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here is the 18 yr old's blog comment that ended up landing him a job http://www.avc.com/a_vc... note the reply action after his comment

May 8 from Twitter - Comment - Like - Share

Morton Fox, Michael Yurechko, Meryn Stol and 7 other people liked this

Am I missing something? Where is the 'getting a job' action? All I see are referrals. - Michael R. Bernstein

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where did he get a job? at a startup? tell us! =) and btw fred, great to see you helping young entrepreneurial people like this. not many in your position would do that! - Anton Johansson

That put a smile on my face. It was very kind of you to help him - Michael Fidler

I'm the commenter, I got a job at W Media Ventures here in Vancouver, Canada - All thanks to Fred emailing some people for me and getting me some intros. - Michael Yurechko

Well, Conga Rats, Michael! And extra kudos to Fred. - Michael R. Bernstein

It's a gutsy move. However, if you have the drive and the mental maturity to see things through... best of luck to you, Michael. I think a lot of us are cheering you on (secretly wishing that was us at 17). - Alexander Grundner

Well done! - Paola Bonomo

Robert Scoble

Yo Mac fans, new iLife comes out tomorrow! - http://newsblaze.com/story...

January 26 from Bookmarklet - Comment - Like - Share

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There are already images of shipping notifications on the net... Cannot wait for it! - Holger Eilhard

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Firing up Bit Torrent as we speak - Michael Yurechko

Michael - didnt see the trouble with iWork then no? - Simon Wicks

This is great. My wife will really dig the new iPhoto features... - Francis Ouellet

Looking forward to the new iMovie - Didn't like the last version - loubortone

Thanks for the heads up. And yes, let's hope they've fixed iMovie. - amzam from twhirl

hmmm... i don't have my shipping notice yet - and i don't even have my iWork that was shipped last Monday... taking forever! - planetMitch

@Yurechko - i sure don't condone illegal software acquisition... didn't you read about the worm imbedded in the iWork torrent? - planetMitch

Lovely. A great product. - Håkan Dahlström

@planetMitch Nope. I just downloaded the trial and gave it a shot. - Michael Yurechko

Is it worth the upgrade? And is iMovie better? - Michael Hill

sheeesh ,, I didnt get to learn Ilife 08 yet ,,, - johnpiercy

Placed my order with Amazon. I'm looking forward to the face recognition feature and iMovie's image stabilisation. - Paul Grav

I ordered immediately after the Keynote, but my shipping status shows Feb. 2 :( - Bryan Bartow

For my needs neooffice is fine. - Richard A.

And as soon as I type that, I go check and it shows it shipped today! :) - Bryan Bartow

WEEEEEEEEEEEEE! Now I finally can buy my iMac. - Meryn Stol

finally! - sofarsoShawn

what features do you think are cool in the new iLife? - barce from twhirl

The photo geo-tagging looks pretty cool. - Paul Grav

I'm in no hurry to buy but sooner or later I'll get myself a copy. - Donald Townsend from twhirl

I'll have to buy a new Mac because the iLamp can't run Leopard which is required for iLife 09. The $3000 free program! - Gib

Robert Scoble

When we got home Milan (our 16-month old son) did a dance. He's so happy! Now he's helping me install Windows 7. Geek in the making!

January 10 - Comment - Like - Share

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He also is a netbook fan. I think that'll be his first computer. Just his size! :-) - Robert Scoble

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No, he'd be a geek in the making if he did the dance when you started installing Windows 7 ;-) - FFing Enigma (aka Tina)

My 2.5 year old helped me today with Windows 7 too! HA! So easy, a toddler can do it. :) - Brendan Cosgrove

That's cute. I think Windows 7 has convinced me to buy a new PC for the first time in 5 years. - Michael Yurechko

I wish I could install Windows 7, but the install fails. Look at me, 12 years older than your son and I can't even do it! Makes me want to rethink my priorities. - Melik Yuksel

Isn't Milan the MS Codename for Surface? :-) - The Comic Project

Kids pick up tech so quick don't they. My 3 1/2 year old daughter is a master off all the remotes etc already - Michael McGimpsey from twhirl

Easy enough a caveman could do it. Been very pleased with Windows 7 so far today. Haven't had a single crash. Just had to install some 3rd party drivers over the default ones. That and Chrome didn't work well, but no big deal. - Dean Clark

Simple enough - 25 min install + 15 more for MS Office. Faster, and smoother than Vista. Big step forward for MS. - Bankwatch

Why are you exposing him to Windows? So many studies have shown that happy computers make happy kids and happy computers need Mac! - Louis Gray

Do not listen to Louis. *Hissss* The Steve-Side has pulled him in. LOL Just teasing Louis. :) - Robert Miller

What's great is that Windows 7 runs on older PCs too, and quite well. You don't need loads of disk or memory for it to run. - Paul Shadwell

Louis: Milan will be brought up as an OS agnostic, just like his older brother Patrick. When he's old enough he will decide which one is better. Patrick is the world's #1 Apple fan because he was exposed to both. :-) - Robert Scoble

My 30 month old son says "Apple" whenever he wants to play on a computer, regardless of the OS. I think the big Apple logo is something he now associates with the computer (along with Youtube 'Fire Truck House' videos. "Fire Truck-Doors Open" is his new favorite saying) - Andrew Leyden

Robert: Ask Patrick to give us his opinion on 7 then, please? - Roberto Bonini

Patrick is very solidly in Apple's camp. He's a little religious about his OS choice at the moment so getting him to see any value in something Microsoft does is going to be very difficult. - Robert Scoble

Patrick should be using GNU/Linux. When you're young is when ideals like freedom should rule. Robert, you need to sit him down and have him watch 5 hours of Stallman videos until he screams "proprietary is evil". - Gregg H.

Greggish: sorry, Patrick is one of those "Steve Jobs is king" types. Not much I can do about it. I just hope it passes soon. - Robert Scoble

Robert Scoble

If you want more followers on Twitter and friendfeed here's what to do:

January 11 - Comment - Like - Share

Kreg Steppe, Mehmet Aydin, Göze Sencer and 312 other people liked this

1. Stop begging for followers. It turns off all the interesting people. - Robert Scoble

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2. RT smart people's stuff but add onto it with a good comment. - Robert Scoble

3. If you have something smart to say, say it to someone directly like "Hey @techcrunch you should check out the new Palm Pre." - Robert Scoble

I now await the inevitable flood of "RTs" of this message ;-) - Warren

4. Send wine or other bribes to people who make lots of noise. - Robert Scoble

Sounds like someone's running low on wine :) - Eric Florenzano

5. If you are friends with a real celebrity bring them around at blogger/twitter parties. Make sure you get them to follow you and remember your name. All good twitterers have iPhones or other phones that they can tweet from. - Robert Scoble

6. Put your twitter and friendfeed addresses on your business cards. - Robert Scoble

7. Talk shit about Eric Florenzano. :-) - Robert Scoble

Ok, well that's *someone's* blog done for tomorrow, then! :) - WorldofHiglet

8. Follow people back if they add value. 1938media has added 1,000 new followers since he started following everyone back. - Robert Scoble

What kind of wine goes with bribe? Did you ask GaryVee while in Vegas? - Dave Cadoff

9. Talk shit about that Scoble dude. Yeah, me. Sometimes it gets a link and a follow. Especially if you teach me something while you are calling me an idiot. - Robert Scoble

LOL *hands Robert a bottle of wine* Please add the "don't pout or make a twitter fuss when you notice someone drops you. Insecurity isn't a attraction" - Sprite

10. Be interesting. Craig Newmark got hundreds of follows in first evening (I was the first to follow him) after I tweeted about him. Why? Because he was interesting already. - Robert Scoble

Remember it's not about the followers - it's about the relationships. Your purpose of having many followers should be so you can build relationships with as many of them as possible. - Jesse Stay

11. Do something sensational like tatoo your twitter address onto your face. - Robert Scoble

BTW, (real-life) relationships then bring more followers - Jesse Stay

Wine? Bribe? Anything will get noticed. Better yet, put a custom label on it and include your Twitter address on it. - Robert Scoble

Liked for the 'talk shit about Scoble'. Also, Scoble, do you accept Mead? - Will Higgins™

12. Hang out with Jesse Stay. Better yet, bring him to Twitter's headquarters for an interview (that's what I did and it worked). - Robert Scoble

I've tried to do everything on this list, but the tattoo isn't going to work. I've already branded my twitter address onto several steers. - Mike Nayyar

13. Stalk Guy Kawasaki until he calls the cops on you or follows you. - Robert Scoble

14. Get naked. Take pictures. Include your Twitter address. - Robert Scoble

er - we've seen most of your body, Robert, so where's *your* tatoo? - WorldofHiglet

15. Tweet from a burning plane. - Robert Scoble

16. Tweet from jail. - Robert Scoble

17. Tweet your marriage proposal. - Robert Scoble

Robert, so you're saying I got you more followers? - Jesse Stay

18. Tweet you are dying. - Robert Scoble

19. Be a member of congress, or better yet, Barack Obama. - Robert Scoble

This would loose me followers. Trust me on this. It would also get me a few lawsuits I think. :D - MarkCarras

this is going to go on for like...days...isn't it :P - Erin @queenofspain

#18 is reasonable, as long as you don't actually die. Lowers your productivity. - Ken Brady

Jesse: hanging out with you made me far cooler than I was previously. - Robert Scoble

If I'm gonna get naked, I've got to have some sort of revenue coming in. At least enough to buy a netbook with. - MiniMage TKDteacher of FF

Write a FriendFeed post about how to get others to follow you - Jesse Stay

20. Get your picture on the Twitter blog. (Actually that didn't work that well because they didn't include my Twitter address). Heheh. - Robert Scoble

be yourself and those that fit with you will follow? or at least seem a certain way for that audience? - David

21. Tweet while having sex. Or getting drunk. Or, better yet, doing both. - Robert Scoble

Robert, no, I must say I became much cooler hanging out with you - Jesse Stay

Will: Mead? Absolutely! - Robert Scoble

Jesse: that's what you think. Ask your real friends and they will probably tell you otherwise. :-) - Robert Scoble

22. get on Leo Laporte's show and have him order his listeners to follow you. He did this last Sunday to my son and you should have seen the followers roll in. That dude has POWER!!! - Robert Scoble

Robert, I asked them and they said you're the man - Jesse Stay

23. Get @garyvee to take you wine tasting. Tweet it. - Robert Scoble

24. Write a book about Twitter. - Robert Scoble

naked pictures drunk sex and dying. got it. Oh, also, be Barack Obama. ANything else? - Erin @queenofspain

25. Get Chris Brogan to say you are smart. - Robert Scoble

Be hot and make sure your avatar shows it - Chris Saad

WTF how pathetic do u have to be tohave this desire to be followed.Ppl follow u cuz they find u interesting & if not they will dump u period.Being a Personal Ball washer is just lame to get to have followers.be sure to hold ur ground. - Baba

26. Get into an argument with @techcrunch. - Robert Scoble

I've mentioned my Twitter account on The Tech Guy but I think my last name throws people. :D - MarkCarras

27. Question @loic's Frenchness. - Robert Scoble

Go to breakfast with @techcrunch and he tweets about it randomly - Chris Saad

"Have Scoble say you are interesting." Just worked for a few people I am going to "try follow". - Dean Clark

Erin, welcome to Twitter ;-) - Jesse Stay

28. Be like Baba and call everyone who worries about being followed an idiot. Or 28B. Agree with Baba. Personally, he's right! - Robert Scoble

Tell any blogger they're wrong - Jesse Stay

29. Claim you are above this stupid game. - Robert Scoble

Quit Twitter, come back after 2 months - Jesse Stay

All bloggers are wrong at least every few posts. Especially me! :D - MarkCarras

30. Follow more interesting people. That's why I've said for a year now it's most important who you follow, not who is following you. What I really was trying to say there is if you want better followers you've got to follow better people. - Robert Scoble

lol Jesse. Twitter? What's that? I thought I was learning how to sell a shamwow - Erin @queenofspain

What kind of wine are we talking here? - Chris Poirier

Mark, you bet, but we are all type-A personalities. We hate to be told we're wrong and will defend it to our dying day. :) - Jesse Stay

