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RT @arrington: I'm pretty sure Obama is going to win an Oscar next. http://www.youtube.com/watch... Why not. (Actually he will win TC50).
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Jeff P. Henderson, Brook White, Olivia Lovag and 4 other people liked this
Grammy? His speeches are pretty musical; a paradise for any DJ, really.
- Cea
Hmm... didn't he already win a Grammy for some spoken word album? Maybe just a nomination, don't recall.
- Adrian
Obama has two Grammys. So does Bill Clinton.
- Rob Haas
And don't foget the Emmy for his televised speech (pick one), and the Tony for any one of his many live performances...
- MVB (Grinch of FF)
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Don't forget the AHole Award for being such a good Liar !!!!! LOL
- SCS Watching the Sun
The rumor mill has it he's just found a cure for cancer and is well on the way to ending world hunger, and that's just for Monday, his Tuesday agenda is even busier
- Bob Morris (polizeros)
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Thats what goverment healthcare is for,, they will take the sick and feed them to the world.... Thus world Hunger is now over !!!!
- SCS Watching the Sun
I have decided that that I would nominate him as the Best Actor yesterday already :)
- Goofy2
Yah. I think that Mr.Obama deserve this award...
- Brook White
Ugh. Wow. I don't have the energy to get started on this one...
- geekazine
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Win in the Summer of Podcasts Contest
- geekazine
Any guesses as to why I look so damn happy? - http://www.flickr.com/photos...
Daniel Schildt, Derek Coward, Nicholas Kreidberg and 39 other people liked this
You are silly? You ARE silly. :P
- Jonathan Flusser, Jr.
you stayed up for another 24 hours?
- Zehnchu
would "surprise butt seckts"? be innapropriate here? ;) "surprise prostate exam" just doesn't have the same ring to it... no pun :P
- alphaxion
You won the lottery?
- Shevonne
you are trying enzyte?
- Yolanda
You found out that you're the dude that plays Obama on SNL?
- Jon Anderson
Someone goosed you?
- pea
Someone brought moar likker?
- Derrick
Gerbil met pants?
- Steve C
TAD N LINDSAY ARE COMING TO GNOMEDEX!!!!!!!!
- Chrimmus Tad
from Android
Close, close... keep guessing.
- l0ckergn0me
You been drinking more wine?
- Outsanity
Yolanda wins it.
- Akiva Moskovitz
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Tad and Lindsay are doing an Aikido demonstration at Gnomedex?
- Chrimmus Tad
from Android
Insomnia
- Bwana ☠
Tad and Lindsay illustrate HOW IS BABBY FORMED at Gnomedex?
- Matthew DeVries
That would cause a look of abject horror.
- Chrimmus Tad
from Android
Because you, much like Carson Daly, are a massive tool? :-)
- Morgan Haley
Is someone pregnant?
- Myrna
Yay! I won something!!
- Yolanda
You've come around and asked me to speak at Gnomedex, fine I accept.
- sean percival
@chrisspera Yup...gdgt is hammered.
- Joel McLaughlin
You just saved a bunch of money on your car insurance?
- Rahsheen ™, Coach Rah
Gnomedexia - A seasonal disease which occurs between June and August
- Bwana ☠
Prune juice
- Rodfather
You're happy about a new social media club in Seattle?
- Josh Haley
the divorce came through!
- John Hillestad
they delivered the new phone book?
- Joe Pierce
We'll never know.
- Akiva Moskovitz
3426 licks to get to the center?
- Jason Wyttenbach
You won a free coffee refill for life?! :)
- Susan Beebe
You don't look happy...it's more of a OMGWTF something just bit me in the ass look.
- Ethan
lol@Ethan: surprise buttsecks?
- Will Higgins™
tell us already...
- Tyler Gillies
Is this one of those "How do you keep an idiot in suspense" jokes?
- Matthew DeVries
Thanks for the new wallpaper!
- J. Abdul-Qahhar
I kind of want to make this my avatar.
- Akiva Moskovitz
Oral exam?
- Jack (a.k.a. Jeber)
Wasn't oral, Jack.
- l0ckergn0me
New baby coming in?
- Saad Kamal
*facepalm*
- Matthew DeVries
Chris's brain went into shock when it couldn't make up it's mind on either the Joker or the Riddler. I heard that the result of such an affliction is permanent. I could be wrong of course.
- John Blanton
*slams down phone* WE GOT OOOOONE!!! *cues Ghostbuster's theme*
- Johnny Worthington
trying to install logrotate on AIX....wouldn't you know it but it's not there by default on aix.
- Joel McLaughlin
You got a rabid arrdvark in your pants?
- geekazine
Where was this photo taken and why is it about to be famous?
Daniel Rowley, SurajLuke, Mark Evans and 12 other people liked this
At a guess, Palo Alto? :P
- kristian carter
in Palo Alto
- Allen Stern
Yes, Allen, good guess. Now where in Palo Alto?
- Robert Scoble
At the Apple offices
- laurasweet
laurasweet: Apple is in Cupertino.
- Robert Scoble
Because Robert Scoble says it will :)
- Michael Fogleman
Some sort of government building? The new Facebook?
- Jesse Stay
Building 43?
- Ahmed
Facebook's new office?
- Mike Doeff
Rackspace's Palo Alto office?
- Jesse Stay
considering i have never been to palo alto - i could only guess it has something to do with facebook?
- Allen Stern
Robert Scoble's new house.
- Paul Holmes
Jesse wins. Here's Paul's photo of the old Facebook. http://friendfeed.com/paul... This is the new Facebook headquarters at 1601 S. California Ave., Palo Alto, CA
- Robert Scoble
HP or Xerox research?
- Denis
Nice - I hadn't seen any pics of their new offices yet. I've been following all the pics of them moving out of the old though.
- Jesse Stay
ah good old HP. Where good ideas go overseas.
- geoff hines
where did they stick the $150m - maybe we can create a diversion
- Allen Stern
okay, so why will it be famous, per se?
- laurasweet
Damn, Jesse beat me by a few seconds
- Mike Doeff
Paul: I can't afford that neighborhood. :-)
- Robert Scoble
But how can they afford an office, with no revenue? I thought everyone worked in a barn in Kentucky.
- Paul Holmes
laurasweet: that's Mark Zuckerberg's new parking spot. :-)
- Robert Scoble
Shoot. I was going to say "Because penguins are going to come over for a house party sponsored by MTV, Bud Light and Jack Daniels". Partying Penguins can Produce a Predicament.
- geekazine
Scoble, why don't you buy a winnebago and ask if you can park in their parking spot?
- Ahmed
Paul: Facebook has a lot of revenue. Not sure where you got that they have no revenue.
- Robert Scoble
LOL is this the address? 131 Lytton Avenue Palo Alto, California 94301
- laurasweet
Ahmed: heheh.
- Robert Scoble
Sorry, I meant to say profit.
- Paul Holmes
Paul - they have plenty of revenue - they got $3.82 from me last month in advertising spend.
- Allen Stern
I love Office Space! An American classic.
- Mat Man
You can probably have Dave Morin or Randi's spot - they were all at a No Doubt concert in Vegas last night.
- Jesse Stay
Laurasweet: no, the photo was taken at 1601 S. California Ave, Palo Alto, CA 94019.
- Robert Scoble
ah, thanks. clearly I'm having an off day:)
- laurasweet
I just spent $20 on them yesterday so I have more invested than Allen :-P
- Jesse Stay
I agree Mat Man - cinematic genius.
- Paul Holmes
Ditto to MatMan and Paul Holmes
- laurasweet
Famous? Perhaps. I remember standing at the Infoseek office doors once. File that in the Where are they now? category.
- CAJ, somewhere else
Jesse - I tried to give them $300 - they wouldn't take it! :) Google always takes my money
- Allen Stern
looks like tampa, florida to me.
- RODNEY OLIVER
I really miss the HotBot Affiliate Program.
- Paul Holmes
Alan: when I travel around the world people are enamored of Facebook. In Israel kids were giddy over Facebook. To them Zuckerberg is a new hero and they'd love to visit Facebook's headquarters. Will that last? I don't know, but it's definitely true now.
- Robert Scoble
Rodney: it's sort of like Tampa, Florida, without the humidity, the big bugs, etc. ;-)
- Robert Scoble
Plus it's a couple of blocks away from Hewlett Packard's headquarters (and where the Wall Street Journal is printed for the Western United States).
- Robert Scoble
Robert, no argument from me. My mother-in-law is on Facebook. It's not going anywhere soon.
- CAJ, somewhere else
i dont know but i really like it, love the light and composition
- Andre Vautour
Here's a map: http://maps.google.com/maps... It's also very close to where PodTech had its offices.
- Robert Scoble
I love Google's street view, by the way. You can use the Google Map to look around and see more of what Facebook's new headquarters looks like.
- Robert Scoble
Street View: http://maps.google.com/maps...
- Robert Scoble
That's the front of the building. I shot my photo of the back parking lot up the street a bit.
- Robert Scoble
OMG CANNOT WAIT!!!
- sofarsoShawn
I love how Google's street view cameras caught a sign in the front that says "Available."
- Robert Scoble
Funny, that building housed an IBM lab 30 years ago!
- Scott Loftesness
Beautiful.. thanks for the pic etc Robert.
- Kurt von Schleicher
I was in the area on Saturday, too bad I got this too late I would have drove by.
- Michael Bazzoni
A friend just called and said "if Google buys Twitter Microsoft is f*&ked." I don't believe the rumors.
Dimitar Vesselinov, Shailesh Nalawadi, Kol Tregaskes and 35 other people liked this
hehe, let the games begin!
- imabonehead
How did they come to that conclusion?
- Mo Kargas
Mo: Because Twitter is changing EVERYTHING about business and search.
- Robert Scoble
I agree, though I don't think it'll destroy MS.
- Mo Kargas
truth is, of course google is trying to buy them. if not, they are dumb. and, they are not dumb. same with MS. question is, will they sell? i bet the price has reached youtube proportions. and, it should. twitter is gold.
- lew
Mo: Which part? Core to Google is owning search. Everything they do is about collecting data. Twitter is an emerging piece of the real-time search puzzle. Go get a job as janitor or whatever you can get at Twitter. One of these guys is going to overpay handsomely.
- Christian Anderson
@Christian Yes I understand Google's interest in keeping search and hence twitter, but I fail to see the MS link. MS's search experiments have always been small potatoes. Has Google ever seen MS as a solid search competitor?
- Mo Kargas
The problems Microsoft has have little to do with what twitter does or could do for them.
- Beau Giles
Mo: Ah, the MS part. MS wants to be a player in search in a very big way. MS desperately wants to grow share. We saw that with the Yahoo mess. MS missed the horizontal bus, but wants vertical/real-time/semantic to catch up to Google -- playing a slightly different game.
- Christian Anderson
You just had to watch Mike's body language during the event tonight to see something was up. He is far too visible to make something up out of whole cloth. I believe his sources are correct.
- Louis Gray
Louis: Mike is usually right and I'm usually wrong when it comes to rumors. He has good sources. I do note that he updated his post later to note that they are "early" in process, rather than late.
- Robert Scoble
I still don't buy the idea that 'real time' microblog search is all that valuable. If they buy them, it'll be for other reasons. Then again, like with Digg, GOOG might decide it's not worth it. There is value in getting all those addicted users, but the search part, I just don't see it.
- Ray Cromwell
I really hope the term "microblog" dies this year. We're really just talking about conversations. "Real time search" is just the ability to find conversations related to the topics you're interested in while they're going on, rather than after the fact after the party's over.
- Ken Sheppardson
Google acquiring Twitter would simply be for branding purposes. Twitter is supplementary. Period. Plus, Microsoft has a share in Facebook. Tit for tat.
- Mona Nomura
I enjoy the fact that you don't like the word microblogging either. I've disliked the term for a while.
- Richard A.
Mona: or Google would buy it to keep it out of Microsoft's hands. But there is SOME value in the search for Google.
- Robert Scoble
How'd that work out for Blogger?
- Andrew Smith
Hmmm...like Google meshing Twitter trends, with Google trends and integrating that into news, blog search, and even Google analytics. I wonder if that would just contribute to the echo though. Interesting.
- Mona Nomura
I think that there are 2 things that are interesting for google with regard to twitter. Getting his hands on the real time data and protect against anyone using that to change the search game but also access to a powerful brand they can grow like they did with youtube. I think that twitter+youtube could lead into very interesting experiments. The risk is that they got blogger and were not really able to do anything interesting. Wordpress is kicking their butt.
- Edwin Khodabakchian
Because it's better to have smaller companies working independently rather than one behemoth. Plurk has some interesting features that I would like to see on more popular websites. I especially like the "Mute" function where you mute single threads
- Richard A.
Surprised there aren't cynics chiming in to say that google would buy Twitter to kill real time search (or at least control / hamstring it) "do no evil" is holding up?
- Christian Anderson
We already know Google likes to be as fast as possible. No point in the "kill realtime search" conspiracies.
- Richard A.
If I were Steve Ballmer, I'd buy Twitter and tightly integrate it into the Windows and Windows Mobile operating systems - well, if the U.S. government and the EU would let me (and they might, if other OS users could access Twitter in the current way, or if Microsoft struck a deal with SUSE, etc.). Imagine microblogging incorporated into the OS...very social.
- John E. Bredehoft
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Christian - look what Twitter is and think about what it's used for.
- Mona Nomura
The problem with the idea of searching twitter conversations, is there for the most part, they're a vastly inferior source of information compared to other channels. The timeliness cuts both ways, because the instant chatter and 140 character limit probably leads to statements with a higher error rate and less relevance, compared to someone composing a blog post or email. Can someone post a URL to a twitter search that actually returns something more useful than what I can already find on Google?
- Ray Cromwell
That's the best thing that can happen to us. Forcing common sense and critical thinking to assess and draw your own conclusions. Personally, I'm all for it.
- Mona Nomura
Ray, one advantage of a tweet's length is that it is almost guaranteed to be topical. I can write a blog post about Iran, and possibly wander through half a dozen other topics. If I tweet about Iran, there's more of a chance that the tweet will focus on Iran.
- John E. Bredehoft
from fftogo
I just tried searching for 'iran' on Twitter vs Google News and Google Blog Search. The results for Twitter were not encouraging. Everytime a Twitter search story pops up on TC, I go and try Twitter search again, and every time, I fail to find anything of use compared to numerous other resources. I understand the argument, I just think the people who write thoughtful tweets are few and far between, lost in the noise.
- Ray Cromwell
During Microsoft's recent Mix09 conference Twitter was by far the number one channel of real-time conversation. I see quite a few Microsoft employees on Twitter too. Move Twitter to the Google column and Microsoft collectively will have to rethink its use of Twitter.
- Loren Heiny
Ken Sheppardson, there is a difference between "microblogging" and "conversations". With microblogging, no one considers you weird if you're talking to no one in particular, which is what a lot of microblogging is. With a conversation, if you're talking to no one in particular, you're talking to yourself, and people avoid you on the bus.
- Andy Bakun
microsoft is already f***ed, I am actually worried about twitter
- Jayavasanthan J
would this be the same friend who called Chrome "nothing less than a full on desktop operating system that will compete head on with Windows" etc. ad nauseam?
