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Re: The rush to socialize the Enterprise continues with Blogtronix - http://scobleizer.com/2009...
"Would you mind sharing why used the Canon DSLR as opposed to the Zi8 to shoot this? Thanks!"
- Michael Krigsman
Re: The biggest things last week: Foursquare and Salesforce - http://scobleizer.com/2009...
"Social CRM refers to integrating data from outside the organization, such as support or marketing. Enterprise 2.0 suggests inward-facing collaboration. Large enterprises are interested in both. After all, folks inside an organization need to work together and collaborate, and social networks facilitate those activities. There's no reason to limit thinking to one or the other."
- Michael Krigsman
Re: The biggest things last week: Foursquare and Salesforce - http://scobleizer.com/2009...
"Agreed on the point that small enterprise social computing companies have a long term problem, as the larger players move into this space. One of Twitter's most brilliant moves (among others) was recognizing that scale would be the only way to fend off the inevitable large company invasion into this territory. Socialtext, Jive, and other similar companies must view the Salesforce announcement as a long-term threat. We don't know where Salesforce will go, but for sure incursion into social computing is part of their plan."
- Michael Krigsman
Re: The biggest things last week: Foursquare and Salesforce - http://scobleizer.com/2009...
"Hmmmm.... Interesting to talk about Chatter and Foursquare in the same breath. Clearly, FourSquare is consumer-oriented, however, Chatter straddles both consumer and enterprise worlds. On the surface, it's an odd comparison, so let's dig deeper. The significance of Chatter is validating social computing in the enterprise, which you addressed in the comment from Jive's CEO. Those who think Chatter is a trivial Twitter clone are short-sighted in their view. Based on off-the-record discussion with senior execs in a position to know, I can assure you that what we see today in Chatter is merely the tip of the iceberg. Social computing now has the strategic backing from one of the enterprise software heavyweights. That's significant. By the way, if anyone doubts Salesforce's commitment to Chatter, look no further than the the fact it is a new "force" platform module. That's their bedrock platform. FourSquare is important in the consumer domain, which is different than the enterprise, at..."
- Michael Krigsman
Re: Why CIOs Should Own Corporate Social Media Policy - http://www.transmyth.com/blog...
"Interesting question, for sure. I think the answer depends on your view of social media. If it is a technical function primarily, then the CIO is the rightful owner. If it's primarily marketing, then maybe the PR department should own it. On the other hand, if social media is about improving business efficiency, then why would either the CIO or marketing own it? My own view is that ideally social media is a business function like any other. The LOB should own it (not marketing or PR) and work in partnership with the CIO to implement."
- Michael Krigsman
Told @Scobleizer I want to hear bios of the people he follows -- each one has a story.
We all have stories...any particular reason you're looking for the stories of those @scobleizer follows?
- Sally done with 2009
Sally: I strongly suspect he has very specific reasons for each person he follows. His nose is excellent on this kind of thing.
- Michael Krigsman
I agree, if you do get those stories, I'd love to hear them too!
- Sally done with 2009
Sally: Robert said he would blog it.
- Michael Krigsman
I'm still working on them. Whew. Too many cool people out there! Everyone please stop being cool. :-)
- Robert Scoble
Robert: would be interesting to know what "rules" you apply when deciding who to follow
- Michael Krigsman
Thinking of selling my Leslie tone cabinet due to lack of use http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki...
:(
- Deepak Singh
Well, I've still got a guitar, various hand drums (including congas and djembe), and assorted keyboards, so it's not that bad!
- Michael Krigsman
What keyboards do you have?
- Deepak Singh
I hadn't heard that Suzuki Music purchased both Leslie and Hammond. Sad really. But a Leslie Cab is wonderful piece. Move slowly, and think twice Michael :)
- Ed Shahzade /NextInstinct
Deepak: Korg 01/w Pro and a Hammond electronic organ keyboard, but forget the model. Also, assorted sound modules to go with the Korg.
- Michael Krigsman
nice .. the closest I come to a Hammond is the B4
- Deepak Singh
from IM
Ed: it's big and LOUD, so not very practical. I use to keep it in my office at work, which was great.
- Michael Krigsman
Life keeps getting weird: tomorrow night we're meeting with Obama's CTO. What should we ask him?
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Chief Technology Officer of the United States, Aneesh Chopra
- Robert Scoble
Standardization.
- W. Kirk Crawford
do you use friendfeed yet?
- Rob Sellen :o)
Does he have a job for me? ;) No, I'll think of something more appropriate in a few
- Melanie Reed
He's supposed to be on Buzz Out Loud too.
- Kevin Arth
Will we have a broadband (or whatever) plan for rural areas something akin to Rural Electrification? Have fun!
- Ayşe E.
"Will we have a broadband (or whatever) plan for rural areas something akin to Rural Electrification? Have fun!" - Ayşe E. Spot on!! Yes, ask this one, Robert! Thanks, Ayşe E!
- Melanie Reed
Ask whether the new IT project dashboard will have a material impact reducing project failures and cost overruns. Transparency alone won't do it, since the GAO has been cataloging failures for years.
- Michael Krigsman
Is he making sure that obama can tweet from airforce one :)
- Ruchit Garg
Rural broadband is a good one.
- Luke Kilpatrick
+1 for rural broadand.
- ashish
what are some of his plans in regarding IT within the healtcare system, patient records, devices, communication tools, etc
- Shai Goldman
@Melanie :)
- Ayşe E.
Melanie: I wonder when AT&T will have 3G in Silicon Valley that works.
- Robert Scoble
More APIs for getting at government data. When and can we vote on which?
- Aaron Brethorst
Robert: shouldn't that be a question to AT&T's CTO?
- Luke Kilpatrick
Ach! Robert, If ye be gettin' the missing talent out of the rurals, ye might get the inventor stuck out here who will make it work for ye. Scots are great engineers of a tradition....and they need the country life as inspiration. ;)
- Melanie Reed
Standardize "open" for docs..e.g.USDA FNS reserves right to materials I produce but then collects them as PDF files. Useless to others.
- MI Nutrition Network
Where's all the NOW interaction we heard about? Am I missing something?
- Tom Guarriello
Ask him how he will stop IT employees moving to other industries (like they do every downturn) and decreasing the talent pool available when the economy recovers
- Robert Littlejohn
Why does he not have the White House on Politics4All.com? With 40 different political parties in over 30 different countries represented it would be a great place to keep in touch with the politically minded.
- Thomas Cook
There is no such thing as the CTO of the United States. And all you people asking about trains-run-on-time totalitarian goodies and MITI-style industrial policy should be ashamed of yourselves.
- Rob Sterling
Rural Broadband +1 ... Have heard the VA hospital system has one of the best IT, electronic records systems in the country, if true, why reinvent the wheel, just standardize/update?
- PXLated
Of course, I have no idea what the CTO of the USA is really in charge of :-)
- PXLated
Suggest he should host a virtual and/or regional Federal Gov't Bar Camp and/or Unconference on Social Media with practitioners (as opposed to consultants who are learning SM on the Gov't's dime) who are already attempting to break open the SM space inside Executive Branch. With broad participation from Senior Executive Service, GS-10s through GS-15s along with contractors like me. SM...
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- Dutch Driver
What's the admin's stance on net neutrality? - Eileen Spiegler
- Eileen Spiegler
When is the government going to offer a cloud computing platform?
- Tal Broda
Ask him why most govt. employees are forced to use IE, only recently upgraded to IE6, and are not allowed to download anything.
- Laura Norvig
What are his top three agenda items and what makes these things important and difficult?
- Michael Krigsman
Robert - I'd ask about what they are doing to better deal with "21st century government", which requires running websites just as well as Facebook or LinkedIn can. The Cash4Clunkers website crashed, which effectively means a $1B business wasn't put through even basic load testing. More thoughts on my blog: http://blog.browsermob.com/2009...
- Patrick Lightbody
Yeah, like Dutch Driver said!
- Tom Guarriello
Luke: of course that question is for AT&T's CTO. He has no clue, though (I asked him before the 3G came out and he thought their system was ready. So, I figure I'd just throw that out there. Heheh. Laura: great question. Governments move so freaking slow.
- Robert Scoble
Please ask if his administration will push for open Internet. Beg them to bring the web to Americans less fortunate than us anyways they can think of.
- Kemp Edmonds
from iPhone
Agreed,Laura: good question.
- Melanie Reed
Tal, I think they are on their way to doing that. Article just a day ago
- Melanie Reed
My Question: what steps will you take to minimize redundancies, streamline efficiencies and avoid conflicts between you as the White House CTO and the CTOs working in/across various government agencies?
- Christian
what is being done (budget, projects, staff) to get gov't data on the web and searchable/mashable? if additional legislation is needed for this, what needs to happen there? if no leg, just presidential directives what is needed to get that done? if projects are in the works now, name them, get progress reports, and timelines. if this stuff is stalled somewhere in the congress who do we badger to get things going?
- MikeAmundsen
My question, seriously: What ever happened to bills being online 72 hours before a vote for the public to read? They are ramming so many bills through so fast, and they have completely forgotten that promise. I want to know what became of a new era of government transparency.
- Sam Guzman
I'd tell him that if he's not capturing this stream he's a real moron.
- Tom Guarriello
Tom: the reason I asked people to do this on FriendFeed is so I could easily email it to him, and/or show it to him on my iPhone.
- Robert Scoble
Thank you, Robert!!
- Melanie Reed
Then you won't need ask what I said ;o) they will be like.. can you sort that out for us! ;o)
- Rob Sellen :o)
@scobleizer - It would be cool to show this to him... good stuff.
- Robert Freeze
Second Question: According to your job description, the Chief Technology Officer will oversee the development of a national, interoperable wireless network for local, state and federal first responders as the 9/11 commission recommended. What are the steps you need to take to realize this critical directive, and how soon do you foresee this being implemented?
- Christian
There is a part of me that would want to ask him how difficult it is to be the CTO and promote technology when government workers can't even use firefox
- Kim Landwehr
What is his charter, what can he do, what is he working on, what has he achieved so far?
- Alan Gray
I second asking questions about standardization and increased internet access (including plans to expand broadband and muni-WiFi).
- Katie Bishop
Robert: I was being facetious! The responses are so rich. Of course YOU would be capturing it; you asked the question, after all.
- Tom Guarriello
Ask him when he is going to do his second tweet. He did his first one over 100 days ago. (https://twitter.com/aneeshc...) I'm going to the Churchill Club event tomorrow to hear him. I hope he has something interesting to say. Some people are saying that he may have been hired for his presentation skills more than anything else.
- Michael Leonard
For god sakes, do not ask him about his birth certificate!
- Lucas
Have we moved past Lichtenstein or whatever tiny country that we were behind in terms of broadband internet access yet? And how are we getting there?
- mrpotter
Ask him why he's not a czar...yet.
- Ed Sweeney
Thanks for asking for questions Robert! Rural Broadband has been asked about, but I'd like to see if there's any way to lean some of that access onto some of the rural community radio stations that spread the word to folks with dial-up access and none at all.
- John Button
I say, ask him about what is being done to allow government entities to share data amongst them in a clear and accurate way. Is the US worried about digital terrorism? If so, what are we currently doing to protect our most valuable assets? If I think of more I'll post them later.
- guribe
1) Why is the website redesign of Recovery.gov costing the tax payers $18 million?
- Shaun Hess
Shaun, probably the old 'the bigger the client, the bigger the bill'.
- Travis Koger
from iPhone
I second Shaun's question... thou would state it as $9million up front, with up to $18 million total after options (which everyone knows they are going to do...)
- Philip Evans
When and how are medical records going to be digitally available in all instances and is this part of the health care initiative with any specific plans for implementation?
- Tom Bunzel
Will there be an open standard for Medical records/EHR, similar to clinical trials data like CFR Part 11?
- Aaman (Clone of FF)
Ask him why it takes $18 million to create one website. I'll do it for a tenth of that. http://bit.ly/rFJ9o
- Mike Shields
Ask him how far he's willing to go to move the government to digitize its myriad array of forms and move away from printouts for everything. Ask him what he's going to do to standardize the technology options between agencies. Ask him how "buckets of money" methodology is affecting the employees they serve. Ask him if he's willing to offer exit packages to those whose technological...
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- EricaJoy
Los Angeles experience: on the set of Criminal Minds talking to technology consultant to celebrities.
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He says FriendFeed is too complicated for stars.
- Robert Scoble
from iPhone
Stars have no brainpower?
- Michael Krigsman
That is probably true. They are probably more demanding in terms of wanting something that is simple/elegant/no hassle. I am sure it's only a matter of time before someone creates a UI that they like.
- Altan Khendup
So is a light switch.
- Geoff Schultz
"Stars" don't want discussion -- they want to talk about themselves to adoring fans -- Twitter is much more appealing for that.
- Brian Sullivan
The prima donna factor is alive and well.
- Michael Krigsman
Ran computer consultant ads in Daily Variety years ago to no avail.
- jacky
i bet he says that twitter has gained traction too...
- Chris Heath
We just witnessed a murder! :-)
- Robert Scoble
from iPhone
give them a "Scoble" quote to use at the beginning of one of their future episodes... ;-)
- Mike Villarreal
does he have any secrets up his sleeve that he can share?
- jeanette okwu
from email
You going to be on an episode? Robert Scoble as "The Tech Killer"
- Outsanity
Felicia Day? Rising geek star. Friendfeeder. (admittedly, primarily via Twitter, but her account is pretty robust nevertheless). Understands technology. Not scared of options, choices, or interacting w/ her fans. My kind of "star".
- Ken Kennedy
Can you get Mandy Patinkin back, it's not the same without him.
- Steve C
They hire tech consultants to keep things real and then create fake clones of YouTube, MySpace and Facebook to weave into storylines. I know that Hollywood hates to give out free lunch, but why don't they just use the real names instead and electrify those communities. Can you imagine how nuts we would go on FriendFeed, if they even mentioned it on the show. You need to convince them that if they give a free plug, they'll get a rapid FF fanbase in exchange.
- Davis Freeberg
and possibly rabid as well
- Chris Heath
Davis- They'd need to get legal permissions and negotiate agreements to the context of product placement. That can cost too much $ for something that plays just a couple of minutes in just one episode. TV budgets are fluid but tight.
- BairdWilliamson
It has been done though. Ex : CSI NY and Secondlife
- BairdWilliamson
I don't know that is necessarily true unless they are showing the product in a negative light. Even then, I'm pretty sure it would be low risk of getting sued to say that Friendfeed is awesomesauce on the program. At the very least, the Mybuddy.com fake websites they create, should be real. If they want to promote them, why not see if a social network shows up.
- Davis Freeberg
+1 Brian Sullivan. Stars couldn't (and probably they don't even want to) interact with anyone. Talking one to many is what they need.
- Markingegno - Donato
from Android
-Davis Legal Perms is a just a fact of life man, I've worked in TV. I agree with your second point on building real communities! :) Some shows have been experimenting with web 1.0 + 2.0 over the years. Heroes is a good example. Hit Show = bigger Web budget.. OK ratings = Facebook fanpage ;)
- BairdWilliamson
I understand that anytime you have a boatload of money, you risk being sued for any ticky tack reason, but are you telling me that I could be sued for doing a videocast on YouTube where I talk about Friendfeed or use them as a gag in a joke (parody) or just say nice things about them so that they'd look like gasbags if they tried to sue over it? Fact of life or no, they're welcome to mention Davis Freeberg anytime they like and I won't sue. I don't even mind if they make me one of the bad guys.
- Davis Freeberg
Nope NOT saying that at all. Just sayin that unfortunately: No legal = No production Insurance = No show. (As an investment advisor, you've got practice insurance with stipulations right? Same thing.) That said, that's dramatically changing as we speak. Like with the guy Robert's interviewing right now. If the actors are using FF then the show is using FF. The rules and structure is changing in Hollywood. You and I are influencing part of that change.
- BairdWilliamson
Just be careful if you make a videoblog about your landlord ;) http://mashable.com/2009...
- BairdWilliamson
I am sitting with CEO of Sonos and he is debating me about which mobile platform they should support next. What do you think? (After iPhone)
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Android all the way
- Robert Burgin
thanks for your updates today, they're great!
- nivcalderon
I say Android too.
- Robert Scoble
from iPhone
Android! Please! I would be more likely to buy Sonos stuff if they support Android.
- Travis B. Hartwell
Great minds think alike lol
- Robert Burgin
Zune.
- Andru Edwards
WebOS and the Palm Pre.
- Jonathan Ezor
What Android phone?
- Robert Scoble
from iPhone
HTC Hero
- Robert Burgin
Palm Pre, then port it to the rest via phone gap.
- Luke Kilpatrick
WebOS
- Rodfather
As a Sonos user, I can assure him that Blackberry comes after iPhone. What other choice is there?
- Michael Krigsman
They should hit Windows Mobile, in all honesty. Just from a penetration standpoint. Of course, I have no idea how feasible that is. But they should definitely go with Android over WebOS so they don't tie themselves to ONE device on the market.
- Andru Edwards
@Robert Yeah, it shouldn't matter which phone. Just target the platform....
- Travis B. Hartwell
Android.
- Jeff
Michael: blackberry users don't do much other than email.
- Robert Scoble
from iPhone
Andru: Palm will have more devices out with webOS by the end of the year, I predict by the middle of 2010 every carrier will have webOS devices.
- Luke Kilpatrick
Symbian Please!
- Peter Kelley
No other platform offers the freedom that android does IMHO
- Robert Burgin
However, more important than platform, they should allow the desktop application to play synched music with the Sonos system. Sure, there are technical reasons militating against this, but they should figure it out.
- Michael Krigsman
Or Java
- Peter Kelley
Yes, Robert. An application written for the HTC Dream/T-Mobile G1 should work on the HTC Magic/T-Mobile myTouch 3G. As for the HTC Hero and other non-Google Android forks, applications *should* be able to work, I think. Not completely sure, though; so correct me if I'm wrong.
- Rishabh Mishra (p248)
That is not true at all, Robert. I know many, many people who buy BlackBerry as a consumer device nowadays. The iPhone has changed that perception of smartphones.
- Andru Edwards
Robert: hmmm....and Blackberry users do not use Sonos systems?
- Michael Krigsman
The Razor
- Jeff
And in case I didn't make it clear enough, I totally want Android support.
- Rishabh Mishra (p248)
Anyway, glad we are having the same debate they are having internally.
- Robert Scoble
from iPhone
Luke, I know. But right now, there is just one device, with nothing else announced. It makes more sense to go where the users are.
- Andru Edwards
Sonos has a cool controller coming out tonight, by the way.
- Robert Scoble
from iPhone
I had the Curve and my G1 blows it away just my experience though
- Robert Burgin
We Sonos users do not need whiz bang coolness -- we need solid functionality that works.
- Michael Krigsman
How about their own? I'd really like smaller, less expensive remote. Also, *any* level of control with a Logitech Harmony remote would be fantastic.
- Kevin Fox
I am putting together all of our assets on the new controller right now. Check out Gear Live in 90 minutes for all the news ;)
- Andru Edwards
The iPhone controller is excellent: well-designed and makes use of existing hardware so no additional cost. That's superb.
- Michael Krigsman
Palm Pre. New apps are hugely popular now.
- Jon Winters
Android...duh
- Jeremy Franklin
By the way, the Sonos PR mgr. sent me a Sonos t-shirt after I twitter positively about the product. I liked that a lot.
- Michael Krigsman
Public API. Let a thousand apps bloom.
- Kevin Fox
Palm Pre.
- David Chartier
I would go Android. Mainly because I would buy an Android and not the Pre or Blackberry. But then I would go Motorola RAZR
- Jeff
I think it's great that they went after the iPhone first. No flies on these guys.
- RobinDotNet
Holden: That's my point. But just because it makes the most sense, doesn't mean everyone recognizes that! They do. Smart guys. :-)
- RobinDotNet
None. Ok, maybe Google Android.
- Jose Alvear
I took the plunge and finally joined FF just to tell you to support Android. You know in your heart its the least evil of the platforms.
- Neeraj Kumar Agrawal
Get him to cut his hardware costs in half so that his stuff is affordable...
- Buzz Bruggeman
I second the Public API. It not only would benefit all the phone platforms, but soooo much more.
- Ward Mundy
Robert: If you are still with the Sonos team - Please ask when the new controller will be available in other Markets? Australia? Thanks.
- Clifford Kennedy
I third the vote for an API. There are some hacky UPNP Apis but a formal API would open up many new apps-
- Tom Wentworth
from iPhone
Why only one more platform? Seriously, they should do a few. Android and WebOS to start with.
- Cyrus Lendvay
I love my Sonos, but can you please ask him why I should get a new smaller controller for $350 when I could get an iPod Touch that does the same thing and more for less money?
- Kevin Fox
Kevin - the new controller is something you can leave in a common, shared area, has much better screen resolution, replaceable battery, etc.
- Andru Edwards
Andru: Do I need a resolution better than the iPod Touch in order to control a Sonos? If my iPod Touch only has the Sonos app on it, what's the concern of leaving it in a common area? It's a home, not a dorm after all. Lastly, when would it possibly be better for me to replace a battery than to put the controller back in a charging cradle?
- Kevin Fox
Blackberry would reach more users. Android 3rd
- LANjackal
Kevin, it's not for eveyone, but it gives you the option. I have an iPod touch, and an iPhone, both with the Sonos controller on them. But what if I don't want you, or any other guest, using my iPhone and possibly seeing my text messages or other alerts that come through on those devices? Obviously, those devices can be rich with personal info, that I don't want shared. If I hand you my...
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- Andru Edwards
I concede some of your points. It's also nice to have an integrated bundle with a single-purpose remote. For my own needs (and I may not be the target demographic) I already have a Sonos system and am considering an additional remote. My point is that buying an iPod Touch to be used exclusively for controlling the Sonos makes more sense for me. It's highly responsive, can easily sit in...
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- Kevin Fox
Yeah, I don't know WHY they price is that high - but it is cheaper than the older one, with more features. Also, the older one is going to be very heavily discounted until it sells out, so there's that. One other benefit, which may or may not be attractive to some, is you pick up the controller, and it is ready immediately. No pressing of the home button, sliding the screen, finding the app, waiting for it to connect to network.
- Andru Edwards
WebOS: any professional Web developer working today can start developing for it right now, without learning anything they don't already know: HTML, CSS, Javascript.
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Here are some images of the new Sonos Controller 200: http://www.gearlive.com/news...
- Andru Edwards
Zune HD? Xbox 360?
- Mike Nayyar
I've had 5 Sonos units for the last 5 years, very very pleased.....it was actually the "THING" that made my change jump from a HTC Windows Phone to an iphone, it was the deciding factor. They were nice enough to offer to replace the controller after my pup got a hold of it: http://www.flickr.com/photos...
- Jacob Shea
CrackBerry obviously
- Daniel W. Crompton
The Iranian Solidarity Project is calling for a worldwide day of mourning and solidarity on July 30th, the 40th day of Neda Agha Soltan's passing. Please do what and your community can to honor this woman and to show solidarity with those in Iran on the 30th. Please pass this along and translate if necessary.
- Joe
Android
- Leonardo Saraceni
from twhirl
I say the Xperian T3 phone is the next big Android release.
- Amani
Android.
- mjc
Android
- prasanna gautam
So what was the verdict? How's that webOS app coming along? :-)
- Steve Lemke
Android! (w/ HTC sense)
- Clemens Orthacker
Android!
- Jeff Watson
I would suggest Android, however choose which mobile OS has the largest market share.
- Wayne M
I wasn't arguing with @brettschulte on the tank issue. I think you're misreading me. I think CNN is doing responsible journalism TODAY.
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Robert, you are really multitasking tonight!
- Myrna
Fareed Zakaria had a good article on Iran and tomorrow he has his show talking about Iran for 1 hour.
- Myrna
Are you serious? Reading Twitter steam is good news? We can do that on our own and do! And the Money Summit on now when people want to know what is going on?
- Liza
Myrna: yeah, Fareed is a good guy. I heard him speak a couple of weeks ago. Really smart.
- Robert Scoble
He'll allay my fears tomorrow either way.
- Myrna
Robert - as you know I've been in contact with the news room. There was no time where they held anything back. Not sure where you think they "failed". No one had the full story.
- Brett Schulte
Have you seen https://www.torproject.org/ (via Tim O'Reilly) It should be a trending topic.
- Benjamin Taylor
Hell I got you interviewed for gods sake - does that sound like they're hiding something???
- Brett Schulte
What happened to breaking news? That is FAIL. They are not commenting.
- Liza
Brett, for 1 hour neither CNN nor CNN International is talking Iran. They took a break!
- Myrna
There's nothing solid in the news room to go with. They're not going to air every unsubstantiated tweet,
- Brett Schulte
They already have, Brett!
- Liza
And, but they could retweet.
- Liza
Liza: Not many people can read as much tweetstream as Scoble or a CNN it takes some serious multitaking ability to watch multiple searches at once, find new data, and determine truth. And so to do that, and bring it to the people who can't, and the people who don't know what a Twitter is....well, that's helpful.
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
Ok, so props for educating us on social media, but as for breaking news - FAIL.
- Liza
Why don't you beat up Fox or MSNBC for a change? :)
- Brett Schulte
Happy to, Brett, but that is not the thread.
- Liza
Any evidence that now that authorities can't block twitter they will engage in dis-information campaign? Set up events as a trap?
- sherry reynolds
They're too easy Brett. :)
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
It all came from last week's CNN Fail conversation, and I am saying it has had a week to figure out a POA, and it is RT TV.
- Liza
Robert if you want to be interviewed again or go on live let me know.
- Brett Schulte
That way it'll be on you. ;)
- Brett Schulte
Scoble, maybe that is why you know who is pissed at you - envy:)
- Liza
CNN with C. Amanpour is talking with Roger Cohen in Tehran right now
- Myrna
Here's a thought - let's have CNN send Robert over to cover this and kill two birds with one stone (so to speak).
- Brett Schulte
Great idea Brett then we can watch Robert and find out good info
- Myrna
Brett: I don't know why you think I was attacking CNN today. But the truth is their brand has gone WAY down in the past 10 days. First they didn't cover it wall to wall. Now they aren't in Iran (I know it's not their fault) and are left reporting what's on Twitter and Youtube. Not a great showing from the USA's greatest news organization.
- Robert Scoble
Why don't I pick on Fox or MSNBC? Because Fox and MSNBC aren't playing in every airport and every hotel I visit around the world. When they are I'll pick on them.
- Robert Scoble
Unfortunately, CNN has been but a shadow of its former self for a long time.
- Michael Krigsman
What would you have them do Robert? Where did they fail?
- Brett Schulte
Hey guys they're doing an phone interview with Roger Cohen from Tehran..they're trying.
- Myrna
CNN...am I the only one luck enough here to have access to BBC World.
- Adi
Brett: where CNN failed is in spending enough resources in Iran to cover Iran well. Sorry, Christiane isn't enough. But this is going to be the story more and more. Myrna: yes, today they are doing better and they are trying. But compared to the totality of what I'm seeing on friendfeed I think CNN still isn't doing that well.
- Robert Scoble
Like I said @Scobleizer, let's send you over for CNN. Let me know if you want me to push that idea.. it might actually fly.
- Brett Schulte
Brett: I wish I was there right now, but two problems: my family won't let me take that kind of risk and 2, if Christiane can't get in there I seriously doubt I could.
- Robert Scoble
Scoble, you don't have to go to report.
- Liza
They are not there -
- Liza
Liza: you have to be there if you are going to get anything better than what you're seeing on friendfeed.
- Robert Scoble
Actually I think you're too involved to be objective anyway.
- Brett Schulte
Robert, that is the point - they are doing what you are doing. And on a much larger budget. AND that is my point. Who else is better prepared to funnel feeds and respond?
- Liza
Brett: probably true. But you telling me that the people who cover it don't have opinions about the government there?
- Robert Scoble
At least they have the appearance of being objective. ;)
- Brett Schulte
Robert: It's unfair to compare the resources of one news agency (even the largest one) against crowdsourced news gathering on Twitter, FB, and FF. The future of news will be companies harnessing that crowd on particular stories. #Iranelection happened spontaneously. In the future, news gathering will be coordinated across volunteers by news/media organizations. At that time, the role of news agencies will become interpreting / assembling small bits of gathered news into a coherent whole.
- Michael Krigsman
Liza: actually I'm getting more sources on my like feed than CNN is on theirs. But that's because I have a clue about friendfeed, which pulls in blogs, Tweets, photos, YouTube, and many many other things.
- Robert Scoble
Michael: in the late 1970s people said it was unfair to compare CNN to the resources of ABC, NBC, and CBS. They were wrong then. What we are witnessing is a new way that humans will produce and get news and that has DEEP implications for CNN.
- Robert Scoble
Michael: Well said. I think all traditional media "fails" us in comparison to real tme social meida, it's the nature of the beast not a fail by the company.
- Brett Schulte
That is very correct Robert.
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
Yes, I updated my comment, Robert, if 'coverage' is handling feeds, then why isn't CNN 'covering' it. (we know the answer!)
- Liza
Brett: with one exception. The news judgment CNN showed last Saturday by putting on shows like Larry King Live was a major fail by a news company that had built a brand by being first to cover the news.
- Robert Scoble
Robert: That's exactly my point. It's obvious the role of CNN will change. They don't stand a chance against distributed social media. Their role will be assembling, explaining, and interpreting the data from social media into a coherent picture with context.
- Michael Krigsman
Hey, I'm not a huge Fox fan either but nobody can deny the fact that they are right now running two + hours of continuous Iran coverage with one of their best anchors live on the weekend. It's positively worth noting and another cnnfail.
- Charlie Anzman
Robert could you create a feed of all the sources you are receiving on Iran and release to public?
- Russ Jackson
Michael: you might be right as long as CNN understands their new role and actually performs there.
- Robert Scoble
Russ: I've been putting my favorite stuff at http://www.friendfeed.com/scoblei...
- Robert Scoble
Robert - you know very well how this business works. They didn't have anything to go with. They knew what was going on, but had nothing to show, no one to interview. What could they do... show a map and run live tweets? As a journalist, you know better.
- Brett Schulte
i appreciate your passion but whipping people who are doing their best to cover this in a new age of social media doens't help anyone.
- Brett Schulte
Brett: that's bull and you have to remember that Rick Sanchez and I had some private conversations about what happened last Saturday. CNN totally failed to show up.
- Robert Scoble
Brett: On stage Rick Sanchez said we (Twitterer's and bloggers) depend on main stream news. I answered back that we used to but then Saturday happened and we learned we could get along quite well without them.
- Robert Scoble
So your whole issue is that SUnday night they didn't go live? That's it?
- Brett Schulte
Bottom line, what is the value of watching CNN? They are admitting they can't report on it, so I admire honesty, but seems like they are using it as excuse.
- Liza
Here's all items I've "liked" with the word "Iran" or "Tehran" in them: http://friendfeed.com/search...
- Robert Scoble
What did he say
- Myrna
Myrna: he admitted that the executive news producers made some bad choices and hinted that they didn't have a full crew on hand to handle wall-to-wall news. In other words, they didn't understand how big a story the Iran protests were. Now they have. They've been wall-to-wall almost ever since.
- Robert Scoble
Robert: I suggest CNN will ultimately have no choice but to embrace that role. As the world population becomes more Internet savvy, with more Internet access available (through phones, etc), #iranelection will repeat itself. We know content quality wins in the end, so FF, Twitter, etc, become more and more important. At the same time, CNN is better positioned to bring experts together to offer analysis and broader context that helps readers/viewers understand that news data feed.
- Michael Krigsman
Myrna / Robert: Correct - NO ONE knew how big it was.
- Brett Schulte
This isn't the first time CNN has been beaten by what I call the "Twitter News Network" either. We knew about the Chinese Earthquake 45 minutes before CNN even admitted it (and USGS had reported it as an 8.0 42 minutes earlier.
- Robert Scoble
Even the 'experts'.
- Liza
Brett: wrong. The Twitter News Network knew how big it was. We had photos. Videos. First hand reports. And we knew that the government was blocking even more reports from getting out.
- Robert Scoble
Ok, we'll get great info from Fareed Zakaria tomorrow.
- Myrna
Suggesting CNN is better equipped ot get experts is not fair if their reputation erodes. Lots of free agents.
- Liza
Robert: I don't know beaten is the right term. A news organization moves more methodically than the mob... and for good reason.
- Brett Schulte
Brett: the truth is that CNN is a news business with American news values. If it bleeds overseas we don't care usually. The producers on Saturday made bad news judgment and you know it.
- Robert Scoble
Liza: You or I will not go out and hire a bunch of experts for commentary. CNN has the resources to do precisely that.
- Michael Krigsman
Brett: USGS reported the Chinese earthquake 43 minutes before CNN. That's bullshit that they don't move fast when there's authentic news.
- Robert Scoble
Maybe today, Michael, but to suggest that won't change is antiquated, and how CNN got in this mess, from not following new trends.
- Liza
Robert: Actually, it's my understanding (not sure) that the international feed WAS vovering it, but the domestic feed did not.
- Brett Schulte
I would love to see this extend to responsible journalism and blogging for all, in all media. Now and in the future. Way to use the platform for the greater good!
- Patricia
Michael: CNN also has the resources to buy HD cameras that I can't afford. I told Jim Long, cameraman at the White House, that we'll now watch him not because he'll be first, but because he'll have the most glorious HDTV. He agrees. HIs camera costs $150,000.
- Robert Scoble
Robert remember the japan earthquake that was reported? Should they have gone with that.. it turned out to be an error. Knowing something 5 minutes sooner or latter isnt as important as getting it right.
- Brett Schulte
@Robert, lots of big media uses flip now. I know of two major media outlets that do.
- Patricia
Brett: the International feed? On my TV that's not in HDTV and is always second rate news compared to CNN. Patricia: yes, CNN plays lots of flip video. They've been playing YouTUbe video all day long.
- Robert Scoble
CNN can afford these things now, but things change and Good pt Patricia.
- Liza
Brett: did the USGS report the Japanese earthquake? No, they didn't. So what are we arguing about?
- Robert Scoble
@Robert, that's rad. Either way, I love how you always draw attention to stuff. Not enough who have the platform to evangelize change do so like you. Very cool.
- Patricia
Patricia: good point about Flip, by the way. The difference between Jim Long's $150,000 camera and a Flip (or especially between my $3,000 one) are getting smaller and smaller.
- Robert Scoble
The disagreement is on resources, experts, all moving targets.
- Liza
Robert: Numerous agencies reported the earthquake. I guess we're arguing about what's more important, breaking news, or responsible verification. I think the latter. What would it have MATTERED had CNN been on the story earlier Sunday night? I don't want heresay, I want verified reporting and analysis.... that takes time.
- Brett Schulte
Robert: There are several aspects here: time lag between an event occurring and broadcasting, breadth of reporting (meaning feet on the street - crowdsourcing wins here), quality of the content (accuracy of reporting and trusted sources), quality of presentation (good equipment), and quality of interpretation (analysis and creating context). So, the equation isn't simple. But, we know for damn sure this equation doesn't balance tomorrow as it did in the past.
- Michael Krigsman
Liza: right, on stage during our debate at the Twitter news conference Anne Curry talked about having to fight for resources to cover important stories (she runs NBC's Today Show news). That's what's going on behind the scenes that Brett isn't talking about. This is a business.
