strange, but not as strange as couples who share a Facebook profile.
- Anthony Citrano
from BuddyFeed
Having a combo is like the phone. Everyone can pick up
- Martin Liechti
from fftogo
Martin, all the couples I know have individual cell phones. :)
- Jandy, ConcertMaven of FF
I haaaate couples emails. I wouldn't mind setting one up for things like signing up for cable monthly bill notices but as my main email? No way! When I see herandhim combo variations as a main email address, I'm disgusted. It's annoying.
- Lise
no way-that would be absurd-we don't share an email, or a computer for that matter...
- Kelly W.
My husband and I each have separate email accounts (and, no, we don't know each other's passwords) and one shared email account which we use to send out evites, Christmas cards and new year cards from. Also, we use that account anytime we have to register someplace as a team -- just simplifies life a bit.
- Mansi Bhatia
from Nambu
Say whaa? Heck no.
- ronin
Nope. I have set up an account for my wife, but she only checks it once every couple of months... :-(
- Joey Gibson
My wife prefers the telephone and writing old-school paper letters. I mind her email account for her.
- Chris Preimesberger
I could see myself setting up a married email account that is a first line of defense for triaging email from random contacts (as well as joint amazon accts and bills the like), but I would definitely want to keep my own email account.
- Chieze Okoye
lol, same here
- Wayne Sutton
Separate
- Bryan R. Adams
No way
- Shey, Jamaican of FF
No, I don't want to wade through all her boring emails. We both have multiple email addresses though I am trying to persuade her to use gmail to aggregate them.
- Eoghann Irving
I recently got into a heated argument with the husband of an old friend who shared an email with her and spied on her facebook account. Apparently, telling an old friend you miss them and often wondered how they were doing crosses the line of appropriateness. :/
- Graham English
nope, don't even have the same phone numbers anymore...
- Bill Kinney
separate emails... and 21+ years together... no "couple" email ever, those seem weird
- Susan Beebe
Are you kidding? No way!
- Bec Rowe @d0tski
Nope. seems wrong. Plus one persons spam is anothers info.
- CJPhoto
I too would have to keep my personal email address. To each his own, but...
- Just2Stressed
No we have different ones
- orionstarr
Hell no.
- Nation Hahn
My Dad is 90. He has his own email address, but his email id is formed by concatenating his name with that of my mother's. So come to think of it, I guess it is a shared email, with my mother being the silent partner, email-wise.
- Ted Gilchrist
My grandparents share an email address (and a FriendFeed account!)
- Benjamin Golub
We have a shared one that I set up years ago. My husband gets very little e-mail and frankly is rather technologically challenged. Any problems, any maintenance, any spam, whatever, it's up to me. However, I have my own Gmail account that only I use. As far as social networks, that's all me....my hubbie wouldn't be caught dead on Twitter, FF or FB..........what can I say! ;)
- Bonnie Foster
yeah that's ridiculous - but then again, i don't really understand married couples that only have one bank account either
- Nathan Chase
I HATE it when people do that!! My dad and step-mother do that and so do my parents in law. So I can't ever just email one to find out what would be a good gift for the other and many other things like that. I guess they just find it easier to deal with.
- Her Lindsay-ness
NOPE and never will!!!
- YoYo_P
no just put your facebook.com/url :)
- Eric Nakagawa
actually sharing a bank account (or entering into a financial transaction together) is important for showing you have a real marriage -- my wife and I have one. But on the email front... that is just ridiculous. Unless you have compartmentalized your life so that business/personal/spam do not overlap this would be a contextual nightmare.
- Eric Nakagawa
Actually, Eric, that's 100% false.
- Anika
Anika - You've tried to marry a foreign national and had to deal with the ICE and INS process?
- Matthew DeVries
What FabooMama said. (as wrong as sharing gum)
- Parth Awasthi
No, I haven't Matthew, but I have more than enough friends who have and they've never had to set up joint bank accounts. And that's not Eric said, anyway.
- Anika
I'm with you. Married or not, I'm my own person! I think it also goes to show trust issue.
- Moushumi Kabir
I thought think that's what he's saying, cause why else would you need to "prove you're really married", and the counselor helping my friends through the process strongly suggested the get a joint account, and they even had a kid.
- Matthew DeVries
Derrick, I did too as soon as I found out and limited profile on Facebook. That's so invasion of privacy to share something with a friend and for the friend to turn around and share everything of MINE with their spouse. Very weird.
- Moushumi Kabir
Karoli, so agree. Some of us girl friends share so many things, imagine if those were to be read by our husbands. So not right. Anthony: right on about Facebook. I limited access to my profile as soon as I realized some couple were sharing accounts/passwords.
- Moushumi Kabir
I rarely compare my marriages with others, people have their reasons for doing things, and it's not our job to understand it. If that works for them, then so be it.
- Bwana ☠
Supermarket generates piezoelectric power in parking lot - http://www.engadget.com/2009...
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"Remember that piezoelectric road prototype we saw late last year? Looks like someone (besides us) thought it was a good idea. According to The Daily Mail, a Sainsbury's supermarket in Gloucester, UK (you've never been there), has installed kinetic plates in the parking lot that use the weight of shopper's cars to pump a series of hydraulic pipes, which in turn drive a generator. The system is said to generate up to 30kw of energy an hour -- or enough to power the store's checkouts. And if that weren't enough, the store is also harvesting rainwater and heating it (during the summer, at least) with solar panels. The next in this store's "eco-friendly evolution?" Might we suggest Soylent in the deli? We hear the "green" stuff is particularly good."
- Jeff P. Henderson
from Bookmarklet
This is the stupidest 'green' idea I have seen yet! Don't the imbeciles that run the grocery store realize that they are actually stealing energy form their customers to power their store! That's right, everyone that drives over their 'generator' is paying. The energy is not free! It is coming from the gasoline in the cars that drive over this contraption.
- Jeff P. Henderson
But surely they would be driving there anyway, right? I mean, I presume they aren't being forced to drive out of their way to run over the generator, so I wouldn't call it stealing. Possibly indirectly promoting the use of cars, which could be counter-productive, but "stealing"?
- Grey Drane
from BuddyFeed
Yes, it's stealing any way you look at it. The customers are unknowingly contributing 30KWh of power to the store as they drive over the plates. That energy comes from the gasoline in their cars. This is a very inefficient way to generate electricity anyway. Buying power from a coal powered plant is much more efficient as well as being more environmentally friendly.
- Jeff P. Henderson
I'm afraid you still have to convince me of that. Do you know for a fact, for example, that they aren't passing their cost savings on to their customers in some way? Even if only by enabling them not to raise prices when they might otherwise have to.
- Grey Drane
from BuddyFeed
your assuming driving over the plates makes your car more inefficent which I agree it probably is. Could also be very annoying. Sounds like lots of judder bars to me so makes people slow down then speed up causing more inefficency.
- CJPhoto
And if we assume, for the sake of argument, that the system isn't encouraging more driving, then how is it less efficient and less green than buying coal-generated power? It's taking energy that would have been expended anyway and doing something else with it where nothing would have been done before.
- Grey Drane
from BuddyFeed
CJPhoto: Possibly, but that seems like a marginal effect at best to me, and I would think that the system could be designed to minimize any change in driving experience.
- Grey Drane
from BuddyFeed
In fact, based on the diagram, it looks like the plates are actually underneath a layer of asphalt or something, so there really shouldn't be any significant change in fuel efficiency.
- Grey Drane
from BuddyFeed
Grey, no it requires your engine to produce a little more power when driving over the bump, which burns more gas and emits more exhaust. An auto with a gasoline engine is around 15-20% efficient (fuel to wheel), then you have to take into consideration the inefficiencies of the mechanism at converting the motion to electricity. Coal power plants operate in the 30-50% efficiency range.
- Jeff P. Henderson
Grey, they claim to be generating 30KWh of electricity. That energy has to come from somewhere. Remember conservation of energy from high school physics?
- Jeff P. Henderson
The only place that this device might make sense is at the bottom of a hill where you want to dissipate energy to stop your car. But then Prius drivers would complain because it would be robbing energy from their regenerative breaking system.
- Jeff P. Henderson
Jeff: I didn't say the energy was coming from nowhere, and yes, OK, some of the car's kinetic energy will be expended to push the plates down, rather than moving the car forward, meaning a marginal increase in fuel consumption to maintain a constant speed, but surely that effect is negligible compared to the output of the system, isn't it? Given that the car was traveling that direction anyway. I wouldn't recommend driving a car out of its way to generate this electricity, of course.
- Grey Drane
Yes, but it is still getting it's energy from the car in a very inefficient manner. As I stated, it would make more sense to generate the electricity elsewhere at a much higher efficiency. The other issue I have with this concept is that I have read about several proposals to build these devices into public roads. The people proposing them do not understand that the energy is not free and is in fact being taken from the cars that drive over the device.
- Jeff P. Henderson
"surely that effect is negligible compared to the output of the system, isn't it?" No the device extracts 30KWh of energy (actually more if you account for the inefficiencies of the device in converting motion to electricity) from all of the cars that drive over it. It may be small for each car, but what if all of the public roads were paved with these devices? Would you be happy...
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- Jeff P. Henderson
Well, if it cut my fuel efficiency in half, no, obviously that wouldn't make much sense, but do you know for a fact that's what the drop in efficiency would be? Can you site sources that support a claim like that? Because I would have thought the reduction in fuel efficiency would be more on the order of fractions of a MPG. And that I would be OK with if it meant savings and/or environmental benefits elsewhere.
- Grey Drane
Even driving on soft tires only reduces fuel efficiency by about 5-10% (so 1--2 MPG in your 20MPG example). Yes, that ends up being a lot over the course of a year, considering that the tires will be soft everywhere you drive, but presumably, even in public roads, there would only be certain areas where this system would be installed.
- Grey Drane
Grey, you are probably correct that the reduction in fuel economy would be on the order of 5-10%, not 50%. I was just throwing out a number to make a point. So you would be OK with giving up 5% of your fuel economy to let someone else benefit from it? I wouldn't. The real issue in my mind still continues to be that this method of power generation is completely inefficient. I don't know...
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- Jeff P. Henderson
OK, I guess we'll just have to agree to disagree, because I don't know enough about how the system works to argue the numbers anymore. But hypothetically, yes, I would be willing to sacrifice a 5% decline in fuel efficiency *in short bursts*, and so as a fairly small fraction of my total driving time, if the net gain from *all* of my car's kinetic energy was greater than that *marginal* loss in fuel efficiency.
- Grey Drane
It seems to me you keep focusing on the *overall* efficiency of the car engine and comparing that to the efficiency of coal, when it's only the marginal decrease in efficiency that really matters to the analysis, since the system is generating power from the car's *total* kinetic energy, the vast majority of which would have been generated by the car anyway.
- Grey Drane
Yeah I have been there actually, but this wasn't there then. Hopefully it sucks more energy than is put into it from the difference in energy between driving over it and normal roads
- Phill Price
I doubt that people will notice that a little bit of their power has been taken as they enter the carpark. They will just hit the accelerator a bit harder and get over the bump. The problem with this system in my view is that it is using petrol to generate electricity and so, while a cost saving for the store, is not a green feature. Would a row of wind turbines not be slightly kinder on the environment?
- John Cooper
Gray, "if the net gain from *all* of my car's kinetic energy was greater than that *marginal* loss in fuel efficiency" This is not possible! The First Law of Thermodynamics dictates that you can not get more energy out of a system than you put into it.
- Jeff P. Henderson
Phill, "Hopefully it sucks more energy than is put into it from the difference in energy between driving over it and normal roads" You are describing a perpetual motion machine which can not exist. Please go read up on the First Law of Thermodynamics!
- Jeff P. Henderson
The first law of thermodynamics, an expression of the principle of conservation of energy, states that energy can be transformed (changed from one form to another), but it can neither be created nor destroyed. Alternatively: The law of conservation of energy states that the total amount of energy in an isolated system remains constant. A consequence of this law is that energy cannot be...
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- Jeff P. Henderson
Yes, Jeff. I know this. Let me try one last time to explain myself. Our hypothetical car already has a certain amount of kinetic energy as it travels over our hypothetical road or parking lot. And to produce that kinetic energy requires a certain amount of fuel. This is our baseline that exists regardless of whether we have this piezoelectric plate power generation system or not. If we...
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- Grey Drane
Again, this assumes that the car would be traveling over this piece of road or parking lot with or without the power generation system.
- Grey Drane
Grey, I agree 100% with everything you said until I got to "generate more energy by this plate system than the energy generated by the *marginal* increase in fuel consumption." Unless I am misunderstanding you, are you saying that the energy value of the electricity generated is greater than the energy value of the incremental increase in fuel consumption due to driving over the plates? If we apply the 1st law, it would be equal minus any inefficiencies in the plate power generation system, no?
- Jeff P. Henderson
Umm, not piezolelectric unless they have some quartz crystals stuffed in there somewhere.
- tom murphy
Tom, Yea the article is kind of misleading. The headline says piezoelectric, but the actual mechanism is some sort of hydraulic system, but a piezoelectric system would provide the functrion.
- Jeff P. Henderson
OK, I don't know what else I can say. Yes, you've understood what I'm saying, and yet you still insist on equating the extra fuel consumed with the energy the plate system is receiving. But isn't it the _total_ "kinetic" energy from the car the plate system is receiving? Not the incremental increase in fuel consumed? I really don't understand why you insist on ignoring the car's total kinetic energy, which isn't being generated by the incremental increase in fuel alone. Am I missing something?
- Grey Drane
Facebook Parks Some Vanity URL Seekers in Purgatory - http://www.louisgray.com/live...
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For the record, louisgray and louis.gray are the same anyway. Even l.o.u.i.s.g.r.a.y if you like. The behaviour is like Gmail usernames.