- Karim
The supposition here is that Microsoft is somehow dependant on the web here. MSFT is a viable SOFTWARE company first, and a web platform/search/cloud/whatever company SECOND. The suggestion that Google would kill MSFT is insane. MSFT cannot hope to beat Google at search. Google has won and the games are closed. Twitter is just the icing on the cake and, ergo, has no impact on MSFT.
- Roberto Bonini
also, is this the same Microsoft with $60 billion in revenues, 28% profit margin, $20 billion dollars in the bank, the one that's still paying a dividend while companies like GM and AIG go insolvent? *That* Microsoft? Or is there a more fucked Microsoft out there? :-D
- Karim
There must be some way out of here - http://www.scripting.com/stories...
Shirley Wu, Graham English, Atul Arora and 2 other people liked this
I'd like to say "jesus Dave, not everything is a business model" -- except, well, look at what JoVE is being forced to do. I worry about the future of FriendFeed because I like it so much.
- Bill Hooker
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Geekazine Podcast Ep 79 3-25-09
- geekazine
What's the worst movie you've ever seen? - http://www.netflix.com/Movie...
Brad Kligerman, Rick Cogley, Shevonne and 24 other people liked this
My #1 will *always* be Coyote Ugly. It made me want to go on a rampage through Hollywood. #2 would be Hollywood Homicide #3 is 50 First Dates tied with Spanglish.
- Admiral Anika
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The Brothers Solomon: http://www.netflix.com/Movie... :/
- Ubqtous
Oh Adam, that just *sounds* bad. LOL
- Admiral Anika
You have no idea! Nonetheless, I kept watching like, as Bill Hicks would have put it, a person with a sore tooth that keeps touching it :/
- Ubqtous
@Anika: Not an Adam Sandler fan?
- Nurse Katie
The Doors. I don't know why but I hated that movie so much that I left the cinema midway through.
- Akiva Moskovitz
Didn't like Punk Drunk Love and Tropic Thunder. Both of these I turned off half way through after forcing myself to try.
- Nurse Katie
The worst position is tied with "The Ninth Gate" (which oddly was on multiple times today) and "Event Horizon".
- Andy Bakun
Ninth Gate was indeed terrible but, for some odd reason, Event Horizon is a personal favorite.
- Akiva Moskovitz
Waterworld
- Michael Fidler
from twhirl
Ven Helsing. That sucked AND blew!
- Bec Rowe @d0tski
Meet the Spartans hands down!
- Jay
Snakes on a train - seriously!
- Vicky
White Chicks.. horrible
- embee
I like The Ninth Gate, but didn't like Event Horizon at all (too graphic etc). One movie I couldn't finish was Fair Game: http://www.imdb.com/title...
- Jemm
Joe Dirt
- Greg Guitarbuster
Borat. i still want my 2 hours back.
- Imabug
King Ralph
- ha3rvey (Ho)^3
Napoleon Dynamite! HATED it!
- BEX
Ever is a bit of a big call, but I'd say the "Ghost Rider" with Nicholas Cage was possibly the WORST movie I've seen recently. OH, and Lions for Lambs with Tom Cruise and Merryl Streep was also a HUGE waste of my time. Normally I have a pretty good premonition that a movie will be crap, and am able to avoid it. Oh, and I loved Coyote Ugly. Trick is watch it with the sound muted. Problem Solved.
- Will Higgins™
No, I'm a not Adam 'Look at me do Drama" Sandler Fan. I loved Happy Gilmore and the Wedding Singer. But 50 First Dates gave me the heebie-jeebies and Spanglish was just all around stupid.
- Admiral Anika
Embee, I can't hate on White Chicks only because of that scene in the car when the football player guy started singing that song. Otherwise yes, it's 98% awful.
- Admiral Anika
Slap Shot 2
- MVB (Grinch of FF)
6 Days and 7 Nights
- Matthew DeVries
Weekend at Bernie's. Awful.
- Anika Palm
Anika, I once watched Weekend at Bernie's in Sweden subtitled in Swedish. The Ethiopians I was hanging with, kept looking at me and my friend like we were to blame that mess. They kept pausing the movie to ask about references. It was shameful.
- Admiral Anika
hahaha...I liked Weekend at Bernie's. Finally, I found someone who hates Spanglish as much as I do!
- Anna Haro
Toss up of either Rock N Roll Mom, or Surf Nazi's Must Die. Although the 30 minutes I actually watched The Love Guru may trump them both.
- Haggis (Sean Loyless)
Of all time? Attack of the Killer Tomatoes. In theaters? Batman & Robin.
- Alex Scoble
Moulin Rouge. Oh, god. The horror!
- Mona Nomura
Highlander 3 (note i did not see Highlander 1 or 2, but no matter what the case there's no way this wasn't the worst movie ever.)
- Steve C
@Steve Trust me, Highlander 2 was worse than 3. In 2 they made him a freakin ALIEN. WTH?!
- Haggis (Sean Loyless)
There have been three or four movies in the last year that I couldn't make past the first 10 minutes or so, including Forgetting Sarah Marshall and Superbad.
- Mistletoe Glen
"Used Cars". Grossly overboard 1980 film, so of course it went on the become a TV series that lasted three or four episodes. When you really need to be assured that your life could be worse, watch this film. http://www.imdb.com/title... Oh yeah, Grandpa Al Lewis was in it too.
- Mark Edwards
Really disliked Coyote Ugly
- Bindu Reddy
wasabi tuna hands down.
- InPerpetualMotion(Gina k)
Yikes, I like a lot of you guyses worst movies. Especially the Ninth Gate. I can't say worst of all time because it fluctuates, but Titanic, Wizard of Oz and Cloverfield all sprang to mind immediately. But for various reasons. "Oz" I don't consider a terrible movie it just doesn't work for me at all. The other two are pants.
- Joe Pierce
By far, and not even with a close second comes Ishtar.
- Mike Seidle
The Stupids, only movie that I felt like leaving half-way through.
- Rui Pereira
Knocked Up and Starsky & Hutch were also godawful movies. At least from S&H, we got, "Hey! You! Do it!"
- Admiral Anika
Man on the Moon http://www.imdb.com/title...
- Shey, Jamaican of FF
Harley Davidson and the Marlboro Man
- michael sean wright
It's funny how many of other people's worst movies I like and have seen multiple times *chuckle*
- Michael W. May
The Breakup. The only redeeming factor in the movie was when it ended.
- Bob Blunk
I have a feeling I'll be watching a NEW one soon, my gf is making me watch 'Chun Li' with her. Then again, Kristen Kryeuk is HOTTTT.
- Will Higgins™
Leprechaun in the Hood
- Rodfather
One of the worst movies ever has to be "Leonard Pt. 6" w/Bill Cosby. It was so bad, even HE went on TV telling everyone not to go see it :)
- Mean aka Mr Get Right
Okay, some of these movies, I'm thinking a promise of getting some was involved in you guys watching these things. LOL. Didn't you *see* the trailers for them first?
- Admiral Anika
Pink Flamingos is definitely something I want to forget
- Rodfather
oh lord there have been many but i think Killer Klowns from outer space tied with every PG-13 "horror" movie
- Angela P.
Days of Thunder - it was only a rental but so excruciatingly bad ...
- Patrick Jordan
Starship Troopers - worst remake of a Robert Heinlein book EVER!
- Helen Sventitsky
Flesh Gordon. But, in a way, it was so bad it was good.
- Martha
Worst movie? The Addams Family. I walked out halfway through - and I'm a big fan of Addams' New Yorker cartoons. The movie was awful. I was surprised that I liked the sequel - Addams Family Values - as much as I did.
- Bill Sodeman
Joe vs. The Volcano. Instead of dying when jumping into a pit a lava.. he's spit out into the sea... where his luggage is floating?????
- Sean
Batman & Robin, for sure. Unless it's Harvard Man, a horrible piece of tripe that forever cured me of watching every film that Buffy alumni were in. Of course, if you want to get into movies that are so bad they're good, I gotta start with Troll 2 and Plan 9 from Outer Space, which are simultaneously the worst and awesomest films I've ever seen.
- Jandy, ConcertMaven of FF
Jandy my So Bad It's Good Movie is Who's That Girl. Total sucker that pile of crap.
- Admiral Anika
Not sure if it was 1994 Fantastic Four, Dungeons and Dragons or A Clockwork Orange. Then again, I might not have watched ACO all the way through.
- MiniMage TKDteacher of FF
James Toback's "Fingers" (hands down?) - 1978. I shudder at the memory.
- Karen Wickre
Nothing But Trouble
- Jeremy Hylton
Aw, I loved Joe vs. the Volcano AND Starship Troopers. They're so campy.
- Admiral Anika
The Thomas the Train movie.
- Chrimmus Tad
What, no one is going to bring up Eddie Murphy's latest string of train wreck comedies?
- Eric @ CSTechcast.com
I don't think anyone's seen them...
- Chrimmus Tad
Not me, I don't watch Eddie Murphy movies...the one I did see and liked was Bowfinger.
- Admiral Anika
Solaris.
- Lucy
the insider and the good shepard - long boring films are the biggest crime, not crap short ones. Both made me never want to watch a film again and watching them is like being in cinema prison
- Toby Graham
Iceplanet (http://www.imdb.com/title...)
- Pascal
Hollow with Kevin Bacon
- Shevonne
Jane Austen's Mafia! Urrghh. (& psst, Anika, that "worse" instead of "worst" has been bugging me. I think you can edit it. You know how several of us are kind of nitpicky about spellings and word use ;) )
- Kamilah Gill
Deuce Bigalow European Vacation. *shudder*
- Rick Cogley
LOL. Kamilah, it's been bugging me too and I kept forgetting to change it. Done.
- Admiral Anika
tiny yay!
- Kamilah Gill
I can not stand Steel Magnolias.
- Bryan Clark
Pineapple Express makes Coyote Ugly look like Citizen Kane. Worst waste of time I've ever spent.
- Matt
Years ago i went to see Portrait of a Lady and got so pissed of that I walked out - may be the only movie I have ever walked out of
- Marco(aureliusmaximus)
Oh I got another one, but I don't remember the name. I think it was Antonio Banderas and Lucy Liu....something & Ecks. Something vs Ecks? Whatever, it sucked balls.
- Admiral Anika
@Anika, that would be "Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever" Never saw it, either. Looked as if it would be ball-sucky to me from the previews.
- Joey Gibson
Attack of the Killer Tomatoes.
- Justin Whitaker
That you, Joey. My husband was not going to let the opportunity of seeing Liu in skintight clohting pass him by. He thought Banderas would be a draw for me. Wrong.
- Admiral Anika
any Haneke movie
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- Doug Haslam
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@Anika: I like Who's That Girl as a "So Bad It's Good" movie. :) It's one of the movies I watched because it was repeated on HBO so much. My brother and I both liked watching it, but I'm sure if I watched it again now (which I considered doing recently!) it would be pretty awful story-wise. :) As for worst movies I've seen in recent memory, I'd have to list In the Cut, Silent Hill, and Resident Evil 2 (forgot the name of it). I liked RE1 and thought RE3 was much better than 2.
- Cheryl Jones
"Zombie Strippers!" Yes... it's real. Yes, I watched it. Why? Well... I like strippers and I like zombies, but who could have guessed it would make such an awful combo?
- Adrian
Farewell My Concubine. Oh god...that movie was CRAP!
- ‘-.-’ Tutivillus Grift
Adrian, this is why I don't take you out in public. [smacks head] Tutivillus, yes Concubine was *horrid*. My Women in the Arts professor *LOVED* that stupid movie.
- Admiral Anika
Showgirls.
- Dh'ennis Dömingö
Hustle and Flow
- nakachi
I just gave a talk to about 30 top executives around the world (non tech) and almost none knew about Twitter, Qik, Kyte.
Adarsh, ClubEddy - clubeddy.com, myron and 91 other people liked this
Can you name some of them?
- Chetan Bhawani
This does not surprise me at all.
- Suki Fuller
I'm guessing they do now!
- Simon May
Spread the twitter-awareness :)
- Sasha Kovaliov(.com)
this does not surprise me. i have spent a lot of time in industrial companies and email is the most advanced tech that has traction. can't even get secure sharepoint sites to get traction with execs!
- Jeff DiStanlo
welcome to the analogue world ;)
- Sascha Pallenberg
Were you surprised? It amazes me how few people (in general) know about these....especially Twitter.
- Vinny
I am not surprised. The day these and other such folks get onto social media, social media will be passe ;)
- A. Prem Kumar
People don't know about Twitter?! What!
- frank barry
Ya i suspect by end of 2009 it will have hit mainstream consciousness, but still obscure now.
- Brian Carter
not surprised. even some of my friends in tech doesn't know twitter
- Merry Xmas FFeeders - AJ
I just can't believe it. Do these people live under a rock?
- Happy
It would have been a surprise if they had. Good job Robert is on hand to spread the word.
- WorldofHiglet
There was a seminar on social media and communications in Toronto last night and a few people had never heard of Twitter, either. Is it really surprising or are we just to immersed in it?
- Bonnie Dean
It took me years to get around to wanting to use Twitter. I read about it regularly at Coding Horror (ex: http://www.codinghorror.com/blog...) for at least a year but I just didn't see the point. I finally registered because I wanted to reply to a friend's tweet. I think for a lot of people it's more of a reticence to join social networks than plain technophobia.
- Daniel J. Pritchett
that says something doesnt it?
- Richard Binhammer
This is not surprising. Recall that John McCain does not even use email. And I am sure most, if not all, of these "top" executives are part of McCain's generation.
- Joe Lima
I haven't touched Qik/Seesmic/Kyte because I can't work out the difference. Not surprised most won't have heard of them or Twitter
- Luke
Robert, send them an invoice for innovation consulting! ;-)
- masa media - Martin
Make a list of top execs who do know about social media.
- stefan hyttfors
Not Surprising, I'd consider myself fairly Tech savvy and although i've been registered for ages i only just started Tweeting. Although given the publicity it's had in the last few weeks i'm slightly surprised.
- Jamie Vidamour
but i guess they know about Facebook ? well, i think twitter is more for more tech people
- Junal Rahman
Do you think their assistants know about those technologies? My understanding of CEO responsibility is that they have to think on a super broad and strategic level. Many of those technologies are about integrating tiny pieces of information into something bigger. Since that's not really their job, I would think those services would be off the CEO's radar until they have an impact at that high level. Right?
- David Wynn
from fftogo
Our CMO @BestBuyCMO relayed a similar experience at a CMO dinner he was one or two of 10+ who knew about the tools and he certainly was the top user of them.
- Ben Hedrington
It's not surprising, if you think about it, but it's still unfortunate. Top executives are hardly "the mainstream" and if they're not in tech or marketing, those types of communication are not foremost in their minds. I know one chief exec. of a Fortune 1000 company who still has his "important" emails (as determined by his assistant) printed out and put on his desk every day.
- Robert Clockedile
from twhirl
This does not surprise me in the least. Yes, awareness is growing but anyone who assumes that our social media world has "made it' to mainstream is unclear on the concept.
