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Louis Gray

Family Togetherness Time

July 1, 2008 from email - Comment - Like - Share

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Look at them sleeping. So daggone cute! - Hutch Carpenter

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Looks like Dad got a bit of schwag, too... :) - Mark Dykeman

awesome! - Thomas Hawk

Where are the FF onesies?! :-) - JA Castillo

FFTwins FTW! - Brian Daniel Eisenberg

The FF onesies are way too big. My "biggest" kid is five pounds. When these guys get 3-6 months, let the schwag wagon roll. - Louis Gray

Link bait! :) - Andrew Baron

@Louis you are such a product pimp ROFLMAO .. god love ya and yer family :) - Steven Hodson

awwwww - Michelle Trent

Do they have FF accounts yet? - Johnny Worthington

aww gorgeous :) and the babies too! - Allison

LOL that is alll kinds of win - Mona Nomura

I've always thought it's important to establish brand awareness early on. Good job ;-) - Jonathon

So, what are their domains and RSS feeds? I need to add them as imaginary friends for now. - Rob Diana

Peace. That's the word that comes to my mind :) - directeur from NoiseRiver

good thing they are always this happy. right! - Tim Connors

I want that shirt! - James Hull

totally got a cool idea for new schwag... two items: for new Moms, a friend feed shirt with slots for easy feeding of infants... and for new Pops like Louis, nipple with bottle attachment inserts with one nipple coming out of the first f and the second nipple coming out of the second d... saweet! - Rob Reed

FF schwag and twins! best picture of the day! - Sarah Perez

Cute as a button. Akiva you crack me up. :) - Mathew A. Koeneker from fftogo

@Rob Reed: Awesome! - April Buchheit

Kinda wished I had some FF schwag to wear with the newborn on the way. - Randy Hall

The first marriage on FF cannot compete with this. - Russellreno

Congratz. - Bill Bittner

Mega awesome ;) Congratulations to you and your family, like the Friendfeed t-shirt ;) - Mario Olckers

Tiny... little... eentsy... lumps of yum. There, my estrogen has officially shown itself. - Carla Thompson

No way - they have FF onesies??? How do I get my hands on one of those? - Jesse Stay

The Gray family Babies!!!! Sarah and Mathew look sooo cute in your arms! and sooo tiny my goodness!!... still LOL @ Rob's wacky comment..whoa! - Susan Beebe

cool beans! workin on those biceps! - TheMacMommy from twhirl

So cute! - marinka239

bring on the schwag, very cool pictures indeed - Dobromir Hadzhiev

Bump for good times - Jesse Stay

Louis Gray

Google Suggest Displays the Inanities of Common Searches. Try "Do (insert group or individual here)" and see what you get.

July 26 - Comment - Like - Share

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Inspired by a share from SofarsoShawn: http://friendfeed.com/funny-p... - Louis Gray

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*chuckles* - Ron Bailey

Some of these are _so bad_ and dumb too! - Louis Gray

"believe in dinosaurs" LOL - Mr Saturday Morning NFG

And some are kind of sad :*( - Geoff Schultz

The Id is finally documented. - Todd Hoff

Such important questions... - John (a.k.a. dendroica)

weirdos... :) - Tim Hoeck

LOL - Scott Bradley

This is the best. I've been doing my own variations for about twenty-one minutes now. Oy! - Chris Brogan

Until now, I didn't care about those things in relation to Palin, now, I have to know! - Gary Walter (gwalter)

My favorite: "do white people smell" A sign of someone who doesn't spend much time around hot, sweaty white people? - John (a.k.a. dendroica)

That is awesome. - Stephan Miller

This a great game for a lot of initial 'question' phrases. Try "how do", "why", and similar phrases for much hilarity. - Joel Webber

Hilarity indeed, I just got "Why do men have nipples" and surprisingly "Why so serious" with 81mill results! Thankfully the "Why did chris brown beat up rihanna" suggestion from "why" only shows 1.8mill results. ;) Strange, Strange World. - Travis Koger

I'm feeling lucky, indeed. - Josh Haley

Movie Reviews: Shevonne

Benjamin Button Movie Review - http://dcfemella.com/reviews...

December 27, 2008 from Bookmarklet - Comment - Like - Share

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nice review - Michael W. May

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Definitely a good movie. I gave it somewhere around 91% (4 and maybe 1/3 of a star). Good movie with an excellent subject and some very fine acting and writing. There were a couple parts that made me actually laugh at the shoddiness of several moments though. I think it could have been trimmed down to more meat and less over-bloated detail but it was quite good. - Brandon Titus

Good review. While others criticize Benjamin Button for "style over substance," here's a convincing argument for the movie's heart. - Jinni

Thank you Phoebe. =) - Shevonne

I've seen it twice now... once a couple of weeks ago in George Lucas's theater at Skywalker ranch and yesterday a regular theater here in the SF area. I enjoyed it as much if not better than the first time. I thought it was an amazing meditation on impermanence that really undermined a linear perception of time. I consider it a successful movie if the world looks different and magical when you walk out of the theater. It certainly did with this one. Tilda Swinton was by far the shining star of all. - Tracy Ruggles

I saw this movie last night and loved it. Was anyone else reminded of Forrest Gump at random points of the story? - Jennifer Marie Sandbank

Jennifer, I kept thinking about Forrest Gump as well - Shevonne

I really liked this movie - nouhad

@shevonne: great review. the thing i liked about the movie was the underlying question of how does one define love. it was pretty cool how it showed that benjamin and daisy were essentially lovers for an entire lifetime...just in opposite chronological directions. - .LAG liked that

This was a superb humanist film. - Patrickometry

I just saw it this weekend. I liked it, it did move me emotionally (only a little though), so from that perspective, it worked for me. However, I thought the movie was unnecessarily long. The scenes from the Daisy's deathbed were unnecessary and irritating. I felt that those scenes interrupted the flow of the movie without really telling us that much about the relationship between Daisy and her daughter. - Paul Grav

Paul, I can see where you are coming from. Those were kind of annoying. I think they were trying to make it kind of Forrest-Gump style, but it just didn't work. - Shevonne

In Forrest Gump, it was Forrest himself who was telling the story. So I think that worked because I had already become emotionally invested in Forrest and his story. Whilst in TCCOBB I had absolutely no emotional attachment at all to Daisy (deatbed version) or her daughter. - Paul Grav

I think another thought I had about those scenes was that they had to make it during Hurricane Katrina? I know they were trying to have historical references in the movie, but I did roll my eyes a few times. Other than that, I loved the movie. - Shevonne

What was the point of the telling the viewer that there was a hurricane outside? It kinda gave the impression that something momentus was happening, but it didn't amount to anything. Or did I miss something? - Paul Grav

One of the thoughts I had when I rolled my eyes. - Shevonne

One more thing. I'd be disappointed if this wins best picture at the academy awards. The only other nominee that I've seen (thus far) has been Frost/Nixon, which I liked a lot more than BB. - Paul Grav

Paul, I've stopped watching the Academy Awards a long time ago. It is just who has the money to promote their movie and who has wooed the panel. There are so many movies out there that are probably better than any of the ones nominated but because they didn't have the funding or exposure, they didn't get nominated. - Shevonne

You're right but I can't help hoping that the better film receives the recognition that it deserves. - Paul Grav

Rarely happens. I think during the Golden, the academy awards was legit. Now? Here's to hoping - Shevonne

I thought this movie was just ok. Cate Blanchett bugged me. The movie didn't give me any reason to care for Benjamin Button. It felt like Legends of Fall, but with Brad Pitt slowly becoming eye candy throughout the movie. - Rodfather

I would've liked it a lot more if the entire frame story had been dropped. It was unnecessary and manipulative, and made me react against the whole movie in a way I don't think I would've without it. It's the same screenwriter as Forrest Gump, and it shared many of the same shortcomings - oversimplification and sentimentality heading the list. I wanted more from Fincher. But I'm glad others enjoyed it more than I did - helps me understand its award-season success. - Jandy, ConcertMaven of FF

It was a good movie but not great. Things I liked - setting has real style for most of the film, beautiful to look at. Pitt was great. Things I didn't like - uncomfortable moments (old man and young girl scenes - innocent but felt wrong). The last 20 minutes did not do the rest of the film justice. - Shauns

Steve Rubel

Great piece on how Bob Iger is changing Disney - http://money.cnn.com/2009...

January 7, 2009 from Bookmarklet - Comment - Like - Share

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I still have such a soft spot for Disney. I really paid attention to its business model while working there on the Walt Disney World College Program. One of these days, I hope to work for the company again. - Sally: baby flier

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I posted this yesterday and like you @sally, I too would love to work for them one day (i grew up a Disney kid in north florida. we'd go down to see the castle being *built*). ;) - Jim Mitchem

I worked for Disney about 20 years ago in WDW retail. Other than Edelman, it's really the only other company I want to work for - maybe in a decade I will get to go back. Iger is the man. - Steve Rubel

I've worked for Disney for 12 years in IT. It's a good company. - Shawna Benson

I went to graduate business school in Orlando (actually Winter Park). Disney has a poor reputation with a lot of people there, esp. lawyers in town. They tend to use and abuse their talent, even permanently damaging singers' voices because of the demanding schedules that overwork their throats. There are also accidental deaths every year in the parks. Plus, all employees have to start... more... - Dawn

Steve Rubel

12 Changes For 2009 | Success Begins Today - http://successbeginstoday.org/wordpre...

January 3, 2009 from delicious - Comment - Like - Share

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Great list. - Steve Rubel

Renovate: Instead Of Replace - Russellreno

Robert Scoble

The Impact of Small Business on Job Creation - http://www.drjeffcornwall.com/2009...

