Nation Hahn - Comments

I have a Page too but don't use it yet: http://www.facebook.com/pages... I only have 20 fans. ;-) #whatsyoururl - Kol Tregaskes

http://www.facebook.com/trenton... ...but watch out for the tumbleweeds rolling across my profile. - Trent Olson

http://www.facebook.com/bonnie... - Bonnie Foster

*sigh* http://www.facebook.com/abrudtk... - andy brudtkuhl

http://www.facebook.com/hedwyg *sobbing quietly over here in my corner* - Ladybug Heather

http://www.facebook.com/nathanc... - Nathan Chase

http://www.facebook.com/jhuebel - Jason Huebel

I will have a little cry later................ - Kevin J Hatton

i have one but have used it less and less as FB has sucked more and more. i now log in a few times a month at most. - Joe Silence disconnected

http://facebook.com/niczak - Nicholas Kreidberg

http://www.facebook.com/pixeled... - Lars Clausen

Thanks everyone! - Kol Tregaskes

http://facebook.com/zamil - zsafwan 

Now I'm glad I got my vanity URL for FB. However I'm not about to go crazy friending y'all just yet as I hate the interface. - Kenton

http://facebook.com/inkedmn - Brett Kelly

http://www.facebook.com/tamihan... - Hanna Wiszniewska

http://www.facebook.com/johnnys... - Johnny

http://www.bit.ly/meganlynch <--- my fan page for my music http://www.facebook.com/mmeganl... - Spidra Webster

http://www.facebook.com/tutivil... - Oh, how I hate this. - ‘-.-’ Tutivillus Grift

http://www.facebook.com/stevena... - Steven Perez

http://www.facebook.com/krynsky Haha. I was just going to ask when you were going to start this. - Mark Krynsky

http://www.facebook.com/rene... - Rene Wirtz

iphigenie, just like my ff id :D - Joelle Nebbe (iphigenie)

I didnt really want to add everyone i know on friendfeed to my facebook, i like to keep them seperate as much as i can. but you know what, fuck it http://www.facebook.com/simon... add a note saying you;re from friendfeed if you add me, then i can group everyone up :) - Simon Wicks

http://www.facebook.com/wangyip .. edit: ditto what Simon said above - add a friendfeed or FF note in the message if you do add me - Wang Yip

http://www.facebook.com/tony... - Tony, Paradox of FF

http://www.facebook.com/lizas - Liza

» http://www.facebook.com/jdface ;D - JohnDu™

http://www.facebook.com/scott... [EDIT: I only intend to had people to FB that I have subscribed to and/or interacted with here on FF.] - Scott of Two Countries

Simon, I thought that a while ago, then just added everyone too. :-) - Kol Tregaskes

Just added you Kol :) - Simon Wicks

http://facebook.com/ruipe - Rui Pereira from iPod

http://www.facebook.com/lipskin - Michael McKean

http://facebook.com/orcun - Orçun the Nucro

OK, you've all convinced me and as Simon requested, please note FF in the request. http://facebook.com/kenton - Kenton

Thanks, Simon. I've not started going through these yet. :-) - Kol Tregaskes

I'm only going to add the people i actually talk to on here. I have a lot less people on my follow list than you, so its a bit easier for me :) - Simon Wicks

Remember, guys. According to FB, you're only allowed 5000 friends. Spend them wisely. - James Myatt

Hehe. ;-) - Kol Tregaskes

http://www.facebook.com/iphigen... - Joelle Nebbe (iphigenie)

Facebook.com/hoogenboom - Wes Hoogenboom from iPhone

If anyone of you are Gtalk'ers, check out the list here: http://ff.im/6mySB - Kol Tregaskes

http://www.facebook.com/oguzser... - Oğuz Serdar

/glemak on most services - mike "glemak" dunn

As if we weren't before? Were they really that many people here who didn't also have a FB account, even if they didn't list it in their profile? I've been with FB since 2004 - LANjackal

http://www.facebook.com/barbara... - barbarars

here. i am your fan now :D - Joelle Nebbe (iphigenie)

Thanks all. - Kol Tregaskes

http://www.facebook.com/somenic... - Andrew Smith

http://www.facebook.com/reechar... - Richard pancakhaus Walker

http://facebook.com/dan... - Dan Morrill AKA Techwag

http://www.facebook.com/jimgold... - Jim Goldstein

http://www.facebook.com/jason... - JA Castillo

Screw that. Find me here: https://friendfeed.com/jcunwir... - jcunwired

http://www.facebook.com/bigstar.... But I think you knew that already, Kol. :)==;) - Helen Sventitsky

Helen, yep. :-) - Kol Tregaskes

http://www.facebook.com/michael... - Michael Fidler

Well, with this news it is pushing me to start using my real name for web services and to kill (or at least slowly stop using) the tomit persona that I have used for many years. Find me here... http://www.facebook.com/ronaldb... - tomit

http://www.Facebook.com/Matt... - Matt Ruiz

http://www.facebook.com/nmoilan... - Nia

http://www.facebook.com/dobata - Dobromir Hadzhiev

http://www.facebook.com/julia... - but no hearts or flowers please..:-) - Julia Ault

http://www.facebook.com/gtp19 - Gtp19

http://facebook.com/susanbeebe - Susan Beebe

http://facebook.com/thereal... - someone else done stoled my name before I could. Jeepers! - Tsali, The Native of FF

http://www.facebook.com/home... - Russellreno

http://www.facebook.com/kambizt - Mycaptain

http://www.facebook.com/mike... - MikeDeal / ZoneDancer

http://facebook.com/andrewr... - may as well change my "have met" Facebook policy! - Andrew Roche

:-) - Kol Tregaskes

http://www.facebook.com/aramzs - Aram Zucker-Scharff

http://www.facebook.com/glennsl... - Glenn Slaven

http://facebook.com/PhilBau... - phil baumann

http://facebook.com/andrewt... - Andrew Trinh from iPhone

http://www.facebook.com/pages... - Rob Michael (Atmos Trio)

http://www.facebook.com/icetige... - Kim

http://facebook.com/ericlogan - Eric Logan

I could never agree to their TOS. The fun of working for paranoid folks. - Neal Krummell

http://www.facebook.com/shokk - Ernie Oporto

http://www.facebook.com/mark... - MVB (Curmudgeon of FF)

http://facebook.com/4fthawa... (of course :P ) - Brad McCrorey

http://www.facebook.com/becrowe - Bec Rowe @d0tski

http://www.facebook.com/davidac... - David Cook - 2010!!!

I was already a facebook user... http://www.facebook.com/cassidy... - Cassidy

http://www.facebook.com/ritasda... - Roger Chen

http://www.facebook.com/satanwy... - Roger.Wei

ugh.. I hate doing this... http://www.facebook.com/timhoec... - Tim Hoeck

FF better figure out how not to destroy themselves (if possible) with this merger. Friendfeed in the FB interface will not work. I think FF really just f*cked themselves. - Ethan

Well http://www.facebook.com/elstudi... - Kol, your Posterous sharing post earlier today was more fun. - Eric Johnson

Ummmm the Facebook UI obviously won't be static, dude. They'll be making changes as the assimilation proceeds - LANjackal from IM

People who complain about FF+FB are like people who complain every time the FB home page changes. Even if it's better, they complain... - Gus

never spend any time there... not worth time... - Valeria Maltoni

I hate Facebook... - Oscar Mota

http://www.facebook.com/jeffisa... - (jeff)isageek

http://www.facebook.com/eugenem - Imabug

http://facebook.com/waynesu... - Wayne Sutton

My company has one if you want to be a fan of a small web design and marketing firm :) http://www.facebook.com/pages... - Justin Rains

http://www.facebook.com/nencett... - Mike Nencetti

Mine is http://www.facebook.com/NationH... - Nation Hahn

http://www.facebook.com/kevin... - Kevykev

http://www.facebook.com/sallych... - Sally Church

http://www.facebook.com/hanten - Ben Hanten

http://www.facebook.com/jimminy - Jimminy Fuller

FB gets no link love from me facebook.com/tinapbeana - FFing Enigma (aka Tina)

