Jon Galloway

http://stackoverflow.com/users... - James Williams (willia4)

I don't really have much to say over there, though. - James Williams (willia4)

Well, I do have quite a bit to ask though :) - Yuvi (has IRL friends!)

http://stackoverflow.com/users... - Morton Fox

http://stackoverflow.com/users... <-- but I haven't done much there yet. - Lindsay Donaghe

By your command: http://stackoverflow.com/users... - Roberto Bonini

http://stackoverflow.com/users... - Jon Galloway

Nothing there yet: http://stackoverflow.com/users... - Jason Wehmhoener

http://stackoverflow.com/users... - Mark Trapp

http://stackoverflow.com/users... - Susan Beebe

Am I missing something: you can't add connections/contacts/friends in SO? - Mark Trapp

@Mark - I don't think you are missing anything. Jeff wants SO to be something and *not* be something. It's not a SocNet. - Yuvi (has IRL friends!)

http://stackoverflow.com/users... - Alan Le

The highest rep in the list is Jon with 5000+. everyone else has less than 100? - Alan Le

hey I have 173 last I checked. - Roberto Bonini

http://stackoverflow.com/users... - Donato (ricin)

http://stackoverflow.com/users... haven't found much to do with it yet, but I think this will be of great help when I'll get back to my programming projects. - Zu aka ElijahBailey

Guess you will have to unsubscribe from me then :) - Alex Scoble CISSP

That's a bit harsh and demanding but then again you don't subscribe to me anyway - Toby Graham

@Greybeard: It's not harsh at all. If I think someone's not giving me quality, I will completely hide them from sight. - Ben Parr

I think I want a little of both, plus collaboration and friendships. Just me, though. :P - Neal "thePuck" Jansons via twhirl

I suddenly feel like I'm being lectured. I'm sure that wasn't your intent, but, that's funny anyway. - Yolanda ♥s Nuttycakes

Agreed. FF is getting simultaneously rancorous and "fluffy". Rabid political attacks alternating with endless pix of kittens peeking out of teapots. I can live without both. - Sprague D

we're not all here for the same reasons... - Tad, Fool

I think intelligent conversations are going to stem from topics that look at the larger picture. What are some of those that you'd want to talk about? - Patricia

It sounds a bit harsh, it does, but aye kin see if ye only use FF for smarts and whatnot - ♫ Rahsheen™

For once Robert, you and I are in complete agreement. I have yet to even look at FFHolic and I doubt that I ever will. - Aaron Krug

I feel sorry for anyone who can live without kittens. ;) Odd, how people tell me similar things when I say I'm Agnostic. - Alex Scoble CISSP

Robert, I think now is a good time to start using the FF beta list feature. You can move the people that post mostly entertainment off your main feed and into a "fun" list. - Alan Le

Robert, I'm with Yolanda and find this a little harsh. Sorry that FF is not up to your liking (maybe its to others though??) but if you reading/receiving posts you don't like then it's completely up to you if you wish to hide/unsubscribe that post/person. And you can easily create your own friends list. A little confused, sorry. - Kol Tregaskes via twhirl

greybeard: anyone who links to the BBC doesn't have to worry. Subscribed! Yolanda: I +was+ lecturing! :-) Alex: if the shoe fits. I like noise, but there was an increase in the noise force and if that is the way it will be I will look toward people providing good stuff that makes me smarter. I don't watch Entertainment Tonight for a reason. - Robert Scoble

i looked at ffholic once, chuckled, moved on. ranking people is worthless imho. truly worthless. creates frustration, envy, and reinforces the worst attributes of people. - Jeremy Toeman

I second being sick of kitties in teapots, as well as all other trite imagery and obvious Photoshopping. I try to hide it as much as possible and I definitely don't add any more fluff like that. - Kamilah Gill

Kol: it was harsh for a reason. Life is harsh. Ask an NYC trader. - Robert Scoble

I don't know that FFholic is really in the back of most folks' minds. What I do expect is that you are starting to see cliques evolve even more so, and that some cliques are ones you and I would rather not be in. That's a natural evolution. - Louis Gray

I think the problem has less to do with FFholic and more to do with the lame "talk like an idiot" day(s). - Nathaniel Payne

