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Hello New Social App. Why Should I Use You?

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Upon further inspection, my blog is in fact linked in a Louis Gray 5-blogs post. However, it is in the article body. Which would make my blog.. err.. a mascot? :)

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Scobleizer — Tech geek blogger » Blog Archive Off of the tech entertainment train «

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A Sample Blogging Workflow

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Great post with lots of practical and common sense advice. - kamla bhatt

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“Sarah At the 4th of July BBQ”

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Zahra HB, Nathan Eckenrode, Hutch Carpenter, Mike Fruchter and 8 other people liked this

Of note, the picture on the right is Sarah in a stroller intended for a doll. Still too big. - Louis Gray

awwwwwwwwww.. shes such a doll, sooooooooo petite !! - Peter Dawson

So tiny and so beautiful! - Abby Martin

How can you not like this - Welcome home Sarah! - Charlie Anzman

Louis Gray dugg a story on Digg

nerdflood gets Louis Gray'd

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Robert Scoble posted a message on Twitter

“@davewiner raises the question: who has the better users: Twitter or FriendFeed? Discuss: http://tinyurl.com/twitterbrig...”

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Right now Friendfeed does, simply because the spammers haven't attacked it. - J.T Dabbagian

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Twitter Glitter

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I'm glad to see this is what Twitter is concentrating on ... Ughhh - Mike Fruchter

Mike Fruchter posted a message on Twitter

“[Blog Post] The inevitable ticking time bomb awaiting Friendfeed. http://is.gd/Mtp”

10 hours ago - Link

tsudohnimh, Caleb Elston, Helen, Steven Hodson and 7 other people liked this

Rooms as a source of spam. Yup - I can see it. It'd have to be done via an already existing room that people subscribe to. You set up accounts, join rooms, post spam links. Ugh... - Hutch Carpenter

yes I saw this from the beginning. good idea the flag post thingy - Noah David Simon

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Spammers at this stage of the game,have yet to realize the true potential of rooms on Friendfeed.The ingenious part is how the spam-vertsied rooms would and could be used. - Mike Fruchter

Hutch, which brings me to another good point. Anyone can see a public room on FF, no password authentication is needed. - Mike Fruchter

If it got bad enough, rooms would have to go to invite only. A burden, but it would stop the spam. - Hutch Carpenter

Good point Hutch, but it would be a matter of time, before the spammers circumvented that process as well. - Mike Fruchter

Maybe - I'd expect the room moderators to have better control. Bots requesting access to rooms seems like something humans can manage. And I don't believe invite-only rooms show up in search results. - Hutch Carpenter

Dewald, touches on another point, seo manipulation using rooms. "Not only can spammers very easily push their content in the faces of FriendFeed members, they can also abuse the service for getting additional "followed" backlinks to their sites and pages." - Mike Fruchter

I think FriendFeed will be just as useful to spammers as blogs, yahoo chat, and twitter. @MIke, good point about SEO. I wonder if Google will step in and do something about that. - Rahsheen Porter

Charlie Anzman posted a message

“The next meeting of FF Anon will be in the Friendfeed Addicts rooms July 7 at 10 AM”

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Arthur Germain, Jason Toney, Mike Fruchter, Jeff Quinton and 5 other people liked this

Isn't that like Alanon meeting in a bar? - Brian Sullivan

Liking Brian's comment. - Akiva Moskovitz

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bellinis and mimosas provided. courtesy of one of FB's bajillion annoying give a virtual drink/gift/candy apps :) - Mona N via fftogo

Mona - Why did I just green light you on Facebook I mean, like we just met .. - Charlie Anzman

Charlie - Because i am a happy drunk FF'ing from a four star restaurant. I'm living on the wild side WOO - Mona N

