Evgeni Leshtanski - Likes

I have a Page too but don't use it yet: http://www.facebook.com/pages... I only have 20 fans. ;-) #whatsyoururl - Kol Tregaskes

http://www.facebook.com/trenton... ...but watch out for the tumbleweeds rolling across my profile. - Trent Olson

http://www.facebook.com/bonnie... - Bonnie Foster

*sigh* http://www.facebook.com/abrudtk... - andy brudtkuhl

http://www.facebook.com/hedwyg *sobbing quietly over here in my corner* - Ladybug Heather

http://www.facebook.com/nathanc... - Nathan Chase

http://www.facebook.com/jhuebel - Jason Huebel

I will have a little cry later................ - Kevin J Hatton

i have one but have used it less and less as FB has sucked more and more. i now log in a few times a month at most. - Joe Silence

http://facebook.com/niczak - Nicholas Kreidberg

http://www.facebook.com/pixeled... - Lars Clausen

Thanks everyone! - Kol Tregaskes

http://facebook.com/zamil - zsafwan 

Now I'm glad I got my vanity URL for FB. However I'm not about to go crazy friending y'all just yet as I hate the interface. - Kenton

http://facebook.com/inkedmn - Brett Kelly

http://www.facebook.com/tamihan... - Hanna Wiszniewska

http://www.facebook.com/johnnys... - Johnny

*sigh* DO NOT WANT. Is there a way to opt out of this? If I wanted my FF content to go to Facebook, I'd put it there myself. - cecily

http://www.bit.ly/meganlynch <--- my fan page for my music http://www.facebook.com/mmeganl... - Spidra Webster

http://www.facebook.com/tutivil... - Oh, how I hate this. - ‘-.-’ Tutivillus Grift

http://www.facebook.com/stevena... - Steven Perez

http://www.facebook.com/krynsky Haha. I was just going to ask when you were going to start this. - Mark Krynsky

http://www.facebook.com/rene... - Rene Wirtz

iphigenie, just like my ff id :D - Joelle Nebbe (iphigenie)

I didnt really want to add everyone i know on friendfeed to my facebook, i like to keep them seperate as much as i can. but you know what, fuck it http://www.facebook.com/simon... add a note saying you;re from friendfeed if you add me, then i can group everyone up :) - Simon Wicks

http://www.facebook.com/wangyip .. edit: ditto what Simon said above - add a friendfeed or FF note in the message if you do add me - Wang Yip

http://www.facebook.com/tony... - Tony, Paradox of FF

http://www.facebook.com/lizas - Liza

» http://www.facebook.com/jdface ;D - JohnDu™

http://www.facebook.com/scott... [EDIT: I only intend to had people to FB that I have subscribed to and/or interacted with here on FF.] - Scott of Two Countries

Simon, I thought that a while ago, then just added everyone too. :-) - Kol Tregaskes

Just added you Kol :) - Simon Wicks

http://facebook.com/ruipe - Rui Pereira from iPod

http://www.facebook.com/lipskin - Michael McKean

http://facebook.com/orcun - Orçun the Nucro

OK, you've all convinced me and as Simon requested, please note FF in the request. http://facebook.com/kenton - Kenton

Thanks, Simon. I've not started going through these yet. :-) - Kol Tregaskes

I'm only going to add the people i actually talk to on here. I have a lot less people on my follow list than you, so its a bit easier for me :) - Simon Wicks

Remember, guys. According to FB, you're only allowed 5000 friends. Spend them wisely. - James Myatt

Hehe. ;-) - Kol Tregaskes

http://www.facebook.com/iphigen... - Joelle Nebbe (iphigenie)

Facebook.com/hoogenboom - Wes Hoogenboom from iPhone

If anyone of you are Gtalk'ers, check out the list here: http://ff.im/6mySB - Kol Tregaskes

http://www.facebook.com/oguzser... - Oğuz Serdar

/glemak on most services - mike "glemak" dunn

As if we weren't before? Were they really that many people here who didn't also have a FB account, even if they didn't list it in their profile? I've been with FB since 2004 - LANjackal

http://www.facebook.com/barbara... - barbarars

here. i am your fan now :D - Joelle Nebbe (iphigenie)

Thanks all. - Kol Tregaskes

http://www.facebook.com/somenic... - Andrew Smith

http://www.facebook.com/reechar... - Richard pancakhaus Walker

http://facebook.com/dan... - Dan Morrill AKA Techwag

http://www.facebook.com/jimgold... - Jim Goldstein

http://www.facebook.com/jason... - JA Castillo

Screw that. Find me here: https://friendfeed.com/jcunwir... - jcunwired

http://www.facebook.com/bigstar.... But I think you knew that already, Kol. :)==;) - Helen Sventitsky

Helen, yep. :-) - Kol Tregaskes

http://www.facebook.com/michael... - Michael Fidler

Well, with this news it is pushing me to start using my real name for web services and to kill (or at least slowly stop using) the tomit persona that I have used for many years. Find me here... http://www.facebook.com/ronaldb... - tomit

http://www.Facebook.com/Matt... - Matt Ruiz

http://www.facebook.com/nmoilan... - Nia

http://www.facebook.com/dobata - Dobromir Hadzhiev

http://www.facebook.com/julia... - but no hearts or flowers please..:-) - Julia Ault

http://www.facebook.com/gtp19 - Gtp19

http://facebook.com/susanbeebe - Susan Beebe

http://facebook.com/thereal... - someone else done stoled my name before I could. Jeepers! - Tsali, The Native of FF

http://www.facebook.com/home... - Russellreno

http://www.facebook.com/kambizt - Mycaptain

http://www.facebook.com/mike... - MikeDeal / ZoneDancer

http://facebook.com/andrewr... - may as well change my "have met" Facebook policy! - Andrew Roche

:-) - Kol Tregaskes

http://www.facebook.com/aramzs - Aram Zucker-Scharff

http://www.facebook.com/glennsl... - Glenn Slaven

http://facebook.com/PhilBau... - phil baumann

http://facebook.com/andrewt... - Andrew Trinh from iPhone

http://www.facebook.com/pages... - Rob Michael (Atmos Trio)

http://www.facebook.com/icetige... - Kim

http://facebook.com/ericlogan - Eric Logan

I could never agree to their TOS. The fun of working for paranoid folks. - Neal Krummell

http://www.facebook.com/shokk - Ernie Oporto

http://www.facebook.com/mark... - MVB (Grinch of FF)

http://facebook.com/4fthawa... (of course :P ) - Brad McCrorey

http://www.facebook.com/becrowe - Bec Rowe @d0tski

http://www.facebook.com/davidac... - David Cook

I was already a facebook user... http://www.facebook.com/cassidy... - Cassidy

http://www.facebook.com/ritasda... - Roger Chen

http://www.facebook.com/satanwy... - Roger.Wei

ugh.. I hate doing this... http://www.facebook.com/timhoec... - Tim Hoeck

FF better figure out how not to destroy themselves (if possible) with this merger. Friendfeed in the FB interface will not work. I think FF really just f*cked themselves. - Ethan

Well http://www.facebook.com/elstudi... - Kol, your Posterous sharing post earlier today was more fun. - Eric Johnson

Ummmm the Facebook UI obviously won't be static, dude. They'll be making changes as the assimilation proceeds - LANjackal from IM

People who complain about FF+FB are like people who complain every time the FB home page changes. Even if it's better, they complain... - Gus

never spend any time there... not worth time... - Valeria Maltoni

I hate Facebook... - Oscar Mota

http://www.facebook.com/jeffisa... - (jeff)isageek

http://www.facebook.com/eugenem - Imabug

http://facebook.com/waynesu... - Wayne Sutton

My company has one if you want to be a fan of a small web design and marketing firm :) http://www.facebook.com/pages... - Justin Rains

http://www.facebook.com/nencett... - Mike Nencetti

Mine is http://www.facebook.com/NationH... - Nation Hahn

http://www.facebook.com/kevin... - Kevykev

http://www.facebook.com/sallych... - Sally Church

http://www.facebook.com/hanten - Ben Hanten

http://www.facebook.com/jimminy - Jimminy Fuller

FB gets no link love from me facebook.com/tinapbeana - FFing Enigma (aka Tina)

