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Today is the 32nd anniversary of Elvis Presley's death. (16/08/1977) Rest In Peace "The King of Rock 'n' Roll" #Elvis
01 - hound dog.mp3 2 MB
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http://ff.im/6Ef9H, http://ff.im/6BgKx, http://ff.im/6EMmU
- Oguz Serdar
My favourite is Mystery Train
- Matt G
@Kaan, tamam miyiz abi? Bu 9'luya neleri ekleyebiliriz, en azindan fizy / youtube linkleri dursun postta.
- Oguz Serdar
Matt: Mystery Train - http://fizy.com/s/14g8uc
- Oguz Serdar
:-)
- Matt G
Trouble: http://fizy.com/s/17ew9h
- Oguz Serdar
Always on my mind: http://fizy.com/s/16r9gr
- Oguz Serdar
Little Darlin: http://fizy.com/s/119s0q
- Oguz Serdar
Don't cry daddy: http://fizy.com/s/17laa0
- Oguz Serdar
bunun disinda golden records albumunde yer alan ama 9 sarki arasinda olmayan eserleri de unutmayalim.onlar da enfestir: love me - http://fizy.com/s/17ew99
- Oguz Serdar
too much: http://fizy.com/s/11rat3
- Oguz Serdar
that's when your heartaches begin - http://fizy.com/s/18kcvl
- Oguz Serdar
(let me be your) teddy bear - http://fizy.com/s/151a23
- Oguz Serdar
treat me nice - http://fizy.com/s/13031u
- Oguz Serdar
anyway you want me (that's how i will be) - http://fizy.com/s/12n7f9
- Oguz Serdar
loving you - http://fizy.com/s/12n7f7
- Oguz Serdar
zaman gelmiş, esas feed de yukarı çıksın. diğer ikisi: http://ff.im/6BgKx - http://ff.im/6Ef9H "33 years without Elvis Presley. Long live the great King of Rock!"
- Oguz Serdar
iki yil sonra yeniden ziplamis. long live king! :)
- Oguz Serdar
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- koleksiyoner
More amazing chalk drawings
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Wow!!
- Kol Tregaskes
awesome! thanks for sharing
- loylum
No worries.
- Kol Tregaskes
my fav is the butterfly.
- Friendfeed's Francisco
Awesome stuff!
- Rene, Pro Button Pusher
Couldn't pick a fave, all very, very good. :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
:-)
- Kol Tregaskes
These are great!
- Marci Golub
Amazing!
- Dputamadre
It's so awesome, but it still makes me a little sad it's commercial.
- <3Heather<3
I love these sorts of creative things!
- Rick Cogley
I always wish they'd show what these things look like from something other than the exactly perfect perspective. Because to most people passing by these would look totally different.
- Brian Johns
These never get old. Thanks for sharing. :)
- Kevin Winn
His name is Julian Beever by the way: http://users.skynet.be/J...
- Ozer Wrzl (EN)
He is amazing. I first saw his work about a year ago.
- Michele Lorito-Chase
I love the perfect perspective tricks. What an eye!
- Moody (Sweet FA 4 Life)
harika bir çizim..
- Yalın Akel
Bumping some old good posts. :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
Brizzly is Funny. Obviously Wants to Be More than a Twitter Client. - http://www.newcommbiz.com/brizzly...
Internet Strategist, Jim Connolly, Laura Zickus and 2 other people liked this
You are right LG----- Brizzly : It’s nice to see a startup with personality.
- Wins Fern
...and we almost got away with it too if it weren't for those meddling kids!
- Jason Shellen
from iPhone
I like Brizzly a lot! As Judy says, it's fast like Twitterfall and Friendfeed, it has a little Power Twitter thrown in (love watching embedded videos) - being able 2 access multiple accounts (Tweet Deck/Twirl?) and it's funny! What's not to like!
- Laura Zickus
@nrek it's strange, our seasons are hard to detect unless you're a native diegan...but it def felt like fall this morning :)
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The Inland Empire has three seasons - fire season, wind season, and the other one.
- John E. Bredehoft
I always tell people that here in San Diego we have 2 seasons...bright and brighter.. :)
- Laura Zickus
My speech today from the ONA Conference (most of it anyway): http://paidcontent.org/article...
George Brickner, Laura Zickus, Larry Etchison and 18 other people liked this
Leo, that is one of the most informative tech talks I have ever heard. I can wait to see TWIT lead the way.
- Jim Adams
Awesome idea to get on the Roku box Leo. My wife will hate you more now that She has to hear you in the car and see you on tv :D
- Anthony Farrior
I didn't intend to watch the whole thing, but it was so interesting I just couldn't stop. :o)
- Ken Morley
GRAND SLAM, Leo at ONA - look forward to getting a Roku box; this from a football AND tech fanatic; one quibble - in a world where Glenn Beck prospers, I sense a bifurcation in the "meritocracy"
- heretic_twit
Great Speech, hope you get on Hulu also, I think you nailed it. I look forward to the TED speech as well
- Rick
Leo, your talk was very informative and inspiring. Thank you for sharing your knowledge and your passion.
- Rob Cairns
Really great Leo.
- Todd Hoff
Loved the speech. I really do enjoy hearing about behind the scenes stuff. Especially with something that I really love.
- Andres
Leo I enjoyed your speech from the ONA conference. It's very cool to hear about some of the stuff that happens behind the scenes. Keep up the great work that you do at the Twit Network!
- flashtrader
I think we are luck to be living in these times and working our way through this information revolution. Having someone like you, who is so articulate, informative who has had foot in both new and old media, and who is willing to take us along for the journey. Fantastic.
- John
Was very interested in your comments about the difficulties surrounding the delivery of podcasts. So true.There's that tension between the ease of pushing a button to watch TV and find nothing on vs the tech effort and skill (for a lot of people,) to get Podcasts that serve niche interests. Yesterday a guy asked me to help him with his iPhone. I nearly collapsed with shock, he's only using it for contact management and phoning people. Not even a second page of Apps.
- John
Super, but you diss your audience at 19 minutes in. Careful you don't do a Gerald Ratner http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki...
- Richi Jennings
Free Font: Folk - http://font72.com/free-fo...
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via freetypography.com ...
- ImJustCreative
Welcome Ryan!
گاما, حُسین آفلاینـ, Yunus Yalçınkaya and 508 other people liked this
Congrats Robert... best wishes to all
- Rhys Amos
Congrats. Now the fun begins!!!
- Mike Shields
Awesome!
- dstamand
Congratulations!
- Stephan Planken
Congratulations! Welcome, Ryan!
- Lance M. Brown
Awesome
- RetiredTeacherD
Yay! Congratulations!
- Jesse Stay
YAYAYAYAYAY! Congrats to you and Maryam!@#!@#!
- drew olanoff
congrats Robert and Maryam, Welcome Ryan.
- rick
Welcome to the world.
- Dave Mora
Congratulations!!!
- Mike Doeff
!!!
- sean percival
Born 11:32.
- Robert Scoble
from iPhone
Yay! Congratulations to you and your wife! Now off to buy RSS and iPhone
- Lise
Congrats!!!!!
- Mark Evans
Congratulations!
- Kenneth
I hope you're well rested, Robert ... ;-)
- Hieronymus Murphy
Congrats Robert!
- Charlie Anzman
Congratulations!
- Antoniu
Congratulations!
- Mahendra (SkepticGeek)
Congrats to you all
- JanLawrence
Congrats Robert and welcome RSS!
- Robb Brock
Congratulations! Happy Birthday Ryan! Lots of love to the whole family.
- Jodi Church
SUBSCRIBED!
- drew olanoff
Hello World!
- CannonGod
Congratulations!! Welcome to the world Ryan!! :)
- Laura Zickus
<rss> awesome! </rss>
- sean percival
welcome to the new world little one! all hail our pink squirming screaming overlord!
- bear (aka Mike Taylor)
20.5 inches long. 7 lbs. 13 oz.
- Robert Scoble
from iPhone
nice alpha version. welcome RSS !
- Kaïs Miled
congrats!! welcome rss!
- Barbara R. S.
Congratulations :)
- امیرعباس
RSS is finally here! Congrats Robert & Maryam
- Dennis Jernberg
Congrats Robert... best wishes to all
- joupy
Congratulations!
- Aaman (Clone of FF)
Blessings, and the best Robert!
- Nakeva Corothers
Cute!
- Charlie Anzman
مبارک باشه Congratulations
- آقای هامد
Congrats!!!
- Jim Williams
Grats!
- Denverken
مبارکه رفیق رابرت . خدا حفظش کنه
- جـوان ایرانی
If Dave Winer comes on here and claims to have invented RSS I will smack him.
- drew olanoff
Congratulations!
- joey
Congratulations and all the best.
- Bryce Roney
Welcome Ryan!!!
- Phil
Welcome Ryan :)
- giuseppe c. | markgreene
Awesome. Congratulations!
- John McCrea
Congratulations!
- anna sauce
Congratulations :) Welcome Ryan :)
- Mohamed Marwen Meddah
Congrats, Imagine where RSS and the web will be when he turns 30!
- James Watters
Congratulations to you both.
- Don McAllister
congrats Robert and Maryam :)))))
- CNFRMST
congrats to the family!!
- erik yuzwa
Welcome to RSS in Pubsubhub mode :)
- Ouriel Ohayon
Congrats to you all!! We had our second child, a boy, on Tuesday. Enjoy!!
- Alex Cordiner
from iPhone
Yay! Congrats to you, but mostly congrats to your wife for doing all of the hard work. ;-) xo
- Jennifer Leggio
Mazel Tov!
- Robb Vaules
Congrats Robert....wishing all the best to your family....
- Carlos
Congratulations! Wow! Seems like we were there just the other day! Looking forward to your late-night feeds and tweets and blog posts!
- Louis Gray
You rock! Congrats. Thanks for sharing. How's mum doing?
- Steve Lacey
from iPhone
Congrats Robert - It is a fine family....
- Simarprit Singh
"beautiful new baby" by Robert Scoble, photojournalist. I stepped away for coffee and bang! RSS
- Brian Hendrickson
nice!
- Josh Haley
from iPhone
Thank you so much for sharing
- Sherrie Belken
:) congrats
- Shandiz
Born on Talk like a Pirate Day, too! Yarrrr!
- Josh Haley
from iPhone
congrads ms & mr scoble, :)
- chaz2b
congrats!! ^_^
- Christine Lu
Steve: mum is sleeping but got to hold Ryan. Instant love!
- Robert Scoble
from iPhone
Welcome, Guest dear to our world / Now the world is on your own
- CNFRMST
that feels good
- Brian Hendrickson
Congratulations!
- Parth Awasthi
Congratulations. Hope Maryam iis doing well
- Rachel Clarke
Congratulations! Wish him all the best!
- philos
Welcome Baby Ryan!!! My baby Ryan (17 years!) and I are honored to welcome another superstar to our planet! Love, hugs, and lots of kisses to Baby Ryan, Mommy Maryam, Dad Robert and big brothers Milan & Patrick and of course Grandma!!! My guess on Ryan's arrival (predication) was only 23 hours off. I thought he would arrive on Friday, Sept. 18th at 11:45 pm. Love to all, Kelly & Ryan Kim
- Kelly S. Kim
Congrats, Robert and Maryam.
- Derrick
Congratulations Robert, and well done Maryam! You are truly blessed :)
- Nicola Quinn
So happy for you Robert and Maryam. Yeay...another FF baby!
- Mark Krynsky
Congratulations!
- Surachart Opun
What a moment, eh? I remember when my daughter came into this world, it was so exciting there were no words for it. Congrats on your wonderful baby boy!
- Michael J. Carrasquillo
Congratulations
- testbeta
Congratulations! Welcome to the world, Ryan. :-)
- Yvette Ferry
Congratulations Robert and Maryam! And welcome Ryan. If I was having a baby today, I'd begin a blog for him/her straight away as an online diary they could look back on when grown up.
- Technogran
he's so cute...
- Sinem Vural
Robert, Congratulations to you and Maryamie!
- Mike Fruchter
Wow, congrats to all of you!
- Paul Salzman
Congratulations to you both!
- Forrest W. Kobayashi
Great news guys! All the best!
- Chris Nixon
الهــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــی چقده ناز نازیه.اینو فارسی نوشتم مریم جان بخونن ....راستی به باباش که نرفته:)) خوشگلتره:)) پس به شما رفته
- joupy
congratulations!!
- Jeroen De Miranda
Congratulations to you and your wife Robert!
- Randy
Congrats Robert!
- Terry Jones
congratz and welcome RSS!
- Jon Winters
Congrats Maryam :-)
- Terry Jones
Felicitations and humble prayers for your new son.
- Victor Panlilio
congrats and best wishes!
- Mike Chelen
Congratulations Robert! Welcome Ryan!
- Jeff P. Henderson
Congrats!!
- Tan Kaiquan
congrats and best wishes to all. :)
- Naor Mark
I was a c-section six week preemie in an era when that was seriously life-threatening, they didn't know if I would make for the first week. It always gets me a see a c-section / preemie come howling into the world. Welcome, little guy!
- Bob Morris (polizeros)
from iPhone
Beautiful baby! Congratulations daddy man :)
- Gary
:) Congrats Robert... best wishes to your family! Get her name in twitter and ff!
- Business Blogger 【ツ】™
Congratulations to you and Maryam!
- Elwin Witzke
AmazinG!! congratulations :)
- Nakul
cutie pie baby
- Debby Bruck
Ryan, good to see you.
- Burçak Çubukçu
تولدش مبارک ^_^ Congratulations!
- Emad
Warm wishes and congratulations. Love that you posted him crying.
- Irene Koehler
Congratulation to all of you! All the best for baby ryan!!!
- Arne Krueger
Congrats to both of you :)
- zephyrlily
Congratulation....best wishes to all
- Opium
woooow like :)
- کلـیـشه
Congrats M. & R.
- Giuseppe M.
Congrats Robert and Maryam, Welcome to geekdom Ryan!
- Andrew Wardlaw
Contrats!!! I'm so excited!!
- Jannifer @wordsforliving
Congrats.That pic brings back memories of my own baby's birth only ten months ago. C-section baby boys rock!
- Georgiana Comsa
Mazel Tov to you and Maryam.
- Michael Markman
Congrats... a few more Scobles make the world a better place ;-)
- Aad 't Hart
Congrats... and Welcome Ryan. Good to have you among us.
- Sativa
Congratulations! I
- Michael Fidler
Wonderful news. Congrats.
- Keri
Congrats Robert, and the best to you, Maryam, and of course Ryan!
- Chris Charabaruk
Congratulations Congratulations !!
- Farzad
Congrats
- Sandeep Swaminathan
looking to to the same in 3 weeks
- ROBIN SMITH
Congrats on the blessed event! :D
- Joel Lovato
Congrats Robert and Maryam. Welcome Ryan !!!!!!!!!
- Nir Ben Yona
Congratulations, Robert!
- Mark Trapp
Congratulations to Robert and Maryam.
- George Hall (Australia)
Right ON! I am so happy for you. I have 4 kids of my own and they are my greatest joys. Take care and I hope all goes so smooth for him and mom.
- Robert Anderson
Daddy Scobleizer!!!!!!!!!! First things first....when will he be signed up for Twitter and FF?
- krystyl
Congrats!!!
- eric susch
welcome Ryan, it's a beautiful world
- Michele Costabile
Congrats!!
- Olivia Lovag
Congrats to the Scoble family from South Africa! Welcome to the world @RSS
- Shaun Trennery
Congrats, Robert! :-D
- Kol Tregaskes
Congratulations Robert, and welcome Ryan!
- ↂGiorgiँ Zarrelliↂ
Congratulations Robert and R.S.S.: "Hello World" Cheers!
- Louis Trapani
warmest congratulations
- Peter Holland
what a beautiful baby=)Congratulations=)
- Candan Celik
Such a miracle and a blessing - Congratulations to you and Maryam and "big" brothers!
- Marla Schulman
Congrats, Robert. Amazing pictures!
- Jordi Soler
Congratulations to all of your family! Enjoy!
- Ed Richardson
Congratulations ... enjoy!
- Hitesh Parashar
Congratulations!!!! He's beautiful! Welcome little one! I'm proud to share a birthday with you!
- Martha
Congratulations Robert and Maryam! Welcome to the world Ryan :-)
- Rasmus Lauridsen
happy birthday BABY
- ≤ M@RzI
Best congratulations!!!! :)
- CantorJF
Congrat Robert. It is wonderful what this new media could do to share your joy!
- Gianto Widianto
congrats!
- Pradhap Nirmal Natarajan
Congratulations!
- Steve Garfield
به به . قدم نو رسیده مبارک مریم جان . خیلی نازه :)
- RokhSaare
Hope the baby and mum are well. Congratz. Happy Ied Mubarak =)
- ciw
Congrats on the blessed event! Welcome to the world, Ryan
- Jazz Baker
Congratulations!
- Vicarbott
Congrats :)
- Maryam Ardakani
from FreshFeed
He was delivered by a Blue Man?
- paul mooney
Congrats Robert. It's allways a special moment. I still have my child birth in my memory!
- Rui
What a happy day! A healthy new Scoble and mom.
- Dave Winer
آخي ، بچته ؟؟؟ مبارك باشه تو روز به اين عزيزي به دنيا اومده ، بت نميخوره بچه انقدري داشته باشي شيطون
- غلام یحیی
My goodness, congratulations!
- DGentry
Congrats!
- Ivo Mortani
Congratulations!! and best wishes
- Johni Fisher
congrats!
- Il fu mass
Congratulations! I hope everyone's ok?!
- Holger Eilhard
حاجي خانومت ايرانيه جدي ؟؟؟ پس خيلي مباركه ديگه
- غلام یحیی
Congratulations, Scoble family!
- scherbi: bottom dweller
wonderfull
- Claudio - braciolanet
from BuddyFeed
Congratulations to you and your family Robert! A very handsome baby boy! Cant wait to see more pictures!
- TiffanyCarr
Congratulations, Robert.
- motownmutt
Congratulations!
- :: Kim Sherrell ::::
congrats :)
- £lham
مبارکه :)
- خیزران
Congrats!
- Roozbeh
Congrats to Robert and Maryam!
- Bec Rowe @d0tski
WooHoo! My best to the whole family. I hope Maryam is getting some rest after all that hard work!
- Robert Couture
Congrats to you and your fam, Robert :)
- LANjackal
Ryan was born when the Berlin Marathon was finishing. Perhaps he'll be a long-distance runner. Congrats.
- Carl Jacobsen
Congratulations to you and the wife, Robert! Job well done. I see he is gonna take after his Daddy! ;-0 ,hehe:-)
- Duliece
One more congrats won't hurt, right? Thanks for sharing the pics.
- Kevin Sablan
Congratulations :)
- A35G
Congrats - Exciting & now the fun begins :-)
- PXLated
Wishing you and yours the best on this wonderful day! Congratulations!
- DJ Stevie Steve
Congrats on the RSS feed update :) I hope you've pinged both rsscloud and pubsubhubbahubba !
- Ahsan Ali
Starting today. Sleep will be nothing more than a fond memory. :) Congrats.
- Richard
Congrats!
- Herb Hernandez
from iPhone
Congrats!
- {o şimdi candarma! }
Congrats Robert!!
- Taehoon Kim
Congratulations!
- Thomas Hawk
Congratulations to all!
- malackey
fantastic !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
- michele ficara
Awe!! Congrats =)
- Brodie Beta
Congratulazioni!! ^______^
- Andrea | amnesiak1978
congrats!!
- clarita
Welcome Ryan! Congratulations Robert and family!
- Tim Probst
from iPhone
Congratulations!!! God bless....
- Bob DeMarco
Congrats!
- Jason Williams
from iPhone
Congratulations Robert, Maryam and Milan! All the best to the four of you.
- Eiso Kant
Congratulations :-)
- Jalada
Congrats! Enjoy.
- Jim Peake
Congrats
- Bee
Congratulations!!
- Paolo Leonardi
Congratulations!
- John (bird whisperer)
Congratulations.
- Ashish
oooww wonderfulll :))
- Ucandepik
Well done, my son's name as well.
- Robert Kenney
Congratulations
- Caleb Scribner
Congrats
- Manuel Mas
Congrats! Best wishes to you, Ryan and all your family!
- Lenny Post
congrats ^_^
- Furkan Tunalı
Conga Rats!
- Michael R. Bernstein
Wonderful! Enjoy!
- Alan Morris
Hello!
- N.G. Gordon - RadarSync
Absolutely wonderful. Welcome to the world Ryan!
- Loren Heiny
from iPhone
Congrats :)
- Hasan Al Shehabi
Congratulations to both of you.
- Roberto Bonini
Congratulations to everyone! He looks healthy! I am sure you must all be very happy! ;)
- Altan Khendup
Congratulations! May your tribe ever increase in happiness, joy, and fulfilment.
- trey pennington
Congrats!
- Ben Parr
what would be ryan's reaction when he would read this post someday, so many folks who knew dad congratulating him!
- testbeta
Congratulations!
- Anne Bouey
hiya RSS!
- Laura Norvig
Yah!! Congratulations.
- Micah
Congratulations to the whole Scoble family!
- WoH: Minding her Steves
Congratulations to the whole family! Enjoy these most precious times.
- Marylene Delbourg-Delphis
best wishes to all
- Hamza Şamlıoğlu @TEAkolik
congrats Robert and Maryam
- Kevin Tunis
Congratulations, Robert!
- Sabri Küstür
from FreshFeed
Wonderful. Best wishes to Ryan...
- Mitchell Tsai
Congratulations to the whole family :)
- Chris Saad
Congratulations
- Samaneh
Congratulations. First picture on twitter!
- Cindy Makonin
I just came to make sure you were getting a proper congratulations
- Sherrie Belken
congrats;)
- Elham ( خاتون )
Congratulations to the Scobles!
- Carlton Prest
Congrats Robert!
- Jorge Escobar
congratulations, Robert and Maryam.
- Valeria Maltoni
congrats!
- Daniel Brusilovsky
WOW - what a miracle - congrats!
- Mark Harai
Congratulations Robert & Maryam!
- Rodrigo Jaroszewski
Congrats from Italy, Ryan!
- Federico Bolsoman
from iPhone
Congratulations Robert and sorry for delay, Best wishes
- erfan
He is crying: "I want an iPhone". Felicitations!
- William Mougayar
May he be blessed throughout his life! God bless you, Robert and Maryam!
- Melanie Reed
CONGRATS!!!!!!!!!
- Greg Ness
congrats :)
- Erdinc Ciftci
Congrats Robert & your family :)
- Sampad Swain
what a beautiful little guy! congratulations! rock on!
- B.L. Ochman
great day, congrats
- imran
Wow congratulations to both you and Maryam you must be so proud :)
- David Richardson
from Android
Wow, Congratulations, Robert and Maryam!! Ryan looks beautiful.:-)
- Cathryn Hrudicka
Congrats man. That's so awesome.
- DB - Just DB
Happy Babbie Day!
- Jack&Cleo
Congrats! I wish a long and healthy life.
- Muammer Okumuş
Robert, you newest addition is too freaking adorable. I hope you and Maryam are doing well. Congratulations! Here's to a long, prosperous future!
- Mike Nayyar
congrats to you and Maryam! And welcome, RSS!
- Joshua Allen
from fftogo
congrats!!! Welcome to Ryan
- Dario Salvelli
Congratulations to you and Maryam! E benvenuto Ryan!
- Marco Fabbri
Congrats! :)
- Emmanuel Anumonwo
Congratulations!
- mlazopoulou
Such auspicious times... Welcome, Ryan!
- Red Label
O HAI, Ryan! Congratulations to Daddy and Mommy, too!
- Ladyepiphanybug
قدم نو رسیده مبارک!congratulations
- uɐſʃɐʌ uɐſ
حوزه جان بیا در گوشش اذان بگو
- ممد
woohoo! congrats!
- Tyson
Congrats Robert! Welcome Ryan!
- Garin Kilpatrick
Awesome, Congratulations Robert and Maryam! And welcome to the world Ryan.
- Mitch Baldwin
Happy parenting! Congrats!
- Natalie
Groovy + one geek on the planet
- Yann Ropars
Congrats!!! Robert
- Steve Chou
To the proud Papa.....Congratulations!!
- Bonnie Foster
Congratulations Team Scoble. Best of good wishes to all of you.
- Morrie Johnston
Congrats Robert and family!!! Welcome Ryan :)
- buvanesh
congrats Robert!
- Joshua Guffey
Congratulations! RS
- Sean Kelly
Congrats :D
- Emre Misvaklı
Congratulations. he's so cute :)
- Armando Grati
Beautiful!
- Ryan Sholin
Congratulations
- Kreg Steppe
Congratulations!
- Gordon Saunders
Congratulations!
- Hamid Reza
Congrats Robert....How amny more before you have your baseball team :-)
- Alex Marrow
Seriously, Best whishes.............God Bless......
- Alex Marrow
Mazal Tov!
- Raanan Avidor
All the best! Fun Times!!!!
- Jim Turner
congrads now the fun starts, beautiful baby
- Debra Moore
congrads !
- ★ Soner Gönül
Congrats and Best Wishes!
- Tracy Benham
Looks like the baby's first trip to the dentist
- Steve Borgman
Welcome, Ryan! Congrats, Robert!
- Thierry R. Andriamirado
Hurry up and wait:
Tamar Weinberg, Mitchell Tsai, Mike Hussein Cohen and 32 other people liked this
They have me waiting outside while they prepare to surgically deliver Ryan Soroush Scoble. His life should start within minutes. I wonder what he will be like? What technologies will he see in his lifetime?
- Robert Scoble
from email
still with my premature congrads, and the techs will be what we cant imagine, :o
- chaz2b
sending well wishes....
- Denverken
Is this the first time you've disclosed his name? Best to mother and child. Good health to all!
- Ed Shahzade /NextInstinct
I have a feeling it's gonna be a smooth ride for Ryan tonight
- Brian Hendrickson
Ah! Wonderful times that pass so fast! Following from South Africa! Our thoughts are with you and your family!
- Andre
best wishes to mom and Ryan
- Amit Nangare
shouldn't be long now and he'll be there in your arms :-)
- Jodi Church
Three boys. Cool.
- Victor Panlilio
Was just sharing this amazing experience with my family. Best wishes to all of you from India! :)
- Mahendra (SkepticGeek)
Best wishes to you and your family.
- Henry
Best wishes...
- esaarem
Robert - best wishes - imagine the world and technologies Ryan will see in his life, likely into the 22nd century!
- Shannon Clark
Any second now...
- Robert Scoble
from iPhone
Maryam is sleeping through it.
- Robert Scoble
from iPhone
Anticipation is making you wait ...
- RetiredTeacherD
best wishes
- CNFRMST
Best wishes to you, your wife and little baby Ryan!
- Laura Zickus
Exciting - sending positive thoughts.
- Mike Doeff
How wonderful :D Best wishes
- Harrison Powers
Congratulations and Sweet wishes !
- Honey
New Yelp iPhone app is also out. There's a cool easter egg (Augmented Reality feature). Here's how to do it:
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Download the new Yelp app (came out yesterday). So you shake your iPhone 3 times. That activates a feature called Monocle. A message should come up if you activated it. A blue box will come up saying "the Monocle has been activated." It will create a button in the top right corner. Now you should be able to look at the bars, restaurants, etc. Only works on iPhone 3GS.
- Robert Scoble
waiting Robert.... :)
- Sampad Swain
You point it at businesses, or down the city block. I'll try it right now.
- Robert Scoble
Yep! Works. Took a few tries to get it to activate. Some of the places it shows me have been closed for ages though, guess I need to update Yelp for the area.
- Otto
That sounds so cool. Would love to see a video demo of it Robert!
- Alex Calic
I wonder why it's an easter egg. That sounds great.
- Daniel Ha
I just did it. Very cool. I hear this feature was added for me. I really love it!
- Robert Scoble
from iPhone
Daniel: probably to get it through the iPhone store approval process faster.
- Robert Scoble
from iPhone
Raises the question of whether they would have rejected it if they'd known about it. Or did Yelp tell the reviewers about it?
- Jan Dawson
Very, very cool! Just tried it out. There's not a lot on Yelp near by work (kind of an industrial area), but I did get it to find the nearest restaurant. So cool! :-)
- Josh Bancroft
awesome!
- Marshall Kirkpatrick
as long as Yelp allows iPhone users to rate on the fly.. previously had to sync first (not smart)
- Sam Levin
can anyone grab me a screenshot of this? i want to write about it
- Marshall Kirkpatrick
I do love beating TechCrunch with news! :-)
- Robert Scoble
from iPhone
Yes, Mr. Scoble, you beat RWW, TechCrunch, AND Mashable! Damn.
- Ben Parr
I can't get it to work... :(
- Larry Roth
We need a Yelp for Federal, State and Local government services.
- Chris Stevenson
Too bad nobody will ever see it 'cause you mentioned it here and not on your blog ;-)
- Ken Sheppardson
I just posted a photo on my friendfeed account.
- Robert Scoble
from iPhone
Installing
- Stephen Pickering
The instructions sound like World of Warcraft.
- Steve Rubel
You android lovers will see that 'Layer' reality browser does the same as Monocle
- Wayne Bentz
Yelp also just launched their Palm Pre app in the Palm app store. No augmented reality that I can find :-(
- Ken Sheppardson
Yelp doesn't seem to have much support for Canadian business according to some reviews
- Alex Knight
Marshall, I just blogged a screenshot. Will be on www.tinyscreenfuls.com as soon as Posterous gets it there.
- Josh Bancroft
Stupid 3GS. You guys think you're so cool. Easter eggs, harumph! *mumble grumble*
- Sarah Lane
Yay it works in Canada too!
- JP Holecka - Jaypiddy
Nice idea but in my case the locations seem to be about 180 degrees off - i.e. showing behind me instead of in front - but may be down to a fuzzy GPS location or something - will have to keep trying
- Jan Dawson
I wonder why it was "secret", ... undocumented API usage or just to create marketing buzz ?
- Kooleido
Kooleido: I hear it was added at last minute.
- Robert Scoble
from iPhone
Damn, nothings happening. I've shaked it :(
- Stephen Pickering
No iPhone 3G love because no compass? Phooey. :P
- Cheryl Jones
Installed It! Works Awesome! Would definitely use it on my next lunch hunt in Downtown
- Kooleido
Got it to work--just took a little more shaking...was worried I was going to put my phone through the ceiling!
- Larry Roth
Kooleido, how'd you get it to work. I've installed and shaken, but nothings happening
- Stephen Pickering
Oh--and very cool
- Larry Roth
Stephen shake in long and hard strokes.
- Robert Scoble
from iPhone
I hate that the iPhone 3G can handle all this new stuff, but Apple insists that you need the 3Gs. Qik on the jailbroken 3G has been awesome!
- Elijah Nicolas
@Elijah Nicolas The 3Gs is for the built in compass that is required for augmented reality to work.
- JP Holecka - Jaypiddy
lol if it was added for you Robert it would show the cutest girls in the area instead
- Sherry Reynolds
Didn't I hear that Apple had an embargo on AR apps til next month?
- Brian O'Connell
Very cool, thanks for the info. It appears you have to be logged into Yelp though the app before the monocle option will appear.
- Patrick Looney
just posted about it http://www.readwriteweb.com/archive... good job finding it first Robert!
- Marshall Kirkpatrick
1st sentence typo in your post Marshall ;o)
- Alex Calic
Couldn't get it to work by "shaking it" but I got it to work by moving my iPhone up and down 3 times in a vertical motion. Pretty damn cool.
- Doug Rice
Marshall, how do you get that camera view? I can't seem to get mine to work. I've shaken and shaken
- Stephen Pickering
Well, thats slightly cool.
- Sean Oliver
Stephen, you should probably just keep shaking. In publish, with lots of people around. :) No, I don't know. I don't have a 3Gs so I don't have a compass so I don't have the Yelp AR.
- Marshall Kirkpatrick
Holy crap. It really works.
- David Sharpe
Unreal... landscape and portrait works.
- Drew Lucas
Check out our Yelp AR layer inside of Layar Reality Browser ... Android. http://www.GoWeb3D.com
- Dave Elchoness
Scoble, I just published on Mashable: http://mashable.com/2009...
- Ben Parr
Doh! mashable wins with the most link-baity headline again.
- Marshall Kirkpatrick
Putting up a video on Gear Live.
- Andru Edwards
we have video too :P
- Jennifer Van Grove
@Marshall - We still love you guys, your article's great. :D; @Robert, props. Total props.
- Ben Parr
@Robert thanks it's fun http://bsu.gr/4414782
- briansugar
I made a screenshot here: http://www.flickr.com/photos... It takes a few tries to turn on the option though!
- Daynah
posted about this on Obsessable and my blog. We'll see if Techmeme grabs it and actually puts this FriendFeed thread first, or if they just ignore it until TechCrunch covers it lolz http://www.obsessable.com/news... & http://www.sampletheweb.com/2009...
- C. K. Sample III
ah Marshall got it up first on a notable blog... http://www.readwriteweb.com/archive...
- C. K. Sample III
I got it to work and man, is it sweet! So smart.
- Leslie Fishlock
Shake the darn thing 3 times :)- they say that break dancin was learnt , robbing hubcaps of a movin car in NYC.. so lets so what the new thing will be by the time th iphone has all the motion sickness activiated apps !!
- Peter Dawson
just got word of a THIRD app with AR live in iTunes store! http://www.readwriteweb.com/archive... I'd say it's official: AR apps have come to the iPhone!
- Marshall Kirkpatrick
I already had 2.0.2, but I'm downloading 3.0 now. I'm not thinking it's going to work in my office, but we'll see.
- RobinDotNet
Ok, that's really cool. It even works sitting here in my office at home.
- RobinDotNet
Downloading now. I am absolutely fascinated by the idea of augmented reality!
- Victoria Harres
This is pretty cool but the shake 3 times thing doesn't work too well
- Jason Wehmhoener
from iPhone
This is fantastic, just activated Monocle. For those having trouble, its best to move/raise and lower the iPhone 3 times vertically instead of just shaking it. I was shaking mine like a madman until I tried the vertical move.
- Bryan
[Video] Yelp iPhone Augmented Reality Application http://blip.tv/file/2524950
- Steve Garfield
very cool - I can't believe stuff actually shows up near my house on the bay - sweet :)
- Susan Beebe
Damn, guess I'll have to upgrade to the 3GS now.
- Damon Cortesi
I am using the app in Indianapolis to find a restauant. As I guessed the augmented reality is cool but not very useful. Other than to help figure out which direction to walk in.
- Robert Scoble
from iPhone
Argh. I wish I had wifi here so I could download it. A trip to Starbucks might be in order.
- ha3rvey (Hugs 50% off!)
killer in nyc
- mike "glemak" dunn
from iPhone
dang it - iPhone 3G...
- Jodi
iPhone 3G... not in the States... meh
- Johnny
It's innovative and that's awesome, but I think this type of interface will be a passing gimmick until more advanced image processing is built into the mobile device. My thoughts on what does matter about it here - http://bit.ly/12wtcY My $0.02.
- Alex Hawkinson
shake your iPhone 6 times, that activates GoogleVoice
- HansVanRock
Pretty damn cool. Thanks for the heads up
- Jim Goldstein
from iPhone
I just got this going on my friend's 3Gs. I don't even know what to say. That is freaking incredible! Makes me want a 3Gs *just* for that feature!
- Michael Lynton
Just tried this. Awesome! Too bad I'm in a po' dunk town with nothing to do. :)
- BRҰANSAҰS
Amazing, how on earth did you find it! It's still 6:00 am, perhaps I'll Yelp for breakfast
- Nalin Perera
Wow, I'll have to say this is phenomenal. Wish I'd had this on my trip to D.C. a couple weeks ago. Yelp just made an incredibly useful app even more useful. I've seen a lot of developers working on this technology lately but it looks like they beat everyone to the punch.
- Mike Elliott
screen capture of it in action http://twitpic.com/fklr4
- mike "glemak" dunn
I just got the yelp AR to work, and I am staying tonight in a hotel, so I went to my window, and held the camera to the window and it was able to show me reviews of the businesses right across the street from me! I am in love with yelp all over again!
- Colide81 (James)
Can't get it to work! Shook long and hard!
- UniqNYC aka Jeff
from iPhone
This youtube video should help you learn how to get it Islandwoo, I think its in how you shake it, I tryed several ways but after I watched this video I did it like the guy in the video and it worked. http://www.youtube.com/watch...
