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Hormesis - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki...

October 27 from Bookmarklet - Comment - Like - Share

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"Hormesis is the term for generally-favorable biological responses to low exposures to toxins and other stressors. A pollutant or toxin showing hormesis thus has the opposite effect in small doses as in large doses. ... The biochemical mechanisms by which hormesis works are not well understood. It is conjectured that a low dose challenge with a toxin may trigger certain repair mechanisms in the body, and these mechanisms, having been initiated, are efficient enough that they not only neutralize the toxin's effect, but even repair other defects not caused by the toxin." - Paul Buchheit from Bookmarklet

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Learned a new thing today. - Merry Xmas FFeeders - AJ

Where would you say the 3 martini challenge falls on that graph? :) - Benjamin Golub

Heh, tech rockstars and heroin... - directeur

thanks for sharing - eustress! ;) - Harscoat

This is very vigorously debated and generally hormesis is not widely accepted. - Chris Brinkerhoff

Not exactly but sounds like a vaccine effect which are viral particles at low concentration. - ashish

Robert Scoble

Ryan cries

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September 19 from email - Comment - Like - Share

polou/indigo_bow, onur özen, Grant Bierman and 49 other people liked this

7 lbs 13 oz. Born at 11:32 pm. 20.5 inches long. - Robert Scoble from email

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RSS is alive and well! - Mark Krynsky

So precious! - Jesse Stay

awwwwwwwww! - drew olanoff

Wow Robert that's intense. Congrats. - JP Holecka - Jaypiddy

such a young cry! - gives me goosebumps. Best wishes to you all. - Hilary Talbot

Whoa. That is awesome. I kinda like it without the video. It let my form my own images. - Lise

Now put the smart phone down and start doing the dad thing. ;) - JP Holecka - Jaypiddy

Amazing. Life! - Fred

Grats bud... - Denverken

What a great sound! - Mike Doeff

You're a freaky guy Mr Scoble :) - Rhys Amos

He's about 15 minutes old and is already making his voice heard on the internet! I LOVE SOCIAL MEDIA!!! :D - Danny Minick

Now this is real time ! Great stuff Robert ..... Congrats to you and Maryam (who no doubt did most of the work :) - Charlie Anzman

aww, so sweet. precious baby...i'm getting all teary-eyed and emotional. if you post a video too i'm going to cry for sure. - Jodi Church

time to get snipped dude. hehe. congrats. - geoff hines

Congratulation father! - Mary

Wow, that is the sweetest sound. I'm about to cry. Such a beautiful life ahead for Ryan :) - Nakeva Corothers

'real' web , forget time, very real.. - James Watters

Congrats Scoble. - Jimminy Fuller

awesome - congrats! - kathysd

Good crying! Ours didn't cry much at all because they were so small. - Louis Gray

the sound of new life entering the world - thanks for sharing now go be with him and leave the interwebs for a bit... congrats! - Shannon Clark

Congrats!! - Luca Perugini from iPhone

Congratulations - Paul Blasman

Brilliant! As stated RSS is alive and well! - Sandra Large

Congratulations Robert and Maryam. - Mark H

Congrats to your family! - Odi Chi

Congratulations from Europe to you and your wife - a new human being :) - Harscoat

Congratulations! - Gokhan Gultoprak

MAZAL TOV!!!❀ - Orli Yakuel

Best to you, Maryam & family, Robert! - Myrna

Brilliant! - 1x29

His first podcast! Just like Dad... - Danny Whitt from iPhone

Robert Scoble

True FRIENDFEED addicts please check in:

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Here. - Damond Nollan

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Check..... - Amit Nangare

*raises hand* - MASTER OF THE OBVIOUS

here - Mel Buckpitt

"" - Richard Brock

yo. - Zee.

Present - Clifford Kennedy

Addicted... checkin' in - Rob Schieber

addiction check - Edgar Rodríguez

I checked in before you even posted this. - Akiva Moskovitz

here. - Luca Sofri

'sup - Nolan Alston

shuffles quietly at the back - Ivor Whitten

tap tap - Call me Bronco

Present... - George Hall (Australia)

here - Kimberle Kelly

I'm not an addict. I can quit any time I want. - ha3rvey (Ho)^3

jawohl. - Spidra Webster

I am here. How about you? - Robert Scoble from iPhone

HOORAH - Mistletoe Glen

Check Check - Robert Burgin

here - Ray H

sleepless in Kavala - Apostolos Tsompanopoulos

check - Amani

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Yo - Bret Taylor

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Present - Mike Doeff

It is amazing to see how fast these discussions fill up. - Damond Nollan

Present - Olympia Scott

yep! - Sets Turan

Howdy. - Daniel Morgan

Present. - Alonis

Sir Yes SIr! - Robert Kenney

Word - Matthew Horton

not an addict, but check in often - Göze Sencer

I'm only addicted to the email service - joebrooks

As always :) - Paul Buchheit

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here - Ken Kennedy

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here - Matt Ruiz

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here - Eric Logan

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Snorting a line of FF as I type this. - Penguin It's Cold Outside from fftogo

++ - jacek

Phew, still here ... - Tom Horn

I'm not here LOL - Robert Szabo

Here I be -/ - Chris Loft

I'm Free - kenneth glenn

Damn: a lot of addicts here still! - Robert Scoble from iPhone

Well, I *was* an addict until yesterday. - Rishabh Mishra (p248)

alive and well. - Tyler Molamphy

present - Jeff Weber

yes we R - Johni Fisher

Hey, I can stop whenever I want. No, really. - Tom Landini

I'll leave kicking and screaming. - Andrew Smith

It's a trap!! - Micah Wittman from iPhone

---...--- - constantinos alexacos

Where else are we going to go? - Christian Burns from iPhone

Yep, here - LANjackal

Check - Jesper Lind

So addicted I said I was addicted twice. < g > - Rob Schieber

Hello everyone. - Ryan - @magicofpi

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always here! - Marco Ramirez

Hip hip... - Gary Gannon

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Still around :) - Sean Powell

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staying put until they kick us out. - michael sean wright

still not here :D - Robert Szabo

Yo! - Michael Porter

*cough cough* - John Ladd

Here. - Jon, the Chilled Beartato from Android

I am here. Isn't it now FACEFEED? - Francine Hardaway

Here! - OnuRC

I love that Bret, Paul, and Kevin checked in. They probably are looking at their screens and asking "what do we do now?" how about ship some new features before Facebook overlords take you off to do bigger things? - Robert Scoble from iPhone

I feel sorry for all you addicts. My use of it is purely social. - Bruce Lewis

Not an addict but I like it. - Joao Alves

I got the papers in my glove box....you ready to make a beer run? - Morgan Haley

Is Friendfeed a safe place to bring new friends? - Christian Burns from iPhone

I'm here - and staying here until Paul and Bret kick me out the </door> - AJ Kohn

yup. Guess I am. - Mark Interrante

+1 happy user... till now - giuseppe c. | markgreene

What am I doing? I don't even know. - Suzanne

Here!!! - Felipe Aneudi Campana from iPhone

Here for now... - Travis Tasset from iPhone

That hitler thing was amazing. That is all. - James Watters

present. - Trish Haley

Yo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! - Stephen Pickering

What of it. - Rochelle

"So, Who are you?" "very cool, very cool" - Stephen Pickering

what? - Nine

Just my luck. I got to this party about a month ago and NOW they decide to sell. - Ian Paul

FF4EVR. :D - David Vasileff

02:10 am and still here :-) - Willem (@wim66) ☠

Yo ¡Aquí! - David Austria

present - Albert Maruggi

Yo! - Mathew Barnes

presente - Eric Gagne

Not sure I'm an addict yet but I'm here and working on it. - Paul Goldsmith

I'm checking out not in. Friendfeed is on its way out kind ladies and gentlemen - Mark Essel

Here ! - DAL from iPhone

Checking in! - Marci Golub

Checking in - Richard Gallo

Here - Darrell Madore

Present! - MsJosay

Here and ready for duty sir! - David Damore

I survived the night. - Frankie Warren

yes - Matthew Schrock

Hello - Sue

Present - Joshua Kahn

I do like FF and use it almost every day. Wouldn't it be great if FB either left it alone so we can continue to use it as "professionals," or somehow incorporate it into a more "mature" version of FB that didn't have all the annoying, time-wasting apps, games, etc. I'd much prefer a totally customizable FF "wall." - Cathryn Hrudicka

I think FFundercats HO!!!!! would have worked but I'm here anyways. - Jimminy Fuller

yo - Rahul Krishnakumar

here! - Greg Louderman

are there fake friendfeed addicts? - acedanger

Oh I'm still here :) - Owen Greaves

here - John Kitchen

:) - Lindsay Davies

Hello? - Vaughn

you betcha - Rick Bucich

holy crap, looks like master and commander ;-) - Aad 't Hart

Not an addict but still here. - Brandon

hello from a german FRIENDFEED addicted :-) - Simon Zeimke

On in real time - Mike Lizun

Money rules! Money rules! Money rules! The world doesn't change! - ¡amFrancesco!

O HAI - Ambar Pansari from iPhone

Not an addict, but defiantly a user. Wish there was a desktop client though. Or TweetDeck integrated it. - Michael

:) - Joe

Present! - Denverken

Aye, Mon. - Gordon Swaby

PRESENT - Kamilah Gill

Check - Jason Heppler

It's nice seeing new comments drop down, sexy as fuck, bye friendfeed *snifs* - Gordon Swaby

president - Dennis O'Neil

Aloha - Nathan

Where else would I be? Facebook? Pfft ... - Kevin Mohr

Bueller, Bueller, ........ Bueller - manielse (Mark Nielsen)

Yeah, I'm here - outofmyarse

Sorry I was late.. I have a note from my parole officer. - Mike Shulman

Sir, YES, Sir! - Mycaptain

I CAN QUIT ANYTIME!!! - Jim Addz No Value

here - Rahul Gupta

just getting started - Patrice Vizzone

Aye! - Joshua

hello there - Murilo Terrabuio

Here, I am - Luca Ciccarelli

Sorry I'm late. I was on Facebook. It works on a cellphone. - Paul Puri

here - Gary Prechtel

Present! - Diego Barros 

I'm not here often, but when I am... it's a happy place indeed... I hope they don't take away my fix! - Robyn Miller

Hey Robert - got a separate thread for people who have a healthy, positive relationship with FriendFeed? - Edward Coffey

Check - tristan

Marco! - Tomy Thomson

it's gonna take 11 years for FaceBook to catch up to where FF is now....isn't that how tech "progress" works? - Marg Uerite

Ahoy - Brett Kelly from iPhone

aye - chaz2b

Polo! - m9m, Crone of FriendFeed

Ere I am in Aust standing up with my right hand raised yelling out HERE! - Bob Heath

Count me in. - Sebastian

Present - Charlie Anzman

Knock on wood! - Giorgio Zarrelli

O Hai! - Mathew A. Koeneker

Check - Erik Boles from iPhone

What's the qualifier for addict? If you believe the MacLean researcher, addiction is a choice! - Sally: in Florida

I MEAN IT!!! ANYTIME!!! - Jim Addz No Value

O Captain, My Captain ;) - Stuart Miniman

hey! - Imran Jafri

yes - Steve Mott

I'm here. Now what? - Christian Collins

Actively fighting addiction to anything on a daily basis, but I'm still a FriendFeed fan! (I'd have been here sooner but I've been staring at Phoebe Cates pics for longer than I realized.) - Mark "DerBingle" J

Thank you Robert Scoble to be here. :) BTW is this looks interesting for FF replacement? : http://streamy.com/ ? May be... I'll try it to see. :) - Claude LaFrenière

Checking in! - MVB (Grinch of FF) from fftogo

Count me in too please! - RobinDotNet from iPhone

raises hand! - Bhowmik Shah

not addicted but perhaps in a state of advanced 'like' - Threepwood

Yep Yep - Rahsheen ™, Coach Rah

Yeah. Going to miss this if it morphs into something else for real. - Robert Anderson

I need my FriendFeed! - Brandon Titus

I really Need Friendfeed! - TheHenry

Ya, that's me. - Sweyn Venderbush

Yo. - James (!?)

HOOAH. or something - mjc

Here. At the Rack proctoring an exam. - Stuart Rath

here - Bluesun 2600

Everybody sing: "They tried to make me go to rehab I said no, no, no " - Laurent

•_•*b - videopixil from Nambu

YEP! - Helen Sventitsky

check - Jaica Kinsman from iPhone

Here! - Michael Hocter

Aye! - Archangel ωαřмaiden

yo! - tomit

Why should I? Whats in it for me? You doing some sort of survey of people to send out the police to do a "Safety Check" on when the site is shutdown? - Uncle CW™

hola! - Oğuz Serdar

Aren't we all here? I guess that's the point why we adopted Friendfeed, while others just "heard about it", isn't it? - Wolfgang G. Wettach

What is the differential diagnosis for this condition? - Matthew DeVries

and many of us in Europe are sleeping. - Luca Sofri

better late than never. - Brian Daniel Eisenberg

Some of us in the USA are just busy, too. - Duncan Blake

Man, this check-in line is pretty darn long... must be Southwest. heh - Daynah

<raises hand> - Jack (a.k.a. Jeber)

please excuse me while I pretend to be one of your guys - Kirk

i am - Brian Hendrickson

I'm not addicted, I'm just a social FriendFeeder. - Joe Pierce

here i am - v per vitzbank

check 1,2 - Wayne Sutton

Here. - Bill Scherer

Here - Bora Zivkovic

.-.. --- --. --- ..- - - constantinos alexacos

hello - echostreamer

YOYOYO! - Mathew™ one of a kind

Eccomi, presente! - Alessandro

checking in from Tejas - George Dearing from BuddyFeed

Finally turned the corner. - Liza

trying to figure out how to use it... - Ted Kinzer

There sure are a lot of people in here. It's a good thing Robert got the big room with extra chairs. - RobinDotNet from iPhone

Here! - Zulema ◕ ◡ ◕ from BuddyFeed

Reporting! (My next blog entry will be called "Social Media Is My Crack".) - Dennis Jernberg

present. - Jim Halligan @jim

:( - Angus Burton

Roger, Roger! - Jim Bergman

late but here - Heather Solos

Yo. - Steve Lowe

all present and accounted for sir ! - John Wallace from BuddyFeed

Nah, I'm too busy posting #badjokememe stuff. - Ladybug Heather

I am in. - Gabe Taviano from iPhone

Present. - Christopher A Carr

Depends. - Nick Humphries

Not an addict yet, but I'm starting to work on it. - Alex Hellstrom

I'm working hard to get an addiction. - Minu Nianda

never left - Josh Haley

Robert, Now that you have us all here (or some of us), what are you going to do with us? - RobinDotNet

Here I am... sad but I am! - ¡amFrancesco!

Hiya. Still here. Don't plan on leaving for the foreseeable future. - Jason Huebel from iPhone

still here - echostreamer

Yes? - Fajar Nurdiansyah

here - Holly is Happy from iPod

I'm here, but is this FF or FB? - Dana Fosburgh

Guilty as charged. Use FF more than any other social network, including Twitter. - Larry Hawes

I can stop anytime I want... - mikepk

I can stop mikepk anytime I want... - Akiva Moskovitz

here - mike "glemak" dunn

holy cow that is a serious list...oh yeah here and dear!!! - Braden Douglass

the real time chat feed is simply amazing and what makes FF phenomenal! - Travis Tasset

I tried to get addicted but none of my friends could afford it. Now I just have bad dreams about Scoble. - Mr Saturday Morning NFG

Merhaba! - Barış (beyn.org)

here, too. - browneyes from iPhone

Yep. - joey

Here...and cloaked with sadness... - Anthony K. Valley ©

True. What will happen to FF now? - Barış (beyn.org)

Alright - Rodfather

:P - Phillip Stewart

Roger that - Rob Fahrni

(from Streamy) - Marcos

yo - Gus

cello! - Joe Silence

You called? - Jeunelle Foster

you called? - pea

reporting in. - Randy Shapiro

ola. - anna sauce

hello my name is Kim and I'm a Friendfeedaholic - Kim Landwehr from BuddyFeed

1st Step - Thomas Page

True FriendFeed addicts don't need to report in. :P - Chrimmus Tad

yep - The Letter M

true friendfeed addicts are there.. always ;) - alphaxion

Tad: and yet you did! - Joe Silence

Chiggity-Check! - Richard Merritt

Still following Robert the Wise. - Phil Boiarski

that's a *boolean true* - Peter Renshaw

check - Tim Ake

I'm here. FriendFeed will have to leave me, before I leave it. - Tyson Key

ayo... - Lipanantsi

Fashionably late ...BOOYA! - Rich Weaver

Chris Martin checking in - Chris Martin

Present - Craig Eddy

present but in 12 step for addiction - Criz

'Ere - Darren Heydon

yo ho ho! - Ferdinand Perez

I'm an addicted lurker. Does that count? - ax0n

Solid Copy - Drew Lucas from iPhone

Checking in by phone while on vacation. :) - CAJ, somewhere else from iPhone

here. anecdote: a friend of mine just signed up for FF this evening. apparently the FriendFeed hype of the last 24 hours pushed him over the top. leaves me wondering whether FF has actually gained users today?it would be a crafty way of marketing the service. I'll wake up tomorrow to discover that there was a problem with the paperwork and the FriendFeed team have had a change of heart. - JSLeFanu from BuddyFeed

late, but present - George Deane

Present and accounted for - John Pfaff

hello hello - shaun mclane

yo yo yo. ladi-dadi. - berchman

"raises hand" - Brian Appleby

i have been locked out of twitter since first attack on friday so just got into friendfeed and loooove it! - Alannah Ryane

We are truly the coolest bunch on the internet. - Raphael, Raphael

·[▪_▪]· - Desirade

Whats up? - Merry Xmas FFeeders - AJ

Present and accounted for! :-D - Amy Flynn

Hello, my name is Pete, and I am a FriendFeed addict. Will there be cookies and coffee at this 12-step meeting? - Pete Delucchi

Here stopped over on my way to Brightkite. - John C Ferron

I'm a Facebook junkie - Molly, "sorry"

Yo. - Neal Jansons

Hi. - Trent Olson

is this a load test/friendly dos attack? :p - ௸ (k2g)

I'm not as active on FF as I used to be but I'm back. - Bob Gannon from iPhone

more than 2 days ago - Alistair (alpinefolk)

Little late but yes, I am still here. So to speak. - Martha

yo.. - Ricardo J. Valle

I'm new but i like it... - Jose Antonio Trujillo

Count me in even though I was just starting to get hooked. I guess it's time to find a rehab and get all sobered up until the next relapse with some other new addiction. Isn't life grand? - Usman Bashir

addict.. - Peter

Define addict. - Carl Black

Here too, lol - Ange Recchia/angesbiz

ANYTIME!!!! - Jim Addz No Value

addict: currently 02:53 and I've failed to even start this weeks script because I've been messing about on friendfeed ;) - alphaxion

Not exactly addict but very close. - ashish from iPhone

03:01 in the morning in the UK and I am here! - Travis Koger

Since we are logging time its 5:05 AM in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia and I am here too. :) - Usman Bashir

Travis get some sleep! - Arleen Anderson

Aloha! - Peter Liu

guten tag! - imabonehead

hmmm. - Carlos Ayala

hello hello - Tate DA FF MVP from BuddyFeed

define addict :-) - Duane-PreppyDude

Gonna miss you honey. This is Facebook for adults - Alan Morris

Is it just me or is the FF interface just plain usable? Clean! Uncluttered! Simple!. - Alan Morris

Yo - Ahsan Ali aka. Slick

Check is in the mail. - Louis Trapani from iPhone

Wow Peter, Are we all that crazy for friend feed and twitter? - Marilyn Jansen Lopes

Aloha! Mahalo Robert... now WHAT IS the plan??? - Arleen Anderson

Hello there. this is today's last....go to bed now. - Carloe Stamp

present - Alex Scrivener

Allo - Jan Ole Peek

selamat pagi,, bon dia ,, good morning=)) - zʍıɔ

^_^ - HealingBrush

I could be an addict if there was an app for my phone like one for the winmo! - Andy Ghozali

Presente - patrick

Checking In.... - Chris Jackson

Not quite addicted yet here. - Mike Pennell

Where's Holden? Maybe celebrating his birthday early. - Myrna

Yes SIR!! - Mark Guadalupe

Present! - Adam Turetzky

Reporting for duty SIR! - Jack Humphrey

Yes - Christopher Galtenberg from iPhone

Checking in. - John (a.k.a. dendroica)

¡Presente! - Luis D. Santos

On it constantly! - Tobin Truog

West Coast evening shift reporting for duty. - Kryptic

Connected across all social media.Who needs open social? - Lori Laurent Smith

Here! - David Cook

addicted for sure - Gersham Meharg

hola. - Sean Oliver

talk about a name and shame list... - Nathan Vingoe

Yo! - Walt Ruppar

Count me as an addict. - Joey Gibson

Till the servers shut down and they boot us off forever. - Haggis (Sean Loyless)

check - Kate

Always here! - Michael Cuff

need more, need more friendfeed than any one has needed before - Robert Higgins

Present. - Lucas

I am present and accounted for...well present anyway - Keith Murray

Here! - Barry Owens

You rang? - JA Castillo

I'm not sure is "being addicted to lurking on FF" counts, but I'm chiming in. - Christian (Simply X)

I JUST joined and am trying to figure it out. - Janine Nickel

Oui - J.D. Deutschendorf

I quit everytime I go to bed - Jeff (the マクダジ of FF) from iPhone

check. It rocks - Richard J Placide

I'm checking in from 37k feet on a Delta flight with GoGo Internet. If that's not addict I don't know what is. :D - Jay Cuthrell

Jay, you win ;) - Jesper Lind

oh hey, look, the added an "add comment" link to the end of the comment list. Huzzah! - Brett Kelly from iPhone

++Jay. I was going to do the same thing yesterday but I didn't want to pay the money. - David Cook

David -- this was a $9.95 session but you can get them for $7.95 and there are also 25% off coupons if you do online check-in prior to your Delta flight. That's an incentive for folks to use that service and offload kiosk use at the terminals. Very savvy marketing by the folks at GoGo and Delta combined. - Jay Cuthrell

Present and accounted for - johnpiercy

Yo Scobey! I like Dave Winer's thoughts on user owned tech companies ... been thinking similar things. - Jason Cronkhite

Scobey Scobey Doooooooooooooo! - Jason Huebel

check. - Justin Korn

here - Steve C

Ozgur reporting - Özgür D. Cyric from iPhone

in - sirishkumar

Present - Herb Hernandez

Yo! - Aaron Draczynski

Me too - Peter Hollard

Junkie - Genaro Bardy from iPhone

Seems like there's not much point being a FF addict, now. Bummer. - Kathy Fitch

Hola! - George The Writer

Checking in! - Glenn Slaven

whatup! :) - simran

Still here :) - 1x29

Here as always. - Jeff Smith

Here. - Parth Awasthi

Do you even have to ask? - Johnny Worthington

Aquí! - Miguel

moi. - amygeek

Are we doing anything today? - Shea from iPhone

nano nano - Eran Even-Kesef

ok, I'll play - chrisofspades

yes master - Weird Shanghai

:) - Susan Beebe from iPhone

I like this list of people, good crowd - Jack DeWitt Smith

Yo. (And what is the point of this thread and why are we all saying Yo?) - Bob Morris (polizeros)

Howdy! - Bec Rowe @d0tski

. - Rob Michael (Atmos Trio)

aye - WorldofHiglet

And if you're a *real* FF addict, comment twice. - Dennis Jernberg

Robert. What's up? :D - DO ANYBODY NO MONIQUE

Arrrr!! - Adrian

Here! - Peter du Toit (S.Africa) from fftogo

Here at 06:55 A.M. from iPhone. - Pasquale Grimaldi from iPhone

late, but check and still here. - Rocky

No matter how many times "ff!" is met with "??" I still preach. - Garin Kilpatrick

Another one for the books - Greg Birch

YO! - Eric @ CSTechcast.com

Here - Véronique Rabuteau

Sup dawg I be in your feed, checkin in - Geoff Schultz

Hey. - Kevin Pedraja

I'm late, sorry. :) - jcunwired

so... - Meg v. Meg v. 1.0.0.1

well, it's 12:12 a.m. and I'm perusing FF from my iPhone via BuddyFeed before turning in. so yeah, I guess I count. "Here!" (raises hand) - Don Faulkner from BuddyFeed

Here - Paola Bonomo

Here..from Shanghai - Marc Dong

My name is John, and I am a FFolic.. :-) - John Serra

Here from Hong Kong! - Dan Van Hoy

Here - Musa Yılmaz

Good morning from Finland. I'm here again. - Tapio Kulmala

Can't stay away. - Tanath

Checked in ...How can I check out - Sriks7

Sorry I am late - Emre Öktem

Becoming more so. - Travis B. Hartwell

Present - Sandra Large

Here here... - Alemsah Ozturk from iPhone

Here! - Jeff P. Henderson

here.. - Chris Myles

Hello I am here! - Chris Bellinger

hmm. Friendfeed response rate running about three times as good as a banner ad and about as good as a well placed Adword. - Steve Wilhelm

Am I too late? I've been out crying at my personal Friendfeed funeral :-( - Jannifer @wordsforliving

Ci sono - zuck from fftogo

Just woke up and saw this thread. Addicted ? I guess so... - Jacque from f2p

✔ I'm not addicted. I can quit any time I want. I just don't want to. ;o) - RetiredTeacherD

still lovin it - Mark Sorsa-Leslie

Teacher: Awesome checkmark ;) - Fajar Nurdiansyah

Jauser - Flynn (Michael A. Volz) from BuddyFeed

Yes it does ! :) - Veda Informatics

Oh I'm late, just spend to much time at Streamy - Michael Zehrer

:) - M F

merhaba - Sinan İŞLER

Here I am, having my first coffee in the morning. - Federico Bolsoman

wazzzzup - Andrew Salnikov

Breakfast FFeeding.... - David Peacock

Wof Wof, WOF ! - valerio fiandra from iPhone

addiction check! - ӊooқ

First site I launch - Patrik Arwengrim

checked in - Sarper Sılaoğlu

All present and correct! - Paul M Evans

Présent! (for how long?) - Zackatoustra

here I am - nessuno

I send newbies straight to FriendFeed as the base for all of their online activities. I wonder how it will change. - Sally Albright

I'm here - Mackley ॐ

ata ata hoglo hulu - Dan H. Racek

[DEAN HOLMES] - Dean Holmes

I recommend FF to some of my clients, and there are some companies and nonprofits with presences here—not like Twitter, but I'll be curious how that will be affected when FB takes over more. Most have FB fan pages, groups and/or causes, too. - Cathryn Hrudicka

Still here.......as always. - Iain Baker

huh? - bora "head" basman

Still here, but I don't know until when - Roberto from fftogo

Here I am - l'Ego di Gigi

Because.....? - Andrew Terry from iPod

checked! - Federì

yup - Thomas Power

Wassup? - Winston Teo

in - paniaguai

howdy! - Nir Ben Yona

I can give it up any time. I swear. - Matt G

Here! - Brome

Hey i'm in the hospital and I still checked. - Steven Cogswell from iPhone

Me definitely one of these. :-) - Kol Tregaskes

Trying to keep the addiction low. - Muthu Ramadoss

Buongiorno - alex

Just another one. - M. Elena

Yo. - Carlton Hackett

What are we checking in for? Just to start a long thread? - Adam Helweh

in - MobilAdam

Where's duty free? - Paul Downing

sorry i'm late :) - Doruk Bayer

Late, but here I am. - Filippo Ronco

Not an addict but I'm here anyway :-D - Graham Lawrence

Reporting for duty. - Mark H

Here I am! Would you collect 50M$ to "buy-back" FF? :) - Marco Dal Pozzo [mdp]

Yo - Franz Binder

I hope I'm not an addict... ;-) Oh, well. - Hanna Wiszniewska

вписался - Alex Kapranoff

I'm here - Nick Bristow

8 hours later? i passed it! - Avi Joseph

yop! - zooz

привет чятег! давайте зохватим этот тредик? - Махатма Бугоганди

Yeah, me too. I just saw the request to have a comment link at the bottom of the comments from one of your friends just yesterday and here it is. I'd say they are listening. Thanks FF. - Keith Rowland

ЧАТЕГ МЫ ТЕБЯ ЗАХВАТИМ!!!111 - кесапмриот

заходит чувак к Scoble, а там чатег - $this->

Boom - Simon Wicks from iPhone

это наш чятег камон - кесапмриот

а сколько у них тут каментов? - Махатма Бугоганди

Давайте дадим чувакам ссылку на истинный чятег, пусть бояццо - кесапмриот

пиццот - кесапмриот

смешные - Махатма Бугоганди

Свободу попугаям! - Кеноби с кемпа

НАПИШИ ЗДЕСЬ ДВЕ ТЫСЯЧИ КАМЕНТОВ И ФРЕНДФИДИК ОСТАНЕТСЯ БЕСПЛАТНЫМ!!! - кесапмриот

бггг - Махатма Бугоганди

zdrastvitze! - anna sauce

check! - Maxim Getman

КТО ВСЕ ЭТИ ЛЮДИ??? - Нервный гик

Right Here! - Ümit Orhan

present - Tamara

http://friendfeed.com/ideali... MORE THAN 7000 COMMENTS IN SOVIETFRIENDFEEDIK - кесапмриот

ОНИ ПРИШЛИ В НАШ ФРЕНДФИДИК! - кесапмриот

слабаки, до нашего чатега им ещё работать и работать - Нервный гик

Да здравствует народ Чятега. Скобл мы следим за тобой™! Let our friendfeed alone! - ideali

это не тру чатик - Нервный гик

^^ KAKIE VASHI DOKAZATELSTVA? - Zen Zero

кстати, все помнят, что у Даши сегодня день рождения? - Махатма Бугоганди

The view is better from here - Anthony

ЧО, БУХАЕМ? ДАША ПРИВЕТ - кесапмриот

Ин совьет унион чатег чатит тебя - кесапмриот

они виноваты сами. пускай теперь терпят. - ideali

о, зайка пришол! - Махатма Бугоганди

здравствуй Зайка. ты кого сегодня сделал счастливым? - Махатма Бугоганди

*facepalm* - Alex Kapranoff

Дашенька, в этом уютном подобии чятега мы поздравляем тебя! - ideali

All your base are белонг ту ас - кесапмриот

Дашенька ушла в салон красоты, но я ей передам обязательно! - Махатма Бугоганди

路过：） - K.D.

