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I put this on my Amazon wish list a while back, intending to talk about it when it showed up on my feed, but it never did and I forgot all about it. Science, kids, TMBG -- what's not to love! - Stephen Mack

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And I love that they have the adorable videos to go along with the songs. Super awesome! - Rachel Lea Fox

Sarah got us here come the one two threes, and Spencer and I both love it ;) TMBG are kid friendly and mother approved. - Clare Dibble

Thanks so much for putting this in your feed - I ordered it and my kids (3 and 5) both love it. Our eldest now tells people who ask what she wants to be when she grows up that she wants to be a paleontologist! - James Macgill

Great CD/DVD...these guys really put out quality stuff for kids that the parents can enjoy too lol. We have all their kids cd/dvds. - jamar78

They played a few songs from this disk during their Flood concert. They were pretty good songs. - Gabe

I can't stand more than 5 minutes of Barney, but this stuff is pretty enjoyable. I do still think it is a bit of a mixed bag. The number 1 song is all about how if you add up everything in the omniverse, it adds up to 1. The number 7 song is about a bunch of number 7s showing up at your house wanting to eat cake. - Robert Felty

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True FRIENDFEED addicts please check in:

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Here. - Damond Nollan

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Check..... - Amit Nangare

*raises hand* - MASTER OF THE OBVIOUS

here - Mel Buckpitt

"" - Richard Brock

yo. - Zee.

Present - Clifford Kennedy

Addicted... checkin' in - Rob Schieber

addiction check - Edgar Rodríguez

I checked in before you even posted this. - Akiva Moskovitz

here. - Luca Sofri

'sup - Nolan Alston

shuffles quietly at the back - Ivor Whitten

tap tap - Call me Bronco

Present... - George Hall (Australia)

here - Kimberle Kelly

I'm not an addict. I can quit any time I want. - ha3rvey, not a sweetheart

jawohl. - Spidra Webster

I am here. How about you? - Robert Scoble from iPhone

HOORAH - Glen Mistletoe

Check Check - Robert Burgin

here - Ray H

sleepless in Kavala - Apostolos Tsompanopoulos

check - Amani

yo - Bill McFarland

I'm here! - Bonnie Foster

HeRe! - Bruno Mertins

Whatup! - jamar78

Hooah! - Kevin Fox

Till they kick me out. - Tony, Paradox of FF

here but i can stop anytime - phil baumann

In! - Pon

Here! - Oracio

here - tevfik bülent öngün

I'm not, uh, like an addict, or anything. I can quit anytime. yeah - jeff hammond

w00t! - Shane

hi:P - K.D.

here - Panayotis Vryonis

I don't have time for this...I'm too busy liking stuff - Alex Scoble

Yo - Bret Taylor

Yep count me in!! - Guillaume Foutry

Present and accounted for. - Colette

Here - TonyatMATC

Present - Mike Doeff

It is amazing to see how fast these discussions fill up. - Damond Nollan

Present - Olympia Scott

yep! - Sets Turan

Howdy. - Daniel Morgan

Present. - Alonis

Sir Yes SIr! - Robert Kenney

Word - Matthew Horton

not an addict, but check in often - Göze Sencer

I'm only addicted to the email service - joebrooks

As always :) - Paul Buchheit

wassup - Alejandro

here - Ken Kennedy

Yup, that would be me =) - FFing Enigma (aka Tina)

here - Matt Ruiz

Here Here! - Benjamin Golub

was going to be, but not anymore - Lo

here - ebru

here - Eric Logan

Here!!! :P - Chris Zlatis

Snorting a line of FF as I type this. - Penguin It's Cold Outside from fftogo

++ - jacek

Phew, still here ... - Tom Horn

I'm not here LOL - Robert Szabo

Here I be -/ - Chris Loft

I'm Free - kenneth glenn

Damn: a lot of addicts here still! - Robert Scoble from iPhone

Well, I *was* an addict until yesterday. - Rishabh Mishra (p248)

alive and well. - Tyler Molamphy

present - Jeff Weber

yes we R - Johni Fisher

Hey, I can stop whenever I want. No, really. - Tom Landini

I'll leave kicking and screaming. - Andrew Smith

It's a trap!! - Micah Wittman from iPhone

---...--- - constantinos alexacos

Where else are we going to go? - Christian Burns from iPhone

Yep, here - LANjackal

Check - Jesper Lind

So addicted I said I was addicted twice. < g > - Rob Schieber

Hello everyone. - Ryan - @magicofpi

Here. - teh Dork Knight aka Kenny

always here! - Marco Ramirez

Hip hip... - Gary Gannon

Still here! - Lee Watters

Still around :) - Sean Powell

Always here! - Louis Gray

staying put until they kick us out. - michael sean wright

still not here :D - Robert Szabo

Yo! - Michael Porter

*cough cough* - John Ladd

Here. - Jon, the Chilled Beartato from Android

I am here. Isn't it now FACEFEED? - Francine Hardaway

Here! - OnuRC

I love that Bret, Paul, and Kevin checked in. They probably are looking at their screens and asking "what do we do now?" how about ship some new features before Facebook overlords take you off to do bigger things? - Robert Scoble from iPhone

I feel sorry for all you addicts. My use of it is purely social. - Bruce Lewis

Not an addict but I like it. - Joao Alves

I got the papers in my glove box....you ready to make a beer run? - Morgan Haley

Is Friendfeed a safe place to bring new friends? - Christian Burns from iPhone

I'm here - and staying here until Paul and Bret kick me out the </door> - AJ Kohn

yup. Guess I am. - Mark Interrante

+1 happy user... till now - giuseppe c. | markgreene

What am I doing? I don't even know. - Suzanne

Here!!! - Felipe Aneudi Campana from iPhone

Here for now... - Travis Tasset from iPhone

That hitler thing was amazing. That is all. - James Watters

present. - Trish Haley

Yo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! - Stephen Pickering

What of it. - Rochelle

"So, Who are you?" "very cool, very cool" - Stephen Pickering

what? - Nine

Just my luck. I got to this party about a month ago and NOW they decide to sell. - Ian Paul

FF4EVR. :D - David Vasileff

02:10 am and still here :-) - Willem (@wim66) ☠

Yo ¡Aquí! - David Austria

present - Albert Maruggi

Yo! - Mathew Barnes

presente - Eric Gagne

Not sure I'm an addict yet but I'm here and working on it. - Paul Goldsmith

I'm checking out not in. Friendfeed is on its way out kind ladies and gentlemen - Mark Essel

Here ! - DAL from iPhone

Checking in! - Marci Golub

Checking in - Richard Gallo

Here - Darrell Madore

Present! - MsJosay

Here and ready for duty sir! - David Damore

I survived the night. - Frankie Warren

yes - Matthew Schrock

Hello - Sue

Present - Joshua Kahn

I do like FF and use it almost every day. Wouldn't it be great if FB either left it alone so we can continue to use it as "professionals," or somehow incorporate it into a more "mature" version of FB that didn't have all the annoying, time-wasting apps, games, etc. I'd much prefer a totally customizable FF "wall." - Cathryn Hrudicka

I think FFundercats HO!!!!! would have worked but I'm here anyways. - Jimminy

yo - Rahul Krishnakumar

here! - Greg Louderman

are there fake friendfeed addicts? - acedanger

Oh I'm still here :) - Owen Greaves

here - John Kitchen

:) - Lindsay Davies

Hello? - Vaughn

you betcha - Rick Bucich

holy crap, looks like master and commander ;-) - Aad 't Hart

Not an addict but still here. - Brandon

hello from a german FRIENDFEED addicted :-) - Simon Zeimke

On in real time - Mike Lizun

Money rules! Money rules! Money rules! The world doesn't change! - ¡amFrancesco!

O HAI - Ambar Pansari from iPhone

Not an addict, but defiantly a user. Wish there was a desktop client though. Or TweetDeck integrated it. - Michael

:) - Joe

Present! - Denverken

Aye, Mon. - Gordon Swaby

PRESENT - Kamilah Gill

Check - Jason Heppler

It's nice seeing new comments drop down, sexy as fuck, bye friendfeed *snifs* - Gordon Swaby

president - Dennis O'Neil

Aloha - Nathan

Where else would I be? Facebook? Pfft ... - Kevin Mohr

Bueller, Bueller, ........ Bueller - manielse (Mark Nielsen)

Yeah, I'm here - outofmyarse

Sorry I was late.. I have a note from my parole officer. - Mike Shulman

Sir, YES, Sir! - Mycaptain

I CAN QUIT ANYTIME!!! - Jim Hearts FF

here - Rahul Gupta

just getting started - Patrice Vizzone

Aye! - Joshua

hello there - Murilo Terrabuio

Here, I am - Luca Ciccarelli

Sorry I'm late. I was on Facebook. It works on a cellphone. - Paul Puri

here - Gary Prechtel

Present! - Diego Barros 

I'm not here often, but when I am... it's a happy place indeed... I hope they don't take away my fix! - Robyn Miller

Hey Robert - got a separate thread for people who have a healthy, positive relationship with FriendFeed? - Edward Coffey

Check - tristan

Marco! - Tomy Thomson

it's gonna take 11 years for FaceBook to catch up to where FF is now....isn't that how tech "progress" works? - Marg Uerite

Ahoy - Brett Kelly from iPhone

aye - chaz2b

Polo! - m9m, Crone of FriendFeed

Ere I am in Aust standing up with my right hand raised yelling out HERE! - Bob Heath

Count me in. - Sebastian

Present - Charlie Anzman

Knock on wood! - Giorgio Zarrelli

O Hai! - Mathew A. Koeneker

Check - Erik Boles from iPhone

What's the qualifier for addict? If you believe the MacLean researcher, addiction is a choice! - Sally: gift wrapper

I MEAN IT!!! ANYTIME!!! - Jim Hearts FF

O Captain, My Captain ;) - Stuart Miniman

hey! - Imran Jafri

yes - Steve Mott

I'm here. Now what? - Christian Collins

Actively fighting addiction to anything on a daily basis, but I'm still a FriendFeed fan! (I'd have been here sooner but I've been staring at Phoebe Cates pics for longer than I realized.) - Mark "DerBingle" J

Thank you Robert Scoble to be here. :) BTW is this looks interesting for FF replacement? : http://streamy.com/ ? May be... I'll try it to see. :) - Claude LaFrenière

Checking in! - MVB (Curmudgeon of FF) from fftogo

Count me in too please! - RobinDotNet from iPhone

raises hand! - Bhowmik Shah

not addicted but perhaps in a state of advanced 'like' - Threepwood

Yep Yep - Rahsheen ™, Coach Rah

Yeah. Going to miss this if it morphs into something else for real. - Robert Anderson

I need my FriendFeed! - Brandon Titus

I really Need Friendfeed! - TheHenry

Ya, that's me. - Sweyn Venderbush

Yo. - James (!?)

HOOAH. or something - mjc

Here. At the Rack proctoring an exam. - Stuart Rath

here - Bluesun 2600

Everybody sing: "They tried to make me go to rehab I said no, no, no " - Laurent

•_•*b - videopixil from Nambu

YEP! - Helen Sventitsky

check - Jaica Kinsman from iPhone

Here! - Michael Hocter

Aye! - ωαřмaiden, MFA'd poet

yo! - tomit

Why should I? Whats in it for me? You doing some sort of survey of people to send out the police to do a "Safety Check" on when the site is shutdown? - CW™

hola! - Oğuz Serdar

Aren't we all here? I guess that's the point why we adopted Friendfeed, while others just "heard about it", isn't it? - Wolfgang G. Wettach

What is the differential diagnosis for this condition? - Matthew DeVries

and many of us in Europe are sleeping. - Luca Sofri

better late than never. - Brian Daniel Eisenberg

Some of us in the USA are just busy, too. - Duncan Blake

Man, this check-in line is pretty darn long... must be Southwest. heh - Daynah

<raises hand> - Jack (a.k.a. Jeber)

please excuse me while I pretend to be one of your guys - Kirk

i am - Brian Hendrickson

I'm not addicted, I'm just a social FriendFeeder. - Joe Pierce

here i am - v per vitzbank

check 1,2 - Wayne Sutton

Here. - Bill Scherer

Here - Bora Zivkovic

.-.. --- --. --- ..- - - constantinos alexacos

hello - echostreamer

YOYOYO! - Mathew™ one of a kind

Eccomi, presente! - Alessandro

checking in from Tejas - George Dearing from BuddyFeed

Finally turned the corner. - Liza

trying to figure out how to use it... - Ted Kinzer

There sure are a lot of people in here. It's a good thing Robert got the big room with extra chairs. - RobinDotNet from iPhone

Here! - Zulema ◕ ◡ ◕ from BuddyFeed

Reporting! (My next blog entry will be called "Social Media Is My Crack".) - Dennis Jernberg

present. - Jim Halligan @jim

:( - Angus Burton

Roger, Roger! - Jim Bergman

late but here - Heather Solos

Yo. - Steve Lowe

all present and accounted for sir ! - John Wallace from BuddyFeed

Nah, I'm too busy posting #badjokememe stuff. - Ladybug Heather

I am in. - Gabe Taviano from iPhone

Present. - Christopher A Carr

Depends. - Nick Humphries

Not an addict yet, but I'm starting to work on it. - Alex Hellstrom

I'm working hard to get an addiction. - Minu Nianda

never left - Josh Haley

Robert, Now that you have us all here (or some of us), what are you going to do with us? - RobinDotNet

Here I am... sad but I am! - ¡amFrancesco!

Hiya. Still here. Don't plan on leaving for the foreseeable future. - Jason Huebel from iPhone

still here - echostreamer

Yes? - Fajar Nurdiansyah

here - Holly is Happy from iPod

I'm here, but is this FF or FB? - Dana Fosburgh

Guilty as charged. Use FF more than any other social network, including Twitter. - Larry Hawes

I can stop anytime I want... - mikepk

I can stop mikepk anytime I want... - Akiva Moskovitz

here - mike "glemak" dunn

holy cow that is a serious list...oh yeah here and dear!!! - Braden Douglass

the real time chat feed is simply amazing and what makes FF phenomenal! - Travis Tasset

I tried to get addicted but none of my friends could afford it. Now I just have bad dreams about Scoble. - Mr Saturday Morning NFG

Merhaba! - Barış (beyn.org)

here, too. - browneyes from iPhone

Yep. - joey

Here...and cloaked with sadness... - Anthony K. Valley ©

True. What will happen to FF now? - Barış (beyn.org)

Alright - Rodfather

:P - Phillip Stewart

Roger that - Rob Fahrni

(from Streamy) - Marcos

yo - Gus

cello! - Joe Silence is not dead

You called? - Jeunelle Foster

you called? - pea

reporting in. - Randy Shapiro

ola. - anna sauce

hello my name is Kim and I'm a Friendfeedaholic - Kim Landwehr from BuddyFeed

1st Step - Thomas Page

True FriendFeed addicts don't need to report in. :P - Internet's Tad

yep - The Letter M

true friendfeed addicts are there.. always ;) - alphaxion

Tad: and yet you did! - Joe Silence is not dead

Chiggity-Check! - Richard Merritt

Still following Robert the Wise. - Phil Boiarski

that's a *boolean true* - Peter Renshaw

check - Tim Ake

I'm here. FriendFeed will have to leave me, before I leave it. - Tyson Key

ayo... - Lipanantsi

Fashionably late ...BOOYA! - Rich Weaver

Chris Martin checking in - Chris Martin

Present - Craig Eddy

present but in 12 step for addiction - Criz

'Ere - Darren Heydon

yo ho ho! - Ferdinand Perez

I'm an addicted lurker. Does that count? - ax0n

Solid Copy - Drew Lucas from iPhone

Checking in by phone while on vacation. :) - CAJ, somewhere else from iPhone

here. anecdote: a friend of mine just signed up for FF this evening. apparently the FriendFeed hype of the last 24 hours pushed him over the top. leaves me wondering whether FF has actually gained users today?it would be a crafty way of marketing the service. I'll wake up tomorrow to discover that there was a problem with the paperwork and the FriendFeed team have had a change of heart. - JSLeFanu from BuddyFeed

late, but present - George Deane

Present and accounted for - John Pfaff

hello hello - shaun mclane

yo yo yo. ladi-dadi. - berchman

"raises hand" - Brian Appleby

i have been locked out of twitter since first attack on friday so just got into friendfeed and loooove it! - Alannah Ryane

We are truly the coolest bunch on the internet. - Vezquex: God of FF

·[▪_▪]· - Desirade

Whats up? - AJ Batac

Present and accounted for! :-D - Amy Flynn

Hello, my name is Pete, and I am a FriendFeed addict. Will there be cookies and coffee at this 12-step meeting? - Pete Delucchi

Here stopped over on my way to Brightkite. - John C Ferron

I'm a Facebook junkie - Mol, Santa Claws

Yo. - Neal Jansons

Hi. - Trent Olson

is this a load test/friendly dos attack? :p - ௸ (k2g)

I'm not as active on FF as I used to be but I'm back. - Bob Gannon from iPhone

more than 2 days ago - Alistair (alpinefolk)

Little late but yes, I am still here. So to speak. - Martha

yo.. - Ricardo J. Valle

I'm new but i like it... - Jose Antonio Trujillo

Count me in even though I was just starting to get hooked. I guess it's time to find a rehab and get all sobered up until the next relapse with some other new addiction. Isn't life grand? - Usman Bashir

addict.. - Peter

Define addict. - Carl Black

Here too, lol - Ange Recchia/angesbiz

ANYTIME!!!! - Jim Hearts FF

addict: currently 02:53 and I've failed to even start this weeks script because I've been messing about on friendfeed ;) - alphaxion

Not exactly addict but very close. - ashish from iPhone

03:01 in the morning in the UK and I am here! - Travis Koger

Since we are logging time its 5:05 AM in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia and I am here too. :) - Usman Bashir

Travis get some sleep! - Arleen Anderson

Aloha! - Peter Liu

guten tag! - imabonehead

hmmm. - Carlos Ayala

hello hello - Tate DA FF MVP from BuddyFeed

define addict :-) - Duane-PreppyDude

Gonna miss you honey. This is Facebook for adults - Alan Morris

Is it just me or is the FF interface just plain usable? Clean! Uncluttered! Simple!. - Alan Morris

Yo - Ahsan Ali aka. Slick

Check is in the mail. - Louis Trapani from iPhone

Wow Peter, Are we all that crazy for friend feed and twitter? - Marilyn Jansen Lopes

Aloha! Mahalo Robert... now WHAT IS the plan??? - Arleen Anderson

Hello there. this is today's last....go to bed now. - Carloe Stamp

present - Alex Scrivener

Allo - Jan Ole Peek

selamat pagi,, bon dia ,, good morning=)) - zʍıɔ

^_^ - HealingBrush

I could be an addict if there was an app for my phone like one for the winmo! - Andy Ghozali

Presente - patrick

Checking In.... - Chris Jackson

Not quite addicted yet here. - Mike Pennell

Where's Holden? Maybe celebrating his birthday early. - Myrna

Yes SIR!! - Mark Guadalupe

Present! - Adam Turetzky

Reporting for duty SIR! - Jack Humphrey

Yes - Christopher Galtenberg from iPhone

Checking in. - John (a.k.a. dendroica)

¡Presente! - Luis D. Santos

On it constantly! - Tobin Truog

West Coast evening shift reporting for duty. - Kryptic

Connected across all social media.Who needs open social? - Lori Laurent Smith

Here! - David Cook

addicted for sure - Gersham Meharg

hola. - Sean Oliver

talk about a name and shame list... - Nathan Vingoe

Yo! - Walt Ruppar

Count me as an addict. - Joey Gibson

Till the servers shut down and they boot us off forever. - Haggis (Sean Loyless)

check - Kate

Always here! - Michael Cuff

need more, need more friendfeed than any one has needed before - Robert Higgins

Present. - Lucas

I am present and accounted for...well present anyway - Keith Murray

Here! - Barry Owens

You rang? - JA Castillo

I'm not sure is "being addicted to lurking on FF" counts, but I'm chiming in. - Christian (Simply X)

I JUST joined and am trying to figure it out. - Janine Nickel

Oui - J.D. Deutschendorf

I quit everytime I go to bed - Jeff (the メガマクダジ of FF) from iPhone

check. It rocks - Richard J Placide

I'm checking in from 37k feet on a Delta flight with GoGo Internet. If that's not addict I don't know what is. :D - Jay Cuthrell

Jay, you win ;) - Jesper Lind

oh hey, look, the added an "add comment" link to the end of the comment list. Huzzah! - Brett Kelly from iPhone

++Jay. I was going to do the same thing yesterday but I didn't want to pay the money. - David Cook

David -- this was a $9.95 session but you can get them for $7.95 and there are also 25% off coupons if you do online check-in prior to your Delta flight. That's an incentive for folks to use that service and offload kiosk use at the terminals. Very savvy marketing by the folks at GoGo and Delta combined. - Jay Cuthrell

Present and accounted for - johnpiercy

Yo Scobey! I like Dave Winer's thoughts on user owned tech companies ... been thinking similar things. - Jason Cronkhite

Scobey Scobey Doooooooooooooo! - Jason Huebel

check. - Justin Korn

here - Steve C

Ozgur reporting - Özgür D. Cyric from iPhone

in - sirishkumar

Present - Herb Hernandez

Yo! - Aaron Draczynski

Me too - Peter Hollard

Junkie - Genaro Bardy from iPhone

Seems like there's not much point being a FF addict, now. Bummer. - Kathy Fitch

Hola! - George The Writer

Checking in! - Glenn Slaven

whatup! :) - simran

Still here :) - 1x29

Here as always. - Jeff Smith

Here. - Parth Awasthi

Do you even have to ask? - Johnny Worthington

Aquí! - Miguel

moi. - amygeek

Are we doing anything today? - Shea from iPhone

nano nano - Eran Even-Kesef

ok, I'll play - chrisofspades

yes master - Weird Shanghai

I suppose I can take some time from my Friendfeed scrolling to comment on this post.... - d.l.martin

:) - Susan Beebe from iPhone

I like this list of people, good crowd - Jack DeWitt Smith

Yo. (And what is the point of this thread and why are we all saying Yo?) - Bob Morris (polizeros)

Howdy! - Bec Rowe @d0tski

. - Rob Michael (Atmos Trio)

aye - WorldofHiglet

And if you're a *real* FF addict, comment twice. - Dennis Jernberg

Robert. What's up? :D - DO ANYBODY NO MONIQUE

Arrrr!! - Adrian

Here! - Peter du Toit (S.Africa) from fftogo

Here at 06:55 A.M. from iPhone. - Pasquale Grimaldi from iPhone

late, but check and still here. - Rocky

No matter how many times "ff!" is met with "??" I still preach. - Garin Kilpatrick

Another one for the books - Greg Birch

YO! - Eric @ CSTechcast.com

Here - Véronique Rabuteau

Sup dawg I be in your feed, checkin in - Geoff Schultz

Hey. - Kevin Pedraja

I'm late, sorry. :) - jcunwired

so... - MegvMeg

well, it's 12:12 a.m. and I'm perusing FF from my iPhone via BuddyFeed before turning in. so yeah, I guess I count. "Here!" (raises hand) - Don Faulkner from BuddyFeed

Here - Paola Bonomo

Here..from Shanghai - Marc Dong

My name is John, and I am a FFolic.. :-) - John Serra

Here from Hong Kong! - Dan Van Hoy

Here - Musa Yılmaz

Good morning from Finland. I'm here again. - Tapio Kulmala

Can't stay away. - Tanath

Checked in ...How can I check out - Sriks7

Sorry I am late - Emre Öktem

Becoming more so. - Travis B. Hartwell

Present - Sandra Large

Here here... - Alemsah Ozturk from iPhone

Here! - Jeff P. Henderson

here.. - Chris Myles

Hello I am here! - Chris Bellinger

hmm. Friendfeed response rate running about three times as good as a banner ad and about as good as a well placed Adword. - Steve Wilhelm

Am I too late? I've been out crying at my personal Friendfeed funeral :-( - Jannifer @wordsforliving

Ci sono - zuck from fftogo

Just woke up and saw this thread. Addicted ? I guess so... - Jacque from f2p

✔ I'm not addicted. I can quit any time I want. I just don't want to. ;o) - RetiredTeacherD

still lovin it - Mark Sorsa-Leslie

Teacher: Awesome checkmark ;) - Fajar Nurdiansyah

Jauser - Flynn (Michael A. Volz) from BuddyFeed

Yes it does ! :) - Veda Informatics

Oh I'm late, just spend to much time at Streamy - Michael Zehrer

:) - M F

merhaba - Sinan İŞLER

Here I am, having my first coffee in the morning. - Federico Bolsoman

wazzzzup - Andrew Salnikov

Breakfast FFeeding.... - David Peacock

Wof Wof, WOF ! - valerio fiandra from iPhone

addiction check! - ӊooқ

First site I launch - Patrik Arwengrim

checked in - Sarper Sılaoğlu

All present and correct! - Paul M Evans

Présent! (for how long?) - Zackatoustra

here I am - nessuno

I send newbies straight to FriendFeed as the base for all of their online activities. I wonder how it will change. - Sally Albright

I'm here - Mackley ॐ

ata ata hoglo hulu - Dan H. Racek

[DEAN HOLMES] - Dean Holmes

I recommend FF to some of my clients, and there are some companies and nonprofits with presences here—not like Twitter, but I'll be curious how that will be affected when FB takes over more. Most have FB fan pages, groups and/or causes, too. - Cathryn Hrudicka

Still here.......as always. - Iain Baker

huh? - bora "head" basman

Still here, but I don't know until when - Roberto from fftogo

Here I am - l'Ego di Gigi

Because.....? - Andrew Terry from iPod

checked! - Federì

yup - Thomas Power

Wassup? - Winston Teo

in - paniaguai

howdy! - Nir Ben Yona

I can give it up any time. I swear. - Matt G

Here! - Brome

Hey i'm in the hospital and I still checked. - Steven Cogswell from iPhone

Me definitely one of these. :-) - Kol Tregaskes

Trying to keep the addiction low. - Muthu Ramadoss

Buongiorno - alex

Just another one. - M. Elena

Yo. - Carlton Hackett

What are we checking in for? Just to start a long thread? - Adam Helweh

in - MobilAdam

Where's duty free? - Paul Downing

sorry i'm late :) - Doruk Bayer

Late, but here I am. - Filippo Ronco

Not an addict but I'm here anyway :-D - Graham Lawrence

Reporting for duty. - Mark H

Here I am! Would you collect 50M$ to "buy-back" FF? :) - Marco Dal Pozzo [mdp]

Yo - Franz Binder

I hope I'm not an addict... ;-) Oh, well. - Hanna Wiszniewska

вписался - Alex Kapranoff

I'm here - Nick Bristow

8 hours later? i passed it! - Avi Joseph

yop! - zooz

привет чятег! давайте зохватим этот тредик? - Махатма Бугоганди

Yeah, me too. I just saw the request to have a comment link at the bottom of the comments from one of your friends just yesterday and here it is. I'd say they are listening. Thanks FF. - Keith Rowland

ЧАТЕГ МЫ ТЕБЯ ЗАХВАТИМ!!!111 - раз — и всё

заходит чувак к Scoble, а там чатег - $this->

Boom - Simon Wicks from iPhone

это наш чятег камон - раз — и всё

а сколько у них тут каментов? - Махатма Бугоганди

Давайте дадим чувакам ссылку на истинный чятег, пусть бояццо - раз — и всё

пиццот - раз — и всё

смешные - Махатма Бугоганди

Свободу попугаям! - Кеноби с кемпа

НАПИШИ ЗДЕСЬ ДВЕ ТЫСЯЧИ КАМЕНТОВ И ФРЕНДФИДИК ОСТАНЕТСЯ БЕСПЛАТНЫМ!!! - раз — и всё

бггг - Махатма Бугоганди

zdrastvitze! - anna sauce

check! - Maxim Getman

КТО ВСЕ ЭТИ ЛЮДИ??? - Нервный гик

Right Here! - Ümit Orhan

present - Tamara

http://friendfeed.com/ideali... MORE THAN 7000 COMMENTS IN SOVIETFRIENDFEEDIK - раз — и всё

ОНИ ПРИШЛИ В НАШ ФРЕНДФИДИК! - раз — и всё

слабаки, до нашего чатега им ещё работать и работать - Нервный гик

Да здравствует народ Чятега. Скобл мы следим за тобой™! Let our friendfeed alone! - ideali

это не тру чатик - Нервный гик

^^ KAKIE VASHI DOKAZATELSTVA? - Zen Zero

кстати, все помнят, что у Даши сегодня день рождения? - Махатма Бугоганди

The view is better from here - Anthony

ЧО, БУХАЕМ? ДАША ПРИВЕТ - раз — и всё

Ин совьет унион чатег чатит тебя - раз — и всё

они виноваты сами. пускай теперь терпят. - ideali

о, зайка пришол! - Махатма Бугоганди

здравствуй Зайка. ты кого сегодня сделал счастливым? - Махатма Бугоганди

*facepalm* - Alex Kapranoff

Дашенька, в этом уютном подобии чятега мы поздравляем тебя! - ideali

All your base are белонг ту ас - раз — и всё

Дашенька ушла в салон красоты, но я ей передам обязательно! - Махатма Бугоганди

路过：） - K.D.

