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The only way I'd go camping. ;)
Tyson Key, Tomonori Murakami, Дмитрисергеич and 150 other people liked this
HAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHA
- Anna Haro
ahahahaa
- DO ANYBODY NO MONIQUE
Been there, done that. Many, many, many years ago, we brought computers to a week-long music festival just so we could play games.
- Akiva Moskovitz
Switch that to someone else carrying all that and I'm there with you.
- ♥patricia♥
Akiva, you went to burning man? Sweet! Tell all...
- Pete Delucchi
Hah, no. It was a regional festival.
- Akiva Moskovitz
That guy needs to ditch his eMachines and get a MacBook Air.
- Louis Gray
What in the hell resolution is he running at? The IE icon takes up the entire screen.
- Akiva Moskovitz
I wonder what battery he used...
- Ming Tsai
He's writing "e"-mail
- Morton Fox
.LOLz
- .LAG liked that
Wiindows Fit
- Jemm
L ... O ... L
- Mike Reynolds
LOL that would be my bf!
- Brandy Lea
Dude. Get a Shuttle case at least.
- Cyndy
Heavy pc and crt, ok, but the subwoofer too? You know how heavy those things are? This would work in space maybe.
- Josh Haley
And I wonder where it's getting powered from. Is there an extension cord behind him, or maybe he's got a generator attached to his feet?
- Costa Walcott
But which way would it point? Or should there be two, one aimed at his face, and one on the visor of his hat, to see what he can see?
- Ladybug Heather
It's a 'Trojan Horse'!! The hollowed out tower contains 8 Macbook Airs, 25 iPhones, a G1™[product placement by Google] and a handful of Newtons - just waiting to be deployed!
- Micah Wittman
There is a distinct lack of cup holder.
- Rochelle
True... where does the Mountain Dew go? Or coffee or Jolt Cola or whatever caffeinated substance he drinks?
- Ladybug Heather
Rochelle: thats what the CD Drive tray is for.
- Roberto Bonini
hehe
- Kamilah Gill
Hmm, needs more counter-balances on the front. Right now it's just a touch off-center. :D
- i80and
amazing
- johnpiercy
*bump*
- Micah Wittman
*bump*^2
- imabonehead
WIN!
- TheHenry
COOL! :d
- selma hurkan
either that or my laptop and my Rocket stick with me lol
- Rob Cairns
Dave Winer clearly doesn't take criticism very well
I posted some remarks on Dave's (misguided) health care notions that he posted over here: http://www.scripting.com/stories... This was the result. My comments (and subsequent conversation with another commenter) are nowhere to be found, and I get this lovely message. Dave, if you can't take criticism, then why should anybody care about your opinion? And if you're not interested in discussion, might I suggest not having a comments form at all?
- Otto
from email
Looks like he also deleted the comments you made on FF: http://friendfeed.com/davew...
- Costa Walcott
Heh. He's also blocked me on FriendFeed as well. Shame, really. I was a fan of the guy. I mean, RSS is cool. Oh well. Interesting side note: When somebody blocks you on FriendFeed, it tells you that they have a private feed. If you then hit "sign out", you can instantly see how that's a little white lie. ;)
- Otto
Also interesting is that the FF post you commented on still shows up on http://friendfeed.com/otto42..., even though you can't see the comments themselves.
- Costa Walcott
Muse – Plug In Baby - http://www.last.fm/music...
Sean, Matthew Horton, Terje Mikal Espedal and 4 other people liked this
Christopher Wolstenholme Rocks the bass, main reason i love muse
- Fee501st
One of my favorite bands!
- Veronica
Yea there great! Also Muse songs are few songs that people fight over to play the Bass in RB/GH
- Fee501st
Speaking of which I just heard that Plug In Baby is going to be in Guitar Hero 5
- Costa Walcott
^ sweet!
- Fee501st
I'm pretty lame at GH in general but the Muse songs are freaking difficult. Awesome songs tho!
- Amy
Unintended is the perfect broken heart song.
- Veronica
Naw, I have to disagree without having heard that song or seriously considering your opinion. When my heart is broken I will put this song on repeat and lie in the middle of the floor, letting Tom nurse me back to emotional health: http://tinysong.com/mbo
- aldenoneil
No, I take it back. That version sucks.
- aldenoneil
I saw them at the Austin City Limits festival back in 2006. They had to cut their set short because they were told that "Tom Petty doesn't like people playing during his sets." Well, I don't like Tom Petty forcing one of my favorite bands to stop playing.
- Fleagle
now I hate Tom Petty more than I already kind of did.
- Veronica
Here it is in GH5, http://www.dailymotion.com/video... but why didnt they put all of Muse in!
- Fee501st
RT @tokyomango: My NYT Magazine article "Love in 2D" about guys who have anime characters for girlfriends is online now. http://www.nytimes.com/2009...
Fee501st, Costa Walcott, Gary Oswald and Rob Haas liked this
Robert I have to second that....wow
- Costa Walcott
I saw some insane stuff in Akihabara. That's all I'm gonna say!
- Veronica
Every time I think I've heard it all, the Japanese always prove me wrong.
- Otto
Wow.... just wow!
- Fee501st
Don't restrict this to the Japanese, Samuel: http://dir.salon.com/story...
- aldenoneil
OOH, that's me! I'm in love with Melon from Akikan, Yoko Littner from Gurren Laggan, Val from UFO Ultramaiden Valkyrie, C.C. from Code Geass, etc!
- David Cardamone
Talk about Facebook buying FriendFeed here (on FriendFeed, of course):
HealingBrush, Chris Martin, lolise and 164 other people liked this
I'm not sure what it means, but I hope the goodness of Friendfeed stays intact.
- Tom Landini
I guess Facebook just got real time search engine!
- Robert Scoble
from iPhone
What do facebook get out of it?
- Ruchit Garg
Fact or fiction?
- Jason Cronkhite
from iPhone
I haven't seen likes and comments stream real-time this fast before.
- ydfeed
It depends on who lays claim to our posted and aggregated material.
- jcunwired
it could work. if Friendfeed completely replaces Facebook
- Edgar Rodríguez
I think it's a brilliant move, although bringing this into the Facebook walled garden would ruin it.
- Derek Shanahan
how much for?
- Ruchit Garg
Is it true Robert?
- Kevin Whalen
BAD 'n SAD :((
- sid 【ツ】
Great match to take on the Twitter machine.
- Ryan Cummins
what is next..facebook killing twitter integration...SCORE....??
- Denis
++Edgar
- Ryan
Good for Facebook, BAD for us. NOOOOOOOOOOOO
- Nir Ben Yona
Presumably a technology acquisition then, Facebook is buying the team and the tech.
- DGentry
I don't like it
- Jason Hargrove
Bad news, if true.
- LogEx
Just because Facebook bought Friendfeed, doesn't necessarily mean they will do anything with the service. At least maybe not right away. People need to chill out.
- Alex Knight
hope it doesn't mess w/ twitter integration
- Ken Seto
makes a lot of sense - f.b. now has a power house of real-time all-stars. fixes many of the feature 'wish' lists for f.b. - actually a major positive sign for innovation. congrats to the F.F. team.
- michael sean wright
How can i shut down my ff account?
- Fotis Alexandrou
I need a few hours and possibly large amounts of chocolate
- Bwana ☠
If you are right, that "Facebook just got real time search engine", that is good - as FB really, really needed it for a long time.
- Bora Zivkovic
:(
- Sinem Co
yes, this is fast. Reminds me of a few hours ago when I was on Freenode
- Ian Tindale
There goes your data.
- Jason Hargrove
This will probably be bad. like all purchases, it will be an "afterthought" and never be fully allowed to develop and flourish.
- Ryan Jones
Man this is really SUCKS!! :((( we all know Facebook strategies on the web :(( Whey will drive FriendFeed to the helll and I'm pretty sure of this :((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((( BAD SUCKS SAD :(((
- FFTornado
It almost seemed inevitable since Facebook has been copying so much of Friendfeed in recent months. It's good for the founders of FF and may benefit those of us who use both on a regular basis. Maybe they'll just leave FF alone?
- Kenley Neufeld
Funny thing is, if you posted about this on Facebook, 99.9999% of it's users would go "huh, what's FriendFeed anyway?"
- Richard Matthias
someone tell me what they will do with it? Nothing maybe? Kill it, maybe?
- Francine Hardaway
Wonder how they'll integrate, separate services with more interaction or FF swallowed by Facebook.
- Steven Cains
Buy as is use it's IP and close it down or run as separate business? Either way, didn't see that coming.
- Keith Bennett
from BuddyFeed
It was bound to go down. Like we used to say on the block shootin' dice "Big Bank Take Little Bank"
- professor daddyo
I do, however, wish tha tmore sites would implement this commenting engine.
- Ryan Jones
Fotis: haha, wait too long, and you'll never be able to close your FF account ;)
- Jason Hargrove
not believing it until another source confirms...
- Benton
Congrats to the friendfeed team. Worried about the future though.
- Andy Roth
Whats FriendFeed anyways?
- Marco Horta
so that Facebook can maybe copyright the "Like" button? lol
- Than R
How are we going to abbreviate it now? FBFF? FFFB? F^3B ?
- Harry Wolff
I receive the breaking news via BNO News at this moment: Facebook acquires FriedFeed...
- Torsten Eckert
haha you're right Richard
- Ken Seto
I am stuck in Texas and have not confirmed myself.
- Robert Scoble
from iPhone
Wow
- Rodfather
OMG.
- Nathan Chase
maybe they can implement threads?
- Jeremy Toeman
It looks like a defensive move. I think it's better fro FB to acquire FF than incorporating twitter functionalities in their status feature.
- Pablo Paniagua
double wow.
- Brian Daniel Eisenberg
Friendbook? Facefeed?
- Jeff Harbert
If it's true, I suspect FriendFeed as we know it will be gone, but Facebook will be greatly improved.
- Costa Walcott
bah. i will go do something else. this news isn't helping
- Edgar Rodríguez
trying to look on the bright side - maybe we'll get those iPhone/Blackberry apps for better access to FriendFeed
- Stuart Miniman
But if it isn't true we would have heard by now.
- Robert Scoble
from iPhone
apprehensive about this
- Liz Polay-Wettengel
Official: http://friendfeed.com/friendf...
- Brandon Titus
I want to hear the $$$ number
- moo yu
Congrats to ff team...but how does this work? I have 2 different accounts...and I like it that way...I don't want to share/spam my friends on facebook with what I have here...
- brainno722 (Peter)
@robert no we wouldnt have
- Jeremy Toeman
It's official: http://blog.friendfeed.com/2009...
- Costa Walcott
Originally posted this to your other FF/FB post before you astarted this one: I don't see the point of Facebook acquiring FriendFeed. They are pretty much identical services (well, FF represents just the News Feed portion of Facebook) I don't see how they can incorporate FriendFeed into Facebook. If they really did buy it, then I see this as them going for programming talent more so...
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- Christopher A. Wichura
From FF blog http://blog.friendfeed.com/2009...
- Tom Landini
I'm hoping this improves Facebook (just like everyone else). Facebook has gotten horrible stale for me of late.
- Harry Wolff
This stream itself is the evidence of WHY Facebook bought FF.
- Steven Walling
What's looking shiny and new now? :-)
- Rob Michael (Atmos Trio)
I've been needing a reason to get re-interested in Facebook, this could be it.
- JonInteractive
Friend management will need to be enhanced/overhauled. Otherwise, the noise will make the combined product unusable.
- Peter Ghosh
No! I am going to cry! I HATE FACEBOOK! I have a Facebook account, but FriendFeed is way better. Life is over! Apocalypse.
- Zachary TG
Seriously, how can i shut it down?
- Fotis Alexandrou
We'll have to wait for more details to see exactly what Facebook is planning to do with FF.
- 321
Bodes badly for FriendFeed. --rj
- Roger Jennings
I think this is more of a "send the friendfeed traffic to facebook" than any kind of technical leverage. My biggest concern here: in order to exchange dialogue with people on facebook I need to be friends with them vs. being able to do it on friendfeed without having to friend them up. I find this valuable as there may be a topic or 5 that I want to engage with user "X" on, but I don't...
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- Erik Boles
I am disappointed by this news... I don't like Facebook at all... And I'm afraid they will just kill FriendFeed with their awful cluttered interface...
- Fa La La La Lindsay
It depends on how they integrate it. Did they buy it for the search engine, or did they buy it as a potential for extending the reach of Facebook into real time conversations? It's all about the life stream now right? So probably Facebook's attempt to stake a claim there.
- Tony "Frosty" Welch
bad days are coming
- Ahmet Soyata
Fotis, why do you want to shut down our FF account?
- Alex Knight
This is bad news for Yahoo 360°. Oh wait, too late.
- Ian Tindale
Bad bad bad bad bad bad ::runs screaming down the hall::
- mary
Crap!
- Zachary TG
This is disgusting.
- Zachary TG
First of all, I love the name "Facefeed." ROFL Second, this is business boys. Happens all the time. Why do you think innovation keeps happening. FB will integrate or kill off FF, and something else will happen. It's a natural cycle.
- Francine Hardaway
For a second I thought it was a joke, but then I checked Friendfeed's Blog. http://blog.friendfeed.com/2009... Damn it.
- Alejandro
Nir Ben Yona +1
- Muge Cerman
Turmoil
- Ian Tindale
wondering if i should continue aggregating all my online activity in frienfeed now that facebook owns it!!
- Gtp19
I can't begin to process this right now. Too much work to focus on. Later when I read this 10,000 mile long thread and have a glass of Cab in hand.
- Michele Lorito-Chase
Geeks and fb not a good mach
- thomas elton
from iPhone
We fear change
- Ian Tindale
Not feeling real good about this, hope fully Facebook will do right by the FF community, but I'm not holding my breath. Glad for the FF team though
- Kim Landwehr
Twitter dissed again.
- JonInteractive
So FB failed to buy Twitter, - so they buy FF which is just a UI for twitter..
- Nick Halstead
if you look closely at FF the large majority of FF posts are twitter posts, so there was not that much original content on FF in the first place...
- Ingmar
Makes a lot of sense for Facebook. And we find this very healthy ^^
- twitscoop
People need to stop freaking out. The Facebook/Friendfeed buy out was just announced. Wait for details people.
- Alex Knight
It could be bad, it could be good. As long as Facebook doesn't try to port their functionality over, I'm fine with it being a financial acquisition.
- Adam Reyher
Crap, its official !
- Peter Dawson
This is really bad... a wonderful tool based on killer technology will go over into this mass market teeny poking culture. Bah!
- Markus Tressl
then again it is great for linking FB, TW, flickr and so on
- Ingmar
Here is the FF post on the acquisition: http://blog.friendfeed.com/2009...
- Mrinal Desai
Great, why did I bother creating an account here? I could have held out.
- desinole
if this is true, for the love of god, please don't Facebook go and mess up FriendFeed as they have their own system, Facebook is a mess these days, Friendfeed is one of the 2.0 sites that actually has concentrated on doing a few things well, complete opposite to Facebook.
- Carl Grint
I suppose Friendfeed was considerably lacking in LOLcats.
- Ian Tindale
Cuz we all know that facebook doesn't respect user's privacy and you've got basically everything on ff, youtube, twitter, digg whatever you do
- Fotis Alexandrou
Paul Buckheit will now be a house husband:-)
- Francine Hardaway
Confirmed by FF http://blog.friendfeed.com/2009...
- David Peacock
Smart for Facebook but I prefer Friendfeed the way it is.What, we'll be throwing rabbits next?
- Janet Fouts
FriendFeed listens to the community. Facebook doesn't. Not to mention they're ENTIRELY different communities.
- Adam Reyher
If they keep FriendFeed as a separate site, and still upgrade regularly, this is fine. If FriendFeed winds up in the dead pool, then it sucks.
- Steve Sill
If true, congrats to the FF Founders!
- Jason Cronkhite
from iPhone
Maybe I should rediscover my Orkut account.
- Ian Tindale
I was just thinking how Friendfeed had stayed out of recent takeovers, mergers and hence cyber attacks. Will Friendfeed now be taken over by celebs and spammers too?
- Nils Geylen
Not sure why this news makes me nervous. Please tell me it's going to be ok Scoble...
- Lucas
FF has been FB's incubator for awhile.
- Peter Warnock
it's true damn!!!!
- Edgar Rodríguez
How can I spam on this thread please ? Any idea ?