- Robert Scoble
CNN also gets beat up when they get it wrong. It's often a no win. anyway - give them a break. Night all.
- Brett Schulte
Brett: we call "aged news" the newspaper. I don't want "aged news." I want the best news first. That's what CNN built its reputation on. CNN didn't say "we're slower but better than ABC/CBS/NBC." They always had the news FIRST. What we're seeing is the destruction of that 25-year-old brand.
- Robert Scoble
The cliches are cute Robert, but it's only news if it's REAL, and confirmed, otherwise it's called irresponsible gossip.
- Brett Schulte
It should be said that media operation is different. it has never been truly "real time." today, yes you hear about it first hand from someone who is there, seeing it -- but that is almost never a journalist. it's an internet user. for network tv, newspapers, even the AP to get a story out used to be fast. the internet has changed that, now, it's faster. they aren't catching up. it'd be...
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- Patricia
CNN and FOX doing great job today. MSNBC still doing prison specials
- Chris Johnston
As someone who is involved in selling a research and reference database to media organizations (not my only clients), I can tell you that every major media organization we deal with is cutting back on their research budgets and staff. I think that speaks volumes about what's happening in mainstream news media right now.
- Thomas
Brett: CNN always had video cameras on air first. That's what built their brand in my head. Now we're watching YouTube on CNN. That tells me that CNN's news brand is under attack.
- Robert Scoble
I love the fact, Scoble, that ppl listen to you, but I hate that they often don't listen to others in this space until you restate it.
- Liza
Thomas: exactly and if you get news people off of camera THEY ALL admit that's what's happening. Even Rick Sanchez.
- Robert Scoble
Thomas: Economics and technology conspire to force change.
- Michael Krigsman
What @Scobleizer hasn't said, is who did it better. Twitter? maybe, but i trust crowd sourced news about as much as crowd sourced brain surgery.
- Brett Schulte
Brett: Some details in crowdsourced news may be wrong. But the overall pattern and flow of crowdsourced reporting sometimes tells a highly meaningful story.
- Michael Krigsman
Liza: I try to use that responsibility carefully. Brett: I trust it far more, but only after time. The crowd cleans up messes VERY quickly. If I had to wait for CNN I might never know. American news value is to not care about overseas news. How often have I talked with journalists in other countries who tell me they can't get their news on CNN or other news networks? All the time.
- Robert Scoble
Michael, Yes, exactly. And the researchers, who are left, now sit with the reporters. Researchers are doing more writing of stories, and reporters more of their own research.
- Thomas
I could do without "realtime" reporting if I got good analysis. But US news fails to provide that (not just CNN).
- Eoghann Irving
And Brett you are missing that the crowdsourced news network shows us ALL news, not just that from a single network. So we get better informed.
- Robert Scoble
Eoghann: actually even in the analysis phase I find that we're getting better stuff online. Look at http://www.memeorandum.com
- Robert Scoble
Just watched the 140 Conf panel on the CNN. I have loved CNN from day one and remember when it was referred to as "Chicken Noodle News". CNN was the only station I watched during the first Gulf war because it was the most accurate and updated source based on what we were reading on usenet from people in the middle east.
- John McCullough
You get only a tiny fraction of that kind of analysis on ANY TV news network. Or, visit http://news.google.com -- 100x more and 100x better analysis.
- Robert Scoble
Robert: But Brett also has a point if you seek researched accuracy about specific details, which sometimes matters a lot and other times doesn't. Depends on the situation.
- Michael Krigsman
Michael: during an earthquake there's one site that matters: USGS. During the Chinese earthquake we knew that detail online 43 minutes before CNN.
- Robert Scoble
Robert, I realize you take it seriously, glad they are listening, would like more ears and more voices, from trad media, that's all.
- Liza
Most impressive news org research departments from staffing and tech perspective I've seen are New York Times and AP. I haven't been to CNN's HQ.
- Thomas
Liza: "More ears and voices" is totally an economics-driven issue. These forces are larger than any particular news agency and out of their control. They need to play the ball where it lies, not where they (or we) want it to be.
- Michael Krigsman
i mean transitioning FROM print....
- Patricia
Robert: That's an impressive resource that I wasn't aware of. It will take some digesting though. I think there's still a role that CNN (or a similar network) could fill giving summaries and analysis in easy to digest form. Unfortunately I don't think any US network does this currently. I usually end up checking BBC World.
- Eoghann Irving
But, that said, I get testy hearing 'this is business', Robert, b/c I get that. That is my point.
- Liza
I think there will always been a critical need for journalistic editorial expertise, even as applied to social media. We need to know what to believe. That said, I agree with Robert that the CNN brand has taken a beating, and rightly so. When I turn to CNN and Larry King and Nancy Grace are recapping a non-story for the third, tenth, twentieth week in a row, my first instinct anymore is to open up TweetDeck and see what's coming in from the NYT, Reuters, etc.
- Scotty Perkins
As long as we funnel resources to businesses who don't use their capital (monetary or social) appropriately, there will be frustration. The resources shift, though, are are already.
- Liza
Liza: traditional media is used to listening to people with influence, they aren't that used to listening to everyday people. Scotty: oh, Nancy Grace is the most horrible thing CNN has EVER done to their brand. Far worse than being 24 hours late on wall to wall coverage of Iran. The fact that that network keeps her on invalidates every argument that Brett has had in this thread, to tell the truth. Really sad.
- Robert Scoble
+5 Robert re: Nancy Grace. What a horror.
- Chris Baskind
Robert, I couldn't agree with you more about Nancy Grace. Tabloid journalism has no place on a network whose brand is serious, real news.
- Thomas
The US news model puts American news above all else and largely discounts international news. The question is, does that represent what the US public actually wants? Clearly not the people in this thread, but we probably aren't the average US viewer.
- Eoghann Irving
I am British, I watch the BBC. I have no idea who any of these people are :)
- David Lloyd
Thomas: to call Nancy Grace "Tabloid journalism" is a disgrace to tabloids. She's the worst.
- Robert Scoble
Mark: count yourself lucky. The BBC is coming out of this a lot better than CNN is.
- Robert Scoble
Mark: Be grateful. I'm Scottish, but I live in the States. It's not just international news that's bad here. The 24 hour news networks are a horror.
- Eoghann Irving
Robert, My apologies to the tabloids, absolutely. In fact, putting Nancy (dis)Grace and journalism in the same sentence was silly, too.
- Thomas
We also need to make sure we don't overemphasize the wall-to-wall at the expense of the long-form. We need the wall-to-wall to keep us informed of the breaking stuff, but personally I don't feel properly informed about major news until I've heard the analysis on the NewsHour podcast. That's a bit of an oversimplification, but you get the idea.
- Scotty Perkins
Scotty: yeah, we need long form too. I love long form. But media businesses usually don't like it. They know that most people won't watch and that it'll cost too much to produce. So they go back to Nancy Grace.
- Robert Scoble
Sigh...
- Scotty Perkins
Scotty: Completely agree that analysis is at least as important and probably more important than play by play. I'd even argue that a lot of what's wrong with the 24 hour networks has been the emphasis on live coverage at the expense of real insight. When you get a situation like this where they can't even do live coverage, then the weakness really shows.
- Eoghann Irving
I agree!
- Steph Love
@nytimeskristof just posted this link to pictures from Iran on Twitter http://www.demotix.com/iranele...
- Thomas
@eoghann - well done.
- Liza
This photo should win a Pulitzer Prize. I never expected to see photos like this one come out of Iran. Amazing: - http://twitpic.com/7c85l
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http://tehranlive.org/ is the site that seems to have originated this photo.
- Robert Scoble
I wish I knew who shot the photo. Anyone know?
- Robert Scoble
Absolut!!
- Ronald
No country is one dimensional. That's why I'm so mad at the local media.
- Mo Kargas
Robert: don't think we should unveil them, otherwise they'll be arrested ;)
- Nir Ben Yona
Absolutely incredible
- Michael Krigsman
It is pretty remarkable. It was so good when I saw it last night on Twitter I was afraid it might be a fake.
- Jeff Namnum
It might be Amir Sadhegi. I friended him on FB last night. He's an independent photog associated with Tehranlive.org
- Jill Elswick
I just left a comment for him about the photo...
- Jill Elswick
I'm afraid to think what happened to this brave woman.
- Orli Yakuel
Jill: thank you. Here's his Facebook profile: http://www.facebook.com/amirpix... and his photo page: http://www.amirpix.com/ Incredible photo, best one to capture the event yet.
- Robert Scoble
http://flickrfan.files.wordpress.com/2009... I like this one
- BryanSchuetz
Robert: You're welcome. Here, also, is a link to the Tehranlive.org "about" page. It lists Amir Sadhegi as the contact: http://tehranlive.org/about/
- Jill Elswick
Very moving - that is a brave person.
- Alex Hellstrom
Front picture of this women: http://twitpic.com/7c6jz
- Orli Yakuel
Alex: the photographer is brave too. Wow, what close work.
- Robert Scoble
Iran "tankwoman"
- K.D.
Robert: your tweet is now the popular here http://iran.twazzup.com/
- Johni Fisher
None of this reporting -- None of it -- would be possible without online tools. Robert -- there's the 2010 Web! I seem to remember your earlier question (a few months ago) about the definition of journalism. This is it. It's not up to the "paid journalists" at the NY Times or Chicago Tribune anymore. It's up to you, me, people like @jamesbuck, and the person who took this photo and put it online.
- Curt Mercadante
Curt: amen!
- Robert Scoble
I'm not really surprised, Iranians are a lot more empowered than people in the West think. It is *not* Saudi Arabia!
- Joelle Nebbe (iphigenie)
Robert: I didn't even think about the photographer! Thanks for pointing that out. I do believe I'll be looking at all these pics in a different light now.
- Alex Hellstrom
Thanks for getting this out. It's so easy to get lost in tweeting about our silly mundane lives that we forget how important images like this can result in making people aware and helping to make a difference in the world.
- mrsha
Amazing photo - thanks for finding it & sharing it Robert!
- Gurpreet
What happened to her after all?
- Christine Yang
Robert Scoble, Thank you for informing about current news in Iran. We will never forget this. (from Iran)
- Zahra (raoros)
I thought the same thing last night. Maybe the Iranians finally are willing to make some change.
- Tom Searing
@Tom Searing: I hope so, the only way is change...
- Zahra (raoros)
Photo of the year.
- Mike Doeff
moment!
- reality
چی میشه آخرش
- Hamid
Curt, right, after listening to Scoble on a panel about the future of Journalism, and he was the only one "journalizing" it via Kyte, I wrote a post that the future of Journalism is a video camera or in this case a camera. I remember that it was the camera and video camera that stopped Vietnam for instance
- Stephen Pickering
And, putting aside for a bit whether or not CNN ignored the story -- we're now getting news that NBC's Tehran office may have been raided and the BBC has been told to "get lost." Under oppressive, censoring regimes like we have in Iran, North Korea and China -- citizen journalists empowered by new communications tools will be the ONLY way we get accurate news from these regions.
- Curt Mercadante
Curt Mercadante 100+
- Bora Zivkovic
the detail- the untied shoe lace. wow.
- anna sauce
Inspiring. Let's hope the government falls. Because if it doesn't, there will probably be vicious repression.
- Bob Morris (polizeros)
روز زن مبارک
- Mir "hamidreza" Mosavi
I am the photographer of this photo
- Amir
It's really a fantastic photo Amir, do you know the woman in the photo?
- BryanSchuetz
WOW. How can you say anything else?
- Sheryl
I love the fact that people start setting up proxy servers for the people in Iran: http://bit.ly/Fiqmb
- Holger Eilhard
Shocking stuff
- Tyson Key
If anyone ever doubted the revolutionary, real-time impact of Social Media, this photo easily dispels those misconceptions....
- John Fenzel
Amir: you have a fan for life. I hope you do win the Pulitzer Prize. I think you got the iconic photo of the election protests. This one should hang in Newseum's Pulitzer Gallery. Can you tell us how you shot it, and give us more details about what was going on in your head as you pressed the shutter button? To everyone else, don't you love friendfeed?
- Robert Scoble
Amir: when I took photojournalism at San Jose State University one quote stuck in my mind from all those classes over the years "If your pictures aren't good enough, you're not close enough." That quote was from Robert Capa, here's an article in Time Magazine about it: http://www.time.com/time... You have gotten close enough. Congrats, I can't even imagine trying to get this close. I hope all comes out well for your country and you.
- Robert Scoble
Robert: I've only been using friendfeed for about 5 days and I'm already in love with it. I guess I picked a good time to try it out!
- Alex Hellstrom
Amir, what do you shoot with?
- EricaJoy
NYT swipes at bloggers writing crap http://www.nytimes.com/2009... (via @Mickeleh)
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What else is new? It's not like this is the first time, the NYT has done it.
- Matt Ruiz
They're very slow to respond. The article they referred to was on May 6th the response is nearly a whole month later.
- Nicholas James
Worse than Judith Miller's front page Times articles on aluminum tubes? http://www.nytimes.com/2002...
- Rolf Schewe
Obviously my point wasn't clear. I *agree* with the NYT: bloggers writing unverified stories for page views is crap. The Times is absolutely right to take a stance against that garbage.
- Michael Krigsman
THIS CONTEST IS OVER, PLEASE DO NOT COMMENT ON THIS ANY MORE. Thank you.
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THIS CONTEST IS OVER. THE MONEY HAS ALREADY BEEN GIVEN AWAY. I'm giving away $4,500 of my money. The contest will be here in friendfeed between now and Tuesday afternoon. Ends 3 p.m. Austin, Texas Time. Winner will be picked live on http://www.ustream.tv/studio at 4 p.m. Austin Time. Two ways to win: First way to win ($1,000). Leave a comment here. We'll pick one winner out of a hat randomly. Second way to win (Two prizes of $1,750 each). Leave a comment about how you will use the money (use only one comment here). I'll pick my favorite two messages and announce a winner on Tuesday afternoon. Good luck!
- Robert Scoble
Good way to keep us engaged Robert :)
- bcultral
only that? too easy Robert! :)
- directeur
Robert "Ben Stein" Scoble :)
- Mattb4rd
Will it be tax free? :P
- imabonehead
pinched nerve in back from military accident.. might be outta work for a bit.
- WithoutInk
I'm in.
- Paul Grav
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- TheHenry
Simple is good. :)
- Heather Solos
Robert, Ben Stein beat you to that game. Try and be first rather than a fast follower. :P
- Lorin Olsen
What are the rules? International ok? :)
- Holger Eilhard
I'll happily leave a comment here.
- Aaron Crews
Congrads on the new venture:)
- Rob Cairns
I'll take it in Canadian please ..
- johnpiercy
Lets be honest- there are few people who literally put their money where their mouth is. Mr. Scoble you continue to impress me. And I have said this before the contest.
- Alyx
I declare myself ineligible for the first way to win :)
- Douglas Gourlay
Do you have to be an American? Cause I could use a new laptop :) Plus the USD>AUD exchange rate is pretty good at the moment ($1000 USD = $1500 AUD)
- Bryce Roney
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- Michael Holzinger
Prediction: this will be the most commented thread on FriendFeed ever (chance to win $1000).
- Mike Doeff
be sure to let us on the detailed result of this new experiment of yours
- Georgios Kasselakis
really? :)
- K.Fatih Özçelik
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- Stephanie Segel
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- Jason P. Brown
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- Anton Johansson
c'mon fingers. find me in the hat.
- Jason Kane
OK, I'm changing my comment to go for one of the $1750 prizes. I will offer to donate all of it to a mutually acceptable charity in exchange for an appearance with you and Steve on the Gillmor Gang. If Jason can buy his way onto Twitter, maybe I can buy my way onto the Gillmor Gang!
- Kent
Are you still going to the XMPP meetup on tuesday?
- J Allen
Good luck to everyone!
- Amit Nangare
money talks :-)
- Dobromir Hadzhiev
Leaving random comment here for $1000 yo! Can I get that all in pennies and not rolled up? Preferably in gallon milk jugs!
- Jason Moffatt
I think Mike will be right
- Henrik Johansson
I would use the money to 1. Donate and support our local Milwaukee tech community (events like web414.com, BarCampMilwaukee.com, and Bucketworks.org) and 2. purchase some more tech items (i.e. mac mini, video camera, webcam) to enhance and encourage more interaction with development and the tech community.
- Sam Dodge
I'm in too ...
- Leo
$1000 for a random comment. I suspect we'll have a record number of comments. But what kind of hat will you be pulling the name out of? Austin Cowboy hat?
- Andrew Leyden
well, this is one way to get me to actually use my friend feed account =)
- Travis
I'm echoing the earlier comments, free money + your reach = most commented thread.
- Steven Cains
I could use it. Ill be out of a job in 2 weeks.
- Armando
sweet. i like free money =)
- Arin
Second way to win (Two prizes of $1,750 each). Leave a comment about how you will use the money (use only one comment here). I'll pick my favorite two messages and announce a winner on Tuesday afternoon. Good luck!
- Robert Scoble
I'm game. But don't shoot me.
- Steve Lowe
why would you do that?
- Burçak Sayınsoy
is this part of the bailout?
- Thomas Jelonek
Pick me!
- Henry Irish
hook it up!
- Zachary Poley
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- Rocky
Open to anyone in the world. It's my money and if I get sued I'll make fun of you on Twitter. :-)
- Robert Scoble
So let me get this straight, I just leave a comment here? Will this $1000 be reported to the IRS? :)
- Craig Eddy
If ever there was money that could be used to buy gadgets guilt free it is Scoble money!
- Joe Pierce
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- Andrew Bashore
need cash for new company my wife and i are starting -- to help offset the cost of adopting our next child.
- WithoutInk
all i have to say is, more cow bell please :)
- Ivan Stegic
I LOVE RACKSPACE!!
- CG
I'll talk about the contest later on http://www.ustream.tv/studio
- Robert Scoble
Isn't this a nice way to test how scalable Friendfeed entries really are? :-)
- Yuval Atzmon
Will use it to buy Arrington a hairpiece after the TIME article.
- Mike
Please, no, you're better than Ben Stein (although that's not saying much) Are you trying for the most comments ever on a Friendfeed post? Because I can certainly see that coming.
- The Web's Wendell Wittler
What kind of hat?
- Geoff Schultz
Scoble--congrats to you and Rocky! Keep up the great work!
- Joey Hayles
Neat! I'd spend the money fairly selfishly... on bandwidth bills for http://enjoysthin.gs
- Ted Roden
How would I use $1750? Three words: Pay. My. Rent.
- Stephanie Segel
Are friends and family excluded?
- Tina Chase Gillmor
Oh well, why not! maybe the hat's lucky!
- vanweerd
I'm just here for the cash.
- Jim Mitchem
Nicholas - would like to work with you at Rackspace, was a senior systems design engineer for Sony Broadband SW Development + Broadcast Integration Division(s) SW Systems Integration and testing, also senior technical project manager on Google's infrastructure upgrade + Verizon's FIOS fiber-to-the-premises nationwide. I also spent ten years in post-production in hollywood as a senior tech support engineer / consultant to the stars. I like bad food, long hours and the warm glow from completing projects.
- Nicholas Chase
Hmmm, how do you post a comment on FF...??? :-)
- I Spy
Feel free to donate lol
- hiphopgame
I would use the money, to help buy a mac for the family. We are in need of a new one, and right now our current one (a powerbook) is starting to die out. I already have some money saved up, but not enough. Thanks for doing this Robert! :)
- Techno Todd
thanks for making friendfeed notifier go insaaaaaaaaaaaaaaane
- Caio
I'll use the money to buy a laptop for my soon-to-college daughter, as well as to fund her scholarship searches& college visits this summer. She's leaning towards working in special education, continuing the volunteering she's done with her high school's Options Program (http://www.paulvi.net/academi...).
- Craig Eddy
My friend (14) and I (15) are working on a subscription web service that we want to launch this summer and some additional runway and start-up capital would really be helpful. We do have some experience with this stuff -- we did iJailBreak (www.ijailbreak.com) a year or so ago and had millions of hits and a million downloads and a lot of coverage (Gizmodo, TUAW, Digg front page multiple times).
- Ben Feldman
I want Robert's stimulus package.
- Daniel Sims
This is my random comment for the random pick!
- Mona Nomura
from fftogo
Hi Robert - Pick me! :)
- Susan Beebe
if i didnt know you, i would have un-friended you for a post like that. "i'm giving away money. details to come." Congrats on the new gig!
- fansnap
If I win, I'll spend it all on ale and whores. I'm in need of both.
- Onur Cengiz
$1,750? Ok, I'll give the half of it to a charity, that is: $875 — and the other half will be my contest's gift. My contest? The one who donates the most to that charity wins those $875. And yes, I'm serious :)
- directeur
I don't know about the tax consequences. I'll try to find out. Basically this money is money Cisco paid to me and I'm just shipping it back out. So, this money will be counted pre-tax, I'm sure, and you'll probably need to pay tax on it.
- Robert Scoble
First comment: Hope my comment gets chosen!
- Kevin Poirier
Fabulous
- Jon
Sweet! $1000 would be lovely
- Vanessa Scanfeld
you can give away money in this economic times? ;)
- Simon
I'd be using the money to finance my freelance work and get a half-way decent video camera. I'm working with a friend of mine on tooloftheday.de (nothing to see there yet) to produce videos of popular tools, tips, tricks, howtos, etc...
- Holger Eilhard
Throwing my piece of paper into the hat. Crossing my fingers!
- Troy Malone
man, my feed is going crazy... stop it guys :)
- Ingo Di Bella
OK Robert, I'll bite and leave a comment here.
- Herne
Second comment...I will use the money to buy as many clever domain names that I can in hope that one day, when you are creating your "next big thing" that you will have to purchase the domain name from me realizing that you had in fact, through me, had purchased these domain names in the first place.
- Kevin Poirier
I'm also available for 1/2 time work for $185/week (Rails sites) http://tefflox.net/JesseCr... Thanks :-)
- Jesse Crockett
Thats a internet first i guess, good luck to all contestants :)
- Yunus Tunak
If I win: I will use the money to lend out some of it on Kiva.org, give my brother (12 years old) his own domain/hosting so he could start a wp-blog there and maybe buy Spotify premium =)
- Anton Johansson
I would buy a new macbook pro with it. I have the old one, and Was hoping to buy the current one. I would then give the old one to my brother and I would use the new one! :)
- TheHenry
I'm in!!
- Danli
I would use it for the prizes I'm giving out daily on my twitter game @I_spy_treasure. Robert, you can win it back... (and so can anyone else...)
- I Spy
Lasers.
- Lasse Johnsen
I will use part 2 to donate to Kiva.org and match it with Cisco's matching gifts program
- Douglas Gourlay
I would donate it to my homeless shelters.
- imabonehead
I'm giving my winnings to congress to spend wisely : )
- Joseph
Congratulations to both you and Rocky on the new jobs.
- Ron Schott
Count me in! Could use the extra $$ to buy a mac and see what all the hype is about.
- Tim
I would create a company called One Laser Per Child.
- Lasse Johnsen
This is my comment. I would use the extra $1750 to pay for me and Lindsay's trip to Gnomedex this year. It would probably be enough for us to come up and stay a few extra days in Seattle.
- Tad
That'd put a dent in my taxes. Ugh, freelancing has its pains.
- Andrew
nice! i could use some money :)
- krist80
Would be silly not to comment... although I have nothing interesting to say right now.
- Jen
umm..ok i'm in!
- Michael Lemmon
Even I can manage that!
- Jeremy Brooks
Everyone else is doing it...
- Rochelle
Is there a third way to win? I'd use the money to offset part of the costs of moving to Portland in the spring. Moving from New York with next to no connections to see what it's like living on the west coast for a while.
- Mark Trapp
Did I win yet?
- Robert Collazo
Sadly, I'd use most of the money to pay bills, but in the spirit of ff, I'd take a smaller portion of it to play a similar game on my ff.
- Randall Rodakowski
What I'd do with $1000? Get them converted to Euros :) Would most likely be spend on "offline" needs, like a new bathroom
- dieck
I suppose spending it on crack and hookers wouldn't win the prize, would it?
- Ian Betteridge
Feeling like a winner already.
- Tsega Dinka
I will use the $1000 plus 119,000 more dollars to buy a spot on the Twitter "Suggested Users" page.
- Sprague D
And you r giving your money away why?
- Andrew Finkle
it'd go toward my first Mac
- Jeff Mincey
118 comments in 17mins, progress report.. :)
- Yunus Tunak
Count me in!
- Wim Mulder
Interesting; I'd give a bit more than the the money to an unemployed friend for necessities(car repair, rent, food, getting back her phone with Nana Lemon singing Nena's famous anti-balloon protest song) in cash and perhaps a small gift
- RAPatton
I would use the money to go biking in Tibet and give everything that's left to the Tibetians.
- Henrik Johansson
Robert why are you giving away money - not that I am complaining- but curious! :)
- Susan Beebe
I'm game
- Ken Nicely
I'd spend mine on women, booze and a Mac.
- Ed Hudson
I'd use it to stretch the time I can work for equity-only before our startup gets funded! (Why doesn't federal stimulus money go to something like this which actually creates jobs and innovation instead of banks and auto companies?)
- Dale Larson
this should be interesting
- Robert Accettura
The chances of winning Scoble's money are slim. But the comments are hilarious. Love them.
- I Spy
This is easier than a lottery ticket! We must be in an experiment or something, knowing Robert.
- Cesar Arevalo
Sure why not
- Rodfather
I will use the money to go PyCon, learn new skills, network, mention how generous Robert Scoble is, and do a sprint to improve FriendFeed PyAPI--which, by the way, you should use to select the random winners from this thread. https://launchpad.net/friendf... Thanks in advance.
- Chris Lasher
Clever way to show the power of friendfeed!
- Emee Pumarega
For $1750: I would pay a portion of my wife's college tuition, buy my daughter a netbook, and my son a practice guitar amp.
- Mattb4rd
Great idea! Count me in. I think you should give your money away monthly.
- Grace Ciccone
I'm Here. Wow. I''ve thrown the laptop up on a 56" JVC LCD HD. Convergence! Just watched you on the Gillmor Gang. Feels like TV to me. It's great. Something's definitely happening.
- Stephen Pickering
Love it...I'm in
- gavin
that's not that much
- Jesse Fornear
I'd spend the money on a new display, I really need one
- Dobromir Hadzhiev
Not my first comment on a Scoble posting here, but first with a potential payoff.
- Tom Landini
I'm in. How I will use the money? will buy server for XdbE project
- Elmira Gazizova
With $1,000 I could buy all 57 Used & new "Naked Conversations" books from Amazon and still have enough to buy bottle service at the club.
- Andy Fields
would like to be able to try new technologies while still being a student and on a student's income = ($0)
- Shane Grant
Cool, count me in :-) I would use the money by buying 2 HTC Fuzes for me and my love.
- Sarah Peterman
Count me in! (for the first way I guess :P).
- Mauro Borione
What can I do to get your $$$ Robert? How about a virtual dance from my dogs?
- Jeff
get Diabla my pit bull puppy hip surgery sooner rather than later
- shayne catrett
haha, what is it all about?
- Alexey Ivanov
I would use the money to help fund a small-scale electronics lab, which has been a dream of mine for some time. It would serve as the perfect place to plot and create the robotic army that will eventually take over the world! Also it would teach me lots that would make me very attractive to an employer, or capable of creating a business of my own.
- Daniel Bruce
It would be hard for me to decide how to spend the money. There is so much, yet so little, being given. Because I'm a crazy Linux-lover, I think I should take the selfless route and donate at least part of the money to various Linux/open-source programming projects. Though, I would have to be careful to make sure that the money is not wasted in the style that Jeff Atwood describes (http://www.codinghorror.com/blog...).
- Rishabh Mishra (p248)
<cold><oddsized><red>here's my comment</red></oddsized></cold>. I've made my comment colored and differently shaped because supposedly those will get drawn before all the other regular looking comments. It's cold too because that's how the Knicks got Ewing first in the draft.
- Todd Hoff
Well, I need a new kidney, and there just happens to be one available on Ebay for $1000. (The previous portion of this comment is an utter lie; both my kidneys are doing fine, I am gainfully employed, do not need the money as much as so many on this thread, but Mastercard would really love to have it.) Congrats and good luck with the new venture, Robert.
- Phil Essing
Very cool!
- Josh Haley
Hey as long as were giving away money - count me in ;)
- Rob Jones
sweet, a thousands eh? converted to $ JMD that's 90k, groceries for 2 months:P
- Gordon Swaby
i'd like to thank my good friends olasofia and tav for mentioning this opportunity to win $1000 randomly, and if gratitude to one's friends isn't enough, how about this: i will give the $1750 for the best answer to this question: now that there are 100,000 people paying attention, what single action can we all do next tuesday that has the greatest social impact globally?
- happyseaurchin
For either amount, I would look to pay down some of my pressing debts and apply the rest towards a rainy-day fund. The 10% paycut I took three months ago has not helped things.
- JA Castillo
I'm on spring break now and my school was nice enough to lend me a Canon 20D (a little old, but I'm still glad to have borrowed it). Usually, only people who are part of the after school photography club can take it out, and seeing that I'm not, I was quite lucky. They gave me a 28-135mm lens, which looked ok to me. It was the last lens they had available, so it was take it or leave it....
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- Michael Forian
hmmm just leave a comment for a $1,000 dollars, not sure what to say...
- Kevin Tunis
$1750 for a cheeky mobile app, any more would be telling
- Yant
I'm here. pick me :) How would I use? I'll buy a netbook and some books.
- Dogan Tuncer
i am somehow reminded of ben stein
- Adam Singer
Testing the mix, testing, testing, one two, one two, - is this thing on?
- Martha
I would use the money to do what I do with all of my money...support my wife through graduate school :p. Thanks for the opportunity, Robert.
- Neal Jansons
Give it to Michael Forian! He seems so well-meaning!
- RexEveryhting
Big Spender Robert. Who knew?
- Michael Fidler
I'm feeling lucky.
- Laura
Cool! I saw your new venture announcement (live) earlier on my old iMac, which I would love to replace. :)
- Rob
I'm an unemployed community manager formerly of Silicon Valley. Hoping to spread new technology from NorCal to SoCal.
- Kimberly
recently laid off, this would really help, *fingers crossed*
- Nick
Pick me, I've got medical bills to pay-off. Boring I know, but it's really how I'd use any extra money.
- Curtis Phillips
I'll donate the money to GM. Nah, forget it. I'll worry about it if I actually get it.
- Hal
I will throw my virtual hat in the virtual ring for the not-virtual $1000. What is the other $3500 going toward?
- Lindsay is in 20-ten
Working on a little something in the review space with a friend of mine, $1000 could cover a bit of initial hosting.
- Jack Bogdan
Hmm, adding that to a house down payment would be nice. I imagine there's others here that could use it much more, though.
- Jordan Hofker
peace on earth.....
- imran
Wow...a comment can win me $1000!?!
- jamar78
Awesome. With $1,000, I'd use 50% to buy shares of F, GM, BAC, etc... and we'll have even more money to hand out. With the other 50%, we could also make 20 $25 loans at a Stanford MBA microfinance project, so the money recycles and has more impac (and have FFers decide which projects to support). Gumball Capital http://news.newamericamedia.org/news... or Kiva.org http://kiva.org Ideally we could even start a fund to support out-of-work FF'ers.
- Mitchell Tsai
@scobleizer - please give me your money. if you do i will use it wisely to help pay for a macbook & if i get more than the random $1000 prize i will use it in a philanthropic manner
- Chris Heath
I'm probably use the money for a new bed for son, and upgrade Shelly's computer
- jamar78
I'd have to use it all to put toward the $1,900 deposit due next month for the Friends school for which we got an acceptance letter, on behalf of our 10 yo, earlier today since my partner's reaction was that all I needed to do was to go out and get a job Monday! We've tried public schs (& their lotteries) in Boston & DC and have come to this... If that wasn't pressing, I'd use it to put...
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- Angela E. Taylor
updated to say - please give the money to someone in need. If I were to have the money to give away, my choice would be to http://www.theanimalrescuesite.com.
- BEX
Wait, in this economy, you giving away money?!
- Adi Rabinovich
So...dear! Did you sign the cheque? Yes? Now send it to me! LOL
- Lora Lufark
all your money are belong to us!
- Geek Cowboy
It would be really cool if this money went to a charity in need, in increasingly tough times.
- jjprojects
I'd use it to buy myself some time to finish a volunteer project I'm doing for my alma mater - making a website that is an archaeological cataloger and academic discussion space all in one.
- Joey Brunelle
posting comment. crossing fingers. knocking on wood for good measure.
- Anita
I'd use the money as a donation for my favorite charity, www.4everhomes.org, helping orphans and foster children get adopted.
- Lynn Owens
I will use the cash to invest in a MacBook for my wife so she can be mobile and still do her school work and finish that degree finally!!!
- Geek Cowboy
Well after the football team I support (Nottingham Forest) lost 5 -0 today I would spend the money on buying myselft a place in the squad. I can't be any worse than the current goalkeeper
- Paul Bainbridge
I'd give the money to children of San Diego http://www.alphaproject.org/
- David Krug
I'm in
- Jack Kendall
Putting my entry in the hat. Hope this is truly random because I don't have anything interesting to add! :)
- Matt Baron
With $1750 I'd buy Canon PowerShot SX1IS 10 MP CMOS Digital Camera with 20x Wide Angle Optical Image Stabilized Zoom and 2.8-inch LCD @ $600, a 2nd Gen Drobo populated with four 1TB Western Digital Green Drives @ $849 via TwipPhoto and a GigaPan Epic 100 as soon as its available (probably about $500). All of this will support my GigaPanning habit: http://www.gigapan.org/viewPro...
- Ron Schott
James (imabonehead) & Robert, $13,000/yr is allowed by gift tax limits,... so no tax if it's from Robert's personal money.
- Mitchell Tsai
Great idea. I'm in.
- Bill Romanos
I would use the $1750 to pay for the laptop that my daughter wants for her 11th birthday at the end of the month. She will be entering Jr. high next year and could use a faster more up to date computer than the 5+ year old hand me down desktop PC running Win2000 that she is presently using.
- Jeff P. Henderson
i would be glad to invest it into a macbook pro...
- Progresif Cem Gencer
Craziness. That kinda money could feed my voracious tech and gadget habit for quite a while.
- Brooks Bishop
OK, I'm in. Though not for the money: I want to know waaaay more about Building 43!
- Jordi Soler
I'd use the money to invite (pay for flight/hotel, etc.) someone really cool (Harold Varmus?) to the next ScienceOnline conference.
- Bora Zivkovic
Building 43 and Rackspace FTW!
- Bill Koslosky
I'll use it to buy 2 new monitors. 1 for tweetdeck and 1 for Alert thingy
- Jeff (the マクダジ of FF)
Hi Robert. A noble venture to be sure. We would put the gift to use saving our art studio. The after effects of dealing with the Basin Complex Wildfire that burned Big Sur have left us in a precarious postiion. Truth be told, we'd rather have a big commission than the gift. Work is always better on so many levels. Perhaps we can bootstrap ourselves back to where we were and afford to offer the same gift to others in need one day not too far off--Pay it forward. Best wishes on Building 43 & thanks.
