Jill Howard Allen - Likes

those are your two words? :) And hey, yo, this actually wasn't what i was referring to as annoying. It was the other ones - like "Pain & Sorrow", "Life", "Friendfeed", "Damn". Crap like that...at least this is a direct request for comments , whereas others are cop-outs (not sure if that is juts a british term) - Zee.

Sounds good - Josh Haley from fftogo

are you taking the piss? - Zee.

Number Two - Josh Haley from fftogo

aaaaaaand scene. - Josh Haley

Hubber hubber! - Timothy Griffin

and josh, i really do like that song. [pouts] - Captain Bubbles

Joy & Pain - Anthony K. Valley ©

Sunshine & Rain - Anthony K. Valley ©

Love & Happiness - Anthony K. Valley ©

Sorry Faboo! - Josh Haley

Don't Cry! - Josh Haley

maple syrup - Mark Wilson

good night - Josh Haley

good riddance - Josh Haley

Aloha hard - Josh Haley

Venereal disease - Mike Nayyar

... are not enough for how I feel about Newton feeling up an apple. What! - vijay

last comment - Simon Wicks

I sneezed - Richard A. from IM

September 25?? - Miriella

ok - vijay

Awe. some. - Chieze Okoye

I still - Captain Bubbles

bum rush - Katie: Whelmed Overly

love that - Captain Bubbles

song, man! - Captain Bubbles

Why not? - Lisha Sterling

Just because! - Mark Layton

Thanks Anika! - Josh Haley

squishy butt - Trish Haley

Mumble Porn - Christopher Harley

hidden cam - Onur Gündüz

bella donna - fijidaddy

Not Pregnant - Steve C

oh yeah - Alfredo

toilets pooh - Alfredo

Hi Honey! - Josh Haley

Who farted? - Joe Pierce

WHO ME? - AJ Batac

got milk? - Kevin C. Tofel

I win! - ♥patricia♥

Chocolate Rain - Onur Gündüz

cowboy up - JA Castillo

twofer - Micah Wittman

sexual chocolate! - Josh Haley

Body bag. - Katie: Whelmed Overly

Pizza buffet! - Craig Eddy

Gabba Gabba - Jill Howard Allen

Butt muscles - Mike Nayyar

sapho juice - Josh Haley

too sweet - Vicky

ass maggots - Josh Haley

trust me - MikeAmundsen

going home - Josh Haley

Still Fine :-) - YoYo_P

short tweet - KyleHase from twhirl

desire fear - Phil Boiarski

Touchy feely - Mike Nayyar

10 over - Josh Haley

DAMN YOU! - Michael Forian

These nuts - Rahsheen ™, Coach Rah

YOU'RE BLOCKED - Shawn Farner

just kidding - Shawn Farner

BOW DOWN - Mo Kargas

perhaps never - Jon, the Beartato of FF

Deuce Syntax - Johnny Worthington

wondering-if hyphenation-counts - Kevin Johnson

why me - MiniMage TKDteacher of FF

Found you - Mike Nayyar

Old thread. - Akiva Moskovitz

iPod Touch - TheHenry

Friend Feed. ;-) - Kol Tregaskes

fast breeder - Christopher Harley

premature ejaculation? - Josh Haley

fart ventriloquist - Ladybug Heather

Fah cue. - Christian (Simply X)

Dim Sum - Rod Bauer from twhirl

In vain. - Meryn Stol

Walkin' Boss - Christopher Harley

Day off! - Shawn Whitmire

Alons-y, Alonso! - Steven Perez

monkey jacket - Christopher Harley

Trish's Birthday! - Josh Haley

bitch lips - sofarsoShawn

Cold chisel. - Christopher Harley

Siberian Khatru - Josh Haley

wiggy wiggy! - Helen Sventitsky

holy thunderforce - Mo Kargas

refried beans - Jeffrey J Davis

antibiotics again - Josh Haley

Done? Already? - Alisha Vargas

stop thread - KyleHase

nice try - Josh Haley

Fried Okra - Brent Smorgen Bleg

fried shoes - m9m, Crone of FriendFeed

Southern Delicacy - Josh Haley

Yes, live - Jim Hearts FF

Steve Howe - Josh Haley

Who revived? - Nicholas James

Savoir Faire - Josh Haley

Tonsil hockey - Threepwood

Buzz Kill - DGentry

Fart Blossom - Josh Haley

Great Thread! - Threepwood

NUT SACK - Johnny Worthington

suck balls - Darren Heydon

Nice, Aden! - Josh Haley

Balls Itch - CW™

Scratch Well - Josh Haley

Dirty Sanchez - (jeff)isageek

IT BURNS! - Glen Mistletoe

Gilmore Girls - Josh Haley

Shake Well. - CAJ, somewhere else

Suck it. The classic WWE D-Generation X line) - Thunderwing from twhirl

Apply liberally. - CAJ, somewhere else

Wet Paint. - CAJ, somewhere else

Afternoon delight. - CAJ, somewhere else

Major Tom - Josh Haley

Michael Savage. The most important conservative in talk radio - Thunderwing from twhirl

Thom Hartmann. The most important liberal in talk radio - Thunderwing from twhirl

Weird meme. - Jack (a.k.a. Jeber)

enough already - KyleHase

no Way - CW™

please stop - KyleHase

Why now - CW™

sandy vagina - Josh Haley

not good - Internet's Tad

painful thought - Kevin Johnson

Take shower - Brent Smorgen Bleg

Booger picker - CW™

CILANTRO, BITCHES! - Steven Perez

SONIC SCREWDRIVER. - Steven Perez

NUTELLA NOM. - Steven Perez

STRAWBERRY BLOND. - Steven Perez

STAR TREK. - Steven Perez

BABYLON 5. - Steven Perez

CAPSLOCK RULEZ! - Steven Perez

BOW DOWN - Mo Kargas

NO WAI. - Steven Perez from IM

My eyes!!! - KyleHase

Absolutely nuts! - Bonnie Foster

Me breakfast! - Ryo / Fuck Facebook

uh--what? - Rob Michael (Atmos Trio)

improvised eloquence - Josh Haley from IM

apparent disappointment - Jon, the Beartato of FF

inadmissible guilt - Mo Kargas

hypnotic marmoset - Joe Pierce

intrepid giraffe - Mo Kargas

Bitch, please. - Derrick

Fist Bump - Josh Haley from IM

It's 8am - Nicholas James

Marmalade Gandalf - Christopher Harley

Guardians unite! - Brome

No Netbooks! - Rick Cogley

DISTURBED RULEZ! - Steven Perez from IM

melted biscuits - Simon Wicks

Palm Pre - Kevin C. Tofel

not again - Josh Haley

oh dear. - Lindsay

Par. Ty. - Brett Kelly

hi bye - Peter Dawson

good night - Ray H

NOM NOM - Steven Perez

uh oh - metalerik

Baloney nipples - tinypants - Hagitha of FF

cheesy crust - Chris Hofmann

bacon get! - Chris Hofmann

coconut balls - MikeAmundsen

YOU LIE - Josh Haley

Good evening - Ray H

word word - Mike Nencetti

Great photo. I lie. See soon. - TrafficBug

Humble Pie - Brent Smorgen Bleg

Pirate Day - Josh Haley from iPhone

Go Cowboys!?! - Give 'Em DBizness

Nice capture. - Rick Cogley

Want fries? - Rick Cogley

You what!? - Rick Cogley

I kid. - Rick Cogley

Like dogs? - Rick Cogley

brown sugar - J. Abdul-Qahhar

Awesome sauce! - Alex Scoble

Tonight I was faced with this scene at a party in Indianapolis for Monster Energy drink and I figure it is a good way to tell if you are a geek. If you first impulse is to ask the girls for help with your Ubuntu install, you are probably a geek. If you start wondering about what cool iPhone apps they use, you are probably a geek. If you want to ask them where the best places to find wifi in Paris are, you are probably a geek. If you want to invite them to a Facebook party you are probably a geek. If you ask them what they think of Android you are probably a geek. - Robert Scoble from email

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به به , چشم مریم خانم روشن - Mil∂d

@scobleizer you follow the scobleizer on here? - Prolific Programmer from IM

By the way, I am a geek. :-) - Robert Scoble from iPhone

If you ignore them entirely and check out what's playing on the media player in the background, you're probably a geek. - Akiva Moskovitz

If you can't spell "Ubuntu" do you get your geek cred's revoked? - Joel Bennett

If your first impulse is to correct @scobleizer on his spelling of Ubuntu in his post . . . you're a geek. - Michael Owens

So did you have wild sex with them? - Dave Winer

geek ---> - Rahsheen ™, Coach Rah

slut :) - Jeunelle Foster

Well Robert, what did they answer to all these questions? <--- Geek. - Bettina Tizzy

if you dont care, for once, what scoble has to say, and are simply wondering where to find these girls...what are you? - Zachary Adam Cohen

sluts* - Michael Owens

If you know for a fact the girls don't care at all about you and are only there as paid advertisements, AND you still don't care and want to gawk and hang out and get photos with them anyway...you might be a geek. - Josh Haley

Scoble is a womanizer hahahaha - Jeunelle Foster

Damn, Josh, why not just go ahead and win the Internet for yourself, why don't you. - Akiva Moskovitz