I have to think very hard if I want to continue my existing Facebook profile or create a new one ... - Ahsan Ali aka. Slick

http://www.facebook.com/DragonI - Shane

http://www.facebook.com/janolep... - Jan Ole Peek

http://www.facebook.com/dheydon - Darren Heydon

http://www.facebook.com/gbierma... - not like I use it much anyway... - Grant Bierman

http://www.facebook.com/baard... - Baard @ Pixum

http://www.facebook.com/stoddar... - wyclif

http://facebook.com/webstartup - Gaith

I'm on Facebook, but I don't have a name in my profile URL (yet; I'm still new...). But if you want it, it's http://www.facebook.com/profile... -- if you friend me, tell me you're from FF. - Dennis Jernberg

http://www.facebook.com/trenton... - Rich Weaver

http://www.facebook.com/davidep... - Davide Patti

I don't freaking have one because I never wanted to sign up for Facebook. :P Now I find out that through no fault of my own I'm technically a Facebook user? GAH. - Cheryl Jones

http://ru-ru.facebook.com/juchkov - Sergey Juchkov

if u want facebook http://www.facebook.com/sefa... ███ - Sefa Karapinar

Keep 'em coming, I'll add you all later today. :-) - Kol Tregaskes

http://www.facebook.com/qtbrown... - browneyes

http://facebook.com/sonergonul Feel like a star. - ★ Soner Gönül

http://www.facebook.com/praveen... - Praveen Vasudev

http://www.facebook.com/ArthurG... - Arthur Guy

http://www.facebook.com/nzbuu/. I wasn't going to do this, but I'm going to indulge and see if I can make FB work like Scoble thinks it can. - James Myatt

http://www.facebook.com/ronaldt... - Ronald

http://www.facebook.com/travisp... - Travis Koger

http://facebook.com/daiski - Mohamed J

LOL I knew you would do this :) http://www.facebook.com/parvez... - Parvez Halim

http://facebook.com/alex.covic - I will friend everybody - for those of you concerned with friend/family + privacy = you can create lists (just like ff-groups) to keep FF-users in a different corner;-). - Alex 'BuckyBit' Covic

Update: My profile may not have a name-type URL yet, but here's the short way to get there: http://profile.to/jernbergdr - Dennis Jernberg

http://facebook.com/durum - Durukan Duru

http://www.facebook.com/niron1 - Nir Ben Yona

http://www.facebook.com/cankokl... - Can Koklu

http://www.facebook.com/garanti - Can Koklu

http://www.facebook.com/nadine... (I use it and like it) - Nadine Pestourie

http://www.facebook.com/edwardb... - Edward Barnieh

http://facebook.com/vmlemon - Tyson Key

yeppp : http://www.facebook.com/burakyu... - Burak Yüce

"Like" only because I'll have to find you guys somewhere :( http://www.facebook.com/people... - Kamilah Gill

http://www.facebook.com/lyanghs... - friend me :) - Lyang Hsueh

http://www.facebook.com/tracybe... - Tracy Benham

http://www.facebook.com/ozubey i knew this was coming, this is why i got my url with my FF nickname.:-) - Özhan Yiğitler

http://www.facebook.se/elina... (xoxo:-) - anjelina

http://www.facebook.com/krz9000 i hope they write a proper friendfeed friend importer - Chris Hofmann

http://www.facebook.com/iainbak... +1 Chris, I'd hate to lose all the friends i've made here :(((( - Iain Baker

http://www.facebook.com/barryow... I hope they (FB) don't screw it up too much... - Barry Owens

http://www.facebook.com/karmaco... - Karma Martell

http://facebook/sashakovaliov - Sasha Kovaliov(.com)

http://facebook. com/mosyagin - massagin

http://www.facebook.com/gilbert.... Is there a simple way to add say the entire list above? - Gilbert Harding

http://www.facebook.com/joedaws... - Joe Dawson

http://facebook.com/jhofker - Jordan Hofker

http://www.facebook.com/MarcoNu... - Marco(aureliusmaximus)

http://www.facebook.com/leshtan... - Evgeni Leshtanski

http://www.facebook.com/mbravo - most updates autoimported from Flickr though - Michael Bravo

http://www.facebook.com/irma... - Irma Vermaat

http://www.facebook.com/leahey - Andrew Leahey

Thank you everyone. I've added you all but feel free to say no, I know some people keep FB for personal friends only. :-) - Kol Tregaskes

http://www.facebook.com/alix... - Alix Whitmire

www.facebook.com/LANjackal - LANjackal from IM

lol I think this is wrong haha don't mind me I'm being silly - 'Like' robot (frɐnc)

http://www.facebook.com/joao... - Joao Alves

http://www.facebook.com/emmajwi... - Emma

http://www.facebook.com/fernand... - Fernando Bergamaschi

http://www.facebook.com/wordsfo... - I would really like to have FriendFeed friends there so Facebook could possibly be more bearable. - Jannifer @wordsforliving

Jannifer, that link takes me to the home page. - Kol Tregaskes

http://www.facebook.com/jenn2d2 should be it. - Jennifer Dittrich

It does? try looking for Jannifer Stoddard - Jannifer @wordsforliving

Yeah, I've had a few of those from the list above, not sure what's going on there. OK, will do. :-) - Kol Tregaskes

http://facebook.com/carlton... And I love new peeps! ^_^ - Carlton Hackett

I have added you as a friend ;) - shâhin

I do not use it much LOL I just post to it from other sites so to fill up my friends stream, I do get messages and some status in text. Anyone who really wants to add me, use the facebook link on my profile. :o) - David Gross

http://www.facebook.com/victorg... - diego morelli

https://www.facebook.com/sean... - Sean Oliver

http://www.facebook.com/manuelm... - Manuel Mas

www.facebook.com/drodzand you won't see much since I got the privacy settings on max in Facebook. Just another reason why I think Facebook is completely different from friendfeed. I hope they keep friendfeed running because I use both services in diametrically diverse ways. - David Rodriguez

http://facebook.com/chrisba... - Chris Baskind

Thank you. - Kol Tregaskes

http://facebook.com/brodiebeta I just posted asking for the same thing =) http://friendfeed.com/iphoneg... You rawk Kol - Brodie Beta

http://facebook.com/timedalkat Will be weird to integrate you folks with Grandma. - timedalkat

http://facebook.com/anthony... - Anthony K. Valley ©

Cool, Brodie. :-) Thanks everyone! - Kol Tregaskes

Hey, FB is for real life friends :-). Not for random web strangers :-P? - Richard A.

Mine is http://www.facebook.com/daniel... and I am from Argentina (BA) - Daniel Alejandro Severo

http://www.facebook.com/alfpace but I don't use it very much - Alfonso Pace from iPhone

http://www.facebook.com/louisgr... - Louis Gray

http://facebook.com/michael... - michael sean wright

http://www.facebook.com/mikefru... - Mike Fruchter

http://www.facebook.com/mitchel... - Mitchell Tsai

http://www.facebook.com/waltrup... ... Deja Vu... didn't we do this already one? LOL! If you send me a request, please just mention FF. KThnxBye. - Walt Ruppar

http://www.facebook.com/kimbers... (I can remember if I commented on this already. I don't see "You" on the list, but I'm tired. So, hopefully, I didn't. If I did, oh well. - Kimber Scott

http://www.facebook.com/mahendr... - Mahendra (SkepticGeek)

http://www.facebook.com/theAufh... - James (!?)

Thanks all! - Kol Tregaskes

http://www.facebook.com/ibrahim... - İbrahim Mumcu

http://www.facebook.com/ali... - سیدعلی‏سنائی

. . . amy_beer. I think. I've never used it. No, I'm pretty sure. - Amy℠

Amy, it's not that. - Kol Tregaskes

http://www.facebook.com/GR8CDNP... - Robert Couture

http://facebook.com/mithrandi - Tristan Seligmann

http://facebook.com/itblogger - Alex Scoble

I spend an inordinate amount of time there... - http://facebook.com/Americhick - Bette Cooper

http://www.facebook.com/gregsmi... - Greg Smith - Greg Smith

http://www.facebook.com/martha... - Martha

http://facebook.com/ozkan... - Ozkan Altuner

facebook.com/wins1 I hv a FF list in FB, pls. mention FF to populate it. - Wins Fern

mine is david.grosz - David Gross from email

My FB URL is: http://www.facebook.com/creativ... - Cathryn Hrudicka

http://facebook.com/rubensa... - Ruben Sanchez

Thank you all! - Kol Tregaskes

http://www.facebook.com/david... - David Peacock

http://facebook.com/quackof... - Quackofdawn

http://facebook.com/bryceroney - Bryce Roney

How do you get facebook.com/yourname? Mine is a somewhat longer Url... - TrafficBug

http://www.facebook.com/pga1ht - Alex Hellstrom

http://facebook.com/guruvan - guruvan (Rob Nelson)

