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Jason Calacanis posted a message on Twitter

“Alleysider:yahoo prepares to layoff 3500. Uber shuts down,1500 layoffs @ebay rumor, ebay selling stuble, aol shutting down units.depression?”

Thursday at 12:47 pm - Link

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Depression and/or war with Iran? - Dimitar Vesselinov

ouch - Janet Fouts

There's nothing particularly new here is there? We know Y! is in trouble, I assume EBay is cutting fat, and AOL has been in trouble for years. - Kenton via Posty

Robert Hof posted a message on Twitter

“Suddenly all this stuff on Techmeme seems so beside the point. Not Techmeme's fault. But Wimax, Facebook, um, Twitter.. Who cares right now?”

September 29 at 11:57 am - Link

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Exactly right about Techmeme. FriendFeed is where all the action is. http://friendfeed.com/scobleiz... - Robert Scoble

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True. Who cares about tech if you can't afford it anymore? - Steven Perez

Steven: Yup. That's why APPL is down so hard today. The investors don't think AAPL is doing anything wrong, but they don't think the market will be there for their products. - Andrew Leyden

Very true. I haven't cared for several months now. Having to actually deal with real life financial bull-crap is a lot more important than writing on someones super wall. - Jason Kaneshiro

Amazing isn't it. - Charlie Anzman

I feel the same way. Who cares about cloud computing and Facebook Connect. Side note: Xbox Live is being updated today, look for the new experience this Fall ;) - Ryan

FF is helping me keep up with news: 400 heads are better than one... - Stupid Blogger (aka Tina)

Tina: 400? I have 3,400 and it seems like EVERYONE got active today on this topic. Very interesting to watch, that's for sure. - Robert Scoble

Yeah, but you're the Scoble. :D - Steven Perez

Makes you realise just how ephemeral a lot of the tech 'ideas' have been the past while. - Jonathan Webb

Robert: I only follow 400 or so people, ergo the turn of phrase ;-) - Stupid Blogger (aka Tina)

Tina: actually, that's not true. You follow me, and I follow 3,400. I like the best of those and pass them along. So, you are getting the benefits of my 3,400 AND your 400 (which I get the benefit of, which makes this a fun little cycle). This is why FriendFeed has so much power during big news events. We hear from all sides almost instantly. - Robert Scoble

True enough, though neither one of us is liking the full spread of our followers (moot point, I understand that). I agree, though, that hearing "OMG Did you hear XYZ?!?" from 4 different directions on FF makes me almost certain that it's more than a rumor and immediately gets the story on my radar... - Stupid Blogger (aka Tina)

Actually, when you have 3,400 scouring the world for info on something, that usually spreads the inbound quite a bit beyond just those 3,400. It's an amazing system, actually. - Robert Scoble

Techmeme is very boring! Almost useless for me. - Dimitar Vesselinov

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BBC NEWS | Education | Children's internet safety plan

September 29 at 1:50 am - via Bookmarklet - Link

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Baaaad news, can't they leave the net alone and just get their parents to actually do their job for a change? - alphaxion via Bookmarklet

Censorship! Kind of. Brave new world. - Dimitar Vesselinov

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Dimitar Vesselinov - FriendFeed

September 19 at 3:27 am - Link

You Stumbled Upon yourself?!? - Walt Ruppar

Yes, by accident. - Dimitar Vesselinov

Jennifer Dittrich posted a message on Twitter

“@dwheezy I think if we've still got people pushing into Pakistan, we could have a war on three or four fronts! Triple the awesome!”

September 22 at 4:27 pm - Link

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American potiticians and generals don't get strategy. - Dimitar Vesselinov

Shawn Farner posted a message on Twitter

“Anyone feel like Twitter or FriendFeed has lessened their desire to blog?”

