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Great stuff. Thank you for posting. - Tsega Dinka

Cool shoe site, now I want a pair. It looks like you post is going to cost me $100.00. Actually, I really appreciate it - Michael Fidler from twhirl

um, that ain't gonna happen anytime soon. I guess you missed who is on the FriendFeed team. - Robert Scoble

Back to the land of the Fail Whale... - Outsanity

Not if the Fail Whale's net breaks for good... - J.T Dabbagian

I agree with Hutch and Scoble, FF is growing fast and is getting some great people behind the scene. It's just going to grow. Plus, it's a great compliment to Fail Whale and an awesome aggregator. I'll happily be here for awhile. - Chris from twhirl

But I can't see how in it's present state, how they will monetize this service/site. Anyone have any idea how they are planning on generating a revenue stream from this? - Jeff P. Henderson

[Your Ad Here] - Indio Apache from twhirl

Click! - Igor The Troll יִצְחָק

I'm not sure advertising would bring in revenue.... has anyone here ever sold it? most media companies view advertising as spare change. friendfeed shouldn't compromise itself with advertising. - Noah David Simon

lol. maybe.... back to twitter or http://blabber.latestdot.net ? - Zafarali from twhirl

What do you mean "when"? Shouldn't that be "if"? And the option with "if" is that they don't run out of money. - Henk de Kruyff from twhirl

identi.ca:) - Igor Poltavskiy

Noah FF can put advertising on FF whenever they want! But it does become obtrusive. The longer they wait not to put it the better it is for FF. I do not see FF running out of money! Their will be VCs scrambling to invest here because of the type of users the FF attracts! We are hard core, so as long as we hang around FF thrives! I just hope FF does not start playing politics and authority like Twitter has begun. If it does it is going Face Book and MySpace and real users will leave! - Igor The Troll יִצְחָק

I would not classify the ff user as upper income either. that puts a damper on things in advertising. not all of us are billionaires. most of us are just nerds - Noah David Simon

identi.ca is a nice idea, but it still feels a bit boring to use.. - Tomas Nihlen from Alert Thingy

free version: ads. paid version: no ads? And @Noah: "most media companies view advertising as spare change"? um, I don't even know where to begin on that, not this late anyway. - Anthony Citrano

I worked in marketing. I seen the books. advertising is not the root of profit. PR and manipulating the masses are a more valuable commodity. Why would GE own NBC? - Noah David Simon

there is a reason on the good TV is on HBO Anthony Citrano - Noah David Simon

Oh Noah wow - you worked in marketing and saw the books? Then I guess it must be as you say: most media companies make their money - through some version of Bizarro - from PR instead of advertising. And they view advertising revenue as "spare change." - Anthony Citrano

I agree with Noah! "Advertising is not the root of profit. PR and manipulating the masses are a more valuable commodity. Why would GE own NBC" Adsense is a short term phenomenal! Ads do make money but they rarely cover the cost of medium there is subliminal marketing if that can be moneterized than you have a working model. Hence explode Robert Scoble! Fastcompany.com will rock! LMAO - Igor The Troll יִצְחָק

Haha.. We'll have to go to Kiva.org to donate! - Muthu Ramadoss

All god thing come to and end. WE have already seen a trickle of spammers in FF. When the bots hit thru the API and begin an avalanche, I wonder how many you will be around to keep discussing Revenue streams of FF !! Right now I don't if FF has money or not.. for the time being their service rocks , but like I said .... - Peter Dawson

I bet you if Robert Scoble would get fired from Fast Company, Fast Company would explode in viewership! Scoble would go ballistic attacking Fast Company! Would love to see Scoble in action! Will be fun! LMAO Best viral advertising money can buy! - Igor The Troll יִצְחָק

Interesting how none of you considered a user fee. if this truely adds value to your day, providing content, idea exchange, would you pay? - Lorraine Ball

Adds value? You got to be kidding, I became so unproductive since coming here! This is such a waste of time! FF should pay us to stick around! LOL - Igor The Troll יִצְחָק

