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Karoli

so Tweetie 2 isn't an upgrade? I have to buy it again? Not sure I dig that business model much.

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Mona Nomura

Confused by extremely appalling behavior. I really wonder how certain people function in society.

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No kidding, like seriously, why is it such a big deal when I soil myself. GOD! Just ignore it, it's practically tasty. - sofarsoShawn

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it must have been a full moon tonight cuz i got a bunch of A-holes today too. like more then one ppl's ticked off - Caroline

Frankly it's a miracle as many people do function in society as they do. - Jim Goldstein from iPhone

It confuses me regularly. And sadly, recently. And sometimes? it's all based around $ or other coveted gain. - Lucretia Pruitt

Lucretia if by coveted, you mean greed or selfish reasons, I definitely agree. :( - Mona Nomura

Caroline, we should have bought a lottery ticket yesterday. The statistical odds of running into that many nutty/hostile people in a single day is astronomical. - Mark Davidson from BuddyFeed

Lucretia, difficult economic times sometimes bring out the worse in people. With 11% unemployment in Los Angeles, too many people are living on edge (with genuine worries). - Mark Davidson from BuddyFeed

no one checks them...and when someone does they don't give a crap. Entitled. - Anna Lynn M.

I agree with Anna. Some people just have an overblown sense of self-entitlement. Caroline and I ran into quite a few of those people yesterday. I chalk it up to a statistical anomaly. - Mark Davidson from BuddyFeed

Entitled to what? I grew up in a different country. - Caroline from iPhone

Caroline - an overall sense of entitlement. I see people who expect certain things because they exist. Really bizarre (or more like insecurity and lack of self confidence but that's a whooooole 'nother topic for another day) - Mona Nomura

God I love how these posts are burning!!! - Jose Luis Santos

Erin @queenofspain

@GeekMommy so long as it involves martinis...

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well yeah - at that point you sort of have to have martinis - anything else seems like a letdown. - Lucretia Pruitt

Robert Scoble

So, who is leaving FriendFeed?

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And go where? Back to Twitter or...Facebook? - Manuel Mas

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no idea yet.... see what happens. - Rob Sellen :o)

Same FriendFeed as before, I'll still use. - Ben Parr

I have nowhere else to go. No where else gives me the high level of interaction that FF does. - Mel Buckpitt

Of course if Paul hands me a few hundred shares of stock ... just kidding. Sigh. - Robert Scoble

I was going to ask how you felt about the purchase, but now I see - acedanger

Depends how much it changes. - Andrew Leyden

Why leave? - Mike Shulman

+1 Mel - I am gutted and don't know what to do if the main FF site closes - Matt Hooper

Why would I leave friendfeed? This place works well enough for me. - Talon Lardner

Manuel: back to my blog and Twitter, probably. I'm playing around with Facebook but it doesn't quite do it for me. - Robert Scoble

I'm sticking around unless there's some sort of mass exodus which I don't see an immediate reason for. - Mike Elliott

Not leaving 'til it closes, and I'm certainly not going to facebook or twitter even then. - Jim Hearts FF

I'm sad, but I'm sticking around. I'm hoping others do to. At some point, the fuss will die down. - Helen Sventitsky

Mike: because I expect it will get shut down eventually if it doesn't get invested in, and if it gets no new features it will fall behind Google Wave and other projects. - Robert Scoble

This feels like that HBO Documentary about Brooklyn Dodgers going to LA haha. - Manuel Mas

And, actually, Google Wave seems to be the most obvious thing for me to try out from now on. - Robert Scoble

I will stick around until they move the features I like from friendfeed onto facebook. - Bryan Lee

Isn't it a bit early to make decisions? Has there been an announcement that I missed that FF is going away? Even if it isn't where else is better at this point? - Internet's Tad

I'm not going anywhere Helen...When it goes it goes...I'm sitting tight on the ship - Bill Heslin

there used to be a kind of message board system ages back with FB. disppeared one day never to return, lets hope this will bring something of that back, who knows.. - Terry O'Fee

I can't wait to try out wave. ;o) - Rob Sellen :o)

Waiting and watching. Robert, I know you have a discussion tab on FB but its not the same. ;) - Melanie Reed

Mashable just published a How To Take Advantage of FriendFeed's Unique Features. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA. A little late for that, no? - Stephen Pickering

How soon before google wave becomes available to the early adopters/public? - Bryan Lee

didn't you just just say "FriendFeed is dead. I will keep using it until Paul unplugs the last server, which could be years" ? or i'm missing something - Liviu Barbat

I'll stick around to the bitter end. - Dave Metzener

Robert: Earlier in the day you were excited for both FriendFeed & Facebook. It didn't sound like you were leaving FriendFeed. What changed? Why not stick around to see what happens? - Jill Elswick

Bryan: I heard they weren't handing out beta access to non-developers until September. Cold be wrong but that's what I heard - Mike Elliott

I'm in wait and see mode. It would have to be absolutely sucked in by FB for me to leave it completely. - pea

When should we cue in Titanic's last song by the band as FF sinks below leaving us all behind? - Manuel Mas

Robert, if you believe this is a good deal for both FF and FB - why are you leaving? - George F. Snell III

Why leave now? Until it is changed or killed, it still works just the same. - Jeff P. Henderson

Same assessment as you, I'll stick around but I need to find an option B now. I guess I'll go wherever Louis Gray recommends - Alberto Saavedra

I plan on sticking around for a little while longer. Not ready to jump ship yet. - David Finch

Melanie: yeah, real time really has me going. I will wait until I get a better sense from the FriendFeed team about what will be done here. I just am not getting the right signals from the team that there will be any investment in this. If that's the case, I'd rather invest my time somewhere else. Google Wave. Ning. Vanilla on Building43. Twitter, now that I got rid of the spammers. Etc. - Robert Scoble

I'll watch and see what happens. IF I feel that it would be useless to stay, I'll leave the site. - TeraDyne Azurepaw

I think the features of FF will be incorporated into FB (guilt free) and FB profiles will be more tied into FF. That's about all we'll see... - Gus

Scoble: Ning?!?! Really? - Manuel Mas

Manuel: hey, Pirillo is over there. :-) - Robert Scoble

I'm staying here until something else catches up. - Bruce Lewis

Robert, I can definitely see the value of your invested time on any service, but for the average user, what is the downside of sticking around here as long as the site still exists? - Jeff P. Henderson

hmm, ning. unexpected, but understandable - Alistair (alpinefolk)

@Scobleizer: The big crowd is not even at Friendfeed yet and you are already leaving? Someone will be by in a few minutes with a drink. Please help yourself and stick around for the conversation. You will be greatly missed should you choose to leave so soon. - David Damore

Social Media is a set of tools--I appreciate the connections I make, but I'm not getting too emotionally worked-up about the tools changing. FF probablywon't function as my Social Media hub much longer. - Rob Michael (Atmos Trio)

I like it here, so I'll hang out as long as possible. - sean percival

Not making any set plans yet, but keeping my eyes and ears open. - Martha

And when Google buys Twitter, won't that be interesting - Stephen Pickering

Bruce: have you played with Wave yet? I'm wondering how good that is? I gotta get an invite. Off to beg someone cooler than me. :-) - Robert Scoble

I will continue to use it until it closes down in its current form. - ashish

Google/Twitter vs. Facebook/FriendFeed - Stephen Pickering

+1 ashish - Liviu Barbat

I'm a little pissed that we haven't heard much from our other "rock stars". Where the hell are they? This concerns them, yet I can hear a pin drop. I think there secretly plotting. Roflmao - Jeunelle Foster

I don't want to but if it eventually goes down the way everybody's predicting it will then i'll have to look for alternatives :( .......by the way where do i beg for Wave invites :) - Bhowmik Shah

I'd bet Microsoft buys Twitter before Google does. - Gus

I haven't played with wave yet, but from what I've seen it's got potential. FriendFeed's got polish. - Bruce Lewis

I wasn't planning on going anywhere, but I guess I'll be spending more time on Social Median. Perhaps someone should start putting together a decent buddypress site? - Aram Zucker-Scharff

I might leave only because I quit facebook - I hate the mindset, the shallowness, and am afraid (make that certain) those people will come here - Aaman (Clone of FF)

Gus: Microsoft and Twitter deserve each other. They are both somewhat buggy and don't come up with new features very often. ;-) - Robert Scoble

I think I'll be heading back to Twitter until Google Wave is publicly available - Aaman (Clone of FF)

Robert: Since at the end of the day all these platforms are businesses and have to eventually make money does it make sense to keep investing time and effort into building communities on them when they can sell/merge at any time and dismantle the tools that keep the community in place? it seems like the portable community concept of something like Google FriendConnect now makes more... more... - Mike Elliott

The other rock stars are drinking. :-) - Robert Scoble

If Facebook had an easier way of connecting with people but not showing them all the personal stuff I'm willing to show to my close friends (and the stuff my friends post about me), I don't think I'd need anything like FriendFeed or Twitter. - Edward Coffey

Robert: I've played with Wave and I wouldn't really put it in the same category as FriendFeed at the moment. It's not really about sharing and conversing in mass form IMO. Its really conversation with maybe 20 people or so but its much more difficult to focus conversations about shared content. Let everybody know when you get an invite and your address so we can add you! :) - Brandon Titus

I'll stick around until the end. - Mathew™ one of a kind

It kinda proves a theory I have about us all being reduced (if I can use that word) to channels. I don't think social networking will go away, but as the internet and deals increase, so does the noise. Don't worry Scobe, you still show up in our Google reader every morning!! - professor daddyo

Man, what are we going to do without these discussions like this? - Stephen Pickering

Mike: No community is permanent. It's worthwhile to participate even if it's temporary. - Bruce Lewis

@Gus, Well MS has large stake in FB so I'm not sure about that. I'll stick around here till it peters out. The tech news rooms here are top notch. - Adi

I don't use FF much other than for private rooms, so I'll stay for those. Whatever other activity I have (which is sporadic and generally not personal) will also remain. - Cheryl

I'll stick around until they pull the plug. - Morton Fox

Leave friendfeed? what's the alternative I'd really like to know. Is it facebook? - Tate DA FF MVP

I'll stick with it as long as it's here and people are still active. FF4L!! - Cassidy

What is the next thing? Where do we go now? Not FB! But where? - Michael Liss

I heard it's MySpace - sean percival

I'm staying until the end as well. - Mitch

I won't be deleting my account, but signing in and commenting? No. No real point to continue putting data into a service that is gonna get unplugged anyway. Guess we just have to return to blogs and twitter. - BCK

quick! everybody back to MySpace!!! - acedanger

what? leave and create a better version of Twitter? or start FriendsterFeed? - Andy Sternberg

The downside for me? I invest time in things that WILL BE not that are. That's always been what keeps my interest and now that I know that FriendFeed probably will not be, even if it takes five years to totally die, I've lost a great deal of interest in it. - Robert Scoble

Michael: I don't think anyone knows today where to go next, because there's no good substitute out there. We can only hope that the next destination will be obvious before they pull the plug. - Bruce Lewis

With the price of bandwith/computing halving every year, there will be a new one of these popping up pretty quick - Stephen Pickering

I'll just go to twitter. I have a facebook account but I hate it. Facebook is the walmart of the web. - Darrel Davis

Should we move to where?? haha - harri78son

I'll be here until something actually changes for the worse - Dennis O'Neil

harri78son you could come back over to my blog and we could setup JS-Kit Echo. :-) - Robert Scoble

Damn now I need a drink :) - Jeunelle Foster

I hate fb. Don't like tweeting. Guess I'll be keeping up with my feeds without the fun ff distractions :( - BEX from iPhone

That's right, Scoble is the catalyst for these longer threads anyway, so it might as well move to his JS-Kit - Stephen Pickering

Robert, that's a pity. I'm lucky to deal in things that only get more interesting as they get older. - Bruce Lewis

I'm torn. What are our options? - Kelly Mitchell

yeah~ definitly! @Jeunelle foster please come down, - harri78son

I see now...This whole thing was a ploy to get everyone visiting Robert's blog! I am outraged! :P - Brandon Titus

Brandon: OK, we can go over to YOUR blog. Got Echo? :-) - Robert Scoble

Bruce: Very true. I've tried to get into FaceBook but it's hard to get the clean conversation feed along with lifestreaming content. It just seems to be full of distracting noise even with the ability to filter with lists. - Mike Elliott

I'm here till the end. - Nolan Alston

Robert, the same could be said about Flickr, they haven't had much inovation since Yahoo bought them, but people still use the service in droves. - Jeff P. Henderson

Don't worry Kelly, a new one of these will pop quickly, if they kill this - Stephen Pickering

Kelly: we don't need to leave tonight. Let's trash the house first! :-) - Robert Scoble

HAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHA - Stephen Pickering

Brandon, that's funny. At the Boston FriendFeed meetup, everybody else had learned about FriendFeed through Scobleizer. I was the only one who found him through FriendFeed. - Bruce Lewis

I'm leaving my account here for now but I'll be removing all my feeds. - Got80s

I have no idea where to go... - Johnny

Let's make the longest thread in FF history - Stephen Pickering

Anyway, for the rest of today at-least I reckon I'll be off FriendFeed - real conversation is being drowned out by the echoes of this deal. - Edward Coffey

Damn it. Why is Arrington always right! - Stephen Pickering

Jeff P. Flickr is different Yahoo bought them for their user base. Facebook bought Friendfeed for their features. - Bryan Lee

Got80: why do that? Who cares if your feeds are going in here? - Robert Scoble

Edward: that is true. It caught us all off guard and we're still processing it. - Robert Scoble

Kind of huge things in this time,.hmmm - harri78son

Facebook bought FF for Paul Bucheit - Stephen Pickering

I'm staying here until there is a reason to leave. Though I don't hold out hope they'll keep the service alive forever... obviously, I'm always enjoysthin.gs too, but it's not quite the same. I REALLY can't see myself using facebook as much as FF though. - Ted Roden

I need an adult beverage. then I'll trash the place... - Kelly Mitchell

I despise FB. Please let them not just trash FF. - Adam Webb

Considering the free Google Wave protocol implementation and ejabbered work together, it shouldn't be too hard to quickly build a FF type service that's scalable. Combine that with EC2 and S3 and you could probably get a lot of runway before funding is needed. Robert, I think the next service you switch to should be part owned by you, considering I bet a lot of the traffic here was originated from you evangelizing. - Chip Ramsey

Bryan: it's worse than that. I'm hearing that Facebook bought FriendFeed for its team. Google Superstars. Makes Zuckerberg get out his wallet. - Robert Scoble

Where will be the next pasture Mr. Scoble? - Rami Taibah

Stephen: lol. Yes, the 50 million dollar man. But seriously, there's no doubt what they really want is the tallent. - Brandon Titus

I'm gutted about this, but I knew that Virb account would come in handy eventually... sorta... maybe... - Linda Mills

Holden, yeah, but it doesn't make sense to invest energy here when its eventually going to die anyway - Stephen Pickering

I'm new on FF so I wonder, are people leaving FF because you'll have to use FB to participate? - Christopher Doiron

Stephen: not only for Paul. The guy who started Google Talk is at FriendFeed. So is the guy who started Google Maps. - Robert Scoble

Among other ex-Google superstars. - Robert Scoble

Robert your not processing anything from what I see..Your just gonna dump it...thanks...makes us All feel so much better....Salt in a wound? - Bill Heslin

Christopher, it's that the FriendFeed team's new bosses will turn priorities away from the site we love. - Bruce Lewis

They'll probably cannibalize FriendFeed... nom nom - Kelly Mitchell

funny how many people are joining friend feed on the news of this acquisition. i'm seeing lots of my twitter followers starting to join. - mark silva

Go where, do what? - frankiecarl

I say its WAAAYYY too early to speculate what will happen to friendfeed next. Let the drama of today die down. - Bryan Lee

Yeah lets all get drunk and start a fight. This whole thing is hilarious to me. Funny how media can start a panic. I ain't goin no where, I like to coloring. - Jeunelle Foster

Bill: I said I won't leave until I hear more from the team. Why must you always be a drama queen? - Robert Scoble

Kelly, I wish they would absorb FriendFeed, but despite the talk I don't think openness and Facebook are compatible. - Bruce Lewis

Robert, Ex-Google Superstars is how I see it too. I don't see big plans for FF the sense was we were the last thing on their minds. - Melanie Reed

Can't help being an attention whore, its what I'm good at :) - Jeunelle Foster

Okay so we sit tight and wait and drink. lol - Kelly Mitchell

but there is no time to wait a special direction on internet, It's too fast!! - harri78son

Kelly: My analogy for this is like the female praying mantis luring the male for sex, then it bites its head off. You can see the pic in my story http://bryansays.com - Bryan Lee

I'm in the eyewear business and so I always know how to make a spectacle of myself :) - Jeunelle Foster

Bruce: I agree. Wouldn't it be feasible for them to simply keep the two properties separate then? FriendFeed would be the open/public portion of Facebook and Facebook could stay closed and keep its current private user base. - Brandon Titus

Bryan, pretty graphic and right on the money. - Kelly Mitchell

Why shouldn't he pull out his wallet. FB needs to monetize. The ex Google Rockstars know just how to do that - Stephen Pickering

I'll stick around and see what happens, but might not bother so much with another 'social' web site again. - Grant Bierman

:) I am what I am Robert...I'm A DRAMA QUEEN? LOL that's funny....even though I'm a much better queen than you I still wuvs ya...Still processing all this as everyone else is...Sorry...might be shooting from the hip and I shouldn't - Bill Heslin

Am I the only one excited to see how Facebook integrates FF? I have hundreds of FB friends that I know personally, yet know nobody that I am "friends" with on FF or Twitter. FB has my friends but I'd love FF's functionality. - Christopher Annunziata

There's this optimistic talk about keeping FriendFeed around as R&D. I'm skeptical about it. - Bruce Lewis

I'll leave FriendFeed as soon as there's somewhere to go to; currently, I'm not convinced there is. - Tristan Seligmann

Also when you are hanging with the Master of the Universe for four hours, its sort of like Bill Clinton going to Korea. Kind of influences you. - Stephen Pickering

Rami: I don't know. That's why I'm talking with you. I just know I won't continue to invest my time in something that will soon get no more investment. That's not who I am. I will hang out with Louis Gray until he finds something cool. By the way, someone gave me Google Wave already, thanks! - Robert Scoble

This should be a reality television show. This is where the real drama queens will come out to play. - Jeunelle Foster

Leo's going to need a new show, TWIF - Stephen Pickering

This week in Facebook - Stephen Pickering

Anyone here ever feel like we're just being tossed around from website to website by the big players? - Christopher Doiron

Thanks Kelly :) - Bryan Lee

Chris, Yep - Stephen Pickering

Bruce: I disagree with you about Facebook and openness. They are a lot more open than they used to be and are MUCH more professional and friendly than, say, Twitter is. - Robert Scoble

Robert, I look forward to your review of Wave. - Bruce Lewis

Openness and Facebook are not one and the same.... polar opposites. Bah humbug. - Kelly Mitchell

Yup the big dogs are sitting back laughing at this whole thing - Jeunelle Foster

It doesn't necessarily have to be "R&D" but really a completely separate product. Something like YouTube is to Google. Although that's a terrible analogy...I guess the products are too similar to keep separate. - Brandon Titus

I'd pay-per-view to see Scoble and Sebastian Bach fight - Mattb4rd

The Chinese government is much more open than it used to be. It still doesn't meet my standards. - Bruce Lewis

Bruce: also, Zuckerberg is seeing the real money is in search. So he HAS to be open to really do great there. - Robert Scoble

Robert: Any chance you could share your Wave address? - Brandon Titus

Did anyone get a chance to see Youtube HTML 5 Demo? - Stephen Pickering

Brandon: I don't have my own address. Someone gave me theirs so can't share. - Robert Scoble

Zuckerberg doesn't make money from other companies' search engines, so he's still limiting what data can go out. I see FB getting more open about what data they take in. - Bruce Lewis

Bruce: Wave is very geeky. I think the UI has a lot of FriendFeed's problems x10. We'll see how that first impression sticks. - Robert Scoble