- Toucouleur
Facebook has ZERO respect for users' wishes... Friendfeed is incompatible with that. Friendfeed will be going away. :( Their blog post says as much: "FriendFeed.com will continue to operate normally **for the time being**. We're still figuring out our longer-term plans for the product"
- tollie williams
Quickest/Biggest thread ever
- Ian Tindale
Ideally, FB will leave FF to do the sweet innovating they are doing and just take the awesome features and put them into FB
- Ryan
This is the first time I've used Friendfeed in a year. Good move on their part.
- chantelle
How Much ? $$$ ;-)
- Jacopo Gio
I'm heading back to Jaiku where it's nice and quiet
- Ian Tindale
So, where do we migrate to now?
- Byron McCollum
FriendFeed functionality on Facebook would be nice. The reverse, not so much. They're trying to address two entirely separate purposes and as such, need to remain completely separate.
- Adam Reyher
back to the twitter
- emresezgin
I want numbers. how much did facebook pay?
- Zac Bowling
soon friendfeed will = Jaiku
- johnny2009
Hum...let's see what happens.
- Chip Hanna
Stay here until FB does something dumb with FF
- Ryan
The rhetoric seems a bit too "Facebook will do what they want with us" and not "we will remain FF and continue forward". Seems as if FB went for the tech and we could lose FF as a seperate entity. Boo.
- Derek Shanahan
confirmed by facebook press release.
- Zac Bowling
Love 'em or hate 'em....Facebook made a phenomenal purchase.
- Kevin Pruett
I see a ton of Wall Spam. Facebook users just don't get it when you port your twitter updates over. There is too much for them to wrap their heads around. This will be a hard transition.
- Ryan Cummins
And I was REALLY getting fond of FriendFeed. From now on only downhill applicationwise?
- Bart
Not happy about this. I use Facebook, but don't like it. It reminds me of AOL from 10 years ago.
- David Sharpe
I agree that I don't want FB to mess up FF, but this will also give FF a higher profile and bring in many more users...which we may or may not like, judging by what happened on Twitter. I hope FF doesn't die off like Jaiku because I really think FF offers a more valuable and useful interface.
- Cathryn Hrudicka
One thing to consider is this: If we have "trusted" the FriendFeed people not to screw things up, hopefully we can trust them to make sure they're still in control in the terms of the acquisition.
- Adam Reyher
What's it going to be called? Failbook?
- Ian Tindale
Its going to be called Facebook.
- DGentry
I hope this is a joke.. Damn it, I dont like Facebook now there is nowhere to go... F***
- Jacque
I am trying to imagine how this will be a good thing for existing FF users. It feels so right and so wrong all at once!...Maybe at least my kids and wife will finally get what I've been ignoring them for over the past year.
- Thom Kennon
FeedFace
- Ian Tindale
Is that means we're going to see more extremist groups around, now that FB has acquired FF?
- Nir Ben Yona
so where do all the cool kids go now? we need another startup, stat!
- h1ro
I am afraid... what johnny2009 have said can really be the future... soon friendfeed will = Jaiku
- Ahmed Mubbashir Khan
Damn,I've just"got friendfeed,and i love it.I definately don't like facebook.What does it mean for twitter?
- Paul Downing
Any investors want to predict the buyout price?
- Kevin Pruett
am gonna wait for google wave... coz in facebook, i cant access the complete stream for a month ago, the site goes down very often while browsing, and privacy issues galore!! congratulations for friendfeed but its jus me!!!
- Gtp19
Maybe we´re seeing here one of FriendFeeds biggest discusions ever. I´m sceptic about the future of FF as a standlone service...
- Torsten Eckert
What concerns me most is what happens to my friends here (and that I have to interact with my friends THERE). Will we have to be friends to interact in the same way we have the last couple of years?
- jcunwired
This is very good for FriendFeed as long as Facebook doesn't corrupt them. I would have preferred to see Google buy FF but I know with their focus on Wave I don't think it would have been a good fit. I like the Facebook platform, but they have done too many shady things in the past for me to trust them.
- Adam Teece
all of the conversation is happening on FriendFeed and Twitter - nothing on Facebook. Think we'd scare away Facebook if everyone starts having lots of conversations there - like on Scoble's fan page?
- Stuart Miniman
They can or don't have to fix FF's FB app now.
- ydfeed
Is Twitter going to buy Myspace?
- marcus bösch
Ha Stuart - great point *Facebookers take cover*
- Kimberle Kelly
That does it. I'm going back to usenet.
- Ian Tindale
What's next- Macy's buying Gimble's?
- Thom Kennon
Apple buys China
- Ian Tindale
what do you think Robert?
- courtney benson
All I can think of is now a lot of people can feel the pain the dedicated Pownce community felt, but at least you're not getting shut down, just yet.
- Mike Lewis
I'm not a big facebook user, but my gut feeling is that like twitter buying summize, it will mark the end of major innovations. I hope I'm wrong. But they should totally go with the facefeed mashup name.
- motownmutt
I dont see any potential for competition with twitter FB and Twitter serve different purposes as does FriendFeed
- iluvblackwomen
Sorry but renaming Facebook to 'Facefeed' is utterly stupid.
- Alex Knight
It'll be called ScobleFeed
- Ian Tindale
does making google reader more social has anything to do with this buyout??!
- Gtp19
yeah this was good for facebook. bad for anyone who liked friendfeed.
- Liz
FriendFeed is very good, a better way to use Twitter & etc. Knowing this, I still rarely use FF. Not going to start using Facebook more.
- Nicole
Actually, this could be death for Twitter when you think about it. The people I know who are in FB are not likely to add TWO more nets to their lifestream. FriendFeed makes more sense for them. Maybe Twitter just stays as the dumb pipe it's become for many of us here.
- Thom Kennon
Echoing what others have said - My guess: Facebook will get better, Friendfeed will get worse, Twitter will matter a lot less.
- Matthew Blaisdell
Good for FB UI and search, questionable for the FF community and its independent spirit ...
- Bo Stern
last comment 2 hours ago on FF by Paul Buchheit, FF CEO, was just " :)" http://friendfeed.com/paul #friendbook
- Jacopo Gio
The main reason why I came to FF was because when I tried to treat FB the same as FF, i was talking to a wall. At least people interact here. At FB, it's all about the cheesy games/apps.
- Matthew Horton
from iPhone
Just like most acquisitions, it could be good and it could be bad. I trust that FriendFeed will live on as FriendFeed, only sharing their tech with Facebook. Possibly more integration between the two sites. If you were FF/FB, what would you do?
- Nick Humphries
Twitter, Friendfeed and Facebook are three entirely different animals. Facebook eats Friendfeed and poops out little bits of content that once belonged to us. Twitter continues to thrive as the broadcast conversation-wannabe that it always was.
- jcunwired
Nick - think again. Its going to go away - read the tea leaves in this statement: "Your data will not go away any time in the near term future - we are committed to our users" - Bret Taylor in this post https://friendfeed.com/friendf...
- jcunwired
Please no. I don't like FaceBook...
- Svartling
Facebook must want real time soc-net search badly...
- martin smith
The biggest thing here, at least within the Twitter context, is that this merger will combine 'verified' identity (in terms of Facebook user ID being slightly more 'real' than Twitter) with real time status updates.
- Dan Patterson
I'm looking forward to what this brings to Facebook. I have enjoyed both networks but wondered when FriendFeed/Facebook would face-off and/or be absorbed by the other. I think FriendFeed's tech will improve the Facebook experience.
- Jacob Sloan
FriendFeed + Twitter = disruptive. FriendFeed + Facebook = one more app for FB . Facebookers dont know the power of FriendFeed. I agree with : "" So FB failed to buy Twitter, - so they buy FF which is just a UI for twitter.. - Nick Halstead ""
- Rocky
Most likely scenario is Facebook assimilates the FriendFeed guys, has them work on improving Facebook newsfeed/realtime/status, and lets FriendFeed die a slow unmaintained death.
- Richard Akerman
Well, my friends on FB doesn't give a damn about sharing links, news, pics, vids etc. So I'm not sure how I will use FB+FF now. I don't think FriendFeed will exist, just implemented in Facebook. The name FriendFeed will die. And: on FB you don't want the whole world to see everything you're doing, just your friends. And it will stay this way. So the question is: Who will build the new FriendFeed?
- Patrik Johansson
Do this mean, by the way, that we (the FriendFeed users) should start to connect with each other on FB? How will they like that? People who get's 2-3 maybe 4000 connections?
- Patrik Johansson
Robert, it means all the time you invested building friends lists and updates there will go to Facebook :-)
- Loic Le Meur
could someone start to develop a Frienfeed clon , please ? ASAP !
- Rocky
Seems bloody terrible from this users perspective. Good for Friendfeed the company though.
- Quasar
Given Facebook's past, this could be really bad. Given FriendFeed's past, this could be really good. No real way to speculate without talking to the FF crew.
- xero
+3273 Quasar! (one for each of my Likes, already on a death march)
- jcunwired
Robert, do you know if Facebook is going to put on limits here at FF??? Oh crikey... so much for our citizen journalism here.... Admittedly I am bummed. Uber bummed.
- Arleen Anderson
EndFeed.
- Alex Schleber
your blog is the most important thing you can own on the web. these sites can come and go. it's a great social point but true friends you've made here you talk outside of ff, right?
- Terry O'Fee
from BuddyFeed
It's a good time to sell to Facebook, cause Google Wave is imminent and is going to destroy all of Facebook, Twitter and FriendFeed. I think FriendFeed employees might even go back to Google eventually as soon as their contracts with Facebook are up.
- Charbax
Robert - wow. just wow I am stunned. Sorta sad actually. I love FF innovation and don't want to see that stop !!!!!
- Susan Beebe
(RE: Your tweet earlier) When you say the minor league team going to the majors, I don't always feel that this is a positive thing. As in this case, it's like Ferrari being acquired by Ford. I don't think I like this acquisition.
- Richard Merritt
the free ride couldn't last forever. I know it sucks that things will change, but they've got a lot more sense than Twitter has about these things..
- Terry O'Fee
from BuddyFeed
You must all assimilate to the new FaceFeed
- Jonathan.Rivera
From what I'm gathering, this acquisition is more about FB acquiring the talented engineers of FF than it is about the FF software itself. A smart play by FB. Unfortunate for us that value FF. I personally feel that FB is just slowly becoming the new Myspace. Which I don't think I need to explain how lame that is.
- Richard Merritt
According to WSJ — FB paid $50 million — a mix of cash and stocks. http://bit.ly/SVTA5
- Richard Merritt
If you ignore all the crappy apps and just comment and post photos, your main feed on Facebook is fundamentally a pretty similar experience to FriendFeed - people post stuff, people comment on it. That is, at-least, the way my network tends to use Facebook. The main difference is that Facebook defaults to being very closed and private while FriendFeed defaults to being very open and...
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- Edward Coffey
edward - pretty much. it's FF for the layman. remember back in the day they used to have forums too?
- Terry O'Fee
friendfeed is very cliquey. you have your group of people who usually gather round for conversations. now imagine some of this friendfeed stuff in facebook. done right it will help them a lot.
- Terry O'Fee
from BuddyFeed
I don't think I am liking this but FB does need to add the "edit" feature like on here.
- Marika Dye
FriendFeed is Facebooks Summize. It’s All About Search. http://bit.ly/11ZW6l
- paul mooney
Thinking Out Loud: Echo issues during a high profile tech show http://www.talkshoe.com/talksho...
- Alex 'BuckyBit' Covic
FF acquisition is expected. But, as a user, I would be bumned, if FF would become a feature of FB. As, I tend to use Twitter as my social network and not FB.
- Vasu Srinivasan
It doesn't make much sense talking about 'Facefeed" and 'Friendbook'... Facebook simply bought a cool 12-people company called Friendfeed for its great search technology paying 15M plus some shares, which is really very cheap in this context, given the value of FF's technology (as it is perceived by us). They are also hiring the talented FF team, which makes the deal even more interesting for FB. Probably there are also some deeper hidden motives and implications that I am not able to get.
- Liviu Barbat
I would love it if Facebook integrated the FriendFeed features. I would love it if Facebook had FriendFeed's flexibility with Facebook's privacy control. It sucks that the world may lose FriendFeed, but it is great the Facebook will likely get better.
- Andrew
Andrew, Facebook will get better - over time. There won't be any Vulcan website meld of FB and FF overnight.
- Bill Sodeman
thank god someone understands that, andrew. it's like "i liked this band better before they went to a major label!" ;)
- Terry O'Fee
Bill - But we can dream, can't we? :) I mean, what I love about Facebook is that I'm interacting with my friends as my friends, not as usernames and avatars. But I hate their bookmarklet, the weird delays when I post anything, the comment system, and I hate the Photo gallery tech. I love the FriendFeed community, but would love bringing the FriendFeed technology over to Facebook even more. If only Facebook could buy Flickr next...
- Andrew
as long as fb start thinking in creative commons terms... one day ..
- Terry O'Fee
they are both great services I think will be a good thing
- Logan Lindquist
oh NO! I don't spend much time at FB (everybody there's too busy playing stupid games, at least in my little network), and besides it's more private unlike FF. And now they've gone and bought FF? And I just joined! I guess I won't be around here for long, since FF won't...
- Dennis Jernberg
I don't like it...
- Harry Mahardhika
No mention of Yahoo. Totally irrelevant these days. Sad.
- Scott Schnaars
This deal makes sense! Now fb developers do not need to figure out how ff does it because they can just ask!
- Garin Kilpatrick
One of my facebook accounts got closed up. Into this account I fed my friendfeed. And into friendfeed I fed for example my socialmedian shares, diggs, stumbles etc.
- Wilhelm Bauer
Time for the next generation app. *Taps foot impatiently for Google Wave*
- Karen Masullo
I don't think it's about getting Friendfeed it's self; but having the developers and the information about real-time search.
- Chris Martin
Anthony Citrano to Anthony's feed, RWW: The Future of Tech, The Next Web Europe, FriendFeed Feedback
FriendFeed accepts Facebook friend request | FriendFeed Blog - http://blog.friendfeed.com/2009...
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“FriendFeed.com will continue to operate normally for the time being.” [Argh.]
- Anthony Citrano
from Bookmarklet
Sorry to be a downer, but at first blush, this sounds like one big fat bummer to me.
- Anthony Citrano
Yep. This pretty much means the death clock has started. Either we're going to be shuffled into Facebook or FriendFeed will eventually be Googleized and will never be heard from again.
- Akiva Moskovitz
I agree
- Shevonne
I suspect this will end with greatly enhanced UI in Facebook, and the death of FF as we know it.
- Costa Walcott
Are we sure it is a good thing?
- Flavio
To TechCrunch: “Taylor and Cox say that the Friendfeed product will live on independently, and eventually Friendfeed will be merged into Facebook.” How can both these things be true?
- Anthony Citrano
not too good news I think .. Friendfeed too good to survive ....... so Google was nowhere to be seen
- Petr Buben
FB will change their home page and everyone will cry for the previous version... Happens every time even if the new version is more useful.
- Gus
I was just starting to develop a native Mac app for Friendfeed. Now I don't know if I should continue
- Chris Brakebill
anthony, i can see both being true... they keep ff separate, but roll it into fb so that if you're on fb it looks like fb, but if you're a ff user who doesn't want to go over the the fb ui it all still works together ... a big challenge, but i hope they're up to it, since i don't really want to merge my two accounts and don't really like all the apps on fb so i'd rather stay here
- Chris Heath
Question of the Day: Be honest now - how many of you out there have Photoshoped your profile picture on a social network profile?
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No, but I did select a picture where I look considerably less crazed/goofy than I look in most pictures. Is that cheating?
- Bruce Lewis
never... ;o)
- Rob Sellen :o)
picasa'd
- Nik
Had to shop the one I have now, it was too dark in the room when I took it.
- Amber, Random Time Lord
Bruce: No that's totally cool. However, I did a little color correction on my FriendFeed picture...that may be cheating...haha
- Mike Bracco
That's actually not a half-bad idea... Of course, I would usually get carried away, and it would look completely unrealistic.
- Carlton Prest
Not that I recall.
- MVB (Grinch of FF)
Not, I love myself!!
- Zeynel Aslan
Nope, but uh, mine isn't really a photo.
- Jordan Hofker
Not I.
- Brett Kelly
No way! I look EXACTLY like my profile picture here.
- ‘-.-’ Tutivillus Grift
I think anyone who knows and has Photoshop would do this.