кетайцам напалм привет - раз — и всё

нитрогай кетайца, у него там коммунизм, ему тяжело - Махатма Бугоганди

then ? - alper*

чо сразу нитрогай, я превед передаю - раз — и всё

превед кетайцам - Нервный гик

И так чятег, пока Скобл не поговорит с нами представителями СовиетФрендфидика, все мои записи теперь можно читать в этом тредике. Пользуясь случае передаю Парню Бухайту и его команде большой привет, в связи с тем что [He can has sleep naw]. - ideali

превед кетаец! давай сегодня сделаем тебя счастливым! - Махатма Бугоганди

а кто такой Скобл? - Нервный гик

кстати да - Махатма Бугоганди

И ещё десять твоих друзей тоже сделаем счастливыми, китаец, у нас сегодня акция - раз — и всё

Мой Мир, вернись уже - раз — и всё

в чатег призывается Цукенберррггг! - раз — и всё

Greetings from Australia. Im here :-) - Aussie_Camper

кто такой Скобл. и вообще, объясните мне плз про звезд американоязычного френдфидика - кто там есть кто? - Махатма Бугоганди

зырьте, как притихли гики - раз — и всё

фтыкают в кириллические интернеты - раз — и всё

кто все эти люди™ ? - brain

у них там ночь, они спят еще. вот проснуцца - прифигеют - Махатма Бугоганди

Triple check - Geer

не там а здеся. звёзды американоязычного френдфидика здеся. давайте их спросим - раз — и всё

фаак, точно ночь - раз — и всё

а чо удобно. утром мы говорим, вечером они - раз — и всё

их спрашивать бессмысленно - сейчас они спят, а когда проснуцца, комменты уйдут далеко вверх - Махатма Бугоганди

а мы ещщё напишем - раз — и всё

хоть тысячу каментов-то мы им сделаем сейчас? - Махатма Бугоганди

а чего там делать - раз — и всё

:) - Florent Morel

http://ff.im/6umOQ - раз — и всё

для тех кто в контексте урбаншипа канешн - раз — и всё

All your base are belong to us - brain

дурик - раз — и всё

I am here Jedi master. - Steve de Mena

про этого Скобла статья в википедии есть. он евангелист. работал в мелкософте и в фаст компани. известный блоггер. - Махатма Бугоганди

кстати, можно обсудить вчерашник эпиктредик тут - раз — и всё

я уже спрашивал у Зайки, кого он сегодня сделал счастливым, но он молчит - Махатма Бугоганди

Митрич, этот скобл? http://be.wikipedia.org/wiki... Яндекс выдал - раз — и всё

here - Ahmet Soyata

точно! поэт, пародист, переводчик. известный блоггер. - Махатма Бугоганди

я вчера был в издательстве, с меня сведения об авторе просят. давайте, говорят, напишем, где учился, что генеральный директор. и что известный блоггер. - Махатма Бугоганди

пиши что генеральный блоггер - раз — и всё

Here - Kevin J Hatton

here I am - Vedran Rudelj

да ладно! - раз — и всё

чо ладно? - Махатма Бугоганди

blessed are the sick - fo sho

Бесков, не ругайся - Махатма Бугоганди

http://www.youtube.com/results... - Sinan İŞLER

мафия засыпает просыпаются гики - раз — и всё

а можно получить профессию известного блоггера? какие экзамены сдавать надо? какую специализацию лучше выбрать - микроблоггинг или аудиоподкастинг? - Махатма Бугоганди

*где можно получить профессию* - Махатма Бугоганди

экзамены надо не сдавать а принимать - раз — и всё

тогда все скажут вот блоггер и будут хлопать хлопать - раз — и всё

а кто сертификат дает, что экзамены принимать можно? - Махатма Бугоганди

настоящий генеральный блоггер можно афтограф и ещё экзамен хачу здать - раз — и всё

сам себе выдай что как маленький - раз — и всё

юноше, обдумывающему жутьё - раз — и всё

себе полайкай! (с) - Махатма Бугоганди

только щас понял, что мы в тредике у Скобла разговариваем. Скобла, привеееет! - раз — и всё

чо? - Лучше не знать

всё! - раз — и всё

ой чатег - payalnik

паяльник привеееет - раз — и всё

давай Скоблу сертификат выпишем? - Махатма Бугоганди

сертификат "русский блоггеръ"? - раз — и всё

известный блоггер - Махатма Бугоганди

пусть с али поразговаривает. будем щитать што экзамен и сертификат сразу опа и выпишем - раз — и всё

в псто призывается Фил, рисовать сертификат для Скобла - Махатма Бугоганди

Checked-in - Ozkan Altuner

согласен. экзамен принимает Зайка, сертификат рисует Фил. роли распределены. - Махатма Бугоганди

чорт. я опаздываю. убежал. сделайте, пожалуйста, тысячу. я буду иногда появляться. - Махатма Бугоганди

ок - раз — и всё

привет всем в этом чате - Химия и Жизнь

только до 7 тыщ ему всё равно не дорасти - Химия и Жизнь

привет этому чатегу. в прошлый раз не участвовала, но тут грех не поддержать. - Teinett

ээ, зачем второй чатик сделали? - Один дяденька

показать американцам, где раки зимуют - Химия и Жизнь

кстати, вы в курсе, что сегодня Россия играет с Аргентиной в Москве - отборочный матч на ЧМ-2010? сегодня в метро будет ЖЕЕЕЕЕЕЕСТЬ - Teinett

http://ff.im/6urbH - Скоблу привет - раз — и всё

пока они спят - nundesign

О, кукуц пришол - раз — и всё

сегодня в метро на машине не поеду ок - раз — и всё

and here! - Arnaud Fischer

Here! - Simone Tedeschi

а кто-нибудь хоть раз катался в метро на машине? в рекламе это показывают, а реально? хотя бы слышали что-нибудь про ваших знакомых? - Teinett

Фесйбук, где наши деньги? Мы ёрлиадоптеры, дай нам тоже бабла! - Химия и Жизнь

me too, me too! Facebook baaaad, friendfeed gooood!! :-) - Chris Pantazis

Скобла, защити наши интересы! - Химия и Жизнь

не не слышали - раз — и всё

О, греки пришли. Греки привееет! - раз — и всё

girls, send your photos here -> - Химия и Жизнь

let's chat!!!!1111111oneoneeleveneleven - Химия и Жизнь

но только чтоп по-русски - Химия и Жизнь

а ещё кстате можно всем дружно переименоваться в "Robert Scoble" - раз — и всё

тема - Химия и Жизнь

сиськам да! - раз — и всё

кстати, IM пропускает 90% сообщений. :( как вы следите за этим чатегом? - Teinett

МОНЕТИЗАЦИЯ - Махатма Бугоганди

по русски не катит, они там не поймут - раз — и всё

как как, из веба - раз — и всё

yeah - Amber, Random Time Lord

МОНЕТИЗИРУЙ @ ЛАЙКАЙ - раз — и всё

а работа стоит? - Teinett

Чятег вы молодцы! - ideali from iPhone

Guys, you russians are best! - Химия и Жизнь

yep! - раз — и всё

Австралийцы призываются в пост, где Бацек? - ideali from iPhone

уук - Химия и Жизнь

опять русские с балалайками наперевес - Один дяденька

руски блоггир привет - раз — и всё

с блаблаблайками - Химия и Жизнь

Митрич сегодня Скобл будет счастливым когда прознает силу Чятега. - ideali from iPhone

БАЛАЛАЙКАЙ - раз — и всё

Ждем на машабле статью "после слияния с фейсбуком в уютный френдфидик ломанулись русские" - $this->

это напоминает мне одну историю про Сосидко - Химия и Жизнь

не помню - раз — и всё

это что еще за на? - Банал Когнитивной Науки

I'm still here. You won't get trid of me that easily. - James Myatt

а ты не был на канале #2ch - Химия и Жизнь

это не на! это чятег! - раз — и всё

привет чятег! - Sergey Juchkov

here! - Emanuele Guicciardi

Старый добрый френдфидиик - раз — и всё

ыч - Billy

Фил по вашему указанию прибыл. Чо рисуем? - Ph

привент ивангелистам - Банал Когнитивной Науки

Скобла и Митрича - раз — и всё

менья зовут Иван Гелист - раз — и всё

И чо они должны делать? - Ph

тусня Скоблов - Банал Когнитивной Науки

а ты почитай тредик) - раз — и всё

Фил, рисуй все подряд :) - Sergey Juchkov

Скобла привеет! - раз — и всё

Вот еще, тредики читать! Я настоящий Friendfeed Addict - я пишу и рисую, а не читаю. - Ph

русиш фантастиш скоблз - Банал Когнитивной Науки

ок - раз — и всё

Скобл - это чувак с самым большим на данный момент количеством friends of в Френдфиде. - $this->

dı rırı dı rırı dı rırı cant touch this :P - Sinan İŞLER

сериаладдер штоле? - раз — и всё

ну значит мы пришли в нужное место - раз — и всё

чятег, превед! - тут не место для

Наскоблил себе друзей. - Ph

Руски френдфидик выходит на международную арену - раз — и всё

Have I accidentally clicked a translation button or something?!? - Nicola Quinn

массфрендер, масс его - Банал Когнитивной Науки

Скоблогер - раз — и всё

中文用户飘过 :) - Roger.Wei

транслейшен ему, смотрите - раз — и всё

^^^ гыгыгы - тут не место для

Дебютирует так сказать - Банал Когнитивной Науки

Учу албанскому - раз — и всё

from Russia with Love - $this->

hello - Ru Viljoen

privet - раз — и всё

интересно в каком словаре можно перевести с русского массфрендер - Банал Когнитивной Науки

На ифоне этот тредик не справляецо уже, и я перестал понимать кто чо говорит, когда кругом Скоблы. Чуть не проехал свою станцию. - ideali from iPhone

чего и добивались - раз — и всё

нет, не сериаладдер, просто популярный чел. - $this->

Придёт настоящий Скобл и зобанит всех! - раз — и всё

да не важно кто что говорит, Скоблись - Банал Когнитивной Науки

Грядёт настоящий Скобл - раз — и всё

от скобла слышу! - раз — и всё

Один чувак пришол в чятег и говорит я известный блоггер кто тут тру на первый второй рассчитайсь. А ему говорят чувак у тебя сертификат есть что ты известный блоггер? Вот иди Зайке экзамен сдай потом приходи. А Зайка стоит такой с топором и улыбается. Щас думает счастливым его сделаю. - Махатма Бугоганди

ты кого скоблом назвал? - Банал Когнитивной Науки

Yeah still kickin - Dobromir Hadzhiev

А другой чуваг пришол в чятег и говорит mi sami ne mestnie chekin pozhaluisto - раз — и всё

Holy moly - ◄ani625Ξ

I'm hererererererererere - FFTornado

всем учить русский! - Банал Когнитивной Науки

Скобла знаишь? - раз — и всё

Кого ищё знаишь? - раз — и всё

каждый день в зеркале вижу - Банал Когнитивной Науки

албанский - Sergey Juchkov

learn albanian! - Sergey Juchkov

oh, now it's all water, all water... - K.D.

i can speak albanian ok ok - раз — и всё

время от времени прорываются addicts забавно - Банал Когнитивной Науки

зобанить их - Банал Когнитивной Науки

@pozorro, на сертификат отдельно опубликуй, как нарисуешь! - nomoretears

они оскоблевают чо - раз — и всё

аддикты чятега - $this->

do you know the longest thread in friendfeed is in Russian?:)) link http://ff.im/2OQex - K.D.

если забанить - с кем трепаться? - Sergey Juchkov

http://friendfeed-media.com/a4d4902... – ы. %) - nomoretears

you lie - раз — и всё

Почему каждый использованием Роберт Scoble как зовут? - Matthew Horton

ЧО СКАЗАЛ САМ ПОНЯЛ ДА - раз — и всё

ololo - Банал Когнитивной Науки

Nice Russian Robert, Bulgarian isn't far off, be happy to teach you :-) - Dobromir Hadzhiev

it's very smal thread in russian - Sergey Juchkov

гугл транслейтерс камон - раз — и всё

Google Translate тебе в помощь - Банал Когнитивной Науки

Болгария привееет - раз — и всё

ё - Sergey Juchkov

here is the link http://ff.im/2OQex - K.D.

привет и добър ден :-) - Dobromir Hadzhiev

я так думаю веселье только начинается - раз — и всё

@dobata hello - Sergey Juchkov

партизанщина сплошная - Банал Когнитивной Науки

Здравей, България! Как ви времето? :) - nomoretears

линкер, все ещё впереди - Sergey Juchkov

@grantape да без разницы, nevermind - Банал Когнитивной Науки

Он придет и молча забанит всё. - Махатма Бугоганди

Вавилонская башня, realy ((= - brain

I'll still be around as long as this site exists. - Neurario

Polacy? - Sergey Juchkov

Да я полиглот прям - раз — и всё

Češi mají jedno? - Sergey Juchkov

хрена тебе. это я польский и чешский знаю :) - Sergey Juchkov

Here, Mostly! - Kreg Steppe

Хере Мостли - Банал Когнитивной Науки

@sergey morning @nomeratears мрачно...чакаме слънцето - Dobromir Hadzhiev

@Dobromir 早上好！：） - K.D.

wombata misserious - fo sho

ОМГ. На меня подписался китаец, который тут в чятеге разговаривает! Чувак, тебе зачем? - Махатма Бугоганди

он руски учит я думать - раз — и всё

here I am ! - Giovanni Cappellotto

各位早安 - Roger.Wei

вдруг и ты взаимностью ответишь... - Банал Когнитивной Науки

а иероглифы можно копипастить из википедии - раз — и всё

А, он сразу же и отписался. Сириалэддер? Может, у него скрипт? - Махатма Бугоганди

да можно из постов чувака повыше - Банал Когнитивной Науки

Доктор, у меня скрипт. - Махатма Бугоганди

приссал - раз — и всё

(я ушел на час) - Махатма Бугоганди

пей масло - Банал Когнитивной Науки

доктор, выньте скоблу - раз — и всё

汗，上面的Robert都是假的_ _!!! - K.D.

vi a ze chempionz - fo sho

亲眼目睹的事情，有一年过年，深圳梅林一个邮局，很多人排队寄钱回家，有个民工等着等着睡着了，抓在手上的几张钱撒了一地，保安就过去叫醒了他，让他小心钱，他说没办法，连续加了几个晚上的班，眼睛都睁不开了，保安马上和VIP室的 ... - Банал Когнитивной Науки

НЕПИЗДИ! - раз — и всё

Митрич, ему байки интересны. - Sergey Juchkov

I'm alive :) - Dimitar Tsonev

Скобалайзер мод он. - Банал Когнитивной Науки

Ехал Скобл через Скобл. Видит Скобл в Скобл Скобл. Сунул Скобл Скобл в Скобл. СКОБЛ СКОБЛ СКОБЛ СКОБЛ! - Кеноби с кемпа

what's with all the Russian? Can I have a large Calzone please? - MercyFlush

я запутался в своих двойниках. - Sergey Juchkov

终于发现了，这些人都是专业的”俄国闪客“！！！ - K.D.

ема, палево - Банал Когнитивной Науки

кальсоны себе сам надень федя - раз — и всё

就看这楼刷刷的升啊 - 拓 | wavesand

надо двойников забанить. пойду забаню - раз — и всё

Большой Калзоне и счёт товарищу! - Один дяденька

Скобл сломал Фэйсбук! У меня пароль не принимается и не ресетится. :( - nomoretears

моя китайская сущность скобла, ты о чём там иероглифируешь? - раз — и всё

страна СКОБЛЯНДИЯ - Банал Когнитивной Науки

Russians! - Jacque

Аре югангстерс? Нот ве а рашенз ага ага - раз — и всё

King Midas 2.0 — breaks every startup he touches - fo sho

БЛЯЯЯЯЯЯЯЯЯЯЯЯЯЯЯЯяяяя - brain

Линкер - не надо - Sergey Juchkov

чего не надо? - раз — и всё

о, наконец-то просыпаются. "рашнз! рашнз!" - кричали они и прибегали смотреть и тыкать пальцем. - Teinett

НЕ НАДО - Банал Когнитивной Науки

Türkler sohbet! - Sergey Juchkov

ещё чуть чуть и нас по телевизору покажут! Течкранч привеееет! - раз — и всё

может им еще вприсядку станцевать? - Банал Когнитивной Науки

главное не заблудиться по дороге - Sergey Juchkov

и медведя показать? - Банал Когнитивной Науки

НАДО - раз — и всё

VODKА PUTIN MATRESHKA - Банал Когнитивной Науки

просто НЕ НАДО - Sergey Juchkov

MEDVEDEV - Sergey Juchkov

HE HADO! - раз — и всё

BALA-LIKE - Один дяденька

SGUSSCHYONKA is the brand new real thing - fo sho

Будет ли комментарий самого Роберта по поводу творящегося здесь пиздеца? - Никита Бегун

MEDBEDEB - раз — и всё

BANYA - Банал Когнитивной Науки

EDuHAR POCCuR - раз — и всё

SNEGUROCHKA - Sergey Juchkov

DED MOROZ - Sergey Juchkov

TETRIS! - раз — и всё

DEAD MOROZ - Sergey Juchkov

TOPOL - Банал Когнитивной Науки

BALET - Банал Когнитивной Науки

TOPOL-M - Sergey Juchkov

CCCP - раз — и всё

Пользуясь случаем хочу передать привет своей маме. Hi, mommy! - Кеноби с кемпа

SATANA-22 - fo sho

Wow I was so confused before I started mousing over your names guys. - Neurario

Теперь в подарок иностранцам дарят не только воду и матрешек, но и балалайки с ГУСЛЯМИ. - Teinett

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... - Sergey Juchkov

Скобл хотел видеть аддиктов? Скобл их получил. - Ph

Yes I have revealed your secret mwahaha. =) - Neurario

Введем новое слово в обиход инстранцев: GUSLI - Teinett

Такой сиртификат пойдет? http://friendfeed.com/pozorro... - Ph

чятег!?? - Ня!

замолчали чото аборигены - раз — и всё

скоро тыща каментов - раз — и всё

кто посмел замолчать? - Sergey Juchkov

it's hide time. Enjoy yourself. - Luca Sofri

Эй! Разбудите там главного Скобла, у него в камментах русские! - Ph

ТРУ РАШН СКОБЛЗ - Банал Когнитивной Науки

@Лёля, нет, только Скобл - Sergey Juchkov

КОМЕНТЬ@ХАЙДЬ - Банал Когнитивной Науки

404 других пользователя/-ей оценили этот материал - Sergey Juchkov

hide,hide,hide,hide,hide,hide,hide,hide,hide,hide,hide,hide,hide,hide,hide,hide,now~~ You guys are playing with Robert's name :( - K.D.

А есть же игра такая Скобл, не? - раз — и всё

No - Matthew Horton

hide yourself K.D. :) - раз — и всё

wow LONGEST post I've seen on ff 8) ...checking in too! - 'Like' robot (frɐnc)

ОУ НОУ - Банал Когнитивной Науки

Дайте им ссылку на лонгест пост. А то эти ламеры думают на этот. - Sergey Juchkov

This post is goes to hided posts folder - Jacque

панислаась! - раз — и всё

@ocurro, it's not longest. Longest is 7k comments long. %) - nomoretears

на самом деле они нам наш чятег засрут если ссылки давать - раз — и всё

Robert Scoble, Robert Scoble and 404 other Robert Scoble liked this - brain

проснулись черти - Sergey Juchkov

тогда не надо давать :) - Sergey Juchkov

Crazy russians! - sottovoce

да пофиг что думают, каждому не расскажешь - раз — и всё

ок - Sergey Juchkov

ИХ ЖЕ ТУТ ТЫЩИ! - раз — и всё

Это хромой. Вы знаете, это, верно? - Matthew Horton

it's small post. - Sergey Juchkov

ok - раз — и всё

I still love it. - Paul Kinlan

i just unhide, and I see the true Robert is coming :) - K.D.