- Cathy Brooks
from twhirl
I've never expected top executives to have a clue about anything. They're just a figure head for the company. They pay others around them to do the grunt work.
- Chris Luckhardt
What a surprise!! Here in Brazil I've asked to my friends and coworkers and nobody knew about Twitter. Well, some of my friends don't even check e-mails account daily...
- Flavio Knopp
it goes to show that twitter, kyte, friendfeed, etc... haven't really hit the mainstream yet... user adoption will always be a problem no matter what platform or software is out there.
- Dejim Juang
Most of them can't even use email....
- Stuart Murray Walton
What is the point of Twitter, Kyte etc when hundreds of thousands of people are losing their jobs and we are in global economic crisis? Don't these top execs have bigger issues at hand? Are we drinking too much social media coolade in these times?
- Andy Oliver
Dejim: I would not consider 30 executives not knowing about Twitter to equate to these services not being in the mainstream. It you ever worked with "top" executives, you'd be amazed by how much "mainstream" knowledge they really lack.
- Joe Lima
I'm doing a Social Media 101 seminar in a few weeks for entrepreneurs who haven't touched linkedin.com, facebook, or twitter. Seminar is full. We'll likely do 2 or 3 more. I'm not surprised at your group's ignorance.
- Shelley Cadamy
I'm a publisher in medical technology market data and I continue to be stunned at how much behind the tech curve my audience of medtech companies is. Their rate of adoption of social media, like their adoption of new information technologies, lags at the same rate as physicians, who are traditionally slow to adopt any new technologies other than medical technologies.
- Patrick Driscoll
Top *executives*? No surprise there, unless they're *tech* executives. Gates or Dell not knowing would be worrying, but should a boss at Exxon or Rolls-Royce (the aero engine company) know or care any more than we'd know or care about distillate refining or FADEC aero engine controllers?
- James
I don't think we are drunk on social media when we say that in spite of the downturn and maybe because of it, we need to look at the enormous possibilities of social media at the very least as a brand loyalty mechanism(ie I am more apt to subscribe to products from companies/ people that I have a more intimate relationship with).
- Phillip
The other issue with non tech executives not tuned in is their reluctance to accept ideas that don't have a direct and obvious connection to ROI. I have to admit (and I'm not blowing my horn) that during the pre-internet heydey, I felt like Tom Hanks in "Big" raising my hand to say, "I don't get it". Then, I couldn't understand why website traffic mattered more than revenue.
- Patrick Driscoll
Recently, I spoke with a colleague of mine, a university professor of linguistics known as geek. I asked if someone is studying tweets' peculiar language and style from a scientific point of view. "Twitter?" he said, "Microblogging? never heard before". A geek, they say. Well...
- PaperDoll
not surprised at all. You may try to ask if they know Firefox
- ClubEddy - clubeddy.com
There's a whole tendency in social media toward rapidly accepting what's at the front edge of development, while at the back end, product managers, sales/marketing and other grunts are just struggling to hit their numbers. They don't live and breathe the latest info tool -- they live and breathe their own product.
- Patrick Driscoll
OK, I'm hogging the airwaves, but one last point. When I look at new medical technologies emerging in the market, I have to bring in two very important perspectives: the opinion-leading early adopters (docs at universities or highly visible MD-consultants to industry) and the regular practicing physician working in the trenches of daily care. Social media evangelists would have me pay much more attention (I'm simplifying a bit) to the opinion-leaders.
- Patrick Driscoll
I can understand that they don't know about Qik or Kyte, even I don't and I spend a lot of time on Twitter and FriendFeed...
- Odi Kosmatos
You should get a hat!
- Freida Wolden
from twhirl
I don't think that social media is so important that everyone MUST take part in it. If I had more of a life (was a busy doctor or exec.), twitter and friendfeed would be the last thing that I would do in my spare time -especially twitter.
- BEX
Ok, twitter might be something they need to know, but Kyte? Qik? Far too early for both of them to be at executive level of a non-tech company.
- Steven Cains
Carol Bartz doesn't use Flickr and she's Yahoo's CEO. Her daughter does use facebook to post photos though.
- Thomas Hawk
Our organzation is doing well w/Facebook with more plans for expansion after receiving demographics that show a high number of professional level participants and 30 and up crowd. I always considered FB for kids.
- R. Ferguson
I can belive Qik and Kyte. But Twitter. That is tough. Of course my CEO doesn't know what SEO is.
- John Flynn
Robert, that does seem strange. But then I see smaller co's. and non-profits jumping into Twitter, FB,etc. faster. My theory is because start-ups and NP's are open to the pool of university student volunteer workers, interns, and beginners out there who are more saavy in this area.
- Melanie Reed
Maybe it's the name...? Maybe they would prefer using something called The TwitCorp Group
- Catherine Ventura
robert - did you talk to them about zoho, zocdoc, gomobo, freshbooks, etc ?
- Allen Stern
not surprised.
- anna sauce
They must not have any kids... or watch CNN <grin> Nice one, Catherine - love The TwitCorp Group
- Cheryl Allin
from twhirl
OMG there's a world OUTSIDE of Twitter and Soc Nets?! :P
- Mona Nomura
cmon mona you should know by now that in the valley there are only a few products that can be talked about outside the valley by those inside the valley - scoble just doing his job :) ha!
- Allen Stern
And to think, we just had an amazing tweetup in the Raleigh area last night of more than 200 tweeps. Triangle Tweetup was awesome.
- Angela
Mona - LOL - say it ain't so!!!!
- Susan Beebe
Yes, I agree with Freida, you should get a hat :)
- Michael Forian
Non-tech CEOs is not surprising. However, depending on the kind of executive not knowing at least 1 like Twitteer may be troubling. For example if they are media companies or telecom companies then that is a more troubling thought than say the executive for a manufacturing company. Ultimately the lack of knowledge is a reflection of the type of talent they recruit and how that impacts their corporate culture now and in the future.
- Altan Khendup
Did those same guys also show ignorance about Facebook- then we will know that we live on different planets - google,facebook,twitter are all helping to re-shape the way we communicate with each other- rgds- hiro bachani- http://www.merlin-me.com -Merlin Magical Gadgets
- hiro
Amazing how a generational gap can preclude users from a given technology. I bet none of their friends are on Twitter either
- Jameel
Unsurprising to me. I think the only interesting item might be how a company without a revenue model continues to raise money! In *this* economy, that is a story.
- AJ Kohn
The elementary school I work at has started to hear about Twitter. It is going mainstream very quickly.
- MarkCarras
Their on FriendFeed now are they?
- paul mooney
My fiancée has heard of Twitter and she does her damnedest to avoid all this high-fallutin' technology.
- Chris, Taskerrific Guy
Not a good mood if you want to build up goodwill and awareness of your brand. I mean, unless you're McDonald's or something.
- Mike Nayyar
very small % of top exective in japan knows twitter either.
- Yasuyuki Goto
Do they need to know? Is twitter going to get them out of their problems? Maybe their marketing managers do know?
- santiromero
Why would they know or care about Twitter, Qik or Kyte? What's the business case?
- Francine Hardaway
did they know about facebook - for global mainstream business leaders that at least should be known?
- mike "glemak" dunn
Using our difficult economic circumstances to dismiss the tools of Web 2.0, be it Twitter, Facebook, or something else is to embrace the status quo. And if you hadn't noticed, the status quo isn't working. Web 2.0 offers a unique opportunity to reach out to customers, be they current or would-be customers, and engage them in a way previously not possible. As for me, I work for a...
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- Lee Allgood
did they know about computers? how about the internet? ebay? facebook? trying to quantify the time lag between reality and executives.
- Dino
not surprising....met an IT guy at Panera on Monday who never heard of twitter or microblogging...now that's scary
- Brian Appleby
does that say something? twitter and all these things are not the most essential parts of businesses. these things are fun but there's lots of people i know who have no idea about twitter. people who invest so much time and effort in these things have to realise this.
- Terry O'Fee
when things get really really tough these "social media experts" in the businesses will be the first to get the axe, sadly.
- Terry O'Fee
what is more significant/startling... that some do not know about twitter et al, or that some know and do not understand the value either personal or business wise? and believe me i know plenty people who know about twitter et al and just do not get the value. nor the point. which tells me social media is in its infancy still - we all know that of course. then again it took me 2-3 years to figure out email way back when ;)
- Pascal Bouvier
the value of twitter? i know lots of successful businesses who would never even look at this kind of stuff. it's not as important as a lot of you people think.
- Terry O'Fee
You people? Who you calling 'YOU people'.
- Chris Saad
Thats the problem. You NEED to look at it before you understand its value, both for personal use and as a corporate tool.
- jcunwired
you people = the people who think the world would end if twitter shut down tomorrow...
- Terry O'Fee
This post is a complete and utter déjà vu for me. Robert, did this happen another time upon which you posted a very similar statement. For a second there, I thought FriendFeed glitched and reissued an old entry. Maybe I'm just tired.
- Micah Wittman
seems that twitter will have 30 more users.
- pala
Um. I work under people who thinks blogging is new and uncharted territory. I'm in marketing.
- myron
nonsurprising.. some of my teammates don't know about twitter. none of them know about qik. and i never heard of kyte!
- Ihar Mahaniok
Looks like more shutdowns of AOL blogs. AOLwon't sell the shutdown ones back to me :-( http://www.readwriteweb.com/archive...
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Is Twitter Killing Blogs and Blogging? - http://www.markevanstech.com/2009...
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"Twitter +is+ blogging."
- Robert Scoble
in a nutshell, yes, its taking attention to satisfaction away from blogging, its an easier, low cost to entry way to your mind out on the web
- Dan Rockwell
from twhirl
Blogging is, and always has been, just cheap and easy content creation and management which is pretty different to Twitter. Twitter basically replaces the role of blogs for some of the things that people used to use blogs for when they first appeared - dashing off quick links, status updates, and so on. And disagreeing with Robert, i think it's worth thinking of the two things as separate - they'll play different roles in communications in the future.
- Ian Betteridge
Twitter is microblogging, Twitter enhances blogging and Twitter can be used separately from a blogging platform for many specific tasks, including blogging. Sure, they are separate, but they work together and reinforce each other.
- Chris Loft
I don't think this is a competition, it's quite hard to resume a blog post in a couple of twitter messages and, at the same time, be relevant ... especially when people following you are already following tens, hundreds, <number here> of people!
- Lucian Nicolescu
No, but Friendfeed is.
- Rutger Blom
Agree with Rutger. Friendfeed is more of a blog killer...
- Håkan Dahlström
No, not really: Can I write a 500 word post on FriendFeed? FF is a blog *comment* killer, but that's only part of the story with blogging.
- Ian Betteridge
from twhirl
Ian, it all depends what you want to achieve. If you want to create a discussion or debate I think you can bring it on Friendfeed directly instead of a blog with disqus. The author of the FF-post can if necessary post additional comments to further develop a statement. This is something you see Scoble doing more and more these days.
- Rutger Blom
Rutger, good point. As I mentioned, blogging is really "just" cheap, easy content creation/management. The discussion element is, to my mind secondary - not in the sense of being unimportant, but not really at the core of what defines it. And, of course, what you're describing is basically a freeform discussion forum :)
- Ian Betteridge
from twhirl
What Rutger said.
- Steven Perez
Ian, that's true. I agree with you that as things are now Friendfeed is a bigger threat to Disqus/Intense Debate than to blogging platforms, but I can see how that can change just by adding one or two more features to Friendfeed.
- Rutger Blom
Twitter is nothing more than IRC, sure a lot of people think it's microblogging but that's only because they use it five minutes a day. Blogging is more interesting than ever now. Friendfeed and the way it's used show how interesting blogging is at this moment. Show me a person that uses twitter as passionately and I may believe twitter is killing blogs.
- Richard A.
Yes: FriendFeed could evolve into a really interesting blogging platform, if that's the direction they want to take - or, of course, offer better integration to existing platforms.
- Ian Betteridge
from twhirl
No, it's helping. Link sharing is the de facto way to be a good community member. The 140 character field is a perfect teaser, and the link is perfect to extend the conversation. FriendFeed is a wonderful enhancement to this process as well.
- timedalkat
from twhirl
Why are we still having this discussion? Microblogging is here to stay. Twitter and Friendfeed *can* make you smarter bloggers. But so can any time you spend away from your own blog and focus on *others* and their work. Seriously.
- Barbara K. Baker
It is killing link blogs and "superficial" blog uses, so overall probably helping in terms of substance and quality.
- Randy Holloway
from twhirl
@randy, so it's keeping those that shouldn't blog too busy to post ;-)
- Richard A.
Both Twitter and FriendFeed are sources for information. If you know how to use them, it can enhance your blog. So I don't think Twitter nor FriendFeed are blog killers. I'd say it's the opposite.
- Umit Namli
I don't think so. Two very different media encouraging different types of interface. I think they are complimentary rather than antagonistic.
- Martha
For me FF did (Twitter not so much) -- I used blogging as a catharsis and found FF fufilled that need so I stopped blogging - http://friendfeed.com/e...
- Brian Sullivan
twitter enhances blogging it creates conversations , it stimulates ideas , people share knowledge
- johnpiercy
Umit: it's always worth remembering that media doesn't just serve as source of information, but also engagement through entertainment. People like commenting, because it entertains.
- Ian Betteridge
from twhirl
True Ian.Guess it all depends on how you use Twitter and FriendFeed. But if you'd ask me "Is Twitter killing blogs and blogging", my answer would be "No".
- Umit Namli
Robert - Twitter is a Micro Blog and it gets people talking. This is good for society. I don't believe Twitter hurts blogging - it just enhances it.
- Rob Cairns
Doesn't this depend on how people are using this? I liken this to CNN Headline News vs. The Newshour with Jim Leher...if you want the quick hit of info. to share and/or discover, Twitter is a great platform; alternatively, if you want to dive into a deeper conversation, research, experience, blogs play that role.
- Christian
Robert, Madagascar is going through troubles now. So many people are awaiting for news but events are feeding too fast: Malagasy people is discovering Twitter and FriendFeed's power as writing blog articles take long time and you need to find many infos in ONE page. You can visit http://twitter.com/Madagas... and http://friendfeed.com/rooms...
- Thierry R. Andriamirado
I usually don't have time to maintain my old blog, but I think twitter allows me to share to the community anyway. Combining twitter with sites that allow for comments and discussions give me more value than posting a blog that hardly anyone reads...
- Frode Stenstrøm
I am cowed into speechlessness.
- Moses Kpetigo
I post my tweets on my blog so I see it as an adjunct.
- Phil Boiarski
so twitter as blogging is therefore committing suicide ~ ie this person's next blog post. Ie. someone missed the mark by a long shot.
- sofarsoShawn
I think that it is. It has killed my blogs. Twitter is a lot more interactive and fun.
- Adam Jackson
Twitter is interactive live blogging but I won't say it's killing blogging. Twitter is to blogging what a video clip is to a feature film.
- Donald Townsend
from twhirl
How the Bogus War between Google and Twitter/Friendfeed begins http://friendfeed.com/e...