- Colide81 (James)
Yeah, you've got to learn to shake it just right! :-)
- Nalin Perera
Because @jowyang didn't tell me where he's going and I learned it anyway I am very tempted to tell the world to mess up his launch. :-)
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so a startup then..
- Zee.
But I won't, because he's my friend and so are the other people involved. :-)
- Robert Scoble
Hmmmm...
- Simon Young
I hear he'll announce it "within days" and it's a pretty interesting gig.
- Robert Scoble
When will we find out Robert?
- Dave "Freedom 35"
Are there cameras involved?
- Simon Young
Funny. He didn't tell me because he thought I would tell everyone. :-)
- Robert Scoble
so go ahead and tell us! : )
- Teri Gidwitz
Teri: believe me, I'm tempted, just to teach him a lesson! :-)
- Robert Scoble
What I want to know: Who will replace him at Forrester?
- Dave "Freedom 35"
BTW, I dig the new avatar, glad the green is gone ;)
- Keith - @tsudo
Will he be interviewed on Building43?
- Simon Young
Dave: not possible to replace him, sorry.
- Robert Scoble
Well, payback is always worse. They're recruiting for a replacement at Forrester. Go look at his "former" blog; HR guy posted.
- Teri Gidwitz
Same here. Green was getting a bit putrid.
- Dave "Freedom 35"
Simon: nah, it's not a building43 kind of thing.
- Robert Scoble
Big shoes indeed.
- Dave "Freedom 35"
Oh. Interesting!
- Simon Young
Robert - you post on the race for real time web is amazing - I really want to know where you see real time TV fitting into this?
- James Stewart
Don't pull an Arrington, man. Be cool.
- Daniel Fath
Nice going Robert, we all are looking forward to knowing when the time comes.
- courtney benson
Damn... I got excited for a second that I may be among the first to know what he's up to. I guess I'll wait to find out along with everyone else!
- Jodi Echakowitz
Daniel: it could be "JeremiahGate!" :-)
- Robert Scoble
I think you guys are already breaking the ground by using Kyte etc and I tune in, but as a business channel in NZ I believe we need to be out there every day interviewing amazing people, streaming it live, enabling real time chats via FF and the Ustream intergration with facebook - I see facebook as the new TV platform that most people spend their time hanging out on and if they see an...
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- James Stewart
FF is pretty cool for these kinds of flash news teasers. :)
- Dave "Freedom 35"
James: real time TV: http://friendfeed.com/search... Heheh.
- Robert Scoble
haha oops - didn't know about that!
- James Stewart
James: FriendFeed's real time search engine has a lot of cool features that never were explored. I really hope that's what they are going to do for Facebook.
- Robert Scoble
thx Robert ....thats super cool
- Johni Fisher
The problem is that most people that use the internet are still just getting on facebook, I am 25 and I only have a handful of people friends my age that twitter as they don't have a community on there they can identify with - I like what you said about Facebook Public - that is definitely where I see them going with some serious live streaming intergration. Facebook will win because...
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- James Stewart
Robert: True man, since I saw this partnership happen my head has been whizzing with ideas for the implications of it. >> Most of the people in my age group watch videos that have been shared on facebook by their friends and favourite groups. Definitely some new stuff with video on it's way - keep us posted! Thanks for the replies :)
- James Stewart
Amazon?
- Jesse Stay
Jesse: no and not Facebook either. :-)
- Robert Scoble
Either your going to be a big tease or a tattle tale either of which will get you beaten up on the playground, so stop it (:
- Kim Landwehr
from BuddyFeed
DBAD
- Josh Haley
Kim: heheh.
- Robert Scoble
Robert. You're a friend, but you've a habit of breaking news --sometimes when folks aren't ready. It's not personal, but I just know your traits. I'm going to brief you in detail on Wed. We can do a video if you'd like --I'll come to you. Hugs?
- Jeremiah Owyang
awww... ;-)
- Chris Heath
Robert - hug Jeremiah, do the video - but insist he brings that little dog with him. IT is cute :)
- Rob La Gesse
Will Robert put away his (fake) wounded pride and interview Jeremiah on Wednesday? Oh yes, he will - and now we have a deadline. Good work Robert!
- Kami Huyse
bring @goodboyrumba along for the video! :)
- Rachel Luxemburg
"Be excellent to each other."
- Steve Rubel
Jeremiah: :-)
- Robert Scoble
from iPhone
OK, can we flashmob to celebrate Jeremiah's new gig right after the interview?
- Elliott Ng
Jeremiah: here is the deal. I am not under embargo but already know the news. So I think I will call Arrington because you didn't embargo me. Oh, and I +do+ keep embargoes. I am even keeping a secret about two things you will learn in the morning.
- Robert Scoble
from iPhone
I still struggle with my 7 year old son to not steal his siblings' thunder in matters important to them. It's not easy for him.
- Josh Haley
I know those two things, Robert.
- Louis Gray
I know a lot of things, not even just two, but maybe not the two you are thinking of
- Jesse Stay
Kami, I saw Robert yesterday, and I asked him if I'd hurt his feelings, he said "yes". Robert and I go back, there was a time (ustream launch) where we well, didn't coordinate on news. He's truly a friend, and someone I respect as a media trailblazer --but I need to get everything coordinated. To be clear, he was on the list of folks I'd brief in detail --others just got cursory info.
- Jeremiah Owyang
Here's a long discussion on where Jeremiah Owyang will be going next. Interesting discussion developing on embargoes and 'bloggers'
- Drew B
Lets figure out where he is going. Who is in most need of Jeremiahs incredible intelligence on social media?
- Nisse
Drew, is it interesting that Robert is threatening me that I didn't tell him? Should bloggers assert themselves to get news? (it's a bit fun watching him get antsy)
- Jeremiah Owyang
Is he going to disneyland?
- Cliff Gerrish
Jeremiah: my feelings were hurt because you told pretty much everyone else in the industry other than me. Here's a hint: they can't keep their mouths shut either. But I will. You will know tomorrow that I actually do know the news. But the other deal is that you're wrong. I've kept hundreds of embargoes over the past year and haven't leaked them to anyone. If you weren't a friend and...
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- Robert Scoble
So they want the publicity you can bring but want to control the timing and message. I would be inclined to not agree as well. Sounds like you are being used.
- Brian Sullivan
I hear news all the time about people who aren't necessarily friends but would generally want the news quiet - does this mean I should start leaking those details? I'm not sure the right answer to that. The problem though is often the way I hear about that information is through other friends who were trusted to keep the info private. Is it worth betraying the trust of those friends as well?
- Jesse Stay
The problem comes maybe when you are "friends" with everybody but also are trying to be a legitimate reporter at the same time. We criticize television and newspaper reporters for this all the time but tech reportage seems to get a pass.
- Brian Sullivan
Jesse, yeah your situations seem tough because if you leak, you're a jackass because someone else can't keep their mouth shut.
- Chris Heath
Brian: everyone uses me, I'm used to it, it's part of the role I play in life. :-)
- Robert Scoble
Robert, I was planning on telling you before the announcement --and the offer still stands. I'm sorry I hurt your feelings, that wasn't my intent.
- Jeremiah Owyang
What's the point here??
- Andru Edwards
nothing really andru, I say we just move along and let Robert and I handle this offline. Clearly, we need to work this out.
- Jeremiah Owyang
Talking to Scoble now, I apologized. I take back what I said above, he's not broken any embargos in a while and I take that charge back. I also briefed him, as a friend, and more. Sorry Robert, I crossed the line.
- Jeremiah Owyang
Ari - that's my guess too.
- Hutch Carpenter
Now watch Scoble jump to Streamy right now to tell what Jeremiah is doing next. Ha!
- Bryan R. Adams
This is funny! "JeremiahGate" got love it :)
- Susan Beebe
Scoble is very good at keeping secrets and creating Buzz! :)
- Susan Beebe
Thanks Jeremiah! Excited for you.
- Robert Scoble
from iPhone
I want a "Gate" named after me :-)
- Jesse Stay
Robert, excellent start at creating the "buzz" for @jowyang 's launch LOL
- j damon brown
Link Baiting 101: Start a fight with Scoble.
- Jason Calacanis
Once again, calacanis ftw
- Chris Heath
from iPhone
Dude, why would you do that? I knew where you were going both times, and I kept it to myself. I coulda broken it, but why violate trust.
- Jeremy Pepper
Jeremy: who you talking to? No one has violated any trust. We're all cool now anyway.
- Robert Scoble
Jeremy: and when I left Microsoft someone DID violate my trust and leaked it within hours. So what? It all works out. Coordination is overrated.
- Robert Scoble
LOL Jason. But Robert is right, co-ordination can be overrated.
- Ian Betteridge
Group hug.
- Jeremiah Owyang
Jeremiah - your recognition and classifications/categorizations of trends and strategies is truly unique. Thank you for all you've done at Forrester. Whatever your new role is, I hope you'll continue to share your thoughts.
- A Mitchell
Great reasons why we should always carry a camera - http://www.zee.me/blog...
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roflol! I had to cock my head to the side to "get it" ;) Very cute!
- Melanie Reed
Just announced that @stevegillmor 's "Gang" will be aired at http://www.building43.com/realtim... Thursdays at 1 pm via http://friendfeed.com/realtim...
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recordings?
- Panayotis Vryonis
meh
- Mattb4rd
It looks like with this announcement, Michael Arrington is now back on FriendFeed: http://friendfeed.com/michael...
- Jesse Stay
During the workday?
- Jeff Harbert
Robert, could you please explain the hard- and software-setup using for the live-stream?
- HansVanRock
Hans: We haven't announced the hardware and software we are using to stream the Gang yet, but for starters it's powered by NewTek Tricaster.
- Steve Gillmor
Looking forward to this, and would like to hear about the tech too
- Kevin Marks
from Android
I'll be asleep on the other side of the world. Let us know when you get the RSS feed up, Steve :)
- Edward Coffey
Plans on a downloadable file? I don't think the boss would appreciate me walking around the store with headphones on. :-)
- Larry Walker
Clicking the embedded viewer works at any hour in any part of the planet.
- Steve Gillmor
Very cool. Thanks Steve.
- Larry Walker
Let us know when the bootleg mp3 download gets posted on Friendfeed
- Christian Burns
from iPhone
RSS please unfollow.
- Christian Burns
from iPhone
Cool, so I just need to write a script to click that link and record the stream so the file is waiting for me when I sync my MP3 player. Modern technology makes it so much easier than when we had to use clunky old VCRs to record things!
- Edward Coffey
you'll be able to download the MP4 as soon as Google fixes a bug they're working on.
- Steve Gillmor
Excellent, thanks Steve. (which bug?)
- Edward Coffey
Bad Hair Day uses RSS. http://badhair.us/rss.xml
- Dave Winer
. @edwardc I am sure the mp3 will be available on the gilmor gang bootleg feed
- Christian Burns
from iPhone
if everyone insists on bootlegging, then won't worry about Google fixing the bug
- Steve Gillmor
no bootlegger me....just need something that will play on my iphone after the fact. :)
- Karoli
No bootlegging here either, just need something to show up in iTunes (automatically) with the rest of the podcasts.
- PXLated
sounds like you will have at least a few options. I'm not planning to release audio only, so you'll need to either get a blindfold or go bottleg
- Steve Gillmor
well, we'll give it a try, see how it rolls.
- Karoli
Will there be official 'Gillmor Gang' blindfolds available in the Building 43 gift shop?
- Cliff Gerrish
No audio only - Booo!
- PXLated
Wait - logo'ed blindfolds at $15/pop is intriguing to m :)
- Rob La Gesse
Building 43 GG blindfolds $30
- Steve Gillmor
oh I see Cliff already got there
- Steve Gillmor
I'll take 2. it's a bargain these days. :)
- Karoli
It's not quite RSS, but it feels the same...
- Cliff Gerrish
Option earplug accessories for just 19.95 (plus separate shipping and handling)
- Rob La Gesse
John Lennon wore our Firesign Theatre Not Insane button.
- Steve Gillmor
Bravos, good to have the show back after your holiday. @stevegillmor are you inviting Leo to play along?
- Dave Martin
Curious Steve - Why no audio only? - Seems simple enough to do.
- PXLated
Close your eyes - even easier :)
- Rob La Gesse
If its video that is released, its video I will take!
- Phillip Molly Malone
Can I get a pair of "driver"-style GG blindfolds, please?
- Robert J Taylor
from iPhone
Attention wise, video is much more expensive than audio. I don't have the money to devote an hour of my eyes and ears to the gill or gang at this time.
- Christian Burns
from iPhone
Christian, I think what they're saying is that you can put the MP4 on your playback device and listen to it and ignore the video component. I know that works on iPods and iPhones.
- Dave Winer
Dave, you are as unproductive as you've ever been. What I've said is that RSS is in the process of being disrupted by micromessaging, and no amount of name calling is going to change that. Your attempts to reinvent RSS will not get traction if you continue to slime the messenger. And having this discussion here underlines how partisan your attacks are.
- Steve Gillmor
The message above is out of context because Dave Winer deleted the message to which I am responding. I thought about saving his message and reprinting it below where only the owner of this thread could remove it, but figured it wasn't worth it. This is also why I never respond to anything in a thread Dave owns unless I don't care if it gets erased or the context removed.
- Steve Gillmor
Where's the Winer Watcher when you need it?
- Matthew Gifford
mmm, popcorn!
- Laura Norvig
The iPhone has a bug that will not allow you to download over the air for consuming later mp3s or mp4s unless they are an enclosure to an RSS feed.
- Christian Burns
from iPhone
once Google fixes their bug (Wednesday) you should be able to download via RSS.
- Steve Gillmor
Steve, the msg you're referring to was here just a few seconds, I realized it'd provoke the kind of response it has, and decided I didn't want to go there. Re being unproductive, I've had a cold this week and have been unable to do dev work, but I'm feeling better and expect to releas some new software this week. Don't expect TC to cover it, as usual. Finally Steve as you know the <cloud> element has been in RSS for eight years, hardly a retrofit.
- Dave Winer
So did google fix their bug yesterday? Any idea what the Gillmor Gang RSS feed is?
- Christian Burns
from iPhone
Real-time contest. Who is doing the geekiest thing right now? Answer on FriendFeed here:
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Following FF live feed :-)
- Bo Stern
I'm unboxing and reboxing an Atari 2600
- Brian Daniel Eisenberg
Converting some values on my HP-16C.
- Tinfoil 2.0
Setting up signatures in Thunderbird.
- John Fox
Trying to make a Google Latitude mashup - first attempt
- Pon
Watching old Dr Who on streaming Netflix.
- Michael Groner
Installing Windows 7 RTM in a virtual machine on my MacBook running Snow Leopard.
- BeauGiles
watching a twit-vid of @amandapalmer singing 'creep' with a ukelele on one screen whilst reading blogs in the other
- Rob Clark
running diff's on about 1.5 million rows of data and piping to another perl script for scrubbing
- Erik Boles
Reading @techcrunch post on iPhone Apps and downloading them. :)
- emon hassan
I am not geeky enough.
- Robert Scoble
from iPhone
watching old filmation cartoons on hulu. (more nerd than geek though)
- Jason Phillips
I'm working on my own development project management tool in Emacs, doing some documentation and cleaning up Emacs Lisp Code. http://github.com/Nafai77...
- Travis B. Hartwell
Erik wins so far!
- Robert Scoble
from iPhone
Sharing a mash-up of Rick Astley ("never gonna give you up") and Nine Inch Nails ("The hand that feeds") with all my friends! http://www.youtube.com/watch...
- Alex Linebrink
Reading a Klingon blog - http://bologh.blogspot.com/
- Derrich
Q: How many of you are here on the East Coast? I'm in NY.
- emon hassan
Remoting into a computer that's less than ten feet away, because i can!
- Joshua Odneal
Watching old WWF Royal Rumble 1991 and playing club bing for prizes.
- David R
Derrich wins hands down
- Jodi Church
ironing work shirts - getting ready for work tomorrow *sigh* (ultra geeky ey!!)
- Mr K
Streaming old SNES Batman games, playing TF2, and listening to Twit.tv
- Carlton Prest
David R - Royal Rumble RAWKS!!!
- Erik Boles
Watching how the Earth was formed and reading Louis Gray's blog post about FriendFeed. Why am I not getting drunk at a strip bar?
- Stephen Pickering
Indexing mysql databases
- Mike
I thought my answer was good, but Derrich kills it.
- Michael Groner
watching buffy & angel, lmao
- Brendon Wadey
Stephen: then you could be 'On FriendFeed at a strip bar'!
- BeauGiles
Setting up my roommate's new Airport Express so he can use Airtunes, and potentially hack it to play Spotify over it as well.
- Daniel Zarick
I'm trying to get someone to shoot me a Google Voice invite, just because the geek in me wants to try it.
- Scott Voss
Dang, has Emacs and Lisp hacking lost its geek cred? :(
- Travis B. Hartwell
Agreed. Derrich is a uber geek.
- Fred
And with the iphone still geeking out!
- Stephen Pickering
Google Voice no longer uses invites, just from google directly
- David R
I am watching Fox News Channel. <--- WIN.
- Rob Sterling
@Travis Lisp never loses geek cred. As far as Emacs goes, I'm a vi guy. :)
- Michael Groner
TRAVIS -- not at all, I just like VIM over emacs, much more flexibility, but you be a geek my man, for shizzy
- Erik Boles
:)
- Travis B. Hartwell
getting hands on writing the Windows Sidebar gadget...
- esaarem
Learning and trying Slinkset ,listening to cafe del mar 5 :-)
- Johni Fisher
Editing pics on my iPhone and posting them to social sites.…plus checking FF
- Herb Hernandez
from iPhone
writing an iPhone app and listing to leo laporte
- Jeremy Lane
Discussing reference audio and A/V surround-sound set-ups with your brother.
- Akiva
Scoble: Whats the prize for this contest?
- David R
David, you get punched in the throat with a deflated football.
- Akiva
watching systm on how to build a combat robot
- Sean Montgomery
@David R: FriendFeed fridge magnet,
- Derrich
I'm watching Youtube videos on how to emulate Mac OS 9 on an Intel Mac, full screen so I can run old apps for old time's sake, while listening to Chris Pirillo talk about being a geek.
- Justin Lowery
ill take that magnet
- David R
watching Big Brother feeds. Jordan won HOH. Natalie still a nutjob.
- geoff hines
rebooting PC after BSD
- Phani Raj Kuchibhotla
Making a map of a fictional city (in a fictional country) while listening to JoCo
- imperator3733
Installin Expression Bleand while listening to TWIT
- Rohit Harshvardhan
@SEAN M. - Watch the one on kegbot, pure awesomeness.
- Erik Boles
Playing Wow!
- Bill Skoros
installin uber twitter beta 4 on my BB 8900 from Mexico City! cheers
- Carlos
changing my friendfeed theme to custom
- thegeniusfiles
@Justin check out 'Classic on Intel (COI)' - have had luck with it in the past when trying to play SimTower!
- BeauGiles
EB: that's in the queue to be watched next...gotta start on step one of robot building
- Sean Montgomery
researching why the USS Voyager's warp nacelles fold up
- Justin Ruckman
first iteration done, more scrubbing to do, so more perl to write, maybe some awk, peace kids.
- Erik Boles
@BeauGiles I was looking into SheepSaver. I'll have to take a look at COI also…
- Justin Lowery
You're all *nuts* - it's Saturday night, and you (me too) are in front of the computer. <sigh> I'm reminded of my horrible high school art teacher who said artists never have "week-ends." Bastard. Damn fool was right. Substitute "geek" for "artist" and Bob's your uncle - or auntie, depending on how she swings.
- Yule Heibel
watching the syfy channel (alien agent), while surfing the internet and playing the enchanted ds game - half a level to go and i've beaten the game!
- ann glenn
Writing a fiction futuristic piece for my final in Tech in Society class. Cyborgs and robotic secretariats. My favorite line so far is when my main character tells his house bot to go screw a toaster.
- Kenny Rayl
@BeauGiles Oh duh, same thing. Looks like I just finished downloading it.
- Justin Lowery
This weekend geek: robot building...next weekend non geek: Vegas baby....
- Sean Montgomery
and i'm watching the very end of the Seahawks/Chargers pre-season game.
- geoff hines
David: prize? My undying respect!
- Robert Scoble
from iPhone
Here you go, David R - http://bit.ly/a7eGF
- Derrich
Reconfiguring MythTV on my HTPC.
- Edward Coffey
Reading FF instead of going to bed. Probably should be writing copy of some sort, but this is the time of night where I'll start to babble if I get sleepy.
- Auntie Buttinsky Botts
Installing apps for the new 3Gs
- Denverken
Keeping up with this thread
- Reyna Carlos
Babbling in writing is just pathetic.
- Auntie Buttinsky Botts
Checking Tweets while at GenCon - can'tget much geekier than that...
- Dean Browell
Go Denverken!
- Auntie Buttinsky Botts
I am watching Conan O'Brien on TiVo and Reading Scoble's FriendFeed.
- Louis Gray
Reyna Carlos wins
- Jeremy Lane
@Yule H. Having a lazy sunday afternoon over here in Australia - almost 3pm :)
- BeauGiles
Trying to get inspired to design a web site for a client so I can get my geek on. Instead, sitting here reading Robert Scoble's FriendFeed! Much more entertaining... :)
- Laura Zickus
digging deep into xml/css for start-up site... working on new web software that is like a next-generation friendfeed... grabbit.net
- Fred Davis
Building out the infrastructure to setup 500 live web cams across the US to let people like me and you report crimes on the street in real time! (2-5 second delay). Someone starts a fight, cops are called within 10 seconds. 500 cameras are going up by December. 10,000 more in 2010. Yes. it's effing hard!
- Adam Jackson
Using new de-soldering station to repair a bad MB to use in another dedicated system for climate prediction or seti@home...or some other grid computing project.
- Jimmy
On the loosers side: having a drink of JW Gold and reading this at an strippers bar while I wait for the next performance!
- Marco ILLESCAS
from iPhone
...actually, grabbit is really much more than just a next-generation friendfeed... but since that's one of the closest things so far, the comparisons are inevitable... even if they don't do grabbit justice ;-)
- Fred Davis
Did a brand new install of a family tree / genealogy web app, then imported the GEDCOM file from the previous install (which was an older version of the same app: http://www.phpgedview.net/ ). #ShinyNewVersion
- Micah
Tweeting back to @IvankaTrump about her Thunder Cats movie request [http://twitter.com/mjcarra...]
- Michael J. Carrasquillo
Watching Season 4.5 of BSG
- lisa padilla
...usually I'm the geek of the week every week, so I hope someone is doing something nerdier than tweaking CSS style sheets! Especially on a saturday night! Sheesh! Good thing my GF (@lisapadilla) is a geeky girl, so she understands... in fact, she's nerding out on some grabbit stuff, too, right now ;-)
- Fred Davis
My God, Doc Searls was right, we're all living in Scoble's butt!
- Stephen Pickering
hehe, thx Mary Baum!, really love it so far
- Denverken
Was smoking a cigar, tweeting from iPod touch and thinking about buddha. Does that count? Or should I have also been coding in PHP & reading slashdot?
- Jerry Garcia
yes, Robert's friends all need to get a life! Ha!
- Fred Davis
Watching Android get ported onto an MID
- Netbooknews
watching a bad movie with about 15 other people on IRC.. movie is "Frankenstein Island"
- monkeystick
Lodging DMCA takedown against a scraper.
- Sheila Scarborough
I guess biting the head off of a chicken doesn't count for geeky any longer? Early last century it would have been a huge draw in Kansas.
- Jerry Garcia
I made a red necktie for my Brain (Pinky and the Brain) action figure. Now he's not only not naked, but looks even smarter.
- Fred Jones
Going thru 104 comments on this thread.
- Winston Teo
Shape Collaging FF followees http://friendfeed.com/glongma...
- Capn' One Eye - adrift
Playing with TwitPaint and editing a video
- Outsanity
I was wondering why my Android phone couldn't find Jupiter on Skymap, when I knew exactly where it was
- Kevin Marks
reading scoble FF
- Ruchit Garg
hmm, watching two long running procs on vm's, running a couple rsyncs to a new terabyte server, monitoring FF/IRC/IM, farming on WoW, preparing two servers with NGINX and i'm always keeping an eye on munin/monit/screen sessions -- but that's not geeky really, just a normal weekend
- bear (aka Mike Taylor)
Checking frienfeed at a wedding while everone else is dancing
- Jim Goldstein
from iPhone
Sean: thanks, I just wanted to see if something were happening on Twitter that wasn't here.
- Robert Scoble
from iPhone
I'm writing blog posts in gmail and saving them under the label "Posterous Drafts". And something something circuit board something thermal something capacitor.
- Brett Kelly
zeroing the hard drive of an old G4 that's going to be recycled.
- David Newman
Writing a paper about Artificial Intelligence in Expert systems :D
- Yahya
playing with django framework
- vinod
playing with Facebook FBML and pages (and hating it)
- Keith - @tsudo
Just chilling with an ice cold Bud and listening to a live Jimmy Buffett concert online. And smiling reading all the posts.
- lily taylor
Sitting at the keyboard in my jammies and reading FF.
- Technogran
reading FF & shooting my duck hunt background (just 'cause); listening to music on blip.fm; picking out fall fashion (posting to delicio.us/polyvore/blogspot...) & texting my son. Not sure what I would do w/out connection =)
- Charl Lee
Listening to Bob Seger, Janis Joplin and The Who on vinyl. Guess that would be contra geek?
- John Nissim
checking out laptops on pc mag. #
- Friendfeed's Francisco
trying to set-up Streamy (the "new Friendfeed')
- Bill Powell
Reading friendfeed on one monitor with 50 tabs open and watching the Second Life Citizen's Convention live music stream in Second Life on the other monitor.
- Sue - Friendfeed is best
LOl @Stephen P.
- Friendfeed's Francisco
to the wedding geek: sounds like sth. I'd be doing. lol
- Friendfeed's Francisco
@Franc. I'm still reading this thread... Uber geek LOL
- Jim Goldstein
from iPhone
Playing with Google Wave
- Ahsan Ali
Upgrading my desktop computer to Windows 7
- RobinDotNet
Setting up a Linux server and giving it a static IP address, manually assigned DNS server settings, restarting the networking stack, and pinging the router on my local network all via the command line in the Terminal. Also doing a traceroute from this Linux server inside a virtual machine on my MacBook Pro to my website at www.thebrentcameron.com to see how many hops it takes and the time it takes for each of those hops. So do I win or what?
- Brent Cameron
My idea of optimizing Firefox is by uninstalling it.
- Alex Knight
running macros on my G15 to bulk process 500 kids soccer pictures, while browsing friendfeed, listening to techno on headphones while my son watches star wars episode IV
- Robert Higgins
Making my 4th LEGO city model of the day while watching 2 screens of FriendFeed (main feed + this thread). My wife is on Facebook on our hackint0shed netwbook while my 3 year old daughter plays games on the iPhone
- Johnny
Just got my new iPhone 3GS. Recorded video and uploaded to youtube http://youtube.com/bryansays then used qik app to upload video as well http://qik.com/bryansays then took a pic and uploaded to my blog via posterous. :)
- BRҰANSAҰS
from iPhone
Watching Conan the Barbarian, quoting far too much of it, analyzing too much of it altogether (like did they get all of the out of work Star Trek (original show) musicians together to do the score? It's way too similar.)
- Lucretia Pruitt
Coding an iPhone application which connects to Facebook, Twitter, FriendFeed, and fetches RSS feeds off the web :)
- Fahim
Taking some downtime from the SLCC as an opportunity to work on writing for my blog.
- Tim Maly
Figuring out if I can get android running on a dell axim.
- Jim Connolly
Scampering between sites/browser-tabs like a headless chicken is hardly geeky but that's what I've been doing this Sunday morning. Google Reader, Friendfeed, Facebook, Twitter, Social Median, Lazy Feed, et. al.
- Mahendra (SkepticGeek)
Setting my Ruby on Rails environment up on my new Windows Laptop. I know it's the easiest platform to do it on, with InstantRails, but might install it on Linux, just for the crack :) And checking out the Mosso plans.
- Steve Farnworth
running a twitter experiment #chromeexperiment to see if I could actually replace firefox with chrome.
- Rohit
Writing a custom extension module for vTiger CRM which combines data from two other modules and working on my custom Layout Management & Authentication Libraries for the CodeIgniter MVC framework which I intend to release as open source when complete.
- Usman Bashir
Umm, searching for iPhone formatted porn. Does that count as geeky?
- Keith Bennett
from BuddyFeed
Making a few more custom buttons for firefox.
- April
Answering stupid real-time contests on friendfeed.
- Ben Pashkoff
from twhirl
fighting the headache with some reader and friendfeed...and maybe twitter...maybe not
- Dobromir Hadzhiev
Drinking my morning coffee.....
- Roberto Bonini
it's unlikely to be me - checking friendfeed while things compile (contributing to a linux distro this week), reading up on vtiger (coincidence? someone is vtigering above), and wondering what's for lunch
- Iphigenie
Reading Robert's friendfeed updates IS the geekiest thing one can do ^^
- Paul Papadimitriou
from iPhone
And Coffee is the spring of all good ideas :) So it IS geeky :)
- Roberto Bonini
I'm out on this one. Relaxing 'computer off' Sunday planned with my wife :)
- Charlie Anzman
When this was posted? Sleeping. Hows that for geeky?
- DGentry
Joelle: It has to be coincidence what else can it be. :)
- Usman Bashir
Trying to use lynx to browse the web, most sites fail
- Aaman (Clone of FF)
reading all the comments above;p
- ciw
Editing videos from my holiday - not geeky enough - and 8 hours late for this post!
- Martin Bryant
We'll, when this was posted I was cutting some zzzs. Now I'm coding the privacy component for BuddyPress--a nice relaxing activity for a Sunday morning. Hum?
- Jeff Sayre
Compressing and archiving a load of files on JungleDisk, trying to convert a Drupal module intended for use with the Twitter OAuth API to work with FriendFeed, and drafting the OpenStream specification...
- Tyson Key
Geeky/cultural - going through my favorite Woodstock performances on blip.fm.
- JCunwired
....multi-tasking between sourcing UI icons for a new app, scanning FF live feed, coding PHP, browsing Seesmic and now commenting on a thread where i appear not to be geekiest person here on a Sunday. Oh, and now i have too many tabs open in firefox, so i'm using Safari as a fill-in.
- Matthew Ogston
Browsing Google Reader, Friendfeed best of day, Twitter, Facebook, Digg, Social Median, Twine while copying a video off my Flip & uploading to Viddler... and on my iPhone: getting the Kindle & audible format of a @TedDekker book (Showdown) to take along on my kayaking trip down the Juniata river this afternoon. In the background, Mythbusters is busy figuring out how the Hindenburg blew up.
- Courtney Engle
ohhhh.. i forgot: downloading my entire list of domains for backup before moving servers. Add FTP to the list. and drinking freshly ground coffee in my french press travel mug. The coffee was purchased from a Guatemalan farmer my sister met while there.
- Courtney Engle
A couple of people have mentioned coffee. I just had my tea (I'm not from England). I think that may be even more geeky than drinking coffee!
- Jeff Sayre
Playing Super Mario Bros. on NES.
- Ashish
I'm singing a song about robots with my one year old daughter ... "Robot parade... Robot parade .... Robots obey what the children say!"
- Trent Hamm
from iPod
Selecting photos + editing videos from the U2 360° Tour - I went to see last nite! Every geek will love the high-tech specs of the tour: http://www.flickr.com/photos... - stunning visuals!
- Frank Da Silva
Reading FriendFeed to see what geeky things everyone is doing
- Cathleen Rittereiser
Backing my computer up to my home network, while using regedit and preparing to install Win7. Oh +Twitter and FriendFeed are running in the background :P
- Aram Zucker-Scharff
from twhirl
I'm backing up The Internet. And storing it in the cloud.
- Micah
Micah +1!. Better than me - sister in law just dropped of HP laptop with Vista and said "it's slower now." so I get to play with the cleaning of spyware and the uninstalling of a billion little apps that HP feels are so necessary that they should be part of startup just to ensure that it takes a full 5-10 minutes before you can use the machine. But I'm not bitter.
- Michael Pardee
I'm commenting on this post. Can life get more "geeky?"
- Jimmy Walker
Configuring a Sonicwall router.
- Norm McKenzie
Writing code in Scala.
- Joey Gibson
I'm crocheting but I don't think that counts. I'm ripping out am old unfinished to use the yarn in a new project. Next up: a slouchy beret using DPNs then circular knitting needles.
- Zulema ⋅ spicy cocoa tart
from iPhone
I am redesigning some code for my intelligent search engine which I have been working on for over 12 years now! http://www.cleversearchengine.com
- Benjy Felsham
reading friendfeed and catching up on my rss feed on google reader.
- Fuad Arshad
OK - and now - in English! WOW - I only "get" about a third of the comments! feeling very ungeeky!
- Robyn Hawk
I am wasting my time by writing comments on FF .. it's slightly after midnight in Central Europe now. Shower and bed next!
- Jan Horna
Ditched my wife at the airport to get free wifi. I'm flying virgin she's flying southwest. You snooze you lose LOL
- Jim Goldstein
Trying to decide about paying for Tweet Spinner . . .
- MikeEllsworth
Writing custom PHP code that will pull data from a MySQL database to present a technical class schedule in WordPress.
- Michael Carnell
playing Ikariam and WoW while on FF and watching Nature
- <3Heather<3
Converting/Creating Direct Response Television Ads to Direct Response Web Video and distribution http://www.directresponsetelev... closing deals before the site is even populated.
- Jim Peake
I think Robert should announce the winners of the contest now:)
- Aaman (Clone of FF)
Is there anything geekier than organizing a tech conference? Yes, organizing a science+tech conference: http://scienceblogs.com/clock...
- Bora Zivkovic
following Scobleizer is pretty geeky
- Shari Weiss
working on new version of picollator.com
- IV
Installing IE8.
- Rob Schieber
Reading on FF instead of working...
- DAL
compiling Erlang
- Brian Hendrickson
Define "real-time."
- Ⓒⓗⓡⓘⓢ Ⓟⓘⓡⓘⓛⓛⓞ
_as if_ you can beat me :-)
- Brian Hendrickson
Hey Chris - How are your Twitter ads going? Would be interested in the feedback you are getting.
- Jim Connolly
OSgrid
- paniaguai
FeedFace?!!?!! NOOOOOOO!!!!!! (Edit: Thanks Brian)
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I wanna laugh but can't!
- vijay
come on... really?
- Andrew Smith
Feedface more likely
- Brian Sullivan
lol Feedface!
- Fee501st
Well.... FriendFeed is going to start to suck very soon >:O
- Adam Landreneau
it's facefeed
- ben bloch
:D
- zsafwan
Updated. :)
- Bwana ☠
:(
- Josh Haley
damn that pic really describes what i feel lol
- Edgar Rodríguez
Could be a good thing, just hope they don't change much.
- David Bain
I just clicked 'like' but I can definitively say that I truly 'unlike' this development.
- berchman
"Damn you Salazar!" - not sure why that quote popped into my head with this pic.
- Rob Diana
The first social site where I really feel comfortable... *sniffles*
- Yolanda
I think this is a good thing for both FriendFeed and Facebook, and bad for Twitter.
- Kirkland Reynolds
@berchman I like the "NOOOOOOOOO!!!!" ;)
- taline
Seriously, my jaw is still open
- Bwana ☠
s'cuse me, i gotta go vomit again.
- Joe The Sausage
still sitting here stun and confused
- Kim Landwehr
I bet the API will be taken down as well.
- David Bain
Already named by Bwana. LOL
- Michael Fidler
the worlds cats association stages a strike over this buyout... am sooo joining it!!
- Gtp19
My reaction.exactly!
- Krishnamoorthy
That is me right now.
- Lurking Grue
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOH it's a bit hard to laugh :-(
- Dobromir Hadzhiev
That's why I pulled out the cat Dobromir. We need to laugh around this :)
- Bwana ☠
OMG i just read this and am freaking out... . *gasp*
- Susan Beebe
XD I mean >___<
- Neya
ADS! here they come ! waaaaaa
- Friendfeed's Francisco
First I was like :o then I was like :/ then I was like :(
- Jemm
Oprah, Aston and Demi! I can't wait! NOT! Bwana: You'd have got a like from me if not for the cat pic.
- Dale
Doubtful it will be good...
- Rick Cogley
Funny cat picture, tho.
- Rick Cogley
Hez took the wordz outta my mouth
- The Real sofarsoShawn
Thanks to Ron Schott for this amazing Gigapan panorama of my view at the TWiT studio: http://www.gigapan.org/viewGig...