@ocurro Check in: http://friendfeed.com/ideali... - post with 7020 comments. Russian comments. - sottovoce

strange thread. what went wrong? - massagin

WE ARE ALL THE TRUE ROBERT - раз — и всё

@Robert Scoble sorry. Уже спалил. - sottovoce

сам ты странже - раз — и всё

schizofriendic delirifeed - massagin

The cake is a lie - brain

lol: 7020 coments - longest post. - Sergey Juchkov

Доктор, я Скобл. - раз — и всё

НАПИШИ ЗДЕСЬ ДВЕ ТЫСЯЧИ КАМЕНТОВ И ФРЕНДФИДИК ОСТАНЕТСЯ БЕСПЛАТНЫМ!!! - раз — и всё

Следующий! - Ph

а вот если китайский френдфидик придет в наш чатег будет уже не так весело - Банал Когнитивной Науки

Интересно - топикстартер подписался на получение комментов на почту или нет? - Sergey Juchkov

Серьезно. Качество> количестве - Matthew Horton

Gotcha! Scoble's discovered his nature - this situation looks much alike Agent Smith's multiplication )) - massagin

hide time... enjoy - Armando Grati

НА АЙФОН - раз — и всё

^^^^^^ like - Sergey Juchkov

АГЕНТЫ СКОБЛЫ - раз — и всё

all your base are belong to us - 13pm

Scobble Agents - раз — и всё

怎样用假名的呀？ - 陈浩小贤

Тема эта должность была ясна. Давайте не будем принимать его. - Matthew Horton

怎样用假名的呀! - раз — и всё

ЭТО ХАЙД ТАЙМ - Банал Когнитивной Науки

Чо пытается нам донести некто Хортон? - раз — и всё

here i am and using the all new add comment feature :) - Ali

НЕ ПОНИМАЮ - Банал Когнитивной Науки

что-то о качестве и количестве - Банал Когнитивной Науки

о должностях ещё - раз — и всё

ну раз просит не принмать, не будем отказывать, чтож - раз — и всё

и всё типа по теме - Sergey Juchkov

тема ясна чо - раз — и всё

Here I am - wolly

The theme of the post was clear. Let us not take it. - brain

Фигасе! ) - 4shir from fftogo

Word. - Charles LePage

^^^ оценил/а - Кеноби с кемпа

Сочи привеееет! - раз — и всё

@matthewhorton -What do you want to say? - Sergey Juchkov

@matthewhorton write in english pls, i don't understand your russian - Банал Когнитивной Науки

up^^ - Nazer

i don't understand russian - Sergey Juchkov

Таким образом весь русский френдфидик перезнакомится. Тусовочка лопнет - раз — и всё

ЧМОГЕ ЧАТЕГГГ!!!!! - Двадцать

that thread is crazzy : P - 'Like' robot (frɐnc)

Yes please to Google Translate integration. - Kol Tregaskes

merde alors! - Tom Horn

\o/ - Jemm

http://friendfeed.com/search... - Sergey Juchkov

наивные. гугл транслейт ага ага - раз — и всё

пусть переведёт "чятег" - раз — и всё

какая гугля транслята? - Sergey Juchkov

я видимо так и не узнаю чо имел ввиду Хортекс - Банал Когнитивной Науки

http://translate.google.com - Он работает лучше, чем вы думаете. - Matthew Horton

Google Scooble - раз — и всё

ОЙ - раз — и всё

Hi, Steve - Банал Когнитивной Науки

will echo have this? - Mark Essel

@matthewhorton мы знаем, что он работает плохо (а теперь переведи себе обратно, дурик:)) - раз — и всё

@matthewhorton давай все же на английском, моя твоя не понимай - Банал Когнитивной Науки

Это делает работу плохо, но работает достаточно хорошо, чтобы понять. - Matthew Horton

а давайте агитировать алиенов в одноклассники и вконтакт? - раз — и всё

*waiting for real Robert Scoble* - nomoretears

@matthewhorton speak englich please - Sergey Juchkov

we don't understand your barbaric language! pls speak English here - 13pm

какая тема чятега? - Двадцать

}{O}{O CMешНo - раз — и всё

I'm real!!!! - Sergey Juchkov

I will gladly. Robert is asleep, I'm sure. Now please stop this. People are getting very annoyed. :-) - Matthew Horton

Скоблятина - Банал Когнитивной Науки

И общение с иными мирами френдфидика - Банал Когнитивной Науки

если анноит - вали отсюда мудак. - Sergey Juchkov

I don't know if I'm a true FF addict, but I'm here nonetheless ;) - Peter Kruit

О как! Кого-то уже забодало. - Teinett

а eщё мoжнo мeнять английскиe бyквы в русских словах (фиг nepeвeдeт) - раз — и всё

Так, не надо тут на алиенов бычить - раз — и всё

@Matthew Horton НИВАЗМОЖНА - Банал Когнитивной Науки

red dawn - bopm

I sense the inspiration for an April Fool's Day gag... - Neurario

Ехал Скобл через Скобл, видит Скобл в реке Скобл, Скобл Скобл Скобл Скобл... - 13pm

@matthewhorton Just hide post :) Use the power of frf) - раз — и всё

А вообще, кажется, не хватает еще парочки Хортонов для полного счастья - 13pm

Задолбало? Дави на "блок"! - Двадцать

НА АЛИЕНОВ НЕ БЫЧЕТЬ - Банал Когнитивной Науки

АЛИЕНЫ НАШИ ДРУЗЬЯ - раз — и всё

Wow! - Вылысыпыдыст Аркадий

unicode power! - bopm

МЫ ПРИШЛИ С МИРОМ - раз — и всё

BALALAIKA POWER - Я б обнялась

наконецто алиены видят не кракозябры а чтото неведомое хохо - раз — и всё

Привет, кстати. - Я б обнялась

babushka force! - bopm

кревед - bopm

КРЕВЕДКИ! МЫ ВАС НЕ ТРОНЕМ! СОЛДАТ РЕБЕНКА НЕ ОБИДИТ! - Двадцать from IM

11 друзей Скобла - раз — и всё

Таша! - Кеноби с кемпа

@matthewhorton let me hug you, we are friends, we do no wrong, juss bring happiness to people around, join us in rejoice! - fo sho

КЕНОБИ! - Я б обнялась

979! - раз — и всё

oh those Russians. They turn every topic into "chateg". - 13pm

check - Marco Fabbri

Тэш, я скучаю! - Кеноби с кемпа

chyateg - раз — и всё

Это не настоящий чатик - Anton Volnuhin

Ты не чатег! - Чмоки

@Maieutic Rejoice of what? - Matthew Horton

CHYATEQ - раз — и всё

PUTEN WATCH YOU - Банал Когнитивной Науки

and don't believe these Scobles, they're not real. But we are - 13pm

у нас в ебурге солнышко наконецто - Двадцать from IM

millomì - Francesco Cugurra

@juchkov, дизреспект. -1. - nomoretears

Haha, I /was/ beginning to wonder when Scoble had started speaking Russian - Ahsan Ali aka. Slick

But HE IS RUSSIAN - 13pm

ugh, Мы все знаем, вы все фальшивые. - Matthew Horton

Девочки приходите в чятег - раз — и всё

I'm here! - ★ Soner Gönül

Они выучили слово «chateg»! Чуваки, еще несколько тысяч комментариев, и они научаться великому и могучему - fxf

Мэтью нас раскусил! - Кеноби с кемпа

Да! Чтоже делать! - раз — и всё

Я ТОЖЕ СКОББЛ - Химия и Жизнь

юхууу!!!))) а если еще весь чатег перечитают!!!! - Чмоки

ДАВАЙТЕ ПАНИКОВАТЬ - Банал Когнитивной Науки

KGB WATCH CHATEG - fxf

ПАНИКААААА - раз — и всё

ААААААААААААААААААААААААААААААААААА - Чмоки

START PANIC IMMEDIATELY! - Химия и Жизнь

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!PAAAAAAAAAAANNNNIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIICCCCCCCCCCCCCCC!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! - раз — и всё

LET'S PANIC! Uiiiiii!! - Кеноби с кемпа

chateg panic! - Sergey Juchkov

SCOBBLE FACEBOOK KGB CHATEG - Химия и Жизнь

Don't believe Horton. We're real. And he's fake. - 13pm

CHATEG HAS U!!! - Чмоки

Тыща каментов ок! - раз — и всё

Checking in. - Robert Miller

А А А А А А А А А А А А А А А А А А А А А А А А А А А А А А А А А А А А А А А А А А А А А А А А - Химия и Жизнь

Checking out! - Sergey Juchkov

Hi, Robert! - Банал Когнитивной Науки

Регистрируемся на рейс. Всем Чекин! - раз — и всё

PRIVYEEET ROOOBIII - раз — и всё

поскоблите чатег - Химия и Жизнь

фигота какаято - раз — и всё

Ладно, я только в нетрезвом состоянии уделять достаточно внимания, недостаточно для того, чтобы верить или укусить вас - Matthew Horton

Hello chateg! - Sergey Juchkov

давайте лучше поговорим о чом нибудь хорошем - раз — и всё

LOL Robert. :) - Robert Miller

чтобы верить или укусить вас - раз — и всё

IN SOVIET RUSSIA CHATEG PANICS YOU! - Двадцать

Hortex не надо меня кусать - Банал Когнитивной Науки

опять Хортон тутфту несет непонятную - Sergey Juchkov

POSKROBLITE CHATEG - Чмоки

укусить нас - Sergey Juchkov

как там Аскарчик, протрезвел ли после вчерашнего эфира? - раз — и всё

ВСЕ ЯСНО МЭТЬЮ ПЬЯН - Банал Когнитивной Науки

пьяный он видите ли. алкаш. - Sergey Juchkov

пусть у русских пить учится - Sergey Juchkov

а, вспомнил, игра называлась Скрабл - раз — и всё

VODKA DRINK DRINK DEBOSH - fxf

АЛИЕНЫ НЕДРУЖЕСТВЕННЫ! ХОТЯТ КУСАТЬ НАС! - Химия и Жизнь

и работать после этого - Sergey Juchkov

Robert Scrabble - Химия и Жизнь

Кто притворяется говорящим по-русски Меттью Хортоном? - Двадцать

@Matthew Horton http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_7xzzEA... - Кеноби с кемпа

НЕТ НЕ Я - раз — и всё

ВЕРЬ! @ КУСАЙ! - fxf

НЕ Я - Sergey Juchkov

Matthew Horton, please stop drinking in chateg - Банал Когнитивной Науки

НЕТ ТЫ - раз — и всё

Ладно, водка хороша. Я люблю пиво. Сталь Резерв FTW! - Matthew Horton

HE Я - Чмоки

Америца сейчас вся спит. Где-то в 17:00 по москве там начнется рабочий день. Вот тогда нас всех запалят. :) - $this->

beer - good! - Sergey Juchkov

ГазМяс! - раз — и всё

НЕТ МЫ - 13pm

у нас есть еще 3 часа - Sergey Juchkov

Это он по сталь резерв какую-то марку подразумевает? - Банал Когнитивной Науки

даже два - раз — и всё

МЫ — МЯСО! МЫ – ГАЗ! - fxf

тоже ничего так :) - Sergey Juchkov

ЭТОТ ЧАТЕГ ОБОБРЕН УПЯЧКОЙ - Банал Когнитивной Науки

надо притаиться, а потом КАААК ПРЫГНУТЬ! - Химия и Жизнь

кукуц пригласи скобла в яндекс - раз — и всё

ПОПЯЧТЕСЬ @ КУСАЙТЕСЬ - Чмоки

всем лежать два саса!!!!! - Sergey Juchkov

Robert Scoble has subscribed to Robert Scoble's feed. Robert Scoble, Robert Scoble and Robert Scoble liked it. - 13pm

зачем он в яндексе? скоблить будет? - Sergey Juchkov

нет слов! - Maria Podolyak

надо призвать Полумрака в чятег - раз — и всё

Ready to serve! - Anders Dahlberg from iPhone

зачем - Химия и Жизнь

3 часа за скобление! Да вы оскоблитесь! - Teinett

у меня чатик неимоверно тормозит - Химия и Жизнь

ВАС ВСЕХ ЗАБАНЯТ111 - 13pm

Я потерял интерес в данный момент. Я буду скрывать, как и любой другой. Это хромой, что вы захватили этот. Пивные правила. Спокойной ночи. :-) - Matthew Horton

скоблите, скоблите - они золотые - Чмоки

I am here.. - Burak S. Vanlı

Да, Мэтью, это хромой. Мы старались все скрыть, но ты пришел и обнаружил это. Прости. Таковы уж пивные правила. - 13pm

here too :) - Ali Bahşişoğlu

Buradayım :) - Burçak Çubukçu

опять алиены - Химия и Жизнь

Все, надоело. Когда настоящий скобл придет - скажите. - Ph

Вы все упоротые! Вас всех забанят!!! - Чмоки

Метью родил новый мем, не подозревая о том. Это хромой, но таковы Пивные правила. - Двадцать from IM

@burcakcubukcu merhaba - Sergey Juchkov

Рекламная пауза - раз — и всё

Мем-хуем - Я б обнялась

это хромой! get in da car! - Химия и Жизнь

I'm here from Italy :) - Ale♫nastrorosa

ola - Durukan Duru

пойду пообедаю что-ли пока скобл не проснулся - Sergey Juchkov

Hi, Alessandra - Банал Когнитивной Науки

BEER RULES - Чмоки

Hi, Durukan - Банал Когнитивной Науки

hello Italy! - Sergey Juchkov

Hi Roberts! - 13pm

Hi Robert :)) - Fatih Küçükbaltacı

Пойду покурю что-ли пока скобл не проснулся - раз — и всё

Anseo - Ken Power from iPhone

Говорят, тут всех банит Скобл. Скобл проснулся и боится правды!!! - раз — и всё

Hey Robert! - Berk D. Demir

Hi my name is Rasmus and I'm an addict - Rasmus Lauridsen

Скобл - Мицгол! - раз — и всё

Hi Rasmus! - Кеноби с кемпа

Да сражу же видно кто тут настоящщие аддикты - Двадцать from IM

CICITMVI - FlyMeToTheMoon

CHO? - Банал Когнитивной Науки

СИСИтмВИ - fxf

про сиси я понял, а дальше? - Банал Когнитивной Науки

всех не забанишь! - Антискобл

WAKE UP SCOBLE - Банал Когнитивной Науки

ну что, ЭПИГ ЧЯТЕГ или день пропал? - Двадцать from IM

CHATEG AGAINST BLOCKING RUSSIAN SCOBLES! - Антискобл

window, over wing please :P - Yunus Tunak

SCHITO? - Двадцать from IM

More than a friend of FriendFeed, was starting to use it as a full lifestreaming platform and loved it. It's made a whole lot of other sites make sense. - achean

Hi, I'm Bette... I don't know if I'm an addict, but I can't stay away... I keep checking, just to see if something's new... and I cry if I get no responses to a post. Is that addictive behavior? :D - Bette Cooper

балалайка - Нервный гик

His name is Robert Scoble! His name is Robert Scoble! His name is Robert Scoble! - Я б обнялась

водка - Нервный гик

матрёшка - Нервный гик

ПОМНИМ! СКОРБИМ! - Антискобл

матрёшка - Нервный гик

нет, не так - Нервный гик

... и скоблим тоже... - mikolka

VODKA - Нервный гик

SPUTNIK - Нервный гик

PERESTROYKA - Нервный гик

PUTIN - Нервный гик

буржуинцы начинают просыпаться. Я начинаю паниковать/ - Двадцать from IM

CHATEG COMES WITH PEACE - Антискобл

мы пришли с миром - Нервный гик

самовар - Чмоки

was that really Robert Scoble ? or hacked ? - Чмоки

No. Impersonated. By several. - Dennis Jernberg

NAZDOROVIE! - Двадцать from IM

Кстати, если писать что-нибудь типа «Апруе ылцц оррке валдов», то особой разницы они не заметят. - Я б обнялась

^^^ LIKE - Чмоки

++ - Я б обнялась

Апруе ылцц оррке валдов! Апруе ылцц оррке валдов! Апруе ылцц оррке валдов! - fxf

Бедный, бедный гугл-транслейт. - fxf

Yup, I have blocked all the impersonators now. You will still see them, but I don't see them and they no longer can comment on any of my items. - Robert Scoble

Present. - Dean

Yep Addict here :) - Russell G

Check :) in - Connee

addicted. - Miketrevis

горшочек, вари! - потерянный пинг

ci penso :D - tiracconto.:. (hermansji)

Checked. - Smeerch

Here! - Tiziano Caviglia

Пуськи бятые! Глокая имериалистическая куздра штеко будланула бокра, и теперь курдячит бокренка, а вы тут чятег развели! - потерянный пинг

vabbe', eccomi - punkwithgun

+1 - Borgognoni

@scobleizer As far as I can see you have blocked not only the impersonators (who renamed themselves back the moment they found out you have a problem with this) but most of the folks who chatted there. - Махатма Бугоганди

@meatreach yes, see next thread. Scobble becomes anti-Russian. - Never Impersonate You

here too:) waiting for my mission :) - abdellah

Please only comment here in english, so everyone can understand what you write. The thread was started in english... - Flynn (Michael A. Volz)

Here - PiccoloImprenditore from iPhone

Maxatma: well, that's just too bad. I speak English. Sorry. People who don't speak English really don't have any business commenting on one of my items, except in rare cases. - Robert Scoble

Why you, Robert Scoble, don't block users from Spain or Italy? China or arabic countries? Those users that comments on non-English languages? - Never Impersonate You

I'm an addict so I'm here. - Francesco Passannanti

@Robert, in fact they do speak English. But they also do make fun of Friendfeed and everything that's going on there. You can block them or take part in this fun. ;) - Махатма Бугоганди

Epic SUCCESS - Mark

I'm here! - Bastian

Here! - Martynas

Go & Come ! - JohnDu™

here i am - Howard Trickey

Use it every day. - Nils Sandin

check - Arnaldo M Pereira

Very nice topic. - sottovoce

кисо куку ;) - тут не место для

Maxatma: I have enough noise in my life. I don't need to have more. - Robert Scoble

Epic success in banning innocent people - Never Impersonate You

Checking in - Johnny Chadda

What if I'm only a friendfeed addict in my current personality? My other personalities don't even use computers, apparently. - MλTT

@scoblezier, really? Why this census of the population is not noise? - Never Impersonate You

Never: no, it's not noise. What's noise is going off topic on a thread. I'm very close to blocking you too. Keep it up. - Robert Scoble

here! - Nilesh

Addicted but it's a love/hate kinda thing. - sean808080

Here! - Danli

I prefer FF over twitter and facebook, but all my friends are on twitter and/or facebook. Maybe facebook will get it right this time now that it has acquired FF. If they simplify it a bit more without removing functionality. Then I would spend a bit more time on FB. Lets hope all goes well with the merger. If not I'm jumping ship and going over to Google Wave. oh wait, I'm going to go with Google Wave regardless! ;-) - Captain Jack

Bu arada Russian friends Turkiye'ye selamlar gonderiyor. - ideali

Red 5, standing by - Danny F Santos

ideali: can you speak English please? Thanks. - Robert Scoble

Yep - Giorgio Burlini from iPhone

for 6 words, this post sure got a lot of mileage. What now Scoble wan kenobi? - shaun mclane

Oh, check FF.. doh FarceBook... my fingers are crossed in hope. - Greig

Me! Me! - DGentry

@scobleizer i can speak english and i beg you to remove bann from all russian friendfeeders, because we are all from it-community, working in internet companies and we came with peace, you asked for feedback from friendfeed addicts — we show you how really it is being frf addicts, we change names, we chat, we making things that are not serious. Why so serious? Unlock people, they are not bots, they just playing the game of real addicts and have fun. Common. - ideali

shaun: I started this post to demonstrate that a lot of us are still here and aren't likely to leave. At least not quickly. So, life goes on after FriendFeed gets acquired by Facebook. Point proved. - Robert Scoble

Robert He says ; Our Russian friends say to hello to Turkey - Osman Üngür

Osman :) - Ergin

Beyler, bana bir sey anlatin, bu kadar ciddi olmaya ne gerek var? Translation: Guys, why so serious? - ideali

Good morning, Robert! - Hector

here - Maitani

ideali: have them send email to scobleizer@gmail.com and I'll unblock anyone who says they weren't impersonating me. - Robert Scoble

Hector: good morning! I need coffee. - Robert Scoble

@robert yes they (we will) stay here, I think tat the migration process will take time and after reading @Paul Bucheit, I think that what we all are trying to get even if we don't say it explicitly is to preserve a kind of intimacy (beeing a part of the Huge faceBook community) don't mean that FF community will preserve their intimacy, why should a community be a plan one, (let imagine a community as a set of sub-community) that all. - abdellah

Wow!! So many likes and comments; is it a record Rob? - Er-fun

@scobleizer thank you, for understanding. be cool, guys we just want have fun here a little. Take care. - ideali

K - OakleighVermont

Er-fun, This is the largest list of comments I've ever seen on FF... but no idea if it's a record or not - Roy Herrod

@harfehesaab, it's far from record - потерянный пинг

whenever you're ready - patrickdh

the record is in our russian community, guyz. - ideali

Roy: it's not even close to being a record. It's nice to see that there's still a nice group hanging out here, though. - Robert Scoble

Totally addicted - Fernando Parra

"fax a cat" has 711 likes : http://friendfeed.com/funny-p... anything else top that? Is there a ff record page? - JSNFLMNG

so is this part of the regular Scoble-cull? :p - Iwan

here - Andrea Contino

totally addicted - zsafwan 

Yes We Do :) - Jan Friman

right here, right now - Hakan İyice

@Iwan --hahaha "we could be so lucky" lol - JSNFLMNG

There is no addiction, only habitual sin :) - Mike Shields

@harfehesaab Уes, it is a Яecord for sиre ! .) - obz

Here - Chris Riewe

Just for the record, yes and loving the "add comment" at the bottom.. it was a long way to scroll back up otherwise. - Rhys Amos from iPod

I'm here captain! ;-) We may be on a dying ship, but I'm glad to have sailed with her. :-) - darnell from BuddyFeed

http://friendfeed.com/sonergo... True FRİENDFEED addict! - ★ Soner Gönül

Хотела остаться в стороне. Но тут такая "пьянка"! Всем привет в этом чатиге:) - Неформат

I feel like such a slacker checking in about 12 hours later. You caught me the one night I go offline early. - Rob Diana

Present And Accounted For - Roberto Bonini

check - Mark Zip

I do. - dstamand

Slow response from me, but still ... - Christian Bolstad

@Robert RE "I have enough noise in my life. I don't need to have more" - isn't it a lot of noise having 26K subscriptions and 46K subscribers on your frf account? I'm kind of surprised - you create a community that large around yourself, yet when you see a new and unusual activity you just block it right away. - Махатма Бугоганди

Good morning from the east coast! - Domingo Rogers

Maxatma: when people impersonate me I have no patience. Sorry. - Robert Scoble

present and accounted for - Shawn Roos

Checking in. - Warner Crocker

here - Tracy Benham

I am in, of course!! - Ronald

Still figuring it out, but liking it - Rob Fisher

'morning and checking in from Washington, DC. - Ken & Kiyomi

Here. - Joe Bonner from fftogo

Red october checking in - James Tenniswood

@Robert, patience? Who's talking about patience? It's about curiosity, not patience. When something strange and unusual happens around you, you can either try to stop it or try to see what it can develop into. You choose to stop - and it stopped. Well, not stopped - just moved to some other place. And do you really know what it was and what it was about to bring you? - Махатма Бугоганди

Pow! - Rolf Schewe

+1 to Maxatma :) - Connee

why so nervous? - Connee

Глядико, чатег) - Кто здесь?

Late to the party but here all the same. - Pete Gilbert

+1 to Maxatma too - Shareli

оО - Monk Albino

Oh Captain, My Captain! - Dan van Moll

yes sir. - James Macgill

please don't go - Zach Scott

here i am! - barbarars

yo ;) - guruvan (Rob Nelson)

check. - Brian Sloane

hi. i can get a note from my wife and kids. - Thom Kennon

here - saskia

I love the fact that I can't read a good amount of the comments here :) FFAddicts without Borders - guruvan (Rob Nelson)

Check - Marco Massarotto from iPhone

да, чатег однако ) - Pavel Rogozhin

here - ahmet bulent

as requested - Al Pasternak

in the process of getting addicted...yo - Chad Gesser from BuddyFeed

Yo addiction as per requested Sir. - Zax Stevens

ну пиздец понеслась - Dolgiy-Rapoport

Here.. yay! - seda irengü özmen

Check - Eric Johnson

There!, Am I wrong or they added "add comment button" at the end of comments? - Antonio Correnti

Guilty as charged :). Hope FF will continue to kick ass, even after being acquired by Facebook. - alfred westerveld

I don't think of it as an addiction though I do get severe withdrawal symptoms for taking a long hiatus.. hmm - Wang Yip

@Паша, чятег был утром, но потом проснулся топикстартер, пришел и молча забанил всех™. - Махатма Бугоганди

here - timepilot

hola - spiros

Hello! - Chris Luckhardt

Yes sir. - Vinay | विनय

howdy - Brandon Ball

My middle name is belated. - Benjamin Taylor

Do I need to state my first name (Hi Robert - My name is Laurie and I am a friendfeed addict! "Hi Laurie" :)))) - Laurie DesAutels

I'm here - Michael_techie

I'm getting there. - Spencer

Sup? - Brent - Loving Life

word. - Ron Wening

Japan here! はい！ - Rick Cogley

here - imran

not sure if I commented already but I will add onto the pile. - beersage

pick me! pick me! pick me! - .i.m.a.r.s.o.r.a.m.a.

oups !!! - Polluxe

comment number 1287... - Yann Ropars

This is trying to become the longest thread in the history of FF, eh? Nice show of hands, definitely good numbers! - Bora Zivkovic

Wut? Oh, HERE! - Noah Gray

Last, but not least - Paul Brannan

Here I am from Italy :-) - catepol from iPhone

from Italy too ;-) - Andrea Colaianni

I;'m currently in Rome, Italy - Danica Radovanovic

Nobody from Russia here already? - Кто это тут у нас

Here I am. - Evan Travers

Addiction came in again, I raise my hand. - ElijahBailey-Zu of FF <0,

Here - and hoping that any changes here are for the better - that nothing goes backwards. - Courtney Engle

check - Dinc Arslan's Alter Ego

Walmartization of friendfeed now in progress - imran

whaddup - Marco(aureliusmaximus)

Если все забанены, то хто ето пишетъ? - Кто здесь?

Present - TheDiva Rockin

Hello and goodbye. - Carlton Prest

Party's not over yet? :) - Sasha Kovaliov(.com)

I'm here, until the bitter end :p - Patrik Johansson

Well, there is another party here in Chinese and Persian languages :)) Welcome joining! http://ff.im/6uezi - K.D.

Here we are! ;) - Сергей Мартынов

Большой чятег, однако! :] - Сергей Мартынов

Nice to see so many languages. - E-Advocate Network

Better late than never! - Sherry BakerBrio

Here! - David Sharpe

I'm here - Amit Morson

here. - felix

what was that again? - Karthik Sridhar

Ой, да это маленький чятег оказывается. 1300 всего. У нас-то 7000 было :) - Сергей Мартынов

Hey, this chatroom appeared to be quite small - only 1300 messages :) We've done 7000 in our Russian thread ;) - Сергей Мартынов

Present. I'm here in Chile. - Roberto Arancibia

@Сережа Мэ Come to join our chatroom:) http://ff.im/6uezi - K.D.