It might be a new ad for s3. - Trey Ratcliff

Thank you, sir. - Josh Haley

Dave: I am talking with you so what do you think? :-) - Robert Scoble from iPhone

Dave + Scoble: That's a yes. - Michael Owens

Zachary: they are in downtown Indy. - Robert Scoble from iPhone

If you ask them their thoughts on Faccebook acquiring FriendFeed, you're a geek. - imabonehead

I wonder if Scoble's pickup line is "Hi, Who Are You?" - Bastard Operator From FF

What the.. Why bother blogging this crap when you could actually be striking up riveting conversation.. - Pogmohoin

Imabonehead: definitely! - Robert Scoble from iPhone

on my way, just gonna fire up my get and break out the Nair for Men - Zachary Adam Cohen from email

oh btw sluts* - Pogmohoin

"Hi, I'm Robert Scoble, who are you?" - Prolific Programmer from IM

You guys are a bunch of pathetic losers. Robert did you ask them what their astrological sign was? and if you did you are a geek who's desperate :) - Jeunelle Foster

If you immediately turn to your iPhone and write about it on FriendFeed you are a geek - Jesse Stay

I'm pretty sure I am still a geek, but there is no way any of those questions come to mind when I see this picture. And I think if those questions come to anyone's mind here, it might be time for geek-rehab. - Bill Grant

Pogmohin: I talked with them for a while. Nice people but didn't know what Android was so I moved on. - Robert Scoble from iPhone

hahahaha - Jeunelle Foster

This post is just a cover story for why does Robert have this picture, anyway? - Jason Wehmhoener

So is "What do you think of Android?" the new Turning test? - Micah Wittman

thinking you can pick up said girls by telling them you wrote an iphone app and expecting them to get excited about it then you're a geek. - evablue

Yeah.. I am from FHM mag.. Want to make the big time baby.. Now can the girl at the rear just reach around to the one at the front more...click .. front page Roberts Screen Saver.. - Pogmohoin

Damn. Best photo you've ever taken! - Mike Flynn

Me: confronted with this scene, I'm a slut first, then a geek. ;) (Mike: hella observant!) - Dennis Jernberg

You could also be gay, or female, but that would be in a non-geek-centric universe, so I could be wrong. ;) - Lisa Norman

I have a feeling this is going to show up in the daily "Best Of Your Friendfeed" for anyone subscribed to Scoble. - Michael Owens

Michael: You're right! This one wins the whole day. ;) - Dennis Jernberg

Also, there is an iPod in the background -- clearly these are Apple Fan-girls. - Bill Grant

"Android? Oh, haven't met him yet. Is he still at the party?" *leaves room* - Micah Wittman

What were we talking about again? - Derrich

Bill: Sure enough, iPod, docked. - Dennis Jernberg

The girl at the right said her name was Ashley. Actually she said she was "Smashley." love that. - Robert Scoble from iPhone

Ashley owes me money and I better not run into her or her face would be smashley - Jeunelle Foster

Bill: yup. I picked up on the iPod very quickly at the party. I am hoping Ashley sends me her play list! - Robert Scoble from iPhone

@Micah -- Me: "No, that's Mandroid. He stayed home. Wasn't cool enough. Android is...(way short explanation)" - Dennis Jernberg

If you take a picture of three beautiful girls, post it on FF, and your first inclination is to write a caption that includes the words Ubuntu, iphone Apps and Android - OR if you comment on such a post... You are definitely a geek. - Rob Rose

By the way none of the three had been to Europe so they couldn't help me with good places to get wifi for LeWeb. - Robert Scoble from iPhone

If you help them sign up for Facebook, FriendFeed, and Twitter, you're a geek. - imabonehead

Well they don't look like they know how to boil rice - Jeunelle Foster

Been to Europe?? Man did they say the best thing that come out of Europe was "The Final Countdown" from their Daddy's "86 with a Bullet" tape!! http://www.youtube.com/watch... - Pogmohoin

This scene was the geek's dream while posting this. :) - Bundit

imabonehead: actually they are already on Facebook. Which says something about how mainstream Facebook has gotten. - Robert Scoble

All the Facebook friends in my family (except for my brother) are definitely nongeeks. - Dennis Jernberg

anyone reading this is a geek - Brendon Wadey

++++++++++GooglePlex, Akiva! - Melanie Reed

Well I know I'm a geek. When someone like me, who spends a lot of time helping a sexy geek like Marina Orlova of http://hotforwords.com because she speaks geek and is enjoyable to work with. I might even venture to say she's a bit of a computer nerd. When Marina wakes up the first thing she does is check her email. When she gets ready for bed she can be found tweeting before she retires... more... - Captain Jack

Captain Jack: she sounds cool. What apps does she have on her iPhone? - Robert Scoble

Were they impressed by the size of your lens, Robert? - Vezquex: God of FF

Raphael: I didn't have that with me tonight. Was going low key. :-) - Robert Scoble

wow - EhsanDiary

If Robert had taken that shot with is 600mm, he would have had to have been 3 blocks away and you would be able to see the the flecks of color in their eyes :) You are looking at their eyes right?? -- My first thought was well, they can't be geeks as everyone knows true Geeks drink Red Bull not Monster :P Monster isn't all bad, they are big supporters of Surfrider and International Surfing day ----> Surfing Geek - Luke Kilpatrick

If you're a geek, why are you asking someone else for help with your Ubuntu installation? Shouldn't you figuring that out yourself? Turn in your geek card, now. - Andy Bakun

Yeah, they'd have to ask you to help with their Ubuntu installation. Except if they don't know what Android is, they probably haven't heard of Ubuntu either. - Dennis Jernberg

This Ubuntu question can relate this photo and the Ubuntu logo, then that's a geeky question. (I mean this http://www.flickr.com/photos... ) - Mahmood Padura

I guess I'm a dirty old man. - D Lets from iPhone

Actually, I was going to ask what the gadget was on top of the microwave-minifridge combo. - Jay Cuthrell

I'm guessing it's an MP3 player (in the slot) and some kind of speaker array combo? - Jay Cuthrell

I guess the answer is: regardless of whatever you do, you are a geek :-) - Ethan Gahng

It would be a lot easier to tell if those three people were not in the way of the shiny thing in the back of the photo. - Jay Cuthrell

I think Robert took this photo just to keep me wondering all night about that mystery device. - Jay Cuthrell

Geek here :) I'd do a print 'Hello, Girls !' - Ahsan Ali aka. Slick

damn it Scoble! I have to like this. - rob friedman

looks like my weekends - sean percival

did they recognize you as the "scobleizer" ??? - zʍıɔ

New blog topic: the decline and fall of FriendFeed - A Mitchell

What's that coming over then hill? - Nick B.

"Well, hello there, sexy ladies! Would you like to come up to my place and read my @scobleizer feed? Hmm?" -bow-chicka-wow-wow- - Kevin Leroux

wow. I couldn't even make out what was that thing in the BG. I noticed the additional thumb/thigh in front -so that makes me a photo geek?? - jomarhilario

Oh my! Now I'm sure I'm not a geek! Hahaha they are beautiful as hell! - Rafael

if you find this picture of these attractive women on this page you are probably a geek...even if you don't read every single comment...including this one. - Lee Sachs

Some of us geeks know what we're doing with women. - Tyler Hurst

true dat,, you really can have it all - Zachary Adam Cohen from email

Oh, how gorgeous. You've got to love that Ipod design. - James Kuypers

I can tell the way the Hottie on da Right is looking at me that she really likes ME a lot!!! - Billy Warhol

@James I hereby award you the true geek award for your spotting of the iPod in this picture. =P (Special mention to the others who said MP3 player) - Silver iPod Nano I would think. - Travis Koger

Perhaps you need to add this app to your iPhone: http://www.beakerbreakers.com/nerdale... - Chad McCoskey from iPhone

Admit it: you told them you were Philip Seymour Hoffman. - Maxwell Kennerly

Two things. 1) Geeks do it better AND 2) they're not sluts... they're leveraging their assets... more power to them - Ankush Narula

davşan kızlara benziyorlar beaaa. - Pilot23

Really lol Scoble maybe u had been having 2 much fun @ the racetrack & geeks does attract some attractive wolla - polou/indigo_bow

Funny old world three attractive women in a fun pose at a launch party and it creates enormous interest? Funny how things never really change in human habits, geek yep that's me but this article made me smile a lot, keep snapping away Robert. - Ian Wright

If you are writing a disclaimer on a picture, you took at a party, because you don't want to be locked out of the house by your wife, you are a SMART geek:) - Maryam Scoble from iPhone

double like for Maryam :D - Alberto D'Ottavi

+1 Maryam - imabonehead

Best of day. - beersage

If you ask them how big their racks are, and you mean rackspace server size, then you are a geek. - Matt Soreco

If you whip out your iPhone, take their picture, and bring them home .... you're a HOT geek ! - Christopher Yeo

Totally.... - N.G. Gordon - RadarSync

Keep up the good work Scoble! :-) - Garin Kilpatrick

Heh, love that Maryam commented on this. I miss her and my two buddies. I'm just wondering why TechCrunch doesn't have parties like Monster drinks! ;-) - Robert Scoble