31: Give away something. Hold a contest. - Robert Scoble

Launch a great Twitter service and stick your twitter name in the footer - Chris Saad

32. Invite Louis Gray over for dinner. Make sure he brings his twins. Take pictures. 1000 extra points if you bring shirts for the twins with your Twitter address on them. - Robert Scoble

be in a warzone and don't die - Simon T Small

33. Do something outrageous for followers. - Robert Scoble

Start a thread going on and on about it on FriendFeed :) - Chris Saad

imagine what'd happen if you had sex with Obama on a burning plane heading for a warzone, whilst drunk, and piloting the plane? - Simon T Small

@Simon ROFL too funny - Chris Saad

34. Chris Saad is right. Speaking of Chris, if you party with him in Amsterdam you'll get more followers. Oh, and if you are the guy who wrote http://www.twittervision.com you'll get more followers. - Robert Scoble

Take a pic down a girls shirt and post it on FF. - David

Not 'Chris Saad' robert - @ChrisSaad :D - Chris Saad

Get in with the Mommy Bloggers and #GNO Tweeps - Jesse Stay

35. Get your Twitter address on CNN. UPDATE: Hey, Chris Saad here you have to put http://www.friendfeed.com/chrissa... heheh. - Robert Scoble

Good call Jesse, I was going to say piss off the mommybloggers , but getting in with them works too...lol - Erin @queenofspain

I've had 2 new FriendFeed followers just from this thread. - Jesse Stay

Follow Garry Vee (don't ask me to spell his full name out at this time of night, please?) what kind of wine goes with Twittering. *lol* Well, Gary Vee is THE wine expert on Twitter. :P - Mol, Time Warping

be Robert Scoble - Simon T Small

36. Jesse Stay found a new one: comment on lots of friendfeed threads! - Robert Scoble

@simontsmall post your Twitter feed here http://twitter.com/simonts... - Simon T Small

Erin, it is my goal to be King of the Mommy bloggers - Jesse Stay

Follow just 1 online multi-level marketer and you'll has a ton start following you - Paul Povolni

I buy dinner for anyone who comes to my area and contacts me through Twitter...and is following me. :D - MarkCarras

I find that not following people back increases the rate at which I gain followers - Simon T Small

Simon: being Robert Scoble is pretty hard. You've gotta keep coming up with new ways to find followers. It's easier to call him an asshole on twitter. Even better, call him, TechCrunch, 1938media, JasonCalacanis, Guy Kawasaki, and a few other people assholes. - Robert Scoble

37. Jeremiah Owyang found this one: stop Twittering. - Robert Scoble

I'm amazed I don't get called an asshole more often. I think this should be my New Years Resolution. :D - MarkCarras

38. Follow someone, then when they don't follow you back, call them out on it and say they are lame. - Robert Scoble

Robert: haha! I'll try it now :) - Simon T Small

39. Come up with a new Twitter game. Get it retweeted by Chris Brogan. - Robert Scoble

Make a real funny stream on Friendfeed, but better yet put it on your blog so SEO really gathers people to it and put your Friendfeed/Twitter handles right in the post - Ian D. Nock

40. Pay Magpie to spam everyone with your Twitter address. - Robert Scoble

41. Go to Gnomedex. - Robert Scoble

Oh don't tell people to talk shit about you. It's kinda sad to see people talking crap about you, then when you're some place they are, they turn all fanboy. - Anika

Robert: wait, not change in plans, I don't hate those people, damn it! - Simon T Small

No one gets to be King of the mommybloggers until I deem it so dammit - Erin @queenofspain

42. Hang out with @newmediajim at the Inauguration. - Robert Scoble

I figured it out before Jeremiah: http://staynalive.com/article... - Jesse Stay

43. Hang out with Hillary Clinton in Davos (my dream). - Robert Scoble

Erin, but I thought you were the Queen of Spain - Jesse Stay

44. Come up with a new set of rules for Twitter behavior. - Robert Scoble

Oh boy, Mr. Scoble. I hope you are not Tweeting while getting drunk and having sex... Poor Mommy and son... Some things need to stay sacred. Do you really want the world at large to know what you are doing at all times? Quit goofing and send us more tech info we enjoy. Great videos from CES by the way. I even got my partner to come and watch some of them. Thanks for the good stuff! - Colleen

45. Get more followers on Facebook then get them all to join you on Twitter. - Robert Scoble

46. Be @god. Even better. Be @god and hand out beta invites to something cool coming soon. - Robert Scoble

Colleen: I didn't say I use all these ideas. But I've seen them work on other people. :-) - Robert Scoble

Don't forget the with @mchammer part - Jesse Stay

Give a talk at a geek event and make sure you give out your Twitter name for feedback - Chris Saad

47. Twitter the birth of your new baby (high risk, if you aren't there mentally during contractions you might see your iPhone thrown across the room). - Robert Scoble

Pay @MrTweet to recommend you to everyone - Chris Saad

48. Tweet exclusive Apple news before anyone else does. - Robert Scoble

49. Be the first to retweet a big earthquake tweet. - Robert Scoble

Got any more? - Robert Scoble

Throw popularity out the window and somehow measure influence (stay tuned) :) - Chris Saad

Make a list of ways to get more followers. - Scott Kingery

change your name to your @twitter handle - Simon T Small

Chris: hah, even better, have so many followers already that you break MrTweet. :-) - Robert Scoble

50. Post cleavage pictures of yourself with your Twitter name plastered on the picture CLASSY! - Mona Nomura

Ustream the birth of your new baby (even higher risk, but at least you have proof): http://www.ustream.tv/blog... - Jesse Stay

51. Follow everyone then unfollow as soon as you get a follow - follow that? - Mona Nomura

Chris: Influence is gold, like it, am tuned - Simon T Small

This post alone lets me see the value of FriendFeed over Twitter for conversations. Glad the list above isn't documentation of your personal twitter conquest, but a record of some of the looneyness of Twitter follower greediness - Paul Povolni

52. Move to SF and go to every. single. Tweet-up! YAY HOW FUN! - Mona Nomura

Be Warren Buffett or similar. - Moushumi Kabir

Scott: I don't know that this list helped me that much. But, how about a list of things that will get rid of followers? I bet that one would work better. - Robert Scoble

53. Set text alerts for Brightkite and follow all the huge Tweeter's comings and goings - show up and SUBTLY introduce yourself so you'll be name dropped. Keyword = SUBTLY - Mona Nomura

54. Go to every single conference and shamelessly pass out your Twitter in lieu of email! - Mona Nomura

Streak at the Supebowl with your twitter name on your front and back(side) - Simon T Small

Be a default on FriendFeed - Jesse Stay

Nice to see this list here instead of scattered across oblivion---I mean Twitter... - Rob Michael (Atmos Trio)

use http://search.twitter.com to find people that like what you like, @reply them and RT their stuff. :) - Simon T Small

Jesse: that only used to work. There are no defaults on friendfeed anymore. In fact, if you don't have any friends it won't recommend anyone to you. - Robert Scoble

Name drop as much as you can and do whatever it takes to get written up on ValleyWag (wow, I've learned a lot in six months!) - Mona Nomura

Get Robert Scoble to tweet that he can't believe what's going on at your birthday party even though it was a tame house party with friends - Chris Saad

Tell people to NOT follow you. I mean it. Don't. - Andrew Smith

Get your name on Alltop - Jesse Stay

another posting sponsored by Palm *yawn* - Dieter Schwarz from Nambu

Post a bajillion pictures of your kids, pets, and more kids. - Mona Nomura

Make sure you participate in every. single. Robert post and name drop him as much as possible. ;) - Mona Nomura

Mona, great one - Kids, Dogs, and Kittenz - Bacon, too - Jesse Stay

@Dieter if a post was sponsored by anyone scoble would let u know - trust me - Chris Saad

Go to every. single. event and take + post as many. pictures. as you can w/ the "famous" people and PING.FM THOSE PICTURES! - Mona Nomura

Here's a novel idea - Have something interesting to say and focus on producing value instead of your follower count :) - Chris Saad

Mona, Facebook and Flickr tag them as well - Jesse Stay

Always respond to people with an "@" ie: @scobelizer WOW this thread RULES - since you never know what Google's indexing! - Mona Nomura

Dieter: Huh? If anything this post would be sponsored by Seagate. You can follow them at http://friendfeed.com/seagate (Seagate sponsors my video show, not my friendfeed account). - Robert Scoble

Mona: 'post famous pictures' Love it. Works a charm on facebook. - Simon T Small

i have a new one: use Browser bugs to greet your blogvisitors with their twittername http://is.gd/eMdF @andreasklinger - Andreas Klinger

Chris: having something interesting to say? No, that couldn't work, could it? I'd rather talk about my followers. :-) - Robert Scoble

Retweet this thread (no, that's not a request, it's an idea) - Jesse Stay

Robert: U do both so its all good :) - Chris Saad

Chris Saad: yer talkin crazy with that last one. Focus on content? Insanity. - Scott Kingery

55: Dieter reminded me of one more: talk about products that already have Twitter accounts. When I talked about HR Block they followed me. So did Ford. So did Zappos. - Robert Scoble

56. Don't auto-DM followers just follow them back or RT their next tweet - Damian Holmes

Get a tshirt made with your twitter name on it... - Luke Harvey-Palmer

Find a unique thing that you can help another Twitter user on - the bigger the user, the better. Fix their problem. - Jesse Stay

So did @HeavyAsHell Oh wait, that's my site. :D - MarkCarras

57. post a comment to a robert scoble FF feed - Damian Holmes

Luke: T-shirts are so common. How about shoes? Jeans? Underwear? Don Box used to have his company logo on underwear. Called them "Boxer shorts." I still remember those, even though I've forgotten all the lame Tshirts I've ever gotten. - Robert Scoble

Only a slut is going to be able to advertise well with branded underwear - MiniMage TKDteacher of FF

Compete for the most followers on Twitter - didn't Leo and Calacanis do that at one time? (or am I getting the contenders wrong?) - Jesse Stay

58. write your twitter name on your eyelids then go to a tweetup or large tech conference - Damian Holmes

MiniMage: not true. Don Box is no slut. He now runs a team at Microsoft. - Robert Scoble

Spam FF with your useful knowledge - WorldofHiglet

Be an early adopter - be one of the first, get in early, and build a follow base early - Jesse Stay

Another one? Take pictures of Twitter users and follow them. They almost always follow back. - Robert Scoble

I aint never heard of Don Box, and that means I didn't see that underwear! ;). No, seriously, I concede, but I had to make a retort. - MiniMage TKDteacher of FF

This thread is my bucket list. - Eric Florenzano

I think a good way to make more friends is to live an interesting life. Life is a journey. You meet people just around every corner. Twitter happens to be one of them. - Helge V. Keitel

Build up and help out a non-A list, but up-and-coming A or B list Twitter user or blogger. They will be more appreciative (it's those people that like the shirts and swag). - Jesse Stay

Tweet something like this: "I'm looking for funny people to follow, do you know any?" - Robert Scoble

Never sleep - Jesse Stay

#ces09 hash #mwsf09 tags #cwc09 use #sxsw09 them #snl as #jackiepetersspawn much · #gaza as #hiphop possible #burritos every #dubstep other #microblogging word = KEY (relevance matters not) - Mona Nomura

Get @gapingvoid to use your twitter address in one of his cartoons (he designed my business cards and you would be amazed how well that works). - Robert Scoble

@Mona use a hot suggestive silhouette as your avatar - that alwasy helps too - Chris Saad

Mona you are *so* followed - Jesse Stay

Take Louis Gray to a Vodka bar. You might not get any followers, but you will have a good time and he doesn't drink so you'll have a safe drive home, too! - Robert Scoble

follow A, B, C, D, E, F, X and Z listers - Damian Holmes

Create a custom T-shirt with "I Love Your Stream" (mine) on front(or your own words) and your Twitter name on back. I did it with @crypticfragment at zazzle.com. Still waiting for it. I didn't put twitter name on back though, should have, but not trying to gain HUGE followers, just the ones that would like to hear about furniture,interior design and eco home stuff! I put: twitter:FTW, on the back. - Leslie Carothers

Robert, not to mention get on the front of Valleywag - Jesse Stay

I keep hiding this but it doesn't stay hidden. :( - Mona Nomura

Follow the Top 500 in your City then Top 500 in your Country that's at least 500 follow backs - Damian Holmes

