Sean, if only I knew. This was delivered directly to me fresh and hot.
- Akiva Moskovitz
Wow, whatever you do, don't google "Asian guys at beach licking" if you want to find the Flickr account for this. No, seriously. Just...don't. o.O
- tinypants - Hagitha of FF
changed my life forever...I will always go to the beach with a a few chubby buddies after porking myself up for those bosoms ~ and this image is most definitely going in the ol' spank bank
- sofarsoShawn
Remember ! I bring quality product to Friend Feed !:)
- Akiva Moskovitz
you know what would be funny: ok bear with me, if we blindfolded leather donut (you know the booby man) and...yeah fill in the blanks...something like this http://www.youtube.com/watch...
- sofarsoShawn
Sir, randomly linking to your FriendFeed from one of my posts is oh wait you'll never see this because you're blocked for spamming. Thanks anyway, kaghazrangy.
- Akiva Moskovitz
damn this picture just won't go away - you have forced me to hide it
- William Harryman
Akiva, wasn't that pic taken at your last BBQ?
- Paul
Every time I see this picture I smile. Their joy is infectious, like herpes.
- Sparky
Paul, I surely do wish I had a beach in my back yard!
- Akiva Moskovitz
Sparky, I'm going to have this blown up to poster-size and attaching it to the ceiling above our bed. That'll cause some infections!
- Akiva Moskovitz
makes me want to grow a rack and diddle with my own, know what I'm saying?
- sofarsoShawn
this. . . .this. . . ugh . . . so fucking wrong.
- Peter Ghosh
Akiva - you can put anything you want above our bed.
- Sparky
i've been trying to formulate a comment for this for days, but i just...can't.
- joey
I still want to know the motivation here. is this a gay marriage argument? or are we already pushing group social contracts on friendfeed?
- Noah David Simon
oh man this one keeps popping up on ma friendfeed,....must spread virus nao
- Chris Hofmann
I'm surprised no one's noticed old boy's red-framed glasses.
- Akiva Moskovitz
oh right... the glasses are so important when three asian men are licking his nipples and all the comments are by people who think gay marriage has something to do with equality... when it has everything to do with taking protections away from children. the red glass glasses.... um yeah. chicken and Oklahoma with milk
- Noah David Simon
Mark, you have uncovered the dark underbelly of humanity except in this case it isn't dark but is rather a pasty hue somewhere in the vicinity of undercooked flan.
- Akiva Moskovitz
This should be in the default noobie FF stream. Like the first thing anyone who signs up sees. If they stick around they're part of the family.
- Chrimmus Tad
Perhaps this can replace the kitty pic on the start page for non-members!
- Chris, Taskerrific Guy
I'm certain prop8 had nothing to do with Swine Flu
- Noah David Simon
I'm thinking that eventually, it will have been hidden by every user on FriendFeed. It'll be the most hidden post in FriendFeed history.
- Akiva Moskovitz
WHY WHY KEEP BRINGING BACK THE EYES THEY HURT ME
- Neal Jansons
from IM
Herpes (and this): the gifts that keep on giving.
- Sparky
I wonder if the FriendFeed guys see this and say to themselves, 'Well, this isn't exactly what we had in mind when we started started FriendFeed.'
- Akiva Moskovitz
I look at it and think, "Not again."
- Steven Perez
from IM
Just about the time you FF is getting some class .. Oh well we is what we is.
- Brent - Loving Life
I can't believe after all this time some diligent FF'er hasn't dug up the identities (I said "titties") of this bunch and invited them to join the service that made them famous. Mitchell Tsai, get to work!
- Sprague D
i think if you unlike and delete all your comments anna it'll go away, but hide in general would be nice too (this photo makes me smile every time it pops up so don't mind it)...
- mike "glemak" dunn
*sigh* This is never going away, is it? It's gonna end up like James Bond movies and Swedish meatballs - always existing in the same form. never diminshing, never forgotten. :( :( :(
- Steven Perez
from IM
It will go away, to be replaced with photoshops of the original. It's all part of the meme lifecycle.
- Sparky
I am too new on friendfeed to know anything about record comments.. I love gmail tho, puts all the comments in one threaded email and I can delete them all later in one shot or not if I choose..
- David Gross
from email
well we should aim to beat the record.. i mean jeez there are tons of things that could be said about this.. like.. does it taste like chicken?
- ed fry
I'm gonna have nightmares now. thanks ed. ;)
- Alejandro
ok, in Japanese: "an, an, soko dame!"
- Rick Cogley
You can't close this thread. A lot of people say that this place is a Scoble-fest but, truly, it is this thread that is at the very heart of FriendFeed.
- Akiva Moskovitz
I'm officially going to proclaim that this is the FF equivalent of Goatse or FFoatse if you will. Lets all refer to it as that from this point forward.
- Mark Krynsky
Sparky has left 57 comments. The rest of you are slacking. Hop to it!
- Christopher Harley
Chrisitan just walked by and said "It's too early in the morning for Japanese titty licking." It's NEVER too early for Japanese titty licking.
- Haggis (Sean Loyless)
THIS is the first thing I see here this morning?
- l0ckergn0me
Chris, you just woke up? C'mon, man! It's 10:30!
- Akiva Moskovitz
I knew he would break eventually - it's fitting that it's on this thread *now to find out how to hide a thread once you've commented....*
- WorldofHiglet
As much as I am loathe to bump this post, I have to do it to say, You, sir, are a master. Well played, sir. Well played. This is why I take every opportunity to say, in my next life, I want to be Akiva. I've already called it! Don't anybody go getting any more ideas.
- ♥patricia♥
I, for one, refuse to "bump" posts...it's very unseemly...
- Live4Emma (L4S)
I wish FF-search allowed to do GROUP BY -aggregations so I could COUNT(*) who are the biggest *bump*ers. :)
- Jemm
Makes me laugh everytime I see it. Such a happy yet silly scene by the sea.
- Toby Graham
There is nothing silly about it. This is serious business.
- Sparky
The more I see this, the more I like it. Not for the ironic nipple-licking, but because these kids are genuinely enjoying themselves. :) Carry on.
- felicious
This photo looks so much better in iPhone 3.0!#!~
- Akiva Moskovitz
Seriously dude. What do I have to do to get rid of this disgusting picture!? Doh! Now I've just pushed it back to the top... yuck, I'm so sickened.
- Jason Nunnelley
I love this image, because I have no clue why it's happening. Randomness FTW!!
- Jimminy Fuller
from twhirl
I'm just thinking of all the new folks coming to friend feed and see this and wonder just what the hell did I get into anyway? And why in Gods name can't I spell Friend correctly the first time - GRRRRRR
- Brent - Loving Life
Can't believe I never hit 'like' on this! Consider the situation rectumfied.
- Bec Rowe @d0tski
Oops! I hope I didn't just bump this up again... ;-)
- Sprague D
It's just so refreshing to see genuine juvenile humour at work. These kids are no different from any other, I think it's a great happy image, given all the other shite happening in this world on a daily basis. For those that are too pompous and prudish, 'up yours with brass knobs'
- ImJustCreative
Wow. 666. Nice! Actually, the reason Asashoryu is getting a divorce ( http://ff.im/4T0UA ), is because he wants to spend time with this lot.
