Welcome Baby Ryan!!! My baby Ryan (17 years!) and I are honored to welcome another superstar to our planet! Love, hugs, and lots of kisses to Baby Ryan, Mommy Maryam, Dad Robert and big brothers Milan & Patrick and of course Grandma!!! My guess on Ryan's arrival (predication) was only 23 hours off. I thought he would arrive on Friday, Sept. 18th at 11:45 pm. Love to all, Kelly & Ryan Kim
- Kelly S. Kim
What a moment, eh? I remember when my daughter came into this world, it was so exciting there were no words for it. Congrats on your wonderful baby boy!
- Michael J. Carrasquillo
Congratulations! Welcome to the world, Ryan. :-)
- Yvette Ferry
Congratulations Robert and Maryam! And welcome Ryan. If I was having a baby today, I'd begin a blog for him/her straight away as an online diary they could look back on when grown up.
- Sandra Large
الهــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــی چقده ناز نازیه.اینو فارسی نوشتم مریم جان بخونن ....راستی به باباش که نرفته:)) خوشگلتره:)) پس به شما رفته
- joupy
I was a c-section six week preemie in an era when that was seriously life-threatening, they didn't know if I would make for the first week. It always gets me a see a c-section / preemie come howling into the world. Welcome, little guy!
- Bob Morris (polizeros)
from iPhone
Beautiful baby! Congratulations daddy man :)
- Gary
:) Congrats Robert... best wishes to your family! Get her name in twitter and ff!
- Business Blogger【ツ】™
Right ON! I am so happy for you. I have 4 kids of my own and they are my greatest joys. Take care and I hope all goes so smooth for him and mom.
- Robert Anderson
Congrats! I wish a long and healthy life.
- Muammer Okumuş
Robert, you newest addition is too freaking adorable. I hope you and Maryam are doing well. Congratulations! Here's to a long, prosperous future!
- Mike Nayyar
Robert: it has yet to be proven that Biz said that, I highly doubt it, quoted that link but it could be totally wrong
- Loic Le Meur
Seems awfully ambitious. They have money to survive and adapt though - hopefully they keep adapting.
- Jesse Stay
Jesse: to grow that large they need to find a dramatic monetization scheme. It'll be interesting to see what that is.
- Robert Scoble
Robert, yeah - I'm not discounting it. It will be interesting to see though. There are a lot of people that want their space right now.
- Jesse Stay
Jesse: I think Twitter is pretty defensible actually. Most businesses aren't going to start hyping up someplace else. Twitter is just part of the lexicon now. I walk into a lot of restaurants and they have "follow us on Twitter" right on the menu or on the tables. One even had it in their bathrooms. A new company is NOT going to get that. But agree lots of companies would love to be in their shoes.
- Robert Scoble
Robert, I agree, but keep in mind it's not just new companies that want to be in their shoes. Much bigger companies want their space as well. They'll need to adapt - many big names have gone down in flames due to large attitudes and non-willingness to adapt. Think AOL, Compuserve, etc.
- Jesse Stay
Sure, Twitter might have entered the lexicon... but... who cares if they can't come up with a way to make lots of money? Lets not kid ourselves: if they had a genuine idea of making lots of money, they would have implemented it by now. Instead they're just going to keep using VC money to keep afloat, hiring like mad and hope like hell that some silly company like eBay comes along and gobbles them up before the tide goes out and the VC's lose faith.
- Rowan Hanna
Twitter has no shortage of VC because everyone knows Twitter is going to be massive. Twitter is more concerned about growth than revenue at this point, which is a smart move, because it won't scare people away. I came up with a rhyme that applies to any Online monetization plan: Popularize, then Monetize. Monetize first and users might be put off and not sign up. Monetize after users sign up and they probably won't leave.
- Garin Kilpatrick
Joelle: Probably so Twitter stays up for longer than a month? But otherwise, I have no idea.
- Holden Page
so we-re saying most of those employees planned will be sales, eh? They better hurry though, who can be sure that by 2013 they won't be myspaced by the next thing?
- Joelle Nebbe (iphigenie)
What 1bn people will tweet about? Oh I forgot only 10% post tweets...