And Wave will only be as good as how many users it has - Stephen Pickering

I guess what I'm trying to say is even if you don't think your time here is an not an investment ;anymore in anything Robert...We still, or at least I do, consider your input valuable. And if you were to jump ship too soon, I think we would all lose something. So, even if things don't look good...please hang around..That's what I meant to say... - Bill Heslin

Where will I go? Probably no where. Friendfeed was the first time I really got to feel like I found a home. Other places don't interact and blend multiple social services like Friendfeed does/did. Just as plenty of other people have said, I'm waiting for Google Wave at this point. I'm already a Google whore, might as well wait for the Wave to come through. - Matthew Horton

Bruce: data that goes out can be embedded on blogs and websites and interact with things. Also, if you get into Google's search engine you can get a LOT of traffic, which then you can monetize on your own service. - Robert Scoble

Not necessarily nailing the coffin shut yet here. Going to hang around and see what develops....what seems likely at the moment may be a totally different thing tommorow :O) - Jack Wilson, K4SAC

I am leaving at midnight. 2 accounts will be deleted, mine and one I manage for another site. - April Russo (app103)

Robert: Hope you enjoy Wave! The UI is definitely way off for content sharing (at least in my first impression) and more suited for group communication for the very scenarios they threw out in the demos. Get much beyond that, or have too many people and the system starts to break down. Obviously, the underlying Wave infrastructure could be used to create something similar to and better than Friendfeed. - Brandon Titus

Yeah, the cool thing about Wave is the problem they solved with the protocol. Not really their UI implementation. I think there are huge opportunities with both Open Social and the Wave protocol. - Chip Ramsey

OK, I have been out of touch and I guess I missed something. I see nothing wrong with staying with all the feeds I am tied to! - Dave Sickmeier

April, please don't delete your account. We lose interesting history when people do that. - Bruce Lewis

I'm sticking around. - Nation Hahn

There is no Facebook and no FriendFeed, it is now called TwoFacedFriend... - Kelly Mitchell

Bill: I'll be around but probably a lot less. Actually I was thinking that this was good timing. We have a new baby due in September and my other son is just starting to learn to talk, so want to spend more time hanging around with the family. - Robert Scoble

I am gonna wait it out. If the community as a whole migrates I will go with them, but I don't want to overreact. - Neal Jansons

it's time to have another serious look at Plaxo. There are some very clever people there too, I believe?! - Matt Hooper

Truth is, being addicted to FriendFeed isn't a good lifestyle. - Robert Scoble

Well said Robert - Kelly Mitchell

April: why so sudden and why delete accounts? I don't get that. - Robert Scoble

As you should. Family is much more important than any of this. And now I have to go fix my wig! LOL - Bill Heslin

depends what they do with the service - I like friendfeed and facebook so I think it will probably work okay for me - Nick Stone

Brandon: oh, oh. You said it "Wave doesn't scale." Not good. - Robert Scoble

FF also has good tools for using it in moderation -- best of day, week, which you can get by email. Lists help. - Bruce Lewis

I have been spending most of my time on Brightkite. It's a smaller community and more fun. A better alternative than twitter or facebook. - John C Ferron

Robert, and yes when he does that (Money in Search), it will change the playing field in lateral ways across the Internet, especially in ePortfolios and other like applications that don't need to be walled gardens - Melanie Reed

Your right, Robert, but you would eventually learn to moderate your use, and a service like this is going to be needed - Stephen Pickering

so much DRAMA - Kevin Pruett

Kevin, the Drama is warranted - Stephen Pickering

And Leo and Dick Debartolo are on the wine train, missing all this...I envy them...lol - Bill Heslin

Will there ever be an app that just leaves facebook out of the equation - we could only dream - Ryan Gerritsen

i'm leaving, watching from twitter would be a better option for me. - rama mamuaya

I am not likely to invest time in another community that I don't have a stake in. If I contribute it will be because I have a personal interest and am part of the team that runs the show. That is the only way I will feel comfortable investing my time & energy into it. - April Russo (app103)

If we could get the other "Rock Stars" who are obviously having a "virtual prayer meeting" somewhere to get together and talk about what changes they wish to see and what they would like to see develop for social media, Twitter, Facebook, Friendfeed and now this Google Wave, we would probably all feel a little better as we might be able to see down the dark cold tunnel but they're out... more... - Jeunelle Foster

i think that I'll keep posting to friendfeed until it fully integrates with facebook - Carlos Leiva Burotto

Did you guys see Dave Winer's URL shortner, http://rp.ly? Genius. - Stephen Pickering

Jeunelle: Rizzn and Louis Gray and I did a podcast earlier where we talked through some of our feelings. It was very, um, theraputic. - Robert Scoble

hahaha I must of missed it, I'll dig it up. A bit quiet still though. Haven't heard peep from Chris Brogan and all them other STARS - Jeunelle Foster

Louis's blog post was classic. - Bruce Lewis

Man, I can understand Louis' feelings. Look how much he and Scoble have put into this - Stephen Pickering

I'll continue to use FF until there's reason not to. I'm patient enough to see what happens to it. What's the hurry? - Cathryn Hrudicka

I just started on Friendfeed. It can't go away! - Paul McElligott

Lets start FeedFriend - the Bizaro friendfeed minus Facebook integration - Ryan Gerritsen

Well, I was rather hoping for some sort of joint deal between Twitter & FF... I'm not sure if I'll stick around in FF or not. I'm definitely not a fan of Facebook - Tim Bergman

Paul, that's what so frustrating. Just given time, we know it would have caught on - Stephen Pickering

I'm staying... - Luis

Thanks for feeding the flames, there, Scoble. *WHAT* on earth is so scary about all this? - Brad McCrorey

Brad, FF has died. Scoble made this thing. And what does he get out of it? Nuttin - Stephen Pickering

Was this the Exit Strategy? I don't see how FF makes money right now? - Keith Rowland

Stephen: I got you all as friends. - Robert Scoble

:-) - Stephen Pickering

This really SUCKS because when you don't have great "developers" to put something together like FriendFeed, you're really just gonna have to either take it up the ass or commit suicide. I'll hang myself 1st with all my clothes on :) - Jeunelle Foster

Jeunelle HAHAHAHAHHAAHAHHAHAHAHAHAH - Stephen Pickering

I'm wherever good, smart peeps are ('cuz I'm not smart enough). I don't invest much in tools - it's the people I care for. I'm not gonna abandon FF now but I understand that we'll need a way to foster the kind of community that got fostered here. Nothing lasts forever - and that's mostly a good thing in the long run. - phil baumann from Android

i'll be here until either the bitter end or something else comes along ... i'm really hoping that the ff-team will turn facebook into more of what it was before the apps came along... i think that's when FB really took a downward turn for me - Chris Heath

I follow the Cheese! - Rich Weaver

Venues like this will come and go, the whole social media landscape is in a constant state of flux I don't see why so many are up in arms. The life cycle of all the current venues are short and most of the leaders are nearing the end of their lives as we know it. But fear not, many new shiny toys will be bestowed upon us to play with. Now let's be social again! (ps. I'm sure we've seen NOTHING yet!) - Paul Monaco

Tweet: the cheese is in Zuckerberg's office! :-) - Robert Scoble

And for anyone that wants to know why I am deleting my account and not just moving away and leaving it to rot like i would normally do...just read the policies of facebook. Anywhere I have an account with data I don't want to be exploited commercially, in a way that exploits me personally, I'd delete it just as fast if the service were bought by facebook. - April Russo (app103)

Zuckerberg is Master of the Universe. He spent 4 hours with Paul Friday. That would have an effect on anyone - Stephen Pickering

I know I am able to post status updates in Facebook to "Everyone" now, but when will we be able to search these open status updates? - Kevin Whalen from iPhone

I can't wait till my mom gets one of my "Queenie" updates....that's gonna b fun...lol.. - Bill Heslin

Kevin, when God, ie Mark Zuckerberg, says you can - Stephen Pickering

I love FF but I think this is a great move. If FB takes the best ideas from FF and they open it up theres is so much potential for a great community. - Gary Gannon

Definitely see what happens... Not looking forward to Facebook turning this into a free-for-all like Facebook :-) - Maria Reyes-McDavis

Gary a potential for $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ - Stephen Pickering

Not going anywhere for the time being. I'm not a big Twitter fan, and unless FB makes some big time changes, it just doesn't do it for me. Will be listening for any other social media that might come round the bend. - Bonnie Foster

We are getting tired of all those constant platform changes, aren't we? - Harald Felgner

Harald Yes! - Stephen Pickering

I say we all leave Facebook instead. - Larry Roth

Herald and Stephen, Yes! More and different is not always better, just more and different. - Melanie Reed

I can't leave Facebook. I have too much built up there. And that won't do anything anways. It will just be a small blip to them. - Mathew™ one of a kind

so what content aggregator in the absence of FF? - WarLord

My apologies if this has already been asked, but Robert you are very close the FF team. You had no idea this was coming? - Ben Hanten

I'm not leaving. I like FriendFeed and Facebook. - Kimber Scott

Ben: not one iota. I did sense that they were struggling to figure out how to compete, but didn't think they would sell. Paul always told me he didn't want to sell. - Robert Scoble

Robert - I'm confused - on the one hand you've said this is such a great thing for FF as well as FB - but on the other hand you also say you're leaving FF because of of it. Why - if this is such a great thing for FF? - Matthew Blaisdell

WarLord: there isn't a good aggregator. That's why it's stupid to delete your feeds. - Robert Scoble

OK, a friend talked me down. He told me I'd be saying sorry for starting this post by the 400th comment. He's usually right. So, instead of saying sorry, I'm going drinking. See ya in the lobby in 10 minutes! - Robert Scoble

I may be dense about this, but why would you leave until you saw which way it was going? - Jerry Kidd

Good question, Jerry. I wanna know this, too. - Brad Williamson

Robert, I think he struggled with it, but 4 Hours with Mark is a big persuasion - Stephen Pickering

Matthew: I expect that the engineers will get put onto Facebook. So, if the smartest people are working on Facebook and not on FriendFeed, why would I stay here? Why wouldn't I start moving my work and social graph and all that over to Facebook? - Robert Scoble

LOL...there ya go Robert...I knew you would come around...Drink Drink!!! have a really nice cocktail... - Bill Heslin

The people I've come to know on FriendFeed are what I'd miss though, so I'd like to take my social graph with me wherever I might end up next. There's a business opportunity right there. - Aaman (Clone of FF)

Dunno if I'll leave the ship... - Wario

When I think about it - I found your post as well as the TechCrunch article via Google Friend Connect. So maybe it is time to join that Wave!? - Harald Felgner

Jerry: I said I was going to wait until I talk with the team more, but the things I'm hearing tell me they've already been bought to work on Facebook proper. So, unless someone tells me that's wrong, that tells me I should spend more and more of my time over on Facebook and not here. But my friend convinced me I'm being hasty and emotional. :-O - Robert Scoble

Mathew: Scoble said early on in this thread that he invests his time into emerging networks, not things that "are already here" I think thats why he will be moving on to the next big thing, like google wave or watchever new social network emerges out of this. I suspect that another startup will emerge to try and fill the shoes left behind by friendfeed. This is always the case. When napster left, you had morpheus and kazaa, then bit torrents. - Bryan Lee

Robert - Makes sense - except that it still doesn't seem like a great day for Friendfeed - if it just gets abandoned (by FB as well as by leaders like you...) - Matthew Blaisdell

Matthew: FriendFeed=Facebook. It's a great day for both. Cause I'll end up at Facebook either way! :-) - Robert Scoble

Anyway, these are just the emotional ramblings of someone trying to figure out how the world shifted today. Have fun! - Robert Scoble

clue to the denouement: where is the most valuable processing of this event. Right here. - Steve Gillmor

I'm just curious what new startup will roll into the limelight because of this announcement? - Bryan Lee

Robert, FriendFeed != Facebook - look at the quality of commentary/people here - Aaman (Clone of FF)

FriendFeed can stop improving right now, and I'll still stick around until something else catches up. Maybe that something else will be Facebook. I'll wait and see. - Bruce Lewis

I'm probably out. Back to open source for me at this point. Time to take another look and see how things have progressed with Laconica, JaikuEngine, NoseRub, and some of the other secondary options. I may also go crawling back to Twitter. Given a choice between Twitter and Facebook... sigh... - Ken Sheppardson

++Steve Gillmor - Bruce Lewis

Ken you'll be back. - Steve Gillmor

I don't think FB will change it all so quickly. But I do like Laconica, too. - Monique Hodgkinson

Steve you're making it hurt worse! ;-( - Stephen Pickering

Monique: It's not about rapid change, it's about where to invest effort. I don't really have any interest in investing my time and energy on Facebook... so why wait? - Ken Sheppardson

stephen how so - Steve Gillmor

I don't know where to go :( - K.D.

I'll make up my mind when I figure out what better alternative there is to Friend Feed. - Anthony Teegarden

Because we know FF has died - Stephen Pickering

Steve: Yeah, you're probably right. I appreciate the work Bret, Paul, Benjamin, et al have done, and I was really looking forward to where they were taking things... before they were taking it to Facebook. - Ken Sheppardson

I think I will just stay on twitter, because I can't stand facebook. - Tomy Thomson

Stephen: FF has died? Well, then, how am I typing to you? - Robert Scoble

Tomy, why change? You can listen to the Beatles and the Stones! - Stephen Pickering

Ken: it's all good. they're moving to a radically larger playground, and they can't afford to abandon those who appreciate them - Steve Gillmor

They will keep FF just will make it better - Johni Fisher

Choose I meant - Stephen Pickering

Please stop with FF has died chatter! - Bryan Lee

I'll wait to learn more before making any decisions - Herb Hernandez

Robert, well, metaphorically. Whether its a few months or a year - Stephen Pickering

Tomy: Twitter is like Facebook but without likes and comments. Oh, wait, Facebook is a lot like FriendFeed already. I just commented on Louis Gray's item there. Oh, and there's applications. We can play games! :-) Herb: I'll try to go see the team next week. I'm also interviewing Yelp. - Robert Scoble

But Steve, what if the larger "playground" turns out to be very different from the one pitched to them? What if the FF team finds that their vision isn't shared after all? - Bruce Lewis

Robert, ok maybe you are right. Maybe it will be like the R&D. That would be great! - Stephen Pickering

Stephen: are you trying to get on the Gillmor Gang? We seem to kill things before they are really dead there too. - Robert Scoble

Hey Robert , you make friendfeed slower ! I guess you should leave here really x) - Melissa Taylor

Anyway, I'm going drinking. For real this time. - Robert Scoble

Robert, HAHAHAHAHAHHAHAAHHAHAHAHA - Stephen Pickering

they can go build it again. but zuckerberg has been wanting this for some time - Steve Gillmor

need to wait what will happen to FF - Toni @ NavinoT

I'm planning on easing out of Friendfeed in the next couple of days, so I can get the contacts of people I know on here and who's opinions I value. - Jon, the Beartato of FF

Pickering: RSS is dead, not FF - Steve Gillmor

Steve, oh yes, If I were him, I would pull out all stops to get this team. I totally understand from a business perspective, all perspectives - Stephen Pickering

business is design - Steve Gillmor

HAHAHA great comeback Steve. On that note I think I'll have a beer. :) - Bryan Lee

Steve, OK, I'll keep the faith that maybe Scoble's idea that this could be a Facebook R&D could happen. That would be great!!!! - Stephen Pickering

Steve, did you see the post about this being an opportunity for Google Reader? I think it was by Jorge Escobar. - Bruce Lewis

Reading through all this is hilarious. We really should have a social media reality show Robert - Jeunelle Foster

no bruce, how so - Steve Gillmor

Jeunelle, Robert went drinking :) - Stephen Pickering

So he ain't all that. Just kidding hehehehe :) - Jeunelle Foster

He was saying Reader has most of the features of FF, and this could be their chance to expand and fill the niche FF filled: http://friendfeed.com/social-... - Bruce Lewis

disagree bruce GR has no explicit contract with users - Steve Gillmor

Contract or contact? - Bryan Lee

Wave might be boosted, but has similar immaturity at the social graph level - Steve Gillmor

I don't understand the part about the contract. - Bruce Lewis

If Ning is 750m why FF is just 50m ? - Johni Fisher

users consciously contribute metadata to FF - Steve Gillmor

Do we want Google to buy Twitter? - Stephen Pickering

@Steve @Bruce, here's the post http://jungleg.com/2009... -- it's a crazy idea but GR could make an extra effort and put up a better web experience - Jorge Escobar

I like FriendFeed, a lot, but too few of my friends use the service to make it really useful. So I guess I'll leave. - Adam Washington

Adam, stay, if even only for the aggregating features - Stephen Pickering

You are testing us Scoble. - Özer (Wrzl) Dölekoğlu

YES he's sitting in the back laughing while drinking Peppermint Schnaps - Jeunelle Foster

Scobles outta here. He went to get a life! hehehehehehehe - Stephen Pickering

totally staying....this really is just the beginning....and, i just built FF into all of my Intro to Soc sections!!!! - Chad Gesser

I thought you said you'd hand in there until they turn the last server off. What changed your mind? - Paul Chaney

Speaking of Google. What was the point of them buying Jaiku and doing nothing with it? - Bryan Lee

I'll at least stay for aggregation and extending 140 character tweets, and pray maybe it will become Facebooks R&D, but I know that's a longshot - Stephen Pickering

I should get a life too but alas the temptation is too great for "attention whoring" - Jeunelle Foster

Jeunelle HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH - Stephen Pickering

hehehe lol - Jeunelle Foster

Regarding the "team's plans", I really don't expect to hear anything from Bret, Paul, et al. At this point I'm happy to let the Facebook (i.e. the non-FriendFeed) folks try to convince me that they're ready to do things differently. That involves more than just hiring a team. - Ken Sheppardson

Well, maybe Paul can influence Mark not "to be evil" - Stephen Pickering

those who think FB has any choice but to go down the FF road are not thinking this through - Steve Gillmor

@Stephen, I was alternating between friendfeed and twitter (stones and beatles, respectively :P) but I don't see the point in staying with a dying technology, which unfortunately is where friendfeed is headed. The tech of friendfeed itself will hopefully live on in facebook. I really think facebook has become a slightly less obnoxious version of myspace, and that's being nice. - Tomy Thomson

Steve, Oh, I totally understand. It was genius of them. Proves how Mark is indeed Master of the Universe - Stephen Pickering

Steve, self-interest does not guarantee anything. People and companies can act irrationally. - Bruce Lewis

So Steve, do you see two separate properties indefinitely? Or does Facebook just slowly start too look more FF-like, then one day they redirect friendfeed.com to facebook.com? - Ken Sheppardson

yes bruce take twitter for example - Steve Gillmor

But Paul could end up being a great influence on Mark - Stephen Pickering

not indefinitely Ken, but long enough to transfer enough value to avoid making twitter look like the good guys - Steve Gillmor

Steve, will Google buy Twitter? - Stephen Pickering

you're "VERY excited" about the deal, but plan to leave friendfeed? why, exactly? i don't get it... - Shawn C. Reed

dunno, don't really care - Steve Gillmor

*eye roll* thread is getting to the point where it's too long and people are now asking questions that have been answered thrice.....Lock down time. - Matthew DeVries

ff was the important value, not twitter - Steve Gillmor

Steve, why didn't Ff take over FB? Yeah Facebook has the money, but it's the inferior product. - Matthew DeVries

Oh sure, who do you want in your office, Ev or Paul Bucheit? Paulllllll! - Stephen Pickering

Stephen, didn't the TechCrunch article say that the FF team would be split between two bosses, neither of which was Mark? - Bruce Lewis

matthew who says they didn't - Steve Gillmor

That's right. Paul may end up running that thing, or at least be No.2 - Stephen Pickering

@ Robert: The majority of apps on FB are useless imo. Every time I log on I get bombarded by 'add your relative' and 'blackjack' app requests. And don't get my started on the quizzes and other BS. Ah well, I will join your fan page on facebook! - Tomy Thomson

ff has been running dev for a year - Steve Gillmor

Wow - isn't this jumping to conclusions? No one has said anything's going away, nor do we know what they're doing to do with it. Stick around, wait to see what happens, then jump. Nothing's happened yet - I think it will all be for the better in the end and you'll know where to go when the FF Team says Jump. - Jesse Stay