Jesse: I find that I get a lot of followers by keeping the A list on the A list. Who wants to deal with those assholes if they fall onto the B list? - Robert Scoble

I'm with @garyvee & how he encourages us to *execute the best YOU* - don't try to be anyone else but the *best* you... your passionate self. Peeps who resonate with you will follow. And for sure add value, retweet good resources, build peeps up, thank those who comment on your blog & RT you. - Mari Smith

58. Post to a list to get people to follow you. such as the one explaining how to get people to follow you... - Sheraz Mahmood

ROFL Robert! - Jesse Stay

share links to awesome blog posts - Simon T Small

Sheraz Mahmood I just tried that, thought i'd do something, but 10 minutes later and nothing *cries* - Simon T Small

59. Be the center of the universe...the rest will follow - Sheraz Mahmood

Unnecessarily talk about iPhones. - Mona Nomura

Start browser wars. - Mona Nomura

Re-Tweet all of Tech Crunch's posts. - Mona Nomura

Start Steve Jobs rumors - Mona Nomura

Name drop Hollywood celebrities even if you don't know them. - Mona Nomura

By the way, I'm following everyone who has participated on this so far. Why? Because only geeks would be online on a Saturday night and I want to follow all the geeks. So, everyone here has at least one follower on friendfeed. - Robert Scoble

write a dramatic post about a family from Romania with a child with down syndrome and ask people to donate money. - Simon T Small

Robert: You'll need to unfollow me, its 6pm Sunday here in Aussieland, so I'm not a commited geek sorry - Simon T Small

Robert: Gotta do something while Windows 7 downloads :) - Scott Kingery

Haha!! So busted - very good point re your last comment, Robert. Thank goodness for fab understanding spouses is all I say. hehe - Mari Smith

60. Get on FriendFeed and Twitter super early and become de facto popular. And yes, #32 is a must. - Louis Gray

Robert: were not all in Silicon Valley - its 16:30 in China - (awaiting the flames or unfollows - which is worst?) - Damian Holmes

... and always listen to Scoble! Ha-ha. Robert, we admire you! - Alan Kodzasov

Another tip: Don't live in Australia nearly NOBODY here is on Twitter - Simon T Small

Compliment the crap out of "A-listers" and always laugh at all of their jokes. Make sure to add at least seven exclamation points. ie:"LOL!!!!!!!!!!" to stand out from the crowd. - Mona Nomura

Note: above only works if you participate in every. single. one of their posts on both Twitter and FriendFeed! - Mona Nomura

Mona: absolutely! :-) - Robert Scoble

Robert: 5:30 pm in Tokyo. I'm pretty much just getting going for the day. :-) - Ken Brady

Say something that makes a 200 + comment thread ;) - videopixil

When you send bribes, make sure to research. ie: LG doesn't drink but Robert likes wine. Subtly ask for preferences so they'll get something they actually _like_ <--KEY. - Mona Nomura

Use Tweetdeck and apply filters to see subjects you are expert in. You'll notice lots of people look for advice in certain fields so you can reply and show your expertise. I notice those people you help are happy and more likely to follow you even if you don't follow them. - Luca Filigheddu from fftogo

Have a sense of humor! - Mona Nomura

Not to forget: You need to stress that Mac and iPhone are cool and superior. - Ryo / Fuck Facebook

@videopixil Of course, that applies to most things Scoble says. - Ken Brady

@tkpleslie says," Ask people like @scobleizer sincere question about whether Nokia's new phone works for people, like me, that wear hearing aids when's he's in Japan in middle of your night at the actual Nokia conference where phone is being intro'd for first time. He did respond,nicely,but did not follow so I guess it doesn't work too well. - Leslie Carothers

Send Mona lego art wrapped in bacon. Oh wait, that'll get you friendfeed follows. - Yuvi

better yet. take Robert AND Louis to a Vodka bar - Erin @queenofspain

OMG iPhones are SO 2008. Becoming a Palm, Pre, and Nova fanbois = FUTURE - Mona Nomura

@Mona Humor is key. What better length at which to be witty? Any longer than this and most of us become dull. - Ken Brady

Robert, I kinda bagged you, with a positive spin, it got me on openzap 'today's best' http://openzap.com/ - Simon T Small

Crap, #palm #pre #nova #followme #ILOVEROBERTSCOBLE!!!!!!!!!! - Mona Nomura

This was before I really understood as @marismith says, that true value in twitter for me is having followers and following those people with intersecting paths because, like in real life, that's how interesting real conversations have a chance to develop into fuller, deeper, more lasting relationships. - Leslie Carothers

Robert, It's Sunday Morning in Loviisa, Finland ;) - Helge V. Keitel

Leslie: I did follow you here on friendfeed. I still haven't been able to find out if it works well for hearing impaired. I'm sure it does, though. The speaker phone on that device is pretty darn good. - Robert Scoble

Speak in SAT verbiage at all times to make yourselves sound smarter. - Mona Nomura

Never admit: ay kin knot reed end rite... :( - Mona Nomura

This is a great list Robert, I love making new friends. All those awful things people are saying about you must be wrong - aren't they? -] - Chris Loft

Post YouTube clips of classical music to make yourself seem more cultured. - Mona Nomura

Share everythign popular on digg because if it's on digg, it MUST be cool. - Mona Nomura

stop following people who post about following and follow people who don't try... - Ryan

mention yourself on Scobles friendfeed (@mattrendo) - Matt Rendo

Keep up with memes since everyone wants to hear what's been repeated on the web a trillion times without contributing a new opinion. ie: CES looks cool. - Mona Nomura

All great points. I've always hated requests for follows. I'm only attempting something like it for charity. In that instance, those who do the same should be very clear about WHY they want followers in the first place. Otherwise it looks like you're just in it for yourself. - Brandon Mendelson

@mattrendo, already been said up there! But you FAIL since you forgot the hashtag: #scoblizerrulesOMGWTFBACON. - Mona Nomura

Chris Loft: everything said about me is absolutely true! :-) - Robert Scoble

So it's true that you have huge... giant... socks? - Chris Saad

Thanks for the follow here on FriendFeed, Robert. I know this is where you interact. But,because home base for me is Twitter, I never saw your follow here until I went to comment on this thread! It's too much for me to constantly go back and forth and also keep up with work, life,friends and family.How do you guys do it? Thanks, tho, Robert,for letting me know. I learn from you ALL the time. - Leslie Carothers

I really am not obsessed with more followers. Sure I appreciated them as much as the next person. It is not a popularity contest for my use case. Hence, I will never be a "Top 100" person on Twitter. ;) - Rodney Rumford

If it's on the Internet, it is ALWAYS true, Robert. ;) - Mona Nomura

Try to explain yourself out of being a geek when you really are - Jesse Stay

I am indeed a failure, all the more reason to follow me... and that BACON Mona N. mentioned - Matt Rendo

Get Robert Scoble to Foreward/Afterword your book for you - Jesse Stay

@Jesse I'm incapable of explaining myself out of being a geek. Better to embrace it. - Ken Brady

61: Add on to a Robert Scoble numbered list with an incrementally interesting item. - Steve Garfield

Bacon IS the future, Matt! - Mona Nomura

#monanisaddicatedtohashtags :P #simonlikeshashtagstoo - Simon T Small

Is this the biggest thread ever on FriendFeed? - Eric Florenzano

Get Rodney Rumford to Foreward/Afterword your book for you - Jesse Stay

This is an EPIC thread. Thank you Robert and THANK YOU INTERNET! - Mona Nomura

62: Follow Steve Garfield in a Scoble numbered list - Jesse Stay

bacon - http://www.browniepointsblog.com/2008... - Matt Rendo

#WWRD - videopixil

I wonder how long it will take Friendfeed to add comment ratings like Digg? - Simon T Small

Hey Mr. Scoble! You make it sound like a bad thing to be online on a Saturday night. -Mr. Geek ;-P - Eddie Soto

Refrain from hijacking someone's thread by digressing with bacon - Focus, Matt. FOCUS! - Mona Nomura

Hilarious thread BTW!! - Eddie Soto

Content is king!!!!!!! (Mona see, 7) - Amit Morson

See... Me=failure A sense of humor seems to attract followers too. - Matt Rendo

Memorize this entire thread by EOD Monday and recite it back to Robert - on video! - Mona Nomura

Re-Tweet all 264 lines Googleplex times - or until the FailWhale / FailRobot appears. - Mona Nomura

Talk about how much you love Twitter and Facebook. - dont' forget the hashtags: pound facebook pound twitter. - Mona Nomura

Jesse. OK. Now I am smiling man... lol. By the way thanks for writing the afterword for my twitter book: Twitter as a Business Tool. - Rodney Rumford

Deem yourself a Social Network Expert and write a bajillion blog posts on "How to Use Twitter for Business" - Mona Nomura

Oops. Sorry Rodney. Bad timing... :) - Mona Nomura

Be consistently random - wait, no, then they will unfollow you :( - Matt Rendo

Always use emoticons as disclaimers! - Mona Nomura

What is this thread about?. I forgot by the time I read to the end of it. - Jim Bednarz

Bash on mattrendo - Matt Rendo

Always use *this* emoticon: :-) - WorldofHiglet

Have foot in mouth moments. Oh, wait... - Mona Nomura

63: Profit!! - Aaron Baer

Be a spam artist - Matt Rendo

Follow everyone posting here - Sheraz Mahmood

back up your success with nothing more than 140 characters - Sheraz Mahmood

I've noticed that people who start a controversy, especially with a high profile person, get an immediate boost in followers. You'd think it would backfire but it seems to have the opposite effect. Maybe it's the trainwreck factor? People curious what on earth will be said next? - Liz

Apparently posting on Scoble's Friendfeed works... 6 followers in the last few minutes. - Matt Rendo

Woah. 278+ comments. Impressive! This is definitely one that will stick on FFholic for a while. - Phil G

You forgot to add being Karl Rove to the list: http://twitter.com/KarlRov... - Roberto Bonini

Wondering is anybody will read all these comments. I do believe if twitter doesn't get it together, that a large group will flock out to another destination. ala: Poof! - Dave

Hey @scobleizer, your post would have been more appropriate on a blog. - Klaus Alexander Seistrup

Post photos of cute puppies on FriendFeed. - Amit Morson

To get followers, jump into a Tweetchat "room", get into the convo, follow folks then tell them in the chat room that you are following. For the "Happy09" chat, there were tons of people in there. Better yet, start your own chat/chat meme! - Jesse P. Luna

@ reply like crazy to let the person know you followed them ie: @Scobleizer HI I FOLLOWED YOU FOLLOW ME BACK repeat until FailWhale/FailRobot shows up. - Mona Nomura

Well, that's starting to work . . . anyone else getting lots of new friends? . . . and I didn't have to insult anybody. I think I might have to post one of my classical video clips for Mona http://www.youtube.com/watch... - Chris Loft

Leslie, the N series work v well with the hearing impaired, but the iPhone works even better from my experience FTW! - Sally Church

One thing that annoys me: people who discuss their follower numbers on twitter. Its just not interesting! I just subscribed to someone and unsubscribed the next day as 4 tweets were about passing 10000 - I'm very glad for you but it is just noise in my feed. Now I understand the feeling - I was amazed the day 100 people followed me (it is all relative :) ) - but it is not necessary to tweet about it. - Joelle Nebbe (iphigenie)

I was going to send you some Swiss wine Robert, but I was told it doesn't travel well, so drank it myself. Just so you know, it was good :-) - Paul Shadwell

I'm paling up with several here, in spite of what Mr. Scoble says about Saturday night geeks. -Mr. Geek ;-P - Eddie Soto

Participate in a Robert Scoble's friendfeed conversation on Saturday night, have him follow you, post the screenshot of him following you - Bertrand Doux

On the subject of more followers, arrrrrgh! *runs screaming from room.... * - Sally Church

Tweet about Windows 7(or something equally as interesting), which I'll be doing a lot of in the coming days, It's installing as I type this! - Kevin Lloyd

Tweet, but don't tweet too much because people apparently don't want to hear from you (or is it just me! ;)) THAT much! :) - Christopher Kusek

I'm using Windows 7 right now! I've posted tweets and videos of it on YouTube - check it out! http://friendfeed.com/e... - Will Higgins™

Paul, what's that about swiss wine not travelling so well? It travels beautifully (but you need to get the good ones). It is so hard to find outside Switzerland because the swiss tend to drink all of it. - Joelle Nebbe (iphigenie)

Liz, I thought that was really funny cos it's Sunday evening here. I'm not some z-list geek sitting here wasting my time on a Saturday night. -[ - Chris Loft

point 4 above is shameless self-plug :) but entertaining :))) - A.T.

