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Yay! Me too! - Jen (SquirrelGirl)

Honestly, I don't understand how all of this happened or could happen. :( - Miranda

it happened because WaMu was doing stupid sh*t like telling folks making $55K that they could take out a $400K mortgage ... at least that's what its web site said when i tried to pre-qualify online. - tiffany

I agree with this statement. - James Ferguson

Did they show a lot of blood? I know that's a major factor in determining if violence in a movie gets it an R rating. Additionally, it's not a science: it's a bunch of parents in a room who vote on what rating the movie gets. - Mark Trapp

The pencil scene == NOT PG-13...was awesome tho! - Mack D. Male

Blood is the key, and TDK has very little. Not saying it's right, but it's just another special quirk of the ratings board. - Heather Cee

This reminds me that I still need to see "This Film is Not Yet Rated." - James Ferguson

yes, but it was a *clean* decapitation. :-) decapitated by RPG = PG-13. rachel dawes shower scene = R. :-D - Karim

If there was a half second flash of boob it would have been R rated.... - Jason Carreira

Being a parent, I actually care about this. LOL. Guess I gotta take mini-me to see it anyway. - Rahsheen ™, Coach of FF

While I think that your average 13-year-old can handle the violence in this film, it is certainly highly inconsistent with how the MPAA usually rates films. Not to mention the violence vs. sex/nudity double-standard. - Eric Portelance

PG-13 for "Intense Sequences of Violence, Some Menace"... uh, no, lots of menace. - Wade Dorrell

I guess beating the crap out of people with your bare hands is tepid in today's world. I left my Daughter at the house and saw it solo anyway. - Mike Cornell

Plus, Joker blewup a hospital. Not a movie for little kids. - Larry Kless from twhirl

I use Ta-da lists a little bit (http://www.tadalist.com/) very simple and straight forward, not sure about their mobile support. - John Duff

I'm going to try OmniFocus when I get an iPhone. It's $20 but the location aware to-dos is really neat. - Paul Reynolds

I use RTM/Gmail FF plugin too. I find no need to synch anything! - Ian May

I use MyLifeOrganized. No iPhone option yet, however, although the developer is working on it. - Dan Liebke

Been checking out the OmniFocus info: looks great, but 80 bucks for the desktop app, and 20 for the iPhone app...for a todo list? Are they kidding? - Steve Isaacs

I like RememberTheMilk for the route mapping feature. - Lisa L. Seifert

The findings: Omni looks good but is WAY WAY overpriced, and seems to indicate that it only syncs if you use .mac or a web dav server (?) hell no. RTM I just don't like the interface, and the iPhone web app seems weak. Liked the gmail integration but what I really need is web/iPhone app integration. Things seemed perfect so I bought the iPhone app, but syncing isn't yet supported. FAIL. - Steve Isaacs

OmniFocus - does it sync from desktop app>iPhone (or does it need .mac or a web dav server)? For that price I think it should at least sync without any other specifications. - Steve Isaacs

Why not just a zoho or google docs document - Cody Heitschmidt

Seriously I think sometimes we all look for the perfect app for every task instead of using one app to it's fullest. - Cody Heitschmidt

Maybe not hell, I don't know - Cody Heitschmidt

i don't know too much about this app, but check it out. it might be to your liking: http://www.reqall.com/ - Cee Bee

I love Google Docs, but I need ultimately something that can keep tasks dated, and let me know about upcoming and overdue. Checkboxes and stuff. I love GDocs, but it sucks that you can't edit them on the iPhone. - Steve Isaacs

Cee: Thanks - I'm checking it out now. Boy this todo list web/iphone quest has turned into the mission of life. Right now checking reQall and Jott. Feel like I'm getting close. - Steve Isaacs

Steve, have you tried Backpack? http://www.backpackit.com/ There's a free and and a solo plan that drops all the features, but I'm pretty sure they still have the todo list. 37 SIgnals' To-do list is the only one I've been able to use regularly: very simple. - Mark Trapp

I am an admitted RTM evangelist - once you get used to the interface it's amazing. Plus RTM pro has an iPhone version. I'll end my evangelism on that note. - Ben Parr

