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Think of Robert Scoble' - Tyler (Chacha)

Yes, this is going to force a rethink. I'm already using filters and lists to keep in touch better. - Robert Scoble

Robert - are you able to keep up? .. I get lots of errors on refresh and hitting settings .. hmmm - LPH™ and his dog P™

The only way you can do it is by following fewer people =D - | Balu |

What about a space bar shortcut to pause the stream? - Jérôme Flipo

Space bar? LOL. OK. Let me try .. brb to let you ... LOL - LPH™ and his dog P™

what this needs now is a matrix like slowmo mode - Karmadude

Seesmic I've heard of what is this Youtube? - Mark Forman

Hope everything will go well for this deal :) - ledretch from twhirl

Is seesmic the new google ? - Frédérick 2 Baro

Buy Twitter while you're at it. - Raphael, Raphael

Good work, any rebranding? YouLoiBe? - Joe Dawson

Get Yahoo while you're at it, show Microsoft how it should be done ;) - Garrido from twhirl

You're buying YouTube OMG that's awesome... you rock man! ;*) - Susan Beebe

Yea, buy twitter... they need you bad!! puuulllllllleeeeeeeeeeaaaaaaaazzzzzzzzzee - Susan Beebe

I cahn haz Microsoft buying Yahoo? You cahn haz YouTube? - David Newman

wait, we are in June right? Is this a delayed April Fools' joke? - Rob Diana

great, so you know how to monetize that beeatch?!? ;) - dave mcclure

You should buy Google first and make a new design at their favicon^^Buying YouTube : is it serious or viral? - Samuel Goëta

Hmmm, merging with Friendfeed?-) - Patrick Chanezon

Great decision with the acquisition Loic, hope you already know how to deal with copyrighted content over there :) - Svetlana Gladkova

Svetlana, yes, I found a solution with copyrighted content on Google, we will turn off video upload on YouTube. - Loic Le Meur

Loic, I hope you aren't going to turn it all off, I like some of the things over there especially the record companies who put up there content for people to listen to and enjoy!! - Paul

Of course... everything should be filmed real-time! Even the copyrighted material... :) - directeur

Lend me $20? - john conroy

Turning the uploads off is definitely a clever solution. Why have not the guys from Google thought of that yet? - Svetlana Gladkova from twhirl

ok so as you could see I could not raise enough money to by YouTube yet. I found $6M and would have needed $6 billions... - Loic Le Meur

OOps, I guess that M and B in $6M and $6B are a slight bit different ;*) - Susan Beebe

I'm buying Youtube too! - Dave Winer

Dave are you buying Youtube too? Ah. We're competing then, we should talk to try not to make the acquisition price not go too high. - Loic Le Meur

I offered them $82 billion, maybe I should try lowering the offer? - Dave Winer

Let's see, I've got a dime, a penny and a piece of gum with pocket lint all over it. Can I buy a share? - Jack (a.k.a. Jeber)

For me, I just close twhirl when I dont' want to. Then when I want to see FF again, open it. Easy! - Jake (aka Jawee) from twhirl

Gmail has a "Take a Break" button? - Jennifer Van Grove from twhirl

A baby who wants to type on the keyboard works for me. :-) - Robert Scoble

like time travel, you don't age when on friendfeed :) - Pokai

@amit You have known me over 4 years now and you are just figuring out that I need to learn self control?! Your kind of logic only works for rational beings. I am an addict, an obsessive time-waster. FF gives me a non-stop flow of intriguing content with everfresh semi-synchronous discussion continually pasted to it. I can't look away. Help. - Christopher Sacca

The solution is to find something else even more addictive ;) - Amit Patel

I don't follow too many people on FF, but I fear that when I do, this will be me. - mjc

Sacca, my FF activity is currently pretty much throttled by life in meatspace. A very painful condition for me, so I can't offer a solution for you but I can definitely empathize!! @Pokai - I freaking wish it would stop time so I could do FriendFeed AND everything else! :) - Fa La La La Lindsay

While you're at it, can you fix Twitter? - Rafe Needleman from twhirl

Congrats on the growth, Loic! - Bret Taylor

Impressive status Loic...you're doing a fantastic job of growing Seemic (I am very happy you acquired Twhirl and have improved it so much) - Thanks!! =) - Susan Beebe

awesome always nice to see a good service get the respect it deserves - BCK

Cool! Congrats! - Shahar Nechmad from Alert Thingy

Bret, thanks! I won't be as cool if next month it gets flat or goes down but I like this months curve :) Rafe, well, XMPP in Twhirl is a start but they left it down for now. Nikos, we only have about 20 000 users from the alpha test phase, now we're open so it's growing. - Loic Le Meur