September 25 at 2:50 pm - Link

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*raises hand* I almost didn't blog once since I started using FriendFeed heavily - embee

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hecks yeah. - Zee from WeDoCreative

I didn't have much before I met friendfeed...Now I have just about none, so I suppose the answer is mostly yes...sorta. :) - Alex "Maverick" Scoble

totally - Roger Kondrat

As far as just blogging about riding your bike or other random blogging, yes. But that is a good thing, there are too many blogs out there that have no reason being out there. - Mathew Ballard

I read fewer blogs now that I use friendfeed. - Andrew Leyden

I pay attention to FriendFeed and forums. - Dimitar Vesselinov

I've barely touched my sites since getting really active on FriendFeed. Thinking about rectifying that, though. I'm starting to get some long-form ideas. - Akiva Moskovitz

I use my blog for long form thoughts and essays and such, to give context to ideas and flesh them out a bit. Anyone who thinks Twitter or FF is a good substitute for that... hey look, a shiny object! - Eric

I've written of this sad turn of events before. Twitter totally killed my desire to write long form content. - Sparky

Or talk in long form for that matter Sparky.. - embee

Here! - John Worthington

Actually my desire to return to blogging has coincided with my FF usage, but that has more to do with moving out of the country and every friend I have asking me "how is this, what's that like?" 15 million times. - Gina K

Actually its increased mine. I don't blog now but there are somethings I want to say in more than 140 characters - Lindsey Smith

ME! - Stewart Rogers

Not yet. - Steven Perez

yes - tiffany

crap that's RIGHT I have a blog too *smacks head* - Marco (aureliusmaximus)

Um...yeah. I haven't touched my blog in over a week *hangs head* - Mavericks of Troy, NV!

yeah totally. :( i'm trying my best to get back into it. - Carmen

Definitely - Mo Kargas

oh yeah for sure - (jeff)isageek

Yep, haven't blogged since May. Blame that on Twitter and FriendFeed. - imabonehead

*raises hand WAY high* It's kind of sad... Wish I could blog more but it's lost its appeal to me. - Zach Flauaus

that's me. Social web killed my blogging. - Parth Awasthi

FF+blogging - Igor Poltavskiy

Yes. - Mathew A. Koeneker

not post anything worth while for a few week... and its all because of Twitter - Phil Brown via twhirl

I never truly had the desire to blog anyway, but if I was on the fence, FF and Twitter pushed me off of it. - David Cook

No way. FriendFeed makes me want to blog more. - Louis Gray

I microblog more now. - Svartling

What Louis said, but makes some blog posts unnecessary - Jesse Stay

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too

September 24 at 12:42 pm - Link

This is Sergey Brin's blog. - Dimitar Vesselinov

Kimberly J posted a message on Twitter

“I'm preparing a presentation on SM in university-level teaching/learning/networking. Any words of wisdom?”

September 12 at 8:53 am - Link

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*Europe's Mobile Tech & Social Media Hub*: Dimitar Vesselinov posted a link

WordFrame: Better Web Communities and Social Media Collaboration

September 11 at 1:57 pm - Link

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Interesting. Dimitar do you know anything about these guys? Anything first-hand? - Roger Kondrat

Yes, I do know them. You could talk to George Athannassov, he is the main guy behind this platform. http://friendfeed.com/georgeat... - Dimitar Vesselinov

Thanks, I may have to drop him a line. - Roger Kondrat

Social Media: Harry Chen posted a link

Can you survive 24 hour without Google?

September 7 at 6:50 am - via Reshare - Link

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Can I survive without Google Search, Google Reader, GMail, Google Maps and Google Notebook? Probably not. - Harry Chen

that will be very difficult indeed.. It depends, if I'm on a beach for holidays, yes, But in case of normal work life, no way.. - Jaap Willem

Easily, without a computer or access to the internet even. But it does make it quite clear just how much I rely on these services. Just make life in general a lot easier and certainly online life. - SusanVillasLewis

Only Google Search is still a must. - Dimitar Vesselinov

Anjul updated their status message on Gmail/Google Talk

“I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious.”

