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Another Furlough Friday. Doing my part for California's economy by staying home with no pay. Mandatory. Not voluntary.
hey your father wouldnt happeh to have been maurice would he?if so im your cousin jamie estabrooks austis son,harold estabrooks would have been your uncle
- Jamie Estabrooks
Jaime, Indeed my father was Maurice. Harold was his brother. Their sister was Thelma. My mother always encouraged me to seek out Austin's family. Here you are. Funny, just today I received some geneology info from another cousin named Harold Saakup. Where do you live? I am not so much into Friendfeed as I am on Facebook and Twitter. See www.Twitter.com/maurye and www.facebook.com/maurye Maury US 1+714+248-6253 maurye@gmail.com
- Maury Estabrooks
from email
Any way to get all my Twitter friends into Friendfeed?
I'd like to do the same, but twitter seems to draw me back in. friendfeed definitely has better interactivity.
- Kevin Rossen
Not sure you consider me a friend, but I'm on FF.
- Maury Estabrooks
We're going to buy some books tomorrow to read to the baby (in utero now, at bedtime once she's born). What were your favorite books as a little kid? What books would you recommend we buy?
Steven Perez, Ontario Emperor, Molly, Time Traveller and 8 other people liked this
We're getting Seuss and Eastman, of course. Any others?
- Akiva Moskovitz
Where the wild things are.
- Alex Scoble
We already have "Goodnight Moon" and "I'll Love You Forever".
- Rochelle
Goodnight Moon
- Mike Doeff
Go Dog Go.
- Thomas Hawk
Cat In The Hat...
- Johnny Worthington
Thomas and John, Akiva already said we're getting Seuss and Eastman. And Mike, I already said we have Goodnight Moon. :P
- Rochelle
Can't go wrong with this one these days: http://tinyurl.com/3kzq9p :)
- Aviv
Brown Bear Brown Bear, Goodnight Moon, Guess How Much I Love You.
- Trish R
it really doesn't matter which ones you have ... What seems to be important (early on) us lots of baby talk/ sounds coming from Mom and Dad but especially Mom ... Then latter on you graduate to more mature rich sounds - including my fav - Green Eggs and Ham (which still has a treasured spot in my library) et al
- David HC Soul
Shel Silverstein http://bit.ly/2TpUFk
- Robert DeBord
Oh, I forgot we already have "If You Give a Mouse a Cookie", too!
- Rochelle
I loved Richard Scarry books: http://www.amazon.com/Scarry-... . I also loved this book called "Little Blue, Little Yellow" -- http://www.amazon.com/Little-...
- Cheryl Jones
Oh I forgot about Richard Scarry books, I love those!
- Trish R
Shel Silverstein books are cool.
- Thomas Hawk
Books that can withstand being chewed and slobbered on. Not kidding.
- Josh Haley
anything by Robert Munsch
- Glen, Bespectacled Elder
Winnie the Pooh. If you're intolerable, you can get the Latin version: Willie Ille Pu
- Glen, Bespectacled Elder
"In umbella navigare possumus," dixit Pu.
- Glen, Bespectacled Elder
Another fun one is Pynchon's The Crying of Lot 49
- Glen, Bespectacled Elder
Berenstein Bears, Dr. Seuss
- Molly, Time Traveller
The Pokey Little Puppy was one that hasn't been mentioned here that I loved.
- Mathew™ one of a kind
three billy goats gruff
- Bill Sanders
Eric Carle = must. Gene Zion and the Dirty Harry Series, Barbapapa series, Madeline series, Berenstain Bears, there are way too many to list, Rochelle!
- Mona Nomura
My mom bought me and my brother a set of 12 books. They had just about every single store I could imagine, including all the Grimm fairytales and nursery rhymes, one called "Things to make and do"...it was awesome. I still look at it from time to time....damn those books are old
- Rahsheen ™, Coach Rah
I didn't see "Babar" or "The Little Engine That Could"
- MVB (Curmudgeon of FF)
Everybody poops.
- Pete Delucchi
My teenage daughter just found our copy of Hop on Pop. Not sure if it's good in utero - you may not want hopping then.
- Ontario Emperor
from fftogo
Amy book from the Froggy series.
- Maury Estabrooks
from fftogo
Don't forget The Mousehole Cat—great one
- Glen, Bespectacled Elder
Cracking up at Clen Gampbell. I'll second Seuss, Scarry, the Babar books, and I'll add Maurice Sendak's Where the Wild Things Are which was my absolute favorite as a kid. I think I would have liked Where's Waldo a lot as well. I was really fascinated by richly illustrated books that I could spend hours examining with my mom. We'd find all the interesting little details on every page and talk about them.
- Jason Wehmhoener
PodTech Sells For Less Than $500k - http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r...
Sampad Swain, Edward Vielmetti, Alex Williams and 71 other people liked this
The most interesting thing here is that Scoble "liked" this ;-)
- Brian Sullivan
Scoble "likes" items to bring them to the attention of those who follow his feed. It's not an emotional response. It also is his only option if he wants to highlight it... and not comment.
- Louis Gray
Lighten up Louis - I'm sure Robert can speak for himself
- Brian Sullivan
Louis, that type of social behaviour is not alone a scoble thing :)-
- Peter Dawson
interesting, scoble "liked" my post but then removed the like. i also think like should be renamed to share to avoid these issues in the future.
