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Instead of everyone doing one each, Mathew can do one of each. Being exceptionally lazy, this is a meme I could really get behind! - MVB (Curmudgeon of FF)

Just wait for what I have planned for tomorrow. - Mathew™ one of a kind

I have an idea but it's to perveted - orionstarr

Scoble-eeeeeeeeeeee, it looks like your saying, rather than SCOOOOOBLLLLLLLLLLLLLE - sofarsoShawn

It looks like your saying "we got to take the power back!" - orionstarr

Well a photo really can't capture the entire phrase saying. - Mathew™ one of a kind

Robert Scoble

Does Bill Gates read friendfeed? He just told me thanks for the nice comments I made about his annual letter there.

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ooh.. Bill is around us =) watch out - Qbat

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Will we see a comment from Bill? - paul mooney

Yeah! well, i think he's got plenty of time now - Constantine

It'd be awesome if we do see a comment from him. - Chris, Taskerrific Guy

i think he needs to do it to stay connected and to see what's going on. - Sascha Pallenberg

well why not? would you expect him not to? or anyway, someone that briefs him - sofiagk

we won't see his comment, because anybody seems to know his account; that clearly means he's not going to use FF as a main [and public] tool of communication. Why should he burn his hidden identity here - if he really have one? -- Anyway I just think his press office has done a good job, telling him what Robert wrote here. - Markingegno - Donato

Markingegno: knowing Bill I seriously doubt it was the press office. The dude does use all social networks. - Robert Scoble

Ironically, Bill Gates could pop in here and say "Hi, I'm Bill Gates" and no-one would believe it now... - Warren

*waves at Bill* There are few people who could change this from ScobleFeed, and he's one of 'em. Heaven help me if Jobs has a covert FF account, I'd be using the hide button like a mad woman. - FFing Enigma (aka Tina)

Maybe he's stalking you, Robert. Or maybe he has a mancrush ;) - Ron's Home And Hardware

But is he on Twitter? ...Sorry, had to drop that in here. :) - phil baumann

@Robert - I believe you about his attitude towards social networks, but still think he doesn't want to pop in. I'd be glad to discover I'm wrong ;) - Markingegno - Donato

Markingegno: he won't participate because he gets too many requests. He was on Facebook for a while and deleted his account. - Robert Scoble

Hi Bill! i think your a kool guy. (now call me and say thanks) lol - @robert whats his twitter? - Chris Clayton

He probably reads it for the same reason many of us to to stay up to date and in touch - Rob Cairns

If he does, his personal stock just went way up in my book! - Aaron Strout

HE is watching us :-| - ◄ani625Ξ

I hope so, he owes me a computer! - Ed Shahzade /NextInstinct

Which reinforces the point that the readers/lurkers are often more important than the participants (or more precisely shouldn't be discounted and can surprise you considerably) - Shannon Clark

Hi Bill. If you're reading this. Please come back to Microsoft. We miss you - Marcus Beagley

If you're reading this Bill, I'm writing you from Nigeria and need help getting my money... - Kevin Leroux

Everyone listens in on your conversations Robert; have you heard from the pope? : ) - Mark Harai

what happened was that Bill did a Live search for entries/critiques/analysis of the report and nothing came up...then he ran the same search on Google. First hit = FriendFeed.. - Carlos Ayala

ok, now I can tell you, my real name is Bill: http://is.gd/hO6f :) - Markingegno - Donato

Maybe somebody who knows him uses FF and told him about the comments. - Bruce Lewis from fftogo

awesome! - Davide D'Incau

that's eerie yet cool... - Anthony Farrior

Hey Bill. Loved you in Stargate! - MVB (Curmudgeon of FF)

That is cool, Robert. And I thought the annual letter was interesting and very well written. I'd love to work for the Gates Foundation. - asiriusgeek

Would Bill even use his real name?? ( apologies in advance to Bill if he does read this)??? - Roberto Bonini

Like it or not, a message like that is EXACTLY why Scoble is such an influencer on here and other places. How many people could say that Bill Gates had personally thanked them for a comment they made about him while arsing about on social networks and you know straight away that it's true. - Philip Tomlinson

I'm sure he has a "listening strategy" like a google alert on his own name - or maybe he creates specific alerts for his name plus a keyword for a specific event/topic. - Laura Norvig

YAY!! I hope Bill does check out and participate in FriendFeed. Perhaps he saw it on your blog. You mention FF quite a bit there too - Susan Beebe

Gates=authority - Wallace

OMG! Wait, and you're sure you didn't post those comments anywhere else but here? Nice! - Sarah Perez

Bill is a nerd, why wouldn't he read and do all the other stuff other nerds do? That and in between meeting with heads of state and playing WoW on a real set :-) - Todd Hoff

