Jeroen De Miranda

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Brian Solis at Bub.blicio.us: Introducing the FriendFeed Team - http://bub.blicio.us/1111126...

May 29 from Bookmarklet - Comment - Like - Share

Tudor Bosman, Lysender, ElijahBailey-Zu of FF <0, and 148 other people liked this

Brian, as always, takes great pictures, even with questionable subjects. The pictures are from tonight's open house. - Louis Gray from Bookmarklet

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Great pic Louis and tell them I love them all, best product on the web right now - Thomas Power

Great photo! - Bret Taylor

Left to right, as if you didn't know already: Dan Hsiao, Casey Muller, Ana Yang, Jim Norris, Tudor Bosman, Bret Taylor, Paul Buchheit (with Camilla), Sanjeev Singh, Kevin Fox. - Tudor Bosman

yes; awesome photo! - Tudor Bosman

(Not pictured: Ben Golub, Gary Burd and Ross Miller) - Louis Gray

Some of our Turkish friends are also there http://ff.im/3mt6T.. Thanks for the pictures - Murat Buyurgan

Great Photo :) - Nimaa

You didn't tell me there was a FriendFeed party this week or I would have come out :-) - Jesse Stay

Tudor SMASH! - dario

Jesse: I haven't been able to make a friendfeed party for a while. We need a calendar! Heheh. - Robert Scoble

اینا هم حلقه دارن. رونوشت به مازیار و مهران اینا - Aly

Rock on, Kevin! - Josh Haley

Great PPs!!加油，Friendfeed！:))) - K.D.

That's why I love today's web : you can talk with the people that build the next web, and see those who build your current web. Congrats guys! - Zackatoustra

FriendFeed Team, I love you !!!! Thanks to you all, I'm very happy everyday!!! - Renchin(Reina)Wang

So that was the TGIFF ("Thank Goodness It's FriendFeed") party? Perhaps slightly off-topic, but if Camiila hasn't been betrothed yet, have I got a grandson for her ;-)) - ianf ⌘

TGIFF was excellent. Great event and great people.Thanks for the invite and hospitality. - AJ Kohn

Louis, thank you and thank you to the FriendFeed team for making a killer product and hosting a great open house! - Brian Solis

I think I spotted Hutch (http://friendfeed.com/bhc3) in an uncaptioned photo wearing a white "San Francisco Classic" shirt: http://www.flickr.com/photos... - Daniel J. Pritchett

Yes, Daniel. That is Hutch. - Louis Gray

Fun party, great food, great hospitality. - Anne Bouey

Anne - great finally meeting you yesterday. - Hutch Carpenter

great photo, good to see the whole team together! - Jeroen De Miranda

oooh i am totally wishing i was there! Robert is right, we need a calendar! :) - Susan Beebe

Hutch: Thanks. I enjoyed chatting with you, too. - Anne Bouey

what's with the guitar? lol - Stuart Evans

(bump) Ana and Casey are now married. Here's a pic of them on the left, between Ross and Jim. Congratulations to Ana and Casey! (per http://friendfeed.com/jessica...) - Louis Gray

علی حجوانی تو روحت، ای واسه چه موقعی‌ه؟ :))) - Mehran

:))))))))) مال بعد از عیده. اواخر فروردین فک کنم - Aly

:))) - Mehran

Jeroen De Miranda

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Mike Fruchter

Check out the Friendfeed Favorites Twitter list I've added to Listorious http://listorious.com/fruchte... #friendfeed

October 29 from Twitter - Comment - Like - Share

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Sweet! It's nice to be able to see the lists on a 3rd party site now - I still don't have 'em. - Daniel J. Pritchett

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I think there is a full roll-out happening today, stay tuned. Lists have finally made Twitter useful again, a real game changer indeed. - Mike Fruchter

Wasn't it Rob Diana who wondered if "discovery" was the holy grail in social media? Listorious looks very nice. - Meryn Stol

Meryn, You are correct, those are Rob's words. I thought Indiana Jones discovered the Holy Grail ? - Mike Fruchter

thanks Mike - ffcode

Awww Mike, thanks for including me on this Twitter list! - Shevonne

Mike this is awesome, but how is the site extracting the lists? I thought @loic told me it wasn't available yet on Twitter's API? - Jorge Escobar

Jorge, it looks like its pulling directly from the Twitter API. I'm not sure how real time it is though. - Mike Fruchter

Yeah, that's where it's weird 'cause I don't think the lists are exposed on the API. Can someone confirm? - Jorge Escobar

Jorge, I think you have to be "chosen" to be part of their developer beta - I asked and got turned down. - Jesse Stay

Ah, so *some* developers can see these lists? - Jorge Escobar

As always, I appreciate being included. Many thanks. - AJ Kohn

nice to appear on that list, thanks! - Jeroen De Miranda

Susan Beebe to Susan's feed, 3G iPhone, Blogger, WordPress

WordPress mobile Plugin / Theme "WPtouch" by BraveNewCode Inc. My blog http://susanbeebe.com on iPhone looks hawt! - http://www.bravenewcode.com/wptouch...

June 25 from Bookmarklet - Comment - Like - Share

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"WPtouch automatically transforms your WordPress blog into a web-application experience when viewed from an iPhone, iPod touch or Android touch mobile device. It comes complete with all the standard WordPress blog features: search, login, categories, tags, archives, photos & more. WPtouch also offers many customization features through a beautifully designed WordPress admin panel." - Susan Beebe from Bookmarklet

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been using this as well - love it - andy brudtkuhl

I use it. I like it. Just wish there was an easier way to change the calendar icons and allow for thumbnails. Of course, that would immediately reduce the loading speed… - Jason Theodor

oh, now that looks good app. - Malinda Routhier

Wow, so wifi is faster than edge. ;-P Who would have thought it ;-). In all seriousness it depends on the carrier though. - Richard A. from fftogo

I've been searching for themes that work well with mobile for the last couple of hours. Thanks for solving my problem. - Bret Rowe

Bret - cool, glad this helped! let me know if you find any other nice mobile blog themes - Susan Beebe from BuddyFeed

how does WPtouch compare to wp-mobile-edition? Does WPtouch support all major mobile devices? - Jeroen De Miranda

Not sure... good questions! I use this on my blog http://susanbeebe.com and it looks fabulous on my iPhone :) - Susan Beebe

for some reason, I still can't get this thing to work correctly... - Tim Hoeck

I've used this for months--it's great. - Rob Michael (Atmos Trio)

Robert Scoble

I am following anyone who says whether or not they like http://twitter.com/scoblei... Why? Only geeks are up right now. :-)

September 26 from Twitter - Comment - Like - Share

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*outted* - Micah Wittman

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I like. Mixture of tech and humor. - Laura Norvig

I like super geeky....More dev talk the betta - Sunny (The Geek Lord)

I like your feesd but dont like the tiled background please change it - Atif UNALDI

i don't like the tiled background....i think you need a new one - Anthony Feint

Wots title background ? - Sunny (The Geek Lord)

oh yes, sneaking a look over scoble's shoulder is interesting - Michele Costabile

only geeks are up right now:? then Milan is a geek! - Laura Norvig

Geeks are supposed to be asleep right now? - Jesse Stay

Tell me about it @jesse I haven't slept from 48 hours now - Sunny (The Geek Lord)

Rackspace brooch on twitter but not on ff : ) - mehmet

I never sleep. - Faraz Mullick

I finally got my nightowl powers back...the sickness took them away for a bit! :( - Carlton Hackett

After 48 hours coffee and tea has stopped working now...Any tips ? - Sunny (The Geek Lord)

Just when I think I lost my sleepness nights, they find me again. But anyhoo...still up and at 'em. :P - Jon, the Beartato of FF

Of course I'm up it's 10 am here. The favs list is great because one can look just when and if one wants and it reduces the number of RTs. - Michael Slattery

Well most of the Uk is up right now thats alot to follow ;-) - Yant

Time update its 1:55 PM in here - Sunny (The Geek Lord)

When should I pencil in the next mass Twitter unfollowing for? - Johnny Worthington

Guys, what are continuous max hours you haven't slept ? - Sunny (The Geek Lord)

25 hours at work is my record - Michele Costabile

WOW 25 hrs continues work...Great - Sunny (The Geek Lord)

Mine is 48 hrs but online at home - Sunny (The Geek Lord)

Michele: Please tell me you got overtime ? - Sunny (The Geek Lord)

Hey at least FriendFeed doesn't limit my API use. - Robert Scoble from iPhone

YAY...welcome to FF Robert - Sunny (The Geek Lord)

Feel Free to join in :D - Sunny (The Geek Lord)

LOL You are wrong :) All Europe is up right now. ;) - Roldano De Persio of FF

And India as well [ Time Update : 2:08 PM] - Sunny (The Geek Lord)

France actually been up for a while - marsupilamima

Marsupilamima: Bonjour...Thats the only bit of French I know..... - Sunny (The Geek Lord)

Been up for a while : in a different timezone Robert : does that count ? - Nicholas Paul Gordon from iPhone

I am up | All geeks are up | I am still a geek ;) - MK35540

I am a Proud GEEK and wanna be friends with all the other geeks... - Sunny (The Geek Lord)

Interesting favorites twits, but yes the background has to be changed! :-) - Stefano Pietroiusti from twhirl

Guys/Gals on this thread, As we all are geeks lets subscribe to each other...I don't mind :) what say ? - Sunny (The Geek Lord)

I really like it, and plan on stealing the idea for a couple specialty Twitter accounts. I wish everyone used favorites. Social search is the future, for me anyway. - Justin Luey from FreshFeed

Justin: True, Social search is the future. Human data is precious - Sunny (The Geek Lord)

Yeah I don't mind it, would just prefer it if done on FF rather than the bird site, but I understand the reasons though. - Travis Koger

it's 5:18 AM, so quiet everyone, too much noise can't sleep. Do like the favorite thing though - Kim Landwehr

what if I don't have an opinion because I don't follow? does that make me a non geek? edit: also. yes. tiled background bad! - Nathalie, Dreamer of FF

I love your twitter favorites & check those out regularly! - Jannifer @wordsforliving

Robert, I scan your favorites to look for interesting new blog and sites... I like this approach; much better than only using the retweet - Jeroen De Miranda

Is your background the shot that Chase took of you in Seattle? - Kevin Pedraja

Kevin: Kris Krug took the shot while on Chase Jarvis' photowalk. Chase' lighting guy is holding the light, though. - Robert Scoble

Scoble: Some of us are on other timezones LOL - RK

Don't like the background btw :P - RK

Robert, has anyone thanked you for doing this? If not, thanks. - Kevin Pedraja

It's a good way to choose people to follow - Sherrie Belken

You favored one of my blog posts, cool! - Marko Saric

thx for the follow. I don't tweet all that much - mostly hang out here. I do tweet more consistently for my work persona, @serviceresource - Laura Norvig

Thanks,have a great wknd - Johni Fisher

Does being indifferent count? ;-) - Jason Huebel

Scoble I liked it well enough that I subscribed to the RSS feed a few weeks ago. It's a best of Twitter list that I really enjoy. - Keith - @tsudo

You have a pretty low bar set for being a favorite - jason smathers

what else to do lol - Gaith

I am not a Geek reason? I am an old dude....but I like to follow Robert anyway....informative for me and entertaining.... - Bob DeMarco

some of the favorites are ok. - rob friedman

Total geek here - said that, still believe in curating the best content from the web. For some reason I couldn't drill down past the separator in your faves list.. - Ahad Bokhari

Say "whether or not they like" - Robert Higgins

Robert Scoble

Welcome Ryan!