Robert, you'll just have to bring a case or two of Monster to your next TC visit and see what happens.... just make sure the cam is on. - Jay Cuthrell

Jeez, I must not be geekish at all — *my* first thoughts are all carnal. - Hieronymus Murphy

Me, I'm a mutant. ;) - Dennis Jernberg

3 girls 2 cups - HansVanRock

Only qx...which was your first impulse? I pray for your sake it was to throw down camera & decide where u were going to be in Blonde sandwich. :-) - Brenda Rothaupt

"Mountain View, CA - In response to Apple pulling the Google Voice application from the iPhone App Store, Google has removed all search results leading to Apple.com from its index. Google is also redirecting searches for "iPhone" and "app store" to the IMDb.com page for Payback." - Nir Ben Yona

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wow! - imabonehead

It's probably a joke. - Nir Ben Yona

It is a joke. So far. - Robert Scoble from iPhone

Funny. I kept checking to see if it was The Onion. - DGentry

"Google is also redirecting searches for "iPhone" and "app store" to the IMDb.com page for Payback." would be a nice sight to see. lol. - bora "head" basman

...that's how rumors get started. ;) - JA Castillo

ROFLMAO! - vijay

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EXACTLY! - AJ Batac

LMAO!!! - BEX

++++ - Marco(aureliusmaximus)

Posterized. Awesome - Bwana ☠

that was fast! - Rahul Das

LOL! Pegged it! - Lindsay

this is so funny yet so true! - Gerald Neo

BRILLIANT. - Zee.

fast :))))) fast and furious :)))) - Viva Vida

too much vavavooooom :) - Myriam

Short sited, ignorant, and perpetuates a falsehood - but the premise is hilarious and I laughed. - Matthew DeVries

MEGA LOL - Olivier

Thanks for making me laugh so hard that people at work now know I use FF at work! LOL! - Dean "Karnatos" Michaud

LOL! - Dee S.

hhahahaha! - Susan Beebe

HAHAHAH - mjc

ROFLMAO - Dobromir Hadzhiev

I still have the old UI. - Richard A.

@Richard just go to beta.friendfeed.com - Alfredo

love it ,,,, Wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee - johnpiercy

LMAO! - Altuğ `αℓƒσ¢υѕ´ Orgun

It is posts like this that require a favorite function. - Rob Diana

Rob - so true! - Susan Beebe

This is so funnyyY! - Jorge Escobar

that was great :) - Alp

sweet - mike "glemak" dunn

LMAO. Awesome illustration!! - Praveen Vasudev

PMSL - Tatty Gibson

LOL! - JazJaz

rofl. - Alp

This is great. lol - Kevin Whalen

lmao! :) - Mathew A. Koeneker

LOL - Moses Kpetigo

Is FriendFeed Beta Too Fast? - Alfredo

This made our office laugh out loud :) - Bret Taylor

hahaha - Alfredo

Wear it proudly :) The future will be going at Wall-E pace... - Christopher Galtenberg

the picture might be construed as being somewhat ambiguous ... I mean, where is the pleasure of it all ? - Petr Buben

is friendfeed still fast for you? i want it to keep up with me :) - Alfredo

I'm hitting f5 more then anything. Its not fast enough for me to keep up. - CW™

#awesomesauce - Alfredo

yup..that's how it's been.... :) - Rohit

Good to hear multiple points of view. - Steve Rubel

given what they usually "bring to the table" 140 is enough - Gary Sanders from BuddyFeed

Gary - agreed. Stu knows his stuff, though. - Daniel B. Honigman

Robert: Going to add these links as a comment to that post, http://www.economist.com/special... - Mark Essel

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Cloud Control: http://www.ft.com/cms... - Mark Essel

Cloud Computing: http://gigaom.com/2009... - Mark Essel

thought this one was really interesting, and had to ask myself what will we learn from pirated clouds? Dark Cloud Computing: http://news.idg.no/cw... - Mark Essel

They key issue in the cloud dialog is people talk about the movement and the technologies as if they were one. The movement is the concept of simply not running computing in house anymore. Centralized, on demand computing is mature, at scale, and now feature rich. Building in house computing plants will be harder and harder to justify. Part of the what has advanced this movement... more... - lew

http://kara.allthingsd.com/2009060... is her counter point to my article. - Robert Scoble

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She makes me laugh because she counter points my own article calling her and Walt Mossberg wrong for calling the 2010 web "Web 3.0." Lots of good points, except her defense of why she isn't on friendfeed is TOTALLY lame. - Robert Scoble

and she used "wronger" - Jesse Stay

Those are relatively sophisticated reasons to laugh. I just liked the Scooby Dumb picture. - Bruce Lewis from fftogo

doesn't include twitter or friendfeed in the sharing module - Michael Metz

Reply with a line by line retort, Robby x - David Lloyd

2010 web versus web 3.0, so funny :) - David Lloyd

Scooby Don't. Wow, kinda funny, but it doesn't sound like she fundamentally addressed the points that you made. I checked her Digg profile & her only friend there is Walt Mossberg. And on Twitter, she follows about 55 peeps. Not that she needs more Digg friends or Twitter followers. But what does that say about the depth of her understanding of these communities? - phil baumann

Twitter share is coming on ATD. And Phil, I thought social networks were supposed to be used the way each person wants to use them and not in the way some dictatorial types decide. - Kara

I am not on FriendFeed, because I must choose among all I can use and I find I like Twitter and Facebook best. Am trying out other stuff, but those stick. Also, I still find FF a bit more confusing, though I see why people like it. - Kara

It's lame to pass judgment on which services a person uses. As long as they participate in the conversation, listen, and add value. That would be like criticizing me for not using video. I just suck at it, so I don't. - Francine Hardaway

Thanks, Francine! But, apparently, some pigs are more social than others. - Kara

Kara, I also like Twitter and FB best, although sometimes I get involved in a discussion here because they are fun, especially around GG or TWiT - Francine Hardaway

Kara - I didn't say anything of the sort that you're implying. We all use these services the way we want. What I was questioning was your depth of understanding of these communities. I'm no expert. But: are you? - phil baumann

Exactly. Like this. But now I gotta go get dinner for the kids, which might not be social, but is MUCH more fun. - Kara

Didn't we have this argument about a year ago? Or am I having a case of Deja Vu? - Jesse Stay

You were commenting on how I use social tools. That would be EXACTLY none of your business. It's that kind of know-it-all attitude that keeps regular people from participating. I am not an expert, nor did I ever say I was in the Scooby piece, but you seemed to find out exactly how I use stuff. I don't have any idea how you do, nor do I care. It's your ride around the planet, so knock yourself out. - Kara

Also, I hope everyone knows that we were having fun with Robert, whom I love as does ATD. He is just the kind of passionate and enthusiastic user of all kinds of Web tools that everyone can appreciate (even if we don't agree on naming of Web eras). - Kara

I just like that Robert got Kara to comment on FriendFeed ;) - Jesse Stay

Blabby? first time I've heard the term. - Carolyn Wood

There is a certain irony that the lovely Kara replied on FF - David Lloyd

Kara - I was just asking a question. I didn't suggest any amount of knowledge. If I'm upsetting you right now, then I'll stop commenting. - phil baumann

Good entertainment. - Chris Rogers

- nice banter- Kara - I think it worked;-) - Carolyn Wood

Chris - yes. A healthy dose of sparks. - phil baumann

Really is a silly argument about Semantics, with the exception of the Friendfeed thing, Rob thinks its a crucial part of the 2010 web, Kara thinks one should be able to choose what sites are important for themselves. - David Lloyd

Hi Kara: I love you too. If I didn't I wouldn't debate you. I will come back to your other points when we open Building43. - Robert Scoble

And I think "wronger" isn't a word :-P - Jesse Stay

I also replied ALL OVER TWITTER! - Kara

I am so following you. - Carolyn Wood

Scooby, you are SO terminated when Google becomes self-aware! (Then again, they are gunning for me right now due to my opposition to Yahoogle!) - Kara

Mark: Kara will figure out why friendfeed is so important soon. Mark Zuckerberg today told me it is interesting. - Robert Scoble

Wronger is not a word. It is a joke word, though! - Kara

Kara it's okay - Robert called me an idiot on his blog. It's all love. :) - Jesse Stay

Kara, I was joking too - I just thought the whole semantics debate was funny so thought I'd join in. - Jesse Stay

Mark Zuckerberg! Well, if the Prophet of Palo Alto says so, then we all must follow! (actually, he is probably trying to buy it now that the Twitter guys dissed him and his $500M in stock and cash.) - Kara

where else besides FF can you watch an entertaining debate unfold like this?... nowhere I've found... making my morning here much more enjoyable reading this - MarkHirsch

Actually, I LIKE wronger. Let's all agree--if Zuck approves, of course--to use it all the time, - Kara

I think Kara has doubled the number of friendfeed comments in this thread alone. :-) hey Kara wait until you discover the search engine. - Robert Scoble

Kara, as long as I can use "funner" - Jesse Stay

Oh, god Robert, no more! I am really a bad parent and now might have to resort to take-out pizza. - Kara