- B.E. (BJ) Johnson
me I'd take my wife out to dinner and then seriously consider buying a MacBook Pro :)
- Steven Hodson
I'm in for the $1,000 random drawing (because my $1750 answer would not be memorable - pay my bills).
- Laura Norvig
Give half to charity, then spend the other half on upgrading my skills (educational resources)
- Mo Kargas
What did I miss?
- Rob Michael (Atmos Trio)
Do Canadians qualify?
- Brian Sullivan
I just caught up with what the other money is for. If it was awarded to me I would use it to help a couple I know get started in Aikido. Their kids are in our kid's class, and they had been trying to find the finances to join for almost a year and had just figured out how to start and then the husband got laid off... They're having a hard time making ends meet and I know that they would...
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- Lindsay is in 20-ten
What a cool contest, Robert. I can't wait to see how it turns out.
- Glen, Bespectacled Elder
I'll donate the entire $1,750 to Phoenix Children's Hospital if I win. Same goes for the $1,000 if I win that one.
- Aviv
paypal address to follow ...... :) Good luck with the new gig Robert
- Charlie Anzman
With $1750 I would help that YouTube girl scout girl, Wild Freeborn, reach her goal of selling 12,000 boxes to send her whole scout troop to camp. Got to give the girl some credit for thinking outside of the box.
- Tyler Brownfield
_/\_ Namaste (greetings) from India. This is simply awesome Robert. Would be great to win a cool 1000 USD. That's a lot of money in India. ;-)
- Shinil Payamal
Here's my comment. I would use the money to fight against DRM
- Marcos Marado
from fftogo
My mother has been an avid Obama supporter doing a great deal of volunteer work before & after the election. She recently lost her job & wants to start something new. She will need an audience. Robert, I'd love to use your money to hire YOU to coach her on how to do that most effectively.
- Rob Michael (Atmos Trio)
Money..! Will use the money to travel to India this summer, visiting, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki..., http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... with my family :)
- Karthick R
maybe because I'm the first Italian to write about it :) http://www.fluxes.it/flussi-...
- Andrea Contino
Haha a single thread from Robert turned us all (briefly I hope) into marketers :)
- Mo Kargas
What the heck I'll throw in a comment...I would use the money to fix up the bathroom at my parent's house.
- Amber, Random Time Lord
This comment is random.
- Dave Roth
Great idea Robert! If I won I would take your portrait for free :-)
- Bill Pennington
from twhirl
Cheese and rice! This comment thread is giving FriendFeed Notifier a run for it's money. It's an interesting character study on what people will do with free money. Me? I'd pay the IRS & give to my favorite charities.
- Anthony K. Valley ©
If this comment gets chosen at random, I hereby refuse the money (always test the exception conditions of any algorithm). If I win one of the other chunks, I commit to donate the money to @eff (EFF - Electronic Frontier Foundation - the leading civil liberties group defending your rights in the digital world).
- LogEx
I thought I already commented on this?
- Herne
And the other way to win?
- Alex Scoble
I would find 17 worthy people under the age of 16, who are helping their community through volunteerism or have started businesses and give them $100 each to help them reach their goals. IMO, helping young people is the most noble thing those of us above the age of 40 can do. And I'd spend $50 on take-out dinner with my wife.
- Scott Duffy
You win if you're last on the thread, Alex ;)
- Josh Haley
here and ready to spend the money for new ipod touch :)
- Nahnu
why?
- Anthony Farrior
$1000 with which competitors can enter the bet would be google!
- Harun R. Demirbaş
Hi Robert. I can haz $1,000 plz? kthxbye.
- Joey Gibson
DONT PICK ME!!! </ reverse psychology>
- Alfredo
If I win the prize money will go on my school fees and the rest will help me to buy a netbook with a full-size Scoble sticker :D you crazy!
- İbrahim Uzun [ j ]
ROFL, Chris.
- Alex Scoble
Money would help so much you have no idea. :)
- courto
I'll use the money to send 2 teachers in my school district (Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools) to a technology conference somewhere to learn about Web 2.0 technologies.
- Tim Cooper
If I win I'll use the money to buy a copy of Autodesk Maya 2009 Complete. Then build cool things. Thanks for the chance Robert.
- Andrew Smith
pick.me
- Bob Stewart
bring it on
- jkkmobile
Hi, and who are you? Thanks Robert.
- Daniel Buckley
Sounds good, here is one comment.
- Grant Bierman
I would channel the money to ongoing biomedical research in the lab I work in (UCSF).
- Pedro Beltrao
*wave*
- Jan Schwenzien
How will I use the money? With pleasure, thank you Robert.
- Tomi Itkonen
I will use the money to start my non profit and purchase educational/tech material for my son's school. Warm thanks Robert.
- Yanik Falardeau
And as for what I would do, I'd build a new desktop pc (and switching my current one over to act as my media/web pc), buy a true dSLR and donate some to charity. And if there is any left over, pay back some minor 'loans', which I guess I really should do first...
- Grant Bierman
Hi! İ m not speak english so not comment writing :D(ingilizce bu kadarmı berbat olur ya:II) Thx You Robert.
- Mehmet Alp
Hey Robert, If I were to win the money would go to a project myself and a few other early stage entrepreneurs are starting to help get people who have lost their jobs back to work in the startup community. I know it wouldn't go very far but it'd get it kicked off. Otherwise just give us some help (which would be better anyway) and give the money to the guys who have to pay school fees or rent or buy food for their families. Their need is greater. anton@udoogoo.com if anyones interested in helping
- Anton Mannering
Great.I'm in.
- OnuRC
this post is going to get a hell of a lot of comments.
- Thomas Hawk
Random is random, Chris. :) Thanks for the thought though.
- Alex Scoble
Just another random comment. :)
- Zian Choy
Why am I giving away the money? Because last week we did a job for Cisco where they paid us to do some videos. I am giving away my cut because what Cisco is doing is important to pay attention to without you worrying about whether I am paid off to say so. Also, I'm very fortunate to be in the position where I can do it. I thought about paying Jason Calacanis to buy some of his tweets, but thought that money could help someone out of work more.
- Robert Scoble
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- Yusuf Esenkal
I think you should give it all to Jason ;o)
- Ken Morley
I would use one of the $1,750 prizes this way. I'm currently photographing people that ask me for money. I give them $2 for their portrait. Instead of the two dollars. I will use the the money to add $50 to each $2 (total = $52) to the next 35 people that I photograph as part of this project. After I photograph them for the $2 I will give them the extra $50 and tell them that it is from Robert Scoble and will document each person's story, photo and reaction in a blog post.
- Thomas Hawk
i'd like to thank my mother, my father and all the people who helped me win this :p
- Sofia Bustamante
interesting !!
- Murat Can Demir
Hat off!
- Alemsah Ozturk
Sounds good to me.
- Herb Hernandez
I changed my mind. Give it to Thomas! ;o)
- Ken Morley
Hmm I like Thomas' innovative idea
- Mo Kargas
I couldn't tell you what I would do with $1750, but I do know I would give some away to good causes like my underfunded state school or the public school drama and music programs, and I would probably keep a little to save or update my home technology.
- Steve Lowe
This is my first comment : Gods of Randomness, choose me !
- Alemsah Ozturk
how many others have signed up for Friendfeed to try and win $1000? Scoble, you should be a Friendfeed spokesman... :)
- chelle
Best of luck with the new gig! Have fun at SXSW!
- Trevor Little
I wonder how many new FF accounts this thread has been responsible for? Many first-time posters here.
- Ken Morley
This is my second comment: I will gonna put your $1.750 to eBay tagged as “Robert Scoble's first FriendFeed Competition money“ and I'm gonna wait & see what happens :)
- Alemsah Ozturk
Sounds fair to me. I'm in.
- Henry Burger
Random rules
- ted perlmutter
why not publish this on an indian and a turkish newspaper? this will def drive this post to records easily... and i am sure, i'll get the macbook pro this week with scoble's sponsorship... maybe i'll brand-name its alu-case with a thanksgiving note to scoble and his sponsor... time to start coding on textmate...
- Progresif Cem Gencer
My niece in Mexico is on a partial sports scholarship at the university she attends. She's been supported by her mother who worked at a liquor store to help pay my niece's way. My niece's mom recently lost her job and fears she cannot financially support her daughter's education. $1,750 would pay for six months of university studies. If I were to win, that's where it would go. Good luck everyone.
- Andrew
Thanks for the opportunity Robert. Good luck on your new gig!
- andy
What would I do with the money? Well I'd put some towards my debt and paying my Mum's house bills. But I think my family could do with a nice break or trip away somewhere - my Mum hasn't really gone out since the death of my Dad last January! Time away from the house would do her the World of good right now.
- Kol Tregaskes
Really?
- Vinay | विनय
Hi Robert; good luck at Rackspace! My $1,750 would go toward my Rackspace bill of course (well, that would cover it for a few months)!
- Binyamin Bauman
My second comment (for the 1K). This would go to the same niece...it's 3 more months of school.
- Andrew
i dont want it... { reverse psychology }
- Cem Öztürk
laykk!
- Taylan GERDAN (Tylolhot)
My wife has put up with a lot of sacrifice as I've worked on http://ourdoings.com/ and money's been tight so I haven't been able to make up for what she's done. I'd use the money to take her somewhere special, and of course I'd share a picture/map of where we went here on FriendFeed.
- Bruce Lewis
Oh for peats sake, it should at least be easier than winning the lotto. I'm in.
- Eric @ CSTechcast.com
I'll comment and be random...it's a good day to be giving away $$$ :) I would use any money won here to help my friends who are in such horrible need right now. (the story is on the blog and all over my FF stream). I may be unemployed, but I have a roof over my head, food on the table and can make some $$ freelancing. My friends are hanging on by less than a thread, already stretched way too far.
- Karoli
Hey man, I love money. Also, I have no job. Also, I will say some incitement here: LEO LAPORTE IS AN ALIEN
- Mike Nayyar
Make me your AIG! On the cheap no less.
- Tracy Viselli
Well here goes nothin'. thxbye
- April Miller
I'm pretty random... I'm in.
- Jamie Grove
I wish I could be at SXSW.
- Christopher Knopick
i'm feelin lucky :-)
- Cardeen Martinez
Interesting promo Scoble. Comment and win money. Cool
- Sam R
so this is how you comment on friend feed....
- Noel Gomez
looks like i have a 1/300 chance of winning (right now). i'm predicting this number will diminish to 1/950.
- Kevin Pruett
just to be safe..
- Cardeen Martinez
Count me in!
- Aaron Draczynski
good luck :)
- Ömer
I'll throw my name in the hat.
- Chris Owens
Since my wife (school teacher) got laid off from her district on Friday, I'd use the $1,750 for tuition to help her get a Special Education certification, since districts are still hiring Special Ed. teachers. In turn, her continuing work will help pay for my son's tuition when he starts college in the Fall. My son wants to eventually become a lawyer so that he can influence policies that would ensure that people get a good education.
- Glen, Bespectacled Elder
Sounds like a plan. Let's see if FF has scalability issues with their comments.
- Michel Goldstein
Yea! I need some money! :)
- emdot
Why, not... Thanks Scoble!
- Jim Porett
Welcome to the ScobleCashMachine. Enter your comment.
- Olivier FAURAX
Put my name in a small hat and draw from it.
- Ken Worley
I'm in.
- aykut
If I win then I'll donate 0% of my proceeds to charity. Even more than that, I'll DOUBLE it.
- Cody Robertson
Trust me I am still looking for the details.... Can't find them!
- Ricky
Who wouldn't want to win?
- Tom Silk
This is my first year of trying to "make it" on my own, with a camera and no "real" job. Just trying to scrape by ... to be perfectly honest I'll use the money to help pay off some debt that I have acquired since I started, which has definitely been causing me headaches and frustration. My husband has been a gem, paying the majority of the bills since I make very little, and I want to be closer to breaking even with my debt so I can start to help him out. :)
- Nicole Young
Scooby dooby doo!
- Haggis (Sean Loyless)
new sponsor ? paypal ?
- Gökmen Karasu
Hope the hat is a big one, this thread is getting pretty full. :-) How the money would be spent? Pay off some student loan debt and put a chunk in our 5 year olds savings account...he (as well as his entire generation) is going to need it by the time he's an adult.
- cmiper
robert başkan parayı buraya getir.
- bahadır canberk
Wow! I've outgrown my entry camera and this price is just what I need to be able to fulfill my dream; a Nikon D300! Please make my dream come true, Robert!
- Graphfruit
Hit me, Fortuna. Papa needs a new MacBook.
- Will Parker
robert are you a photographer - Dixon Hamby
- Dixon Hamby
Geez, it's 2:10 am here in Berlin and you start just another interesting stunt. I will take the 1.750 US and pay a programmer to finish our "Virtual intelligent chatbot" project which offers affordable AI Avatars with personality for all kinds of virtual worlds like Second Life, Gaia, the web, Opensim etc. They'll be our 24/7 virtual workforce and a way to create immortal interactive portraits
- Gaby K. Slezák
I like this idea. I'm talking with some friends this evening about how they'd each allocate $1750 if they were given this much money today to do anything with--most would share with friends and acquaintances that are going through tough tmes. One would help a friend who just closed down his company and is in need of dental work. Another would help co-workers whose hours have been cut...
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- Loren Heiny
I own Cisco stock. love that Co.
- Christopher Mann
Count me in
- Peter Szaro
a subject very interesting, congratulations in advance:)
- Serkan Cura (XiLoNeN)
An interesting way to find out what the limits (if any) of FriendFeed comments are. Also: show me the money.
- Richard Akerman
Damn Robert Scoble: I meant "overly engaged" this thread is off the charts!
- bcultral
I'll get me some of that
- Phil Coyne
It's very interesting to see how many new people your offer has attracted to friendfeed.
- Anne Bouey
Great idea! Count me in.
- Mike
A comment for the $$$
- Jess Gibson
this sounds fun.
- Wesley Robin Guerrero
I'd like to win :)
- Sam Houston
i will love you forever. and evah evah. money would be spent on a nice camera (i'm studying photography) and supplies. working with a 5 year old p&s is getting tiring. :)
- shannon
How can anyone NOT click 'like' or comment? I definitely 'pLike' (the p is silent - btw) this thread. :-D
- Sean Hanna
a stunt? sure, but I could use an extra $1k. count me in, scoble
- Seth Long
If I win the $1750 it will be applied to my son's tuition as he starts college this fall.
- Jess Gibson
Sure, why not!
- Jasmin Patry
Is this stimulus money??? If so I'll use it to build infrastructure. There's a giant pot hole in our alley. I'll buy bags of cement and repair it myself. The neighbors will love me.
- Greg
Who am I and what am I doing here?
- Kris
I'm on it like white on rice.
- Jay Lara
Wow, I'll take some money - I need hard drives for my Drobo. Seriously, I need to start up an emergency savings account.
- Bryan Villarin
A chance to get paid to comment? Love it!
- Ginger Kenney
First, here is the comment. Second, I would use $1,750 to travel back home to Russia where I have not been in five years with my toddler son so my grandmother who is very ill in her old age could see her only great grandson (who's 19 months old) before she goes, and so I could take a one dream portrait of them together. She's been a big influence in my life, and this would be the way to make the portrait and their meeting possible.
- Ivan Makarov
Could really use some money to help plant some seeds for the future
- Leonard Nelson
I'll buy an Iphone and with the rest put in my IRA to reduce my tax bill. Hey, helping economy and investing in business. Not bad.
- Stephen Pickering
i would spend for my interrail trip..
- Yasin Müderrisoğlu
This is my lucky day, an email today said I won the UK lottery.
- Bob Gannon
I'm going to buy half a Canon 5D Mark II. Or pay my bills.
- Andrew Trinh
If i win, i triple win , because i live in a third world country (Argentina) and for every dolar y get $3,60 on our local currency, which is a good ammount of money here, for example, i could eat for 1 year or more :D
- Ignacio Guerra
Ok. I would donate my winnings to the Bernie Madoff Defense Fund!@#$%^
- bcultral
I have dreadful luck when it comes to these kinds of things but I could really use this money. I have no car & desperately need to buy one.
- Mattie Kenny
from fftogo
Cool. And speaking of cool, PlanetHeidi.com is very cool.
- dunsany
between building a new house, a new baby and a new job, I am sure I can put it to go use, btw congrats Robert on your new venture, I shall be keeping an eye on it.
- Shane Wolsey
Cobble Sorter (anagram of Robert Scoble) = my random comment for the first part of the draw.
- Daniel Rowley
Wow, there's like a lot of comments here! Great idea for publicity, Robert. Carry on...
- Kevin Trotman
Watching Robert on Ustream right now.
- John Rubier
$1000 USD goes a long way in Canada :)
- Ryan
Thanks for sharing the wealth in more than one way
- Matt Penning
I could have an actual vacation and pay down some more debt.
- Todd Tripp
$1000 is mine! please? thanks Robert
- planetMitch
1. my comment for 1k, 2. $1750 would be split into 3 gifts of $250 a piece to encourage the best new open source projects, and the other 1000 I would invest and reinvest in http://kiva.org , selecting entrepreneurs in third world countries to invest several microloans in. Its' a gift that, over time, can be reinvested over and over to benefit many!
- David Silvernail
Take my hardworking wife on an overdue vacation - she supports me thru the IT bubbles. Thx hun!
- mal
Probably will give it back to you, winning could be cool enough
- Burcu Sarar
LOOKING for work but hand out will help
- Ron
I'm in as well.
- OyaD
C'mon Robert money or not now ya still benefit more with the insane publicity
- Mrsth
well, we are curiously waiting the result, and also i'm in..
- Mücahit Yılmaz
Smart one
- Heni Hazbay
Word Of Money. I am in:)
- Yunus Arslanoğlu
I'll take it if your giving....it will go towards the camera fund!
- Noelle Bell
I would use it to promote my tiny little super niche social news site http://HeavyAsHell.com The campaign would involve helping bands go DIY and avoid evil record companies.
- MarkCarras
What kind of sick social experiment is this? :)
- Oren Shomron
I'm in
- Josue Fontanez
mmmmm, austin. i miss Trudy's, El Mercado, Magnolia, Wanfu, Kerbey, Chuys, Fonda San Miguel, Dog & Duck, Thundercloud, Waterloo, Amy's, Little City, Hut's, Green Mesquite. aw heck and Taco Cabana and Whataburger too! if i win, i'll spend it all on restaurants in Austin!
- poxaV
pick me
- Ryan
OK Robert, add me to the pool....
- Gregg
You can't win unless you play! Ok, I better start praying now.... :-P
- Brian
My father-in-law is laid off and his unemployment eligibility runs out in about 4 weeks. No place around here is hiring, and $1,750 would be the equivalent of extending his unemployment benefits another 5 weeks. Thanks for the chance, Robert.
- Civisi
:)
- Orhan Yediyıldız
Hello, giving away your money randomly? I can comment for that. Best of luck to all!
- Ronald Paul Corbin
Will you next tell us its limited only to Americans? I hate contests on the Internet, or anything on the Internet, that says "limited to the USA". The Internet is borderless... so should its contests and prizes
- Colin Charles
from twhirl
Thanks. I would use the $1750 to help my grandparents. My grandfather is 73 and my grandmother is 72. They just lost their 15 year home to foreclosure and are pretty much starting over with not a whole lot of time left. They are both on fixed income of SS and are now renting a house and trying to survive with the help of friends and family. When he as younger and had more money he was always the first one there to offer money to friends or family to help, even if it meant he went without something.
- Jonathan Gotcher
Robert please consider partnering with (Facebook) Seattle's Seeds of Compassion 2.0: The Compassionate Action Network (Twitter: @SeedsCAN) -- this organization is building a supra global network of "Compassionate Action Networks" (a bunch of ex McCaw, Softies and CISCO) -- currently in the throws of leveraging Social Media and Seattle's creative communities (music, tech, film). Last...
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- dakini_3
I wanna buy a jet ski, that's my MONEY!
- sofarsoShawn
Random commenting! I hope FF doesn't fail whale!
- Zulema ◕ ◡ ◕
from BuddyFeed
If I won, the money would go into putting insulation in my daughter's room & closet. Any leftovers would help buy a gas stove & fridge. :D
- Zulema ◕ ◡ ◕
My, there has been some very good comments about what people would do... And some very needy people out there.
- Grant Bierman
Like most, it would be an unemplyment extension for me. As mine ran out, no jobs in the area, and times are tough. But hey, BUCK UP not DOWN! the only obstacles that exist are in your mind.
- Ronald Paul Corbin
Crazy! Hope you are enjoying SXSW! I'm in Austin but can't attend it.
- Head Ov Metal
I'll put some of the $$$ into donorschoose.org for some local classroom requests and the rest to fix up my car.
- Pete Delucchi
comment left here
- Brad Nickel
Count me in.
- Keith - @tsudo
This is a cool idea.
- Bluesun 2600
I would take the $1750 and go and get myself a root canal, so I could finally get out of pain. And if there was any left, I'd donate it at www.kiva.org
- Bec Rowe @d0tski
Will comment for money, any time.
- Dinah
Alright, I'm a sucker for free money so here goes... $1750 would be enough for me to buy an oven, sod my yard, and still be able to donate half to a charity.
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
I wouldn't say "no" to $$
- Ted Louie
I could use $2,000 just to pay off my credit card. That's about it
- Outsanity
A $1000 would be geektacular. $1750 would buy my way into the cult of Mac.
- Melinda
Monkey?
- Penguin It's Cold Outside
Wow! Count me in! Sure could use that money to attend JavaOne this June.
- Rom Feria
$1750: Others need the money more than me, I'm sure of that. But ... that said I'd give $500 to a local library or literacy charity. $500 toward my home down payment fund. $150 to a kidney charity (my daughter only has one kidney). $100 for flowers for the wife. $100 for a bike for my daughter. $200 for a brake job. $200 to send at-risk kids to a Giants game.
- AJ Kohn
I would pay off our one remaining credit card and put some portion toward a down payment on a new car. In fact, I'd probably give a slice to the EFF as well. I haven't given to them regularly since my last layoff.
- ha3rvey (wants confit)
why would you do that? It's a sort of social experiment?
- Niki Costantini
Will invest the money in my new unique microblogging startup :)
- X-Man
I wonder how many comments in this thread are their first on FF. Well I'm in. If I won money, some will go into savings and some will go to my favorite charities: Autism Speaks and Atlanta Boxer Rescue.
- Carmen - Happy 2010!
yay first comment ever, though I suppose I should be commenting more
- Wang Yip
Wow, a lot of people commented just while I was writing my own! For me, half the money would be for savings and health insurance while I'm still trying to get a job (recently graduated). The other half would be for the non-profit arts organization my friends and I just founded in our hometown, which has no supportive creative outlets for its youth. The money would help produce the tri-high school theatre competition we are currently planning and hope to put on soon. Great offer, Robert.
- Kelly
One comment, coming up.
- Michael R. Bernstein
Comment comment comment!
- Andy DeSoto
For $1750 I'll either blow it on more photo or computer equipment. Or sock it away in my kid's college fund since it'll probably cost more than half the organs in my body to pay for by the time he's of age. It's a tough choice.
- ronin
I'm all for free money Robert!
- Michael A. Baydoun
Who wouldn't comment for a chance ... lol ;)
- Brandon
If I win the money I'm going to establish world peace & have tons of sexy bitches serving me grapes.
- sofarsoShawn
I would finally upgrade components in my PC and pay off some of our upcoming wedding debt!
- Shmoe
$1000 would be nice, but with $1750 I could do even more. Either way I would Pay It Forward http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki...
- R. Oglow
I'd put it on black
- John Kitchen
A percentage would undoubtedly go toward the health care fund, unfortunately. I'd allocate some for art and film supplies and give away the remainder. I've seen several comments here mentioning worthy projects and needs that are certainly deserving of attention and support. Thanks for sharing, Robert!
- Chris Weige
Circuit City lay off would use on BILLS, BILLS, and oh yeah BILLS
- Ron
I want to win your money!!!!
- Andrew
Wow. This is kinda cool. If I were to win anything at all from this, I would ask that the money be instead given to fellow FF'er Anika Malone because it breaks my heart that her and her family are having to go without hot water, a dryer, their stove...due to their gas being turned off. Hard times have struck too many good people right now. :(
- tinypants - Hagitha of FF
400+ comments...wow! Guess 1000 bucks is motivation. I'd put the cash toward my photography efforts or go the boring route and invest it for now.
- Justin Korn
Why would you do that? Anyway, here's my comment.
- Saner Apaydın
The pure capitalist social media business model: simply pay users to come.
- Michael Krigsman
It's so easy a caveman can do it!!
- Fireman17
I would use the money to pursue my passion of creating LOLcats & bring endless joy to all the world forever.
- sofarsoShawn
I sit here naked as I type. By the way, they're real, and they're SPECTACULAR!
- Abbie Kendall
If I won, I would ... go to Disneyland!
- Jerry Chacon
lol, great Seinfeld reference!!
- Michael A. Baydoun
If I won the non-random cash prize, I'd use it for expenses while I was off work, recovering from my (upcoming) third brain surgery.
- Abbie Kendall
I would love to use the money to stimulate the economy by purchasing a new hot water heater. Our current one is in need of being replaced.
- Vaughn
Cool, this would help me stimulate the economy while I wait for my California state tax return.
- Stephen Ip
Question: Is it one comment per way to win or one comment in general? I've made one comment above that says how I'd spend the money. Now I'll just be random: PURPLE MONKEY DISHWASHER
- Bryce Roney
Okay, I'll play. I would return your money to you with a "let's do something better than this" remark. I would then ask you to actually read (reread?) the email I sent you about helping me get in contact with NPO's re: starting an OLPC-esque SMS-device project for said devices to be delivered in care packages around the world (via Red Cross, etcetera, etcetera) so that the poverty stricken and people in disasters could actually communicate with the world in real time.
- trench
Good job !
- Alper
I am making this comment as the IT/Communications Director of FHL International, Inc.http://fhlinternational.org I want to feed babies of poor working and nonworking single mothers. I want to change the oil in their cars when they can't afford it or know how to. I want to feed their children good wholesome food. I want to give the refugees and the lost some hope for another day. If we spend it carefully and wisely we can make it stretch to cover a 3-4 outreaches and give you a write up.
- Melanie Reed
random random random. macro lens, macro lens, macro lens.
- Andrea Ewald
I would probably also tell you (via your infamous digits) why facebook sucks, why friendfeed pretty-much sucks, and why Twitter sucked but no longer sucks. And then I'd educate you on why we - yes, you and I (and Thomas?) - need to visit Turkey ( http://is.gd/7yQr ) and discuss these things further. Yes, k... logging back out now. Thanks. Make coat not war.
- trench
@Robert as the IT/Communications Director, I would invite you to one of our events to cover it, put you on one of our videos and underscore the digital divide and what we can do about it. I would invite you to our UB cafe for the best pancakes in the world and have you look over our IT training provided by the IndyChristianGeeks in Indianapolis, Indiana and meet Dr. Thomas Ho, former...
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- Melanie Reed
Robert, I would also introduce you to my "boss", Merlin Gonzales, who started FHL International, Inc.: http://www.youtube.com/watch...
- Melanie Reed
I'd use the money to pay off debt, and take some time this summer to work less and volunteer more.
- Michael Kacer
What else would I do with some extra cash from Scoble? I'm thinking about making a difference via http://www.heifer.org/ and http://www.kiva.org
- Anthony K. Valley ©
want the money for my project
- Abubucker
hah!! most no of comments on FF so far I guess....
- Satya
Would love some money of course! I plan on using at least 3/4 of it to fund a new project I'm working on involving the iPhone and a web service. It would most likely go directly toward the cost of the project (registration fees, hosting fees, learning materials, etc.)
- Brandon Titus
can you imagine if I actually won?
- vijay
This is really cool. I love seeing all the people who would donate part or all.
- Alix Whitmire
@qtbrowneyes - get in here :) We are making FF history.
- vijay
wow, always new excitements here on ff, thx for fueling in!
- esther ♥ ♫
That took a long time to scroll down here to make a comment.
- David McDonald
Me FTW
- Brian
Good luck with building 43—great name, great concept.
- Dave
Great idea, Robert :)
- Baard @ Pixum
Interesting experiment. Can't wait to see the final results.
- Shamir Katsu
< insert winning comment here > =P
- vijay
I'm spending my winnings on wine and women
- Zik Daniel
from twhirl
Great contest. I'll give it a go.
- Michael Molinar
from twhirl
Why, thank you kindly, Mr. Scoble.
- Victoria Plautia
I'd use the money to get a new iPod Touch and maybe pay the rest to my medical bills. :P
- Molly, New Ears :P
As far as how I would spend $1750: I'd love to say that I'm going to donate it all to a worthy cause like the EFF or the local mission, but I know I'll be selfish and just end up spending it in a blaze of glory at Fry's or during the next Woot-off. No point in trying to kid anyone here.
- Michael Molinar
from twhirl
hi! :)
- امیر؟
Half of that money would be enough for me! please send it to my Gmail account! :) amirapt.at.gmail.com I will be waiting :)
- امیر؟
Cool way to gain money :)
- Richard Holas
I can definately use some cash. :)
- Shawn Whitmire
I am in!
- Edwin Khodabakchian
I would spend all the money for entertainment :)
- Sinem Co
$1,750 or $1,000? In any case it would be a good stimuli to open a startup in Belarus
- Aliaksandr
Wow, popular contest! I would use part of it to buy the Rosetta Stone package to help me learn French. I'm taking time off between my undergrad and graduate degree, and I figure learning a foreign language would be a great use of my time. I would use the rest to help pay rent when I get my own place, I'm going to be a Congressional Staffer in D.C. and the living is expensive while the pay sucks! Thanks Robert.
- Keenan
If i get the $1,750, i'd give the money as $100x10 and $50x15 AdWords Coupons to the people who searched for the website/blog on pageboss.com for promote their projects like sponsored by Scobleizer.. And if Scob gives me $1,000, i'd spend all of them with my sweetheart Sinem :D
- N.Onur ATAHAN
I would use the money to buy a laptop for my wife, a Kindle for myself and one year worth of school for two children that we know and support in Nepal :)
- Sam Grover
i need money :-)
- Dan
:) If i am lucky enough, i'll pick a random comment on this thread to give this money + 1$. Just to see how loop can be created.
- Guy Vander Heyden
One more random comment
- sam b-r
I'm in too :)
- Eray Korkmaz
1 Timothy 6:10: "For the love of money is the root of all evil." If that's the case Scoble bring on the EVIL! WHOOOOOO YEAAAAAHHAHH EVIL!!!
- sofarsoShawn
Beautiful, beautiful link bait. ;)
- Chris Nixon
from BuddyFeed
Most commented post :)
- Roman Zolotarev
Wooow this post will be the most popular post of all times :-) I'm in!
- Ahmet Alp Balkan
$1750 would get me a DSLR and new macbook
- Duc Nguyen
Wow, great idea to make new friends ;) (but a bit expensive?)
- Pascal Hertleif
This is totally insane. I'd probably buy my mom the Palm Pre and 10% will go to charity (like always).
- Nir Ben Yona
In a rich man's world! http://www.youtube.com/watch... ain't it sad!
- sofarsoShawn
FriendFeed is affected! :-)
- Oguzcan Sahin
I need a netbook for my projects :)
- Hasan ÖKTEN
$1750: gonna buy my lover. don't you believe me? her name is gabrielle, check her out: http://www.realdoll.com/cgi-bin...
- Okan Vardarova
That's a big hat you need...
- Orli Yakuel
Yay!
- Rich
I will by my wife a flight home so she can go and see her parents who she misses lots. Which means i'll have sole access to my (our) laptop instead of having to share it. I could just use the money to buy a new laptop but then i wouldn't get teh good sofa and control of the remote as well!
- Jamie Vidamour
meow!
- zenya isaychew
Let's see if I'm still the unlucky guy I used to be
- Boubacar Balde
from twhirl
I could be homeless soon, lost my job due to the economy, and getting unemployment that just doesnt cut it, I could really use the money to pay my rent, bills and feed my kitties, contact me via email Kyle.M.Weller+scoble@gmail.com or you could just hire me and I'll help you in any way possible, check my blogs, I could be useful. And I would return the favor 10 fold if I can, matter fact I'll search for 2 other people to help and blog about it/take photo's
- Kyle Weller
I would keep half of $1750 and give the other half to the author of the comment I liked most, but only if he/she promises to do exactly the same.
- stark
.I need a new Laptop
- Selçuk Hoca
I`ll use 1000$ of the 1750$ to buy a lot of comments on FriendFeed :)
- Vlad
I thought these kind of things happened only countries like mine which the goverment tries to build a begging culture just to keep the hope alive and dependent to the authority at the same time. Each reply begging for money is adding another brick on the wall of shame. And Bob, couldn't you find another way to publicize this?
- M. Serdar Kuzuloglu
If I win I will invest it back for advertising! Just say my name 3 times on twitter like "Candyman".
- Los Angeles Dj
So what would I do with the money? Half of it would go to the good cause. I want to create value for people and who other than the less fortunate, handicapped and so on deserve this? Right. The other would go to a business I'm building. One for the people, on that will change our lives fundamentally and is here to stay.
- Kris
If I dont win this, i'll be happy to donate my time blogging or helping someone in any way right now, im jobless in Phoenix Arizona, I could do yard work or hook up pc's/fix pc's or help you with your website if I can
- Kyle Weller
I'd invest half of it in Google Stocks, then the rest I would pay my rent, get kittie food, and try and advertise www.phoenixstickers.com with adsense so my girlfriend makes some money with it, its new and not very popular right now ;\
- Kyle Weller
Here is my comment : the best way to talk about something is to let people talk about, and 4500$ is a pretty advertising investment. but it is really interesting :) now the question is ; is there any way to gauge the effectiveness of word of mouth? good luck.
- abdellah
Mmm....are u crazy Rob? :) Ok! I wanna a netbook give to me only 300$ ;)
- Dario Salvelli
i'm in!!
- scusanonsento
I'd give the money to Comic Relief (http://www.rednoseday.com/) to buy 250 mosquito nets for Africa. Two hundred and fifty saved lives? Bargain.
- Robin Stacey
you are so generous robin you deserve to win :)
- abdellah
why?
- catepol
I don't need this money :) Because I'm still working. But you can donate to a charity organization if I win.
- Süleyman Sönmez
I will spend the money attending game design workshops in when in San Francisco, to improve my theory about the use of game design techniques in social web applications (playfuldesign.org).
- Federico [Kurai]
@abdellah Hehe. Anything that stops someone from dying of Malaria is all right by me. Besides, it's simple economics. With $1750, no matter how I invest it, I can't do more that what 250 people could do with the rest of their lives.
- Robin Stacey
you are right, so let resume (generous, logic, awesome, and with a sens of humor), let ask the question differently Robin : who has no reason to win the money win the money ;) (it seams that all have at least one reason) human are really amazing creature. (ps: me too)
- abdellah
I agree, I'd buy a jet ski and have so much kick ass fun!
- sofarsoShawn
i'm in is too easy :)
- Valentin Sandu
se vinco devolvo tutto a Mantellini
- Luca Sofri
Trying to overload the comment stream?