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What a mess :) jk
- Joe
Leo, what kind of light booms are you using? Nice setup!
- Ben Slutzky
Hey Leo, whats the model of clock that you always have behind you on the stream. That thing is great!
- Randy Shapiro
Ben Slutzky and Randy Shapiro I'm pretty sure the answers to those questions are on the twit wiki http://wiki.twit.tv/wiki...
- jccalhoun
Thank you! @jccalhoun
- Randy Shapiro
Also... Just below the keyboards, under the desk is a clogg
- Johnny
Thanks @jccalhoun - didn't know there was a TWiT wiki.
- Ben Slutzky
you can read the titles of the books on his shelf...
- David Eckard
Enjoyed Ron and your other guests Sunday. Will you interview Chris Anderson about Free. It is a superb book. Please post a list of all your audible recommendations. I would like to get the best of your recommendations for a scifi audio book. Thanks for all of your excellent programing.
- Rod Miller
Nice to see some Dutch wooden shoes in the cubbard.... Go Holland!! :-)
- Bas Heetebrij
(1) Oh Great and Powerful Oz, what's behind the curtain on the right? and (2) why is a sneaker holding the cupboard doors open?
- Steven L. Jensen
Dang! Suffering from digital envy. . .
- Hamilton Wallace
You're most welcome, Leo - the pleasure was all mine. Don't hesitate to contact me if you ever need someone with GigaPan (or geology) experience/expertise.
- Ron Schott
THAT is the coolest thing I've seen all day. And I had a pretty good day! All those knobs and dials, reminds me of my planetarium days. :)
- Laserone
Wow - very very cool!! I enjoyed that up-close tour. :)
- Laura Zickus
wow.. very nice. I spot MSNBC too :)
- Kerry
Interesting how FriendFeed is still shipping new features. I still want to hear a roadmap of what will happen to FriendFeed at Facebook.
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First New "Best of" feature and now Custom Themes. So FF development is not dead?
- BRҰANSAҰS
I bet you the FF custom themes are facebook's influence so you can have a custom landing page for branding. Who else thinks so?
- BRҰANSAҰS
Bryan: and Twitter, too.
- Robert Scoble
I am sure their coders are not gonna sit around doing nothing whilst the powers that be decide what their future holds
- Mark
And the Add Comment link at the bottom of expanded comment threads a few days ago. It was nice to see that pop up.
- Jandy
Christopher: yes, they were underway as Bret told me last week. Glad to see them ship, though. New features communicate that the team still sees a future here and that it won't just be killed when they move over.
- Robert Scoble
By the way, all the work for custom themes and theme sharing was done between Tuesday and today.
- Kevin Fox
Kevin: really? Damn, awesome. I'm going to go shoot some ducks now. :-)
- Robert Scoble
I love it when company employees come along and set us all straight
- Mark
Great how long before we get the "hit the monkey" ads :0
- BRҰANSAҰS
For FF to continue within FB as a discrete entity, it will have to justify its burn rate of, what, $5 million-ish + or - per year? Facebook Labs, or public-facing interface? Any other ideas?
- Tinfoil 2.0
they will go to FB R&D so there will be no ff
- Atif UNALDI
this speculation is pointless, i doubt they even know what they will do in the future
- Mark
A roadmap would be useful. Is FF sticking around? Is it going to die off? I think some answers are kinda needed as lots think it's going to die off and people are threatening to leave, if not gone already.
- Kol Tregaskes
I certainly think they should both speak up - isn't there a danger we will all start looking for the next friendfeed and migrate? I've seen some services suggested and being tried by users already.
- sofiagk
sofiagk: I've looked for the next friendfeed. There isn't one.
- Robert Scoble
I bet Winer could script one in 50 lines of code!
- Mark
Agree with Robert there, nothing comes close to FF out there atm. :-(
- Kol Tregaskes
FF just gets better and better while everything else is either stationary or going backwards. Going to be a sad day when it ends.
- James Myatt
Kol: Agreed and streamy doesn't even come close by a long shot.
- BRҰANSAҰS
I don't think there is another FriendFeed. We will have to move to a distributed model: where email/wave is a central place to manage conversations, and other places become hubs for discovery of new content (google reader, posterous?)
- Ahsan Ali
YES - ROADMAP, if permissible, would be great!!
- Susan Beebe
from iPhone
Perhaps we are not seeing its demise at all? And pity that users never get any say...
- Technogran
Sandra: I don't expect it to get killed, but I want to know how many resources it will get in its new home and what Facebook wants to do with it.
- Robert Scoble
Roadmap... FriendFeed will turn GREEN and so will all of us!
- Amy Flynn
It would be so cool if Zuckerburg chimed in with a commitment to let ff continue to flourish. Winer said that there is no way ff will be around in 2 years. That makes me sad.
- Christian Burns
from iPhone
There is no other Friendfeed. I'm sticking it out here and if yau'll don't jump ship, FF will only get better. The changes won't happen overnight but it would be interesting to see what Facebook decides to do with FF. Let's hope the changes are good ones :)
- Jeunelle Foster
I guess to Jeunelle's point, we don't know. There's no reason to jump ship until we know it's sinking and how fast. We just don't know. They probably don't know.
- Kevin Arth
I left Twitter for Jaiku. Then Jaiku left me for Google. I moved in with Pownce but it died. I went back to Twitter, but flirted with Plurk, Identica, and Rejaw, and even tried doing it myself with Laconica but it was Twitter I really loved. Twitter finally broke my heart so I left it for Friendfeed. Now Friendfeed is leaving me for Facebook. No...
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It's like the internet version of Days of Our Lives
- Jonathan Hardesty
Haha. ROFL
- Roberto Bonini
is friendfeed going anywhere or will it just get better?
- Craig Shipp
I'm with you Leo.
- Oracio
It reads better than Soap - my roadmap is very similar but I'll forgive FF and live happily ever after with it (for the time being, anyway)
- Nicholas Paul Gordon
from iPhone
You're the best Leo. Canadians are the funniest people.
- Dan Lessard
I'm betting they'll slowly digest it into the Facebook news feed. They claim that Friendfeed is staying put for now, but that won't last.
- Ken Bauer
And we keep following Leo all over the place!
- Robert Scoble
When will we all get in a long term relationship and stop getting our hearts broken?
- Nate Pilling
so what is more important, the medium or the people, hope that FF will let us export our content, and our social netork :) (in my wild dreams)
- abdellah
Need ice cream? I'm new to FF, and kind of sad I didn't jump on the proverbial wagon sooner!
- Elizabeth K. Barone
I hope you leave your standard breadcrumbs so we can find you in the next chapter of social interaction.
- JCunwired
Feels to me like maybe it's time to go back to building a distributed network, rather than hopping from service to service.
- Ken Sheppardson
But where to next? That's the question. Wave sounds great, but the implementation will be a PAIN. So where? Oh LeoMoses...where is our path in the desert?
- ‘-.-’ Tutivillus Grift
Sounds like a hurtin' country song in the making.
- Bill Rodman
Well you can't say that what is happening in the 'social sphere' is boring by any means!
- Matt Cassem
I think Leo's audience is more likely to click "Like" or "comment" than Scoble's is. When Leo and Rob are both posting on FF, Leo gets more likes and comments
- Mark
Didn't you leave a post earlier saying how funny it was that people complain anytime there's a change (referring to the FF buyout)? This sounds like a complaint to me.
- Fleagle
Not complaining - just thinking about the future. I think a little Friendfeed DNA will vastly improve Facebook. And I think Facebook is already the big winner with the general populace. I also think we geeks need a corner somewhere else to hang out in.
- Leo Laporte
And I have no plans to leave Friendfeed. Yet.
- Leo Laporte
Yet being the operative word.....
- Roberto Bonini
sounds like a country song to me
- gavin
As for this geeky alternative, http://a.tinythread.com/ just showed up in my feed this morning. Thoughts?
- Craig B.
I feel more of a personal connection with the FriendFeed team than I have with other services I've left, and that will be a big part of why I will stay as long as possible.
- Louis Gray
^^^ replace "team" with "community" and there's my reason for sticking it out.
- JCunwired
Its also going to take a very long time to go through content and bookmark/store it elsewhere. Evernote is going to be used heavily in the weeks to come.
- JCunwired
The only way to have control is to use your own URL
- Craig Shipp
Wait till you meet Facebook's randy cousin Overly Friendly Book =)
- Cynthia Yildirim
what Louis gray said. I'm going to hang around until the lights go out.
- Jordan Brock
from BuddyFeed
What they said, I don't see any reason to leave FriendFeed unless something actually changes that makes the service worthless to me.
- Craig B.
And many times you cheated Twitter, she was always loyal to you. Thats mean someting!
- Jacque
from m.ctor.org
yup me too Louis and I don't know any of them
- Thomas Power
Plurk's not worth leaving anyone for.
- Rachel R.
Leo, I think you need to change your FaceFeed status to "It's Complicated" ;)
- Daynah
Play this thread off, keyboard cat.
- Fleagle
You have to go back to your blog. It still loves you Leo.
- Dave Winer
Screw you, Friendfeed!
- Andrew Leahey
Users today are investors too - only the 'exit' for us is not lucrative.... its the other way sometimes :)
- Mrinal Desai
I just had the idea: wow, how good will Faceboook become though this input? (JUST imagine tagging ppl in FB the way U can Tag them in FF.)
- oliver gassner
Love Stinks.
- shelter watch
Leo Laporte listed his relationship as: "its complicated."
- Randy Shapiro
Damn thats complicated
- drmacintosh
Don't worry Leo, its not you, its them...
- Steven McGurn
I agree with Jonathan Hardesty "It's like the internet version of Days of Our Lives" - And sites keep getting killed off only to come back to life a month later!
- Amy Flynn
very true, however on the other hand, we are getting closer to that one service which everyone will be on... and I dont think twitter is going to be that one
- Bryce Campbell
Facebook buying FriendFeed is like having to MOVE just when you got your house all dressed up and made into a comfy HOME! I don't feel like doing it again!
- Arleen Boyd
Now that Facebook and Friendfeed have married, I'm waiting for Twitfacefeedplebospacening.
- Anthony Marco
Leo, u by your self made two companies (services) out of 3 famous and made Google interested enough to buy 2 of them (Jaiku & FF). Google also tried to flirt with Twitter as well. So which one u choose now? Cause we will follow u :P
- Sam Ehsan
Sounds like some of my past love affairs. Of course, I'm married now. That, um, was prior.
- Paul Chaney
lmfao, its so true leo, so true!
- Derek Bender
Feeling a bit worn around the edges? ... me too!
- Susan Beebe
from iPhone
Speaking of Days Of Our Lives: Didn't that show jump the shark when the serial killer was unmasked as Marlena (a character I used to have a mad crush on, and who's now mostly a professional victim)? Then all the "killed" characters came back to life, since they were only what I call "soap opera dead"...
- Dennis Jernberg
And if everyone follows you, then your all having affairs all over the place! LOL
- Technogran
I think it's back to the TWiT Army!
- Paul Salzman
It's not like we have proposed Healthcare reform, or anything really important, going on in the U.S.A.
- Steve de Mena
it's getting ridiculous, FEDERATED is the word!
- Dobromir Hadzhiev
who is actually leaving FF? have many people vowed to do so yet? I'd like to but there isn't any alternative.
- Denise Young
the joys and sorrows of everyday social IT folks... :-)
- Thomas Lee
Streamy seems to be crashing left & right tho.
- Rick Cogley
Not to mention Pownce was shutdown as soon as it got good!
- Kenneth Reitz
No mention of Microsoft Vine?
- Robert MacEwan
I've decided I'm not going to tell ANYONE which site I'm favoring... not even myself! I swear! As soon as I decided that FF was my new place (a couple months ago) THIS happens! It's like magic, but in a bad bad way...
- Mark J
Why do we all assume this is a bad thing? Maybe the FF Facebook combo will be better??
- Craig Shipp
Maybe they'll keep both open -- FF is the open side, and FB is the closed side.
- John Flinchbaugh
from IM
Social Networks are sluts?
- TheDiva Rockin
It sure is.
- Jason Hill
I know exactly how you feel. What's a person to do? I am mad at Twitter for suspending some of my accounts. First, the accounts kept causing the password to reset, then they were suspended, all around the time of the DOS attacks. All I ever used Twitter for was to advertise my businesses, and for fun. Now I don't know where to go.
- DogPatch
Here's some thoughts on what's going to happen:http://kennethreitz.com/blog...
- Kenneth Reitz
It's like my beloved Archie comics romantic twists from childhood! Archie loves Veronica who loves Reggie who loves Betty who loves Archie... ;)
- Shawn Zehnder Rossi
More like "As the worm churns"
- Houseofmax
한글 와서~ 루거 .. 당신은 정말 잘 생기고있다 누드 사진 기다리다 :]
- HealingBrush
One of the funniest sad stories I've heard in a long time...
- Aviva Gabriel
Gotta find one who is a lady in public and a whore in the bedroom. One who looks like a woman, but thinks like a man. One who tells you you're the only person in their world and worships the ground you walk on. One who's from Venus but want's to live on Mars. One who you know will always be there even when the chips are down. One who looks like a movie star, but doesn't bust the credit...
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- Jan Simmonds
I think a lot of people LOVE to think negatively and don't want to think positively. They think FB is BAD and will ruin FF, but I think if they do it well, FB won't be the bad guy. I think most people who are irked about this are irked because they think the FFers "sold out" to the "man".
- Mol, FF Music Lover
@Mollyanna - I disagree. I am irked because the future of FF is completely uncertain. It's more likely that FB will let FF flounder and close it down than it is that FB will invest time and resources in maintaining and enhancing FF. FB has other interests and is splitting up the FF dev team. That does not bode well for FF. I don't begrudge the FF devs for taking the money. I would be...
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- Lindsay
Leo, I hope you mention FriendFeed in your Dubai TED talk ! :) I'll try to be there !
- Ahsan Ali
@Jan You're an asshat.
- Ian Wright
from BuddyFeed
leo, check out Streamy.com. I'm actually commenting to friendfeed from there right now...you may like it better.
- Casey Petersen
Haiku Laporte
- Outsanity
that was cute! :O)
- Jeanne
@ian - "Wordsmith. Public relations undergraduate at The University of Texas. Feminist Capitalist. WordPress geek. Future commercial rights attorney"...surely that kind of asinine comment is beneath you!
- Jan Simmonds
Maybe they're just not that into you.
- Elizabeth Johnson
Wait... who's on first?
- Michael Rosenau
Logged in to suggest that many of us have tridden a similar path, but a lot of people have beaten me to it! I miss Pownce
- Gary Purvis
wow, Leo. You've got relationship issues!
- Justin Bradshaw
there there, Shawny's here...
- The Real sofarsoShawn
I sense a pattern here.. maybe you always seem to go after web2.0 services that are bent on ditching you :)
- Shivanand Velmurugan
I'd like to reiterate my call for Facebook to open source the Friendfeed codebase (as AOL did when it bought Netscape). A federated OpenFriendfeed is the best for users - and fits Facebook's move toward an open social platform. I'll pay to run a server. Would you?
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I agree with this fully.
- Akiva
I can't imagine that the terms of the acquisition would permit this to happen. Oh, wait... Facebook take FriendFeed open source? Maybe in two or three years after they squeeze every bit of life out of it, ala Google/Jaiku
- Ken Sheppardson
Would that mean there would be dozens of Friendfeeds all trying to get us to come to them?
- Mark
I support this fully
- Ryan
yes what about a free GAE
- abdellah
Oh I agree. But with Facebook's record? HAHAH! Oh god, I need a mint.
- ‘-.-’ Tutivillus Grift
I'll file this away under "Never Gonna Happen"...
- Andrew Terry
Jaiku is not dead. It was bought for a reason, and yes, it will resurface soon. you just wait n see.
- binmugahid
yes
- andy brudtkuhl
I agree with Andrew...
- Suril Amin
I don't think I'd pay, but I'd love to have it open source
- Jake Anderson
Worked for AOL. We got Mozilla and they got a much improved Netscape.
- Leo Laporte
Leo, I think you have a little too much "hope" on this. Maybe you're just thinking if Facebook was smart, then they'd do that.
- Mark
Facebook is much smarter than you're giving them credit for. I think.
- Leo Laporte
great idea Leo, i'm 'cautiously optimistic' at this point in time about the future of FriendFeed... lets hope for the best people
- Chris Heath
There is no value in that to them. Why open source something that give them a competitive edge.
- binmugahid
I do not agree. It destroyed netscape. let Facebook use the best features of FriendFeed in it. Keep the talent like the four ex-google founders. Open source is not the answer to everything. sometimes Closed Source is better for the users as well. Just keep the innovations coming and it will be fine
- hasanahmad
They've got the Friendfeed team. That's probably what they really wanted. Getting the open source community working on the FF codebase and contributing it back to Facebook is a win for everyone.
- Leo Laporte
On the other hand, I ike to see Laconica (identi.ca) getting more like ff.
- Chanux
Wow did this just happen today?
- bravestface
yesterday
- Chris Heath
Open-sourcing Communicator may have ultimately destroyed Netscape as a brand but without that move, I suspect we'd all still be developing for IE6. Great call, Leo.
- Jared Smith
Excellent idea Leo.
- Arawak
I just can't stand Facebook. To many people I let in from my youth that I don;t want to see
- bravestface
Yes.
- .LAG liked that
You're assuming that Facebook bought the company JUST to get the developers, and not because they want to integrate many/most of the features into their service. If they want the features, they don't want a bunch of clones competing with them.
- Joel Bennett
I'll send you a hefty donation for that Leo.
- JCunwired
bravestface: That's not FB's fault you let them in. sheesh.
- Gus
when will twitter be back up any 1 know
- daveccorey
There already is an open source clone of twitter - see identi.ca and laconia or whatever it's called
- Doug Holton
True. very True Gus. My own fault. Perhaps I need to setup an Alias account that encompasses what i really want
- bravestface
I already run a Laconica server at http://army.twit.tv - I don't think we need another Twitter clone. We need something more like Friendfeed. Or maybe Wave will be the answer.
- Leo Laporte
hay hay hay, sin duda un tema un tanto escabrozo, pero entre Facebook y Google, esto no lleva a nada bueno.. i'ts a hard theme, no doubt about that, but between facebook and google we are going to hell !!!!!!
- Đoи яамoη
Or Pushbutton?
- bravestface
This would be amazing.
- Adam Teece
The Wave *protocal* might be a part of the answer... or just giving yourself over to whatever Google wants you to use might work (i.e. Wave, Reader, Gtalk, etc.)... but I don't really see Wave asdirect 1-for-1 FF replacement.
- Ken Sheppardson
Too many systems in place
- bravestface
They open sourced the Facebook code base (fbopen)... the license is very restrictive, however. FB owns all code modifications. Probably be the same license for FF.
- Kurt
In know people that have replaced their email with Twitter....that just isn't right...we need one locator that many systems can reach
- bravestface
Great idea Leo. Now let's see what they do, if they're listening.
- Kelly Mitchell
Leo - your last comment is why I think Facebook bought Friendfeed: "We need something more like Friendfeed. Or maybe Wave will be the answer." This is going to be a product they will launch in opposition of Google Wave. It will surface Q1 of 2010 and will have some of the same features that Wave has - but be closed sourced to Facebook.
- Jeff Vreeland
I see what you mean. Facebook and Google though don't really open source their web apps
- Doug Holton
Facebook doesn't seem to have a good reputation with those kind of thing. Facebook promised to open their chat/IM system via XMPP. More than a year has passed since they announced this XMPP system it still did not happen. We still have to rely on screen-scraping methods to implement Facebook chat on third-party IM systems (like the 3rd party Facebook chat plugin for pidgin called pidgin-facebook).
- Gideon Guillen
I would love to see friendfeed become opensource. Mostly as a developer I would love to see the code. See how friendfeed works.
- mikemcmullan
An "open FriendFeed" could be Facebook's chance to get something lined up to compete with Google Wave. Without it, Google and Twitter are going to own the real-time communication space.
- Derek Gathright
Completly agree!
- Jamie-Lee Mclean-Davis
from Nambu
Absolutely.
- Ian Littman
OS FF would be awesome, but making it a federated service is an entirely different ball of wax. Just ask the Wave guys. They said during the original IO presentation that federation was one of the harder parts (though FF would be easier w/o the real time editing piece, but still).
- Patrick Sullivan
OS FF
- Malcolm Bastien
I think a integrated RSS/FB/FF/GW/Twitter client will be an interesting real time inflection point
- Jim Posner
I totally agree Leo. I can't help but think that this deal is going to be a massive success or a massive flop - nothing in the middle! It's simple things like opening the FF source that can help make it a massive success IMHO.
- Chris Cathcart
I would just like to see the real-time commenting open-sourced.
- patrick
wow Leo you sure know how to get a topic started
- Joe Geeting
I actually was hoping Twitter would be the one to grab it up. Seems like a natural progression for Twitter to make. I just hope Facebook doesn't bury it and they actually use it. As far as open source it? Could be interesting.
- Michael Bower
In a secure and closed environment it could be a powerful communication/collaboration tool for businesses. Features of a chat, but persistent. Ability to share photos & files...
- Ken Bauer
definently
- Ryan Peach
Right-o
- Myrddin Emrys
I would love for this to happen. Federated Friendfeed servers would be quite fun and is the logical step for a great Internet service which aggregates disparate information from all over.
- rob friedman
You know what, Jaiku was open sourced. And nobody uses it anymore. The fact that "it" (FB open sourcing FF) will happen or not is completely irrelevant. Because you will all be hopping on the next early adopter miracle train (read:service) anyway. So stop whining and move on. Federated this, federated that. identi.ca tried that. Again, no users. It's nice to talk the talk. Especially at times like this. You just gotta walk the darn walk afterwards. Which people usually forget to do.
- Vlad Bobleanta
Whoa... you should enhance your calm. Communities are finicky things and sources like Microsoft that are poo-pooing Open Source IMHO is the real problem. Me thinks that a better source of education to dissipate the FUD floating in the global porcelain bowel instead of modern political tactics are are needed to solve real problems.
- Myrddin Emrys
Leo, like this idea.
- Kol Tregaskes
adoption of open standards such as OMB, which is used by laconica, would allow federation among servers
- Mike Chelen
It will one hell of a start, I doubt it though...
- Dobromir Hadzhiev
It would be a good thing, but not sure it it will ever happen
- Thomas Lee
I support this as well.
- Carlos Ayala
Now this is something I would fly out to support at the launch...
- Johnny
Another reason why Leo kicks ass
- Mo Kargas
If FriendFeed went open source identi.ca / lamonica would be dealt a serious blow. FriendFeed could become even more powerful if the people could tinker with the code and add many features that remain missing, or strengthen features that currently are weak. It will be interesting to se how FB utilizes their newest acquisition...
- Randy Shapiro
FYI, there's already an open source alternative: http://www.fftogo.com/e...
- Marcos Marado
from fftogo
absolutley ;)
- Kenneth Reitz
i would pay
- cheapsuits
ive all ready got a amp for 5 bucks 4 twitter that was suspsose to help twitter run better guess what it dont
- daveccorey
no definitely not. it would shift everything to Chinese government... Damn, millions would have their rest life in prisons.
- xia
Any chance we'll see more code?
- Ken Sheppardson
i'm willing to wait to see what F8 brings... have you seen Jesse Stay's speculative post Ken?
- Chris Heath
Just a little Downfall remix I threw together: Hitler finds out about Facebook buying FriendFeed. - http://itafroma.tumblr.com/post...
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I haven't laughed so hard in quite a while :)
- Bret Taylor
You know you've made it when they make a Downfall parody about you. :-)
- Kevin Fox
Wow, that's great.
- Brian Johns
If even fake Hitler's angry about it, you know you did something great. Glad you guys liked it. :-)
- Mark Trapp
"There's a hitler remix for that"
- Matt M (inactive)
That's hilarious.
- Ken Gidley
Very well done.
- Darren
Awesome, Mark!
- Stephen Mack
This was great, Mark.
- Louis Gray
awesome! love it, Mark! :)
- holly #ravingfangirl
my thoughts exactly, mark! even with all the fucking bacon posts, i'm still gonna miss this place.
- Nicķ
So brilliant.
- anna sauce
This was pretty much the most awesome video I've ever seen on the internet :)
- Ana
Great work, Mark :)
- Ahsan Ali
Absolutely awesome!
- Shannon Jiménez
"FF connected me with new friends that I would never have known. FB connects me with old friends I could have done without. :(" - jcunwired http://friendfeed.com/jcunwir...
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Exactly
- Shevonne
The best comment I've heard today!
- Bonnie Foster
its actually quite easy to ignore someone you could have done without. *sigh*
- Sidney
Wow. Some of you apparently live terrible lives, filled with terrible people you seem unable to avoid, with the possible exception of this one website, I feel terrible about that.Of course, it's also possible you've wildly overestimated the difference between the people you know here and the people who know you in real life.
- Richard Lawler
Or it could be, you're wrong.
- Bwana ☠
Nope, you're the ones who keep saying everyone you know and everything you do on facebook sucks. That must be terrible.
- Richard Lawler
Yes Richard because clearly I can make friends from all over the world on my daily stroll through the park. Or not.
- vijay
Yes, it's confirmed. You're wrong.
- Bwana ☠
bingo
- Jim Goldstein
My life wouldn't be the same without vijay
- Rodfather
If everyone you've physically encountered sucks, the problem just might be you.
- Richard Lawler
Hear, hear. This news sucks.
- Arawak
Oh Lord....not this guy :)
- Rah-PM 2012
I like this post, but I love all my social networks equally lol.
- Ryan Peach
Luckily, unlike so many here, I can keep using any website I want the same way I did before without devolving into a baseless bitchfest about what might happen someday somewhere. Or, I could have kneejerk reaction based on irrational fear. hmmm
- Richard Lawler
And you're very good at keeping your assumptions to yourself
- Bwana ☠
On the bright side, I can have a kneejerk reaction on FB and remove baseless bitches from my friends list. :)
- JCunwired
Except, they haven't really said anything. So thinking anything will or won't survive is premature. If Facebook perfectly met everyone's expectations there would be no need for war, sickness or evil deeds. Every online community is the same as every other one, if friendfeed, for whatever reason, doesn't keep doing what you want ti to do, you'll use something else. It hasn't ever been perfect and it never will be.
- Richard Lawler
I told you Richard. You're wrong. "Taylor and Cox say that the Friendfeed product will live on independently, and eventually Friendfeed will be merged into Facebook. But the Friendfeed team is not being kept whole. Some employees will now report to Cox, others to engineering head Mike Schroepfer. In my opinion that means, long term, the Friendfeed product itself is unlikely to be a big priority." http://www.techcrunch.com/2009...
- Bwana ☠
Well, you told me what techcrunch's opinion is, because that's what I wanted to know. Thanks! (there's sarcasm there)
- Richard Lawler
Ok let me slow it down for you. The team is splitting. The product is going to merge with Facebook. (No sarcasm)
- Bwana ☠
I can wholly identify with JC's statement.
- JA Castillo
Wow Bwana...you are really bitchy in this thread...I think Richard is making some good points. If you are having issues with the people you 'accept' on Facebook there really is only one person who you can point the finger. You. Facebook makes it quite easy to NOT get involved with any person.
- Sidney
Thanks. Appreciate the feedback.
- Bwana ☠
I accept friends in Facebook because if they took the time to want to be friends with me, I feel obligated. I'm also not one to hurt a person's feelings by turning them down. That's what its like in a closed community like Facebook. Friendfeed is totally open - I can read, share, participate and like without having any obligation whatsoever to the people I interact with.
- JCunwired
Same here. Wisely said!
- Neya
I couldn't have put it better myself. Just got back and saw the news. Still digesting it.
- Charlie Anzman
Well said guys!
- Susan Beebe
LOL
- Thomas Power
It's interesting to see ho people use different networking sites - for example - I use FB for personal connections and family and the rest are business related.
- Graham Bunting
I like my friends, but you are definently right. I just got on friendfeed any advice on making friends?
- Ryan Peach
Smart!
- Martha
Great insight!
- William Phillips
It's at times like these that I'm sad that Gillmor Gang remains shut down. Oh @stevegillmor what will it take?
Laura Zickus, Brian Hendrickson, Karoli and 14 other people liked this
I know Steve, Jesus. You got the people, just get them all on the call and do something.
- Mark
Wondering what you have been doing for the last few months other than 1 post a week on TechCrunchIT.
- Mark
I miss the Gillmor Gang so bad :-(
- Panayotis Vryonis
You are so right.
- courtney benson
DITTO!
- frankiecarl
Yep - Bring it back Steve!!!!
- PXLated
Start your own. You, Leo, Loic, Gina.
- Jeff Harbert
I fear, knowing what I know have seen about Steve that where with others getting as many people as we could to tweet/FF "Bring back the Gang", with Steve a better response would have been for everyone to not even mention it! ;-)
- Phillip Molly Malone
Get Leo? No, I love Leo but his shows are the antiGang.
- PXLated
we need a catchy slogan to bring back Steve
- Andrew Euell
Don't worry, Winer has it covered...besides, this isn't big enough news to bring back GG...
- Aron Michalski
The Gillmor Gang rocked. It MUST come back.
- Alberto Lopez
What shut down GG? Was it the argument between Leo and Arrington?
- Travis B. Hartwell
So my wife has adopted an orphaned baby cottontail. She named it Mercy and it seems to be doing quite well after week 1.
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Quick little thing, but loves to eat.
- Ken Stewart | ChangeForge
Funny, I saw this, thought I was on Rachel Fox's feed, and she had already liked it! Sneaky, Rachel!
- Louis Gray
That guy will be Tay.Stee. :)
- Sean Oliver
A friend rescued a bun once. I named him Gus Gus. And he wouldn't feed off the bottle. So she'd pour the formula in the palm of her hand and he'd bury his little face in there. You could hear him slurping and snorting. I was worried he might drown himself. <3
- Yolanda
Funny Louis! I'm not the only animal loving, adopting, fostering freak! ;) Love this little guy. I would look up some info on domesticating him if you are planning to keep him. Not sure how well he he domesticate, but I'm sure the info is out there if it is possible.
- Rachel Lea Fox
Yolanda, that is an adorable story!!
- Rachel Lea Fox
Rachel: http://www.flickr.com/photos...
- Yolanda
OMG Yolanda! He is so tiny and adorable!!!
- Rachel Lea Fox
I could not resist either. So cute!
- Rick Cogley
My wife is planning on keeping Mercy, somewhat to my dismay - but the darn thing is cute and already litter training. It was already eating solid food when we found it in our garage. The research we've done so far indicates domesticating it is really a matter of time spent and keeping the environment consistent. So far my wife has the best luck with the rabbit and it will even come up and sit in her lap at times - just because she spends more time than anyone else.
- Ken Stewart | ChangeForge
little mousie for my kittey pals!!!
Laura Zickus, MizzBassie, purplebear and Monkey Cat liked this
Oh yeah totally pawesome!
- Monkey Cat
awwwh I love mice:) he's soooo cute:)
- purplebear
I say yum! Mommy says poor mousie. Mommy's soft-hearted. She even likes rats! Weird, I say!
- MizzBassie
Want to follow BNO News on FriendFeed as well? Now you can. Subscribe right now at http://friendfeed.com/breakin... !
Laura Zickus, Anthony Pantekoek, zsafwan and 6 other people liked this
Good news there
- Bwana ☠
Now we can comment on things!
- Brandon Titus
Why a Twitter user is a like a dog - Holy Kaw! (pronounced "Holy Cow!") - http://holykaw.com/why-a-t...
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...very funny!
- Robert Rowe
OMG... I resemble that remark!
- Arleen Boyd
I think the average person feels the need to think that other people actually care whether they exist or not... some feel this need more than others... it isn't "I think, therefore I am", it is "you read my tweet, you know I am"
- Paula W
yep, that's what my dog says every time I take him for his walk and he's reading his p-mail. lol
- Laura Zickus
Email overload: 71,100+ unread emails. How many do you have?
Thierry R. Andriamirado, Bill Romanos, Laura Zickus and 35 other people liked this
None.
- Louis Gray
Same here Louis, none :)
- Asankhaya Sharma
13
- chrisofspades
Hit the archive button!
- Ewan MacLeod
O_o insane! I have 39 unread right now :)
- Zulema ⋅ spicy cocoa tart
Also none. I can't for the life of me figure out why some can't clean out their inboxes. That would keep me up at night!
- Mike Lewis
meh, it doesn't bother me. I have 1580 in my main gmail inbox with only 38 unread. I have better things to do than organize my inbox. But, hey, you can totally come and organize it for me ;)
- Zulema ⋅ spicy cocoa tart
from IM
None. Too anal about it.
- Alex Scrivener
how the heck do you get so many
- Alfredo 亜瑠布れっど
Unread? None.
- Rochelle
No unread emails.
- James Ferguson
0. w00t.
- Chieze Okoye
51,741. it's not really fair though, I don't usually read my mail in gmail, I just have it forwarded there
- Richard Lawler
About 2500. Usually around 3000 I get tired of it and go through and archive most of them.
- Jandy
None. I'm an Inbox Zero kind of guy.
- Akiva
None, cleaned them all.
- Nir Ben Yona
Unread? 7 at work, 8 at personal. But I'll zero them out by noon.
- AJ Kohn
This is why I use filters and multiple accounts! Hells!
- ‘-.-’ Tutivillus Grift
None, and I hate not responding to actionable emails within 5 minutes. That's probably the best thing about me -- I'm super fast when it comes to the courtesy of a reply.
- Tamar Weinberg
None.
- Ninh Nguyen
None. When it gets out of control I select all and archive. If I haven't turned it into an action, it's noise. GTD 4 LIFE!
- Jordan Willms
None.
- Jérôme
1.
- Jordan Hofker
Holy crap dude. I have about 305 in my Outlook inbox, of which none are spam. all are work-related, important and expecting a reply. Yeah. Like that's gonna happen! But you win in terms of sheer volume. Congrats!
- Morgan
none. i don't get spam and i go through my inbox daily.
- Anthony Feint
No unread emails in my inbox. I just cleaned everything out today. Time for you to start deleting.
- Mike Templeton
Under 5000 on Gmail. I'm not going to look at the work account, ok?
- MiniMage, enterRUPPted
zero
- Steve Rubel
1,569 on one account, 5,925 on the other. This is where an AI assistant would help immensely.
- Victor Ganata
0
- The Amber
None.
- Derrick
wow 71,000 plus emails!!!! i think i am at 1,000 or so :)
- (jeff)isageek
Gmail: none. Yahoo: about 12000+.
- yagami
Just knocked 'em off ... not easy ...especially since I promised myself a 'disconnect' today.
- Charlie Anzman
zero. honest. i deal with all emails on the go.
- Ouriel Ohayon
How many unread? None. How many unanswered? Hundreds. Working on catching up, but it's hopeless for me.
- Robert Scoble
None. I can't have unread emails in my inboxes. I'm OCD.
- Parth Awasthi
time to declare email bankruptcy! oh, and i have 0. Blackberry is a life saver :-)
- Alex
Over 13000 on one account. I delete nothing.
- Zach Flauaus
At my work account, I've retained over 12,000 emails over the last several years. Need to do some serious weeding. Even an online packrat is a packrat.
- John E. Bredehoft
under 8k
- Lu Tao
0
- Rah-PM 2012
zero
- Dobromir Hadzhiev
at work, zero; at home, hundreds
- Pete D
None ;)
- Mohammad Abdurraafay
0 - Email management
- Frode Stenstrøm
0 in my Hotmail account. 2281 in my Gmail, but they're very old. Archiving now!
- Michael Fidler
My email inbox is as far as possible EMPTY. The emails are either deleted or tucked into some folder
- Anthony DCosta
You need to use some mailbox management systems, like Clearcontext. I have zero unprocessed emails every day.
- Jacque
I can't sleep when in nights when I don't have nil unread mails in my Gmail.
- sushaantu
and what about unreaded news in google reader ?
- Marco
0. Google Reader is another story.
- Peter Warnock
Close to 14000 in the account that gets all the unimportant email (newsletters, vendor updates, notifications of subscribed forum threads...).
- Jack&Cleo
0. Agree with Peter on G Reader though
- Sally Church
Lol damn I don't count maillist messages.
- Alp
Zero unread emails...it's the only way to live.
- casey wright
I have 3,552 emails in my inbox and I just cleared it out at the end of March...
- Allen Harkleroad
also inbox zero.
- Guan Yang
zero
- Burcu Dogan
0
- Ahmet Alp Balkan
None
- DGentry
300 less than yesterday, at least. But definitely NOT as many as that.