How about: Funnierest - Kara

Wait, that sounds like it should be illegal. - Kara

Kara: I am a bad parent too. Come over and we will have a pizza party! - Robert Scoble

Kara, I like "more funnierest" better though - Jesse Stay

Predictions for the web in 2010? - David Lloyd

Phil: You were not upsetting me! I just think it odd that you report on my social practices. Both Walt and I embrace the whole shebang, unlike a lot of other folks in journalism, and we get dinged for not using each and every tool. Like I said, different strokes for different folks (which actually sounds naughty when you type it out like this) - Kara

Mark, the 2010 web will be more funnierest - Jesse Stay

and less wronger - Jesse Stay

The thing is tho Kara, FF really is a wonderful website, it's like Twitter Plus - David Lloyd

Oh, hmm, predicitions: Screen ubiquity; explosion of touch, gesture, etc across all devices; social embedded in everything and now just here or on FB; real-time becomes useful; and, just wishful thinking for a decade now, the easy use of Web on TV - Kara

Robert: Pizza with you and your spawn? My kids are like a pair of Dennis the Menaces. Do you have armor for yours? - Kara

Kara, my big add to all of that: Open - Jesse Stay

I know FF is great and, post-D, I will try to use it more. But if I end up liking another tool better, I want NO guff. - Kara

How bout we call it The Mongooses? The Fighting Mongooses? - Matthew DeVries

Open? A given. - Kara

Rikki Tikki Tavi - Kara

You just know right now Robert is in Wordpress editor typing up an epic piece about this whole thing - David Lloyd

Oh, another GIVEN - Kara

I think FriendFeed is sucking Kara in - careful, it's addictive - Jesse Stay

Oh, I do the same on Twitter. - Kara

Kara - I understand. I was just coming from the angle you just referenced regarding journalists and it's clear from your interaction here that you're thankfully countries away from some of your peers....Anyhoo, I'd like to see more face-off between you and Robert. I think Robert's on to something and your perspective adds another dimension. You should interview each other. Then we can duke it out on FF again. :) - phil baumann

kinda googley addictive hmmm - Carolyn Wood

I don't think the in person interview would work, Robert would probably be overwhelmed by Kara's personality and just huddle in a corner! - David Lloyd

First question Kara could ask: "Why do you leave companies after 18 months!" ouch! hehehe - David Lloyd

But most people in the IT industry could be asked that one! - John W Lewis

hehe - David Lloyd

Kara and Robby say hello to Techmeme - David Lloyd

Insignificant blabble. Don't these people ever do anything meaningful. If you round off the percentage of people who are "involved with social media" the result is 0. - Gary Sanders from BuddyFeed

I enjoyed the article, especially this part: "We. Don’t. Use. FriendFeed. Regularly. As I said, we use Twitter, we use Facebook, we use SMS, we use blogging and we use a whole lot more. In fact, between us, we try out pretty much everything." -- would you agree that their list appears to be broadcast oriented and not discussion oriented? - LPH™ and his dog P™

Why on earth would they want to engage in discussion. They're have to give up 50% of the airtime. Neither of them wants to do that. For them engagement *is* broadcast. They talk. People listen (at least in their minds). That's their interpretation of engagement. hehehe - Ken Camp

My favourite line was "Oh, Scooby-Don’t…" - Nicholas James

Kara, Like your FF comments better than Twitter..Its more interactive...:)... - venkat

Hmm, not surprised Zuckerberg finds Friendfeed "interesting" since Facebook "borrowed" several features from it. - Laura Norvig

Phil: We have debated live! Love Scoobs. - Kara

At a Fortune Brainstorm event last year. It was dicey but fun - Kara

Googley addictive sounds ominous. - Kara

Oh, Scoobs likes to get around and I like that in a man. - Kara

Gary: Social media is important and someday so pervasive we will not be debating it. - Kara

LPH: No, I think I have a lot of interaction with folks on Twitter. A ton, in fact. It can be just as reactive, etc. - Kara

Ken: That's a long graph there for a listener and all. But attack us all you like! We love that too. - Kara

I love responding in Twitter too as it requires I be pithy. - Kara

I am and will always be a big fan of Robert Scoble and Scooby-Do. Sometimes at the same time. - Kara

Um, Kara? It was GooHoo. Goo. Hoo. I stand by that. - Andrew Feinberg

Oh cool Louis Gray just left (we spent the evening playing with our kids). I should blog but have had enough fun for the evening! - Robert Scoble

Robert, what? The two of you together and no pictures on FriendFeed? - Jesse Stay

...I like "Scooby" more than "Scobelizer"...it's more warm and fuzzy. Scooby, why don't you go with Shaggy to investigate Web 3.0. Me, Daphne and Velma will hang out with the cool kids at E3, signed Freddie - .LAG liked that

Jesse: don't we post enough baby photos already? ;-) Maryam made an awesome meal, though. - Robert Scoble

Robert you can never have too many baby photos :) - Jesse Stay

Jesse, I took baby photos (and Milan). Want me to post them? - Louis Gray

Louis, yes, please - do I need to ask? :) - Jesse Stay

Sweet? Let me regroup! - Kara

Um, YAHOOGLE - Kara

Scooby goes for baby talk! Now, I look mean. - Kara

Also, I am Velma. OBVI. - Kara

no comment <<-- noise - Pico Seno

Hey Kara, does your level of activity on this thread mean you might possibly consider participating on FriendFeed more? If so, I'm totally subscribing. - EricaJoy

Favorite Kara quote: "You must know that mainstream users don’t pay one bit of attention to any and all of the dumb terms Silicon Valley comes up with." Word. - Aaron D'Souza

Aaron: actually that is very wrong. I hear "Web 2.0" used in mainstream press/media all the time. Which is one reason I hate the name because most people think it is new and not nine years old already. - Robert Scoble

True Robert, but she said "mainstream users" not "mainstream press/media" :) - Aaron D'Souza

This is inside baseball. I agree with Kara. The only people who care what you call it are technologists and tech journalists. End users pay absolutely no attention to these labels. - Kevin Pedraja

And I'd argue that the only reason any mainstream users are familiar with the term(s) is because the mainstream press/media made too big a deal of latching onto useless nomenclature. - Aaron D'Souza

Agree with this article. Teenagers are about myspace and im's and sms. The college kids are all about facebook and just use twitter as a way to update their facebook status on the road. sms is easier for 1-to-1 comm. - Gil Francisco III

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Agree. Work in a college and Twitter completely baffles young people even though they understand Facebook status updates. I think because Twitter is not - the houstonmacbro

Never underestimate the power of being spatially adjacent when suplementing the population... and if that's not possible, at least you can survey the herd of FOFs from afar while claiming to be doing a research paper. Twitter says "hey, come wear this muzzle, and I mean really, you like to see pictures of each other?" - Wade Dorrell

This is a problem for twitter. Young people count and start things - Laurent Courtines

???? As part of the DMV's effort to develop super-secure driver's licenses and foolproof identification cards, the agency has issued a smile ban, directing customers to adopt a "neutral expression" in their portraits, thereby extinguishing whatever happiness comes with finally hearing one's number called. - LPH™ and his dog P™

Your WTF moment of the day. - David Damore

That the government would be opposed to smiling comes as no surprise to me. - Chuck Baggett

Canada requires a expressionless photo for passports. Have to actually be careful not to mess this up as they will simply tell you to go back out and get another set of photos. - Brett Cannon

You should see the UK passport guidelines: http://www.ips.gov.uk/passpor... [PDF] - Alex Lomas

Feedly is my pref. at this point. They have done great work. - frank barry

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Does it always have to put "[feedly]" into everything you post? - Matt Mastracci

Feedly definitely!! - CantorJF

@matt. No it does not. We put it by default to try to increase awarness but there is a preference knob in http://www.feedly.com/home#pr... called postfix in the share section which allows you to turn it off. - Edwin Khodabakchian

@Edwin Khodabakchian Cool.. glad to know. It's a bit annoying (seeing these on friendfeed and Google Reader headers). It would be nice if users opted in to this instead. - Matt Mastracci

I'm liking feedly. How does streamy compare? - Chris Gambrell

Streamy isn't quite the same. It doesn't seem to sync your google reader like feedly does. But the use of canvas to move columns around, tighter ff twitter integration and IM is cool. - Tech Introvert

Bryan: stay tuned! - Edwin Khodabakchian

I sense feedly for chrome coming. Woo hooo - Russ Jackson

Thanks! - Calvin Ayre

I agree on the Cloud Contacts recommendation. I just had them scan more than 4,000 cards for me and it freaking rocks to have them all in a database. Sorry, nothing beats the ubiquity of business cards. If you're going to use Business Cards, make sure you follow the best practices. I wrote that up here: http://scobleizer.com/2006... - Robert Scoble from FriendFeed MT Plugin

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@scobleizer: "2) Make sure your card can be scanned. I bought a business card scanner so that I could get my computers into computer form." Heh. - wyclif

Thanks for leaving your comments, Robert! =) I agree that biz cards are ubiquitous, but they're so... icky? cheesy? wasteful? forgettable? At shows, I usually just wait to meet the really interesting people I actually WANT to follow up with, then I get their Twitter handle, follow them from my mobile, and let the convo go on from their. I guess that method only works b/c I'm particular about who I follow, tho. ;) Hi fives and see you around! - Jolie O'Dell

