Bob Blunk - Likes - FriendFeed

That poor cat looks so confused. - Kendra <3 Three Lions

but it's so warm on top of the scanner! - DJF

Time for a cat scan! - Jemm

Iz I the right way up for printing? - Vicky

This is clearly not my cat. If this was my cat he's have one arm shoved down into the printer trying to tear up all the internal whirling bits with his bare claws. - Soup

LOL, Soup! - Kol Tregaskes

that is one adorable kitten! - Anna Lynn M.

<3 - Furkan Tunalı

Too Funny! Reminds me of the San Mateo Cat Shelter where one of the cats loves to sleep on top of the laster printer where the paper comes out... - Greg Lato

Kitty!!!! - Janice

keep trying! - Morgan Haley

FEED ME A CAT - teh Dork Knight aka Kenny

Kol, it is NOT impossible. And that's all I'm saying. - Steven Perez

Push harder - Josh Haley

LOL@Jemm - AJ Batac

آخی - یک بابک

Hehe, Steven. I won't ask. ;-) - Kol Tregaskes

Gosh, just noticed this post has nearly 150 likes! :-D - Kol Tregaskes

1 closer....hilarious! - Jeffrey Marsh

There we go 150 likes. :-D - Kol Tregaskes

I'm in ur faxx masheen -- sendin de faxxez.... - Stephanie Segel

I think you mean a LIVE cat… - Mistletoe Glen

thanks, i needed a laugh - chaz2b

FAXCAT IS NOT AMUSED - Karl Knechtel

iz dat some copycat? - bora "head" basman

LOL, now nearly 200 likes! :-) - Kol Tregaskes

Thats no fax machine, thats my new patented kitty juicer! - Threepwood

Just one more like... please. ;-) - Kol Tregaskes

it's over two huuunddreeeed - bora "head" basman

MOAR! - Pat Hawks

I need 9 copies please ! - Faraz Mullick

A cute cat :) - Mohammad Abdurraafay

Haha, Faráz. - Kol Tregaskes

Next target, 250 likes. ;-) - Kol Tregaskes

اخي...گناهي - noonii

Friendfeed loev faxcat :o - Karl Knechtel

;-) - Kol Tregaskes

Pussy by fax. What will they think of next? - Mattb4rd

X)) - Nia

OMGosh, next up is the 300 likes mark. Anyone care to join in? ;-) - Kol Tregaskes

Honestly, i'm not generally a fan of the Cat memes... But that is classic. - Alistair (alpinefolk)

You know this is the 7th most liked entry on FriendFeed ever: http://beta.friendfeed.com/search... !!! - Kol Tregaskes

Kol, this thread is pure genius. - Alex Scoble

But only almost 50 comments.. :) - Simon Wicks

Simon, there's not much to comment regarding the picture :) But meta-comments are more than appropriate! - Ivan Zuzak

Simon, yeah we need 1500+ comments now, who wants to start? ;-) - Kol Tregaskes

there we go then for the 1500+!! - Jaap Willem

1600+ to beat the FFundercats live chat thread. I think with this real time now on all threads we're going to see some truly epic comment numbers. - Simon Wicks

Ivan, no the picture speaks for itself. ;-) - Kol Tregaskes

OK, now it's the 4th: http://beta.friendfeed.com/search... - it's gonna take a huge effort to break the record of 452+ likes here: http://beta.friendfeed.com/imified... - Kol Tregaskes

OK, now this is the 3rd most liked entry: http://beta.friendfeed.com/search... :-D Crazy! - Kol Tregaskes

Too bad I am fresh out of likes of I would do it again. - JSNFLMNG

¡Excelente! - Marcos Vicente

I'm using this photo in the latest chapter of can haz murder - anna sauce

Hehe, Anna. :-) - Kol Tregaskes

One more for 350 likes, LOL. This is mental! :-) - Kol Tregaskes

Come on, 350 cats for a cat getting crushed? You guys are mean. :-P - Richard A.

I'd like again if I could :-) - Dobromir Hadzhiev

bump - Simon Wicks

Richard, LOL! - Kol Tregaskes

Awesomely funny! - Martha

Next target: 400 likes? ;-) - Kol Tregaskes

theres one more for you Kol - Toby Graham

Toby, you're very kind. :-) - Kol Tregaskes

Cute *_* - Sybelle

Hehe. - Kol Tregaskes

Just 6 more likes for the 400 then I'll leave you alone. ;-) - Kol Tregaskes

can you spare a cat 6 likes? - JSNFLMNG

sweet - Eric Hofmann

Haha, Jason, wow 406 likes, madness! :-D - Kol Tregaskes

Madness? THIS. IS. FAX CAT. - Mike Nayyar

Well 452 likes is the record, hmm I think that is pushing it. ;-) - Kol Tregaskes

Awesome. - Alex Scoble

this is underfaksink at its worzt - Petr Buben

Petr, I have no idea what you mean, but thank you. :-) - Kol Tregaskes

@Kol .. :] that, partially, might have been the purpose.... I don't know it exactly either. :] .. was I reflecting on a cat under the fax, and that it is hard to fax that way ... /?:] ... "underfaxing at its worst" .. - Petr Buben

Ah, OK, Petr. :-) - Kol Tregaskes

there ya have me ! :] .... see, to be honest with you, i saw this pic couple days ago, but i let it go, without posting it ..... what does that make me? :] - Petr Buben

:-) - Kol Tregaskes

OMGosh, just 23 more likes to beat this: http://beta.friendfeed.com/imified... ;-) - Kol Tregaskes

433 Like ! Wow ! - Like

Freemor, yes very cute! :-D - Kol Tregaskes

cute~ - Chan Pen

that's why is called a cat scan and not a cat fax. - Phil Maxwell

oh ... a scan. not fax?! .... it looked to me like she was faxink - Petr Buben

Just 5 more likes needed. ;-) - Kol Tregaskes

Try rolling the cat through a press first. Flat cats fit into the fax easier. - Bob Blunk

Fax, Petr. :-) - Kol Tregaskes

even a flat cat... faxes just can't handle the hair. You'd have to shave the cat first, else the hair will burn and stick to the drum... a mess! (I am extrapolating from transparencies, mind, i don't have access to a cat to test) - Joelle Nebbe (iphigenie)

Hehe, Joelle. This is now tied for the 'likes' top stop. One more then, hehe. :-) - Kol Tregaskes

Ok, over the top now. - Greg Guitarbuster

Hehe, Greg. Blimey! Erm, is that not far from 500 likes now? ;-) - Kol Tregaskes

Bloody marvelous, Kol. Wish I could like it again... too cute (and help u to 500 likes). - Roberto Bonini

I couldn't believe it when I logged on from the morning over posting it and saw it was at something 200 likes! You all have a strange fetish with cats and fax machines, hehe. ;-) - Kol Tregaskes

Am I the only one who saw this and their first thought was - My goodness did someone break that cats neck? It still freaks me out a little - Steve C

Steve, it does look a little out of place, but cats are pretty bendy. ;-) - Kol Tregaskes

They fax much better if you flatten them first. What? - Kevin Pedraja

LOL, Kevin. - Kol Tregaskes

i can also imagine the cat going there cause it is snug and warm - Joelle Nebbe (iphigenie)

Ey, it would be a tad warm on there, especially after a long working day. ;-) - Kol Tregaskes

Caption which needs to be said aloud: Uh Ohz, I'm totally FAXED! - sofarsoShawn

Hehe, Shawn. 10 more for the big 5-0-0. :-) - Kol Tregaskes

Countdown! 8 more now! - Mike Nayyar

bump for more likes - Josh Haley

bump - Roberto Bonini

One more!! :-) - Kol Tregaskes

I took mine away, too much pressure. - Steve C

Wow, there we go, 500 likes!! Thank you all!! :-D - Kol Tregaskes

I think Fax Kitty deserves a prize for that. - Kendra <3 Three Lions

меня, признаться, подзаебал этот кот - Парадокс Смейла

пиздец как! - getalifejerk

Kendra, absolutely. :-) - Kol Tregaskes

So we can put this post to rest now. :-) 505 likes final count, wow! :-D Good night all! - Kol Tregaskes

My like is the last one so far :) - 509 afaik - getalifejerk

did 3 people really un-like this? now at 506. wtf (edit: uh, oh, yeah, me and 2 + 506 others makes 509. dammit, jim, i'm an artist, not a mathematician) - ɐ ɯıʞ sıɹɥɔ

wish I could double like! - metalerik

Wish I could just like it at all. ;-) - Kol Tregaskes

This is also still on the Best of page. That must be the longest running best of post? :-) - Kol Tregaskes

But it's a cat being crushed... - Richard A.