кетайцам напалм привет - кесапмриот

нитрогай кетайца, у него там коммунизм, ему тяжело - Махатма Бугоганди

then ? - alper*

чо сразу нитрогай, я превед передаю - кесапмриот

превед кетайцам - Нервный гик

И так чятег, пока Скобл не поговорит с нами представителями СовиетФрендфидика, все мои записи теперь можно читать в этом тредике. Пользуясь случае передаю Парню Бухайту и его команде большой привет, в связи с тем что [He can has sleep naw]. - ideali

превед кетаец! давай сегодня сделаем тебя счастливым! - Махатма Бугоганди

а кто такой Скобл? - Нервный гик

кстати да - Махатма Бугоганди

И ещё десять твоих друзей тоже сделаем счастливыми, китаец, у нас сегодня акция - кесапмриот

Мой Мир, вернись уже - кесапмриот

в чатег призывается Цукенберррггг! - кесапмриот

Greetings from Australia. Im here :-) - Aussie_Camper

кто такой Скобл. и вообще, объясните мне плз про звезд американоязычного френдфидика - кто там есть кто? - Махатма Бугоганди

зырьте, как притихли гики - кесапмриот

фтыкают в кириллические интернеты - кесапмриот

кто все эти люди™ ? - brain

у них там ночь, они спят еще. вот проснуцца - прифигеют - Махатма Бугоганди

Triple check - Geer

не там а здеся. звёзды американоязычного френдфидика здеся. давайте их спросим - кесапмриот

фаак, точно ночь - кесапмриот

а чо удобно. утром мы говорим, вечером они - кесапмриот

их спрашивать бессмысленно - сейчас они спят, а когда проснуцца, комменты уйдут далеко вверх - Махатма Бугоганди

а мы ещщё напишем - кесапмриот

хоть тысячу каментов-то мы им сделаем сейчас? - Махатма Бугоганди

а чего там делать - кесапмриот

:) - Florent Morel

http://ff.im/6umOQ - кесапмриот

для тех кто в контексте урбаншипа канешн - кесапмриот

All your base are belong to us - brain

дурик - кесапмриот

I am here Jedi master. - Steve de Mena

про этого Скобла статья в википедии есть. он евангелист. работал в мелкософте и в фаст компани. известный блоггер. - Махатма Бугоганди

кстати, можно обсудить вчерашник эпиктредик тут - кесапмриот

я уже спрашивал у Зайки, кого он сегодня сделал счастливым, но он молчит - Махатма Бугоганди

Митрич, этот скобл? http://be.wikipedia.org/wiki... Яндекс выдал - кесапмриот

here - Ahmet Soyata

точно! поэт, пародист, переводчик. известный блоггер. - Махатма Бугоганди

я вчера был в издательстве, с меня сведения об авторе просят. давайте, говорят, напишем, где учился, что генеральный директор. и что известный блоггер. - Махатма Бугоганди

пиши что генеральный блоггер - кесапмриот

Here - Kevin J Hatton

here I am - Vedran Rudelj

да ладно! - кесапмриот

чо ладно? - Махатма Бугоганди

blessed are the sick - fo sho

Бесков, не ругайся - Махатма Бугоганди

http://www.youtube.com/results... - Sinan İŞLER

мафия засыпает просыпаются гики - кесапмриот

а можно получить профессию известного блоггера? какие экзамены сдавать надо? какую специализацию лучше выбрать - микроблоггинг или аудиоподкастинг? - Махатма Бугоганди

*где можно получить профессию* - Махатма Бугоганди

экзамены надо не сдавать а принимать - кесапмриот

тогда все скажут вот блоггер и будут хлопать хлопать - кесапмриот

а кто сертификат дает, что экзамены принимать можно? - Махатма Бугоганди

настоящий генеральный блоггер можно афтограф и ещё экзамен хачу здать - кесапмриот

сам себе выдай что как маленький - кесапмриот

юноше, обдумывающему жутьё - кесапмриот

себе полайкай! (с) - Махатма Бугоганди

только щас понял, что мы в тредике у Скобла разговариваем. Скобла, привеееет! - кесапмриот

чо? - Лучше не знать

всё! - кесапмриот

ой чатег - payalnik

паяльник привеееет - кесапмриот

давай Скоблу сертификат выпишем? - Махатма Бугоганди

сертификат "русский блоггеръ"? - кесапмриот

известный блоггер - Махатма Бугоганди

пусть с али поразговаривает. будем щитать што экзамен и сертификат сразу опа и выпишем - кесапмриот

в псто призывается Фил, рисовать сертификат для Скобла - Махатма Бугоганди

Checked-in - Ozkan Altuner

согласен. экзамен принимает Зайка, сертификат рисует Фил. роли распределены. - Махатма Бугоганди

чорт. я опаздываю. убежал. сделайте, пожалуйста, тысячу. я буду иногда появляться. - Махатма Бугоганди

ок - кесапмриот

привет всем в этом чате - Химия и Жизнь

только до 7 тыщ ему всё равно не дорасти - Химия и Жизнь

привет этому чатегу. в прошлый раз не участвовала, но тут грех не поддержать. - Teinett

ээ, зачем второй чатик сделали? - Один дяденька

показать американцам, где раки зимуют - Химия и Жизнь

кстати, вы в курсе, что сегодня Россия играет с Аргентиной в Москве - отборочный матч на ЧМ-2010? сегодня в метро будет ЖЕЕЕЕЕЕЕСТЬ - Teinett

http://ff.im/6urbH - Скоблу привет - кесапмриот

пока они спят - nundesign

О, кукуц пришол - кесапмриот

сегодня в метро на машине не поеду ок - кесапмриот

and here! - Arnaud Fischer

Here! - Simone Tedeschi

а кто-нибудь хоть раз катался в метро на машине? в рекламе это показывают, а реально? хотя бы слышали что-нибудь про ваших знакомых? - Teinett

Фесйбук, где наши деньги? Мы ёрлиадоптеры, дай нам тоже бабла! - Химия и Жизнь

me too, me too! Facebook baaaad, friendfeed gooood!! :-) - Chris Pantazis

Скобла, защити наши интересы! - Химия и Жизнь

не не слышали - кесапмриот

О, греки пришли. Греки привееет! - кесапмриот

girls, send your photos here -> - Химия и Жизнь

let's chat!!!!1111111oneoneeleveneleven - Химия и Жизнь

но только чтоп по-русски - Химия и Жизнь

а ещё кстате можно всем дружно переименоваться в "Robert Scoble" - кесапмриот

тема - Химия и Жизнь

сиськам да! - кесапмриот

кстати, IM пропускает 90% сообщений. :( как вы следите за этим чатегом? - Teinett

МОНЕТИЗАЦИЯ - Махатма Бугоганди

по русски не катит, они там не поймут - кесапмриот

как как, из веба - кесапмриот

yeah - Amber, Random Time Lord

МОНЕТИЗИРУЙ @ ЛАЙКАЙ - кесапмриот

а работа стоит? - Teinett

Чятег вы молодцы! - ideali from iPhone

Guys, you russians are best! - Химия и Жизнь

yep! - кесапмриот

Австралийцы призываются в пост, где Бацек? - ideali from iPhone

уук - Химия и Жизнь

опять русские с балалайками наперевес - Один дяденька

руски блоггир привет - кесапмриот

с блаблаблайками - Химия и Жизнь

Митрич сегодня Скобл будет счастливым когда прознает силу Чятега. - ideali from iPhone

БАЛАЛАЙКАЙ - кесапмриот

Ждем на машабле статью "после слияния с фейсбуком в уютный френдфидик ломанулись русские" - $this->

это напоминает мне одну историю про Сосидко - Химия и Жизнь

не помню - кесапмриот

это что еще за на? - Непротивлени Злу Василием

I'm still here. You won't get trid of me that easily. - James Myatt

а ты не был на канале #2ch - Химия и Жизнь

это не на! это чятег! - кесапмриот

привет чятег! - Sergey Juchkov

here! - Emanuele Guicciardi

Старый добрый френдфидиик - кесапмриот

ыч - Billy

Фил по вашему указанию прибыл. Чо рисуем? - Ph

привент ивангелистам - Непротивлени Злу Василием

Скобла и Митрича - кесапмриот

менья зовут Иван Гелист - кесапмриот

И чо они должны делать? - Ph

тусня Скоблов - Непротивлени Злу Василием

а ты почитай тредик) - кесапмриот

Фил, рисуй все подряд :) - Sergey Juchkov

Скобла привеет! - кесапмриот

Вот еще, тредики читать! Я настоящий Friendfeed Addict - я пишу и рисую, а не читаю. - Ph

русиш фантастиш скоблз - Непротивлени Злу Василием

ок - кесапмриот

Скобл - это чувак с самым большим на данный момент количеством friends of в Френдфиде. - $this->

dı rırı dı rırı dı rırı cant touch this :P - Sinan İŞLER

сериаладдер штоле? - кесапмриот

ну значит мы пришли в нужное место - кесапмриот

чятег, превед! - тут не место для

Наскоблил себе друзей. - Ph

Have I accidentally clicked a translation button or something?!? - Nicola Quinn

Руски френдфидик выходит на международную арену - кесапмриот

массфрендер, масс его - Непротивлени Злу Василием

Скоблогер - кесапмриот

中文用户飘过 :) - Roger.Wei

транслейшен ему, смотрите - кесапмриот

^^^ гыгыгы - тут не место для

Дебютирует так сказать - Непротивлени Злу Василием

Учу албанскому - кесапмриот

from Russia with Love - $this->

hello - Ru Viljoen

privet - кесапмриот

интересно в каком словаре можно перевести с русского массфрендер - Непротивлени Злу Василием

На ифоне этот тредик не справляецо уже, и я перестал понимать кто чо говорит, когда кругом Скоблы. Чуть не проехал свою станцию. - ideali from iPhone

чего и добивались - кесапмриот

нет, не сериаладдер, просто популярный чел. - $this->

Придёт настоящий Скобл и зобанит всех! - кесапмриот

да не важно кто что говорит, Скоблись - Непротивлени Злу Василием

Грядёт настоящий Скобл - кесапмриот

от скобла слышу! - кесапмриот

Один чувак пришол в чятег и говорит я известный блоггер кто тут тру на первый второй рассчитайсь. А ему говорят чувак у тебя сертификат есть что ты известный блоггер? Вот иди Зайке экзамен сдай потом приходи. А Зайка стоит такой с топором и улыбается. Щас думает счастливым его сделаю. - Махатма Бугоганди

ты кого скоблом назвал? - Непротивлени Злу Василием

Yeah still kickin - Dobromir Hadzhiev

А другой чуваг пришол в чятег и говорит mi sami ne mestnie chekin pozhaluisto - кесапмриот

Holy moly - ◄ani625Ξ

I'm hererererererererere - FFTornado

всем учить русский! - Непротивлени Злу Василием

Скобла знаишь? - кесапмриот

Кого ищё знаишь? - кесапмриот

каждый день в зеркале вижу - Непротивлени Злу Василием

албанский - Sergey Juchkov

learn albanian! - Sergey Juchkov

oh, now it's all water, all water... - K.D.

i can speak albanian ok ok - кесапмриот

время от времени прорываются addicts забавно - Непротивлени Злу Василием

зобанить их - Непротивлени Злу Василием

@pozorro, на сертификат отдельно опубликуй, как нарисуешь! - nomoretears

они оскоблевают чо - кесапмриот

аддикты чятега - $this->

do you know the longest thread in friendfeed is in Russian?:)) link http://ff.im/2OQex - K.D.

если забанить - с кем трепаться? - Sergey Juchkov

http://friendfeed-media.com/a4d4902... – ы. %) - nomoretears

you lie - кесапмриот

Почему каждый использованием Роберт Scoble как зовут? - Matthew Horton

ЧО СКАЗАЛ САМ ПОНЯЛ ДА - кесапмриот

ololo - Непротивлени Злу Василием

Nice Russian Robert, Bulgarian isn't far off, be happy to teach you :-) - Dobromir Hadzhiev

it's very smal thread in russian - Sergey Juchkov

гугл транслейтерс камон - кесапмриот

Google Translate тебе в помощь - Непротивлени Злу Василием

Болгария привееет - кесапмриот

ё - Sergey Juchkov

here is the link http://ff.im/2OQex - K.D.

привет и добър ден :-) - Dobromir Hadzhiev

я так думаю веселье только начинается - кесапмриот

@dobata hello - Sergey Juchkov

партизанщина сплошная - Непротивлени Злу Василием

Здравей, България! Как ви времето? :) - nomoretears

линкер, все ещё впереди - Sergey Juchkov

@grantape да без разницы, nevermind - Непротивлени Злу Василием

Он придет и молча забанит всё. - Махатма Бугоганди

Вавилонская башня, realy ((= - brain

I'll still be around as long as this site exists. - Neurario

Polacy? - Sergey Juchkov

Да я полиглот прям - кесапмриот

Češi mají jedno? - Sergey Juchkov

хрена тебе. это я польский и чешский знаю :) - Sergey Juchkov

Here, Mostly! - Kreg Steppe

Хере Мостли - Непротивлени Злу Василием

@sergey morning @nomeratears мрачно...чакаме слънцето - Dobromir Hadzhiev

@Dobromir 早上好！：） - K.D.

wombata misserious - fo sho

ОМГ. На меня подписался китаец, который тут в чятеге разговаривает! Чувак, тебе зачем? - Махатма Бугоганди

он руски учит я думать - кесапмриот

here I am ! - Giovanni Cappellotto

各位早安 - Roger.Wei

вдруг и ты взаимностью ответишь... - Непротивлени Злу Василием

а иероглифы можно копипастить из википедии - кесапмриот

А, он сразу же и отписался. Сириалэддер? Может, у него скрипт? - Махатма Бугоганди

да можно из постов чувака повыше - Непротивлени Злу Василием

Доктор, у меня скрипт. - Махатма Бугоганди

приссал - кесапмриот

(я ушел на час) - Махатма Бугоганди

пей масло - Непротивлени Злу Василием

доктор, выньте скоблу - кесапмриот

汗，上面的Robert都是假的_ _!!! - K.D.

vi a ze chempionz - fo sho

亲眼目睹的事情，有一年过年，深圳梅林一个邮局，很多人排队寄钱回家，有个民工等着等着睡着了，抓在手上的几张钱撒了一地，保安就过去叫醒了他，让他小心钱，他说没办法，连续加了几个晚上的班，眼睛都睁不开了，保安马上和VIP室的 ... - Непротивлени Злу Василием

НЕПИЗДИ! - кесапмриот

Митрич, ему байки интересны. - Sergey Juchkov

I'm alive :) - Dimitar Tsonev

Скобалайзер мод он. - Непротивлени Злу Василием

Ехал Скобл через Скобл. Видит Скобл в Скобл Скобл. Сунул Скобл Скобл в Скобл. СКОБЛ СКОБЛ СКОБЛ СКОБЛ! - Кеноби с кемпа

what's with all the Russian? Can I have a large Calzone please? - MercyFlush

я запутался в своих двойниках. - Sergey Juchkov

终于发现了，这些人都是专业的”俄国闪客“！！！ - K.D.

ема, палево - Непротивлени Злу Василием

кальсоны себе сам надень федя - кесапмриот

就看这楼刷刷的升啊 - 拓 | wavesand

надо двойников забанить. пойду забаню - кесапмриот

Большой Калзоне и счёт товарищу! - Один дяденька

Скобл сломал Фэйсбук! У меня пароль не принимается и не ресетится. :( - nomoretears

моя китайская сущность скобла, ты о чём там иероглифируешь? - кесапмриот

страна СКОБЛЯНДИЯ - Непротивлени Злу Василием

Russians! - Jacque

Аре югангстерс? Нот ве а рашенз ага ага - кесапмриот

King Midas 2.0 — breaks every startup he touches - fo sho

БЛЯЯЯЯЯЯЯЯЯЯЯЯЯЯЯЯяяяя - brain

Линкер - не надо - Sergey Juchkov

чего не надо? - кесапмриот

о, наконец-то просыпаются. "рашнз! рашнз!" - кричали они и прибегали смотреть и тыкать пальцем. - Teinett

НЕ НАДО - Непротивлени Злу Василием

Türkler sohbet! - Sergey Juchkov

ещё чуть чуть и нас по телевизору покажут! Течкранч привеееет! - кесапмриот

может им еще вприсядку станцевать? - Непротивлени Злу Василием

главное не заблудиться по дороге - Sergey Juchkov

и медведя показать? - Непротивлени Злу Василием

НАДО - кесапмриот

VODKА PUTIN MATRESHKA - Непротивлени Злу Василием

просто НЕ НАДО - Sergey Juchkov

MEDVEDEV - Sergey Juchkov

HE HADO! - кесапмриот

BALA-LIKE - Один дяденька

SGUSSCHYONKA is the brand new real thing - fo sho

Будет ли комментарий самого Роберта по поводу творящегося здесь пиздеца? - Никита Бегун

MEDBEDEB - кесапмриот

BANYA - Непротивлени Злу Василием

EDuHAR POCCuR - кесапмриот

SNEGUROCHKA - Sergey Juchkov

DED MOROZ - Sergey Juchkov

TETRIS! - кесапмриот

DEAD MOROZ - Sergey Juchkov

TOPOL - Непротивлени Злу Василием

BALET - Непротивлени Злу Василием

TOPOL-M - Sergey Juchkov

CCCP - кесапмриот

Пользуясь случаем хочу передать привет своей маме. Hi, mommy! - Кеноби с кемпа

SATANA-22 - fo sho

Wow I was so confused before I started mousing over your names guys. - Neurario

Теперь в подарок иностранцам дарят не только воду и матрешек, но и балалайки с ГУСЛЯМИ. - Teinett

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... - Sergey Juchkov

Скобл хотел видеть аддиктов? Скобл их получил. - Ph

Yes I have revealed your secret mwahaha. =) - Neurario

Введем новое слово в обиход инстранцев: GUSLI - Teinett

Такой сиртификат пойдет? http://friendfeed.com/pozorro... - Ph

чятег!?? - Ня!

замолчали чото аборигены - кесапмриот

скоро тыща каментов - кесапмриот

кто посмел замолчать? - Sergey Juchkov

it's hide time. Enjoy yourself. - Luca Sofri

Эй! Разбудите там главного Скобла, у него в камментах русские! - Ph

ТРУ РАШН СКОБЛЗ - Непротивлени Злу Василием

@Лёля, нет, только Скобл - Sergey Juchkov

КОМЕНТЬ@ХАЙДЬ - Непротивлени Злу Василием

404 других пользователя/-ей оценили этот материал - Sergey Juchkov

hide,hide,hide,hide,hide,hide,hide,hide,hide,hide,hide,hide,hide,hide,hide,hide,now~~ You guys are playing with Robert's name :( - K.D.

А есть же игра такая Скобл, не? - кесапмриот

No - Matthew Horton

hide yourself K.D. :) - кесапмриот

wow LONGEST post I've seen on ff 8) ...checking in too! - 'Like' robot (frɐnc)

ОУ НОУ - Непротивлени Злу Василием

Дайте им ссылку на лонгест пост. А то эти ламеры думают на этот. - Sergey Juchkov

This post is goes to hided posts folder - Jacque

панислаась! - кесапмриот

@ocurro, it's not longest. Longest is 7k comments long. %) - nomoretears

на самом деле они нам наш чятег засрут если ссылки давать - кесапмриот

Robert Scoble, Robert Scoble and 404 other Robert Scoble liked this - brain

проснулись черти - Sergey Juchkov

тогда не надо давать :) - Sergey Juchkov

Crazy russians! - sottovoce

да пофиг что думают, каждому не расскажешь - кесапмриот

ок - Sergey Juchkov

ИХ ЖЕ ТУТ ТЫЩИ! - кесапмриот

Это хромой. Вы знаете, это, верно? - Matthew Horton

it's small post. - Sergey Juchkov

ok - кесапмриот

I still love it. - Paul Kinlan

i just unhide, and I see the true Robert is coming :) - K.D.