I like FF, I think it's a good mix of tech and fun...I think you just gotta pair down your follow list and you'll be fine...But with popularity comes the populous so short of setting up your own closed invite-only environment, there's not much you can do here but fish or cut bait... - Live4Soccer

Louis: understood. I will start using lists more like Alan suggests - Robert Scoble

Well, I think you pegged it a long time ago, Robert... You are defined by who you follow... so is your feed... if you don't like what its (or you) have become, time to make some changes. Fortunately FF makes it easy to do so. :) - Lindsay Donaghe

Well, and don't take this personally Robert, but aren't you creating a sense of competition for your continued subscription that is not dissimilar to the chasing of rankings. Is having Robert Scoble subscribed to you a status unto it's self? - Brian Norwood

Obviously I touched a nerve here. That is interesting too. - Robert Scoble

what's FFholic? Never heard of it or seen it. As for the content - want a service to go mainstream - this is what happens. - Jason Kaneshiro

I actually don't believe in subscribing to 200+ people, although clearly that expands my reach and the positive affirmation I could get here. So, in being selective, I tend not to blame the community for content that doesn't interest me, but rather my own selections. How does that logic grab you? - Marko Bon via fftogo

Platy: that is why I say you are defined not by who follows you but who you follow. Obviously I am about to redefine myself. - Robert Scoble

Robert, life might be harsh, but this is just FriendFeed, not life. ;-) - Kol Tregaskes via twhirl

Marko: exactly. - Robert Scoble

what's FFholic? - Jeff Quinton

Marko, completely agree, hence why I'm confused with Robert's comments. Just cut down on your friends or create a friends list with the people you want to read. And, as a bonus, click Hide. ;-) Robert, how do you read through FF? - Kol Tregaskes via twhirl

Is this why You subscribed to me this morning? Mixing it up a bit? I saw it and was like, "AWESOME...SCOBLE FOLLOWED ME!" - Sean McGee

Do you only watch one type of TV show? One genre of movie? Talk about only one topic, ever? Most likely not. I like FF because it is so diverse and dynamic. And the perfect solution as you stated would be using the lists, if you feel certain people ONLY dish out one type of thing. Since most don't, you will probably miss out on a bunch of stuff, which may be your goal in the first place :) - Josh Haley

Josh, if Robert does, then he should subscribe to one type of FFer. :-) - Kol Tregaskes

I find myself atop the list; dunno why, don't care if I stay there. I comment and share as I will, as I am. That means humour, intelligent discussion, a simple agreement, disagreement, word of support, or a semi-rare rant. That means being myself and letting the subscriptions take care of themselves. I tend to subscribe to people who do so similarly. FFeed is what you make it. - Michael W. May

I can understand the logic, but I don't agree. The site is called "FriendFeed" not "LectureSmartFeed." While it's nice to have educating information on here, it's also nice to be entertained by interesting stories that I wouldn't have found otherwise. I see the site more as a pool of information both educational and entertaining. - James Ferguson

Haley. I like a little variety, even noise. But when I refresh and see nothing but I know something changed in the force. I refresh FF hundreds of times a day. - Robert Scoble

On the mark. Entertainment is good but being smarter / more in touch is best. - David Z

@theposterformerlyknownasAlexScoble, I love cats. I live with 2 of them. All the more reason I don't need a steady stream of pukey-cute kitties & doggies to look at. I seriously wish more folks had gotten a little more art education so they'd have a better idea which images are really worth bothering with... - Kamilah Gill

Variety is the spice of life, Robert. No, wait FF is not life or is it? ;-) - Kol Tregaskes

Robert, have you tried friends lists? I would suggest this is the simple answer. - Kol Tregaskes

Well, certainly not everything I post is serious. I like to have a laugh, post a non-sequitur or two. But I'd be really sad if some one posted a bunch of junk for the sole purpose of climbing up the FFholic charts. That would be incredibly lame. And I personally will do no such thing. In fact, i have a couple of Brian Wilson biographies on my desk, so I'll be much less noisy the next couple weeks. - Brian Norwood

I agree: this is aggregation aggravation - Anna Camara

Honestly FFHolic is not getting that many visitors. So being on the list wouldn't impress a lot of people. Also, we didn't create the lists to make people compete with each other but to let people outside the blogging community to see what the buzz of the day is. - Baris Seker