- Allen Stern
I thought changing it to "mark" would work as well.
- Brian Sullivan
I don't Like that PodTech failed, $7.5 million in VC cash and today they were sold for for less than half a million dollars. I know Robert, Jeremiah, John and Vallery, but no one is ready to tell the story
- paul mooney
I'm cool with telling the story. I just need a couple of glasses and wine and a lot of time to tell it first. Podtech was screwed up by a number of decisions. Everyone played a part, but I sure learned a lot about how a company can screw up big time. Major learnings for me? 1. Have a story. 2. Have everyone on board with that story. 3. If anyone goes off of that story, make sure they get on board immediately or fire them. PodTech did none of the three and I'm sorry for my part in not making the three happen
- Robert Scoble
Not all ventures succeed though. How many 'fail' for those that succeed? It pays to take a pragmatic view. I think it's a hot market, and the impetus to succeed is high, eventually some will break
- Mo Kargas
Other things I learned: 1. Make sure people are judged by the revenues they bring in. Those that bring in revenues should get to run the place. People who don't bring in revenues should get fewer and fewer responsibilities, not more and more. 2. Work ONLY for a leader who will make the tough decisions (see above). 3. Build a place where excellence is expected, allowed, and is enabled. 4. Fire idiots quickly (didn't happen at PodTech -- even if you count me as one of the idiots).
- Robert Scoble
We get so much coverage of companies when they launch, when they're growing, etc. I'm hoping that someone writes an in-depth piece on what went wrong at PodTech so that entrepreneurs can learn from this. There is so much that you can learn from failures.
- Mike Doeff
Other things I learned: 1. if your engineering team can't give a media team good measurements, the entire company is in trouble. Only things that are measured ever get improved. 2. When your stars aren't listened to the company is in trouble. 3. When your stars start leaving (Gillmor and Owyang left before I did) the company is in trouble. 4. Getting rid of the CEO, even if it's all his fault, won't help unless you replace him/her with someone who is visionary and who can fix #1,2,3.
- Robert Scoble
My only thought is, how much longer does PodShow have?
- Christian Burns
Robert: Thanks for all the insights from the "front". It's no fun being in a business failure. :-( But the lessons there are immense. I learn a hell of a lot from my failures...
- Mitchell Tsai
Mike: I'm not going to be the one who writes that. Much of the worst stuff is too personal. Failures of companies often happen around failures at the leadership level. Telling why things failed means telling off investors, executives, and others (and even me). Not likely to happen because that'd mean burning bridges and I'm just not willing to do that. These people have too many friends. :-)
- Robert Scoble
My vote is for assimilation into something bigger. They bought it to "right the wrongs" and flip it to someone else. Heck, at 500k, it's a bargain right now...IF things are cleaned up.
- Bradley McSpinn
Brad: almost all of the talent left. What's left now is not much that's worth much. The revenues came because of our social media leadership. That's what Furrier really had in his hands. Owyang. Me. Cunningham. Jones. Gillmor. The rest of the stuff was a pipe dream that didn't lead anywhere, which is really why the company burned through $7 million (plus several million in revenues).
- Robert Scoble
@louisgray I've often wondered if there was a better option than "like" and "unlike" would be nice to see "interesting" there are many times when I see something that is interesting but I don't "like" it.
- michael sean wright
Although I'm sorry to hear this happened, Robert, I'm really appreciating the lessons you're passing on. Valuable stuff, thanks. :-)
- Brian Carter
Louis is correct. I didn't "like" this. I just thought it was interesting for you to read.
- Robert Scoble
I'll second Brian. Thanks for sharing, Robert.
- Chris Baskind
"burned through $7 million (plus several million in revenues)" ?? wow thats a lot of mulla to burn thru .. net net at least 10-12M ! For what a 10 member team and within like 2yrs ?? you all must have had rock star status... did you have a chauffeur driven car Scobles ?
- Peter Dawson
I have Podtech stories, too.
- Eric Rice
Well dish them up, Eric. The aspect of full disclosure is part of what I love so much about FriendFeed.
- Bradley McSpinn
tell tell Eric.. the topic is hot :)_
- Peter Dawson
I honestly hate to hear of the downfall of any credible social media, especially in the means by which this story unfolded. Glad to see you're in better company these days, Robert.
- Bradley McSpinn
Peter: there were more than 30 people and dozens of contractors working at Podtech. Only a couple brought in any sizeable revenues.
- Robert Scoble
Misteps aside, did PodTech have a viable opportunity, or was it ultimately doomed from the start? Clearly any company that's not run as a meritocracy has little chance for success.
- Brian Edwards
Although Robert's response to Mike Doeff is probably true (that the backstory to companies that fail are too personal), I agree with Mike that a post mortem of entrepreneurial endeavors would be very useful. Case studies can change the names to protect the not-so-innocent too.
- David Muir
grrrrrrrr.. I wish FF has button at bottom of thread 4 ease of commenting..anyhoot @Sean even at 40heads - it still does not make sense. Unless you tell me that all 30 members were getting $100K and dont 4get startups pay less and give more in share holdings !!