January 3, 2009 from Google Reader - Comment - Like - Share

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Man arrested with cocaine and viagra: says he was driving Paris Hilton - http://www.inquisitr.com/14120...

January 2, 2009 from The Inquisitr - Comment - Like - Share

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I wonder if she is a stick-shift... - Johnny Worthington

I bet he was with coke and dick pills in his system. But who hasn't "driven" her? - Outsanity

Slow news day? - MVB (Grinch of FF)

Wonder if she uses the small comfortable vaginal ring. We already know his wang-dang-dilly needed a little extra oomph. -

Well what else would you have when picking up the Hiltons? - Summer

@ Johnny, I think she would definitely be an automatic. No extra work required once started - Samantha DeWitt

Who has time for spelunking? - MVB (Grinch of FF)

l0ckergn0me

Star Wars Starships and Fighters Clock - http://www.etsy.com/view_li...

January 1, 2009 from Bookmarklet - Comment - Like - Share

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A long time ago... no, wait... just about five minutes from now... - l0ckergn0me from Bookmarklet

Right now I wish FF had a love it link .. :) - Rui Pereira

Robert Scoble

I'm uploading a 24-minute video about friendfeed. Demonstrates it does too much. :-)

December 28, 2008 - Comment - Like - Share

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white board? - sean percival

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looking forward to it, may help :-) - Patphelan

sean: no, just 20 things demoed about it. I don't know that it'll help. Probably just bore everyone. UPDATE: the video is here: http://www.kyte.tv/scoblei... - Robert Scoble

Stop motion? - Andrew Trinh

I cant wait to see how you keep up with so much while keeping your sanity - Bobbi Newman

Um... sorry - new at friendfeed. Where do I find the video? - Suzi Dafnis

Stay tuned, Suzi - I'm confident Robert will post the link. - teleken

I just got into using ff so it'll be cool to see what I am missing out on using. - Thomas Swift

Totally. Until this real time thing launched I had no clue what to do with Friend feed. This video will be very helpful. - MarkCarras

That's funny, because I was just going to tweet to see if anyone had good advice on FreindFeed... - Lee Stranahan

It is up at http://www.kyte.tv/scobleizer - Robert Scoble

Bummer that Kyte doesn't seem to work in FF on Linux :( - James D Kirk

great video, very helpful, never knew about the double tap for hide, thanks Robert - Patphelan

I got video, no audio, Kubuntu 810, Firefox. - kevin

Listening to it now. Thanks for the renewal of my amazement of Friendfeed. - Tyler (Chacha)

watching now - this is something i need - a video tutorial (won't say the 'dummies' word LOL) - planetMitch

Seems to work in Ubuntu with Firefox. - Steven Perez

Steven, I use several Ubuntu's (8.10, 32 and 64 bits), perhaps too low bandwidth to Spain? - Ricardo Galli

It will only play the first 5 minutes, but they were a good 5 minutes... Edit: seems to work now. - xero

I'm watching it now, Ubuntu 8.10 Opera 9.62 - Alejandro

very good- watching now - anna sauce

I have to say, the only time I can really express the value of FF is when people get annoyed with Twitter, and I say, it'd be nice to have an aggregator, right? And then, they get it. Or a big bubble diagram showing RSS feeds and overlaps - anna sauce

Thanks Robert. Great overview of FF. Where do I send a check? :) - Joe Lima

Great, I'm going back and forth from the video as I set up a friendfeed account. Thanks! - David Creelman

Good work. Thank you. I want to know more about the email to FF tip you mentioned. What will part 2 have in it? ;-) - Amani

Amani: that info is here: http://friendfeed.com/share... - Robert Scoble

thanks for making this! Its got me looking at FF again - aggregation is good. - Casey

Very informative and useful video. Thanks for putting this together! - Laura Zickus

Robert, I will invest some time in FF thanks to you! - Alex Doman

Great intro - been thinking about signing up for a while but didn't know where to start! - Mark Warren

Thanks for this! Great information about hiding & searching. - Thomas Swift

Great video, Robert. Thank you! :) - Heidi Jeffers Thibodeau

Good video, now we need an advanced FF user video. ;-) - Kol Tregaskes

Great video. Thanks for posting, Robert. :) - Kali

Duncan Riley

200 People Dressed as Superheroes Fighting Crime. Only in America - http://www.inquisitr.com/13491...

December 28, 2008 from The Inquisitr - Comment - Like - Share

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100 Personal Branding Tactics Using Social Media - http://www.chrisbrogan.com/100-per...

June 16, 2008 from chrisbrogan.com - Comment - Like - Share

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Great list. Who knew there were 100 things you could do? They're all right on though. - Leo Laporte

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This is so weird.. I was just thinking about this today, when I was arguing with my wife about why I post so much stuff. I'm thinking that personal branding is important. - Joe Mac Stevens

Really good stuff, Chris. Thanks for sharing. - Bruce Turner

Thank You! Excellent topic that I will delve into right away. - Wendy J. Roan from twhirl

Excellent piece by Chris! - Charlie Anzman

add this to listropolis - http://www.listropolis.com/2008... - shaun mclane

except that you do a US only list it is a nice list. would it really be asked too much to at least recognize that for example linkedin does not rule the world and write "join the leading biz network, like for example linkedin"? - Nicole Simon

Holy crap, Chris! This is great stuff! Would you say personal branding is for anyone, or more for people who have something to sell through their online persona (a product, service, or opinion)? - Zach Landes

thanks Chris - what a great resource - wil be sending this to all my staff - if only they will DO IT! :) - Brad from twhirl

Wow, this list is awesome Chris. Thanks for sharing it. - Jason Runyan

Kick Ass - Dave Peck

great article with fantastic tips - Mick Edwards

100 Personal Branding Tactics Using Social Media. Your title is awfully modest considering you covered every marketing aspect in the online world. - Collin

One of the great things about blogging is it gives businesses the opportunity to listen. Your point about listening is well taken. - John P. Kreiss

Steve Isaacs

Obama In-Game Advertising - http://www.joystiq.com/2008...

October 16, 2008 from Bookmarklet - Comment - Like - Share

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I keep talking about this. Personally, I'm not a fan of ads in my video games, which is why I've slacked off over the years. But, here we have the Obama campaign going through every techological aspect of GOTV. On the flip, the McCain campaign probably has no idea this is even occurring or that they could have done it too. - Admiral Anika

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No... The McCain campaign has issued their response. They're adding in-game advertising to shuffleboard courts. - Chris Reed

haha Chris - Nicholas Kreidberg

LOL Chris...and on the back of mahjongg tiles too? - Admiral Anika

Yep, as well as putting Palin faces as the free space spot on bingo boards. - Chris Reed

Robert Scoble

Is it over for RSS readers? - http://www.accmanpro.com/2008...

August 1, 2008 from Google Reader - Comment - Like - Share

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I find that Google Reader is making me smarter and is a great way to start conversations that make me smarter over on FriendFeed. FriendFeed lately has gotten a little too superficial for my tastes as we've seen a raft of bacon and other goofy things get a lot of discussion. Google Reader brings me a much higher percentage of smart posts with little noise, much different than Twitter or FriendFeed. - Robert Scoble

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You are right. It is much less superficial. There is more intentional sharing, making it much more valuable then the basis at which Friendfeed aggregates content for you. If someone takes the time to write a post, and you have chosen to follow him because he provides value) the basis is already much better than FF. - Alexander van Elsas

Aren't you at a disadvantage since you subscribe to so many people? One of the key features of FF is the ability to filter the noise. I can honestly say I've seen no Bacon or any other pork-related discussion ;) because FF filters everything for me. But the filter still brings me interesting new people. I may be a wrong but I think these little meshed cocoons are what will bring FF mainstream - Steven Cains

Robert - I like the playful nature of FriendFeed, but I also tire of it at times. Hide has been useful lately. - Hutch Carpenter

being that RSS readers still aren't mainstream, no. - Sam Harrelson from twhirl

I think this is another way of saying "Has Robert Scoble declared RSS bankruptcy?" - Nick O'Neill from twhirl

@Cains: I agree. Those who feel the need to add friends in FF, in the same way they follow on Twitter, are at a disadvantage when it comes to the power (and, dare I say: personal sustainability) of FriendFeed. The goals, for me, of all of these services: reduction of noise, education, entertainment (a distant third). Everyone wants to mimic the success of Scoble: good luck with that. - Blake N. Cooper

i think feed readers will keep working as knowledge bringers,sites like twitter,friendfeed et al however are breaching the distance from the reading the the conversation. inevitable also, is the fact that as services gain mass reach, the also average the content down to the middle. it's part of the reason "edgelings" move toward new smart-only-for-now services. - Ruben Llibre