Wouldn't a system like Twitter, FriendFeed be better for someone like Gates? Even if 1,000,000 people follow him, he's not obligated to follow back, and people wouldn't be offended by this, there would be respect of his privacy. Whereas on Facebook, he would be inundated with requests for various apps... - Mike Nayyar

Now I have to say more nice things about Microsoft. :) - Paul Buchheit

It would be cool if Bill Gates was a lurker here, but all I can say is that he better get along with Derrick. Otherwise there will be all kinds of drama! :-) and just in case...Mr. Gates, longtime customer, first time commenter. Just keep on doing what you feel you should be doing. It's worked for you thus far. You is, be da man. So if no broke, no fixin.... nuff sed - Morgan Haley

Paul, I'll give you one: Microsoft is all about innovation. When it comes to innovative software companies, nobody's bought more of them than Microsoft. - Bruce Lewis from fftogo

moive: Dead Man on Campus - "Bill Gates wants my brain" --- i just had too, one movie quote i always think about when i hear his name! - shayne catrett

Bill wants his annual letter ritual to eventually rise to Warren Buffett level, so guess it's not surprising he's blowing kisses your way Robert. Or he just plain misses you. - mark ivey

Full on lurker or might he have an alias account? - AJ Kohn

Wouldn't Bill Gates employ someone to manage his social networking accounts? Or is the risk of mis-communication too great? - Bill Romanos

If Bill went on Twitter I am sure he would get a gazillion followers... Though Jobs would probably get a gazillion+1 - Peter Efland

BIG microsoft fan...Until I gotta macintosh that is. - Zee.

i'm sure someone e-mails him a daily ego-blast of all such things said throughout the Web. - Andy Sternberg

He has people read it for him, of course. - Monica Bower

Why do people assume he has people looking at Friendfeed and Twitter for him? Bill might like to read Twitter and FriendFeed feeds. - Nicholas James

first even before google: omniscient/omnipresent would be the Gates himself ~ he's watching.... - sofarsoShawn

Maybe this is really Bill: http://friendfeed.com/bob - April Russo (app103)

I bet he's pleased as punch about all the positive feedback on Win7, and should be. It's the best OS since Win95 came out. - Haggis (Sean Loyless)

Bill needs to grab this username quick@ http://friendfeed.com/billgat... ;-) - Kol Tregaskes

Time to out myself, I'm actually Bill Gates. I've been watching you all. - jjprojects

jjprojects - LOL ... so Bill is running earthhour now too?! :) - Susan Beebe

tell him the credit check passed & yes, he can borrow some money, just wanted to make sure, you know financial crisis & alll... - sofarsoShawn

Wouldn't it be funny if Steve Jobs was here with an outrageous avatar? - Phil Boiarski

There could be a private room for tech CEO's, except Jerry Yang, of course - Roberto Bonini

@Jason, You have a camera on his office? - Phil Boiarski

لایک برای بیل عزیز. به فارسی نوشتم که نفهمین. هه هه - مرتضی

Robert Scoble

I just gave a talk to about 30 top executives around the world (non tech) and almost none knew about Twitter, Qik, Kyte.

January 30 - Comment - Like - Share

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Can you name some of them? - Chetan Bhawani

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This does not surprise me at all. - Suki Fuller

I'm guessing they do now! - Simon May

Spread the twitter-awareness :) - Sasha Kovaliov(.com)

this does not surprise me. i have spent a lot of time in industrial companies and email is the most advanced tech that has traction. can't even get secure sharepoint sites to get traction with execs! - Jeff DiStanlo

welcome to the analogue world ;) - Sascha Pallenberg

Were you surprised? It amazes me how few people (in general) know about these....especially Twitter. - Vinny

I am not surprised. The day these and other such folks get onto social media, social media will be passe ;) - A. Prem Kumar

People don't know about Twitter?! What! - frank barry

Ya i suspect by end of 2009 it will have hit mainstream consciousness, but still obscure now. - Brian Carter

not surprised. even some of my friends in tech doesn't know twitter - AJ Batac

I just can't believe it. Do these people live under a rock? - Happy

It would have been a surprise if they had. Good job Robert is on hand to spread the word. - WorldofHiglet

There was a seminar on social media and communications in Toronto last night and a few people had never heard of Twitter, either. Is it really surprising or are we just to immersed in it? - Bonnie Dean

It took me years to get around to wanting to use Twitter. I read about it regularly at Coding Horror (ex: http://www.codinghorror.com/blog...) for at least a year but I just didn't see the point. I finally registered because I wanted to reply to a friend's tweet. I think for a lot of people it's more of a reticence to join social networks than plain technophobia. - Daniel J. Pritchett

that says something doesnt it? - Richard Binhammer

This is not surprising. Recall that John McCain does not even use email. And I am sure most, if not all, of these "top" executives are part of McCain's generation. - Joe Lima