What did you get, Mona? - Vincent X

Food or drinks? edit: food = tasting and drinks = byob with corkage :) - Mona N

Food. But both if you feel like it. - Vincent X

Who's buying ... More importantly, why wasn't I invited - Charlie Anzman

I'm at Ad Hoc, another Thomas Keller (French Laundry, Per Se, Bouchon) spawn. This one is a little more casual, less pricy, and serves 'comfort' food... the only one of the chains I've yet to experience. Smoked salmon with like weird fruit salad, steak with onions, arugula, mushrooms, and roasted potatoes in a red wine reduction sauce (had a fancier name), some toast (crostinis) with cheese, and like random fruit for dessert :) - Mona N

Smoked Salmon as in Lox? .. that is near impossible to find here in central PA - Charlie Anzman

Sounds good! Aaaaand now I'm hungry. I'll go grab something. - Vincent X

Fresh smoked salmon which is less salty than lox. SOOO amazing. California has the best produce and seafood. Crustaceans are better in the East :) - Mona N

btw, Ad Hoc is a little over rated. Go with no expectations and you will probably be floored - Mona N

Hell yeah, I love going to New England by the ocean for that kind of stuff... Lobster rolls, fried clams, clam chowder, things like that. Hmmmmm. I love it there. - Vincent X

Louis Gray shared an item on Google Reader

Did Delicious Lose Its Chance To Be FriendFeed?

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Marc Vermut, Mike Fruchter, Hutch Carpenter, Scott Jarkoff and 7 other people liked this

very very interesting I'm thinking this the last week on a far deeper level - Matt Kaufman

Caleb Elston shared an item on Google Reader

The inevitable ticking time bomb awaiting Friendfeed.

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Kerem Ozkan, tsudohnimh, Jeff Quinton, Summer and 15 other people liked this

My guess is the guys at FriendFeed are already thinking about this and are preparing (hopefully) to fight the problem of spam. - Nick Dominguez

"With the steady growth that Friendfeed is experiencing," - whats your sources ? do you have data to prove this statement , in terms of new users signing up and using FF ?? - Peter Dawson

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Peter: FF is seeing sizable growth according to my follower stats. - Robert Scoble

i've received so many useless followers on twitter trying to peddle their goods. i'm not sure how friendfeed can prevent spam considering the format. hopefully it doesn't go the way of craigslist - Cee Bee

No, "FF is seeing sizable growth according to my follower stats."... thats according to "Scobles" !! What I am seeking is true new users signup and usage stats, Not just Scobles Screech. I don't mean to be impertinent to your comment , however, thats exactly the type of statement which I would like to call in . Your thoughts are important, but give me data/graph ..till then, to me , its just screech !! - Peter Dawson

I would have to say that, while this post does a good job of building suspense, it just isn't that serious. Rooms can be made private. Captcha could stymie these massive spammer attempts at different points of entry. This only works for rooms. Nobody is going to keep following a spammer. I know, I tried...everyone unsubscribed (j/k...don't unsub...srsly). - Rahsheen Porter

The same can be said about identi.ca. I agree spam might be coming to FriendFeed but, can they really do anything about it other than the "report for spam/abuse" feature? - Outsanity

I haven't seen any spam yet... Isn't the block feature already a solution? We do communicate here and if someone spams, we say it and we block him/her. Don't you think? - directeur via NoiseRiver

I had to post this for it almost seems douchebagary to me "callingbull 4 hours ago How is this problem different from blog spam or any other type of spam on public systems? You write this as it is a unique phenomenon. FAIL. " - Outsanity

I think the miscreants are already working Twitter and Friendfeed and your measures are worth thinking about. My gut tells me that FriendFeed will be more resilient. - Dennis E. Hamilton via twhirl

I actually find it more smart the way FriendFeed is built. You have your own vision of the river. You consider someone spaming? hide it, block it... It's your choice! - directeur via NoiseRiver

The major point I was driving home is room spam. Spammers at this stage of the game,have yet to realize the true potential of rooms on Friendfeed.The ingenious part is how the spam-vertsied rooms would and could be used. - Mike Fruchter

I've had a bunch of spammers follow me on Twitter lately. I block them when I remember to, but usually I just don't bother following them back. From the perspective of a non-tech-savvy end user here, I guess I haven't quite seen this as a problem yet -- they can spam all they want, but I'll never see their posts. - nathan