- Rick Cogley
To this day, the pic still comes back. Just like Herpes. :D
- Danny Minick
Although unlike herpes this photo is fun to share with friends.
- Sparky
I would rather go to http://woot.com and buy the Acer Aspire One for $259.99, I do not care that it is a refurb.. but what would I do with two laptops? Maybe #hive knows? hmm..
- David Gross
from email
What's this? A real question in this thread? Two extra laptops? Make them fancy digital photo frames.
- Jordan Hofker
Reason #696 why the Internet can grant you immortality. ;-)
- darnell
from BuddyFeed
I can't believe this thing is still floating around Friendfeed. These poor guys... ha ha ha
- Bradley Farless
@SeanMcGee sorry about the spam, this thread is sorta spammy.. I get the messages in email perfect for replying with any message because it then gets posted on twitter and facebook.. I do not do it all the time, look at my other posts in this stream..
- David Gross
from email
Lactating, males last resort to save ourselves, now that they can create sperm in labs.
- Jimminy Fuller
This is the thread that never ends, yes it goes on and on my friend. Some people started feeding it, not knowing what it was, and they'll continue feeding it forever just because...This is the thread that never ends, yes it goes on and on my friend. Some people started feeding it, not knowing what it was, and they'll continue feeding it forever just because...This is the thread that...
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- David Gross
from email
I have 89 :( emails since july 10th.. that includes the ones I sent.
- David Gross
from email
gmail comes in handy, it keeps all the email in conversations, 100 messages at a time but because the subject " :( " it will not filter out so they dont go to inbox.
- David Gross
from email
*THOUGHT FOR THE DAY...* Women are like phones: They like to be held, talked to, and touched often. But push the wrong button and your ass is disconnected.
- David Gross
from email
all this oral stuff is just begging the question of when do they start with the money shots?
- Noah David Simon
I just use this image as a way to announce crap. no one really pays attention to my feed... except my enemies. so when I have something important to say I tell the Asian Titty lickers. it is my strong belief that this thread needs it's very own domain name. something like http://xrl.us/TittyLickers
- Noah David Simon
You know, every time this pops up, since FF hides the middle of the comments of which there are 804 or so, I see Akiva say "I'm sorry." at the top. It makes me wonder about how some things are just not possible to apologize for!
- Rick Cogley
wow, I can't believe tomorrow is Friday :o) no, wait, somewhere in the world it's ALREADY Friday :o)
- David Gross
from email
Thanks Rick, thats what I thought.. does that mean I can start with the #followfriday on twitter or do I have to wait till it is Friday here in NJ? would be funny to post it from this post LOL all my friendfeed goes to twitter..
- David Gross
from email
David - yeah, you can get an early start.
- Rick Cogley
Rick, I am not good at lists or #followfriday but there are lotsa good people in this thread.
- David Gross
from email
the thing that strikes me about this (aside from the obvious) is after seeing this thing pop up like 35-40 times since March its just occurred to me that I don't have any (guy) friends that a) would lick my nipples b) would lick my nipples for a photograph. Maybe I should get out more...
- J. Abdul-Qahhar
I'm a little scared that I've this has gotten more than 800 comments and almost 200 likes over nearly five months and I still haven't clicked "Hide."
- Scott of Two Countries
It's just a bit of fun. I mean watching how many comment, not the picture content (although I suspect that is all that was too!)
- Ian May
Allright, you guys ready to shoot "mirth and girth"?
- Rick Cogley
For the life of me, I'll never understand the emotion people have around this picture for or against. There's no nudity at all, not even implied nudity. Less dude nudity than a beer commercial or cigarette ad, yet there are people who really really really hate this picture.
- Matthew DeVries
I found a way to get a Tit Theme, and it involves this picture.
- Jimminy Fuller
Hahahaha! It's like a telethon. And after Joey Bishop goes off stage, they flash this picture on the screen. "Won't you think of the CHILDREN?"
- Spidra Webster
It's been a while, hope the magnetism still prevails...
- Aaman (Clone of FF)
I just had to bump this once more... gives me a whole new excuse to go look at Phoebe again!
- Mark "DerBingle" J
Hmmm, where do you think they're from? My guess is Japan...
- sofarsoShawn
The bumping algorithm includes things like novel people posting to it, in addition to thread age, and rapidity of comments. If the same 3 people are talking in a thread, it quits bumping because it's obviously a closed tea party.
- Matthew DeVries
I forgot, also you're a very handsome guy(saw the wedding images), I don't understand why you don't like to share your face. Rochelle is a lucky lady.
- Jimminy Fuller
Jimminy, it's an irrational phobia. No different than people who are afraid of heights, spiders, clowns, or Canada.
- Akiva Moskovitz
Akiva, now I'm LMAO at the fear of Canada. People are actually afraid of Canada, or just the fact they don't know if they're British or French?
- Jimminy Fuller
I don't think even Canadians know that difference.
- Akiva Moskovitz
If Friendfeed had sound .. this thread would be all licks and slurps
- Mattb4rd
Sorry Akiva, I think it was the display picture.. I have known male and female Akivas.. Oh and by the way guys I am not afraid of Canada LOL will be there this weekend.. Dave Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach<http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes...> - "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day."
- David Gross
from email
I popped the 666 cherry and I will get 1000 also.
- Jimminy Fuller
If it gets to 1000 will Akiva lock it so it can sink from our feeds forever? Please?!?
- WorldofHiglet
I think locking this post would be un-FriendFeedian.
- Jason Huebel
This is the immortal post everyone who uses the service must see it so WoH it just wouldn't be good to lock it.
- Jimminy Fuller
Not everyone see's it, only the people with true class do.
- Sparky
It keeps on going and going and going....
- David Gross
from email
In the Hall of Great Posts at the FriendFeed museum, this shall be hung high on the wall with pride.
- Johnny Worthington
I'M THE ROCK AND ROLL CLOWN.. AND I LIKE COCAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAINE
- Haggis (Sean Loyless)
*Wispering to Murderface* "Seriously man, I do... A LOT of cocaine."
- Matt Stoddard
It is now September 1st, and this has not reached 1000 comments. I am sorely disappointed. Yet, for some reason, I am uplifted by the smile of this young man, who was fortunate enough to have such great friends that fateful day on the beach.
- Josh Haley
Quick let's add some comments... Gee that guy on the far left is not really getting into the swing of things is he?
- Travis Koger
Travis... bear in mind that we don't know what "main chubby guy's" right hand is doing, or where it's doing whatever it's doing...
- Mark "DerBingle" J
BUT WE CAN INFER WHAT "MAIN CHUBBY GUY'S" HANDS ARE DOING. BOTH OF THEM.
- Sparky
@Mark, of interest (well not really) is the location of Front Left guy's left hand.