The problem might get worse now that you mentioned FFholic, Robert. I bet there were still a few folks who hadn't heard of it yet. - Kamilah Gill

You do need a bit of chill-out time from all this tech posts. Robert, are you just after tech-news? - Kol Tregaskes

Robert Scoble - Friendfeed software needs to be smart enough to automatically restructure and optimize to your interests in real time your social networks and personal information flow. Imagine when 10 billion people are using a program like Friendfeed. Only the most minute percentage of communications is going to be of interest to each of us. No one using Google Reader would complain about the availability of too many feeds -- you simply select to follow those feeds that are most interesting. - Sean McBride

Hey, if you don't know FFholic, you're not an early adopter. :) - Sean McBride

Kol: you can see what I like here: http://friendfeed.com/scobleiz... -- yeah, tech heavy, but I go for anything that makes me a smarter person. Cat photos? Hardly ever. That's my brother's job and I just typically hide them unless they are only the best of the best. - Robert Scoble

I "like" what I want and don't expect others to feel the same way. I also hate seeing politics flooding my FF, but haven't griped about it (before now). And I've never heard of FFHolic. But that's the hit or miss of FF, I guess. Some really awesome random stuff that one would like can pop up, but also the not so really interesting bits too. - Arlan Koizumi

OK, I think maybe we have crossed the line. The man doesn't OWE any of us his subscription. He has an idea what he want to see, and he said as much. If he wants to only read tech talk and politics, that's his call. And if his subscription to you means anything to you personally, he was letting you know his inclination. Let it go. - Brian Norwood

I don't mean to offend...I respect you and everything you talk about/share with us...but can you take a quick look at this and maybe share your opinion? - David Cook

As much as I like the "you are who you follow" argument, to Robert's point, look at who are the most active people on FriendFeed. Look at what the most popular stories are. Regardless of who you follow, you're not going to avoid what everyone on FriendFeed is liking, commenting on, and posting. - Mark Trapp

Was that a threat, Robert? I think it is funny that there is so much bitching about FriendFeed being too much about social media and techies.. and now that people are beginning to use it for entertainment.. there's a problem :) That being said, you should begin using lists, or just unsubscribe from those whose content you don't like... but you'll probably have to turn off foaf as well, if you don't want any entertainment at all... or just go back to google reader! - Tim Hoeck

social media is always a game - Jeremiah Owyang

@Mark Trapp have you been using lists in beta to filter the material you're seeing? If so, do you find that it's been effective? - Mark Wilson

It's only a threat if people see some value in me following them. I doubt they do. Anyway, I am starting to use rooms. With 3,000 it's a bit tough to categorize everyone, but I'm working on it. - Robert Scoble

Mark, I have been using the lists to filter out people who give me stuff I don't care about, and I've turned of Friend-of-a-Friend. Even then, people who I want to follow because I like them and they are interesting are also interested in things that I don't care about. People have diverging tastes, and the really popular memes are almost universal: look how long it took for Bacon to die out. Unless you don't subscribe to anyone, the "rethink your subscriptions" cliché doesn't solve the problem. - Mark Trapp

This is the first time this post has actually made it to my FF page 1 today, which speaks to how busy FF is today. I've not yet read the comments above, however I will say that I think it's rather presumptuous to assume that people are trying to move up the FFholic page. Many of us were surprised at the results, and at least one person has decided to take a FF hiatus due to the results on that page.... - Stupid Blogger (aka Tina)

Hey, maybe Robert can call for a Serious-Chatter-Only Corporate Version complete with his special personal wish-list of features, and it can win TC next year. What a hoot! - abacab

... It's been said many *many* times over that the wider the audience on any social site gets, the broader the interests get. FF is no exception. Options are to either subscribe to a narrow interest niche or a broad variety of people. It's a personal preference, and if you're looking for nothing but intellectualism I would venture that you'll have to look harder and harder for it as more and more people join. - Stupid Blogger (aka Tina)

kol: actually, the time I spend here is life and if FF continues in the direction of a bored high school study hall, I'll spend a lot less of my life here than I do now. - Bill Sanders

I mentioned earlier today that I was surprised I was so far down the list (but then Robert pointed out that I was ahead of him which made me realize how much time I actually spend on FF). I know that a lot of my posts are fluff. I don't care what people think of me but I'll be honest and admit that having Robert subscribed to me works in my advantage. I'm sure that at least some of my subscribers have come to my feed because of Robert. - Mark Wilson

