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Today I bought my first DSLR, the Canon T1i. Amazon has it for $793 with 2 lenses! (18-55 & 55-250) http://www.fatwallet.com/forums... @Fatwallet info
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I'm so excited Johnny...but I'm a photography newb...I really need to learn what the hell I'm doing now that I have a nice camera.
- Mark Krynsky
I am excited for you... I guess the best advice I have is rock a lowest f stop possible (1.8 - 2.8) on aperature mode and fire away :)
- Johnny Worthington
from iPhone
As Johnny is inferring, pick up the cheap 50mm f/1.8 as well when you can.
- ronin
PHOTOWALK!
- Derrick
I've seriously had my eye on that camera. Congrats!
- Ha3rvey (more more more)
Good luck. I learned while out in Rocky Mountain National Park. I still think I took some of my best pictures as I was learning. Agree with the 50mm f/1.8 or lower. I bought a $100 version and it's still a go to lens, esp in low light situations a point-and-shoot would die trying to take.
- Eric @ CS Techcast
Thanks for all the comments everyone and Derrick I'm really looking forward to my first photowalk. Keep me posted with info.
- Mark Krynsky
The Beatles releasing full catalog digitally... via USB
(Macworld.com) - http://tech.yahoo.com/news...
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Macworld.com - Apple Corps (that's the other Apple) and EMI Music announced Wednesday an upcoming release of the entire Beatles' catalog digitally, in 320 Kbps MP3 and 24-bit FLAC formats. The tracks won't be available in iTunes, or any other online store in fact (at least not legally).
Audit questions FHA's ability to screen lenders
(AP) - http://news.yahoo.com/s...
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AP - The government's mortgage insurance agency is doing a poor job of screening lenders that enter the program, an internal audit has found.
Meteor Shower Late Tonight! - WSOCtv.com - http://news.google.com/news...
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Apple declares war on the entire PC industry (Joe Wilcox/BetaNews)
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Joe Wilcox / BetaNews: Apple declares war on the entire PC industry — There is absolutely nothing coincidental about Apple launching new products today. The big product launch is Apple's first preemptive marketing strike against Microsoft, Windows 7 and the entire PC industry.
This is easily in my top 5 Diesel Sweeties comics of all time: http://www.dieselsweeties.com/archive...
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Re: Cliqset: FriendFeed Done Right - http://mashable.com/2009...
Keith Rowland, Louis Gray, ashish and 8 other people liked this
"What the hell? Christina just tweeted: "Oh FriendFeed Mafia. Calling people who don't get your service dumb is a real way to win friends and influence people." Tweet here: http://twitter.com/film_gi... This has nothing to do with getting FriendFeed or not. It has to do with accuracy in JOURNALISM. It's clear you didn't do your homework.This industry needs better journalism and needs people to admit when they make a mistake (I do that all the time). FriendFeed has real time search. Cliqset does not. FriendFeed has users. Cliqset does not (and I can't find any, either, except to spam my contact list and beg). FriendFeed is real time (tweets go from Twitter to FriendFeed in less than a second). Cliqset does not. FriendFeed has many other features too, but I've made my point. This article is 100% incorrect. Cliqset might be a nice aggregator (actually, it does show some promise there) but it is 100% wrong to say it's "FriendFeed Done..."
- Robert Scoble
Nice summarization of my feelings.
- Maxamad
I just wanted to say thank you to everyone who was understanding and supportive yesterday. You know who you are, and you're awesome.
Keith Rowland and Roberto Bonini liked this
Thanks to everyone for the kind wishes as we shared the birth of Ryan Soroush Scoble in real time. What a great Saturday night!
HΛMΣD ƧΛFΛ, metalerik, Stephen Mack and 33 other people liked this
Congratulations for you and maryam and a very big kiss for Ryan soroush :))
- 1Fathi
Congratulations to you and Maryam.
- Steve de Mena
from iPhone
Congrats Scobles and Welcome Ryan!
- Travis Koger
به به رایان سروش !
- Zahra (raoros)
Congratulations!
- Tony Fluharty
GRATZ!
- rowlikeagirl
welcome to the world rss!
- Allen Stern
مبارک باشه :)
- حضرت لپ
Congratulations!
- John Craft
Congrats!
- James Stratford
Congratulations Robert
- Rob Cairns
Congratulations Robert on the birth of your son Ryan.
- Marty McPadden
To @palafo -- any Wordpress installation can be cloud-enabled by installing this plug-in --> http://wordpress.org/extend...
Susan Beebe, Jalada, Mark Essel and 7 other people liked this
I did mine!
- Keith Rowland
Already 609 downloads of the plugin
- Jesse Stay
there is only one aggregator that supports RSScloud right?
- Holden Page
Holden - 2 - seems like quite an opportunity
- Jesse Stay
Automated-installed it 2 hours ago http://wittman.org :)
- Micah Wittman
Got ours installed.
- Ken Camp
pure poetry! Thanks for passing on the tip.
- Kirsten Mitchell
Does it still work if you throw your feed through Feedburner? Or does FB "clean" anything up?
- Jason Griffey
Over 2,000 downloads of the plugin now
- Jesse Stay
Yep, I am one of those downloaders - hehe
- Susan Beebe
@jolenta nope, I haven't changed my icon since Monday. I'm going to stick with the photo I got for a while cause most people like it.
Linda Lorie, Alan Morris, Kryptic and 2 other people liked this
I like it.
- sean andersen
It's a great shot and you look relaxed and happy. That is wonderful to see!
- Kryptic
Not enough people care about http://twitter.com/scoblei... so I can't justify the time investment. 1,700 faves in 2 weeks. Whew!
Nicholas James, Andrew Terry, Elliott Ng and 7 other people liked this
come on scoble, you of all people should know that it takes time.. oh wait was that a tweet reply bait?
- Shivanand Velmurugan
I prefer your likes - better organization here on FriendFeed for that.
- Jesse Stay
I like your thinking, but Twitter just doesn't have enough good content and it's not a good platform for this experiment.
- Louis Gray
Sure makes for a good feed, though.
- Kathy Fitch
Twitter is definitely missing the "like" feature and threaded discussion. Friendfeed completes Twitter. Its too bad Twitter didn't buy Friendfeed.
- Elliott Ng
Louis: I totally disagree. There's a TON of great content on Twitter and my Faves feed demonstrates that. 1,700 faves in just two weeks.
- Robert Scoble
Robert, while one can come across great content on Twitter, Jesse is right; organisation and engagement are better served by Friendfeed's "Like".
- Andrew Terry
from iPod
You know what? I'm starting to like Facebook. The trick? Delete everyone. :-)
Ozer Wrzl (EN), Ryan Mahar, Tyler Ham and 58 other people liked this
it's hard getting used to the slow pace over there.
- michael sean wright
No more super pokes that way!
- Robert Scoble
Although I hate Facebook, I probably could live in a FB environment consisting of me and nobody.
- Sebastian
You seem crankier lately... ;)
- Scott Paley
can't you just not accept the superpoke app?
- John Wang
Scott: I think I'm getting more elitist and cranky, yes. I even feel a blog post or two welling up inside me! ;-)
- Robert Scoble
Including yourself LOL <Delete everyone. :-)>
- Lora Lufark
Wow, full circle!
- Scott Paley
But... You miss the best fun! Ignoring app invites
- Kristian Salonen
Actually, it would be nice if you could configure FB to only allow for things you approve of. For example, I don't want quizzes or pokes...
- Scott Paley
John: I'm just kidding (mostly) about the superpokes. The real advantage of deleting most people is your news feed gets enjoyable again!
- Robert Scoble
Robert: How many FB friends are you down to?
- Scott Paley
Scoble: If you delete everyone, who do you get yours news from?
- Manuel Mas
Isn't it better to just read a list of the people you care about it?
- Manuel Mas
I went and did some Spring-cleaning there when everyone decided the sky was falling here. Deleted a dozen or so apps, and clicked Hide->Hide [app-name] on a few that my friends were still using. Now I have a stream over there that has almost nothing but my friends posts, links, photos and comments. It's a bit like FriendFeed, except people I actually know from offline use it.