Great. I would be using seesmic except it keeps crashing my browser when I record a video. :( - Sam Guzman

great job loic and the twhirl team!! - Morgan from twhirl

Great: rooms, auto-throttling - Not so great: FF posts take up so much room, less posts are visible at the same time - Can't wait for Seesmic support! - Garrido from twhirl

Loic - First impressions are fantastic - Ed Dale from twhirl

Hey - I like it! Could you add support for opening a new tab when right clicking links? I hate how it overrides my current page! - Zach Landes from twhirl

I really like the new FF features. Can't wait to see Seesmic added to the mix. - Dana Franks from twhirl

Great update - thanks to Marco! - Marco Sascha Sven Hoppe from twhirl

rambn - click on the twhirl icon (top left) then click "Update" tab, then "Check for Update" - Thomas Knoll from twhirl

really liking this update - Josiah Lau from twhirl

where's the Seesmic support you hinted at earlier? - dbcohen from twhirl

i love the look & feel - sam from twhirl

love the ability to scroll through comments - Danish Khan from twhirl

Sweet! - Tom

I'm ready to say that this is the first version of Twhirl with FF that I am willing to use, actually. - Phil G from twhirl

Tony, Seesmic is coming in a few weeks. Morgan thanks, Garrido it is coming, Ed thanks, rambn yes auto update close it you will see, Zachary working on that, Dana me too!, Marco yes Marco rocks, Josiah thanks, Dave it is not in this one, thanks Sam, Danish and Tom - Loic Le Meur from twhirl

so twhirl >> alert thingy?? - Josiah Lau from twhirl

I am a big fan of Twhirl and it keeps getting better - Mark Nassal from twhirl

WOWOWOWOW ... You guys are putting your release schedule on steriods! code monkies!!! I like all the new feature improvements! keep up the good work! - Susan Beebe

This caused me to dump alert thingy even though there are differences. Always liked Twhirl too bad it has picked up some hiccups from Twitter which is already the meme of legend in these parts... - Mark Forman

I'm in! This will def cause me to use friend feed more. - Evan Travers from twhirl

This is a nice feature. Just upgraded to the new version to use this. But your blog is never unblocked by the Great Firewall here. - Jianjun Zhang from twhirl

Comments inline work well, but make it hard to keep a track of whats going on. I guess thats more of a FF issue tho, nested conversations are much more complex than the flat twitterlike comments. - Steve Mactaggart from twhirl

I guess I'm getting used to it - without doubt, it's an improvement, thnx Loic and Marco - Garrido from twhirl

and try the pic share feature, it takes a few seconds to do what really looks like like a short blog post, a pic, a text and a link et voila! - Loic Le Meur

Loic, great update to twhirl, clean interface, more intuitive - Ralph Poole from twhirl

Nice update! Is there any shortcuts for Twhirl?? - Alex Sauceda from twhirl

still trying to get my head around friend feed in twhirl.... - djp from twhirl

Still not like the interface. Still not see the reason why we need a specific app for friendfeed. Some stuff could be sorted via a easy firefox extension e.g. notification. - Benjamin Kohler from twhirl

I'm not sure about this, but my main concern.. why does my FF feed in Twhirl look almost completely different than what I see on the web? Am I the only one seeing this? - felix

Love the new changes - a few issues still with the commenting. It remembers the past comment when I write a new one instead of clearing the box, and it also clears out my comment box every time the feed refreshes. - Jesse Stay from twhirl

Nice work! Loving the improvements! - Lon from twhirl

Great new features. Testing it out now. - Corvida

FriendFeed is going to be seeing a lot more activity because of this. Cheers to the Twhirl team! - Mark Frost from twhirl

Test! -------> Cool! - americanm from twhirl

Just tested it.. amazing.. thx for the update - BRIAN RITCHIE from twhirl

Instead of two windows, give me two tabs like gtalk (browser) - Mrinal Desai

Great update. Good work. - Bernd Sailer from twhirl

Really like the updates Loic! - Parth Awasthi

well - i´m still not sure, if I should prefer AlertThingy or Twhirl ;) - Dieter Schwarz from twhirl