برای چی این همه لایک خورده؟؟؟؟؟ - H.M.Nasrabadi

Hehe, Richard. - Kol Tregaskes

copy cat - gibilix

518 like! most liked post? - Lu Tao

ay yerim yaa çok tatlı kedicikk :)) - Arzu

Lu, yeah but a long way now. :-) - Kol Tregaskes

*bump* - Andre

Blew past 500 likes - LIKE!!!!! - Roberto Bonini

OMGosh, nearly heading to 550!! - Kol Tregaskes

So we know how many people use this site. - Richard A.

So that's what Paws Printing means. - Jack (a.k.a. Jeber)

Richard, we getting there. ;-) - Kol Tregaskes

Jack, hehe. - Kol Tregaskes

this thread is making history. - vijay

Indeed .. this is a most epic thread - Mattb4rd

Hehe. 9 more for 550! - Kol Tregaskes

8... - sofarsoShawn

7. ;-) - Kol Tregaskes

Actually only 5...cuz "You, Earl E Morningwood, yasin ghasemi and... 542 liked this" - sofarsoShawn

Who wants to bet how many likes this thead is going to get??? - Roberto Bonini

Gosh, no idea. - Kol Tregaskes

take some bets then come back in a year to check? - Joelle Nebbe (iphigenie)

:) - SokooteDel

Holy smokes .. this pussy cat is approaching 600 likes! - Mattb4rd

552 now, so there are some unlikes going on, hehe, oh well. Still an amazing amount of likes. :-) - Kol Tregaskes

560! - sofarsoShawn

And back down to 559. Hehe. - Kol Tregaskes

And how could anyone not love kitties after seeing this photo? - Susan Beebe

I liked it without reading this discussion - evidentially we have a lot of people who like the idea of faxing a cat! - Rich

Rich, yes, worrying, hehe. ;-) - Kol Tregaskes

564! - sofarsoShawn

I think we'll have to recruit more ffeeps before this record will ever be broken - JSNFLMNG

maybe a good way to clone cats :) - Roberto

Hehe, Roberto. - Kol Tregaskes

This surely couldn't hit 600 likes, could it!? - Kol Tregaskes

It could! Keep bumping it up! - imabonehead

It will :) - Roberto Bonini

My next cat post: http://beta.friendfeed.com/the-fun... - Kol Tregaskes

Wow, not even 600 Likes? Feh. ;-) - j1m

No yet. Close though. :-) - Kol Tregaskes

Stuck on 581. - Kol Tregaskes

Most liked FF post ever? - Kristian Salonen

One of the best funny cat pictures I've seen! :-) - John Collis

Kristian, it appears to be. Hehe, John. - Kol Tregaskes

ای بابا این پیشول بی خیال نمی شود، بابا پاشو برو دنبال یه بازی دیگه ، از هفته پیش تا حالا تو فکس ولو شدی حوصله ات سر نرفته، پاشو اقلا بپر رو کیبوردی چیزی - Maryaminaa

11 more to 600. ;-) - Kol Tregaskes

داداش كوتاه بيا، مي خواي ركورد بزني!؟ - Exir

هستم بره این کامنتتو ترجمه کنه اکسیر ! :))) داره از فضولی میمیره الان ! :D - Shayan

Hehe, 6 more likes. :-) - Kol Tregaskes

Need 1 more like, by my calculation, to get to 600 - Josh Haley

Another unlike then, back down to 598. :-) - Kol Tregaskes

it's 598+3, at the moment ;-) - Andre

There we go, 601!! Wow, can't believe it. :-D Thanks everyone!! - Kol Tregaskes

3 people un liked :( - Roberto Bonini

I think there have been made unlikes over the last week, oh well. - Kol Tregaskes

too many likes, the kitteh is burning up..stop the madness...;) - JSNFLMNG

Haha, Jason. - Kol Tregaskes

614!!!!! - sofarsoShawn

Whoa! :-) - Kol Tregaskes

man! ..Kol is gaining ... and I saw that pic one day before Kol posted it :X ..and i let it go! :[)] - Petr Buben

Petr, who's he? - Kol Tregaskes

omg, this post passed 600 likes! - imabonehead

@Kol ..well the man .. Mr Photographer .. ok .. let me go there .. - Petr Buben

I see. ;-) - Kol Tregaskes

631 likes, amazing stuff. :-D - Kol Tregaskes

Day 11 and this thing's still going! - Phil Maxwell

Why fax yourself when you can get famous via FriendFeed? :-) - Willem (@wim66) ☠

whereas a cat *scan* is totally feasible - Megan Craig

Kol, congratulations, you won the Friendfeed Award for the most likes entry! - Jérôme Flipo

Kol is this from your rival: Squashy Cat Photography? - sofarsoShawn

Haha, Shawn. Have you really bumped this one again? ;-) - Kol Tregaskes

LOL I was actually looking at best of month and I thought I'm going to be clever :-) - sofarsoShawn

this makes me laugh every darn time I see it - Stephanie_Happy2010!

Who is this NShawnFW? ;-) - Kol Tregaskes

kitties do like to find new spots to nap :) - Maryam

LOL, now over 650 likes. - Kol Tregaskes

این هنوز در نیومده از لای این دستگاه؟ - Maryaminaa

Wow. this is good..... pleased, Kol? - Roberto Bonini

Pleased? About the number of likes? I'm happy regardless. :-D - Kol Tregaskes

So do we think it will go to 700 likes? ;-) - Kol Tregaskes

it will - Seltoon

what do you mean by "it" ? say "he" or "she". :) - Maryaminaa

Haha, I was referring to the entry. ;-) - Kol Tregaskes

lol - Maryaminaa

I see someone already posted 'Copy Cat' !! LOL Great picture - Kevin J Hatton

:-) - Kol Tregaskes

O HAI! I IZ WATIN FR COOPONZ, KTHXBYE. - Kris Roley

Neksnapper 3000 Kitten Eradicator - Kills Kittehs Dead - Mattb4rd

Hehe. - Kol Tregaskes

10 more likes for 700! :-) - Kol Tregaskes

7 more by my count! - Bec Rowe @d0tski

Oops, yes you're right, Bec. :-) - Kol Tregaskes

Isn't it illegal to fax a pussy? - aerobroken

It's really only social convention which regards it as inappropriate, same with Xeroxing it, like one does with their b__tocks. Wait are we still talking about cats cats here or... - sofarsoShawn

OMGosh 700+ likes now!! LOL. Thank you all 702 of you. :-) - Kol Tregaskes

Wow, not so bad huh? \u) - ElijahBailey-Zu of FF <0,

try harder! ; )) - Didier Lahely

Before faxing it, you have to flatten it out a bit. You're going at it all wrong! :-) - Rick Cogley

Caturday is tommorow ... Fax Cat on Saturday .. - johnpiercy

Must try this at home! - Anthony K. Valley ©

Bumping some old great posts. :-) - Kol Tregaskes

Now THAT is a classic! - Allan Besselink

you have to flatten it first!!! ;) - Neda S.

This is very good humor! - TrafficBug

Hey, we've hit the 700-like mark. :-) - Kol Tregaskes

just a couple thousand to go - JSNFLMNG

LOL - Smeerch

__awesome__ - Matteo Scotuzzi

and it got resurrected once again! - Joelle Nebbe (iphigenie)

I managed to do it once, but I don't think I'm going to do it again. The results were a little fuzzy. - Seth Greenblatt

Discrepo. Por muy grande y definida que sea la pantalla del iPhone, me sigue pareciendo muy pequeña para leer libros. Además, el contraste que se consigue con un ebook reader convencional no se alcanza con la pantalla del iPhone. Al menos en su versión actual. - Jordi Soler

De acuerdo. La vida de la batería del iPhone también es mucho menor. Por otro lado es más fácil cargar con un iPhone, sobre todo si de todos modos lo vas a llevar. Además que no necesitas comprar otro aparato. Llevo tres novelas leídas con Stanza y la verdad que para mí sus desventajas no se ven compensadas por el Kindle. - Roberto Baca

Sí, podríamos considerar el iPhone como "lector de emergencia" y el ebook tradicional como "lector oficial". Yo es que estoy acostumbrado a la experiencia de mi Sony Reader y la verdad es que no lo cambio por nada. Aunque debo reconocer que me he chupado novelas extensas con la Palm, con un móvil Sony Ericsson y hasta con el Mobipocket en la Blackberry. O sea que sí, unas cuantas dioptrías menos sí tengo. - Jordi Soler