I have to think very hard if I want to continue my existing Facebook profile or create a new one ... - Ahsan Ali aka. Slick

http://www.facebook.com/DragonI - Shane

http://www.facebook.com/janolep... - Jan Ole Peek

http://www.facebook.com/dheydon - Darren Heydon

http://www.facebook.com/gbierma... - not like I use it much anyway... - Grant Bierman

http://www.facebook.com/baard... - Baard @ Pixum

http://www.facebook.com/stoddar... - wyclif

http://facebook.com/webstartup - Gaith

I'm on Facebook, but I don't have a name in my profile URL (yet; I'm still new...). But if you want it, it's http://www.facebook.com/profile... -- if you friend me, tell me you're from FF. - Dennis Jernberg

http://www.facebook.com/trenton... - Rich Weaver

http://www.facebook.com/davidep... - Davide Patti

I don't freaking have one because I never wanted to sign up for Facebook. :P Now I find out that through no fault of my own I'm technically a Facebook user? GAH. - Cheryl Jones

http://ru-ru.facebook.com/juchkov - Sergey Juchkov

if u want facebook http://www.facebook.com/sefa... ███ - Sefa Karapinar

Keep 'em coming, I'll add you all later today. :-) - Kol Tregaskes

http://www.facebook.com/qtbrown... - browneyes

http://facebook.com/sonergonul Feel like a star. - ★ Soner Gönül

http://www.facebook.com/praveen... - Praveen Vasudev

http://www.facebook.com/ArthurG... - Arthur Guy

http://www.facebook.com/nzbuu/. I wasn't going to do this, but I'm going to indulge and see if I can make FB work like Scoble thinks it can. - James Myatt

http://www.facebook.com/ronaldt... - Ronald

http://www.facebook.com/travisp... - Travis Koger

http://facebook.com/daiski - Mohamed J

LOL I knew you would do this :) http://www.facebook.com/parvez... - Parvez Halim

http://facebook.com/alex.covic - I will friend everybody - for those of you concerned with friend/family + privacy = you can create lists (just like ff-groups) to keep FF-users in a different corner;-). - Alex 'BuckyBit' Covic

Update: My profile may not have a name-type URL yet, but here's the short way to get there: http://profile.to/jernbergdr - Dennis Jernberg

http://facebook.com/durum - Durukan Duru

http://www.facebook.com/niron1 - Nir Ben Yona

http://www.facebook.com/cankokl... - Can Koklu

http://www.facebook.com/garanti - Can Koklu

http://www.facebook.com/nadine... (I use it and like it) - Nadine Pestourie

http://www.facebook.com/edwardb... - Edward Barnieh

http://facebook.com/vmlemon - Tyson Key

yeppp : http://www.facebook.com/burakyu... - Burak Yüce

"Like" only because I'll have to find you guys somewhere :( http://www.facebook.com/people... - Kamilah Gill

http://www.facebook.com/lyanghs... - friend me :) - Lyang Hsueh

http://www.facebook.com/tracybe... - Tracy Benham

http://www.facebook.com/ozubey i knew this was coming, this is why i got my url with my FF nickname.:-) - Özhan Yiğitler

http://www.facebook.se/elina... (xoxo:-) - anjelina

http://www.facebook.com/krz9000 i hope they write a proper friendfeed friend importer - Chris Hofmann

http://www.facebook.com/iainbak... +1 Chris, I'd hate to lose all the friends i've made here :(((( - Iain Baker

http://www.facebook.com/barryow... I hope they (FB) don't screw it up too much... - Barry Owens

http://www.facebook.com/karmaco... - Karma Martell

http://facebook/sashakovaliov - Sasha Kovaliov(.com)

http://facebook. com/mosyagin - massagin

http://www.facebook.com/gilbert.... Is there a simple way to add say the entire list above? - Gilbert Harding

http://www.facebook.com/joedaws... - Joe Dawson

http://facebook.com/jhofker - Jordan Hofker

http://www.facebook.com/MarcoNu... - Marco(aureliusmaximus)

http://www.facebook.com/leshtan... - Evgeni Leshtanski

http://www.facebook.com/mbravo - most updates autoimported from Flickr though - Michael Bravo

http://www.facebook.com/irma... - Irma Vermaat

http://www.facebook.com/leahey - Andrew Leahey

Thank you everyone. I've added you all but feel free to say no, I know some people keep FB for personal friends only. :-) - Kol Tregaskes

http://www.facebook.com/alix... - Alix Whitmire

www.facebook.com/LANjackal - LANjackal from IM

lol I think this is wrong haha don't mind me I'm being silly - 'Like' robot (frɐnc)

http://www.facebook.com/joao... - Joao Alves

http://www.facebook.com/emmajwi... - Emma

http://www.facebook.com/fernand... - Fernando Bergamaschi

http://www.facebook.com/wordsfo... - I would really like to have FriendFeed friends there so Facebook could possibly be more bearable. - Jannifer @wordsforliving

Jannifer, that link takes me to the home page. - Kol Tregaskes

http://www.facebook.com/jenn2d2 should be it. - Jennifer Dittrich

It does? try looking for Jannifer Stoddard - Jannifer @wordsforliving

Yeah, I've had a few of those from the list above, not sure what's going on there. OK, will do. :-) - Kol Tregaskes

http://facebook.com/carlton... And I love new peeps! ^_^ - Carlton Hackett

I have added you as a friend ;) - shâhin

I do not use it much LOL I just post to it from other sites so to fill up my friends stream, I do get messages and some status in text. Anyone who really wants to add me, use the facebook link on my profile. :o) - David Gross

http://www.facebook.com/victorg... - diego morelli

https://www.facebook.com/sean... - Sean Oliver

http://www.facebook.com/manuelm... - Manuel Mas

www.facebook.com/drodzand you won't see much since I got the privacy settings on max in Facebook. Just another reason why I think Facebook is completely different from friendfeed. I hope they keep friendfeed running because I use both services in diametrically diverse ways. - David Rodriguez

http://facebook.com/chrisba... - Chris Baskind

Thank you. - Kol Tregaskes

http://facebook.com/brodiebeta I just posted asking for the same thing =) http://friendfeed.com/iphoneg... You rawk Kol - Brodie Beta

http://facebook.com/timedalkat Will be weird to integrate you folks with Grandma. - timedalkat

http://facebook.com/anthony... - Anthony K. Valley ©

Cool, Brodie. :-) Thanks everyone! - Kol Tregaskes

Hey, FB is for real life friends :-). Not for random web strangers :-P? - Richard A.

Mine is http://www.facebook.com/daniel... and I am from Argentina (BA) - Daniel Alejandro Severo

http://www.facebook.com/alfpace but I don't use it very much - Alfonso Pace from iPhone

http://www.facebook.com/louisgr... - Louis Gray

http://facebook.com/michael... - michael sean wright

http://www.facebook.com/mikefru... - Mike Fruchter

http://www.facebook.com/mitchel... - Mitchell Tsai

http://www.facebook.com/waltrup... ... Deja Vu... didn't we do this already one? LOL! If you send me a request, please just mention FF. KThnxBye. - Walt Ruppar

http://www.facebook.com/kimbers... (I can remember if I commented on this already. I don't see "You" on the list, but I'm tired. So, hopefully, I didn't. If I did, oh well. - Kimber Scott

http://www.facebook.com/mahendr... - Mahendra (SkepticGeek)

http://www.facebook.com/theAufh... - James (!?)

Thanks all! - Kol Tregaskes

http://www.facebook.com/ibrahim... - İbrahim Mumcu

http://www.facebook.com/ali... - سیدعلی‏سنائی

. . . amy_beer. I think. I've never used it. No, I'm pretty sure. - Amy℠

Amy, it's not that. - Kol Tregaskes

http://www.facebook.com/GR8CDNP... - Robert Couture

http://facebook.com/mithrandi - Tristan Seligmann

http://facebook.com/itblogger - Alex Scoble

I spend an inordinate amount of time there... - http://facebook.com/Americhick - Bette Cooper

http://www.facebook.com/gregsmi... - Greg Smith - Greg Smith

http://www.facebook.com/martha... - Martha

http://facebook.com/ozkan... - Ozkan Altuner

facebook.com/wins1 I hv a FF list in FB, pls. mention FF to populate it. - Wins Fern

mine is david.grosz - David Gross from email

My FB URL is: http://www.facebook.com/creativ... - Cathryn Hrudicka

http://facebook.com/rubensa... - Ruben Sanchez

Thank you all! - Kol Tregaskes

http://www.facebook.com/david... - David Peacock

http://facebook.com/quackof... - Quackofdawn

http://facebook.com/bryceroney - Bryce Roney

How do you get facebook.com/yourname? Mine is a somewhat longer Url... - TrafficBug

http://www.facebook.com/pga1ht - Alex Hellstrom

http://facebook.com/guruvan - guruvan (Rob Nelson)

TrafficBug: You can get your custom Facebook URL here: http://www.facebook.com/usernam... - guruvan (Rob Nelson)

http://www.facebook.com/webalon... - looks like you can change it only once. Confucious say: "Choose your name well...." :I - Rob Schieber

http://www.facebook.com/app103 - April Russo (app103)

http://www.facebook.com/Beamer2... - Brent - Loving Life

Thank you. - Kol Tregaskes

I do like your photography page. I am a fan now. - Faraz Mullick

Isn't there a FB friend limit? - Araceli

There is, Araceli, although it was several thousand people, if I remember correctly. - Tyson Key