I hope that's the case. Or those updates will be rolled out with the next firmware update *prays* - CannonGod

It would be playback only. There is no indication the new version will have video recording. - Kevin D. White

playback only would still be useful to listen to messages in your inbox as well as to catch the general conversations happening. - sean808080

LOL. That'll probably lead to a rash of "Q: w00t!" statuses. (Isn't statuses a funny-looking word?) - ha3rvey (business time)

Maybe they should go the Adocu route and only allow one-word updates. - Morton Fox

Q - l0ckergn0me

Quick are twitter tweets about WWDC. - Rishabh Mishra (p248)

I second the friendfeed room suggestion. great experience for me during wwdc keynote - Blake Burris

FriendFeed's where it's at! - Akiva Moskovitz

Twitter is such a dissapointment. FriendFeed I love you ;) - David Jacobs from twhirl

I am mourning Twitter today - Rafe Needleman

twitter=lame - Morgan

Following my Twitter friends to Friendfeed. Twitter is becoming a case history in how not to succeed. - Howard Rheingold

Seems like FriendFeed is going be the killer app today - Christian Van Der Henst from twhirl

Twhirl is the killer app ! - Adrian from twhirl

s well be getting the we're down page. - Jim Graham from twhirl

why not just shutdown the service.Everything it's used for is being taken away. - Tim Hoeck

Ys, less and less useful every single day - Douglas E. Welch from twhirl

A giant "We'll be back soon" sticky. - Brandon Titus

The sign says 'Apples share price by the the end of the day.... $203 :)' - Turbo

A Mac Clone. - israel

iPhoneBooth - Stuart Hall

Red is the New Black.... - Jican

Love Sliderocket! - Noah Carter

I want to check these guys out. - Hutch Carpenter

terra210: yeah, sorry, sometimes I get pulled into the World Wide Highschool. :-) I do track who is cool, based on their products and services. Male vs. Female geeks are tough. I try to fight that, but truth is most people I come in contact with are guys, so sometimes I fall into that trap. Thanks for the kind wishes! - Robert Scoble

Robert. Thanks! Never knew about these guys. Looks veryinteresting. - Lon from twhirl

Awesome, AWESOME interview Robert. SlideRocket was the missing link to my online office suite software mix. Thanks for posting this piece. - Frederick Johnson

Definitely looks worthy of consideration for integrating into site-good point. - Mark Forman

Great demo. Tumbled! http://flipside.scribkin.com/post... - Phil G

check out Zoho Show 2.0. Prrrrrretty. - john conroy

Nice interview. Robert - you get them talking, then get out of the way (as it should be). Easier said than done! - Noah Carter

John: I'm definitely going back to Zoho. Would love to see a comparison of that to Sliderocket. Sliderocket sure has a nice interface. Going to be tough for Zoho to beat that. - Robert Scoble

Although.. the twistage player needs a parameter to stop autoplay. Annoying. - Phil G

J. Phil: I'll work on that. Agree. - Robert Scoble

It looks like their hoping to be bought out by Adobe, much like with BuzzWord. - CannonGod from twhirl

Jake: If Adobe were smart they'd buy this ASAP. - Robert Scoble

very nice product, i think the linking feature will definat2ely make it very valuable for business. - Nathan Eckenrode

how do I get a beta for my company? - Ken Stewart | ChangeForge from twhirl

finely, someone is showing of FLEX, But Powerpoint with sharepoint can do many of the stuff around keeping slides up to date and sharing data.... they just made it easy to access which is Microsoft biggest problem. - Rif Kiamil

great demo! - Burak Arikan

waiting for my invite .... have several presentations in the following weeks, would be interesting to check it in real life - Naor Mark

Great demo, can't wait to try it out! - Aaron Myers

This looks fantastic. - Ralph Whitbeck

Not just an interesting product, but the way he handled the demo was very good. - Jed White

Can Sliderocket import existing PPT files? I'd love to be able to bootstrap Sliderocket with the slides from my existing library of PPT slides. - Tom Wentworth

That's amazing!! I will definitely start using it for my Medical Group presentations and break-the-mold of our boring PP slides. - David Cook

fastcompany.tv is down, Sliderocket looks great, going to pass that on to my friend who's an organiser of top medical conferences, she hates PPT! - Dave Pook

@Tom: From what they discussed in the interview, I believe so. - CannonGod

Yeah, not only did they reduce the memory usage in their code, but they have included a new memory allocator, jemalloc, which totally kicks ass. - Eric Florenzano