64. Comment on a Robert Scoble list at 2:21 AM in bed becausse you could not sleep - Tyler (Chacha)

65. Plan to write a blog post on thisentry in the morning - Tyler (Chacha)

66. Fail at placing a space between in this and entry on a scoble list ( iPod recognizes Scoble as a word and auto completed it) - Tyler (Chacha)

You guys are awesome by the way. - Tyler (Chacha)

Tattoo your twitter/friendfeed address on other people. - Kevin Leroux

lmao!!! great one Robert - Kaysha

get stuck on a bus in death valley in the middle of the night with robert scoble. - Christine Lu

Follow an obscure norwegian and get incoherent conversations about whales, blåbærsyltetøy, and the semantic web;) (which may make people curious.. or unfollow you actually..) - Thomas Bøhm

Get up at 6 am on Sundays if living in Europe because otherwise you miss Robert Scoble's craziest moments and most interesting threads = people *damn* I should have never slept in! - Gaby K. Slezák

A real one: Upload a sexy picture on your profile or your twitter bg !! - İbrahim Uzun [ j ]

Claim that Scoble and Techcrunch are simply manufactured entities by a mysterious corporate power using Coke vs. Pepsi tactics to polarize the masses in an effort to conquer the world. - Bob Starr

RT @scobleizer Robert this is good advice, except I don't see any reference to bodacious tat-tas. ;) - John Craft

RT @scobleizer Robert wow, your post generated so many comments, is this the most number of comments from a single tweet in Twitter history? Can anyone confirm? - Alvin

Sorry not Twitter, this is from FriendFeed :) - Alvin

67. write about stuff you are enthusiastic about and that's only covered by a handful of people yet (like virtual worlds, metaverse) and shamelessly reveal that you are enthusiastic about that in one of the most commented on @scobleizer threads ;-) - Gaby K. Slezák

stop reading half way but say it was awesome anyway - Stephen Breen

You forgot about having a whole lot of time on your hands! - John D Reasor

yet still looking busy kthxbai - Thomas Bøhm

Stop caring who follows you! - Elias Bizannes

I can't scroll to the bottom ;-) This list is hilarious! Robert, I'm glad you have been taking notes this whole time! - Ken Stewart | ChangeForge

Do NOT use the phrase "social media" in your Twitter bio. - Frank Scavo

"16. Tweet from jail" ahahahahahahaha :) - Lucio

I knew I should have tweeted from the back of that police van on the stroke of new year's eve, watching the fireworks. And walking away. Walking. With a big grin on my face. We'z not dus photoz. Doh. - Chris Loft

Write an "unofficial biography of Robert Scoble" and have it published? ;) - Tyson Key

Post a picture of you with someone famous... http://tinyurl.com/8xbcds - geekazine

“Scoble's law of unfollows: for everyone who you get on Twitter that says they will unfollow you will get 87 new followers.” http://tinyurl.com/9oahwc - Tapio Kulmala

Talk about the versatility of bacon - BACON - crisp, tasty BACON - BEX

Just noticed this is a very dude-heavy thread (not all but mainly) and that I mainly subscribe to guys on FriendFeed. But on Twitter I have about 60/40 men/women Following mix, I think. It was the comments about ta-tas and sexy profile photos that made me realize the difference. - Liz

Lock Robert Scoble, Mona N, Jesse Stay, Louis Gray, Jason Calacanis and Techcrunch in a room. Only release them when they've retweeted every single of your tweets and told all their followers to follow you! - Nicholas James

nope its nun of the above; .they are just hacking into your FF account;If you really want more followers on Twitter and friendfeed this is what you do, its...aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah.they got me. - tomartomartini

Set up a low-wage tweet farmer in China. - Richard Sprague

Use Jennifer Aniston's cleavage as your avatar. - Jim Mitchem

omg I go to bed and you people KEEP GOING. unreal. - Erin @queenofspain

Yep .. I think this has reached the most active discussion .. ever (It past Dave Winer's post which is most discussed in past 30 days) - Tyler (Chacha)

Come on people! We need to reach 500 comments! - Tyler (Chacha)

Tweet unto you as you would like to be tweeted. - iamkhayyam

Create a Robert Scoble fan blog and title it Mr. Awesome. :) - Bill Romanos

69. start a list and slowly move out of it as other members of the community move in to pick it up (there is no 68) - you are now running things without even being there. - Valeria Maltoni

Be a more interesting what Robert? :p oh and maybe follow the fastest top ten commenters here. - mrsha

I am reading this in friendfeed on my iPhone and immediately regretting my decision to tap "read more..." I made it through the first 12 then began skimming and my thumb began sobbing... - John Reynolds

I don't remember any friendfeed item getting more than 300 comments. I think this is now the new high water mark. Wow! - Robert Scoble

Or: Post a “If you want more followers on Twitter and friendfeed here's what to do:” tweet :-) - Marco Massarotto

Not being in this comment stream is so embarrassing. Wait, so is BEING in this comment stream! - Tom Guarriello

i wonder if you did it all wrong, would you really get no followers... - Joelle Nebbe (iphigenie)

Joelle: if you did it all wrong you would still get followers but they just would be all spammers. - Robert Scoble

Robert - define spam... Is this post spam? - Brian Roy

Comment on the longest thread in Friendfeed history. - Mike Lewis

You're right! I forgot about the spammers :D - Joelle Nebbe (iphigenie)

it seems pretty simple: post interesting things, interact thoughtfully, and be patient - Kelly W.

70. When all else fails, make interesting crap up about Robert, Gary, Brogan, etc.. - Todd Jordan

It isn't how many follow you... it is the quality of those you follow. But... that makes it hard to keep score and determine who is "winning". - Brian Roy

patient? I want 1000 followers and I want them now! ;) (actually, I am with Kelly on this one) - Joelle Nebbe (iphigenie)

How to get Robert et al to follow you - http://friendfeed.com/e... - Todd Jordan

Commentate on sports during the game or politics during debates. - Nicki Laycoax

Put a nice Twitter Icon on your blog like mine http://marketingtechblog.com - Douglas Karr

You know... Chris Brogan liked a post of mine and retweeted it letting everyone know... it ended up bringing me about 800 new visitors in the span of 2 hours. There's definitely something to be said about being seen with the right people. :) - Steven Sanders

Hey Robert, say something positive about each of us today? Really be a boost. - Todd Jordan

AVG works just fine for me under Windows 7! - Dave Oliver

Todd: you all are beautiful. And smart. That's why I am following everyone on this thread. - Robert Scoble

It's simple, but just do two things (in order): 1. Create good content. 2. Market that content in an intelligent, non-spammy way. - Daniel Miessler

Daniel: marketing part is what we're really talking about here. How to/who to/when to/where to/what to market. - Todd Jordan

OMG this is STILL alive?! WOW - Mona Nomura

Keep it going!!!! - Tyler (Chacha)

I'm wondering at how many comments this will start crashing browsers - Joelle Nebbe (iphigenie)

That said: Talk about Twitter and FriendFeed all day every day. Don't forget to include: "I AM A SOCIAL MEDIA EXPERT" in all of your profiles. - Mona Nomura

Make special badges that scream your self proclaimed title. You know, kind of like flair? Or girl/boy scouts? - Mona Nomura

@Mona - heck yeah, huge % of new followers claim to be soc media experts. - Todd Jordan

Todd- FAIL. You forgot Rule #163. NAME DROP. @scobelizer (I'm just namedropping but really addressing Mona... err @monaaa) - Mona Nomura

Not call anyone out but I think it should be: " I AM A SOCIAL MEDIA SLUT!1!" ;-P - Mathew A. Koeneker

Mathew - CRAP you stole my thunder... I'm working on a blog post entitled "How to know if you are a social media slut"... thanks! - Brian Roy

Brian - I hope that comes after: "10,000 Ways to Effectively use Twitter for Business" - Mona Nomura

I wish FF would timestamp comments. It'd be interesting to know how this conversation flowed...or jumped around. - Liz

Mona - pretty sure those two are the same post... No? - Brian Roy

Liz: Just hang out over the little convo balloon to the left of the comments. It shows you how long ago the comment was left. :-) - Lisa L. Seifert

Be serious at ALL times since analyzing Social Networks with charts and graphs is THE FUTURE! - Mona Nomura

Announce your twitter address after saying the pledge of allegiance over the school intercom system. - David Rose

I drunk tweet all the time, and it doesn't help. People just email you AA invitations. - Alex Wilhelm (FF BLOWS)

+1 Mona! I'll make a video of this :D - Yuvi

Since you are all here... I was wondering. Have you seen my car keys? - Brian Roy

Another would be to make a Bacon Fan Club Room. - Nicholas James

Will find out soon if becoming a social media diva pin-up acquires more followers :) - Nicola Quinn

PLAY with your followers and build a community of FANS. Start a meme, host a trivia session (@linnetwoods), do fun thematic Blip.fm sets (@jesseluna, @Dave_Malby), start a fun-spirited smackdown battle with another Twitterer (@Dana_Wilhoit and @SeanAMcAlister). UStream and play Wii while you're lightly toasted with a fun friend (@queenofspain) - Jesse P. Luna

Start your own threads using all and only Robert's suggestions. Originality means nothing, it's all about being a Robert clone! - Mona Nomura

Be imperfect, fragile, human - someone everyone can relate to. - Tomi Itkonen

Participate in memes where you can post old pictures of yourself from 70s, 80s or 90s. - Larry Kless

71. Create a list that combines Sex and Windows http://friendfeed.com/e... - Tyler (Chacha)

Hate on someone enough for them to write about you. It worked for Sean Hammons (Clicky) and Techcrunch.......... - Alex Wilhelm (FF BLOWS)

i'm afraid some of those won't quite give you the right kind of followers - Joelle Nebbe (iphigenie)

entertain! - kosmar

I'm wondering if everyone who has commented here is at least following each other now. - Nicola Quinn

Nicola - no. I think I have a block on my account that I can't figure out. ;) - Jim Mitchem

Oh dear Jim, that doesn't sound good. Just managed to subscribe to you so that's ok then. - Nicola Quinn

Nicola Quinn: I have not had one new follower from this, but I did have an entertaining conversation. - MarkCarras

There Mark, you've got at least one :) - Nicola Quinn

@nicola you followed me :) - kosmar

I tweet from jail on a regular basis - Alan Simpson

Kosmar, I did! You following me? - Nicola Quinn

@Scobleizer so far I tweet from party, wc, roadtrip, first minutes of the new year, wc again, meeting, boring meeting, boring presentation, wedding, engagement, hospital... I think I am on good track !!! - Alemsah Ozturk

Talk like you are deluded into thinking the iPhone and Apple computers are superior machines. - Mark Stahler

Help Robert getting 400 comments or any other all time high on friendfeed! - Gaby K. Slezák

Wow. 400. - Robert Scoble

Here's the 401st for good measure! I kinda use Twitter and FF to keep up with new, and record ideas and thoughts for myself, but if some people out there find a common ground with me, that's very cool! I think too much is placed on these online friend / follower counts overall tho... BTW, this comment is probably on the "How NOT to get more followers on Twitter or FF" list. :) Keep feeding me the knowledge Scobs! - AdPanda

You can order custom wine labels to bribe Scoble with at http://www.bottleyourbrand.com/ - Internet Strategist

Spell @Scobleizer correctly when trying to drop a name ... lol. - Robert Couture

Bump .... @charlieanzman. I can't believe this thread! - Charlie Anzman

Charlie - the sheer #s of comments or the fact that this is such a popular topic? - Susan Beebe

How can you possibly read all of this and get anything done? This is an example of FF overkill. - Scott Maentz