I haven't touched Qik/Seesmic/Kyte because I can't work out the difference. Not surprised most won't have heard of them or Twitter - Luke

Robert, send them an invoice for innovation consulting! ;-) - masa media - Martin

Make a list of top execs who do know about social media. - stefan hyttfors

Not Surprising, I'd consider myself fairly Tech savvy and although i've been registered for ages i only just started Tweeting. Although given the publicity it's had in the last few weeks i'm slightly surprised. - Jamie Vidamour

but i guess they know about Facebook ? well, i think twitter is more for more tech people - Junal Rahman

Do you think their assistants know about those technologies? My understanding of CEO responsibility is that they have to think on a super broad and strategic level. Many of those technologies are about integrating tiny pieces of information into something bigger. Since that's not really their job, I would think those services would be off the CEO's radar until they have an impact at that high level. Right? - David Wynn from fftogo

Our CMO @BestBuyCMO relayed a similar experience at a CMO dinner he was one or two of 10+ who knew about the tools and he certainly was the top user of them. - Ben Hedrington

It's not surprising, if you think about it, but it's still unfortunate. Top executives are hardly "the mainstream" and if they're not in tech or marketing, those types of communication are not foremost in their minds. I know one chief exec. of a Fortune 1000 company who still has his "important" emails (as determined by his assistant) printed out and put on his desk every day. - Robert Clockedile from twhirl

This does not surprise me in the least. Yes, awareness is growing but anyone who assumes that our social media world has "made it' to mainstream is unclear on the concept. - Cathy Brooks from twhirl

I've never expected top executives to have a clue about anything. They're just a figure head for the company. They pay others around them to do the grunt work. - Chris Luckhardt

What a surprise!! Here in Brazil I've asked to my friends and coworkers and nobody knew about Twitter. Well, some of my friends don't even check e-mails account daily... - Flavio Knopp

it goes to show that twitter, kyte, friendfeed, etc... haven't really hit the mainstream yet... user adoption will always be a problem no matter what platform or software is out there. - Dejim Juang

Most of them can't even use email.... - Stuart Murray Walton

What is the point of Twitter, Kyte etc when hundreds of thousands of people are losing their jobs and we are in global economic crisis? Don't these top execs have bigger issues at hand? Are we drinking too much social media coolade in these times? - Andy Oliver

Dejim: I would not consider 30 executives not knowing about Twitter to equate to these services not being in the mainstream. It you ever worked with "top" executives, you'd be amazed by how much "mainstream" knowledge they really lack. - Joe Lima

That's not suprising. I still have to ask "Do you know what Twitter is?" - geekazine from twhirl

I'm doing a Social Media 101 seminar in a few weeks for entrepreneurs who haven't touched linkedin.com, facebook, or twitter. Seminar is full. We'll likely do 2 or 3 more. I'm not surprised at your group's ignorance. - Shelley Cadamy

I'm a publisher in medical technology market data and I continue to be stunned at how much behind the tech curve my audience of medtech companies is. Their rate of adoption of social media, like their adoption of new information technologies, lags at the same rate as physicians, who are traditionally slow to adopt any new technologies other than medical technologies. - Patrick Driscoll

Top *executives*? No surprise there, unless they're *tech* executives. Gates or Dell not knowing would be worrying, but should a boss at Exxon or Rolls-Royce (the aero engine company) know or care any more than we'd know or care about distillate refining or FADEC aero engine controllers? - James

I don't think we are drunk on social media when we say that in spite of the downturn and maybe because of it, we need to look at the enormous possibilities of social media at the very least as a brand loyalty mechanism(ie I am more apt to subscribe to products from companies/ people that I have a more intimate relationship with). - Phillip

The other issue with non tech executives not tuned in is their reluctance to accept ideas that don't have a direct and obvious connection to ROI. I have to admit (and I'm not blowing my horn) that during the pre-internet heydey, I felt like Tom Hanks in "Big" raising my hand to say, "I don't get it". Then, I couldn't understand why website traffic mattered more than revenue. - Patrick Driscoll

Recently, I spoke with a colleague of mine, a university professor of linguistics known as geek. I asked if someone is studying tweets' peculiar language and style from a scientific point of view. "Twitter?" he said, "Microblogging? never heard before". A geek, they say. Well... - PaperDoll

not surprised at all. You may try to ask if they know Firefox - ClubEddy - clubeddy.com

There's a whole tendency in social media toward rapidly accepting what's at the front edge of development, while at the back end, product managers, sales/marketing and other grunts are just struggling to hit their numbers. They don't live and breathe the latest info tool -- they live and breathe their own product. - Patrick Driscoll

