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Will it be released outside the US though? I doubt it. - Richard H

Wonder if this wil ever come to the UK. Or if we need it. Can it do anything more than the bebook (http://mybebook.com) apart from wireless? is it tied to buying only from Amazon? - IanBlackburnold

My guess is it will be US only again.... - Jaime/Talking Books Lib.

Part of the issue is it uses CDMA for a net connection which is US only. Although CDMA is slow. Maybe the new one will be HSDPA. We can hope. - Richard H

HSDPA would require a relationship with a different carrier (most likely AT&T), and I think Amazon got a sweetheart deal on their "Whispernet". - coldbrew

Doesn't surprise me. Shame though as it really restricts their market. Although that probably stops them having to deal with international copyright law. </cynic> - Richard H

still costs too damn much - Mister Groonk from twhirl

is anyone surprised at the price of the kindle 2? - Jaime/Talking Books Lib.

wish it would be cheaper... - Aaron Eaton

It's definitely beyond my price point. - Steve Lowe

I would love to go to the Arctic. - Oliver Bayes-Shelton

Not space? - SurajLuke

His wife, Lucy, is really nice. One of the nicest people I met in Davos. The prettiest place they have been? New Zealand. They said the people there were the nicest they have met too. - Robert Scoble

Joanna Lumley would agree http://www.youtube.com/watch... - IanBlackburnold

I wasn't expecting to hear a cold place. - Robert Scoble

NZ is really nice. I wanna go back some time and explore even more of it. - Simon Wicks

My wife later asked how the Pages got seated at our table. By sheer luck. Oh, and of course I asked if we could ride on the Google Plane. He said it was full already and that tons of people were asking. We were having lunch after the Burda/DLD/Booz ski race (I sucked). - Robert Scoble

More interesting, traveling to more eccentric locations. - Richard A.

They took that question literally. : ) I guess the artic is where they like to chill. . . - Kyle

Arctic is certainly one of the coolest places I've been :) - Nicola Quinn

As a New Zealander, that's very nice of Larry and Lucy to say so. - Simon Taylor

Simon: Steve Wozniak and my dad say the same thing. - Robert Scoble

Robert where is your coolest place you traveled to? - Jadito

Jadito: my heart will always be in New Orleans. But if I had a jet waiting to take me anywhere I would probably guide it to Paris. - Robert Scoble

Remote parts of Ireland (unfortunately diminishing) - where magic exists - Candy Schwartz

Robert, then you have never seen Svalöv! Haha ;-) - Rutger Blom

Why is the arctic a funny answer? It really is the most amazing place on earth. You should go Robert you would love it. I'm a kiwi. Thanks larry's wife :) we are nice. - Chris Johnson

Chris: when I say "cool" I don't mean "cold." - Robert Scoble

With all my respect I'd advice you to see Istanbul. (Has anyone been to Istanbul?) - Ozgur Poyrazoglu

Robert: BTW today is Waitangi Day, 6 February, the day New Zealanders celebrate (or protest) the signing of the Treaty of Waitangi between Maori chiefs and representatives of the British Crown in 1840. This is our national day and for better or for worse, the treaty and its interpretation have helped shape the culture of NZ http://tinyurl.com/5vh3ys http://tinyurl.com/bpnbvf - Simon Taylor

WHY did he like the Artic? - Susan Beebe

Paris is also at the top of my list for great cities to tromp around in. Ozgur, Istanbul and Budapest are the two remaining places on the list of places I've never seen but would love to. I've heard from so many people that Istanbul is a great place to visit. - jcunwired

What bags do you love? By the way this post is one of the only ones that took a year to write. - Robert Scoble

I've got a cheap DaKine messenger bag for everyday use and a Lowepro Compurover AW for the camera gear + laptop. - Andrew Smith

Compudaypack = laptop (17" MBP) plus full SLR camera rig - http://products.lowepro.com/product... - Jason Carreira

I carry a timbuk2 large messenger. I'm fearful of a wheelie in China, as others have had items take from their bag, while wheeling through the streets. I opted to cut my weight/laptop size, rather then upgrade to a wheelie. - clarke thomas