"The inability to touch a script is very evident if you've seen any of her movies." - MVB (Curmudgeon of FF) from Bookmarklet

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BLECH. - Derrick

agree with Derrick. - Jim in Real Time

*would have pity-sexytime with her* --> - MVB (Curmudgeon of FF)

more power to ya. You take Megan, I'll take... http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_7k8PRJ... - Jim in Real Time

Well, there is that, too, Jim... - MVB (Curmudgeon of FF)

Well, I'll take this: http://bossip.files.wordpress.com/taye-di... :) - Derrick

*did not rub chest* - MVB (Curmudgeon of FF)

hey, you made your choice, MVB! And whose chest didn't your rub? Taye's, Megan's or Anne's, or D - None of the above - Jim in Real Time

Taye's - MVB (Curmudgeon of FF)

why's the video private steve? - Chris Heath

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Private videos hurt us all. :) - Louis Gray

Facebook's garden is so completely walled, that any video you take there is automatically private. It must drive Robert Scoble crazy when he shoots there. - Bruce Lewis

Thanks for unprivatizing it Steve! (edit: wow 51 minutes!) - Chris Heath

Thx 4 that - Johni Fisher

the question is...when do the walls start encircling the fertile farmlands of FriendFeed? - Bob Blunk

+1 Bob - lelapin

This makes me feel that no more efforts will be made to improve FriendFeed once their current load is done. This is the first time I've felt like that - I'd love some confirmation one way or the other, especially from a development standpoint. Do we continue writing software for FriendFeed, or should we focus all our efforts towards Facebook now? - Jesse Stay

Jesse, to me it sounds like paul was saying FF will take a back seat to FB in priority. I'm only 13 minutes into the video, but so far that seems to be what he's saying. - Chris Heath

so where to go from here? Because to me, without vast improvement, facebook ain't it! - Bob Blunk

Even if the guts of FF make it into FB, there's no way that the interfaces will stay the same. The FB API and the FF API are like apples and oranges. So, developing anything on top of the FF interfaces at this point doesn't seems kind of pointless. - Carter Rabasa

Bob, I really enjoy developing for Facebook. And they've shown it's getting much better. - Jesse Stay

Bob, we don't go anywhere... stay here. - Chris Heath

I wish, but without innovation friendfeed will eventually die - Bob Blunk

Facebook as of yet doesn't even scratch the social surface. Walled garden = FAIL! - Bob Blunk

Bob, I think you'll see a lot of what FriendFeed is doing further integrated into Facebook. I'd love more confirmation on what these guys will be doing within Facebook though so I can be more assured. That said, I know the guys at Facebook and I trust the direction they're going. It's just a bigger network to do that with, so unfortunately it will happen slower and more carefully. - Jesse Stay

FriendFeed is awesome just as it is... if there were no more features added I would be just as happy... as long as FF stays online. - Chris Heath

Bob, Facebook isn't that much of a walled garden - yes, you can make it a walled garden, but they are opening up, little by little. Pages, for instance, are completely public. - Jesse Stay

Jesse, slower and more carefully also means irrelevant. the next friendfeed will trump the turtle. FB is not Google, and they have shown that time and again. Don't get me wrong, I use FB daily, but for real online social networking FF is the place I go...and google is a close second. - Bob Blunk

Bob, you're getting ahead of yourself here and making assumptions. Let the dust settle and see what happens. - Chris Heath

Bob, yes - that's the concern. However, when I say slow, I mean they just have more features to release and improve because they have much, much more features than Twitter or FriendFeed. They're still launching new things weekly, often several times a week. - Jesse Stay

as long as they don't kill FF, FB and FF could integrate well. One is the yin to the others yang. (edit: yes Chris, only time will tell) - Bob Blunk

Bob, they don't have plans to kill FF any time soon. My hope is just that they either continue updating FF or push the efforts they were going to put towards FF and put that towards Facebook. I'm guessing the latter will happen. - Jesse Stay

have you guys watched the video? - Chris Heath

Steve: Thanks for this!! - Jim Connolly

Lots of smiles from Paul. Better quality than that brunch interview. :D - Rob Schieber

Should be no surprise, Facebook is priority, FriendFeed features on back burner if they're more intensive, involved. - Rob Schieber

This is an outstanding talk about the ping services relating to real time web. Love it. - Rob Schieber

Probably a key area of development here is comment nesting. Will Google Wave come out of the box with this? - Rob Schieber

Is comment nestiing really a necessary feature? - Cliff Gerrish

comment nesting doesn't work with real-time updating comments - think about it... - Chris Heath

Real-time happens at every point in the discussion, a la Wave, but it diffuses attention. A single point of update helps the eye find the most current comment. - Cliff Gerrish

Nesting works 1 level deep - that's how we do it with Echo. Any deeper and it does gets confusing - Chris Saad

yep:P - Kaan Ukturk

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Bu ne biçim bir şeydir, gördüğüm en sinir GIF grafiklerinden. :D - Ferhad Fidan

Oh my yes. *right click, save as* - Haggis (Sean Loyless)

+rep - geveZEUS

evet boyle bir kampanya başlatalım:) - adrina

Wırzıl, Phoebe Cates'in Fast Times at Ridgemont High'daki havuzdan çıkış sahnesinin gif'ini istiyoruz. - Aycan Çevik

Biz erkekler olarak sudan bu kadar rahat çıkamıyoruz artık. Deniz şortu oramıza buramıza yapışıyor. Düzelte düzelte çıkmaya çalışıyorsun sen de. Halbuki bu kadın milleti üzerimizde baskı kurarak slip mayo giymemizi yasaklamasaydı biz de böyle rahat çıkabilecektik.:) - fatih gül

Erkeklerin doksanlarda taytla denize girdiği bir dönem de vardı Fatih - Özer (Wrzl) Dölekoğlu

Slip mayoları özlüyorum. Hele şimdi şort mayolar iyice haşema mood'una girmiş. - Burçak Çubukçu

Stuck on repeat ? What a shame lol - Kevin J Hatton

Like the <Alias> - yagami

The RSS feed is http://leoville.tv/podcast... - Jim Williams

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Liking without having listened yet, but sounds like it should be great. - Neil Saunders

Not up on iTunes yet... I guess I will subscribe later! - Alex Morrison

The show was great. Just watched it on odtv.me. Gina was awesome. (I love Lifehacker.) I have an idea for the next show. On Lifehacker, Gina made a post called "The Hidden Risks of Cloud Computing". Check it out: http://lifehacker.com/5325169.... You could talk a lot about that one. ;) - Barry Nolette

TWiT network is kicking some ass. This is going to be a really good show if it remains this dense and substantial. - Christopher A Carr

Thanks Christopher! It takes a day or two for the iTunes feed to go public. Meanwhile you can add it manually to iTunes with the following URL: http://leo.am/podcasts/twig Thanks for listening! - Leo Laporte

I would add it to iTunes, Leo, but I never use that crappy, glorified storefront bloat-ware (#1 reason I don't have an iPhone). ;-) Keep up the good work. - Christopher A Carr

Thanks Leo, looking forward to it. Please twitter once it is available in itunes. - Michael

Thank you Dane Golden for this new show. - shelter watch

Awesome. - Zachary TG

Great show! You will always have content. - Rob Truman from fftogo

Great idea. Should be a good podcast. I follow all of google on twitter, but i would love to listen to it more than read it. - Ray H

Am liking the first episode of This Week in Google, I just wish it was called something else. Firstly, there is already a TWiG, or at least there was, plus it puts too much emphasis on the news side of the cloud computing revolution, where Leo, Gina and Jeff say they want to discuss other cloud stuff, and hints, tips and ways to use the tools. - Dom Barnes

#2 in iTunes! - Leo Laporte

. . .it's a hit. - Richard Merritt

TWIG name is already taken in iTunes store! - Stephan Romeo

the concept of developing open source or content for the android reminds me of "The Go-Giver". While freely giving, it's a profitable way to live and see what business comes back. @LeoLaporte - it's a great short book in Audible ;-) Read by the authors @BobBurg & @johndavidmann personally too - Courtney Engle