- Edward Coffey
If you used the Fan Page like FriendFeed, then it's pretty close, except for RT updates. But regular guys can't friend your user page unless you return the friend acceptance. And I see that you really don't want all that noise from listeners. So you need to use the Fan Page instead of your personal page for public conversations. The ability to choose your subscriptions, independently...
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- Keith Rowland
Keith. Yes, I have two pages.
- Robert Scoble
it's funny Scoble has gone from adding everybody to being a social network of one
- Bastard Operator From FF
Manuel: I'm not actually deleting everyone, but it sure seems that way. Already I've deleted manually about 9,000 people. Not a fun job at all.
- Robert Scoble
My mom told me that geeks are antisocial ;-)
- Sebastian
people are going to start saying "Robert doesn't want to be friends with me anymore." :(
- John Wang
John: yeah, except FriendFeed is going to remain my place to interact with a large number of people. Twitter is going to stay clean. Facebook is for people I've hung out with in real life.
- Robert Scoble
So everything ends up in FriendFeed. IOW all the other services are obsolete. Right?
- Sebastian
I only use Facebook for close friends, and it works pretty well for that.
- Rob Fisher
OK Robert, so should we not bother with your Facebook Fan Page? You just using FB for your personal friends?
- Keith Rowland
I'm down to 2450 friends and still deleting. So I've deleted more than half (and I already went through 5,500 who couldn't get into my friend account and deleted most of those too).
- Robert Scoble
You're deleting these from your personal FB account, not your fan page?
- Keith Rowland
The page I see for RS on FB has over 10,000 fans.
- Keith Rowland
None of the people I know on Facebook is also on Friendfeed, it is like two completely different worlds
- Asgeir
Asgeir, yeah me too, it seems all my family and church friends are non-geeks. Which means of course I'm the go to guy when technology fails.
- Keith Rowland
Keith: right. My fan page at http://www.facebook.com/scoblei... is open to everyone. I'll start updating that, but I'm specifically talking about my Facebook profile at http://www.facebook.com/roberts...
- Robert Scoble
Keith, same here :) Every time I am visiting family or a friend there is usually something that needs fixing
- Asgeir
I'm a huge Facebook fan for keeping in touch with friends & family. It's good for that.
- Alex Knight
Robert you got the personal profile page locked up pretty good, can't even get to it, just reverts back to my home page.
- Keith Rowland
Keith: according to my settings it's open to everyone. All settings set to as open as possible. Weird.
- Robert Scoble
Now it's working, I swear it didn't :-)
- Keith Rowland
It comes up fine now, so I'll leave you to your pruning process. I'm not a personal friend, so I'll just watch the Fan Page. BTW, loved the impromptu interview with Paul, thanks for that! I feel a little safer investing time here on FF.
- Keith Rowland
I'll do the same to see if I begin to like it too.
- Caio Cesar
Can I add you? <;o)
- sofarsoShawn
Used to do that. That's one good strategy.
- PJ Edwards
Robert, you could just delete all your game apps... Which of course, you already know. I can see the benefit of deleting people from your Twitter account, but since FB is a closed system, I don't see the benefit of deleting people from your Facebook.
- Mark Davidson
from BuddyFeed
Robert's new answer to everything is delete delete delete.
- Rob Cairns
Ughh, are you sure you're not on FriendFeed's payroll, what happened to your "Roach Motel" analysis we all know Facebook sucks.
- sofarsoShawn
sofarsoShawn: Facebook still sucks for people like me who want to be totally public but they are opening up. That has nothing to do with my shift in how I am approaching these things, though.
- Robert Scoble
from iPhone
Oh great the FaceBook unfollowing saga begins Maybe they will ave to sell to shut you up LOL
- RetiredTeacherD
Scoble so by deleting everyone and isolating yourself in a social network is the answer? NO. Could you please explain where your approach comes from, I'm confused or are you just joking?
- sofarsoShawn
I'm a fan of the "add 98% of your friends to a list and then disallow that list from seeing frickin' anything" approach.
- Brett Kelly
from iPhone
Brett, can you use lists to affect the visibility of newsfeed items? I thought I saw something in the RWW facebook guide that said you could only use them to control the visibility of parts of your profile. Maybe I just got the wrong impression. I'm going to have to explore Facebook someday.
- Bruce Lewis
FB has gone bad I'd rather goto brightkite
- Ray H
I have never accepted a friend request from stranger on my Facebook right from the beginning i made the account. FB is for my relatives only. Friendfeed is more open,, in fact i have no "real" friend here. i like it;p
- zʍıɔ
First Twitter, then Facebook. The great Robert Scoble unfollow saga continues... Me, I've been accepting friend requests from FF people (I always request they tell me they're from FF so I know). I have 4 separate groups for friends, FF people, and both sides of my family. But I'm nowhere near overwhelmed...
- Dennis Jernberg
I don't presume to add someone in Facebook (or LinkedIn) that I don't know IRL unless the person specifically encourages people to add him/her on that service. For example, Chris Brogan and I are linked on LinkedIn, but I'd never presume to ask him for a recommendation.
- John E. Bredehoft
So it's the return of the Great Unfollow.
- Morton Fox
Doing that on FriendFeed. Sick of the self important, self promoting spammers here.
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
It's more than deleting everyone, deleting all the FB features would help too. ;-)
- Kol Tregaskes
why do u think so ? facebook is so enjoyable . the more the merior ;) just try to like it the way it is
- Viva Vida
Lists (feed) filter the noise and deliver specific news on family, co-workers, industry contacts, vendors, etc
- Susan Beebe
Robert, is Facebook having connection problems this morning?
- Shari Weiss
You may look back on this purging of human capital as the darkest day of your social life. How many people did you alienate in one day? Must be a record of some kind! Congratulations! Sorry you will no longer be privy to my astute insights back at the mothership. It would have been better to be more selective to begin with, but alas, you were bombarded with requests. The price of fame, I suppose. Cheers!
- david beckwith
Social media without people....hmmmmm this is a different concept or approch and I wonder what the benefits are. Anyone care to share?
- Jeunelle Foster
Jeunelle. No spam. No noise. No trolls. No SEO experts. Lots of benefits!
- Robert Scoble
from iPhone
Ahhh well in that case I'm all for it, besides the people that I have in my friendlist now at FB I can't stand. lol :)
- Jeunelle Foster
I'm still trying to find my one home on the web. Sometimes it's FB, sometimes it's Twitter, sometimes it's FF.
- Adam
Exactly why can't someone create 1 with the positive benefits of all 3?
- Jeunelle Foster
Instead of having to go to the 50 or so social networks I'm a member of, I want those networks to come to me. I want a single page (my blog or home page) I can host myself, working in both directions. Yes, I can pull things, using rss feeds or widgets, and I can push things, using services such as ping.fm, but I want all that to happen "at home". I want things people post elsewhere,...
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- Irma Vermaat
Brogan wrote a good article on Facebook. I think his way is more open, but it does open the door to faux "friends." However, on that medium, I think it is more understandable because of the medium. That is, until FF turns FB around and blows it up inside and out with new innovations.
- PJ Edwards
I leave the games up & ignore my 812 pending requests. Sometimes it is cool to throw sheep or play tic-tac-toe with an old college classmate (who's now a history professor), and an occassional event is cool (although nowhere near as nice as tribe.net). It's REALLY easy to ignore requests.
- Mitchell Tsai
Bruce - You can include/exclude individual people from your News Feed. Works very well for prolific people who post stuff that doesn't interest me 99% of the time. Possible strategy (which I don't use) (1) friend everyone who asks (2) put "followers" in a "don't appear on my NewsFeed" group. I like to see everyone on my NewsFeed. How else will I get to know new people?
- Mitchell Tsai
I make everything on my page public - except my home phone (friends only). Luckily, I don't have a boss or corporation or sticky political situation to navigate. I consider anything Facebook/FriendFeed-private-room/LinkedIn/web potentially public info. Anything private should be over the phone or in person (and even the phone is scanned for keywords). Even an e-mail that says "let's...