September 3 at 1:56 am - Link

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Knowledge is my passion. - Dimitar Vesselinov

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edno.bg - 360Â° Bulgaria

September 6 at 3:45 pm - Link

From the page: "120 aerial photographs" - Dimitar Vesselinov

Dimitar Vesselinov stumbled upon a site on StumbleUpon

edno.bg - 360Â° Bulgaria

September 6 at 3:45 pm - Link

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From the page: "120 aerial photographs" - Dimitar Vesselinov

UoL Blog Network posted a message on Twitter

“Can Social Software Change Teaching and Learning? http://tinyurl.com/5rs7jo”

August 28 at 4:39 am - Link

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AJ Cann posted a message on Twitter

“Can Social Software Change Teaching and Learning? http://tinyurl.com/5rs7jo”

August 28 at 4:39 am - Link

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Can Social Software Change Teaching and Learning? - CHECK.point-elearning.com

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Can Social Software Change Teaching and Learning? - Ian Ibbotson

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Georgia, Bulgaria and the Second Balkan War | afoe | A Fistful of Euros | European Opinion

August 26 at 12:45 pm - Link

From the page: "Georgia, Bulgaria and the Second Balkan War" - Dimitar Vesselinov

Neal "thePuck" Jansons posted a message

“last.fm or pandora? and why?”

August 25 at 4:59 pm - via Ping.fm - Link

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Last.fm, because it's passive. Pandora requires too much attention for my needs. - John Roach

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I haven't bothered with Pandora yet either and John's comment alone makes me not wanna bother - Rahsheen™

both - Amber aka SDA

Last.fm because it's the only God damn thing we're allowed to use here in the UK - Zee from WeDoCreative

i use both - i like the library on pandora more but the features on last.fm more. - Morgan

Pandora...Last.fm seems incredibly hard to figure out by comparison. And I have my favorite station on Pandora locked in. - Alex "Maverick" Scoble

I've used both. Last.fm for me. What John said. - Mavericks of Troy, NV!

The best music is silence. - Dimitar Vesselinov

I prefer Pandora, Last.fm is a little clunky and slow, and I agree with Alex that it's not as obvious to figure out - Jennifer Van Grove

Social Media: Harry Chen posted a link

“Question *again*: do you worry about Google knowing too much of what you do online?”

August 19 at 1:21 pm - via Reshare - Link

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say "yes" or "no" - Harry Chen

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They have a trillion pages indexed. Facebook should worry you more, IMO - Mona N.

google, i don't care, it is who they give it too that could be worrisome - Gregory Lent

No, there are more important things to worry about in this world, if it's not Google then its someone else who knows, whatever - Kol Tregaskes via twhirl

No. - Steve Isaacs

A little, but not too much. - Amber aka SDA

Yes. - Dimitar Vesselinov

I try to spread my participation across a variety of sites so that no single organization gets too complete a picture of me. But I admit Google probably still knows more than might be desirable. - Jill O'Neill

I don't worry about Google as much as I worry about what people can find out about me on Google, if that makes sense. I don't think Google, Inc really cares about me personally to do anything with the data they have for me. But some nefarious person could put together a lot of stuff about me through Google's services. - Fitzgerald Steele

No. - Steve Isaacs

Not as much as what other companies can gain access to in court cases. Google isn't necessarily benevolent, but I don't think it's stupid enough to abuse the data it holds... - Badger Gravling

no. - annaliese via twhirl

no - Alan Le

No - rule #1 "don't be evil" - jason

no - Rob Record

no - Baard Overgaard Hansen

Yes, they could crush anyone if they wanted to... - John Wesley

no - Alex Barredo

Google privacy discussions: http://tinyurl.com/6e9vgz - Harry Chen

Yes. Not from anything Google will do with the data on me. It sits on servers, unable to withstand a government subpoena (assuming use of subpoenas don't go out of style). My "papers and effects" are in the cloud. - Rick Wolff

no - Fatmanur Erdogan

Kurt Greenbaum posted a message on Twitter

“Pluck, OneSite, Ning, ThePort -- who else does social networking software/platforms?”

August 21 at 12:22 pm - Link

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Daniel Johnson, Jr. posted a message on Twitter

“Question of the day: why are you subscribed to so many RSS feeds that you can't keep up with? It might be time for a late-summer cleaning.”

August 21 at 5:42 am - Link

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You don't have to read every single RSS feed you subscribe to. - Dimitar Vesselinov

So why are you subscribed if you're not reading? It doesn't make sense. - Daniel Johnson, Jr.

One of these days Ill get around to reading that Blog - Brian Beatty

Josh posted a message on Twitter

“been doing some research on blogging software, and wordpress seems like the best. Anyone else have any favorites/suggestions?”

