Ideas At Random - Comments

I hear Phil Windley and Craig Burton are going to be on today's Gillmor Gang. - Cliff Gerrish

Sounds like a great show! - Rob La Gesse

Hi Steve - Keith Teare

i've been missing the live action but the transcript from the last show was a fun read - Brian Hendrickson

"[Google] Wave is saying, okay, our structure model is (unintelligible) " lol @kevinmarks http://bh.ly/0w - Brian Hendrickson

@Scobleizer - got a Wave invite for me? - Keith Teare

i want a wave invite...she whined. - Karoli

Does whinining work? - Cliff Gerrish

guess we're going to find out. LOL - Karoli

So the discussion is SideWiki, not Wave -- Google still the topic. - Cliff Gerrish

SideWiki is a blogging tool. - Kevin Marks

wonder when SideWiki will come to my chrome. want it. - Christopher Harris

I was just about to say that. SideWiki. . . - Ron Hudson

Although, it's not really a wiki. - Cliff Gerrish

dont believe the hype ;) - sull

Seems like SideWiki, Echo and Disqus all do something similar. - Cliff Gerrish

http://bit.ly/DA - Kevin Marks

The web will become like Wings of Desire - We will all be able to listen to everyone's mind. - Arnie Klaus

Just wrote a Sidewiki entry on "Category Archives: Real-time" http://bit.ly/12HDF - Ron Hudson

We are thinking about you! - Arnie Klaus

http://confusedofcalcutta.com/2009... - Kevin Marks

Amorphous - Arnie Klaus

you guys should call up Leo Laporte and bring him into this conversation - Brian Hendrickson

I don't even understand the concept of chat gathered around the Gillmor Gang any more. Do they mean the comments on this post? - Matt Terenzio

Tina says KEVIN NEEDS TO SLOW DOWN! - Cliff Gerrish

invisible backchannels - Kevin Marks

Okay. - Matt Terenzio

sorry wasn't making fun of you kevin! - Brian Hendrickson

The difference between Sidewiki and Echo and Disqus is that Disqus and Echo give control over what get displayed to blog owner. - Robert Scoble

I wrote a side wiki for the /realtime page. There is no way to edit it? - Ron Hudson

But Sidewiki isn't something you add to your blog, it's just a portal that a small subset of users use to look at it - Brian Hendrickson

I'd like to see SideWiki allow WebHooks, so when you submit a post it can also update another service ... Kind of like Posterous - Ideas At Random

Control is an illusion. - Cliff Gerrish

Echo and Disqus can bring the sidewiki feed back into it - Kevin Marks

I's not controlling conversation I object to just reaching across a network and changing the way my content is displayed. I have no objections to a client side mashup or even a peer to peer - Matt Terenzio

You do have control over what you write. You don't have control over what OTHER PEOPLE write. - Ken Sheppardson

SideWiki is MOST dangerous because it isn't RSS-enabled, and there's no way to properly monitor it. - Ike Pigott

SideWiki has a feed for every page and for every user, wrong Ike - Kevin Marks

Y'all realize Diigo has been doing this same thing for a couple years now, right? Folks just haven't objected because they don't know about it. There will *always* be side converasations you don't know about that you can't control. - Ken Sheppardson

framing is wrong. I format my content to browser size (just devil's advocate, I don't do that) - Matt Terenzio

Kevin, I have yet to see the feed. - Ike Pigott

It's not "framing", it's a browser add-in. Only those who've chosen to install the "app" see it. - Ken Sheppardson

Scoble seems to advocate ignorance as a blissful state. - Cliff Gerrish

http://code.google.com/apis... - Kevin Marks

Nice nodes, Robert - Ross Mayfield

what do you want a feed for, Ike? Which page? - Kevin Marks

Gillmor suggests by his actions just now that there needs to be a judge(ment). Where is the referee. - Arnie Klaus

You could build a similar service that displays the comments from FriendFeed related to a specific page in the sidebar. IT's the same API http://ffcheck.com uses. Would you object to that, Robert? - Ken Sheppardson

I'd be interesting if SideWiki was a wiki - Ross Mayfield

why would that make you interesting? - Brian Hendrickson

as long as they don't change the display of my content, I think it's fine. - Matt Terenzio

SideWiki is really more of a palimpsest. - Cliff Gerrish

What is the difference between sidewiki and just twittering with a #scobleizer tag? - Ron Hudson

I am choosing to go to site A and I am choosing to install sidewiki. Why should site A control what I see there? - Ryan

You still have control over that frame, Robert. You don't (i.e. shouldn't) have control over my sidebar. - Ken Sheppardson

I'm stuck on bandaid. - Jay Cuthrell

http://www.google.com/sidewik... - Kevin Marks

cuz bandaid's stuck on me - Jay Cuthrell

Yeah, Ken you are right - Matt Terenzio

Robert - remember when I closed my FriendFeed account and you argued that I deleted YOUR comments stream? - Rob La Gesse

Nobody's modifying what you're trying to display. There's a supplemental app that's displaying additional information about your page, Robert. And you have nothing to say about it, nor should you. - Ken Sheppardson

Robert's totally right. Rock on - Stephen Pickering

Ken, bullshit - Stephen Pickering

You'll have to make a logical argument, Stephen. Epithets don't work. - Ken Sheppardson

It's his page - Stephen Pickering

That was MY post that the comments were attached to. I deleted that linkage - which affected you, and you were pissed :) - Rob La Gesse

It's my browser and desktop. - Ken Sheppardson

It's defacing his page - Stephen Pickering

Kevin, I just tried plugging URLs into that API, and it doesn't pull. - Ike Pigott

He delivered his page to my browser the way he wanted, once on my browser I can do anything to it - Ryan

you need to escape the :// stuff - Kevin Marks

Google Toolbar = evil :) - Rob La Gesse

Aren't all audiences shared, and the audience owns itself? - Ross Mayfield

You already do anything you want with pages in your browser. - Cliff Gerrish

But ken if a plugin said, here Google take this page I want and add all the extra metadata to it and return it to me. That is wrong. It's different than a local client gathering content and displaying the way the enduser wants. technicality, but that is law. and I'm no lawyer - Matt Terenzio

sidewiki isn't part of anybody's blog. it is an abstraction layer that becomes visible when a sidewiki user visits the blog - Keith Teare

Do I have the "right" to install ad-blocking plugins? Do I have the "right' to install Greasemonkey or Stylish to change fonts and background colors? - Ken Sheppardson

I did escape it: http://www.google.com/sidewik... - Ike Pigott

Robert is trying to say sidewiki is like yelp gluing reviews to restaurant doors. - Ron Hudson

Sidewiki is defacement - Stephen Pickering

Yeah, why do all these geeks even have Google toolbar, anyway? - Matt Terenzio

Who needs Sidewiki? - Jonathan Brown

no, you need the full URL with trailing slashes and everything - Kevin Marks

Spamwiki? - Arnie Klaus

No one - Stephen Pickering

actually, Robert's password IS his phone number :) - Robert J Taylor

But *I* as the reader, am the one making the choice to "deface" the page. It's not as if every visitor is being forced to read those comments. It's MY CHOICE to see them. - Ken Sheppardson

I did that too, Kevin. It didn't resolve, didn't pull in the very comment I left. - Ike Pigott

100% correct Ken - Ryan

SideWike is Google stepping in the same pile of dogshit that others have stepped in before. - Rob La Gesse

Imagine if Yelp went around gluing reviews to restaurant windows! Absurd! - Ron Hudson

There's money in blogs? - Jay Cuthrell

http://www.google.com/sidewik... - Kevin Marks

How about Instapaper, which bookmarks your page and reformats it for mobile browsing. Is that "allowed"? - Ken Sheppardson

Ken that would be fine if you were the only one who could read your defacement or see it - Stephen Pickering

I feel VERY sorry for the first company to get hammered in SideWiki during crisis communications. - Ike Pigott

Your defacing it and the public can see it - Stephen Pickering

Robert we are with you. - Ron Hudson

btw, I'm using Sidewiki on this FriendFeed page - Ross Mayfield

No you are not Stephen, if someone doesn't have sidewiki installed they can't see it - Ryan

Ike, they will be hammered somewhere else anyway - Kevin Marks

No, it's not the "public", it's all those users who've made the choice to view a conversation in a sidebar related to your page. - Ken Sheppardson

Not defacing the site - but MOVING the conversation - which affects branding, value, etc - Rob La Gesse

so its not defacement for all - Ryan

But if they do have sidewiki they do - Stephen Pickering

So you don't ever talk about blog posts or web pages on FriendFeed then, right, Stephen? - Ken Sheppardson

then they choose to see that content, it wasn't forced on them - Ryan

OK, at the count of three, everyone uninstall Google Toolbar. Then they will just build it into Firefox. And BECOME MS - Rob La Gesse

Kevin, you're right -- but THOSE posts and comments will be more easily sortable, findable, and addressable. SideWiki is way too chaotic. And since all the SideWiki comments live on GOOGLE domain, they will show up in search eventually! - Ike Pigott

Ken, hell yes, I do, but that's on FriendFeed and not on somebody's site - Stephen Pickering

"we had no choice" is the critical aspect that isn't being addressed by wider audiences - Jay Cuthrell

If I told you that I was using the FriendFeed API to retrieve and display all conversations related to the page I'm visiting in my sidebar, would you object to that, Stephen? See http://ffcheck.com - Ken Sheppardson

yes Ken, but just because you ask me, I can't legally send a copy of something to you. Not saying they do this here, but I bet they want to soon if they mix it with search data and deliver ads, for example - Matt Terenzio

They don't all live on Google's domain - that was my point about http://oneforty.com where SideWiki shows the TechCrunch RWW et al posts - Kevin Marks

people who publish web pages need to host a more friendfeed-like discussion experience if they want to counter the sidewiki effect - Brian Hendrickson

Steve - that IS an economically feasible plan - Rob La Gesse

I just made a comment on this chat using side wiki http://bit.ly/V8TWq but I don't see anyone else's - Ron Hudson

Ron - what I said - Brian Hendrickson

http://www.google.com/sidewik... - Ike Pigott

Quoting @GinaTrapani: "Prediction: Google Sidewiki will go the way of Google Knol (ie, you'll never hear about it again)" - Mike Doeff

SideWiki is poised to become Yahoo message boards or YouTube comments - Robert J Taylor