September 19 from email - Comment - Like - Share

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Congrats Robert... best wishes to all - Rhys Amos

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Congrats. Now the fun begins!!! - Mike Shields

Awesome! - dstamand

Congratulations! - Stephan Planken

Congratulations! Welcome, Ryan! - Lance M. Brown

Awesome - RetiredTeacherD

Yay! Congratulations! - Jesse Stay

YAYAYAYAYAY! Congrats to you and Maryam!@#!@#! - drew olanoff

congrats Robert and Maryam, Welcome Ryan. - rick

Welcome to the world. - Dave Mora

Congratulations!!! - Mike Doeff

!!! - sean percival

Born 11:32. - Robert Scoble from iPhone

LOL He was keepin ya'll on yer toes. CONGRATS! - Danny Minick

Yay! Congratulations to you and your wife! Now off to buy RSS and iPhone - Lise

Congrats!!!!! - Mark Evans

Congratulations! - Kenneth

I hope you're well rested, Robert ... ;-) - Hieronymus Murphy

Congrats Robert! - Charlie Anzman

Congratulations! - 321

He looks like you. - Cjay

Congratulations! - Mahendra (SkepticGeek)

Congrats to you all - JanLawrence

Congrats Robert and welcome RSS! - Robb Brock

Congratulations! Happy Birthday Ryan! Lots of love to the whole family. - Jodi Church

SUBSCRIBED! - drew olanoff

Hello World! - CannonGod

Congratulations!! Welcome to the world Ryan!! :) - Laura Zickus

<rss> awesome! </rss> - sean percival

welcome to the new world little one! all hail our pink squirming screaming overlord! - bear (aka Mike Taylor)

LOL at CannonGod's comment. It's like he started a Wordpress blog. XD - Danny Minick

When does he start micro blogging? - Cjay

20.5 inches long. 7 lbs. 13 oz. - Robert Scoble from iPhone

nice alpha version. welcome RSS ! - Kaïs Miled

congrats!! welcome rss! - barbarars

Ryan is no longer in beta! LOL :D Congrats, Scoble! - Danny Minick

Congratulations :) - امیرعباس

RSS is finally here! Congrats Robert & Maryam - Dennis Jernberg

Congrats Robert... best wishes to all - joupy

Congratulations! - Aaman (Clone of FF)

Blessings, and the best Robert! - Nakeva Corothers

Cute! - Charlie Anzman

مبارک باشه Congratulations - هامد

Congrats!!! - Jim Williams

Grats! - Denverken

مبارکه رفیق رابرت . خدا حفظش کنه - جـوان ایرانی

If Dave Winer comes on here and claims to have invented RSS I will smack him. - drew olanoff

Congratulations! - joey

Congratulations and all the best. - Bryce Roney

Welcome Ryan!!! - Phil

Welcome Ryan :) - giuseppe c. | markgreene

Awesome. Congratulations! - John McCrea

Congratulations :-) - ѕнαнιη

Congratulations! - anna sauce

Congratulations :) Welcome Ryan :) - Mohamed Marwen Meddah

Congrats, Imagine where RSS and the web will be when he turns 30! - James Watters

Congratulations to you both. - Don McAllister

congrats Robert and Maryam :))))) - C o n f o r m i s t

congrats to the family!! - erik yuzwa

Welcome to RSS in Pubsubhub mode :) - Ouriel Ohayon

Congrats to you all!! We had our second child, a boy, on Tuesday. Enjoy!! - Alex Cordiner from iPhone

Yay! Congrats to you, but mostly congrats to your wife for doing all of the hard work. ;-) xo - Jennifer Leggio

Mazel Tov! - Robb Vaules

Congrats Robert....wishing all the best to your family.... - Carlos

Congratulations! Wow! Seems like we were there just the other day! Looking forward to your late-night feeds and tweets and blog posts! - Louis Gray

You rock! Congrats. Thanks for sharing. How's mum doing? - Steve Lacey from iPhone

congrats! and welcome ryan - Daniel Levine

Congrats Robert - It is a fine family.... - Simarprit Singh

"beautiful new baby" by Robert Scoble, photojournalist. I stepped away for coffee and bang! RSS - Brian Hendrickson

nice! - Josh Haley from iPhone

Thank you so much for sharing - Sherrie Belken

:) congrats - Shandiz

Born on Talk like a Pirate Day, too! Yarrrr! - Josh Haley from iPhone

congrads ms & mr scoble, :) - chaz2b

Thanks to the good Docs! - Keith Rowland

congrats!! ^_^ - Christine Lu

Congrats! - Mycaptain

Steve: mum is sleeping but got to hold Ryan. Instant love! - Robert Scoble from iPhone

Welcome, Guest dear to our world / Now the world is on your own - C o n f o r m i s t

that feels good - Brian Hendrickson

Gonna have to learn to operate that iPhone with one hand. - Keith Rowland

Congratulations! - Parth Awasthi

Congratulations. Hope Maryam iis doing well - Rachel Clarke

Congratulations! Wish him all the best! - philos

Welcome Baby Ryan!!! My baby Ryan (17 years!) and I are honored to welcome another superstar to our planet! Love, hugs, and lots of kisses to Baby Ryan, Mommy Maryam, Dad Robert and big brothers Milan & Patrick and of course Grandma!!! My guess on Ryan's arrival (predication) was only 23 hours off. I thought he would arrive on Friday, Sept. 18th at 11:45 pm. Love to all, Kelly & Ryan Kim - Kelly S. Kim

Congrats, Robert and Maryam. - Derrick

Congratulations Robert, and well done Maryam! You are truly blessed :) - Nicola Quinn

So happy for you Robert and Maryam. Yeay...another FF baby! - Mark Krynsky

Congratulations! - Surachart Opun

What a moment, eh? I remember when my daughter came into this world, it was so exciting there were no words for it. Congrats on your wonderful baby boy! - Michael J. Carrasquillo

Congratulations - testbeta

Congratulations! Welcome to the world, Ryan. :-) - Yvette Ferry

Congratulations Robert and Maryam! And welcome Ryan. If I was having a baby today, I'd begin a blog for him/her straight away as an online diary they could look back on when grown up. - Sandra Large

he's so cute... - Sinem Vural

Robert, Congratulations to you and Maryamie! - Mike Fruchter

Wow, congrats to all of you! - Paul Salzman

Congratulations to you both! - Forrest W. Kobayashi

Great news guys! All the best! - Chris Nixon

الهــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــی چقده ناز نازیه.اینو فارسی نوشتم مریم جان بخونن ....راستی به باباش که نرفته:)) خوشگلتره:)) پس به شما رفته - joupy

congratulations!! - Jeroen De Miranda

Congratulations to you and your wife Robert! - Randy

Congrats Robert! - Terry Jones

congratz and welcome RSS! - Jon Winters

Congrats Maryam :-) - Terry Jones

Felicitations and humble prayers for your new son. - Victor Panlilio

congrats and best wishes! - Mike Chelen

Congratulations Robert! Welcome Ryan! - Jeff P. Henderson

Congrats!! - Tan Kaiquan

congrats and best wishes to all. :) - Naor Mark

Congratulations - Meral Alabaz

I was a c-section six week preemie in an era when that was seriously life-threatening, they didn't know if I would make for the first week. It always gets me a see a c-section / preemie come howling into the world. Welcome, little guy! - Bob Morris (polizeros) from iPhone

Beautiful baby! Congratulations daddy man :) - Gary

:) Congrats Robert... best wishes to your family! Get her name in twitter and ff! - Business Blogger【ツ】™

Congratulations to you and Maryam! - Elwin Witzke

AmazinG!! congratulations :) - Nakul

cutie pie baby - Debby Bruck

Congratulations :) - Baard @ Pixum

Ryan, good to see you. - Burçak Çubukçu

تولدش مبارک ^_^ Congratulations! - ‎‎Emad

Warm wishes and congratulations. Love that you posted him crying. - Irene Koehler

Congratulation to all of you! All the best for baby ryan!!! - Arne Krueger

Congrats to both of you :) - zephyrlily

Congratulation....best wishes to all - Opium

woooow like :) - کلیشه

Congrats M. & R. - Giuseppe M.

ووووی مبارکه، به مریم خانوم هم تبریک ما رو بگو - Zahra (raoros)

Congrats Robert and Maryam, Welcome to geekdom Ryan! - Andrew Wardlaw

Contrats!!! I'm so excited!! - Jannifer @wordsforliving

Congrats.That pic brings back memories of my own baby's birth only ten months ago. C-section baby boys rock! - Georgiana Comsa

Mazel Tov to you and Maryam. - Michael Markman

Congrats... a few more Scobles make the world a better place ;-) - Aad 't Hart

Congrats! - George Mitsopoulos

Congrats... and Welcome Ryan. Good to have you among us. - fatima

Congratulations! I - Michael Fidler

Wonderful news. Congrats. - Keri

Congrats Robert, and the best to you, Maryam, and of course Ryan! - Chris, Taskerrific Guy

Congratulations Congratulations !! - Farzad

Congrats - Sandeep Swaminathan

looking to to the same in 3 weeks - ROBIN SMITH

Congrats on the blessed event! :D - Joel Lovato

Congrats Robert and Maryam. Welcome Ryan !!!!!!!!! - Nir Ben Yona

Congratulations, Robert! - Mark Trapp

Congratulations to Robert and Maryam. - George Hall (Australia)

Right ON! I am so happy for you. I have 4 kids of my own and they are my greatest joys. Take care and I hope all goes so smooth for him and mom. - Robert Anderson

Congratulations! - J. Abdul-Qahhar

Daddy Scobleizer!!!!!!!!!! First things first....when will he be signed up for Twitter and FF? - krystyl

Congrats!!! - eric susch

welcome Ryan, it's a beautiful world - Michele Costabile

Congrats!! - Olivia Lovag

Congrats to the Scoble family from South Africa! Welcome to the world @RSS - Shaun Trennery

Good luck beatiful baby. - O.C.S.A

Congrats, Robert! :-D - Kol Tregaskes

Congratulations Robert, and welcome Ryan! - Giorgio Zarrelli

Congratulations Robert and R.S.S.: "Hello World" Cheers! - Louis Trapani

warmest congratulations - Peter Holland

what a beautiful baby=)Congratulations=) - Candan Celik

Such a miracle and a blessing - Congratulations to you and Maryam and "big" brothers! - Marla Schulman

Congrats, Robert. Amazing pictures! - Jordi Soler

Congratulations to all of your family! Enjoy! - Ed Richardson

Congratulations ... enjoy! - Hitesh Parashar

Congratulations!!!! He's beautiful! Welcome little one! I'm proud to share a birthday with you! - Martha

Congratulations Robert and Maryam! Welcome to the world Ryan :-) - Rasmus Lauridsen

happy birthday BABY - ≤ M@RzI

Best congratulations!!!! :) - CantorJF

Congrat Robert. It is wonderful what this new media could do to share your joy! - Gianto Widianto

congrats! - Pradhap Nirmal Natarajan

Congratulations! - Steve Garfield

به به . قدم نو رسیده مبارک مریم جان . خیلی نازه :) - RokhSaare

Hope the baby and mum are well. Congratz. Happy Ied Mubarak =) - zʍıɔ

WoW,Congratulations! - atalmatal from MojiPage

Congrats on the blessed event! Welcome to the world, Ryan - Jazz Baker

Congratulations! - Jim Hearts FF

appena nato e già dal dentista? - paolo beneforti

Congrats :) - Maryam Ardakani from FreshFeed

He was delivered by a Blue Man? - paul mooney

Congrats Robert. It's allways a special moment. I still have my child birth in my memory! - Rui