5,000. - Kol Tregaskes

I'm just loving the new Facebook beta. :D - Faraz Mullick

mine is http://www,facebook.com/robcair... - Rob Cairns

i sent a request (please please please by my friend), ;) - chaz2b

I always thought that FriendFeed was the new Facebook. ;) - Tyson Key

Facebook is the new FriendFeed. ;) - guruvan (Rob Nelson)

Thanks Rob, I had forgotten my username for I always used my email address to login - I found there is a settings > username > change thing that lets you change your username once and then you get a facebook.com/username url! - TrafficBug

http://facebook.com/ajpatel - AJ

http://www.facebook.com/franzi - Franz Sittampalam

I am thinking about just using my Public Page more. Keep my regular profile for family and coworker data. Follow me here if you want more of the type of posts I do here of Friendfeed. http://www.facebook.com/pages... - tomit

http://www.facebook.com/victorg... - diego morelli

yep - Brent - Loving Life

http://www.facebook.com/chachaf... - ChaCha Fance

nooooooooooooooooooooooo! - Tsali, The Native of FF from IM

I raise your bump with a "Hide" - LANjackal

http://www.facebook.com/tentati... - ilker Serdar (Mr.Pizza)

http://www.facebook.com/jamesfe... - James Ferguson

http://www.facebook.com/sean... - Sean Oliver from NoiseRiver

http://www.facebook.com/DavidHo... - I use it to aggregate and share links on Internet music, open content and social media. - David Holmes

By no means a complete list. :D - Haggis (Sean Loyless)

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SCREW YOU HAGGIS... I wax me legs, I spend hours in the hairdressers and weeks doing my makeup for you... YOU BASTARD... I HATE YOU... *runs off sobbing* - Johnny Worthington

Oh I have you in another list Johnny: Crossdressing Australians of FF. - Haggis (Sean Loyless)

Well hey thanks! - Brandy Lea

Did I say I wear a dress? Oh wait, yeah I have in the 25 Things - Johnny Worthington

*grabs popcorn* - Josh Haley

Well I saw the Bra, so I only guessed at the rest of the ensemble. - Haggis (Sean Loyless)

... one needs support for one man-tits or one will get a sore back... HEY! EYES UP HERE BUDDY! - Johnny Worthington

You certainly grabbed many of them - RAPatton

I should have been there. - Nation Hahn

lol - Cee Bee

Aww, I hope I'm not offending anyone by not including them on the list. Many times I just go by the avatar and if it's a cartoon or something it's hard to tell and I won't put on here, and also these are just *my* personal tastes. Everyone has different types! - Haggis (Sean Loyless)

Any woman with the brass to be on FF is a hottie in my book. - Chris Baskind

Wow - that'd be a drag to be on a list like that. Still, as I always say, if you want to get a lot of followers get a hot chick avatar. It's sad but it's iJustine. True! I mean true. It's sad but it's true. - Ciaoenrico

++ Chris! - Haggis (Sean Loyless)

Lindsay and Sarah I will agree with however I will not like this cause there is no MONA! - Shawn aka ringking

Sean, how could you miss Dee: http://friendfeed.com/holycool ;-) - Kol Tregaskes

What are you talking about? She's the last one on the fifth row. :D - Haggis (Sean Loyless)

bow chick wow wow! - Morgan Haley

@Kol, She's got a Simpsons avatar, and I don't see any pics in her feed? - Haggis (Sean Loyless)

Yep. - Nicholas Kreidberg

They forgot me....can you do a redo? - @CrystalinaB

Honorable mention? (and I added you to my list) - Haggis (Sean Loyless)

Yay! I'm married to a hottie! - Tad

Whew, I'm glad I'm not on that list. - Christian (Simply X)

Sean, what the hell is my sister doing on this list!?! - jamar78

!!! Who is your sister Joel? I didn't even know! *hides* - Haggis (Sean Loyless)

http://friendfeed.com/teologia AKA Cardeen Martinez - jamar78

hahahahahahaha - what about the boys??!! - ♥ Stephiepooos ♥

yeeha! Chris Baskind GREAT answer! - @CrystalinaB

All I know is that when the boy's list comes out I better be on that or all hell is going to break loose!!! - jamar78

Happy to see everyone there, a few in particular ;) - Timothy Griffin

I'd hide it too, if my sense of fairness didn't kick in...So these are just women? Where are the MALE hotties of FF. :p ;) - Helen Sventitsky

The picture is too small to see. Am I on it? - Martha

@Helen Start up the Male Hotties list yourself! I find men hairy and repulsive. :D - Haggis (Sean Loyless)

LOL MARTHA!! - Mona Nomura

I wonder... Would I be on the male hotties list? :p - Chris, Taskerrific Guy

hahahaha.... when's the calendar coming out? - Thomas Hawk

@Thomas hahahaha - Shevonne

http://friendfeed.com/e... :) - Alessandro

Ciaoenrico I kinda take offense to that. My avatar is me, it's my face and I shared it on FF after a LOT of thought about it (plus some gender confusion, but that's another story). Because a woman might be considered attractive she *shouldn't* user her face as an avatar otherwise she's just trying to get followers? Bull crap, and sexist to boot. - FFing Enigma (aka Tina)

@Tina +++++ - Shevonne

@Sean, I couldn't agree more. :D Tina, YAY! - Helen Sventitsky

Agreed, Tina. That certainly wasn't the point of this list - it was merely a way to point out all of my FF crushes at once. I hope no one takes offense to it. :( - Haggis (Sean Loyless)

I'm offended....I wasn't on this effing list!! - jamar78

Sean, I'm not offended, personally. I find it rather amusing. The title of this post, to me, however, seemed rather "definitive". YMMV. :D - Helen Sventitsky

I mean my sis' made list sheesh!! - jamar78

I think I'm due for a new picture. I've used the same one since joining. - Rochelle

Rochelle, you had that other one, the B&W one of you smiling. That was great, too - Josh Haley

Quite a collection. There should be a male list too but then that could lead to a match-making game and apps being developed and other memes ... and ... oh dear ... - Amani

I'm not a crush, eh? :P - Tamar Weinberg

@Amani is that what you wanted to talk to me about? Creating that app? haha - Shevonne

We totally need a boys list, totally. And I'll pretend I'm not crying in a corner over here. - Bec Rowe @d0tski

I don't know how I feel about this... - Derrick

Dammit.. I'm about to delete this post. It was not my intention to hurt anyone's feelings. :( - Haggis (Sean Loyless)

I don't think it's a problem pointing out your crushes, hun. I think it's the fact that it's titled "The Hotties of FriendFeed" that can make people kind of uncomfy. That comes across as a direct judgment of peoples' looks, even though we know you didn't mean it that way. - tinypants - Hagitha of FF

@Sean don't ever apologize for your actions. - Shevonne

Okay, I think I understand.. Thanks Amanda.. I just updated the title, hopefully it will let everyone know that this is my own personal list, and by no means a judgement of anyone. - Haggis (Sean Loyless)

It's not my scene, but hey...whatevs. It just feels a little meat market-ish to me. People aren't avatars, and I know a couple on the list who wouldn't be proud of being reduced to a FF hottie on someone's list. - Derrick

Sigh.. - Haggis (Sean Loyless)

This whole thing spun out of control rapidly. Impressive. - Mike Nayyar

Okay, I hope this is better: http://friendfeed.com/e... - Haggis (Sean Loyless)

Derrick - But a lot of the stuff you post to the really gay room is pretty meat market-ish. Just because they're professional models it's okay to objectify them? We naturally objectify each other because we naturally are sexual creatures. I'm not offended by being on this list, but I don't like being objectified and I think what Haggis has done is a sweet gesture, not a gesture of blind testosterone rubbing one out. - Mattie Kenny

Didn't anyone see me grab the popcorn earlier? That's your 1st clue. - Josh Haley

I'm not offended at all btw :) - Tamar Weinberg

Thx Matsie <3 - Haggis (Sean Loyless)

LOL - Pedram

Sean you created a monster didn't you....hehe - jamar78

Ugh.. no kidding.. I guarantee this list will never be mentioned again outside of these posts. I think i'm gonna unplug for a while and let this all die down. - Haggis (Sean Loyless)

ok i just now read the whole thread damnit i always miss everything lol joel... ::shakes head:: u kno to some i'm not a lil sister lol ur so funny i luv u! - Cardeen Martinez

don't let it get to you Sean....all that matters is that you had no malicious intent which you didn't - jamar78

**blushes** - gee thanks. :) And go hide for a while, Sean... it'll all blow over. - Jen (SquirrelGirl)

nice list, i have about half of these in a group called "sexy people" - sean percival

