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I'm wanting a clicker invite. henbur at gmail.

October 31, 2009 - Comment - Like - Share

http://www.clicker.com/invite... - Jay

Thanks Jay. Henry - Henry Burger

I do! denek08@gmail.com - parasol

Louis Gray

New Blog Post: Feedly Brings New Social Experience to Start Page, Leveraging RSS http://www.louisgray.com/live... @khodabakchian

June 16, 2008 from Twitter - Comment - Like - Share

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Everybody should check this out. Even if you're not a Google Reader fan or a typical FireFox user, load FireFox and go to http://www.feedly.com. There's a limited number of downloads of their .xpi plug-in, so it's first come, first serve. - Louis Gray

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I was about to pooh-pooh it until I read the part about how if you share it/read it in Feedly, it shares and marks it read in Reader. That's killer. - Mark Trapp

crap. I read this as soon as I leave my computer - Bwana ☠ from fftogo

Thanks Louis, I am checking out http://www.feedly.com looks like a great concept!! How do you find all these cool things? - Susan Beebe

Just started to use it and I am immediately impressed. This just might be my new favorite reader. - Jason Wehmhoener

@Susan, I found Edwin when he first wrote "Listen. Measure. Iterate." back in February. http://tinyurl.com/6crhsz We've been trading e-mail ever since. I didn't say the word Feedly or Feeddo for months. :-) Others have different stories. - Louis Gray

I was trying it with FF 2 for the last 15 minutes. I glossed over the fact (on the feedly home page) that it needs FF3. It seems to install fine on FF2 and does not complain that it needs FF3. Would have been nice if it warned me that it does not run on FF2. In any case, will try it out as soon as I download FF3. - Atul Arora

I grabbed it. I dig it. I will use it. Maybe RSS just needs to be looked at in a different light. - Mathew A. Koeneker

Kinda lame that it's Firefox only, for what I can tell is only so you don't have to feed it your Twitter/Friendfeed/Gmail/etc. credentials. Can't use fluid with it; will probably forget about it. - Mark Trapp

Thanks Louis. I just got the .xpi and trying it out. This might be something! - Kenichi Matsumoto

Frick! NICE! - Ⓒⓗⓡⓘⓢ Ⓟⓘⓡⓘⓛⓛⓞ

Dude, I'm all over this freggin site... What a work of genius..my..head..is hurting...from...such...uber - Bwana ☠

Now you tell me, when I'm stuck in the Wal-Mart customer service line. - Phil Glockner from fftogo

Looks nice, but can't do it... I feel like I'm "cheating" on Google Reader. Plus, many things were giving me javascript errors. - Vince DeGeorge

WARNING: Using this added 450 feeds to my gReader!!! Screenshot coming... - Vince DeGeorge

@Vince, it creates folders for "feedly" on Google Reader, but there shouldn't be any duplication of feeds. Are you talking about net new feeds being added, or just them tracking your favorites? - Louis Gray

Ok, it's created three folders, z.feedly.favorites, z.feedly.people, z.feedly.seeded. It wasn't 450 feeds, it was 150 in three folders. http://www.flickr.com/photos... I thought it had caused major problems at first, but it looks manageable. I certainly wasn't expecting it... and scared me at first. - Vince DeGeorge

A warning would be nice from the Feedly folks about this. Not a showstopper, but I think letting the user know will ease the sting of coming on board. - Bwana ☠

Bwana and Vince, I agree. I told Edwin that during the alpha process, and thought it had been resolved. - Louis Gray

@vince, @bwana sorry for the scare. There is a warning about that in the first run page but will work on making it more explicit. Also note that the reason why there is a z.feedly.seeded tag is because we are working on adding an un-install procedure which will completely undo the effect of the feedly welcome wizard. - Edwin Khodabakchian

Excellent - Bwana ☠

Deleted my previous entry when seeing Edwin's response. Edwin, I apologize that I didn't see the warning - I tend to run headlong into things ;). Your quick response from feedback is excellent, which is very important! With that in mind - "no harm, no foul." - Vince DeGeorge

@atul feedly should work on firefox 2 as well. The reason we are pushing for the firefox 3 angle on the website is because we benefit from a lot of the performance optimizations done by firefox (and we are trying to see if we can leverage some of the momentum generated by firefox3 to get the word out). If you run into any problem on firefox 2, please log a ticket on http://www.getsatisfaction/feedly - Edwin Khodabakchian

@Mark Trapp you are right: the reason we have been focusing on firefox so far is that it allows us to do real-time aggregation more securely. It also allows us to off-load a lot of the processing to the client and opens the door to supporting xmpp in the future. I am not that familiar with fluid but will take a look (a couple of our users are using feedly on flock). - Edwin Khodabakchian

@louis. thank you for starting the conversation! - Edwin Khodabakchian

Another user of Fluid here. It supports userscripts, but I'm not sure if it has the sophistication of the Firefox plugin architecture - Bwana ☠

Working with this for the last thirty minutes. Very impressed. I actually like the feeds showing up in Google Reader. Excellent work Edwin. - Henry Burger

Wow, seriously how long has this been in the works? Still figuring out all the things it can do and how easily it does them. Very slick - Andrew Smith

damnit. I have to like it. An idea that I had in the works (the newpaper/magazine style layout) - great work, we'll see how things go. - Tim Hoeck

Wow, I have over 46000 unread articles. - Jason Wehmhoener

@edwink, I was just confused on FF2 as to how I should get started. When I tried it out on FF3, I clicked on the circular rss icon that the extension put on my menu bar. I will look for the same icon on FF2 and give it a spin. If I run into any problems, I will log a ticket. I completely understand the rationale for pushing the ff3 angle. My first impression is very positive. - Atul Arora

just a note, when my FF restarted, I didn't get to see the initial startup page, because I have session restore enabled. It killed the start page. Just look for the circular RSS button next to your address bar. - Tim Hoeck

Edwin, I got to say, I don't really understand your architectural decisions. You make most of the program local, yet you don't utilize your own storage for application data (instead, you insert all of Feedly's info on recommendations and people into my OPML file, which even if you're warning me I completely missed: it's not obvious). Yet, it's browser based, but I can only use a specific version of one browser (and only if I have the add on installed). - Mark Trapp

You've got competing metaphors here: if it's browser based, let me use it anywhere. If it's desktop based, don't force me to use a specific browser, and don't use my existing services as your data storage. - Mark Trapp

fixed. feedly has now a better msg and automated-undo http://edwink.devhd.com/2008... - Edwin Khodabakchian

@mark it is a browser extension to allow us to be more real-time, not have to touch people's credentials and be able to scale better. But it tries to leverage and integrate cloud services so that it feels more integrates and people can roam. - Edwin Khodabakchian

@mark we heard the point about being more explicit about the Google Reader integration and tried to address it today. The one thing to keep in mind is that although feedly is using the Google reader back end, we are not going after the google reader users (if some find it compelling, great) but we are instead to package all that is good in RSS and social sharing and try to see if we can re-invent a better start page for more mainstream users. This is beta1 and we are not yet there but that is our goal - Edwin Khodabakchian

Wow. Well done Edwin. I'm super impressed right now. - nealh

I'm using it since June/July'08 I think and I've always loved it. Nice to finally meet the creator's side after so much pleasure using it. Great review Louis btw, you got it good. ;p I simply didn't know it wasn't widely known. I would've suggested it a long time ago hehe. - Zu from AOD

Robert Scoble

THIS CONTEST IS OVER, PLEASE DO NOT COMMENT ON THIS ANY MORE. Thank you.

March 14, 2009 - Comment - Like - Share

Tarık Yolcu, 535u (Özgür İfade), Miles Laird and 355 other people liked this

THIS CONTEST IS OVER. THE MONEY HAS ALREADY BEEN GIVEN AWAY. I'm giving away $4,500 of my money. The contest will be here in friendfeed between now and Tuesday afternoon. Ends 3 p.m. Austin, Texas Time. Winner will be picked live on http://www.ustream.tv/studio at 4 p.m. Austin Time. Two ways to win: First way to win ($1,000). Leave a comment here. We'll pick one winner out of a hat randomly. Second way to win (Two prizes of $1,750 each). Leave a comment about how you will use the money (use only one comment here). I'll pick my favorite two messages and announce a winner on Tuesday afternoon. Good luck! - Robert Scoble

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Good way to keep us engaged Robert :) - bcultral

only that? too easy Robert! :) - directeur

Robert "Ben Stein" Scoble :) - Mattb4rd

Will it be tax free? :P - imabonehead

pinched nerve in back from military accident.. might be outta work for a bit. - WithoutInk

I'm in. - Paul Grav

Sweet awesome robert! - TheHenry

Simple is good. :) - Heather Solos

Robert, Ben Stein beat you to that game. Try and be first rather than a fast follower. :P - Lorin Olsen

I'll happily leave a comment here. - Aaron Crews

What are the rules? International ok? :) - Holger Eilhard

Congrads on the new venture:) - Rob Cairns

Lets be honest- there are few people who literally put their money where their mouth is. Mr. Scoble you continue to impress me. And I have said this before the contest. - Alyx

Do you have to be an American? Cause I could use a new laptop :) Plus the USD>AUD exchange rate is pretty good at the moment ($1000 USD = $1500 AUD) - Bryce Roney

I declare myself ineligible for the first way to win :) - Douglas Gourlay

Cool ....I need new Laptop - Michael Holzinger

#43 - Brian Daniel Eisenberg

Prediction: this will be the most commented thread on FriendFeed ever (chance to win $1000). - Mike Doeff

be sure to let us on the detailed result of this new experiment of yours - Georgios Kasselakis

really? :) - K.Fatih Özçelik

oh...pick me pick me pick me :) - Stephanie Segel

Will you give me more if I say rackspace.com? - Jason P. Brown

woohooo! Anton like this. - Anton Johansson

c'mon fingers. find me in the hat. - Jason Kane

OK, I'm changing my comment to go for one of the $1750 prizes. I will offer to donate all of it to a mutually acceptable charity in exchange for an appearance with you and Steve on the Gillmor Gang. If Jason can buy his way onto Twitter, maybe I can buy my way onto the Gillmor Gang! - Kent

Are you still going to the XMPP meetup on tuesday? - J Allen

Good luck to everyone! - Amit Nangare

money talks :-) - Dobromir Hadzhiev

Leaving random comment here for $1000 yo! Can I get that all in pennies and not rolled up? Preferably in gallon milk jugs! - Jason Moffatt

I think Mike will be right - Henrik Johansson

I would use the money to 1. Donate and support our local Milwaukee tech community (events like web414.com, BarCampMilwaukee.com, and Bucketworks.org) and 2. purchase some more tech items (i.e. mac mini, video camera, webcam) to enhance and encourage more interaction with development and the tech community. - Sam Dodge

I'm in too ... - Leo

$1000 for a random comment. I suspect we'll have a record number of comments. But what kind of hat will you be pulling the name out of? Austin Cowboy hat? - Andrew Leyden

well, this is one way to get me to actually use my friend feed account =) - Travis

I could use it. Ill be out of a job in 2 weeks. - Armando

sweet. i like free money =) - Arin

Second way to win (Two prizes of $1,750 each). Leave a comment about how you will use the money (use only one comment here). I'll pick my favorite two messages and announce a winner on Tuesday afternoon. Good luck! - Robert Scoble

I'm game. But don't shoot me. - Steve Lowe

why would you do that? - Burçak Sayınsoy

is this part of the bailout? - Thomas Jelonek

Pick me! - Henry Irish

hook it up! - Zachary Poley

Robert , Congrats for Building43.com ! - Rocky

Open to anyone in the world. It's my money and if I get sued I'll make fun of you on Twitter. :-) - Robert Scoble

So let me get this straight, I just leave a comment here? Will this $1000 be reported to the IRS? :) - Craig Eddy

If ever there was money that could be used to buy gadgets guilt free it is Scoble money! - Joe "Brrzzzzzzt" Pierce

Building 43 sounds interesting. Can't wait. - Andrew Bashore

need cash for new company my wife and i are starting -- to help offset the cost of adopting our next child. - WithoutInk

all i have to say is, more cow bell please :) - Ivan Stegic

I LOVE RACKSPACE!! - CG

I'll talk about the contest later on http://www.ustream.tv/studio - Robert Scoble

Isn't this a nice way to test how scalable Friendfeed entries really are? :-) - Yuval Atzmon

Please, no, you're better than Ben Stein (although that's not saying much) Are you trying for the most comments ever on a Friendfeed post? Because I can certainly see that coming. - The Web's Wendell Wittler

Will use it to buy Arrington a hairpiece after the TIME article. - Mike

What kind of hat? - Geoff Schultz {TF}

Scoble--congrats to you and Rocky! Keep up the great work! - Joey Hayles

Neat! I'd spend the money fairly selfishly... on bandwidth bills for http://enjoysthin.gs - Ted Roden

How would I use $1750? Three words: Pay. My. Rent. - Stephanie Segel

Are friends and family excluded? - Tina Chase Gillmor

Oh well, why not! maybe the hat's lucky! - vanweerd

I'm just here for the cash. - Jim Mitchem

Nicholas - would like to work with you at Rackspace, was a senior systems design engineer for Sony Broadband SW Development + Broadcast Integration Division(s) SW Systems Integration and testing, also senior technical project manager on Google's infrastructure upgrade + Verizon's FIOS fiber-to-the-premises nationwide. I also spent ten years in post-production in hollywood as a senior tech support engineer / consultant to the stars. I like bad food, long hours and the warm glow from completing projects. - Nicholas Chase

Hmmm, how do you post a comment on FF...??? :-) - I Spy

Feel free to donate lol - hiphopgame

I would use the money, to help buy a mac for the family. We are in need of a new one, and right now our current one (a powerbook) is starting to die out. I already have some money saved up, but not enough. Thanks for doing this Robert! :) - Techno Todd

thanks for making friendfeed notifier go insaaaaaaaaaaaaaaane - Caio

I'll use the money to buy a laptop for my soon-to-college daughter, as well as to fund her scholarship searches& college visits this summer. She's leaning towards working in special education, continuing the volunteering she's done with her high school's Options Program (http://www.paulvi.net/academi...). - Craig Eddy

My friend (14) and I (15) are working on a subscription web service that we want to launch this summer and some additional runway and start-up capital would really be helpful. We do have some experience with this stuff -- we did iJailBreak (www.ijailbreak.com) a year or so ago and had millions of hits and a million downloads and a lot of coverage (Gizmodo, TUAW, Digg front page multiple times). - Ben Feldman

I want Robert's stimulus package. - Daniel Sims

This is my random comment for the random pick! - Mona Nomura from fftogo

Hi Robert - Pick me! :) - Susan Beebe

if i didnt know you, i would have un-friended you for a post like that. "i'm giving away money. details to come." Congrats on the new gig! - fansnap

$1,750? Ok, I'll give the half of it to a charity, that is: $875 — and the other half will be my contest's gift. My contest? The one who donates the most to that charity wins those $875. And yes, I'm serious :) - directeur

I don't know about the tax consequences. I'll try to find out. Basically this money is money Cisco paid to me and I'm just shipping it back out. So, this money will be counted pre-tax, I'm sure, and you'll probably need to pay tax on it. - Robert Scoble

First comment: Hope my comment gets chosen! - Kevin Poirier

Fabulous - Jon

Sweet! $1000 would be lovely - Vanessa Scanfeld

I'd be using the money to finance my freelance work and get a half-way decent video camera. I'm working with a friend of mine on tooloftheday.de (nothing to see there yet) to produce videos of popular tools, tips, tricks, howtos, etc... - Holger Eilhard

Throwing my piece of paper into the hat. Crossing my fingers! - Troy Malone

man, my feed is going crazy... stop it guys :) - Ingo Di Bella

OK Robert, I'll bite and leave a comment here. - Herne

Second comment...I will use the money to buy as many clever domain names that I can in hope that one day, when you are creating your "next big thing" that you will have to purchase the domain name from me realizing that you had in fact, through me, had purchased these domain names in the first place. - Kevin Poirier

I'm also available for 1/2 time work for $185/week (Rails sites) http://tefflox.net/JesseCr... Thanks :-) - Jesse Crockett

Thats a internet first i guess, good luck to all contestants :) - Yunus Tunak

For the 1500, I will donate all proceeds to #smackdown. - Mona Nomura from fftogo

If I win: I will use the money to lend out some of it on Kiva.org, give my brother (12 years old) his own domain/hosting so he could start a wp-blog there and maybe buy Spotify premium =) - Anton Johansson

I would buy a new macbook pro with it. I have the old one, and Was hoping to buy the current one. I would then give the old one to my brother and I would use the new one! :) - TheHenry

I'm in!! - DanDan

I would use it for the prizes I'm giving out daily on my twitter game @I_spy_treasure. Robert, you can win it back... (and so can anyone else...) - I Spy

Lasers. - Lasse Johnsen

I will use part 2 to donate to Kiva.org and match it with Cisco's matching gifts program - Douglas Gourlay

I would donate it to my homeless shelters. - imabonehead

I'm giving my winnings to congress to spend wisely : ) - Joseph

Congratulations to both you and Rocky on the new jobs. - Ron Schott

Count me in! Could use the extra $$ to buy a mac and see what all the hype is about. - Tim

I would create a company called One Laser Per Child. - Lasse Johnsen

This is my comment. I would use the extra $1750 to pay for me and Lindsay's trip to Gnomedex this year. It would probably be enough for us to come up and stay a few extra days in Seattle. - iTad

That'd put a dent in my taxes. Ugh, freelancing has its pains. - Andrew

nice! i could use some money :) - krist80

Would be silly not to comment... although I have nothing interesting to say right now. - Jen

umm..ok i'm in! - Michael Lemmon

Even I can manage that! - Jeremy Brooks

Everyone else is doing it... - Rochelle

Is there a third way to win? I'd use the money to offset part of the costs of moving to Portland in the spring. Moving from New York with next to no connections to see what it's like living on the west coast for a while. - Mark Trapp

Did I win yet? - Robert Collazo

What I'd do with $1000? Get them converted to Euros :) Would most likely be spend on "offline" needs, like a new bathroom - dieck

I suppose spending it on crack and hookers wouldn't win the prize, would it? - Ian Betteridge

I will use the $1000 plus 119,000 more dollars to buy a spot on the Twitter "Suggested Users" page. - Sprague D

And you r giving your money away why? - Andrew Finkle

it'd go toward my first Mac - Jeff Mincey

118 comments in 17mins, progress report.. :) - Yunus Tunak

Count me in! - Wim Mulder

Interesting; I'd give a bit more than the the money to an unemployed friend for necessities(car repair, rent, food, getting back her phone with Nana Lemon singing Nena's famous anti-balloon protest song) in cash and perhaps a small gift - RAPatton

I would use the money to go biking in Tibet and give everything that's left to the Tibetians. - Henrik Johansson

Robert why are you giving away money - not that I am complaining- but curious! :) - Susan Beebe

I'm game - Ken Nicely

I'd spend mine on women, booze and a Mac. - Ed Hudson

I'd use it to stretch the time I can work for equity-only before our startup gets funded! (Why doesn't federal stimulus money go to something like this which actually creates jobs and innovation instead of banks and auto companies?) - Dale Larson

this should be interesting - Robert Accettura

The chances of winning Scoble's money are slim. But the comments are hilarious. Love them. - I Spy

This is easier than a lottery ticket! We must be in an experiment or something, knowing Robert. - Cesar Arevalo

Sure why not - Rodfather

I will use the money to go PyCon, learn new skills, network, mention how generous Robert Scoble is, and do a sprint to improve FriendFeed PyAPI--which, by the way, you should use to select the random winners from this thread. https://launchpad.net/friendf... Thanks in advance. - Chris Lasher

Clever way to show the power of friendfeed! - Emee Pumarega

For $1750: I would pay a portion of my wife's college tuition, buy my daughter a netbook, and my son a practice guitar amp. - Mattb4rd

Great idea! Count me in. I think you should give your money away monthly. - Grace Ciccone

I'm Here. Wow. I''ve thrown the laptop up on a 56" JVC LCD HD. Convergence! Just watched you on the Gillmor Gang. Feels like TV to me. It's great. Something's definitely happening. - Stephen Pickering

Love it...I'm in - gavin

I'd spend the money on a new display, I really need one - Dobromir Hadzhiev

Not my first comment on a Scoble posting here, but first with a potential payoff. - Tom Landini

I'm in. How I will use the money? will buy server for XdbE project - Elmira Gazizova

With $1,000 I could buy all 57 Used & new "Naked Conversations" books from Amazon and still have enough to buy bottle service at the club. - Andy Fields

would like to be able to try new technologies while still being a student and on a student's income = ($0) - Shane Grant

Cool, count me in :-) I would use the money by buying 2 HTC Fuzes for me and my love. - Sarah Peterman

Count me in! (for the first way I guess :P). - Mauro Borione

What can I do to get your $$$ Robert? How about a virtual dance from my dogs? - Jeff

get Diabla my pit bull puppy hip surgery sooner rather than later - shayne catrett

haha, what is it all about? - Лёша

I would use the money to help fund a small-scale electronics lab, which has been a dream of mine for some time. It would serve as the perfect place to plot and create the robotic army that will eventually take over the world! Also it would teach me lots that would make me very attractive to an employer, or capable of creating a business of my own. - Daniel Bruce

It would be hard for me to decide how to spend the money. There is so much, yet so little, being given. Because I'm a crazy Linux-lover, I think I should take the selfless route and donate at least part of the money to various Linux/open-source programming projects. Though, I would have to be careful to make sure that the money is not wasted in the style that Jeff Atwood describes (http://www.codinghorror.com/blog...). - Rishabh Mishra (p248)

<cold><oddsized><red>here's my comment</red></oddsized></cold>. I've made my comment colored and differently shaped because supposedly those will get drawn before all the other regular looking comments. It's cold too because that's how the Knicks got Ewing first in the draft. - Todd Hoff

Well, I need a new kidney, and there just happens to be one available on Ebay for $1000. (The previous portion of this comment is an utter lie; both my kidneys are doing fine, I am gainfully employed, do not need the money as much as so many on this thread, but Mastercard would really love to have it.) Congrats and good luck with the new venture, Robert. - Phil Essing

Very cool! - Josh Haley

Hey as long as were giving away money - count me in ;) - Rob Jones

sweet, a thousands eh? converted to $ JMD that's 90k, groceries for 2 months:P - Gordon Swaby

i'd like to thank my good friends olasofia and tav for mentioning this opportunity to win $1000 randomly, and if gratitude to one's friends isn't enough, how about this: i will give the $1750 for the best answer to this question: now that there are 100,000 people paying attention, what single action can we all do next tuesday that has the greatest social impact globally? - happyseaurchin

For either amount, I would look to pay down some of my pressing debts and apply the rest towards a rainy-day fund. The 10% paycut I took three months ago has not helped things. - JA Castillo

I'm on spring break now and my school was nice enough to lend me a Canon 20D (a little old, but I'm still glad to have borrowed it). Usually, only people who are part of the after school photography club can take it out, and seeing that I'm not, I was quite lucky. They gave me a 28-135mm lens, which looked ok to me. It was the last lens they had available, so it was take it or leave it.... more... - Michael Forian

hmmm just leave a comment for a $1,000 dollars, not sure what to say... - Kevin Tunis

$1750 for a cheeky mobile app, any more would be telling - Yant

i am somehow reminded of ben stein - Adam Singer

Testing the mix, testing, testing, one two, one two, - is this thing on? - Martha

I would use the money to do what I do with all of my money...support my wife through graduate school :p. Thanks for the opportunity, Robert. - Neal "thePuck" Jansons

Give it to Michael Forian! He seems so well-meaning! - RexEveryhting

Big Spender Robert. Who knew? - Michael Fidler

I'm feeling lucky. - Laura

Cool! I saw your new venture announcement (live) earlier on my old iMac, which I would love to replace. :) - Rob

I'm an unemployed community manager formerly of Silicon Valley. Hoping to spread new technology from NorCal to SoCal. - Kimberly

Pick me, I've got medical bills to pay-off. Boring I know, but it's really how I'd use any extra money. - Curtis Phillips

I'll donate the money to GM. Nah, forget it. I'll worry about it if I actually get it. - Hal

I will throw my virtual hat in the virtual ring for the not-virtual $1000. What is the other $3500 going toward? - Lindsay

Working on a little something in the review space with a friend of mine, $1000 could cover a bit of initial hosting. - Jack Bogdan

Hmm, adding that to a house down payment would be nice. I imagine there's others here that could use it much more, though. - Jordan Hofker

peace on earth..... - imran

Awesome. With $1,000, I'd use 50% to buy shares of F, GM, BAC, etc... and we'll have even more money to hand out. With the other 50%, we could also make 20 $25 loans at a Stanford MBA microfinance project, so the money recycles and has more impac (and have FFers decide which projects to support). Gumball Capital http://news.newamericamedia.org/news... or Kiva.org http://kiva.org Ideally we could even start a fund to support out-of-work FF'ers. - Mitchell Tsai

@scobleizer - please give me your money. if you do i will use it wisely to help pay for a macbook & if i get more than the random $1000 prize i will use it in a philanthropic manner - Chris Heath

I'd have to use it all to put toward the $1,900 deposit due next month for the Friends school for which we got an acceptance letter, on behalf of our 10 yo, earlier today since my partner's reaction was that all I needed to do was to go out and get a job Monday! We've tried public schs (& their lotteries) in Boston & DC and have come to this... If that wasn't pressing, I'd use it to put... more... - Angela E. Taylor

updated to say - please give the money to someone in need. If I were to have the money to give away, my choice would be to http://www.theanimalrescuesite.com. - BEX

Wait, in this economy, you giving away money?! - Adi Rabinovich

So...dear! Did you sign the cheque? Yes? Now send it to me! LOL - Lora Lufark

all your money are belong to us! - Geek Cowboy

It would be really cool if this money went to a charity in need, in increasingly tough times. - jjprojects

posting comment. crossing fingers. knocking on wood for good measure. - Anita

I'd use the money as a donation for my favorite charity, www.4everhomes.org, helping orphans and foster children get adopted. - Lynn Owens

I will use the cash to invest in a MacBook for my wife so she can be mobile and still do her school work and finish that degree finally!!! - Geek Cowboy

Well after the football team I support (Nottingham Forest) lost 5 -0 today I would spend the money on buying myselft a place in the squad. I can't be any worse than the current goalkeeper - Paul Bainbridge

I'd give the money to children of San Diego http://www.alphaproject.org/ - David Krug

I'm in - Jack Kendall

Putting my entry in the hat. Hope this is truly random because I don't have anything interesting to add! :) - Matt Baron

With $1750 I'd buy Canon PowerShot SX1IS 10 MP CMOS Digital Camera with 20x Wide Angle Optical Image Stabilized Zoom and 2.8-inch LCD @ $600, a 2nd Gen Drobo populated with four 1TB Western Digital Green Drives @ $849 via TwipPhoto and a GigaPan Epic 100 as soon as its available (probably about $500). All of this will support my GigaPanning habit: http://www.gigapan.org/viewPro... - Ron Schott

James (imabonehead) & Robert, $13,000/yr is allowed by gift tax limits,... so no tax if it's from Robert's personal money. - Mitchell Tsai

Great idea. I'm in. - Bill Romanos

I would use the $1750 to pay for the laptop that my daughter wants for her 11th birthday at the end of the month. She will be entering Jr. high next year and could use a faster more up to date computer than the 5+ year old hand me down desktop PC running Win2000 that she is presently using. - Jeff P. Henderson

Craziness. That kinda money could feed my voracious tech and gadget habit for quite a while. - Brooks Bishop

OK, I'm in. Though not for the money: I want to know waaaay more about Building 43! - Jordi Soler

I'd use the money to invite (pay for flight/hotel, etc.) someone really cool (Harold Varmus?) to the next ScienceOnline conference. - Bora Zivkovic

Building 43 and Rackspace FTW! - Bill Koslosky, MD

I'll use it to buy 2 new monitors. 1 for tweetdeck and 1 for Alert thingy - Jeff (Team マクダジ )

Hi Robert. A noble venture to be sure. We would put the gift to use saving our art studio. The after effects of dealing with the Basin Complex Wildfire that burned Big Sur have left us in a precarious postiion. Truth be told, we'd rather have a big commission than the gift. Work is always better on so many levels. Perhaps we can bootstrap ourselves back to where we were and afford to offer the same gift to others in need one day not too far off--Pay it forward. Best wishes on Building 43 & thanks. - B.E. (BJ) Johnson

I'm in for the $1,000 random drawing (because my $1750 answer would not be memorable - pay my bills). - Laura Norvig

Give half to charity, then spend the other half on upgrading my skills (educational resources) - Mo Kargas

What did I miss? - Rob Michael (Atmos Trio)

Do Canadians qualify? - Brian Sullivan

I just caught up with what the other money is for. If it was awarded to me I would use it to help a couple I know get started in Aikido. Their kids are in our kid's class, and they had been trying to find the finances to join for almost a year and had just figured out how to start and then the husband got laid off... They're having a hard time making ends meet and I know that they would... more... - Lindsay

I'll donate the entire $1,750 to Phoenix Children's Hospital if I win. Same goes for the $1,000 if I win that one. - Aviv

paypal address to follow ...... :) Good luck with the new gig Robert - Charlie Anzman

With $1750 I would help that YouTube girl scout girl, Wild Freeborn, reach her goal of selling 12,000 boxes to send her whole scout troop to camp. Got to give the girl some credit for thinking outside of the box. - Tyler Brownfield

_/\_ Namaste (greetings) from India. This is simply awesome Robert. Would be great to win a cool 1000 USD. That's a lot of money in India. ;-) - Shinil Payamal

Here's my comment. I would use the money to fight against DRM - Marcos Marado from fftogo

My mother has been an avid Obama supporter doing a great deal of volunteer work before & after the election. She recently lost her job & wants to start something new. She will need an audience. Robert, I'd love to use your money to hire YOU to coach her on how to do that most effectively. - Rob Michael (Atmos Trio)

Money..! Will use the money to travel to India this summer, visiting, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki..., http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... with my family :) - Karthick R

maybe because I'm the first Italian to write about it :) http://www.fluxes.it/flussi-... - Contz

Haha a single thread from Robert turned us all (briefly I hope) into marketers :) - Mo Kargas

What the heck I'll throw in a comment...I would use the money to fix up the bathroom at my parent's house. - The Amber

This comment is random. - Dave Roth

Great idea Robert! If I won I would take your portrait for free :-) - Bill Pennington from twhirl

Cheese and rice! This comment thread is giving FriendFeed Notifier a run for it's money. It's an interesting character study on what people will do with free money. Me? I'd pay the IRS & give to my favorite charities. - Anthony K. Valley ©

If this comment gets chosen at random, I hereby refuse the money (always test the exception conditions of any algorithm). If I win one of the other chunks, I commit to donate the money to @eff (EFF - Electronic Frontier Foundation - the leading civil liberties group defending your rights in the digital world). - Tinfoil 2.0

I thought I already commented on this? - Herne

And the other way to win? - Scoble, Alex Scoble

I would find 17 worthy people under the age of 16, who are helping their community through volunteerism or have started businesses and give them $100 each to help them reach their goals. IMO, helping young people is the most noble thing those of us above the age of 40 can do. And I'd spend $50 on take-out dinner with my wife. - Scott Duffy

You win if you're last on the thread, Alex ;) - Josh Haley

here and ready to spend the money for new ipod touch :) - nahnu

why? - Anthony Farrior

Hi Robert. I can haz $1,000 plz? kthxbye. - Joey Gibson

DONT PICK ME!!! </ reverse psychology> - Alfredo 亜瑠布れっど

If I win the prize money will go on my school fees and the rest will help me to buy a netbook with a full-size Scoble sticker :D you crazy! - İbrahim Uzun [ j ]

ROFL, Chris. - Scoble, Alex Scoble

Money would help so much you have no idea. :) - courto

I'll use the money to send 2 teachers in my school district (Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools) to a technology conference somewhere to learn about Web 2.0 technologies. - Tim Cooper

If I win I'll use the money to buy a copy of Autodesk Maya 2009 Complete. Then build cool things. Thanks for the chance Robert. - Andrew Smith

pick.me - Bob Stewart

bring it on - jkkmobile

Hi, and who are you? Thanks Robert. - Daniel Buckley

Sounds good, here is one comment. - Grant Bierman

I would channel the money to ongoing biomedical research in the lab I work in (UCSF). - Pedro Beltrao

*wave* - Jan Schwenzien

How will I use the money? With pleasure, thank you Robert. - Tomi Itkonen

I will use the money to start my non profit and purchase educational/tech material for my son's school. Warm thanks Robert. - Yanik Falardeau

And as for what I would do, I'd build a new desktop pc (and switching my current one over to act as my media/web pc), buy a true dSLR and donate some to charity. And if there is any left over, pay back some minor 'loans', which I guess I really should do first... - Grant Bierman

Hi! İ m not speak english so not comment writing :D(ingilizce bu kadarmı berbat olur ya:II) Thx You Robert. - mehmetakif

Hey Robert, If I were to win the money would go to a project myself and a few other early stage entrepreneurs are starting to help get people who have lost their jobs back to work in the startup community. I know it wouldn't go very far but it'd get it kicked off. Otherwise just give us some help (which would be better anyway) and give the money to the guys who have to pay school fees or rent or buy food for their families. Their need is greater. anton@udoogoo.com if anyones interested in helping - Anton Mannering

Great.I'm in. - OnuRC

this post is going to get a hell of a lot of comments. - Thomas Hawk

Random is random, Chris. :) Thanks for the thought though. - Scoble, Alex Scoble

Just another random comment. :) - Zian Choy

Why am I giving away the money? Because last week we did a job for Cisco where they paid us to do some videos. I am giving away my cut because what Cisco is doing is important to pay attention to without you worrying about whether I am paid off to say so. Also, I'm very fortunate to be in the position where I can do it. I thought about paying Jason Calacanis to buy some of his tweets, but thought that money could help someone out of work more. - Robert Scoble

liked - Y. Esenkal

I think you should give it all to Jason ;o) - Ken Morley

I would use one of the $1,750 prizes this way. I'm currently photographing people that ask me for money. I give them $2 for their portrait. Instead of the two dollars. I will use the the money to add $50 to each $2 (total = $52) to the next 35 people that I photograph as part of this project. After I photograph them for the $2 I will give them the extra $50 and tell them that it is from Robert Scoble and will document each person's story, photo and reaction in a blog post. - Thomas Hawk

i'd like to thank my mother, my father and all the people who helped me win this :p - Sofia Bustamante

interesting !! - mcd

Hat off! - Alemsah Ozturk

Sounds good to me. - Herb Hernandez

I changed my mind. Give it to Thomas! ;o) - Ken Morley

Hmm I like Thomas' innovative idea - Mo Kargas

I couldn't tell you what I would do with $1750, but I do know I would give some away to good causes like my underfunded state school or the public school drama and music programs, and I would probably keep a little to save or update my home technology. - Steve Lowe

This is my first comment : Gods of Randomness, choose me ! - Alemsah Ozturk

how many others have signed up for Friendfeed to try and win $1000? Scoble, you should be a Friendfeed spokesman... :) - chelle

Best of luck with the new gig! Have fun at SXSW! - Trevor Little

I wonder how many new FF accounts this thread has been responsible for? Many first-time posters here. - Ken Morley

This is my second comment: I will gonna put your $1.750 to eBay tagged as “Robert Scoble's first FriendFeed Competition money“ and I'm gonna wait & see what happens :) - Alemsah Ozturk

Sounds fair to me. I'm in. - Henry Burger

Random rules - ted perlmutter

My niece in Mexico is on a partial sports scholarship at the university she attends. She's been supported by her mother who worked at a liquor store to help pay my niece's way. My niece's mom recently lost her job and fears she cannot financially support her daughter's education. $1,750 would pay for six months of university studies. If I were to win, that's where it would go. Good luck everyone. - Andrew

Thanks for the opportunity Robert. Good luck on your new gig! - andy

What would I do with the money? Well I'd put some towards my debt and paying my Mum's house bills. But I think my family could do with a nice break or trip away somewhere - my Mum hasn't really gone out since the death of my Dad last January! Time away from the house would do her the World of good right now. - Kol Tregaskes

Really? - Vinay | विनय

My second comment (for the 1K). This would go to the same niece...it's 3 more months of school. - Andrew

i dont want it... { reverse psychology } - Cem Öztürk

laykk! - Taylan GERDAN (Tylolhot)

My wife has put up with a lot of sacrifice as I've worked on http://ourdoings.com/ and money's been tight so I haven't been able to make up for what she's done. I'd use the money to take her somewhere special, and of course I'd share a picture/map of where we went here on FriendFeed. - Bruce Lewis

Oh for peats sake, it should at least be easier than winning the lotto. I'm in. - Eric