- Örjan Lundberg
I am here~~~LOL
- K.D.
l'uomo a cui appiopparono la santità
- azael ماسيمو
I'll create a new world :]
- Ahmet Kakıcı
yes please and I'll give half to my love oh and a bit to greenpeace
- Julian Edward
if I win I will give $1 to everyone
- Giulio Ardoino
great idea, Robert! hope i'll win it.. i'll pay for my flight ticket, so i can finaly see you:)
- Martin
Dear Robert, sağa sola para saçmak yerine gidip bi türkçe kursuna kaydolsanda türkçe öğrensen olmazmı? Hem bu yorumu anlardın bak ne güzel. Paran çoksa işe yarar bişeyler yap canım.
- Ahmet Karaca
If I win, I will use them to finance my trip to L.A. next August.
- Fabio Cristi
I'm in.
- Tiziano Caviglia
Count me in.
- Alexander Arsky
of course, I'm in.
- Lorenzo
I'm in :).
- Demircan Celebi
I'm in :)
- Rıza Selçuk Saydam
Ecchime. :)
- Maxime
I'll take "I'm a Nigerian Prince" for $1000, Alex, err, Robert.!
- Kevin Leroux
I have some debts.... and I have 11 sons... 34 grandchildren... 22 dogs... 16 cats... and I am a liar... a neeedy liar :-(((((((:-D).... GIVE ME CASHSHSHSHSHSSH... Ah... Goodmorning Mr Scoble
- Daniel
I'd invest the money to my wife's startup that she starts next month. She'll be working around social media, blogs, photography etc. :)
- Jemm
if i win i will spend it for go usa this summer. absolutely i'll visit you also :)
- haluk
send all the money to germany :D
- Carsten
whee! I'd use it to open my deli :) I see free lunches in your future *laughing* hell, I'd even dedicate a booth to you.. with a cool plaque and everything!
- russa
This is going to be the longest thread ever
- Manuela
I hope the money goes to someone that really needs it
- Kyle Weller
Love to know your motivation for doing this Robert. Social experiment? See what people will do for money? You have a financial backing in Friendfeed & are aiming to stimulate usage? Either way, if I win, please donate the money to your favourite charity
- Lindsay Davies
if I win I'll make a gift to my girlfriend
- Ciccsoft
yo free money? I'm in!
- danslarue
I would give it to a friend who is unemployed; buy a new computer, smart shirt and tie, give him his dignity & confidence back. It saddens me to see so many friends hurting right now.
- Sally Church
I'll use the money by not using it (well, except for that 4pt escape clause written down below in the yet-to-be written contract between me and Mr. Scoble about the prize)
- Daniele V.
oh, WOW!
- Viditu
This is the FriendFeed equivalent to leftover pizza in the breakroom. I could certainly use some $ right now.
- Phillip
I'd prefer *earning* that money rather than just typing in something non-sense to anyone besides me... (please exclude my comment from the lottery)
- Kaan Ertürk
if I win I'll make a gift to Lehman Brothers
- azael ماسيمو
I'd rather type in nonsense, can I have Kaan's spot?
- sofarsoShawn
awesome robert!! are you part of pres obama's stimulus package? LOL! hope i win the random $1000 contest =)
- Melissa Solito
I'll stay tuned :P
- Tiziano Tassi
In regards to the first prize, I'm in.
- Armin Talic
crazy guy you are! "You're only given a little spark of madness. You mustn't lose it." (Robin Williams)
- Johannan Edelman
@sofarsoshawn: LOL! (Opps another spot now.. who wants it? Maybe I can start another thread to give away my spots)
- Kaan Ertürk
I'm in too ;)
- saicharan123c
So. this is my comment: I would use the money to buy a ticket to fly over to meet you and discuss if I could support you as some kind of correspondent over here in Europe (I'm in Germany).
- Till
In regards to the second prize, I'd like to use the money to buy my brother and sister their first macs. I grew up on encyclopedia britannica CDs on Windows 95, they deserve Wikipedia on a Mac.
- Armin Talic
@danslarue, "free money" these two word combined are more powerful then a TNT, if you can conceive or even think a second about a concept of "free money" then implicitly agree with the concept of "free work" and beside voluntary work they call it salvation .
- abdellah
I would use the $1750 in part to purchase some equipment for the part time photography business (about $500). The rest would go to 2 friends who are hurting right now with Flagler County, FL's unemployment rate at just over 14%.
- Jay Caruso
strange that no one, think to reverse the money to the 43 startup!! boys oh boys buy some action some part of this 43 startup may be it will be worth million :)
- abdellah
At first i thought i'd start a similar thread and give the money i win :-) but, here's the truth... I'd use the money to pay the next month of dev, working with a partner on our hope to be successful web service. I'm jobless 9 months now, 3 months since we started pushing the idea forward, all done @ home. Will use the most to pay my bills, with the rest i'll buy dinner for some of the homeless people i usually ignore.
- Majento
i need a new macbook))
- pets
advertorial?
- elifile
really?
- Moses
gonna go to hollywood
- Ozkan Altuner
With this money, I am plannig to start a new company that develops social media applications. So if I win, I can give a job to you :))
- Aydın Kayacık
the entire amount of money will be used to help the local communities in eastern congo and sustain conservation of the virunga national park in congo. if you prefere, you can do it right away without giving me the money, visit www.gorilla.cd/blog for a one-time donation / all donation are tracked and transparent :)
- giulio
Brilliant idea and very noble of you, Scoble! (Sorry...I should leave the humor to my husband, who does a much better job!) LOL! I would use all the money to buy as many Radio Flyer kids wagons and send them out free to those that win a contest similar to this one! (I get them wholesale because I am an authorized dealer, so that would stretch the budget a bit more).
- Pat Graham Block
I'd spend the money for future trips: I have ever wanted to see the milky way from the earth or see the Northern lights. But maybe, I could put the money aside and spend it for a parabolic flight when I have enough money (that's another lifelong dream). I would also love to go on safari in Africa and see all the amazing animals in the savanna. But maybe I should rent a car and feel the American dream at Route 66? Ah Robert, your money lottery helped my thinking about all my dreams again. Thanks! :)
- Timo Heuer
I would use part of the money to donate to some podcasters or webcomic artists who are selling things on their website, like T-shirts, mugs and stuff like that. And buy a couple of domain names. Things I already do when tax return time comes, only this time more.
- Derek Coward
Each post you make will promote this thread more and more thus decreasing the expected value, with this rate a post made a few hours from now will probably have an expected value of a few cents. This will be a very nice data .
- Tuna
I need a new woman, please Robert choose me!
- Francesco Marconi
cool :) I would use $1750 to buy cabinet-type gas-control point for cottage
- Igor
I would spend the money of webhosting running free-of-charge computing services for open drug development (using open source utilities), such as used in Open Notebook Science and sorts.
- Egon Willighagen
what's up.
- pastas9
I think we will use the money to develop a desktop application for facebook very simple, actually, but that still does not exist in optimal form. I thought with a friend, but, since we are both students, we need a bit of $ $ $ to get technical advice from someone for some parts that relate to writing code (I study Marketing, and my friend is the final year of a degree in computer engineering).
- Tiziano Tassi
Okey I give in. Scoble, finally you made me signup for friendfeed
- shafiu
i'm in. also if this a psyco socialexperiment...
- FedericaB.
hahah interesting to see anyways .. how many comments on the one thread
- Terry O'Fee
Alright. This is my first entry. Chances are that I won't win....but it is exciting waiting to see if you do. :-)
- Thebluestbutterfly
1) I'll spend the money to end my fear for airplane: so I can travel again. 2) i will organize a free public movie show here in Milano, all people sits in the night to watch the screen in the spring air
- FedericaB.
@FedericaBellag, interesting :) and what if it is just a plain and simple contest? it may be more "word of mouth advertising" tracking experiment then psyco social one. (love the smile face)
- abdellah
Who wouldn't want to join FF for $1000?
- Samuel Driessen
I will use the money for paying up my college fees and taking up a course related to VOIP. People like Craig and Vincent of Grandcentral (which I use for 3 years almost), pat Phelan and more VOIP experts keep pushing me to do something great in that area. Also, great its open to any1 iin the world. Most competitions are US ONLY, which is something I HATE BIG TIME. I m in India Mr....
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- Hardeep Singh Dang
@samuel, no the question is are FF team ready to pay $1000 for any on who join!!!
- abdellah
@abdellah ok, let's be tracked then! that's my face at the office ;-)
- FedericaB.
I will save the money. I'm an italian student studying abroad (Master in Digital Library), and those money could just be useful. They could be also a way to go in Jerusalem, following my girlfriend. Anyway, goo viral Scoble ;-)
- Aubrey McFato
notice : the headline is "win my money" not "take my money", so we have to make effort, it is not a "free money" it is a make effort and win, so remember it is not "take my money" :)
- abdellah
im in :)
- shaff
money, money, money
- Cengiz Çatalkaya
Adopt me Robert!
- Özer (Wrzl) Dölekoğlu
It's so hard to see whole of the comments. 620 including me now. :)
- Meriç Dağlı
I would get an iron if I have been searching some water in the desert and I would be the ass part of the Voltran, when we have been arising it.... bacause I am so unfortunate
- Lokman Köroğlu
.oO(i SHOULD be able to get D90...)
- browneyes
you wanna DDoS FriendFeed :). I will use the money for a ff-contest when i pay people for the best comment. obviusly you can partecipate and win back your money. :P
- enzo zadrima
nice ;)
- nicolatbr
Let's add a comment to this.
- bnoise
I'll donate some charities with 750$ of it. Buy a macbook with 999$ it, and set up a " First commenters win the buck. " contest via friendfeed. :)
- Meriç Dağlı
It shouldn't be about the money? What kind of game is it? We still need to wait Is it somehow related to SXSW?
- Aziz
Sure do wish I could be there at #sxsw
- Gil Rodriguez
Hi, with that sum I would probably take a chance to stop and take time to smell the roses, at least for a while.
- ziomau
nice way to see if there's a limit on the number of comments a ff post could get..
- Nicola Maggi
I could qualify for the $1,000, but not the $1,750 as I have two jobs. The only basis I could see is for a complete donation to an organization helping out of work people. We have a food pantry here in Beverly Mass called Bootstraps and a women's shelter in Gloucester, Mass called Wellspring that both would know just where that money could be best used.
- Martha
Damn... money can do anything...
- Eyal Shahar
I'll be practical when I win the money and invest it in the future....my childrens' education!
- Kevin Dugan
@Eyal no, you can't win a contest even if you give money :) money don't do anything ;)
- abdellah
@nicolas interesting question, and what do you think? does a thread have a comment limit or no? it all depend on the limitation, will this run eternally?no so there is a number of comment that people will post here it is a kind of buzz after the momentum there will be no comment let say there will be 50000 comment, FF are able to store such data.
- abdellah
So being completely unbiased, with little if any interest, if I were Robert Scoble, handsome fella, I'd give the money to whoever stated first they would buy a jet ski due to the fact they are super fun! Oh, who knew, that's me!
- sofarsoShawn
Great...I was juts talking over in TechCrunch that Robert does not need luck in his new venture "Building 43" and not it seems I am the one that needs luck to win the $1000 ....:) Thanks Robert Joao/TechFuga
- TechFuga
a little is better than none. :)
- Geyik Mühendisi
Well I started reading this thread, but I got a 1/4 way through & gave up, >650 comments, that's got to be some kind of record. What post does have the highest number of comments?
- Glenn Slaven
Interesting... I guess there's nothing to lose by trying
- Adi Sheleg
Ok, can't hurt to put one's name into the "hat"...p.s. good luck dude on the new gig... will be following closely... thinking cloud myself :)
- Michael Lehman
Hmmmm. That is my comment
- Darrell Bell
Commenting away in the Great Scoble Sweepstakes.
- Warner Crocker
With $1750 I would spend half to get to next years SXSW which I am missing this year :-(. and the other half I would spend on sponsoring a deluxe drop in-childcare at the Austin Convention Center for the parent bloggers.
- Emee Pumarega
I'm in too:) I would use the money for keeping an exhibition
- Nia
Comment! This is the Robert Scoble Stimulus Package
- Kreg Steppe
Spinning the wheel. FF FTW ;)
- Daniel Krech
10% to charities of my choice, the rest to pay bills and allow me to keep working in the nonprofit sector. I'm at that level where I still need to do outside consulting to come out ahead at the end of each month, and $1600 would give me 4 months where I wouldn't need to get a consulting gig (yep, the budget is that tight)
- Jeff Stern
The 4 minihawks would like to donate to their california school district to help offset the 1.5mm cutbacks.
- Mrsth
I'm in too!
- LJ Kyser
Of course MRSTH could use an overdue marathon weekend away with Mr. Hawk.
- Mrsth
I can promise nice pics?
- Mrsth
I'm in...
- Halil Ahmet ÇAKIR
This thread will explode in 3, 2, 1...
- Marta
I can upgrade to a macpro by winning :-P
- Richard A.
wow this is the most comments/likes i've seen!
- andy brudtkuhl
If I won either sum of money, I'd probably put it toward buying some camera gear, like a Nikon D90 and another lens. I have a couple family events that I'll be taking pictures at, and it'd be nice to have a D90 for them. :) I could go for a D700, but the D90 has video, so that's why I prefer it right now.
- Cheryl Jones
@Jason H - Whether or not either of us wins Robert's money, I have a timeshare near Disney that I haven't had the opportunity to use in the past few years. If you can get yourself airfare, a rental car and park tickets, I'll be happy to let you use the week, no charge to you. The dates are October 24-31, 2009.
- Sally done with 2009
if i win the $1000 or $1750 i would donate it to charity:water or some other water based charity. clean water is the catalyst to healthier and smarter communities
- Damian Holmes
what r we copying Ben Stein now?
- clarke thomas
Congratulations to you and Rocky on the new gig.
- Aron Michalski
With $1750 I'd give money to the National Multiple Sclerosis Society, to help fund research for a cure and treatments so my mother and others with MS can have an improved quality of life. I'd also give money to the American Diabetes Association to help my father and others living with diabetes. I'd give some to @smallcanbebig to help needy families locally (Boston) and hope to have enough left over to take my son to visit his grandparents in FL. He's 6 mos. and they've only seen him once, at Christmas.
- Sally done with 2009
Robert, I want your money. Do I have to work for it?
- Aidha
I'm in. I wanne buy ı mac pro.
- Rıza Selçuk Saydam
I'm in robert!
- Junal Rahman
on that money is the side of the monte man. what's this it :) scoble iki dakka delikanlı ol lan paran fazlaysa git yardım kuruluşlarına, özürlüler, kimsesiz çocuklara ver mngoduum kapitalist pçleri.
- Volkan Yılmaz ٩(●̮̮̃•̃)۶
hehe :P
- Geyik Mühendisi
Yes please. The odds are way better here than playing the lotto
- Christian Burns
I can't wait to see the effect of putting my name on this illustrious list of luminaries
- David Gallagher
that's a smart way to get attention :)
- PaperDoll
With USD1750 I could finally prove that friendfeed is not a complete waste of time...
- Morten Josefsen
I would probably go for a D90 :-)
- Nils Sandin
if you come to shanghai/China, we can have a dinner and go to bar :)
- 赛林（土耳其）
I enter not because I need the money (I'd give it away too) but because me entering slightly reduces all of the rest of your chances to win. MUAHAHAHAHA
- Nate True
My Scoble $1750 stimulus package spending plan: Give my son (the struggling Mac/iphone developer) $1,000 in "angel funding", get a Drobo ($500), and put $250 in my Grandson's (future Mac) savings account.
- Al Degutis
Just for fun :)
- Hassan
Pick me, pick me, pick me for the $1000 giveaway (if you don't pick me for the $1750 Scoble Stimulus).
- Al Degutis
more people should do this. Many people or businesses could afford to give $1,000
- Lady Lovely Heart
i would donate some of it maybe half to a local worthy charity, the rest would go into a fund that would be used to encourage this type of activity. Conversation building, with the right questions a lot of solutions can be found by crowds
- Tweet Feeds
My intent for the big prize would be to replace windows in my home with energy efficient ones. the ones in the house now are cracked from the house settling. they are the original 1959 windows, and they rattle every time a plane goes over the house. very distracting when we are trying to concentrate or stay warm
- Lady Lovely Heart
I can haz money?
- Bryan R. Adams
Big money. No whammies. STOP. | I would use the winnings towards upgrading my equipment (Mac Pro) since my current setup is pretty bad for video. I would sell my current MBP (2006 First Gen) and use the proceeds towards the new machine. I would pump out twice as much HD content with better equipment. Thanks for all you do Robert..I know whoever wins will make the best out of the cash.
- Bwana ☠
Take my husband to the Grand Canyon for that honeymoon we never had--that's what I'd do with some extra cash.
- joansjewels
I agree, nice way to get people engaged.
- Gary Gifford Jr
from Nambu
Show me the money! :)
- Ale♫nastrorosa
actually, I don't want your money
- Manuela
That's quite ingenious =)
- Frère Noël
I'd buy a laptop so that I don't have to wait for the missus to get off the ruddy computer and let me have my go on it!!!
- Andy
a nice way to test the limits of commenting feature on a bunch of real people just for US$1000.
- 9000
I will use the money to buy $1 stocks in companies that will re-bound or will be more successful in the next 2-5 years due to the ongoing financial crisis. My choice will be guided by those companies that care, share and have flare for others...a community stimulus...hope others will join and build what the "financiers" could not.
- Gordon Montgomery
It seems too easy, but.. here ya go!
- Scott Breakall
You'll be my best crazy friend! *LOL*
- Andrea Spedale
1. Cool 2. Travel for VC meetings so I can finally provide some solutions for RSS that we argued/discussed 2 years ago (delivery of premium content possibly over open channels)
- Andy Beard
Random comment left.
- domizianogalia
here I am :)
- Fran
Yo Robert, did you give it away yet? Here's my chance to win! ;^)
- Michael Bailey
@manuela, but personally I want more comment from you.
- abdellah
awesome idea. by the way, how goes life without diet coke?
- tracy
I'd use it to help an independent artist with their career. Rentals for video equip on shows and music videos with stories that would otherwise remain untold.
- Frank Jonen
I'm in
- Lucas Araujo
from twhirl
I refuse to comment in this thread.
- Akiva Moskovitz
How can I win?
- Gloria Gordon
Woah! So is this part of the Scoble Stimulus plan? Anyways, if by some chance I did win the money I would use either towards moving out of my parents house later this year or put it towards my student loans.
- Mathew™ one of a kind
@Akiva you also deserve to win., I insist please comment this thread please.
- abdellah
If I lay my hands on this prize, I'll spent a night playing blackjack surrounded by hookers. I'd also buy a new Palm that Robert recommended lately and spend the remaining amount for ScienceDirect and Jstore subscriptions.
- Alan Kodzasov
I'd use the money to go to Korea.
- Mark Woodson
I would use the money to fix the economy.
- Andy Bakun
Andy: you get it right, please fix that economy.
- abdellah
Its enough to buy one toliet seat for the government :)
- Roberto Bonini
Robert could fund nails and shingles for building a small seminar facility in the Adirondack State Park.
- Jeff Archambeault
With $1750 I would buy a lot of toys for the baby we are waiting....
- roberto ferorelli
I count at least 6 references to "donate to kiva.org" so far. Pretty cool. That is what I was going to write, but looks like many other's beat me to it. But hell... If I got it, I would donate to Kiva.org. :) (make it 7 now).
- Shannon Bauman
JET SKI!
- sofarsoShawn
Sounds like a great idea.
- Tyson Key
awesome idea.
- Jessie
Give me $10,000 in unmarked bills or I tell Maryam your giving away $4800.
- shelisrael1
joy and joyness!
- Jenn Castro
Nothing special here, just want to pay some outstanding bills and get supplies for my 3mth old =)
- Mat Finch
Quickly put in a reply while thinking about a smug way of spending 1.750...
- Stefan Kolle
Yeah, I think I'll stick with the Kiva donation too. I'm pretty prolific there (a true believer), and have about that amount outstanding in loans, so the chance to double my Kiva loans in one go would be outstanding.
- Stefan Kolle
is this gonna have like 1000+ comments?
- Jorge Murillo
I'm bummed I couldn't get to SXSWi so I came to Robert's ATM machine instead. :)
- Laura Zickus
in.
- Richard Lawler
No comment :-P
- Richard A.
Bump!
- Tyson Key
I'd love to say I'd do something altruistic with the money, but I'd invest it all in my startup (we're doing cool things with information and emotions online). In this economy every little helps :-)
- jennielees
Out
- Roberto Bonini
Awesome. Looking forward to what's next.
- Andy Sternberg
from fftogo
Yay, the Scobleizer Grand Prize Giveaway- Still more chances than the National Lottery!
- Tyson Key
FriendFeed Scales!
- Tyson Key
with $1,750, I would I would set up 7 performance art / photoshoots uptown here in Charlotte in the center of Bank Town at lunch time, wordlessly demonstrating some of the problems (as I see them) with our current corporate culture. I have the first one of these ready to go but don't the cash to set up the others (yet). If I only got the free $1000, I would buy some more studio lighting equipment (much to the chagrin of my roomy).
- Shannon J Hager
Why? Why? Why?
- Ashish Rangole
in
- Roozbeh
Bella idea! :)
- Daniele Aprile
It just goes to show you can't be too careful!
- Timothy Griffin
with $ 1.750 I would buy a laptop + microphone + router for my parish and start broadcasting with kids.
- Astrid Virili
Hey Robert, I think this is the most commented entry on Friendfeed. btw I don't want your money :) Cheers
- cihanergur
just testing my luck :)
- Deniz (bluesign) Edincik
sure, I'll play. as for how I'd use the money, I'd probably use it to help offset the cost of my lasik surgery.
- chrisofspades
I would use the money to fund my own open source development work (within the php symfony framework) as well as supplement my wife's pending maternity leave. Realtors don't get paid maternity leave... Thanks!
- Jon Issler
Scoble rocks, count me in!
- Chris Pugh
I would use the money to assist my parents in their move back home closer to the adult children. They are currently existing on 18k a year, their Medicare and Secondary insurance cost them 10k. It would help buy their medications.
- Janet
I'm sure that there are a lot of deserving people who need this money so best of luck to all. I would give this $ to my mother who had to sell her business after working so hard, cause she was diagnosed with lung cancer. Now she has to work for someone part time cause still sick, husband laid off in Florida, trying to pay off house, med bills, prescrip, barely making it & gov't no help cause not appv'd for Medicare cause married, what? so considering divorce just to afford medical bills & mortgage. - M.E.
- monica Edwards
Here's my comment! I'll take my chances. I'm a poor college grad, I could sure use the cash.
- Jessica
I've blocked u, so if u wanna get back on my list....:)
- Koba Yaschi
This is really good. I'll buy a Nintendo Wii. :) Thx.
- marrup -serkan-
I hope people that REALLY need it win ,,, good luck on the Contest Rob ..
- johnpiercy
This has to be the most commented thread in FriendFeed.
- Nicholas James
Here's the rundown with what I'd do with $1750: I want to do a Power Rangers fan film. No joke. Stop laughing. No really, you can stop now. Power Rangers has been on the air for the past 17 seasons, and it's finally getting canceled. This has inspired me to shoot a film short inspired by the show I grew up with. The $1750 will be invested to bump it up to looking professional. Scoble can be the Executive Producer! Don't pass up on that chance. Ok, you can stop laughing now, lol.
- Lisa J
I want money
- Tyler (Chacha)
Tuition for 2010 Iowa Summer Writing Festival courses, at Iowa Writers' Workshop.
- Paola Bonomo
It would go into the funds I am raising to start a new print venture, tbnl, which will publish great, timeless stories (fiction & nonfiction) in a limited edition (subscriber only edition), a print-on-demand edition available for years and a digital ebook reader. Paying writers & artists on an ongoing, fair basis
- Shannon Clark
I'd love to have some Scoble Dollars. They'd help fund my exit from technology to academia.
- Tom Morris
Hi Robert, Congrats on new opportunity with bldg 43 Can I share your money with my 18 month old daughter AKA the Joy transmitter or perhaps I could drop it form the sky with my tandem paraglider over the Microsoft campus...
- John Clifford
It's impossible not to comment - although if it wasn't Scoble saying this, I wouldnt bother to be honest, as I'd suspect a con ...
- Ian
760 comments and counting...
- Mike Doeff
I guess a SECOND MacBook would be nice…
- Alexandre Testu
Is it for VAT?
- Onur ALMIŞLAR
I'd use the money to buy crack. I mean books for children. Oh, wait, it's random...
- Jules Morgan
Wow! I think I would invest them for developing an iPhone application
- Nicholas
Hi Robert, my first comment on friendfeed, I couldn't resist the chance. You do know that Tuesday is St. Patrick's Day - I'll buy you a leprechaun hat from the parade in Dublin to celebrate!
- Niall Sisson
Leaving Comment here. Hope it finds a good home. I would use the money to start a shelter for lost comments.
- Joe K
No 419 scammers yet? ;)
- Tyson Key
Mmmm... Money! €_€
- Kristian Salonen
Great! As this 'WTF' crisis in Madagascar is causing everything to be sooo difficult now!
- Thierry R. Andriamirado
better try...
- 252525
That's like a lottery :) I'm in !
- gareth - MMX Edition
I would put together a new computer, like to see BOINC running on a quad core.
- Willem (@wim66) ☠
I'm in. Getting married next month and need the cash!
- Nation Hahn
Great way to engage Robert!
- Sampad Swain
I'm here! And I'd like to switch from PC to Mac... :D
- Giovy
Hi Robert, this is very generous of you, thank you! I've been unemployed since last April so I could use the money for rent, food, bills, etc. I wish I could buy a nice little netbook with the money but maybe once I'm back on my feet I can make that happen. In the meantime, thanks for being so considerate to your readers! Best of luck with the new venture too.
- Andy
Rackspace customer and big fan... Looking forward to this new venture!
- Charlie Nichols Browning
Surprised you have fallen as low as this Robert. Still, been there and done that before so best of luck and best wishes with Rackspace.
- Paul Fabretti
Um, awesome.
- Nick Humphries
count me in
- Edward Kimble
If I win, will post about the same in my blog and you'll be famous in India too (if you're not, that is). BTW your fan following can add upto 45 million Indian internet users (Smirk!). Now how about that Mr. Scoble? Game for it....Oh man, this is quirky fun! Keep up the good work Robert :)
- Sampad Swain
I would use the money to fix _my_ economy. And by my economy, I mean I'd blow it all on strippers and blow.
- Jon Ursenbach
The amount of comments in here is insane. What's the record for the FF entry with the most amount of comments ever? Because this one feels like a winner.
- Brad Butner
from twhirl
you lucky! in Italy we can's setup a contest like that one easily and free, we have to pay taxes :(
- Maurizio ㊍ Mazzanti
If I won $1000, it would go to my first Mac since a Mac+ !
- Steve Ellwood
am still undecided on your real motive...... but then again, pecunia non olet..... ;)
- denise
787 comments ?? wow!! Scoble u are the Brad Pitt of friendfeed... anyone else see the physical resemblence?
- Cody Heitschmidt
Um, no, I don't Cody. Sorry. Scoble is taller.
- Roberto Bonini
just leave a comment. well her's mine
- Rachel Clarke
well its not identical I know Scoble is a little taller, but other than that Anfgelina could easily confuse the 2.
- Cody Heitschmidt
I'm in!
- «Weird & Sons»
eh what the heck, im in :)
- ralphsaunders
This is interesting, but too many comments to read unfortunately.
- Mitch
Sure, Robert. I'll take your money! Can never have too much! ;)
- MVB (Curmudgeon of FF)
Simulate me, Scoble!
- Robert Owens
That would be awesome, I could put the $$ towards my vacation to Kauai in August. Thanks Scoble, I promise to provide you photos from the vacation PF.
- Pentaxfan
I'm bending the corner of my comment so it sticks out
- Just Ken
pick me! Pick me! :)
- Dania
This is great.. thanks Robert! =)
- Timo Ukkola
I'm accepting anyone giving money. Details to come.
- Terence
I'll buy whatever Apple is developing with that rumored 10 inch multitouch display..
- Peter
too much comments..pick me!
- Magari sul Tardi
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- Smeerch
Jet ski, I need one
- sofarsoShawn
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- Barbara-BlackCat
If I win this thing, I'll be most hated person on FF. god help me!.
- Ozan Caglargil
For a small advance fee, I can take part...
- Gordon Joly
i'm in, too..
- Sercan YILMAZ
You're not really going to write down all these names & pull them out of a hat are you?
- Mrsth
I'll need a credit card that got no limit-cuz we all just want to be rock stars
- Mrsth
Mrsth: I bet he'll find a script somewhere to pull all the usernames into a file, as only Scoble could do. :) Any amount of money would likely go towards my photography business, should I be chosen to win... it would be fun to put a portion of it towards prizes for the photowalks I'll be starting this summer in northern Vermont for area photographers and enthusiasts.
- Bob M. Montgomery
814th post!
- Tyson Key
I like free money. Was it already given away?
- elroy
I'd like to say that I'd do something noble should I win but there's no nobility in ordering cases of wine and giving my liver a good workout. Plenty of enjoyment, though.
- Mark H
I'm in! :)
- Vlad Rafeyev
I would use it to not have an excuse for not recording my album. That is to say after 15 years of putting it off, I would stop procrastinating.
- Vicky
wow for real? thats insane
- ralphsaunders
I'm in and I'd probably put the money towards building my deck (not super exciting but still...)
- Trevor
Starting to think I should post a reason why I want it...
- ralphsaunders
I'm in! And I would use the money to buy my mom a present. She just turned 52 :)
- Alex Kapranoff
I'm working on a funding for a research application for a semantic web project that I hope will become the next big thing (one of the next big things, anyway). If I succeed, you'll be the first person I ask to cover it!
- Sam Kuper
Money, money, money, money ... MONEY!
- Great Scott!
You guys do know that Scoble is essentially bribeing you to comment here? Large carrot and a small stick.
- Roberto Bonini
Didn't stop you did it?
- ralphsaunders
LOL. In my defense, I was performing a public service. *ducks*
- Roberto Bonini
Hey I'm in. Is this the most commented entry in the whole of FriendFeed? I'm guessing that it will be. Anyone know what the previous record was?
- Peter Kelley
I'd use the money to help get my wife's specialty dessert company off the ground: www.thesweettreatcompany.com
- Michael Listberger
Can't wait to win your money... I'd use it to pay for some much needed camera gear and the rest of it to plan a trip to a city I've never been before so I could photograph it. I would love to be able to do something with photography, but it's tough working full time and going to grad school at night, all on my own dime. I don't have it as rough some people, but I've had to earn everything I have so I make no apologies for it.
- Michael
Good luck sorting thru the 800+ comments :) If I won the money, I would repeat your experiment and give it all away (though I'm sure I would get no where near as many entrants as you) (P.S. It's not that I couldn't use the money, but I think it would feel good to help someone who needs it more than me). Good luck everyone!
- Helen Hoefele
He won't notice if I comment twice, right? ;) Nah, I don't do that. But, holy crap! This is a lot of comments!
- Mike Nayyar
I sure could use $1000. Would go straight to funding Taskerrific. $1750 would be even better, because I could get a new computer and a year's hosting, based on my current estimates.
- Chris, Taskerrific Guy
I would use the money to fund my plastic drumming addiction. Hellooo pro drum set hacked to play Rock Band!
- Chieze Okoye
So I wonder how many comments a FF post can handle?
- gfurry
I would use the money to pay my taxes so the needy executives will still be able to get their bonuses this year.
- gfurry
Hey Robert. Hard to say the best way to spend it without doing too much work to make it be most useful, but if it could be used to do something radical with what is going on with the Fed, I'm sure you know that Ron has a bill in Congress to Audit the Fed. Very soon things are gonna be way worse for us on this planet if things are not done to stop the insane people from making some really bad choices. So the money should go to someone willing to do something really radical to save our country from ending.
- mikehedge
I would donate all the money to UNICEF and Kiva.
- Jess Lee
Weird. I was just thinking about how I needed about $1750 in ones to sew together and waterproof in an effort to make myself an umbrella top to fix the one I ripped yesterday. So...yes, that's what I'll do with it. I'll even give you a free picture of it in exchange for your dollars! (Leftovers will be donated to credit card debt. :( )
- Brett
I would use the money to help pay for the permits I'll need to get a pet monkey for my internet video show.
- Davis Freeberg
I'd start a community for my career, regulatory compliance in biomedical research. Right now there is not an effective way for my counterparts at universities, biotechs, government labs, private labs to communicate quickly and effectively. The result of this is organizations world wide continually reinvent the wheel. I'd like to create an up to date community with high traffic, and the ability to share files, policies, forms, etc. The project will go foward w/o the money, just more slowly.
- Matthew DeVries
what is going on here?
- potatohai
mortgage and beer, yo!
- Adrian
I'll put the money into microlending; a good social/economic ROI.
- Phil Wolff
I want to say something conservative like pay down my debt or put it in the kids college fund, but I'm going to go out on a limb and say that I would use the money to buy myself a bass guitar. Just something I've been wanting but don't have the discretionary income to afford it.
- Eugene Huo
850+ Comments? That has to be some sort of record for friendfeed in just over 24 hours.
- WiseYoda (aka Patrick)
Win money? Count Me IN!
- Dave
I want to win money!
- Matt Bebich
hi Robert Scoble :D yeah count me in!
- OmniDragon
$4500 closer for next TED. Plenty of time to work on the invitation! jgx
- Jennifer Green
Bring it on! Love your feed from SxSW! Now, send me the money!
- Gene
OH good money for college... or to buy a new computer...
- Laaabaseball
I want to win so that I can buy me a Macintosh,so count me in.
- frank harvey
Hey, Rob help a sista out! Give me da money!
- Jackie
saw you on Chris's live stream @ SxSW...free money count me in!
- Jason
Money rocks
- Shawn Farner
If I won $4500, I would install central heat and air in my house. You would make my life so much happier!
- Auriette Lindsey
$1,750 would go to the nonprofit volunteer org I'm trying to get off the ground :P
- Shawn Farner
Diapers for Newborns. $1750 split evenly to the most socially active on http://bebepool.com (my free web service enabling expectant parents to run their own baby pool contest). Most active meaning the 10 pools with the most participant guess entries Jan-Feb. I will paypal $175 to each winner and blog the results inclusive of the funds origin & any statements from the families impacted. I've seen the bebepool community show their own generosity (http://burnurl.com/YvHNL0 ), so would love to full circle it.
- Micah Wittman
If I won the money, I'd give all of it back to you. Of course, I'd charge 100% interest. :P
- Matthew Agra
Scoble the human Roulette wheel.
- Rob
wow. must be the post with the most comments i've seen on friendfeed so far.
- simonpure
With 1750 I'd do the ever boring "keep paying off the wife and I's credit cards"
- Steve Boerner
Any and all the money I win will go for building this charity app we are planning. Every cent spent will be accounted for and would be posted on a web site (TBD). Additionally, we will be spending our own money and time on this. @scobleizer, please ping me if you would like more details.
- Ashish Rangole
lame
- Raphael, Raphael
Behold, my comment. Hi Robert, I saw you at SxSW.
- Michael Lee Wise
I'd put up the first Bldg 43 Billboard - http://tinyurl.com/1750-00
- Rob
Tipjoy $1 each to the first 1,000 or 1,750 (depending on prize) commentors in this thread who have a Twitter account.
