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LOL - that too. - Hutch Carpenter

...but do they have plans to fix their feeds? - EricaJoy

"When can I sync my Facebook friends' contact information with my iPhone's address book?" Maybe if people keep asking, they'll relent. - Mark Trapp

"Maybe if people keep asking, they'll relent. - Mark Trapp" . . . Wow. A pig just flew by my office window. - John Craft

Ask the Mercury News people how they plan to change their business model and stay profitable as they, and other print media, move away from printed media. - MVB (Curmudgeon of FF)

"I would just love to know what they think of FriendFeed, if they feel their app is 'too heavy' in comparison, whether it makes many aspects of Facebook superfluous, and if they have any plans for a leaner and meaner Facebook to compensate for the heaviness that keeps many of us away (and makes FF feel so comfortable in comparison)." - Christopher Galtenberg

For Matt: How does Matt see blogging evolving in the face of tough economic times and web 2.0 consolidation? Does it go the way of Geo Cities? Does it fall off due to micro-blogging and life-streaming? Will Automattic develop a highly targeted display ad network using wordpress blogs? For Facebook: How do you get to profitability? And when? - AJ Kohn

"If you could be a tree..." (no?) - techPR

For Mullenweg: What i like about MovableType is it doesn't handcuff you to Perl, so you can integrate it with your platform. Are there any plans to allow Wordpress to operate outside of the PHP ghetto? - .LAG liked that

"If you could have any superpower, what would it be?" - Zee.

Zee: Mullenweg already has superpowers. :-) - Robert Scoble

"Ask Mercury News if they concur with Rupert Murdoch's recent statement that "we are moving from news papers to news brands" http://friendfeed.com/e..., and what that means for news brands like theirs... And whether unaffiliated organizations like AP gain more or less power in a world where news brands need to provide more customized news." - Christopher Galtenberg

Hi! I'd like you to ask facebook to open up their "phone book" for export to iPhone address book. Why would users want two address books, and why would users not have the right to "remember" a friend's phone number locally? - Mason Lee

Oh, please: For Matt Mullenweg, ask about Automattic's long-term plans for Intense Debate. Is this a platform for some sort of unified World-of-Wordpress login? Something which ties together self-hosted WordPress, WordPress.com -- perhaps even bbPress? Do they have it supporting Yahoo IDs yet? It was failing at last attempt. - Chris Baskind

I'd love to know if Matt will allow a FF widget in my sidebar on wordpress.com. I've been waiting ages. Please, please please ask. Pretty please. Thanks Robert - Roberto Bonini

Ask Matt what he is going to do about the incoming links section on the wordpress dashboard. the google links works less effectively than technorati ever did. its a shame. i want to see inbound links from the console. but how? - James

Roberto: there's a ton of those kinds of things I want on wordpress.com. Will focus on what Matt thinks will be the future of wordpress.com. - Robert Scoble

Mistakes made, lessons learned from them by examples. - imran

for SJMN - do they consider the SJMN "the voice of Silicon Valley" or are they just another "big City newspaper" ? . can they reveal some stats on their online version like who "reads" or "feeds" - Geographically, what content etc. - SnakeDoc

Robert: Thats interesting too. When one looks at how Windows Live as a whole group of services has re-imagined itself as a social network of sorts. Will wordpress re-imagine itself along similar lines???? - Roberto Bonini

In my mind, wordpress is awesome because it's extensible. The plugins make it great. So why doesn't wordpress.com let bloggers use them easily? Perhaps they could set up an app store like the iphone's, let users buy plugins and then split revs with developers. - mike

Thats a great idea mike, to expand the existing upgrade selection. Gets my vote. - Roberto Bonini

Ask Facebook execs when they're going to expand their business offerings - last I heard there was some internal strife about this. - Jesse Stay

For Facebook: Why do they hate freedom?</angry> - Chris, Taskerrific Guy

+1 Mark Trapp - When will Facebook allow sync with my friends' contact info? Why do they prevent true networking like this? what is the point? ;) - Susan Beebe

phenomenal post. the image here really makes it look like it's a birthing shot...not a meal shot. - mike