What a happy day! A healthy new Scoble and mom. - Dave Winer

آخي ، بچته ؟؟؟ مبارك باشه تو روز به اين عزيزي به دنيا اومده ، بت نميخوره بچه انقدري داشته باشي شيطون - mohammad

My goodness, congratulations! - DGentry

Congrats! - Ivo Mortani

Congratulations!! and best wishes - Johni Fisher

congrats! - masstrovato

Congratulations! I hope everyone's ok?! - Holger Eilhard

حاجي خانومت ايرانيه جدي ؟؟؟ پس خيلي مباركه ديگه - mohammad

Congratulations, Scoble family! - Bill Scherer

wonderfull - braciolanet from BuddyFeed

Congratulations to you and your family Robert! A very handsome baby boy! Cant wait to see more pictures! - TiffanyCarr

Congratulations, Robert. - motownmutt

Congratulations! - :: Kim Sherrell ::::

congrats :) - £lham

مبارکه :) - خیزران kheyzaran

Congrats! - Roozbeh

Congrats to Robert and Maryam! - Bec Rowe @d0tski

WooHoo! My best to the whole family. I hope Maryam is getting some rest after all that hard work! - Robert Couture

Congrats to you and your fam, Robert :) - LANjackal

Ryan was born when the Berlin Marathon was finishing. Perhaps he'll be a long-distance runner. Congrats. - Carl Jacobsen

Congratulations to you and the wife, Robert! Job well done. I see he is gonna take after his Daddy! ;-0 ,hehe:-) - Duliece

One more congrats won't hurt, right? Thanks for sharing the pics. - Kevin Sablan

Congratulations :) - A35G

Congrats - Exciting & now the fun begins :-) - PXLated

Wishing you and yours the best on this wonderful day! Congratulations! - Steve

Congrats on the RSS feed update :) I hope you've pinged both rsscloud and pubsubhubbahubba ! - Ahsan Ali aka. Slick

Starting today. Sleep will be nothing more than a fond memory. :) Congrats. - Richard

Congrats! - Herb Hernandez from iPhone

Congrats! - YusufOzanTasdemir

Congrats Robert!! - Taehoon Kim

Congratulations! - Thomas Hawk

Congratulations to you both :) - 1x29

Congratulations to all! - malackey

fantastic !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! - michele ficara

Awe!! Congrats =) - Brodie Beta

Congratulazioni!! ^______^ - Andrea | amnesiak1978

congrats!! - Clarita

Congratulations to your whole family, Robert :-) - Glen Mistletoe

Welcome Ryan! Congratulations Robert and family! - Tim Probst from iPhone

Congratulations!!! God bless.... - Bob DeMarco

Congrats! - Jason Williams from iPhone

Congratulations Robert, Maryam and Milan! All the best to the four of you. - Eiso Kant

Congratulations :-) - Jalada

Congrats! Enjoy. - Jim Peake

Congrats - BeeLing

Congratulations!! - Paolo Leonardi

Congratulations, Robert and Maryam! - Helen Sventitsky

Congratulations! - John (a.k.a. dendroica)

Congratulations. - ashish

Congrats - Brian Appleby

oooww wonderfulll :)) - Ucandepik

Well done, my son's name as well. - Robert Kenney

Congratulations - Caleb Scribner

Congrats - Manuel Mas

Congrats! Best wishes to you, Ryan and all your family! - Lenny Post

congrats ^_^ - Furkan Tunalı

Conga Rats! - Michael R. Bernstein

Wonderful! Enjoy! - Alan Morris

Hello! - N.G. Gordon - RadarSync

Absolutely wonderful. Welcome to the world Ryan! - Loren Heiny from iPhone

Congrats :) - Hasan Al Shehabi

Congratulations to both of you. - Roberto Bonini

OMG Congrats to both of you, he looks healthy and promising. - Jeunelle Foster

Congratulations to everyone! He looks healthy! I am sure you must all be very happy! ;) - Altan Khendup

Congratulations! May your tribe ever increase in happiness, joy, and fulfilment. - trey pennington

Congrats! - Ben Parr

what would be ryan's reaction when he would read this post someday, so many folks who knew dad congratulating him! - testbeta

Congratulations! - Anne Bouey

hiya RSS! - Laura Norvig

Yah!! Congratulations. - Micah Wittman

Congratulations to the whole Scoble family! - WorldofHiglet

Congratulations to the whole family! Enjoy these most precious times. - Marylene Delbourg-Delphis

best wishes to all - Hamza Şamlıoğlu @TEAkolik

congrats Robert and Maryam - Kevin Tunis

Congratulations, Robert! - Sabri Küstür from FreshFeed

Wonderful. Best wishes to Ryan... - Mitchell Tsai

Congratulations to the whole family :) - Chris Saad

Congratulations - Samaneh

Congratulations. cute :) - FFTornado

Congratulations. First picture on twitter! - Cindy Makonin

I just came to make sure you were getting a proper congratulations - Sherrie Belken

Welcome :))) - Flynn (Michael A. Volz)

congrats;) - الی

Congratulations to the Scobles! - Carlton Prest

Congrats Robert! - Jorge Escobar

congratulations, Robert and Maryam. - Valeria Maltoni

congrats! - Daniel Brusilovsky

WOW - what a miracle - congrats! - Mark Harai

Congratulations Robert & Maryam! - Rodrigo Jaroszewski

Congrats from Italy, Ryan! - Federico Bolsoman from iPhone

Congratulations Robert and sorry for delay, Best wishes - erfan

He is crying: "I want an iPhone". Felicitations! - William Mougayar

May he be blessed throughout his life! God bless you, Robert and Maryam! - Melanie Reed

CONGRATS!!!!!!!!! - Greg Ness

congrats :) - Erdinc [bilimdiyari.com]

Congrats Robert & your family :) - Sampad Swain

what a beautiful little guy! congratulations! rock on! - B.L. Ochman

great day, congrats - imran

Wow congratulations to both you and Maryam you must be so proud :) - David Richardson from Android

Congratulations - Eric Logan

Wow, Congratulations, Robert and Maryam!! Ryan looks beautiful.:-) - Cathryn Hrudicka

Congrats man. That's so awesome. - Give 'Em DBizness

Happy Babbie Day! - Jack (a.k.a. Jeber)

Congrats! - Zachary TG

Congrats! I wish a long and healthy life. - Muammer Okumuş

Robert, you newest addition is too freaking adorable. I hope you and Maryam are doing well. Congratulations! Here's to a long, prosperous future! - Mike Nayyar

Welcome, Ryan - you picked a good family! - Matthew Blaisdell

congrats to you and Maryam! And welcome, RSS! - Joshua Allen from fftogo

congrats!!! Welcome to Ryan - Dario Salvelli

Congratulations to you and Maryam! E benvenuto Ryan! - Marco Fabbri

Congrats! :) - Emmanuel Anumonwo

Congratulations! - mlazopoulou

Such auspicious times... Welcome, Ryan! - Red Label

O HAI, Ryan! Congratulations to Daddy and Mommy, too! - Ladybug Heather

What's Ryan's Twitter address? - MVB (Curmudgeon of FF) from iPod

قدم نو رسیده مبارک!congratulations - Jan Valjan

Congrats, best wishes. :) - Hunt

حوزه جان بیا در گوشش اذان بگو - مـــــــــمد

woohoo! congrats! - Tyson

That is a wonderful moment! All the best to momma, baby and the family! - Mary Gilmour

Congrats Robert! Welcome Ryan! - Garin Kilpatrick

Awesome, Congratulations Robert and Maryam! And welcome to the world Ryan. - Mitch Baldwin

Happy parenting! Congrats! - Natallini

Groovy + one geek on the planet - Yann Ropars

Congrats!!! Robert - Steve Chou

To the proud Papa.....Congratulations!! - Bonnie Foster

http://www.youtube.com/watch... - kevin fitts

Congratulations Team Scoble. Best of good wishes to all of you. - Morrie Johnston

Congrats Robert and family!!! Welcome Ryan :) - buvanesh

congrats Robert! - Joshua Guffey

Congratulations! RS - Sean Kelly

Congrats :D - Emre Misvaklı

Congratulations. he's so cute :) - Armando Grati

Beautiful! - Ryan Sholin

Congratulations - Kreg Steppe

Congratulations! - Gordon Saunders

Congratulations! - Hamid Reza

Congrats Robert....How amny more before you have your baseball team :-) - Alex Marrow

Seriously, Best whishes.............God Bless...... - Alex Marrow

Mazal Tov! - Raanan Avidor

All the best! Fun Times!!!! - Jim Turner

congrads now the fun starts, beautiful baby - Debra Moore

congrads ! - ★ Soner Gönül

Congrats and Best Wishes! - Tracy Benham

Looks like the baby's first trip to the dentist - Steve Borgman

Welcome, Ryan! Congrats, Robert! - Thierry R. Andriamirado

Jeroen De Miranda to Jeroen's feed, Ambtenaar20-redactie

zou dit een handige plugin zijn? Public Post Preview | Sivel.net - http://sivel.net/wordpre...

September 18 from Bookmarklet - Comment - Like - Share

Enables you to give a link to anonymous users for public preview of a post before it is published. Have you ever been writing a post with the help of someone who does not have access to your blog and needed to give them the ability to preview it before publishing? This plugin takes care of that by generating a URL with an expiring nonce that can be given out for public preview - Jeroen De Miranda

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Uh, we zijn tegen anonieme deelnemers, toch ... - Davied from email

nee, hiermee kun je een in een mail een url naar de preview sturen naar iemand die geen login op WP heeft. Die kan dan al zien hoe de post er uit gaat zien. Er wordt een eenmalige en expirerende url gebruikt, dus de toegang tot de nog niet gepubliceerde post is beperkt. Zo kunnen redacteuren blogs plaatsen van mensen die de info per mail sturen; en toch aan de auteur laten zien hoe het er uit gaat zien... - Jeroen De Miranda

Ach so! Op dit moment heeft iedereen wel een inlog natuurlijk. Goed om te weten dat dit bestaat, voor als we de redactiemethode aanpassen. - Davied from email

inderdaad, kan nog wel eens handig worden! - Jeroen De Miranda from email

Steve Gillmor

Gillmor Gang w/Bret Taylor, Scoble, Marks, Canter http://www.youtube.com/watch...

September 12 - Comment - Like - Share

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Steve, great interview; it also gives some more insight in the integration of FriendFeed into Facebook - Jeroen De Miranda

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Hopefully Tornado takes off! - Garin Kilpatrick

just embedded transcript in TCIT post http://www.techcrunchit.com/2009... - Steve Gillmor

Didn't this used to be on TwiT ? - Kevin J Hatton

Great show and happy to see it up on YouTube so quickly for all of us who missed the live stream. - Mike Hellers

Yes. Then Leo and Arringotn had a fall out live on air. Thats where Leo's famous "Screw You" line comes from. They made up, but that was the end of GG on TWIT. - Roberto Bonini

Yes I remember it well. You mean Mr.Laporte really did kick you guys off? - Kevin J Hatton

I still can't get used to seeing 'Bret Taylor - Facebook' lol great show. Where do I subscribe.? - Kevin J Hatton

Kevin, you could favorite the channel or get word in any number of other ways. I got the channel gadget so it shows up on my iGoogle start page. http://friendfeed-media.com/eaa3f44... - Amyloo

You can also subscribe to a youtube channel by RSS eg. http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds... - Jack

Louis Gray

What a spam attack looks like from within the new Disqus user interface. Spam Spam Spam.