Yes and FF3 is faster since the beta version not only the RC2. - Stéphane Guérin

The fast speed and slim memory use make it worthwhile even with the lack of support for a bunch of plugins. - Neville Hobson

Sure and for what i've seen a lot of useful plugins already support the RC2. - Stéphane Guérin

When plurking, always use protection. No plurking is better than unsafe plurking. Paid for A Plurk-free America PAC. - Mark Trapp

That's a publicity message for kids Andrew, nothing more. That's a "we don't want to get sued" message - Bwana ☠

I understand that, but I honestly don't think Plurk was made for heavy friending. It's just too noisy for that! - Andrew Dobrow

if you are certain people are using your service, gou can be certain they are doing so in an unexpected manner - Nathan Eckenrode

"10 Ways to Make Sure Your Plurking Experience is Safe and Productive"... Wait...did they say:"Productive"? - directeur

@Diane :D oh yes! lots of sense - directeur

so what your saying is...it'z not twitter. - Caroline

@Caroline: No, I say it's not usable and accessible and that's why I hate it :) - directeur

^^^ Reminds me of the Beach Boys.... Oh, Caroliiiiine Noooooo - Andrew Dobrow

See here for reasons why Plurk is being misused http://www.plurk.com/safe_pl... - Andrew Dobrow

The moment you measure something, people will compete, just because. - Morton Fox

It's not about followers, it's about participation. Leo Laporte has over 1000 invited friends and 1600 friends and has a low karma. Why? He Plurks about once or twice a day. Those with high karma can have a low friend count. In my mind, the karma is a brilliant way to keep loyal users. It worked for the Xbox 360 and their achievement system and I think it'll work here. It's not for everyone however, that I can agree with. - Bwana ☠

I need only point to this plurk: http://www.plurk.com/p/1tnp to highlight the serious problems with Plurk. Plurk is like Gillmor's worst nightmare on steroids. - Mark Trapp

The problem is that in order to raise there Karma people reply with mindless bullshit rather than anything meaningful. Hiding behind the "loves" "hates" "feels" labels totally fuels the "bullshit" fire as well. It's just one massive excuse to say absolutely nothing. - Andrew Dobrow

Gillmor would implode if he got within 10 miles of Plurk, lol - Bwana ☠

Plurk is definitely more social and the current crowd that I see is less techy. Very few people are pimping their blogs and new posts. I agree with a blog post that I read that said, Twitter = ego, Plurk = fun. - Bwana ☠

You know what else grinds my gears about Plurk (while we're airing grievences :-P); the people who ask to be your friend, provide no identifiable information, and when you deny or ignore their request, they keep requesting over and over, with no recourse. I've had 3 people keep requesting to be my friend: I'm not your karma whore, back up off me plurkers! - Mark Trapp

Plurk would be fun if there was some sort of rhyme or reason to the annoying refreshing responses. Some sort of filter. - Andrew Dobrow

Pretty soon they will figure out that Karma is mostly driven by plurking and not adding friends Mark :) - Bwana ☠

Forget the Karma, I could live with that. But the noise-to-signal ratio is just... there are no words. - Andrew Dobrow

Andrew, my techniques is that I add everyone initially, if they get on my nerves, then I got my friends list and turn off timeline updates for them. I think most of the topics discussed may not be tailored for most of the Twitter crowd. Right now, it's just a giant goof off session, but I think as the community grows and "cliques" form, it'll work itself out. It's already surpassed Pownce in traffic (well, with Alexa numbers) - Bwana ☠

It's just not worth it to me. I don't feel like it's worth my time or that it's doing anything for me. I can get the same sort of banter somewhere else in a much less annoying fashion. - Andrew Dobrow

@Bwana but once everyone figures out plurking gives you karma, there will be "I'm eating a cheese sandwich" plurks. I know I don't always have the most interesting or thought provoking things to say, but I try not to post, just to post. - Michelle Martinez

I think FF is better!! - Paul

Paul, your comment is why I wish there were "likes" for comments. Though the services are way different, my time is better served on FF. - Andrew Dobrow

I don't think the Karma rewards will drive people to go that far, but yes, with every point "system" there will be some who attempt to game the system. They will promptly get removed from my timeline. - Bwana ☠

Yes that is why I like it better no goof off possible or people will hide you forever'!! - Paul