Evernote is a nice note-taker & has to-do functionality & syncs 3 ways (desktop,web,iphone). huh huh huh, i said 3-way - Peter Ghosh

I so much want to love Evernote - gave it a great shot, but I had problems with: 1. iPhone text entry was really buggy 2. Can't check off things on to do lists on iPhone (or make todo lists) 3. When I copy sections of web pages to app, the formatting got so screwy 4. When I would copy a whole link in the app, it just copied the url text - would be nice to see the whole thing. The synching was the coolest part. I'll have my eye on it, but for now I couldn't find a context for me. I love that icon though! - Steve Isaacs

I feel exhausted by this obsessive software search. ComicCon is next week and I really want something in place - I'll be 100% laptop and iPhone and need a dream solution. "Things" looks wonderful but it's not ready for prime time yet. At the moment I'm going with Jott. Not so much for the voice-recog but because it's simple and the phone app is tight. - Steve Isaacs

Didn't RTM win some iPhone app award or some crap like that? - Rahsheen ™, Coach of FF

What about OmniFocus? - Eric Portelance

WTF man?! - Trent Hunger

you ninja you - Donny Warbritton

HOW? - Akshay Dodeja

Anyone surprised by that pic please raise your hand. - Ryan Cates

word - Ryan

Who else can do that but you! - Jonas

w0rd - Akshay Dodeja

Wow! And I thought Kevin finally got laid! What a disappointment! lol - Igor The Troll יִצְחָק

GO YOU! I can't even afford one of those anyway sadly. - Shawn aka ringking

coooool....but I thought it was going to be a pic of a cat sleeping or something...congrats anyway, Kevin..."it's good to be the king!" - TechChic

Alright, I've calmed down a bit. heh I hope it's yours. I hope you didn't get white (sorry but eh) and awesome photo. Love it. See? I'm calm. - Lise

when do you guys get the iPhone in the us? Europe can buy in about ten mins. - Marie Boran

That wasn't mine, but yes, I'm getting white! - Kevin Rose

I think the secret is out! - Larry Kless

yep it's here. - Jeremy Campbell from twhirl

Slick! What no skin? You're asking for trouble. - Mrsth

You DID get white? Oh, Kevin. No no no. Sigh. Alright. I'll be here when you start regretting that decision. We can talk. heh - Lise

didn't get mine yet -- soon! - Kevin Rose

Gasp! There's still time then! Reconsider black? And why don't you have it yet? What are you waiting for? - Lise

My guess for the Apple logo is that they would go for a black glossy one like on the back of the iPhone. I think that would be crazy sexy with the aluminum. - Eric Portelance

Highly doubt it - Greg Rosen

Playing right now -- this is very, very addicting. - Matt Donders

new link: http://www.iminlikewithyou.com/arcade... - Kevin Rose

Thanks Kevin, had fun playing with you and Melody. Actually my first time playing Blockles. - Vincent X

yea, that was fun, thanks for playing - Kevin Rose

hah! pretty cool! - Orli Yakuel

two wins in a row, not bad for my first time playing in months - robert steburg

Thanks for sharing, yes this IS addicting! - ChaCha Fance

I don't want to try it. It's better if I wait 'till I'm at home, I think. But thank you anyway! - Jeroen van Meerendonk

But it is one incredible and incredibly overplayed song of it's time - Michael W. May from twhirl

Toto is in no way equal to Journey. At the bar tonight - Journey came on and inspired a massive sing-a-long. Totally different. Just saying that "Africa" is poised to have a big comeback like "Don't". Yet Steve Perry and Journey is way Awesomer than all comers in this department. - Steve Isaacs

I was rockin' Africa years ago! Actually funny you mention this, though, because I was at karaoke last night and had thoughts of singing Africa. lol - Eric Portelance

i just hope no one rediscovers ELO's soundtrack to xanadu - Cee Bee

ELO's Xanadu soundtrack equals awesome in my book. - Steve Isaacs

At least it's not Rick Astley? - Bradley McSpinn

But dude, Rick Astley would never give you up OR let you down. That equals some serious win. - ::Kristen::

@::Kristen:: - ...never gonna run around or desert you... - Bradley McSpinn

Journey is back on the raod again this summer http://www.journeymusic.com/home... seeing them i Toronto ,, in Sept . - johnpiercy