- Hao Chen
With $1750, I'd put up another "Win my money" post on FriendFeed, and see if people bite more or less than for your money. And then figure out why they liked your money more (social-networking experiment 2.0).
- Ivan Zuzak
Robert kardes kusura bakma Ingilizcem iyi degil. 1750 gaymeyi bana verirsen sirket acarken kullanacagim. toparlarsak : $1750 + 10 000tl = design company :)
- Uur
Interesting. :) /sits down and waits
- PiDave
Emergency is an independent, neutral and non-political Italian organization, provides free, high quality medical and surgical treatment to the civilian victims of war, landmines and poverty. http://www.emergency.it/index...
- Cristian Conti
If i won the money, I will write a easy to use friendfeed app for iphone :)
- cem
very cool idea
- Kate
$1750= Paying off my medical bills... no, not enough. Gas, food, rent... mmm, scratch that. Funding my craving for more, new camera equipment.... perfect. You, rightly feeling good for what you want to do,... priceless.
- Kate
Here I am ! Only a comment ?
- neurinux
I'm going to become father for the second time ! I'll use this money to search a new house whith more than 2 rooms !
- neurinux
I will use the money to put towards a deposit on a flat. Currently I am living between my parents and my partner and daughters. I have two children from a previous relationship so will use the money for a deposit on a place which is central to both location
- Joe Dawson
I'll use the money for a much needed, long overdue, 2 month break and go to India to relax from this hectic world…
- Adi Sheleg
hard to win easy to spend.
- ismail ünal
Scoble, fund me a startup!
- Toni @ NavinoT
i'll use the money to get out of this place and start running my own business
- Claudia
I'll fund prototype of my p2p language learning startup
- Artyom
In case I win, I'll upgrade my networking status to "notworking" status. At least for a month. During that time, I'll have more time to make blog posts and enlighten self taught musicians and producers who are fighting to make music in their bedrooms. And I will buy some cookies for myself, in case I forget to eat
- ilter
I'll get a haircut, and get a real job.
- Adrian
Comment #895
- Anthony K. Valley ©
I would donate the money to Warchild.com, whose cause is to give children in war zones around the world a peaceful future.
- Alexander van Elsas
lascio un inutile commento pure io
- Adamo Lanna
Sei un chiattone, bob. Simpatico, però.
- jokerulez
Considering some people worrying about taxes, I'd just like to state that up here in Canada, lottery and contest winnings are not taxed. At all.
- Chris, Taskerrific Guy
Sorry, I don't want money, we've got too much !
- Benoit Bourdin
Benoit: I'd be happy to help you get rid of some of your surplus, if that's really the case. ;)
- Chris, Taskerrific Guy
In response to happyseaurchin's question above, I propose tiprojx http://tiprojx.wordpress.com/ ... If anyone reading this who has a twitter account tweets an idea for a (social change) project with one or more of the hashtags #tipme #tipshare #tiptodo #tipif ... a whole lot of new projects have the potential to 1. gain crowdsourced funding and 2. be collaboratively refined in the process. I'll split the money between my favourite tagged ideas posted before midday (GMT) next Tues 24 March.
- Hannah Lewis
If I won $1750, I'd use the money to hire a local (Austin) freelance UI/dev to help me finish my social sports service (commi.sh) and pay for hosting for a year while we grow it.
- Carter Rabasa
OMG. Robert Scoble jumps into "paid per comment". This is the end. My only friend, the end.
- Davide Pozzi
ok, this is definitely a test for building43.com. does friendfeed run on rackspace? Rob, you trying a massive test of comments or live commentary, or something like that. i can bet you're analyzing this data on rackspace. you're making the new friendfeed search of organized live conversations/streams.
- Reji
did i win? lol
- Ivan Stegic
Comment 909 and counting. New pool ~ When will Robert break his own record.
- Russellreno
910!
- Tyson Key
Will Tomorrow be my Lucky Day? I will buy $1750 dollars of PowerBall tickets and then give 90% of the winnings to help feed children in Africa.
- David Clements
This money could really help me in my current situation. Unfortunately I recently had a tumour removed from my bladder, which has really turned my life upside down. Overall, this has resulted in me having to miss and therefore finance two extra years at University. I’m currently 21 and studying BA Hons Economics at Newcastle University, England. I’m pleased to say that my health seems...
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- Daniel Rowley
Very funny! :D Did I win something??? :D
- Matte
ain future economic prosperity! I would also donate $250 to Malaria No More: http://www.malarianomore.org/.... Thank you for the opportunity.
- Daniel Rowley
wow..If I win I will buy a bike.. and travel around India... God bless me!!
- sirishkumar
My dog needs a new leg. Thanks! CP
- gimiento
If I win I will buy a ticket to SxSW next year and watch Scoble get totally wasted and take pics of legs with his camera...
- Ross
Pick me, pick me.
- Amit Morson
As for the $1,750 - I will donate it to the first children related cherish organization that approaches me.
- Amit Morson
Hello World
- Pierre Beugnot
With $1,750 I would be able to afford the flight back to Austria and support my dad who has to undergo his 3rd surgery and eventually also the 4th.
- Verena Fuchs
I would sell it! =) honor would be enough for me...
- Goktug Gedik
I would use the money to purchase a head stone for my mothers grave.
- Ardail Smith
i would use the money for a long hot summer :)
- Samuel Kreuzer
I'd buy $1,750 worth of green energy stocks, most probably geothermal
- Fabio
Robert - I would use the money to buy good microphones to make an internet video series about Nerd Revolt. http://www.numeriklab.com/2009... I would then use them to document the 2009 Decibel Festival in September: http://dbfestival.com After that, who knows - but I promise to come up with something good! You can't document musicians without good sound :) Thank you, Erica
- Erica Toelle
I would use the money to pay my out-of-state tuition!
- Kevin Mohr
i would like it in a brief case... small unmarked bills please
- ray parisi
I'd use $1750 towards a down payment for a first home. My wife and I recently had a son, and our apartment is shrinking at an alarming rate.
- Chris Heald
i'll be a materialistic bastard. i'd pay my bills while still trying to search for a job in this life sucking, non-forgiving city. yup. that's what i would do. ramen noodles are no fun when you're not in college...
- ultimate_loser
if i win this money i'll use to buy some equipments for the university, but not only for me. i'll buy two computers, one printer, and so we can do our university newspaper. this money will be a contribute for the free press, in a nation like italy, where every voice is subdued to the power. give us a chance!
- Riccardo
Leave a comment here, and I can win. Ok, done. What's next? There's something about a second way to win, that looks like I need to state what I'd use the money for. Simple: to continue to make uplifting films, like I did this year for the 168 Project. Need to make a few payments still. The rest will go towards next year's film.
- Mike Shields
Way too easy ;)
- Gregg Wenger
I'd put it towards a computer and software I need for my new small business I'm setting up after 4 years off work with a broken back
- Rob Bell
Mee Two :) , i'll use it for world Piece
- Chirag Chamoli
Mike: watch http://www.ustream.tv/studio at about 4 p.m. today (Austin Time, which is about 2 p.m. Pacific Time) and we'll pick the winners live on that show.
- Robert Scoble
I'd like to join this competition to make a chance for the money for my new developing start-up. Could use it for sure, development is costy these days!
- Coen Jacobs
I'd use the money to pay for an artist to help me out on a Palm Pre/Windows Mobile app that I'm working on.
- Alastair Maggs
If I won the money I would book one of those super cheap round trip tickets to Australia from LA (currently $598 RT) and then use my Flip camera to videotape people I met and ask them what they give thanks for (see http://givethanks.tv) I would also donate 5% of my winnings to my friend Hollis (http://friendsofhollis.com) who was in a bad accident last month. Her medical bills are mounting. Oh, and while I'm in Australia I'd ask people what they thought of Scoble.
- TanjaB
Robert, great gesture! I would give all of the $ on your behalf to this worthy cause: http://friendfeed.com/e...
- B2B Specialist
Took the challenge. Opened account from my couch with iPhone. Curious to get the rest of the story.
- Georgiana Dearing
Generating metrics I presume Mr Scoble?
- Stefan Szo
OK heres my comment!
- Randy
OK, first the 'leave a comment here' bit - here it is. As to what I'd do with the money, my wife has been made redundant and two days later someone crashed into my car while it was parked - so I guess I'd put it towards replacing the car and rebuilding our lives. Actually that sounds a little melodramatic, it's only a car, but it would be useful. Unless of course UK residents aren't eligible for this in which case I guess I'll just sit at home and sulk!
- Guy Clapperton
I'll switch SocialToo from Amazon EC2 to Rackspace if I win
- Jesse Stay
Win money? No, thanks. but I DO wanna earn your money :). Send details to onno@media44.nl or visit http://www.media44.nl
- MEDIAFORCE
$1750? My answer is simple. I would use it to help fund our movie. To purchase wanted equipment, better food for cast/crew, throw an awesome wrap party. Then, if we had any left over, we would use it towards our next movie. Also, you would get a free copy (format of your choice) and an Executive Producer credit. It'll be on IMDB and everything! This could be an awesome help for a trio of tired, driven, motivated filmmakers who want to change the game for movie-making.
- Anthony Thompson
I would spend $1,750 on a iPhone App using fbConnect for my financial services startup which I otherwise wouldn't allocate a budget for.
- Abhimanyu Chirimar
Gosh, there are a lot of comments. Is this a FF stress test?
- Morton Swimmer
I'm in!
- Simon Holliday
I would use the money for development of gCaptain 2.0 with the goal of dethroning the oldest magazine in continuous print, Lloyds List, from the maritime news sphere of influence.
- gCaptain
I will hire a scholar to make my research few hours a day so I can follow your tweets!!! :D
- Jesús
I'm in, what would I do with the money? well, I'm a teenager from Cairo, Egypt, and I plan to start podcasting during my vacation "first video podcast in Egypt" and work on my blog, I don't have enough money to buy an HD camcorder so I would use the money to buy that and get a domain name for my blog and go pro, and if there is enough money I would buy an iPhone.
- Ahmed
I'd take the family out for a meal at the Gaucho grill http://tinyurl.com/3pc8ur
- mike williams
I would give the money to this young man in his fight against hodgkins lymphoma. He is the nephew of my daughter's preschool teacher and I would do anything to help him out, but we don't have much. As a former soccer player, current coach and human being... my heart goes out to him and his family. Anything would help. http://tinyurl.com/cch2uy
- Jason
Not yet in the position to give like you give, I do what I can. Giving spirits garner unselfish hearts! - http://budurl.com/ynkm
- Carlo At Your Service
This is the most epic thread ever, i put off replying all weekend but i think its about time i joined in. I think if i won i'd propose to my girlfriend because id be able to afford a ring! Or, we'd go on a nice much needed holiday.
- Simon Wicks
I'd give the money to Daniel Rowley (comment above). Seems like he has a genuine need.
- Dustin Curtis
Interesting (and a few not so) comments. Most people are here for the easy money, leaving a random comment and then closing a tab. No blame here, since it's the rule of the game. Do you know that in order to permanently change the world you just need just a little bit compared to the big picture to get you over that hard to reach top? Well, that's what I would use it for, to get that jolt, break the barriers and climb over that first, impossible top.
- Lorand R. Minyo
hey! easy game Mr Scoble :) I'm here :D
- Guillaume
What a cool idea. I would definitely use the money towards taking another class. Assembly? Lernin is espensive.
- sarajchipps@gmail.com
I'm in too - Judging by the entrants, I'll have better odds on winning the lottery
- Shaf
I'll donate the money to AIG executives.
- Filipe Marques
I would use the money to bid on Gaius Baltar's Robes at the Battlestar Galactica Auction in May. Those costumes get pretty pricy! ~Matt http://BSGcast.com
- Matt
I'd use to money to stimulate the US economy by buying all your stuff
- Magnus
I'd pay the 4000 I owe in tuition. I've paid off all but this last bit, so it'd be my first move. Still looking for a job...
- Linda Margaret
I liked that :)
- MobilAdam
I would use the money to buy a laptop. I bought one in December and was getting a friend from the US to bring it to me (I was in Dubai). The laptop was stolen from her luggage at JFK and I got no compensation. I was out 1500$, laptopless, and highly depressed because the euphoria of getting a new laptop was not realized.
- Bhavishya Kanjhan
If I win the money - its going straight to helping my startup - creately.com get to Public Beta. We're so close and every cent counts!
- Charanjit
Good way of generating a lot of comments :-) I'd use the money for reducing some debts...
- Diego Zamboni
Whoaaaa, there. $4,500? Really? Boy am I glad I follow you on Twitter. Since when does money grow on tweets? If I ever had the good fortune of being plucked out of a hat, I'd spend all of it on the tuition bills that have racked up in my family name (mother, brother y yo).
- amira
I'll make a social network for BitTorrent.
- KN
Hm. Maybe I spend it on a Nikon D90 or a camcorder.
- Stefan Michel
Money is the root of all evil, they use to say. But it can blossom into good things.
- Nick Palffy
I would use the money to update my photography equipment and software. This would update my pet photography as needed
- Randy Nacol
I am in
- Bronchart
I would use the money to get my girlfriend @Tatty, who I met on Twitter, from Norway to the US so we can start living happily ever after. :)
- Foul Bastard
Pay off the credit card and get a return airfare to the USA from Sydney!
- Nathan Davies
Sounds crazy but why not :-)
- Cyril Hanquez
I need 980 dollars to go to school to be a cheesemonger. So tired of waiting tables and am ready to pursue something I am passionate about.
- Miles Laird
I'd use the money to take some time off with my daughter...
- Fredrik Wennberg
from twhirl
I'm saving to buy my first house later this year and working to start my freelance design business.
- john
$1750...I would use them for a wonderful trip to San Francisco! Plane tickets from France and visit of the best web start-up / companies :) Enjoy!!
- Guillaume
I'd have to assume I'd use the money to buy a Nikon D90, then hunt you down to thank you and take your picture with it.
- Richard Finucane
How can I mute this thread?
- Richard A.
I'll use it as a "Pay It Forward Ponzi Scheme" (In these crazy Maddoff days, it's about time we revert the wheel.)
- Vivian Cohen- Leisorek
Hi Robert! I would use the money to put into a bank account. I will become a daddy within the next weeks and this would a be a 'scolar fund' for my first kid!
- Bas van Breugel
Count me in. $1750 would go to the IWK Children's Hospital for Xboxes and Wiis.
- M Langille
Great idea-- and I'd use the money to create workshops to bring younger and older gay men together to discuss the history of the AIDS epidemic in Philly. http://gayhistory.wikispaces.com
- Chris Bartlett
What am I going to do with the $1750? I will reveal that secret in my second comment :)
- Bari Hossain
Great idea Robert. I'd do four things: I'd pay for a ESPN360 season and play-off pass to watch NHL games over here in Europe. Then I'd hire a graphics designer to redo http://www.speakingenglishpodcast.com to have it not only appeal to learners but also sponsors. Third, I'd take my wife out to dinner and fourth I'd give the rest back to you - I wouldn't need it all and you have a family, too.
- Sebastian Keil
Sure, count me in.
- Barty
First of all, thanks for the heads up on "Free Money" also thanks for being such a great conduit. So throw my name into the hat please. I know I usually push for giving to Cancer foundations and etc. But am going to change it up a bit.... If I would happen to win the money there is hugely talented Photographer on Twitter that needs only $6,000 to sustain his enrollment at some artsy Ivy...
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- SashaKane
Seriously? I'll start a "Mini-ITXs" fund to replace all the desktops in my home with Mini ITXs. Power saving ftw!
- Nimish Batra
I'd start a foundation dedicated to bringing the finance crooks to justice and redistributing the stolen funds from whence they came.
- Alistair Knock
hmm...I'll rather invest it in gold. That's the least volatile thing these days.
- Kunal Gangar
i would finally finish my thesis and rent a lot servers with mosso after that to incorporate a company dealing with enterprise mashups and cloud computing in germany
- tmetschke
im in
- Jason Walke
I would tell my boss he is a noob and that I quit my job and start my own business.
- Gary Schubert
oh, and i'd also KILL for a macbook. but i'd probably go to school. but you should totally give it to someone who needs it more.
- Miles Laird
simple way to enter :)
- Cristian
Robert, I would probably spend the money in a relatively futile manner. Therefore, I'll let others who need it more have a chance at the $1,750 prizes. I'd be happy to be chosen randomly for the $1,000. Great initiative, by the way.
- Antonio Cangiano
This is just what we need in order to launch AllRise.com: hosting + legal expenses +company registration fees.
- Erez Eden
richard, by giving a way more money, are you ready?
- abdellah
I'll give YOU $500 and give $100 to twitter (since I heard about it there). The first should make it easier for you to part with the money. The twitter donation will conclusively prove that they have a viable business model :)
- Ebrahim Nalwala
Our band would use it to buy a PA system so that we could play anywhere/practice with proper sound. I`d treat this as a loan and donate the money in your name to the VH1 Save The Music Foundation.
- Reuben Fortes
It would help me pay for my wedding in Ottawa in August, rather than having to borrow money! (PS nice way of getting people on FriendFeed!)
- Paul Lomax
Robert, please pick me. I need the USD1000 to get myself an iPhone 3G (cost HKD6200.00 from Apple Hong Kong) so I don't have to borrow my girlfriend's, and the rest of the money, I will use to pay for all the data usage I will be using when testing review copies of iPhone apps. How can I be borrowing an iPhone to write iPhone app reviews? That is just ironic.
- Vinko
I need to do something completely luxurious and pampered for a week. Oh, I would really like to take my brother along because it was his birthday two weeks ago and would like to surprise him. That's right, a very belated birthday present. Very much would be a surprise. How about a cruise out of Miami to the Caribbean or out of Los Angeles to Mexico? We need to see the water! Sure we have the Fountains at Bellagio but we would like to sail on an ocean. There it is. I have our bags packed and ready to go.
- Vegas Bill
I need money for my first startup!
- kunal jain
Buy a nice camera for making better videos for my blog & invite my family having a nice evening at a greek restaurant
- Wittkewitz News
Show me the money
- TJ Polczyn
I would develop an innovative iPhone app using the money and when sales pick up, return the amount to you so u can run another contest.
- iPhone Dev Guy
I am a poor student who really could use a new Laptop.. I will Ustream and take pictures of the unpacking so you know I didn't spend the money on beer ;) I could put SPONSORED BY SCOBLE stickers on the new machine. Please Scoble, I could really use this. Cheers, patrick.
- patrick detlefsen
a new laptop to replace the almost 6-year old one would be nice for a developer. give me the other prizes, too and i'll donate 'em to schooling a kid in a 3rd world country!
- moogs
*wonders* Do we have to leave two comments, one for the $1000 and one for one of the $1750?
- Linden A. Mueller
Ok, Scoble if i get this money somehow, give my money to this student (patrick detlefsen) - Thanks
- Junal Rahman
If you pick me, I will lend out the money via Kiwa.org
- Henning
Well let's turn the wheel of chance :)
- Fatih Arslan
So just in case, here's the second one. :) I would save it. We'll be making our second international move in two years in September, and this time, we'll be settling down. I would use it for part of our down payment on our first house.
- Linden A. Mueller
Right now $1750 is worth $2700 Aussie (sounds a lot better) I'd ask Robert to JV with me and share how to turn that $2.7k into $270k in 6 months. If we didn't like each other after that we needn't continue to turn it into $27M. Jim Beasley (Twitter: whoisJimBeasley)
- Jim Beasley
Would love to start an online business for my 7 yr old as a college fund!!!! Have the idea, just not the funds to start it!!!
- Charles Bovard
I could use the money to pay some of my student loans that I had to take to study the one true thing worth studying, the Internet!
- Shane Tilton
I would spend the money on bourbon and porn.
- Kari Holtz
I'll use to finance our new project of social publishing with Friendfeed. Thanks for the opportunity.
- Massimiliano Mancini
if I win: I'd give half of the money to Emergency (http://www.emergency.it/) to help their medical work in war areas.
- andrea
Mmmmmm cash! :D
- Michael Jones
In New Zealand his will go along way. Id use it for language resources for our indigenous Maori
- Bradley Walker
I want I want! I will restore my VW 1974 with it! :-D true story: http://www.facebook.com/home...
- Pierre Lapointe
I'd love to use your money to send kids with disabilities to CampASCCA.org! With the $1750, 3 children would get to go to camp this summer. Or, it would send maybe a dozen to a weekend camp this spring! Either way, I'd love to see you help these kids out. In this kind of economic environment, places like Camp ASCCA are the first to be forgotten ... that means the kids are forgotten, too. Thanks, Robert!
- RD French
Before I reveal the secret of what I would do with $1750, I really need to know the secret - "Why are you giving away this money,Robert?"
- Bari Hossain
Will use it finally upgrade my powerbook to a MBP so I can write an iPhone app as part of my CS Degree Dissertation.
- Shaun Bohannon
$1175 to my all time favorite musician's (Diana Krall) chosen charity: Vancouver General Hospital's Leukemia Bone Marrow Transplant. Would use the rest to cover my tuition expense for a Nancy Duarte slide:ology seminar. Trying to figure out ways to tackle mindnumbing government PowerPoint decks. Happy St Patrick's Day!
- Bud
With our terrible exchange rate here in the UK, I'll probably buy myself a week's worth of groceries with the prize money! Seriously though, I may treat myself to a video camera, so that maybe one day, I can be like my favourite technology evangelist!
- David Swallow
I can't wait to read followup posts to your contest. I would invest the money in my children's college funds.
- Erick Tyack
I think I will buy some books on how to get my daughter to sleep past 4AM... Seriously, any advice? :-)
- James Marino
With the money I would invest in a Home Server to better provide for my familys digital needs ;-) The rest will be given to SOS childrens village - A good and worthy cause.
- Ken-Tore
I will use the money to spend it to bloggers in germany to promote the german blogos- and twittersphere! They arn't as big and importnat as in the us, but they have the mbition for it, serious and current content...
- Simon Rabente
The money will enable me to buy some much needed toys and gadgets that mortgage/wife/2kids/etc to not allow!
- Matt Groves
I was thinking on how to win the money and then I read comments by others. I realised there are more ppl who need the money more than me. So good luck to everyone! and Robert, pls make sure the winner really deserve it.
- Gerald Neo
If I won I would donate every cent to Red Nose Day (http://www.rednoseday.com/) to help children in the UK and Africa and I'll put up $200 of my own money (about 10% of my salary) into microloans through Kiva.
- Peter Curd
Strike one for the South African
- Iwan
I doubt this would be a winner, but I need a new set of effin tires.
- Patrick Kay
I will use my winnings to purchase books to better understand how to use all the great social media tools out there and will also earmark a portion of the winnings to use to attend SXSW 2010.
- Promising Projects
I'll use the money to finance bailing out of my apartment in light of this recession and my current status of gainful underemployment. :)
- teleken
Cool! I'd love to spend it on a netbook and a good (web)cam and start using it to lifestream/share some nice events using kyte or qik. What's left after buying the gear, I would spend on tickets for events such as The Next Web Conference, Lifehacking Academy, etc. Btw: have fun at Rackspace!
- Alex Vermeule (@alexve)
ok deal, you talked me into it
- IrishWonder
it is really interesting to see how much "I" in this thread, ok if I (+1)
- abdellah
Cool. So 80% of the dough goes on a Twitter API developer as I have a great project in mind. And the other 20% provides a stake for the blackjack table, for when we launch. Combined earnings will be sent back your way, so you can do this all over again.
- Econsultancy
I'd put it towards my TED application fund! Made too many promises about speaking there one day soon...
- Oliver
First I would buy an engagement ring for my lady and take her out on a romantic evening and propose her. And of course 300$ would go for a Wii.
- Andy Gongea
Hi I have never won anything so i dont think i will win,but hope never dies so here i am..
- Dimi
Well I guess I'm another aussie hopeful for a random win. (@carljoseph)
- Carl Joseph
My boyfriend got made redundant a while ago so I'd use the money to take him on holiday to get away from it all for a bit and help him refocus.
- Katie
thats cool to hear...thanks for the competition.i will love to buy macbook...
- Mohammed Moyeen
I'd use the money start my own website, free is good, but paid produces profit. My strong-points are creativity and commitment. I have nine years till retirement and I want to use them well.
- Wallace
Hmmm... Give it to charity is the easy answer.. But I would find and elderly person who needs home renovations etc but cant afford it.. and then get someone down on their luck to do it and pay them.. Double the satisfaction and impact
- Christopher Blake
Comment for one of the $1750 prizes. I will offer to donate the money to bail out some more fat cats living high on the hog, and give them a bonus to boot.
- TJ Polczyn
Don't get pinched - wear green today! :)
- Ricci Neer
If I won, I'd donate it to Comic Relief (http://www.comicrelief.com/). Cheers!
- Graeme Coleman
I am saving money to go out of my usual work to start a startup, so it will be helpful for me in my saving and allow me to come out of my daily job soon.
- Mohammed Moyeen
If I win I will twitter my followers and people in Seth Godin's tribe to find the most excting youth oriented project I can, then come back to you, Robert Scoble, and see how we can involve your followers in offering knowledge or connections to make the whole thing take off, good on you.
- Sarah Farrugia
I would put the money to good use and kick start the economy with it... should work...
- Alex Peshevski
wow! this is by far the longest thread i've ever seen! :)
- David Clifford
I'll use the money as a super lucky contribution to http://www.TweetLuck.org, an initiative of my startup nonprofit, http://www.EpicChange.org. Tweetluck is raising funds to build a technology lab and boarding facility/orphanage for a school with which we're partnered in Arusha, Tanzania. The locally-run school recently performed #1 out of 117 schools in their district on national exams, and I can only imagine what's possible if we get the children at the school web access ;)
- Stacey Monk
This is one way to get me to use friendfeed... I'd use the money to enter a poker tournament in vegas this week at MIX. (at least I'm being honest)
- Jason
Wedding Ring deposit, new mac, or broker's fee to get the hell out of this apartment. Probably one of those three. I'm a huge fan of Kari Holtz's answer of bourbon & porn, but my early thirties have got the better of me and must try for something vaguely more responsible.
- Travis
Hey, why about trying, great idea ! For the second part of the contest, i'd prefer to let more chances to people who really know how to make something really usefull and interesting with it ;) !
- Christophe Michau
I hope to be one of the lucky few. Happy St. Patricks Day!
- ian ross
I wish I could come up with something clever or generous but other needs are too pressing. I don't even want to think about it really. Health insurance, upgrade to CS4 (priorities, right?), art supplies, new shoes, vet visit for the cats, whatever else I could squeeze out of it. But I would put some portion toward charitable use, or else use it to create something that I could give, because generosity deserves to be honored in kind.
- Rebecca
I'll buy some of the gadgets Scoble is talking about...
- Alexander Benker
In Malaysia, I'll give the money to the women's aid organization to fight discrimination, women are first to go in a layoff.
- Carolyn Chan
#1 - love those comments who will equal a charity donation or repeat this experiment. Love the umbrella comment and the humor we geeks have (I am not in that camp). And am delighted to see all the marketing occurring.
- Gee
Great idea. I'd probably put the money towards a good camera for a live video project I'm working on.
- Alan Chamberlain
If I was lucky enough to win I would use the money to attend http://www.web09.org/. It would cover the cost of the airfare, accommodation, and registration fee. I would then be able to Tweet and blog about it so those who read me would get some benefit from me being there. Anything learned would be put to good use in the open source projects I contribute to. Unlike some of the others here, I can't be altruistic about this - I want to go to the conference and can't afford it! Charity begins at home after all
- Elpie
It will probably help me to keep one of my employee, until we bounce back in our feet
- Boubacar Balde
from twhirl
I'm definitely in and I'd use the $1750 to buy my first macbook.
- Robbin
I would use it as nice start for my first house loan ;-) A man has got to start somewhere doesn't he ;-)
- Pieter-Jan Adriaensens
What I would use the money for? Well, I have been eyeing up some netbooks and need to replace my aging television. So, this would pretty much go there in my lone attempt at reviving our moribund economy/ I'm doing my part to help us out of these troubled economic times!
- Jason J. Thomas
Here is my initial entry comment.
- Hal
I'd learn how to code in Cocoa, and create a salsa dance iPhone app :)
- Tom Tubbs
Clever idea. If I win, I would put half the money in the bank, as my husband is currently unemployed; and would give half the money to my friend and her family, as her son & daughter-in-law were in a serious car accident in Oct. 2008 and my friend quit her job to help take care of her premature born grandson, 2 yr old grandson, so her own son can then take care of his now brain-injured wife. http://jennifersmiracle.blogspot.com/
- Traci Knoppe
Half to a couple of back bills, the other half here: http://bit.ly/6XTBn
- Hal
My first comment didn't show up! REPLAY: With the $1750 I will expand my business working with energy and transformation in the area of money & prosperity (Money Reiki Healing) attuning people to their Source resulting in personal and planetary shifts around money and abundance. I will also donate a portion of the winnings to a few favorite charities (including Water is Life and Charity:Water).
- Amy Flynn
Wow, Just needed that money to buy me a trip to the states at last! I'm from Paris and I just keep reading your feeds on twitter, ff etc...
- anciaux
Should I win, any money would be invested in upgrading some piece of computer equipment, or a software purchase... and a celebratory dinner with my wife, of course.
- Chris Grayson
Heads up, Twitter! I would put the money into real competition to Twitter.
- David Baum
To quote Han Solo - "Got some old debts I gotta pay off with this stuff"
- Cliff Forster
#2 - would use either amount to send a girl to computer camp, a program of the Montgomery County (MD) Commission for Women. This program is in its 10+ year and has a proven and remarkable outcome: inspiring junior high school girls to higher education. The program takes girls from lower expectation neighborhoods and sends them to the community college. Being on a college campus opens new visions for these girls.
- Gee
I need yet another bicycle. Choose me! I promise not to give it to AIG for bonuses!
- mrbrown
I'd put the cash toward a new unibody Macbook - I broke the screen on my Macbook Pro and it's difficult to use now because I have to us my iPhone as my screen (Jaadu VNC). I'll take care of my new Macbook, Robert, I promise. Please pick me? Please!
- David Mozingo
I got married on last saturday, 14th ( http://trauung.steudtner.info sorry only German ) and I got a whole bunch of photos and videos. I would take the money and buy a new iMac to organize them and my videos too. Pictures will be published on that website.
- Mayads
My cat has been very sick since late last Thurs. He's was jaundice, probably some level of renal failure - all likely diabetes. Been having to force feed him with a syringe because he wasn't eating on his own. I'd like to be able to use this money to offset the vet costs towards all this - doctor would like to run more tests but I can't afford it. This money would help with this.
- Todd Perlmutter
I'll stimulate my economy.
- Chris Dickerson
I will buy you a Twitter shirt. :P http://tr.im/twittershirt
- Valentino Valdez
Howdy Scoble. I graduate University in July with an IT degree and am planning a Trip to South East Asia (Laos, Cambodia, Thailand, Vietnam) in September for a bit of fun and adventure. The money would greatly improve my trip. I'll blog the whole thing personally for you (I'll go to anywhere you suggest) and do my best to send you at least one ridiculous photo a day along with a video diary and a few interviews of people I meet along the way.
- Michael Gross
Hoping for random. Clearly there are people who really need this. Don't know if you are trying to stress test ff or make us thankful for what we have, but both reasons are valuable. Not to mention the buzz for both companies and personal brand. Well begun.
- Jack Frizzell
My kids, who've lost their mother, really need something positive. So I would use the money to redecorate their two rooms as a surprise.
- Jorg Jansen
Thanks Robert. A great idea! I could really use the money to finance my startup "Big Red Zebra", the world's first truly useful Location-Based Service for Everybody (not just people with Smartphones, iPhones, Blackberrys). Check it out at http://www.bigredzebra.com
- David
Ok, I bite.
- ElbertF
If I won the $1750 - I would put $1600 towards a kick-ass web project I have been working on (code-named Daily Bird Feeder). Then, $100 would go to dinner with the wife to make up for the late nights I've spent working on the project. $30 would go to an action figure I have been dying to get. And $20 would then go to flowers for my wife, to make up for buying the action figure.
- Michael Withrow
I will spend it all on me - on daft 'there is no way I would buy this under any other circumstances' things.
- Alison
I would follow your example: I'd run a contest and ask my followers to choose how I would spend it.
- Gail
Show me that money!
- Alison
How about this.... My wife http://twitter.com/erincos... and I are expecting TWIN SONS in August. ANY contributions would be GREATLY APPRECIATED!
- Jeremy Osborne
congratulation jeremy.
- abdellah
That $$ would buy me a lifetime subscription to Fast Company!!!!
- CJ
My dinosaur-like mind is inexorably on its way to extinction. It's been ages since I bought a new book. And reading online just doesn't satisfy that ancient craving. So if I win I'd use it to buy Kindle2 e-reader. The ultimate revenge of a deprived bibliophile. :) A little memento of my fabulous good luck, courtesy of you sir. The rest I will donate to a Philippine charity of my choice. Good luck to us all, if that were possible. :)
- jan geronimo
Would like to take my wife to NY for our 15th Wedding Annv.
- Timothy Love
Count me in. Can't work out if I should sound worthy or greedy, so shall be neither.
- David Eedle
I'd use the money to start a software company for mobile devices with heavy lifting done in the cloud.
- Jim Bergman
You got me Subscribe :). I will apply for a distance education in Actuarial Science at Leicester University.
- Bruck Sewnet
I will not use this money for unmerited bonus pay
- Craig
If I won the money, I'd pay for my GMAT & Grad School applications with it. That way, I'll hopefully be able to do the same kinds of contests soon. I'd also adopt two cats for my parents farm and pay for their cat food - you can't have a farm without cats! Lastly, I'd increase my number of Kiva loans.
- Edwina
what is interesting in this thread, is the fact that there is more and more reason and ways to spend that money, now let please see for what "you can't spend this money".
- abdellah
I'm just getting a project going that could be really helped at this early stage with some "free cash" to help complete the prototype. The idea is for an engine that aggregates content from originators and then filters and distributes it according to preferences to the consumer through a variety of touch points. Very focussed on one specific interest area.
- Alex Guest
I'll place my bet for the $1750, although my chances are thin. Lots of things to do, get Dad treated, pay my bills et al.
- Rajtilak Bhattacharjee
would like to get one of these for each kid http://bit.ly/pnbkv
- meg colombo
I'll buy something amazing and the one who finds out what it is will receive it. Just a way to see if it is possible to get more comments than you do :o)
- Zack Brandit
I will gift the money to my husband's business,( http://www.funketabla.com/ ) so that he can focus a little more on music and thus spend more time happy and not in a programming job that bores him. It's not much, but it'll pay for the upcoming Das Dhoom album.
- InPerpetualMotion(Gina k)
Hate to admit it in public, but I owe parents, friends, and credit cards money borrowed while searching for another job. This would give me some breathing room and let me get some stuff done that I've put off, like fix the brakes on my car.
- mark zero (Jason)
I will give the money to my 18 year old son. He's getting ready to enter college for the first time and needs it.
- Lisa Saul
$1,750 will feed me for a year! :-)
- Chinny
Mr. Scoble - Use of funds should I become one of your winners... ala Dave McClure and Y Combinator... I'd turn right around and invest it in equity positions in two local startups neither of which is mine. Should there be any kind of exit of either, I'd just keep plowing proceeds into local startups (we need early stage, non-debt seed capital in Oklahoma).