- Gerard van Schip
I never PhotoShop anything.
- John (a.k.a. dendroica)
Seriously? This is kind of a silly question. Color balance, contrast, noise reduction...many cameras already do this automatically. So in essence, it's being done whether you like it or not. Many of use who do photography do little tweaks to photos all the time. I'm not going to post a smudgy pic when a contrast tweak will improve it.
- ‘-.-’ Tutivillus Grift
Never shopped myself. I am what I am. But ok my pics always suck so maybe I should :-P
- Rasmus Lauridsen
Tutivillus: true, although the nature of my question was more about the more drastic things like taking away wrinkles, whitening teeth - stuff like that. Sure, technology is blurring the line between what is natural and what is not.
- Mike Bracco
I am all natural, no preservatives, no additives, 100% home grown. :)
- The Catz Meow
@Mike Bracco In that case, No. You probably shouldn't be making a fake you. (Shudders...memories of some bad dates)
- ‘-.-’ Tutivillus Grift
I adjusted the contrast on mine a bit, but I don't go full on photo editing (since hey - in theory these people know me anyway).
- Jennifer Dittrich
My Photoshop skills are so bad my picture would look a Picasso painting if I tried that
- Costa Walcott
I color/contrast/sharpness adjusted it slightly, I think. I do most things. I think I edited a zit out once, and a friend just took a towel bar out of a pic for me (haven't posted it anywhere yet, though), but generally I don't bother.
- Alix Whitmire
I'd be hesitant to call it photoshopping. I just toned down the colors a little. No physical changes. Actually, I think I used IrfanView.
- CAJ, somewhere else
My avatar isn't photoshopped at all. I really do live in a comic book.
- Trent Hamm
NEVER ... only Picasa :)
- ★Kristy
Does cropping count?
- Bryan Zirkel
omfg that's one of the hottest actors evah.
- anna sauce
Not me. I wouldn't even know how to do it.
- Shevonne
The most I do is mess with the contrast and, if necessary, touch up a blemish or two in iPhoto.
- Penguin It's Cold Outside
I would imagine most have
- BLOGBloke
My LinkedIn pic was professionally done, but that's about it. Photoshopping on FB doesn't make much sense because pics of yourself tagged by others will quickly show you up. Oh, and your friends *do* actually know what you look like. The only editing I do for FB is cropping and red-eye removal
- LANjackal
I yam what I yam.
- Michael W. May
i have not
- (jeff)isageek
nope
- Jacob
I never even thought of doing it.
- Derrick
Never have. Never would.
- Nicholas James
Never. But the picture I use *is* nearly a decade old.
- Michael R. Bernstein
Mine's taken off a mobile phone SOOC.
- Andrew Trinh
I have, but I'm not telling which one (not the one I use here)... my friends laugh and laugh about it.
- Vince DeGeorge
Nope. Don't even know how to shop myself.
- Mellissa Claus
The most I've done is auto-level and crop. Other than that, I leave blemishes, etc.
- Jason Huebel
gamma corrected, tweaked the colour a little cos of the CF bulbs we have casting a bit yellow and also cropped the image a bit. only blemish i would shoop out would be a pimple, but those are mercifully rare for me at my age.
- Joe Silence is not Satan
I know some who use EXTREMELY shopped pics on their profiles. However, since I use a drawing, who am I to judge?
- EricaJoy
I honestly wish I knew enough about photoshop to actually put it to use. *All* of my pictures are completely edited, and not necessarily by choice but by lack of knowledge.
- Nicholas Kreidberg
Absolutely not.
- Mo Kargas
Not me
- Amit Morson
Nope, but maybe I should give it a try!
- Bonnie Foster
Mo has such lovely red laser eyes!
- Joe Silence is not Satan
who doesn't cosmetically :)!!
- polou/indigo_bow
I don't own/can't afford a copy of Photoshop. Pixelmator, on the other hand…
- Mistletoe Glen
Glen: I love pixelmator, I don't really know enough about it to use it to edit photos but it is a GREAT editor. I actually prefer it to PS.
- Nicholas Kreidberg
Moody/James did sepia the hell out of my photo and the full pic has some cool borders added but otherwise no. I just make sure he takes my photograph because his eye is amazing and then I don't have to worry about visually tweaking anything.
- Kisha, Well Conditioned
from BuddyFeed
I always have to adjust brightness/contrast and levels but I don't think that's the "photoshop" you meant.
- Morton Fox
Liars! all of you. yes. but not my webcam photos .. just my sony cyber shot photos (my avatar photos are webcam .. except that blond photo)
- Caroline
I'm already perfect looking, how could photoshop do any better?
- Chrimmus Tad
LOL @ Mo Kargas who's avatar is a laser-eyed robot! Sure, I have tidied up some of my avatar pics, adjusted color, removed backgrounds... my current avatar is a stylized pic of me done with PS. Is it a "lie"? Maybe... Does it matter if it doesn't look like me when I am at my worst and "most realistic"? Does it matter if maybe it looks a little more how I want people to see me than how...
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- Fa La La La Lindsay
Have not
- Herb Hernandez
from iPhone
dang, maybe i should use my old passport photo for my profile pic?
- Joe Silence is not Satan
Not yet but perhaps I should - My Picture was taken with my mobile and it works :)
- Ray Marr aka Knatchwa
never, except for the time I did the OBAMA/OBEY Sheppard Fairey style portrait.
- Will Higgins™
+1 Tad
- Nicholas Kreidberg
Nope. Don't know enough about Photoshop to even consider doing it. However, the back cover picture for my album will be touched up a bit, yes.
- Spidra Webster
Never ! I'm so beautiful ! ;)
- Tania Faria
No, I'm only five years old in my picture.
- Michael Fidler
I photoshopped just the background. I haven't photoshopped myself. I'm not a pro in it, so I couldn't even I want to. But I don't want.
- L. Nora
I just cropped, didn't apply any effect on it
- Ozkan Altuner
I havent touched, just cropped.
- Jacque
Mine is a cartoon, so take that as you will.
- Alex Scrivener
nope. Mine's a distant enough picture that it doesn't matter. Also, I don't care.
- ryan
my facebook profile picture is of me...not photoshopped. My face would break GIMP if I tried to shop it :P
- Ⓐ ☠ slayerboy ☠ Ⓐ
mine's not shopped - sure shoulda though! LOL
- Susan Beebe
No photoshop here!
- Smeerch
Only to add an unachievable fro, yup that one -->
- Toby Graham
Nero Photosnap, but not to sharpen or retouch the pic, but to add some cool effects:)
- अभिषेक(Abhishek) Das
My avatar is photoshopped. ;-)
- Kol Tregaskes
I don't know anything about Photoshop, so it's all me.
- James Ferguson
Never.
- cecily
Can you do that with MS Paint? :)
- Bryan Lee
Not Photoshoped. Gimped.
- Thierry R. Andriamirado
No, but why not? My photo is too old, though, when I had hair.
- Rick Cogley
No.
- Mitchell Tsai
Re: New Features! Remember Me, Following, Retweets and More - http://blog.tweetree.com/2009...
"Everything mentioned in this post is still in Tweetree. Or did you mean some other work?"
- Costa Walcott
English gets millionth word on Wednesday, site says - CNN.com - http://www.cnn.com/2009...
"The site estimates the millionth English word, "Web 2.0" was added to the language Wednesday at 5:22 a.m. ET. The term refers to the second, more social generation of the Internet."
- Costa Walcott
from Bookmarklet
@newsgang did i miss the story why there's been no new Gillmor Gang in a month?
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re: no new Gillmor Gang releases, see this discussion http://ff.im/33MBi
- Karoli
Gillmor Gang records realtime Saturday 3PM Pacific live.twit.tv
- Steve Gillmor
Is the full episode with the arrington leo feud available anywhere? I definitely miss GG - best souce of tech conversation out there.
- andrew
Are the shows being archived anywhere?
- Costa Walcott
Someone's bootlegging the audio since steve isn't releasing it in a timely fashion http://feeds2.feedburner.com/TheGill...
- Chris Heath
Re: Read your blogs inside Tweetree - http://blog.tweetree.com/2009...
"No "account" has been created. Putting any public Twitter username in the URL, like http://tweetree.com/<username>, will display that user's tweets, formatted and with links back to Twitter.com. This comes directly from the Twitter API and is not hosted or changed by us in any way. Twitter's TOS, at http://twitter.com/tos, not only allows but encourages (their words) what we do, as long as there are links back to twitter (which we have). Here is the exact text from their TOS: "The Twitter service makes it possible to post images and text hosted on Twitter to outside websites. This use is accepted (and even encouraged!). However, pages on other websites which display data hosted on Twitter.com must provide a link back to Twitter." With that said, if you'd like, as a courtesy, we can prevent tweets from being displayed specifically on your page."
- Costa Walcott
Re: Read your blogs inside Tweetree - http://blog.tweetree.com/2009...
"Hi, We don't strip ads out of the feeds. The only way we alter the content is disabling Javascript, which is only done to prevent malicious code from being run. We specifically use RSS so that website owners have control over what we show. What users see on Tweetree should be no different than what they would see in any other feedreader. Is it possible the ads depend on Javascript? If there's a bug on our side, we'd be happy to help fix it. In terms of opting out, that's kind of like asking to opt out of Google Reader. The best way would be to simply remove or alter your RSS feed."
- Costa Walcott
I am a mommy!!! I just gave birth to a little boy less than an hour ago :) baby and mommy and daddy are doing GREAT!!
Wesley Faulkner, david beckwith, JenniferBhalaHansen and 220 other people liked this
w00t!!!!
- Derrick
Congratulations!
- Trish R
Mazel tov!
- Akiva Moskovitz
Mazel tov! Do you have a name yet? I can't wait to see pictures! :)
- Rochelle
Congrats!
- Louis Simoneau
I would not be upset if you named him Akiva.
- Akiva Moskovitz
congrats!
- Costa Walcott
Why'd you take so long to tell us? (j/k)
- Bruce Lewis
I love your IM status.
- Ben Parr
hooray! Congrats!
- Eric @ CSTechcast.com
Congrats...And Wow you just gave birth and your posting to FF...Your my hero..
- Bill Heslin
pics, or it didn't--uh, I mean congratulations
- MiniMage TKDteacher of FF
Gratz!
- Rob Haas
Wow, that's wonderful! You must be doing well! Congrats!
- jcunwired
Congrats:)
- Rodfather
Wow, Congratulations!!!
- jamar78
Congrats!
- *Tiffany Diamond*
Congratulations!
- John (a.k.a. dendroica)
congradulations, rest dont tweet, ;)
- chaz2b
Congrats Tamar :-D
- Mitch
Thanks everyone! Pics coming soon. :)
- Tamar Weinberg
congrats!
- sean percival
congratulations!!
- Trish Haley
Congratulations!
- Paola Bonomo
Awesome! We'll bring over scobleizer 3.0 in October for play dates!
- Robert Scoble
Congrats!
- Hunter
Congratulations!
- Barry Owens
Congratulations! This is awesome!
- Samar
Congratulations!
- Leena
Mazel Tov.... and already FFing. That's quick.
- Jason Mayoff
Congratulations! Don't blink, he'll be all grown up.
- LeighaB
:D Happy Family!
- Mistletoe Glen
Congratulations!
- joey
Congrats, too~
- yagami
Of all the tweets one could ever post, this is by far the most beautiful. Thank you for sharing the moment with us so we could celebrate life with you. Congratulations!
- Eric Traub
HOO-RAY!!!! Congratulations, Tamar. :)
- Steven Perez
grats!!!
- Joshua Schnell
yay! congratulations!
- Bren -- feeling merry
Welcome to the club! Congratulations on the family addition.
- Sally: baby flier
congratulations!
- Brett Kelly
Pictures? Video? Weight? Name?
- Robert Scoble
Mazel tov http://sphinn.com/story...
- Sam Fefer
Horrray!
- Erin @queenofspain
I will be there in September again. I can't wait to see your baby! And Milan needs more friends. And Scobleizer3.0 needs more mentors! :-) Enjoy every day, it goes so fast!
- Robert Scoble
Mazel tov
- Helen Sventitsky
Congratulations!
- Jeremy Wiles
from BuddyFeed
Congrats!
- Geoff Schultz
Congratulations! Welcome to the world, little one. :)
- Jandy, ConcertMaven of FF
Congradulations on the little one!!!
- Megan B Carroll
Congratulations to you! Whooo!
- WorldofHiglet
mazeltov!
- Karim
Congratulations!
- Mo Kargas
Congratulations!
- Gambit Fauri
Congrats!!!
- BeeLing
Congrats!! :)
- Chrimmus Tad
So happy for you, yay!
- Laura Norvig
I don't know you, Tamar, but you still get a mazel tov! (You're on my FF via other folks I follow.) Much health & happiness to you & your family.....
- Alan Mairson
now I ved seen everything on Twitter!
- Diva of Dish
Congratulations!
- RAPatton
Yay new FF baby!
- Haggis (Sean Loyless)
That was kind quick! W00t
- Caroline
Wow! Congratulations! I believe it is picture time! (Waits)
- Louis Gray
Congratulations !!!
- Nir Ben Yona
damn. congrats to your and your family.
- Cee Bee
congrats!!! this should be a first for FF - Rob Scoble will know...
- Rahul Deodhar
First What? I Twittered and FF'd my son's birth 9 months ago (p.s. not to take away from you Tamar, Congrats!)
- InPerpetualMotion(Gina k)
Congratulations Tamar!
- Dobromir Hadzhiev
Congratulations :D
- MoiN AnjuM
Congrats, Tamar! :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
woot!
- Michael Bailey
This is so cool, thanks much for letting us know, and so soon after the birth too! Gotta love microblogging on the internets!
- jcunwired
Yay! So happy for you and your family.
- Yolanda
Congratulations!!!!!!
- Amit Morson
Yay!!!!
- Steve Lowe
Awesome congrats! I like how you let us know that you, baby AND daddy are doin OK. We know how daddys have a hard time sometimes! LOL jk Congrats to all!
- Manny
CONGRATULATIONS! Yay to the new family!
- Anna Lynn M.
hey congrats!
- (jeff)isageek
YEAY!
- Shevonne
Woo hoo!
- ha3rvey (Ho)^3
wow congrats!
- Marco(aureliusmaximus)
wohooo!
- Alfredo
Congrats!
- Kate
Mazel tov!
- cartoongoddess
Congratulations!
- Heather Solos
Congrats!!! :)
- Carmen
Wow Tamar, congrats!
- Jorge Escobar
Congrats. Take care yourself and the baby =)
- Praveen Vasudev
Congratulations! now get offline and start mommying, we'll still be here.
- Steve C
Congrats! It's great to be a parent.
- Steve E
Congrats!!!
- Borislav Borissov
Congrats!!!!
- Steve Rubel
Congratulations Tamar. That is wonderful to hear. Now, get some rest; you'll need it :)
- Angie Haggstrom
from twhirl
Congratulations !! be well and happy =)
- Ruhani Rabin
congratulations!
- Julie Barrett
from twhirl
Oh Tamar, congratulations and I can't wait to see pictures! Btw what's BABBY's name?
- Mona Nomura
Tamar, great news! Congratulations, mama. Best wishes to you and your family!!
- Victoria Plautia
Congratulations!!!
- Thomas Hawk
Congrats!
- Matt Cutts
Congratulations!
- Michael R. Bernstein
Congrats, Mommy!
- Mike Fruchter
Awesome. My sister just gave birth today too.
- Nick Humphries
Congrats! :)
- Eric Logan
woo, congratulations!
- Imabug
congratulations!
- Cristian
Wow! Congrats...
- Bindu Reddy
YAY!!!! Congratulations! That's so awesome!
- Josh Haley
Congrats!!!
- Tracy Benham
YEAH! Mazel Tov! Now stop playing on Twitter! :)
- Justin Korn
Mona, baby's name won't be announced until after the bris!
- Rochelle
so what's his first computer going to be?
- Zee.
Wow. Grats!
- Bradley Farless
Mazel tov! ^^
- pitlord
woohoo...congrats!
- Dan Rua
grats!
- Neal Jansons
Congrats Tamar, be sure to get him a Twitter account soon :)
- Jeremy Campbell
from twhirl
There's a bad Twitter + Boobs = Yummy joke in there Jeremy
- Kevin Kuphal
What's his/her twitter username, Tamar? LOL
- Jorge Escobar
Needs and email address first. littlenoob@techipedia.com, perhaps? :p
- Neal Jansons
from IM
Congrats! Impressive to be back on twitter within an hour :)
- Thomas Bøhm
Congratulations! Wonderful news!