Kurt, he's gonna sit on it for a while, see what shakes out - Stephen Pickering

jesse skip to the bottom for the apology - Steve Gillmor

The FF Team hasn't let us down yet, have they? I still trust them - only when they break that trust do we jump. - Jesse Stay

@Scobleizer I've been on Google Wave for about a week working on an interesting idea I have for it. It's very promising but its very alpha right now. You won't find it worth your time just yet. - Noah White

jumping is bullshit, no place to go - Steve Gillmor

Ah - sorry Robert - didn't see the clarification towards the bottom. Thanks Steve. - Jesse Stay

Jesse, you still in the Boston area? - Bruce Lewis

Why rush to judgment? Even if the "team's plans" are off-base, what's the base? And what's off? Experience, resourcefulness, respect for users and smarts under fire all matter more than "plans." Wait & keep seeing. - Doc

What the hell? Just because someone buys FriendFeed everyone has to ditch it? ABORT SHIP, ABORT SHIP! Doesn't really make sense so soon. Has anything changed yet? Is it the end of the world? Don't just leave because everyone says they will either. Stick around, the ship is still afloat. - Nick Humphries

the doctor is in the house - Steve Gillmor

But, if they did pull the plug, with bandwidth and computing halving every year, there would be another one of these pop up in no time - Stephen Pickering

I don't see a point in leaving Friendfeed until the doors close on us... if and when that happens. - Alex Knight

Actually facebook is the most popular rss reader of all time :) - Christian Burns from iPhone

Bruce, we just left today. I'm actually in Niagara Falls, NY right now. Just finished watching a beautiful view of the Falls at night. - Jesse Stay

There's a house? - Doc

Steve, is that Doc Searls? - Stephen Pickering

of cards - Steve Gillmor

hover over the name stephen - Steve Gillmor

Jesse, if anybody can persuade me (us?) that Facebook is going to be good for the FF team it's you. Maybe write a blog post or something. - Bruce Lewis

Don't get so close. - Doc

unfollow please sidney - Steve Gillmor

Doc, Calacanis recommended your book to his audience on THis Week in Startups. Can't wait to read it! - Stephen Pickering

I just left facebook a couple weeks ago - hope friendfeed doesn't devolve into quizzes and walled gardens - Doug Holton

It's the Gillmor Gang in a perpendicular universe. - Doc

yes it is - Steve Gillmor

and about fucking time - Steve Gillmor

Stephen, make sure it's the *new* 10th anniversary edition of Cluetrain. Both it and the old one are being sold. 8 extra chapters in the new. - Doc

No doubt, Steve - Christian Burns from iPhone

I'm in it to win it. FF isn't shutting down tomorrow or next week. But it's funny to me that so many dicuss the content... It's the connections made with others that are in jeopardy, not the LOLCat photos... - MVB (Curmudgeon of FF) from fftogo

Because of Quantum Wave effects there are an infinite number of Universes, some of which The Gillmor Gang is still broadcasting - Stephen Pickering

Bruce, I'll be working on a post really soon. Also, Louis Gray and I are going to record a phone call about it tomorrow, which I think should prove useful. I've got a lot of knowledge about Facebook, and he does about FriendFeed. - Jesse Stay

we never stopped stephen - Steve Gillmor

Heheheheheheheheh - Stephen Pickering

JFC, I was gonna go to bed, and here we are. Wherever this is. Do we all really live in Scoble's butt? - Doc

Doc comes through with yet another metonym: the perpendicular universe (= FF). - Nick in Manila

I would have had something out sooner but I've been driving a car all day. :-) - Jesse Stay

no it's Marshall McLuhan's butt - Steve Gillmor

Is this SRC? - Doc

Kurt, oh yeah, I totally get that and so does Scoble, but you've got to understand his short term hurt. Look at how much energy he put into this thing, and what did he get? Nuttin - Stephen Pickering

You mean McLuhan is in Scoble's body? He's in the movie Being Robert Scoble? - Doc

Nonsense Stephen he gets paid in attention every single time - Steve Gillmor

Social relay chat? - Christian Burns from iPhone

No who's on first - Steve Gillmor

Scoble Relay Chat. - Doc

the medium is the message - Steve Gillmor

OK, OK, Steve. I admit, I listened to Dave Winer's chat this evening about it - Stephen Pickering

yeah I read the liner notes instead - Steve Gillmor

Confessions of Stephen and Steve - Jeunelle Foster

And the medium is the network? - Stephen Pickering

Are we paying Scoble now? Are we his excreta and are those a form of currency? - Doc

as richard manuel used to say the check's in yr mouth - Steve Gillmor

Doc, HAHAHAHAHHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHA - Stephen Pickering

I thought it was "the check is coming in your mouth." Just looking for accuracy here. - Doc

no, doc it's a contraction of 2 of the 3 promises - Steve Gillmor

I forget what the 3rd is - Steve Gillmor

I'll love you in the morning? - Doc

could be - Steve Gillmor

Well, it's almost morning here. I'll tape this show and watch later. G'night or g'morning, all. - Doc

Goodnight, Doc! - Stephen Pickering

I was wondering how long this would take to happen. Soon as I saw FF being purchased by Facebook I knew you would bolt. Not 100% surprising. - Christopher Mercer

Part of beauty of FF: all their shows are taped. And yet open ended. - Nick in Manila

It depends how much FF changes. No reason to leave until and unless it gets annoying. - Igor Goldkind

It's "I'll respect you in the morning." - Sean Gallagher

Oh, I'm not leaving. Hell, I even still have a myspace account. It's just a question of engagement - Stephen Pickering

Good night all. Tip for Jeunelle: You get more attention if you make your feed public. Make a group for your private stuff. - Bruce Lewis

they'll have to scrub this one pretty good before they shut it down - Steve Gillmor

Maybe Jeunelle doesn't want attention. - Sean Gallagher

Hell, they keep Orkut going. Storage and bandwidth keep getting cheaper. Might as well keep this going - Stephen Pickering

Orkut! The favorite social network of 9 out of 10 Brazilians. - Sean Gallagher

And 9 out 10 of the best looking women! - Stephen Pickering

True. - Sean Gallagher

@scobleizer that means half of the total activity on friendfeed will be reduced - Sidharth Dassani

Maybe if Facebook hadn't stolen all Scoble's data, he'd stop worrying and learn to love them. - Sean Gallagher

Actually even os Brasileiros are coming over to FB - Stephen Pickering

My mother is on Facebook. The end is nigh. - Sean Gallagher

"Maybe Jeunelle doesn't want attention" - says who? I only stepped away to pour me a nice glass of Sauvengion Blanc", and thank you Bruce for the advice I'll look into that tomorrow. After all tomorrow is another day. Twiddly Dee - Jeunelle Foster

there is no reason to leave. I seriously doubt facebook will kill it. - Logan Lindquist

What's the record number of comments? - Stephen Pickering

Logan, I hope your right - Stephen Pickering

Maybe if I blog my twitter of Scoble's FriendFeed and then link it from Facebook via a Digg of a del.icio.us bookmark, it will create a singularity and this thread will have never happened. - Sean Gallagher

What about Identi.ca? - Jerry Heiselman

Sean, you may even create a time machine! - Stephen Pickering

Can someone comment on what April Russo said about Facebook content policy? Seems like a very important piece of the puzzle. - metalerik

I wouldn't worry about it. The markets will take care of it. If Facebook becomes evil, the masses will fork somewhere else. We're in the age of Openness - Stephen Pickering

I will only leave friend feed if it becomes a facebook clone. I can't stand facebook but I still use it cause my friends and family use it, but if friendfeed becomes annoying like face book then I see no point in staying here. - Colide81 (James) from iPhone

James, Touche - Stephen Pickering

You know Sean maybe smarter than he looks....hmmmmm :) and what's with that bird head? - Jeunelle Foster

Quote of the Day: "Microsoft and Twitter deserve each other. They are both somewhat buggy and don't come up with new features very often. ;-)" - Robert Scoble - Diego Barros 

It's a starling fledgeling. The perfect symbol for social networking-- it eats whatever you give it, then poops on you. - Sean Gallagher

That's what I want to reincarnate as....an angry poopin bird - Jeunelle Foster

Just reading all the news about FF and FB. Disapoints me personally, biz wise nice job. Um not a huge FB user so I don't know what my plans are yet. Like you wait a bit and see.... - Bryan Thatcher from iPhone

I hope FF doesn't go away and fold in to FB. I don't need FB. It's like bringing a machine gun to a knife fight. - Diego Barros 

I won't leave FF until they make me or there's no community left. Whichever comes first. - FFing Enigma (aka Tina)

We'll never get to talk to Robert Scoble again. :-( - Jannifer @wordsforliving

Well, it's made me think twice about vesting too much into any one service (so has the demise of tr.im). I use Facebook, Twitter, Livejournal, and FF all pretty equally, so I guess I'm not feeling this as much as some. - Bill Kinney

on to Google Wave. - Jason Wilson from BuddyFeed

Jannifer, Yes we will on his JS-Kit Echo commenting system he will put on his blog. It's real time like this - Stephen Pickering

I'm leaving. Google Wave, Twitter, Reader will plenty suffice now. Farewell, former friend. - Californian

Oh Stephen - I'm not sure what that is... but it won't be like Friendfeed. :-( - Jannifer @wordsforliving

At some point I imagine I will. I have no interest in joining facebook. When I do depends on what facebook does with ff. - Quasar

I'm sticking around till FB screws it up. But I was keeping FF separate from FB because most of my FB friends are my born-again Christian relatives who won't like the controversial stuff of mine that makes it onto FF's news feed. Still, I'm going to look for other similar sites. Posterous is one. - Dennis Jernberg

I really want a Google Wave invite now.. - Peter

I'm not leaving but I'm not moving to Facebook. The main thing for me is to keep the contacts I've gained from FriendFeed and hope we all can meet on another similar service somewhere somehow. - Kol Tregaskes

Ditto what Kol just said. - LogEx

ditto on the Google wave invite - Kim

you hit the nail on the head there Kol - Kim

Maybe. But i really want Google Wave invite. - ★ Soner Gönül

It's hard to say at this point. The only thing that's changed is who pays the server bill. Ask me in a week. And yes, a Google Wave invite would sure go a long way to make this better for me. - Dale

Joined Posterous. http://jbug.posterous.com Wouldn't mind a Google Wave invite, though... - Dennis Jernberg

Me too, Dennis. :-) - Kol Tregaskes

I don't leave if Facebook doesn't make something dramamatic to FF - Kristian Salonen

I will wait and see. - Matt G

Leaving a favorite site isn't always a conscious decision for me. The cool site loses its cool and you just kind of drift off. - Dale from email

Oh yeah, and I added my Posterous blog to my FriendFeed feed, so you'll be seeing whatever I post there in your home feed here. That is, if you subscribe to me here, or if one of your subscribers likes or comments. Me, leave? Not yet! ;) - Dennis Jernberg

I'll be sticking around just a little while longer. - April Russo (app103)

I'm here for the duration - Charlie Anzman

I'm loyal until they make it worth me leaving. - Jesse Stay

I'm here until they slam the gates shut. But I am hiding all your BS posts about it being a good thing :) - jcunwired

If you want to be sure that I quit Friendfeed you have to see my burial. I will never quit while being alive! :-) - Kolja

I'm staying but it's like when you know that the company you work for has been bought by someone else and might close it, you lose motivation and start looking for another job, it's hard to invest time and energy if there might be no future. Not that the future of FF was guaranteed before but now it does not look good at all. - M F

I'm heading to Plurk! who's with me? *tumbleweed* - Iain Baker

Like I said before, I'm staying here until the end. - Mathew™ one of a kind

Friendfeed is two totally different things: the original RSS aggregation service, and a social network service/community. Lifestream.fm is a reasonable replacement for the former. As to the latter, it's the people, not the tech they're using, that makes FF special. I've benefited greatly as a 'consumer' here, reading posts - if that continues on Facebook, it will probably get me to... more... - SteamCentral

i'll be around until it becomes unbearable, probly until it's been damaged badly by FB style feature creep and riddled with ads and spammers. oh, and absolutely stupid censorship policies. that'll be a real killer. - Joe Silence is not dead

not leaving. NEVER hoho I haven't left FB nor friendser. - 'Like' robot (frɐnc)

The CloneFeed group has given me some interest. It gives some hope in case FF really goes away or merges badly with FB. I like FB but just don't want to fully mix the two activities/audiences. - manielse (Mark Nielsen)

Go to posterous. Here is mine: http://pingmicro.com/ - Svartling from iPhone

I'd rather keep my Friendfeed as my "professional aggregation" and Facebook as personal stuff. I blog, tweet, etc. stuff that a lot of my friends could care less about. And I post stuff to Facebook that isn't interesting or relevant to clients / followers. - Gregg Le Blanc

Google Wave is what I am looking for. The problem with moving to Facebook is that I use it for close friends and family so things like comments and pics etc that I post to it I would not want to have available to all of the contacts I have on FF at the moment. Mainly because I like to separate those I know from those that I converse with if that makes sense. I loved that on FF I could... more... - Travis Koger

Whilst I am not 'leaving' FF, I will not be investing anywhere near the type of interaction I have done previous to yesterday's announcement as I just see it as wasted time. - Travis Koger

I have to wait & see what, I don't want to lose the community; where do I go? This feels like Pownce all over! - clarke thomas

not me. - Edward Barnieh

Nope, not yet. I still dream about FF and FB to coexist. I think Facebook is even more boring now, after this announcement. Anyone else feels this way? - Patrik Johansson

Not me. I will be glad when all the people who say they are leaving do so my feed won't be full of people saying they are leaving. - Alan Simpson

What becomes of the broken hearted? - Joe Dawson

I'm staying on! - Charles Lau

FF is my first big social networking investment (or time) - I'll stay and then move, if forced. I'll certainly investigate other tools in an effort to fill any gap left by FaceFeed. - Jason Miller

I just saw that a woman's twittering her childbirth made the front page of BBC's world news webpage. I don't know to make of it, but I don't want to hang out at Twitter much anymore. - Mitch

Mitch: we Twittered our childbirth in 2007 and we will again in September, but probably not on our main account. - Robert Scoble

won´t leave!!! i LOVE friendfeed. @Mitch i know what you mean. So many stories and this is the one they picked? - Flynn (Michael A. Volz)

i think i'm stayin, and wait what's goin on facebook. i will feel upset if they dont allow the users to make their choice of using one or other site, but looks like they gonna force to use FB instead of FF :( - Dani Martínez

Not sure how on board with FriendFeed I ever was to begin with to be honest... - Gurpreet

FriendFeed will be fine - FaceBook is fine - and so is Twitter - I might check out AmpliFeeder, I suspect quite a few FriendFeeders will migrate there as the days go by. - Chris Loft

Not leaving FF but I can't wait till it's properly integrated with Facebook. Interesting thing: Wave's API is open so there's nothing to stop Facebook creating an app to make Facebook & Wave work great together. Not so much either/or as and... and..! - Matt Moran

Has anyone tried amplifeeder? edit: so far don't see any friending abilities though - metalerik

Why leave? But will be open to see other options - facebook doesn't (currently) provide to me what I get here. - amygeek

Facebook bought friendfeed http://adage.com/digital... - Rob Johnson

OH NO, I just finish moving all my stuff HERE! - Terence

Robert: I closed down my embeds today. Sad for my blog. - Mark Essel

I stay on FriendFeed, on Twitter, on Facebook, etc. - Emmanuel Gadenne

I won't delete my account, but as FF morphs into the ball of confusion that is Facebook, I won't be very active. - Jeremy Brooks

I will. No point sticking around when you know it is going to die sooner or later. With twitter you still have the hope.... - Davide D'Incau

I'll leave Facebook if FF gets harmed. And go back to Identi.ca... ;-) - Torrid Luna

Yeah, I'll probably leave Facebook too. If they're going to "steal" the FriendFeed functions and just let FF die, I will not have any sympathies left for Facebook. I'll go "all Google" or something. - Patrik Johansson

I'll stay on FF, FB and T, and BK, and other, BrightKite is not well utilised, is good even on beta. - Andy Ghozali

I joined posterous for blogging/lifestreaming and will continue to use twitter. I might go on facebook once in a while, which is what I was doing anyway. - Tomy Thomson

Robert: If you're looking for an awesome real-time discussion platform, you should migrate to Fluther. http://www.fluther.com - Ben

I'm staying put and watching the ship sink. I'd really like to believe that FriendFeed will have some longevity, but I won't hedge my bets. - Tyson Key

Steve Gillmor said "clue to the denouement: where is the most valuable processing of this event. Right here." so for now, FF looks like the space. - Barbara K. Iverson

I intend to stick around to see what Facebook have planned. I think the takeover has everything to do with the direction FB's been heading in lately, what with their open challenge to Twitter - Dennis Jernberg

I don't see it as leaving, but rather seeing the possibility that it might leave us. FF was and still is just about my favorite site and uberaggregatorthing that I ever saw.... - Rob Schieber

+100 Rob Schieber - Tyson Key

I will stay. Facebook will not Win. - TheHenry

Nope... I'll stay, even if I ride it to a bitter end. - Mark Jepsen

depends. if they stay seperate services, i wont like the acquisition,but i'll stay. if they become 1 service, i'm out. and where is every1 going from friend feed anyhow. what else is there? - echostreamer

Will wait and see what happens with FB - Ted Kinzer

fb ruins everything. Have the Privacy policy "not "changed since fb came into the pic? Can they not build their own ideas instead of buying everyone else's? leave us geeks to play in our playground and stay in yours. greedy buggers. The second they pull a skanky fb move i'm out. bitches. - seastarerrin

I'm here till the ship goes down. - Lee Watters

Leaving no. Checking out other venues yes. - Martha

Just maybe Facebook will listen to the Friendfeed engineers in charge of user interface/usability starting with the type size and fonts. Not all marriages are made in heaven. Culture clashes are sure to pop up. - Alan Morris

I am leaving Web - Back to Telnet - Dominique Rabeuf

Dominique, too late. The web already assimilated it with the telnet: url schema. - Bruce Lewis

OK so only snmp/ssh - Dominique Rabeuf

Hell no, not leaving. Best service on the web. - Christopher Galtenberg from iPhone

gonna ride this one out to shore. - Sean Oliver

keep using FriendFeed till they pull the plug. Leaving the service will make it more likely that it will go away. - Cassidy from IM

hu? - Dries Grobler

back to blogs :-) - Mostafa Lameei

I was about to focus a little more on FF but since I heard about the purchase and read rumors about FF being integrated in FB and being shutdown and all this, I'm getting a little ... well.. undecided.. Just checked Streamy, didn't like it. If a.tinythread.com get's more development, this might be the next thing to migrate to. I'm sure not moving to FaceBook. I have my account, I have... more... - Dan van Moll

Minitel 3815 (?) - Dominique Rabeuf

Not interested in being part of Facebook. Goodbye, FriendFeed. :-( - TranceMist

I wish more folks would see the big picture. We need to focus on independent projects that are NOT part of the Google-Yahoo-Microsoft borg. As soon as a site gets absorbed it is time to find another independent site. Yes, I do realize that some may have actually been part all along and only pretending they were independent in the first place - especially if they were founded by... more... - Internet Strategist

Paul Buchheit

After signing the papers :)

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What's with the fists, Paul? :) - April Buchheit

congrats Paul - Zee.