- Tony Ruscoe
So my username of choice was also in limbo, but it's not famous or anything: banane. Isn't that weird? Not a real profile, but also not available. Not like a full first and last name, but odd all the same, to me.
- anna sauce
Seekers? Aw, I was happy to wait in line with my homies. We even hosted a Facebook URL party tonight... one of many. I got called an elitist snob for having my name parked, but all the same - at the end of the night, *I* was the one with no vanity URL. Thx FB. =/
- Jolie O'Dell
I think a lot of us actually asked Facebook not to reserve the name for us. You can see me trying to get "jessestay" live at http://ustream.tv/channel...
- Jesse Stay
It was kinda like going downstairs for Christmas and seeing no present under the tree. :-)
- Jesse Stay
The same thing happened to me. I ended up going with jason.p.clarke instead of my desired jasonclarke or even jason.clarke. Now I'm wondering if I screwed up by choosing something non-optimal, and maybe I should have waited? Not that it really matters; it's not going to change how I use Facebook (which isn't all that much), but I feel compelled to get my username whenever possible on services that I use, even if only occasionally.
- Jason Clarke
Jason, the difference is that jasonclarke is taken by someone else (http://www.facebook.com/jasoncl...) whereas louisgray (http://www.facebook.com/louisgr...) and jessestay (http://www.facebook.com/jessest...) aren't taken by anyone.
- Tony Ruscoe
Facebook's "username" behavior is similar to gmail's wherein the punctuation is ignored. susan.beebe = susanbeebe
- Susan Beebe
I'm not famous like Louis & Jesse- so why is my username taken? Very odd. I wonder if they do some badword filtering and for some reason the French for banana was taken. A new idiomatic usage I didn't know?
- anna sauce
Anna, they're not allowing generic words as usernames, so it's quite possible they've localised that list and also excluded non-English generic words. This note is specifically for Pages but the usernames adopt the same rules: "Will usernames such as “flowers” or “pizza” ever be available for Facebook Pages? Can I sign up on a waiting list?" http://www.facebook.com/note...
- Tony Ruscoe
Makes more sense why I couldn't get my first name since I was sure it was not taken.
- Amber, Random Time Lord
Tony - yeah that makes sense, thanks for helping me deal with my undirected outrage ;)
- anna sauce
Tony, jasonclarke didn't appear to be taken when I was trying to get it, though as you say it is now. Maybe that was a timing glitch. Oh well.
- Jason Clarke
from email
I guess there are more people with your name than you thought. I wonder if FB took any precautions to make sure someone didn't claim your name as their own much as there was a problem with corporate URLs being usurped at an earlier time on the Internet. -- I didn't hold out much hope to get my own name on FB, since it is so common (Brenda Young). I am resigned to having to let my "charming self" be known as 4byoung on FB, here, and elsewhere.
- Brenda Young
Darn! I snagged Louis GrEy. Rats. (just kidding)
- Dawn
My name is in limbo too.
- Robert Scoble
I'm so jealous of my no-list friends with their vanity URLs!
- Jolie O'Dell
What is going to happen to the next generation of FB users. All standard names will be taken (and potentially not used anymore) so they will be stuck with generic url's.
- CJPhoto
CJ: As if FB will be around that long. Ha! I wouldn't worry about it.
- Dawn
It's a conspiracy to get attention from Louis, Robert, Jesse and all that they talk to - all attention is good, right? Anyway, I don't really see the big deal in Facebook vanity urls, just like FriendFeed, you type the person's name when in the system, not the url (unlike Twitter or email where ID = what you type to communicate with them).
- Stuart Miniman
Getty Images Revamps Flickr Collection Front Door and Builds Facebook and Blog Widgets - http://thomashawk.com/2009...
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Getty Images announced today that they have created a new front door for their Flickr Collection and that they have also added a “cloud” type imagery widget for Facebook pages and blogs. The new Flickr Collection front page features balls of rotating photos as built by contributors on the site. You can use the Getty Images site to build interesting clouds of 5 - 30 rotating images from the Flickr/Getty Collection and then Getty will make a cloud of these images. When you mouse over the cloud it rotates and speeds up and you can select any image to pull up a larger version of that image and get to the page where that photo is able to be licensed.
- Thomas Hawk
I dont get it. Is it just a static "cloud" or can you view any of the photos in it other than going to the grid view. In my head I thought he cloud would move as you clicked a different photo. But it just looks like a silly mosaic??
- CJPhoto
yeah, move your mouse around it and it should spin. You can then click any little thumbnail and open it up for a larger view. It's not as intuitive as it could be I think.
- Thomas Hawk
Got it. You have to click, hold and move it. I was just clicking on the photo I wanted to see. Would be better if it was bigger. Nice gimmick but I dont think I will go back for more.
- CJPhoto
The Flickr desktop uploader sits on your desktop for heftier uploading needs or offline photo management. Drag and drop single photos or videos, or select a whole folder. Even reorder how photos will be displayed in your photostream. - https://login.yahoo.com/config...
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Flickr released a new desktop bulk uploader yesterday. For people having recent problems with photos not uploading in order, double uploading, etc. You might want to try this latest version.
- Thomas Hawk
from Bookmarklet
they finally fixed that? thank GOD.
- holly
Not sure if it's fixed or not, but it's probably worth downloading the new uploader and checking it out.
- Thomas Hawk
Downloading as I type, thanks for the notice, Thomas.
- Kol Tregaskes
crossing my fingers that it's fixed. I will download when I get home tonight and try.
- holly
Oh, wonderful. I've been having a lot of problems with the last version.
- joey
Thanks for the heads up.
- Nathalie, Dreamer of FF
Thanks. I've been having so many problems with the old uploader.
- Nick Humphries
I have no idea if this fixes much by the way. I just saw that they updated the bulk uploader yesterday and posted it here because I'm hopeful that it addresses some of the problems that the old uploader seemed to be having.
- Thomas Hawk
Are there any solutions that allow me to download my entire photostream so I can back it up? An anti-bulk uploader if you will.
- Davis Freeberg
I use flump to download my flickr photos - http://lifehacker.com/400101...
- Nick
Guess this will kill the 3rd party shareware utilities.
- dthree
Nah, David, I don't think that this will kill the 3rd party apps. I don't know actually that this upgrade really is any big deal except that it may improve some of the specific sorting and double posting problems that the uploader's been having in more recent versions.
- Thomas Hawk
nice. i was hoping the desktop uploader would get updated. the flickr upload in iPhoto needs some work (hello, PROGRESS BARS, anyone?!)
- Glenn Batuyong
Does it work better?
- RAPatton
hopefully. I suspect it will. I'm going to try it out with my afternoon/evening uploads in a few hours.
- Thomas Hawk
worked fine this evening.
- Thomas Hawk
I use the Lightroom plugin for exporting to Flickr. It eliminates an extra step in my workflow.
- Sean Davis
I use the lightroom plugin as well. Seems to work quite well though some of the automation (ie. marking certain tags as private) doesn't seem to work.
- CJPhoto
NASA photos reveal destruction of 99% of rainforest park in Rwanda - http://news.mongabay.com/2009...
Kol Tregaskes, Bill Romanos, CJPhoto and 3 other people liked this
"Satellite images released by NASA show nearly complete destruction of Rwanda's Gishwati Forest between 1986 and 2001. Deforestation of the forest reserve is largely the result of subsistence harvesting and cultivation by refugees in the aftermath of the country's 1994 genocide. Overall only 600 hectares of Gishwati's original 100,000 hectares of forest remain, a loss of 99.4 percent. "According to UNEP, the reserve's forests were largely intact in 1978, and substantial forest cover still remained in 1986. But in the 15 years that elapsed between these images—a time that spanned the country’s tragic genocide—wave after wave of refugees arrived in Gishwati Forest and began clearing it, often for subsistence farming," wrote Michon Scott and Rebecca Lindsey on NASA's Earth Observatory site. "By 2001, only a small circular patch of native forest remained—1,500 acres of the forest’s original 250,000.""
- Steven Perez
from Bookmarklet
:(
- Parth Awasthi
Sad sad state
- BeeLing
Am I the only one that sees a witches face in those pictures.
- CJPhoto
Very sad. Especially when you combine with what they are doing to the Gorilla's across the border in the Congo.
- CJPhoto
Gizmodo - A Floating Electric Massage Chair For Your Pool: What Could Go Wrong? - Ipod stereo pool oasis - http://i.gizmodo.com/5286300...
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"What better way to usher in the summer by rolling the dice with a floating lounger with a built-in iPod dock, speakers anda 3-mode massage function? Indeed. Throw some alcohol into the mix here and you have a perfect storm of potential disasters—everything from electrocution to ruining a perfectly good iPod. Still, if you are willing to take the risk, the iPod Stereo Pool Oasis can be had for $200."
- Steven Perez
from Bookmarklet
Water + Electricity = ZZZZZZap!!!
- Jeff P. Henderson
The ipod is in a waterproof section and it is powered by 4 AA so your not going to get electrocuted. Agree it isn't best if the kids are about but for a lazy afternoon why not: http://www.hammacher.com/publish...
- CJPhoto
Face recognition comes to Flickr | Webware - CNET - http://news.cnet.com/8301-17...
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Without any big fuss, a face-recognition feature has been added to Flickr. The new feature was launched recently by Swedish start-up Polar Rose. It lets users import all their photos from a Flickr account to an account on Polar Rose, where the images are then automatically assembled into groups dedicated to various individuals. As with similar features in Google Picasa and Apple iPhoto, names eventually show up next to faces in the photos once the user has identified the faces. The labels then get sent back to the Flickr account. Polar Rose, founded by Swedish mathematician Jan Erik Solem in 2004, intends to license its technology to numerous Web sites.
- Thomas Hawk
from Bookmarklet
I wonder if it'll work any better than the crappy face recognition in iPhoto...
- Shawn C. Reed
trying this at Polar Rose right now. Not sure how well it's going to handle my trying to import almost 24,000 photos into the site.
- Thomas Hawk
I saw Hakan Dahlstrom use it and thought "FINALLY"
- Shevonne
Catching up with Picasa, huh?
- bnoise
it's still "processing" my images after several hours now. I'm not so sure this thing is going to work for me.
- Thomas Hawk
I think I will wait till Flickr implements this internally. Surely they will have to implement it at some stage.
- CJPhoto
Google should have developed a face recognition system out of Picasa Web Albums. An API or something. They could have offered a way to identify faces on your PC, on Google Image, on FriendConnect-enabled websites and even Street View 2.0.
- Jérôme Flipo
Giving it a try now. Estimates 30 minutes to process my 900 photos.
- Andy Roth
No estimate for m 24,000 photos. simply a "processing your photos" progress bar with no progress indicated.
- Thomas Hawk
There aren't any faces in my Flickr stream, however I do use the face recognition in Picasa Web Albums and it works very well.
- Kenton
I'm alpha testing the face.com Photo Finder in Facebook, and that process seems less complex (at least to the user). Rather than explicitly telling you that Facebook photos are being exported to a separate account, Photo Finder allows you to appear to remain in Facebook as your photos are being processed.
- John E. Bredehoft
Same here... hours later, and still processing. Hmmm.
- Herb Hernandez
Herb, how many pictures do you have?
- John E. Bredehoft
from fftogo
24,000 pictures at once ? going by Andy's estimate, 13 hours worth. plus (hopefully) a 100% penalty for being silly enough to do so many at once.
- martin english
my ff crashed & facebook account would not let back in 4 now, thats ff's problems, I need 2 try w/Windows. I was using Kubuntu, one of the flavor of Ubuntu.
- polou/indigo_bow
so far Polar Rose has performed poorly in recognising other instances of the same person, though it generally knows when there is a face in the photo (although it also spends quite a lot of time asking me if rocks, lights, twigs, shadows etc are people)
- Ned Baker
so far I'm very unimpressed with Polar Rose. I checked it today and it only imported about 2,200 of my 24,000 photos. Worse than that though, performance on the site is awful. I keep getting a Firefox error message about an unresponsive script taking too long. They don't segregate out which of your photos have people in them vs. photos that do not so you are paging endlessly looking at thumbnails that are way to large to try and even find a photo you've got with a photo in it. Not at all user friendly.
- Thomas Hawk
I'm wary of apps like these now. I tried out Fotonaut several weeks ago and the app silently deleted my tags.
- Jauder Ho
Tried again on Win7beta, hmm, face recognition r precise. I am mixed about these kinds of recognition unless they r used for login or security or confirm friendship purposes??? What do u folks think??
- polou/indigo_bow
What do I think? Disclosure - I am employed in the biometrics industry. However, I assert that the possibility of Big Brother ganging up on the populace is remote. For example, after 9/11, it took YEARS for the FBI and DHS to exchange data.
- John E. Bredehoft
from fftogo
I believe the military has been doing this for a while.
- anna sauce
THIS CONTEST IS OVER, PLEASE DO NOT COMMENT ON THIS ANY MORE. Thank you.
Miles Laird, Roman Zolotarev, Zee. and 381 other people liked this
THIS CONTEST IS OVER. THE MONEY HAS ALREADY BEEN GIVEN AWAY. I'm giving away $4,500 of my money. The contest will be here in friendfeed between now and Tuesday afternoon. Ends 3 p.m. Austin, Texas Time. Winner will be picked live on http://www.ustream.tv/studio at 4 p.m. Austin Time. Two ways to win: First way to win ($1,000). Leave a comment here. We'll pick one winner out of a hat randomly. Second way to win (Two prizes of $1,750 each). Leave a comment about how you will use the money (use only one comment here). I'll pick my favorite two messages and announce a winner on Tuesday afternoon. Good luck!
- Robert Scoble
Good way to keep us engaged Robert :)
- bcultral
only that? too easy Robert! :)
- directeur
Robert "Ben Stein" Scoble :)
- Mattb4rd
Will it be tax free? :P
- imabonehead
pinched nerve in back from military accident.. might be outta work for a bit.
