It's funny, I joined friendfeed just to connect further with my brother...I got that for a time, but in a larger sense I connected with a community and discovered so many interesting people and so many noteworthy stories. Despite what I've written before, to Paul Bucheit and the rest of the friendfeed team, I will forever be grateful for the...
Amen, Alex. I have come to know more people through FF than I ever could have imagined. It may not be as geeky as it was when I first joined, but the community has grown & improved. Kudos to all of you (devs & users) for giving me that. :)
- JA Castillo
You are my favorite Scoble by far! (Sorry, Robert) ;)
- Jorge Escobar
Hmmm.. sounds like the speech that is said before the music is queued up and the lovely ladies come from stage right to escort you off. But Then again.. thanks are not said enough in life so say it often. ;)
- CW™
Awesome "no one loves you" defense from Scoble :P ""But my Google Reader account is super fast," I can hear you saying. Yeah, but you don't have any friends and you don't have many things you are subscribed to."
- Daniel J. Pritchett
Everyone uses the tool they like, GReader is clearly my information source and hub. I will skim anything I haven't filtered with my Greasemonkey script. FriendFeed is my second hub with deep interactive conversations, Facebook is mostly a little more personal interaction, Twitter is mostly quick interactions (maybe two replies) with one person. So Twitter is my lowest ranking tool out...
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- manielse (Mark Nielsen)
Can't really live without GReader. Since the GReader upgrades, I have put Feedly on the shelf. It's really the best way for me to follow activity on LinkedIn and all the Ning groups I belong to, as well as the usual stuff you use RSS for.
- Bryan R. Adams
I don't like Greader ui but i'm still using it with Feedly. Feedly is just awesome for reading, discovering and share rss feeds. Twitter+feedly is a good combination.
- David Foucher
from Nambu
I look at reader before I look at my email.... Is that bad? :) (disclaimer, I work on it)
- Jenna Bilotta
I still do e-mail first, Reader second, only because Reader is much more fun, and I would probably stay there.
- Louis Gray
I would miss so much stuff if I didn't use Google Reader. I get so much less noise there.
- Jesse Stay
I've seen this meme in a few places and I guess I don't fit the base use case as I tend to sleep from time to time and can't always be on Twitter.
- Dave Hodson
All these things are such moving targets. So what is the favored anti-virus software now?
- Dawn
I could live without Twitter...but GR with Feedly I use every day without fail.
- Bonnie Foster
Am I unique then? I read all my RSS feeds in my email program on my desktop and read them after I have read my email.
- Sandra Large
Scoble has an assumption that everything of interest is inside the twitterverse. My experience is that the RSSVerse is much more pervasive. To Balance the Signal to Noise Ratio use Yahoo Pipes/GReader/Feedly to munge the data to begin with. In my case I can find many topics that have not posted to twitter
- Robert Higgins
Robert: neither of us can prove that point. I am following almost 11,000 things now in Twitter. You want to try that in Google Reader? Go ahead.
- Robert Scoble
Didn't Congressman Grayson call Scoble an "S Valley Whore"? I think he should apologize.
- Dawn
i hate politicians etc so yeah he need to apoligize
- ffcode
Robert: (I am obviously biased here). it is great that you are following 11,000 things in Twitter and that makes you special and I think that some of the issues you are raising are valid. Where I think your argument breaks down is where you think that soon a lot of people will follow thousand of things in their aggregator and therefore twitter is a better solution than Google Reader....
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- Edwin Khodabakchian
So Edwin - Is there an issue with feedly pulling the shared items from specific people you are following? I can hardly get any to come across.
- Amani
We have a marquee at our wedding that we can say something short....assuming the bottom says Cassie + Alex 12/12/09...what should the top say? http://leibee-scoblewedding.com
For the record, remember how I said I use FriendFeed for everything? Guess who Matthew and Sarah's babysitter is going to be tomorrow? --> http://friendfeed.com/schmeesy
Matthew is now walking around our living room with my iPhone. Sarah is sleeping. I'm keeping the lights low so the most fun he has is in front of the laptop. It's good training for a future life of digital centricity.