- Joie at Canned Laughter
Congrats. I was wondering what you have been up to and now I know. Enjoy every minute you can.
- Amani
Congratulations!
- Andy Tinkham
Awesome Tamar!
- Hutch Carpenter
Glad to hear that Daddy is doing great.
- MVB (Grinch of FF)
what a great Mom this boy has! His Mom is Tweeting his birth! We live in such great times . . .
- Richard Sorrentino
Yay!
- Ron Bailey
Congrats!!!
- Dinesh Mohan Raturi
Congratulations!
- Kreg Steppe
congrats!!!! enjoy, this is only the start of an amazing life journey.
- susan mernit
CONGRATS!!! =D
- David Cook
:-D
- Pete Delucchi
CONGRATULATIONS!!!!!
- Adriana
Robert, you're bringing Milan to NYC in October? Nice. :)
- Tamar Weinberg
How did that rumor start? Nope, no Milan to NYC.
- Robert Scoble
oh, no play dates then as I probably won't be traveling to anywhere in a long time!
- Tamar Weinberg
Hey Tamar your baby is "liked" by over 220 people and it's just a few days into this world, not too shabby.
- Steve C
Baby boy is resting on mommy's chest as she leans back on a chair updating her FriendFeed. As for the other questions... he doesn't have a name yet. His Bris will be Thursday and we'll name him during the ceremony. The only video the hubby took was me calling his great grandma while the doctor was yelling at me to put my phone down (no, I couldn't actually tweet that I was pushing. I did it as soon as I could!) ;) Weight: 5lb 14oz at birth.
- Tamar Weinberg
Congrats!
- Johnny
Congratulations!!! Awesome news. And yet I'm so freaked out that you're Tweeting an hour after giving birth. Good lord, rest a bit!
- Dana Todd
Welcome to parenthood! Your FriendFeed time is now officially reduced. ;>)
- Larry Hawes
haha Dana, I'm such a computer nerd/workaholic. I didn't even take a real maternity leave.
- Tamar Weinberg
Congratulations!
- Emee Pumarega
Wonderful... Congratulations on your new baby boy!
- Mitchell Tsai
Wow Tamar! I had no idea! Congratulations! :)
- Michelle Tripp
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Cool
- Uncle CW™
What about 05:06:07 08/09/10?
- Costa Walcott
That's my dad's birthday.
- Rochelle
What about 01:02:03 04/05/06?
- Tyler (Chacha)
or 07/08/09 10:11:12?
- chrisofspades
What about 04:05:06 07/08/2109 ?
- Andrew C
whoa, Andrew wins.
- chrisofspades
what about 6 minutes and 7 seconds after 5am on Aug 9 2010
- Diva of Dish
BTW I read that date as 7th August 2009, So I guess you get two cracks at the "unique" sequence, depending on what date standard you use :)
- James Beake
You know what, it's quite unsatisfactory to label a time hh:mm:ss mm/dd/yy . I'm partial to yy/mm/dd hh:mm:ss , as it orders from largest to smallest. (Then of course, one might quibble at using only two digits to denote the year, but that couldn't possibly cause any problems... I mean, they fixed all that stuff nearly a decade ago, right?)
- Andrew C
I just got my first $24.72 in loan repayments from Kiva. Weee. :D
metalerik, Alex Scoble, Deepak Singh and 12 other people liked this
This was from a total of seven $25 loans I put out. Some lenders have started repaying, others haven't. Maybe the others will do soon, or maybe they had different loan repayment terms (I haven't really checked the terms of the loans beforehand). All I know is that I've got about 1/7 back now.
- Meryn Stol
I think this is the first I've heard of this.
- MiniMage TKDteacher of FF
I was already there and have read SoS Clinton's speech at, um, some school. Harvard? Intriguing. oops, it was NYU http://twitter.com/Kiva...
- MiniMage TKDteacher of FF
I highly recommend it. Fantastic idea.
- MVB (Grinch of FF)
It sounds a lot like prosper.com, which I think got shutdown by the SEC
- Costa Walcott
Do you get interest on the money you loan? How much?
- Rich
That's nice :) (incidently, kiva=nice in Finnish ;)
- Jemm
RIch, no, you don't get interest on your loans. You only get the principal back.
- Meryn Stol
They have talked about interest in the past but not yet.
- MVB (Grinch of FF)
It's a bit confusing. If I click on someone in the featured list, it says 90% of her request has been raised. If I click on her to know more, it says she's raised it all. A problem with updating on the site?
- MiniMage TKDteacher of FF
I think I'd like to do equity investments. More risk, but the upside could be interesting. It would become a bit like a casino, but with all in all positive payback percentage, instead of negative.
- Meryn Stol
Minimage, maybe.
- Meryn Stol
That's actually a pretty neat idea - I guess more people are happy to loan money than give money to charity.
- Rich
Problem with equity is that's probably prohibitively expensive to administer for small amounts. Loans are an easier model. No-one has to keep track of the companies profit. The only question is if they pay back the money.
- Meryn Stol
Rich, yes. It's also the first time I can say happily and confidently no from people trying to raise money for Africa in a shopping center. I say: I'm on Kiva. :)
- Meryn Stol
Do Kiva pay you the money back even if the person can't?
- Rich
Rich, no, the lenders take the risk together.
- Meryn Stol
Sure - I suppose that if it doesn't work, it's only $25, and if it does, then that's a good thing.
- Rich
Apparently their repayment rate is something like 99%
- Louis Simoneau
Excellent!
- Jenny Morman
I love Kiva! I have 6 completed loans and several more out at the moment. Is there a FF group on Kiva?
- joey
Joey, not that I know of. Maybe create one?
- Meryn Stol
Ginou Choueiri's Potato Portraits - http://www.woostercollective.com/2009...
Jenny Morman, Numan Arda Çebi, Tony, Paradox of FF and 6 other people liked this
It's made of people... :o
- Jemm
That's scary looking.
- Admiral Anika
Yeah, definitely a little creepy
- Costa Walcott
I See Your Physics Win and I Raise You A Bigger Win! - http://twitpic.com/5bhwn#
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Jill Hurst-Wahl, Brendan Mclaughlin, Nicholas James and 45 other people liked this
Yeah WHATEVER!
- Andrew Trinh
I like it in the reverse
- BEX
AWESOME!
- Alfredo
This may be silly, but I can't tell if it's just the original reversed or he's actually doing this, though his initial "jump" look impossible, I thought the FIRST .gif looked impossible, so...
- Vince DeGeorge
I'm pretty sure this is reversed, but even played correctly it's pretty impressive
- Costa Walcott
the original: http://friendfeed.com/fredyga...
- Alfredo
thats awesome.. would be amazing if it were real. The original is only better because it at least looks possible.
- Bill Rawlinson
Ahaha awsome
- Marcello Del Bono
OMG WIN WIN WIN WIN WIN
- Will Higgins™
can't stop watching...
- Joey
Everything is better in reverse! [that's what she said]
- Josh Haley
stupid
- Noah David Simon
Lol, I think this guy should try it backwards this way.
- Rick Cogley
Live now, The Gillmor Gang with Steve Gillmor, Robert Scoble, Loren Feldman, and Mike Arrington. http://live.twit.tv. Discuss here....
Michael Hansel, Daniel Rowley, Michelle McCormack and 51 other people liked this
I like this already
- Chris Heath
so topic guess anyone?
- Chris Heath
i'm not getting the sream, sux
- Marco
try ustream, or stickam marco
- Chris Heath
he has the three streams for a reason
- Chris Heath
Chris: Structure!
- Jason Hansen
thanks, i'm in now
- Marco
LOL Robert Scoble is such a ham...Love it...
- Bill Heslin
arrington appear very tired
- Rafael
rafael that is not arrington, that's andrew keene
- Chris Heath
arrington doesn't have a brit accent
- Chris Heath
lol
- Bill Heslin
arrington is the bold one right?
- Rafael
You go Scoble...
- Bill Heslin
Those coton dogs are great little dogs. Aren't they in the Maltese family? They are a pretty rare breed.
- shelter watch
Hello Robert Scoble
- Chris Heath
Robert thanks for pushing Friendfeed I finally took the brass ring!
- earl wallace
Hi Y'all
- Allan Bunt
hahaha
- Rafael
Feldman ruining show. bloody jews
- andrewkeen
hi everyone
- Tina Chase Gillmor
and it begins
- Matthew
And this will be recorded so it can be seen later?
- Raphael, Raphael
haha! Tech-Boxing! :D
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
now i know who's everybody!
- Rafael
hey Tina
- Matthew
hah
- Kyle Dylan Conner
The chat is rocking and rolling!
- Robert Scoble
Loren FTW
- bear (aka Mike Taylor)
This chat is cooler than the IRC
- Robert
hi Matthew
- Tina Chase Gillmor
now i'm getting Friendfeed. mmmnnn interesting
- andrewkeen
yah
- Kyle Dylan Conner
Robert, only drawback(for me) is that this doesn't have tab-complete for user names
- Chris Heath
arrington
- Rafael
James: Arrington
- Rafael
He stormed out.
- Raphael, Raphael
Chris: that would be a nice feature.
- Robert Scoble
the guy who just sat down is Michael Arrington
- Tina Chase Gillmor
and the abscensce of mods is so refreshing
- Bill Heslin
Nice hat Arrington ;)
- David Damore
Yes it would be
- Chris Heath
He needs his Sombrero
- Robert
hahahah
- Rafael
in a sombrero!!!
- Tina Chase Gillmor
Cool hat!
- Allan Bunt
Bill: we have decentralized moderation. If you spam or are an asshat I'll block you.
- Robert Scoble
why is the sky blue?: http://www.wolframalpha.com/input...
- Chris Heath
Bill: and you can block me.
- Robert Scoble
why is the sky blue? ^^
- Chris Heath
I know Robert...just was saying...the irc is very quick with their kicks
- Bill Heslin
that site is damn slow
- Robert
Leo is good at summarizing things!
- Raphael, Raphael
it's getting hammered right now and they're still fixing a bug (but will have it sorted out soon)
- Chris Heath
Not that I ever got kicked...Cause I'm a good boy..lol
- Bill Heslin
As a student, I might find uses for this, with some work.
- Colin
arrington needs to get on the treadmill
- Kyle Dylan Conner
read your article yesterday mike - I think you're expecting something that wolfram is not
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
I missed the interview - hope to see the repeat overnight. - Joe Gilbert
- Joe Gilbert
I agree with arrington wolfram is not something I will use at any time..
- Rafael
rob, did you read the one today (not by mike) 'search wars' ?
- Chris Heath
You can get a personal version for $300.
- invariant - farewell FF
That's true Loren
- Rafael
oh yah, i'd never use it either
- Kyle Dylan Conner
I think that wolfram is liable to get fed more and more different types of data, and we'll see the value come up over time
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
rob, yes... some data is a bit old (using 2006 census numbers for populations instead of gov estimates for instance)
- Chris Heath
As they show at the video, wolfram is more a mathmatic search, thing like that or even historical facts
- Rafael
Why does Gillmor remind me of Dvorak? - Joe
- Joe Gilbert
An asshat...lol...
- Bill Heslin
WA does not show my life expectancy based on my name.
- Raphael, Raphael
I didn't see the search wars one...you said you linked it and that was the other one Chris
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
Wow, IRC is too fast
- William
Leo! Talk about Twoogle. Twitter and Google search at the same time!
- Rafael
...really don't think twoogle is a big deal
- Kyle Dylan Conner
Why kyle?
- Rafael
I'm very interested to hear Mike Arrington's comments on what Dan Lyons had to say earlier this week, specifically about Techcrunch. I thought it was a little OTT. http://www.guardian.co.uk/media...
- Shéa Bennett
Joining late but what about FriendFeed and Twitter versus Google?
- CAJ, somewhere else
the one riot twitter search sounds very cool though
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
I think its interesting, and you can compare results
- Rafael
there's nothing to it..all they did is frame it
- Kyle Dylan Conner
scoble's right on this one
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
yeah rob
- Chris Heath
Tried to dial in, got silence on calliflower
- Kevin Marks
the wolfram alpha is going to become more and more important as it ramps up
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
google may be able to do it now that they are parsing rdfa and microformats
- bear (aka Mike Taylor)
Twoogle...that's funny....it is two different technology..isn't it??
- Zoran Vuletic
Haha
- Bill Heslin
Hah...
- Colin
For real, no nonsense number crunching see @Wolfman_Alpha that other guy is just lame, crashed my Firefox, too... :-)
- Robert Morrison
hahh
- Kyle Dylan Conner
Kevin - we noticed you were on and then tried to talk to you and then you were off
- Tina Chase Gillmor
<sniff sniff>
- CAJ, somewhere else
I think Wolfram Alpha will take the lead on Wikipedia information and especifics and scientifics search
- Rafael
can't be as bad as last week!
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
Really looked like Mike was into that convo from the start
- Robert
Call him back
- David Damore
it was an honest question IMO
- bear (aka Mike Taylor)
We love you Mike, come back!
- Colin
we need the puppet arrington
- Raphael, Raphael
Twoogle, is a search who show results from google and twitter at the same page.
- Rafael
yeah mike, this drama stuff isn't really that interesting either tho
- Chris Heath
LOLing over here... heheheh
- David Damore
Arrington doesn't seem to add anything to the conversation.
- Hiro Asari
Mike - come back!
- Joe Gilbert
loren is a funny guy tho, and i like how he messes with mike
- Chris Heath
Geez -- this really is a waste of time
- Brian Sullivan
Brian: Waste of time?
- Rafael
I guess Mike had to take a nap.
- Glenn Trtanj
the one thing I love about Wolfram Alpha is a simple little link: "source information"
- bear (aka Mike Taylor)
He looked like he needed a nap?
- CAJ, somewhere else
Mike: agreed.
- Robert Scoble
all them Mike, all them
- Rafael
Brian: that's the Gillmor Gang. We'll try to sprinkle some value in here.
- Robert Scoble
this is real time & solid.
- Vedran Agovic
I haven't seen that link yet myself Mike
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
excpet robert who runs on duracell batteries
- Rafael
the 'more' link in wolfram|alpha are cool too most of the time
- Chris Heath
probably already been asked, but where are the 2 previous Gangs?
- Jamie
Robert: I'm I wrong?
- Rafael
Robert, stop, your on TV!
- William
Watching now
- Sean Fretwell
Who's the guy behind you, Robert?
- Hiro Asari
Robert you're right
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
hiro, his son?
- Chris Heath
I think is his son
- Rafael
with a macbook
- Rafael
Microsoft just floated a 4Billion dollar bond issue for this very purpose
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
Friendfeed is the target for a deal
- David Damore
This post is a perfect example of a real-time conversation on FF
- Costa Walcott
cricket
- Matthew
Rafael: thanks.
- Hiro Asari
Google already has a realtime feed for the New York Times - no?
- bear (aka Mike Taylor)
old school google. that's hilarious.
- Raphael, Raphael
Twoogle is a TOY by Google
- Zoran Vuletic
what about a business model how are they making money
- Sean Fretwell
Hiro: U're welcome, but I'm not sure, only Robert can answer you correctly ;)
- Rafael
in search engine terms google is kind of old, not the oldest, but one of the oldest still around
- Chris Heath
Chris: Old but not less important
- Rafael
i didn't say that
- Chris Heath
We cant compare Google to Wolfram Alpha, they are completely different, with a different focus
- Rafael
Speaking of "new" search engines, does anyone remember the one that sounded like "Curio", but a stupid spelling? What happened to it? (Well, don't answer; I know the answer.)
- Hiro Asari
cuil
- Chris Heath
dead
- Chris Heath
We have Knol as a search engine too
- Rafael
The Friendfeed search goes back further then search.Twitter
- David Damore
knol is a wiki competitor
- Chris Heath
huge jump....and I would think that twitter should see that as a threat
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
Chris: Yes, that's the point. I think Wolfram gets a little bit of Wiki and Knol and puts together with a historical and scientific facts
- Rafael
the threads add signal and reduce noise
- Jamie
While still small Friendfeed is gaining lots of users from Twitter... the gap is narrowing.
- David Damore
*ahem http://threadedtweets.com Shameless self plug.