- Peter Dawson
Do I dare bring up the how did they expect to pay back 7.5 million in V.C. through such extremely niche content question?
- Paul Colligan
Sean: engineers in Silicon Valley cost more than $100,000 per year. Podtech had a chance in the Social Media World but spent too much to build its own platform and never delivered on that. We also didn't work together and that is another failure in a startup.
- Robert Scoble
I am going to write an in depth post on this story. It's huge. There are many lessons. Scoble's view is from his perspective but there is a big picture that goes way beyond Scoble's view and that has to do with building a company from a zero stage. I've moved on from a year ago after I was forced out by the board. We made some mistakes but directionally correct. Sure if I had a mulligan things might be different but a business strategy, financing strategy, and team strategy are part of the story..
- John Furrier
john: I am looking forward to your post.
- Robert Scoble
There are many lessons to learn that I'll post about. PodTech had a great chance and pioneered some of the best practices in social media. One thing that I'll talk about is the difference between self financed growth strategies and venture backed growth strategies.
- John Furrier
Looking forward to your posts John.
- Thomas Hawk
I'm looking at this from way on the outside. The value of my perspective is that I know nothing about internal management, visions, discussions, factions, or what have you. All I can say is that from afar, I never got any brand coherence from PodTech. Was it news? paid corporate marketing videos? analysis? community? There were some powerful personal brands--I still follow them in the PodTech diaspora--but it felt they never cohered into a PodTech identity. (That doesn't mean losing personal identity.)
- Michael Markman
Michael: exactly. We never played together as a team. It is why entrepreneurs need different skills after they start their companies. It is not enough to sell people on a dream. You must coach your way to it too.
- Robert Scoble
Great to work with John, Robert, Valarie, Kevin E, Jennifer J, Michael K, Jeremiah. Like many Web 1.0 / 2.0 companies, those in social media face the challenge of business model. There are lots of bigger train wrecks. But unlike PodTech, no one created enough of a brand (good or bad) to even be remembered in this conversation. There are more to come.
- Brad Baldwin
Brad, so does this mean you're looking for something new now, or are you still with PodTech's new owners?
- Jesse Stay
from twhirl
When exactly are people supposed to use PodTech? At work... but too time consuming... people hate slow voicemail and want email. In the car, maybe. At home, may not want to address work topics. At least they had the cojones to cut bait.
- Indio Apache
from twhirl
John Furrier, I'm also very interested to hear your stories.
- imabonehead
I think this is one of the best conversations I've ever seen on Friendfeed or in a blog. The perspectives are great. From my outside point of view, and from the vantage oint of having worked with literally hundreds of entrepreneurs, I think Podtech didn't exactly know what it was doing from a brand standpoint, other than being "cool." It was VERY cool, but so was pets.com,There also has to be a viable business model, and I don't believe revenue from sponsorship is enoough.
- Francine Hardaway
With all due respect to their "failure", half a million dollars ain't that bad! What puzzled me from the beginning, is what permission do they have to record and publish many of the talks. Did all respectful speakers surrender full "replay/distribute/resell" rights to their sessions? This doesn't apply to interviews, but a lot of recordings are from professional talks and seminars...
- Adi Rabinovich
I have been thinking about what Furrier said about me not having a full picture of what went wrong. First of all I don't think he is right, but if he is I will add one last learning: never work in a VP position when those above you don't share a complete picture of the business with you. Especially when that business is a social media one that was pushing transparency and community values.
- Robert Scoble
PodTech introduced me to Thomas Hawk. Robert Scoble took a risk and left Microsoft for PodTech for more money and to make his mark ouside of MS. The back story would be interesting to hear. I agree with Francine Hardaway in this this is one of the best conversations I too have seen on FriendFeed. Honestly, I'm an audio listener. I never could support PodTech as a viewer unless you count Photowalking. I did not know that John Furrier was forced out. So who bought PodTech?
- Maury Estabrooks
Pathetic that people cheer at someones failure. Regardless, I know - don't go there- just freakin sad.
- Rocky Barbanica
What will happen to your videos? You guys did good work there.
- Andrew Feinberg
Andrew: our old videos belong to Podtech. I hope they donate the tapes and archives to the Computer History Museum.
- Robert Scoble
I'm looking forward to hearing an open discussion of what went wrong. I think startup entrepreneurs like me ca learn a lot from this.
- Andrew Warner
Hope the 2-3 hours of video Scoble recorded of CrossLoop way back doesn't go away
- Mrinal Desai
One thing, Andrew, you could learn - don't alienate those about you. Be strong enough and have the courage to bring everyone on the team together and make them all feel that their contributions are appreciated.
- Rocky Barbanica
...and be smart enough to put the company on Chemotherapy when cancer is detected.
- Rocky Barbanica
Robert was kind enough to take me to Podtech and introduce me to John when I was in town last May. I think it's very sad that it didn't work out. People put their hopes and dreams and very soul into startups. But then, "failure" does have a lot of value, as we can all see from this thread. Hopefully, for everybody involved Podtech was a good stepping stone to something else that's...