TrafficBug: You can get your custom Facebook URL here: http://www.facebook.com/usernam... - guruvan (Rob Nelson)

http://www.facebook.com/webalon... - looks like you can change it only once. Confucious say: "Choose your name well...." :I - Rob Schieber

http://www.facebook.com/app103 - April Russo (app103)

http://www.facebook.com/Beamer2... - Brent - Loving Life

Thank you. - Kol Tregaskes

I do like your photography page. I am a fan now. - Faraz Mullick

Isn't there a FB friend limit? - Araceli

There is, Araceli, although it was several thousand people, if I remember correctly. - Tyson Key

5,000. - Kol Tregaskes

I'm just loving the new Facebook beta. :D - Faraz Mullick

mine is http://www,facebook.com/robcair... - Rob Cairns

i sent a request (please please please by my friend), ;) - chaz2b

I always thought that FriendFeed was the new Facebook. ;) - Tyson Key

Facebook is the new FriendFeed. ;) - guruvan (Rob Nelson)

Thanks Rob, I had forgotten my username for I always used my email address to login - I found there is a settings > username > change thing that lets you change your username once and then you get a facebook.com/username url! - TrafficBug

http://facebook.com/ajpatel - AJ

http://www.facebook.com/franzi - Franz Sittampalam

I am thinking about just using my Public Page more. Keep my regular profile for family and coworker data. Follow me here if you want more of the type of posts I do here of Friendfeed. http://www.facebook.com/pages... - tomit

http://www.facebook.com/victorg... - diego morelli

yep - Brent - Loving Life

http://www.facebook.com/chachaf... - ChaCha Fance

nooooooooooooooooooooooo! - Tsali, The Native of FF from IM

I raise your bump with a "Hide" - LANjackal

http://www.facebook.com/tentati... - ilker Serdar

http://www.facebook.com/jamesfe... - James Ferguson

What's the rationale? - Pavan

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Really?! - Michael Liss

I hope this prediction turns to be 100% true. - ashish from iPhone

I think this prediction's outcome might fall into the hands of Facebook. We'll see what they do with the property this year. - Andrew Dobrow

Funny that this comes from Twitter. =D - Junebug (aka Sarah Jill)

ROFL. - Derrick

So is RSS if we're going to follow Robert's logic. - Jimminy Fuller

HOW TO SPOT COMMENT BAIT IN 100 EASY STEPS — STEP 1: DID IT COME FROM ROBERT SCOBLE? STEPS 2-100: REPEAT STEP 1. - Akiva Moskovitz

already happening, yo - Josh Haley

it started surging (again) after ppl let the knowledge of fb purchase fall into the bits of history pages - chaz2b

Lets cross our fingers - polou/indigo_bow

This is SO an experiment on Scoble's part. - Jeremy (on vacation)

WTF is FriendFeed? - David Cohn

Rational, Twitter usage is flattening, people are finally figuring out that Twitter sucks for having a conversation. People though Friendfeed was hard to use, try having to install several software 'crutches' to be able to use Twitter productively without even half the functionality as Freindfeed. - Jeff P. Henderson

if you say so... - MobilAdam

Either this is tounge in cheek or Robert really hasn't gotten over our breakup... Robert, I hope we can still be friends but we have to move on and grow... FriendFeed will always love you, but we need some 'us' time to find out who 'we' are... *cues The Bodygaurd soundtrack*... *walks out into the rain, adjusts collar, walks off down the road*... *fade to black, credits* - Johnny Worthington from iPhone

LOL Johnny! - Jeff P. Henderson

Best Christmas present ever! - Jemm

Comment bait. Even Robert can't generate interest these days. - Russellreno

I agree. Friendfeed is for those who need more from a 2d interface. Until there spatial interface is there, Friendfeed is on top of the pyramid (especially when one knows how to use it best). - Kirill Bolgarov

Up - Luca Perugini from iPhone

*slow-mo head shake* - Micah Wittman from iPhone

Too funny! Johnny and Akiva -- you guys crack me up. - Mathew A. Koeneker

I would agree with a few here and say that FriendFeed is already resurging, Robert. #friendfeed - Kol Tregaskes

AMEN! - zʍıɔ

The stats don't agree though: http://thenextweb.com/2009... - Kol Tregaskes

it's like drunk dialing an ex-girlfriend... - Aron Michalski from BuddyFeed

i guess so too.. - Daniele - Viralavatar

so too :) - ★ Soner Gönül

Agreed wholeheartedly Robert - Roberto Bonini

Akiva: lol, Kol: that article only looks at unique visitors, and doesn't consider user hours. - Mike Chelen

:) @ Aron - sums it up perfectly... - 1x29

Lets hope so ... Miss some of my old peeps :) - Charlie Anzman

I'm surprised Robert made this statement but I find it very interesting in the change of view and wonder what has changed his mind or if he knows more info. - manielse (Mark Nielsen)

The unpredictably erratic Scobot is at it again... - Ciro

Well, after glancing at his Twitter timeline, he's just making a bunch of joke predictions. I'd like to think that there's some truth in this one though... - manielse (Mark Nielsen)

Sniffs... Do you smell that? It's what we used to call a troll. Robert is getting dangerously close to becoming irrelevent. - Jason Williams from iPhone

Robert is waiting until 2010 to respond to this thread. :) - Louis Gray

I told you so - Jesse Stay

Kol: the *stat* doesn't agree (note the singular) - Jesse Stay

Well, since I'm ready organizing the elections for the best Dutch blogs I can say the resurgence already started last week. ;-) - Ton Zijp

Kol: Here are many more stats that imply the contrary: http://staynalive.com/article... - Jesse Stay

Excellent idea. - Richard A. from FreshFeed

Scoble - I disagree ONLY because I think that FriendFeed activity is already migrating to Facebook via deeper integration over there but I'm wiling to hear you out (as are the other 40+ people commenting here). Do share why you think this is true? - Aaron Strout

I wrote this tweet for Twitter, not for FriendFeed. But nice to see you all! :-) - Robert Scoble

Jason: I'm definitely irrelevant if the people calling me irrelevant don't even have 1,000 subscribers. Sigh. - Robert Scoble

I actually see FriendFeed growing instead of slowing and there will also be new enhancements. A testing ground for Facebook. Just to expand, Robert's still the man! - amarquart

Akiva wins the internets with this mathematical formula for spotting comment bait. - Nicholas Kreidberg

You think we're fighting, I think we're finally talking! -all in one page - Tim Jones

Funny, when I write, I write for everyone, everywhere - Johnny Worthington

Beat ya to it Robert: http://friendfeed.com/jhuebel... And the resurgence is already happening. - Jason Huebel

@Jason Williams, wow that's the pot calling the kettle black, doncha think? Robert's not a troll. - Jason Huebel

@Kol, somebody mentioned that those stats often only consider US visitors (why that would be, I don't know). FF's non-US contingent has grown tremendously, so that graph may not show the whole picture. - Jason Huebel

Akiva wins the thread. - Mark Davidson from BuddyFeed

let's hope so - I love the darn thing - Arthur Coleman

I'm finding that FriendFeed is fiendishly sticky. On Twitter lists do help, they make twitter better and all but but but-but I think a lot of users are getting more sophisticated in their web usage faster than Twitter can evolve their tech. Louis Grey recently postulated that even if there is no interaction on FriendFeed it makes complete sense to stay riding this horse. That got me... more... - JSLeFanu

Dude..... I totally hope you're right, but not too sure about this! LOL Explain your rationale please :) - Susan Beebe

i agree with the original prediction. by the way, what's a resurgence? is it different than insurgents? :-) - Morgan Haley

Morgan - the insurgents never left ... ;-p - Robyn Hawk

Jason, OK. Good. :-) - Kol Tregaskes

I'll stay one faithful user, for those "outside the US" stats. Still feature plenty, still enjoyable. Still effective. Thanks for rallying the troops again Robert. Bring the hopes, and forget the ropes! 8) - ElijahBailey-Zu of FF <0,

like Elijah - maxilprof

I like this whole thread. ++Akiva, Johnny, JSLeFanu, Jason Heubel, Mike Chelen . . . Robert, Twitter may have geeks and famous people, but you can actually do things here. Oh, wait - I'm not here. I'm in a widget on a blog in someone's Posterous whom I don't even know, that I'm searching through to find FF peeps to subscribe to over here. Now, that's just mind-blowing! - MaryB, BrandingBroadOfFF

Users from the USA can use our new project "ffsms": ffsms is the first FriendFeed service brings you ability of posting to FriendFeed via SMS. After its pre-release in Turkey, it is available for you! You'll just pay for a standart SMS. Try it now! (Feedback: http://friendfeed.com/ffsms) - Alp from Bookmarklet