Mattie, any pics I post in the Really Gay Room are A) *in* the Really Gay Room, and B) pictures culled from sites that are meat-marketish to begin with. I would never post pics of Scoble or Louis Gray and say, "oh these are guys I'd like to see naked". And I'm not knocking Sean. I freakin' love Sean. But I also know that there are women on the list who've worked hard at getting to where they are in life and in their careers and to be thought of as a pin-up on FF isn't their bag. - Derrick

It's about time you chimed in Leather...LMAO...love it...haha - jamar78

Leather Donut, Don't ever change! :) - Michelle Martinez

I second her notion...hehe - jamar78

I don't see how posting this in a room would make it any different a situation, Derrick. I don't think that Sean ever said he wanted to see any of the women on the list naked. Is that something I skipped over while scanning the comments? If he said that, then yes. This list is pretty lame. But being admired for your beauty isn't bad. Especially since (for me at least) being a hottie entails being incredibly intelligent and engaging. - Mattie Kenny

Mattie, that's exactly what I consider a hottie. Attractiveness is only part of the factor. Intelligence, a sense of humor, and many other things go into that equation. - Haggis (Sean Loyless)

I see a potential calendar. - Paul

Mattie, I'm not going to fight with you over this. If you want to split ends, say I'm a hypocrite, or engage in double standards, feel free. I don't care. Very simply, I know people who don't want to be referred to as hotties. By anyone. I see them on the list. I speak up. That's it. There are 50 people in the RGR, maybe 20 people see it regularly. That's a HUGE difference than the numbers of people who sub to the home feed. But you know what? Forget I even opened my mouth. Apparently I've become a prude... - Derrick

That's not what I'm saying, Derrick. Now I understand what you meant by putting the photos up in the RGR versus what Haggis did. Did these women speak up for themselves and say they don't appreciate being called attractive? - Mattie Kenny

<3 Derrick.. I appreciate what you are saying, and think it's very commendable that you are seeing this from an angle I didn't really see. I know you only have the best intentions with what you are saying. Please no more fighting over this.. - Haggis (Sean Loyless)

I just happen to know them, Mattie. And I didn't say they didn't appreciate being called attractive. I said they, knowing them as I do, woudn't appreciate being culled up on a list and pointed out for the world to ogle. - Derrick

Sean, you know how I feel about you bud, and I'm not putting you on blast. Consider my hands washed of it. - Derrick

Mattie, how about you look at it from the flip side...those women who DIDN'T make the list and don't have the benefit of feeling all bubbly inside because they've been deemed "attractive"? It's all well and good when you're on the winning team, apparently. - tinypants - Hagitha of FF

yeah Sean you are a good person....don't beat yourself up about it - jamar78

Although you better take my sis' out this damn list!! hehe - jamar78

Awesome post, Sean! - George The Writer

Amanda - I don't think not being on the list deems you unattractive and I don't think Haggis is the be all end all of who is or is not attractive. Wow. I'm on the list. BFD. I don't feel or bubbly inside, nor did I take it very seriously. It didn't blip in my radar until I saw people taking major offense to Haggis having posted the list, in which case I looked at it & was surprised to see myself there. I'm not on any "team". - Mattie Kenny

Haggis, I love the conversations you spawn... feel free to include me in future provocative topics. ~xxxooo~ - Far

I would like to state for the record, should there be a men's list...I would like to opt out. That is all, thank you. - Christian (Simply X)

Ok gents, let's show the ladies how we roll. (and can someone email me that info ahead of time, so I look like I know what I'm doing?) - Morgan Haley

Oh too funny. Thanks for including me, Sean. ;-) - Jennifer Leggio

And the winner for best line from this entire thread..."The picture is too small to see. Am I on it?"...@Martha. thank YOU! I am now cleaning cola off of my keyboard. - .LAG liked that

How did you manage to limit yourself to only 53? - j1m

Ok my cat is really pist off...didn't make the cut...gees! LOL - Susan Beebe

Aaaw, Sean! <3 - Nia

This list is approved, mainly because one certain hottie is the better half :) Sean, not only do you represent a great product, but also exceptional taste. Sir, I owe you a drink! ;) - Matt Harwood

I'm amazed that neither Lisa Bettany nor Sarah Lacy are showing up in any of these clique building seminar visual aides. - Matthew DeVries

Ok I am not the brightest crayon in the box so I want to know how the hell do you see a list of people like that. I have different lists but where do I go to see all in just that one list? - Brandy Lea

Brandy, you see this view when you go into one of your lists then select to Add/Remove friends. - Kol Tregaskes

I think what Brandy is asking is if she can see someone else's list, which we can't. Haggis might have made a list that is friendfeed.com/list/hotties and he'll see it when he's logged in, but no one else would see it if they went to that same URL. He wouldn't even see it if he logged out and went to that URL. - FFing Enigma (aka Tina)

Saw this comin'. Nice job Sean :) - Charlie Anzman

Hey, what am I doing there??? I just saw it now :| - Bibi

Booyah! - Josh Haley

LOL Josh. I was waiting for someone to do this. :D - Haggis (Sean Loyless)

Don't you miss the way the groups used to display pictures like this? I wish they'd bring this functionality back - Haggis (Sean Loyless)

Glad I didn't make the list lol - Jeunelle Foster

I don't think I was subscribed to you when I made this list, Jeunelle. This is almost a year old! :D - Haggis (Sean Loyless)

Don't misunderstand what I mean. I mean I am thankful I didn't make the list period. PRAISE THE LORD :) - Jeunelle Foster

We should have an Academy Award of FriendFeed or something. That I would have a long ass speech prepared telling everybody how I'd like to thank all the little people who were responsible for me winning that award and it should be sponsored by Mashable and FFundercats :) - Jeunelle Foster

How the FF did I miss this thread? Jan 27th??? Thank you! That's a huge compliment. And since it's so old, it's a fun time capsule too. - Ginger Makela Riker

*bump* - imabonehead

heart broken i didnt make this list - sean percival

...get well, and good luck! - .LAG liked that

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Hmmm, keep and eye on that cough, young lady. Coughs and fevers lasting this long need to be watched. Lots of rest and don't worry about the job too much until you're better. Now - getting recuperating! - WorldofHiglet

The fever is a rarity, just an hour here and there over the past week so not enough to really concern me. The cough is better than it was (around Wednesday it was the 'cough so much it hurt to breathe' kind of cough) and is productive, so hopefully just a few more days and I'll be better. Will be buying an expectorant tonight to try and clear the last of it out. - FFing Enigma (aka Tina)

keep away from the Pneumonia Triangle. the hotels are expensive there and the service stinks. - Joe Silence disconnected

Get better! Good luck with everything. - Nation Hahn

Good luck Tina, I'm surprised a web company hasn't headhunted you for a community liaison job, you've certainly got the skills. - Steven Cains

I appreciate that, Steven. While I think I'd probably be good at a community liaison position I don't really expect to get head-hunted for one. But hey, if someone has an in with a company that's looking for one... </self-serving hint> - FFing Enigma (aka Tina)

:( Get well soon, Ms. Tina... - JA Castillo

Get well! :-( - John (a.k.a. dendroica)

"Thousands of right-wing protesters are in DC for the 9/12 Project march today, inspired by Glenn Beck and organized by Republican lobbyists. One rally attendee caught a particularly tasteless sign being distributed to protesters:" - Steven Perez from Bookmarklet

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Still classy. - ha3rvey (business time)

Wow, people suck. - Andrew C

Has anyone determined who/what the logo on the bottom of this sign is? - ProsePetals (aka Denise)

I'm not sure why, but this song popped into my head when I saw this: "And you will know they are Christians by their love, by their love... you will know they are Christians by their love." Not that all right-wingers are Christian, by any measure (or all Christians right-wingers--I'm proof of that!) but the right would have us believe that they have God in their corner. Hard to reconcile when one sees stuff like this. - Mark "Godt Nyt Ǻr"

Oh my God. I hate those people. - Nation Hahn

That's why I'd hate to see the Palinite types running the country. Anyone that doesn't agree with them is labeled a traitor or terrorist - Ian May

Classy. - John (a.k.a. dendroica)

p.s. I realize that the song is actually "They will know WE are Christian by our love..." but I guess my subconscious brain automatically edited for context. (It does that a lot. Go figure.) - Mark "Godt Nyt Ǻr"

Denise: It seems to say "ALL." Maybe American Life League? - John (a.k.a. dendroica)

These are the same Confederate Christians who used the Bible (mainly the Old Testament) to justify slavery and war. Kevin Phillips is excellent on this stuff -- see his book "American Theocracy." Also note the Confederate flag in one of the photos above. - Sean McBride

Denise: Check out the logo at the top of this page: http://www.all.org/ - John (a.k.a. dendroica)