August 19 at 4:18 pm - Link

Have you tried WordFrame? http://wordframe.com/ - Dimitar Vesselinov

Mayank posted a message on Twitter

“@sammierae you've heard it right.... wordpress is by far the best blogging software ever built!”

August 21 at 12:19 am - Link

Have you tried WordFrame? http://wordframe.com/ - Dimitar Vesselinov

mashable posted a message on Twitter

“QUESTION: how many RSS feeds do u sub to? I reduced to 200.”

August 20 at 6:26 pm - Link

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around 220, but I am finding that the quality on most of them is dropping. While easier to cull, harder to find quality... - James Fridley

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Actual subs? 64, but three of those are Yahoo pipes fees that mashup 50 or so sources for me. - Stupid Blogger (aka Tina)

I don't even want to know. - JillMissesSnuggling

200+ but always looking for unique feeds. Using feedly vs. gReader makes it a lot easier to scan fresh content from many feeds. - Nice Fish Films

About 40 but fast becoming only 1 - FriendFeed - Sean Kelly

I'm down to about 150 from 300. - eve shot first

im at about 100 - Sheraz Mahmood via twhirl

creepin' up to 500, but i read a ton of different prodution field feeds - videopixil

96 - Pete Delucchi

134 and having all kinds of trouble keeping up - Michelle Marie Miller

100 - Adam Turetzky

378 and gradually climbing in a sawtooth pattern - Kevin Johnson via twhirl

I unsubscribed to a lot of feeds a few days ago. Only 60 now. - Alejandro S.

704 - Robert Scoble

I'm down to about 130 now. If someone is an active FriendFeeder, I get a good stream of their info here, so I don't need it in two places (Google Reader and FriendFeed). - Otto R. Radke

687 - Kevin Bondelli

with Friendfeed (and its imaginary friends) I just stopped using an RSS readers. Friendfeed FTW! - Marcos Marado

686 - 587 in Google Reader, 99 in reBlog. And when I get more time, I'll be going through and subscribing to a bunch more Twitter and FF followers blogs. - TDavid

343 - I need a "best of the day/week/month" filter, à la Friendfeed - Jérôme Flipo

413... lot of photography blogs - arnet

1500 - Michael J. Cohen (mjc)

That is an amazing amount Michael, I am subscribed to 238! - Joe Dawson

care to share mashable ? - Alemsah

315 mine - Engin Yazılan

ah :) 15 only but enough rite now. - Ahmet Alp Balkan

recently went from ~200 to 35. Going for quality And less noise... - Migger

106 - Ali.Atrvash

I've pruned down to about 10 that I read every couple of days... - Todd

11,000 Feeds! http://divedi.blogspot.com/200... - Dimitar Vesselinov

I'm subscribed to 106, most of them infrequent programming blogs, but one of them is Robert Scoble's shared item feed. Therefore it seems like a lot more. Scoble is a force multiplier. - Denton Gentry

Right now I'm at about 60. I've cut back until I can figure out a good way to organize them. Any suggestions? - Jonathan (Bad Robot)

0, I quit RSS readers. - Thomas Hawk

201 feeds...thank god for Google Reader! - Live4Soccer

I'm down to around 150. I only read 10 or 20 on a daily basis. And I use Bloglines. - Alex "Maverick" Scoble

Who's up for sharing their OPMLs? I'd much appreciate it. - Alex Popescu

113 feeds in Reader. Friendfeed almost serves as another 50 or so feeds though.... - George Smith

208 - Richard Lawler via twhirl

50 - Eric @ CS Techcast

Was 738, but I've trimmed it down to 113. - Steven Perez

Technically, 917 RSS feeds but most I don't really pay attention to. - Mike Reynolds

17 and I have trouble keeping up with them. - Sweyn via twhirl

Somewhere around 600, but I'm working on trimming that down... - Grant Bierman

recently trimmed to 100 - Bill Pennington via twhirl

Between reader, people I follow here, youtube, facebook... god who knows. - (teh)Kenny

About 600 but I don't read them all, just data mine 'em - Steve Rubel

Never counted. :-) But it's a lot, goes up and down though and don't read them all - Kol Tregaskes

Was 414, but I've trimmed it down to 200 - qian

169 - rob friedman

Jeanette Fisher posted a message on Twitter

“Wondering if blogging is dying. I don't have enough time to blog anymore and I spend less time reading blogs. Finding that I like the phone.”

