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In it's current form, Friendfeed is too complicated to go mainstream. I see this as an early adopter tool, or for the hard core social folks.
Mitchell Tsai, zeroinfluencer, Franklin Pettit and 97 other people liked this
Yet Facebook and AOL-Bebo are pursuing a lot of what makes FriendFeed tick
- Hutch Carpenter
I have to agree a bit... It can be a bit much for some folk ;)
- Cheryl Allin
thanks for sharing that insight!
- Allen Stern
Its may also cause a data overload even though you follow 10 if it goes mainstream, so it better not :=)
- Yunus Tunak
Of course he posts this right as I try and jump back into FF and just found the 'real time' link, LOL
- Cheryl Allin
from twhirl
Totally agree.
- JonathanJoseph
Facebook is more complicated and has more features. So, explain why that's not too complicated to go mainstream?
- Robert Scoble
GUI.
- Mona Nomura
@Robert Facebook connects you to your friends. That is a basic need. Friendfeed connects you to content, not interesting for many (non-tech) people ;-)
- Alexander van Elsas
Facebook was not that complicated when it was gone mainstream imho, now its still mainstream as people pull more people :)
- Yunus Tunak
Alexander: are you saying you're not my friend? Damn, ruined my whole day. I thought friendfeed was about reading smart stuff from the people I know.
- Robert Scoble
Excellent keep em out!
- andy brudtkuhl
Also - I agree with Robert. Facebook is waaaaay more complicated than FF
- andy brudtkuhl
Really, I am surprised you think that. I really like FF and would use it more then Twitter but I have found if I tweet from FF I don't get as many followers per day.
- John Flynn
I found facebook and myspace to be lightyears more complex than FF and Twitter, that's my Facebook is little more than a landing pad for people to find me, but otherwise unused.
- Matthew DeVries
Disagree. Facebook has the most horrid UI right now and each iteration gets worse. FriendFeed has a clean UI and is iterating to get better. The real issue here is that the amount of information can be overwhelming ... at first. Weren't these the same things said about ... TV channels ... the Internet ... or blogs in their infancy? In addition, why put the 'social' blinders on? FF is a data flow. Non-linear learning is the future and FF is a gold mine for anyone willing to invest a little time.
- AJ Kohn
>> for anyone willing to invest a little time. key words here. You really don't see the problem?
- Richard Lawler
How FriendFeed is complicated? Anyone who has a blog and Facebook and Twitter and Flickr and delicious and StumbleUpon and digg and YouTube and Google Reader and LinkedIn and Vimeo .... Can easily understand everything about FriendFeed!!!
- Amit Morson
@Richard: No. I don't. How long does it take to start a blog? Or create a MySpace account? Or build your Facebook friends? Or get followers on Twitter? Like *anything* you need to invest a modicum of time to get the most out of a tool.
- AJ Kohn
I actually don't agree. Why do people generally think that "mainstream" means dumbest users? We have a great diversity of people here, and they're not all tech' geeks. It's all in the UI. And imho the UI is nice enough, even the URLs (which are a part of the UI) are designed in a beautiful and simple way. It took me some weeks of using FriendFeed to develop NoiseRiver (another very complex UI for FriendFeed) though I've been what could called "mainstream". Also, FB is more complicated for me than FF.
- directeur
The thing is Facebook has all sorts of social hacks to draw users in. For instance, I know someone who was drawn into Facebook because of "relationship status." His girlfriend created a page for him so that she would have someone to be related to. He realized he better take control of that page. Bing, another user of Facebook.
- Robert Scoble
@Robert, I'd be honored to be your friend, but I doubt that would have anything to do with me writing 'smart stuff' ;-)
- Alexander van Elsas
I feel like people need to grok Twitter before they end up grokking Friendfeed. And you have to grok Facebook (and status updates) before you can grok Twitter. Of course, it's probably just be sampling bias, but that's how my friends who have made those jumps seem to progress.
- Victor Ganata
Well, over on Facebook we can poke each other and I can send you baby photos. Here? All we have is conversations. No toys. No poking.
- Robert Scoble
Precisely Robert - we all like to to talk about GUI and Usability and complexity... but mainstream denotes people feel a compelling need (reason) to use something. My take is that people know why they will/are signing up on Facebook... but have no idea why they would use FF. That can (and will IMHO) change... but only when we can articulate the value in concrete terms like "managing relationship status" or "staying connected with old friends".
- Brian Roy
2Robert "from the people I know": I think, we are also reading the thoughts of people who we don't know but we want to meet with or be friend in real life or give value to their posts, comments and likes.
- Ömer Faruk Kurt
Friendfeed is identical to many many message boards out there. That's all social networks at their core truly are. It'll take a long time for mass market users to migrate to formats of this nature but it's really more about training user and visibility than anything else. So, it could happen but probably won't. But there is nothing novel to the message board.
- Patricia
Brian Roy - Facebook has added lifestreaming to achieve "staying connected with friends".