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- Mitchell Tsai
Mitchell, that sounds useful, but what I really was curious about was restricting visibility of my own items. On FriendFeed I put tech stuff on my home feed for public consumption, but family doings are in a private group. I'd like to use FB the same way if possible. As for getting to know new people, on FF I have a "followers" group that I check every so often, while keeping the noise level on my home feed tolerable.
- Bruce Lewis
Bruce - Sound like the two users (if you don't get caught by Facebook) approach is cool - It's been proposed as "alternate personas" (maybe Bruce Lewis & Bruce X Lewis) - one of my friends Brian Tung also went as Byron Tung (tribute to Byron the writer). A fan page is another possibility, but not everyone at Facebook has fan pages, so it doesn't work as well as FriendFeed's one-directional links.
- Mitchell Tsai
I made a "Chat" group, and only added a few friends that I don't mind chatting with. Then, I configured chat to only show that list....the upside? Everyone else sees me as offline. Simple but effective!
- shaun mclane
I merely created a second "personal" profile. That way I can keep my 5000 followers. Only actual friends will be added to my personal profile. Is that a violation of the terms of service?
- Leo Laporte
Delete everyone, and block the annoying applications from appearing in your news stream. Agreed.
- Steve Lynch
from twhirl
Even better: Come to FF and complain about how terrible it is to have your news stream flooded with stuff from friends. So terrible.
- Fleagle
When in desktop applications, I often forget I'm not on the Web. I hit Command-R to refresh Apple Mail, and it did a "Reply". Duh.
Tom Ribbens, Keith Rowland, John (a.k.a. dendroica) and 2 other people liked this
I almost made the exact same comment yesterday, things like this are always happening to me.
- Sarah is Novembery
Tweeting :)
Alfredo, gmarketer, Antonio Sotomayor and 272 other people liked this
Funny!
- Robert Scoble
too true
- James Miao
Hey, I can tell those Mark Zuckerberg prongs haven't started working yet. ;-)
- Robert Scoble
A good reminder that it could have been a lot worse.
- Christopher Galtenberg
Heh
- Charlie Anzman
Hey! I resemble that remark!
- Chris Messina
funny and true :)
- Ali
Very clever.
- Nicholas Kreidberg
LOL
- Steve Chou
from fftogo
apparently you can trade some symbols and numbers for letters and it's FFing
- Katy Barrilleaux
I love that!! :D
- Susan Beebe
from iPhone
ReTweet what the middle one said 4/5 WooHoos
- Zax Stevens
LOL :D
- zsafwan
That is *exactly* why FF will become more mainstream than twitter.. try explaining how to tweet to your parents (who are finally comfortable with email)!
- Chris Myles
Go Chris!
- Charlie Anzman
ROFL!
- Darren Heydon
Haha! I have this on my facebook :)
- Joe Dawson
from iPhone
: D
- Taylanov
Awesome!
- Ladybug Heather
Haha!
- muratt
ahahha! brilliant
- Jacque
That's about right.
- Josh Haley
thats funny lol.. where did u find it
- Nicholas Skinner
that's *agent_x* cartoonist from sunny queensland, aus ~ http://twitter.com/agent_x :)
- Peter Renshaw
I just noticed you posted my comic. Thanks. I keep them all here if you are interested - http://www.agent-x.com.au/
- agent x
agent x, I like you. Bookmarked.
- Dennis Jernberg
Now when you expand a conversation, we add an "Add comment" link to the bottom so that you don't have to scroll back to the top.
TobiasVerhoog.com, DrUnKeN_TiGeR, David Berrebi and 280 other people liked this
heh just was gonna say something
- MG Siegler
Sweet!
- Mark Trapp
I'm first. :P http://ff.im/6tDGj
- Oğuz Serdar
Why add this even thought your going to close down the service?
- Matt Ruiz
Yes! Thank you!
- Diego Barros
hey, that's me in that grab.
- Christian Collins
You're quick Qguz!
- Paul Buchheit
nice its quite useful .. :)
- Bhowmik Shah
Exxxcellent, sir. We've been asking for this for awhile now. With this taken care of, how close are we to being able to collapse comments that we've expanded?
- Akiva Moskovitz
Thanks !!!
- Eric Logan
It's too late.
- Matt Ruiz
Let's call that a $50 million feature ;-)
- Laurent
+1 Akiva, was thinking the same thing - Also, thank you much! Been hoping for this. :-)
- Matthew Horton
Good to see development on FF hasn't stopped, Paul. I thought the FF API v2 post was the last FF update we'd ever see. This warms my heart :)
- LANjackal
it's not too late, personally alot my post-FB fears will be allayed if dev continues on FF.
- Joe Silence is not dead
Very cool! Keep bringing the cool features!
- Dakota O'Neill
Great!
- John (a.k.a. dendroica)
Akiva, so how's your faith feeling tonight? now?
- Myrna
I just clicked add comment, and now I have nothing to say. :D
- Josh Haley
from iPhone
Myrna, a band-aid might help but it certainly won't cure.
- Akiva Moskovitz
I had to refresh the page to see it initially.
- John (a.k.a. dendroica)
Akiva :) So what would it like if it wasn't just a band-aid?
- Myrna
Myrna, I am unable to parse that sentence.
- Akiva Moskovitz
Sounds like a good addition. I was thinking about that today.
- Louis Gray
Thank you, Thank You, Thank you!
- Jeff P. Henderson
I'm wondering how Paul is feeling tonight a day after signing. Toward his friends here also?
- Myrna
Me like.
- 1x29
Lol at Laurent $50 million dollar feature
- Wayne Sutton
from iPhone
Keep proving me right, Paul. You guys are awesome!
- Jesse Stay
CYBERHUG! (platonically speaking!)
- MiniMage, sheeple of FF
+ Jesse in every way.
- Myrna
very nice - please keep pushing on your features! Keep making FF great.
- Tobin Truog
awesome! definitely makes sense.
- Dusty Edenfield
Yep. I just noticed it. Then looked for the post ... and here it is.
- Kevin Mohr
Suggested this a while back. Glad to see it added.
- Manuel Mas
Much wanted feature.
- ashish
Cool!
- Anne Bouey
I just noticed that! Very nice!
- Herb Hernandez
from iPhone
Me like new link. Very convenient.
- Dennis Jernberg
Yay, you guys added my "add a comment" button feature (sorta). thank you :)
- Susan Beebe
from iPhone
fftogo mobile version, or is there abetter one?
- jcunwired
nice!
- Marg Uerite
Another great new feature. Thanks, Paul!
- Ha3rvey (more more more)
Genius!
- R1CC1
digging the feature but I'll keep Micah's script around a bit longer since it also has a "like" link
- chrisofspades
Maybe it was the absurdly long discussions of the FB purchase, but I was wanting this feature yesterday. Woot!
- Tom Horn
nice
- Gaith
can you please add one at the bottom of the page, too? i keep having to hit About then the friendfeed logo, and finally back at the beginning/top :)
- mike
Let me guess, the 500+ message thread about FB buying FF brought this on. Like!
- Evan Parker
Matthew, Laurent, Akiva Roflol. This is like the bouquet you get when you're the girl and he messed up. Louis, you were right. ;)
- Melanie Reed
:) thanx
- Ali
hey cool feature thx PB
- Thomas Power
ty
- paniaguai
that's great! thanks
- Jay
Excellent!! Thanks, Paul.
- Kol Tregaskes
cheers
- outofmyarse
Perfect choice of screenshot
- Alex Kapranoff
Very nice improvement, me thinks you were listening. I remember seeing someone request this feature yesterday.
- Keith Rowland
makes sooooo much sense
- Dobromir Hadzhiev
Probably a five-second feature to reassure everyone ;-)
- Tim Tyler
Thanks it is useful :)
- Burçak Çubukçu
Great
- Слобода Свова
In Soviet Russia, comment posts you!
- Mark
Yay!
- DGentry
While you are at it, add a "Keep classic FriendFeed alive forever" -link. kthx! ;)
- Jemm
Very clever, and very easy.