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Kol, you're too fast! - Ahmet Alp Balkan

;-) - Kol Tregaskes

congrugulations. :) i have used it in Turkey. It was fantastic. :) - Onur Şentüre

Alp, who are you using to provide SMS functionality here in the U.S. ? - Carter Rabasa

Carter, we use services of Zeep. - Alp

Alp çok iyi işler çıkarıyorsun :) helal olsun - Mert

Alp, will MMS work and attach files/photos? - chrisofspades

@chris, no that is just for raw text. - Alp

(in Canada, so can't try it) but this is fantastic for Turkey and the US - great job Alp! - Micah Wittman

Micah, I think it may work for Canada but will charge extra fee. btw thanks, help spreadin'! :) - Alp

Well done Alp :) - Hamdi Kavak

That's great! - . -

it's working perfectly. way to go! =) - Elif Crt

Hayırlı olsun!! Keep up the good work, guys :) - directeur

E süpermiş bu :) - \(*_*)/

When's it coming to the UK? ;) - Nicholas James

Nicholas, I'm not sure about it. Most probably in a few weeks, it seems nobody wants to use this in the US, so maybe we will never launch for UK. Even Turkish people are using it a lot but American friends haven't liked it. We included launching for Iran in our plans. - Alp

I read that as FFS MS rather than FF SMS - I liked mine more ;-) - Graeme Spice

Thanks, Alp. - Micah Wittman

Oh, you're welcome :) - Alp

Thanks for the update Alp - Nicholas James

That's great! Now I'll just wait till they have it in the Netherlands as well - or move to the states, whichever comes first ;) - James Kuypers

@James I've no idea about how many of FriendFeed users are from Netherlands or other European countries. I think Russia and UK are the at the 1st and 2nd place about FriendFeed usage. Do you have any idea? - Alp

and Canada? - Zachary TG

It maybe launched soon. - Alp

great idea...i also hope it will launched in Italy very soon! :-D - bevero

awww they must have been SO happy to see you! - Blackeyed P

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Looks like Sarah has discovered zippers just like JJ - he loves my shirt with the zippers - Jesse Stay

Yay! I bet they were excited. :) - Rochelle

lovely! :) - Oğuz Serdar

Haha - Thought I'd check in with the movers and shakers of the Friendfeed community. It's Saturday night, and so far I find baby pictures and wedding photos. I think we can safely say that the action is now elsewhere.. - Andy Connell

Thanks for posting these, Louis! Sarah and Matthew look thoroughly content! - Anne Bouey

You're welcome, Anne! Just for you, of course. Jesse, yes, Sarah loves zippers, including her own. She prefers to be clothing-free. And Andy, Friday and Saturday nights are family-friendly here on FriendFeed. For more techie stuff, please check the rest of my feed. Thanks! - Louis Gray

well done the two of you what a great trip crumbs next time you might end up in Africa or Russia! When are we getting the Le Web mega summary predictions who you met and what we should know for 2010 blog? - Thomas Power

We make fun of Nostradamus and numerologists, but give editors an anniversary and the floodgates open. We're anniversary-ologists, as USA Today might say. Unfortunately, trying to take the pulse of what happened in Eastern Europe in 1989 is more complex than counting back the years. Just as 1865 or 1945 can't be explained without 1787 or 1933, so 1989 -- the year communism either imploded or didn't, the world either changed or didn't and history either ended or kept going -- poses challenges. One can take the "I was there" approach of Michael Meyer, Newsweek's bureau chief for Germany, Central Europe and the Balkans between 1988 and 1992, in his book "The Year That Changed the World: The Untold Story Behind the Fall of the Berlin Wall." Meyer places the spotlight on what happened -- Hungary's opening of its borders, the Nov. 9 fall of the Berlin Wall, the domino decline of other Eastern European states -- while lacing in accessibly deep, if not Hegelian, historical explanation. - Eric Logan from Bookmarklet

Would this have anything to do with the Google Chrome OS? Could they be doing this open sauciness to make the technology read for third party developers? - Johnny Worthington

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great post! - Jenna Bilotta

agreed... this is the first i'm hearing of this since i have been afk for a few days... good work louis - Chris Heath

Love posts like this - getting uber-geeks in the loop with each other pushes the web forward maybe more than anything else - Christopher Galtenberg

Thanks, Christopher and Jenna. I know this is not destined to be a high-traffic post, but it's the right thing to do, to help understand it a bit more. There are enough other blogs writing "10 Tips for Twitter Lists" already. :) - Louis Gray

Johnny, I doubt the 2 are correlated, but it is interesting that both Google and Facebook released big Javascript APIs as open source in the same week. Regardless, it's always nice to see companies opening up more, something Google has been known for doing quite awhile now. - Jesse Stay

FFFTW! - Cjay

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YAY! - Jannifer @wordsforliving

Down with bots, spammers, and social media gurus! Up with geeks! A big thumbs up on behalf of my fellow FriendFeed fanatics. - Dennis Jernberg

I love geeks and FriendFeed has them in droves. - Robert Scoble from iPhone

are u going somewhere ;p - zʍıɔ

You're welcome ;-) A question though, where do you think we geeks will congregate next? I'm thinking that since Facebook now owns the Friendfeed devs, FF will eventually starve to death... hopefully not. - Roberto Teixeira

But I notice a lot of users interact on FF via Twitter not directly on FF. Also FF faces tough competition from the likes of Posterous and Tumblr which offer more functionality with similar ease of use as FF. - Roger

Roberto: Not so long ago this very FF post from scobleizer would get something about 300+ likes and 150+ comments. Sadly, FF users are surely looking elsewhere. - Arvind

FF is ok, but its not the be all and end all Robert. - Micky

Arvind: yup. Foursquare! :-) - Robert Scoble from iPhone

Friendfeed wins - ashish

I too think that friendfeed is still a winner... people that left just filtered themselves out of my conversations. They are no longer discoverable here to me. Their loss (imho) - Chris Heath

Your welcome :). Friendfeed really really is awesome - alfred westerveld

Yes Robert and Friendfeed is massively technically superior - Makes it even sadder that the platform here's being ignored by the new owners. - Jim Connolly

Still the best place for discovery to me despite less interaction. - Eric Logan

2 years? Wow, nice work man! - Loc from iPhone

Robert - I love the community and friends here on FriendFeed. I am so happy I was on FF in early 2008 and got to experience it's wild and wooly growth path. Chatting with you and all these cool geeks is really fun. I've learned TONS from you guys and I truly appreciate the friendship too! :) - Susan Beebe

I agree, way less marketing gurus and spammers =) - Brodie Beta

Wewt! We are awesome, especially me </ego> - Danny Minick

In my experience, I've been using ff more rather than less since the fb aquisition. I don't see why I would migrate to another community ATM. To me, Friendfeed is king. :) King of social media, that is. - 'Like' robot (frɐnc)

Me, I'm sticking with FF for the foreseeable future. I'm even going to do my part to promote it, at least to my (right now) 1K+ Twitter followers. - Dennis Jernberg

Friend Feed is the Future Robert and you just may be our Faithfull leader! :) - PeaceMakersInc

Word. - Gary

Thank you, Robert. I have learned quite a bit from you-and you have created/moderated some tremendous discussions/issues. Best wishes to you and your family. - Harold Cabezas

LOL. I agree. I have 413 followers on Twitter. When I ask a question, I get no responses. Same here. Does nobody like me? - Zachary TG

zachary check their subscriptions against their subscribers and you might have an answer there - ffcode

yup! there is a decline...don't know what friendfeeders are upto...foursquare might not be the complete answer - ffcode

I'm still here. I tried doing the Google Reader thing. While it's a great reader, I think it SUCKS as a social platform. I still use it, but I don't expect as much out of it as I used to. FriendFeed and posterous are what I like best for what I do. Facebook is getting a little chaotic for me. I've made lists, but I think I need to start pruning... LONG LIVE FRIENDFEED! - Kimber Scott

U do like normal folks like us, who does have a life, like having hobbies such as movies, taking pictures, making jokes and listening 2 old radio jokes on the Internet lol...and wondering why spell check doesn't work somedays - polou/indigo_bow

Has it really been 2 years? OMG that was fast. - Elliott Ng

ROFL! No bots; just wait! The bots are coming, they always come. - Brandon Smietana

In twenty years I would be surprised if the bots were not more human than the humans. "Statistical Natural Language Processing: When Humans Fail the Turing Test", coming to a research journal near you! - Brandon Smietana