I thought it would make a funny picture April. - Paul Buchheit

Secret backyard meetings FTW. :) - EricaJoy

What? No lawyers in suits? Mark's setting a pretty low bar on the dress code for this sort of thing...:) - Tomas Remotigue

Our lawyers were wearing shorts actually -- no air conditioning at their office on Sundays I guess. - Paul Buchheit

Zuckerberg's the only one from FB who could be bothered to show up? - Andy Bakun

American big business such a formal affair - Robert Higgins

Contrary to popular misconception, lawyers don't actually enjoy wearing suits. Haul us into work on a Sunday, and we'll definitely be dressing comfortably. :) - Brian Chang

Andy, the person on the left is Vaughan Smith from Facebook. Sanjeev (the fourth FriendFeed founder) is not pictured because he was boarding an airplane. - Paul Buchheit

Paul, that's so awesome. FB's an awesome company to do business with. - Jesse Stay

Congrats. Happy for you guys. - Tsega Dinka

Must have been exciting, congrats. - sean percival

Congrats, and thanks for having us here. Much success in whatever comes next. - Chris Baskind

Yeah, wishing you guys all the best, its been good fun hanging around here thanks!! - Mel Buckpitt

Congrats to you guys! - Jack Wilson, K4SAC

Congratulations you guys!!!! I love the Teak Conference Room table :) - Susan Beebe

:-( - Jim Hearts FF

Hey Paul congratulations - FriendFeed has been leading the way since its inception. Are the photos you've posted copy-protected or could I use them in a story on the deal? - Mitch

Mitch, feel free to use the photos. - Paul Buchheit

where's the ...friendfeed shirts then?? ;o) - Rob Sellen :o)

SWEET!!! Congratulations! - Chad Lester

...congrats.can't wait to see what happens with both FF and FB as a result of this. - .LAG liked that

Please try to keep Friendfeed like it was if they let you. Either way, congrats on the financials! - Josh Haley from iPhone

Congrats and best wishes for the future. - Jeff Stannard

For $50m you could at least have hired a photographer who doesn't shake so much. :) - Rodrigo Jaroszewski

FF was the cutting edge whereas FB is quickly becoming the mainstream. Unfortunately, the mainstream does not necessarily equal innovation and pushing the envelope. We all suffer when innovation is chilled. But on the other hand, congrats to the FF crew. They made their money! - laosan

Congratulations guys! - Diego Barros 

I think the Tiger suit would have been more appropriate! But hey....shorts in a backyard is pretty cool too. - Drea Lester

Congrats! - Christopher Golda

Whatever the outcome, Friendfeed is terrific. Congratulations. - ashish

LOL, click through if you want to see pics of newly rich geeks in casual wear.. -> - Alex Schleber

Hahaha! Funny Alex.. - Bill Heslin

congratulations! keep the innovation coming... - ozlubling

VERY happy for you guys. Possibly even owe you one or two. Are we getting FriendPhone next?? Think Mark should seriously think about 'Friendbook' :) - Charlie Anzman

Congratulations to you and your team. - Maria Niles

just showed the pictures to my students and they were like, "they look like normal people!" Congrats on the deal, onward and upward! - xxx xxxxx

Congratulations, Paul -- to you and everybody at FF. - Eric Johnson

Congrats Paul, Bret and the rest of the team, this is awesome news! The big question on everyone's lips is: Who gets to have http://facebook.com/paul? :) - Fenn

Congrats, and thanks for taking us all on such a terrific ride! Big ups. :) - Pete Delucchi

You've done a great job! You deserve this and more... Congrats! - Ricardo J. Valle

now this is what a deal term meeting should look like - file under inspirational - - mediaeater

Congratulations to everyone at FF. Whose house was the deal made? - seman

I am sad .. !!! I do not know .. why .. for me its not good news - Nayan

Congratulations! - Made Adi

*cough cough* Douchebags! - Mark Wilson

++Mark - David Cook

Awesome! Congratulations! - michael silverton

Ouch . . . just a tad bit of salt in the wounds of some of your more loyal users. I've got a poker if you want to inflict a little more pain - Lindsey is Fierce!

hey, congratus Friendfeed team!!! - K.D.

+Lindsey - Kamilah Gill

I call this pic... "Six Happy Dudes & 1,000,000+ Pissed-Off FriendFeeders" - Brad Williamson

BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!! - Mathew™ one of a kind

Looks like Mathew™ has found a UI bug by flooding contiguous characters. - Jay Cuthrell

I don't get the negativity - did no one realize FriendFeed was a business? The object of a business is to sell eventually (either privately or publicly). We should be celebrating their success. This is a huge win for them, as well as Facebook. I personally think it's a huge win for the "loyal users" as well. So now we stab them in the back when they do something huge? - Jesse Stay

Not to mention we know *nothing* about what this will mean for both services. These guys haven't let us down yet, have they? - Jesse Stay

Congratulations to all of you!! - Steve de Mena

The FB/FF deal rocks. Total win for users and developers. - Steve Gillmor

My comment is because they can see by the flood of responses people are not happy and this post is just a smidge tacky. People are upset and feel betrayed and they haven't addressed that, not that I expected them too. This is pretty much inline with the way they've handled every other major change but before you only had a handful of disgruntles users whereas this time I'd say the majority are upset. - Lindsey is Fierce!

Facebook announces the acquisition of FriendFeed http://facebookmania.net/en... - Vincenzo Piromalli

Congratulations guys.. and good luck! ;) - Vincenzo Piromalli

Congratulations Paul. I hope for nothing but the best for you and FF. - Martha

We should start a PhotoShop meme on this. - Ben Hanten

Millionaire meme - Bill Heslin

Lindsey, I'm with you completely. Bad timing. Too bad there weren't photos of money being thrown in the air. - Ben Hanten

++Ben - David Cook

Congratulations Paul, you should have got more, but I guess $50m is nothing to sneeze at. Have a great wedding anniversary too, I'm sure you both deserve it. Much happiness - :) - Chris Loft

Congrats! The hard work paid off - Becca

Those are the kind of business meetings I could get used to - no suits... but selling to Facebook? Hmmm... Good for someone of course but I suppose we'll see where this ride takes us. - Ken Stewart | ChangeForge

congrats on building an amazing product and incredibly passionate community! I was mad at first, but then realize that the technology was most likely sold, not the community. I'm hoping ff community will stay somewhat untouched and features that have been built into ff will be ported to fb. - Derek Coatney

Congratulations, FriendFeeders! I'm anxious to see what changes this will bring. FriendFeed is my favorite site to visit, so hopefully y'all will find a way to maintain the FF spirit somehow. - Keith Pelczarski

http://friendfeed.com/against... - Mathew™ one of a kind

No matter the type of big change, there are those who will not like it, often simply because it's change. I for one am very pleased that two of the services I use most are joining forces, and am eager to see the new developments that come of this acquisition. Congrats to EVERYONE on the FriendFeed team. You all deserve it! You've done a great job with a small company. Now lets see what you can do with a large one :) - guruvan (Rob Nelson)

Nicely put, guruvan. - Anne Bouey

What I wonder is ... a 50-million dollar deal and no one has a camera capable of taking a clear photo? :P - Nicholas Kreidberg

Congratulations - Steve C

@Jesse Stay re: "the objective of business is to sell eventually" : Ummm, the objective of many businesses is to become profitable by providing a valuable experience to their users. Businesses that feel they can't do that are the ones that sell. - Shane Gibbons

LOL! ♫ ♫ "ooh, take the money and run"!! ♫ ♫ ;) - Vincenzo Piromalli

Congratulations to everyone involved. Well done. - Darius Dunlap

This is a very sad day in friend feed history. It is horrible because I like friend feed for how it's different from face book. I use facebook but I find it really annoying and I wouldn't use it if my friends and family weren't using it. So if Friend Feed becomes another facebook then i donno if I will keep coming to friend feed. - Colide81 (James) from iPhone

Grats. :) - Joshua Schnell

Congrats to the FF staff, but you'll have to pardon my lack of exuberance. I have mental pictures of being forced to use the FB UI and it makes me sad =( - FFing Enigma (aka Tina)

Very happy for the Friendfeed team. These pictures say it all. - Christian Burns from iPhone

Congrats -- may the FF UI stay alive! - RateBrain

Where are the photos of everyone celebrating? No beer or champagne? - Shane

Great match-up guys ! The Fabulous Friender Boys ! - Let's see some integrated mashups and extensible apps and FF UI. Given Google and Twitter a run for their money... Looks like they are going to have to "hook-up" now ! - Mike Schmidt

Congratulations Paul and the team! Hopefully we'll still get the same simple UI for FriendFeed. I'm sure however that no matter what you do, things will turn up nicely. - Ovidiu Predescu

Enjoy! - Paul Mayne

NOOOOO! I _LOVE_ friendFeed and this will change it forever. Yeah - this will improve Facebook. Great deal guys - I can not wait to see how this works out - Ric Johnson

Congratulations! :) - İdris Cin

hayırlı olsun - Sinan İŞLER

:O :( - ★amin.m★

congratulations to both parties. intuitively, it feels like the right move. - ray

Congratulations guys :) - Yalcin Parmaksiz

So the deal was done at night in someone's back yard. Weird. - Andy C

Congrats Paul, Bret and the rest of the FF team. Your smiles are priceless!! - Mohamed J

Hayırlı işler... - Onur Selek

Congratulations gentlemen! - Mutimba

Congratulations Paul. Yes, I do hope Friendfeed users and community are "treated right". - Paola Bonomo

shit all FF VC's and CO-FOUNDERS! YOU DID THE SHIT! you can safely accept all spam "app" invitations on FB. - Ahmet Alp Balkan

Ahmet: I'm disappointed to even be on the same service as you and I really can't wait until you leave. - Robert Scoble

Congrats! Maybe you'll make FB usable again... - Eran Kampf from iPhone

cngrtlti.ons I hope you will understand what i mean! - Atif UNALDI

Great vibe :) - Sharel from FriendFeed API Example

@Scobleizer: Come on you're a genius and can not realize future of FF? Turkey was one of important countries which is using FF! They asked no one about this! We hate fcking morons and stupid people on facebook, and I'm sure that this post will be real, just read it: http://ff.im/6pRmM - Ahmet Alp Balkan

But Ahmed you are still being an ass about it, trying to rain on their good times. Go find a hole under the bridge where you belong. You can be sad and not have to come out all bitchy about stuff. Clear thoughtful comments instead of going all into "fuck you" mode. - Rasmus Lauridsen

OK, that's great. I hope you can be successful at Facebook Dev Team and enjoy spending that money. - Ahmet Alp Balkan

Ahmet: I hope this helps with your inquiry -> http://friendfeed.com/about... - Clifford Kennedy

@Clifford, haha LOL. - Ahmet Alp Balkan

Bilseydik biz alırdık :) - Hamdi Yaman

wohoo, lets celebrate that ff owners for selling the land they have hired us - now we have to find another place - MobilAdam

very nice FF! Amazing team! - @RecruitingDiva - Sangeeta Narayan

valla kelepire gitmiş, fotoğraflardan belli.. - Mücahit Yılmaz

Who took the pic? - Marco Massarotto from iPhone

@MobilAdam + 1. - Ahmet Alp Balkan

@Mücahit +1 :D - Hamdi Yaman

böyle önemli bir iş için fiyat açıklanmadı ama 50 milyon $ deniyor. Bu kadar lakayt bir ortam olur mu yau. Uzaktan baksan gençler eğleniyor dersin - Fatih Hayrioğlu

Şİmdi yorumları okumadım ama çok kişisel bişi söyleyeceğim. Bu gençlerin milyon dolarları çeviriyor olması durumuna şaşıyorum. Bizim memlekette bu seviyeye gelecek mi veya? Kaç sen uzaktalar bizden bu gençler? - mustafa can

Bizim şirket sahipleri konunun belli saatler arasında, belli kıyafetlerle ofiste oturmak değil, yapılan işin niteliği olduğunu analdıkları zaman gelir tabii. Ama bence bu gavurların dediği gibi "When the hell freezes over". - özlem ercan

bu postu türkçe commentlerle doldrmak süper fikir.. sarcasm diil ciddiyim - MobilAdam

Bakmayın böyle güldüklerine arkada buyuk yatırımcılar olmasa batar gider bunlar..Adamların yatırımcıları işi biliyor... - Zeki Pehlivan

tebrikler.congratulations.gratuliere !!! - muratt

Sorry but as an FF user, I've just tried to express my thoughts about this acquisition: http://fc07.deviantart.com/fs46... - İbrahim Özdemir

Congratulations! :) - Ruben Sanchez

Great result Paul. In such a short time, millions of users, 1 new interface and a marriage with internets' celebrity. This is a period which you should write down to make it as an on-line business case. You people are really wise businessmen. Nice job, congrats! :) - Olcayto Cengiz

Not happy happy congrats bullshit from me-I used FF. - frankiecarl

Frankie, a lot of us use FriendFeed and are concerned about where things are going from here. As I said in my comment above: I'm happy for the staff but displeased with who they chose to sell to. I'm perfectly capable of feeling both emotions at the same time. - FFing Enigma (aka Tina)

@Tina ++++ - Shevonne

wonderful so normal so ordinary so simple - Thomas Power

MZ looks like he has just returned from the gym - Joe Dawson

These guys represent the most talked about entreprises (Ok even more so by geeks in the case of Friendfeed) and they're still in their 20s. We're talking millions of dollars and look how relax they look and casually they're dressed. - lelapin

Awesome, nice to see they are actually in fact human still. - Robert Schultz

Congratulations, Paul! - Bill Sodeman

Great photographs showing the very reason why 99% of all people start their own business - money! Well done and good luck for the future. - David Jagger

this is so great! congrats paul! im really happy for u guys! - Jason Pollock

congratulations guys! - Liam Daly

congratulations from me, too! mind to stay (y)ourselves. ;) - Valentina*

L-O-V-E the attire, guys. Did you end the evening with a nice barbecue and a dip in the pool? - Giulia B.

Yeah yeah, you worked hard, you got the payout, well done guys. Now. Down to business....where's OUR share? ;-) - Slippy "WildBeard" Lane

"Hi my name is Mark, I do $50m deals in my shorts!" - Simon May

Congratulations. I'm sad for us and extremely happy for you and your team. - Arleen Anderson

congratulations...can't wait to see the success of the collaboration! - Katy Barrilleaux

We better run away! - Constantine

Congratulations. I'm sure that this acquisition will be beneficial for both parties. - Volkan Özçelik

the one in the green shirt is hawt. just sayin'. - Jessie

eew, that causes diseases - Jim Norris

congrats Paul & evereyone ! - Thomas Mader

Is that Mel sitting on Paul's left? http://www.youtube.com/watch... - j1m

CHA CHING!!!!! - sofarsoShawn

congrats guys - well done!!! - Gerd Leonhard

supper! - Ahmet Koldaguc

Business is Business and we can only move forward with social-media applications as we herald a new interactive platform. Albeit thanks to the Mothers of all Mothers, Google. Frank Burns - frank burns

Mark Krynsky

Awaiting a tool to export my friends from FriendFeed to Facebook I've taken the manual approach. Find me at http://facebook.com/krynsky

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I've already stored many of you safely after visiting the list created by Kol here http://friendfeed.com/questio... you can also list your url below for good measure. - Mark Krynsky

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I did the same thing. I have a "FriendFeeders" list on Facebook now. - Nathan Chase

So, how does this work exactly? How are people working it? Just adding a bunch of new people as friends on Facebook? Giving them rights to see status updates and then start importing services to Facebook? And if you import services, you can't hide them from people like status updates right? This sucks. And I can't import more than one blog either. And there is a friend limit. See, this is why I wasn't using Facebook... maybe I'll just wait. - Araceli

Araceli, I'm importing FF users into my FriendFeed list in Facebook. There is a way to import some services which I wrote about here: http://lifestreamblog.com/how-to-... also I'm not too savvy an FB user but there does seem to be some hide controls. - Mark Krynsky

But that only helps to not lose people. How can we reproduce the FriendFeed feel on Facebook? I'm thinking we may have to wait to see what their plans are for the future. - Araceli

That's a whole nother issue and unfortunately not one I see happening over at FB anytime soon. - Mark Krynsky

Robert Scoble

Yo @ev and @Sara are having a baby tonight. What timing! And @Sara is twittering it, of course!

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Rahsheen ™, Coach Rah

Not to bring up the whole "FF is cliquish" thing again, but I think there are several people here who have proven that to be utter bullshit. There are several people that came out of nowhere since I started here on FF that are now regular contributing users that everyone enjoys engaging. Who can you think of that fits this description?

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Examples (so that I may follow them) :) - Brett Kelly

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I'd say Holden is one. I don't know where he came from. - Rahsheen ™, Coach Rah

like we've discussed, it's a good name :) - Brett Kelly from IM

that's the plan! - Brett Kelly from IM

Depending on how long you've been here, Stephen Perez and Shevonne as well. Probably cuz they're both so hot, though. - Rahsheen ™, Coach Rah

Derrick, Monique, and pea - Rahsheen ™, Coach Rah

thanks Holden :) - Brett Kelly from IM

I haven't been around for a while but I can point to a few who I think are engaging (and that I like engaging with) - Jannifer, Myrna and KolTregaskes - Wang Yip

Oh yeah! Forgot about Kol - Rahsheen ™, Coach Rah

Robert Patton - Helen Sventitsky

(will link people in a bit) - Rahsheen ™, Coach Rah

Kol for sure. - Johnny from BuddyFeed

isn't Kol like the 3rd most active user on all of FF according to some site? - Brett Kelly from IM

Thanks Rah! =D - Shevonne

What about Tina (FFing Enigma) or was she an "original" member? - JA Castillo

tina owns - Brett Kelly from IM

I'm a fake. Don't follow me. You'll be dripping in sarcasm by the time I'm done with you. - ‘-.-’ Tutivillus Grift

Brett++ - Rahsheen ™, Coach Rah

Tina had an interesting beginning here :) - Rahsheen ™, Coach Rah

BTW, how do you find your FF "Born On Date?" I know how to find it for Twitter (2007, BTW) - ‘-.-’ Tutivillus Grift

Tutivillus, there's currently no way to find that unless you saved your original "Welcome to FriendFeed" email. It's something that we have asked FF for many times, though. I'd love to have the date in our profiles somewhere. - Rochelle

Just when I can convince myself that I'm not addicted to FF, something like this comes along and reminds me that yeah, it's fun to be on here and that I'm on here a lot. :D Thanks for the mention, Rasheen. - pea

If you use Gmail and Archive instead of delete, you can pretty much find anything :) - Rahsheen ™, Coach Rah

I came out of nowhere. I think I created my account in May. - Cristo

ROFL, Chris. - Alex Scoble

I would name Alex, but his name preceded him so people might say he cheated...LOL - Rahsheen ™, Coach Rah

Rahsheen, check out my super human filter list for my favorite friendfeeders: you can google search super human filters and it comes up numero uno :D - Mark Essel

Yeah, I don't qualify for this thread. :) - Alex Scoble

Yeah, I had a bit of help because of my brother's "brand"...ugh I hate using that term. - Alex Scoble

I read that as "band". Like you're his roadie. ;-) - Spidra Webster

I would think you could add .LAG, Mona, Shey and .... Abby to the list ... not at all cliquish ... - Amani

I've been here well over a year now but thanks for the mentions guys! Gosh! :-) There are lots of people I like engaging with, too many to list here but I've been recommending some of them these last couple of weeks. - Kol Tregaskes

J-Wo - Mo Kargas

Kol, definitely. He wasn't here when I joined, but now I couldn't imagine FriendFeed without him and his quality content :) - Jemm

I came out of nowhere, and then quickly retreated from whence I came. - Will Higgins™

Who's in the clique? - Ben Hanten

I hope I'm not in a clique (except some may put me in the FFundercats group). I have been here for about a year now (thanks Steve and Robert). I try to contribute when I can. - Mol, Santa Claws

It's activity level. Anyone in the top 500 in activity is the clique. - Rodfather from iPhone

Is that the definition, Rodfather? Interesting, because that certainly takes the negative connotations of the word 'clique' out of it. If you contribute that much then you will be all over FF. - WorldofHiglet

Good to know it's a top 500 thing. I'm barely in the top 800. :) - Ben Hanten

does it really matter? just enjoy the content that is here on friendfeed - (jeff)isageek

I'm in a clique? - Amber, Random Time Lord

Yes, yes... let me think No, yes (OK your stuff is good) - Desirade

+1 Rah re: gmail searches - i found my Born on Date at 7/8/08 with a gmail search on "from:friendfeed confirm email" - Daniel J. Pritchett

Isn't the whole basis for this post the point, though? That there is some sort of proper group of people that only a subset of FriendFeed, based on an arbitrary criteria (which seems to be tied to being at the top of the activity meter), can get into? If you want to argue FriendFeed isn't cliquish, it seems it'd be more effective to show there's no "club" to get into, rather than come... more... - Mark Trapp

I think there are multiple "clubs" on FriendFeed. They do not consist of the most active users, but are somewhere further down below in the activity rank. The "open science" community on FF is one that I'm very familiar with, but I'm sure there must be many others. I enjoy FF a lot without talking to most of the best known people. Also, each of the clubs probably have a slightly different dynamic. Some are probably more open than others, and reward different kinds of behavior. - Meryn Stol

I engaged with people so gradually - I don't even remember who was here when I joined, and who wasn't. I love frf's community. That's it. The best community out there :) - Sasha Kovaliov(.com)

Why, Me of course. - Martha

No oranges for Meryn. - Cristo

Robert Scoble

I've had enough whisky and Cosmo's pizza in Boulder, CO that I really don't care that Twitter is down again.