- WithoutInk
I'm in.
- Paul Grav
Sweet awesome robert!
- TheHenry
Simple is good. :)
- Heather Solos
Robert, Ben Stein beat you to that game. Try and be first rather than a fast follower. :P
- Lorin Olsen
What are the rules? International ok? :)
- Holger Eilhard
I'll happily leave a comment here.
- Aaron Crews
Congrads on the new venture:)
- Rob Cairns
I'll take it in Canadian please ..
- johnpiercy
Lets be honest- there are few people who literally put their money where their mouth is. Mr. Scoble you continue to impress me. And I have said this before the contest.
- Alyx
I declare myself ineligible for the first way to win :)
- Douglas Gourlay
Do you have to be an American? Cause I could use a new laptop :) Plus the USD>AUD exchange rate is pretty good at the moment ($1000 USD = $1500 AUD)
- Bryce, Low in Sodium
Cool ....I need new Laptop
- Michael Holzinger
Prediction: this will be the most commented thread on FriendFeed ever (chance to win $1000).
- Mike Doeff
be sure to let us on the detailed result of this new experiment of yours
- Georgios Kasselakis
really? :)
- K.Fatih Özçelik
oh...pick me pick me pick me :)
- Stephanie Segel
Will you give me more if I say rackspace.com?
- Jason P. Brown
woohooo! Anton like this.
- Anton Johansson
c'mon fingers. find me in the hat.
- Jason Kane
OK, I'm changing my comment to go for one of the $1750 prizes. I will offer to donate all of it to a mutually acceptable charity in exchange for an appearance with you and Steve on the Gillmor Gang. If Jason can buy his way onto Twitter, maybe I can buy my way onto the Gillmor Gang!
- Kent
Are you still going to the XMPP meetup on tuesday?
- J Allen
Good luck to everyone!
- Amit Nangare
money talks :-)
- Dobromir Hadzhiev
Leaving random comment here for $1000 yo! Can I get that all in pennies and not rolled up? Preferably in gallon milk jugs!
- Jason Moffatt
I think Mike will be right
- Henrik Johansson
I would use the money to 1. Donate and support our local Milwaukee tech community (events like web414.com, BarCampMilwaukee.com, and Bucketworks.org) and 2. purchase some more tech items (i.e. mac mini, video camera, webcam) to enhance and encourage more interaction with development and the tech community.
- Sam Dodge
I'm in too ...
- Leo
$1000 for a random comment. I suspect we'll have a record number of comments. But what kind of hat will you be pulling the name out of? Austin Cowboy hat?
- Andrew Leyden
well, this is one way to get me to actually use my friend feed account =)
- Travis
I'm echoing the earlier comments, free money + your reach = most commented thread.
- Steven Cains
I could use it. Ill be out of a job in 2 weeks.
- Armando
sweet. i like free money =)
- Arin
Second way to win (Two prizes of $1,750 each). Leave a comment about how you will use the money (use only one comment here). I'll pick my favorite two messages and announce a winner on Tuesday afternoon. Good luck!
- Robert Scoble
I'm game. But don't shoot me.
- Steve Lowe
why would you do that?
- Burçak Sayınsoy
is this part of the bailout?
- Thomas Jelonek
Pick me!
- Henry Irish
hook it up!
- Zachary Poley
Robert , Congrats for Building43.com !
- Rocky
Open to anyone in the world. It's my money and if I get sued I'll make fun of you on Twitter. :-)
- Robert Scoble
So let me get this straight, I just leave a comment here? Will this $1000 be reported to the IRS? :)
- Craig Eddy
If ever there was money that could be used to buy gadgets guilt free it is Scoble money!
- Joe Pierce
Building 43 sounds interesting. Can't wait.
- Andrew Bashore
need cash for new company my wife and i are starting -- to help offset the cost of adopting our next child.
- WithoutInk
all i have to say is, more cow bell please :)
- Ivan Stegic
I LOVE RACKSPACE!!
- CG
I'll talk about the contest later on http://www.ustream.tv/studio
- Robert Scoble
Isn't this a nice way to test how scalable Friendfeed entries really are? :-)
- Yuval Atzmon
Will use it to buy Arrington a hairpiece after the TIME article.
- Mike
Please, no, you're better than Ben Stein (although that's not saying much) Are you trying for the most comments ever on a Friendfeed post? Because I can certainly see that coming.
- The Web's Wendell Wittler
What kind of hat?
- Geoff Schultz
Scoble--congrats to you and Rocky! Keep up the great work!
- Joey Hayles
Neat! I'd spend the money fairly selfishly... on bandwidth bills for http://enjoysthin.gs
- Ted Roden
How would I use $1750? Three words: Pay. My. Rent.
- Stephanie Segel
Are friends and family excluded?
- Tina Chase Gillmor
Oh well, why not! maybe the hat's lucky!
- vanweerd
I'm just here for the cash.
- Jim Mitchem
Nicholas - would like to work with you at Rackspace, was a senior systems design engineer for Sony Broadband SW Development + Broadcast Integration Division(s) SW Systems Integration and testing, also senior technical project manager on Google's infrastructure upgrade + Verizon's FIOS fiber-to-the-premises nationwide. I also spent ten years in post-production in hollywood as a senior tech support engineer / consultant to the stars. I like bad food, long hours and the warm glow from completing projects.
- Nicholas Chase
Hmmm, how do you post a comment on FF...??? :-)
- I Spy
Feel free to donate lol
- hiphopgame
I would use the money, to help buy a mac for the family. We are in need of a new one, and right now our current one (a powerbook) is starting to die out. I already have some money saved up, but not enough. Thanks for doing this Robert! :)
- Techno Todd
thanks for making friendfeed notifier go insaaaaaaaaaaaaaaane
- Caio
I'll use the money to buy a laptop for my soon-to-college daughter, as well as to fund her scholarship searches& college visits this summer. She's leaning towards working in special education, continuing the volunteering she's done with her high school's Options Program (http://www.paulvi.net/academi...).
- Craig Eddy
My friend (14) and I (15) are working on a subscription web service that we want to launch this summer and some additional runway and start-up capital would really be helpful. We do have some experience with this stuff -- we did iJailBreak (www.ijailbreak.com) a year or so ago and had millions of hits and a million downloads and a lot of coverage (Gizmodo, TUAW, Digg front page multiple times).
- Ben Feldman
I want Robert's stimulus package.
- Daniel Sims
This is my random comment for the random pick!
- Mona Nomura
from fftogo
Hi Robert - Pick me! :)
- Susan Beebe
if i didnt know you, i would have un-friended you for a post like that. "i'm giving away money. details to come." Congrats on the new gig!
- fansnap
If I win, I'll spend it all on ale and whores. I'm in need of both.
- Onur Cengiz
$1,750? Ok, I'll give the half of it to a charity, that is: $875 — and the other half will be my contest's gift. My contest? The one who donates the most to that charity wins those $875. And yes, I'm serious :)
- directeur
I don't know about the tax consequences. I'll try to find out. Basically this money is money Cisco paid to me and I'm just shipping it back out. So, this money will be counted pre-tax, I'm sure, and you'll probably need to pay tax on it.
- Robert Scoble
First comment: Hope my comment gets chosen!
- Kevin Poirier
Fabulous
- Jon
Sweet! $1000 would be lovely
- Vanessa Scanfeld
you can give away money in this economic times? ;)
- Simon
I'd be using the money to finance my freelance work and get a half-way decent video camera. I'm working with a friend of mine on tooloftheday.de (nothing to see there yet) to produce videos of popular tools, tips, tricks, howtos, etc...
- Holger Eilhard
Throwing my piece of paper into the hat. Crossing my fingers!
- Troy Malone
man, my feed is going crazy... stop it guys :)
- Ingo Di Bella
OK Robert, I'll bite and leave a comment here.
- Herne
Second comment...I will use the money to buy as many clever domain names that I can in hope that one day, when you are creating your "next big thing" that you will have to purchase the domain name from me realizing that you had in fact, through me, had purchased these domain names in the first place.
- Kevin Poirier
I'm also available for 1/2 time work for $185/week (Rails sites) http://tefflox.net/JesseCr... Thanks :-)
- Jesse Crockett
Thats a internet first i guess, good luck to all contestants :)
- Yunus Tunak
If I win: I will use the money to lend out some of it on Kiva.org, give my brother (12 years old) his own domain/hosting so he could start a wp-blog there and maybe buy Spotify premium =)
- Anton Johansson
I would buy a new macbook pro with it. I have the old one, and Was hoping to buy the current one. I would then give the old one to my brother and I would use the new one! :)
- TheHenry
I'm in!!
- DanDan
I would use it for the prizes I'm giving out daily on my twitter game @I_spy_treasure. Robert, you can win it back... (and so can anyone else...)
- I Spy
Lasers.
- Lasse Johnsen
I will use part 2 to donate to Kiva.org and match it with Cisco's matching gifts program
- Douglas Gourlay
I would donate it to my homeless shelters.
- imabonehead
I'm giving my winnings to congress to spend wisely : )
- Joseph
Congratulations to both you and Rocky on the new jobs.
- Ron Schott
Count me in! Could use the extra $$ to buy a mac and see what all the hype is about.
- Tim
I would create a company called One Laser Per Child.
- Lasse Johnsen
This is my comment. I would use the extra $1750 to pay for me and Lindsay's trip to Gnomedex this year. It would probably be enough for us to come up and stay a few extra days in Seattle.
- Internet's Tad
That'd put a dent in my taxes. Ugh, freelancing has its pains.
- Andrew
nice! i could use some money :)
- krist80
Would be silly not to comment... although I have nothing interesting to say right now.
- Jen
umm..ok i'm in!
- Michael Lemmon
Even I can manage that!
- Jeremy Brooks
Everyone else is doing it...
- Rochelle
Is there a third way to win? I'd use the money to offset part of the costs of moving to Portland in the spring. Moving from New York with next to no connections to see what it's like living on the west coast for a while.
- Mark Trapp
Did I win yet?
- Robert Collazo
Sadly, I'd use most of the money to pay bills, but in the spirit of ff, I'd take a smaller portion of it to play a similar game on my ff.
- Randall Rodakowski
What I'd do with $1000? Get them converted to Euros :) Would most likely be spend on "offline" needs, like a new bathroom
- dieck
I suppose spending it on crack and hookers wouldn't win the prize, would it?
- Ian Betteridge
Feeling like a winner already.
- Tsega Dinka
I will use the $1000 plus 119,000 more dollars to buy a spot on the Twitter "Suggested Users" page.
- Sprague D
And you r giving your money away why?
- Andrew Finkle
it'd go toward my first Mac
- Jeff Mincey
118 comments in 17mins, progress report.. :)
- Yunus Tunak
Count me in!
- Wim Mulder
Interesting; I'd give a bit more than the the money to an unemployed friend for necessities(car repair, rent, food, getting back her phone with Nana Lemon singing Nena's famous anti-balloon protest song) in cash and perhaps a small gift
- RAPatton
I would use the money to go biking in Tibet and give everything that's left to the Tibetians.
- Henrik Johansson
Robert why are you giving away money - not that I am complaining- but curious! :)
- Susan Beebe
I'm game
- Ken Nicely
I'd spend mine on women, booze and a Mac.
- Ed Hudson
I'd use it to stretch the time I can work for equity-only before our startup gets funded! (Why doesn't federal stimulus money go to something like this which actually creates jobs and innovation instead of banks and auto companies?)
- Dale Larson
this should be interesting
- Robert Accettura
The chances of winning Scoble's money are slim. But the comments are hilarious. Love them.
- I Spy
This is easier than a lottery ticket! We must be in an experiment or something, knowing Robert.
- Cesar Arevalo
Sure why not
- Rodfather
I will use the money to go PyCon, learn new skills, network, mention how generous Robert Scoble is, and do a sprint to improve FriendFeed PyAPI--which, by the way, you should use to select the random winners from this thread. https://launchpad.net/friendf... Thanks in advance.
- Chris Lasher
Clever way to show the power of friendfeed!
- Emee Pumarega
For $1750: I would pay a portion of my wife's college tuition, buy my daughter a netbook, and my son a practice guitar amp.
- Mattb4rd
Great idea! Count me in. I think you should give your money away monthly.
- Grace Ciccone
I'm Here. Wow. I''ve thrown the laptop up on a 56" JVC LCD HD. Convergence! Just watched you on the Gillmor Gang. Feels like TV to me. It's great. Something's definitely happening.
- Stephen Pickering
Love it...I'm in
- gavin
that's not that much
- Jesse Fornear
I'd spend the money on a new display, I really need one
- Dobromir Hadzhiev
Not my first comment on a Scoble posting here, but first with a potential payoff.
- Tom Landini
I'm in. How I will use the money? will buy server for XdbE project
- Elmira Gazizova
With $1,000 I could buy all 57 Used & new "Naked Conversations" books from Amazon and still have enough to buy bottle service at the club.
- Andy Fields
would like to be able to try new technologies while still being a student and on a student's income = ($0)
- Shane Grant
Cool, count me in :-) I would use the money by buying 2 HTC Fuzes for me and my love.
- Sarah Peterman
Count me in! (for the first way I guess :P).
- Mauro Borione
What can I do to get your $$$ Robert? How about a virtual dance from my dogs?
- Jeff
get Diabla my pit bull puppy hip surgery sooner rather than later
- shayne catrett
haha, what is it all about?
- Alexey Ivanov
I would use the money to help fund a small-scale electronics lab, which has been a dream of mine for some time. It would serve as the perfect place to plot and create the robotic army that will eventually take over the world! Also it would teach me lots that would make me very attractive to an employer, or capable of creating a business of my own.
