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How sad. I was listening to Eartha's music today. Santa Baby is the sexiest double-entendriest Christmas song ever. - Michael Markman

Very sad, she was such a gift, gorgeous voice, great music - Ginger Kenney

She was one of my all time faves - have you ever read her autobiography? what a trip - and of course the best CatWoman!!!! LOL - Robyn Hawk

quiet round these parts eh Steve? Glad you're still sharing! :) - Zee.

Christmas for Jews = BORRRING! - Steve Rubel

Lol... :) my pop's is Muslim, mothers christian...all my family is abroad...i'm not sure what the heck to do... :) - Zee.

I don't use Twitter as much other than for ranting and blabbering. I use FriendFeed most of the time for technical discussions and other goodies. It seems that Twitter is in the start of the mainstream adoption crowd whereas FriendFeed is still for the early-to-mid adopters. - imabonehead

I did that, but went back to Twitter because my network never followed me. The power is in the network (not the service), I realized. - Jesse Stay

That was my thought about the continued relevance of Twitter: by going mainstream you can secure a broader network there than you can here. I am very interested in Seesmic too - it includes one of the elements I think is missing from other networks: face, gesture and sound attached to the name. - Martha

Good point Jesse. Either way, after 1.5 years on twitter, I need a break to clear my head of the 140 characters. - Jeremiah Owyang

Jeremiah, I agree - it's good for the soul, and gives you perspective. - Jesse Stay

I'm an accidental early adopter. I got into FriendFeed much faster than I did Twitter. Like both, not actively pursuing the next big thing. Facebook is #3, SocialMedian is #4 for my attention. - Hutch Carpenter

That's a *big* IF IMO. - AJ Kohn

Why do they have to go anywhere? Your earlier post premised that people had to stop blogging because MSM was using blog software. I haven't stopped blogging, I don't see the connection. Lots of people use computers now, when I started very few did. I still use a computer. Why should I stop? What we found when selling software was that people didn't switch so much as use both products, whatever it was. Spreadsheets, word processors, etc. - Dave Winer

I think the market will stay locked as-is with Twitter dominating but stagnating, until it's possible to compete without forcing everyone to switch. That is, until there's some measure of compatibility. The connection betw FF and Twitter is insufficient. - Dave Winer

@Gregory: It depends on your definition of mainstream. IMO what we're seeing is the beginning of the early majority entering Twitter. That's why we see the banal stuff. But I'm not sure Twitter has the legs to get through the early majority much less get to the late majority or laggards. - AJ Kohn

What does "Going mainstream" even mean, anyway? Twitter isn't about to usurp Facebook or Myspace or IM or Blogging, for that matter. - Eric P

Dial 100 numbers at random across the country and ask if they've heard of Twitter. I'd be shocked if you got 20 who did. - AJ Kohn

Twitter will not go main stream until you get the 14-18 crowd. I can tell you from the kids I have spoken to they have no clue what is Twitter. They do know My Space and are slowly moving to Facebook. Right now its all about texting and IM. - Michael Wishnick

Michael - I wonder if IM/texting are gateway activities to more public posting like Twitter? - Hutch Carpenter

Friendfeed and Facebook. Friendfeed will continue to emerge once it's easier for newcomers, either by GUI changes or a really good downloadable e-book (Which I've been wanting to write for the last two months :) Facebook faces similar GUI challenges and has taken a relatively simple product and added numerous features that a majority of people aren't using yet. - Charlie Anzman

Some form of life-streaming WILL go mainstream. I can see a de-coupled Facebook Newsfeed getting a lotta traction from those relative ludites. Good Post and Comments @ Louis Gray's: http://www.louisgray.com/live... - Marko Bon

Now that everybody's wearing pants, what are the early adopters wearing? - Ken Sheppardson

Your premise is false - the wonder of Twitter (and other asymmetric following models that create semi-overlapping publics) is that it is resilient against more people being involved. We don't have to follow them. - Kevin Marks

The big challenge for social media: allow multiple crowds to exist in parallel, with small intersections, without them annoying each other. Eg: multiple language circles or topic circles, but also the information-addicted early adopters AND the mainstream. It's too hard on twitter, although FF's filtering plans show they understand that challenge - Joelle Nebbe (iphigenie)

Early adopters will start putting more emphasis on face-to-face and telepresence. - Laura Norvig

Good point Laura. Direct interaction tools (GTalk, etc.) absolutely will see traction this coming year, especially those equipped with audio and or video. BUT ...face-to-face stills wins the race :) - Charlie Anzman

To this day no one has been able to explain to me exactly what need Twitter fills, except to give certain people in the tech community to have something to gush over. Proper social networks already cover all the potential use cases for a typical user. - Eric P

I'm done going places. I don't want to have to try/learn/adopt yet another web UI. I'm happy to go off to use a new UI to try out (i.e. configure) different routing and filtering middleware, but I want more than every to reduce the number of sites I visit constantly and simplify my dashboard. Right now that's an IM client, Google Reader/Gmail, and FriendFeed. And as much as I'm reluctant to do UI work myself, Google Reader/FriendFeed integration would have a big enough payoff for me I'm very, very tempted.. - Ken Sheppardson

FF hasn't hit its peak yet. Looking for an app like pinger.com from FF to really integrate those feeds. Having an iPhone app like pinger do the aggregation is a waste when the FF web site already does this. I foresee great things from FF. Twitter is just a component of the social media web. - Ernie Oporto

I drew out my social data graph this past weekend and described this exact usage tiering here: http://genechuang.blogspot.com/2008... - Gene Chuang

@Eric, Twitter's value is unique to each user and cannot be explained, it absolutely has to be experienced, and some people never get to the tipping point where the value is revealed. Our agency uses it to keep track of announcements, blog posts, and developments in the nonprofit field. We just would not take the time to do this with Google Reader. With Twitter, we see it all in one place quickly. It works. And makes it easy to interact. - Laura Norvig

Friendfeed is going mainstream too.:( :) - Igor Poltavskiy