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September 12 - Comment - Like - Share

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It makes you see red. - Jemm

Louis, that looks awful. That is also the main reason why I have choosen JS-Kit for my blogs; no spam seen up till now (they use Akismet; that might explain their great performence regarding spam). See http://www.ambtenaar20.nl for this JS-Kit integration. Have tried Disqus before, I hope they will improve the anti-spam functionality! - Jeroen De Miranda

Ugh. And to think I've ditched JS-Kit for Disqus. lols - jan geronimo

Jaap Willem

RT @richard_hales: RT @pixelatedimage: Overused Tilt-shift is the new over-used HDR. Now where did I put that un-suck filter...?

September 9 from Twitter - Comment - Like - Share

Jaap Willem, leuk dat je ook gebruik maakt van FriendFeed! Ben ik een echte fan van! Groeten, Jeroen - Jeroen De Miranda

Robert Scoble

I don’t feel safe with Wordpress, hackers broke in and took things - http://scobleizer.com/2009...

September 5 from Scobleizer - Comment - Like - Share

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Well, if you have fixed the hole by upgrading; you should feel a lot safer now. I guess strong user adoption does bring the wrong kind of attention. - Anindya Chatterjee

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Anindya: we're watching. Looks like they haven't gotten back in since the upgrade and some of the other changes we made. Knock on wood. - Robert Scoble

I'm very tempted to switch to a SixApart install. As a Perl programmer I'd be much more familiar with the backend. - Jesse Stay

Robert, btw, I'm sure between all your users you can find a backup. I have a bunch via Google Reader I could get to Rackspace to import for you. I'm sure others have even older entries than I have. Let us know if you want help restoring the old scobleizer.com! - Jesse Stay

robert - i can tell you this - you need to watch it like a hawk - when i thought i was safe - i wasn't - InsideTransit continues to get hit - and I still believe there is some patches and stuff that RS can do as well - the bigger issue is what's on the server - because that's where they put the shells and then they can do whatever they want. - Allen Stern

Not cool, hopefully things will work out. - Kim Landwehr

Jesse: luckily it was July and August, when I wasn't doing much blogging. No biggie. Thanks. Allen: yes, Rackspace Cloud has a security team now and they are actively looking at ways to make Wordpress safer for our customers. It really sucks getting hacked. Let me know if you find any other ways to protect the systems. - Robert Scoble

Robert: Yea getting hacked sucks. My early days with my blog aboutonlinematters.com I got hacked and luckily my ISP had a backup. Since then I have treated my Wordpress blog like any dev site - with a subversion repository and complete backup. But there are days... like today... when I think strongly about a platform like typepad. - Arthur Coleman

what i have found is locking down the files helps - but you need to ftp into your site and make sure that nothing has been edited or added - in my case, on all my sites, the hackers put files all over that were base64 files - and what they do is include them into WP or they just run them direct - nearly a full shell. i've asked RS to create a way so that i can be notified of any changes to files - they say it's too heavy to run. - Allen Stern

Robert, I just miss the traffic from your "You are SO Unfollowed!" article. (one of the casualties) ;-) - Jesse Stay

There's a lot of great info they deleted - I'm a little ticked they would be completely insensitive like that to prove a security flaw. It affected much more than just you. - Jesse Stay

Jesse: yeah, that's probably the one blog that I miss. It's also the one that got me to notice they deleted a couple of months. - Robert Scoble

Jesse: that still is cached over on Google at http://74.125.155.132/search... - Robert Scoble

No way "You are SO unfollowed" is out? I loved that one! :-( thanks for the cache Robert - Sofia @ SoMaFusion

If you have no time to take care of yuors blog, maybe it's better if you choose the pro offer from wordpress.com ( I think scobleizer.com can have the minimum requirement to stay there). - wolly

here it the VIP hosting http://en.wordpress.com/vip-hos... - wolly

wolly: it's not just about time, attacks come from all directions so you've gotta have a holistic approach to security. How many of you regularly change passwords and make sure they are really good ones? (Twitter got broken into not because of hacks, but because they didn't practice good password security). - Robert Scoble

It saddens me: it is morally reprehensible your hosting company convinced you to switch with the seduction of plugins and customization without emphasizing or handling the increased responsibility of upgrades. Your blog was not unique and not a special target, the worms sweep across millions of blogs indiscriminately and hit whatever is vulnerable. If your host is lax in upgrading, the... more... - Matt Mullenweg

that's true :-) I use password very strange and very verylong that I cannot remember and I use a service like clipperz.com to login. - wolly

wolly, Robert was hosted on WordPress.com for about 4 years -- he was actually the very first VIP. Although there were dozens of security updates to WordPress in that time, his blog never had a problem because it was always up-to-date. He only switched away a few months ago. - Matt Mullenweg

Ciao Matt :-) I didn't know that, so scoble come back to the light side :) - wolly

Matt: yup, that's true. I've learned my lesson. Running your own servers are a lot harder than just having them hosted on Wordpress.com. - Robert Scoble

To be frank, it completely breaks whatever trust I had in Rackspace. - Matt Mullenweg

But Matt, I've been talking with many blog owners, including at TechCrunch, and they say that Wordpress' updates break their custom plugins. That's why they don't upgrade immediately. So, sounds like Wordpress has a mess on its hands that the hosted version of Wordpress didn't have (I couldn't run a lot of plugins and video embeds and other fun things on the hosted version of Wordpress). So, to blame it on my hoster/employer (Rackspace) exclusively isn't really a good attitude either. - Robert Scoble

Robert, It happens. We were hacked too. My observations lead me to believe that this summer was the worst in a long time. Its a war and its going to be a war until the attitude towards hackers changes. Let's stop being fascinated in the least bit by how they do it (this goes towards Kevin Mitnick and his supporters- I don't ever want to pay good money to read about your scams on the... more... - Melanie Reed

Matt's got a point that with greater power (self-hosting) comes greater responsibility (more need to keep an eye on security), but I think to say that Scoble's blog was not a special target is a bit disingenuous. High-profile sites are always a higher-value target. - Rachel Luxemburg

Matt: I think you need to really look at all the damage that's being done to a wide range of sites, many of which are NOT hosted at Rackspace, before throwing more barbs. That's bull. Sorry. But I added a link to this conversation to my blog so people could see your point of view. - Robert Scoble

If a plugin is preventing you from upgrading (did it?) then let's figure out how to fix that plugin. All I can do in WordPress is build in the notices (your blog was asking you to upgrade for months) and the one-click updates for both core and plugins. I agree it's not your (Robert Scoble's) fault because I don't think you made the conscious decision to take on the increased responsibility. - Matt Mullenweg

Matt: the reputation around the Net is that upgrades on Wordpress break things. This wasn't a Rackspace recommendation. It's also a problem with all upgrades. I've gotten hosed by upgrades elsewhere. Look at all the people upgrading to Snow Leopard who are having things break. - Robert Scoble

Matt: TechCrunch hasn't upgraded its blog either and it wasn't hosted on Rackspace (at least not until a couple of days ago). - Robert Scoble

I'm not saying there isn't lots of misinformation around the net, I'm saying "how can I help your blog, please." If it's a plugin preventing you from upgrading, let me know the plugin and we'll fix it even if we didn't write it. That's the beauty of open source. - Matt Mullenweg

Robert -- Avoiding upgrades because they're annoying to deal with isn't a viable longterm strategy. - Rachel Luxemburg

they need to take care of Scoble's blog, well for he is a VIP and the smashing they would have would do a lot of damage to your customer base and otherwise, would they reply to an ordinary guy say like me? i think not,well wordpress/automattic is having their tough moments, hope things get well and they get their repute back - testbeta

Matt - you blaming Rackspace for security vulnerabilities in YOUR software platform is kinda like blaming Dell when a Windows box gets hacked. I think you are being irrational. - Rob La Gesse

Matt: in my case it was the REPUTATION of Wordpress's upgrades that was keeping me from upgrading. I was waiting to see what other people reported broke. I didn't realize the severity of the security problems. But, I am now upgrading automatically. So I'm fixed. But you still have a reputation problem. Lots of people are reporting things break when they upgrade. - Robert Scoble

Rob, I'm not blaming them. I'm saying it's the responsibility of any host, of any software, to stay up to date. If there was a SSH vulnerability on Robert's box I would say the same thing. Software updates are inevitable, there is no such thing as bug-free code, so staying up to date is a must. - Matt Mullenweg

Isn't all this open source code? If it's broken, why not fix it? Doesn't everyone have the responsibility to do that? It's not any one source's fault in that case. - Jesse Stay

Matt - I agree with you. So make Wordpress upgrades SAFE, automatic AND do some internal validation of plugin code to let users know they may be running something that is potentially insecure. - Rob La Gesse

Matt, agreed. Not when its turned out as fast as people are yelling for it. People can't have it both ways. - Melanie Reed

Matt: all Rackspace was providing to me was a Linux host. I was responsible for getting my upgades done on anything I ran on that system. But now we have a team making sure we're following best practices. That is NOT Rackspace's problem, though. That's like blaming Microsoft for a bug in Adobe software. - Robert Scoble

I never listen to the reputation, I always upgrade as a security upgrade is out, and if a plugin doesn't work or I deactivate it or I fix it. Security is much more important than a plugin and Matt knows how many plugins has my blog (when he looked my backend he was very sad ad he said that it was the first time for him to see so many plugin in a blog :-) ) To have a self host blog it's difficult and time expensive. - wolly

There are several very useful plugins specifically addressing security issues; and monitoring WP for suspicious activities (both on file and database level). Here are some articles with tips to harden your blog http://bit.ly/sZgh6 (delicious bookmarks). I only install plugins from authors from whom I know that they implement top level php; no breaking of upgrades on my 3 WP blogs has taken place (2.7-2.8-2.8.4) - Jeroen De Miranda

Yeah, plugin issues are the responsibility of the plugin developer, not Wordpress's. I don't see how this is Wordpress's or Rackspace's fault. - Jesse Stay

By the way, Matt, Sheamus, over on my comments on my blog, says he has the latest upgrades in place and he's still being broken into. You might help him figure out how the hackers are breaking in still. - Robert Scoble

Sorry, I was under the impression Rackspace had recommended you move away from WordPress.com and taken responsibility for the system. I was worried about your blog -- I emailed you about this in August but never heard back. It breaks my heart when someone's WordPress gets compromised. - Matt Mullenweg

I understand the feeling though - if people are still being broken into after being told a fix was made, especially if you're not a developer, that can be a little scary. I'd look to other solutions in that case if it were me, and it's no one's fault. It's just perception and fear, very valid fear. - Jesse Stay

I do believe there is a false sense of securty that WORDPRESS fosters by hosting plugins. I think many assume that because they download the pluging VIA Wordpress, and FROM Wordpress, it is somehow vetted. - Rob La Gesse

Matt: no. I wanted to move to my own install of Wordpress so that I could run many more plugins and start doing stuff other professional bloggers were doing. I am learning very quickly just how much work goes on behind the scenes to make sure my words were protected. - Robert Scoble