- Hutch Carpenter
@directeur it is not about mainstream users being 'dumb'. It's about developers not understanding that mainstream users are not looking for the coolest technological tricks but a service that provides them direct value. UI is definitely a huge factor. Geek desire to add more controls and possibilities than the human mind could care about is another ;-)
- Alexander van Elsas
Omer: stick around here for a few minutes and I'll bet I'll know more about you than my next-door neighbor. That is a sad commentary on human life now, but it's true.
- Robert Scoble
Hutch - and your point is? There is a BIG difference between why I use something and HOW that something accomplishes what I want done. Some tool can implement the HOW far better than any other... but if I don't know why I'm using it who cares?
- Brian Roy
AJ, clearly you've never sat down and watched someone start a facebook page or myspace account. Within a couple of minutes you've gotten all the feedback necessary to get most people hooked. That's not the case on friendfeed for non geeks.
- Richard Lawler
FF needs pictures and a pretty interface, the mainstream like this! Take a look at this page - not very pretty. Facebook has more bells and whistles for the average person.
- Chris Frost
Brian Roy - My point is that Facebook starts with friend connections, then adds lifestreaming. FriendFeed starts with lifestreaming, and we find friends. The latter model takes some coaxing to get people over here.
- Hutch Carpenter
I'd suggest that for most end users, it's almost impossible to stand at the top of the learning curve and see why others can't get up it.
- Ken Sheppardson
@Robert glad you can't poke me here. That would definitely be a friendship killer. BTW getting blackmailed into Facebook is a tactics I have witnessed before too. People take Facebook way to serious.
- Alexander van Elsas
I always thought of myself as hard core and thanks to Jeremiah it's been proven. :)
- Jason Shultz
from twhirl
Hutch - Ah! Ok... got it. So facebook has a compelling mainstream message about WHY you would use it (connect with friends) and good tools to help you do that. FF has great tools with (perhaps) an absence of a compelling mainstream message about WHY you would use it. I'd buy that.
- Brian Roy
I think the most important disadvantage for Friendfeed is that I have to scroll all the way up to be able to add a comment at the bottom. Major UI bummer! ;-)
- Alexander van Elsas
Sure Robert, We want it to be like that. We are broadcasting ourselves to remove the borders. People wonder what his friends are doing, so we are following facebook. People wonder what are the people are reading and thinking so we are following ff. People don't want to be lonely :) want to talk and share.
- Ömer Faruk Kurt
@Richard: Okay, show me the proof. Where's the data? Where are the comparative UI stats on MySpace versus Facebook versus Twitter versus WordPress versus FriendFeed? Sorry, but YMMV and from the rate of FriendFeed growth I'd say there isn't nearly the problem with UI that many claim.
- AJ Kohn
Ken hits it on the head. It's the same reason why people who prefer a command line interface can't understand why other people can't live without a GUI.
- Victor Ganata
@AJ let's take out Twitter as a stream for FF. I'd like to knw how fast FF is growing then? Aren't they simply lifting of Twitter traffic (just wondering)?
- Alexander van Elsas
FF wants you to use all kinds of web tools(flickr, twitter, reader etc.) and use as many as you can, thats by definition not mainstream.
- Yunus Tunak
Sorry AJ, I left my Facebook powerpoint in my other Internets. I don't need a number to tell me what an afternoon spent at a library can easily make clear.
- Richard Lawler
And FF UI is messy too, i am using Stylish with my own codes to tweak FF interface.. Many people do.
- Yunus Tunak
I think it's not complicated. it's just practically impossible to keep up with the content flood if you have a life :D
- Roland Hesz
I think FF is simple, not messy
- andy brudtkuhl
I think ff is a specialized version of a forum. FF changed forum concept a little bit and now we can subscribe what people are saying. Also, we have a homepage filled with the posts of our subscriptions.
- Ömer Faruk Kurt
I felt the same way initially but when they added the "real time" feature and the ability to create lists (filtering) it provided me with some of the features that Twitter Indian-gave us oh so long ago. The ability to thread and to have our life streams merge from other services is a plus not a minus.
- Aron Michalski
from fftogo
Bluntly, those of you who judge FriendFeed by how early adopters choose to use it, lack imagination. Picture someone who simply follows a few friends, clicks "Like" on stuff, and occasionally shares a message, photo or link.
- Bruce Lewis
from fftogo
@Alexander: Twitter as a % of the content is an interesting topic. I don't know but I don't think they're leveraging the *traffic* per se, but if Twitter were to shut off the ability to feed Tweets into FF ... that would be interesting and likely bad for both services.
- AJ Kohn
Bruce, you haven't explained why that person would leave the facebook account they already have.
- Richard Lawler
@Richard: That's your opinion and you're welcome to it. And qualitative research is wonderful. But ... Library users, that's a unique segment isn't it? And what part of the country did you do that? Urban or Rural? That's a good deal of bias. It's a fine opinion, but right now in year one, FriendFeed growth is strong based on the numbers.