I don't care what people think of me but I do like making connections with as many people as possible. A narrow mind and narrow field of subscriptions doesn't make the experience any richer. - Mark Wilson

What you use FF for is different from what someone else uses it for. Again, I see value in things great and small, from a simple chuckle to deep debate. - Lindsey

Requires Silverlight (like the olympics) and the Move player for HD. - Alan Le

Awesome! Thanks for the link - FYI Mac users : I had to use Safari - didn't work in Firefox. - Steve Isaacs

Makes me wish Silverligjt ran on Mobile Safari on my touch. - Roberto Bonini

First the Olympics, now the DNC. Man, Microsoft knows how to put out carrots to get people to adopt its proprietary technologies. Can you say "hoodwinked"? - Chris Messina

hoodwinked? But is there an open alternative technology for viewing HD video on the web backed by a CMS system that can handle the load of the DNC viewers? - Alan Le

@chris why do you say ""hoodwinked" - maybe just maybe that it is best out there ? - Peter Dawson

Can anyone explain why the Move component is required for this? It seems like Silverlight's adaptive streaming would be adequate... - Wade Dorrell

I ♥ it! :) When? When? When?? - AJ Batac

Likey. - Jonathon

Whoa. - Mark Trapp

Sawheet! "lists" means I can go back to using a single account now, phew! - Jason Wehmhoener

Very Awesome Bret... can't wait. :) http://beta.friendfeed.com/?bc... - Brandon

Totally love the Friends addition. - Chris Baskind

Noice! - Shey

AJ, it's available now at http://beta.friendfeed.com/ - Paul Buchheit

Pretty sweet. - Scott Bulloch via feedalizr

Paul you just beat me to it.. this is aka just like draft.blogger.com :)_ - Peter Dawson

In beta, wow. HOLY WOW this is AWESOME. Are the poster usernames still goign to be links? - Mona N.

Brandon/AJ: no need to wait: use it now at http://beta.friendfeed.com/ and let us know how you like it. - Bret Taylor

so awesome - love the favorites! - Morgan

I've switched and don't know that I'll be going back. Someone lemme know when beta is live so I can hit the normal site! =) - Stupid Blogger (aka Tina)

Awesome! - Steve Rubel

Fabulous! Cannot wait! - Abby Martin

It's beautiful. :) - Daynah

Thanks FriendFeed Team. You guys rock! - AJ Batac

Great features, digging the groups - Cains

wow nice job! It's very clean! - Alan Le

It's the Gmail/Reader interface, but w/ the nav on the right side -- shocked I am, shocked! :-) - Paul Wilcox

Wow! Neat. - Atul Arora

The the new list feature is heck cool... just created test. Wondering how we can share list now :)- - Peter Dawson

A link to cancel a comment with no hack! YAY!!!! - Stupid Blogger (aka Tina)

Mona, poster names are still links they're just styled differently so they don't look like the other links. - Stupid Blogger (aka Tina)

beta.friendfeed is my new friend !! lots of new stuff to play with.. 8-10hrs lag with list data ..but a very very powerful feature. !! Way to GO TEAM FF !! - Peter Dawson

Love it. If this does not go mainstream, I don't know what will. - Vinay | विनय

Coming up next: gamma.friendfeed.com - Jim Norris

I /love/ this! So much shinier. - eve shot first

I still want more of a customizable dashboard view, tho. (kudos on the changes, tho...they ARE nice, and I do appreciate them. :)) - abacab

Thank you for the lists. - Paul Arterburn

Good job guys. I am disappointed you used Peter Astley, and not Rick Astley. Lost opportunity. - Louis Gray

looking great :) - sergiooo

My favorite is how the blog has like 2 comments, and Brett's link to it has almost 30 comments. - Dustin

Yummy* Friendfeeding just got better. - Jonathan (Bad Robot)

This could be very good... but where 's the Rick Roll? - Bill Sodeman

OK: That's a long enough beta period. Let's do it live! - Chris Baskind

I want to start a pool -- (a) first blog to hit techmeme with an article on the re-design, (b) blog with most articles about the re-design (within 2 days starting now) - Wayne Schulz