Once you've been hacked once if you don't clean up every trace (preferably a systems person does this) it's very likely something is left that allows the spammers to easily break back in, regardless of what version you're on. That's why the trouble with upgrading is worth it, it's much, much less than the trouble of fixing a hacked blog. - Matt Mullenweg

Jesse: yeah, at Microsoft when a box got broken into they wouldn't let you use it anymore. They forced you to reinstall it with all patches loaded. They assumed that it was compromised and that someone stuck a back door in somewhere. That's a lot of work too. - Robert Scoble

install either wp-backup or wp-dbmanager and configure database backup: every day; download to your local pc (or to a system other than your hosting provider); run a check once a month to see whether you can reconstruct the blog in case of calamity, That is my procedure; works fine. - Jeroen De Miranda

if a commoner gets hacked, then he should move to wordpress.com services or what? - testbeta

they should just make it not have any security holes! - Mark

Robert, if you like I'd be happy to host your blog for you (and I'm on Rackspace servers). I can keep it secure as well. I'd only ask some mention of SocialToo somewhere (or payment of some form in order to cover the cost of bandwidth). - Jesse Stay

I would also be able to keep it backed up for you. - Jesse Stay

So the take away messages are: 1) hosting services like Rackspace support the hardware and OS layer and you're are on your own for everything else, 2) maintaining your own website is difficult work, even for experienced IT professionals, 3) social media experts may not really know how to use the social media tools they are recommending, and 4) while hosted applications like Wordpress.com provide less flexibility, they take less effort and can be more reliable for the average small business. - Steve Wilhelm

I'll also install any plugins you're interested in trying - Jesse Stay

Jesse: in my case, I now have a team of the top security guys at Rackspace working on it and making sure my system is up to date and backed up. They also are learning a lot about this and other people who have had problems and are building a list of best practices. - Robert Scoble

This is eventually why I didn't go with Mosso. The service looks good, but you still have to manage your app yourself which opens you up to problems like you've experienced. It would be cool if they offered another layer of management on top so apps could be completely hands free. - Todd Hoff

the alternative (i.e. strong vetting of all plugins) would turn the whole WordPress ecosphere into something such as Ning.... only some 300 addons (as far as I know); little flexibility very intransparent how to get your addin accepted .... Not an attractive model for me.... - Jeroen De Miranda

Robert, excellent - just wanted to make sure the offer was out there. Maybe that could be a tiered service for Rackspace, although I'm not sure it's something Rackspace wants to get into. Bluehost barely makes any money off of that type of service. - Jesse Stay

Steve: I think that's a reasonable set of assumptions. The grass is always greener on the other side of the fence. When I was on Wordpress.com I was always jealous of blogs that were able to run the latest plugins and use the latest embed codes from various sites. - Robert Scoble

Robert, it's even more fun when you can customize the plugins and themes as a developer. :-) - Jesse Stay

@testbeta wrdpress.com is a very good choice if you don't have time or you don't know how to manage security on yors self hosted blog - wolly

wolly: that takes out the open source fun part ;) well i have nothing much to do on my blogs so i keep mine updated ;) - testbeta

I agree with you :-) but many people love blogging non update theirs blogs :-) - wolly

when my sites were hacked - a wordpress employee reached out to me- i dont remember her name but we sent a few emails - i could write for days about what happened to my 5 sites - my take is simple - i think the issues are a combo of rackspace (my host) and wordpress (my software) - i can tell you this - in 3+ yrs on drupal, i was NEVER hacked. and Matt is right - the real issue is that... more... - Allen Stern

Allen - what version of WP are you running today? - Rob La Gesse

2.8.4 on all of them - Allen Stern

Allen - good :) - Rob La Gesse

If there's a shell script on the same server as you, even if it's not your account, everything on that server is at risk regardless of the software or its version. - Matt Mullenweg

Matt - that is NOT true - Rob La Gesse

I would switch to a new server if I were infected at this point. - Jesse Stay

Properly configured, user space can be isolated and these scripts cannot cross-pollinate. - Rob La Gesse

It can be -- but publish a shell login on your server and we'll see. ;) The right answer is to scrub that sort of access. - Matt Mullenweg

Matt - that comment on the "shell script" is silly. What are you actually trying to say? - Robert J Taylor

Some sort of backdoor that allows a remote user to execute code -- it's super common. - Matt Mullenweg

rob/matt - that wsa one of the biggest issues with my RS account - i had all the sites together in one "client" so when they hacked one - they were able to move around with their shell script into all my other sites - now each site is in a sep. "client" so the damage can only hurt me on one site - and believe me it does hurt :( i believe insidetransit and centernetworks are hit in google - Allen Stern

@Scobleizer I'm sticking with @wordpress it doesn't worry me that much, plus I always update and have backups of db and site emailed to me - Justin Yost

Allen - that was within one user space though. So what I stated above still stands true. - Rob La Gesse

Allen and Robert are big enough that if they had a problem they could contact us and we'd help them, though as far as I know neither did, but I worry a lot more about smaller folks who get hit in the same way. The knowledge for how to properly clean up after a hack is more systems than software and not widespread. - Matt Mullenweg

As Allen mentioned above, he did have a conversation with Wordpress. - Rob La Gesse

matt - thanks for putting me in the same category as robert! *blush* - i did reach out to you - and your security guy was helping me big time - it seemed to turn out that the WP Contact Form 7 was the thing that caused it to start - i didn't document it all online because the security guy wanted time to get the plugin developer to fix the upload hole. - btw his name was mark jaquith and he was great - Allen Stern

So why not some scheme where Wordpress vets a plugin and "blesses it" - perhaps a small charge for this service? As long as Wordpress is advertising plugins on the dashboard I think there ample reason to hold Wordpress to some level of accountability for those plugins - Rob La Gesse

rob - that's what i told mark - they should offer that service for a tiny fee - stamp a "certified" stamp on it. - Allen Stern

Just updated all my sites, doesnt look I was hit. - sean percival

sean - no one would hit you - they know you would lala all over them - Allen Stern

sean - happy for you! - Rob La Gesse

I've read almost all of the comments here, not hearing these mentioned once: Robert did not backup, kept the default 'admin' username and failed to update. These are three of the most basic security measures out there. Not blaming it on Robert, because we all fail on this sometimes, but these basics really are important! - Abounding Media

http://twitter.com/markjaq... warning of Mark in April - kept me away from WP contact form 7 - Jeroen De Miranda

Abounding: yup. And the lesson here is don't host your own version of Wordpress unless you have a security team making sure you're doing it right and backing up (something I never did on Wordpress.com, by the way). Oh, and Twitter taught us that even if you do all of that you've gotta make sure you pick great passwords and think through ways that social hacks could be done to get into your accounts. - Robert Scoble

I've written a much longer post on this: http://wordpress.org/develop... - Matt Mullenweg

http://markjaquith.wordpress.com/2008... some great tips of Mark Jaquith on writing secure plugins - I use these and other tips when scanning the PHP code of new plugins that I intend to use (before deploying them) - Jeroen De Miranda

Jeroen, thanks for posting that. I've had phishers getting into one of my WP installs recently, but couldn't tell which plugin it was. I deactivated two plugins, including CF7, the other day, and haven't had any more problems. And a shoutout to Ryan Boren on the WP dev team for helping me to de-infect. - John Craft

Robert: Welcome to the world of web development for impatient users and disgruntled hackers - Melanie Reed

http://wordpress.org/develop... great post of Matt Mullenweg about WordPress security! - Jeroen De Miranda

john - the CF7 is what killed me a few months ago - it's because the form allows uploads even if you don't actually have them on - i believe they patched it but i have not gone back there. - Allen Stern

anybody know if a little smily face appearing in the lower right hand corner of ones footer is a sign of a compromise on a self hosted wp blog? - Richard Reeve

John, your are welcome! SQL injects attacks specifically exploit data entry fields used by the plugin; one should at least scan the PHP code of these plugins, and look at what kind of escape functions are used around handling of the data entry. - Jeroen De Miranda

"it's because the form allows uploads even if you don't actually have them on" - wow. That's bad. - John Craft

Richard is wp-stats smily :-) - wolly

"anybody know if a little smily face appearing in the lower right hand corner of ones footer is a sign of a compromise on a self hosted wp blog?" - if you didn't put it there, it probably is. In your admin go to appearance, theme editor, and read the footer.php file. - John Craft

Richard - are you using the WordPress.com Stats plugin? - Andre Natta

some plugins worth considering to install are: wp-exploit-scanner, wordpress file monitor, WP security scan, anti virus - Jeroen De Miranda

I don't understand why people are worried about a plugin breaking when it comes to upgrading WordPress. If a plugin does break, disable it for the time being. I rather have a secure installation of WordPress running and would worry about fixing the plugin afterwards. - Jason Hansen

Hmmmm . . . I run WP Stats, but see no smiley face. - John Craft

ah...thanks folks...stats it is. phew...so I'm not paranoid... - Richard Reeve

There appears to be some a-holes who can break into wordpress blogs very easily. I'm not sure at this point that the new Wordpress Thesis blog that I'm interested in getting is safe either. There is some security issues with Wordpress and their incompetence to fix the problem is growing every year. They keep coming out with new versions to replace the old versions yet they still have a problem. This is serious guys. - Jeunelle Foster

The problem with WordPress is that it forces you to upgrade. Imagine if Microsoft forced everybody to upgrade to Vista/Windows 7 in order to get their security holes plugged. WordPress should release security patches for the current and at least for the previous version. - Nikolay Kolev

They dont force you to upgrade. If you dont want to patch, you can leave it at the current version ( but with a risk ) - Kashif Khan

Where's the patch for the 2.7 version then? - Nikolay Kolev

Their versioning strategy bumps up numbers even for patches . And how many versions behind should they support ? - Kashif Khan

Many of the WordPress security issues are not coming from the WordPress itself, but from the poorly written WordPress plugins. I think it would be nice if Automattic starts an "Automattic Certified" program giving blog owners the peace of mind they need. Every hacker can upload a plugin at WordPress.org, advertise it as something great, bloggers install it, see that it's nothing as advertised, uninstall it, but the WordPress instances are already hacked. - Nikolay Kolev

Plugins are open source and free and nobody (well, with some exceptions) would pay to get their free plugin certified. The only way to do this is by having a community review process, based on some credibility score and voter authority system where 1,000 fake hacker accounts won't, for example, outweigh Matt's or Mark's votes. - Nikolay Kolev

part of the problem is the cry wolf syndrome - if i updated every day wordpress had a security problem i'd want to be salaried on the payroll :D Wordpress needs some sort of alert notification - twitter or something that indicates if there's an update AND the severity and if its severe enough sends it to my phone. - mal

let me play the other side of the coin - i've been using vbulletin for my forums for probably more than 5 years - and it's never once been hacked - why is this - is it because it's paid? is it just more secure? would love to get some input on why wordpress seems to be the attacker's gold. - Allen Stern

@allenstern because it pays back better to have wp hacked - A.T.