Robert, I agree that FF is a little superficial, but I this was *Social* Media, i.e. conversation/sharing/exchange, rather than *Intellectual* Media. It's more like a party than a seminar, as it should be. I would love a place to have purely intellectual conversations in a social media framework. I can get a little bit of both from FF, but it does tend to be varied and yes, at times superficial. I like that aspect of it, but I can see your frustration given your objectives for what you want to get from it. - Steve Lowe

Most of my blogs readers still use RSS, they love RSS and were the early adapters as well. It's the blogs that depend on CPM advertising cash that don't want you using a feed reader. - paul mooney

With a Google Reader reader like Feedly the information comes in looking good, and the integration with FriendFeed makes it easy to put anything worthwile through. I think motherloads of people still think RSS is something you get from using your mouse too much, so declaring it death is way too early. - Ruud van Wijngaarden

I think the bigger item of interest is that the RSS readers are evolving. gReader includes notes, and you can share posts. All of the aggregation platforms do similar things. Basically, RSS is just the format, the display is changing. This is a good thing. - Rob Diana

RSS hasn't climbed the mountain of the masses yet. And it will. Just wait. - Jeroen Mirck

And I forgot, Jeremiah Owyang has started using imaginary friends for RSS feeds (http://friendfeed.com/e...). - Rob Diana

Good Question !! I have stopped using bloglines and/or Greader for the most part. However, most of thoses RSS gets pipped into my FF 'imagainy feed" named "restofworld" . So content is still getting aggregated, However the vehicle for such aggregation has now become FF. - Peter Dawson

These days firing up my RSS reader of choice is as stressful and inefficient as is walking into the magazine section at Barnes N Noble with the intention to "discover and catch up on interesting content". *Traditional* RSS consumption by human beings simply doesn't scale IMO. In the long-run we are all bound to call it quits. - Aviv

IMO the fluff means that FriendFeed is getting more popular. If any system wishes to keep from trending toward entropy, it needs to be insular in some fashion, or require a deliberate push toward order. I agree with Jeroen, RSS will become more chaotic as it is adopted more widely. - Phil G

@Nick: forget RSS bankruptcy - has Scoble just declared FriendFeed fatigue? ;) - Aviv

I agree with Cains. The movement away from pure intellectual discussion on FF makes me believe it's becoming more mainstream. It is inevitable. I for one welcome it, and look forward to services like NoiseRiver to help control the noise for those who are looking for a more filtered experience. - Hao Chen

@Hao: I agree. I think that for many of us the existing FF "flow" is slowly becoming "too raw" for sustainable direct consumption (some say it moves too fast, content too random, noisy discussions, childish LOL cats, not mainsteam enough, too geeky, etc.) Don't get me wrong, I don't think it's a flaw in the FF design - if anything, I think it will prove to be FF's greatest strengths... more... - Aviv

" FF "flow" is slowly becoming "too raw" for sustainable direct consumption" YES that is a fact. With that in mind, thats why my pvt rooms are important to me. I keep my rss feeds aggregated and still have quality content w/out any of the noise that I get on friends tab. FF is a dual edged. On one hand we can create convo's and on the other hand we can just use it as an RSS aggregator. - Peter Dawson

J. Phil is right: the fluff does mean that FF is getting more popular and bringing in a wider audience. I'm not too frustrated by it, just hit hide and move on. But, I do notice that we get lazy and stop bringing in interesting stuff, so I'm redoubling my efforts to go to Google Reader and make sure that I bring a ton of stuff in here to make sure we don't just talk about bacon. - Robert Scoble

It's not over by a long shot, but it aint mainstream either. - Steve Rubel

I've found myself neglecting Google Reader too much at times as well, instead gorging on FF bacon :) I've been trying to get back into flying thru Google Reader with SHIFT+S at the ready - Jeff (the マクダジ of FF)

I don't ever open up a reader. I just use Thunderbird and it's always there and up to date. No pain all gain. - Todd Hoff

+1 for bacon discussions and other goofy things on FF. Mixed in with tech news of course. - Mike Doeff

The use of RSS isn't over for me until more people from the hospitality industry move into using sites like twitter/friendfeed. - Shane Keener

for me, working in media relations, RSS is the only way to scan a lot of headlines in various industries. RSS for news, FriendFeed for conversations perhaps. FriendFeed for commenting and opinions and conversations, RSS readers for REAL NEWS. - Mike Lizun

My Google Reader is for me. It's for information that I don't necessarily need to share with others (like MLBTraderumors.com) or various other feeds that are in my industry (footwear). I use it for catching up on the things I know interest me. FF is like going to the local pub and catching up on the random silliness, tech news, etc that I may or may not be exposed to in my own personal day to day business. They serve two separate but sometimes overlapping needs..... - George Smith

Hate to say it, but FF and Twitter have replaced my rss reader... I miss it and I don't. - Andrew Hyde

I love my RSS feeds - no intention of giving them up. In fact, still waiting for some sites to get with the program. - William Harryman

Toluu is a great rss aggrigator. It is a community based app that identifies "users" that have similar interest to yours and allows you to see thier feeds and subscribe to them. I've found many great feeds and learn much more than casual browing could accomplish - Scott Schang from feedalizr

Well, for RSS it's definitely not. RSS is a standard. RSS Readers are clients. What you are referring to is if RSS Readers per se are dead. Which my answer is definitely not. I'm still very much addicted to Google Reader, and sometimes I have http://snackr.net playing on my monitor. IMHO, of course. - Jorge Escobar

For me, Google Reader allows me to pull the web in when I want whereas my feeling of FF is that I would need to adapt to when it pulls in feeds and discussion. That said, I'm sure third party FF apps could address this issue. - bendi from twhirl

Not even close. RSS is a major part of my daily routine. The problem with things like FriendFeed is that it's all about buzz, and little actual content. 99 people ranting about the same exact thing. I suspect PR and marketing folks have largely saturated it already, just as many tech blogs are nothing more than reformatted press releases. RSS feeds let me easily keep tabs on sites I trust. Not to mention RSS is used all over backends for most Social sites as well as news sites. It's the true news api. - Robert Accettura

RSS is far from dead, and that said,does anything truly die on the internet, I know lots of people who still use news servers (news://). plus I agree with Scoble, RSS readers make me smarter. I start everyday off with Google Reader reading the news, trade publication articles and other stories that expand my knowledge. I then head over to FriendFeed & SocialThing to see what others think is interesting and what they are talking about. - nick carrasco

I abandoned Google Reader when I started using FriendFeed. RSS readers are too cluttered and social filtering of RSS makes for far better content discovery. - Thomas Hawk

@Thomas Hawk, Google Reader is not the best tool for content discovery, but that's not what I use it for. I use it for staying current with content channels I've already discovered. - J. McConnell

for me, there is still lots of information that I don't get on ff or twitter, but do in google reader. I often find a good bit of new .NET tips that I don't think I would otherwise see. I think it's a bit too soon to cast off RSS readers until everyone is pushing all of their updates to all [important] services. - Steve Long from twhirl

Having divergent interests, and quite a few subscriptions in Google Reader, I am regularly back and forth between it and FriendFeed. I find the two very complementary - I enjoy and have learned from the perspectives of those I subscribe to and respect here, which prompts me to search for additional content in GR to absorb. RSS definitely maximizes my online time, FriendFeed enhances it. - jcunwired

GReader is for slow and indepth consumption, Friendfeed is fast food. I like both, but they say too much fast food is unhealthy. - Alexander van Elsas

I still use my Bloglines account regularly as it's the best way to keep up with sites that I like to read on a regular basis in a format that makes sense for me. RSS and stuff like FriendFeed are different in similar manner to how watching TV and using a DVR are different. One just gives you random stuff based on someone else's idea of what I should see and the other allows me to control the content that I see much more effectively. - Alex Scoble

If GReader is luxurious dining out, and FF is fast food, then what would be a nice, custom home-cooked meal? - Hao Chen

RSS readers are not even close to over! I get a constant stream of quality news and information, custom tailored to my interests. Still way better quality than anything I could get from a social networking site such as FriendFeed. I get much less noise from my RSS feed, without having to go through the effort to manually filter/hide stuff I don't care about, like I have to do on social networks. - Jeff P. Henderson

For me writing a blog post is a conscious intentional act. If I subscribe to a blog I know I will get quality material (most of the time). Aggregation such as with Friendfeed is very different. too many sources and too many unintentional shares. As a result there is more content that is less interesting. In GReader you don't need filters, noise reduction schemes or whatever. You either subscribe or you don't. FF lets you consume fast, discover, but also gives you massive amounts of useless content. - Alexander van Elsas

@Robert, quite the contrary - Google Reader has become even more important to me and its still the first place I go. Much less noise and topics I care about right away as well as smart recommendations. FF's strength is its ability to handle conversations. A combination of both would be utopia for me. - Ron Emrick

i think this has been a case of "narrative bias" (e.g. i'm bored with it so the whole world must be bored with it as well). RSS readers (particularly GReader) are stronger than ever. Google Reader is an integral part of my information gathering/filtering/sharing (e.g. sharing via FF). - ~C4Chaos

I think people will become even more selective with what feeds they add to their reader and will look for personal recommendations for those 'hidden gem' blogs that they don't know about yet, but would love. - Caleb Elston

I think that RSS Readers need a few new features to make them feel less like email clients. First I'd like the ability to set a time to live for the articles in some blogs. It's ok to miss articles from one feed because if it's important it'll show up somewhere else later, a lot of people say that's they switched from RSS readers to twitter. - Shawn McCollum

Next is to add a feature to manage the "me too" posts. I've been reading my feeds via a tag cloud where the important to me articles bubble up, sometimes by shear number of posts (iphone related). From my cloud I click on say iphone and I can view all the posts about the iphone, see if it's interesting read or mark read. It's really cut down the time I spend reading just to catch up on what's going on. - Shawn McCollum

when feedreaders are better at whitelisting items for my attention i'll probably get hooked again but i stopped regularly using a feedreader nearly four years ago and have done just fine letting my friends filter the web for me (that's what social media means to me). - Christian Crumlish

Robert Seidman

Television Review - ‘Mad Men’ Return to the Office (Forbidden Vices in Tow) - Review - NYTimes.com - http://www.nytimes.com/2008...