John: Indeed it is. I kept thinking that there was a letter (D?) in front of it, but checking out logos, that is the ALL logo. Thanks! - ProsePetals (aka Denise)

The thing in front isn't a letter, it's a fetus. A "pro-life" organization celebrating someone's death. - John (a.k.a. dendroica)

People like these make me wish there was a census for those who oppose the health care bill. Once determined they would never be able to apply for the public option would they find themselves without health care, automatically be dropped to the bottom of the transplant list if they are in need of one, etc. Oxygen stealers. - Rene Wirtz

You can see the logo more clearly here: http://www.flickr.com/photos... - John (a.k.a. dendroica)

I can get behind that, Rene. - Andy Bakun

They can always opt out. Good luck to them if they meet with a catastrophic illness. - m9m, Crone of FriendFeed

Good luck to them if more emergency rooms throughout the US are closed, forcing already crowded ERs to take up an even heavier workload. Good luck understanding why having private insurance doesn't mean they don't have to wait for docs to treat the life-threatening cases before theirs. - MiniMage TKDteacher of FF

@MiniMage: I don't think you quite understand my comment. I am making it personal to those who oppose health care reform, because they don't want to change anything because right now right here they don't need anything. They forget that everyone may have the need for a safety net somewhere down the line and the plan that Obama is promoting makes sure that everyone has a safety net, not just the ones who can afford outrageously high health care. - Rene Wirtz

Perhaps, but maybe you didn't understand mine? I think having to wait hours in an overcrowded, overworked and understaffed ER will deny them what they need. People who can't afford preventive care wait until their situations become urgent, and emergency departments can't turn them away. That can easily affect Biff jr when he falls off his skateboard and gets a messy, but minor head wound, even if daddy can pay cash right now. - MiniMage TKDteacher of FF

But that is how health care now works for those who can't even afford the most basic of health insurances. - Rene Wirtz

Rene, do you not understand that I'm saying "good luck" to the same people m9m is (or, at least the ones who are saying, "I've got mine; we don't need to worry how you get yours")? I'm saying that denying others health insurance can interfere with the care of those who have the means to pay, because it can continue to reduce the number of available emergency rooms and increase the wait time for emergency care. Or is it me? I AM trying a new bottle of sake, so I could be confused. - MiniMage TKDteacher of FF

Your explanation helped, thanks :-) I am a little tired, so I may have missed something as well. - Rene Wirtz

I'm having this problem a lot this year. Since I'm the common denominator, it must be me. - MiniMage TKDteacher of FF

We have Healthcare for sale in France HxNy vaccines included, special offer with Roselyne Kit - Dominique Rabeuf

And even better: no suits were snotted upon during this session. I'm a winner all around! - FFing Enigma (aka Tina)

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ha ha, good luck! - Josh Haley

lookin' good! - Joe Silence disconnected

Well, hello there! :) - JA Castillo

Looking sharp! Good luck! So, you have a video phone? - Nik

No, today's just a phone interview Nik, but I'm hoping to get called in for a face-to-face. I've had the thing since college, hence the question on whether it would fit or not. Probably needs to go to the cleaners if today goes well... - FFing Enigma (aka Tina)

just don't go "SNOK" while on the phone! :) - Joe Silence disconnected

I'm going to pretty much apologize in advance if I sneeze, so hopefully she'll give me a pass on it. - FFing Enigma (aka Tina)

Dressed for success!!! - Joe

I'd hire you based on this shot alone! ;o) - Mark "Godt Nyt Ǻr"

Here's hoping you won't be the only one thinking that, Mark! - FFing Enigma (aka Tina)

Well it's a good thing you dress up nice. Look good, feel good, talk smart. (ok feeling good is a problem i understand). - Nik

good luck! :) wow - Roldano

wowza, lady! You look great in it. - Yolanda

*wolf whistle* - Spidra Webster

I've realized a small problem: I don't think I own any run-free pantyhose. As we're also now out of orange juice, I guess I'll muster enough energy to go to the store for both a little later on. - FFing Enigma (aka Tina)

Woo! - Nation Hahn

Good Luck. - Brent - Loving Life

*tries to not stare or otherwise act creepy* *fails* - Joe Silence disconnected

Tina! Pantyhose? Skirt? WTF??!! Thankfully those days are gone. I'm tellin' ya. - anna sauce

Luckily I don't think it's a pantyhose job, more a 'business casual'. But, interview in clothes a notch above the company's daily norm is what I've always heard... - FFing Enigma (aka Tina)

I stopped wearing my skirt suit because (as this thread shows) it just sends the girlie message a bit too hard. Now I do slacks, suit jacket, and nice top underneath. Glasses not contacts. If your'e curvy (like I am, and it looks like you are) you don't have to sex up the office clothes at all. - anna sauce

It's a really nice suit and you look great- a women's tech group I am in talk about this *all the time* and in the early 90s there was a definite shift out of the skirt for reasons above. I mean, it's all in the impression. Since I'm going for tech roles, it's a tad different. If I was going for marketing, I'd vamp up a bit more. I'm more "trying to be taken seriously," though now that I'm older that's a little less of a worry than I was in my 20s trying to get a programming job! - anna sauce

The best advice I got was- "dress for the pay you want". You may not want to out-dress your workplace, as that may send triggers of "she doesn't fit in." It's an interesting line. For corporate environments, definitely wear a suit (dress/skirt or slacks) for small companies, I'd go more for fitting in, but definitely show that you care and put effort into it (and dress for the pay you want). - anna sauce

Hot! - Meryn Stol

Well, it is a corporate job so a suit is appropriate if I get a face to face interview. An unfortunately, the skirt suit is the only one I have. Without my income and without even having my first unemployment check, I'm not in a position to buy a new one right now. - FFing Enigma (aka Tina)

Understood- good luck! - anna sauce

Lookin' sharp! - LB - all new for '10!

I sometimes do office visit interviews for my large IT company and I see skirts and pants. If it was my interview, I'd wear a knee length skirt. - Sarah Miller from iPhone

@anna "dress for the pay you want". I have to remember that. - Nik

Wear your suit during the phone interview. You will magically come across as a true professional. - m9m, Crone of FriendFeed

Coming late to the party - but it's gorgeous, and so are you. You'll knock 'em dead. - MaryB, BrandingBroadOfFF

*buys a kilt* - Joe Silence disconnected

Ooooooo, DS! That would be so hawt! Mark Vandenberg promised to wear a kilt for us, but he never did. #Harrumph - Ladybug Heather

NO PROMISES WERE MADE!!!! - MVB (Curmudgeon of FF)

I heard him promise...pretty sure. - Josh Haley

Guys go crazy for a sharp dressed woman... - John E. Bredehoft

Very nice! Academia must be ultra-conservative this way b/c we are told to avoid showing our knees in our interview wear. Partly because of the pantyhose/shiny knee conundrum, but also because of how it might look when you sit down. Most initial interviews are done at our big conference, either at the conference job center or in hotel suites/rooms. You never know where you might be... more... - Katy S

"In this new kind of murder, the Internet was front and center at every turn. It enabled the crime, and it was the principal tool used to establish the identity of the prime suspect. When Simons, who lives on the West Coast, did not receive her usual text from Brisman signaling that the transaction had been completed, she texted her at 11 p.m., at midnight, and again at 5:30 a.m., asking her to let her know that everything was O.K. At 7:10 a.m., still having heard nothing, she called security at the Marriott Copley Place and was immediately transferred to the Boston police, who had been combing the crime scene to gather forensic evidence such as hair and blood. She told the officers that she had helped set up the massage appointment through Craigslist, and that she could provide them with the e-mail name and address of Andy. In addition, Simons gave the police the password to the Yahoo massage account. Then Simons called Mark Rasch, the former head of the computer-crime unit of the... more... - RAPatton

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"Few Americans, even those from the younger, Internet generation, seem to understand how easily their clicks and text messages can be detected, and how little privacy any of us have anymore. Every search, every posting, every text message or Twitter, leaves a cyber footprint. The content of every e-mail sent by any one of us is kept by the Internet service provider and stored for a... more... - RAPatton

"“If the Internet is Walmart, every aisle is filled with every sex fetish you can think of,” says former Washington Post tech reporter Jose Antonio Vargas. “Ten percent of all searches on Google and Yahoo are areas which are porn-related,” says Jules Polonetsky, co-chair of the Future of Privacy Forum, a think tank and advocacy group in Washington, D.C., that is supported by major... more... - RAPatton

:( - .LAG liked that

We better shut down the internet. This is just too risky. - Noah Belson

I love Vanity Fair... as an aside. - Nation Hahn

I just wish people were as concerned about the many, many, many (MANY) murders that have absolutely nothing to do with the internet. Those don't seem to get as much press. - Noah Belson

The Internet enabled the crime just like that evil Telephone Book. - Christopher Harley