OK, I'm hogging the airwaves, but one last point. When I look at new medical technologies emerging in the market, I have to bring in two very important perspectives: the opinion-leading early adopters (docs at universities or highly visible MD-consultants to industry) and the regular practicing physician working in the trenches of daily care. Social media evangelists would have me pay much more attention (I'm simplifying a bit) to the opinion-leaders. - Patrick Driscoll

I can understand that they don't know about Qik or Kyte, even I don't and I spend a lot of time on Twitter and FriendFeed... - Odi Kosmatos

You should get a hat! - Freida Wolden from twhirl

I don't think that social media is so important that everyone MUST take part in it. If I had more of a life (was a busy doctor or exec.), twitter and friendfeed would be the last thing that I would do in my spare time -especially twitter. - BEX

Ok, twitter might be something they need to know, but Kyte? Qik? Far too early for both of them to be at executive level of a non-tech company. - Steven Cains

Carol Bartz doesn't use Flickr and she's Yahoo's CEO. Her daughter does use facebook to post photos though. - Thomas Hawk

Our organzation is doing well w/Facebook with more plans for expansion after receiving demographics that show a high number of professional level participants and 30 and up crowd. I always considered FB for kids. - R. Ferguson

I can belive Qik and Kyte. But Twitter. That is tough. Of course my CEO doesn't know what SEO is. - John Flynn

Robert, that does seem strange. But then I see smaller co's. and non-profits jumping into Twitter, FB,etc. faster. My theory is because start-ups and NP's are open to the pool of university student volunteer workers, interns, and beginners out there who are more saavy in this area. - Melanie Reed

Maybe it's the name...? Maybe they would prefer using something called The TwitCorp Group - Catherine Ventura

robert - did you talk to them about zoho, zocdoc, gomobo, freshbooks, etc ? - Allen Stern

not surprised. - anna sauce

They must not have any kids... or watch CNN <grin> Nice one, Catherine - love The TwitCorp Group - Cheryl Allin from twhirl

OMG there's a world OUTSIDE of Twitter and Soc Nets?! :P - Mona Nomura

cmon mona you should know by now that in the valley there are only a few products that can be talked about outside the valley by those inside the valley - scoble just doing his job :) ha! - Allen Stern

And to think, we just had an amazing tweetup in the Raleigh area last night of more than 200 tweeps. Triangle Tweetup was awesome. - Angela

Mona - LOL - say it ain't so!!!! - Susan Beebe

Yes, I agree with Freida, you should get a hat :) - Michael Forian

I - Alistair (alpinefolk)

Non-tech CEOs is not surprising. However, depending on the kind of executive not knowing at least 1 like Twitteer may be troubling. For example if they are media companies or telecom companies then that is a more troubling thought than say the executive for a manufacturing company. Ultimately the lack of knowledge is a reflection of the type of talent they recruit and how that impacts their corporate culture now and in the future. - Altan Khendup

Did those same guys also show ignorance about Facebook- then we will know that we live on different planets - google,facebook,twitter are all helping to re-shape the way we communicate with each other- rgds- hiro bachani- http://www.merlin-me.com -Merlin Magical Gadgets - hiro

Amazing how a generational gap can preclude users from a given technology. I bet none of their friends are on Twitter either - Jameel

Unsurprising to me. I think the only interesting item might be how a company without a revenue model continues to raise money! In *this* economy, that is a story. - AJ Kohn

The elementary school I work at has started to hear about Twitter. It is going mainstream very quickly. - MarkCarras

Their on FriendFeed now are they? - paul mooney

My fiancée has heard of Twitter and she does her damnedest to avoid all this high-fallutin' technology. - Chris, Taskerrific Guy

Not a good mood if you want to build up goodwill and awareness of your brand. I mean, unless you're McDonald's or something. - Mike Nayyar

very small % of top exective in japan knows twitter either. - Yasuyuki Goto

Do they need to know? Is twitter going to get them out of their problems? Maybe their marketing managers do know? - santiromero

Why would they know or care about Twitter, Qik or Kyte? What's the business case? - Francine Hardaway

did they know about facebook - for global mainstream business leaders that at least should be known? - mike "glemak" dunn