I'll comment and be random...it's a good day to be giving away $$$ :) I would use any money won here to help my friends who are in such horrible need right now. (the story is on the blog and all over my FF stream). I may be unemployed, but I have a roof over my head, food on the table and can make some $$ freelancing. My friends are hanging on by less than a thread, already stretched way too far. - Karoli

Hey man, I love money. Also, I have no job. Also, I will say some incitement here: LEO LAPORTE IS AN ALIEN - Mike Nayyar

Make me your AIG! On the cheap no less. - Tracy Viselli

Well here goes nothin'. thxbye - April Miller

I'm pretty random... I'm in. - Jamie Grove

I wish I could be at SXSW. - Christopher Knopick

i'm feelin lucky :-) - Cardeen winedrunk

Interesting promo Scoble. Comment and win money. Cool - Sam R

so this is how you comment on friend feed.... - Noel Gomez

looks like i have a 1/300 chance of winning (right now). i'm predicting this number will diminish to 1/950. - Kevin Pruett

just to be safe.. - Cardeen winedrunk

Count me in! - Aaron Draczynski

good luck :) - Ömer Karapınar

I'll throw my name in the hat. - Chris Owens

Sounds like a plan. Let's see if FF has scalability issues with their comments. - Michel Goldstein

Yea! I need some money! :) - emdot

Why, not... Thanks Scoble! - Jim Porett

Welcome to the ScobleCashMachine. Enter your comment. - Olivier FAURAX

Put my name in a small hat and draw from it. - Ken Worley

I'm in. - aykut

If I win then I'll donate 0% of my proceeds to charity. Even more than that, I'll DOUBLE it. - Cody Robertson

Trust me I am still looking for the details.... Can't find them! - Ricky

Who wouldn't want to win? - Tom Silk

This is my first year of trying to "make it" on my own, with a camera and no "real" job. Just trying to scrape by ... to be perfectly honest I'll use the money to help pay off some debt that I have acquired since I started, which has definitely been causing me headaches and frustration. My husband has been a gem, paying the majority of the bills since I make very little, and I want to be closer to breaking even with my debt so I can start to help him out. :) - Nicole Young

new sponsor ? paypal ? - Gökmen Karasu

robert başkan parayı buraya getir. - bahadır canberk

Wow! I've outgrown my entry camera and this price is just what I need to be able to fulfill my dream; a Nikon D300! Please make my dream come true, Robert! - Graphfruit

Hit me, Fortuna. Papa needs a new MacBook. - Will Parker

robert are you a photographer - Dixon Hamby - Dixon Hamby

Geez, it's 2:10 am here in Berlin and you start just another interesting stunt. I will take the 1.750 US and pay a programmer to finish our "Virtual intelligent chatbot" project which offers affordable AI Avatars with personality for all kinds of virtual worlds like Second Life, Gaia, the web, Opensim etc. They'll be our 24/7 virtual workforce and a way to create immortal interactive portraits - Gaby K. Slezák

I like this idea. I'm talking with some friends this evening about how they'd each allocate $1750 if they were given this much money today to do anything with--most would share with friends and acquaintances that are going through tough tmes. One would help a friend who just closed down his company and is in need of dental work. Another would help co-workers whose hours have been cut... more... - Loren Heiny

I own Cisco stock. love that Co. - Christopher Mann

Count me in - Peter Szaro

a subject very interesting, congratulations in advance:) - Serkan Cura

An interesting way to find out what the limits (if any) of FriendFeed comments are. Also: show me the money. - Richard Akerman

Damn Robert Scoble: I meant "overly engaged" this thread is off the charts! - bcultral

I'll get me some of that - Phil Coyne

It's very interesting to see how many new people your offer has attracted to friendfeed. - Anne Bouey

Great idea! Count me in. - Mike

A comment for the $$$ - Jess Gibson

this sounds fun. - Wesley Robin Guerrero

I'd like to win :) - Sam Houston

i will love you forever. and evah evah. money would be spent on a nice camera (i'm studying photography) and supplies. working with a 5 year old p&s is getting tiring. :) - shannon

How can anyone NOT click 'like' or comment? I definitely 'pLike' (the p is silent - btw) this thread. :-D - Sean Hanna

a stunt? sure, but I could use an extra $1k. count me in, scoble - Seth Long

If I win the $1750 it will be applied to my son's tuition as he starts college this fall. - Jess Gibson

Is this stimulus money??? If so I'll use it to build infrastructure. There's a giant pot hole in our alley. I'll buy bags of cement and repair it myself. The neighbors will love me. - Greg

Who am I and what am I doing here? - Kris

I'm on it like white on rice. - Jay Lara

Wow, I'll take some money - I need hard drives for my Drobo. Seriously, I need to start up an emergency savings account. - Bryan Villarin

A chance to get paid to comment? Love it! - Ginger Kenney

Could really use some money to help plant some seeds for the future - Leonard Nelson

I'll buy an Iphone and with the rest put in my IRA to reduce my tax bill. Hey, helping economy and investing in business. Not bad. - Stephen Pickering

i would spend for my interrail trip.. - Yasin Müderrisoğlu

This is my lucky day, an email today said I won the UK lottery. - Bob Gannon

I'm going to buy half a Canon 5D Mark II. Or pay my bills. - Andrew Trinh

If i win, i triple win , because i live in a third world country (Argentina) and for every dolar y get $3,60 on our local currency, which is a good ammount of money here, for example, i could eat for 1 year or more :D - Ignacio Guerra

Ok. I would donate my winnings to the Bernie Madoff Defense Fund!@#$%^ - bcultral

I have dreadful luck when it comes to these kinds of things but I could really use this money. I have no car & desperately need to buy one. - Mattie Kenny from fftogo

Cool. And speaking of cool, PlanetHeidi.com is very cool. - dunsany

between building a new house, a new baby and a new job, I am sure I can put it to go use, btw congrats Robert on your new venture, I shall be keeping an eye on it. - Shane Wolsey

Cobble Sorter (anagram of Robert Scoble) = my random comment for the first part of the draw. - Daniel Rowley

Wow, there's like a lot of comments here! Great idea for publicity, Robert. Carry on... - Kevin Trotman

Watching Robert on Ustream right now. - John Rubier

$1000 USD goes a long way in Canada :) - Ryan

Thanks for sharing the wealth in more than one way - Matt Penning

I could have an actual vacation and pay down some more debt. - Todd Tripp

$1000 is mine! please? thanks Robert - planetMitch

1. my comment for 1k, 2. $1750 would be split into 3 gifts of $250 a piece to encourage the best new open source projects, and the other 1000 I would invest and reinvest in http://kiva.org , selecting entrepreneurs in third world countries to invest several microloans in. Its' a gift that, over time, can be reinvested over and over to benefit many! - David Silvernail

Take my hardworking wife on an overdue vacation - she supports me thru the IT bubbles. Thx hun! - mal

Probably will give it back to you, winning could be cool enough - Burcu Sarar

LOOKING for work but hand out will help - Ron

I'm in as well. - OyaD

C'mon Robert money or not now ya still benefit more with the insane publicity - Mrsth

well, we are curiously waiting the result, and also i'm in.. - Mücahit Yılmaz

Smart one - Heni Hazbay

Word Of Money. I am in:) - Yunus Arslanoğlu

I'll take it if your giving....it will go towards the camera fund! - Noelle Bell

I would use it to promote my tiny little super niche social news site http://HeavyAsHell.com The campaign would involve helping bands go DIY and avoid evil record companies. - MarkCarras

What kind of sick social experiment is this? :) - Oren Shomron

I'm in - Josue Fontanez

mmmmm, austin. i miss Trudy's, El Mercado, Magnolia, Wanfu, Kerbey, Chuys, Fonda San Miguel, Dog & Duck, Thundercloud, Waterloo, Amy's, Little City, Hut's, Green Mesquite. aw heck and Taco Cabana and Whataburger too! if i win, i'll spend it all on restaurants in Austin! - poxaV

pick me - Ryan

OK Robert, add me to the pool.... - Gregg

You can't win unless you play! Ok, I better start praying now.... :-P - Brian

:) - Orhan Yediyıldız

Hello, giving away your money randomly? I can comment for that. Best of luck to all! - Ronald Paul Corbin

Will you next tell us its limited only to Americans? I hate contests on the Internet, or anything on the Internet, that says "limited to the USA". The Internet is borderless... so should its contests and prizes - Colin Charles from twhirl

Thanks. I would use the $1750 to help my grandparents. My grandfather is 73 and my grandmother is 72. They just lost their 15 year home to foreclosure and are pretty much starting over with not a whole lot of time left. They are both on fixed income of SS and are now renting a house and trying to survive with the help of friends and family. When he as younger and had more money he was always the first one there to offer money to friends or family to help, even if it meant he went without something. - Jonathan Gotcher

Robert please consider partnering with (Facebook) Seattle's Seeds of Compassion 2.0: The Compassionate Action Network (Twitter: @SeedsCAN) -- this organization is building a supra global network of "Compassionate Action Networks" (a bunch of ex McCaw, Softies and CISCO) -- currently in the throws of leveraging Social Media and Seattle's creative communities (music, tech, film). Last... more... - dakini_3

I wanna buy a jet ski, that's my MONEY! - sofarsoShaw BAZINGA!

Random commenting! I hope FF doesn't fail whale! - Zulema ⋅ spicy cocoa tart from BuddyFeed

If I won, the money would go into putting insulation in my daughter's room & closet. Any leftovers would help buy a gas stove & fridge. :D - Zulema ⋅ spicy cocoa tart

My, there has been some very good comments about what people would do... And some very needy people out there. - Grant Bierman

Like most, it would be an unemplyment extension for me. As mine ran out, no jobs in the area, and times are tough. But hey, BUCK UP not DOWN! the only obstacles that exist are in your mind. - Ronald Paul Corbin

I'll put some of the $$$ into donorschoose.org for some local classroom requests and the rest to fix up my car. - Pete D

comment left here - Brad Nickel

Count me in. - Keith - @tsudo

This is a cool idea. - Bluesun 2600

I would take the $1750 and go and get myself a root canal, so I could finally get out of pain. And if there was any left, I'd donate it at www.kiva.org - Bec Rowe @d0tski

Will comment for money, any time. - Dinah

Alright, I'm a sucker for free money so here goes... $1750 would be enough for me to buy an oven, sod my yard, and still be able to donate half to a charity. - FFing Enigma

I wouldn't say "no" to $$ - Ted Louie

I could use $2,000 just to pay off my credit card. That's about it - Outsanity

A $1000 would be geektacular. $1750 would buy my way into the cult of Mac. - Melinda

Monkey? - Penguin

$1750: Others need the money more than me, I'm sure of that. But ... that said I'd give $500 to a local library or literacy charity. $500 toward my home down payment fund. $150 to a kidney charity (my daughter only has one kidney). $100 for flowers for the wife. $100 for a bike for my daughter. $200 for a brake job. $200 to send at-risk kids to a Giants game. - AJ Kohn

I would pay off our one remaining credit card and put some portion toward a down payment on a new car. In fact, I'd probably give a slice to the EFF as well. I haven't given to them regularly since my last layoff. - ha3rvey (Hugs 50% off!)

why would you do that? It's a sort of social experiment? - Niki Costantini

Will invest the money in my new unique microblogging startup :) - Sergey Bulaev

I wonder how many comments in this thread are their first on FF. Well I'm in. If I won money, some will go into savings and some will go to my favorite charities: Autism Speaks and Atlanta Boxer Rescue. - Carmen wBabby

yay first comment ever, though I suppose I should be commenting more - Wang Yip

Wow, a lot of people commented just while I was writing my own! For me, half the money would be for savings and health insurance while I'm still trying to get a job (recently graduated). The other half would be for the non-profit arts organization my friends and I just founded in our hometown, which has no supportive creative outlets for its youth. The money would help produce the tri-high school theatre competition we are currently planning and hope to put on soon. Great offer, Robert. - Kelly

One comment, coming up. - Michael R. Bernstein

For $1750 I'll either blow it on more photo or computer equipment. Or sock it away in my kid's college fund since it'll probably cost more than half the organs in my body to pay for by the time he's of age. It's a tough choice. - ronin

I'm all for free money Robert! - Michael A. Baydoun

Who wouldn't comment for a chance ... lol ;) - Brandon

If I win the money I'm going to establish world peace & have tons of sexy bitches serving me grapes. - sofarsoShaw BAZINGA!

I would finally upgrade components in my PC and pay off some of our upcoming wedding debt! - Shmoe

I'd put it on black - John Kitchen

A percentage would undoubtedly go toward the health care fund, unfortunately. I'd allocate some for art and film supplies and give away the remainder. I've seen several comments here mentioning worthy projects and needs that are certainly deserving of attention and support. Thanks for sharing, Robert! - Chris Weige

Circuit City lay off would use on BILLS, BILLS, and oh yeah BILLS - Ron

I want to win your money!!!! - Andrew

Wow. This is kinda cool. If I were to win anything at all from this, I would ask that the money be instead given to fellow FF'er Anika Malone because it breaks my heart that her and her family are having to go without hot water, a dryer, their stove...due to their gas being turned off. Hard times have struck too many good people right now. :( - Hookuh Tinypants

400+ comments...wow! Guess 1000 bucks is motivation. I'd put the cash toward my photography efforts or go the boring route and invest it for now. - Justin Korn

The pure capitalist social media business model: simply pay users to come. - Michael Krigsman

It's so easy a caveman can do it!! - Fireman17

I would use the money to pursue my passion of creating LOLcats & bring endless joy to all the world forever. - sofarsoShaw BAZINGA!

I sit here naked as I type. By the way, they're real, and they're SPECTACULAR! - Abbie Kendall

If I won, I would ... go to Disneyland! - Jerry Chacon

lol, great Seinfeld reference!! - Michael A. Baydoun

If I won the non-random cash prize, I'd use it for expenses while I was off work, recovering from my (upcoming) third brain surgery. - Abbie Kendall

I would love to use the money to stimulate the economy by purchasing a new hot water heater. Our current one is in need of being replaced. - Vaughn

Cool, this would help me stimulate the economy while I wait for my California state tax return. - Stephen Ip

Question: Is it one comment per way to win or one comment in general? I've made one comment above that says how I'd spend the money. Now I'll just be random: PURPLE MONKEY DISHWASHER - Bryce Roney

Okay, I'll play. I would return your money to you with a "let's do something better than this" remark. I would then ask you to actually read (reread?) the email I sent you about helping me get in contact with NPO's re: starting an OLPC-esque SMS-device project for said devices to be delivered in care packages around the world (via Red Cross, etcetera, etcetera) so that the poverty stricken and people in disasters could actually communicate with the world in real time. - trench

Good job ! - Alper

I am making this comment as the IT/Communications Director of FHL International, Inc.http://fhlinternational.org I want to feed babies of poor working and nonworking single mothers. I want to change the oil in their cars when they can't afford it or know how to. I want to feed their children good wholesome food. I want to give the refugees and the lost some hope for another day. If we spend it carefully and wisely we can make it stretch to cover a 3-4 outreaches and give you a write up. - Melanie Reed

random random random. macro lens, macro lens, macro lens. - Andrea Ewald

I would probably also tell you (via your infamous digits) why facebook sucks, why friendfeed pretty-much sucks, and why Twitter sucked but no longer sucks. And then I'd educate you on why we - yes, you and I (and Thomas?) - need to visit Turkey ( http://is.gd/7yQr ) and discuss these things further. Yes, k... logging back out now. Thanks. Make coat not war. - trench

@Robert as the IT/Communications Director, I would invite you to one of our events to cover it, put you on one of our videos and underscore the digital divide and what we can do about it. I would invite you to our UB cafe for the best pancakes in the world and have you look over our IT training provided by the IndyChristianGeeks in Indianapolis, Indiana and meet Dr. Thomas Ho, former... more... - Melanie Reed

Robert, I would also introduce you to my "boss", Merlin Gonzales, who started FHL International, Inc.: http://www.youtube.com/watch... - Melanie Reed

I'd use the money to pay off debt, and take some time this summer to work less and volunteer more. - Michael Kacer

What else would I do with some extra cash from Scoble? I'm thinking about making a difference via http://www.heifer.org/ and http://www.kiva.org - Anthony K. Valley ©

want the money for my project - Abubucker

Would love some money of course! I plan on using at least 3/4 of it to fund a new project I'm working on involving the iPhone and a web service. It would most likely go directly toward the cost of the project (registration fees, hosting fees, learning materials, etc.) - Brandon Titus

can you imagine if I actually won? - vijay

This is really cool. I love seeing all the people who would donate part or all. - Lix

@qtbrowneyes - get in here :) We are making FF history. - vijay

That took a long time to scroll down here to make a comment. - David McDonald

Me FTW - Brian

Good luck with building 43—great name, great concept. - Dave

Interesting experiment. Can't wait to see the final results. - Shamir Katsu

< insert winning comment here > =P - vijay

I'm spending my winnings on wine and women - Zik Daniel from twhirl

Great contest. I'll give it a go. - Michael Molinar from twhirl

Why, thank you kindly, Mr. Scoble. - Victoria Plautia

I'd use the money to get a new iPod Touch and maybe pay the rest to my medical bills. :P - Mol, FF Music Lover

As far as how I would spend $1750: I'd love to say that I'm going to donate it all to a worthy cause like the EFF or the local mission, but I know I'll be selfish and just end up spending it in a blaze of glory at Fry's or during the next Woot-off. No point in trying to kid anyone here. - Michael Molinar from twhirl

hi! :) - امیر؟

Cool way to gain money :) - Richard Holas

I can definately use some cash. :) - Shawn Whitmire

I am in! - Edwin Khodabakchian

I would spend all the money for entertainment :) - Sinem Co

$1,750 or $1,000? In any case it would be a good stimuli to open a startup in Belarus - Aliaksandr

Wow, popular contest! I would use part of it to buy the Rosetta Stone package to help me learn French. I'm taking time off between my undergrad and graduate degree, and I figure learning a foreign language would be a great use of my time. I would use the rest to help pay rent when I get my own place, I'm going to be a Congressional Staffer in D.C. and the living is expensive while the pay sucks! Thanks Robert. - Keenan

If i get the $1,750, i'd give the money as $100x10 and $50x15 AdWords Coupons to the people who searched for the website/blog on pageboss.com for promote their projects like sponsored by Scobleizer.. And if Scob gives me $1,000, i'd spend all of them with my sweetheart Sinem :D - N.Onur ATAHAN

I would use the money to buy a laptop for my wife, a Kindle for myself and one year worth of school for two children that we know and support in Nepal :) - Sam Grover

i need money :-) - Dan

:) If i am lucky enough, i'll pick a random comment on this thread to give this money + 1$. Just to see how loop can be created. - Guy Vander Heyden

One more random comment - sam b-r

I'm in too :) - Eray Korkmaz

1 Timothy 6:10: "For the love of money is the root of all evil." If that's the case Scoble bring on the EVIL! WHOOOOOO YEAAAAAHHAHH EVIL!!! - sofarsoShaw BAZINGA!

Beautiful, beautiful link bait. ;) - Chris Nixon from BuddyFeed

Most commented post :) - romanzolotarev

Wooow this post will be the most popular post of all times :-) I'm in! - Ahmet Alp Balkan

$1750 would get me a DSLR and new macbook - Duc Nguyen

Wow, great idea to make new friends ;) (but a bit expensive?) - Pascal Hertleif

This is totally insane. I'd probably buy my mom the Palm Pre and 10% will go to charity (like always). - Nir Ben Yona

In a rich man's world! http://www.youtube.com/watch... ain't it sad! - sofarsoShaw BAZINGA!

FriendFeed is affected! :-) - Oğuzcan Şahin

I need a netbook for my projects :) - Gepetto

That's a big hat you need... - Orli Yakuel

Yay! - Rich

I will by my wife a flight home so she can go and see her parents who she misses lots. Which means i'll have sole access to my (our) laptop instead of having to share it. I could just use the money to buy a new laptop but then i wouldn't get teh good sofa and control of the remote as well! - Jamie Vidamour

meow! - zenya isaychew

Let's see if I'm still the unlucky guy I used to be - Boubacar Balde from twhirl

I could be homeless soon, lost my job due to the economy, and getting unemployment that just doesnt cut it, I could really use the money to pay my rent, bills and feed my kitties, contact me via email Kyle.M.Weller+scoble@gmail.com or you could just hire me and I'll help you in any way possible, check my blogs, I could be useful. And I would return the favor 10 fold if I can, matter fact I'll search for 2 other people to help and blog about it/take photo's - Kyle Weller

I would keep half of $1750 and give the other half to the author of the comment I liked most, but only if he/she promises to do exactly the same. - stark

.I need a new Laptop - Selçuk Hoca

I`ll use 1000$ of the 1750$ to buy a lot of comments on FriendFeed :) - Vlad

I thought these kind of things happened only countries like mine which the goverment tries to build a begging culture just to keep the hope alive and dependent to the authority at the same time. Each reply begging for money is adding another brick on the wall of shame. And Bob, couldn't you find another way to publicize this? - M. Serdar Kuzuloglu

If I win I will invest it back for advertising! Just say my name 3 times on twitter like "Candyman". - Los Angeles Dj

So what would I do with the money? Half of it would go to the good cause. I want to create value for people and who other than the less fortunate, handicapped and so on deserve this? Right. The other would go to a business I'm building. One for the people, on that will change our lives fundamentally and is here to stay. - Kris

If I dont win this, i'll be happy to donate my time blogging or helping someone in any way right now, im jobless in Phoenix Arizona, I could do yard work or hook up pc's/fix pc's or help you with your website if I can - Kyle Weller

I'd invest half of it in Google Stocks, then the rest I would pay my rent, get kittie food, and try and advertise www.phoenixstickers.com with adsense so my girlfriend makes some money with it, its new and not very popular right now ;\ - Kyle Weller

Here is my comment : the best way to talk about something is to let people talk about, and 4500$ is a pretty advertising investment. but it is really interesting :) now the question is ; is there any way to gauge the effectiveness of word of mouth? good luck. - abdellah

Mmm....are u crazy Rob? :) Ok! I wanna a netbook give to me only 300$ ;) - Dario Salvelli

I'd give the money to Comic Relief (http://www.rednoseday.com/) to buy 250 mosquito nets for Africa. Two hundred and fifty saved lives? Bargain. - Robin Stacey

you are so generous robin you deserve to win :) - abdellah

why? - catepol

I don't need this money :) Because I'm still working. But you can donate to a charity organization if I win. - Süleyman Sönmez

I will spend the money attending game design workshops in when in San Francisco, to improve my theory about the use of game design techniques in social web applications (playfuldesign.org). - Federico [Kurai]

@abdellah Hehe. Anything that stops someone from dying of Malaria is all right by me. Besides, it's simple economics. With $1750, no matter how I invest it, I can't do more that what 250 people could do with the rest of their lives. - Robin Stacey

you are right, so let resume (generous, logic, awesome, and with a sens of humor), let ask the question differently Robin : who has no reason to win the money win the money ;) (it seams that all have at least one reason) human are really amazing creature. (ps: me too) - abdellah

I agree, I'd buy a jet ski and have so much kick ass fun! - sofarsoShaw BAZINGA!

i'm in is too easy :) - Valentin Sandu

se vinco devolvo tutto a Mantellini - Luca Sofri

Trying to overload the comment stream? - Örjan Lundberg

I am here~~~LOL - K.D.

l'uomo a cui appiopparono la santità - azael عصير للمشيمة

I'll create a new world :] - ahmet kakıcı

yes please and I'll give half to my love oh and a bit to greenpeace - Julian Edward

if I win I will give $1 to everyone - Giuliastro

great idea, Robert! hope i'll win it.. i'll pay for my flight ticket, so i can finaly see you:) - Martin

Dear Robert, sağa sola para saçmak yerine gidip bi türkçe kursuna kaydolsanda türkçe öğrensen olmazmı? Hem bu yorumu anlardın bak ne güzel. Paran çoksa işe yarar bişeyler yap canım. - Ahmet Karaca

Robert! :) - Anıl Eren from fftogo

If I win, I will use them to finance my trip to L.A. next August. - Fabio Cristi

I'm in. - Tiziano Caviglia

Count me in. - Alexander Arsky

of course, I'm in. - Lorenzo

I'm in :). - Demircan Celebi

I'm in :) - Rıza Selçuk Saydam (RSS)

Ecchime. :) - Maxime

I'll take "I'm a Nigerian Prince" for $1000, Alex, err, Robert.! - Kevin Leroux

I have some debts.... and I have 11 sons... 34 grandchildren... 22 dogs... 16 cats... and I am a liar... a neeedy liar :-(((((((:-D).... GIVE ME CASHSHSHSHSHSSH... Ah... Goodmorning Mr Scoble - Daniel

I'd invest the money to my wife's startup that she starts next month. She'll be working around social media, blogs, photography etc. :) - Jemm

send all the money to germany :D - Carsten

whee! I'd use it to open my deli :) I see free lunches in your future *laughing* hell, I'd even dedicate a booth to you.. with a cool plaque and everything! - russa

This is going to be the longest thread ever - Manuela

I hope the money goes to someone that really needs it - Kyle Weller

Love to know your motivation for doing this Robert. Social experiment? See what people will do for money? You have a financial backing in Friendfeed & are aiming to stimulate usage? Either way, if I win, please donate the money to your favourite charity - Lindsay Davies

if I win I'll make a gift to my girlfriend - Ciccsoft

yo free money? I'm in! - danslarue

I would give it to a friend who is unemployed; buy a new computer, smart shirt and tie, give him his dignity & confidence back. It saddens me to see so many friends hurting right now. - Sally Church

I'll use the money by not using it (well, except for that 4pt escape clause written down below in the yet-to-be written contract between me and Mr. Scoble about the prize) - Daniele V.

oh, WOW! - Viditu - Umberto

This is the FriendFeed equivalent to leftover pizza in the breakroom. I could certainly use some $ right now. - Phillip

if I win I'll make a gift to Lehman Brothers - azael عصير للمشيمة

I'd rather type in nonsense, can I have Kaan's spot? - sofarsoShaw BAZINGA!

awesome robert!! are you part of pres obama's stimulus package? LOL! hope i win the random $1000 contest =) - Melissa Solito

I'll stay tuned :P - Tiziano Tassi

In regards to the first prize, I'm in. - Armin Talic

crazy guy you are! "You're only given a little spark of madness. You mustn't lose it." (Robin Williams) - Johannan Edelman

I'm in too ;) - saicharan123c

So. this is my comment: I would use the money to buy a ticket to fly over to meet you and discuss if I could support you as some kind of correspondent over here in Europe (I'm in Germany). - Till

In regards to the second prize, I'd like to use the money to buy my brother and sister their first macs. I grew up on encyclopedia britannica CDs on Windows 95, they deserve Wikipedia on a Mac. - Armin Talic

@danslarue, "free money" these two word combined are more powerful then a TNT, if you can conceive or even think a second about a concept of "free money" then implicitly agree with the concept of "free work" and beside voluntary work they call it salvation . - abdellah

I would use the $1750 in part to purchase some equipment for the part time photography business (about $500). The rest would go to 2 friends who are hurting right now with Flagler County, FL's unemployment rate at just over 14%. - Jay Caruso

strange that no one, think to reverse the money to the 43 startup!! boys oh boys buy some action some part of this 43 startup may be it will be worth million :) - abdellah

At first i thought i'd start a similar thread and give the money i win :-) but, here's the truth... I'd use the money to pay the next month of dev, working with a partner on our hope to be successful web service. I'm jobless 9 months now, 3 months since we started pushing the idea forward, all done @ home. Will use the most to pay my bills, with the rest i'll buy dinner for some of the homeless people i usually ignore. - Majento

i need a new macbook)) - what?

advertorial? - Elif Yılmaz

really? - Moses

gonna go to hollywood - Özkan Altuner

With this money, I am plannig to start a new company that develops social media applications. So if I win, I can give a job to you :)) - aydınn

the entire amount of money will be used to help the local communities in eastern congo and sustain conservation of the virunga national park in congo. if you prefere, you can do it right away without giving me the money, visit www.gorilla.cd/blog for a one-time donation / all donation are tracked and transparent :) - giulio

Brilliant idea and very noble of you, Scoble! (Sorry...I should leave the humor to my husband, who does a much better job!) LOL! I would use all the money to buy as many Radio Flyer kids wagons and send them out free to those that win a contest similar to this one! (I get them wholesale because I am an authorized dealer, so that would stretch the budget a bit more). - Pat Graham Block

I'd spend the money for future trips: I have ever wanted to see the milky way from the earth or see the Northern lights. But maybe, I could put the money aside and spend it for a parabolic flight when I have enough money (that's another lifelong dream). I would also love to go on safari in Africa and see all the amazing animals in the savanna. But maybe I should rent a car and feel the American dream at Route 66? Ah Robert, your money lottery helped my thinking about all my dreams again. Thanks! :) - Timo Heuer

I would use part of the money to donate to some podcasters or webcomic artists who are selling things on their website, like T-shirts, mugs and stuff like that. And buy a couple of domain names. Things I already do when tax return time comes, only this time more. - Derek Coward

Each post you make will promote this thread more and more thus decreasing the expected value, with this rate a post made a few hours from now will probably have an expected value of a few cents. This will be a very nice data . - Tuna

I need a new woman, please Robert choose me! - Francesco M.

cool :) I would use $1750 to buy cabinet-type gas-control point for cottage - Igor

I would spend the money of webhosting running free-of-charge computing services for open drug development (using open source utilities), such as used in Open Notebook Science and sorts. - Egon Willighagen

what's up. - pastas9

I think we will use the money to develop a desktop application for facebook very simple, actually, but that still does not exist in optimal form. I thought with a friend, but, since we are both students, we need a bit of $ $ $ to get technical advice from someone for some parts that relate to writing code (I study Marketing, and my friend is the final year of a degree in computer engineering). - Tiziano Tassi

Okey I give in. Scoble, finally you made me signup for friendfeed - shafiu

i'm in. also if this a psyco socialexperiment... - FedericaB.

hahah interesting to see anyways .. how many comments on the one thread - Terry O'Fee

Alright. This is my first entry. Chances are that I won't win....but it is exciting waiting to see if you do. :-) - Thebluestbutterfly

1) I'll spend the money to end my fear for airplane: so I can travel again. 2) i will organize a free public movie show here in Milano, all people sits in the night to watch the screen in the spring air - FedericaB.

@FedericaBellag, interesting :) and what if it is just a plain and simple contest? it may be more "word of mouth advertising" tracking experiment then psyco social one. (love the smile face) - abdellah

Who wouldn't want to join FF for $1000? - Samuel Driessen

I will use the money for paying up my college fees and taking up a course related to VOIP. People like Craig and Vincent of Grandcentral (which I use for 3 years almost), pat Phelan and more VOIP experts keep pushing me to do something great in that area. Also, great its open to any1 iin the world. Most competitions are US ONLY, which is something I HATE BIG TIME. I m in India Mr.... more... - Hardeep Singh Dang

@samuel, no the question is are FF team ready to pay $1000 for any on who join!!! - abdellah

@abdellah ok, let's be tracked then! that's my face at the office ;-) - FedericaB.

I will save the money. I'm an italian student studying abroad (Master in Digital Library), and those money could just be useful. They could be also a way to go in Jerusalem, following my girlfriend. Anyway, goo viral Scoble ;-) - Aubrey McFato

I bet half of the money, the prize goes to the 1000th commenter. - funkyboy from Posty

notice : the headline is "win my money" not "take my money", so we have to make effort, it is not a "free money" it is a make effort and win, so remember it is not "take my money" :) - abdellah

im in :) - shaff

Adopt me Robert! - Özer (Wrzl) Dölekoğlu

It's so hard to see whole of the comments. 620 including me now. :) - Meriç Dağlı

I would get an iron if I have been searching some water in the desert and I would be the ass part of the Voltran, when we have been arising it.... bacause I am so unfortunate - Lokman Köroğlu

.oO(i SHOULD be able to get D90...) - browneyes

you wanna DDoS FriendFeed :). I will use the money for a ff-contest when i pay people for the best comment. obviusly you can partecipate and win back your money. :P - ez

nice ;) - tbr (nicola) √

I'll donate some charities with 750$ of it. Buy a macbook with 999$ it, and set up a " First commenters win the buck. " contest via friendfeed. :) - Meriç Dağlı

It shouldn't be about the money? What kind of game is it? We still need to wait Is it somehow related to SXSW? - Aziz

Sure do wish I could be there at #sxsw - Gil Rodriguez

Hi, with that sum I would probably take a chance to stop and take time to smell the roses, at least for a while. - ziomau

nice way to see if there's a limit on the number of comments a ff post could get.. - Nicola Maggi

I could qualify for the $1,000, but not the $1,750 as I have two jobs. The only basis I could see is for a complete donation to an organization helping out of work people. We have a food pantry here in Beverly Mass called Bootstraps and a women's shelter in Gloucester, Mass called Wellspring that both would know just where that money could be best used. - Martha

Damn... money can do anything... - Eyal Shahar

I'll be practical when I win the money and invest it in the future....my childrens' education! - Kevin Dugan

@Eyal no, you can't win a contest even if you give money :) money don't do anything ;) - abdellah

@nicolas interesting question, and what do you think? does a thread have a comment limit or no? it all depend on the limitation, will this run eternally?no so there is a number of comment that people will post here it is a kind of buzz after the momentum there will be no comment let say there will be 50000 comment, FF are able to store such data. - abdellah

So being completely unbiased, with little if any interest, if I were Robert Scoble, handsome fella, I'd give the money to whoever stated first they would buy a jet ski due to the fact they are super fun! Oh, who knew, that's me! - sofarsoShaw BAZINGA!