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Democrat or Republican? Take the quiz and see where you fall

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I got an 11 (leaning democrat). What's your score? - Mike Fruchter

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297 - The South Shall Snack Again

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Interesting! The most interesting fact from this post "...there are now more overweight than malnourished people in the world." - Mike Fruchter

Louis Gray posted a message on Twitter

“I don't usually do this, but given how close the TweetDeck story is to the front page Digg, mind adding your vote? http://tinyurl.com/5vvnau”

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Igor Poltavskiy, Robert Occhialini, James, J. Phil and 13 other people liked this

Done. - simonpure

ok - Baard Overgaard Hansen

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11:26 Euclid predicts: This story will be dugg many times, just added the 124th one ;) 11:27 Press RETURN ;) - Mario Olckers

It's times like this where I realize I have almost no pull. :-) - Louis Gray

No Louis, you just have limited pull on digg. You have plenty of pull around here. - Rob Diana

was the 128th "digger", thanks for sharing - Torsten Eckert via Alert Thingy

131st digger ;) - Mark Douglass

This is such a tease. http://digg.com/all/upcoming/m... :-) - Louis Gray

blindly dugg - trextor

dugg note tinyurl is not friendly - and since its past 24 hrs you aint gonna make it bub :( - Allen Stern

Allen is right. It hit 24 hours 3 minutes and went poof. Self-immolation begins now. - Louis Gray

a little post 4th of July self-immolation, eh? - Andy Sternberg

Dugg #222 - Mike Fruchter

anytime LG - Noah Carter

Dugg #225 - Hutch Carpenter

Dugg #227 - Cheryl Allin

Dugg #228 - and don't be bashful! it's a good story- deserves attention - Nice Fish Films

Dugg #236 - good luck! - Sonciary Honnoll

I still don't have a Digg account. - l0ckergn0me

+1 for what pirillo said :P - Brian Daniel Eisenberg

Digg Dugg :) - AJ Batac

Did it yesterday, or I'd do it again... - Vince DeGeorge

Dugg #242 - Andrés David Aparicio via twhirl

ok Dugg, commented, dugg comments and made it a favorite, hope that helps. The recommendation engine looks cool I'm gonna have to spend a little time on Digg again - David Knight

Stories can still make it after 24 hours. The chances are very low though but it can happen. - Corvida

Dugg that this morning cuz it was so dang cool!! :-) - Susan Beebe

Oh man, I've managed to go all this time without having a digg account. Done. I guess it's for a good cause :) - Todd McKinney

Dugg, and I sent a shout to all the folks on Digg as well. - J. Phil

I was number 262. TweetDeck is getting rave reviews. - James

all i know is this, if we get him on digg, his server better handle it - otherwise im sending him the largest fail whale ever - Allen Stern

Dugg:) - Igor Poltavskiy

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i love that cecily's scooters keep showing up again and again. - edythe

Cyndy posted an entry on Profy.Com

6 Myths About Open Source

Friday at 11:43 am - Link

J. Phil, Noah David Simon, Mike Fruchter and Mark Trapp liked this

funny and mostly wrong - silpol

silpol, why do you think it's wrong? - Cyndy

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I thought it was mostly right. - Eric Burke

@cindy because what I do as my daily job since Nov'04 is open source product series - and I see gap between reality and your post. - silpol

Silpol, if you are working on an OS project for your job, then you aren't part of what I'm talking about. I clearly delineated those companies who OS their software. - Cyndy

@cyndy no, it is not just project - it is long standing program on exploring into open-source as way of thinking in whole company, and we do often go VERY close to what is open source "there, outdoors"... like running particular small projects intentionally as non-company one's... or running it with low costs incurred still outdoors... and going through juggling with licensing nightmare... I can make it longer to make you clear how close we are to true FOSS. - silpol

the only true problem is legal one - US is worst legal territory in world, it is merely shark pool with no real value... I would personally sign order to carpet-bomb whole place if I knew how to get all lawyers in one place (no, this is NO joke), just to clean up and show rest of world what shall be done with all US legal system. - silpol

yikes silpol bin ladin - Noah David Simon

Wow, silpol, tell us how you really feel. - J. Phil

silpol, we do have a mess, but we aren't the only country like that. Tech moves way too fast for laws to keep up in any country. - Cyndy