- Giorgio Burlini
from iPhone
I did a $Billion Dollar #micropitch today + U gotta mention Facebook + Twitter but I also gave FriendFeed a Plug!
- Billy Warhol
Yep; Twitter isn't going anywhere - it is here to stay...
- Mark Harai
I liked what Ev, or Biz?, tweeted yesterday. Blogger was a side project that forced them to change course, Twitter was the same.
- Gary Walter (gwalter)
5200??? Wow. I don't think Twitter is going anywhere, but that's a lot. I wonder what the allocation of roles is for all those folks???
- Kristi Colvin
My First Pregnancy Photo Shoot! - The Amazing Sparky (aka Brian Johns http://friendfeed.com/brianjo...) and I teamed up to do a photo shoot of of our beautifully pregnant friend Georgia http://friendfeed.com/georgia who has also been kind enough to let me share the photos. I haven't seen Sparky's awesome photos yet, but his lighting was perfect!...
Oh, the third thumbnail is one of my favorites! Such a good shot :) I also LOVE number 22!
- Georgia Diehl
Georgia, the third thumbnail is one of my absolute favs too!
- Rachel Lea Fox
I couldn't remember which one of you and Nathan you liked best, the first one above and 22 are two of my favorites of the both of you alone with the spot color one.
- Rachel Lea Fox
There is a bug with the FriendFeed SmugMug crawl. I'm pushing a fix now :)
- Benjamin Golub
And as the subject matter, I must add, both Rachel and Brian made the experience wonderful! I don't think the shots would have been so incredible if I wasn't so comfortable around the both of them.
- Georgia Diehl
Tonight I was faced with this scene at a party in Indianapolis for Monster Energy drink and I figure it is a good way to tell if you are a geek. If you first impulse is to ask the girls for help with your Ubuntu install, you are probably a geek. If you start wondering about what cool iPhone apps they use, you are probably a geek. If you want to ask them where the best places to find wifi in Paris are, you are probably a geek. If you want to invite them to a Facebook party you are probably a geek. If you ask them what they think of Android you are probably a geek.
- Robert Scoble
from email
If you know for a fact the girls don't care at all about you and are only there as paid advertisements, AND you still don't care and want to gawk and hang out and get photos with them anyway...you might be a geek.
- Josh Haley
You guys are a bunch of pathetic losers. Robert did you ask them what their astrological sign was? and if you did you are a geek who's desperate :)
- Jeunelle Foster
If you immediately turn to your iPhone and write about it on FriendFeed you are a geek
- Jesse Stay
I'm pretty sure I am still a geek, but there is no way any of those questions come to mind when I see this picture. And I think if those questions come to anyone's mind here, it might be time for geek-rehab.
- Bill Grant
Pogmohin: I talked with them for a while. Nice people but didn't know what Android was so I moved on.
- Robert Scoble
from iPhone
This post is just a cover story for why does Robert have this picture, anyway?
- Jason Wehmhoener
So is "What do you think of Android?" the new Turning test?
- Micah Wittman
thinking you can pick up said girls by telling them you wrote an iphone app and expecting them to get excited about it then you're a geek.
- evablue
Yeah.. I am from FHM mag.. Want to make the big time baby.. Now can the girl at the rear just reach around to the one at the front more...click .. front page Roberts Screen Saver..
- Pogmohoin
The girl at the right said her name was Ashley. Actually she said she was "Smashley." love that.
- Robert Scoble
from iPhone
Ashley owes me money and I better not run into her or her face would be smashley
- Jeunelle Foster
Bill: yup. I picked up on the iPod very quickly at the party. I am hoping Ashley sends me her play list!
- Robert Scoble
from iPhone
@Micah -- Me: "No, that's Mandroid. He stayed home. Wasn't cool enough. Android is...(way short explanation)"
- Dennis Jernberg
If you take a picture of three beautiful girls, post it on FF, and your first inclination is to write a caption that includes the words Ubuntu, iphone Apps and Android - OR if you comment on such a post... You are definitely a geek.
- Rob Rose
By the way none of the three had been to Europe so they couldn't help me with good places to get wifi for LeWeb.
