I hear they are well funded. They sure brag a lot on the home page. I'll let you know when it's up. I would sign up now, and get in early. - Robert Scoble
I'm already in, Robert. :-) "The tech is so revolutionary that we had to get special government permits to test it. Initial testing was done on a few select, not to be named, a-list tech bloggers. The response? Total and complete
mind melding with the most important geeks in the world." - Louis Gray
They're like Twitter & FriendFeed Combined ... but so much better! Guess that pretty much seals Twitter & FF's fate. - Chris Baskind
the name sucks. Yeah im on this new site called ZobZee, no not zombie, zobzee. no not nazi, ZOBEZEE! - Tyler
What are they going to do, insert microchips into the brains of people who sign up for the service? - Timothy Neilen
The Web 2.0 logo generator logo inspires a lot of confidence. Their email is even better, they claim they are an "app that will kill both Twitter and FriendFeed overnight!" - Duncan Riley
They appear to have networked Scoble's digestive tract, according to the confirmation email. Deeply impressive technology. - Chris Baskind
I signed up earlier today...now waiting for what this is all about in their email to me today: "The tech is so revolutionary that we had to get special government permits to test it. Initial testing was done on a few select, not to be named, a-list tech bloggers. The response? Total and complete mind melding with the most important geeks in the world." What's all this about????? - Susan Beebe
the name is terrible as is the logo. My bet is this site won't be a winner - Michael McGimpsey
What? :) It's all what it takes to get such attention? :) - directeur
Here's another lovely quote from that same email, (Scoble you'll *love* this!) - "Imagine being able to know what Scoble is hungry for the moment he thinks it? He doesn't even have to type it... just think it, and you'll know." - Susan Beebe
They have a wet-floor reflection *and* a brightly colored starburst beta badge in their logo. They're pushing Web 2.0 to the next level: Web 2.1, at the very least. - Chris Baskind
All I see is a mailling list building squeez page, heh.. - directeur
Duncan, my point exactly - I'm so not waiting for this one. - Orli Yakuel
And they promise this, "Imagine you could know what Jason Calacanis is thinking in the shower." I thought I knew already; bulldogs and cash. With that said, soaking up other users pith-streams will be all the more easier. And Eisenberg is right; this vaporware will collect 1000s of email addresses before the scam is shown up. - Christopher Harley
I can't trust it, sorry :) And i gave them a @yopmail.com to see the replay, this one was a followup from an aweber autoresponder... big! they call this marketing? i call this crap - directeur
Robert, you'll probably cry for wasting your time.. - Orli Yakuel
The only reason to join all these potential "next twitter's" is to secure your name. - Chris
Better pre-register your username Robert! - Colby Olson
@Brian agreed on the email response, how confident are there - Our team has been quietly working in stealth mode for 6-months building the app that will kill both Twitter and FriendFeed overnight! - Joe Dawson
These guys already know about Scoble. If they have half a brain they'll be damn sure to save his "Scobleizer" identity for him and not some jerk out there trying to steal his name. - Susan Beebe
I got their second email, and.. well, are they name dropping or something? I hope someone from outside of this echo chamber signs up and wonders to themselves "Who the hell are Scoble and Calacanis? They sound like the new pokemon." - Colby Olson
@Scoble - the lofty email sure makes me think they've got the new internet or something...so yea, that would make you cry, me too actually! ha, ha! - Susan Beebe
@Scoble - what do you know about their comment, "the moment he thinks it" - are they going to insert a brain transplant in your head or what?! LOL - Susan Beebe
I just got the email too and thought to myself "I already know what Scoble is thinking, what I really want to know is what Susan and Louis are thinking." - Robert Scoble
ALL This is plain STUPID. They are harvesting in a very legal way with an opt-in list your emails... I bet it's a joke, Robert, isn't it a joke? - directeur
directeur: first of all my email is on my blog and anyone can have it. Spam away. Second of all, I don't think it's a joke. We'll see, though. I'll let you know. - Robert Scoble
Wow, thanks! Louis and I better watch ourselves otherwise the Zombies from ZobZee are gonna put that little brain tracker in our head too! Noooooooo! - Susan Beebe
Robert, thanks, I don't think that it's about your email actually, but about million of naive other people... anyway, we'll see - directeur
Paul, I remember Zombo well. "You can do anything at... Zombo." My former colleague was caught signing up our boss to their mailing list. No telling whether that was part of why he became a former employee. - Louis Gray
@Paul re zombo.com = ROFL ...wow, where's my playdoh and crayons? and what's up with that psycho hypnotic thing in the middle of the screen? - Susan Beebe
Thank you for requesting to be part of our beta. Our team has been
quietly working in stealth mode for 6-months building the app that
will kill both Twitter and FriendFeed overnight!
While we can't tell you exactly how it will work right now, you can
be guaranteed that it will blow your mind. We've taken social media
to the next level. ZobZee will be like plugging your brain right
into your friends brain and actually knowing their thoughts as they
think them.