@ocurro Check in: http://friendfeed.com/ideali... - post with 7020 comments. Russian comments. - sottovoce

strange thread. what went wrong? - massagin

WE ARE ALL THE TRUE ROBERT - кесапмриот

@Robert Scoble sorry. Уже спалил. - sottovoce

сам ты странже - кесапмриот

schizofriendic delirifeed - massagin

The cake is a lie - brain

lol: 7020 coments - longest post. - Sergey Juchkov

Доктор, я Скобл. - кесапмриот

НАПИШИ ЗДЕСЬ ДВЕ ТЫСЯЧИ КАМЕНТОВ И ФРЕНДФИДИК ОСТАНЕТСЯ БЕСПЛАТНЫМ!!! - кесапмриот

Следующий! - Ph

а вот если китайский френдфидик придет в наш чатег будет уже не так весело - Непротивлени Злу Василием

Интересно - топикстартер подписался на получение комментов на почту или нет? - Sergey Juchkov

Серьезно. Качество> количестве - Matthew Horton

Gotcha! Scoble's discovered his nature - this situation looks much alike Agent Smith's multiplication )) - massagin

hide time... enjoy - Armando Grati

НА АЙФОН - кесапмриот

^^^^^^ like - Sergey Juchkov

АГЕНТЫ СКОБЛЫ - кесапмриот

all your base are belong to us - 13pm

Scobble Agents - кесапмриот

怎样用假名的呀？ - 陈浩小贤

Тема эта должность была ясна. Давайте не будем принимать его. - Matthew Horton

怎样用假名的呀! - кесапмриот

ЭТО ХАЙД ТАЙМ - Непротивлени Злу Василием

Чо пытается нам донести некто Хортон? - кесапмриот

here i am and using the all new add comment feature :) - Ali

НЕ ПОНИМАЮ - Непротивлени Злу Василием

что-то о качестве и количестве - Непротивлени Злу Василием

о должностях ещё - кесапмриот

ну раз просит не принмать, не будем отказывать, чтож - кесапмриот

и всё типа по теме - Sergey Juchkov

тема ясна чо - кесапмриот

Here I am - wolly

The theme of the post was clear. Let us not take it. - brain

Фигасе! ) - 4shir from fftogo

Word. - Charles LePage

^^^ оценил/а - Кеноби с кемпа

Сочи привеееет! - кесапмриот

@matthewhorton -What do you want to say? - Sergey Juchkov

@matthewhorton write in english pls, i don't understand your russian - Непротивлени Злу Василием

up^^ - Nazer

i don't understand russian - Sergey Juchkov

Таким образом весь русский френдфидик перезнакомится. Тусовочка лопнет - кесапмриот

ЧМОГЕ ЧАТЕГГГ!!!!! - Двадцать

that thread is crazzy : P - 'Like' robot (frɐnc)

Yes please to Google Translate integration. - Kol Tregaskes

merde alors! - Tom Horn

\o/ - Jemm

http://friendfeed.com/search... - Sergey Juchkov

наивные. гугл транслейт ага ага - кесапмриот

пусть переведёт "чятег" - кесапмриот

какая гугля транслята? - Sergey Juchkov

я видимо так и не узнаю чо имел ввиду Хортекс - Непротивлени Злу Василием

http://translate.google.com - Он работает лучше, чем вы думаете. - Matthew Horton

Google Scooble - кесапмриот

ОЙ - кесапмриот

Hi, Steve - Непротивлени Злу Василием

will echo have this? - Mark Essel

@matthewhorton мы знаем, что он работает плохо (а теперь переведи себе обратно, дурик:)) - кесапмриот

@matthewhorton давай все же на английском, моя твоя не понимай - Непротивлени Злу Василием

Это делает работу плохо, но работает достаточно хорошо, чтобы понять. - Matthew Horton

а давайте агитировать алиенов в одноклассники и вконтакт? - кесапмриот

*waiting for real Robert Scoble* - nomoretears

@matthewhorton speak englich please - Sergey Juchkov

we don't understand your barbaric language! pls speak English here - 13pm

какая тема чятега? - Двадцать

}{O}{O CMешНo - кесапмриот

I'm real!!!! - Sergey Juchkov

I will gladly. Robert is asleep, I'm sure. Now please stop this. People are getting very annoyed. :-) - Matthew Horton

Скоблятина - Непротивлени Злу Василием

И общение с иными мирами френдфидика - Непротивлени Злу Василием

если анноит - вали отсюда мудак. - Sergey Juchkov

I don't know if I'm a true FF addict, but I'm here nonetheless ;) - Peter Kruit

О как! Кого-то уже забодало. - Teinett

а eщё мoжнo мeнять английскиe бyквы в русских словах (фиг nepeвeдeт) - кесапмриот

Так, не надо тут на алиенов бычить - кесапмриот

@Matthew Horton НИВАЗМОЖНА - Непротивлени Злу Василием

red dawn - bopm

I sense the inspiration for an April Fool's Day gag... - Neurario

Ехал Скобл через Скобл, видит Скобл в реке Скобл, Скобл Скобл Скобл Скобл... - 13pm

@matthewhorton Just hide post :) Use the power of frf) - кесапмриот

А вообще, кажется, не хватает еще парочки Хортонов для полного счастья - 13pm

Задолбало? Дави на "блок"! - Двадцать

НА АЛИЕНОВ НЕ БЫЧЕТЬ - Непротивлени Злу Василием

АЛИЕНЫ НАШИ ДРУЗЬЯ - кесапмриот

Wow! - Вылысыпыдыст Аркадий

unicode power! - bopm

МЫ ПРИШЛИ С МИРОМ - кесапмриот

BALALAIKA POWER - Я б сделала аборт

наконецто алиены видят не кракозябры а чтото неведомое хохо - кесапмриот

Привет, кстати. - Я б сделала аборт

babushka force! - bopm

кревед - bopm

КРЕВЕДКИ! МЫ ВАС НЕ ТРОНЕМ! СОЛДАТ РЕБЕНКА НЕ ОБИДИТ! - Двадцать from IM

11 друзей Скобла - кесапмриот

Таша! - Кеноби с кемпа

@matthewhorton let me hug you, we are friends, we do no wrong, juss bring happiness to people around, join us in rejoice! - fo sho

КЕНОБИ! - Я б сделала аборт

979! - кесапмриот

oh those Russians. They turn every topic into "chateg". - 13pm

check - Marco Fabbri

Тэш, я скучаю! - Кеноби с кемпа

chyateg - кесапмриот

Это не настоящий чатик - Anton Volnuhin

Ты не чатег! - и ничего общего

@Maieutic Rejoice of what? - Matthew Horton

CHYATEQ - кесапмриот

PUTEN WATCH YOU - Непротивлени Злу Василием

and don't believe these Scobles, they're not real. But we are - 13pm

у нас в ебурге солнышко наконецто - Двадцать from IM

millomì - Francesco Cugurra

@juchkov, дизреспект. -1. - nomoretears

Haha, I /was/ beginning to wonder when Scoble had started speaking Russian - Ahsan Ali aka. Slick

But HE IS RUSSIAN - 13pm

ugh, Мы все знаем, вы все фальшивые. - Matthew Horton

Девочки приходите в чятег - кесапмриот

I'm here! - ★ Soner Gönül

Они выучили слово «chateg»! Чуваки, еще несколько тысяч комментариев, и они научаться великому и могучему - fxf

Мэтью нас раскусил! - Кеноби с кемпа

Да! Чтоже делать! - кесапмриот

Я ТОЖЕ СКОББЛ - Химия и Жизнь

юхууу!!!))) а если еще весь чатег перечитают!!!! - и ничего общего

ДАВАЙТЕ ПАНИКОВАТЬ - Непротивлени Злу Василием

KGB WATCH CHATEG - fxf

ПАНИКААААА - кесапмриот

ААААААААААААААААААААААААААААААААААА - и ничего общего

START PANIC IMMEDIATELY! - Химия и Жизнь

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!PAAAAAAAAAAANNNNIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIICCCCCCCCCCCCCCC!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! - кесапмриот

LET'S PANIC! Uiiiiii!! - Кеноби с кемпа

chateg panic! - Sergey Juchkov

SCOBBLE FACEBOOK KGB CHATEG - Химия и Жизнь

Don't believe Horton. We're real. And he's fake. - 13pm

CHATEG HAS U!!! - и ничего общего

Тыща каментов ок! - кесапмриот

Checking in. - Robert Miller

А А А А А А А А А А А А А А А А А А А А А А А А А А А А А А А А А А А А А А А А А А А А А А А А - Химия и Жизнь

Checking out! - Sergey Juchkov

Hi, Robert! - Непротивлени Злу Василием

Регистрируемся на рейс. Всем Чекин! - кесапмриот

PRIVYEEET ROOOBIII - кесапмриот

поскоблите чатег - Химия и Жизнь

фигота какаято - кесапмриот

Ладно, я только в нетрезвом состоянии уделять достаточно внимания, недостаточно для того, чтобы верить или укусить вас - Matthew Horton

Hello chateg! - Sergey Juchkov

давайте лучше поговорим о чом нибудь хорошем - кесапмриот

LOL Robert. :) - Robert Miller

чтобы верить или укусить вас - кесапмриот

IN SOVIET RUSSIA CHATEG PANICS YOU! - Двадцать

Hortex не надо меня кусать - Непротивлени Злу Василием

опять Хортон тутфту несет непонятную - Sergey Juchkov

POSKROBLITE CHATEG - и ничего общего

укусить нас - Sergey Juchkov

как там Аскарчик, протрезвел ли после вчерашнего эфира? - кесапмриот

ВСЕ ЯСНО МЭТЬЮ ПЬЯН - Непротивлени Злу Василием

пьяный он видите ли. алкаш. - Sergey Juchkov

пусть у русских пить учится - Sergey Juchkov

а, вспомнил, игра называлась Скрабл - кесапмриот

VODKA DRINK DRINK DEBOSH - fxf

АЛИЕНЫ НЕДРУЖЕСТВЕННЫ! ХОТЯТ КУСАТЬ НАС! - Химия и Жизнь

и работать после этого - Sergey Juchkov

Robert Scrabble - Химия и Жизнь

Кто притворяется говорящим по-русски Меттью Хортоном? - Двадцать

@Matthew Horton http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_7xzzEA... - Кеноби с кемпа

НЕТ НЕ Я - кесапмриот

ВЕРЬ! @ КУСАЙ! - fxf

НЕ Я - Sergey Juchkov

Matthew Horton, please stop drinking in chateg - Непротивлени Злу Василием

НЕТ ТЫ - кесапмриот

Ладно, водка хороша. Я люблю пиво. Сталь Резерв FTW! - Matthew Horton

HE Я - и ничего общего

Америца сейчас вся спит. Где-то в 17:00 по москве там начнется рабочий день. Вот тогда нас всех запалят. :) - $this->

beer - good! - Sergey Juchkov

ГазМяс! - кесапмриот

НЕТ МЫ - 13pm

у нас есть еще 3 часа - Sergey Juchkov

Это он по сталь резерв какую-то марку подразумевает? - Непротивлени Злу Василием

даже два - кесапмриот

МЫ — МЯСО! МЫ – ГАЗ! - fxf

тоже ничего так :) - Sergey Juchkov

ЭТОТ ЧАТЕГ ОБОБРЕН УПЯЧКОЙ - Непротивлени Злу Василием

надо притаиться, а потом КАААК ПРЫГНУТЬ! - Химия и Жизнь

кукуц пригласи скобла в яндекс - кесапмриот

ПОПЯЧТЕСЬ @ КУСАЙТЕСЬ - и ничего общего

всем лежать два саса!!!!! - Sergey Juchkov

Robert Scoble has subscribed to Robert Scoble's feed. Robert Scoble, Robert Scoble and Robert Scoble liked it. - 13pm

зачем он в яндексе? скоблить будет? - Sergey Juchkov

нет слов! - Maria Podolyak

надо призвать Полумрака в чятег - кесапмриот

Ready to serve! - Anders Dahlberg from iPhone

зачем - Химия и Жизнь

3 часа за скобление! Да вы оскоблитесь! - Teinett

у меня чатик неимоверно тормозит - Химия и Жизнь

ВАС ВСЕХ ЗАБАНЯТ111 - 13pm

Я потерял интерес в данный момент. Я буду скрывать, как и любой другой. Это хромой, что вы захватили этот. Пивные правила. Спокойной ночи. :-) - Matthew Horton

скоблите, скоблите - они золотые - и ничего общего

I am here.. - Burak S. Vanlı

Да, Мэтью, это хромой. Мы старались все скрыть, но ты пришел и обнаружил это. Прости. Таковы уж пивные правила. - 13pm

here too :) - Ali Bahşişoğlu

Buradayım :) - Burçak Çubukçu

опять алиены - Химия и Жизнь

Все, надоело. Когда настоящий скобл придет - скажите. - Ph

Вы все упоротые! Вас всех забанят!!! - и ничего общего

Метью родил новый мем, не подозревая о том. Это хромой, но таковы Пивные правила. - Двадцать from IM

@burcakcubukcu merhaba - Sergey Juchkov

Рекламная пауза - кесапмриот

Мем-хуем - Я б сделала аборт

это хромой! get in da car! - Химия и Жизнь

I'm here from Italy :) - Ale♫nastrorosa

ola - Durukan Duru

пойду пообедаю что-ли пока скобл не проснулся - Sergey Juchkov

Hi, Alessandra - Непротивлени Злу Василием

BEER RULES - и ничего общего

Hi, Durukan - Непротивлени Злу Василием

hello Italy! - Sergey Juchkov

Hi Roberts! - 13pm

Hi Robert :)) - Fatih Küçükbaltacı

Пойду покурю что-ли пока скобл не проснулся - кесапмриот

Anseo - Ken Power from iPhone

Говорят, тут всех банит Скобл. Скобл проснулся и боится правды!!! - кесапмриот

Hey Robert! - Berk D. Demir

Hi my name is Rasmus and I'm an addict - Rasmus Lauridsen

Скобл - Мицгол! - кесапмриот

Hi Rasmus! - Кеноби с кемпа

Да сражу же видно кто тут настоящщие аддикты - Двадцать from IM

CICITMVI - FlyMeToTheMoon

CHO? - Непротивлени Злу Василием

СИСИтмВИ - fxf

про сиси я понял, а дальше? - Непротивлени Злу Василием

всех не забанишь! - Антискобл

WAKE UP SCOBLE - Непротивлени Злу Василием

ну что, ЭПИГ ЧЯТЕГ или день пропал? - Двадцать from IM

CHATEG AGAINST BLOCKING RUSSIAN SCOBLES! - Антискобл

window, over wing please :P - Yunus Tunak

SCHITO? - Двадцать from IM

More than a friend of FriendFeed, was starting to use it as a full lifestreaming platform and loved it. It's made a whole lot of other sites make sense. - achean

Hi, I'm Bette... I don't know if I'm an addict, but I can't stay away... I keep checking, just to see if something's new... and I cry if I get no responses to a post. Is that addictive behavior? :D - Bette Cooper

балалайка - Нервный гик

His name is Robert Scoble! His name is Robert Scoble! His name is Robert Scoble! - Я б сделала аборт

водка - Нервный гик

матрёшка - Нервный гик

ПОМНИМ! СКОРБИМ! - Антискобл

матрёшка - Нервный гик

нет, не так - Нервный гик

... и скоблим тоже... - mikolka

VODKA - Нервный гик

SPUTNIK - Нервный гик

PERESTROYKA - Нервный гик

PUTIN - Нервный гик

буржуинцы начинают просыпаться. Я начинаю паниковать/ - Двадцать from IM

CHATEG COMES WITH PEACE - Антискобл

мы пришли с миром - Нервный гик

самовар - и ничего общего

was that really Robert Scoble ? or hacked ? - и ничего общего

No. Impersonated. By several. - Dennis Jernberg

NAZDOROVIE! - Двадцать from IM

Кстати, если писать что-нибудь типа «Апруе ылцц оррке валдов», то особой разницы они не заметят. - Я б сделала аборт

^^^ LIKE - и ничего общего

++ - Я б сделала аборт

Апруе ылцц оррке валдов! Апруе ылцц оррке валдов! Апруе ылцц оррке валдов! - fxf

Бедный, бедный гугл-транслейт. - fxf

Yup, I have blocked all the impersonators now. You will still see them, but I don't see them and they no longer can comment on any of my items. - Robert Scoble

Present. - Dean

Yep Addict here :) - Russell G

Check :) in - Connee

addicted. - Miketrevis

горшочек, вари! - off with her head!

ci penso :D - tiracconto

Checked. - Smeerch

Here! - Tiziano Caviglia

Пуськи бятые! Глокая имериалистическая куздра штеко будланула бокра, и теперь курдячит бокренка, а вы тут чятег развели! - off with her head!

vabbe', eccomi - punkwithgun

+1 - Borgognoni

@scobleizer As far as I can see you have blocked not only the impersonators (who renamed themselves back the moment they found out you have a problem with this) but most of the folks who chatted there. - Махатма Бугоганди

@meatreach yes, see next thread. Scobble becomes anti-Russian. - Never Impersonate You

here too:) waiting for my mission :) - abdellah

Please only comment here in english, so everyone can understand what you write. The thread was started in english... - Flynn (Michael A. Volz)

Here - PiccoloImprenditore from iPhone

Maxatma: well, that's just too bad. I speak English. Sorry. People who don't speak English really don't have any business commenting on one of my items, except in rare cases. - Robert Scoble

Why you, Robert Scoble, don't block users from Spain or Italy? China or arabic countries? Those users that comments on non-English languages? - Never Impersonate You

I'm an addict so I'm here. - Francesco Passannanti

@Robert, in fact they do speak English. But they also do make fun of Friendfeed and everything that's going on there. You can block them or take part in this fun. ;) - Махатма Бугоганди

Epic SUCCESS - Mark

I'm here! - Bastian

Here! - Martynas

Go & Come ! - JohnDu™

here i am - Howard Trickey

Use it every day. - Nils Sandin

check - Arnaldo M Pereira

Very nice topic. - sottovoce

кисо куку ;) - тут не место для

Maxatma: I have enough noise in my life. I don't need to have more. - Robert Scoble

Epic success in banning innocent people - Never Impersonate You

Checking in - Johnny Chadda

What if I'm only a friendfeed addict in my current personality? My other personalities don't even use computers, apparently. - MλTT

@scoblezier, really? Why this census of the population is not noise? - Never Impersonate You

Never: no, it's not noise. What's noise is going off topic on a thread. I'm very close to blocking you too. Keep it up. - Robert Scoble

here! - Nilesh

Addicted but it's a love/hate kinda thing. - sean808080

Here! - Danli

I prefer FF over twitter and facebook, but all my friends are on twitter and/or facebook. Maybe facebook will get it right this time now that it has acquired FF. If they simplify it a bit more without removing functionality. Then I would spend a bit more time on FB. Lets hope all goes well with the merger. If not I'm jumping ship and going over to Google Wave. oh wait, I'm going to go with Google Wave regardless! ;-) - Captain Jack

Bu arada Russian friends Turkiye'ye selamlar gonderiyor. - ideali

Red 5, standing by - Danny F Santos

ideali: can you speak English please? Thanks. - Robert Scoble

Yep - Giorgio Burlini from iPhone

for 6 words, this post sure got a lot of mileage. What now Scoble wan kenobi? - shaun mclane

Oh, check FF.. doh FarceBook... my fingers are crossed in hope. - Greig

Me! Me! - DGentry

@scobleizer i can speak english and i beg you to remove bann from all russian friendfeeders, because we are all from it-community, working in internet companies and we came with peace, you asked for feedback from friendfeed addicts — we show you how really it is being frf addicts, we change names, we chat, we making things that are not serious. Why so serious? Unlock people, they are not bots, they just playing the game of real addicts and have fun. Common. - ideali

shaun: I started this post to demonstrate that a lot of us are still here and aren't likely to leave. At least not quickly. So, life goes on after FriendFeed gets acquired by Facebook. Point proved. - Robert Scoble

Robert He says ; Our Russian friends say to hello to Turkey - Osman Üngür

Osman :) - Ergin

Beyler, bana bir sey anlatin, bu kadar ciddi olmaya ne gerek var? Translation: Guys, why so serious? - ideali

Good morning, Robert! - Hector

here - Maitani

ideali: have them send email to scobleizer@gmail.com and I'll unblock anyone who says they weren't impersonating me. - Robert Scoble

Hector: good morning! I need coffee. - Robert Scoble

@robert yes they (we will) stay here, I think tat the migration process will take time and after reading @Paul Bucheit, I think that what we all are trying to get even if we don't say it explicitly is to preserve a kind of intimacy (beeing a part of the Huge faceBook community) don't mean that FF community will preserve their intimacy, why should a community be a plan one, (let imagine a community as a set of sub-community) that all. - abdellah

Wow!! So many likes and comments; is it a record Rob? - میر «عرفان» موسوی

@scobleizer thank you, for understanding. be cool, guys we just want have fun here a little. Take care. - ideali

K - OakleighVermont

Er-fun, This is the largest list of comments I've ever seen on FF... but no idea if it's a record or not - Roy Herrod

@harfehesaab, it's far from record - off with her head!

whenever you're ready - patrickdh

the record is in our russian community, guyz. - ideali

Roy: it's not even close to being a record. It's nice to see that there's still a nice group hanging out here, though. - Robert Scoble

Totally addicted - Fernando Parra

"fax a cat" has 711 likes : http://friendfeed.com/funny-p... anything else top that? Is there a ff record page? - JSNFLMNG

so is this part of the regular Scoble-cull? :p - Iwan

here - Andrea Contino

totally addicted - zsafwan 

Yes We Do :) - Jan Friman

right here, right now - Hakan İyice

@Iwan --hahaha "we could be so lucky" lol - JSNFLMNG

There is no addiction, only habitual sin :) - Mike Shields

@harfehesaab Уes, it is a Яecord for sиre ! .) - obz

Here - Chris Riewe

Just for the record, yes and loving the "add comment" at the bottom.. it was a long way to scroll back up otherwise. - Rhys Amos from iPod

I'm here captain! ;-) We may be on a dying ship, but I'm glad to have sailed with her. :-) - darnell from BuddyFeed

http://friendfeed.com/sonergo... True FRİENDFEED addict! - ★ Soner Gönül

Хотела остаться в стороне. Но тут такая "пьянка"! Всем привет в этом чатиге:) - Неформат

I feel like such a slacker checking in about 12 hours later. You caught me the one night I go offline early. - Rob Diana

Present And Accounted For - Roberto Bonini

check - Mark Zip

I do. - dstamand

Slow response from me, but still ... - Christian Bolstad

@Robert RE "I have enough noise in my life. I don't need to have more" - isn't it a lot of noise having 26K subscriptions and 46K subscribers on your frf account? I'm kind of surprised - you create a community that large around yourself, yet when you see a new and unusual activity you just block it right away. - Махатма Бугоганди

Good morning from the east coast! - Domingo Rogers

Maxatma: when people impersonate me I have no patience. Sorry. - Robert Scoble

present and accounted for - Shawn Roos

Checking in. - Warner Crocker

here - Tracy Benham

I am in, of course!! - Ronald

Still figuring it out, but liking it - Rob Fisher

'morning and checking in from Washington, DC. - Ken & Kiyomi

Here. - Joe Bonner from fftogo

Red october checking in - James Tenniswood

@Robert, patience? Who's talking about patience? It's about curiosity, not patience. When something strange and unusual happens around you, you can either try to stop it or try to see what it can develop into. You choose to stop - and it stopped. Well, not stopped - just moved to some other place. And do you really know what it was and what it was about to bring you? - Махатма Бугоганди

Pow! - Rolf Schewe

+1 to Maxatma :) - Connee

why so nervous? - Connee

Глядико, чатег) - Кто здесь?

Late to the party but here all the same. - Pete Gilbert

+1 to Maxatma too - Shareli

оО - Monk Albino

Oh Captain, My Captain! - Dan van Moll

yes sir. - James Macgill

please don't go - Zach Scott

here i am! - barbarars

yo ;) - guruvan (Rob Nelson)

check. - Brian Sloane

hi. i can get a note from my wife and kids. - Thom Kennon

here - saskia

I love the fact that I can't read a good amount of the comments here :) FFAddicts without Borders - guruvan (Rob Nelson)

Check - Marco Massarotto from iPhone

да, чатег однако ) - Pavel Rogozhin

here - ahmet bulent

as requested - Al Pasternak

in the process of getting addicted...yo - Chad Gesser from BuddyFeed

Yo addiction as per requested Sir. - Zax Stevens

ну пиздец понеслась - Dolgiy-Rapoport

Here.. yay! - seda irengü özmen

Check - Eric Johnson

There!, Am I wrong or they added "add comment button" at the end of comments? - Antonio Correnti

Guilty as charged :). Hope FF will continue to kick ass, even after being acquired by Facebook. - alfred westerveld

I don't think of it as an addiction though I do get severe withdrawal symptoms for taking a long hiatus.. hmm - Wang Yip

@Паша, чятег был утром, но потом проснулся топикстартер, пришел и молча забанил всех™. - Махатма Бугоганди

here - timepilot

hola - spiros

Hello! - Chris Luckhardt

Yes sir. - Vinay | विनय

howdy - Brandon Ball

My middle name is belated. - Benjamin Taylor

Do I need to state my first name (Hi Robert - My name is Laurie and I am a friendfeed addict! "Hi Laurie" :)))) - Laurie DesAutels

I'm here - Michael_techie

I'm getting there. - Spencer

Sup? - Brent - Loving Life

word. - Ron Wening

Japan here! はい！ - Rick Cogley

here - imran

not sure if I commented already but I will add onto the pile. - beersage

pick me! pick me! pick me! - .i.m.a.r.s.o.r.a.m.a.

oups !!! - Polluxe

comment number 1287... - Yann Ropars

This is trying to become the longest thread in the history of FF, eh? Nice show of hands, definitely good numbers! - Bora Zivkovic

Wut? Oh, HERE! - Noah Gray

Last, but not least - Paul Brannan

Here I am from Italy :-) - catepol from iPhone

from Italy too ;-) - Andrea Colaianni

I;'m currently in Rome, Italy - Danica Radovanovic

Nobody from Russia here already? - Кто это тут у нас

Here I am. - Evan Travers

Addiction came in again, I raise my hand. - ElijahBailey-Zu of FF <0,

Here - and hoping that any changes here are for the better - that nothing goes backwards. - Courtney Engle

check - Dinc Arslan's Alter Ego

Walmartization of friendfeed now in progress - imran

whaddup - Marco(aureliusmaximus)

Если все забанены, то хто ето пишетъ? - Кто здесь?

Present - TheDiva Rockin

Hello and goodbye. - Carlton Prest

Party's not over yet? :) - Sasha Kovaliov(.com)

I'm here, until the bitter end :p - Patrik Johansson

Well, there is another party here in Chinese and Persian languages :)) Welcome joining! http://ff.im/6uezi - K.D.

Here we are! ;) - Сергей Мартынов

Большой чятег, однако! :] - Сергей Мартынов

Nice to see so many languages. - E-Advocate Network

Better late than never! - Sherry BakerBrio

Here! - David Sharpe

I'm here - Amit Morson

here. - felix

what was that again? - Karthik Sridhar

Ой, да это маленький чятег оказывается. 1300 всего. У нас-то 7000 было :) - Сергей Мартынов

Hey, this chatroom appeared to be quite small - only 1300 messages :) We've done 7000 in our Russian thread ;) - Сергей Мартынов

Present. I'm here in Chile. - Roberto Arancibia

@Сережа Мэ Come to join our chatroom:) http://ff.im/6uezi - K.D.

