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2. They discussed this new version with a bunch of bloggers and journalists on Thursday. At least two people recorded that entire session (Techcrunch and me). My video will be up on Monday. I'm also trying to edit up a "highlights" video that also will be up on Monday morning. - Robert Scoble

3. The old version will not change. To see the new UI you'll need to visit http://beta.friendfeed.com -- it will stay that way for at least a couple of weeks as "kinks" in the new UI are worked out, Bret Taylor told us on Thursday. - Robert Scoble

4. We are not allowed to share many details or screen shots until 9 a.m. Monday morning Pacific Time. - Robert Scoble

5. I will reserve judgment on the new design until Monday morning but it is quite different and has lots of new features. It'll be interesting to see who likes it and who hates it. - Robert Scoble

Now that's teasing ;-) - Yuval Atzmon

Hopefully they'll mention some of the features that set it apart from FaceBook. FB has really encroached on FF feature territory lately. I have found discussions I used to have on FF have moved largely to FB. - Eric Hamilton

I'm excited! - Aaron Draczynski

Eric: how it is different with Twitter and Facebook will be very clear, both just by playing with it and by watching the videos. It introduces some very different ideas than either Facebook or Twitter have introduced. - Robert Scoble

I really think the story here is whether the Facebook redesign makes Friendfeed irrelevant - because I think it does. I'm much more interested in what my real friends post than any imaginary clique online -- and I think most other people will be too. Just my .02 - Wayne Schulz

6. My new icon was made specifically to look great in the new design. - Robert Scoble

What time will that be for us in the UK? Im useless at working this out. - Simon Wicks

7. I'm excited too, but I don't have it yet and there's some parts that do concern me. Can't wait to discuss those with you on Monday. I do know I'm going to use lists a LOT more than I am currently. - Robert Scoble

Simon: 5 p.m. I think. - Timothy Griffin

Simon 5 pm ? - M F

Simon: 5pm London time (BST), or 4pm GMT - James

Wayne: you haven't seen the new design of friendfeed which introduces lots of new stuff that Facebook will probably copy. I do NOT agree with you, by the way. Facebook still is struggling with "publicness" and other issues that make friendfeed viable. - Robert Scoble

So FriendFeed is going to have a green color scheme? - Yuval Atzmon

Thanks very much guys, ill waste away the last hour of work playing around then. Its all i usually do anyway. - Simon Wicks

Yuval: no, I didn't do that for any color scheme reasons. It's just that my icon will look good and stand out on the new friendfeed. Your personal icon is much more significant on the new version so many of you will want to have new icons ready to go. The icon was shot by @thomashawk in friendfeed's offices, though. They had some Hulk gloves lying around and Thomas asked me to put those on and shot a bunch of pictures that I like a lot. - Robert Scoble

6pm CET. - Peter Kruit

Looking forward to the new design, hoping there is a way to reduce redundant posts. -I see a lot of the same info as people Tweet the same info they post in their other networks. - Jamie Ginsberg

Will there be a new mobile design? FriendFeed currently doesn't work on my Series 60 Nokia phone, unless I use ff2go. I like m.twitter.com, and wish FriendFeed had similar... Yes, I know there's an iPhone view, but I don't use that (though on my iPod Touch, it so rocks) - Colin Charles from twhirl

8. My video was shot with a Canon 5D Mark II at 1080p resolution with a 24mm F2.8 lens and steadied by a monopod. Techcrunch's video was handheld and shot on a Flip Mino HD camcorder. I'll let you decide which one to watch. :-) - Robert Scoble

Robert, one question: you said "Lists". Is there any attention profiling features? Any personal relevancy real experience? I give you one name and tell me "ok" or "nope". Chris Saad. - directeur

Colin: no new mobile version is coming tomorrow, although the new design works on iPhone/iPod Touch. They know they need to work on getting more clients like TweetDeck/Twhirl to support them, along with more mobile clients too. - Robert Scoble

directeur: let's talk tomorrow when i can answer that question fully. - Robert Scoble

Robert, ok, I see :) You've answered it! - directeur

Colin: What is your experience of ff2go on S60? I started reading about it today and I'm going to try it (sorry for going off topic here). - Paul Jacobson from twhirl

Robert and Wayne: There seems to be this notion that Facebook pioneered its current look and feel but it seems very much like the current FriendFeed look and feel when it comes to how the stream is represented. I can see Facebook copying FriendFeed in future iterations but FriendFeed seems to have been first to the mark in this department. - Paul Jacobson from twhirl