In the house. Long live FriendFeed. - Joel Zehring

presente! - Alex Sauceda

yo - Jeremiah Owyang

What is this 'Russian' thread you speak of? ;) - JSNFLMNG

It was already mentioned here - check this out: http://friendfeed.com/search... - Сергей Мартынов

@yogar thanx, I'm coming to visit you ;) - Сергей Мартынов

Im back! - Lee Kent

Present from Romania - cata b

Present. - xero

İşsiz güçsüz bir sürü adam işte. Dağılın olm. (No, I'm not addicted, I'm just watching) - ilter

Тук! - Valentine Valov

I'm always login in friendfeed - Edgar Rodríguez from iPhone

ehy guys! - marc

me! - prezzemolo

Greetings from Bulgaria! - Valentine Valov

:O) - Jeanne

I'm here all the way from South Africa! I dig this service and I'm not quite ready to give it up. Regardless of the news about the acquisition, this remains an awesome service. - Paul Jacobson

I'm new to ff but find more valuable information here than anywhere else! - Janet Crance

Hello! Here I am! - Maria Gabriella Quadri

Oh hello there! - Jaremy Rich

Here - 1Co from iPhone

+1 - gerri A. from iPhone

Present! - April Buchheit

here too - Flavio

here - Ruchira S. Datta

not addicted yet :) - vinod

presente - Eric Gagne

yo - Thomas Hawk

Not addicted to Friendfeed too, but I really like it. More than twitter, perhaps because of the overview on smalltalk. - Melanie Langenhan

Me! - Satya

Here! - Anne Bouey

Me too! - Tudor Bosman from Android

ok, now what? shall we dance for you? - Trent Shields

You can dance if you want to. - Neal Jansons from IM

Check - پلانگتن

I probably qualify. - Lindsay

Count me in - Andrei M. Marinescu

I'm here. Still :) - Svartling

yes, we can dance, we can dance, everybody look at your hands! - .LAG liked that

if i leave a comment means I am an addict? - Nikos Anagnostou

1360 is that all out of a so called million hmmm ... must be more like 100,000 users in reality then - Thomas Power

if if I "liked" - does it make me an FF addict ? - Peter Dawson

aye! - vino

I am not a true addict but I checked in to be part of the record :) - Er-fun

I find FF the most useful of my social networks. - Leigh Marriner

Checkin in - Bryan R. Adams

Got other things to do too :) - Richard Hill

hmmm.. - Krishnamoorthy

Addict? Neh. Loyal, now-more-than-a-little-concerned user? Yeh! - Anthony Citrano

Well, sure. Yeah, fine. Count me in. - Jason Pontin

Just arrived. Is this the way to the next cliff? - goodmachine

+1 - Liviu Barbat

Here - Graham Bunting

Guilty - Ian Wright from BuddyFeed

Still? - Tyler Hurst

a little bit. - Vincent van Wylick

what for? - سیدعلی‏سنائی

Hollah - Greg Santos

I'm Thaths and I am a FF addict! - Thaths

Check me in... - Alb.

present. - Marco

Check. - vic from iPhone

burada ;) hier, here,voilà... - Bengi Kılıç

Present - Dave Martin

Here :) - Holly Rae, FFer

I'm late. But Mom got 75. Count me in though. - Ton Zijp

Those Russian impersonators made fun much resembling dance macabre. Feasting friendfeed's transition? ) - massagin

I'm here scoble! - Jason Pollock

presente - Eric Gagne

Yo! - Spiros A. Gianiotis

sup - Kostantinos Koukopoulos

Hi. - Mark Aitken

hmmmm - John Ruth

I'm a friendfeed addict and I'm here! - Bryce Campbell from iPhone

allo - Patrick Janidlo

Here! - Bill Thomas

Here! - Steffan Antonas

Out - Declining Balance from Nambu

Still here - Transcribe It Quick

Here - Shannon

I'm NOT addicted! - Joelle Nebbe (iphigenie)

I dedicate this song to friendfeed addicts :) http://www.youtube.com/watch... - ilter

reporting for duty - Jason Miller

check. a little late. by i'm addicted, i swear!! - Mike

Whoops. I am a little late. But I came didn't I? LOL. Yes, sir. - Zachary TG

ping - Sameer

Here. - Araceli

Ok! - Business Blogger【ツ】™

Here. - Iván Abrego

Been without a computer for a couple of days. The horror! I'm here. Finally. - Julie Barrett from twhirl

:) - Roman Zolotarev

in! - TheBuzzMachine

touch down - Африки

right here - Arash Nightwatcher

✔ - Majento

amilateamilate??! - Sarah Lane

word - Fee501st

New fan but longtime subscriber. - Steven Zenith

is this thread a record ? - johnpiercy

Present! - Gary Gifford Jr

Hello! - dthree

I don't know how I rate my addiction relative to others, but I shared Hitler's reaction upon hearing the acquisition news (despite happiness for Paul and Bret) - Chris Duffy

@johnpiercy check it yourself: how many therads have more than 7k comments http://friendfeed.com/search... ) - massagin

me - John μller

it's my soc media glue. - John Czwartacki

Half here. - Ed Gutman

Holla. The only way I can keep track of the flowers in all these blessed walled gardens. - saltpeter 【ツ】

I'm new, but I am here - Ethan

Present. - Jandy, ConcertMaven of FF from iPhone

yessir. - Nathan Chase

Present! - Ludwik C. Siadlak

I been Scoblized - again! - Kevin Laverty

Hope this deal preserves FF's power and usability. FF:FB::Mac:Windows. - David Lounsbury

check - Drew S

Count me in. - Nick B.

here. - Scratch5150

Here and accounted for... - Brad

thread of the century. - Vezquex: God of FF

FIRST! - MVB (Curmudgeon of FF)

presente - Eric Gagne

701 and counting - Julie Williams

i'm here too - Mehmet Fatih YILDIZ

Homer says "Mmmmm .. FriendFeed" - Gary Etie

Check :) - Stijn

There's got to be a prize for doing this! Here! - timedalkat from Nambu

1451st! :) - Eric Geller

1452nd! :P - L'avvocatessa

I can stop whenever I want. Oh, wait... - dario

Here. Or did I check in yesterday about this time? - MaryB, BrandingBroadOfFF

I always am coming back for more... And each time longer than the one before - Bryce Campbell from iPhone

Yes? - Steve Lynch from twhirl

auuu, pa ovo jos traje? - Danica Radovanovic

Here I am. - Andrea Beggi

One more. - Laura_aka_Fujiko from fftogo

Started a "Save FriendFeed" Facebook group, because I love irony ... http://www.facebook.com/group... - Paul Holmes

Checking in 23 hours later, which probably makes me the semi-addict that I am - Eric Berlin

Do I have to check in every 60 minutes? - Louis Gray

I'm checking in again. - DGentry

Louis: you can if you want! I heard you can drink a Diet Coke once a day if you check in! - Robert Scoble

that I don't understand at all - Mark

are you checking to see who has left since the FB purchase? I'm staying here! - Katy Barrilleaux

I just expanded this thing, what a fun ride! - Cassidy

What if I drink a Diet Coke every 60 minutes? Then what? - Louis Gray

presente - Eric Gagne

Yes! I'm 23 hours late. :s That doesn't make me an addict. Damn. :( - Faraz Mullick

so only a few % of rob's followers on here responded? - Mark

Just logged into Friendfeed in the last 24 hours. This seems a lot cleaner than Twitter for certain. I'm an organization freak! - David Kolln

Mark: I have 46,000 followers, but the usual thing is only a percentage of them show up on any week. - Robert Scoble

That's sad - Gianluca Neri from iPhone

I'm sure this is part of Scoble's plot to poll all the people who really read his posts, and unfollow the rest. So I raise my hand. - Shivanand Velmurugan

Just a wannabe. Not an addict (yet). - Carole Hicks

It might also be a way for me to filter down my "following" count (diff (my followers, scoble)) are the only people I really need to follow. Those that scoble follows, I can safely unfollow and use Scoble as my social media filter :) - Shivanand Velmurugan

Roflmao Om Shiva you are destroying us :) - Jeunelle Foster

Loading this thread on the iPhone uses 1% battery life lol - Mark from iPhone

check - Joe Dawson

pardon the arrogance but it really sucks this great forum of sharing will turn into a myspace humdrum. Now I have to find another SM where first adopters and well informed techies won't haft to compete with general "noise" - earl wallace

check. getting close to 1500! - Jordan Brock

Hey - Colin Hendricks from iPhone

How you doin'? :-) - Red Label

Wow... long list! I'm here :) - Frank Da Silva

So, does anyone know the number of actual Friendfeed subscribers? Buehler? Buehler? - Martha

Now that's an excellent question. - Dennis Jernberg

Only 15 more comments to go and this thread will make it into the 1500 category http://friendfeed.com/search... - Jay Cuthrell

Well, here's a comment I can later delete and rob the owner of 1500! - Matthew DeVries

I just mention the 1500 mark since it was such an iconic query to see... that and the 500 Likes club of FF posts. It's pretty exclusive stuff... but it's also sobering to note that the subject matter required to get to these levels isn't always a uniform mix of cares/concerns. - Jay Cuthrell

When I heard the FaceBook news, I tried to quit FriendFeed and I couldn't... I'M HOOKED - The Web's Wendell Wittler

i clicked the "1488 more comments" and my computer nearly exploded. and yes, i am using an amiga 500. - jack

Now that I have instructions (thanks LouisGray) and figured out my Bookmarklet! I am LOVING the ease of use! addict - not quite... - Robyn Hawk

you're addicted to deez nutz - skunkman62

LOL - skunkman62. It's all good, the sun is still shining. - Harold Cabezas

Is this the location of the next FA (Friendfeed Anonymous) meeting? - Cynthia Holladay

LOL - Cynthia - nfan12

Monkey #1496 reporting in, sir. For true ADDICT status, I'd say the cut off is the first hour. The rest of us are wannabes. ;-) - michael silverton

ANY! FLIPPING! TIME! - Jim Hearts FF

fftogo ftw - Josette Torres

asdf - Benson Miller

FriendFeed user even before Robert Scoble joined the bandwagon - Shakeel Mahate

I'm a true addict - Jorge Escobar

wow! that's a big social - 1500 some ! :] - Petr Buben

I'm a true FriendFeed addict. - Evaristo

i am japanese! - psychedesire

yeah ! - MisterQ

Sir yes sir ! - Christopher Yeo

president. - Ken Stewart | ChangeForge

present - Laura Norvig

Still here. Its not really a problem yet. - Eric Logan

Here, 1500 comments or so later. - Gus Cuddy

OK I'll check in now that the thread is up to 1500+... - Stephen Mack

yo joe! - Wally Punsapy

I'm just trying to figure this out. Will I get used to i?? - Janet Frasier

holy friendfeed...this thread hasn't died yet? Point made Robert. - shaun mclane

I didn't "check in" yet.. - Tim Hoeck

It's not an addiction until there's an intervention. - Bill Sodeman

Some of us addicts will refuse any intervention. Especially by Facebook. ;) - Dennis Jernberg

I like it!!! I really, REALLY do : D - Ellen Spencer

Yo! - Aram Zucker-Scharff

Actually, I lied. I am not a die-hard friendfeed fan. I desperately want to be but have just not been able to get into a good "feeding" rhythm. Maybe I need to add some more friends - Anant Gairola

Present. - Vijay

:) - Nick Soden

here - Robert Freeze

here I am - Danilo Paissan

all on board - Save As : Panos

actually I am addicted to twitter more. I use friendfeed a lot none the less. - Volkan Özçelik

count me :) - Meriç Dağlı

here - Erdinc [bilimdiyari.com]

Presente - Ruben Sanchez from Android

i'm in - Anton Noginov х

Add me from Cambridge, UK and DuoFertility the fertility monitor - Philip Baddeley

have we broken the FF comment limit yet ? - David Pascoe

I'm in. - Peter Smulovics

naa-ahaa ... i have seen threads with 4k, 10k+ comments .... right here, on Friendfeed. - Petr Buben

Présent - Harscoat

1537...checking in... - Bob DeMarco

Here - Keith

I don't need to be addict. I'm just here, everyday, absorbing so many geeky info :D There's no place like FF - Lysender

I'm still with ya, Robert. Whatever FB paid for FF, it wasn't enough! - Donald C. Lindsay

New here, but learning. Tips for best use? - Barbara Langham

@bdlangam From my perspective the #1 tip in this category is: Explore and define "best use" for yourself. Despite potential "finishing" impression of some productive consolidations in this collective-collaborative cognition space, the emergent #cognosphere is still WAY too nascent to assert anything other than initial impressions. March to the beat of your own drum; build your own... more... - michael silverton

yeah sorry, late. was at Shambhala Music Festival, I know tardy, sorry... - sofarsoShawn

I'm getting hooked, still figuring it all out - Michele McGraw

I think I do. Not enough contacts to make a impression. - Michael Schlag

Better late than never.. - Ginger Kenney

here - Brady

Late but here. - Kolja

Not addicted enough, obviously... - Daniel W. Crompton

trying to get addicted - OakleighVermont

Definitely addicted. Not sure I want to stop using just because FB bought it. - Rick Cogley

checking.. - Leandro Ardissone ⍨

I'm the 1500th visitor. What did I win? - Ruben

Robert-I'm listening - Dean Holmes

Here we be! - Gary Dale Cearley

here! - Domenico Calojero

Still going on , uh? - Marco Massarotto

*bumps* the Scoble curve: bi-polar maybe? - sofarsoShawn

Hello. My name is Morgan and I'm a FF addict. So who do I have to blow to get a fix? :-) - Morgan Haley

Yo - Aram Zucker-Scharff

Elo govna - Eric @ CSTechcast.com

No - Alex Scoble

check. - Bren, Not Grinchy

Robert Scoble

New blog post: you are SO unfollowed! http://scobleizer.com/2009... I'll follow on FriendFeed anyone who comments here:

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Follow me! - TheHenry

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TheHenry: I already am! :-) - Robert Scoble

Please don't unfollow me!! :) - Carlo Nasuti

oh yeah! I forgot! lol! #fail - TheHenry

Very interesting approach Robert. If it is working for you that is awesome though. Hope all is well. Give Roc a big hug for me. - C.C. Chapman

Yo... - MVB (Curmudgeon of FF)

Not too much unfollowing please. - Tim

i'm in - Tai Hsia

Can you follow me? - Giorgio

ok I'll allow you - Derry O Donnell

What's going on here? - Andru Edwards

I think you're already following me Robert. - Andrew Leahey

well ok ) - Denverken

Lead, follow, or get out of the way. - Robert Kenney

* - Michael J. Carrasquillo

[comments here] - Nick Humphries

I will comment here! :) - John Ptacek

Great blog appreciate all of your "likes" that I would not have noticed before. Thanks for all the time you spend educating us. - Gary Prechtel

auto-follow always seemed like a bad idea. people can always msg you but your stream will get totally cluttered if you dont do a little bit of housekeeping. - William Kapes

"baby I'm a star" -Prince (off purple rain) - Michael J. Carrasquillo

novel approach, seems sound - Danny Ayers

Consider me available for following. :-) - Eric D. Wilson

Okay, I'll bite.. - Tanya

Bring it Scobleizer. - Todd Pringle

I agree, Twitter is much better this way. - Ryan W

I appreciate your work, and your passion for social media. - Evan Travers

sounds simple... - Mateo Yadarola

Scoble follow me baby - Jadito

Oh you are getting quite a response here!!!! I'm commenting so you'll follow me but the thing is you're going to LIKE following me because you'll learn all about Sedona through tons of videos and you'll love it so much you'll want to pack your camera and head out here! =) - SedonaTV

Thanks for the mentions, Robert (and you know I'm not commenting just for the follow - I just like to follow you, which is what counts!) - Jesse Stay

Guess I might as well delete that overpriced twitter app I bought last week. - Shea from iPhone

Actually Robert, now I've seen you've tidied up your twitter, I'll probably follow you there again too. :-) - Tim

hey follow me scoble - Andy Jenks

Meh, who cares really, not like you read everyone you followed. Plus unfollowed you anyways, not like you have to say that's interestined except friendfeed spam. - Steve

joining the crowd - good move Robert. - Adam

follow me - Tai Hsia

welcome to Boulder - Andrew Hyde

@scobleizer just created the most important tech follow list on Twitter. - Christian Anderson

aww shucks, and here I was thinking it was just me who you unfollowed. - Jess Sloss

I underwent the same situation, Robert - I unfollowed almost everybody on Twitter who duplicated their accounts here on FrF. I got a tempest of fury for this action. web3 is too personal still )) - massagin

Scoble in Boulder = Trouble. - Jim Halligan @jim

I feel fortunate that you're still subbed to me on FF. I haven't even noticed whether you unfollowed me on Twitter. But you following me, still hasn't gotten me the chicks. :P Always fun seeing your posts, long as you don't block me, it doesn't matter if you follow me or not. :) - Arlan Koizumi

I did the same thing some weeks ago after avoiding twitter because it got too noisy. It was instantly better. But in the mean time I started to use FF more and I like it better here so I hardly go near twitter now. - Murray Barton

You already follow me here on ff, which i use more than twitter. - dthree

What's up? - Kevin Whalen from iPhone

Hey Robert, so for following >1,600 is it that right way taken by Philtro and Filttr? - Martin Adamek

I'm glad you mentioned Loic, he caught a lot of flack for doing this earlier. - Steven Cains

Hey Robert - fight the tweetspam ! - Michael Neale

Don't think you are following me on Twitter anymore..please do and best regards - Karma Martell

I'm still trying to figure out the following... so I'm watching how you do it scoble. - Matthew Schrock

Good plan. I'm looking forward to your results. I'm trying to figure out all these social media elements. I would appreciate your Twitter follow. - David Stanley

hope this new approach works for you! - timepilot

Oh, so now you are only easy on FF. - James Watters

Odd internal response, I don't follow everyone who follows me cuz of the very noise you talk about. And, there's no good reason for you to follow me since I'm unlikely to deliver news of interest to you. And yet, here I am, posting on FriendFeed so you have the OPTION of following me, a stranger who is not the same kind of SMART as you. Who'd have thought... - Della Mauler

Interesting statement about original content value of FF independent of twitter. Twitter is where you keep your noise level down... - James Watters

This seems like asking for trouble to me, Scoble. But, it's your time and bandwith to do with what you will. Since only a handful of people (by that I think I mean just one) follow me on Twitter, it's pretty easy for me to weed out the bots. The people I follow are my internet nerds (mostly the Rev 3 crew) so I know their interests are in line with mine. Hit me up for some edifying conversations about Lost and video games, Robert. - Jeremiah Green

Here you go Robert! [also via twitter: @Scobleizer Therefore: only approx. 1.7 million "active" human @Twitter users contribute 50%+ of all activity, right? #engagement] Regards, @AAinslie - Alexander Ainslie

The green avatar is so disturbing mate. :) - Jordan Windebank

I'll lead, you follow. So where are we going? - Tom Sheppard

I was sad to see you unfollowed me, but now you may follow me again, so all will be well in the world. - Jodi

following the leader... - John Munro

You're still following me - does that mean I'm a smart feller? ;) - Brett Kelly

so glad I mail Robert a business card every month :) - Christian Anderson

Della: the thing is here I can follow you and put you into a list and watch you less frequently than some of my other people. So everyone wins. But only here on FriendFeed. :-) - Robert Scoble

Some of us have been doing this from our start. Kind of cool, eh? But our numbers don't grow quickly so we were tagged as "slow." Nice to see you catch up with us! Also, this may shock you, there sre folks who follow and communicate with only 3 folks on twitter and they are HAPPY! Imagine.... - lynda spangler

Yay. Now he will follow a librarian. - joe is...

Follow this dot!!! . - Bwana ☠

I've long thought the entire Twitter "etiquette" of always following who follows you to be a bit of a folly. I'm following 114 at the moment, and the stream still moves too fast for me to keep up with. - Darren Landrum

Comment! - anna sauce

ok - Vasu Srinivasan

Good test, count me in... I don't follow tons of people, I follow a few prolific Scoble-types and the rest are more focused in areas I'm interested in. - David Ziembicki

I'm not following tons of people, just a select few. More to follow on FB when facebook has completely integrated Friendfeed-funcionality. ;-) - Wolfgang G. Wettach

I only follow people I know or have something interesting to say, did you really have 160000 people that said something worthwhile??? - Gerard van Schip

Well I commented via your Blog so instead of repeating myself I'll link to comment http://disq.us/1ms9 - Keith - @tsudo

Gerard: everyone says something worthwhile once in a while. The trick is to see it when it happens. Here on FriendFeed, by the way, you have a better shot because good stuff usually gets liked and commented on, so it pulls up higher into my view. - Robert Scoble

come join us here folks http://ff.im/6dUHN xxx - Mark

Okay. But will you read and comment on my stuff? - Mellissa Claus

Robert, I posted this after Loic's decision and it looks like it will need another update. http://www.knowthenetwork.com/blog... I think there is value in stating your follow policy. - Keith - @tsudo

cool - Zach Cheatham

Hello? - Vicky

following all the discussion of you unfollowing everyone on twitter has made me think about doing the same thing and starting fresh. - (jeff)isageek

not unless we beat you in the Ashes - Mark

Nice post Robert, and no surprise it's an improvement. ;o) I have seen it for me too. - Rob Sellen :o)

1 thing I find Robert still worth following @Scobleizer when I am not on friendfeed & on my Hootsuite or PeopleBrowsr. therefore not much affected, not much 2 bother me, ego not gone at all. luv your post Robert it is a frank posting - polou/indigo_bow

Follow me Robert, I promise I'm not annoying. :) @cluteman - Greg Clute from iPhone

You've piqued my curiosity. - Kathy

Robert, thank you! I follow you and enjoy your "likes" and your energetic takes. I also enjoy your Building43 interviews! I am a constant FriendFeed user now. Thank you! - Tobin Truog

This made me realise I must be more active on FF and comment/post more :-). - Mats Pettersson

I think I'll give FriendFeed a go! Never tried it, but looks easy and I need to understand the interwebs better. @CodeSamurai_Com - CodeSamurai

butt-kissing is not a prerequisite for being followed, he will follow you anyways :D - Mark

Count me in! (Please??) - Ricky Maveety

lol @mark. ;o) - Rob Sellen :o)

You can follow me, but since you follow a lot of people, you probably can't pay attention to the stream of tweets. - Alex Knight

Alex..that's the WHOLE point he did this... ;o) - Rob Sellen :o)

IMHO 1,647 is still way too many people to follow. - Alex Knight

I will NOT get baited into ... ah CRAP. I follow very few people on twitter, mainly only to find info from Android developers (my topic of choice). If you mention anything about the food you are currently eating, etc.. you will probably not be followed. If you post 80,000 times a day, you will not be followed, since Twitters interface sucks (not so for FF). Also, no offense to other social users, but if you resend your FF/FB/<insert other social site here> entries to twitter, I probably won't follow. - Tim Hoeck

http://socialspark.com/blogs... Chris Pirillo is Scum. - Mark

good move IMO - Joanna Nicol

Love the post, love the response. - Chris Rogers from BuddyFeed

nice hanging out at with beach w/ you last week! follow moi!!! - Raina Lee

I always feel like scoble's following me - Rodney J Woodruff from iPhone

Don't forget your Dunbar number, Scoble! There are only so many people you can have meaningfully connect with online. - Steve Lynch from twhirl

Mark is right. No butt kissing. Ew. - Robert Scoble

"I always feel like, somebody's watching me..." - Wizetux

Comment!!!! Ohh wait but you already follow me... - Amit Nangare

Follow me, if you aren't already....please. Thanks, - Steve de Mena

here is my comment ZOL - Shane Gibson

Comment? What kind of coomment, Robert? :-) - Mitch Featherston

Whoop there it is! On Twitter @jimgoldstein - Jim Goldstein from iPhone

Oh..Oh... Mr. Kotter...Mr Kotter..follow me! - Scott Booher

Glad to see you're writing more than 140 characters on that blog. Doesn't that feel liberating? Maybe we should be allowed character# based on your metric for powerful/smart/newsmaker - Noah Bloom

You already follow me here on FF, for which I thank you. So, I'll just say thanks for the phone call the other day. :) - Jeff Harbert

I'll take a follow! - Jeff Weber

@shaunhess - Shaun Hess

Ok, so follow me again and I will follow you back. Thanks! - Audrey

Robert - I fail on most of your criteria so I'm not expecting you to follow me. The thing is I don't care if you follow me back - this is social media and everyone has their own choice. I choose to follow you because you entertain and inform me. The relationship is 100% one way and I am more than happy with that! - Pon

Robert - Last night at GDGT Party the person at the Blackberry booth said: 1) She had 'heard of Twitter, never friend feed' uses neither 2) Is SCOBLE is coming tonight 3) Wow, your Blackberry is really "archaic" and find out when contract lets you upgrade. F-D UP? Booth babes need primers. - Liza

Interesting theory... people who comment more apt to contribute? - Mark Philpot

I know someone else who tried this strategy last year, with similar results. I've been debating it. Once I got over 3K followers on Twitter life just got weird. Started to spend X amount of time every day blocking porn spam. - Patricia F. Anderson

Liza: yeah, sorry for not coming to the party. I went and saw Obama's CTO instead. - Robert Scoble

Steve Lynch: my Dunbar number is higher than yours is. :-) - Robert Scoble

Nice summary Robert on the whole Unfollow thing, but would it be too repetitive if I re-post on my FF? - Keith Rowland

What is the best friend feed aggregation strategy of non-friend streams (eg RSS, twitter, etc)? Imaginary friend per service, then add to lists? Multiple services per imaginary friend or 1 to 1? Or add the services to a group? What are the considerations? - John Brown

Keith: you can repost anywhere you like, thanks! - Robert Scoble

I'm in! - Craig Shipp

still wondering how you are able to handle such a big load of subscribers here and e.g. so many followers with twitter o_0. I am already (sometimes) lost with the few i got till now. Lately with one sweep almost 40 to 50 contacts in twitter disappeard and i have no clue why ... boah, how are you handling the noise? Hell, with so many ppl in, you might have a terrific noise? Or you wear just good headphones ;)? - Ronald

I very much agree that being choosy is the key to Twitter. I'm not nearly on the scale that you are, but in my experience, freely following people (whetther they follow me or not) and then mercilessly cutting back on them over and over again results in a kind of darwinianly better and better signal to noise ratio. - Tim Maly

Touche! - Steve Lynch from twhirl

Count me in - Johnny

Hi Robert - Randy Allen Bishop

Liked the blog post and totally agree. I've been meaning to do something similar. What I do is occasionally prune and then add some "better" replacements, so my total is always 2000 follows. - Bora Zivkovic

I don't see how anyone can manage so many users without groups. Then again, with groups you could just make an "ignore" group. - Oscar M. Cantu from iPhone

Great blog post. I totally agree on the noise level. I figure I have blocked a few hundred accounts on Twitter, and my noise level has dropped dramatically. Thanks for the follow! - Tony "Frosty" Welch

Hello Hello! - Sam Goldfield

Robert - I figured you were in DC from FF, but she had NO IDEA what a CTO is. Point is, she was eager to give you a Blackberry, but not me, and I wish I had a Scoble costume to pretend for 5 minutes. - Liza

@Robert I think you are starting another mass follow again. - Steve Chou from fftogo

Steve: that's not the problem. As long as spam doesn't enter the system I can deal. Keep in mind here I can choose how I follow. I can put you all in a folder that I never look at, if I wanted to. - Robert Scoble

my feelings were hurt that you unsubscribed to me on twitter, but i agree with your methods - Brian Appleby

I'm in! - Chris Rossini

Brian, yeah, but I follow you here. So there. - Robert Scoble

really doesn't matter as long as i can follow you, that's the beauty of these services - Brian Appleby

How did you come to follow so many to begin with? I get annoyed with ppl and unfollowing is easier than sifting through their garbage constantly. - R1CC1

Autofollow was a horrible idea to begin with. - David Chieng

I kind of tired to keep an eye on who follows me now,the ones I'm following is much more important.:-) - Steve Chou from fftogo

Whoa lots of comments I'm following you longtime lol - Edgar Rodríguez from iPhone

Robert: we need more intelligent spam-follower-filtering on Twitter! We need to fix this. - Steve Lynch from twhirl

@David +1 I think auto follow is such a bad idea to begin with,and people like Robert now even need to pay to unfollow these people. - Steve Chou from IM

How much did SocialToo charge for running the unfollow script? - Shane

I'm in! - rich brant from iPhone

I heard its 25 dollars. - Steve Chou from IM

I've always been very picky in who I follow on twitter. I follow 40 people, and I can't guarantee that I see every single tweet. I don't scroll back usually, unless it's my "Real Life" column in Tweetdeck that couldn't fit on my screen. - Tom Ribbens