In the house. Long live FriendFeed. - Joel Zehring

presente! - Alex Sauceda

yo - Jeremiah Owyang

What is this 'Russian' thread you speak of? ;) - JSNFLMNG

It was already mentioned here - check this out: http://friendfeed.com/search... - Сергей Мартынов

@yogar thanx, I'm coming to visit you ;) - Сергей Мартынов

Im back! - Lee Kent

Present from Romania - cata b

Present. - xero

İşsiz güçsüz bir sürü adam işte. Dağılın olm. (No, I'm not addicted, I'm just watching) - ilter

Тук! - Valentine Valov

I'm always login in friendfeed - Edgar Rodríguez from iPhone

ehy guys! - marc

me! - prezzemolo

Greetings from Bulgaria! - Valentine Valov

:O) - Jeanne

I'm here all the way from South Africa! I dig this service and I'm not quite ready to give it up. Regardless of the news about the acquisition, this remains an awesome service. - Paul Jacobson

I'm new to ff but find more valuable information here than anywhere else! - Janet Crance

Hello! Here I am! - Maria Gabriella Quadri

Oh hello there! - Jaremy Rich

Here - 1Co from iPhone

+1 - gerri A. from iPhone

Present! - April Buchheit

here too - Flavio

here - Ruchira S. Datta

not addicted yet :) - vinod

presente - Eric Gagne

yo - Thomas Hawk

Not addicted to Friendfeed too, but I really like it. More than twitter, perhaps because of the overview on smalltalk. - Melanie Langenhan

Me! - Satya

Here! - Anne Bouey

Me too! - Tudor Bosman from Android

ok, now what? shall we dance for you? - Trent Shields

You can dance if you want to. - Neal Jansons from IM

Check - پلانگتن

I probably qualify. - Fa La La La Lindsay

Count me in - Andrei M. Marinescu

I'm here. Still :) - Svartling

yes, we can dance, we can dance, everybody look at your hands! - .LAG liked that

if i leave a comment means I am an addict? - Nikos Anagnostou

1360 is that all out of a so called million hmmm ... must be more like 100,000 users in reality then - Thomas Power

if if I "liked" - does it make me an FF addict ? - Peter Dawson

aye! - vino

I am not a true addict but I checked in to be part of the record :) - میر «عرفان» موسوی

I find FF the most useful of my social networks. - Leigh Marriner

Checkin in - Bryan R. Adams

Got other things to do too :) - Richard Hill

hmmm.. - Krishnamoorthy

Addict? Neh. Loyal, now-more-than-a-little-concerned user? Yeh! - Anthony Citrano

Well, sure. Yeah, fine. Count me in. - Jason Pontin

Just arrived. Is this the way to the next cliff? - goodmachine

+1 - Liviu Barbat

Here - Graham Bunting

Guilty - Ian Wright from BuddyFeed

Still? - Tyler Hurst

a little bit. - Vincent van Wylick

what for? - سیدعلی‏سنائی

Hollah - Greg Santos

I'm Thaths and I am a FF addict! - Thaths

Check me in... - Alb.

present. - Marco

Check. - vic from iPhone

burada ;) hier, here,voilà... - Bengi Kılıç

Present - Dave Martin

Here :) - Holly Rae

I'm late. But Mom got 75. Count me in though. - Ton Zijp

Those Russian impersonators made fun much resembling dance macabre. Feasting friendfeed's transition? ) - massagin

I'm here scoble! - Jason Pollock

presente - Eric Gagne

Yo! - Spiros A. Gianiotis

sup - Kostantinos Koukopoulos

Hi. - Mark Aitken

hmmmm - John Ruth

I'm a friendfeed addict and I'm here! - Bryce Campbell from iPhone

allo - Patrick Janidlo

Here! - Bill Thomas

Here! - Steffan Antonas

Out - Declining Balance from Nambu

Still here - Transcribe It Quick

Here - Shannon

I'm NOT addicted! - Joelle Nebbe (iphigenie)

I dedicate this song to friendfeed addicts :) http://www.youtube.com/watch... - ilter

reporting for duty - Jason Miller

check. a little late. by i'm addicted, i swear!! - Mike

Whoops. I am a little late. But I came didn't I? LOL. Yes, sir. - Zachary TG

ping - Sameer

Here. - Araceli

Ok! - Business Blogger【ツ】™

Here. - Iván Abrego

Been without a computer for a couple of days. The horror! I'm here. Finally. - Julie Barrett from twhirl

:) - Roman Zolotarev

in! - TheBuzzMachine

touch down - Африки

right here - Arash Nightwatcher

✔ - Majento

amilateamilate??! - Sarah Lane

word - Fee501st

New fan but longtime subscriber. - Steven Zenith

is this thread a record ? - johnpiercy

Present! - Gary Gifford Jr

Hello! - dthree

I don't know how I rate my addiction relative to others, but I shared Hitler's reaction upon hearing the acquisition news (despite happiness for Paul and Bret) - Chris Duffy

@johnpiercy check it yourself: how many therads have more than 7k comments http://friendfeed.com/search... ) - massagin

me - John μller

it's my soc media glue. - John Czwartacki

Half here. - Eddie G

Holla. The only way I can keep track of the flowers in all these blessed walled gardens. - saltpeter 【ツ】

I'm new, but I am here - Ethan

Present. - Jandy, ConcertMaven of FF from iPhone

yessir. - Nathan Chase

Present! - Ludwik C. Siadlak

I been Scoblized - again! - Kevin Laverty

Hope this deal preserves FF's power and usability. FF:FB::Mac:Windows. - David Lounsbury

check - Drew S

Count me in. - Nick B.

here. - Scratch5150

Here and accounted for... - Brad

thread of the century. - Raphael, Raphael

FIRST! - MVB (Grinch of FF)

presente - Eric Gagne

701 and counting - Julie Williams

i'm here too - Mehmet Fatih YILDIZ

Homer says "Mmmmm .. FriendFeed" - Gary Etie

Check :) - Stijn

There's got to be a prize for doing this! Here! - timedalkat from Nambu

1451st! :) - Eric Geller

1452nd! :P - L'avvocatessa

I can stop whenever I want. Oh, wait... - dario

Here. Or did I check in yesterday about this time? - MaryB, BrandingBroadOfFF

I always am coming back for more... And each time longer than the one before - Bryce Campbell from iPhone

Yes? - Steve Lynch from twhirl

auuu, pa ovo jos traje? - Danica Radovanovic

Here I am. - Andrea Beggi

One more. - Laura_aka_Fujiko from fftogo

Started a "Save FriendFeed" Facebook group, because I love irony ... http://www.facebook.com/group... - Paul Holmes

Checking in 23 hours later, which probably makes me the semi-addict that I am - Eric Berlin

Do I have to check in every 60 minutes? - Louis Gray

I'm checking in again. - DGentry

Louis: you can if you want! I heard you can drink a Diet Coke once a day if you check in! - Robert Scoble

that I don't understand at all - Mark

are you checking to see who has left since the FB purchase? I'm staying here! - Katy Barrilleaux

I just expanded this thing, what a fun ride! - Cassidy

What if I drink a Diet Coke every 60 minutes? Then what? - Louis Gray

presente - Eric Gagne

Yes! I'm 23 hours late. :s That doesn't make me an addict. Damn. :( - Faraz Mullick

so only a few % of rob's followers on here responded? - Mark

Just logged into Friendfeed in the last 24 hours. This seems a lot cleaner than Twitter for certain. I'm an organization freak! - David Kolln

Mark: I have 46,000 followers, but the usual thing is only a percentage of them show up on any week. - Robert Scoble

That's sad - Gianluca Neri from iPhone

I'm sure this is part of Scoble's plot to poll all the people who really read his posts, and unfollow the rest. So I raise my hand. - Shivanand Velmurugan

Just a wannabe. Not an addict (yet). - Carole Hicks

It might also be a way for me to filter down my "following" count (diff (my followers, scoble)) are the only people I really need to follow. Those that scoble follows, I can safely unfollow and use Scoble as my social media filter :) - Shivanand Velmurugan

Roflmao Om Shiva you are destroying us :) - Jeunelle Foster

Loading this thread on the iPhone uses 1% battery life lol - Mark from iPhone

check - Joe Dawson

pardon the arrogance but it really sucks this great forum of sharing will turn into a myspace humdrum. Now I have to find another SM where first adopters and well informed techies won't haft to compete with general "noise" - earl wallace

check. getting close to 1500! - Jordan Brock

Hey - Colin Hendricks from iPhone

How you doin'? :-) - Red Label

Wow... long list! I'm here :) - Frank Da Silva

So, does anyone know the number of actual Friendfeed subscribers? Buehler? Buehler? - Martha

Now that's an excellent question. - Dennis Jernberg

Only 15 more comments to go and this thread will make it into the 1500 category http://friendfeed.com/search... - Jay Cuthrell

Well, here's a comment I can later delete and rob the owner of 1500! - Matthew DeVries

I just mention the 1500 mark since it was such an iconic query to see... that and the 500 Likes club of FF posts. It's pretty exclusive stuff... but it's also sobering to note that the subject matter required to get to these levels isn't always a uniform mix of cares/concerns. - Jay Cuthrell

When I heard the FaceBook news, I tried to quit FriendFeed and I couldn't... I'M HOOKED - The Web's Wendell Wittler

i clicked the "1488 more comments" and my computer nearly exploded. and yes, i am using an amiga 500. - jack

Now that I have instructions (thanks LouisGray) and figured out my Bookmarklet! I am LOVING the ease of use! addict - not quite... - Robyn Hawk

you're addicted to deez nutz - skunkman62

LOL - skunkman62. It's all good, the sun is still shining. - Harold Cabezas

Is this the location of the next FA (Friendfeed Anonymous) meeting? - Cynthia Holladay

LOL - Cynthia - nfan12

Monkey #1496 reporting in, sir. For true ADDICT status, I'd say the cut off is the first hour. The rest of us are wannabes. ;-) - michael silverton

ANY! FLIPPING! TIME! - Jim Addz No Value

fftogo ftw - Josette Torres

asdf - Benson Miller

FriendFeed user even before Robert Scoble joined the bandwagon - Shakeel Mahate

I'm a true addict - Jorge Escobar

wow! that's a big social - 1500 some ! :] - Petr Buben

I'm a true FriendFeed addict. - Evaristo

i am japanese! - psychedesire

yeah ! - MisterQ

Sir yes sir ! - Christopher Yeo

president. - Ken Stewart | ChangeForge

present - Laura Norvig

Still here. Its not really a problem yet. - Eric Logan

Here, 1500 comments or so later. - Gus Cuddy

OK I'll check in now that the thread is up to 1500+... - Stephen Mack

yo joe! - Wally Punsapy

I'm just trying to figure this out. Will I get used to i?? - Janet Frasier

holy friendfeed...this thread hasn't died yet? Point made Robert. - shaun mclane

I didn't "check in" yet.. - Tim Hoeck

It's not an addiction until there's an intervention. - Bill Sodeman

Some of us addicts will refuse any intervention. Especially by Facebook. ;) - Dennis Jernberg

I like it!!! I really, REALLY do : D - Ellen Spencer

Yo! - Aram Zucker-Scharff

Actually, I lied. I am not a die-hard friendfeed fan. I desperately want to be but have just not been able to get into a good "feeding" rhythm. Maybe I need to add some more friends - Anant Gairola

Present. - Vijay

:) - Nick Soden

here - Robert Freeze

here I am - Danilo Paissan

all on board - Save As : Panos

actually I am addicted to twitter more. I use friendfeed a lot none the less. - Volkan Özçelik

count me :) - Meriç Dağlı

here - Erdinc [bilimdiyari.com]

Presente - Ruben Sanchez from Android

i'm in - Anton Noginov х

Add me from Cambridge, UK and DuoFertility the fertility monitor - Philip Baddeley

have we broken the FF comment limit yet ? - David Pascoe

I'm in. - Peter Smulovics

naa-ahaa ... i have seen threads with 4k, 10k+ comments .... right here, on Friendfeed. - Petr Buben

Présent - Harscoat

1537...checking in... - Bob DeMarco

Here - Keith

I don't need to be addict. I'm just here, everyday, absorbing so many geeky info :D There's no place like FF - Lysender

I'm still with ya, Robert. Whatever FB paid for FF, it wasn't enough! - Donald C. Lindsay

New here, but learning. Tips for best use? - Barbara Langham

@bdlangam From my perspective the #1 tip in this category is: Explore and define "best use" for yourself. Despite potential "finishing" impression of some productive consolidations in this collective-collaborative cognition space, the emergent #cognosphere is still WAY too nascent to assert anything other than initial impressions. March to the beat of your own drum; build your own... more... - michael silverton

yeah sorry, late. was at Shambhala Music Festival, I know tardy, sorry... - sofarsoShawn

I'm getting hooked, still figuring it all out - Michele McGraw

I think I do. Not enough contacts to make a impression. - Michael Schlag

Better late than never.. - Ginger Kenney

here - Brady

Late but here. - Kolja

Not addicted enough, obviously... - Daniel W. Crompton

trying to get addicted - OakleighVermont

Definitely addicted. Not sure I want to stop using just because FB bought it. - Rick Cogley

checking.. - Leandro Ardissone ⍨

I'm the 1500th visitor. What did I win? - Ruben

Robert-I'm listening - Dean Holmes

Here we be! - Gary Dale Cearley

here! - Domenico Calojero

Still going on , uh? - Marco Massarotto

*bumps* the Scoble curve: bi-polar maybe? - sofarsoShawn

Hello. My name is Morgan and I'm a FF addict. So who do I have to blow to get a fix? :-) - Morgan Haley

Yo - Aram Zucker-Scharff

Elo govna - Eric @ CSTechcast.com

No - Alex Scoble

check. - Bren -- feeling merry

John Newton

Geez! I can't believe how many iPhone apps I have bought already. And they aren't games.

July 31 from Twitter - Comment - Like - Share

@johnnewton what do you think of Arrington's article? #Apple #AT&T not very open source right? what do you thk? or #alfresco? - Harscoat

Harscoat

#Apple & others like AT&T: your non open mentality is over http://www.techcrunch.com/2009.... Openness, fairness, transparency, value = the new way

July 31 from Twitter - Comment - Like - Share

this techcrunch article is going to have a big impact i think - Harscoat

Dave Winer

My friend Eric Scherer at AFP, quotes me -- in French. I think I said something smart. I hope. :-) http://mediawatch.afp.com/...

July 22 from Twitter - Comment - Like - Share

Harscoat liked this

no worries... it really works in French as a punch line ;) conseil judicieux... - Harscoat

Bret Taylor

Stranger Than Fiction (http://www.imdb.com/title...) is definitely one of my favorite movies of all time. Hilarious, heartwarming, fantastic acting. One of the few movies I love re-watching.

July 5 - Comment - Like - Share

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Same for Jeanette and I, we both love it. - Tudor Bosman from email

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Agreed, and Will Ferrell was surprisingly good in it too. - Eric Florenzano

Yeah, that's a good one. Great writing, good pacing. - anna sauce

I shall add it my watch list! - Krishnamoorthy

great surprising movie indeed. - Ouriel Ohayon

Wondering if people who loved "stranger than fiction" also generally love "groundhog day", "being john malkovich", "six degrees of separation" among others? recommendations welcome. thx - Harscoat

Bret, are you on Flickchart yet? Would love to see what your all-time list shapes up to be. You can sign up immediately here: http://tinyurl.com/flickch... - Nathan Chase

Paul Buchheit

Real-time search. We have it. It's here. - http://blog.friendfeed.com/2009...

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Try http://friendfeed.com/search... It's also fun to watch the embedded search on the blog blog post (http://friendfeed.com/search...). You can see people discussing the blog post, from the blog post, in real time! - Paul Buchheit

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cooool - Dobromir Hadzhiev

coooool - zsafwan 

GREAT ! - Stanislas Jourdan

Eeee. Awesome. - Mark Trapp from iPhone

Impressive! Now you can save real time searches as embeddable widgets. That's just awesome! This is a massively POWERFUL feature. Thank you FF team! - Brian Daniel Eisenberg

Lol, you flipped the switch before the post came out as far as I can tell. I was searching for it and I couldn't see it. - Daniel J. Pritchett

Yowsa. Makes quick easy work out of social media monitoring, don't it? - Ian Wilker

YAY!!! FriendFeed staff rocks, that's all there is to it =) - FFing Enigma (aka Tina)

Congrats Paul to you and your team! Another one bites the dust! - Jorge Escobar

WAAAAAAAAA.. meta real time search.. love the concept of embed a real-time search !! Way to Team FF -- luv u guys !! :)- - Peter Dawson

Do you guys sleep? Honestly, love the constant output and attention you guys pay to user feedback. I know this highly requested and probably not easy to implement. - Frankie Warren

Twitter Killer! - David Schmidt

Thanks so much Paul & Co. Excellent work! - Leo Laporte

hey love they way they launched search.. espcially when its close to "Search Marketing Day 2009" !1 - Peter Dawson

Thanks Leo. Jim and Gary did most of the work on this one though. - Paul Buchheit

Track is back! This is a gamechanger. - Mike Doeff from iPhone

Track is back! - Christian Burns from iPhone

Excellent news. - LPH™ and his dog P™ from BuddyFeed

I think I'm going to scream if I hear "track" again - someone please define it for me - Jesse Stay

Wow, great work! - Meryn Stol

I stand in awe of your hackfullness. - Ted Gilchrist

Good work. Much-anticipated. - Louis Gray

@Jesse: It's a dead twitter command "track keyword" sends you realtime updates whenever the word is used. Think of it like realtime google alerts for friendfeed. - Daniel J. Pritchett

I'm pretty sure Gillmor et al kept calling it "track" because that's what Twitter called it back when they had it for a week. - Daniel J. Pritchett

On a related note, live embeddable searches mean that I can hack together my own FF embeds for the pages that don't have them yet, like say "comment:dpritchett" http://friendfeed.com/search... - Daniel J. Pritchett

Daniel, Twitter never had this - this isn't "track" - Jesse Stay

you guys rock. - Karoli

...wowsers! Very nice! - JA Castillo

The blogpost said they're working to implement "keyword notifications" Jesse, that will be "track" - Frankie Warren

Twitter's brought back track, it's just no one cares. You can now have updates by keyword on Twitter pushed to you, via XMPP, just like track used to. Gillmor says that's not track. - Jesse Stay

That's why I hate the term "track" - no one knows what it is. The way Paul is explaining it, as real-time search, is a much better way of explaining it. - Jesse Stay

I guess we're still missing the realtime notifications piece that folks want. You can shape the firehose to watch terms in realtime but you can't yet get it pushed outside of FF via email or IM? - Daniel J. Pritchett

Daniel, Twitter has that right now, but Gillmor says that's not track - Jesse Stay

/me prints up a few hundred "That's not track!" t-shirts - Daniel J. Pritchett

Killer feature. I'm watching news about Honduras scrolling by. Very useful. - Chris Baskind

Jesse: Oh, i'm with you... Real-Time Search is a better term :) - Frankie Warren

BTW, integrating this into my blog right now - Jesse Stay

Me too Jesse. Making a new static page for that comment:dpritchett search I mentioned - Daniel J. Pritchett

this is definitely cool and all, but what about API? We are falling way behind on feature sets :) - Tim Hoeck

It's like an alternative to watching TV, in a literary sort of way. - Ted Gilchrist

awesome!:) - m.0

kewl! - phil baumann

Yay! This is the killer feature (once it's in the API, of course ;) - Brandon Titus

I'd love to see a blog post about how this is implemented. Real-time search has some interesting problems. - Chris Lamprecht

I take it back - I can't integrate this into my blog until I can filter it to a single list. I really need an embed for "comment:dpritchett list:e20" except lists are still virtual in that no one other than me can see them unless I use the atom export. - Daniel J. Pritchett

Awesomeness! I'm loving this right now. - Anthony K. Valley ©

Wow you guys rock! - Alfredo

I am sloooooooooooow. But what/where is the template to make the embeddable widget. please? - Marg Uerite

You're right Jesse - it's not exactly Track but it's getting a lot closer. The old Twitter Track allowed you to set up multiple search terms (e.g. track iphone) and get those delivered to your IM with zero time lag. At any time you could type "track" to see what you're currently tracking and "untrack" to untrack something - e.g. "untrack iphone". There are some third party tools that... more... - Mike Doeff

Paul, is there a way to change the title of the embed? The long search string looks kinda bad. - Jesse Stay

Mike, Twitter offers that today. Gillmor says it's not Track. - Jesse Stay

Marg, after you do a search, click the "Share / embed search" link to get the embed code. - Dan Hsiao

Jesse, are you sure? Can you provide a URL describing this feature? I think you're referring to Twitter Search (and saved searches) which is totally different. - Mike Doeff

Mike, it's in beta and available to developers, but it's back, minus SMS support: http://staynalive.com/article... - Jesse Stay

Jesse, when / where did Gillmor say that isn't track? I'm pretty sure that Steve just wants the old track brought back, with some filtering capabilities added (the old Track didn't filter out blocked accounts). - Mike Doeff

Yay! Have been eagerly awaiting this. :) - Rick Turoczy

Mike, he's said in various comments. Looks like Track to me... Heck, it's even called "track". - Jesse Stay

BTW this is on staynalive.com now (look in the sidebar): http://staynalive.com/ - Jesse Stay

for my italian friends: stica... - Alberto D'Ottavi from fftogo

Jesse - you can hide the ugly search bar with a little quick CSS - it's <h1> under an easily identified class. - Daniel J. Pritchett from IM

Daniel, good idea - I'd love to change the title more than that though. - Jesse Stay

just a few minutes work and I have a FriendFeed realtime search embedded in a blog http://www.amsterdam20.nl (web 2.0 event) - Jeroen De Miranda

Yeah - Brian Sullivan

FF guys: we like your style :) --- way to go!! - Harscoat

I think I'm going to cry - Bwana ☠

awesomesauce! - Simon Wicks

This is a really great innovation, congrats friendfeed team! - Garin Kilpatrick

Thanks, Jim and Gary! Lots of hard work for a very cool result! - Anne Bouey

HhhhhUuuuuuGggggEeeee !!! - Harold Cabezas

I want to 'Like' this *twice*! many thanks! - topo

The first step in a storystreaming platform! - Kevin Sablan

Whoa. Wow. And Yes! Fantastic work, FF team. - Micah Wittman

Good stuff although should support negative operators such as I should able to search my name in the all posts NOT coming from me. I've tried "from:-username" but it doesn't seem to work. - Ferruh Mavituna

OK, you guys are wicked talented! It's kind of scary, but I love it. So what's next? Just kidding:) - Michael Fidler

Ferruh: you just have it a bit backwards... try -from:username instead :) - Ross Miller

WOOOOOOOOOOW. Friendfeed is really pushing some cool features out :). Friendfeed is the best :) - alfred westerveld

How can we embed FriendFeed search? - Mike Reynolds

Mike - There's a link at the top of the search just beneath the red bar. - Mitch

A box will pop up, take the HTML code from the bottom of that box. - Mitch

Thanks Mitch! - Mike Reynolds

Nice the embedding code can be dynamic.... <iframe src="http://friendfeed.com/search..." frameborder="0" height="600" width="400" style="border:1px solid #aaa"></iframe> - Mike Reynolds

Thanks @Ross it works fine now, love the RSS output. - Ferruh Mavituna

tabbr likes this - tabbr

Woo! So: will this cause a FF server meltdown anytime soon? - Tim Tyler

very good! - standin

Highly addictive--great stuff! I did notice that if you do a search like [google] you'll see dupe stories streaming by quite a bit (e.g. the TechCrunch story about Google Voice shows up over and over right now). Not sure if it's possible to de-dupe based on destination url a little bit more? - Matt Cutts

two months after redesign, we have access to real-time search. good news bc my preferred search engine is friendfeed. ;) - 'Like' robot (frɐnc)

We are there, in the battle against Twitter - Michael_techie

Best search engine became better :) - Chirag Chamoli

I can't say enough how amazing this is. So, I ordered a bottle of real-time translation to go with this magnificent feast of real-time search :D http://friendfeed.com/friendf... - Micah Wittman

Just to show what is possible now with this feature, I've built SteroidFeed: Go here to see it as well as download the files: http://friendfeed.com/lph... Latest version is 1.01. - LPH™ and his dog P™

It's amazing! - Lizunlong

I've been waiting for this since the new UI, excellent, thank you Paul and FF! I'll give this a play later. :-) - Kol Tregaskes

Micah, really looking forward to having your scripts work in Chrome. :-) - Kol Tregaskes

This is great. Well done, guys. - James Myatt

Awesome :D - Praveen Vasudev

great!! - Mike Chelen

Robert Scoble

I am tracking people on Twitter's SUL like @timoreilly. They can't get people to follow them on Facebook or FriendFeed. Here's analysis:

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Tim has 617,000 followers on Twitter -- almost all gained because he is on the suggested user list. But he only has 10,000 followers on FriendFeed. TechCrunch has almost the same pattern. Why is this? - Robert Scoble

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They can't get people to follow them because the people who added them are not really listening and impressionable. - Louis Gray

You have to be engaged and interactive to have influence. - Louis Gray

It's what I was hinting at this morning. Most of the users on Twitter don't actually take action or DO anything. They aren't followers. They aren't listening. They aren't engaged. So these audiences can't be transfered anywhere else. - Robert Scoble

Twitter is Revolution! Yay Twitter! - Steven E. Streight

This is Twitter's true lock in. - Robert Scoble

Could it also be that they never talk about Friendfeed or Facebook while on Twitter and therefore no one knows that they're actually here? - Kenton

Yeah, Twitter has turned into more micro-rss for me versus conversational. - Tony

Why would any freedom loving person NOT have a green avatar? - Steven E. Streight

617,000, but how many of those are active users? I'd imagine 50% or more are one time users, dead accounts - sean percival

It's all about narcissism for most people unfortunately. - Steven E. Streight

It's impossible for anybody to have 617,000 followers on Friendfeed, because that's about double the active network size. ;) - Shéa Bennett

LOL - Steven E. Streight

Shea: very funny! - Robert Scoble

Kenton, That's it for me. I follow Tim on Twitter, actually find him very engaged there, but didn't automatically assume he was on FB and FF. Now I will - Francine Hardaway

I hate FaceBook - Steven E. Streight

also the chance of someone responding on a sul is higher on friendfeed that is on twitter - Kashif Khan

Shea: the problem with your thesis is that it holds true on Facebook. I have more fans there than TechCrunch does. - Robert Scoble

Also, if you only ever re-tweet instead of putting up original content your followers are going to tend to be more passive. - Kenton

how about them dopey Positive Affirmation tweeters? Ugh! - Steven E. Streight

If I want inspirational quotes, I'll open a Bible thank you. - Steven E. Streight

Like prob all of you I am on numerous social websites, twitter is not great at all unless you like the constant stream of tweet torrents - it is quick to interact with, that's why I use it the most right now. - Alex 'BuckyBit' Covic

Kenton: that's true too, but TechCrunch puts up original content and he has fewer followers on Facebook than I do (and I post almost NOTHING on Facebook). - Robert Scoble

This is the very basic definition of following, you don't act, you follow. If you want to engage people, you need a community, which twitter can help you to manage but won't do for you. @loic can make many people do something, he has influence, because he built a community, not because he has followers. - Jonathan Belgourari

Jonathan: yup and Guy Kawasaki has a lot more influence than I do and he neither is on Twitter's SUL and he doesn't even write all his own Tweets (he admits he has a team writing them). - Robert Scoble

twitter is also great to find out about people in a quick way, you otherwise wold never engage with. the next step blog, friendfeed, fb or email is just as easy. - Alex 'BuckyBit' Covic

if you have a lot of followers interaction is very limited. You miss out on so much when you hit the refresh page when you have followers . Im guessing after many attempts of trying to communicate and not receiving anything back ppl quit - Kashif Khan

Jonathan: I call that a "reader" or a "consumer" then, not a follower. Followers do what you ask them to do. :-) - Robert Scoble

Went and looked for him on FB. Not even a photo? Does he hang out there? - Francine Hardaway

on a much smaller scale I've looked at overlaps between my twitter (3000) fb (900) ff (800); there seems to be about 300 people who are common to all three, the rest choose where and how to interact with me. I tend to think of the 300 as my "digital dunbar number". - JP Rangaswami

Kashif: I interact here with almost everyone and I have 42,000 followers here. - Robert Scoble

good point Robert, I don't really consider Facebook a place to go for information like that so I had only really considered Friendfeed. - Kenton

Robert Scoble you are insane that does not count:) - Alex 'BuckyBit' Covic

Twitter is a different medium to the others, Robert. It's a lot less of a commitment to follow somebody on that network. FF has a relatively tiny user base so a comparison there is apples and oranges. Facebook for the majority is still less about following *anybody* and more about following people you know and trust. Why? Because you're giving away a lot of yourself each time you add... more... - Shéa Bennett

Alex: heheh. I'm not the only insane one. - Robert Scoble

but where is interacting easier , twitter or friendfeed ? - Kashif Khan

haha... - Alex 'BuckyBit' Covic

Shea: the truth about Twitter is that many people check it out for a few minutes and then never return to the service. Or if they do return, they do so very sporadically. Over here or on Facebook the audiences are much more engaged. - Robert Scoble

I agree with Louis. you have to interact and participate. - Johnny from BuddyFeed

imagine having to track this same conversation using twitters web interface and not having tweetdeck or seismic to help you out - Kashif Khan

Robert: I keep hearing that but I'm very engaged with my network. And I regularly remove the people who I feel don't make any kind of an effort. It's all about keeping things relative. - Shéa Bennett