I keep seeing tons of different sites popping up online trying to replace business cards. Of course this doesn't work right now since everyone uses one of the 11ty billion different systems. It'll be nice once some format widely accepted pops up for transferring between something like smart phones. Virtual Rolodex with cards sorted by meeting times. - Dean Clark

Where's Poken? :-) - Paul Papadimitriou

Poken is a toy compared to these devices, especially at the open software services level. The best comparison I have heard (mentioned at the jury deliberations when mynameise won the startup event at the NextWeb) was: if poken is myspace then E is linkedin. - Werner Vogels

@ Werner, Is E technically superior in some way or is it just the casing that you don't like? - KyleHase

at the hardware level the E devices are indeed much easier to connect based on the specific radio technologies that they use. But what impresses me more is their vision around software/cloud infrastructure that makes sharing of these kinds of information independent of the specific devices.Where this service can evolved and be useful to all of us even if a year from now we have different devices. - Werner Vogels

BTW: for easy sharing of social networking informatie, here is my public business E-Card http://www.mynameise.com/werner - Werner Vogels

Werner, mine is here: http://www.google.com/profile... :-) - Robert Scoble

Robert, you'll have to admit, mine looks a lot cooler. Which should appeal to you apple design aficionado's Plus I have the choice out of different cards that I can exchange, e.g. business vs leisure. - Werner Vogels

You guys missed retaggr: http://www.retaggr.com/page... - Aad 't Hart

Just what I need: Another device. The right way to do this is a voice print. Just say your name to your new friend's phone, that's it. Imagine OpenID/FF/FB/Plaxo/Gmail storing your voice print as part of your ID. You plug in, upload the new voice prints of your new friends and then get all the contact info needed. You could also add the words "friend", "business", "Facebook" or whatever... more... - Rebecca Rachmany

I hate business cards and love the suggestions in this conversation. I am checking out BeamMe. Thanks! - Jill Howard Allen

Thanks for the comments, everyone! We’re glad to see other companies moving into this space; it validates that the problem we’re all trying to solve is a real one and that we can do some real good by addressing it. As you may have seen in our Google Tech Talk, Poken too has a very open philosophy and Poken too envisions a world in which people can share identities regardless of device... more... - Bryan Guido Hassin

This is very helpful on business cards! - Sheryl Brown

I love that!! - Lindsay

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Yeah, but the last one is supposed to be millibyte. Duh! - j1m

Not to scale! You should be able to fit a thousand gigabytes in the terabyte… - Glen Mistletoe

What, no zetabyte? - Todd Hoff

Glen, maybe the dolls were made over a long enough time span for Moore's law to help. - Bruce Lewis

Awesome pic!! - Sujay

lol. - Ryo / Fuck Facebook

You forgot neophyte and acolyte. - Rick Cogley

I had to reshare this one for sure :) - Tamara

I'm resharing. I hope you don't mind. - Helen Sventitsky

They'd be even more awesome with a bit more color, but I still really like the idea. Why didn't *I* think of that?? - Kamilah Gill

There needs to be one between the byte and the bit - a 'nibble', which is half a byte. Now THAT would be ubergeek. - Sharon Barclay from twhirl

oh, i want these! (where?) - susan mernit

I love these things, but this is the best series I've seen to date! - Justin Davey

The scale is a little off. That terabyte doll should be about 549755814 kilometers tall. - KyleHase

looks like this is the place that makes them http://www.artlebedev.com/everyth... - Darren Heydon

very cute - katie moffat

lol @Glenn - ElijahBailey-Zu of FF <0,

I need that at work! So cool! where did you get that? - Anna Lynn M.

These are great :D! - Nia

best matryshkee ever. - anna sauce

These are AWESOME. - Mona Nomura

Ha! I need some of those for my...er...brother. Yeah...but they're unavailable (even in black) - ‘-.-’ Tutivillus Grift

it would be awesome if the Terabyte doll was actually a 1 TB external HD - Joseph

This is from a 15-year-old who is very expert with world of warcraft, has a MySpace page, a Twitter account, a friendfeed account, is very active on Mac Rumors, etc. - Robert Scoble

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He is on more of the Internet than probably 9 out of 10 humans alive and he defines himself to a Google team by not owning a web site. Interesting. - Robert Scoble

you should make one for him. - Alfredo

Making websites is time consuming and, in my opinion, not necessary if you simply need a place to publish to the web, talk with friends and get yourself out there. - Brandon Titus

Renting vs owning in real estate terms? - Micah Wittman

Alfredo: the unspoken message is that his generation doesn't need a web site. They'll still be a major part of the Internet. - Robert Scoble

Its the same with my younger relatives... They have a far more natural approach to the new media "So do you kids use the Internet regulary?" - "No..... Not that much?" - "So what do you do when you go online" - "facebook, youtube, myspace, for school, for work..." - "how often do you check facebook?" - "hmmm few times A day" - Andreas Klinger

How many teenagers want to (admit to) be like their dad? - Rob Michael (Atmos Trio)

It took me back to how I found my doctor. She's #1 on Yelp but yet had never been there. The world is changing and it no longer is only about having a website. - Robert Scoble

Rob: there's some of that in what he was trying to say, yes. His generation wants to be "more with it" than the previous. But I think there's something deeper going on. The 2010 Web isn't about owning a web site anymore. - Robert Scoble

He'll change his tune when someone with his name does something controversial and it's #1 on Google. - Mark

Sounds like the teenager asked by Don Tapscott ("Wikinomics") about why she was not using email to communicate with friends. Reply: "Hmm ... email. That would be the sort of thing you'd use to send a thank you letter ... to your friend's ... parents!" - John W Lewis

Mark: have you checked how fast friendfeed items are showing up on Google lately? I have. You don't need a blog or a web site to be on Google anymore. - Robert Scoble

John: exactly. - Robert Scoble

I think that domains will become mostly for business and the like while personal profiles will be controlled by social networks, profile sites (Google profiles) etc. - Brandon Titus

@Robert maybe - or maybe it's about owning an identity you control which may indeed look like a website but function as an identity broker owned by the user - Chris Saad

Some one still has to create the websites though. :-) - Jesse Stay

Can I get out of making a website for my teenage son with these arguments? - Anita Hunt

Chris: translation: own a Facebook profile. ;-) - Robert Scoble

But does the _you_ own the Facebook profile? - Micah Wittman

Your son has probably realized that most personal websites are never seen. - Trine Curtis

I too agree that the new generations do not need a web site. What they need instead is a presence on this Interweb. This can be achieve in many other more effective means than a personal web site; in the traditional sense. - Vinko

I have more ego than he. I'll be damned if I'm going to let Facebook own me and my profile. meh. - Karoli

If you want to seed control of the social web to facebook then sure. Or maybe the next generation identity hub will be as distributed and open as a web-server - Chris Saad

Micah makes a good point about renting vs owning. Also, some people just want communication, others will want permanence (that they own and control). I still suspect that as new generations age they will still want to create more of a legacy on their own domains. - LogEx

Or does Facebook own it (in the possession is 9/10 of the law sense) - Micah Wittman

It's the difference between having a web presences and a website... Just because I don't own my home doesn't mean I'm not a citizen. - Johnny Worthington

Chris: his real identity is on MySpace. That's where his friends hang out and he's asked me not to link to his MySpace profile. Why not? Cause then all "my friends" will show up there. :-) - Robert Scoble

It's all about getting the most out of the web. If your own website doesn't do it but a Facebook profile does, then by all means don't do your own website. Marketing still isn't dead though - act on results. - Jesse Stay

It was never about having a website. It never will be. It will always will be using the right tools to reach the right people. People that you care about and people that care about you. - Akshay Dodeja

The new generation's presence on the web will be fluid. They will not have one place where they blog, post photos or share their thoughts. It will transform as the technology transform. - Vinko

Akshay: exactly. That was his message to me. Plus there was a tinge of "that blogging thing is so dead." Heheh. - Robert Scoble

MySpace, Facebook, these are all nice walled gardens like AOL before them - but eventually the rest of the web will become just as rich and inviting as the walled gardens - and not because Facebook Connect. - Chris Saad

Facebook Connect is a great proof of concept, but the real solution will be based on open standards just like the web is based on TCP/IP and HTTP - Chris Saad

Chris: Facebook will be forced to open up. Why? Because Google will show them the money is in search and to do search, even in the real time web, you need to open up. - Robert Scoble

Robert, sounds like there's an opportunity to show him why it could be useful, if not now, perhaps in the future for him. - Jesse Stay

We'll be ripe for a backlash in a few years, especially if services don't keep moving in the direction of data portability. - LogEx

Robert: I have tried to many times to start a blog. Failed each and every time. Now I am trying different things and its working in some ways :) - Akshay Dodeja

Actually it's friendfeed that's going to show them that, but Google will be recognized by most of the world and Google definitely is moving to make sure that they are a player in the real time web. - Robert Scoble

No Facebook will open up because Google, Microsoft, Yahoo and others are working actively to dilute their lock on the social graph. It's in google's interest to continue to erode Facebooks monopoly so they can continue to index the social web - Chris Saad