BURN TEH YELLO PAYGEZZ!! - Joe Silence disconnected

We also better ban cars. Someone could drive one to a murder. - Noah Belson

wow, what a crazy story. Good in depth reporting. - Thomas Hawk

I don't know that the stories about internet privacy and trust can be repeated too often, actually. For those of us who knew Craig's List back when it really was just a mailing list in the SF Bay Area, it was fairly easy to trust and it was a really great experience (not that I'm saying that everyone on that list even then was above reproach). The internet is a tool, like the phone... more... - Spidra Webster

The angle of the story is a bit sensationalistic, but I like the emphasis on the forensics of cracking the case. People forget that they're not anonymous on the internet unless they go to very great lengths - and even then, time and patience can often unravel the most complicated of knots. - Jennifer Dittrich

"Hotel security services routinely monitor Craigslist to see how much of the erotic trade they are attracting." - Mitchell Tsai

Moving is such a pain in the ass - Ian May

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I'm in surprisingly good spirits, considering that I'm about to surrender the house at the bankruptcy hearing in 27 hours. But this apartment is really nice and really comfortable, and we've made it our home now. I don't have all those garbage-baggage feelings of failure that I had when we made the bankruptcy decision. The only funny part today is that Scott's running out of energy before I do! :-) - Ladybug Heather

Keep up the good spirits if you can. Wherever you all are is your home - cliched but true. - Nation Hahn

And we're done... finished about 12:15, so that was 4.5 hours of work, and the only stuff we unpacked was what went into the fridge. Then it was a blissful shower, lunch, to the hardware store to make duplicate keys, and to the ladybuglets at their dad's house to give them their keys for tomorrow. We're very tired, and I'm quite sore, but in a good way. I'm steadfastly refusing to look at all the STUFF we need to put away now. - Ladybug Heather

Happy birthday Mahdi :))) - MutfakTeyze

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Thank You mutfakteyze. you are so kind. actually tomorrow is my B-day but i find this pictures today :)) - Mahdi Ebrahimi

:)) - MutfakTeyze

happy birthday :)) and pictures are really great... - Batu

به به تولدت مبارك :) پس شما هم يك شهريوري هستي. به به - Mahdieh

Happy Bokeh birthday! - Simon Wicks

:******** ای وای من صد ساله نرفتم فیس بوک ! تولدت مبارک مبارک مبارک - Noosha

Thank You Batu. i do agree with you. these pictures are great... - Mahdi Ebrahimi

مبارک باشه دوست خوش ذوق و رنگ دوست :D - Semiramis

مبارک باشه - شما هم شهریوری هستی ...مبارک - موسوی Hamid Reza میر

ممنونم مهديه جان :)) - Mahdi Ebrahimi

تولد تولد تولدت مبارک. ان شالا به پای هم پیر بشید منظورم خودتیو و خودت - ♥ Medriss ♥

Simons, Thanks a lot. I am a cat lover too :D - Mahdi Ebrahimi

نوشا پس اون اكانت فيس بوك براي چيته هميشه شاد باشي دوست عزيزم :دي - Mahdi Ebrahimi

سميرامس جان ممنونم چشمات قشنگ مي بينه - Mahdi Ebrahimi

بله حميدرضا خان شهريو ري هستم :)) - Mahdi Ebrahimi

هدیه کوچک http://friendfeed.com/noosha... - Noosha

مدريس جان خوب فهميدي كه من خودم و خودم هستم فقط ممنونم :)) - Mahdi Ebrahimi

:( مهدی از بس سرعت دایال آپم پایینه باز نمیشه منتظرم ای دی اس ال لعنتی منتقل بشه که یه ماه بیشتر علافم - Noosha

all the best for you, mahdi. shine on! - esther ♥ ♫

Thank you Esther, All the best for you too. - Mahdi Ebrahimi

Happy Birthday! - Anthony K. Valley © from iPhone

Happy Birthday buddy! - Faraz Mullick

تولدت مبارک پسررر بیب بیب دس دس همیشه سلامت و خوشحال باشییییییییی :) - Nimaa

<3 - Caroline

Happy birthday !!! - Nir Ben Yona

Happy Birthday to you :oD - Mellissa

بازم تولدت مبارک ایشالا کیک عروسیتو بخوریم :D رونوشت به ساقی پرستووو وارش نوشا بهار - Nimaa

Happy Birthday Mahdi!! - vijay from iPhone

Hi Anthony, Thank you. long time i have not seen any comment form you. welcome friend :) - Mahdi Ebrahimi

Faraz, Thank you dude! - Mahdi Ebrahimi

نيما جونم ممنونم برادر اميدوارم همواره شاد و خوشحال باشي :)) - Mahdi Ebrahimi

@Caroline: ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ - Mahdi Ebrahimi

ای بابا کاش به ما هم از این دل ها میداد لامصب ترکوندی رونوشت به وارش =))))))))))))))) - Nimaa

Happy Birthday Mahdi...have a wonderful day! :) - Emma

ممنون ياسي جان :) - Mahdi Ebrahimi

Happy Birthday!!! - Iván Abrego

نيما قلب رو به بعضي ها فقط ميدن :دي - Mahdi Ebrahimi

واااای من تیتر رو دقت نکردم :)) ... تولدتون مباااارک - پـرستووو

Vijay, Thank you friend i promise to share beautiful pictures form model :D - Mahdi Ebrahimi

Nir, Thank you friend. i add you to my friends list! - Mahdi Ebrahimi

Happy Birthday:) - Mycaptain

Melisatic, thank you. i am animal lover too :) - Mahdi Ebrahimi

Emma, i love all your sharing in FF, Thank you so much. - Mahdi Ebrahimi

Ivan, I know you like photography too much , i hope my photos satisfy you. thank you buddy. - Mahdi Ebrahimi

Mycaptain, you are a valuable journalist, thank you my friend. - Mahdi Ebrahimi

پرستو چرا عينكت رو نمي زني ممنون دوست خوب :دي - Mahdi Ebrahimi

Thank you, and best wishes, again. - Nir Ben Yona

My birthday too :) Happy birthday ;) - Tamkarışık

Happy Birthday, Mahdi and Gülşah! - Admiral Anika

happy birthday! - Betül

تولدن مبارک :) - Shandiz

@Anika thanks ;) - Tamkarışık

تولدت مبارک :) - Picolo

به به تولدت مبارک :) - پارسـا

Happy Birthday, Mahdi - thanks for all of your great pix and stuffs -/ - Chris Loft

به به :) تولدتون هزار بار مبارک - وارش

Happy Birthday Mahdi! I hope you have a wonderful day. - Trish R from iPhone

I hope you have a wonderful day, Mahdi! Lots of sweet treats and everything you ask for. - Derrick

happy happy birthday مبارك مبارك تولدت مبارك چيني و عربي و اينا هم بلد نيستم اين ببين المللي ه ♥ :دي - egza

Happy birthday!!!!!!!!!! ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ - ★Kristy

تولدت مبارک - Selma

تولدت مبارک - Reza

Gülşah, really today is your B-dAy . happy your birthday. I hope you have a wonderful day :) - Mahdi Ebrahimi

Anika, Thank you friend :) - Mahdi Ebrahimi

Happy B! =) P.S. confession: I love your posts !! - 'Like' robot (frɐnc)

Betul, your name is common in my country. tnx a lot :) - Mahdi Ebrahimi

Congrats!! :) - Jemm

پيكولو جان ممنونم - Mahdi Ebrahimi

پارسا جان اقايي :) - Mahdi Ebrahimi

Chris Loft, I hope i can share better pictures and you enjoy more. thank you - Mahdi Ebrahimi

Happy Birthday! - Bren -- Designated Driver

وارش فقط هزار بار : دي خوب پس هزاران بار ممنونم دوست خوبم :)))) - Mahdi Ebrahimi

Happy birthday! - John (a.k.a. dendroica)

Trish, I am gonna share today strawberries specially for you. Thank you dear friend. :) - Mahdi Ebrahimi

Derrick, i hope for you too a special day. thanks a lot - Mahdi Ebrahimi

فرهاد جان خيلي لطف داري - Mahdi Ebrahimi

Happy Birthday, Mahdi. Nice of you to celebrate it with us. Wishing you happiness today and always. - Wins Fern

Kristy, Many ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ for you. thnx - Mahdi Ebrahimi

سلما جان همواره شاد باشي - Mahdi Ebrahimi

رضا جان اميدوارم كه بهترين فيلمها رو پيدا كني ممنون - Mahdi Ebrahimi

Franc, Good confession. i hope you enjoy more and more. :D - Mahdi Ebrahimi

Happy birthday! - Mohsein Sani

happy birthday, mahdi ebrahimi, :) - chaz2b

oh my gosh! - Zahra (raoros)