SideWiki is so Cuil. - Ike Pigott

Good. There will be a hell of a push back if it does take off - Stephen Pickering

This whole industry that attempts to monetize content by framing it in a particular context, i.e. wrapped by ads, is sorta doomed, IMHO. In the long run. - Ken Sheppardson

Brian I don't see your posts. just mine - Ron Hudson

Yeah, so what's next, Ken, Google will put its own ads on my site? - Stephen Pickering

No. I'm saying ads are dead. - Ken Sheppardson

I posted a direct link to a Sidewiki comment I added here. - Ike Pigott

please move on. - sull

Ike - when I clicked the link then I saw your link, but not mine or anyone else's - Ron Hudson

everything is a "backchannel" - sull

Ron, I refreshed the page, and no one else's SideWiki entries are displayed. - Ike Pigott

Don't backchannel me bro! - Robert Scoble

Which URL did you use, Ike? I think there are number of different URLs/views. - Ken Sheppardson

Scoble uses the backchannel to request we not backchannel him. - Cliff Gerrish

Life is a backchannel. - Ken Sheppardson

I have no idea what that means. - Ken Sheppardson

"Don't backchannel me bro!" tshirts would sell well I bet. - Jay Cuthrell

"Don't backchannel me bro! - Robert Scoble" - heh - Rob La Gesse

pretty soon we won't know what is true and who said it! we are doomed! - Matt Terenzio

What about DotSpots? Introduced at least year's TC 50 and finally launched a few weeks ago... http://www.techcrunch.com/2009... - Mike Doeff

I have to take several ibuprofen every day for my backchannel problem. - Jerry Schuman

Ken, find me the feed for this link: http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_b... - Ike Pigott

SideWiki turns blogs into Fox News - Rob La Gesse

Mike -- DotSpots is the same issue as well. Very good catch. - Jay Cuthrell

So, what does SideWiki with Wikipedia mean? - Robert J Taylor

Sidewiki is the new standard for comments on all websites. Just install a Wordpress plugin for bringing Sidewiki entries into your blog comments. - Charbax

I see yours now Ike, I commented on a different url. SideWiki #fail - Ron Hudson

No Rob... SideWiki turns blogs into subway cars, in a town that sells permanent infrared spraypaint. - Ike Pigott

All systems need calibration or the noise takes over. - Arnie Klaus

ooooookay - Jay Cuthrell

we know that, but is it legal? - Matt Terenzio

Ike - nice - Rob La Gesse

"You're so 10 mins ago" <- this is Real Time, after all :) - Robert J Taylor

knew VRM would make it in here! - Matt Terenzio

Sidewiki will never take off and even if it does, there will be so much push back just like the digg framer that they will discontinue it - Stephen Pickering

Jay, yeah DotSpots raises the same issues but nobody is talking about them because they're relatively unknown (unlike Google) - Mike Doeff

I hope Google puts SideWiki in Firefox. That will be the start of the anti-trust investigation - Rob La Gesse

Sidewiki or something like it will absolutely take off, you just won't know about it. - Ken Sheppardson

I see the other comments now - Ron Hudson

Can't we sell in the sidewiki? - Arnie Klaus

My browser is not your place of business, Robert. - Ken Sheppardson

plugin functionality is quickly being surpassed by things like Comet/AJAX, so what's next.. who can write AJAX? - Jerry Schuman

but my site is my place of business (so to speak) - Robert J Taylor

Your browser isn't but when you can use it to deface his website, it is his place of business - Stephen Pickering

Jeez... we're going in circles yet again.. - Ken Sheppardson

Google isn't as well known as we'd like to think. Sidewiki should be enabled on every news article ever created. Every news article should have a Wikipedia stub. If Google assists, fine... but I'd rather see the overlay be outside control of any one company. - Jay Cuthrell

Friendfeed can easily bring sidewiki entries inside friendfeeds feeds - Charbax

I wish that death spiral would accelerate. - Jerry Schuman

I'm drawing a moustache on Robert Scoble right now. - Cliff Gerrish

This is about as useful as wave. I'm out. - Ron Hudson

There will be so much push back on this you won't believe it. This will be taken to court and Google ruled against - Stephen Pickering

Charbax: And FriendFeed in a sidebar can essentialy replace Sidewiki - Ken Sheppardson

What nonsense that guy just said - Stephen Pickering

I just pushed SideWiki into my Friendfeed, and my Friendfeed spools into my SideWiki profile, and it hasn't caused me any probl - Ike Pigott

Transient logic... next big push.. data push first.. logic push next. - Jerry Schuman

it is a document that is being passed across the web, despite how complicated the creation and distribution is. ultimately it is html and javascript - Matt Terenzio

Sidewiki needs to bring in Google Reader comments related to the "post"/page it's displaying. That'd be slick. - Ken Sheppardson

the document comes from a location, or multiple locations - Matt Terenzio

Sidewiki already brings in relevant related blog posts from blogsearch/google news - Charbax

Isn't the location metaphor broken, just like the silo metaphor. - Cliff Gerrish

we're resurrecting "compound document" architectures ala OpenDoc - Jerry Schuman

Right. Firefox? What? - Jay Cuthrell

I think anyone disclosing that would be subject to whisteblower status. - Jay Cuthrell

Someone has to host all the web's comments, I'd rather it be Google than Facebook. - Charbax

Charbax - I would prefer it is distributed - Rob La Gesse

maybe microsoft is the new microsoft and google is slightly changed google - Matt Terenzio

Okay... I'm out. (please allow me to continue with my fantasy that anyone noticed I was in) - Ike Pigott

Bye Ike. - Cliff Gerrish

Do we truly care who hammed a nail? Or do we mostly care that the nail was hammered properly? (pertaining to "identity") - Jay Cuthrell

I'd prefer that comments be distributed, and when you view an "entry" or some chunk of content, all the associated, linked comments on and items related to that item can be pulled from wherever they live and displayed for me, subject to filtering I define. - Ken Sheppardson

You can just load the comments from Google's Sidewiki server by simply copying from the RSS feeds. - Charbax

we don't want nails, just weak glue - Matt Terenzio

"please show your comment card" - Jay Cuthrell

Webmasters should not be able to filter comments. That's the whole point. Power to the people, not the current establishment of the web - Charbax

NASCAR? - Jay Cuthrell

I love the fact that if you run Kevin's twitter id through a twitter sentiment tool he's categorized as "post-graduate" ;-) - Jerry Schuman

that was google worthy :) - Jay Cuthrell

The NASCAR problem is the zillions of identity logins available on sites supporting openid. - Cliff Gerrish

Cliff - yeah that was the first google hit :) - Jay Cuthrell

Hey Ken, are you coming to IIW? - Cliff Gerrish

I wonder how NASCAR feels about that? ;-) I didn't get that as a top hit relating to mechanical engineering or marketing elements related to car racing. - Jay Cuthrell

I might... I should.... Nov 3-5 at the Comp History Museum? - Ken Sheppardson

Amazing. http://www.google.com/search... - Jay Cuthrell

Can you /sidewiki/ sidewiki? - Jay Cuthrell

Damn you Steve! - Rob La Gesse

Ownership of content is dead. - Ken Sheppardson

Yes, Ken. I'll be at IIW. - Cliff Gerrish

This event was Tricasted thanks to NewTek! - Rob La Gesse

Could you check the audio sync before posting this on Youtube? all the other Gillmor Gang Youtube videos seem to be out of sync - Charbax

Good show. - Mike Doeff

This show was TriCasted :) ... like that - Robert J Taylor

i'll have to pick it up on the rerun. deadlines and doctor's appointments intervened. - Karoli

Charbax google is working on fixing - Steve Gillmor

Google/YouTube is looking in to the sound sync problem. It's happend on a number of other videos too. - Cliff Gerrish

Is there an rss feed to download the videos from YouTube yet? - Christian Burns from iPhone

Christian: You can be notified of a new upload via this RSS feed: http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds... - Jack

Really interesting show. - Amyloo

Still listening to the show, but one idea that doesn't seem to have been brought up on the sidewiki debate is the fact that I can create a custom CSS template for a page (Scobleizer.com for example) and even further change and/or modify a website's appearance and look. What happens when Google creates a proverbial "sideCSS" widget to allow everyone easy access to modify the look of... more... - Chris Aldrich

Doesn't RSS already strip all the formatting from a website in order to transport one level of value? - Cliff Gerrish

Not every site has RSS. haven't you heard it's dead? - Matt Terenzio

Tell us how you "really" feel ;) - Ideas At Random

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Stupid advertising. - Robert Scoble

Ideas: I thought it was a great idea, if it actually did any analysis. Instead it just picks its answer randomly. Lame. - Robert Scoble

I am listed as a concierge. Yay. - Ben Hanten

Thanks for the research ... Won't waste my time trying it out. - Ideas At Random

I was a concierge too but no more :-)) its a joke - Johni Fisher

You know a website isn't actually researching you when it says that you're a good user and you are in actual fact, me. - Wayne Hornsey

Aww, that's horrible! What's the point if it doesn't actually do anything real. Is there no depth too low for marketers to sink? Should all the coders and designers involved be cast onto a deserted island somewhere for their crimes? This is pathetic!!! - Paul W. Homer

Paul: marketing. Sigh. - Robert Scoble

Concierge - and quite unimpressed with the video-game presentation. - Richard pancakhaus Walker

Hmm ... collecting Twitter names so they can spam you, perhaps?? - Robert Couture

Ah, beat me to it by a second, Robert - Robert Couture

Where can we find a real Yahoo development ? - Johni Fisher

they don't seem to notice the "via" which is crucial. I almost never "tweet" - it's FF -> twitter - Richard pancakhaus Walker

Perhaps we could build a "spaceship" (or really just a big catapult) and put these marketing people to work in exploring the "universe". You think they'd fall for it, particularly if we used their own marketing against them? "It'll be fun, you'll get to explore AND learn as you go" we could say. :-) - Paul W. Homer

People I'd like to #FlingIntoSpace ... - Paul W. Homer

Maybe that the proof of insanity, typing in the same thing every time and expecting or getting a different answer every time ;-) - Sally Church

4 me it doesn't it give same answers 2 me - polou/indigo_bow

dumb - Head Ov Metal

Obviously u folks here r Yahoo bias r u all? - polou/indigo_bow

Maybe it *is* random. Maybe those Yahoo guys are having a bit of a laugh at us tweetheads' expense... - Dennis Jernberg