- Colin
sure does David...I had to search on FF for a tweet that I was looking for for an article today
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
What happened to Arrigton?
- Jason Hansen
rafael, the problem is that knol and wiki can't answer a problem for you, wolfram can
- Chris Heath
Arrington pouted.
- Hiro Asari
He left?
- Jason Hansen
Found that Hudson River crash pic in just a few searches .... Search.Twitter only went back 20 days
- David Damore
arrington can dish it out but can't take it it seems
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
Chris: Thats the big point of Wolfram Alpha. Thats who will put him on the lead of knowledgement search!
- Rafael
yeah
- Chris Heath
Yo HOMIES
- ralphsaunders
The spam on Twitter Search is redonk
- David Damore
Arrington being like that will ultimately reflect TechCrunch.
- Jason Hansen
Twitter are working on search based on authority
- Jamie
Does anyone know of another service like http://www.whatthetrend.com/ - that gives you trends BUT ALSO gives you a summary explanation for each trend WITHOUT having to click through a bunch of tweets?
- Mike Bracco
Twitter will need a filter if they want to use advertising
- Sean Fretwell
exactly jason - but I can see that in the tone of arringtoms articles
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
i doubt they will use advertising
- ralphsaunders
It's funny how something like wolfram lost space for twitter and friendfeed haha
- Rafael
I think they will make their money via doing premium accounts
- ralphsaunders
what about money
- Sean Fretwell
its a pity no=one brings together all the data from all the small websearches... - Chunkmeister
- Chris Norman
interesting
- Sean Fretwell
And on Twitter search... even after a spam bot is blocked they still show up in search results... it is my understanding that on Friendfeed they are removed from your results if you block them out.
- David Damore
Yes Back to Search! :-)
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
they talked about Wolfram Alpha only 3 minutes, now the entire chat is discussing twitter and ff
- Rafael
I cant see how there would be any money in premium accounts.
- Jamie
Robert: Good one! Try to come back the search discuss
- Rafael
yeah, another Twitter & Friendfeed episode
- Matthew
If you don't have @ at the beginning you don't get the 'In reply to' shortcut
- Mike Doeff
I think Wolfram|Alpha is worth more than three minutes.
- Jason Hansen
can't get away from friendfeed and twitter great
- Sean Fretwell
Jason: Me too.
- Rafael
mike, that 'in reply to' thing is broken anyways... it doesn't always go to the correct tweet
- Chris Heath
unless you actually clicked a reply button
- Chris Heath
Twitter's technical problem is retarded. How is Friendfeed able to filter things in way more complicated ways?
- Raphael, Raphael
I think twitter and ff will be always the same story. Please bring back Wolfram Alpha conversation
- Rafael
I wonder if there's anything to talk about besides friendfeed and twitter
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
Chris, it's pretty reliable if you respond using the reply icon on Twitter. Works that way on clients such as Tweetie too. Even if it's not the most recent tweet.
- Mike Doeff
Please guys! Forget about twitter and ff for a moment! Go back to search!
- Rafael
There is the "iPad" to talk about and if it is comming
- Sean Fretwell
+2 Rafael!
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
One of our cats is meowing really loud
- Tina Chase Gillmor
NO!
- ralphsaunders
You can search your followings on Friendfeed
- David Damore
when was the last time gillmorgang was about something else than twitter? even wolframalpha can't keep their attention! :D
- Marcel Weiß
Guruvan: Thx!
- Rafael
Thats one really loud cat
- ralphsaunders
Mike Doeff, that's what i was saying - if you click that button it's the only way to make sure that the 'in reply to' link is correctly linked
- Chris Heath
Ads on the side of results
- David Damore
:-)
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
Now we are back to search!
- Rafael
Search is all I want to talk about today
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
Chris, agreed
- Mike Doeff
Friendfeed has lots of open space on the page to display ads for when they are bought or invested in as part of an alliance
- David Damore
Search is what's really huge - big enough that MSFT had a debt sale this week!
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
Loren? ROFL this should be good
- Neal Jansons
Robert: You are awesome!
- Rafael
dog
- Sean Fretwell
dead on robert!
- Chris Heath
hes right
- ralphsaunders
mhm
- Kyle Dylan Conner
i heard a dog?
- Sean Fretwell
yeah a little dog haha
- Rafael
hell there seems to be a whole farmyard in there
- ralphsaunders
lol
- Sean Fretwell
I found a 2 month old tweet on FriendFeed this afternoon...peoplebrowsr timoreillly - and took me 1 search and a few seconds
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
Twitter search is better for obscure topics. Things like Mumbai, earthquakes, Hudson plane crash are a mess
- Mike Doeff
steve doesn't want to talk about search, i guess...
- Chris Heath
I need to figure out how to set up a room/group/feed to get Twitter piping into FF.
- CAJ, somewhere else
I don't think Steve is right about this at ALL
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
I think some of us know about search
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
Talking about search is very interesting cause anyone have different opinions
- Rafael
agreed
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
does anyone think there will be in iPad
- Sean Fretwell
yeah rob, he just wants to steer the convo elsewhere... TRACK
- Chris Heath
mute steve
- Nick Rae
hahaha
- Rafael
Steve x Robert! Fight!
- Rafael
track!track!track! :-)
- Jamie
they wont fight
- ralphsaunders
iTunes
- Sean Fretwell
When it is up it should be on itunes
- Neal Jansons
from IM
....much
- ralphsaunders
what about many to many steve?
- Chris Heath
just search for twitt
- Sean Fretwell
Steve is right here
- Stanislas Jourdan
Crossfire, geek style
- zephyrlily
on iTunes
- Sean Fretwell
ROTF
- Sean Fretwell
money is not just in search anymore
- Stanislas Jourdan
shut down google, twitter and all searches and go back to encyclopedia and books search! ahha just kidding
- Rafael
Sean, I haven't seen a new GG on iTunes since mid-April
- Mike Doeff
How did I know track was going to be mentioned
- Greg
FF is where its at yo
- ralphsaunders
TOO MUCH INFORMATION....
- Chris Norman
yes
- Sean Fretwell
scoble looks unhappy
- ralphsaunders
there is no overload information ;)
- Stanislas Jourdan
Swarming
- Mike Doeff
Like: Firefox banner on scoble room
- Rafael
me too wish i had one
- Sean Fretwell
yeah Steve, why aren't you updating itunes?
- zephyrlily
yeah
- Rafael
yah, i wanna know why too
- Kyle Dylan Conner
Scoble take lesson
- Stanislas Jourdan
weird the rest of the twit shows are there
- Sean Fretwell
Track? Is that coming back? Even with the fact they can't handle @replies?
- Rahsheen ™, Coach Rah
steve's probably right about track here tho
- Chris Heath
blablabla
- Rafael
monitoring via twitter and facebook is a stopgap measure until everyone who generates data also generates metadata along with it
- bear (aka Mike Taylor)
Imagine if I leave a comment on ff about a piece of software I am working on. Within 2 minutes, 7 people join a conversation around my comment. Within 4 minutes, google's ad system understands the context and starts running adds that are relevent to our ad-hoc conversation. 30 seconds later, a freelance software consultant appears in our conversation, selling his services relevant to our topic. - that is the potential of realtime
- Robert
Mobile Scoble, update iTunes please
- zephyrlily
Yahoo Sideline is interesting Twittering monitoring tool: http://sideline.yahoo.com/
- Mike Bracco
Leo: Could you put all mic at the same volume?
- Rafael
I'm out
- Sean Fretwell
how far is FF from track
- Jamie
saved search + desktop notification?
- Jamie
FF might be only like a week away from track.
- Raphael, Raphael
how so?
- Jamie
Would someone define Track for me please?
- David Damore
Many pages update in real time, but not the search pages yet.
- Raphael, Raphael
so, super niche marketing??
- Matthew
admore: live search pumped anywhere (mostly to an im client)
- Chris Heath
there are some search pages that update in realtime
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
not google
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
look at tweetmeme
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
It isn't
- Colin
hah
- Kyle Dylan Conner
damn robert
- Jamie
admore: you choose your track terms and it just responds in real time when there's a hit
- Chris Heath
Isn't Twitter & FF... basically an IM client?
- Jason Hansen
Whoops, there goes Robert
- Neal Jansons
from IM
admore: see twitterspy or identispy
- Chris Heath
so, it is like when a new result is posted... it gets pushed to me because I asked for it at some point in the past?
- David Damore
One thing this group has is a lack of respect and passion!
- Owen Greaves
David D, back when Twitter had track you could subscribe to multiple topics via IM - e.g. "track iphone" track your twitter username, etc. Tweets that have that text would show up in your IM in realtime. It was very very useful.
- Mike Doeff
I disagree Owen, especially on passion.
- Colin
@david damore: yep
- Hilary Talbot
FOOTBALL!!!
- Matthew
Gillmor Gang not passionate? WHAT?
- Tina Chase Gillmor
I think the Superbowl is 50/50 ads game
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
Tina where is last weeks show? will it not get released?
- Jamie
Kevin Thau from Twitter told me this about Track the other day: http://twitter.com/kevinth...
- Thomas James
watch tv for ads? That is so sad
- Stanislas Jourdan
How would one prevent from getting overwhelmed by responses? Why not set up and RSS search feed?
- David Damore
I said they HAD Passion and a lack of respect...read man!
- Owen Greaves
There's tons of ways to advertise based on twitter streams
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
-sigh-
- Kyle Dylan Conner
you can do all kinds of behavioral targeting
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
David, with track you can respond in real time
- Raphael, Raphael
How does Twitter get money for the service they're providing?
- CAJ, somewhere else
Stan, anyone who works in marketing watches all ads.
- Neal Jansons
from IM
ahh..
- Tina Chase Gillmor
FILTERING IDEA: Twitter user goes to web service. User sets up specific hashtags on things they talk about on a serialized basis with a description. That way you have user + hashtag filtering options and can setup different notification options for each hashtag - on a user by user basis.
- Mike Bracco
if you get 10 responses a minute... how would you keep up?
- David Damore
Neal, everybody doesnt work in marketing!
- Stanislas Jourdan
I like talking to the companies I'm buying products from, it's like getting help from a sales Associate in a retail store, except its on the internet, and I'm much more interested in the products.
- Colin
Loren not drinking the realtime KoolAid
- Mike Doeff
Twitter gets people to investment in them.
- Raphael, Raphael
AH MAH GOD
- ralphsaunders
One at a time Please
- Matthew
*confused*
- ralphsaunders
Hashtags largest disadvantage is that is requires an active action on the part of the user. Too much effort for most people
- Robert
unfortunately I never saw Track in action... so it is hard for me to wrap my mind around it
- David Damore
they need more drinks
- Nick Rae
I agree with Loren, though I can see how some would benefit from real time info
- Glenn Trtanj
david think of Track like an IM bot
- Jamie
every time somebody tweeted a keyword of your choice, the IM bot would notify you
- Jamie
who's the douche yelling through the phone?
- Kyle Dylan Conner
track is unbelievably valuable and it's a shame that it no longer exists
- Tina Chase Gillmor
This is like the TV-MA version of Cranky Geeks
- Chris
I think it does scale, because the conversation is public.
- Colin
they aren't preying on it
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
I tracked the keyword "javascript" for about 2 months. Often the messages would be in Japanese, so it wasn't terribly useful.
- Raphael, Raphael
@Jamie: Thanks.
- David Damore
If track was back up, I would have running searches on my favorite enterprise software that I support. That way, I could jump into any conversation that developes around that stuff instantly, the moment is starts happening.
- Robert
I think robert is the only one of these guys that really gets advertising and marketing
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
I do it for hte love, but think what a company could do with that. Like Scoble's examples
- Robert
back now that friendfeed is back too
- Rafael
Connecting buyers and sellers is important
- David Damore
I agree guruvan, they all seem to be offtrack.
- Colin
"What information consumes is rather obvious: it consumes the attention of its recipients. Hence, a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention and a need to allocate that attention efficiently among the overabundance of information sources that might consume it." Herbert Simon, recipient of Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics, and the A.M. Turing Award
- Mike Bracco
I cant believe that after so long, Keen still doesn't understand the concepts...
- Robert
Luna Park is an example of a restaurant in SF that gets how to market on Twitter... http://twitter.com/lunaparksf
- Mike Doeff
They're geeks, and most geeks don't seem to get the advertising
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
Technology enables those two parties [buyers and sellers] to find each other faster.... saving time and money for everyone
- David Damore
hahahaha
- Rafael
lol
- Stanislas Jourdan
Keen takes 6 months generally
- Jamie
lots of buffering here
- Tina Chase Gillmor
Thanks Rafael!
- earl wallace
agree with Loren
- Stanislas Jourdan
Earl You're welcome
- Rafael
same
- Kyle Dylan Conner
thanks for the Luna Park link
- Tina Chase Gillmor
he's right you can totally game twitter, and it's not any kind of a threat to ANY ONE
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
or they will pay to receive realtime search hits for complex queries - i.e. cannondale will get an realtime ping when someone types in "who can recommend a bike"
- bear (aka Mike Taylor)
haha loren cracks me up. hes needed on the show
- Jamie
yw Tina
- Mike Doeff
Haha Loren's the best
- Costa Walcott
keyboard cat time?
- ralphsaunders
wheres leo
- Nick Rae
There is no compare there. Twitter against Google! HA!
- earl wallace
People thought Google was not a threat to early portals, that was the case was it not?
- David Damore
leo is hiding
- ralphsaunders
Is Google a Threat to Microsoft?... One might have said "NO" just a few years ago...
- David Damore
the "value" of twitter is the millions of people who are posting what they like, hate and are doing every second
- bear (aka Mike Taylor)
I remember Google's first day.
- earl wallace
I think everybody senses that there is *something* here with this realtime stuff. nobody can quite pinpoint what it all means though.
- Jamie
no it was not htought that it was even relevant really....people think twitter is relevant
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
yes it's much more interesting to perform your "search" at twitter and wait for people to give you up to date info. google can't compete with that.
- Brian Hendrickson
@Jamie +1. New things are hard to analyze
- David Damore
Back in 2000, Business Week wondered how Google would make money : ) http://www.businessweek.com/bwdaily...
- Mike Doeff
+1 Jamie
- Stanislas Jourdan
I don't think that anyone would have said that google wasn't a threat to MSFT once they put out things like GoogleDocs
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
@ Mike Doeff +1
- David Damore
So, I posted something about poker & within minutes... I had people following me on Twitter that were marketers with poker items/products.
- Jason Hansen
tho Steve has been consistent from the start. attention/gesture economy. hes been talking about this for years.
- Jamie
World's fastest CPU clocked at 128 gigaflops - http://www.techradar.com/news...
- ralphsaunders
Steve has the best overall point about this subject
- earl wallace
Sorry, I still think Twitter is a fad.
- Raphael, Raphael
I think we need to rebrand ourselves as a reality show
- Tina Chase Gillmor
you don't get how to find anything in Realtime because you don't use enough filters
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
My MOuntain Bike entry on friendfeed: http://friendfeed.com/scoblei...
- Robert Scoble
Once they are a threat... people see it... it is hard to see over the horizon unless you have satellite early warning systems...
- David Damore
the noise and speed of realtime means that the filtering layer will become more crucial - there will be a layer of folks who chew on the raw data and thats who folks like loren will listen to
- bear (aka Mike Taylor)
is it that hard to wait until the other person is done talking?
- Kyle Dylan Conner
The thing that really worries me, is that Twitter restricts real time track to corperate customers, that WE cant make us of it.
- Robert
Twitter is NOT a fad... I promise you that
- Tina Chase Gillmor
but Robert if I ask the same question I might get 2 responses.
- Jamie
Steve thinks he is the father of reason, let others talk please!
- Rafael
Just want to give props to all the other folks in the chat room. + 1 for all ;)
- David Damore
welll.... twitter might be, services like twitterr aren't
- ralphsaunders
I bought a bike last year, but if I was still looking for one this year, I'd be reading through that thread.
- Colin
I think that you're probably wrong about that Tina....the big acceptance rate is a fad,....what's not a fad is that style of interaction
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
Jamie : because any bicycle seller is on FF (yet)
- Stanislas Jourdan
a friendfeed conversation is just like what alt.bicycle usegroup was like back in the day
- bear (aka Mike Taylor)
+1 guruvan
- Brian Hendrickson
Mike: except without the spam and the assholes.