- Cynthia Chrysler
I don't feel so bad now. I have 15155 - 12041 of which are unread. But you are only at 47% and I'm at 86% space used! I need more room Google!!!
- Laura Zickus
yay! that's too many... zero for me :))
- Jhoy Imperial
I got 6,954 unread emails. Mostly techs & management mailing-lists: I need 'em as my 1st 'knowledge database', thx to the IMAP mail server.
- Thierry R. Andriamirado
THIS CONTEST IS OVER, PLEASE DO NOT COMMENT ON THIS ANY MORE. Thank you.
Tarık Yolcu, 535u (Özgür İfade), Miles Laird and 355 other people liked this
THIS CONTEST IS OVER. THE MONEY HAS ALREADY BEEN GIVEN AWAY. I'm giving away $4,500 of my money. The contest will be here in friendfeed between now and Tuesday afternoon. Ends 3 p.m. Austin, Texas Time. Winner will be picked live on http://www.ustream.tv/studio at 4 p.m. Austin Time. Two ways to win: First way to win ($1,000). Leave a comment here. We'll pick one winner out of a hat randomly. Second way to win (Two prizes of $1,750 each). Leave a comment about how you will use the money (use only one comment here). I'll pick my favorite two messages and announce a winner on Tuesday afternoon. Good luck!
- Robert Scoble
Good way to keep us engaged Robert :)
- bcultral
only that? too easy Robert! :)
- directeur
Robert "Ben Stein" Scoble :)
- Mattb4rd
Will it be tax free? :P
- imabonehead
pinched nerve in back from military accident.. might be outta work for a bit.
- WithoutInk
I'm in.
- Paul Grav
Sweet awesome robert!
- TheHenry
Simple is good. :)
- Heather Solos
Robert, Ben Stein beat you to that game. Try and be first rather than a fast follower. :P
- Lorin Olsen
What are the rules? International ok? :)
- Holger Eilhard
I'll happily leave a comment here.
- Aaron Crews
Congrads on the new venture:)
- Rob Cairns
Lets be honest- there are few people who literally put their money where their mouth is. Mr. Scoble you continue to impress me. And I have said this before the contest.
- Alyx
I declare myself ineligible for the first way to win :)
- Douglas Gourlay
Do you have to be an American? Cause I could use a new laptop :) Plus the USD>AUD exchange rate is pretty good at the moment ($1000 USD = $1500 AUD)
- Bryce Roney
Cool ....I need new Laptop
- Michael Holzinger
Prediction: this will be the most commented thread on FriendFeed ever (chance to win $1000).
- Mike Doeff
be sure to let us on the detailed result of this new experiment of yours
- Georgios Kasselakis
really? :)
- K.Fatih Özçelik
oh...pick me pick me pick me :)
- Stephanie Segel
Will you give me more if I say rackspace.com?
- Jason P. Brown
woohooo! Anton like this.
- Anton Johansson
c'mon fingers. find me in the hat.
- Jason Kane
OK, I'm changing my comment to go for one of the $1750 prizes. I will offer to donate all of it to a mutually acceptable charity in exchange for an appearance with you and Steve on the Gillmor Gang. If Jason can buy his way onto Twitter, maybe I can buy my way onto the Gillmor Gang!
- Kent
Are you still going to the XMPP meetup on tuesday?
- J Allen
Good luck to everyone!
- Amit Nangare
money talks :-)
- Dobromir Hadzhiev
Leaving random comment here for $1000 yo! Can I get that all in pennies and not rolled up? Preferably in gallon milk jugs!
- Jason Moffatt
I think Mike will be right
- Henrik Johansson
I would use the money to 1. Donate and support our local Milwaukee tech community (events like web414.com, BarCampMilwaukee.com, and Bucketworks.org) and 2. purchase some more tech items (i.e. mac mini, video camera, webcam) to enhance and encourage more interaction with development and the tech community.
- Sam Dodge
I'm in too ...
- Leo
$1000 for a random comment. I suspect we'll have a record number of comments. But what kind of hat will you be pulling the name out of? Austin Cowboy hat?
- Andrew Leyden
well, this is one way to get me to actually use my friend feed account =)
- Travis
I could use it. Ill be out of a job in 2 weeks.
- Armando
sweet. i like free money =)
- Arin
Second way to win (Two prizes of $1,750 each). Leave a comment about how you will use the money (use only one comment here). I'll pick my favorite two messages and announce a winner on Tuesday afternoon. Good luck!
- Robert Scoble
I'm game. But don't shoot me.
- Steve Lowe
why would you do that?
- Burçak Sayınsoy
is this part of the bailout?
- Thomas Jelonek
Pick me!
- Henry Irish
hook it up!
- Zachary Poley
Robert , Congrats for Building43.com !
- Rocky
Open to anyone in the world. It's my money and if I get sued I'll make fun of you on Twitter. :-)
- Robert Scoble
So let me get this straight, I just leave a comment here? Will this $1000 be reported to the IRS? :)
- Craig Eddy
If ever there was money that could be used to buy gadgets guilt free it is Scoble money!
- Joe "Brrzzzzzzt" Pierce
Building 43 sounds interesting. Can't wait.
- Andrew Bashore
need cash for new company my wife and i are starting -- to help offset the cost of adopting our next child.
- WithoutInk
all i have to say is, more cow bell please :)
- Ivan Stegic
I LOVE RACKSPACE!!
- CG
I'll talk about the contest later on http://www.ustream.tv/studio
- Robert Scoble
Isn't this a nice way to test how scalable Friendfeed entries really are? :-)
- Yuval Atzmon
Will use it to buy Arrington a hairpiece after the TIME article.
- Mike
Please, no, you're better than Ben Stein (although that's not saying much) Are you trying for the most comments ever on a Friendfeed post? Because I can certainly see that coming.
- The Web's Wendell Wittler
What kind of hat?
- Geoff Schultz {TF}
Scoble--congrats to you and Rocky! Keep up the great work!
- Joey Hayles
Neat! I'd spend the money fairly selfishly... on bandwidth bills for http://enjoysthin.gs
- Ted Roden
How would I use $1750? Three words: Pay. My. Rent.
- Stephanie Segel
Are friends and family excluded?
- Tina Chase Gillmor
Oh well, why not! maybe the hat's lucky!
- vanweerd
I'm just here for the cash.
- Jim Mitchem
Nicholas - would like to work with you at Rackspace, was a senior systems design engineer for Sony Broadband SW Development + Broadcast Integration Division(s) SW Systems Integration and testing, also senior technical project manager on Google's infrastructure upgrade + Verizon's FIOS fiber-to-the-premises nationwide. I also spent ten years in post-production in hollywood as a senior tech support engineer / consultant to the stars. I like bad food, long hours and the warm glow from completing projects.
- Nicholas Chase
Hmmm, how do you post a comment on FF...??? :-)
- I Spy
Feel free to donate lol
- hiphopgame
I would use the money, to help buy a mac for the family. We are in need of a new one, and right now our current one (a powerbook) is starting to die out. I already have some money saved up, but not enough. Thanks for doing this Robert! :)
- Techno Todd
thanks for making friendfeed notifier go insaaaaaaaaaaaaaaane
- Caio
I'll use the money to buy a laptop for my soon-to-college daughter, as well as to fund her scholarship searches& college visits this summer. She's leaning towards working in special education, continuing the volunteering she's done with her high school's Options Program (http://www.paulvi.net/academi...).
- Craig Eddy
My friend (14) and I (15) are working on a subscription web service that we want to launch this summer and some additional runway and start-up capital would really be helpful. We do have some experience with this stuff -- we did iJailBreak (www.ijailbreak.com) a year or so ago and had millions of hits and a million downloads and a lot of coverage (Gizmodo, TUAW, Digg front page multiple times).
- Ben Feldman
I want Robert's stimulus package.
- Daniel Sims
This is my random comment for the random pick!
- Mona Nomura
from fftogo
Hi Robert - Pick me! :)
- Susan Beebe
if i didnt know you, i would have un-friended you for a post like that. "i'm giving away money. details to come." Congrats on the new gig!
- fansnap
$1,750? Ok, I'll give the half of it to a charity, that is: $875 — and the other half will be my contest's gift. My contest? The one who donates the most to that charity wins those $875. And yes, I'm serious :)
- directeur
I don't know about the tax consequences. I'll try to find out. Basically this money is money Cisco paid to me and I'm just shipping it back out. So, this money will be counted pre-tax, I'm sure, and you'll probably need to pay tax on it.
- Robert Scoble
First comment: Hope my comment gets chosen!
- Kevin Poirier
Fabulous
- Jon
Sweet! $1000 would be lovely
- Vanessa Scanfeld
I'd be using the money to finance my freelance work and get a half-way decent video camera. I'm working with a friend of mine on tooloftheday.de (nothing to see there yet) to produce videos of popular tools, tips, tricks, howtos, etc...
- Holger Eilhard
Throwing my piece of paper into the hat. Crossing my fingers!
- Troy Malone
man, my feed is going crazy... stop it guys :)
- Ingo Di Bella
OK Robert, I'll bite and leave a comment here.
- Herne
Second comment...I will use the money to buy as many clever domain names that I can in hope that one day, when you are creating your "next big thing" that you will have to purchase the domain name from me realizing that you had in fact, through me, had purchased these domain names in the first place.
- Kevin Poirier
I'm also available for 1/2 time work for $185/week (Rails sites) http://tefflox.net/JesseCr... Thanks :-)
- Jesse Crockett
Thats a internet first i guess, good luck to all contestants :)
- Yunus Tunak
If I win: I will use the money to lend out some of it on Kiva.org, give my brother (12 years old) his own domain/hosting so he could start a wp-blog there and maybe buy Spotify premium =)
- Anton Johansson
I would buy a new macbook pro with it. I have the old one, and Was hoping to buy the current one. I would then give the old one to my brother and I would use the new one! :)
- TheHenry
I'm in!!
- DanDan
I would use it for the prizes I'm giving out daily on my twitter game @I_spy_treasure. Robert, you can win it back... (and so can anyone else...)
- I Spy
Lasers.
- Lasse Johnsen
I will use part 2 to donate to Kiva.org and match it with Cisco's matching gifts program
- Douglas Gourlay
I would donate it to my homeless shelters.
- imabonehead
I'm giving my winnings to congress to spend wisely : )
- Joseph
Congratulations to both you and Rocky on the new jobs.
- Ron Schott
Count me in! Could use the extra $$ to buy a mac and see what all the hype is about.
- Tim
I would create a company called One Laser Per Child.
- Lasse Johnsen
This is my comment. I would use the extra $1750 to pay for me and Lindsay's trip to Gnomedex this year. It would probably be enough for us to come up and stay a few extra days in Seattle.
- iTad
That'd put a dent in my taxes. Ugh, freelancing has its pains.
- Andrew
nice! i could use some money :)
- krist80
Would be silly not to comment... although I have nothing interesting to say right now.
- Jen
umm..ok i'm in!
- Michael Lemmon
Even I can manage that!
- Jeremy Brooks
Everyone else is doing it...
- Rochelle
Is there a third way to win? I'd use the money to offset part of the costs of moving to Portland in the spring. Moving from New York with next to no connections to see what it's like living on the west coast for a while.
- Mark Trapp
Did I win yet?
- Robert Collazo
What I'd do with $1000? Get them converted to Euros :) Would most likely be spend on "offline" needs, like a new bathroom
- dieck
I suppose spending it on crack and hookers wouldn't win the prize, would it?
- Ian Betteridge
I will use the $1000 plus 119,000 more dollars to buy a spot on the Twitter "Suggested Users" page.
- Sprague D
And you r giving your money away why?
- Andrew Finkle
it'd go toward my first Mac
- Jeff Mincey
118 comments in 17mins, progress report.. :)
- Yunus Tunak
Count me in!
- Wim Mulder
Interesting; I'd give a bit more than the the money to an unemployed friend for necessities(car repair, rent, food, getting back her phone with Nana Lemon singing Nena's famous anti-balloon protest song) in cash and perhaps a small gift
- RAPatton
I would use the money to go biking in Tibet and give everything that's left to the Tibetians.
- Henrik Johansson
Robert why are you giving away money - not that I am complaining- but curious! :)
- Susan Beebe
I'm game
- Ken Nicely
I'd spend mine on women, booze and a Mac.
- Ed Hudson
I'd use it to stretch the time I can work for equity-only before our startup gets funded! (Why doesn't federal stimulus money go to something like this which actually creates jobs and innovation instead of banks and auto companies?)
- Dale Larson
this should be interesting
- Robert Accettura
The chances of winning Scoble's money are slim. But the comments are hilarious. Love them.
- I Spy
This is easier than a lottery ticket! We must be in an experiment or something, knowing Robert.
- Cesar Arevalo
Sure why not
- Rodfather
I will use the money to go PyCon, learn new skills, network, mention how generous Robert Scoble is, and do a sprint to improve FriendFeed PyAPI--which, by the way, you should use to select the random winners from this thread. https://launchpad.net/friendf... Thanks in advance.
- Chris Lasher
Clever way to show the power of friendfeed!
- Emee Pumarega
For $1750: I would pay a portion of my wife's college tuition, buy my daughter a netbook, and my son a practice guitar amp.
- Mattb4rd
Great idea! Count me in. I think you should give your money away monthly.
- Grace Ciccone
I'm Here. Wow. I''ve thrown the laptop up on a 56" JVC LCD HD. Convergence! Just watched you on the Gillmor Gang. Feels like TV to me. It's great. Something's definitely happening.
- Stephen Pickering
Love it...I'm in
- gavin
I'd spend the money on a new display, I really need one
- Dobromir Hadzhiev
Not my first comment on a Scoble posting here, but first with a potential payoff.
- Tom Landini
I'm in. How I will use the money? will buy server for XdbE project
- Elmira Gazizova
With $1,000 I could buy all 57 Used & new "Naked Conversations" books from Amazon and still have enough to buy bottle service at the club.
- Andy Fields
would like to be able to try new technologies while still being a student and on a student's income = ($0)
- Shane Grant
Cool, count me in :-) I would use the money by buying 2 HTC Fuzes for me and my love.
- Sarah Peterman
Count me in! (for the first way I guess :P).
- Mauro Borione
What can I do to get your $$$ Robert? How about a virtual dance from my dogs?
- Jeff
get Diabla my pit bull puppy hip surgery sooner rather than later
- shayne catrett
haha, what is it all about?
- Лёша
I would use the money to help fund a small-scale electronics lab, which has been a dream of mine for some time. It would serve as the perfect place to plot and create the robotic army that will eventually take over the world! Also it would teach me lots that would make me very attractive to an employer, or capable of creating a business of my own.
- Daniel Bruce
It would be hard for me to decide how to spend the money. There is so much, yet so little, being given. Because I'm a crazy Linux-lover, I think I should take the selfless route and donate at least part of the money to various Linux/open-source programming projects. Though, I would have to be careful to make sure that the money is not wasted in the style that Jeff Atwood describes (http://www.codinghorror.com/blog...).
- Rishabh Mishra (p248)
<cold><oddsized><red>here's my comment</red></oddsized></cold>. I've made my comment colored and differently shaped because supposedly those will get drawn before all the other regular looking comments. It's cold too because that's how the Knicks got Ewing first in the draft.
- Todd Hoff
Well, I need a new kidney, and there just happens to be one available on Ebay for $1000. (The previous portion of this comment is an utter lie; both my kidneys are doing fine, I am gainfully employed, do not need the money as much as so many on this thread, but Mastercard would really love to have it.) Congrats and good luck with the new venture, Robert.
- Phil Essing
Very cool!
- Josh Haley
Hey as long as were giving away money - count me in ;)
- Rob Jones
sweet, a thousands eh? converted to $ JMD that's 90k, groceries for 2 months:P
- Gordon Swaby
i'd like to thank my good friends olasofia and tav for mentioning this opportunity to win $1000 randomly, and if gratitude to one's friends isn't enough, how about this: i will give the $1750 for the best answer to this question: now that there are 100,000 people paying attention, what single action can we all do next tuesday that has the greatest social impact globally?
- happyseaurchin
For either amount, I would look to pay down some of my pressing debts and apply the rest towards a rainy-day fund. The 10% paycut I took three months ago has not helped things.
- JA Castillo
I'm on spring break now and my school was nice enough to lend me a Canon 20D (a little old, but I'm still glad to have borrowed it). Usually, only people who are part of the after school photography club can take it out, and seeing that I'm not, I was quite lucky. They gave me a 28-135mm lens, which looked ok to me. It was the last lens they had available, so it was take it or leave it....
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- Michael Forian
hmmm just leave a comment for a $1,000 dollars, not sure what to say...
- Kevin Tunis
$1750 for a cheeky mobile app, any more would be telling
- Yant
i am somehow reminded of ben stein
- Adam Singer
Testing the mix, testing, testing, one two, one two, - is this thing on?
- Martha
I would use the money to do what I do with all of my money...support my wife through graduate school :p. Thanks for the opportunity, Robert.
- Neal "thePuck" Jansons
Give it to Michael Forian! He seems so well-meaning!
- RexEveryhting
Big Spender Robert. Who knew?
- Michael Fidler
I'm feeling lucky.
- Laura
Cool! I saw your new venture announcement (live) earlier on my old iMac, which I would love to replace. :)
- Rob
I'm an unemployed community manager formerly of Silicon Valley. Hoping to spread new technology from NorCal to SoCal.
- Kimberly
Pick me, I've got medical bills to pay-off. Boring I know, but it's really how I'd use any extra money.
- Curtis Phillips
I'll donate the money to GM. Nah, forget it. I'll worry about it if I actually get it.
- Hal
I will throw my virtual hat in the virtual ring for the not-virtual $1000. What is the other $3500 going toward?
- Lindsay
Working on a little something in the review space with a friend of mine, $1000 could cover a bit of initial hosting.
- Jack Bogdan
Hmm, adding that to a house down payment would be nice. I imagine there's others here that could use it much more, though.
- Jordan Hofker
peace on earth.....
- imran
Awesome. With $1,000, I'd use 50% to buy shares of F, GM, BAC, etc... and we'll have even more money to hand out. With the other 50%, we could also make 20 $25 loans at a Stanford MBA microfinance project, so the money recycles and has more impac (and have FFers decide which projects to support). Gumball Capital http://news.newamericamedia.org/news... or Kiva.org http://kiva.org Ideally we could even start a fund to support out-of-work FF'ers.
- Mitchell Tsai
@scobleizer - please give me your money. if you do i will use it wisely to help pay for a macbook & if i get more than the random $1000 prize i will use it in a philanthropic manner
- Chris Heath
I'd have to use it all to put toward the $1,900 deposit due next month for the Friends school for which we got an acceptance letter, on behalf of our 10 yo, earlier today since my partner's reaction was that all I needed to do was to go out and get a job Monday! We've tried public schs (& their lotteries) in Boston & DC and have come to this... If that wasn't pressing, I'd use it to put...
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- Angela E. Taylor
updated to say - please give the money to someone in need. If I were to have the money to give away, my choice would be to http://www.theanimalrescuesite.com.
- BEX
Wait, in this economy, you giving away money?!
- Adi Rabinovich
So...dear! Did you sign the cheque? Yes? Now send it to me! LOL
- Lora Lufark
all your money are belong to us!
- Geek Cowboy
It would be really cool if this money went to a charity in need, in increasingly tough times.
- jjprojects
posting comment. crossing fingers. knocking on wood for good measure.
- Anita
I'd use the money as a donation for my favorite charity, www.4everhomes.org, helping orphans and foster children get adopted.
- Lynn Owens
I will use the cash to invest in a MacBook for my wife so she can be mobile and still do her school work and finish that degree finally!!!
- Geek Cowboy
Well after the football team I support (Nottingham Forest) lost 5 -0 today I would spend the money on buying myselft a place in the squad. I can't be any worse than the current goalkeeper
- Paul Bainbridge
I'd give the money to children of San Diego http://www.alphaproject.org/
- David Krug
I'm in
- Jack Kendall
Putting my entry in the hat. Hope this is truly random because I don't have anything interesting to add! :)
- Matt Baron
With $1750 I'd buy Canon PowerShot SX1IS 10 MP CMOS Digital Camera with 20x Wide Angle Optical Image Stabilized Zoom and 2.8-inch LCD @ $600, a 2nd Gen Drobo populated with four 1TB Western Digital Green Drives @ $849 via TwipPhoto and a GigaPan Epic 100 as soon as its available (probably about $500). All of this will support my GigaPanning habit: http://www.gigapan.org/viewPro...
- Ron Schott
James (imabonehead) & Robert, $13,000/yr is allowed by gift tax limits,... so no tax if it's from Robert's personal money.
- Mitchell Tsai
Great idea. I'm in.
- Bill Romanos
I would use the $1750 to pay for the laptop that my daughter wants for her 11th birthday at the end of the month. She will be entering Jr. high next year and could use a faster more up to date computer than the 5+ year old hand me down desktop PC running Win2000 that she is presently using.
- Jeff P. Henderson
Craziness. That kinda money could feed my voracious tech and gadget habit for quite a while.
- Brooks Bishop
OK, I'm in. Though not for the money: I want to know waaaay more about Building 43!
- Jordi Soler
I'd use the money to invite (pay for flight/hotel, etc.) someone really cool (Harold Varmus?) to the next ScienceOnline conference.
- Bora Zivkovic
Building 43 and Rackspace FTW!
- Bill Koslosky, MD
I'll use it to buy 2 new monitors. 1 for tweetdeck and 1 for Alert thingy
- Jeff (Team マクダジ )
Hi Robert. A noble venture to be sure. We would put the gift to use saving our art studio. The after effects of dealing with the Basin Complex Wildfire that burned Big Sur have left us in a precarious postiion. Truth be told, we'd rather have a big commission than the gift. Work is always better on so many levels. Perhaps we can bootstrap ourselves back to where we were and afford to offer the same gift to others in need one day not too far off--Pay it forward. Best wishes on Building 43 & thanks.
- B.E. (BJ) Johnson
I'm in for the $1,000 random drawing (because my $1750 answer would not be memorable - pay my bills).
- Laura Norvig
Give half to charity, then spend the other half on upgrading my skills (educational resources)
- Mo Kargas
What did I miss?
- Rob Michael (Atmos Trio)
Do Canadians qualify?
- Brian Sullivan
I just caught up with what the other money is for. If it was awarded to me I would use it to help a couple I know get started in Aikido. Their kids are in our kid's class, and they had been trying to find the finances to join for almost a year and had just figured out how to start and then the husband got laid off... They're having a hard time making ends meet and I know that they would...
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- Lindsay
I'll donate the entire $1,750 to Phoenix Children's Hospital if I win. Same goes for the $1,000 if I win that one.
- Aviv
paypal address to follow ...... :) Good luck with the new gig Robert
- Charlie Anzman
With $1750 I would help that YouTube girl scout girl, Wild Freeborn, reach her goal of selling 12,000 boxes to send her whole scout troop to camp. Got to give the girl some credit for thinking outside of the box.
- Tyler Brownfield
_/\_ Namaste (greetings) from India. This is simply awesome Robert. Would be great to win a cool 1000 USD. That's a lot of money in India. ;-)
- Shinil Payamal
Here's my comment. I would use the money to fight against DRM
- Marcos Marado
from fftogo
My mother has been an avid Obama supporter doing a great deal of volunteer work before & after the election. She recently lost her job & wants to start something new. She will need an audience. Robert, I'd love to use your money to hire YOU to coach her on how to do that most effectively.
- Rob Michael (Atmos Trio)
Money..! Will use the money to travel to India this summer, visiting, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki..., http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... with my family :)
- Karthick R
maybe because I'm the first Italian to write about it :) http://www.fluxes.it/flussi-...
- Contz
Haha a single thread from Robert turned us all (briefly I hope) into marketers :)
- Mo Kargas
What the heck I'll throw in a comment...I would use the money to fix up the bathroom at my parent's house.
- The Amber
This comment is random.
- Dave Roth
Great idea Robert! If I won I would take your portrait for free :-)
- Bill Pennington
from twhirl
Cheese and rice! This comment thread is giving FriendFeed Notifier a run for it's money. It's an interesting character study on what people will do with free money. Me? I'd pay the IRS & give to my favorite charities.
- Anthony K. Valley ©
If this comment gets chosen at random, I hereby refuse the money (always test the exception conditions of any algorithm). If I win one of the other chunks, I commit to donate the money to @eff (EFF - Electronic Frontier Foundation - the leading civil liberties group defending your rights in the digital world).
- Tinfoil 2.0
I thought I already commented on this?
- Herne
And the other way to win?
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
I would find 17 worthy people under the age of 16, who are helping their community through volunteerism or have started businesses and give them $100 each to help them reach their goals. IMO, helping young people is the most noble thing those of us above the age of 40 can do. And I'd spend $50 on take-out dinner with my wife.
- Scott Duffy
You win if you're last on the thread, Alex ;)
- Josh Haley
here and ready to spend the money for new ipod touch :)
- nahnu
why?
- Anthony Farrior
Hi Robert. I can haz $1,000 plz? kthxbye.
- Joey Gibson
DONT PICK ME!!! </ reverse psychology>
- Alfredo 亜瑠布れっど
If I win the prize money will go on my school fees and the rest will help me to buy a netbook with a full-size Scoble sticker :D you crazy!
- İbrahim Uzun [ j ]
ROFL, Chris.
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
Money would help so much you have no idea. :)
- courto
I'll use the money to send 2 teachers in my school district (Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools) to a technology conference somewhere to learn about Web 2.0 technologies.
- Tim Cooper
If I win I'll use the money to buy a copy of Autodesk Maya 2009 Complete. Then build cool things. Thanks for the chance Robert.
- Andrew Smith
pick.me
- Bob Stewart
bring it on
- jkkmobile
Hi, and who are you? Thanks Robert.
- Daniel Buckley
Sounds good, here is one comment.
- Grant Bierman
I would channel the money to ongoing biomedical research in the lab I work in (UCSF).
- Pedro Beltrao
*wave*
- Jan Schwenzien
How will I use the money? With pleasure, thank you Robert.
- Tomi Itkonen
I will use the money to start my non profit and purchase educational/tech material for my son's school. Warm thanks Robert.
- Yanik Falardeau
And as for what I would do, I'd build a new desktop pc (and switching my current one over to act as my media/web pc), buy a true dSLR and donate some to charity. And if there is any left over, pay back some minor 'loans', which I guess I really should do first...
- Grant Bierman
Hi! İ m not speak english so not comment writing :D(ingilizce bu kadarmı berbat olur ya:II) Thx You Robert.
- mehmetakif
Hey Robert, If I were to win the money would go to a project myself and a few other early stage entrepreneurs are starting to help get people who have lost their jobs back to work in the startup community. I know it wouldn't go very far but it'd get it kicked off. Otherwise just give us some help (which would be better anyway) and give the money to the guys who have to pay school fees or rent or buy food for their families. Their need is greater. anton@udoogoo.com if anyones interested in helping
- Anton Mannering
Great.I'm in.
- OnuRC
this post is going to get a hell of a lot of comments.
- Thomas Hawk
Random is random, Chris. :) Thanks for the thought though.
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
Just another random comment. :)
- Zian Choy
Why am I giving away the money? Because last week we did a job for Cisco where they paid us to do some videos. I am giving away my cut because what Cisco is doing is important to pay attention to without you worrying about whether I am paid off to say so. Also, I'm very fortunate to be in the position where I can do it. I thought about paying Jason Calacanis to buy some of his tweets, but thought that money could help someone out of work more.
- Robert Scoble
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- Y. Esenkal
I think you should give it all to Jason ;o)
- Ken Morley
I would use one of the $1,750 prizes this way. I'm currently photographing people that ask me for money. I give them $2 for their portrait. Instead of the two dollars. I will use the the money to add $50 to each $2 (total = $52) to the next 35 people that I photograph as part of this project. After I photograph them for the $2 I will give them the extra $50 and tell them that it is from Robert Scoble and will document each person's story, photo and reaction in a blog post.
- Thomas Hawk
i'd like to thank my mother, my father and all the people who helped me win this :p
- Sofia Bustamante
interesting !!
- mcd
Hat off!
- Alemsah Ozturk
Sounds good to me.
- Herb Hernandez
I changed my mind. Give it to Thomas! ;o)
- Ken Morley
Hmm I like Thomas' innovative idea
- Mo Kargas
I couldn't tell you what I would do with $1750, but I do know I would give some away to good causes like my underfunded state school or the public school drama and music programs, and I would probably keep a little to save or update my home technology.
- Steve Lowe
This is my first comment : Gods of Randomness, choose me !
- Alemsah Ozturk
how many others have signed up for Friendfeed to try and win $1000? Scoble, you should be a Friendfeed spokesman... :)
- chelle
Best of luck with the new gig! Have fun at SXSW!
- Trevor Little
I wonder how many new FF accounts this thread has been responsible for? Many first-time posters here.
- Ken Morley
This is my second comment: I will gonna put your $1.750 to eBay tagged as “Robert Scoble's first FriendFeed Competition money“ and I'm gonna wait & see what happens :)
- Alemsah Ozturk
Sounds fair to me. I'm in.
- Henry Burger
Random rules
- ted perlmutter
My niece in Mexico is on a partial sports scholarship at the university she attends. She's been supported by her mother who worked at a liquor store to help pay my niece's way. My niece's mom recently lost her job and fears she cannot financially support her daughter's education. $1,750 would pay for six months of university studies. If I were to win, that's where it would go. Good luck everyone.
- Andrew
Thanks for the opportunity Robert. Good luck on your new gig!
- andy
What would I do with the money? Well I'd put some towards my debt and paying my Mum's house bills. But I think my family could do with a nice break or trip away somewhere - my Mum hasn't really gone out since the death of my Dad last January! Time away from the house would do her the World of good right now.
- Kol Tregaskes
Really?
- Vinay | विनय
My second comment (for the 1K). This would go to the same niece...it's 3 more months of school.
- Andrew
i dont want it... { reverse psychology }
- Cem Öztürk
laykk!
- Taylan GERDAN (Tylolhot)
My wife has put up with a lot of sacrifice as I've worked on http://ourdoings.com/ and money's been tight so I haven't been able to make up for what she's done. I'd use the money to take her somewhere special, and of course I'd share a picture/map of where we went here on FriendFeed.
- Bruce Lewis
Oh for peats sake, it should at least be easier than winning the lotto. I'm in.
- Eric
I'll comment and be random...it's a good day to be giving away $$$ :) I would use any money won here to help my friends who are in such horrible need right now. (the story is on the blog and all over my FF stream). I may be unemployed, but I have a roof over my head, food on the table and can make some $$ freelancing. My friends are hanging on by less than a thread, already stretched way too far.
- Karoli
Hey man, I love money. Also, I have no job. Also, I will say some incitement here: LEO LAPORTE IS AN ALIEN
- Mike Nayyar
Make me your AIG! On the cheap no less.
- Tracy Viselli
Well here goes nothin'. thxbye
- April Miller
I'm pretty random... I'm in.
- Jamie Grove
I wish I could be at SXSW.
- Christopher Knopick
i'm feelin lucky :-)
- Cardeen winedrunk
Interesting promo Scoble. Comment and win money. Cool
- Sam R
so this is how you comment on friend feed....
- Noel Gomez
looks like i have a 1/300 chance of winning (right now). i'm predicting this number will diminish to 1/950.
- Kevin Pruett
just to be safe..
- Cardeen winedrunk
Count me in!
- Aaron Draczynski
good luck :)
- Ömer Karapınar
I'll throw my name in the hat.
- Chris Owens
Sounds like a plan. Let's see if FF has scalability issues with their comments.
- Michel Goldstein
Yea! I need some money! :)
- emdot
Why, not... Thanks Scoble!
- Jim Porett
Welcome to the ScobleCashMachine. Enter your comment.
- Olivier FAURAX
Put my name in a small hat and draw from it.
- Ken Worley
I'm in.
- aykut
If I win then I'll donate 0% of my proceeds to charity. Even more than that, I'll DOUBLE it.
- Cody Robertson
Trust me I am still looking for the details.... Can't find them!
- Ricky
Who wouldn't want to win?
- Tom Silk
This is my first year of trying to "make it" on my own, with a camera and no "real" job. Just trying to scrape by ... to be perfectly honest I'll use the money to help pay off some debt that I have acquired since I started, which has definitely been causing me headaches and frustration. My husband has been a gem, paying the majority of the bills since I make very little, and I want to be closer to breaking even with my debt so I can start to help him out. :)
- Nicole Young
new sponsor ? paypal ?
- Gökmen Karasu
robert başkan parayı buraya getir.
- bahadır canberk
Wow! I've outgrown my entry camera and this price is just what I need to be able to fulfill my dream; a Nikon D300! Please make my dream come true, Robert!
- Graphfruit
Hit me, Fortuna. Papa needs a new MacBook.
- Will Parker
robert are you a photographer - Dixon Hamby
- Dixon Hamby
Geez, it's 2:10 am here in Berlin and you start just another interesting stunt. I will take the 1.750 US and pay a programmer to finish our "Virtual intelligent chatbot" project which offers affordable AI Avatars with personality for all kinds of virtual worlds like Second Life, Gaia, the web, Opensim etc. They'll be our 24/7 virtual workforce and a way to create immortal interactive portraits
- Gaby K. Slezák
I like this idea. I'm talking with some friends this evening about how they'd each allocate $1750 if they were given this much money today to do anything with--most would share with friends and acquaintances that are going through tough tmes. One would help a friend who just closed down his company and is in need of dental work. Another would help co-workers whose hours have been cut...
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- Loren Heiny
I own Cisco stock. love that Co.
- Christopher Mann
Count me in
- Peter Szaro
a subject very interesting, congratulations in advance:)
- Serkan Cura
An interesting way to find out what the limits (if any) of FriendFeed comments are. Also: show me the money.
- Richard Akerman
Damn Robert Scoble: I meant "overly engaged" this thread is off the charts!
- bcultral
I'll get me some of that
- Phil Coyne
It's very interesting to see how many new people your offer has attracted to friendfeed.
- Anne Bouey
Great idea! Count me in.
- Mike
A comment for the $$$
- Jess Gibson
this sounds fun.
- Wesley Robin Guerrero
I'd like to win :)
- Sam Houston
i will love you forever. and evah evah. money would be spent on a nice camera (i'm studying photography) and supplies. working with a 5 year old p&s is getting tiring. :)
- shannon
How can anyone NOT click 'like' or comment? I definitely 'pLike' (the p is silent - btw) this thread. :-D
- Sean Hanna
a stunt? sure, but I could use an extra $1k. count me in, scoble
- Seth Long
If I win the $1750 it will be applied to my son's tuition as he starts college this fall.
- Jess Gibson
Is this stimulus money??? If so I'll use it to build infrastructure. There's a giant pot hole in our alley. I'll buy bags of cement and repair it myself. The neighbors will love me.
- Greg
Who am I and what am I doing here?
- Kris
I'm on it like white on rice.
- Jay Lara
Wow, I'll take some money - I need hard drives for my Drobo. Seriously, I need to start up an emergency savings account.
- Bryan Villarin
A chance to get paid to comment? Love it!
- Ginger Kenney
Could really use some money to help plant some seeds for the future
- Leonard Nelson
I'll buy an Iphone and with the rest put in my IRA to reduce my tax bill. Hey, helping economy and investing in business. Not bad.
- Stephen Pickering
i would spend for my interrail trip..
- Yasin Müderrisoğlu
This is my lucky day, an email today said I won the UK lottery.
- Bob Gannon
I'm going to buy half a Canon 5D Mark II. Or pay my bills.
- Andrew Trinh
If i win, i triple win , because i live in a third world country (Argentina) and for every dolar y get $3,60 on our local currency, which is a good ammount of money here, for example, i could eat for 1 year or more :D
- Ignacio Guerra
Ok. I would donate my winnings to the Bernie Madoff Defense Fund!@#$%^
- bcultral
I have dreadful luck when it comes to these kinds of things but I could really use this money. I have no car & desperately need to buy one.
- Mattie Kenny
from fftogo
Cool. And speaking of cool, PlanetHeidi.com is very cool.
- dunsany
between building a new house, a new baby and a new job, I am sure I can put it to go use, btw congrats Robert on your new venture, I shall be keeping an eye on it.
- Shane Wolsey
Cobble Sorter (anagram of Robert Scoble) = my random comment for the first part of the draw.
- Daniel Rowley
Wow, there's like a lot of comments here! Great idea for publicity, Robert. Carry on...