Using our difficult economic circumstances to dismiss the tools of Web 2.0, be it Twitter, Facebook, or something else is to embrace the status quo. And if you hadn't noticed, the status quo isn't working. Web 2.0 offers a unique opportunity to reach out to customers, be they current or would-be customers, and engage them in a way previously not possible. As for me, I work for a... more... - Lee Allgood

did they know about computers? how about the internet? ebay? facebook? trying to quantify the time lag between reality and executives. - Dino

not surprising....met an IT guy at Panera on Monday who never heard of twitter or microblogging...now that's scary - Brian Appleby

does that say something? twitter and all these things are not the most essential parts of businesses. these things are fun but there's lots of people i know who have no idea about twitter. people who invest so much time and effort in these things have to realise this. - Terry O'Fee

when things get really really tough these "social media experts" in the businesses will be the first to get the axe, sadly. - Terry O'Fee

what is more significant/startling... that some do not know about twitter et al, or that some know and do not understand the value either personal or business wise? and believe me i know plenty people who know about twitter et al and just do not get the value. nor the point. which tells me social media is in its infancy still - we all know that of course. then again it took me 2-3 years to figure out email way back when ;) - Pascal Bouvier

the value of twitter? i know lots of successful businesses who would never even look at this kind of stuff. it's not as important as a lot of you people think. - Terry O'Fee

You people? Who you calling 'YOU people'. - Chris Saad

Thats the problem. You NEED to look at it before you understand its value, both for personal use and as a corporate tool. - jcunwired

you people = the people who think the world would end if twitter shut down tomorrow... - Terry O'Fee

This post is a complete and utter déjà vu for me. Robert, did this happen another time upon which you posted a very similar statement. For a second there, I thought FriendFeed glitched and reissued an old entry. Maybe I'm just tired. - Micah Wittman

seems that twitter will have 30 more users. - pala

Um. I work under people who thinks blogging is new and uncharted territory. I'm in marketing. - myron

nonsurprising.. some of my teammates don't know about twitter. none of them know about qik. and i never heard of kyte! - Ihar Mahaniok

Robert Scoble

My computing shrine:

January 19 from email - Comment - Like - Share

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I spent a lot of time over the past week organizing my office and getting everything neat in preparation for building a live studio. It isn't quite as cool yet as Laporte's or Pirillo's but it is getting there. What does your office look like? - Robert Scoble from email

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Office looks great! ^__^ - Nia

Those laptops are just in the right height for the little guy in the picture :) - Jemm

Oh, my office is so not ready for the public. I have papers everywhere. I'll just go with a description. I have two massive corner desks, each with computers. Wedged between them is a drafting desk. Before the wall of desks is my 6ft worktable, and behind that various odds and ends I've never organized. - xero

Reworking the workspace was one of my holiday projects that kind of went belly-up in a sea of laziness. Hoping to revisit that soon. It's too variable right now. - Jared Smith

You don't want to see my office. Looks like a bomb went off. My camera is safe inside a Pelican case and I'm not worried unless a bear attacks it, a shark bites it, or a child under 5 touches it. - Anthony Thompson

My office: a Dell widescreen laptop and a pot of coffee. And a lamp. - Will Conley

wait..are there not child labor laws> How much are you paying your admin in this photo? - Kevin Murray

@RealtyMan's "Command Central" looks like this http://twitpic.com/ttlo - Gerry Realtyman Bourgeois

Looks like serious carbon footprint :-) - Majento

WoW!! something to aspire.. - Prakash

The geek room in the basement of my office is going to be my studio, but I need to dig out the functional silicon based life forms that inhabit that space. - Greg Birch

Gerry: I like yours better! - Robert Scoble

like you can use more than three of those computers at the same time for something useful, tha'ts not video encoding rendering or clustering (for the latter laptop don't make sense at all, by the way, they have screens drawing unused power) - Dorian Muthig

That looks like an ADD nightmare. - Dean Clark

I usually only usetso computers at any one time. Some of these are for testing stuff out. The Sonos and Samsung are on loan. Gotta give those back in February. - Robert Scoble

Agree with Dean - way too many screens. I have two 21" widescreens, and it's just right. - Lawrence Liu

No TV's in there? I wonder how you have your gameroom set up. - Amani

all you really need is a 12" Thinkpad X61s - think environment, guys! - Migger

I have the same screen-count but one of them is an old Atari ST :-) - Frank Rennemann

Eunuchs waiting on you and everything!!! But wait till you see mine... - sofarsoShawn

Ok I give in. Will buy this http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/emperor... - Migger

You can't really be using *all* of those laptops...? - Charles Bihis

Nah, actually right now I'm using the Dell and the Mac Mini. - Robert Scoble

Looks like a real TweetDeck central. ;-) - Rutger Blom

My project over the summer as well. No shelves-messy desks - lots of cumputers.. - Roberto Bonini

Nice setup you have there - Onur Gündüz

Ever determine what this does to your power bill, Robert? - David Bisset (sn)

Robert, I don't think you have enough computers there. - Steven Perez

Wish I had the space... I have that many and more in half of that. - Ian D. Nock from twhirl

What? No Commodore 64? :P - Johnny Worthington

Here is my techy corner in my appartment: http://i.friendfeed.com/370e18f... - Qbat

Like it. Gotta do a little straightening up, then I'll post my studio area. - Dave Curlee

Dominic Preuss

Google's Cash Reserve: $14.41 B. Yahoo's market cap: $13.25 B. Google could buy Yahoo with cash.