July 25, 2008 from Bookmarklet - Comment - Like - Share

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"The very first time the hero of “Mad Men” appeared on the screen, this ad executive was in a swanky New York bar, smoking and drinking manhattans before heading downtown to look in on his sexy, free-thinking girlfriend — before going home to his wife." - Robert Seidman from Bookmarklet

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Actually, Mad Men references Ayn Rand -- part of the neat historical detail in the gorgeous production. - Sean McBride

so is this a good series? i don't watch too much tv, but someone told me it was pretty cool - Cee Bee

Cee Bee -- I wanted to catch up on this for season two so I started watching via On-Demand. After four episodes my take is that it's at least a little overrated. I think its a media darling because it's a "period piece" that's well produced, well acted and -- the cinematography is spectacular. The attention to little details of what went on during that time is high (and spot-on). And I think in general people love that stuff. But so far I don't find the characters that compelling or the story itself. - Robert Seidman

I'm doing a bit of a 180. I needed to watch 5 episodes to get completely sucked in. But now, I am completely.sucked.in. : ) - Robert Seidman

There, now -- I knew Seidman's enthusiasm would escalate with further viewings. - Sean McBride

cannot wait. - MG Siegler

Robert Seidman

Watch with Kristin - Dr. Horrible's Highest Lights - http://www.eonline.com/gossip...

July 26, 2008 from Bookmarklet - Comment - Like - Share

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"The Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog panel at Comic-Con was as amusing as you would expect, but there were some extraspecial moments that I had to share. (My faves, you may have different ones.) Funniest Misunderstanding: When actress Felicia Day said during the panel, "I'm Twittering under here," it actually wasn't a euphemism for, you know, self love. Still, from that moment forward (after a lot of ribbing from the boys), Felicia kept her hands on the table at all times..." - Robert Seidman from Bookmarklet

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So these exerpt blogs are great, but is there a video of the full panel somewhere? - Phil G

I was just talking about how Doogie invented the blog...no one believed me! - Brian Bufalo

J Phil, if a video of that panel exists I couldn't find it. :-/ - Robert Seidman

Buh. I won't even try then! I know you are the master of all that is video-related, Robert! - Phil G

J.Phil, not so much really online (but only because there is too much). Though I couldn't find anything with the whole panel, there are snippets on YouTube, including this one, which doesn't contain the quote above, but does include some of the ribbing. http://www.youtube.com/watch... - Robert Seidman

Glenn Slaven

Robot Chicken Star Wars Clips - http://www.youtube.com/watch...

July 17, 2008 from YouTube favorites - Comment - Like - Share

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Its been pulled. - Don Rogers

MG Siegler

Cow farts collected in plastic tank for global warming study - Telegraph - http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news...

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"In a bid to understand the impact of the wind produced by cows on global warming, scientists collected gas from their stomachs in plastic tanks attached to their backs." - MG Siegler from Bookmarklet

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OMG - AJ Batac

Oh good grief! - Adam Turetzky

I just love the photo. - Rob Schonberger

I'm not trying to be funny when I mention that may be dangerous - methane is flammable. Ok, it is funny if you think of those things becoming like a jetpack. - Vince DeGeorge

HAHA that made me LAUGH OUT LOUD - Mona Nomura

OMG, seriously you guys, that is so totally gross. LOL - Rahsheen ™, Coach Rah

Oh, that poor thing even looks embarrassed. Vegetarianism, anyone? :-) - Joanmarie

These Scientists should try the experiment on their self! - Alex Sauceda

Human toots don't contain methane very often, makes strapping tanks on scientists a fairly unfeasible alternative. Needs a no smoking sign IMO. - Geoff Schultz

Cow with jet packs... I AM ... IRON COW - Yolanda

@Yolanda I'm wiping the tears from my eyes! - Capn' One Eye - adrift

Where can I get one of those? - Jason Runyan

This could take cow tipping to a another place - Jon Dillon

lol @Yolanda. Me, I had a Hindenberg parody all ready to go, but when the radio announcer started comparing the smell of the burning cow to BBQ, it got a little dark even for me. - Karim

The poor cow looks mortified, and the English government will give grants for anything apparently. - Jacob

And you wonder how we ended up with mad cows - Jon Dillon

more like pissed-off cows. - Victor Ryden

what will the scientists do next? - Rahul Das

Yolanda, FTW! - Sujal Shah

McCain and Bush already devising plan to drop the cows on Iran. - Chris Reed

TV by the Numbers

Mad Men: Critics Love It, Viewers Ignore It - http://tvbythenumbers.com/2008...

July 9, 2008 from TVbytheNumbers - Comment - Like - Share

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not all viewers! - edythe

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I like it more than Bill does, but it makes me want to go buy cigarettes and drink martinis at lunch. All bad. - Robert Seidman

Where else can you watch throughly unlikeable characters that keep you coming back episode after episode. - Tom Landini

Battlestar Galactica? Seinfeld? Sopranos? I could go on ;-) - Robert Seidman

The Sopranos had unlikeable characters? - Tom Landini

Paul Buchheit

Describing new products as "clones" of something else and focusing on the similarities is generally useless and misleading. If new products were completely different, they would be incomprehensible to users. What's more interesting to me is hearing how the new product is different.

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Paul, I wonder if a specific recent 'clone' prompted this comment. - Michael C. Harris

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Philosophically I agree with you completely. Twitter isn't many things FriendFeed is, and vice versa. But when you post status messages of the ilk the social media mavens would post on Twitter, aren't you drawing more attention to the similarities than the differences? - Robert Seidman

Lively, but I see it all the time with other products as well. People keep calling it a Second Life clone, then complain that it has all these differences from Second Life! I have a vague recollection of what the idea behind the product was a few years ago, and I thought it sounded kind of cool, but I don't see any of that reflected in the stories that people are writing about it because they are all focused on how it's kind of similar to some other product (that I don't even use anyway). - Paul Buchheit

No one creates ex nihilo: Innovation IMHO is combinating stuff, and using analogies, sometimes real-life ones :) - directeur from NoiseRiver

little. yellow. different. - MG Siegler

It's like complaining that humans are just some kind of of chimp clone. The dna is 95% the same! (or whatever) - Paul Buchheit

You get more buy-in to move from one product to another by describing how much like the new product is to the one you're already used to, only better. Change is frightening to most users: take a look at Friendfeed and Twitter. Friendfeed described by itself? Dumb stare from large portions of even the early adopter community. Say it's like Twitter, only better? They all switch over. - Mark Trapp

Perhaps the word "mutation" is more appropriate as it suggests evolution... as in "Google was a mutation of AltaVista." - Philipp Lenssen

For some reason, I am finding this to be the funniest thread I've seen all day. - Robin Barooah

ah...oops. : ) But they're all clones of Club Caribe/Habbitat from more than 20 years ago. The bigger question may be why NONE of them really catch on with the masses. - Robert Seidman

here here. Bang-bloody-on. - Zee.

If it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck... then it's a clone. - Vince DeGeorge

Robert, Google wasn't the first search engine, the web wasn't the first hypertext system, etc. Sometimes it takes a while to get all of the details right, plus there are external timing issues that can make a big difference. To me, the interesting thing about Lively (as I understand it) is that it's more integrated with the web instead of being a whole separate world the way SL is. - Paul Buchheit

Modern computer games are all Nethack clones anway. - Michael C. Harris

Paul, good points thanks. I guess for me, when I saw HTML, I knew instinctively it was a bigger deal than GOPHER. I knew search was a big deal and insinctively could see Google was much better than Alta Vista. This isn't hitting me instinctively but that could just be because I'm old now. - Robert Seidman

Reminds me of movie pitches - "It's Battlefield Earth meets Howard the Duck" - Andrew Smith

Now that I've stopped laughing about the chimp analogy. I'l say that Lively looks way better for 'impromptu' meetings and special events - such as lectures or product launches. I wonder how it holds up to large numbers of visitors in the same room. - Robin Barooah

Well, for better and for worse, it seems like this is how humans ("class human extends chimp" in Java?) assimilate new information, by relating it to what they already know. Musical groups are described as being influenced by other musical groups. Films are described as "'Aliens' meets 'Home Alone.'" Stereotypes and oversimplification are *the norm* for our species, because genuinely new stuff makes people think, and most people don't like to think. Thinking uses up glucose and oxygen in the brain. - Karim

The brain already uses a disproportionate amount of the body's oxygen (25%) and most people work on minimizing that. (Doing things is considered more "fun" by most people when you don't have to *think* too much about them, when it becomes a reflex.) If you *prefer* new information, that means you like to think, and you should seriously consider the possibility that you aren't derived from class chimp after all. :-D - Karim

And yes, that is oversimplifying for the humans in the audience :-D - Karim

Paul - Think the better example is the myriad of articles comparing Twitter to Friendfeed. They both have a place, but are two completely different products. I did a brief on Lively. While it was difficult not to mention Second Life (because the broader audience sees a similarity), I did an edit within an hour to reflect to broader web aspect. I think some of it comes down to 'rush to press'. We can only hope some will not be afraid to make corrections - Charlie Anzman

Cont: Or do their homework first .. and let someone else 'break the story' - Charlie Anzman

Steve Rubel

eddie murphy's giant head on the interstate on Flickr - Photo Sharing! - http://www.flickr.com/photos...