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- Dawn
@ Scoble. I am copy pasting a comment from Mathew Ingram's post on this topic. I liked the comment and hope you would shed some insight into its questions. The comment follows: "Is anyone at Fastcompany Inc. reading this? What has Scoble really learned? What is Fastcompany.tv's story? How do Fastcompany.com, scobleizer.com, scobleizerTV, Fast Company Live, WorkFastTV, PhotoCycle, Qik,...
more...
- Bilal Hameed
Bilal, perhaps you and anonymous commenters at Mathew Ingram's blog should mind your own business. Demanding revenue and profit numbers, etc., is outrageous.
- Dawn
As much as anyone who is 'in it for the tech' hates to admit it, revenues are simply essential for any business. I can't even count the number of times in y old company business development came down and said 'do this and this please' and I was like 'it will take 3 employees 2 weeks of time to do this, how much money will we get for it?' and the answer was 'oh, no revenues, we just think it would look better.' Revenues matter.
- Andrew Leyden
Did the rights to the Vloggies go with the sale? I know Irina would love to have her idea back.:) A lot of the talk here is how Podtech was a "social media" company, where it always looked like a "video production/distribution" company to me. Is there a difference in Podtech that I was missing? There is definitely a great case study in how companies interact with creative professionals and communities somewhere in here.
- Schlomo Rabinowitz
Bilal: the changes to WorkFastTV actually were made due to community feedback. If it weren't for the community feedback, those changes would never have been made. What is FastCompanyTV's story? We are having conversations with business and tech innovators to understand how the "fastest companies" are building value for their customers and we'll use the most interactive methods around to...
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- Robert Scoble
FastCompanyTV is making our bosses happy (we're bringing in more revenue than is being spent) but we're a private company so we don't discuss our finances in public. About our audience. I'd argue that I know more about our audience than any TV show does and we're soon going to require loging into FastCompanyTV to comment. Who is making tough decisions? I have a boss and he has a boss but the community is really our ultimate boss.
- Robert Scoble
Schlomo: no, there's no real difference in the end. That's why PodTech failed. It squandered (didn't listen to, or make use of) its social media stars. I don't know what'll happen to the Vloggies trademark and domain. I assume the new owners will keep those, I'd assume Irina can negotiate with them. Andrew is right. Dawn, thank you, appreciate the support.
- Robert Scoble
PodTech and John's earlier work (circa 2005) was why I got into podcasting. It's why I co-founded PodCamp. It's why I thought there was a great opportunity to make interesting media in the tech space. Between PodTech and IT Conversations, I learned tons of larger picture information that saved my company millions of dollars. When all the "cool kids" showed up, I had high hopes like everyone else. But that's also when things diffused in a weird way.
- Chris Brogan
What a wonderful discussion. I am waiting for John's post. It will surely clear a lot. I know John personally and I like him. Let's see his opinion and see what the next steps for everybody are.
- George Athannassov
some of Those videos that Scoble did for podtech have had huge impact on me
- Christian Burns
Posted a longer essay on this, and podcasting as a business. My question: How does the $500k sale price relate to missteps by the company, as opposed to fundamental problems with podcasting as a business? -- http://www.thestandard.com/news...
- Ian Lamont
I pointed this thread to a friend of mine, not a geek , but a "thinker" and who dabbbles in M&A, Hedging and all that nice fund style mngt. His comments were. "listen there are lesson to be learned everywhere, the founders should be thankful that this is only a 10-12M cost of learning curve. All startups face a risk, all investments have risk. Its only throgh failure that people learn to mature and grow. All good things that flourishs are by-products of many failures" . Oh well, I digress.
- Peter Dawson
It was certainly an interesting ride for the almost year I was there. One thing I could never understand is why PodTech felt it needed to build its own media player and distribution platform when there were several potential partners that were already years ahead of PodTech's development. Blip.tv or Castfire could have easily saved PodTech a shit ton of cash while delivering better features and stats reporting. I suspect with an engineering team in place, they needed something to do.
- Eddie Codel
Eddie - Can't agree more, but this is just one of the many missteps that appears to have happened. Roberts level of transparency on the topic gives us a great opportunity into what can go wrong in a start-up. The core issue appears to be a lack of leadership at many levels. If an honest post-mortem can be written it will surely benefit anyone looking to build their own startup.
- Jim McCusker
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seriously, just respond to this message and I'll follow you... looking for all my peeps on FF!
- Jason Calacanis
ok lets check how fast he takes to respond !
- Peter Dawson
Jason: That's a good idea. FF isn't really very interesting until there's a bunch of content in your stream.
- Eric Florenzano
ye
- Maury Estabrooks
It would be great. :)
- Daniel Schildt
sure, thnx
- maxim shevertalov
from twhirl
But hey, you are already following me! Just checked. :D
- Daniel Schildt
I believe you're already subscribed to me, but now you can be double-secret-subscribed...
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ok
- John Deisher
Thanks
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I can use some FF street cred. :)
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I love Mahalo! :)
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ok that was quick response ..like approx 75sec :)-
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*poof*
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Subscribe me up Jason. I am in LA and in post production. You guys at Mahalo looking for staff.
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Thanks....Mahalo!
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You da man Jason, PS love Mahalo!
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count me in
- Kieran
do you follow canadians ?
- johnpiercy
Thanks, Jason....