- ewing2001akaNicomedy2010
Killing blogging, no way. I personally think its taking blogging to an all new level. Not only can you promote blogs on twitter, the readers can now interact with you in a entirely new way. Twitter fills the cracks that the blog leaves behind.
- Sloan Bowman
I've dabbled with "full-blown" blogging but most days don't have the time to write "essays". Or anything to say that's worth that number of words. I like Twitter for its immediacy and the way it makes you express the thought succinctly. Equally I like FF for being somewhere between the two. "Medium" blogging rather than full blown or micro. It's a mood thing yanno.
- CdL Creative
Twitter is blogging -- just 140 chars per chunk.
- David Feng
If we agree that the predominant consumption of blogs is via RSS (as opposed to visiting the site) - then blogs are indeed being superceded (by all the tools that allow you to share media - whether Twitter, Digg, Youtube or Seesmic). They all end up being posts in an RSS feed mashed and consumed in increasingly sophisticated ways.
- Jim
the one evolution that social networking services like FriendFeed and Twitter have over blogs is that we really can't see who's interested in our stuff. we can track RSS views, but we've no idea who they are.
- Jason Salas
from IM
Jason very true.. no easy way to monetize and measure. Athough I think Friendfeed has the right idea with its stats feature and this may be a the next step for Google Analytics/Feedburner. Perhaps this is why the growth and popularity of social network is proportional to the richness and openness of the their APIs.
- Jim
Jim - the closer we get the traditional media demographic data, coupled with the new metrics, the real value of social apps will really shine through
- Jason Salas
The days of stand-alone blogs as a primary revenue source are over
- Bob Sonin
Watching LOST. Question: If you were stuck on a desert island with a lifetime's supply of cereal, which cereal would you want it to be?
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Fruit Loops
- Outsanity
Fruity Pebbles
- Andru Edwards
Honney Nut Cheerios (with extra honey and a lifetime supply of bananas... and milk of course or some productive cows).
- Adrian
Peanut Butter Cap'n Crunch
- Rob Haas
Bear Naked's Banana Nut
- Shevonne
Travian Cereals ^^
- Baptiste Cadiou
from twhirl
Quaker Oat Squares
- cjmart
I didn't say there was going to be any milk, mind you...
- l0ckergn0me
What about cows?
- Adrian
Fruit Loops work with or without milk
- Outsanity
Cap'n Crunch needs milk, otherwise it's a mouth destroyer.
- Rob Haas
That's what she said!
- Outsanity
Honey Bunches of Oats with Real Strawberries http://www.amazon.com/Post-Bu...
- Rodfather
Gotta stick with HNC even without milk (or cows)... incidentally they make great alarm systems if you disperse them properly about the defense perimeter, though may not work on smoke monsters.
- Adrian
its gotta be Crunchy Nut Cornflakes
- Jez Arnold
Honey Bunches of Oats FTW!
- Eric Florenzano
plain old cornflakes. am a bit old fashioned ;)
- denise
Frosties, so I have a permanent sugar-rush. ;-)
- Kol Tregaskes
from twhirl
Cornflakes for me too
- Nia
I hate to be the harbinger of bad news, but you're all wrong. Alpen is the correct answer.
- Chris Nixon
I'd have "Get me the hell out of here-O's" or Weetbix. Not because Weetbix is good to eat, but I'm pretty sure you could make a raft out of it.
- Will Higgins™
My favorite cereals are the Cinnamon Toast Crunch and the Resse Peanut Butter Cup cereal. God, those are sugary.
- Will Higgins™
I refuse to answer unless there's also a lifetime's supply of MILK
- Bwana ☠
golden grahams
- Bren -- feeling merry
Froot loops
- Yolanda
Honey Nut Cheerios!!!
- Mark Layton
Life!
- Nurse Katie
My wife's homemade granola
- Brian Sullivan
Rasin Bran
- David Cook
from fftogo
Dharma cereal of course ;)
- Mlibrarianus
honey bunches of oats. gots to love the nutty clusters.
- vicky
Wheetabix
- Steve Garfield
from twhirl
Which cereal has a boat as the prize?
- Morton Fox
Practicality gets me here... I'd have to say Granola since it would be the most nutritious.
- Fa La La La Lindsay
Sugar corn pops.
- Alex Scoble
Cap'n Crunch for sure.
- Lindsay
haha i love that question. if milk and sugar is included then id chose Ready Break. if not there Cheerio's
- ♥ Stephiepooos ♥
Cocoa pebbles
- Pete Delucchi
Lucky Charms is my favorite, but I'd probably get sick of it fast... so maybe Life Cereal would last longer.
- Trish Haley
Apple Jacks! - dang now I want some...
- Anna Lynn M.
Honey Bunches of Oats
- Jason Shultz
from twhirl
Kix
- Uncle CW™
It's my birthday weekend, looking forward to having some fun with the family.
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Happy birthday weekend! Enjoy.
- Peter van Teeseling
Well Happy Birthday Robert!
- Uncle CW™
Happy birthday Robert, have a wonderul weekend!
- Ginger Kenney
Birthday? Well, many felicitations. Have a good one!
- WorldofHiglet
Have a great birthday, Robert. Saw it on Facebook, and was just in GMail where I saw your status. But it makes the most sense to say so here!
- Louis Gray
Happy Birthday, Robert!
- Lisa L. Seifert
Have a happy birthday:-)
- Brandon Mendelson
Hey have a Happy Birthday, Robert!
- MVB (Grinch of FF)
Thanks everyone! No need to wish me a happy birthday. Go do something nice for someone else.
- Robert Scoble
بیا شمع ها رو فوت کن که صد سال زنده باشییییییییی
- Mahyaa مهیا
Party like it's 1999, hope you have a great weekend!
- michael sean wright
Happy birthday !
- Selma
Happy birthday! And thanks a lot for everithing you do for us!
- X-Man
Happy Birthday =)
- Hisham Sadek هشام
Happy Birthday, Robert Scoble!
- Josh Haley
Does live streaming three different sports events count as something nice? :-)
- Richard A.
Happy Birthday! (hey, I didn't even need a satellite truck to tell you that now did I ;)
- Micah Wittman
Richard: I think that counts, yes.
- Robert Scoble
Happy Birthday!
- Andrew
Enjoy your birthday!
- Kevin Bondelli
Happy birthday. Send us all some birthday cake.
- Michael McGimpsey
from twhirl
Happy B-day Robert!
- Jeff P. Henderson
Just our of curiosity, what new gadget would you like for your birthday? (have a great one!)
- Orli Yakuel
I'll take a guess, 5D MkII?
- Jeff P. Henderson
Happy Bday Dude!! All da Best $$$ in 2009!!
- Billy Warhol
Just for that I will click on your affiliate link - Happy Birthday!
- Jesse Stay
HBd!
- ·[▪_▪]·
Happy Birthday and have fun with your family. (edited for content)
- Robert Miller
And of course you celebrate getting ready for your next trip around the sun
- Richard A.
happy b.day enjoy ur wknd
- eric
Happy birthday!
- Karoli
happy birthday
- Svein Håvard Djupvik
happy bday!
- Randy Ksar
from twhirl
Happy Birthday, Robert! :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
Happy Birthday Robert! Cheers!
- Phil G
Habby Birthday Robert!
- Peter Efland
Happy birthday ! Have a good weekend.
- Thomas Bøhm
Happy birthday!
- Toni @ NavinoT
Ditto what everyone else said. Well, except for that one guy.
- Kevin Leroux
"iyiki doğdun"(TR) yazalım biz de bari :)
- Volkan Yılmaz ٩(●̮̮̃•̃)۶
Happy Birthday! My husband's was the 16th. Eat cake, don't share.
- Janet
Happy Birthday!
- Todd Jordan
Happy birthday :)
- Niki Costantini
happy birthday :)
- Baard @ Pixum
Happy Bday weekend!!
- Sebastiaan van den Akker
Although been said many times before, Happy Birthday and enjoy your weekend! (my oldest's birthday is this Tuesday)
- Martha
Happy Birthday!!
- Jen
Well Happy Birthday... step aaaa-way from the internet.
- Sean
Happy Birthday old man. At least there are a few people left on the internet older than me! :P
- Chrimmus Tad
Happy Birthday!
- Bob Starr
Happy Bday!
- codeamuk
Happy birthday!
- Merry Xmas FFeeders - AJ
Happy Birthday
- Johnny Worthington
Happy Birthday weekend!
- Nation Hahn
Happy b-day Robert! And relax damn it.
- Mathew™ one of a kind
Happy Birthday!
- James Ferguson
Same here, Scoble :)
- George Tziralis
Happy Birthday, Robert. Stay 39 forever! ;)
- Robert W. Anderson
from twhirl
Happy Birthday. Hope the weekend is great ...
- Patrick Jordan
Happy Birthday Robert! Enjoy!
- Spyros Papaspyropoulos
from twhirl
Have a Happy Birthday
- Warner Crocker
Today is also my father's birthday. Hope you both have a happy one!
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
Happy Birthday!
- Adam Singer
Well Happy Birthday, Robert.
- Christopher Harley
have fun!!!
- Mystika
Happy B'Day Scobelizer!
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Me too! Today 1/17. The big 4 Oh!
- Tony Vota
Happy birthday form the Heart of Texas-College Station, TX
- Shoukat Dharani
Damn I heard you already got a Kindle so...it's just Big Happy Birthday for You!!!
- sofarsoShawn
Happy Birthday, Robert
- Dennis E. Hamilton
from twhirl
ha :) http://go2.me/UV Happy Birthday !
- Orli Yakuel
Congrats to friendfeed on winning Crunchie startup of the year!! We are in Vegas celebrating!!!!!
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Congratulations! We started the party early :)
- Karoli
Congratulations and enjoy the celebration everyone!
- Nicholas Kreidberg
Have a great time over there!
- Adriana
Right on!! way to gooo !!!!!!!
- Susan Beebe
w00t!
- Merry Xmas FFeeders - AJ
Congrats to the FriendFeed team. Hope to see some cool new things from FriendFeed this year.
- Rolf Schewe
Congrats!
- ronin
I'm celebrating the Scoble Puppet!
- mandyvan
@Mandy o_O?
- MVB (Grinch of FF)
Congratulations!
- Rob Michael (Atmos Trio)
Thanks to @scoble for winning the award for FF
- Admiral70
There was a Scoble Puppet on the Live Ustream of Crunchies. It said it was him, said funny stuff about the nominees not being based on primary colors in their logo, tweets by employees, it was cute.
- mandyvan
As long as it wasn't naked...
- WorldofHiglet
What were the odds, and how much did you win?
- Jesse Stay
Yeah, congrats to FriendFeed!
- Chris, Taskerrific Guy
Woohoo!!!!
- Fa La La La Lindsay
Way to go, Congratulations! Long live friendfeed!!!
- Rodney
So jealous, but happy for ya! ... it's only right that the "uber user" Scoble! is celebrating with FF startup team!
- Susan Beebe
I wish I was there with you all!!!
- David Cook
Congrats!!
- George The Writer
Awesome!
- Mitchell Tsai
*crunch* *crunch* *crunch*
- ·[▪_▪]·
Wow! That's very exciting! Congratulations, Friendfeed! :-)
- Pat Graham Block
sound like fun.
- Orli Yakuel
It's nice being vindicated in one's certainty that a piece of software really is as innovative and valuable as you knew it was.
- Sean McBride
don't let them celebrate too long, get them back to work ;)
- Joelle Nebbe (iphigenie)
Congratulations
- Varun Mahajan
I want to be in Vegas celebrating too!
- Kelly W.
I partied in Chicago, while THINKING about FriendFeed. In spirit guys, in spirit.
- Alex Wilhelm (FF BLOWS)
awesome. FF is my FFavorite
- Mattb4rd
I LOVe FriendFeed - but it takes up way too much time
- Ric Johnson
If you want more followers on Twitter and friendfeed here's what to do:
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1. Stop begging for followers. It turns off all the interesting people.
- Robert Scoble
2. RT smart people's stuff but add onto it with a good comment.
- Robert Scoble
3. If you have something smart to say, say it to someone directly like "Hey @techcrunch you should check out the new Palm Pre."
- Robert Scoble
I now await the inevitable flood of "RTs" of this message ;-)
- Warren
4. Send wine or other bribes to people who make lots of noise.
- Robert Scoble
Sounds like someone's running low on wine :)
- Eric Florenzano
5. If you are friends with a real celebrity bring them around at blogger/twitter parties. Make sure you get them to follow you and remember your name. All good twitterers have iPhones or other phones that they can tweet from.
- Robert Scoble
6. Put your twitter and friendfeed addresses on your business cards.
- Robert Scoble
7. Talk shit about Eric Florenzano. :-)
- Robert Scoble
Ok, well that's *someone's* blog done for tomorrow, then! :)
- WorldofHiglet
8. Follow people back if they add value. 1938media has added 1,000 new followers since he started following everyone back.
- Robert Scoble
What kind of wine goes with bribe? Did you ask GaryVee while in Vegas?
- Dave Cadoff
9. Talk shit about that Scoble dude. Yeah, me. Sometimes it gets a link and a follow. Especially if you teach me something while you are calling me an idiot.
- Robert Scoble
LOL *hands Robert a bottle of wine* Please add the "don't pout or make a twitter fuss when you notice someone drops you. Insecurity isn't a attraction"
- Sprite
10. Be interesting. Craig Newmark got hundreds of follows in first evening (I was the first to follow him) after I tweeted about him. Why? Because he was interesting already.
- Robert Scoble
Remember it's not about the followers - it's about the relationships. Your purpose of having many followers should be so you can build relationships with as many of them as possible.
- Jesse Stay
11. Do something sensational like tatoo your twitter address onto your face.
- Robert Scoble
BTW, (real-life) relationships then bring more followers
- Jesse Stay
Wine? Bribe? Anything will get noticed. Better yet, put a custom label on it and include your Twitter address on it.
- Robert Scoble
Liked for the 'talk shit about Scoble'. Also, Scoble, do you accept Mead?
- Will Higgins™
12. Hang out with Jesse Stay. Better yet, bring him to Twitter's headquarters for an interview (that's what I did and it worked).
- Robert Scoble
I've tried to do everything on this list, but the tattoo isn't going to work. I've already branded my twitter address onto several steers.
- Mike Nayyar
13. Stalk Guy Kawasaki until he calls the cops on you or follows you.
- Robert Scoble
14. Get naked. Take pictures. Include your Twitter address.
- Robert Scoble
er - we've seen most of your body, Robert, so where's *your* tatoo?
- WorldofHiglet
15. Tweet from a burning plane.
- Robert Scoble
16. Tweet from jail.
- Robert Scoble
17. Tweet your marriage proposal.
- Robert Scoble
Robert, so you're saying I got you more followers?
- Jesse Stay
18. Tweet you are dying.
- Robert Scoble
19. Be a member of congress, or better yet, Barack Obama.
- Robert Scoble
This would loose me followers. Trust me on this. It would also get me a few lawsuits I think. :D
- MarkCarras
this is going to go on for like...days...isn't it :P
- Erin @queenofspain
Jesse: hanging out with you made me far cooler than I was previously.