Happy B-day! - .LAG liked that

:)) - پـرستووو

happy birthday. i love that kermit photo :) - Alexis Hope

Happy Birthday! - Nation Hahn

تولدت مبارک وارش :))) - Nimaa

تولدت مباااااااارک مهدی ابراهیمی :) - Saghee

مهدی میبینی هی از این قلب ها بده به این اجنبی ها :)) یکی هم بده من خو خسیس :))))))) - Nimaa

سلام ساقی تولد تو هم مبارک :)) - Nimaa

علیک سلام آقا نیما! مطمئنی حالت خوبه؟! :))) حالا کو تا تولد من :) - Saghee

خب بالاخره من اولین کسی بودم که بهت تبریک تولد گفتم پس همیشه از من ممنون هستی اسمایلی از خود خیلی راضی :))) - Nimaa

خوب بيا نيما همه اين قلبها مال خودت ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ - Mahdi Ebrahimi

مرسی مرسی مهدی ابراهیمی دیدی بالاخره همه قلب هاتو از آن خودم کردم و آلان احساس خوبی دارم قربون دستت یکمی شیرینی کیک میوه هم بیار برامون بچه بدو چای بزار رو اجاق مهمان داریم =)))) - Nimaa

ممنون ساقي جان - Mahdi Ebrahimi

Happy Birthday! And many more! - Trish Haley from iPhone

Happy birthday! - LB - all new for '10!

mahdi jan birthdayet mobarak dooste aziz hamishe happy bashi ... dar rastaie aghab namandan az englisha ... with eradat o ina :) - Noosha

Happy Birthday, Mahdi! - Anne Bouey

wow Happy Birthday Mahdi , Best wishes <3<3 - گل باقالی

Happy Birthday! Wahoooo! - Josh Haley from iPhone

Happy Birthday...woot woot :) - Jeunelle Foster

Thank you Friends, Hug for everyone :)) - Mahdi Ebrahimi

Happy Birthday!!!!! - Joe

مبارک باشه مهدی جان، همیشه از عکسای زیبایی که میذاری لذت می برم :) - Λlii

Happy birthday. :) - Mira

Many Happy returns of the day, Mahdi! Hope you have a blast and a rocking year ahead! Cheers! - Parth Awasthi

happpyy birthday!!!! - Thomas Hawk

Happy B-Day - Fatima

Happy Birthday! - EricaJoy

Happy Birthday, Mahdi! :-) - Kol Tregaskes

تولدت مبارک - atalmatal

مبارک باشه تولدت با کلی شیرینی و شکلات و کیکایی که می ذاشتی :دی - Viva Vida

Happy bday! - Jacque

Happy birthday! - MaryB, BrandingBroadOfFF

Happy Birthday :) - Baard @ Pixum

Happy birthday Mahdi! Thanks for all your lovely pictures. - Mitchell Tsai

Happy Birthday Mehdi! - Zee.

Happy birthday Mahdi - Okan Barlas

جووووووووووووووووووونم! چيليك چيليك! تولدت مبارك مهدي جون! چيليك چيليك! نه واژه نه عكس و نه هيچ چيز ديگه! چيليك چيليك! همين كه هر روز صبح با طلوع، تولدت رو توي چشمات جشن مي گيري، شايد بهترين هديه به خودت باشه! چيليك چيليك! تنت به ناز طبيبان نيازمند مباد! چيليك چيليك! باز هم تولدت مبارك! چيليك چيليك! - Moghamer