- Kevin Trotman
Watching Robert on Ustream right now.
- John Rubier
$1000 USD goes a long way in Canada :)
- Ryan
Thanks for sharing the wealth in more than one way
- Matt Penning
I could have an actual vacation and pay down some more debt.
- Todd Tripp
$1000 is mine! please? thanks Robert
- planetMitch
1. my comment for 1k, 2. $1750 would be split into 3 gifts of $250 a piece to encourage the best new open source projects, and the other 1000 I would invest and reinvest in http://kiva.org , selecting entrepreneurs in third world countries to invest several microloans in. Its' a gift that, over time, can be reinvested over and over to benefit many!
- David Silvernail
Take my hardworking wife on an overdue vacation - she supports me thru the IT bubbles. Thx hun!
- mal
Probably will give it back to you, winning could be cool enough
- Burcu Sarar
LOOKING for work but hand out will help
- Ron
I'm in as well.
- OyaD
C'mon Robert money or not now ya still benefit more with the insane publicity
- Mrsth
well, we are curiously waiting the result, and also i'm in..
- Mücahit Yılmaz
Smart one
- Heni Hazbay
Word Of Money. I am in:)
- Yunus Arslanoğlu
I'll take it if your giving....it will go towards the camera fund!
- Noelle Bell
I would use it to promote my tiny little super niche social news site http://HeavyAsHell.com The campaign would involve helping bands go DIY and avoid evil record companies.
- MarkCarras
What kind of sick social experiment is this? :)
- Oren Shomron
I'm in
- Josue Fontanez
mmmmm, austin. i miss Trudy's, El Mercado, Magnolia, Wanfu, Kerbey, Chuys, Fonda San Miguel, Dog & Duck, Thundercloud, Waterloo, Amy's, Little City, Hut's, Green Mesquite. aw heck and Taco Cabana and Whataburger too! if i win, i'll spend it all on restaurants in Austin!
- poxaV
pick me
- Ryan
OK Robert, add me to the pool....
- Gregg
You can't win unless you play! Ok, I better start praying now.... :-P
- Brian
:)
- Orhan Yediyıldız
Hello, giving away your money randomly? I can comment for that. Best of luck to all!
- Ronald Paul Corbin
Will you next tell us its limited only to Americans? I hate contests on the Internet, or anything on the Internet, that says "limited to the USA". The Internet is borderless... so should its contests and prizes
- Colin Charles
from twhirl
Thanks. I would use the $1750 to help my grandparents. My grandfather is 73 and my grandmother is 72. They just lost their 15 year home to foreclosure and are pretty much starting over with not a whole lot of time left. They are both on fixed income of SS and are now renting a house and trying to survive with the help of friends and family. When he as younger and had more money he was always the first one there to offer money to friends or family to help, even if it meant he went without something.
- Jonathan Gotcher
Robert please consider partnering with (Facebook) Seattle's Seeds of Compassion 2.0: The Compassionate Action Network (Twitter: @SeedsCAN) -- this organization is building a supra global network of "Compassionate Action Networks" (a bunch of ex McCaw, Softies and CISCO) -- currently in the throws of leveraging Social Media and Seattle's creative communities (music, tech, film). Last...
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- dakini_3
I wanna buy a jet ski, that's my MONEY!
- The Real sofarsoShawn
Random commenting! I hope FF doesn't fail whale!
- Zulema ⋅ spicy cocoa tart
from BuddyFeed
If I won, the money would go into putting insulation in my daughter's room & closet. Any leftovers would help buy a gas stove & fridge. :D
- Zulema ⋅ spicy cocoa tart
My, there has been some very good comments about what people would do... And some very needy people out there.
- Grant Bierman
Like most, it would be an unemplyment extension for me. As mine ran out, no jobs in the area, and times are tough. But hey, BUCK UP not DOWN! the only obstacles that exist are in your mind.
- Ronald Paul Corbin
I'll put some of the $$$ into donorschoose.org for some local classroom requests and the rest to fix up my car.
- Pete D
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- Brad Nickel
Count me in.
- Keith - @tsudo
This is a cool idea.
- Bluesun 2600
I would take the $1750 and go and get myself a root canal, so I could finally get out of pain. And if there was any left, I'd donate it at www.kiva.org
- Bec Rowe @d0tski
Will comment for money, any time.
- Dinah
Alright, I'm a sucker for free money so here goes... $1750 would be enough for me to buy an oven, sod my yard, and still be able to donate half to a charity.
- FFing Enigma
I wouldn't say "no" to $$
- Ted Louie
I could use $2,000 just to pay off my credit card. That's about it
- Outsanity
A $1000 would be geektacular. $1750 would buy my way into the cult of Mac.
- Melinda
Monkey?
- Penguin
$1750: Others need the money more than me, I'm sure of that. But ... that said I'd give $500 to a local library or literacy charity. $500 toward my home down payment fund. $150 to a kidney charity (my daughter only has one kidney). $100 for flowers for the wife. $100 for a bike for my daughter. $200 for a brake job. $200 to send at-risk kids to a Giants game.
- AJ Kohn
I would pay off our one remaining credit card and put some portion toward a down payment on a new car. In fact, I'd probably give a slice to the EFF as well. I haven't given to them regularly since my last layoff.
- ha3rvey (Hugs 50% off!)
why would you do that? It's a sort of social experiment?
- Niki Costantini
Will invest the money in my new unique microblogging startup :)
- Sergey Bulaev
I wonder how many comments in this thread are their first on FF. Well I'm in. If I won money, some will go into savings and some will go to my favorite charities: Autism Speaks and Atlanta Boxer Rescue.
- Carmen wBabby
yay first comment ever, though I suppose I should be commenting more
- Wang Yip
Wow, a lot of people commented just while I was writing my own! For me, half the money would be for savings and health insurance while I'm still trying to get a job (recently graduated). The other half would be for the non-profit arts organization my friends and I just founded in our hometown, which has no supportive creative outlets for its youth. The money would help produce the tri-high school theatre competition we are currently planning and hope to put on soon. Great offer, Robert.
- Kelly
One comment, coming up.
- Michael R. Bernstein
For $1750 I'll either blow it on more photo or computer equipment. Or sock it away in my kid's college fund since it'll probably cost more than half the organs in my body to pay for by the time he's of age. It's a tough choice.
- ronin
I'm all for free money Robert!
- Michael A. Baydoun
Who wouldn't comment for a chance ... lol ;)
- Brandon
If I win the money I'm going to establish world peace & have tons of sexy bitches serving me grapes.
- The Real sofarsoShawn
I would finally upgrade components in my PC and pay off some of our upcoming wedding debt!
- Shmoe
I'd put it on black
- John Kitchen
A percentage would undoubtedly go toward the health care fund, unfortunately. I'd allocate some for art and film supplies and give away the remainder. I've seen several comments here mentioning worthy projects and needs that are certainly deserving of attention and support. Thanks for sharing, Robert!
- Chris Weige
Circuit City lay off would use on BILLS, BILLS, and oh yeah BILLS
- Ron
I want to win your money!!!!
- Andrew
Wow. This is kinda cool. If I were to win anything at all from this, I would ask that the money be instead given to fellow FF'er Anika Malone because it breaks my heart that her and her family are having to go without hot water, a dryer, their stove...due to their gas being turned off. Hard times have struck too many good people right now. :(
- Hookuh Tinypants
400+ comments...wow! Guess 1000 bucks is motivation. I'd put the cash toward my photography efforts or go the boring route and invest it for now.
- Justin Korn
The pure capitalist social media business model: simply pay users to come.
- Michael Krigsman
It's so easy a caveman can do it!!
- Fireman17
I would use the money to pursue my passion of creating LOLcats & bring endless joy to all the world forever.
- The Real sofarsoShawn
I sit here naked as I type. By the way, they're real, and they're SPECTACULAR!
- Abbie Kendall
If I won, I would ... go to Disneyland!
- Jerry Chacon
lol, great Seinfeld reference!!
- Michael A. Baydoun
If I won the non-random cash prize, I'd use it for expenses while I was off work, recovering from my (upcoming) third brain surgery.
- Abbie Kendall
I would love to use the money to stimulate the economy by purchasing a new hot water heater. Our current one is in need of being replaced.
- Vaughn
Cool, this would help me stimulate the economy while I wait for my California state tax return.
- Stephen Ip
Question: Is it one comment per way to win or one comment in general? I've made one comment above that says how I'd spend the money. Now I'll just be random: PURPLE MONKEY DISHWASHER
- Bryce Roney
Okay, I'll play. I would return your money to you with a "let's do something better than this" remark. I would then ask you to actually read (reread?) the email I sent you about helping me get in contact with NPO's re: starting an OLPC-esque SMS-device project for said devices to be delivered in care packages around the world (via Red Cross, etcetera, etcetera) so that the poverty stricken and people in disasters could actually communicate with the world in real time.
- trench
Good job !
- Alper
I am making this comment as the IT/Communications Director of FHL International, Inc.http://fhlinternational.org I want to feed babies of poor working and nonworking single mothers. I want to change the oil in their cars when they can't afford it or know how to. I want to feed their children good wholesome food. I want to give the refugees and the lost some hope for another day. If we spend it carefully and wisely we can make it stretch to cover a 3-4 outreaches and give you a write up.
- Melanie Reed
random random random. macro lens, macro lens, macro lens.
- Andrea Ewald
I would probably also tell you (via your infamous digits) why facebook sucks, why friendfeed pretty-much sucks, and why Twitter sucked but no longer sucks. And then I'd educate you on why we - yes, you and I (and Thomas?) - need to visit Turkey ( http://is.gd/7yQr ) and discuss these things further. Yes, k... logging back out now. Thanks. Make coat not war.
- trench
@Robert as the IT/Communications Director, I would invite you to one of our events to cover it, put you on one of our videos and underscore the digital divide and what we can do about it. I would invite you to our UB cafe for the best pancakes in the world and have you look over our IT training provided by the IndyChristianGeeks in Indianapolis, Indiana and meet Dr. Thomas Ho, former...
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- Melanie Reed
Robert, I would also introduce you to my "boss", Merlin Gonzales, who started FHL International, Inc.: http://www.youtube.com/watch...
- Melanie Reed
I'd use the money to pay off debt, and take some time this summer to work less and volunteer more.
- Michael Kacer
What else would I do with some extra cash from Scoble? I'm thinking about making a difference via http://www.heifer.org/ and http://www.kiva.org
- Anthony K. Valley ©
want the money for my project
- Abubucker
Would love some money of course! I plan on using at least 3/4 of it to fund a new project I'm working on involving the iPhone and a web service. It would most likely go directly toward the cost of the project (registration fees, hosting fees, learning materials, etc.)
- Brandon Titus
can you imagine if I actually won?
- vijay
This is really cool. I love seeing all the people who would donate part or all.
- Lix
@qtbrowneyes - get in here :) We are making FF history.
- vijay
That took a long time to scroll down here to make a comment.
- David McDonald
Me FTW
- Brian
Good luck with building 43—great name, great concept.
- Dave
Interesting experiment. Can't wait to see the final results.
- Shamir Katsu
< insert winning comment here > =P
- vijay
I'm spending my winnings on wine and women
- Zik Daniel
from twhirl
Great contest. I'll give it a go.
- Michael Molinar
from twhirl
Why, thank you kindly, Mr. Scoble.
- Victoria Plautia
I'd use the money to get a new iPod Touch and maybe pay the rest to my medical bills. :P
- Mol, FF Music Lover
As far as how I would spend $1750: I'd love to say that I'm going to donate it all to a worthy cause like the EFF or the local mission, but I know I'll be selfish and just end up spending it in a blaze of glory at Fry's or during the next Woot-off. No point in trying to kid anyone here.
- Michael Molinar
from twhirl
hi! :)
- امیر؟
Cool way to gain money :)
- Richard Holas
I can definately use some cash. :)
- Shawn Whitmire
I am in!
- Edwin Khodabakchian
I would spend all the money for entertainment :)
- Sinem Co
$1,750 or $1,000? In any case it would be a good stimuli to open a startup in Belarus
- Aliaksandr
Wow, popular contest! I would use part of it to buy the Rosetta Stone package to help me learn French. I'm taking time off between my undergrad and graduate degree, and I figure learning a foreign language would be a great use of my time. I would use the rest to help pay rent when I get my own place, I'm going to be a Congressional Staffer in D.C. and the living is expensive while the pay sucks! Thanks Robert.
- Keenan
If i get the $1,750, i'd give the money as $100x10 and $50x15 AdWords Coupons to the people who searched for the website/blog on pageboss.com for promote their projects like sponsored by Scobleizer.. And if Scob gives me $1,000, i'd spend all of them with my sweetheart Sinem :D
- N.Onur ATAHAN
I would use the money to buy a laptop for my wife, a Kindle for myself and one year worth of school for two children that we know and support in Nepal :)
- Sam Grover
i need money :-)
- Dan
:) If i am lucky enough, i'll pick a random comment on this thread to give this money + 1$. Just to see how loop can be created.
- Guy Vander Heyden
One more random comment
- sam b-r
I'm in too :)
- Eray Korkmaz
1 Timothy 6:10: "For the love of money is the root of all evil." If that's the case Scoble bring on the EVIL! WHOOOOOO YEAAAAAHHAHH EVIL!!!
- The Real sofarsoShawn
Beautiful, beautiful link bait. ;)
- Chris Nixon
from BuddyFeed
Most commented post :)
- romanzolotarev
Wooow this post will be the most popular post of all times :-) I'm in!
- Ahmet Alp Balkan
$1750 would get me a DSLR and new macbook
- Duc Nguyen
Wow, great idea to make new friends ;) (but a bit expensive?)
- Pascal Hertleif
This is totally insane. I'd probably buy my mom the Palm Pre and 10% will go to charity (like always).
- Nir Ben Yona
In a rich man's world! http://www.youtube.com/watch... ain't it sad!
- The Real sofarsoShawn
FriendFeed is affected! :-)
- Oğuzcan Şahin
I need a netbook for my projects :)
- Gepetto
That's a big hat you need...
- Orli Yakuel
Yay!
- Rich
I will by my wife a flight home so she can go and see her parents who she misses lots. Which means i'll have sole access to my (our) laptop instead of having to share it. I could just use the money to buy a new laptop but then i wouldn't get teh good sofa and control of the remote as well!
- Jamie Vidamour
meow!
- zenya isaychew
Let's see if I'm still the unlucky guy I used to be
- Boubacar Balde
from twhirl
I could be homeless soon, lost my job due to the economy, and getting unemployment that just doesnt cut it, I could really use the money to pay my rent, bills and feed my kitties, contact me via email Kyle.M.Weller+scoble@gmail.com or you could just hire me and I'll help you in any way possible, check my blogs, I could be useful. And I would return the favor 10 fold if I can, matter fact I'll search for 2 other people to help and blog about it/take photo's
- Kyle Weller
I would keep half of $1750 and give the other half to the author of the comment I liked most, but only if he/she promises to do exactly the same.
- stark
.I need a new Laptop
- Selçuk Hoca
I`ll use 1000$ of the 1750$ to buy a lot of comments on FriendFeed :)
- Vlad
I thought these kind of things happened only countries like mine which the goverment tries to build a begging culture just to keep the hope alive and dependent to the authority at the same time. Each reply begging for money is adding another brick on the wall of shame. And Bob, couldn't you find another way to publicize this?
- M. Serdar Kuzuloglu
If I win I will invest it back for advertising! Just say my name 3 times on twitter like "Candyman".
- Los Angeles Dj
So what would I do with the money? Half of it would go to the good cause. I want to create value for people and who other than the less fortunate, handicapped and so on deserve this? Right. The other would go to a business I'm building. One for the people, on that will change our lives fundamentally and is here to stay.
- Kris
If I dont win this, i'll be happy to donate my time blogging or helping someone in any way right now, im jobless in Phoenix Arizona, I could do yard work or hook up pc's/fix pc's or help you with your website if I can
- Kyle Weller
I'd invest half of it in Google Stocks, then the rest I would pay my rent, get kittie food, and try and advertise www.phoenixstickers.com with adsense so my girlfriend makes some money with it, its new and not very popular right now ;\
- Kyle Weller
Here is my comment : the best way to talk about something is to let people talk about, and 4500$ is a pretty advertising investment. but it is really interesting :) now the question is ; is there any way to gauge the effectiveness of word of mouth? good luck.
- abdellah
Mmm....are u crazy Rob? :) Ok! I wanna a netbook give to me only 300$ ;)
- Dario Salvelli
I'd give the money to Comic Relief (http://www.rednoseday.com/) to buy 250 mosquito nets for Africa. Two hundred and fifty saved lives? Bargain.
- Robin Stacey
you are so generous robin you deserve to win :)
- abdellah
why?
- catepol
I don't need this money :) Because I'm still working. But you can donate to a charity organization if I win.
- Süleyman Sönmez
I will spend the money attending game design workshops in when in San Francisco, to improve my theory about the use of game design techniques in social web applications (playfuldesign.org).
- Federico [Kurai]
@abdellah Hehe. Anything that stops someone from dying of Malaria is all right by me. Besides, it's simple economics. With $1750, no matter how I invest it, I can't do more that what 250 people could do with the rest of their lives.
- Robin Stacey
you are right, so let resume (generous, logic, awesome, and with a sens of humor), let ask the question differently Robin : who has no reason to win the money win the money ;) (it seams that all have at least one reason) human are really amazing creature. (ps: me too)
- abdellah
I agree, I'd buy a jet ski and have so much kick ass fun!
- The Real sofarsoShawn
i'm in is too easy :)
- Valentin Sandu
se vinco devolvo tutto a Mantellini
- Luca Sofri
Trying to overload the comment stream?
- Örjan Lundberg
I am here~~~LOL
- K.D.
l'uomo a cui appiopparono la santità
- azael عصير للمشيمة
I'll create a new world :]
- ahmet kakıcı
yes please and I'll give half to my love oh and a bit to greenpeace
- Julian Edward
if I win I will give $1 to everyone
- Giuliastro
great idea, Robert! hope i'll win it.. i'll pay for my flight ticket, so i can finaly see you:)
- Martin
Dear Robert, sağa sola para saçmak yerine gidip bi türkçe kursuna kaydolsanda türkçe öğrensen olmazmı? Hem bu yorumu anlardın bak ne güzel. Paran çoksa işe yarar bişeyler yap canım.
- Ahmet Karaca
If I win, I will use them to finance my trip to L.A. next August.
- Fabio Cristi
I'm in.
- Tiziano Caviglia
Count me in.
- Alexander Arsky
of course, I'm in.
- Lorenzo
I'm in :).
- Demircan Celebi
I'm in :)
- Rıza Selçuk Saydam (RSS)
Ecchime. :)
- Maxime
I'll take "I'm a Nigerian Prince" for $1000, Alex, err, Robert.!
- Kevin Leroux
I have some debts.... and I have 11 sons... 34 grandchildren... 22 dogs... 16 cats... and I am a liar... a neeedy liar :-(((((((:-D).... GIVE ME CASHSHSHSHSHSSH... Ah... Goodmorning Mr Scoble
- Daniel
I'd invest the money to my wife's startup that she starts next month. She'll be working around social media, blogs, photography etc. :)
- Jemm
send all the money to germany :D
- Carsten
whee! I'd use it to open my deli :) I see free lunches in your future *laughing* hell, I'd even dedicate a booth to you.. with a cool plaque and everything!
- russa
This is going to be the longest thread ever
- Manuela
I hope the money goes to someone that really needs it
- Kyle Weller
Love to know your motivation for doing this Robert. Social experiment? See what people will do for money? You have a financial backing in Friendfeed & are aiming to stimulate usage? Either way, if I win, please donate the money to your favourite charity
- Lindsay Davies
if I win I'll make a gift to my girlfriend
- Ciccsoft
yo free money? I'm in!
- danslarue
I would give it to a friend who is unemployed; buy a new computer, smart shirt and tie, give him his dignity & confidence back. It saddens me to see so many friends hurting right now.
- Sally Church
I'll use the money by not using it (well, except for that 4pt escape clause written down below in the yet-to-be written contract between me and Mr. Scoble about the prize)
- Daniele V.
oh, WOW!
- Viditu - Umberto
This is the FriendFeed equivalent to leftover pizza in the breakroom. I could certainly use some $ right now.
- Phillip
if I win I'll make a gift to Lehman Brothers
- azael عصير للمشيمة
I'd rather type in nonsense, can I have Kaan's spot?
- The Real sofarsoShawn
awesome robert!! are you part of pres obama's stimulus package? LOL! hope i win the random $1000 contest =)
- Melissa Solito
I'll stay tuned :P
- Tiziano Tassi
In regards to the first prize, I'm in.
- Armin Talic
crazy guy you are! "You're only given a little spark of madness. You mustn't lose it." (Robin Williams)
- Johannan Edelman
I'm in too ;)
- saicharan123c
So. this is my comment: I would use the money to buy a ticket to fly over to meet you and discuss if I could support you as some kind of correspondent over here in Europe (I'm in Germany).
- Till
In regards to the second prize, I'd like to use the money to buy my brother and sister their first macs. I grew up on encyclopedia britannica CDs on Windows 95, they deserve Wikipedia on a Mac.
- Armin Talic
@danslarue, "free money" these two word combined are more powerful then a TNT, if you can conceive or even think a second about a concept of "free money" then implicitly agree with the concept of "free work" and beside voluntary work they call it salvation .
- abdellah
I would use the $1750 in part to purchase some equipment for the part time photography business (about $500). The rest would go to 2 friends who are hurting right now with Flagler County, FL's unemployment rate at just over 14%.
- Jay Caruso
strange that no one, think to reverse the money to the 43 startup!! boys oh boys buy some action some part of this 43 startup may be it will be worth million :)
- abdellah
At first i thought i'd start a similar thread and give the money i win :-) but, here's the truth... I'd use the money to pay the next month of dev, working with a partner on our hope to be successful web service. I'm jobless 9 months now, 3 months since we started pushing the idea forward, all done @ home. Will use the most to pay my bills, with the rest i'll buy dinner for some of the homeless people i usually ignore.
- Majento
i need a new macbook))
- what?
advertorial?
- Elif Yılmaz
really?
- Moses
gonna go to hollywood
- Özkan Altuner
With this money, I am plannig to start a new company that develops social media applications. So if I win, I can give a job to you :))
- aydınn
the entire amount of money will be used to help the local communities in eastern congo and sustain conservation of the virunga national park in congo. if you prefere, you can do it right away without giving me the money, visit www.gorilla.cd/blog for a one-time donation / all donation are tracked and transparent :)
- giulio
Brilliant idea and very noble of you, Scoble! (Sorry...I should leave the humor to my husband, who does a much better job!) LOL! I would use all the money to buy as many Radio Flyer kids wagons and send them out free to those that win a contest similar to this one! (I get them wholesale because I am an authorized dealer, so that would stretch the budget a bit more).
- Pat Graham Block
I'd spend the money for future trips: I have ever wanted to see the milky way from the earth or see the Northern lights. But maybe, I could put the money aside and spend it for a parabolic flight when I have enough money (that's another lifelong dream). I would also love to go on safari in Africa and see all the amazing animals in the savanna. But maybe I should rent a car and feel the American dream at Route 66? Ah Robert, your money lottery helped my thinking about all my dreams again. Thanks! :)
- Timo Heuer
I would use part of the money to donate to some podcasters or webcomic artists who are selling things on their website, like T-shirts, mugs and stuff like that. And buy a couple of domain names. Things I already do when tax return time comes, only this time more.
- Derek Coward
Each post you make will promote this thread more and more thus decreasing the expected value, with this rate a post made a few hours from now will probably have an expected value of a few cents. This will be a very nice data .
- Tuna
I need a new woman, please Robert choose me!
- Francesco M.
cool :) I would use $1750 to buy cabinet-type gas-control point for cottage
- Igor
I would spend the money of webhosting running free-of-charge computing services for open drug development (using open source utilities), such as used in Open Notebook Science and sorts.
- Egon Willighagen
what's up.
- pastas9
I think we will use the money to develop a desktop application for facebook very simple, actually, but that still does not exist in optimal form. I thought with a friend, but, since we are both students, we need a bit of $ $ $ to get technical advice from someone for some parts that relate to writing code (I study Marketing, and my friend is the final year of a degree in computer engineering).
- Tiziano Tassi
Okey I give in. Scoble, finally you made me signup for friendfeed
- shafiu
i'm in. also if this a psyco socialexperiment...
- FedericaB.
hahah interesting to see anyways .. how many comments on the one thread
- Terry O'Fee
Alright. This is my first entry. Chances are that I won't win....but it is exciting waiting to see if you do. :-)
- Thebluestbutterfly
1) I'll spend the money to end my fear for airplane: so I can travel again. 2) i will organize a free public movie show here in Milano, all people sits in the night to watch the screen in the spring air
- FedericaB.
@FedericaBellag, interesting :) and what if it is just a plain and simple contest? it may be more "word of mouth advertising" tracking experiment then psyco social one. (love the smile face)
- abdellah
Who wouldn't want to join FF for $1000?
- Samuel Driessen
I will use the money for paying up my college fees and taking up a course related to VOIP. People like Craig and Vincent of Grandcentral (which I use for 3 years almost), pat Phelan and more VOIP experts keep pushing me to do something great in that area. Also, great its open to any1 iin the world. Most competitions are US ONLY, which is something I HATE BIG TIME. I m in India Mr....
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- Hardeep Singh Dang
@samuel, no the question is are FF team ready to pay $1000 for any on who join!!!
- abdellah
@abdellah ok, let's be tracked then! that's my face at the office ;-)
- FedericaB.
I will save the money. I'm an italian student studying abroad (Master in Digital Library), and those money could just be useful. They could be also a way to go in Jerusalem, following my girlfriend. Anyway, goo viral Scoble ;-)
- Aubrey McFato
notice : the headline is "win my money" not "take my money", so we have to make effort, it is not a "free money" it is a make effort and win, so remember it is not "take my money" :)
- abdellah
im in :)
- shaff
Adopt me Robert!
- Özer (Wrzl) Dölekoğlu
It's so hard to see whole of the comments. 620 including me now. :)
- Meriç Dağlı
I would get an iron if I have been searching some water in the desert and I would be the ass part of the Voltran, when we have been arising it.... bacause I am so unfortunate
- Lokman Köroğlu
.oO(i SHOULD be able to get D90...)
- browneyes
you wanna DDoS FriendFeed :). I will use the money for a ff-contest when i pay people for the best comment. obviusly you can partecipate and win back your money. :P
- ez
nice ;)
- tbr (nicola) √
I'll donate some charities with 750$ of it. Buy a macbook with 999$ it, and set up a " First commenters win the buck. " contest via friendfeed. :)
- Meriç Dağlı
It shouldn't be about the money? What kind of game is it? We still need to wait Is it somehow related to SXSW?
- Aziz
Sure do wish I could be there at #sxsw
- Gil Rodriguez
Hi, with that sum I would probably take a chance to stop and take time to smell the roses, at least for a while.
- ziomau
nice way to see if there's a limit on the number of comments a ff post could get..
- Nicola Maggi
I could qualify for the $1,000, but not the $1,750 as I have two jobs. The only basis I could see is for a complete donation to an organization helping out of work people. We have a food pantry here in Beverly Mass called Bootstraps and a women's shelter in Gloucester, Mass called Wellspring that both would know just where that money could be best used.
- Martha
Damn... money can do anything...
- Eyal Shahar
I'll be practical when I win the money and invest it in the future....my childrens' education!
- Kevin Dugan
@Eyal no, you can't win a contest even if you give money :) money don't do anything ;)
- abdellah
@nicolas interesting question, and what do you think? does a thread have a comment limit or no? it all depend on the limitation, will this run eternally?no so there is a number of comment that people will post here it is a kind of buzz after the momentum there will be no comment let say there will be 50000 comment, FF are able to store such data.
- abdellah
So being completely unbiased, with little if any interest, if I were Robert Scoble, handsome fella, I'd give the money to whoever stated first they would buy a jet ski due to the fact they are super fun! Oh, who knew, that's me!
- The Real sofarsoShawn
Great...I was juts talking over in TechCrunch that Robert does not need luck in his new venture "Building 43" and not it seems I am the one that needs luck to win the $1000 ....:) Thanks Robert Joao/TechFuga
- TechFuga
a little is better than none. :)
- Geyik Mühendisi
Well I started reading this thread, but I got a 1/4 way through & gave up, >650 comments, that's got to be some kind of record. What post does have the highest number of comments?
- Glenn Slaven
Interesting... I guess there's nothing to lose by trying
- Adi Sheleg
Ok, can't hurt to put one's name into the "hat"...p.s. good luck dude on the new gig... will be following closely... thinking cloud myself :)
- Michael Lehman
Hmmmm. That is my comment
- Darrell Bell
Commenting away in the Great Scoble Sweepstakes.
- Warner Crocker
With $1750 I would spend half to get to next years SXSW which I am missing this year :-(. and the other half I would spend on sponsoring a deluxe drop in-childcare at the Austin Convention Center for the parent bloggers.
- Emee Pumarega
I'm in too:) I would use the money for keeping an exhibition
- Neya
Comment! This is the Robert Scoble Stimulus Package
- Kreg Steppe
Spinning the wheel. FF FTW ;)
- Daniel Krech
10% to charities of my choice, the rest to pay bills and allow me to keep working in the nonprofit sector. I'm at that level where I still need to do outside consulting to come out ahead at the end of each month, and $1600 would give me 4 months where I wouldn't need to get a consulting gig (yep, the budget is that tight)
- Jeff Stern
The 4 minihawks would like to donate to their california school district to help offset the 1.5mm cutbacks.
- Mrsth
I'm in too!
- LJ Kyser
Of course MRSTH could use an overdue marathon weekend away with Mr. Hawk.
- Mrsth
I can promise nice pics?
- Mrsth
I'm in...
- Halil Ahmet ÇAKIR
This thread will explode in 3, 2, 1...
- Marta
I can upgrade to a macpro by winning :-P
- Richard A.
wow this is the most comments/likes i've seen!
- andy brudtkuhl
If I won either sum of money, I'd probably put it toward buying some camera gear, like a Nikon D90 and another lens. I have a couple family events that I'll be taking pictures at, and it'd be nice to have a D90 for them. :) I could go for a D700, but the D90 has video, so that's why I prefer it right now.
- Cheryl Jones
@Jason H - Whether or not either of us wins Robert's money, I have a timeshare near Disney that I haven't had the opportunity to use in the past few years. If you can get yourself airfare, a rental car and park tickets, I'll be happy to let you use the week, no charge to you. The dates are October 24-31, 2009.
- Sally - Skyrimmin' It
what r we copying Ben Stein now?
- clarke thomas
Congratulations to you and Rocky on the new gig.
- Aron Michalski
With $1750 I'd give money to the National Multiple Sclerosis Society, to help fund research for a cure and treatments so my mother and others with MS can have an improved quality of life. I'd also give money to the American Diabetes Association to help my father and others living with diabetes. I'd give some to @smallcanbebig to help needy families locally (Boston) and hope to have enough left over to take my son to visit his grandparents in FL. He's 6 mos. and they've only seen him once, at Christmas.
- Sally - Skyrimmin' It
Robert, I want your money. Do I have to work for it?
- Aidha
I'm in. I wanne buy ı mac pro.
- Rıza Selçuk Saydam (RSS)
I'm in robert!
- Junal Rahman
on that money is the side of the monte man. what's this it :) scoble iki dakka delikanlı ol lan paran fazlaysa git yardım kuruluşlarına, özürlüler, kimsesiz çocuklara ver mngoduum kapitalist pçleri.
- Volkan Yılmaz
hehe :P
- Geyik Mühendisi
Yes please. The odds are way better here than playing the lotto
- Christian Burns
I can't wait to see the effect of putting my name on this illustrious list of luminaries
- David Gallagher
that's a smart way to get attention :)
- PaperDoll
With USD1750 I could finally prove that friendfeed is not a complete waste of time...
- Morten Josefsen
I would probably go for a D90 :-)
- Nils Sandin
if you come to shanghai/China, we can have a dinner and go to bar :)
- 赛林（土耳其）
I enter not because I need the money (I'd give it away too) but because me entering slightly reduces all of the rest of your chances to win. MUAHAHAHAHA
- Nate True
My Scoble $1750 stimulus package spending plan: Give my son (the struggling Mac/iphone developer) $1,000 in "angel funding", get a Drobo ($500), and put $250 in my Grandson's (future Mac) savings account.
- Al Degutis
Just for fun :)
- Hassan
Pick me, pick me, pick me for the $1000 giveaway (if you don't pick me for the $1750 Scoble Stimulus).
- Al Degutis
more people should do this. Many people or businesses could afford to give $1,000
- Lady Lovely Heart
i would donate some of it maybe half to a local worthy charity, the rest would go into a fund that would be used to encourage this type of activity. Conversation building, with the right questions a lot of solutions can be found by crowds
- Tweet Feeds
My intent for the big prize would be to replace windows in my home with energy efficient ones. the ones in the house now are cracked from the house settling. they are the original 1959 windows, and they rattle every time a plane goes over the house. very distracting when we are trying to concentrate or stay warm
- Lady Lovely Heart
I can haz money?
- Bryan R. Adams
Big money. No whammies. STOP. | I would use the winnings towards upgrading my equipment (Mac Pro) since my current setup is pretty bad for video. I would sell my current MBP (2006 First Gen) and use the proceeds towards the new machine. I would pump out twice as much HD content with better equipment. Thanks for all you do Robert..I know whoever wins will make the best out of the cash.
- Bwana ☠
Take my husband to the Grand Canyon for that honeymoon we never had--that's what I'd do with some extra cash.
- joansjewels
I agree, nice way to get people engaged.
- Gary Gifford Jr
from Nambu
Show me the money! :)
- Ale♪nastrorosa
actually, I don't want your money
- Manuela
That's quite ingenious =)
- Count Caturday
I'd buy a laptop so that I don't have to wait for the missus to get off the ruddy computer and let me have my go on it!!!
- Andy
a nice way to test the limits of commenting feature on a bunch of real people just for US$1000.
- 9000
I will use the money to buy $1 stocks in companies that will re-bound or will be more successful in the next 2-5 years due to the ongoing financial crisis. My choice will be guided by those companies that care, share and have flare for others...a community stimulus...hope others will join and build what the "financiers" could not.
- Gordon Montgomery
It seems too easy, but.. here ya go!
- Scott Breakall
You'll be my best crazy friend! *LOL*
- Andrea Spedale
1. Cool 2. Travel for VC meetings so I can finally provide some solutions for RSS that we argued/discussed 2 years ago (delivery of premium content possibly over open channels)
- Andy Beard
here I am :)
- Fran
Yo Robert, did you give it away yet? Here's my chance to win! ;^)
- Michael Bailey
@manuela, but personally I want more comment from you.
- abdellah
awesome idea. by the way, how goes life without diet coke?
- tracy
I'd use it to help an independent artist with their career. Rentals for video equip on shows and music videos with stories that would otherwise remain untold.
- Frank Jonen
I'm in
- Lucas Araujo
from twhirl
I refuse to comment in this thread.
- Akiva
How can I win?
- Gloria Gordon
Woah! So is this part of the Scoble Stimulus plan? Anyways, if by some chance I did win the money I would use either towards moving out of my parents house later this year or put it towards my student loans.
- Mathew™ aka Youngblood
@Akiva you also deserve to win., I insist please comment this thread please.
- abdellah
I'd use the money to go to Korea.
- Mark Woodson
I would use the money to fix the economy.
- Andy Bakun
Andy: you get it right, please fix that economy.
- abdellah
Its enough to buy one toliet seat for the government :)
- Roberto Bonini
Robert could fund nails and shingles for building a small seminar facility in the Adirondack State Park.
- Jeff Archambeault
With $1750 I would buy a lot of toys for the baby we are waiting....
- roberto ferorelli
I count at least 6 references to "donate to kiva.org" so far. Pretty cool. That is what I was going to write, but looks like many other's beat me to it. But hell... If I got it, I would donate to Kiva.org. :) (make it 7 now).
- Shannon Bauman
JET SKI!
- The Real sofarsoShawn
Sounds like a great idea.
- Tyson Key
awesome idea.
- Jessie
Give me $10,000 in unmarked bills or I tell Maryam your giving away $4800.
- shelisrael1
joy and joyness!
- Jenn Castro
Nothing special here, just want to pay some outstanding bills and get supplies for my 3mth old =)
- Mat Finch
Quickly put in a reply while thinking about a smug way of spending 1.750...