First had an old XPS 2 from Dell, http://www.flickr.com/photos..., now i have a Samsonite Outlab X+III Laptoprucksack - great!! http://thegearjunkie.com/images... - Ronald

I have gone through so many of these it's embarrassing. These days, I use a very slim sling case from MacCase. - Steve Rubel

Your blogpost about your breakfast walk with Zuckerberg at Davos is one of my favs. More students are using rolling bags to carry books here at university. - Phillip Jeffrey

I would have this bag in denim jeans :-) - nuncomment

I'm attached to a Tom Bihn "Brain Cell" - a minimalist size/design case, with it you can toss it into a larger bag (they of course sell other bags in which it hooks securely in place) - great quality and made in Seattle http://tombihn.com/page... - Micah Wittman from twhirl

I'd like to check it out. My laptop backpack is hard on my back, even though it's better than a shoulder strap bag. BTW, nice seeing you last night, Robert.:-) - Cathryn Hrudicka

brown paper bag - Damien Franco

The best bag I've ever owned was made by Brenthaven (sold at the Apple Store). I've had mine for 5 years and it looks brand new. $150 http://www.brenthaven.com/catalog... - Brandon

theres some bag coming out that gets u past security without having to take ur laptop out, google it i'm too lazy to find the link right now. - adolfo foronda

It also means you're a prime suspect for theft. I'm surprised no one has tried to steal it off you, especially if they see all the goods you have crammed into it. - Gaurav Patel

Gaurav: my bag is so heavy no one would get far after stealing it. - Robert Scoble

Tumi, it's taken a beating and been round the globe multiple times still holds up. - Dave Martin

thanks, this help. ironically, i've been in the market for a bag. thinking about a backpack for the new macbook pro 17. - Ryan

I'm using a Targus backpack. However, I tend not to bring the notebook computer out much unless I'm traveling. The phone can handle most of the web access. - Morton Fox

I like the function and style of a Golla bag. - Carolyn Chan

I've been lugging around my Tom Bihn Buzz Bag for a year now. Its getting a bit heavy, but for short distances I have a Waterfield Sleave for my X61T. Works great. - CW™

I'm a BIG fan of my Spire backpack. 9 years and not a stitch out. They are based out of Colorado and the website is http://bit.ly/2UCGwN. I've been trying to get them to make a combo camera/computer bag. Let them know if you are interested in such a bag. - Jauder Ho

Recently bought a Kata DR-467, could do with a few more pockets but it does most of what I want (including forcing me to carry less stuff!) - Andy Davies

I like it. I'd like it better if it had a convertible backpack option, like this one: http://bit.ly/1jIr9i . Of course, the STM is much more stylish. - John Federico

Still using a Swiss Army briefcase I got as MVP Swag (with a TUMI insert) - Brian Sullivan

I got one from Microsoft, for beta testing Windows Live Messenger. Still use it for my 15" notebook :) - Imran Hussain from feedalizr

Adam Kinney still has your old backpack I think! But he's moving on... http://adamkinney.com/blog... - IanBlackburnold

Brenthaven--nothing better - Ryan Petty

So it's fair to assume you said the same with all the michegas about Rev Wright? - Dave Winer

I don't support John McCain at all, but WTF does this have to do with his campaign? It's incredibly stupid. - Dewald Pretorius

Mudslinging is fine... it's part of the game... slander is a different matter. They're all the same anyway, so I just enjoy the entertainment of it all. - Kenneth LeFebvre

It is slanderous, but also true. - Noah Carter

That is besides the point. Whether it is slander or not, the issues are not being discussed. Too busy slinging mud. - Michael Tefft

Slander by definition is not true. - Michael Tefft

Could some of you Brits clue us Yanks in on the reputation of The Daily Mail? - Thomas Ho from fftogo

Let's be honest instead of self righteous. If the same thing happend to your wife, could you say with 100% honesty that you would do different? Men leave wives for younger women all the time. I personally know someone who left his wife when she had breast cancer. People are human. So is John McCain. - Michael Tefft

I had read something (from other sources) very similar to what you have posted while doing my homework on both candidates before the primaries. It concerned me then as well. It has been my observation than there are others, who like myself, have had concerns over both choices. I appreciate you posting this. What I hope this does is help us all to look to character and why it is not always an either or choice. It also begs the question of how we got here with both. - Melanie Reed