August 21 at 5:43 am - Link

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Microblogging is the new black! - Dimitar Vesselinov

Fred Wilson posted a message on Twitter

“thanks to everyone who wished me a happy birthday on twitter today!”

August 20 at 5:54 am - Link

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happy birthday! :) - Simon Cast

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Have a Happy B'day Fred! - Bryan Thatcher via twhirl

Happy B'day Fred !! BTW are greeeting from FF ..worthy of a thank you too ?? :)- - Peter Dawson

happy birthday! - Gavin

Happy Birthday :-)! - asiriusgeek

Happyyyyyyyyyy B Dayyyyyyyy - Lena

happy birthday :) - Loic Le Meur via twhirl

May all your dreams come true. Happy B'Day - Dave Martin

♫ happy bday ♫♪ - AJ Batac ♘

missed it ,, sorry Happy Bday ... hope it was a good one - johnpiercy

Happy Birthday! - Dimitar Vesselinov

Happy birthday! - Morton Fox

happy birthday! - Dobromir Hadzhiev

happy new year Fred! - nicolas dengler

Happy Birthday!! - Charlie Anzman

Where's the party again? - Josh Haley

Happy Birthday! - Thomas Hawk

Happy Birthday! - David Weekly

Happy Birthday Fred stay tuned anew twitter application maybe.. - Fred Grott

Happy Birthday Fred! - Parth Awasthi

Social Media Marketing: Robin Seidner posted a message

“are people continuing to use bookmarking tools like digg and delicious anymore? Or are they loosing their value?”

August 8 at 10:06 am - Link

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Google Reader + FriendFeed - Leo Gao

still using delicious everyday... and despite their recent redesign failure, I love it. - Fabrice Epelboin via twhirl

I prefer StumbleUpon. - Dimitar Vesselinov

Mike Fruchter posted a link

Tropical Storm Fay - North Atlantic

August 18 at 5:58 am - via Bookmarklet - Link

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It's just amazing, my best friend went to Dominica for vacations (and imagine taking all the road from Russia over there) to behave at least part of vacation spoiled by the storm. - Svetlana Gladkova via twhirl

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It's suppose to get bad around 2:30PM here. Leaving work early to get gas for the generator. - Mike Fruchter

Stay safe Mike!... Looks like she's coming towards me on Friday. We can use the rain, but sorry you're taking the hit for it. - David Knight

Hope it will not be too bad and you will be Ok Mike - Svetlana Gladkova via twhirl

Thanks David.Fingers are crossed for this one. It is suppose to touch down 100 miles north of me. I pray our electric and internet stays up. - Mike Fruchter

Thanks Svetlana - Mike Fruchter

Weordest storm in a long time. Current computer tracks suggest this might even be a triple hit: western Florida on Tuesday or so, up the Peninsula and out over the Atlantic, then back again, hitting the east coast of the state before heading back toward the Panhandle. We'll be watching this one all week. - Chris Baskind

It's calm in West Palm Beach so far. Raining on and off, gas stations are jammed packed with the survivalists. - Mike Fruchter

@Mike crazy... be careful out there! - andy brudtkuhl

Climate weapon? - Dimitar Vesselinov

@Mike: How was it? Are you all right? - Svetlana Gladkova via twhirl

@Svetlana, everything is okay, thank you. Raining here non stop still. I get to work from home today :-) - Mike Fruchter

@Mike: Glad to hear you are fine :) And we have no tropical storms here in Siberia but it's been raining all day like hell today here as well :) - Svetlana Gladkova via twhirl

Mike - Had no idea you were down there with Tim etc (and my Mom :) when I was geeking the storm the other night and a little tonight ... Looks like a swing back up north. Totally strage how well this thing stayed together (actually intensified) over land. Hope you have a calm season. Want my favorite spots to be there in the winter :) - Charlie Anzman

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McCain in Georgia http://www.state.gov/r/pa/ei/r... - Dimitar Vesselinov