- Daniel Bruce
It would be hard for me to decide how to spend the money. There is so much, yet so little, being given. Because I'm a crazy Linux-lover, I think I should take the selfless route and donate at least part of the money to various Linux/open-source programming projects. Though, I would have to be careful to make sure that the money is not wasted in the style that Jeff Atwood describes (http://www.codinghorror.com/blog...).
- Rishabh Mishra (p248)
<cold><oddsized><red>here's my comment</red></oddsized></cold>. I've made my comment colored and differently shaped because supposedly those will get drawn before all the other regular looking comments. It's cold too because that's how the Knicks got Ewing first in the draft.
- Todd Hoff
Well, I need a new kidney, and there just happens to be one available on Ebay for $1000. (The previous portion of this comment is an utter lie; both my kidneys are doing fine, I am gainfully employed, do not need the money as much as so many on this thread, but Mastercard would really love to have it.) Congrats and good luck with the new venture, Robert.
- Phil Essing
Very cool!
- Josh Haley
Hey as long as were giving away money - count me in ;)
- Rob Jones
sweet, a thousands eh? converted to $ JMD that's 90k, groceries for 2 months:P
- Gordon Swaby
i'd like to thank my good friends olasofia and tav for mentioning this opportunity to win $1000 randomly, and if gratitude to one's friends isn't enough, how about this: i will give the $1750 for the best answer to this question: now that there are 100,000 people paying attention, what single action can we all do next tuesday that has the greatest social impact globally?
- happyseaurchin
For either amount, I would look to pay down some of my pressing debts and apply the rest towards a rainy-day fund. The 10% paycut I took three months ago has not helped things.
- JA Castillo
I'm on spring break now and my school was nice enough to lend me a Canon 20D (a little old, but I'm still glad to have borrowed it). Usually, only people who are part of the after school photography club can take it out, and seeing that I'm not, I was quite lucky. They gave me a 28-135mm lens, which looked ok to me. It was the last lens they had available, so it was take it or leave it....
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- Michael Forian
hmmm just leave a comment for a $1,000 dollars, not sure what to say...
- Kevin Tunis
$1750 for a cheeky mobile app, any more would be telling
- Yant
I'm here. pick me :) How would I use? I'll buy a netbook and some books.
- Dogan Tuncer
i am somehow reminded of ben stein
- Adam Singer
Testing the mix, testing, testing, one two, one two, - is this thing on?
- Martha
I would use the money to do what I do with all of my money...support my wife through graduate school :p. Thanks for the opportunity, Robert.
- Neal Jansons
Give it to Michael Forian! He seems so well-meaning!
- RexEveryhting
Big Spender Robert. Who knew?
- Michael Fidler
I'm feeling lucky.
- Laura
Cool! I saw your new venture announcement (live) earlier on my old iMac, which I would love to replace. :)
- Rob
I'm an unemployed community manager formerly of Silicon Valley. Hoping to spread new technology from NorCal to SoCal.
- Kimberly
recently laid off, this would really help, *fingers crossed*
- Nick
Pick me, I've got medical bills to pay-off. Boring I know, but it's really how I'd use any extra money.
- Curtis Phillips
I'll donate the money to GM. Nah, forget it. I'll worry about it if I actually get it.
- Hal
I will throw my virtual hat in the virtual ring for the not-virtual $1000. What is the other $3500 going toward?
- Her Lindsay-ness
Working on a little something in the review space with a friend of mine, $1000 could cover a bit of initial hosting.
- Jack Bogdan
Hmm, adding that to a house down payment would be nice. I imagine there's others here that could use it much more, though.
- Jordan Hofker
peace on earth.....
- imran
Wow...a comment can win me $1000!?!
- jamar78
Awesome. With $1,000, I'd use 50% to buy shares of F, GM, BAC, etc... and we'll have even more money to hand out. With the other 50%, we could also make 20 $25 loans at a Stanford MBA microfinance project, so the money recycles and has more impac (and have FFers decide which projects to support). Gumball Capital http://news.newamericamedia.org/news... or Kiva.org http://kiva.org Ideally we could even start a fund to support out-of-work FF'ers.
- Mitchell Tsai
@scobleizer - please give me your money. if you do i will use it wisely to help pay for a macbook & if i get more than the random $1000 prize i will use it in a philanthropic manner
- Chris Heath
I'm probably use the money for a new bed for son, and upgrade Shelly's computer
- jamar78
I'd have to use it all to put toward the $1,900 deposit due next month for the Friends school for which we got an acceptance letter, on behalf of our 10 yo, earlier today since my partner's reaction was that all I needed to do was to go out and get a job Monday! We've tried public schs (& their lotteries) in Boston & DC and have come to this... If that wasn't pressing, I'd use it to put...
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- Angela E. Taylor
updated to say - please give the money to someone in need. If I were to have the money to give away, my choice would be to http://www.theanimalrescuesite.com.
- BEX
Wait, in this economy, you giving away money?!
- Adi Rabinovich
So...dear! Did you sign the cheque? Yes? Now send it to me! LOL
- Lora Lufark
all your money are belong to us!
- Geek Cowboy
It would be really cool if this money went to a charity in need, in increasingly tough times.
- jjprojects
I'd use it to buy myself some time to finish a volunteer project I'm doing for my alma mater - making a website that is an archaeological cataloger and academic discussion space all in one.
- Joey Brunelle
posting comment. crossing fingers. knocking on wood for good measure.
- Anita
I'd use the money as a donation for my favorite charity, www.4everhomes.org, helping orphans and foster children get adopted.
- Lynn Owens
I will use the cash to invest in a MacBook for my wife so she can be mobile and still do her school work and finish that degree finally!!!
- Geek Cowboy
Well after the football team I support (Nottingham Forest) lost 5 -0 today I would spend the money on buying myselft a place in the squad. I can't be any worse than the current goalkeeper
- Paul Bainbridge
I'd give the money to children of San Diego http://www.alphaproject.org/
- David Krug
I'm in
- Jack Kendall
Putting my entry in the hat. Hope this is truly random because I don't have anything interesting to add! :)
- Matt Baron
With $1750 I'd buy Canon PowerShot SX1IS 10 MP CMOS Digital Camera with 20x Wide Angle Optical Image Stabilized Zoom and 2.8-inch LCD @ $600, a 2nd Gen Drobo populated with four 1TB Western Digital Green Drives @ $849 via TwipPhoto and a GigaPan Epic 100 as soon as its available (probably about $500). All of this will support my GigaPanning habit: http://www.gigapan.org/viewPro...
- Ron Schott
James (imabonehead) & Robert, $13,000/yr is allowed by gift tax limits,... so no tax if it's from Robert's personal money.
- Mitchell Tsai
Great idea. I'm in.
- Bill Romanos
I would use the $1750 to pay for the laptop that my daughter wants for her 11th birthday at the end of the month. She will be entering Jr. high next year and could use a faster more up to date computer than the 5+ year old hand me down desktop PC running Win2000 that she is presently using.
- Jeff P. Henderson
i would be glad to invest it into a macbook pro...
- Progresif Cem Gencer
Craziness. That kinda money could feed my voracious tech and gadget habit for quite a while.
- Brooks Bishop
OK, I'm in. Though not for the money: I want to know waaaay more about Building 43!
- Jordi Soler
I'd use the money to invite (pay for flight/hotel, etc.) someone really cool (Harold Varmus?) to the next ScienceOnline conference.
- Bora Zivkovic
Building 43 and Rackspace FTW!
- Bill Koslosky
I'll use it to buy 2 new monitors. 1 for tweetdeck and 1 for Alert thingy
- Jeff (the メガマクダジ of FF)
Hi Robert. A noble venture to be sure. We would put the gift to use saving our art studio. The after effects of dealing with the Basin Complex Wildfire that burned Big Sur have left us in a precarious postiion. Truth be told, we'd rather have a big commission than the gift. Work is always better on so many levels. Perhaps we can bootstrap ourselves back to where we were and afford to offer the same gift to others in need one day not too far off--Pay it forward. Best wishes on Building 43 & thanks.
- B.E. (BJ) Johnson
me I'd take my wife out to dinner and then seriously consider buying a MacBook Pro :)
- Steven Hodson
I'm in for the $1,000 random drawing (because my $1750 answer would not be memorable - pay my bills).
- Laura Norvig
Give half to charity, then spend the other half on upgrading my skills (educational resources)
- Mo Kargas
What did I miss?
- Rob Michael (Atmos Trio)
Do Canadians qualify?
- Brian Sullivan
I just caught up with what the other money is for. If it was awarded to me I would use it to help a couple I know get started in Aikido. Their kids are in our kid's class, and they had been trying to find the finances to join for almost a year and had just figured out how to start and then the husband got laid off... They're having a hard time making ends meet and I know that they would...
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- Her Lindsay-ness
What a cool contest, Robert. I can't wait to see how it turns out.
- Glen Campbell
I'll donate the entire $1,750 to Phoenix Children's Hospital if I win. Same goes for the $1,000 if I win that one.
- Aviv
paypal address to follow ...... :) Good luck with the new gig Robert
- Charlie Anzman
With $1750 I would help that YouTube girl scout girl, Wild Freeborn, reach her goal of selling 12,000 boxes to send her whole scout troop to camp. Got to give the girl some credit for thinking outside of the box.
- Tyler Brownfield
_/\_ Namaste (greetings) from India. This is simply awesome Robert. Would be great to win a cool 1000 USD. That's a lot of money in India. ;-)
- Shinil Payamal
Here's my comment. I would use the money to fight against DRM
- Marcos Marado
from fftogo
My mother has been an avid Obama supporter doing a great deal of volunteer work before & after the election. She recently lost her job & wants to start something new. She will need an audience. Robert, I'd love to use your money to hire YOU to coach her on how to do that most effectively.
- Rob Michael (Atmos Trio)
Money..! Will use the money to travel to India this summer, visiting, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki..., http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... with my family :)
- Karthick R
maybe because I'm the first Italian to write about it :) http://www.fluxes.it/flussi-...
- Andrea Contino
Haha a single thread from Robert turned us all (briefly I hope) into marketers :)
- Mo Kargas
What the heck I'll throw in a comment...I would use the money to fix up the bathroom at my parent's house.
- Amber, Random Time Lord
This comment is random.
- Dave Roth
Great idea Robert! If I won I would take your portrait for free :-)
- Bill Pennington
from twhirl
Cheese and rice! This comment thread is giving FriendFeed Notifier a run for it's money. It's an interesting character study on what people will do with free money. Me? I'd pay the IRS & give to my favorite charities.
- Anthony K. Valley ©
If this comment gets chosen at random, I hereby refuse the money (always test the exception conditions of any algorithm). If I win one of the other chunks, I commit to donate the money to @eff (EFF - Electronic Frontier Foundation - the leading civil liberties group defending your rights in the digital world).
- LogEx
I thought I already commented on this?
- Herne
And the other way to win?
- Alex Scoble
I would find 17 worthy people under the age of 16, who are helping their community through volunteerism or have started businesses and give them $100 each to help them reach their goals. IMO, helping young people is the most noble thing those of us above the age of 40 can do. And I'd spend $50 on take-out dinner with my wife.
- Scott Duffy
You win if you're last on the thread, Alex ;)
- Josh Haley
here and ready to spend the money for new ipod touch :)
- Nahnu
why?
- Anthony Farrior
$1000 with which competitors can enter the bet would be google!
- Harun R. Demirbaş
Hi Robert. I can haz $1,000 plz? kthxbye.
- Joey Gibson
DONT PICK ME!!! </ reverse psychology>
- Alfredo
If I win the prize money will go on my school fees and the rest will help me to buy a netbook with a full-size Scoble sticker :D you crazy!
- İbrahim Uzun [ j ]
ROFL, Chris.
- Alex Scoble
Money would help so much you have no idea. :)
- courto
I'll use the money to send 2 teachers in my school district (Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools) to a technology conference somewhere to learn about Web 2.0 technologies.
- Tim Cooper
If I win I'll use the money to buy a copy of Autodesk Maya 2009 Complete. Then build cool things. Thanks for the chance Robert.
- Andrew Smith
pick.me
- Bob Stewart
bring it on
- jkkmobile
Hi, and who are you? Thanks Robert.
- Daniel Buckley
Sounds good, here is one comment.
- Grant Bierman
I would channel the money to ongoing biomedical research in the lab I work in (UCSF).
- Pedro Beltrao
*wave*
- Jan Schwenzien
How will I use the money? With pleasure, thank you Robert.
- Tomi Itkonen
I will use the money to start my non profit and purchase educational/tech material for my son's school. Warm thanks Robert.
- Yanik Falardeau
And as for what I would do, I'd build a new desktop pc (and switching my current one over to act as my media/web pc), buy a true dSLR and donate some to charity. And if there is any left over, pay back some minor 'loans', which I guess I really should do first...
- Grant Bierman
Hi! İ m not speak english so not comment writing :D(ingilizce bu kadarmı berbat olur ya:II) Thx You Robert.
- Mehmet Alp
Hey Robert, If I were to win the money would go to a project myself and a few other early stage entrepreneurs are starting to help get people who have lost their jobs back to work in the startup community. I know it wouldn't go very far but it'd get it kicked off. Otherwise just give us some help (which would be better anyway) and give the money to the guys who have to pay school fees or rent or buy food for their families. Their need is greater. anton@udoogoo.com if anyones interested in helping
- Anton Mannering
Great.I'm in.
- OnuRC
this post is going to get a hell of a lot of comments.
- Thomas Hawk
Random is random, Chris. :) Thanks for the thought though.
- Alex Scoble
Just another random comment. :)
- Zian Choy
Why am I giving away the money? Because last week we did a job for Cisco where they paid us to do some videos. I am giving away my cut because what Cisco is doing is important to pay attention to without you worrying about whether I am paid off to say so. Also, I'm very fortunate to be in the position where I can do it. I thought about paying Jason Calacanis to buy some of his tweets, but thought that money could help someone out of work more.