- Hugh MacLeod
I'm not sure if you're following me on Twitter, FriendFeed, etc. but I'm ahynes1 on all of them.
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Yes sir, whatever you say sir! @astrout
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I'm in
- Mike Doeff
Yo!
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Jason! Still loving your Dash?
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a oh - oh a
- Anthony Farrior
I'm wondering if the "calacanis effect" will move a critical mass of people from Twitter to FriendFeed
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Hi. You know me, I'm PurpleCar!
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Present.
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subscribe away.
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Hey jason - can follow me as graubart
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Blammo, or perhaps Skidoosh!
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Great seeing you at PDF. Look forward to hanging this summer in Cali. Cheers.
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Hello Jason
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I'm in
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The Twitter train is leaving the station.
- Warner Crocker
i'm in!
- wlai
And this is why I don't like FriendFeed. Have to rebuild your list? what the fuck.
- Austin Brown
ok just a few thousand more to go!
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Yep... follow me :)
- Fabrice Epelboin
Isn't there a better way to do this?
- Toivo Lainevool
Moving on over....
- Mark Nassal
You should call up the people at friend feed and have them move your twitter list over for you. I mean, don't they know who you are?
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I'm here too now but where is the iPhone client
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Hola! fatoracle on twitter :)
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I could you some more Mahalo in my life :)
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I have only been using FriendFeed for a day but im liking it already.
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Fascinating.
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Jason follow me as 7thScreen Rod Pitman
- Rod Pitman
yo
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Yo Yo Yo
- Eric_T
mahalo
- Eric Doerr
well, when you ask so nice :-)
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Ok, trying FF as well. Still like twitter and will be sad if I have to leave it
- Lide Winburn
Like Napoleon's army after the defeat in Moscow, straggling west, fleeing the hideous frozen hell, we are moving into the (for me, at least) unknown...
- Dave LaFontaine
Hey there Jason, hows i going?
- Daniel Spisak
from twhirl
hey man, I'm a big fan, would be honored by a follow ;-)
- Scott Breakall
So I'm Commenting...
- Jeff Rochlin
http://internetducttape.com/2008... this is the app subscribing on FF to the people you follow on twitter
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Sounds fair to me but at some point there has to be an easier way.
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put me up in there
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Yo
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Sure, why not.
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Follow me pleae
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following
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Mahalo is awesome!
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Hello from Canada!
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+1 Ed Nicholson
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OK. Mahalo!
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Sounds like fun!
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Sounds good to me!
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I'm in
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me too
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transporting from twitter
- Nina Walia
Twitter yesterday, Friendfeed for today, what's up for tomorrow?
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Interesting approach...
- Tim FitzGerald
hola! senor! :+}
- Aronado
interesting way to go about it - but here you go.
- Zee.
For sure. By the way, thanks for the towel!
- E.J. Alcantara
Hi Jason!
- Mike McCallister
Why not.....
- Brad Collins
from twhirl
I thought I could hang w/ Twitter being so flakey but it's really a bugger. Maybe FF is the deal after all.
- Hunter Hillegas
peeps - either a web2 startup or a reality game show
- Phil Wolff
keeping up with the web 2.0 wave
- Mike G
Lets talk.
- Grant Bell
If FriendFeed is the new Twitter, what is the new FriendFeed?
- Adam Hansen
not sure if I am ready to abandon twitter, but I will give friendfeed a shot. Count me in
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Please...follow me.
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If it helps you stay ahead of Dvorak. . .
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Yet another comment from a Twitter follower
- Tom
I'm in
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meee toooo!!!!!!!!!11
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me three!
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Hello!
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Make it so
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This is destined to be one of the busiest posts for days to come!
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Bam!
- Jim Dye
Happy Saturday.
- David Young
oh sorry...I commented on the wrong post
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Yeah :)
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Much obliged Sir.
- Pedro Fonseca
FF really needs an import feature
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Sure, I'd love for you to follow me. Thanks!
- ComicList
yup, ok.
- Bryan Landers
thx. Guess twitter effed up one too many times, eh?
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You don't have to if you don't want to, but hi.
- Erin
Rebuilding the Jason Nation on FF. Fascinating.
- Slobokan
Would welcome it
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Game on!
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Thanks Jason, tweet on!
- JoLynn Braley
you follow me on twitter. so you can follow me here if ya want, too. I'm trying to do the same.
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Me too! Thanks Jason ;)
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there should be an easier way to do this
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love following the J-Dawg!
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Follow ME!
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Follow please :)
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Sir yes sir!
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from twhirl
Welcome to FriendFeed Jason
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Anyone for Tea?
- FunkydoryStokie
It seems to me this is kind of a moot point. You draw those who follow you into your convesation and if someone makes a comment that continually intriques you all you have to do is simply subscribe to their ff. No need to wage a big dick contest with numbers of followers here. Its all about the conversation. Just an observation at this point.. I'm just now starting the migration from twitter to FF myself;-)
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from twhirl
Just subscribed to you, feel free to follow back!
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Great to meet you at PdF2008
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Yo, Jason
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This page is gonna get long if all 20K+ comment :)
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Yes, please
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I think spammers have infiltrated Twitter and will not let me block them completely.
- Derek
I'm all for moving as many over to FF as I can, so yeah, follow me if you'd like.