Another devil - I have clients using Expression Engine for years (with plugins) and haven't had a problem either. Checking security sites, EE has had very few vs the many with WP and some with Drupal. Matts suggestion that one hosts with him to avoid problems and keep updated just isn't in the cards for business sites. Just too many vulnerabilities with WP over the years for me to recommend it. - PXLated

i can tell you that within 2 days of moving from drupal to wp, my sites were hacked - all of them - and it made me seriously question the move - the reasons i moved were because wp is a bit easier to edit/code than drupal and because the admin panel in wordpress is awesome compared to the crap panel in drupal - i wrote up a whole post about why i moved - i'd like to see matt write a post about their qa and security procedures for their releases - Allen Stern

Alen, once Drupal 7 get released, you may actually go back. :) - Nikolay Kolev

Robert - If I were you I'd move away from Wordpress and fast. Its security record is dire and has been for ages. Other solutions are a lot more stable, whereas Wordpress seems to have security bugs every second week. Why anyone puts up with it is really beyond me. I moved to MovableType and haven't had to worry about caching issues or security problems - Michele Neylon

#somethingpersonal WP calls you "technical evengelist", Robert. When you say «Yes, I didn’t have a backup. I should learn to do backups» I call you a mediawhore. Nothing TECH-NI-CAL, just bulled ego. Learn Security, Performance, Reliability, you ignorant piece. - Капитан Сильвер Буллет

Robert - "the reputation around the Net is that upgrades on Wordpress break things" I'm sorry but that's just not true, I use many many plugins across about 20 sites and I've only ever ONCE had a plugin break during a WP upgrade. - John O'Nolan

Definitely check if Google Reader has your lost posts - as of a few months ago, it didn't handle deletes very well :) - Michael Herf

This recent wave of WordPress incidents shows the negative side of using open source software. Matt says that there are many people looking into WordPress' source code, but the problem is that probably half of those people have malicious reasons for doing so. - Nikolay Kolev

@Matt - why not have a module that adds *automatic* upgrades? The one-click update feature is very nice, but zero clicks is better. With a decent snapshot/rollback system you could update most people securely right away--email them and let them rollback if something breaks. - Michael Herf

@robert: we might be able to help you recover the lost blog posts if you want. Google Reader has an archive of them and we helped another blogger in the past recover her losses. Let me know if we can help. - Edwin Khodabakchian

@matt when do you start to care about poor people unlike robert... who can't afford *VIP* i am willing to pay $25+ per month of course with my adsense ads :} - Imran Jafri

@robert by the way you made one of the worst choice to move away from wordpress.com i think it wasn't price issue rather you wanted to be brand *ambassador* for rackspace which was only possible if you host your blog on their damn servers... if i get enough visitors i would switch to wordpress.com vip without taking 2nd breathe........ - Imran Jafri

I run just a few plugins, and research and vet them first. And upgrade to new WP versions within a week. Look, attacks happen, running self-hosted can get complicated. But this is true with any software or OS - Bob Morris (polizeros) from iPhone

Nikolay, it's always better to have more people looking at the code, because a bug that's been found is better than a bug that hasn't. WordPress used to get almost no security problems and people thought it was because it was coded differently, when in fact it was coded far worse than it is today it just didn't have enough users to make it worthwhile to target. Also where many... more... - Matt Mullenweg

Nikolay: I would also push back against your assumption that using Open Source software equals less security. Microsoft Windows and OS X are both closed source and both have security holes - there is a competition each year to help MS and Apple find them and fix them. Both Apple and Microsoft came away with security holes to fix this year. So just because it's open source doesn't... more... - Tim

that's what you get for the fun of installing and hosting your own installation, instead of using "the cloud". - Ihar Mahaniok

Robert - I recommend WP S3 Backups for backing up your database to off-site storage. Amazon S3 is a great place to host backups of your Wordpress database and is relatively inexpensive. You *always* want backups *off* the server so in case the server is compromised, the backups are still clean. This plugin works like a charm, is automatic and could have saved you. Cheers! - Scott Jarkoff

anybody know of a test that can be done to see if a wp blog has been compromised? Has a few strange user subscriptions about a week ago...but not noticing any thing else...I did upgrade weeks ago, but soon enough? - Richard Reeve

bug exploits keep security IT folks in their day job, sad but true. - Jim Posner

In IT it keeps me busy but the reality is if you update your software on a regular basis you can minimize these from affecting you. - Rob Cairns

Robert, any chance archive.org has some of your old blog posts? Google Cache? - drew olanoff

Matt, another thing to note is that Wordpress.com is often blocked in China (even if you have your own custom URL like scobleizer.com). There are advantages to NOT being hosted by Wordpress.com although your point about increased responsibilty for keeping up with security patches is still valid. - Elliott Ng

Drew: yeah, but what do I do? Just republish them? - Robert Scoble from iPhone

Sure why not. Scoble's best of. Reason why I hate stuff on the net sometimes is good stuff gets lost. - drew olanoff

Give a try to the "WordPress Database Backup" plugin for WordPress and you'll receive regular backups on your email - Francois Lamotte

Robert, You can get all of your lost blog post html out of Google Reader. I'm not exactly sure how to link Disqus back, maybe it's as simple as re-adding the old posts with the same title/date i.e. Url (I don't use it). Yet another reason to use FULL RSS feeds (instead of summary). See RSS isn't dead.. it's now a backup tool too! (http://ff.im/7JrlC) - Chris Myles

Wordpress is a great blogging tool. It is however the largest target now - much like how Windows gets a crap-top more virii because it's the most used system. Someone used Drupal as am example of security... well I'm sure if Drupal was anywhere near the scale of usage Wordpress is you'd see hacks for that too. - Gregory Wild-Smith

Robert: Just repost them with the dates set to the original dates they were posted. Simple, and no-one will ever know ;) - Gregory Wild-Smith

I have always had a bad feeling about Wordpress. YMMV. - Gordon Joly from twhirl

Robert It could be a Rackspace problem and Not a Wordpress Problem. They might to increase there security on the Rackspace!!! You should checck into that!! - Paul

One of the reasons I waited 2 years to switch from MovableType to WordPress was due to the security issues. I felt that the track record improved over the past year and moved 11 sites over. I can say this I employ a very extensive back up scheme but still worry about it. The ability to upgrade with a single click of a button has made it much easier to upgrade, but I always worry which plugins are going to break as I use a lot of plugins. - Todd Cochrane

It's interesting to me to see the number of people who are "afraid" to implement a security update because it might break a plugin. I wonder if these are the same people who don't run system updates on Mac or Windows because it might break SIMBL or some other haxie. Your core = your core... without it you're smoked. Case in point: Scoble. If your plugins aren't working after an update, let the author know and request an update, but BY ALL MEANS don't ignore security upgrades. - Kevin Donahue

hmm... I think that a lot of this conversation is missing something. Most software security updates are usually tested in hosts and thus delayed in their own releases by at the minimum of a week's time usually. This is due to hosting internal testing of patches before rolling it out to all servers. Now, whether or not RS actually performs these types of procedures, I don't know... but I... more... - Ben Hwang

First: I keep my blog up to date. Always. Fuck plugins, I decided that when I made the decision to use WP for my blog that updates would be a priority, only because of all the security issues that I remember from the early early days. Having said that, I have to agree with Robert that the perception with WordPress, despite all the work with auto-updates and in-blog notification is STILL... more... - Christina Warren from iPod

I am spending the day finally making a back-up of my web space, then the upgrade. - Sebastian Keil

you are right to not feel safe: when you are on the dominant platform, holes get taken advantage of really fast. At least it being open source you know it will also get plugged fast - Joelle Nebbe (iphigenie)

"what do I do? Just republish them?" - Robert, you can set the published date to the original July or August date in the "new post" form. Where it says "publish immediately," click "edit". - John Craft

I couldn't disagree more that the reputation is that an upgrade will break a plugin. How many plugins reach into the Wordpress core and screw around with it? Less than 5%? Any examples of plugins that broke w/ 2.8.4? - beersage

Somebody hacked into my WordPress blog earlier this year as well. It was a bummer because I was working on a draft copy of a blog post that was very rough and had not been edited and they published it. I was on vacation shooting in Chicago and didn't figure it out until several hours after they'd already published it. Fortunately they didn't seem to do anything malicious other than... more... - Thomas Hawk

@Robert: "[Rackspace] are learning a lot about this and other people who have had problems and are building a list of best practices." Is it possible this list is something RS might share? - John House

@Matt Mullenweg: I do like WordPress (even though we had a public argument with you and another Automattic employee on TechCrunch a while ago) and I am a passionate supporter of open source software - don't get me wrong. But sometimes open source code makes it a bit easier for hackers! For example, one hacker hears about an exploit and without communicating with others, finds the hole independently by just looking into the source code and starts exploiting it on his own. - Nikolay Kolev

Gregory Wild-Smith Bingo! - Melanie Reed

Social Media Club blogs got hit as well as several of our personal blogs (still sorting it all out). We try to keep up on most upgrades, but every time we do, simple plugins (like the Event calendar) break. Seems silly, but we have hours of work after each upgrade to try and keep everything intact, and sometimes, we end up downgrading until the 'essential' plugins catch up, which... more... - Kristie Wells

I have 2 wordpress blogs. One on my own domain and one at wordpress central. Still can't get my head around their upgrade gymnastics - may just stick with eBlogger after all. - Houseofmax

i don't know what will happen in times to come but from the existing platforms, i love wordpress and i am not going anywhere, but that doesn't matter for wordpress right? ;) - testbeta

Robert, at the end of it is just only your bloody laziness in upgrading that led you here :) Jokes aside, please at least be honest and say you didn't upgradede twice... :p. - Matteo Flora

Nope. I upgraded to 2.8.4 as soon as it was out but the hackers had already broken in. - Robert Scoble from iPhone

The fact that WordPress is currently being exploited doesn't mean that other platforms are immune. For example, the recently discovered XSS issue with Ruby on Rails makes not only blogs, but every unpatched site a target. So, the only issue I'm having is forcing us to upgrade to a new major version without much time to do proper testing (I'm not talking about personal blogs here). I... more... - Nikolay Kolev

So Techdirt was hacked a bit ago. See their reaction: http://www.techdirt.com/article... it is the reality of owning a web site guys - ANY software is hackable if someone really wants in. - Adam Singer

@Robert: as I see it Wordpress is as vulnerable as any other web app. Upgrading does good, but preemptive security does more and better. I know Matt and he knows I'm in awe with him and Automattic but simply spoken I DON'T TRUST WORDPRESS as I don't trust any other software. A little WebApp Security Firewall (or at least a little .htaccess rules for admin and preemptive locking of... more... - Matteo Flora

i find it interesting, and depressing that people are blaming Rackspace, they're blaming Wordpress, they're blaming Robert, but no one, *no one* seems to be willing to blame the only, ONLY people who deserve blame: the evolutionary failures that attacked Robert's blog. - John C. Welch

Thanks to your post, I found backdoor Admin in my own blog (created yesterday apparently). Promptly deleted it, upgraded blog and took other measures, which I blogged about - Adi Rabinovich

@Matt Mullenweg: "so staying up to date is a must. - Matt Mullenweg" You gave the birth to one of the coolest piece of free software on the net, also your community is strong an love-full, you can do some PRs listening to Scoble that is crying, but you couldn't do anything better than you did. Take it easy man, all your competitors still suck. (PS. also a cleaning utility to understand better if everything is ok on our hosts would be cool ;-) - righini riprova

Matt: What does a user need to provide, in order to be considered for a VIP wordpress.com account? - Jim Connolly

caveat operator - Mike Chelen

Take technology out of the picture. Something bad happened by some bad person. Happens every day... it's called crime. If a bad person got into my house because I had a weak lock or left my door unlocked, what do people usually say? "That bad person shouldn't have done that!"? Well, sure, but bad people do bad things... nothing we can do to stop them other than make it harder or... more... - Chris Hearn

I would simply like to reiterate the point that if you're going to put free open source software on a rented web server, you need to either know how to administer it or hire someone to do it for you. Neither Rackspace or Wordpress are to blame here. We discuss this with our clients all the time who view web development as a one off expense, then get upset when their site is hacked because it wasn't maintained. - JP Maxwell

One more point, I think there are way too many false lines drawn over aras of responsibility - "I'm systems, not a PHP programmer. I'm a PHP programmer, not a Javascript person. I'm a designer, not a programmer or a systems person." If you are a WEB developer or responsible for maintaining hosted WEB applications, you need to know a bit about it all. It simply isn't sufficient to demarcate your knowledge sphere and point your finger at the other guy. - JP Maxwell

Wow ! - ★ Soner Gönül

Robert Scoble

Having lunch with the JS-Kit guys. Echo really rocks. Publishers are going to love it.