I haven't seen it, but I've seen lots of other Google Wave posts. - RAPatton

More popular than mine, for sure! Of course. - Fa La La La Lindsay

RAPatton, you mean you HAVEN'T seen the phrase 'Google Wave Crashes On a Shore of Hype' or whatever a thousand times over the past two days? - Akiva Moskovitz

Has to be the clever title - Andrew Smith

Nope. Haven't see it, but I don't follow Scoble either. - RAPatton

I reposted it because I hadn't seen it or Louis' post. Wasn't paying attention when it made the rounds I guess. - Cristo

I remember someone mentioning a browser extension that shows you ff discussions related to the current url. Was it feedly? - Bruce Lewis from fftogo

I ended up doing a mass hiding mostly all of Scoble's stuff so I see very little of it seeps through now. - Derrick

What about MY post about Google Wave? Why is always about Robert to you, Akiva? - WorldofHiglet

Higlet, don't you have a game to lose? - Akiva Moskovitz

Hahahaha! - Spidra Webster

Why isn't anyone talking about MY Google Wave post? Oh yeah, I haven't written one yet....I did see Scoble's and Gray's posts, and am therefore entering into Google Wave very slowly. I guess you could say I'm in the kiddie pool. - John E. Bredehoft

GRRRR - WorldofHiglet

AND ANOTHER THING - IT'S CALLED A WAVE BECAUSE OF JOSS WHEDON AND YOU CAN'T DO NOTHING ABOUT IT. - WorldofHiglet

1337 more » - Josh Haley

Where? - Kol Tregaskes

I follow Scoble and I haven't seen this post reposted. But I have a mental filter for the phrase "Google Wave" right now. Except this post. HOW'D YOU GET PAST MY BRAIN FILTER, AKIVA?? - Jordan Hofker

I moonwalked my ass past. - Akiva Moskovitz

that's because it's a really good post with a very down-to-earth opinion on it...great analysis as usual! - Susan Beebe

Sometimes it seem's like Robert's opinion is the only one, though... at least for as long as it takes to quit being retweeted. - Fa La La La Lindsay

MY POST WAS FIRST. :) - Louis Gray

LOUIS GRAY IS TOTALLY DRUNK - Akiva Moskovitz

On Diet Coke and... damn. Just Diet Coke. - Louis Gray

I liked Louis' post so much I deigned to quote and link to it in my blog. So far I haven't done so for Robert. - WorldofHiglet

The strange thing about it is that I do not know a single person that has it. - Paul L. McCord Jr.

I know a few people, but I'm not eager to jump into the wave just yet. - WorldofHiglet

hey guys it's about Branding and Robert's got the biggest one. He's his own TV show. - Thomas Power

Google on Monday released an experimental new content browser http://news.cnet.com/8301-30... called Fast Flip http://fastflip.googlelabs.com that makes it possible to see a curated set of content sites using a physical "turn the pages" metaphor. Fast Flip pages are cached by Google and load very quickly, which is cool. And if your brain is stuck in 1969 and you want to pretend that new-fangled computer in front of you is a microfilm reader, it'll feel natural to use. - Mitchell Tsai from Bookmarklet

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In Fast Flip, neither standard Web rules nor print layout concepts apply. For example, in Fast Flip, you can only scan left and right (page by page). You can't read down the page. If you click anywhere on the page, you leave Fast Flip and go to the Web. Links don't work. And multimedia doesn't work on the page either. Fast Flip previews are, in fact, flat graphics files, which explains their lack of interactivity. - Mitchell Tsai

...but "fast" rather than "interactive" might help. (Perhaps a button we can push to load a slower, interactive version? if we like the page we're seeing?) - Mitchell Tsai

See also "Google testing Fast Flip for Google News" [Tom Krazit, CNET News - 9/14/09] http://ff.im/88t2X and "Read news fast with Google Fast Flip" [Official Google Blog - 9/14/09] http://ff.im/88qep - Mitchell Tsai

Neither love it or loathe it. Not a big difference any more... - Evgeni Leshtanski

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It would depend on what that means exactly. - pea

@pea - say the Friendfeed literally became just a testing field for potential Facebook features - Zee.

I think that if FriendFeed keeps going on its current course, it will be an important pillar in the social media ecosystem, especially if they keep providing us with search and push updates. - Meryn Stol

Let's hope Facebook introduces something like Google's "20% time". I can't believe anyone wouldn't want to work on FF then. I mean, FB can't get anywhere close to FriendFeed's coolness. - Meryn Stol

My guess is there are a hundred engineers in Facebook right now that think they can R&D with the best of them. Do you think they think they need a separate department? - Todd Hoff

I'd be okay with that as long as my Facebook and Friendfeed accounts weren't merged. I don't want any of my FF content showing up on FB, I don't want anything on FB pointing to my FF account. As long as the two remain unlinked, I wouldn't care. It would just mean more features to play with and test. I like that. - pea

I'd love it. Anything that keeps Friendfeed the way it is. - Keith - @tsudo

So long as we don't get any of FB's features and FF is left alone then it's fine by me. :-) - Kol Tregaskes

It would be better for Facebook actually and leave FF a lone. - Rob Cairns

That's a tough one.. depends on how much they are driven by users vs facebook!! If it was testing *just* what facebook wanted.. loathe. If it was iterating on what's already in place and NAILING IT.. love!! I don't have what I'm looking for yet..but I know the friendfeed team could do it. - Chris Myles

If you click on Edit you can add yourself too. Original created by Mark Krynsky: http://ff.im/5rwh #whatsyoururl - Kol Tregaskes

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I can not edit? :( - Matt Ruiz

I see ThenWang:) - K.D.

Matt, do you have a Edit button at the top-left of the page? - Kol Tregaskes

Very Cool! Just added myself! - TheHenry

i add myself too. - Semih Masat ™

If you don't see an "Edit" button, you have to log in and add it to your own maps first. - John (a.k.a. dendroica)

To add your picture instead the default blue marker, you have to click on the blue marker at the top-right, click on "add an icon" link and type the url of your avatar - Roberto

Excellent, thanks for sharing - lelapin

I thought there were a lot more FFers in LA than is shown on that map. - Spidra Webster

Cool!:) - Patrik Johansson

FYI.. your picture can be: http://friendfeed-api.com/v2... - Tim Hoeck

Thanks for that, Roberto. :-) - Kol Tregaskes

Finally I understand the coolness with Google Maps:) - Patrik Johansson

I see I'm not the only one accidentally editing the title. Today I learned how to make a custom icon for Google Maps :) - Nick B.

I did that as well, I think :) - Tim Hoeck

Nick, I've edited the title and description, don't touch. ;-) - Kol Tregaskes

Yeah, it seems pretty simple to edit the title by mistake. - Patrik Johansson

done - RAPatton

i can't do it....every time I try, I edit the title... - laetSgo

Yay! Scott and I are on it now. :-) - Ladybug Heather

Cool! - Kol Tregaskes

D'oh! It wasn't showing me, so I kept adding. I ended up with three markers after I logged out and back in! - LAMB

Oops. :-) - Kol Tregaskes

This is pretty cool.. We need more scandinavian FFeeders though :) - Anton Tanderup

Anton, perhaps post something here: http://friendfeed.com/ffdirec... and copy in: http://friendfeed.com/europea... - Kol Tregaskes

I'm on! (and sadly, the only one in Calgary - nice to see a few in Red Deer, though) - Nathalie, Dreamer of FF

I added it, but the photo looks rather large. Just used the url of my profile pic. Very cool! thanks for setting this up! http://www.friendfeed.com/lizaspe... SF, CA - Liza

K, I'm on there. - David Cook

I should be there now... - Alejandro

Added myself. :) - Jon, the Chilled Beartato

Adding myself now. - Evan Travers

Added! :) - Merry Xmas FFeeders - AJ

Finish & Finito - Something Like that Just Added my Name to the List - Ray Marr aka Knatchwa

hmm, it works - A.T.