Paul: ff2go is ok, but every once in a while I'll have to logon to the main site to get the API key. In that sense, its mostly annoying. On the iPhone interface, that never happens - once logged in, the cookie stays around leaving you logged in. But the service itself? I like it. Go ff2go, because it enables me to FriendFeed when I'm on my phone - Colin Charles from twhirl

Robert: Thanks! Its good to know that they're looking into a mobile version. And while twhirl supports them (kudos), lets hope Tweetdeck and more support them. My main concern is a mobile site - please do pass on that if you get a chance. Thanks - Colin Charles from twhirl

Hmm, the official FriendFeed iPhone/mobile version seems to work fairly well for me in Opera Mobile under S60, for what it's worth. I don't think anyone's built a dedicated client, though. - Tyson Key

Tyson: Ah ok, will test it out in Opera Mobile. I tend to use the stock browser that comes with the phone more though - Colin Charles from twhirl

FFToGo itself works pretty well in the standard WebKit-based browser, though. - Tyson Key

thanks for the fftogo feedback Colin! - Paul Jacobson from fftogo

Robert, did you considered RTL support for this new version? you know that more than 3K ff users are using Persian language. - farzaam

farzaam: what's RTL? In the press event friendfeed's co-founders talk about Iranian and Turkish users, by the way. They know they need to do more to let us filter by language. - Robert Scoble

farzaam: I do not work for friendfeed, by the way. From your question it makes it sound like you think I do. - Robert Scoble

@Robert - Right To Left, presumably - Tyson Key

I still don't get how to use FriendFeed as it is and now it is changing? I hope I can understand it better when it changes. Mr. Scoble obviously loves it, but I cannot figure out why and how. I consider myself computer savvy too. - Hummie

Robert, well Twhirl supports FriendFeed but feel it needs a bit of work. Shame Alerty Thingy have stopped. I'm looking forward to testing the new beta sometime Monday evening. - Kol Tregaskes

Hummie: let's talk tomorrow because so many things are changing. If you want to learn about the current version of friendfeed, I made a video here: http://friendfeed.com/e... - Robert Scoble

Interested in the significance of why being part Hulk part Oompa Loompa is critical to new FF ;) - Patrick Boegel

@Robert, RTL is about language direction(right to left support) and could easily integrated to friendfeed by just adding "change direction" flag where text inserted(esp. in comments). the problem is we could not mix English and Persian words in our comments. - farzaam

Patrick: you'll see tomorrow. :-) farzaam: thanks, I understand now. Yeah, that's important but I don't think they've changed anything about how languages are handled. They are working on several issues there, though. I'll keep following up on language issues, though, because I'm interested in the topic. - Robert Scoble

Robert, will the icons be bigger or is 75x75 still fine? - Gaby K. Slezák

Gaby: I think 75x75 is still fine, but I'll know for sure later when they give us access. - Robert Scoble

I don't even visit FriendFeed online any more thanks to BuddyFeed (in the same way Twittelator & Tweetie killed the web version of Twitter). Either way, I'll check it out. - darnell from BuddyFeed

thanks robert, can't wait to see the all new friendfeed tomorrow :-) - Gaby K. Slezák

What we also know: Robert can't stop talking about it even though he doesn't have it. - Louis Gray

Louis, hehe. - Kol Tregaskes

the A/B split test says that color schema will be tracked, but this is not the important, it will be user centered, may be there will be some shortcut too. - abdellah

Finally signed up for a gf accout, looking forward to seeing the new stuff. Thanks for leading the way to ff @scobleizer! - Paul from Nambu

Facebook making Friendfeed irrelevant? Not for me. FB and FF could have identical interfaces and FF would keep me and my main social graph, not Facebook. Why? The community here is amazing. I've met some irl, not met others, and all are friends. On FB, entirely different, and a little weird to have my mother, ex-husband, former co-workers and kids all on the same graph. It's inhibitive, and it doesn't make for community participation. - Karoli from BuddyFeed

As far as I know it's a complete UI overhaul, so the question for me is whether FriendFeed wants to be more like Twitter: simple as hell (and destined to less tech savvy people) - Kris

Sounds to me like Scoble is not that impressed with the new beta? It's gonna be interesting to see what it looks like and if it's any friendlier to new users. - Jim Connolly

@Scoble : You have been trying to create a good hype about FF before new design get out, i just hope it doesn't depress us badly! - Junal Rahman

Junal - discussion does not have to be interpretted as hype - Patrick Boegel

I think it is fair to say that many people will be unhappy with the new UI for whatever reason and others will love it. - Paul Jacobson

Paul - you're right. That will happen. Change is tough. - Hutch Carpenter

@scobleizer Thanks for the tease on the new FriendFeed UI. - Mike Reynolds

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