- AJ Kohn
Richard, I was addressing people who say FriendFeed is too complicated, not people who say Facebook is too adequate. I don't think FriendFeed is going to beat Facebook in 2009 or 2010, but I do think FriendFeed has great long-term potential. The untapped market is bigger than Facebook's userbase.
- Bruce Lewis
from fftogo
AJ, the library point is an example, there is no doubt that you can go to a library near you today and watch someone casually using setting up a page on myspace or facebook. They way that person reacts to their first few minutes and the way they'd react to the information friendfeed presents are entirely different. A year one growth number tells me nothing about friendfeed's mainstream potential. Actual user experiences tell a lot.
- Richard Lawler
Bruce, what untapped market? How many people are out there who don't have facebook pages, but are at all interested in the features presented by friendfeed?
- Richard Lawler
The market is everybody who currently uses email to share photos, messages, and things they find on the web. I wrote more about it here: http://friendfeed.com/e...
- Bruce Lewis
from fftogo
Since I wrote that, Facebook did go ahead and implement half of FriendFeed's "Like" feature, bolstering their adequacy, but there's still a long way to go.
- Bruce Lewis
from fftogo
Bruce - Those people have facebook pages. If they don't, they don't want to, and they don't want friendfeed either. The assumption that people will use the hide feature to make friendfeed palatable is ignoring how people use these services. You can look at the complaints about facebook to see most people don't understand or use filters well already.
- Richard Lawler
I'm so down with that, Jeremiah. Most people don't WANT all the info FF makes available
- Francine Hardaway
from twhirl
You should try http://www.popego.com (full disc: I'm an investor), they are trying to fix these issues
- Emiliano Kargieman
Who WANTS frf to become mainstream? I don't. All people who are here are pretty cool and we almost don't have ghost accounts, no jerks, no advertisers. Conversations and posts are awesome. Why invite 175 millions?
- Sasha Kovaliov(.com)
I agree. I don't want FF to become like Usenet did in the 90s.
- Jason Shultz
from twhirl
FF may not go (public) mainstream anytime soon, but I think it could be widely adopted across enterprises within the year. Wonderful opportunities exist with FF.
- Mark Evans
Hi guys! What would you think about a one-week-user-generated campaign to promote FF? We're enough FF lovers to spread our message all over the Internets. If we make this our challenge, we could make FF mainstream in 15d.
- Jérôme Flipo
Mark, frf on enterprise level any soon - I doubt it. Most of them still not ready for social software. Look at SharePoint - is it a bit social? SAP is integrating twitter and Lotus notes have got linkedin support and we are in 2009. I think it will happen but not that soon and not in the way it exists now.
- Sasha Kovaliov(.com)
Let's create a FF room to organize this campaign, get @Jeremiah and @Robert inside and the web is ours!
- Jérôme Flipo
I think once you resign yourself to the fact that there is just too much "stuff" being posted for you to see every thing, and start using list to decide what you are going to read and when you are going to read it, FF becomes much more manageable. As far as FF going mainstream, all it will take is for (the management team of) some pop star or movie star to start pushing out tweets or the rss feed of their site and the rest will come running...
- J. Abdul-Qahhar
In some ways I agree with Jeremiah because I can't get a lot of my Twitter and Facebook friends over here. They're comfortable with what they have and feel connected with their friends in each place, they also get content which they feel they're in control of in the sense the sense they are sharing with only people they choose to connect to. Friendfeed is still mostly a tech or geek playground by comparison. Which means I have to spend time at the other places if I want to play with friends, sigh.
- Sally Church
I love how easy it is to post something I found online on ff. I wish all blogging tools had the same feature! I would write stuff all the time and probably be annoying - but it is such a hassle to grab images and upload them. That feels very ol skool.
- JoEllen
Does it really matter whether this goes mainstream or not? Not.
- tony
Jeremiah: Ha ha. No. FriendFeed has one of the nicest, cleanest, interfaces around. Once you learn how to filter and set up lists, the interface gets even easier and nicer. As with so many other things technical, it all comes down to RTFM.
- Steven Perez
Agreed, so FF needs to make sure that it doesn't get more complicated and leave the mainstream behind. Unless they only care about early adopters, which I doubt.
- Jeremy Campbell
from twhirl
What is currenly "complicated" in FriendFeed? Really, I don't see anything wrong with its UI, maybe some enhancements are welcome, but it's really very usable. Kevin did a great job!
- directeur
Agreed. It's powerful, but needs a much me simple interface.
- Ian Betteridge
from twhirl
Facebook is the most damned complicated interface they could have dreamed up once you've spent a day with it. Same with My Space, who can find anything on those pages. Twitter is simple, but you have to subscribe to 200 people before you start to get anything good going. I only really like the FF interface. It's very functional, fast, let's me spend plenty of time here. On Facebook I update my status and them I'm out.