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wow is this a complete switch from Twitter?
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Wow! Now you know what you'll be doing the rest of the weekend....
- Kevin Shannon
Okie, Dokie, subscribe away :)
- Michael Lehman
is Fondue on friendfeed yet?
- Benton
glad to hear it.
- berkay
Aloha and mahalo... MsInformation from twitter here.
- Donna Mugavero
howdy
- Nicholas
Hello.
- Jason
hey
- Adrian Bye
Sure, why not?
- Andrew Feinberg
I am in for it.
- Michael Tefft
Follow me
- Faust Gertz
w00p w00p :)
- Toby Weston
Okey-doke
- Peggy Gartin
Indeed twee on!
- Justin Yost
ok, me too :-)
- marc uhlig
Follow the yellow brick road!
- Linda Wishman
I'm moving my stuff to FriendFeed as well. Let's see how this is.
- Kyle Johnson
Over here! Over here!
- Ian Schafer
Raises hand! Here!
- Melissa
here I am
- Borriz
Hey Jason - follow me up.
- Gareth Jenkins
Excellent job with Veronica Belmont's replacement and all the Mahalo episodes leading up to it. Mahalo Daily. FTW! :)
- Mustafa K. Isik
Yes sir, can I have another?
- Greg Schwartz
So many comments! This would have broken twitter...
- Stephen Breen
Jason - love to get you as a subscriber.
- Hutch Carpenter
Yup.
- Karl Sackett
sure, I'm in.
- todd lucier
Just starting with ff - I'm off now to find Leo . . .
- Michael
I'd appreciate it.
- Patrick Moore
Interested to see what you think of Ramsay's food, mostly hear about the man..
- Paul
Holla from New Orleans! Moving from Twitter as well. Whatever happened to Jaiku?
- Gregory Schultz
Sign me up!
- Chris Johnson
Follow me. Mahalo Power!!!!!!!!
- Grant
Sounds good!
- Jeremy Tymes
why not?
- Ed Ryan
adding myself to the list.
- Kevin Cearns
Count me in, but I like Twitter better, even though its broken...
- Trae Ruge
OK
- Larry Heim
Sure, why knot?
- ThePicMan
Can ALWAYS use more FriendFeed folowers! Still like SocialThing and Twitter best though!
- Jeff Garlick
What's the worst that could happen? Sign me up :)
- Joel Rickenbach
I enjoy following your tweets and would love for you to follow mine as well
- ken bavier
so when you gonna be on twit again?
- Prk60091
Aren't all Mahalo members worth following? :)
- Jack (a.k.a. Jeber)
Raising hand tentatively
- Dan Sleezer
Follow me please! Have fun at dinner tonight!
- Benjamin "Zeus" Heide
Response Generated. I think i'm going to follow your lead on abstaining from Twitter/pownce so I can get into FriendFeed properly.
- Tom Cheredar
Ke aloha nô me ka mahalo kâua!
- Todd Libby
Always loved your work. Keep it up and thanks for the follow.
- Chris Rodgers
Interesting idea, count me in!
- Daniel Rowley
Follow me! Follow me! Ooo! Ooo! Ooo!
- Mitch Wagner
Hi there !
- sergiooo
Follow!
- Mr. Wiggly
Follow please!
- Micah Maziar
I'm there!
- Herb Myers
in!
- Morgan
As amazing as it is, you already follow me. But feel free to unsubscribe, it will not remove what is interesting in YOUR feeds ;-)
- Myriam
ok
- Jeff Quinton
Mahalo's "Guide Note" and "Fast Facts" are reason enough do the research here
- Rick
cool
- Cezar Harabulă
follow me
- Kevin Doohan
I'm caught up in the technology...another "me too"
- Bryan Waters
oh...okay
- Carolyn
Ummm....errr...hmmm. Follow me
- Greg
add me when you get a minute
- Daniel Ehrlich
si
- Sean Malone
hey
- Emad
sure! add the feed from a Brazilian perspective...
- José Murilo Junior
Boo ...
- Cathy Brooks
beep
- Oldengrey (Jay)
I will attempt the same but without the response I"m sure
- Stuart Froman
sounds good
- Arvind Raman
Friendfeeding from Japan...
- Brian
sure add me, love the week try your doing
- David
You should be following me anyway since I'm all up in your site manipulatin' yur dataz..
- Tim Moore
this way
- Michael Chin
Easy enough.
- Doug Smith
done
- Eric Haber
In the house - mutual followship requested. :)
- ijalob.
Here I am
- Martin Gordon
good idea
- Graham English
Well, here we go !
- Atul Karmarkar
As we say in the South, come on in y'all!
- Allen Fuller
yep
- Sagar Jethani
Thanks!
- Todd Wickersty
from twhirl
ping!
- Ricardo Vidal
What's up Jason
- Matt
Please what ever you do don't follow me...i'm way too popular to have another tech industry millionaire following me.
- Sean Montgomery
Better late than never. Now I am on FF only have to work out how it works... Thanks for the tip
- Paul Greeve
Are you going to rebuild the entire nearly 30k ish over here? That would be insane.
- Lucretia Pruitt
Im In
- Comptr
Follow please :)
- Peter Dawson
Hi Jason, thanks in advance for the follow.