June 25, 2008 from Bookmarklet - Comment - Like - Share

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Marketing! What a country! - Steve Rubel from Bookmarklet

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Great stuff, glad it is not Eddie Murphy giant penis! LOL - Igor The Troll יִצְחָק

Um, I thought it was funny. My 6-yr-old screamed and said "creepy". - Karen Mohler

Commenting on this so that Mike Doeff can take a shot in the Friendfeed drinking game. - Jason Wehmhoener

No - he's back! [ chugs his drink ] - Mike Doeff

Birmingham? Why? - Anthony Citrano

he was SO funny SO long ago. - Anthony Citrano

Jeremiah Owyang

A unique Friendfeed feature would be: A visual map that shows how ideas/links/submissions are spread from one person to another via 'like'. This would show influencers, networks, and communities of interest

July 6, 2008 - Comment - Like - Share

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awesome idea Jeremiah! Ooooh I WANT this feature bad!! - Susan Beebe

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firstly , time stamps are needed, secondly 'likes on multiple same URI could be difficult. I may Like an entry from a friend's del.ious entry or maybe from another person who actually posts the URI on FF. How can this mapped out ? A visual map normally has one start point/seed and then spawns outwards to various nodes and then branches even more. - Peter Dawson

heres a classic e.g of a like in multiple places from the same user but different URI http://friendfeed.com/e... and the other URI http://friendfeed.com/e... - Peter Dawson

Exactly how do you determine who or what an influencer is? This is less obvious than it appears. I've seen "big names" retweet ideas of someone with a lower social profile. The original idea came from person A but person B has a larger social network. So, who is the influencer here, the person who came up with the idea or the person who told all of their friends? If it is person B, doesn't that discount the substantial influence person A had on them? You're privileging social capital over creative capital. - Liz

+1 for Liz's comment - Corvida from twhirl

+2 for Liz - Hutch Carpenter

This would be another tool for creating elites. Is that really what we want? - Chris Baskind

A brand manager's wet dream. - Sprague D

Chris: good point. But my curious side really want to know how all this stuff is really happening! - Susan Beebe

I like the idea of charting how information moves virally to see who the influencers are. Hopefully, this would let you see who infuences the so called "elite", "a-lister", "agent-of-change". - Mathew A. Koeneker from fftogo

Ohhh, that would be awesome. I'd love to sit back and watch an idea spread. - Summer

Mathew, all these ""elite", "a-lister", "agent-of-change" are actually pretty mch just with large Social capital. not the creative capital ( +3 goes to Liz !!). This AM, I saw a lot of chatter on Lumosity, to me this was wickedly old in terms of tech tech. http://friendfeed.com/e... however, when looking back onto FF you will find Leo Laporte posting it and many peeps then repurposing that twit/post via many methods, digg, rooms etc. - Peter Dawson

@spragued please no more brands and managers for them - A.T.

To respond to those: The influencer could start at the source node (creative capital) as well as those who are sneezers (spread to many others) it can serve the purpose of both. - Jeremiah Owyang

It could look like Digg's swarm ... that would be pretty cool - David Weiner

Steven...Read Seth Godin's work, yeah it's like boogers ;) - Jeremiah Owyang

Hey Jeremiah, I just posted about a new Google patent to do exactly this http://www.socialtimes.com/2008... - Nick O'Neill

love the idea. - mjc

Paul Buchheit

Homemade Flame Thrower - http://mirror.linnwood.org/flameth...

July 6, 2008 from Bookmarklet - Comment - Like - Share

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That's awesome, and I think it will speed up darwinism - Blackopsmanners

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Hum... The purpose? the use? :) - directeur from NoiseRiver

Next: car mounted version - Ken Sheppardson

Awesome flamethrower! - Mitchell Tsai

Somebody is gonna put an eye out with that thing. - Chris Baskind

Got to love diy flame throwers - Czar

Directuer, this is part of urban warfare and survival tactics training. Maybe this kid got his hands /idea from the some army guy or he just did it for kicks :)- - Peter Dawson

Somehow, I'm reminded of this joke: What does a redneck say before he dies? "Hey y'all watch this!" - Hutch Carpenter

That's hot! - Adam Lasnik

Hutch, you had me chuckling out loud there. ;) - Mathew A. Koeneker

the words homemade and flamethrower don't fare well in my prognosticating abilities - Cee Bee

me and the ground hog would get along great w/ that. - clarke thomas

Need one of these for weeds. - Larry Huffman

Great addition to one's zombie defense arsenal, that's for sure. - Ken Sheppardson

w o w - JA Castillo

please be careful man - Jason Calacanis

that's like a... real life rocketeer. RAD - Mona Nomura

s'mores? - Frankie Warren

@Blackopsmanners have to totally awesome and speed up darwinism just a bit - Justin Yost

OMG.. what's the opposite of a Fireman? heh - Daynah

http://www.youtube.com/watch... - Sean-Michael Robinson

I love it! - mjc

OMG.... Will come in handy for when those flesh-eating zombies try to take over... - Yule Heibel

My brother used to use hairspray and a lighter ...don't show him this!! hehehe! (LOL @ Hutch's comment above - awesome!!) - Susan Beebe

Oh boy! - Nicholas Kreidberg

OMG I must have that. - Jason Runyan

Perfect gift for the troll who has everything. - Dave Winer

And if this guy blows himself up, we can all pay for his lifelong medical rehabilitation via insurance premiums. - Sal DiStefano

My sister's boyfriend would LOVE this. He's just the type of guy who likes to build crazy, stupid things - David Adam

I know I'd let *my* kid play with a flamethrower in the backyard. Sureyoubet. - Chris Baskind

amazon, sell this now. haha. - mjc from Alert Thingy

You can take my flamethrower when you pry it from my hot, dead hands. - Jim Norris

I live in Northern Cal, we have enough fire thank you very much! - Barb Gonzalez

There is a much simpler and cheaper way of making a flamethrower: http://youtube.com/watch... - Thai Tran

Cool toy! But be careful man. - Jeff P. Henderson

exactly who needs a homemade flamethrower? - Paul Moss from Alert Thingy

Whoa. Judging from the aim on the second pic, those tree's probably are toast by now. - Franklin Naval

nice work idiot - ben rogers from twhirl

The hotness, literally. - David Cancel

this is fantastic - long live This Guy so my pyro bend can continue vicariously through his efforts (realizing, of course, that he may already be dead) - Nate

diy + do-not-try-this-at-home = hero - Pete Delucchi

Ginger Makela Riker

Contemporary Castle / Missile Silo? - http://www.milehimodern.com/7186Gle...

July 3, 2008 from Bookmarklet - Comment - Like - Share

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Hmmm. Modern with a touch of defensive capability? - Ginger Makela Riker from Bookmarklet

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I like it - Michael W. May from twhirl

if it has any military capability, it is then only looks-like-mobile-missile-launcher -- there is nothing defensive in standing (erected) building... but somehow I am not freaked over pictures. - A.T.

What were they thinking? - Shakeel Mahate

That is awesome. I love that interior space between the silos, that's some big glass! - felix

looking over the other offerings on that site... man, what you get in Denver compared to what I'm getting, not even staying in Manhattan, but moving to Williamsburg? Ouch. Sigh. - felix

Chris Brogan

What The F**K is Social Media - http://shannonpaul.wordpress.com/2008...

July 3, 2008 from Google Reader - Comment - Like - Share

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That is just BRILLIANT. - Lucretia Pruitt

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Slide 46, 48, 70. - Hao Chen

Slide 78: Marta didn't add a Friendfeed. You get on the f**king train. - Hao Chen

Great presentation too. Nice facts especially the porn one. - Corvida

Whew. I was worried for a minute there that I wasn't on the Internet! (see the presentation) - Dean Terry

yeah, but the difference between social media and pr0n is that pr0n makes money. - Cyndy

Marta Kagan is @mzkagan on twitter - Brad Collins from twhirl

Cyndy, you like typing pr0n way too much. ;] - Hao Chen

Wow, an excellent presentation of what social media is. The statistics shown at the beginning are amazing! - Jeff P. Henderson

It was rather cool, very simple to understand, I am going to be using it when i chat with clients - Lantz from twhirl

some amazing stats and numbers presented here for sure. ;) - Garry Conn

l0ckergn0me

Best... Trailer... Ever. - http://www.youtube.com/watch...