I am still scared to contact anybody on Facebook, because I don't know if the want to stay private/real friends, or if they like me joining their conversation = I never send friend requests - Alex 'BuckyBit' Covic

Shea: the other truth about the Suggested User List is these are not organic followers. They are people who opened an account and clicked "add all the suggested users." Before Tim and Mashable and TechCrunch were added to that list I had more followers on Twitter. So did Leo Laporte. So did Guy Kawasaki. So, most of those newer followers that Tim and Mike got by being on the SUL aren't strong followers. That's why they aren't very engaged. - Robert Scoble

I agree re: Twitter - they check it out and then leave - the follow and forget methodology. I guess the real measure of how interactive his followers are would be to request that they do something (click a link, etc.) In reality, if he got 1/10 of 1% to do anything, I'd be impressed. - Jeff Pomeroy

You also have to remember that the majority of FB's 200 million users are non-techy people, many of whom see FB *as* the internet, not just a product of it. I think Twitter's audience is maturer (in terms of average age, as well as content) and less interesting in bells and whistles (videos, music etc). - Shéa Bennett

Jeff: what got Twitter to be so cool is engagedment USED to be a lot higher than 1/10th of 1% for everyone. Now it has gone down. - Robert Scoble

I have no disagreement at all about the SUL. I've written several articles about it on Twittercism. It needs to be scrapped or totally revamped. And yeah, a lot of the followers folk get from being on the SUL are very casual users, assuming they return at all. - Shéa Bennett

Shea: I totally disagree with that thesis. I did a survey of 600 Web innovators, influencers, and press. About 85% are on all three social networks (Twitter, Friendfeed, Facebook). And many of those are participating more on Facebook than on Twitter lately. Why is that? - Robert Scoble

Robert, my 'suggested user list' was full of esoteric treehuggers and feelgood-psychos. I am a software architect and astrophysics hugger instead. Facebook hooks me up with really strange algorithms - meh.. - Alex 'BuckyBit' Covic

"you reached level 14 in #spymaster" - Alex 'BuckyBit' Covic

:) - Alex 'BuckyBit' Covic

Alex: I blocked spymaster. :-) - Robert Scoble

I would too, like many other things, but than I want diversity. I want a lot of different people and opinions to challenge my thinking. - Alex 'BuckyBit' Covic

Maybe they are participating on Facebook more because they can truly control who sees what when they have their discussions. Twitter allows a lot of 'noise' to occur from unknown followers when these people are trying to communicate amongst themselves. Maybe Facebook or Friendfeed is just the better medium for those types of interactions. - Jeff Pomeroy

Robert: Which thesis? Blasted Friendfeed and its lack of threaded comments. ;) - Shéa Bennett

even on FB its easier to track conversations - Kashif Khan

Jeff, I agree. And I also think 'older people are more comfortable with FB. The 'older folks' on twitter are broadcasting their wisdoms and not interacting - most of them... - Alex 'BuckyBit' Covic

great listening to you guys - friendfeed proves something right here;) see ya. i'm out... - Alex 'BuckyBit' Covic

As for why your list are involved more on FB than Twitter, I have no idea. But 600 from either network is still a very small sample. I'm confused how these folk are actually "participating" on FB, too. Specifically, what does that word mean on that network? What do they do? My experience is that over half of my followers go ballistic if I update my status on FB more than about 15-20 times per day. And I'm *very* selective to make sure it's only the good stuff. :) - Shéa Bennett

It is personality vs brand. You Robert, Jason Calacanis, Leo Lapporte, are personalities before brand. We talk to you as real people. O'riley is brand before personality. We are not used to talking back to a brand unless we're miffed about something. It is just not normal. For instance today when you asked my question at the #hpreveal thing it cought them off guard and totally blew me... more... - Ron Hudson

Ron: good point. The real answer is that Twitter totally messed with the system by choosing its own "stars" instead of letting the real stars organically bubble up to the top. Since O'Reilly and Arrington are "chosen stars" their followers aren't strong followers like the ones that they got organically. Even Arrington admits this in analysis. - Robert Scoble

I totally agree with Ron about that. That's what I love about FF and Twitter - it's the first time that we've had anything like a level playing field for discourse. And the ones who don't engage now stand out like sore thumbs. - Shéa Bennett

I always love it when somebody has 40,000 followers but is following 40 people. What a waste. Why even engage? You, Robert have almost as many followers as followees. - Curt Mercadante

for me it seems that given his lopsided ratio, it gives the impression that he is not truly interactive but rather broadcasting and waiting for feedback. - Eran Even-Kesef

An engaged audience is built slowly, not quickly - Jesse Stay

So now when a new user gets on Twitter they see the same reinforced message from everywhere else. "These are people/brands you should LISTEN to" It is not "These are people to get to know and have conversation with" - Ron Hudson

Robert, wouldn't the organic SUL just be the top 100 most-followed? Which even before the SUL got going wasn't exactly a bastion of quality. All Twitter needs to do is mix things up - when I sign up (or check the SUL at any time), the service should give me X of its own recommendations, and the same amount that are tailored to me by my own interests. Of course, for this to really work... more... - Shéa Bennett

Curt: lots of people use these things for broadcasting. I don't think there's anything wrong with that, but I do prefer to follow people who engage. - Robert Scoble

I followed @timoreilly for a while on twitter, but didn't find him interesting enough to keep following. It's true that @GuyKawasaki doesn't write all his own tweets, but I like them and look forward to them (if one of his ladies have written the tweet they will have their initials at the end of it.) I follow you, Robert, because I like your tweets too. I will follow anyone who follows... more... - Andrew Jordan

Hey Louis Gray are you anti-SUL like many of us in this thread? - Mark

Shea: I can see about 100 ways to build a useful SUL. The current SUL just serves @ev and @biz 's own egos and purposes. - Robert Scoble

Mark: just remember that Twitter has signaled to the world that anyone who begs to be on, or complains about the SUL will never get onto it. - Robert Scoble

Robert: I agree. Between us, if they added you overnight, would you ask to be removed? I suspect you would, and I know at least one other has. - Shéa Bennett

Robert: Why do you think you are not on the Twitter SUL? iJustine was on it (til she was removed) - yet no Scobleizer - It makes zero sense. - Jim Connolly

Shea: yes, I will ask to be removed. I know one person who removed himself too. (Jay Rosen, journalism professor). Why would I ask to be removed? Because it's a huge gift and one that I would feel I need to disclose every time I talk about Twitter. Look at how many times I'm asked whether I'm paid by FriendFeed. Well, everyone on the Suggested User List is being paid by Twitter. - Robert Scoble

This feels like irc without the useful tools like tab-auto-complete. I keep wanting to ssh out and open irssi. . . - Ron Hudson

Aw man, I miss IRC. - Jason Nunnelley

There's a group of people I follow on twitter not to be part of their conversation but to inform conversations I have with people I know. My friends/acquaintances don't use friendfeed so I have little use for it. Facebook I leave for friends/family and twitter/web forums are for acquaintances. - Jonathan

Jim: three reasons I have never been on Twitter's Suggested User List: 1. Technically I was difficult to put on the list before they got rid of the @ reply functionality (I was one of the 3% who turned that feature on). 2. I talk about FriendFeed all the time (I wouldn't add someone who talked about a competitor all the time to my service either). 3. I have had days when I'm too noisy... more... - Robert Scoble

Does anyone know or have links to comments made by people on the SUL about the issue? - Mark

Robert: Thats a very honest and almost certainly accurate answer. - Jim Connolly

Mark: I've had some contact with @adventuregirl. - Shéa Bennett

There is a risk here of course regarding complaining about the SUL that one could easily be accused of sour grapes; that is, along the lines of, "How did THEY get on there, and not me?" Although I also suspect that the majority (the masses, if you will) on Twitter don't really care at all about things like the SUL, and are fairly blasé to the criticisms about it. I sincerely believe... more... - Shéa Bennett

Mark: honestly I've been following the SUL and other than when Veronica ripped me a new one for asking whether there was some sort of corruption to get on the list (big brands get on the list, for instance, and this list is totally corruptible because it is NOT a meritocracy) I can't remember ever hearing someone on the SUL discussing it in public. They know better because they are being gifted hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of followers and they don't want to be removed. - Robert Scoble

Mark: It's REALLY hard getting answers from people like Veronica Belmont or Pete Cashmore. They are both really cool people, but neither have replied to anything I have asked them, in relation to their SUL places. It's like they have been gagged. - Jim Connolly

Mark: It's here http://www.thetechnewsblog.com/2009... - Jim Connolly

Shea: most people will not care, that's right, until they figure out they are peasants in a royalty system. Then they will seek out systems that are meritocracies. The tide is already moving. - Robert Scoble

Robert: To your earlier point re: Tim O'Reilly - if the SUL system is broken and really just a method whereby new twitter users follow & forget, are these people truly "being gifted hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of followers"? - Jeff Pomeroy

I'm sure most of them don't wanna look a gift horse in the mouth. Is that the right metaphor? hehe - Mark

Hmm, I'm not sure Robert. Nobody seemed to leave FB when they were at risk of being sold out - the numbers just went up and up. I think the people who truly fight for this stuff are always in a real minority - they seem more prevalent because they're loud! :) I think most people drift away from social networks when they seem to have run their course, like MySpace. - Shéa Bennett

Jeff: yes, they are because they are now owning the top of lists at http://www.wefollow.com and other places. Also they are getting PR on TV shows worth many thousands of dollars (journalists love picking sources with huge numbers after their names). Finally: SOME of these followers DO engage. - Robert Scoble

Maybe Tim is too focused? he is not a chit chat BS guy enough to interest large amounts of people... Focus gives value but value that is high and very specific to certain (few) people. As you hinted Robert, value is not a matter of # of followers but of real impact /traction. People will listen and act more upon what is said on FF. FF is more value than traffic. - Harscoat

Maybe if a few dozen of us from this thread @reply the big players asking for a statement on their placw on SUL they will respond? - Mark

Scoble: I'm not sure they/we will seek out meritocracies. Like I said before it is not expected. I can go to crackberry forums or IRC if I want to be respected in a niche I think Facebook is more likely to draw people who want to be heard by their peers, because generally it is people you already have an established hierarchy of popularity with. It's high-school all over again. We tend to hang with our group and don't expect to be heard in others. - Ron Hudson

Don't get me wrong - folk will put their name on lists, and that kind of non-committal stuff. But when it comes to the crunch and, you know, actually quitting over change, they rarely do. - Shéa Bennett

Jeff: Yes they are, because most of them are selling some kind of advertising on their sites / blogs / podcasts etc. These are often sold on volume of eyeballs, and these will have increased by tens of thousands of percent after gaining all those Twitter followers. - Jim Connolly

"you did receive a gift. Advertising is sold by 1,000 viewers. Ask Ryan how much 1,000 people are worth. You did NOT earn that gift by any objective measure." - Rob Scoble, Feb 2009 - Mark

Mark: Unlikely. I think Robert is right - far too much to lose. Man, if they added me to the list, this time next week I'd be a millionaire! ;) - Shéa Bennett

Calacanis was widely quoted as saying a slot on the SUL was worth $250,000 US. - Jim Connolly

Robert: keep those threads coming, I get to follow good people on real-time, it's better than any Twitter SUL :) - Nir Ben Yona

Harscoat: I don't disagree a bit. Ron: good point about people not seeking out meritocracies. It does pollute the community, though, and people do figure that out eventually. If anything Facebook went the other way by limiting EVERYONE to 5,000. That brings celebrities down to everyone else's level, which builds good feelings and keeps marketers out. - Robert Scoble

It seems like the tech celebrity all seems to treat these systems the same, as places where they can acquire a mass following. I view myself as an average everday user of these systems, and view all three differently. And as they evolve, they all have different and divergent uses for me. It's not apples to apples... (also, tiring of SUL) - Bill Kinney

Jim: It's worth far more than that. Mashable is close to 1 million followers. The account tweets about 15-20 times per day, most back to their own site. That network size is worth millions. TC isn't far behind, and is already saying Twitter is about 10% of their traffic. Jason's semi-serious offer was probably high at the time, but I think a spot on that list now over 12 months is worth easily a million bucks to a brand or power-blog. - Shéa Bennett

Bill: yup. Today I was talking with Alexander. He says that people will continue seeking out "smaller" spaces. My wife likes Facebook better than FriendFeed or Twitter for that reason: she feels it's the place where she can talk with just her circle of friends. - Robert Scoble

tidbit of info: spoke to someone last night (who shall remain nameless) that said they went up by >10k followers per day when they were put on the SUL. They still consider that their real follower numbers are closer to their organic growth rate. - Bill Sanders

I hope all the big players move to FF soon so I can stop visiting twitter.com altogether. - Mark

I mean, $1/user that you can hit 15-20 times per day, 365 days a year, and if they unfollow, you're going to get another 40-50,000/week because you're on the SUL? I cannot believe Twitter doesn't monetize this feature. - Shéa Bennett

Shea: I think you are probably right - the numbers are insane and the SUL system is totally corrupt. - Jim Connolly

Robert, saying that people like me "can't build a following on Friendfeed" is silly. There are only so many networks that you can put time into. For whatever reason, I've chosen Twitter. You've chosen FriendFeed. The fact that I have 10,000 followers on FriendFeed is good news, given that I don't spend time here. Heck, I had 5,000 on Twitter when I started paying attention and using the service. - Tim O'Reilly

Thanks for coming Tim, do you agree with Robert that your SUL status is a "gift" and one in which makes it difficult for you to report on twitter honestly? - Mark

And for what it's worth, the SUL isn't very useful except for bragging rights. I had about 60K twitter followers when I went on the SUL; my peak click through-rate has perhaps doubled now that I have 10 times as many. Organic followers are what matters, except, as I say, for the media credibility that you get from people who don't know any better. - Tim O'Reilly

After all, the SUL is giving you lots of clicks, and clicks = page views and page views = dollars? - Mark

Tim: this post isn't only about you. But you must admit that you had fewer followers on Twitter than I did before you got added to the Suggested User List. You are getting gifted hundreds of thousands of followers per month. They aren't engaged. They won't do what you ask them to. Have you studied the hit rates the things you retweet are getting before and after getting on teh SUL? - Robert Scoble

Tim: You deserve to be on the SUL, but many of your SUL buddies don't. It really stinks, the way some of those names were added, and people like Leo Laporte and Scoble were blanked. - Jim Connolly

Totally, I only open up my facebook to those I have established relationship with - my choice to do so. I publish and share things of a more intimate nature there that I won't share on other services where my profile is more public. Facebook works quite well for that. I almost laugh at those that say that facebook has to match what twitter is doing or face extinction (and I've heard various arguments to that effect), that the "walled garden" will be their downfall eventually. I don't agree. - Bill Kinney

Mark - being on the Twitter SUL has absolutely no influence on what I do or do not report about Twitter. - Tim O'Reilly

Ahh, I see you have studied the hit rates and your observations match mine. These aren't "real" followers and they aren't engaged. Twitter did that to remove people they don't like from the top of the leaderboards (like Calacanis, Laporte, and me). - Robert Scoble

Thanks, Tim x - Mark

Is this about numbers (i.e. ratings and money) or is this about engagement? - SawyerTraining, Inc.

Incidentally, was iJustine removed from the SUL for something she said? Just wondering. I'd be interested to see if somebody on that list could be very critical about Twitter and stay on it. - Shéa Bennett

Tim is unsurprisingly savvy on the matter: "my peak click through-rate has perhaps doubled now that I have 10 times as many. Organic followers are what matters, except, as I say, for the media credibility that you get from people who don't know any better." In other words, organic followers are worth 10x more clicks/$$ than SUL followers. - Daniel J. Pritchett

Robert, did you recently share a Whisky with @Ev? What are the twitter bosses saying about the SUL and yoru complaints? - Mark

Tim: how do we know that, though? If you paid me hundreds of thousands of dollars per year I would need to disclose that to my audience and it would be very tough not to be influenced by that money you're paying me. Twitter is paying you a huge sum of money in followers and yet you say it has no influence on you. - Robert Scoble

Mark: I didn't bring it up with @ev (other than to make a small joke that he was building his own celebrities with the SUL, which he nervously smiled at). Why? Because I'd rather have these discussions out in public where you can see them and know that I'm not playing "footsie" with Twitter to get onto the list. - Robert Scoble

That's just like the Robert we have known for a long time... - Amit Nangare

Sure it changes Tim's experience of the service and (at the least) doubles his direct financial rewards from the service but he's presumably not working on a word of mouth contract with them. The only way to be *completely* sure there's no conflict of interest would be for oreilly.com to block/redirect all direct or indirect clickthroughs from Twitter and I'm sure we can all agree that's not feasible. - Daniel J. Pritchett

If this is about engagement consider that for me most of my engagement is "downstream" with my followers (who are few but important to me) rather than "upstream" where I look for trends, leads, and insights. I only interact upstream on rare occasions when I feel I might have something to add (and this may not be one of those times). - SawyerTraining, Inc.

Tim: It is impossible for you to be totally unbiased regarding Twitter, surely? - Jim Connolly

I like to think that after Robert had that whisky from Ev, his life spiralled out of control, a bit like something in Michael Douglas' The Game. Three days disappeared in a blur, and when he woke up, the only working login he had left was on Plurk. ;) - Shéa Bennett

It's impossible for any business to be completely unbiased regarding media outlets that cover/enable them, Jim. The best we can hope for is full disclosure, published conduct guidelines, and ombudsmen. - Daniel J. Pritchett from IM

Mark: also that wasn't an appropriate time socially. His wife was there, it wasn't an on the record type event, and it's not nice to be a jerk on a Saturday night. - Robert Scoble

Well I suppose twitter sends money to the SUL via followers, how is it it any different than Dell sending money to you via free laptops? - Mark

Daniel: We are talking about a 6 figure 'gift' from a company, to a group of people who write about that company. This is a really big deal. - Jim Connolly

@Shéa Bennett: Ijustine - man did that get old fast. That's what happens after 100 episodes of the same "yeah, yeah, you can ask ij" - Asgeir

Daniel: it's pretty hard to figure out that people are on the SUL. You have to have a new account and look every few days. Some people are building tracking systems to watch who is added and who is taken off (iJustine was on for a while but isn't anymore and she now is losing followers, if you watch the charts). Disclosure? People who are on this list don't see it as a gift. - Robert Scoble

Fair point, Rob x - Mark

It's simply a matter of scale, Jim. There is no realistic way for Tim to remain completely objective aside from eschewing Twitter altogether. As long as he is above board re: his dealings with Twitter that's really all that anyone can expect of him. - Daniel J. Pritchett from IM

Mark: if I take gifts I disclose it. I'd rather have the followers the SUL gives someone than a free laptop. A laptop is only worth $2,000. Getting on the SUL is worth many many more times that. - Robert Scoble

when i said "you", i didnt mean any of you in particular with the laptops - Mark

"you" just sounds better than "one" - how english of me - Mark

Good point, Robert. Perhaps Twitter should make it super obvious that people are on the SUL. It *would* be nice if text from SUL tweeters was visually distinguishable from regular tweeters so that we could know to (not) pay attention to it as per our preferences. - Daniel J. Pritchett from IM

One respectfully disagrees :) - Ian Betteridge

Regarding iJustine, I'm guessing she was pulled from the SUL early May? Check the chart: http://twittercounter.com/compare... If that date correlates, that probably says all we need to know about the benefits. - Shéa Bennett

Robert - do you think all Twitter-related content published by SULers should include a boilerplate disclaimer such as "BTW I get zillions of clicks through Twitter's preferential treatment" at the top of every story? - Daniel J. Pritchett from IM

Daniel: at Steve Broback's Twitter Conference the Twitter employees were visibly uncomfortable talking about the SUL. It's interesting that they added a "verified" icon to my account but they aren't identifying who is on the SUL. - Robert Scoble

Whoa, Shéa - Mark

It was cool of Tim to 'almost' talk about the SUL here. The guy's a tech legend and is there on merit - I just wish the list was balanced so others who equally deserve a slot had one. - Jim Connolly

Daniel: yes. If the New York Times journalists were receiving hundreds of thousands of dollars from a company they cover, wouldn't you expect them to disclose that? - Robert Scoble

I won't argue with you there at all, Robert. I would be happy seeing disclaimers and graphics denoting SUL status. I was thinking the problem was more Twitter's than Tim's but I suppose it's both. - Daniel J. Pritchett from IM

That graphic blew my mind, Shea. Thanks! - Daniel J. Pritchett

how about twitter sul = 300.000+$/month want it? buy it. full disclosure=? - Alex 'BuckyBit' Covic

Are most professional journalists doing online content paid based on page views? - Mark

or is it pay per article? - Mark

Jim: I wish the list was a meritocracy and based on your actual usage and value you add to Twitter. Personally I wish we had a list a lot more like wefollow.com or alltop.com than what Twitter came up with. Mark: yes. - Robert Scoble

Robert: EXACTLY! - Jim Connolly

Mark: Journalism companies get paid by 1000 page views. That's called CPM. They then usually pay their reporters per article, or per word, or they are salaried. - Robert Scoble

One reason is FriendFeed lacks a way of linking to other users in a post. On Twitter you can @timoreilly or @TechCrunch and I'd click on them and see if they are worth following. Since you can't do that on FriendFeed I don't bother to look to see if they are worth following. - ChiliMac

Jim: I find it insulting that Oprah was added to the Suggested User List after doing only a dozen or so entries on Twitter. How did they know she would be a good Twitterer after only that few? How insulting is that to all the other people who put tons more work into the system? - Robert Scoble

I don't think this SUL thing is about numbers, it's about ego and personality. Can you live without expressing your personal believes and have PR people do your job or say what you have to say out loud on public and give up the courtesy and goodies. Why is it about personality? Example: When Scoble came to visit my country (Israel) everyone could have a talk with him directly without... more... - Nir Ben Yona

ChiliMac: funny, I found you just fine and subscribed to you here. It's a different way, though. Here you put full URLs into the message. Like "hey, everyone, follow ChiliMac here: http://friendfeed.com/chilimac " - Robert Scoble

Robert: If being on the list has negligible value as you proposed (and Tim essentially confirmed) in terms of click-throughs, are we perhaps being overly concerned with its 'benefits'? If Tim's network has gone x10 and his clicks are x2, it's likely that his gain is from a lot of people who followed him organically (i.e., normal network growth). - Shéa Bennett

Robert: The Oprah situation took the SUL issue and exposed it for what it is; a 'buddy list.' Not based on merit or value. I only heard of Twitter because of you and Leo. There are hundreds of thousands of early users who only discovered Twitter off you and Leo's mentions. How soon they forget! - Jim Connolly

Shea: perhaps we are overly concerned. But I notice that people don't often remove themselves from this list, and even when they do (like in Jay Rosen's case) it's only after really thinking through the ethical responsibility of taking a huge gift from a corporation that they potentially cover. - Robert Scoble

Jim: exactly. I really hate it when companies love you when they are getting started because they need a few evangelistic users (ICQ started with only 40 users, so that's all you really need) but then they stab you in the back once they don't need you anymore. That's why more than a few bloggers now ask for stock or fees to cover their companies. Me? I will continue being a sucker for an entrepreneur with a great product or service. - Robert Scoble

I'd prefer an tiny audience that listened and commented, than a huge audience that ignored me - Mark Essel

value is the way and not arbitrary will from kings (ev and biz eg)... so this thread opens one's eyes to the not so fair and ego driven aspect of twitter as a cy ( I still remember @ev with the Trump daughter in front of the white house ;) - SUL = buddy list of @ev and @biz... liked Jim suggestion - Harscoat

I agree about Oprah but Twitter wants names on there - people that the 180 million Facebook users they don't have on Twitter right now will recognise. Everybody knows Oprah. It isn't about being a 'good Twitterer' (which is of course a relative term - one man's P. Diddy is another man's Jack Schofield) - it's about new users going, "Hey, I know this person." and that validates the... more... - Shéa Bennett

I wish Twitter wold make it easier to connect with people that has same interests. wefollow is on the right track, but people add themselves to categories they don't belong in. The one with most follower under #photo has, as far as I can tell, never written anything about photos, or photo related news - Asgeir

Engagement has value, but I understand most folks just like to read. I'm fine with that but engagement helps me improve my perspective while blogging - Mark Essel

social networks is about money not about us or social or socialism;) which brings me back to the point: the sul list is pure advertising and should be treated as that. Put a logo next to it: Advertisement: we recommend these ppl - done. 'We' will find each other anyways and the big old economy corps will always bully Robert or Leo out of their way:( - Alex 'BuckyBit' Covic

there are the "cooperators" and "free riders/defectors" in life (in evo psy terms) - Robert is a cooperator (interested in the overall value for the group rather than his own personal interest)! pointing at entrepreneurs with great product and services for the community. Do not change - Harscoat

Twitter is really just a broadcast medium, you can be influential and be on the SUL, but it's more likely you just have a bunch of people checking out the service once and never looking again. FF allows you to build value and relationships around conversations. Take this very thread. Which is more monetizable in the long run? I think twitter will just become another protocol, FF provides a far more valuable service. But that's just my opinion really, and it all depends on how YOU define "useful" - John

I try to participate, but I have anywhere from 60 to 80 hours of work a week, and adding Twitter and FF to the list increased my hours. So I can't always participate even though I want to. - RobinDotNet

Robert, I'm intrigued by your success and focus on this subject. I wonder, how do you think a group fairs compared to a single personality? At the moment, you're the king of social media in my opinion because of your engagement. The attention you command is ten fold the value of Ashton's million plus drive-by fans. But, could 10 top-notch social folks stuck to a brand (like Mashable's core Twitter brand) out-perform a single guy's personal touch? [Sorry, I did go a bit OT] - Jason Nunnelley

The truth is the SUL list on Twitter falsely inflates everyone numbers who are on it, I suspect if Tim O'Reilly wasn't on the list his numbers percentage wise would be just about the same whether we are talking Twitter or FF. I also think that since FF doesn't have an auto follow method, like twitter, their is more thought put into who someone is going to follow. - Kim Landwehr

Kim: That's true, but it's not just a question of auto-follow. One, Facebook doesn't allow one-way following - you have to be 'friends'. Two, for most people, letting somebody friend them on FB is a fairly big deal as that person then has access to a lot of your life (personal details, photos, etc - it AMAZES me how many people put their cellphone number on Facebook, and then just... more... - Shéa Bennett

I agree SUL is billboard advertising. Essel-i support that 'just like to read' is fine for some. That's how I participate with Wikipedia and I can see some on twitter will simply be there looking for new eddies in the river of news. FriendFeed and Facebook lead for those of us wanting greater depth: No matter if you are a platform or a "personality" how is quality engagement promoted... more... - Lane Rapp

Jason: I am often at a disadvantage competing against brands with many people employed like TechCrunch and Mashable. What was interesting was that I (and others like Leo Laporte, Calacanis, Kawasaki, et al) was able to compete before the SUL propelled them above me and into a different league. At least on Twitter. Everywhere else I'm still kicking their behinds. Which is worth studying,... more... - Robert Scoble