- Robert Scoble
gillmor has said: Twitter is training wheels
- Brian Hendrickson
Twitter doesn't really have a long term strategy or the ability to communicate and that means they're likely to be overtaken easily
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
Anyone saw the Yahoo Meme? A twitter competitor?
- Rafael
I think real time really is most valuable if tied to real time events such as sports or stuff like that. I think companies will sprout up to offer real time to niche markets
- Mike Bracco
we are missing the "business intelligence" tools. We will see "conversational intelligence" those systems are being built.
- Jerry Schuman
robert: no - they are there - we just have better tools to manage them :)
- bear (aka Mike Taylor)
Clay Shirky said "There is no such thing as information overload, there’s only filter failure"
- Mike Doeff
See Friendfeed as a Twitter competitor and a step up at that... Twitter is facing a real threat from them IMHO. What do you think?
- David Damore
David: real threat is coming from Facebook.
- Robert Scoble
twitter == web 0.5 web post; Twitter Search == web 0.5 web post delivered via Atom; FriendFeed == all that data aggregated
- bear (aka Mike Taylor)
What happened to Arrington?
- Rafael
Scoble: Really?
- David Damore
Steve Gilmour is a very smart man....!!!
- Owen Greaves
Can someone please explain what Track is?
- Stephen Pickering
Right now we're building the ability to construct conversations from discrete streams. Tweets melded to RSS or any other data repository via bayes algorithms.
- Jerry Schuman
The simplicity of Twitter currently wins
- Robert
arrington left a long time ago
- Kyle Dylan Conner
Everyone on Friendfeed wonders why people still don't use it.
- Raphael, Raphael
Kyle: I know but why?
- Rafael
stephen, we already did up above
- Chris Heath
Robert: wrong. wrong wrong wrong.
- Robert Scoble
track is a saved search in real time that sends its results into your stream
- Brian Hendrickson
Stephen: track was a way to do keyword searches via Twitter's IM interface and have any post that matched delivered
- bear (aka Mike Taylor)
he didn't like a comment loren made
- Kyle Dylan Conner
robert: churn on Twitter is many times higher than on friendfeed.
- Robert Scoble
there's friendfeed, realtime facebook, identica, and more....everyone thought that yahoo was the be all and end all before there was google....no one was that impressed with google....but there really insn't anything special about simple search, and there really isn't anything special about microblogging, they're simple technologies, and the real deal is who can run a better company
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
Loren's ton is annoying
- Stanislas Jourdan
isn't Twitter losing 30-40% of new users each month? It's so easy they just do not get it?
- David Damore
its basicly smart extraction of community information right?
- AV
stephen, http://friendfeed.com/search... (it's in bold when you expand the comments)
- Chris Heath
chrun on twitter is ENORMOUS
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
Thanks Chris!
- Stephen Pickering
churn is high because people log on and their friends aren't there
- Jamie
I think Friendfeed is getting very close to be as -instantaniously- user friendly as Twitter, its not there just. Its still too conveluted to be able to be used by my mother.
- Robert
no David: They get it and don't see the value in it....they do se the value in their facebook acounts, and the do see the value on friendfeed
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
This guy Loren is going to have a heart attack. The anger seems pointless.
- Shelly Brisbin
from twhirl
The avg new user on twitter doesn't return 'till a month or so later, right?
- Victor Alarcon
Robert: Agreed
- Rafael
Oprah is there? Why do they bail out on her?
- David Damore
it's called discovery, Loren
- Jerry Schuman
Robert, that's an apple/oranges comparison, because of the user-base. FF has less than a million still, I think, and most (certainly most-active) are IT professionals. I like both but they stack badly against each other, for various reasons.
- Shéa Bennett
Took almost a year for the message about Friendfeed to get through my thick skull ;)
- David Damore
New users leave Twitter when they follow only a handful of people and those people rarely tweet. Nobody wants to look at a blank screen.
- Mike Doeff
the user then churns but over time might get more and more email notifications... x friend is following you. y friend is following you.
- Jamie
Shea: watch the tides. The movement is what matters. Not how much water is in the bay already. :-)
- Robert Scoble
thats true mike
- Rafael
this is insane
- Kyle Dylan Conner
every person in this world is linked by 6 people right so in the end if you ask the right question you will get your answer to any question!
- AV
loren knows manic
- Brian Hendrickson
andrew just having fun with the discussion haha
- Rafael
@Alym Virani is there was perfect information flow
- David Damore
steve, i don't think you're an idiot about track... dead on imho
- Chris Heath
hahahaa
- Rafael
We love you Steve
- Mike Doeff
loren knows schtick
- Brian Hendrickson
I tend to agree with Loren... the problem with the real time web is that "right now" is relative.
- Ryan Stanley
Friendfeed is manageable for uses like this room..for me it will take awhile to process it's different options for my usage like Robert Scoble...Robert , please point me to a "Friendfeed manual of some sort! Thank you.
- earl wallace
mike - that's totally wrong....people on twitter leave because they follow too many people and can't deal with it
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
david danmore yes in an ideal world their is not perfect information flow but if the right questions are asked its most likely you will extract the info
- AV
Scoble has some sweet videos on F2
- David Damore
earl: when I figure it out I'll do a manual. :-)
- Robert Scoble
@Earl, check the help link at the bottom ;)
- Robert
turing test
- Jerry Schuman
Thank you Robert (:
- earl wallace
hahahaa
- Rafael
hahaha
- Stanislas Jourdan
how do you make money out of this feed?
- andrewkeen
It's kinda funny, each of these guys just want to be right :)
- Owen Greaves
hahaha Leo Lives!
- zephyrlily
Leo is like.... :-/
- Jamie
oh... knowledge engineering
- Jerry Schuman
The problem with Twitter etc... is that there is some much data coming at people that .... your q has to be important to get passed on > RT.
- David Damore
yes.. KE is a pain in the arse
- Jerry Schuman
I give 1 dollar to anyone who says that i'm beautiful!!!!
- Rafael
+1 andrewkeen
- Stanislas Jourdan
Robert's done a couple good vids on how to make use of friendfeed
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
@andrewkeen Check out http://friendfeed.com/scoblei... and ask that question again
- Robert
andrewkeen: this feed? Not sure. Not a lot of intent on this one. How about my Mountain Bike one? http://friendfeed.com/scoblei... I can see TONS of ways to make money there.
- Robert Scoble
Robert, let's assume you're right - isn't FF going to be ruined by an influx from the masses? Surely its success will mean a manifestation of that 'churn' within Twitter? Isn't it better for you, everybody on there right now, really, if FF is only moderately popular?
- Shéa Bennett
@James Goldman Agree +1
- David Damore
actually Google Squares is going down that path right now
- Jerry Schuman
Thanks Robert, needed reading glasses for that. (:
- earl wallace
@andrewkeen people will allow ads to flow down their stream if they can hide the advertisers they don't like
- Brian Hendrickson
Robert you're right on with the targeting and such about the realtime web - the search is the king
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
Maybe people will have to select categories to have the ads they see from
- David Damore
FriendFeed needs to be prepared NOW for the influx of companies coming to sell there.
- CAJ, somewhere else
guruvan I was referring to the new users who leave after a month. I have some non-geek friends who have joined Twitter and only followed a handful of people and they had no interest in following people they've never met. Those people don't see the utility of it and leave.
- Mike Doeff
can I take that last Skype slot on Skypesaurus?
- Jerry Schuman
youtube has to explore P2P solutions
- Stanislas Jourdan
the problem with youtube is there is no content model....the crap on youtube is nothing you can monetize
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
are people starting to come around to Steve's way of thinking about Twitter @ signs?
- Tina Chase Gillmor
That's an expensive utility.
- Francine Hardaway
Robert Scoble: Excellent!
- Rafael
Like a runner,,,, Interested in ads for shoes, socks, clothes, races, heart rate monitors
- David Damore
That's how the world goes round, money making.
- Colin
If money can't be made, the service goes away eventually
- Francine Hardaway
finguers crossed steve
- AV
@Tina no
- Brian Hendrickson
This chat brought to you by Rackspace and Audible.com
- Mike Doeff
Very well put Mr. Gillmor!
- earl wallace
tina - yes, even the slowest of folks eventually feel the pain
- bear (aka Mike Taylor)
hahaha
- Victor Alarcon
hahahaha
- Rafael
That's what Wolfram Alpha is for. I wondered...
- Francine Hardaway
People watching this are generally early adopters... some advertisers would want to reach that audience
- David Damore
there are technologies emerging that use both stream and P2P for downloading content
- Stanislas Jourdan
You cannot divide by zero!
- CAJ, somewhere else
Mike: and Amazon. And Microsoft. And Google. And and and and.
- Robert Scoble
the better query for Alpha: At what point does Loren stroke out on GG?
- Jerry Schuman
I think the only thing who can make money on any conversation on earth is PORN.
- Rafael
lol, probability of the both talking again?
- ElijahBailey-Zu of FF <0,
Nice one Scoble
- David Damore
there's some puppeteer raggin' on loren... and loren's rant about it
- Chris Heath
Devolution.
- Francine Hardaway
Congrats guys!
- Rafael
Adios
- Mike Doeff
Great show guys
- David Damore
very good show this week guys !
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
Great show! ;)
- Colin
leo was smart not to talk
- Kyle Dylan Conner
Thanks all of you guys on show!
- earl wallace
that was intense lol
- Jamie
peace
- Victor Alarcon
nish
- earl wallace
hey they finished a show.
- Brian Hendrickson
Nice conversation in the chat room too
- David Damore
wow.. Leo survived this one
- Jerry Schuman
hahaha
- Rafael
thanks for showing up all you people
- Tina Chase Gillmor
love hanging out with such smart people
- David Damore
Where's dinner?
- Tina Chase Gillmor
loren is crazy! haha
- Rafael
This rivals the drama of broadcast television, love it ;).
- Colin
I missed gillmor's last point, can anyone summarize?
- Brian Hendrickson
its always the Mike and Loren schtick
- Jerry Schuman
Always with the drama
- Mike Doeff
It's not over until thhe fat lady sings.
- Francine Hardaway
don't cry please
- Rafael
Is the show downloadable anywhere?
- Omar Egan
Kinda sensitive? omg
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
hahaha
- Rafael
++ Colin
- ElijahBailey-Zu of FF <0,
Loren is concerned.
- Francine Hardaway
gillmorgang.techcrunch.com for downloads
- Jerry Schuman
Robert's the crying on the inside kind of clown :p
- Neal Jansons
from IM
scoble an "insane frat boy" that's good
- Brian Hendrickson
all these guys are super sensitive
- Tina Chase Gillmor
It's not a Gillmor Gang if someone doesn't storm off : )
- Mike Doeff
Jerry: nothing new there since mid-April
- Thomas James
lol Mike & Tina
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
-- show's in flash get some video cache view
- ElijahBailey-Zu of FF <0,
Scoble says: "Friendfeed Friendfeed Friendfeed Friendfeed Friendfeed Friendfeed"
- David Damore
still have to replay the calacanis/canter battle. that was crazy
- Jamie
Tina, makes sense to me. I'm not sure why its such a battle to understand Steve's POV
- Hilary Talbot
There might be a little bit of ego going on. But they need that...right?
- CAJ, somewhere else
LOL
- David Damore
geek soap opera with boys.
- Shelly Brisbin
from twhirl
Scoble look out the dinner time! Your wike will kill u!
- Rafael
wife*
- Rafael
yeah... no new shows since April
- Omar Egan
Scoble's a pretty placid guy
- Francine Hardaway
Tina is this a podcast on Mr. Gillmors web site?
- earl wallace
guess the show isn't over.
- Raphael, Raphael
Yes Alan they need the ego or they wouldn't be any good at their jobs
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
To quote Trek, "you must learn to govern your passions. They will be your undoing." ;-)
- ZillaFan
Vezquex: it's never over.
- Robert Scoble
This is the healing time
- Mike Doeff
uashduashduashda
- Rafael
the past few shows have not been edited for download
- Tina Chase Gillmor
you guys talk 24 hours a day?
- Raphael, Raphael
I thought he was Steve. Thin Skin
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
Tina: do you know if they will be?
- Thomas James
Vezquex: seems like that.
- Robert Scoble
they don't need editing! put them up lol
- Jamie
Thank you Tina (:
- earl wallace
Loren reminds me of that after hours host, Dave something
- zephyrlily
Go get dinner Robert
- Mike Doeff
I'm not going to say for sure... we are working on a few things here
- Tina Chase Gillmor
Robert your wife and kids will kill u!
- Rafael
Loren should do late nite TV...he's in the right City!
- Owen Greaves
why? they bought Pownce and did squat with it
- Jerry Schuman
Rafael: I have a few more minutes.
- Robert Scoble
Please domt sell FF to Google..no non no
- earl wallace
still not convinced google understands the sociaL
- Jamie
Scoble: Hahaha ok.
- Rafael
MSFT better make a bid on that.... or they will really be locked out
- David Damore
NO! Google messes up every social service they buy
- Neal Jansons
from IM
googlel didn't buy pownce
- Chris Heath
Google didn't do squat with Dodgeball and Jaiku
- Mike Doeff
Like Google and Jaiku?
- ZillaFan
Loren is sad now.
- Rafael
Think it was 6 apart that bought pownce?
- Jamie
i want feedly
- Francine Hardaway
oops.. that's right it was Jaiku not Pownce
- Jerry Schuman
The Google Mafia....
- David Damore
Scoble must be google mafia too
- Brian Hendrickson
never heard that before
- David Damore
I see a Hugh MacLeod poster in the background at Scoble's... we have one like that too
- Tina Chase Gillmor
This is a time of IDEA creation
- David Damore
Really doubt ex-Googlers would sell to Google.
- Raphael, Raphael
Microsoft should buy Google who should then buy FriendFeed.
- CAJ, somewhere else
Friend feed needs mobile apps for all mobile OS
- earl wallace
Is that a Cubical Grenade... from Hugh
- David Damore
Scoble: Agreed with you
- Rafael
go look at the case study Google just put up at the analytics blog about using it for Social media campaigns. Interesting read.
- Jerry Schuman
First time posting on friend feed, forgot I even had an account til the guys were talking about it lol
- dawgbytez
Everything needs time to set up to your taste.
- Rafael
What data would one search on Facebook? Status updates, Notes....????
- David Damore
OMG!
- Rafael
That's a big big book!
- Rafael
david, what does one search for ever?
- Chris Heath
yeah im crying out for a good iphone friendfeed client
- Jamie
Did you read that entire book Robert?
- Mike Doeff
There's tons of data to search on facebook - especially if you have on the order of 5000 friends
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
I doubt it
- Rafael
David : fan pages?
- Stanislas Jourdan
gillmor what are you saying/?
- Brian Hendrickson
I have to admit facebook sucks, I only signed up to search for out of touch friends and family then other ppl found me and added me.
- dawgbytez
jamie, you can go to the regular site on your iphone
- Chris Heath
crying for BB one too
- earl wallace
I know but I prefer a client
- Jamie
Hummmmm..... Interesting.....
- David Damore
Windows XP inside out Illustrated edition ahaha
- Rafael
"templates of best practices that get shared"
- Brian Hendrickson
there's the friendfeed-hacks group and the friendfeed-filters group
- Chris Heath
thanks Loren
- Tina Chase Gillmor
Steve is right on here - If it wasn't for Robert's ideas I would be swimming in data, and I wind up teaching that skill a lot now
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
I'm over a minute behind due to buffering.
- Raphael, Raphael
uasdhuahs
- Rafael
gillmor continue
- Brian Hendrickson
firefox for dummies
- Rafael
track for dummies
- Chris Heath
lol
- Chris Heath
Track for Dummies LOL
- Tina Chase Gillmor
Like I said.... I have a lot to learn and hanging out with such smart people here is awesome
- David Damore
miniscobleizer right there
- Rafael
Facebook is so boring
- earl wallace
dawgbytez: facebook is a lot cooler than people realize....it has some lousy features, but it's really going to take off
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
new to FF. seems like it is more dominated by tech people than twitter... is there non-tech related conversations somewhere on here?
- Brendan Clancy
FF development pace is too slow IMO
- Ryan Stanley
it's not real time - I have to click on a referesh
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
I love Facebook. It doesn't get enough credit
- Jamie
I have to go! Bye every one! Nice conversation!
- Rafael
Brendan, the main topics here are tech and bacon
- Mike Doeff
Everyone for Everyone! :-)
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
Keep doing this good job with ff
- Rafael
Have fun Rafael
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
oh good! i love bacon!!!