Chris: sorry, that's a side show. The real action is going to happen in search. Or, something associated with filtered display. - Robert Scoble

The community has an opportunity to work with the 'loosers' and the startups to ensure that we don't crown a new king, but rather to push the web as the ultimate platform - Chris Saad

Facebook only competes with Google on the private web. Until they offer indexed, public search they will never be able to compete side-by-side with Google. They only offer a subset of what Google provides right now. - Jesse Stay

Awesome to see this conversation in "real time" - David Damore

Chris: the REAL money is NOT on the social graph. I can see this so clearly. Very few can, though. - Robert Scoble

@robert the real money is (imho) not in search but in knowing about the user - search is just yet the best way to know about him/her - facebook could deliever social enhanced adwords to the internet - Andreas Klinger

I'm not arguing about that - but if Facebook was left unchecked then they could own the new social search and monetizing the user not the page. That's why Google will work hard to erode Facebook's monopoly to ensure they stay in the game - Chris Saad

Andreas: that's what search looks like in the future. - Robert Scoble

Chris: true, but Google is NOT going to leave Facebook unchecked. Facebook needs to move much faster than it is, actually. - Robert Scoble

@Robert the real value is in the stream and being able to index it - which Google can't do with the Facebook feed - Chris Saad

Users are not monetizeable, by the way. Intent and other "about to consume" gestures are. I want an icecream is monetizeable. Eating an ice cream is not. - Robert Scoble

Eating chocolate icecream every wed IS - Chris Saad

It means you like dairy, chocolate and sweets on wed - Chris Saad

APML.org - Chris Saad

@ Chris Saad: +1 - David Damore

@Robert "i know you could now want an ice cream" is worth even more imho - Andreas Klinger

Chris: that's an "about to consume" gesture. Agreed. :-) - Robert Scoble

The real value is in being able to index the *entire* web, and knowing each user that is searching that entire web. Facebook isn't anywhere near being able to do that. - Jesse Stay

Andreas: or, if you are Gary Vaynerchuk you can make me want a merlot-flavored ice cream. That's worth the most. :-) - Robert Scoble

Robert: :) - Andreas Klinger

Jesse: Facebook has an index that Google can't get to and it pisses off Google. - Robert Scoble

@Robert Look forward to debating this with u in person tmr at 6pm - Chris Saad

Isn't the idea of social profiles a search to figure out what a user wants next, now? Like how people visit car websites before buying an automobile? - David Damore

Robert, Google has many indexes Facebook can't get to as well - Gmail, Orkut, Docs, Apps, many more... - Jesse Stay

But wait, surely he does have a web site, a blog, etc.? They are his Facebook page! - John W Lewis

@Jesse which is why Google, Yahoo, Microsoft etc are still in the game - the notion that 'Facebook has won' is just valley hype - Chris Saad

With the kind of information that Google is tracking isn't Google in the best place to monetize our conversations? - Vinko

There are 2 things we're talking about here - the "private web" and the "public web". Facebook has one. Google has both. - Jesse Stay

No we're talking about the document web vs. the Social web :) - Chris Saad

Chris, Google has both of those as well. - Jesse Stay

@Jesse agreed - Google is still going very strong - and should/will buy FF and Twitter to strengthen their position - Chris Saad

I dont like facebook, to me its a lot of social drama... - sergio luna

Jesse: Google's Infos about the Socialgraphs are too fuzzy. Gmail is like my telephone calllist - not my telephone adressbook - Andreas Klinger

Chris, or, just strengthen one of their existing products to compete. Google Chat stands out to me. - Jesse Stay

Andreas you should see my Google Voice address book. It wouldn't take much to connect that all together. - Jesse Stay

@Andreas Google's graphs are super active. Noise for google = pointers to the signal - that's what they do best - Chris Saad

Short question: am i the only one thinking that Social Widgets (Facebook Apps at external Sites) combined with an Advert System is an most interesting thing to come ? - Andreas Klinger

@Jesse their best bet is Gmail and Address book integrated with FriendFeed - Chris Saad

I don't like Facebook either. Now people I thought I'd left behind 20 years ago are finding me again. Yay. But more importantly, someone said ice cream. - Trine Curtis

Jesse: Yet, in my network, Skype Chat is much more widely used than Google Chat. - John W Lewis

Chris, agreed - there's a reason Facebook, Twitter, and FriendFeed all let you import your Gmail contacts. They want Google's private web. - Jesse Stay

@Andreas No you're not - If Facebook owns the social graph/stream then they will try to own the widgets and ad units - that's why the rest of the web needs to provide a viable alternative so that there is no new monopoly. - Chris Saad

I think that Google will strengthen it's social system by bringing in contact finding through the social graph from services like FriendFeed, Twitter, and maybe Facebook and clearing out the noise. Their contact manager or whatever will be strengthened once they have a real Google Chat, Google Voice, and Gmail working together. - Brandon Titus

I love coming over to FriendFeed to always see an amazingly active thread going on in the Scobleverse!! - Jason Pollock

in my network microsoft msn is the leader...neither skype or google chat are as strong - sergio luna

John, I'm talking about strength of the social graph in each one. Skype doesn't hold a finger to Google's contacts. - Jesse Stay

Sergio, agreed - Microsoft also has a very big potential to compete. I'd say they're more a threat to Google than Facebook right now in this area. - Jesse Stay

All of these platforms have their advantages - the point is they are all social services and should inter operate for the benefit of the user - and benefit the bottom line of the companies that make it happen - Chris Saad

(Meta-point: this conversation IS the live web in action, but how does it scale? What happens to the quality of conversation if the rate of commenting on this topic exceeds my reading speed?) - John W Lewis

Then again, in the competition for people, once you're indexing every person with web access, you also have access to their lives, websites, and personal data. That's much more powerful than an anonymous index of every website on the planet. Facebook could have a chance. - Jesse Stay

This conversation is a byproduct of the the live web - but it's not much more than an indexable chatroom. The status updates and feeds that generate this conversation are the real interesting part - Chris Saad

@Jesse that's Facebook's play - and that's why Google and others are working to dilute the monopoly (a monopoly of mindshare at least) - that's why the community at large has an opportunity to support an open approach - Chris Saad

During times of change, we have an opportunity to ensure the outcome is open - open means innovation can surge ahead at the nodes instead of being controlled by a central authority - Chris Saad

Chris, at the same time indexing each individual rather than website could be more advantageous in the end. Google's not doing that quite as well as Facebook. That's not to say they won't, and they're definitely making progress at the moment. Google doesn't necessarily publish what they're tracking about you. Facebook does, via the live stream when you log in - which is more open per se? - Jesse Stay

For an interesting look at the cross-section of marketing / customer behaviour (mostly off-line, but the web is part of the story) and obsession, check out this documentary on contesters ("professional" contest participants) - just saw it on a plane ride http://www.cbc.ca/doczone... [Interestingly, when I searched for this documentary, I found the guy who pitched the... more... - Micah Wittman

Jesse by this argument is google "publically tracking for you that you publish your webpage" - Andreas Klinger

I'm checking out guys - nice chat :) - Chris Saad

Jesse, its just different type of technology you use - Stream.put or Ftp.put - Andreas Klinger

History will repeat! I started with email on CompuServe and did not communicate with others on other services, then discovered "internet mail". As with hardware, software, email and now social media, the architecture of vertical silos will gradually transform into horizontal layers ... from below! Only then does the "network effect" really start! - John W Lewis

Andreas, do you know everything Google has tracked about you? What about all the Analytics tracking on each website you visit combined with data they've learned about you elsewhere? With Google, there's no way to opt-out without just killing your internet connection. At least with Facebook, it's opt-in. Google, IMO, has the potential to be much more evil than Facebook. That is, unless Facebook enters the open web arena. - Jesse Stay

Jesse, this tracking is not public on facebook neither - Andreas Klinger

Jesse, true Google is big enough to pass the last frontier point of relationship to reality - Andreas Klinger

Andreas, I know almost everything Facebook is tracking on me because they at least publish most of it via my stream. True, I don't know everything, but I know a lot. Not only that but they give me controls on what they can do with what they're tracking. I can't do that with Google. - Jesse Stay

Jesse, the stream info is your active part not your passive part - Andreas Klinger

Jesse anyway i think we are talking about the same :) - Andreas Klinger

Ok gotta go for a slow-real-life Meeting - cya! - Andreas Klinger

I really think its not about who will conquer what i.e. google, facebook, etc... I really believe all this players are the basics, like the old economic scheme, I think we are going to evolve and use all this sites & technology in a very diverse and sophisticated form, kind of like what the brand Starbucks is to the old industry of coffee. google, facebook etc. are the industrial plants of our new digital era. - sergio luna

Andreas, agreed, but I can still opt in to Facebook. I can't opt-in or opt-out of Google completely. I'm just saying it's not all about "open" like Google would like you to think. That's just their Marketing play, and we're all falling for it. - Jesse Stay

Jesse, 100% agree - Andreas Klinger

Are we forgetting something? Facebook, Google, ... ARE websites. It is just about the level at which we engage. I do not need to build my own car to drive on the road; I can buy one, it is cheaper. But if I buy a Lamborghini or Porsche, I can still interact (inc. collide!) with you in your Mercedes! (For the public record, I drive an Audi.) Robert recently posted about geek disconnect, these guys are making the web consummable. - John W Lewis