The tech is so revolutionary that we had to get special government
permits to test it. Initial testing was done on a few select, not
to be named, a-list tech bloggers. The response? Total and complete
mind melding with the most important geeks in the world.
Imagine being able to know what Scoble is hungry for the moment he
thinks it? He doesn't even have to type it... just think it, and
you'll know.
Imagine you could know what Jason Calacanis is thinking in the
shower. If you are his Zobzee friend, you will know immediately
and you could share all of - Wolfsbayne
Sounds irresistible!!! Must have Zobzee. Even if it is some sort of marketing stunt :) - Andrew Smith
@Wolfsbayne - that's the lovely email we all received from ZobZee earlier... this seems like *way* too good to be true?! - Susan Beebe
For all of the jive talk this had better be a mind blowing service or there's going to be a big let down. - Colin Walker
That's what they think is called "copywriting"... come on! :) - directeur
Talk about arrogant. Too bad they chose a name 80% of the speakers of the world's most popular languages can't pronounce. - Liron Tocker
+1 Christopher. And I, for one, signed up. I need to know what Calacanis is thinking in the shower so I can know the EXACT moment when he decides to change direction for Mahalo yet again and then I can rise to the top of Techmeme as I so VERY deserve to do!!! - Cyndy
The domain name 'ZobZee.com' was registered yesterday, as was the Twitter account. I'll venture a guess that a company with $50 million in secret seed capital would register their domain more than 12 hours before starting their viral whisper campaign. Jim Kukral (jimkukral.com) registered the domain, and as a professional online marketer, I'm guessing this is more of a portfolio example to demonstrate the kind of interest he could generate for a potential client, rather than an actual product. I could be wrong though. :-) - Kevin Fox
The ZobZee makers have another satire site up: http://www.blogbucks.com "The fastest & easiest way to do absolutely nothing to drive a 'flood of traffic' to your blog & wads of cash into your pocket!" - Philipp Lenssen
Kevin: If his aweber followup is what this guy calls copywriting, let me smile a little bit. This is NOT copywriting! Period! :) - directeur
no way this is legit. these clowns are internet marketers trying to hustle people is my guess. - Rodney Rumford
can't wait until there is a ff comments plug in for Blogger. Would love to have every blog post I write incorporate the comments from FF. - Thomas Hawk
Excellent post. I am a big fan of Marshall McLuhan's work. BTW, I tried to post on your blog to FF but it asked for my api. Where do I find that? - Mathew A. Koeneker
For me the temptation is too strong, I can hear the sites calling me - Joe Dawson
Disruptive technology it's true. You have so encapsulated what I've been feeling lately. The curse of wanting to be on the cutting edge is the fear of missing out on something new. I like your take that it will be there later. Great article. - Henry Burger
Kevin: I was thinking a concept similar to this would be great just today. (Yeah, that's the ticket) Great work! Another thought is a tab where you can see only the comments and likes made by your friendfeed subscriptions. Not their posts, just their likes and comments. (I'm sure this may already exist, and I expect Lewis Gray at any time to bring me down to size and enlighten me :-) ) - Chris Reed
Kevin, will there be a directory of public rooms? - Mike Doeff
This is awesome! How do I change the icon for the room? I can't seem to find that under "Edit room settings." - Jason Chen
I was just thinking this AM that friendfeed needed something analogous to Flickr Groups and pools. cool. - bernie
Woohoo! I'd love to be able to specify where my imported items show up ... like my personal photos and Gmail status updates to these particular rooms, and my blog to my public feed, etc. - Ocean
<?php echo "Jason Chen's question about the icon and Mike Doeff's query about a directory..."; ?> - Voyagerfan5761
Darick, that's on our wishlist too :) - Paul Buchheit
I wish items in rooms were shared as usual unless specifically hidden (unless the room is private). The rooms mostly correspond to topics, and that's great for active content discovery, but without the usual sharing my friends don't get to discuss the content with me. Passive content discovery is one of FF's big strengths, but the current opt-in model of rooms doesn't help. And, you know, while discussing Obama with the enthusiasts in Obamamania is nice, I want to discuss stuff with my friends. - j1m
+1 for that, pretty please. (Super-Hide should have a "everything in this room" option, naturally.) I think that's a much bigger deal than a room browser. A room browser will have trouble scaling, but "which rooms are my friends active in" would be a very friendfeedy way to navigate the space. - ⓞnor
Good thing they're not buying FriendFeed... :P :P :P Just kidding man..I love poking fun at typos. Would love to see a source however. - Bwana McCall
Wow! Let's see how this one develops... - Iain Baker
funny... i misspelled Friend while it was right in my face. AWKWARD MOMENT! - Outsanity
I wouldn't mind a Yahoo acquisition. They kept del.icio.us the way it is. Also, aside from changing the login, they kept the essence of Flickr. - Morton Fox