@fotographic - For some reason the lyrics to "Lights" keep running thru my head now. Thanks. - Bradley McSpinn

hey check this out http://www.people.com/people... - johnpiercy

Man that's AWESOME! I'm suddenly really wanting to go see that show. Kinda like a real life version of that movie "Rock Star" - http://www.imdb.com/title... Uncanny how much that guy sounds like Steve Perry. By the way, that final scene of Sopranos was epic. - Bradley McSpinn

yep jason - here's most likely how you got so many so quickly - http://www.centernetworks.com/friendf... - Allen Stern

the one thing Twitter has it is that it was first before FF in that space. And that brings name recognition to the "masses" and a large inertia that you have to overcome before you can become a true replacement, no matter what technical advantages you bring to the table. I have 5 times more followers in Twitter than FF, and sadly a mass migration doesn't seem to be happening for these folks. - Daniel Robitaille

Your post to a given site takes on more life when it hits the pages of friendfeed. It's almost like you weigh where you want to "release" a post first knowing that it will get "picked up" by friendfeed. - todddoubleu

I do not think Twitter will survive as CMS systems that run into message bus systems are the hardest to scale on ruby on rails nd they do not have the money to fight two fronts ruby on rails scalability and new features to stave off competition. - Fred Grott

good link, allen. some additional default choices would be fantastic. read: better discovery mechanisms. having only members of the echo chamber as default choices makes for a duller feed. no offense to present company. ;) - Brooks Bayne

I think all this FF > Twitter discourse is seriously, seriously underestimating the power of Twitter's unparalleled portability. It's 100% usable through SMS and has an iPod-esque ecosystem of third party tools and add-ons that hook into it. These things brought Twitter to its throne, and now you guys aren't even factoring them into the equation because of a little downtime. - David Chartier

i'll post some thoughts on my blog, but one thing that is still annoying is represented in this post... where your friendfeed shows all aggregated iterations of this post here on ff and it just feels silly as i can choose which iteration to leave a comment on. that's an issue. maybe you should turn comments off on the other instances. except that you cannot because its not a feature. also, check out http://friendfeed.com/frendfe... to see some aggregation bugs. - sull

Jason, that's a brilliant "There Will Be Blood" reference. And so true. I'm afraid that Twitter is just a couple of weeks from being bludgeoned with a bowling pin by FF. - Frank Roche

I think the removal of a character limit would hurt twitter more than help it. Twitter was never meant as a conversation platform. I think keeping it small and simple makes it much easier for people to use. One of it's biggest strengths is that it's a short form messaging service, and to take that away would make it something that isn't twitter. - Austin Brown

Jason, I fully agree with what you say here. - Steve Rubel

I love the fact that there is no premium linked with the number of connections you have. In twitter the greater the number of connections, the higher you appear in the "following" list of your follower. That has become a reason of spam, lowering the quality of the twitter network. Plus, FF works. - Marcello Del Bono

http://sull.outputs.it/post... - sull

I can see how Twitter is useful for people who post via SMS, but while Im at the computer FF is far more useful and also more fun to use - Jeff Hoard from twhirl

I could offer my agreement here on your entry's content, but I'd rather tell you how much I dug the entry's title. - Donna Mugavero

I'll put it this way, i never used twitter because I'm not part of the technorati community, but I do use Friendfeed because it allows me to bring together all my online content and then share it with the people I want. That alone is enough for FF to beat out Twitter for me. - Alfredo Padilla

I think one of the things we have missed carries forward or plays forward a Robert Scoble post, see : http://scobleizer.com/2008... ..let me put it in non tech terms as it pertains to start-ups. FOUNDERS MUST PARTICIPATE IN THE COMMUNITIES THAT FROM AROUND THEIR PRODUCTS! When I state founders I mean also the ones building the product. - Fred Grott

What it comes down to me is *noise*. FriendFeed is just noisy, what with content from all my social media friends all being dumped into one stream with no organization whatsoever. I look at my FF friends page and I can't make any rhyme or reason to what I'm seeing, even with little favicons to identify which service I'm reading from. Twitter, is clean and organized. - Stephen Lopez

