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Are you demonstrating FriendFeed? - Bruce Lewis from fftogo

Hope so! Is this thing on? *tap tap* - Daniel J. Pritchett

would love to read a post on your blog about your presentation content - ffcode

Way to go Louis! Sorry I will miss your presentation. #BWE08 was fun, I was the video guy. Met Shoemoney, John Chow and Darren Rouse there and had dinner with them! Economic constraints prevents my attending BlogWorkd Expo this year. Rick Calvert and Dave Cynkin are great guys, say hello to them for me? - Nicholas Chase

Are we FriendFeed people supposed to be doing real time um.. stuff? - Mike Nencetti

I think Louis usually starts out with canned slides and *maybe* will move into a live demo later. It looks like he doesn't have a FFer planted in the audience to ride this thread ;) - Daniel J. Pritchett

I hope this is recorded for easy sharing. I'm trying hard to push the concept inside ehe enterprise but most folks don't quite get it, and some just think I'm nuts :) - jcunwired

I demo'd FriendFeed a few times. I was showing FriendFeed to Twitter here. :) - Louis Gray

I have an elephant that farts to give to you Louis - come find me for it (from Bruce Christiansen) - Jesse Stay

Jesse, a question from all of us, are you mentally deranged? - Louis Gray

Louis, hurry and get it before Steve Rubel takes it. He wants one too - these are the new rage of BWE09! - Jesse Stay

The only thing that surprised me was that facebook didn't have a higher female percentage. - dthree

You'll notice there's no Reddit on there, which I suspect is mostly male like Digg. - Itachi

I love the list, I can find lots of interesting people there to follow. Thanks. - Faraz Mullick

J'aime beaucoup Robert Scoble. Il est si timide. - Desirade

good I was worried about that - David Sanger

Apparently I've pissed off Scoble as I'm not on his suggested user list, but I'm still in good company: - BLOGBloke

Poor me, I'm not even on Scoble's Suggested User List (SSUL)... hehe - Marko Saric

Blog Bloke: you're on my SUL: http://twitter.com/Scoblei... - Robert Scoble

It's a good list... but most of the people I know who have signed up for Twitter in the past month aren't going to follow any of those people. No chance in hell. Twitter is now commercial. It's E!. It's Perez Hilton. It's being targeted at people outside the tech bubble-boy culture we exist in. There are heaps of people I know who should be on the list, but i also realize that my desires aren't that of Twitter OR the vast majority of those people now signing up for Twitter. - Johnny Worthington

Thanks Rob. - BLOGBloke

More than anybody else percentage wise? Back it up. :) - Louis Gray

Maybe he should be a VC. Would you give him money? - Jeremiah Owyang

Four Square raises a round http://paidcontent.org/article... - Jeremiah Owyang

I agree about Scoble's instincts... I just stay away from things that make him cry - Bastard Operator From FF

That's a tough test. I'd be hard-pressed to give anyone my money who didn't already have a track record. - Hutch Carpenter

Scoble might very well have more success than the majority of VCs if given money. - Mark Evans

I wrote him a five figure check once. - Louis Gray

I hope to write Louis Gray a five figure check some time - Jesse Stay

Yeah, Louis, that investment's doing all right, ain't it? - Hutch Carpenter

After another 35K miles, he might just let you, Jesse. :) - Mark Evans

Ill write Louis a Four Figure Check so he can turn it into a 5 figure check he can give scoble - Jeremiah Owyang

What would Scoble invest in if he were a VC? - Mark Evans

who will write me a 3 figure check so I can give it to Louis? - Jeremiah Owyang

I love foursquare (when it's up). Congrats to the team on raising a round. Interesting area. - John McCrea

John I noticed it's been having problems the last few days too - Jeremiah Owyang

FourSquare is cool. If I could, I would invest in Yelp. I think they are closer to the real money than Twitter or Facebook is. That means that they will either get purchased, or will go all the way on their own. The Yelp iPhone app is already the best one for location. The rest are just games. :-) - Robert Scoble