- Gerald Buckley
these funds would help at a very diffcult time for my family would be a very big blessing for us
- Diane Brixey
i would put the money in my future start-up. i really could use the money for. the main problem is that i have to wait for maybe 2 years, because of uni. so i could invest it at the beginning in something safe and could make more money for the start-up.
- Alexander
Pool Table
- Dale Fraser
Sadly, I would put this toward my taxes. My contribution toward the bailout I guess. A new tv or trip might be nice though since I'm not getting that Australia blogging job.
- Dave
I would put the money in our twin boys college fund, which will be in inflation-adjusted treasuries for the next year or two. (PS: This is the most effective way to gather the most comments on a single thread in the history of friendfeed)
- DGentry
OK, just give it to me already and quit all this fuss...
- Garrido
Hey Robert! You finally got me to sign up for FF. If awarded the money I would finally get that Gibson Les Paul I've always wanted and go back in the studio to create my opus.
- Kyle Shay
Split it into 495 $2 donations, for charities selected by fellow Friendfeed and Twitterers, with the remaining funds for a pizza while organizing the aforementioned discussion.
- Mike Chelen
Count me in. I would blow the money on Tacos. No burritos. No Tacos. Well Tacos or Burritos. Just imagine me eating over $1000 worth of tacos/burritos.
- Franklin Pettit
Fund small-scale Appropriate Technology projects in Africa where I live: http://mumena.blogspot.com/2009...
- Rick Love
I would put the money to good use--
- Dennis Shlaen
First! Oh wait, maybe not. :) Boring but I'd use the money to get my 60,000 mile service on my car before it falls apart. Anything left over would go to paying down CC balances. I know, I'm dull...
- Pete Smith
I need a new tv I'm a poor seminary student in new york with a family http://www.use.salvationarmy.org/use...
- kevin
count me in! How to use 1750$: buy four cheap pocket cameras (200$ each), announce a "movie making contest" on the blog, give four cameras to best four ideas, take the movies, post on youtube & blog, make users vote, give first prize 950$.
- Tudor Galos
Robert, Congrats on joining Rackspace & I'm eagerly awaiting Building 43!! I would use the prize money to fund my sisters education.
- Roshan Ramachandran
I'd go for a piece of electronic equipment. I haven't owned a computer since a nice visit from an unknown burglar a year and a half ago. Luckily my work provides me with a nice Macbook Pro 15" but that doesn't really help much during the weekends. So I'd go for a 13" MacBook and then of course a round of Hero Rats (http://www.herorat.org) for the change.
- René Clausen Nielsen
I would probably just blow it on bacon and slurpees.
- Wallace Wilson
Hi Robert. I would use the money like Tudor, but I would get two good pocket cameras, the Sony pocket 1080p ones, not the Zi6 or the Flip. To take better quality videos.
- Odi Kosmatos
Hi Robert, my intention isn't to partecipate to your contest but my comment is just to say that you are a genius. I appreciate this social experiment and on Sunday I have analyzed it in this post on my blog: http://tinyurl.com/c3rwxw. If I were to the place of the winner, I’d give this money to you because you really deserved it. The previous most commented thread on FF probably were Italian (http://tinyurl.com/8k64zg). Chapeau
- Roberto
I will use the $$ to provide new clothes for my girlfriend who is a struggling actress and hasn't been able to add to her wardrobe in 5 years. I want her to feel pretty!
- Christopher Fohlin
I would use the money to buy my wife a new camera lens. She's a photographer working for a community newspaper in Drippings Springs, Texas.
- Will Burdette
G R E E D ....
- Kai
I would use the money to jump start the economy as part of my stimulus-package plan
- Mitchell Schneider
Not sure, but I'll try to heed the advice my grandmother used to give me when I got a dollar "Don't spend it on crap."
- Steven Stark
There are things I want but nothing I need so I'd donate the money to Philabundance. http://www.philabundance.org/
- Bob Gannon
I will sponsor new web-service development at http://jumpidea.com
- Roman Zolotarev
i would use the money to help pay for school
- Shane Grant
I would use the money to get into photography. I have always wanted to but have never had the funding to do it. It would be great if I had the funding to get a decent body and a couple nice lenses.
- Sweyn Venderbush
I'm in as well. Will use the money to get into iphone apps development
- Arnaud Fischer
Woohoo! I'd buy either a home automation setup or a home server :D
- Robert DeBord
Yes! I could use some green on St. P's Day! Would get that D90.
- Kevin Crader
I will help @romanzolotarev.
- Рыло из нержавеющей стали
I'd be holding the same contest with half of the money and enforce the winners to do the same, until the whole amount is spent. And i'd spend the other half for my pleasure. It would go like "$875, $437.5, $218.75, $109.37, $54.68, $27.34, $13.67, $6.83, $3.4, $1.7, $0.85". A series of 11 contests is better than one.
- Ekim Nazım Kaya
Don't give us money, give us ideas !
- Ahsan Ali aka. Slick
If I came into any type of money this year it would go towards a trip to London to see my family and friends; and see my favourite band, Blur play live for the first time. Leftover cash to the Red Cross. My honest answer.
- Chrissie M
I would use it to help fund a startup website to help diabetics find proper products to help manage their health and lifestyle
- Erik Schmith
I would love to win. Would probably spend the money on one of two things: my 17 year anniversary is coming in early April, so a present for the wife is a necessity - thinking a nice hot springs overnight trip in Izu, south of Tokyo (where I live). Otherwise, I would also consider using the money to help bootstrap TechMiso.com, a new blog I co-founded and launched on Jan 1 with my good buddy Rich.
- Scott Jarkoff
I want to win soo soo bad... lol... I would use the money as a deposit on an apartment so I can move out of the country and actually have High Speed Internet (cant even use a cellular card cause im so far in the country) Ive always wanted to start a blog and website but cant since Dial-up is sooo sooo slow... This would be the Happiest Day of my Life!!! :)
- James Boyd
While thinking trough this all day since I've read about it, I think that I should spent it for 50/50 on my own project and on the stuff that you just don't get to while being a son of divorced parents. My computer upgrade is more than welcome, switch to Mac OS X would be greatly appreciated. Great action Robert, thanks for this opportunity from Holland!
- Coen Jacobs
If this comment picked randomly, then goodbye to MacBook Pro...(paradoxal comment including 2 answers in one way.)
- Olcayto Cengiz
Growing up, my parents would always tell me that considering the amount of time I spend on the web, I should be making money out it. But I desire that the content I put out there be free. Over the years I've spent a lot on pursuing this passion but never earned a buck out of it. Now would be a great opportunity to finally do so. I may not be the most deserving or the most in need out of everyone here but if I did win I'd do something nice for my parents and tell them it was courtesy of the Internet.
- Michael Josh Villanueva
I would use the money to donate back to all of the open source projects that I have been using for the past 5 years. Many of the products that are produced are outstanding and need to be supported.
- Anthony Schelling
I'll take Scoble to block. Actually; I would use the money to complete my dedciated streaming studio. While I have the mics & cams set, I'm still working on the furniture, and the servers for the encoding. Then I could be a guest on your show and show it off.
- Keith Barrett
Will take a trip and visit you at your new project :)
- Liviu Lica
I'll use the cash to attend sxsw next year, following the twitter feeds this year has proved its worth to me. I'll get you a beer in too, unless that seems coercive.
- Simon Kirrane
I would use the Money to help my daughter who is 13, to Travel Europe this Summer as she has been selected to be a Student Ambassador Representing the US and The State of Kansas. A Life changing experience, for our young people to learn and experience other cultures. People to People select 40 top Students from each state to represent the US. This experience is to teach our young people...
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- Joyce
Count me IN for that - thanks dude! :-D
- Lee Kitchen
Hey new friend I sure could use that money to repair some of the debt my bipolar wife has put our family in. Ever have any questions about what goes on in a max security prison, let me know.
- Tom Lord
Both me and my SO need computer upgrades at home to better work from home but that's not very much money. Just don't have it. The rest would go towards savings or to fix the collapsed porch out back.
- Paul Wade
Nice discussion thread. Any extra cash would go to my newly-widowed uncle, who found himself with a mountain of vet bills to pay after his dog, and only remaining companion, spent a week in ICU in an O2 tent.
- Hooeyspewer
Hey Robert - I would use the money to pay some bills and refit the computer my kids use. Thanks for making the world interesting!
- Tim Ake
It's a real and nice chance to win a pretty good amount of money, which can help me in making my dreams about lighting equipment for home studio to became true! :)
- PWR
I would pay off my burning man debt.
- Andrew Stein
This looks like its a record breaking thread.
- Roberto Bonini
Count me in!
- Alvin
i am an unemployed chef (since september) who blogs. in the interest of growing my blog, i would use $600 to buy a nikon d40 + tripod; $600 for a grocery gift card for ingredients; the remaining $550 would be split amongst a few uses: buying and setting up my domain name, blog features (restaurant and/or market reviews, culinary events, etc.), and html classes. whatever i lose in taxes will be taken out of this last portion ~ the first two are the most necessary right now.
- Kayce Maisel
I would use the money as part of a down payment on a new car. I commute 100 miles a day and my car is dying at a most unfortunate time. Well, that's what I SHOULD do. I would probably buy some gadget like a Kindle and some books because my geek gene gets the better of me most days.
- Amy Anuszewski
I would like to use it to buy a Mac Mini but I first have to deal with Wife Tax so I might be able to get a snickers bar. Love you honey!
- Wesley Snider
I would buy a slice of taxes that I owe Barack Obama.
- Chris Wallace
I'm in!
- James Ferguson
I would use the money to finally launch my puppet sitcom. My seven month-old daughter already loves the live version, and it would be great to have the video version for anytime viewing. Plus I think lots of other people would love the show as well. It's like the Muppet Show but more "Seinfeld" and less "Lawrence Welk". But there will still indeed be musical numbers.
- Mike Janicke
Can't really resist that can I now? I'll put it all towards the new startup incubator that I'm setting up. www.greenhouselimerick.com
- Evert
I would give the money to my wife. She is trying to get custody of her son back. Thanks for the chance Robert!
- Brian
I would use this to upgrade my camera.
- Evan Travers
Oops almost forgot to leave a comment for the random drawing. :)
- James Boyd
I would use the money to take my wife on a nice vacation for our anniversary.
- Jonathan Gardner
I`ll take some of that money :)
- Steven Shvartsman
What would you like me to do with the money?
- Simon Hicks
An Irish Toast on my favorite Holiday that is St. Paddy's Day: "Here's to the ones we love we love. Here's to the ones that love us love us. For all those that don't love us, F@%$ them and here's to us." I'd use the money to spend on friends & strangers drinking and eating on a random day enjoying the moment and making memories you'd never forget.
- Lyn Graft
What a great idea Scoble! So sad I missed sxsw this year! I would use half the money to go towards a new lift for my step mother who has MS and I would use the other half to purchase a small fishing boat to go fishing with my boy who's birthday is this weekend.
- Bryan
Robert, dude! You are awesome. Would use money to help find a teaching job!
- Patty Pinkley
If you pick me I will put the money towards the trip to China I'm taking in July.
- Kris
Better idea of what to do with the money - promote LTSP - Linux Terminal Server Project http://www.ltsp.org. Continue to bring low cost desktop solutions to the masses.
- Erick Tyack
Robert, congrats on the new job. Look forward to seeing the new ways you are going to invigorate rackspace and the community. There are some great comments here already. This is a great thing you are doing, take care
- Michael Bazzoni
Action Figures. I would use the money to buy lots and lots of action figures. And maybe a dwarf horse.
- Aaron Linne
I would put that money towards buying a couple of iPod Touches and a Mac for three friend of mine. We've just finished a short, free game that took us two years to finish on evenings and some weekends, and are talking about trying to make a game for Apples platform in our spare time since we work so well together as a team.
- Jonas Eriksson
This will kill FriendFeed. DO they have a FailWhale...? ;)
- Frank Koehntopp
Pay 4 months rent. And, I swear I'm not trying to sound pious, but I'd donate to Food for Lane County, an awesome local organization that gives away food.
- tracy
I'd do some traveling, getting to know new things is always great...
- Fabian
$1750? I'll buy Facebook and sell to Twitter.
- Bob Withers
I'd use the cash to pay back my employer all the time I spend reading Scoble's comments on FriendFeed. ha.
- Jon Mason
Jumping into your hat. Randomly pick me.
- Ben
I'll finally buy that wide angle lens that I've been hankering after for my Olympus E-400...
- Peter Holloway
Hmm... $1750, eh? I'd buy a few of those unlocked Android phones to create custom firmware that does end-to-end encryption of calls... I've been wanting to do that for a while for fun.
- Matt
I will use the money to help me get to OSCON.
- Mike Canzoneri
I will buy an iMac for my local school who only have PCs ... boo. www.woolastonschool.com. They currently do basic animation with PCs but I would like to get some of the older kids using iStopMotion, FCP and possibly Motion also. Would be an honour to spend ALL the money on this.
- Nick Pearce
Was laid off a month ago from my job at one of the big 4 record companies. In this down economy, seems like a good time to start a new business. I'd use the cash to help get my new business started.
- SJ
Ha! Joined friendfeed just to win this!
- Solomon King
I'll buy a new computer for my wife... now that she's a blogger and podcaster, I can't do anything on my computer anymore! Then I'll get a decent shared network storage device that makes a lot of sense for my expanding network.
- Chuck Stanley
A chunk to charity and a chunk to fund some development on some crazy web thing I am cooking
- Nigel James
$1,750 would go a long way in Africa! That's like 8 months salary for my small team!
- Solomon King
I believe I would take a vacation to the Keys.
- Ryan Dadey
Or wait, I could get two decent laptops for my developer and tech support guy!
- Solomon King
I'll do my part in stimulating the housing market! I'm buying a house in a couple of months, and savings for the down payment. An extra grand or so would allow me to stop doing some work for other people, and focus on doing work for myself in the way of publishing my ideas, and creating web-apps that would be useful. Reading your blog posts has really got my excited to share my thoughts and ideas with the web.
- Jim Rubenstein
I'm wondering if this is a test to see if FF can handle a few thousand comments in a short amount of time. May the winners enjoy what they get.
- Matt Silva
I would continue my educational pursuit of an IT degree. Plus buy a few Xbox 360 games! Awesome way to use FF Robert! ;-)
- Carlton Hackett
I'd buy the iPhone tablet that's being announced today. Good gosh, I hope it comes out today!
- Robert Hinojosa
I'm looking for a new camera. I've been trying to take pictures of my son's Scout troop and swim team with an old Canon G3, and it's a real struggle to get any decent pics. I'd love to pick up a 40D and a lens or two.
- D. Lambert
I would send my parents on a vacation and I would buy my wife a NEW HD Tivo
- Andrew Yeager-Buckley
Debt reduction?
- Lenny Post
I run a small business with two brands http://www.GeekLoot.com and http://www.PodGizmo.com, I will use the money to advertise on blogs and facebook.
- Mike Down
Pretty cool news. I love this kind of capitalist competition. I've been reading your blog for about a year and I'm glad you're using it more now. I'm a college student, I think I would use the money I win to start a site which rewrites the Constitution and basically the entire American governmental system in a wiki, user-edited style. I've got a url that isn't taken picked out, and I just need some money to startup and learn html all the rest of that stuff.
- Brian Wilson
Hello Robert, I will use the money to help create a web startup which will allow you (and other people of course) to use their fame and reputation to help promote other people who have talents, skills, experience, and a willingness to work, but who are not necessarily able to reach a wide enough audience on their own. The focus is to allow people who network with entrepreneurs to refer...
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- Ivan Lukianchuk
This is damn awesome, Robert! What would I do with some nice cash? I'd probably buy myself some new-to-me Canon camera gear, a lens or two (depending on price), and maybe some Alien Bees lights. Probably soup up my PC a bit more too. Either that, or just buy a MacBook Pro instead. At least that way I'd be able to edit photos and audio worth a damn haha.. :D I just REALLY need some extra money to be able to enable me to start doing what I love doing more, and a day-job less. :)
- Lou
I'll use it to obtain my CISSP cert. There has to be a better way to reduce/eliminate these zombie bot-nets that are used for very bad activities!
- Craig Macfarlane
Hello Robert, I would use to money to keep developing and expanding affordable wildlife photo workshops to some of the most amazing destinations in the US. You can see my last Yellowstone Winter Photo Workshop info here: http://wildnaturetours.com This workshop was very successful and managed to fit in both natural history of one of the most amazing places on earth with some spectacular photography (and video). I am in the processing of editing some of the content that will then be made available. Thanks.
- Juan Pons
I would use the cash to buy some of the new netbooks with touchscreen to get some seniors online: grand parents deserve to enjoy the real-time web goodness too!
- Mathieu Ayel
So with Scoble's latest post http://friendfeed.com/e... this thread is now closed. LAST!
- sofarsoShawn
50D + Decent Lens, and a six-pack.
- Than R
Donate it to charity
- Allwin Agnel
I would use the prize money to stimulate the economy by purchasing a new MacBook Pro! :)
- Matt O'Keefe
you are hardly last :P I'd use the money to put more down on a down payment for my first home :D
- Jonathan
I'd help fund my husband's work on his first graphic novel and send his butt to Comic Con to pitch it to publishers :) The most empowering thing is to help other people reach their goals, and I like that this contest is all about that, so I'd pass that gift along.
- Tiffany Monhollon
NIKON D90 for my wife... PS3 for me... the rest toward the house...
- Jason Womick
Here's my entry. Thanks for the contest, Robert!
- Paul Maez
hey Robert, great competition! I'd use the money to fund my startup creating mobile apps that offer powerful messaging possibilities, including gmail-style threaded messages for all kinds of networks.
- Dirk
I'll use the money to pay for my certification in Cisco's Unified Computing System
- Andrew Mitry
Good luck with the new direction, Scoble.
- Mike Smith
I'd use the money to further my tech addiction. Too many gadgets, too little money...that's where you come in!
- Paul Maez
I'd take my daughters to see their grandparents in Florida, upgrade to a (used) Intel Macbook, sign up for PHP training, and renew my NPR membership, Cheers, and thanks!
- Jim Akin
I'm not going to even pretend that I would use it for charitable causes. A new MacBookPro and a 30 inch display. I'd then use it to start my development projects.
- bjmac
Hey there, Robert. I'd use the money to finance my teeny-tiny iPhone game development company (basically a programmer and myself doing art and everything else). Cheers!
- karchesky
I'd use the money to start my "LIFE IMPROVED" fund: personal use, philanthropy, and anywhere in between. The only stipulation is that it improves someone's quality of life.
- Tamikka
I'd use the money to pay for the trip to meet you and get to spend a day in the life of Robert Scoble.
- Jean-François D. Gauthier
Hey there Robert! I would use the money to either pay for my coming semester of college so I could actually finish....or I would upgrade some tech in my life (for example, acquire an HD video camera and various other tech for studio and/or podcast recording)
- Gerardo R. Monreal Jr.
Oh man...new netbook, finally getting a smartphone, and renewing hosting on new blogs... Anything left after that will be split between my son's saving account (investing in the future) and probably the Dog's Trust charity.
- Badger Gravling
How would I use the money? I need to purchase one of the new 24" iMacs to further my Design & Photography careers.
- Herne
I will use the money to invest in myself and my future career. By that I mean make my side business of portrait photography into something more real and tangible rather than just a haphazard event.
- Ryan
I would most likely spend the winnings on gifts for my daughters, a little something for my wife and (of course) a tech toy for myself. There's nothing more enjoyable than spending "found money". Cheers!
- Kevin
Interesting idea, thanks!
- Loïc Dumont
I will donate half to the local computers for kids program that helps underprivileged kids with access to to computers, education and the internet. It is a great program where soon I will be teaching parents about social networking so they can communicate with there kids in the same language. The other half, I'm helping pay for my wedding.
- Chris Rippe
I could use to win the money to pay for my laser eye surgery so I can get the job I want in policing.
- Jason
Hoping the luck of the Irish pulls through for me today
- andi argast
I would use the money for my ceramics art studio. Part of the money would go to setting up a live 24/7 multi-camera stream where people can watch and learn.
- Greg Ashbaugh
You rule!
- Happy
top o' the mornin' to ya - (from boston>austin!)
- clewellyn
We're having our third child in July, so I'd use the money to re-do our upstairs. The office will be a casualty.
- Tim Trentham
Robert, I just returned from a Alexandria Rotary (alexrotary.com) Board meeting. I am hoping to go on a trip to Tanzania to work on a school called Peace House (http://www.peacehousefoundation.org). Funding is the hold up for me as part will come from the Rotarian and part from our club. If I win, I am definitely going as the amount that I will likely be responsible for is $1,500-1,700.
- Craig Mische
We are hosting an event to celebrate the International Creativity and Innovation Day (April 21 which is Da Vinci's b-day). It is the first event within a telco culture. I'd use the money to buy some creative tech prizes for the day like CS4, an entry level Wacom product, a mind mapping subscription, SXSW 10 pass, etc.
- Krystal
I would use the money to put a dent in the mountain of cc debt I have from a couple of failed ideas that I've poured money into.
- Joel
($1,750) - Open a phonebook, randomly pick a name, follow that person 7 degrees out. Each degree of separation tell that persons story through audio interviews, video, writing, and online media. We need to remember life is interconnected and everyone has a story.
- Tim Shisler
Hi Robert. I'd use the money to help fund construction of a computer that will reveal the Ultimate Question to Life, the Universe and Everything. It's a small start, but then everything's small in the light of 10 million years...
- Andreas Strothmann
Everything old is new again---make it green on St Paddy's Day!
- Carolyn Baehr
I would probably buy the most expensive meal I ever had.(6000 Chicken Fajitas)
- JC Lima
Thanks for spreading the wealth out Robert! As for me, should I win the money, I would first take my wife out to dinner (priorities!), and put what's left toward software to help me in my fledgling freelancing work.
- Sam Hetrick
Hmm... A shot at $1,000 just for commenting?
- HackingNeflix
First Comment: Awesome idea, great way to draw attention to a great conversation
- Jason DeBoer-Moran
Second Comment: I would use part of the money to get my SxSW travel fund off the ground for next year. The other part I would put towards paying off my travel to ETech this year.
- Jason DeBoer-Moran
If I win, either way, I'll make a donation to kiva.org, and use the rest to invest in my business.
- Phil Ripperger
Well, I fell in love this year and I'm saving money for an engagement ring. So I'll be using it for that!
- Ben Pettit
My wife and daughter live in Ohio, and I took a career job in Virginia. It being difficult to sell a house in Ohio, I would put any and all moneys toward that goal.
- Shawn Lockard
Sounds good to me
- Austin Garrod
if i win the prize, I will spend my money to build a new and free web 2.0 web project (i will anounce it here)
- Abdullah Özgün
and with the money, i would probably invest in getting a new computer for me and the family, the one i'm using now is 7 years old and i could barely start it up to write this
- Austin Garrod
Very interesting to read some of the comments and start the conversation. I would use it to help offset expenses for bringing an 11yr old girl from Egypt to the Philadelphia Shriners for surgery. She suffers from arthrogryposis multiplex congenita (amc--multiple joint contractures and fixed limbs). For dolagy her knees are folded up around her shoulders with arms locked straight at her...
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- margaret chaidez
Lost my job last year after 3 yrs and checked my 401K yesterday and had a whole $77 in the account. Will use the cash for the mortgage and training. Thank you!
- David L. Crooks
I'll be using the money to fly to the bay area to see if it's worth it to quit my job and follow my dream.
- Mike
I will be using the money to travel around and report about it in a daily videoblog.
- Jens Christian Freund
I would use the $$ to kick my fledgling start-up into gear. Even without your money would love to talk to you about it.
- Philip
Marketing at its finest! Excellent idea Robert.
- Simply Boulder
Roll the cash, baby!
- Wisdom Works Group
I'd give every cent to my mom, who is struggling with her mortgage, so she wouldn't get behind.
- Andrew Green
Free internet access for a year!
- ReeltimeDVD
Hey, you are always creative...
- Ömer Faruk Kurt
Really not sure what I'd use it for. Probably bills, but most likely I'd see something shiny, realize I have $$$ in my wallet and just spend it :)
- Hal Thompson
I'll use the money to fund my random venture over the summer.
- Hung
I'll use the money to buy a DSLR and attempt to learn how to be a photographer
- Ryan
I have no idea what I would do with the money, but it would likely end up in a project for my kids school....
- Samuel DeVore
I will take 750$ and use it for my project and I will give 1000$ part back to you for another contest. Maybe I can win it again... :)
- Ömer Faruk Kurt
Student loans, here I come :)
- Sigoya
Pay for my trip to Japan, as well as entry into a Ironman race!
- Chris Lewis
Does FF pay you to get them users?
- Thomas Amberg
If I could be chosen to receive the $1750, I'd give it all to Kiva.org to support women entrepreneurs who need technology to build their businesses. the condition is that you join me for drinks/dinner at Presidio Social Club.
- Lydia Sugarman
I would use it towards the downpayment for a new house J
- Eber Irigoyen
I will use the $1000 to create a quick prototype of a friendfeed like social network (of course better, but can't tell you the secret yet) and put aside $750 to hosting at mosso for the next 7.5 months.
- Jeffrey Yan
yes please
- Christopher Bell
No whammies! No whammies. STOP!
- Michael Pearson
I'd use the money to make my commute much greener - either for a good bike or an electric scooter. Additionally, I would purchase through a nearby vendor so the buy is also helpful for our local economy.
- Paul Marino
Hurrah for free money. If i won the money i would take my wife to paris disney as were both disney nuts and are feeling very broke and in need of a holiday. Anything i had left woudl go towards my macbook fund
- Jamie Vidamour
My wife is going back to school to become a physical therapist and I'm trying to update my resume/portfolio in case I need to look for a new job in web marketing, and we need new computers to replace the 6 y.o. desktop and 3y.o. laptop that gets daily BSoDs.
- Benjamin Lipsman
Half goes to Heifer International and half goes towards paying down personal loans. :)
- Rylan
with that money we would hire 4 programmers for 1 month in eastern europe to develop a product that would change the world of e-commerce ;)
- Alensa
I would use the money to pay one of my brother's bills. The tech sector in MN is not in good shape.
- Matthew McCowan
I wouldn't mind the money, I would put it in my pool of cash that I'm growing for a startup. Thanks for giving the chance!
- Tim Broder
I'll use half the money to help me and my family pay some bills and get a small breather from the recession. I'll donate the other half to the jQuery project to help foster more development of their projects like jQuery UI and to help with their infrastructure costs.
- Ralph Whitbeck
I would like to pay some pending bills, also I would like to share the money with a cultural association here in Costa Rica
- Víctor
I would use the money to makeup for market losses on March 16th
- srinivasufeed
I would use the money to hire a designer to design a good looking website for a Jewellery store site that I'm working for my wife. She's currently using blogspot along with google checkout(http://lajouels.blogspot.com/) and has being asking for a website for ages.
- Praveen
I will fund my childrens picture book startup (http://www.memetales.com) and have 1. one of my cool illustrators create a super cool illustration of you or 2. have one of my writers include you as a character in one of my picture books. 2 cool offers - personalized just for YOU!! Imagine that !! You pick 1 or 2. (picking both would probably cost me as much as the prize money ;))
- Maya
With either of the prizes I would put a tiny bit away, and use the rest to buy some film equipment/time to finish my series about artists in the DC area called "The Form Appears". I'm guessing I should write something here about give the money to a non-profit doing amazing work for the planet, but honestly, it would just be used for my own artistic needs.
- Emmett
I'd create the Scoble Blogger Scholarship. I'm just getting established as a pro blogger. I would use the money to invest in my business to take me to the next step. I would pledge to double the money this time next year and make it available to another blogger in a similar position, with the proviso that they would also continue to pay it forward.
- Mike Cliffe Jones
probably would use it to knock of a bit of a 30k hospital bill. Or decorate my 5 yo daughters room. Nah .. definitely the room, if we can get the house lol
- vanweerd
I'd get my 15 seconds of internet fame, and laugh at my fortune. I would not forget the little people.
- Viajero
If I win, I'm going to donate the money to SproutPoint, a local non-profit org that helps business people refine their business plans, and seeds them with investment capital. The only way out of this recession is if we rebuild the economy with hard-working entrepreneurs.
- Rob Stevens
I'd use it for a new MacBook, which of course I would use to spend lots of time following @scobleizer on twitter, friendfeed, and anything else
- Chris Brakebill
though I should note I'm not as obsessive and creepers of a follower as that made me sound. just love the good content @scobleizer puts out
- Chris Brakebill
Thomas: I am not paid by, nor compensated by friendfeed in any way. I push friendfeed because it's the best service out there. Period.
- Robert Scoble
Tough times the last few months have forced us to cut contributions to our child's 529 college fund to a bare minimum. I'd use this to catch-up for her sake.
- Bill Day
This must be the all time record for comments! Great idea.
- Victor Ryden
i'm in for the $1k. i haven't read all the comments, but my two cents says give one of the other amounts to margaret!
- Scott Sorheim
would use the $$ for much-needed computer upgrade
- b Anthony
In case you're not following me yet on FF, find me here.
- Scott Mace
Robert, agree with FF being the best service out there. Thanks for promoting it and thus getting more people involved and more great content shared and commented on. :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
great. I will buy lots of books on Amazon :)
- Maria Podolyak
I will pick today's winner with http://www.random.org live on http://www.ustream.tv/studio at 4 p.m. Austin Time (2 p.m. Central).
- Robert Scoble
A new fire hoop I would buy.
- Donovan Watts
I would probably use the money on a family vacation (or at least an upgrade to a family vacation).
- Andrew Gorohoff
Great contest. I'm in.
- Patrick Jordan
Wondering if this has broken a record for most comments on FF. /random comment
- Rachel Walden
Friend feed should have a back to "topic", if the comments are huge like for this thread. :)
- Swaroop
Will the winner need to contact you right away? Because I won't be able to watch at that time or anything.
- Chris, Taskerrific Guy
@Rachel It hasn't. There's at least one thread with more comments. http://friendfeed.com/search...
- Chris Lasher
If you choose me, I ask that Rackspace donate's the money directly to OLPC. Enable everyone!
- David Lynch
Chris: no. I'll post the winners on friendfeed and have them email me.
- Robert Scoble
If it's not too late, I'd love the extra funds; both sons need dental work and the employer's dental coverage is pretty slim.
- Jill O'Neill
If I win, I would use the money to go see my son and granddaughter.
- Sandra
Wow, Robert, this thread is incredible! I would use the money to pay for some improvements to my home and to pursue a nonprofit idea I'm trying to grow.
- asiriusgeek
Count me in! Well ,I'll order Kindle 2 and plan a vacation to Europe!
- Krishnamoorthy
If I win second prize, I will send money back to you! :)
- Vlad Rafeyev
With $1750, I'd repair the windshield on our 2000 Impala and then pay off the remaining debt on our "overdraft protection" credit card.
- Daniel J. Pritchett
This is great! I've been working on helping very small businesses (pizza shops, dry cleaners, bowling alleys, etc) use SM tools to promote with very little overhead. A lot of shops have gone out of business recently because they didn't know how to promote outside of the Yellow Pages. If I were to win, I'd use the money to help these businesses with some basic costs like reprinting a menu to mention their facebook fan page, some hosting for a blog or a webcam. I don't charge for my services.
- Dave Ferrick
Robert, the $1000 would be nice, but having you visit my site plexav.com to see a demonstration would be even better.
- Kenneth Stein
Lets see. I will use the money to move and integrate 12 different but related business entity websites that are in desperate need of integration. Then I will utilize FF and similar aggregation services to help gather the necessary expertise and tutorials to accomplish our optimization and social integration goals. After that I will provide you with a report on the process and results.
- Eric Logan
My wife and I are a statistic, but we break the trend. We were "friends with benefits" in college and she got pregnant. I married her. Not because she was pregnant but because I realized that's what I wanted all along. This June we will have been married 9 years and we have 4 amazing sons between us. For our anniversary this June I want to re-propose to her and tell her I want to renew our vows for our 10th anniversary the following year. I love her so much and it's time she has some proper wedding photos!
- George Clingerman
How I would use the money: I would have Robert donate the money to a charity, to be decided later. Or perhaps to low income student athletes in California who may have to 'pay to play' this year due to budget cuts.
- Rodfather
Hmm. I haven't got a sob story that would make anyone sob on my behalf. And yet I would like to take your money, Robert, so very badly. If I were to win, I would be tempted to use the money for a good cause but ultimately, after putting away money for taxes, I would end up spending the remainder on fripperies and possibly airfare someplace that is not here. I would have a very good time (but nothing illegal!) and might even send you a post card. Or in your case, a tweet. I could do both, I suppose.
- Carolyn Jewel
Hello Robert. If i win i'll use the money to hire a coder to create part of the platform for www.chartempire.com.
- Frangino Lucarini
I'll donate the money to Our Lady of Perpetual Help (OLPH) food pantry in St. Louis, which has also become a facility that provides medical / vision care and training (in addition to feeding several thousand people each week) in the most hard-pressed neighborhoods in the metro area. We'll then use the money to improve the OLPH infrastructure (basic stuff - network switches, nics, etc.) that supports that medical / vision care, as well as the training. The labor is donated by local tech entrepreneurs.
- Bob Lozano
With $1750 from @scobleizer, I'd pay for a little freelance graphic work to get the redesign of http://wiredjournalists.com rolling.
- Ryan Sholin
Many people are saying they will donate to charity and this kind of stuff, but I will be honest. I will use about 150 to buy a new printer - I really need it for college, it is a pain to ask my neighbor to print stuff all the time. 450 will go to 6 months of my grandma's medicine fund, so I don't have to worry about it. The rest I will probably save to buy a Palm Pre when it comes out or something cool and amazing.
- Kiko Cherman
I would use the $$ to make a dent in the pile of debt that is looming over my head and making my life hell!! Not a very exciting use of the money... but getting out of this debt would make a BIG difference in my life!!
- Meredith
I would use the money to help fund the tools I need to take my startup to the next level.
- William Spaetzel
With $1750 I'd finally get a laptop that wasn't owned by an employer.
- Richard Byrne
To my new FriendFeed friend - always remember: "a friend in need is a friend in deed" but a "friend with money is the friend we need"
- Huw Pendry
There's only one thing that's been on my mind that the money could go towards: An Open Source Command Center which will be named "0pie: Reb0rn". The current 0pie isn't doing so well, with a 40lb monitor that flickers in a way that really seizes you, and RAM that was considered top of the line when Megabytes were the highest feasible unit of measure. However! 0pie: Reb0rn will surpass...
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- David Wynn
from fftogo
I'd buy something nice, like a vacation, for my mom.
- John Piekos
I have a feeling this just made me an accesory to a crime.
- Steve C
Nice! I would add the money to what I'm saving to buy a garage for my house.
- Orville Chomer
I would GIVE the money to my former admin who's husband is hospitalized awaiting a heart transplant.
- Bob Stewart
Hi Robert. Not one person above me said PLEASE I would like 2 win because........ can I remind everyone that manners cost nothing so may I be the first to say please count me in to your generous offer and Thanks
- garth
I would give my fiance the money so she could register for real estate training.
- Ryan
I would use the money to help buy monitors and computer to have a good setup to kickstart my graphic design freelancing career. I'm very poor and won't be able to afford it for YEARS.