- Stefan Kolle
Yeah, I think I'll stick with the Kiva donation too. I'm pretty prolific there (a true believer), and have about that amount outstanding in loans, so the chance to double my Kiva loans in one go would be outstanding.
- Stefan Kolle
is this gonna have like 1000+ comments?
- Jorge Murillo
I'm bummed I couldn't get to SXSWi so I came to Robert's ATM machine instead. :)
- Laura Zickus
in.
- Richard Lawler
No comment :-P
- Richard A.
Bump!
- Tyson Key
I'd love to say I'd do something altruistic with the money, but I'd invest it all in my startup (we're doing cool things with information and emotions online). In this economy every little helps :-)
- jennielees
Out
- Roberto Bonini
Awesome. Looking forward to what's next.
- Andy Sternberg
from fftogo
Yay, the Scobleizer Grand Prize Giveaway- Still more chances than the National Lottery!
- Tyson Key
FriendFeed Scales!
- Tyson Key
with $1,750, I would I would set up 7 performance art / photoshoots uptown here in Charlotte in the center of Bank Town at lunch time, wordlessly demonstrating some of the problems (as I see them) with our current corporate culture. I have the first one of these ready to go but don't the cash to set up the others (yet). If I only got the free $1000, I would buy some more studio lighting equipment (much to the chagrin of my roomy).
- Shannon J Hager
Why? Why? Why?
- Ashish Rangole
in
- Roozbeh
Bella idea! :)
- Daniele_MD
with $ 1.750 I would buy a laptop + microphone + router for my parish and start broadcasting with kids.
- astrid/astridula
Hey Robert, I think this is the most commented entry on Friendfeed. btw I don't want your money :) Cheers
- cihanergur
just testing my luck :)
- DenizEdincik [bluesign]
sure, I'll play. as for how I'd use the money, I'd probably use it to help offset the cost of my lasik surgery.
- chrisofspades
I would use the money to fund my own open source development work (within the php symfony framework) as well as supplement my wife's pending maternity leave. Realtors don't get paid maternity leave... Thanks!
- Jon Issler
Scoble rocks, count me in!
- Chris Pugh
I would use the money to assist my parents in their move back home closer to the adult children. They are currently existing on 18k a year, their Medicare and Secondary insurance cost them 10k. It would help buy their medications.
- Janet-The Bottley Crue
I'm sure that there are a lot of deserving people who need this money so best of luck to all. I would give this $ to my mother who had to sell her business after working so hard, cause she was diagnosed with lung cancer. Now she has to work for someone part time cause still sick, husband laid off in Florida, trying to pay off house, med bills, prescrip, barely making it & gov't no help cause not appv'd for Medicare cause married, what? so considering divorce just to afford medical bills & mortgage. - M.E.
- monica Edwards
I've blocked u, so if u wanna get back on my list....:)
- Koba Yaschi
This is really good. I'll buy a Nintendo Wii. :) Thx.
- marrup -serkan-
Here's the rundown with what I'd do with $1750: I want to do a Power Rangers fan film. No joke. Stop laughing. No really, you can stop now. Power Rangers has been on the air for the past 17 seasons, and it's finally getting canceled. This has inspired me to shoot a film short inspired by the show I grew up with. The $1750 will be invested to bump it up to looking professional. Scoble can be the Executive Producer! Don't pass up on that chance. Ok, you can stop laughing now, lol.
- Lisa J
I want money
- Tyler (Chacha)
Tuition for 2010 Iowa Summer Writing Festival courses, at Iowa Writers' Workshop.
- Paola Bonomo
It would go into the funds I am raising to start a new print venture, tbnl, which will publish great, timeless stories (fiction & nonfiction) in a limited edition (subscriber only edition), a print-on-demand edition available for years and a digital ebook reader. Paying writers & artists on an ongoing, fair basis
- Shannon Clark
I'd love to have some Scoble Dollars. They'd help fund my exit from technology to academia.
- Tom Morris
Hi Robert, Congrats on new opportunity with bldg 43 Can I share your money with my 18 month old daughter AKA the Joy transmitter or perhaps I could drop it form the sky with my tandem paraglider over the Microsoft campus...
- John Clifford
It's impossible not to comment - although if it wasn't Scoble saying this, I wouldnt bother to be honest, as I'd suspect a con ...
- Ian
760 comments and counting...
- Mike Doeff
I guess a SECOND MacBook would be nice…
- Alexandre Testu
Is it for VAT?
- Onur ALMIŞLAR
I'd use the money to buy crack. I mean books for children. Oh, wait, it's random...
- Jules Morgan
Wow! I think I would invest them for developing an iPhone application
- Nicholas
Hi Robert, my first comment on friendfeed, I couldn't resist the chance. You do know that Tuesday is St. Patrick's Day - I'll buy you a leprechaun hat from the parade in Dublin to celebrate!
- Niall Sisson
Leaving Comment here. Hope it finds a good home. I would use the money to start a shelter for lost comments.
- Joe K
No 419 scammers yet? ;)
- Tyson Key
Great! As this 'WTF' crisis in Madagascar is causing everything to be sooo difficult now!
- Thierry R. Andriamirado
better try...
- grouchomax
That's like a lottery :) I'm in !
- Il gareth in Milano
I would put together a new computer, like to see BOINC running on a quad core.
- Willem (@wim66) ☠
Great way to engage Robert!
- Sampad Swain
I'm here! And I'd like to switch from PC to Mac... :D
- Giovy
Rackspace customer and big fan... Looking forward to this new venture!
- Charlie N. Browning
Surprised you have fallen as low as this Robert. Still, been there and done that before so best of luck and best wishes with Rackspace.
- Paul Fabretti
Um, awesome.
- Nick Humphries
count me in
- Edward Kimble
If I win, will post about the same in my blog and you'll be famous in India too (if you're not, that is). BTW your fan following can add upto 45 million Indian internet users (Smirk!). Now how about that Mr. Scoble? Game for it....Oh man, this is quirky fun! Keep up the good work Robert :)
- Sampad Swain
I would use the money to fix _my_ economy. And by my economy, I mean I'd blow it all on strippers and blow.
- Jon Ursenbach
The amount of comments in here is insane. What's the record for the FF entry with the most amount of comments ever? Because this one feels like a winner.
- Brad Butner
from twhirl
you lucky! in Italy we can's setup a contest like that one easily and free, we have to pay taxes :(
- Maurizio Mazzanti
If I won $1000, it would go to my first Mac since a Mac+ !
- Steve Ellwood
am still undecided on your real motive...... but then again, pecunia non olet..... ;)
- denise
787 comments ?? wow!! Scoble u are the Brad Pitt of friendfeed... anyone else see the physical resemblence?
- Cody Heitschmidt
Um, no, I don't Cody. Sorry. Scoble is taller.
- Roberto Bonini
just leave a comment. well her's mine
- Rachel Clarke
well its not identical I know Scoble is a little taller, but other than that Anfgelina could easily confuse the 2.
- Cody Heitschmidt
I'm in!
- «Weird & Sons»
eh what the heck, im in :)
- ralphsaunders
This is interesting, but too many comments to read unfortunately.
- Mitch
Simulate me, Scoble!
- Robert Owens
That would be awesome, I could put the $$ towards my vacation to Kauai in August. Thanks Scoble, I promise to provide you photos from the vacation PF.
- Pentaxfan
I'm bending the corner of my comment so it sticks out
- Just Ken
pick me! Pick me! :)
- Dania
This is great.. thanks Robert! =)
- Timo Ukkola
I'll buy whatever Apple is developing with that rumored 10 inch multitouch display..
- Peter
too much comments..pick me!
- magari sul tardi
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- Smeerch
Jet ski, I need one
- The Real sofarsoShawn
If I win this thing, I'll be most hated person on FF. god help me!.
- Ozan Caglargil
For a small advance fee, I can take part...
- Gordon Joly
i'm in, too..
- Sercan YILMAZ
You're not really going to write down all these names & pull them out of a hat are you?
- Mrsth
I'll need a credit card that got no limit-cuz we all just want to be rock stars
- Mrsth
Mrsth: I bet he'll find a script somewhere to pull all the usernames into a file, as only Scoble could do. :) Any amount of money would likely go towards my photography business, should I be chosen to win... it would be fun to put a portion of it towards prizes for the photowalks I'll be starting this summer in northern Vermont for area photographers and enthusiasts.
- Bob M. Montgomery
814th post!
- Tyson Key
I like free money. Was it already given away?
- nsnadell
I'd like to say that I'd do something noble should I win but there's no nobility in ordering cases of wine and giving my liver a good workout. Plenty of enjoyment, though.
- Mark H
I'm in! :)
- Vlad Rafeev
I would use it to not have an excuse for not recording my album. That is to say after 15 years of putting it off, I would stop procrastinating.
- Vicky
wow for real? thats insane
- ralphsaunders
I'm in and I'd probably put the money towards building my deck (not super exciting but still...)
- Trevor
Starting to think I should post a reason why I want it...
- ralphsaunders
I'm in! And I would use the money to buy my mom a present. She just turned 52 :)
- Alex Kapranoff
I'm working on a funding for a research application for a semantic web project that I hope will become the next big thing (one of the next big things, anyway). If I succeed, you'll be the first person I ask to cover it!
- Sam Kuper
Money, money, money, money ... MONEY!
- Great Scott! Needs a Ham
You guys do know that Scoble is essentially bribeing you to comment here? Large carrot and a small stick.
- Roberto Bonini
Didn't stop you did it?
- ralphsaunders
LOL. In my defense, I was performing a public service. *ducks*
- Roberto Bonini
Hey I'm in. Is this the most commented entry in the whole of FriendFeed? I'm guessing that it will be. Anyone know what the previous record was?
- Peter Kelley
I'd use the money to help get my wife's specialty dessert company off the ground: www.thesweettreatcompany.com
- Michael Listberger
Can't wait to win your money... I'd use it to pay for some much needed camera gear and the rest of it to plan a trip to a city I've never been before so I could photograph it. I would love to be able to do something with photography, but it's tough working full time and going to grad school at night, all on my own dime. I don't have it as rough some people, but I've had to earn everything I have so I make no apologies for it.
- Michael
Good luck sorting thru the 800+ comments :) If I won the money, I would repeat your experiment and give it all away (though I'm sure I would get no where near as many entrants as you) (P.S. It's not that I couldn't use the money, but I think it would feel good to help someone who needs it more than me). Good luck everyone!
- Helen Hoefele
He won't notice if I comment twice, right? ;) Nah, I don't do that. But, holy crap! This is a lot of comments!
- Mike Nayyar
I sure could use $1000. Would go straight to funding Taskerrific. $1750 would be even better, because I could get a new computer and a year's hosting, based on my current estimates.
- Chris Charabaruk
I would use the money to fund my plastic drumming addiction. Hellooo pro drum set hacked to play Rock Band!
- Chieze Okoye
So I wonder how many comments a FF post can handle?
- gfurry
I would use the money to pay my taxes so the needy executives will still be able to get their bonuses this year.
- gfurry
Hey Robert. Hard to say the best way to spend it without doing too much work to make it be most useful, but if it could be used to do something radical with what is going on with the Fed, I'm sure you know that Ron has a bill in Congress to Audit the Fed. Very soon things are gonna be way worse for us on this planet if things are not done to stop the insane people from making some really bad choices. So the money should go to someone willing to do something really radical to save our country from ending.
- mikehedge
Weird. I was just thinking about how I needed about $1750 in ones to sew together and waterproof in an effort to make myself an umbrella top to fix the one I ripped yesterday. So...yes, that's what I'll do with it. I'll even give you a free picture of it in exchange for your dollars! (Leftovers will be donated to credit card debt. :( )
- Brett
what is going on here?
- potatohai
mortgage and beer, yo!
- TINY REPTILIAN PYROMANIAC
I'll put the money into microlending; a good social/economic ROI.
- Phil Wolff
I want to say something conservative like pay down my debt or put it in the kids college fund, but I'm going to go out on a limb and say that I would use the money to buy myself a bass guitar. Just something I've been wanting but don't have the discretionary income to afford it.
- Eugene Huo
850+ Comments? That has to be some sort of record for friendfeed in just over 24 hours.
- WiseYoda (aka Patrick)
Win money? Count Me IN!
- Dave
I want to win money!
- Matt Bebich
hi Robert Scoble :D yeah count me in!
- OmniDragon
$4500 closer for next TED. Plenty of time to work on the invitation! jgx
- Jennifer Green
Bring it on! Love your feed from SxSW! Now, send me the money!
- Gene
OH good money for college... or to buy a new computer...
- Laaabaseball
I want to win so that I can buy me a Macintosh,so count me in.
- frank harvey
Hey, Rob help a sista out! Give me da money!
- Jackie
saw you on Chris's live stream @ SxSW...free money count me in!
- Jason
Money rocks
- Shawn Farner
If I won $4500, I would install central heat and air in my house. You would make my life so much happier!
- Auriette Lindsey
$1,750 would go to the nonprofit volunteer org I'm trying to get off the ground :P
- Shawn Farner
Diapers for Newborns. $1750 split evenly to the most socially active on http://bebepool.com (my free web service enabling expectant parents to run their own baby pool contest). Most active meaning the 10 pools with the most participant guess entries Jan-Feb. I will paypal $175 to each winner and blog the results inclusive of the funds origin & any statements from the families impacted. I've seen the bebepool community show their own generosity (http://burnurl.com/YvHNL0 ), so would love to full circle it.
- Micah
Scoble the human Roulette wheel.
- Rob
wow. must be the post with the most comments i've seen on friendfeed so far.
- simonpure
With 1750 I'd do the ever boring "keep paying off the wife and I's credit cards"
- Steve Boerner
Any and all the money I win will go for building this charity app we are planning. Every cent spent will be accounted for and would be posted on a web site (TBD). Additionally, we will be spending our own money and time on this. @scobleizer, please ping me if you would like more details.
- Ashish Rangole
lame
- Vezquex
Behold, my comment. Hi Robert, I saw you at SxSW.
- Michael Lee Wise
I'd put up the first Bldg 43 Billboard - http://tinyurl.com/1750-00
- Rob
Tipjoy $1 each to the first 1,000 or 1,750 (depending on prize) commentors in this thread who have a Twitter account.
- Hao Chen
With $1750, I'd put up another "Win my money" post on FriendFeed, and see if people bite more or less than for your money. And then figure out why they liked your money more (social-networking experiment 2.0).
- Ivan Zuzak
Robert kardes kusura bakma Ingilizcem iyi degil. 1750 gaymeyi bana verirsen sirket acarken kullanacagim. toparlarsak : $1750 + 10 000tl = design company :)
- Uur
Interesting. :) /sits down and waits
- PiDave
Emergency is an independent, neutral and non-political Italian organization, provides free, high quality medical and surgical treatment to the civilian victims of war, landmines and poverty. http://www.emergency.it/index...
- Cristian Conti
If i won the money, I will write a easy to use friendfeed app for iphone :)
- cem
very cool idea
- Kate
$1750= Paying off my medical bills... no, not enough. Gas, food, rent... mmm, scratch that. Funding my craving for more, new camera equipment.... perfect. You, rightly feeling good for what you want to do,... priceless.
- Kate
I will use the money to put towards a deposit on a flat. Currently I am living between my parents and my partner and daughters. I have two children from a previous relationship so will use the money for a deposit on a place which is central to both location
- Joe Dawson
I'll use the money for a much needed, long overdue, 2 month break and go to India to relax from this hectic world…
- Adi Sheleg
hard to win easy to spend.
- ismail ünal
Scoble, fund me a startup!
- Toni @ NavinoT
i'll use the money to get out of this place and start running my own business
- Claudia
I'll fund prototype of my p2p language learning startup
- Artyom
In case I win, I'll upgrade my networking status to "notworking" status. At least for a month. During that time, I'll have more time to make blog posts and enlighten self taught musicians and producers who are fighting to make music in their bedrooms. And I will buy some cookies for myself, in case I forget to eat
- ilterocktive
I'll get a haircut, and get a real job.
- Adrian
Comment #895
- Anthony K. Valley ©
I would donate the money to Warchild.com, whose cause is to give children in war zones around the world a peaceful future.
- Alexander van Elsas
lascio un inutile commento pure io
- AdamoLanna1(chiuso)
Sei un chiattone, bob. Simpatico, però.
- jokerulez
Considering some people worrying about taxes, I'd just like to state that up here in Canada, lottery and contest winnings are not taxed. At all.
- Chris Charabaruk
Sorry, I don't want money, we've got too much !
- Benoit Bourdin
Benoit: I'd be happy to help you get rid of some of your surplus, if that's really the case. ;)
- Chris Charabaruk
In response to happyseaurchin's question above, I propose tiprojx http://tiprojx.wordpress.com/ ... If anyone reading this who has a twitter account tweets an idea for a (social change) project with one or more of the hashtags #tipme #tipshare #tiptodo #tipif ... a whole lot of new projects have the potential to 1. gain crowdsourced funding and 2. be collaboratively refined in the process. I'll split the money between my favourite tagged ideas posted before midday (GMT) next Tues 24 March.
- Hannah Lewis
If I won $1750, I'd use the money to hire a local (Austin) freelance UI/dev to help me finish my social sports service (commi.sh) and pay for hosting for a year while we grow it.
- Carter ♥ HTML5
OMG. Robert Scoble jumps into "paid per comment". This is the end. My only friend, the end.
- Davide Pozzi
ok, this is definitely a test for building43.com. does friendfeed run on rackspace? Rob, you trying a massive test of comments or live commentary, or something like that. i can bet you're analyzing this data on rackspace. you're making the new friendfeed search of organized live conversations/streams.
- Reji
did i win? lol
- Ivan Stegic
Comment 909 and counting. New pool ~ When will Robert break his own record.
- Russellreno
910!
- Tyson Key
Will Tomorrow be my Lucky Day? I will buy $1750 dollars of PowerBall tickets and then give 90% of the winnings to help feed children in Africa.
- David Clements
This money could really help me in my current situation. Unfortunately I recently had a tumour removed from my bladder, which has really turned my life upside down. Overall, this has resulted in me having to miss and therefore finance two extra years at University. I’m currently 21 and studying BA Hons Economics at Newcastle University, England. I’m pleased to say that my health seems...
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- Daniel Rowley
Very funny! :D Did I win something??? :D
- Matte
ain future economic prosperity! I would also donate $250 to Malaria No More: http://www.malarianomore.org/.... Thank you for the opportunity.
- Daniel Rowley
wow..If I win I will buy a bike.. and travel around India... God bless me!!
- sirishkumar
If I win I will buy a ticket to SxSW next year and watch Scoble get totally wasted and take pics of legs with his camera...
- Ross
Pick me, pick me.
- Amit Morson
As for the $1,750 - I will donate it to the first children related cherish organization that approaches me.
- Amit Morson
With $1,750 I would be able to afford the flight back to Austria and support my dad who has to undergo his 3rd surgery and eventually also the 4th.
- Verena Fuchs
I would sell it! =) honor would be enough for me...
- Goktug Gedik
I would use the money to purchase a head stone for my mothers grave.
- Ardail Smith
i would use the money for a long hot summer :)
- Samuel Kreuzer
I'd buy $1,750 worth of green energy stocks, most probably geothermal
- Fabio
Robert - I would use the money to buy good microphones to make an internet video series about Nerd Revolt. http://www.numeriklab.com/2009... I would then use them to document the 2009 Decibel Festival in September: http://dbfestival.com After that, who knows - but I promise to come up with something good! You can't document musicians without good sound :) Thank you, Erica
- Erica Toelle
I would use the money to pay my out-of-state tuition!
- Kevin Mohr
i would like it in a brief case... small unmarked bills please
- ray parisi
I'd use $1750 towards a down payment for a first home. My wife and I recently had a son, and our apartment is shrinking at an alarming rate.
- Chris Heald
i'll be a materialistic bastard. i'd pay my bills while still trying to search for a job in this life sucking, non-forgiving city. yup. that's what i would do. ramen noodles are no fun when you're not in college...
- ultimate_loser
if i win this money i'll use to buy some equipments for the university, but not only for me. i'll buy two computers, one printer, and so we can do our university newspaper. this money will be a contribute for the free press, in a nation like italy, where every voice is subdued to the power. give us a chance!
- Riccardo
Leave a comment here, and I can win. Ok, done. What's next? There's something about a second way to win, that looks like I need to state what I'd use the money for. Simple: to continue to make uplifting films, like I did this year for the 168 Project. Need to make a few payments still. The rest will go towards next year's film.
- Mike Shields
Way too easy ;)
- Gregg Wenger
I'd put it towards a computer and software I need for my new small business I'm setting up after 4 years off work with a broken back
- Rob Bell
Mee Two :) , i'll use it for world Piece
- Chirag Chamoli
Mike: watch http://www.ustream.tv/studio at about 4 p.m. today (Austin Time, which is about 2 p.m. Pacific Time) and we'll pick the winners live on that show.
- Robert Scoble
I'd like to join this competition to make a chance for the money for my new developing start-up. Could use it for sure, development is costy these days!
- Coen Jacobs
I'd use the money to pay for an artist to help me out on a Palm Pre/Windows Mobile app that I'm working on.
- Alastair Maggs
Robert, great gesture! I would give all of the $ on your behalf to this worthy cause: http://friendfeed.com/e...
- B2B Specialist
Took the challenge. Opened account from my couch with iPhone. Curious to get the rest of the story.
- Georgiana Dearing
Generating metrics I presume Mr Scoble?
- Stefan Szo
OK heres my comment!
- Randy
OK, first the 'leave a comment here' bit - here it is. As to what I'd do with the money, my wife has been made redundant and two days later someone crashed into my car while it was parked - so I guess I'd put it towards replacing the car and rebuilding our lives. Actually that sounds a little melodramatic, it's only a car, but it would be useful. Unless of course UK residents aren't eligible for this in which case I guess I'll just sit at home and sulk!
- Guy Clapperton
I'll switch SocialToo from Amazon EC2 to Rackspace if I win
- Jesse Stay
Win money? No, thanks. but I DO wanna earn your money :). Send details to onno@media44.nl or visit http://www.media44.nl
- MEDIAFORCE
$1750? My answer is simple. I would use it to help fund our movie. To purchase wanted equipment, better food for cast/crew, throw an awesome wrap party. Then, if we had any left over, we would use it towards our next movie. Also, you would get a free copy (format of your choice) and an Executive Producer credit. It'll be on IMDB and everything! This could be an awesome help for a trio of tired, driven, motivated filmmakers who want to change the game for movie-making.
- Anthony Thompson
I would spend $1,750 on a iPhone App using fbConnect for my financial services startup which I otherwise wouldn't allocate a budget for.
- Abhimanyu Chirimar
Gosh, there are a lot of comments. Is this a FF stress test?
- Morton Swimmer
I'm in!
- Simon Holliday
I would use the money for development of gCaptain 2.0 with the goal of dethroning the oldest magazine in continuous print, Lloyds List, from the maritime news sphere of influence.
- gCaptain
I will hire a scholar to make my research few hours a day so I can follow your tweets!!! :D
- Jesús
I'm in, what would I do with the money? well, I'm a teenager from Cairo, Egypt, and I plan to start podcasting during my vacation "first video podcast in Egypt" and work on my blog, I don't have enough money to buy an HD camcorder so I would use the money to buy that and get a domain name for my blog and go pro, and if there is enough money I would buy an iPhone.
- Ahmed
I'd take the family out for a meal at the Gaucho grill http://tinyurl.com/3pc8ur
- mike williams
I would give the money to this young man in his fight against hodgkins lymphoma. He is the nephew of my daughter's preschool teacher and I would do anything to help him out, but we don't have much. As a former soccer player, current coach and human being... my heart goes out to him and his family. Anything would help. http://tinyurl.com/cch2uy
- Jason
Not yet in the position to give like you give, I do what I can. Giving spirits garner unselfish hearts! - http://budurl.com/ynkm
- Carlo At Your Service
This is the most epic thread ever, i put off replying all weekend but i think its about time i joined in. I think if i won i'd propose to my girlfriend because id be able to afford a ring! Or, we'd go on a nice much needed holiday.
- Simon Wicks
I'd give the money to Daniel Rowley (comment above). Seems like he has a genuine need.
- Dustin Curtis
Interesting (and a few not so) comments. Most people are here for the easy money, leaving a random comment and then closing a tab. No blame here, since it's the rule of the game. Do you know that in order to permanently change the world you just need just a little bit compared to the big picture to get you over that hard to reach top? Well, that's what I would use it for, to get that jolt, break the barriers and climb over that first, impossible top.
- Lorand R. Minyo
hey! easy game Mr Scoble :) I'm here :D
- Guillaume
What a cool idea. I would definitely use the money towards taking another class. Assembly? Lernin is espensive.
- sarajchipps@gmail.com
I'm in too - Judging by the entrants, I'll have better odds on winning the lottery
- Shaf
I'll donate the money to AIG executives.
- Filipe Marques
I would use the money to bid on Gaius Baltar's Robes at the Battlestar Galactica Auction in May. Those costumes get pretty pricy! ~Matt http://BSGcast.com
- Matt
I'd use to money to stimulate the US economy by buying all your stuff
- Magnus
I'd pay the 4000 I owe in tuition. I've paid off all but this last bit, so it'd be my first move. Still looking for a job...
- Linda Margaret
I liked that :)
- MobilAdam
I would use the money to buy a laptop. I bought one in December and was getting a friend from the US to bring it to me (I was in Dubai). The laptop was stolen from her luggage at JFK and I got no compensation. I was out 1500$, laptopless, and highly depressed because the euphoria of getting a new laptop was not realized.
- Bhavishya Kanjhan
If I win the money - its going straight to helping my startup - creately.com get to Public Beta. We're so close and every cent counts!
- Charanjit
Good way of generating a lot of comments :-) I'd use the money for reducing some debts...
- Diego Zamboni
Whoaaaa, there. $4,500? Really? Boy am I glad I follow you on Twitter. Since when does money grow on tweets? If I ever had the good fortune of being plucked out of a hat, I'd spend all of it on the tuition bills that have racked up in my family name (mother, brother y yo).
- amira
I'll make a social network for BitTorrent.
- KN
Hm. Maybe I spend it on a Nikon D90 or a camcorder.
- Stefan Michel
Money is the root of all evil, they use to say. But it can blossom into good things.
- Nick Palffy
I would use the money to update my photography equipment and software. This would update my pet photography as needed
- Randy Nacol
I am in
- Bronchart
I would use the money to get my girlfriend @Tatty, who I met on Twitter, from Norway to the US so we can start living happily ever after. :)
- Foul Bastard
Pay off the credit card and get a return airfare to the USA from Sydney!
- Nathan Davies
Sounds crazy but why not :-)
- Cyril Hanquez
I need 980 dollars to go to school to be a cheesemonger. So tired of waiting tables and am ready to pursue something I am passionate about.
- Miles Laird
I'd use the money to take some time off with my daughter...
- Fredrik Wennberg
from twhirl
I'm saving to buy my first house later this year and working to start my freelance design business.
- john
$1750...I would use them for a wonderful trip to San Francisco! Plane tickets from France and visit of the best web start-up / companies :) Enjoy!!
- Guillaume
I'd have to assume I'd use the money to buy a Nikon D90, then hunt you down to thank you and take your picture with it.
- Richard Finucane
How can I mute this thread?
- Richard A.
I'll use it as a "Pay It Forward Ponzi Scheme" (In these crazy Maddoff days, it's about time we revert the wheel.)
- Vivian Cohen- Leisorek
Hi Robert! I would use the money to put into a bank account. I will become a daddy within the next weeks and this would a be a 'scolar fund' for my first kid!
- Bas van Breugel
Count me in. $1750 would go to the IWK Children's Hospital for Xboxes and Wiis.
- M Langille
Great idea-- and I'd use the money to create workshops to bring younger and older gay men together to discuss the history of the AIDS epidemic in Philly. http://gayhistory.wikispaces.com
- Chris Bartlett
What am I going to do with the $1750? I will reveal that secret in my second comment :)
- Bari Hossain
Great idea Robert. I'd do four things: I'd pay for a ESPN360 season and play-off pass to watch NHL games over here in Europe. Then I'd hire a graphics designer to redo http://www.speakingenglishpodcast.com to have it not only appeal to learners but also sponsors. Third, I'd take my wife out to dinner and fourth I'd give the rest back to you - I wouldn't need it all and you have a family, too.
- Sebastian Keil
Sure, count me in.
- Barty
First of all, thanks for the heads up on "Free Money" also thanks for being such a great conduit. So throw my name into the hat please. I know I usually push for giving to Cancer foundations and etc. But am going to change it up a bit.... If I would happen to win the money there is hugely talented Photographer on Twitter that needs only $6,000 to sustain his enrollment at some artsy Ivy...
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- SashaKane
Seriously? I'll start a "Mini-ITXs" fund to replace all the desktops in my home with Mini ITXs. Power saving ftw!
- Nimish Batra
I'd start a foundation dedicated to bringing the finance crooks to justice and redistributing the stolen funds from whence they came.
- Alistair Knock
hmm...I'll rather invest it in gold. That's the least volatile thing these days.
- Kunal Gangar
i would finally finish my thesis and rent a lot servers with mosso after that to incorporate a company dealing with enterprise mashups and cloud computing in germany
- tmetschke
im in
- Jason Walke
I would tell my boss he is a noob and that I quit my job and start my own business.
- Gary Schubert
oh, and i'd also KILL for a macbook. but i'd probably go to school. but you should totally give it to someone who needs it more.
- Miles Laird
simple way to enter :)
- Cristian
Robert, I would probably spend the money in a relatively futile manner. Therefore, I'll let others who need it more have a chance at the $1,750 prizes. I'd be happy to be chosen randomly for the $1,000. Great initiative, by the way.
- Antonio Cangiano
This is just what we need in order to launch AllRise.com: hosting + legal expenses +company registration fees.
- Erez Eden
richard, by giving a way more money, are you ready?
- abdellah
I'll give YOU $500 and give $100 to twitter (since I heard about it there). The first should make it easier for you to part with the money. The twitter donation will conclusively prove that they have a viable business model :)
- Ebrahim Nalwala
Our band would use it to buy a PA system so that we could play anywhere/practice with proper sound. I`d treat this as a loan and donate the money in your name to the VH1 Save The Music Foundation.
- Reuben Fortes
It would help me pay for my wedding in Ottawa in August, rather than having to borrow money! (PS nice way of getting people on FriendFeed!)
- Paul Lomax
Robert, please pick me. I need the USD1000 to get myself an iPhone 3G (cost HKD6200.00 from Apple Hong Kong) so I don't have to borrow my girlfriend's, and the rest of the money, I will use to pay for all the data usage I will be using when testing review copies of iPhone apps. How can I be borrowing an iPhone to write iPhone app reviews? That is just ironic.
- Vinko
I need to do something completely luxurious and pampered for a week. Oh, I would really like to take my brother along because it was his birthday two weeks ago and would like to surprise him. That's right, a very belated birthday present. Very much would be a surprise. How about a cruise out of Miami to the Caribbean or out of Los Angeles to Mexico? We need to see the water! Sure we have the Fountains at Bellagio but we would like to sail on an ocean. There it is. I have our bags packed and ready to go.
- Vegas Bill
I need money for my first startup!
- kunal jain
Buy a nice camera for making better videos for my blog & invite my family having a nice evening at a greek restaurant
- Wittkewitz News
Show me the money
- TJ Polczyn
I would develop an innovative iPhone app using the money and when sales pick up, return the amount to you so u can run another contest.
- iPhone Dev Guy
I am a poor student who really could use a new Laptop.. I will Ustream and take pictures of the unpacking so you know I didn't spend the money on beer ;) I could put SPONSORED BY SCOBLE stickers on the new machine. Please Scoble, I could really use this. Cheers, patrick.
- patrick detlefsen
a new laptop to replace the almost 6-year old one would be nice for a developer. give me the other prizes, too and i'll donate 'em to schooling a kid in a 3rd world country!
- moogs
*wonders* Do we have to leave two comments, one for the $1000 and one for one of the $1750?
- Linden A. Mueller
Ok, Scoble if i get this money somehow, give my money to this student (patrick detlefsen) - Thanks
- Junal Rahman
If you pick me, I will lend out the money via Kiwa.org
- Henning
So just in case, here's the second one. :) I would save it. We'll be making our second international move in two years in September, and this time, we'll be settling down. I would use it for part of our down payment on our first house.
- Linden A. Mueller
Right now $1750 is worth $2700 Aussie (sounds a lot better) I'd ask Robert to JV with me and share how to turn that $2.7k into $270k in 6 months. If we didn't like each other after that we needn't continue to turn it into $27M. Jim Beasley (Twitter: whoisJimBeasley)
- Jim Beasley
Would love to start an online business for my 7 yr old as a college fund!!!! Have the idea, just not the funds to start it!!!
- Charles Bovard
I could use the money to pay some of my student loans that I had to take to study the one true thing worth studying, the Internet!
- Shane Tilton
I would spend the money on bourbon and porn.
- Kari Holtz
I'll use to finance our new project of social publishing with Friendfeed. Thanks for the opportunity.
- Massimiliano Mancini
if I win: I'd give half of the money to Emergency (http://www.emergency.it/) to help their medical work in war areas.
- andrea
In New Zealand his will go along way. Id use it for language resources for our indigenous Maori
- Bradley Walker
I want I want! I will restore my VW 1974 with it! :-D true story: http://www.facebook.com/home...
- Pierre Lapointe
I'd love to use your money to send kids with disabilities to CampASCCA.org! With the $1750, 3 children would get to go to camp this summer. Or, it would send maybe a dozen to a weekend camp this spring! Either way, I'd love to see you help these kids out. In this kind of economic environment, places like Camp ASCCA are the first to be forgotten ... that means the kids are forgotten, too. Thanks, Robert!
- RD French
Before I reveal the secret of what I would do with $1750, I really need to know the secret - "Why are you giving away this money,Robert?"
- Bari Hossain
Will use it finally upgrade my powerbook to a MBP so I can write an iPhone app as part of my CS Degree Dissertation.
- Shaun Bohannon
$1175 to my all time favorite musician's (Diana Krall) chosen charity: Vancouver General Hospital's Leukemia Bone Marrow Transplant. Would use the rest to cover my tuition expense for a Nancy Duarte slide:ology seminar. Trying to figure out ways to tackle mindnumbing government PowerPoint decks. Happy St Patrick's Day!
- Bud
With our terrible exchange rate here in the UK, I'll probably buy myself a week's worth of groceries with the prize money! Seriously though, I may treat myself to a video camera, so that maybe one day, I can be like my favourite technology evangelist!
- David Swallow
I can't wait to read followup posts to your contest. I would invest the money in my children's college funds.
- Erick Tyack
I think I will buy some books on how to get my daughter to sleep past 4AM... Seriously, any advice? :-)
- James Marino
With the money I would invest in a Home Server to better provide for my familys digital needs ;-) The rest will be given to SOS childrens village - A good and worthy cause.
- Ken-Tore
I will use the money to spend it to bloggers in germany to promote the german blogos- and twittersphere! They arn't as big and importnat as in the us, but they have the mbition for it, serious and current content...
- Simon Rabente
The money will enable me to buy some much needed toys and gadgets that mortgage/wife/2kids/etc to not allow!
- Matt Groves
I was thinking on how to win the money and then I read comments by others. I realised there are more ppl who need the money more than me. So good luck to everyone! and Robert, pls make sure the winner really deserve it.
- Gerald Neo
If I won I would donate every cent to Red Nose Day (http://www.rednoseday.com/) to help children in the UK and Africa and I'll put up $200 of my own money (about 10% of my salary) into microloans through Kiva.
- Peter Curd
Strike one for the South African
- Iwan
I doubt this would be a winner, but I need a new set of effin tires.
- Patrick Kay
I will use my winnings to purchase books to better understand how to use all the great social media tools out there and will also earmark a portion of the winnings to use to attend SXSW 2010.
- Promising Projects
I'll use the money to finance bailing out of my apartment in light of this recession and my current status of gainful underemployment. :)
- teleken
Cool! I'd love to spend it on a netbook and a good (web)cam and start using it to lifestream/share some nice events using kyte or qik. What's left after buying the gear, I would spend on tickets for events such as The Next Web Conference, Lifehacking Academy, etc. Btw: have fun at Rackspace!
- Alex Vermeule (@alexve)
ok deal, you talked me into it
- IrishWonder
it is really interesting to see how much "I" in this thread, ok if I (+1)
- abdellah
Cool. So 80% of the dough goes on a Twitter API developer as I have a great project in mind. And the other 20% provides a stake for the blackjack table, for when we launch. Combined earnings will be sent back your way, so you can do this all over again.