- Robert Scoble
If I'm gonna get naked, I've got to have some sort of revenue coming in. At least enough to buy a netbook with.
- MiniMage TKDteacher of FF
Write a FriendFeed post about how to get others to follow you
- Jesse Stay
20. Get your picture on the Twitter blog. (Actually that didn't work that well because they didn't include my Twitter address). Heheh.
- Robert Scoble
be yourself and those that fit with you will follow? or at least seem a certain way for that audience?
- David
21. Tweet while having sex. Or getting drunk. Or, better yet, doing both.
- Robert Scoble
Robert, no, I must say I became much cooler hanging out with you
- Jesse Stay
Will: Mead? Absolutely!
- Robert Scoble
Jesse: that's what you think. Ask your real friends and they will probably tell you otherwise. :-)
- Robert Scoble
22. get on Leo Laporte's show and have him order his listeners to follow you. He did this last Sunday to my son and you should have seen the followers roll in. That dude has POWER!!!
- Robert Scoble
Robert, I asked them and they said you're the man
- Jesse Stay
23. Get @garyvee to take you wine tasting. Tweet it.
- Robert Scoble
24. Write a book about Twitter.
- Robert Scoble
naked pictures drunk sex and dying. got it. Oh, also, be Barack Obama. ANything else?
- Erin @queenofspain
25. Get Chris Brogan to say you are smart.
- Robert Scoble
Be hot and make sure your avatar shows it
- Chris Saad
WTF how pathetic do u have to be tohave this desire to be followed.Ppl follow u cuz they find u interesting & if not they will dump u period.Being a Personal Ball washer is just lame to get to have followers.be sure to hold ur ground.
- Baba
26. Get into an argument with @techcrunch.
- Robert Scoble
I've mentioned my Twitter account on The Tech Guy but I think my last name throws people. :D
- MarkCarras
27. Question @loic's Frenchness.
- Robert Scoble
Go to breakfast with @techcrunch and he tweets about it randomly
- Chris Saad
"Have Scoble say you are interesting." Just worked for a few people I am going to "try follow".
- Dean Clark
Erin, welcome to Twitter ;-)
- Jesse Stay
28. Be like Baba and call everyone who worries about being followed an idiot. Or 28B. Agree with Baba. Personally, he's right!
- Robert Scoble
Tell any blogger they're wrong
- Jesse Stay
29. Claim you are above this stupid game.
- Robert Scoble
Quit Twitter, come back after 2 months
- Jesse Stay
All bloggers are wrong at least every few posts. Especially me! :D
- MarkCarras
30. Follow more interesting people. That's why I've said for a year now it's most important who you follow, not who is following you. What I really was trying to say there is if you want better followers you've got to follow better people.
- Robert Scoble
lol Jesse. Twitter? What's that? I thought I was learning how to sell a shamwow
- Erin @queenofspain
What kind of wine are we talking here?
- Chris Poirier
Mark, you bet, but we are all type-A personalities. We hate to be told we're wrong and will defend it to our dying day. :)
- Jesse Stay
31: Give away something. Hold a contest.
- Robert Scoble
Launch a great Twitter service and stick your twitter name in the footer
- Chris Saad
32. Invite Louis Gray over for dinner. Make sure he brings his twins. Take pictures. 1000 extra points if you bring shirts for the twins with your Twitter address on them.
- Robert Scoble
be in a warzone and don't die
- Simon T Small
33. Do something outrageous for followers.
- Robert Scoble
Start a thread going on and on about it on FriendFeed :)
- Chris Saad
imagine what'd happen if you had sex with Obama on a burning plane heading for a warzone, whilst drunk, and piloting the plane?
- Simon T Small
@Simon ROFL too funny
- Chris Saad
34. Chris Saad is right. Speaking of Chris, if you party with him in Amsterdam you'll get more followers. Oh, and if you are the guy who wrote http://www.twittervision.com you'll get more followers.
- Robert Scoble
Take a pic down a girls shirt and post it on FF.
- David
Not 'Chris Saad' robert - @ChrisSaad :D
- Chris Saad
Get in with the Mommy Bloggers and #GNO Tweeps
- Jesse Stay
35. Get your Twitter address on CNN. UPDATE: Hey, Chris Saad here you have to put http://www.friendfeed.com/chrissa... heheh.
- Robert Scoble
Good call Jesse, I was going to say piss off the mommybloggers , but getting in with them works too...lol
- Erin @queenofspain
I've had 2 new FriendFeed followers just from this thread.
- Jesse Stay
Follow Garry Vee (don't ask me to spell his full name out at this time of night, please?) what kind of wine goes with Twittering. *lol* Well, Gary Vee is THE wine expert on Twitter. :P
- Molly, "sorry"
be Robert Scoble
- Simon T Small
36. Jesse Stay found a new one: comment on lots of friendfeed threads!
- Robert Scoble
@simontsmall post your Twitter feed here http://twitter.com/simonts...
- Simon T Small
Erin, it is my goal to be King of the Mommy bloggers
- Jesse Stay
Follow just 1 online multi-level marketer and you'll has a ton start following you
- Paul Povolni
I buy dinner for anyone who comes to my area and contacts me through Twitter...and is following me. :D
- MarkCarras
I find that not following people back increases the rate at which I gain followers
- Simon T Small
Simon: being Robert Scoble is pretty hard. You've gotta keep coming up with new ways to find followers. It's easier to call him an asshole on twitter. Even better, call him, TechCrunch, 1938media, JasonCalacanis, Guy Kawasaki, and a few other people assholes.
- Robert Scoble
37. Jeremiah Owyang found this one: stop Twittering.
- Robert Scoble
I'm amazed I don't get called an asshole more often. I think this should be my New Years Resolution. :D
- MarkCarras
38. Follow someone, then when they don't follow you back, call them out on it and say they are lame.
- Robert Scoble
Robert: haha! I'll try it now :)
- Simon T Small
39. Come up with a new Twitter game. Get it retweeted by Chris Brogan.
- Robert Scoble
Make a real funny stream on Friendfeed, but better yet put it on your blog so SEO really gathers people to it and put your Friendfeed/Twitter handles right in the post
- Ian D. Nock
40. Pay Magpie to spam everyone with your Twitter address.
- Robert Scoble
41. Go to Gnomedex.
- Robert Scoble
Oh don't tell people to talk shit about you. It's kinda sad to see people talking crap about you, then when you're some place they are, they turn all fanboy.
- Admiral Anika
Robert: wait, not change in plans, I don't hate those people, damn it!
- Simon T Small
No one gets to be King of the mommybloggers until I deem it so dammit
- Erin @queenofspain
42. Hang out with @newmediajim at the Inauguration.
- Robert Scoble
I figured it out before Jeremiah: http://staynalive.com/article...
- Jesse Stay
43. Hang out with Hillary Clinton in Davos (my dream).
- Robert Scoble
Erin, but I thought you were the Queen of Spain
- Jesse Stay
44. Come up with a new set of rules for Twitter behavior.
- Robert Scoble
Oh boy, Mr. Scoble. I hope you are not Tweeting while getting drunk and having sex... Poor Mommy and son... Some things need to stay sacred. Do you really want the world at large to know what you are doing at all times? Quit goofing and send us more tech info we enjoy. Great videos from CES by the way. I even got my partner to come and watch some of them. Thanks for the good stuff!
- Colleen
45. Get more followers on Facebook then get them all to join you on Twitter.
- Robert Scoble
46. Be @god. Even better. Be @god and hand out beta invites to something cool coming soon.
- Robert Scoble
Colleen: I didn't say I use all these ideas. But I've seen them work on other people. :-)
- Robert Scoble
Don't forget the with @mchammer part
- Jesse Stay
Give a talk at a geek event and make sure you give out your Twitter name for feedback
- Chris Saad
47. Twitter the birth of your new baby (high risk, if you aren't there mentally during contractions you might see your iPhone thrown across the room).
- Robert Scoble
Pay @MrTweet to recommend you to everyone
- Chris Saad
48. Tweet exclusive Apple news before anyone else does.
- Robert Scoble
49. Be the first to retweet a big earthquake tweet.
- Robert Scoble
Got any more?
- Robert Scoble
Throw popularity out the window and somehow measure influence (stay tuned) :)
- Chris Saad
Make a list of ways to get more followers.
- Scott Kingery
change your name to your @twitter handle
- Simon T Small
Chris: hah, even better, have so many followers already that you break MrTweet. :-)
- Robert Scoble
50. Post cleavage pictures of yourself with your Twitter name plastered on the picture CLASSY!
- Mona Nomura
Ustream the birth of your new baby (even higher risk, but at least you have proof): http://www.ustream.tv/blog...
- Jesse Stay
51. Follow everyone then unfollow as soon as you get a follow - follow that?
- Mona Nomura
Chris: Influence is gold, like it, am tuned
- Simon T Small
This post alone lets me see the value of FriendFeed over Twitter for conversations. Glad the list above isn't documentation of your personal twitter conquest, but a record of some of the looneyness of Twitter follower greediness
- Paul Povolni
52. Move to SF and go to every. single. Tweet-up! YAY HOW FUN!
- Mona Nomura
Be Warren Buffett or similar.
- Moushumi Kabir
Scott: I don't know that this list helped me that much. But, how about a list of things that will get rid of followers? I bet that one would work better.
- Robert Scoble
53. Set text alerts for Brightkite and follow all the huge Tweeter's comings and goings - show up and SUBTLY introduce yourself so you'll be name dropped. Keyword = SUBTLY
- Mona Nomura
54. Go to every single conference and shamelessly pass out your Twitter in lieu of email!
- Mona Nomura
Streak at the Supebowl with your twitter name on your front and back(side)
- Simon T Small
Be a default on FriendFeed
- Jesse Stay
Nice to see this list here instead of scattered across oblivion---I mean Twitter...
- Rob Michael (Atmos Trio)
use http://search.twitter.com to find people that like what you like, @reply them and RT their stuff. :)
- Simon T Small
Jesse: that only used to work. There are no defaults on friendfeed anymore. In fact, if you don't have any friends it won't recommend anyone to you.
- Robert Scoble
Name drop as much as you can and do whatever it takes to get written up on ValleyWag (wow, I've learned a lot in six months!)
- Mona Nomura
Get Robert Scoble to tweet that he can't believe what's going on at your birthday party even though it was a tame house party with friends
- Chris Saad
Tell people to NOT follow you. I mean it. Don't.
- Andrew Smith
Get your name on Alltop
- Jesse Stay
another posting sponsored by Palm *yawn*
- Dieter Schwarz
from Nambu
Post a bajillion pictures of your kids, pets, and more kids.
- Mona Nomura
Make sure you participate in every. single. Robert post and name drop him as much as possible. ;)
- Mona Nomura
Mona, great one - Kids, Dogs, and Kittenz - Bacon, too
- Jesse Stay
@Dieter if a post was sponsored by anyone scoble would let u know - trust me
- Chris Saad
Go to every. single. event and take + post as many. pictures. as you can w/ the "famous" people and PING.FM THOSE PICTURES!
- Mona Nomura
Here's a novel idea - Have something interesting to say and focus on producing value instead of your follower count :)
- Chris Saad
Mona, Facebook and Flickr tag them as well
- Jesse Stay
Always respond to people with an "@" ie: @scobelizer WOW this thread RULES - since you never know what Google's indexing!
- Mona Nomura
Dieter: Huh? If anything this post would be sponsored by Seagate. You can follow them at http://friendfeed.com/seagate (Seagate sponsors my video show, not my friendfeed account).
- Robert Scoble
Mona: 'post famous pictures' Love it. Works a charm on facebook.
- Simon T Small
i have a new one: use Browser bugs to greet your blogvisitors with their twittername http://is.gd/eMdF @andreasklinger
- Andreas Klinger
Chris: having something interesting to say? No, that couldn't work, could it? I'd rather talk about my followers. :-)
- Robert Scoble
Retweet this thread (no, that's not a request, it's an idea)
- Jesse Stay
Robert: U do both so its all good :)
- Chris Saad
Chris Saad: yer talkin crazy with that last one. Focus on content? Insanity.
- Scott Kingery
55: Dieter reminded me of one more: talk about products that already have Twitter accounts. When I talked about HR Block they followed me. So did Ford. So did Zappos.
- Robert Scoble
56. Don't auto-DM followers just follow them back or RT their next tweet
- Damian Holmes
Get a tshirt made with your twitter name on it...
- Luke Harvey-Palmer
Find a unique thing that you can help another Twitter user on - the bigger the user, the better. Fix their problem.
- Jesse Stay
So did @HeavyAsHell Oh wait, that's my site. :D
- MarkCarras
57. post a comment to a robert scoble FF feed
- Damian Holmes
Luke: T-shirts are so common. How about shoes? Jeans? Underwear? Don Box used to have his company logo on underwear. Called them "Boxer shorts." I still remember those, even though I've forgotten all the lame Tshirts I've ever gotten.
- Robert Scoble
Only a slut is going to be able to advertise well with branded underwear
- MiniMage TKDteacher of FF
Compete for the most followers on Twitter - didn't Leo and Calacanis do that at one time? (or am I getting the contenders wrong?)
- Jesse Stay
58. write your twitter name on your eyelids then go to a tweetup or large tech conference
- Damian Holmes
MiniMage: not true. Don Box is no slut. He now runs a team at Microsoft.
- Robert Scoble
Spam FF with your useful knowledge
- WorldofHiglet
Be an early adopter - be one of the first, get in early, and build a follow base early
- Jesse Stay
Another one? Take pictures of Twitter users and follow them. They almost always follow back.
- Robert Scoble
I aint never heard of Don Box, and that means I didn't see that underwear! ;). No, seriously, I concede, but I had to make a retort.
- MiniMage TKDteacher of FF
This thread is my bucket list.
- Eric Florenzano
I think a good way to make more friends is to live an interesting life. Life is a journey. You meet people just around every corner. Twitter happens to be one of them.
- Helge V. Keitel
Build up and help out a non-A list, but up-and-coming A or B list Twitter user or blogger. They will be more appreciative (it's those people that like the shirts and swag).
- Jesse Stay
Tweet something like this: "I'm looking for funny people to follow, do you know any?"
- Robert Scoble
Never sleep
- Jesse Stay
#ces09 hash #mwsf09 tags #cwc09 use #sxsw09 them #snl as #jackiepetersspawn much · #gaza as #hiphop possible #burritos every #dubstep other #microblogging word = KEY (relevance matters not)
- Mona Nomura
Get @gapingvoid to use your twitter address in one of his cartoons (he designed my business cards and you would be amazed how well that works).
- Robert Scoble
@Mona use a hot suggestive silhouette as your avatar - that alwasy helps too
- Chris Saad
Mona you are *so* followed
- Jesse Stay
Take Louis Gray to a Vodka bar. You might not get any followers, but you will have a good time and he doesn't drink so you'll have a safe drive home, too!