So we've finally found the one person in the world who doesn't want to friend you on FB! - Rebecca Rachmany

Websites are so 1990s - Stephen Pickering

From the mouths of babes... or 15year olds. At least we can count on things constantly changing just a little faster than many can adapt to. - Mark Essel

Makes me feel better for not updating my website anymore - I'm not behind, I'm ahead :D - Joelle Nebbe (iphigenie)

"I don't have a web site" indeed. My kids were not interested in learning how to create websites. "We have blogs on our cell phones." Well, then... - Rick Cogley

your son's approach doesn't sound as absurd as it might seem at first. look at skittles, who dropped their website and transfered everything to twitter! and i was just thinking the other day about an ngo-website i'm involved in and why not moving it completely over to a facebook page. - Johannan Edelman

Wouldn't FF be a better business tool? With it's superior grouping abilities, threading of conversations, media embedding, and ability to drop official business feeds into the business based rooms? - Matthew DeVries

I mean, I'm just a simple office guy, and know nothing of tech, but that's just where my mind takes me. - Matthew DeVries

FF would be better, if it had the same reach. - Joel Bennett

Twitter works well for one way communication, advertising for example, but meaningful conversations? Not so much. FriendFeed will never "kill" Twitter nor will the reverse be true. I think it'll come down to attention span. FF users tend tend to dwell on the site while Twitter user filter things out of the tweetstream. - CAJ, somewhere else

I totally agree but, umm, "shup"? - Laura Norvig

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It was a typo. : ( - Chris Brogan

Waiting for the world to notice praise from your users looks like a really slow process to me. - Bruce Lewis

It actually made the post stand out more, I think ... could be a new blogging trick. - Laura Norvig

@Laura, I agree, but think using it too much could happen quickly - Henry iii

Guy Kawasaki says to speak persuasively. Chris Brogan says to let my users speak for me. Probably both are needed. http://friendfeed.com/guykawa... - Bruce Lewis

Speaking persuasively is WAY different than blathering on and on about yourself and your products. EQUIP people. That's what guy did back in 1983 when he promoted the first Mac. - Chris Brogan

I have a similiar issues as dbriere that commented over on the blog. We write some slick HR type software on the intranet for a government organization. I can't do anything to show you a demo or screenshots. Ever. In those cases you need to do some shameless self-promotion. - Patrick Allmond

What is a WolframAlpha? - Derrick

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D, http://www.wolframalpha.com - Akiva Moskovitz

I thought everyone was talking about a new video game. Sadly enough, I am dead serious. - Michelle Martinez

Yeah, I'm already bored with that. - Derrick

Get away from me! - Akiva Moskovitz

Now you went and made him mad. He was trying to tell you about his new thing and now you made him mad! - Christopher Harley

I don't think it's possible to make Akiva mad...Although you can lock his sarcasmotron at eleventy-two. - Alex Scoble

But when you can get better results using Google, what does that say? - Tanath

That your expectations are different than mine? - Akiva Moskovitz

I'd suggest that W|A is more of a direct competitor to Wikipedia. - Akiva Moskovitz

OK, then if my expectations consist of finding useful, up-to-date, or timely information, then what does that say about your expectations? :P - Tanath

Besides, the purpose of W|A is completely different from Google, now that I think about it. W|A : data :: Google : websites. - Akiva Moskovitz

Google is not just about websites. It does much more. - Tanath

Well, I found plenty of useful and up-to-date information. In fact, I've spent the majority of this morning digging up all kinds neat data. - Akiva Moskovitz

Tanath, really, I'm not sure what your argument is here. I'm saying that it's a different tool from Google and thus it doesn't need to compete with it. I find W|A to be far more useful with certain tasks and Google to be far more useful with others. Neither is a killer of the other. You might as well say that Google is a calc.exe killer because Google can do simple mathematics. Two... more... - Akiva Moskovitz

I'm thinking mainly of this, plus it's failure in my own queries: http://www.techcrunch.com/2009... - Tanath

And I didn't call it a Google-killer. But now that you mention it, Google is a calc.exe killer. :P - Tanath

It has potential, but it has a ways to go. - Tanath

I am really digging it. Obviously long ways to go, but some of the information it's pulling out and how. Fascinating. - Deepak Singh

And I like the fact that you can do stuff like this (http://www.wolframalpha.com/input...) and get all kinds of graphs rather than just a numeric result. - Akiva Moskovitz

One other thing, directly from W|A's site: Is Wolfram|Alpha a search engine? No. It's a computational knowledge engine: it generates output by doing computations from its own internal knowledge base, instead of searching the web and returning links. - Akiva Moskovitz

http://www.wolframalpha.com/input... - Joel Bennett

THANK YOU AKIVA. I stumbled across this post and it prompted me to finally look at WolframAlpha. I kept hearing about it on here. It's incredimazing. Seriously. The enter a food and get the nutritional information feature made me swoon. Thanks SO much! UPDATE: Crap. Now it just called me Dave and said it couldn't do that :( It's still awesome, though. REUPDATE, 5 mins. later. It's back... more... - Kamilah Gill

How on earth does Starbucks get more mentions than Google? - James

James, 'I'm in Starbucks with a latte and a muffin for breakfast'. - Gilbert Harding

AIG is #5 for the wrong reasons - Andre P. Siregar

Open up two separate Twitter searches on the terms "google" and "starbucks", then come back to the tabs after 10 minutes - there'll be ten times as many new updates for Google. - James

I love that the Twitter handles are posted for these brands as well. - Jill Howard Allen

Downloads replace DVDs, CDs. No question. And eventually, streaming replaces downloads. - Louis Gray

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While I agree in general with the points you list, there will always be content, of various kinds, that I want to own in a format that I can do with as I please, when I please, and where I please... commercial-free, proper aspect ratio and presentation (books and movies especially), and highest available definition. Restricted downloads and streaming is fine for disposable content, as long as the price is right. But subscriptions and DRM'd content also have significant liabilities. - LogEx

Without a doubt, as we speak I am staring at a dresser stacked full of dvds. Most of which I'll only watch one time. Streaming is much more efficient and even environmentally friendly than collecting physical media copies. I would say that the same discussion extends over into magazines and newspapers too. Would love to hear your thoughts on that. Thanks - Benin Brown

I'm doing my best to severely limit my purchase of meatspace media. I'm actually kind of creeped out a little now by paper books and, especially, DVDs. I'm not completely against' books and other media primarily because they aren't all COMPLETELY obsolete yet, but we are on the verge of complete obsolescence of physical media fetishes. - Internet's Tad

I think this also holds true for maintaining one's own library of music files, so I actually consider iTunes dated in that sense. The future belongs to streaming audio, perhaps with elaborate caching so that it works without an internet connection. That's the only future use I see for local storage for personal computers, as "cache", as "working memory". The cloud is the new hard disk. - Meryn Stol

Physical media is archaic, but the issue of conserving things for the long term isnt, and physical media really helps there. - Joelle Nebbe (iphigenie)

All my music is on iTunes. I'm not a big movie person and the only DVDs I have are from friends that insist I have them. Still having a tough time giving up books & magazines and haven't gone over to Kindle. Oddly, I really don't want to own books, I just haven't taken to other forms of media for these things. Meryn, I like your comment about the cloud being the new hard disk. - Jill Howard Allen

there is a cultural divide. people still like to own their music and rent their video. the younger generation will be more hip to borrowing from the cloud. - Richard Zeidel from twhirl

In before Tad says "how quaint". :P - Rochelle

For me anyway the age factor doesn't matter I'm 32 and I'd rather just "borrow from the cloud" as it were. Physical media is just something else my kids can break. - John Blanton from twhirl

The younger generation is <20. At 32 you grew up shopping in CD/DVD stores for media. You are accustomed to physical distribution. <20 will likely never have engaged with the physical; nor would they know what to do with it - - Richard Zeidel

Strangely enough the rare times I go in a music/film/games shop (once or twice a year when i miss a train), most of the people in it are <20 They have time to hang out, we don't - Joelle Nebbe (iphigenie)

As the early tech gadget adopter my friends always ask me why i havent got blu-ray and that they want it. I tell them i get HD streamed to me via the web and blu-ray will be dead in 3 years - andy brudtkuhl

especially when Boxee comes preloaded on TV's - andy brudtkuhl

I generally prefer having my media in digital format. But every so often an artist puts together an "album" that deserves my keeping it on disk. Now, I know this sort of accomplishment is unusual these days, and maybe I pine too much for someone to match or surpass Moody Blues', Pink Floyd's or The Beatles' mastery of that element of the art form, but I feel obliged to hope. Some albums... more... - Bob Finch

"Who is" or "How are you" making a difference today? - Russell Cook

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What is important to share right now? - Louis Gray

What might other people be interested in? - jcunwired

What do you want Google to know right now? Heheh. Or, what do your friends need to know? - Robert Scoble

"How many social media experts does it take to screw in a lightbulb?" - Daniel J. Pritchett