Scoble’s strength as a VC would be bolstered by his ability to pull in outside pieces for mashups and outside marketing/publicity resources to build early momentum. This is something most VCs claim to do, but are really only around to write cheques. However, a role that might fit Scoble better than being a pure VC would be to also direct an incubation garage where he could contribute ideas and solutions on a daily, face-to-face basis. - A Mitchell

Fourquare is not ready for prime time. I'm on it, I play it, but it just isn't stable or accurate or complete enough to be really satisfying. That being said, I am still the Mayor of Sam's Chowder House. - Francine Hardaway

Brightkite - Wayne Sutton

Francine, I had claim to New England Aquarium for a short time :-) I only wish it was available in Salt Lake City now. - Jesse Stay

I used to think Brightkite but Foursquare has the mojo right now. It's tied to places so it's easier to use and rewards frequent check-ins with fun titles like Mayor and achievements. It has a solid business model. And it's much more social. I've use them both and I'm increasingly gravitating toward foursquare. - Leo Laporte

Foursquare is an absolutely amazing social, location awareness app. Moreover, it is super young and although limited to the city you are in, it should dominate when it picks up steam. Plus, it has a really friggin cool name. - Braden Douglass

I like Foursquare but Brightkite has more features; upload photos to flickr, sync update with facebook status, comments/mentions and already a few augmented reality mashups. Here's my location based iPhone app review blog post: http://socialwayne.com/pvc . Foursquare isn't in my city yet but I had a chance to "play" with it during a recent NYC trip. It has features that will make users... more... - Wayne Sutton

Thanks robert for the comment - Jeremiah Owyang

Brightkite. Foursquare is a non starter, since they don't operate in any cities I'd ever want to be in. - Otto from iPhone

I didn't realize Foursquare had to "operate in cities"... I thought you just added locations when they weren't already in the service. - Lindsay

Foursquare - Gabriel

Christopher, are you experiencing problems also? If so, I would appreciate it if you could let me know in which topics those problems occur. It's not supposed to happen. - Ethan Gahng

It does pull in a lot of useless stuff, but I still find a gem here and there that I wouldn't have found on my RSS feed - that keeps me using it. - Kurt Starnes

Kurt, thank you. We are aware of the inherent problem that arises because of the tag-based filtering, but are working hard to make it better. One such effort is the "block this source" feature, where you can block a source from appearing in your results, and we have more plans to make the results more relevant to your interest, so please stay tuned. Thanks! - Ethan Gahng

Stupid tag usage and outright abuse are obviously problems. The bigger problem for me is that tag-based filtering just doesn't get me to particular subjects. If I want to find interesting new material on cognitive heuristics and biases, for example, using saved FF searches is much more fruitful. - Christopher A Carr

Scoble, why is this a favorite tweet of yours? - Louis Gray

Anyone who gives up on a beta product is a faithless, pessimistic person! C'mon now, folks! If Lazyfeed (a supercool app to start with) has problems, report the issues and keep freakin' testing. Keep reporting. If our community can't row together to create killer apps, then who shall create them? "Perfect" developers with "perfect" products out of the box? We're not waiting for the second coming; we're all just working hard to make the Internet awesome. - Jolie O'Dell

Louis: because I too find that the approach isn't one that interests me. I want news from brands and people I know and trust, not from random places. I found the same problems that Ken and others have found with Lazy Feed. Just not nearly as interesting as my Twitter or Google Reader/Feedly accounts. Might be good for normal people who don't have any friends, though. - Robert Scoble

'Might be good for normal people who don't have any friends, though.' Wow. - Akiva Moskovitz

Here's a video I shot with Ethan Gahng at Gnomedex (founder of Lazy Feed) which shows it off: http://www.blip.tv/file... - Robert Scoble

Oh, Robert, that's such a myopic response! Lazyfeed has some good tech behind it. They just need to consider more sources. - Jolie O'Dell

Akiva: sorry, but normal people don't have a lot of Twitter friends. Have you looked at "normal people's" accounts? - Robert Scoble