- Larry Kless
Yes please - it is a challenge how to parallelize your twitter connections on FriendFeed. They really need a good import interface with automatic notifications via DM back to twitter followers.
- Jed White
Yo, follow me please! Thanks.
- Todd Jordan
Do I get a large coke with that follow?
- Elias Bizannes
why not... you might like it :)
- Allison
me too
- Ashish Tonse
ping
- Steve Trefethen
Am I too late?
- Winston Teo
interesting posts, would like to hear more of your podcasts
- Brian Staker
and me ...
- Diana
Hey Jason; I'm in! Got so fed up with Twitter not working, thought I'd follow your lead and go FF all the way.
- Martin Betts
from twhirl
ok
- ahmet bulent
hmm... i think you subscribed to me already when i first started this account months ago.,
- excalipoor
giving it a shot
- eric Norlin
I'm up for it.
- Ivan
I'm in
- Peter Ghosh
I'm in.
- Tim Kress-Spatz
check it.
- Michael Leis
Word!
- Will Boyd
pimp me, pimp you
- Andrew Spencer
click me. i'm a whore
- Nan San
Hi Jason, ok so does Foundue have a FF account yet? l like his Flickr pics!! ha, ha!! (BTW, I am @smbeebe on twitter)
- Susan Beebe
Hi Jason, it will be nice not to have the Twitter out of service page, Gotcha in San Diego
- Debra Oliver
m'kay.
- AJ Kohn
Lets all make one big happy family :)
- David W
That...is a lot of comments. But I'd like to join this ragtag crew.
- Ben Parr
Dude this is the longest chain of answers I've seen in FF. But I'm in :)
- Alex Popescu
Does this mean twitter is dead? or did that happen a while ago?
- Jed
Okie, here I am commenting... follow me, or something!
- Vermyndax
Connecting.
- William Meloney
You asked for it, Calacanis!
- Mike Lewis
Some day we'll all have biological implants for social networking. And, this will be all so 2008!
- Walter McNabb
Reciprocate :-)
- David Peacock
Add me in
- David Daniels
CalacanisNation on the move...
- Pete Arden
Good luck, converting the entire list is difficult, So add me!
- Jason Kintzler
At least this seems to work :-) ... please follow
- pool101
Please add me to the list
- Tom Carroll
just signed up for FF myself!
- Mark Fusco
Hanging out at the bottom of the list
- Dominik Hofmann
FriendFeed is about to take over
- Miguel Carrasco
Great stuff Jason, fan of your work. It would be great to have a Twitter/FriendFeed contact sync application. I'm sure you know some peeps to make that happen. =D
- Grahm Skee
Just discovered friendfeed. Pretty cool stuff.
- George Gray
Thanks, Jason.
- Joe Colacurcio
Just joined FF. I'm headed to Brentwood next week, any tips on restaurants?
- Brian Blankenship
Hey Jason
- Akshay Dodeja
Actually, you know what? I rescind. Please don't follow me.
- Phil G
hello
- isky
Sure, count me in. I quite rule!
- Akiva Moskovitz
Sure Jason... shoot me a line, I'll be your friend
- Dave Senior
Enjoying Friendfeed. Come join the party!
- Mindy Koch
Checking in...
- Chris Hileman
Count me in too! Thanks!
- Michael Gianasi
For sure Jason :)
- mark.kemperman
add me.......
- Jeff Crace
post
- russ nelson
add me in
- Don Rogers
I just created my Friend Feed account.
- Durwin
finally registered for friendfeed. it's awesome ~
- wilson
hi jason...friend me up! or friendfeed me up!
- Laura
My hat there are a lot of comments here.
- Paul Jacobson
Wow, I am late to this party but if its still going, I am in
- Andy Breeding
Hi Jason, add me in!
- Hilary Marsh
How much longer before other gaming strategies are invented to increase the value of your friendfeed persona?
- Shakeel Mahate
Who *wouldnt* want to have JC following them? :)
- Jeremy Toeman
Please do.
- Robin Barooah
hope you are still fallowing this Jason
- Gaspare
I'm on board
- Mark Alves
one of the greatest things i ever did was make people think i didnt exist
- Randy
Add me... Thanks... (Why are you doing this? I mean, really...)
- Carlos Caridad Montero
This is actually quite interesting. I wish I had thought of this.
- Rishabh Mishra (p248)
hm.
- Amund Tveit
Hey follow me. I rule.
- Shawn Farner
add me toooooo
- tarraguna
I would like a follow. Thanks
- Sweyn Venderbush
sounds good to me.
- Mark Chandler
Yes, please.
- Morton Fox
whatever you say boss :)
- Myke
i think the efficiency is lost in this method
- Andrew Wise
freedfeed is - how they say - the bomb
- Jeremy
I have you on mine, following me may or may not be boring :D
- Renee Hendricks
following you on twitter and now on friendfeed
- Robert Wheeler
Apple flipped Rogers Canada the proverbial middle finger. Hooray!
- Steven Elliott
Thanks Jason, Go Mahalo!!!
- Bobby Edwards
Social Network of the week? Why not?
- Jay Savage
boop!
- Sam Purtill
I'm in.
- jered reynolds
Liking FF the more I play with it.