Not too worried Michael :) - Charlie Anzman

Google will run out of money before FriendFeed does. - Louis Gray

Are you kidding? Google's gonna buy it of course :) It's called a "spin-out-spin-back-in" move. - Vincent van Wylick

Oh, yeah, the people on the team will definitely matter on the bottom line. People will line up for miles to lay money at their feet. Seriously, do you people listen to yourselves? Why would someone line up to fund a VERY niche market tool with no revenue model? Out of the goodness of their heart? - Jason Carreira

@Jeff P. Henderson - there will be a number of ways for FriendFeed to monetize. Ads will be the biggest. I can also see some possibilities in e-commerce: http://bhc3.wordpress.com/2008... - Hutch Carpenter

@Vincent it's the latest craze is the institutional investing world. ha! - Steve Spalding

To Scoble's house - Shey, Jamaican of FF

Perhaps FriendFeed could demand payment from web apps that want FriendFeed to use the web app's API. But by the time money could actually be made that way, FriendFeed would have to be huge. Another way FriendFeed could make money is to charge money for early adopters to see FriendFeed features that are still in testing. - Rishabh Mishra (p248)

@ Shey, LOL! - Iain Baker

Shey: this week's Fortune conference is practically at my house. - Robert Scoble

I'm not sure monetizing via advertising INTRODUCING GATORADE G2. LOW-CALORIE, OFF-THE-FIELD HYDRATION. GATORADE. IS IT IN YOU? would work. It might seem too THIS SENTENCE BROUGHT TO YOU BY NIKE intrusive. - Karim

Long, long time till November, but I won't be surprised to see this rise even higher... - Internet's Tad

Every one of these polls is different. - Francine Hardaway

Promising but can't get overconfident. I'd rather pretend it's the other way around and continue to hustle. - AJ Kohn

Francine, this poll was taken yesterday and the day before, if I read correctly. I haven't seen another one this new. - Kevin Hessel

+++ to Sally! I sure wish we could have the McCain of 2000 vs Obama. - Internet's Tad

This seems in big contrast to most other polls that have a five-percent difference... and as Tad said, it's a long way til November... - Chris Reed

RCP graph: http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls... - AJ Kohn

Tad: I think he's time has gone - this race reminds me of Bob Dole vs Bill Clinton - Sally Church

You're right, don't get overconfident, it's a long way to November, and it's just one poll, but I'm also a believer in enjoying big moments. This is a big moment. Wow. I have goosebumps. Exciting!! (And it totally makes sense. McC is all over the map trying to find some position that works, and none of them are working.) - Dave Winer

Dewey defeats Truman - 1948. Lest we forget. I don't follow polls. Why should I care which way others vote. I vote my own mind. - Michael Tefft

Michael - polls just let those who agree with them get excited. :) - Internet's Tad

McCain is at risk every time he opens his mouth without a script -- and often when he is using a script as well. He is not getting sharper with age. - Sean McBride

And you think Obama speaks without a script or being heavily rehearsed ahead of time? (57 States?) - Michael Tefft

Obama is one of the most talented orators ever to come down the pike, with or without a script, and is able to think and speak on his feet with eloquence and precision. McCain is almost as scary as Bush when doing public speaking -- he could fall off the wire at any moment. Just my personal impression, of course. - Sean McBride

Sadly back in 2000 McCain sounded much, much more intelligent than Bush. I really wish he hadn't sold his soul for the radical elements of the Republican party, especially his stances re: torture and the fringe far-right Christian groups. - Internet's Tad

Oratory does not get the job done. My vote goes to the man whom I believe best serves the interests of our country. I don't think being able to make a great speech is the most important skill for a President. - Michael Tefft

One man supports torture, destruction of civil rights, intolerance, and a continuation of the destruction of the country, not to mention putting us further and further into debt with China... - Internet's Tad

Repairing our standing in the world is important for a lot of reasons. That's not going to happen with McCain (e.g. - supports torture, follow them to the gates of hell etc.) - AJ Kohn