@Ethan - Thanks for that tip! FWIW, I find things on LF that I would not find unless I subscribed to a 1000+ feeds. Yes, I'm a normal person w/o friends. :-> I recently found stuff from Richard Feynman that I likely would not have come across w/o LF. He's a trusted source, IMHO. - Kurt Starnes

Most people don't have any friends which is why Twitter did the Suggested User List. - Robert Scoble

If the number of Twitter friends you have determines your normalcy, then you, sir, are seriously demented and Oprah should be locked up. - Akiva Moskovitz

Robert: Most people have shittons of IRL friends. You're turning the jock/nerd paradigm on its head. - Jolie O'Dell

lol @ Akiva - Neal Jansons from IM

In all seriousness, though, that comment just reeks of elitism. 'It's good for the plebes. Let them eat LazyCake.' - Akiva Moskovitz

What Twitter should have done first is find ways to import Facebook/Gmail/Hotmail friends. Would've been badass for increasing adoption and creating online networks that correspond with IRL friend groups - Jolie O'Dell

Akiva: heh. I see where you're coming from, but most people don't have 2,500 friends that they mostly can tell you something about, like I have. And if that sounds elitist and all that well, then, tough. It's the truth. You want me to show you the stats of an average Twitter user? - Robert Scoble

Jolie: I wish Twitter had done that. - Robert Scoble

Robert, doesn't the average Twitter user not even actually use Twitter? But, all right, all right, you've backed up your point. I concede! - Akiva Moskovitz

Akiva: normal people are like my brother anyway (Ben, not Alex). He rarely is online and doesn't look for news online. - Robert Scoble

Akiva: right. We're on the same page now. - Robert Scoble

And the suggested user list should never have been. http://is.gd/2WJKC - Jolie O'Dell

Robert: so, what is - is what should never be. How do we change the SUL to an LinkedIn-esque contacts-scraping form? - Jolie O'Dell

Jolie: if I could get Twitter to listen to me I'd spend the time doing stuff far more interesting than just killing the Suggested User List (killing it now wouldn't remove the damage it's done anyway). But Twitter doesn't listen to me, so anything I say doesn't matter anyway. - Robert Scoble

Trained in social journalism, I can't document a trend without suggesting a way to affect that trend in a way that will benefit the majority. =| - Jolie O'Dell

I am talking with Ken about what has been causing the problem. I think we can figure out the issue and solve it. Thank you all for the interest :) - Ethan Gahng

Jolie: Thank you. It means a lot to receive encouragement. We have just begun, and we are aware of many existing problems--even those not addressed by the users--that need to be fixed and completed. We are definitely listening, observing, and working hard to make Lazyfeed more useful, so please stay tuned. Thank you! - Ethan Gahng

Robert : Thank you mentioning your concerns. Your comments are very helpful, and will definitely influence how Lazyfeed will evolve in the future. Right now it's pretty much basic, but it will become much more interesting, so stay tuned! Thanks :) - Ethan Gahng

Ethan: I'll keep trying LazyFeed. It's just that for me I like to know where my news is coming from. Google Reader, though, brings serendipity into my life (among other places) and I appreciate that too. It'll be interesting to watch your service evolve. - Robert Scoble

Ethan: I will always be your laziest supporter! go lazyfeeeeed! Please give my hugs and hi fives to your team - you have worked so very hard. - Jolie O'Dell from email

Robert : Thanks. We would have not been able to launch at all if we tried to implement everything. It's great to know that the expectation is higher than what we have done so far. We'll get there soon :) - Ethan Gahng

I spend a good deal of time looking for new articles on a number of academic topics of interest to me. Thus far, Lazy Feed hasn't made finding what I'm looking for any easier. With its approach, I'm not sure it can. But I'll certainly check back in from time to time. - Christopher A Carr

Jolie : Thanks! I was lounging for a while but this thread has just encouraged me to get back to work :) - Ethan Gahng

Christopher : Thank you for your feedback. There are much more coming, which will be pretty interesting, so stay tuned. You'll like what you will see. Thanks! - Ethan Gahng

"It's great to know that the expectation is higher than what we have done so far." Now *that*, right there, is a great attitude. Keep up the good work Ethan :-) - Andy Bold