- Econsultancy
I'd put it towards my TED application fund! Made too many promises about speaking there one day soon...
- Oliver
First I would buy an engagement ring for my lady and take her out on a romantic evening and propose her. And of course 300$ would go for a Wii.
- Andy Gongea
Hi I have never won anything so i dont think i will win,but hope never dies so here i am..
- Dimi
My boyfriend got made redundant a while ago so I'd use the money to take him on holiday to get away from it all for a bit and help him refocus.
- Katie
thats cool to hear...thanks for the competition.i will love to buy macbook...
- Mohammed Moyeen
Hmmm... Give it to charity is the easy answer.. But I would find and elderly person who needs home renovations etc but cant afford it.. and then get someone down on their luck to do it and pay them.. Double the satisfaction and impact
- Christopher Blake
Comment for one of the $1750 prizes. I will offer to donate the money to bail out some more fat cats living high on the hog, and give them a bonus to boot.
- TJ Polczyn
Don't get pinched - wear green today! :)
- Ricci Neer
If I won, I'd donate it to Comic Relief (http://www.comicrelief.com/). Cheers!
- Graeme Coleman
I am saving money to go out of my usual work to start a startup, so it will be helpful for me in my saving and allow me to come out of my daily job soon.
- Mohammed Moyeen
If I win I will twitter my followers and people in Seth Godin's tribe to find the most excting youth oriented project I can, then come back to you, Robert Scoble, and see how we can involve your followers in offering knowledge or connections to make the whole thing take off, good on you.
- Sarah Farrugia
I would put the money to good use and kick start the economy with it... should work...
- Alex P
wow! this is by far the longest thread i've ever seen! :)
- David Clifford
I'll use the money as a super lucky contribution to http://www.TweetLuck.org, an initiative of my startup nonprofit, http://www.EpicChange.org. Tweetluck is raising funds to build a technology lab and boarding facility/orphanage for a school with which we're partnered in Arusha, Tanzania. The locally-run school recently performed #1 out of 117 schools in their district on national exams, and I can only imagine what's possible if we get the children at the school web access ;)
- Stacey Monk
This is one way to get me to use friendfeed... I'd use the money to enter a poker tournament in vegas this week at MIX. (at least I'm being honest)
- Jason
Wedding Ring deposit, new mac, or broker's fee to get the hell out of this apartment. Probably one of those three. I'm a huge fan of Kari Holtz's answer of bourbon & porn, but my early thirties have got the better of me and must try for something vaguely more responsible.
- Travis
Hey, why about trying, great idea ! For the second part of the contest, i'd prefer to let more chances to people who really know how to make something really usefull and interesting with it ;) !
- Christophe Michau
I hope to be one of the lucky few. Happy St. Patricks Day!
- ian ross
I wish I could come up with something clever or generous but other needs are too pressing. I don't even want to think about it really. Health insurance, upgrade to CS4 (priorities, right?), art supplies, new shoes, vet visit for the cats, whatever else I could squeeze out of it. But I would put some portion toward charitable use, or else use it to create something that I could give, because generosity deserves to be honored in kind.
- Rebecca Lasley
I'll buy some of the gadgets Scoble is talking about...
- Alexander Benker
In Malaysia, I'll give the money to the women's aid organization to fight discrimination, women are first to go in a layoff.
- Carolyn Chan
Great idea. I'd probably put the money towards a good camera for a live video project I'm working on.
- Alan Chamberlain
If I was lucky enough to win I would use the money to attend http://www.web09.org/. It would cover the cost of the airfare, accommodation, and registration fee. I would then be able to Tweet and blog about it so those who read me would get some benefit from me being there. Anything learned would be put to good use in the open source projects I contribute to. Unlike some of the others here, I can't be altruistic about this - I want to go to the conference and can't afford it! Charity begins at home after all
- Elpie
It will probably help me to keep one of my employee, until we bounce back in our feet
- Boubacar Balde
from twhirl
I'm definitely in and I'd use the $1750 to buy my first macbook.
- Robbin
I would use it as nice start for my first house loan ;-) A man has got to start somewhere doesn't he ;-)
- Pieter-Jan Adriaensens
What I would use the money for? Well, I have been eyeing up some netbooks and need to replace my aging television. So, this would pretty much go there in my lone attempt at reviving our moribund economy/ I'm doing my part to help us out of these troubled economic times!
- Jason J. Thomas
Here is my initial entry comment.
- Hal
I'd learn how to code in Cocoa, and create a salsa dance iPhone app :)
- Tom Tubbs
Clever idea. If I win, I would put half the money in the bank, as my husband is currently unemployed; and would give half the money to my friend and her family, as her son & daughter-in-law were in a serious car accident in Oct. 2008 and my friend quit her job to help take care of her premature born grandson, 2 yr old grandson, so her own son can then take care of his now brain-injured wife. http://jennifersmiracle.blogspot.com/
- Traci Knoppe
Half to a couple of back bills, the other half here: http://bit.ly/6XTBn
- Hal
My first comment didn't show up! REPLAY: With the $1750 I will expand my business working with energy and transformation in the area of money & prosperity (Money Reiki Healing) attuning people to their Source resulting in personal and planetary shifts around money and abundance. I will also donate a portion of the winnings to a few favorite charities (including Water is Life and Charity:Water).
- Amy Flynn
Wow, Just needed that money to buy me a trip to the states at last! I'm from Paris and I just keep reading your feeds on twitter, ff etc...
- anciaux
Should I win, any money would be invested in upgrading some piece of computer equipment, or a software purchase... and a celebratory dinner with my wife, of course.
- Chris Grayson
Heads up, Twitter! I would put the money into real competition to Twitter.
- David Baum
To quote Han Solo - "Got some old debts I gotta pay off with this stuff"
- Cliff Forster
I need yet another bicycle. Choose me! I promise not to give it to AIG for bonuses!
- mrbrown
I'd put the cash toward a new unibody Macbook - I broke the screen on my Macbook Pro and it's difficult to use now because I have to us my iPhone as my screen (Jaadu VNC). I'll take care of my new Macbook, Robert, I promise. Please pick me? Please!
- David Mozingo
I got married on last saturday, 14th ( http://trauung.steudtner.info sorry only German ) and I got a whole bunch of photos and videos. I would take the money and buy a new iMac to organize them and my videos too. Pictures will be published on that website.
- Mayads
My cat has been very sick since late last Thurs. He's was jaundice, probably some level of renal failure - all likely diabetes. Been having to force feed him with a syringe because he wasn't eating on his own. I'd like to be able to use this money to offset the vet costs towards all this - doctor would like to run more tests but I can't afford it. This money would help with this.
- Todd Perlmutter
I'll stimulate my economy.
- Chris Dickerson
I will buy you a Twitter shirt. :P http://tr.im/twittershirt
- Valentino Valdez
Howdy Scoble. I graduate University in July with an IT degree and am planning a Trip to South East Asia (Laos, Cambodia, Thailand, Vietnam) in September for a bit of fun and adventure. The money would greatly improve my trip. I'll blog the whole thing personally for you (I'll go to anywhere you suggest) and do my best to send you at least one ridiculous photo a day along with a video diary and a few interviews of people I meet along the way.
- Michael Gross
My kids, who've lost their mother, really need something positive. So I would use the money to redecorate their two rooms as a surprise.
- Jorg Jansen
Thanks Robert. A great idea! I could really use the money to finance my startup "Big Red Zebra", the world's first truly useful Location-Based Service for Everybody (not just people with Smartphones, iPhones, Blackberrys). Check it out at http://www.bigredzebra.com
- David
If I won the $1750 - I would put $1600 towards a kick-ass web project I have been working on (code-named Daily Bird Feeder). Then, $100 would go to dinner with the wife to make up for the late nights I've spent working on the project. $30 would go to an action figure I have been dying to get. And $20 would then go to flowers for my wife, to make up for buying the action figure.
- Michael Withrow
I will spend it all on me - on daft 'there is no way I would buy this under any other circumstances' things.
- Alison
I would follow your example: I'd run a contest and ask my followers to choose how I would spend it.
- Gail
Show me that money!
- Alison
How about this.... My wife http://twitter.com/erincos... and I are expecting TWIN SONS in August. ANY contributions would be GREATLY APPRECIATED!
- Jeremy Osborne
congratulation jeremy.
- abdellah
That $$ would buy me a lifetime subscription to Fast Company!!!!
- CJ
My dinosaur-like mind is inexorably on its way to extinction. It's been ages since I bought a new book. And reading online just doesn't satisfy that ancient craving. So if I win I'd use it to buy Kindle2 e-reader. The ultimate revenge of a deprived bibliophile. :) A little memento of my fabulous good luck, courtesy of you sir. The rest I will donate to a Philippine charity of my choice. Good luck to us all, if that were possible. :)
- jan geronimo
Would like to take my wife to NY for our 15th Wedding Annv.
- Timothy Love
Count me in. Can't work out if I should sound worthy or greedy, so shall be neither.
- David Eedle
I'd use the money to start a software company for mobile devices with heavy lifting done in the cloud.
- Jim Bergman
You got me Subscribe :). I will apply for a distance education in Actuarial Science at Leicester University.
- Bruck Sewnet
I will not use this money for unmerited bonus pay
- Craig
If I won the money, I'd pay for my GMAT & Grad School applications with it. That way, I'll hopefully be able to do the same kinds of contests soon. I'd also adopt two cats for my parents farm and pay for their cat food - you can't have a farm without cats! Lastly, I'd increase my number of Kiva loans.
- Edwina
what is interesting in this thread, is the fact that there is more and more reason and ways to spend that money, now let please see for what "you can't spend this money".
- abdellah
I'm just getting a project going that could be really helped at this early stage with some "free cash" to help complete the prototype. The idea is for an engine that aggregates content from originators and then filters and distributes it according to preferences to the consumer through a variety of touch points. Very focussed on one specific interest area.
- Alex Guest
I'll place my bet for the $1750, although my chances are thin. Lots of things to do, get Dad treated, pay my bills et al.
- Rajtilak Bhattacharjee
would like to get one of these for each kid http://bit.ly/pnbkv
- Visit Finger Lakes
I'll buy something amazing and the one who finds out what it is will receive it. Just a way to see if it is possible to get more comments than you do :o)
- Zack Brandit
I will gift the money to my husband's business,( http://www.funketabla.com/ ) so that he can focus a little more on music and thus spend more time happy and not in a programming job that bores him. It's not much, but it'll pay for the upcoming Das Dhoom album.
- InPerpetualMotion(Gina k)
Hate to admit it in public, but I owe parents, friends, and credit cards money borrowed while searching for another job. This would give me some breathing room and let me get some stuff done that I've put off, like fix the brakes on my car.
- mark zero (Jason)
I will give the money to my 18 year old son. He's getting ready to enter college for the first time and needs it.
- Lisa Saul
$1,750 will feed me for a year! :-)
- Chinny
Mr. Scoble - Use of funds should I become one of your winners... ala Dave McClure and Y Combinator... I'd turn right around and invest it in equity positions in two local startups neither of which is mine. Should there be any kind of exit of either, I'd just keep plowing proceeds into local startups (we need early stage, non-debt seed capital in Oklahoma).
- Gerald Buckley
these funds would help at a very diffcult time for my family would be a very big blessing for us
- Diane Brixey
i would put the money in my future start-up. i really could use the money for. the main problem is that i have to wait for maybe 2 years, because of uni. so i could invest it at the beginning in something safe and could make more money for the start-up.
- Alexander
Pool Table
- Dale Fraser
Sadly, I would put this toward my taxes. My contribution toward the bailout I guess. A new tv or trip might be nice though since I'm not getting that Australia blogging job.
- Dave
I would put the money in our twin boys college fund, which will be in inflation-adjusted treasuries for the next year or two. (PS: This is the most effective way to gather the most comments on a single thread in the history of friendfeed)
- DGentry
OK, just give it to me already and quit all this fuss...
- Garrido
Hey Robert! You finally got me to sign up for FF. If awarded the money I would finally get that Gibson Les Paul I've always wanted and go back in the studio to create my opus.
- Kyle Shay
Split it into 495 $2 donations, for charities selected by fellow Friendfeed and Twitterers, with the remaining funds for a pizza while organizing the aforementioned discussion.
- Mike Chelen
Count me in. I would blow the money on Tacos. No burritos. No Tacos. Well Tacos or Burritos. Just imagine me eating over $1000 worth of tacos/burritos.
- Franklin Pettit
Fund small-scale Appropriate Technology projects in Africa where I live: http://mumena.blogspot.com/2009...
- Rick Love
I would put the money to good use--
- Dennis Shlaen
First! Oh wait, maybe not. :) Boring but I'd use the money to get my 60,000 mile service on my car before it falls apart. Anything left over would go to paying down CC balances. I know, I'm dull...
- Pete Smith
I need a new tv I'm a poor seminary student in new york with a family http://www.use.salvationarmy.org/use...
- kevin
count me in! How to use 1750$: buy four cheap pocket cameras (200$ each), announce a "movie making contest" on the blog, give four cameras to best four ideas, take the movies, post on youtube & blog, make users vote, give first prize 950$.
- Tudor Galos
Robert, Congrats on joining Rackspace & I'm eagerly awaiting Building 43!! I would use the prize money to fund my sisters education.
- Roshan Ramachandran
I'd go for a piece of electronic equipment. I haven't owned a computer since a nice visit from an unknown burglar a year and a half ago. Luckily my work provides me with a nice Macbook Pro 15" but that doesn't really help much during the weekends. So I'd go for a 13" MacBook and then of course a round of Hero Rats (http://www.herorat.org) for the change.
- René Clausen Nielsen
Hi Robert. I would use the money like Tudor, but I would get two good pocket cameras, the Sony pocket 1080p ones, not the Zi6 or the Flip. To take better quality videos.
- Odi Kosmatos
Hi Robert, my intention isn't to partecipate to your contest but my comment is just to say that you are a genius. I appreciate this social experiment and on Sunday I have analyzed it in this post on my blog: http://tinyurl.com/c3rwxw. If I were to the place of the winner, I’d give this money to you because you really deserved it. The previous most commented thread on FF probably were Italian (http://tinyurl.com/8k64zg). Chapeau
- Roberto
G R E E D ....
- Kai
I would use the money to jump start the economy as part of my stimulus-package plan
- Mitchell Schneider
Not sure, but I'll try to heed the advice my grandmother used to give me when I got a dollar "Don't spend it on crap."
- Steven Stark
There are things I want but nothing I need so I'd donate the money to Philabundance. http://www.philabundance.org/
- Bob Gannon
I will sponsor new web-service development at http://jumpidea.com
- romanzolotarev
i would use the money to help pay for school
- Shane Grant
I would use the money to get into photography. I have always wanted to but have never had the funding to do it. It would be great if I had the funding to get a decent body and a couple nice lenses.
- Sweyn Venderbush
I'm in as well. Will use the money to get into iphone apps development
- Arnaud Fischer
Woohoo! I'd buy either a home automation setup or a home server :D
- Robert DeBord
Yes! I could use some green on St. P's Day! Would get that D90.
- Kevin Crader
I will help @romanzolotarev.
- Альянс-кульман
Don't give us money, give us ideas !
- Ahsan Ali
If I came into any type of money this year it would go towards a trip to London to see my family and friends; and see my favourite band, Blur play live for the first time. Leftover cash to the Red Cross. My honest answer.
- Chrissie M
I would use it to help fund a startup website to help diabetics find proper products to help manage their health and lifestyle
- Erik Schmith
I would love to win. Would probably spend the money on one of two things: my 17 year anniversary is coming in early April, so a present for the wife is a necessity - thinking a nice hot springs overnight trip in Izu, south of Tokyo (where I live). Otherwise, I would also consider using the money to help bootstrap TechMiso.com, a new blog I co-founded and launched on Jan 1 with my good buddy Rich.
- Scott Jarkoff
I want to win soo soo bad... lol... I would use the money as a deposit on an apartment so I can move out of the country and actually have High Speed Internet (cant even use a cellular card cause im so far in the country) Ive always wanted to start a blog and website but cant since Dial-up is sooo sooo slow... This would be the Happiest Day of my Life!!! :)
- James Boyd
While thinking trough this all day since I've read about it, I think that I should spent it for 50/50 on my own project and on the stuff that you just don't get to while being a son of divorced parents. My computer upgrade is more than welcome, switch to Mac OS X would be greatly appreciated. Great action Robert, thanks for this opportunity from Holland!
- Coen Jacobs
If this comment picked randomly, then goodbye to MacBook Pro...(paradoxal comment including 2 answers in one way.)
- Olcayto Cengiz
Growing up, my parents would always tell me that considering the amount of time I spend on the web, I should be making money out it. But I desire that the content I put out there be free. Over the years I've spent a lot on pursuing this passion but never earned a buck out of it. Now would be a great opportunity to finally do so. I may not be the most deserving or the most in need out of everyone here but if I did win I'd do something nice for my parents and tell them it was courtesy of the Internet.
- Michael Josh Villanueva
I would use the money to donate back to all of the open source projects that I have been using for the past 5 years. Many of the products that are produced are outstanding and need to be supported.
- Anthony Schelling
I'll take Scoble to block. Actually; I would use the money to complete my dedciated streaming studio. While I have the mics & cams set, I'm still working on the furniture, and the servers for the encoding. Then I could be a guest on your show and show it off.
- Keith Barrett
Will take a trip and visit you at your new project :)
- Liviu Lica
I'll use the cash to attend sxsw next year, following the twitter feeds this year has proved its worth to me. I'll get you a beer in too, unless that seems coercive.
- Simon Kirrane
I would use the Money to help my daughter who is 13, to Travel Europe this Summer as she has been selected to be a Student Ambassador Representing the US and The State of Kansas. A Life changing experience, for our young people to learn and experience other cultures. People to People select 40 top Students from each state to represent the US. This experience is to teach our young people...
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- Joyce
Hey new friend I sure could use that money to repair some of the debt my bipolar wife has put our family in. Ever have any questions about what goes on in a max security prison, let me know.
- Tom Lord
Both me and my SO need computer upgrades at home to better work from home but that's not very much money. Just don't have it. The rest would go towards savings or to fix the collapsed porch out back.
- Paul Wade
Nice discussion thread. Any extra cash would go to my newly-widowed uncle, who found himself with a mountain of vet bills to pay after his dog, and only remaining companion, spent a week in ICU in an O2 tent.
- Hooeyspewer
Hey Robert - I would use the money to pay some bills and refit the computer my kids use. Thanks for making the world interesting!
- Tim Ake
It's a real and nice chance to win a pretty good amount of money, which can help me in making my dreams about lighting equipment for home studio to became true! :)
- PWR
I would pay off my burning man debt.
- Andrew Stein
This looks like its a record breaking thread.
- Roberto Bonini
Count me in!
- Alvin
I would use the money as part of a down payment on a new car. I commute 100 miles a day and my car is dying at a most unfortunate time. Well, that's what I SHOULD do. I would probably buy some gadget like a Kindle and some books because my geek gene gets the better of me most days.
- Amy Anuszewski
I would like to use it to buy a Mac Mini but I first have to deal with Wife Tax so I might be able to get a snickers bar. Love you honey!
- Wesley Snider
I would buy a slice of taxes that I owe Barack Obama.
- Chris Wallace
I'm in!
- James Ferguson
I would use the money to finally launch my puppet sitcom. My seven month-old daughter already loves the live version, and it would be great to have the video version for anytime viewing. Plus I think lots of other people would love the show as well. It's like the Muppet Show but more "Seinfeld" and less "Lawrence Welk". But there will still indeed be musical numbers.
- Mike Janicke
I would give the money to my wife. She is trying to get custody of her son back. Thanks for the chance Robert!
- Brian
I would use this to upgrade my camera.
- Evan Travers
Oops almost forgot to leave a comment for the random drawing. :)
- James Boyd
I would use the money to take my wife on a nice vacation for our anniversary.
- Jonathan Gardner
I`ll take some of that money :)
- Steven Shvartsman
What would you like me to do with the money?
- Simon Hicks
An Irish Toast on my favorite Holiday that is St. Paddy's Day: "Here's to the ones we love we love. Here's to the ones that love us love us. For all those that don't love us, F@%$ them and here's to us." I'd use the money to spend on friends & strangers drinking and eating on a random day enjoying the moment and making memories you'd never forget.
- Lyn Graft
What a great idea Scoble! So sad I missed sxsw this year! I would use half the money to go towards a new lift for my step mother who has MS and I would use the other half to purchase a small fishing boat to go fishing with my boy who's birthday is this weekend.
- Bryan
Robert, dude! You are awesome. Would use money to help find a teaching job!
- Patty Pinkley
If you pick me I will put the money towards the trip to China I'm taking in July.
- Kris
Better idea of what to do with the money - promote LTSP - Linux Terminal Server Project http://www.ltsp.org. Continue to bring low cost desktop solutions to the masses.
- Erick Tyack
Robert, congrats on the new job. Look forward to seeing the new ways you are going to invigorate rackspace and the community. There are some great comments here already. This is a great thing you are doing, take care
- Michael Bazzoni
Action Figures. I would use the money to buy lots and lots of action figures. And maybe a dwarf horse.
- Aaron Linne
I would put that money towards buying a couple of iPod Touches and a Mac for three friend of mine. We've just finished a short, free game that took us two years to finish on evenings and some weekends, and are talking about trying to make a game for Apples platform in our spare time since we work so well together as a team.
- Jonas Eriksson
This will kill FriendFeed. DO they have a FailWhale...? ;)
- Frank Koehntopp
Pay 4 months rent. And, I swear I'm not trying to sound pious, but I'd donate to Food for Lane County, an awesome local organization that gives away food.
- tracy
I'd do some traveling, getting to know new things is always great...
- Fabian
$1750? I'll buy Facebook and sell to Twitter.
- Bob Withers
I'd use the cash to pay back my employer all the time I spend reading Scoble's comments on FriendFeed. ha.
- Jon Mason
Jumping into your hat. Randomly pick me.
- Ben
I'll finally buy that wide angle lens that I've been hankering after for my Olympus E-400...
- Peter Holloway
Hmm... $1750, eh? I'd buy a few of those unlocked Android phones to create custom firmware that does end-to-end encryption of calls... I've been wanting to do that for a while for fun.
- Matt
I will use the money to help me get to OSCON.
- Mike Canzoneri
I will buy an iMac for my local school who only have PCs ... boo. www.woolastonschool.com. They currently do basic animation with PCs but I would like to get some of the older kids using iStopMotion, FCP and possibly Motion also. Would be an honour to spend ALL the money on this.
- Nick Pearce
Was laid off a month ago from my job at one of the big 4 record companies. In this down economy, seems like a good time to start a new business. I'd use the cash to help get my new business started.
- SJ
Ha! Joined friendfeed just to win this!
- Solomon King
I'll buy a new computer for my wife... now that she's a blogger and podcaster, I can't do anything on my computer anymore! Then I'll get a decent shared network storage device that makes a lot of sense for my expanding network.
- Chuck Stanley
A chunk to charity and a chunk to fund some development on some crazy web thing I am cooking
- Nigel James
$1,750 would go a long way in Africa! That's like 8 months salary for my small team!
- Solomon King
I believe I would take a vacation to the Keys.
- Ryan Dadey
Or wait, I could get two decent laptops for my developer and tech support guy!
- Solomon King
I'll do my part in stimulating the housing market! I'm buying a house in a couple of months, and savings for the down payment. An extra grand or so would allow me to stop doing some work for other people, and focus on doing work for myself in the way of publishing my ideas, and creating web-apps that would be useful. Reading your blog posts has really got my excited to share my thoughts and ideas with the web.
- Jim Rubenstein
I'm wondering if this is a test to see if FF can handle a few thousand comments in a short amount of time. May the winners enjoy what they get.
- Matt Silva
I would continue my educational pursuit of an IT degree. Plus buy a few Xbox 360 games! Awesome way to use FF Robert! ;-)
- Carlton Hackett
I'd buy the iPhone tablet that's being announced today. Good gosh, I hope it comes out today!
- Robert Hinojosa
I'm looking for a new camera. I've been trying to take pictures of my son's Scout troop and swim team with an old Canon G3, and it's a real struggle to get any decent pics. I'd love to pick up a 40D and a lens or two.
- D. Lambert
I would send my parents on a vacation and I would buy my wife a NEW HD Tivo
- Andrew Yeager-Buckley
Debt reduction?
- Lenny Post
I run a small business with two brands http://www.GeekLoot.com and http://www.PodGizmo.com, I will use the money to advertise on blogs and facebook.
- Mike Down
Pretty cool news. I love this kind of capitalist competition. I've been reading your blog for about a year and I'm glad you're using it more now. I'm a college student, I think I would use the money I win to start a site which rewrites the Constitution and basically the entire American governmental system in a wiki, user-edited style. I've got a url that isn't taken picked out, and I just need some money to startup and learn html all the rest of that stuff.
- Brian Wilson
Hello Robert, I will use the money to help create a web startup which will allow you (and other people of course) to use their fame and reputation to help promote other people who have talents, skills, experience, and a willingness to work, but who are not necessarily able to reach a wide enough audience on their own. The focus is to allow people who network with entrepreneurs to refer...
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- Ivan Lukianchuk
This is damn awesome, Robert! What would I do with some nice cash? I'd probably buy myself some new-to-me Canon camera gear, a lens or two (depending on price), and maybe some Alien Bees lights. Probably soup up my PC a bit more too. Either that, or just buy a MacBook Pro instead. At least that way I'd be able to edit photos and audio worth a damn haha.. :D I just REALLY need some extra money to be able to enable me to start doing what I love doing more, and a day-job less. :)
- Lou
I'll use it to obtain my CISSP cert. There has to be a better way to reduce/eliminate these zombie bot-nets that are used for very bad activities!
- Craig Macfarlane
Hello Robert, I would use to money to keep developing and expanding affordable wildlife photo workshops to some of the most amazing destinations in the US. You can see my last Yellowstone Winter Photo Workshop info here: http://wildnaturetours.com This workshop was very successful and managed to fit in both natural history of one of the most amazing places on earth with some spectacular photography (and video). I am in the processing of editing some of the content that will then be made available. Thanks.
- Juan Pons
I would use the cash to buy some of the new netbooks with touchscreen to get some seniors online: grand parents deserve to enjoy the real-time web goodness too!
- Mathieu Ayel
So with Scoble's latest post http://friendfeed.com/e... this thread is now closed. LAST!
- The Real sofarsoShawn
50D + Decent Lens, and a six-pack.
- Than R
Donate it to charity
- Allwin Agnel
I would use the prize money to stimulate the economy by purchasing a new MacBook Pro! :)
- Matt O'Keefe
you are hardly last :P I'd use the money to put more down on a down payment for my first home :D
- Jonathan
I'd help fund my husband's work on his first graphic novel and send his butt to Comic Con to pitch it to publishers :) The most empowering thing is to help other people reach their goals, and I like that this contest is all about that, so I'd pass that gift along.
- Tiffany Monhollon
NIKON D90 for my wife... PS3 for me... the rest toward the house...
- Jason Womick
Here's my entry. Thanks for the contest, Robert!
- Paul Maez
hey Robert, great competition! I'd use the money to fund my startup creating mobile apps that offer powerful messaging possibilities, including gmail-style threaded messages for all kinds of networks.
- Dirk
I'll use the money to pay for my certification in Cisco's Unified Computing System
- Andrew Mitry
Good luck with the new direction, Scoble.
- Mike Smith
I'd use the money to further my tech addiction. Too many gadgets, too little money...that's where you come in!
- Paul Maez
I'd take my daughters to see their grandparents in Florida, upgrade to a (used) Intel Macbook, sign up for PHP training, and renew my NPR membership, Cheers, and thanks!
- Jim Akin
I'm not going to even pretend that I would use it for charitable causes. A new MacBookPro and a 30 inch display. I'd then use it to start my development projects.
- bjmac
Hey there, Robert. I'd use the money to finance my teeny-tiny iPhone game development company (basically a programmer and myself doing art and everything else). Cheers!
- karchesky
I'd use the money to start my "LIFE IMPROVED" fund: personal use, philanthropy, and anywhere in between. The only stipulation is that it improves someone's quality of life.
- Tamikka
Hey there Robert! I would use the money to either pay for my coming semester of college so I could actually finish....or I would upgrade some tech in my life (for example, acquire an HD video camera and various other tech for studio and/or podcast recording)
- Gerardo R. Monreal Jr.
Oh man...new netbook, finally getting a smartphone, and renewing hosting on new blogs... Anything left after that will be split between my son's saving account (investing in the future) and probably the Dog's Trust charity.
- Badger Gravling
How would I use the money? I need to purchase one of the new 24" iMacs to further my Design & Photography careers.
- Herne
I will use the money to invest in myself and my future career. By that I mean make my side business of portrait photography into something more real and tangible rather than just a haphazard event.
- Ryan
I would most likely spend the winnings on gifts for my daughters, a little something for my wife and (of course) a tech toy for myself. There's nothing more enjoyable than spending "found money". Cheers!
- Kevin
Interesting idea, thanks!
- Loïc Dumont
I will donate half to the local computers for kids program that helps underprivileged kids with access to to computers, education and the internet. It is a great program where soon I will be teaching parents about social networking so they can communicate with there kids in the same language. The other half, I'm helping pay for my wedding.
- Chris Rippe
I would use the money for my ceramics art studio. Part of the money would go to setting up a live 24/7 multi-camera stream where people can watch and learn.
- Greg Ashbaugh
You rule!
- Happy
top o' the mornin' to ya - (from boston>austin!)
- clewellyn
We're having our third child in July, so I'd use the money to re-do our upstairs. The office will be a casualty.
- Tim Trentham
Robert, I just returned from a Alexandria Rotary (alexrotary.com) Board meeting. I am hoping to go on a trip to Tanzania to work on a school called Peace House (http://www.peacehousefoundation.org). Funding is the hold up for me as part will come from the Rotarian and part from our club. If I win, I am definitely going as the amount that I will likely be responsible for is $1,500-1,700.
- Craig Mische
We are hosting an event to celebrate the International Creativity and Innovation Day (April 21 which is Da Vinci's b-day). It is the first event within a telco culture. I'd use the money to buy some creative tech prizes for the day like CS4, an entry level Wacom product, a mind mapping subscription, SXSW 10 pass, etc.
- Krystal
I would use the money to put a dent in the mountain of cc debt I have from a couple of failed ideas that I've poured money into.
- Joel
($1,750) - Open a phonebook, randomly pick a name, follow that person 7 degrees out. Each degree of separation tell that persons story through audio interviews, video, writing, and online media. We need to remember life is interconnected and everyone has a story.
- Tim Shisler
Hi Robert. I'd use the money to help fund construction of a computer that will reveal the Ultimate Question to Life, the Universe and Everything. It's a small start, but then everything's small in the light of 10 million years...
- Andreas Strothmann
Everything old is new again---make it green on St Paddy's Day!
- Carolyn Baehr
I would probably buy the most expensive meal I ever had.(6000 Chicken Fajitas)
- JC Lima
Thanks for spreading the wealth out Robert! As for me, should I win the money, I would first take my wife out to dinner (priorities!), and put what's left toward software to help me in my fledgling freelancing work.
- Sam Hetrick
Hmm... A shot at $1,000 just for commenting?
- HackingNeflix
First Comment: Awesome idea, great way to draw attention to a great conversation
- Jason DeBoer-Moran
Second Comment: I would use part of the money to get my SxSW travel fund off the ground for next year. The other part I would put towards paying off my travel to ETech this year.
- Jason DeBoer-Moran
Well, I fell in love this year and I'm saving money for an engagement ring. So I'll be using it for that!
- Ben Pettit
My wife and daughter live in Ohio, and I took a career job in Virginia. It being difficult to sell a house in Ohio, I would put any and all moneys toward that goal.
- Shawn Lockard
Sounds good to me
- Austin Garrod
if i win the prize, I will spend my money to build a new and free web 2.0 web project (i will anounce it here)
- Abdullah Özgün
and with the money, i would probably invest in getting a new computer for me and the family, the one i'm using now is 7 years old and i could barely start it up to write this
- Austin Garrod
Very interesting to read some of the comments and start the conversation. I would use it to help offset expenses for bringing an 11yr old girl from Egypt to the Philadelphia Shriners for surgery. She suffers from arthrogryposis multiplex congenita (amc--multiple joint contractures and fixed limbs). For dolagy her knees are folded up around her shoulders with arms locked straight at her...
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- margaret chaidez
Lost my job last year after 3 yrs and checked my 401K yesterday and had a whole $77 in the account. Will use the cash for the mortgage and training. Thank you!
- David L. Crooks
I'll be using the money to fly to the bay area to see if it's worth it to quit my job and follow my dream.
- Mike
I would use the $$ to kick my fledgling start-up into gear. Even without your money would love to talk to you about it.
- Philip
Marketing at its finest! Excellent idea Robert.
- Simply Boulder
Roll the cash, baby!
- Wisdom Works
I'd give every cent to my mom, who is struggling with her mortgage, so she wouldn't get behind.
- Andrew Green
Free internet access for a year!
- ReeltimeDVD
Hey, you are always creative...
- Ömer Faruk Kurt
Really not sure what I'd use it for. Probably bills, but most likely I'd see something shiny, realize I have $$$ in my wallet and just spend it :)
- Hal Thompson
I'll use the money to fund my random venture over the summer.
- Hung
I'll use the money to buy a DSLR and attempt to learn how to be a photographer
- Ryan
I have no idea what I would do with the money, but it would likely end up in a project for my kids school....
- Samuel DeVore
I will take 750$ and use it for my project and I will give 1000$ part back to you for another contest. Maybe I can win it again... :)
- Ömer Faruk Kurt
Student loans, here I come :)
- Sigoya
Pay for my trip to Japan, as well as entry into a Ironman race!
- Chris Lewis
Does FF pay you to get them users?
- Thomas Amberg
If I could be chosen to receive the $1750, I'd give it all to Kiva.org to support women entrepreneurs who need technology to build their businesses. the condition is that you join me for drinks/dinner at Presidio Social Club.
- Lydia Sugarman
I would use it towards the downpayment for a new house J
- Eber Irigoyen
I will use the $1000 to create a quick prototype of a friendfeed like social network (of course better, but can't tell you the secret yet) and put aside $750 to hosting at mosso for the next 7.5 months.
- Jeffrey Yan
yes please
- Christopher Bell
No whammies! No whammies. STOP!
- Michael Pearson
I'd use the money to make my commute much greener - either for a good bike or an electric scooter. Additionally, I would purchase through a nearby vendor so the buy is also helpful for our local economy.
- Paul Marino
Hurrah for free money. If i won the money i would take my wife to paris disney as were both disney nuts and are feeling very broke and in need of a holiday. Anything i had left woudl go towards my macbook fund
- Jamie Vidamour
My wife is going back to school to become a physical therapist and I'm trying to update my resume/portfolio in case I need to look for a new job in web marketing, and we need new computers to replace the 6 y.o. desktop and 3y.o. laptop that gets daily BSoDs.
- Benjamin Lipsman
Half goes to Heifer International and half goes towards paying down personal loans. :)
- Rylan
with that money we would hire 4 programmers for 1 month in eastern europe to develop a product that would change the world of e-commerce ;)
- Alensa
I would use the money to pay one of my brother's bills. The tech sector in MN is not in good shape.
- Matthew McCowan
I wouldn't mind the money, I would put it in my pool of cash that I'm growing for a startup. Thanks for giving the chance!
- Tim Broder
I'll use half the money to help me and my family pay some bills and get a small breather from the recession. I'll donate the other half to the jQuery project to help foster more development of their projects like jQuery UI and to help with their infrastructure costs.
- Ralph Whitbeck
I would like to pay some pending bills, also I would like to share the money with a cultural association here in Costa Rica
- Víctor
I would use the money to makeup for market losses on March 16th
- srinivasufeed
I would use the money to hire a designer to design a good looking website for a Jewellery store site that I'm working for my wife. She's currently using blogspot along with google checkout(http://lajouels.blogspot.com/) and has being asking for a website for ages.
- Praveen
I will fund my childrens picture book startup (http://www.memetales.com) and have 1. one of my cool illustrators create a super cool illustration of you or 2. have one of my writers include you as a character in one of my picture books. 2 cool offers - personalized just for YOU!! Imagine that !! You pick 1 or 2. (picking both would probably cost me as much as the prize money ;))
- Maya
With either of the prizes I would put a tiny bit away, and use the rest to buy some film equipment/time to finish my series about artists in the DC area called "The Form Appears". I'm guessing I should write something here about give the money to a non-profit doing amazing work for the planet, but honestly, it would just be used for my own artistic needs.