Hmmm...that's interesting. I'd be surprised if the FriendFeed guys bit on that. Seems too early. I'll second Shey - source? - Hutch Carpenter
i'm yanking the joke chain. Yahoo's not buying FriendFeed. tho, it would be interesting to see how Yahoo would merge Yahoo stuff to the site. - Outsanity
Wow, that would be a super smart acquisition on Yahoo! behalf; but then Microsoft would REALLY want to buy Yahoo! then!! augh! - Susan Beebe
@Outsanity, haha, the perfect link bait. YHOO, MSFT, GOOG, all should consider it though. It's better to buy these things when they are younger and cheaper than having to pay Facebook prices down the road, even if there is a chance that they won't work out. - Thomas Hawk
Man, it's ok if the buy 'Freindfeed'. I really hope they're not looking at Friendfeed (Duck) - Charlie Anzman
gosh i hope not! i believe anyone purchasing friendfeed will ruin it. - Nathan Eckenrode
It's this kind of thing that starts stupid rumours -- you gotta show a source BEFORE or AS you say stuff like that - Shey
it would seem odd to send friendfeed messages via yahoo messenger. good thing it's not true. - Outsanity
does anyone think that Yahoo would be a good steward for Friendfeed? - Sean Reiser
I guess Yahoo is interested in buying FriendFeed (they are wise to want them, it would give them talented management they desperately need), but I doubt FriendFeed is interested. They have 5m funding, they're growing extremely fast. In a year, they'll be worth 5 to 10 times of what they're worth now. There is no need for them to sell at that point - so why should they? - sebmos
Why doesn't this item in FF get any comments but the twits and google reader shared items do? Is it because otherwise the conversation gets away from the blog or is fragmented to much ;) ? - Mark Jenniskens
Answering Mark, it's because when Robert wrote this, he sent a tweet, and there is a delay between the tweet hitting FriendFeed and the blog post. Therefore, the conversation is already happening on the tweet before the blog post arrives. Happens to me as well. - Louis Gray
Mr. Scoble... Let me turn the dime on you... Google Scholar has a proprietary crawl on nearly 1 Million documents in the peer-reviewed energy exploration vertical search platform I operate by day. They've indexed something like 40,000 of them so far. Yahoo has NO CLUE those exist. They won't and can't. Google's already perfecting "closed" search deals (in enterprise and behind paywalls like mine). - Gerald Buckley
And, to Lousi and Mark, he also did a Reader shared item for it which also has comments. It's almost like he's trying to show how scattered things can get on friendfeed. I had to try to find this entry to comment here. I could have just done a Reader-share-with-comments, but I didn't. It would have been easier, though. - lilbyrdie
Personally I'm very bored of Facebook and I think a lot of people will get bored of it over the coming months and years. We've been through all this before. Five years ago in the UK friendsreunited was huge; it was all anyone talked about. They tried to maintain their monopoly by keeping it incredibly closed. Now it's virtually dead. Great services always beat big walls. - Charlie
Here's my first ever comment on FriendFeed, just for you Scoble. I can't see MS keeping Facebook closed if they do in fact acquire it. I don't agree that it is in their own best interest to do so. - Mack D. Male
I'm guessing that Reykjavík is a more interesting place to visit or live. I wonder why that is, and more importantly, why can't a place like Sunnyvale be interesting? - Paul Buchheit
Hi Paul, I had the best lobsters ever in my life in Reykjavik. Very small lobsters but so tasty, amazing. I loved it and would love to go back there. - Loic Le Meur
The above link on Iceland- worth a read in line with the thread on Reykjavik - viki saigal
The sky in those two pictures is amazing! It makes me want to pack my bags right now. And doesn't Rekkjavik also have Bjork? ;) - Cyndy
I visited Reykjavík a couple years ago and it was a pretty cool town. And the direct flight from SFO was really convenient. I think its biggest problem is that the rest of Iceland is just so utterly spectacular that it's hard to justify spending more that just a small fraction of the time in the capital. - Simon
The Johannes Kjarval collection at the Kjarvalsstadir museum is well worth a visit - "Kjarval is famous for his interpretation of Icelandic nature. He captured the beauty and the mystical quality of the land. His landscapes express a comprehension of nature based on the gift for entering into it and perceiving it from within, along with a strong sympathy for all living things that inhabit it." (http://tinyurl.com/3u95qf) - Thomas Brox Røst
Sunnyvale features the global world headquarters for louisgray.com. I assume that outweighs anything Reykjavik has to offer... - Louis Gray
Ah, my old home Sunnyvale. The Wikipedia article Paul posted has a nice panorama of Reykyavik. - Mike Reynolds
Let me know if you figure out what makes a place interesting. I can't get your line paraphrased as "we only know our own life, and then only barely." Out of my head. - Clare Dibble
Don't underestimate the climate difference :) - Michael Bravo