- Travis Koger
The photo of Akiva in the jacuzzi with the Texas A&M cheerleaders would be so much more popular. Now if only someone would post it.
- Christopher Harley
Noooooooooooooooooooooo! Posted March 1st and we are still enduring the wrath! "Akiva's posts, now with more staying power than ever before!"
- Nicholas Kreidberg
YAY! OVER 1000 COMMENTS BLAAAARGBLBLLB
- Josh Haley
It feels like Groundhog Day whenever I see this.
- Andru Edwards
Except that unlike Groundhog Day this is AWESOME!
- Sparky
This thread was how I discovered Akiva. ROFL... Y.M.C.A.! BUMP BUMP BUMP BUMP! GAZE AT IT! DON'T LOOK AWAY! >:O I SED DON'T LOOK AWAY!!! ... ^_^
- Danny Minick
You have nothing to fear - I never look away.
- Sparky
On Fark, there was this one thread, that just kept growing and growing. On Fark, it was a single page per thread. And you could post images and gif inline. Well the thread wouldn't die, people just kept posting. I forget which one it was. Anyway, it got so monsterous, that few people going to read/post to it per day (which was only a handfull) accounted for 1/3 of the server load of the site. They eventually had to cull that thread.
- Matthew DeVries
I think everyone who has participated in this thread has 'culled' themselves privately.
- Akiva Moskovitz
What with all the copycat images this has inspired I hope our muse continues to stick around and not get lost in the shuffle of so many knockoffs.
- Sparky
SHUT UP SPARKY!!!!!!!!!!!!1111111!!!!
- Andru Edwards
I refuse to shut up about the glory that is this thread. REFUSE.
- Sparky
Yes, Vezquex, I'm jealous of those guys, it is warm there, nothing like a warm beatch..
- David Gross
from email
Yes, Sparky, they do not know how good they have it there frolicking on the beach while we freeze up here.. Hard to believe it is only 49 degrees, feels like 29.. I bet it's at least 85 degrees on that beach.
- David Gross
from email
Anyone who doesn't appreciate this thread is clearly not developing a FriendFeed iPhone client because this is a great stress test case. (It crashes BuddyFeed, by the way.)
- Akiva Moskovitz
from iPhone
Also it exercises the crap out of your thumb trying to scroll down to the bottom of it.
- Akiva Moskovitz
from iPhone
Do you need to appreciate the pic in order to appreciate the thread?
- Travis Koger
If I un-collapse this thread, will it break my computer?
- Eivind
Every time this thread gets a bumped, god kills a kitten
- Matthew DeVries
Matthew, you may have given some people more reason to keep bumping this thread.
- Victor Ganata
How does it give you thumb exercise? Whatever you're doing, why don't you either use the keyboard or switch to Linux so you can middle-click the scrollbar to jump to where you want? :P
- Tanath
actually this thread does not bother me because I get it in email and gmail groups them and starts new thread after every 100 comments. I have it autoarchived so I do not have to see on phone lol and just see when I look at my ffeed label in gmail.
- David Gross
from email
disgusting? HOW DARE YOU, SIR! That is j-love! and it's beautiful (in it's own way.. a way that shouldn't be seen in public)
- Kyle Johnson
this is probably the most popular feed of 2009 in FF. lol.
- Bora Mesut PALAS
I think the one where Robert Scoble gave away money easily beats this one, but this post has staying power. ;-)
- Jason Huebel
I think that Chinese at FF post was a marriage proposal thing. They were all trying to bump the guy's photo so that it would be the first thing his girlfriend would see when she logged onto FF.
- Kamilah Gill
On the first day of Christmas my true love gave to me, 1 salty beach, 2 pairs of glasses, 3 lords a licking, 4 chubby men, 5 santa hats(O_o), 6 rolls of fat, 7 ????, and 8 moobs to view.
- Jimminy Fuller
Hey, I'd be willing to let random guys suck on my nipples if it meant I'd lose all my extra weight. *waits for wiseass random guys to suggest it DOES mean that*
- Spidra Webster
נתתי לו למצוץ את הפטמות שלי, אם לתת להם לשחק על החוף. לפחות לא כל כך קר על החוף.
- David Gross
from email
+102 for Bill Waterson references in picture Kevin or words Sinterclas
- Steve C
cute but what happened to festivus this year?
- Laura Norvig
Merry Christmas to the FriendFeed team. You guys rock! FriendFeed reacts quickly and you're adding wonderful features all the time (Thanks soooo much for the "edit" feature.)
- Mitchell Tsai
Happy Holidays FF crue -- you've made this an excellent and memorable year for many of us. Facebook couldn't have done it without you! :)
- Christopher Galtenberg
w00t you gave me the best online year in 15 years!!! ;p Thanks a lot, everyone, for what you've done here XD
- ElijahBailey-Zu of FF <0,
Sigh. Sometimes it is the little touches, like seasonal logos or easter eggs, that mark a site as a living project, and that you really miss when the developers have all moved on to something else.
- Michael R. Bernstein
"A community of ‘candid’ photographers of men in public situations (all of whom have paid for their accounts in good faith) has been displaced and silenced on photo-sharing site Flickr in less than a fortnight. Four prominent photostreams as well as countless photos vanished from July 6th 2009 to July 13th 2009 without warning or right to appeal. At least one site had over a million hits in less than a year. Flickr has stubbornly refused to give a reason for its recent axe-grinding mission against these sites, but one user was given the reason ‘voyeur content’ after more than 8 days of asking for a reason yet that particular site contained pictures of men in public which is legal. Flickr has refused to expand on the reason it gave, but cited its ambiguous and open-ended ‘Don’t be creepy’ clause in its Terms of Service asjustification for terminating at least one photostream. Flickr has also silenced debate about the issue on its Help Forum. When confronted with whether or nor the...
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- Thomas Hawk
Good! Flickr is out of control. They should not be allowed to delete a paying customer's photo or photostream without notifying the customer of the "problem" and giving them a chance to correct/explain the situation. It's just bad business. Flickr is a great site, but the negatives are slowly chipping away at the positives.
- Rob LaRosa
Yeah, Flickr is pretty out of control. I think I'll be letting my membership expire and using only Pbase from now on.
- Todd Walker
Wow. How do I move all of my photos from flickr? I suppose I'll have to find somewhere new to put them.
- joey
I think it sort of sucks that I post a link to blog specifically about account deletions to a Flickr Help forum thread specifically account deletions and get banned from the public forum. The Flickr is Fascist blog is not mine, I was merely reporting on it.
- Thomas Hawk
Looks like it's time to abandon Flickr to Mussolini. And then kick it in the head.
- James (!?)
Uh oh. You've been put on the naughty step.
- Simon Wicks
Seems like the more we rely on web services the more of our rights we inadvertently give up. With web services being bought, sold, discontinued, or the arbitrary rules that they invoke, we are more and more at the mercy of whim of the site owner. It seems like it is time for some sort of universal user bill of rights that defines a minimum level of service we should expect and defines guidelines for disputes between users and service providers.