November 20, 2008 from Twitter - Comment - Like - Share

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Would it be called Goohoo then? - Dana D

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meh - mike "glemak" dunn

The "_________could buy Yahoo with cash" list is probably growing exponentially at this point. - Chris Hollander

I prefer Yagle better. - Shafiq Jetha from twhirl

Call it Yahoogle! - Adam Collins

More importantly, Google is trading at 6x cash. - Christian

Apple is trading at about 4x cash. - LogEx

Robert Scoble

We are in a recession but Hong Kong is still damn impressive. @rocmanusa and I are going for a walk to see the city.

November 17, 2008 - Comment - Like - Share

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Are you saying that Hong Kong would be even more impressive if the world weren't in a recession? I wish I lived in a place where a tourist's first impressions changed depending on the health of the global economy. It sure would be interesting. - Mitch

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If you read some of the local newspapers you would think HK is sinking into a hole though. Busy street != good economy :p - Clarence Chiang

Robert I always wondered 'bout Chine but, after your whole feed about there...Now i have an urgent feeling to visit there! China gov. has to pay you for your presentation :) - Olcayto Cengiz

Olcatyo: it's an interesting place to visit and a LOT cheaper than Paris. You should have seen the club we hung out in last night. As good as any Vegas club. - Robert Scoble

Robert: My wife is also a FF user, so i have to reply as "Good for you" for your comment :) When you gonna share more photos? I mean China. Not the club :) - Olcayto Cengiz

Olcayto: I gotta run, so no photos right now. Maybe later after we go out and party, but might be a couple of days. - Robert Scoble

Have a great time, I've been to HK many times, it's a beautiful place. The food and shopping is amazing, so inexpensive compared to US and Canada! If you have time, take a subway to go around the city and do some shopping and eating. - Alvin

The first portable gaming device I ever bought was in Hong Kong. We used to stop by there often on our way back to the US from Indonesia when I lived there growing up. - Jesse Stay

@alvin "The food and shopping is amazing, so inexpensive compared to US and Canada!" - not quite, it depends how you choose to spend your money there. It can be *very* expensive as well. - Kevin Chan

What he may be referring to is that there is a ton of high-end stores everywhere (e.g. Armani, Chanel, etc.) You keep wondering who buys all that stuff. - Paul Rodriguez

@yinkei "What I mean is the local Chinese food is inexpensive, same as in Beiing" - Alvin

Anders

Roller Suit in Swiss Alps - http://www.youtube.com/watch...

August 17, 2008 from YouTube favorites - Comment - Like - Share

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Sygt - har aldrig set noget lignende - hvem får ideen? - Lars Rune Jensen

Jean-Yves Blondeau - also known as "Rollerman: se http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... - Anders

Robert Scoble

Have I told you how much I love Chrome, Google's new browser? I used it during my talk today and about 10% of the audience was already using

September 13, 2008 from Twitter - Comment - Like - Share

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I like Chrome too, but go back to FireFox for all my add-ons. Performance does seem way better. - Susan Beebe

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I've been using Chrome 95% of my internets browsing time since it came out. - Mathew™ one of a kind

I don't know about Chrome. I only know that it's open source and Google didn't launch it for Linux. Sorry but that's a FAIL. - Apostolos Papadopoulos

@Apo Well, sorry but there are a TON of people out there who don't use Linux. They are working on a Linux version, things take time. You should take some time to stop being an ass. - Mathew™ one of a kind

Yeah! What Mathew said. - Jim Bergman

So Mathew I don't think I'm beeing an ass. I just express my opinion. I know we who use linux are not so many and can't be compared to ppl who are using Windows. My point was that Chrome is open source and didn't was available on linux from the start. I appreciate Google ppl they do a very good work And even if Chrome was Linux-available I wouldn't have been using it. I would stick to FF. I don't want to criticize any1. - Apostolos Papadopoulos

Zoom, zoom, lovin v8 - Dave Martin

I mainly use it for apps that have Google Gears behind them (Gmail, Reader, Remember The Milk) and Firefox3 for most everything else, as Chrome doesn't have the functionality that I need yet. - RAD Moose

@Apo I understand what you are saying, but the way you said it...er typed it just made it seem very ass-ish. - Mathew™ one of a kind

You are right, Chrome has everything I need, it is faster, much, much easier. - Ralph Poole

Is FF3 still Crashing a Lot?? Mine Crashes 4 or 5 times a Day which is Ridiculous* - Billy Warhol

perfectly happy with firefox on my mac so even when available no plans to switch, will try it though - Deepak Singh