- Louis Gray
And pssttt... Rochelle and Akiva? He's asleep now. Just let him wander around for about 20 minutes and he's sound asleep in his crib. I assume Audrey is sleeping?
- Louis Gray
Hhaahhaa, I like the one with the glasses, he looks just like you
- sofarsoShawn
Wow . . . sound asleep in his crib . . . even all these years later, the phrase sounds like music in my ears. It's not something we EVER experienced. Our Sarah only started going to bed by herself with no stalling, no fuss, no stress long after the crib was gone - say, middle school? So you've got good ones there, Louis. And, Shawn, you're right! Matthew looks JUST like Louis!
- MaryB, BrandingBroadOfFF
I guess someone will have to see to it that he finds some serious headbanger music and a couple friends with some discipline problems - not bad ones - so he gets enough of an edge to get some attention from girls. Or maybe a wardrobe of black t-shirts will be enough.
- MaryB, BrandingBroadOfFF
No he does, but I think it's also time you get some sl... Sleep is a waste of time for the unproductive. I don't think you've been unproductive lately get some sleep.
- Jimminy
I'm looking left. I'm looking right. Back. forth. back. forth. In the space between truth and fiction I am playing PONG.
- Micah Wittman
lol this is classic - and very brave of you to post ;)
- Chris Saad
Brave, indeed. The arched brow says everything. :)
- Mark Evans
We all try to show our best side to the outside world, particularly when it's with regard to business. But is it really disingenuous to show a happy face any more than it would be to show a scowl? Neither represents you or the collective us 100% of the time. Does this mean we need a chart with all our moods on it to greet potential clients? :) I do like the arched brow. hehe
- Sheryl
Sorry to say this, Louis, but I will attempt to run away if I see someone coming to me bearing that smile you have on the second photo. I'd be like, "Darnit, here's another salesman wanting to pressure me into buying some thingamajig again..." No offense, Louis. But even for marketing, I really think you can do without the oh-so-friendly smile :-)
- Pandu ● IT Optimizer
from fftogo
Many of us here on FF are following your "stealth" footsteps. The space is wide open and needs experienced and qualified people to increase value. Congrats again. I am definitely not surprised.
- Amani
Congratulations! I did notice this on LinkedIn but didn't know how big a change it was. Let us know how we can help - I'm sure *some* of us are good for some free stuff . . . for a while, anyway . . . ;-)
- MaryB, BrandingBroadOfFF
WHOO00oo00oOOOO YEEAAaaahhhHHH ~ Best of luck Louis G!
- sofarsoShawn
LMAO! Derrick stole my comment! *stealthily places resume on top of Derrick's*
- Rahsheen ™, Coach of FF
Congrats and the career change (well sort of) Louis.
- Travis Koger
YAY! Congratulations Louis - awesome move!! I have the highest confidence in you and firmly believe you made the right choice here. You really know your stuff. I've always been incredibly impressed with your broad and also deep knowledge across a wide spectrum of technology and media related topics, plus you have a great business savvy to balance it all out. You'll do great! By the way,...
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- Susan Beebe
Observing my 19 year old cousin converse with her friends on Facebook is a whole new world. What language is it they are speaking? And when did I get so old? And why does no one know how to spell anymore? *facepalm*
Wait until it's yr 19 yo kid you are watching speak like that on FB :-) Makes me want to rush off on my Zimmer frame and write a Letter to the Editor and then call John Fayne on 774
- Threepwood
I'm only 20 and I can't see how they speak like that, it takes more effort than typing correctly. KekKEklajfapjaslkdfjakldsjf PIODJFIO PJ@#irj15r
- Andrew Trinh
I'm with Andrew, also a 20 year old, and I can't handle txtspeak, I can parse it, but I don't like typing it, especially if I have access to a full keyboard, I don't see a point.
- Jimminy
Even using my old Nokia phones I'd use a T9 dictionary to type it all out instead of txt speak.
