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I imagine that your realtime feed scrolls faster than the first spin of the big wheel on The Price is Right... - Stupid Blogger (aka Tina)

Ha! I'm sure :) - WorldofHiglet

I love watching it scroll by. Just gotta make sure it has my undivided attention. - Matt Donders

like it - Caleb Elston

come talk about it on the podcast Scoble, we are recording live right now on Talkshoe TheSocialGeeks podcast - Chris

Blurry FF realtime FTW!! woo hoooooo! - Susan Beebe

Hey there! :) - Eran Kampf

I can't compete with the FriendFeeders! ;( http://spy.appspot.com/find/%2... - Ben Hedrington

Chris: I am running to the airport right now to go to North Carolina, sorry. Plus Steve Gillmor already signed me up for NewsGang. - Robert Scoble

Beat me by an hour?? (Just blogged it .... awesome stuff ... off to read yours! ... why does FF get me so excited ??) - Charlie Anzman

Just looked. Empty. - Louis Gray

Sigh. How I wish we had someone online who actually _ships_ here. - Yuvi

what is this 'wii fit' that everyone talks about? - .LAG the Plumber

Oh no.. are they still that hard to find? Have you tried Target or a local game store? You have a better shot at a local game store though since there are less people going there. @LAG It's this: http://nintendo.com/wiifit - Daynah

See, that's the first exercise: Run around the city and try to find an available unit ;) - Jemm

CHeck your local GameStop any Wed morning around 10:00am... they usually have them. - Soulhuntre via twhirl

@daynah... thanks! do you get a real work out from playing this? i just can't imagine... - .LAG the Plumber

@LAG it's great if you're not an active athlete. It'll get you moving and you learn new Yoga moves and muscular exercises as well. Not to mention, it's a lot of fun! If you're an active athlete, the games may seem boring or too easy. - Daynah

sheesh, should have called , they are always in stock at this off the way gameStop it seems - Chris

It's crazy how hard it is to find one. I got lucky when I walked into a local GameStop. I had gone to the same store a week before and they had told me that they wouldn't get any more for the rest of the month. The guy at the register asked if I had any questions and so I asked again and they had at least a couple in stock. - Dan Hsiao

Try the Amazon SMS program. They sent me a text message saying it was in stock, I replied back (not even super quickly, it took me like a minute to reply), and a week later I had a Wii fit! - Benjamin Golub

Ben, that is what I did. But they were gobbled up when I was placing the order. - Louis Gray

Oh so you texted back to buy it but didn't get it? Lame. - Benjamin Golub

Try maybeishouldjustgooutsideforawalk.com? ;) - Josh Haley

I finally got one at Toys R'Us last weekend. If you show up on Sunday morning (when the new stock is out) you should be able to find it. - Eric

People seem to find Wii Fits in stock on Sunday mornings at TRU | Target | Walmart in recent weeks/months. It's how we found ours (accidentally, even; I was stunned to see it in the case, and didn't think it was real...I had to ask someone.) - abacab

We are about to release a widget for Wordpress that we'll quickly move to other platforms. We costed it out a while ago and decided (quite easily) that moving to VMs on the cloud was the best solution. It's cheap initially and can scale fairly quickly. - mike

We're on the verge of going cloud. We'd probably go cloud before going dedicated. The way the balance of our needs work out, we can probably keep our site on a beefed up VPS for the time being, and move the service API workload out into the cloud. - Andrew Badera

Talk to Oren Michels or Scott Rafer at Mashery...entirely cloud based from get go... - Alan Edgett

Unfortunately we are a dedicated hosting environment. Both managed and the cheaper unmanaged. We still see growth in both areas, but the cloud makes sense for certain areas. - Chris

@ andrew leyden You might want to check out BlueLock www.bluelock.com I think their monthly packages start significantly lower then $4,000 a month - Lorraine Ball

I'm hearing a lot more people switching to the cloud. - Steve Spalding

I'm still on a dedicated server for each site. i think until you really (need to) scale up the cloud isn't a huge issue.I'm more interested in scaling 3rd party services (e.g. entry level consumer of 3rd party data) - weblivz

Those of us whose models depend on scale, or anyone whose app takes off suddenly, anyone who has predictable troughs in demand, are perfect candidates for the benefits of cloud computing. And, it's better, IMO, to already be in the cloud, if there's no additional cost associated, rather than trying to go cloud WHEN or AFTER demand hits. - Andrew Badera

I see the latest Twitter blog post - Ev admits, like every startup, they started without scale. I agree the cloud is *easier* to be part of than it used to be (Twitter used s3 for it's images since the start i think), but exclusively? - weblivz via twhirl