My birthday is also January 18th, therefore you must follow me Robert! ;) - Chris Luckhardt from BuddyFeed

Thanks Steve! $25 is pretty reasonable. Wonder if anyone else will be jumping on the bandwagon - Shane

Haha....I also threw the devil horns for Scobleizer...that should count for something. ;) http://www.flickr.com/photos... - Chris Luckhardt from BuddyFeed

OK, let's try it! And what about Twitter? - Alexei Zheglov

Thanks for your post. Last time I checked you follow me here on FriendFeed. OK not to follow me on Twitter. - Pilgrim Five

Smart way to clean house. - Jeremy Chone

u have already subscribing me although i am just a-staying-at-home mum =)). thanx scoble. u are really a nice geek. haha! - zʍıɔ

Let's do it. - Kate

this is like an awesome commentfest - Edgar Rodríguez

You can follow me, but I never say anything. Oh.. wait.... - James Macgill

follow me! - Tate DA FF MVP from BuddyFeed

Sometimes the tortoise beats the hare after all... building organically based on getting to know people and interactions tends to avoid the ghastly spammers, seo peeps and bots - Sally Church

Tap, tap... is this thing on? - Yanik Falardeau

This is the best place to follow you. On twitter you only see post headlines, but friendfeed is where the conversation takes place. - Michael Fidler

Ah crap. You're already following me :) - Jason Nunnelley

I'm outside your sphere, but bootstrapping is bootstrapping right? - Travis Bedard

Tuesday night for the first time in 2 months I UNfollowed everyone on Twitter who wasn't following me. Since you had UNfollowed me, yup I unfollowed you. My Twitter account is so /FUBARed! It only goes to page 506 to show who I'm following and after that it is BLANK! I don't even know if they show in my Home stream. So Robert, I value what you say. Know I can tweet profusely - but it's as @replies to others with the occasional micro-blog thrown in. Question, what DID I do to cause you to UNfollow me? - Arleen Anderson

I hope you'll follow me... - Shane Tilton

Follow me, eh? - Joey Gibson

Trying to fill out those dropped Twitter follows? - Jamie Elgie

Scoble: Have you convinced Guy Kawasaki against his "follow everyone that follows you" mentality? - Kevin Pruett

please do what you must to have the most effecient feed mr scoble, the random will still creep through the cracks, ;) - chaz2b

I still haven't really adopted FriendFeed, but I will get interesting here in time if you follow me. - Lance M. Brown

How are your cleanup efforts coming along? - Jennifer Ruggiero

Oops - I also meant to ask, Robert: how are you managing to follow the couple thousand that you are now re-following on Twitter? You must be using groups, I guess...any other methods? I find ~500 people to be a near max in terms of how many folks I can fully read. - Lance M. Brown

Following your inspiration, I unfollowed almost 100 people last night and blocked about 1000 spammers, cam girls, MLM marketers, and the like. Twitter is more like it was a year ago, its almost like I gave my Twitter account an enema and it worked. Thanks for the original idea. - Mark Edwards

Excellent! - Don Strickland

Robert, I started out only following those I know and those I am genuinely interested in. I've only followed back a few of the people who've followed me. I have a second account that I decided to experiment with. I followed about 700 people on there. It has had about double the followers of my main account consistently. I am about to try some new tricks there with an auto-follow script I'm writing but I think I will stay the course with my main account. - Paul The Raven

Robert, I tried the "follow everyone" (almost) method for a short time - then I'd unfollow about once-a-week. Now I try to schedule a "follow new" once a week. TweetDeck's group feature makes following lots of folks bearable. So does FF, but you've been saying that for-ever! - Kathy E Gill

I am just taking it slow. - Rick Cogley from iPhone

Hey. - Kreg Steppe

I will follow you if you follow me (Genesis) - Keith Barrett

I may not be smart, but I'm smart enough to follow you! - John Pfaff

It occurred to me (and surely to someone before me), that different definitions of "following" might be a big factor here. If I'm following someone, it means I'm following along with their updates. But others might see themselves more as becoming part of a person's "following". Not that they are necessarily reading the person's stuff, but they are willing to be considered part of that person's inflated Twitter posse, as part of the influence-trading aspect of Twitter. - Lance M. Brown

Robert, I think that the biggest thing that changed is not that you were "wrong" (to follow everyone) before but that the Twitter population has changed so much. A year ago, pretty much everyone on Twitter was real, and interesting - now there's so much automated gaming the system going on that the signal to noise ratio has gotten unbearable. So I think anyone who cares about more than... more... - Matthew Blaisdell

I can't imagine how it would happen technologically, but it would be great if there was a way to ditch followers who weren't actually reading your tweets. - Lance M. Brown

Enjoyed recent posts and look forward to more from you! Keep it up. - One Degree Connected

I don't want to be left out please!! - Jannifer @wordsforliving

All right, I'll bite :) - although I'll say that I did the mass-unfollow-thing months ago - long before it was cool. - Justin from Nambu

Your most active followers are on FF. No loss.If you really wanted to make a bold statement you ought to have blocked all of your followers and started from scratch. - Benjamin Taylor

Been a while since I put you and Shel On the record...Online - Eric Schwartzman

blah. - imabonehead

Good article Robert. I honestly enjoyed the perspective. I found the same to be true, but on a much lower scale, of course ;-) - Ken Stewart | ChangeForge

i'm in! - Criz

I don't get it - so now you are using Twitter kinda like a normal person, and its some kind of miracle that it works better? - Nick Lothian

I'm impressed you can keep up with 1600 people. I have trouble enough with the little amount I have. I did find that making FriendFeed imaginary friends and putting them in groups for those I'd like to read occasionally (but not on a regular basis) has helped a lot - Tamara

Follow....how about some promotion! - Bob DeMarco

i'm in - Joshua Smith from twhirl

9/11 Was an Inside Job - bill giltner

Stop it, or I will have to get a restraining order. - Sriks7

Hey, Robert! - tomit from iPhone

In my mind I'm important enough to follow ;-) - Jonathan Callahan

Hello Robert....Whatever your favorite genre is...http://listen.grooveshark.com/#... - Michele Lorito-Chase

Looks like you have a lot of work to do following everybody. - Corbett Barr

now i'll have to write something interesting... - Robert Littlejohn

me! i offer nothing but the warm feeling of having accepted a ff reject. - Marco

ok. so how will you filter the noise now - Kfir Pravda

Ooo, I've won the lottery. You'll follow me now. Wheeee! (how do you have the time to go through all of the names by hand? VA assistance?) - Peggy Dolane

Great :) - Baard @ Pixum

Interesting trend on twitter - I always wondered what sense it made to follow tens of thousands of people, too much noise. I'm finding it hard enough to follow 2900 (looking to cull even that down as I mostly tweet about 30 people!) - Tia Singh, Life Coach

211th comment: WTF - Geer

Good :) - ★ Soner Gönül

I like your ability to influence so many people. I'm following you (mostly here - on FriendFeed) because it's one of the ways to learn how you do it (but, please, do not follow me if you do not see anything you could learn from me :-). - Hanna Wiszniewska

I would come up w/ a better vetting process. - Joe

why would you do that? - james

got to get a pic up so i can fit the criteria, I only follow 45 people and some of them are on thin ice ( Im lookin at you Scoble) - James Hunter

"Where in The Net is Robert San Diego?" (cit.) :-) - Luca Perugini from iPhone

I'm not kissing your arse,but i do learn a lot listening to you. - Paul Downing

@scobleizer why would you randomly follow people who comment in this post when you just got done knocking FFollo and having to unfollow a gazillion people on Twitter? - Bryan Zirkel

Bryan: because I'm following people one by one and putting them into lists on my screen. Autofollowing means you aren't doing ANY of that thinking. Also, autofollowing will get you spammers, if they ever show up (and they will). - Robert Scoble

@Robert: Read your blogpost and that's indeed what I look at to follow people too. No autofollow and even close friends have to tell something interesting for me to (keep) following. Friends who are new to Twitter (no tweets yet) get the benefit of doubt. - Patrick Mackaaij

If you follow me, great, but if you don't I'll understand. :) And I ought to do some pruning myself... - Grant Bierman

Let's give it a try. :0) - Toma Kazakov

I still don't understand how you want to follow someone who just writes a comment over here. Well, this is not the first time. I did not understand why and how you followed 100k people. I find it hard to properly follow 100 people. - Sumanth Kolar

Sumanth: obviously there are degrees of "following." When you read the New York Times, do you read the entire paper word for word? I don't. Same when I'm following. I only get random slices of some of my lists. Others, which have 500 people on them, get 100% read. - Robert Scoble

I'm still here . . . although tired after teaching all day. Louis Gray came to my PR class at SFSU and WOWED the 50 students [except for one who thinks we are making too much of social media] We won't be following him. - Shari Weiss

I like cheese! - Paul Puri

really? - clockwise from iPhone

Shari: Louis wows me too. Glad to see the class is getting into it. - Robert Scoble

He he :) - Richard Holas

I still like the "stranger stream" of Twitter vs "friend feed" of other applications. I don't feel the need to read all tweets from everybody - and tools let me check my fave tweeples. I think mass unfollowing destroys some of the social contract - Robert you are lucky because you are well liked and can do some risky things but companies for example (not Brands of One) would be in... more... - Laurel Papworth

As @charleneli predicted back in January, 2009 will be the year of de-friending on social networks. It's here. - Mark Evans

Laurel: yeah, you have to navigate these waters carefully if you are representing a brand, that's for sure! - Robert Scoble

you can put me on your boring list... - Charles Tanton

i will not get followed back: not powerful, don't have a brand, not a news maker... but i kinda understand the reasons - Dani Martínez

I still think it all goes into how you use twitter. If your using it as a communication tool it depends on if you are looking for broadcast or 2 way. Its interesting to watch as some of the bigger names turn back from the broadcast and go back to the 2 way. - Luke Kilpatrick

@Robert so when you're taking in information from FF do you have a feed of several dozen/hundred "key" people and then categorize the rest, or are you mainly searching? Do you utilize groups at all or mainly just rely on what comes across your feeds? I guess I'm curious as to how you're using FF to collect information. - Bryan Zirkel

I have found Twitter becomes noise rather than a conversation once the following/follower thing gets over a certain mark. I think this is the dirty little secret of Twitter - if it just turns into white noise, rather than a filter, then it becomes less than useful. - Michael Liss

I'm interested in how we'll all feel over the next few years as social networks continue to change and more people and organizations get on them. Obviously, many of us are getting fed up with spammers and are unfollowing them on Twitter and Facebook. I am also having a hard time keeping up with new subscribers on FriendFeed because I know less about them from their profiles and have to... more... - Cathryn Hrudicka

BTW, I feel like I'm finding lots of interesting new people to follow from these discussions that Robert and others are holding on FF. Cool! - Cathryn Hrudicka

Am I too late to comment and get followed? - Hichame Assi

I'm definitely around :) - KyNam Doan

Aren't you following me already? If not, you should be! LoL - Thomas Ward

I'm definitely late to be followed. :D - Faraz Mullick

I don't get it but ok :) - Parvez Halim

LOL! I follow those I find interesting and which can give me useful information. And hope someone follows me for the same reasons. - Flavio

Very interesting post - I've always thought that you guys who follow loads of people must get completely swamped by noise! Like you, I've found it useful to follow companies I use that have interesting products like Zoho and Evernote as a way of keeping up to date with their latest innovations. Excellent idea spelling out your "follow criteria" - it needs to become standard etiquette for social networks so that people don't get offended when they aren't followed back :) . - David Meredith

aren't you doing the same thing here, that you did in Twitter? Choose carefully who you follow, filling your brain with pollution doesn't make you smarter - Allison

Just finished reading the Mashable post on your unfollow exercise. It's attracting attention from all the other big names now. - George Hall (Australia)

Very interesting indeed, I only to unfollow a few, cause I just never had auto follow on.. So now I just unfollow the ones I'm bored of.. - Jaap Willem

Seems like a good idea. Although Louis Gray also has a few valid points on his latest blog post why it might be a mistake http://bit.ly/19UKxk - Silver Hage

I've never understood the auto-follow procedure on any social network. Even on Facebook, where it is obligatory, one can still lower the noise by simply hiding the updates of those who want to follow you, but perhaps also have little personal connection and therefore can be hidden. - Noah Gray

It seems like the unfollowing was the easy part. Choosing who to follow again must have been a chore. I think it is crucial in twitter (and FriendFeed for that matter) to have a clear out every six months or so otherwise you get bogged down in an information feed you don't really care about. - Chris Nixon

I can totally understand why you had to do this. I'm following 2700-ish folks on Twitter and I need 3 groups to manage it (using TweetDeck). I feel I am keeping up with most of my local community and the general tech community at large though I'm sure I'm still missing quite a bit of stuff from people who are not in the 3 groups. I also wonder how much more I can actually handle. - Ken Seto

Um... well, I made something of myself, but then I didn't like what I made, so now I'm doing it all over again. Not sure how that fits with your criteria! Plus, I really don't have a brand or any influence to speak of. I do look great in boxers, however. - Mark "DerBingle" J

OK, OK, changed my picture. Instead of a green clock (a clock is my personal brand) I put a picture of myself. A lot of people told me to do that.... - Bora Zivkovic

I am still looking for info on holographic technology being used for news delivery. Perhaps it's a technology that hasn't even been invented yet or is sitting on a shelf somewhere. What say you? http://specialdee.wordpress.com/2009... - Denise

Hoping your new look account has had the desired effect. No need to follow me, I'm not the interesting type, I'll just be glad if your insights, links & content continues. Congrats & good luck - JanLawrence

Here's what's interesting, Robert, I've noticed an uptick in followers even if you reply or RT or like someone's tweet, not just if you follow that person. Then again, perhaps that's the intent - if you like or RT someone's idea, that's a kind of stamp of approval. - Aaman (Clone of FF)

Hej hej! - Peter

The Scoble Pendulum.. How long till we go back to FOLLOW!! FOLLOW!!! FOLLOW!!!! ? :) - Adrian Scicluna

I did a purge on Facebook for the same reasons a few months ago. It's under 300 and it's people I actually care about. I've come "this close" to running a purge on Twitter but haven't yet. Maybe this will spark me to do it. I've kept FF tight from the beginning. - Rob Williams

moving from FB to FF ... fewer, longer, more meaningful threads. welcoming your follow. cheers - marc calamia

ok, you´re following me already :-) - Torsten Eckert

alright - follow me... - thx in advance Robert Scoble... - Nilesh

All that commenting in the past counts for nothing? - Kevin Gamble

Hey Robert... Great post... On FriendFeed, I increasingly put people without meaningful and valuable content on a separate feed that I rarely check... Its a more "sensible" way to unfollow, i think... I only unsubscribe if I get pissed at someone etc. I wish, FF gave users the option to only unsubscribe from comments and likes (but keep the main feed). This would be a good tool to control the noise... - Onur Kabadayi

I agree with Robert (duh!). I very briefly made the effort of checking out the new follows and deciding whether to follow back. I think once I hit a thousand I shifted to a model of occasionally saying, "If you want me to follow you, talk to me." Hit two thousand and quit saying anything or checking followers. I don't care if they follow me as long as they either say useful things like real people or don't talk at all. I've never autofollowed back. This strategy works for me. - Patricia F. Anderson

I have a large difference between people I follow (around 2000) and people who follow me (around 1800) - I choose people who are important sources of information. People choose me if they think I am an important source of information to them. I never thought it would have to be a one-to-one relationship as to who is useful to whom: some are informative, others are good listeners and learners. I learn from people I follow and I hope my followers learn from me. - Bora Zivkovic

I also think that those of us who follow larger numbers of people don't use the stream in the same way. It is more dipping in and out of the stream, trusting that the important stuff will be repeated enough to float to the top, engaging with conversations of the moment. I wrote a blogpost on this earlier this year: http://etechlib.wordpress.com/2009... - Patricia F. Anderson

Someone told me twitter can be separated into two types. (id say at least two) - Kay Proskin

Scoble, I am beginning to think you are a cult leader :). Look at all these comments! I am using FF more and more these days... Useful for eGuiders.com that's for sure. - Marc Ostrick

I'm not sure your following me. - Amit Morson

Hey Scobie :D Follow me ! - paniaguai

I like Robert. He was one of the first people I followed on Twitter and brought me to FF. But I don't understand why people are desperate to have him follow them. Status? Some kind of virtual autograph? - Tech Introvert

What the heck. Follow me if you like. I'll be as entertaining & informative as I can. - Aaron Schaub from iPod

Been considering doing the same. Your post just might be the flame that lights a fire you-know-where to get it done. - Kate

I only follow a few people and keep losing track so lord only knows how you managed to even begin to keep track of a conversation before friendfeed came along - Iain from BuddyFeed

Well done! Who need followers that aren't reading your tweets anyway. - Sean Rasmussen

I just want a toaster! - ZuDfunck

I'm considering doing same once I'm more confident in my use of FriendFeed. I RT'd this and it resonated with at least one of my followers. - Tony Hollingsworth

'Hand-crafted personal network' is the meme of the moment, and whilst I can see the workmanship, where's the value going to be for you, Robert, in following this rag-tag (no offence people :) ) of folks from a gazillion different verticals. (OK, so they're mostly life scientists). - Andrew Spong

I use to want to be Bob Dylan. Now I am not so sure. - ZuDfunck

um..... - Spencer

My take: you can't be an authentic, credible voice to your community if you let 'sex & dollars' spammers hang on to your coattails. Spam followers matter.... in a bad way. Allowing them to be associated with you diminishes your potential value to genuine followers. It's a pain. It takes time. It's worth doing. More on this, if interested: http://tr.im/vJwb - Andrew Spong

I'll have mine to go. - ZuDfunck

Hope to see more "old fashioned blogging", like it better than tweets. Tweets are bound to disappear into oblivion the moment they're posted. - Willem (@wim66) ☠

"Spam followers matter.... in a bad way." - I certainly agree with this. I block pornbots just as quickly as they follow me. I'm less vigilant about the commercial follows, but usually they go away by themselves after a while. - John Craft

You're already following me here (don't care about twitter tough), so i just hope you don't un-follow, even though you probably don't understand what i'm talking about most of the time, since it's in portuguese. - Diego Sana

So what happened to the advantages to following so many people you always talked about? - Bas

Thanks for connecting here, still learning all the advantages of FF - carece

@Andrew Regarding spam followers and the idea that allowing them to follow you somehow dilutes your credibility, I just have to disagree. To me that places the burden on the wrong person. I don't have time to waste pruning those who follow me, unless they are overtly annoying.My stream is public, they can follow me anyway. What matters to me is that the spammers leave me alone. If they don't, I block them. If they keep quiet, I don't care. - Patricia F. Anderson

What is important is not who follows me, but who *I* follow. - Patricia F. Anderson

Follow me if you want, but I gotta warn ya, it's scintillating stuff! - Pierce Presley

Funny my twitter feed is much noisier but I have been very selective on who I follow. I have tried to make the feed relevant and actionable. At times I post things that seem out of the norm on my twitter feed but that is mainly for the few people who follow me that don't get it but I am trying to keep up their interest level. I also control who follows me, yes this breaks the model but I think the follow everyone model was broken and reckless - Richard Gallo

Am I interesting? Dunno. I'm often controversial, tho. ;) BTW, we met in person at a Pittsburgh Blogfest, but I really don't expect you to remember that. - Eric Williams

Enjoyed the post. I just started Twitter a few days ago to get away from Facebook. I like friendfeed the best - can't wait until it becomes more mainstream. - Robby Parker

Awesome move. Consider that my comment please :) - Charlotte Barker

friendfeed is definitively more evolved that Twitter. Conversely, user bases of Twitter is still its real (and unique) point of strenght... - Marco Castellani

Don't want you to follow me (unless you find my stream of interest) but it's quite interesting the number of people that comment to get you to follow! - Ben Drury

Hey Robert! So, I would like to talk to you about a social media company I'm working with right now. They launched a few months ago and their trajectory and momentum is pretty amazing. Oh, and I started unfollowing the noise in my Twitter after I commented on your blog post. - Gregg Le Blanc

Great ideas. I've been selective (though it fluctuates) about following people/accounts on Twitter since I joined about 2 years ago. I can't take too much noise. - Joe Lance from twhirl

I'm asking the same thing Bas asked... what about your video on the benefits of following so many people? I took a stab at that method of madness by starting to follow all kinds of people, and following anyone that followed me... but I always felt like I was missing good content from good people because of all the "spam". I started to use TweetDeck to create groups/columns for... more... - Timothy Federwitz

@Patricia - reminds me that I should probably review all my twitter followers and thin things down. :) - JA Castillo

thanks - Keith

I like conversing with interesting people. Sometimes that means commenting to get followed, @cogiva. ;) - Eric Williams

Hi Scoble! - Pete Gilbert

I did almost the same thing - unfollowed about 1000 from my 1500, no attention is way better - Maarten den Braber

Couldn't agree more. It's about time we all grew up. BTW Don't follow me. :-) - Gee Ranasinha

Robert what's the deal with Twitter? - stockmanmarc

Your post makes good sense. I didn't auto-follow & still find folks to unfollow because their noise gets too loud. - Debra Ellis

Very clever. I imagine the signal to noise is sooooo much better. - Chris Brogan

I've been thinking about unfollowing a bunch twitter folks as well. I'll look at SocialToo again. My initial experience with SocialToo wasn't good. However, it was during their infancy. - Ron Hudson

I don't blame you at all. Leo was all over that yesterday. - Daniel B. Honigman

why would simply leaving a comment prompt you to follow me? - David Wescott

You're not going to change your mind and mass unfollow us are you? - walidmREALTOR

Sup! :-) - Jon Winters

I suspect it identifies you as a real person interested in dialog, David. - Eric Williams

Followers are currency and you have plenty to spend - Lee Odden

Bob, did you do anything on Twitter recently ? Did you massively refollow people ? Seems like you screwed up Twitter : down for a while... ;-) - Enikao

Follow me! @carloscomputers - carloscomputers

very cool timing with just before twitter goes down hard! well done Robert! @crbrowning - Colin

@davidorban - David Orban

I've followed you and have really enjoyed your posts. I think I would miss that - Tom

Good to hear that your experiment has stopped the spam @lindsaydavies - Lindsay Davies

ciao Robert! - alex

Your ego is amazing. You make it seem like it is a special deal to be followed by you. I'm glad there are many very bright, talented people here who follow others, regardless of class, education, social status and not based on some snobbish criteria. - RuthNH

DON'T follow me! I write in Italian :-) - Lorenzo Strambi

Here I be - Robert

Wow, this is a lot of comments. And kudos for following Followable people who have something interesting to contribute to your day. I'm glad you did it, because that means you'll find AND share more interesting things. This, in turn, makes you more followable too. Thanks for seeing the light, so to speak. - ax0n

You killed twitter. - Melissa Pierce

and now with twitter down, many will flock to here! - Mark V. Fusco

I love rob - Mark from iPhone

Did this take down Twitter this morning Robert? - frank barry

That must of taken a long time :-) I've always been a fan of twitter, but I must say they have struggled in the last few weeks. We are working with their API on a project and their seems to be an issue every other day that causes problems. Do they have what it takes? - Chris Nadeau

I follow under 200 people and it's great. I can't imagine 1k+ . I add about three or four a month. - Mike Janicke

I unfollow people when I find I ignore their tweets/updates. After reading your blog, I think we ALL need to be more judicious. - Janet Barker-Evans

Is this why Twitter is down? LOL! Can't check to see if you unfollowed me. Hope not. You, Shel Israel, and Jeremiah Owyang were some of the very first people I followed way back before Twitter even had 100,000 people on the service. -- It's been a fun ride but, of course, the spammers always show up to make things difficult. - Brenda Young

How do you really know if you should be following someone until you follow them for a while? Sometimes I don't start talking to someone until I see a common interest, then I tweet back and we start talking, but that could be months later. I don't follow everyone back, but I follow back those that interact. I will unfollow once I see that won't happen, or I don't like their tweets. - Nadine Gilden

Twitter is victime of it own success, they have to re learn how to scal better, but more important they have to learn to share better. - abdellah

looks like you'll need to follow at least 343 people LOL - Shari Weiss

Friendfeed takes over for twitter finally? - Thomas Resing

@Patricia I don't want potential followers to be put off by who is following me. I wouldn't want them to think I care more about have n+1 followers than I do about what they're going to see if they review who I've allowed to follow me. Not to cull spammers suggests I care more about my experience than theirs. To a great extent, the quality of their experience will determine the quality... more... - Andrew Spong

1600 ... isn't that a big number too? It could be you'll think again before you follow every one here :) - Mario Gastaldi

Hi... do I get a follow? - Jason Mayoff

If you are already following me. Will you double follow me? :) - Brady

Hi Robert!! :) - Zaneology from Nambu

Still waiting for my Building 43 t-shirt. Not that I'm bitter or anything. ;-) - Donna Tuttle

Be sure to come by Dallas when you swing through Texas! - Zaneology from Nambu

Respect your opinion Robert but we'll have to agree to disagree. Yes I despise all the FakePornSpamBots who follow me. I block as many as I can, but can't keep up. Our views differ regarding what is important to SEE! I treasure home Home stream! I read it, refresh, read, refresh and in minutes I have the pulse of the world... at least MY world! EVERYONE has something of value to share at some point. If I UNfollow tens of thousands, I will miss so much worthy of consideration. - Arleen Anderson

Just another reason why it's good to diversify, I can still read your posts here. :) - Luis Sandoval

Cheers! - Jeff Wiant

Funny. I was catching up on news on Friendfeed for some odd reason. Great post; plenty for new and long-time users alike to consider there. - Alex Howard

I'm still waiting for the ultimate tool to manage my followings - I can only manage to keep up with about 1/3 of those following me. I'd love to see something that can tell me what friends of mine also follow those that I am or those that are following me. Maybe it's out there and I missed it? - TheDiva Rockin

Anyone interested in assessing the quality of their followers should check http://tweetblocker.com. It's pretty chastening. I aim to improve on my C rating. http://www.buzzom.com is a fun, fast way of decoupling yourself from non-reciprocal followers. You can select individuals to purge, or flush 50 random non-reciprocal followers at a time. - Andrew Spong

Robert, your timing could not be better. ;-) - Dave Martin

Great post, with perfect timing! Dang it, Dave Martin just took it off my lips. - Vadim Lavrusik

I hereby rename this comment thread neoTwitter <waves at followers> - Andrew Spong