@Susan folks are now commenting for the fun of it. :) - Todd Jordan

Wow! I remember when this began as three items, then Scoble got all giddy and inspired and started this hilarious chain of absurdity. Well done Mr. @Scobleizer - Paul Povolni

Make sure to be a hater and nit-pick on every. little. thing. someone does online! - Mona Nomura

Take everything someone says as a personal attack and rant! - Mona Nomura

Complain about every. little. thing. - Mona Nomura

no Mona you are wrong. - Brian Roy

Change your display name everyday aNd mAkE sUrE tO tYpE LiKe DiS - Mona Nomura

Make sure to kiss a whole buncha *ss and name drop, name drop, name drop! - Mona Nomura

every 3rd comment should be "noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo oooooooooopooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo oooooooooooooopoopoooooooooooooooooooooooooo oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooppooooooooooooo oooo" wow... It is hard to enter that many o's on an iPhone. EDIT -> I put in spaces - apparently I annoyed Brandon... - Brian Roy

@Brian: Please edit your post so it doesn't break everyone's feed. I'd like to not hide this item. Thanks. - AJ Kohn

oh... Ok. It is hidden now. - Brian Roy

@Brian: Thank you. Greatly appreciated! - AJ Kohn

423 comments? :O - Will Higgins™

I think that I made a comment on this post but I can't find it. And Mona, you are cracking me up!! - BEX

I wonder if there is a limit to how many comments can be added to a post on FF - Susan Beebe

The funniest part about all this is that I've gotten a *ton* of followers for posting on this thread. Weird! I think once my programming-related FF activity resumes people will drop from my feed like flies :) - Eric Florenzano

Too bad I can't tweet the link (yet) -- of this 400+ comment -- I don't know how to call this. Not a Tweetversation by any means. A FFversation? Anyone come out with any sensible terms? - David Feng

I have some ideas, none of which are usable. - WorldofHiglet

subscribe to Friendfeeds for Twitter Celebs and read their Twitter hints... Start with Scoble.. - TechMama Beth Blecherman

I see "423 more comments". That's the most I have ever seen so far in FF! - Winston Teo

TechMama: that will work very well. Of course then you'll only be fed shallow news. The real good stuff is on the K list. They aren't on the bottom, so they have a few followers, but they really don't give a shit so they are very real and teach you stuff. Unfortunately they usually don't stay on the K list very long. They either get moved up pretty fast or they get put in rehab for social media addiction. - Robert Scoble

You don't. - David Spinks

What was this thread about? I forgot, AGAIN! - Jim Bednarz

Jim: me too, it's taken on a life of its own. Oh, yeah, it was about how to make money with friendfeed. Heheheh. Yeah, right! - Robert Scoble

Quick! Scoble's about to do a 'How to make money on friendfeed' post now. Looking for the hattrick ;~) - Ed Shahzade /NextInstinct

Ed: heheh. how to make money in friendfeed? Get a million followers. The money will come. Or maybe not. :-) - Robert Scoble

Robert: I guess you could charge for seminars on how to get a million followers ;D - Seth Greenblatt

Robert - Think you broke your own record with this one. 255 Likes and 437 comments ?! Guess nobody's embracing Friendfeed tonight :) - Charlie Anzman

Nobody's gonna read this, but I can't help observing that "I've got 10000 followers" is kinda like saying "I have 1000 books on my bookshelf", as if the number, not the content, is the important thing. - Mr. Gunn

Charlie .. his last one has 300 comments and over 300 likes I believe ... But this thread is 70 people away from reaching every single person on Friendfeed. (Given the 500 like rule) - Tyler (Chacha)

Better than the cover of Rolling Stone!! http://blog.twitter.com/2009... - Ed Shahzade /NextInstinct

ChaCha - Ya gotta love it. Now when he reaches everyone on the Internet ... :) - Charlie Anzman

Susan - Wasn't ignoring you ... just got lost in the middle of this ScobleChaChaMeMeWhateverItIs ... night all :) - Charlie Anzman

Most importantly, get followed by @scobleizer hope he retweets, likes and/or comments on your posts. - Christian Anderson

Christian: that's fair. I keep hoping you retweet, like, or comment on mine! :-) - Robert Scoble

Yikes, I see there are 442 "collapsed" comments that follow Robert Scoble's teaser! (I won't dare to "expand" them - it would take ages to read them all.) The subject clearly preys on people's minds... Scoble has a knack for hitting the right button! - Yule Heibel

I wonder if Mobile Safari would have such an implosion that the iPhone would shatter in my hands, if I tried to expand that thread. - MiniMage TKDteacher of FF

doing video works pretty well too :) - Loic Le Meur

great, robert, this is *really* pushing the limit :) - Alberto D'Ottavi

tweet about the size of Robert's ..... =X - Rachael Depp

whoa comment frenzy! @FriendFeed can you please build a Comment Quality filter before I attempt to make sense of all this user generated erm "content"? Now there's a question: how do we measure Comment Quality? - Bob Hitching

And then you hate IM... - Dario Salvelli

I was lucky enough to arrive at his 3rd or 4th point... it was amazing to see it happen on the fly, as I and other people jumped in. It was like a chat room or IM chat. - Simon T Small

Oh, and by commenting a couple of times on this post, I got 36 new twitter followers and about 6 new friend feed followers in 12 hours - Simon T Small

omg.. why isn´t there a comment link on the bottom as well ? Especially useful on the iphone. I forgot the witty remark that would ensure me thousands of followers by the time I finger-scrolled to the top and to the bottom again on this insanely long thread. Oh, well, at least my comments are seen sometimes.. hello ? - Thomas Bøhm

I do like how #1: Stop your bloody begging and whining for followers is still showing though. :-P - Mathew A. Koeneker

this is so last week... - Edward Zwart

Robert: You need to add one more. "Send Tweets from a Ferry when a plane crashes on the Hudson" like http://twitter.com/jkrums - Alex Sauceda

"Hudson-Plane" and the Web2.0 viralism response http://friendfeed.com/rooms... ; http://friendfeed.com/e... - ewing2001akaNicomedy2010

Re: 18., Tweet from the great beyond. INSANE follow numbers then. ;-p - mtlb

This is certainly quite interesting thread. I wonder how many Likes this will get. :D - Daniel Schildt

This thread has become a meme unto itself. As I once said, Robert Scoble plays social media like a virtuoso musician. FTW - Sheldon Steiger from twhirl

this stuff works for real! wow! - Siddharth Parmar

I felt like bumping the most discussed conversation ever on Friendfeed. Here ya go - Tyler (Chacha)

or tweet about this friendfeed-post! - bumping ;-) - Torsten Eckert

Become a Needle in a Haystack - geekazine

Have them join up on sprnch and watch them walk around in real time. http://sprnch.com/search_... - SpRnch

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If you had $3,000 in your pocket, which would you buy? Canon 5D MKII or Apple 17-inch MacBookPro. Discuss here:

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We are arguing about that on the CES bus. Geeks! - Robert Scoble

Canon 5D MKII hands down. - Andrew Hyde

pro for sho - Bradley Will

Canon camera. I need a great camera more than a Mac - Keith - @tsudo

5d Mk II - Scott Loftesness

5D MKII, since I've already got a Mac Pro. ;) - Cory OBrien

Have a Nikon D300 and my old MBP is on the fritz, so this woud be a slam dunk for me - Gregg Gallagher

17 inch MBP because I love it. Then I'd buy a cheap 40D. I get more use out of a laptop than I do a camera. - Michael Yurechko

Apple 17-inch MacBookPro with a matte screen. - Arturo Puente

People who get a good cannon keep them forever, I go through a macbook every few years - Michael Struening

Macbook Pro. Only because I'm a Nikon fan. D300 is definitely my choice of camera ;) - Tamar Weinberg

mac - David Banes from IM

Mac - Jeff (the メガマクダジ of FF)

Would have to be the MacBookPro - Jason Townsend

The Canon. A solid peice of hardware and I'm after a camera - Mo Kargas

5D MKII of course. - Jeremy Franklin

The Canon. I'd have so much more fun with a zippy camera than a Big Mac. - Mike Neumann

Probably the computer. I'm happy with the first gen 5D I'm about to buy and as awesome as the camera is, the MBP doesn't need another $5K in lenses. - Derrick

Neither, you need at least twice that for glass & equipment to get the "rig" you should want for a Canon MKII - sorry, 3K isn't enough for that toy; and spending 3K on disposable technology (Mac equipment) isn't a wise investment. - Enrique Gutierrez

MBP....i miss my macs! - Brian Bufalo

5D MKII hands down. I can hold onto the memory cards until I get to a desktop :) - Austin

Without question: 5D mark II - Rodney L.

MBP - it's a means of production for me, once i make some extra cash with it I can always buy the 5D ;-) - Warren

which are you going to get more utility from? I'm guessing the Canon. - Peter Warnock

I already have a 5D MKII but I would take another one in a heartbeat, or a couple of nice L glass - Bill Pennington

5D Mark II..... no doubt. - Albert K

Canon, without a doubt. - Brad Butner

Definitely the MacBook Pro...but then again I'm not a photographer. - Charlie Flowers

Canon - Tyler (Chacha) from IM

Neither, I'd use it to buy food for a year. - Will Higgins™

Considering I can make quicker cash with my Photography work I would say the Canon 5D MKII and then I would buy the Apple 17 inch MacBook Pro with some of my earnings! - Patrick Greer

5D Mark II. And then throw the remaining towards some new glass. - Andy Hannon

2k into the bank, 1k for computer upgrades and other stuff. - Grant Bierman

5D Mk II everytime ... unless I don't have a Mac at that particular time ... - Stephen Taylor

I would go for the Macbookpro - Troy Malone

5D MKII...already have a MacBookPro and I'm willing to ditch my Nikon gear! - Dan Shust

Canon 5D MKII since I already have the 15" MBP. - Alan Le

I don't need either one--but I think the Canon would have much better resale value--so given the choices: Canon. - Rob Michael (Atmos Trio)

Canon 5D MKII - for sure! - I really want one.... :( - Brad

MBP - not a photographer - Matt Faulkner

A 50D and a fast lens. ;-) - D. Lambert

I've already got the 15" unibody so I'd go for the 5Dmkii - Sparky, a big deal

If I didn't have a laptop, then I would get the 17" MBP. If I already had a lappy, then get the camera... - William Sellers

Well, I recently moved from a 30D to a 5DMII because it was a huge upgrade for my "system". With a 2 year old Macbook Pro still serving me well for my needs, it's an easy decision. Additionally, I can't see using a 17" notebook over a 15 for portability sake, I'd just as well get an iMac and keep using my Macbook Pro for mobile use. - Ryan

Aren't you in Vegas? I think there are a few other options in front of you.. - LA Snark

5D!! - Wil

The camera. I have a new macbook already. - Jim Williams

The 5D is more than a $3k investment. It's $3k upfront but thousands in lenses, flashes and other gear over the years. - Michael Yurechko

Canon 5DMIII... - Greg Kamer

MacBookPro 17-inch. I am a Nikon guy. So, Canon 5D MKII if I had $7K for all the lenses, too. - Chintan Zaveri

The camera! I already have the 15" MBpro. 17" is just too big. - Sherry Main

My 1 yr-old MacBook doesn't thrill me; it sits on the desk unused, and I just couldn't pay more than $200 for a camera, unless I was dreadfully rich. - MiniMage TKDteacher of FF

5DMKII - sell some images on istockphoto, and then buy an MSI Wind and install OSX. It is faster than my 15" MBP! - Darren Mak

Definitely the 5D MkII - Christopher Chan

MBP. I just got a brand new camera. - Glen Campbell, B.A.