What do you love about it other than it's new? It has zero addins and fewer features. Sure it's fast, but is that enough? - Andrew Warner

Susan, same here (only today). Loved Chrome, but come on, without the plugins it's like having a light version of the web. - Orli Yakuel

i'm almost exclusively switched over- only back to firefox for e-commerce sites that can't handle it yet - Kevin from twhirl

It doesn't work on a Mac and like RAD I use a lot of FF3 add-ons with Google Gears, so no Mac version, no Chrome here. - Sally Church

I'm already recommending it to (EDIT: PC) clients in need of an alternate browser. Non techies are amazed at the speed. - Aaron Krug

I love the speed of Chrome, pitty there is no PPC version yet. Looking forward to extensions too. - Ben Novakovic from twhirl

I've been playing with Opera again and find that it has better preformance than Chrome. So does Kazehakase. Yet I always end up going back to Firefox for the extensions. - Jake (aka Jawee)

BillyW, FF3 isn't crashing for me much anymore, maybe 1-2x/week now, though I've tried to cut back on having >20 tabs open (add-on: Read It Later v helpful). Seems that a few weeks back when it was crashing/hanging regularly, I typically had 30+ tabs open (admittedly a bad habit anyway). Good luck. - Casey

@Casey: I regularlly have over 30 tabs open at a time in Firefox. Konqueror is the only browser that has problems with more tabs that I use regullarly (its my default browser because it loads instantly when I may not have anything else open, which is great on my P4 desktop). IE7 generally does too. - Jake (aka Jawee)

I'm using Chrome and Firefox split half and half. Chrome is super fast, clean and love the tab handling. But I miss the mouse gestures in Firefox and a few of the plugins. - Brett Nordquist

every so often embedded videos stop playing in Chrome and Firefox (but they do in IE). Any idea how to fix that? - Blake N. Cooper

I have installed Chrome, but I can't really use it until it supports some of my Firefox plugins. - Bryan Clark

I have been loving Chrome, but I also can't wait to see a new build to address some security concerns brought up. For a first beta release though I thought it made a good showing - Bryan

FF3 still set as my default browser, but I agree with @Bryan - Chrome's a good showing for an early beta - better than some browsers that have been out of beta for years. - Ian May

I am using Chrome most of the time these days. It is much faster when compared with Firefox, but I really miss the Addons - Sudar

Chrome is my default browser now, but not at office its windows 2000 there. FF crahes many times for me, but I am missing some plugins. - sirishkumar

How do you manage to get FF crashing? I use it as my default browser and have lots of tabs open most of the time, about 15 average but lots of times more than that, and it barely crash on my a couple of times with the old version and FF3 has never crashed on me since the realise. And yes I make it work. It has problems when there is lots of flash or heavy pdf, in that case you just need... more... - Cibeles from twhirl

Chrome rocks. Watch out IE and Firefox. - Michael McGimpsey from twhirl

I use Chrome on my older Windows computer just because of the very impressive performance. Once my MBP is back from repair, it is back to Safari (ugh) and Firefox. - Daniel Jurczak

Robert Scoble

Chrome memory utilization? 61,548 (with Google Reader loaded). Firefox? 215,220 with just Twitter (which takes far less memory). Chrome wins

September 2, 2008 from Twitter - Comment - Like - Share

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what else does one expect from Google. Lightweight seems like the company's motto! - Rahul Das

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I'm @ only 30 w/ FF & twitter - Jeff (the メガマクダジ of FF)

WebKit / Safari has been kicking Firefox's ass for a while now... - l0ckergn0me

Heck even the UI is ultra light weight - Roberto Bonini

even my laptop feels lighter now! ;) - Jeff (the メガマクダジ of FF)

@l0ckergn0me I tend to think that safari had been kissing firefox's arse -- from flexibility and extendability to popularity and functionality - A.T.

I have tabs open for Facebook, FriendFeed, Twitter, Blogger, Google Reader and about:memory in Chrome and I am at 50,824! - Joe Dawson

Is that with FF2 or 3? And with what extensions? - Dwight Silverman

However, let's compare that with the new Javascript updates Firefox is set to add here soon. Compiled Javascript makes a big difference. - Jesse Stay

Has anyone been able to use the Google Toolbar? - Blake N. Cooper

Hey Stagekid, you can't use Toolbars in Chrome yet, but... you can use bookmarklets! This includes bookmarklets for Friendfeed, Facebook, Google Reader, etc. :) That's not gonna replace all the coolness of toolbars, but I think it's a great start and hopefully it'll be helpful for you. - Adam Lasnik

Now that you mention it, stagekid, no. Must try that in the morning. - Roberto Bonini

I miss all my Firefox gak. - Oldengrey (Jay)