- Eric @ CSTechcast.com
I cannot understand why people think FB is LESS complicated than FF. Absolutely ridiculous
- Rahsheen ™, Coach Rah
Agreed Rahsheen
- Tyler (Chacha)
Who said Facebook and FriendFeed are competing for the same thing? I use both and they are two seperate things entirely. And that's ok. Why do we have to have a winner? I don't hang out with my different sets of friends all at the same time. And also, why the rush to get mainstream? You don't tile the roof before laying the foundation </get off my lawn>
- Johnny Worthington
FriendFeed is less complicated than Facebook, and if used for the same purpose (connecting with existing friends), then it has got something going for it. At least FriendFeed users are not bombarded by silly application requests.
- Rishabh Mishra (p248)
So maybe there could be an option to use a basic or advanced UI for FF. I do lament the lack of mainstream appeal, but I love the power and flexibility it gives users.
- Tom Landini
Yes, Friendfeed is really complicated for people to understand. My dad (who I think is fairly wise) is just catching on to everything - Facebook was the easiest for him to join. Twitter second. FriendFeed? Confusing.
- Tabz
I don't believe it is more complicated, just offers you with a different way of gaining and disseminating information. Not complicated though once you have your FriendFeed groove going, it's pretty easy.
- Sharon Dexter
When I first started using FB it felt complicated as hell, now it's second nature. FF doesn't have a great flow but as more people use it, that should change.
- Nathan Wooding
I think it's deceptively simple
- anna sauce
I don't think that Friendfeed itself is terribly complicated - one could even call it elegant - but the problems that it addresses tend to be those experienced by complicated people - people with lots of social media outlets and not always good ways to aggregate them or to comment on them with a close network of trusted peers. If I were Friendfeed I'd stick with the elegant solution for the geeks and look at how all of its content can be aggregated more effectively for non-geeks.
- John Blossom
I agree. Friendfeed has a lot going on that make it a valuable tool, but it's a bit overwhelming when you first start navigating it.
- Trish Ridgway
I don't think FF is complicated it's just hard for some people to manage so much information
- Mihai Secasiu
It's not mainstream because not everyone is into reading and filtering a stream of information/conversations. Yes, a lot of people are interested in this, but not the mainstream, IMHO. Another argument could be said that we can do most of what FF does inside Facebook now, if we chose to (import feeds, blog posts, tweets, conversation streams, "likes", etc). But do we all (on FF) do it? Probably not. Some people like specialized tools for each job - others like a universal tool for everything (ie FB).
- Brian
Friendfeed is still early in its development cycle: It is one of the cleanest platform available and has captured a great core. It now needs to find a set of killer apps which will allow them to clear the chasm. And when they do, they will put a lot of pressure on both twitter and facebook because they have a much more open and cleaner foundation. The only piece that is missing at this point is an addressable user namespace. That is what creates the power social dynamics on twitter and is sometimes missing.
- Edwin Khodabakchian
Jeremiah, I've been saying this for ages. It is a promotional content tool that 99.95% of the population have no use for. It's more like a medium for PR. That Robert thinks this is where the conversation happens is not true.
- Bob Sonin
For me FF is about pushing life stream to Facebook. Only the social media crowd reads FF, but everyone I know sees that same info on Facebook. I installed the FF app on Facebook that feeds all the FF activity into Facebook. I really appreciate that FF has gone out and done the work to connect all of my social tools into one place. Great tool.
- Travis Murdock
Like Francine, I think it's more about the information. I don't particular think FF is hard to get, it just takes more work to strike up conversations with people than it does on Twitter or FB. The thing about FB is that everyone I went to MS, HS, and college with is on there. But those people are not over here. That's why people might think FB is easier. The "average person" is not going to use FF--I don't think, ever.
- Lynne d Johnson
gotta jump on the bandwagon here: facebook is really more complicated than friendfeed. and i'd also like to posit that "complicated" is not always a deterrent - in many cases it is the extra features that lead the more hardcore users to flock to these services. either way, i agree that friendfeed isn't yet mainstream, but it took twitter several years to hit that level too (or facebook for that matter).
- mike fabio
Wow. Big discussion. Just skimmed some of the comments. I think it not that it's inherently complicated, but that (as already said by some people) the core value add is not big enough for most people. Looking at the success of Twitter and Facebook vs FriendFeed's limited growth (even though it offers most of the features that the whole body of Twitter users in aggregate is asking for) is an interesting lesson in product development. So I guess the next question is, where does FF go from here?
- Andrew Shuttleworth
The thing is its not complicated to use, but to understand its value, and to get value from it, is complicated enough that most people will never want to use it.
- Richard Lawler
@Bob Sonin: Nearly 100 comments on this *one* thread alone seems to prove that conversations *do* take place on FF.
- AJ Kohn
"Why would I need 500 channels of television?! It's too much to deal with!" Sound familiar? A lot of 'social media' folks seem stuck in thinking FF has to deliver the same things or act the same way as other services. That's just not true. Nor has it ever been true in the evolution of any medium.