Ok this is such a crazy story I dunno if I should be scared or not. - Stepan Mazurov

Mona: the big picture is too depressing. At least for next two quarters. - Robert Scoble

Since I'm not one who jumped on the bandwagon last time, I'll just say that, while indicators look good for the opening bell tomorrow, it remains to be seen whether we've actually bottomed out. Personally, I don't think so; too many companies are only now seeing impacts that will affect their bottom lines 2-3 quarters out. - Glen, Bespectacled Elder

I wouldn't say you're overconfident or underconfident. Whipsawed, perhaps. - Morton Fox

Morton: Bob Brinker who has done MoneyTalk on radio since the 1980s said he had one word about today's markets: chaotic. So, understand why I'm whipsawed. So are the pros. - Robert Scoble

Only if the market ends the week up Robert...:-p - Hutch Carpenter

I can't imagine being emotionally invested (heh, or monetarily invested) in this market. - Jason Wehmhoener

Hutch: THAT I can't guarantee at all. But it's looking like tomorrow will be good. One day at a time. I still think this market has downward pressure on it. But I'm willing to be proven wrong. My 401k is still investing into this market. Mostly cause this market doesn't really affect my retirement, which is at least 20 years away. - Robert Scoble

Robert - nevermind all that. Be positive when reality calls for it; negative when reality calls for that too. You have every right to be yourself and express your concerns and joys like anyone. You do have an enormous audience, so you have incredible influencing power and can persuade folks to take action based on *your* feelings. So that bears with it a certain amount of responsibility - as is expected when folks have power...wield it wisely ;*) - Susan Beebe

Robert - just talking to Mylene about the buy opportunity right now. Need to transfer some cash to my E*Trade account. I'm not looking to flip stocks either. Buy now, hold for long term. - Hutch Carpenter

Hutch: if you're buying for long term, I'd dollar cost average into this. In other words, if you have $10,000 in cash, don't buy all in tomorrow. Put $200 in a week until you're fully invested. If you really are in for the long term that's the best way to get in and 20 years from now it won't matter whether you missed some little rally on Monday or not. - Robert Scoble

Interesting thought Robert. Will look at that. BTW - are markets closed tomorrow? Columbus Day? - Hutch Carpenter

I believe markets remain open on Columbus Day. - Aviv

Whether the markets will go up tomorrow or not makes little difference - fundamentally nothing has changed nor is there likelihood that anything will in the following weeks. The only thing we have left is investor greed and the need to recoup huge losses, which may explain why some feel stocks are cheap enough to dive back in. - Aviv

Hutch: of course, don't listen to me. Sometimes it makes total sense to me to gamble money in Vegas. :-) - Robert Scoble

Robert: my problem with how you have discussed this problem is the inconsistencies. You've referred the economy as being in a "death spiral" and then you have told people to dollar cost average in. Either talk about the economy rationally while giving investment strategies you believe in or say that it is all going to blow up. But saying both makes it hard to take your thoughts seriously on this topic. - Andrew

And the bond market and the banks are closed tomorrow, but the stock market is open. - Andrew

The silent bank run gets a one-day hiatus. ;) - Aviv

Andrew: when I say it is in a death spiral I mean it's like a plane that has lost control for some reason heading toward the ground. It does not mean that it will hit the ground. Obviously history demonstrates to us that life will go on, even through depressions and wars and other nasty events. I assume everyone here is smart, so I don't spell everything out. The inconsistencies are because there is a difference between our emotions and between what the market is doing today and what your... - Robert Scoble

...personal investment strategy should be. Obviously anyone who listens to any one person about their personal investment strategy is an idiot. I don't see many idiots to be here in FriendFeed and I doubt anyone is making their personal investment strategies based only on my behalf. If they are, they should have their heads examined. - Robert Scoble

Andrew: there also is a difference between what I do personally and what I'd recommend to you to do. Sometimes I walk up to the table in Las Vegas and bet it all on black. That's really pretty stupid to do, but it's fun. I would never recommend that someone else do something so irresponsible. But last Monday I saw the economy is in severe trouble. We still are in that trouble this week, it's just now I'm over the raw fear and emotion of that realization. - Robert Scoble