- Brendan Clancy
Thx guruvan you too!
- Rafael
out
- Rafael
Facebook is good for comments and such but then so is twitter which I'm also on, how many of these things do we really need?
- dawgbytez
I just use Stylish for FF themes.
- Raphael, Raphael
Brendan, FF is still very geeky for the moment, but things are changing currently
- Stanislas Jourdan
Bacon FTW!
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
parallelized queries is a no brainer
- Jerry Schuman
It is a technology issue
- Vinay Y S
Gotta learn more about Facebook and how, when and what to search for on it.
- David Damore
Guruvan, My comment regarding boring(facebook)was too broad. I guess within the context of using it for my family
- earl wallace
FF don't have user, they've fans. Big difference
- Stanislas Jourdan
it's not the number of people who are *using* it - it's the amount of data to be searched/updated
- bear (aka Mike Taylor)
How could it have been a problem if only 3% were using it?
- Omar Egan
Leo I have a Chariot sidecar have you seen those? in lieu of a trailer, it's a lot of fun
- Brian Hendrickson
it wasn't a technical problem omar
- Chris Heath
a lounge chair with pedals
- Jerry Schuman
Without those 3%, you can just do a join of the sender's and the receiver's followers.
- Raphael, Raphael
thanks Tina.
- Hilary Talbot
dawgbytez: we need as many of these things as it takes to get most of the people online, and they don't all like every kind of way to do it....people like me need to be on most of them so that we can connect the rest of them
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
thanks everyone
- Tina Chase Gillmor
Makes sense to me Rob, I think lol
- dawgbytez
where can we get this show later and where can we get the wolfram interview later?
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
Steve, Tina, looking forward to getting the shows again on iTunes. It's rare that I can catch this live.
- Mike Doeff
my cat Gray is on my desk beggin for me to pet him. paw, paw, paw, paw
- Tina Chase Gillmor
noooo Steve
- Jamie
Leo: Can you put this on to repeat once it wraps?
- Ken Sheppardson
Steve, it works well as audio-only too
- Mike Doeff
steve, tina, an mp3 would be perfect
- Brian Hendrickson
this google/youtube wget (autopost?) sounds interesting
- Chris Heath
gillmor gang will always be an audio show
- Jamie
I guess that awnsers why the RSS feed hasnt been updated in a month :(
- Robert
Thanks Robert
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
Thanks everyone.
- David Damore
jamie, that's not what steve just said
- Chris Heath
I like seeing it live, not sure I'd like to see on youtube unless I'm away during the show and miss it.
- dawgbytez
thanks everyone (1:30 AM here...)
- Stanislas Jourdan
Leo I think you should push your tweets to army.twit.tv I mean c'mon
- Brian Hendrickson
he said he now sees it as a video show
- Jamie
I dont care if its audio or video, as long as I can get it as a podcast
- Robert
Time to go outside and enjoy the sunshine
- Mike Doeff
dawgbytez yeah, but you have the choice... that's the point
- Chris Heath
Nuts, in an airport making a connection. Is there any chance of this one getting released for the network deprived?
- Aron Michalski
from fftogo
I wouldnt hold your breath..
- Jamie
Leo please buy the A/C. I will up my participation
- earl wallace
aron, yes, it's getting on the re-runs and steve said it should get up somewhere (google video / youtube)? eventually
- Chris Heath
thanks y'all - time for dinner here
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
what was the wolfram show?
- Jamie
The fact that Steve hasn't been posting the recordings and there's no fixed schedule for repeats on TWiT... well.. sucks.
- Ken Sheppardson
just a one-off?
- Jamie
jamie, leo interviewed stephen wolfram (for the radio show and kiki's show)
- Chris Heath
Ken: agreed
- Thomas James
I felt like I needed a PHD in physics to keep up with Wolfram
- dawgbytez
yeah ken, i feel you
- Chris Heath
great twit lineup there!! Dvorak, molly wood, and becky worley
- Chris Heath
lol Leo!
- earl wallace
I guess if it's not real time it might as well be 3 weeks later... :-/
- Ken Sheppardson
Thanks Leo! I'd be lost without all the tech stuff you bring us
- dawgbytez
was wolfram on the wwdc stage a few years ago?
- Jamie
ken, tina's been helpful in explaining what's up... i did have to ask (dm on ff)
- Chris Heath
dave, yes and no, just like the other chats
- Chris Heath
Oh, I have no doubt there's some explanation that makes sense. Doesn't mean it doesn't suck.
- Ken Sheppardson
definitely
- Chris Heath
Thats funny,Arrington just posted the words "gilmore gang" on FF, then deleted it again
- Robert
yeah I really wanted to hear last weeks show
- Jamie
jamie, it may make it out eventually
- Chris Heath
hope so
- Jamie
me too... i only caught the tail end
- Chris Heath
Ken, it makes me wonder if whatever partnership Gillmor Gang had with TechCrunch is no longer in place. The web versions are on gillmorgang.techcrunch.com It would make more sense to have it on Leo's TWiT network. I'm confused.
- Mike Doeff
I agree - at this point it makes a lot of sense for it to be hosted on TWiT
- Jamie
and who knows, perhaps one day we will see a return of the godaddy style infomercial at the start of the show. I miss those days :-)
- Jamie
Caught the tail end of the show... pretty kewl stuff :)
- Michael Lynch
I miss the Doug Kaye /IT Conversations intro at the start of the show ;)
- Robert
Yeah, who knows. I'd be amazed if it's any sort of falling out with TC... Steve's writing for TechcrunchIT.
- Ken Sheppardson
I would not be amazed at all
- Robert
gillmor and mike are cool
- Jamie
Considdering the size of all the Ego's involved, vendetta's and splits are bound to happen occasionally
- Robert
I still remember when the show imploded and took about a 6-8 month hiatus (mid-late 2007?)
- Mike Doeff
Was that a different period than when he split off from Adam Curry and couldnt use the name, or was that before?
- Robert
What did it implode over, can you recall?
- Robert
there was a meme from show to show about it being the last show
- Jamie
then there was drama in an episode, steve didn'tput it out and it really was the last show
- Jamie
Robert, yes that was what I was referring to.
- Mike Doeff
Adam Curry really made friends in the sphere, you hear from him all the time now ;)
- Robert
those earthlink ads :-)
- Jamie
This was the best Gillmor Gang to date...really opened my eyes as to how marketers/companies are using real time media as a marketing tool.
- Mike Gargano
How do we see or listen to yesterday's show?
- Arnie Klaus
HI FROM GEORGIA SOUNDING GOOD VEDIO GOOD ON TWIT TV
- daveccorey
My new RSS reader: the browser - http://www.costawalcott.com/2009...
"I had come to dread seeing a bunch of new posts every day that I left compelled to read. For a while, I stopped going to Google Reader entirely, as I knew it was a futile process to keep up with the endless flow of news."
- Costa Walcott
from Bookmarklet
I love advertising
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Yeah because Jack in the Box serves your food on China.
- DO ANYBODY NO MONIQUE
look! There's red on it. I bet that's ketchup.
- Pete Delucchi
Hahaha
- Rodfather
it is a funny comparison though.
- DO ANYBODY NO MONIQUE
Here's another shot of the real thing: http://ff.im/2WyAP
- invariant - farewell FF
The one on the left looks tasty. The one on the right is an instant appetite killer.
- Andrew C
The funny thing about food advertising is the suspension of disbelief everyone has when viewing an ad. Very often the props used in these ads aren't even food at all - especially if it's just a still like this.
- Pete Delucchi
We need to walk into these food establishments with printouts of their items and hold them up in front of the manager after they give you the slop bucket and get them to at least TRY. First person to do this and post about it WINS!
- Josh Haley
If this was any other type of product; cars, furniture, homes, clothing, the manufacturer would be in court and owing millions for false advertising. Why are food products given a pass and allowed to get away with this?
- Robert Kenney
Because tasty food looks crap.
- Rich
Pete D - I think truth-in-advertising laws mean they have to use the real food, somehow, at least if they're advertising that food for sale. Which doesn't mean there isn't a ton of trickery; for example, 'grilled' burgers for photography have grill marks directly applied with a hot metal bar, rather than coming from being cooked on a grill.
- Andrew C
oh gag
- anna sauce
Food pictures have to be of the actual food; but they have to be of actual preparation. For instance, cereal ads use the actual cereal, they just go through a dozen boxes to find perfect flakes, and the use watered Elmer's glue because it's whiter and thicker.
- Robert Hafer
Clarified: food photography, prepared by so-called food stylists, usually starts with actual food, that much is true. The "styling techniques" or tricks they use may include glue, undercooked meat that is enhanced with browning, or many other strategies. This book is meant as a guide for beginning food stylists (http://www.amazon.com/Food-St...)
- Pete Delucchi
One of these things is not like the other.
- Jack (a.k.a. Jeber)
That reality looks so insanely gross.
- Admiral Anika
Anika++ It looks like south of the border vomit.
- Chrimmus Tad
That would make a good series of images: pictures of food in advertising vs. real life
- Costa Walcott
@Josh Haley I did just that a few years ago at a Taco Bell. Although the food still didn't look like the picture, they did remake my item. It was an improvement, nonetheless.
- Anne Bouey
ROFL @Tad. That it does.
- Admiral Anika
We let a lot of stuff get by with our food because it is yummy and/or convenient. Like "natural flavors" and "artificial flavors" and crap we can't even pronounce. We don't even know what we are eating half the time.
- Alix Whitmire
:|
- Anna Haro
reminds me of the scene in Falling Down when Michael Douglas, armed to the teeth, goes to Whammy Burger and notes the difference between his burger and the one in the ads.
- Greg
شقایق بیا یه لقمه بزن اگه گشنت شده :دی
- ramin
WHO IS CHRIS CHARABARUK?
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A Canadian atheist libertarian asshole.
- Chris, Taskerrific Guy
He's that guy with the sexy sexy hairless chest.
- Chrimmus Tad
Isn't he the guy who wrote Choke?
- Costa Walcott
OK, so how about this: You call your special FF phone #, using keywords you choose feed(s), speak the text and then post, all from the phone.
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You forgot the other, most important part: this service to be financed by incurring telephone charges to the tune of $5/minute, or whatever is the going rate for premium-rate 900-prefix telephone numbers these days. Available, of course, solely to residents in the United States, except where parents have explicitly deselected that option with the local telco.
- ianf ⌘
Too much work for not many users. Somehow Scoble managed to post from his phone, and it worked well.
- Larry Hudson
ianf: perhaps the call could be routed locally say thru Skype
- Don Bonaddio
too much work Larry? nah,
- Don Bonaddio
one way from phone would be voice email, if you have email on the phone. ..other is, Live Journal I think has voice posting through a number (also transcript to text) .. and here is a Friendfeed widget on Live Journal :] ... http://petrbuben.livejournal.com
- Petr Buben
Someone could probably write something like this using the FF API and Adhearsion: http://adhearsion.com/
- Costa Walcott
now we're talking, so many smart people on Friendfeed :)
- Don Bonaddio
elizapatricia: "Don't mess w/my nephew punk. (Paintballin w/ my bros, nephews... on Twitpic" - http://twitpic.com/5ayy8
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"Don't mess w/my nephew punk. (Paintballin w/ my bros, nephews-Chicopee, MA)"
- RAPatton
from Bookmarklet
Thank you, RAP, for pointing out Miss Eliza's Twitter feed! :D
- Haggis (Sean Loyless)
This is the cool part of all the new celebrities on Twitter: getting to see them as real people!
- Costa Walcott
She looks 19 here.
- Michael W. May
wait! are the JoBros singing about cunnilingus? "I fell in love with the pizza girl/Now I eat pizza every day" #purityringsareforpussies
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South Park was on to something!
- Costa Walcott
Apparently there is a new social network called myface according to allisons grandma :)
Herb Hernandez, Rick Schmidt and Michelle Marie Miller liked this
Jeff... Are you on MyFace?...... Wait, what?
- Johnny Worthington
whoseface?
- WorldofHiglet
I always laugh on Law & Order where they have "FaceSpace"
- Costa Walcott
My father-in-law wants me to setup a Face Page for him
- RAPatton
Teen Boy Builds Nuclear Breeder Reactor in Mom’s Backyard Shed - http://www.inquisitr.com/24122...
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Didn't Sheldon do the same thing on The Big Bang Theory?
- Costa Walcott
One of the CSI: NY episodes used this plot at the beginning of the season. Probably taken from his attempt in '07. Guy was using the thallium out of smoke detectors to use as a source for him building a reactor. http://bit.ly/ZFQhO
- Jimminy Fuller
When using the notifier, it will randomly log me out, and the dock icon turns grey (I'm on OS X). Does this have anything to do with friendfeed.com being open in my browser as well?
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Sorry about the trouble Costa. The notifier uses the OS cookie store, which Safari uses also, so it's possible. Does this ever happen with Firefox or no browser?
- Casey Muller
Thanks for the reply. I'm not sure, I'll try and let you know.
- Costa Walcott
Just an update, it seems to happen when FF isn't open, and even when the browser isn't open.
- Costa Walcott
Are you kidding me, this guy is freaking crazy.
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Certainly makes driving with a mattress on the roof seem rather basic...
- Costa Walcott
Don't you need a license to carry this kind of cargo?
- Nir Ben Yona
dudes got some big balls
- Steve C
For sure !
- Nir Ben Yona
Costa won this thread.
- DO ANYBODY NO MONIQUE
Who was your first email account with? Moi. Hotmail...God, that was/is awful.
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karoo for me.
- alphaxion
America Online...wait...no. Prodigy!
- Candace
WebTV.
- Rochelle
sciboard.louisville.edu or iglou.com, both about the same time.
- Tsali, The Native of FF
Local ISP, until I realized the value of webmail. Then yup, it was Hotmail.
- Bradley McSpinn
AOL.com, back when Windows 95 was so money it didn't even know it.
- Tyler Hayes
First e-mail account was with Sprynet when it was CompuServe's Web-only ISP -- before the AOL buyout!
- Jared Smith
wisc.edu
- Dave Winer
ecu.edu
- Beebo Wallace
Prodigy.
- Oliver Ortega Chua
citiz.net
- yagami
i don't even remember i think it was planet something or i dunno something like that no wait i don't know why i'm thinking earlyalert.com i don't know i'm probably wrong lol
- Cardeen Martinez
crikey, i've never even heard of some of these...
- Zee.
A BBS in Morgan Hill.
- Rodfather
1st public internet email was via easy.com ... my own domain via ISP I started in 1993. 1st corporate email was 1978 ish internal on our private global DECNET, connected to public Internet in about 1984.
- Don Strickland
A shell account in '92, I forget with who. Was BBS'ing for years before that, and they sort of had email.
- Bob Morris (polizeros)
wow, very impressive Jason...and Don!
- Zee.
Hotmail was my first email provider.
- Andrew Trinh
aol
- ♥patricia♥
mail.com. Alternative back than was only hotmail (I think, can't remember about yahoo) which totally sucked. I think mail.com is extinct now, but they used to have multiple domains. And I had about 5 different accounts. 4, 5, or 6MB, can't really remember exactly. Wow, the days... This is one example (of many) where I'm very happy we are where we are today.
- Vlad Bobleanta
I can't remember. Possibly Yahoo, but I think Yahoo may have come later...
- Rahsheen ™, Coach Rah
Compuserve, then "Niftyserve" the licensee of Compuserve here in Japan. We have it so good now!
- Rick Cogley
Hotmail, way back in 1998 (although before that I had an ISP email through Frontier)
- Brandon Mendelson
AOL.
- Laura B.
AOL. I shutter at the thought
- BCK
PSU.edu, 1989
- Dave Roth
Toronto FreeNet.
- Chris, Taskerrific Guy
Michigan State University
- Steve Lowe
Yahoo mail. Still have it but its been so spamefied I hardly use it anymore.
- TkFromWestSide
My employer - Tualatin Valley Fire & Rescue - circa 1984.
- Gary Walter (gwalter)
Hotmail
- Tim Keneipp
Prodigy in 1991, followed shortly thereafter by AOL 1.0 for the Mac, then Compuserve. And finally a POP internet dialup with Chicago's Interaccess in about 1992 after getting Adam Engst's Internet starter kit book that came with a copy of the Mac/TCP control panel on a 3 1/2" floppy.