- AJ Kohn
I still think that for most people, the value of brief posts from people in a social network is not immediately obvious. Even in FB, most people take a little while to understand the purpose of status updates/posted items/walls/the newsfeed, and only a fraction of FB's users actually use them, and only a fraction of that use them actively. In FF, its analogous functions are basically what it's all about!
- Victor Ganata
Like any other product, survey clients and give the customers what they want, pretty simple.
- Jim Peake
AJ - for every "500 channels of television" "no one will ever need a computer with more than xx MB of RAM" there's a thousand products that don't catch on with the mainstream. You've got to do better than that.
- Richard Lawler
Complicated does not mean not useful. At a certain point the growth of a communication tool limits it's utility for anything other than selling soap. I use IRC semi-daily because it's easier to get in front of the people who know about what I want to discuss. As long as FriendFeed makes it easier to find conversations about things you're interested in it will be useful. Confusing newbies is just a side benefit.
- Sam Levine
Completely agree Jeremiah.
- Jamie
depends on what mainstream really ultimately is, facebook is technically mainstream, but a slice of users are hard core and others dabble currently, ff in this new beta is looking like an extremely powerful aggregator and discussion tool compared to even several weeks ago
- Patrick Boegel
It *could* just be coincidence - http://www.youtube.com/watch...
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Kirk Skodis and Ňicķ liked this
this is totally correct.... excepting the awful power of the jinx, which seems to plague me quite often
- Ňicķ
A lot of homeless guys look like Jesus.
Kenton, Ed Moltzen, Wayne Schulz and 24 other people liked this
Deeeep, man.
- Nine
...and Fletch
- Live4Emma (L4S)
"Just a slob like one of us."
- Mark Czerniec
Ninth - I just walked by 3 on the way back from the Apple store.
- Steve Isaacs
only difference is, homeless guys exist.
- Kirk Skodis
from twhirl
I stared at this tweet for 5 mins trying to come up with catchy zinger. No luck, but there is one out there somewhere.
- Cody Heitschmidt
from fftogo
Which one? http://www.religioustolerance.org/chr_jcf...
- xero
I guess I was looking for a zinger that didnt question anyones personal faith, but yes Kirk gets a + for being quick and wity! :)
- Cody Heitschmidt
If you are in downtown Toronto, you get proof that God is everywhere.
- Kamath (नमः)
Best I can come up with is that I know lots of hippies that look like Jesus too... As for who exists, I thought it was a fairly accepted historical fact that Jesus as a person existed and it was the whole 'son of God' thing that people questioned.
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
+10 for Stupid
- Cody Heitschmidt
Last I heard there is still some doubt as to whether or not the person existed as many of the sources used for proof were unreliable. I think the community is still leaning very heavily toward actual existence though.
- xero
UH_OH I am forecasting deepness in the future of the post....
- Cody Heitschmidt
couldn't help but think of - "And the King shall answer and say unto them, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me."
- David Knight
Agreed.... So do a lot of hippies
- orionstarr
Steve we are working on a podcast, can't wait to get it over to you to check out (I hope)...
- orionstarr
Yet the people who claim to love Jesus the most, treat the homeless the worst. Hmmm
- Summer
Summer, what kinda stereotypical crap statement is that, quit with the bitter hater attitude. I am not a vocal Christian at all, but I do belong to a Church, I love Jesus the most, as much as anyone could, I never push it on people and I guarantee noone on here ever even knew. But my Church and the people behind it help people in need as much as anybody and morre than most.
- Cody Heitschmidt
It's over the top steroetypical statements like yours that lead to everyone diggin in and going on the defensive and looking like radical idiots. That's like saying the most devote muslims blow people up or the blackest americans are gang-bangers or whitest skinned folks are kkk. Sorry to go off but folks we gotta get over this shit and let people live THEIR lives.
- Cody Heitschmidt
One man's church is another's punchline, we go round and round..
- orionstarr
redirect to original post. No running water, no electricity, no shampoo, no scissors, no money sort of gives one a unique yet common appearance.
- Janet
Video of me as an MTV VJ. I was young, I was hyperactive, it was the early '90's... I see why they fired me. - http://www.youtube.com/watch...
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Miranda, Hao Chen, AJ Batac and 59 other people liked this
Nice dude! And you were no more hyperactive than the rest of them. Kennedy acted like a crackhead most of the time. A cute crackhead, but a crackhead nonetheless
- Haggis (Sean Loyless)
And lets not forget about the MTV Sports guy O.o
- Haggis (Sean Loyless)
You mean Dan Cortese? That guy seemed like a tool bag back in the day.
- David Wilson
I miss 90's MTV, it used to have such cool little shorts that would make up the time inbetween shows. They need to make a comeback.
- alphaxion
I miss Liquid Television and 120 Minutes.. those were my two favorites in that time period.