- Robert Scoble
from iPhone
If you help them sign up for Facebook, FriendFeed, and Twitter, you're a geek.
- imabonehead
Well they don't look like they know how to boil rice
- Jeunelle Foster
Been to Europe?? Man did they say the best thing that come out of Europe was "The Final Countdown" from their Daddy's "86 with a Bullet" tape!! http://www.youtube.com/watch...
- Pogmohoin
This scene was the geek's dream while posting this. :)
- Bundit
imabonehead: actually they are already on Facebook. Which says something about how mainstream Facebook has gotten.
- Robert Scoble
All the Facebook friends in my family (except for my brother) are definitely nongeeks.
- Dennis Jernberg
Well I know I'm a geek. When someone like me, who spends a lot of time helping a sexy geek like Marina Orlova of http://hotforwords.com because she speaks geek and is enjoyable to work with. I might even venture to say she's a bit of a computer nerd. When Marina wakes up the first thing she does is check her email. When she gets ready for bed she can be found tweeting before she retires...
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- Captain Jack
Captain Jack: she sounds cool. What apps does she have on her iPhone?
- Robert Scoble
Were they impressed by the size of your lens, Robert?
- Vezquex: God of FF
Raphael: I didn't have that with me tonight. Was going low key. :-)
- Robert Scoble
If Robert had taken that shot with is 600mm, he would have had to have been 3 blocks away and you would be able to see the the flecks of color in their eyes :) You are looking at their eyes right?? -- My first thought was well, they can't be geeks as everyone knows true Geeks drink Red Bull not Monster :P Monster isn't all bad, they are big supporters of Surfrider and International Surfing day ----> Surfing Geek
- Luke Kilpatrick
If you're a geek, why are you asking someone else for help with your Ubuntu installation? Shouldn't you figuring that out yourself? Turn in your geek card, now.
- Andy Bakun
Yeah, they'd have to ask you to help with their Ubuntu installation. Except if they don't know what Android is, they probably haven't heard of Ubuntu either.
- Dennis Jernberg
"Well, hello there, sexy ladies! Would you like to come up to my place and read my @scobleizer feed? Hmm?" -bow-chicka-wow-wow-
- Kevin Leroux
wow. I couldn't even make out what was that thing in the BG. I noticed the additional thumb/thigh in front -so that makes me a photo geek??
- jomarhilario
Oh my! Now I'm sure I'm not a geek! Hahaha they are beautiful as hell!
- Rafael
if you find this picture of these attractive women on this page you are probably a geek...even if you don't read every single comment...including this one.
- Lee Sachs
Some of us geeks know what we're doing with women.
- Tyler Hurst
Oh, how gorgeous. You've got to love that Ipod design.
- James Kuypers
I can tell the way the Hottie on da Right is looking at me that she really likes ME a lot!!!
- Billy Warhol
@James I hereby award you the true geek award for your spotting of the iPod in this picture. =P (Special mention to the others who said MP3 player) - Silver iPod Nano I would think.
- Travis Koger
Really lol Scoble maybe u had been having 2 much fun @ the racetrack & geeks does attract some attractive wolla
- polou/indigo_bow
Funny old world three attractive women in a fun pose at a launch party and it creates enormous interest? Funny how things never really change in human habits, geek yep that's me but this article made me smile a lot, keep snapping away Robert.
- Ian Wright
If you are writing a disclaimer on a picture, you took at a party, because you don't want to be locked out of the house by your wife, you are a SMART geek:)
- Maryam Scoble
from iPhone
Heh, love that Maryam commented on this. I miss her and my two buddies. I'm just wondering why TechCrunch doesn't have parties like Monster drinks! ;-)
- Robert Scoble
Robert, you'll just have to bring a case or two of Monster to your next TC visit and see what happens.... just make sure the cam is on.
- Jay Cuthrell
Jeez, I must not be geekish at all — *my* first thoughts are all carnal.
- Hieronymus Murphy
Only qx...which was your first impulse? I pray for your sake it was to throw down camera & decide where u were going to be in Blonde sandwich. :-)
- Brenda Rothaupt