- Jeff P. Henderson
Well Thomas, as the CEO of a competitor to Flickr, it was only a matter of time before they tired of your "crusades" and troublemaking. (regardless of how worthwhile they are, and they are)
- Robert Kenney
I have kept my photos on Flickr, because that is where my family goes to, but I also have them on Zooomr, really not happy with Flickr
- Kim Landwehr
This is clearly a signal that Flickr is on the move. To be spun-off, sold, etc. As part of preparations for this, they have been given a mandate to clean-up the site of "less desirable" content to make it more marketable to a buyer.
- Robert Kenney
What are the best alternatives to Flickr?
- Johnny
Johnny, that depends on what you want from the site. If you want a community, then Flickr is probably the best. If you just want a place to host your photos or sell your work. there are plenty of other options. Here are several that come to mind. Zooomr, Smugmug, Picassa, Snapfish.
- Jeff P. Henderson
Robert Kenney: Thomas has been a critic of flickr, but he's also an advocate and user of flickr, in addition to being a competitor. The photo sharing biz is funny that way.
- Bruce Lewis
from fftogo
i also don't like the fact that Flickr staff refers to me as "abusive" before kicking me out of the forum. My criticism has always been respectful. Simply because someone criticizes you does not make them "abusive" that's such a loaded almost libelous term. I resent that Flickr would call me abusive and then lock me out of the forum where I can't defend myself against that accusation.
- Thomas Hawk
Flickr is not a democracy, as they remind all of us again and again.
- Robert Kenney
Robert, but users should be able to expect a certain level of civility and recourse that you expect, (and is often required by law) when doing business with a brick and mortar establishment.
- Jeff P. Henderson
the anti flickr blog by the way has moved and I honestly have absolutely zero to do with this new anti flickr blog. I was simply reporting on it after the authors of the blog (who I do not know who they are) pointed it out to me. http://saynotoflickr.blogspot.com
- Thomas Hawk
I've been arguing against arbitrary account deletions and censorship there pretty passionately for a while. Especially lately as the account deletions seem to have escalated (and especially anything associated with or male gay related). I suppose they don't like being criticized for their deletion decisions, but personally I think labeling me as "abusive" for it and censoring me is yet another bad tact for them to take.
- Thomas Hawk
don't like flickr's problems? put your pix somewhere else. It's a website, not a national government; it's not fascist.
- Chieze Okoye
Most of the time those being deleted have no platform to object and so they turn to the only public avenue that they know the help forum. I like sticking up for the little guy, especially when he/she's in the right. It is frustrating though feeling like you are banging your head against the wall with Flickr who just seem frankly not to care one bit about the criticism or even ever address their censorship choosing to simply lock any thread objecting to it.
- Thomas Hawk
no, Chieze, it's not just a "website," any more than FriendFeed is just a "website." It's a community. That's always been what's made it special. It's just too bad that those overseeing the community don't feel that they need to have respect for it.
- Thomas Hawk
My contention is that Friendfeed *is* just a website, though. It's kinda nice when they get stuff right, and kinda bad when they get stuff wrong, but at the end of the day, it's just a tool. Is your tool breaking or acting up? Try to fix it within your capacity (writing blogs sometimes works when you're not part of the development itself, but bandying about hyperbole like calling a website fascist usually doesn't) or just move to the next tool that will work reliably the way you want.
- Chieze Okoye
There's a huge audience that you only reach through Flickr. There's no "next tool" to reach that many.
- Bruce Lewis
Chieze, I didn't call Flickr fascist. I simply reported on the fact that *somebody else* started a blog called that. I pretty much report on everything that's related to flickr that I come across. I'm not sure why I should have been banned simply for reporting on it. We'll have to disagree on both Flickr and FriendFeed merely being "websites." I hold to my contention that they are far, far, more than just "websites," that they are very significant hubs for communities, both of them in fact.
- Thomas Hawk
The thing that bugs me most about the way Flickr deals with things is that they delete and/or block, giving the accused no avenue for recourse. If they want to accuse me of having photos on the site that aren't mine, that's fine, but don't take down the evidence. They should have to leave the pics up there and prove to me that they are right. How could I do that after my pictures have...
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- Kenton
Oh, Thomas, I realize that you weren't calling it fascist, I didn't mean to make it seem like I was conflating you with this blog's behavior. Sorry about that. We will have to agree to disagree about the tool/website thing, I guess. I'm not an avid Flickr user, so I don't have that passion (but I am an avid Friendfeeder, at least by my personal standards, and I still think the way I do...
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- Chieze Okoye
Also, @Bruce, at this point, no one should be surprised with Flickr's behavior. Yes there's great audience, but it's not like there NO OTHER photo sharing site that has a community of people you can connect with. Continuing my tool metaphor, it would be like if you had the world's best hammer, but that hammer had poisonous spikes on the handle. For some people who need it or really want...
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- Chieze Okoye
Chieze, I'm well aware there are other photo sharing sites. I run one. But for photographers with a professional interest in getting noticed, Flickr is not optional.
- Bruce Lewis
Saying there are options to Flickr is like saying there are options to Windows. Sure, technically there are but not may people use them.
- ChiliMac
Yeah, Flickr isn't optional if you want to build a brand/reputation or just get noticed. Which sucks, because I'd have dumped my account there in protest a while ago if that wasn't the case. What's idiotic is that I can't even fathom a reason for these absurd censorship policies. How difficult can it be to implement an holding pen for violating accounts and a review process before they pull that delete trigger?
- Eric P
posted your blog post separately See-ming. http://friendfeed.com/thomash... Ironicly, posting about this "Flickr is Fascist" blog is what got me indefinitely banned from the Flickr Help forum. I think that they are pretty pissed off about it. At least pissed off enough to ban me over merely mentioning it publicly.
- Thomas Hawk
@TH Thanks! I was not going to post it until I realize recently that it is happening to a lot of my gay friends - including some who cannot post to my groups anymore because they are having the same problem, which is very sad.
- See-ming Lee 李思明 SML
As someone who has, quite unfairly, had their name featured several times in the Flickr is Fascist Blog, and who knows who the perpetrator is I can understand why Flickr would want to protect it’s users in this way. The person behind it not only has a malicious personal vendetta against certain people on the site but also promotes the censorship, deletion and suspension of other peoples...
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- david Martyn
I want to fill one with raspberry iced tea and just walk down the street sippin' on it. Maybe throw in some overalls for good measure.
- Christopher Harley
I'm with Akiva, though I can't say it's not popular. But ya, damn, a gallon.
- Jason Wehmhoener
Pretty much, yeah. You can use it, and it's not bad, but you're selling your food and tongue short.
- Akiva Moskovitz
I grew up 90 miles from the Gulf coast and I still see plenty of Tabasco here and there. I haven't lived right on the water as a townie though - perhaps I've missed out.
- Daniel J. Pritchett
does tabasco sauce ever spoil? this might not be a bad investment.
- tiffany
For some reason, I really don't like Tabasco. It just tastes like vinegar to me. I will, however, put sriracha on just about anything.