- Evan Travers
It does not appear until certain number of comments are made. This is really nice because if it appeared twice in proximity it would not look nice.
- ashish
Now, can you add a collapse comments feature? I hate having to scroll up or down for what seems like miles and miles of comments just to get to another post.
- April Buchheit
+2
- Jim Norris
We really wanted this when we were conference blogging--will be great for next time.
- Ruchira S. Datta
+1000 April - yes, i've wanted that for a while, too ... please :)
- Susan Beebe
Nice start. That means I can almost uninstall the Greasemonkey script that had been doing this for me for the past month or so. Now could we also get a link to collapse the comments again. Pretty please? Oh, and why no "Like" link at the bottom as well?
- Alex Schleber
ooh yes, a link at the bottom to re-collapse comments would be great. or maybe even every 30 comments or so there could be a re-collapse link. sometimes i expand and regret it in short order.
- Felicia Yue
Happy to see this :-) and happy for Myrna too
- Majento
hell yeah!!! Friendfeed rulz ever, please dont fusionit with FB xD
- Francisco Espinoza
from BuddyFeed
nice!
- αяf
i am (maybe not an addict)
- Anand Sharma
I'm with April
- MiniMage, sheeple of FF
I blocked the Russian Robert Scoble.
Anton Popov, Дмитрисергеич, Tyson Key and 23 other people liked this
ha, funny, there is a group of Russian Robert::)
- K.D.
I'm Robert Scoble, and so's my wife!
- Andrew Terry
What was that Russian thread all about ? was that really you ? or hacked ?
- Jacque
Not hacked, impersonated. I'm blocking them all. I suggest you do the same.
- Robert Scoble
done!
- Peter du Toit (S.Africa)
I dont think somebody ever impersonate me on FF ;)
- Jacque
are you sure you've blocked all?))))
- Чмоки
All this mockery was quite stupid, IMO. Please don't judge all russians by those guys :)
- Kirill Petrovsky
donor: I don't. I'm getting around to all of them.
- Robert Scoble
Hi. I'm Russian and I never impersonate you. Can I comment you in Russian or I will be blocked?
- Never Impersonate You
Never Impersonate: right now, sorry, I'm blocking all Russians who participated. Speak English on my items please, thanks.
- Robert Scoble
It's so disappointing. Will you also block all arabic or chinese comments?
- Never Impersonate You
It is only fair to write in english when the post was started in english.
- Flynn (Michael A. Volz)
Never: no, because they didn't impersonate me. I tried to only block impersonators. If I blocked someone who wasn't impersonating me, they can explain themselves at scobleizer@gmail.com and I'll unblock them.
- Robert Scoble
But, please keep it English on my items, thanks. I can't read other languages.
- Robert Scoble
It is very strange or even unfair to block people for having fun using Friendfeed, Scoble. If blocking is only for Russians, then it sounds like faschism. R u nazi?
- Maria Podolyak
*sigh*
- Flynn (Michael A. Volz)
oh good gravy, this is getting out of hand. my sympathies, Robert.
- Felicia Yue
huh :) looking for cyxymu's martyr laurels ? :)))
- A.T.
Just check that long thread again, I guess they are just making fun, and also I found the longest thread on Friendfeed is in Russian, which has more than 7021 comments :) http://ff.im/2OQex (It's so long, make sure you are ready to open the thread:P)
- K.D.
o___O
- Лиова
Maria: it's not fun. Not when you increase my inbound noise. And if you try comparing me to a Nazi one more time I'm going to block you. My grandmother stood up to the Nazis.
- Robert Scoble
опасайся.
- 14 other people
I think I'm seeing the distinct downside to being a net.celebrity.
- DGentry
That's right Scoble, you tell 'em!
- MλTT
DGentry: yeah.
- Robert Scoble
it's kind of rude to say "R u nazi" ...
- K.D.
K.D.: kind of rude? It's way beyond rude to me.
- Robert Scoble
Sounds like a drink order. “Bartender, I best be havin' a Robert Scoble Russian....”
- Mike Shields
hmm, I am from China, maybe the feeling towards that sentence is not to the same degree, but I think it's insulting words~
- K.D.
and one another thing - Robert, when you talk about solving Nazi problem, you'd better keep in memory it was Russians who actually had _solved_ The Problem. Not your grandma i.e., with all respect to her.
- A.T.
Robert, guyes have joked, and you seriously perceive them. They are really good:)
- Неформат
Hey, guys, we are going to make fun too tonight in Chinese;)) we try to stick the picture of one of friends to the top, so that his girl can see it when she come to friendfeed:)))) you can hide as you like, hope not get blocked ;)
- K.D.
well you know what they said,"In Soviet Russia,Robert Scoble block you"
- ThenWang
Thanks for all the group advice. Ning looks like it will probably work. I am amazed at the incoherency of both Google and Yahoo groups...
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If Ning looks good you should also check out Vanilla. Open source forums. They just are shipping a new version that looks really great. Will report more after we try it.
- Robert Scoble
One last time: I have NO FINANCIAL interests (or any interests, really beyond being a fanatical user) in or with FriendFeed.
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Wait you mean you didn't have friendfeed spliced into your DNA? lol
- Tomy Thomson
FF should share the love in any case!
- Rocky Barbanica
Shame, that.
- DGentry
good 4 u Scoble
- polou/indigo_bow
Let's Have Some Fun With This: Facebook Buying FriendFeed Is Like ____ Buying _____.
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GM Buying BMW
- Louis Gray
Paris Hilton buying Thomas Pynchon.
- Akiva Moskovitz
Wal*Mart Buying Macy's?
- Louis Gray
God Buying Buddha?
- Jon, the Beartato of FF
Louis Gray buying the Giants.
- Mark Krynsky
McDonald's Buying Ruth's Chris?
- Louis Gray
Mark - exactly the route I want to go.
- Louis Gray
Louis Gray buying sleeping tablets
- WorldofHiglet
like Lyndon LaRouche buying Barack Obama.
- Spidra Webster
The Yankees Buying the Green Bay Packers
- Louis Gray
Dell Buying Apple
- Louis Gray
Ford buying Ferrari
- Ken Sheppardson
tr.im buying bit.ly
- Jon, the Beartato of FF
Boeing buying Airbus
- Brian Daniel Eisenberg
QVC Buying Ebay
- Louis Gray
China buying the Internet
- Mahendra (SkepticGeek)
China Buying the USA
- Bastard Operator From FF
like Microsoft buying Adobe
- Marco
Canada Buying Puerto Rico
- Louis Gray
MySpace buying Twitter
- Ken Sheppardson
like Juicy Couture buying Christian Dior.
- Spidra Webster
Some big company buying some little company
- Glen Campbell
Facebook Buying FriendFeed Is Like POP Buying CORN
- chaz2b
+1 Spidra! LOL!
- Michael Forian
McDonald's buying In-N-Out - http://ff.im/6q8Qp
- chrisofspades
CBS buying CNET. Oh... no... wait
- Ken Sheppardson
Some big GOOFY company buying some little KICK ASS company
- Marco
Techcrunch buying Engadget. /me hides behind his desk.
- Matthew Horton
The Catholics Buying the Mormons. :)
- Louis Gray
"Dell Buying Apple" - Louis Gray -- I think makes a great deal of since in this context.
- Nicholas Kreidberg
AOL Buying Microsoft
- Jon, the Beartato of FF
Swatch Buying Movado
- Louis Gray
A teenager buying condoms. Awkward.
- Andrew Smith
Microsoft buying Yahoo. Wait... shoot. That's not right.
- Ken Sheppardson
Time Warner Buying AOL
- Cathleen Rittereiser
Microsoft buying Canonical
- vrjbln
Entrepreneurs buying futures
- Josh Haley
Internet Explorer buying Opera
- Marco
Yahoo buying Broadcast.com
- Cathleen Rittereiser
GoDaddy buying InterNIC
- Ken Sheppardson
Everybody Loves Raymond buying Arrested Development.
