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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.
Mona Nomura
Confused by extremely appalling behavior. I really wonder how certain people function in society.
No kidding, like seriously, why is it such a big deal when I soil myself. GOD! Just ignore it, it's practically tasty. - sofarsoShawn
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 - i ♥ derrick #bellymeme
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. - i ♥ derrick #bellymeme 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...
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?
And go where? Back to Twitter or...Facebook? - Manuel Mas
no idea yet.... see what happens. - Rob Sellen :o)
I have nowhere else to go. No where else gives me the high level of interaction that FF does. - Mel Buckpitt
Same FriendFeed as before, I'll still use. - Ben Parr
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
How soon before google wave becomes available to the early adopters/public? - Bryan Lee
Mashable just published a How To Take Advantage of FriendFeed's Unique Features. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA. A little late for that, no? - Stephen Pickering
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 ♥ fierce as a woozle
Robert, if you believe this is a good deal for both FF and FB - why are you leaving? - George F. Snell III
When should we cue in Titanic's last song by the band as FF sinks below leaving us all behind? - Manuel Mas
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
Just came. Might as well stay. Oh boy, that sounded bad didn't it? - PJ Edwards
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
pickering: the conversation will exist whether Scoble is here or not. plenty of people are staying. Scoble is just jumping the gun. - Holden Page from fftogo
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
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! - HootWise
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'm thinking about. Just heard the news. I don't want to make a quick decision on that, but I have good reasons why I#m not at Facebook. If FF belongs to it... I'm shocked. Okay, however I'm concentrating more on Twitter. Any alternatives for Friendfeed? - Ryo / Fuck Facebook
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. - Bicentennial (Franc)
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
Am staying - Abi
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
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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hide - jcunwired
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
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
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
You're laughing after doing that? Fuck. This sucks so much. - Ryo / Fuck Facebook
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
I think you guys don't have a clue what this means. You#re just handed over to some very suspicious gold digger. It's over for Friendfeed. - Ryo / Fuck Facebook
@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 "Threadsbane" 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! - susuzkuyu
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
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!
Rahsheen ™, Coach of FF
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?
Examples (so that I may follow them) :) - Brett Kelly
I'd say Holden is one. I don't know where he came from. - Rahsheen ™, Coach of FF
My name was mentioned? lol - Holden Page
like we've discussed, it's a good name :) - Brett Kelly from IM
Oh haha, I have had a FriendFeed account for a while. Just never interacted much. Thanks Rah :) - Holden Page
Brett: It is a totally awesome name. Tellin' ya. Your kid is gonna be big one day cause of that lol - Holden Page
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 of FF
I think Brett is actually one, he was pretty quite for a while - Holden Page
Derrick, Monique, and pea - Rahsheen ™, Coach of FF
Rah: You should link those ppl - Holden Page
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 of FF
Robert Patton - Helen Sventitsky
Links to these people yo! - Holden Page
(will link people in a bit) - Rahsheen ™, Coach of FF
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
Kol has been around for a while I thought , but he is a pretty pimp dude - Holden Page
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
Tina had an interesting beginning here :) - Rahsheen ™, Coach of FF
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 ♥ fierce as a woozle
If you use Gmail and Archive instead of delete, you can pretty much find anything :) - Rahsheen ™, Coach of FF
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 of FF
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
Alex, you out :) lol - Holden Page
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
Alex: That is why I avoid calling you Scoble lol - Holden Page
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, Time Warping
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.
ah, but you do, because you posted it on FriendFeed :-) - Jesse Stay
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
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
Friendfeed has it's strengths once you get it setup - Chris
Friend feed seems like mainstream to most serious ones? - jibzy
@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
scoble i like you man, but you're crazy - patrick
I applaud your mass unfollowing, but following back via FriendFeed comments seems inefficient (says me, the efficiency consultant). - Marina Martin
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 )) - Alexey Ivanov
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
Ah, I think you may already be following me, but just in case... - Ranger Craig
Joshua: the real time web is only one part of the 2010 web. - Robert Scoble
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
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
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! - HootWise
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. - Abstinence-only works!
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
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