Thanks for the PubSubHubbub mention! - Brett Slatkin

That is genius! - Michelle Martinez

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:O - Tony C

oohh... brownies on a griddle? Browniecakes??? - Fa La La La Lindsay

and of course you have to eat them with chocolate syrup. - DO ANYBODY NO MONIQUE

I am thinking two of them with some choc chip ice cream sammich style! - Tony C

look at all the FUDGE you can pack in! - sofarsoShawn

I now have a new goal in life!!! - David Cook

Mmmmmmm..... :-D - Ladybug Heather

It's on. - Chris Baskind

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I can't tell if Radio Globo has just been nationalized, but they are now running a government press conference. - Chris Baskind

in the current reality (Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan, N. Korea) I think Americans (this one included) have no room to stomach another conflict. The media can blow this one out of proportion all they want, but I hope it doesn't get traction. - Bob Blunk

It needn't. This is being handled by the OAS. I'm sure we are deeply involved, but are trying to negotiate a bloodless settlement. - Chris Baskind

Globo has resumed local programming. - Chris Baskind

Your weapon of choice? - Todd Hoff

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Can we add "Talk among yourselves"? - Brian Sullivan

Compensated accurized match .45 combat shooting pistol. - Alex Scoble

"Talk amongst yourselves" is kind of funny though, Brian because of Mike Myers' Linda Richman SNL skits. - Alex Scoble

I'm fascinated by all the customs of this site sometimes - such as these. - Bill Kinney

Yes -- it would help if I got the quote right. ;-) - Brian Sullivan

They aren't customs, Bill...they are cliches...bad ones. - Alex Scoble

*shoot - Shevonne

Alex -- is this a Robert put down?-- sure has that feeling. - Brian Sullivan

And this is why I love you ever so much more than I love your brother. :-) - Ladybug Heather

I prefer: "Stop, Hammer Time." - Brian Daniel Eisenberg

Hehe, you can see it as that, but it's becoming more pervasive as people copy that style of posting. Asking people to "discuss here" is redundant on friendfeed. And I'm not a fan of posts where someone says here's why and then starts numbering reasons. It's all just badly overdone at this point. - Alex Scoble

Sorry Alex, I'm not sure what you mean by overdone. Could you make a list of reasons as to why you think it's overdone? Please number them so I know what order they're supposed to be in. ;-) - Jordan Hofker

they seem to work though, which is why people use them. - Bill Kinney

I've done it, and it was appropriate when I did. I even paid hommage saying I was breaking it down "Scoble style". I guess I'll have to specify which of the Brothers Scoble next time I do it. - FFing Enigma (aka Tina)

Heh, Tina, you kill me. - Alex Scoble

Wasn't that the point? :-) - Slappy Line

Luckily for you, I choose knives over guns so I can't shoot you as you requested ;-) - FFing Enigma (aka Tina)

I do it because the post here cross posts elsewhere with a following link. For those people on Twitter, say, the discuss here... followed by a link explains that the discussion is elsewhere. I suspect that's why Robert does that, as well. - Leo Laporte

Leo make sense there. Thing is, since Paul et al stripped out the service icons, that situation isn't obvious now to the beholder "Oh, it's a Twitter post crossing to FF". Maybe they should put service icons showing what service sent the feed, wouldn't that be a great feature? - Matthew DeVries

Wow...I got a comment from Leo Laporte! This is not sarcasm. - Alex Scoble from IM

Matthew, you know you can get the service icons back using Greasemonkey, right? - Rochelle

I've Leo has been spending a lot of time in people threads in the last week or so since he went to China. Seems he really is taking a vacation, able to spend some time just smelling the eRoses. - Matthew DeVries

LOL!:) - Thomas Bøhm

I know Rochelle, and I do, but I have this dream of moving over to Chrome. I like that brower a lot, but to do it I have deal with unreadable version of friendfeed, no AJ layout, no service icons. It's like I'm staring a wall of hieroglyphics. - Matthew DeVries

Yeah, I'd die without AJ and Micah. - Rochelle

Star Trek has Matter/Anti-Matter. Friendfeed has Scoble/Anti-Scoble. - Josh Haley

hahahhahaah!! - Susan Beebe

I'd prefer you use: "Marinate on this..." - .LAG liked that

Ooh...I am so using that...I could make it my shtick! - Alex Scoble from IM

...yeah!!! playa, playa! .LOLz - .LAG liked that

please let me know if there are any other reasons for me to shoot you. kthxbye. - Jim in Real Time

BRILLIANT. absolutely brilliant. - Zee. from iPhone

bunneh? - Joel Robert Perez

Leo's not on vacation. Yet. Soon tho - Chris Heath from iPhone

"Please discuss:" would be better than anything. Rah came up with a good comment on this a while back but I can't remember what is was. - Kol Tregaskes

No! you must live in shame, death is the easy way out. - John D Reasor

I'll bet the twit army got there first, ha! - Ken Power

Nope, he commented that in the interest of integrity he WOULD NOT take advantage of the early access for journalists. - David Lloyd

Guess that's what happens when you bait Leo into a meltdown on camera... Those TWiT's have his back apparently... - Walt Ruppar

Justice, Internet style! - Bob Blunk

This should make for biting shenanigans and theater on the G Gang show today when they pick up where they left off last week on the Great Day of Hurt Feelings... - Thom Kennon

I was in irc.twit.tv last night at midnight and i don't think it was until about 10 or 15 minutes after the hour that someone mentioned squatting on the arrington fb names (in jest i assumed) - Chris Heath

Who in fucks name are you people, there is not Leo/Arrington hate, they made up, less than an hour later. If the principles involved are fine with eachother, you don't get to carry forward with it. Arrington did jack shit to any of you. - Matthew DeVries

Matthew, I don't think it was the TWiT Army that secured the arrington fb names, there's certainly no proof of who it was since if you type up those urls nothing comes up (private profiles i guess?) - Chris Heath

I'm more coming down on these inexplicably butt hurt people who keep wishing the guy ill over a misunderstanding. - Matthew DeVries

No ill wishing here... just citing a possible cause. Although I thought I saw something similar happen to @louisgray and the theory is that some names were pre-reserved by the FB crew - Walt Ruppar

I don't think anyone is squatting on facebook.com/arrington. Like Walt said, I believe Facebook actually reserved it. If you try to go to that page it doesn't exist. - Laura Norvig

"Whether it’s a fair system or not, that’s the way it works. Apple fans had it good last year, but O2 doesn’t owe them anything. There’s no way they could take the hit for writing off all the money they spent on iPhone 3G s last year just to satisfy their customers’ gearlust. The iPhone offers the best user experience of any phone on the market but that doesn’t make it immune from economic realities." - Martin Bryant from Bookmarklet

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+1 Martin: AT&T is the same way. We keep complaining about the service and then shortcut them on the contracts. If they don't at least break even on the phone they can't build more infrastructure. Of course, it would have helped if they had a better one to begin with. - Bob Blunk

Actually, there is something we all can do about the high cost of cell phone usage: we can walk away from it altogether. Not only will it cost us no money, it will gain us lots of time to do other things... now that we no longer can be reached by others at their beck and call. I opted for a free Cable TV DSL landline, and, when I'm out, I carry with me a couple of prepaid PhoneCards and... more... - ianf ⌘

My main concern was the price of tethering - a service that many (most?) other people seem to have but O2 wants to charge us £14.68 per month for 3GB of data ($24) which I think is too much - what do you guys think? - Franz Sittampalam

Franz, other networks don't include tethering unless you go for a high priced monthly add-on that probably works out about the same as O2's deal. People can do tethering on a £5 per month data bundle but they're breaking the T&Cs of their contract doing so. Tethering will probably work on the iPhone without the Bolt-on too, it'll just be risky. - Martin Bryant

I don't mind paying for tethering, but £5 per Gb is high. I'll stick with 3 for now... - Andy Bold

I'm not sure about the subsidy situation. I bought the initial top model iPhone (8GB) for £269 on a £35 a month contract, which we are assuming was not subsidised. The same tariff now will get you the 32GB model @ £275, which we are assuming IS subsidised. Given the nature of falling flash prices what's going on here? Perhaps the kickbacks Apple received out of the monthly contract? - Jamie

Before iPhone, the usual model was that carriers bought large numbers of selected models from cell phone manufacturers at a very substantial discount in exchange for some cut in profits from the traffic. Carriers decided what other services and/or apps might be installed on the handset. Certain higher-end, esp. smartphones, went unsubsidized because carriers didn't see enough of a... more... - ianf ⌘

"I carry with me a couple of prepaid PhoneCards and keep track of public phones in the vicinity of where I am going." -- there's an app for that. - Andy Bakun

If they aren't breaking even on the phone, they are pricing it wrong, and pricing it wrong is bad business. And trying to make money in a fluid market flooded with the very commodities you're trying to sell doesn't make me want to sympathize with their business model either. - Andy Bakun