Can someone explain how switching to the cloud works? We are a not-yet-started startup. We have a VPS and 12-hour backups to S3. Before we go 'live' we will have a failover to another VPS as well. I understand the concept of backing up to S3, etc. but I don't understand how switching would work unless I am reading too much into the word and it means using the cloud as an extra backup location? - david

Depends on the nature of your needs. Some places, like EC2 or Rackspace, offer fullblown IaaS. Others like Google App Engine lock you in with PaaS, which restricts you to writing Python apps to serve your needs. Hadoop offers a data cloud. Nirvanix offers CDN/SDN cloud-like facilities. - Andrew Badera

If you need Google's BigTable, Amazon's SimpleDB, or Microsoft's SSDS (in beta), then you also need to recognize, and understand how to employ, access, iterate, Entity-Attribute-Value, or "horizontal" data structures. These are all graph or graph-like databases. - Andrew Badera

In my case I have a website that's relatively low traffic, but a web service API that needs to scale. So, I part my service calls out to a cloud service, let the cloud handle the demand, then pump the data down to a data warehouse for conventional OLTP and reporting. - Andrew Badera

david, amazon web services are much more than a storage facility (S3), you can have EC2 (elastic compute cloud) instances running and fire them up as/when needed. They are basically images of a OS of choice running off with the calc power and memory you chose. If a small EC2 becomes unresponsive (for example too much load on that one) you can fire a bigger one up and smoothly (and instantly) migrate to that one. you may want to give a look at the AWS developers doc, there are a lot of very nice examples - lezionidistile

much better and more useful than the ones I can make on friendfeed... you'll find them here: http://aws.amazon.com/resource... - lezionidistile

We have been moving clients (and our own services) to the Mosso cloud system. Capacity scales automatically, the environment is straight PHP and / or .NET from our point of view and we have non of the crazy hoops to jump through to configure for EC2. - Soulhuntre

Or, are you famous or somethin? - Yuvi

All I know was that my e-mail was quite full this morning. Social Median traffic has doubled in the last two days, and this is part of the result. - Louis Gray

Wild - Nicholas Kreidberg

best part is that it is from 0 - NONE - press or pr. it's all being feature and user driven and we're just doing our best to keep up with it (and likely to make some mistakes along the way, so patience please!) - Jason Goldberg

It is all from the new Facebook integration and the way the application offers you to auto follow those that match and then send invites to others. Writing blog posting now - Chris via twhirl

@Chris -- it's 2 things + a related 3rd. 1. Facebook integration. 2. Like/Dislike which echoes on facebook, and is dramatically increasing the overall activity loop of socialmedian to facebook to socialmedian. The 3rd is we are finding new users quickly discovering our Replize features which spur real person-to-person communication around the news. - Jason Goldberg

@Jason -agreed and I do like the service and idea, dont be mistaken (well you probably heard the opdcast). I am trying to find the quality articles and that is my distress - Chris via twhirl

@chris -- we'll enable search soon, but in meantime the feed view of topical networks should surely provide you with quality articles? - Jason Goldberg

PB&J with the crusts cut off! - Michelle Marie Miller

grilled cheese - Alisha

Probably a wrap from Roly Poly: turkey, cheese, bacon, avocado, mango chutney, and lots of veg. - Stupid Blogger (aka Tina)

Taco salad. - James Williams (willia4)

Can of Chunky Campbell's Beef Rib Roast soup. - Nathaniel Payne

I haven't even had breakfast yet! It's still morning on the west coast. :P - Rochelle

Corned Beef+Scrambled Eggs, Rice, Spicy Sweet and Sour Sauce. Jeez, you guys make me hungry. :D - AJ Batac ♘

Trix Cereal - Bored of Joe

turkey and swiss at 11 and a salad at 2 - RAPatton

Quaker Chewy Low Fat Oatmeal Raisin 90 Calorie Granola Bar... and a cheeseburger. - Eric @ CS Techcast

Coffee. Maybe some Mountain Dew later. I eat 1 or 2 meals a day. - ☺ KevyKev ☺

Lunch was 3 hours ago and I had a brie with Polish kabanos sausage sarnie. Yummers. - Toby Graham

Leftovers... - JA Castillo

Sushi! - Adam Turetzky

tri tip salad...I love steak salad - Beth

probably sushi - Aviv

fajitas - John Duff

I ended up getting a grilled burger here at work. they are cooking out - (jeff)isageek

Home made PANCAKES!! Yummmy! Pics are here --> http://friendfeed.com/e/d34641... - Susan Beebe

tomates farcies (stuffed tomatoes) home made - homard

Deja Vu? - Rah™

Marie Callendar's frozen chicken pot pie. - Barrack Obama Scoble

I want a hot dog but I don't think a single restaurant in the area can make one for me. I miss Miami Subs and Checkers :( - Lindsey Smith

in n out w/ grilled onions - John Cozen

tuna salad with pepper jack cheese, lettuce and tomato on a whole wheat wrap. - Rob Diana

Spaghetti w/ a zippy meat sauce - Jeff Douglass

"WAAA Your using our site like MySpace! WAAAAA" - Bored of Joe

^ me. Don't use Facebook for that purpose, I interact with or know every single one of my Facebook friends, Christopher. ;) Random requests = Do Not Want! - Mona N.