/me waves - Kevin Johnson from iPhone

Awww, you gotta admit, saturation, the level of influence that you have, because of your high follower, count, is a tool of mass destruction. Seriously, did you think if you recommend an online service that people would not try it out? Was this an asassination attempt - Peter Murphy

I'm glad i'm not the only one who misses /me actions from IRC, Kevin. ;) - Eric Williams

With today's Twitter outage your timing is pretty stinking good, Robert. :) - Chris Cree

Now to get the rest of the world to follow that same logic when it comes to follow/unfollow! I only started being more selective as Twitter (and everyone else) started getting aggressive with spammers or anyone that even remotely did a single spammy tweet. Now if only there were the same contact management tools available for the other social networks as with Twitter. No matter what though, I'll continue updating my status when I eat a peanut butter sandwich! (With Fluff of course!). - Paul Monaco

Twitter couldn't handle the mass unfollow load, blew up... - manielse (Mark Nielsen)

I've been followed by Robert Scoble :-) - David Finch

Follow iPolitics - Jacob Kobi Gamliel

Now I think that it is time to think about a way to make money using Twitter. - abdellah

@Mark, +1. When in doubt, the default delegation of blame goes to Robert. - Dave Martin

what is critical mass for twitter? Too few and nobody interacts, Too many and spam bots overwhelm, Is it 1K or 2K needed to get a real experience? - WarLord

Hmm can you unsubscribe from "comment notification via e-mail" in FF on a *specific* topic? This one :-) - Patrick Mackaaij

Of course I thonk it is a different experience if you hand follow reading each bio from the beginning then these mass purges are unnecessary - WarLord

I thought you already followed me. lol - Duane-PreppyDude

Not sure if you do, but here I am... - Aron Michalski

I am intrigued how RT addict will RT now?!! (ps: FF please don't post this to my twitter) - abdellah

I have been keeping my twitter account private a majority of the time lately b/c I am going through a divorce, but I really kinda like it. Have been reducing followers as well as the number I follow. - Jackson Miller

You should follow me here in FF and on Twitter too! - Karthi

hopefully most of us have proven our worth beyond commenting on this single thread - andy brudtkuhl

I like the way you operate, Scoble. Thanks in advance for the follow! - Dr. Frank Ramblings, Ph.D

Nice way of doing it... - Charles

No need to follow me unless you are actually going to engage in conversation with me. - Jeff Hurt

If you're already following and we comment, will you unfollow? *wink Hoping all is well your way! - Dayngr

4&5 are my favorite! Those are big reasons I decide to follow someone too. - Kelly Mitton

I'm lucky. Have never had Twitter spam. But then again I'm no Scoble either :) - Lori Reed

I am the peanut butter eating bot - Benjamin Spector

If you are already following me on ff does that mean I get a cookie or something? ;-) - Tomy Thomson

I'll add my name to the list. I came back to FF after the Twitter DoS outage. Maybe Scoble broke Twitter by all his unfollowing. He was the "glue" holding Twitter together. :-) - Tom Newman

Robert: Here's the bit you missed off the end of your title here: .... and put them in that group I don't read :-) - Jim Connolly

Hi Robert, greetings from germany. - Flynn (Michael A. Volz)

add me for your social media and the practice of law news! - Rex Gradeless

Great post. I'm sure that some people might say that this kind of mass unfollowing will hurt Twitter, but I think it's just the opposite. Users who are following people they have no interest in just to pad their own numbers are diminishing the meaning of "following." - Mark Denton

@Ulrichmargarita - Ulrichmargarita

To stave off being unfollowed we need to comment here ya say? - Jason

you are already following me here... perhaps you'll consider re-following me on twitter too - tinym dot com

I don't know how you ever did it the other way. I am not in the tech world near as much as I used to be, which wasn't a whole lot. I just followed some random people I saw on SMugMug-related people on here when I started. You were one of them. I had no idea who you were (and still don't :-), but you talked about Twitter a lot too, which got me on there as well. Both services have really... more... - James Schipper

Follow away! - Ferdinand Perez

ok 400 jackpot - abdellah

Quality over quantity in all things, including (perhaps especially) Twitter. Loved your friending methodology -- those are the same rules I've applied since being on Twitter. Posted them onto Posterous to share the love with credit to you: http://lorilaurentsmith.posterous.com/ - Lori Laurent Smith

it's not about unfollowing, it's about filtering... - Barak Hachamov

I started out following everyone on Twitter.Then I got wise. When someone's stream becomes more noise than signal, that's when I consider unfollowing. I realize that threshhold is different for everyone, but I'll take "what I had for lunch" over a dozen bogus "marketing tips" any day. - Julie Barrett from twhirl

Well, I am trying to use FriendFeed more after watching Scoble's video on all those monitors he had up. I'm not a big consumer of information and don't own a TV but this online social stuff has been a perfect fit into my life because I can connect with people who are fountains of knowledge on a specific subject or are "human mashups". I like both! - Adria Richards

Why !? - Bertrand Soulier from iPhone

I've been reading al of this unfollow bits, and this point of yours: - Donna

Hey, I think that today you might make your point about FriendFeed being more interesting than Twitter. Hope you are well. Talked with @fransteps this morning and she is excited to work with you at Rackspace. - Kami Huyse

hi - George Desmyter

I would appreciate the follow, thanks! - Jeff Reisdorfer

I've been reading all of this un-follow posts lately, and this point of yours in WHY you unfollowed: "#2 Because I personally care about everyone I am following their noise level is a LOT lower. ." Is exactly what I do. And now I am starting to understand Friendfeed more. and using posterous to do aggregate posts. So is this overload making more people sit up and think first? I think so. At least the intelligent ones. - Donna

I love you Scoble! ;) - Carol Levesque

with all due sycophantism :) - jeff hammond

This is a great move, Robert. It's also a lot more human...I was almost convinced that you were the only person who could actually drink from the fire hose without choking. - Steffan Antonas

That sounds fair. After this morning, I've renewed my love for FriendFeed and Tweetworks. Until the next DDos attacks, of course. I will miss the fake porn stars, but I did when I moved from L.A. - Scott Pierce

Steffan; I agree...there is no way anyone else could do what Robert S. does. It's good to see him become human. - Robert Jones

This has been my problem for about the past six months. I routinely go in and unfollow, get the noise level down to where I want it, and then end up following back a bunch of new people, some of whom I'm incredibly grateful to get to know. When I had track, it was a whole lot easier to manage the stream, but I suspect even that tool would now be out of hand. I have a set of rules for... more... - Karoli

hee hee. i am commenting not so much to beg your follow but what a clever pitch:) - Tresha Thorsen

Robert - I have not read all 416 comments so if this was asked and you answered forgive me. What was the all of a sudden revelation that caused you to reverse stance on Twitter Followers? - Jeff Vreeland

It's difficult to maintain and filter a list on all the social networking sites. I cannot even imagine maintaining the kinds of lists you must deal with, Robert. - Jeremy Brooks

Dude, you broke Twitter! When you unfollowed all of your 100,000 the other day you pulled the rug right out from under it, so it fell down and now it can't reach its beer. :-) - Robert Morrison

Actually I felt rather sad being fav'ed by you on FriendFeed then dumped.. But again. I get more from you from FriendFeed, so oh well, stop talking about Following and Get on more with Tech! :P - Du Senyao Peter

Me Me! lol! - Bill McGehee

i like the idea of importing favorite tweets into friendfeed. i haven't used that favorite feature much because i haven't seen any real use in it. thanks! - Jonathan Blundell

When twitter is down I always wish I could tweet: checkout friendfeed. Nevertheless, how will following folk that leave a message here really improve the quality of your input? While I don't want to judge many of the fine folk on this thread, are they all that interesting? In other words, isn't this the start of the same problem you had on Twitter... - Jon Mountjoy

what like here? this is a comment :) - michelle harris

Barak - isn't filtering just unfollowing while pretending you're still following? ;) - Matthew Blaisdell

Well to bounce back on your Twitter is down comment I think it is time to watch this video again http://www.youtube.com/watch... Hilarious! - 77Agency

Robert, I'm glad you decided to stop auto-follow (finally). :) - Veronica Sopher

I'm in - Jeroen Sangers from Nambu

works for mw - Brendan Jackson from twhirl

Robert, but why clutter your FriendFeed stream? This comment is not to get you to courtesy follow me on FriendFeed, think you've established you've changed your thinking. :) - L.P. NEENZ FALEAFINE

OK, I have enough people to follow so I will close the comments on this thread. Thank you everyone, I will try to get to everyone today. - Robert Scoble

Mark Jaquith

Words you probably pronounce incorrectly - http://txfx.net/2009...

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Add "forte" to the list - Kyle Gentry

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You really need to add "fillet" to the list. - Jimminy

I know how to pronounce it, but I always mispronounce it the first time I say it: herculean. Mental block. - Ayşe E.

Add "penne" - Most people order penis. - Richard Chen

How about "lie-berry" for library. I've been hearing "prolly" for probably a lot lately. - April Buchheit

I know one for sure... "incorrectly".... (sorry) - James Macgill

Mmmm bruschetta is bruschetta (without an Y inside) Wanna an mp3 in italian language?:-) - Roberto Scano

I used to say "brooshetta" until I heard how people pronounce it in Italy ("broosketta"). - April Buchheit

"Chaise longue" (it's "longue," not "lounge") - CDG Interactive

@CDG: that one drives me crazy. And it's ~"shez", not "chayz". - Joel Webber

EricaJoy

Former landlord is on crack, I think. Fairly certain I'm not getting my deposit back. Warning, never rent a place sight unseen. EVER.

July 29 from Twitter - Comment - Like - Share

Especially if your landlord is someone residing in Africa that can't meet you in person, yet asks you to make a sizable deposit via Western Union :P - Adam Lasnik

have you paid the last weeks rent? if you can withhold your last payment.... - Lee

Our last landlord (ever?) Charged us for having reversed some door knobs, wtf why would anyone do that, and who would care, we never noticed the entire time we were there. - James Macgill from Android

Robert Scoble

Facebook? Up 10%. Twitter? Up 16%. FriendFeed? Flat - http://scobleizer.com/2009...

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My analysis of where FriendFeed has gone wrong. Keep in mind that FriendFeed is growing faster than many blogs are, and is outpacing TechMeme, for instance. - Robert Scoble

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FF needs Shaq. - mtlb

yup, they need celebrities. bring them oprah! - Alex

FF is an incubator for Facebook - Peter Warnock

Someone said they can't believe FriendFeed isn't gaining momentum. It is, but not at the same rate Facebook and Twitter are. - Robert Scoble

I don't think FriendFeed can compete with Facebook. I don't think it should, they're different tools. - Glenn Slaven

friendfeed is not so easy for most people to "use" or view, I think twitter is the easiest, facebook is good for people who like it.. I 'use" friendfeed to post things that go to twitter and facebook but I do not come here a lot to read posts. After reading a page of posts and comments I have had enough, it is like reading 15+ blogs with comments, a little too bulky? - David Gross

8-10% of ALL techmeme posts are from TechCrunch why such a high rate? - Benjamin Taylor

Why compare? I like FF for what it is. I don't want it to be in the same convo as Twitter and FB. It has nicely defined user base, a distinct design and functionality and has 2 great uses: conversation and self-aggregation - Dave Ferrick

"The search industry has a dirty secret: 99% of people don’t click on advanced search, yet FriendFeed requires you to click on that button to use it in any useful way." You're right, but I find it interesting that FriendFeed's advanced search is the only advanced search I use. Maybe FriendFeed is a tool for the more advanced social networkers? Maybe it's not for everyone. - Kevin Gamble

FF needs SMS before it gets Shaq - Jesse Stay

I think FF is hesitant to make it a full-blown Twitter client because that would import all the spam. - Peter Warnock

In terms of FriendFeed it's a fantastic tool for setting up a "lifestream" feed to your blog. really simple way to own your social media without plugins - Benjamin Taylor

do they have an iPhone app ? are they "mobile" ? - Alex

Robert, FriendFeed will catch on...in 2010 - Benjamin Taylor

Compete can't measure everything. For example, they think fftogo.com had 320 visits last month. - Bruce Lewis

They can just make a really good FriendFeed client. What we are doing right now is the hidden power of FriendFeed. Allowing people to continue the conversation beyond the original post. - Dave Mora

@Jesse Isn't twitter the SMS input? - Peter Warnock

I find this a hilarious slap in the face for you Scoble, but honestly, FriendFeed does not have the simplicity of Twitter to be quite honest, and I have a much higher chance of using Twitter with a third party app than this. Still, it's all about if you're friends or people you want to watch are on here, and for me, they aren't, - Chris

Seconding alex's question. I would use a FF iPhone app in a heartbeat - Tristan Walker from iPhone

I mainly use friendfeed to post to it for people who like to read (bookmarklet and other stuff) and so friendfeed can post to twitter and facebook. I would like if it posted to myspace too :o) - David Gross

Dave has a great point, it's FF provides a deeper layer of the conversation - Benjamin Taylor

Robert, the list is backwards... it should be API, Mobile, monetization, etc.. - Alberto Saavedra

I can believe it. For the average joe twitter is easy and straightforward to get started. FF, not so much. You have a lot of credentials to input for your various services and the UI is like a corn maze even to some of my more techie friends. Also, having an established crowed never hurt. I appreciate FF and really see it's power, but most people do not and aren't willing to learn. - John Reynolds

They need SMS before an iPhone app - most of the nation still does not have internet on their cell phone - Jesse Stay

Alberto: it's 4 a.m. here in London and the list is in no particular order, just straight off the top of my head. - Robert Scoble

friendfeed is NOT mobile unless you are on an iphone.. - David Gross

FF tripped these past two months because of a lack of iphone apps, lack of a good SUL, lack of a good intro for new members, lack of comments happening for new members. While FF has moved forward on some fronts - they still need better integration into blogs then we'll see a better uptake. - LPH™ and his dog P™

John, exactly! The only thing I truly use this for is the occasional conversation bit and tying last.fm to my Twitter account. - Chris

SMS can't be the answer right away, particularly when the major value add for FF is in the threaded conversation. - Tristan Walker from iPhone

David, even on an iphone, FF trips - LPH™ and his dog P™

jesse: SMS=money. plus, how effective do you think FF could be via sms? - John Reynolds

Tristan - FriendFeed will never go to the masses if they don't have SMS support - Jesse Stay

even if we forget the thought of monetization - my idea about creating a whitelabel ff to replace forums would drastically increase the usage and the understanding of the service - http://www.centernetworks.com/friendf... - ff has to get out from under the early adopter rock - without going down the exact same path as twitter - my suggestion does exactly that. - Allen Stern

@LPH o rly? so it is not so easy to make it mobile.. - David Gross

John, as effective as Twitter. Most remote people can't access it via the internet, but they can via SMS. Twitter is making SMS work - FriendFeed can as well. - Jesse Stay

I agree Jesse, but what does that product look like? How does one keep up with the 'conversation' and stay relevant - Tristan Walker from iPhone

Tristan, the same way they're doing the IM link above - Jesse Stay

i disagree with the sms talk - all it would do is help the current users use it more - that's worthless for ff now - sorry jesse don't hate me :) - Allen Stern

sms would not work, even email does not work and I get that on my phone.. there is too much of it.. - David Gross

Allen, I think it would get new users. Many users use Twitter mostly through SMS - it's what made Twitter appealing for me. It's why I used Twitter in South Dakota and Minnesota and Wyoming and not FriendFeed. - Jesse Stay

SMS is not the future people. The future lies in ubiquitous data connectivity from all mobile devices with a growing amount of the market shifting towards more flexible touch screen interfaces and the iphone the leader of that market, the iphone is a perfect platform to put focus. - John Reynolds

I like what Posterous is doing in terms of post methods - Benjamin Taylor

Twitter hit a major booster rocket with the Hudson and iran and prop 8 - coupled with CNN shitting the bed. Now that dictators know about twitter, they're derailing it ahead of incursions. We've not heard thing 1 out of china on the uiger uprising. Never tracked. Ff should fill that gap. We need to strat crawling the boards for blow by blow uigerstan massacre stories. Boom, ff is the bees knees - Matthew DeVries from fftogo

It's just not inviting. A fraction too complicated. I signed up but really haven't used it since but I'm active on twitter because it's simple and I can do it with 1% of my brain. FF doesn't give me that and yet I know why it is technically a 'better' more advanced system than Twitter - philhenley

I have to clean up my gmail before I go mobile because on my phone this conversation will be multiple messages even though in gmail it is one conversation lol - David Gross

jesse - as robert noted - most people using twitter have no reason to be on ff - my sister is one of them - she has no need to aggregate a bunch of services - so sms won't "move" or "add" new users from twitter. my discussion board idea would. - Allen Stern

The current FriendFeed audience is anti-SMS though. You guys will never be for it, but mark my words - the audience FriendFeed does want that will bring in the masses will come when they enable SMS - Jesse Stay

David - the iphone apps are not quite good enough and the mobile interface on the iphone is worthless if the subscriptions are too high. - LPH™ and his dog P™

Allen, FriendFeed needs a simpler layer, and I think SMS is part of that. People don't have to use the whole thing, or even know it exists. They need a simple way to post statuses from anywhere they belong. So long as we're comparing them to Twitter, they have to do what Twitter does. Otherwise, why are we comparing them to Twitter at all? - Jesse Stay

allen, I am on twitter and I love FF, I read blogs in google reader and any blog I share is posted to twitter through ff, I can favorite a youtube video from their mobile site and it is also posted on twitter through ff - David Gross

Frankly, Jesse, the last thing I want is my phone beeping at me 100 times a minute. Do you realize how many SMS messages you would get from just THIS entry? - Tommy Keene

Jesse I'm a big big fan of SMS..I use it for Twitter all the time...but I could not imagine using SMS for a conversation like this. Sms does the job when it comes to status updates and notifications. No brainer - Tristan Walker from iPhone

In terms of the gains at twitter and Facebook, flat isn't bad. Although a few percentage points would have been nice. - Michael Fidler

and actually, just making those links on the right anything but bog standard would really help FF look less like a beta product. It always feels to me like it's half finished - philhenley

Tommy, that's what preferences and options are for - Jesse Stay

Friendfeed missed the 'boom' that Iran and MJ brought to twitter and FB. The only rason I can think of it, it was easier for people to join convos about those topics in twitter and fb than 'find' them in friendfeed. FF is still growing so nothing to be worried about. it will grow in its own pace as it has been doing. - Freddie Benjamin

jesse - come to nyc - we will go to times square and ask how many people use sms or want to signup for ff to handle their sms and aggregate all their social services - you can even wear your social median shirt! - Allen Stern

Tommy, and frankly, the power of Twitter SMS aren't the status updates I receive - it's the ability to post SMS updates - Jesse Stay

My bad Robert, thought the numbers were priority. Jesse, unfortunately FriendFeed currently is perceived as a web app while twitter is kind of device agnostic - Alberto Saavedra

I don't want to micro-manage my 100s of subscriptions - Tommy Keene

I think Twitter and FriendFeed should just join forces and create a super social site: Fritter! - Shawn Hickman

Allen, only if you come to South Dakota and Wyoming and Minnesota with me to ask the same questions - Jesse Stay

Comment Control.. Cleaner interface (I never liked the redesign) ... and Media coverage :) - Tim Hoeck

Alberto, and that is unfortunate - it's why, so long as we're comparing it to Twitter, it will never have the numbers Twitter has - Jesse Stay

Jesse, so then post to twitter. And it gets put into your ff automatically. What's the problem? - Tommy Keene

jesse: ill mark your words, but i think they are wrong. the audience they want now, is anyone who will come. twitter is already going to get those people due to its popularity and simplicity. In a few years the majority of the audience will have moved to smart phones with broadband connections and advanced touch UI's. There needs to be an iphone app. NOW. - John Reynolds

Tommy, the problem is Twitter still gets that traffic - Jesse Stay

as I watch this thread I wonder.. why can't I "pop-out" a thread and watch it, like a chat room.. hard to follow a conversation.. - Tim Hoeck

tim - if you click on the time, you get a dedicated page - but i agree with you - a "control center" would be nice - Allen Stern

how about a mobile website before you make iphone app? is it so hard to make Like and Comment links that work in Opera Mobile or IE Mobile? - David Gross

Can anyone imagine trying to take part in this conversation effectively via SMS? I can't. This much data needs a well designed UI and smart, easy to use filtering and notification tools. - John Reynolds

It was SMS that enabled me to be the first report on the GreenPeace protest at Mount Rushmore - there was no internet there. It is those interesting Tweets that make Twitter interesting and appealing. It's the information, real-time content, and capability to post anywhere, any time that makes Twitter appealing. I can't necessarily do that everywhere with FriendFeed. It will never compete with Twitter in that regard. - Jesse Stay

Information is flowing away and not stocked. This is the main problem. Solution is in applications as you said. Friendfeed should create a great developer community to spread their APIs. They need an another funding for developer contests. Or just one acquiring may solve this motivation problem of developers, like Twitter's Summize sourcing. - Erhan Erdogan

sms wont get new users. - Allen Stern

Allen, prove it - Jesse Stay

I like Allen's white label idea. - Michael Fidler

ahh.. thanks Allen.. guess that is one of those "usability" things :) - Tim Hoeck

I would not use ff in sms.. too many messages to go through, I would be way behind on my reading, it would be worse than my email.. - David Gross

thanks michael - i truly believe that it would open ff past the geekcore that it sits with now - sadly none of ff management has ever replied or commented on any of my ideas for them - Allen Stern

tim - i only learned that last week - i agree why there isnt a button is beyond me - Allen Stern

(Just got done reading the article and I can come right to the sidebar to comment on it. I love that.) I'm glad the growth is slow. Maybe the FriendFeed team isn't, but I love hanging out here and I don't think it would be the same if it was being hyped up as much as other services. - Mitch

And now - we can see the next challenge faced by FF. The majority of FF entries have a short life - the flip of the page - unless others see the thread and "like" or comment. If the entry is missed then there is no power to the entry (and no immediate gratification for the person). Next, there are multiple entries of the same topics. On Twitter, this is partially solved by retweets - but "top" FFeeders don't really re-share other people's entries - thus "killing off the young." - LPH™ and his dog P™

Keep in mind my comments are only in regards to FriendFeed being able to "compete" with Twitter. Otherwise Twitter is not competition. FriendFeed needs to figure out who they are and who they are competing with. I have no clue based on what you guys are saying. - Jesse Stay

There are other uses for FF we for example are using it as CRM with the secret mail it work perfectly ,as well I recommended some time ago to let other sites when they register their users to make an automatic parallel user here in FF ,for example a newspaper that has his social activity can make all his users FF users ,its a small API but an important one - Johni Fisher

Twitter is popular because, honestly, most people only want to hear themselves speak, and don't care that much about what everyone else thinks. However, there will always be those of us who like reading what other people think. - Curt

agree jesse - i dont think they know who they are yet either - i'd like to see them move AWAY from twitter comparisons as it's just not a battle worth fighting at this time. it's time for ff to get some marketing staff - Allen Stern

exactly curt - it's about people thinking they are a celeb. - Allen Stern

I do not know how many people actually have the time for all this anyway, I been watching this conversation for a bit but it is past bedtime.. good night everybody :o) - David Gross

take the experience out of the browser. i think a robust desktop app would gain FF a few more super dorky users, but wouldn't help them grow at the rate facebook and twitter are. - Jim Halligan @jim

Jesse: Friendfeed will compete with Google Wave or Google Search. Not Twitter or Facebook. - Erhan Erdogan

Allen, agreed as well - so long as they want to be Twitter they need SMS. If they don't want to be Twitter they need to distinguish exactly what they are. No one knows right now. - Jesse Stay

Twitter has won their territory, FriendFeed needs to NOT be twitter, and find their "zone". - Tim Hoeck

Basically friendfeed has built an incredible communications platform that can be utilized in many different environments. The corporate market holds huge potential. White labeling friendfeed just makes sense. - Michael Fidler

And now another challenge to FF is shown in these comments. People start talking to each other - and when not noticed they either keep trying to "join" the conversation or just remove themselves from the conversation. Finally, someone who just discovers this is NOT going to be interested in reading everyone's comments - thus lowering a person's interest. - LPH™ and his dog P™

Erhan which one - those are two entirely different products right now. - Jesse Stay

Does FF have any recmmendation systems? With conversations like this I'd imagine that to be a killer opportunity - Tristan Walker from iPhone

If they want to be search, search needs to be front and center, like Google - Jesse Stay

i have to go to sleep im sorry but i still don't think sms will change that graph that thomas hawk posted. and not to harp on my idea but if they did start with the forum idea - think about how massive their real-time search index would be.... ponder that one - too many companies forget how much more is out there... it makes me very frustrated - ok be well everyone - Allen Stern

If they want to be like Google Wave, the private messaging has to be front and center, and they need to be more open - Jesse Stay

"real time" overload this thread is a prime example - Benjamin Taylor

It's just like a chat room - Benjamin Taylor

I just read Scobleizer's blog post. What's this about Facebook cloning FriendFeed? Did Facebook enhance "Like" to where I see non-friends' items on Facebook that my friends Like? Does Facebook have "Hide other items like this one" now? Last I saw, Facebook only had flimsy imitations of FriendFeed's functionality. - Bruce Lewis

except, the UI is not like a chat room... hard to follow. - Tim Hoeck

LPH, exactly right about the size. You can't have a conversation with a zillion people at once. Smaller groups are more effective, and that's why Facebook is popular, you control who you talk to... - Curt

Jesse: This data will be valuable than Google's crawled index. They must use this value. But I ve no idea which one they choose. - Erhan Erdogan

Allen there are so many more people that can post content to FriendFeed (vs the other Social Networks in the graph) once they open up SMS. Much more content will go directly to FriendFeed, and not their "competition" (if that graph is really who they're trying to compete with - I don't think it is) - Jesse Stay

But you can update ff with text messages I thought. By updating twitter and feeding twitter. By updating fb and feeding fb. By updating wordpress and feeding wordpress. I thought that is what made ff powerful. Ff's original sin was obscuring and hiding the fact that it's made of feeds. Favicons for the fed services would help that. - Matthew DeVries from fftogo

Content *can* already go from SMS to FF... through Twitter.. I don't see the point. - Tim Hoeck

LPH, Curt: isn't that exactly what Google Wave will do? Have the ability to branch off? - Jim Halligan @jim