Well that was fast, Robert. - Adam Reyher

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Wow. I honestly did not see THAT coming.... - Carter Rabasa

Nice work Robert. - Alex Calic

ya talk about real time news, thanks - sean percival

listening - Chris Saad

This is beginning to resemble journalism. - Ian Tindale

im not sure its such a great thing facebook and friendfeed sitting in a tree. - Eran Even-Kesef

Good job Robert - Ruchit Garg

Definitely, I'm listening now. Wow! This is breaking news! - Manu Ullas

hopefully this turns out okay, don't want friendfeed to get ruined. great interview, that was fast reporting! - Dakota O'Neill

What are your thoughts Robert? - Amani

WD mate - Chris Saad

That was quick. Thanks robert. - Akshay Dodeja

Hoping this will lead to an improved/cleaner interface for Facebook...I prefer Friendfeed - Rick Bucich

so, so sad. I like(d) Friendfeed much more than facebook - Francisco Kemeny

home run for FF.. Facebook will be able to give developers a treasure trove of data one thing that Twitter is dominating on right now. Twitter has a huge developer community but isn't managing that. Here FB is poised to be huge - John Furrier

So classic that Robert has the first interview about this...Where's Louis? :) - Anthony Farrior

Wow! - Ideas At Random

I think FriendFeed can help Facebook more than the other way around. - Manu Ullas

"very cool...." - Carter Rabasa

How do they plan to mix the teenagers with the geeks? - Jordi Soler

Amani: I am excited! Facebook has 800 employees and 300 million users. This makes both companies much more important. - Robert Scoble from iPhone

here was a comment on SiliconANGLE blog .. very funny .. "Hey, since we've copied almost every innovation you've had, guess you might as well play on the company softball team!" - John Furrier

Nice strategic move - Interesting to see how this will integrate and looks in 12 months - Alex Vermeule (@alexve)

to be honnest I was predicting google offer, then facebook preceed google on this, they are doing well, now rarding FF this is great, the sucess is to know when to pass to something else, the future will make the abtle wave, facebook rude for all geek it is time to code. - abdellah

You rascal Robert, bet you had wind about FriendFeed and FaceBook merger before today? Yes? Have not used either SM apps. much UNTIL Twitter locked my account. May have been a fortunate mishap as it turns out. Getting to know the beauties of both apps. =) - SashaKane

Awesome. Thanks. - M. Kong

Should be so very interesting. - Adam

Robert wastes no time on the reporting. CNN needs reporters like this. - JonInteractive

Not sure I am so jazzed about it....but congratulations to the FF crew. - Kreg Steppe

Honestly, I won't get used to following Robert Scoble in Facebook. Seems out of place to me. - Jordi Soler

Wow! I was not expecting that. - Devon Govett

Letter 'F' affinity and alliteration merger, classic playbook move. - James Watters

Did I hear someone laugh in the background when you asked about FF users being disappointed? - Paul Saarinen

Agreed Jordi - Rick Bucich

A good interview Robert. - Thomas Hawk

Thanks Robert! - shared and linked over on Phreadz : http://tech.phreadz.com/v... - kosso

Robert, mind if I transcribe this? (Unless someone else already has.) - Bruce Lewis from fftogo

Congrats on getting this story Robert. I agree--this is great, realtime journalism! - Sunshine

No mention of twitter? - Ivan Kirigin

Hahahaha...all that time you invested over here on FF paid off today! LMAO - Francine Hardaway

Francine: just watch what happens now. :-) - Robert Scoble from iPhone

do you have a small amount of FriendFeed shares Robert? - Torsten Eckert

NOOOOOOO. Damnit! I am praying that Facebook doesn't wall up Friendfeed. I was starting to build a site around Friendfeed :( - beersage

beersage: as Facebook is trying to break their users into a more public world, I doubt that you really have anything to worry about there. - guruvan (Rob Nelson)

Starting to listen to this now. Hoping you are right, Rob. - beersage

I hope so to. But regardless, I think that it was in reality necessary for FriendFeed to sell to really put the technology in front of a sufficient number of eyeballs. Facebook is probably the best acquirer that FriendFeed could have. (I would have not felt the same had FF been acquired by Google) - guruvan (Rob Nelson)

The thing with Friendfeed though is how I can share things outside of a 'wall.' I prominently feature the FF widget on my site. I'm just concerned of losing that capability as I was tinkering with delivering a new site w/ content primarily running through my Friendfeed account. I am to this day unable to do much outside of the wall. I am unable to subscribe to Fan Page updates in Google reader for instance. That is what concerns me about FB acquiring FF given my goals. - beersage

Robert sounded quite breathless in that interview. Thanks Robert. - Roberto Bonini

Great interview great Job!! - Kevin J Hatton

Wow! I'm in shock. I can't wait to hear this interview. - Micah Wittman from iPhone

This deal was about getting Paul and the team and nothing else - Stephen Pickering

@stephan, are you serious? FB is buying a concept, a technoloie, a structure, a content and a user list - abdellah

now how could a team that left google resist under a unique perception system, where the leader vision is upon any thing - abdellah

Unconvincing Paul Buchheit, the team is more exited of being part of bigger story - logical for them to move on - patrickdh

They want a way to turn their white pages into a yellow pages and the only guy on Earth who knows how to do it, is Paul - Stephen Pickering

It was only about the technology and the people. Most people are on also FB anyway. - James Myatt

My guess is that Paul got a tooooooooon of options and will soon be the No.2 guy at Facebook - Stephen Pickering

Glossing over of that "short term" question by the FF boys. It just seems more about the individuals at FF than it does the users of FF. "Their (Facebook) long term goals" Nice interview, Robert! - Melanie Reed

Well, it looks as if pass-through of FriendFeed Likes, Comments, etc. to Twitter is down. Will it be for good? Did Twitter do this in response to the acquisition? Or is it just a regular (though curiously timed) hiccup? - Alex Schleber

twitter dow!! - abdellah

Alex, my Facebook posts have been going through FriendFeed to Twitter today. :) - guruvan (Rob Nelson)

How did you record the phone conversation with Paul Buchheit? I went to BlogTalkRadio.com but... it‘s not clear at all :-( - Florin Grozea

Florin, rough transcript here: http://friendfeed.com/brlewis... - Bruce Lewis

I have a few choice words. @#%&. That is all. - Zachary TG

To do this call I used BlogTalk Radio's Cinch: http://cinch.blogtalkradio.com/ - Robert Scoble

dugg: http://digg.com/tech_ne... - Gaith

Thanks for this, Scoble. - mp3WatchWorld

this is why your own personal website is always more important than friendfeed, Twitter and all the rest. that's never going anywhere - Terry O'Fee from BuddyFeed

This is Mark Van Grack, owner of Hapa Sushi http://hapasushi.com -- I am showing him FriendFeed but every table has this card that talks about Twitter. - Robert Scoble

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Hi Mark ... Cool use of Twitter :) - Ideas At Random

I'd love to know how they use FriendFeed there: http://cdevroe.com/notes... - Colin Devroe

Another great sushi restaurant that tweets is @sushininjarva though they've unfortunately been silent for the last couple of weeks. - Travis Smith

There are actually quite a few restaurants and bars in Boulder, CO that tweet: http://tweet.nelso.com/us... - Jack DeNeut

Got an error after visitng that page. The OAuth is probably borked at the moment. - David Damore

Is this a project you're involved in or just a link? Got an error when I tried to sign up for the beta. - Ideas At Random

Believe the error was because it is OAuth and involves Twitter and Twitter is a bit under the weather :( - David Damore

I really hope On2 has something in the works that is better than H.264 - Ray Cromwell

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I've been a customer of On2 for a couple of years ... Bought their entry level Flash Video converter ... Happy with the results ... Looking forward to seeing how Google utilizes their products. - Ideas At Random

The doom9 guys seem to be saying On2's "comparisons" and marketing is heavily spun. http://forum.doom9.org/showthr... Alas, I think making a patent-uncumbered codec that beats H.264 is next to impossible. As that thread notes, every idea ever proposed to the committees, even those that don't make it into the specification, are patented and handed over to MPEG-LA, so even interesting techniques for doing better than H.264 but are on the cutting-room floor end up patented. - Ray Cromwell

Google should really do the world a favor and buy MPEG-LA :) - Ray Cromwell

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

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

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

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

Hello :) - Brandon Roeder

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

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

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

Awesome. Hi Robert :) - Andy Parkinson

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

Did FriendFeed make you say this? - Social Nerdia

No love for SEO experts? AWESOME. - Than R

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

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

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

Are you openly admitting to being easy? - Lydia Sugarman

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

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

Nothing more to say - Mel Buckpitt

I already follow you, but interesting experiment - Cam

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

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

SocialNerdia: no. - Robert Scoble

really? neat... - Jorge Chapa

Follow Sunday? ;) - Ideas At Random

LOL ... this is fun. - Richard Laksana

awesomesauce scoble p0wns again ;) - sam from twhirl

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

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

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

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

neat idea! - Aloke Fernandes

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

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

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

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

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

evangelizing aint ya - Luka

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Rob: FriendFeed is better. - Robert Scoble

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

Friendfeed FTW! - TheHenry

Not a bad filter at all. - Robert Anderson

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

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

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

Word up - Charlie Haims

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

Dare I? - Spidra Webster

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Sean, you have to start somewhere! - Pentaxfan

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

Last time I checked I was human. - Luke™

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

Kevin: here. - Robert Scoble

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

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

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

Why? - Stefano Maggi from iPhone

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

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

Will you actually read my posts? - Kimber Scott

oh really :D - Sinem Co

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

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

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

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

Even if we write in Turkish? - Emre Güneş

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

thank you - - pat o'bryan

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

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

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

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

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

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

Count me in too, please :) - 1x29

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

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

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

Shhhhhhhhhh - candy from Nambu

@valb00 said it! - Dennis Jernberg

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

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

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

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

Kurt: maybe! - Robert Scoble

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Is this an experiment? - Theresa Shin

so will you follow me too - aybars badur

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

FF hmmm about that... - Philip Small

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

@Scobleizer is a man of his word - Charlie Haims

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

Okay Scoble I'll bite... - SalvadorM

Joining the experiment - Jan Schultink

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

I'm awake and listening! - Graham Lawrence

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

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

hello, I am an italian SEO expert :) - Roldano

I have nothing to say - Paul Denlinger

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

You should follow a game designer, Robert :) - Federico F.