GM comes to mind... if you go broke doing it... maybe time for a rethink me thinks... - Fossil Huntress

Thank you, Andy, for reading me that close. That's correct, but where did I say that I personally was anywhere near representative of the target group? Apple (and other capitalists) have made their projections/ calculations/ predictions and if I don't like them, nobody's forcing me to participate in their schemes. But from that to denying that they may not know what they're doing is a... more... - ianf ⌘

No, no, don't add GM into this soup, different causes entirely - complacency, incompetence and a victim of its own conscious strategy of designed-in obsolescence. - ianf ⌘

"The weird thing, Lew, is that I've gotten to 40,000 followers faster on friendfeed than I did on Twitter, so it's seeing some success. Friendfeed items are already showing up higher in Google than the same Twitter items. My friends are already seeing more traffic from friendfeed than from their Twitter accounts (turns out that Oprah fans don't engage very much). But to me friendfeed can't do what you ask without giving up the real time feed. If it did that I'd give it up and go back to just using Twitter. So, at some level, your advice isn't good, but as you admit, you don't know the issues with getting access to Twitter's firehose feed. This is why Google hasn't yet figured it out either. It will be very interesting to see what you think of Google's Wave, by the way. Oh, and Building43 has a private room in friendfeed. Something that wouldn't be possible if friendfeed took your advice." - Robert Scoble

I mostly agree with you Robert, but having read that post an idea came to mind. What if FF automatically created imaginary friends for those friends who are on Twitter but not on FF? - Vlad Bobleanta

Friendfeed doesn't lend itself well to spammers. The aggregation and interaction that takes place on FF is far superior to anything Twitter could ever evolve into. But they fulfill two very different roles in my social network. FF (for the most part) is for evolved thought and participation. Twitter is for having fun. - Bob Blunk

Vlad: I think that their agreement with Twitter keeps them from doing that. They are only allowed to display tweets from people who've signed into friendfeed, if I remember Paul right. - Robert Scoble

Robert: I see. Well then the fact that this feature isn't around makes sense. - Vlad Bobleanta

FF is definitely a much nicer space. Can't see why Lew doesn't set up his tweet deck searches and RSS in Friendfeed. Friendfeed is the new tweet deck, specially if you can set up 6 screens like Robert. Dean - Deano @ Byron New Media

his 3rd point is interesting - FriendFeed's inter-connection to blogging. If you blog, you had better get it linked here if you want someone to read it. So in a way FF promotes blogs, and in a way it actually can replace blogging. - Mike Nencetti

I just created a clone of users from twitter who are not on FF. Works but does not allow the names to come through. So do not know who they come from but do see the actual tweet. Any way to get the names to come through? - Jonathan

Jonathan, set them up as imaginary friends http://friendfeed.com/setting... Can feed all their services under their name, with a picture to make it even easier. - Simon Wicks

FriendFeed rules, FB drools...end of story. Twitter fails so often it's ridiculous - no competition - Susan Beebe

Susan, I don't know about your experience, but it's a long while since I saw the fail whale. - Ian Betteridge from BuddyFeed

Weird... - Matt Ruiz

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weird? how comes? - Zee.

Makes, no sense. I don't quite see how it has to do with, xfiles aside from the UFO - Matt Ruiz

xfiles was everything everything to do with UFO's...you're confusing me. - Zee.

Sorry if I make, no sense. I'm totally out of it. With being sick.. -- What i meant is that this is totally random. - Matt Ruiz

its all good :) - Zee.

Things that make you go Hmmmm - Brent - Loving Life

the light.... - K.D.

so cute - 阿石

Thats pretty awesome - Nicholas James

cool - Alejandro

Great little image! - Gordon Herd

First thing to realize is this is a live chat. - Robert Scoble

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And it's threaded. - Robert Scoble

And the entire chat has a permalink. It's http://ff.im/3EcXi - Robert Scoble

And in this chat you can click "like" to send it to all your friends, or just keep it for yourself for later. You can see all your likes by visiting your friendfeed home page and clicking on "likes." - Robert Scoble

Robert can get an e-mail every time I reply to one of his posts - Jesse Stay

Robert, i've tried so many times to give it a shot. I think friendfeed works best if you're Robert Scoble. otherwise, lots of other folks have followers who don't engage. all the above stuff is great if people engage. but my audience isn't ultra super cutting edge geeky. mostly business folks where Facebook and Twitter is their limit. So any suggestions on how to get folks who aren't "early adopter" minded to engage? - Christine Lu

Robert can reply to that e-mail and have it appear threaded under the post - Jesse Stay

The feed / chat feature is amazing. no need to # anything - Jeff

Jesse: shhh, we wouldn't want to see codemonkeyism get that there's some advanced features here that take some poking around to get. Wait until he sees the search engine here and how much more useful it is than Twitter's (and that's when Twitter's is working). - Robert Scoble

It works for little fish like me too - David Damore

My only beef with friend feed is I don't like the iphone client, other than that, its better. - Luke Kilpatrick

Robert, don't tell him about direct messaging either ;) - Jesse Stay

We can't let @codemonkeyism know that you can put your friends in lists, so you can manage your users much better. - Robert Scoble

The search is amazing. Looking for a date, time and place someone tweeted about... it is faster to look on F2 if their content is aggregated here. - David Damore

And there is also saved searches and groups - Brent - Loving Life

Luke: why do you need a client? The page works great on my iPhone and they have both a regular version and an iPhone version. But there are clients coming. - Robert Scoble

The one thing about this site: Hate the logo, absolutely hate it. Site's alright but it's all about being where the people you want to follow/know are at. - Chris

I think friendfeed is great for conversations while twitter is awesome for status updates. Both are awesome in their own right. - sushaantu

Brent: don't tell him about private groups. Wired online and Venture Beat do their editorial meetings in private groups here. - Robert Scoble

How long until this has 100 comments? Minutes? - David Damore

sushaantu: exactly. - Robert Scoble

I'm liking FF more and more. Ugly as it be. - Lindy Asimus

David: 150 seconds. ;-) - Robert Scoble

Scoble has made it a side quest to convert every twitter follower of his into a Friend Feed member XD - Reid

Christine: I thought the same, but it's like twitter, you have to have that "aha" moment where you realizie some of the capabilities of a service..I had that about 15 minutes ago, I'm sold - John Bergoon

I wasn't going to mention the Private groups, at least not yet. - Brent - Loving Life

Reid: and it's working with a lot of people, but there are still some who say it's nonsense and I make fun of them. - Robert Scoble

Reid, Scoble never makes anything a side-quest unless it makes sense. Have you considered he may have a reason? - Jesse Stay

@Scobleizer: Thanks for the update and high degree of accuracy. :D - David Damore

FF is what FF is - I love it. - Brent - Loving Life

I've been playing with FF a little but it hasn't clicked yet. - Jesse P. Luna

live updating is the bomb! - Truong Nguyen

Wait until he figures out that search here can be constrained to just specific lists of people you've picked. Wouldn't it be more useful to search for, say, "quilting" among just your quilting friends? - Robert Scoble

(Hey, it worked on me -_- In fact, I'm not entirely sure I had heard of it before Scoble) - Reid

how do private groups work? - dave_blogworld

dave: you can start a group and you can make it private. - Robert Scoble

I'm still waiting for it to click... despite having believed you that you love it since we were still back in closed-beta. For me, it's still a "oh, I'd better go check over on FF for that handful of people who love it so much" - Lucretia Pruitt

Christine I see what you mean about having your followers on ff, but as a follower of Robert and other cool people I get to have a conversation with them here that I would not get to have otherwise - Jeff

Make sure not to tell them about audio and video in line. - Louis Gray

FriendFeed has become my real-time newspaper. I pick it up as I please, read what seems interesting, chat real-time about the news, and put it down as I please. - Jesse Stay

I could tell you Dave but then, well you know ... - Brent - Loving Life

dave: then only people who you invite in can see it. For instance, I have a private group at http://www.friendfeed.com/2010web can you see it? If you can, I invited you in. - Robert Scoble

I love FF but why don't they put the latest activity first and not at the end. As I'm typing I keep getting put beneath the fold... - Donny Mack

Robert: I just liked the way twitterfon works on the iphone, primary reason I use twitter more than friendfeed is it doesn't work as well on mobile. They make a client that can twitpic, linkshorten with bit.ly and I will most likely not use twitter anymore. - Luke Kilpatrick