School of ALL CAPS is a little loud... ;-) - Mitchell Tsai

I think Center Networks (Allen) has an interesting analysis. I'll be curious to see if the high profile FF users are as interested in commenting on other people's feeds as having their own words commented upon. Twitter just seems like a more democratic forum to me. Personally, I don't care if it is down a couple hours a week. FF only supplements it, it is not an adequate replacement. And I like to write more than 140 characters! Still Twitter is my first choice. - Liz

PS... Because I use the Flock browser, I get all my social media updates right from the Media Bar and People Sidebar, without ever having to open Twitter, YouTube, Flickr, Facebook, Pownce, Digg, etc... Everything I want is right there at the click of an icon. Flock > FF. - Stephen Lopez

I wouldn't underestimate twitter's connection through sms. It makes it the first legit mobile social network, and that is significant for mass adoption and use. Most people don't have internet on their phone to use a web app (iPhone Facebook, Tumblr, etc.) or internet (twitpic, friendfeed, etc.) to send email to update or submit to services. But they are very likely to have sms service, and are used to using it. - Tony

Liz I comment on tons of feeds. - Robert Scoble

Robert, but you seem to be the exception rather than the rule. - Robert Seidman

Jason, good post. I made some comments regarding your five questions here http://seriousaboutcamo.typepad.com/posts... - Clay Newton

my milkshake brings all the boys to the yard - Tyler Gillies

I agree to what you say but besides Twitter reliability, its major flaw is really the reply (or conversation) system which is close to be useless. I guess FriendFeed gained a lot of people (at least myself) because of its efficient conversation system. - fbrunel

Jason, I agree with you a lot of the time but not in this case. I think it would be suicide for Twitter to get into a features arms race with FriendFeed. They would lose that battle. Twitter needs to focus on keeping it simple, getting stable, and becoming a short messaging infrastructure - not a destination. - Mike Doeff

Mike, I think you're right on. Twitter would do better to solidify its differentiation. - Clay Newton

Agreed. I have flip flopped a couple of times on which service I prefer, but FriendFeed is clearly in the lead. If they launch a great iPhone app next Friday it could be thing that pushes them over the hump. - Scott Watermasysk

Scott: FriendFeed already has a great iPhone app. http://www.friendfeed.com/iphone - Robert Scoble

FF's iPhone web app is fun and all, but a native app could offer a lot more functionality without having to wait for page loads and other clunkiness. I'm hoping for a native app too. - David Chartier

Twitter has become a victim of the success it created for itself. As Twitter gained popularity it naturally creates a market for competition. Its poor performance allowed FF to grow. Many of Twitters power users have begun to migrate communication, and followers to FF wanted to see what it is all about. Twitter has lost its first movers advantage. I would not have been able to even make this post on Twitter. FF invites conversation and dialogue. Sorry Bezos, you may have made the wrong investment. - Fred Neil

I would love it if FF came out with a native iPhone app that took advantage of push notifications by alerting me based on certain criteria. - Granteezy

Agree. Twitter just isn't built for the type of robust sharing and conversations that make FF really interesting. Twitter is like shouting into a canyon, FF is like being at a noisy bar. Sorry, but too many Tweets are just status updates: You're going to Subway for lunch, whoopee! FF gets a lot better when you hide non-commented on Tweets. As for FF enhancements, I'd like a merge function so the same content from various people/feeds are collapsed into one master. That way I can see all comment streams. - AJ Kohn

I agree. Great post. - jonn

Keep in mind that twitter was not initially made for replies, the whole @ sign reply came from users wanting a way to reply and Twitter then started to support the method - Ray Slakinski from twhirl

Nice way to put it! - ChaCha Fance

Looks like Twitter has lost the first mover advantage, and now FF has the first mover advantage with its features. Though since Twitter was the first mover in the beginning it still has a bunch of people who are on it and not on other sites and also has a familiar interface and more third party applications that are compatible with it than Twitter does. Favorite thing so far about FF is the new Seesmic feature to reply to a seesmic post from within FF, really killer. - Andrew Fielding

mmm... milkshake... - Jim Milles

twitter's milkshake brings all the boys to the yard..... - The Archangel ωαřмaiden