- Jandy, ConcertMaven of FF
Ford buying Volvo. Oh...wait.
- wyclif
Wall Street Journal Buying Seeking Alpha?
- Louis Gray
Fox buying Revision3
- Matthew Horton
Looney Tunes Buying The Simpsons?
- Louis Gray
Techcrunch buying Mashable. Or is it the other way around?
- Brian Daniel Eisenberg
Rupert Murdoch buying The Huffington Post
- Ken Sheppardson
Drudge Report Buying the Daily Kos?
- Louis Gray
Yahoo buying Google....in 1999
- Onur Cengiz
National Enquirer Buying the New York Times
- Louis Gray
Michael Jackson buying the Beatles.
- teh Dork Knight
Batman buying the x-men!
- Wayne Sutton
from iPhone
Comcast buying TiVo
- Ken Sheppardson
Beige Buying The Color Spectrum (think about it)
- Louis Gray
G4 Buying TechTV
- Jon, the Beartato of FF
Ouch +1 Jonathan
- Matthew Horton
CNN buying TWiT
- Ken Sheppardson
Experts Exchange buying Stack Overflow
- Brian Sloane
Google buying YouTube. ( YouTube and FF are my favorites)
- Renchin Wang
Microsoft Buying Quicken
- Louis Gray
Hey now, LG, Looney Tunes is frakking awesome. How about Disney buying Pixar? Oh, wait..... (and actually, that one hasn't worked out badly, so is there yet hope?)
- Jandy, ConcertMaven of FF
IE buying Chrome
- Holden Page
++ Jandy -> How about Dreamworks buying Studio Ghibli?
- LogEx
elephant buying wings
- K.D.
+1 Jandy - Guess that means there can be light at the end of the tunnel
- Matthew Horton
Microsoft Outlook Buying Google Reader
- Louis Gray
Google buyingTwitter
- Bob Morris (polizeros)
from iPhone
Polyester Buying Silk
- Louis Gray
Larry Flynt buying Vogue
- Ken Sheppardson
Fox News buying The Onion
- Brian Sloane
+ ken
- Eric @ CS Techcast
Brian lmao
- Holden Page
Warner Music buying Labrador or Barsuk
- Jandy, ConcertMaven of FF
Budweiser buying Guiness
- Matthew Horton
Microsoft buying (then eating) Linus Torvald's offspring
- Slippy "Threadsbane" Lane
LE, that one works. :)
- Jandy, ConcertMaven of FF
Sam's Club buying Neiman Marcus
- LogEx
LOL @ Brian- Fox News buying The Onion
- zephyrlily
Universal Music Studios buying the Pirate Bay
- Holden Page
Utah Buying Las Vegas
- Louis Gray
Jimi Hendrix buying the farm.
- Adrian
Geocities buying WordPress
- AJ Kohn
USA buying Australia :)
- Matt G
Friendster Buying Facebook
- Holden Page
Ticketmaster buying The Fillmore
- Ken Sheppardson
Polaroid buying Flickr
- AJ Kohn
lol Holden I think that sums it up
- Bicentennial (Franc)
Like Scoble buying decaf
- Eric Rice
Oops I think Eric just killed the thread
- Gilbert Harding
The Atlantic Ocean Buying the Carribean Sea
- Louis Gray
Casio buying Steinway
- Richard ¿digame? Walker
like trees buying flowers
- Marco
Baskin Robbins Buying Coldstone Creamery
- Louis Gray
The Pirates of The Caribbean (film) buying The Secret of Monkey Island
- Jon, the Beartato of FF
Britney Spears buying Billie Holiday
- Rob Michael (Atmos Trio)
Bill Gates buying Steve Jobs dinner?
- Gilbert Harding
Payless buying Zappos.
- Jandy, ConcertMaven of FF
TWiT Buying FFundercats
- Louis Gray
Walmart buying Barney's
- AJ Kohn
@Jandy, or how about Amazon buying Zappos?
- Jon, the Beartato of FF
Like Bud buying Cuervo
- jacky
LOL: TWiT Buying FFundercats
- Marco
Amazon's cool, though. :)
- Jandy, ConcertMaven of FF
USPS buying FedEx
- Ken Sheppardson
Bee's buying Honey
- Mac Sharp
@Jandy, they insulted my grandma. :P
- Jon, the Beartato of FF
+1 Mac
- Gilbert Harding
UGO buying 1up
- Matthew Horton
The IRS Buying H&R Block
- Louis Gray
New York Yankees buying ... oh, well, that doesn't work.
- AJ Kohn
India Buying Pakistan? :)
- Louis Gray
Michael Bay buying Joss Whedon
- Jon, the Beartato of FF
+1 Jonathan
- Jandy, ConcertMaven of FF
+1 Jonathan Definitely
- Matthew Horton
NASA Buying Star Wars?
- Louis Gray
Rails 'buying' merb
- Ahsan Ali aka. Slick
Microsoft Buying Linux
- Louis Gray
Microsoft buys Toys R Us
- Gilbert Harding
Sears buying HBC
- Chris, Taskerrific Guy
Valve buying Playstations
- Eric Rice
Like your grandma buying a nose ring http://www.youtube.com/watch...
- BairdWilliamson
Wikipedia buying TVTropes
- Chris, Taskerrific Guy
Apple buying Xerox Parc
- Richard ¿digame? Walker
Activision (Instrument Controller Division) buying Gibson
- Jandy, ConcertMaven of FF
Encarta Buying Wikipedia
- Louis Gray
Huffy buying Cervélo (for you cycling fanatics)
- AJ Kohn
Richard: Waitaminute...
- Chris, Taskerrific Guy
Swarovski buying DeBeers
- Spidra Webster
Thompson Guides buying GoogleMaps
- Jandy, ConcertMaven of FF
Microsoft buying Digital Research
- Richard ¿digame? Walker
AJ: Or Trek buying Gary Fisher?
- Ken Sheppardson
Chevron buying the Sun
- Rob Michael (Atmos Trio)
Lucifer buying heaven
- LouCypher
You can tell you're still an LA n00b, Jandy. It's Thomas Guides. :))
- Spidra Webster
Vanilla buying chocolate
- LogEx
George Lucas buying Star Trek
- Jon, the Beartato of FF
+1 Ken - Mainly because I actually got that one ;-)
- Matthew Horton
Spidra, lol. I even started to look it up! I have a Thomas Guide somewhere, but haven't used it since I got an iPhone.
- Jandy, ConcertMaven of FF
Digg buying reddit
- invariant - farewell FF
Invarient: lmfao! omg
- Holden Page
Forrester Buying Gartner
- Aaman (Clone of FF)
Me buying a Mars Bar - easy, relatively cheap, good for me and ultimately the end of the Mars Bar.
- Martin Bryant
from iPhone
Mike Nayyar buying his Dumpster
- Jon, the Beartato of FF
Night Train buying Chateau Neuf du Pape.
- Spidra Webster
Nokia buying iPhone
- LouCypher
Starbucks buying Pete's
- Richard ¿digame? Walker
@Ken: Yup.
- AJ Kohn
Exxon Mobil buying Greenpeace
- Ken Sheppardson
The News of The World buying Twitter
- Zackatoustra
Microsoft buying Firefox.
- Hip-Hop in da House
from iPhone
Australia buying Bali
- LouCypher
is like, well, there's nothing truly like it, but it might be like Myspace buying Fox....
- Mike Shields
That would possibly /improve/ Myspace
- Matthew Horton
McDonalds buying Arby's?
- Matthew Horton
Louis Gray buying China.
- imabonehead
Boeing buying NASA
- LouCypher
Coca Cola buying Starbucks !
- Nir Ben Yona
Coke buying water
- Chris Nixon
Australia Buying New Zealand
- Louis Gray
National Enquirer buying Louis Grey?
- Matthew Horton
Simon Cowell buying Radiohead
- Mark Evans
Japan buying Hawaii
- LouCypher
U2 Buying Nine Inch Nails
- Louis Gray
Mark... blasphemy! :)
- LogEx
Warner Bros buying Lucas Film
- LouCypher
Radiohead buying Muse /me runs for his life!