Nice job... Way to go Kol! - Mitchell Tsai

Just added myself, nice idea. - ialla

Probably being a bit thick here. Can add placemark, but how do I get it to appear in the list at the side with a link to it? - Gordon Herd

if you've added a placemark, then it is on the list - at the bottom of the last page. - Joel from IM

I find the UI horribly confusing. No idea how to add. - Stephen Mack

added :) - Mert Alemdar

Okay, surely I'm not the only one from Hawaii? - Ryan - @magicofpi

Cool！ - mingqing

This is a cool service! Search Feature is too gud. - eva

Thanks for adding yourselves. Mitchell, it's actually Mark Krynsky's map: http://ff.im/5rwh - Kol Tregaskes

Note everyone, we can add this as a layer for Google Latitude/Maps on our mobiles. - Kol Tregaskes

Why my changes are lost after saving and refreshing the map? I just click edit, saved and done: where's my mistake? - Roberto

from izmir ;) - Ali Bahşişoğlu

added - Thomas Power

added myself =) - Seyhan Çelik

Roberto, so you click on Edit, add your marker, hit Save then Done? - Kol Tregaskes

Just added myself to the map. The Google placemark positioning tool sucks, too. - Tyson Key

The larger icons are smashing the smaller ones. Oh well. - Bradley Farless

@Kol Yes, my name appear in the list, but the marker is missing in the map (tried with and without the avatar). - Roberto from fftogo

anyone finding difficulty to add yourselves on the map? 1.click on the map-this will bring you to google map site 2.you have to sign in your google account to get the edit button on the map 3.then click on the edit button and add yourselves on the map. cheers. - Hamid Mat sain MD

Added. Antananarivo, Madagascar - Thierry R. Andriamirado

done - Bogdan Costea

done! - Rick Cogley

Just added myself, although, I slightly moved my placemarker, just so people don't know where I live :) - MλTT

From what I've noticed: When I'm at the first page of 2, I only see those markers on the map...from the people that are on the first page. Do you know what I mean? I'm added on the second page, so when I browse through the first page I won't see my marker on the map...only when I go to the next page. I don't know if this makes any sense hehe. - Patrik Johansson

hey, i'm feeling alone i my north of quebec ;) - BotchChiKii

Added myself with little icon. I am so proud! - Gordon Herd

added my self also - Demetrios the Traveller

Here be I, woo. - Tsali, The Native of FF

Thanks, Patrick! - Roberto

Added - Michael Fidler

Done - M F

added myself :) - Baard @ Pixum

Added - very neat to see pins all over the world. - Alex Hellstrom

Excellent Presentation! - Naseem Ahmed

I'm in! :D - CannonGod

just added myself - Bill Rawlinson

Added :) - Sergey Juchkov

wow - Ahmet Soyata

Whoa, great job reviving this project Kol. Awesome to see all the new users! - Mark Krynsky

No worries, Mark. Thanks for the map. :-) - Kol Tregaskes

Quite surprising how many of the US states are empty. The word has yet to spread inland. - Nick B.

Okay I'm in too. Thanks for the map, great idea! - Paria Sabooki

Added. Hope to see more North Carolina markers added. Surely I'm not the only one? - cdogzilla

added myself too... :o) - Rob Sellen :o)

The map! I'm on there! :-) - James (!?)

it starts to load and i can see an edit button, but before even clicking it another old custom map of mine comes up instead o_O - Mike Chelen

Added my pin :) - Simon Wicks

I forgot I was on this! - Martin Bryant

Somehow I managed to not be on this, fixed now! - Glenn Slaven

I added myself, plus I got to learn how to make a custom icon for Google Maps. - DGentry

Cool. :-) - Kol Tregaskes

I'm in! - metalerik

Any more for the map? :-) - Kol Tregaskes

Ta-da! - Timothy Griffin

anyone can find me from now on right ;) - Burçak Çubukçu

added! - Leandro Ardissone ⍨

Cool! :-) - Kol Tregaskes

I had temporarily, accidentally "hijacked" the title...it's fixed now... - Ciro

cool - Brent - Loving Life

Added! - Simon Curran

Can't believe I'm the only one in Belgium ... - Irma Vermaat

Not bashing Robert but just goes to show his FriendFeed doesn't equal my FriendFeed... A good thing :) - Johnny Worthington

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I only hear this complaint from the "big league" people. interesting, innit? - holly

I think people with personal connections are engaging as much as ever; the ones who are looking for social news interaction are going elsewhere so they don't lose that stream when/if FF closes down. - Jennifer Dittrich

clearly the quality of his "engagement" is based on the number of likes he gets. Self-centred? - Mel Buckpitt

Nothing against Robert mind you. I think this goes to a bigger issue with tech journalism. It could be that all the tech news is boring after a while. Heaps of Twitter stories and iPhone stories and Social Media stories just make me gloss over those types of articles. It's funny how the declaration has gone out that RSS is dying yet no one has address the quality of the content being pushed into the RSS feeds. - Johnny Worthington

I don't know. I'd like to see some hard stats. My personal impression is that I have about twice as many followers but half as much engagement as from a month ago. But to me that just means I have to step up my game more. - Stephen Mack

Stephen... indeed. As more people follow more people, it's harder to stand out. Great content will only get you so far... it often comes down to personality. - Johnny Worthington

Go, Johnny, go-go-go! - Josh Haley

Just thinking out loud but... could this be a good thing? Could FriendFeed shed it's Tech/Nerdy image and develop more into a social place? Twitter is social with a mix of tech. Facebook is social with just a pinch of tech... Could this be the Great Social Flush of 2009? - Johnny Worthington

(PS.. If Louis Gray has already done a blog post yesterday about the "Great Social Flush of 2009" and Google Bombs me... I'm gonna be fucking pissed :P) - Johnny Worthington

LOL - Josh Haley

The quality of Robert's experience has decreased because he is mucking around with Twitter Favorites. That's like putting a sticker on a Dell and pretending it's a Mac. At the end of the day, it still sucks. And the community will not reward bad behavior. :) - Louis Gray

PS... Johnny, what do you see when you click this? http://www.google.com/search... - Louis Gray

Um... Did Louis just give me self-BOMBage? Cause if he did... That's awesome :) - Johnny Worthington from iPhone

I don't get why a Yelp entry is supposed to get 150 likes. 150 likes is pretty rare anyway, so 59 (or whatever it is now) is very high. Don't expect me to like it, it's about an iPhone app. :-) - Kol Tregaskes

It has 82 likes and it 4th down on the best of day page. What's the issue there then? :-) - Kol Tregaskes

Just mentally preface all Scoble (Robert and Alex) posts by "In my opinion" -- it will make your understanding better and will help control your blood pressure. (I could have suggested "In my humble opinion" but that would be way to unrealistic). - Brian Sullivan

ff adv search for at least 150 likes http://friendfeed.com/search... - Chris Heath

Heheh. I knew this would get a conversation going. Truth is, I've been watching the engagement of other people's items too, but didn't want to use them as an example cause that would just be mean. I'd rather look like an egotistical baahhhsssttaarrdd than a mean one. Anyway, the reason the Yelp thing was interesting was because in the days before Facebook buying FriendFeed such an item would have gotten a lot more likes and comments. - Robert Scoble

you can't say that with certainty robert... i understand that's your opinion, but you can't prove it and lots of us seem to be disagreeing with you... we can't prove it either and that's why it sparks such a 'debate' - Chris Heath

Wait...Yelp stuff comes into FF? That must be a service I hide off the rip... - Rahsheen ™, Coach Rah

Just an example but it seems to have done well if you look here: http://friendfeed.com/search... - Kol Tregaskes

To Robert's point about his engagement going down, I'd suggest that using a sample size of one item to measure "engagement" isn't really going to lead to any statistically valid conclusion. - Ken Sheppardson

It has felt to me like I'm seeing fewer native posts from Robert, fewer "here's why:" items, and lots more fowarded Twitter convos and favorites. It wouldn't be hard to use the API to pull all Roberts entries from the past 2-3 months and count comments, likes, and look at how many comments Robert has posted to his own items. My theory is his that if his "engagment" has gone down it's in proportion to his participation. - Ken Sheppardson

Robert's FF was never my FF experience. FB notwithstanding. :D - pea

Ken: my own engagement has gone down too. I'm watching closely all sorts of things. :-) And I might not be able to prove it, but others are noticing too. - Robert Scoble

I guess I should cover up...Mr Scoble is still watching. (Drama)...lol - Bill Heslin

Yep and I'm going to keep hitting the like button! :) - Wayne Sutton from iPhone

I'm still here. - Mike Nencetti

When is FYI, TMI? - PookyMedia

That's the direction I'm heading in, as well. - Akiva Moskovitz

you like tumblr vs posterous...I started using tumblr the idea...they have tons of themes being developed everyday! I like posterous aggregation way better though! - AlexKaris

Tumblr, Posterous, Wordpress... it fundamentally doesn't matter. My broader point is to take control of your own sharing platform, but then tack on distributed commenting/conversation vs just moving from one aggregator to another. - Ken Sheppardson

Not a good model - too much overhead to maintain for the people who would otherwise want to be part of the conversation. (Like me.) - Jason Miller

Yeah, I can see how that might be the case, Jason. Hm. - Ken Sheppardson

Will Disqus v3 make this easier? http://disqus.com/v3/ - Ken Sheppardson

I'm a huge fan of google reader. Not a fan of discussions on there though. I do, however, like Disqus. - Beau Liening from iPhone