I really do think being a great communicator is at least 30% of the job skill requirements. A president has veto power, military command, and the bully pulpit. And that bully pulpit can be used to do pretty amazing things. The ability to give a great speech is arguably the most useful gift a potus can have. - Andrew from fftogo

A large majority of Americans believe that the United States is on the wrong course, and that the Iraq War (on track to cost several trillions of dollars) was a mistake (some national security experts believe that it is the worst foreign policy disaster in American history). McCain has promised to continue and even expand on these unpopular policies, which probably makes him... more... - Sean McBride

I think things might well change by November. As Obama is more and more called upon to show substance instead of charisma he comes up as just another of the classic Democrats - the kind that have been getting stomped in most elections (other than Clinton). Obama is basically jimmy Carter with an actual personality. However his inexperience and the trail of slime balls he has worked with in his Chicago days might well bring his run to a halt. - Soulhuntre

Soulhuntre, I couldn't agree more. Well, except for the fact that Obama is basically Jimmy Carter. As tough as it may be to accomplish, I think Obama is far worse than Carter. But, if there's a silver lining, it lies in the fact that Carter was a one-term president. Obama promises to duplicate that. - Gregory Pittman from twhirl

You know, Obama's a lot of things. Jimmy Carter isn't one of them, even if the GOP would like to conjure images of gas lines and a decaying economy. That's where we are NOW, under the Bush administration. - Chris Baskind

Chris -- the Carter analogy seems much more apropos to Bush than to Obama, if one is thinking about the price of oil and the state of the economy. McCain supporters are grasping at straws with these kinds of statements and are exposing the intellectual weakness of McCain himself. - Sean McBride

mccain WAS the best the gop could do. the other candidates were mostly religious fanatics. only way obama can lose is to do something monumentally stupid. - Internet's Tad from fftogo

Tad -- it's too bad that a foreign policy realist and traditional Republican centrist like Chuck Hagel didn't have a shot at the nomination. Now he's being mentioned as a possible running mate for Obama, which sounds like a good matchup to me. You're right about the religious fanatics among the Republicans -- they have mortally damaged the party. - Sean McBride

Obama's foriegn policy is a carbon copy of Carters. Ont he bright side, a one term Obama presidency will do much good. It will stop the whining about the 200 election, show people that the Democracts really don't have a plan for leadership AND should shut up all the people who spend so much time claiming the USA is a nation of racists. I say should, but it won't. Any failure on Obamas part will be blamed on the racism of others and any criticism of him or his policies will be considered racially motivated. - Soulhuntre

To be fair, the religious zealots in the Republican party are well balanced by the extreme leftists and anti-democracy / capitalism types in the Democratic party :) - Soulhuntre

Sean: I'd be rather pleased if Obama picked Hagel for his VP. I'm *really* interested to see who McCain picks - if he picks someone sane, or someone who firms up his connection with the religious fanatics. - David Worrell

Agree Kevin, they've totally ignored end user features in WM (even the ones that are in there) chasing RIM for the Enterprise market. Some OEMs getting wise and telling their own story. HTC and Sony Ericsson come to mind. Funny is AAPL has no problem telling both a business and consumer story. - Michael Gartenberg

It gets even more interesting as Apple crosses over into the Enterprise .. and Small Business - Jonathan Greene from twhirl

mobile.me sounds more friendly than "live mesh". - Thomas Hawk

"live mesh" sounds like some sort of trap that Chewbacca might get caught in... - Internet's Tad

Microsoft's biggest problem: they are being dragged down by all the momentum they have invested in the desktop, and are unable to attack the webtop and cloud computing on all cylinders. Ray Ozzie by himself lacks the power to overthrow the entrenched Microsoft culture. - Sean McBride

I've heard of people getting spotty performance in the Mesh beta, mobile.me sounds much more personal and we all know Apple products tend to work. - Dom

Am I the only one who thinks Mobile Me is a terrible name? Surprising for an Apple product. - Brian

Brian, it reminds me of "think different" with the added bonus of alliteration. :) apple was never one for grammar. - Frankie Warren