@noah no BL business here - I used to serve as officer in USSR Air Force, exactly that part which had US coverage down to Mexico... the joke was that worst part of job is rubbering off America from map ;) - silpol

@cindy I'm sorry but whole notion of precendent law and IPR comes from US - silpol

@silpol: precedent law comes from the UK, and, somehow, from Roman laws (which were 'discovered' by judges, not 'designed' by lawmakers). it has its drawbacks, sure %) but it also have certain merits. OTOH, IPR has only drawbacks. - 9000

Steve Rubel posted an entry on Micro Persuasion

Are We Living in a Perfect Storm for Print Media?

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Louis Gray shared an item on Google Reader

TinyURL Adds Custom Alias Feature To Shortened URL Service

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Yuvi posted a message

“Dang, FriendFeed moves slowly when it's night time in the US :(”

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Maybe that's when they are updating the software ;) - Muthu Ramadoss

Well, Louis seems to be awake (3am there?) so there will always be some movement. - Rob Diana

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I can't do everything myself, Rob. :-) - Louis Gray

This item has been on top of my feed for about a hour or two. Sigh. - Yuvi

Yuvi -- finding more non North American "firends" is the answer -- hang out in the public feed looking for them (is that stalking?) - Brian Sullivan

Yuvi you can become a Troll like me! Trolls have many friends! ;-) - Igor The Troll

I can see u trying hard Louis :-P - Dobromir Hadzhiev

Gonna have to double your subscriptions Yuvi! - Hutch Carpenter

@Hutch: Suggestions? - Yuvi

Hoo boy Yuvi. Here's what I've been doing the last couple days. Looking at people who liked/commented on blog posts of mine and on posts by others I've liked. I click on their profile and see what their content stream is, and their discussion. If their activity looks like something I want to follow, I subscribe. Been adding a lot of subscriptions that way. - Hutch Carpenter

Have you run a likes compatibility report lately, Yuvi? - Mark Trapp

Good call Mark. - Hutch Carpenter

Guilty as charged (was I charged?) - Yuvi

Yuvi, there are things to do than just be on FF! Are you on Twitter? Go check out Wikipedia, SEOmoz, AndyBeard! You do not need 15k Followers on FF to be relevant, just follow the people that you can learn from. - Igor The Troll

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Love the shot of the stairs! - Diane Ensey

what beautiful pictures you take of colors. - edythe

sweet - Kenichi Matsumoto

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Marilyn Monroe [ARHman, Pixdaus]

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http://pixdaus.com/single.php?... - Mitchell Tsai via Bookmarklet

Now this I like! - Igor The Troll

A mermaid on the coast - فرزاد ف

I just want one like her, and I promise to give up Trolling! lmao - Igor The Troll

Robert Scoble posted an entry on Scobleizer -- Tech geek blogger

Off of the tech entertainment train

yesterday at 12:39 am - Link

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Of course I still had to write about the people waiting in line for iPhone 3G: http://scobleizer.com/2008/07/... - Robert Scoble

Oh man I hope I don't have to wait in line for the iphone. This is why I'm going to an AT&T store - Bjorn Tipling

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If I can't get an Iphone 3G in a reasonable amount of time I'm just gonna say to hell with it and get a N96 in August, which I want more anyways - Bjorn Tipling

"Well, because FriendFeed’ers care about learning something new about the industry and not just getting entertained by the latest sensationalism." amen brother :-) - Duncan Riley

I left a comment on your blog, Robert. Feel free to move it here? - Andrew Feinberg

I am also getting a lot more of my information off of the Friendfeed, and have dropped some of my feeds - Kim Landwehr

This is precisely why you're so popular on FF. I think it's all about 'the news will find me' philosophy - Cains

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Happy 4th of July | Photo by Thomas Hawk

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Thomas Hawk posted this a minute ago but I really liked the pic. Nice work, Thomas. - Jennifer Leggio

Duncan Riley posted a message

“Have FF rooms jumped the shark? Just visiting my subscribed rooms, at least half haven't been updated in a week. Found a list of top rooms I'm not subscribed to, same number, and even then all but a dozen or so I hit with more than a couple of posts in the last week.”