- Adam Turetzky
Prodigy, then AOL
- Robert Kenney
My first was at work. heamin@sunshine.vab.unisysgsg.com -- no joke. Then I had an alumna account with Virginia Wesleyan, and then I think I picked up a yahoo account. My first web site was on geocities, and it was so kewl for its time, too. :-)
- Ladybug Heather
AOL
- Derrick
<- AOL
- Costa Walcott
AOL then Juno
- Violet Mae Lim
drexel.edu and compuserve
- Peter Ghosh
Technically, my first email address was on an internal mail service for a large corporation back in 1991, but it was possible to email other people on the internet with a byzantine series of pipes, slashes, gateways and hostnames. My first personal email on the internet proper was with a regional dialup service called pics.com in 1992.
- dthree
Pixi.net
- Trish Haley
I forget the exact name, but it was local and called Charlotte's Web. I live in Charlotte, NC.
- Matthew
75106,3139
- Leo Laporte
I want to say Compuserve
- BASEnet
whats 75106,3139?
- Zee.
74127,2227
- Christopher Barnes
aol
- Computerwhiz1
Those are Compuserve addresses Zee
- Adam Turetzky
AOL
- Gabe Diaz
Prodigy
- Nick Smith
Oof. CompuServe!
- Akiva Moskovitz
ah, interesting - thanks Adam
- Zee.
My first was a VAX server at lamar.edu but I quickly shifted to an Ultrix machine also at lamar.edu. So, lamar.edu.
- Akiva Moskovitz
webtv.
- Nation Hahn
Yay Nation Hahn!
- Rochelle
aol
- Russ Jackson
76020,702 lol, had to look mine up!
- Adam Turetzky
I had brlewis@mit.edu in 1986 way before there ever was such a thing as spam. Now there's probably not a single spammer's list out there that doesn't have that address. I still log in there occasionally.
- Bruce Lewis
netcom
- Scott Slade
A tiny, local ISP here in Vermont call Kingdom Connection. I was one of the first 25 subscribers I think, and I still have my original e-mail address. Scary.
- Bob M. Montgomery
Mine was AOL. Man that was a long time ago..
- David van Sunder
from Nambu
Hotmail for me as well. Recalling this alone makes me nauseous. ;-)
- Dan Dashnaw
I had a Hotmail account as well. Never again.
- Diego Espinoza V.
columbia.edu
- Morton Fox
geez... I can't even remember.
- Jim Addz No Value
umich.edu
- Ken Sheppardson
Prodigy. Then AOL. Then Berkeley.edu followed by Earthlink.net, Home.com, ATTBI.com, and then Mac.com. (Also in there, GMail, Excite, Netscape, and work accounts, etc.)
- Louis Gray
Hotmail - Sometime in 1997 I think. My first email account for work was in 1998.
- David Yarnell
AOL. I was so excited to get Hotmail because at the time, it was cooler than AOL. Heh. Then Yahoo and now Gmail. And that's it, not counting work/school accounts.
- Jandy, ConcertMaven of FF
Prodigy.
- Admiral Anika
tamu.edu before that I was on some BBS's with RelayNet mail. In 1988 I got a 9600 baud modem and I'm telling you it was so fast.
- Jeff
crap whatever we had at college before the internet had pictures or an internet. :) We could send messages between colleges though
- Steve C
Probably Mindspring.
- Gunny doesn't side-hug™
Mine was AOL over my 2400 baud modem.
- Allen Blair
<student id>@<sydney university undergrad domain), then something at extro.com.au which was the Sydney University dial up provider then good ol iname.com. I thought that would be my non service provider bound email address, till they decided to charge for it. Thank god for gmail.
- Tom Horn
Compuserve was my first Internet email address.
- Gary Walter (gwalter)
from fftogo
email.com
- Alex Scrivener
Hotmail I'm ashamed to say.
- Daniel Drysdale
from Nambu
web mail? Gmail. Otherwise Carleton U
- Capn' One Eye - adrift
Hotmail as well :(
- Drew Lucas
Genie
- Randy Caldwell
yahoo - oooh forgot about Juno!
- BEX
Actually, my first email was with MCI*Mail. NOT internet email. The next one was Compuserve. Still not internet. My first internet account was on a server at my employer in Austin.
- Mistletoe Glen
My math prof gave me an account on a NeXT box.
- Hiro Asari
ISP provider, bellsouth.net, I then upgraded to Hotmail. lol
- Sharon McPherson
@MSN.com.. Yup MSN was my first provider. It was them or AOL, and I knew better.
- Haggis (Sean Loyless)
Compuserve was my first "email" (not internet) and nassau community college was my first internet email address
- Bastard Operator From FF
A local ISP called Jetlink.
- Stan Augustyniewicz
Alta Vista
- Brent - Loving Life
My first email address that I used, but didn't control was gmail. My primary address and everyone I've had has been in my own house.
- Dustin Sallings
Hotmail. 2MB. Remember that?
- David Damore
Mississippi State University. 1990 or 1991... (might have been 89)
- Chrimmus Tad
rocketmail.com
- James Beake
AOL
- Kim Landwehr
from BuddyFeed
stanford.edu
- Paola Bonomo
aol
- David Dudley
Yahoo - haven't used it for many years now.
- Ahsan Ali aka. Slick
my very first was in the early 1980s at Uof Penn, my first online email was hotmail
- Monique
Hotmail.
- Steven Perez
University in '94. didn't know what email was before that.
- mikepk
*.syr.edu '90ish. bbs handles since 80s
- Brian Daniel Eisenberg
Back in Romania, when the whole Internet thing was just showing up there (1993?), a VAX/VMS machine (roearn.ici.ac.ro, also ROEARN on Bitnet)
- Tudor Bosman
Prodigy. Before that I was on BBS which was my first chatroom, a lot of people trying to log into a room that would only fit 8. Good times.
- zephyrlily
deeptht.armory.com, a local SCO box. still have the account: http://www.armory.com/~peter/
- coffee
AOL of course
- Keith - @tsudo
Well my first email was hotmail in like 2004, but before that, our family account was yahoo which was around 94/95 (which i think it was better UI then vs today) now i use gmail for everything!
- Bryce Campbell
yep hotmail
- Dobromir Hadzhiev
usa.net
- Petr Buben
The University of Leeds in 1997, closely followed by Yahoo Mail in the same week. I still have the Yahoo account but only use it to log into Flickr.
- Martin Bryant
Compuserve...over and over again with those 30 day trials :)
- Mark Krynsky
usa.net (netaddres)
- Toni @ NavinoT
On the WWW it was msn.com but I was on BBS before then and the address was something like portofcall.net
- Kol Tregaskes
Back at my college (ISU) in the early 90's. Used Pine on a Unix server.
- Ward Seward
Hotmail for me too. Amazing that it's still so popular
- Gee Ranasinha
Why is everyone hating on Hotmail? Oh yeah, I know, it's cool to bash MS. It was and is one of the better webmails out there. My first was yahoo.co.uk
- Matt Hall
not for sure but i am guessing hotmail maybe yahoo
- (jeff)isageek
AOL.
- teh Dork Knight aka Kenny
yahoo
- Alfredo
Luukku, it's finnish email service. Not really good...
- Kristian Salonen
AOL for sure -- had one under my parents' account, probably early to mid 90s. Signed up for Hotmail in 1997 when I was in college (still have that account, though I really never use it). Of course, I had a standard-issue "geneseo.edu" college account starting in 1996 when I started college.
- mark
umich.edu
- DGentry
cmich.edu
- l.m.orchard
from twhirl
Actually, I lie, cmich.edu was my second - some funky FidoNet address leading to a BBS was the first.
- l.m.orchard
from twhirl
erols out of Maryland then hotmail then gmail with an occasional visit to yahoo mail cause they made me have a yahoo mail account for yahoo IM and other Yahoo properties (flickr).
- Dan Morrill AKA Techwag
AOL, then freeserve! *1998 face*
- Iain Baker
Internal mail in my high school in 94, using Pegasus. Signed up for Hotmail in 95 I think.
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
I think it was yahoo or usa.net
- Shamir Ramjan
worldnet (does not exist anymore, french provider)
- Olivier
CompuServe (72740,114) c. 1989, ysu.edu c. 1993
- Michael McKean
Mine was with Hotmail too. :-/
- Ben LaMothe
Compuserve, then Demon and well.com
- Fraser Smith
It was "pobox.sk" <- clever name for an email for that time :) abandoded them after some other guys has offered pop3 for free. History long gone.
- Dušan Šimonovič
Local ISP and then Hotmail.
- Kevin Bondelli
OMG am I as old as Leo Laporte? LOL no, but I had an email account at Rutgers Univ that was numbers (I don't remember what it was though) & then Prodigy was my first - PCChick. funny I'm a mac girl now.
- Lynette Young
Local ISP then Hotmail and Yahoo! mail.
- Ninh Nguyen
Hotmail, at the time it was good compated to everyone else, then went down the toilet fast, it's better these days but I prefer my Gmail account thank you.
- Eric Fisher
Compuserve. I AM NOT A NUMBER!
- John Craft
yahoo...still use it, but hate its non-existent spam filter...gmail is still the best at spam cleaning...i have hotmail for msn, but recently they've improved the mail feature, so i use more often now
- brainno722 (Peter)
Compuserve (73000,673 if memory serves me right)... and some other obscure usenet type account through a local BBS.
- Carlos Granier-Phelps
CompuServe in 1979 (70040,104).
- George Brickner
BTW, the CompuServe addresses were known as PPNs (Project Programmer Number).
- George Brickner
Hotmail
- Damond Nollan
prodigy, if I remember correctly
- Chieze Okoye
yep, I was on prodigy too for a couple of months, then Rjcc @aol and i've been using that nick for 13~ years now
- Richard Lawler
AOL, back in the day
- Matthew Allen Horton
hotmail
- Rudolf Olah
Promenade aka AOL, probably. But I've had Hotmail for 10 years -- I got an email celebrating my decade with Hotmail a few weeks ago.
- Tamar Weinberg
AOL
- Nurse Katie
Hotmail :(
- Mitra_s
uchicago.edu, then nytimes.com finally got my deasil.com address about a year after school and have had that ever since. :)
- felix
mine was hotmail too.
- Thom Allen
Used excite for a long time, until yahoo and google started theirs up and actually offered some sort of spam protection.
- Matt Thompson
from fftogo
Juno
- Martha
Hotmail. Agree it was awful! I can't believe I ever thought it was okay for the first page of my email client to be a page filled with ads, as opposed to the actual inbox.
- Jess Lee
Compuserve. I don't think it was possible to send formatted text outside of Compuserve back then.
- howard shippin
TSO, which started out as tso.uc.edu but eventually became tso.cin.ix.net.
- Wirehead
UUCP email account at Bell Labs, reached via something like ucbvax!ihnp4!...!fcy Then an account at mcs.net, a Chicago area ISP.
- Fred Yankowski
MyOwnEmail.com. I don't know if they're even still around.
- James Ferguson
I can't remember if I did juno or hotmail first. I think juno....
- EricaJoy
Mine was with netins.net because they offered toll-free dial-up access in the Spring of 1995
- Michael K Pate
My first email was at my job at Sybase in 1993.
- Lisha Sterling
from twhirl
aol when I was in 5th grade. Username: hawaiiman2. Cuz hawaii is like cool and stuff.
- Daniel Morgan
cix UK
- John Francis
cs.berkeley.edu
- Piaw Na
I guess my first e-mail account was with my ISP, but the first web based e-mail account was good ol' hotmail.
- Jeremy
AOL *facepalm*
- Mike Lewis
I think it was AOL or Compuserve
- Shevonne
AOL, Delphi or Compuserve, dunno - I partied a lot between then and now.
- jcunwired
LOL @Leo!!
- jcunwired
My first public email account was with MCI Mail (in the eon of X.25). My first email on a TCP/IP network was with Netcom.
- Lorin Olsen
not sure, usa.net or hotmail.com
- Gökmen Karasu
Compuserve, then when AOL bought them, Netcom, which was bought by Mindspring, who then was bought by Earthlink
- William Harryman
The US government.
- Alex Scoble
Hotmail, not msn hotmail. just "Hotmail"
- irfan ÖZTÜRK
Same here: pre-MSN Hotmail.
- josh neff, geek at large
MSN.com -- I was a beta tester for the MSN network during it's Windows 95 Launch. I had FREE dialup access during the extended beta testing period.
- Anthony K. Valley ©
AOL - I HAD MAIL!
- Mona Nomura
Mine was a free email account from a local ISP (community.net).
- Beau Liening
oh shit... it must've been Compuserve, although I don't remember if I had real email in there.If not, Yahoo Mail was the first portal mail I had (and I had jungleg@yahoo.com, but then lost it for some reason and couldn't get it back)
- Jorge Escobar
uh.edu, then hotmail.
- Arlan Koizumi
UUCP email on unix .. circa 86
- Peter Dawson
comunista@aol.com - i thought it was funny.
- mike
starwarsbuff@hotmail.com - yeah, that was back in middle school. LOL
- Mike Templeton
Mindspring.com
- Darrell Bell
from twhirl
hawaii.edu
- Josh Haley
aol
- Amber, Random Time Lord
Aol huuuh
- Marie Jubin
from Nambu
Admittedly - AOL.
- AJ Kohn
@tamu.edu
- Carlos M. Gomes
AOL > Compuserve > Burntmail
- Kevin Pruett
USA.net
- Helen Sventitsky
Prodigy! Oh wow. That was a long time ago. I remember I had some 25 cents an e-mail plan. I used to get in trouble from my parents when I went over my allotted amount. I can't imagine paying 25 cents an e-mail today.
- Jennifer Mitchell
execpc.com. haha.
- David Chartier
from BuddyFeed
Hotmail, and I think it was 1995.
- cecily
Compuserve
- Bryan R. Adams
pitt.edu, then netaxs.com.
- B. Hatin
Penn State University
- Ernie Oporto
My graduate school, University of Kentucky. It was on VMS.
- MiniMage TKDteacher of FF
hotmail
- Dane Findley
angelfire
- Rachel Lea Fox
Hotmail, but they closed it due to inactivity. I wish I still had it, though. It's impossible to get my name anywhere now.
- Michael Fidler
Yahoo. Now I'm in gmail and I love it...
- Amy H.
Local ISP, Connect2 I think was the name. Haha. Didn't even have 56K internet speed yet at the time. First web based email was Hotmail before Microsoft acquired it.
- Rolf Schewe
Other than my Bell Labs account? Delphi. Fun-ky...
- John Blossom
AOL and then Hotmail....two real winners.....not!
- Bonnie Foster
hotmail 1995
- Muge Cerman
mail.com *shrug* XD
- 'Like' robot (frɐnc)
AOL -> Yahoo -> gmail
- imabonehead
Hotmail for me. I haven't used it in 3 years.
- Michael Forian
My first emailaddress was at my own designstudio: hoofdcommissaris@cops.nl (meaning 'chief of police') And brought me my nickname Hoof (or Hoof99).
- Ruud van Wijngaarden
hotmail
- Bill Hice
@msstate.edu, my university in 1996?
- Phillip Stewart
Messaging on the Univac in late 70s probably, at the college. BITNET, HEPNET, ARPANET in late 1980s. (Ignoring the BBS phenom of 80s.) EDU & GOV 1989+ My own domain I hosted around 1994. NEVER AOL or that fake-Internet stuff of the mid-90s. Ewww! After years of GOV, moved to COM at work in 1999. Started using GMAIL for all my personal mail when that was in Beta. I now have about 20 domains forward to GMAIL.
- John Johnson
not counting university and school, or BBSes? My first email account would then have been jnebbe@ibm.net (back the first time when IBM did internet services) - they were one of the few to have reasonable dial up plans with a multi-country presence - and I was using OS/2 a lot then too. After it got bought by ATT and they changed the address, I decided that I would always have my own domain for email, so I would never lose people because I lose an email. Hosted it myself for years, now it's all with fastmail
- Joelle Nebbe (iphigenie)
Yahoo. God bless Gmail!
- Özgür Akman
"pipeline". anachronistic friend still has email account with them.
- Marg Uerite
it was either aol or nyonline
- Lynne d Johnson
Hotmail. Still have it.
- MVB (Grinch of FF)
Hotmail...then I transferred to Gmail
- Nicholas James
AOL for me... horrible.
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Yeah, hotmail. Not great is it...
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yahoo, broke before I could use it then got a Hotmail
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Now you can send email on the iPhone without that annoying need to look up every few feet!
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