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

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

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

That's encouraging - Keith - @tsudo

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

What's the catch? - Rory Conway

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

patrick: crazy like a bat! - Robert Scoble

I need to better utilize FF groups. - Justin Yost

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

Do you never get SPAM in FF? - RobinDotNet

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

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

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

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

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

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

Okay )) - Alexey Ivanov

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Thanks @Keith - Justin Yost

Andy: bing! - Robert Scoble

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

SEO experts endorse bing. ;-) - Joshua Lee

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

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

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

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

Even me??? - Kevin Arth

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

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

wwooww :) - Emre BAHADIR

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

commented! - Jeremy Lane

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Nice - Fred Morales

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

SPAM. :) - Jason

BACON :-) - Stephane Tsacas

Even your archnemesis? - Erik K Veland

Mona :-) - Majento

Mmmmm. Bacon. - RobinDotNet

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

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

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

Ok Robert I got it ;) - Roldano

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

So this is like a captcha? - Dylan Verheul

also on twitter? - Sinem Co

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

TwitterEtiquetteGuide.com is available ;-) - Stephane Tsacas

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

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

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

OK, thanks :) - Sinem Co

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

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

Masatake: plot #458. - Robert Scoble

Great thanks for the offer and follow - Stephen Brown

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

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

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

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

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

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

hi Robert u r already following me how r u? - Gaith

I dont get it. - Andru Edwards

yeah? I think most spam bots have the AI to search for such threads! - Rohit

Derek: or how many people I interact with. Check here: http://friendfeed.com/scoblei... 28,000+ comments. - Robert Scoble

oh, hi there! - Jeremy

Gaith: doing fine, gotta work on my videos, but thought I'd do this instead. - Robert Scoble

Robin: I'm guessing the mass followers rarely take a look at the flow - it's about being able to talk about the numbers - Rachel Clarke

No - Michael Fidler

Yes - Michael Fidler

follow me on twitter please... - Özgür D. Cyric

First day on Friend Feed and Robert Scoble is available. What a welcome.... Carey@holisticdds - Carey O'Rielly

What will you do when the spammers/SEOs infest Friendfeed, as they will, or do you believe this is better crowdsourced and will be able to hold against the hordes? - Aaman (Clone of FF)

Rachel -- But numbers alone don't mean anything. Are they that shallow? That must be a stupid question. - RobinDotNet

Is this going to be the 'most-commented-ever' post on Friendfeed? 240+ already! - Mahendra (SkepticGeek)

Aaman: FriendFeed is FAR more defendable against spam than Twitter is. - Robert Scoble

and how would this benefit people who follow Robert Scoble? - Seyfi Erol

Mahendra: probably not. - Robert Scoble

That seems like a good idea, but I think you're already following a lot of these people - Carlton Prest

Seyfi: why don't you follow me and see how it goes? - Robert Scoble

I've gotten 4 follow e-mails since my first post here from people I don't want to follow. Do the bots start running right around midnight? - RobinDotNet

Mahendra, you're not following the threads in Russian (that's my only hint) :D - Micah Wittman

Robin: oh yes. But I'm never sure what's worse. the people who just want to talk about the numbers or the people they may be able to impress. - Rachel Clarke

Aaman - Friendfeed doesn't make link-tracking easy, so it's less interesting for spammers to infest. - Mahendra (SkepticGeek)

Is this a test of interaction or more likely a sort of audience verification? - Gilgamesh

Robin, it's 9am ! - Stephane Tsacas

Gilgamesh: it is what you want it to be. For me I followed you. - Robert Scoble

If twitter is noise, and FriendFeed is conversation, Robert Scoble followers are their own discussion. It's like using an entirely different website. - Carlton Prest

Rachel, that's a good point. Is Facebook the same way? I joined that and suddenly got all these people I've nothing in common with who want to be my friend. Creepy. - RobinDotNet

@Micah: Oh, good I don't read Russian! :) - Mahendra (SkepticGeek)

Scoble: you convinced me! (thought you just needed self-validation, sorry) - Derek Pangallo

Derek: heh, yeah, I am watching this, among other things running across my screen. - Robert Scoble

Robin: Facebook is the same but I think to a lesser extent - it's harder to find people I think. But still got a load of friend requests that I ignore as I don't know them - Rachel Clarke

Robin: you mean like people you went to high school with and didnt' like adding you on FB - Derek Pangallo

I already do. what i mean is if we don't keep FF, Twitter limited to our interests, wouldn't it be garbage we already try hard to get rid of. Or how far can we extend our interests in life or amount of information we consume? - Seyfi Erol

Derek -- I mean people I really have NO connection with at all. I've only friended a couple of people I work with, and 2 other real friends. I'm getting friend requests from people I don't know at all. - RobinDotNet

Seyfi: you haven't discovered FriendFeed's groups and lists yet, have you? - Robert Scoble

I got a Russian-speaking follower on Twitter. I didn't follow him because I don't understand a word he tweets. - Dennis Jernberg

Mahendra, And I've been told http://translatorize.com has successfully translated all 6000+ (oops - update: 7000+) comments http://friendfeed.com/ideali... from Russian to English :) - Micah Wittman

Thanks Robert! - Jan Ignatius from iPhone

Seyfi: you can separate your friends into lists. That way you can keep your quilting buddies separate from your football ones etc. - Robert Scoble

I'm the spammer u follow alrdy HA! - Rich Weaver

Did you know that Facebook has started selling parts of itself to the Russians? At end of May, they sold 1.96% stake of Facebook to Russia's Digital Sky Technologies for $200M. - RobinDotNet

Robert: I shouldn't have underestimated you. You probably have started much longer comment threads on Friendfeed before. - Mahendra (SkepticGeek)

Mahendra, Robert, I agree, FF has been very good at keeping out junk - Aaman (Clone of FF)

Micah: Uh, wow! - Mahendra (SkepticGeek)

Mahendra: I have. I gave away $5,000 once and got more than 1,000 comments on that. But that cost me a lot of cash. Can't afford to do that again. - Robert Scoble

DST is run by Alisher Usmanov who is closely tied with Putin. You feel ok to that, but re-read the company's user agreement where it says it can share all of your info with third parties. Of course, it's irrelevant to this thread, but I thought it was interesting. - RobinDotNet

Robert: I think your Twitter follow is worth more than that? - Mahendra (SkepticGeek)

Even if it's a lame comment and I don't actually say anything? Woohoo! FF looks interesting anyway,,, - Matt Harward

Yes, Matt! :-) - Robert Scoble

I'm @odie on twitter - Odi Chi

FF is interesting assuming the topic is FF... and/or Scoble's next devilishly clever stunt to generate FF comments - John Hardy

John: there are lots of interesting topics here on FriendFeed. Did you know you could search by them based on number of likes? Click "Advanced Search" and try. - Robert Scoble

John: Nope. Twitter's 'bout Trends, FF's 'bout Friends. - Mahendra (SkepticGeek)

Very bold, I like it, are you going to keep the people you follow under 2000? - Joe Dawson from iPhone

Tell me the newest best way to use FriendFeed! - Shoichi

I notice that one of the prolific thought-leadering traffic drivers I follow on twitter basically tweets everything he reads, before he reads it. This has lead to spam a few times. disappointing. - Derek Pangallo

I'll not tell anyone ;) - PaperDoll

I hope I am interesting enough to be followed! lol - Carlton Hackett

Some of the reactions to what you're doing are pretty interesting, Robert. - ha3rvey (free hugs!)

Social media experts? What are those? - Alasdair Munn

But what if someone doesn't want you to follow them :) ... It's not me.... - Amit Nangare

lmao - Andy Ghozali

woww! that is a lot of comments. - Sumanth Kolar

Joining bandwagon. - mwydro

Yo Robert: a man has to do what a man has to do, so one surfer to another: go for it! - Geer

Here here! A good cleansing is good, now and then... Starting fresh is the way to go, get all of that nonsense out and maintain a core group of people for solid conversation! - Brian Partridge

Great taking the tour w/ you, Levar Burton & @VegasBill during CES 09 at the Atomic Testing Museum. I would appreciate the follow back. Thanks Robert! - Chris R

There is change in the air... - Zack Brandit

Chris: I'm already following you, no need to beg! :-) That was fun times, wasn't it? - Robert Scoble

You've got to admit anyone who's on friendfeed instantly gets more exposure since it nicely imports people's public @ reply's anyway? - Matt Randles

I'm a ff fan;) - Cheray Bressler from iPhone

Thanks for following back on Twitter Robert. Cheers from Las Vegas! - Vegas Bill

I'm pretty sure we're friends here, only just wish there was a easy way to check... and if there is, that some one will let me know.... - Grant Bierman

this is such a classic move! well played. - laura

So why can't SEO people be tech as well? Actually requires a good tech aptitude. - Paul M Evans from iPhone

I'd like to see how many comments this one gets :) and i'm assuming you mean follow here on friendfeed. - Bhowmik Shah

Make sense, Scoble :) - Grant Laird Jr

Just out of curiousity, why are there fewer spammers and bots on FF compared with Twiitter? Is it because they haven't discovered FF yet? - Sally Church from iPhone

there are occasionally spammers on FF but I think they mostly get handled quickly vs Twitter where more than occasionally clusters of spammers just follow each other... - Shannon Clark

Choose wisely :) - Ozkan Altuner

Go FF its the Best - Robert Wheeler

followww meee - Thomas Christory

Scoble-plicity .-) - Del_

I use TweetLater to vet new followers. Helps get rid of spammers fast. - Bob Morris (polizeros)

Wow! I've never seen so many people comment on Friendfeed as much as this! - Armand

Yo! peteryared on twiter :) - Peter Yared

This is #scoble at server irc.friendfeed.com I beleive ;-) - Stephane Tsacas

Your biggest fan and follower in Cambridge, UK. Thanks for the DuoFertility video. Great as ever. - Philip Baddeley

Fantastic, I want to be followed :-) - Antonio Correnti

What if your already following me? Do I still need to comment here? - Santa CW™

Sally: I don't explain spam defenses in public. I don't want spammers to figure them out. But there are quite a few defenses against spam here. - Robert Scoble