Great...I was juts talking over in TechCrunch that Robert does not need luck in his new venture "Building 43" and not it seems I am the one that needs luck to win the $1000 ....:) Thanks Robert Joao/TechFuga - TechFuga

a little is better than none. :) - Geyik Mühendisi

Well I started reading this thread, but I got a 1/4 way through & gave up, >650 comments, that's got to be some kind of record. What post does have the highest number of comments? - Glenn Slaven

Interesting... I guess there's nothing to lose by trying - Adi Sheleg

Ok, can't hurt to put one's name into the "hat"...p.s. good luck dude on the new gig... will be following closely... thinking cloud myself :) - Michael Lehman

Hmmmm. That is my comment - Darrell Bell

Commenting away in the Great Scoble Sweepstakes. - Warner Crocker

With $1750 I would spend half to get to next years SXSW which I am missing this year :-(. and the other half I would spend on sponsoring a deluxe drop in-childcare at the Austin Convention Center for the parent bloggers. - Emee Pumarega

I'm in too:) I would use the money for keeping an exhibition - Neya

Comment! This is the Robert Scoble Stimulus Package - Kreg Steppe

Spinning the wheel. FF FTW ;) - Daniel Krech

10% to charities of my choice, the rest to pay bills and allow me to keep working in the nonprofit sector. I'm at that level where I still need to do outside consulting to come out ahead at the end of each month, and $1600 would give me 4 months where I wouldn't need to get a consulting gig (yep, the budget is that tight) - Jeff Stern

The 4 minihawks would like to donate to their california school district to help offset the 1.5mm cutbacks. - Mrsth

I'm in too! - LJ Kyser

Of course MRSTH could use an overdue marathon weekend away with Mr. Hawk. - Mrsth

I can promise nice pics? - Mrsth

I'm in... - Halil Ahmet ÇAKIR

This thread will explode in 3, 2, 1... - Marta

I can upgrade to a macpro by winning :-P - Richard A.

wow this is the most comments/likes i've seen! - andy brudtkuhl

If I won either sum of money, I'd probably put it toward buying some camera gear, like a Nikon D90 and another lens. I have a couple family events that I'll be taking pictures at, and it'd be nice to have a D90 for them. :) I could go for a D700, but the D90 has video, so that's why I prefer it right now. - Cheryl Jones

@Jason H - Whether or not either of us wins Robert's money, I have a timeshare near Disney that I haven't had the opportunity to use in the past few years. If you can get yourself airfare, a rental car and park tickets, I'll be happy to let you use the week, no charge to you. The dates are October 24-31, 2009. - Sally - Skyrimmin' It

what r we copying Ben Stein now? - clarke thomas

Congratulations to you and Rocky on the new gig. - Aron Michalski

With $1750 I'd give money to the National Multiple Sclerosis Society, to help fund research for a cure and treatments so my mother and others with MS can have an improved quality of life. I'd also give money to the American Diabetes Association to help my father and others living with diabetes. I'd give some to @smallcanbebig to help needy families locally (Boston) and hope to have enough left over to take my son to visit his grandparents in FL. He's 6 mos. and they've only seen him once, at Christmas. - Sally - Skyrimmin' It

Robert, I want your money. Do I have to work for it? - Aidha

I'm in. I wanne buy ı mac pro. - Rıza Selçuk Saydam (RSS)

I'm in robert! - Junal Rahman

on that money is the side of the monte man. what's this it :) scoble iki dakka delikanlı ol lan paran fazlaysa git yardım kuruluşlarına, özürlüler, kimsesiz çocuklara ver mngoduum kapitalist pçleri. - Volkan Yılmaz

hehe :P - Geyik Mühendisi

Yes please. The odds are way better here than playing the lotto - Christian Burns

I can't wait to see the effect of putting my name on this illustrious list of luminaries - David Gallagher

that's a smart way to get attention :) - PaperDoll

With USD1750 I could finally prove that friendfeed is not a complete waste of time... - Morten Josefsen

I would probably go for a D90 :-) - Nils Sandin

if you come to shanghai/China, we can have a dinner and go to bar :) - 赛林（土耳其）

I enter not because I need the money (I'd give it away too) but because me entering slightly reduces all of the rest of your chances to win. MUAHAHAHAHA - Nate True

My Scoble $1750 stimulus package spending plan: Give my son (the struggling Mac/iphone developer) $1,000 in "angel funding", get a Drobo ($500), and put $250 in my Grandson's (future Mac) savings account. - Al Degutis

Just for fun :) - Hassan

Pick me, pick me, pick me for the $1000 giveaway (if you don't pick me for the $1750 Scoble Stimulus). - Al Degutis

more people should do this. Many people or businesses could afford to give $1,000 - Lady Lovely Heart

i would donate some of it maybe half to a local worthy charity, the rest would go into a fund that would be used to encourage this type of activity. Conversation building, with the right questions a lot of solutions can be found by crowds - Tweet Feeds

My intent for the big prize would be to replace windows in my home with energy efficient ones. the ones in the house now are cracked from the house settling. they are the original 1959 windows, and they rattle every time a plane goes over the house. very distracting when we are trying to concentrate or stay warm - Lady Lovely Heart

I can haz money? - Bryan R. Adams

Big money. No whammies. STOP. | I would use the winnings towards upgrading my equipment (Mac Pro) since my current setup is pretty bad for video. I would sell my current MBP (2006 First Gen) and use the proceeds towards the new machine. I would pump out twice as much HD content with better equipment. Thanks for all you do Robert..I know whoever wins will make the best out of the cash. - Bwana ☠

Take my husband to the Grand Canyon for that honeymoon we never had--that's what I'd do with some extra cash. - joansjewels

I agree, nice way to get people engaged. - Gary Gifford Jr from Nambu

Show me the money! :) - Ale♪nastrorosa

actually, I don't want your money - Manuela

That's quite ingenious =) - Count Caturday

I'd buy a laptop so that I don't have to wait for the missus to get off the ruddy computer and let me have my go on it!!! - Andy

a nice way to test the limits of commenting feature on a bunch of real people just for US$1000. - 9000

I will use the money to buy $1 stocks in companies that will re-bound or will be more successful in the next 2-5 years due to the ongoing financial crisis. My choice will be guided by those companies that care, share and have flare for others...a community stimulus...hope others will join and build what the "financiers" could not. - Gordon Montgomery

It seems too easy, but.. here ya go! - Scott Breakall

You'll be my best crazy friend! *LOL* - Andrea Spedale

1. Cool 2. Travel for VC meetings so I can finally provide some solutions for RSS that we argued/discussed 2 years ago (delivery of premium content possibly over open channels) - Andy Beard

here I am :) - Fran

Yo Robert, did you give it away yet? Here's my chance to win! ;^) - Michael Bailey

@manuela, but personally I want more comment from you. - abdellah

awesome idea. by the way, how goes life without diet coke? - tracy

I'd use it to help an independent artist with their career. Rentals for video equip on shows and music videos with stories that would otherwise remain untold. - Frank Jonen

I'm in - Lucas Araujo from twhirl

I refuse to comment in this thread. - Akiva

How can I win? - Gloria Gordon

Woah! So is this part of the Scoble Stimulus plan? Anyways, if by some chance I did win the money I would use either towards moving out of my parents house later this year or put it towards my student loans. - Mathew™ aka Youngblood

@Akiva you also deserve to win., I insist please comment this thread please. - abdellah

I'd use the money to go to Korea. - Mark Woodson

I would use the money to fix the economy. - Andy Bakun

Andy: you get it right, please fix that economy. - abdellah

Its enough to buy one toliet seat for the government :) - Roberto Bonini

Robert could fund nails and shingles for building a small seminar facility in the Adirondack State Park. - Jeff Archambeault

With $1750 I would buy a lot of toys for the baby we are waiting.... - roberto ferorelli

I count at least 6 references to "donate to kiva.org" so far. Pretty cool. That is what I was going to write, but looks like many other's beat me to it. But hell... If I got it, I would donate to Kiva.org. :) (make it 7 now). - Shannon Bauman

JET SKI! - sofarsoShaw BAZINGA!

Sounds like a great idea. - Tyson Key

awesome idea. - Jessie

Give me $10,000 in unmarked bills or I tell Maryam your giving away $4800. - shelisrael1

joy and joyness! - Jenn Castro

Nothing special here, just want to pay some outstanding bills and get supplies for my 3mth old =) - Mat Finch

Quickly put in a reply while thinking about a smug way of spending 1.750... - Stefan Kolle

Yeah, I think I'll stick with the Kiva donation too. I'm pretty prolific there (a true believer), and have about that amount outstanding in loans, so the chance to double my Kiva loans in one go would be outstanding. - Stefan Kolle

is this gonna have like 1000+ comments? - Jorge Murillo

I'm bummed I couldn't get to SXSWi so I came to Robert's ATM machine instead. :) - Laura Zickus

in. - Richard Lawler

No comment :-P - Richard A.

Bump! - Tyson Key

I'd love to say I'd do something altruistic with the money, but I'd invest it all in my startup (we're doing cool things with information and emotions online). In this economy every little helps :-) - jennielees

Out - Roberto Bonini

Awesome. Looking forward to what's next. - Andy Sternberg from fftogo

Yay, the Scobleizer Grand Prize Giveaway- Still more chances than the National Lottery! - Tyson Key

FriendFeed Scales! - Tyson Key

with $1,750, I would I would set up 7 performance art / photoshoots uptown here in Charlotte in the center of Bank Town at lunch time, wordlessly demonstrating some of the problems (as I see them) with our current corporate culture. I have the first one of these ready to go but don't the cash to set up the others (yet). If I only got the free $1000, I would buy some more studio lighting equipment (much to the chagrin of my roomy). - Shannon J Hager

Why? Why? Why? - Ashish Rangole

in - Roozbeh

Bella idea! :) - Daniele_MD

with $ 1.750 I would buy a laptop + microphone + router for my parish and start broadcasting with kids. - astrid/astridula

Hey Robert, I think this is the most commented entry on Friendfeed. btw I don't want your money :) Cheers - cihanergur

just testing my luck :) - DenizEdincik [bluesign]

sure, I'll play. as for how I'd use the money, I'd probably use it to help offset the cost of my lasik surgery. - chrisofspades

I would use the money to fund my own open source development work (within the php symfony framework) as well as supplement my wife's pending maternity leave. Realtors don't get paid maternity leave... Thanks! - Jon Issler

Scoble rocks, count me in! - Chris Pugh

I would use the money to assist my parents in their move back home closer to the adult children. They are currently existing on 18k a year, their Medicare and Secondary insurance cost them 10k. It would help buy their medications. - Janet-The Bottley Crue

I'm sure that there are a lot of deserving people who need this money so best of luck to all. I would give this $ to my mother who had to sell her business after working so hard, cause she was diagnosed with lung cancer. Now she has to work for someone part time cause still sick, husband laid off in Florida, trying to pay off house, med bills, prescrip, barely making it & gov't no help cause not appv'd for Medicare cause married, what? so considering divorce just to afford medical bills & mortgage. - M.E. - monica Edwards

I've blocked u, so if u wanna get back on my list....:) - Koba Yaschi

This is really good. I'll buy a Nintendo Wii. :) Thx. - marrup -serkan-

Here's the rundown with what I'd do with $1750: I want to do a Power Rangers fan film. No joke. Stop laughing. No really, you can stop now. Power Rangers has been on the air for the past 17 seasons, and it's finally getting canceled. This has inspired me to shoot a film short inspired by the show I grew up with. The $1750 will be invested to bump it up to looking professional. Scoble can be the Executive Producer! Don't pass up on that chance. Ok, you can stop laughing now, lol. - Lisa J

I want money - Tyler (Chacha)

Tuition for 2010 Iowa Summer Writing Festival courses, at Iowa Writers' Workshop. - Paola Bonomo

It would go into the funds I am raising to start a new print venture, tbnl, which will publish great, timeless stories (fiction & nonfiction) in a limited edition (subscriber only edition), a print-on-demand edition available for years and a digital ebook reader. Paying writers & artists on an ongoing, fair basis - Shannon Clark

I'd love to have some Scoble Dollars. They'd help fund my exit from technology to academia. - Tom Morris

Hi Robert, Congrats on new opportunity with bldg 43 Can I share your money with my 18 month old daughter AKA the Joy transmitter or perhaps I could drop it form the sky with my tandem paraglider over the Microsoft campus... - John Clifford

It's impossible not to comment - although if it wasn't Scoble saying this, I wouldnt bother to be honest, as I'd suspect a con ... - Ian

760 comments and counting... - Mike Doeff

I guess a SECOND MacBook would be nice… - Alexandre Testu

Is it for VAT? - Onur ALMIŞLAR

I'd use the money to buy crack. I mean books for children. Oh, wait, it's random... - Jules Morgan

Wow! I think I would invest them for developing an iPhone application - Nicholas

Hi Robert, my first comment on friendfeed, I couldn't resist the chance. You do know that Tuesday is St. Patrick's Day - I'll buy you a leprechaun hat from the parade in Dublin to celebrate! - Niall Sisson

Leaving Comment here. Hope it finds a good home. I would use the money to start a shelter for lost comments. - Joe K

No 419 scammers yet? ;) - Tyson Key

Great! As this 'WTF' crisis in Madagascar is causing everything to be sooo difficult now! - Thierry R. Andriamirado

better try... - grouchomax

That's like a lottery :) I'm in ! - Il gareth in Milano

I would put together a new computer, like to see BOINC running on a quad core. - Willem (@wim66) ☠

Great way to engage Robert! - Sampad Swain

I'm here! And I'd like to switch from PC to Mac... :D - Giovy

Rackspace customer and big fan... Looking forward to this new venture! - Charlie N. Browning

Surprised you have fallen as low as this Robert. Still, been there and done that before so best of luck and best wishes with Rackspace. - Paul Fabretti

Um, awesome. - Nick Humphries

count me in - Edward Kimble

If I win, will post about the same in my blog and you'll be famous in India too (if you're not, that is). BTW your fan following can add upto 45 million Indian internet users (Smirk!). Now how about that Mr. Scoble? Game for it....Oh man, this is quirky fun! Keep up the good work Robert :) - Sampad Swain

I would use the money to fix _my_ economy. And by my economy, I mean I'd blow it all on strippers and blow. - Jon Ursenbach

The amount of comments in here is insane. What's the record for the FF entry with the most amount of comments ever? Because this one feels like a winner. - Brad Butner from twhirl

you lucky! in Italy we can's setup a contest like that one easily and free, we have to pay taxes :( - Maurizio Mazzanti

If I won $1000, it would go to my first Mac since a Mac+ ! - Steve Ellwood

am still undecided on your real motive...... but then again, pecunia non olet..... ;) - denise

787 comments ?? wow!! Scoble u are the Brad Pitt of friendfeed... anyone else see the physical resemblence? - Cody Heitschmidt

Um, no, I don't Cody. Sorry. Scoble is taller. - Roberto Bonini

just leave a comment. well her's mine - Rachel Clarke

well its not identical I know Scoble is a little taller, but other than that Anfgelina could easily confuse the 2. - Cody Heitschmidt

I'm in! - «Weird & Sons»

eh what the heck, im in :) - ralphsaunders

This is interesting, but too many comments to read unfortunately. - Mitch

Simulate me, Scoble! - Robert Owens

That would be awesome, I could put the $$ towards my vacation to Kauai in August. Thanks Scoble, I promise to provide you photos from the vacation PF. - Pentaxfan

I'm bending the corner of my comment so it sticks out - Just Ken

pick me! Pick me! :) - Dania

This is great.. thanks Robert! =) - Timo Ukkola

I'll buy whatever Apple is developing with that rumored 10 inch multitouch display.. - Peter

too much comments..pick me! - magari sul tardi

. - Smeerch

Jet ski, I need one - sofarsoShaw BAZINGA!

If I win this thing, I'll be most hated person on FF. god help me!. - Ozan Caglargil

For a small advance fee, I can take part... - Gordon Joly

i'm in, too.. - Sercan YILMAZ

You're not really going to write down all these names & pull them out of a hat are you? - Mrsth

I'll need a credit card that got no limit-cuz we all just want to be rock stars - Mrsth

Mrsth: I bet he'll find a script somewhere to pull all the usernames into a file, as only Scoble could do. :) Any amount of money would likely go towards my photography business, should I be chosen to win... it would be fun to put a portion of it towards prizes for the photowalks I'll be starting this summer in northern Vermont for area photographers and enthusiasts. - Bob M. Montgomery

Are you trying to create "the most commented thread" on friendfeed? Here's my comment however: what will I do with my 1750$? Probably I'll use them as a "microfound" for a webapp I'm thinking to... :P - Napolux from twhirl

814th post! - Tyson Key

I like free money. Was it already given away? - nsnadell

I'd like to say that I'd do something noble should I win but there's no nobility in ordering cases of wine and giving my liver a good workout. Plenty of enjoyment, though. - Mark H

I'm in! :) - Vlad Rafeev

I would use it to not have an excuse for not recording my album. That is to say after 15 years of putting it off, I would stop procrastinating. - Vicky

wow for real? thats insane - ralphsaunders

I'm in and I'd probably put the money towards building my deck (not super exciting but still...) - Trevor

Starting to think I should post a reason why I want it... - ralphsaunders

I'm in! And I would use the money to buy my mom a present. She just turned 52 :) - Alex Kapranoff

I'm working on a funding for a research application for a semantic web project that I hope will become the next big thing (one of the next big things, anyway). If I succeed, you'll be the first person I ask to cover it! - Sam Kuper

Money, money, money, money ... MONEY! - Great Scott! Needs a Ham

You guys do know that Scoble is essentially bribeing you to comment here? Large carrot and a small stick. - Roberto Bonini

Didn't stop you did it? - ralphsaunders

LOL. In my defense, I was performing a public service. *ducks* - Roberto Bonini

Hey I'm in. Is this the most commented entry in the whole of FriendFeed? I'm guessing that it will be. Anyone know what the previous record was? - Peter Kelley

I'd use the money to help get my wife's specialty dessert company off the ground: www.thesweettreatcompany.com - Michael Listberger

Can't wait to win your money... I'd use it to pay for some much needed camera gear and the rest of it to plan a trip to a city I've never been before so I could photograph it. I would love to be able to do something with photography, but it's tough working full time and going to grad school at night, all on my own dime. I don't have it as rough some people, but I've had to earn everything I have so I make no apologies for it. - Michael

Good luck sorting thru the 800+ comments :) If I won the money, I would repeat your experiment and give it all away (though I'm sure I would get no where near as many entrants as you) (P.S. It's not that I couldn't use the money, but I think it would feel good to help someone who needs it more than me). Good luck everyone! - Helen Hoefele

He won't notice if I comment twice, right? ;) Nah, I don't do that. But, holy crap! This is a lot of comments! - Mike Nayyar

I sure could use $1000. Would go straight to funding Taskerrific. $1750 would be even better, because I could get a new computer and a year's hosting, based on my current estimates. - Chris Charabaruk

I would use the money to fund my plastic drumming addiction. Hellooo pro drum set hacked to play Rock Band! - Chieze Okoye

So I wonder how many comments a FF post can handle? - gfurry

I would use the money to pay my taxes so the needy executives will still be able to get their bonuses this year. - gfurry

Hey Robert. Hard to say the best way to spend it without doing too much work to make it be most useful, but if it could be used to do something radical with what is going on with the Fed, I'm sure you know that Ron has a bill in Congress to Audit the Fed. Very soon things are gonna be way worse for us on this planet if things are not done to stop the insane people from making some really bad choices. So the money should go to someone willing to do something really radical to save our country from ending. - mikehedge

Weird. I was just thinking about how I needed about $1750 in ones to sew together and waterproof in an effort to make myself an umbrella top to fix the one I ripped yesterday. So...yes, that's what I'll do with it. I'll even give you a free picture of it in exchange for your dollars! (Leftovers will be donated to credit card debt. :( ) - Brett

what is going on here? - potatohai

mortgage and beer, yo! - TINY REPTILIAN PYROMANIAC

I'll put the money into microlending; a good social/economic ROI. - Phil Wolff

I want to say something conservative like pay down my debt or put it in the kids college fund, but I'm going to go out on a limb and say that I would use the money to buy myself a bass guitar. Just something I've been wanting but don't have the discretionary income to afford it. - Eugene Huo

850+ Comments? That has to be some sort of record for friendfeed in just over 24 hours. - WiseYoda (aka Patrick)

Win money? Count Me IN! - Dave

I want to win money! - Matt Bebich

hi Robert Scoble :D yeah count me in! - OmniDragon

$4500 closer for next TED. Plenty of time to work on the invitation! jgx - Jennifer Green

Bring it on! Love your feed from SxSW! Now, send me the money! - Gene

OH good money for college... or to buy a new computer... - Laaabaseball

I want to win so that I can buy me a Macintosh,so count me in. - frank harvey

Hey, Rob help a sista out! Give me da money! - Jackie

saw you on Chris's live stream @ SxSW...free money count me in! - Jason

Money rocks - Shawn Farner

If I won $4500, I would install central heat and air in my house. You would make my life so much happier! - Auriette Lindsey

$1,750 would go to the nonprofit volunteer org I'm trying to get off the ground :P - Shawn Farner

Diapers for Newborns. $1750 split evenly to the most socially active on http://bebepool.com (my free web service enabling expectant parents to run their own baby pool contest). Most active meaning the 10 pools with the most participant guess entries Jan-Feb. I will paypal $175 to each winner and blog the results inclusive of the funds origin & any statements from the families impacted. I've seen the bebepool community show their own generosity (http://burnurl.com/YvHNL0 ), so would love to full circle it. - Micah

Scoble the human Roulette wheel. - Rob

wow. must be the post with the most comments i've seen on friendfeed so far. - simonpure

With 1750 I'd do the ever boring "keep paying off the wife and I's credit cards" - Steve Boerner

Any and all the money I win will go for building this charity app we are planning. Every cent spent will be accounted for and would be posted on a web site (TBD). Additionally, we will be spending our own money and time on this. @scobleizer, please ping me if you would like more details. - Ashish Rangole

lame - Vezquex

Behold, my comment. Hi Robert, I saw you at SxSW. - Michael Lee Wise

I'd put up the first Bldg 43 Billboard - http://tinyurl.com/1750-00 - Rob

Tipjoy $1 each to the first 1,000 or 1,750 (depending on prize) commentors in this thread who have a Twitter account. - Hao Chen

With $1750, I'd put up another "Win my money" post on FriendFeed, and see if people bite more or less than for your money. And then figure out why they liked your money more (social-networking experiment 2.0). - Ivan Zuzak

Robert kardes kusura bakma Ingilizcem iyi degil. 1750 gaymeyi bana verirsen sirket acarken kullanacagim. toparlarsak : $1750 + 10 000tl = design company :) - Uur

Interesting. :) /sits down and waits - PiDave

Emergency is an independent, neutral and non-political Italian organization, provides free, high quality medical and surgical treatment to the civilian victims of war, landmines and poverty. http://www.emergency.it/index... - Cristian Conti

If i won the money, I will write a easy to use friendfeed app for iphone :) - cem

very cool idea - Kate

$1750= Paying off my medical bills... no, not enough. Gas, food, rent... mmm, scratch that. Funding my craving for more, new camera equipment.... perfect. You, rightly feeling good for what you want to do,... priceless. - Kate

mi piegherò al Dio denaro, ma almeno lo farò nella mia lingua madre :) - Tambu from twhirl

I will use the money to put towards a deposit on a flat. Currently I am living between my parents and my partner and daughters. I have two children from a previous relationship so will use the money for a deposit on a place which is central to both location - Joe Dawson

I'll use the money for a much needed, long overdue, 2 month break and go to India to relax from this hectic world… - Adi Sheleg

hard to win easy to spend. - ismail ünal

Scoble, fund me a startup! - Toni @ NavinoT

i'll use the money to get out of this place and start running my own business - Claudia

I'll fund prototype of my p2p language learning startup - Artyom

In case I win, I'll upgrade my networking status to "notworking" status. At least for a month. During that time, I'll have more time to make blog posts and enlighten self taught musicians and producers who are fighting to make music in their bedrooms. And I will buy some cookies for myself, in case I forget to eat - ilterocktive

I'll get a haircut, and get a real job. - Adrian

Comment #895 - Anthony K. Valley ©

I would donate the money to Warchild.com, whose cause is to give children in war zones around the world a peaceful future. - Alexander van Elsas

lascio un inutile commento pure io - AdamoLanna1(chiuso)

Sei un chiattone, bob. Simpatico, però. - jokerulez

Considering some people worrying about taxes, I'd just like to state that up here in Canada, lottery and contest winnings are not taxed. At all. - Chris Charabaruk

Sorry, I don't want money, we've got too much ! - Benoit Bourdin

Benoit: I'd be happy to help you get rid of some of your surplus, if that's really the case. ;) - Chris Charabaruk

In response to happyseaurchin's question above, I propose tiprojx http://tiprojx.wordpress.com/ ... If anyone reading this who has a twitter account tweets an idea for a (social change) project with one or more of the hashtags #tipme #tipshare #tiptodo #tipif ... a whole lot of new projects have the potential to 1. gain crowdsourced funding and 2. be collaboratively refined in the process. I'll split the money between my favourite tagged ideas posted before midday (GMT) next Tues 24 March. - Hannah Lewis

If I won $1750, I'd use the money to hire a local (Austin) freelance UI/dev to help me finish my social sports service (commi.sh) and pay for hosting for a year while we grow it. - Carter ♥ HTML5

OMG. Robert Scoble jumps into "paid per comment". This is the end. My only friend, the end. - Davide Pozzi

ok, this is definitely a test for building43.com. does friendfeed run on rackspace? Rob, you trying a massive test of comments or live commentary, or something like that. i can bet you're analyzing this data on rackspace. you're making the new friendfeed search of organized live conversations/streams. - Reji

did i win? lol - Ivan Stegic

Another social experiment?!? Sure, I'm in for a little bailout money!!!! - Ferwin from Nambu

If I win I will hire someone to keep track of these little contests ppl like Scoble play from time to time.(since this kinda contests will be the newest #trend from now on) - Manoj

Comment 909 and counting. New pool ~ When will Robert break his own record. - Russellreno

910! - Tyson Key

Will Tomorrow be my Lucky Day? I will buy $1750 dollars of PowerBall tickets and then give 90% of the winnings to help feed children in Africa. - David Clements

This money could really help me in my current situation. Unfortunately I recently had a tumour removed from my bladder, which has really turned my life upside down. Overall, this has resulted in me having to miss and therefore finance two extra years at University. I’m currently 21 and studying BA Hons Economics at Newcastle University, England. I’m pleased to say that my health seems... more... - Daniel Rowley

Very funny! :D Did I win something??? :D - Matte

ain future economic prosperity! I would also donate $250 to Malaria No More: http://www.malarianomore.org/.... Thank you for the opportunity. - Daniel Rowley

wow..If I win I will buy a bike.. and travel around India... God bless me!! - sirishkumar

If I win I will buy a ticket to SxSW next year and watch Scoble get totally wasted and take pics of legs with his camera... - Ross

Pick me, pick me. - Amit Morson

As for the $1,750 - I will donate it to the first children related cherish organization that approaches me. - Amit Morson

With $1,750 I would be able to afford the flight back to Austria and support my dad who has to undergo his 3rd surgery and eventually also the 4th. - Verena Fuchs

I would sell it! =) honor would be enough for me... - Goktug Gedik

I would use the money to purchase a head stone for my mothers grave. - Ardail Smith

i would use the money for a long hot summer :) - Samuel Kreuzer

I'd buy $1,750 worth of green energy stocks, most probably geothermal - Fabio

Robert - I would use the money to buy good microphones to make an internet video series about Nerd Revolt. http://www.numeriklab.com/2009... I would then use them to document the 2009 Decibel Festival in September: http://dbfestival.com After that, who knows - but I promise to come up with something good! You can't document musicians without good sound :) Thank you, Erica - Erica Toelle

I would use the money to pay my out-of-state tuition! - Kevin Mohr

i would like it in a brief case... small unmarked bills please - ray parisi

I'd use $1750 towards a down payment for a first home. My wife and I recently had a son, and our apartment is shrinking at an alarming rate. - Chris Heald

i'll be a materialistic bastard. i'd pay my bills while still trying to search for a job in this life sucking, non-forgiving city. yup. that's what i would do. ramen noodles are no fun when you're not in college... - ultimate_loser

if i win this money i'll use to buy some equipments for the university, but not only for me. i'll buy two computers, one printer, and so we can do our university newspaper. this money will be a contribute for the free press, in a nation like italy, where every voice is subdued to the power. give us a chance! - Riccardo

Leave a comment here, and I can win. Ok, done. What's next? There's something about a second way to win, that looks like I need to state what I'd use the money for. Simple: to continue to make uplifting films, like I did this year for the 168 Project. Need to make a few payments still. The rest will go towards next year's film. - Mike Shields

Way too easy ;) - Gregg Wenger

I'd put it towards a computer and software I need for my new small business I'm setting up after 4 years off work with a broken back - Rob Bell

Mee Two :) , i'll use it for world Piece - Chirag Chamoli

Mike: watch http://www.ustream.tv/studio at about 4 p.m. today (Austin Time, which is about 2 p.m. Pacific Time) and we'll pick the winners live on that show. - Robert Scoble

I'd like to join this competition to make a chance for the money for my new developing start-up. Could use it for sure, development is costy these days! - Coen Jacobs

I'd use the money to pay for an artist to help me out on a Palm Pre/Windows Mobile app that I'm working on. - Alastair Maggs

Robert, great gesture! I would give all of the $ on your behalf to this worthy cause: http://friendfeed.com/e... - B2B Specialist

Took the challenge. Opened account from my couch with iPhone. Curious to get the rest of the story. - Georgiana Dearing

Generating metrics I presume Mr Scoble? - Stefan Szo

OK heres my comment! - Randy

OK, first the 'leave a comment here' bit - here it is. As to what I'd do with the money, my wife has been made redundant and two days later someone crashed into my car while it was parked - so I guess I'd put it towards replacing the car and rebuilding our lives. Actually that sounds a little melodramatic, it's only a car, but it would be useful. Unless of course UK residents aren't eligible for this in which case I guess I'll just sit at home and sulk! - Guy Clapperton

I'll switch SocialToo from Amazon EC2 to Rackspace if I win - Jesse Stay

Win money? No, thanks. but I DO wanna earn your money :). Send details to onno@media44.nl or visit http://www.media44.nl - MEDIAFORCE

$1750? My answer is simple. I would use it to help fund our movie. To purchase wanted equipment, better food for cast/crew, throw an awesome wrap party. Then, if we had any left over, we would use it towards our next movie. Also, you would get a free copy (format of your choice) and an Executive Producer credit. It'll be on IMDB and everything! This could be an awesome help for a trio of tired, driven, motivated filmmakers who want to change the game for movie-making. - Anthony Thompson

I would spend $1,750 on a iPhone App using fbConnect for my financial services startup which I otherwise wouldn't allocate a budget for. - Abhimanyu Chirimar

Gosh, there are a lot of comments. Is this a FF stress test? - Morton Swimmer

I'm in! - Simon Holliday

I would use the money for development of gCaptain 2.0 with the goal of dethroning the oldest magazine in continuous print, Lloyds List, from the maritime news sphere of influence. - gCaptain

I will hire a scholar to make my research few hours a day so I can follow your tweets!!! :D - Jesús

I'm in, what would I do with the money? well, I'm a teenager from Cairo, Egypt, and I plan to start podcasting during my vacation "first video podcast in Egypt" and work on my blog, I don't have enough money to buy an HD camcorder so I would use the money to buy that and get a domain name for my blog and go pro, and if there is enough money I would buy an iPhone. - Ahmed

I'd take the family out for a meal at the Gaucho grill http://tinyurl.com/3pc8ur - mike williams

I would give the money to this young man in his fight against hodgkins lymphoma. He is the nephew of my daughter's preschool teacher and I would do anything to help him out, but we don't have much. As a former soccer player, current coach and human being... my heart goes out to him and his family. Anything would help. http://tinyurl.com/cch2uy - Jason

Not yet in the position to give like you give, I do what I can. Giving spirits garner unselfish hearts! - http://budurl.com/ynkm - Carlo At Your Service

This is the most epic thread ever, i put off replying all weekend but i think its about time i joined in. I think if i won i'd propose to my girlfriend because id be able to afford a ring! Or, we'd go on a nice much needed holiday. - Simon Wicks

I'd give the money to Daniel Rowley (comment above). Seems like he has a genuine need. - Dustin Curtis

Interesting (and a few not so) comments. Most people are here for the easy money, leaving a random comment and then closing a tab. No blame here, since it's the rule of the game. Do you know that in order to permanently change the world you just need just a little bit compared to the big picture to get you over that hard to reach top? Well, that's what I would use it for, to get that jolt, break the barriers and climb over that first, impossible top. - Lorand R. Minyo

hey! easy game Mr Scoble :) I'm here :D - Guillaume

What a cool idea. I would definitely use the money towards taking another class. Assembly? Lernin is espensive. - sarajchipps@gmail.com

I'm in too - Judging by the entrants, I'll have better odds on winning the lottery - Shaf

I'll donate the money to AIG executives. - Filipe Marques

I would use the money to bid on Gaius Baltar's Robes at the Battlestar Galactica Auction in May. Those costumes get pretty pricy! ~Matt http://BSGcast.com - Matt

I'd use to money to stimulate the US economy by buying all your stuff - Magnus

I'd pay the 4000 I owe in tuition. I've paid off all but this last bit, so it'd be my first move. Still looking for a job... - Linda Margaret

I liked that :) - MobilAdam

I would use the money to buy a laptop. I bought one in December and was getting a friend from the US to bring it to me (I was in Dubai). The laptop was stolen from her luggage at JFK and I got no compensation. I was out 1500$, laptopless, and highly depressed because the euphoria of getting a new laptop was not realized. - Bhavishya Kanjhan

If I win the money - its going straight to helping my startup - creately.com get to Public Beta. We're so close and every cent counts! - Charanjit

Good way of generating a lot of comments :-) I'd use the money for reducing some debts... - Diego Zamboni

Whoaaaa, there. $4,500? Really? Boy am I glad I follow you on Twitter. Since when does money grow on tweets? If I ever had the good fortune of being plucked out of a hat, I'd spend all of it on the tuition bills that have racked up in my family name (mother, brother y yo). - amira

I'll make a social network for BitTorrent. - KN

Hm. Maybe I spend it on a Nikon D90 or a camcorder. - Stefan Michel

Money is the root of all evil, they use to say. But it can blossom into good things. - Nick Palffy

I would use the money to update my photography equipment and software. This would update my pet photography as needed - Randy Nacol

I am in - Bronchart

I would use the money to get my girlfriend @Tatty, who I met on Twitter, from Norway to the US so we can start living happily ever after. :) - Foul Bastard

Pay off the credit card and get a return airfare to the USA from Sydney! - Nathan Davies

Sounds crazy but why not :-) - Cyril Hanquez

I need 980 dollars to go to school to be a cheesemonger. So tired of waiting tables and am ready to pursue something I am passionate about. - Miles Laird

I'd use the money to take some time off with my daughter... - Fredrik Wennberg from twhirl

I'm saving to buy my first house later this year and working to start my freelance design business. - john

$1750...I would use them for a wonderful trip to San Francisco! Plane tickets from France and visit of the best web start-up / companies :) Enjoy!! - Guillaume

I'd have to assume I'd use the money to buy a Nikon D90, then hunt you down to thank you and take your picture with it. - Richard Finucane

How can I mute this thread? - Richard A.