What Jason said. Good idea but the model breaks down for people who don't feel like creating a Disqus account. - Laura Norvig

Is it a bad idea to just stay with what you have until it actually has changes you don't like? - Matt Hilton

I have a feeling that Google Wave will play a big part soon. - Mark Layton

A smart client could also use the Backtype API to show blog posts your friends reply on, even if the blog doesn't use Disqus. Come to think of it, it would be nice if Backtype would also aggregate "likes" of posts. For example, FriendFeed "likes" and Posterous/Tumblr "favorites". - Meryn Stol

I might have disagreed with it, but I missed the thread. :) Seriously though you are usually on the money. - James Stratford

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Twitter is just wrong. Google Wave will kill all of Twitter, Facebook and Friendfeed. - Charbax

Hey Robert .... at least it bought position 1 on TechMeMe :) - Charlie Anzman

what thesis?is it on posterous? - zʍıɔ

Scoble is now a Twitter evangelist instead of an FF evangelist? - Justin Long

It a function of social media - people tend to follow people that are "like" them and tend to agree.. or if you disagree you just drop them. So you are often singing in a choir with everyone else who is off key. ;-) la la lahhh la la (that is me singing well sort of).. - Sherry Reynolds

Justin: until Facebook decides what to do with the FriendFeed team I am a lot less able to evangelize it. And anyway it really doesn't have a chance to go mainstream. - Robert Scoble from iPhone

Just came across this in my Twitter feed: @MillerPierce #advertising #marketing #business Twitter vs. Facebook: Who Will Win? http://bit.ly/kJIkp - Melanie Reed

Seriously? You're "shocked" more people aren't arguing with your valuation of Twitter between midnight Saturday night and 6AM Sunday morning Pacific time? - Ken Sheppardson

Robert, because? - Melanie Reed

I'm usually good for devil's advocate, and willing to argue things I know absolutely nothing about, but 1) I didn't see it, 2) and you're probably on target. You have a link? - motownmutt

Also, Posterous has been having issues. They appear to be down again. - Ken Sheppardson

I didn't necessarily disagree, but in a tweet reply, I said your post looked like it was headed, "Pre-posterous" - Rex Hammock

I disagree with it, but not strongly and I don't really care, so I didn't want to argue. :-) - Dave Winer

What I think is most interesting about your post is how it rocketed to the top of TechMeme. It feels like a sarcastic response from Gabe about your complaining about how he wouldn't point to your FriendFeed tweet from his blog when you got the scoop about the Yelp app on the iPhone last week. (Yes I think of TechMeme as Gabe's blog, foolish me.) - Dave Winer

This thread reminded me of the following quote (which I adore for its kind and affectionate view!) and especially, Dave's post above...and really what FreindFeed is pretty much about: "It is exactly because argument is idle that men (I mean males) must take it seriously;for when (we feel), until the crack of doom,shall we have so delightful a difference again? But most of all I offer it... more... - Melanie Reed

What thesis. Robert? Sorry missed it. - Kol Tregaskes

If only one could comment on the comments. Lovely quotation Melanie Reed. - Bob Boynton

I second what Dave said --> I don't really care, so I didn't want to argue. / I'll reserve arguing to stuff that's worth arguing about. - Rex Hammock

That's the point -- we love you Scoble much more than we care about whether Ev and Biz are worth $1 billion or $5 billion. That's their money. They're still fuckers for doing the SUL. And I still want to find a new home where we own it instead of being at the mercy of such people. Their money is so boring. At least Jorge Lorenzo will sit down and eat a nice meal with you. That's who you should be writing about. - Dave Winer

@Dave +1 - Chris Saad

I could quibble about your valuation for Twitter -- I think you're a little over-exuberant there -- but I'm too busy setting up my new laptop. :) - Rachel Luxemburg

Bob, thank you and you're welcome. Feel free to comment away: http://friendfeed.com/mellier... - Melanie Reed

Haha! Yeah. That's pretty funny. - Harold Paxton

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Maybe he will listen to Scoble! - Steve Rubel

I think I should be worried. My 3 yo just asked me, "Mama, why is that (edit!) man pointing at Barack Obama?" How does my 3yo recognize Obama from behind? o.O - Admiral Anika

I call Scoble by the nickname "that" all the time - Steve Rubel

LOL I fixed it. This heat is making me drop words all the time. - Admiral Anika

People recognize Michael Jordan's silhouette too - remember the cologne logo? - Daniel J. Pritchett

"How does my 3yo recognize Obama from behind?" - I remember reading about a study that found that you are actuallly more likely to recognize someone from behind. - John Craft

Dude....look at those ears. It's like a fingerprint. - Rahsheen ™, Coach Rah

LOL @Rahsheen. I guess so. I just didn't think my kid has had the opportunity to see the POTUS from behind, like ever. - Admiral Anika

Actually, I can't recall having the opportunity either, but it looks like him to me :) - Rahsheen ™, Coach Rah

That's funny! - Robert Scoble

"That's the way, I like it" :) - Burçak Çubukçu

Guess what, daddy? It's Bawack Obama's birthday! - Adrian

Caption contest: "President Barack Obama ponders new Supreme Court nominee." - Steve Rubel

Caption contest: "President Obama was being briefed by the FBI today on the most wanted men in America .." - Matt Martin

Yes President Obama, my name is Robert Scoble, I currently work for Rack.. SQUIRREL!! - Matt Martin

Caption: "Are YOU following me on FriendFeed?!" - Jason Miller

Haha! Thats a good photo. - Nicholas James

Caption: "Unfollowed, O. Here's why: ___________" - Adrian

LOL Adrian....You win! - Bill Heslin

*dead* @Adrian. - Admiral Anika

Barack: Wow, look at the way that guy points. He should be president, not me. Who is he? No, never heard of him. I know an Alex Scoble. Are they related? - Slappy Line

Adrian wins. disable comments. - chrisofspades

Disable comments! :) - directeur

Haaa haha haaa. :) - Micah Wittman

"Oh no! He's in my Twitter, and he's here too?" - John E. Bredehoft

Social Obama looking at a Social Robert Scoble's picture? This one is great! - Thierry R. Andriamirado

++Adrian Malone "Caption: "Unfollowed. O. Here's Why;______" - Robert Higgins

Security Briefing: Anything goes bad during your Presidency, well... just "Blame Scoble" -that guy on the screen. Oh yeah, he's a huge geek that tweets so much the Twitter servers crash often, thus the famed "fail whale" image shows up. :) hehe! - Susan Beebe from iPhone

The Internet Wants YOU. - says Uncle Robert. - Blackeyed P

Does this mean Twitter would be down or no? :) - Christian Anderson from iPhone

I agree that it is way down. - Ben Hanten

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i havent had a like on my stuff in a while - i thought for sure my health care post would get at least one comment here. - Allen Stern

Not on my end. =) Engagement is waaaaay up. - Admiral Anika

yep, sad - Susan Beebe

yelp isn't available everywhere... - Chris Heath

I can't even get comments on tech posts anymore. I have more followers and less engagement. - Ben Hanten

i've never had engagement... (on my posts at least) but my subscribers list has always been growing - Chris Heath

Maybe cause 24 tech is boring after a while... That and the new Facebook app... - Johnny Worthington

Gnomedex, came during the weekend and activity is still down. I didn't see much damage done after the first 2-3 days after the announcment, went back up to seemingly regular levels. (Update: My engagement has gone up.) - Jimminy Fuller

I've had no change at all. it's all in who you follow/who follows you, I guess. - holly

I'm getting more engagement than usual. - Derrick

yep, was just thinking the same...question is...what do we do? - Zee.