Friday at 3:01 am - Link

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perhaps people rushed in too quickly in setting them up? I'm just as guilty on the Inquisitr Fun room as well. Need to start updating it more - Duncan Riley

the rooms have never had a use case. for example im in "auto-junkie" room - firstly i already tag the item in delicious and it comes thru friendfeed i dont want to tag it again. if i do tag it for my "autojunkie" room it doesnt show up in my normal friendfeed feed so no1 sees it. basically FF rooms dont work and wont unless its changed; ideally when i shared an item in google reader or tagged it in delicious it autotagged or i classified it to a friendfeed room, then content niches could form.. - ben barren

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I had a feeling they might be like facebook groups. - jjprojects

I don' - Dave Winer

They were a novelty at first but they have their uses. I'm going to use a FriendFeed Room so friends and family can follow my adventures in Japan in a few weeks' time. It might make a few of them stick around here too. http://14sandwiches.com/2008/0... - Martin Bryant

The identi.ca room's pretty busy :) - Charlie Anzman

Haven't really used rooms much after the initial launch experimenting. But I think that's just because I don't need this feature at the moment and there may be many use cases for others for this. I guess Friendfeed has the real usage stats on their server... hey FF, care to share? :) - Philipp Lenssen

I've found that rooms are not that useful - but what would be really useful for me would be to be able to assign different people to different groups (or rooms) so I could separate social from business topic from political, etc. Then being able to watch three or four feeds side-by-side rather than have to choose between tabs. - Craig Thomler

Of course every user could choose to group people together in the way that made sense to them - which makes these groups fundamentally different to rooms - which are the same for everyone in them :) - Craig Thomler

rooms may be better suited to private use. i know small groups using them for work collaboration - rob zand

I've only just started to use rooms, so I'm not sure whether they've got staying power. It seems one subscribes to people for themselves but rooms for topics, and that seems like a useful distinction to me. - Michael C. Harris

Yeah, they jumped it. Same syndrome as creating too many subforums on a bulletin board. Fragments the conversation. FF'll need Rooms when the rest of the world turns up here later. - laurence timms

Rooms are a weird concept for subscribed content. If I go to a bar with only people I know and like, why would I put some of them in a room? Why not just stay in the bar? - Cait

Cait, I see it as the difference between going to a bar with people you like - you'll have a good time even if the bar is crap - and going to a bar you like on your own - you might meet some like-minded folk. - Michael C. Harris

No, they've just finally dropped to normal levels of a post-launch. Just like every other product. Now you weed out the bad room and keep the good ones. - Ben Parr

I think the real problem is lack of (easy)discoverability for public rooms - Brian Sullivan

I periodically step through the rooms I am subscribed to and leave the ones that look dead. - J. Phil

I think notifications would help, or some way to integrate new items into or beside your regular feed. That way people would see when new items were posted and jump in. That and some sort of rooms directory. - Josh Lowensohn

I think the rooms are pretty useful for "private" groups where you're focused on collaboration but maybe not so much for general use. The public ones are good for discussion of new stuff (Identi.ca) or for sharing (the Invites group) but it's easier just to post to your main feed for other stuff, IMO. - Lindsay Donaghe

Rooms have some really good use cases for business (lightweight collaboration) and special events (Apple conferences). As specialized discussion places, their usefulness is decreased a bit due to the nature of FriendFeed: your subscriptions determine the content you see. People that would really be into say, knitting, don't need a room. They just do their normal thing here and others decide whether to subscribe to them or not. - Hutch Carpenter

I left a bunch of rooms because they were just spammed. The rooms I moderate are slow but steady (I need to import some feeds). Even FF itself recognizes that they need to do a lot with rooms to make the more usable so I'm sure we'll see improvements soon. - Jennifer Leggio