Refollow me on Twitter! @carloscomputers - carloscomputers

nice one - Ken Post Jr

I was surprised about the spammer comments, until I started getting female nude model followers and I'm a women. Maybe a nude male model but not Sparkle or Hootie McBoob - Corrine Pearce

Corrine: hope you don't see that here on FriendFeed. - Robert Scoble

Why are you doing this? You have one of the best listening audiences on twitter! Is there a point to prove that we will post here or go to wefollow? - David Cole

Now those not on FF will miss this one;) - JP Holecka - Jaypiddy

David: actually that's not true. Most of the Twitter audience I had has moved over here. - Robert Scoble

I'm intrigued and will watch with interest -- and hey, you're always interesting. Well worth the follow! - Don Tamihere

real-time on FF is awesome - nchenga

David: and I can prove that. Twitter's audience has become less and less engaged lately. - Robert Scoble

Wow, powerful shift by Robert Scoble, I'm really interested in seeing how this works for you Scoble. I slept through all the big news here tonight. - Jimminy Fuller

Always up for your social explorations Robert. - JP Holecka - Jaypiddy

And you're not even halfway through the unfollowing process. :) - Ken Brady

wao, let's good. - naokits

Interesting experiment. This is probably one the most commented feedfriend threads in history! - Menno te Koppele

Plus, David, if you all are listening, you are listening because of my ability to find cool stuff. Mostly that's been because of FriendFeed over the past 18 months. Now I've seen how ascerbic Twitter's spammers have gotten on my accounts. - Robert Scoble

agree, it's an interesting experiment. - nchenga

Menno: actually it's not. There are many 1,000+ comment threads here. - Robert Scoble

Here's a search with all 1,000 comment threads displayed: http://friendfeed.com/search... - Robert Scoble

Interesting. This is going to boost 1000 egos for sure :-) - Freddie Benjamin

So will it be a matter of just trying to say ahead of the spammers by jumping from one early adopted social network to another? - JP Holecka - Jaypiddy

JP: no. I am not leaving Twitter. I AM, however, deleting all their accounts so I will no longer be passing them juice. - Robert Scoble

I wonder how will your FF homepage look like after this. - ahmet bulent

Does this make you anti-social media? - Cory Brown

To follow commenters from here on Twitter will be a lot of work for you Robert. Or do you have some magic tool that helps? - Tibor Holoda