I'm with Mona. Hit me up here if you want to be friends with me - FF is a nice central hub for my internet persona and activities. Facebook is for staying in touch with real life friends and the goings on in their lives. - Eric

I use FB the same way. Its more my public life rather then my social "internet" life. FF is serving that need right now. - Bored of Joe

but I have no real friends... - BuBBy Oxide

wow - Cee Bee

ummm... Do not want!!!!! - Tad - the Meme Maker

Is that a kid's bed? Geez. Hello, Basement Man. - Chris Baskind

wtf is he?? - Kemal Yaylali

that's just wrong, on so many levels - Damien Franco

If that's wrong, baby, then I don't wanna be... oh, wait, no. That's just wrong. - Akiva Moskovitz

step one, cut a hole in a box..... - Matt Musgrave

*cries and hides behind you guys* - Yolanda

+1 Matt - Rodfather

Too many questions! Why take such a picture, and where would you use it? - Stupid Blogger (aka Tina)

GROSS! Why oh why did I hit refresh? - Trish R

Yikes! - Lindsey Smith

Every detail of this pic is so classy: from the bed frame *giggle* to the hobby collection *cackle* to the hair *blech* to the speedo *explosive puke* - Carmen

@Carmen You forgot to mention that he's holding his "gun" - Lindsey Smith

why understand if one can hit HIDE ? this guy has enough *worms* in his head, let him make one hole in his own skull when time for that comes. - silpol

@Lindsey Thanks *more explosive puke* - Carmen

My eyes! To his credit he did lay out all of his "toys" in a fairly well organized pattern.. but still MY EYES! - Nicholas Kreidberg

sexy, smart and guitar hero...hold me ack - J!ZZMaster Gr!ZZ-e Gr!ZZ

Mark, I thought we were done posting pics of ourselves from back in the day. - Josh Haley

Oh no I was eating my lunch and suddenly this pic appears, damn... - George The Writer

Wonder who he's voting for? :) - Charlie Anzman

Weirdest thing... the pictures name is august2009. Do we have the first confirmed picture of John Titor? - (teh)Scoble

there goes my Oreo. FriendFeed refreshes and I toss my cookies - Chris

Frick, where's the hide link?!? Feature request: The ability to hide just the image. Seriously. - Joanmarie

+1 Josh . . . lol - Lindsey Smith

Joanmarie, I 100% agree with your comment! - Stupid Blogger (aka Tina)

+100 Josh! - Mark Wilson

Bump for all the haters. O HAI - Josh Haley

and what's over the curtain..? (sorry fro my english) - Federica Bellagamba

I didn't read all 30 comments, but did anybody point out that it was just plain wrong to post this? (i'm now removing whats left of my lunch from my stomach) tyvm and good day! - acedanger

Where's Chris Hansen when you need him? - Mark Wilson

seriously? 25 people LIKED this? Your posts are magic, Mark. - Tim Hoeck

Perp..Peeerp - Gordon Swaby

@Tim what's not to like? A dude in a speedo with a mullet and far too many guns for one man to own who likes to rock out on his baby blue futon! That's not magic, that's just common sense! - Mark Wilson

why? - Damien Franco

Not from what I see so far. Even then probably not. - Jeff B

meh - Jason Carreira

If I had to pay, I'd stop using it. There are many competing services that don't charge. - Morton Fox

Well, normal FriendFeed would still be free, and eventually you would get the same features as the folks paying. What I am really asking is, "Would you pay money to be first into the FriendFeed Beta?" - possible248

Nope - Pete Gilbert

If I had to pay for the beta, I would just wait for it to come out of beta. It makes no sense to charge for beta anyway. Don't they want people to test it? - Morton Fox

Independent of FriendFeed, no. If something is a true beta, I'm "paying" with my time testing, finding bugs, giving feedback, and working in a potentially unstable environment. If something is a "pre-release for the cool kids" with the tag beta slapped onto it for good measure, I'll use it if I'm deemed a "cool kid"; otherwise, I can wait. - Joanmarie

yeah, i'd pay. No more than maybe $10 a year. But i'd pay. - Zee from WeDoCreative