- Matthew Horton
Hilton buying Paris
- LouCypher
Dracula buying the Blood Bank
- Matt G
Marriott buying W hotels ...
- Amani
I think the sentence should end like so: Like ______ _____ing ______. I would have SEVERAL suggestions then. ;)
- abacab
"The Most Boring Man in the World" buying Dos Equiis
- .LAG liked that
Steve Ballmer buying The Cluetrain Manifesto
- Richard ¿digame? Walker
Mike Arrington buying Leo Laporte
- Larry Roth
Like a fat old guy buying a mail order bride.
- Willem (@wim66) ☠
Fail whale buying the skater snail
- Matthew Horton
Oil buying water
- Mark Evans
Premiere Radio buying FFundercats
- Richard ¿digame? Walker
Bono buying Pirate Bay
- LouCypher
LA Galaxy buying Manchester United
- Larry Roth
Like Ask buying Google
- Keith - @tsudo
Pirate Bay users buying anything
- Larry Roth
Night buying day
- Mark Evans
Lars Ulrich buying Megadeth
- LouCypher
Russia Buying Europe
- Louis Gray
Flash Buying AJAX
- Louis Gray
Lars Ulrich buying Napster
- Larry Roth
Apple Buying Emachines
- Holden Page
I would say you're drunk with that Flash / Ajax one but I know it's not possible unless your milk is spiked.
- Mark Krynsky
The Queen (HRH Elizabeth Windsor) buying France
- WorldofHiglet
Yahoo buying Flickr.
- Gus
Safeway buying Whole Foods
- Matt Weeks
Louis: Aussie buying NZ! that will never happen
- Geer
Jon Bon Jovi buying Van Halen
- LouCypher
Timmies buying Starbucks
- WorldofHiglet
kmart buying walmart
- Holden Page
Nike buying Converse... oh wait..
- Richard ¿digame? Walker
The Earth buying the Moon
- WorldofHiglet
U.S. buying the moon
- LouCypher
WalMart buying Whole Foods
- Dominic Jones
Italy buying Mediteranian Sea
- LouCypher
Myspace buying Facebook
- Aaman (Clone of FF)
England Buying Wales
- Louis Gray
The Yankees buying a World Series...oh wait...
- Larry Roth
Silvio Berlusconi buying English Premier League
- LouCypher
Shopper buying his necessities, (it's a business decision)
- Wins Fern
Mark Cuban buying NBA
- LouCypher
Berlusconi & Murdoch buying NPR
- Richard ¿digame? Walker
Edward Lewis buying Vivian Ward in Pretty Woman
- Andrew Smith
"India buying Pakistan" rofl
- Rishabh Mishra (p248)
from Android
LOL @ Rishabh
- Aaman (Clone of FF)
Oracle buying Sun Microsystems.
- imabonehead
Open Office Buying Microsoft Office
- Holden Page
Scientology buying Anonymous
- Aaman (Clone of FF)
Vanhalen buying Sammy Hagar
- Mac Sharp
Robert Scoble buying Louis Gray.
- Wins Fern
The Vatican buying Hubble Telescope
- LouCypher
Lou: roflmao
- Holden Page
lol you guys :-D
- Richard ¿digame? Walker
Christmas Buying Hanukkah
- Louis Gray
Swine Flu buying Tamiflu
- Aaman (Clone of FF)
Monkeys buying footballs for the expressed purpose of fornicating with them.
- abacab
Nerf buying the NFL
- Keith - @tsudo
Bing buying the Google search engine
- Ian
Java buying C#
- Ian
Chris Pirillo Buying Mona
- Louis Gray
HAHAHAHAHA, LG!
- Spidra Webster
Dodi Al-Fayed buying a Mercedes
- LouCypher
Amazon buying Zappos
- Ian
AT&T buying T-mobile
- Richard ¿digame? Walker
Mattel buying LEGO
- LouCypher
Philip Morris buying Club Penguin
- Dominic Jones
My school buying me, and I kick it off.
- Lizunlong
Mickey Mouse Club buying Porn. oh wait. my bad. they had us at Spears.
- TheMacMommy
SFMUNI buying the Concorde
- Spidra Webster
Bono buying into "sunglasses are not cool".
- Gilbert Harding
Delta buying NASA.
- Frankie Warren
UGLY.COM buying BEAUTY.COM
- David Newman
Tom buying Jerry :)
- Serkan Unsal
Oracle buying ... oh wait ...
- Julio F ~ @SocialJulio
Twitter buying Facebook
- Tyson Key
Facebook buying whole web
- Jacque
Apple buying Fisher Price.
- Jemm
Mark Zuckerberg buying Bill Gates
- Jacque
McDonald's buys Telco
- Tyson
A large social media company buying a small social media company.
- Big K
Facebook Buying FriendFeed Is Like Google Buying Lazyfeed.
- sean808080
Walmart buying Zappos
- phil baumann
Apple buying Facebook (and believe me it's coming)
- Thomas Power
Oracle buying salesforce.com
- Dave Food
Tinker-toys buying Lego?
- MVB (Curmudgeon of FF)
*smacks MVB* How DARE you besmirch tinker toys!!! Oh, and what's up with fiddling with your name, you trying to make me get MDV and MVB confused?
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
Lenovo Buying IBM (PC Group).. Ops!
- Jacque
Microsoft buying Apple.....
- Roberto Bonini
from iPhone
A big fish buying a little fish
- Angelo John Lewis
Amazon buying Zappos
- Mark Essel
A man buying a sweet pretty dress, guess he pay and will never wear it himself. (some spend money just to impress others).
- abdellah
Real Madrid buying Cristiano Ronaldo?
- Faraz Mullick
Sony buying Apple?
- Tyson Key
Eric buying Sookie
- Andrew Terry
Volkswagen buying Skoda?
- Tyson Key
GM buying Ferrari
- Ladybug Heather
MySpace buying Twitter
- manielse (Mark Nielsen)
Macy's buying Gimble's
- Thom Kennon
The Sun buying The Guardian
- Patrick Jordan
Twitter buying the corpse of Pownce
- Tyson Key
Bacon buying Memes.
- imabonehead
IBM buying Seagate
- Tyson Key
Me buying a FriendFeed t-shirt. It will soon become a dust rag.
- jcunwired
Xzibit buying Chuck Norris (edit)
- AJ Batac
Real Madrid buying Manchester City
- Jan Mulder
Satan buying Heaven?
- Tyson Key
I liked MySpace buying Twitter.
- Aram Zucker-Scharff
from twhirl
Samsung buying Motorola
- Tyson Key
Microsoft buying Mozilla
- Pete Delucchi
from iPhone
The RIAA buying The Pirate Bay
- Tyson Key
Home Depot buying Bob Villa
- Pete Delucchi
from iPhone
HomeBase buying B&Q
- Tyson Key
Bed, Bath & Beyond buying Ethan Allen
- Pete Delucchi
from iPhone
BILLY MAYS buying cocaine.
- jcunwired
Axe body spray buying Old Spice
- Pete Delucchi
from iPhone
Rupert Murdoch buying Huffington Post
- Pete Delucchi
from iPhone
Best Buy buying Amoeba's Records
- Pete Delucchi
from iPhone
WoW buying LOTRO
- Pete Delucchi
from iPhone
Huntingdon Life Sciences buying PETA
- Tyson Key
McDonald's buying StarBucks
- Tyson Key
Colleague here suggested "First blank FriendFeed, second blank...change that to Selling, and last blank...Out." Ouch?
- abacab
Hugh Grant buying Divine Brown's services.
- Jordi Soler
ITV buying the BBC
- Tyson Key
Yahoo! buying Google
- Tyson Key
Lycos buying Yahoo!
- Tyson Key
Dogpile buying Google
- Ladybug Heather
Me buying the kid who copied my work at school [edit] oops, I mean the kid who's work I copied at school, lol
- Slippy "Threadsbane" Lane
Google buying Jaiku / Dodgeball
- Sidharth Dassani
Dolly Parton buying breast implants
- April Russo (app103)
VW buying Porsche?