- courto
A thousand bucks is plenty. How would I use it? First I'm going to get myself a Flip Mino HD that I read about on your blog. I'm running the Mexico City Marathon in August and that Flip looks the perfect way to record my effort! I'll even get it in custom colours to match the Marathon blog I'm doing! That takes care of $200. Another $300 will get me the Canon SX1 instead of the SX10 I'm about to buy. The rest will go to the charity I'm raising cash for by running the marathon.
- Gary
I'm from Costa Rica, I'm Sculpture from UCR, in case you think on me, I'll use that money to help me and my friends to get tools and work materials, maybe you can get some of our sculptures in spirit of fairness! :)
- Mauricio
Hope everyone here for the money sticks around for the people! I would love to win the money - I would buy my first Mac ever, the new Mini looks amazing! Pick up a Kindle and some books and pay for our family vacation before the new baby arrives! I will also renew the domain and actually write on my secret identity's parody site. DM Tygerdave on Twitter if you need to know the site before you decide :) Thanks for doing this and pluging friendfeed at the same time!
- David Knight
I would use the money to buy a new lens or two for my Canon
- Marcus McCurdy
It's very generous of you to do this giveaway Robert! I'd use it to help keep my wife's new law practice wiith some additional marketing. She just got set up in her little office but is still working on building the business. She does Immigration law. Her Twitter handle is @mainstlawyer.
- Jesse P. Luna
I would use it to pay for my Flight Instructor rating training.
- Louis Bourque
i am in! i would use the other money to promote a new online project that i am working on that deals with the graphic design. thanks.
- Ethan Bodnar
Hi, i'm Jose Daniel from Costa Rica, i work in web programming. I hope win the money to start a little personal projects. By the way, in this moment i have not job so would be nice the prize :)
- Jose Daniel
I would use the money to start a company in my spare time
- John Munro
I'd use it to help pay for my wife's medical school expenses - loans topping $250k...
- Dave
If I win the $1750 I will buy me a Nikon D300.
- Philipp Mertens
Want to create great conversation? Start giving stuff away! I would use the money to finally finish my iPhone development project by hiring some graphic designers to customize graphics for the program and then release it via a Scoble announcement!
- Matthew Strickland
If I win the money I would use it to continue my studies in Reiki healing and teaching, so I could assist in healing people in these tough times.
- Louise
Robert, if I win, I'll give half to the Charity Smackdown cause I'm supporting, Stand Up To Cancer (see: http://charitysmackdown.com/team_SU... ). The rest will help 'stimulate my local economy' - food from the green market, some purchases at local stores, probably pay the plumber to fix something that's been on the list for a while.
- Howard Greenstein
Hey Robert- Thanks for the offer and I gladly accept the possibility of winning! Normally I am a giver and have been all my life, but this time, due to my financial situation, I have to be a receiver. So I would share the money with myself. But that will help along the road to be able to give back again. It's all good! Thanks to you for being a giver!
- Candace Davenport
Congratulations. You made me log into FriendFeed this week.
- maczter
Sweet. Free money! I'll take me some.
- Jason Packham
With $1750 I'd use it to travel to California and try to get my startup in Y Combinator. Even if I don't, $1750 would be enough to fund my business in Mexico for 3 months!
- Mariano
I'd use the money to jumpstart my new pseudo teleportation company. Details on the concept can be found here: http://pushingthepulldoor.blogspot.com/
- Rick Popko
You could just be my destiny!
- Alejandra Luthmer
Robert, I'll use the $ to take a trip to SF to meet YOU! if you take me up on it I'll pay you for a few minutes of your advice :)
- Francois
Robert, thanks for sharing... I'll take the money and give it to the hard working developers (2) of our Startup www.kontexto.com They deserve a bonus and due to the economic times and our need to be frugal we haven't given anyone extra $. These guys deserve a little extra for all their hard work behind the scene - David http://friendfeed.com/dclarke
- David Clarke
If I win the money I will (1) give some to family members in need, (2) purchase a computer for myself (using a very, very old one), (3) save some for the future and (4) fund some acting career necessities, i.e. classes, etc. Thank you for this opportunity!!!
- Cynthia Fellowes
You are very generous to be doing this. Ignore the haters!!!
- Cynthia Fellowes
I'd buy an iphone to start doing dev work for cross platform (bb, symbian, etc) apps.
- Ben Vear
If i would win id buy as many good engineering books as i can find ( The art of electronics, the art of computer programming, blodgett), Buy some propper tools like a good soldering iron, power supply, occiloscope and a microcontroller programmer, get loads of components and start learning to make cool electronics stuff.
- Pim de Groot
i'd donate it to my dad's after school/summer program for inner city kids in toledo, kids unlimited. http://www.kidsunlimitedtoledo.org/
- john
I'll buy the arcadexl.com website on sale on sitepoint and then donate the adsense earnings to my Kiva account
- Dave Nixon
If I won, I would use it to be able to get some of the gear that I've been looking at and try to learn how to develop on it. I've been trying to piece together the parts to be able to build a smaller linux computer to do what the droboshare does (the drobo's not as interesting if you're technically minded). As a student, that gear's hard to come by.
- robbie nakamura
I would give up $1 greasy McChicken sandwiches and bump up to $2.50 Subway sandwiches--this might help me make better decisions--you know, more veggies for better brain power. :)
- exoticat
I would use the money to buy a new Macbook and a Flip Mino HD!
- Jon Victorino
When will it be Announced?
- TheHenry
Congrats & Thanks for getting me started with FF !!!
- sathya
Love it. I'd like to buy the world a coke>
- Ben
Good Stuff! I do like the XML API - definitely a universal interface.
- Terza
I'll pay a UI person to work on my pet project, i suck at it.
- mehdi
If I win, I'll stimulate the economy by hiring someone to fix my roof.
- Roy Jacobsen
I'm ready. I could use it to pay for ridiculous prescription costs.
- Jen (SquirrelGirl)
I'll buy myself a Kindle 2 and give the rest to Rocky B.
- Michael Krakovskiy
For $1750, a Kindle 2, some e-books to go with it, and maybe a nice Canon lens. :)
- J Wang
If I won the money I would buy a HP MediaSmart home server. My wife and I just got married, and suddenly we have gigs and gigs of photos and videos that we want to keep forever. The idea of automatic, incremental backups gets me all aflutter. I love technology that makes life easier :)
- Tony Fendall
I'd give $750 to my Fav charity, Mobile Loaves and Fishes, @MLFNOW, and Split the $1000 between my two children to start a college fund.
- Karen
I could come up with no good reason - except that I probably would get myself the Wii and one more console and probably a NAS server - the rest (f anything remains) can go to some charity. Oh and get a drobo too if I can:)
- Brijesh
I would use it to upgrade my teenage son's Mac and camera equipment for his stop-motion Lego movie.
- MaDBooM
I would celebrate the crash of the GBP against the USD as I convert it over to spend in Harrods
- Emma Dunstone
I will get myself a new laptop that doesn't take 10 minutes to start up, and by the way I'm a teacher that taught four sections of a "Thinking and Writing: A Blog of One's Own" at a state college, using (among other readings) your Corporate Weblog Manifesto and Scobleizer--I want to equip myself to further use social media for fun and education.
- Tracy Mendham
I will spend the money on my wife and mother of our young kids. A day of pampering at a spa, new clothes, nice meal, etc.
- Clif Mims
Robert, I would use the money to but my 17 YO daughter her first car....or at least a down payment on one.. Nothing fancy, just something to get around in.
- Nick
I would use the money to buy a decent server and some memory upgrades for the Linux Lab we are setting up at a local community center. It's all donated hardware and will be used for computer literacy in the underprivileged North Charleston community. http://www.csclug.org/...
- Dan T
A handful of Nikon SB-900's
- chris tirpak
I believe in randomness :D, so if I get your money I will buy a "random" airplane ticket to a "random" country and blog about it
- dimi3limb
Buy a used Canon 5D and a decent lens
- Alain Breillatt
Hello! I'll take that money and buy half a laptop.
- Anthony
I'd invest it in my startup - MixedInk!
- Vanessa Scanfeld
I would tithe to Kiva and use the rest for my startup (change the world, baby!)
- Toby Hede
If I get to win the $1750 - will use this for my airfare to attend JavaOne this June and post regular updates here on FF on what is happening inside the conference.
- Rom Feria
For $1000, this will be enough to start my iPhone App Dev company. :D
- Rom Feria
What do we get for pointing out that you didn't follow your own rules? Made fun on of twitter? http://twitter.com/tefflox !
- Jesse Crockett
Attention addict. Nice one.
- Tom Beardshaw
Is that your diagnosis, Dr. Beardshaw?
- Jesse Crockett
$1,750 would be great to put toward training for leadership training: http://klemmer.com/worksho.... I'm launching a business to train rookies on using social media and more advanced users how to tie it all together. This training on leadership is to equip me to better serve them.
- Courtney Engle
i have a great idea for a twitter reader, but dont have the money or coding skills to build it, btw congrats on the new job scoble, cant wait to see the new site/content
- patrick
Looking forward to more Scobleizer blog posts soon. Are you going to be able to keep up your blog with the new Rackspace gig?
- Jack Nork
I can only wish you get more paid gigs :) I would use the money ( along with my small nest egg) to start a direct to doorstep solution/service company.
- Mohan Ramkumar
Random wins! I'll jumpstart my freelance biz...
- Derek Markham
I just want the $1000, and I'll finally buy a DSLR I've been craving for a while now.
- Mike Estes
If I win I'll spend the money exclusively on a device that allows me to liveblog (videos, photos, etc) from my trip to Tahiti this year. This is my lifetime dream vacation, which is already booked, and I want to have a device that allows me to upload instantly (so, no computer in between, no transfer of memory cards and then upload, just straight upload!) anything and anytime I want to :) Of course, it must be able to allow me to follow up comments from people who check it :)
- Vitor Spencer
Robert, I'll use it to contact as many local/national government as i can. :) Building an app that allows citizens to help each other fill out those god-awfull form's, by implementing a Forum style plug-in on the webpages of local and national government bodies. I'd use it to take time off from the dayjob and convince as many municipalities and agencies of my plan!
- Tom
OMG Tom, brilliant freaking idea. I have a notebook full of forms for my aged parents and trust me, the gov really needs to get into this century, such as programs talking to other programs and not so much repeating of information.
- Janet
Robert, I'd give the $$ to a friend of mine in California who is down on his luck, got laid off from the school system, lost his house, and has kids to support. He has finally decided that the only recession-proof job in California is to become a wildfire firefighter, but is in desparate need of some bridge cash until he gets his certification in June. His family is living in a friend's...
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- Marc Monplaisir
wtf! I'm upset at the possibility of someone getting scammed here.
- Suvarshi Bhadra
Well how can you resist an offer like that. I will use the money to help my sister who is struggling to pay for her last semesters in college so she can get her degree.
- Andromeda Edison
mmm..... donuts!
- Adam Lasnik
I would go with Jess Lee's cause, UNICEF
- Pico Seno
Joining!
- yannick
i'm in
- stanescu adrian
btb, where's the original cisco data center post?
- priyanhere
CIAO Robert! I'm ready to win :D
- lyonora
is it too late? here i am, however! :)
- Alessandro
i haven't money.i will buy laptop with this money.
- kadir
kadir my friend the game is over :) I mean the contest is closed, someone else get the prise, may be an other time, good luck.
- abdellah
I'd probably buy a nightstand for my wife, since she wont let me buy a laptop unless there is a stand to keep it on.
- mka
I'd use the money to send my older daughter (8yo) to The Country School Farm summer camp. http://www.tcsfarm.com/
- Shad Aumann
Thanx for this hope u gave us first of all. I use the money for a laptop or macbook because my computer is killin me. But to be honest im not really expecting to win anything.Im tired of hoping and losing even this kind of comment & win style events always..Anyway thanx a lot again..
- Bilal
That's a brilliant idea to create a viral impact. I wish Robert go on a vacation and celebrate this with a bottle of champaign and cheer for all the users.
- irem erman
If I win the $1750 I will buy me a new pc :) thanks.
- Oğuzhan Başar
hacı bizim para vardı ne oldu o ? bu kadar yorumu okutma bana. kazandıysam el salla.
- Ahmet Kakıcı
12 saat oldu. ne mektup geliyor ne haber senden, söyle de bileyim bıktın mı benden :)
- Ahmet Kakıcı
I'd use the money to set up a comfortable home workspace.
- Ian Yang
Wow, Robert, I'm ready to win. For $1000, this will be enough to start my personal iPhone App Dev studio; For $1750, this will be enough to start both iPhone App Dev and Android Dev studio :-)
- Yingfeng Zhang
spend the money create another friendfeed.
- xiawinter
new friendfeed?twitter? oh,I will send some special gifts to you from China,Robert,if I win the $1750 .haha ,I am not kidding. I really like the friendfeed.
- 老巫师
for SanGu.me!!!
- hugh
Never mind the money – you frieinds just feed me more religion!
- kelvin
嘿嘿，from china
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Random. $ to Haitian Clinic. 4 chances 2 win. http://tiny.cc/6JZfi
- Douglas Hopkins
I just sent out the checks. Thanks everyone!
- Robert Scoble
I won!!!!!!
- Micheal
I'd get a new macbook and a mac mini for myself, buy a little something special for the girlfriend, and save the rest for my summer in NOLA and grad school
- Chris Brakebill
Good luck everyone. Spread the love and the money :)
- Nir Ben Yona
You're nuts... anyway I'd use the money to buy a new porch... or perhaps go to Velocity (not sure my boss won't think 3 days if San Jose is too much like a holiday - I know get a new boss)
- Andy Davies
That should be simple - I will buy a Mac Pro, and if some more money left, buy a nice sized LCD display to go with it
- Anand Sharma
My one comment - money would be used for a mouth make-over.
- Randal
I'm in, as for the reason should I not win the random drawing, pc parts and save the rest for the new iphone.
- Michael Breslin
THIS CONTEST HAS BEEN CLOSED FOR A WHILE. THE PRIZES HAVE ALREADY BEEN HANDED OUT. CONGRATULATIONS to everyone. But this is now closed.
- Robert Scoble
Robert, perhaps putting that notice in the first comment or the original message itself might be even better.
- Chris, Taskerrific Guy
If I had my druthers, I would get my wife a new set of hooters. But, since my wife thinks most of my ideas are juvenile and self serving, I'll end up saving the money or something responsible.
- Demian Vonder Kuhlen
from Nambu
How would I use the money...hmmm well my wife wants to take the kids to Texas to see her sister or there are about a million home improvement projects that I have at home and at my parents
- Brian Allen
show me the money! please...
- Matt Soreco
I would use the money to buy my mom a basic laptop. I would hand-deliver the laptop and give her some basic lessons on connecting to free wireless (probably at her public library). Naturally, my internet instruction would include such basics as "beware strangers on the internet -- and some are stranger than most" and "even your dog is a celebrity on the internet" and "blackmailing neighborhood teens via facebook and myspace".
- JoJo
I need money, I used to be a stick-up kid / So I think of all the devious things I did / I used to roll up--"this is a hold up; ain’t nothing funny / Stop smiling, and still! don’t nothing move but the money"...
- Uche Ogbuji
I will happily take your money. Most will go to a good cause. Okay, all of it will. Me :-) --->
- Robert Kenney
I would like to win the money in order to use it to cover the remaining $1,250 I will owe Drexel University after scholarships and federal loans, Fall '09.
- Andrew Leahey
Tuition. 'Nuff said.
- Kevin Mohr
Brilliant! I love watching the social experiment evolve... I'm a pro photographer dreaming up my next career as a content producer. I would use my winnings as a piece of the cost to purchase a Red camera. http://www.red.com/epic_sc...
- Michael Angelo Truncale
ололо! =)
- тут не место для
give it to a little girl going to school who need it.
- Can Turanlı
I"ll use the money to buy two airline tickets from NY to SC so that both of my granddaughters could come to stay with me for the summer. If anythings left over, I really could use an external hard drive.
- LeighaB
epic thread
- nm
I'm in, winnings will go towards a new Mac Pro.
- timepilot
What would i do with $1,750? Pretty simple. I will establish a limited in Hong Kong and a branch office in Taipei. This would give me a visa and work-permit for Hong Kong and Taiwan and the blogosphere the chance to get always the hottest hands on and news from the Netbook and mobile computing hot spots in Asia. So yeah, i would use the money to establish a company in Hong Kong and i would even send you copies of all the documents and let you know about the success of it.;)
- Sascha Pallenberg
i would buy a Mac, so i could be cool, too ;) since the contest is over, i'm afraid i have to stay uncool :( Or buy an HP.... :)
- Marco Schmidt
I'll donate $1,750 to Austin Free-Net, which teaches Austinites with limited means how to use the Internet to improve their lives (find jobs, get healthcare information, stay in touch with family ...) www.austinfree.net
- John Sirman
What a good idea for a survey. :)
- Aaron S
I will start my phone system support website to deliver cost effective dialing and installation for small to medium business that needs a break from their local phone company.
- Aaron S
This is a poll :)
- CantorJF
.With the prize i think i can donate more then half for charity to People of Abruzzo that are victims of Earthquake in italy, then pay hosting of website for another year and buy a 2nd-hand reflex... I'm Sincere, and sincerly i know it's near to impossible to win, but for sure will be the best thread ever :)
- CantorJF
Did you make a bet with Michael Arrington for $4,500 that you would get 1000+ replies on Friendfeed to prove him that people do use this? i would pay of debt - the best investment.
- CJPhoto
We are three 20 somethings who have been working on a web start-up here in Seattle for the last 18 months. We've taken a salary at less than $2,000 per month for this whole time to make this work, we are that passionate that the idea will impact the Food Industry. Building a B2B platform for the food industry that is one part business, one part networking, two parts sourcing with the potential to integrate the social web with Food Manufacturers. The money would tie us over to round 1 of funding.
- Matthew Wall
Hi Robert. Great contest. i would give the money to our local animal shelter. I went in there a few weeks ago and saw their desperate need for cat litter and dog supplies
- Mike
I would use the money to start building a photography business.
- Evan Travers
Happily commenting for $1k and use the other money to go Zorbing in New Zealand with my Flip Mino recording the man-girl scream coming out of my face.
- Dutch Driver
I'd buy a FriendFeed Pro account
- Pat Hawks
Some much needed financial assistance for our wedding in 2 months would be great! :)
- Shmoe
The winners were announced here: http://beta.friendfeed.com/scoblei...
- Robert Scoble
a Comment ;-)
- Allen Harkleroad
I would pay for my daughters summer and fall college tuition with the winnings.
- Allen Harkleroad
I'm amused that people are still commenting on this, saying what they'd do with the money, when the contest is long over.
- Rochelle
maybe he has more money still!
- Joelle Nebbe (iphigenie)
Should I win the money would be donated to the Janesville, WI food pantry which has been hit hard with the GM plant closings. Too many children and adults (and their pets) going to sleep hungry.
- Dave Martin
I would use the money to follow in your footsteps and purchase a camera for how-to and web related videos.
- Damond Nollan
Wow! Sounds good to me! Will this thread be used in some way?
- jcunwired
Depends on the health of my fiancee, who is going through second bout with Lyme disease. I will either need the money to pay for meds that insurance will not, or if her health is better put it towards the coveted Canon 5D MKII.
- jcunwired
Yay, I like free money! Give some to me.
- tabbr
Wow, as I leave my comment, there are 1,510+ comments ahead of me. I would get a digicam so as to be able to interview peeps around town and upload to the Special Sections portals. Create community, let voices REALLY be heard.
- Denise
SORRY TO BURST YOUR BUBBLE EVERYONE, but it's over. Robert already announced the winners A MONTH AGO. http://beta.friendfeed.com/scoblei...
- Chris, Taskerrific Guy
To Tweet or not to. I will use the winnings to purchase a Netbook so I can finally have a mobile computer for class. My Dell died 2weeks outside warranty. I'll also use it pay down my Charter Bill.
- Adi
If I win the Money I am going to buy a 60 inch pioneer plasma.
- John Wood
The money will most definitely be used to pay bills. And buy food. I'd also probably but a secondary monitor for Friendfeed. Real-time is real neat.
- Matthew
So, where is the money?
- Ozkan Altuner
I am in! I will use this money to invest in a small social media project that I am doing geekscene.tv!
- Frank Da Silva
I would redirect the $1750 equally to Twit.tv and dvorak.org/na, the producers of the podcasts I am really enjoying.
- Ron R.
Mr. Mack: This is a good target. "1513 more comments" and 400 likes.
- Steve "Daddy do it!" Lacy
allright.i know i'll win this: )
- umut
Pick me Robert, pick me! I promise to give it all to KIVA.com *and* match it with my own money.
- Joseph
Why me? I promise to give it all to KIVA.com (or Charity:Water or Gates Foundation) *and* match it with equal amount of my own money.
- Joseph
Rebuild my circa 1999 website, get logo redesigned, build it out and link to anywhere my investor wishes. Build in more social media tools, perhaps Y!OS and G's Friend Connect.
- Mike Valentine
There's no way to win anything with this huge number of people , but thanks mr .Robert Scoble for this quiz .
- ahmed nabil
So, who won the money?
- jcunwired
I was wondering that, too...who won?
- Thebluestbutterfly
from email
This was over a long time ago. I gotta dig the winners out again, sorry.
- Robert Scoble
Would love to spend your money on my credit cards and my wife!!!
- Brady
I'd piddle it away on passing pleasures.
- © b e e n s w a n k
if I win, I would buy Ads on scobleizer.com
- Alex Sauceda
Okay, I'm commenting. :D
- amygeek
IT'S OVER PEOPLE. March 14, yo.
- Josh Haley
i think the confusion about this post lies in the inability for FriendFeed to appropriately show a date and time stamp on each comment. I just figured it out that you have to scroll the mouse of the comment bubble to see the date and time stamp of the comment... they should make it more visible.
- Jason Pollock
If I won, I'd give the money to donorschoose.org because it's obscene that in the US, public schools don't have money for pencils & paper. & my employer would match the donation. & I'd get a nice little tax writeoff for myself. :D
- amygeek
You are a developer's dream beta tester ! Way to push a system to its limits !
- Benoit Cazenave
This giveaway is over. Has been over. Ugh.
- Mattie Kenny
This makes a Thursday that much better. I would use the money to fly myself and the family back home to throw my son his first birthday party. =)
- Robert de Castro
I would buy iPods and cameras for students in my sixth grade class in Tucson, AZ. 7 Kodak Zi6 models and 14 iPod Touch models. Or 7 iPods with $1750
- Joel Zehring
That's certainly a cynical strategy for getting comments... but I love cynicism! How will I spend it? Sending my GF and I back to DisneyWorld!
- Ciaoenrico
oooooo visit me!! http://www.mygirlfund.com/Chris_R...
- Chris
buy a new cleaner/envirmnt friendly car
- Harscoat
No impressive story on how I would use the money... buy one netbook and put the rest against my credit cards. It's tough times!
- Jan Ole Peek
I'd use the money to fund my son's mission - http://billy.soistmann.com/
- Bill
Money is great!
- Fred Hsu
I would use it to pay Obama's tax increases. No spend it to stimulate the economy. No pay new taxes on health insurance. Naw, buy a Mac or I-phone. I-phone, friend feed hard to use on the Dare. 10% to charity though.
- wowfreeze.blogspot.com
Put in my children's college fund.
- wowfreeze.blogspot.com
Is this the record for the most comments ever? I'll use the money to replace the lens that was stolen by a United employee at ORD on the way from SFO. I will invest the remainder in stocks; if I show profit, I'll hold a similar contest to give away the profit.
- Hiro Asari
I'd use some of the money to get my 4 year old into music class. Its not super expensive but beyond my reach right now. Neither myself or his mother are musically inclined at all. But he is.
- Capn' One Eye - adrift
============= with the money, Il register a lot of domains, and not only .com ! I'l start new websites, new web app services. I want at least one of them to be that BIG one. I have an idea. Just not that money. :] ......... If money enough, Il commission userscripts, to facilitate internet browsing in general ! ....... I'm open to share in the results. ================
- Petr Buben
If you still reading it means you did not like any of the 1575+ comments here. This is a very good reason to pick me. Second comment about what I am going to do with this money; probably will go to a holiday, order a champagne and remember you.
- Jacque
I have to comment again now.
- Mattb4rd
is this still running?
- Zee.
I WOULD LIEK TO SPEND THE MONEYS ON ALEX AND BUY HIM MONSTER CABLES
- Akiva Moskovitz
probably buy a lense for my D90 to take some pictures of the baby that is due in june.
- Zach Scott
This thread might be due for another *bump*
- Jay Cuthrell
Office
- Steve "Daddy do it!" Lacy
OK, I won't.
- John Craft
Sure.
- امیر؟
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- Robert Scoble
Billy Holiday is timeless.
- Todd Hoff
How do you define "new" music?
- Michael Krigsman
Brad Sucks - Awsome band!
- Rafael
Just one band?
- Nathan Johns
The Four Twitters? Barbara Streisand and the Twitterettes?
- Allen Stern
am still curious about building43, what is it? is it a real building? a project? product? a club? a con? a cult? if its a cult, i am interested.
- Tweet Feeds
Tweet: it's a decentralized community of people who are fanatical about the Internet.
- Robert Scoble
I have been listening to Blind Pilot lately
- Juan Pons
Tweet: it's close to a cult, yes.
- Robert Scoble
Michael: if the band existed published its first music before 2006 it's not "new."
- Robert Scoble
Blue Man Group.!
- Qbat
I like http://www.cbemusic.com/ - kinda newish, sorta
- Matthew McCowan
listen to Morning Becomes Eclectic. Nic Harcourt will tell you.
- sarahlefton
Nathan: well, you can suggest more, if that makes you happy. I have a lot of work to do on building43 so can use more than one band.
- Robert Scoble
We have a room for Building43 here on friendfeed, by the way: http://beta.friendfeed.com/buildin...
- Robert Scoble
Rafael: Brad Sucks rocks. Thanks for reminding me of him.
- Robert Scoble
Peter Himmelman:-)
- Francine Hardaway
Arctic Monkeys will get you out of your seat or your head moving. http://www.youtube.com/watch...
- Scott Moroney
Francine: I already have worn out the bits on my Peter Himmelman recordings. :-)
- Robert Scoble
Passion Pit, British Sea Power, Los Campesinos!, Pendulum, M83, We Are Scientists. Found most of those through http://www.thesixtyone.com
- Carlton Prest
Damn, my musical taste peaked around 1971 with the Allman Brothers at Fillmore East and Cream.
- Michael Krigsman
Robert: You're welcome! Could be a solo singer? Michael Bublé!
- Rafael
311 isn't a new band but I saw them last night @ myrtle beach house of blues. They have a new album hitting stores June 2nd, Uplifter. That's my preference.
- Chris Heath
Rafael: sure! Include URLs to the best place to find music from each person. That helps all of us sampling new music.
- Robert Scoble
Michael: well, that was a good musical peak year! Carlton: I didn't know about thesixtyone.com so thank you, am listening to that now.
- Robert Scoble
It really depends on what music your into. Some would say Lady Gaga is awesome, etc. Personally I can't come up with any new bands from the last few months. Guess I would have to sit and think on that one.
- Mathew™ one of a kind
I really like listening to Sigur Ros whenever I'm working, definitely worth checking out.
- Daniel Rowley
Robert: Yes for sure! http://www.bradsucks.net/music... and http://www.deezer.com/en#musi... (Liisten to Michael bublé)
- Rafael
Don't know about new bands, but best new music so far this year I've heard has come from Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavilion, the YeahYeahYeahs - It's Blitz and Doves - Kingdom of Rust.
- Chris Nuttall
Robert: as you see I got the link from Deezer an excellent online music library! Just see it for yourself!
- Rafael
Original, alternative, acid jazz http://myspace.com/elvesfr... ELVES FROM THE STORM have already moved onto your roof . . .
- Chris Loft
Back Door Slam - Great Blues. Guitarist Davey Knowles just turned 21 and is opening solo acoustic for Jeff Beck on his US tour. Here's their YouTube page: http://www.youtube.com/user.... Highly recommend the live cut of "Come Home" as a starter http://bit.ly/13miZ0. these guys are the real deal - authentic.
- Robert Cole
...oh, and Swan Lake's Enemy Mine
- Chris Nuttall
The new Depeche Mode...Sounds of the Universe.
- Mark Krynsky
Oh I almost forgot! Snow Patrol! Always an inspirational music! http://www.deezer.com/en#musi...
- Rafael
"We Are Hunted is the Online Music Chart. We aggregate social networks, forums, music blogs, Torrents, P2P Networks and Twitter to develop a daily chart of the 99 most popular songs online.": http://wearehunted.com/. Pretty useful for seeing what's hot right now.
- Daniel Rowley
Robert: The last one I swear ;) Chris Cornell the ex-vocalist from Audioslave making solo career. Fantastic! http://www.deezer.com/en#musi... what a voice!
- Rafael
Sunset Rubdown is cool - http://www.sunsetrubdown.net/disc... Spencer Krug leads and is also in Wolf Parade. MGMT is fun - http://www.myspace.com/mgmt
- Meghan Hughes
If you like blues guitarists, Joe Bonamassa, the current best of breed, has a new album out
- Chris Nuttall
Chris and Robert: Check out Nuno Mindelis here is a brazilian guy who was nominated as the best blues guitarrist in the world. I think he won at 2007. Really good! http://www.nunomindelis.com.br/
- Rafael
inspirational music works for being creative, am not sure what that is for everyone, fast-paced music seems to work great when doing things, i use imeem, there's lots of nice playlists there that you can try
- Tweet Feeds
Correcting, Nuno Mindelis is not from brazil he was born in Angola but is called the brazilian blues guitarrist
- Rafael
Here's a interesting mix of some albums I've been liking: Battles-Mirrored, Girl Talk-Feed the Animals, and Fleet Foxes-Fleet Foxes.
- Aaron Whitaker
I was recently turned on to Danielle Ate the Sandwich. Her voice is to-die-for. Clear and pure. Her songs are mostly just vocals and a ukulele. Simple but beautiful. And she has very funny videos. http://www.myspace.com/daniell...
- Suzanne Lainson
Check out Human Highway.
- Charles Fenwick
MUSE
- Morgan Haley
Muse, Fleet Foxes, Animal Collective, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Band of Horses, My Morning Jacket, Elbow, Gorillaz, Keane, LIttle Barrie.
- Nathan Johns
Innerpartysystem http://www.youtube.com/watch...
- Steve
http://themayfire.com some of their songs have been used for the O'Neill Cold Water Classic Tasmania competition vids. Dirty Bridge: http://themayfire.com/mp3...
- rufita
I'm hopelessly retro, so "new" for me would be Grace Potter and the Nocturnals. When I'm all alone in the car and transform into a rock and roll singer, she's the one whose vocals I most love to sing (scream, shout, growl) along to.
- Kathy Fitch
Band of Skulls is a new band that I have come across. Also, the new Decemberists record is good.
- Aaron Hood
In addition to Aaron Whitaker's & Carlton's suggestions I would also throw in Cymbals Eat Guitars, Bat For Lashes, The Pains of Being Pure at Heart for 'new' bands and the most recent releases by The Walkmen (been loving this for a year) and Camera Obscura also quite good...
- Jeffrey Marsh
Go east coast...Red Collar, from Durham, NC...http://www.myspace.com/redcoll...
- dave powell
http://thedonts.com I can't forget this dope SF outfit, The Don'ts. I especially dig their song Blah Blah Blah.
- rufita
Tinted Windows. Pure 80's Power Pop. I believe they're on Fallon tonight.
- Mike
Ronald Jenkees http://www.ronaldjenkees.com/
- John Wright
Mr. Robert Scoble...I would like to introduce you to a band by the name of 'Hockey' . Take a listen, you will not be disappointed. http://www.myspace.com/hockey http://www.hockeyband.co.uk/ Let me know what you think.
- Kevin Pruett
great band from Sweden called I'm from Barcelona http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki...
- Brian Hendrickson
I really like the new Airborne Toxic Event, last year Vampire Weekend was my favorite.
- Charles Anderson
hmmmm....
- Rob Michael (Atmos Trio)
40 Watt Hype. Awesome sounds of Latin and Hip-hop. http://40watthype.com
- Brett G
me :) play some Dj FeinX, mindbending refixes not just mixes, using science and rhythm to make the impossible mashes sound oh so good ;) http://www.youtube.com/watch...
- Mich D.
Santigold http://www.youtube.com/watch...
- Harscoat
What about Daft Punk? Especially fitting would be its Technologic song.
- imabonehead
I sorted through more than 1400 songs from South By South West and posted my top 104 with links to hear my top 14 on blip.fm http://jacknork.blogspot.com/2009...
- Jack Nork
Coppe is surprisingly good and might fit your concept: http://www.sweetrice.com ; http://www.myspace.com/martian...
- Nir Ben Yona
forgot to mention my college friend's band: AUX - http://auxband.com/ - they have a new EP out and there's a player link on the bottom left of their page so you can listen
- Chris Heath
Fred Wilson is really into music. I would go to his blog and see what music he's writing about. He's got a link to a player that you can listen to also
- Cathleen Rittereiser
I really have been enjoying The Call by Regina Spektor.
- Christian Hollingsworth
I am not sure what genres you are looking for but lots of CC licensed stuff that I like comes from here: http://lostchildrennetlabel.wo...
- April Russo (app103)
Has Twitter changed? It took me months to get my first 4,000 followers. Now @markwilliammann notes @oprah is getting that many every minute.
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I chuckle imagining @oprah asking her assistant..."So what is this Twitter thing?"
- Kreg Steppe
Don't really think so. Perhaps it's a mere matter of 'classical' TV celebs having more draw power and a larger audience IRL. Oprah says Twitter is the biz, and her followers leap on the bandwagon, adding her as perhaps their only contact :D
- Mo Kargas
and what did the assistant say is what I wonder. I love to think of her as Poprah because she truly is the grand leader of Americana.
- Kemp Edmonds
from twhirl
Excuse me, but that's because she's Oprah ... and your're not. :-)
- Karma Martell
No wonder Twitter is so slow. All that following is bogging down the servers. :)
- Morton Fox
Robert, it's too bad Twitter's not an MLM - they'd all be your followers if that were the case
- Jesse Stay
Karma: no, that isn't it. There are a lot more people on Twitter today.
- Robert Scoble
I just followed @oprah. Awaiting her first words.
- Damond Nollan
Robert: the age of early adoption on Twitter is long gone. Sigh.
- Michael Krigsman
Hollywood has turned twitter into their latest popularity engine.. gah!
- Susan Beebe
We can't let the Celebrities take over Twitter! We were here first! We must Avenge!
- TheHenry
@TheHenry but we have FriendFeed, right?
- Damond Nollan
Bread + tomato + salt + olive oil. That was my usual teen afternoon break meal. :)
- Smeerch
Yes Damond, We have friendfeed for now, but we may also loose it.
- TheHenry
Ellen was talking about it on her show and was ecstatic that people could "follow" her like she's a queen. That's when I realized that these celebrities just don't get it. They're dragging their classical popularity contests into social media. SOCIAL media. It's like going to a party and taking the stage not realizing that people want to dance and have a good time, not watch you love yourself.
- Kandeezie
Other than friendfeed what other services are looking like the next big thing ?
- Kashif Khan
TheHenry: the appeal of early adoption is that we're always looking for that which has yet to be discovered.