- joey
My favorite Southern hot sauce is probably Red Rooster and/or Crystal's. That stuff is the business. I like sriracha alright, but not more than I do that stuff.
- Derrick
Hah, don't get me wrong; I'm just having a laugh here. I don't have anything against Tabasco and it's certainly prevalent down there. I was just raised on Crystal's and definitely prefer it. Hell, I'll drink Crystal's right from the bottle. (Okay, that's a lie (no it's not))
- Akiva Moskovitz
Melinda's is my favorite. Not super hot for a habanero sauce, but man is it delicious. :)
- mikepk
I'd take a gallon of the chipotle flavor. Otherwise, gimme Frank's
- ha3rvey (free hugs!)
Red Hot, Ha3rvey? I'm down with that. WHY NO BODY MAKING ME NO CATFISH?
- Derrick
I know a great place for catfish, Derrick, but you'd have to get here first. Seriously: me, you, and an eating trip across the south. I got the time now!
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
Dang, Derrick. We totally have to hang out next time I'm out that way. DO YOU GOT ANY BREAM?
- ha3rvey (free hugs!)
I know what I'm gonna be getting my wife and father for Christmas now. Thanks Derrick!
- Give 'Em DBizness
I use Tapatio and Tabasco and sriracha depending on the meal but almost always use one of them with almost everything. for ejemplo, Tabasco on loco mocos, tapatio on buffalo wings, and sriracha on stir fry.
- Josh Haley
from iPhone
But no one makes love like Neil Patrick Harris is dancing? FAIL!
- Zulema ◕ ◡ ◕
My brother in law in the Philippines can't be dissuaded from naming his son Elmo. I hope that unborn boy is ready to be tormented for the rest of his life. Why do parents do that to their kids?
- Bradley Farless
You know, in my heart I hope that people like NPH who seem just so damn awesome on the screen are just as cool in real life. Anyone met the fellow in person?
- Adam Lasnik
I'm sure he's a decent guy. Never met him, though.
- Josh Haley
But he sure can dance, just look at him go!
- Zulema ◕ ◡ ◕
Love him when he's unicorn watching.
- Gabrielle V
Okay, I swear I am not just pimpin' good swing music, but I was looking at this GIF and listening to this song - http://lala.com/zPe9 ("Billie's Bounce" performed live by Buddy Rich) - and it matches! :o
- Adam Lasnik
Gross. I just unliked to be contrary. Yet another reason why I pulled back from FriendFeed. And why getting swallowed up by Facebook, the great leveler, couldn't make more sense.
- Rick Powell
That's right, all you horrible time-wasters you! Get back to talking about kernels and APIs! Have you no Protestant work-ethic? /sarcasm
- Neal Jansons
and now you can all see why I never let people take my picture
- Alan Simpson
@vijay You are just being nice. @Alan oh please!
- Shevonne
and FYI. I only bowled a 100 and a 145. That's not that great.
- Alan Simpson
It was a good time. I'm glad I had the opportunity to meet you guys.
- Alan Simpson
no way, totally mean that. I also hate you for changing your lovely Plinky profile pic to the goth looking one you have right now.
- vijay
@Alan, compared to my sorry 71 and 60(?), you're a bowling genius! So, just go with it. :) It was fun. Maybe if I get my own ball and shoes, that'll help me get better?? What? I'm not just saying that so I can buy stuff. Seriously.
- pea
Tell me when there is a NoVA meetup! You guys are all so cute :)
- BEX
do we geeks really need old-school-fm-radio on the iphone? don´t we use pandora, last.fm, etc. instead? i dont need a radio dj to choose which music i should listen to. M-TV is already dead, the classic radio will follow .... we are in the digital & "2.0" century.
- HansVanRock
Hans, you can't run Pandora in the background. Only that is enough to prove that we need fm radio :) Anyway, HD radio from Zune HD is better.
- Kirill Petrovsky
donor, it is possible to run pandora in the background! (jailbreak + backgrounder app)
- HansVanRock
An FM Transmitter would be really sweet built into the iPhone. No need to wire up cords to the thing in the car anymore.
- Otto
I wonder how many iPhone users listen to music over ATT's network and if its a reason ATT's network is cratering. Apple/ATT trying to switch iPhone users to FM could be a workaround, though I would pass on ClearChannel's taste in music and the heavy talk/commercials on FM. 3% of ATT customers on iPhone, 40% of network traffic.
- Ed Millard
HansVanRock said: "do we geeks really need old-school-fm-radio" --> Um, No.
- C. Onyeije, M.D. MFM
Ed Millard said: "3% of ATT customers on iPhone, 40% of network traffic" If this statistic is true (and I have no reason to doubt it). I can see why AT&T is in panic mode.
- C. Onyeije, M.D. MFM
The 3%/40% numbers are from an ATT exec a week or so ago, http://bit.ly/TsdgO. Exec said ATT needs to "manage" iPhone user's network usage.
- Ed Millard
If they'd only relent and let apps like Pandora and such do some serious caching (like a couple hours of songs cached), then a lot of people would have their songs cached via WiFi at home, and never hit AT&T's network for music downloads.
- Otto
Cats take better care of themselves when I'm away.
- Veronica
If you got dogs, it might take care of the cat situation for you...
- Thomas
One time i killed a motherboard by plugging a Firewire motherboard connector in a usb motherboard connector, turn it on and saw blue smoke! But I RMA it anyway ;)
- Fee501st
I like Taylor Swift. (for her musical talent)
- Jim Bednarz
I cracked and almost destroyed the headphone jack of my iPhone in a tantrum where I threw my purse at the ground, and the phone went flying out. It was an unintended casualty.
- Veronica
oh, i was going to say the Original iphone deserved it with its funky headphone jack!
- Fee501st
The only *nix command I know by heart is ls -la
- Caleb
I dropped a 10 thousand dollar betacam videocamera on the job. Was in grass and only busted the light and mount.
- Josh Haley
I managed to snap part of the staircase in my parents' house and 'fixed' it by putting it back together and colouring in the chipped bits with brown crayon (they didn't notice for years). Never did get around to glueing it...
- Amy
I once called my second grade teacher "Mom". In front of the entire class. While shouting at the top of my lungs.
- Mike Nayyar
I hate cellphones, actually phones in general.
- Jimminy Fuller
I got mad at my mom once when I was a kid, and went to her record collection and picked one, broke the album, and put it back in the sleeve. Never told her. Don't remember which one.
- Veronica
One time when i was a kid, a broke a figurine that my mom love by running threw the house, i blame it on the cat.
- Fee501st
I crushed my hot wheels cars in my dad's vice grip and have terrible pile ups
- Fee501st
I used to hate Shirley Temple movies because I was jealous that she was a small child (I was also a small child) that could sing and dance better than I could.
- Veronica
I refuse to watch any of the Saw films because I don't want my friends to see exactly how much of a wuss I am (I'll either faint, puke or scream like a little girl - the jury's out)
- Amy
I took my parents car when I was 14 and drove all over Connecticut. Broke a sway bar in it try to do fancy spin outs. Admitted I took car but lied about how it got damaged. "Avoiding a bad driver"
- Jim Bednarz
Veronica: what about Zombie movies? like Zombieland?