- MVB (Curmudgeon of FF)
lol except didnt porsche end up cornering the market on VW shares? That would be like friendfeed buying facebook ;)
- Frankie Warren
a Hyundai owner buying a Ferrari for parts.
- Kevin Pedraja
U of Mich Flint buying Kettering University... sorry, no one else will get that
- Kevin L
Xing buying socialmedian - let's face it, they bought the talent! I've only heard good things about Xing though:)
- Michael Fidler
Yahoo buying Delicious.... oh wait
- Jeff (the メガマクダジ of FF)
Mephistopheles buying Dr Faust...
- Laurent
Jon Gosselin buying Ed Hardy...Eew
- Denise
Ted Turner buying Times-Warmer
- Houseofmax
Dumb buying Ass
- ‘-.-’ Tutivillus Grift
like a cheerleader buying a software engineering book .. WHY ?! .. who will read it on facebook!
- fouad
AOL buying Facebook
- Tyson Key
N. Korea buying the US :P
- mjc
a nerd buying a condom. They'll never use it
- Jim Goldstein
China buying Taiwan
- Marco(aureliusmaximus)
lol yours was the best.
- Tinu Abayomi-Paul
Ball Park buying Redondos
- Ron Hagenhoff
I used a "Kia bought Cadillac." analogy yesterday.
- Robert Miller
Hersheys buying Scharffen-Berger
- Spidra Webster
A bigass mofo kicking the shit out of you and then buying out the cops so he won't go to jail!!!!
- sofarsoShawn
Google buying Jaiku
- Bryan Lee
I'm in the BBC talking about FriendFeed: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2...
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cool :)
- Gaith
nice :thumbs:
- Fajar Nurdiansyah
I'm in Business Week too: http://www.businessweek.com/technol...
- Robert Scoble
Did you see there are 500 news articles about FriendFeed on Google News? http://news.google.com/news...
- Robert Scoble
But what might Facebook *do* with FriendFeed?
- Rob Fisher
what do you think about facebook acquiring friendfeed..#lightupnigeria
- Kenniy Olorunnimbe
Rob: if I was Mark Zuckerberg, I'd assign someone to keep it up and running and make sure no spam shows up, etc. But the rest of the engineering team would get put on real time search for businesses. That's where the real money is and how Google is going to come at Facebook. If they get that done the millions in stock that they now own will become worth more.
- Robert Scoble
Kenniy: overall it's the best possible thing that could happen to FriendFeed. I didn't see FriendFeed surviving on its own, not without radical redesign, which would piss us all off anyway.
- Robert Scoble
Robert, I think your making FriendFeed much more than it is. It's NOT the king of real-time search. It's NOT competing with Google on any level. It's still a sharing service used only by early adopters.
- Amit Morson
but that will undermine the very reason for friendfeed..other sites like twitter and flicker wouldnt be so open IMO anymore..cos at that point, friendfeed becomes a direct competition as against the service aggregation that it does..i might be wrong though..#lightupnigeria
- Kenniy Olorunnimbe
BBC calls you "respected blogger" :)
- Federico Bolsoman
BBC can issue a retraction, no worries ;)
- Micah Wittman
"Respected Blogger." That's a nice title... I dig.
- Stefan Holmes
well what do we all expect we enjoyed a free service,felt special, gave feedback,told everyone how superior it is. now the entrepreneurs are moving to the last phase which is monetize. its text book abc.
- Robert Higgins
from f2p
FriendFeed only has real time search because content is pushed into it by the users. It is nothing more than a content aggregator with a quickly replicated search index. Facebook, I would imagine, wants it because that is the way they are moving with their "post it on Facebook" systems, aggrigating information from other sites into a brain dump of "what I find interesting now"....
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- Daniel Durrans
Surprisingly the Facebook/FriendFeed story is currently the top story, even ahead of the Baby P story on the BBC most read list online - not very high at all on the broadcast news.
- Richard Peat
This has always been an acquisition business, right? Surprised people are shocked. We'll see if Facebook can make these features less geeky and more mainstream...
- Alex C. Williams
o no.... Robert ha parlato di friendfeed in tv... come previsto adesso arriveranno in massa.
- Miketrevis
Live now: Security Now 208 with Steve Gibson, our last episode of year four! http://live.twit.tv Discuss here....
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The useless bits are the best :-)
- Willem (@wim66) ☠
Off-topic banter is always wecome.
- TeraDyne Azurepaw
http://www.scifi-az.com/ for the Gibraltar sci-fi series by Michael McCollum
- Leo Laporte
Question [ 01 ] – Brian Mooney in Springdale, AR brings news of new SSL woes... Steve, It looks like they've found another method to workaround SSL. This one isn't based on faults in the encryption, but on faults in how browsers handle null characters. The only "safe" browser is Firefox 3.5, so far. http://www.macworld.com/article... ----AND---- “Frylock” in New...
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- Leo Laporte
Question [ 02 ] - Andrew H in Texas says [Microsoft] "Security Essentials not free for all"... Hey guys, Sorry to be the bearer of bad news: Microsoft's Security Essentials is not free for commercial users. Check out the web site of the beta: http://www.microsoft.com/securit... It says "for your home PC." Furthermore, it won't even run on Windows Server....
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- Leo Laporte
Question [ 03 ] - Phil in Los Angeles wonders about Cellular Broadband Security: Steve, I've recently started tethering my G1 phone to my laptop to get internet when I'm not near a wireless connection. I was wondering what the security implications were for doing this. By tethering (or using one of those $60 per month wireless cards that essentially do the same thing), is the connection...
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- Leo Laporte
I can sort of see why the commercial stuff wouldn't be free. It's a way for them to make money on the product without charging the home users crazy prices.
- TeraDyne Azurepaw
[ 04 ] - John Jones in Wirral, UK is seeing RED in Firefox... Hi Steve, After having problems with some sites that I need to visit responding very sluggishly, I finally complained to the admin of one of those sites. He replied that as I was using IE7 for a browser that this could be why, he said that his site was not meant to be used by such an old browser. Whilst I baulked at the...
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- Leo Laporte
[ 05 ] - Ryan in New York has two questions and a comment... Hey Steve, I have two questions for you: You have talked a lot about wireless encryption on your show, and because of it I have always stayed on top of the latest wireless security measures for my home router. Recently I bought a new router to upgrade to Wireless 802.11n. After hooking the router up and making sure I can get...
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- Leo Laporte
[ 06 ] - Kevin Ghadyani in Overland Park, KS says "Thanks for reading the HTTP W3C errors" Thank you so much for reading my question. I've been listening in since 2005 back when I was in college and was extremely surprised to hear my question read on air. Thanks for discussing it. I will cover GRC on BadMarkup.com, but also explain your reasoning. Fortunately for me, you have...
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- Leo Laporte
[ 07 ] - David Johnston in Sydney Australia says... Thank you for talking about W3C validators! Dear Steve, Thank you for bringing up the topic of W3C validators. Although I am an idealist, and wished that every browser and site used compliant code, this just isn't the world we live in. I too have been hand-coding sites for many years and pride myself on having sites that work on a very...
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- Leo Laporte
[ 08 ] - Kendall Bailey in Des Moines, IA uses "Buy.com" with caution... With regard to the buy.com and "Web Loyalty" scams... I've used buy.com exclusively with Google Checkout. Never had any problem or coupon offers. Thanks for mentioning the issue. I'll be sure to watch out. I use a Discover card secure online account number with Google Checkout. Basically it's a single-vendor...
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- Leo Laporte
[ 09 ] - Matt Ridley in Appleton, WI wonders whether we're applying a double-standard? Love the podcasts since I have found them around 150 or so, it is nice to help me keep up to date. However, I think I am missing something after listening to the massive security update (SN:206)... you and Leo commented on the end of the show that you do not understand why we cannot be proactive and...