@DanielPritchett - LMAO - John Fox

What are you thinking? - Abhimanyu Chirimar

i would make Twitter spit out a random Zen koan on page load. - Karim

I don't see the issue with the current question. For certain users, it's still applicable. They should perhaps consider adding a second question though, with answers to each aggregated into separate streams. That way, you know what you're getting. - TheLovableRogue

"What are you thinking?" is being push by @jayrosen from NYU. He has dubbed it "mindcasting". - Meryn Stol

Over on friendfeed the question is "what would you like to talk about?" - Robert Scoble

"<-- put shit in here" or better yet, remove the text and don't replace it with anything! - alphaxion

I talk about pills or solutions to people's challenges. Fill a need. Ask "How can I help?" - Shane Gibson

Thinking about it though, is the question even that relevant? People will continue to write about whatever they want regardless of how the question is phrased. - TheLovableRogue

"what can you share that is valuable to your community right now?" - Jason Peck

Where do you want to go today? ;) - Meryn Stol

what can you post that's meaningful? - Miguel Rodriguez

What have you learned? - Lou Clark

Wuz Up? - Sharon McPherson

For your consideration: - Denise Aday

I like Robert's response. Rather than simply talking about "I'm brushing my teeth", it should be about "what would you like to talk about?". It's all about conversation. - Kenneth

Why is it all about conversation? My mom likes my status updates. - Daniel J. Pritchett from IM

What are you thinking? seems to be the obvious one. - Steve Lynch from twhirl

The keyword is share. It needs be something like 'What would you like to share?' Ideally, though, I think Twitter should randomize 5-10 different questions (share/say/discuss/something about photos, etc), or run them sequentially each time the user logs in, so they get the full idea of what you can do on the service. And one of them should still be 'What are you doing?', as not every tweet can be a Pulitzer prize-winner. - Shéa Bennett

twitter is different things for different users..I dont think we need guidelines for it. - Samuel Lewis from twhirl

Daniel - I personally think it should be about conversation because I think that it would be great to have more dialog rather than one-sided conversation. Your mom may like that your status updates but that's for Facebook, not for Twitter. - Kenneth

For proper conversation we need one-click access to threaded tweets. I blogged about this essential feature, and some others I'd like to see, earlier today. http://twittercism.com/five-fe... - Shéa Bennett

what's wrong w. someone using Twitter to say what they are doing? I mean I see where you are coming from that if everyone always did this type of tweet it would get old really reaaally quick-LOL. but don't you think the democracy, if you will, of being able to say whatever u want-in 140 char. is what makes Twitter so beautiful? - Benin Brown from fftogo

Yes, there's always a place for the inane, and of course the definition of what that means is a very relative observation. Believe me, lots of folk think tech is inane. *Lots*. :) - Shéa Bennett

"What's on your mind?". It fits if you are posting a link or trying to have a conversation. *edit* of course, since I haven't used facebook on anything other than my blackberry in a long time, I completely forgot that was what they asked. oops :) - Matt Thompson from fftogo

'What have you done for others' might be cool? - Nicholas Chase

Cracked up on Shéamus saying inane is very relative... you know my family??? - Jim Espinoza

I just commented on this earlier today: "Instead of answering Twitter's 'What are you doing?', you should answer 'What am I good at?'" - Erik K Veland

What about not asking a question, but instead put an instruction - 'Post Your Update Here'? I've had dozens of folks new to Twitter tell me that the reason it took them so long to send their first tweet, was because they weren't clear on how to do it. - Sharon McPherson

"Post Something" - Jack (a.k.a. Jeber)

I think the question, although it may be an initial prompt for tweeps, becomes quickly ignored for other tweets. The earliest study on Twitter (a Master's thesis at the London School of Economics and Political Science in late 2007) indicated that less than half the tweets were actually answering that over-arching question. Here is the link to the thesis, if you are interested. http://www.lse.ac.uk/collect... - enza (aka iVenus)

"Twitter is not what you're doing, Twitter is what you're thinking." -- http://friendfeed.com/akkarti... - Kartik Agaram

"Why am I still using Twitter?" - Josh Haley

Some amazing stuff here! Thanks for your thoughts everyone! - Brian Solis

Let's answer questions that force us to think about the updates we wish to galvanize action, response, connections, learning, et al, such as "what inspires you," "what did you learn today," “who should we pay attention to and why,” "what are we better off for knowing now because we follow you," etc. We need to stop tweeting "at" followers and start listening to the things that help us... more... - Brian Solis

Brian, I think that you have some great Ideas there about the Social Web, but getting folks to realize it's a privilege is going to be a tough one to get across. They don't even grasp that concept with Drivers License in California, and you have many, many police folk and a much over used court system reinforcing that idea on a regular basis. - Brent Smorgen Bleg

What matters to you right now? - Angela

Watch that finger so it doesn't get bitten! - Louis Gray

I honestly don't know which way the shark is more menacing. - Joe Pierce

Yeah I'm thinking the smile is more menacing - Mo Kargas

Shark took happy pills! - Jemm

LOL :D - Andrea (Notorious)

"I think it is often easier to make progress on mega-ambitious dreams. I know that sounds completely nuts. But, since no one else is crazy enough to do it, you have little competition. There are so few people this crazy that I feel like I know them all by first name. They all travel as if they are pack dogs and stick to each other like glue. The best people want to work the big challenges. That is what happened with Google. Our mission is to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful. How can that not get you excited? But we almost didn't start Google because my co-founder Sergey and I were too worried about dropping out of our Ph.D. program. You are probably on the right track if you feel like a sidewalk worm during a rainstorm! ... What is the one sentence summary of how you change the world? Always work hard on something uncomfortably exciting!" - Paul Buchheit from Bookmarklet

Priceless closing quote from Larry: "Just like me, your families brought you here, and you brought them here. Please keep them close and remember: they are what really matters in life." - Victor Panlilio

That was a surprisingly emotional speech! I like and greatly admire Larry and have spoken with him a few times inside and outside of meetings, but have never seen that side of him before :). - Adam Lasnik

For lazy people: http://www.youtube.com/watch.... It won't be very easy as there's no sound between 0:43 and 2:28. Google apologized. - Jérôme Flipo

The sound comes back at "my brother". On Youtube, all video uploaders can "replace audio track", so I guess that Google will use that feature as soon as they find an audio recording and make sure that it is trimmed correctly so it will play in synch. - Charbax

don't you know it :) - Zee.

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interesting. I decided to give FF a 2nd try (I signed up for it when it first came out) not because of the celebrity flood to twitter but I wanted a place for *discussion* that wasn't limited to 140 characters. - Violet Mae Lim

I still rarely use FF compared to Twitter as I'm often using Twitter from a device. That said, I love how my digital life aggregates into a single place, along with everyone else. The key will be search. Tracking "popular" on search topics on FF should be very interesting. - Geoff Wilson

it's all about the meta data. Twitter will never be as valuable as FriendFeed for that very reason. - Steffan Antonas

Fab Image! - Elizabeth

The "cool kids" might be moving, but I doubt that the cool kids can make FriendFeed a success (that is, compared to Twitter. a network as diverse as Twitter). Twitter was the first in its kind. Many people consider it "good enough". - Meryn Stol

Because you aren't cool anymore and the REALLY cool kids (re celebrities) are on Twitter. - Laurent Courtines

Fascinating! - coldbrew

It is really going to be fun to watch the mass migration ... followed by the media exposure 2 years later - Keith Barrett

Beatles! - Charlie Anzman

Hei, I have been using FF for a long time as an aggregate, never thought it could be use this way! - MoRiza

Thanks for posting my link Steve. I've been a subscriber to your lifestream for a while and I'm happy to float in it :) - Jesse Newhart

Just don't pee in it Jesse! - Kevin Elliott

Kevin - LOL I'll try :p - Jesse Newhart

Friendfeed is Twitter on steroids - Thomas Power

sheesh, I guess this means I need to leave now... - Cheryl

I wanna be c0ol too!! - Billy Warhol

Agree. FriendFeed is significantly more useful for sharing real information. No comparison. - Hamilton Wallace

Twitter on Oprah was the best thing for FriendFeed. An eureka moment as she jumped into the Twitter stream... - zeroinfluencer

I've been on FriendFeed since March 2008 and I love it!!! :) - Susan Beebe

Twitter and FriendFeed are not the same. Although the cool kids are already here ;) - Nicholas James

The REALLY cool kids have identi.ca accounts and use it to talk about coding rather than congratulating each other over their new media gasbaggery. Just sayin'. - Tom Morris

friendfeed has way better noise reduction filters than twitter atm - Phil Smirnov

I dont know about cool kids, or I dont care if I am one, but I just did it! - Lakshman Prasad

Steve must be prescient - I think it was last summer when he kept saying FriendFeed was actually more useful than Twitter, which is why I have both! - Joan Vinall-Cox

Just found it again today..I like it! - Enriqueta

i'm a cool kid. whew. - michelle lamar

michelle, of course you are. you have a pug. :) - Karoli

It always comes down to Pugs, doesn't it. Good thing we know the truth. - michelle lamar

It's basically impossible to converse with any manner of context on Twitter. It's maybe a one- or two-blurt attention span. Perfect for those with ADD. I like FF much better. - Rick Cogley

And, I have a Golden Retriever, so I have no need for a pug. (they're cute, though!) - Rick Cogley

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