July 2, 2008 - Comment - Like - Share

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Boo-yah! - Michael Forian

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Boo Yah. LOL - BISQ from twhirl

Easily my favorite trailer for a movie...it helps that i'm on the edge of my seat waiting for Hellboy II though :P - Sean Dunn

I think it's James Lipton's "booyah" that makes it. - Tim from Alert Thingy

LOL. - Jonathon

ya gotta see Kevin Spacey on actors studio ... doing the impressions ... go to youtube now; you'll thank me - Dan Covington

Jamie Foxx's Ronald Reagan impression too. Freakishly good. Love that series. - Casey

is this the best movie summer ever or what. - Karim

That seems to be the thing, you know, create a strong personal brand, then wind up as a caricature of it. I think Baudrillard referred to that as "hyperreal." c.f. John Dvorak, Andy Rooney... - Karim

I think he should have said BOOyahhh! differently. C'mon he's an acting coach!? :) Very funny... - Mario Sundar

I am very excited for this and for the Dark Knight. - RAPatton

I have not seen the first one, have no real desire to see this one, but this is a GREAT trailer! ;) - Paula Hawk

Are you kidding me?? That was a bit too short and not super funny... not sure where the best ever hype is coming from. It's tough with actor's studio after Will Ferrell has done such a good job making fun of it- making fun of IAS is a bit hacky now. - Brian Carter

Jeremiah Owyang

The Marketing leadership teams at Pownce and Jaiku are missing a big opportunity this week, they should be aggressive in acquiring new membership with Twitter suffering. They should make some noise, demonstrate reliability/scalability, reach to key influencers, and host microblog meetups all over

June 28, 2008 - Comment - Like - Share

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it's not jaiku priority for now I guess, as for pownce I couldn't agree more - Dobromir Hadzhiev

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they should. because i'm one of those Twitter only users who hasn't even caught on to Pownce or Jaiku. Twitter is like being in a relationship that you know is bad for you but can't leave. We sit around just waiting for them to fix it over and over and over again even though there are probably better fishies in the sea. what's up with that huh? heh. - Christine Lu

Jaiku is dead in its current form. Look out for the infrastructure to be implemented in Android. - Jamie

You gotta figure that there is major work being done on Jaiku to be Google's angle on the Twitter issue. With a strong integration with gTalk, some form of filter and track and the muscle of the Google servers, they could have a play that could give Twitter a run for the money, especially in it's current crippled form. - Aron Michalski from fftogo

Jaiku is not able to talk about reliability, as it was down for several days a while ago, I believe after their one and only database server lost it's hard drives. If they still don't have more infrastructure in place, the last thing they'll want is more users - Ewan

Not sure what is going on with Jaiku, but I figured Pownce would have done something. Even a lame attempt at a viral campaign will get them some publicity. Somehow Plurk got a lot of attention, but it has a UI that requires more attention than something like the simplicity of Twitter. - Rob Diana

Just wish Twitter get it all sorted. SMS, open API, nice UI, lots of applications to help usability. Setting up a new batch of followers would be a pain. While current problems may be related to existing code, for taking my share of hardware resources a clearly identified ad every 250 messages received wouldn't be a pain (for me). - AlexBowman

Agree, at the same time, Twitter should be highlighting all the tools in their ecosystem which help Twitter users - e.g. Status blog, Twiddict etc.; mmm re other comments, will Google take over micro-blogging with Jaiku (some day)? I don't want Google taking over everything - I'd like to have competition between the different providers etc. - Justin Guy Souter from twhirl

Christine is absolutely right: Twitter use is like a dysfunctional relationship. There are very few businesses these days that can consistently annoy and piss off their customers yet still retain them. User interface has a lot to do with it but the best thing Twitter has going for it right now is critical mass. I'd switch to something else if I knew enough of my Tweeps were using it as well. I don't, so I can't switch. - David Erickson

The lack of poaching by Twitter competitors gives the impression that they aren't so sure they could handle the new load themselves. So far I have not really seen a complete replacement for all of twitters features either. - Mark Nassal

What's interesting is that people speak of Plurk as a competitor and acceptable substitution, yet I don't really see anyone heading that direction and find that I'm happy right now with the parts of Twitter that work... - Marc Vermut

I've tried plurk, but not enough real talk over there at this point - Daltonsbriefs

Actually one of many things could replace twitter because it does not really add functionality that we didn't already have. the value of the twitter is the members and without twitter but with enough leadership, theoretically conversations could be transferred to 1.0 platforms such as BBS or even via email conversations with a predefined distribution list. It is not the tools that make the social network, it is the people in it. All we are really sharing is text, images, audio & video. - dedlam

Jeremiah Owyang

So many are getting it wrong, it's Twitter AND Friendfeed, it's not Twitter OR Friendfeed. Agree or Disagree?

July 1, 2008 - Comment - Like - Share

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Agree! - Evgeni Leshtanski

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at the moment, yes. but that doesn't need to be the case in future - Jamie

Yes to both currently. - Paul W. Swansen

Of course its both... as Shel says: "New Media don't kill Old Media." Does this mean Twitter is now 'old media' - David Phillips

Agree. Twitter for a-synchronous talk, Friendfeed for more extended discussion. For me that is:) - Martijn Verver from twhirl

I've been preaching that for awhile now... Use twitter as a broadcast and FF for the conversation. It's a relationship that works. - Vince DeGeorge

absolutely agree, but I am wondering whether they are going to be the "defacto" standards. - Rob Diana

Agree. - John Samuelson

I hope it will be only Friendfeed soon. Doesn't anybody else get tired of all these different kind of networks? Sometimes monopoly is a good thing. Let's all head over to MSN ;-) - Rutger Blom from twhirl

mine is a little more extreme - friendfeed mostly & twitter rarely - i do push my ff's to twitter & i check my twitter replies & dm sometimes - i would like to get to the point where all my friends are in friendfeed and i no longer need to go to twitter at all - i used to like whales ;) - mike "glemak" dunn

Agree. They are different and both ueful in different ways. I see no need to choose between them just yet. I'm using Plurk too, which is different again - very informal conversation. - jjprojects

Disagree. Reason? Time. I don't have time for multiple services. For me, right now at least, it's FF. - Steve Rubel

Jury is still way, way out. - Warner Crocker

tiwtter is short and sweet.... ff is for discussions... i think they both have a niche - c010depunkk from twhirl

Disagree. You needn't use one to use the other. And, like Steve, I'm serviced-out. - Chris Baskind

agreed - Mona Nomura

You don't need one to use the other but they sure are handy to use together - John Blanton from twhirl

Haven't maid up my mind yet, but it seems that the different services and their approaches fill different needs. Undecided for now! - tekspectator

Exactly! Why does it have to be "either" "or"? - Steve

I definitely agree. It is frustrating to have people insist one is better than the other. Two totally different beasts. - Shawn Farner from twhirl

could not agree more. probably the best twitter, FF comment in a long time. - Bastian

Agree! At this point, FF's comment functionality isn't good enough to replace Twitter for me. With Twhirl, it doesn't seem like tool overload to use both. - jen robinson from twhirl

Apart from twitter's SMS interface.. what is missing (for you) in FF? @ ? - Kishore Balakrishnan

Its FF only. reaons against Twitter : (a) Twitter whaling to often (b) not easy to track/thread twitter replies together. FOR FF (1) FF stable (2) FF Conov enabler/agggreagator (3) I like it better :)- - Peter Dawson

An integrated solution with both would be best. Twittering out of FriendFeed - that's my dream! - Matthias Schwenk

Oh definitely agree. They are symbiotic beasts - Deepak Singh

Agree absolutely, when social media tools complement, the sum become greater than the parts - Charlie Hope from twhirl

@ Matthias you can comment back from FF in Twitter already... - Charlie Hope from twhirl

and, and, and... there's Utterz, Flickr, blog, etc. etc. etc. -- so, yes. It all goes together. FriendFeed has a chance to become a hub (the way Twitter is foe me now, but more so), if it can somehow tame itself - Doug Haslam from twhirl

Funny how this comes to my attention now as Twitter is not updating for me, but FF is. I love how I can reply to FF via @Twhirl. That is a dynamic combintion. - Tracy Lee Carroll from twhirl

@Matthias I wonder if someone has created a tool that takes your own FF posts and makes a tweet from it? You'd need to turn off tweets in FF otherwise there would be a feedback loop that would eventually destroy the universe. - Elliot Tucker

agree - Dieter Schwarz

elliot: twitterfeed does that, put in your ff atom feed and remove your twitter feed from ff - mike "glemak" dunn

Agree....finally somebody comes out and says it as it should be said :) - Arjun

it's both right now - if you have group of people in Twitter then it is both - otherwise the conversation is moving more into friendfeed on a greater range of topics so for those not so tied to twitter it is twitter or friendfeed - Riaz Kanani

Disagree. Twitter has crossed the line. It is dead to me and too much of the time it is dead to everyone. - Dave Slusher