I'll use it as a "Pay It Forward Ponzi Scheme" (In these crazy Maddoff days, it's about time we revert the wheel.) - Vivian Cohen- Leisorek

Hi Robert! I would use the money to put into a bank account. I will become a daddy within the next weeks and this would a be a 'scolar fund' for my first kid! - Bas van Breugel

Count me in. $1750 would go to the IWK Children's Hospital for Xboxes and Wiis. - M Langille

Great idea-- and I'd use the money to create workshops to bring younger and older gay men together to discuss the history of the AIDS epidemic in Philly. http://gayhistory.wikispaces.com - Chris Bartlett

What am I going to do with the $1750? I will reveal that secret in my second comment :) - Bari Hossain

Great idea Robert. I'd do four things: I'd pay for a ESPN360 season and play-off pass to watch NHL games over here in Europe. Then I'd hire a graphics designer to redo http://www.speakingenglishpodcast.com to have it not only appeal to learners but also sponsors. Third, I'd take my wife out to dinner and fourth I'd give the rest back to you - I wouldn't need it all and you have a family, too. - Sebastian Keil

Sure, count me in. - Barty

First of all, thanks for the heads up on "Free Money" also thanks for being such a great conduit. So throw my name into the hat please. I know I usually push for giving to Cancer foundations and etc. But am going to change it up a bit.... If I would happen to win the money there is hugely talented Photographer on Twitter that needs only $6,000 to sustain his enrollment at some artsy Ivy... more... - SashaKane

Seriously? I'll start a "Mini-ITXs" fund to replace all the desktops in my home with Mini ITXs. Power saving ftw! - Nimish Batra

I'd start a foundation dedicated to bringing the finance crooks to justice and redistributing the stolen funds from whence they came. - Alistair Knock

hmm...I'll rather invest it in gold. That's the least volatile thing these days. - Kunal Gangar

i would finally finish my thesis and rent a lot servers with mosso after that to incorporate a company dealing with enterprise mashups and cloud computing in germany - tmetschke

im in - Jason Walke

I would tell my boss he is a noob and that I quit my job and start my own business. - Gary Schubert

oh, and i'd also KILL for a macbook. but i'd probably go to school. but you should totally give it to someone who needs it more. - Miles Laird

simple way to enter :) - Cristian

Robert, I would probably spend the money in a relatively futile manner. Therefore, I'll let others who need it more have a chance at the $1,750 prizes. I'd be happy to be chosen randomly for the $1,000. Great initiative, by the way. - Antonio Cangiano

This is just what we need in order to launch AllRise.com: hosting + legal expenses +company registration fees. - Erez Eden

richard, by giving a way more money, are you ready? - abdellah

I'll give YOU $500 and give $100 to twitter (since I heard about it there). The first should make it easier for you to part with the money. The twitter donation will conclusively prove that they have a viable business model :) - Ebrahim Nalwala

Our band would use it to buy a PA system so that we could play anywhere/practice with proper sound. I`d treat this as a loan and donate the money in your name to the VH1 Save The Music Foundation. - Reuben Fortes

It would help me pay for my wedding in Ottawa in August, rather than having to borrow money! (PS nice way of getting people on FriendFeed!) - Paul Lomax

Robert, please pick me. I need the USD1000 to get myself an iPhone 3G (cost HKD6200.00 from Apple Hong Kong) so I don't have to borrow my girlfriend's, and the rest of the money, I will use to pay for all the data usage I will be using when testing review copies of iPhone apps. How can I be borrowing an iPhone to write iPhone app reviews? That is just ironic. - Vinko

I need to do something completely luxurious and pampered for a week. Oh, I would really like to take my brother along because it was his birthday two weeks ago and would like to surprise him. That's right, a very belated birthday present. Very much would be a surprise. How about a cruise out of Miami to the Caribbean or out of Los Angeles to Mexico? We need to see the water! Sure we have the Fountains at Bellagio but we would like to sail on an ocean. There it is. I have our bags packed and ready to go. - Vegas Bill

I need money for my first startup! - kunal jain

Buy a nice camera for making better videos for my blog & invite my family having a nice evening at a greek restaurant - Wittkewitz News

Show me the money - TJ Polczyn

I would develop an innovative iPhone app using the money and when sales pick up, return the amount to you so u can run another contest. - iPhone Dev Guy

I am a poor student who really could use a new Laptop.. I will Ustream and take pictures of the unpacking so you know I didn't spend the money on beer ;) I could put SPONSORED BY SCOBLE stickers on the new machine. Please Scoble, I could really use this. Cheers, patrick. - patrick detlefsen

a new laptop to replace the almost 6-year old one would be nice for a developer. give me the other prizes, too and i'll donate 'em to schooling a kid in a 3rd world country! - moogs

*wonders* Do we have to leave two comments, one for the $1000 and one for one of the $1750? - Linden A. Mueller

Ok, Scoble if i get this money somehow, give my money to this student (patrick detlefsen) - Thanks - Junal Rahman

If you pick me, I will lend out the money via Kiwa.org - Henning

So just in case, here's the second one. :) I would save it. We'll be making our second international move in two years in September, and this time, we'll be settling down. I would use it for part of our down payment on our first house. - Linden A. Mueller

Right now $1750 is worth $2700 Aussie (sounds a lot better) I'd ask Robert to JV with me and share how to turn that $2.7k into $270k in 6 months. If we didn't like each other after that we needn't continue to turn it into $27M. Jim Beasley (Twitter: whoisJimBeasley) - Jim Beasley

Would love to start an online business for my 7 yr old as a college fund!!!! Have the idea, just not the funds to start it!!! - Charles Bovard

I could use the money to pay some of my student loans that I had to take to study the one true thing worth studying, the Internet! - Shane Tilton

I would spend the money on bourbon and porn. - Kari Holtz

I'll use to finance our new project of social publishing with Friendfeed. Thanks for the opportunity. - Massimiliano Mancini

if I win: I'd give half of the money to Emergency (http://www.emergency.it/) to help their medical work in war areas. - andrea

In New Zealand his will go along way. Id use it for language resources for our indigenous Maori - Bradley Walker

I want I want! I will restore my VW 1974 with it! :-D true story: http://www.facebook.com/home... - Pierre Lapointe

I'd love to use your money to send kids with disabilities to CampASCCA.org! With the $1750, 3 children would get to go to camp this summer. Or, it would send maybe a dozen to a weekend camp this spring! Either way, I'd love to see you help these kids out. In this kind of economic environment, places like Camp ASCCA are the first to be forgotten ... that means the kids are forgotten, too. Thanks, Robert! - RD French

Before I reveal the secret of what I would do with $1750, I really need to know the secret - "Why are you giving away this money,Robert?" - Bari Hossain

Will use it finally upgrade my powerbook to a MBP so I can write an iPhone app as part of my CS Degree Dissertation. - Shaun Bohannon

$1175 to my all time favorite musician's (Diana Krall) chosen charity: Vancouver General Hospital's Leukemia Bone Marrow Transplant. Would use the rest to cover my tuition expense for a Nancy Duarte slide:ology seminar. Trying to figure out ways to tackle mindnumbing government PowerPoint decks. Happy St Patrick's Day! - Bud

With our terrible exchange rate here in the UK, I'll probably buy myself a week's worth of groceries with the prize money! Seriously though, I may treat myself to a video camera, so that maybe one day, I can be like my favourite technology evangelist! - David Swallow

I can't wait to read followup posts to your contest. I would invest the money in my children's college funds. - Erick Tyack

I think I will buy some books on how to get my daughter to sleep past 4AM... Seriously, any advice? :-) - James Marino

With the money I would invest in a Home Server to better provide for my familys digital needs ;-) The rest will be given to SOS childrens village - A good and worthy cause. - Ken-Tore

I will use the money to spend it to bloggers in germany to promote the german blogos- and twittersphere! They arn't as big and importnat as in the us, but they have the mbition for it, serious and current content... - Simon Rabente

The money will enable me to buy some much needed toys and gadgets that mortgage/wife/2kids/etc to not allow! - Matt Groves

I was thinking on how to win the money and then I read comments by others. I realised there are more ppl who need the money more than me. So good luck to everyone! and Robert, pls make sure the winner really deserve it. - Gerald Neo

If I won I would donate every cent to Red Nose Day (http://www.rednoseday.com/) to help children in the UK and Africa and I'll put up $200 of my own money (about 10% of my salary) into microloans through Kiva. - Peter Curd

Strike one for the South African - Iwan

I doubt this would be a winner, but I need a new set of effin tires. - Patrick Kay

I will use my winnings to purchase books to better understand how to use all the great social media tools out there and will also earmark a portion of the winnings to use to attend SXSW 2010. - Promising Projects

I'll use the money to finance bailing out of my apartment in light of this recession and my current status of gainful underemployment. :) - teleken

Cool! I'd love to spend it on a netbook and a good (web)cam and start using it to lifestream/share some nice events using kyte or qik. What's left after buying the gear, I would spend on tickets for events such as The Next Web Conference, Lifehacking Academy, etc. Btw: have fun at Rackspace! - Alex Vermeule (@alexve)

ok deal, you talked me into it - IrishWonder

it is really interesting to see how much "I" in this thread, ok if I (+1) - abdellah

Cool. So 80% of the dough goes on a Twitter API developer as I have a great project in mind. And the other 20% provides a stake for the blackjack table, for when we launch. Combined earnings will be sent back your way, so you can do this all over again. - Econsultancy

I'd put it towards my TED application fund! Made too many promises about speaking there one day soon... - Oliver

First I would buy an engagement ring for my lady and take her out on a romantic evening and propose her. And of course 300$ would go for a Wii. - Andy Gongea

Hi I have never won anything so i dont think i will win,but hope never dies so here i am.. - Dimi

My boyfriend got made redundant a while ago so I'd use the money to take him on holiday to get away from it all for a bit and help him refocus. - Katie

thats cool to hear...thanks for the competition.i will love to buy macbook... - Mohammed Moyeen

Hmmm... Give it to charity is the easy answer.. But I would find and elderly person who needs home renovations etc but cant afford it.. and then get someone down on their luck to do it and pay them.. Double the satisfaction and impact - Christopher Blake

Comment for one of the $1750 prizes. I will offer to donate the money to bail out some more fat cats living high on the hog, and give them a bonus to boot. - TJ Polczyn

Don't get pinched - wear green today! :) - Ricci Neer

If I won, I'd donate it to Comic Relief (http://www.comicrelief.com/). Cheers! - Graeme Coleman

I am saving money to go out of my usual work to start a startup, so it will be helpful for me in my saving and allow me to come out of my daily job soon. - Mohammed Moyeen

If I win I will twitter my followers and people in Seth Godin's tribe to find the most excting youth oriented project I can, then come back to you, Robert Scoble, and see how we can involve your followers in offering knowledge or connections to make the whole thing take off, good on you. - Sarah Farrugia

I would put the money to good use and kick start the economy with it... should work... - Alex P

wow! this is by far the longest thread i've ever seen! :) - David Clifford

I'll use the money as a super lucky contribution to http://www.TweetLuck.org, an initiative of my startup nonprofit, http://www.EpicChange.org. Tweetluck is raising funds to build a technology lab and boarding facility/orphanage for a school with which we're partnered in Arusha, Tanzania. The locally-run school recently performed #1 out of 117 schools in their district on national exams, and I can only imagine what's possible if we get the children at the school web access ;) - Stacey Monk

This is one way to get me to use friendfeed... I'd use the money to enter a poker tournament in vegas this week at MIX. (at least I'm being honest) - Jason

Wedding Ring deposit, new mac, or broker's fee to get the hell out of this apartment. Probably one of those three. I'm a huge fan of Kari Holtz's answer of bourbon & porn, but my early thirties have got the better of me and must try for something vaguely more responsible. - Travis

Hey, why about trying, great idea ! For the second part of the contest, i'd prefer to let more chances to people who really know how to make something really usefull and interesting with it ;) ! - Christophe Michau

I hope to be one of the lucky few. Happy St. Patricks Day! - ian ross

I wish I could come up with something clever or generous but other needs are too pressing. I don't even want to think about it really. Health insurance, upgrade to CS4 (priorities, right?), art supplies, new shoes, vet visit for the cats, whatever else I could squeeze out of it. But I would put some portion toward charitable use, or else use it to create something that I could give, because generosity deserves to be honored in kind. - Rebecca Lasley

I'll buy some of the gadgets Scoble is talking about... - Alexander Benker

In Malaysia, I'll give the money to the women's aid organization to fight discrimination, women are first to go in a layoff. - Carolyn Chan

Great idea. I'd probably put the money towards a good camera for a live video project I'm working on. - Alan Chamberlain

If I was lucky enough to win I would use the money to attend http://www.web09.org/. It would cover the cost of the airfare, accommodation, and registration fee. I would then be able to Tweet and blog about it so those who read me would get some benefit from me being there. Anything learned would be put to good use in the open source projects I contribute to. Unlike some of the others here, I can't be altruistic about this - I want to go to the conference and can't afford it! Charity begins at home after all - Elpie

It will probably help me to keep one of my employee, until we bounce back in our feet - Boubacar Balde from twhirl

I'm definitely in and I'd use the $1750 to buy my first macbook. - Robbin

I would use it as nice start for my first house loan ;-) A man has got to start somewhere doesn't he ;-) - Pieter-Jan Adriaensens

get lasik after reading all of these #CCCCCC comments on friendfeed! - Landon

What I would use the money for? Well, I have been eyeing up some netbooks and need to replace my aging television. So, this would pretty much go there in my lone attempt at reviving our moribund economy/ I'm doing my part to help us out of these troubled economic times! - Jason J. Thomas

Here is my initial entry comment. - Hal

I'd learn how to code in Cocoa, and create a salsa dance iPhone app :) - Tom Tubbs

Clever idea. If I win, I would put half the money in the bank, as my husband is currently unemployed; and would give half the money to my friend and her family, as her son & daughter-in-law were in a serious car accident in Oct. 2008 and my friend quit her job to help take care of her premature born grandson, 2 yr old grandson, so her own son can then take care of his now brain-injured wife. http://jennifersmiracle.blogspot.com/ - Traci Knoppe

Half to a couple of back bills, the other half here: http://bit.ly/6XTBn - Hal

My first comment didn't show up! REPLAY: With the $1750 I will expand my business working with energy and transformation in the area of money & prosperity (Money Reiki Healing) attuning people to their Source resulting in personal and planetary shifts around money and abundance. I will also donate a portion of the winnings to a few favorite charities (including Water is Life and Charity:Water). - Amy Flynn

Wow, Just needed that money to buy me a trip to the states at last! I'm from Paris and I just keep reading your feeds on twitter, ff etc... - anciaux

Should I win, any money would be invested in upgrading some piece of computer equipment, or a software purchase... and a celebratory dinner with my wife, of course. - Chris Grayson

Heads up, Twitter! I would put the money into real competition to Twitter. - David Baum

To quote Han Solo - "Got some old debts I gotta pay off with this stuff" - Cliff Forster

I need yet another bicycle. Choose me! I promise not to give it to AIG for bonuses! - mrbrown

I'd put the cash toward a new unibody Macbook - I broke the screen on my Macbook Pro and it's difficult to use now because I have to us my iPhone as my screen (Jaadu VNC). I'll take care of my new Macbook, Robert, I promise. Please pick me? Please! - David Mozingo

I got married on last saturday, 14th ( http://trauung.steudtner.info sorry only German ) and I got a whole bunch of photos and videos. I would take the money and buy a new iMac to organize them and my videos too. Pictures will be published on that website. - Mayads

My cat has been very sick since late last Thurs. He's was jaundice, probably some level of renal failure - all likely diabetes. Been having to force feed him with a syringe because he wasn't eating on his own. I'd like to be able to use this money to offset the vet costs towards all this - doctor would like to run more tests but I can't afford it. This money would help with this. - Todd Perlmutter

I'll stimulate my economy. - Chris Dickerson

I will buy you a Twitter shirt. :P http://tr.im/twittershirt - Valentino Valdez

Howdy Scoble. I graduate University in July with an IT degree and am planning a Trip to South East Asia (Laos, Cambodia, Thailand, Vietnam) in September for a bit of fun and adventure. The money would greatly improve my trip. I'll blog the whole thing personally for you (I'll go to anywhere you suggest) and do my best to send you at least one ridiculous photo a day along with a video diary and a few interviews of people I meet along the way. - Michael Gross

My kids, who've lost their mother, really need something positive. So I would use the money to redecorate their two rooms as a surprise. - Jorg Jansen

Thanks Robert. A great idea! I could really use the money to finance my startup "Big Red Zebra", the world's first truly useful Location-Based Service for Everybody (not just people with Smartphones, iPhones, Blackberrys). Check it out at http://www.bigredzebra.com - David

If I won the $1750 - I would put $1600 towards a kick-ass web project I have been working on (code-named Daily Bird Feeder). Then, $100 would go to dinner with the wife to make up for the late nights I've spent working on the project. $30 would go to an action figure I have been dying to get. And $20 would then go to flowers for my wife, to make up for buying the action figure. - Michael Withrow

I will spend it all on me - on daft 'there is no way I would buy this under any other circumstances' things. - Alison

I would follow your example: I'd run a contest and ask my followers to choose how I would spend it. - Gail

Show me that money! - Alison

How about this.... My wife http://twitter.com/erincos... and I are expecting TWIN SONS in August. ANY contributions would be GREATLY APPRECIATED! - Jeremy Osborne

congratulation jeremy. - abdellah

That $$ would buy me a lifetime subscription to Fast Company!!!! - CJ

My dinosaur-like mind is inexorably on its way to extinction. It's been ages since I bought a new book. And reading online just doesn't satisfy that ancient craving. So if I win I'd use it to buy Kindle2 e-reader. The ultimate revenge of a deprived bibliophile. :) A little memento of my fabulous good luck, courtesy of you sir. The rest I will donate to a Philippine charity of my choice. Good luck to us all, if that were possible. :) - jan geronimo

Would like to take my wife to NY for our 15th Wedding Annv. - Timothy Love

Count me in. Can't work out if I should sound worthy or greedy, so shall be neither. - David Eedle

I'd use the money to start a software company for mobile devices with heavy lifting done in the cloud. - Jim Bergman

You got me Subscribe :). I will apply for a distance education in Actuarial Science at Leicester University. - Bruck Sewnet

I will not use this money for unmerited bonus pay - Craig

If I won the money, I'd pay for my GMAT & Grad School applications with it. That way, I'll hopefully be able to do the same kinds of contests soon. I'd also adopt two cats for my parents farm and pay for their cat food - you can't have a farm without cats! Lastly, I'd increase my number of Kiva loans. - Edwina

what is interesting in this thread, is the fact that there is more and more reason and ways to spend that money, now let please see for what "you can't spend this money". - abdellah

I'm just getting a project going that could be really helped at this early stage with some "free cash" to help complete the prototype. The idea is for an engine that aggregates content from originators and then filters and distributes it according to preferences to the consumer through a variety of touch points. Very focussed on one specific interest area. - Alex Guest

I'll place my bet for the $1750, although my chances are thin. Lots of things to do, get Dad treated, pay my bills et al. - Rajtilak Bhattacharjee

would like to get one of these for each kid http://bit.ly/pnbkv - Visit Finger Lakes

I'll buy something amazing and the one who finds out what it is will receive it. Just a way to see if it is possible to get more comments than you do :o) - Zack Brandit

I will gift the money to my husband's business,( http://www.funketabla.com/ ) so that he can focus a little more on music and thus spend more time happy and not in a programming job that bores him. It's not much, but it'll pay for the upcoming Das Dhoom album. - InPerpetualMotion(Gina k)

Hate to admit it in public, but I owe parents, friends, and credit cards money borrowed while searching for another job. This would give me some breathing room and let me get some stuff done that I've put off, like fix the brakes on my car. - mark zero (Jason)

I will give the money to my 18 year old son. He's getting ready to enter college for the first time and needs it. - Lisa Saul

$1,750 will feed me for a year! :-) - Chinny

Mr. Scoble - Use of funds should I become one of your winners... ala Dave McClure and Y Combinator... I'd turn right around and invest it in equity positions in two local startups neither of which is mine. Should there be any kind of exit of either, I'd just keep plowing proceeds into local startups (we need early stage, non-debt seed capital in Oklahoma). - Gerald Buckley

these funds would help at a very diffcult time for my family would be a very big blessing for us - Diane Brixey

i would put the money in my future start-up. i really could use the money for. the main problem is that i have to wait for maybe 2 years, because of uni. so i could invest it at the beginning in something safe and could make more money for the start-up. - Alexander

Pool Table - Dale Fraser

Sadly, I would put this toward my taxes. My contribution toward the bailout I guess. A new tv or trip might be nice though since I'm not getting that Australia blogging job. - Dave

I would put the money in our twin boys college fund, which will be in inflation-adjusted treasuries for the next year or two. (PS: This is the most effective way to gather the most comments on a single thread in the history of friendfeed) - DGentry

OK, just give it to me already and quit all this fuss... - Garrido

Hey Robert! You finally got me to sign up for FF. If awarded the money I would finally get that Gibson Les Paul I've always wanted and go back in the studio to create my opus. - Kyle Shay

Split it into 495 $2 donations, for charities selected by fellow Friendfeed and Twitterers, with the remaining funds for a pizza while organizing the aforementioned discussion. - Mike Chelen

Count me in. I would blow the money on Tacos. No burritos. No Tacos. Well Tacos or Burritos. Just imagine me eating over $1000 worth of tacos/burritos. - Franklin Pettit

Fund small-scale Appropriate Technology projects in Africa where I live: http://mumena.blogspot.com/2009... - Rick Love

I would put the money to good use-- - Dennis Shlaen

First! Oh wait, maybe not. :) Boring but I'd use the money to get my 60,000 mile service on my car before it falls apart. Anything left over would go to paying down CC balances. I know, I'm dull... - Pete Smith

I need a new tv I'm a poor seminary student in new york with a family http://www.use.salvationarmy.org/use... - kevin

count me in! How to use 1750$: buy four cheap pocket cameras (200$ each), announce a "movie making contest" on the blog, give four cameras to best four ideas, take the movies, post on youtube & blog, make users vote, give first prize 950$. - Tudor Galos

Robert, Congrats on joining Rackspace & I'm eagerly awaiting Building 43!! I would use the prize money to fund my sisters education. - Roshan Ramachandran

I'd go for a piece of electronic equipment. I haven't owned a computer since a nice visit from an unknown burglar a year and a half ago. Luckily my work provides me with a nice Macbook Pro 15" but that doesn't really help much during the weekends. So I'd go for a 13" MacBook and then of course a round of Hero Rats (http://www.herorat.org) for the change. - René Clausen Nielsen

Hi Robert. I would use the money like Tudor, but I would get two good pocket cameras, the Sony pocket 1080p ones, not the Zi6 or the Flip. To take better quality videos. - Odi Kosmatos

Hi Robert, my intention isn't to partecipate to your contest but my comment is just to say that you are a genius. I appreciate this social experiment and on Sunday I have analyzed it in this post on my blog: http://tinyurl.com/c3rwxw. If I were to the place of the winner, I’d give this money to you because you really deserved it. The previous most commented thread on FF probably were Italian (http://tinyurl.com/8k64zg). Chapeau - Roberto

G R E E D .... - Kai

I would use the money to jump start the economy as part of my stimulus-package plan - Mitchell Schneider

Not sure, but I'll try to heed the advice my grandmother used to give me when I got a dollar "Don't spend it on crap." - Steven Stark

There are things I want but nothing I need so I'd donate the money to Philabundance. http://www.philabundance.org/ - Bob Gannon

I will sponsor new web-service development at http://jumpidea.com - romanzolotarev

i would use the money to help pay for school - Shane Grant

I would use the money to get into photography. I have always wanted to but have never had the funding to do it. It would be great if I had the funding to get a decent body and a couple nice lenses. - Sweyn Venderbush

I'm in as well. Will use the money to get into iphone apps development - Arnaud Fischer

Woohoo! I'd buy either a home automation setup or a home server :D - Robert DeBord

Yes! I could use some green on St. P's Day! Would get that D90. - Kevin Crader

I will help @romanzolotarev. - Альянс-кульман

Don't give us money, give us ideas ! - Ahsan Ali

If I came into any type of money this year it would go towards a trip to London to see my family and friends; and see my favourite band, Blur play live for the first time. Leftover cash to the Red Cross. My honest answer. - Chrissie M

I would use it to help fund a startup website to help diabetics find proper products to help manage their health and lifestyle - Erik Schmith

I would love to win. Would probably spend the money on one of two things: my 17 year anniversary is coming in early April, so a present for the wife is a necessity - thinking a nice hot springs overnight trip in Izu, south of Tokyo (where I live). Otherwise, I would also consider using the money to help bootstrap TechMiso.com, a new blog I co-founded and launched on Jan 1 with my good buddy Rich. - Scott Jarkoff

I want to win soo soo bad... lol... I would use the money as a deposit on an apartment so I can move out of the country and actually have High Speed Internet (cant even use a cellular card cause im so far in the country) Ive always wanted to start a blog and website but cant since Dial-up is sooo sooo slow... This would be the Happiest Day of my Life!!! :) - James Boyd

While thinking trough this all day since I've read about it, I think that I should spent it for 50/50 on my own project and on the stuff that you just don't get to while being a son of divorced parents. My computer upgrade is more than welcome, switch to Mac OS X would be greatly appreciated. Great action Robert, thanks for this opportunity from Holland! - Coen Jacobs

If this comment picked randomly, then goodbye to MacBook Pro...(paradoxal comment including 2 answers in one way.) - Olcayto Cengiz

Growing up, my parents would always tell me that considering the amount of time I spend on the web, I should be making money out it. But I desire that the content I put out there be free. Over the years I've spent a lot on pursuing this passion but never earned a buck out of it. Now would be a great opportunity to finally do so. I may not be the most deserving or the most in need out of everyone here but if I did win I'd do something nice for my parents and tell them it was courtesy of the Internet. - Michael Josh Villanueva

I would use the money to donate back to all of the open source projects that I have been using for the past 5 years. Many of the products that are produced are outstanding and need to be supported. - Anthony Schelling

I'll take Scoble to block. Actually; I would use the money to complete my dedciated streaming studio. While I have the mics & cams set, I'm still working on the furniture, and the servers for the encoding. Then I could be a guest on your show and show it off. - Keith Barrett

Will take a trip and visit you at your new project :) - Liviu Lica

I'll use the cash to attend sxsw next year, following the twitter feeds this year has proved its worth to me. I'll get you a beer in too, unless that seems coercive. - Simon Kirrane

I would use the Money to help my daughter who is 13, to Travel Europe this Summer as she has been selected to be a Student Ambassador Representing the US and The State of Kansas. A Life changing experience, for our young people to learn and experience other cultures. People to People select 40 top Students from each state to represent the US. This experience is to teach our young people... more... - Joyce

Hey new friend I sure could use that money to repair some of the debt my bipolar wife has put our family in. Ever have any questions about what goes on in a max security prison, let me know. - Tom Lord

Both me and my SO need computer upgrades at home to better work from home but that's not very much money. Just don't have it. The rest would go towards savings or to fix the collapsed porch out back. - Paul Wade

Nice discussion thread. Any extra cash would go to my newly-widowed uncle, who found himself with a mountain of vet bills to pay after his dog, and only remaining companion, spent a week in ICU in an O2 tent. - Hooeyspewer

Hey Robert - I would use the money to pay some bills and refit the computer my kids use. Thanks for making the world interesting! - Tim Ake

It's a real and nice chance to win a pretty good amount of money, which can help me in making my dreams about lighting equipment for home studio to became true! :) - PWR

I would pay off my burning man debt. - Andrew Stein

This looks like its a record breaking thread. - Roberto Bonini

Count me in! - Alvin

I would use the money as part of a down payment on a new car. I commute 100 miles a day and my car is dying at a most unfortunate time. Well, that's what I SHOULD do. I would probably buy some gadget like a Kindle and some books because my geek gene gets the better of me most days. - Amy Anuszewski

I would like to use it to buy a Mac Mini but I first have to deal with Wife Tax so I might be able to get a snickers bar. Love you honey! - Wesley Snider

I would buy a slice of taxes that I owe Barack Obama. - Chris Wallace

I'm in! - James Ferguson

I would use the money to finally launch my puppet sitcom. My seven month-old daughter already loves the live version, and it would be great to have the video version for anytime viewing. Plus I think lots of other people would love the show as well. It's like the Muppet Show but more "Seinfeld" and less "Lawrence Welk". But there will still indeed be musical numbers. - Mike Janicke

I would give the money to my wife. She is trying to get custody of her son back. Thanks for the chance Robert! - Brian

I would use this to upgrade my camera. - Evan Travers

Oops almost forgot to leave a comment for the random drawing. :) - James Boyd

I would use the money to take my wife on a nice vacation for our anniversary. - Jonathan Gardner

I`ll take some of that money :) - Steven Shvartsman

What would you like me to do with the money? - Simon Hicks

An Irish Toast on my favorite Holiday that is St. Paddy's Day: "Here's to the ones we love we love. Here's to the ones that love us love us. For all those that don't love us, F@%$ them and here's to us." I'd use the money to spend on friends & strangers drinking and eating on a random day enjoying the moment and making memories you'd never forget. - Lyn Graft

What a great idea Scoble! So sad I missed sxsw this year! I would use half the money to go towards a new lift for my step mother who has MS and I would use the other half to purchase a small fishing boat to go fishing with my boy who's birthday is this weekend. - Bryan

Robert, dude! You are awesome. Would use money to help find a teaching job! - Patty Pinkley

If you pick me I will put the money towards the trip to China I'm taking in July. - Kris

Better idea of what to do with the money - promote LTSP - Linux Terminal Server Project http://www.ltsp.org. Continue to bring low cost desktop solutions to the masses. - Erick Tyack

Robert, congrats on the new job. Look forward to seeing the new ways you are going to invigorate rackspace and the community. There are some great comments here already. This is a great thing you are doing, take care - Michael Bazzoni

Action Figures. I would use the money to buy lots and lots of action figures. And maybe a dwarf horse. - Aaron Linne

I would put that money towards buying a couple of iPod Touches and a Mac for three friend of mine. We've just finished a short, free game that took us two years to finish on evenings and some weekends, and are talking about trying to make a game for Apples platform in our spare time since we work so well together as a team. - Jonas Eriksson

This will kill FriendFeed. DO they have a FailWhale...? ;) - Frank Koehntopp

Pay 4 months rent. And, I swear I'm not trying to sound pious, but I'd donate to Food for Lane County, an awesome local organization that gives away food. - tracy

I'd do some traveling, getting to know new things is always great... - Fabian

$1750? I'll buy Facebook and sell to Twitter. - Bob Withers

I'd use the cash to pay back my employer all the time I spend reading Scoble's comments on FriendFeed. ha. - Jon Mason

Jumping into your hat. Randomly pick me. - Ben

I'll finally buy that wide angle lens that I've been hankering after for my Olympus E-400... - Peter Holloway

Hmm... $1750, eh? I'd buy a few of those unlocked Android phones to create custom firmware that does end-to-end encryption of calls... I've been wanting to do that for a while for fun. - Matt

I will use the money to help me get to OSCON. - Mike Canzoneri

I will buy an iMac for my local school who only have PCs ... boo. www.woolastonschool.com. They currently do basic animation with PCs but I would like to get some of the older kids using iStopMotion, FCP and possibly Motion also. Would be an honour to spend ALL the money on this. - Nick Pearce

Was laid off a month ago from my job at one of the big 4 record companies. In this down economy, seems like a good time to start a new business. I'd use the cash to help get my new business started. - SJ

Ha! Joined friendfeed just to win this! - Solomon King

I'll buy a new computer for my wife... now that she's a blogger and podcaster, I can't do anything on my computer anymore! Then I'll get a decent shared network storage device that makes a lot of sense for my expanding network. - Chuck Stanley

A chunk to charity and a chunk to fund some development on some crazy web thing I am cooking - Nigel James

$1,750 would go a long way in Africa! That's like 8 months salary for my small team! - Solomon King

I believe I would take a vacation to the Keys. - Ryan Dadey

Or wait, I could get two decent laptops for my developer and tech support guy! - Solomon King

I'll do my part in stimulating the housing market! I'm buying a house in a couple of months, and savings for the down payment. An extra grand or so would allow me to stop doing some work for other people, and focus on doing work for myself in the way of publishing my ideas, and creating web-apps that would be useful. Reading your blog posts has really got my excited to share my thoughts and ideas with the web. - Jim Rubenstein

I'm wondering if this is a test to see if FF can handle a few thousand comments in a short amount of time. May the winners enjoy what they get. - Matt Silva

I would continue my educational pursuit of an IT degree. Plus buy a few Xbox 360 games! Awesome way to use FF Robert! ;-) - Carlton Hackett

I'd buy the iPhone tablet that's being announced today. Good gosh, I hope it comes out today! - Robert Hinojosa

I'm looking for a new camera. I've been trying to take pictures of my son's Scout troop and swim team with an old Canon G3, and it's a real struggle to get any decent pics. I'd love to pick up a 40D and a lens or two. - D. Lambert

I would send my parents on a vacation and I would buy my wife a NEW HD Tivo - Andrew Yeager-Buckley

Debt reduction? - Lenny Post

I run a small business with two brands http://www.GeekLoot.com and http://www.PodGizmo.com, I will use the money to advertise on blogs and facebook. - Mike Down

Pretty cool news. I love this kind of capitalist competition. I've been reading your blog for about a year and I'm glad you're using it more now. I'm a college student, I think I would use the money I win to start a site which rewrites the Constitution and basically the entire American governmental system in a wiki, user-edited style. I've got a url that isn't taken picked out, and I just need some money to startup and learn html all the rest of that stuff. - Brian Wilson

Hello Robert, I will use the money to help create a web startup which will allow you (and other people of course) to use their fame and reputation to help promote other people who have talents, skills, experience, and a willingness to work, but who are not necessarily able to reach a wide enough audience on their own. The focus is to allow people who network with entrepreneurs to refer... more... - Ivan Lukianchuk

This is damn awesome, Robert! What would I do with some nice cash? I'd probably buy myself some new-to-me Canon camera gear, a lens or two (depending on price), and maybe some Alien Bees lights. Probably soup up my PC a bit more too. Either that, or just buy a MacBook Pro instead. At least that way I'd be able to edit photos and audio worth a damn haha.. :D I just REALLY need some extra money to be able to enable me to start doing what I love doing more, and a day-job less. :) - Lou

I'll use it to obtain my CISSP cert. There has to be a better way to reduce/eliminate these zombie bot-nets that are used for very bad activities! - Craig Macfarlane

Hello Robert, I would use to money to keep developing and expanding affordable wildlife photo workshops to some of the most amazing destinations in the US. You can see my last Yellowstone Winter Photo Workshop info here: http://wildnaturetours.com This workshop was very successful and managed to fit in both natural history of one of the most amazing places on earth with some spectacular photography (and video). I am in the processing of editing some of the content that will then be made available. Thanks. - Juan Pons

I would use the cash to buy some of the new netbooks with touchscreen to get some seniors online: grand parents deserve to enjoy the real-time web goodness too! - Mathieu Ayel

So with Scoble's latest post http://friendfeed.com/e... this thread is now closed. LAST! - sofarsoShaw BAZINGA!

50D + Decent Lens, and a six-pack. - Than R

Donate it to charity - Allwin Agnel

I would use the prize money to stimulate the economy by purchasing a new MacBook Pro! :) - Matt O'Keefe

you are hardly last :P I'd use the money to put more down on a down payment for my first home :D - Jonathan

I'd help fund my husband's work on his first graphic novel and send his butt to Comic Con to pitch it to publishers :) The most empowering thing is to help other people reach their goals, and I like that this contest is all about that, so I'd pass that gift along. - Tiffany Monhollon

NIKON D90 for my wife... PS3 for me... the rest toward the house... - Jason Womick

Here's my entry. Thanks for the contest, Robert! - Paul Maez

hey Robert, great competition! I'd use the money to fund my startup creating mobile apps that offer powerful messaging possibilities, including gmail-style threaded messages for all kinds of networks. - Dirk

I'll use the money to pay for my certification in Cisco's Unified Computing System - Andrew Mitry

Good luck with the new direction, Scoble. - Mike Smith

I'd use the money to further my tech addiction. Too many gadgets, too little money...that's where you come in! - Paul Maez

I'd take my daughters to see their grandparents in Florida, upgrade to a (used) Intel Macbook, sign up for PHP training, and renew my NPR membership, Cheers, and thanks! - Jim Akin

I'm not going to even pretend that I would use it for charitable causes. A new MacBookPro and a 30 inch display. I'd then use it to start my development projects. - bjmac

Hey there, Robert. I'd use the money to finance my teeny-tiny iPhone game development company (basically a programmer and myself doing art and everything else). Cheers! - karchesky

I'd use the money to start my "LIFE IMPROVED" fund: personal use, philanthropy, and anywhere in between. The only stipulation is that it improves someone's quality of life. - Tamikka

Hey there Robert! I would use the money to either pay for my coming semester of college so I could actually finish....or I would upgrade some tech in my life (for example, acquire an HD video camera and various other tech for studio and/or podcast recording) - Gerardo R. Monreal Jr.