- Todd
alrightee
- James Joyner
Yooo hoooo.. ;-) Thanks Mr. Calacanis!
- Da-Chief
Yes.
- Russ Johnson
Count me in and you might like my webcomics
- Joe Chiappetta
From Twitter to FF, here we go!
- Catherine Juon
Ok I'll bite!
- Sean Kelly
Hey Jason! Listen to me! :)
- Simon Plashkes
I'll simply cite Rob Clark, who so eloquently put it: "I believe you're already subscribed to me, but now you can be double-secret-subscribed..." ;-)
- Carlos Granier-Phelps
Hi there. ;).
- Ernesto
subscribe to me!
- Wesley Barrow
Hey Jason how the Super Car going bud....
- John Spencer
Sure! Join!
- ‘-.-’ Tutivillus Grift
OK, I am responding
- Matt M Perez
Wow Matt, way to dig up an old post :)
- Simon Wicks
Ok, here is a comment!
- Alan Alpar
Bambi Fail « FAIL Blog - http://failblog.org/2008...
Rishabh Mishra (p248) liked this
Um, no.
- Voyagerfan5761
from Bookmarklet
Great shot!
- Maury Estabrooks
If you watch one video today, this is the one to watch - http://www.youtube.com/watch...
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hackr, Oliver Thylmann, Nenad Nikolic and 146 other people liked this
halfway through and rotflmao ...
- Dan Haley
Is this from the You Suck at Photoshop guys?
- Vince DeGeorge
donnie is back today, maybe the competition made him show up again
- Dobromir Hadzhiev
"what email?" "you just powered off the exchange server" "just the letter a" "don't use aol" "salesforce.com was on the right testicle"
- Ranjit Mathoda
That was a good use of ten minutes. I'm smiling again.
- Russellreno
Ok, after watching the new YSAP - This is much much better - flavor of the week to be sure.
- Vince DeGeorge
I'm crying. The details in this were just great. I don't work in IT but I know this is what people must put you folks through...
- Kamilah Gill
That's hilarious!
- fbrunel
that's brilliant. and i'm about ti run out of battery power here, and I won't bookmark, adn I'll probably 4get about these guys 4eva. what a shame!!!
- john conroy
You mean he rebooted the webserver without submitting a Change Request Application with work procedure and rollback steps to the Change Advisory Board for review at their next weekly meeting? ;-)
- Stuart Woodward
Hilarious!!
- Satya
amusing.."how many times did u reboot?" ...
- Jaimini
from Alert Thingy
I love the part where he deletes all his files and the guy thanks him for putting his desktop back the way it was.
- Dave Winer
LOL you can't arrange Icons by Penis
- Chris Saad
from twhirl
He just kept shooting him in the crotch over and over and over LOL.....
- Avery Tingle
this is hilarious!
- Michael Stearne
from twhirl
Yeah, who hasn't known this IT guy? Too darn funny.
- Jim Kukral
and so absolutely true
- Jeff Evans
"This is going right onto Boing Boing." Hilarious!
- Adam
On the Fedora installation, why is the guy running as root?
- Rishabh Mishra (p248)
nice
- Anthony
Arggggg!
- bill giltner
yup
- Marc Canter
:)) I was getting very frustrated with FF's best of the day page, showing mostly meta-links about FF itself all the time. And then this. Once in a while, there is one single link that makes all these page loads worth it :)
- Yaniv Golan
Did this win some kind of award?
- Dave Winer
That made my day
- Greg Goodwin
that video kills! cant wait to show the rest of the techs at work
- Mark Schulz
"What's BoingBoing?" - very funny.
- Maury Estabrooks
LMAO for most of the 10 min. Will fwd to several IT peeps I know...and maybe a few peeps at Twitter. Wonder if they'll think it's funny.
- Cathryn Hrudicka
Excellent....
- David W
makes me want to rearrange my desktop more creatively
- Pete Delucchi
that was hilarious. wow!
- David Adam
Rofl that's a ton of likes! guess I gotta!
- Frankie Warren
LOL, really great ! That's why my website's so slow :))
- Heimana
lol. too funny
- Alexander Marktl
Way too realistic. :-)
- Doug Kaye
you can't arrange by penis
- Tyler Gillies
excellent. thanks for the post Dave.
- Kevin Doohan
STUPID WEB DUDE. he should have asked the sales guy to check if the website is up on other computers or in a different department.
- Hanan Cohen
So funny, I truly have not laughed so much in such a long time. tyvm :)
- David Smith
wow!! So unreal!! And I now know what happens with all the network mgmt software I develop!
- Shivanand Velmurugan
"Maybe that's not what I meant."
- Kawika Holbrook
The realism of this thing is just awe-inspiring. That techie behave pretty much like any techie I've ever encountered who's been asked to do a stupid task. And the sales dude is lethally real too. This is Dilbert meets The Office on steroids. Thanks for the link.
- Roy Blumenthal
from twhirl
A Classic
- Ken
Using Twitter to Friend Feed Contact Importer (version: 0.0.4) - http://InternetDuctTape.com/tools...
Twitter to Friend Feed Contact Importer finds all of your Tweeps on Friend Feed and automatically subscribes them.
- Maury Estabrooks
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