$3,000 worth of NOODLZ - Bwana ☠

100 shares of CRM ;D - barl0w

What would I do with a Mac? - drsPIX

5D MkII - want! I already have a Mac, iPhone, 2 PC's and a laptop. <sigh> gadget budget is small right now though. - Jim Bergman

canon 5d. already have a 15 mbp - Kiran Patchigolla

5D MK II You can always get the Mac later. - Yu Yu Din

I'd pay my bills and buy some groceries. - ::Kristen::

Apple 17-inch MacBook Pro. - Chris Luckhardt

What's an Apple 17-inch MacBookPro and why would a person need one? - Michael Krigsman

Mac book pro - Randy

MacBook Pro because I have neither a mac or digital SLR and the Mac does many things where as the canon does one thing well/ - Bryan Lee

Canon 5D MKII - منصور

I'll take the MacBook Pro - Rob

MacBookPro...or a Martin 12 http://guitars.musiciansfriend.com/product... and use the difference to buy a copy of logic pro for my 15" macbook pro - Armen Chakmakjian

I'll go for the MacBook. My heart beats nikon so.... - studio_juan

5D MKII - do you want to lug around that 17" beast? - nicholas einstein

MBP - already have a nice Canon - but my Mac sits firmly on my desk - shaun mclane

MacBook Pro, but I would need another $1200 for the 8GB of RAM. - Shawn Hickman

5D MKII. Even though I already have one. - Kathleen McGivney

Neither. Maybe 3 coins :). I have a Macbook Pro which I don't use often comparing to my PC. I am not into the consumer electronic stuff, only got a digital cam last year :). - dexin

Canon. Can't believe Apple ditched the matte screen on the 17" - FCP users and photographers don't want a glossy screen - the idea of the 17" is the ability to use it out in the field for photo/video editing. - Peter Clayton

So limiting, Robert! If I could pick whatever I wanted, I'd get one of those sweet Asus multi-touch netbooks coming out - and then use the rest to buy Yahoo! stock. :P - Shawn Farner

MB 13'' and the external cinema display. MBP17 is huge to carry out - Jean-Charles VERDIE

canon - jtothea

17" MBP FTW! You should create a poll on SocialToo.com Robert, then we can see graphed results! - Joseph

Craigslist in Cincinnati - 5D for 1200: http://cincinnati.craigslist.org/ele... - D. Lambert

Wow, what a great argument! 82 comments in 17 minutes! - Robert Scoble

MacBook Pro. I really, really, really want a new laptop even though my current MacBook works just fine. - Nation Hahn

Camera. Droooooooooool. - Alix Whitmire

Well part of it would have to go towards fixing my car, http://preview.tinyurl.com/9dz2kz. Then the rest would go towards buying a second camera body to be my main and at least one lens if not two. Then the rest would go towards bills. - Mathew™ one of a kind

Robert: Apple products plus awesome SLR cameras...response is a given :) - Mo Kargas

the camera is nice - especially all the HD video. friend of mine in the movie post-production business reckons this sort of Camera will KILL the movie camera business in a few years time. especially at the low-budget movie (<$30 million) of the movie business. RED already making big inroads. much cheaper than an ARRI. - Scot Mcphee

The MK II as I already have the MBP 17 inch...older but it works. - Semipro

Canon 5D is the winner for me. Great digital photography is the gift that keeps on giving.... ;-) - John Uppendahl

Well.... Given that I have 4 PC desktops, 2 PC laptops, and 1 iMac, all of which are operational and regularly used, AND that I suck at photography, I'm going for what's behind door #3: A whopping big HDTV -- which will get hooked up to the living room PC, of course. ;-) - Joanmarie

17" Mac. Already have a camera. . . - Scott Whitney

Nikon D3 - Bill Sanders

Macbook Pro for me. Would be my first Mac. - Jim Bednarz

Nikon D3 - ThePicMan

MacBook Pro. Don't need such a super-duper crazy camera. Not a real photographer. But a very real Mac geek. - Louis Gray

5D for sure! - Daniel Pourasghar

I'd go the MacBook - but I'd also load it up with the full 8gb of RAM I see as an option (and not many people mentioning). Sadly, a nice 17" MBP setup it just over NZ$10k :( - Mark Derricutt

MacBook Pro. Hands down. I'm a computer engineer, not a photographer. - Logan Leger

well since I've already got a Canon 5D Mark II... hmmmm... - Thomas Hawk

I'll buy neither. What I would rather do is try to buy one share of BRK-B if it gets to that price. :) - imabonehead

The 17" Mac Book Pro, I already have a 5D MkII ;-) - Jeff P. Henderson

I'd buy the camera, I have always loved photography and wanted to learn. - R. Ferguson

The Canon, all the way man!! - Finding The View

Apple! I don't like the fact of the hd video recorder on the 5D and I want the Sony alpha! - Brandy Lea

Canon. 15" MBP is the largest I'll go. - ronin

I would take the cash and build an ultimate gaming PC !!! :D - ralphsaunders

When you buy an inexpensive camera, you really sacrifice quality, and that lack of quality endures (you want to keep your photos forever, right?). When you buy an inexpensive computer, that's not the case (I don't need a unibody case :) - David Andrzejewski

Canon 5D - easy answer! - Susan Beebe

Ouch, this one hurts. I suppose I can't opt for a Nikon equivalent to the Canon? If this is the choice, I'd opt for the MacBook Pro. But if I had 3K, I'd buy myself the Nikon D300 - Karoli

The Canon. A 17" laptop is too big unless you plan to use it as a desktop. - Hartley Spurlock

Mac for sure.I have a first generation Macbook and I need a new one. Kaya Singer - Kaya

I'd pay off my credit card. For all that stuff I, like, already bought. - Jandy, ConcertMaven of FF

the Macbook pro but only because I need to upgrade my computer. - Anna Lynn M.

the Camera for sure - Tai

5d Mark II - Jauder Ho

None - a super-gaming rig. :) - carrotmadman6

Definitely a Canon 5D. - Maria Colacurcio

5D Mark II - Hands down. - Seagate

I would save it until I had between $8-15K for a CO2 laser cutting machine. I like my macs small, and while full frame sounds nice, I know I'm not nearly hungry enough to go pro in photography, so 40D suits me just fine. - Jason Wehmhoener

That's a tough one because I have been wanting to get my first Mac (have to start somewhere, right?!) but am a hard core Canon fan/user. So if push came to shove, I would have to go with the Canon. - Laura Zickus

Mmm, CO2 lasers. - Mo Kargas

That would be either a trip to another continent or a Fujitsu LifeBook P1630, but it would not be either of the options in the question. I seriously cannot understand $3k for a camera, unless you're going to make that money back in a month or two WITH said camera. - MiniMage TKDteacher of FF

Neither, I would invest in the stock market. - DGentry

I'd prefer a D300, however no matter what brand I'd take the camera in a second over the MBP. Save up another $500 and get a Windows Notebook as well. - Kenton

The Canon 5D MKII for sure. Cameras bring me a lot more joy than flashy computers. Though a 17-inch MacBookPro would be nice to edit those new photos on too ;-) - Ian Holton from twhirl

Probably the Mac. I would never carry around a DSLR. Too big. - Rodfather

Neither. The new full frame format with HD Movies (wow! Woopee *rolls eyes*) is crap - only 3.9 FPS?! Who are they kidding?! - Adam

Seeing my Macbook Pro is 5 months old. I would buy neither...but I would buy a MacPro with more RAM. - Ryan

I take a cruise with Lindsay - big ass stateroom. - Internet's Tad

Neither, I'd get a Canon Rebel XTi and build a new gaming PC, anything left over would go toward the new home NOC - xero

I would take my lover to Italy :) - Maryam Scoble

The Canon 5D, I find the photographic process calming, a welcome diversion from the ones and zeros. - cornedbeefgents

Awwww :) - Mo Kargas

Nikon D700 - Rod Bauer from twhirl

There's one in every crowd. - Rod Bauer from twhirl

If I had the $3,000, Canon 5D and a larger donation here http://tinyurl.com/daniela Pros: it's more portable, takes better pictures, and connects to my more compact 15" Macbook Pro. Of course, it doesn't work with my Nikon lenses, so... - Lee Dale

Canon 5D MKII only cause I have a Macbook Pro. If I didnt it would be the Macbook. - Bob Maltais

Nah. Patrick's college fund. 5D Mark 2 or the Macbook isn't all that exciting. - Joshua Hayworth

cannon.I kill computers, so not worth spending 3 grand on one. Plus I have a (beat up) macbook pro already. - InPerpetualMotion(Gina k)

Photos shoot at 3.9 fps, video shoots at 30 fps. @AdamGiovane - Jim Bergman

The MacBook of course. - Rob Fahrni

mac - Vishy

5D, but I wish it had XLR audio. - Gus

the new MBP, without a doubt ... my current ones needs a refresh (I'm accepting donations btw) ;-) - Jeffrey Canton

Since I'll be getting the new MBP anyway, I'll take the 5D. BTW, is anyone keeping score? - Brad Kligerman

I would buy the Canon, but of course, I would need a MacBook Pro in order to edit/view the photos the way they were meant to be viewed. - Robert Peña

Blatant self-promotion, but if Robert used re-searchr.com it would keep score for us... I wrote it to suck down inline multiple choice selections so no ne would even have to leave ff - James Ostheimer

Robert, you're asking the question that's been pondering in my mind from some time (albeit it used to be with the 15" and Cinema display v. 5D/a900/D700 -cannot make my mind-). I want to be able to make a decision before March. I think I'll be going for the Mac, since I might relocate in part of the world where carrying an expensive piece of art around my neck might be more dangerous than here, in JPN. - Paul Papadimitriou

I'd go for a MBP, mine needs an upgrade and I just bought a 50D not long ago which is just fine for me. - Andrew Trinh from Nambu

I need cash! :) - Randy

Some of us are Nikon people. Some of us are not Mac people. I'll just take the 3 Gs. - Eric @ CS Techcast

Nikon D700 + 50mm 1.4 prime lens! - Guillaume Lemoine

More lenses. My camera is fine, and this Thinkpad is a good 'un. - Paula W

Seems like Apple design the 17-inch MacBookPro just can use in 3years.the battery can only use in 1000 times,1time per 1day,3years.But Canon 5D can take more beatuful pics for me,and can stand by me more than 3years.if i really have 3000dollers,i real do this.kick off 17-inch MacbookPro. - jedorstar from twhirl

Lenses, like Paula sez. - Rob Kramer

Buy half and half :) - Michael Forian

Wow, I came late to this convo. Well, for what it's worth at this point, I'd probably get the lappytop, sell my old MBP and then use THAT money to buy a cheaper camera. :D - Jon, the Beartato of FF

Canon 5D MKII, no doubt. I have a 1.5 year old 15-inch MacBookPro which is still more than OK. Going from Canon 400D to a 5D MKII however would be a major upgrade. - Rutger Blom

Macbook I think. I have a 40D but REALLY want the 5D. Which do you think you could get your hands on first? - Andrew Smith

The 5D. The MacBookPro can wait. - Chris Nixon

5D, I have enough laptops as it is. - Amit Morson

The $2800 MBP becomes a lot more compelling when converted to 2080€. - Brad Kligerman

I'm a Nikon guy but the 5D MKII has me seriously considering a switch - Bryan Thatcher from twhirl

As I don't like Macs and into my photography the choice out of the two is simple. :-) But I've rather spend the money on say the Nikon D3 and if you gave me an extra grand or 2 then I'd go for the Nikon D3X. ;-) - Kol Tregaskes from twhirl

Without though, the Canon 5D MKII. First up, you don't want to trust another "first gen" Apple product. And with the unimpressive lineup yesterday, maybe the 15" laptops are coming out real soon now, with similar features, and all quirks ironed out - Colin Charles from twhirl

MAC!!! - Orli Yakuel

(Friendfeed needs a poll feature) - Jérôme Flipo

5D over the MAC Pro. - Robert Miller

MacBookPro - just bought myself a nice camera with a fracking big lens! - Joel Hammond-Turner

Canon! - Janet

Canon. I have a laptop and rarely use it - well not as a laptop. It sits on a desk as a permenant fixture. - Ian May

Canon 5D mk 2 :) - Joe Dawson

Camera, I never liked the 17". It's too heavy for a "portable" - Melissa dela Merced from twhirl

neither, a big ass HDTV :) - Terry O'Fee

17-inch macbookPro is way too big. so I would go for the camera. Problem is I would need to learn how to use it then... - Davide D'Incau

If you have good lenses to take advantage of the MKII (extra $3000 needed here), go for the camera! - Joao Pedro

I would buy a Apple 17-inch macbook of course.! I don't have an apple and I would really like one. I have a camera thats good enough for me. - Qbat

nor this neither that! i will send money to help people in Gaza or at least I'll send 1000 $. - خیزران Has gone

canon 5d mk ii based on the videos I've seen - i mean just look at these http://is.gd/cP6x - planetMitch

The Canon, surely. No use for a laptop that big. - Ryan Sholin

5D over here too - Simon Wicks

Macbook Pro 17! - Greg

The camera. Already have three computers but have no camera. - Martha

I am not pro enough to need the 5D, I am actually looking at a D60 or D90. But the 17 Macbook is something I can use :) - TheSleepyGeek

I'd buy the Nikon D700 - David Parmet from twhirl

neither - cash is still king - viki saigal

its the lens, not the body - spring for L glass - @jessewright

MacBookPro - Stewart Rogers

New MacBookPro 17". I would probably get more use out of it than the Canon. But my, oh my, ya'll, the Canon sure is sweet. - Matthew Freeman

I have the glass. I have the Mac, I'd get the 5DMKII - stretta from twhirl

5D - I don't need a macbook. I'm happy with my PC and laptop - they cover my my needs perfectly. - Roberto Bonini

MBP. - Michael Molinar

Donate it to @armano. - Jim Mitchem

given my current status .. I am happy with my Canon XTi so I would go for the MacBook Pro. - Kapil

5D, but that's cuz I've been saving up for one. A new MBP would def. be on the list of future purchases (current computer is 3 years old) - Michael

Canon 5d Mk II, far more useful than the new laptop. More fun. One encourages you to sit around, the other encourages you to go out :-) - Richard A.