I am not on the Twitter SUL. I have 15,000 on Twitter and 2,700 on FF. Could it be that there are fewer peeps on FF? - Beth Kanter

Beth: that's a pretty common ratio, but doesn't match anyone's who is on the SUL. But, you miss my point. On Facebook (which has far far far more people than Twitter) TechCrunch has far fewer fans than I do but on Twitter he has far more, all artificially gained. If TechCrunch were smart he'd have those people also follow his fan page on Facebook. - Robert Scoble

But you bring up an interesting point, Beth, for another thread. Why aren't your followers good followers of yours? I imagine you've told them about friendfeed. Why don't your followers listen to you? I thought it was just me. - Robert Scoble

I just don't use facebook at all like i do FriendFeed or Twitter. - Geoff Schultz

What about the shear time to keep up with the topics of the day? For me twitter is all about reading quick short headlines, getting a pulse on what's going on, and then making a decision on what topics are important enough to engage deeper on. FF, FC, blogs, etc are the place to go deeper into the conversation. If you buy off on that, then the math comes into play,Twitter is the grand... more... - Robert Wilkins

Oprah, by the way, has 1,619,000 on Twitter and 760,000 on Facebook. I wonder how many followers Oprah was gifted by being on the recommended follower list, but you can see why Twitter is doing this. The higher Oprah's numbers are on Twitter the cooler Twitter seems and the more hype it gets and the more celebrities want to chase Oprah, even if they are for fake followers who don't mean that much. Brilliant strategy on Twitter's part. - Robert Scoble

yea, oprah=cool. you toting your camera maybe not so much to mainstream, glad to see the new hulk photo ;-) - Lane Rapp

Lane: Oprah is cool? Have you seen her Tweets? Not cool at all. - Robert Scoble

I have very different uses for each: Twitter, Facebook, FriendFeed... - Kelly A Nelson

Robert, Oprah's tweets are indeed superficial. Totally not engaged. She would do well to use twitter to engage both her audience and her causes between seasons. My joke was framed sarcastically enuff, but was to support your entire discussion here, that the SUL is rigged for twitter and celeb marketing. - Lane Rapp

Meh. all these celebs taking twitter away from us geeks :( its ours :( - Mark

Ellen Degeneres does a good job in my opinion - Lane Rapp

Mark, give twitter to the masses, sometimes I get the feeling FF wants to remain a niche. I can't say I would be disappointed as long as the lights stay on. We can contribute like we do on NPR. - Lane Rapp

Lane: they said that about Twitter two years ago. The thing is here that FriendFeed has nooks and crannies that can let us hide from the masses a lot better than we can hide on Twitter. - Robert Scoble

Beth, I think the difference between Twitter and FF is two fold, compounded and a big indicator as to why Robert may fair so much better here and FB. Twitter simplifies the competition (if there is such a thing, though people perceive it's real, so it is). It's all about followers and extremely competitive to gain them. FriendFeed is culturally different, and conversational. This kind... more... - Jason Nunnelley

Yes we can hide away in little corners, and even go private rooms if we want a little insider chat. Friendfeed is our underground movement! - Mark

Something Robert has done that works best in more conversational SM is brand himself as an all around cool guy. He's not "Robert Scoble the tech guru." Mashable and Techcrunch are very limited in their scope, so readers are likely to read their blip about their preferred technology and move on. Robert engages his readers on a multitude of topics, much more conversational. He'll actually... more... - Jason Nunnelley

Robert, thanks I'll do my part to welcome the masses while I learn more about the nooks and crannies. I noticed how all the FF user help rooms are active, but the Facebook user groups have limited discussion. - Lane Rapp

Lane (WARNING: shameless promotion) I'd be happy to host more conversations in newb regarding Facebook if you like, post tutorials, videos, etc. Are you more often a question source or an answer source? <edit> Meaning, I'd like to have someone else post help there if I start pushing my readers to the group. - Jason Nunnelley

Anyone heard any news about new friendfeed features? Sure would be cool to be able to post images and things in the discussion thread. - Mark

I hate to hit and run, but 90% of the people I follow I follow because I've seen them say interesting things and participate here. - Steve Lowe

Steve, why is that Hit and Run? - Jason Nunnelley

Is the FriendFeed back-end on Scala already? :) - The Pageman

Jason, I'd like that and think the rural, the elder, the poor, the disabled, and much of africa who get better high speed net access will as well. As fast as these platforms are growing the users have to help out with the concierge desk. I've got questions and I'm still newb enuff to answer some with empathy - Lane Rapp

Lower counts on friendfeed IMHO is due to the fact FF lacks the sexyness of Facebook. The FF User Interface is cleaner, simpler but lacks eye candy, of the FB I do think UI is better than Twitter, but lacks the 3rd party apps which promote usage. The 2 ff aps on the iPhone are #horriblizers ( original word from @lovinkat) - derikp

If more people used clients that don't require following people to group them and/or see their tweets, the followers would n't be half as relevant on Twitter. I converse with lots of people I don't follow on facebook and FriendFeed. - guruvan (Rob Nelson)

Robert, the bottom line is people follow people for three reasons: content, content and content. The question is what difference does the SUL on Twitter make if most people just ignore boring content and move on? - Jason Nunnelley

My mom joined Twitter today (that tells me its not Myspace, so much for my original thesis) but she didn't necessarily want to follow this suggested list, but from talking to her, it sounded like it was "fostered" onto her. I don't know what the steps look like since I joined a long time ago, but it sounds like for a newbie you are pretty much going to auto follow these people - Stephen Pickering

I have more friends/followers on Friendfeed than I do on any other site - Joe Dawson

the followers picked up from SUL are folks who are getting started -- it's like the old PCH magazine subs: renewals and engagemt were horrible but the audience inflation paid back in ad dollars. The social web is about "finding" an audience, just like the old days before you could use web clout to open the spigot and drive a massive audience. The SUL is a Web 1.0 artifact, like cutting... more... - Dan McCarthy from BuddyFeed

Robert, et al: There was some important information shared in this thread yesterday, and I've put a lot of it together in a post for Twittercism, focusing on comparisons between the follower counts of Tim, Robert and iJustine. Appreciate your thoughts. Cheers. http://twittercism.com/suggest... - Shéa Bennett

isn't 10000 followers on friendfeed just about the same percentage of the community as 600000 on twitter? - Joelle Nebbe (iphigenie)

Stephen, you have to unclick the people you don't want to follow in the SUL. - Jason Nunnelley

Great thread. Thanks Robert. - Mark Davidson from BuddyFeed

Thanks for sharing - great info Robert!! - Laurie DesAutels

If what you say is true, then the terms need to be changed. As for them not transferring to any other social network, why is that even necessary? There's a great study out there that states 90% of your network will be lurkers anyway. You'll never know that they exist, however, it's still comforting to know they're there.... - Mike Shields

Robert: Now that you mention it, I will tell them about FriendFeed. - Beth Kanter

Robert: I hate it when there's a "food fight" over ideas. Please remember that Twitter is still trying to find a business model. These $100,000 gifts are basically Calacanis "Bucks"... you can't actually buy anything with them except the promise of VC investment. VC investment is simply mortgaging your future. - davem51

Was it wrong with Radio from UserLand had some suggested feeds to follow? No. It was a smart business idea and Adam Curry invested to get more readers. Smart attempt to save Userland from failing. - davem51

I met Tim O'Reilly in 1990 working the O'Reilly booth at Usenix. It was one of the most interesting conversations I have ever had at a conference... Tim knows how to present idea but more importantly he has the biggest ears in tech. He's got an Open Source Mind. - davem51

am i on twittr? - j edmonds

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anyone else just thankful?

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Every day I'm thankful for life, love and friends. - Jack (a.k.a. Jeber)

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yes thankful for life, beloved and people in general :) fire of life and gratitude - Harscoat

Yes! - Derrick

Every day. - Jason Huebel

After my Heart Attack in 2001 - I am grateful when I wake up each day - it means I get another day! The challenges I face everyday are simply blessings to me now :) Having great friends in my life and here on the the Internet makes living much richer. My Father always said, a man is judged by how many friends he has not by his toys. After all, you need 6 friends to carry the box when this life is over :) - Owen Greaves

I woke up today. Someone, somewhere in the world can't say that. I'm thankful I can. - Carlton Hackett

No, unfortunately. I'm never *just* thankful. - Michael R. Bernstein

I'm thankful for my baby and wife every day, every minute. Wish I felt that way about the rest of my life, though. - Fleagle

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Nice chart illustrating Nassib Taleb's Black Swan idea - http://ffffound.com/image...

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Loch ness monster hidden in the swamp of classical statistics - Harscoat

Robert Scoble

53% of my 96,000 followers don't follow directions. They are useless. The others will discuss this on FriendFeed here:

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you mean like so? :) - Iwan

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huh? - Rasmus Lauridsen

:-) seriously, everyone wants followers but what good are they if they won't do anything you tell them to do? Useless! - Robert Scoble

hahah that is soo funny - Susan Beebe

yet sooo true. wondering just how long until people figure it out - Susan Beebe

huh? - Gabriel

is this a timed challenge? - Iwan

Hmmm... - Adam

Literally LOLing at this, Robert. - ha3rvey (Ho)^3

Yes master... - Chris Forbes

i'm not sure what you mean ;) - Suzannah Archibald

You're not the boss of me! :) - jcunwired

I want to know how many of them consider themselves social media experts? - Colin Anawaty

bit of a pompous mood today? when have you ever expected anyone to follow directions on the net? - Doubledown_inSL

I was lost when Robert was at the 140 conference - he wasn't active here so I didn't know what to read...haha - Mike Bracco

*looks around for FF koolaid* - Susan Beebe

Fine, so I am useless. - Julie Anderson

Getting people to follow directions on the internet is akin to herding cats. Best of luck. :) - Keith Bourgoin

Any reccomendations for friend feed convos on the iPhone? - Stuart Tracte

lol - Miguel Rodriguez

FF sux nardz - Doubledown_inSL

How could I defy the techno-hulk? - Amanda Magee

You are fired up today...you might want to switch to decaf. GOOD GODS, WHAT AM I SAYING. - M.L. Stone

ahah, like most of the followers on twitter =) - Pierre TAMISIER

but 47% of people go on FF? that is quite good - Billy Fung

So, 47% or your followers are expected to discuss here? The comment counter is going to explode. - Brome

http://friendfeed.com/iphone works well. At least, it works well on my Android - Keith Bourgoin

3% of Scobes followers are still trapped on Myspace - Doubledown_inSL

twitter wasn't an interactive medium was it? :P - jaspio

What? - fanch_guy

Kevin: only about 42,000 of my 96,000 followers are here. Useless! I think they are all spammers or bots. - Robert Scoble

I'm amazed how fast this thread is growing. - Nick Prince

You mean 95,999 followers. - Robert Peterson

Very clever. - Nicole

that mass growing of the thread would be the 47% who can follow instructions ;o) - Carl Grint

I keep having to block spammy, icky followers on twitter, mostly porn and get-rich schemers..augh! - Susan Beebe

I refuse to respond to such a claim! - Al Fuller

seriously, how much is FriendFeed paying you? - Greg Hollingsworth

"I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep." John 10:11 - don manu

What am I not supposed to do? Where is the line? - Brian Goss

Spammers and bots eh? Great minds think alike? - ralphsaunders

What prize are you going to give your 100,000 follower? - Mike Bracco

*reading and where is my popcorn? ;) ;)* - Ronald

Greg: I got a free t-shirt. - Robert Scoble

LOL - Schneider Mike

Flame bater - Ron Hudson

I won't comment this thread ;) - DAL

following on twitter AND NOT subscribing on FF = useless? - Alexei Zheglov

promised to cure cancer at 100k - Doubledown_inSL

Does it count if I follow you on FF, but not twitter? - Keith Bourgoin

Spammers are everywhere though including here. - Brian Sullivan

@Doubledown_inSL Now that's funny. - Mike Dowden

Power is a double-edged sword, Robert...lol... can be tough to galvanize one's - Carol Lynn Martens

wow... think we could crash friendfeed with this thread? - Chip McComb

ROBERT! I sent you like 500 @ replies on twitter, wth aren't you replying? j/k - Justin Hopkins

I don't get it - Amelia Rangel

Do you want followers or slack-jawed lackys? - Mark Petzold

how many comments per minute will appear in average :D - Flavio

LOL @ Justin - Doubledown_inSL

Huh, what? Should I comment here? - Kandeezie

No one has to do anything anyone says/ - Paul Kinlan

let's see how 'stableizer' FF really runs *bumping up this thread *g* * - Ronald

No. I refuse to. But that doesn't make me useless. :-P - Ladybug Heather

show me a bridge - I'll jump after you! - BEX

FF is great, it just requires a higher level of interaction that many people don't have time for or interest in. - Stuart Tracte

new game: instead of "simon says" it is now "scoble says" - Chris Rogers

That's truth but I am one of the direcitons follower - Gent Thaqi

Just following instructions. - Larry Roth

Glad I caught this in my Twitter feed - I'd hate to be a bad directions-follower. - Shawn Farner

whatever you say - George Deane

^^ yeppers, i robot :D - Ronald

If you're happy and you follow (Scoble), clap your hands! - Carlos Granier-Phelps

I may of missed something, my bad.. - Sebastiaan van den Akker

Must do what Scoble says... Slow down comment box... forgot what this tread was about. - Drew S

Doh! Sorry, I clicked that link by accident - I'm in the 53%. As you were... - Andrew Jordan

/claps hands - George Deane

I agree that FF is better for tracking conversations, and hopefully @Twitter will get that. I still spend more time on Twitter - Matthew Scott Horbund

do what? - Mick

I follow directions but am often useless. Where do I fit? - Aaron Ball

53% your numbers are inaccurate. - Carlos Ayala

This should be interesting... - Robert Lee

YES O LORD AND MASTER, WHAT IS THY BIDDING :) - ftg888

wow, I'm not the only one who has no clue what's going on.. - Sebastiaan van den Akker

Grr... shouldn't have commented... Now I'll be getting IM updates forever!!!! - Carlos Granier-Phelps

I think this is just a psychology experiment... - Chip McComb

lol - Sebastiaan van den Akker

Commenting so as not to appear useless - Herb Hernandez

hahaha - Ronald

Carlos: lol - Larry Roth

what is actually ment by "directions"? - Clemsen

yes how is the number 53% found. - Daniel Graversen

as usual im in the minority (43%), Im never in the majority :( - George Deane

I hope you're wrong, Chip. Otherwise, you didn't see me here. - Shawn Farner

reporting for duty... - Todd Goldstein

baaaaah - mikepk

Scoble does have a lot of followers... - Sebastiaan van den Akker

I thought men were basically incapable of asking for directions, so why would they follow them? ;-) - Julie Bovee Hill

Robert, you are looking angry today. Take it easy, man! - Walter Lounsbery

d'oh! I meant 47% - George Deane

I am in building 44. Can you give me directions to 43? - David Connell

??? is this a test of the national broadcasting system? - Robert Wilkins

damn it scoble! get a real job! =) - Jonathan Crossland

Wow--never thought I'd wish for a "Don't Like" button or link, Robert! - Kathy Fitch

Robert's comments are very important particularly for political & development work. - Justin Long

Also important for business marketing. - Justin Long

U made me upset in first look then I realized what u mean and I found Im not not one of those. Hope you are not angry sir and wont fire me.. - Abhijeet Singh

I need a job like Scoble's... but in Miami. - Carlos Granier-Phelps

to comment or not to comment.... that is the question... - Kim

Are trending topics on friendfeed called "friending topics"? - Larry Roth

Slaves, obey your earthly masters with deep respect and fear. Serve them sincerely as you would serve Christ. (Ephesians 6:5 NLT) What was the question again? - don manu

hehehe... nice trick - Gustavo Munoz from twhirl

Robert, I'm up to the CHALLENGE of not being "useless." Actually, my business communication students at SFSU just heard my initial remarks which included THREE RULES FOR SUCCESS in BUSINESS [and everything else!] The rules: LISTEN CAREFULLY, READ CAREFULLY and FOLLOW ALL DIRECTIONS! - Shari Weiss

i think this thread goes 'epic' on FF ;) - Ronald

Apathy is the big killer of networks. - Justin Long

I'm here. That makes me not useless, I guess? - Celia

Robert Wilkins: it is my test to see how many spammers, bots, or jerks are following me. - Robert Scoble

I get alot of spam about sites who gives you followers, whats the point of the followers have no interresting to give to you? And whats most crap is that they have enabled auto-follow back.. grrr :P don't sign up on those sites people.! - Qbat

I like the constantly refreshed list but it doesn't half distract me from my own comment! - Joshua Davidson

hahahahaha, ok.. now I get it - Sebastiaan van den Akker

I Welcome our FF Overlords! - Al Fuller

Does this mean that you expect there to be 45,120 comments here? - Andrew Pass

I like Viagra. - Paul Puri

:-P - Lorenzo Strambi

a spammer... - Sebastiaan van den Akker

this is the only ff link of yours i followed. - moogs

You are usefull for us Robert =) - Qbat

Qbat aka Larsen: Agreed! - Larry Roth

I am getting a few new people to follow here, which is good! - Robert Scoble

I am not a bot! I am a free man! - Jeff Newfeld

Talking directions? - Sardar Mohkim Khan

i guess i've been lucky - i don't think i've seen any bots yet on FF (going now to check my short followers list) - Chris Rogers

Why do you think that people take the time to comment here? - Andrew Pass

This thread is like watching the real time web on steroids.I can't type fast enough to keep the comment box in view....yikes! - Dana Fosburgh

Robert - me too, thanks! :) - Susan Beebe

All you have to do is insult people and then they come :-) - George Deane

Notice how many of us follow when we are told we are not following. - Sandy McMerty

So, you're saying that people who don't use FF are spammers, bots or jerks ? - Djordje Lukic

So when you figure out how many there are, How are you going to auto filter them out? - Robert Wilkins

I read, I clicked, I arrived. I guess that means I'm not useless. - Mike

This comment intentionally left useless. - phil baumann

Seriously though let's not take the term 'followers' too literally. Just because I read a column doesn't mean I share the authors views. Just because you say lets discuss this on friendfeed doesn't mean I log onto FF and.......ah. OK....What is thy bidding?! - Joshua Davidson

You suck, man. I refuse to be a minion. Oh, wait... shit... - Joey Gibson

<Insert clever comment here.> - CAJ, somewhere else

Am I in the 53% or the 47%? - Tony Connor

What type of followers do you need Robert? Tell us and maybe we will try to be better. - Qbat

150th - Harscoat

DeVries: oh, I understand. We need better notified control. - Robert Scoble

Well, those who don't do what you tell them are actually more useful. No for you directly, but for the society. They mix your directions with their own to create new ones. - Kirill Petrovsky

Is this a roll call :) - Boon Kwee

i'm just commenting to hang with the cool kids - ukgrad98

^^ Nope 'happy hour' at Scoble's ;) ;) - Ronald

"Follower" is a weird term. "Watcher" may be better. Follower implies action and engagement, and anybody who's used social media for more than 20 minutes knows that just isn't true. - Jared Smith

Have I responded quick enough not to deemed useless. I feel a little baaaaa now. - Crispin Heath

Jared: bing! - Robert Scoble

So if you ever figure out how to deal with the bots and all the "I will teach you to make millions with Twitter" junk let us all know! - Marshall Huwe

you are talking about twitter, they would be useless but they are numbers and number always count. - Madhav Tripathi

If we need to use friendfeed to be useful, are there any clients or is it only the webinterface. - Daniel Graversen

Marshall: this is how. Bots and spammers don't get FriendFeed. - Robert Scoble

Daniel: what is wrong with the web? - Robert Scoble

inscribo ergo sum (I write therefore I am) - Jeff Newfeld

Nothing, just seem deficult to follow more threads. But that is probably not needed because the whole conversation is in once place. No need to multitask. - Daniel Graversen

is it just me or is the most used "plugin" on FriendFeed twitter? - Qbat

Actually, I find FriendFeed useless. I was reading an article about Twitter being useless, but the news get faster there. We'll have to say thanks to TwitScoop for that. - Dragos Pirvu

I never use FriendFeed. it just agregates all my other feeds into one feed. thats all :D - Zafarali

Dragos: wait until you compare search here to Twitter before calling it useless. Among other features. - Robert Scoble

No bot me, no. Count me out for that one. - Ton Zijp

dragos: all the news on Twitter is on FF, plus FF has better conversation - what do you think is missing? - Chris Rogers

FriendFeed enables comments on your tweets.! - Qbat

Robert Scoble: I think the proliferation of tools for Twitter let you slice and dice the data the way you want it and that is helpful to many. I do like the Web interface for FriendFeed, but imagine the possibilities that some cool tools could bring. No? - Larry Roth

So then we need someone in your vast network to write us a little app that will map the Twitter users who comment on FF and then block all the rest! Or at least create a "Real" Group in TweetDeck for me. - Marshall Huwe

You don't want followers, Robert—you want minions. I've got a few myself, and they're great. - Mistletoe Glen

ha! - Ned Baugh

there are SO MANY COMMENTS HERE - Zafarali

haha :) - Johnny from BuddyFeed

the best part is u can track em - Zafarali

Is this the way to San Jose? err ... I mean Friend Feed? - Tom Horn

Twitter should have a option that people who want's to follow you must write a small text for WHY you should let them follow you or the other way around - Qbat

Did you know that more than 90% of all statistics are made up? ;) - Tim Young

I'm getting tired of having to block the spam followers everyday. - Ron Hudson

Working on both FF and twitter - but FF is easier to follow comment threads - kathysd

What is interesting is I am already following most of the people who commented here which proves my point. - Robert Scoble

I was carefully looking at this list the other day http://spinn3r.com/rank... - turns out many people on it barely/if at all - use friendfeed. - Nir Ben Yona

Can you guys slow down - I can't keep up :( - Al Fuller

I think Twitter and FF provide different things and there is space on the internet for both :) - Tom Griffin

I've had friendfeed for quite a while, but I've not used it much, how do I expand this chat? - Ron Hudson

How does this post check for bots? - Amit Morson

Followers can not be useless. At least you can be proud of the sheer scale. And I believe, you don't want to have a conversation with thousands people at once. That would be truly useless. - Grigori Milov

I am here with you - I think it is that only half want to have a say. - Robert Freeze

On Twitter I talk strangers V on Friendfeed I am among friends - Asgeir

I'd like twitter to have a "report spam" button, this would avoid quite a lot of hassle... - don manu

Ron: just click on comments link under the topic - Qbat

ya like that! thanks. How do I do that? - Ron Hudson

Why is it important that followers comment & discuss U2, @Scobleizer? BC U R green? - Petter Griph

Amit: bots don't follow directions from people who are not their owners. No bots here. - Robert Scoble

FriendFeed should get a comment button under all the comments - Qbat

So, 47% will choose to do their own thing and not comment on here. Wait - what? Doh! And 65% won't read the comments that have already been made because there are already 'too many' :-D - Andy Bold

Qbat: click on the time under the post and open it in a new window - Robert Freeze

Andy: I'm in the 35% that read the comments. Didn't want my lame joke to be a REPEATED lame joke. :D - Tim Young

Robert Freeze: aaah.! Thank you =) - Qbat

Robert: unless perhaps the bot has directions to comment on every Scoble post? - Brian Sullivan

This reminds me of that "following directions" test from grade school. 1. Read all instructions before beginning. (2 -> N-1). Lots of crazy instructions which we all did. N. Don't do any of the previous instructions. Turn the page over, write your name, and wait. - Don Faulkner

Robert Freeze, that never worked for me - Amit Morson

Go watch Perez Hilton's video about being beaten up last night and going on techcrunch - Mark

time for a pint :-p - tony bland

Robert Freeze that worked. that should be labeled a bit better - Ron Hudson

Andy: I didn't tell you to read all the comments! :-) - Robert Scoble

If I reply here that I think it's less than 53% I may actually prove myself wrong. So be it. - Arnd Jan Gulmans

Should be a rewind and play button so you can play back all the comments.. like google wave - Qbat

Lots of users are already on the service but, under utilize it. Really still don't understand how powerful the service is or how to use the filtering system. - Eric Logan

And how many minutes/comments-in does the Scobalizer stop reading the comments? Opps, I just see that we are not supposed to "read" to comments...only discuss them. - Stephen Price

Thats cause they were busy seeing what I am doing!! LOL, your not the only person bossing people around. - T.S. Elliott

How big is the percentage of your followers that doesn't follow you? - Arnd Jan Gulmans

I love Friend Feed! - Robert Freeze

Click here for 101 ways to get rich ... Woooops, sorry wrong percentage group. - Chris Spencer

The reason I don't use friendfeed very much is because there is no SocialScope support on my blackberry. As soon as I can get a sweet blackberry app I'll be here more. - Ron Hudson

Now if I can just get my mom on here. http://www.building43.com/blogs... - Robert Freeze

I don't want to be in the wrong group. :P - Sheryl

Ron: http://fftogo.com - Tom Griffin

Tim: I'm a 65%er :) Though I am now in the 13.9% that skim comments to see what's going on. And also in the 29.4% of people managing to find replies to their comments in the Scobleflow. Definitely in the 100% of people wanting a Comment link at the end of each conversation since I moved back to Safari. Oh, and also in the 100% of people who take conversations off topic while making up statistics. - Andy Bold

Done, in. - Thom Kennon

Tom Griffin, I saw that, and it's "usable" but it's nowhere near the elegance and simplicity of say UberTwitter,SocialScope, or TweetGenious. I use SocialScope. It is an absolute Killer app. - Ron Hudson

Do I get partial credit for skimming the comments? No? Sorry, master. - malackey

Cool, so, I'm in the 47%, 35%, 29.4%, 100% and 100% ranges! I'm all over the place. Thanks Scoble and Andy for helping me learn something new about myself. - Tim Young

I see the "224 more comments" bit on FF and know I don't need to add another comment. Erm... - Ian Betteridge

FFtogo doesn't auto-refresh - Ron Hudson

To follow or not to follow, or to passive follow versus have an active conversation? - Peter Simoons

More stats: 41% will miss Robert's reply to them in the reply flood, 26% will see it and not answer, 22% will have ADD (the tech curse) and already be doing something else, and 1% will see the reply and see it as an excuse to make up some more statistics. (And reply that I definitely have not read all the comments ;-) ) - Andy Bold

It's all about the user experience though - it's easier to comment to someone's question on Twitter by quickly clicking @ than click a link through to FF, faff about sizing the screen on the screen to wait for the comments to load, read them and then post, so yeah, I can see why many respond on Twitter than FF. I'm doing that more myself as currently very busy with work projects. This... more... - Sally Church

And, somewhere in the horde, somebody will belatedly realise that he somehow manages to fall into Robert Scoble's "useful" list. Darn it - will need to post more signal and less noise now! ;) - Andy Bold