I grabbed a couple of rooms and haven't yet set them up ... lots of potential, just no time. - AJ Kohn

Most of the rooms that I am subscribed to or moderating are pretty slow. I still think they have huge potential. I think part of the problem is FF doesn't currently offer an easy way to discover these rooms. Some room directories (not hosted by FF) have popped up but these haven't gained much traction as far as I can tell. - Mike Doeff

I'm in a ton of rooms but I just haven't gotten into them yet. I think I need to get rid of 99% of the rooms I'm in and focus on one or two rooms. Bootstrapping community is very tough work. The only way these things will get popular is for one person to really care about a room and tend to it daily. That's the kind of work that I just don't have time to do anymore. - Robert Scoble

That's not what "jumped the shark" means - Bjorn Tipling

yup - Gary Dobkin

Bjorn, "jumped the shark" in the context of past its peak. Happy Days reference. Mind you, they may still come back again. - Duncan Riley

I have not even looked at rooms, I just don't see the point. - Cait

Duncan, it requires some ridiculous event like Fonz jumping over a shark, that signifies desperation. Something past its peak might never have jumped the shark. - Bjorn Tipling

Great, now I'm getting room spam... and I can't report it... rooms doomed to fail - Cait

Rooms seem like a feature that should have come out later. - possible248

A "Search for a room" feature will help bring them back... ;-) - AJ Batac

I've used ff rooms to replace 37signals Campfire chatrooms for ongoing private one-on-one conversations. That's worked very well. We like the appearance of the ff rooms versus Campfire and the ability to group our formerly random chatting into topics. Campfire itself is a great product, of course. - John Murray

Duncan Riley posted an entry on The Inquisitr

Is Kwippy yet another microblogging service?

Friday at 11:07 pm - Link

Czar Derek Peterman, Mitchell Tsai, Keith Bloemendaal, Baard Overgaard Hansen and 9 other people liked this

Would like to try it - mediaphyter SHIFT 2 gmail DOT com. Por favor. :) - Jennifer Leggio

sent. Although I nearly typed shift 2 :-) - Duncan Riley

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Haha. :) Thank you! - Jennifer Leggio

Oh you have a beta invite? I promise I wont ever correct you on your use of 'jump the shark'! Can I have one? ;) - Bjorn Tipling

Bjorn, need an email address, no other way of doing it I'm afraid - Duncan Riley

bjorn at tipling dot com Thanks! - Bjorn Tipling

I actually kinda like it so far. Threaded convo + notification is kinda cool. I think the notification piece is what is noticeably missing from Plurk. - Jennifer Leggio

bwana at bwana dot org. Thanks :) - Bwana McCall via fftogo

21 left, enjoy - Duncan Riley

I'd be happy to come play on yet *another* new microblog... no really? ;) geekmommyblog at gmail. Speaking of which - you must agree that http://www.socbut.com wins the prize for WORST name of a new microblog site. :) - Lucretia Pruitt

Anyone got an invite for lil ole me? colin @ colinwalker dot me dot uk - Colin Walker via fftogo

Duncan, if there are any more can you send one to robdiana at gmail dot com? Thanks. - Rob Diana

What does one more microblogging service hurt, right? lol. OnkelSchark at gmail dot com please. Thanks Duncan! - Mark Douglass

I talked about it on Profy this week in the Workarounds post. I'm trying it out, so have invites if people want them. - Leslie

how 'bout kwippyinvite (at or near) kshep.net. kthxbye! :-) - Ken Sheppardson

invites sent. Anyone else wanting them I'm heading to bed (just back in from a night out), happily send more in the morning, alternatively everyone on this thread is in, so has invites as well. - Duncan Riley

thanks Duncan! - Mark Douglass

one more pls dobromirh *at* gmail *dot* com - Dobromir Hadzhiev

Russellreno at gmail - Russellreno

I just got a Kwippy account. It looks really neat. It's certainly more featureful than identi.ca - possible248

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