MacBookPro, Canon sux. (OK, relax, just kidding. I'm a Nikon guy. I have no Canon lenses.) - Trevor Carpenter

Canon!! - Ivy /composmentis from twhirl

I would buy the Mac, get a cheaper camera with the money I have left, and edit and enhance my videos using my Mac. - Shevonne

I'd go the Mac route. I'm looking to buy one anyway and I've already got a camera. Might not be as fancy as the Canon do-dad, but I'll manage. - James Ferguson

Wow 202 comments! How did I miss this thread? :) - AJ Batac

17 inch MCP - johnpiercy

The 17" MBP as my current 12" PB is on it's last legs and needs replacing - need rather than want for me - Sally Church

The Canon. I already have a 17" MacBook Pro. - Carmen

The Canon... even though I already have a 5D and actually need a new laptop - Shawn Duffy from twhirl

Macbookpro - Roger Kondrat

I'd say the MacBook... you can do more with it. - Dejim Juang

EOS 5D - Julien Guyard

Canon, since the MBP that I'd want would actually cost $5823. Not $3000. - Ben Hwang from twhirl

This would be much more enjoyable if there was some kind of poll widget along side comments. - Michael Leggett

The camera..I find apple laptops overpriced for what they offer. - Nick

Would be easier to see at a glance. - Richard A.

I'd by the largest HD display I could... - Clay Newton

Canon 5D MKII. huh.. no: a powerful Linux box - Thierry R. Andriamirado

The MacBookPro, I have a Canon 30d but I do not have a MacBook - Bob Gannon

I wouldn't want a 17'' monster of a MacBookPro and therefore would go for the Canon 5D MKII - Donald Townsend

Neither. Both are overpriced. If no other options; I'd go camera. - Wade Dorrell

5D, the 17-inch MacBook Pro is very big. Harder to find bags for it and its less portable. - seanb

bank it, put in matress, done need either of those things, we need smarter devices that tell us the likelyhood of use-longevitiy in them, "i'm a camera you bought last year, you used me 9 times, i collect dust, owner- please resist replacing me unless you really really really need to, and the data suggests you don't.." - Dan Rockwell from twhirl

Not enough to buy what I want with the Canon, and I wouldn't be caught dead spending $3000 on a laptop. What a waste! - Paul Puri

Neither. A $3000 laptop is not worth it just because of its branding. - Spencer

ohh.. I can't choose. I want both of them... But if i choose, first canon, second mac... İ have canon 40 d and 15'' mac book pro. And i don't like mac's new screen. It's like mirror... - devletsah

Spencer: as a recent PC to Mac switcher, it's more than brand. Much more. - Ryan

I'd buy a netbook for the other three members of my family and put the remaining $2000 toward bills or savings. :) - Steve Lowe

Agree with Aaron, love my 13" Macbook and really want the 5D MKII - Kyle

Definitely the Mac. - John Clifton

Is this thing still going? I can't remember if I replied to this yet, but I say it depends on what will benefit you the most. Robert, you are a photo-maniac. I know that you have a few cameras laying around the house, but I don't know how many Macs you have. You have to remember that a 17" laptop sounds great on paper, but I know that you do a lot of traveling as well, so it might now suite your means. Then again, I would never keep $3,000 dollars in my pocket ;) - Michael Forian

of course the mac - doesn´t matter what the second option is... - Dieter Schwarz

I would buy the Canon 5D MKII but being a Nikonian I would end up buying the MacBook Pro and feel no remorse :) - Carlos Lorenzo

MacBook Pro. I need a laptop really bad. - Nick Humphries

The camera. 17-inch laptops are fricking ridiculous. - Andru Edwards

camera and a box of junior mints - Morgan Haley

I'd definitely go for a MB Pro. My Rebel XTi and Panasonic GS180 video cam is doing me just fine. - emon hassan

Forget the Mac, keep your current camera, and buy better lenses. - Michael Krigsman

17 inch laptop is useless in term of mobility so I would go with the Canon - Hadar Weiss

A Sony a900. :) - Jeff Jones

Neither. I'd start with the Bonobo Pro Ubuntu Laptop for under $2000 and use the $1000 to max it out. http://system76.com/product... - Internet Strategist

Impressive amount of comments here, this has to be the highest ever now right? - Joe Dawson

I'm sorry, can you repeat the question: did you say a "camera", a "computer" or a "shark with laser beams"? - Micah Wittman

save the money for tougher times. as much as I'd like the Canon, it's going to be just an expensive toy for me. and my three year old Inspiron works just fine for the most things I do on it. - Franci Penov from twhirl

5Dm2 because I already have the new MBP 15" 2.8Ghz. Mostly b/c the cam is more revolutionary than the 17", even though the 17" battery life is enticing. - Thomas Bøhm

Wow, 250 comments - OMG ...FF is really growing ...YEAH !!! - Susan Beebe

Yeah, this week has produced several >100 comment threads in my feed. - xero

Not the 5D, but some body+the best lenses, that actually lasts longer. Laptops are out of date in months and often die within 18, cameras and lenses last a lot longer - Joelle Nebbe (iphigenie)

I would buy a Apple 17-inch MacBookPro, only cause I already have a SLR, so I dont need the Canon 5D MKII. - Colide81 (James)

I would not spend it, id rather invest 3000 dollars with 10 shares of google - Kyle Weller

then just buy lenses - you probably already have a computer that can do everything you need - Joelle Nebbe (iphigenie)

Exxon-Mobile. Oh wait, what was the question again? - Erik S

Neither- new hardware for the pending Win7 beta drop. :) - Randy Holloway from twhirl

both! - jortai

@Ryan I am a Mac user, have been for a while. It's just my opinion, but $2800 for a piece of hardware in which you can the same or better specs on a PC, is quite a bit of branding. - Spencer

Using the MacBook Pro 17 inch now (love it!)- and I am quite happy with my Canon Powershot G9, so I'll just take the cash and pay down some of my debt--thanks! - Kelly W.

Canon 5D MKII then buy the 15" MacBook Pro later. - John Wang

I would buy a new fast lens for my old 5D (around $1000) and save the rest. - Alexander Arsky

Nikon E90 *and* a 15" Macbook. :) I bend rules. - Daniel Miessler

Nikon E90 like Daniel :P - Mol, Time Warping

I already have the mac so I would take the Camera. - WilliamMuncrief

is someone tabulating these answers? - Glen Campbell, B.A.

Canon 5d MKII, i'm not a mac person so that was easy. - Squid

I've been back and forth on this since the 17" was announced. I am very likely to upgrade to the 5DMKII this year. But I want a more powerful laptop to work on the huge files it creates. Chicken? Egg? Confused. - Jeremy Brooks

Canon 5D MKII for sure. MBP 15 is still chugging along after 2 years. And the 5D is still doing great after 1 year, but I would really like the new 5D. - Johnny Sewell

5D Mark II , without a doubt! - americanm

Caonon 5D all the way - John Uppendahl

Veronica

No, iPhone, it's cool. I totally have 45 minutes to sit around and wait for you to do your backup. Take your time, please.

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Did you upgrade to the latest firmware? I had this same problem but it was fixed when I upgraded my iTouch. Maybe the phone works differently... - Eric Geller

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I was going to make a smart comment about the implications of tweeting a device, but I follow @MarsPhoenix :) - Mattb4rd

i really dont get why the update/backup process can take FOREVER, its not a lot of data. processor on phone must be S L O W - sean percival

Agreed. WTF is up with that backup?! I'm on the 2.0.2 and almost every time I sync, backup kicks in and seems to think it needs to dump the entire phone. Why isn't it an incremental? And I really don't care that content I upload from iTunes is backed up. It's already in my iTunes. Just backup the settings. /sigh - ·[▪_▪]·

I've restored my iPhone 3 times in the last 2 days. The Apple logo of death showed up after a sync. Some app is making the springboard crash resulting in an endless loop of restarting. I'm only installing a small amount of apps until there's an update. - Rodfather

No problems here. Takes less than a minute to sync and back up. Y'know you can cancel the back up by clicking on the (X) beside the "Backing Up" text? - Paul Reynolds

I always just cancel it now, with as many apps as I have it seems to take over an hour, who can spare that much time?! - Socom

I've been canceling backup most of the time but I try to let it go once a week or so just to see if the next time it'll go fast. Nope. Always takes about an hour. - ·[▪_▪]·

This especially bothers me in the morning, when I want to make one last sync before I get on the road, and of course am running late . . . - Peter Ghosh

LOL! Really! I'm glad I did not get one of the new iPhones. I hope things get better with software upgrades. - Ric

Try syncing on a Mac that only has USB 1.1... :/ - Jason Wong

dear god jason why oh why - mjc

I twittered Veronica this but I figured all the people joining the chorus would find this useful. Here is an article from Gizmodo on how to disable the backup process on Macs. http://gizmodo.com/5029121... - EJ Finneran

Robert Scoble

Little girl in front of me peeked into plane's cockpit, turns to her dad and says "isn't that cool?" love seeing wonder in kids' eyes.

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Reflects the wonder we parents feel about them :) - Stu Andrews from twhirl

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why didnt she use the restroom?!? - Morgan Warstler

LOL. peek silly, not pee - Capn' One Eye - adrift

@Morgan Warstler (morganwarstler): I think you missed the "k" and the third "e" in that 7th word ;) - MiniMage TKDteacher of FF from NoiseRiver

Kevin Rose

I really want to go see tropic thunder this weekend, except everyone has already seen it.. @ reply me if you want to go

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60,000 followers and nobody wants to go w/ you? - Pokai

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I'll go with you Kevin, I just need a way to get up to San Fran, from L.A. if you pay for half my airfare I'll go see it with you - Andrew Fielding

Ok, I'm from Spain. If you pay the half of... Forget it. - Jeroen van Meerendonk

Went last week and it's funny stuff. - Ernie Oporto

Tom Cruise was awesome! - Michael Gianasi

Robert Scoble

Gnomedex is much better this year. The sessions are very interesting and you can watch live http://www.ustream.tv/channel...

August 22, 2008 from Twitter - Comment - Like - Share

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wish I was there <sigh> - Dave Hodson

Kevin Rose

Revolutionary tech makes it trivial to "photoshop" video - http://grail.cs.washington.edu/project...

August 15, 2008 from Digg - Comment - Like - Share

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I saw this day coming years ago. It may be easier to detect a 'shopped video, because there are so many more frames to analyze and sample. - Bill Sodeman

Kevin Rose

@BarackObama - I, for one, welcome you as my new twitter overlord *fist bump*

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

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http://twurl.nl/4gg3rt - shaggyshaw

If there was an Unlike option i would have used it for this.. - keith

Robert Scoble

I'm starting a trip to Las Vegas today. - http://www.dopplr.com/travell...