- Robert Scoble
follow A, B, C, D, E, F, X and Z listers
- Damian Holmes
Create a custom T-shirt with "I Love Your Stream" (mine) on front(or your own words) and your Twitter name on back. I did it with @crypticfragment at zazzle.com. Still waiting for it. I didn't put twitter name on back though, should have, but not trying to gain HUGE followers, just the ones that would like to hear about furniture,interior design and eco home stuff! I put: twitter:FTW, on the back.
- Leslie Carothers
Robert, not to mention get on the front of Valleywag
- Jesse Stay
I keep hiding this but it doesn't stay hidden. :(
- Mona Nomura
Follow the Top 500 in your City then Top 500 in your Country that's at least 500 follow backs
- Damian Holmes
Jesse: I find that I get a lot of followers by keeping the A list on the A list. Who wants to deal with those assholes if they fall onto the B list?
- Robert Scoble
I'm with @garyvee & how he encourages us to *execute the best YOU* - don't try to be anyone else but the *best* you... your passionate self. Peeps who resonate with you will follow. And for sure add value, retweet good resources, build peeps up, thank those who comment on your blog & RT you.
- Mari Smith
58. Post to a list to get people to follow you. such as the one explaining how to get people to follow you...
- Sheraz Mahmood
ROFL Robert!
- Jesse Stay
share links to awesome blog posts
- Simon T Small
Sheraz Mahmood I just tried that, thought i'd do something, but 10 minutes later and nothing *cries*
- Simon T Small
59. Be the center of the universe...the rest will follow
- Sheraz Mahmood
Unnecessarily talk about iPhones.
- Mona Nomura
Start browser wars.
- Mona Nomura
Re-Tweet all of Tech Crunch's posts.
- Mona Nomura
Start Steve Jobs rumors
- Mona Nomura
Name drop Hollywood celebrities even if you don't know them.
- Mona Nomura
By the way, I'm following everyone who has participated on this so far. Why? Because only geeks would be online on a Saturday night and I want to follow all the geeks. So, everyone here has at least one follower on friendfeed.
- Robert Scoble
write a dramatic post about a family from Romania with a child with down syndrome and ask people to donate money.
- Simon T Small
Robert: You'll need to unfollow me, its 6pm Sunday here in Aussieland, so I'm not a commited geek sorry
- Simon T Small
Robert: Gotta do something while Windows 7 downloads :)
- Scott Kingery
Haha!! So busted - very good point re your last comment, Robert. Thank goodness for fab understanding spouses is all I say. hehe
- Mari Smith
60. Get on FriendFeed and Twitter super early and become de facto popular. And yes, #32 is a must.
- Louis Gray
Robert: were not all in Silicon Valley - its 16:30 in China - (awaiting the flames or unfollows - which is worst?)
- Damian Holmes
... and always listen to Scoble! Ha-ha. Robert, we admire you!
- Alan Kodzasov
Another tip: Don't live in Australia nearly NOBODY here is on Twitter
- Simon T Small
Compliment the crap out of "A-listers" and always laugh at all of their jokes. Make sure to add at least seven exclamation points. ie:"LOL!!!!!!!!!!" to stand out from the crowd.
- Mona Nomura
Note: above only works if you participate in every. single. one of their posts on both Twitter and FriendFeed!
- Mona Nomura
Mona: absolutely! :-)
- Robert Scoble
Robert: 5:30 pm in Tokyo. I'm pretty much just getting going for the day. :-)
- Ken Brady
Say something that makes a 200 + comment thread ;)
- videopixil
When you send bribes, make sure to research. ie: LG doesn't drink but Robert likes wine. Subtly ask for preferences so they'll get something they actually _like_ <--KEY.
- Mona Nomura
Use Tweetdeck and apply filters to see subjects you are expert in. You'll notice lots of people look for advice in certain fields so you can reply and show your expertise. I notice those people you help are happy and more likely to follow you even if you don't follow them.
- Luca Filigheddu
from fftogo
Have a sense of humor!
- Mona Nomura
@videopixil Of course, that applies to most things Scoble says.
- Ken Brady
@tkpleslie says," Ask people like @scobleizer sincere question about whether Nokia's new phone works for people, like me, that wear hearing aids when's he's in Japan in middle of your night at the actual Nokia conference where phone is being intro'd for first time. He did respond,nicely,but did not follow so I guess it doesn't work too well.
- Leslie Carothers
Send Mona lego art wrapped in bacon. Oh wait, that'll get you friendfeed follows.
- Yuvi
better yet. take Robert AND Louis to a Vodka bar
- Erin @queenofspain
OMG iPhones are SO 2008. Becoming a Palm, Pre, and Nova fanbois = FUTURE
- Mona Nomura
@Mona Humor is key. What better length at which to be witty? Any longer than this and most of us become dull.
- Ken Brady
Robert, I kinda bagged you, with a positive spin, it got me on openzap 'today's best' http://openzap.com/
- Simon T Small
This was before I really understood as @marismith says, that true value in twitter for me is having followers and following those people with intersecting paths because, like in real life, that's how interesting real conversations have a chance to develop into fuller, deeper, more lasting relationships.
- Leslie Carothers
Robert, It's Sunday Morning in Loviisa, Finland ;)
- Helge V. Keitel
Leslie: I did follow you here on friendfeed. I still haven't been able to find out if it works well for hearing impaired. I'm sure it does, though. The speaker phone on that device is pretty darn good.
- Robert Scoble
Speak in SAT verbiage at all times to make yourselves sound smarter.
- Mona Nomura
Never admit: ay kin knot reed end rite... :(
- Mona Nomura
This is a great list Robert, I love making new friends. All those awful things people are saying about you must be wrong - aren't they? -]
- Chris Loft
Post YouTube clips of classical music to make yourself seem more cultured.
- Mona Nomura
Share everythign popular on digg because if it's on digg, it MUST be cool.
- Mona Nomura
stop following people who post about following and follow people who don't try...
- Ryan
mention yourself on Scobles friendfeed (@mattrendo)
- Matt Rendo
Keep up with memes since everyone wants to hear what's been repeated on the web a trillion times without contributing a new opinion. ie: CES looks cool.
- Mona Nomura
All great points. I've always hated requests for follows. I'm only attempting something like it for charity. In that instance, those who do the same should be very clear about WHY they want followers in the first place. Otherwise it looks like you're just in it for yourself.
- Brandon Mendelson
@mattrendo, already been said up there! But you FAIL since you forgot the hashtag: #scoblizerrulesOMGWTFBACON.
- Mona Nomura
Chris Loft: everything said about me is absolutely true! :-)
- Robert Scoble
So it's true that you have huge... giant... socks?
- Chris Saad
Thanks for the follow here on FriendFeed, Robert. I know this is where you interact. But,because home base for me is Twitter, I never saw your follow here until I went to comment on this thread! It's too much for me to constantly go back and forth and also keep up with work, life,friends and family.How do you guys do it? Thanks, tho, Robert,for letting me know. I learn from you ALL the time.
- Leslie Carothers
I really am not obsessed with more followers. Sure I appreciated them as much as the next person. It is not a popularity contest for my use case. Hence, I will never be a "Top 100" person on Twitter. ;)
- Rodney Rumford
If it's on the Internet, it is ALWAYS true, Robert. ;)
- Mona Nomura
Try to explain yourself out of being a geek when you really are
- Jesse Stay
I am indeed a failure, all the more reason to follow me... and that BACON Mona N. mentioned
- Matt Rendo
Get Robert Scoble to Foreward/Afterword your book for you
- Jesse Stay
@Jesse I'm incapable of explaining myself out of being a geek. Better to embrace it.
- Ken Brady
61: Add on to a Robert Scoble numbered list with an incrementally interesting item.
- Steve Garfield
Bacon IS the future, Matt!
- Mona Nomura
Is this the biggest thread ever on FriendFeed?
- Eric Florenzano
Get Rodney Rumford to Foreward/Afterword your book for you
- Jesse Stay
This is an EPIC thread. Thank you Robert and THANK YOU INTERNET!
- Mona Nomura
62: Follow Steve Garfield in a Scoble numbered list
- Jesse Stay
I wonder how long it will take Friendfeed to add comment ratings like Digg?
- Simon T Small
Hey Mr. Scoble! You make it sound like a bad thing to be online on a Saturday night. -Mr. Geek ;-P
- Eddie Soto
Refrain from hijacking someone's thread by digressing with bacon - Focus, Matt. FOCUS!
- Mona Nomura
Hilarious thread BTW!!
- Eddie Soto
Content is king!!!!!!! (Mona see, 7)
- Amit Morson
See... Me=failure A sense of humor seems to attract followers too.
- Matt Rendo
Memorize this entire thread by EOD Monday and recite it back to Robert - on video!
- Mona Nomura
Re-Tweet all 264 lines Googleplex times - or until the FailWhale / FailRobot appears.
- Mona Nomura
Talk about how much you love Twitter and Facebook. - dont' forget the hashtags: pound facebook pound twitter.
- Mona Nomura
Jesse. OK. Now I am smiling man... lol. By the way thanks for writing the afterword for my twitter book: Twitter as a Business Tool.
- Rodney Rumford
Deem yourself a Social Network Expert and write a bajillion blog posts on "How to Use Twitter for Business"
- Mona Nomura
Oops. Sorry Rodney. Bad timing... :)
- Mona Nomura
Be consistently random - wait, no, then they will unfollow you :(
- Matt Rendo
Always use emoticons as disclaimers!
- Mona Nomura
What is this thread about?. I forgot by the time I read to the end of it.
- Jim Bednarz
Bash on mattrendo
- Matt Rendo
Always use *this* emoticon: :-)
- WorldofHiglet
Have foot in mouth moments. Oh, wait...
- Mona Nomura
63: Profit!!
- Aaron Baer
Be a spam artist
- Matt Rendo
Follow everyone posting here
- Sheraz Mahmood
back up your success with nothing more than 140 characters
- Sheraz Mahmood
I've noticed that people who start a controversy, especially with a high profile person, get an immediate boost in followers. You'd think it would backfire but it seems to have the opposite effect. Maybe it's the trainwreck factor? People curious what on earth will be said next?
- Liz
Apparently posting on Scoble's Friendfeed works... 6 followers in the last few minutes.
- Matt Rendo
Woah. 278+ comments. Impressive! This is definitely one that will stick on FFholic for a while.
- Phil G
You forgot to add being Karl Rove to the list: http://twitter.com/KarlRov...
- Roberto Bonini
Wondering is anybody will read all these comments. I do believe if twitter doesn't get it together, that a large group will flock out to another destination. ala: Poof!
- Dave
Hey @scobleizer, your post would have been more appropriate on a blog.
- Klaus Alexander Seistrup
Post photos of cute puppies on FriendFeed.
- Amit Morson
To get followers, jump into a Tweetchat "room", get into the convo, follow folks then tell them in the chat room that you are following. For the "Happy09" chat, there were tons of people in there. Better yet, start your own chat/chat meme!
- Jesse P. Luna
@ reply like crazy to let the person know you followed them ie: @Scobleizer HI I FOLLOWED YOU FOLLOW ME BACK repeat until FailWhale/FailRobot shows up.
- Mona Nomura
Well, that's starting to work . . . anyone else getting lots of new friends? . . . and I didn't have to insult anybody. I think I might have to post one of my classical video clips for Mona http://www.youtube.com/watch...
- Chris Loft
Leslie, the N series work v well with the hearing impaired, but the iPhone works even better from my experience FTW!
- Sally Church
One thing that annoys me: people who discuss their follower numbers on twitter. Its just not interesting! I just subscribed to someone and unsubscribed the next day as 4 tweets were about passing 10000 - I'm very glad for you but it is just noise in my feed. Now I understand the feeling - I was amazed the day 100 people followed me (it is all relative :) ) - but it is not necessary to tweet about it.
- Joelle Nebbe (iphigenie)
I was going to send you some Swiss wine Robert, but I was told it doesn't travel well, so drank it myself. Just so you know, it was good :-)
- Paul Shadwell
I'm paling up with several here, in spite of what Mr. Scoble says about Saturday night geeks. -Mr. Geek ;-P
- Eddie Soto
Participate in a Robert Scoble's friendfeed conversation on Saturday night, have him follow you, post the screenshot of him following you
- Bertrand Doux
On the subject of more followers, arrrrrgh! *runs screaming from room.... *
- Sally Church
Tweet about Windows 7(or something equally as interesting), which I'll be doing a lot of in the coming days, It's installing as I type this!
- Kevin Lloyd
Tweet, but don't tweet too much because people apparently don't want to hear from you (or is it just me! ;)) THAT much! :)
- Christopher Kusek
I'm using Windows 7 right now! I've posted tweets and videos of it on YouTube - check it out! http://friendfeed.com/e...
- Will Higgins™
Paul, what's that about swiss wine not travelling so well? It travels beautifully (but you need to get the good ones). It is so hard to find outside Switzerland because the swiss tend to drink all of it.
- Joelle Nebbe (iphigenie)
Liz, I thought that was really funny cos it's Sunday evening here. I'm not some z-list geek sitting here wasting my time on a Saturday night. -[
- Chris Loft
point 4 above is shameless self-plug :) but entertaining :)))
- A.T.
64. Comment on a Robert Scoble list at 2:21 AM in bed becausse you could not sleep
- Tyler (Chacha)
65. Plan to write a blog post on thisentry in the morning
- Tyler (Chacha)
66. Fail at placing a space between in this and entry on a scoble list ( iPod recognizes Scoble as a word and auto completed it)
- Tyler (Chacha)
You guys are awesome by the way.
- Tyler (Chacha)
Tattoo your twitter/friendfeed address on other people.
- Kevin Leroux
lmao!!! great one Robert
- Kaysha
get stuck on a bus in death valley in the middle of the night with robert scoble.
- Christine Lu
Follow an obscure norwegian and get incoherent conversations about whales, blåbærsyltetøy, and the semantic web;) (which may make people curious.. or unfollow you actually..)
- Thomas Bøhm
Get up at 6 am on Sundays if living in Europe because otherwise you miss Robert Scoble's craziest moments and most interesting threads = people *damn* I should have never slept in!
- Gaby K. Slezák
A real one: Upload a sexy picture on your profile or your twitter bg !!
- İbrahim Uzun [ j ]
Claim that Scoble and Techcrunch are simply manufactured entities by a mysterious corporate power using Coke vs. Pepsi tactics to polarize the masses in an effort to conquer the world.
- Bob Starr
RT @scobleizer Robert this is good advice, except I don't see any reference to bodacious tat-tas. ;)
- John Craft
RT @scobleizer Robert wow, your post generated so many comments, is this the most number of comments from a single tweet in Twitter history? Can anyone confirm?
- Alvin
Sorry not Twitter, this is from FriendFeed :)
- Alvin
67. write about stuff you are enthusiastic about and that's only covered by a handful of people yet (like virtual worlds, metaverse) and shamelessly reveal that you are enthusiastic about that in one of the most commented on @scobleizer threads ;-)
- Gaby K. Slezák
stop reading half way but say it was awesome anyway
- Stephen Breen
You forgot about having a whole lot of time on your hands!
- John D Reasor
yet still looking busy kthxbai
- Thomas Bøhm
Stop caring who follows you!
- Elias Bizannes
I can't scroll to the bottom ;-) This list is hilarious! Robert, I'm glad you have been taking notes this whole time!