July 20 from iPhone - Comment - Like - Share

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Any update on when it will become more widely available???? - Stephen Tomasello

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Is JS-Kit using Echo on its blog? Not much activity in the comments... - Brent Logan

A warm Bonjour for Chris on my behalf, please! :) - directeur

It's really slick, zoomy technology. But will *readers* like it? (And hello to the JS-Kit gang: Good luck with Echo!) - Chris Baskind

Stephen: really soon. - Robert Scoble from iPhone

Chris: that is the big question, isn't it? - Robert Scoble from iPhone

There's a smart friendfeeder I want to introduce to him (Chris, me and that guy share the same love for personal relevancy) - directeur

does this mean you will drop Disqus? - Nick Halstead

Is there any way Js-kit and disqus can work together, there are some features I enjoy in disqus, does echo subsume all of them? - Mark Essel from iPhone

Have you given up on your blog? I expected the link to take me to an article where you actually said something. Your constant linking to ff and little else is becoming annoying. Produce something of value or lose another follower and subscriber. Would have expected the link to tell what the hell Echo is and what JS-kit does and why a blogger should care. You waste my time with this crap. - Bruce Keener

Just a follow-up on my last comment, Robert. You have so much talent, yet I feel like you are wasting it here. That's why I'm upset. Oh, I'm upset that I've wasted my time coming to find an article on Echo that didn't exist. But I am more upset that your talent is going down the drain, and you seem oblivious to it. A damn shame. - Bruce Keener

I don't always "get" technology when it first arrives. Twitter being a prime example. Seeing a page of live twitter like responses though as a reader is not interesting for me. I would rather read through longer intelligent discussion. You're FriendFeed discussions are great, but the js-kit echo demo left me feeling blurry. Granted there are advantages, but am I just missing something, again? - ASKJDOG

@askjdog you may wish to check out the matrix at the bottom of http://js-kit.com/echo it contains some of our thinking, which i am sure can be expanded upon ... for a deeper dive, click on "Synaptic Web" at the end of the matrix ... it is *one* view of the evolution of the web. - khrisloux

Bruce: I was off filming an interview with them, I'm not going to write a damn blog post on my iPhone. Geesh. And anyway, I've already written about Echo before. This was just a tease for tomorrow's video. - Robert Scoble

Nick: I'm very seriously considering dropping Disqus, yes. We're definitely going with JS-Kit over on Building43.com and I'll consider it after using it a while there for my blog. - Robert Scoble

Robert, how does it compare to the Disqus Reactions? - Jesse Stay

Jesse: from what I've seen so far JS-Kit is real time, while Disqus isn't. But not sure I'm comparing the newest Disqus stuff. Is Reactions new or is it what I'm already using on my blog at http://scobleizer.com ? - Robert Scoble

Robert, the Reactions feature is what's below the comments, under "Reactions:" on your blog - Jesse Stay

I'm betting that Disqus will have an equivalent out very soon - if so, is it really worth switching just for real-time, considering you'll have real-time shortly? - Jesse Stay

Jesse: I think real time is worth switching for, but then you see how I use real time here on FriendFeed. - Robert Scoble

I'm betting Disqus, because they've had a chance to see the competition, will release something better. I'm just not one to switch back and forth constantly though. - Jesse Stay

Jesse: I still haven't switched my blog, but we did go with JS-Kit on Building43 because the JS-Kit folks seem to be ahead of the Disqus ones. We'll see if we switch my blog. - Robert Scoble

Thanks @khrisloux I'll read that article, and take another look at the feature matrix. - ASKJDOG

Either way both Disqus and JS-Kit are BOTH excellent systems from what I've seen, and I'm sure they will both continue to evolve. - ASKJDOG

@Robert thanks for the lunch - was too much fun catching up again - Chris Saad

Can't wait to try this but I'm going to extract my existing blog and test on an alternative platform - Joe Dawson

good to read the discussion between Jesse and Robert: I very much want to choose the best commenting platform, and not switching bak and forth.. both disqus and current js-kit(future: Echo) have their plusses and minuses. Guess some sort of final decision on my side will take another couple of months, in the mean time staying with disqus and eagerly waiting for Echo... - Jeroen De Miranda

Are either Echo or Disqus able to pull comments (not just posts) out from behind Facebook's garden wall onto one's own blog? - David Sanger

I found an example js-kit on Building43 blog to check out... - Jannifer @wordsforliving

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is geen probleem bij ons - wij zitten al een tijdje op WP2.8.4 - Jeroen De Miranda

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http://www.techcrunch.com/2009... over hetzelfde onderwerp, nu in TechCrunch - hier de oproep om vooral 'Sterke' wachtwoorden te gebruiken (lange wachtwoorden met voldoende 'special characters' (&%%^$#@ etc); zorg er ook voor dat je totaal verschillende wachtwoorden gebruikt op de belangrijkste sites (WP, Ning, Google, twitter, ...) - Jeroen De Miranda

hetzelfde onderwerp http://thenextweb.com/2009... - Jeroen De Miranda

ik heb voor alle zekerheid de lijst van Users in WP gechecked - er staan geen vreemde 'beheerder'-gebruikers tussen (had ik ook niet verwacht; we zitten al een tijdje op WP2.8.4; dat is de laatste versie) - Jeroen De Miranda

Anthony Farrior

louisgray.com: Twazzup Live: Best Twitter Profiles Anywhere, Powered by Real-time - http://live.louisgray.com/2009...

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"The new live.twazzup.com service, in contrast, focuses less on the numerics of one's profile, but what actually happens when they hit the send button." - Anthony Farrior from Bookmarklet

have just tried Twazzup; pretty impressive! Especially finding out who is influencing others is a useful feature. - Jeroen De Miranda

WordPress: John Craft

Is anyone having problems with drag-n-drop in WP 2.8? I can't use it either in the Widgets admin, or in NextGen gallery, from either FireFox or IE.

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This is bizarre. I auto-upgraded several WP installs to 2.8. Drag-n-drop works on all but one. So I tried unzipping a full install and uploading it - didn't fix it. Using another theme doesn't help. Could there be an entry in the DB that affects drag-n-drop? - John Craft

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Yep, I'm having the same issue. Drag-and-drop doesn't work for me at all, which cripples the new widget section. :( I've only performed one upgrade so far and am not reluctant to do any others... - Michelle McGinnis

there is an issue with the thesis template; they have an upgrade version 1.5.1 that solves this problem - Jeroen De Miranda

yup, I have heard that about Thesis, but I don't have it and I'm getting the same issue. It maybe is a coincidence, but seems to have started after instaling a plug-in LocalAnalytics. anybody got a solution for non-Thesis user? - lucato

Other weird behaviours were that all plug-ins became deactivated. Other was that some plug-ins are missing info/images in the back-end. - lucato

My WP MU has been behaving weird also. Lost the functionality to upload/add self-hosted images - TrafficBug

Louis Gray

"Truth in Marketing" - Louis Gray: Who would have thought those 3 words together? - http://www.youtube.com/watch...

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what to do when your company is being 'attacked' on twitter, facebook....some interesting thoughts (Guy Kawasaki, Louis Gray, others) - Jeroen De Miranda

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this is a real issue and very good gentlemen - Thomas Power

Totally agree Louis..Let the agitator speaks with themselves! - Marieme

Kill 'em with kindess Louis, what else can you do? http://www.victusspiritus.com/2009... - Mark Essel

dehaaspeter

JS-Kit Community Wiki / Feature-List - http://wiki.js-kit.com/Feature...

August 27 from delicious - Comment - Like - Share

Hoi Peter, wat vind jij van JS-Kit? al naar gekeken? - Jeroen De Miranda

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nee, zag het vanavond via een tweet van @scobleizer. Vroeg me direct af hoe ik dit weer moet plaatsen in de "brei" van tools ... wat is jouw mening ? - dehaaspeter

erg goed tool; heb het onlangs ingezet op http://www.ambtenaar20.nl - kan er voor zorgen dat er meer integratie komt tussen blogs en allerlei livestreaming tools zoals twitter etc. Ook erg goed voor authenticatie van commentatoren. Een van de meer belangrijke nieuwe web 2.0 tools denk ik. - Jeroen De Miranda

Jeroen, bedankt. Ik ga zeker kijken of het iets is om op mijn blog te integreren - dehaaspeter

Chris Saad

You know you're working to hard when your boss @khrisloux tells you to go out and have more fun :)

August 28 from Twitter - Comment - Like - Share

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You know you're working too hard when you forget the difference between "to" and "too". - Louis Gray

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Who are you, the grammar police? :) - Chris Saad

In short, yes. - Louis Gray

take some rest; you are doing a great job - thanks for the support ! - Jeroen De Miranda

Robert Scoble

Re: Real time comments will piss off pro bloggers (at first) - http://scobleizer.com/2009...

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"By the way, you can chat with me now." - Robert Scoble

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"By the way, you can chat with me now." - Robert Scoble

just curious: will disqus and js-kit end up serving different types of users; or will this remain a head-on collision competition? - Jeroen De Miranda

Jeroen: they have different philosophies on which course comments should take, so I think they will serve different users. - Robert Scoble

The solution is simple: auto-refreshed ads integrated in real time comments. Every 25 (or so) comments, the auto-refresh adds an ad int he comment stream. Problem solved - pro bloggers are rewarded for active conversations. - Trent Hamm

Robert, thanks; it acks my idea about the two products. Went for js-kit; am happy with it - Jeroen De Miranda

Trent: you're assuming that someone would be willing to pay for that (unlikely to be clicked) ad... - Joel Bennett

BTW, Robert - when you were at StartPad last week - I forgot to show you my OTHER recent project - a Real Time Link Discussion Service - http://Go2.me. Any link you send from Go2.me gets a real-time chat room in a side-bar. - Mike Koss

Are the comments real time for everyone? I am not having that luck -- we ran a few tests. I even have the blank file on the server that they call for. - Ben Hanten

People are willing to pay for (even less likely to be clicked) banner ads, and they're not streamed into the middle of content. - Trent Hamm

Daniel J. Pritchett

Echo now has Friendfeed OAuth support.  Cool! - http://js-kit.com/

August 27 from JS-Kit - Comment - Like - Share

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will have a look at it on my blog, having js-kit already - Jeroen De Miranda

works fine; enables even better cross platform integration of livestreams into blogs - Jeroen De Miranda

Sweet! Thanks for the report. - Daniel J. Pritchett

Hans Mestrum

ECHO commenting systems - http://js-kit.com/

August 25 from delicious - Comment - Like - Share

Echo is the next generation commenting system. It’s the way to share your content, and watch the live reaction. You can quickly embed Echo on WordPress, Blogger, or any website and turn your static pages into a real-time stream of diggs, tweets, comments, ratings and more. - Hans Mestrum

Hans, ik heb dit geimplementeerd op http://www.ambtenaar20.nl ... probeer het eens zou ik zeggen! - Jeroen De Miranda

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What We Can Learn From Mess - http://www.avc.com/a_vc...