There are far better ways to get the same sort of annoying banter and lightning-round responses. I could go to my Grandma's house for that, but at least I'd get some free food out of the deal. - Andrew Dobrow

Plurk is like a gang-rape of the brain. - Andrew Dobrow

Yes your totally right!! - Paul

So Andrew, how do you really feel? :) - Bwana ☠

I think they need to adapt. Adapt to the new crowd they have pouring in. For me, it's unusable how I want to use it. - Andrew Dobrow

who needs to adapt? Plurk? Or the senseless dribble that you have in your timeline? :) - Bwana ☠

Plurk needs to adapt and allow me to filter the dribble and to not get deluged with response refreshes without using the damn mobile site. - Andrew Dobrow

Plurk is insulting to my intelligence and the UI is really problematic to say the least. EPIC FAIL!! - Susan Beebe

So in short, you don't like the timeline view? - Bwana ☠

No... I love the timeline view. I think it has great potential and it's unique, but there is something about it that is just so damn grating. It's the whole response thing. Something about it makes me close the tab just so my head doesn't explode. I don't need a notification for every response for everyone's messages. - Andrew Dobrow

I believe the UI is one thing, but Plurk is about who you follow..much like other services. If the timeline is "noisy" I think you don't want to read it which means you're following people you shouldn't be. I agree the UI isn't for everyone, but the people part I think you can control. - Bwana ☠

I don't like the fonts, the UI accessibilty and usability, I decided some years ago that i won't use any website that doesn't make few efforts to be accessible and usable. That's my choice :) - directeur

lastnight i just sat there watching the "responses" go up and only the "popular people get all the action again with the "sheep" mentality - Caroline

There are gems in the noise: For example, Wayne Sutton has been asking great questions that spark discussion. He's started a question of the day on Plurk which has been successful. I can't stress enough, it's about who you follow and who you show on the timeline. directeur is right, it is about choice and I respect those who hate the UI. I've done the same in the past. - Bwana ☠

Also, let it be known that the Digg crowd has made its way to Plurk. - Bwana ☠

What can I say, it's just not for me. It's one of those fad services. The love will pass when the noise becomes too much to bare. And then there will be the opposite problem. You'll hear pins drop. - Andrew Dobrow

You know the exact same thing was said about Twitter. Just sayin is all :) "It's a fad site that won't last a year." We'll see :) These sites rise and fall like the wind and I'm always there to be a part of it all. I love it. - Bwana ☠

I'm calling that six months down the road, no one gives a shit about Plurk other than die hard users. If it succeeds, all the power to them. But how it is now, is not for me. For all we know, they could have been behind http://twistori.com - Andrew Dobrow

Bwana McCall: I myself loved twitter from the first sight, I'm not into big social interraction I confess, I'm on IRC most of the time or geeking arround with other stuff. But I liked the minimalism in twitter, It does this, this way, input output, clear, easy, it's a product finally :) - directeur

I saw the same benefit in Twitter. It was totally text based and I know how flexible it can be. The thing I see in Plurk is not necessarily what I like, but what this upcoming generation likes. Sites like Kongregate.com thrive on the same notion that Plurk is on. The Xbox 360 took the console lead by implementing a genius achievement and gamerscore system. These kids like competition and will be loyal to it. - Bwana ☠

Heh... I'm old fashioned (dixit John Coltrane) :) - directeur

I'm intrigued as well... - Joe Dawson

@Gilles Proabably b/c seesmic owns Twhirl and he's beta-testing. ;) - Damon Cortesi from twhirl

That would be really cool! - Timo Heuer

I know ! So let test the beta too, I can't wait ! ;-) - Gilles Meiers from twhirl

Sounds great! - Ben Borges from fftogo

exactly this is an internal test release with more Friendfeed options in Twhirl I love them so far, actually you get rooms support but can't share in a room yet. - Loic Le Meur from twhirl

This will be a very welcome feature. - Jeff "RESPRES" Turner from Alert Thingy

Great to see more developers integrationg rooms into FF apps. http://www.fftogo.com/ got support for rooms (reading/commenting/sharing) just a few days ago. - Benjamin Golub from fftogo

can't wait and get my mouse on the new Twhirl. A can't do without app - Eric Sausse from twhirl

Awesome, thanks Andrew. - Mark Trapp

Can you hook me up with one? - Gadiel Rivera

Nice! I just got that reminder mail that I had invites as well. - Ashton

I'd like one... bwana(at)bwana.org - Bwana ☠

No need for your e-mail, directions are right under the post, only 5 available though I believe. - Andrew Dobrow