...that's because everyone is concerned/playing with the new Facebook app ;) - Nicholas James

Hi Robert. Welcome to FriendFeed. Good to have you on board. - Cristo

Maybe because you are using Twitter more now Robert? ;) As for engagement it is almost 95% out on my behalf so I have only noticed a reduction on other peoples. - Travis Koger from iPhone

I think it's time to start a meme...those always get the engagement flowing ;) - Nicholas James

Self-fulfilling prophecy? I mean, it's not like the site itself changed significantly post-buyout (so far); IME it's been about as responsive. - Andrew C

Funny. I hadn't noticed any decrease in engagement at all. Not sure if it's gone up, but it's definitely *not* gone down. This is just further proof that each individual here has a completely different experience from anyone else. Scoble, I think maybe your bubble busted when FF got bought :) - Rahsheen ™, Coach Rah

Same. Engagement on my content is down, and so is new subscribers. I used to get around 2 a day, now about a few a week. So down. Or am I getting worse? - Zachary TG

^^ Hmmm. I used to average 5 new subs every two weeks, now I'm at about 2 - 4 per day. - Admiral Anika

P.S. ==> *Twitter still sucks* - Eric Logan

Eric: You're supposed to save that comment for Twitter tweets ;) - Nicholas James

It's because you changed your avatar to non green. Change back and the engagement will soar. ;-) - Brian Sullivan

I've been less engaged because my parents are in town. We've been at the beach, canoeing, etc. A lot of people are out in the Real World this time of year. Come September things will pick back up. - Bruce Lewis

I seen it go down some... I guess everyone is on Twitter or Facebook now - Outsanity

The lack of Likes shouldn't be seen as a decrease in engagement. Maybe, just maybe, people aren't all that interested in the new Yelp app... - Andrew Terry from iPod

Even if I were here 24 hours a day, I would not "like" your Yelp post. Meh. :) - Louis Gray

Holden, you got engaged? This must have just happened. - Jimminy Fuller

it DID just happen and it WAS great. haha just kidding. no engagement. - Marissa

Make sure you share the announcement here and include a link to some other person's announcement... I talking about you KOL!!! ;) - Travis Koger

a) yelp is local b) its August so the world is on holiday - Phill Price

What Yelp news? The iPhone app? I would never 'like' anything that has to do with iPhone. 59 likes for that is high, why would it get 150 likes? - Kol Tregaskes

Kind of agree, but also agree with Kol for different reasons. I saw the item but have Yelp filed under "US only, not applicable to UK, good for them", and let it pass by. - Andy Bold

Andy: http://www.yelp.co.uk/ - Kol Tregaskes

Thanks Kol! :-) I think I'll brush the dust off my internal filing system this weekend :-o - Andy Bold from email

sad - Thomas Power

Engagement down? But what about Kol? ( http://ff.im/6Ss6J ) =) - Andrew C

Maybe people didn't like those news at all... - Caio Cesar

Last sunday I stayed at home, being a bit ill. So I posted 11 different things on FF. Just 1 time somebody liked one of those entries. It made me realise the same thing as you are saying about your Yelp-thing (what's that btw? ;-)). - Ton Zijp

I just checked the front page of FFholic and there is only one Robert there. I guess the second-order trend chasers left after the buyout? Not sure. Amusingly, a thread mocking this thread is on the front page: http://friendfeed.com/e... - Daniel J. Pritchett

Or maybe [tinfoil] FFholic now intentionally squelches robert posts to make the mix more appealing than the old "wall of robert" they used to display [/tinfoil] - Daniel J. Pritchett

Well I am seeing that activity has spiked on my FB stream which prob. translates to lower engagement / activity here - Bindu Reddy

You are wrong : Yelp works only on the US, no one know this service in Europe for example :-) (and sorry for my english) - Nicolas Gosset

http://www.yelp.co.uk/ - Kol Tregaskes

Oups, sorry :-) But is Yelp working on other country ? I would love to spot good place in Paris - Nicolas Gosset from IM

Surprise! - Akiva Moskovitz

Lawl! - Zulema ◕ ◡ ◕

*dead* - Louis Gray

Louis Gray is really a zombie. Or....a vampire? - imabonehead

x_x - Derrick

You're an obit reader too, Louis? Man, there are not enough seconds in the day. - Phil G

You're always the last to know, right? - Eric Skiff

I am so sorry, LG! ;) - Jorge Escobar

Sorry to hear that! How is life on the other side? Say hi to Einstein and Ted for us :) - Dilip Dand

Lol!!! First it was RSS and now Louis Gray. Glad both are alive :) - Hameedullah Khan

oh this is great. i mean... uh... never mind. ;) - Lori

I guess I'll miss you to buddy...muuuuaaaaaahhhhhhh (my evil laugh) - Jeunelle Foster

The other side didn't want you to know yet, they left it up to your friend google because the news wouldn't be such a shock to you - To bad the other Louis Gray didn't find it first. Going to miss your posts - Mac Sharp

Your middle name starts with an "F"? - Jesse Stay

The F stands for Fail. - Louis Gray

Did you know eventually your name as listed in the phone book will become true? - Matthew DeVries

So you are a ZOMBIE!! - Oracio

"The F stands for Fail"....that's not what I heard....muuuaaaaahhhhhhh - Jeunelle Foster

wait a minute ... you can still post ... wow! - Mac Sharp

It's his alter ego speaking ....bwwwaaahhhh - Jeunelle Foster

Well, I wasn't going to say that, but since you mention it... ;-) - Jesse Stay

the rumors of all of these deaths have been greatly exaggerated - Stuart Miniman

LG's physical body is no longer... he now exists as a disembodied conscience inside the metaverse known as the Internet... xP - Pandu ● IT Optimizer

creeeeepy ... O_o - Mac Sharp

What are those Dune, good enough rebuild people called? - Matthew DeVries

Disembodied???? We need Ghostbusters and/or a skilled Exorcist - Jeunelle Foster

I'm not even angry. I'm being so sincere right now. Even though you broke my heart. And killed me. And tore me to pieces. And threw every piece into a fire. As they burned it hurt because I was so happy for you! Now these points of data make a beautiful line. And we're out of beta. We're releasing on time. So I'm GLaD. I got burned. Think of all the things we learned - Matthew DeVries

Louis you must be loved by the community because just look at all who came out to tell you how much they missed your early departure. All thanks to me of course and I mean that truly with all the sincerity I can muster...hehe :) - Jeunelle Foster

heyy, FF works there.. good job Louis! we won't forget you man.. keep update your status, ok? and add some photos too.. all we are is dust iiin the wiiind.. - Tugce Ekinci

"...this report of my death was an exaggeration." -- Mark Twain - DGentry

"My responsibility is to be that better filter. More than 1,000 people subscribe to my shared items on Google Reader, and 10,000 more subscribe to those I share using FriendFeed. I know there are better filters needed, and so far, humans are beating the machines." - Louis Gray

In the Information Age, you can’t pick up a new tool without changing your expectations on how you plan to use it. This isn’t something I had really considered until tonight during a conversation on FriendFeed with Louis Gray and others about Google Reader as not only a new player in the social networking scene but [...] - Akiva Moskovitz

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*liked FFeed's original UI* And Google's has been crap for a lot longer ;) - Michael W. May

It took me awhile but I grew to like FriendFeed's original UI too (although I think the current UI, at least with my userstyle on it) is far superior. I think Google kind of suffers from the same problem that Microsoft does: making significant changes to their UI would be a massive undertaking. Google Reader and Gmail look similar for a reason. - Akiva Moskovitz

Love the fact you're blogging, Akiva. Don't tell anyone, but you're actually pretty good! (And on the right track here, even if I think Google Reader is awesome. They're working on softening some of the edges, but yes, that discussion already has its own thread) - Louis Gray

Woah, thanks, Louis! Don't tell anyone but I'm working on softening some of my edges, too. - Akiva Moskovitz

Another good post, Akiva. - Anne Bouey

Thanks, Anne, and thanks for reading! - Akiva Moskovitz

Great post Akiva. You just won a GReader subscriber. ;) - Alejandro

I bet the Reader gang will be thrilled to hear that, Alejandro! - Akiva Moskovitz

Sometimes what needs to change in the UI is the badly thought-out, overly complicated clutter which constantly has me playing games of "find the setting" - Slappy Line

You can lodge that complaint against FriendFeed. It's been discussed before but Discoverability here is incredibly low. How is anyone supposed to guess that if you hover over each Comment bubble, it'll tell you how long ago that Comment was made? - Akiva Moskovitz

One problem I discovered during my brief flirtation with Google as a contractor is that UI innovation can be tough in an existing Google product because the frontend engineering can be a bit less than graceful. Every product has a different framework for the presentation layer, and much presentation layer engineering has been carried out by folks who have other "more important"... more... - Jason Wehmhoener

I have the same problem with google reader, I have my own feed consumption pre-conceived notions due to my previous company. Combine that with my FriendFeed addiction and I'm doubly annoyed :) Things like gReader ordering posts by the date *google* found the item still irk the hell out of me. I keep trying to get over my expectations, but I just don't like greader and think it's not the "right way" to read news. - mikepk

What's cool is that the Google Reader people are paying attention to us. Louis pointed someone from the Reader team to another post of mine (I'm too lazy to look up which one) and she responded in detail to the concerns we had there. It's really encouraging to know that they're listening. - Akiva Moskovitz

Wow. I just now learned about the comment bubble time/date stamp. Thanks. - Dennis O'Neil

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