August 13, 2008 - Comment - Like - Share

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I'll be there from August 14th until August 16th. See more in my Dopplr profile. - Robert Scoble

Have fun at the NME. I wish I was a tad older and lived closer to the valley for these kinds of events. Maybe in a couple years :) - Michael Yurechko

Is it worth me driving down there? Vegas is an easy trip for me. (can't go tomorrow though because 14th is my b-day) - Jesse Stay

Aubrey Sabala

Just had an amazing 90-min massage. Granted, I look like I had an unfortunate run-in with a Litre of Astroglide, but things could be worse.

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

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Veronica

It's funny to be eating Mexican food on fake Venice canals. At least there's no canal smell! Just tourists.

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

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Walk by Barney's in the shoppes. At the front door, sometimes it smells like BBQ chicken. I swear. We started calling it BBQ Barney's on our last visit. Nothing gets you to spend $500 on shoes like a little Q. - Eric @ CS Techcast

Was this at the Taqueria Canonita? Just a mild canal smell ;) - Roger @ CineVegas

Kevin Rose

The most spine chilling McCain video you will ever see. - http://www.youtube.com/watch...

August 12, 2008 from Digg - Comment - Like - Share

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I did not find this spine chilling at all. More left wing scare tactics. Truth is, Given the criteria laid out in this video, you should be no less scared of Obama as President. And, truth is, I'm not scared of either. Things are going to get worse, much worse, before they get better, and they aren't going to get better because of a U.S. President. - ComicList

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Bush quote: "the truth will say that this intelligence has been intelligent" - Mohamed J

Damn McCain we lose Obama we lose! WTF? The world is ready for Armageddon one way or another! It is not just the president it is the people behind him! Look at Nanci Peloci, she acts like she is on drugs! And she is a democrat! <sad day for the whole world> - Igor The Troll יִצְחָק

Watch my video post, "Is America going to attack Iran?" http://www.igorthetroll.com/blog... - Igor The Troll יִצְחָק

time for revolution - Bob Blunk

Or maybe counter-revolution. Like "Down with Rooseveltian stuff! Back to Federalist Papers!" - 9000

There is no doubt that McCain will use force. Why did that dude have to lead the American cities question with "Seattle"? Fuck. - Ryan

I'm way more scared of Obama. We will look back at these past few years as the good old days, back when people had jobs. Ugh. - Hal Rottenberg from twhirl

Very well put together. - Rahsheen ™, Coach of FF

Just what we need - another 4 yrs at least of McBush...He should just change his name to keep the theme going - EcoAussie from twhirl

"Fear's selling, who's buying?" - Matt Hartley

Mo: I'm pretty sure Bush said "the truth will say that this intelligence is good intelligence". That said, McCain needs to be stopped and this foolish reign of crazy, self absorbed, war mongering dictators must end. I feel sure that McCain won't be voted into office. - Brandon Titus

The thing that slows the ambitions of nations like Iran is the threat of US force. Any canidate that takes that threat off the table is destablizing the world. - Robert Hafer

@Hal- you're seriously scared of Obama? C'mon. We're in debt because we cannot afford war. Debt is what impacts the economy. That's why people are shorting the dollar. - Ryan

"He will make Cheney lok like Ghandi" - Pat Buchanan on John McCain. Damn, that is quite a statement. - Darrell Bell from twhirl

Who's taken the threat of force against Iran off the table? - Internet's Tad

I always worry most about economic policies, an America with a strong economy can withstand alot of other problems. Any canidate that talks about raising taxes scares me. - Robert Hafer

@Tad that's what many posters seem to want from McCain. - Robert Hafer

I am a not US resident and McCain scares the crap out of me... - Jan Cifra

Hafer Yeah I hear you. look what happened when Clinton raised taxes. Who wants to go back to the days of a booming economy, full employment, budget surpluses and raising wages. *shudder* - Jeff Jones

Wow. That response got totally munged by Twirl. Let's try that again. What is the alternative? Oh, right. Borrow ourselves into oblivion. We're so awesome, we've figured out a way to tax our decendants to finance our wildly out of balance lifestyle. Whatever social programs Obama wants to implement are a drop in the bucket next to an un-necessary $1-5 Trillion with a T war with Iraq. At... more... - stretta

I consider myself fiscally conservative in my political views and in that regard usually side with the Republicans but I just haven't been able to do it for several years now. There's a point when one has to realize that the ramifications of a liberal fiscal policy really doesn't matter when we're at war with the whole world. I'd be damned if there's another military draft without justification, a la Vietnam, and our current diplomatic posture and saber rattling is not a good enough reason... - grant fox

...I take recession over warmongering any day. - grant fox

Jeff, the Clinton surplus never materialized, because the economy was predicted to continue growing at the pre-increase rate, which of course it didn't because of the tax increases. Clintons vaunted "full employment" was at 6% unemployment, the rate now is 5.7%, The booming economy was the result of Reagan's fiscal policies. Clinton was leaving office just as the damage he did to the economy was becoming obvious. - Robert Hafer

iphonegirl, I would think that people on your side of the pond would remember Neville Chamberlain and what came of his efforts to avoid war at any cost. - Robert Hafer

Bottom line on war is we need to participate with the world and not mandate. America needs to check its ego at the door and foster the relationships we have squandered. - Andy Lewandowski

Veronica

History of the Predictive Text Swearing - http://www.youtube.com/watch...

August 13, 2008 from YouTube favorites - Comment - Like - Share

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ducking yankers. - Michael Yurechko

Sheer brilliance, very very funny! -- what show is this taken from? - Nicholas Kreidberg

Aubrey Sabala

August 13, 2008 from Flickr - Comment - Like - Share

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Kevin Rose

reading: Apple sells $1M a day in iphone applications - http://online.wsj.com/article...

August 12, 2008 from Twitter - Comment - Like - Share

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I've spent a total of $10.00 there and I gave that app to Chris Pirillo for a review. I am strongly considering an ipod touch though. Let's see, ipod touch or new tube amp? Hmmm - Mattb4rd

Evernote

Evernote for iPhone 1.2 Gets Note Editing and More… - http://blog.evernote.com/2008...

August 11, 2008 from Evernote Blog - Comment - Like - Share

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Thirty Day Challenge

CAN WE TALK - Pre Day 2 Talk - http://www.seesmic.com/video...

August 2, 2008 from Seesmic - Comment - Like - Share

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OK ok, we promise to watch the video *before* we play with the shiny new toy! - Matthew Hall

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Is that a pinky promise - Ed Dale

I promise we will follow your instructions - Govindji Patel

No joke! Definitely watch all the videos. Getting banned by Google is very easy to do if you're not careful. - Ken Nadreau

How can I not like it if I was mentioned? :) My honor Ed! - Hendry Lee from twhirl

Ed Dale

Dan Raine Hard at work - zoo video shoot! - http://www.flickr.com/photos...

August 1, 2008 from Flickr - Comment - Like - Share

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Jason Calacanis

Scientology: The Shrinking World of L. Ron Hubbard - http://www.youtube.com/watch...

July 31, 2008 from YouTube favorites - Comment - Like - Share

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I don't know about the Scientology thing but I loved the 10 books series "Mission Earth" that he wrote. Very entertaining ... and a recurring theme in those books is how bad psychology and psychiatry (and advertising) are for the world... Maybe that's where Tom Cruise got his rants about Brooks Shields postpartum depression treatment. http://swordandlaser.ning.com/group... - Todd Loren Sinclair

Veronica

The Website Is Down: Sales Guy vs. Web Dude - http://www.youtube.com/watch...

July 31, 2008 from YouTube favorites - Comment - Like - Share

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"What's your password".... "a".. That is hilarious!!! - Daniel

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aw man I'm a quarter of the way though and am just DYIN' - Marko Bon

"I can't sort by penis!" -- EPIC - Nicholas Kreidberg

"I rebooted three times, like you always tell me to" - Josh Haley

forever a classic - Jim Goldstein from twhirl

Helium helps any IT support call. - Bill Sodeman

l0ckergn0me

Caught on Tape: Killing a Pacific Northwestern MoMo Spider - http://www.youtube.com/watch...

July 17, 2008 - Comment - Like - Share

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lawl! I hate spiders. I think you killed the spider and the desk too. -

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Ahahahaha. I don't like spiders either.. I have a younger sister who takes care of them :P - Michael Yurechko

Digg It: http://digg.com/comedy... - Mona Nomura

Thanks, MONA! - l0ckergn0me

uggg what is with all the spider posts today - MG Siegler

The vid made me think of these videos on YouTube of people cutting open spider bites.... *shudders* -

good stuff Chris! :) - Tim Hoeck from NoiseRiver

dude, i think u got it - Mark Schulz

BTW, why is it the Pacific Northwest? Is there an Atlantic Northwest? Isn't just 'Northwest' good enough? - Alan Cheslow

because of stupid california - Mona Nomura

Ha ha ha, what a great promo video for the subject of "Online Privacy." It was the title of your UStream video during the freakout. LOL - Dread Pirate PJ from NoiseRiver

Classic! - Oli Kenobi

I think there's spiders that can jump too. -

first i thought you were caught doing something else... ;) - Dieter Schwarz

Loic Le Meur

No comment

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Ibid - Scott Moskowitz

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technically, if I comment here, do I invalidate the "no comment" part? ;) Saw you from a short distance tonight, didn't get to say hi before you were swept away again! - Lucretia Pruitt

damn you failwhaleeee - justine

Ha ba ouai, heuresement qu'identi.ca marche encore lui - Jean-François Amadei from twhirl

I'm getting sick of people liking the fail whale. I never want to see it again, I just want the damn thing to work properly. That is all. - jjprojects

Uggh. I hate the fail whale... on another note, Loic: any word on a Twhirl iPhone app? Develop it and I will pay :) - Michael Yurechko

roll on identi.ca - Kate

Build it and they will come. Build it and they will pay? - jjprojects

Where's the 'hate/die in a fire button'. No more whales. Scheduled or otherwise. - Mo Kargas

I thought it had gotten quiet on my twitter feed for the last 30 minutes or so. Hi Fail Whale! Out for your nightly swim? - Adam Turetzky

@jjprojects If anything is good enough, I will pay. - Michael Yurechko

that was cute loic - Caroline from twhirl

It would be nice if they told us before 'planned' maintenance - Andrew Fielding from twhirl

@Michael I agree. I pay for flickr and pownce pro. I'd pay for twitter pro if it helped it to work properly, but it wouldn't, they have money. I'd pay for a twhirl iPhone app too, if it had no ads. - jjprojects

the question is when will people be ready to pay for Seesmic pro :) - Loic Le Meur from twhirl

There is going to be a Seesmic Pro? What extra features will it have? Have you decided? - jjprojects

Scott Beale

Watchmen trailer in HD - http://www.apple.com/trailer...

July 18, 2008 from Google Reader - Comment - Like - Share

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It looks good (it couldn't fail to look good with Alex McDowell as production designer), but you know what? It's going to suck. Watchmen is an unfilmable graphic novel, at least if you want to keep the elements that made it great - the elements that revolve around it being a comic and not any other medium (the intercutting with Tales of the Black Freighter, the symmetry inherent in the... more... - Brad Brooks

Watched with the sound off, the individual scenes from that trailer look great, but as a *trailer*, that sucks (opening with Dr Manhattan? Eek). I doubt anyone unfamiliar with the comic will have the slightest clue what the film is about or why they should see it. Still, I'm sure it's allayed some fears about what Snyder is doing with Watchmen. - Jules

@Jules: I think the point of the Dr. Manhattan opening was to get the attention of the 30- and 40-somethings who have such strong recollections of the comic. Later trailers will attempt to broaden the appeal. - Rob Sterling

Sarah Austin

more halo 3 weapons( read description) - http://www.youtube.com/watch...

July 18, 2008 from YouTube favorites - Comment - Like - Share

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junior tron guy in a way? - robert steburg

Sarah Austin

Me Singing Four Walls by Cheyenne Kimball - http://www.youtube.com/watch...

July 18, 2008 from YouTube favorites - Comment - Like - Share

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Before watching it I expected to see a young Sarah singing :-) - Cyril Hanquez

Erick Schonfeld

PodTech Sells For Less Than $500k - http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r...

July 17, 2008 from TechCrunch - Comment - Like - Share

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The most interesting thing here is that Scoble "liked" this ;-) - Brian Sullivan

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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... more... - 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... more... - 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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