I kind of agree. There's too much noise on FriendFeed to have simple, conversational, exchanges. - Bill Bittner

thanks mike - Elliot Tucker

If Twitter doesn't get its act together, it will be FriendFeed and no Twitter. I'm revisiting FriendFeed today after a nice hiatus - Michael Koby from Alert Thingy

Completely agree. - Parth Awasthi from twhirl

This is be being real: I love Twitter, and don't get me wrong, I think FriendFeed is cool, too.. but I think Facebook will ultimately adopt the killer features of both and wipe them out. - Shawn Farner from twhirl

Elliot, you can try feeding your FF entries feed into Twitterfeed.com. - Dewald Pretorius

And probably many other services we'll adopt - Sally: baby flier

Agreed. FF, to me, is more of a reading rather than authoring experience - Michael Lehman

Agree. Friend Feed is my Twitter extension for comments and groups - Jon Bishop

Yep, I use both. - Brent Newhall

Agree! - Sarah Perez

Agree; tell me though, does Pownce = Twitter + FriendFeed [or vice-versa] or am I just being thick? Twhirl posts to Pownce for me as well, but taking Rafe Needleman's advice and not tracking multiple communities. FF good for posts too long for Twitter - Justin Guy Souter from twhirl

FriendFeed > Twitter for me. I feel more value when I post here first. - Steve Isaacs

agree, and, in between Twitter and Friendfeed , many other indispensible things are included. - Nikos Anagnostou

Agree! - Marc Dierens

twitter for messaging, friendfeed for aggregation - Tyler Gillies

Agree 100% - Mike Doeff

What Mike said. AND is IMPT. - Brian Daniel Eisenberg

I agree. I still just wish that twitter is more stable. - Alan Le

agree!! - edythe

I definitely agree. FriendFeed is not a Twitter replacement. - Jake (aka Jawee) from twhirl

agree for now, but not forever... - Jeremy Toeman

well I would have to agree as I do use both.. it seems obvious they are different things. - Karl from twhirl

http://venturebeat.com/2008... - MG Siegler

Both - but grudgingly. Honestly? The only reason I go to FF is because some of my Twitterpals migrated here and won't come back. Twitter is my main gal - FF is my Friday night stand-in. If I could do away with FF I would. - Lucretia Pruitt

Twitter is too myopic to last much longer. Our online lives are a lot more complicated than 140 characters. - David Weiner

How much time to we all have?? There are use cases for both twitter and friend feed. Some people WILL choose one or the other. There are functional aspects that i like about both. For me it is both. - Rodney Rumford

Its neither - it's what fits your structure and how you want to connect. If you want actual conversations and build on relationpships, IMO, Plurk is good at that. FF seems too cluttered but aggregates a lot information together. Twitter is still good for me and is a great broadcast tool, some communication, and a lot of industry heads that you can learn from. - Sonny Gill

It's becoming less and less so. I'd much rather have one service I can do it all on and FriendFeed satisfies that much better. Twitter still has things FF doesn't though so for what FF doesn't satisfy, I will continue to use Twitter for. - Jesse Stay from twhirl

I suppose I could go with the AND if FF offered a pure stream like twitter. I really don't like the threaded conversation presentation ... but maybe that's because I mostly use twirl? - Clint

Agree *completely*! - Kasey Sistrunk Anderson

You're almost right. I get what you're getting at. But the two are different and will grow separate paths with some common features. - phil baumann

phil, if they do grow in separate paths, that's great! I'll continue using both! However, I will not continue to use both for the same reasons. I'm removing the duplicate effort lately and consolodating what I can over to FriendFeed, leaving the remaining effort to Twitter. - Jesse Stay from twhirl

My other concern is that Twitter just doesn't have the expertise up high to make it a successful service. You will see the FF founders frequently engaged in conversations about FF on their service. I have yet to see a single Twitter founder engage in any of the critiques or compliments about their service on Twitter. - Jesse Stay from twhirl

FF ideal for social discovery as long as folks hooking up enough of their services. I like the "noise" of FF. - Stephen Francoeur

...and Plurk, and Facebook, and Pownce, and Jaiku, and more to come. Twitter for its simplicity and all the add-on apps and all the others for conversations or smaller groups with specific interests. - Brenda Young

agree! - Clay Newton

Agree! To me, it's "FriendTweed" - David Cook

Just for you Jeremiah (Just a rough draft) http://tinyurl.com/55eof3 - David Cook

currently it's only Friendfeed cause twitter has lowered the allowed API requests. I don't use Twitter via web - Frank Hamm

Completely agree - Peggy Gartin

Pretty much agree. - Bec Rowe @d0tski

Twitter+FriendFeed! - Igor Poltavskiy

Agree - Summer

Robert Scoble

Blog comments are dead: discuss - http://scobleizer.com/2008...

June 30, 2008 from Scobleizer -- Tech geek... - Comment - Like - Share

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So, if my FriendFeed on this is embedded on my blog, will it be considered a comment? Blog posts are daily journals that are dead, until comments bring them back alive and keep them living! - Michael Sheehan from twhirl

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sorry Robert but you're wrong - Steven Hodson

"Trying to control where comments on your blog posts are displayed is fruitless" would be be my version of your post - Brian Sullivan

Heheh. Already more comments here too. - Robert Scoble

Isn't the web meant to be "hyperlinked" at first? - directeur from NoiseRiver

Dead? No. Being re-invented as we speak? Yes. - Mike Doeff

So Robert...where are you more likely to respond to a comment? Here on FF or over on your blog? - Jerry Chacon

If FriendFeed would just partner with Disqus to handle comments, we'd have a comment system that cut across all the channels, no? - Ken Sheppardson

I'm against "centred" things. Look at twitter. The most distributed things are, the best it is. - directeur from NoiseRiver

Jerry: I'm equally likely to respond to a comment here as well as on my blog. Ken, Disqus can help, but not really. I still like commenting on FriendFeed better than on people's blogs. For a whole lot of reasons. Much of which has to do with UI and iPhone accessibility. - Robert Scoble

It's because people want to OWN their own comments. You can store your own comments wherever you like because they belong to you. I wonder how many people started blogging because they wanted to join the conversation on their own blog rather than just replying on other people's blog? - Chris Paton

@Robert - I commented here strictly based on your headline as I am in the middle of a post and your post hasn't shown up in my reader yet (yes I could have clicked the link but I'm busy - post reading can wait) - I very often comment on the blogs if the post is *sufficently interesting* enough to entice me to post a comment. - Steven Hodson

directeur: cool. My experience shows that most people don't care about those issues. Including on Twitter. When it's up I still see a Tweet every second coming into my account. - Robert Scoble

Robert, I'm clearly quite visible here, but even for me, I still get more comments on the blog than on FriendFeed, in most cases. See my article about that here: http://www.louisgray.com/live... - Louis Gray

Heh...I commented on your blog Robert, but I'm seeing a "waiting moderation" message. Score 1 for FriendFeed (you're seeing this comment immediately). - Hutch Carpenter

I second that comments are being reinvented. I also agree with people wanting to own their comments. I've just become so used to Disqus and FriendFeed that I couldn't believe that some blogs still had the old Wordpress commenting mechanism. - Rishabh Mishra (p248)

Louis: I still am getting a lot of comments, but I'm definitely seeing the tide switching. I bet that much of your audience doesn't know you are on FriendFeed all the time yet. - Robert Scoble

I'm thinking that the "latest" section on my homepage should just be my brand's Ffeed - Tom Beardshaw

Cool. And the comments are all here on FriendFeed.. Very cool. Of course, for Joe.Blogspot the thesis is incorrect. But maybe it's a trend. - john conroy

FF allows us to cross-post back to twitter when responding to tweets in our FF feed here. Wouldn't it be possible to send our FF comments to Disqus comments back to the blogs? - sedgewick

If it's a blogger I know is on FF, I'll comment on FF. - Tom Landini

I think he's right...if not dead, they are close - George Gray

We've had several very useful discussions on scripting.com recently. - Dave Winer

the-iBlog doesn't get many comments, and I'm not commenting on other blogs as much either. - Oli from the-iBlog

gee i never got many blog comments in the first place - Andy Sternberg from twhirl

A bit premature but inevitably I think you will pan out to be right. It seems like more of a chore checking my own blog's comments lately, and I seldom leave blog comments for lack of patience with login/typekey/captcha lameness. The ease and speed of commenting here has made blog comments seem downright stale. - Steve Isaacs

Not totally dead but getting there! You should add FF comments to your blog, I just did and love the integration: http://www.seanpercival.com/blog... - sean percival

Your post does have some merit, Robert. Before FriendFeed (and still currently), people's actual visits to blogs were diminishing, while reading through rss readers and such was increasing. This is especially true for tech blogs. I think people were longing to be able to comment via their feed reader without having to go back to the blog. FriendFeed seems to solve this, and I think will only get better as they improve. - Jesse Stay

I don't want blog comments to die... I love receiving them! - Paul Stamatiou

I want to also add that there's nothing wrong with people not coming back to your blog if you have a way for them to still build community around your blog, outside of the blog itself. If you can still monetize that audience or turn that audience into some value as a blog owner, traffic on blogs themselves will decrease even more in the future, while community around those blogs will only increase. - Jesse Stay