I refuse to fall prey to this ruse, Robert. Oh...wait... ;) - Robert J Taylor

I added you to my Live acct weeks ago. No reply. - Bret

I'm too sleepy to read all this right now. - Daniel Zarick

clever early morning link-bait - Jake Ludington

nice one :) you should do an NHST on that hahaha - The Pageman

They should change that from "followers" to something like "watchers" or "subscribers". As in "I have a subscription to the Scoble lifestream." - Steve Lynch from twhirl

discuss (Would hate to be useless) - Charlie Anzman

So is this a casual social experiment to determine rough percentages of active/rabid users who like to engage/participate with those they follow? - Eden Hensley

I completely agree! Unfortunately I might be considered part of that 53%! The only reason I am responding is because someone else I follow re-tweeted it. I personally have over 5000 followers but only regularly interact with 50 or so. Isn't Social Media about conversation and being engaging? Hmmm...... - Robert Dominguez

Robert: Very interesting experiment, one should use there own judgment over there (twitter) regarding bots and spammers. - Eran Even-Kesef

@Scoble: I'm listening. What are you going to say, or what did I miss? - Jason Cronkhite from Alert Thingy

It is a direction. Anybody must walk all alone ... so, what is the point? - bishoph

same here, most people don't read - Michael Reese

Smile and wave boys, smile and wave:) - Rick Bucich

I too am tired of blocking spam followers on twitter... - W_B_K

great man！！no protect update.... and i just follow ..i 'd like be the unless fllower..lol~~ - HealingBrush

Not being a bot, I am compelled to follow directions. - Randall Fink

I am useless :-( - Andrew

Re blackberry access, try http://friendfeed.com/iPhone - it's supposed to look good on BB too - Andy Bold from email

Andy Bold, I played with iPhone page too, but it's just a pain to have to open the browser. The blackberry environment is all about easy simple communication. If I have to jump through hoops it breaks down. Not to mention a friend feed experience without push is not a friendfeed experience.\ - Ron Hudson

99% of your followers will not read the 250 comments proceeding this one, and I am one of those 99% - Steve C

That'll teach me for ignoring Twitter for a few minutes a couple of hours ago! Late as usual. - Graham Stewart

Hey, much better here! Twitter sux.... after getting locked out of @freddavis for months with NO reply from Twitter, even after you tweeted @ev and @biz (thanks!)... so I my new Twitter name is @fucktwtr ... but much better to use FriendFeed! - Fred Davis

I almost thought that you have a big ego. :) - Shuuro

followers are for cults. twitter should change to readers/reading, because at the end of the day this is all about reading - Jim Posner

Adding my opinion to the rollcall, though I've just realized that i actually have no opinion on this. - Chris Foley

Clever. :-) - Patrick Ward

To much noise, the good data is lost. - Adam Mesenbrink

Yes to much noice. Maybe a way to mark comments as good could be a way to filter the comments. - Daniel Graversen

Adam, I think that's a limitation with the threaded discussion model of FriendFeed - it becomes very, very difficult to follow a conversation once it goes beyond a hundred or so comments. Of course, Scoble will come up with a search filter which makes it easy in about three comments from now, just to prove I'm wrong... :) - Ian Betteridge

I didn't realize followers were supposed to do what their followees said. Does that mean I have to open those links to help me make money on twitter? I was just using it for communication. Silly me. - RobinDotNet

Robin: communication takes someone on the other side listening and talking back. - Robert Scoble

Useless to YOU, perhaps. I'll bet they are getting value from the info you rpovide. Social media doesn't have to be about communication, it can be about "transmitting information" or some other morer restrcitive definition of what goes on. Some people just like to listen! - Jim Tierney

Useful post :) - Krishnamoorthy

Agreed! There are those like me who sit in shadows, read and do not comment... oh wait, crap! - Danny F Santos

Talking back is definitely good, but I'm still not clicking on those links telling me I can make money on twitter. I do talk back to people (as evidenced here). :-) So you have a lot of followers who don't. Do they even tweet? Can anyone explain why people join twitter and don't tweet? - RobinDotNet

Jim: I'm not a broadcast, though. Are people who just consume really useful? - Robert Scoble

And BTW, if you don't realize the value your personal brand gets from having those 48,000 followers whether they reply back or not, you're missing something! - Jim Tierney

Robin: people are used to consuming info and not talking back. I understand that. Jim: there is some value in having lots of consumers, yes. I just aspire to more. - Robert Scoble

lucky you that non all of them have an active role in your FF... how can you think of have an interaction wth so many people? - Paolo Galli from IM

I think you math is waaaaaaaay off. Looks like somewhere around 0.3125%(300/96,000 - rounding up) of your followers are useful, meaning you should edit your comment to say 99.7% of your followers. Really makes me wonder the true value of twitter if one of the top uses gets this percentage of useful following. The other possibility is that as followers increase, the percentage of attentive/usefull/whatever-you-want-to-call-it decreases. - Robert D. Fraser

Paolo: I've had interactions with tens of thousands of people here on friendfeed, just not all at the same time. Robert: you're right. :-) - Robert Scoble

Do you think those non-tweeting-twitterers sit at their desk and read all the tweets coming across? Or are they looking for something specific. - RobinDotNet

Scoble: You are asking questions and experimenting with stuff that I find interesting. Just reading through this thread provides some interesting insights into users' perspectives on Twitter. - Matthew Schrock

Is that southeastweb thing from a bot or some kind? - RobinDotNet

Robin: I think it's a spammer. But at least it's a spammer that follows directions. That said I think I'm going to block it. - Robert Scoble

Blocked. - Robert Scoble

Scoble you really can do it? I'm very impressed :) I'm jocking... I think many users on the web just read information but doesn't partecipate... it's to difficult ;) - Paolo Galli from IM

97.2% of all statistics are made up. - Jason A. Nunnelley

Tekany: and the statistics that aren't made up can mislead. :-) - Robert Scoble

Seeing a spammer blocked just makes me feel warm all over. It's so awesome. - RobinDotNet

I am exceptionally useless. - Geoff Schultz

Geoff: that's why I follow you! :-) - Robert Scoble

Following instructions is way overrated - Joelle Nebbe (iphigenie)

That's what I'll have on my next business card: Scoble found me useful, what about you ? - Antoine Bertier

RTFM or GTFO said the BOFH. - Jon Winters

I like threads like this. As well as pointing out who it may be useful for me to subscribe, that I haven't already, you get the occasional comment that allows you to increase your "People blocked" count by 100%... - Andy Bold from email

Although at this point I would welcome someone giving me instructions as to the next steps in life - far too many options. Maybe I should crowdsource it, but I am certain not to like the results - Joelle Nebbe (iphigenie)

Robert: To be honest, I think sometimes folks are intimidated by the breadth of knowledge that you and others on FF seem to have and your ability to engage in discussions. They may feel that they need to say something 'brilliant' or not say anything. I will admit that that I fell into that category up until recently. To your (and others') credit, once I took the plunge I found that this wasn't the case. You guys still know WAY more than I do, but that's one of the reasons I'm here - to learn! - Alex Hellstrom

@scobleizer you crack me up sometimes! There, see this post went to you in both places... But I don't really feel like discussing it... ;-P - Walt Ruppar

Walt: heh. - Robert Scoble

LOL! Great job of being satirical! You have a lot of great followers. :) - James Stratford

Just sayin I could follow directions and discuss here if I wanted, but not interested in this discussion. However it did make me laugh that you called 53% of your followers out on not being able to follow directions. - Walt Ruppar

Alex, uhm like totally and stuff ... and uhm. Ya know. Cool. - Jason Nunnelley

BTW: where'd you see my reply come in from first? FF or as a mention over on twiiter? - Walt Ruppar

Walt: here on friendfeed. - Robert Scoble

Robert, you dropped your twitter response button. Makes sense, but was it purely to reduce redundancy? - Jason Nunnelley

viewing people as "useful" is problematic..useful to who?..tools are "useful'...people not so much...helpful may be a more precise word. - Jim Posner

Jim, wordsmith! - Jason Nunnelley

Hi - Tyler (Chacha)

.LOLz...great thread! - .LAG liked that

Twitter to me seems a big mess of information, I can't keep up with it! FF sorts the mess out nicely and without the spam. I much prefer FF. - Matthew Davis

Jim: you're right of course. I was just trying to be an egotistical bbbaaaahhhhssssttttaaaarrrrrdddd to get a conversation going. Jason: what did I drop? I didn't do it on purpose. - Robert Scoble

Damn it Robert, you got me to make an account here three days ago, what more can I do for you? ;-P - Shane Trammell

Robert, you are smart - Arvind

This is an easy way to get rid of bots. They don't have anything intelligent to share (like me)! - Carlton Prest

WTG sheeple for getting conned into commenting here... wait. um. - Scott Breakall

Robert, what if people want to reply and be engaging but don't feel like they have anything of value to say / to add to the discussion? - Wang Yip

Scott: Perhaps, but at least I un-liked it... - Walt Ruppar

Robert - what is the point of this? I took carrot... - Liza

Robert, I just put the lime in the coconut. Now what? - Sue Radd

Robert-Great discussion at 140, BTW. On another topic just watched the Perez Hilton video and trying to get my head around that rant..if you haven't seen it you should watch both sides of the feud with will.i.am. Interesting use of twitter and video to address insult/outrage. - Jim Posner

Sue, like it. - Liza

Yahoo Inbox: 178 messages. 132 are notifications of new comments here. Good job. :) - Tim Young

Ok now I "get" this FriendFeed experience. - Ron Hudson

lots of people commenting here--I wonder if it has to do with the time of day more than the topic - Brent R Jones

I have a fear of being useless. - Ron Wening

I hope I'm not within the 53% - Michela Cimnaghi /cimny

I follow Mr. Scoble, but I feel no particular obligation to be useful to him for anything. - Pat Rice from twhirl

Twitter rocks, but I'm starting to see more value in FriendFeed - Adam

I just drove from Pierre SD to Fort Totten ND, so I'm a little bit groggy. What exactly was I supposed to do to pass Robert Scoble's version of a Turing Test? Also, is it really important that people think I'm not a bot? I bet there is still money in AI. - Matthew McCowan

Is that percentage of useless followers greater or less on Twitter. (I think I can predict your answer!) - Curt Mercadante

"I would never want to belong to any club that would have someone like me for a member." - jacek

This thread is taking me a long time to read when I haven't had coffee yet today. - Jannifer @wordsforliving

So, my understanding is.. one who doesn't give 'directions' to his followers is useless too. Mmhhh! yeah - Thierry R. Andriamirado

Robert - there's nothing egotistical about it! I'd also be remiss if I didn't add that I get plenty of thought-provoking value from you even when in "read-only" mode. Understandably my usefulness to you is nil in those cases. However (and I'm echoing at least one other commenter here: IRONY ALERT) I've found that by the time I comment in this type of thread, my exact thoughts have... more... - Jim Tierney

I just hope Scobleizer never directs me to do something self-destructive. I hate it when that happens. - DGentry

I don't think lurker are useless :), I don't think number of followers have a great significance, Friendfeed is a Virtual Life Streaming, and in virtual life (as in real life) some people don't have a direction, they live (however i prefer LIVE with all capital letters, and have a direction!!!). - CantorJF

90% of community members lurk. - l0ckergn0me

Twitter has become useless for any sort of participation - Jorge Escobar

Really, you Are scaring - Eta from Nambu

here. - metalerik

Yay for the other 47%. - Colette

Does this post count as "discussing?" - Mark "DerBingle" J

So if we post here, are we teacher's pets? :) - Daynah

Members of the "TV Generation" are just not used to follow directions... (they sit and consume with chips&beer and maybe do some shopping via telephone - these are a well trained habits and hard to change)... - Arne Krueger

I thought I'd contribute further to this discussion... you're welcome. - Mark "DerBingle" J

I'm jumping up for another cup of tea, be right back... - Deborah E. Bifulco

There clearly comes a point of scale where FriendFeed fails to delivery clarity...nothing useful on the first screenful or last... does that mean that 47% of your followers are unable to provide significant value? - David Race

Will there be and end of this direction? Do we want to close directions? I think somewhen even directions become useless - Vedran Rudelj

delivering significant value to ff and/or the subscribers depends on the roi they get... some people are just not using it - as it is intendet to be used. so what!? - Arne Krueger

If technology fails you, next time you are in Memphis lets get together for lunch. Great value remains in human contact. - Jeff Milton

That is priceless - Keith - @tsudo

I am not a bot, I am huma ... wait, oh yeah, I am a bot .... never mind, back to being useless. - John

Bots are human too. - Thom Kennon

No one say anything useful, otherwise this will have meaning. - Liza from email

Liza: shhhh. Heheh. - Robert Scoble

I found this thread useful. - Mike Nencetti

Love these types of threads - quite enjoyable! - Jannifer @wordsforliving

Oh, yeah? - Baard @ Pixum

O Captain! My Captain! - Nicola Mattina

Commenting so I'm not included in the useless category... Also, I'd love to chat about this the next time you're around the FF office. - Ross Miller

There are 3 kinds of people in the world: 1. Those that follow Robert Scoble because he doesn't act like he's too good to talk to us. 2. Those that follow Robert Scoble because he is known to follow everyone back, and therefore he is good for "inflating" their follower count. 3. Those who have no idea why they are following Robert Scoble. - April Russo (app103)

4th type of person follows for great feeds that generate discussion on FF. - Mike Nencetti

April, you forgot the fourth category: 4. Those who don't subscribe to Robert Scoble but find far too many of his posts liked and commented by their friends. - Scott of Two Countries

But the only reason why Robert generates great discussions is because he is part of that discussion. He doesn't just drop & run, or only talk to people he thinks are "somebody", completely ignoring the rest of us. While he may have a big ego, it isn't so big that he thinks he's too good to have a real conversation with us. - April Russo (app103)

53%? That seems a generous estimate. - Rob Michael (Atmos Trio)

Rob: I have almost 42,000 followers here and 96,000 followers on Twitter, which comes out to 43%. Glad someone caught me on my math! :-) - Robert Scoble

My casual research indicates about 1% will respond. - Rob Michael (Atmos Trio)

I can't put my finger on it, but I feel somehow manipulated...? - Mark "DerBingle" J

even if they don't respond there is something to be said about passive observing- no? - michael sean wright

You call this a discussion? - Phil Boiarski

Phil: this is not a discussion. It's a lot of people following directions. :-) - Robert Scoble

Hi Robert, nice experiment! - Luis Enrique León

Aye aye Cap'n Scoble. Sorry I'm late but I just got done eating a plate of waffles in some diner in midtown NYC... - Aaron Strout

53% of your followers aren't followers in the sheep sense. That's a good thing. Lose the other 47% - C. K. Sample III

C. K. why must you self loathe on my thread? - Robert Scoble

I feel kind of funny. - Mike Nayyar

It's not easy being part of the 47% - Aidan Mann

I am not a sheep! Oh wait, maybe I am. - adam garrett

RS - The puppet master : ) - Mark Harai

I feel compelled to comment here... odd - Jan Ole Peek

Mark: who is the puppet master and who is the puppet? I'm answering you now. - Robert Scoble

Just following directions. Too many Mark's here though, I wish FF signed thing with our usernames. - manielse (Mark Nielsen)

You can change your display name any time by clicking on your name in the top right corner. - Mark

Robert: communication still occurs when unidirectional, surely the works of Socrates convey concepts to readers even today? - Mike Chelen

Wow! It wasn't till I finished reading through almost all the comments that I got what Robert was trying to say :) FF good, Twitter bad. But I can't complain since it was Leo Laportes constant references to FF that got me to join and Roberts comments that got me to try and really understand what FF is all about. Initially FF was a little overwhelming and the only reason I've stuck it through so far is because of the higher quality of content for a (mostly) passive FFer. - Anant Gairola

Writing that last comment took me 10 minutes! Really really wish there was a good FF iPhone application!!! - Anant Gairola

Anant: the content here keeps getting better as more and more people join (which is quite a few every week lately, my numbers are going up much faster here than on Twitter, the tides are starting to move). - Robert Scoble

baa baa - Kim Landwehr

I'm sorry... did you say something? - Sean

You have no Idea how tempting it is to reshare this - and discuss it over there >>>>>>>>>> - guruvan (Rob Nelson)

No rain, no rainbows.. - BryanSchuetz

FF is the only place I can dip into your content 'at will', Twitter is to noisy and makes me dig a lot further to see the flow of conversation and any associated references. - Threepwood

I like to lurk most of the time. I usually don't have much to add by the time I am able to read the whole thread. - Dan Douglass from Nambu

I'm with Dan (above). - Miss Elle from fftogo

Better late than never! - John Rubier

tag - Brian Daniel Eisenberg

Testing the maximum for FF comments? :P - Barbara

Are you happy with how friendfeed is developing? What would you change, if you were in control? I love the daily digests, I prefer something filtering the best content from those I follow - Ryan Singer

first post... wait. - Aaron Baer

following........ - sirishkumar

amazing post. - Guy Vander Heyden

Suivez moi? - Gordon Joly

Oui, monsieur Gordon ! Où allons nous ? - Brome

<----- not a bot so what percent does that make me? - Howell Selburn from BuddyFeed

bleet bleet - Sriks7

Master is our friend! - Rick Cogley

Adding myself to the list :) - TiTi

Why a follower must follow direction? :) - Christine Yang from BuddyFeed

Lead, follow or whatever...Info on Neda http://tinyurl.com/nm9xdn - JoWazzoo

:) - Tony

This is a wicked and interesting post on FriendFeed =) - Qbat

by the way some of my twitter followers complain that, like you, I redirect them to friendfeed on every post there. Some say I have to choose between the two and they will follow me there, but not on both services. - Kostantinos Koukopoulos

Kostantinos: it's an open question how best to interconnect FF and Twitter. remember that there are a wide range of options, including sending comments or posts, and sending posts automatically or manually. the feedback from readers is helpful if it can be used to find the right balance - Mike Chelen

53% of your followers will leave you and then what? insult the other 47%. You can't just say it that way. You need to treat your followers with respect. Especially when you are your biggest fan. People will leave you in a heartbeat. - Jack Scalfani

Be a nice little follower, and drink the damn kool-aid! - James

Robert Scoble

I changed my icon on Twitter and FriendFeed back to a green one to support Iran protesters.

June 21 - Comment - Like - Share

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I certainly hope that the oppression in Iran will be crushed Hulk-style and the will of the people prevails. - Obayoo

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Thank you to Thomas Hawk who made this photo of me (it was shot in FriendFeed's headquarters -- they have some "Hulk" gloves sitting on a table there. I put them on and Thomas shot this on the day they showed us the Real Time features). - Robert Scoble

I decided on putting some green in a selected area as the total green icons are just too hard on my eyes. I get it that people want something fast. I like that your face has a tad orange for contrast. :D - mrsha

Oh, Thank you - Farzad

Tnx a lot - Aly

I was wondering when you'd break that out. Nice Robert. - AJ Kohn

like for green wave! - "lefthanded"® as buddha

I didn't understand why you had done this originally until I saw that tool that does it a few days ago. http://ff.im/48sgQ - Peter Warnock

I like that it's an angry green icon. Seems appropriate on this day when I'm remembering Neda's father. - Robert Scoble

Peter: I didn't have it done. Thomas Hawk did it without me asking for it. - Robert Scoble

Peter: the original image is here: http://www.flickr.com/photos... - Robert Scoble

thx for supportT that's kind of u/ - TaaTaa

So the green overlay was coincidence? - Peter Warnock

Thank you and Happy Father's Day :) - αida®

Peter: yes. Thomas did that to make the photo more interesting and to try to make me look like the Incredible Hulk. - Robert Scoble

i was wondering when u were going to do that! awesome! - Jason Pollock

Always liked this icon :) - Jason Nunnelley

I made the face to his camera just goofing around while we were at FriendFeed's offices. - Robert Scoble

It's a perfect fit for this cause. - Peter Warnock

I did the same now - Qbat

Thank you very much - hachure

:) - guruvan (Rob Nelson)

I am happy to see this image. I liked it the first time that you had it. - Tamikka

Thanks for showing solidarity with US I appreciate it - امیرریدر

Thank you very much - IMohammad

THANKS A LOT ... - Viva Vida

Awesome Robert!!! - Bo Stern

Good going, Robert! (To Iranians reading this thread: You have my support, dear Iranian readers. My wishes are with you as you face this struggle, and my sincerest hope is that you prevail in creating the change you want.) - James (!?)

This will not make any scene! - FFTornado

I was wondering how long it was going to take to get the green hulk back up in support. - Luke Kilpatrick

Bravo Robert ! thanks for your effective support to Iran by recommending all of us tools like FF that make us less blind and ignorant. - Harscoat

Robert I have been thinking of: Neda, people who want to "be heard", raising awareness to influence change, and the green overlay on our icon... Why don't we do a "Web Neda's day" vs a "minute of silence" by putting all an overlay of Green on our websites for 24 h (a little bit like Google put a different logo once in a while on its home page) . Her name was Neda, you explained it means "beautiful Voice". Robert You are the incredible hulk, I am sure you could be the one turning the web in green for 1 day. - Harscoat

Robert Scoble

Happy Father's Day. My thoughts are with one father. Here's who and why:

June 21 - Comment - Like - Share

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My worst nightmare is losing one of my own sons in front of my eyes. Yesterday we saw a father hold his daughter as she died in the most horrific way I could imagine. Those images kept me from sleeping well last night. Neda is her name. Her dad was holding her as she died. He named her Neda, which means "beautiful voice." Yesterday his beautiful voice was silenced. Today he is the father I'm thinking of. - Robert Scoble

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Yes, her eyes looking up at the camera and father repeating "stay with me" strike to the core of life (and death) - Ronald Barnett

"We make a few simple points about the events transpiring over the past week in Iran. The Iranian regime is an evil tyranny. It supports terrorists and terrorism. The United States has a debt of honor to settle with it for the kidnapping and mistreatment of American hostages thirty years ago. That disgrace is not simply a matter of history. It is a disgrace in which Iran's execrable president personally participated. We remember." -- http://www.powerlineblog.com/archive... - Craig Eddy

She has become the face of an entire generation in Iran. I can't even imagine being this father. His daughter's face is going to be lots of places he looks and it won't be a pretty smiling face, but the one we all saw on YouTube yesterday. That's not how I'd like to remember my sons, if that ever happened to me. - Robert Scoble

Craig: I've been thinking about that too. Iran has sacrificed any moral authority it had to tell USA off. Now we see how brutal its government is. - Robert Scoble

Seeing her [Neda] look directly in the camera for her last breath was more sad & horrifying than seeing all the blood rush out of her seconds later. My heart broke at that moment. - Michael J. Carrasquillo

Michael: yup. And she, at that moment, became the face of Iran's new generation and -- I believe -- changed the world forever in a way thousands of deaths couldn't. But what a father's sacrifice it took. - Robert Scoble

Here is a comment by a spectator "At 19:05 June 20th Place: Karekar Ave., at the corner crossing Khosravi St. and Salehi st. A young woman who was standing aside with her father watching the protests was shot by a basij member hiding on the rooftop of a civilian house. He had clear shot at the girl and could not miss her. However, he aimed straight her heart. I am a doctor, so I rushed... more... - Amiroo ™

Amiroo: that is another thing that has changed. The fact that so many of us have the ability to tell the world about what we are experiencing and show it to others via video has changed the world in ways we are just starting to understand. - Robert Scoble

It's a terrible tragedy for any father to witness the death of his own children. May their sacrifices make it all the more less likely that more people have to suffer in the same ways. This shows that no longer can governments hide tyranny with repression of the people. The people will be heard, and their voices will change the world. Yes Robert, this changed the world forever in ways that a war with thousands of deaths could never. This is much more personal, to anyone who sees it. - guruvan (Rob Nelson)

She knew the risk she was taking by being on the street, and thus even by 'standing aside' was taking part. “Those who join the battle are all in the front lines” - Aaman (Clone of FF)

no doubt about it. Now we all can feel the importance of UGC for the future of our world. If we don't have these social movements around you may not even know about the things happening in Iran. (remember CNNFail!?) - Amiroo ™

Michael: for me as well, it was her eyes looking (or not) that has stayed with me vs. the bloodied image at the end. - Ronald Barnett

Aaman: all those who go on the streets are brave. My wife's relatives in Iran all say they haven't left their homes since Saturday. - Robert Scoble

Aaman:There's no battle, there is one sided murder - Amiroo ™

What stayed with me the most is the father's reaction. That was truly horrifying. - Leon Freyermuth

Amiroo: There is one sided murder, but that doesn't mean there is no battle. Those people in the streets are battling plenty. - guruvan (Rob Nelson)

My father used to say, to be willing to achieve anything, you have to be willing to pay any price. - Aaman (Clone of FF)

Aaman: Your father was right - guruvan (Rob Nelson)

Rob: yes but we hope they don't. The only possible way to win this is by silent resistance (you know like Gandhi). There's isn't any winner when violence steps in. - Amiroo ™

Amiroo: Neda wasn't violent. She was silent and her "crime" was just being in the streets. That's one reason her image has even more power. If she had been violent her image wouldn't have had as much power. - Robert Scoble

Robert, I need to post your first comment. It is heartbreaking, thoughtful and filled with compassion! - Myrna

Yeah that's the way to go though such a sad way unfortunately - Amiroo ™

Happy father's day to you too :) - FFTornado

Robert is correct, and that is the sort of non-violent protest that starts and completes great movements. I have not seen many images of violent protesters. I have seen an image of protesters caring for a wounder policeman though. This IS the behavior that the likes of Ghandi taught. To engage in true non-violence protest, you must be willing to pay any price. - guruvan (Rob Nelson)

Amiroo: It is unbelievably sad, but the power that she and her father bring to this struggle, may just be the power that's necessary to avoid any further large scale conflict, either between the people of Iran and their government, or between the US (or Israel) and Iran. We can hope. - guruvan (Rob Nelson)

Rob:Hopefully, but the anger that this may generate between people may lead to violent acts and slogans that actually I think the government needs to block them. I really hope people continue that way they did till now - Amiroo ™

Amiroo: I cannot agree with your statement "I think the government needs to block them" . That is precisely the problem, is the governments around the world trying to dictate what their people can say, do, and watch, and listen to. That is precisely the problem in Iran today. I pray that that image doesn't lead to more violence, but I also understand that at a certain point, there is a necessity to fight fire with fire. Let's pray that the government of Iran can see the light before the violence escalates. - guruvan (Rob Nelson)

Rob:If it goes that way it won't be any fight fire with fire it will be punch with fire - Amiroo ™

Amiroo: Don't underestimate the power of the people, and don't overestimate the loyalty of the military to the government. Often it is the combination of these two factors that make violence all the more unnecessary. - guruvan (Rob Nelson)

Robert Your powerful comment of Neda's face not being what her father wants to remember recalled for me a recent case right here in the USA of a family that has made desperate efforts to get their daughter's fatal car accident photos off the Internet which were leaked by the police. What is this saying about us and our use of the Internet? It's the same argument that was brought against... more... - Melanie Reed

Melanie: I am a free speech advocate. While I would not like it, I am going to defend it. Her face has become one of the iconic images of this struggle. How much has it changed the world? But yes, free speech is not always fun and games. I have to defend speech that often is objectionable if I am to defend our first amendment. - Robert Scoble

this moment is the perfect time to remind everyone that the most successful resistance is the kind that allows you to live for another day; to _continue_ the fight. yes, there are times when tragic things happen, but this is _not_ the goal. martyrdom is not success. i know this video will reverberate around the world. i only hope the proper message will accompany it, too. - MikeAmundsen

Rob:Well the problem is most (if not all) of this violence hasn't made by typical military forces, there are lots of so called Basij forces which are in the same side with the government also I think even if it succeed by fighting violently there would be such a big price to pay - Amiroo ™

Robert, I am as well. Ironically, I am in the midst of writing a piece on this to expose a particular rhetoric that cuts it off. However, as with all things, there is always a line that protects us from extremes (which are very horrific things) while protecting that freedom of speech we cherish. Any freedoms we have, if not exercised with love, become in themselves a prison to ourselves and to those who are hurt by their corrupt exercise. - Melanie Reed

Amiroo: Then let's ensure that all our own thoughts are on the side of success without violence. The more people that think about a given outcome (and talk about it, etc) the more likely that is to become the truth. - guruvan (Rob Nelson)

Would like to second the early comment about Iran's leaderships lost ability to claim moral authority of any kind. Its clear their oppressive government is more than willing to use brutal, thoughtless, violence to keep control. Imagine what they would do to the world with a nuke. They may not have ordered her killing but they built their power on the backs of brutal militias willing to do it and have not called them back. - James Watters

Good G*d, I didn't know that was her father with her. That is just heartbreaking. :..( - Laserone

:( Happy father's day to you, and god bless your sons:( - Mahyaa مه‌یا

I too would like to add to the heart felt comments left here. Nothing quite brings it home more than seeing that innocent young woman lose her life like that. I only viewed it the once as I felt it was wrong to want to view a second time and felt almost voyeuristic in the worst way imaginable. It was brutal, sad and upsetting. Let us think of her family at this time aside from all the politics. - Kevin J Hatton

Harscoat

Jemima Kiss talks to Google co-founder Sergey Brin | Technology | The Guardian - http://www.guardian.co.uk/technol...