Mr. Tefft, very respectfully, would you feel the same if it had been you and the situation had been reversed? This is not a little thing with God as we have excused it in ourselves. Women are not disposable items and neither is the marriage covenant. It is precisely there to ensure that it is honored and kept. There is no ambition worth breaking a vow and your word and breaking another's heart whom you promised not to betray. - Melanie Reed

The Daily Mail is an upmarket version of The Sun, Germany's Bild or The New York Post. It contains the same sensationalist, bullshit stories but is made to appeal to the middle-class. Typical reader is an angry, white, christian, self-righteous, xenophobic, conservate (Republican) middle-englander. - Paul Grav

millions and millions of others. I am unclear how this makes him a bad person... unless your a religeous zealot? - Soulhuntre from twhirl

Paul's spot on with analysis. Most thinking people wouldn't bother with it except for some mindless entertainment on the train. - IanBlackburnold

That's beautiful. - IanBlackburnold

Great gypsy music. She's good, but she doesn't get it. I wish they'd stuck to the original score instead of "embellishing" here and there. It actually detracts from the song. She puts flourishes all over the places but doesn't get the feeling of the music. - Raoul Pop

you might be right but what a sad sad thought - Steven Hodson

commenting via friend feed, cuz that's where I am. More evidence I suppose - Ivan Kirigin

quality (of a picture, sound, etc) comes at a price of inconvenience/ sometimes this price is just not worth it. - 9000

Steven, do you really think it's a sad thought in the context of Scoble using the camera in his phone to do the interview? I agree with 9000 plus it's cool that convenience can sometimes facilitate some very cool conversations. - Robert Seidman

And it often beats security too! Just look at the way on-line banks removed initial requirements to have a certificate installed on your machine to login, so that users could check their accounts from anywhere. That doesn't mean the removed all security though, it's a balance, and possible peer pressure too. My son will take a leak in the bushes when he his playing soccer with his mates, but that would never happen when his mum is nearby ;-) - IanBlackburnold

Thank goodness for both 'convenience' and 'quality'...At least we can choose based upon the situation that we're in.....To use an analogy, there are plenty of times that I stop for fast-food when in a rush...I'd be in big trouble if my *only* choice was high-quality full-course restaurants. - Chris Rossini

Exactly right, Fred! - Robert Scoble

Convenience isn't a replacement for quality, but rather an augmentation: it lets you do more. - TranceMist

I agree w/ Trance and especially Chris R. I carry an iPhone around but would never dream of taking a serious picture with it. That's what my D200 and 50mm lens are for - and I'll opt for the "inconvenience" of my D200 any day of the week... - Anthony Citrano

Anthony: but if you had a Nokia N82 you might decide to leave the D200 at home. The pictures I'm getting with it are pretty damn good for a cell phone. http://www.flickr.com/photos... - Robert Scoble

Two thoughts spring immediately to mind: (1) Convenience beats quality when the thing being created has little inherent value or an overwhelming inherent value. In the vast space between, quality wins. (2) "Convenience beats quality" suggests a quickie camphone video itself will inevitably be superceded by a text transcript or summation, since a scannable transcript or well-done summary will always be more convenient *for the auidence*. - Roger Benningfield

@Robert Sceidman I think that this attittude of quality playing second fiddle to something being convient is sad. I've watched a couple of these Qik videos and while the idea of being able to catch a spontanous moment is cool I didn't like the quality of them at all and end up not watching the whole thing. It is ideas like this that ends up in the long run of making us feeling that "almost as good as" is okay and I'm sorry but that sucks. - Steven Hodson

@Scoble: I have an N95 (got it via their PopTech sponsorship) but don't carry it around much. I think it has the same camera, no? - Anthony Citrano

@Roger: Amen. - Anthony Citrano

@stevenhodson If the quality is low and you choose not to watch it, it is no worse than if it had not been recorded, which is what would have happened if it had not been convenient for him to record it. - So in some cases, low quality (but convenient) = high quality (but not recorded), but in other cases low quality > nothing. Total effect LowQuality >= HighQuality unless HighQ is convenient enough to be used. - Luke Gedeon