Benjamin: It's really hard to find the "comment" link when talking like in mIRC. : ) What is the problem. A "comment" link in the last comment's right may be useful. - Erhan Erdogan

just give us a good old fashion frame so we can scroll :) - Tim Hoeck

What brought people to Twitter were the "tornado" and "earthquake" and "fire" posts. It made Twitter interesting and brought even more people to Twitter. The iPhone wasn't out then - how do you think people were posting those emergency Tweets at that time (and even now)? The media caught that and before we knew it even Oprah was talking about it. SMS is the root of what has made Twitter successful, even if the majority of users don't use it all the time. The "interesting" Tweets all come from SMS. - Jesse Stay

Perhaps every Friendfeed fan should take it upon themselves to introduce one new person to it. #Mentor - David Damore

age sex location? - Erhan Erdogan

nooooooo.... - Tim Hoeck

23 m istanbul :D HAHA good nights! ; ) - Erhan Erdogan

Bruce I think that FaceBook has other bug as well ,when you send a request to B a friend with someone even with out his approval you are getting at your wall his posts or part of them for sure - Johni Fisher

this is what i mean by taking the experience out of the browser. at least for me, chrome cannot handle this thread right now. - Jim Halligan @jim

Not being supported by developers is a big downside for friendfeed, The problem is there is little room for a ff client to add value like they do for twitter. - Alistair (alpinefolk)

Twitter growth = bots, spammers. - Mo Kargas

Facebook is confusing to me.. too much going on in their UI. Twitter is ridiculous to carry on a conversation. FF is for me. Just clean up the UI, and make things easier to manage. And word to the wise.. when I start getting "Which character from HBO's True Blood are you?" requests, I'm outta here! - Tim Hoeck

What's really interesting is that these 3 products are entirely different products that I think should be competing on entirely different turfs. The blogosphere for some reason wants them all to compete. - Jesse Stay

Forums, IRC, and Newsgroups all co-existed (and still do).. what's the difference? They all have their niche. - Tim Hoeck

I am learning about Friendfeed now, but feel Twitter has elements of Google, linkedin and real time convos, that Friendfeed does not make as easy or intuitive. But friendfeed offers full convo tracking. To me, it seems like merger mania on the horizon. Question: Who buys who? - Alan W Silberberg

FriendFeed vs. Google Wave? - Jim Halligan @jim

like Robert said in his blog, friendfeed is newer than either fb or twitter and is in similar place as when they were same age.. to me it seems like friendfeed can be like twitter when nobody comments or the page is full of tweets or it can look more like facebook when people post pictures and stories and leave comments.. It is like a mesh of facebook without the nasty apps and twitter... more... - David Gross

Frankly, I'd love to see one company own all three - I think it would make a really valuable product, and I think all 3 would still co-exist - Jesse Stay

Any "popular" alternative to Friedfeed? - People just don't get it. ( I use it ) - FranK

Ff does need a better mobile app. However there is no reason for it to compete with Twitter, they have different uses - Kim Landwehr from iPhone

This thread has me excited for the embargoed story Scoblizer dropped hints about. I think this is the typical right before big story provacative thread that robert starts, which the embargo'd announcement answers the question of. - Matthew DeVries from fftogo

Jesse, I think that sounds good, all 3 together in harmony.. and I have introduced my twitter and facebook friends to http://ff.im/1hqgl :o) #hive - David Gross

Not 100% off topic since it was mentioned can someone tell me why 8-10% of ALL posts on Techmeme are from TechCrunch? - Benjamin Taylor

Benjamin, others have their theories, but my view: TechCrunch also breaks 8-10% (or more) of all tech news stories. They're simply the first to the stories. - Jesse Stay

Benjamin: TechCrunch covers more tech industry news and gets linked to by more influential bloggers than any other site. Before TechCrunch deleted its account here, it was my #1 most "liked" FriendFeed account, too. - Robert Scoble

FranK: Facebook is the popular alternative to FriendFeed. - Robert Scoble

Robert, I think it's a different tool than FriendFeed. It's more for managing relationships. FriendFeed is more about information and aggregation. - Jesse Stay

Robert, I like it too, it's impressive based on the list of tech blogs/sites http://www.techmeme.com/lb - Benjamin Taylor

Yes Jesse, the 3 are entirely different and FF's perceived focus is realtime conversations but the service is not ready to scale (the value) yet, this conversation is an example... everyone should have the ability to create different threads in their own view and aggregate them (personalize) as preferred. But web development is not there yet, what FriendFeed needs is more developers excited. - Alberto Saavedra

Less is more. FF seems to be too much for the average non-techy user. Twitter is about as basic as you can get. Although ff is a great app, I find myself here rarely. - Tomy Thomson

Does anyone have an opinion on how FriendFeed might deal with Google Wave as a competitor? I see these two services being very similar, closer than Twitter & FF. Robert, I see how you use FF bring people from Twitter over here to discuss topics. Do you see yourself using Wave in a similar fashion, and what do you think the adoption rate will be like? - Jim Halligan @jim

Jim, I have not even had a chance to see what google wave is all about, just waiting for them to spring it on me.. - David Gross from email

Jim: I'm with David. Don't know enough yet about Wave. When they get it to me we'll check it out quickly. - Robert Scoble

wave might be a good thing, I DO use gmail.. maybe google will buy friendfeed? lol - David Gross from email

Robert, if you ever want to try it I have a test account I can let you play with any time. - Jesse Stay

Wave is more a competition with Gmail than it is FriendFeed, unless there's something they have yet to release or announce that utilizes the Wave protocol - Jesse Stay

Wave is a technology. If it's good, FriendFeed will use it, possibly better than anyone else does. - Bruce Lewis

Thanks. I believe that if they do end up competing, as much as I love FriendFeed- I think they might be in trouble because Google will be able to back the real-time search technology and they may also have a way to monetize the Waves from day one. - Jim Halligan @jim

Bruce: Very good point. - Jim Halligan @jim

Jim, I think Google would be better off just buying FriendFeed and integrating the Google technology with what FriendFeed already has. I think Paul and crew have carefully poised themselves this way. - Jesse Stay

Jesse, do you think the former googlers want to be acquired by Google? Paul B has talked about wanting to structure a company in a new, more sustainable way. Would he be happy back in Google's structure again? - Bruce Lewis

Bruce, I don't know Paul, but I'm willing to bet if the offer was right he wouldn't turn Google down. - Jesse Stay

Another option would be to sell to Microsoft or Yahoo, of course. - Jesse Stay

Jesse: Paul wouldn't sell. Doesn't need to. And if he did the offer would be so wacky and based on the numbers FriendFeed isn't going to get a wacky bid this year. - Robert Scoble

FB should pay FF to be an incubator, like Fedora and Redhat Enterprise. - Peter Warnock

I'm sticking to my guns on this one. I think they'll sell this year or next. - Jesse Stay

Anyways, back to vacation. :-) - Jesse Stay

Jesse, only 5 days to the Boston FriendFeed meetup! http://friendfeed.com/massach... - Bruce Lewis

I did see a feature in Google wave which might help here. They have a real-time grammar/spelling correction system, which was included from the start. It was included to to make the platform as comfortable to use as possible hopefully to appeal to a larger audience. Some people type slow or make grammatical mistakes; I'm the king of them. Personally, I would love anything that would help in this area. - Michael Fidler

Bruce, I'm looking forward to it! - Jesse Stay

I don't use FriendFeed as much as I probably should. And where is its RSS feed? - Sandra Large

Sandra - Check the bottom of the page. - Mitch

Jessie, I could completely see Google buying friendfeed. It seems to me that's been a possible exit stategy from the start. - Michael Fidler

Sounds like a wild prediction Michael, or are there some clues/hints that I'm oblivious to? - Mitch

Mitch, it's total conjecture on my part. It's just a theory, nothing more. I can see it as an exit strategy, but whether it was preconceived is nothing more than speculation. There isn't any bad blood between them that you know of, is there? - Michael Fidler

Curt's comment above: "Twitter is popular because, honestly, most people only want to hear themselves speak..." Good point. Of course there's a degree of that everywhere including FF, but the inherent length limit on a twitter is enough insulation for most users that, when faced with a call to debate, are comfortable with 1) Shooting out a curt, cryptic one-liner or 2) Not responding at all. The rich communication environment on FriendFeed makes not backing up what you bring to the party glaringly obvious. - Micah Wittman

Allen, your whitebox idea deserves more consideration, discussion and air time than it's currently getting. I would love to see forum software replaced or morphed by the power of the FF technology. I think one hesitation (at least for now) may be the worry of siphoning off too many staff resources to deal with the hosting/dev infrastructure + licensing deal issues that go with the territory. Regardless, we need more analysis on this, people! - Micah Wittman

I had no clue what I was signing up for when I signed up for friend feed. I thought it was just another social networking platform (e.g. same as facebook / twitter). It needs to be more obvious that friend feed can consolidate TONS of social networking tools and improve them. - duskstriker

TweetMeme up 78% - Nick Halstead

Good post with a lot of interesting observations. The one point I would push back on is the API: friendfeed has by far the best designed API - way better than facebook and twitter. The reason there are less applications on friendfeed is not because of the API but I think because they have not reached their critical mass yet. I personally think that this whole social networking/messaging... more... - Edwin Khodabakchian

Agree,Friendfeed is kind of noisy,many people like me doesn't use that as often as we used to. - Steve Chou

I think a good name could make a difference. Friendfeed, friendfood, friendfodder !!!??? - Nitin Nanivadekar

FF is doing just fine... It's a very, very powerful product as it is now. Yea it has many imperfections... So feedback is great, but also give it some time, and it will become better and better (it has been that way thus far), and will rock the world. Also, remember that slower growth may be a blessing for a product, too. - Onur Kabadayi

FriendFeed seems to be an important web application and, in hindsight, may turn out to be the ground breaker in a new class of applications. However, it is horrendously difficult to understand. Even as a reasonably technical user, the presentation of configuration information about what is input, what is output, what is connected to what, etc. is appalling. "My kingdom for a diagram!" - John W Lewis

As a developer that creates a lot of mashups etc, I disagree about the api, the problem with the api is not the api it's a case of what to do with it. The data that comes out of FF is much more complex than fb and twitter. I am working on something which should solve some of your issues and show it off. Lack of hype is also why there are not many apps. - Darren Stuart

Great article, Robert Scoble. Love your ruthless intellectual honesty in identifying some problems with a service you have heavily evangelized. It would be easy to address these issues, but I am beginning to think that FF management has a much different take on the noise problem than many of us (including Tim O'Reilly). - Sean McBride

I agree with Onur Kabadayi.. Robert says it in his post as well. Twitter's growth in the first two years was similar. Plus, given the fact that it is a more complicated tool, it will take some more time for management to get some "First Things to Do Now that you are on FriendFeed" kind of documentation, and for the users to really grasp all that can be done w/ Friendfeed and why it is better (the differentiation). Sean McBride, could you expand on "a much different take" when it comes to noise.? - John Serra

John: FF has a "much different take" on noise: some of us have been complaining quite loudly about the noise issue for over a year now, with no feedback from FF or moves from FF to address the problem. Perhaps this is a matter of individual aesthetics; perhaps Paul, Bret and the FF crew enjoy a large sprawling rambling chaotic canvas and don't see the world through the same eyes as Tim O'Reilly, Mitch Kapor, Tim Bray, etc. Twitter is growing much faster than Friendfeed because of its minimalism and brevity. - Sean McBride

Twitter is being blocked by China Government, evildoing! - Motor Industry

Exactly why I asked Sean.. I like the fact that there is noise, and I like the fact that I get to filter out what I don't want to see.. Yes, we could argue that the ability to filter should be better, or more explicit, but I believe we are still at an early stage of development for this tool.. So, yes, I believe it is only for early adapting power users (sorry for the generalization) at... more... - John Serra

FF does so much more for my work and my engagement with my professional community than twitter or FB have ever been able to. :) Thanks for the interesting post! - Allyson Lister

Friendfeed is a major player in real time search and it never sucks like Twitter( Its always down) - Michael_techie

Why? FriendFeed is a place for the more geeky type, and mostly all geeks already have a Friendfeed account. Friendfeed is for people who are in social media, who have many accounts on everything, like I do. Frienfeed isn't growing because it serves a different purpose, to connect the sites that connect us. - Zachary TG

I still feel like I am not being understood by many on the noise issue. I just clicked on my Peoplebrowsr tab and was able to scan *twenty* new mostly high-value Twitter posts from high-quality news feeds, many of which do not post directly to Friendfeed. I clicked back to my Friendfeed page, and am able to see only *two* primary posts. So: Twitter via Peoplepbrowsr usually offers a 10... more... - Sean McBride

I think FF is missing a huge opportunity to engage the Flickr community -- a large and established group of people and a community where FF could be a natural tool. 1. FF needs to allow you to import all of your Flickr contacts into FF matching up actual accounts where possible and creating an option for imaginary friends for the rest (to be replaced by actual accounts when others... more... - Thomas Hawk

Thomas - best thought of the whole damn thread - Matthew DeVries

Long-term, I think that FF can also expand in the direction of aggregating real-time sensor data like pachube (http://www.pachube.com/). As wireless smart-meters invade our homes, every one of us will have at least a few sensor data streams that can be fed to FF for commenting, analysis, mashing, etc. Making effective real-time search over that data torrent is the only thing that can... more... - Vlado Handziski

I'll second that. Brilliant idea Thomas! - Michael Fidler

Ironically, one of FriendFeed's problems is that its web experience is simply too good. Twitter's sucked (and still does), so it was the third-party developers who jumped in and as you said, are driving Twitter's growth. - Aviv

I'm not going to lie, I don't want more people to join friend feed, they are ready ruined twitter. Well, maybe not ruined, but the value is a bit polluted by the bots and many self interested people - Robert D. Fraser

Aviv, got to disagree with you about FriendFeed's web experience. A discussion like this one, with above a hundred comments, just turns "discussion" into the worst kind of flat-forum experience. It becomes impossible to find who's responding to who, because it isn't threaded (and you can't collapse responses). It's like an unthreaded Slashdot - simply unreadable. - Ian Betteridge

Ian: funny, I read every unreadable comment here. - Robert Scoble

Me too! This kind of thread is totally readable. - Jim Connolly

Ian, I agree with you on that, but other than that issue (seen most frequently at Scoble's threads, of course) you have to agree that the early adopter crowd really adores the slick UI that the FF team got us used to. Among those early adopters are also potential third-party developers who have absolutely no incentive to compete with FF on delivering better UI experience, especially... more... - Aviv

And since you mentioned flat-forum experience - that's another problem FF faces; It evolved into a forum-like experience. A real-time one, but still a forum experience. And we all know mainstream doesn't care much about message boards unless they're troubleshooting some Windows printer driver. I'm guessing that for most "normal" users, keeping up with what goes on on FF is fun for the... more... - Aviv

The deer in the headlights reaction by some as to not getting likes and comments (or to the desired degree) doesn't seem much different than case of dreamers who think moving to Hollywood or Nashville automatically means you'll get noticed. It's an opportunity. - Micah Wittman

Micah, that's not the same at all. I think that for some people, myself included, FF is just not as useful as it once was. 6 months ago I'd get some reactions to threads like http://friendfeed.com/aviv... and http://friendfeed.com/aviv.... Granted I don't have the network that... more... - Aviv

Aviv - you 're thinking/acting in single stream. Things only get burried if you have bad searches, bad lists, and bad groups. Real Time is infinitely more useful and I'm far less likely to miss things now because of the greatly improved saved search abilities and group making. - Matthew DeVries

Matthew, I'm not talking about my own management of the FF stream. That I do well. What I find troubling is that so many don't, and as a result entries go unnoticed quite often. IMHO this will be most difficult for new users to comprehend and will be the biggest contributor to them not coming back. - Aviv

I guess I'm not seeing that. Participation on my content took off hardcore since Real Time. My FFHolic numbers have been insane. And my feed is not full of what this audience would consider useful or informative content, or even remotely connected to the field that 90% of you are in. Yet I am getting satisfactory traffic and engagement. So I find it hard to believe that someone who is... more... - Matthew DeVries

Aviv, thanks for clarifying. If your network puts you in a List, problem solved - but you already knew that. So the point you made was a lot of other people aren't leveraging lists and searches. So I'm thinking out loud with you here: what's the remedy? Maybe an algorithm that automatically puts what appears to be your core network into a List, and then flags you that there's unread activity going on in that List. I'm speaking in broad terms, but what do you think? - Micah Wittman

lol Matthew. Self fulfilling prophecy, right, that's probably it. Or not: I took a look at your feed and it reminds me a lot of Digg. So I'm not at all surprised that you're seeing increased engagement. But in any case, I don't see the increased engagement you're talking about. Your content gets at best 4 Likes. I guess you don't know what I'm talking about really. - Aviv

Wow Aviv. Just go on the meta attack. Wanna talk about my mom too while you're at it? The irony of calling me Digg-ish. - Matthew DeVries

LOL - Aviv

Really, the place you should be is Building43, and from your feed it's obvious you just want a tech group, talking tech things, with tech cred. You're right Ff is not for you. - Matthew DeVries

*rolls eyes* he really did just flame my feed...... Do we even do that here? - Matthew DeVries

I'm sure you won't be around much either, as soon as FlickChart implements forums. - Aviv

o.O Cause I use FlickChart a lot? - Matthew DeVries

So excited, my first ever flame war on FF. I guess it just became useful again. Where have you been in the past 2 years Matthew? - Aviv

So that's what you're looking for? - Matthew DeVries

Notice I haven't flamed you yet. It's just you deciding you're going to kick me in the dick for no reason at all. - Matthew DeVries

Move on man. Your feed really does look like Digg, so admit it and let's move on. :) - Aviv

So that's what you want out of this? People to get into old school flame wars? - Matthew DeVries

I mean, I don't know why you suddenly decided you hated me, and felt the need to break down my feed and judge it against they beauty of yours. Sorry for what ever it is I did to you. I don't think it warranted your needless rudeness. - Matthew DeVries

Matthew, come on, are you serious? Can you not tell when someone is being sarcastic? - Aviv

That's not what you're doing. - Matthew DeVries

You two knock it off. - Robert Scoble

I'm fine if you want to mod it out Robert (though I know you don't believe in that, and I'm not going to Chris White up your joint) - Matthew DeVries

Matthew, I was just pointing out that your feed probably sees more engagement because Digg-like threads on FF bubble to the top more often than "serious" threads (actually I should say entries, because they rarely get the chance to become threads;) Scoble even says so in his post. I'm sorry if you feel that I attacked you personally, as that was far from my intention. - Aviv

The UI is my biggest gripe. Face it FF is geared towards techie users I don't know if that was the plan. I don't see how FF could bring in regular users unless they have something like Facebook apps. - sarvesh

I don't buy the API argument, it is the best of all the social networks. I developed the FriendDeck client using it, it is very very very clean for an API. As for clients, there is my FriendDeck app, it was way ahead of Tweetdeck for some features (web and desktop client with shared settings) - Paul Kinlan

Seriously, I will lead the development of a Friendfeed client if anyone wants, take my FriendDeck brand and grow it make it better. - Paul Kinlan

Jumping in a little late, but I have to say that I would be a much more active user on FF if the mobile site was functional on my BB. FF2GO just doesn't cut it since I can't change my settings or anything. I'm just not sitting at my desk or in front of a laptop all that often, but I always have my BB on me. - Matt Thompson

FF2GO rocks as far as web based things go, but Tim Hoeck is working on what is looking like a really great Moble App for friendfeed. http://friendfeed.com/andfeed There is the room for it - Matthew DeVries

Paul, the thing is, there's no need for such a client. Web experience is too good to encourage others to develop alternatives. - Aviv

Mobile app for FriendFeed: http://dev.ctor.org/f2p/ by http://friendfeed.com/nahi - Micah Wittman

Aviv: I don't buy that in the slightest, there is a lot of need, multiple columns, sub feed/list filtering, user discovery, verticals (video only feeds, picture columns etc - like amplifeeder http://paul.kinlan.me as an example), there are lots of things that a good client will do to enhance Friendfeed. - Paul Kinlan

Perhaps, but Twitter was ugly and near useless from day one, so the incentive (and need) for third-party developers was more obvious. It's also hard for a single third-party developer to enhance a service that updates its UI and functionality every other day. While the FF team is definitely doing a great job at that, it's much easier to develop on top of Twitter when you know it takes them 2 months just to charge the color of a link. - Aviv

interesting. I've avoided subscribing to you but maybe that's what I need to fully appreciate FriendFeed (my interest had been waning) :) - Paul Whitaker

@paul Nah, don't subscribe to Scoble (sorry Robert), I did for a while but it leads to information overload. Instead subscribe to a few people who do subscribe to him and you see the best bits as they 'like' and 'comment' on them. That said, this is redundant advice as you saw this post that way anyway I presume... and for me, thats the power of FF. - James Macgill

Aviv: I defiantly agree that friendfeed has an awesome service and it works on many levels better than twitter does and they are very responsive and proactive to change. The biggest thing about a desktop client is a desktop client, you would be suprised how many people's workflow require a desktop app started from the start menu (I don't personally understand it but the demand is massive) - Paul Kinlan

James: I don't mind seeing roberts posts at all, however the best bit of friendfeed for me are lists (i.e, lists of people I really follow etc), my discussions and the Best Of Day. - Paul Kinlan

Amazing to see Facebook items with 100,000 likes and 10,000 comments. Would the FF interface be at all workable with so much activity? It's already hard to find anything beyond the top layer of most popular stuff unless you spend a huge amount of time managing hand-made lists. Not scalable. I might be able to sort 1,000 people into lists by hand, but 100,000. Whoa. I need some help from... more... - Mitchell Tsai

Ahh, nothing like the insiders vs. the masses. I like comparing things to cars... Volvos might be pretty solid cars, yet do people go "OMG I sooooo want a Volvo!"? Fellow geeks, please learn the tradegy of the commons. Just cuz it's good, doesn't mean people want it. - Eric Rice

FF targets the wrong users! For some reason, I just find it hard to believe FF does not target publishers large and small in some ways, newspapers going out of business, it has very advanced feature set, however it wrongly serves the wrong audiences in many ways and should exit to target media companies, bloggers, newspapers, publishers and other groups. It's not built for the gossipy myspace crowd, it is targeted towards the wrong group adaptation in my opinion. - Jonathan Fleming

Good. The fact that everybody isn't using FF is the only reason I still use it, unlike FB and Twitter. Morons haven't taken over yet. - Lo

A mobile app for the iPhone would get me spend more time on FriendFeed - Bob Gannon

There are myriad of ways that Friendfeed can contribute to bottom lines i.e. monetisation. Smarties could be using Friendfeed for serious tribe building which is sales funnel basics, a private group for Brand Monitoring/Listening will reveal opportunities for the savvy, heck one could even use a private group as a continuity product. I could go on but Im sure you get the idea. If people can't see monetary value and other forms of currency in Friendfeed then, it might be worth a deeper look - Deano @ Byron New Media

I guess new users get invited to facebook, come to twitter and but mature users move to friendfeed. - Rohit

Friendfeed is the clear winner, in terms of who (whom!?) I'm interested in engaging with. - Hamilton Wallace

FF has many solid features, but it's not yet at critical mass to make it all work. - Rod

I love FF's features but, and I think this is the biggest problem you've hit on, the interface really needs work, it has no real connection to what your average user plays with online. The themes are pretty useless right now, what really needs to be done is moving some of the elements around. I still think that moving elements to the right of the content was a mistake and the loss of the pop-up window that was real-time in the old interface has really cut down my FF use. - Aram Zucker-Scharff

Here's an important factor some have eluded to. The FF web interface. It's one of the only web interfaces I actually go to. This and feedly are at the top. I use air apps for twitter, yammer and interact through other sites via email (only go there when I get an email.) the web interface (commenting) may need work, but it is a web interface that works. - SolidSmack

I stuck to my guns. The acquirer was wrong in this case, but I was right that FriendFeed would be acquired by someone (see my response to Bruce Lewis above, and where Robert said I was wrong). - Jesse Stay

"Paul wouldn't sell. Doesn't need to. And if he did the offer would be so wacky and based on the numbers FriendFeed isn't going to get a wacky bid this year. - Robert Scoble <--- I wish he had been right. - Rochelle

Internet's Tad

How long is your commute? What do you do to retain your sanity during it?

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3 minutes. I tip-toe to avoid waking the kids. =) - Admiral Anika

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about 20 feet - :) - Adrian

2.3 minutes. I roll down the window occasionally to break the monotony. - Steve C

20 minutes. I usually listen to podcasts. I almost never sit in traffic. - Bill Kinney

10 minutes each way. NPR or NDS. - Alex Scoble

20-45 minutes depending on the day (I work early a couple days per week). Podcasts and audiobooks for me. - Brett Kelly

Sometimes the kids block the path, creating a derivative of "road rage" which I have no name for... I just yell at them to get out of the way. - Adrian

Mine's about 30 ft. For sanity, I kick one of the cats out of the way between the john and the coffee machine. :) - jcunwired

35-40 mins. usually not a lot of traffic. but I couldn't do it w/o my ipod. ipod connection in the car is a must. - chrisofspades

typically 50 mins with no traffic.. I don't stay sane. - Tim Hoeck from AndFeed

@jcunwired - great minds think alike - Adrian

I think one would have to be sane to begin with to retain sanity, and I do not qualify. - Brent - Loving Life

About 7-10 minutes. 20 by bicycle. - cecily

20-30 minutes. I listen to NPR unless the local stuff gets really bad. Then I either tune in NPR on the XM radio or see how long I can stand listening to the Glenn Beck radio show. So far my longest is 3 minutes, but I must admit 2 and a half of that was commercials. - Berial

My current commute is 40-45 minutes or more than an hour if there's a wreck somewhere. For the last 10 years I haven't had to commute more than 20 minutes each way, and this current commute is starting to wear on me. I thought this was the 21st century... why can't we ALL work from home? - Internet's Tad from fftogo

30 minutes. My wife and I carpool - we both work in the same office building. she keeps me sane. - Mike Nencetti

depends on the job. For the Post Office, it's fifteen to twenty minutes (20 if I stop for coffee!). For the freelance job it's 20 feet. For the pastor deal, it's about 100 feet to the church. - Jim Hearts FF

20min to an hour - Rodfather

40 to 60 mins to go 14 miles. A lot of music or talk radio. - pea

Thirty seconds. In my past life it was up to 1 hour in ATL. - Russellreno

About 15 minutes, give or take. I still need to listen to music and sing along or I want to harm the other motorists. No metal. Makes me all crazy-like. - Jennifer Dittrich

back when i had a commute, it was 3+ hours per day. - Joe Silence is not dead

Two days a week, it's 1.25 hours in each direction. The other three days, I work at home. During those commutes I listen to several TWiT podcasts, plus the Java Posse, Grails Podcast and a few others. - Joey Gibson

20 minutes drive to work and 15 minutes home. Music or radio for entertainment. It usually takes me longer to get through the security queue and check once I get there, that's the sanity check. - Nick B.

