Michael Hocter

I can't imagine that happening anytime soon. With all the buzz and member growth, there will be VCs itching to put money into here. - Hutch Carpenter

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

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

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

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

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

[Your Ad Here] - Indio Apache via twhirl

Click! - Igor The Troll

Nothing to worry about. We're here to stay. - Julian Baldwin

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

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

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

identi.ca:) - Igor Poltavskiy

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

I would not classify the ff user as upper income either. that puts a damper on things in advertising. not all of us are billionaires. most of us are just nerds - AnotherⓃⓄⒶⒽ

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

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

I worked in marketing. I seen the books. advertising is not the root of profit. PR and manipulating the masses are a more valuable commodity. Why would GE own NBC? - AnotherⓃⓄⒶⒽ

there is a reason on the good TV is on HBO Anthony Citrano - AnotherⓃⓄⒶⒽ

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Not too worried Michael :) - Charlie Anzman

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

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

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

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

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

To Scoble's house - Shey

Perhaps FriendFeed could demand payment from web apps that want FriendFeed to use the web app's API. But by the time money could actually be made that way, FriendFeed would have to be huge. Another way FriendFeed could make money is to charge money for early adopters to see FriendFeed features that are still in testing. - possible248

@ Shey, LOL! - Iain Baker

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

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

Ff is slowly becoming a personalized information discovery tool... To an advertiser that provides valuable data to "really" personalize ads to the user or to a search company that wants to know more about its users - Krishna Gade