The N82's camera is even better than the N95's. Has a flash, too. - Robert Scoble

Absolutely. And for communication it's about 'communicating' and if you can do that, despite the quality, then you've accomplished your task. It's like not watching TV because it's not in HD. - AJ Kohn

@AJ: For the record, my household is rapidly approaching that point. Dish Network is already launching an HD-Only package for those who have no use for SD programming. It's like going back to dial-up after you've had broadband for a few years. - Roger Benningfield

@Roger: I like HD but it's not the end-all for me - and I'm a TV junky - though (obviously) more for the content. I'd still enjoy Lost if I had to watch it on a 6 inch kitchen TV. Once I get the new TV I may be more on your side though ;) - AJ Kohn

Yes, Mark is right on spot to notice that. :D - Daniel Schildt

Wow... so this is what its like to have Robert Scoble "in your face". - Brandon LeBlanc from twhirl

I'm sure many startups would LOVE to go on FastCompany.tv, but there's no possible way that you could keep up with the the sheer volume of them, is there? - Eric Florenzano

So Robert, when can we get you out in Salt Lake City? I'll show you around to some cool new and established startups. We've got quite the scene, Geek lunches and dinners weekly, events going on often. - Jesse Stay from twhirl

and why does his head look squished? :) - Steven Hodson

actually, the play button on his lips would have been more apt. - bvs

so how do we get on robert? - Morgan

Morgan: I just need a pitch. I only have a few slots a month, August is being planned now. It's easier if you come to San Francisco, or are here already, but I'll be traveling around quite a bit this year (trips to Seattle, Washington DC, Los Angeles, New York, China, Amsterdam, Boston, Paris are already on my board. So, why should you be on? - Robert Scoble

Salt Lake City? Right now I don't have any plans, sorry. Can you come out to SF? - Robert Scoble

Hey Robert, This sounds really interesting. I am in the midst of launching my startup and we would like to work with you on Fast Company TV. What are the next steps. btw the site is Mugasha.com - Akshay Dodeja

I will be in San Fran June 13 - 22 and would like to grab lunch - Akshay Dodeja

I'm in San Francisco right now (for Google I/O), but I can't bring all the Utah startups out to San Francisco unfortunately. I'll show you what I'm working on next time I'm out though once it matures a little more. - Jesse Stay from twhirl

Email. scobleizer@gmail.com. My calendar is public and is here: http://www.google.com/calenda... -- that timeframe isn't very good, though, which is why I'm already planning out August (heck, most of September is already planned, for that matter). Sigh. - Robert Scoble

Jesse, you around tomorrow? Wanna come to Disqus with us? We'll be going there at 3 p.m. - Robert Scoble

Hey Robert, I just sent you an email :) - Akshay Dodeja

Robert, ooh, that's cutting it close. My flight goes out from SFO at 5:25 pm - think I'll have time to make it out to SFO afterwards to get on my flight? I'd love to come. - Jesse Stay from twhirl

Oh, that is cutting it close. You'll probably make it, but that's within the golden hour, so that's tough. Do you need to return a car? Or do you just want us to drop you off? - Robert Scoble

You can just drop me off - I don't have a car. Tell me where to meet you. I have one small suitcase and my carryon - is that okay? - Jesse Stay from twhirl

hey robert - thanks for the response. you should have us on because we're a small company making tons of online video for a wide range of businesses with a new video ad format and real revenue to boot. i'll email you at the above. we're in SF which is nice. - Morgan

Hey Robert, I sent you an e-mail about messagedance.com being on FastCompany.tv. Get back to me whenever you have a few seconds of free time. - Danish Khan from twhirl

Hi Robert, just posted your video here http://www.matthiashenze.com/2008.... When will you be in China? - Matthias Henze

Jesse: yeah, that's fine. I'll be at the Revision 3 studios until probably about noon. Then I gotta run to Pacifica to pick Rocky up. Then I can pick you up. Call me tomorrow at 425-205-1921. - Robert Scoble

Matthias I'll be in China probably in October. Still arranging things, though. - Robert Scoble