Oh man...new netbook, finally getting a smartphone, and renewing hosting on new blogs... Anything left after that will be split between my son's saving account (investing in the future) and probably the Dog's Trust charity. - Badger Gravling

How would I use the money? I need to purchase one of the new 24" iMacs to further my Design & Photography careers. - Herne

I will use the money to invest in myself and my future career. By that I mean make my side business of portrait photography into something more real and tangible rather than just a haphazard event. - Ryan

I would most likely spend the winnings on gifts for my daughters, a little something for my wife and (of course) a tech toy for myself. There's nothing more enjoyable than spending "found money". Cheers! - Kevin

Interesting idea, thanks! - Loïc Dumont

I will donate half to the local computers for kids program that helps underprivileged kids with access to to computers, education and the internet. It is a great program where soon I will be teaching parents about social networking so they can communicate with there kids in the same language. The other half, I'm helping pay for my wedding. - Chris Rippe

I would use the money for my ceramics art studio. Part of the money would go to setting up a live 24/7 multi-camera stream where people can watch and learn. - Greg Ashbaugh

You rule! - Happy

top o' the mornin' to ya - (from boston>austin!) - clewellyn

We're having our third child in July, so I'd use the money to re-do our upstairs. The office will be a casualty. - Tim Trentham

Robert, I just returned from a Alexandria Rotary (alexrotary.com) Board meeting. I am hoping to go on a trip to Tanzania to work on a school called Peace House (http://www.peacehousefoundation.org). Funding is the hold up for me as part will come from the Rotarian and part from our club. If I win, I am definitely going as the amount that I will likely be responsible for is $1,500-1,700. - Craig Mische

We are hosting an event to celebrate the International Creativity and Innovation Day (April 21 which is Da Vinci's b-day). It is the first event within a telco culture. I'd use the money to buy some creative tech prizes for the day like CS4, an entry level Wacom product, a mind mapping subscription, SXSW 10 pass, etc. - Krystal

I would use the money to put a dent in the mountain of cc debt I have from a couple of failed ideas that I've poured money into. - Joel

($1,750) - Open a phonebook, randomly pick a name, follow that person 7 degrees out. Each degree of separation tell that persons story through audio interviews, video, writing, and online media. We need to remember life is interconnected and everyone has a story. - Tim Shisler

Hi Robert. I'd use the money to help fund construction of a computer that will reveal the Ultimate Question to Life, the Universe and Everything. It's a small start, but then everything's small in the light of 10 million years... - Andreas Strothmann

Everything old is new again---make it green on St Paddy's Day! - Carolyn Baehr

I would probably buy the most expensive meal I ever had.(6000 Chicken Fajitas) - JC Lima

Thanks for spreading the wealth out Robert! As for me, should I win the money, I would first take my wife out to dinner (priorities!), and put what's left toward software to help me in my fledgling freelancing work. - Sam Hetrick

Hmm... A shot at $1,000 just for commenting? - HackingNeflix

First Comment: Awesome idea, great way to draw attention to a great conversation - Jason DeBoer-Moran

Second Comment: I would use part of the money to get my SxSW travel fund off the ground for next year. The other part I would put towards paying off my travel to ETech this year. - Jason DeBoer-Moran

Well, I fell in love this year and I'm saving money for an engagement ring. So I'll be using it for that! - Ben Pettit

My wife and daughter live in Ohio, and I took a career job in Virginia. It being difficult to sell a house in Ohio, I would put any and all moneys toward that goal. - Shawn Lockard

Sounds good to me - Austin Garrod

if i win the prize, I will spend my money to build a new and free web 2.0 web project (i will anounce it here) - Abdullah Özgün

and with the money, i would probably invest in getting a new computer for me and the family, the one i'm using now is 7 years old and i could barely start it up to write this - Austin Garrod

Very interesting to read some of the comments and start the conversation. I would use it to help offset expenses for bringing an 11yr old girl from Egypt to the Philadelphia Shriners for surgery. She suffers from arthrogryposis multiplex congenita (amc--multiple joint contractures and fixed limbs). For dolagy her knees are folded up around her shoulders with arms locked straight at her... more... - margaret chaidez

Lost my job last year after 3 yrs and checked my 401K yesterday and had a whole $77 in the account. Will use the cash for the mortgage and training. Thank you! - David L. Crooks

I'll be using the money to fly to the bay area to see if it's worth it to quit my job and follow my dream. - Mike

I would use the $$ to kick my fledgling start-up into gear. Even without your money would love to talk to you about it. - Philip

Marketing at its finest! Excellent idea Robert. - Simply Boulder

Roll the cash, baby! - Wisdom Works

I'd give every cent to my mom, who is struggling with her mortgage, so she wouldn't get behind. - Andrew Green

Free internet access for a year! - ReeltimeDVD

Hey, you are always creative... - Ömer Faruk Kurt

Really not sure what I'd use it for. Probably bills, but most likely I'd see something shiny, realize I have $$$ in my wallet and just spend it :) - Hal Thompson

I'll use the money to fund my random venture over the summer. - Hung

I'll use the money to buy a DSLR and attempt to learn how to be a photographer - Ryan

I have no idea what I would do with the money, but it would likely end up in a project for my kids school.... - Samuel DeVore

I will take 750$ and use it for my project and I will give 1000$ part back to you for another contest. Maybe I can win it again... :) - Ömer Faruk Kurt

Student loans, here I come :) - Sigoya

Pay for my trip to Japan, as well as entry into a Ironman race! - Chris Lewis

Does FF pay you to get them users? - Thomas Amberg

If I could be chosen to receive the $1750, I'd give it all to Kiva.org to support women entrepreneurs who need technology to build their businesses. the condition is that you join me for drinks/dinner at Presidio Social Club. - Lydia Sugarman

I would use it towards the downpayment for a new house J - Eber Irigoyen

I will use the $1000 to create a quick prototype of a friendfeed like social network (of course better, but can't tell you the secret yet) and put aside $750 to hosting at mosso for the next 7.5 months. - Jeffrey Yan

yes please - Christopher Bell

No whammies! No whammies. STOP! - Michael Pearson

I'd use the money to make my commute much greener - either for a good bike or an electric scooter. Additionally, I would purchase through a nearby vendor so the buy is also helpful for our local economy. - Paul Marino

Hurrah for free money. If i won the money i would take my wife to paris disney as were both disney nuts and are feeling very broke and in need of a holiday. Anything i had left woudl go towards my macbook fund - Jamie Vidamour

My wife is going back to school to become a physical therapist and I'm trying to update my resume/portfolio in case I need to look for a new job in web marketing, and we need new computers to replace the 6 y.o. desktop and 3y.o. laptop that gets daily BSoDs. - Benjamin Lipsman

Half goes to Heifer International and half goes towards paying down personal loans. :) - Rylan

with that money we would hire 4 programmers for 1 month in eastern europe to develop a product that would change the world of e-commerce ;) - Alensa

I would use the money to pay one of my brother's bills. The tech sector in MN is not in good shape. - Matthew McCowan

I wouldn't mind the money, I would put it in my pool of cash that I'm growing for a startup. Thanks for giving the chance! - Tim Broder

I'll use half the money to help me and my family pay some bills and get a small breather from the recession. I'll donate the other half to the jQuery project to help foster more development of their projects like jQuery UI and to help with their infrastructure costs. - Ralph Whitbeck

I would like to pay some pending bills, also I would like to share the money with a cultural association here in Costa Rica - Víctor

I would use the money to makeup for market losses on March 16th - srinivasufeed

I would use the money to hire a designer to design a good looking website for a Jewellery store site that I'm working for my wife. She's currently using blogspot along with google checkout(http://lajouels.blogspot.com/) and has being asking for a website for ages. - Praveen

I will fund my childrens picture book startup (http://www.memetales.com) and have 1. one of my cool illustrators create a super cool illustration of you or 2. have one of my writers include you as a character in one of my picture books. 2 cool offers - personalized just for YOU!! Imagine that !! You pick 1 or 2. (picking both would probably cost me as much as the prize money ;)) - Maya

With either of the prizes I would put a tiny bit away, and use the rest to buy some film equipment/time to finish my series about artists in the DC area called "The Form Appears". I'm guessing I should write something here about give the money to a non-profit doing amazing work for the planet, but honestly, it would just be used for my own artistic needs. - Emmett

I'd create the Scoble Blogger Scholarship. I'm just getting established as a pro blogger. I would use the money to invest in my business to take me to the next step. I would pledge to double the money this time next year and make it available to another blogger in a similar position, with the proviso that they would also continue to pay it forward. - Mike Cliffe Jones

probably would use it to knock of a bit of a 30k hospital bill. Or decorate my 5 yo daughters room. Nah .. definitely the room, if we can get the house lol - vanweerd

I'd get my 15 seconds of internet fame, and laugh at my fortune. I would not forget the little people. - Viajero

If I win, I'm going to donate the money to SproutPoint, a local non-profit org that helps business people refine their business plans, and seeds them with investment capital. The only way out of this recession is if we rebuild the economy with hard-working entrepreneurs. - Rob Stevens

I'd use it for a new MacBook, which of course I would use to spend lots of time following @scobleizer on twitter, friendfeed, and anything else - Chris Brakebill

though I should note I'm not as obsessive and creepers of a follower as that made me sound. just love the good content @scobleizer puts out - Chris Brakebill

Thomas: I am not paid by, nor compensated by friendfeed in any way. I push friendfeed because it's the best service out there. Period. - Robert Scoble

This must be the all time record for comments! Great idea. - Victor Ryden 美久太阿

i'm in for the $1k. i haven't read all the comments, but my two cents says give one of the other amounts to margaret! - Scott Sorheim

would use the $$ for much-needed computer upgrade - b Anthony

In case you're not following me yet on FF, find me here. - Scott Mace

Robert, agree with FF being the best service out there. Thanks for promoting it and thus getting more people involved and more great content shared and commented on. :-) - Kol Tregaskes

great. I will buy lots of books on Amazon :) - В лонг ране

I will pick today's winner with http://www.random.org live on http://www.ustream.tv/studio at 4 p.m. Austin Time (2 p.m. Central). - Robert Scoble

A new fire hoop I would buy. - Donovan Watts

I would probably use the money on a family vacation (or at least an upgrade to a family vacation). - Andrew Gorohoff

Great contest. I'm in. - Patrick Jordan

Wondering if this has broken a record for most comments on FF. /random comment - Rachel Walden

Friend feed should have a back to "topic", if the comments are huge like for this thread. :) - Swaroop

Will the winner need to contact you right away? Because I won't be able to watch at that time or anything. - Chris Charabaruk

@Rachel It hasn't. There's at least one thread with more comments. http://friendfeed.com/search... - Chris Lasher

If you choose me, I ask that Rackspace donate's the money directly to OLPC. Enable everyone! - David Lynch

Chris: no. I'll post the winners on friendfeed and have them email me. - Robert Scoble

If it's not too late, I'd love the extra funds; both sons need dental work and the employer's dental coverage is pretty slim. - Jill O'Neill

If I win, I would use the money to go see my son and granddaughter. - Sandra

Wow, Robert, this thread is incredible! I would use the money to pay for some improvements to my home and to pursue a nonprofit idea I'm trying to grow. - asiriusgeek

Count me in! Well ,I'll order Kindle 2 and plan a vacation to Europe! - Krishnamoorthy

If I win second prize, I will send money back to you! :) - Vlad Rafeev

With $1750, I'd repair the windshield on our 2000 Impala and then pay off the remaining debt on our "overdraft protection" credit card. - Daniel J. Pritchett

This is great! I've been working on helping very small businesses (pizza shops, dry cleaners, bowling alleys, etc) use SM tools to promote with very little overhead. A lot of shops have gone out of business recently because they didn't know how to promote outside of the Yellow Pages. If I were to win, I'd use the money to help these businesses with some basic costs like reprinting a menu to mention their facebook fan page, some hosting for a blog or a webcam. I don't charge for my services. - Dave Ferrick

Robert, the $1000 would be nice, but having you visit my site plexav.com to see a demonstration would be even better. - Kenneth Stein

My wife and I are a statistic, but we break the trend. We were "friends with benefits" in college and she got pregnant. I married her. Not because she was pregnant but because I realized that's what I wanted all along. This June we will have been married 9 years and we have 4 amazing sons between us. For our anniversary this June I want to re-propose to her and tell her I want to renew our vows for our 10th anniversary the following year. I love her so much and it's time she has some proper wedding photos! - George Clingerman

How I would use the money: I would have Robert donate the money to a charity, to be decided later. Or perhaps to low income student athletes in California who may have to 'pay to play' this year due to budget cuts. - Rodfather

Hmm. I haven't got a sob story that would make anyone sob on my behalf. And yet I would like to take your money, Robert, so very badly. If I were to win, I would be tempted to use the money for a good cause but ultimately, after putting away money for taxes, I would end up spending the remainder on fripperies and possibly airfare someplace that is not here. I would have a very good time (but nothing illegal!) and might even send you a post card. Or in your case, a tweet. I could do both, I suppose. - Carolyn Jewel

Hello Robert. If i win i'll use the money to hire a coder to create part of the platform for www.chartempire.com. - Frangino Lucarini

I'll donate the money to Our Lady of Perpetual Help (OLPH) food pantry in St. Louis, which has also become a facility that provides medical / vision care and training (in addition to feeding several thousand people each week) in the most hard-pressed neighborhoods in the metro area. We'll then use the money to improve the OLPH infrastructure (basic stuff - network switches, nics, etc.) that supports that medical / vision care, as well as the training. The labor is donated by local tech entrepreneurs. - Bob Lozano

With $1750 from @scobleizer, I'd pay for a little freelance graphic work to get the redesign of http://wiredjournalists.com rolling. - Ryan Sholin

Many people are saying they will donate to charity and this kind of stuff, but I will be honest. I will use about 150 to buy a new printer - I really need it for college, it is a pain to ask my neighbor to print stuff all the time. 450 will go to 6 months of my grandma's medicine fund, so I don't have to worry about it. The rest I will probably save to buy a Palm Pre when it comes out or something cool and amazing. - Kiko Cherman

I would use the $$ to make a dent in the pile of debt that is looming over my head and making my life hell!! Not a very exciting use of the money... but getting out of this debt would make a BIG difference in my life!! - Meredith

With $1750 I'd finally get a laptop that wasn't owned by an employer. - Richard Byrne

To my new FriendFeed friend - always remember: "a friend in need is a friend in deed" but a "friend with money is the friend we need" - Huw Pendry

There's only one thing that's been on my mind that the money could go towards: An Open Source Command Center which will be named "0pie: Reb0rn". The current 0pie isn't doing so well, with a 40lb monitor that flickers in a way that really seizes you, and RAM that was considered top of the line when Megabytes were the highest feasible unit of measure. However! 0pie: Reb0rn will surpass... more... - David Wynn from fftogo

I'd buy something nice, like a vacation, for my mom. - John Piekos

I have a feeling this just made me an accesory to a crime. - SteVe C

Nice! I would add the money to what I'm saving to buy a garage for my house. - Orville Chomer

I would GIVE the money to my former admin who's husband is hospitalized awaiting a heart transplant. - Bob Stewart

Hi Robert. Not one person above me said PLEASE I would like 2 win because........ can I remind everyone that manners cost nothing so may I be the first to say please count me in to your generous offer and Thanks - garth

I would give my fiance the money so she could register for real estate training. - Ryan

I would use the money to help buy monitors and computer to have a good setup to kickstart my graphic design freelancing career. I'm very poor and won't be able to afford it for YEARS. - courto

A thousand bucks is plenty. How would I use it? First I'm going to get myself a Flip Mino HD that I read about on your blog. I'm running the Mexico City Marathon in August and that Flip looks the perfect way to record my effort! I'll even get it in custom colours to match the Marathon blog I'm doing! That takes care of $200. Another $300 will get me the Canon SX1 instead of the SX10 I'm about to buy. The rest will go to the charity I'm raising cash for by running the marathon. - Gary

I'm from Costa Rica, I'm Sculpture from UCR, in case you think on me, I'll use that money to help me and my friends to get tools and work materials, maybe you can get some of our sculptures in spirit of fairness! :) - Mauricio

Hope everyone here for the money sticks around for the people! I would love to win the money - I would buy my first Mac ever, the new Mini looks amazing! Pick up a Kindle and some books and pay for our family vacation before the new baby arrives! I will also renew the domain and actually write on my secret identity's parody site. DM Tygerdave on Twitter if you need to know the site before you decide :) Thanks for doing this and pluging friendfeed at the same time! - David Knight

http://friendfeed.com/e... - Manuela

I would use the money to buy a new lens or two for my Canon - Marcus McCurdy

It's very generous of you to do this giveaway Robert! I'd use it to help keep my wife's new law practice wiith some additional marketing. She just got set up in her little office but is still working on building the business. She does Immigration law. Her Twitter handle is @mainstlawyer. - Jesse P. Luna

i am in! i would use the other money to promote a new online project that i am working on that deals with the graphic design. thanks. - Ethan Bodnar

Hi, i'm Jose Daniel from Costa Rica, i work in web programming. I hope win the money to start a little personal projects. By the way, in this moment i have not job so would be nice the prize :) - Jose Daniel

I would use the money to start a company in my spare time - John Munro

I'd use it to help pay for my wife's medical school expenses - loans topping $250k... - Dave

If I win the $1750 I will buy me a Nikon D300. - Philipp Mertens

Want to create great conversation? Start giving stuff away! I would use the money to finally finish my iPhone development project by hiring some graphic designers to customize graphics for the program and then release it via a Scoble announcement! - Matthew Strickland

If I win the money I would use it to continue my studies in Reiki healing and teaching, so I could assist in healing people in these tough times. - Louise

Robert, if I win, I'll give half to the Charity Smackdown cause I'm supporting, Stand Up To Cancer (see: http://charitysmackdown.com/team_SU... ). The rest will help 'stimulate my local economy' - food from the green market, some purchases at local stores, probably pay the plumber to fix something that's been on the list for a while. - Howard Greenstein

Hey Robert- Thanks for the offer and I gladly accept the possibility of winning! Normally I am a giver and have been all my life, but this time, due to my financial situation, I have to be a receiver. So I would share the money with myself. But that will help along the road to be able to give back again. It's all good! Thanks to you for being a giver! - Candace Davenport

Congratulations. You made me log into FriendFeed this week. - maczter

Sweet. Free money! I'll take me some. - Jason Packham

With $1750 I'd use it to travel to California and try to get my startup in Y Combinator. Even if I don't, $1750 would be enough to fund my business in Mexico for 3 months! - Mariano

I'd use the money to jumpstart my new pseudo teleportation company. Details on the concept can be found here: http://pushingthepulldoor.blogspot.com/ - Rick Popko

You could just be my destiny! - Alejandra Luthmer

Robert, I'll use the $ to take a trip to SF to meet YOU! if you take me up on it I'll pay you for a few minutes of your advice :) - Francois

Robert, thanks for sharing... I'll take the money and give it to the hard working developers (2) of our Startup www.kontexto.com They deserve a bonus and due to the economic times and our need to be frugal we haven't given anyone extra $. These guys deserve a little extra for all their hard work behind the scene - David http://friendfeed.com/dclarke - David Clarke

If I win the money I will (1) give some to family members in need, (2) purchase a computer for myself (using a very, very old one), (3) save some for the future and (4) fund some acting career necessities, i.e. classes, etc. Thank you for this opportunity!!! - Cynthia Fellowes

You are very generous to be doing this. Ignore the haters!!! - Cynthia Fellowes

I'd buy an iphone to start doing dev work for cross platform (bb, symbian, etc) apps. - Ben Vear

If i would win id buy as many good engineering books as i can find ( The art of electronics, the art of computer programming, blodgett), Buy some propper tools like a good soldering iron, power supply, occiloscope and a microcontroller programmer, get loads of components and start learning to make cool electronics stuff. - Pim de Groot

i'd donate it to my dad's after school/summer program for inner city kids in toledo, kids unlimited. http://www.kidsunlimitedtoledo.org/ - john

I'll buy the arcadexl.com website on sale on sitepoint and then donate the adsense earnings to my Kiva account - Dave Nixon

If I won, I would use it to be able to get some of the gear that I've been looking at and try to learn how to develop on it. I've been trying to piece together the parts to be able to build a smaller linux computer to do what the droboshare does (the drobo's not as interesting if you're technically minded). As a student, that gear's hard to come by. - robbie nakamura

I would give up $1 greasy McChicken sandwiches and bump up to $2.50 Subway sandwiches--this might help me make better decisions--you know, more veggies for better brain power. :) - exoticat

When will it be Announced? - TheHenry

Congrats & Thanks for getting me started with FF !!! - sathya

Love it. I'd like to buy the world a coke> - Ben

Good Stuff! I do like the XML API - definitely a universal interface. - Terza

I'll pay a UI person to work on my pet project, i suck at it. - mehdi

If I win, I'll stimulate the economy by hiring someone to fix my roof. - Roy Jacobsen

I'm ready. I could use it to pay for ridiculous prescription costs. - Jen (SquirrelGirl)

For $1750, a Kindle 2, some e-books to go with it, and maybe a nice Canon lens. :) - J Wang

If I won the money I would buy a HP MediaSmart home server. My wife and I just got married, and suddenly we have gigs and gigs of photos and videos that we want to keep forever. The idea of automatic, incremental backups gets me all aflutter. I love technology that makes life easier :) - Tony Fendall

I'd give $750 to my Fav charity, Mobile Loaves and Fishes, @MLFNOW, and Split the $1000 between my two children to start a college fund. - Karen

I could come up with no good reason - except that I probably would get myself the Wii and one more console and probably a NAS server - the rest (f anything remains) can go to some charity. Oh and get a drobo too if I can:) - Brijesh

I would use it to upgrade my teenage son's Mac and camera equipment for his stop-motion Lego movie. - MaDBooM

I would celebrate the crash of the GBP against the USD as I convert it over to spend in Harrods - Emma Dunstone

I will get myself a new laptop that doesn't take 10 minutes to start up, and by the way I'm a teacher that taught four sections of a "Thinking and Writing: A Blog of One's Own" at a state college, using (among other readings) your Corporate Weblog Manifesto and Scobleizer--I want to equip myself to further use social media for fun and education. - Tracy Mendham

I will spend the money on my wife and mother of our young kids. A day of pampering at a spa, new clothes, nice meal, etc. - Clif Mims

Robert, I would use the money to but my 17 YO daughter her first car....or at least a down payment on one.. Nothing fancy, just something to get around in. - Nick

I would use the money to buy a decent server and some memory upgrades for the Linux Lab we are setting up at a local community center. It's all donated hardware and will be used for computer literacy in the underprivileged North Charleston community. http://www.csclug.org/... - Dan T

A handful of Nikon SB-900's - chris tirpak

I believe in randomness :D, so if I get your money I will buy a "random" airplane ticket to a "random" country and blog about it - dimi3limb

Buy a used Canon 5D and a decent lens - Alain Breillatt

Hello! I'll take that money and buy half a laptop. - Anthony

I'd invest it in my startup - MixedInk! - Vanessa Scanfeld

I would tithe to Kiva and use the rest for my startup (change the world, baby!) - Toby Hede

What do we get for pointing out that you didn't follow your own rules? Made fun on of twitter? http://twitter.com/tefflox ! - Jesse Crockett

Attention addict. Nice one. - Tom Beardshaw

Is that your diagnosis, Dr. Beardshaw? - Jesse Crockett

$1,750 would be great to put toward training for leadership training: http://klemmer.com/worksho.... I'm launching a business to train rookies on using social media and more advanced users how to tie it all together. This training on leadership is to equip me to better serve them. - Courtney Engle

i have a great idea for a twitter reader, but dont have the money or coding skills to build it, btw congrats on the new job scoble, cant wait to see the new site/content - patrick

Looking forward to more Scobleizer blog posts soon. Are you going to be able to keep up your blog with the new Rackspace gig? - Jack Nork

I can only wish you get more paid gigs :) I would use the money ( along with my small nest egg) to start a direct to doorstep solution/service company. - Mohan Ramkumar

Random wins! I'll jumpstart my freelance biz... - Derek Markham

I just want the $1000, and I'll finally buy a DSLR I've been craving for a while now. - Mike Estes

If I win I'll spend the money exclusively on a device that allows me to liveblog (videos, photos, etc) from my trip to Tahiti this year. This is my lifetime dream vacation, which is already booked, and I want to have a device that allows me to upload instantly (so, no computer in between, no transfer of memory cards and then upload, just straight upload!) anything and anytime I want to :) Of course, it must be able to allow me to follow up comments from people who check it :) - Vitor Spencer

Robert, I'll use it to contact as many local/national government as i can. :) Building an app that allows citizens to help each other fill out those god-awfull form's, by implementing a Forum style plug-in on the webpages of local and national government bodies. I'd use it to take time off from the dayjob and convince as many municipalities and agencies of my plan! - Tom

OMG Tom, brilliant freaking idea. I have a notebook full of forms for my aged parents and trust me, the gov really needs to get into this century, such as programs talking to other programs and not so much repeating of information. - Janet-The Bottley Crue

Robert, I'd give the $$ to a friend of mine in California who is down on his luck, got laid off from the school system, lost his house, and has kids to support. He has finally decided that the only recession-proof job in California is to become a wildfire firefighter, but is in desparate need of some bridge cash until he gets his certification in June. His family is living in a friend's... more... - Marc Monplaisir

wtf! I'm upset at the possibility of someone getting scammed here. - Suvarshi Bhadra

Well how can you resist an offer like that. I will use the money to help my sister who is struggling to pay for her last semesters in college so she can get her degree. - Andromeda Edison

mmm..... donuts! - Adam Lasnik

I would go with Jess Lee's cause, UNICEF - Pico Seno

Joining! - yannick

i'm in - stanescu adrian

btb, where's the original cisco data center post? - priyanhere

CIAO Robert! I'm ready to win :D - lyonora

is it too late? here i am, however! :) - Alessandro

i haven't money.i will buy laptop with this money. - Kadir a

kadir my friend the game is over :) I mean the contest is closed, someone else get the prise, may be an other time, good luck. - abdellah

I'd probably buy a nightstand for my wife, since she wont let me buy a laptop unless there is a stand to keep it on. - mka

I'd use the money to send my older daughter (8yo) to The Country School Farm summer camp. http://www.tcsfarm.com/ - Shad Aumann

Thanx for this hope u gave us first of all. I use the money for a laptop or macbook because my computer is killin me. But to be honest im not really expecting to win anything.Im tired of hoping and losing even this kind of comment & win style events always..Anyway thanx a lot again.. - Bilal

If I win the $1750 I will buy me a new pc :) thanks. - Oğuzhan Başar

hacı bizim para vardı ne oldu o ? bu kadar yorumu okutma bana. kazandıysam el salla. - ahmet kakıcı

12 saat oldu. ne mektup geliyor ne haber senden, söyle de bileyim bıktın mı benden :) - ahmet kakıcı

I'd use the money to set up a comfortable home workspace. - Ian Yang

Wow, Robert, I'm ready to win. For $1000, this will be enough to start my personal iPhone App Dev studio; For $1750, this will be enough to start both iPhone App Dev and Android Dev studio :-) - Yingfeng Zhang

spend the money create another friendfeed. - xia

new friendfeed?twitter? oh,I will send some special gifts to you from China,Robert,if I win the $1750 .haha ,I am not kidding. I really like the friendfeed. - 老巫

for SanGu.me!!! - hugh

Never mind the money – you frieinds just feed me more religion! - kelvin

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Random. $ to Haitian Clinic. 4 chances 2 win. http://tiny.cc/6JZfi - Douglas Hopkins

I just sent out the checks. Thanks everyone! - Robert Scoble

I won!!!!!! - Micheal

I'd get a new macbook and a mac mini for myself, buy a little something special for the girlfriend, and save the rest for my summer in NOLA and grad school - Chris Brakebill

Good luck everyone. Spread the love and the money :) - Nir Ben Yona

You're nuts... anyway I'd use the money to buy a new porch... or perhaps go to Velocity (not sure my boss won't think 3 days if San Jose is too much like a holiday - I know get a new boss) - Andy Davies

So, with Roberts money I'd pay down a debt & buy a domain/hosting for a web app I'm building to try and earn some more $. Thnx Robert. - Mr K from Nambu

My one comment - money would be used for a mouth make-over. - Randal

I'm in, as for the reason should I not win the random drawing, pc parts and save the rest for the new iphone. - Michael Breslin

THIS CONTEST HAS BEEN CLOSED FOR A WHILE. THE PRIZES HAVE ALREADY BEEN HANDED OUT. CONGRATULATIONS to everyone. But this is now closed. - Robert Scoble

Robert, perhaps putting that notice in the first comment or the original message itself might be even better. - Chris Charabaruk

If I had my druthers, I would get my wife a new set of hooters. But, since my wife thinks most of my ideas are juvenile and self serving, I'll end up saving the money or something responsible. - Demian Vonder Kuhlen from Nambu

How would I use the money...hmmm well my wife wants to take the kids to Texas to see her sister or there are about a million home improvement projects that I have at home and at my parents - Brian Allen

I would use the money to buy my mom a basic laptop. I would hand-deliver the laptop and give her some basic lessons on connecting to free wireless (probably at her public library). Naturally, my internet instruction would include such basics as "beware strangers on the internet -- and some are stranger than most" and "even your dog is a celebrity on the internet" and "blackmailing neighborhood teens via facebook and myspace". - JoJo

I need money, I used to be a stick-up kid / So I think of all the devious things I did / I used to roll up--"this is a hold up; ain’t nothing funny / Stop smiling, and still! don’t nothing move but the money"... - Uche Ogbuji

I will happily take your money. Most will go to a good cause. Okay, all of it will. Me :-) ---> - Robert Kenney

I would like to win the money in order to use it to cover the remaining $1,250 I will owe Drexel University after scholarships and federal loans, Fall '09. - Andrew Leahey

Tuition. 'Nuff said. - Kevin Mohr

Brilliant! I love watching the social experiment evolve... I'm a pro photographer dreaming up my next career as a content producer. I would use my winnings as a piece of the cost to purchase a Red camera. http://www.red.com/epic_sc... - Michael Angelo Truncale

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give it to a little girl going to school who need it. - Can Turanlı

I"ll use the money to buy two airline tickets from NY to SC so that both of my granddaughters could come to stay with me for the summer. If anythings left over, I really could use an external hard drive. - Leigha Baer

epic thread - nm

I'm in, winnings will go towards a new Mac Pro. - timepilot

What would i do with $1,750? Pretty simple. I will establish a limited in Hong Kong and a branch office in Taipei. This would give me a visa and work-permit for Hong Kong and Taiwan and the blogosphere the chance to get always the hottest hands on and news from the Netbook and mobile computing hot spots in Asia. So yeah, i would use the money to establish a company in Hong Kong and i would even send you copies of all the documents and let you know about the success of it.;) - Sascha Pallenberg

i would buy a Mac, so i could be cool, too ;) since the contest is over, i'm afraid i have to stay uncool :( Or buy an HP.... :) - Marco Schmidt

I'll donate $1,750 to Austin Free-Net, which teaches Austinites with limited means how to use the Internet to improve their lives (find jobs, get healthcare information, stay in touch with family ...) www.austinfree.net - John Sirman

What a good idea for a survey. :) - Technical Support

I will start my phone system support website to deliver cost effective dialing and installation for small to medium business that needs a break from their local phone company. - Technical Support

This is a poll :) - CantorJF

.With the prize i think i can donate more then half for charity to People of Abruzzo that are victims of Earthquake in italy, then pay hosting of website for another year and buy a 2nd-hand reflex... I'm Sincere, and sincerly i know it's near to impossible to win, but for sure will be the best thread ever :) - CantorJF

Did you make a bet with Michael Arrington for $4,500 that you would get 1000+ replies on Friendfeed to prove him that people do use this? i would pay of debt - the best investment. - CJPhoto

We are three 20 somethings who have been working on a web start-up here in Seattle for the last 18 months. We've taken a salary at less than $2,000 per month for this whole time to make this work, we are that passionate that the idea will impact the Food Industry. Building a B2B platform for the food industry that is one part business, one part networking, two parts sourcing with the potential to integrate the social web with Food Manufacturers. The money would tie us over to round 1 of funding. - Matthew Wall

Hi Robert. Great contest. i would give the money to our local animal shelter. I went in there a few weeks ago and saw their desperate need for cat litter and dog supplies - Mike

I would use the money to start building a photography business. - Evan Travers

Happily commenting for $1k and use the other money to go Zorbing in New Zealand with my Flip Mino recording the man-girl scream coming out of my face. - Dutch Driver

I'd buy a FriendFeed Pro account - Pat Hawks

Some much needed financial assistance for our wedding in 2 months would be great! :) - Shmoe

The winners were announced here: http://beta.friendfeed.com/scoblei... - Robert Scoble

a Comment ;-) - Allen Harkleroad

I would pay for my daughters summer and fall college tuition with the winnings. - Allen Harkleroad

I'm amused that people are still commenting on this, saying what they'd do with the money, when the contest is long over. - Rochelle

maybe he has more money still! - Iphigenie

Should I win the money would be donated to the Janesville, WI food pantry which has been hit hard with the GM plant closings. Too many children and adults (and their pets) going to sleep hungry. - Dave Martin

I would use the money to follow in your footsteps and purchase a camera for how-to and web related videos. - Damond Nollan

Wow! Sounds good to me! Will this thread be used in some way? - JCunwired

Depends on the health of my fiancee, who is going through second bout with Lyme disease. I will either need the money to pay for meds that insurance will not, or if her health is better put it towards the coveted Canon 5D MKII. - JCunwired

Yay, I like free money! Give some to me. - tabbr

Wow, as I leave my comment, there are 1,510+ comments ahead of me. I would get a digicam so as to be able to interview peeps around town and upload to the Special Sections portals. Create community, let voices REALLY be heard. - Denise

SORRY TO BURST YOUR BUBBLE EVERYONE, but it's over. Robert already announced the winners A MONTH AGO. http://beta.friendfeed.com/scoblei... - Chris Charabaruk

To Tweet or not to. I will use the winnings to purchase a Netbook so I can finally have a mobile computer for class. My Dell died 2weeks outside warranty. I'll also use it pay down my Charter Bill. - Arawak

If I win the Money I am going to buy a 60 inch pioneer plasma. - John Wood

The money will most definitely be used to pay bills. And buy food. I'd also probably but a secondary monitor for Friendfeed. Real-time is real neat. - Matthew

So, where is the money? - Özkan Altuner

I am in! I will use this money to invest in a small social media project that I am doing geekscene.tv! - Frank Da Silva

Mr. Mack: This is a good target. "1513 more comments" and 400 likes. - Steve and 3 other people

allright.i know i'll win this: ) - umut

Pick me Robert, pick me! I promise to give it all to KIVA.com *and* match it with my own money. - Joseph

Why me? I promise to give it all to KIVA.com (or Charity:Water or Gates Foundation) *and* match it with equal amount of my own money. - Joseph

Rebuild my circa 1999 website, get logo redesigned, build it out and link to anywhere my investor wishes. Build in more social media tools, perhaps Y!OS and G's Friend Connect. - Mike Valentine

There's no way to win anything with this huge number of people , but thanks mr .Robert Scoble for this quiz . - ahmed nabil

So, who won the money? - JCunwired

I was wondering that, too...who won? - Thebluestbutterfly from email

This was over a long time ago. I gotta dig the winners out again, sorry. - Robert Scoble

Would love to spend your money on my credit cards and my wife!!! - Brady

if I win, I would buy Ads on scobleizer.com - Alex Sauceda

Okay, I'm commenting. :D - amygeek

IT'S OVER PEOPLE. March 14, yo. - Josh Haley

i think the confusion about this post lies in the inability for FriendFeed to appropriately show a date and time stamp on each comment. I just figured it out that you have to scroll the mouse of the comment bubble to see the date and time stamp of the comment... they should make it more visible. - Jason Pollock

If I won, I'd give the money to donorschoose.org because it's obscene that in the US, public schools don't have money for pencils & paper. & my employer would match the donation. & I'd get a nice little tax writeoff for myself. :D - amygeek

You are a developer's dream beta tester ! Way to push a system to its limits ! - Benoit Cazenave

This giveaway is over. Has been over. Ugh. - Mattie Kenny

This makes a Thursday that much better. I would use the money to fly myself and the family back home to throw my son his first birthday party. =) - Robert de Castro

I would buy iPods and cameras for students in my sixth grade class in Tucson, AZ. 7 Kodak Zi6 models and 14 iPod Touch models. Or 7 iPods with $1750 - Joel Zehring

That's certainly a cynical strategy for getting comments... but I love cynicism! How will I spend it? Sending my GF and I back to DisneyWorld! - Ciaoenrico

oooooo visit me!! http://www.mygirlfund.com/Chris_R... - Chris

buy a new cleaner/envirmnt friendly car - Harscoat

No impressive story on how I would use the money... buy one netbook and put the rest against my credit cards. It's tough times! - Jan Ole Peek

I'd use the money to fund my son's mission - http://billy.soistmann.com/ - Bill

Money is great! - Fred Hsu

I would use it to pay Obama's tax increases. No spend it to stimulate the economy. No pay new taxes on health insurance. Naw, buy a Mac or I-phone. I-phone, friend feed hard to use on the Dare. 10% to charity though. - wowfreeze.blogspot.com

Put in my children's college fund. - wowfreeze.blogspot.com

Is this the record for the most comments ever? I'll use the money to replace the lens that was stolen by a United employee at ORD on the way from SFO. I will invest the remainder in stocks; if I show profit, I'll hold a similar contest to give away the profit. - Hiro Asari

I'd use some of the money to get my 4 year old into music class. Its not super expensive but beyond my reach right now. Neither myself or his mother are musically inclined at all. But he is. - Capn' One Eye - adrift

============= with the money, Il register a lot of domains, and not only .com ! I'l start new websites, new web app services. I want at least one of them to be that BIG one. I have an idea. Just not that money. :] ......... If money enough, Il commission userscripts, to facilitate internet browsing in general ! ....... I'm open to share in the results. ================ - pb:

If you still reading it means you did not like any of the 1575+ comments here. This is a very good reason to pick me. Second comment about what I am going to do with this money; probably will go to a holiday, order a champagne and remember you. - Jacque

I have to comment again now. - Mattb4rd

is this still running? - Zee.

I WOULD LIEK TO SPEND THE MONEYS ON ALEX AND BUY HIM MONSTER CABLES - Akiva

probably buy a lense for my D90 to take some pictures of the baby that is due in june. - Zach Scott

This thread might be due for another *bump* - Jay Cuthrell

Office - Steve and 3 other people

OK, I won't. - John Craft

Sure. - امیر؟

not #FEEDwithHITS - Yusuf Temur

up - eksi21

hacı biri özet geçsin - eksi21

dedim bu ne ameka.. - serdar

you wrote nobady NOT COMMENT :) - Davit Channa

Leo Laporte

Kindle users are old - Top Stocks Blog - MSN Money - http://blogs.moneycentral.msn.com/topstoc...

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50% of the people who use Kindles are over 50 years old. About 27% were over 60. - Leo Laporte

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Just bought one for my mom - she likes the big type. - Leo Laporte

My mother has one.....she's 84, and she loves it! Her favorite toy. - Bonnie Foster

Well..... I would REALLY like one and I'm 20! HA! - Jackie Perez

It's hard to tell if the writer is taking the mickey, or has a grudge against growing old. It happens to all of us. Does it really matter to Amazon as profit is just that. - Henry Burger

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How to move from iTunes to Songbird and still keep your library - A short post I wrote about the move - http://www.kaspersorensen.com/reviews... (via http://friendfeed.com/kasperb...)