- Robert Scoble
liked
- Yusuf Esenkal
I think you should give it all to Jason ;o)
- Ken Morley
Love being crazy. Let's be a bit. If i won the money, I'd make my ideas and projects real.
- Cem
I would use one of the $1,750 prizes this way. I'm currently photographing people that ask me for money. I give them $2 for their portrait. Instead of the two dollars. I will use the the money to add $50 to each $2 (total = $52) to the next 35 people that I photograph as part of this project. After I photograph them for the $2 I will give them the extra $50 and tell them that it is from Robert Scoble and will document each person's story, photo and reaction in a blog post.
- Thomas Hawk
i'd like to thank my mother, my father and all the people who helped me win this :p
- Sofia Bustamante
interesting !!
- Murat Can Demir
Hat off!
- Alemsah Ozturk
Sounds good to me.
- Herb Hernandez
I changed my mind. Give it to Thomas! ;o)
- Ken Morley
Hmm I like Thomas' innovative idea
- Mo Kargas
I couldn't tell you what I would do with $1750, but I do know I would give some away to good causes like my underfunded state school or the public school drama and music programs, and I would probably keep a little to save or update my home technology.
- Steve Lowe
This is my first comment : Gods of Randomness, choose me !
- Alemsah Ozturk
how many others have signed up for Friendfeed to try and win $1000? Scoble, you should be a Friendfeed spokesman... :)
- chelle
Best of luck with the new gig! Have fun at SXSW!
- Trevor Little
I wonder how many new FF accounts this thread has been responsible for? Many first-time posters here.
- Ken Morley
This is my second comment: I will gonna put your $1.750 to eBay tagged as “Robert Scoble's first FriendFeed Competition money“ and I'm gonna wait & see what happens :)
- Alemsah Ozturk
Sounds fair to me. I'm in.
- Henry Burger
Random rules
- ted perlmutter
why not publish this on an indian and a turkish newspaper? this will def drive this post to records easily... and i am sure, i'll get the macbook pro this week with scoble's sponsorship... maybe i'll brand-name its alu-case with a thanksgiving note to scoble and his sponsor... time to start coding on textmate...
- Progresif Cem Gencer
My niece in Mexico is on a partial sports scholarship at the university she attends. She's been supported by her mother who worked at a liquor store to help pay my niece's way. My niece's mom recently lost her job and fears she cannot financially support her daughter's education. $1,750 would pay for six months of university studies. If I were to win, that's where it would go. Good luck everyone.
- Andrew
Thanks for the opportunity Robert. Good luck on your new gig!
- andy
What would I do with the money? Well I'd put some towards my debt and paying my Mum's house bills. But I think my family could do with a nice break or trip away somewhere - my Mum hasn't really gone out since the death of my Dad last January! Time away from the house would do her the World of good right now.
- Kol Tregaskes
Really?
- Vinay | विनय
Hi Robert; good luck at Rackspace! My $1,750 would go toward my Rackspace bill of course (well, that would cover it for a few months)!
- Binyamin Bauman
My second comment (for the 1K). This would go to the same niece...it's 3 more months of school.
- Andrew
i dont want it... { reverse psychology }
- Cem Öztürk
laykk!
- Taylan GERDAN (Tylolhot)
My wife has put up with a lot of sacrifice as I've worked on http://ourdoings.com/ and money's been tight so I haven't been able to make up for what she's done. I'd use the money to take her somewhere special, and of course I'd share a picture/map of where we went here on FriendFeed.
- Bruce Lewis
Oh for peats sake, it should at least be easier than winning the lotto. I'm in.
- Eric @ CS Techcast
I'll comment and be random...it's a good day to be giving away $$$ :) I would use any money won here to help my friends who are in such horrible need right now. (the story is on the blog and all over my FF stream). I may be unemployed, but I have a roof over my head, food on the table and can make some $$ freelancing. My friends are hanging on by less than a thread, already stretched way too far.
- Karoli
Hey man, I love money. Also, I have no job. Also, I will say some incitement here: LEO LAPORTE IS AN ALIEN
- Mike Nayyar
Make me your AIG! On the cheap no less.
- Tracy Viselli
Well here goes nothin'. thxbye
- April Miller
I'm pretty random... I'm in.
- Jamie Grove
I wish I could be at SXSW.
- Christopher Knopick
i'm feelin lucky :-)
- Cardeen Martinez
Interesting promo Scoble. Comment and win money. Cool
- Sam R
so this is how you comment on friend feed....
- Noel Gomez
looks like i have a 1/300 chance of winning (right now). i'm predicting this number will diminish to 1/950.
- Kevin Pruett
just to be safe..
- Cardeen Martinez
Count me in!
- Aaron Draczynski
good luck :)
- Ömer
I'll throw my name in the hat.
- Chris Owens
Since my wife (school teacher) got laid off from her district on Friday, I'd use the $1,750 for tuition to help her get a Special Education certification, since districts are still hiring Special Ed. teachers. In turn, her continuing work will help pay for my son's tuition when he starts college in the Fall. My son wants to eventually become a lawyer so that he can influence policies that would ensure that people get a good education.
- Glen Campbell
Sounds like a plan. Let's see if FF has scalability issues with their comments.
- Michel Goldstein
Yea! I need some money! :)
- emdot
Why, not... Thanks Scoble!
- Jim Porett
Welcome to the ScobleCashMachine. Enter your comment.
- Olivier FAURAX
Put my name in a small hat and draw from it.
- Ken Worley
I'm in.
- aykut
If I win then I'll donate 0% of my proceeds to charity. Even more than that, I'll DOUBLE it.
- Cody Robertson
Trust me I am still looking for the details.... Can't find them!
- Ricky
Who wouldn't want to win?
- Tom Silk
This is my first year of trying to "make it" on my own, with a camera and no "real" job. Just trying to scrape by ... to be perfectly honest I'll use the money to help pay off some debt that I have acquired since I started, which has definitely been causing me headaches and frustration. My husband has been a gem, paying the majority of the bills since I make very little, and I want to be closer to breaking even with my debt so I can start to help him out. :)
- Nicole Young
Scooby dooby doo!
- Haggis (Sean Loyless)
new sponsor ? paypal ?
- Gökmen Karasu
Hope the hat is a big one, this thread is getting pretty full. :-) How the money would be spent? Pay off some student loan debt and put a chunk in our 5 year olds savings account...he (as well as his entire generation) is going to need it by the time he's an adult.
- cmiper
robert başkan parayı buraya getir.
- bahadır canberk
Wow! I've outgrown my entry camera and this price is just what I need to be able to fulfill my dream; a Nikon D300! Please make my dream come true, Robert!
- Graphfruit
Hit me, Fortuna. Papa needs a new MacBook.
- Will Parker
robert are you a photographer - Dixon Hamby
- Dixon Hamby
Geez, it's 2:10 am here in Berlin and you start just another interesting stunt. I will take the 1.750 US and pay a programmer to finish our "Virtual intelligent chatbot" project which offers affordable AI Avatars with personality for all kinds of virtual worlds like Second Life, Gaia, the web, Opensim etc. They'll be our 24/7 virtual workforce and a way to create immortal interactive portraits
- Gaby K. Slezák
I like this idea. I'm talking with some friends this evening about how they'd each allocate $1750 if they were given this much money today to do anything with--most would share with friends and acquaintances that are going through tough tmes. One would help a friend who just closed down his company and is in need of dental work. Another would help co-workers whose hours have been cut...
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- Loren Heiny
I own Cisco stock. love that Co.
- Christopher Mann
Count me in
- Peter Szaro
a subject very interesting, congratulations in advance:)
- Serkan Cura (XiLoNeN)
An interesting way to find out what the limits (if any) of FriendFeed comments are. Also: show me the money.
- Richard Akerman
Damn Robert Scoble: I meant "overly engaged" this thread is off the charts!
- bcultral
I'll get me some of that
- Phil Coyne
It's very interesting to see how many new people your offer has attracted to friendfeed.
- Anne Bouey
Great idea! Count me in.
- Mike
A comment for the $$$
- Jess Gibson
this sounds fun.
- Wesley Robin Guerrero
I'd like to win :)
- Sam Houston
i will love you forever. and evah evah. money would be spent on a nice camera (i'm studying photography) and supplies. working with a 5 year old p&s is getting tiring. :)
- shannon
How can anyone NOT click 'like' or comment? I definitely 'pLike' (the p is silent - btw) this thread. :-D
- Sean Hanna
a stunt? sure, but I could use an extra $1k. count me in, scoble
- Seth Long
If I win the $1750 it will be applied to my son's tuition as he starts college this fall.
- Jess Gibson
Sure, why not!
- Jasmin Patry
Is this stimulus money??? If so I'll use it to build infrastructure. There's a giant pot hole in our alley. I'll buy bags of cement and repair it myself. The neighbors will love me.
- Greg
Who am I and what am I doing here?
- Kris
I'm on it like white on rice.
- Jay Lara
Wow, I'll take some money - I need hard drives for my Drobo. Seriously, I need to start up an emergency savings account.
- Bryan Villarin
A chance to get paid to comment? Love it!
- Ginger Kenney
First, here is the comment. Second, I would use $1,750 to travel back home to Russia where I have not been in five years with my toddler son so my grandmother who is very ill in her old age could see her only great grandson (who's 19 months old) before she goes, and so I could take a one dream portrait of them together. She's been a big influence in my life, and this would be the way to make the portrait and their meeting possible.
- Ivan Makarov
Could really use some money to help plant some seeds for the future
- Leonard Nelson
I'll buy an Iphone and with the rest put in my IRA to reduce my tax bill. Hey, helping economy and investing in business. Not bad.
- Stephen Pickering
i would spend for my interrail trip..
- Yasin Müderrisoğlu
This is my lucky day, an email today said I won the UK lottery.
- Bob Gannon
I'm going to buy half a Canon 5D Mark II. Or pay my bills.
- Andrew Trinh
If i win, i triple win , because i live in a third world country (Argentina) and for every dolar y get $3,60 on our local currency, which is a good ammount of money here, for example, i could eat for 1 year or more :D
- Ignacio Guerra
Ok. I would donate my winnings to the Bernie Madoff Defense Fund!@#$%^
- bcultral
I have dreadful luck when it comes to these kinds of things but I could really use this money. I have no car & desperately need to buy one.
- Mattie Kenny
from fftogo
Cool. And speaking of cool, PlanetHeidi.com is very cool.
- dunsany
between building a new house, a new baby and a new job, I am sure I can put it to go use, btw congrats Robert on your new venture, I shall be keeping an eye on it.
- Shane Wolsey
Cobble Sorter (anagram of Robert Scoble) = my random comment for the first part of the draw.
- Daniel Rowley
Wow, there's like a lot of comments here! Great idea for publicity, Robert. Carry on...
- Kevin Trotman
Watching Robert on Ustream right now.
- John Rubier
$1000 USD goes a long way in Canada :)
- Ryan
Thanks for sharing the wealth in more than one way
- Matt Penning
I could have an actual vacation and pay down some more debt.
- Todd Tripp
$1000 is mine! please? thanks Robert
- planetMitch
1. my comment for 1k, 2. $1750 would be split into 3 gifts of $250 a piece to encourage the best new open source projects, and the other 1000 I would invest and reinvest in http://kiva.org , selecting entrepreneurs in third world countries to invest several microloans in. Its' a gift that, over time, can be reinvested over and over to benefit many!
- David Silvernail
Take my hardworking wife on an overdue vacation - she supports me thru the IT bubbles. Thx hun!
- mal
Probably will give it back to you, winning could be cool enough
- Burcu Sarar
LOOKING for work but hand out will help
- Ron
I'm in as well.
- OyaD
C'mon Robert money or not now ya still benefit more with the insane publicity
- Mrsth
well, we are curiously waiting the result, and also i'm in..
- Mücahit Yılmaz
Smart one
- Heni Hazbay
Word Of Money. I am in:)
- Yunus Arslanoğlu
I'll take it if your giving....it will go towards the camera fund!
- Noelle Bell
I would use it to promote my tiny little super niche social news site http://HeavyAsHell.com The campaign would involve helping bands go DIY and avoid evil record companies.
- MarkCarras
What kind of sick social experiment is this? :)
- Oren Shomron
I'm in
- Josue Fontanez
mmmmm, austin. i miss Trudy's, El Mercado, Magnolia, Wanfu, Kerbey, Chuys, Fonda San Miguel, Dog & Duck, Thundercloud, Waterloo, Amy's, Little City, Hut's, Green Mesquite. aw heck and Taco Cabana and Whataburger too! if i win, i'll spend it all on restaurants in Austin!
- poxaV
pick me
- Ryan
OK Robert, add me to the pool....
- Gregg
You can't win unless you play! Ok, I better start praying now.... :-P
- Brian
My father-in-law is laid off and his unemployment eligibility runs out in about 4 weeks. No place around here is hiring, and $1,750 would be the equivalent of extending his unemployment benefits another 5 weeks. Thanks for the chance, Robert.
- Civisi
:)
- Orhan Yediyıldız
Hello, giving away your money randomly? I can comment for that. Best of luck to all!
- Ronald Paul Corbin
Will you next tell us its limited only to Americans? I hate contests on the Internet, or anything on the Internet, that says "limited to the USA". The Internet is borderless... so should its contests and prizes
- Colin Charles
from twhirl
Thanks. I would use the $1750 to help my grandparents. My grandfather is 73 and my grandmother is 72. They just lost their 15 year home to foreclosure and are pretty much starting over with not a whole lot of time left. They are both on fixed income of SS and are now renting a house and trying to survive with the help of friends and family. When he as younger and had more money he was always the first one there to offer money to friends or family to help, even if it meant he went without something.