Promise not to show them how you can do multiple photos in one post. - Louis Gray

Will @codemonkeyism actually read this thread? - Amit Nangare

Louis: ssssshhhhh, next thing you'll tell them you can do photos. Oh, drat you already did! - Robert Scoble

Amit: probably not. - Robert Scoble

Please promise not to show them how to hide noisy threads, people or sources. - Louis Gray

Whatever you do, don't tell them they can e-mail you at scobleizer@friendfeed.com - Jesse Stay

haha feed stops as all check http://www.friendfeed.com/2010web - John Bergoon

@Donny Mack Type faster ;) - David Damore

er, scobleizer@friendfeed.com - Jesse Stay

Jesse: even I didn't know THAT! - Robert Scoble

Or the way you can imbed videos. - Brent - Loving Life

At least it's here for good reference and the friendfeeders of the future =] - Reid

I love the functionality of FriendFeed, but I'll probably never really use it. I agree with Chris that it's about being where your friends are at. Twitter is sufficient for most of them, so that's where I'll be. - Jamie

interesting! the private group feature is really important for businesses - dave_blogworld

@Daavid Damore thanks :) - Donny Mack

And it works awesome with Chrome - Brent - Loving Life

Robert, it goes straight to your DM box. You can also post anything to share@friendfeed.com to go to your public stream. - Jesse Stay

(is on chrome) - Reid

Jamie: which is why I talk about friendfeed all the time. As soon as all my friends are here, my job will be done. So far I have 40,000 here. - Robert Scoble

Very pleased - Reid

Thanks Robert, I actually found out a lot more features due to this thread... go FF - Amit Nangare

haha, as did I - Reid

LOL. Slowly you will win us over. If so, then kudos. :) - Jamie

Wait until he figures out you can search just YouTube videos here (or just Tweets or Tweets AND YouTube videos). - Robert Scoble

Yes indeed go FF - Brent - Loving Life

Don't tell anybody about the search engine that actually can go back months and months and sort by likes or people, unlike the very broken Twitter search. - Louis Gray

I have no need for TwitPic with FriendFeed - Jesse Stay

Or for Ferrari or Porsche - Brent - Loving Life

Wait until he figures out that he can hide all Tweets except for those that have a comment or a like. That's how I hide his noise! - Robert Scoble

Luke, Robert. There's a developer with a mobile client in the works. Try it here: http://dev.ctor.org/f2p/ - Micah Wittman

Don't tell them that there is no fail whale. - Louis Gray

And you can still tie into Twitter if you must - Brent - Loving Life

Is this conversation threaded? If so, how can I tell which replies belong to which post? - Jim Lecter

Louis: I can actually find Chinese Earthquake Tweets here (you can't find them on Search.Twitter.com because that engine didn't index that long ago). - Robert Scoble

@Scobleizer: Perhaps it is time for SOMEONE to watch your tutorial videos. - David Damore

If this were a conversation in Twitter, then I could link to an individual comment/status. Can you not do that in here? - Jamie

Blasphemy Louis! What you say is not possible? (really?) - Reid

Robert I thought you would be in line to get a Palm Pre tonight - Jeff

Jim: only a single thread. These all belong to the top level items. - Robert Scoble

Don't tell him the API is much more scalable than Twitter's - Jesse Stay

Good thing its not in real time - Brent - Loving Life

Jeff: unfortunately I'm in Virginia and need to get to the airport in an hour or so. - Robert Scoble

(is the search on here that sexy?) - Reid

Very sexy - Brent - Loving Life

Reid: yes, you want a demonstration of some of the power of friendfeed search? - Robert Scoble

What airport are you at @Scobleizer? - David Damore

I like sexy - Reid

John Bergoon, welcome aboard :) - Micah Wittman

A sexy demonstration? - Reid

Imust have 30 saved searches just waiting for me - Brent - Loving Life

David: I'll be at Dulles at 5:30 a.m. (it's 2:53 a.m. right now). - Robert Scoble

Robert: I look forward to your review - Jeff

IAD: Know it well - David Damore

Was in Silicon Valley East for a few years - David Damore

Here's a sexy demonstration. Only two items on friendfeed have had the words "sexy demonstration" used in them: http://friendfeed.com/search... - Robert Scoble

Damn Robert hell of a schedule - Brent - Loving Life

anyone mention inline Audio like Podcasts - Gary Gannon

Very sexy indeed XD - Reid

Micah: Thanks, I'm sitting here thinking how I can start getting my friends to move over..there always giving me a hard time for jumping to the "next" thing :) - John Bergoon

Gary thats a secret - Brent - Loving Life

damn :-) - Gary Gannon

http://friendfeed.com/search... now you'll only see items that say "sexy demonstration" that were started by me. - Robert Scoble

Now we can't just have any body coming over her to FF they have to pass a test first - Brent - Loving Life

@Sanat - Trending topics are personalized to you rather than the whole world - try best of the day http://friendfeed.com/summary... - Atul Arora

Its a very complicated test - Brent - Loving Life

And it is late at night in most places - David Damore

If you only use twitter maybe FF does not have a lot of value, but if you blog, use 12sec, youtube, vimeo, basically anything social media it is awesome to have all your stuff in 1 place. - Jeff

I like Friendfeed because I can take one thread of conversation and share it with another group of friends to start another conversation. http://ff.im/3EdWm - John Serra

It involves adding the values of one plus one - Brent - Loving Life

Well over 100 comments already - David Damore

John Serra: True that's a huge feature - John Bergoon

Sanat: friendfeed can display stuff like trending topics. We call it "best of day" here. But even better, you can build your own customized trending topics. I can do trending topics by lists of people (by displaying only things that have gotten lots of likes). Plus our trends HAVE NO SPAM. Twitter's search engine is full of spam. - Robert Scoble

XD in what? 10 minutes? (Very pro randomness going on here at FF) - Reid

John Bergoon, let them know that everybody jumps, and that you just don't like looking in the rear view mirror :) - Micah Wittman

Try that with Twitter (100 Comments) - Brent - Loving Life

Sanat - you can also try ffholic.com but that is not run by FriendFeed folks but by a third party and it gives trending topics across friendfeed and lots of other interesting stats. - Atul Arora

F2 is also good if friends post cool content on those other sites... you visit one place to see all their content aggregated to one place - David Damore

And you can Block fools out of your life here as well - Brent - Loving Life

Which is something else we shouldn't tell that guy. Here we have decentralized moderation. For instance, if a spammer shows up here I can delete the comment. Then I can report him as a spammer. Then I can block him which removes him EVERYWHERE (on Twitter blocking doesn't remove that person from search). - Robert Scoble

Ah yes, the all powerful BLOCK function - David Damore

And I can't tell you about the other goodies that FF has to offer - Brent - Loving Life

I think it was Leo Laporte's definition of Twitter as the online Dial Tone. IMO FriendFeed is far from that, it's broadband conversation set with rich content, way more powerful. - Majento

In 20 minutes or so everyone in here will be gone and if you missed the interaction, then adding another comment doesn't seem to have much value because who is going to see it (unless you come back in and look at this thread). Whereas with Twitter, commenting later is ok, is just as visible, and is still relevant. Am I off base? - Jamie

Twitter is a CB Radio. FriendFeed is color television with satellite. - Louis Gray

Problem is you need another account. Too many plugs in the socket. Facebook and twitter cover 99 of ave non geek people - The Dude Abides

And we don't have groups of real people meeting each other either - Brent - Loving Life

Jamie: if you commented on this thread it will be at the top of "My discussions" if you come back later. - Robert Scoble

Thats right Loius - Brent - Loving Life

Sanat Gersappa, I've found the sharing/re-sharing of the main group I'm subscribed to gives me the pulse of what's going sufficiently. In twitter-style trending topics serve a purpose, but they aren't tuned to my interest, whereas on FF they effectively are. - Micah Wittman

and this thread will be around like forever almost - Brent - Loving Life

Louis I was thinking more of FriendFeed is a cell phone, and twitter is a land line - John Bergoon

If this were actually a fight, Twitter would have had no friends to pick him back up after the beating... - Reid

Shh, you can click on the time stamp here and it'll open up a separate window of just this thread. Click THAT time stamp again and it'll open up a smaller window which is perfect to participate in these real time sessions. - Robert Scoble

Robert: Interesting, thanks. - Jamie

You can also store links for reading on FF just like a bookmarking service. - Amit Nangare