Chome appears to be about a second faster rendering Gmail, by my very informal testing (e.g. have both FF & Chrome open, hit F5 in FF, click the Chrome window, hit F5--Chrome still renders before FF). - Justin Long

Bob- You're such a new tech groupie ;) - Ryan

Chrome does a lot worse with more than 50 tabs, which I end up with a bit too often. - Jake (aka Jawee)

Icecat 3 (Firefox rebranded) is at 161,202 with 16 tabs open for me btw. - Jake (aka Jawee)

I am always floored when I hear people talk about having dozens of tabs. I have, at most, maybe five; and that's when I'm really busy. Otherwise, I trim it down to only what I need presently. Do people use tabs as a kind of bookmark system? Go to a tab rather than to a bookmark? - Akiva Moskovitz

Yup. I am probably making the switch on my very limited resources machine at work. - Geoff Schultz

Same here, much improved performance. V8 is getting the job done. - Dave Martin

Akiva, I see my mom do this. She opens stuff that she thinks she will use and never uses it, or she leaves stuff open that she has used because she thinks she may need it again. I think most people just need to use bookmarks more effectively :) - Rahsheen ™, Coach Rah

Rahsheen(isSoAwesome), it would be neat to see a browser feature that scans your Favorites/Bookmarks and lists off the ones you haven't used in a while (if not ever) and lets you clean them up. - Brandon LeBlanc from twhirl

Robert Scoble

Chrome seems snappier on Google Reader, which is my slowest site that I visit. Uses a lot less RAM, too. Google FTW!

September 2, 2008 from Twitter - Comment - Like - Share

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Thus far, EVERYTHING about this browser impresses me. - Bradley McSpinn

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Mine imported on install. - Bradley McSpinn

it imported bookmarks, passwords and history for me! - Rahul Das

That would actually be a selling point for me. I like GR, but am frustrated by its sluggishness switching between views. - Chris Baskind

Anyone found a way to mass delete all the bookmarks it imported? - Brian Newman

I have noticed that as well I poised with the scroll bar and it just shot through my imported pages.1000 pages here I go... - Joe Dawson

wow, don't think I've ever heard you say "FTW!' Scoble... :) - Zee.

Me either Zee. - FFing Enigma (aka Tina)

Søren Hugger Møller

Hahahahahaha. Telefonstorm mod DR efter De Sorte Spejdere kommenterede Synkronsvømning! Hvor er folk dog nogle amøber...

August 23, 2008 from Twitter - Comment - Like - Share

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Google issues official apology for Gmail outage - http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2008...

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Robert Scoble

Our marriage is over: we are both Twittering in bed. :-)

July 28, 2008 from Twitter - Comment - Like - Share

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question is - are you twitterring from laptops or iphones? :) - Rom Feria

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Over or just beginning... - Justin Korn

i hope you DM each other... - Ouriel Ohayon

I think that is a sign of true matching! Say hi to Maryam. :-) - Roxanne Darling from twhirl

Twitter PDA??? - Mona Nomura

Don't forget to @reply to each other! You know the thousands of us like to see Twitter PDA as Mona mentioned. ;) - Daynah

Me? iPhone. Her? A Lenovo laptop. - Robert Scoble

Hope you get lucky, Robert ;) - Migger

سلام به مریم خانوم و همسر گرامی که پرسپولیسی هم شدند :دی - Mil∂d

Dear Maryam Please Translate My Comment For Robert :D - Mil∂d

Milad: go Persopolis! :-) Maryam says hi. We are off to sleep. - Robert Scoble

I'd rather say your marriage is over when your are twittering in bed with someone other than your spouse - Antoine Bertier

Have a Good Night Byebye And Khodahafez :D - Mil∂d

رابرت جان تو رخت خواب یه کار دیگه میکنند نه توئیت ;) - پارسـا

as long as you don't choose twittering over sex, you're ok - Jason Lovett

dangerous...my wife is still hooked on myspace. she has a long way to go until she lands in twitterville. - Don Martelli from twhirl

Been there - you should've never got her started :) BTW, are you still interested in coming over for FOWA London? We'd love to have you. Feel free to hit me up on AIM (ryanleecarson) - Ryan Carson

*imaginary Muslim sending divorce letter to his wife on Twitter* DIVORCE DIVORCE DIVORCE - A.T.

Your marriage is just beginning. - Francine Hardaway

I twitter in bed sometimes too... It's natural and nothing to be ashamed about. - Internet's Tad

Some day in the future: "We are all gathered to this FriendFeed room..." "If you RogerVampireSlayer want to take this HelloKitty145 as your wife, please share 'I do' ..." - Jemm

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FFS, give me Amazon MP3 in Europe!! Rigth Now!

July 27, 2008 from Twitter - Comment - Like - Share

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