- Ken Stewart | ChangeForge
Do NOT use the phrase "social media" in your Twitter bio.
- Frank Scavo
"16. Tweet from jail" ahahahahahahaha :)
- Lucio
I knew I should have tweeted from the back of that police van on the stroke of new year's eve, watching the fireworks. And walking away. Walking. With a big grin on my face. We'z not dus photoz. Doh.
- Chris Loft
Write an "unofficial biography of Robert Scoble" and have it published? ;)
- Tyson Key
Post a picture of you with someone famous... http://tinyurl.com/8xbcds
- geekazine
“Scoble's law of unfollows: for everyone who you get on Twitter that says they will unfollow you will get 87 new followers.” http://tinyurl.com/9oahwc
- Tapio Kulmala
Talk about the versatility of bacon - BACON - crisp, tasty BACON
- BEX
Just noticed this is a very dude-heavy thread (not all but mainly) and that I mainly subscribe to guys on FriendFeed. But on Twitter I have about 60/40 men/women Following mix, I think. It was the comments about ta-tas and sexy profile photos that made me realize the difference.
- Liz
Lock Robert Scoble, Mona N, Jesse Stay, Louis Gray, Jason Calacanis and Techcrunch in a room. Only release them when they've retweeted every single of your tweets and told all their followers to follow you!
- Nicholas James
nope its nun of the above; .they are just hacking into your FF account;If you really want more followers on Twitter and friendfeed this is what you do, its...aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah.they got me.
- tomartomartini
Set up a low-wage tweet farmer in China.
- Richard Sprague
Use Jennifer Aniston's cleavage as your avatar.
- Jim Mitchem
omg I go to bed and you people KEEP GOING. unreal.
- Erin @queenofspain
Yep .. I think this has reached the most active discussion .. ever (It past Dave Winer's post which is most discussed in past 30 days)
- Tyler (Chacha)
Come on people! We need to reach 500 comments!
- Tyler (Chacha)
Tweet unto you as you would like to be tweeted.
- iamkhayyam
Create a Robert Scoble fan blog and title it Mr. Awesome. :)
- Bill Romanos
69. start a list and slowly move out of it as other members of the community move in to pick it up (there is no 68) - you are now running things without even being there.
- Valeria Maltoni
Be a more interesting what Robert? :p oh and maybe follow the fastest top ten commenters here.
- mrsha
I am reading this in friendfeed on my iPhone and immediately regretting my decision to tap "read more..." I made it through the first 12 then began skimming and my thumb began sobbing...
- John Reynolds
I don't remember any friendfeed item getting more than 300 comments. I think this is now the new high water mark. Wow!
- Robert Scoble
Or: Post a “If you want more followers on Twitter and friendfeed here's what to do:” tweet :-)
- Marco Massarotto
Not being in this comment stream is so embarrassing. Wait, so is BEING in this comment stream!
- Tom Guarriello
i wonder if you did it all wrong, would you really get no followers...
- Joelle Nebbe (iphigenie)
Joelle: if you did it all wrong you would still get followers but they just would be all spammers.
- Robert Scoble
Robert - define spam... Is this post spam?
- Brian Roy
Comment on the longest thread in Friendfeed history.
- Mike Lewis
You're right! I forgot about the spammers :D
- Joelle Nebbe (iphigenie)
it seems pretty simple: post interesting things, interact thoughtfully, and be patient
- Kelly W.
70. When all else fails, make interesting crap up about Robert, Gary, Brogan, etc..
- Todd Jordan
It isn't how many follow you... it is the quality of those you follow. But... that makes it hard to keep score and determine who is "winning".
- Brian Roy
patient? I want 1000 followers and I want them now! ;) (actually, I am with Kelly on this one)
- Joelle Nebbe (iphigenie)
How to get Robert et al to follow you - http://friendfeed.com/e...
- Todd Jordan
Commentate on sports during the game or politics during debates.
- Nicki Laycoax
Put a nice Twitter Icon on your blog like mine http://marketingtechblog.com
- Douglas Karr
You know... Chris Brogan liked a post of mine and retweeted it letting everyone know... it ended up bringing me about 800 new visitors in the span of 2 hours. There's definitely something to be said about being seen with the right people. :)
- Steven Sanders
Hey Robert, say something positive about each of us today? Really be a boost.
- Todd Jordan
AVG works just fine for me under Windows 7!
- Dave Oliver
Todd: you all are beautiful. And smart. That's why I am following everyone on this thread.
- Robert Scoble
It's simple, but just do two things (in order): 1. Create good content. 2. Market that content in an intelligent, non-spammy way.
- Daniel Miessler
Daniel: marketing part is what we're really talking about here. How to/who to/when to/where to/what to market.
- Todd Jordan
OMG this is STILL alive?! WOW
- Mona Nomura
Keep it going!!!!
- Tyler (Chacha)
I'm wondering at how many comments this will start crashing browsers
- Joelle Nebbe (iphigenie)
That said: Talk about Twitter and FriendFeed all day every day. Don't forget to include: "I AM A SOCIAL MEDIA EXPERT" in all of your profiles.
- Mona Nomura
Make special badges that scream your self proclaimed title. You know, kind of like flair? Or girl/boy scouts?
- Mona Nomura
@Mona - heck yeah, huge % of new followers claim to be soc media experts.
- Todd Jordan
Todd- FAIL. You forgot Rule #163. NAME DROP. @scobelizer (I'm just namedropping but really addressing Mona... err @monaaa)
- Mona Nomura
Not call anyone out but I think it should be: " I AM A SOCIAL MEDIA SLUT!1!" ;-P
- Mathew A. Koeneker
Mathew - CRAP you stole my thunder... I'm working on a blog post entitled "How to know if you are a social media slut"... thanks!
- Brian Roy
Brian - I hope that comes after: "10,000 Ways to Effectively use Twitter for Business"
- Mona Nomura
I wish FF would timestamp comments. It'd be interesting to know how this conversation flowed...or jumped around.
- Liz
Mona - pretty sure those two are the same post... No?
- Brian Roy
Liz: Just hang out over the little convo balloon to the left of the comments. It shows you how long ago the comment was left. :-)
- Lisa L. Seifert
Be serious at ALL times since analyzing Social Networks with charts and graphs is THE FUTURE!
- Mona Nomura
Announce your twitter address after saying the pledge of allegiance over the school intercom system.
- David Rose
I drunk tweet all the time, and it doesn't help. People just email you AA invitations.
- Alex Wilhelm (FF BLOWS)
+1 Mona! I'll make a video of this :D
- Yuvi
Since you are all here... I was wondering. Have you seen my car keys?
- Brian Roy
Another would be to make a Bacon Fan Club Room.
- Nicholas James
Will find out soon if becoming a social media diva pin-up acquires more followers :)
- Nicola Quinn
PLAY with your followers and build a community of FANS. Start a meme, host a trivia session (@linnetwoods), do fun thematic Blip.fm sets (@jesseluna, @Dave_Malby), start a fun-spirited smackdown battle with another Twitterer (@Dana_Wilhoit and @SeanAMcAlister). UStream and play Wii while you're lightly toasted with a fun friend (@queenofspain)
- Jesse P. Luna
Start your own threads using all and only Robert's suggestions. Originality means nothing, it's all about being a Robert clone!
- Mona Nomura
Be imperfect, fragile, human - someone everyone can relate to.
- Tomi Itkonen
Participate in memes where you can post old pictures of yourself from 70s, 80s or 90s.
- Larry Kless
71. Create a list that combines Sex and Windows http://friendfeed.com/e...
- Tyler (Chacha)
Hate on someone enough for them to write about you. It worked for Sean Hammons (Clicky) and Techcrunch..........
- Alex Wilhelm (FF BLOWS)
i'm afraid some of those won't quite give you the right kind of followers
- Joelle Nebbe (iphigenie)
entertain!
- kosmar
I'm wondering if everyone who has commented here is at least following each other now.
- Nicola Quinn
Nicola - no. I think I have a block on my account that I can't figure out. ;)
- Jim Mitchem
Oh dear Jim, that doesn't sound good. Just managed to subscribe to you so that's ok then.
- Nicola Quinn
Nicola Quinn: I have not had one new follower from this, but I did have an entertaining conversation.
- MarkCarras
There Mark, you've got at least one :)
- Nicola Quinn
@nicola you followed me :)
- kosmar
I tweet from jail on a regular basis
- Alan Simpson
Kosmar, I did! You following me?
- Nicola Quinn
@Scobleizer so far I tweet from party, wc, roadtrip, first minutes of the new year, wc again, meeting, boring meeting, boring presentation, wedding, engagement, hospital... I think I am on good track !!!
- Alemsah Ozturk
Talk like you are deluded into thinking the iPhone and Apple computers are superior machines.
- Mark Stahler
Help Robert getting 400 comments or any other all time high on friendfeed!
- Gaby K. Slezák
Wow. 400.
- Robert Scoble
Here's the 401st for good measure! I kinda use Twitter and FF to keep up with new, and record ideas and thoughts for myself, but if some people out there find a common ground with me, that's very cool! I think too much is placed on these online friend / follower counts overall tho... BTW, this comment is probably on the "How NOT to get more followers on Twitter or FF" list. :) Keep feeding me the knowledge Scobs!
- AdPanda
You can order custom wine labels to bribe Scoble with at http://www.bottleyourbrand.com/
- Internet Strategist
Spell @Scobleizer correctly when trying to drop a name ... lol.
- Robert Couture
Bump .... @charlieanzman. I can't believe this thread!
- Charlie Anzman
Charlie - the sheer #s of comments or the fact that this is such a popular topic?
- Susan Beebe
How can you possibly read all of this and get anything done? This is an example of FF overkill.
- Scott Maentz
@Susan folks are now commenting for the fun of it. :)
- Todd Jordan
Wow! I remember when this began as three items, then Scoble got all giddy and inspired and started this hilarious chain of absurdity. Well done Mr. @Scobleizer
- Paul Povolni
Make sure to be a hater and nit-pick on every. little. thing. someone does online!
- Mona Nomura
Take everything someone says as a personal attack and rant!
- Mona Nomura
Complain about every. little. thing.
- Mona Nomura
no Mona you are wrong.
- Brian Roy
Change your display name everyday aNd mAkE sUrE tO tYpE LiKe DiS
- Mona Nomura
Make sure to kiss a whole buncha *ss and name drop, name drop, name drop!
- Mona Nomura
every 3rd comment should be "noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo oooooooooopooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo oooooooooooooopoopoooooooooooooooooooooooooo oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooppooooooooooooo oooo" wow... It is hard to enter that many o's on an iPhone. EDIT -> I put in spaces - apparently I annoyed Brandon...
- Brian Roy
@Brian: Please edit your post so it doesn't break everyone's feed. I'd like to not hide this item. Thanks.
- AJ Kohn
oh... Ok. It is hidden now.
- Brian Roy
@Brian: Thank you. Greatly appreciated!
- AJ Kohn
423 comments? :O
- Will Higgins™
I think that I made a comment on this post but I can't find it. And Mona, you are cracking me up!!
- BEX
I wonder if there is a limit to how many comments can be added to a post on FF
- Susan Beebe
The funniest part about all this is that I've gotten a *ton* of followers for posting on this thread. Weird! I think once my programming-related FF activity resumes people will drop from my feed like flies :)
- Eric Florenzano
Too bad I can't tweet the link (yet) -- of this 400+ comment -- I don't know how to call this. Not a Tweetversation by any means. A FFversation? Anyone come out with any sensible terms?
- David Feng
I have some ideas, none of which are usable.
- WorldofHiglet
subscribe to Friendfeeds for Twitter Celebs and read their Twitter hints... Start with Scoble..
- TechMama Beth Blecherman
I see "423 more comments". That's the most I have ever seen so far in FF!
- Winston Teo
TechMama: that will work very well. Of course then you'll only be fed shallow news. The real good stuff is on the K list. They aren't on the bottom, so they have a few followers, but they really don't give a shit so they are very real and teach you stuff. Unfortunately they usually don't stay on the K list very long. They either get moved up pretty fast or they get put in rehab for social media addiction.
- Robert Scoble
You don't.
- David Spinks
What was this thread about? I forgot, AGAIN!
- Jim Bednarz
Jim: me too, it's taken on a life of its own. Oh, yeah, it was about how to make money with friendfeed. Heheheh. Yeah, right!
- Robert Scoble
Quick! Scoble's about to do a 'How to make money on friendfeed' post now. Looking for the hattrick ;~)
- Ed Shahzade /NextInstinct
Ed: heheh. how to make money in friendfeed? Get a million followers. The money will come. Or maybe not. :-)
- Robert Scoble
Robert: I guess you could charge for seminars on how to get a million followers ;D
- Seth Greenblatt
Robert - Think you broke your own record with this one. 255 Likes and 437 comments ?! Guess nobody's embracing Friendfeed tonight :)
- Charlie Anzman
Nobody's gonna read this, but I can't help observing that "I've got 10000 followers" is kinda like saying "I have 1000 books on my bookshelf", as if the number, not the content, is the important thing.
- Mr. Gunn
Charlie .. his last one has 300 comments and over 300 likes I believe ... But this thread is 70 people away from reaching every single person on Friendfeed. (Given the 500 like rule)
- Tyler (Chacha)
Better than the cover of Rolling Stone!! http://blog.twitter.com/2009...
- Ed Shahzade /NextInstinct
ChaCha - Ya gotta love it. Now when he reaches everyone on the Internet ... :)
- Charlie Anzman
Susan - Wasn't ignoring you ... just got lost in the middle of this ScobleChaChaMeMeWhateverItIs ... night all :)
- Charlie Anzman
Most importantly, get followed by @scobleizer hope he retweets, likes and/or comments on your posts.
- Christian Anderson
Christian: that's fair. I keep hoping you retweet, like, or comment on mine! :-)
- Robert Scoble
Yikes, I see there are 442 "collapsed" comments that follow Robert Scoble's teaser! (I won't dare to "expand" them - it would take ages to read them all.) The subject clearly preys on people's minds... Scoble has a knack for hitting the right button!
- Yule Heibel
I wonder if Mobile Safari would have such an implosion that the iPhone would shatter in my hands, if I tried to expand that thread.
- MiniMage TKDteacher of FF
doing video works pretty well too :)
- Loic Le Meur
great, robert, this is *really* pushing the limit :)
- Alberto D'Ottavi
tweet about the size of Robert's ..... =X
- Rachael Depp
whoa comment frenzy! @FriendFeed can you please build a Comment Quality filter before I attempt to make sense of all this user generated erm "content"? Now there's a question: how do we measure Comment Quality?
- Bob Hitching
And then you hate IM...
- Dario Salvelli
I was lucky enough to arrive at his 3rd or 4th point... it was amazing to see it happen on the fly, as I and other people jumped in. It was like a chat room or IM chat.
- Simon T Small
Oh, and by commenting a couple of times on this post, I got 36 new twitter followers and about 6 new friend feed followers in 12 hours
- Simon T Small
omg.. why isn´t there a comment link on the bottom as well ? Especially useful on the iphone. I forgot the witty remark that would ensure me thousands of followers by the time I finger-scrolled to the top and to the bottom again on this insanely long thread. Oh, well, at least my comments are seen sometimes.. hello ?