You can just drop me off - I don't have a car. Tell me where to meet you. I have one small suitcase and my carryon - is that okay? - Jesse Stay from twhirl

sorry for the dupe - Twhirl's bugging out on me - Jesse Stay from twhirl

Will do - I'll call you tomorrow. I can be flexible on where I meet you. - Jesse Stay from twhirl

Hi Robert - will you be in the UK at all? Just emailed you our pitch if so. - IanBlackburnold

IanBlackburn I'll be in Paris in December for the LeWeb conference, but not sure I'll get to London/UK this time. - Robert Scoble

Thanks Robert! Hopefully see you earlier than that :-) - Matthias Henze

Robert: I think we will be going to LeWeb actually - can we meet up there? - IanBlackburnold

Ian, yes, would love to meet you at LeWeb in Paris! - Robert Scoble

Great! I'm looking forward to it - I'll ping you closer to the time to fix something up if that's ok. - IanBlackburnold

India? - Yuvi

I'll shoot you an email right now to plan something for September if you are available this time (I failed at least twice in April in SF) to interview the Profy team. Hope it'll work :) - Svetlana Gladkova

It pains me to see every youtube video I see simply "no longer exists." - Colby Olson

You're right - devs are getting excited about this - even .net developers (like me) who have had to put up with the slooow WM progress. http://blogoscoped.com/archive... - an oldish entry but shows just how easy it is to do cool stuff - IanBlackburnold

I want an android phone - Tyler Gillies

I think overall it could outsell the iPhone over time, just because of the number of phones it will be available for. Not one particular Android model will come close to the iPhone's sale figures of course. - Andrew Dobrow

It is GREAT to see competition in the new generation phones. An open platform will bring some great innovation but also draw the hackers like moths to a flame. - Dave Ploch

How much time will it take to get an Android phone up on the market? - Jigar Mehta

Android has come a long way and will clearly help the competition close the gap with the iphone. iphone will still be a better experience but Android is looking like the best alternative atm. - timepilot

@Jigar - I think I read somewhere that they are aiming for this year sometime. - David Owens

Android is a considerably more open platform than the iPhone. As a result you're going to have some cool applications that you simply can not get on the iPhone. Unless Apple does a big turn around I can see myself trading my iPhone for an Android phone. - Gersham Meharg

@Jigar - T-Mobile say they will have one this year: http://www.engadget.com/2008... - IanBlackburnold

Cool, Thanks Robert.. It will be nice to have google in Mobile OS game! Lets see what revolution it gets for us! - Jigar Mehta from bTT

iPhone vs Google Android = Cathedral vs Bazaar (See ISBN:0596001088). Software today depends on the size of the network for its success so my bet is on Android. - arasmus

Argh. I'm really torn with this whole Android vs. iPhone thing. I'm an Apple fanboy from way back. If you cut me, I still bleed six colors. I don't know which way to turn. If I can be a little hyperbolic, Apple and Google are both companies that have changed the world. If a Google phone is as different from other phones as Google's services have been different from other web services, this could be awesome. This fall, my Blackberry will go off-contract. What do I do then? - ha3rvey (doesn't dance)

So does anyone see WM7 competing here? - IanBlackburnold

I'm getting 'tired' of Windows Mobile so I'm willing to give Android a try. Come to think of it, maybe WM is the one that is 'tired' & it isn't ME! :') - Thomas Ho from fftogo

Okay, the tech demo was cool, but does anyone really expect to use streetview with an integrated compass? How silly will you look (not to mention dizzy) spinning around staring at your phone? And what problem does it solve exactly? - Joshua Shapiro

Joshua: I think it's more the location services in general. Having said that imagine mapping your own data on top of street view - an engineer using the device to view where underground pipes are for example? - IanBlackburnold

I would love a movement towards an open platform rather than 14 different MAJOR platforms that developers have to at least consider when writing mobile apps. - Joel Gray

Yeah, I think WM7 can compete here. Android is no doubt cool... but it is not a be all / end all platform. - Soulhuntre from twhirl

Well assuming we end up with three different platforms all featuring "slide to unlock" and looking vaguely similar :-) the iPhone still has the advantage, at the end of the day, of being able to effortlessly sync to iTunes. - Karim