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I like Songbird a lot. I'm not a great fan of iTunes, and use Sharepod to manage my music. I will try out this,as it is what I've wanted to do. Thanks for the post. - Henry Burger

The good thing is you can still keep iTunes and not be afraid of messing things up. Songbird will automatically import any changes you make in iTunes and mimic them in Songbird. Songbird is still missing some features like auto folder organisation, but I think that is coming in the next release. Thanks for commenting - Kasper Sorensen

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wow - http://www.youtube.com/watch... - wow for so many reasons

wow - http://tinyurl.com/c49rgl - wow for so many reasons

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Wow this is amazing - Chris Saad

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This took my breath away - amazing voice - LPH™ and his dog P™

I'd admit it...I was getting a little misty-eyed. Hard not to. - caj needs a haircut

When will Simon Cowell bag the ugly ass haircut? - Scoble, Alex Scoble

I love these things. Worth watching. - Robert Scoble

Robert, agreed. I wish the iphone had the ability to send a link to a youtube video quickly so this could be sent to my daughters today - LPH™ and his dog P™

I wish they tuned down the audience a bit... Could barely hear her at times - Mark Philpot

this lady certainly has a voice! good for her i say for being brave. :) - Tatty Gibson

OMG, I'm in tears here. That was lovely and wow that song with all that. Had to favorite it. </sentimental wimp> - Anika

Is good to see what nature can do. Incredible voice! - Rafael

Alan, me too. Out of this world. - Meryn Stol

Newspaper says she's the frontrunner to win: http://news.scotsman.com/enterta... - Sprague D

That's a magnificent clip, I wish America's Got Talent was so entertaining and surprising. - Jonathan Coffman

i watched this last night, love her! Her voice is a true gift. - Laura Zickus

Thanks for sharing that - perfect for this time of year - Jesse Stay

She's this year's Paul Potts. Great voices, the pair of them. - Mark H

That was just amazing. And the perfect song for both her situation and to start the waterworks. Now i have to follow the show and see if she wins. - Kevin Fox

While I absolutely detest these shows, I must say, this woman got to me. - Rob Michael (Atmos Trio)

It says "embedding disabled by request." - Dawn

You can click through to YouTube via the link. :-) - Kevin Fox

Awesome - Rodfather

Wow. - Todd Hoff

Oh, Duh. Got it, Kevin. This reminds me of the British man who sang opera. It was unbelievable. I think our American shows shoudn't limit the age. I'd love to see what some of the older folks here can do. - Dawn

Here's the opera guy: http://www.youtube.com/watch... - Dawn

Dawn, America's got talent doesn't limit age either - Jesse Stay

Great! I was thinking of American Idol. Never seen America's Got Talent. - Dawn

"so you think you can dance" limits at 30 years or so. Such a shame. - Kevin Fox

"So that's just one side of me!" Hahaha. So nice, she's courageous and willing, good game! So modest to have her walk away after her performance, I'm almost crying. - Zu from AOD

Wow. I usually avoid all of these types of shows. But that was very cool! - Louis Gray

As LG said, it's my first view of that. Damn talents' shows, they got me. - Zu from AOD

it's terrific.. awesome.. fantastic.. - Ozan Kilic

I loved this-she is sublime! - Susan Dennis

What a beautiful voice. Love how she proved them all wrong. - Patrick Ward

Fantastic. Thanks for the newspaper link @Sprague D, her life story is just as amazing. - Henry Burger

awesome - Shey

Wow! - Phil Maxwell

WOW! brought a few tears to my eye. - Jasmin Smith

incredi-wow. - Micah

Gosh, I think I've watched this video like 50 times already. - Nir Ben Yona

Just goes to show how synical we all are, and how fast we are to judge people. - Steve Mactaggart from twhirl

Not bad! I still prefer this one: http://www.youtube.com/watch... - That said, it was a surprisingly good performance. Not as much as Paul Potts, who was entirely horripilative and transcendent. - david beckwith

This was a surprise--and lovely, thx - susan mernit

and I love this song - Erin @queenofspain

Awesome performance. I've never seen the look of pleasant surprise on Simon's face before. You could tell that even he enjoyed it. He still needs to get a better haircut though. - Scoble, Alex Scoble

Britain may have talent, but that's more than I can say for Simon Cowell. The man is the Antichrist, as far as i'm concerned. - Iain Baker

He was a tamed little kitteh for 6 minutes during that performance though. - Scoble, Alex Scoble

Don't know enough about Cowell to make a value judgement on the man. Sometimes (and I don't know if this is the case with Cowell) the a-hole attitude is a public front. It's possibly the case with Gordon Ramsey, and it certainly is with Ann Robinson - I've been to a recording of 'The Weakest Link' at Pinewood Studios, and she switches 'bitch mode' on and off along with the cameras. - Ian May

Wow! Brings back memories when I first saw paul potts... - Jorg Jansen

Seriously? This reeks of scripted viral. The show caught (online) fire in '07 with the Paul Potts audition...arguably the hottest shared video of the year. When the show returned last year, there wasn't an act even minutely close to the WOM impact Potts had generated the privious year. Clearly the BGT online buzz strategy for '09... Potts 2.0. #fail - Zach Lytwyn

I cried... - mjc

I was completely amazed... - Anthony K. Valley ©

Watching Simon's eyes go wide was soooooo worth it. - Great Scott! Needs a Ham

ahh, the power of the edit. great job of making her look like a 'cat lady' for the first several minutes. all the more powerful when we find out she's not totally daft. - MikeAmundsen

That is one courageuos woman with an amazing voice. Goosebumps all over. - Jochen Lillich

Don't judge a book by its cover! - TheHenry

That's absolutely awesome - C.K. Johnson

'Embedding disabled by request'! :-( - Kol Tregaskes

Nicholas, yeah I did just wondering why it didn't work embedded. :-) - Kol Tregaskes

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Listening to the Gillmor Gang live

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FF needs to become a platform in ways Twitter isn't. - Dave Winer

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Let developers craft new UIs out of the basic technology. - Dave Winer

Right now the only designers who get to play with the tech are Paul and Bret et al. - Dave Winer

Let the rest of us compete. Then maybe we'll get somewhere different from where Ev and Biz want to take us. - Dave Winer

Dave: The real-time API (http://code.google.com/p...) is essentially what powers the new beta - Benjamin Golub

Did you see paul's UI demo built from their API? - Kevin Marks

http://live.twit.tv/ - Henry Burger

Steve Gillmor

Gillmor Gang will record Monday 4PM Pacific w/ FriendFeed founders

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Great timing. Big day for FriendFeed Monday. I'll definitely be tuned in. - Rolf Schewe

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Awesome! - Susan Beebe

Great! I may actually be able to catch that one due to the time! Thanks! - ursi

I will be in the air, unfortunately. Bummer. - Robert Scoble

Good to hear. A good time for that. - Thomas Hawk

Gillmor, is anyone from the FF team on your show this afternoon? - Thomas Hawk

My guess would be he's probably been tired since Friday or so, Chris. :-) - Ken Sheppardson

yes Paul Buchheit will be on Gilmor Gang at 4PM Pacific streamed on Twit.TV live - Steve Gillmor

I can barely hear what Leo is saying. - Dave Winer

Leo's spent the last few days trying to recover from a tricaster failure and has been tweaking levels on different services, getting resolutions reset on feeds, etc. The ustream feed seems to have the best audio at the moment: http://www.ustream.tv/channel... - Ken Sheppardson

50min till Gillmor Gang right? - Wo

Cris: yes - Ken Sheppardson

Thanks Ken. This real time thing is pretty neat! - Wo

Live now at http://live.twit.tv - Ken Sheppardson

Paul Buchheit, Mike Arrington, Scoble, Dan Farber, Andrew Keen, and Kevin Marks. - Ken Sheppardson

Mike says he's writing an article right now: "FriendFeed is in danger of becoming the coolest app no one uses" - Ken Sheppardson

Mike sorta declares FF missed the boat and won't be able to overcome Twitter's lead/network effects. Paul's trying to defend the fact that they can/should be more than one company in the space. - Ken Sheppardson

I disagree with Arrington - Bwana ☠

Yeah, I don't think it's going to be a short term shift en masse to FriendFeed - Ken Sheppardson

Has Andrew used the beta? - Ken Sheppardson

Andrew seems like he doesn't understand the beta. - Thomas Hawk

Talking heads are mentioning Twitter because it is a fad - Bwana ☠

the idea of twitter storing my images and video on their site gives me the willies. - Karoli

Half of them don't even know what they're saying - Bwana ☠

I wish they'd stop talking about twitter... - Adnan

yeah it seems like some of the people on the call really don't understand how the new FriendFeed even really works. - Thomas Hawk

I just brought my friends timeline into Friendfeed as a custom RSS feed. - Karoli

Bwana: Yeah, this is a whole lot more about how the standard market dynamics stuff than what FriendFeed's done - Ken Sheppardson

I thought this was going to be a "Twitter free" edition...I guess I was wrong. - Ahmed

I can't understand some of these guys because they are talking over each other. - Mol, FF Music Lover

Ahmed: You can't really talk about FriendFeed after today without also talking about Twitter and Facebook. - Ken Sheppardson

Hey, yeah... let's talk to Paul about this... - Ken Sheppardson

Chris: They have to go through the usual suspects before they can settle in and talk about FriendFeed :-) - Ken Sheppardson

Chris, don't take it personally. - Kevin Fox

live updating on the new beta really works well for this type of back channel. - Thomas Hawk

Ken : True... - Ahmed

This realtime discussion is amazing... instant realtime chat room! - Adnan

Mike is missing the standards conversation - Kevin Marks

Thomas, it's great. I did turn off the replies to Twitter feature though... - Karoli

Live blogging events pretty much changed overnight. - Ken Sheppardson

I'd love to ask Paul, will there be any chance to give people the choice for run-Time instead of forcing it onto people. That's what I didn't like. Leave it an option. - Mol, FF Music Lover

That's actually a really good point: "Celebrities aren't coming to Twitter for conversation." - Kevin Fox

Thomas: opening up an entry page (this one for instance: http://beta.friendfeed.com/stevegi...) works really well in the beta. It's like a chat room :) - Benjamin Golub

I agree with Paul, personally I'm not interested in celebrities and Twitter has very little appeal for me. I'm far more interested in interesting tech and photography and for that FF is far more interesting a place. - Thomas Hawk

Molly, just hit pause and manually refresh - Karoli

Neither is Steve Gillmor, for that matter. - Kent

Benjamin: Only little kink is the page doesn't scroll to keep up. The convo keeps walking off the bottom of the screen. - Ken Sheppardson

If I post a comment, does it leave the post input open and focused? No. :( - Michael Leggett

Are the comments to this post from Steve just an analog to an IRC chat? Looks darned familiar! - Calgary Guru

I love FF over Twitter. - Mol, FF Music Lover

Michael: It does if you're on a single-item page. - Kevin Fox

Calgary: Absolutly, but it's persistent, searchable, linkable... - Ken Sheppardson

RT is great for these fast-moving conversations, but if only the comment button was down at the bottom. - j1m

Michael: when on an entry page (http://beta.friendfeed.com/stevegi...) if you post a comment it immediately refocuses the comment box. Edit: Kevin beat me! - Benjamin Golub

It makes it pretty much a group IM chat. - Kevin Fox

yeah this is nice. - MG Siegler

...and when I see somebody say something interesting here, I can jump off an link to everything they've ever written. - Ken Sheppardson

J1m if you click the link and come into this post only, the comment button is at the bottom. - Simon Wicks

Facebook. ugh. - Karoli

Can I go slap Mike Arrington? - Mol, FF Music Lover

Molly, get in line behind me. - Karoli

Molly: Ask Kevin to. - Ken Sheppardson

FriendFeed pro tip: once on an entry page (http://beta.friendfeed.com/stevegi...) click on the entry timestamp again :) - Benjamin Golub

Mike was pretty hilarious at the FF demo on Friday. He was wandering around the office looking at whiteboards and stuff... - Ken Sheppardson

Why should I use FriendFeed when I'm happy on Twitter? <-- Use Twitter. Duh. - Bwana ☠

Facebook's UGI is crap now, but I still use it. :) - Mol, FF Music Lover

Benjamin: That's sweet! - Sam Grover

Thanks Benjamin - Phil Maxwell

oops UI not UGI - Mol, FF Music Lover

I like the way these comments are turning into an irc room - Kevin Marks

Twitter is a broadcasting channel now. The real exchange of ideas is going to be here. - Ken Sheppardson

FriendFeed has photos, Twitter does not, I think that's huge right there and very disruptive. - Thomas Hawk

oh, that's very cool Benjamin - Karoli

FF is good for the conversation. - Mol, FF Music Lover

I think with the feedback FF is getting, they will improve their UI. - Mol, FF Music Lover

It's lots of things. It's adaptable. It's sorta infinitely extensible. The trick is making it simple at the same time. - Ken Sheppardson

Paul seems like a really understanding person. - Mol, FF Music Lover

The comment box needs to be above the comment stream so it doesn't get pushed of the bottom of the window if a couple of people post comments while you're typing. - Phil Maxwell

Kevin: Ask what FF's runway looks like, will ya? - Ken Sheppardson

Can't wait to hear it. When will it post to the web. - Tom Parish

I am not giving Twitter or Facebook my content. They keep it - Karoli

It would be interesting to pick any two: FriendFeed, Facebook, or Twitter, and assign those two arbitrary user counts where one had 10x the other, and then try to make the argument of how the underdog was doomed, or would eclipse the larger site. - Kevin Fox

I can't understand why it's always a choice between FriendFeed or Twitter and not a choice between Facebook or Twitter. Boggles my mind - Bwana ☠

When FriendFeed will tip: When people get sick of duplicating themselves across FB, Twitter, Flickr, Disqus, BackType, etc. - Karoli

There are tautological arguments. Twitter is superior to Friendfeed because it's simple, but Facebook is superior to Twitter because it has more functionality. - Kevin Fox

I don't think a direct 1-to-1 comparison of users is fair. Does a twitter user have the same value as a FF user under all the possible monitization schemes you can imagine? - Ken Sheppardson

*sarcastic tone* Yeah get Paul off the line so we can trash FF. *rolls eyes* - Mol, FF Music Lover

FF is far superior to either for two simple reasons. 1. It's far better for conversations. 2. Visual representation is significant and in many ways can be more relevant than text alone. - Thomas Hawk

I prefer friendfeed over twitter because it allows a conversation to beuch less fragmented. I can see the whole conversation rather than having to jump all over the place to pick up what is being said. Twitter is one on one im and not the group chat I prefer - Iain

Scoble speaks truth. - Bwana ☠

The most telling argument is probably that this dicussion we're having here simply couldn't happen on Twitter as it currently exists. - Kevin Fox

@Kevin @Bravada Agreed! Discussion here is much easier to follow than on Twitter - Pat Hawks

Scoble rocks - Mol, FF Music Lover

I'm on the call and reading this - Kevin Marks

nice. hi Kevin. - Thomas Hawk

Hi Kevin :) - Mol, FF Music Lover

Kevin: Hi! Are you reading via the entry page (http://beta.friendfeed.com/stevegi...)? - Benjamin Golub

Much better than the 'real chat rooms' - Amyloo

Mike has a very typical biz/VC approach to this it seems. Sorta limits the scope of what one sees it seems. - Ken Sheppardson

We have real-time web around a real-time video show... - Bwana ☠

When Paul says multiple services converging... does that mean he sees friendfeed, facebook and twitter eventually having the same functionality? - Adnan

Adnon: No, it means he sees interoperability and a free flow of data between them. - Ken Sheppardson

Adnan, since Facebook seems to copy everything FriendFeed does anyway... :) - Karoli

Back in my day, we called this IRC... kinda cool it's on the web now - Bwana ☠

"Why would you want a private room?" Because some people have friends in real life that they want to share with and not worry about random people on the internets messing it up - Pat Hawks

Bwana: And we can search it, link to it, hop off form it into peoples' other stuff, etc. - Ken Sheppardson

Well, I'm off. Bye :) - Mol, FF Music Lover

Bwana, on the web and going out to anyone who follows you if you want it to. - Karoli

Someone should get Scoble in this thread. - Thomas Hawk

Scoble speaks for the drunken folk. yay! - Bwana ☠

Kevin: Suggest Andrew actually try it, will ya? - Ken Sheppardson

yes Kevin it would be great to let the others on the call know that this is going on. - Thomas Hawk

Beta tweak: Put a comment link a the bottom of an active thread. I keep having to scroll up to get the comment box to come back up :) - Bwana ☠

Bwana: go directly to the item. It expands automatically, and you always have a comment box open: http://beta.friendfeed.com/stevegi... - Ken Sheppardson

Bwana, are you on the permalinked (and beta) page of this thread? If so, I think the box should always show. - Philipp Lenssen

Oh ok, I was on Steve's page - Bwana ☠

IM should be a component of Twitter, except that they don't give a shit about their users. - Karoli

Is friendfeed doing anything with opensocial? - Adnan

I think FriendFeed might kill the Prime Minister of Malaysia - MG Siegler

Chris: Some folks on this call (e.g. Steve) think email's dying, yes. - Ken Sheppardson

I hate email. I like FF direct messaging. - Thomas Hawk

Compare this: http://beta.friendfeed.com/search... to this: http://search.twitter.com/search... Which is actually more meaningful? - Kevin Fox

Chris White: maybe that's why Twitter removed their IM functionality? - Phil Maxwell

Friend feed is all about the databasing and the search!! - Ed Dale

@Kevin Yes! FriendFeed search ftw - Pat Hawks

Because you're using it Leo LOL - Bwana ☠

Adnan: Matt Cutts and Paul were talking about OpenSocial last Friday night... keep your eyes open. - Ken Sheppardson

On Twitter, I know 50 people are telling other people to listen to Gillmore Gang. On Friendfeed there are several active conversations in realtime *about* the things that are being discussed on the show right now. - Kevin Fox

Kevin: perfect example - Bwana ☠

The search is the most powerful I've seen, particularly when it starts updating in real time - Karoli

Which is why I'm so excited about Filters - Bwana ☠

My company uses friendfeed as a group repository for niches we are researching - fully searchable - people can comment and it's permanent - Ed Dale

ken: I was in the middle of watching scobles video of the event when the gillmorgang started... :) - Adnan

Kevin Fox: Would be nice if there were someway to know/see what other convos are going. - Ken Sheppardson

bwana: I can't wait till when they make filters realtime! - Adnan

twitter is broadcast - friendfeed is a destination - Ed Dale

Not *everybody* uses Google, but they're doing all right - Pat Hawks

Adnan: It was after the demo, over a beer. - Ken Sheppardson

Ken Sheppardson: That's what I linked to: http://beta.friendfeed.com/search... - Kevin Fox

Google at one point was far smaller than Yahoo. And then Google came along with better tech. Sometimes you actually can build a better mousetrap. - Thomas Hawk

Adnan: seriously - Bwana ☠

It's a search for "Gillmor Gang' entries with more than 5 comments. - Kevin Fox

Leo speaks for the common man - Bwana ☠

Aha... cool. I've been trying to funnel everybody here. :-) - Ken Sheppardson

Mike is wrong about network effects and disruption. - Kevin Marks

friendfeed needs an api period - not what they are currently calling an api - bear (aka Mike Taylor)

Some superset of the Twitter API, yes - Ken Sheppardson

the trouble with twitter is the follow you follow me problem - by making it to "rude" not to follow people - they create a mess - Ed Dale

I agree with those who say the API for FF needs to be more robust. Developers won't build if they don't get an API they can work with. - Karoli

yes, follow too many people on twitter it's a total mess. FriendFeed is far more manageable. - Thomas Hawk

let him finish a sentence, mike - Ken Sheppardson

not true @chris White - anyone can send you an @ message - Ed Dale

Scoble and Mike, like a married couple :) - Simon Wicks

FF is vastly superior for realtime search. - Thomas Hawk

it isn't real time search, Mike. it's TRACK - Karoli

The metadata's much, much richer on FF than Twitter. - Ken Sheppardson

with the real time push, it becomes track - Karoli

I gree with that - - Ed Dale

impossible - Ed Dale

Thomas: Agreed! Robert really has a point... even Arrington agrees! realtime search is important. - Adnan

This real-time chat is one of the reasons why FF new UI is so much relevant - Martin Añazco

Martin - But it's tooo faaaaaaaast </whine> :P - Bwana ☠

Likes are much richer than Favorites - Ken Sheppardson

Bwana, you crack me up. - Kevin Fox

this chat is excellent. - Ed Dale

see how this realtime is limited to this thread....Guess what else can do that... LISTS!! - Bwana ☠

friendfeed has metadata because they don't strip it from the incoming sources - twitter strips all of it but the source and the 140 characters - bear (aka Mike Taylor)

Lists of comments provide much more semantic connectivity than @ signs on Twitter - Ken Sheppardson

@Bwana we will get use to it or find better ways to use it. It's just day 1 on this. - Martin Añazco

someone in the chat room just said short statement metadata is useless. LOL. - Karoli

Martin - yup you're right - Bwana ☠

hang with the hashtags, then - Karoli

Likes are the new retweets - Karoli

Scoble is a FFholic!! best ever.. - Ahmed

He said Plurk!! hahah - Bwana ☠

oh dear the meta data of likes and comments alone is immense for the search engine - Ed Dale

If this permalinked thread is IRC, then I would want the comment box to always be scrolled into sight/ be at the bottom, tho. - Philipp Lenssen

Twitter and FF can and will coexist. - Pat Hawks

Yeah, Laconica/Jaiku are the biggest losers here. - Ken Sheppardson

Philipp, agree. frustrating to keep having to retrieve the comment box. - Karoli

Philip it is here: http://beta.friendfeed.com/stevegi... - Bwana ☠

Robert just nailed it. - Thomas Hawk

Yes. Needles out of the haystack ftw - Pat Hawks

Ken, why isn't there a bridge into Laconica like there is to Twitter? - Karoli

That's why they're shutting him up Thomas - Bwana ☠

Right on Scoble!! - Ed Dale

You have all the same friends you had yesterday, you just see them now. You're just seeing everything you used to miss. - Ken Sheppardson

Robert is on top of it tonight - Bwana ☠

Mike Arrington is an asshole today. - Karoli

Mike! See this forum! THIS IS WHY! - Pat Hawks

@Karoli only today? - Ahmed

Karoli: You mean a little checkbox to post to Identica? Because nobody uses Identica. - Ken Sheppardson

I just realized..my FriendFeed stats are going to be weird this month... Steve Gillmor will be my #1 guy - Bwana ☠

Bwana: He has to be to deal with Mike. - Ken Sheppardson

@Ahmed I was hoping someone would say that. - Karoli

Scoble's really on today. Making very good points. - Thomas Hawk

Bwana, that is where I am, but old comments perhaps should be pushed away by new comments... right now, new comments push away the comment box instead. - Philipp Lenssen

Here it is again...Explain again Robert lol - Bwana ☠

if you have comments and likes!! you can filter!!!!! - Ed Dale

Scoble knows how FF works far more than Arrington does. - Thomas Hawk

meta data is sadly not a celebrity word :-) - Ed Dale

Ken...but still, what if we want to communicate from FF. I have to leave to reply, can't send likes there. Even if it's not huge, it would center everything on FF - Karoli

SOMEBODY get this link in front of Mike! - Pat Hawks

Scobles been put on the spot so many times, he's improved all his arguments over time! :) - Adnan

Ed - Let's make a cute name for it.. "Meta Meta" or "MoMeta" - Bwana ☠

I like how the company founder just sits back and let's Scoble explain stuff. Robert is FriendFeed's "Goose", re the Top Gun analogy earlier today. - Ken Sheppardson

@Karoli I think he is just on the show to make people angry... - Ahmed

Fluffy kitten meta - Ed Dale

also group messaging, Filters... - Ken Sheppardson

how do I make a filter of only this comment stream? (sorry if it's a stupid question) - Michael Breslin

FF = the dream of social search realized. Twitter = one big search mess. - Thomas Hawk

DITTO SCOBLE!!! - Ed Dale

awkward silence of "I'm right you're wrong" - Bwana ☠

Fuck you, Mike Arrington. Just sayin'. - Karoli

sorry about the ditto! - Ed Dale

:) - Thomas Hawk

but its searchable!!!! - Ed Dale

This could never happen on Twitter. - Thomas Hawk

its permanent!!! - Ed Dale

And you can search it later, link to other stuff, etc. - Ken Sheppardson

Michael, as a workaround, perhaps you can search for this guid and add the search as filter 579630c9-3f6c-4e9e-a8ec-4e91a52d9f91 - Philipp Lenssen

Let that become Arrington metadata. I've been saying that to myself forever - Karoli

Just today :) - Kent

you cant save IRS ...easily - Ed Dale

We have this thread as proof when Arrington says he was behind FF all along when it becomes big - Bwana ☠

YES! - Pat Hawks

Yes, Michael - Ken Sheppardson

Ahmed, he's succeeding. - Karoli

:) - Bwana ☠

haha. yes. - Thomas Hawk

pretty much - Ed Dale

Yes, you broke the embargo... Jerk. - Bwana ☠

I love you! - Bwana ☠

I HATE you too. - Bwana ☠

wow..who likes Arrington...really? - Ahmed

Arrington should join this chat. - Thomas Hawk

Gmail has all your email. Next argument. - Ken Sheppardson

Ken wins again - Bwana ☠

and google has all its data on their site!! - Ed Dale

Angus, how is Friendfeed nuked? Given that Twitter's feed can come to FF, I'd think the superior search would hose Twitter - Karoli

uhhh... now we are worried about silos... but we aren't worried about it when we talk about twitter? - Adnan

Ken, I have all my email. GMail holds it in the cloud, but it's all stored here, too. - Karoli

Twitter is limited...FF is the future! - Ahmed

I'd rather have the guy who came up with "don't be evil" managing the conversation on his site than trusting it to Twitter. just sayin'. - Thomas Hawk

I think of the Big Three, FriendFeed is the most likely to build embeddable services that let publishers brand their conversations. - Ken Sheppardson

its certainly not either/or - Ed Dale

WE ARE HERE :) - Ahmed

*Waves to Mike* - Ken Sheppardson

Too bad Mike doesn't listen to women. he'd have the link to the chat room now. - Karoli

too much scrolling - Maxine Appleby

and you can search for it - Ed Dale

Philipp, thanks, seems to work. - Michael Breslin

Somebody tell mike to search for "arrington comments: 200" - Ken Sheppardson

You're not good at all sir - Bwana ☠

com'on now, it's right here..my 14 year old bro can find it! - Ahmed

LOL - Bwana ☠

I found it! - Randy Archer

"It's right there at the top" :-) - Ken Sheppardson

Hi. Welcome to your doom - Bwana ☠

Hi, Mike - Ken Sheppardson

he's found it. - Thomas Hawk

Hi Mike. - Thomas Hawk

Click on the timestamp - Ken Sheppardson

What has science done?! - iluvgimp

Listening (and viewing) the discussion in real time is amazing. - Henry Burger

Here it is again!! - Jeff

found it, finally, eh? - Karoli

Does this thing auto scroll for us as well? (my entry box has just scrolled off the screen!) I guess not. - Viran

GamersCircle Comics was here - Andy Wood

Somebody tell mike to search for "arrington comments: 200" - great point - Ed Dale

this could never happen on Twitter. - Thomas Hawk

LOL blais - Bwana ☠

it isn't a chat room... it is a conversation - Brian Roy

the scroll issue needs to be fixed. hate my comment box rolling out of sight - Karoli

Auto scroll would be sweet. - Pat Hawks

how about an autoscroll? Is that possible? - Phil Maxwell

why to turn it into a room? just click on the time stamp, it has its own page - Jérôme

And we stay on topic here. (mostly) - Bwana ☠

If you go to the item directly, http://beta.friendfeed.com/stevegi... it'll scroll automatically for you, with a comment box that sticks on the bottom - Ken Sheppardson

a searchable and PERMANENT conversation - Ed Dale

go here and the box stays at teh bottom - Amyloo

muahahah - Bwana ☠

I agree with Pat...we need auto scroll - Ahmed

he found it thank the lord - Zach Scott

http://beta.friendfeed.com/stevegi... - Amyloo

Real-time comment is awesome - Jérôme

Autoscrolling would be nice - Jeff

nice, thanks Ken - Viran

no need to get my 14 year old bro lol - Ahmed

the nice thing about FF is that there hasn't really been any censorship that i've seen. - Thomas Hawk

No. The permalink does not autoscroll... - Pat Hawks

I am not a troll. I am reacting in real time. - Karoli

It's not trolling if people would say it to your face, Mike ;-) - Ken Sheppardson

Trolls are usually wrong...I'm just right :) - Bwana ☠

Oh, no, we bash Robert. - Ken Sheppardson

it's constructive criticism Mike :) - Ahmed

<3 Leo. - iluvgimp

Mike, I promise I don't spit - Karoli

Scoble made the most sense on the call. And probably knows FF better than anyone else on the call except Paul. - Thomas Hawk

block block block - Ken Sheppardson

Oohh also, use the scroll function in the browser, activated using the mousewheel/mousebutton3 and just set it to scroll to the bottom of the page, once it hits the last item, it won't scroll until a new item is added by friendfeed. - Viran

you're wrong! BLOCK! - Bwana ☠

Mike is just one of those persons that some people just love to hate :) - Phil Maxwell

LOL - Bwana ☠

Scoble has used the service a heap and gets the power of it - Ed Dale

+1 for Shel - Pat Hawks

Oh, please. stop it. you sat there and said FF would fail and a room full of people reacted . that's not trolling. - Karoli

Click on Saturday, which is a permalink and yes it does autoscroll. You need to go all the way down to the bottom - Rolf Schewe

This is one of th few times where I completely agree with Scobel - Keith Barrett

Amyloo: How do you get to the link? - Nick in Manila

Thanks Leo :) - Andrew Smith

Scoble understands FF... mostly - Bwana ☠

@Rolf @Ken not in Firefox it doesn't - Pat Hawks

I've disagreed with him too :) - Bwana ☠

Rolf, the browser does not autoscroll here (Firefox 2.0.8). The comments do auto-push the box away instead. - Philipp Lenssen

Leo speaks sense. - Thomas Hawk

"mini-forums" will sping up where they are required - Ed Dale

+1 Karoli - Tony Miller

Reminds me I need to cancel my Well membership. - Shawn Thompson

Yeah, in firefox the confo flows off the end of the screen - Ken Sheppardson

Good of leo to make nice with paul, so he'll want to come back... - Amyloo

idem for Chrome, Philipp - Jérôme

+1 Philipp - Pat Hawks

Yes. I thought you meant it was not real-time. Misunderstood. - Rolf Schewe

The ShamWow salesmen - Bwana ☠

I put my screen bottom up, so that the last comment is always at the top :D - Jérôme

But if we are commenting publicly how can we be trolls? - Brian Allen

Talent is not universal - Ken Sheppardson

Chris Baskind +1 - Karoli

I gotta say, the FF UI is not very intuitive. - iluvgimp

I am using Firefox 3.1 beta. Same thing happens here - Rolf Schewe

twitter will be fine if they get rid of auto follow - Ed Dale

It helps Hammer - Bwana ☠

Unwashed masses: The people that do not use leading edge tech - Keith Barrett

:) - Bwana ☠

who cares about following celebrities. I don't. I'm much more interesting in following great photographers. - Thomas Hawk

Doesn't auto-keep box at bottom of browser window in Chrome either here. - Philipp Lenssen

Well Leo..she did stop a suicide, so she is pretty smart.. - Ahmed

Wow, real time increase a lot the comment flooding, look at this thread! - Jérôme

Oh, the permalink is on the date, kind of like Wordpress. - Nick in Manila

Trolls .. Blocking give trolls more power - Michael Holzinger

Ed, I disagree. The Twitterati lists combined with lack of track mean it will be elitist. that's how they want it. Like Google weighting toward corporate sites in their results - Karoli

Nick: and Twitter :) - Bwana ☠

Jerome: We're discussing the live streaming Gillmor Gang at http://live.twit.tv - Ken Sheppardson

awkward silence of "wut" - Bwana ☠

Sometiemes trolls are nice to have around. - Thomas Hawk

Chrome seems to handle the ajax in a little smoother way on the thread page - Amyloo

wow, this is long. I like the trend with FF. They just need to give me some numbers that will boost my ego and I'll switch over. - Nick Gonzalez

Chris: I thought a troll was somebody who tried to incite you into responding. - Ken Sheppardson

@Philipp Lenssen Same issue here. I need to scroll down constantly to play catch up with the ever growing conversation. Hopefully there will be a fix for that. - Rolf Schewe

Mike, this could never happen on Twitter. - Thomas Hawk

As opposed to Twitter. - Ken Sheppardson

you are Mike - Andrew Smith

And now Mike is the Troll - Pat Hawks

Mike's trolling :-) - Ken Sheppardson

Twitter would get a reaction..we're too smart for that kind of bait - Bwana ☠

@Ken, I know, I'm listening too :S - Jérôme

Chris, exactly. so if you could bring your Twitter stream into Friendfeed, and reply from there, it's an invitation to conversation - Karoli

Leo nailed it. - Thomas Hawk

better than the junior high kids in the chat on the video pages! - Amyloo

Oh no..you didn't! - Ahmed

Leo, FTW. - Karoli

"I said that just to get a reaction." the definition of trolling. - Tony Miller

Twitter = the AOL of Micromessaging. - Thomas Hawk

Agree with thomas - twitter is about individuals - friend feed will work for groups - Ed Dale

Mike would be a good agent provocateur. - Rolf Schewe

@Rolf Schewe I'm using the autoscroll using the mousewheel button to permanently scroll to the bottom of the page, give that a try :) - Viran

how many comments can a post hold before it starts messing up the browser? are their any posts with 1000+ comments? - Phil Maxwell

It's not Twitter vs FriendFeed.... - Bwana ☠

scoble's giving away money post had over a thousand I think. - Thomas Hawk

Twitter is a brilliant success that has not made a cent yet - Ed Dale

We could care less if Twitter succeeds - Bwana ☠

There's a difference between lots of people and quality content - Pat Hawks

MySpace grew at a staggering rate for awhile too - Karoli

and twitter is avery different service to friendfeed - Ed Dale

Phil, Robert had a 1000+ comment string - Karoli

Viran, I tried that, but how do you combine it with typing? :) - Philipp Lenssen

@Karoli ROFL - Pat Hawks

friendfeed will never be able to compete with Twitter's simplicity. - Phil Maxwell

That's like saying Facebook will fail because Twitter succeeds - Bwana ☠

Why can't Twitter, FriendFeed, and Facebook all succeed? Apple seems to be doing just fine right along side Microsoft? - Ken Sheppardson

Twitter is only a small part of FF. FF supplements other services - Rob Michael (Atmos Trio)

Anybody who compares FriendFeed directly with Twitter doesn't understand Twitter - Pat Hawks

@Viran Thanks. Works great, until I have to type. ;) - Rolf Schewe

build in Friendfeed comments to your blog, Mike - Karoli

JaikuEngine: -) - Ken Sheppardson

I think in the future, people are going to hate simple stuff, they will need more features... - Ahmed

XMPP - Phil Glockner

So how does the plugging of networks happen? Open Social? Why won't they talk about that? - Adnan

Yeah a comment button on the BOTTOM of the feed!!!!!!!!!!!!1 yeah! thanks for listening to my request for this earlier today!!!!1 woooo hooo! - Susan Beebe

twitter and friendfeed work well together - Ed Dale

So we've went from it'll fail, to "I want this" - Bwana ☠

Ok must go... hubby wants BEEEEEEEER :) sorry to hit and run - Susan Beebe

Susan: Yes, when you're viewing an individual post. - Ken Sheppardson

I will crush the enemy social media and drive them before me and hear the lament of their users. - Tony C (Unrated)

smart hubby. - Thomas Hawk

i want transcript of the Gillmor Gang show today... :) - Susan Beebe

Bwana: I'm sure part of it is devils advocate/entertainment. - Ken Sheppardson

Its also very easy to subscribe to people here who are making sense - just click on their name - Ed Dale

Or good old fashioned two facerry - Bwana ☠

Thomas - Yep we're celebrating! He finally dumped a client I advised him to dump MONTHS ago! my treat...LOTS of beer - Susan Beebe

I just made up a word - Bwana ☠

Mike throws stuff into Twitter. THAT is why it's better than FriendFeed - Pat Hawks

FriendFeed is the most likely of any of these big services to provide you with something that'll live on your system. - Ken Sheppardson

yes you did - Susan Beebe

Who here is making sense? - iluvgimp

haha funny Bwana! - Susan Beebe

stuff -nice word for it - Susan Beebe

lol @ Bwana - Tony Miller

Susan's making the most sense about the whole getting beer for her husband thing. - Thomas Hawk

Daniel: What do you mean? We're talking about the live feed at http://live.twit.tv - Ken Sheppardson

how big will friendfeed have to get before kevin marks makes the move over to it? - Amyloo

yep :) I should should real-time comment how good each Harp & Guinness on tap will taste :) - Susan Beebe

having the data is HUGE. Twitter doesn't give yours back. Facebook? HAHAHAHA - Karoli

We use it for storage and search - create a room for a niche, get all the feeds in their and see what people like and what they comment on - Ed Dale

love you guys... gotta run... this is FUNNNNNNN :) thanks FF :) - Susan Beebe

http://activitystrea.ms and http://opensocial.org - Kevin Marks

Hello world \n - Ricardo Liberato

it's my default now - Amyloo

KShep: I'm listening to the same feed :) Just making a joke about none of this making sense. - iluvgimp