LOVE IT! - Kyle Lacy

Why not position:fixed the right nav? Like this: http://limpid.nl/lab/css/fixed... - Michael Leggett

The share button no longer appears in my feed. This is counterintuitive. Otherwise, it's been a great experience so far. - Michael Nielsen

Where's the "me" tab? Everything else I LOVE! - Jennifer Van Grove

Michael: if you're viewing your feed from the main address, there is a 'sharing' box up at the top, and the options (comment, photo, link) appear once you begin typing. - Stupid Blogger (aka Tina)

click on your name Jennifer, above right - Tibor Holoda

@Jennifer "My Feed" in the sidebar replaces the "me" tab. And like Tibor said, your name works too. - Dan Hsiao

you launch this right after takeoff from scoble to berlin - coinkydink? :) - Allen Stern

@Stupid Blogger: Thanks, I'd figured that out, was just pointing out what seems like a bug in the current UI. - Michael Nielsen

Looks nice on first glance, and it seems easier now to reach rooms. The friend lists should be a great way to organize my imaginary friends which are basically topic subscriptions. The "Add/ Remove friends" link is confusing at first because when you don't have any friends in the list yet, clicking it will result in nothing (making you wonder if it's broken). The message sharing post form is also confusing because you don't quite know what to enter into it; a link, or a message, or...? The fact that it says "Share a link, message, or photos" doesn't really help. Also wasn't sure how to remove a friend from the home feed after moving them to a special list feed. Took me some seconds to find the Delete List icon, because I was looking near the "Add/ remove friends" link navigation. Wasn't sure if I like you created so many default friend lists for me (personal, favorites, professional), though I guess it may be useful to get the point across. I think I'm liking how names aren't underlined, though not so sure a - Philipp Lenssen

Try Friend recommendations. - Chris Baskind

I love the new info bubble. Super better than the old one :) - AJ Batac

Looks like the logo now clicks to the Friends view, as you'd expect. Same as You + Friends. - Chris Baskind

can't seem to access the beta site: Service Unavailable We encountered an error on your last request. Our service is new, and we are just working out the kinks. We apologize for the inconvenience. - Thomas Hawk

Awesomeness, very useful, and solves the biggest problem of noise reduction! great! - Aditya Kothadiya

awesome! Working now. Anyone know if there is a pagerization greasemonkey script yet for the beta site? - Thomas Hawk

One word: wonderful. - Brandon Titus

thanks for the iteration.. it's a great step forward - Travis Parsons

like the new functions, but not the new layout, it just doesn't look like friendfeed and a bit feel like google groups (caused by the side bar maybe). miss the old layout... - Baron Mok

It is kind of cool! - Steve

great design!! - Ricardo J. Valle

on minor thing: on the main page, Post button and "Show best of: day - week" overlaps if you narrow the browser window. - Dennis Seah

Fantastic! - mojay

We need a "remove from home feed" button under the friends settings. Or there must be an option that we can choose the list which shows on main page. For example, i want to see only "Professional" friends' feeds on the main page. - Selim Yoruk

Cool new FF! - Igor Poltavskiy

Time stamps for comments? :( - Marcos Messer

Threaded comments??? - Jigar Mehta

So many small details and improvements, make SO much difference. - Martin Añazco

At last, I will be able to add to my feed all the people who subscribe to me, and it won't impact on my main source of infobrainment. It looks nice, too. Looks like you guys have pulled another one out of the bag. +1 - Slippy Lane

looking good friendfeed crew! - Dobromir Hadzhiev

Funny that they turned it on when I was flying to Europe. Looks awesome! - Robert Scoble

that is so frickin' sweet! - Jeremiah Palmer

I'm truly amazed at how good the UI is. The subtle touches like the use of blue links in just the right places or the contextual help like "How does hiding work?". Really great job. I think mioNews just became a little less useful to me, since FF now natively has friend groups. Oh well :P - Patrick Lightbody

please have an option to set font size! - h1ro

It has a great feature in allowing me to separate different people into different lists - that will be worth the whole interface change in itself. I hope that rooms also have embeddable feeds tho! - Justin Long

FF is in a frenzy. This is 16 hrs old and 3rd on my Best of the Week. Congratulations Bret and team. - Russellreno

@Marcos: you can hover your mouse over the comment bubble in front of a comment to get its timestamp. - Dan Hsiao