- Andrew Trinh
"Is there a place on your shelf for a canceled series? One that only lasted two seasons and produced just twenty-two episodes? Absolutely. Especially when it's as staggering and elaborate as Rome. Sure, it has its fair share of minor issues -- most of which were brought on by its impending cancellation -- but it remains a well-conceived, smartly performed, exquisitely produced series worthy of your time and investment."
- Derrick
from Bookmarklet
That article is wrong: Rome wasn't cancelled. In fact, it was only supposed to be a mini-series. At HBO's insistence, they lengthened it to a season and then to a second season. It ended where it was supposed to end.
- Akiva Moskovitz
And, let's not forget, it was awesome.
- Kevin Pedraja
I don't have a Blu- Ray player but I wish more DVD reviews were in the direction of that one. I don't want reviews of how the show was. I can find those in newspapers, etc. What I NEED is a review of how good the actual DVD transfer, package and extras are. So few DVD reviews do that. (EDIT: And, yes, Rome was excellent and I'd happily own it on DVD if I could afford it now).
- Spidra Webster
Series 1 is some of the best work done for television. Series 2 is still good.
- Michael W. May
LOVED IT. I am hoping that the rumors are true and a movie is made
- Shevonne
I wish I could install android os on iPhone like bootcamp is used for windows on mac os snow leopard.
- ashish
AS A PRODUCT...can it fail as something else?
- Ahmed Fathalla
Ahmed, I believe Robert is trying to distinguish between the product and the platform.
- Louis Gray
Seems strange that after more than 2 years nobody has been able to top the iPhone. This speaks very high of Apple ...and very low of the rest.
- Jordi Soler
I read in FT about Android OS that there was update known as 1) cupcake 2) Donut 3) Eclair and now speculation, 4)some bakery product beginning F and then 5)something beginning with G, probably "GPhone" ? I hope that update will bring something to cheer.
- ashish
I forgot to add that the next Android update is called "Flan".
- ashish
ashish, great deduction there... it's well known that their OS codenames have been derived from pastry... and one could also assume that the alpha and beta OS versions were pastries starting with the letters a and b, respectively, of course.
- Chris Heath
Droid may not live up to the iPhone standard. But, to the extent all platforms are innovating to catch up to Apple, we all benefit from better products.
- Chris Rogers
Sorry, Just go the Google and type "Google starts to reap rewards of smartphone openness" without the quotes and it should display the webpage without any hassle.
- ashish
That's too bad. Verizon is my current carrier and I'm overdue to upgrade my phone. I'm a Mac fan and would love to own an iPhone but there's no way I'm putting up with AT&T's bad coverage to do it.
- Spidra Webster
I'm still waiting for the HTC Passion to drop. It looks like it will be better than the DROID
- Shevonne
As I told Mahrendra, I could make my numbers look a lot better by reducing my feed by thousands of followers, and thereby increasing my ratio.
- Louis Gray
And as I replied to Louis, anyone can game Twitter, and he doesn't need to anyway. :)
- Mahendra (SkepticGeek)
Nice post Mahrendra. I have noticed people with >50k followers on 6/8 lists and those with 500 followers on 20 lists. When I've checked them out, all those accounts with the massive follower counts were basically using Twitter as a broadcast medium. Thanks for the post.
- Jim Connolly
Thank you, Jim. The phenomenon you describe was one of the things that led me to investigate this further. :)
- Mahendra (SkepticGeek)
We really appreciate for the great review! We are currently working toward organizing stream by relevance. Also, we are releasing the API and RSS feed very soon. So you can view your filtered stream anywhere!
- Frank Wang
Happy Birthday, Kol! Thirty three was a pretty good year for me and I have a feeling you're going to LOVE It :) Best wishes, congrats and go celebrate!
- Holly Rae, FFer
Thank you v much, Dee. Hope you're well?
- Kol Tregaskes
Many Happy returns, Kol. 33? Oh yes, It was back there somewhere. Not a memorable one, but left to my own devices I don't bother about my birthday.
- Ian May
Happiest of Birthdays..................33 years old ...........boy both my kids are older thinking as I type this I am getting older by the minute.......................
- VAL D.