- Jonathan Gotcher
Robert please consider partnering with (Facebook) Seattle's Seeds of Compassion 2.0: The Compassionate Action Network (Twitter: @SeedsCAN) -- this organization is building a supra global network of "Compassionate Action Networks" (a bunch of ex McCaw, Softies and CISCO) -- currently in the throws of leveraging Social Media and Seattle's creative communities (music, tech, film). Last...
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- dakini_3
I wanna buy a jet ski, that's my MONEY!
- sofarsoShawn
Random commenting! I hope FF doesn't fail whale!
- Zulema ◕ ◡ ◕
from BuddyFeed
If I won, the money would go into putting insulation in my daughter's room & closet. Any leftovers would help buy a gas stove & fridge. :D
- Zulema ◕ ◡ ◕
My, there has been some very good comments about what people would do... And some very needy people out there.
- Grant Bierman
Like most, it would be an unemplyment extension for me. As mine ran out, no jobs in the area, and times are tough. But hey, BUCK UP not DOWN! the only obstacles that exist are in your mind.
- Ronald Paul Corbin
Crazy! Hope you are enjoying SXSW! I'm in Austin but can't attend it.
- Head Ov Metal
I'll put some of the $$$ into donorschoose.org for some local classroom requests and the rest to fix up my car.
- Pete Delucchi
comment left here
- Brad Nickel
Count me in.
- Keith - @tsudo
This is a cool idea.
- Bluesun 2600
I would take the $1750 and go and get myself a root canal, so I could finally get out of pain. And if there was any left, I'd donate it at www.kiva.org
- Bec Rowe @d0tski
Will comment for money, any time.
- Dinah
Alright, I'm a sucker for free money so here goes... $1750 would be enough for me to buy an oven, sod my yard, and still be able to donate half to a charity.
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
I wouldn't say "no" to $$
- Ted Louie
I could use $2,000 just to pay off my credit card. That's about it
- Outsanity & Kate + Hate
A $1000 would be geektacular. $1750 would buy my way into the cult of Mac.
- Melinda
Monkey?
- The Bohemian Penguin
Wow! Count me in! Sure could use that money to attend JavaOne this June.
- Rom Feria
$1750: Others need the money more than me, I'm sure of that. But ... that said I'd give $500 to a local library or literacy charity. $500 toward my home down payment fund. $150 to a kidney charity (my daughter only has one kidney). $100 for flowers for the wife. $100 for a bike for my daughter. $200 for a brake job. $200 to send at-risk kids to a Giants game.
- AJ Kohn
I would pay off our one remaining credit card and put some portion toward a down payment on a new car. In fact, I'd probably give a slice to the EFF as well. I haven't given to them regularly since my last layoff.
- ha3rvey (free hugs!)
why would you do that? It's a sort of social experiment?
- Niki Costantini
Will invest the money in my new unique microblogging startup :)
- X-Man
I wonder how many comments in this thread are their first on FF. Well I'm in. If I won money, some will go into savings and some will go to my favorite charities: Autism Speaks and Atlanta Boxer Rescue.
- Carmen
yay first comment ever, though I suppose I should be commenting more
- Wang Yip
Wow, a lot of people commented just while I was writing my own! For me, half the money would be for savings and health insurance while I'm still trying to get a job (recently graduated). The other half would be for the non-profit arts organization my friends and I just founded in our hometown, which has no supportive creative outlets for its youth. The money would help produce the tri-high school theatre competition we are currently planning and hope to put on soon. Great offer, Robert.
- Kelly
One comment, coming up.
- Michael R. Bernstein
Comment comment comment!
- Andy DeSoto
my comment
- Mathew Spolin
For $1750 I'll either blow it on more photo or computer equipment. Or sock it away in my kid's college fund since it'll probably cost more than half the organs in my body to pay for by the time he's of age. It's a tough choice.
- ronin
I'm all for free money Robert!
- Michael A. Baydoun
Who wouldn't comment for a chance ... lol ;)
- Brandon
If I win the money I'm going to establish world peace & have tons of sexy bitches serving me grapes.
- sofarsoShawn
I would finally upgrade components in my PC and pay off some of our upcoming wedding debt!
- Mike Kogelman
$1000 would be nice, but with $1750 I could do even more. Either way I would Pay It Forward http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki...
- R. Oglow
I'd put it on black
- John Kitchen
A percentage would undoubtedly go toward the health care fund, unfortunately. I'd allocate some for art and film supplies and give away the remainder. I've seen several comments here mentioning worthy projects and needs that are certainly deserving of attention and support. Thanks for sharing, Robert!
- Chris Weige
Circuit City lay off would use on BILLS, BILLS, and oh yeah BILLS
- Ron
I want to win your money!!!!
- Andrew
Wow. This is kinda cool. If I were to win anything at all from this, I would ask that the money be instead given to fellow FF'er Anika Malone because it breaks my heart that her and her family are having to go without hot water, a dryer, their stove...due to their gas being turned off. Hard times have struck too many good people right now. :(
- tinypants - Hagitha of FF
400+ comments...wow! Guess 1000 bucks is motivation. I'd put the cash toward my photography efforts or go the boring route and invest it for now.
- Justin Korn
Why would you do that? Anyway, here's my comment.
- Saner Apaydın
The pure capitalist social media business model: simply pay users to come.
- Michael Krigsman
It's so easy a caveman can do it!!
- Fireman17
I would use the money to pursue my passion of creating LOLcats & bring endless joy to all the world forever.
- sofarsoShawn
I sit here naked as I type. By the way, they're real, and they're SPECTACULAR!
- Abbie Kendall
If I won, I would ... go to Disneyland!
- Jerry Chacon
lol, great Seinfeld reference!!
- Michael A. Baydoun
If I won the non-random cash prize, I'd use it for expenses while I was off work, recovering from my (upcoming) third brain surgery.
- Abbie Kendall
I would love to use the money to stimulate the economy by purchasing a new hot water heater. Our current one is in need of being replaced.
- Vaughn
Cool, this would help me stimulate the economy while I wait for my California state tax return.
- Stephen Ip
Question: Is it one comment per way to win or one comment in general? I've made one comment above that says how I'd spend the money. Now I'll just be random: PURPLE MONKEY DISHWASHER
- Bryce, Low in Sodium
Okay, I'll play. I would return your money to you with a "let's do something better than this" remark. I would then ask you to actually read (reread?) the email I sent you about helping me get in contact with NPO's re: starting an OLPC-esque SMS-device project for said devices to be delivered in care packages around the world (via Red Cross, etcetera, etcetera) so that the poverty stricken and people in disasters could actually communicate with the world in real time.
- trench
Good job !
- Alper
I am making this comment as the IT/Communications Director of FHL International, Inc.http://fhlinternational.org I want to feed babies of poor working and nonworking single mothers. I want to change the oil in their cars when they can't afford it or know how to. I want to feed their children good wholesome food. I want to give the refugees and the lost some hope for another day. If we spend it carefully and wisely we can make it stretch to cover a 3-4 outreaches and give you a write up.
- Melanie Reed
random random random. macro lens, macro lens, macro lens.
- Andrea Ewald
I would probably also tell you (via your infamous digits) why facebook sucks, why friendfeed pretty-much sucks, and why Twitter sucked but no longer sucks. And then I'd educate you on why we - yes, you and I (and Thomas?) - need to visit Turkey ( http://is.gd/7yQr ) and discuss these things further. Yes, k... logging back out now. Thanks. Make coat not war.
- trench
@Robert as the IT/Communications Director, I would invite you to one of our events to cover it, put you on one of our videos and underscore the digital divide and what we can do about it. I would invite you to our UB cafe for the best pancakes in the world and have you look over our IT training provided by the IndyChristianGeeks in Indianapolis, Indiana and meet Dr. Thomas Ho, former...
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- Melanie Reed
Robert, I would also introduce you to my "boss", Merlin Gonzales, who started FHL International, Inc.: http://www.youtube.com/watch...
- Melanie Reed
I'd use the money to pay off debt, and take some time this summer to work less and volunteer more.
- Michael Kacer
What else would I do with some extra cash from Scoble? I'm thinking about making a difference via http://www.heifer.org/ and http://www.kiva.org
- Anthony K. Valley ©
want the money for my project
- Abubucker
hah!! most no of comments on FF so far I guess....
- Satya
Would love some money of course! I plan on using at least 3/4 of it to fund a new project I'm working on involving the iPhone and a web service. It would most likely go directly toward the cost of the project (registration fees, hosting fees, learning materials, etc.)
- Brandon Titus
can you imagine if I actually won?
- vijay
This is really cool. I love seeing all the people who would donate part or all.
- Alix Whitmire
@qtbrowneyes - get in here :) We are making FF history.
- vijay
wow, always new excitements here on ff, thx for fueling in!
- ★ Esther Rudolph
That took a long time to scroll down here to make a comment.
- David McDonald
Me FTW
- Brian
Good luck with building 43—great name, great concept.
- Dave
Great idea, Robert :)
- Baard @ Pixum
Interesting experiment. Can't wait to see the final results.
- Shamir Katsu
< insert winning comment here > =P
- vijay
I'm spending my winnings on wine and women
- Zik Daniel
from twhirl
Great contest. I'll give it a go.
- Michael Molinar
from twhirl
Why, thank you kindly, Mr. Scoble.
- Victoria Plautia
I'd use the money to get a new iPod Touch and maybe pay the rest to my medical bills. :P
- Mol, Time Warping
As far as how I would spend $1750: I'd love to say that I'm going to donate it all to a worthy cause like the EFF or the local mission, but I know I'll be selfish and just end up spending it in a blaze of glory at Fry's or during the next Woot-off. No point in trying to kid anyone here.
- Michael Molinar
from twhirl
hi! :)
- اميــــــــــــــر
Half of that money would be enough for me! please send it to my Gmail account! :) amirapt.at.gmail.com I will be waiting :)
- اميــــــــــــــر
Cool way to gain money :)
- Richard Holas
I can definately use some cash. :)
- Shawn Whitmire
I am in!
- Edwin Khodabakchian
I would spend all the money for entertainment :)
- Sinem Co
$1,750 or $1,000? In any case it would be a good stimuli to open a startup in Belarus
- Aliaksandr
Wow, popular contest! I would use part of it to buy the Rosetta Stone package to help me learn French. I'm taking time off between my undergrad and graduate degree, and I figure learning a foreign language would be a great use of my time. I would use the rest to help pay rent when I get my own place, I'm going to be a Congressional Staffer in D.C. and the living is expensive while the pay sucks! Thanks Robert.
- Keenan
If i get the $1,750, i'd give the money as $100x10 and $50x15 AdWords Coupons to the people who searched for the website/blog on pageboss.com for promote their projects like sponsored by Scobleizer.. And if Scob gives me $1,000, i'd spend all of them with my sweetheart Sinem :D
- N.Onur ATAHAN
I would use the money to buy a laptop for my wife, a Kindle for myself and one year worth of school for two children that we know and support in Nepal :)
- Sam Grover
i need money :-)
- Dan
:) If i am lucky enough, i'll pick a random comment on this thread to give this money + 1$. Just to see how loop can be created.
- Guy Vander Heyden
One more random comment
- sam b-r
I'm in too :)
- Eray Korkmaz
1 Timothy 6:10: "For the love of money is the root of all evil." If that's the case Scoble bring on the EVIL! WHOOOOOO YEAAAAAHHAHH EVIL!!!
- sofarsoShawn
Beautiful, beautiful link bait. ;)
- Chris Nixon
from BuddyFeed
Most commented post :)
- Roman Zolotarev
Wooow this post will be the most popular post of all times :-) I'm in!
- Ahmet Alp Balkan
$1750 would get me a DSLR and new macbook
- Duc Nguyen
Wow, great idea to make new friends ;) (but a bit expensive?)
- Pascal Hertleif
This is totally insane. I'd probably buy my mom the Palm Pre and 10% will go to charity (like always).
- Nir Ben Yona
In a rich man's world! http://www.youtube.com/watch... ain't it sad!
- sofarsoShawn
FriendFeed is affected! :-)
- Oğuzcan Şahin
I need a netbook for my projects :)
- Hasan ÖKTEN
$1750: gonna buy my lover. don't you believe me? her name is gabrielle, check her out: http://www.realdoll.com/cgi-bin...
- Okan Vardarova
That's a big hat you need...
- Orli Yakuel
Yay!
- Rich
I will by my wife a flight home so she can go and see her parents who she misses lots. Which means i'll have sole access to my (our) laptop instead of having to share it. I could just use the money to buy a new laptop but then i wouldn't get teh good sofa and control of the remote as well!
- Jamie Vidamour
meow!
- zenya isaychew
Let's see if I'm still the unlucky guy I used to be
- Boubacar Balde
from twhirl
I could be homeless soon, lost my job due to the economy, and getting unemployment that just doesnt cut it, I could really use the money to pay my rent, bills and feed my kitties, contact me via email Kyle.M.Weller+scoble@gmail.com or you could just hire me and I'll help you in any way possible, check my blogs, I could be useful. And I would return the favor 10 fold if I can, matter fact I'll search for 2 other people to help and blog about it/take photo's
- Kyle Weller
I would keep half of $1750 and give the other half to the author of the comment I liked most, but only if he/she promises to do exactly the same.
- stark
.I need a new Laptop
- Selçuk Hoca
I`ll use 1000$ of the 1750$ to buy a lot of comments on FriendFeed :)
- Vlad
I thought these kind of things happened only countries like mine which the goverment tries to build a begging culture just to keep the hope alive and dependent to the authority at the same time. Each reply begging for money is adding another brick on the wall of shame. And Bob, couldn't you find another way to publicize this?
- M. Serdar Kuzuloglu
If I win I will invest it back for advertising! Just say my name 3 times on twitter like "Candyman".