Interesting perspective. I came up with this idea in the middle of the night when thinking of possible ways for FriendFeed to generate money. - possible248

i would pay a little but only if FF stayed competitive. Considering however how all the new competitors emerge like mushrooms and are all for free, not sure many would. Feedly is one good example. - Hayk

Tough question for the cheapest person on the Internet - Charlie Anzman

Do you have Radio Lab in your NPR feeds? I pulled mine into Toluu not too long ago, they are all together at the top of my feeds list (minus the top 2) http://www.toluu.com/knightkne... - David Knight

http://randomchatter.com/ - Nathan Chase

My favorites are The Vinyl Cafe and This American Life - Will Goldstein

Diggnation, strongly recommend, if u could use Videocast. - Yuancheng

This week in photography is one of the best photography podcasts out there. The history of photography podcast is also pretty good: http://photohistory.jeffcurto.... Unfortunately there are not many more great photography podcasts. The Web 2.0 show has some good podcasts, TWIT, Phil Leigh's Inside Digital Media is good. NPR has lots of good feeds. - Thomas Hawk

the social geeks podcast - (jeff)isageek

Chris, why are comments closed on your post? There's a lot to say here. - Louis Gray

They help me. Especially if I'm enjoying the conversation. - Mavericky McAwesomesauces

yikes.. Louis spoils the fun !! I I know that Justin pointed me here, I come saw but never commented ! - Peter Dawson

Maybe that explains the people I don't know that have friended me lately? - James Ferguson

I play those silly games -_- But not as many as some people do. I just like everything to come full circle and I'm on FB all the time. That's how I check my FF. - Lindsey Smith

I agree that the new layout is far better. I'm glad that most of the apps are now hidden. I check my FB through FF thanks to a Greasemonkey script. - Mark Wilson

Lindsay - I started FF on FB. I did not realize there was a FF community until Louis wrote about FF back in March. - Russellreno

I have received a couple of additions, I really like the new Facebook set up and the home page works really well. I am sure as more people become accustomed to the features it will grow in popularity and more will use the bookmarking feature. I try and comment on as much as possible both there and here and both have their plus points. No duplicate items either as anything from the same source is merged! - Joe Dawson

http://friendfeed.com/e/4ac1f9... - Joe Dawson

Facebook meme for the next 9 hours. PS. I just added you. :P - Hao Chen

@James . . . I always try to identify myself as a FriendFeeder when adding :) - Lindsey Smith

i noticed that too - so what the hell, have at it: http://www.new.facebook.com/pr... - Morgan

:) So I noticed. I guess its sheerly 'like attracts like'. I hadn't checked FB in ages when today I was drawn back pleasantly. - Parth Awasthi

Noticed the Facebook friending myself. I wonder if there's a message on here somewhere where people talked about doing that. - Hutch Carpenter

bored at work? - Adam Turetzky

Powers of Friendfeed and Facebook unite! Who started this btw? - David Young

oh, and Pete and Lindsey started it today! - Adam Turetzky

Sure . . . blame me. :P - Lindsey Smith

Facebook is probably one of the sites that we aren't all connected through ha! - Joe Dawson

I thought we always blame whatever happens here to Mr. Scoble? - Parth Awasthi

i'm friends with lindsey and pete now - FF losing containment - spreading to other parts of the interwebs. edit: and mark. - Morgan

@Hao Does this mean everyone is going to avoid Rejaw for the next 9 hours? - Mark Wilson

@Parth I'm not friends with Scoble ;) - Lindsey Smith

@Parth Unless you are friends with Scoble already on Facebook I don't think you can add him now as he is at the 5000 limit! So once there you won't be able to blame him for anything unless he deletes some people and adds some fresh faces!! - Joe Dawson

hahaha, just make sure we're back on Rejaw within 3 days before all the threads auto-close. :P - Hao Chen

shoot, I need to get in on adding then - Chris via twhirl

BTW FB has a better bio page too. - Russellreno

I imagine some kind of critical mass was probably reached where enough high-profile friendfeeders became friends on facebook, that they started appearing in all the friendfeeders' "you might also know..." lists. I imagine that, right now SEO and marketing specialists are looking into how this effect can be exploited. - Slippy Lane

Facebook does enough exploiting by themselves. :/ - Hao Chen

If anybody adds me on FB and notices that I'm not very exciting over there...don't take it personal... - Rah™

if might be that a lot of friendfeeders are realizing that we have a hell of a lot more in common with each other than we do with what's-her-name that sat behind us in math class in grade 11... - Trent Olson

Yeah Rahsheen . . . I've had better :P - Lindsey Smith

i'll friend and add everyone and anyone i 'meet' online to any social networking service i'm on, but i reserve FB and LinkedIn for peeps i actually know in RL. where do you draw the line line between real or virtual? - .LAG the Plumber

@Trent Your comment has a high truthiness value. - David Young