June 22 from Bookmarklet - Comment - Like - Share

"It's important not to overstate the benefits of ideas," he says. "Quite frankly, I know it's kind of a romantic notion that you're just going to have this one brilliant idea and then everything is going to be great. But the fact is that coming up with an idea is the least important part of creating something great. It has to be the right idea and have good taste, but the execution and delivery are what's key."a comment - Harscoat from Bookmarklet

Robert Scoble

The girl who died this morning in Iran died for a simple human need: to be heard. I will think about her every tweet I do for the rest of my life.

June 20 - Comment - Like - Share

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Do we take our rights to free speech for granted? Yes we do. No more. - Robert Scoble

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Bet you have the most likes on this thread Robert! Tears.... - Myrna

Also taken for granted: Access to technology. - Justin Hopkins

Thank you, Robert. I will remember too. - Mike Lewis

Re-read the FIrst Amendment of the US constitution, and be thankful that there is separation of church & state. - Donald Wilson

Don't forget to think about the few million people who are going to die from hunger this year too: http://www.google.com/hostedn... - Sergi

@Donald Huh? - Dave "Freedom 35"

It's over for the Mullahs now. - Mike R

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances. - Donald Wilson

I just saw the video. I'm not sharing it here, but I'll remember it for the rest of my life. I really have no words. - Orli Yakuel

Thanks Robert, sometimes we forget what means to be FREE! - Simone Lovati from BuddyFeed

Heart wrenching!! - Donald Wilson

Simone: being free is not the same as being heard. The Iranians aren't fighting for freedom. They are fighting to have their voices listened to. The guy they are supporting isn't all that great either, if you look into his past and, anyway, above them is a religiously-run government. A fight for a free Iran will play out another day. This fight is simply to be heard. That's what that girl died for this morning. - Robert Scoble

No Robert! This is the key point! They are not free to speak, they are not free to say NO and for this reason they are not be heard! - Simone Lovati from BuddyFeed

Simone: that makes sense, I agree, that if they were heard they would be free. I'd rather focus on what they want, rather than pushing American values, though. Freedom is gained step by step. Heck, even here in the United States we aren't completely free and aren't completely being listened to. Just try to get a gay marriage, for instance. - Robert Scoble

I agree sometimes people just forget there is always someone worse off than you... Life is crazy.. - Chris Henderson

Hi Robert why aren't you in Green overlay for your icon? (or in your hulk icon). I think it is simple to show the world we are green in support of free Iran election. but maybe I miss sthg you know as you are more up to date on the situation than many of us. - Harscoat

Harscoat: because being green isn't going to help anything. I'd rather spend the time building better searches and trying to find more information. - Robert Scoble

We should all # her name but what was it - Michael Mooney

Thanks Robert. I agree with what you say. For me being green just show the people in Iran in a very simple visual manner that we are in thoughts with them. This is only a first and not very concrete step I agree... and we should do more in sincere and respectful memory of this women of Iran... This image of the abyssal waste of a life, her life is devastating. - Harscoat

Harscoat: Then why are you not green? - guruvan (Rob Nelson)

LOL Rob, she's green on twitter. Hey CNN person calling in from Iran just said he uses FF, fb and twitter. - Myrna

sorry Rob not on ff but I am green on twitter... - Harscoat

Harscoat, same with me. Just changed to green avatar on twitter. Don't know why I didn't on FF. - Myrna

Robert: I don't necessarily agree. It helps people ask "why are you green?" And people who weren't paying attention (because it wasn't in the news spotlights) are because they noticed that /everyone/ was green. I am green on Twitter/FF/FB. - guruvan (Rob Nelson)

Totally agreed Robert, locally i hear continuous arguments whether the opposition in Iran is any different regarding Nukes or Politics. My only reply was that it's not the issue now, Iranians simply yearn liberty and freedom of speech that we were born with. The opposition has progressive views about freedom and the people deserve our support. With all that said, i personally fear the... more... - Majento

Every tweet we make (for good or ill) is possible because of the sacrifices of those who came before us (great or small). We did not earn these freedoms. They are a gift given to us without merit. In many ways, those who are on the streets of Tehran today have earned the very freedoms that we casually discount. I am grateful that someone like myself has been given the many gifts necessary to speak freely about the issues I care about - whether noble or ignoble. - Lorin Olsen

Leo Laporte

#helpiranelection - show support for democracy in Iran add green overlay to your Twitter avatar with 1-click - http://helpiranelection.com/

June 17 from Twitter - Comment - Like - Share

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Here's a great collection of green avatars to use too http://bit.ly/green4iran - Karoli

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Why green? - Johnny Worthington

I just want to give a shout out to John Marmie! His moon project launched today! Congrats! I hope you find water! - Jennifer Ragde

@leolaporte do you think those of us who, knowing how to but, don't add green overlay are less supportive or less sheep? - lelapin

Because green is the color of Islam but also the color of hope. It is a good sign that Islam and hope should not be the monopoly of the fundamentalists. - Harscoat

سلام ، خوشحال هستيم كه شما را به عنوان خواهر و برادر در كنار خود داريم . مردم ايران با رنگ سبز پيروز مي شوند http://translate.google.com/... - به نریمان گوش بده

It is also the colour of the opposition party. I was asking because I wasn't sure if turning green was in support of democracy or just the opposition party. - Johnny Worthington

Green is support of the opposition party. Those who say otherwise ARE the opposition party :) - Joel Bennett

As Jerry would say "not that there's anything wrong with that" but I still don't understand Americans jumping into the fray. - Joel Bennett

Loic Le Meur

@al3x just post it, risk is 0 if you do not execute them, ideas have no value just execution matters

June 14 from Twitter - Comment - Like - Share

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1/ @al3x question // is it better than a concept exists because you talked about it, even if eventually it is not you who gets credit _ 2/ @loic // the ones who execute should be the ones to get credit _ 3/ maybe people like @al3x would share more often their many business/hack ideas, if the ones executing would mention more often these 1st ones for inspiring them in the first place... - Harscoat

Harscoat

The Internet is closed today so... http://www.flickr.com/photos... (via http://friendfeed.com/loic...)

June 12 - Comment - Like - Share

click on the photo to expand - Harscoat

Chris Brogan

When You Are Engulfed in Flames - http://www.flickr.com/photos...

June 1 from Flickr - Comment - Like - Share

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cool cover: "skeleton with cigarette" Van Gogh Museum Amsterdam - Harscoat

I love that book - Amanda Mooney

Loic Le Meur

waking up to the breaking news of the lost Air France flight with 228 people on board http://edition.cnn.com/2009...

June 1 from Twitter - Comment - Like - Share

so sad :( tout en espérant qu'il y aura autant de survivants que possible - Harscoat

Sad :'( - David Damore

I agree, very sad indeed. - Heather

Jason Calacanis

@twittsburgh how many internet comapanies are there in the 'burgh?!? Hard for startups to get press is my point about smaller cities.no dig.

June 1 from Twitter - Comment - Like - Share

@JasonCalacanis @twittsburgh there is VIVISIMO. - Harscoat

Robert Scoble

How close were we to the planes (F-18s) taking off from the #Nimitz ? This close! (Video) - http://www.flickr.com/photos...

May 31 from Bookmarklet - Comment - Like - Share

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We were literally in between rows of F-18s taking off from the USS Nimitz. - Robert Scoble from Bookmarklet

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Wow! - Jim Connolly

EWoah! - Bas

WOW! Robert you are a lucky guy! :) - TheHenry

Wow isn't even close to describing how cool this is. Plus, over video you can't experience the noise, the wind, the jet fuel smell, and the full HD experience (behind us planes are launching too, and there's just stuff happening all over when you're on the flight deck). - Robert Scoble

I am surprised they let you get that close! Especially that second vid with the arresting wires just in front of your feet! - Robert

You are the coolest !! - Eddie Wayne

Robert: I was surprised too. Eddie, no, the pilots are the coolest. The skill (and confidence) it takes to land one of these at night is just freaking amazing. We got to hang out with the Pilots at night and they are really cool people. I gave each one a Poken and we had a lot of fun with that. - Robert Scoble

Clearly they're not running background checks like they used to. ;) - Brett Schulte

"...and the full HD experience..." That's real life high def right there. - Dave "Freedom 35"

What did you use for video, Robert? Did the mic survive? :-O - Ken Sheppardson

Does that look fun or what? - Colin

Incredible video. Now I have Danger Zone playing in my head. What an awesome experience you all had. Mahalo for sharing! - Nathan Kam

Ken: I was using a Canon 5D MKII with a 70-200 F2.8 lens for these with a R0DE microphone. The mic survived just fine. Colin: it was a total blast, but the highlight of the trip was taking off from the ship. What a rush and one that I'll never be able to totally explain. One of the guys just called it "dynamic." That about nails it. ;-) - Robert Scoble

Incredible Robert but what was the occasion? Not just anybody can have this experience. - Colin Clarke

Wow, what a video. - Mike Doeff

I think this would be one thing I would like to do before I die! - petar vucetin

My dad was stationed on the Nimitz when I was little (he was a fighter pilot). I remember touring it as a kid and being amazed. - mikepk

You need to add "Highway to the Danger Zone" as your soundtrack… - Mistletoe Glen

Very Cool. - John D Reasor

Ken: actually I was using a 16-35 F2.8 L series lens for most of the videos. Colin: the Navy brings many press and VIPs on board for this kind of "embark." The Navy is getting into Twitter and friendfeed and other social media and wanted us to get an upclose look at the ship and what 5,000 Navy sailors do while at sea. They know they can't do public tours so they bring people on board who can show off what they do to other people. Hope I did OK as your proxy. - Robert Scoble

Robert, in this case I wish I didn't have a proxy :) Hopefully that day will come some day. - Amit Nangare

It won't match being on a live aircraft carrier, of course, but the USS Midway is docked permanently in San Diego as a museum and open to the general public. http://www.midway.org/ - Frank Scavo

"Dynamic" ! - Harscoat

One more video that makes me feel compelled telling my accountant I really _need_ this camera... No 24p yet, but those are some damn fine lenses you can get, and not a hint of the "rolling shutter" syndrome, at least on not-close inspection. - Oskar Lissheim-Boethius

Way cool! How did your lungs handle the jet exhaust? - Jim Lavin

Jim: it didn't bother me too much. Being in a smoky bar is far worse. - Robert Scoble

Dude I am x Navy that brings back memories... Go Scoble - Chris Henderson

I was expecting to hear Kenny Loggins Danger Zone or some other Top Gun music as the bachground music. :-) Cool Video! - John Wallace

amazing opportunity - trying not to be too jealous ;) - Andrew Clinick

Makes me jealous, I've always wanted to be on a flightdeck of a carrier during operations. - Jim Lavin

Jim: it's always been a dream of mine too. I've gone to many an airshow and always wanted to get on deck to see them shoot off a plane. The fact that I got to witness about 40 launches, a good many of them at night (those pictures didn't come out so well) was just a great thrill. Keep dreaming, sometimes dreams come true! - Robert Scoble

I spent 10 years in the Air Force as a weather forecaster and I always loved to set out on the flight line and watch the jets take off. It is so fantastic to see them go from a dead stop to straight up in no time at all. Thanks for sharing the video and pics, you always seem to have so many neat things to share! - Jim Lavin

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Living Abroad link to increased creativity : The Frontal Cortex - http://scienceblogs.com/cortex...

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First, living abroad can allow individuals access to a greater number of novel ideas and concepts, which can then act as inputs for the creative process. Second, living abroad may allow people to approach problems from different perspectives. For example, in some cultures (e.g., China), leaving food on one's plate is an implicit sign of appreciation, implying that the host has provided enough to eat. In other countries (e.g., the United States) the same behavior may often be taken as an insult, a condemnation of the quality of the meal. Thus, those with experience living in foreign countries should be more likely to recognize that the same form (i.e., surface behavior) may have different functions (i.e., meanings) in different cultures. Third, experiences in foreign cultures can increase the psychological readiness to accept and recruit ideas from unfamiliar sources, thus facilitating the processes of unconscious idea recombination. - Harscoat from Bookmarklet

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Which person is making biggest contributions to the 2010Web? I'm making a list, see it here:

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Here's the list: http://spreadsheets.google.com/pub... I need your help in improving it! How did I make this list? I scoured my business cards and my contact list and we brainstormed and came up with this list of 325 people. It's just a starting point. - Robert Scoble

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The green lines, by the way, are people who are on friendfeed. That tells me whether they are really exploring the 2010web or not. - Robert Scoble

Got any other people who should be on this list? Let me know here. - Robert Scoble

Over the next few days this list will get dramatically longer and better. - Robert Scoble

*waving* hey Robert. have you met Xiao Fengjin? Founder of Linkool Labs behind the Juice app. http://www.linkool.biz/ and her Twitter http://twitter.com/xiaofengjin -- try not to base opinion to heavily on FriendFeed use. You'll miss out on some cool folks overseas not using it. :) - So Much More Hawaii

Some on this list are journalists/bloggers. Some are very techie/developers. Some are marketers. Some are VCs. Some are entrepreneurs. Some are CEOs. Some are researchers. Some are power users who are pushing the web in interesting ways. I am looking to build a diverse group of people who are pushing the 2010web forward. - Robert Scoble

I don't know exactly who are the folks who are doing it - but the people who are making the great "detect your browser and if a mobile browser, show a well made, fully functional but mobile browser friendly version of the site" (see Gawker's site on an iphone for example) are among those making a big impact on the 2010 web - Shannon Clark

I suspect the people who will are not on the list yet - they are in china, india, or perhaps south africa or denmark and not on the Anglo Saxon radar - Joelle Nebbe (iphigenie)

So Much More Hawaii: I agree. I'm off to look through my Twitter and Facebook lists next. Joelle: that's why I'm asking here, so the list gets better. - Robert Scoble

Good point by Shannon - fixing what's there might be a bigger impact, but it will never be recognised as such. - Joelle Nebbe (iphigenie)

But everyone on this list will eventually be on friendfeed. Why? Because I'm building a private group to discuss some stuff with them. That'll help us all eventually. - Robert Scoble

*ack* that was me Robert. So Much More Hawaii aka Christine Lu. (i'm in Hawaii this week for Hawaii Tourism Authority) :D -- anyways, previous comment still stands. Go through all the folks you met in China last year. oh and the Poken folks. they're up to cool stuff beyond what they have on the market right now. - Christine Lu

Robert, send you a request to add some people in mobile 2.0 area. - Rudy De Waele

Rudy, names, we want names! Heheh. Thanks. - Robert Scoble

not directly the 2010 web persay, but I think what companies such as Barco are doing at the very highest levels of display technology (their LED screens were used, some 2000 sq. meters of in fact, for the amazing Eurovision set in Moscow) will have a huge impact in years to come on what we all use for our displays. If display resolutions finally start to really rise (on average) that will impact the web considerably - Shannon Clark

I'm mostly familiar with developers, since that's my profession, so I'd add: Damien Katz (developer on CouchDB), Terry Jones (founder of FluidInfo), James Tauber (creator of the Pinax Project), Brian Aker (developer on Drizzle), Mikio Hirabayashi (developer at Mixi.jp), John Resig (wrote jQuery), Malcolm Tredinnick (probably the most active Django developer). There are definitely more but that's off the top of my head. - Eric Florenzano

Marco Derksen - (founder of marketingfacts.nl, www.upstream.nl), Boris Veldhuijzen van Zanten (Next Web, Wakoopa), - Erno Hannink

You should put there tarpipe folks... - Marcos Marado

@robert add Lars Hinrichs, founder of XING http://www.xing.com, the only web 2.0 company to successfully IPO. http://www.reuters.com/finance... -- He's likely to be starting something new in 2010. - Jason Goldberg

Wouldn't it make sense to start out with less people then increase until you find your getting interesting, relevant conversations Surely with too many people the conversation would quickly become overwhelming quickly, and maybe less focused - Chris Lloyd

Chris: there's a method to my madness, but, yes, I have a hard constraint that I have to live within. - Robert Scoble

Matt Jones & Matt Biddulph of Dopplr / Felix Petersen - Founder at Plazes.com, now Head of Product Strategy Social Location at Nokia / Christian Sejersen - Mobile Engineering, Mozilla / Raimo van der Klein - SPRXMobile & Layar (watch that name!) / Greg Skibiski - CEO Sense Networks / Ilja Laurs - CEO Getjar / Tommy Ahlers - Founder Zyb - CEO at Wayfinder Systems - now Head of LBS at Vodafone / -> most of them all at http://mobile20.eu conference in Barcelona in June :) - Rudy De Waele

I don't envy your task, but if you get it right it could be very important for future web development. Will anything be published from the group? To aid future web developers? - Chris Lloyd

Robert, maybe Bill Balderaz at Webbed Mkting. About to release an awesome monitoring tool that will push the folks in that space. And maybe Beth Kanter who does wonderful things in the non-profit marketing space. - Gregg Morris

Chris: this list will form the core of Building43 and will discuss the 2010web in a private friendfeed group that will be opened to everyone else on June 11th. - Robert Scoble

And some of the guys at the W3C Mobile Web initiative - http://www.w3.org/Mobile/ Maybe Daniel Appelquist? Also add Mike Rowehl (coded Admob, Mowser, Skyfire, etc...) - Rudy De Waele

there seems to be an overwhelming US bias to the list at the moment - Europe? Asia? - Russell Lack

If you're making it a closed discussion group elite, I urge you to try not to just have all the known incumbents - they're the people that made 2008. Get some new thinkers in there, perhaps people that see the needs and weaknesses, perhaps a few critics, and by all means people from outside the core US/UK/Australia/Canada/France/NL group. Of course it depends what you want to... more... - Joelle Nebbe (iphigenie)

Russell: got any names? That's why I put it out here. - Robert Scoble

Bwana McCall - Savvy, all-around blogger and technology reviewer...Bwana.org - Ciro

That's going to be an interesting list. Has it changed much from your older lists? Some user names both on ff or twitter would be great. I'm going to check to see if I can suggest some. Maybe Michael Fruchter should be included too. - Carlos Lorenzo

If we're including journalists, how about Caroline McCarthy? - Chris Lloyd

Carlos: I'm adding names from Facebook right now. The list is getting longer by the minute. - Robert Scoble

You'll be testing the limits of google's spreadsheet app by Wednesday - Joelle Nebbe (iphigenie)

I see other Jasons, but no Calacanis.. - Simon Wicks

Is there any particular reason a) why you're making this list b) why anyone should help and c) why anyone should care? The 2010Web seems more like a Robert Scoble PR campaign than a project with any depth. Where's the substance behind this? Someone please point me in the right direction. - Andrew Eglinton

Andrew: a) I'm building a community of people who are fanatical about the Internet for http://www.building43.com which is why I'm doing it. b) why should you help? Well, because maybe I've helped you along the way. c) why should anyone care? You shouldn't. Move on. - Robert Scoble

Interesting mobile 2.0 choice, Rudy. I'd say Andrew J Scott, Rummble Founder & CEO, should be on the list (@andrewjscott). - Alex Housley

Robert. Is building43 a non-profit outfit? - Andrew Eglinton

Andrew: no. It's a community sponsored by Rackspace. - Robert Scoble

Robert, this is a great exercise. But why do you assume those making the biggest contributions are the ones who are fanatical about the Internet? - Kevin Werbach

Kevin: because I have to start somewhere. - Robert Scoble

Kevin, plus, fanaticism without contribution seems pretty empty. And keep in mind what my goal is: it's to try to get more businesses and people into the 2010 web. To do that I'm going to showcase people who are changing the world with the Internet. That will get their attention. Then we need to show them how they can do it too. - Robert Scoble

Is there any danger of building43 becoming an A-list ivory tower or is this going to be the tech savvy giving back to the cyber peasants? Just curious (which obliterates point C of my previous interjection)... - Andrew Eglinton

Andrew: yes, there is that danger. But it will be short lived because after June 11th you'll be interacting with them. - Robert Scoble

on a country (Fr) & corp filter level I can mention those 2 guys in France. For the corporations they really use and promote 2010 tools to the highest level of those orgs: @ChristianFaure, @dlafont (Denis Lafont-Trevisan) - both Cap Gemini but I do own 0 stock there. They just really get it and they are on FF. Another one that really gets it / use it = Régis Gaidot @rgaidot. also in Germany/austria @bodenseepeter toursprung.com (not on ff). Alexandra Carmichael: Curetogether.com. - Harscoat

If you want to stay ahead of the curve, follow tipjoy: http://friendfeed.com/brlewis... - Bruce Lewis

So in other words, you're channeling Barry Goldwater -- extremism in the defense of the Internet is no vice. - Kevin Werbach

Kevin: heheh. I'm just looking for people who are using the Internet to improve lives, improve businesses, or just plain build something cool. Stuff like Epochrates that's helping doctors around the world. Or Zappos. Or Twitter, friendfeed, etc. - Robert Scoble

I think you can add Nicolas Dengler co-founder of cocomment and co-founder of mixin. - Frédéric Sidler

June 11th. I'll be there man. Just make sure you've installed a helipad on top of that building though :) - Andrew Eglinton

The challenge is that most people don't want to change the world. They want something safe and comfortable. I'm with you -- the fanatics are the interesting ones, and life is too short to hang around boring people. Anyway, since I'm listed as an "Obama tech advisor", I'd suggest people from that world -- Beth Noveck, Susan Crawford, Vivek Kundra, Aneesh Chopra, and some others not yet announced. What they are doing is still in alpha, but is incredibly important. - Kevin Werbach

Kevin: are you in DC? I'll be there first week of June and would love to get some interesting interviews about the broadband policy stuff. - Robert Scoble

Robert, DM me and we'll tawk. I'm in DC about once a week, helping out and making trouble. - Kevin Werbach

You've said how you made the list, presented the list. But why are you making the list? (I hate lists btw -- when presented by magazines, newspapers, websites seem like blatant pandering - to both the people on the list and potential consumer) - Brian Sullivan

Brian: a few reasons. For one, I want people who have done something interesting. Having someone like Tony Hsieh or Joe Hewitt or Kevin Werbach or Tim O'Reilly as a founding member of a community will get attention. Having 200 of them will get a lot more. Second, I want to focus my content efforts on these people for the first month. They have more to show about what the 2010web will... more... - Robert Scoble

Robert: so the bottom line is that you are pandering? ;-) - Brian Sullivan

Brian: no, we are making sure we have a good list. - Robert Scoble

There's a method to our madness. The first 100 people you invite to start a community will decide how that community goes for a long time. So we're being very picky about who we start with. - Robert Scoble

towatch - Arvind

In response to your 'method' Robert. I agree, the first wave of people will decide the story of a community - providing they have ownership of it. But building43 is a top-down model, what's to say that the people you invite will want to buy into the ethos of your community? Doesn't community begin with collective impetus, collective need? - Andrew Eglinton

Andrew: Building43 is both going to be top down and bottom up. June 11th you'll see just what we are building (it's not just me working on this) and you'll understand. Hint: it's very friendfeed centric. - Robert Scoble

Well in that case I'm sold. Final question from me, and incidently I appreciate all your responses above,will there be a provision in building43 for artists? - Andrew Eglinton

Andrew: I have designers in mind, but how far off of graphic design and web design do you want to go? - Robert Scoble

Robert: While not being sure exactly where you're going with this, it might make sense to include at least a few (call it a control group) of stodgy old CIOs and/or a person or two from the likes of MSFT, ORCL or others that you would say don't "get" the 2010web (full disclosure I work for MS). Without this I think you risk having some serious groupthink even with the luminaries on your list. Maybe this is planned for later in your efforts but I can't help but think it would be a benefit from the get go. - David Ziembicki

I wish I was doing a big contribution, yet I am sitting here and waiting for it to come. So that I can use it :) - Alpay Erturkmen

David: I have a bunch of Microsoft people on the list. CIOs? I'm gonna go for stodgy old companies later. :-) - Robert Scoble

Robert: Better add David Hyatt (founding member of Safari and WebKit) and Maciej Stachowiak (another lead developer) - Charles Ying

Peter Norvig - Charles Ying

Robert, I see some startup people, but the list looks blogger/journalist heavy. What about those developers who may be the Bret Taylor of tomorrow, like Jesse Stay, Cesare Rocchi (Posty) and others like them. - Rob Diana

Oh I do so use Friendfeed :-) And thanks @ericflo! - Terry Jones

And, BTW, FluidDB is nearly nearly out (as a restricted alpha). End of June, we hope. - Terry Jones

Robert Robert Robert, do you ever sleep? - Myrna

This is all fine and dandy but we've got to have last mile bandwidth. Why isn't there a pure Conduit Communications company out there that doesn't have another agenda? The phone companies have their legacy phone business, the cable companies TV. Fiber to the home is what we need. Not geeks. All those people on that list times a million mean nothing compared to fiber to the home. Why is...

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