- Los Angeles Dj
So what would I do with the money? Half of it would go to the good cause. I want to create value for people and who other than the less fortunate, handicapped and so on deserve this? Right. The other would go to a business I'm building. One for the people, on that will change our lives fundamentally and is here to stay.
- Kris
If I dont win this, i'll be happy to donate my time blogging or helping someone in any way right now, im jobless in Phoenix Arizona, I could do yard work or hook up pc's/fix pc's or help you with your website if I can
- Kyle Weller
I'd invest half of it in Google Stocks, then the rest I would pay my rent, get kittie food, and try and advertise www.phoenixstickers.com with adsense so my girlfriend makes some money with it, its new and not very popular right now ;\
- Kyle Weller
Here is my comment : the best way to talk about something is to let people talk about, and 4500$ is a pretty advertising investment. but it is really interesting :) now the question is ; is there any way to gauge the effectiveness of word of mouth? good luck.
- abdellah
Mmm....are u crazy Rob? :) Ok! I wanna a netbook give to me only 300$ ;)
- Dario Salvelli
i'm in!!
- scusanonsento
I'd give the money to Comic Relief (http://www.rednoseday.com/) to buy 250 mosquito nets for Africa. Two hundred and fifty saved lives? Bargain.
- Robin Stacey
you are so generous robin you deserve to win :)
- abdellah
why?
- catepol
I don't need this money :) Because I'm still working. But you can donate to a charity organization if I win.
- Süleyman Sönmez
I will spend the money attending game design workshops in when in San Francisco, to improve my theory about the use of game design techniques in social web applications (playfuldesign.org).
- Kurai (ff)
@abdellah Hehe. Anything that stops someone from dying of Malaria is all right by me. Besides, it's simple economics. With $1750, no matter how I invest it, I can't do more that what 250 people could do with the rest of their lives.
- Robin Stacey
you are right, so let resume (generous, logic, awesome, and with a sens of humor), let ask the question differently Robin : who has no reason to win the money win the money ;) (it seams that all have at least one reason) human are really amazing creature. (ps: me too)
- abdellah
I agree, I'd buy a jet ski and have so much kick ass fun!
- sofarsoShawn
i'm in is too easy :)
- Valentin Sandu
se vinco devolvo tutto a Mantellini
- Luca Sofri
Trying to overload the comment stream?
- Örjan Lundberg
I am here~~~LOL
- K.D.
l'uomo a cui appiopparono la santità
- azael ماسيمو
I'll create a new world :]
- Ahmet Kakıcı
yes please and I'll give half to my love oh and a bit to greenpeace
- Julian Edward
if I win I will give $1 to everyone
- Giulio Ardoino
great idea, Robert! hope i'll win it.. i'll pay for my flight ticket, so i can finaly see you:)
- Martin
Dear Robert, sağa sola para saçmak yerine gidip bi türkçe kursuna kaydolsanda türkçe öğrensen olmazmı? Hem bu yorumu anlardın bak ne güzel. Paran çoksa işe yarar bişeyler yap canım.
- Ahmet Karaca
If I win, I will use them to finance my trip to L.A. next August.
- Fabio Cristi
I'm in.
- Tiziano Caviglia
Count me in.
- Alexander Arsky
of course, I'm in.
- Lorenzo
I'm in :).
- Demircan Celebi
I'm in :)
- Rıza Selçuk Saydam
Ecchime. :)
- Maxime
I'll take "I'm a Nigerian Prince" for $1000, Alex, err, Robert.!
- Kevin Leroux
I have some debts.... and I have 11 sons... 34 grandchildren... 22 dogs... 16 cats... and I am a liar... a neeedy liar :-(((((((:-D).... GIVE ME CASHSHSHSHSHSSH... Ah... Goodmorning Mr Scoble
- Daniel
I'd invest the money to my wife's startup that she starts next month. She'll be working around social media, blogs, photography etc. :)
- Jemm
if i win i will spend it for go usa this summer. absolutely i'll visit you also :)
- haluk
send all the money to germany :D
- Carsten
whee! I'd use it to open my deli :) I see free lunches in your future *laughing* hell, I'd even dedicate a booth to you.. with a cool plaque and everything!
- russa
This is going to be the longest thread ever
- Manuela
I hope the money goes to someone that really needs it
- Kyle Weller
Love to know your motivation for doing this Robert. Social experiment? See what people will do for money? You have a financial backing in Friendfeed & are aiming to stimulate usage? Either way, if I win, please donate the money to your favourite charity
- Lindsay Davies
if I win I'll make a gift to my girlfriend
- Ciccsoft
yo free money? I'm in!
- danslarue
I would give it to a friend who is unemployed; buy a new computer, smart shirt and tie, give him his dignity & confidence back. It saddens me to see so many friends hurting right now.
- Sally Church
I'll use the money by not using it (well, except for that 4pt escape clause written down below in the yet-to-be written contract between me and Mr. Scoble about the prize)
- Daniele V.
oh, WOW!
- Viditu
This is the FriendFeed equivalent to leftover pizza in the breakroom. I could certainly use some $ right now.
- Phillip
I'd prefer *earning* that money rather than just typing in something non-sense to anyone besides me... (please exclude my comment from the lottery)
- Kaan Ertürk
if I win I'll make a gift to Lehman Brothers
- azael ماسيمو
I'd rather type in nonsense, can I have Kaan's spot?
- sofarsoShawn
awesome robert!! are you part of pres obama's stimulus package? LOL! hope i win the random $1000 contest =)
- Melissa Solito
I'll stay tuned :P
- Tiziano Tassi
In regards to the first prize, I'm in.
- Armin Talic
crazy guy you are! "You're only given a little spark of madness. You mustn't lose it." (Robin Williams)
- Johannan Edelman
@sofarsoshawn: LOL! (Opps another spot now.. who wants it? Maybe I can start another thread to give away my spots)
- Kaan Ertürk
I'm in too ;)
- saicharan123c
For cheap or for free.
- Kevin Carey
So. this is my comment: I would use the money to buy a ticket to fly over to meet you and discuss if I could support you as some kind of correspondent over here in Europe (I'm in Germany).
- Till
In regards to the second prize, I'd like to use the money to buy my brother and sister their first macs. I grew up on encyclopedia britannica CDs on Windows 95, they deserve Wikipedia on a Mac.
- Armin Talic
@danslarue, "free money" these two word combined are more powerful then a TNT, if you can conceive or even think a second about a concept of "free money" then implicitly agree with the concept of "free work" and beside voluntary work they call it salvation .
- abdellah
I would use the $1750 in part to purchase some equipment for the part time photography business (about $500). The rest would go to 2 friends who are hurting right now with Flagler County, FL's unemployment rate at just over 14%.
- Jay Caruso
strange that no one, think to reverse the money to the 43 startup!! boys oh boys buy some action some part of this 43 startup may be it will be worth million :)
- abdellah
At first i thought i'd start a similar thread and give the money i win :-) but, here's the truth... I'd use the money to pay the next month of dev, working with a partner on our hope to be successful web service. I'm jobless 9 months now, 3 months since we started pushing the idea forward, all done @ home. Will use the most to pay my bills, with the rest i'll buy dinner for some of the homeless people i usually ignore.
- Majento
i need a new macbook))
- Как-Там-Её-Зовут
advertorial?
- elifile
really?
- Moses
gonna go to hollywood
- Ozkan Altuner
With this money, I am plannig to start a new company that develops social media applications. So if I win, I can give a job to you :))
- Aydın Kayacık
the entire amount of money will be used to help the local communities in eastern congo and sustain conservation of the virunga national park in congo. if you prefere, you can do it right away without giving me the money, visit www.gorilla.cd/blog for a one-time donation / all donation are tracked and transparent :)
- giulio
Brilliant idea and very noble of you, Scoble! (Sorry...I should leave the humor to my husband, who does a much better job!) LOL! I would use all the money to buy as many Radio Flyer kids wagons and send them out free to those that win a contest similar to this one! (I get them wholesale because I am an authorized dealer, so that would stretch the budget a bit more).
- Pat Graham Block
I'd spend the money for future trips: I have ever wanted to see the milky way from the earth or see the Northern lights. But maybe, I could put the money aside and spend it for a parabolic flight when I have enough money (that's another lifelong dream). I would also love to go on safari in Africa and see all the amazing animals in the savanna. But maybe I should rent a car and feel the American dream at Route 66? Ah Robert, your money lottery helped my thinking about all my dreams again. Thanks! :)
- Timo Heuer
I would use part of the money to donate to some podcasters or webcomic artists who are selling things on their website, like T-shirts, mugs and stuff like that. And buy a couple of domain names. Things I already do when tax return time comes, only this time more.
- Derek Coward
Each post you make will promote this thread more and more thus decreasing the expected value, with this rate a post made a few hours from now will probably have an expected value of a few cents. This will be a very nice data .
- Tuna
I need a new woman, please Robert choose me!
- Francesco Marconi
cool :) I would use $1750 to buy cabinet-type gas-control point for cottage
- Igor
I would spend the money of webhosting running free-of-charge computing services for open drug development (using open source utilities), such as used in Open Notebook Science and sorts.
- Egon Willighagen
what's up.
- pastas9
I think we will use the money to develop a desktop application for facebook very simple, actually, but that still does not exist in optimal form. I thought with a friend, but, since we are both students, we need a bit of $ $ $ to get technical advice from someone for some parts that relate to writing code (I study Marketing, and my friend is the final year of a degree in computer engineering).
- Tiziano Tassi
Okey I give in. Scoble, finally you made me signup for friendfeed
- shafiu
i'm in. also if this a psyco socialexperiment...
- FedericaB.
hahah interesting to see anyways .. how many comments on the one thread
- Terry O'Fee
Alright. This is my first entry. Chances are that I won't win....but it is exciting waiting to see if you do. :-)
- Thebluestbutterfly
1) I'll spend the money to end my fear for airplane: so I can travel again. 2) i will organize a free public movie show here in Milano, all people sits in the night to watch the screen in the spring air
- FedericaB.
@FedericaBellag, interesting :) and what if it is just a plain and simple contest? it may be more "word of mouth advertising" tracking experiment then psyco social one. (love the smile face)
- abdellah
Who wouldn't want to join FF for $1000?
- Samuel Driessen
I will use the money for paying up my college fees and taking up a course related to VOIP. People like Craig and Vincent of Grandcentral (which I use for 3 years almost), pat Phelan and more VOIP experts keep pushing me to do something great in that area. Also, great its open to any1 iin the world. Most competitions are US ONLY, which is something I HATE BIG TIME. I m in India Mr....
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- Hardeep Singh Dang
@samuel, no the question is are FF team ready to pay $1000 for any on who join!!!
- abdellah
@abdellah ok, let's be tracked then! that's my face at the office ;-)
- FedericaB.
I will save the money. I'm an italian student studying abroad (Master in Digital Library), and those money could just be useful. They could be also a way to go in Jerusalem, following my girlfriend. Anyway, goo viral Scoble ;-)
- Aubrey McFato
notice : the headline is "win my money" not "take my money", so we have to make effort, it is not a "free money" it is a make effort and win, so remember it is not "take my money" :)
- abdellah
im in :)
- shaff
money, money, money
- Cengiz Çatalkaya
Adopt me Robert!
- Özer (Wrzl) Dölekoğlu
It's so hard to see whole of the comments. 620 including me now. :)
- Meriç Dağlı
I would get an iron if I have been searching some water in the desert and I would be the ass part of the Voltran, when we have been arising it.... bacause I am so unfortunate
- Lokman Köroğlu
.oO(i SHOULD be able to get D90...)
- browneyes
you wanna DDoS FriendFeed :). I will use the money for a ff-contest when i pay people for the best comment. obviusly you can partecipate and win back your money. :P
- enzo zadrima
nice ;)
- nicolatbr
Let's add a comment to this.
- bnoise
I'll donate some charities with 750$ of it. Buy a macbook with 999$ it, and set up a " First commenters win the buck. " contest via friendfeed. :)
- Meriç Dağlı
It shouldn't be about the money? What kind of game is it? We still need to wait Is it somehow related to SXSW?
- Aziz
Sure do wish I could be there at #sxsw
- Gil Rodriguez
Hi, with that sum I would probably take a chance to stop and take time to smell the roses, at least for a while.
- ziomau
nice way to see if there's a limit on the number of comments a ff post could get..
- Nicola Maggi
I could qualify for the $1,000, but not the $1,750 as I have two jobs. The only basis I could see is for a complete donation to an organization helping out of work people. We have a food pantry here in Beverly Mass called Bootstraps and a women's shelter in Gloucester, Mass called Wellspring that both would know just where that money could be best used.
- Martha
Damn... money can do anything...
- Eyal Shahar
I'll be practical when I win the money and invest it in the future....my childrens' education!
- Kevin Dugan
@Eyal no, you can't win a contest even if you give money :) money don't do anything ;)
- abdellah
@nicolas interesting question, and what do you think? does a thread have a comment limit or no? it all depend on the limitation, will this run eternally?no so there is a number of comment that people will post here it is a kind of buzz after the momentum there will be no comment let say there will be 50000 comment, FF are able to store such data.
- abdellah
So being completely unbiased, with little if any interest, if I were Robert Scoble, handsome fella, I'd give the money to whoever stated first they would buy a jet ski due to the fact they are super fun! Oh, who knew, that's me!
- sofarsoShawn
Great...I was juts talking over in TechCrunch that Robert does not need luck in his new venture "Building 43" and not it seems I am the one that needs luck to win the $1000 ....:) Thanks Robert Joao/TechFuga
- TechFuga
a little is better than none. :)
- Geyik Mühendisi
Well I started reading this thread, but I got a 1/4 way through & gave up, >650 comments, that's got to be some kind of record. What post does have the highest number of comments?