I'm human. Shoot me. - Robert Scoble

Robert: I hope the rest of the world comes to the same realization. Also, I think you at times are a victim of your ability to write a great, sensational headline. It's a great problem for a blogger. :) - Andrew

Andrew: the reason the markets will probably go up tomorrow is we all had a weekend to relax and understand that the world won't end. That takes time to gain that kind of perspective, both as a human and as a blogger. - Robert Scoble

Don't forget that we have a series of US programs poised to flood the system with money. We've had a series of statements from the G-7 and the IMF that the flood gates of international help is coming. That the UK bailout is in effect. And the lehman brothers CDS contracts expired Friday removing that worry from the system. http://bloomberg.com/apps... - Andrew

Not that it's over by any means, but there is a bunch of positive news piling up. I'm going to bed. - Andrew

Andrew: we still need to get through financial reporting season. The next quarter is going to be pretty bad for lots of companies due to pullbacks and layoffs. WHen your customers lose their jobs and get afraid they pull back their buying behavior. - Robert Scoble

Hehe. You get panned for reporting that you think it's going to be very bad news. You get panned for reporting that you think tomorrow may be a bit better. It's good that in this time of uncertainty there is something we can rely on. Have a good night and a better tomorrow! - WorldofHiglet

The Australian market just closed up 5.5%. That doesn't even recover all of last Friday's lost ground. Still a ways to go before this is a recovery, but it's a positive. - Warren

@Scoobie: BS you are on record as a huge bear in the near term, if you prove wrong - you have to stop talking and start listening. - Morgan Warstler

Morgan: I was a bear last week. This week? I have no freaking clue what will happen other than tomorrow will probably be up. I will be a bear for next quarter, though, overall, until we get a much better picture of the troubles our economy is in. I sure hope I'm wrong. - Robert Scoble

"demonstrating leadership"? Really? - abacab

I have no idea. Cramer said Monday could be bad: http://www.cnbc.com/id... Panzner points out that even during the Great Depression there were Bear Rallies - http://www.financialarmageddon.com/2008... I don't know what to make of it... - Chuck Boyce from twhirl

Put all your money into Hanes, Fruit of the Loom, and Kimberly Clark. People are not done crapping their pants yet, and the ones that know it and are prepared for it, are wearing Depends. - April Russo (app103)

I will be funneling my money into hair transplant research for chimps. It will have a better return than today's markets. - Ernie Oporto

It's so nice to wake up, look at Yahoo Finance, and see that the market is up 600 points. - Robert Scoble

The WSJ on OpenID. - DeWitt Clinton

the project i'm working on does not yet support openID...it is one of things i want most in version two. god, i wish we could afford more engineers!!!! - mike

Putin has been in her "air space"? Oh dear. - jeneane sessum

What was John McCain thinking? - Shakeel Mahate

Come back, Dan Quayle. All is forgiven. - Steven Perez

Does John McCain even bother with thinking anymore? - Victor Ganata

Oh dear indeed. - Dave Winer

Clearly demonstrates why they have been keeping her away from the media. - Jim McCusker

Worse in print I think: "It's very important when you consider even national security issues with Russia as Putin rears his head and comes into the air space of the United States of America, where — where do they go? It's Alaska. It's just right over the border. It is — from Alaska that we send those out to make sure that an eye is being kept on this very powerful nation, Russia, because they are right there. They are right next to ... to our state," she said. - AJ Kohn

Are you sure that isn't Tina Fey in a SNL skit? - mace

I'm curious if her last comment implied potentially sensitive military monitoring that may or may not go on from Alaska? - Jim McCusker

the more she speaks the more McCain sinks - Alberto Escarlate

Palin making Miss South Carolina look like a genius.... - Chris Reed

@ Jim It's rather well known fact - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki.... Which doesn't make the episode less painful to watch. - ǝuǝƃnǝ