- Emmett
I'd create the Scoble Blogger Scholarship. I'm just getting established as a pro blogger. I would use the money to invest in my business to take me to the next step. I would pledge to double the money this time next year and make it available to another blogger in a similar position, with the proviso that they would also continue to pay it forward.
- Mike Cliffe Jones
probably would use it to knock of a bit of a 30k hospital bill. Or decorate my 5 yo daughters room. Nah .. definitely the room, if we can get the house lol
- vanweerd
I'd get my 15 seconds of internet fame, and laugh at my fortune. I would not forget the little people.
- Viajero
If I win, I'm going to donate the money to SproutPoint, a local non-profit org that helps business people refine their business plans, and seeds them with investment capital. The only way out of this recession is if we rebuild the economy with hard-working entrepreneurs.
- Rob Stevens
I'd use it for a new MacBook, which of course I would use to spend lots of time following @scobleizer on twitter, friendfeed, and anything else
- Chris Brakebill
though I should note I'm not as obsessive and creepers of a follower as that made me sound. just love the good content @scobleizer puts out
- Chris Brakebill
Thomas: I am not paid by, nor compensated by friendfeed in any way. I push friendfeed because it's the best service out there. Period.
- Robert Scoble
This must be the all time record for comments! Great idea.
- Victor Ryden 美久太阿
i'm in for the $1k. i haven't read all the comments, but my two cents says give one of the other amounts to margaret!
- Scott Sorheim
would use the $$ for much-needed computer upgrade
- b Anthony
In case you're not following me yet on FF, find me here.
- Scott Mace
Robert, agree with FF being the best service out there. Thanks for promoting it and thus getting more people involved and more great content shared and commented on. :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
great. I will buy lots of books on Amazon :)
- В лонг ране
I will pick today's winner with http://www.random.org live on http://www.ustream.tv/studio at 4 p.m. Austin Time (2 p.m. Central).
- Robert Scoble
A new fire hoop I would buy.
- Donovan Watts
I would probably use the money on a family vacation (or at least an upgrade to a family vacation).
- Andrew Gorohoff
Great contest. I'm in.
- Patrick Jordan
Wondering if this has broken a record for most comments on FF. /random comment
- Rachel Walden
Friend feed should have a back to "topic", if the comments are huge like for this thread. :)
- Swaroop
Will the winner need to contact you right away? Because I won't be able to watch at that time or anything.
- Chris Charabaruk
@Rachel It hasn't. There's at least one thread with more comments. http://friendfeed.com/search...
- Chris Lasher
If you choose me, I ask that Rackspace donate's the money directly to OLPC. Enable everyone!
- David Lynch
Chris: no. I'll post the winners on friendfeed and have them email me.
- Robert Scoble
If it's not too late, I'd love the extra funds; both sons need dental work and the employer's dental coverage is pretty slim.
- Jill O'Neill
If I win, I would use the money to go see my son and granddaughter.
- Sandra
Wow, Robert, this thread is incredible! I would use the money to pay for some improvements to my home and to pursue a nonprofit idea I'm trying to grow.
- asiriusgeek
Count me in! Well ,I'll order Kindle 2 and plan a vacation to Europe!
- Krishnamoorthy
If I win second prize, I will send money back to you! :)
- Vlad Rafeev
With $1750, I'd repair the windshield on our 2000 Impala and then pay off the remaining debt on our "overdraft protection" credit card.
- Daniel J. Pritchett
This is great! I've been working on helping very small businesses (pizza shops, dry cleaners, bowling alleys, etc) use SM tools to promote with very little overhead. A lot of shops have gone out of business recently because they didn't know how to promote outside of the Yellow Pages. If I were to win, I'd use the money to help these businesses with some basic costs like reprinting a menu to mention their facebook fan page, some hosting for a blog or a webcam. I don't charge for my services.
- Dave Ferrick
Robert, the $1000 would be nice, but having you visit my site plexav.com to see a demonstration would be even better.
- Kenneth Stein
My wife and I are a statistic, but we break the trend. We were "friends with benefits" in college and she got pregnant. I married her. Not because she was pregnant but because I realized that's what I wanted all along. This June we will have been married 9 years and we have 4 amazing sons between us. For our anniversary this June I want to re-propose to her and tell her I want to renew our vows for our 10th anniversary the following year. I love her so much and it's time she has some proper wedding photos!
- George Clingerman
How I would use the money: I would have Robert donate the money to a charity, to be decided later. Or perhaps to low income student athletes in California who may have to 'pay to play' this year due to budget cuts.
- Rodfather
Hmm. I haven't got a sob story that would make anyone sob on my behalf. And yet I would like to take your money, Robert, so very badly. If I were to win, I would be tempted to use the money for a good cause but ultimately, after putting away money for taxes, I would end up spending the remainder on fripperies and possibly airfare someplace that is not here. I would have a very good time (but nothing illegal!) and might even send you a post card. Or in your case, a tweet. I could do both, I suppose.
- Carolyn Jewel
Hello Robert. If i win i'll use the money to hire a coder to create part of the platform for www.chartempire.com.
- Frangino Lucarini
I'll donate the money to Our Lady of Perpetual Help (OLPH) food pantry in St. Louis, which has also become a facility that provides medical / vision care and training (in addition to feeding several thousand people each week) in the most hard-pressed neighborhoods in the metro area. We'll then use the money to improve the OLPH infrastructure (basic stuff - network switches, nics, etc.) that supports that medical / vision care, as well as the training. The labor is donated by local tech entrepreneurs.
- Bob Lozano
With $1750 from @scobleizer, I'd pay for a little freelance graphic work to get the redesign of http://wiredjournalists.com rolling.
- Ryan Sholin
Many people are saying they will donate to charity and this kind of stuff, but I will be honest. I will use about 150 to buy a new printer - I really need it for college, it is a pain to ask my neighbor to print stuff all the time. 450 will go to 6 months of my grandma's medicine fund, so I don't have to worry about it. The rest I will probably save to buy a Palm Pre when it comes out or something cool and amazing.
- Kiko Cherman
I would use the $$ to make a dent in the pile of debt that is looming over my head and making my life hell!! Not a very exciting use of the money... but getting out of this debt would make a BIG difference in my life!!
- Meredith
With $1750 I'd finally get a laptop that wasn't owned by an employer.
- Richard Byrne
To my new FriendFeed friend - always remember: "a friend in need is a friend in deed" but a "friend with money is the friend we need"
- Huw Pendry
There's only one thing that's been on my mind that the money could go towards: An Open Source Command Center which will be named "0pie: Reb0rn". The current 0pie isn't doing so well, with a 40lb monitor that flickers in a way that really seizes you, and RAM that was considered top of the line when Megabytes were the highest feasible unit of measure. However! 0pie: Reb0rn will surpass...
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- David Wynn
from fftogo
I'd buy something nice, like a vacation, for my mom.
- John Piekos
I have a feeling this just made me an accesory to a crime.
- SteVe C
Nice! I would add the money to what I'm saving to buy a garage for my house.
- Orville Chomer
I would GIVE the money to my former admin who's husband is hospitalized awaiting a heart transplant.
- Bob Stewart
Hi Robert. Not one person above me said PLEASE I would like 2 win because........ can I remind everyone that manners cost nothing so may I be the first to say please count me in to your generous offer and Thanks
- garth
I would give my fiance the money so she could register for real estate training.
- Ryan
I would use the money to help buy monitors and computer to have a good setup to kickstart my graphic design freelancing career. I'm very poor and won't be able to afford it for YEARS.
- courto
A thousand bucks is plenty. How would I use it? First I'm going to get myself a Flip Mino HD that I read about on your blog. I'm running the Mexico City Marathon in August and that Flip looks the perfect way to record my effort! I'll even get it in custom colours to match the Marathon blog I'm doing! That takes care of $200. Another $300 will get me the Canon SX1 instead of the SX10 I'm about to buy. The rest will go to the charity I'm raising cash for by running the marathon.
- Gary
I'm from Costa Rica, I'm Sculpture from UCR, in case you think on me, I'll use that money to help me and my friends to get tools and work materials, maybe you can get some of our sculptures in spirit of fairness! :)
- Mauricio
Hope everyone here for the money sticks around for the people! I would love to win the money - I would buy my first Mac ever, the new Mini looks amazing! Pick up a Kindle and some books and pay for our family vacation before the new baby arrives! I will also renew the domain and actually write on my secret identity's parody site. DM Tygerdave on Twitter if you need to know the site before you decide :) Thanks for doing this and pluging friendfeed at the same time!
- David Knight
I would use the money to buy a new lens or two for my Canon
- Marcus McCurdy
It's very generous of you to do this giveaway Robert! I'd use it to help keep my wife's new law practice wiith some additional marketing. She just got set up in her little office but is still working on building the business. She does Immigration law. Her Twitter handle is @mainstlawyer.
- Jesse P. Luna
i am in! i would use the other money to promote a new online project that i am working on that deals with the graphic design. thanks.
- Ethan Bodnar
Hi, i'm Jose Daniel from Costa Rica, i work in web programming. I hope win the money to start a little personal projects. By the way, in this moment i have not job so would be nice the prize :)
- Jose Daniel
I would use the money to start a company in my spare time
- John Munro
I'd use it to help pay for my wife's medical school expenses - loans topping $250k...
- Dave
If I win the $1750 I will buy me a Nikon D300.
- Philipp Mertens
Want to create great conversation? Start giving stuff away! I would use the money to finally finish my iPhone development project by hiring some graphic designers to customize graphics for the program and then release it via a Scoble announcement!
- Matthew Strickland
If I win the money I would use it to continue my studies in Reiki healing and teaching, so I could assist in healing people in these tough times.
- Louise
Robert, if I win, I'll give half to the Charity Smackdown cause I'm supporting, Stand Up To Cancer (see: http://charitysmackdown.com/team_SU... ). The rest will help 'stimulate my local economy' - food from the green market, some purchases at local stores, probably pay the plumber to fix something that's been on the list for a while.
- Howard Greenstein
Hey Robert- Thanks for the offer and I gladly accept the possibility of winning! Normally I am a giver and have been all my life, but this time, due to my financial situation, I have to be a receiver. So I would share the money with myself. But that will help along the road to be able to give back again. It's all good! Thanks to you for being a giver!
- Candace Davenport
Congratulations. You made me log into FriendFeed this week.
- maczter
Sweet. Free money! I'll take me some.
- Jason Packham
With $1750 I'd use it to travel to California and try to get my startup in Y Combinator. Even if I don't, $1750 would be enough to fund my business in Mexico for 3 months!
- Mariano
I'd use the money to jumpstart my new pseudo teleportation company. Details on the concept can be found here: http://pushingthepulldoor.blogspot.com/
- Rick Popko
You could just be my destiny!
- Alejandra Luthmer
Robert, I'll use the $ to take a trip to SF to meet YOU! if you take me up on it I'll pay you for a few minutes of your advice :)
- Francois
Robert, thanks for sharing... I'll take the money and give it to the hard working developers (2) of our Startup www.kontexto.com They deserve a bonus and due to the economic times and our need to be frugal we haven't given anyone extra $. These guys deserve a little extra for all their hard work behind the scene - David http://friendfeed.com/dclarke
- David Clarke
If I win the money I will (1) give some to family members in need, (2) purchase a computer for myself (using a very, very old one), (3) save some for the future and (4) fund some acting career necessities, i.e. classes, etc. Thank you for this opportunity!!!
- Cynthia Fellowes
You are very generous to be doing this. Ignore the haters!!!
- Cynthia Fellowes
I'd buy an iphone to start doing dev work for cross platform (bb, symbian, etc) apps.
- Ben Vear
If i would win id buy as many good engineering books as i can find ( The art of electronics, the art of computer programming, blodgett), Buy some propper tools like a good soldering iron, power supply, occiloscope and a microcontroller programmer, get loads of components and start learning to make cool electronics stuff.
- Pim de Groot
i'd donate it to my dad's after school/summer program for inner city kids in toledo, kids unlimited. http://www.kidsunlimitedtoledo.org/
- john
I'll buy the arcadexl.com website on sale on sitepoint and then donate the adsense earnings to my Kiva account
- Dave Nixon
If I won, I would use it to be able to get some of the gear that I've been looking at and try to learn how to develop on it. I've been trying to piece together the parts to be able to build a smaller linux computer to do what the droboshare does (the drobo's not as interesting if you're technically minded). As a student, that gear's hard to come by.
- robbie nakamura
I would give up $1 greasy McChicken sandwiches and bump up to $2.50 Subway sandwiches--this might help me make better decisions--you know, more veggies for better brain power. :)
- exoticat
When will it be Announced?
- TheHenry
Congrats & Thanks for getting me started with FF !!!
- sathya
Love it. I'd like to buy the world a coke>
- Ben
Good Stuff! I do like the XML API - definitely a universal interface.
- Terza
I'll pay a UI person to work on my pet project, i suck at it.
- mehdi
If I win, I'll stimulate the economy by hiring someone to fix my roof.
- Roy Jacobsen
I'm ready. I could use it to pay for ridiculous prescription costs.
- Jen (SquirrelGirl)
For $1750, a Kindle 2, some e-books to go with it, and maybe a nice Canon lens. :)
- J Wang
If I won the money I would buy a HP MediaSmart home server. My wife and I just got married, and suddenly we have gigs and gigs of photos and videos that we want to keep forever. The idea of automatic, incremental backups gets me all aflutter. I love technology that makes life easier :)
- Tony Fendall
I'd give $750 to my Fav charity, Mobile Loaves and Fishes, @MLFNOW, and Split the $1000 between my two children to start a college fund.
- Karen
I could come up with no good reason - except that I probably would get myself the Wii and one more console and probably a NAS server - the rest (f anything remains) can go to some charity. Oh and get a drobo too if I can:)
- Brijesh
I would use it to upgrade my teenage son's Mac and camera equipment for his stop-motion Lego movie.
- MaDBooM
I would celebrate the crash of the GBP against the USD as I convert it over to spend in Harrods
- Emma Dunstone
I will get myself a new laptop that doesn't take 10 minutes to start up, and by the way I'm a teacher that taught four sections of a "Thinking and Writing: A Blog of One's Own" at a state college, using (among other readings) your Corporate Weblog Manifesto and Scobleizer--I want to equip myself to further use social media for fun and education.
- Tracy Mendham
I will spend the money on my wife and mother of our young kids. A day of pampering at a spa, new clothes, nice meal, etc.
- Clif Mims
Robert, I would use the money to but my 17 YO daughter her first car....or at least a down payment on one.. Nothing fancy, just something to get around in.
- Nick
I would use the money to buy a decent server and some memory upgrades for the Linux Lab we are setting up at a local community center. It's all donated hardware and will be used for computer literacy in the underprivileged North Charleston community. http://www.csclug.org/...
- Dan T
A handful of Nikon SB-900's
- chris tirpak
I believe in randomness :D, so if I get your money I will buy a "random" airplane ticket to a "random" country and blog about it
- dimi3limb
Buy a used Canon 5D and a decent lens
- Alain Breillatt
Hello! I'll take that money and buy half a laptop.
- Anthony
I'd invest it in my startup - MixedInk!
- Vanessa Scanfeld
I would tithe to Kiva and use the rest for my startup (change the world, baby!)
- Toby Hede
What do we get for pointing out that you didn't follow your own rules? Made fun on of twitter? http://twitter.com/tefflox !
- Jesse Crockett
Attention addict. Nice one.
- Tom Beardshaw
Is that your diagnosis, Dr. Beardshaw?
- Jesse Crockett
$1,750 would be great to put toward training for leadership training: http://klemmer.com/worksho.... I'm launching a business to train rookies on using social media and more advanced users how to tie it all together. This training on leadership is to equip me to better serve them.
- Courtney Engle
i have a great idea for a twitter reader, but dont have the money or coding skills to build it, btw congrats on the new job scoble, cant wait to see the new site/content
- patrick
Looking forward to more Scobleizer blog posts soon. Are you going to be able to keep up your blog with the new Rackspace gig?
- Jack Nork
I can only wish you get more paid gigs :) I would use the money ( along with my small nest egg) to start a direct to doorstep solution/service company.
- Mohan Ramkumar
Random wins! I'll jumpstart my freelance biz...
- Derek Markham
I just want the $1000, and I'll finally buy a DSLR I've been craving for a while now.
- Mike Estes
If I win I'll spend the money exclusively on a device that allows me to liveblog (videos, photos, etc) from my trip to Tahiti this year. This is my lifetime dream vacation, which is already booked, and I want to have a device that allows me to upload instantly (so, no computer in between, no transfer of memory cards and then upload, just straight upload!) anything and anytime I want to :) Of course, it must be able to allow me to follow up comments from people who check it :)
- Vitor Spencer
Robert, I'll use it to contact as many local/national government as i can. :) Building an app that allows citizens to help each other fill out those god-awfull form's, by implementing a Forum style plug-in on the webpages of local and national government bodies. I'd use it to take time off from the dayjob and convince as many municipalities and agencies of my plan!
- Tom
OMG Tom, brilliant freaking idea. I have a notebook full of forms for my aged parents and trust me, the gov really needs to get into this century, such as programs talking to other programs and not so much repeating of information.
- Janet-The Bottley Crue
Robert, I'd give the $$ to a friend of mine in California who is down on his luck, got laid off from the school system, lost his house, and has kids to support. He has finally decided that the only recession-proof job in California is to become a wildfire firefighter, but is in desparate need of some bridge cash until he gets his certification in June. His family is living in a friend's...
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- Marc Monplaisir
wtf! I'm upset at the possibility of someone getting scammed here.
- Suvarshi Bhadra
Well how can you resist an offer like that. I will use the money to help my sister who is struggling to pay for her last semesters in college so she can get her degree.
- Andromeda Edison
mmm..... donuts!
- Adam Lasnik
I would go with Jess Lee's cause, UNICEF
- Pico Seno
Joining!
- yannick
i'm in
- stanescu adrian
btb, where's the original cisco data center post?
- priyanhere
CIAO Robert! I'm ready to win :D
- lyonora
is it too late? here i am, however! :)
- Alessandro
i haven't money.i will buy laptop with this money.
- Kadir a
kadir my friend the game is over :) I mean the contest is closed, someone else get the prise, may be an other time, good luck.
- abdellah
I'd probably buy a nightstand for my wife, since she wont let me buy a laptop unless there is a stand to keep it on.
- mka
I'd use the money to send my older daughter (8yo) to The Country School Farm summer camp. http://www.tcsfarm.com/
- Shad Aumann
Thanx for this hope u gave us first of all. I use the money for a laptop or macbook because my computer is killin me. But to be honest im not really expecting to win anything.Im tired of hoping and losing even this kind of comment & win style events always..Anyway thanx a lot again..
- Bilal
If I win the $1750 I will buy me a new pc :) thanks.
- Oğuzhan Başar
hacı bizim para vardı ne oldu o ? bu kadar yorumu okutma bana. kazandıysam el salla.
- ahmet kakıcı
12 saat oldu. ne mektup geliyor ne haber senden, söyle de bileyim bıktın mı benden :)
- ahmet kakıcı
I'd use the money to set up a comfortable home workspace.
- Ian Yang
Wow, Robert, I'm ready to win. For $1000, this will be enough to start my personal iPhone App Dev studio; For $1750, this will be enough to start both iPhone App Dev and Android Dev studio :-)
- Yingfeng Zhang
spend the money create another friendfeed.
- xia
new friendfeed?twitter? oh,I will send some special gifts to you from China,Robert,if I win the $1750 .haha ,I am not kidding. I really like the friendfeed.
- 老巫
for SanGu.me!!!
- hugh
Never mind the money – you frieinds just feed me more religion!
- kelvin
嘿嘿，from china
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Random. $ to Haitian Clinic. 4 chances 2 win. http://tiny.cc/6JZfi
- Douglas Hopkins
I just sent out the checks. Thanks everyone!
- Robert Scoble
I won!!!!!!
- Micheal
I'd get a new macbook and a mac mini for myself, buy a little something special for the girlfriend, and save the rest for my summer in NOLA and grad school
- Chris Brakebill
Good luck everyone. Spread the love and the money :)
- Nir Ben Yona
You're nuts... anyway I'd use the money to buy a new porch... or perhaps go to Velocity (not sure my boss won't think 3 days if San Jose is too much like a holiday - I know get a new boss)
- Andy Davies
My one comment - money would be used for a mouth make-over.
- Randal
I'm in, as for the reason should I not win the random drawing, pc parts and save the rest for the new iphone.
- Michael Breslin
THIS CONTEST HAS BEEN CLOSED FOR A WHILE. THE PRIZES HAVE ALREADY BEEN HANDED OUT. CONGRATULATIONS to everyone. But this is now closed.
- Robert Scoble
Robert, perhaps putting that notice in the first comment or the original message itself might be even better.
- Chris Charabaruk
If I had my druthers, I would get my wife a new set of hooters. But, since my wife thinks most of my ideas are juvenile and self serving, I'll end up saving the money or something responsible.
- Demian Vonder Kuhlen
from Nambu
How would I use the money...hmmm well my wife wants to take the kids to Texas to see her sister or there are about a million home improvement projects that I have at home and at my parents
- Brian Allen
I would use the money to buy my mom a basic laptop. I would hand-deliver the laptop and give her some basic lessons on connecting to free wireless (probably at her public library). Naturally, my internet instruction would include such basics as "beware strangers on the internet -- and some are stranger than most" and "even your dog is a celebrity on the internet" and "blackmailing neighborhood teens via facebook and myspace".
- JoJo
I need money, I used to be a stick-up kid / So I think of all the devious things I did / I used to roll up--"this is a hold up; ain’t nothing funny / Stop smiling, and still! don’t nothing move but the money"...
- Uche Ogbuji
I will happily take your money. Most will go to a good cause. Okay, all of it will. Me :-) --->
- Robert Kenney
I would like to win the money in order to use it to cover the remaining $1,250 I will owe Drexel University after scholarships and federal loans, Fall '09.
- Andrew Leahey
Tuition. 'Nuff said.
- Kevin Mohr
Brilliant! I love watching the social experiment evolve... I'm a pro photographer dreaming up my next career as a content producer. I would use my winnings as a piece of the cost to purchase a Red camera. http://www.red.com/epic_sc...
- Michael Angelo Truncale
ололо! =)
- опять меня цитируют
give it to a little girl going to school who need it.
- Can Turanlı
I"ll use the money to buy two airline tickets from NY to SC so that both of my granddaughters could come to stay with me for the summer. If anythings left over, I really could use an external hard drive.
- Leigha Baer
epic thread
- nm
I'm in, winnings will go towards a new Mac Pro.
- timepilot
What would i do with $1,750? Pretty simple. I will establish a limited in Hong Kong and a branch office in Taipei. This would give me a visa and work-permit for Hong Kong and Taiwan and the blogosphere the chance to get always the hottest hands on and news from the Netbook and mobile computing hot spots in Asia. So yeah, i would use the money to establish a company in Hong Kong and i would even send you copies of all the documents and let you know about the success of it.;)
- Sascha Pallenberg
i would buy a Mac, so i could be cool, too ;) since the contest is over, i'm afraid i have to stay uncool :( Or buy an HP.... :)
- Marco Schmidt
I'll donate $1,750 to Austin Free-Net, which teaches Austinites with limited means how to use the Internet to improve their lives (find jobs, get healthcare information, stay in touch with family ...) www.austinfree.net
- John Sirman
What a good idea for a survey. :)
- Technical Support
I will start my phone system support website to deliver cost effective dialing and installation for small to medium business that needs a break from their local phone company.
- Technical Support
This is a poll :)
- CantorJF
.With the prize i think i can donate more then half for charity to People of Abruzzo that are victims of Earthquake in italy, then pay hosting of website for another year and buy a 2nd-hand reflex... I'm Sincere, and sincerly i know it's near to impossible to win, but for sure will be the best thread ever :)
- CantorJF
Did you make a bet with Michael Arrington for $4,500 that you would get 1000+ replies on Friendfeed to prove him that people do use this? i would pay of debt - the best investment.
- CJPhoto
We are three 20 somethings who have been working on a web start-up here in Seattle for the last 18 months. We've taken a salary at less than $2,000 per month for this whole time to make this work, we are that passionate that the idea will impact the Food Industry. Building a B2B platform for the food industry that is one part business, one part networking, two parts sourcing with the potential to integrate the social web with Food Manufacturers. The money would tie us over to round 1 of funding.
- Matthew Wall
Hi Robert. Great contest. i would give the money to our local animal shelter. I went in there a few weeks ago and saw their desperate need for cat litter and dog supplies
- Mike
I would use the money to start building a photography business.
- Evan Travers
Happily commenting for $1k and use the other money to go Zorbing in New Zealand with my Flip Mino recording the man-girl scream coming out of my face.
- Dutch Driver
I'd buy a FriendFeed Pro account
- Pat Hawks
Some much needed financial assistance for our wedding in 2 months would be great! :)
- Shmoe
The winners were announced here: http://beta.friendfeed.com/scoblei...
- Robert Scoble
a Comment ;-)
- Allen Harkleroad
I would pay for my daughters summer and fall college tuition with the winnings.
- Allen Harkleroad
I'm amused that people are still commenting on this, saying what they'd do with the money, when the contest is long over.
- Rochelle
maybe he has more money still!
- Iphigenie
Should I win the money would be donated to the Janesville, WI food pantry which has been hit hard with the GM plant closings. Too many children and adults (and their pets) going to sleep hungry.
- Dave Martin
I would use the money to follow in your footsteps and purchase a camera for how-to and web related videos.
- Damond Nollan
Wow! Sounds good to me! Will this thread be used in some way?
- JCunwired
Depends on the health of my fiancee, who is going through second bout with Lyme disease. I will either need the money to pay for meds that insurance will not, or if her health is better put it towards the coveted Canon 5D MKII.
- JCunwired
Yay, I like free money! Give some to me.
- tabbr
Wow, as I leave my comment, there are 1,510+ comments ahead of me. I would get a digicam so as to be able to interview peeps around town and upload to the Special Sections portals. Create community, let voices REALLY be heard.
- Denise
SORRY TO BURST YOUR BUBBLE EVERYONE, but it's over. Robert already announced the winners A MONTH AGO. http://beta.friendfeed.com/scoblei...
- Chris Charabaruk
To Tweet or not to. I will use the winnings to purchase a Netbook so I can finally have a mobile computer for class. My Dell died 2weeks outside warranty. I'll also use it pay down my Charter Bill.
- Arawak
If I win the Money I am going to buy a 60 inch pioneer plasma.
- John Wood
The money will most definitely be used to pay bills. And buy food. I'd also probably but a secondary monitor for Friendfeed. Real-time is real neat.
- Matthew
So, where is the money?
- Özkan Altuner
I am in! I will use this money to invest in a small social media project that I am doing geekscene.tv!
- Frank Da Silva
Mr. Mack: This is a good target. "1513 more comments" and 400 likes.
- Steve and 3 other people
allright.i know i'll win this: )
- umut
Pick me Robert, pick me! I promise to give it all to KIVA.com *and* match it with my own money.
- Joseph
Why me? I promise to give it all to KIVA.com (or Charity:Water or Gates Foundation) *and* match it with equal amount of my own money.
- Joseph
Rebuild my circa 1999 website, get logo redesigned, build it out and link to anywhere my investor wishes. Build in more social media tools, perhaps Y!OS and G's Friend Connect.
- Mike Valentine
There's no way to win anything with this huge number of people , but thanks mr .Robert Scoble for this quiz .
- ahmed nabil
So, who won the money?
- JCunwired
I was wondering that, too...who won?
- Thebluestbutterfly
from email
This was over a long time ago. I gotta dig the winners out again, sorry.
- Robert Scoble
Would love to spend your money on my credit cards and my wife!!!
- Brady
if I win, I would buy Ads on scobleizer.com
- Alex Sauceda
Okay, I'm commenting. :D
- amygeek
IT'S OVER PEOPLE. March 14, yo.
- Josh Haley
i think the confusion about this post lies in the inability for FriendFeed to appropriately show a date and time stamp on each comment. I just figured it out that you have to scroll the mouse of the comment bubble to see the date and time stamp of the comment... they should make it more visible.
- Jason Pollock
If I won, I'd give the money to donorschoose.org because it's obscene that in the US, public schools don't have money for pencils & paper. & my employer would match the donation. & I'd get a nice little tax writeoff for myself. :D
- amygeek
You are a developer's dream beta tester ! Way to push a system to its limits !
- Benoit Cazenave
This giveaway is over. Has been over. Ugh.
- Mattie Kenny
This makes a Thursday that much better. I would use the money to fly myself and the family back home to throw my son his first birthday party. =)
- Robert de Castro
I would buy iPods and cameras for students in my sixth grade class in Tucson, AZ. 7 Kodak Zi6 models and 14 iPod Touch models. Or 7 iPods with $1750
- Joel Zehring
That's certainly a cynical strategy for getting comments... but I love cynicism! How will I spend it? Sending my GF and I back to DisneyWorld!
- Ciaoenrico
oooooo visit me!! http://www.mygirlfund.com/Chris_R...
- Chris
buy a new cleaner/envirmnt friendly car
- Harscoat
No impressive story on how I would use the money... buy one netbook and put the rest against my credit cards. It's tough times!
- Jan Ole Peek
I'd use the money to fund my son's mission - http://billy.soistmann.com/
- Bill
Money is great!
- Fred Hsu
I would use it to pay Obama's tax increases. No spend it to stimulate the economy. No pay new taxes on health insurance. Naw, buy a Mac or I-phone. I-phone, friend feed hard to use on the Dare. 10% to charity though.
- wowfreeze.blogspot.com
Put in my children's college fund.
- wowfreeze.blogspot.com
Is this the record for the most comments ever? I'll use the money to replace the lens that was stolen by a United employee at ORD on the way from SFO. I will invest the remainder in stocks; if I show profit, I'll hold a similar contest to give away the profit.
- Hiro Asari
I'd use some of the money to get my 4 year old into music class. Its not super expensive but beyond my reach right now. Neither myself or his mother are musically inclined at all. But he is.
- Capn' One Eye - adrift
============= with the money, Il register a lot of domains, and not only .com ! I'l start new websites, new web app services. I want at least one of them to be that BIG one. I have an idea. Just not that money. :] ......... If money enough, Il commission userscripts, to facilitate internet browsing in general ! ....... I'm open to share in the results. ================
- pb:
If you still reading it means you did not like any of the 1575+ comments here. This is a very good reason to pick me. Second comment about what I am going to do with this money; probably will go to a holiday, order a champagne and remember you.
- Jacque
I have to comment again now.
- Mattb4rd
is this still running?
- Zee.
I WOULD LIEK TO SPEND THE MONEYS ON ALEX AND BUY HIM MONSTER CABLES
- Akiva
probably buy a lense for my D90 to take some pictures of the baby that is due in june.
- Zach Scott
This thread might be due for another *bump*
- Jay Cuthrell
Office
- Steve and 3 other people
OK, I won't.
- John Craft
Sure.
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- eksi21
dedim bu ne ameka..
- serdar
you wrote nobady NOT COMMENT :)
- Davit Channa
little rocker - http://bitsandpieces.us/2009...
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- TrafficBug
wow - http://www.youtube.com/watch... - wow for so many reasons
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Gavin, Kol Tregaskes, Jesper Lind and 134 other people liked this
Wow this is amazing
- Chris Saad
This took my breath away - amazing voice
- LPH™ and his dog P™
I'd admit it...I was getting a little misty-eyed. Hard not to.
- caj needs a haircut
When will Simon Cowell bag the ugly ass haircut?
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
I love these things. Worth watching.
- Robert Scoble
Robert, agreed. I wish the iphone had the ability to send a link to a youtube video quickly so this could be sent to my daughters today
- LPH™ and his dog P™
I wish they tuned down the audience a bit... Could barely hear her at times
- Mark Philpot
this lady certainly has a voice! good for her i say for being brave. :)
- Tatty Gibson
OMG, I'm in tears here. That was lovely and wow that song with all that. Had to favorite it. </sentimental wimp>
- Anika
Is good to see what nature can do. Incredible voice!
- Rafael
Alan, me too. Out of this world.
- Meryn Stol
Newspaper says she's the frontrunner to win: http://news.scotsman.com/enterta...
- Sprague D
That's a magnificent clip, I wish America's Got Talent was so entertaining and surprising.
- Jonathan Coffman
i watched this last night, love her! Her voice is a true gift.
- Laura Zickus
Thanks for sharing that - perfect for this time of year
- Jesse Stay
She's this year's Paul Potts. Great voices, the pair of them.
- Mark H
That was just amazing. And the perfect song for both her situation and to start the waterworks. Now i have to follow the show and see if she wins.
- Kevin Fox
While I absolutely detest these shows, I must say, this woman got to me.
- Rob Michael (Atmos Trio)
It says "embedding disabled by request."
- Dawn
You can click through to YouTube via the link. :-)
- Kevin Fox
Awesome
- Rodfather
Wow.
- Todd Hoff
Oh, Duh. Got it, Kevin. This reminds me of the British man who sang opera. It was unbelievable. I think our American shows shoudn't limit the age. I'd love to see what some of the older folks here can do.
- Dawn
Here's the opera guy: http://www.youtube.com/watch...
- Dawn
Dawn, America's got talent doesn't limit age either
- Jesse Stay
Great! I was thinking of American Idol. Never seen America's Got Talent.
- Dawn
"so you think you can dance" limits at 30 years or so. Such a shame.
- Kevin Fox
"So that's just one side of me!" Hahaha. So nice, she's courageous and willing, good game! So modest to have her walk away after her performance, I'm almost crying.
- Zu from AOD
Wow. I usually avoid all of these types of shows. But that was very cool!
- Louis Gray
As LG said, it's my first view of that. Damn talents' shows, they got me.
- Zu from AOD
it's terrific.. awesome.. fantastic..
- Ozan Kilic
I loved this-she is sublime!
- Susan Dennis
What a beautiful voice. Love how she proved them all wrong.
- Patrick Ward
Fantastic. Thanks for the newspaper link @Sprague D, her life story is just as amazing.
- Henry Burger
awesome
- Shey
Wow!
- Phil Maxwell
WOW! brought a few tears to my eye.
- Jasmin Smith
incredi-wow.
- Micah
Gosh, I think I've watched this video like 50 times already.
- Nir Ben Yona
Just goes to show how synical we all are, and how fast we are to judge people.
- Steve Mactaggart
from twhirl
Not bad! I still prefer this one: http://www.youtube.com/watch... - That said, it was a surprisingly good performance. Not as much as Paul Potts, who was entirely horripilative and transcendent.
- david beckwith
This was a surprise--and lovely, thx
- susan mernit
and I love this song
- Erin @queenofspain
Awesome performance. I've never seen the look of pleasant surprise on Simon's face before. You could tell that even he enjoyed it. He still needs to get a better haircut though.
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
Britain may have talent, but that's more than I can say for Simon Cowell. The man is the Antichrist, as far as i'm concerned.
- Iain Baker
He was a tamed little kitteh for 6 minutes during that performance though.
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
Don't know enough about Cowell to make a value judgement on the man. Sometimes (and I don't know if this is the case with Cowell) the a-hole attitude is a public front. It's possibly the case with Gordon Ramsey, and it certainly is with Ann Robinson - I've been to a recording of 'The Weakest Link' at Pinewood Studios, and she switches 'bitch mode' on and off along with the cameras.
- Ian May
Wow! Brings back memories when I first saw paul potts...
- Jorg Jansen
Seriously? This reeks of scripted viral. The show caught (online) fire in '07 with the Paul Potts audition...arguably the hottest shared video of the year. When the show returned last year, there wasn't an act even minutely close to the WOM impact Potts had generated the privious year. Clearly the BGT online buzz strategy for '09... Potts 2.0. #fail
- Zach Lytwyn
I cried...
- mjc
I was completely amazed...
- Anthony K. Valley ©
Watching Simon's eyes go wide was soooooo worth it.
- Great Scott! Needs a Ham
ahh, the power of the edit. great job of making her look like a 'cat lady' for the first several minutes. all the more powerful when we find out she's not totally daft.
- MikeAmundsen
That is one courageuos woman with an amazing voice. Goosebumps all over.
- Jochen Lillich
Don't judge a book by its cover!
- TheHenry
That's absolutely awesome
- C.K. Johnson
'Embedding disabled by request'! :-(
- Kol Tregaskes
Nicholas, yeah I did just wondering why it didn't work embedded. :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
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