Robert, how many of the 100k do you think you'll still be following when you are done? - RobinDotNet

~~~> Robert!! Follow me back again. [a] I'm a real fan of the @Scobleizer... and [b] I'm much nicer than some of these sassy bloofers. ;) - Kim Sherrell

1,100 - Robert Scoble

That's good to know. - George Hall (Australia)

So what if you have all 58k + comment on here? And you have to keep everyone! And your plan is foiled, sir. Okay give or take 10k for the neglected abandoned twitters and the spammers. Btw, you're already following me on both twitter and here. But come on, you're not really. : / - Lise

That's cool. I am finding the spammers too much to manage these days myself. - JP Holecka - Jaypiddy

I promise I want tell them - Noel Kelly

Because I can't keep myself from doing math, that's 1.1%. - RobinDotNet

Lise: I see you a few times a day, but you're right. Heheh. - Robert Scoble

Are you trying to make a point about FF v Twitter? I have spammy things to say about my amateur photography, potential homelessness, and run-ins with public-run health system in the US. Isn't all Twitter spam--just spam you want? :) - Dean Hall

the auto-refresh on this thread is mind-blowing, fun to watch - nchenga

Do you ever worry about SM burnout Robert? How do you pace your self? - JP Holecka - Jaypiddy

Interesting to note many of most commented threads are in languages other than English. Can we suggest FF has a better international appeal than Twitter? - Kaan Bingol

Good idea, as you say, stop juicing up the spammers - it'll be interesting to see the stats once you've finished. - Andrew Piggott

Dean: your Tweets aren't spam. I might keep you. Heheh. - Robert Scoble

I only followed people who were interesting to me, otherwise it is like trying to find a needle in a haystack of brain dumps. - Daniel Durrans

Exactly. So I expect to be cut. And considering I'm in a crowd of close to 60k, it'll be the same thing. - Lise

There should be a counter in front of the comments... - Willem Karssenberg

okay seriously ? - Asankhaya Sharma

What sort of comments do you want Robert? - Travis Koger

Lise: actually no. On FriendFeed I can absorb quite a few more people than on Twitter thanks to Groups. - Robert Scoble

a good cleansing is wise once in a while :) Power to the (real) people. - Benjamin

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

Lise: and because FriendFeed's search engine is better here too. - Robert Scoble

Robert, yeah I know. Thought you might have meant for your secretscoble twitter account ;) - Travis Koger

It's kind of like a giant SM break up Robert. *Oh the hearts you are breaking...* - JP Holecka - Jaypiddy

I'm fairly selective about who I follow and I follow so maybe you will follow me back! - Richard Cunningham from iPod

Robert, care to explain how you use groups in this kind of context? Because I don't get the point of following people who are then placed into a "I don't read this much" kind of group. How do you use groups so that you're (1) not overwhealmed, and (2) actually read what people are saying? - Ian Betteridge

How many people do you expect to end up with, Robert? What is a reasonable number? - Lise

You don't have to follow me on Twitter. I think the FriendFeed party palace is mighty fine. - Josette Torres from fftogo

(Not that I'll probably see your response, btw - something at the bottom of 350+ responses is effectively buried until FF has better threading tools. Which I'm sure it will, some day.) - Ian Betteridge

@Ian I believe that it may come in Google Wave. - JP Holecka - Jaypiddy

@Daniel - ditto, and for me it is generally development related also. Robert - I know you have to try and keep up with everything going on in the social media space, but I'm always surprised when people follow so many others as it must be extremely difficult to find the wheat in amongst all the chaff. - Donald Matheson

Robert: I did not know about that search trick. Thanks! - Menno te Koppele

Why? - Scott Hanselman

looks like a lot of comments - Rory Partalis

Ian: a "I don't read this much" kind of group is awesome for serrendipity. Also, anyone who I find there who is high value gets quickly moved to a smaller group. - Robert Scoble

What? Are you saying you're not following me already...? ;-) - Jarno Peschier

Lise: on Twitter? Less than 2,000. I can't follow more. - Robert Scoble

Done. :) - Smeerch

Jamo: I am already following you. Scott: why not? I am already following you too. - Robert Scoble

Robert, it might be a problem for me re-gaining your following as my tweets are not 100% English only (whether that means trying to speak English or no English at all ;). How do you deal with occasional non-English tweeters? As that's clearly a noise for you. - Tibor Holoda

if only twitter were as engaging as FriendFeed has become, and as instantaneous as things like this comment thread, then maybe I would use it more. Hence why I'm all for unfollowing who you conceive as uninteresting; and if that includes me, then so be it! - Nick Soden

Tibor: I just skip over most of them. Sometimes I translate them to see if I was right. - Robert Scoble

It is my hope that I provide you with something as interesting as what you provide me with. Either way, I will continue to peruse your posts with interest. - James (!?)

hmmm - imran

Hi, I'm still newish to this social media thang - but good on you for taking a stand. - Jus

Do you prefer night owls? Because what about all the poor people in SV who went to bed at a decent hour and missed your post? Bummer for them, huh? - RobinDotNet

I'm back from picking my wife up at the airport and ran across this on my way back to sleep. - nuBound CEO - Mark

shhhhh - Luigi Filograna

Robin: heh, all the real geeks in SV are still up. - Robert Scoble

Interesting idea. I firmly believe SEOs are working day and night to figure out FF. - Ian Ceicys

Ian: I bet they are too since FF is starting to pull better on Google than Twitter is. - Robert Scoble

I am such a sheep. @markmeyerphoto - Mark Meyer from iPhone

I have nothing interesting to say, don't follow me. - burc sahinoglu from BuddyFeed

what about me? ... sniff - Andy Ghozali

Me me me ;) - Alemsah Ozturk from iPhone

looking for owls? - Dave Senior

Well I am out for the night. Good luck on your mass un-follow Robert. I look forward to your report on the results. - JP Holecka - Jaypiddy

Robert, this is looking like a long thread already. :) - Robert Miller

Andy, Alemsah, and Dave, I'm already following you. - Robert Scoble

Do you consider FF to be less spammy if you are trying to find your new Twitter "friends" here? - Dušan Šimonovič

Dusan: are you a spammer? - Robert Scoble

lmao on here you are, not on the big T tho nevermind I will follow you there too, been a fan.... - Andy Ghozali

why? - Tolga Akmazoglu

bold and yet gutsy move...love the trending topic already! - Feersum Engine

:) - Ruchit Garg

Follow on FriendFeed or Twitter? :P Or Google Rader? :P - Qbat

Türkçe ne diyor arkadaş ? - Sinan İŞLER

The wild and woolly blogosphere is replete with all sorts of good stuff. Hard to follow 500 people, let alone 1000. I applaud you for trying to take the reins. - Jack B

hey there - deadmanwriting

And will you unfollow me if I send a DM ;)? - Sudar

I don't get it - Sheldon Levine

Qbat: I'll follow here on FriendFeed. Sheldon what don't you get? - Robert Scoble

Sudar: no, if you send me DMs here, that's good. - Robert Scoble

How long is the unfollow process going to take? And do you think FF will have as much noise as Twitter? - Duc Nguyen

So it's Twitter DM that you don't like? - Sudar

Sudar: right. - Robert Scoble

I'll make one comment and raise you two more. :) - Bryan Lee from iPhone

And will you follow me? don't know if you ever have, but I am following you on twitter. - Jus

Hey, Thanks for following me - Michael_techie

Would love your company, Robert. - Daniel Zarick from iPhone

Even worse is Twitter DM spam, of course. - Dennis Jernberg

It funny you put spammers, SEO experts, bots, social media experts all in one bucket. What are you implying? Btw, I'm none of these... - Peter Chee

.. and it works!! Just got a mail saying Robert is following me now... :) - Sudar

Peter: I did that to piss off the SEO experts. :-) - Robert Scoble

This makes me realise that posting from Twitter as opposed to "to twitter from FF" allows the Twitter stream to grow on the back of FF comments ! otherwise not : as in my case - what do you think Robert ? FF to Twitter ? Or FF aggregating all your tweets ? - Nicholas Paul Gordon from iPhone

Nicholas: shhhh, you are discovering my secrets! I'm doing more and more from FriendFeed lately. - Robert Scoble

I comment and you follow me. Its totally worth it - Arvind

Do I have to follow you too? :) - Mobilepax

Arvind: even better I was following you before. Mobilepax: no. I really don't care about followers. Inbound is more important than who is listening to you. - Robert Scoble

and does that mean I have to write in English from now on :) - Mobilepax

Awesome. I'm the 439th commenter. :D - Jhay Rocas

Mobilepax: no. I translate interesting posts to English. - Robert Scoble

More than 400 comments in about 2 hrs. Not bad. I wonder if there'd be nearly as many twitter responses/mentions. - Franz Binder

Franz: no way. Not even close. - Robert Scoble

Nice one - it's cool that you give friendfeed (and all the commenters of course ;-) much kudos. - Alex Vermeule (@alexve)

If you just follow everyone in this thread, won't you just wind up with noise from 'engaged' people. I mean, does this solve the problem? - Missionary Broadcasting

Good thing its 4am and my car alarm went off, otherwise you wouldnt follow me! I had to look up a video online how to break the key fob apart becuase aparently its battery leaked and was self activating the panic switch. Damn VWs! a replacement key is only like 150 bucks!! - Charlieray

Missionary: no. You have not discovered that FriendFeed has groups and MUCH BETTER search. - Robert Scoble

Its funny that if you say "SEO" on twitter its an instant 10 followers - Charlieray

A friendfeed promotion experiment? - John Mandia from iPhone

What is a comment? - Meriç Dağlı

I'd rather follow you on Friendfeed, Robert. Your tweets get cross posted here anyway, and there's a much greater sense of engagement in that conversation than there is over at Twitter. - Andrew Terry

John: no. Meric: you just made one. - Robert Scoble

John: I've been promoting FriendFeed for 18 months. Where have you been? - Robert Scoble

FF rocks :o) - Cowan Group

Everyone that "follows" you really does know you love FF. So did you build a tool to follow everyone back that comments on here or are you seriously going to manually follow people back? - Peter Chee

Theres 451+ comment here, do you really follow *everyone*? - Fajar Nurdiansyah

woohoo! I'm in :P - Tim Bergman

Because I am up at 1:20 a.m. PT, why not... I must be your target audience then. - Georgiana Comsa

It must show you how many people enjoy engaging with you Robert, with the number of people posting here. - Steve Farnworth

Amazing to see the comment thread to this entry expand constantly in real time. - Christian Bolstad

Peter: I've manually followed everyone on this thread so far. - Robert Scoble

Peter: although to be fair I've already followed quite a few people who have commented here. - Robert Scoble

Hi, you are already following me. My solution to get rid of spammers on Twitter is to block them, that is what I do. If everyone started blocking them, I think things would improve - Asgeir

Are you going to sleep tonight, or watch the fun?:) - Aaman (Clone of FF)

is that enough to get followed? - Ouriel Ohayon

do I accumulate credit, maybe towards an afterlife? You are already following me :-) - Anindya Chatterjee

really anyone? :D - Francesco Marconi

What about the SEO experts who accidentally find this feed? - phil baumann

Robert, but you're following commenters here, not on Twitter, right? Not that i care about Twitter that much, as for me it's just a pipeline. FF and FB are conversational platforms for me, or the places i hang out these days. - Tibor Holoda

Spammers being blocked doesnt do anything as they are hoping for that 1 in 100 hit of someone clicking that link, eventually they get banned and create a new account. - Charlieray

Aaman: Sleep? some of us are just starting the day. We're waiting for the US to go to sleep so we can talk about you ;-) - Rachel Clarke

the term SEO expert is a crock of shit - Charlieray

like that's gonna work... - thinkingpot

I hope you like hype machine loved tracks. - Neil Godfrey

FriendFeed is better only if U want feedback and have the time to check it out. - Marko Dvornik

Hello from the UK... - robkeynes

Marko: not true. It's better because it has very little spam. It's better because it has a better search engine. It's better because it has comments and likes. It's better because it's an aggregator. And more. - Robert Scoble

you don't have to follow back. but i'll take the chance to say great work with building 43. - Alexandre Gamela from twhirl

where's the 'hide button'??? :-D - Massimo MaxKava Cavazzini

Massimo: right up top. Heheh. Alexandre: thank you! - Robert Scoble

After 6 months out of the social media loop I came back to a whole bunch of follows that I either couldn't remember who they were or why I had followed them - how can that be relevent? So, I culled my follows back to less than 200. I'm now just looking to find the signal amongst the noise. - Colin Walker

What about FriendFeed? Is there any @notsecretscoble too? - Ludwik C. Siadlak

Friendfeeding for Scoble to follow me while on vacation in Montauk. There is something wrong with me. - Mitchell Schneider

:) - امیرعباس

Mitchell -- you just don't want to miss the fun. - RobinDotNet

robkeynes -- nice to see you up and about - RobinDotNet

Ludwik: no, because here I can just start a new list of users. - Robert Scoble

Well, this has been fun to watch, but it's almost 2 a.m. and I have to be very smart tomorrow morning, which is easier when I'm not too tired, so everyone have a great [whatever comes next in your time zone]. - RobinDotNet

Robert, I'm trying to understand this follow/unfollow strategy you are applying as Napoleon Bonaparte on a battle field ;) Interested to know the result - Thierry R. Andriamirado

pushing this thing to its limits just to see what happens? interesting. - livefast