August 25 from Bookmarklet - Comment - Like - Share

analogie wordt getrokken met een 'leanere' overheid - Jeroen De Miranda from Bookmarklet

dit artikel gaat over Craiglist (CL) laat zien hoe je met relatief weinig inspanning een succesvolle web 2.0 onderneming kunt bouwen - vergelijking tussen CL en Yahoo is erg interessant (aantal medewerkers en omzet) - Jeroen De Miranda

Mike Fruchter

Just bought and installed the HeadWay WP theme. I'm now looking for a designer to overhaul my blog and give it more of a professional look. Looking for a custom header (with image) to be made, as well as complete blog overhaul. If you are looking to make some extra cash shoot me an email mikefruchter@gmail.com. Please include examples of your work!

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I'll always give the FF community a job opportunity first. Please pass this along to out of work designers. Offer expires in 48 hours. - Mike Fruchter

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bump - Mike Fruchter

Mike, did you consider the Thesis WP framework? just curious.... - Jeroen De Miranda

Mike - perhaps I can help! - andy brudtkuhl

Andy, email sent - Mike Fruchter

Jeroen, I looked at Thesis originally.I was impressed at what HeadWay can do, same functionality as Thesis and much less of learning curve. - Mike Fruchter

Bart

I find it difficult to find other tweeps/friendsfeeds's google reader stream/url, any tips?

August 25 - Comment - Like - Share

use friendfeed search - Jeroen De Miranda

thx! put "service:googlereader" in search field - Bart

Twitter: Lorena

Twitter is failing again / Twitter está fallando de nuevo

August 25 - Comment - Like - Share

And not gracefully: HTTP Server Error 503 / No available server to handle this request - John

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yes it sure is - stockmanmarc

Sure is. Happening almost more frequently than 2008 in spring. - Vadim Lavrusik

at that time lots of geeks moved to FriendFeed (like myself)... wonder what will happen now in case these problems persists for weeks on end.... - Jeroen De Miranda

yes now we don't even get the fail whale / ahora ni siquiera sale la ballenita :( - Lorena

Mike Fruchter

Disgusted with Disqus. Spammers have plagued this service. I'm tired of getting spam bombed day after day. Switching to Intense Debate.

August 17 from Twitter - Comment - Like - Share

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I use this service only for leaving comments, And I have no friends on Disqus. - Madhav Tripathi

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I thought IntenseDebate had recently complained about their own spam problem as well. Has anyone compared Disqus, IntenseDebate and JS-Kit Echo with regards to spam control? - Rob Diana

Rob, I have been hearing great things about JS-Kit. I'm heavily leaning towards it. - Mike Fruchter

JS-Kit looks fantastic. - guruvan (Rob Nelson)

Disqus is toast on my blog. It's spam riddled beyond belief. - Mike Fruchter

There is no mechanism in place to detect 50 spam comments being left back to back on different posts from the same IP. Surely they need to do something about this. I have been a Disqus backer since day one, but this is the final straw. - Mike Fruchter

That is a shame as I know they are definitely trying to curb the issue. I hope they can break through whatever issue they are having. - Rob Diana

JS-Kit is looking better and better every minute. - Mike Fruchter

Rob, yea I agree. By now they should have there act together though. They are very behind the curb. - Mike Fruchter

Disqus cannot handle even the most obvious forms of spam. Which is too bad, because I love their API and generally like their service. - Carter Rabasa

Yeah, I went with Intense Debate and never worried about Disqus again. - Spencer

I'm in about the same place. I'm thinking about moving back to WP and Akismet. - EricaJoy

Hi Mike, any new experiences with JS-Kit? Had (almost) no spam up till now - Jeroen De Miranda

You may be a few days too soon - the new Disqus launches this week with improved spam support. Also, have you added your Akismet key to your settings in Disqus? They just added that recently. - Jesse Stay

I'd like less hype out of Disqus and more product improvement. - Cliff Gerrish

I looked at JS-Kit, installed and could not import my comments. No reply from their support either. I installed Intense Debate and so far so good. Plenty of bells and whistles. I installed Akismet with it as well and no spam has gotten through. Impressed so far with ID! - Mike Fruchter

I just turned on moderation for any comment with a link and required registration + confirmation for commenting. Temporary solution until I can switch to something else. - EricaJoy

I had tried ID several months ago; at that time I ran into some serious bugs (like comments from one blog appearing on another blog). Guess those bugs have been ironed out in the mean time. Good to see competition and probably more diffentiation, that is best for all users! - Jeroen De Miranda

I haven't had any spam issues with Disqus + Akismat - andy brudtkuhl

ID and Disqus both support Akismet at the moment. Disqus added Akismet sometime last week IIRC. I switched from Disqus to ID and back in the last few months - it was a relatively painless process! - Daniel J. Pritchett

April Buchheit

Dutch Ad Campaign Targets Discrimination - http://theoriens.com/dutch-a...

August 24 from Bookmarklet - Comment - Like - Share

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"Should you have to hide the real you to be accepted?" - April Buchheit from Bookmarklet

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Hell, my kid is "not accepted" at school and he couldn't be any more in the "majority" demographic if he tried (white and male)... once you are targeted you're picked on, no matter what you look like. You have to figure out the best way to stand up for yourself because no one else is going to do it for you. :( No amount of political correctness is going to fix it. - Lindsay

I am liking this because of Lindsay's comment above - "once you are targeted you're picked on, no matter what"... "You have to figure out the best way to stand up for yourself because no one else is going to do it for you." (The most prolific comment I have read here. :) - Space Cowboy

No one is going to do it for you all the time, that is. - Gus

Why is the text in English instead of Dutch? - Gabe

Aaaaah! This is good! - Brad Williamson

English b/c in the Netherlands we have many people living from other countries; and almost all Dutch can read English (at least that is my take) - Jeroen De Miranda

Robert Scoble

One thing I will do, though, is move my blog's comments to JS-Kit for real time there. Here's why:

August 10 - Comment - Like - Share

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Because one of the real things I did with FriendFeed was to hold real time interactive blogging sessions. IE, chat. Like here, like now. But now I don't need FriendFeed for that, so I will move it to JS-Kit. - Robert Scoble

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You mean ECHO? - Majento

ooh...shiny... Hah! ;-) - Rob Michael (Atmos Trio)

Yes. JS-Kit's Echo. - Robert Scoble

Would love to know what you'd like to see next Robert - Chris Saad

We've set up a GetSatisfaction forum to measure feedback and let the community help us prioritize - Chris Saad

So JS-Kit Echo over Disqus because of the real-time stuff? I'm tempted to try it out myself. - Travis B. Hartwell

Travis: yup. We have JS-Kit Echo running over at http://building43.com. Good stuff. - Robert Scoble

My one question about this -- and maybe you can answer for me Chris -- if I integrate JS-Kit into my blog using the javascript method, Google won't be able to index comments on my site. Is that correct? If so, does JS-Kit offer an API so I can pull those down statically to serve to Google? Or what's the solution? - Travis B. Hartwell

Yes we have a solution for SEO support - deets here: http://wiki.js-kit.com/Admin+G... - Chris Saad

*looks* Thanks Chris! - Travis B. Hartwell

np - happy to help - Chris Saad

i didn't think ECHO was available to the masses yet??? - Brad Williamson

www.js-kit.com <-- have a look Brad :) - Chris Saad

If ECHO was going to stand up on its own, I don't think it would need fabricated buzzwords like "social gestures." Please. - Mark Pannell

Gestures are an old notion from the Attention days Mark - Chris Saad

Thanks, Chris ;-) - Brad Williamson

Chris, do you notice any confusion among bloggers as to difference between the initial JS-Kit comment system and the new Echo? - Majento

Not really Majento - there is a little table that compares the two down the bottom of the home page - they are very different - Chris Saad

Chris, i hear you about the website. I mean online in general, when JS-Kit is mentioned. I've used both as a commenter so i know how big the difference is. Echo adds tons of spice. - Majento

We've found very little confusion actually - people seem to really understand that 'Echo' is not 'Commenting' - Chris Saad

And the difference will only become more and more apparent - Chris Saad

Does JS-Kit ECHO allows for re-export of comments? - Paul Papadimitriou

Yes you can export the whole lot in one batch - but we also sync the comments to wordpress or blogger in real-time so you can just rip it off at any time - Chris Saad

Will I still see your blog comments on FF? - Leigh Marriner

@Chris, it's a constant sync? That is amazing. - Paul Papadimitriou

Chris, I do not see any realtime synching happening on my blogs - all comments reside in Echol not in my own blog..... - Jeroen De Miranda

I hear DISQUS v3 is gonna wipe JS-Kit out of the commenting space... - Nikolay Kolev

+1 on Disqus v3...would like to know more... - brainno722 (Peter)

I would echo (no pun intended ;) what Jeroen said - I couldn't get ECHO to import/sync native WP comments on my (self-hosted) blog. Chris, I put a question on getsatisfaction 6 days ago http://support.js-kit.com/jskit... - Micah Wittman

Hi Jeroen & Micah - can u both please post your site URLs to this thread and I will have someone smarter than me help out http://support.js-kit.com/jskit... - the comments should sync in real time - Chris Saad

@Nikolay & Brain - Disqus 3 looks awesome! The two are quite different products though and will only diverge more over time. It comes down to the kind of blogger you are and what matches your needs. There's more than enough room in the market for both approaches. - Chris Saad

Robert : on all the new posts at http://www.building43.com/blogs... there is no place for comments at all - Johni Fisher

Thanks, Chris. :) - Micah Wittman

Chris, this is the Dutch blog http://www.ambtenaar20.nl ('Civil Servant 2.0') - the synchronization issue has been solved by your time today; thanks for the great support! - Jeroen De Miranda

My pleasure - we're also putting together a comparison chart of the top features, and a full feature list of Echo to help people choose the platform that makes sense for them http://wiki.js-kit.com/Feature... - Chris Saad

Chris, might be an idea to state more clearly in the documentation and/or feature list that you do synchonize fully with WP.... took some effort to find that functionality.... It is an important function. - Jeroen De Miranda

Ok are you aware of how the other platforms handle this so I can be accurate? I welcome other feedback and contributions to the wiki page as well (of course) - Chris Saad

So will you keep them linked to FF for those of us who follow you here? - Leigh Marriner

Ambtenaar20-feeds

Wil je een overzicht van alles wat gebeurt op Ambtenaar 2.0? Kijk dan op http://bit.ly/En9ZA .0 Ontbreekt er nog iets? - http://twitter.com/davied...

August 23 from A2.0 OR ambtenaar20 OR... - Comment - Like - Share

leuk initiatief; is gelijk ook een soort 'best practice' - Jeroen De Miranda

Inspiring Thesis Blogs: Jeroen De Miranda

http://kikolani.com/author Kikolani heeft een paar mooie elementen: kleurige achtergrondfoto; menu met extra uitleg per item in een kleiner font; google friends widget; een blogroll met icons van het land waar de blog vandaan komt; portfolio foto's in de footer; de tekst om verder te lezen bevat de titel van het artikel; rode underlining van links.

August 23 - Comment - Like - Share

De linkerkolom voor content is een stuk breder dan de sidebar; hierdoor trekt de hoofdtekst meer de aandacht. - Jeroen De Miranda

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