- Haggis (Sean Loyless)
Liquid Television was some weird shit. I found a couple VHS rips of it online a year or so ago. I think it's even more awesome now just seeing what MTV used to be willing to put on TV.
- David Wilson
i vaguely remember a few of these clips. ps - nice drug rug/cat in the hat fashion in the opening clip
- Cee Bee
I was addicted to YO! MTV Raps. Still have recorded shows on VHS.
- Eric @ CSTechcast.com
IRS' The Cutting Edge and Buzz were the two best shows ever on MTV.
- Akiva Moskovitz
i loved 120 minutes, but i always wanted to punch dave kendall in the face
- Cee Bee
Can I like this a hundred times over?
- Derrick
this is great.
- Tsega Dinka
I always liked Matt Pinfield when he took over.. he always provided WAY too much info on the bands, but I ate it all up.
- Haggis (Sean Loyless)
This is wonderful :) Thanks for sharing :) Can't see why they fired you!
- Baard @ Pixum
Spectacular to the max!
- ::Kristen::
very good back in the day look back :)
- (jeff)isageek
you were much better than anyone they have now, though you were a bit too nice and friendly for the rude awakening ;)
- xero
Amazing! That's great stuff!
- ElijahBailey-Zu of FF <0,
ditto @Haggis Always easier to be harsher on yourself when you see or hear yourself. You were certainly one of the less hyper VJs
- Jim Goldstein
O_O...HOLY FLASHBACK! hahahahahaha, that was GREAT! :D
- Anna Haro
you were on mtv?
- Admiral Anika
Wow, nice hair! You looked Johnny Depp-ish in the Schtephen part, with the glasses. Oh and hyper, indeed.
- Adriana E. Reyes
this. is. awesome.
- Christa Imbriale
"We have videos coming up, of course, it's MTV." HA! Those were the days.
- Jared B. Luther
lmao @ 3:30! good stuff, Steve! :)
- Carmen
Love the flannel!
- Kelly W.
bonus points for "...you might just get to hang with him at Neverland Ranch."
- Karim
Unt now ve dance!
- Richard pancakhaus Walker
wow, do you still have that really awesome shirt? ;-)
- Corie
I thought it was great!
- Stormy
That is an excellent look back. You've provided us with nostalgia and gorgeous long early-90's hair to boot. :D I'm trying to pick my brain and recall if you were one of the umpteen VJ's I had a crush on back in the day. I loved my MTV.
- tinypants - Hagitha of FF
You were great!
- Egyirba
i love you! who'da thunk that you woulda later gotten engaged to a girl who was only in 4th grade while you were galavanting up there at viacom :)
- Melissa Maskevich
Flashback to when MTV actually showed videos
- Michelle Darnell
How exciting! The Neverland Ranch contest is classic.
- Pete Delucchi
SCHTEPHEN ROFL.......dude....i so used to watch you every day =P
- UncleCreepy13
Dave Navarro and The Panic Channel - Bloody Mary Video - http://www.youtube.com/watch...
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Jennifer Marie Sandbank, Bonita Garrabrant, Gus Perez and 10 other people liked this
interesting arrangement. Must have been prior to the album?
- Josh Haley
Josh - They did this at least a year before the album came out.
- Aaron Hood
Umm, when are ya going to do something vocally? Dude you can SING, so keep doing it for those of us that enjoy your pipes. /suck up off
- Tracy
i have plastic bags 4 my plastic friends.....but they just have medical marijuana in them.=P ...nothing bad.....even my Dr. says so......lolz this will ALWAYS be my fave version of BM steve....thx for posting....UR THE FUKN MAN ISAACS!!!
- UncleCreepy13
<3
- ::Kristen::
Josh, Yeah this was the original version.
- Steve Isaacs
I like the album version - haunting(er) if that is a word.
- Janet
Mickey Rourke’s Face: A History -- Vulture -- Entertainment & Culture Blog -- New York Magazine - http://nymag.com/daily...
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Make the scary man go away!!!
- Miranda
The commentary is the best: "Worried about how frightening your face looks? Sit next to Bob Dylan! "
- Kirk Skodis
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Why Danny Boyle's 'Slumdog Millionaire' Could Be 2008's Best Picture -- New York Magazine - http://nymag.com/movies...
Tsega Dinka, Donna Mugavero, Andrew and 5 other people liked this
Thanks, Pokai. I really enjoyed this. Boyle must be pretty madcap; I think my adrenaline boosted just reading about him.
- Donna Mugavero
Melissa Singing "Caro Nome". - http://www.youtube.com/watch...
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From Verdi's Rigoletto. Pacific Encore performance at the Axelrod Performing Arts Center November 1st, 2008.
- Steve Isaacs
from Bookmarklet
Amazing!! Other than that, I honestly have no words.
- ::Kristen::
WOW!!!
- Anna Haro
Encore, encore!!
- imabonehead
Wow!
- Chrimmus Tad
WOW!!! That's a VOICE!!!