- Thomas Bøhm
I do like how #1: Stop your bloody begging and whining for followers is still showing though. :-P
- Mathew A. Koeneker
this is so last week...
- Edward Zwart
Robert: You need to add one more. "Send Tweets from a Ferry when a plane crashes on the Hudson" like http://twitter.com/jkrums
- Alex Sauceda
"Hudson-Plane" and the Web2.0 viralism response http://friendfeed.com/rooms... ; http://friendfeed.com/e...
- ewing2001akaNicomedy2010
Re: 18., Tweet from the great beyond. INSANE follow numbers then. ;-p
- mtlb
This is certainly quite interesting thread. I wonder how many Likes this will get. :D
- Daniel Schildt
This thread has become a meme unto itself. As I once said, Robert Scoble plays social media like a virtuoso musician. FTW
- Sheldon Steiger
from twhirl
this stuff works for real! wow!
- Siddharth Parmar
I felt like bumping the most discussed conversation ever on Friendfeed. Here ya go
- Tyler (Chacha)
or tweet about this friendfeed-post! - bumping ;-)
- Torsten Eckert
Become a Needle in a Haystack
- geekazine
Have them join up on sprnch and watch them walk around in real time. http://sprnch.com/search_...
- SpRnch
FriendFeed won the Crunchie for the best startup of 2008!
Iggy Mwangi, Jeanette Bosman, Tanath and 54 other people liked this
Congrats! And well deserved.
- DeWitt Clinton
Congratulation!
- zizukabi
yeah... good job Tudor, you are part of that amazing team!! FF FTW!
- Susan Beebe
Congratulation!!!
- Lu Tao
Congrats!
- Carmen
Congrats!
- Eren Emre Kanal
w00t!
- Merry Xmas FFeeders - AJ
Congratulations!
- Anne Bouey
Wow, great! Kudos! :-)
- Nenad Nikolic
from twhirl
@geekazine: it's that good.
- Hayes Haugen
awesomesauce
- Dobromir Hadzhiev
Just got a suite at the Wynn for $100, includes $100 dining voucher. Sweet! Yea for low CES attendance. - http://twitter.com/mattemm...
I haven't had coffee in almost a week. Do I miss it?
Susan Beebe, Rob Michael (Atmos Trio), Mona Nomura and 3 other people liked this
Gone caffeine-free, or moving off coffee to something else? (need to do something like that myself...)
- Dan Keldsen
from twhirl
I've been fighting a nasty cold, so it hasn't been on my mind
- Bwana ☠
I've been toying with the caffeine free thing myself. Eat better lunches and skip the afternoon Pepsi. So do you miss it?
- David Owens
I don't know.. right now I just want to sleep lol
- Bwana ☠
Are you going to move on to tea or something else? I keep wanting to switch from coffee snob to tea snob but that takes time and effort..
- Mike Lewis
I'd probably be committed
- Charlie Anzman
HAD COFFEE TODAY, FEELS GOOD. I THINK I LIKE IT. HA HA HA. FILM AT 11.
- Bwana ☠
hahhahahahahahhaha!!!
- Mona Nomura
*clings to coffee mug right next to keyboard*
- Micah Wittman
Having a bad day - Ford service center wants $1600 to fix the parking brake on my truck. Thinking of just selling the truck now.
Richard pancakhaus Walker, Amber, Random Time Lord, mjc and 7 other people liked this
:(
- Cheryl Jones
start asking your friends who they use... Beating the dealership price is going to be easy, finding a mechanic that doesn't give you "that sinking feeling" when you pay him (or her) isn't
- J. Abdul-Qahhar
Actually Ford doesn't want a loan right now. Ford might be the only one left. That cost seems high. I'd get a second opinion.
- Jared B. Luther
The Toyota dealership did the same thing to me only last month. Found a local mechanic who fixed it for $500 not $1500.
- Sally Church
Ford = Found On Road Dead
- Louis Gray
the issue here is that the parts themselves cost the majority of the price. You can't necessarily buy them used, either where they are brakes.
- Jesse Stay
from IM
An emergency brake is just the rear brakes attached to a cable. The same brake pads or shoes that stop the rear wheels when you hit the brake pedal are the same that the e-brake uses. If JUST the e-brake needs work, it's not the brakes per se, but the e-brake mechanism.
- Jared B. Luther
you've got to be kidding me...$1600 bucks no wonder they suck so bad
- Susan Beebe
susan, I've had much higher bills from Japanese cars. Cars are all cars in the end. Brakes all go bad, as do tires, and other parts.
- Jesse Stay
from IM
I guess I wouldn't expect that high of a bill. dang
- Susan Beebe
Get a second opinion and call Click and Clack:-)
- Francine Hardaway
hardaway I already got a second opinion and the only place to get the part is from Ford.
- Jesse Stay
from IM
you're screwed...sell it fast while you can! gees
- Susan Beebe
Jesse, you should ask Ford for a parking brake bailout.
- imabonehead
imabonehead lol - no kidding! I want some of their money! If they get a bailout does that mean my parking brakes are cheaper?
- Jesse Stay
from IM
how about a sit-in at the Ford dealership until they give you a better price on your parking brakes? We can invite Gov. Blagojevich to give a rousing speech. Worked for that company in Chicago
- Brian Watkins
brian, that could be enjoyable. Ford dealerships have free wifi, TV, there's a Hogi Yogi and Teriyaki Sticks in the one I go to, and more. There's even a kids play center so I can take my kids to come play while I sit it out. I doubt they'd even notice I was there though, but I'd get a lot done!
- Jesse Stay
from IM
I had an oil pressure issue with a GM car once. Took it to the dealer who replaced two lots of parts, gages, sender units etc. Telling a friend, he recommended a local mechanic, who did the job in little over an hour, and charged me around $70. The problem - a sump full of crap from the previous owner not getting it serviced in a timely manner. The main dealer should have found this though. They all overcharge just because they're main dealers.
- Ian May
eyebee unfortunately in my case I've taken it to multiple people and they have all said the same thing.
- Jesse Stay
from IM
Jesse I hear you. I know time is money, and parts cost, but I find it difficult to comprehend how anyone can justify $1600 to fix a parking brake!
- Ian May
OMG that is a lot of money! I hope you find a solution. Good luck
- Adriana
IMHO they're taking you for a ride. You can absolutely do better. I'd find out what the parts cost, then look for a mechanic who will put them in for you.
- Ciaoenrico
ciaoenrico the parts cost $720, and that's just for one component of the parts I'll have to get. The price is mostly parts.
- Jesse Stay
from IM
Maybe you could offer Ford the $1600 as your share of their bail-out and tell them not to take any more of your taxes? :/ Just kidding, my empathy is with you. Maybe you should tell them that unless they reduce the cost, they won't get any more of your bail-out money, and they'll lose you as a customer. And the car companies expect us to rescue them after treating customers like that?
- Cathryn Hrudicka
Ditch it! Use Zipcar :) (I realize that may not be possible)
- Richard pancakhaus Walker
To make matters worse, Ford is now holding my car hostage for $100 for "diagnosis", just to tell me it was going to cost me $1600
- Jesse Stay
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Timex Sinclair 1000
- Jared B. Luther
Am I the only one who still hasn't seen Wall-E?
geekazine, Kol Tregaskes, Sarah Perez and 8 other people liked this
nope
- Shey, Jamaican of FF
me neither, and probably won't, unless my nieces get it for Christmas
- ɐ ɯıʞ sıɹɥɔ
nope.
- Alan Simpson
What are you guys waiting for? Add it to your netflix queue asap. :)
- Alan Le
I have not seen Wall-E either; on the "List" though.
- Robert Miller
I haven't seen the movie either.
- Morton Fox
I haven't...
- Live4Emma (L4S)
I won't see it until after Christmas, it's going under the tree.
- Eric @ CSTechcast.com
I haven't seen it either.
- Yolanda
Am I the only person who saw it and thought it sucked?
- John McCrea
nope.
- Admiral Anika
Haven't seen it yet but may see it over the holidays.
- Jeremy Campbell
from twhirl
I've now seen it twice. Once in the movie and once on dvd. The dvd had stuff about the making of the sounds and then an interview with movie's creator. Both were excellent segments. Oh the movie was great also!
- Paul
nope - same here
- Susan Beebe
You guys have to check it out ASAP ! Serious!
- embee
I haven't seen it yet. But I have it from Netflix sitting in my DVD player right now.
- Jandy, ConcertMaven of FF
What's Wall-E?
- jcunwired
Wall-E is in my top 5 of the year. Amazing work!
- michael sean wright
I've downloaded it, but haven't seen it.
- Mohamed J
Nope...I haven't seen it either.
- Scott of Two Countries
Not to worry, I haven't seen it, either.
- Tyson Key
I've never seen ET all the way through how crazy is that?
- adolfo foronda
ET has watched me many times :P
- Bwana ☠
I saw it twice to make up for your failing. :-)
- Joey Gibson
LOL
- Bwana ☠
haven't seen it either
- Damien Franco
Do yourselves a favour, and get it watched. Brilliant film.
- Chris Nixon
I haven't seen it either...but my kids have
- Stephen Pierzchala
Nope.
- Mathew A. Koeneker
yes! :) it's good...but I would have enjoyed it on DVD...I didn't need the full theater experience for it
- Sarah Perez
Wall-E = Digital Poetry, IMHO -- but if you want to laugh, see Kung Fu Panda
- Jorge Escobar
I've just ordered it, hopefully here tomorrow. Can't wait! :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
Got it when it came out still not opened I need to get on that :(
- John
I have just watched Wall-E yesterday,it is great.Pixar had never let you down.
- Steve Chou
Nope, haven't seen it either. The blue-ray version looks awesome...Too bad I don't have a blue-ray player:p
- Patrik Johansson
I haven't seen it. Don't plan to see it. Will blow up any copy I get my hands on. Well, not really, but I won't see it.
- geekazine
BDOR 133 - The Sound Of Creepy Robot Cats - http://radio.bwana.org/2008...
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- Bwana ☠
That one SoundSnap loop sounded like a Motel 6 commercial. I'm Tom Bodet. We'll leave the light on for ya.
- geekazine
LOL, it did
- Bwana ☠
Yahoo CEO to Microsoft: Make us another offer - USATODAY.com - http://www.usatoday.com/tech...
Thomas Hawk, Joel Bennett, Anthony K. Valley © and 2 other people liked this
"To this day, I believe the best thing for Microsoft to do is to buy Yahoo," Yang said Wednesday evening at the Web 2.0 summit in San Francisco.
- Leo Laporte
<Yahoo> Make us another offer! <Microsoft> Ok, how about 20% of what we offered last time? Only this time, you have to promise to rewrite everything to run on Windows Azure. ;-)
- Joel Bennett
Yahoo is so yesterday. Microsoft needs to do something forward thinking and big. If they are going to spend money, they should buy up and consolidate all these VoIP companies including Vonage. Then, integrate VoIP into windows, including windows mobile, and create a seamless communications platform that is affordable for everyone worldwide. When it comes to recurring revenue, this might be more profitable than software subscriptions or web based services.
- Mike Thompson
Mike Mike Mike ... you know every anti-trust group would jump all over Microsoft for doing something like that
- John Blanton
from twhirl
Nah, there's plenty of competition for voice service; all the big boys- AT&T, Verizon, Time Warner, Comcast, they all have the triple or quad play now. Integration with windows is competitive advantage, sure, but not anti-competitive.
- Mike Thompson
Well the FriendFeed debate room is full of McCain/Palin bashing. I wouldn't call it a discussion, more like a lynching. They seem to think Obama is Mr. Perfect. That scares me more than Palin.
ChiliMac, Mattie Kenny, Andre Maltais and 2 other people liked this
He's not perfect, but the other option is far far scarier
- Sally Church
I agree Bwana and Craig...its why I couldn't go back in there.
- Amber, Random Time Lord
I think this is were the Internet falls short. Most people would not act this way if they meeting together in person. I have seen debates work well on the Internet when the participants knew each other offline before the debate though. There is just too much anonymity on the 'net that allows people without respect for their fellow man to pour out their hatred without consequence.
- Ed Grant
from fftogo
Because a name makes things have consequences, Ed? It has nothing to do with identity, it's all about respect and educations. You can be a famous, well-known jerk, or OTOH you can also be a generous, a very very highly good anonymous man. Dontcha think? :)
- directeur
I agree about the heavy Obama slant here on FriendFeed. It doesn't frighten me more than Palin as a theoretical president, though.
- Phil G
He's not perfect, but he's a lot better than the competition and will move this country forward into prosperity instead of backwards to the middle ages.
- Alex Scoble
I think you are right. It is not an identity issue but rather a morality issue (ie. Love your neighbor as yourself).
- Ed Grant
If that scares you more than Palin, you got issues. Sorry.
- jcunwired
Remember, not trusting the Messiah makes you demon-possessed. Not trusting McCain ... well, makes you a Republican non-cultist. Pick your toxin.
- Alexander Williams
from NoiseRiver
Apple's Steve Jobs calls Blu-ray "a bag of hurt" - http://www.engadgethd.com/2008...
Sweyn Venderbush, Kenton, Sylvain Nadeau and 8 other people liked this
Seems to be contrary to Disney's and Pixar's position on BluRay, in that they love it both technically and for it's profit.
- Eric @ CSTechcast.com
Would've been cooler if he would of said Blu-ray was a hot mess or full of FAIL.
- Paul Reynolds
I think it's a way of forcing people to get their HD content from iTunes. Apple has no interest in allowing people to use anything but their own licensed content. They basically said as much in the answer to the question. Plenty of other companies have survived the licensing "complexity" to offer Blue-Ray in their products.
- Kenton
We're sending Abby a care package to France with Best Foods mayonaisse and Orowheat Wheat Berry bread. Hey, it's what she wanted!
earl wallace, Kim Landwehr, Sylvain Nadeau and 2 other people liked this
Isn't the whole purpose of a year abroad to immerse yourself in the culture (including French mayonnaise and French bread [which is better than most American bread])? Next thing it will be PopTarts! ;-)
- Nils Sandin
if you go anywhere for a year you would CRAVE home products.
- David Lloyd
Otherwise when she goes back to the US after a year in France she would not be able to stand Best Foods (no kidding ;-) mayo
- Antoine Bertier
Maybe she wants 2 share with the French. Give them some of our culture. My friend lives in Malaysia gets grits sent for that.
- Ken Pruett
OMG OMG HAVE YOU HEARD?!?!?! http://www.youtube.com/watch...
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Derek Coward, geekazine, Rory and 4 other people liked this
Bwana, replies have been sent to you in the Rejaw house.
- Gwen Sutton
Perfect kickstart for any Monday :)
- Bwana ☠
Just landed.. wearing the same clothes for two days (lost suitcase). Need sushi for lunch
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Aww, poor Kevin. :(
- Molly, "sorry"
Cowboys QB Romo to miss up to four weeks - http://cbs.sportsline.com/nfl...
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