I really do think the way Twitter has changed in the last few months, with all the media attention, certainly begs for it to be used differently now. - Nicola Quinn

SEO what?! :) - Kobayashi

Wow that's a whole lot of people commenting in the last 2 hours, Rob - How many of the new people you are following from this list are NEW to friendfeed? (estimate?) - Roy Herrod

i'm new! - Luigi Filograna

Roy: 40% - Robert Scoble

Does this constitute a comment or are you looking for some insightful commentary on the state of new media? ;) - Iwan

40%? This must have turned out to be one of the biggest promotions in FF history, even if it wasn't intended that way. BTW, I'm new to FF too. - Dennis Jernberg

guess it's good to clean up the list once in a while. - shadow

Ha ha, nice.... So any major ramifications from the mass unfollow? - Alistair (alpinefolk)

Alistair: other than losing about 1,000 followers so far? No major ramifications. - Robert Scoble

Robert, I'm coming out with a project in the Continuing Medical Education field in the next weeks so if you are interested, I wouldn't mind if you will follow me :-) - Marco Fabbri

Won't tell anybody, specially Seo people, ssshhhh..... - Giorgio Burlini from iPhone

No comment ... :) - Charlie Anzman

Too late. - Alex Gonzalez

You had me at don't tell the spammers... - Sean Kelly

I think it's a hoot. Now I'm wondering whether to reverse my recent move towards following more, not less. I do believe that from my experience so far FF is more attuned to building/maintaining community than is Twitter. - Des Walsh

Great move Robert - I like it a lot - Robert Davies

Des: on FriendFeed you can do both strategies at the same time. You can follow a lot more in one list while following even fewer in another. - Robert Scoble

Des - Once more people re-engage in the conversation here, they'll realize the continuing outright potential of Friendfeed. I still some here before I read my e-mail - Charlie Anzman

Hi Mr Scoble, I'm with you (but on a smaller scale) I unfollowed about 150 users on Friday, felt good! I pretty much hang out in FF now at my home page and my groups - Lee from iPod

wow...just wow :) Robert, you have many fans !! - Hayk H.

Good luck on hiding from the bots, they have ways of finding people.... :) - Chris Holm

well, who am I to refuse such a nice offer? here I am!!! - niccolò vecchia

Good to hear! I have only ~2000 followers, but I can't follow more at the moment due to Twitter's follow limit rule. - Martin Lindeskog

I can't resist. skeptical, however. - thinkQuick

Robert maybe the effort to get to 1 million is too great?? LOL Look forward to being in special company - Wayne Mansfield

lol! ;-) - auro

Following for the sake of it - Rudi

follow, unfollow. it's all work... - punkwithgun

Great way to test the chemistry between FF and Twitter. I like it. - E-Advocate Network

Robert - I'am definitely not a spammer when it comes to broadcasting anything to people, who doesn't want to hear it :) but I do sometimes respond (mostly on twitter so @reply) to some tweets not aimed on me, but that's what everybody actually asks for when publicly broadcasting anything. - Dušan Šimonovič

Lovely. - Kevin Montgomery

Scoble is a superstar :) - Peter

Woohoo. :) - mjc

Enjoy your tweets - Keith Humphreys

Domo arigato, Mr. Roboto. Himitsu o shiri tai. (Secret secret. I've got a secret.) - Rich Puskarich

Welcome! - Bob Stewart

Shhh...don't tell anyone but I'm neither of those (the spammers, SEO experts, the bots, or the social media experts,) though, I like the heck out of the concept of this thread... - Vincent Wright

@euaneggs :) - Euan Rowlands

Good idea about the unfollow. It was an interesting experiment whilst it lasted but given your lifestyle I'm sure most Twitter messages just passed you by. I never DM'd you however, it was nice to think that I had the option if I wanted to. Anyway I've been on FF for ages now, and what I need is a good FF app (for pc), any ideas anyone? - Nick Bristow

Nick: I just use a browser with FriendFeed. - Robert Scoble

Only 530 comments so far? Come on people you are not even trying. - John Cooper

FIRST... well almost - Rhys Amos from iPod

oh,i'm 538? - M∂hmood

hello hello! - May Wong

I am really curious to check the result of this experiment... - Alessandro Galetto from twhirl

why are you doing this again ? - startup ticker

To confuse you. - Robert Scoble

LOL - nice one Robert. - Darren Rowse

Lol! that dude definitely sounds confused :-) - Freddie Benjamin

:-) well done - Johni Fisher

Knock three times on the ceiling if you want me. - Gilbert Harding

Nice! Subscribe me!!! ;) - stakhov

cool~ - kang

promise? - David Semeria

well i'm only bemused, is that close enuff ? - startup ticker

so quick~ - kang

I'm interested to see how this turns out for you. - Brandon Eaker

talk about noise! - Miles Media

550 commants!!!! wtf? - Rob Sellen :o)

Good to know. Scoble is a superstar. - jaspio

@Rob Sellen, did you see the comments on the most recent ffundercats podcast entry. http://friendfeed.com/ffunder... Over 1000 in a very short period of time. Although I expect that this post will also get up to those levels. - Travis Koger

Ah Scoble allways busy. - erwin blom

NOTICE: I am closing comments here because I gotta get some sleep. I'll consider doing this again sometime. Sorry if you didn't get in, but see you tomorrow night. - Robert Scoble

It is amazing that Twitter users don't get this point easily. - Robert Scoble

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It can be hard to follow a conversation on Twitter ... Do you think they'll add threaded Tweets linked to from the original status message? - Ideas At Random

Maybe there should be a way that Friendfeed could pull in @replies from Twitter, and place them in the comments of the respective post here, regardless of whether they have a ff account or not? - Tim Young

Tim's idea is a great one - James

@Random there's already a in-reply-to id, but not all clients support it, and it is quite limited anyway - Jean-Charles VERDIE

I think FF is a far superior web application to Twitter but for a lot of people, Twitter is social media, just like AOL was the internet to a lot of people in 1995. - Mark Davidson from BuddyFeed

@Jean-Charles VERDIE Have you ever used the "Nested Twitter Replies" plug-in for FireFox? http://userscripts.org/scripts... It's a GreaseMonkey script that follows the reply-to id you talked about. It would be cool to have this type of threading offered by the standard Twitter status page. - Ideas At Random

While Tim's idea is great, I'd rather FF spend time making FF better, rather than giving the most basic of conversational features to twitter. - Andy Bakun

Twitter is a good tool to keep in touch with a few people via SMS sometimes. Friendfeed can't do that (nor of course, was it designed to). I've always maintained FF and Tiwtter and two different tools for different (but sometimes overlapping) services. I have never understood why so many folks seem to pitch them head to head in some kind of contest. - Ian May

I actually considered linking the rss feed of my @replies with FF, so that, if someone was curious to see the rest of the conversations I have on Twitter, they could.. but that wouldnt organize it. Andy: I agree. My biggest pet peeve is that most people think of FF as just a Twitter app, when it's not at all that. But if the people at FF are sitting around one day, with nothing to do, I wouldn't mind them working on porting in @replies. :) - Tim Young

Tim: yes, let's keep that at a priority of "FF is fucking awesome, now what are we going to do?". - Andy Bakun

With only conversations in mind, it might not be a point of getting it, but a point of acting upon it. Conversations are at the focus of FriendFeed, and you get involved more and with more people in the context of a single conversation - you get a post covering a topic, anyone can join in, and it's instantly visible to everyone. On Twitter however it's really hard to follow and engage... more... - Ivan Zuzak

I really feel twitter is a half baked system. Someone described it as micro-RSS and that is exactly right IMO. - Geoff Schultz

I really like FF's "My discussions" tab ... Makes it easy to follow real time discussions you've commented on and check the progress ... That's also why I like http://www.backtype.com ... It lets you track your comments from all over the web into one place & then add it as a data source to FF - Ideas At Random

Every time this discussion comes up, I find myself wondering why Jaiku wasn't more popular. - Donald Forth

Donald: Jaiku's UI wasn't very nice and once it got to Google it stopped iterating and getting better. - Robert Scoble

Robert: As one of those rabid mobile Twitter users, I confess the point you make, while quite valid, is a difficult paradigm shift. Routines can be hard to break and the shift from mobile tools for Twitter, and heavy SMS, to completely web-centric FriendFeed is a huge change in "work flow" and in thinking. It's been a challenge and is still a struggle, and I'm sold. Even being sold on... more... - Ken Camp

@Ideas @ Random -- There is a Greasemonkey script (@troy... something's script) which I run that shows threaded conversations on the Twitter homepage. - Miss Elle

the paradigm might be the problem. i was excited to see this tweet and, out of habit, responded back via twitter ("scobleizer looking forward to monday's blog. twitter is, many times, an unrepentant 'black hole' of information" & "and data which can be reliably retrieved often requires the extraordinary efforts of people, tools & tech outside twitter") when i should've come Here directly. twitter seems to be stuck in a morass--unable to make easy things easy... - wishinoo

Ken: Most of my FriendFeed activity is done on my iPhone. I don't see FF as being web-centric. :-) - Mark Davidson from BuddyFeed

MarkL I might agree with an iPhone. I don't use or want one though and thinking a iPhone answers mobility overlooks most of the market. I use a Blackberry and am unlikely to change. Robert and I have talked about this as well. I do use an iPod Touch, but frankly, it's simply not a useful interface for me and I don't do FF on there either. If FriendFeed is going to succeed in leveraging... more... - Ken Camp

Yes, Ken, it is amazing to me that FriendFeed hasn't funded more mobile clients yet. I don't notice that because I am on an iPhone but they definitely are betting on the future of mobile instead of where it is. That is a very good strategy, worked for Microsoft very well, remember? - Robert Scoble

It is a stepping stone, that once one takes, moving from Twitter to FF, you seldom look back. - Thom Kennon

In case anyone's interested, Tim Hoeck -- http://friendfeed.com/timhoeck -- is working on a Android app. Looking good: http://i.friendfeed.com/1f4651f... - Christopher A Carr

re: FF being fucking awesome, you can get utter Luddites hooked. Step one, open them an account. Step two, add some people they know. Step three, set it as their homepage, so that the home feed is opened when their browser starts. That's it. Wait for a week, they'll start liking stuff and commenting. I bet it also works on senior citizens. Because it's really intuitive, it just sounds incredibly complicated when social media geeks start expounding on its virtues. - Goran Zec

Agree that FF is wonderfully intuitive. I'm a relatively new user and still finding new things I like. WRT whether or not FF should work on how to thread Twitter conversations, I'm with Tim. It's too big a shortcoming of Twitter (in light of its current uptake rate) to have *someone* not put effort into figuring out how to do that. May as well be FF; odds are good it would be done well. Then the conversation "URG, how do I..." gets answered with "simple, FF". Seems like a potentially big win. - Scotty Perkins

Robert,: I can't argue about the potential strategy of treating iPhone as the only phone. But it does leave a gap since iPhone makes up far less that 5% of the mobile phones on the planet. To overlook SMS is to overlook a huge part of the world and an overwhelming market. That's not to say it won't be lucrative and powerful. But it leaves a hole that will be filled by someone. And... more... - Ken Camp

And I'm really curious how many iPhone users are NOT using the browser on their iPhone to use FriendFeed. I haven't seen a lot of buzz around other clients. To say it isn't browser-centric because they use it on their iPhone (via the browser) isn't terribly credible to me. - Ken Camp

Robert, I'm glad you took time to explain that. I confess - I have been guilty of expecting the obvious ;-) - Ken Stewart | ChangeForge

I can see Twitter's character limit an issue, when a user does not also have a FriendFeed account. - Nicholas Chase

Ken - SMS message pricing is going exponentially upward now. Telecoms are putting artificial pressure to phase them out and get people on to IM and the like, so they can reclaim the bandwidth for something less silly. - Matthew DeVries

Ken: I'm using BuddyFeed on my iPhone. I also post items from Safari using the BuddyFeed bookmarklet, including photos. At least 80% of my FriendFeed activity takes place from my iPhone. - Mark Davidson from BuddyFeed

Mark: The struggle for Ken and I both is we use Blackberry's. If we used an iPhone I'm sure it would be different but we don't. We're tied to the Blackberry devices. As far as I can tell, the only way to use FF from a mobile device effectively is with an iphone. None of the other phones make it as seemless. It is one of the BIG drawbacks for me, and why I still use twitter for most of my communicating. - Sheryl

Matthew: I don't see SMS pricing going up anywhere. I actually see carriers at the business level talking about reducing pricing. It's a near-zero cost to carry and no management overhead or bandwidth of consequence is involved. As a 30-year telco business veteran, I expect to see it get cheaper, easier and more abundant for the next 2-3 years. They cannot force most of the world to IM,... more... - Ken Camp

Mark: Thanks. I haven't looked at BuddyFeed, butdo use Twitter clients on both Blackberry and iPod. Like Sheryl said, we use BB, but we do use our Ipods too. Maybe BuddyFeed or AMigo by a friend will give us more friendly mobile tools. Sadly, on the Blackberry, the web interface and fftogo are simply unusable. They're our only mobile options. - Ken Camp