Robert how many student from the leadership class are now on friendfeed? - Jeff

And no one here is interested in Photography or cooking - Brent - Loving Life

Robert: wow...timestamp click.....Epic win - John Bergoon

Brent: it will be around forever. Oh, shhhh, another thing, friendfeed trends higher in Google due to all the additional metadata that we're putting in each item here. Oh, and the founders were superstars at Google, so they know a thing or two about search. - Robert Scoble

i was tabbing around like crazy - John Bergoon

Jeff: I don't know. I hope a few, especially after they saw the demonstration Thursday. - Robert Scoble

it's crazzy - kang

And there is some what amazing customer service as well - Brent - Loving Life

OMG I didn't know that one.. Thanks Robert for the second click on the timestamp.. - John Serra

What do you have to do to get conversations to "cascade" out to other parts of FF? On Twitter there is the retweet. How does that work here? - Jesse P. Luna

What is the "time stamp"? - David Damore

But that also is a secret - Brent - Loving Life

This is starting to sound like, dare I say it, a "platform" Soon there will be Lynda titles about FriendFeed tutorials - Stephen Pickering

Thanks Robert, this has been educational and quite entertaining =] ( @Sanat: same here ) - Bed time, night all =] - Reid

You do a like its like a retweet - Brent - Loving Life

Heheh http://twitter.com/codemon... isn't getting a clue. Please Tweet that he's being a jerk by not coming over here and sticking up for Twitter. - Robert Scoble

But it very complicated process to like some thing - Brent - Loving Life

I think FF users are getting caught up craving comments like followers on twitter...its like a game and if they dont get comments they get discouraged...the issue is probably that your thread doesnt engage very well...I learned that this week when I posted this http://friendfeed.com/garygan... - Gary Gannon

like is easier than twitter and useful - kang

David: underneath the headline that started this thread is a date stamp. - Robert Scoble

Book: Friendfeed For Dummies [Fall 2009] ;) - David Damore

How do you report Spammers here? - Stephen Pickering

David: right now it says "18 minutes ago" (click on it and you'll see a new window pop up in your browser). - Robert Scoble

I've tried FF, really I've tried, but I keep giving up and sticking with Twitter. I'll let this thread give me guidance for one more try. - Don McAllister

But once you have your name you can't chnage it much - Brent - Loving Life

hey @codekomkeyism it makes a lot of sense! What do you say! - Ahmet Alp Balkan

David: Right now it's not very obvious that its a link - Amit Nangare

@Scobleizer: Ahhhhhhhh Thank you - David Damore

Report friendfeed spam: http://friendfeed.com/friendf... - Robert Scoble

and gee no damn 140 character limit on your posts, you can actually say some thing if you want - Brent - Loving Life

Don, all other things aside, just look how smoothly it works. On twitter I always wait for pages to load, for tweets to load - Stephen Pickering

may be we should ask FF developers to skin it as a link - Amit Nangare

Ah, thanks - Stephen Pickering

LIve updating is pretty slick! - Don McAllister

You dare not bother FF developers, lest they respond to your needs and help you out - Brent - Loving Life

Don , you think so- - Brent - Loving Life

And don't tell anyone that some power users enjoy some customizations provided by a passionate ff user script community http://img.skitch.com/2009060... - Micah Wittman

Brent: ssshhhh, that's another secret. Friendfeed's founders actually participate here and answer questions. Twitter's founders? Yeah, right. - Robert Scoble

sorry Robert - Brent - Loving Life

seems like they are running out of steam - Brent - Loving Life

That was fun - Brent - Loving Life

Brent: Twitter? No way. Here in Virginia I've heard about Twitter on all the mainstream media I've turned on. - Robert Scoble

I meant on this stream - Brent - Loving Life

good to hear that Wired and Venturebeat are using the private room function - another small addition to the credibility of FriendFeed... - Jeroen De Miranda

Ok, this has been very helpful in learning some of the values of Friendfeed. Definitely has some things Twitter doesn't. But I think the main thing I have learned is that I don't have time for FriendFeed. :) I can keep up with friends much quicker on Twitter - not as rich of information, but that doesn't matter because on Twitter they are (ideally) being more selective in what they post... more... - Jamie

Can you imagine the power of this thing if 200 million people were on it! - Stephen Pickering

Brent: yeah, after 190 comments it's hard to say anything else. Heheh. - Robert Scoble

Still think you need a manual to figure FriendFeed out. I'm not slamming the service. I get that it has a lot to offer ...if you're an early adopting Scoble loving geek (which I tend to be). So again, friendfeed is great for folks who want to talk to Robert Scoble. That's not a sustainable business model unless someone can tell me how it's going to be adopted by non-early adopters the... more... - Christine Lu

Did we just set a new record or sumpin? - Brent - Loving Life

and I have been back here maybe a month and your point is? - Brent - Loving Life

Christine: we had the exact same conversations about Twitter two years ago. Remember, Twitter is two years older than friendfeed is. I got to 40,000 followers here MUCH faster than I did on Twitter. - Robert Scoble

Christine, plus, its DEFINITELY not more confusing than Facebook - Stephen Pickering

I have over 200 Followers in less than a month - Brent - Loving Life

Brent: not even close. Here are all the threads with more than 1,000 comments: http://friendfeed.com/search... - Robert Scoble

Face book - :P - Brent - Loving Life

Oh thats right, but I was going to keep that a secret - Brent - Loving Life

Christine: Stephen is right. The argument that Twitter is getting adoption because it's simple is bullshit. Twitter only has 30 million people. Facebook, which is far more complex than either friendfeed or Twitter, has 225 million on it. - Robert Scoble

Christine, finding posts on China that have at least 1 Like: http://friendfeed.com/search... - Micah Wittman

Christine: I see what your saying, Social media in general is a young thing. Its gonna take a while for any of it to really catch on mainstream. I know alot of people who still think that twitter is lame...facebook is what 4 years old now and it's just starting to got really mainstream...but it's going to end up like myspace I think - John Bergoon

Christine Lu There are plenty of conversations that Robert Scoble does not even hear about.. Not even in English... - John Serra

Yeah there is such a learning curve at FF - NOT - Brent - Loving Life

John: that's absolutely true. There's more than a hundred thousand people on friendfeed that don't speak English. - Robert Scoble

Christine, or on China with a conversation (2 or more comments): http://friendfeed.com/search... - Micah Wittman

It's like advertising, Olgivy had a famous saying, the first time you see an add you say, "What is this crap!!?" The ninth time you see the add your writing out a check for the product - Stephen Pickering

And no one helps one another here at all - Brent - Loving Life

Robert -- didn't say people were on Twitter b/c it was simple. heck, most China business and non-tech folks in my areas are still not on Twitter. LOL. Just sayin' Friendfeed isn't for everyone yet. Otherwise i wouldn't feel like i'm talking to myself when i post something on my FF account. LOL. - Christine Lu

Well, They both make sense to me. Here's why! Twitter is nice if you want to tell your followers or friends what's on your mind, while FriendFeed is nice for conversations and there is no word limit. While FriendFeed is more for RSS (at times.) - Patrick from twhirl

Brent: yeah, really, that reminds me of one of my favorite groups here, where people are teaching themselves to do saved searches (aka filters): http://friendfeed.com/ffss - Robert Scoble

Well there is a limit on the length of a post , but then, oh my god, you start anther comment - Brent - Loving Life

Christine: I hope friendfeed isn't for everyone. If it were we'd see lame people, assholes, spammers, and other unfriendly types here. It's fine with me if those types stay on Twitter. Twitter isn't going away. Twitter isn't killing Facebook. Friendfeed won't kill Twitter. - Robert Scoble

Christine, when I first joined Twitter I felt like I was talking to myself. During one iteration I actually used it as a a to do list of sorts. Just SMS things into it that I needed to do@ - Stephen Pickering

Thanks for the session, folks. Very informative. - Jamie

Stephen: some day I'm going to try to make a list of all the people who told me that Twitter was the lamest thing they ever saw (in the early days that happened multiple times a day). - Robert Scoble

There is a large percentage of FF topics that start at twitter - Brent - Loving Life

Christine, "Social Media" in non-tech places (classroom, business, organization): http://friendfeed.com/search... - Micah Wittman

stephen: I did the same thing haha twitter = to do list...Twitter as well as FF, I believe, is really only as good as the people you follow and follow you...is that correct? - John Bergoon

I still talk to myself on Twitter. I guess i'll start on FF and give it another try. It's like LinkedIn for me. I keep going back and trying it and losing interest within a day. I'm going to Tokyo, Beijing and Shanghai on geeks on a plane and asking folks in each city if they use FriendFeed. :D Wonder what the answer will be. hmm... - Christine Lu