Maybe not so much a genius, rather -- concise. - Dave Winer

@Eugene I knew we had a base up there. But talking about surveillance operations isn't exactly something leaders should talk about in public. We've got enough tension with Putin at this point. - Jim McCusker

"Rears his head?" - jeneane sessum

lol AJ, owch. "I personally believe that U.S. Americans are unable to consider national security issues with, uh, the Russia because, uh, some people in our nation don't, uh, have maps and realize that we must stop the President of Germany, Putin, from threatening the Iraq-Pakistan border, and I believe that they should, our education over here in the U.S. should help the U.S. or, uh, South Africa and the Iraq and the Asian countries... - Karim

I'm SOOOO glad I wasn't there to have to see this in person - Jason Carreira

Hah! This is due to my imbibing in secret vodka powers at the ice bar with Louis. - Robert Scoble

Robert, just be glad it wasn't sweet tea vodka. The photos would have been that much more compromising... - FFing Enigma (aka Tina)

i sit down to show a skeptic friend how FF works, and this photo is at the top. I don't think it helped... :) - Jeff (the マクダジ of FF)

Jeff, I needed that laugh so thank you =) - FFing Enigma (aka Tina)

Scoble - I *loved* your vodka shots!! ha, ha!! great pics (thanks to Solis!) - Susan Beebe

Mark: that photo was taken in Mike Arrington's backyard during a TechCrunch party held in our honor. The hand is Shel Israel. Yes, alcohol was involved. :-) - Robert Scoble

Everyone has to let loose one way or the other. - Josh Haley

i love that picture. - mike

I think Rahsheen pulls off the whole shirtless thing a little better, no? - Josh Haley

Is there a way to hide a picture shared with a link? I don't want to hide the link, but I really do not want to look at a shirtless scoble all day. - Rob Diana

what the hey? - Cee Bee

ouch - Susan Beebe

Any sort of change is good. Nickels, Quarters, even pennies. - R. Alexander Spoerer

Oops, we are like John McCain, only ideas we exchange - Taban Khajehnassiri

Not loaning this person my Kindle. - Kevin Fox

Post Secret is a fantastic site. - Mark Krynsky

lol Kevin. indeed. not loaning this person anything, now that you mention it. - Carla Thompson

I know the economy is bad, but I hear sole of old shoe is apparently more tasty... - Chris Reed

Haha! That was fun. - David Orban

Yes, it was. Now drop it. - David Orban

KTHXBY - David Orban

hot weather? :) - Luca Conti

how about commenting on your tweets on friendfeed while opting to send your comment as a reply to yourself on twitter? - mike

Luca: or too much beer - David Orban

Mike: yes, as I also said here: http://friendfeed.com/e... :D - David Orban

it - Luigi Centenaro

is - Luigi Centenaro

addictive - Luigi Centenaro

... - Luigi Centenaro

Luigi: you are welcome to keep going! Be my guest :) It is so easy to comment on FriendFeed that it really is addictive... - David Orban

I'm not really feelin' the imagery invoked by this title... - Rahsheen ™, Coach Rah

Waiting for countless Moby Dick references. Go. - Shawn Farner

@rahsheen - agreed. switched it to "Twitter draws closer to harpooning the Fail Whale" - MG Siegler

i've definitely enjoyed the increased uptime. but they shouldn't even announce progress until we can reliably go back say ten pages into older tweets. I'm also frustrated by the never ending error messages from my twitter clients (twhirl on my pc and twitterific on my mac) saying i've exceeded 70 requests per hour. nevertheless, i am a bit excited that constant downtime may be a thing of the past. - mike

@mike - yeah i thought it was a bit early to trumpet a success at first too (mission: accomplished anyone?) but then again those are some pretty solid numbers and twitter did kick ass yesterday with its 30 minute maintenance in a two hour window. - MG Siegler

All they need to do is move their offices to Nantucket. - Jonathan Beckett

Great title! Twitter does need to stop blowing so badly. - wrecks

Does this improvement correlate to the addition of Pivotal Labs to the Twitter team? - AJ Kohn

Tell me that headline is suppose to be ironic:-) What happens when you fill the blowhole on a whale?...think about it - Duncan Riley