I use MotherFeed to post from my iPhone. I've pretty much stopped using Mobile Safari to get to FF. I don't use my WinMo phone for FF, but I keep meaning to try out that app that's in alpha right now. - MiniMage TKDteacher of FF

Sheryl: That's because the iPhone isn't a phone. It's a handheld computer that you can sometimes make phone calls with. - Mark Davidson from BuddyFeed

..and when given on FriendFeed, the answer can be twitted. Should make everybody happy ;) - Thierry R. Andriamirado

Mark: I agree the iPhone is like a mini pc, but interestingly enough so is the Bold. The one thing iPhone does better than Bold is provide a multi window opportunity, but my Bold has a qwerty keyboard which for me makes it a much nicer device to use. I would like a downloadable app for my bold that would allow me access to FF not dissimilar to socialscope on the bold for twitter, or... more... - Sheryl

@Ideas at Random: this is a GM script. Works only with Firefox (tried it with GreaseKit on my safari, ain't work). I can't remember but there's a website providing that kind of service too. But my point was that it was a very poor system and that Twitter _themselves_ should provide something more consistent - Jean-Charles VERDIE

Since Opera users can import GreaseMonkey scripts, it may well work in that browser. I'm too lazy to find out, though. http://www.ghacks.net/2008... - MiniMage TKDteacher of FF

No kidding :-) - Jason Cronkhite

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But it's real time! Once you've put the knowledge in there, it's already old. - Andy Bakun

It needs to be indexed and achieved - Chris Duffy

Ya, It's like the email of 2009 in that sense. - Malcolm Bastien

Andy: OK, quick, find me all the tweets that replied to my netbook question - Robert Scoble

Robert: that was sarcasm. - Andy Bakun

FriendFeed is infinitely better, and I want to thank you, Scoble, for introducing me to it. Unfortunately, I still find myself opening Facebook from time to time, as I cannot seem to integrate that into FriendFeed properly :( - Carlton Prest

I know that's impossible. Which is why people should use friendfeed instead. Friendfeed: where search actually works. - Andy Bakun

Carlton: that's a problem with facebook's platform. - Andy Bakun

Once FF integrates better with blogging systems - then we'll see a greater adoption. - LPH™ and his dog P™

Jonathan: yes. In FriendFeed knowledge is bundled together and can be found in the future. - Robert Scoble

Does anyone know if all your Tweets are archived forever? Do they ever expire? - Ideas At Random

Under what circumstanced is Twitter a good knowledge-base? - Amit Morson

Twitter archives your tweets: if you delete them, it takes like 3 weeks for them to disappear out of search. - Andy Bakun

but twitter do not need to offer this - thousands of apps already exist to pull out the knowledge you want it. e.g. find what links you posted -> http://tweetmeme.com/user... - Nick Halstead

Ideas: My early Tweets are not indexed. You can't find early Tweets from the Chinese earthquake, for instance. Are they saved? Probably, but since they aren't indexed in Twitter search it doesn't matter. - Robert Scoble

Nick: bullshit. Find everyone who responded to my Netbook question over on Twitter. Some responded without using my name. - Robert Scoble

What's interesting about this challenge is that since twitter's search ability is what's being questioned, there's really no way to verify that _everything_ could be found, because there's no external, non-twitter copy of all of twitter to see if you could find _everything_ about any given topic. You can't be sure that you found everything. - Andy Bakun

They'll be a search or other app capability that will make getting anything you want out easy in future. The whole world will be (increasingly) organized, and not just via Google. - Alex Hammer

Alex: that's not true. Each Tweet does not have enough metadata to make search easy. This is the #1 reason why I have been pushing FriendFeed so hard. - Robert Scoble

Alex: that's the future. What about now? - Andy Bakun

It's almost impossible to find a tweet. It's only 140 characters of info with no metadata. Each tweet is just not individual enough to find again later. Needles and haystacks... - Rahsheen ™, Coach Rah

Yep, metadata is the key, and 140 characters is not enough to even store unstructured metadata AND the content itself. - Andy Bakun

Take a gander at http://www.scripting.com/stories... - Mark

Once you shout out the window it is gone... unless you live in a canyon. - Art Witczak

http://twickie.pirillo.com/ - not impossible. - l0ckergn0me

Robert (from FF and copying Twitter): I have heard that Google is planning to launch a search engine for twitts. If so, that could be a very good solution to store, index and retrieve all the knowledge in Twitter. By the way, 140 characters are not that heavy! - Eduardo Loyola

@ Robert Scoble ...Have you tried searching your FF account for your early Tweets, like the Chinese earthquake? - Ideas At Random

Ideas: I have and it is better than Twitter but not perfect. - Robert Scoble

You mean "impossible" as in the rich API with which tons of developers have found tons of ways to interact with Twitter? I'm no dev, but it sounds like it's one of the most accessible services yet. - David Chartier

David: twitter's API can't add the metadata that will make search good. - Robert Scoble

Yeah, Robert is right there. The API just doesn't make search any better. Everything is just too much of the same. - Rahsheen ™, Coach Rah

If you send all your tweets to FriendFeed they are much easier to search and find later. Or use LoudTwitter < http://loudtwitter.com > you can backup your tweets to your blog and archive them. - Chris Loft

Good point. That's why I archive my tweets. It ain't pretty, but it works: http://davestweets.tumblr.com/ - DaveDelaney.ME

I still have a lot of followers on twitter that are not on FF. I see that changing fast, but I have no desire to set up a bunch of "fake" accounts. I wish I could just view twitter users in FF. The way that Steve Rubel uses Gmail, is changing my workflow for sure however... - Robert from email

Those fake accounts sure are a pain in the arse to set up. - Mark

I realized the difference when I googled something and found the answer in a friendfeed thread, not going to get that via twitter. - BCK

Agreed, thats all I will say - polou/indigo_bow

Take heart Mr. Scoble, the next big Twitter is looming nearby, the developers are coding it as we speak..This is the most amazing time for technology, as long as the 'bean-counters' don't kill the innovation.. Respectfully, Nicholas Chase - Nicholas Chase

Workaround for archiving my Twitter conversations. I setup a rss feed based on a search results with my username.(ie http://search.twitter.com/search...) and have the feed in Google Reader. Now I can quickly search my old tweets. Yes, I know it doesn't help find other people's tweets or info. But, with using my Twitter username as the search word, I archive @replies, and any mentions. I started this with Google Reader in January and have access to every tweet I sent and received since then. - Brian

That is real time, man. Why we don't understand: it is not there if it is not happening in real time. - Nitin Nanivadekar

As we are moving towards a real time stream of information, we fail to conserve the value. Twitter Search lists the latest messages on your query and therefore any tweet older than a couple minutes is lost. I would love a time line of the election in Iran from the beginning with coverage of the main events within the election, the most important messages and the leading users. Than, add photo and video footage and Twitter would have real time coverage of events. - Thomas R. Stegelmann

Whatever actual knowledge Twitter has to offer is generated via network effects -it is collective, not Scoble- who along with 'us,' contibute time, presence and input which is sometimes smart + insightful, sometimes off-the-cuff, sometimes emotional + sensational, sometimes (yes, even) frivolous... all of which generates a certain kind of intelligence. And yes, given a specific context, this might pass for knowledge. - Brad Kligerman

I have my twitter home feed imported here as an imaginary friend, just to make searching it easier, so I can restrict the search to my home feed instead of the entire twitterverse. - April Russo (app103)

That's why everyone should pipe their tweets into FriendFeed, even Technosailor Aaron Brazell. All of them are retained, and they're easily searchable. - Hutch Carpenter

What should be added in a search engine to make it more viable? - James Stratford

Maybe you need to stop thinking of Twitter as something you 'put things in' that you later need to 'take out'. If Twitter is not a type of container, what else could it be? I think Twitter is a thought process, a community thought process. It helps you think, it helps you generate new ideas from it's own content. You don't need to take things out, you just need to add your thoughts to it. - Joolio

Robert are you aware of Tweetree? It is like Twitter in HD. http://tweetree.com/garinki... It does a much better job tracking Twitter replies and it will insert videos, entire blog posts, and even the entire ff thread in real-time from any tweets that are made via ff. - Garin Kilpatrick

Garin: Thanks for the link. Great site! Hadn't heard of tweetree before. - Mike Bracco

Mike: You're welcome! Glad you like it :) - Garin Kilpatrick

You should try out http://www.tweets2mail.com then you can search directly from within gmail :) - NerdyHearn

This is the reason why I have Louttwitetr blog all my daily tweets in a blog dedicated to this ;) Same for delicvious links to also share the link-love - oliver gassner

Never thought you would post something like this, Mr. Posterous! - Zach Landes

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Lol @Zach. - Ton Zijp

No, people need to stop thinking that every new type of service or technology eliminates what preceeded it. Blogging serves a number of important uses, just like micro-blogging with Twitter and FriendFeed serve their own. - David Chartier from BuddyFeed

I am just linking to it. - Steve Rubel from email

And I am just making fun of you :) - Zach Landes

perhaps it's just starting to smell funny - Thom Kennon

Blog is content. Web 2.0 and social network are just powerful tools for content spreading. If blogs will disappear what social network will...spread? - Daniele Di Gregorio

@ David Chartier ... I totally agree ... Learning about a new technology & how it can best be utilized is key ... It's about adding to your "online toolbox", not always having to empty it out and start over. - Ideas At Random

Isn't that exactly what everyone got up in arms about when FB Beacon launched? - Pieter

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Sort of but I feel it's funny how people got up in arms about Beacon but then do everything to share their lives to everyone - like their netflix queue or what restaurant they just went to on Twitter. As long as you know when information on your activity is being disseminated I think it's ok - especially if their are incentives beyond just sharing with your friends (i.e. discounts, store rewards etc...) - Mike Bracco

Recently saw Twitter accounts printed on my menu at my Local Pat & Oscars and Rubio's ... Is this the start of the "Tipping Point" for Twitter or has it already tipped? ;) - Ideas At Random

I think the point of sale touch screen is coming - I have suggested it as part of a twitter business plan - I would love it especially if it gets me a discount. - Robert Freeze

great ideas and awesome pic - Calvin Ayre

It's early days yet. Has anyone seen a twitter handle or facebook page printed on the bottom of a retail receipt? Damm, did I say that out loud, I should have patented that. - Deano @ Byron New Media

I'll be there from May 28th until May 31st. See more in my Dopplr profile. - Robert Scoble

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I feel warmer just hearing the name San Diego! :) - Jim Connolly

I loves San Diego - Brent - Loving Life

I love the beer coming from there. Say hello to the guys of Stone Brewing from the Bierkoning. ;-) - Ton Zijp

And you have got to try some of the Stone oven baked Pizza - Brent - Loving Life

I almost wrecked a few times watching the formations of Jets flying overhead instead of keeping my eyes on the road. - Brent - Loving Life

I loved Old San Diego...good food :0 - Owen Greaves

And you've got gorgeous weather ordered. It was great to talk search after #140tc this afternoon, and thx for the invite. I'll give u a bell once you're back from SD to coordinate - Belinda Simcox (Sim)

We look forward to the results of that long lens you're packing. Enjoy. - Gilbert Harding

Heya Robert.. if you have any interest in learning more about some of the stuff we showed you, I can hook you up with the folks doing the SW for Snapdragon while you are in SD... - MarkHirsch

wow, this is interesting and exciting....am about to have my breakfast, eggs, sausage and waffles - Tweet Feeds

looking forward to those photos you get! :) - Thomas Hawk

looking forward to seeing ya Robert :) - Jennifer Van Grove

Are you going to stop through LA on your way back?? - Amani

Hello from San Diego ... Maybe I'll catch a Scoble citing downtown? ;) - Ideas At Random

via mashable.com"... Realistically, it’s not likely that content creators will notice much of a difference, given that, even fresh out of beta, there’s almost 600,000 posts tagged “health,” which means that your wisdom may get lost in the crowds." ... Good point about signal to noise ratio. - Ideas At Random from Bookmarklet

via - tgdaily.com "Washington (DC) - On October 29, 2008, a vigilant senior Unix engineer happened across a "logic bomb" that was allegedly planted by a contractor ..." - Ideas At Random from Bookmarklet

"combining OpenID federated login together with OAuth access authorization. Websites can now ask Google to sign-in a user using their Google Account, and at the same time request access to information available via OAuth-enabled APIs such as the Google Data APIs." - Ideas At Random from Bookmarklet

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