- Damond Nollan
TheHenry: after FriendFeed it'll be something else. Twitter has been out for 2-3 years and its JUST NOW earned mass appeal.
- Damond Nollan
TheHenry: if one grows roots, its then that we fail to stay agile and see the next best thing. We're Trendsetters, ya'll!
- Damond Nollan
Kashif: mobile devices are the next best thing, if you're not building applications/web sites for it, you may be too late.
- Damond Nollan
Is @ev helping out @aplusk for @oprah show? I'm getting tons of messages from people who realize they can't unfollow that account. I can't either.
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wait now they are blocking unfollows?
- rob friedman
Yep, I cant unfollow him.
- Christian Burns
This is not right at all. We should have the right to unfollow him if we want to. Personally, I'm not following him, but still, THIS IS NOT RIGHT!
- Michael Forian
rob: yeah. I can't unfollow @aplusk
- Robert Scoble
oh BURN!
- rob friedman
as aplusk woud have said on That 70's show
- rob friedman
Nope, I can't unfollow Ashton..but I can unfollow other users
- Sam Houston
Oh that is cheap Twitter, You can't unfollow @Aplusk!! I am glad I didn't do it at all!!
- Paul
The beginning of the end... Twitter has sold it's soul to Oprah.
- Trad Robinson
You can't stop following? -- that is lame. I guess you have to be special to get that set up?
- Brian Sullivan
I've tried to unfollow @aplusk and I cannot do it, either.
- Anthony K. Valley ©
I'm so glad I never followed that one. Maybe they moved @aplusk to it's own server and have the SQL update/delete locked down.
- rob friedman
Leo was just talking about that. Makes the whole platform a joke.
- Eric @ CSTechcast.com
I can't follow @Aplusk, let alone unfollow. Twitter's just borked. No conspiracy here folks, sorry.
- drew olanoff
I followed him, but it took a few minutes to register - maybe unfollowing is the same?
- Caffeinated Sue
Glad I never bothered to follow him anyway!
- Chris, Taskerrific Guy
Eric: the whole platform has been a joke since day one. Didn't stop all of us from joining.
- Robert Scoble
lol @ own server
- Stuart Evans
from twhirl
Twitter cant afford to have that account go down
- Christian Burns
I unfollowed him a few days ago ,, after seeing all the @cnnbrk crookery ...
- johnpiercy
Weird. Twitter's been acting wonky the last few days tho.
- Tiffany Monhollon
wow.....
- MikeAmundsen
Twitter is becoming the new VH1 "Where Are They Now" countdown special.
- Eric @ CSTechcast.com
And @aplusk's follower count is still going up.
- Michael Forian
definition of Twitter = Wonky
- rob friedman
Twitter's infrastructure is just falling apart, as always
- Michael Krigsman
@aplusk is adding about 2-4 followers a second from what I can tell.
- rob friedman
I've tried to unfollow for a couple of hours. I have successfully unfollowed marketers and spammers in the same time frame, just not Kutcher. Getting this error message on him "Whoops! Something went wrong. Please refresh the page and try again!"
- Anthony K. Valley ©
Okay, I just tried to unfollow, it didn't work. Has anyone tried to unfollow CNN?
- Caffeinated Sue
I was unable to unfollow @aplusk, but I did just unfollow @scobleizer. Just a test ;)
- Ryan Kuder
I tried to unfollow both of them and it gave that Whoops error
- James Rowe
The http://twitter.com/aplusk count is indeed getting up. not down :S
- Gerardo Curiel
You can't unfollow @cnnbrk either. Wow, this sucks. Twitter's obviously trying to cover their parfaits.
- Michael Forian
Brings new meaning to the term, "default"
- Jesse Stay
Being pretty new to Twitter (two years but very sporadic until the last few weeks) I hadn't heard of @aplusk until today. Anyhow, I went to try to follow him in the last few hours and none of my attempts were successful. My conclusion: the race is rigged by joint PR effort, they want him to break the million just as he appears on Oprah. Or something like that. I have to say that, given it's a free service, I didn't mind too much. But I probably haven't invested as much of myself as Scoble and others here :)
- Richard Drake
Well, the million follower scandal will hopefully show us technical folks what not to do if we ever hit it big. http://twitter.com/aplusk... Hacked really? pfft.
- rob friedman
can't unfollow, but I can still block. Let's all punk him and block him. (I did.)
- Michael Markman
PUUUUNK'D!!!!!!!!!!
- Gerardo Curiel
1,000,000 blocks that'd be nice
- rob friedman
Honestly I don't remember ever following @cnnbrk, and I don't see updates on page, or tweetdeck
- James Rowe
So, what does blocking do?
- Dennis Jackson
Twitter's TOS: "General Conditions - We reserve the right to modify or terminate the Twitter.com service for any reason, without notice at any time." Wow. This blows big time.
- Michael Forian
blocking makes it so that user when they are logged in, are unable to see your msgs
- rob friedman
I see the TOS. I still don't think it's right they are doing this. They need to make it fair. :( boo..
- Dennis Jackson
I wonder if it has to do with the "aplusk's 1,000,000th follower gets this and that and the other thing" promises that people/organizations like EA are making. By blocking people from unfollowing those accounts, they could be hoping to prevent people from unfollowing right after he hits 1,000,000 and the jockeying to become the "real" 1,000,000th follower that's sure to come.
- Gord McLeod
This is common for users with a lot of followers. I see it with our users on SocialToo all the time - it's some sort of bug in Twitter, assuming it's not a conspiracy.
- Jesse Stay
It's a friggin' conspiracy!!!
- Gerardo Curiel
You can block him though http://twitter.com/aplusk
- Christian Burns
I just don't see how blocking him does anything.
- Dennis Jackson
Hrm, that certainly takes some wind out of Twitter's sails...
- Trish Ridgway
Ashton is saying on his twitter feed that his account is getting hacking continually. Maybe this is a protective measure?
- Karl Kovacs
Guys, I think I've figured it out: the "unfollow" only takes effect after a few minutes. This applies to both @aplusk and @cnnbrk.
- Michael Forian
After a few minutes? I tried unfollowing Oprah and Ev and those don't work either. I wonder if it's my browser.
- Dennis Jackson
I can't follow him either. It pretends I'm following him, but when I refresh, I'm still not following him. I don't think this is what everyone thinks it is. Seems more like the account state is frozen.
- Cait
I've seen something lke this happen to regular users - follow again, clear browser cache, reload page, try to unfollow again. If that doesn't do it, try blocking. I would never have followed @aplusk in the first place, so I can't perform the test
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
Maybe it's a scaling/load issue with their database.
- Gord McLeod
digg it: http://digg.com/d1ovKP
- Chad DeHaan
Ashton's closing the gap: http://chartbeat.com/cnnvsas...
- Caffeinated Sue
Looking at the stats for @aplusk and @cnnbrk, it appears they maybe working on a tie instead of a win. The numbers have gotten too close to call.
- Karl Kovacs
Karl's got it. Almost certainly a preventative measure in case the accounts get compromised. I'm wondering though... a) Does this take the heat out of Apple's one billion app milestone? and b) Does it really matter because Oprah will storm past both of them (indefinitely) once she starts tweeting.
- Alx Klive
I was able to unfollow @cnnbrk for sure.I was able to follow @aplusk and THEN I COULD NOT UNFOLLOW @aplusk
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
Maybe he paid for that little service. It's one way to monetize Twitter. Then Twitter will charge us to unfollow those people.
- Mary Wehrle
I was able to block @aplusk just fine
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
Ashton watching it live: http://www.ustream.tv/ashton
- Caffeinated Sue
http://www.ustream.tv/ashton idiot has too much money, so he spilled champange on his macbook.
- rob friedman
guy makes me ill
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
"i read all your @replies" - ashton
- rob friedman
yea, fan mail new low.
- rob friedman
I should block aplusk while I still can! :)
- Morton Fox
FWIW: I first unfollowed @CNNbrk,worked fine then followed @aplusk could not unfollow, blocked @aplusk then followed @CNNbrk and was not able to unfollow @CNNbrk
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
darnell: No...starting a little while ago..bug or not. This is going to blow up already starting to
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
perhaps twitter did not do this intentionally. their app may be hitting some functional limits! They've got to be scrambling over there... kinda feel sorry for them! LOL
- Susan Beebe
there's really not much that can make me feel sorry for them. starry-eyed, failing to manage their business for their customers (and I'm talking outages and lack of notifications esp) sympathy gone.
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
oh no! there's gonna be a recount and lawsuits. what will the country do until we know the final answer? oh my! least it's cheaper than a sorry ass movie.
- Landon
No Way! A Twitter PR Disaster brewing quickly! Twittersphere speak it loud.
- Kemp Edmonds
I'm seeing a lot of noise about this already....lots of RTs (and coincidentally lots of follows on my account LOL!)
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
This sounds like an interesting topic...
- coldbrew
Surely if CNN actually stated tweeting (they haven't done any since they took over the account) and they put it on their program, they would have a huge surge. CNN isn't taking this seriously. Maybe it is because it isn't!
- CJPhoto
That's what you get for following any of them in the first place. You keep trying to leave, but they keep pulling you back in.
- dewtheone
aplusk had 1.9 million users, and now I see just 1 million ?! Something is not quite right.
- Ahsan Ali aka. Slick
Ahsan: what, you expect Twitter's engineering to be good? You have GOT to be kidding!
- Robert Scoble
So glad I just posted http://beta.friendfeed.com/andykru...
- Andy Kruger
I personally think this is because to not allow people to unfollow and then follow him back to get a 1millionth follower gifts from EA... my opinion...
- Hameedullah Khan
When I unfollowed CNNbrk, then followed CNNbrk again later tonight as per my experiment, I could not un follow. no gifts from cnn right?
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
what a joke...
- Dobromir Hadzhiev
I'm quite sure the unfollow issue is to inhibit gaming EA's contest. Doesn't seem conspiratorial.
- Chris Baskind
@Scoble I was just understating my outrage ;)
- Ahsan Ali aka. Slick
Mark, looking for 0 tweets is pretty much dead giveaway
- rob friedman
from twhirl
Mark well I'm sure there could easily be a collaborative effort given the amount of people using the service, and the amount of companies or projects using the firehose, we could easily find new users, and check their followers out, and who they may follow, then give that back to twitter to judge who is "real" or someone. Adding spam watchdog would be easy too since someone already does spam and link checking.
- rob friedman
Someone posted that Twitter disabled the unfollow feature for this jive
- Outsanity
Weird this was I couldn't even ADD Ashton to my other Twitter account. So maybe both functions were disabled. But, if that were so, then how did he hit 1mill? Odd...
- Outsanity
Thank you for asking that question.
- Prokofy Neva
Chris: So If I can run a big contest to gain followers I giving away fabulous prizes, Twitter will fuck other people around for me too. Yet another example of Twitter really only giving a damn about the big name stars & companies,
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
Exactly how were you damaged, Rob? Perhaps you should ask for a refund. ;-)
- Chris Baskind
I wonder how many million follower user accounts it will take before Twitter does something drastic?
- rob friedman
I unfollowed him, the 1st day he made that proposal....what happens when he hits 1MM followers? what next? 1.5MM?
- clarke thomas
Really?
- ChiliMac
Chris: Fabulous Idea! I'm gonna march right down to @ev's office with a bunch of cupcakes and get my refund today! :) heh. -But seriously, its now how I was damaged personally but about how Twitter is making sure there is the "great divide" between the Followed and the Followers. The more they've focused on the stars the less Twitter is about real interactions between real people. This damages the community, and I am sad to see it happen this way
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
I would have been more impressed with Twitter overall if it had taken the opposite approach and shown us what value there is in following ordinary people who have interesting things to say. But instead, they show extreme favoritism towards people who have large draws. Go ahead and ask to see if you can have a special favor from Twitter so that you can draw in an even bigger crowd than you already have. It doesn't hurt you, no, but sure doesn't help you either. What's wrong with wanting equality?
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
Nothing's wrong with wanting equality. Internet is becoming just as assymetrical as real life is. The more crowd you already have the less job to take to build even bigger crowd. Sorry, but Twitter can't help you. It's not the matter of Twitter. It's the matter of what kind of people use it and what goal they achieve using it.
- Денис
No Twitter can't help me, or you. But it can and does help: Mashable, Oprah, Jimmy Fallon, Tony Robbins, etc, etc, and now Ashton & CNN. It is a matter of Twitter and what kind of people they strive to attract.
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
Yet another reason Twitter has launched a high velocity missle over the shark for this user. I'm still using it, but most of my time now is here on FF.
- Mark Traphagen
It's the too big to let fail doctrine applied to social network chosen ones. wow.
- Micah Wittman
Mona's ff post to Rafe's cnet How To on unfollow technique that seems to work http://beta.friendfeed.com/monasfe...
- Micah Wittman
Its easy to unfollow send a message: "off aplusk" in Twitter. Simple as that. I suggest a mass unfollow in order to avenge this dirty trick.
- Alexandre
Alexandre: I don't think that unfollows; it just keeps his updates from showing in your timeline. So no message sent that way.
- Mark Traphagen
Tomorrow, @Oprah crowns @aplusk the "King of Twitter". Two years ago, that was @scobleizer. Move over geeks, the stars are movin in
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Makes me want to fwow up
- Leo Laporte
I'm glad I'm on FriendFeed, until they take over here too
- Jesse Stay
jesse..it wont be long ;o)
- Rob Sellen :o)
I just checked Oprah's Twitter feed. 0 updates, following 9 people. At least @ev is one of them.
- John E. Bredehoft
Just realized that I'm not following any of these 9 people on my current (relatively new) Twitter account. Shaq and Ev, your stats are about to increase. No offense, Ellen.
- John E. Bredehoft
Something tells me I already know what this weekend's TWiT is going to be all about. :p
- Chris, Taskerrific Guy
Jeremiah: that's what happens when you stop blogging. :-)
- Robert Scoble
i think it has awhile before stars hit FF. I haven't seen any with one yet. have you?
- Rachael Depp
Twitter Bubble
- Johnny Worthington
Yeah exactly!
- Roshni
I think updates are more important than followers and by that there is absolutely no comparison.
- Travis Koger
This morning Oprah wasn't subscribed to anyone. This afternoon it was 4 people, now it's 9. Not that I'm uh, looking at her, uh, ^EOF
- Kevin Fox
Like with house prices, the race to a million is fine, until people actually start looking at the numbers and realize'a million followers' isn't actually worth a million users. I sit and await the Great Twitter Crash of 2010...
- Johnny Worthington
My prediction is that @aplusk will overtake @cnnbrk at around 10pm EST tonight.
- Mike Reynolds
So true, I hope twitter is ready for Oprah mania, I wonder how a lot of the new twitter users would react if they had to experience the great fail whale season of 2008
- Wayne Sutton
How soon before oprah is talking about twitter "fail whales" on her show? Lol
- Kevin Whalen
@Oprah will overtake @plusk & @cnnbrk within days. Will millions of new @Oprah fans dominate the conversations on Twitter?
- Steve Levin
So Oprah joins Twitter and promotes it. A whole slew of new people comes and sign up... then what? Without a form of 'education', there is going to be a lot of passive users, or worse for Twitter, a lot of people seeing the novelty in following celebs then once it wears off, never coming back. The success of this relies on the explanation and demonstration of it tomorrow on the show. Let's all pray for no fail whales...
- Johnny Worthington
Here, and in Twitter, I'm always more interested in content, than people. As for celebs, I generally find them very uninteresting.
- Ian May
The celebs are almost all PAINFULLY annoying to follow or read tweets from, but the herds still follow, I don't get it. I guess the herds are... still herds.
- Kemp Edmonds
from twhirl
Kemp: mmmmmmmmoooooooooooo!!!
- Robert Scoble
I use Twitter and FriendFeed for useful information only...if I want to know or hear from celebs I'll watch Entertainment Tonight!
- Bonnie Foster
Im with Leo .. barf
- johnpiercy
Twitter is turning into a National Enquirer Rag
- johnpiercy
Celebs claiming this is the power of social media. Such obvious nonsense: it's the power of big media.
- Michael Krigsman
Jeremiah, I need a shoulder to cry on
- Jesse Stay
What makes me sad is that, given Johnny's thoughtful sentiments above, it seems likely that a lot of people will be "meh, this social media stuff is BORING" and then be deterred from checking out more interesting apps like FF in the future. Bummer.
- Adam Lasnik
Scoble: No not you too please NOOOOOOOO!
- Kemp Edmonds
@aplusk's account now shows 1,963,812 followers. Suddenly up by 1M or so. What gives?
- Mike Reynolds
Final moments until @aplusk overtakes @cnnbrk - any minute now - follow live at http://chartbeat.com/cnnvsas...
- Mike Reynolds
We are at least safe here. The celebrities wouldn't move in to FriendFeed!
- Seth Greenblatt
Yes, welcome to Asocial Media! http://www.blindfiveyearold.com/asocial...
- AJ Kohn
whatsa whosa @aplusk?
- BEX
The celeb influx on Twitter proves that it's all about who you follow. If you don't follow them, then no problem. Your experience is largely unchanged.
- Jared Smith
+1 Jared.
- Hutch Carpenter
Scoble is king of FriendFeed. Better kingdom; better king.
- Mark Traphagen
Just read the Reuters article that quoted you http://uk.reuters.com/article...
- John E. Bredehoft
Its a sad day for Twitter.
- Mathew™ one of a kind
The new "direct messages" feature on beta.friendfeed.com is very popular, so tomorrow we're going to launch a related feature: "passive aggressive messages"
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:)
- edythe
Hah!
- Robert Scoble
Give the users what they demand!
- Michael Krigsman
You Rock!
- BEX
These guys always know what we want.
- Eric @ CSTechcast.com
I thought that was already one of the language options. I mean, my stuff always posts in 'passive aggressive' or upside down.
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
hahahaa!! good one! :)
- Susan Beebe
a w e s o m e!!
- JA Castillo
lmao! hehe :)
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
So is this a messaging service to let those people who aren't subscribed to you know that you want them to subscribe so you can DM them?
- Johnny Worthington
Does that mean you are reading these DMs?
- coldbrew
I'm guessing we'll be able to message people even if they are not subscribed to us.
- Ahsan Ali aka. Slick
I think he's kidding. You're kidding, right, Paul?
- Helen Sventitsky
Finally! Why did it take you so long to read my mind and see what I want?
- Jeanine W.
Nicely played, Jeanine...
- MVB (Curmudgeon of FF)
no really, that's fine. it's a great idea. do whatever you want. don't mind me.
- Laura Norvig
I mean, it's your service, not mine. why should I have any say in the matter?
- Laura Norvig
I might care about this. I might not. No offense intended.
- Martha
+1 Laura heh.
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
LOL - http://www.hiyoooo.com/
- Bwana ☠
My wife would argue that's the only way I communicate. Not that she listens, mind you.
- CAJ, somewhere else
If that's the best you can come up with, I guess that's okay. :)
- Stan Scott
twitter beat you to that one. send a message, delete it, it deletes everywhere, even the receipient's stream. recipient deletes, it deletes from sender's stream without permission. passive-aggressive to the max.
- Karoli
Why Dominos video response at http://www.youtube.com/watch... is going to be textbook:
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1. They did it in video. THAT is the way to respond. Not text. Video says MUCH MORE than text can.
- Robert Scoble
2. They went overboard with the response. They closed down the store and "sanitized it."
- Robert Scoble
3. The CEO did it and repeated that nothing is more important that our trust. He demonstrated he understood the issue.
- Robert Scoble
4. He thanked influencers for helping Dominos understand the issue and making sure that others knew about it.
- Robert Scoble
5. He responded while the issue is still "hot."
- Robert Scoble
6. He responded on YouTube, which is where the crisis started, not on their own video platform.
- Robert Scoble
7. He communicated that there was "immediate" action including arrest warrants, and people getting fired.
- Robert Scoble
Impressive.
- Brian Daniel Eisenberg
He didn't look straight into the camera, however - as pointed out by Steve Garfield.
- l0ckergn0me
8. He knows that the real problem is that they hired idiots and are "reexamining" all hiring practices. THAT is the best way to make sure you get a good brand.
- Robert Scoble
9. He used personal language "it sickens me." Not marketing speak.
- Robert Scoble
Interesting mix of being apologetic and totally pissed at the same time. Overall thumbs up from me.
- Mike Doeff
10. He is working to "regain our trust."
- Robert Scoble
Is there anything else he could have done to answer this crisis?
- Robert Scoble
He didn't offer us a coupon to make us feel better. I didn't feel condescended to.
- Kevin Fox
Good lead, Robert. Glad to see discussion around the response.
- Valeria Maltoni
Now if he could just work on making the pizza not taste so bad.
- Dave Roth
now is the best time to go to Domino's in Conover. clean as a whistle.
- nesman89
Fantastic job, I thought.
- Matthew Freeman
Ok, so how bout some back ground?
- Matthew DeVries
I don't mind that he didn't look straight into the camera. That shows he isn't "slick" or "overcoached."
- Robert Scoble
Yes, it would have been better if he had looked into the camera, but given that a teleprompter is an expensive item, and rigging a two-way mirror with a magnified view of a printed script is a hassle... I think the minor shortfall can be forgiven. All seven of Robert's points remain absolutely valid.
- David Muir
Matthew: Here's the background: http://beta.friendfeed.com/thomash...
- Robert Scoble
Textbook is the best way to go. Swift and done. Now in time, people will forget, crave cheap, fast, and delivered food, and it's over.
- Mike Lewis
Very well handled. I agree with you, Robert, this will make its way into textbooks alongside Tylenol's response to the poisoning crisis three decades ago.
- Stephen Mack
Matthew: I already posted a link to the background. http://beta.friendfeed.com/thomash...
- Robert Scoble
Or here if you wanna go straight to the source: http://consumerist.com/5210648...
- Stephen Mack
They just taught a lot of clueless PR people how to handle a crisis like this. Well done.
- Inside Alaska
I think theyve been handling this like pros from the getgo. Good job
- Rasmus Lauridsen
Pretty slick. Many can learn from it.
- Katie Dob
The woman is also a registered sex offender apparently: http://ncfindoffender.com/details...
- Zulema ◕ ◡ ◕
so far this year, that's, what, rats in the peanuts, perchlorate in the babby formula, prescription drugs in the drinking water, snot in the pizza... what was safe to ingest again?
- Karim
Bravo, Dominos. Nicely done. Speak up or be spoken for.
- kevin j higgins
But he's using a teleprompter. He's evil.
- tehKenny, Dork
tehKenny: I don't think he was. I bet that he was looking at some notes, though. It didn't come across like he was reading. For someone not experienced with a teleprompter you can not use one and not come across like you're reading.
- Robert Scoble
Their response was appropriate and in a timely manner which is key now.
- Christi
Anyone who has ever used a teleprompter realizes how hard it is to use one and how hard it is to look natural doing it. I bet he had someone off to the side of the camera he was talking to who was holding notes up to remind him what to talk.
- Robert Scoble
I wasn't there, obviously, but watching the CEO look off-camera yet speak as if to a person made me think he was looking at a person to stay "real" and "personable" and not canned or offering a performance.
- Bloom Seed
It's just pizza
- Ari Braginsky
Carmen: "W" had a LOT of media training and a team of people to tell him how to do it. I doubt this CEO has had much media training.
- Robert Scoble
rewatching it makes it clear that he's reading notes (his focus starts at top, moves down as recording proceeds). Still, though, comes across as a real person. Not everything needs professional actors, producers, makeup, sets...imperfect may be the new perfect, as far as communicating genuineness.
- Bloom Seed
Comes across as very heart-felt, and almost makes me want to order with them (I'm not sure we have them here in this town)! Shouldn't they have added something like "We'll now be installing cams in all our kitchens streaming direct to Ustream, making us the ONLY food delivery you can trust to not mess your food"? :)
- Philipp Lenssen
Philipp: well, that would certainly be cool but would be way beyond something they could deliver on in two days.
- Robert Scoble
I mean, I'm not a big fan of Dominos, but this helps them establish themselves as giving a crap. Good PR move.
- Mike Nayyar
Great video response straight from the company president. As for watching food getting prepared, the Papa John's locations that I've been to are open and you can basically see them making your pie. Not sure if Domino's has stores like that...
- Doug
Carmen, it's the "polished" vs "timely" tug of war: http://fftogo.com/e...
- Bruce Lewis
from fftogo
solid performance-- came across naturally and believable, blend of professionalism and good ole fashion ass-kicking anger. It was smooth but not overly slick; no suit or tie and shot in store surrounding. Content was solid too, assuring customers everything that could be done was being done. One minor tweak: he doesn't appear to be looking directly at the camera.
- mark ivey
I wonder if they thought about making it a response to "that video" on youtube to get the eyeballs needed to make this count..
- Tom Masiero
Ari - it's more than "just pizza" - it's the livelihood of 125k employees. We are focused here on a textbook response, but this is also a clear demonstration of the power of leverage that SM holds: two idiots can do major damage to the brand, the company, and by ultimately to the employees. Hat's off to Mr. Doyle and his advisers.
- Bill Sanders
good response for sure, way to go
- sean percival
Rewatched it and yes he is reading it. Regardless, I think it was handled pretty appropriately.
- Jay Neff
good job. small nit: next time they need to move the teleprompter (or cue cards) either over or under the camera.
- MikeAmundsen
Video is good if Good Messenger (which Domino's guy IS) But also put the incident on my radar screen, which hitherto I was unaware of.
- JimmyJet
Wasn't aware of the incident but sure feel bad for the independent operator..
- MiaD
The woman in the Wendy's chili fraud case ended up sentenced to 9 years in prison and her husband (who bought the finger off a co-worker who lost it in an industrial accident) got 12 years. http://www.bluemaumau.org/wendys_...
- Kevin Fox
I wish that he was looking at the camera instead of a telepromter. Just sayin.
- Andrew Baron
Andrew: he's not looking at a teleprompter. I bet someone is holding a notepad with an outline on it for him.
- Robert Scoble
I haven't had Domino's in a long time. But, I'm happy to see that they put up this Video response to the malicious destruction of their Brand and business practices.
- rob friedman
good job. that was a classy way to 'avoid the noid.'
- grant fox
Hey Robert, can I use some of your reasons in a blog post in writing up about the Domino's issue?
- Kenneth
Kenneth: yes, feel free!
- Robert Scoble
Thanks Robert!
- Kenneth
"Everyone else is doing it right." Yeah, right. [What are the odds of that?]
- Craig Brownell
I kept hoping he'd actually look into the camera.
- James Miao
I agree with James. I was hoping that he would look at the camera like he's talking to his customers. I get that he needs to make sure he says exactly what needs to to said, but the way he kept looking away from the camera made it seem a little "stiff".
- Kenneth
like when dirk diggler looked into the camera during his documentary. that was powerful stuff.
- grant fox
Kenneth: that's a mistake someone who isn't media trained makes. I actually don't mind that because it makes it less slick.
- Robert Scoble
My guess is that they're multiple cameras and he's looking at the expensive one
- Bwana ☠
Robert: Really? If corporate heads are on camera, they should NOT look at the camera especially if they're not being interviewed? It looks natural not to look at the camera? You're definitely right...I'm not media trained. :) Looks like he was reading off of a script and didn't notice a camera at him.
- Kenneth
Who was he talking to? The sound guy holding the microphone to the right of the camera?
- Diego Barros
Kenneth: the only time you should look at the camera is when you want to speak directly to the viewer. You are right that he should have been speaking directly into the camera. Knowing where to look is part of media training. A good PR team could have helped (IE, one that had worked a lot with video before) but I can't really blame him. I still have trouble figuring this out. When I was on the BBC it was very difficult to look into the camera (it was aplate on the wall).
- Robert Scoble
i just have to say, that by him not looking in the camera, or really doing any of this before it seems adds to his character that he's a regular guy, not some PR trained monkey doing a dance for us.
- rob friedman
I dunno, I think it's more important that the response seem unrehearsed. I'll bet he did it in one take.
- Ken Morley
Well done Robert: not a surprise to see this crew recognizes excellence when they see it. Dominos did virtually everything right on this aspect of its response. having seen a few crises, this example is among the best. blogged it here: http://www.mediadeluge.com/post...
- Christian Anderson
Just to let folks know: the teleprompters I am familiar with allow the newscaster or talking head to look directly at the camera AND read the script. The result is like a HUD (heads-up display) for those familiar with video games or jet fighters.
- David Muir
Right David, but there are all kinds of "teleprompters" some low tech and some higher tech. the point is he was reading. It was okay, he did a great job in one take. It would have been better if he hadnt read it and looked directly at the camera, but because everything else was so well done, the reading gets a pass
- Christian Anderson
Not a fan of their pies, but kudos to Dominoes for the forthright reply and apology for the miscreants who brought this upon them. Hope they rebound well from this.
- JA Castillo
Definitely a canned response but still heartfelt and sincere. Plus we learned its a federal felony to stuff cheese up your nose on camera. Imagine what happens at McDonalds on a daily basis - now that's frightening.
- Chris Sparno
Very lucky that they had a CEO that even was willing to talk for YouTube in the moment; let's not now criticize him for his media training, or none will ever have the guts to do it again.
- Francine Hardaway
Rich: This is deadly serious for him. He's right to take it seriously and I'm sure he genuinely does.
- Michael Krigsman
So the real question is, who feels comfortable enough to order Domino's this weekend?
- Chris Bartow
I do Chris, even more-so now than before. This weekend will be the cleanest in the franchise's history :)
- Bwana ☠
@Karim: "snot in the pizza... what was safe to ingest again?" Years ago, I ordered a pizza (not from Domino's) and was surprised to see a piece of broken glass in it — and this particular glass shard had part of the pizza company logo on it! When I phoned them about it, they replaced the pizza in record time; of course, they asked for the broken glass back, too, so I couldn't keep the evidence.
- Victor Panlilio
Victor *shudder* i think i would have just given up eating pizza after that :-D
- Karim
The comments on You Tube are negative I don't agree with them, what is your opinion abut them? (They say Doyle is not sincere)
- Maurizio Goetz
Rule #0 - Youtube comments have the value of a single molecule of feces
- Bwana ☠
+1 Bwana!!
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
His response was right on and pretty smart for doing it via a video. It's sad but we are at the mercy of people that prepare our food. :-( I kind of feel bad for the kids because what they did shows a complete lack of intelligence. It would be nice if they took responsible and apologized in some sort of public forum.
- John McCullough
@John McCullough "we are at the mercy of people that prepare our food" and people who pilot the planes we fly in, treat our municipal drinking water, etc. I daresay we only appreciate them when things go horribly wrong.
- Victor Panlilio
@Chris White "The founder of Domino's supports Right to LIfe and Operation Rescue, which IMO, is worse than putting farts on sandwiches" Really? Watch the video at http://www.abortionno.org/ and see if you can stomach the idea that we dispose of unwanted human beings so cavalierly.
- Victor Panlilio
Victor, your comment as well as John's above you, reminds me of that line in Fight Club: "We do your laundry, cook your food and serve you dinner. We guard you while you sleep. We drive your ambulances..."
- Aaron Kurtz
@Aaron - almost everything we take for granted in "civilized society" depends on the everyday goodwill (and conscientiousness) of anonymous others. I've always thought that we need to become more mindful of the benefits we daily receive from these enablers of our well-being. Count your blessings, etc.
- Victor Panlilio
Victor, I couldn't agree more.
- Aaron Kurtz
Tomorrow I'll be visiting Atlassian and Disqus. To me entrepreneurs are sexier than @oprah and more worthy of attention.
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Oprah's only sexy if she gives me a car.
- Eric @ CSTechcast.com
Not hard to be sexier than Oprah :D
- Mo Kargas
to say I "like" this is just too weak. @oprah... SqUeAl... not.
- Ted Bradford II
UNLESS, as Eric states; "she gives me a car" (or ginormous green hands).
- Ted Bradford II
Jeffrey Walker is a good guy
- Michael Krigsman
You don't have Disqus set up anywhere yet, do you? I highly recommend it.
- Bruce Lewis
well....oprah really is an entrepreneur (jus' sayin') But not that interesting to me anyway...I like geeks ;)
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
Rob: I meant more of a startup kinds entrepreneur. Bruce: Disqus is coming.
- Robert Scoble
;-) I know what you meant....but she has actually done some impressive things in her day too. (I'm not a fan, but sometimes just gotta play devil's advocate) And of all the stars that twitter is courting, at least oprah brings something of value to the table. (still not following her..never have been a fan) -
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
What are you discussing with Disqus tomorrow....inquiring minds wanna know
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
OOoh, I love Atlassian - we use JIRA (bug/issue tracker) & Confluence (Wiki) products - both are highly integrated. We customized the heck out of them. JIRA has my project management "workflow" design - nice implementation, if I say so myself! Not for the faint of heart. Lots of cool plugins too. We have tons.
- Susan Beebe
Love Disqus... but maybe while you're there you can show them the two lines of PHP it takes to make their WordPress plugin respect "disable comments"? :)
- Marina Martin
Rob: just having a fun visit. I am interested in learning more about what they are up to.
- Robert Scoble
me too - what is in the Atlassian roadmap?!! *curious*.
- Susan Beebe
I'm not too sure of Disqus, I haven't seen anything with a real NEAT factor. Comment systems that over use javascript embeds irk me, and the only thing I think Disqus is good for is comment spam, which they seem to manage and provide you with controls.
- rob friedman
Big Confluence fan myself. Using it to spread the wiki way at my company. Good folks at Atlassian.
- Clay
All the @oprah news you can handle is here: http://beta.friendfeed.com/search...
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I know someone who is gonna totally hide this post :P
- Johnny Worthington
Just in case you need more: http://search.twitter.com/search...
- Robert Scoble
I think Twitter is going to have an "Oprahgasm" tomorrow.
- Robert Scoble
The Big O?
- Johnny Worthington
Oh, geez. Twitter search is already failing.
- Robert Scoble
Currently searching for the "Block Oprahgasm" button... Damnit, can't find it.
- Dean Clark
IMO, tomorrow is more about how Twitter handles this than about how Oprah (or her followers) handles it.
- MikeAmundsen
Gee, thanks Robert.Now we can use Twitter and FF as a substitute for watching celebrity shows on television. What about the Real Housewives of Orange County -- are they on Twitter also?
- Michael Krigsman
http://twitpic.com/3c9y9 - Noting this for posterity...my blog hit top 10K in Technorati. Even got a little badge.
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Congrats! :)
- Mathew A. Koeneker
Thanks Mathew. Just had to record this - ducked under 10k there.
- Hutch Carpenter
BOOYA!!!!!
- sofarsoShawn
Congrats to you Hutch.
- Jody Carbone
Key, of course, was that crazy cisco fatty story.
- Hutch Carpenter
Congrats man. You totally deserve it, given the quality you've been belting out
- Sameer
And all this on a hosted wordpress subdomain ;) You rock Hutch, keep it up.
- Daniel J. Pritchett
Thanks guys. Daniel it's true. You can do well with a hosted wordpress.com domain.
- Hutch Carpenter
Congrats to you!
- Michael Krigsman
Thanks Michael!
- Hutch Carpenter
Congrats!
- Laura Norvig
Thanks Laura!
- Hutch Carpenter
Re: Does Mashable have credibility re Twitter? (Scripting News) - http://www.scripting.com/stories...
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