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ah, but you do, because you posted it on FriendFeed :-) - Jesse Stay

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Jesse: heheh. Now if FriendFeed were down, great pizza and whisky wouldn't be enough! - Robert Scoble

Sounds like a country song - Keith - @tsudo

I don't care either, personally. It gives us great things to talk about on FriendFeed, so if anything, I kind of like Twitter being down. :-) - Jesse Stay

its loading for me... but i cant follow anyone. is that the issue you're having? - Frankie Warren

Of course it annoys me that it's affecting my service though - I'm very torn. - Jesse Stay

Frankie: I can't even load it. - Robert Scoble

Works fine here - Alejandro

twitter is up here .. perhaps it is the mountain air, Robert? After all the whisky :-) - Anindya Chatterjee

TweetDeck on my iPhone is working, though, so maybe my hotel connection is screwed up. Or, maybe I'm screwed up. :-) - Robert Scoble

It's sloggy but working down here in Denver - so it's probably a combination... How long are you in the area for Robert? - Lucretia Pruitt

Lucretia: we're in Boulder until early Saturday morning. - Robert Scoble

Can someone confirm that the "Follow" is working? - Frankie Warren

Frankie: weird. Following works on my iPhone but not on my laptop. Sigh. - Robert Scoble

FYI, from Twitter clients, you may see sporadic results - Twitter's only allowing 150 requests per IP at the moment, so you may see it work, you'll hit your limit, and then it won't work again. But other apps may work at the same time. Twitter's not being very open about it all right now, I imagine to keep back the DDoS. - Jesse Stay

I know that you're probably slammed with @techstars stuff, but coming up there tomorrow afternoon to see George Smith from Crocs... I'll watch your stream to see if there's a chance to drop by and say howdy! :) - Lucretia Pruitt

Lucretia: please do call me at +1-425-205-1921 in the morning. - Robert Scoble

Funny: right when I first saw this post, Twitter started misbehaving on me. - Dennis Jernberg

The website doesn't load for me and TweetDeck just failed to update. - 321

I have tweetdeck open while I'm trying to figure out if I have all the software I need to rebrick my machine with Win7, and thought it had just gone really, really quiet because everyone else was installing Win7 tonight. - RobinDotNet

And on a completely unrelated note, my cat just lay down on my external hard drive. - RobinDotNet

Will do Robert - would be awesome to see you if you can find a free moment! :) - Lucretia Pruitt

Well it's working again for me; both the site and TweetDeck. - 321

I'm still not getting anything from Tweetdeck. And the cat is shedding on my hard drive. - RobinDotNet

I got a couple of updates on Tweetdeck, at least for the moment. Maybe everybody else really IS installing Windows 7. - RobinDotNet

I'm having a beverage or two in Eugene this evening...just like Boulder, but less money, and more hippies. - Christopher A Carr from Android

Christopher, is that Eugene, Oregon? - RobinDotNet

Tweetdeck only gave me 2 updates and then quit. I feel so disconnected. - RobinDotNet

Twitter's being unreliable right now. I suspect it may still be under attack. - Dennis Jernberg

Robin: Yep. What gave it away? The hippies? :-) - Christopher A Carr from Android

8th grade geograpy. :-) - RobinDotNet

Christopher, Eugene must be one of the larger cities (towns?) in Oregon. I think the capital is Salem though, and not Portland as most would guess. Am I right? - RobinDotNet

Twitter is down???? - Roberto Bonini

Robin: You're right. The capital of Oregon is Salem. - Dennis Jernberg

Dennis, I'm amazed I remember that after all these years. Today's kids don't even know where Oregon is. (Beaverton -- home of Grandma's cookies, or used to be anyway. see how useful geography is?) - RobinDotNet

Roberto: On and off. - Dennis Jernberg

Hi Roberto! When it's working, it's not working well. Did you get the Windows7 download from MSDN? - RobinDotNet

Robin: Seems they don't teach geography in school anymore... :( - Dennis Jernberg

Dennis, I'm not sure many people retained it, which is unfortunate. My physical therapist didn't know that Paris was in France. (Not kidding.) She thought Paris was another country altogether, which it might be figuratively, but geographically I think not. Hard to secede from a country when you're sort of in the middle of the country. Although it worked for West Berlin, and that wasn't even a whole city. But I digress... - RobinDotNet

By the way, the cat (who's sitting on my external hard drive) just farted on me. Peeeuuu. He's very old. I know this is completely unrelated to twitter being down, and not generally something I would tweet, but I can't help myself. - RobinDotNet

Portland is pretty cosmopolitan these days and very much unlike the rest of Oregon. About 2.5 million people in Portland metro... - Christopher A Carr from Android

I think Eugene is technically the 2nd largest "city" in Oregon. - Christopher A Carr from Android

I drove across the country once from NJ to San Francisco. My co-driver didn't want to go through Nebraska or Kansas. So we went NJ --> PA --> KY --> MO --> IA --> SD --> MN --> WA --> OR ---> CA. We stopped in Portland to go to Powell's, then continued on our way. Great bookstore. - RobinDotNet

MN is supposed to be Montana, not Minnesota. Need to memorize the USPS states better. - RobinDotNet

I thought Portland was charming. I could probably live there if I wasn't so attached to SF Bay Area. - RobinDotNet

Robin: MN is Minnesota. Montana is MT. - Dennis Jernberg

Dennis, Dang. MT was gorgeous. Drove across it going 80 mph, with me hanging out the window trying to take pictures. Got some great pictures and did NOT fall out of the window, despite the shrieking from the driver. (No guts, no glory.) - RobinDotNet

Portland is a cleaner, cheaper, mini-SF, in lots of ways - Christopher A Carr from Android

Christopher, I can totally see that. Some day I'll go back to Portland and hang out for a couple of days. Seems like a fun town. - RobinDotNet

2.5 million is a lot of people. SF only has like 800K, and I think that might include some of the surrounding environs. San Jose has about a million, and then there's all those towns surrounding it. - RobinDotNet

In case anyone wondered, Half Moon Bay has a population around 12,000. It's pretty close to my favorite fish & chips place in the world -- Barbara's Fish Trap in Princeton-by-the-Sea. Right on the water, best f&c ever. - RobinDotNet

Robin: 2.5 is really the Greater Portland Metro Area -- Portland Proper has about 600k. The Bay Area is quite a bit bigger than the Portland Metro Area. - Christopher A Carr

Portland and SF, proper, are probably pretty close to the same size. But, SF's surrounding area is much bigger. - Christopher A Carr

Jesse you have oauth with friendfeed as well right? - Mark Essel from iPhone

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Robert Scoble

Shhh, don't tell the spammers, SEO experts, the bots, or the social media experts, but I will follow anyone who comments here (on FF):

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No comment. (disabling comments on this thread - that would be funny :D) - Micah Wittman

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Micah: I'm already following you! :-) - Robert Scoble

is a like the equivalent of a comment? And by follow you mean on FF or on Twitter or on both? - Sean Scott

Sean: not really because if you comment I can see if I'm already following you. And, yes, I mean on FF. - Robert Scoble

Hello :) - Brandon Roeder

That's really awesome of you, Robert! - Harald Nesland

Spammers ruined email and now they are hitting Twitter in a major way. How can we stop this scum? - Chris Rodgers

Beau: I'm already following you. - Robert Scoble

Awesome. Hi Robert :) - Andy Parkinson

It's an ugly world when Scoble stops autofollowing. - Michelle MacPhearson

Did FriendFeed make you say this? - Social Nerdia

No love for SEO experts? AWESOME. - Than R

@robert i think we're already following each other on FF. :P - Sean Scott

Thanks for posting Robert. I enjoy reading your material. - Allen S.

Didn't send that one from Twitter. ;-) - Kathy Fitch

Are you openly admitting to being easy? - Lydia Sugarman

I am not a bot, I am a human being!!! - Daniel Buckley

@stevenmhall likes this -- thanks for your work. and the great green picture - steven

Nothing more to say - Mel Buckpitt

I already follow you, but interesting experiment - Cam

I just gave you "High Five"! Check it out: http://bit.ly/5sHMZ You should send me a gift back ;) - Louis Gray

✔ Thx for ☛ Follow :-) Good idea. I do not speak to those things anyway - RetiredTeacherD

SocialNerdia: no. - Robert Scoble

really? neat... - Jorge Chapa

Follow Sunday? ;) - Ideas At Random

LOL ... this is fun. - Richard Laksana

awesomesauce scoble p0wns again ;) - sam from twhirl

At least I'm not the only one who thinks SEO isn't everything. - Leon Bacud

Hmm… I may just be more active in FriendFeed. - Evan Hindra

The above is an actual DM spam I got today. :) - Louis Gray

Leon: if you abuse SEO types they send Google Hate your way, which, by the way, is the same thing as Google Juice. - Robert Scoble

neat idea! - Aloke Fernandes

So we get to be in the cool club? Yay! ;) - Vicky Teinaki

watching this list expand is more fun than anything on TV right now. - steven

But Robert what will all the Bots do without your input. - Pentaxfan

This is fun! lol. Follow me! @thehenry - TheHenry

Is Google juice akin to Google Kool-Aid? - Stefan Holmes

evangelizing aint ya - Luka

I think Robots get a bad rap ;) - Robert J Taylor from iPhone

What's this FriendFeed thing? Back to my safe, comfy home on Twitter. - Dan Grossman

I expected more comments, oh thats the idea :-) shhh everyone - Andrew Nimick

Is there something to be gained by following someone on both FF & Twitter? - Rob Michael (Atmos Trio)

WT?? @pogmohoin needs to be loved again.. now how did you do this cleanout again?? Australia Out.. - Pogmohoin

I'm already in but i wanted to get in the fun! - Fee501st

I just noticed that Scobleizer unfollowed but am glad it was for the above reason and he unfollowed a lot - Allen MacCannell

Cannot wait to see you (again) at Gnomedex after that sensational news panel at #140conf. You set the bar high for yourself there ;) - Maya

I am all flesh and bones Robert :D - Antonio Montero

Rob: FriendFeed is better. - Robert Scoble

Louis, NOW I know where all those are coming from. Time to blacklist you ;-) - Jesse Stay

Friendfeed FTW! - TheHenry

Not a bad filter at all. - Robert Anderson

Why would you want to follow me,i have nothing to offer but my ears to learn. - Paul Downing

Hi Robert, I'm a real person and would love to be followed. - Steve de Mena

What if the spammers, SEO experts, the bots, or the social media experts all comment here? - Andrew Trinh

Word up - Charlie Haims

Scoble smash Twitter spammer like Hulk! - Peter Hodges from iPhone

Dare I? - Spidra Webster

and then I will comment on whoever follows me here... - Alpay Erturkmen

Louis, I recently got the "high five" DM spam, too. So off-putting! - Robert J Taylor from iPhone

I just need to spend more time setting up FF so it is my friend that intercepts all my social media content but only from who I want to read! - Pentaxfan

Friend feed seems like mainstream to most serious ones? - jibzy

Friendfeed has it's strengths once you get it setup - Chris

@robert whether or not FF is technically better than <insertsocialnetwork> its really a question of said network reach - Sean Scott

Once a week I go through my followers and delete most/all of the spammers, but I only have like 50-60 so it's not hard to do. - Allison Warnock

Let's hope the spammers and bots and etc don't attack us here on FriendFeed next. I won't tell them if you don't. - Louis Trapani from iPhone

Sean: well, FF has better search, grouping, real time, a better community, and more. - Robert Scoble

Sean, you have to start somewhere! - Pentaxfan

Really Robert? Will you follow me here or Twitter - Kevin Krewell

Last time I checked I was human. - Luke™

What, even if I've got these hot videos where I ... Haha, not really ;-) - Katie Dob from iPod

Kevin: here. - Robert Scoble

I think you're already following me. - Danny Minick

In two years on Twitter I have never used any bots nor even tried to sell anything. I always look at profiles personally before following anyone and have never been concerned with how many are following me. - Gord Young

That's nice of you. - Michael Owens from iPhone

Why? - Stefano Maggi from iPhone

Yea, i dont want FF to get has "known" has twitter, I'm selfish - Fee501st

Mainly on Twitter myself, but everything updates to here + I tie in a couple things through here to Twitter. - Chris

Will you actually read my posts? - Kimber Scott

oh really :D - Sinem Co

See, cross posting that offer to Twitter is misleading - Kevin Krewell

It is fun to watch my follower ## on Twitter go between 200 and 230 it is a constant battle to see what I post. Just not that interesting at times! - Pentaxfan

Interesting project! Please follow us @streamfile :) - Kimmo Gläborg

Checking in here...hope we continue to follow each other, Robert! - Cathryn Hrudicka

Even if we write in Turkish? - Emre Güneş

@robert again not arguing with you. I think better community in your POV but from marketing / UX pov not yet. - Sean Scott

thank you - - pat o'bryan

I'm pretty sure I've commented here before Robert, but you don't follow me here or on Twitter. Not that I want you to under just for the sake of it... - Gurpreet

Today's secret password is "cheese". - Andrew Smith

And you don't have to read everything we say, my God we can't keep up with your feed! But it's nice to always be assured there will be something in my Friendfeed from Scoble. And more Scoble and more Scoble! - Keith Rowland

...only if you actually find my tweets interesting enough. - Gurpreet

It's Unfollow Sunday. Just purged all the bots, spammers, SEO/social media types from my own Twitter account. I never autofollow. Still got the "high five" DM spam, though... - Dennis Jernberg

Nice when you integrate Facebook and twitter and multiple accounts so you can read all at one place. I have to say I use Seesmic to read posts more than FF. - Pentaxfan

Count me in too, please :) - 1x29

bit bucket... here i come :) ps: scoble, what if we just "like" your post ;) - simran

@pentaxfan of course. not wanting to start a FF vs Twitter debate. just saying the glasses through which we judge better or superior are diff based on our interests. Plus in the end FB will take it all :P - Sean Scott

This is a sly way to get us to sign up for FF :) - valb00

Shhhhhhhhhh - candy from Nambu

@valb00 said it! - Dennis Jernberg

According to my following list, Scoble was the second person I followed after joining Twitter. A long time ago that was. - Stephen Sclafani

UX tip for FF. Be nice to be able to click on the comment link at the end of a comment stream. Having to scroll back up on these long threads breaks flow. - Sean Scott

Kimber: wait and watch http://friendfeed.com/scoblei... and see if I like any of your posts. I read a LOT and if you are posting interesting stuff I'll probably like it. - Robert Scoble

Sean: click twice on the time stamp and you'll get a window of just this chat and you'll see a comment entry area at the bottom. - Robert Scoble

Kurt: maybe! - Robert Scoble

Sean Scott: Click on the timeline (the '5 minutes ago' bit) :) - 1x29

You will end up following me anyway. They all will. :) - Matt G

But you're already following me here on Friendfeed, Robert. How is Twitter going to be different? - Mahendra (SkepticGeek)

FriendFeed is better, deeper, yet Twitter works better on the go - Majento

There's a lot to like about FF, except it needs a bigger community. Twitter is like the iPhone - for iPhone it's all the applications, with Twitter (and Facebook) it's all about the number of poeple. - Kevin Krewell

following me is good stuff :-) - N.G. Gordon - RadarSync

@Sean, that is why we are always looking for new and improved apps to operate at a better level with more consistency. Take it easy! I'm off to bed for my 5 hours of mediocre horizontal time out. - Pentaxfan

Hi Robert, you are obviously going to be following a lot more people. Thanks. - Rob Zachritz

And I return. (Just cleared my account so I can start afresh with friend lists) :) - BeauGiles

Is this an experiment? - Theresa Shin

so will you follow me too - aybars badur

Theresa: no, I do this from time to time and always find interesting people to follow. - Robert Scoble

FF hmmm about that... - Philip Small

Robert, you have lost a lot of followers. I have been watching all night. - TheHenry

I don't get the appeal of auto-following. I for one would not want thousands of updates showing up in my timeline. - Alex Knight

Twitter -ly ♪ and FriendFeed -ly ♪ livin' in perfect har-mony ♪♪♪ LOL Why can't we be friends ♪♪♪ - RetiredTeacherD

Just created a corporate FF account so you can follow our corporate Twitter at http:/www.twitter.com/senderok - Plug-in with anti-phishing icons for the inbox and photo business cards in the header pane - SenderOK

I'm here I'm here! :D just curious, what do you have against SEO and Social Media experts? - Celia

Really? BTW I'm just a regular geeky gal. - Teresa O

TheHenry: and I will lose even more this week. No biggie. I don't define myself by who follows me, especially if they are there just to get a follow back. - Robert Scoble

@Scobleizer is a man of his word - Charlie Haims

Zomg you has to follows me!! I r teh most important persons here!!! - Tom Vohs from iPod

Okay Scoble I'll bite... - SalvadorM

Joining the experiment - Jan Schultink

robert, you are a "pearl" under all the blogger,.........and i'm sure, you know that!!! sunshine and light to you from france, martin - martin

I'm awake and listening! - Graham Lawrence

To all those new to FriendFeed, remember to add your Twitter, blog, Flickr, YouTube, and other accounts so we can see all your stuff! - Robert Scoble

...and I was wondering where is my one-lost-follower...here on FF. - Danica Radovanovic

hello, I am an italian SEO expert :) - Roldano De Persio of FF

I have nothing to say - Paul Denlinger

@Paul, I was going to say that. - Justin Yost

You should follow a game designer, Robert :) - Kurai (ff)

Wait, does this mean I need to spend more time of friendfeed? - Shea from iPhone

Federico: I'm already following you. Roldano: I'm already following you too, but don't let it get out. - Robert Scoble

Shea: yes. This is where I spend most of my time! - Robert Scoble

That's encouraging - Keith - @tsudo

I cannot recommend following me, I rarely have anything interesting to say. - Shaun William

What's the catch? - Rory Conway

We're already facebook friends. And I think friendfeed friends too. But FF just hasn't hit critical mass yet. It'll be cool when it does. Nice job throwing another rock at the hornet's nest! :-) - Dan Becker

Rory: the catch is I might like one of your posts and then you'll have to deal with my other friends. :-) - Robert Scoble

I'm glad to know that you are still interested in hearing from us :), I'm @tsudo - Keith - @tsudo

I applaud your mass unfollowing, but following back via FriendFeed comments seems inefficient (says me, the efficiency consultant). - Marina Martin

scoble i like you man, but you're crazy - patrick

Dan: well, that's what Twitter gets for treating me like a lame early adopter that isn't needed anymore. - Robert Scoble

Cool - I'm in. Thanks Robert - from the land down under. - Monte Huebsch

Marina: you haven't discovered that FriendFeed has groups yet, have you? - Robert Scoble

patrick: crazy like a bat! - Robert Scoble

I need to better utilize FF groups. - Justin Yost

Ouch Robert! Telling it like it is to Twitter - Keith - @tsudo

Do you never get SPAM in FF? - RobinDotNet

You might regret that :-) But thank you - Stephen Baugh

Hi, i had created a new website name http://bit.ly/Od5Xx now please guide me in increasing traffic - mohammadhassam

Robin: I have only seen a handful of spams here. They are easily blocked and there are other defenses against them that I won't talk about here. - Robert Scoble

Are we not allowed to comment if you are already following us? - RobinDotNet

Are all those SEO types you're unfollowing now following me?! - Dennis Jernberg

@Justin, try this for a starting point for using groups http://www.knowthenetwork.com/blog... - Keith - @tsudo