- Fee501st
Haha, Jim!! I once drove to Mystic from Hartford and didn't tell my parents, and I got lost and had to pull over and cry.
- Veronica
Veronica: Everyone does that (talking to themselves). I have conversations with my friends in my head.
- Amy
Er...to clarify, that's my ACTUAL friends, not imaginary ones!
- Amy
I dont care much for Horror movies either, but dont mind zombie movies
- Fee501st
I will probably see ZombieLand and pass out.
- Veronica
Veronica & Amy: same here i talk stuff out to myself
- Fee501st
Haha! Veronica! Thats too funny. I cried after I broke the car. Didn't know how I was going to to get it home from New Britain to Portland. Ended up just driving it really slow down Route 9.
- Jim Bednarz
Amy: Are you going to go all Tyler Dyrden on us?
- Caleb
I used to take my brother to the skate park in New Britain :)
- Veronica
New Britain is my hometown. Moved to Portland when I was 12
- Jim Bednarz
When I was 5 I moved from NY to CA. Upon hearing my New York accent, my new school put me in the slow kids class for two years...
- Thomas
I the person that keeps playing all WWII FPS
- Fee501st
MVB: It's only when I have something REALLY exciting to say and totally forget to tell people. It gets rid of the 'omg, must tell people nao' feeling. :)
- Amy
I was actually pretty good at sneaking out, I was never caught.
- Veronica
Amy: I think the whole social awkwardness of being a Geek :)
- Fee501st
I used to think The Darkness' song, "I believe in a thing called love" was actually from the Queens of the Stone Age. (Yes, it nearly got me fired!) Also, I used to think all Jehovah's Witnesses were probably black or vice versa. You had to be there. And 8 years old.
- midnightgolfer
I like the smell of a Propane engine also
- Fee501st
I can feel when TVs are on in other rooms.
- Veronica
I got into a drinking contest with one of my 'friends' (he likes to show off) and told him I'd had 1 shot more than him, when really...I went to the toilets and just left it there.
- Amy
Veronica, been on the Boulder Dash at Lake Compounce?
- Jim Bednarz
Nice! One of the best wooden coasters in US.
- Jim Bednarz
Veronica, NO WAY REALLY? I can too, i tell my friends that but they say im full of BS so i have to prove it them! Even new tvs like LCD and Plasmas?
- Fee501st
This is the most interesting thing I've done all day.
- midnightgolfer
Fee501st: Nah, they would delete the files and leave the album information in iTunes untouched. That way the album stays but you can't listen to it >:)
- Carlos Urrutia
Amy- And best of all, it would look like it was an iTunes bork so she'd never know :)
- Carlos Urrutia
Oh yeah, I still haven't gotten around to PROPERLY learning to drive and I find horror movies as entertaining as having something heavy land on my crotch.
- Carlos Urrutia
Deep down in my heart of hearts all I ever wanted to be was loved by someone... okay just kidding. I actually try to live as vapid a life as possible and gauge success by the number of times I get to consume bacon before I pass on to the great dust heap in the sky.
- Jay Cuthrell
The best part about that is the profile picture. This is a man who's SERIOUS about his Gaga.
- Veronica
Veronica, unless you got pics he won :)
- Fee501st
I'm going to repost that picture and then you'll be sorry.
- Veronica
I've yet to complete 90% of the video games I've purchased.
- Carlos Urrutia
/me goes and finds the latest episode...
- Carlos Urrutia
Wayne likes Friendfeed better than twitter
- Wayne Sutton
Not the latest episode! I'm not there! :0
- Veronica
Let me rephrase that, the most recent episode with the lovely Veronica Belmont :)
- Carlos Urrutia
Nica (Eron, ronic, vero, eronic, to many cool sounding small names in your big name) - This picture made me think of you, not an otter, but still geeky. http://friendfeed.com/dariusm...
- Matthew DeVries
Jason - nothing wrong with that, Now I? I can still sing the full theme song to Jem. (glamor and glitter, fashion and fame)
- Matthew DeVries
Yes Michael, as I said, it would be nice, and actually weird if everyone really gave their True confessions...and it would be Hollywood gold...
- Bill Heslin
I once suggested going to see "Spice World" in the theater. In my defense, I'd been up for 48 hours...
- Thomas
And as I said some seemed true and heartfelt
- Bill Heslin
When I was born I had a stroke in the white matter.
- Michael Weems
Matthew - I hated that they changed the theme song in the 2nd season.
- Jason Wong
I saw the Monkees in concert at the Hartford Civic Center when I was in High School.
- Jim Bednarz
And high school was in the late 80's. Not exactly the music of my generation.
- Jim Bednarz
Despite most of my 'indie cred' music on iTunes, if you were to take a gander at my iLike profile, you'd see that "Since U Been Gone" by Kelly Clarkson is in the top 5 most played in my library.
- Fleagle
One more before bed. I was a huge fan of the Charmed TV series.
- Jim Bednarz
I'd confess something, but it'll go to the confessions room to be private, else I need some sex for so much time now, I almost can't cope anymore, I wouldn't want to be forced on the dirtiest streets with that in mind. ;p
- ElijahBailey-Zu of FF <0,
Well, there's one way to stop a thread dead in its tracks.
- Fleagle
When i was a kid the Cacodemon in Doom would scare me!
- Fee501st
When I was a kid I saw 80% of the posidon adventure then was sent to bed (never got to see the 'happy' ending) and cruise ships STILL freak me out
- Amy
I haven't eaten seafood since I was a little kid after I had a nightmare of a giant crab coming after me.
- Carlos Urrutia
from Android
I like booty panties( please don't have to explain it on here).
- Terence
The one time I thought to try alcohol before sex we got distracted drinking and talking to friends online and just went to sleep after. Maybe I should try drinking more often...
- Heather
I could drop a few names, but I'm not one to do that... Silly girls.
- Amber, Random Time Lord
I never got the drunk sex thing, it's not fun. It's not like just your face goes a little numb: that happens everywhere...
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
Seems like there's a big difference between a couple glasses of red wine and getting drunk off your ass. Well, unless your tolerance is really low.
- Cristo
News Flash: Alcohol inhibits more than just your inhibitions! Drunk sex is not quality sex. It's more like pathetic sex. A little something to "take the edge off" is fine. Getting smashed? No.
- Mark "DerBingle" J
Drunk sex at night - farmers delight. Sober sex in the morning - shepards warning.
- Toby Graham
MiniMage, good for you. If that's the case, the cost of fine wine should be much cheaper, provided you can keep the remaining wine in an oxygen-free bottle (and provided I'm not around ;)
- Cristo
ooh so that was what i missed last time! :)
- Mahmood Padura
1) Drunken sex is absolutely terrible. I prefer being able to remember my experiences 2) The 1/20 girls who've never had sober sex don't have an inhibitions problem, they have a *drinking* problem. Any girl like that is simply an alcoholic, period. AVOID.