Attention span gone...didn't read the comments..lol - Bwana ☠

lol you got the expiration invites too huh? - Shey, Jamaican of FF

Signed up. Thanks. - Morton Fox

Signed up. Thanks! But I'm debating whether to leave my profile pic as Brad Pitt or not. Hmm... - Zach Flauaus

Signed up. Thanks! - Bwana ☠

If Andrew runs out there are five for the invite code "kbondelli" as well - Kevin Bondelli

And "Solacetech" ;) - Anthony Farrior

5 more from me, so if anyone is looking for some let me know - Dobromir Hadzhiev from twhirl

I also have some available if required! - Joe Dawson

Andrew, still have any left? - Garrido from twhirl

Thanks Kevin, account created :-) - Stephen B

Thanks Andrew, that worked ;) - Garrido

SM is a great service. I've used it for about a month now. - Russellreno

would someone explain the significance of socialmedian.com to me? - acedanger

I just realized Twitter will be down tomorrow so it'll be easy to stay off of Twitter. Thanks for arranging that! - Todd Jordan

Are we doing this all in our own time zones or do we synchronize to one common time zone? - Morton Fox

No problem everyone, glad I picked a good day. Timezone is set for 12am EST. - Andrew Dobrow

Actually, I think Bwana picked the day, so thank him! - Andrew Dobrow

Ahh shoot... So then I have to post my final tweet at 11PM my time. Crap. - Zach Flauaus

I like the idea of Twit-out so we should keep spreading it, if we can keep like on central "thread" for all the comments that would be awesome. Apart from that Im not sure if Im going to be around cause Im getting tired of all FF been full just of comments of how FF and Twitter could be better. - Gadiel Rivera

Awww....come on. Do we _have_ to Twit-Out? I _just_ got it back! :) - Rahsheen ™, Coach Rah

At 12am tonight, I will start a main thread for Twit-Out related comments and improvements to Twitter, if the thread becomes too noisy I'll start another one in addition, so on and so forth. - Andrew Dobrow

Nope Rahsheen, totally optional :-) Though the conversation will hopefully be pretty useful. - Andrew Dobrow

Well, looks like nobody important is actually going to be twittering so I'm in. Can't wait to see how FriendFeed holds up, though - Rahsheen ™, Coach Rah

This is the worst idea ever! - Josh Smith

I dunno, I think the Holocaust was a bit worse. - Andrew Dobrow

working Wednesday. but still think twit-out is pointless if there isn't going to be twitter at all - Noah David Simon

Is there, like, some kind of gum I can chew to get me through tomorrow? Or a patch? (a patch I can wear, not install) - Karim

@ Karim Yeah, it's called FriendFeed :-) - Andrew Dobrow

Yes, watch some http://www.winelibrary.tv go to your liquor store, buy what Gary tells you is good, and then sit back and relax. Er, FriendFeed. Heheh. - Robert Scoble

Prepare yourselves!! *echo* http://www.bwana.org/2008... Or just go about business as usual. Just swing by FF once or twice to contribute to the convo. :) - Bwana ☠

LOL Thanks guys. I might just make it through tomorrow after all. The worst part will be those cravings at dinnertime (to twitter about what I'm eating). - Karim

I'm going to fail to not tweet. I'm just too addicted - Rishabh Mishra (p248)

I'll be totally interested in what you all are eating tomorrow, except using FriendFeed. It's going to be cool to see how it translates into FF. - Andrew Dobrow

I mean, it's just gonna be really really cool just on the basis of social experimentation. Exciting. - Andrew Dobrow

Okay, I'll update Friendfeed with what I'm eating. :) - Morton Fox

I'm going to try to make sure that every FF thread that's discussing the event will have the word "twit-out" in it. That'll make it easy to aggregate in the search. It's been pretty interesting so far: http://friendfeed.com/search... - Bwana ☠

talk about beating a dead horse. I hate this kind of one of us kind of thing. don't make this another emom and frozen pea. twitter id dying cuz it don't work. we should be making "SAVE TWITTER" tshirts with a "free willy" logo - Noah David Simon

Pity you have to catch Twitter actually online to use any of them :) - Garrido from twhirl