Okay )) - Лёша, не обобщай

Yet another comment, from an ordinary twitterer not a spambot. :-) - Joshua Lee

is this a bait to get more people to use friendfeed? ;-) - Ritu

Robin: I like all comments. I can see who isn't following me because their icons are white. Yours is blue. - Robert Scoble

speaking of spam, twitter seems like it's about 90% spam lately - Derek Chilcoat

Robert -- that's good to know. Those people are insidious. Will you ever tell us how to block them? - RobinDotNet

It'll be interesting to see who follows the leader to @schoolpr. - SchoolPR

The SEO experts, bots and social media experts don't have good content, and FF makes their crappy content easy to hide, and ignore, too. - Andy Bakun

Thanks @Keith - Justin Yost

Andy: bing! - Robert Scoble

Robert, was that an endorsement of bing? ;-) - RobinDotNet

SEO experts endorse bing. ;-) - Joshua Lee

@Justin (1 more) my friend Ken did a great post on groups as well http://www.changeforge.com/2008... - Keith - @tsudo

Why, oh why is my first thought to respond with "FIRST?" - Jon, the Beartato of FF

I'm not a bot :-) - Nir Ben Yona

Jon: I want to respond with "penultimate." :-) - Robert Scoble

Even me??? - Kevin Arth

Can't imagine this won't end in a big mess... - Justin Howard

Nir: I know you aren't a bot. That's why I follow you. - Robert Scoble

wwooww :) - Emre BAHADIR

So far not a spammer has shown up. - Robert Scoble

commented! - Jeremy Lane

I think scoble is on Twitter just to get people to read friendfeed. :-) - Joshua Lee

Joshua: no. I'm here to talk about the 2010 web. :-) - Robert Scoble

This is some elaborate mind game, I'm sure:) - Aaman (Clone of FF)

Can we put some restriction on bots . means use some software who block them - mohammadhassam

Joshua, i liked your Bing comment :-) - Majento

and the 2010 web is.... friendfeed! - Joshua Lee

Thank you, Sir. I'm impressed. :) - Kevin Arth

Joshua: the real time web is only one part of the 2010 web. - Robert Scoble

Ah, I think you may already be following me, but just in case... - Ranger Craig

Nice - Fred Morales

Thing I don't like is that FF doesn't have a very good topic when the primary line is directed at twitter. There may or may not be a link to something after FF part. Which means FF becomes a bit of a treasure hunt. I like FF for commentary but I hate the initial post. - Justin Howard

SPAM. :) - Jason

BACON :-) - Stephane Tsacas

Even your archnemesis? - Erik K Veland

Mona :-) - Majento

Mmmmm. Bacon. - RobinDotNet

Erik: I would even follow Mike Arrington, yes. :-) - Robert Scoble

Keep your friends close, but keep your enemies closer? - RobinDotNet

what are some other examples of 2010 web, Robert Scoble? - Joshua Lee

Ok Robert I got it ;) - Roldano De Persio of FF

Count me in :) http://www.twitter.com/stanley... - Stanley Tang

Robert: Thanks mate, interesting and probably efficient idea. I'll do the same for quality content, tired of those "I just used whateveryoucallit.com to gain 300 new followers right now!". - Nir Ben Yona

whateveryoucallit.com domain name is already taken :-] - Stephane Tsacas

Hi Robert, I had to do the exact same thing to nail all the twit spam I was getting. Hope you get it all sorted! - James Brown

Even as we sit here, my iPhone dings with new follow e-mails from spam/marketing people. Sigh. - RobinDotNet

Stephane: LOL, probably. I took this line from Chris Brogan's "Twitter Etiquette Guide". - Nir Ben Yona

Robin: on Twitter, though, right? - Robert Scoble

wow been fascinating watching this exercise :-) - Peter du Toit (S.Africa)

So this is like a captcha? - Dylan Verheul

also on twitter? - Sinem Co

The joys of not being internet famous means I can check out followers personally, block where required and I've only ever got about 2 DM spam. But with the volumes that Robert gets, it's obviously not possible. - Rachel Clarke

TwitterEtiquetteGuide.com is available ;-) - Stephane Tsacas

I think Twitter needs something like captcha to keep the bots to a minimum, IMHO. - Dennis Jernberg

Nope, I'm just following here. - Robert Scoble

But feed your Tweets in here and what's the difference? - Robert Scoble

OK, thanks :) - Sinem Co

Hi Robert, I've been following you quite some time, and what you do here is very open and brave too, congrats! - Kaan Bingol

This must be a plot to move everyone to FriendFeed ;-) - Masatake E. Hori

Masatake: plot #458. - Robert Scoble

Great thanks for the offer and follow - Stephen Brown

Masatake: I think you're right. :-) - Joshua Lee

Robert -- yes, on twitter. It seems the more you tweet, and the more people you communicate with, the more spammers follow you. Hoping for auto-follows I guess (I disappoint them in that regard.) - RobinDotNet

No offense, but what is the utility of being "followed" by someone who already follows tens of thousands? - Derek Pangallo

Good way to filter, you know the spammers don't actually read anything or participate - Justin Luey

Derek: why don't you see http://friendfeed.com/scoblei... and see just how many people I touch. - Robert Scoble

What is the utility of being "followed" by someone who doesn't tweet and who follows thousands? What do they do, sit at their terminal and watch the tweets go by all day long? - RobinDotNet

hi Robert u r already following me how r u? - Gaith

I dont get it. - Andru Edwards

yeah? I think most spam bots have the AI to search for such threads! - Rohit

Derek: or how many people I interact with. Check here: http://friendfeed.com/scoblei... 28,000+ comments. - Robert Scoble

oh, hi there! - Jeremy

Gaith: doing fine, gotta work on my videos, but thought I'd do this instead. - Robert Scoble

Robin: I'm guessing the mass followers rarely take a look at the flow - it's about being able to talk about the numbers - Rachel Clarke

No - Michael Fidler

Yes - Michael Fidler

follow me on twitter please... - Özgür D. Cyric

First day on Friend Feed and Robert Scoble is available. What a welcome.... Carey@holisticdds - Carey O'Rielly

What will you do when the spammers/SEOs infest Friendfeed, as they will, or do you believe this is better crowdsourced and will be able to hold against the hordes? - Aaman (Clone of FF)

Rachel -- But numbers alone don't mean anything. Are they that shallow? That must be a stupid question. - RobinDotNet

Is this going to be the 'most-commented-ever' post on Friendfeed? 240+ already! - Mahendra (SkepticGeek)

Aaman: FriendFeed is FAR more defendable against spam than Twitter is. - Robert Scoble

and how would this benefit people who follow Robert Scoble? - Seyfi Erol

Mahendra: probably not. - Robert Scoble

That seems like a good idea, but I think you're already following a lot of these people - Carlton Prest

Seyfi: why don't you follow me and see how it goes? - Robert Scoble

I've gotten 4 follow e-mails since my first post here from people I don't want to follow. Do the bots start running right around midnight? - RobinDotNet

Mahendra, you're not following the threads in Russian (that's my only hint) :D - Micah Wittman

Robin: oh yes. But I'm never sure what's worse. the people who just want to talk about the numbers or the people they may be able to impress. - Rachel Clarke

Aaman - Friendfeed doesn't make link-tracking easy, so it's less interesting for spammers to infest. - Mahendra (SkepticGeek)

Is this a test of interaction or more likely a sort of audience verification? - Gilgamesh

Robin, it's 9am ! - Stephane Tsacas

Gilgamesh: it is what you want it to be. For me I followed you. - Robert Scoble

If twitter is noise, and FriendFeed is conversation, Robert Scoble followers are their own discussion. It's like using an entirely different website. - Carlton Prest

Rachel, that's a good point. Is Facebook the same way? I joined that and suddenly got all these people I've nothing in common with who want to be my friend. Creepy. - RobinDotNet

@Micah: Oh, good I don't read Russian! :) - Mahendra (SkepticGeek)

Scoble: you convinced me! (thought you just needed self-validation, sorry) - Derek Pangallo

Derek: heh, yeah, I am watching this, among other things running across my screen. - Robert Scoble

Robin: Facebook is the same but I think to a lesser extent - it's harder to find people I think. But still got a load of friend requests that I ignore as I don't know them - Rachel Clarke

Robin: you mean like people you went to high school with and didnt' like adding you on FB - Derek Pangallo

I already do. what i mean is if we don't keep FF, Twitter limited to our interests, wouldn't it be garbage we already try hard to get rid of. Or how far can we extend our interests in life or amount of information we consume? - Seyfi Erol

Derek -- I mean people I really have NO connection with at all. I've only friended a couple of people I work with, and 2 other real friends. I'm getting friend requests from people I don't know at all. - RobinDotNet

Seyfi: you haven't discovered FriendFeed's groups and lists yet, have you? - Robert Scoble

I got a Russian-speaking follower on Twitter. I didn't follow him because I don't understand a word he tweets. - Dennis Jernberg

Mahendra, And I've been told http://translatorize.com has successfully translated all 6000+ (oops - update: 7000+) comments http://friendfeed.com/ideali... from Russian to English :) - Micah Wittman

Thanks Robert! - Jan Ignatius from iPhone

Seyfi: you can separate your friends into lists. That way you can keep your quilting buddies separate from your football ones etc. - Robert Scoble

I'm the spammer u follow alrdy HA! - Rich Weaver

Did you know that Facebook has started selling parts of itself to the Russians? At end of May, they sold 1.96% stake of Facebook to Russia's Digital Sky Technologies for $200M. - RobinDotNet

Robert: I shouldn't have underestimated you. You probably have started much longer comment threads on Friendfeed before. - Mahendra (SkepticGeek)

Mahendra, Robert, I agree, FF has been very good at keeping out junk - Aaman (Clone of FF)

Micah: Uh, wow! - Mahendra (SkepticGeek)

Mahendra: I have. I gave away $5,000 once and got more than 1,000 comments on that. But that cost me a lot of cash. Can't afford to do that again. - Robert Scoble

DST is run by Alisher Usmanov who is closely tied with Putin. You feel ok to that, but re-read the company's user agreement where it says it can share all of your info with third parties. Of course, it's irrelevant to this thread, but I thought it was interesting. - RobinDotNet

Robert: I think your Twitter follow is worth more than that? - Mahendra (SkepticGeek)

Even if it's a lame comment and I don't actually say anything? Woohoo! FF looks interesting anyway,,, - Matt Harward

Yes, Matt! :-) - Robert Scoble

I'm @odie on twitter - Odi Chi

FF is interesting assuming the topic is FF... and/or Scoble's next devilishly clever stunt to generate FF comments - John Hardy

John: there are lots of interesting topics here on FriendFeed. Did you know you could search by them based on number of likes? Click "Advanced Search" and try. - Robert Scoble

John: Nope. Twitter's 'bout Trends, FF's 'bout Friends. - Mahendra (SkepticGeek)

Very bold, I like it, are you going to keep the people you follow under 2000? - Joe Dawson from iPhone

Tell me the newest best way to use FriendFeed! - Shoichi

I notice that one of the prolific thought-leadering traffic drivers I follow on twitter basically tweets everything he reads, before he reads it. This has lead to spam a few times. disappointing. - Derek Pangallo

I'll not tell anyone ;) - PaperDoll

I hope I am interesting enough to be followed! lol - Carlton Hackett

Some of the reactions to what you're doing are pretty interesting, Robert. - ha3rvey (chee-la-key-les)

Social media experts? What are those? - Alasdair Munn

But what if someone doesn't want you to follow them :) ... It's not me.... - Amit Nangare

lmao - Andy Ghozali

woww! that is a lot of comments. - Sumanth Kolar

Joining bandwagon. - mwydro

Yo Robert: a man has to do what a man has to do, so one surfer to another: go for it! - Geer

Here here! A good cleansing is good, now and then... Starting fresh is the way to go, get all of that nonsense out and maintain a core group of people for solid conversation! - Brian Partridge

Great taking the tour w/ you, Levar Burton & @VegasBill during CES 09 at the Atomic Testing Museum. I would appreciate the follow back. Thanks Robert! - Chris R

There is change in the air... - Zack Brandit

Chris: I'm already following you, no need to beg! :-) That was fun times, wasn't it? - Robert Scoble

You've got to admit anyone who's on friendfeed instantly gets more exposure since it nicely imports people's public @ reply's anyway? - Matt Randles

I'm a ff fan;) - Cheray Bressler from iPhone

Thanks for following back on Twitter Robert. Cheers from Las Vegas! - Vegas Bill

I'm pretty sure we're friends here, only just wish there was a easy way to check... and if there is, that some one will let me know.... - Grant Bierman

this is such a classic move! well played. - laura

So why can't SEO people be tech as well? Actually requires a good tech aptitude. - Paul M Evans from iPhone

I'd like to see how many comments this one gets :) and i'm assuming you mean follow here on friendfeed. - Bhowmik Shah

Make sense, Scoble :) - Grant Laird Jr

Just out of curiousity, why are there fewer spammers and bots on FF compared with Twiitter? Is it because they haven't discovered FF yet? - Sally Church from iPhone

there are occasionally spammers on FF but I think they mostly get handled quickly vs Twitter where more than occasionally clusters of spammers just follow each other... - Shannon Clark

Choose wisely :) - Ozkan Altuner

Go FF its the Best - Robert Wheeler

followww meee - Thomas Christory

Scoble-plicity .-) - Del_

I use TweetLater to vet new followers. Helps get rid of spammers fast. - Bob Morris (polizeros)

Wow! I've never seen so many people comment on Friendfeed as much as this! - Armand

Yo! peteryared on twiter :) - Peter Yared

This is #scoble at server irc.friendfeed.com I beleive ;-) - Stephane Tsacas

Your biggest fan and follower in Cambridge, UK. Thanks for the DuoFertility video. Great as ever. - Philip Baddeley

Fantastic, I want to be followed :-) - Antonio Correnti

What if your already following me? Do I still need to comment here? - CW™

Sally: I don't explain spam defenses in public. I don't want spammers to figure them out. But there are quite a few defenses against spam here. - Robert Scoble

Refollow me on Twitter! @carloscomputers - carloscomputers

nice one - Ken Post Jr

I was surprised about the spammer comments, until I started getting female nude model followers and I'm a women. Maybe a nude male model but not Sparkle or Hootie McBoob - Corrine Pearce

Corrine: hope you don't see that here on FriendFeed. - Robert Scoble

Why are you doing this? You have one of the best listening audiences on twitter! Is there a point to prove that we will post here or go to wefollow? - David Cole

Now those not on FF will miss this one;) - JP Holecka - Jaypiddy

David: actually that's not true. Most of the Twitter audience I had has moved over here. - Robert Scoble

I'm intrigued and will watch with interest -- and hey, you're always interesting. Well worth the follow! - Don Tamihere

real-time on FF is awesome - nchenga

David: and I can prove that. Twitter's audience has become less and less engaged lately. - Robert Scoble

Wow, powerful shift by Robert Scoble, I'm really interested in seeing how this works for you Scoble. I slept through all the big news here tonight. - Jimminy

Always up for your social explorations Robert. - JP Holecka - Jaypiddy

And you're not even halfway through the unfollowing process. :) - Ken Brady

wao, let's good. - naokits

Interesting experiment. This is probably one the most commented feedfriend threads in history! - Menno te Koppele

Plus, David, if you all are listening, you are listening because of my ability to find cool stuff. Mostly that's been because of FriendFeed over the past 18 months. Now I've seen how ascerbic Twitter's spammers have gotten on my accounts. - Robert Scoble

agree, it's an interesting experiment. - nchenga

Menno: actually it's not. There are many 1,000+ comment threads here. - Robert Scoble

Here's a search with all 1,000 comment threads displayed: http://friendfeed.com/search... - Robert Scoble

Interesting. This is going to boost 1000 egos for sure :-) - Freddie Benjamin

So will it be a matter of just trying to say ahead of the spammers by jumping from one early adopted social network to another? - JP Holecka - Jaypiddy

JP: no. I am not leaving Twitter. I AM, however, deleting all their accounts so I will no longer be passing them juice. - Robert Scoble

I wonder how will your FF homepage look like after this. - ahmet bulent

Does this make you anti-social media? - Cory Brown

To follow commenters from here on Twitter will be a lot of work for you Robert. Or do you have some magic tool that helps? - Tibor Holoda