- Glenn Slaven
Interesting... I guess there's nothing to lose by trying
- Adi Sheleg
Ok, can't hurt to put one's name into the "hat"...p.s. good luck dude on the new gig... will be following closely... thinking cloud myself :)
- Michael Lehman
Hmmmm. That is my comment
- Darrell Bell
Commenting away in the Great Scoble Sweepstakes.
- Warner Crocker
With $1750 I would spend half to get to next years SXSW which I am missing this year :-(. and the other half I would spend on sponsoring a deluxe drop in-childcare at the Austin Convention Center for the parent bloggers.
- Emee Pumarega
I'm in too:) I would use the money for keeping an exhibition
- Nia
Comment! This is the Robert Scoble Stimulus Package
- Kreg Steppe
Spinning the wheel. FF FTW ;)
- Daniel Krech
10% to charities of my choice, the rest to pay bills and allow me to keep working in the nonprofit sector. I'm at that level where I still need to do outside consulting to come out ahead at the end of each month, and $1600 would give me 4 months where I wouldn't need to get a consulting gig (yep, the budget is that tight)
- Jeff Stern
The 4 minihawks would like to donate to their california school district to help offset the 1.5mm cutbacks.
- Mrsth
I'm in too!
- LJ Kyser
Of course MRSTH could use an overdue marathon weekend away with Mr. Hawk.
- Mrsth
I can promise nice pics?
- Mrsth
I'm in...
- Halil Ahmet ÇAKIR
This thread will explode in 3, 2, 1...
- Marta
I can upgrade to a macpro by winning :-P
- Richard A.
wow this is the most comments/likes i've seen!
- andy brudtkuhl
If I won either sum of money, I'd probably put it toward buying some camera gear, like a Nikon D90 and another lens. I have a couple family events that I'll be taking pictures at, and it'd be nice to have a D90 for them. :) I could go for a D700, but the D90 has video, so that's why I prefer it right now.
- Cheryl Jones
@Jason H - Whether or not either of us wins Robert's money, I have a timeshare near Disney that I haven't had the opportunity to use in the past few years. If you can get yourself airfare, a rental car and park tickets, I'll be happy to let you use the week, no charge to you. The dates are October 24-31, 2009.
- Sally Robinson
if i win the $1000 or $1750 i would donate it to charity:water or some other water based charity. clean water is the catalyst to healthier and smarter communities
- Damian Holmes
what r we copying Ben Stein now?
- clarke thomas
Congratulations to you and Rocky on the new gig.
- Aron Michalski
With $1750 I'd give money to the National Multiple Sclerosis Society, to help fund research for a cure and treatments so my mother and others with MS can have an improved quality of life. I'd also give money to the American Diabetes Association to help my father and others living with diabetes. I'd give some to @smallcanbebig to help needy families locally (Boston) and hope to have enough left over to take my son to visit his grandparents in FL. He's 6 mos. and they've only seen him once, at Christmas.
- Sally Robinson
Robert, I want your money. Do I have to work for it?
- Aidha
I'm in. I wanne buy ı mac pro.
- Rıza Selçuk Saydam
I'm in robert!
- Junal Rahman
on that money is the side of the monte man. what's this it :) scoble iki dakka delikanlı ol lan paran fazlaysa git yardım kuruluşlarına, özürlüler, kimsesiz çocuklara ver mngoduum kapitalist pçleri.
- Volkan Yılmaz ٩(●̮̮̃•̃)۶
hehe :P
- Geyik Mühendisi
Yes please. The odds are way better here than playing the lotto
- Christian Burns
I can't wait to see the effect of putting my name on this illustrious list of luminaries
- David Gallagher
that's a smart way to get attention :)
- PaperDoll
With USD1750 I could finally prove that friendfeed is not a complete waste of time...
- Morten Josefsen
I would probably go for a D90 :-)
- Nils Sandin
if you come to shanghai/China, we can have a dinner and go to bar :)
- 赛林（土耳其）
I enter not because I need the money (I'd give it away too) but because me entering slightly reduces all of the rest of your chances to win. MUAHAHAHAHA
- Nate True
My Scoble $1750 stimulus package spending plan: Give my son (the struggling Mac/iphone developer) $1,000 in "angel funding", get a Drobo ($500), and put $250 in my Grandson's (future Mac) savings account.
- Al Degutis
Just for fun :)
- Hassan
Pick me, pick me, pick me for the $1000 giveaway (if you don't pick me for the $1750 Scoble Stimulus).
- Al Degutis
more people should do this. Many people or businesses could afford to give $1,000
- Lady Lovely Heart
i would donate some of it maybe half to a local worthy charity, the rest would go into a fund that would be used to encourage this type of activity. Conversation building, with the right questions a lot of solutions can be found by crowds
- Tweet Feeds
My intent for the big prize would be to replace windows in my home with energy efficient ones. the ones in the house now are cracked from the house settling. they are the original 1959 windows, and they rattle every time a plane goes over the house. very distracting when we are trying to concentrate or stay warm
- Lady Lovely Heart
I can haz money?
- Bryan R. Adams
Big money. No whammies. STOP. | I would use the winnings towards upgrading my equipment (Mac Pro) since my current setup is pretty bad for video. I would sell my current MBP (2006 First Gen) and use the proceeds towards the new machine. I would pump out twice as much HD content with better equipment. Thanks for all you do Robert..I know whoever wins will make the best out of the cash.
- Bwana ☠
Take my husband to the Grand Canyon for that honeymoon we never had--that's what I'd do with some extra cash.
- joansjewels
I agree, nice way to get people engaged.
- Gary Gifford Jr
from Nambu
Show me the money! :)
- Ale♫nastrorosa
actually, I don't want your money
- Manuela
That's quite ingenious =)
- Бутерброд с ветчумой
I'd buy a laptop so that I don't have to wait for the missus to get off the ruddy computer and let me have my go on it!!!
- Andy
a nice way to test the limits of commenting feature on a bunch of real people just for US$1000.
- 9000
I will use the money to buy $1 stocks in companies that will re-bound or will be more successful in the next 2-5 years due to the ongoing financial crisis. My choice will be guided by those companies that care, share and have flare for others...a community stimulus...hope others will join and build what the "financiers" could not.
- Gordon Montgomery
It seems too easy, but.. here ya go!
- Scott Breakall
You'll be my best crazy friend! *LOL*
- Andrea Spedale
1. Cool 2. Travel for VC meetings so I can finally provide some solutions for RSS that we argued/discussed 2 years ago (delivery of premium content possibly over open channels)
- Andy Beard
Random comment left.
- domizianogalia
here I am :)
- Fran
Yo Robert, did you give it away yet? Here's my chance to win! ;^)
- Michael Bailey
@manuela, but personally I want more comment from you.
- abdellah
awesome idea. by the way, how goes life without diet coke?
- tracy
I'd use it to help an independent artist with their career. Rentals for video equip on shows and music videos with stories that would otherwise remain untold.
- Frank Jonen
I'm in
- Lucas Araujo
from twhirl
I refuse to comment in this thread.
- Akiva Moskovitz
How can I win?
- Gloria Gordon
Woah! So is this part of the Scoble Stimulus plan? Anyways, if by some chance I did win the money I would use either towards moving out of my parents house later this year or put it towards my student loans.
- Mathew™ one of a kind
@Akiva you also deserve to win., I insist please comment this thread please.
- abdellah
If I lay my hands on this prize, I'll spent a night playing blackjack surrounded by hookers. I'd also buy a new Palm that Robert recommended lately and spend the remaining amount for ScienceDirect and Jstore subscriptions.
- Alan Kodzasov
I'd use the money to go to Korea.
- Mark Woodson
I would use the money to fix the economy.
- Andy Bakun
Andy: you get it right, please fix that economy.
- abdellah
Its enough to buy one toliet seat for the government :)
- Roberto Bonini
Robert could fund nails and shingles for building a small seminar facility in the Adirondack State Park.
- Jeff Archambeault
With $1750 I would buy a lot of toys for the baby we are waiting....
- roberto ferorelli
I count at least 6 references to "donate to kiva.org" so far. Pretty cool. That is what I was going to write, but looks like many other's beat me to it. But hell... If I got it, I would donate to Kiva.org. :) (make it 7 now).
- Shannon Bauman
JET SKI!
- sofarsoShawn
Sounds like a great idea.
- Tyson Key
awesome idea.
- Jessie
Give me $10,000 in unmarked bills or I tell Maryam your giving away $4800.
- shelisrael1
joy and joyness!
- Jenn Castro
Nothing special here, just want to pay some outstanding bills and get supplies for my 3mth old =)
- Mat Finch
Quickly put in a reply while thinking about a smug way of spending 1.750...
- Stefan Kolle
Yeah, I think I'll stick with the Kiva donation too. I'm pretty prolific there (a true believer), and have about that amount outstanding in loans, so the chance to double my Kiva loans in one go would be outstanding.
- Stefan Kolle
is this gonna have like 1000+ comments?
- Jorge Murillo
I'm bummed I couldn't get to SXSWi so I came to Robert's ATM machine instead. :)
- Laura Zickus
in.
- Richard Lawler
No comment :-P
- Richard A.
Bump!
- Tyson Key
I'd love to say I'd do something altruistic with the money, but I'd invest it all in my startup (we're doing cool things with information and emotions online). In this economy every little helps :-)
- jennielees
Out
- Roberto Bonini
Awesome. Looking forward to what's next.
- Andy Sternberg
from fftogo
Yay, the Scobleizer Grand Prize Giveaway- Still more chances than the National Lottery!
- Tyson Key
FriendFeed Scales!
- Tyson Key
with $1,750, I would I would set up 7 performance art / photoshoots uptown here in Charlotte in the center of Bank Town at lunch time, wordlessly demonstrating some of the problems (as I see them) with our current corporate culture. I have the first one of these ready to go but don't the cash to set up the others (yet). If I only got the free $1000, I would buy some more studio lighting equipment (much to the chagrin of my roomy).
- Shannon J Hager
Why? Why? Why?
- Ashish Rangole
in
- Roozbeh
Bella idea! :)
- Daniele Aprile
It just goes to show you can't be too careful!
- Timothy Griffin
with $ 1.750 I would buy a laptop + microphone + router for my parish and start broadcasting with kids.
- Astrid Virili
Hey Robert, I think this is the most commented entry on Friendfeed. btw I don't want your money :) Cheers
- cihanergur
just testing my luck :)
- Deniz (bluesign) Edincik
sure, I'll play. as for how I'd use the money, I'd probably use it to help offset the cost of my lasik surgery.
- chrisofspades
I would use the money to fund my own open source development work (within the php symfony framework) as well as supplement my wife's pending maternity leave. Realtors don't get paid maternity leave... Thanks!
- Jon Issler
Scoble rocks, count me in!
- Chris Pugh
I would use the money to assist my parents in their move back home closer to the adult children. They are currently existing on 18k a year, their Medicare and Secondary insurance cost them 10k. It would help buy their medications.
- Janet
I'm sure that there are a lot of deserving people who need this money so best of luck to all. I would give this $ to my mother who had to sell her business after working so hard, cause she was diagnosed with lung cancer. Now she has to work for someone part time cause still sick, husband laid off in Florida, trying to pay off house, med bills, prescrip, barely making it & gov't no help cause not appv'd for Medicare cause married, what? so considering divorce just to afford medical bills & mortgage. - M.E.
- monica Edwards
Here's my comment! I'll take my chances. I'm a poor college grad, I could sure use the cash.
- Jessica
I've blocked u, so if u wanna get back on my list....:)
- Koba Yaschi
This is really good. I'll buy a Nintendo Wii. :) Thx.
- marrup -serkan-
I hope people that REALLY need it win ,,, good luck on the Contest Rob ..
- johnpiercy
This has to be the most commented thread in FriendFeed.
- Nicholas James
Here's the rundown with what I'd do with $1750: I want to do a Power Rangers fan film. No joke. Stop laughing. No really, you can stop now. Power Rangers has been on the air for the past 17 seasons, and it's finally getting canceled. This has inspired me to shoot a film short inspired by the show I grew up with. The $1750 will be invested to bump it up to looking professional. Scoble can be the Executive Producer! Don't pass up on that chance. Ok, you can stop laughing now, lol.
- Lisa J
I want money
- Tyler (Chacha)
Tuition for 2010 Iowa Summer Writing Festival courses, at Iowa Writers' Workshop.
- Paola Bonomo
It would go into the funds I am raising to start a new print venture, tbnl, which will publish great, timeless stories (fiction & nonfiction) in a limited edition (subscriber only edition), a print-on-demand edition available for years and a digital ebook reader. Paying writers & artists on an ongoing, fair basis
- Shannon Clark
I'd love to have some Scoble Dollars. They'd help fund my exit from technology to academia.
- Tom Morris
Hi Robert, Congrats on new opportunity with bldg 43 Can I share your money with my 18 month old daughter AKA the Joy transmitter or perhaps I could drop it form the sky with my tandem paraglider over the Microsoft campus...
- John Clifford
It's impossible not to comment - although if it wasn't Scoble saying this, I wouldnt bother to be honest, as I'd suspect a con ...
- Ian
760 comments and counting...
- Mike Doeff
I guess a SECOND MacBook would be nice…
- Alexandre Testu
Is it for VAT?
- Onur ALMIŞLAR
I'd use the money to buy crack. I mean books for children. Oh, wait, it's random...
- Jules Morgan
Wow! I think I would invest them for developing an iPhone application
- Nicholas
Hi Robert, my first comment on friendfeed, I couldn't resist the chance. You do know that Tuesday is St. Patrick's Day - I'll buy you a leprechaun hat from the parade in Dublin to celebrate!
- Niall Sisson
Leaving Comment here. Hope it finds a good home. I would use the money to start a shelter for lost comments.
- Joe K
No 419 scammers y