- dafire
hey, that's pretty good. talented and pretty.
- Cee Bee
I'm guessing it would've been hard to get through that without a few tears eh? Amazing.
- Vicky
Whoa! That's beautiful! Lovely lovely voice.
- Adriana E. Reyes
lovely :)
- Baard @ Pixum
bravisimo!!
- Bonita Garrabrant
That huge voice came out of her? :o Wow
- Kamath (नमः)
Fabulous - how on earth do you remember the words?
- Janet
wow
- xero
Amazing. She sounds sooo good. Steve you are one lucky guy!
- Tamara J.
One word... BEAUTIFUL!
- Miranda
thanks everyone !!!! much love
- Melissa Maskevich
wow, you have a beautiful voice, Melissa!
- Carmen
That was wonderful, Melissa. :)
- Molly, "sorry"
WOW!! nice voice, excellent cadence, timing and talent!!
- Susan Beebe
I love Nutella - http://www.flickr.com/photos...
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Hmmmm!
- Vincent X
oh yeah, that's good stuff.
- a creature was stirring
mmm ... especially on strawberries or banana slices
- tiffany
Nutella frozen yogurt with Oreos - amazing!
- Caffeinated Sue
pb&nutella sandwiches, ftw
- Bren -- Not Grinchy
banana + nutella crepes!!!
- Melissa
OMG! Me too!
- Zulema ◕ ◡ ◕
Nutella is pure genious. Whether it's on something or by itself. Mmmm.
- Eiwe Lingefors
You know, I've tried the Trader Joe's version (which is cheaper) but it just doesn't compare. ♥Nutella♥
- Caffeinated Sue
Nutella on a biggish spoon, straight from the jar
- Vicky
ok...i have NEVER had Nutella...must go get some...
- Susan Beebe
i'm so confused by this product. what is it?
- Patricia
Patricia, it's an incredible chocolate/hazelnut spread.
- Caffeinated Sue
*drool*
- Michael W. May
I love myself - http://www.flickr.com/photos...
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Flaws and all.
- DO ANYBODY NO MONIQUE
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Never would've guessed THAT! Heh heh.
- Akiva Moskovitz
haha akiva.
- DO ANYBODY NO MONIQUE
Palin as President - Funny... - http://palinaspresident.com/
Chris Farrugia, Ari Milner, Carmen and 16 other people liked this
Yikes!
- BethC
paraphrasing the base, "get used to it!" :(
- Pete Delucchi
DO NOT WANT!
- Steven Perez
Do not want, but hilarious!
- Aaron Hood
Be sure to click on everything. Save the phone for last.
- Steve Isaacs
It's the Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown! (Part 1) : http://blog.steveisaacs.com/post...
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Posting pirated content on the Internets?! Good grief!
- James (@willia4)
apple store was very helpful! quick test and they replaced my dead battery. almost feels like I got a new computer!
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Lee.org » Motivational Posters - http://lee.org/blog...
Brad Williamson, Arthur Guy, David Young and 13 other people liked this
OMG this is the funniest thing. I laughed nonstop for 5 minutes.
- Rodney Rumford
the Jesus YMCA is a favorite http://friendfeed.com/e...
- Dave Q
Thanks Jeremiah, I needed that.
- Kirk Skodis
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hahahahahahahahahahaha
- Iain Baker
Jesus, USE ME!
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Jason Sudeikis on the left and either Nick Chelyapov, or a weird combination of Woody Allen and Jay Leno - on the right.
- Kirk Skodis
California outlaws text-messaging while driving - http://www.crunchgear.com/2008...
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i'm all for this- but I'd like the option to take an additional DMV test, proving I can handle driving while texting...
- robin k
my buddy said it best "oh please. The driving test should be administered while texting. If you can't do 2 things at once, you shouldn't have a car"
- Glenn Batuyong
from twhirl
there's no doubt texting while driving is potentially dangerous... heck, it's even been proved that being on your cell using your bluetooth can be a hazard.
- Jasmin Smith
Seattle has similar law but it's considered secondary offense. Cops cannot pull you for just texting alone - you have to screw up with something else. So if you text and your driving is still good you'll be OK.
- andrei_c
let that oil get higher more, and you will beg for buses...
- A.T.
agree with Jason... and texting on an iPhone (or other touch screen phones) is even worse, no tactile feel of the keys means you're looking away from the road even more.
- Neil Bernhart
I'm sure everything is dangerous while driving. Don't drop anything. Don't talk to anyone. Don't let an insect in the car. Don't sneeze. Don't look out the window. If you don't understand the risks getting into a car, don't.
- Sam Pullara
I still find it funny that these sort of things need their own law. Driving a car is a major undertaking just because you can get away with texting or making that phone call or reading the map right now does not mean that it's okay. If you are busy looking up a contact checking what somebody has texted you how will that affect your reaction time? There where over 3000 deaths on the UK roads in 2005. Cars are dangerous and should be taken more seriously. It is very easy to get convinced that you are not the
- John Cooper
apparently Sam has had poor math in school. Risks are (in simplified form) expected value, and if your outcome on road is someone's death, no matter how low probability is, expected value is still DEATH. Do you like to kill, Sam, and then find funny explanation why you still shall not care?