Robert, how many of the 100k do you think you'll still be following when you are done? - RobinDotNet

~~~> Robert!! Follow me back again. [a] I'm a real fan of the @Scobleizer... and [b] I'm much nicer than some of these sassy bloofers. ;) - Kim Sherrell

1,100 - Robert Scoble

That's good to know. - George Hall (Australia)

So what if you have all 58k + comment on here? And you have to keep everyone! And your plan is foiled, sir. Okay give or take 10k for the neglected abandoned twitters and the spammers. Btw, you're already following me on both twitter and here. But come on, you're not really. : / - Lise

That's cool. I am finding the spammers too much to manage these days myself. - JP Holecka - Jaypiddy

I promise I want tell them - Noel Kelly

Because I can't keep myself from doing math, that's 1.1%. - RobinDotNet

Lise: I see you a few times a day, but you're right. Heheh. - Robert Scoble

Are you trying to make a point about FF v Twitter? I have spammy things to say about my amateur photography, potential homelessness, and run-ins with public-run health system in the US. Isn't all Twitter spam--just spam you want? :) - Dean Hall

the auto-refresh on this thread is mind-blowing, fun to watch - nchenga

Do you ever worry about SM burnout Robert? How do you pace your self? - JP Holecka - Jaypiddy

Interesting to note many of most commented threads are in languages other than English. Can we suggest FF has a better international appeal than Twitter? - Kaan Bingol

Good idea, as you say, stop juicing up the spammers - it'll be interesting to see the stats once you've finished. - Andrew Piggott

Dean: your Tweets aren't spam. I might keep you. Heheh. - Robert Scoble

I only followed people who were interesting to me, otherwise it is like trying to find a needle in a haystack of brain dumps. - Daniel Durrans

Exactly. So I expect to be cut. And considering I'm in a crowd of close to 60k, it'll be the same thing. - Lise

There should be a counter in front of the comments... - Willem Karssenberg

okay seriously ? - Asankhaya Sharma

What sort of comments do you want Robert? - Travis Koger

Lise: actually no. On FriendFeed I can absorb quite a few more people than on Twitter thanks to Groups. - Robert Scoble

a good cleansing is wise once in a while :) Power to the (real) people. - Benjamin

Travis: I'm already following you. - Robert Scoble

Lise: and because FriendFeed's search engine is better here too. - Robert Scoble

Robert, yeah I know. Thought you might have meant for your secretscoble twitter account ;) - Travis Koger

It's kind of like a giant SM break up Robert. *Oh the hearts you are breaking...* - JP Holecka - Jaypiddy

I'm fairly selective about who I follow and I follow so maybe you will follow me back! - Richard Cunningham from iPod

Robert, care to explain how you use groups in this kind of context? Because I don't get the point of following people who are then placed into a "I don't read this much" kind of group. How do you use groups so that you're (1) not overwhealmed, and (2) actually read what people are saying? - Ian Betteridge

How many people do you expect to end up with, Robert? What is a reasonable number? - Lise

You don't have to follow me on Twitter. I think the FriendFeed party palace is mighty fine. - Josette Torres from fftogo

(Not that I'll probably see your response, btw - something at the bottom of 350+ responses is effectively buried until FF has better threading tools. Which I'm sure it will, some day.) - Ian Betteridge

@Ian I believe that it may come in Google Wave. - JP Holecka - Jaypiddy

@Daniel - ditto, and for me it is generally development related also. Robert - I know you have to try and keep up with everything going on in the social media space, but I'm always surprised when people follow so many others as it must be extremely difficult to find the wheat in amongst all the chaff. - Donald Matheson

Robert: I did not know about that search trick. Thanks! - Menno te Koppele

Why? - Scott Hanselman

looks like a lot of comments - Rory Partalis

Ian: a "I don't read this much" kind of group is awesome for serrendipity. Also, anyone who I find there who is high value gets quickly moved to a smaller group. - Robert Scoble

What? Are you saying you're not following me already...? ;-) - Jarno Peschier

Lise: on Twitter? Less than 2,000. I can't follow more. - Robert Scoble

Done. :) - Smeerch

Jamo: I am already following you. Scott: why not? I am already following you too. - Robert Scoble

Robert, it might be a problem for me re-gaining your following as my tweets are not 100% English only (whether that means trying to speak English or no English at all ;). How do you deal with occasional non-English tweeters? As that's clearly a noise for you. - Tibor Holoda

if only twitter were as engaging as FriendFeed has become, and as instantaneous as things like this comment thread, then maybe I would use it more. Hence why I'm all for unfollowing who you conceive as uninteresting; and if that includes me, then so be it! - Nick Soden

Tibor: I just skip over most of them. Sometimes I translate them to see if I was right. - Robert Scoble

It is my hope that I provide you with something as interesting as what you provide me with. Either way, I will continue to peruse your posts with interest. - James (!?)

hmmm - imran

Hi, I'm still newish to this social media thang - but good on you for taking a stand. - Jus

Do you prefer night owls? Because what about all the poor people in SV who went to bed at a decent hour and missed your post? Bummer for them, huh? - RobinDotNet

I'm back from picking my wife up at the airport and ran across this on my way back to sleep. - nuBound CEO - Mark

shhhhh - Luigi Filograna

Robin: heh, all the real geeks in SV are still up. - Robert Scoble

Interesting idea. I firmly believe SEOs are working day and night to figure out FF. - Ian Ceicys

Ian: I bet they are too since FF is starting to pull better on Google than Twitter is. - Robert Scoble

I am such a sheep. @markmeyerphoto - Mark Meyer from iPhone

I have nothing interesting to say, don't follow me. - burc sahinoglu from BuddyFeed

what about me? ... sniff - Andy Ghozali

Me me me ;) - Alemsah Ozturk from iPhone

looking for owls? - Dave Senior

Well I am out for the night. Good luck on your mass un-follow Robert. I look forward to your report on the results. - JP Holecka - Jaypiddy

Robert, this is looking like a long thread already. :) - Robert Miller

Andy, Alemsah, and Dave, I'm already following you. - Robert Scoble

Do you consider FF to be less spammy if you are trying to find your new Twitter "friends" here? - Dušan Šimonovič

Dusan: are you a spammer? - Robert Scoble

lmao on here you are, not on the big T tho nevermind I will follow you there too, been a fan.... - Andy Ghozali

why? - Tolga Akmazoglu

bold and yet gutsy move...love the trending topic already! - Feersum Engine

:) - Ruchit Garg

Follow on FriendFeed or Twitter? :P Or Google Rader? :P - Qbat

Türkçe ne diyor arkadaş ? - Sinan İŞLER

The wild and woolly blogosphere is replete with all sorts of good stuff. Hard to follow 500 people, let alone 1000. I applaud you for trying to take the reins. - Jack B

hey there - deadmanwriting

And will you unfollow me if I send a DM ;)? - Sudar

I don't get it - Sheldon Levine

Qbat: I'll follow here on FriendFeed. Sheldon what don't you get? - Robert Scoble

Sudar: no, if you send me DMs here, that's good. - Robert Scoble

How long is the unfollow process going to take? And do you think FF will have as much noise as Twitter? - Duc Nguyen

So it's Twitter DM that you don't like? - Sudar

Sudar: right. - Robert Scoble

I'll make one comment and raise you two more. :) - Bryan Lee from iPhone

And will you follow me? don't know if you ever have, but I am following you on twitter. - Jus

Hey, Thanks for following me - Michael_techie

Would love your company, Robert. - Daniel Zarick from iPhone

Even worse is Twitter DM spam, of course. - Dennis Jernberg

It funny you put spammers, SEO experts, bots, social media experts all in one bucket. What are you implying? Btw, I'm none of these... - Peter Chee

.. and it works!! Just got a mail saying Robert is following me now... :) - Sudar

Peter: I did that to piss off the SEO experts. :-) - Robert Scoble

This makes me realise that posting from Twitter as opposed to "to twitter from FF" allows the Twitter stream to grow on the back of FF comments ! otherwise not : as in my case - what do you think Robert ? FF to Twitter ? Or FF aggregating all your tweets ? - Nicholas Paul Gordon from iPhone

Nicholas: shhhh, you are discovering my secrets! I'm doing more and more from FriendFeed lately. - Robert Scoble

I comment and you follow me. Its totally worth it - Arvind

Do I have to follow you too? :) - Mobilepax

Arvind: even better I was following you before. Mobilepax: no. I really don't care about followers. Inbound is more important than who is listening to you. - Robert Scoble

and does that mean I have to write in English from now on :) - Mobilepax

Awesome. I'm the 439th commenter. :D - Jhay Rocas

Mobilepax: no. I translate interesting posts to English. - Robert Scoble

More than 400 comments in about 2 hrs. Not bad. I wonder if there'd be nearly as many twitter responses/mentions. - Franz Binder

Franz: no way. Not even close. - Robert Scoble

Nice one - it's cool that you give friendfeed (and all the commenters of course ;-) much kudos. - Alex Vermeule (@alexve)

If you just follow everyone in this thread, won't you just wind up with noise from 'engaged' people. I mean, does this solve the problem? - Missionary Broadcasting

Good thing its 4am and my car alarm went off, otherwise you wouldnt follow me! I had to look up a video online how to break the key fob apart becuase aparently its battery leaked and was self activating the panic switch. Damn VWs! a replacement key is only like 150 bucks!! - Charlieray

Missionary: no. You have not discovered that FriendFeed has groups and MUCH BETTER search. - Robert Scoble

Its funny that if you say "SEO" on twitter its an instant 10 followers - Charlieray

A friendfeed promotion experiment? - John Mandia from iPhone

What is a comment? - Meriç Dağlı

I'd rather follow you on Friendfeed, Robert. Your tweets get cross posted here anyway, and there's a much greater sense of engagement in that conversation than there is over at Twitter. - Andrew Terry

John: no. Meric: you just made one. - Robert Scoble

John: I've been promoting FriendFeed for 18 months. Where have you been? - Robert Scoble

FF rocks :o) - Cowan Group

Everyone that "follows" you really does know you love FF. So did you build a tool to follow everyone back that comments on here or are you seriously going to manually follow people back? - Peter Chee

Theres 451+ comment here, do you really follow *everyone*? - Fajar Nurdiansyah

woohoo! I'm in :P - Tim Bergman

Because I am up at 1:20 a.m. PT, why not... I must be your target audience then. - Georgiana Comsa

It must show you how many people enjoy engaging with you Robert, with the number of people posting here. - Steve Farnworth

Amazing to see the comment thread to this entry expand constantly in real time. - Christian Bolstad

Peter: I've manually followed everyone on this thread so far. - Robert Scoble

Peter: although to be fair I've already followed quite a few people who have commented here. - Robert Scoble

Hi, you are already following me. My solution to get rid of spammers on Twitter is to block them, that is what I do. If everyone started blocking them, I think things would improve - Asgeir

Are you going to sleep tonight, or watch the fun?:) - Aaman (Clone of FF)

is that enough to get followed? - Ouriel Ohayon

do I accumulate credit, maybe towards an afterlife? You are already following me :-) - Anindya Chatterjee

really anyone? :D - Francesco Marconi

What about the SEO experts who accidentally find this feed? - phil baumann

Robert, but you're following commenters here, not on Twitter, right? Not that i care about Twitter that much, as for me it's just a pipeline. FF and FB are conversational platforms for me, or the places i hang out these days. - Tibor Holoda

Spammers being blocked doesnt do anything as they are hoping for that 1 in 100 hit of someone clicking that link, eventually they get banned and create a new account. - Charlieray

Aaman: Sleep? some of us are just starting the day. We're waiting for the US to go to sleep so we can talk about you ;-) - Rachel Clarke

the term SEO expert is a crock of shit - Charlieray

like that's gonna work... - thinkingpot

I hope you like hype machine loved tracks. - Neil Godfrey

FriendFeed is better only if U want feedback and have the time to check it out. - Marko Dvornik

Hello from the UK... - robkeynes

Marko: not true. It's better because it has very little spam. It's better because it has a better search engine. It's better because it has comments and likes. It's better because it's an aggregator. And more. - Robert Scoble

you don't have to follow back. but i'll take the chance to say great work with building 43. - Alexandre Gamela from twhirl

where's the 'hide button'??? :-D - Massimo MaxKava Cavazzini

Massimo: right up top. Heheh. Alexandre: thank you! - Robert Scoble

After 6 months out of the social media loop I came back to a whole bunch of follows that I either couldn't remember who they were or why I had followed them - how can that be relevent? So, I culled my follows back to less than 200. I'm now just looking to find the signal amongst the noise. - Colin Walker

What about FriendFeed? Is there any @notsecretscoble too? - Ludwik C. Siadlak

Friendfeeding for Scoble to follow me while on vacation in Montauk. There is something wrong with me. - Mitchell Schneider

:) - امیرعباس

Mitchell -- you just don't want to miss the fun. - RobinDotNet

robkeynes -- nice to see you up and about - RobinDotNet

Ludwik: no, because here I can just start a new list of users. - Robert Scoble

Well, this has been fun to watch, but it's almost 2 a.m. and I have to be very smart tomorrow morning, which is easier when I'm not too tired, so everyone have a great [whatever comes next in your time zone]. - RobinDotNet

Robert, I'm trying to understand this follow/unfollow strategy you are applying as Napoleon Bonaparte on a battle field ;) Interested to know the result - Thierry R. Andriamirado

pushing this thing to its limits just to see what happens? interesting. - livefast

I really do think the way Twitter has changed in the last few months, with all the media attention, certainly begs for it to be used differently now. - Nicola Quinn

SEO what?! :) - Kobayashi

Wow that's a whole lot of people commenting in the last 2 hours, Rob - How many of the new people you are following from this list are NEW to friendfeed? (estimate?) - Roy Herrod

i'm new! - Luigi Filograna

Roy: 40% - Robert Scoble

Does this constitute a comment or are you looking for some insightful commentary on the state of new media? ;) - Iwan

40%? This must have turned out to be one of the biggest promotions in FF history, even if it wasn't intended that way. BTW, I'm new to FF too. - Dennis Jernberg

guess it's good to clean up the list once in a while. - shadow

Ha ha, nice.... So any major ramifications from the mass unfollow? - Alistair (alpinefolk)

Alistair: other than losing about 1,000 followers so far? No major ramifications. - Robert Scoble

Robert, I'm coming out with a project in the Continuing Medical Education field in the next weeks so if you are interested, I wouldn't mind if you will follow me :-) - Marco Fabbri

Won't tell anybody, specially Seo people, ssshhhh..... - Giorgio Burlini from iPhone

No comment ... :) - Charlie Anzman

Too late. - Alex Gonzalez

You had me at don't tell the spammers... - Sean Kelly

I think it's a hoot. Now I'm wondering whether to reverse my recent move towards following more, not less. I do believe that from my experience so far FF is more attuned to building/maintaining community than is Twitter. - Des Walsh

Great move Robert - I like it a lot - Robert Davies

Des: on FriendFeed you can do both strategies at the same time. You can follow a lot more in one list while following even fewer in another. - Robert Scoble

Des - Once more people re-engage in the conversation here, they'll realize the continuing outright potential of Friendfeed. I still some here before I read my e-mail - Charlie Anzman

Hi Mr Scoble, I'm with you (but on a smaller scale) I unfollowed about 150 users on Friday, felt good! I pretty much hang out in FF now at my home page and my groups - Lee from iPod

wow...just wow :) Robert, you have many fans !! - Hayk H.

Good luck on hiding from the bots, they have ways of finding people.... :) - Chris Holm

well, who am I to refuse such a nice offer? here I am!!! - niccolò vecchia

Good to hear! I have only ~2000 followers, but I can't follow more at the moment due to Twitter's follow limit rule. - Martin Lindeskog

I can't resist. skeptical, however. - thinkQuick

Robert maybe the effort to get to 1 million is too great?? LOL Look forward to being in special company - Wayne Mansfield

lol! ;-) - auro

Following for the sake of it - Rudi

follow, unfollow. it's all work... - punkwithgun

Great way to test the chemistry between FF and Twitter. I like it. - E-Advocate Network

Robert - I'am definitely not a spammer when it comes to broadcasting anything to people, who doesn't want to hear it :) but I do sometimes respond (mostly on twitter so @reply) to some tweets not aimed on me, but that's what everybody actually asks for when publicly broadcasting anything. - Dušan Šimonovič

Lovely. - Kevin Montgomery

Scoble is a superstar :) - Peter

Woohoo. :) - mjc

Enjoy your tweets - Keith Humphreys

Domo arigato, Mr. Roboto. Himitsu o shiri tai. (Secret secret. I've got a secret.) - Rich Puskarich

Welcome! - Bob Stewart

Shhh...don't tell anyone but I'm neither of those (the spammers, SEO experts, the bots, or the social media experts,) though, I like the heck out of the concept of this thread... - Vincent Wright

@euaneggs :) - Euan Rowlands

Good idea about the unfollow. It was an interesting experiment whilst it lasted but given your lifestyle I'm sure most Twitter messages just passed you by. I never DM'd you however, it was nice to think that I had the option if I wanted to. Anyway I've been on FF for ages now, and what I need is a good FF app (for pc), any ideas anyone? - Nick Bristow

Nick: I just use a browser with FriendFeed. - Robert Scoble

Only 530 comments so far? Come on people you are not even trying. - John Cooper

FIRST... well almost - Rhys Amos from iPod

oh,i'm 538? - M∂hmood

hello hello! - May Wong

I am really curious to check the result of this experiment... - Alessandro Galetto from twhirl

why are you doing this again ? - startup ticker

To confuse you. - Robert Scoble

LOL - nice one Robert. - Darren Rowse

Lol! that dude definitely sounds confused :-) - Freddie Benjamin

:-) well done - Johni Fisher

Knock three times on the ceiling if you want me. - Gilbert Harding

Nice! Subscribe me!!! ;) - stakhov

cool~ - kang

promise? - David Semeria

well i'm only bemused, is that close enuff ? - startup ticker

so quick~ - kang

I'm interested to see how this turns out for you. - Brandon Eaker

talk about noise! - Miles Media

550 commants!!!! wtf? - Rob Sellen :o)

Good to know. Scoble is a superstar. - jaspio

@Rob Sellen, did you see the comments on the most recent ffundercats podcast entry. http://friendfeed.com/ffunder... Over 1000 in a very short period of time. Although I expect that this post will also get up to those levels. - Travis Koger

Ah Scoble allways busy. - erwin blom

NOTICE: I am closing comments here because I gotta get some sleep. I'll consider doing this again sometime. Sorry if you didn't get in, but see you tomorrow night. - Robert Scoble

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Now you can call him and tell him when I'm causing trouble in the community! Oh, oh. ;-) - Robert Scoble

Another 'Rackspacer' who's released their personal number so their users can bug them when they have an urgent problem :) - Nicholas James

I live minutes from where Rackspace is converting that shopping mall into their huge fortress of solitude. And yet I wish they did work from home. :P - Trine Curtis

I wish their Cloud Servers offering had a little (or even large) Friendfeeder discount :) - Patrick Jordan

Wouldn't it be easier just to call him when you're *not* causing trouble? :-) - Bruce Lewis

Bruce: he just called me from a wedding wondering what I was doing. Heheh. Trouble making on a Saturday night! - Robert Scoble

Yes, indeed. Well, just around the corner. - Trine Curtis

would make sense if it was a google voice or other call forwarding/screening service. but again, speculating that he probably has several numbers for different purposes. :) - sɹǝɥʇɐǝɟʞɔɐןq

The heat clearly misses you. It keeps calling me wanting to know if I've heard from you. I always tell the heat that it really wants to get back together with you, then it should call you directly and stop bothering me. - Trine Curtis

:) I work for Rack and can tell you that is Lanham's cell phone number - not many for different purposes. One number. One purpose. To provide fanatical support. And if you are afraid to bother him, bother me - 210-845-4440 (cell) or 210-370-3861 (home). I'm the Director of Customer Development - not Sales, PR or Marketing. I am the customer advocate. We're a quirky company - we actually LIKE talking to customers! I can prove it - dial my number :) - Rob La Gesse

It was your influence that had me put mine on my website Robert... and I tell people so whenever they ask. I have not regretted having it there since I put it there. Every time someone has used it? I've been happy that they did and it has been a good thing it was out there! :) - Lucretia Pruitt

@Trine - many of us DO work from home (me for example). But when you are dealing with physical devices, like servers, you need people in-plant. - Rob La Gesse

Heh, you can call my entire management chain! :-) - Robert Scoble

Public answer to a private message question: Rackspace has about 2700 employees around the world. And some 50,000 servers around the world. Plus, we are a people business, so we hire people. Enough to serve our customers in a fanatical way. It's not about the servers, it is all about the service. - Rob La Gesse

Your CEO is not on FriendFeed, Strange, isn't it? - Nitin Nanivadekar

It's good to have your management all on board with you. I've been at many places that hire me to do something, but the guys above me weren't on-board with it fully. - Jesse Stay

Nitin: he will be on friendfeed eventually. :-) - Robert Scoble

Rob: I mis-characterized the jobs. I am a work-at-home dad, but what you have available that I'm qualified for is in-plant. I was just wishing out loud :) - Trine Curtis

@Trine send a resume to jobs@mosso.com - I'll get it. - Rob La Gesse

Rob La Gesse and his team are all about Fanatical Support. When my site kept going down, he and his sys admin guy looked into it and found a WordPress plugin that was causing the problem (TweetThis) and completely removed it! He called me and told me what the problem was and that they took care of everything. Haven't had a problem since. Where do you get that kind of service? - Ryan Kelly

Jeremiah Owyang

Just learned a new acronym about "Hippo": Highest Paid Person's Opinion. Bad for website decisions.

June 30, 2008 from Twitter - Comment - Like - Share

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HiPPO is often used in the context of website optimization. Take a typical SEM scenario- Google AdWords keyword driving users to a landing page. How do you determine the best combination of imagery, messaging, call to action buttons, etc. to present on the landing page to drive conversion. For many customers, the HiPPO makes these decisions. Unfortunately, the HiPPO rarely gets it right. Website optimization is about using data to determine the best combination of factors on a page to drive conversions. - Tom Wentworth

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I'll have to use this. - Louis Gray

yeah I just learned that a couple of months ago. - Stefan Hayden

and the best part is the visual image that goes with it... HIPPO throwing its weight around... - Lucretia Pruitt

bad for ANY decisions - Tom Guarriello

Louis you probably ARE the Hippo at your company - Jeremiah Owyang

Jeremiah, that's not true. I wish. - Louis Gray

Two stages to corporate purchasing: 1) The poor sap that does the research, due diligence, builds a relationship, negotiates, prints out an email 2) The guy that writes the check to his brother-in-law's company - Andy Murdoch

Smack in the middle of HiPPO pool at my work. Very frustrating - John Frost