Yeah, that's the tricky part. - Andrew Dobrow

I guess we could all relocate to Friendfeed on Twit-out day. - Morton Fox

Incidentally, have we all forgotten about Jaiku? - Morton Fox

Jaiwho? :) - Bwana ☠

FriendFeed is THE spot for Twit-out. - Vince DeGeorge

Good call on FriendFeed, Vince. - Andrew Dobrow

Twit-Out - FTW! - Susan Beebe

I can't go along with it. "Boycott" like "strike" has a ring to it that I don't like. There's an ugly militant-ness to it that doesn't set well with me. - Brad McCrorey

@Brad I get that -- but I don't sense anyone of us participating is hoping this will hurt Twitter in anyway. As Andrew says, it's "tough love". - Shey, Jamaican of FF

More importantly, we don't WANT to bring Twitter down or leave it. We love Twitter. We just want to see some changes made to the infrastructure. - Andrew Dobrow

I suppose I'm just not the "activist" type. There are a few things about this whole thing that I either don't "get" or don't like. The point that sean reiser made about this really accomplishing very little rang very true with me as well. It seems pointless, aside from promoting the people who are promoting the strike itself. - Brad McCrorey

There has also been a friendly debate / conversation between myself and Chris Anthony on Sean Reiser's blog, which you can see here in the comments: http://seanreiser.com/node... - Andrew Dobrow

Yeah, I've seen that. I like it. Sean's really re-affirming my position, and giving me more reason to avoid this whole thing. - Brad McCrorey

How does the boycott hurt Twitter. Will they make less $ that day if we don't use it. NO! It's a free service. - Kevin Shannon

Once again, it's not about hurting Twitter at all. If the goal was to hurt them, it would be totally reverse spite, since I LOVE Twitter. All it's about is sending a community message to Twitter that something should be done for those situations, in respect to the community. At the very least, there should be a "We're working on the problem" type page, rather than just a purely dead server. It's a matter of treating the community with some respect. - Andrew Dobrow

Sorry but I still don't really get this. First has anyone added up the real DOWN time over the past, let's say 6 months and figure out what the UP time is? My guess is more than 99%. I guess if you're on it constantly it seems worse. Years ago DirectTV made a satellite change that caused MS Ultimate TV boxes to start having problems. When I called to complain they said they were not aware of a problem. I went on a DirectTV discussion board and hundreds of people were having the same.problem....... - Kevin Shannon

...... they never admitted the issue. Never said sorry. Never refunded any money. In fact they insisted my boxes were broken and needed to be replaced with new Tivo boxes. And I pay them $130 a month for their service. - Kevin Shannon

Brad, my approach is as follows (see the http://mrontemp.blogspot.com/2008... URL): "I'm not under any illusion that on Thursday, May 22, all of Twitter's downtime problems will be solved and they will communicate all issues to us within seconds (instead of days). I'm more interested in this from a user interface point of view - if Twitter were to disappear, how much stuff would I be able to accomplish with FriendFeed?" - Ontario Emperor

@Kevin Interesting. Was just about to Call DirecTv for overbilling. Hmm - Charlie Anzman

@Kevin it depends on how much you Twitter. e.g. it's a big deal when your internet is down or your site/blog is down for an hour. Not so much if the cable tv is out, right? - Shey, Jamaican of FF

I'm all for it, moving to Pownce + FriendFeed on the date - Garrido from twhirl

I'm thinking that all FriendFeed needs to do is to add an always-present text box on the main page with a button that expands the function of that box to share links or images. If the box is there and a few lines tall, people will start using it like it was Twitter. Right now, no one treats FF like Twitter because the 'Share something' function seems to imply you have to share a link and not just some text. - Akiva Moskovitz

The good thing about this is now with FriendFeed we can tansfer to Pownce or Jaiku, and not lose any touch with FriendFeed contacts. We are no longer tied to Twitter because everybody else is there. - Chris Nixon

ABC News just declared he won NC - Yo! - Sally Church from Alert Thingy

So did Fox. They did so, amazingly, with no results being reported. Journalism rocks. - Mark "Rizzn" Hopkins

I've got big hopes for birth state of Indiana... please don't let me down. - Vince DeGeorge

AndyC: quite a few in my experience. You visit TechCrunch? - Robert Scoble

Oh, Oh... I'm number 184!!! - John Wooton from Alert Thingy

yes Robert, a few days. We see our number of videos per day traffic with very high growth since we launched them - Loic Le Meur

Video comments have also been integrated in Yokway - Stephan Osmont

I am number 189, great job - Eric Reboisson from Alert Thingy