I'm never goin' back - Pat Hawks

People hate the grey - Bwana ☠

userstyles ftw - Bwana ☠

agreed Pat - Ed Dale

The summary: Twitter has already changed the game. FF could maybe change the game, but whether it will remains to be seen. We are still in the early stages of how this stuff works. Obviously, Twitter and FF (and dozens of other services) aren't mutually exclusive. - Albert Willis

user styles would rawk - Karoli

Daniel: gotcha - Ken Sheppardson

i like FF beta - Michael Holzinger

oh Leo, they are not. - Karoli

@amyloo I'm mostly on twhirl, but this new FF is looking good - Kevin Marks

Pause button needs a refresh every X seconds option - Tony Miller

Space bar should pause. - Jérôme

Like the FF beta : yes or no? - Ahmed

I;d like to turn bubbles off on the RT feed. I need my ral0estate - Keith Barrett

452 comments and no swear words or repeat spam messages. How is that bad? - Phil Glockner

When you do a new DM...it defaults to MyFeed...bad..very bad - Bwana ☠

kevin, no, i meant go to work for them! - Amyloo

yep - Ricardo Liberato

seems almost too simple - Zach Scott

Yes, a pause keyboard shortcut would be sweet - Phil Maxwell

and fixed. - Bwana ☠

keyboard shortcuts period - Bwana ☠

I like the comments gray. - Thomas Hawk

black comments are a big one for me. don't dig the lighter comments - Karoli

Please, Kevin, ask for a "pause" keyboard shortcut! - Jérôme

themes ftw - Jay Neff

I agree, can you make them black? It's hard to tell I'm supposed to read this - Colin

THEMES! Woooooo - Phil Glockner

Yes, nobody's made that request before, have they ;-) - Ken Sheppardson

spacebar pause ...should be simple to do right? - Bwana ☠

I think holding down the mouse button should pause - Pat Hawks

Phil, wiggling the mouse does pause it momentarily - Karoli

Theming would be nice, the pastel blue usernames don't show up too well for me :( - Viran

I'd pay $5 a month for access to CSS - Andrew Smith

500 comments now. - Marc Dong

Grey is perfect for me. - Jérôme

I'd like my comments to be in a different color though to find them. - Thomas Hawk

There are over 450 comments now. Is this a conversation anyone wants to follow, or is this evanescent like a chat room? - Francine Hardaway

Themes FTW! - Ahmed

I love the new UI, keep up the good work! - Jay Neff

It will seem weird without gray comments but I could live with it. - Mitch

whoa this is like a chat room when you get down to the individual feed item page, 10 comments posted before i could finish this - sean percival

Somebody suggest Andrew Keen try the service. - Ken Sheppardson

Search is EVERYTHING - Ed Dale

Francine, it's great in real time, and searchable later - Karoli

FF = social search of the future. - Thomas Hawk

no one talked about Filters - Bwana ☠

Karoli, but then I have to take my hands off the keyboard :) - Phil Maxwell

:( - Bwana ☠

very hard to scroll back to Comment link - need to be able to lock in on a realtime thread like this - JCunwired

francine not like a chatroom -- it effectively is one - Amyloo

It's probably a boring read, Francine, but perhaps a search goldmine. - Phil Glockner

custom themes would be nice - Zach Scott

Bwana: Small steps :-) - Ken Sheppardson

Glad to see Leo likes it so much. - Thomas Hawk

Cheese... moved....RAWR - Bwana ☠

i'm about 500 comments late to this thread, but loving the new beta, on my mac & iphone. My new default on both platforms. - Jeffrey Marsh

Francine: it's basically the TWiTLive impromptu chat - iluvgimp

I'm doing a video tonight Leo :) - Bwana ☠

Jeffrey how are you viewing it on the iPhone - Karoli

most of the comments won't make sense not in real time - Phil Maxwell

Was a good chat - Simon Wicks

Is Léo looking at this thread right now? - Jérôme

I was going to ask for themes. - archaictree

beta interface works on iPhone - Bwana ☠

jcunwired: you can, click this link: http://beta.friendfeed.com/stevegi... - Phil Glockner

I hated the way it rendered on the iPhone - Karoli

I ALWAYS used the feeeds in real-time--wish the filters were RT. - Rob Michael (Atmos Trio)

will be fun to read while listening to the recording, though - Amyloo

I do agree with Arrington: realtime FF is nice, but is it the game changer that Steve Gilmore's post implied? Not yet--at least not for most people. - Albert Willis

"It's all about search"... indeed:-) - Patrick Chanezon

this must look annoyingly awesome on the iphone, let's look. - iluvgimp

I like that the comments are bubbling up on the front page too - Kevin Marks

and you can search it!!!! - Ed Dale

Hey, even Patrick is here. Woot! - Jérôme

@Karoli just via the browser (saved it to homescreen)....granted i am on wi-fi, but even real-time seems to work great - Jeffrey Marsh

top secret fuzzy logic - Bwana ☠

it's about discovery as well as search, and the interesting space inbetween - Kevin Marks

nice job guys - Jay

good beta test of the realtime interface - Bwana ☠

haha, tired of hearing about Scoble's car problem. - Thomas Hawk

and it was useful - Bwana ☠

Ok, i think i need to be part of this too! - Damien Benoit

hello ... joining in! :) - Garys Wine

Go for simplicity, FriendFeed - Mitch

How long until filters are real time?? - Ken Sheppardson

Click hide, done, no more car problem - Tony Miller

I echo Ken's question - Bwana ☠

the nice thing about friendfeed is that if you get tired of something bubbling you can just hide it. - Thomas Hawk

Scoble's car brand should advertise on this thread :D - Jérôme

Somebody ask paul when Filters will go real time? - Ken Sheppardson

I also echo Ken's question - Adnan

Thomas - It would be nice to "anchor" it down without completely hiding it though. - Mitch

Albert Willis it is the gamechanger. It may take people time to figure it out, but Twitter took 3 years to jump the shark, so... - Karoli

@Paul: when Filters will go real time? - Jérôme

Chris, backward filters on home feed: exclude certain feeds from appearing on home feed - Karoli

@Chris: maybe "make this filter your homepage" would do it. - Jérôme

Pluggable algorithms for filtering/bubbling up would be interesting too. - Patrick Chanezon

should latest post be up top? date and time added? - Garys Wine

Holy update! - Dave VanderWall

I got some kewl filters brewing - Bwana ☠

would be nice to have some draggability to speed friend list making - Amyloo

take any Hobby -feed all the best feeds into it - one stop shot - Ed Dale

Agreed Amyloo - Mitch

I never really visioned FriendFeed as a place for spontaneous chats before today. - Thomas Hawk

holy crap.. looks good on the iphone.. a dedicated iphone app would be even better - iluvgimp

Everybody should check out AJ Batac's theme at http://beta.friendfeed.com/ajbatac... - Ken Sheppardson

great question. - Bwana ☠

omg... real-time chat engine! - AJ Batac :)

Thanks Steve - Jérôme

Man I love filters - Bwana ☠

before the service comes out of beta? - Ken Sheppardson

sweet - Ken Sheppardson

How would one deal with spam commenters in threads like these? - Philipp Lenssen

glad they took their time on this; it's really nice - Amyloo

Thanks Steve! :) - Ahmed

hidden stuff should stay hidden in filters as well. - Thomas Hawk

Filters FTW - Ken Sheppardson

less than a month... and with full keyboard shortcuts! - Jérôme

You need to promote it to your niches - Thomas to Photographer for example :-) - Ed Dale

I like how a comment thread is also a topic oriented chat room that can be archived and linked to unlike traditional chat room conversations that disappear once you close them. - Rolf Schewe

Philipp: Each person could eal with them individually: block - Ken Sheppardson

darn, I zoned out. Stupid A.D.D. - Bwana ☠

Exactly Rolf!!! - Ed Dale

can this section be expanded in the beta? I liked the old view so I could see stuff I missed - Scott Kingery

600 comments now. - Marc Dong

Everybody can make their own judgement what's spam - Ken Sheppardson

Rolf - Yeah this is a lot more IRC-feeling isn't it. - Mitch

I've had this running as the lead items on my Flickr page all day. I'm trying to promote FF at Flickr and other photography related places as much as I can. Love seeing great photos on FF. - Thomas Hawk

is direct message here a new thing, or just something i never noticed? - Amyloo

this doesnt auto scroll on Mac/Firefox FYI ... i have to keep scrolling to catch up - Garys Wine

nambuu - Phil Glockner

Track = "friends:kshep or term1 or term2 or term3 or" as a filter - Ken Sheppardson

Spam is simple - dont follow everyone - follow people you know - Ed Dale

it's new - Bwana ☠

@Daniel Boehmisch I thought so, others may disagree, but I am going to give it a try over the next few days and see how smooth it runs...but I agree a dedicated app would probably be better - Jeffrey Marsh

@Mitch DALnet2000 ;) - Rolf Schewe

Watching this on post on Twit.tv while watching it on Friendfeed. Yo Dawg... - Eric

there's been very little spam in FF. When you do see it it's almost sort of fun. - Thomas Hawk

Well, Ed, but in threads like this you see everybody. Not just the folks you're following. - Ken Sheppardson

Ed, I was talking about specific comments in this thread, which show even when you're not following the person... and I didn't notice any block button when hovering over a name. - Philipp Lenssen

All thats missing is a realtime list of whos all currently viewing this page. - Tony Miller

@Bwana are going to make a tutorial on how to use Filters??? - Ahmed

lol 16 new results on "Gillmor Gang" on Twitter since Kevin Fox posted it.... and 200 new comments here. We win. - Bwana ☠

Twhirl client shipping tomorrow: looking foward to see what it does! - Patrick Chanezon

I tell you what, next time I liveblog something, I'm just opening up a FF thread and going to town. - Phil Glockner

oh gotcha! - Ed Dale

No, it's easier! (posting to FF compared to Twitter) - Jérôme

Ahmed: yeah, producing the video tonight - Bwana ☠

trouble with friendfeed clients is that they refresh when you like or comments which really disrupts friendfeed flow - Ed Dale

Why can't you CC: to Facebook as well? - iluvgimp

@Bwana thanks, can't wait to watch it... - Ahmed

BWana: is your voice/natural language -> filters converter done yet? - Ken Sheppardson

Ken: Prototypes are being brainstormed - Bwana ☠

Thomas, we had tried to experiment with Friendfeed for chat a year ago but the interface wasn't very fit for it then http://friendfeed.com/e... - Philipp Lenssen

heading home to the wife and kids. thanks to all for the chat during the show. this was fun. - Thomas Hawk

Sweeeeet - Ken Sheppardson

heh - Bwana ☠

have a great day Thomas! - Ahmed

thanks thomas - Ed Dale

see ya Thomas - Bwana ☠

@ iluvgimp - Facebook has a Friendfeed addon which basically does the same result. - Tony Miller

See you, Thomas - Jérôme

direct message methods twitter api http://apiwiki.twitter.com/REST+AP... - Patrick Chanezon

Philipp, real time updating is a whole new experience. Later all. - Thomas Hawk

You know, it really would've been better to have this as a room., rather than a thread in the main feed... - Ken Sheppardson

let's try it, what's the syntax? - Amyloo

chattin at http://live.twit.tv - Garys Wine

Welcome Garys Wine - Viran

oh no..almost 2:30 am over here..."Cairo, Egypt time" later guys! - Ahmed

Actually no... direct message is a specific API call - Brian Roy

Or just send a FF to a proxy "Twitter" user you set up for your own accounts on different services - Ken Sheppardson

http://twitter.com/direct_... - Patrick Chanezon

@Ahmed. 2:30 is also Paris time. Zzzzzz - Jérôme

i love this ff！ - junrxu

hey Viran! :) - Garys Wine

Learn the difference between Append and Prepend ?! - Jay

hmph - ralphsaunders

woah I just refreshed this permalink and now I don't have to scroll down to keep the bottom in view. - Phil Glockner

You can actually use these real time comments as you would watching a chat room. amazing. - Leo Laporte

this realtime chat has done wonders to sell the new friendfeed layout - JCunwired

Yes it is - Bwana ☠

they are cool aren't they leo - ralphsaunders

in firefox - Phil Glockner

thank God for the mighty mouse -- need to keep scrolling!! - Garys Wine

Phil, still nothing here. - Philipp Lenssen

what's the longest gary? - MG Siegler

Can this be saved or do you always have to modify the url? http://beta.friendfeed.com/FFusern... - Rob Michael (Atmos Trio)

Mightly mouse = fail - ralphsaunders

the longest wine? - Garys Wine

Could the beta.friendfeed.com makes the Digg homepage? - Jérôme

Watching now, am coming in an hour late though. - Brian Tiede

Gilmore - good show on TwiT.tv - TJ Polczyn

Jérôme, we could try :) - Philipp Lenssen

Scrolling to the top to comment everytme is ... annoying. - ralphsaunders

I don't care for the ff.im links - Phil Maxwell

@ralphsaunders ... mighty mouse is saving my life right now :) - Garys Wine

ralphsaunders: click "Saturday", it's a permalink - iluvgimp

i need to scroll down ... go figure - Garys Wine

ralphsaunders: click on the timestamp ("Saturday") to go to the permalink http://beta.friendfeed.com/scoblei... - Benjamin Golub

almost? - Bwana ☠

EXACTLY as a chat room :-) - Ken Sheppardson

Whoops bad copy buffer! http://beta.friendfeed.com/stevegi... - Benjamin Golub

They should hire some Google folks. - Ken Sheppardson

And Twitter isn't? :) - Bwana ☠

@Garys Wine Would be quicker with a conventional mouse heh heh :P - ralphsaunders

you mean this isn't a chat room???? - Garys Wine

the permalink is the key - Scott Kingery

permalinked, searchable - Ken Sheppardson

i wish i could text talk! lol - Garys Wine

It's a message board really - Adam Turetzky

pickup basketball game - Amyloo

It's like a turtle..that eats a pigeon - Bwana ☠

The interesting thing of the NEW FF is that it combine IM+Chat+Email+Feeds in one place and we have just started. - Martin Añazco

except I dont like the comment box floating down down down - Scott Kingery

The Swarm == The Hive Mind? - iluvgimp

A linkable archived chatroom. How long it is archived I do not know. - Rolf Schewe

its word tetris! - JCunwired

the whole time i thought this was a "different" chat room LOL - Garys Wine

well, it's behaving like a chatroom - it's lost the overlapping publics model of twitter - Kevin Marks

Leo: You can have a thread like this for every show you do, in your TWiT FF room - Ken Sheppardson

Sweet thanks Benjamin Golub - ralphsaunders

Leo: to a large extent, this is the giant stream of everything you've been talking about RE XMPP - Ken Sheppardson

Bwana - it's turtles all the way down. - Phil Glockner

I can't see!! - Randy Archer

700 comments now. - Marc Dong

dip in is a good strategy Leo! - Garys Wine

BTW, it's an "editable" chat room. That's amazing too. - Jérôme

KShep: ie, "The River" - iluvgimp

@Ken I agree. Why use disposable chat sessions when you can link, search and archive them here? - Rolf Schewe

Leo ... imagine what it would be like with twit on sunday :P - ralphsaunders

@Jérôme Flipo ... oh yeh ..I just edited my post as a test, that's a good point!! - Garys Wine

I love the Gillmor Gang - Wo

I've managed to read everything, but could not parse the voice. will have to listen to recording - Amyloo

Editable chat rooms ... the wave of the future! - Garys Wine

I'm with Andrew Keen on this one. I find this all hard to understand, and therefore tiresome. So there. I want something simple and compelling - Francine Hardaway from IM

yes, we have the swarm/river/whatever... now we need to figure out how to give users the ability to manage scarce attention. - Brian Roy

You can scan friendfeed but how do you scan a discussion thread such as this? - Adnan

Jérôme, you're giving me an idea about animated ASCII art here :) - Philipp Lenssen

will this thin thread just keep digging down until it hits china? - clewellyn

Francine: It can be that if you want it. - Ken Sheppardson

Should there be a preference option for the text to scroll down and put the new comments on top? Would be nice. - iluvgimp

oooooooooooops - missed it - Marc Canter

if i could call a number and speak the text into friendfeed, now that's an app! - Garys Wine

let's go for a Guinness World Record ... let's never stop this chat/feed and keep it going forever ... - Garys Wine

lol - Jay Neff

How do you use the new beta RT feed in firefox sidebar? - Keith Barrett

Netbook with WWAN as a FriendFeed appliance. - Ken Sheppardson

These guys can be really Cranky Geeks... - Charles Alden

iPhone app - TJ Polczyn

A FriendFeed iPhone app or a robust web app that works well on the iPhone browser would be cool. - Rolf Schewe

forever and ever and evaaaar - ralphsaunders

should scroll with most recent posts on top - min

Thanks Leo! - Keith Barrett

how about a very long skinny tablet as ff device - Amyloo

Dial 2 Do might be able to do that, I know you can blog via a phone call using that service - Viran

*just put Steve Gillmor in a "cranky geeks" feed* :D - ralphsaunders

Nice. Real-time mini window update! - Rolf Schewe

I love this... but I want it in the sidebar :) - Keith Barrett

Amyloo: only issue there is, like, typing - Ken Sheppardson

Rolf: Opinions differ but I think the Facebook app shows how successful native apps really are - iluvgimp

userstyles - Bwana ☠

install Greasemonkey - Bwana ☠

I requested that today in the Feedback Room - Rolf Schewe

There already are "skins" e.g. http://beta.friendfeed.com/ajbatac... - Ken Sheppardson

curious if you can edit/delete comments - monkeystick

What Ken said - Bwana ☠

On the iPhone I can't see contending with all these different FF issues - Francine Hardaway

Hey there Leo hows it going - taxi_cab

it must be 666! - Amyloo

I also wish I could search FF for twitter followers/followees to build my cloud - Keith Barrett

How about making it <blink/> instead of dull grey?-) - Patrick Chanezon

"Cleaner Friendfeed" is a *great* add-on. http://beta.friendfeed.com/ajbatac... - Ken Sheppardson

well, theres 1 alternate skin currently - Tony Miller

looks like comments just stay permanently - monkeystick

click it - Ken Sheppardson

yay - Ken Sheppardson

I also use Andrios - so feel free! - Keith Barrett

ah there we go, you can edit comments still - monkeystick

I have abandoned trying to import things into Facebook and it's apps. Now I export from Facebook into FriendFeed. - Rolf Schewe

No, it's embeded video that plays automatically, no? - Ken Sheppardson

Okay, wind down the convo so I can go watch Big Bang Theory :) - iluvgimp

Its a .GIF ... 1995 people :p - ralphsaunders

That window issue sounds like it would be tough on the Android - Keith Barrett

Shoot. I have to go to work yet. Is lunch over yet? - Ken Sheppardson

im still using cleaner friendfeed V2 bc the beta cleaner doesnt look much better than the beta ui, aside from what V2 already does. - Tony Miller

Perm chat rooms - Keith Barrett

Fun stuff - Ken Sheppardson

great show, good conversation. thanks and bye - Amyloo

hmm im not seeing realtime feeds now - Adam Hubbs

awesome sauce - ralphsaunders

Good show leo - ralphsaunders

yes latest jquery it seems <script src="/static/javascript/jquery-1.3.js?v=bb38" type="text/javascript"></script> - Patrick Chanezon

Leo: You're going to need a dedicated FriendFeed monitor :-) - Ken Sheppardson

GREAT SHOW! - Keith Barrett

Lol! - Garys Wine

Good Job LEO ... Thanks! - Randy Archer

I tried the FF Facebook app. 1. It looks abandoned, and 2. I see Facebook as a subset of my overall social content and FriendFeed as my hub. - Rolf Schewe

"774 more comments". That's huge. - Jérôme

and i guess the real time stuff must be in http://beta.friendfeed.com/static... - Patrick Chanezon

Great show, nice chat-stream too. - Willem (@wim66) ☠

Matt Cutts and Paul were already talking OpenSocial at the demo last Friday - Ken Sheppardson

hmm this is seriously like a chat. - ralphsaunders

Very intertaning show! - Adam Hubbs

Should've asked Paul if he wants to go back to Google. - Ken Sheppardson

On bart now. Someone should submit this post to digg. There are enough people here to get it on the front page - Thomas Hawk

Welcome back Thomas ;) I tried to post to digg using the new diggbar. Failed :( - Jérôme

Thomas it was mentioned, will check it out - JCunwired

Not chat - dialogue? - Randy Archer

We had similar problems with the last Beta Friendfeed release, Digg says "This link does not appear to be a working link. Please check the URL and try again." Friendfeed might be sending the wrong http header for Digg. - Philipp Lenssen

63283 chars of minified javascript: nice job Bret! - Patrick Chanezon

digg submit didn't work, even with link from friendfeed.com (not beta) - JCunwired

"Twitter is currently down for unscheduled maintenance". We did it, didn't we? - Jérôme

:P probs - ralphsaunders

still going?? - Garys Wine

So many commets, great! - Tony

I am a Chinese student .I like the new Friendfeed.. 国内的来顶啊。。。 - ybs

keep it going people ... we're not stopping ... what happened to the record we all agreed on?? c'mon, who's with me??? - Garys Wine

FF最长的回复了吧 - 阿石

I think scoble was right, mike arrington isn't aware how quickly things roll in a revolution. - Jan Zimak

Arrington - I am a fan of your honest point of view. (how's that for balancing out the negative?) - clewellyn

Philipp (and others), Digg submission should be working now, so Digg in :) - Paul Buchheit

sweet! thank you :) - Jay Neff

Have watching twitlive.tv and watching lots of comments to this post scroll by but not seeing it on beta.friendfeed.com - John Wood

this thread today was one of the most awesome things I've seen on FriendFeed yet. - Thomas Hawk

still going? - Garys Wine

继续顶，顶到1k - 阿石

At over 800 comments in under 8 hours, this thread has sprouted 100 per hour. Not bad for the best system that no one uses. - Micah

Mike Arrington is a stupid. - Wo

Hey no one uses friendfeed, right? Where did 800+ comments come from? - Robert Scoble

I'm certainly not using friendfeed. (It's using me.) - Jon Lebkowsky

Robert - exactly! - Susan Beebe

Thanks Paul - Ok I just submitted this to Digg http://digg.com/softwar... Go Digg it up!! - Susan Beebe

Well, this thread kind of proves that the FriendFeed model works. Fairly emphatically. - Jamie

Jamie, yeah, I just listened to the parts that I missed. Arrington is wrong, but it will take some time to prove him so. - Robert Scoble

Apparently I had an easier time finding this thread than Michael Arrington did. - Michael K Pate

what's it? - Do Young Min

Chris Messina

Generation Open - http://factoryjoe.com/blog...

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Everything I'm going to do from now on in life is to push generation open further. - Robert Scoble

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That has been my goal since entering software development - it's the essence of my keynote this Saturday. - Jesse Stay

For those who don't know who Chris is, he was the lead dev on Flock, if I remember right, and is one of my favorite geeks for understanding what the bleeding edge is thinking about and working on. This is a good thesis on what is going on in our culture. - Robert Scoble

Open is good. Secrets cause fear, anxiety, lies, and foster a sense of irresponsibility. Hence what we're seeing now on a global scale in the economy. - Ⓐ ☠ slayerboy ☠ Ⓐ

Robert, Chris is one of my favorite Geeks as well. He's up there with David Recordon, Joseph Smarr, Don MacAskill, the FF Team, Kevin Rose, and others. I need to do a post of all the "Leader/Coder" Geeks that influence me some time. - Jesse Stay

Thanks guys! Robert — just to clarify, suggesting that I was lead dev gives me too much/inaccurate credit. I talk like a dev sometimes, but I'm actually a designer. I prefer to think of myself of a hybrid developer/designer translator though, but YMMV. ;) - Chris Messina

This is the best post I've read all week. I've been thinking a lot lately about how our politics (and society) is really the result of the same old ideologies that have been being beat to death since the 1960's. The election of Obama - in some ways - indicates the general rejection of those ideological debates (thank God). Chris - your post totally resonates with what I've been thinking. Thanks for putting it out there. - Brian Roy

Connect. Share. Be Open. Onward to the future my friend. It has been awesome working on a more open and social world with you over the last 5 years. - Dave Morin

Great article. - Glenn Batuyong

Awesome post. Internally, we view "Social Media" as the open sourcing of people/ideas. Great stuff, Chris! - Alan Edgett

Great post. But note on Chris Messina's website it appears there are a lot of 404 dead links. May want to fix this. - Bill Romanos

Just bumping this up for those who have missed this article the first time around - Bora Zivkovic

Hey, I was "six years old fifty years ago" and I consider myself a charter member of Generation Open. It's indeed a mindset change AND it's irrelevant to one's age. - Nick in Manila

Yes, some of us have been yearning for this for a long time. - Rebecca Lasley

I have a room with links related to open government in Canada at http://friendfeed.com/rooms... - Richard Akerman

Interesting read, also the comments that follow. Each generation follows the 'footprints in the snow', from past generations. It's an ongoing process. - Henry Burger

"The people within Facebook not only believe in what they’re doing but are on the leading edge of Generation Open. It’s not merely an age thing; it’s a mindset thing. It’s about having all your references come from the land of the internet rather than TV and becoming accustomed to — and taking for granted — bilateral communications in place of unidirectional broadcast forms. Where... more... - Bora Zivkovic

@Bora Facebook and open in the same sentence? Hah. - Richard Akerman

two different definitions of 'open' I'm afraid. - Bora Zivkovic

I tried to leave this comment on the site, but I think I got tangled in some OpenID - TypePad loop - anyway when he says "More relevant is that the boomers fought the Nazis." I think he means "the boomers' *parents* fought..." - Richard Akerman

Yup, I noticed that typo myself. - Bora Zivkovic

My offline newspaper subscription lapsed some time ago; I've hardly watched more than a few hours of television in the past five years. The Internet is definitely my primary source of reference. Maybe it's in part because I've been talking back all these years but without an access channel. - Rebecca Lasley

Sarah Perez

GrandCentral Returns as Google Voice - http://www.readwriteweb.com/archive...

March 12, 2009 from Google Reader - Comment - Like - Share

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Been using GrandCentral since the initial beta, and loving it. New features make for an incredibly useful app. - Henry Burger

Embed voice mails: wow, that has the potential for fun & frivolity! - Craig Eddy

Fred Wilson

Re: Taking It To The Hood - http://www.avc.com/a_vc...

February 22, 2009 from Disqus - Comment - Like - Share

"Enagage Damnit, Maverick is going to be my new motto" - Fred Wilson

Just spent the time reading this post, and all the comments. What an education, and why when we have so many smart people who can engage in reasoned dialogue, can we not come together and solve the problems, sans the politics? - Henry Burger

Invites: Hao Chen

Strands invite thread. If you receive an invite here, please pass it along to the next two people in this thread.

August 12, 2008 - Comment - Like - Share

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I have 2. Go! - Hao Chen

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Thanks : ) - LouCypher

if you still have it Hao, i'll take it off your hands. kato [ta] cma3 [tod] com - Carlos Ayala

Sent to both you guys. Cheers! - Hao Chen

you rock Hao, thanks bud. - Carlos Ayala

I've got 2 invites to pass on now. - Carlos Ayala

Thanks, Hao : ) Now we have 4 invites from Carlos and me - LouCypher

you're welcome! - Hao Chen

Anyone have anymore invites? darkknight5589@gmail.com if you do, please. Thanks - Ben

Invitation sent to Ben. - LouCypher

2 invitations left from me and Carlos since Carlos also invited Salazar on http://friendfeed.com/e... - LouCypher

If you have 1 more to spare, can I have one? ajbatac at gmail - AJ Batac :)

on its way AJ - Carlos Ayala

sent. i am out of invites. - Carlos Ayala

Got it Carlos. Thanks. I can pass those 2 invites to anyone here now. - AJ Batac :)

I'd like to be invited: furukama [ta] yahoo [tod] de Thanks! - Benedikt Koehler

If possible, send an invite over this way please. http://bit.ly/email_ancyru - Andrew Trinh

I'd like one, if I may: stellina at me dot com. Thanks. - Stellina

sent to the 2 after me. no more invites. :) - AJ Batac :)

I've just sent invites to Andrew and Stellina - Benedikt Koehler

Thanks for the invites, I've got 3 to pass on if anyone needs it. Quickest way is to email me with an appropriate subject. http://bit.ly/email_ancyru - Andrew Trinh

I have two, too. Heck, you can have my account, so make that three! - Mona Nomura from fftogo

LMFAO@Mona - Rah-PM 2012

Ohh, I would have fun being you, Mona!! lol - Hao Chen

Take it, Hao! I don't want this. - Mona Nomura from fftogo

i'd love to try strands too. invite me anyone? - rchk

rchk: I'll send one over, what's your email address? - Stellina

looking for one as well - nathan rein at googlemail - Nathan Rein

If anyone has an inviite please send to henbur at gmail. Thanks. - Henry Burger

Sent to Henry Burger. That was my last. - LouCypher

@LouCypher Thanks so much. - Henry Burger

@Stellina thanks! just got mine. Now have two invites to share. Looks like no one's waiting right now, but let me know if you want one - Nathan Rein

I'd love to get one. (Edit: E-Mail removed) - Thomas Frütel

@thomas it's on its way - Nathan Rein

Thank you Nathan, I'm in. So I got two to pass along. - Thomas Frütel

If anyone has any left I'm rich.bradshaw at gmail. Thanks! - Rich

Invite is on the way, Rich - Thomas Frütel

Anybody got any left? My name at gmail, please. - TDavid

Please, I ask for an invite to strand com -- Thanks -- transitenator (at) gmail.com - Wilhelm Bauer

I'd like one, please. lilyhill at gmail - Ro (Lilyhill)

@TDavid sent one your way - hope i got the address right (your Friendfeed username, right?) -- that's all I've got for now - Nathan Rein

@nathan - thanks, I'm in. I have 2 strand invites to continue the chain. - TDavid

It's on the way, Wilhelm. - Thomas Frütel

@Ro - sent an invite. - John Duff

I would to like to join the party even if I am late - nickobec at gmail - Nick Cowie

@Will Ponder and @Nick Cowie - sent my 2 invites to you. One of you, or somebody else, can take care of @Alexander Rode and continue the chain. - TDavid

@Alexander Rode invite sent, thanks @TDavid - Nick Cowie

If you're still passing them around, I'll take a Strands invite. matthilt at gmail - Matt Hilton

Me too, if anyone got one. johan.bryggare at gmail.com - Johan Bryggare

Me too, Thanks snhasani [at] gmail [dot ] com - ناصـــــــر

Sent invites to Eve, Matt Hilton, Johan Bryggare & Nasser Hasani - Still have 8 invites left....... - ChaCha Fance

I would love an invite! Will pass mine off here. fred at newtz dot us - Fred Newtz

I would love one too! Yes please! Happy to share too :) - Chris

An invite would be awesome! lyth UNDERSCORE letori A.T. hotmail. Will share for sure. - Andrew

andrew, sent. - Hao Chen

thanks Hao. If anyone else needs, just ask. - Andrew

pls send invite to strands@luthiano.com Thanks. - Luthiano Vasconcelos

@luthiano: http://friendfeed.com/e... - LouCypher

can i has one plz - mark rush

Jay Rosen

Uh, @timoreilly is right: If you haven't read The Big Fix in the New York Times you're only hurting your own economic self http://www.nytimes.com/2009...

February 8, 2009 from Twitter - Comment - Like - Share

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Just read this article. It's worth the effort to read through the whole article. Lots covered. What struck me was that as I was led to believe, coming from a lower middle class family, education is the great leveler. Scary stuff in the article, and I just don't think our partisan politicians are up to the task at hand, and I don't think they will deliver the goods. - Henry Burger

Appetite: Carlos Granier-Phelps

Official Gmail Blog: New in Labs: Multiple Inboxes - http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2009...

February 6, 2009 - Comment - Like - Share

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What do you think of this latest Labs feature? - Carlos Granier-Phelps

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it rocks! wish it could import other GMail-accounts.... - Coen Meerbeek

Coen: look four entries below - Nikos Anagnostou

tried it but disabled it again .. maybe not an obvious feature for a "inbox zero" believer :) - Peter Theill

I already filter, although I haven't been bypassing the inbox that often. I'll do that now that I can see by labels. Excellent! - Henry Burger

Crime and mystery fiction: Mack Lundy

I'm going to be assisting one of our professors with a freshman seminar on Sherlock Holmes and his literary progeny this fall. Any suggestions on the influence of the Holmes stories? Or anything related? I'll have a web guide to support the seminar and I'll post the link when I have something up.

February 4, 2009 - Comment - Like - Share

Mack, have you read The Suspicions of Mr Whicher? The Murder at Road Hill House influenced Wilkie Collins, Dickens and Conan Doyle. Whicher's failure to unmask the culprit may have been the reason that Holmes was not a policeman but a "consulting detective". Conan Doyle's inspiration was of course 'consulting surgeon" Joseph Bell. There was an apocryphal story when I was at uni that... more... - Norman

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Thanks Norman, I have a copy of The Suspicions of Mr. Wicher but haven't read it yet. I'll move it up on the stack. - Mack Lundy

Can anyone think of another detective who has been parodied more or had more pastiches written about than Sherlock Holmes? - Mack Lundy

Probably not as much, but Chandler's Philip Marlowe comes to mind. - Henry Burger

Surely impossible to be parodied more after all a Charles Hamilton wrote 97 adventures of Herlock Sholmes and Dr Jotson! - Norman

Agatha Christie's Hercules Poirrot (sp?) or Mrs Marple? - Clare Dudman

Casablanca (movie) - though not sure if that "counts". - Maxine

Conan Doyle was the brother in law of E.W. Hornung and the Raffles character was created directly as a result of Conan Doyle's encouragement. See my blog posting http://paradise-mysteries.blogspot.com/2008... - Kerrie

Conan Doyle is buried along with his wife Jean at Minstead Church where his tombstone reads "Steel true, Blade straight, Arthur Conan Doyle, Knight, Patriot, Physician & Man of letters." I got that from a pocket book of everything Holmes by Mark Campbell which is ideal for looking up facts and pretending to be clever. I also have Leslie Klinger's 3 volume Annotated Complete Sherlock Holmes but you need to be in full training to lift one off the shelf. - Norman

Thanks Norman, I'll have to get that book. I do want to look clever for the class. - Mack Lundy

What about SS van Dine? Philo Vance may need a kick in the pants (as Ogden Nash correctly stated), but he is definitely an offshoot of the Holmes tradition of "Great Detective" along with Nero Wolfe and his sidekick, Archie Goodwin. - Jill O'Neill

That's the van Dine of the rules of detective fiction, Jill? - Maxine

A friend just mentioned H.C. Bailey's Reginald Fortune and R Austin Freeman's John Evelyn Thorndyke as heirs to the Holmes methodology. I haven't read either. - Mack Lundy

Thanks Jill. I read on Wikipedia that a theory was put forth that Wolfe was the offspring of an affair between Sherlock Holmes and Irene Adler. That could be a juicy hook. - Mack Lundy

John Dickson Carr's two detectives Dr Gideon Fell and Sir Henry Merrivale are also Holmes offshoots solving 'impossible' crimes. - Norman

Maxine, I think both van Dine and Reginald Knox generated rules for detective fiction. Neither list is particularly applicable to modern detective fiction (indeed some of the politically incorrect comments in the lists would appall modern audiences) but both were working during the Golden Age. I can't put my hands on them now, but I think the lists were included in books from the '70's and '80's edited by Robin Winks. - Jill O'Neill

Mack, I had been unaware of the idea that Wolfe was the product of a one-night fling between Holmes and Adler (and I can't say that it really works for me at all), but Stout did give the "Great Detective" tradition a bit of a tail-twist when he came up with Wolfe. - Jill O'Neill

I think both lists are on line. I had forgotten Ronald Knox who makes frequent references to Homes and Watson in the 1925 novel The Viaduct Murder and even names one chapter The Holmes Method. I think the Knox rules were published in 1929 and the SS Van Dine Rules in 1928 but as The Murder of Roger Ackroyd was written in 1926 they had already been broken. - Norman

I am keen on Wilkie Collins - but not sure without checking where The Moonstone (often said to be one of the earliest English det novels, but of course as Norman has pointed out, not before Poe) and The Woman in White come into the Holmes chronology. (TWIW - first female detective, in Marion? Or is that stretching it?) - Maxine

Thanks, Jill - I mentioned the Van Dine rules as we had a good few robust blog post and comment "discussions" about them quite early on in my blogging life, 4 yrs ago... nostalgia! Probably best left under the bridge now and not linked, though. - Maxine

Thomas Hawk

More Job Cuts Coming for Kodak? - http://thomashawk.com/2009...