I attended an Analytics workship where Avinash Kaushik recommended landing page testing as the most effective way to neutralize a HIPPO. They tested several LP designs, one that reflected the opinions of the HIPPO, marketing manger and janitor. The janitor's page won. - Lorna Li

I am sure to use this acronym. Like probably Tomorrow. - Eric Logan

Robert Scoble

A dollar bill taped to the floor of friendfeed's offices: - http://www.flickr.com/photos...

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This is a dollar bill taped to the floor of FriendFeed's headquarters. It's a bit of social engineering. They figured out it kept people from tripping on the cord cover because people noticed the money on the floor. - Robert Scoble

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Hahaha, now that is brilliant stuff. Awesome. - James Mowery from twhirl

This is a fantastic idea. - Jeremy Botter

Wouldn't last long in my office. - Ralph Whitbeck

Amazing.. think I could use this idea in a few places. - Roberto Bonini

Clever! i love it. - Kurai (ff) from twhirl

Simple, clever, great idea. That FriendFeed crew is a bunch of smart fellers! - Brandon Wood

My employer is too frugal to do that. - Jonathon

Inexpensive risk management. - Dave Pelland

Ha! Very clever. - Brent Newhall

brilliant - mjc

Wow! I'm speechless. - directeur from NoiseRiver

nice - Mike Collett

The dollar bill trick doesn’t work with strippers though ;) - Moved to Facebook

@Earl: Consider it a stripper-filter, then. You know someone's a stripper if they trip over it. - April Buchheit

for some reason i expect a "stripper filter" to be something coded using regular expressions. sad, i know. - Karim

The message here is that Web 2.0 companies are so ignorant of money and revenue that they even step over a dollar on the floor - Jason Carreira from twhirl

Genius!!! - Joe Dawson

Interesting. The photo has been viewed more than 500 times, but has only earned 62 likes and 19 comments. So, for every 1 thing we can see here there's another 9 people hanging out lurking in the shadows. - Robert Scoble

@Scoble the old 90-9-1 rule :) (well almost) - Naor Mark

You could always just superglue some road kill to those things. Nothing gets people's attention more than a dead opossum. - Andrew Leyden

wow, that's funny smart! - Susan Beebe

I stubbed my toe on that dollar. - Michael Muller

Heath And Safety in the UK would not approve....but I do! - Toby Graham

"but has only earned 62 likes". This currently stands as the most-liked Flickr photo of all time. - Vezquex: God of FF

I forgot about that photo. It does work, though. Everytime I visit friendfeed's offices I see the dollar and I'm careful not to trip over it. :-) - Robert Scoble

That's dumb. Why couldn't they afford to run the cord somewhere where it wouldn't be in the way in the first place? - Robert Peña

As an IE I can state that's definitely not something to publicize. Definitely not OSHA Kosher. - Adi

Great idea will have to remember this. - Laura Gonzalez

Reminds me of the deli counter in grocery store in Scotts Valley across the street from NorCal offices of MetaCreations (the Fractal Design arm of it). Local companies'd go there for lunch daily. PROBLEM: Deli counter pencils (for marking your sandwich menu) disappeared at frightful rate. SOLUTION: Deli affixed pencils with price label. Price: $100.00. Pencils stayed at store. :) - Susan A. Kitchens

Haha I like that trick for keeping Pens from going missing Susan! - Garin Kilpatrick

Steve Rubel

Wondering if the new Friendfeed update has gone too far. Is it too fast for y'all? It's almost like having one cup of coffee too many!

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I'm literally getting a headache. - Dawn

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I'm going to go take some Speed and run on a treadmill so to slow things down a bit. - Will Higgins™

lol! yeah too fast! - Capn' One Eye - adrift

it's too fast and I'm not sure I like the whole idea of it. what do you think about the design? - Orli Yakuel

nah. listslistslists - Marcel Weiß

Mine is fine... lists ftw - Bwana ☠

Anything that gives Dawn a headache is good. Heheh. - Robert Scoble

It's unusable for me, and I shouldn't have to use lists to make the service usable. There should be an option to determine how quickly your feed refreshes. - FFing Enigma (aka Tina)

That's not too big an ask really. Also, lists are going to be pivotal, so I think the easier it is to make them, the more successful this will be. - Will Higgins™

there needs to be smarter filtering to help the flow...it should setup some lists for me automatically - Jason Stephens

If you follow thousands of people, you most certainly should be using lists to make the service usable. - Bwana ☠

the biggest problem I have is it takes away from conversations. I LOVED the old interface so much better. It allowed me to control my pace of conversations without feeling like I've missed something. - Ⓐ ☠ slayerboy ☠ Ⓐ

Anything that does not teach you patience, is not your friend. - Melanie Reed

This is too fast. They need to let you control the speed. - Steve Rubel from IM

Too fast without pause. Adds a step that I didn't have to add before. Jury remains out. - Martha

am i missing something? doesn't seem that different to me. then again, i don't use it much, and i don't subscribe to that many people's feeds. so maybe if you're a friendfeed 'power user', it's too much, but for 'lite' usage, it may not be that much different. UPDATE: Ok, now I am on the right URL. I like the look, and it's not flowing too fast for me. Again, I think the subscribe-to-everyone types are going to have a different experience than us 'lite' friendfeed users. - Dwight Silverman

One thing to keep in mind is the burst of activity caused by the release. A zillion snap judgments pouring in at once will probably not be the daily norm. - Mark Czerniec

pause is your friend you know although I'm starting to enjoy the run with the realtime feed - Dobromir Hadzhiev

Robert: Then you're GOOD! :) Ha. - Dawn

Also, I'm going to have to start unfollowing more people. This style of realtime really makes the boors stand out. - Will Higgins™

way too fast is my early verdict. I cannot even appreciate someone's comment and perhaps subscribe to them. I think this is going to negatively affect the number of subscriptions to other commenter - Lou Paglia

Thankfully I've obsessively organized my FF subscriptions already by lists and weeded out the noise makers, otherwise I'd been overwhelmed. So far I kind of like the new FF UI. Remember if the speed is too much there is always a pause button. - Keith - @tsudo

This is a breaking point for the real-time web. I bet Friendfeed will have to go back to the old system (but keep the design). - Steve Rubel

Bwana, that is the way you choose to use FF. Others choose to not use lists and this method was perfectly usable in the standard interface. I thought the whole selling point of FF was that its UI was flexible enough to accommodate the different ways people choose to use the service. An aggregator, content creator, community hub... - FFing Enigma (aka Tina)

@Steve - very interesting thought. We all want real-time to a point. - Dave Hodson

Steve: Pause does exactly that. - Robert Scoble

I tend to agree with you (perhaps two interfaces running in parallel, one for normal users and one for power users) - Lou Paglia

Steve, have you worked out where you specify the syncing between Twitter publishing on the new interface yet? Don't want to overload my Twitter stream . . . :-) - Ed Richardson

Yeah, I can't keep up. But might just take some getting used to. - Mike Janicke

You just have to click "Pause" as soon as you want to start reading stuff. I wonder if that shows that real-time as default is not a good idea. - Alejandro

Too fast to furious! - Ninh Nguyen

I just let it wash over me, like twitter. These real-time updates aren't meant to be read, but dipped into and experienced. - Dave Sanders

I agree. Look, humans are not machines. The ability of my eyes to track all this moving text (both reading and writing) has limitations. It will inevitably induce eye strain. And telling people to pause and unpause in order to manage this make life harder, not easier. - Carter Rabasa

i kinda like the speed... - FRANK CHEUNG

I just landed on this post, and I see what you are talking about. I actually like the speed. It doesn't seem like most topics will be as hot as this one (so the average case will be slower). - Adam Loving

I also only follow 77 people - I'm not sure I'm following the people who talk a lot. Need to play with it some more. Looking for recommendations of who to subscribe to. - Dave Sanders

Carter: most humans don't have more than 20 friends. In which case this will move just fine. - Robert Scoble

I agree with Robert... when you have a reasonable amount of friends, the speed is fine...when you have thousands, I don't think you have a choice: You must organize your friends. - Bwana ☠

There's always conversations here regarding what it would take to get more "average" or typical web users on to FriendFeed and I think this is the exact type of thing that will keep those people away. Most people I know wouldn't want to have to bother setting up filters or lists just to keep from feeling like they're having a nervous breakdown looking at their feed. And if they don't set up lists/filters, they'll end up only seeing the same super active users all day. - Kate

I love it! it is exactly what I wish Twitter was, a constant stream - Rodzilla

Agreed. I really hope I don't get used to it, could be scary! - Trevor Childs

I don't think I follow enough people to have a real speed issue on the new FF. I do like live streams though so I think the speed is ok. I really have neglected my filters though and need to spend some time getting things organized. - Sean Brady

I've seen stats that show Facebook is around 120 friends Scoble, Dunbar number is around 150. Also in FF people follow those that are not their true friends - Jeremiah Owyang

The old design gave me a headache. This new one makes me nauseous. I thought FriendFeed had so much potential when they launched, but their design aesthetic and product preferences just don't work for me. Unfortunately, I don't see that changing. That said, I'm sure other people like Scoble will like it. - Joe Lazarus

Exactly Jeremiah. I subscribe to plenty of people who are not friends in the traditional sense of the word, but because they post things I'm interested in. Everyone I've introduced to (ie: forced to sign up for) FriendFeed immediately asked me where to go to find more people to subscribe to. - Kate

There is quite a lot of data coming into FriendFeed assuming multiple streams per person followed. - Khürt Williams

Its time for you guys to make lists. I'm following 11.5k people and I'm struggling badly. I'm making lists now :) - Nicholas James

I have lists and I am still dizzy! - Steve Rubel from IM

I just got hammered with a billion updates from the same user. Unfollowed. - Shaine Mata

Make *more* lists! Seriously, they've turned it from a tool for info junkies into something that will be much more popular. - Ian Betteridge

Shaine: do NOT just unfollow people like this. You MUST block them. That removes them from the system. - Robert Scoble

I personally use lists, so I guess it could be OK (except that it makes my "home" feed useless - way too fast.) But interesting that you sort of *have* to use lists w/the new version...way to dictate how to use the product, FF. - Sarah Perez

I feel the same way. - tony

If people only use FriendFeed to keep up with their friends, then Facebook wins. They own that realm. - Hutch Carpenter

Ditches features we were used to, add some nobody asked for, uses space in the stupidest way, it's all-round ugly. try again. - Zio Bonino

I think that Friendfeed should only update real time when I am at the top of the page. If I am scrolled down, don't updated it. Comments Real-Time though is a very nice feature. - Tyler (Chacha)

In the time it took to write this comment, 28 things were lined up. So, I got bombarded. - Tyler (Chacha)

Although, you can always switch to the non-real time version - Tyler (Chacha)

Zio: I disagree. - Robert Scoble

I am torn. My mind will take time to process this. - Vijayendra (V-Mo) Mohanty

Gonna be a learning curve. Not as bad when I tried out Twitterfall. - Matt Martin

Not quite sure yet, but I like that there is a "pause" button in the upper right corner of the feed. - Craig Villamor

I needed maybe 5 minutes to get used to it (and the @ajbatac userscript to fix the look). still adjusting, but I think it's making me more efficient. I love the new filters - better than just lists - Gaby K. Slezák

Robert: I know you disagree. But you know, I'm very open to change, I *love* change. But this is a step backwards, I'm kinda sure. - Zio Bonino

I think it's funny. I've been saying since the beginning to be careful who you follow here. Now everyone is learning why. Zio, it's a HUGE step forward. But I can see how you think it's a step back. Hit "pause" and relax. - Robert Scoble

I'm not talking about the refresh rate, Robert, it's all the rest. (I'm way faster than that) :) - Zio Bonino

we will learn and get faster and smarter with it. there´s no other chance in the web anyways. and if the brain aches, it´s only growing ;) - esther ♥ ♫

So many thoughts...but in answer to your question, the stream moves quite quickly. This is fairly familiar since I use Twitterfall to follow events or themes. But I have always used Friendfeed as the place for a deeper and richer discussion forum. The spin rate certainly makes that less palatable. - Lorin Olsen

I agree with Zio Bonino. - Niki Costantini

It's a conversation killer, and what I love more in FF is the chance to have real conversations... One year ago before the comments thing was introduced, FF was totally a dead place. What brought it to life was all the talk around the different entries. - Niki Costantini

I'm beginning to understand the new UI. It's not about the speed at all it's about refining your interests and generating lists of topics from the people you subscribe to. - Russ Jackson

I still think it it needs better organizational navigation. - Russ Jackson

Russ, they should be able to make suggestions and compile lists on the fly. - Steve Rubel

mine is slow - Dave "Freedom 35"

Great point Steve. They should be able to do that and that would make for easier navigation - Russ Jackson

It was in the beginning, but now that things have calmed down its good with me. - Mathew™ one of a kind

Use the filters (they now get saved to a list on the left hand side), Track what you want from the Firehose. New design is there to help customize the experience for everyone. - zeroinfluencer

Thanks for the feedback, Steve. I think one of the main things I want to accomplish during this beta testing period is making the defaults right and making some things stream in by default, but scaling that back if your are subscribed to a lot of stuff. All this discussion is extremely useful to help us figure that out, and I am confident we can eventually make it work well for you... - Bret Taylor

@Brett and so am I! - Steve Rubel

spoke to soon - it's zipping by - head hurts - Dave "Freedom 35"

going from FriendFeed to anywhere else feels like jumping off a trampoline - Brian Frank

If it's to fast why not just pause the updates. - Benjamin

I would pause the updates but then I feel like I'm not keeping up with the Joneses - Russ Jackson

If you pause the updates, it permanently turns off the updating—even if you log out and log back in—until you press the play icon. In the meantime, you can still see updates by refreshing the page. There is a separate pause option for your home feed and any of your filters. - Ana

@Brett, me too. This is what a beta launch is all about after all. Some really good stuff in here too. - Kate

stuff I like best: filters. I used to use bookmarks for my favorite searches. stuff I like less: the UI. I hate that grey, but I thought the vertical bar was useless and a waste of space even in the previous version. those rounded corners are so two years ago. those pictures before every post look so fuckin' facebook, they really really suck. When you post a link it's separated from the linked text, this feels like twitter, and if you feel it's a step forward, please see a doctor asap. :) - Zio Bonino

The problem is not just that real-time is a step in the wrong direction; it is drawing energy away from those problems with the Friendfeed UI which require the most urgent attention. - Sean McBride

Hey, don't get me wrong, I love friendfeed. But I didn't expect it to become a sort of facebook for people who can actually read. - Zio Bonino

http://www.drizzle.com/~lostbo... - Karim

Lol, Karim :D - Zio Bonino

FriendFeed is making me dizzy - B.L. Ochman

Use lists (filters). ;-) - Kol Tregaskes

I just joined Friendfeed, so I'm still unsure if it adds value to my Social Networking experience. My initial reaction is that it's interface is a marriage of the the features I dislike most about all the services I registered! - Stacy LaRoche

Nice to have you join, Stacy. Are you using the standard friendfeed.com interface, or the new beta.friendfeed.com interface? I'm intrigued to hear the perspective of someone who is new to the service... - FFing Enigma (aka Tina)

Does the new interface have a Mini-window option? - ‘-.-’ Tutivillus Grift

It's way too fast for me. I know some people suggest using lists, but having a bunch of lists, each in its own Firefox window, chews up system resources faster than a puppy with a slipper. It'd be really nice to have FriendFeed 1.0's slow but steady updating as an option, rather than just Fast Forward and Pause. - Chris, Taskerrific Guy

I love the realtime view, that's the only one I watch. - Richard A.

I like the beta, but I think they are too much ambitious for the moment. They forgot that friendfeed is an agregator before all (for the moment!) - Stanislas Jourdan

" one cup of coffee too many!" I don't understand this statement, is a cup smaller than pot? Is three pots to many? - John D Reasor

not feeling too fast to me, but i don't really have the volume. background grey's a bit dark, though :-/ - immaterial

I agree - this is a real challenge - Gerd Leonhard

Its slowed down for me compared to yesterday. Thats cause I have 84 subscriptions (only). LOL - Praveen Vasudev

Awesome but do agree with @karl that API is key. - Moses Kpetigo

I'd like a way to move my entire home feed to a different list in one step. The ability to do something like "Move all all who have used "Second Life" in a message into a Second Life group would be useful. - Chuck Baggett

Robert Scoble

I'm shocked that no one has posted a "get rid of Scoble" filter yet.

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It's coming. ;-) Only joking. - Kol Tregaskes

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Is there a way to share filters?!? That'd blow my mind! - Pat Hawks

That would kill FF - don't do it! LOL - Susan Beebe

to mesmerized by the hands for that. - Ted Bradford II

I will arm wrestle the fool who tries such nonsense. - Janet

Pat: yes, filters are just searches. - Robert Scoble

Scoble Smash! - Rob

aaaaaand done! :P - Shey, Jamaican of FF

Scoble is required for load testing purposes - Ben

Here's one: put this in your search box: italy earthquake likes:1 - Robert Scoble

See all of Scoble's friends: http://beta.friendfeed.com/search... - Pat Hawks

would not get rid of you lol btw, nice display pic :) - David Gross

Ari: that's a two-for-one special. Get rid of both with one filter! :-) - Robert Scoble

That was the first thing I thought of - James Myatt

Scoble who? - Kreg Steppe

That Green Giant. Peas for lunch anyone ? - Jaffer

probably because those who wanted to filter you out figured out how to do it long ago & right off the bat, and those of us who enjoy reading you don't care to help people do otherwise? - Lucretia Pruitt

How do you exactly do that? :)) - Alex Puchianu

@Scoble Should be more like "Show messages without Scoble, Scoble'sm, Scobleizer" :D - Swaroop

That's great as long as you don't like what either of us has to say, LOL. I wonder how many people out there are like that? I probably don't want to know. - Alex Scoble

isnt that the 'hide' button? - chaz2b

Did somebody say something? I could have sworn I heard something... - Mike Lewis

Mark Trapp to Mark's feed, FriendFeed Feedback

Now that FriendFeed is, in effect, a Twitter client, how about somehow incorporating the "To" feature into Twitter replies? So, if I @foo, it also sends foo a DM on FriendFeed.

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keeping the in_reply_to_status_id intact would be nice too - Daniel Sims

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But @foo here doesn't always match the @foo on Twitter. What would be interesting would be a unification of usernames. - Louis Gray

Louis, FriendFeed is keeping track of a person's Twitter username and attaching it to the account (which is why I can post to Twitter using @itafroma). It should use that association list to look up the person. Since you need to supply your Twitter credentials to get that association, it should always go to the right person. - Mark Trapp

What do you think about the new Friendfeed User Interface ? http://twtpoll.com/q68d2y #twtpoll - Yaron Orenstein

Actually, I think I know what you're talking about, Louis: that the @ convention might work with FriendFeed user names. I was scoping this to purely the Twitter portion of FriendFeed, that @foo would mean foo on Twitter, not FriendFeed. So, if there was fooff on FriendFeed, and he attached the foo Twitter account to his FriendFeed, he'd receive messages from people who used @foo. - Mark Trapp

@Mark The only problem with this idea is that people will intuitively expect other Twitterisms in FriendFeed. The border between Twitter & FF should remain clear .. unless FF intends to swallow up Twitter ! - Ahsan Ali aka. Slick

Err, that's funny. I use the @ism there :S - Ahsan Ali aka. Slick

need to be able to search all twitter user posts (public feed) before FF can be my twitter client - timepilot

Ahsan, true, but it's not like FriendFeed isn't catering to that, anyway. @names and #tags are linked in Twitter posts already. - Mark Trapp

Hey I like @Mark's idea :) but I hate the idea of FF having to copy twitter... oh well - Susan Beebe

Jim Peake

@angellr @rumford Gawker - New AOL CEO Wants to Buy Twitter's Web Cool - tim armstrong Rumor mill is in full swing! - http://valleywag.gawker.com/5197751...

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Well he has some attention now. - Jim Peake from Bookmarklet

DaveDelaney.ME

5 Reasons Why... http://bit.ly/75ixA

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yes!! - Lucretia Pruitt

Dave Winer

Why people care how Twitter makes money - http://www.scripting.com/stories...

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Robert Scoble

Identi.ca Early Adopter Tips - http://www.sarahintampa.com/sarah...

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I really don't want to make another switch. I'll go to friendfeed fully before another twitter app. - Leif Hansen

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IMHO identi.ca's nowhere near ready for mass adoption, nor do I get the impression the folks operating it are suggesting that. Open source is great... particularly if the community's able to check changes in and doesn't have to create a fork immediately. identi.ca strikes me as pretty much what Twitter must have been like when it was at the same point in it's development two years ago. - Ken Sheppardson

What Leif Said.... - Cris Pearson from twhirl

A take on Identi.ca's scalability - http://www.russellbeattie.com/blog... - Turker Keskinpala

Yep, it's up and down and bumpy - but what's reallly nice is the guy running the show tells you what's going on. - Renee Hendricks

Isn't the big deal that identi.ca is doing the openmicroblogging.org OMB protocol? The point is that this is a reference implementation of what *could be* a more decentralized microblogging infrastructure/protocol... - Gabe Wachob from twhirl

@corvida's post about Identi.ca seems the most informative I've seen http://shegeeks.net/ - she's got a list of strengths and weaknesses and planned features. Definitely worth the look. They're not doing too badly for day 2. :) - Lucretia Pruitt

Micah Baldwin

365andChange - Day 1 - http://micahbaldwin.com/post...

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interested in listening in tomorrow: http://www.blogtalkradio.com/socialm... love that photo @genuine, who took it? I wonder....

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