Mine have always been pretty dead... - Fraser Smith

FF/Disqus are disruptive technologies but if they prevented blog owners from getting at comments on their writings and integrating them back into the page, you'd better bet that bloggers would work around that. - Andy Murdoch

I've noticed most blogs don't get many comments, and the ones that do tend to get comments of a spammy sort (people pimping their own blogs in Techcrunch comments, for example). For the most part, real discussion still takes place on forums, or various incarnations of the such (which I'd classify Friendfeed and even Twitter as). People that like to have conversations tend to gravitate towards places where they can decide what to talk about - people's blogs don't really offer that. - Eric P

Depends on the blog, however, on the majority of blogs comments are dead. - Dave Martin

Bernstein was right. http://www.markbernstein.org/Apr0401... - Boris Gordon from twhirl

Here is the comment that I left on your blog: "Robert, you are a master at baiting, I’ll give you that. :) On a separate note, clearly people weren’t wrapping their heads around the car post. Perhaps it’s because automobiles are outside of your perceived areas of expertise?" - Mark Dykeman

It's more than just comments that are changing. Comments aren't dead but they are 'moving' . Clearly a sign of both Friendfeed's appeal. It's happening faster than this guy expected. Most users will still go directly to the blogs and websites they like for a long time. I had several blogs with the comments turned off and they still were relatively easy to SEO. The dialog is clearly better here. Go Disqus and FF! - Charlie Anzman

Claiming that "XYZ is dead is dead". I think FF comments and the like are interesting, but unless it's easier to create the intersection for the average user, this is going to be an inside joke. Maybe that's why people like it. - tim

Now... can I replace my commenting system on my WP blog with Friend Feed? I mean, I'd be sad to see ID go away, but it seems there's more activity here. Edit: Found this: http://wordpress.org/extend... - Adam C.

Comments are definitely in a state of change, not dead though. Maybe once Friendfeed gets more mainstream we'll see more blogs using the FF plug-in, along with Disqus and Seesmic to enable more conversations between platforms. David Risley has an interesting perspective on this: http://www.davidrisley.com/2008... - Larry Kless

Wait till the spammers start targetting FriendFeed - Peter Reavy

I for one accept our new commenting overlords. - David Cohn

Over the last year, we've seen an increase in the number of comments on our Boulton & Co. blog, but not an increase in their quality. I see, however, that the Huffington Post has a loyal band of "commenters". I think you're more advanced in this area in the States than we are in the UK. - Miranda Richardson

not sure if i fully agree with you (even your 2/3 dead posted elsewhere), but this is exactly why i love reading your blog and why i'll follow your conversations wherever you have them. and so my thought: comments aren't dead, they are just simultaneously getting more dispersed (friendfeed+twitter) and easier to follow (disqus). however, commenting is still the domain of the few. i think new and very different forms of interaction around content will come soon (i'm working on one myself). - mike

Really ;-) - sachin sawant

MG Siegler

@ Replies update - http://status.twitter.com/post...

June 26, 2008 from Google Reader - Comment - Like - Share

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at least twitter realizes what a problem this is. just buy summize please. - MG Siegler

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srsly. i hate having to rely on the web version of twitter, first of all, then having the reply tab bork, and then having to go to summize, and hit reply there and pray that twitter works. It's why I only check Twitter once or twice a day now. - Mark "Rizzn" Hopkins

If your application requires you to tell your users to go SOMEWHERE ELSE for the use of YOUR AP, you have a much, much bigger problem than you think you do. - Alexander Williams

/Like twice: Once for the conversation as a whole and once for Alexander's comment. - Voyagerfan5761

1 'Like' for Alexander - Steven Hodson

what mark said - Brian Daniel Eisenberg

I am using http://TweetBeep.com to alert me of @replies!!!!!! working!! - Susan Beebe

TweetBeep is great, thanks for sharing. - fbrunel

sure... it's the last thing keeping me connected to the conversation in twitter; without TweetBeep I would have left twitter much earlier due to the outages and disabled @replies feature - Susan Beebe

I'm actually using Twhirl for the ease of keeping up with things there. - Alexander Williams from NoiseRiver

Louis Gray

Are You Really Using FriendFeed, or are You a Poser? - http://www.scribkin.com/2008...

June 27, 2008 from Google Reader - Comment - Like - Share

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I couldn't agree more. FriendFeed Posers are essentially people who are just talking at you and couldn't care less what you're saying back to them. - Tony Ruscoe

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It's true there are so many of them here! - Pete Gilbert from NoiseRiver

I'm using it, playing with it, developing with it, It's all game for me... and I noticed that Pete is using NoiseRiver! ;-) - directeur from NoiseRiver

Are there rules now for how to use friendfeed? A quite pathetic article if you ask me. Especially tasteless to start mentioning names. - Rutger Blom

agree with Rutger... for any service to be successful it must work no matter how people use (or abuse) it. With the barrier to publishing information set to essentially zero the filter becomes the important thing. - Nathan Manley

I'm getting very tired of people who tear down things. How about let's try some uplifting? Why not make a list of people who are doing good in the world? - Robert Scoble from NoiseRiver

Who are you to make the rules - Cody Heitschmidt

Most unwanted discussion on FriendFeed ever - Giovanni De Stefano

I like the idea of wanting to encourage others to interact, but I don't think blocking them is any kind of solution. A twitter post from Steve could spark debate amongst others which could have nothing to do with Steve. The fact that he isn't participating in the discussion doesn't mean his posts aren't worth hearing. - John-Michael Oswalt

John-Micheal, I'm pretty sure the Scribkin blogger has little or no comprehension at all of the FriendFeed way of interacting with content - Giovanni De Stefano from NoiseRiver

I be a poser, yo! :) - Prolific Programmer

Since I use the service howsoever *I* see fit, and not by someone else's unwritten "rules" of use, I guess I'm a poseur as well. When I signed up, I don't recall there being a box that said "I agree to comment regularly on other peoples' feeds and behave in a manner someone else thinks is appropriate." - Lucretia Pruitt

How on earth do you tell when someone is talking to you? Comments are spread across hundreds of posts in FF. Is there an @ sign like twitter? If so how do I use it? Is there a way to see just the new comments added to posts that you have commented on? For example, I am asking a question here right now, but if you answer an hour from now, how do I find out? - Luke Gedeon

The cult of FriendFeed. - Nick Humphries

Luke: I'm watching tens of thousands of people and you are stretching it to say that there are comments that are stretched across hundreds of posts. You can just search for your name to see people who are talking to you, or in reaction to you. New posts are at the top of the page. Stuff that's never replied to is down below. - Robert Scoble

Noiseriver will surely make my FF experience than much better and my use should increase from it. - Tsega Dinka from NoiseRiver

I Agree with Scoble;s.. you need to work the system to get what you want.. there is literally tonnes of stuff that you can cull here.. I wish FF had search History.. In short, FF holds the worlds intelligent's information. Google holds the worlds information :)- - Peter Dawson

Does it matter? - Craig Thomler

Yeah, I think a lot of people just give a big sigh and give in to using these new tools when they really don't want to. The other thing is... a lot of people are busy with work or "real" lives, you know? Being online and doing this all the time is not very healthy, go outside eh? :) - Jim Kukral

Robert: I tried the search you suggested and your comment was hidden behind a note that said Click to see 17 more. Plus when I did the search it pulled up my comments, comments to me, and everything I posted elsewhere. If I was not already looking for a reply to this post I would have missed it. - Luke Gedeon

so if Steve responds to this post on FF will he cease to be a poser? - Stephen Winkler

Also tested NoiseRiver. It did not help me find out when people are talking to me. - Luke Gedeon

Several hours ago I said something directly to Robert Scoble and as best I can tell he does not know that I am talking to him or about him. FF has got to get better at making it easy to see when people are talking to you. Robert if you do see this comment I would like to know how you found it. How did you know to come back to this post and read follow-up comments? - Luke Gedeon

@Luke: find who's talking to you in a certain thread you mean? I in fact thought about this too. We can highligth comments that contain one's name or nickname. But it's won't be 100% accurate because sometime you may find several Lukes in a discussion. Sometimes we, human, find it hard to know when someone's is talking to us or someone else who has the same name... so algorithms will *never* be precise at this, alas. - directeur from NoiseRiver

@directeur that was the beauty of twitter. You could put an @ in front the twitter username, and twitter pulled all those posts together for you. - Luke Gedeon

@Luke: You're right. definitely. Here people use nicks, names, some people will talk to you as Luke, others as lgedeon, some as Luke Gedeon... I think the main goal on which FriendFeed was build is aggregating feeds, and then "conversation" was added. - directeur from NoiseRiver

One of the few times I wish I could "dislike" a comment - Brian Carter

@directeur and my name is fairly easy to search for. There are not many Luke's and even less Gedeon's, but can you imagine how tough this is going to get for John Smith and Joe Green if FriendFeed ever goes mainstream? - Luke Gedeon

Thanks for everyone's opinion. - Phil G

Lights a candle for Gillmor!!! - Joe Dawson

He was actually very cool in his comment on the blog. Which, of course, makes me terrified that I will be roasted if I ever go on his podcast show. - Phil G

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