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- Leo Laporte
[ 10 ] - Justin Lowmaster in Oregon writes about his "Fandango" experience... I ordered some Fandango tickets before (and likely never again now) and had one of those 'coupon' offers pop up. I think there was an incentive, a "free" (huge quotation marks) movie ticket. I looked all over the page and found nothing mentioning a charge or a fee. I signed up and did get a free ticket code,...
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- Leo Laporte
[ 11 ] - Dan in Walpole, Massachusetts reports that "his parents' computer got trojaned again"... Dear Steve, My parents' computer has gotten infected by a Trojan twice in the last six months. The first time they got Antivirus 2009. I had them back up their data and restore from Dell's hidden restore partition. I'm not sure how they got “owned” this time. They suddenly got popups from...
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- Leo Laporte
[ 12 ] - David Stephens in Bloomington, IN wonders whether a VPN can transport a Virus? Hi Steve, I've been listening since Episode 1 of Security Now. I've learned so much from you and Leo. I can't begin to thank you both enough for helping me learn so much about protecting myself and my friends & family online. Here's my question: I was talking with my boss today and we were wondering...
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- Leo Laporte
Dave Schuh in Maple Grove Minnesota wrote: “Subject: Vitamin D - a great tangent” I've listened since the beginning and hope you never stop doing the show. Also a SpinRite owner. I was very pleased to hear your take on Vitamin D, having been in the science field and following it for many years. I'm a white male about your age, and am also starting to track my blood level, specifically...
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- Leo Laporte
Congrats on four years! Wow, time really goes by so quickly.
- Jennifer Ruggiero
Congratulations on 4 years... most of SN goes over my head but I catch every few words... for people insisting on simple passwords for their various accounts, question [ 05 ], what about using a Yubikey for storing a random string (as per Leo's suggest of one robust password for all accounts) and then you make a simple modification per account so there is still a "something you know" aspect to the password.
- Jason Muirhead
Sky over Boulder, CO (why geeks like it here): - http://ourdoings.com/roberts...
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Jed White, Jack Nork, Cheray Bressler and 9 other people liked this
We are up shooting b-roll video of Boulder, Colorado for a series of videos we are doing for building43. It is one of those places that is just beautiful. I can understand why so many tech companies startup here
- Robert Scoble
I lived in Boulder for a couple of years (did a startup there). LOVED IT!!
- Michael Liss
There's an old saying, "Red sky at night sailors delight; red sky in morn sailors be warn."
- Andrew Pass
MySpace is to Facebook as Twitter is to ______ - http://codybrown.name/2009...
Philip Lei, Jason Pollock, Michael Fidler and 6 other people liked this
Friendfeed
- Peter
yes
- Ahmet Soyata
LOL. I think we all know what the answer to this one is.
- Victor Ganata
Read the story anyway, punks. :)
- Louis Gray
FriendFeed, slam dunk!
- Keith Rowland
I do hate all of the espionage, though. It's sickening, all of the documents that are stolen and then published. Ick.
- Kathy Fitch
SMS
- Craig Foster
@aplusk i get pissed off at my people who don't use Twitter and Facebook at work... Mahalo gets 50,000 people a month from Twitter!
Jason Pollock, Keith Rowland, Jason Nunnelley and Edgar Rodríguez liked this
Do you have a computer? Do you care about any of the files... - http://www.marco.org/157203227
Keith Rowland, Kol Tregaskes, Jemm and Mac Sharp liked this
Yeah but what do you do if you're on a Windows box to easily backup data?? :) although I really should get a portable drive to backup my laptop which is my work focus box.
- Justin Long
@Justin Long: I actually don't have an automated solution either. It's just a combination of an external drive and remembering
- Angelo Rodrigues
Windows Home Server.
- Roberto Bonini
+1 WHS
- Robert Kenney
AceBackup is a fairly good Windows solution, free and can schedule backups.
- Rob Diana
I have a 1TB backup drive that autobacks all my files/docs and I use LiveMesh to backup my current projects
- Shey, Jamaican of FF
@Justing Long, Backup and Restore Center in Vista or Cobian Backup.
- ydfeed
I'm on Win7
- Justin Long
Sorry, that was @krishnan who called me "shallow." I didn't follow him back. He only follows people who follow him. And he calls ME shallow?
Keith Rowland and Rob Sellen :o) liked this
like I said.. irony owns the internets. ;o)
- Rob Sellen :o)
@nitin most people aren't interested in Twitter either. Here's a hint: about 45 million are on Twitter. About 300 million are on Facebook.
Rob Cairns, Mike Fruchter, Jesse Stay and 8 other people liked this
That is still a damn plenty amount of people that "aren't interested" in Twitter
- Holden Page
This goes back to previous discussions. It is analogous to: everybody likes the movies, but not everybody will see a foreign film. Too much work to deal with the subtitles. :-) Facebook has cute icons and all, and pictures! Gee! And you can find your old schoolmates! (eek!)
- Karma Martell
can someone tell me how old Twitter is vs. Facebook?
- Holden Page
Twitter was launched in 2006-ish? Facebook is older.
- Nick Humphries
Hold on, will google this
- Holden Page
September 26, 2006 - Facebook launched publicly, Twitter launched publicly March 21, 2006
- Holden Page
Holden: but before that Facebook was available to college students for a couple of years, if I remember right.
- Robert Scoble
I think its easier to invite people on to Facebook than on to Twitter, and by now there's a lot more conversations from people who are very similar to you?? I know that the conversations I have on FB are more relevant to me *personally* on FB, and more relevant *professionally* on Twitter/FF.
- Justin Long
Yup it was, February 4, 2004 was for college students
- Holden Page
and high school students were opened up by invite only
- Holden Page
So keep in mind scoble, when you are comparing these numbers. Facebook had a pretty big headstart
- Holden Page
would be interesting to chart the exponential growth curve of both and see if one was really that much "faster" than the other...
- Justin Long
Justin: I would like to do that, but you have to have access to compete archives and that costs a lot of money. Be interesting to see Techcrunch, or even Scoble do this.
- Holden Page
I'm banking on Facebook - there's much more money there, IMO
- Jesse Stay
well FB figures are, December for each of the following years: 2004 1 million, 2005 5.5 million, 2006 12 million, 2007 50 million, 2008 100 million, 2009 200 million. I was hunting for similar order-of-magnitude numbers for twitter...
- Justin Long
it doesn't appear that twitter makes its membership numbers available? I can't find them...
- Justin Long
Justin, Mark Zuckerberg recently mentioned Facebook was now at 250 million, just this last month.
- Jesse Stay
well it took a few years for Facebook to reach the numbers that Twitter has
- Holden Page
And Robert's probably right - by now it's probably closer to 300 million at their rate of growth
- Jesse Stay
true but lots of people r some other social networks including MySpace, Live Spaces, misc etc.
- polou/indigo_bow
RT @ShotOfCoffee: RT @weeklyroast: God doesn't bless mediocrity, He blesses excellence. In whatever you do, do it to best of your ability.
Keith Rowland liked this
People like @omarshahine say FriendFeed isn't interesting, but my "Likes" there get a TON more engagement than my Twitter Favorites. Why?
Mitchell Tsai, Cathryn Hrudicka, Duane-PreppyDude and 4 other people liked this
Screw your twitter favourites, its all too much effort to click thru. Likes ftw.
- Mark
hehe
- Mark
Because no one knows how to get to your Twitter favorites.
- Aram Zucker-Scharff
from twhirl
its easy Aram but it involves annoying clicks and effort, here they just come to us and we don't have to do any work :D
- Mark
I think FF offers easier conversation threading and it's more in-depth as you can go beyond 140 chars. I find Twitter discussions used to be livelier, but since all the spammers got on it, conversations rarely go beyond 2-3 @replies.
- Cathryn Hrudicka
@Mark, that's exactly what I mean. Most people are not even going to go back to your page once they've subscribed to you, they never even know what you fav on Twitter
- Aram Zucker-Scharff
from twhirl
I just saw @Ev tweet that they may make favorites more obvious. I've just assumed no one follows my favorites, which I haven't meant for discussion, anyway, just reminders to myself of interesting things. People use favorites differently, I think.
- Cathryn Hrudicka
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