Joel: I think that's the point GOOG wanted to make with the Open Handset Alliance. Too bad Steve Jobs has such a closed mind. That's why Apple has a tiny computer share. That's why Android will outsell the iPhone. That's why Apple won't sell the 10 million iPhones in 08 as Jobs declared with confidence. That's why Nokia will continue to sell more phones in a week than Apple can sell in a year. - Mohamed J

Prediction: Android "will" outsell iPhone. Why? People in India (and presumably China too) won't have to smuggle it in... - Yuvi

Mo: I think it's interesting that people said the iPhone would flop when it was launched, using many of the same arguments about Steve Jobs that you're presenting here. - TimTheFoolMan from twhirl

Cool, I had to unsubscribe from Scoble directly as it was like drinking from a firehose. Glad to see that via likes I can still see stuff from him that people find interesting. - Capn' One Eye - adrift

openness of Android will be the difference at the end of the day - bvs

any one think these will be out by Christmas? - Stefan Hayden

However, hope that the first few models are not half-assed from some two-bit company in East Asia. - bvs

Tim: Not to say that the iPhone is/was a flop, but it came out when there was no alternative or touch-competitor. This time around, its chances aren't as good. - Mohamed J

I do like how Google is playing both sides at the same time. Develop for a single platform -- and yet, feel free to add proprietary hardware & functionality and rip out stuff you don't want! Android supports Java -- and yet, it's not really Java! Android is open source -- and yet, the SDK is proprietary! Google is going to make a ton of money on Android -- and yet, they're giving it... more... - Karim

There is a Google version of the Reality Distortion Field. No matter how closed, self serving or clearly anti-competative anythign they do is the nerd-o-sphere will have an orgasm about it. - Soulhuntre from twhirl

I have one reason to be grateful for the existence of Windows Vista. I've told my whole family that I know absolutely nothing about it or how to fix it when it breaks. They've all upgraded to Vista, and I don't get family tech support calls any more. - Slappy Line

"I couldn’t care less." I wouldn't even have bothered to write these words. So much thanks to Matthew. The technology frontier has far a long time been shifted to the web, but Microsoft - as a software company - can't see this. Everything that runs Firefox 3 smoothly is good enough, and you don't need more than good enough. You want the best web tools, the OS doesn't matter that much. - Meryn Stol

Slippy Lane, you're my hero. I will now steal this strategy and use it as my own. If you're ever in Dallas, let me know, and I will buy you the caffeinated beverage of your choice. - ha3rvey (doesn't dance)

I've learned not to care until 6 months before release. - Bwana ☠

But what about your poor mum when she can't buy her online groceries? She'll be calling you and asking you to go out and get them. These things have a way of coming round to bite you Slippy Lane... ;-) - IanBlackburnold

Of course, when my PC crashed and I actually got round to reformatting, found out that HP had made it exceedingly difficult - even from a blank slate PC - to install XP instead. So given time constraints I ended up reinstalling Vista. :( - Robin Cannon from Alert Thingy

Oh, come on... - Andrey Andreev from twhirl

Very True Loic you made it very clear how easy it is to follow the comments!! - Paul

FF only works as a feed reader if you like "river of news". If you don't, then it isn't good enough. - Ian Betteridge from twhirl

I will not follow you on that one. A think both have very different missions. GReader really is a tools while FF is also a communication device - Eric Sausse from twhirl

it has already replaced it for, right now I'm going through some 4 days old posts in gReader, I tend to stop by there less and less - Dobromir Hadzhiev from twhirl

With out google reader or twitter, FF would not be what it is today. Remember it's a big circle jerk. I do not see FF killing google reader nor twitter any time soon. - Mike Fruchter

when will we be able to like comments? :) - Tim Hoeck

FF certainly doesn't have enough people talking about every single topic I subscribe to. I'm glad you guys aren't preachers at a church, the end of the world would have supposedly been last week. - Shawn Farner

For me, Google Reader is an even more essential part than Twitter of my FriendFeed experience. So ... as said before... FriendFeed will _not_ kill Google Reader or Twitter, etc. What is happening, however, is that often, the items in Google Reader are arriving after I've already read them via FriendFeed. - Louis Gray