- LANjackal
LANjackal, so allow me to pose a question: How do you know drunken sex is absolutely terrible? :)
- Cristo
^ Good point, given how I'd phrased my comment. The same way you remember having a "rough time" after heavy drinking although you don't know the exact details. You just know it was bad from the bits and pieces you can string together. Also, "terrible" is relative ... when you compare sober encounters between yourself and someone who really knows how to please you (such as a gf or FWB) to drunk crap, the difference is immediately apparent (for me at least). I'll take the sober encounter 10X over
- LANjackal
from IM
So you're saying if you and me were sober...
- Cristo
çok güzel görünüyor fakat ön tarafının bu kadar yüksek olmasına rağmen arka tarafının suya bu kadar yakın olması kafamı karıştırdı açıkcası
- Aytaç YILDIZ
tersaneye ve daha onceki tasarimlarina bakilirsa bunu da surerler yakinda piyasaya.. http://www.wally.com/ . kriz oncesi ve sonrasi tersane 2015'e kadar siparisler ile yigilmis durumdaydi. bugun aldim deseniz 7 yil sonra uretime basliyorlar ancak. guzeldir ama.. ah 125 wallypower aah..
- Sets [offline]
böyle şeylerde yaşayacak olanlar var hayatta, o daha çok üzüyo (:
- Ezgi Genç
hedefWally-Hermes.com! bana bunu alırsanız, taksim'de falan tanıtım yaparım. çok ciddiyim.
- berkay sözbilir.
en iyisini ben de görmek isterim açıkçası fu :)
- Tugce Cengiz
çok mazot yer yahu buy.. en azından çatısını güneş paneliyle döşemek lazım.. baya bir de kinetik enerji dönüşümü yapmak lazım.. evet evet , beavaya gelir bu , geri alıyorum sözümü.
- Doritos değil Panço
I keep coming back to these photos. I want one. *sigh*
- Lisa L. Seifert
wallpaper kasım sayısında teknenin yapım aşamasından 2 fotoğraf basılmış
- fu
Water on Earth looks blue because it reflects the blue sky. Can someone explain to me how the water in this shot is blue when there is no blue sky on the moon. Checks diary. No, it's not April.
- Gilbert Harding
"Data from three spacecraft indicate that a thin film of water coats the surface of the soil in at least some spots" So yes the "photo" is slightly altered. There where only four paragraphs to read folks.
- John Cooper
i should have made clear that the photo is not an actual photo from the moon..
- Zee.
"We live in a technologically advanced and interconnected world. Places that were once almost impossible to reach are now accessible by road systems, waterways and airplane rides. Despite the ease with which we can contact people on the other side of the globe -- whether it be through the click of a mouse or a letter in the post -- about 10 percent of the Earth is more than 48 hours away, by way of land travel, from the nearest city [source: O'Neill]. While in recent years it definitely has become easier to reach far away lands, there are many places in the world that remain inaccessible, uninhabited and secluded -- in other words, the most remote spots on Earth."
- Nurse Katie
from Bookmarklet
They have me waiting outside while they prepare to surgically deliver Ryan Soroush Scoble. His life should start within minutes. I wonder what he will be like? What technologies will he see in his lifetime?
- Robert Scoble
from email
Hey, in case ya'll didn't see my earlier post: I love you FFers and I'm sticking around as long as possible. When/if FriendFeed.com no longer resolves and my choices are leave or migrate over to the subpar, clucky, unintuitive, cluttered, and overall highly unfortunate FB UI, then I'll have a decision to make. Can't say now what it'll be.
In a perfect world I'll be able to import everyone here into a special group or list over on FB. We shall see, I suppose. In the meantime: YOU CANNOT PRY MY FRIENDFEED FROM MY COLD DEAD HANDS!!!! =D
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
Oh, and in related news: I guess this means I need to get up off my ass and actually get a Facebook vanity name. Dammit, I was hoping to avoid that....
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
I want to stick around for people like you Tina, but it's almost like staying in a bad marriage because of the kids. I'm so torn right now, I don't know what to do.
- David Cook
Clucky is a good word, Tina. Clucky and clunky sums up FB.
- Sally Church
facebook is horrible, but maybe the FF guys can turn things around there and make it useable? hopefully?
- Tomy Thomson
*sigh* Can't believe I had to do this, but I grabbed my FB username/URL. You can stalk me at facebook.com/tinapbeana (no, they get no link love from me).
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
Tomy that assumes that FB thinks they have a problem. We are the minority that thinks it is inferior.
- Karma Martell
It'll be the end of an era, Tina. I have a much different use-case for FB; the user groups don't really overlap for me. There are very few folks here that I'd friend on FB; nothing personal, but I use it mainly for IRL friends. But I expect we'll find SOMEplace to hang out!
- Ken Kennedy
I'll be here 'til they turn out the lights. I'd rather go out on a party than slink away in a funk. I look forward to seeing everyone around :)
- Jennifer Dittrich
I'll stick around as long as the FF interface stays in place. After that, I'm not sure... probably back to the blog and Twitter.
- John (a.k.a. dendroica)
I'm kinda hoping that there's something to fill the void so we all just don't go to FB.
- Wirehead
In my ideal world, FF will stay around. I'd even take a subdomain of FB if I had to, but ideally I could FF without having to touch the ugly monstrosity that is FB (yes, FF staff, I keep bringing it up in hopes that down the road you might have the power to fix it!).
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
how do you know they're not going to make it better with these people ??
- Terry O'Fee
My read of the blog post is that FB essentially bought the FF staff, the talent. And that to me means they have a good shot of weighing in and fixing a lot of the problems FB has. That's a good thing. What it also means (by my read) is that the app known as FF will likely wither and fall off the vine from lack of dev talent. Again, that's just my read. If the FB UI turns into something...
more...
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
I'm positive that FF will stay around almost the same. Even more: I´m optimistic, and believe that FF will increase its value as your FB friends hop along; I don´t see FB ripping FF and keeping only its great technology or talent. Facebook´s ultimate goal is to be the Great Internet Search Destination, and in buying FF it's achieving step 1: real-time, public content where searches can be seriously taken.
- Darío Vasconcelos
how quickly will all of this wither? hopefully soon and we can have some normal discussions again..
- Terry O'Fee
They bought more than just the staff, they bought the tech too. I hope they let this site continue the way socialmedian did when it was acquired.
- Michael Fidler
Dario, that's all well and good, but FB cannot ever be a great search destination if all of their content is walled in and requires an account, plus a friending connection, to view.
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
Slayerboy: good marketers won't get blocked. I really appreciated getting cuts in line at Six Flags because of their Twitter contest.
- Robert Scoble
from iPhone
Good marketers aren't most marketers :)
- Brett Kelly
Only if Guy likes it will they come. Friendfeed.alltop.com and all that.