January 28, 2009 from Thomas Hawk Digital Connection - Comment - Like - Share

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Since Eastman Kodak’s (ticker EK) high of a little over $90 per share over a decade ago, the stock now is down about 92% to $7.17 per share. The once great company that once was a part of the 30 stocks that make up the Dow Jones Industrial Average was removed from that Index in 2004. Despite a significant initiative to move from a film business to a digital business made by the company over the past few years, the question that still lingers is can the company survive even the next few years ahead. - Thomas Hawk

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I have a few Kodak shares so I do have a small vested interest in the survival of the company. I just bought the Zi6 last weekend, and on first use, I'm really liking it. It's just going to be hard for them to dig out of the mess they've made with the transition from film to digital. If brand has anything to do with it they ought to survive, although we will see what happens as they work through the recession. - Henry Burger

Liking just for the picture -- do you own that camera? - Brian Sullivan

Kodak HQ is only a few miles from my house here in Rochester, NY. Kodak is an icon here. They've been losing market share for years and it's truly sad. Hoping they can survive the economic downturn - Susan Beebe

For me, there's the tiniest bit of magic at Kodak that makes it really special. It's sad they've fallen from grace, but if it means refocusing and getting back some of that magic, then it's the way it's meant to be. Good luck Kodak :) - Will Higgins™

Focusing pun not intended. hehe. - Will Higgins™

Brian, no that's not my camera. I took the photo at a display case at the SF Public Library that was showcasing old cameras. It is a beauty though. - Thomas Hawk

I guess it depends on where you are in Canada -- but a 3 hour drive from Toronto is not what I consider a day trip. - Brian Sullivan

I grew up in United Auto Workerland, specifically Saginaw MI, home to a dozen General Motors plants and just 40 minutes north of Flint, and now live in Rochester. Especially so when i first visited for college, but still somewhat true today, the similarities are striking. A decade or more ago, with Kodak's strength in digital photography patents and engineering Rochester could have upturned conventional wisdom, and seized the digital photography evolution again, but old habits and convention die hard. - John Lam

Did you know Kodak has demolished over 100 buildings, mostly in Kodak Park here in Rochester, over the past few years? - John Lam

it would be cool to explore abandoned Kodak factories. Too bad I don't live in Rochester. - Thomas Hawk

Robert Scoble

Shootout between Flip Minio HD and Kodak Zi6 HD camcorders. HD video and discussion here:

January 25, 2009 - Comment - Like - Share

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Kodak video: http://www.facebook.com/video... - Robert Scoble

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Flip video: http://www.facebook.com/video... - Robert Scoble

Do you ever sleep?...lol (By the way) the Kodak looks crisper in Reg view from my paltry screen. - tony

The Kodak has the better microphone. I like the Flip video a tiny bit better. - Robert Scoble

It's a hard call. I actually bought a Panasonic TZ5 so I could get image stabalization and 10x optical zoom. However, its built in mic is worse than those two. I'm trying now to get a Co-Op internship position at Kodak in Rochester, NY to work in the usability department with the team that worked on the Zi6. Robert, have any connections? :) - Ian Mikutel

The Flip is far more "pocketable." - Robert Scoble

I've got the Flip HD and love it - haven't tried a Kodak so can't compare. But I love how portable the Flip is, the touch sensitive buttons. Clarity is great, sound excellent. Some noise in low light or washed out colors in low light - to be expected, IMO, at this price range. - Michelle MacPhearson

The Kodak takes regular AA batteries, and lets you close focus. Also, the Kodak does 60 frames a second HD and lets you shoot old-style video and HD video (old style makes movies that take less space on your hard drive and are easier to upload). - Robert Scoble

Panasonic TZ5 video (HD): http://www.youtube.com/watch... - Ian Mikutel

hmm..looks like the Kodak video the whites are washed out. - Randy Ksar from twhirl

the quality looks alright. im looking for a camera as well. i'd like a viewfinder though, little old fashioned i know, but sun glare is a pest. - Terry O'Fee

The Kodak taking batteries is a big minus for me. Batteries are so 1998. :-) - Michelle MacPhearson

robert - same link for both :P - Terry O'Fee

Terry: they go to separate videos. I just tested them again. - Robert Scoble

Looked like the Kodak was a bit crisper on this. I use the non-HD Flip Mino. - Jesse P. Luna

they do now. sorry. when you first posted it was to the same. - Terry O'Fee

Michelle: if you are ever at a concert and your batteries die you'll appreciate being able to shove more AA's into it. The Kodak came with rechargeable AA batteries. The Flip has batteries locked inside its case that you must recharge. - Robert Scoble

The Panasonic TZ5 is a rechargeable lithium ion battery. Best of both worlds. - Ian Mikutel

Are there any digital video cameras that take good stills, or digital cameras that take good video? With one of those and an iPhone I'd be set. - Paul Povolni

rob - what would you suggest for a more traditional HD camera, not pocket. talking about holidays so a bit of hd room, some zoom functions, and decent battery life? - Terry O'Fee

@scoble, then again as a geek you should have recharged everything just before going out ;-). I did have the n95 batteries almost die on me a few times whilst streaming events from the phone. - Richard A.

the n95 is decent if you're looking for something simple and nasty. 5mp camera and video isnt that bad, the storage space, the strange nokia software and lack of zoom are its only letdowns (i didn't buy it for the camera. its a bonus, though.) - Terry O'Fee

@Paul - Yes, the Panasonic TZ5 I reference above is a great all-around digital camera, with an impressive 10x optical zoom and wide-angle lens, that also does 720p video (with the added benefit of 10x optical zoom / image stabilization that you don't get with the Flips or Kodak). Check out the YouTube link above for an HD interview I shot with it, compare and see what you think. - Ian Mikutel

Terry: I don't know, I haven't looked into bigger cameras for quite a while. - Robert Scoble

batteries - one of the reasons i bought the psp over the ipod touch. sure, they're not AAs or anything but i can buy more than one if i ever want... - Terry O'Fee

Robert - I definitely see improvement in videos quality, since you got the MinoHD camera. Only problem is that they become much heavier ;) P.S - I like the Flip more. - Nir Ben Yona

I've had the Flip for several months and have only run out of battery juice once. I love it's portability. - Jesse P. Luna

@Robert Forgetting batteries can muck things up too! - Michelle MacPhearson

Missed out on the flip hd mino - got the regular one just before the hd version was released. Standard def for me for now. - Jonathan Grimes

@Robert, I love my MinoHD flip for the sound and image quality, but have to bring my laptop around with me JUST to charge it. anybody have any suggestions on a small portable charger specifically for USBs? - Marissa "malouie"

@ALL my MinoHD video (from Social Media Club SF) here: http://bit.ly/SMCseo - Marissa "malouie"

Do you guys think a smaller version of this home made steady cam would work with the flip? http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~johnny... - Travis Young

Or you could use the Panasonic LX3 which shoots HD with a better lens and you also get a great point and shoot still camera. Like two cameras for the price of one (albeit a more expensive one). Might work out cheaper than two cameras and less to carry around. - Todd Brunner from twhirl

Can't see the comparison-not a Facebook member. I really hate it when that happens! - Susan Dennis

Zi6. better lense, standard batteries, sd-card slot, brilliant mic.. and don't touch the new aipteks. i have 2 of them and the internal mic is oversteered like hell. You just can't us it. My Zi6 survived the CES and it did it in great style ;) - Sascha Pallenberg

I decided on a Zi6 for the reasons Sascha outlined. Only had it since around Christmas time but I like it.It is wider but not a problem for me. - Scott Kingery

@Travis that thing would work but I think it would be heavy as hell. Go to Vimeo and search for diy steadicam there are some great designs over there. Do the same search on YouTube as well. - Scott Kingery

We bought the Zi6 for our 35 community newspaper newsrooms and they've turned out to be a great choice. The SD storage and replaceable batteries have been exactly what we need. Yes, I wish it had image stabilization, better low-light performance, and either better sound or external sound, but at that price I can't complain. - Seth Long

I see a lot of discussion here about Zi6 having AA batteries - but not much about the fact it has SD card slot. My Zi6 and four 8GB SD cards = 9 hours of HD video. Zi6 > Flip - Ted Hosmann

@Marissa: My iPhone charger is a tiny plug with a female USB plug on the back. I just plug the Flip directly into that to charge it. No laptop needed. - Dylan Parker

@Scoble: Non-facebook links would have been appreciated. I hate having to sign in just to watch some short clips. Vimeo has great HD support in a beautiful UI. - Dylan Parker

Dylan: Vimeo sucks. Doesn't let me upload much per week and I don't like its UI as much as Facebook's. Sorry I made you log in. - Robert Scoble

@Robert I read that ABC actually used some Flip HD footage of the inaug, in broadcast. fwiw - Ed Shahzade /NextInstinct

I have used both and I'm more happy with the Flip HD - Ryan

Creative Vado. - Anika

Another option for Marissa and charging is one of the portable Belkin plugs that includes the regular plugs and two USB jacks for charging. Much smaller than a laptop (about the same size as a Flip). - Kenley Neufeld

Just bought the Zi6 and straight out of the box, I took it to a concert Friday night to test it out. I took a few sample vids, and am pretty pleased with the results. I plugged it into my HDTV, and was impressed with how they looked. The only problem I had was that when a white spot was on the singer, because I was in a dark auditorium the singer was all white. Rechargeable batteries,SD card and macro mode are +++. - Henry Burger

I have the Flip HD and love it, though I have heard great things about the Zi6 as well. Though the built in rechargeable battery did it for me. I don't like having to switch out batteries. Get a Vimeo pro account and you have a great way to share good quality web videos. - Kipp Bodnar

Do they record to MP4? - paul mooney

Anybody have trouble with Flip MinoHD mic at high decibels? Mic overload seems to muffle the audio for me at concerts and shows. - Cindy

@Robert Scoble: I don't have a Facebook account for many reasons, so it would've been nice if you had uploaded the videos elsewhere. I have the Zi6 and think it's alright, but video from my Panasonic LX3 trumps it. I would've liked to see a comparison video from the Flip since I don't have it. Oh well, it's not like I can't find Flip HD videos elsewhere. - Cheryl Jones

Image stabilization is an issue for me with the Zi6. I have a Flip and it's great, but we're looking to buy one to record class presentations and need more than 1GB space. Are the Zi6 stabilization problems really that bad? - Philip Ryan Johnson

Great shootout! I'll have to add you to list of our other comparisons! http://jennifercisney.pluggedi... - Eastman Kodak

I have the minoHD and love it--so far. Our first baby (girl!) comes in April and I wanted something small, lite, and simple: the minoHD is perfect for me. - Blake N. Cooper

Henry Burger

Where we live: World of Books - http://www.inquisitr.com/13998...

January 2, 2009 from delicious - Comment - Like - Share

Check out this video,World Where We Live, made by a bunch of amateurs who call themselves the 4th Estate. 4th Estate Publishers' 25th Anniversary. Produced by Apt Studio and Asylum Films. The intro to the flim states it was produced in stop-motion over 3 weeks in Autumn 2008. Each scene was shot on a home-made dolly by an insane bunch of animators. - Henry Burger

Henry Burger

Where we live: World of Books - http://www.inquisitr.com/13998...

January 2, 2009 from delicious - Comment - Like - Share

Kevin Rose

Obamas Behind the Scene Flickr Photos from Election Night - http://www.flickr.com/photos...

November 7, 2008 from Digg - Comment - Like - Share

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These are amazing to see, so easily accessible - Michelle Darnell

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So close, yet so far away. - ComicList

These are great. I especially like the two photos of Obama and Biden, and for me, their realization that they have been elected to the most important positions of leadership in the world. - Henry Burger

REAL pics FTW! - Susan Beebe

It truly was an awesome night. I wish I could've been there! - Thomas Ward

Robert Scoble

My post just showed up on http://michellemalkin.com/ home page and it's amazing how many haters are now showing up. Droves of them.

October 19, 2008 from Twitter - Comment - Like - Share

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Why the hate. Why does the left hate so much? - Paul W. Swansen

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Really Robert, I know you expected this with that kind of bait. This can't be a surprise. I'm not an American? Come on man. - Bwana ☠

Must. Avoid. Urge. To visit. Michelle. Malkin. Musn't. Create. Conditions. For. Screaming. Out. Loud. - tehKenny

Thanks for the Malkin link Robert but Ms Malkin was one of the main reasons I quit political blogging for good a few weeks ago and I refuse to even visit as I might hurl - Bob Schwartz

the left? THE LEFT? Reality check. http://tinyurl.com/6jqkqk But really, I don't have the room for all the tinyurls to cite the racism, xenophobia, mccarthyism, etc. stirred into life by Sarah Palin and the non-thinking members of the GOP. - Rick Powell

"The orgy of Obamedia attention Powell will receive the next 24 hours is disproportionate to its importance." Yeah, Michelle, and that's why it's front and center on your site right now. You're not yawning; you're freaking out. - Rick Powell

Rick, have you ever read the obscene vitriol spewed by the left in the comments at Huffington Post and in the diaries and comments at the Daily Kos? Hate doesn't know left or right: it's an equal opportunist. It rises up wherever the perfect storm of ignorance and self-righteousness meet. - Akiva

What amazes me is how some people are surprised at this kind of behavior in the country of lynching, Jim Crow, Nativism, slavery, the Trail of Tears, etc. ad nauseum. - Steve Lowe

Well, no, actually, I don't read that blog. I have no doubt there's hate on every side, but I see no argument in my comment that states otherwise. I try to stay away from extremists of both parties. - Rick Powell

+10000 Akiva - Bwana ☠

I've never understood why some idiots think "America: Love it or Leave it" is even a little patriotic. One of the greatest freedoms we have is to air our grievances with our government without fear of censorship or persecution. America is strong enough to withstand criticism, especially when it's being presented in hope that conditions will improve. - Jack&Cleo

Like fake-following, plus-ing comments is lame and lazy. (Hmmm that must be one reason why it's not implemented on FF) Make a comment, don't just cheer. - Rick Powell

Keep us updated on how many death threats you get, Scoble. - Rob H.

and you are afraid with good reason. lets hope for the best or this could be the end of the us as we know it. - teymur madjderey

+666 Rick Powell [snickering] - Akiva

But Scott, leftists publish angry blog comments! Surely that is equivalent to threats of lynching at an official GOP rally! - Rob H.

Your post was designed to stir people up. Hang in there, light is at the end of the tunnel. - Sean Alexander

Rob, have you read some of those comments? They can be just as violent and just as threatening. And some of them were published at Obama's official website and, remember, the publication of those blogs had to be okayed by the administrators. They were only deleted after people began to notice what was being said. As I wrote, that kind of idiocy is everywhere; no one is immune. - Akiva

Robert, I lived in England for nearly twenty years, and got a whole different perspective on my country. Seems that the polarization of the nation continues, and the 'silent middle ground' has been lost to extremists on both sides. From the comments on your blog, it seems that hate is in abundance. Sort of strange that rather than engage in a dialogue about what our country needs to do, people would rather hark back to 'my country right or wrong.' It took courage on your part to take a stand. - Henry Burger

Akiva, I have read those comments. Everytime someone posts a Youtube video of GOP hatred, someone links to those comments. Everytime Coulter, Malkin, Limbaugh, etc say something particularly hateful, someone brings up the same Kos comments. Everytime some calls for Obama's death at a rally, someone brings up the same Kos comments. You can call hate equal opportunist, but only one side actually strives on it. - Rob H.

Oh, well, Rob, you're right. That totally excuses hate on the left. My bad. - Akiva

Since we're still on the playground... OOOOOHHH!!! ROB!! BUUUURRRNNNNNNN!!! AKIVA SURE SHOWED YOU. Is that better than a +100? - Bwana ☠

Oh! Oh! Should I plus Rob's comment? I think not. Instead: Hanging an effigy of Obama from a tree is not the same as calling Michelle Malkin a cunt. Not even close. McCain says that "bad people" show up at Obama rallies and yell shit about him. (Said that on Letterman.) Is this true? Is it even close to being true? And if they do yell shit, is it morally equivalent to racist, xenophobic, McCarthyite, inciting comments yelled in public? At a Palin rally where she says much the same thing? Get a grip. - Rick Powell

Ah yes, election year. Where everyone is judge, jury, and executioner. Too bad the entire system is based on lies and has no foundation. This is why it's pointless to debate politics. - Bwana ☠

+100 Bwana - Akiva

Rick, so it's okay for one side to do horrible things because the other side is doing something worse? Yeah, I'm pretty sure that death spiral is going to bring us all some place really positive. Regardless, it doesn't change the fact that there's hate on both sides. You may want to think the hate on one side is excusable because the hate on the other side is 'worse' but, as far as I'm concerned, no hate is excusable. - Akiva

What is "tood Bad" is that not the whole world care...as an aussie i don't care! and am sick of hearing about it. - Mr.Tiggr

You're right, Akiva. Presidential elections are supposed to be about who can do the best for the country. Issues, not emotions. - Jack&Cleo

And this election is _all_ about emotions. That's the thing I've been yelling for weeks. People are excusing a LOT because of emotions. - Bwana ☠

Where oh where did I say hate was excusable? Please don't project your liberal-bogeyman ideas onto me, Akiva. I'm sorry I do not see the moral equivalency here, in this instance. Please make that argument, however, if that's the argument you want to make. Calling someone stupid or misinformed is not hate, no matter what Hopkins or any other sore-losing ideologue wants to think. Hanging someone in effigy certainly is. As is "Kill him!" and "Terrorist!" - Rick Powell

@Glenn the PHP guy I'll make whatever judgments I damn well please about whomever I damn well please. Fake-following is lame. It is bad faith, but it's what I've come to expect here. Plus-ing comments strikes me as juvenile. I really don't care who's insulted by that. - Rick Powell

Robert, you're one of the most American people I know. I'm proud to have people like you in this country. However, do you fish or hunt? ;-) - Jesse Stay

If its the Demcrats its truth, if its the Republicans its hate. - Tony Kanzia

Jesse: I have fished in my life and caught crabs, too, among other things. But lately I'm too lazy and prefer Safeway for my food. Tony: I took an anti-Obama stance in my post (about Nuclear power) but my point is that we can't talk about the issues anymore because we get too religious about certain ones that really don't matter in the overall scheme of things and we start calling the other side names. You'll note I didn't call anyone any names, well, except I called myself unamerican. - Robert Scoble

Robert, you are a true American then. :-) If you ever want to go fishing some time let me know. - Jesse Stay

Robert, seriously though, I have a soft spot in my heart for the Muslim faith. I grew up with some of my most memorable years in Indonesia when I was younger. I highly respect the Islamic faith. Good for you for being willing to convert to respect your wife's traditions and beliefs. - Jesse Stay from twhirl

FYI, the Secret Service found nothing to corroborate the "kill him" threat. http://tinyurl.com/6bh856 - Chris Mayer

The most ambitious project of income redistribution that the US has ever seen is now underway. And it's bipartisan AND has the approval of capitalists everywhere. Marx isn't spinning in his grave, his head has exploded. - Rick Powell

Lets see now, although the right wing Cato Institute says otherwise, most analysis of income tax returns since the 1970's have shown that the share of U.S. income going to the top 1 percent (those people with the highest incomes) has increased substantially.... and that was not income redistribution? - David HC Soul

Dave Winer

Make-Believe Maverick : Rolling Stone - http://www.rollingstone.com/news...

October 5, 2008 from Bookmarklet - Comment - Like - Share

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"A closer look at the life and career of John McCain reveals a disturbing record of recklessness and dishonesty" - Dave Winer from Bookmarklet

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The comments alone are worth the read. Politics seems to bring out the worst in a lot of people. - Henry Burger

"Dramesi says he has no desire to dishonor McCain's service, but he believes that celebrating the downed pilot's behavior as heroic — "he wasn't exceptional one way or the other" — has a corrosive effect on military discipline. "This business of my country before my life?" Dramesi says. "Well, he had that opportunity and failed miserably. If it really were country first, John McCain would probably be walking around without one or two arms or legs — or he'd be dead." - EricaJoy

This hasn't made it to factcheck.org yet -- does anyone know of a reputable site that's either fact-checked or responded to this article? - Tom Stocky

Everyone should read this article, and watch this Daily Show piece: http://www.comedycentral.com/videos... - Hillary Hartley

David Risley

Does anyone else think its kinda gay that Google used a comic to introduce Google Chrome? A frickin' comic?

September 1, 2008 from Twitter - Comment - Like - Share

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No. Why is it 'kinda gay'? - Brad Brooks

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Kinda' what? No, it's a great way to get people to read the whole thing. What did you want? A white paper or solutions brief? - Louis Gray

Unrelated, I think. - Mark Dykeman

I think it's excellent. It's blue, not pink by the way. - Mattb4rd

Uh, no. Someone hasn't read "Understanding Comics"... - Nathan Howell

Don't you mean ghey? - Anthony Citrano

Um no and i don't really care if they choose a musician :Mad ! - Victor

I certainly hope you are using that word in it's original context, that of happy or good... and if so, I agree, it is a good way! - Johnny

Anthony, yes, perhaps "ghey" would be the better spelling. - David Risley

If David you are saying that it's kinda "happy" then I agree and if you say it's kinda "homosexual" then I think that's a good thing. Now, if you think that calling things "gay" is equal to something not good then I have to say that your thinking is not good. Need to rethink your world view. - Robert Scoble

read this http://money.cnn.com/magazin... - Zee.

It would probably be in your best interest to avoid that terminology in the future David. You are bound to run into conflict with it. - The Amber

Its a pejorative use of the word, guys. Look it up. http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki... - David Risley

Simian: I think David needs to be sent on a trip to Berlin to study Germany's history and where it went wrong. The use of language against other people is horrible. I won't allow it to be used that way here. David is very close to getting a block. - Robert Scoble

dislike david risley - mike "glemak" dunn

This just earned David a block. David, you really need to go back and study Nazi world history. How you can use a perjorative against any group without expecting to see consequences is pretty over the line in my book. - Robert Scoble

Dude. It's the best explanation of a browser I've ever seen. I can't wait to see Ponzi's reaction to it, if she'd like to make it all the way through (though I do believe it'd be easier to digest as a single PDF). - Ⓒⓗⓡⓘⓢ Ⓟⓘⓡⓘⓛⓛⓞ

I gotta head out, but guys, seriously, let's not turn this into a political correctness debate. I meant lame, stupid, etc. I was not, in any way, referring to homosexuals. Guess I need to leave the slang out of FriendFeed from now on. - David Risley

David: when you use language that you don't understand the roots of you come across as not only hurtful but stupid. Whenever you say "gay" it comes across here as "homosexual." That's been a word used in United States to ONLY mean that for decades. - Robert Scoble

And yes, if anybody thought I was referring to homosexuals, I apologize. It was in bad taste, in retrospect. - David Risley

It grabs attention much better than black and white script on a page with a bold headline. It's a great way for people to take notice and guess what? It worked. - ::Kristen::

you can justify your ignorant use of such a term, but it only serves to alert me that you're 11 and haven't been taught better. is that the angle you're going for? i still can't believe almost a decade out, people are 1) still using that offensive term and 2) defending said use. - Anika

I am so tired of people using "slang" like this and excusing it by claiming "oh, I didn't mean anything bad." It's the same as calling something "retarded," or "ghetto." I don't like any of those words used as a pejorative, even "jokingly." Grow up, people! - Jim Milles from twhirl

I thought it was very hardcore geeky of them. I don't know if it is gay, but I go all gay for google services. :) - Jay Cruz

Brian: Yah, I made two huge gaffes in one tweet. Not my day. - David Risley

Brandon, I do agree. The intellectual side of me, of course, knows that. Sometimes my stupid side tweets without thinking about how it can be taken by others. - David Risley

I just read the comic, and for me, it worked. A lot of information was delivered, and with the benefit of interesting drawings, I felt that I got more from this than several pages of a White Paper. - Henry Burger

I was so excited to see more of Scott McCloud's work. He does a great job of explaining why the browser is better in ways that laypeople can understand. I only found it ironic that one of the pioneers of transitioning comics into the digital realm ended up making a 32-page print comic to tout a new browser. Note that I would find it a lot less ironic if I got a hold of one of the print copies. - Kevin Fox

No, I thought it was clever. - Jeff P. Henderson

"gay" is used frequently in australia interchangebly with gh3y and other variants. hey Scoble, the US's prudish view doesn't reflect the world. - David Petar Novakovic from twhirl

Comic book idea is a stroke of genius. - Mike Reynolds

I thought it was pretty clever too. It's just funny. And different. Anime and Manga have made "comics" quite popular the past few years. - Jaemi Kehoe

@David Petar Novakovic (dpn): So, what you're saying is that Scoble getting all up in arms about something being 'ghey' is faggotry of the first order? (Sophistry is fun! Irony is fun! My gay friends pwning me in Call of Duty and snickering in chat that my camping spots on Bloc are ghey is ... not so fun, but funny, and I'm willing to accept that.) - Alexander Williams from NoiseRiver

Alexander you win :) - David Petar Novakovic from twhirl

So I take it the Puritans in this thread prefer that language stop evolving? Frankly I'd rather see gay (and especially ghey) used much more often in a humorous or ironic context. This'll help marginalize the few people remaining on the planet who actually would use it as an implication that someone's sexuality is a valid measure of their societal worth. This whole thread is ghey if you ask me. - Anthony Citrano

Do you mean 'gay' as in happy? - Kol Tregaskes

Steve Rubel

Philipp Lenssen scooped everyone on the GBrowser. How? He lives in Germany and there's mail today. http://blogoscoped.com/archive...

September 1, 2008 from Twitter - Comment - Like - Share

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Today is tomorrow in Germany. Nice scoop. - Henry Burger

Robert Scoble

The new FriendFeed beta is very nice, but Mozilla's Ubiquity is WOW. Can't believe they did that. Ensures I'll never use IE8.

August 26, 2008 from Twitter - Comment - Like - Share

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kinda blows MSFT's 'smart tags' outta the water. - MikeAmundsen

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+1 FTW! - ~C4Chaos

- just read the VentureBeat article and watched the Mozilla Labs video...amazing! Hope it gets near "live" soon. - JA Castillo

JA: I'm using it right now and it does, indeed, rock. - Robert Scoble

Scoble: Have you created your own rules or are you working from what has already been created? - JA Castillo

For someone who is not code literate and such, how easy/difficult would it be to create your own rules? - JA Castillo

JA: I am just going with what has already been created so far. I've only had it for a couple of jet lagged hours! :-) - Robert Scoble

It is the easiest way to search ever! - Andrew

WOW!!! Ubiquity is awesome. Just the kind of thing I have envisioned. - Allen Blair

Mozilla just created the killer webapp. Astounding! Thank you Moz - Keith - @tsudo

indeed, i am amazed no one has come up with this before! - Justin Long

I dunno, kinda seems like the Activities feature in IE8 Beta 1: http://www.microsoft.com/windows... - Brandon LeBlanc from twhirl

Ha, so that's what I read about FF command line... I like it, but he... I like command lines... - Egon Willighagen

@brandon: yes - activites (i said smart tags before - oops). but i'm not sure they have the same 'angle.' seems like (since i've not tried Ubiquity) is user interface and that activities is a programming interface. - MikeAmundsen

this is yubnub done right. heck someone can make a simple bridge to yubnub :). What will be "dangerous" about this Ubiquity is its viralness. People will immediately shares commands. Hopefully not worm and viruses. - Toni @ NavinoT

Just installed Ubiquity and love it. I've not used IE for years and don't plan to. - Brett Nordquist

I installed it last night and I just love it, go on Moz crew!!! - Daniele Russolillo

Brilliant! reading the tutorials right now. - Nir Ben Yona from twhirl

Jus checked it out and it rocks! - Vinodh Nandakumar

IE8 makes all the websites I visit look like complete crap. If they're asking developers to use tags in their HTML so that IE8 will think it's IE7, that can't be a good sign. - Aaron Myers

I've been using YubNub and Slickrun for many months -- I'm not sure yet that Mozilla Ubiquity is a significant step forward. - Sean McBride

What Mozilla's Ubiquity ? Any link to share? - Arjun

@Arjun: http://labs.mozilla.com/2008... - Owen from twhirl

UbiQ blows my mind away. Have been playing around with it all day. Just hoping that they imprve usability in the coming versions. Tweeting from UbiQ is a breeze, I'm guessing this is going to increase load on Twitter APIs like crazy! - Vinodh Nandakumar

I installed Ubiquity late last night, and yes, it does have the WOW factor for me as well. I want to see how easy it is to create commands, after viewing the vid. Nice work. - Henry Burger from twhirl

It sounds great for power users. I was also imagining a sidebar type app that would be suggesting things to do with stuff. Select an address and it would pop up a map and give you the option to email it. This way no need for new users to know text commands or have to think what might be the word to use. - John Cooper

Sidebar is a great idea...also "chaining" commands. What if i want to tinyurl something (or two) and insert into a twit (or email..). Also if you don't use gmail (gasp), launching the OS native URL handlers like mailto:. - Richard Goodwin

Ubiquity looks cool, but is very similar to what can be done with Quicksilver on Mac. - Martin Añazco

if you like ubiquity you'll be sure to love http://www.humanized.com/enso that's Aza Raskin's work before he joined mozilla, so you can see where the inspiration comes from :) - Chris Jones

watching the video for ubiquity @ mozilla labs now .... whoa - John Blanton

I am yet to try out Ubiquity yet but your WOW has convinced me to check it out later ha! - Joe Dawson

Where do these smart people come from. Very cool. - Kenley Neufeld

this changes the way I can work... but what motivates me to change this way. - Stewart Rogers

Anybody found a FF Ubiquity command to subscribe to yet? - Grey Drane

help me, the editor is making me want to learn code. ARRRRRRGH! - tehKenny

It's addictive, much like 'Launchy'. - Vinay | विनय

Just wrote a FriendFeed command for Ubiquity. Check it out! http://bit.ly/3UPXGP - Brandon Titus

@Martin Añazco ya, it reminds me of Quicksilver and the command-line, too. I really love it!!!! It creates an awesome workflow that leads to inspired power browsing. - barce

Thanks to your blog post about Ubiquity I began using it and can see how it will enhance my web experience - Joshua Oehler

Leo Laporte

We Build a PC to Match a Baseline Mac Pro - Tom's Hardware : The Apple Mac Cost Misconception - http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews...

August 10, 2008 from delicious - Comment - Like - Share

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The above is essentially a baseline Mac Pro replicated using the cheapest minimum required components to build. The difference? A negligible $5.67. Those who claim that they can build "the same" PC for half the price are at this point baseless. Also note - Leo Laporte

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Heh... I tend to agree with 90% of the comments over the author's conclusions ;) - Michael W. May from twhirl

Agree with the comments: "If you're stupid enough to pay retail for a Dell, then Apple just might be the computer for you." and then "The author's main point is that Macs are similarly priced to PC's. Then halfway through the article, he states that MAC prices are at a premium because it's from a top-shelf manufacturer and it is sold to cater to a "lifestyle." Did you read the article before you posted Leo or just stopped at the headline? - Johan

Aphorisms come to mind. 'Cat amongst the pigeons'. Fanboys unite. - Henry Burger

A quick way to save $177.49 would have been to install Leopard instead of Vista. - David Lounsbury

Even during the times when Macs are significantly more expensive than similarly spec'ed PC's, you can never put enough emphasis on the app's that come pre-installed on the Mac, right out of the box, and just as important, the visual appearance and design that goes into making them look... well, I know it's just personal taste, but Macs just look great. - midnightgolfer

Louis Gray

Why I'm late to embrace Shiny Things - http://redcouch.typepad.com/weblog...

August 7, 2008 from Google Reader - Comment - Like - Share

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Nice read - Geoff Schultz {TF}

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I am late because I want to see if Louis likes them first. :-) - Robert Scoble

I like Scoble's comment but can't. :-) - Louis Gray

Chasing the 'latest and greatest (or hottest)' takes a lot of time. I'm walking the fine line between wanting to be an early adopter, and also wanting to have a life outside of my tech world. This article is spot on. I have the Macbook Pro, use Smugmug and am using Friendfeed thanks to all the early adopter recommendations. Thanks guys and gals. - Henry Burger

I'm a "bridging the gap" kind of user. I'm absolutely not a bleeding edge person, but I find I adopt tools after hearing about it from you crazy FF people, like it, and find it takes off a few weeks/months later (just like FF). - Chris Stevenson

Thomas Hawk

Flickr Fever :: Arts :: Philadelphia City Paper :: Philadelphia Arts, Restaurants, Music, Movies, Jobs, Classifieds, Blogs - http://www.citypaper.net/article...

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"Cramer says Philly is many a photographer's muse, and for good reason. "It's a big, architecturally and economically diverse city," he says. "You go to New York and it's like, yeah, there are 10,000 pictures a day taken of the steaming coffee cup in Times Square. But a good shot of the rail yards outside 30th Street Station or Mustin Field down by the Navy Yard is unique."" - Thomas Hawk from Bookmarklet

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Some of the neighborhoods are really cool too, like Society Hill, university city and others. - Rob Diana

got to get to Philadelphia one day and shoot there. - Thomas Hawk

Couldn't agree more with you Thomas. Your head will explode with the possibilities. The food isn't bad either, fwiw. - Dave Roth

Meh, I think they're selling NYC short. Every city has the tourist traps and the places where thousands of people take identical photos. There's hundreds of places and neighborhoods within NYC that are underappreciated and rarely photographed well. Similarly I could make a comment about Philly and the liberty bell or the Rocky steps. The key to *any* city is to not waste too much time with the tourist traps, but rather explore and find what really makes that city unique. - Eric P

Vinny, I agree. To me NYC is endless in terms of possibilities. I think it is my favorite city in the world to shoot and in a strange way I've always considered it home even though I've never lived there. I do plan on living in NYC at some point in life and really digging into it in new ways. That said, I still think shooting Philly would be pretty amazing. - Thomas Hawk

My "Reflections on Manhattan" set here: http://www.flickr.com/photos... - Thomas Hawk

supposedly north philly is real nice this time of year - Cee Bee

I live about 45 minutes outside Philadelphia, and I'd add that you don't have to get very far outside the city to see some really fascinating, diverse, semi-rural landscapes. There continues to be a lot of agriculture relatively close to town, and there's a lot of history here. Checking out Chester County or Montgomery County in Flickr's maps view will give you an idea. - Nathan Rein

Chester County, FTW! A Philly photowalk with Thomas would be tremendous. I'd probably have to come up from North Carolina for that one. - Dave Roth

I live in the Philly burbs. Lived in London,Paris and outside LA. It seems to me it's the creative eye of the person behind the lens that makes for great photographs, and not necessarily the subject matter. Most every large city has it's share of photogenic scenery. - Henry Burger

Alexander van Elsas

Why you would pay for a great web service - http://vanelsas.wordpress.com/2008...

August 4, 2008 from Alexander van Elsas's Weblog... - Comment - Like - Share

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Best example: 37Signals. - Mohit

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Another interesting one: Flickr? - Alexander van Elsas

I pay for Smugmug and Twitterrific. - Robert Scoble

I would pay for smugmug, 37signals, bitbucket and many other great services. - Augusto Becciu from twhirl

I didn't actually write it down, but I also wonder if there is a group of mainstream users that will pay a reasonable amount for a service regardless of free alternatives. The reason for this could be that they (unlike early adopters) don't want to spent time to find and try free alternatives - Alexander van Elsas

I pay for Yahoo!Mail ($20/yr for clean POP access), Picasa ($20/yr for 10 GB storage), 1and1.com ($5/month for business website). Still using Blogger for free blogs, but may switch in the future for better designs. - Mitchell Tsai

I pay for last.fm and flickr. The company I work for uses basecamp extensively. - Gez

I pay for Google Sites, Picasa (extra storage), Genealogy.com (although a bit pricey, it provides great resources for research), and LinkedIn (b/c as an independent consultant it is the absolute best networking tool, and I want it to succeed). Although the sites who offer a free trial but require a credit card upfront, and then make it impossible to cancel without a phone call...yeah, I can do without those. - cjmart

I pay for flickr. I used to upload a lot of photos there (not as much anymore). $24/year for unlimited storage seems very reasonable to me. And the fact that they have such a nice API so my photos are not locked away if I want to use them made the idea of supporting them financially much more appealing. - Lindsay

I pay for Smugmug,Yahoo mail for Pop and Remember the Milk. - Henry Burger from twhirl

I'm thinking of paying for SmugMug, but haven't decided yet. - FFing Enigma

I think it really comes down to whether the service is good enough and close to best of breed. - Rob Diana

basecamp, icontact - Jason Goldberg

I've got to think Flickr has the highest number of paid subscribers of any pure-web service. They provide a good service that's useful for free, but if you want to be a serious user you have to move up to pro. There's a good lesson there for all of us in monetizing a web service... Oh, and it's not open source ;) - Jason Carreira

Jason, but it is weird that a LOT of current web 2.0 companies use that 1.0 business model? - Alexander van Elsas

@Alexander, isn't it weird that a LOT of current web 2.0 companies aren't making any money? ;) - Jason Carreira

@Jason I know, but I fail to understand why so many new startups enter that same death grip. Is it pressure from investors, advertisers, fame? - Alexander van Elsas

Too many Web 2.0 startups are built on a cool technical idea with no business plan behind it. - Jason Carreira

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