These things always go on through June. Then we have the killing. Or something like that. - Michael Markman

Eric Sausse, you have a good point, you cannot add just a feed in Friendfeed, they first need to be registered there and added their feed. But FF could add that very easily, adding feeds from people who are not in FF. Then it would put pressure on them to finally jump into the bandwagon - Loic Le Meur

I agree with Louis & others - GR feeds FF for me. - R. Ferguson

You can "just add" a feed in FF -- check out the imaginary friends feature - Brian Sullivan

FF lets you publish your *filtered* google reader shared items, together with other stuff, to make an impression of you and your interests. That's how I see FF: almost a snapshot of a personality. For me GReader is a tool that you can use to filter items into your FF. - IanBlackburnold

Brian Sullivan, thanks I was wondering the imaginary friend thing! now I know. Here we go, no need for Google Reader anymore... - Loic Le Meur

yeah, I wont use FF for all of my feeds, I am subscribe to way too many and have already my routine with it. FF is more of a discovery + conversation experience for me - Gilbert Corrales from twhirl

Ian, right: I don't want people to form an impression of me based on my subscriptions to D:Listed, TMZ, The Superficial, and Perez Hilton, unless they are really really important, then I'll share the story. And now I've tipped my hand. But anyway: there's a community for feed discovery already: Tuluu. GReader + FF is about what's interesting from the feeds. - Mark Trapp

I'm with the GReader feeding FF crowd on this one. I use GReader to get the news I want and FF to share it and create conversation. FF is a great discovery tool but I still read a ton of stuff in my feeds before it appears on FF. The UI is set up better for conversation rather than just information digesting IMO. - Devlin Dunsmore

@devlin I agree... i'm finding it very hard to read pages and pages of link/comments on FF. - Gaurav Sikka

I hope FriendFeed doesn't kill Google Reader. I find them both vital but I couldn't substitute one for the other. - Kevin Fox

Again, this isn't going to happen. Services don't always have to exist just to kill other services. Especially ones that do different things - MG Siegler

its funny season on t'internets - Jamie

FriendFeed adds much value for me, but the only thing it's killing is time and maybe Scoble's marriage. I wish Loic would work on something more productive like getting Apple to make Seesmic videos work on the iPhone!:-) - Robert Seidman

We like having a choice for everything we do, but on the other hand, we expect (and sometimes hope) one choice to kill another. No wonder the world can't live in peace all together ;) - Turker Keskinpala

I never liked Google Reader's UI, but I feel right at home with FriendFeed. - Rishabh Mishra (p248)

So true, but time flies too fast when im on friendfeed, i cant stop reading and sending messages! Great conversations though! - Scott Purdie

It's hard to get through as much content on FF, due to the pagination and commenting. Oh yeah, and all the Tweets. - Alex C. Williams

going to have to disagree ... couldn't possibly get through all my feeds via FF - just too many for the FF interface - timepilot

Google Reader is a feed reader, FriendFeed is a feed generator. Sorry, they serve completely different purposes (at least to me). No killing here. - Voyagerfan5761

friendfeed doesn't allow me to categorize sources, nor can I tag or flag specific feed items in a way that makes it easy for me to refer back to later. for al the hype about friend feed being where the "conversation", it seems like a really poor utility for that. I see that on this blog post alone, the "conversation" is distributed across friendfeed through google shared reader posts, twitter references, disquss comments. The techcrunch "Twitter" post is even a better example. fractured conversation. - bernie

agreed FF no replacement for reader - ben rogers from twhirl

When will folks realize FF is something NEW? IT isnt goign to kill much of the other stuff. - Soulhuntre from twhirl

would love keyboard shortcuts for FF too - Loic Le Meur

FF is useful as a human filter on the old echo chamber of tech but could never replace a feed reader. gReader shared items into FF is part of the signal for me, but, not a replacement. Much like RSSMeme and it's FF filter. And then there's the twisty bit where I read FF via a feed readier in the first place ... - Ashton

Every new service competes for our timeshare, killing a service doesn't really have to involve creating a similar service. FF has killed alot of RSS readers and social news sites for me simply because I don't spend time on them anymore. It's similar functions, not identical features :) - Steven Cains