- Pete Delucchi
from iPhone
Robert: I don't mind good marketers, as long as they're genuine. Too many of them (particular the "social media marketing gurus") are just unforgivably obnoxious and fake in their attempts to pimp their own garbage services/blog. So, I really hope you're right :)
- Brett Kelly
Bad marketers on FriendFeed will survive in search results. Do a search for a couple of terms like 'canon 135mm' and you'll see plenty of entries that are just links to people selling the lens. You're not going to block them all. I don't see that as a big problem, but I suspect they'll be successful enough there to keep them coming.
- Edward Coffey
Start? I've been here for a loooong time. A few of my 'marketing' friends have been too.
- AJ Kohn
Marketers phase has already started in Turkey. Friendfeed is generally used by them, or I think like that...
- Sabri Küstür
we need like a freindfeed costranostra to keep the peace, and make things just poof into the ethersphere
- Robert Higgins
so wish i was a freindfeed coder and i could merge with the stream and provide some community services... :AKA Hiro Protaganist
- Robert Higgins
"Now on to Google Wave! - sean andersen" Exactly. Unless the FF core team is over there on the sandbox right now, doing all they can to start the scrambling scrum RIGHT NOW, the big GWave will assimilate all. At least until the assimilation wave after that. FF has maybe a one year window -- if that -- to make it's move, whatever that might be, starting right now.
- michael silverton
Citronella - I like that the spammers are vaporized almost instantly here. Decent built in tools for group reporting.
- BairdWilliamson
If I got here before Guy and I'm geekless does that give me any special designation?
- Kimber Scott
michael silverton: Wave sandbox already looks like Gmail. I bet when they release it, it will be Gmail 2.0. I hope Bret & co. are studying it close...
- sean andersen
Kimber: you are geeky because you were here before...whether you like that designation or not :)
- WorldofHiglet
Louis has more than *one* soul? Or is this a left-foot, right-foot thing. Colour me confus`ed :D
- Micah Wittman
LOL! Well, I guess I could be called an amateur geek...
- Kimber Scott
from email
@silverton, agreed that FriendFeed has a limited time window to figure out what it wants to be when it's all grown up.. in other news, can't believe it took Guy this long to show up here to play. Nothing wrong with a little marketing, especially if it's of the "Moving the Freeline" variety.. +1 Gilbert, LOL.
- Alex Schleber
If I were Guy, or the head of any company, be it a camera shop or whatever, whenever I had a little free time, I'd tweet out, "Hey, I'm going to be on FriendFeed for an hour or so, answering any questions about Alltop, telling you about its features, advantages, and benefits, come join in!" or something like that. That's a vertical that feeds off Twitter and really enriches both platforms, utilizing them both for their strengths.
- Stephen Pickering
With Leo, Steve Rubel, and Guy K now all here .. this landscape is about to change ... agreed.
- Charlie Anzman
I'm reading Crossing the Chasm, only 18 years after it was published. Can I blend in as a "marketer" now?
- DGentry
Well hopefully communities will coexist in open social media, we aren't defined by what or where we login to right? It's just information we share, the platform is merely a pipeline. The communities need to exist beyond the platforms
- Mark Essel
from iPhone
So, do you think the population will tend to shift to more casual people than the creme de la creme people. I feel so, since there are only the innovative, open-minded people on FriendFeed right now; and I think the change is pretty near.
- Yiğit Arda Türkoğlu
Marketing guys have always been here. The difference... tactics and respect. That being said change is always happening and even still I'm not sure Friendfeed will hit the critical mass Twitter has with marketers. The friendfeed brand will likely be defined differently than Twitter and attract different people. Time will tell.
- Jim Goldstein
from iPhone
why? can't marketing guys and geeks get along?
- kakuei
No. We cannot get along. This war has been waged for too long, and too much blood has been spilled. Most of us no longer even remember why we are fighting, but it doesn't matter. Victory is all that matters.
- DGentry
The marketers are already here, but most of them are totally clueless about how friendfeed works. They somehow think they can dump their stuff here and it will get "found" and when that doesn't work, they just go back to twitter. The ones that do understand how it works either feel it is too much damn work to fake being real to be worth it, or they are the real deal and it works quite well for them.
- April Russo (app103)
April: I think there's some cost-benefit analysis going on there. There's a smaller crowd at FF and it takes a lot more work. Plus, most people here are marketing jaded.
- Trent Hamm
Guy is a marketer, sure, but also a geek. Geeks phase ends when the Celebs show up.
- Garin Kilpatrick
well if they start selling, just dont click "like" or "comment" and they will drop off the page in minutes
- Mark
I think some marketers are already here..but anyway, you think Guy being here will change things much?
- Rob Sellen :o)
Robert, you might have to make a stand for geeks everywhere. Prepare yourself.
- Joe
Robert, "Wanna learn how to get 1,000's of Friendfeed friends in no time. Click here http://somespammylink.com to learn my patent pending, amazing, fantastic, game-changing, and revolutionary way to gain residual income through the magic of your Friendfeed friends." Don't click yet, I was just brushing up!
- Sean Powell
I'm so honored to have read this message from scoble. I'm grateful for our "geeks only" days that we've all shared! LOL
- Jason Pollock
No Kidding! Welcome Guy Kawasaki, who ever your are.
- Houseofmax
thats unfortunate, but who is GuyK?
- echostreamer
When the marketer wagon shows up I'll be going private.
- Geoff Schultz
Yeah, Jim Goldstein sez it: those of us from the dark side that stumbled into these sweet precincts have kept a low profile... sorta like taking your hat off when you go to church ; >
- Thom Kennon
he's actually been here awhile, just not posting, mr scoble
- chaz2b
Some ppl cannot be stopped. Like me! Not geeky enough, a girl, too wall st. Watch out, cause tenacity wins every time.
- Liza
well then lets learn from Twitter and not follow every stupid command that celebrities give us to rocket them to the top of friend feed. BOYCOTT ALL CELEBRITIES ON FRIEND FEED to save this from becoming the punchline that twitter. save the whales, then save friend feed plez :)
- echostreamer
Jason Pollock liked this, that is HILARIOUS! He posts the most redundant links on Twitter...a notorious spammer. At least Guy admits what he does, still somewhat annoying. Not sure why Leo Laporte was mentioned, I don't see him fitting that GK mold at all.
- Benjamin Taylor
In retrospect ... it seems to have been a hit and run for now ?? Hoping not. Would be great to see him actively engaging here. A LOT to offer. Marketing crowd? ... No worries - There's always 'block, tackle and hide .....' here
- Charlie Anzman
Robert, I think this is such crazy talk, you're a marketer too ;)
- Jeremiah Owyang
Umm, I'm pretty sure that Guy is also a geek. Regardless of what his cool cred is...then again his cool cred is totally geek cool cred.
- Alex Scoble
Guy Kawasaki does have magic initials, I will give him that.
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@Laura - That reminds me of one time the Ladybug's daughter wanted the shotgun seat...and first I made her say please and then I made her say please while she was hopping on one foot. Ever since, she has sometimes tried that when I don't let her sit in the passenger seat...occasionally, it still works :)
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