And you notice if you make a mistake posting your stuck, you can't edit at all or delete a post - Brent - Loving Life

Christine, it all depends on who is in your circle - Brent - Loving Life

Brent: that's a good point. On friendfeed you can edit your tweets, even, to make them more accurate (or, even, to take advantage of the fact that you have more than 140 characters here). - Robert Scoble

I've used FF like 5 times now, twice to join in on epic threads like this one, and the other times clicking around trying to figure out what to do. This thread is helping on the "what" part, just got to invest the time to figure the "how". - Jesse P. Luna

Robert, that's so true. I was only there in the early days because I was listening to Leo's show and your blog, but I remember not thinking much of it for that first year - Stephen Pickering

@Brent, I think you can if you use the website there is a edit button after you post. - Patrick from twhirl

Oh, and I love how when Tweets come in here that @scobleizer turns into a link and how when I use a URL shortener the original URL gets displayed here and if it points to a video or photo that is part of the Tweet too. - Robert Scoble

Robert: but the Power Twitter greasemonkey script does all that :P - John Bergoon

Brent, there are limits to comment length, etc, but they are probably higher than you think (than most people realize): Kol did some great geeky research here: http://friendfeed.com/friendf... - Micah Wittman

BTW Christine, folks may not respond to you on Twitter every single time but we listen. Felt as if I was in Hawaii all week. :) - Jesse P. Luna

Cool, Micah - Brent - Loving Life

Epic thread Robert, gotta run. - Jesse P. Luna

Well, this was fun, but gotta run too. Thanks Jesse! - Robert Scoble

Jesse Luna, stick with it, the richness in conversation and resources is big. - Micah Wittman

yeah I'm out it's 330 here...thanks Robert.. - John Bergoon

Good night folks.... or should i say Good morning.... :) - Amit Nangare

For Greasemonkey (Firefox) / Greasekit (Safari) inclined, and for the ff scripts (of mine) I alluded to: http://userscripts.org/users... - hope it helps someone :) - Micah Wittman

Micah: just installed your botom comment link button and already had your hover reveal installed....small interweb :) thanks - John Bergoon

Ah, always something new to discover. It makes the ff community a great place. Glad you like them, John. Thanks for letting me know =) - Micah Wittman

There is one major reason not to be on FF. It's an addictive time-waster. On the other hand, as an addictive time-waster it has more value than playing scrabble or poker on Facebook or reading a stream of mindless status messages on Twitter. - howard shippin

I have 16,000 followers on Twitter, yet find more valuable information and better conversations on FriendFeed, where far fewer people subscribe to my feed. I use FriendFeed far more than Twitter too. I LOVE FriendFeed - I LIKE Twitter. - Jim Connolly

Jim, you can RT twitter, but you can't Like twitter (on twitter) ;) - Micah Wittman

Micah: :) That was funny!! - Jim Connolly

The funniest stuff is just the speaking the truth. In a funny way =) - Micah Wittman

I love Robert (in an appreciative way). He has two sizable conversations going on at the same time! Amazing - Michael Fidler

The only way I could make sense of FF was when I found imaginary friends. By creating new feeds from RSS or other sources it makes FF much more powerful. Can't link to facebook friends though....I think it's a privacy thing correct? - Carey Lumeng

This thread is exactly why I don't like Friend Feed. I barely have time to keep up with Twitter -- I like the brevity Twitter enforces. Every time I come to Friend Feed I think of the old days of usenet and how much time it demanded if you wanted to keep up to date. - Pete Smith

For instance, I absolutely *did not* take the time to read this whole thread. - Pete Smith

Niether did I. But Freindfeed makes alotta sense....... - Roberto Bonini

I also don't really think FriendFeed makes sense haha - Hen Asraf

I would love it if Twitter users would at least sign up on FriendFeed and load their Twitter and Delicious accounts. They don't even have to use FF after that, but at least they've claimed their handles and it saves me from creating a bunch of FF imaginary friends. - Joel Zehring

@Joel I second that ... Having my twitter feed trickle into FF through an RSS and a few imaginary friends really sucks ... - Tom Horn

Do we really want Oprah in here though? - JonInteractive

no! LOL - Susan Beebe

Pete: you just found another advantage: friendfeed filters out lazy people who don't want to learn something new. That alone explains why the community here is so interesting. - Robert Scoble

aren't most people lazy though? which really means most people probably shouldn't be on friendfeed. which also implies arguing over its merits is a bit of a waste of time - if you like it, use it and enjoy, but why bother trying to "convert" everyone? - Jeremy Toeman

Biggest problem with friendfeed is that on the signup page there are no videos, no how-to's, nothing. At least not that I could find. - Greg DeVore

I just followed 258 comments. On Twitter that would be impossible. - Sgt Ret

The implication that if a person choses not to read 258 comments on the merits of FriendFeed it means they are lazy is ridiculous. Life is finite. Information is infinite. We all constantly have to select what we feel will enrich our lives, given the short time we're alive. - Pete Smith

Boy! This conversation sure has grown overnight! Like Sgt Ret said, this would be impossible to follow on Twitter. - Ange Recchia/angesbiz

Instead of wondering if friendfeed makes any sense, I'm wondering if friendfeed makes any noise. Plays any sounds, that is. - Chuck Baggett

This discussion has 264 comments, and 'auto-promote' itself. This is simply impossible to follow in Twitter. FriendFeed does make sense! Even if it's different from Twitter. - Thierry R. Andriamirado

I've had FF for about a year or more,haven't used it as much until recently,when I found I was getting followers, it is gre8 for aggregating all of your social networks together & sharing them on twitter in one stop/step.I don't get the commentary as much as I do on twitter,but it's still a gr8 resource,feel free to follow me &share comments,etc ☺(see bio to learn more abt me) - Patty from twhirl

Chuck: audio files such as podcasts are supported with embedded friendfeed player =) - Mike Chelen

It's a massacre! - Mo Kargas

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Aww, My Name is Earl was a pretty funny show. - Sarah Peterman

I feel bad about Earl but then again I haven't watched it in 2 seasons. - Jimminy Fuller

I can't believe Without A Trace is gone. It's one of the few primetime shows I actually like and watch on a regular basis. - Justin Davey

NOOOOOO! I love m name is Earl...it's like I have Brodie and Banky every week. - Neal Jansons

She probably saw that coming... - Bren -- feeling merry

OMG! I loved Medium :( - Michael Forian

"But in Juneau, as almost nowhere else in the world, climate change is having the opposite effect: As the glaciers here melt, the land is rising, causing the sea to retreat." - MVB (Curmudgeon of FF) from Bookmarklet

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Dave... That is a fantastic idea! - MVB (Curmudgeon of FF)

I lived in JNU for five years (2000-2005) and it receded vastly just in the time i was there. remarkable. the golf course in Gustavus is worth the trip! look up Glacier Bay Kayaks while you're there - good people, the Kadens. - chad calease

I moved to JNU in 98 and at that time the M glacier was in front of the Nugget Falls, which you can barely make out to the right of the glacier as a faint white blur in the picture above. The falls used to flow under the glacier in 98-99. Now the glacier has retreated at least several hundred yards back from the falls. Was out there last week. Due to JNU's record breaking snow fall the... more... - Bud Curtis

I saw this ad on Hulu last night and I was LMAO...well almost anyway...okay, actally I just smiled a little. - Bob Blunk

yeah, liked it too, a bit OTT tho. - Roberto Bonini

"nerds have long been cast aside and now Intel's giving them their time in the sun." - Abhishek Tiwari

I thought nerds were allergic to the sun? - Bob Blunk

exactly and that's not Ajay Bhatt in the video, - Abhishek Tiwari

its not? oh, that sucks :( - Zee.

i think they cast the guy to look like a younger Ajay Bhatt :D - Wladimir Labeikovsky

Run to the curb with 500 pennies in your bath robe and flip flops , That should teach him ;) - Tony C

are yours all suspect-looking minivans now like they are here? ;) - holly

I dunno, holly, that would require me to get up and I don't feel like it. - Alex Scoble

heh - holly

also, make sure you have your beer with you - Bob Blunk

and a robe that doesn't quite close - Peter Ghosh

ummm, okay...now I am not quite sure I like where this is going. Your getting kind of creepy Alex. - Bob Blunk

Haha! - Alex Scoble

I am see the police involved in this picture in the near future - Kim Landwehr

bad ice cream eating boy what you going to do. When they come for you? - Tony C

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