These days I usually listen to KNBR sports talk radio or Stitcher - Rodfather

60-75 minutes by bus and rail to go about 12 miles. iPhone & Kindle 2. - ronin

1/2hr by car, 1hr by transit, listening to podcasts, ocassionally taking photos. - Rui Pereira from iPod

10-15 minutes each way. News radio in the morning, iPhone hooked to tape adapter streaming 3G Pandora on the way home. - Pete Delucchi from iPhone

60 mins each way. I listen to podcasts and audiobooks each way and still manage to go insane. - Josh Haley

8 minutes, or 28 minutes by bike. The bike ride is awesome. I have one of these http://www.amazon.com/iHome-B... mounted to keep me entertained (at low volume, of course). - Kevin Fox

20 minutes or less. I listen to my iPod or the radio. - Soup

Its now about 30 minutes. Sirius Satellite. - CW™

20-40 minutes. CDs, mostly. iPod sometimes or Sirius XMU. Calculating the asshole-to-douchebag ratio of other drivers. - Jandy, ConcertMaven of FF

40 mins to an hour, listening to my ipod. =) - Beau Liening

45min normally and 90min if I take the scencic bike ride home - Yant

About 45 minutes to work. I start up Safety Dance and run genius playlist. 1 hour average going home and I have a head banging playlist running. - Arlan Koizumi

Depending which outpatient site - longest trip 35 minutes, rest of week 20. Beats an old job I had driving 1000 miles a week doing mobile studies. I think I invented road rage before it had a name. - Janet

20 minutes and it's only 4 miles - stop and go city driving. Classical music on the way to work to keep me calm. - m9m, Crone of FriendFeed

20-25 mins; XM Radio: Hip-Hop Nation and Backspin. - CAJ, somewhere else

7-10 minutes; unless there's an "event" downtown, then I listen to Frank, Dean and Sammy while I watch the stupidity. - Robert Hafer from iPhone

30 minutes and Audio books - Moved to Facebook

30 min. each way. Radio or CDs. - Laura Lou Who

LOL Anika! Mines just a roll down the hallway from the bedroom to the office. - Bonnie Foster

About 30 minutes (though it seems no matter what time I leave from 7:20-7:40, I still get there by 8 on the dot). I usually listen to the morning show on my favourite classic rock station, which is hilarious and makes the drive more bearable. - Penguin It's Cold Outside

20-45 minutes. Blast music and eat. Will eventually be switching to podcasts, but I don't feel like messing with all of the wires so I'm waiting to hardware the car with the ipod/iphone dock. - xero

90 to 110 minutes of a combination of bike, train and taxi. To while away the time: iPod, Flickr, Friendfeed. :-) - Rick Cogley

About 10 ft, which isn't long enough for a sleepy person to lose any sanity. - April Russo (app103)

About a seven minute drive. I sometimes come home for lunch and play with Vegas. - Derrick

20-60 minutes. Podcasts. - Sparky

Longer than it was for the past 7 years. Used to be 15 minutes, now it's about 45, but I love it up here on the north side of Indy instead of the not so wild west. iPod ftw. NPR at times. - Kamilah Gill

10-15 minutes. I usually listen to XM 20 (Top 20 hits), and 80-84 for electronica. - imabonehead

45-60 min. I occupy my time driving the vanpool and dodging the crazies that are aiming for a small vehicle with a transit agency logo on it... - Mike

30-40 minutes on the bike. It is actually quite relaxing. I keep thinking I need to start taking another ride around lunchtime. It's surprisingly not much faster taking a car. It's far slower taking a bus. - Wirehead

40 min each day. Walking + bus + Skytrain. I use an iPod and listen to music. (it was about 40 min each way at my last job, which was walking + VTA light rail in Silicon Valley. Maybe I'm doomed to 40 min commutes?) - Andrew C

60 mins. each way. Listen to either KCRW (NPR) or podcasts which include TWiT, This American Life, HDTV & Home Theater Podcast, FFundercats, Adam Carolla, & GDGT. - Mark Krynsky

3 minutes by bike; 10 minutes on foot. Music. As with everything else. - Parth Awasthi

20-60 min - Mo Kargas

About 20 minutes, and as for entertainment I listen to music on my G1 - Christian (Simply X) from Android

About 2 hours. Friendeded, email and twitter while listening to music all on my nokia while on the tram. Then laptop and some work for the second hour on the train with no internet. Then 15 mins on the bike by the river. - John Cooper from fftogo

I've had a 3 x 2 hour commute every day (for 9 months!) once - that was a nightmare. I slept mostly or read/listened to my MP3 player. Most of my commuting has been about 2 hours each way (as that is the time it takes to get from outside London to inside from wherever I've lived). - Kol Tregaskes

About 60 minutes, I'm in the middle of it right now. Staying sane? Catching up with email before I get to the office. Oh, and reading FF :) - James Macgill

My office is 20 seconds down the stairs, 30 if I stop for a popsicle. The wife is a 1 hour drive each way and I often get pressed into service driving her back and forth, for which I'm very thankful that there is a thing called iPods and Podcasting. I also worship Pandora on those days as well. - Andrew Leyden

About 30 minutes and I listen to technical podcasts - Christopher Cantu from Nambu

I know this sounds nuts, but one of my students has a 2 hour commute, and listens to class lectures (mp3 podcast) and the news when the lectures get too dull. Totally cool if you ask me. - Dan Morrill AKA Techwag

I just have about 15 min on the highway for about 7 then a few side roads. pretty easy - (jeff)isageek

I have a 90 minute train ride into uni when semesters are running. iPhone (music, video, web) + books. - Roberto Bonini

Mine's about 35 mins each way. I tend to read most of the time, listening to audiobooks while driving. - Diego Barros  from iPhone

Within 12 months my aim is to bring that down to under a minute each way, whilst being able to work in my underwear :) - Diego Barros  from iPhone

15 minutes. I roll down the windows and occasionally listen to a lowbrow morning show. - Daniel J. Pritchett

When school is in, about 40 minutes from Marina Del Rey to Malibu, all along Pacific Coast Highway. I take the sideroads (which may or may not be quicker) up to the 1, then drive along the ocean for 25 minutes. It's pretty easy to stay sane when the Pacific is your view along the commute. The hardest part is not crashing because you're looking out at the water. :) - Bryan Zirkel

40 ish minutes / 16 miles each way. - Shannon

7 minutes, 10 minutes, 14-17 minutes, 23 minutes, depending on what site I visit first. It also depends on daylight savings, because I modify my start time based on how soon it will get dark. It also depends on whether or not school buses will be slowing me down. - MiniMage TKDteacher of FF

Kevin Fox

Google vs. Wolfram Alpha: Fight!

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...no one is interested in seeing an instant KO. There needs to be drama, Kevin! - Mona Nomura

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1024kb = 1.024Mb??? http://www80.wolframalpha.com/input... - James Macgill

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... vs. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... - can't we settle this by saying that humans are inherently inconsistent and created confusion? (I'm referring to the recent 32GB/29.08GB fight). - G. Sigh

WA supports the bullcrap hardware numbers? BOO. - Chris, Taskerrific Guy

Jason Shellen

Something snarky about a topical event yet self-deprecating and witty goes here.

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An interesting comment goes here. - Rishabh Mishra (p248)

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A clever retort with a link to a funny picture goes here. - CAJ, somewhere else

A meta-comment about not commenting goes here. - Akiva Moskovitz

A comment that simultaneously agrees and disagrees with your original post goes here. - ha3rvey, not a sweetheart

Note further explaining my joke and a subsequent joke at the expense of one of the above commenters. - Jason Shellen

A funny non-sequitur goes here. - EricaJoy

Pop culture reference quoting a film in which the original snarky comment was made years ago goes here. - Karim

A snarky comment about people who make snarky comments from someone who missed the self-deprecating bit goes here. - James Macgill

A like goes here. - Jim Norris

Troll goes here. - Rob Haas

DYSP goes here. Also, something about bunnies. - ha3rvey, not a sweetheart from fftogo

Obligatory Scoble mention goes here. - Karim

Thread-killing comment goes right here. - Jack (a.k.a. Jeber)

Comment about how this kind of valuable discussion only happens on FriendFeed goes here. Also, I have a cute cat. - Daniel Dulitz

Boobs! - Ladybug Heather

In-joke that only one member of the thread understands. - Jason Shellen

a plus sign and a random integer followed by the name of a thread participant goes here. - Karim

Requisite link to image of Asian dudes enjoying their nipples goes here http://friendfeed.com/akiva... - Sprague D

A Pope in the woods goes right here. - Christopher Harley

I just went here. - Steve C

Cliche declarative phrase of approval entered in this space - April Buchheit

1UP for previous comment goes here. - ha3rvey, not a sweetheart

Hapless diatribe with grand unifying treatise ambitions ambles and meanders for several lines yet never actually reaches conclusions nor makes reference to the aforementioned discussion goes here. - Jay Cuthrell

Jay FTW here. - Christopher Harley

Donde esta aqui? - Keith Pelczarski

Long tangent goes here. - Ruchira S. Datta

Nitpicky rebuttal of a minor point in the long tangent goes here. - Michael R. Bernstein

Obligatory "ditto" with no reference to which portion of the thread it might reference goes here. - Jay Cuthrell from email

Rare comment by infrequent user of social media here. No need to reply, it's unlikely to be seen. - Pete Delucchi

Irrelevant comment trying to be witty but failing goes here. Potentially thread-killing. - Jordan Hofker

Seemingly random comment in broken English claiming to have the website "you" were asking for last night that includes a link to a private webcam URL goes here - Jay Cuthrell

Obligatory "dupe" pointer goes here: http://friendfeed.com/zeigen... - Stephen Mack

Comment about how no one "Gets it" anymore. - Jason Shellen

Whine that I've already posted this days ago goes here. - CAJ, somewhere else

Bump goes here. - Daniel Dulitz

James Macgill

Election Protests in Tehran - Google Maps - http://maps.google.com/...

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Google maps users maps of the protests in Tehrān - James Macgill from Bookmarklet

௸ (k2g)

The Big Five Personality Test - http://www.outofservice.com/bigfive...

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Uses a more widely approved model of personality (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki...) but I feel like these interpretations lack the poetry of the MBTI test. My result was http://www.outofservice.com/bigfive... - ௸ (k2g) from Bookmarklet

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http://www.outofservice.com/bigfive... - Jim Norris

http://www.outofservice.com/bigfive... - ta√i

OK, I think this test is broken, for I disagree with all the above results. - ௸ (k2g)

http://www.outofservice.com/bigfive... ("you probably have a messy desk") - clearly the test is perfect. - James Macgill

You disagree with mine even? - Jim Norris

I got http://www.outofservice.com/bigfive... - Jess Lee

MBTI-type results generally stress positives and negatives of both extremes of each dimension... Whereas with this test (granting that it's not MBTI), there's clearly a good side and a bad one. (I got the 'good' scores on two dimensions and the 'bad' in the CEA dimensions... =P) - Andrew C

I agree with Andrew and I also think this makes the test too easily "gamed" so that, for example, having very high standards about what conscientiousness means, can cause you to wind up with a lower conscientiousness score than you would naturally get. - ௸ (k2g)

DeWitt Clinton

The New Yorker says a US penny contains $0.017 worth of zinc (June 8th, p.42). Is that really true? Why do we still make them?

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What would it cost to melt down a zillion pennies? 2 zillion? 3?... - Matthew Weymar

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cause we're suckas! - Dave Winer

Because the senators representing the states which produce zinc don't want use to stop making pennies. - Brett Cannon

@Brett - really? I'd believe anything. Someone has to be profiting, I just can't figure out who that might be. - DeWitt Clinton

there is apparently a little (illegal) cottage industry in arbitraging these values - buy a pennie for 1 cent, melt it, sell it for the value of the commodity. free money! (pre-1982 pennies have 2.5 cents of copper - if you can find those, you're psyched! ... from another new yorker issue from last year: http://bit.ly/PIF2h) - Matt

Isn't another reason because of Illinois and Lincoln? I remember some talk about how Obama could just get rid of the penny in an executive order, but wouldn't because he's from Illinois. - Mark Trapp

http://coinflation.com/ - Morton Fox

Interesting find, Morton! - Tyson Key

If it cost less than a penny to make a penny, maybe everyone would be making cheap pennies? Only the Mint's crazy enough to spend that much for pennies, thus scarcity and currency? - l.m.orchard

If it were up to me, we'd get rid of pennies and nickels. I just don't see how they're useful to me in any way. If I lost an entire nickel on every cash transaction, it would eventually add up to approximately squat :P - Joel Webber

Australia got rid of pennies and now rounds up or down such that, eventually, the difference really is squat. - James Macgill

http://freakonomics.blogs.nytimes.com/2007... Stephen Dubner from Freakonomics fame has been a pretty strong enemy to the penny. (pennemy?) - Robert Konigsberg

@Joel I'll take your pennies and nickels. - Robert Konigsberg

Amit Patel

The Making Of: Elite | Edge Online - http://www.edge-online.com/magazin...

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“This maverick space trading game broke every conceivable convention. Pac-Man and Defender clones ruled the videogame industry. Who would want to play a game which had no recognisable goal and committed the blasphemy of having no points total? “The reasons they cited were all true,” concedes Braben. “But ironically they would turn out to be the strengths of the game.” Among the criticisms levelled at Elite were that it was too long, required save positions, used vector graphics, and wasn’t colourful enough.” - Amit Patel

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I remember Elite, but I"m afraid I never got sucked into it enough to spend enough time to get good at it. - Piaw Na

I had friends who at the time said it was the >best game evar< but I couldn't get drawn in -- the whole space trading thing just seemed like a tedious grind. But it was clearly popular and I understand the graphics were groundbreaking... - ⓞnor

I lost 'weeks' to playing this game I could probably still rotation match a spinning space station to this day. I also spent a long time looking for a generation ship (was that their name?), which, it turns out didn't fit into the Electron port of the game at all. - James Macgill

It definitely had its tedious grinding, but the 3d radar was the Best Evar. I liked the music too. I can still hear it in my head. If only I had a TV, I could fire up my C64 and play! - Seth

Dan Hsiao

Skin Deep - Confused by Sky-High SPFs? Take a Number - NYTimes.com - http://www.nytimes.com/2009...

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"But that’s not necessarily the case. No SPF, not even 100+, offers 100 percent protection. What’s more, both UVA and UVB radiation can lead to skin cancer, which is why dermatologists now advise using sunscreens with an SPF of at least 15 and UVA-fighting ingredients like an avobenzone that doesn’t degrade in light or Mexoryl SX. The difference in UVB protection between an SPF 100 and SPF 50 is marginal. Far from offering double the blockage, SPF 100 blocks 99 percent of UVB rays, while SPF 50 blocks 98 percent. (SPF 30, that old-timer, holds its own, deflecting 96.7 percent)." - Dan Hsiao from Bookmarklet

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"Far from offering double the blockage, SPF 100 blocks 99 percent of UVB rays, while SPF 50 blocks 98 percent". Mmm, that means half as much UVB not being blocked. That is, you can stay in the sun twice as long with the same net exposure to UVB. Double the blockage seems to me like a reasonable claim. - Isaac Hepworth

I use the Elta MD sunblock that my dermatologist recommends. For body its called 30+ and for face they have them in 40 and 45SPF which even my dermatologist says is plenty! But even better this sunblock is also a moisturizer and can be used under makeup and has no smell!!!!! There is an oil free version and a water resistant on that can be applied even to wet skin. For the last year I... more... - Rachel Lea Fox

How has mankind managed to make it hundreds of thousands of years without sunblock? - Gabe

By dying younger. - Brian Chang

Also, by living in latitudes that match where their skin color evolved. It's a balance between vitamin D production (lighter skin is better) and damage/cancer risk (darker skin is better). Also, women typically need more vitamin D so their skin is on average lighter. - Amit Patel

Amit: even northern latitudes have sunny summers. - Gabe

Gabe: That's where dying young kicks in. If you're keeling over at age 30 or 40 from some secondary infection you got after you skinned your knee when you tripped and fell, there's really no need to have sunscreen since you haven't really lived long enough for your skin to take a serious beating from the sun and develop cancer. - Brian Chang

OK, Brian, what about 50 years ago? Nobody used sunblock then. Was everybody dropping dead of skin cancer? - Gabe

This is all unverified data since I'm not invested enough to research it in depth, but the internets tell me that just between 1950 and 1980, the average life expectancy for men increased 4.3 years and the average life expectancy for women increased 6.5 years. I don't know if that's enough to result in a significant change in skin cancer mortality rate. Also, skin cancer is one of the... more... - Brian Chang

In Australia its illegal to market numbers above 30 as it gives a false sense of protection. So you see 30+ instead. (Or so I was told when I lived there). - James Macgill

You're right, Onor, I forgot that there used to be an ozone layer. - Gabe

Heh, I think we've all forgotten about the ozone layer. - Brian Chang

It doesn't matter how high the SPF is, it's about 1) putting the blocks on 30 minutes before leaving home and 2) frequently reapplying. - Mona Nomura

Why apply 30 minutes beforehand? - Gabe

Thomas Hawk

Patrick posted on the world's oldest Twitter user here: http://friendfeed.com/nextweb... She's 104. Let's see who the oldest and youngest FriendFeed members are. Post your age in this thread.

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I'm 41. - Thomas Hawk

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39 here. I have to wonder what technologies we'll see if I live to 104! - Kevin C. Tofel

Ok, I'm winning as the oldest friendfeed user so far since I'm two years older than you Kevin. - Thomas Hawk

There's a FFer in his 70s on here, I just can't remember who it is... - FFing Enigma (aka Tina)

20. - Evan Travers

Tina, he must be present to win. OK so far Evan's the youngest at 20 and I'm the oldest at 41. - Thomas Hawk

I confess to be 62 - Gilbert Harding

Gilbert that's awesome! So so far Evan Travers youngest at 20, Gilbert Harding the oldest at 62. - Thomas Hawk

We have a FFer here who's 73. I'm 36. I'll go out on a limb and say Michael Forian is our youngest active member. - Admiral Anika

who is 73 Anika? He/she's gotta post in this thread. So far Gilbert and Evan are winning. - Thomas Hawk

55, Gilbert has me beat by a few years. - Jack (a.k.a. Jeber)

When my baby is born, I'll sign 'em up for FriendFeed. ;) - Tamar Weinberg

I don't remember, Thomas. We just did an age thing last week and he posted. I think it was in Alp's thread. - Admiral Anika

54 - Rod Bauer from twhirl

does friendfeed have an age requirement in order to have an account like Flickr and other sites? - Thomas Hawk

Jack DeWitt Smith is 73 so he says. Damn it I thought I was going to win a prize here. - Gilbert Harding

37 - Alex Scoble

So Jack's 73 as the oldest and Evan's the youngest at 20. I can't believe that there are not any octogenarians on FriendFeed. You folks need to get your parents and grandparents on here. - Thomas Hawk

I am 32. - Louis Gray

Thomas: my son Patrick is on friendfeed and he's 15. - Robert Scoble

I'm neither. - MVB (Curmudgeon of FF)

Michael Forian is 14 - FFing Enigma (aka Tina)

Ok, So Michael Forian's the youngest at 14 and Jack DeWitt Smith's the oldest at 73. I just did the math on all mentioned in this this thread and the average age so far is 43.1 years in age. - Thomas Hawk

I am smack in the middle at 38 - holly

fetus. - Kevin Murray

Bumping the average up a little - 59 - Brian Sullivan

Bringing the average age down a bit :) I'm 21 - Roy Herrod

44 - Helen Sventitsky

25. - James Ferguson

Kevin, I've never met a fetus who can type. Ok the high low are still Michael at 14 and Jack at 73. The average is now 40.125. - Thomas Hawk

Thomas: Milan can turn on an iPhone, can select the icon of his favorite game, and can play a game. He's not yet two years old. So, expect him to lower the friendfeed bar pretty low pretty soon. - Robert Scoble

35. Looks like I'm right in the wheelhouse. - Mike Lewis

21. - Kevin Mohr

36 - edward volkert

Robert, would FriendFeed let Milan have an account? Is there an age requirement? I think Patrick got kicked off of Second Life for being too young didn't he? Mike L, Kevin, Josh and edward just dropped the average age down below 40 to 37.6 - Thomas Hawk

33 here... - Sean Simkins

38 - Mykl Roventine

Thomas: I don't see why my son wouldn't be allowed to have an account. I'm 44 by the way. - Robert Scoble

average now = 37.70. Michael the low at 14, Jack the high at 73. - Thomas Hawk

21 - Roberto Bonini

quite difficult to type, still waiting on some fingers. also as a fetus i dont know much but am questioning the term "FFer", sounds short for something else. - Kevin Murray

45 - Peter Dawson

37 - ororodc

Kevin I'm not buying that you're a fetus. Is it warm in the womb? - Thomas Hawk

24, need to bring that average down a bit. - Michael

I'm 26 years, one month, and three days. - Chris, Taskerrific Guy

27, so in the younger half. - Rochelle

41 here, and coincidentally just created an account for my son last night (2 1/2) playing with streaming his photos/activities for the grandparents. - Rick Bucich

hmmm.. Rick I'm not sure that this counts if he's not controlling the account. New average is 36.27, we're getting younger. I think that's a good thing maybe. - Thomas Hawk

25 Here, a whole quarter century - Brandon - BWC Games

venti ocho - chrisofspades

I'll bump it up at 51 - Sandra

warm yes, but pretty spotty wireless coverage. - Kevin Murray

30 here (at least for another month) - Justin Korn

27 - Candace

41 - ha3rvey, not a sweetheart

52/2 - Lokei Atikus™®

getting younger. Average age now 35.57. I'm starting to feel pretty old at 41. - Thomas Hawk

Akiva is AFK, but he's 37. - Rochelle

Looks like I'm sitting around the middle ground at 38. - Andy Bold

I'm 28 and I'm carrying a fetus. But I'm the one doing the typing. - Tamar Weinberg

Maybe Tamar's bundle wins...typing on FF by proxy? XD - Candace

I'm 33 and I'm carrying a fetus too! :p - Zulema ◕ ◡ ◕

Farty one, going on farty two ... - Rene Wirtz

33 here. Tad is 40. - Lindsay

35. Remember back in the day when that was old. - Chris Nixon from BuddyFeed

26 - Not breaking any records here. - Tom Harrison

No way. You have to guess - Martha

I'm 56. You got a problem with that? - Ted Gilchrist

28. Suddenly I feel younger than usual. - Matt

Over 200 comments with age info here: http://friendfeed.com/tweetfe... - Micah Wittman

52 - Leo Laporte

38 - meckimac

19 - Matthew Allen Horton

average age now: 35.67 - Thomas Hawk

man, I'm getting old... over average.. - meckimac

38 - M F

41 - Tied with Thomas Hawk ;-) Update...I lied! I'm 40! for 15 more days! - Bill Scherer

23 - Jessica

31 - Peter Kruit

37 - Laura Lou Who

22 - Asankhaya Sharma

39 - Gordon Corte

I'm 21 - Charlotte M

25 ----->-- - vijay

32 - clarke thomas

new average = 35.15, still getting younger. - Thomas Hawk

46 - Hanna Wiszniewska

26 - Blake

51 - Fred Yankowski

52 - Paul from twhirl

44 - John Francis

49 (just) - jcunwired

49 - Bonnie Wren

28 - Karl Knechtel

39- My son Arvin is 2yrs old and he is about to tweet - Jacque

42 - Christopher Harley

40, but act 20s ;) - Rui Pereira

I'd love to see more data, and then a graph. - Ted Gilchrist

34 myself - Andy Tinkham

17. - Zach Flauaus

43 - Dane Findley

29 - yagami

I've got my fingers scrabbling at the edge of 39 like James Tiberius Kirk on the cliff. Unfortunately, the laws of physics require that I eventually fall. Crap. - MiniMage TKDteacher of FF

35 - which makes me... Average :( - James Macgill

I'm 27. Divisible by 3. - Amy H.

Phew....worried I might be the oldest, but I'm just a mere 61! :) - Bonnie Foster

29. NOT looking forward to the next birthday. - Lis Miller

26 - Alejandro

I'm 41. My 95-year-old great aunt sends emails and receives weekly FriendFeed email, but doesn't post here. - Bruce Lewis

22 - Paul Stamatiou

Not feeling too old being 40 now :) - Ruud van Wijngaarden

38 - Lu Tao

25 - Mo Kargas

42. Apparently that number is somehow significant... - Sue Radd

LOL @ Sue - Roberto Bonini

26 - Amber, Random Time Lord

36 up in here. - Derrick

40 - metalerik

37 - Bitch

Still 58. - Russellreno

43 in 2 weeks. - Mark Krynsky

I'm 21 (again) - aflow

I'm 39 - Royce Fujitani

44 - Rob Michael (Atmos Trio)

23 - Dobromir Hadzhiev

44 - Larry Kless

30 - Alisha Vargas

31 - Christian (Simply X)

14 - Daan Berg from twhirl

Older than a new idea but younger than a forgotten feud - Slappy Line

This is about the third time this question get's the best-of-day. I ran a poll last time at http://www.s-consulting.no/polls... - Frode Stenstrøm

58 - Nick in Manila

Hey, I might win! [update: oops, tied] - Nick in Manila

21! On another note.. this question wouldn't be a problem if frienfeed had extensive profiles.. but I don't want it to become a social networking site though! - Kris

54 and getting younger day by day! - johnny

26 - Jess Lee

NewsGang Live! Get your butts over here, and bump up the average! - Ted Gilchrist

44 - BEX

35 - (jeff)isageek

13 - I might be close to the youngest. :) - Alex

I'm 47. Probably the oldest... - Karen Mohler

I'm 38. The youngest 38yo in the world. - LouCypher

33-year-young - Jemm

I'm 27. - Colide81 (James) from fftogo

21 - Lizunlong

I'm 42. Nowhere near the oldest. More the average. - Jeffrey Allan Boman