- A.T.
Um, no. Risks are value / probability. DEATH is the expected value of a plane crash or an alien invasion, but the probability is so low as to make the risk negligible in either case.
- Mistletoe Glen
@Glen Campbell As someone that spends 95% of my driving time on a motorcycle, it does bring the real potential of death into the equation. I agree with @melmcbride, it may be your bumper and insurance rates you are gambling with, but it could easily be my life, so i really don't care how good you are at multitasking as a driver - I've had too many people not see me because they were talking or texting on the phone.
- Bill Sanders
but tweeting and FFing arent Texting fortunately!
- Geoff Schultz
Testing at the Transport Research Laboratory in the UK found that the responses of drivers who were texting were worse than someone who was driving under the influence of drink or drugs. http://tinyurl.com/3mlq9w
- Richard Peat
In the 1960's I used to ride to work with some one who shaved while driving
- pazzer1
"Religulous" - Bill Maher's New Movie Coming October 3rd. - http://www.lionsgate.com/religul...
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Going to see this when it comes out with a bunch of people. Should be good. :)
- Tanath
Great preview clip, but you have to get religulous to get past all the page hijacking flash to get to the point! :-)
- Duncan Riley
A must see on my list.
- Jeff P. Henderson
Interestingly, a must not see on my list. If I want to watch Bill Maher talk about something he doesn't understand, I can watch him on TV for free.
- ComicList
Cool. I'll have to check this one out.
- Jonathon
Def a must see. We'll make it a family outing.
- Chrimmus Tad
Must watch
- Alejandro
Mr. LePage, I will gladly pay to see Mr. Maher not understand how and why people go to war or anything else in the name of some mythical Beardy McCloudypants who lives in the sky.
- Kirk Skodis
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Beardy McCloudypants FTW!!
- Chrimmus Tad
Ugh, no way. I don't support shock jocks.
- Soup
Yay!
- Brandon Titus
mmm toast!
- (jeff)isageek
This was really good - caught it at the T.O. Film Festival.
- Bonnie Dean
Amy, I don't think he qualifies as a "shock jock."
- Tanath
lol @ Kirk's "mythical Beardy McCloudypants "
- Vicky
I am so all about Beardy McCloudypants.
- Steve Isaacs
$ whois beardyMcCloudypants.com -- No match for "BEARDYMCCLOUDYPANTS.COM". Someone snap it up!
- Chris Johnson
@Charles LePage: Bill Maher is on HBO. If you have a way to see him on your TV for free, do please share it with the rest of us :)
- Eric P
What I love about the MacBook Air is that you can pretend it's a MacBook Pro and you're a giant.
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ordered a new pair of etnies yesterday afternoon from zappos and they arrived this morning! that was fast! thanks @zappos
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Been up since 5am...iphone battery is a little less than half, this day will def require a Richard Solo recharge!
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Natasha Shneider Celebration Concert : Queens Of The Stone Age - http://www.interscope.com/artist...
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On July 2nd, at 11:11 AM, Natasha Shneider passed away. She ended her time in this Life with the style & poetry that she lived all the days previous, crossing over while held in the arms of her closest & dearest. No words can encapsulate the unwavering strength she provided, adversities she overcome, the talents she possessed & nurtured, the sharpness of her wit nor the beautiful complexity of her intellect. We are so thankful for her influence & the gift of her friendship.
- Steve Isaacs
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On Saturday August 16th at the Henry Fonda Theater in Los Angeles, Queens of the Stone Age will perform a concert in celebration of the life of Natasha Shneider. QOTSA will be accompanied by friends PJ Harvey, Jack Black + Kyle Gass, Matt Cameron, Brody Dalle, Jesse Hughes, Billy F. Gibbons, Chris Goss, and Alain Johannes, who will help them perform songs from the limits of the QOTSA catalog and beyond. Proceeds from the event will go to defray the costs associated with Natasha’s battle with cancer.
- Steve Isaacs
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What the hell is this? You just post links and expect us to know what it is?
- Kirk Skodis
2.0 software now gives the option to add new suffixes. Would be nice to do this with links (open in current or new tab) http://is.gd/Um8
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My most anticipated film of the year: THE CURIOUS CASE OF BENJAMIN BUTTON. http://is.gd/SwP
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Me too, at least of the holiday season... GREAT trailer.
- Steve Isaacs
After seeing the trailer yesterday, my most anticipated film of the post-summer season is "Burn After Reading" (www.burnafterreading.com) Coen Brothers!
- James Ferguson
Ahhh!! No more Brad Pitt! There were seriously 4 different Brad Pitt movies on last night plus the arrival of "the chosen ones" yesterday. Tis too much
- Kim N
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