A very happy birthday to you Mahdi! :) - JA Castillo

Happy Birthday! - J. Abdul-Qahhar

Feliz Aniversário, muitas felicidades sempre!!! - Naira

Many Happy Returns!! - Andrew Terry

Happy Birthday! ^_^ - Carlton Hackett

Happy birthday ;) - Alejandro

Happy Bday! - BEX

Cool Beans Dude - Happy B Day B kind to your neighbors - ThatDBD

Happy Birthday, Mahdi. Have a great Day. - Dputamadre

Happy Birthday! - Michael Fidler

Happy Happy - WarLord

~~~ HAPPY BIRTHDAY MAHDI !!! ~~~ - Susan Beebe from iPhone

happy birthday, mahdi. many happy returns. :) - edythe

Happy Birthday, thanks for all the beautiful images you've shared - Aaman (Clone of FF)

Happy birthday my Dear friend, Happy birthday to you - ardiba

Happy birthday :) - Kamilah Gill

Happy Birthday!! hope you had a good one! - Anna Lynn M.

HAPPY HAPPY JOY JOY!!! Mr. Ebrahimi!!!!! :-D - Live4Emma (L4S)

Happy Birthday! - vicster is...

Happy Birthday ! - Wao || 大号真皮人偶

tavalodetoon mobarak - Mrd

Happy birthday Mahdi! - Darren Heydon

Happy Birthday!!!! - Cardeen Martinez

happy new year ^^ - mariamaqdalena

Belated happy birthday! - MiniMage TKDteacher of FF

Happy B day :) - Burçak Çubukçu

سلام مهدی تولدت مبارک بازم قلب پیلیز :D - Nimaa

!دیروز تولدت مبارک - Drago

Happy birthday :)) - Meral Alabaz

هپی هپی هپی - Noosha

تولد خوش ذوق فرند فید مبارکه. - منیژه

سلااام.تولدتون مبارکککککک - Maryamss

از همه دوستان خوب و گلم به خاطره کامنت‌های بسیار زیبا و مهربانانه بسیار سپاسگزارم:)) - Mahdi Ebrahimi

Dear all friends, I am very happy to have such kind of good friends like you. thank you for all nice comments and congratulation. :) - Mahdi Ebrahimi

wow! Happy Birthday :) wish you the best - Medad Rangi

تبریک من را هم پذیرا باشید - جغله

Happy Birthday! - RAPatton from iPhone

تولدت مبارک آقای ابراهیمی - 2ndmoon©

How did I miss this gorgeousness!!! - Myrna

And how did I miss your birthday!!! <3 - Myrna

سلام مهدی تولدت مبارک همینجوری :) - Nimaa

نیما اینو شخم نزن بابا تمام شد :دی - Mahdi Ebrahimi

مهدی تو همیشه برای ما هپی بیرت دی هستی :) خوشحال باش دس دس - Nimaa

happy birthday !!! - Cindy Gan

Happy bday, Mahdi - N.G. Gordon - RadarSync

:))))))))))))))))))لایک واسه ایجاد تولد کاذب - 2ndmoon© from email

سکند مون واقعی بود :)) - Mahdi Ebrahimi

Happy B'day! - Freddie Benjamin

اون موقع واقعی بود خب الآن که نیست دیگه :))))))) - 2ndmoon© from email

همش تقصیر نیما بود که اینو دوباره شخم زد :دی - Mahdi Ebrahimi

انگلیس خبیث به نیما پول داده بود که این کارو بکنه:)))) اصلا واسه نیما هم یک تولد کاذب میگیریم :دی - 2ndmoon© from email

نیما بیشتر بهش میاد از طرف چین حمایت بشه :دی - Mahdi Ebrahimi

جااااااان؟ :دی اسمایلی سوت زنان گم و گور شدن :دی - 2ndmoon© from email

I have some feedback: go outside, get some fresh air perhaps take a walk and chill out. You will probably have a new job before you know it. Relax. - Joe

LOL! Thanks, Joe =) The resume is always the hardest part for me so I'm trying to get it squared away so I can focus on finding my next great job. I've always got derby practice for stress relief! - FFing Enigma (aka Tina)

:) - Joe

and if you and Dave are ever interested in running pool hall cons, let me know. - Joe

"Major: Psychology | Minor: Violence Studies" = scary. Soft Skills is a totally new term to me. - Toby Graham

How many pages? Looks like it's just one. - Shevonne

When I was in college I had plans to go into criminal psychology, Toby. Even looked at joint programs for a law degree and doctorate in psychology for a while... I'm trying to remember where I picked up the term "soft skills"; I think it may have been at MCI. Basically, those are the skills that aren't exactly quantifiable by certifications, testing, etc. And Shevonne, right now it's... more... - FFing Enigma (aka Tina)

I studied a bit of criminal psych and forensic stuff while in school, too. Wanted material for writing, made it clear to the prof. what I was there for, and he was very cool with it, gave me all sorts of extra stuff on psychopathology, serial killers, stuff like that, just made me promise to portray cops realistically. I had to tell him that unfortunately, most cops are good cops and... more... - Neal Jansons

Yeah, my bookshelves are still sporting some books that would make other people cringe on serial killers etc. I did some research with the graduate department on adult abnormal psychology which was interesting, but made it pretty clear to me that I wasn't cut out for a research path. - FFing Enigma (aka Tina)

Yeah, people are weird about that stuff. I have gotten weird reactions from some people, though; even professionals, cops and CSI people, ask "why do you want to write about stuff like that?" and I just don't know how to answer. I just usually say something like, "Not a horror fan, huh?" and make it into a joke (mostly because I don't really know "why" I want to write anything, I just... more... - Neal Jansons

Looks good thus far Tina. - Nation Hahn

Thanks, Nation. I'm getting ready to put it up on sites now and I'm bad about second guessing myself (and third, and fourth...). - FFing Enigma (aka Tina)

1 page - check, Accomplishments - check, Leads a reviewer to ask questions - check. Looks good! - ‘-.-’ Tutivillus Grift

I think it's great. You have a lot of experience, so if it went to two, then it would be fine. The only recommendation I have is that instead of using "Profile," I would change it to "Summary of Qualifications" - Shevonne

Well, I always try to word the blurb up top so it could be a profile, objective, summary, etc. I don't know about calling it a summary of qualifications though, because it doesn't specifically address my qualifications. Maybe that's just my inner pedant... - FFing Enigma (aka Tina)

Good luck. I've been jobless since July 7. Waiting on hearing from 4-5 interviews right now. - Jeff Quinton

Good luck to you too, Jeff. There are actually a couple of trainer positions open locally that I'm hoping will at least land me some interviews. - FFing Enigma (aka Tina)

You use "ranging from Fortune 500 to local non-profits" twice...i'd look for a different way to phrase that. Also, "local" doesn't really mean much to me. Does "local" mean "small", "geographically close", etc? I'd leave it out. Question I would ask if I were interviewing you (you may want to speak to this on your resume), "How does your psychology background inform your work as a project manager and trainer?" - Ryan Kaisoglus

Re: 'local', I'm trying to keep the phraseology a bit vague because I'm not sure I want to name clients on the resume (don't know if I can, actually). But fwiw when it comes to clients local means geographically close and may or may not imply small (variety of local clients). I'm rewording the profile though to remove the redundancy. - FFing Enigma (aka Tina)

Scott, I appreciate the kudos. My biggest problem is the fact that my job history is pretty varied and I feel I have to struggle to tie everything together for an employer. Hence the difficulty I'm having with the cover letters right now =/ - FFing Enigma (aka Tina)

It looks great and personalized - you might want to include durations for these skills and assignments, and what you've learned from them - Aaman (Clone of FF)

Actually, there are dates for the jobs. Is that what you're referencing? - FFing Enigma (aka Tina)

hey Tina - this is from a UK perspective so you might want to disregard but here goes: one of the best bits of advice I ever got for my CV is to try to get in there not just a description of duties (have those as well). Under every job title also try to include one of your successes e.g. Secured funding for x project by presenting to x board. seems to work well for me so far... oh - these also act as good reminders of examples for your interview as well - it means that the good examples stick in your head. - Sofia @ SoMaFusion

What I've found in the tech arena is that it's helpful for me to keep a summary table of skills near the top. I have broken down mine before into operating systems, development environments, development methodologies, configuration management, and standards. One could easily add "soft skills" as the top or bottom line. What this does is get my resume through the Recruiter/HR door, where... more... - Ladybug Heather

I've done resumes like that in the past as well, Heather,but I'm hoping to not go back into tech this go round. There are a few training positions open in the area right now and I'm applying for them first. So while I have my most recent job listed first I have more detail listed for my training experience (including awards, accomplishments, etc). I expand on these in my cover letter... more... - FFing Enigma (aka Tina)

Best wishes and positive new fabulous job energy to you. I quite like soft skills. You don't hear that mentioned much. - Michelle

Umm, so why don't they? - Anthony Citrano from Bookmarklet

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Short of setting fire to the Hill, most people don't know where to actually begin - since many don't know what their rights are in this capacity. - ProsePetals (aka Denise)

Because it doesn't seem to matter much who sits there, the system is broken and the real issues don't get addressed. - LogEx

@Denise: how about voting? That'd be a neat start - and it's almost 100% effective. I just find it stupefying that 57% of Americans say they want to replace their representatives yet - they don't. Maybe if they could do it via text message, like American Idol? - Anthony Citrano

In a two-party system, the alternatives aren't necessarily better, and could be a good bit worse. - John (a.k.a. dendroica)

Changing reps for the better starts with primary challenges, IMO. - Andrew C

What Andrew said - and John, it's only a “two-party system” because everyone votes for one of the two party candidates. - Anthony Citrano

Anthony - I think it's a two-party system because (1) the votes are first-past-the-post and (2) it's not parliamentary and (3) the parties have historically been big-tent coalitions between several major constituencies rather than small parties making explicit coalitions. - Andrew C

@Andrew: i know this, but what I'm saying is that it's that way because the voters want it that way. - Anthony Citrano

Primary challenges are a strong beginning. - Nation Hahn

Why don't they? Some of the most vocal whiners I know who say Congress sucks and how "they're all the same", NEVER vote. They're too busy trying to get home to catch some reality show. - Admiral Anika

Agreed, Anthony, regarding the voting. The problem (as I see it) is complacency. People figure that "oh, I will just have to wait til next session" - but the problem compounds upon itself. What people don't seem to realize is that just as they have the right to vote people IN, they also have the right to vote people back OUT. The secondary problem (as I see it) is a brand of laziness regarding the bureaucratic red tape. - ProsePetals (aka Denise)

I vote every chance I get, the choices are rarely good. - LogEx

I have a suggested experiment for anyone. Ask people with whom you work...your neighbors...random people in the grocery store in your district...ask them if they know who your/their (assuming same district) representative is. Some people don't know who their city mayor is, who their district representatives are, and even who their senators are. Think about the answers you receive. If a... more... - ProsePetals (aka Denise)

Denise, I am often appalled by people not knowing who their reps are. One factor in purchasing my house was who my representative was. I don't know how people move some place and not look up that information. But it doesn't matter that people have no idea who their reps. are. They still rant and rave and form opinions based on headlines. Ask them not who their rep. is, but if they've... more... - Admiral Anika

I've also found that voters I know in abstract dislike "congress" and "taxes" and especially "pork barrell spending" but they are usually happy with the paticular politician who lives in their town and got federal money for their library, fire hall, highway or whatever pork they wanted for their own town. Like much of life sadly selfish narrow self interest is a big part of behavior - WarLord

@WarLord - you reminded me of http://www.theonion.com/content... - Andrew C

Case in point, there is a MN Rep Kline (R) who to great applause took the no earmarks pledge and vowed not to place personal appropriations in any spending bill. Last I heard several county boards had sent him letters chastising him for failing to bring road transit and other federal funding to the dstrict. While I think such pledges are grandstanding and dumb, the whole incident illustrates the disconnect in peoples thinking that drives that poll and much of rhetoric - WarLord

Anika, indeed. I came across this in myself for more than a decade married to the military. Because my family moved around once every 2-3 years, I saw no point in knowing anything at the local, county/district, or state level. I knew who my hometown reps were, but I was so far removed from it that I didn't pay attention - I only followed the national stuff. When I moved here after the... more... - ProsePetals (aka Denise)

If you're interested in this sort of thing, the blog, of course, is here: http://theshibboleth.com. - Mark Trapp

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My brain's drained working on my own new blog but I'm 100% on board with you via RSS. - Akiva Moskovitz

Sounds like an interesting concept if nothing else! - Nation Hahn

Thanks, guys. It's been something I've been meaning to do for a while. Hopefully it'll be interesting! - Mark Trapp

Mark, thanks for sharing your journey. I read your most recent entries today and watched this TED talk. http://www.ted.com/talks... There are some really good questions in the comments section. Questions that you have touched on and I reflected on after consideration of your posts. Edit: Doug Walton's Q in particular. - Eric Logan

Eric: I don't know if I want to touch on evolution so soon after the last post on it (http://theshibboleth.com/2009...), but I think the comment still makes the same fallacy Hunter outlines. Having studied artificial intelligence, Walton misunderstands or underestimates the state of strong AI. most strong AI work is exactly what he seems to believe can't... more... - Mark Trapp

:) - Eric Logan

1UP Mark. I'm in this area of limbo where I'm trying to figure out my own matters of faith. I look forward to the site. - Derrick

Cool, Derrick: hopefully this is right up your alley. I think tonight I'm going to go with the trilemma (Jesus must be a liar, a lunatic, or Lord). - Mark Trapp

do you have to believe in God in order to... call yourself an observant religious person? - edythe

Discuss the book "the life of pi". Thought provoking. - Rick Cogley

edythe: do you mean, can you be a Christian if you don't believe in God? I don't think you can. Tonight's post (http://friendfeed.com/itafrom...) touches on one aspect of that thought, but that's a really good question for the weekly Q&A post (http://friendfeed.com/itafrom...). - Mark Trapp

Subscribed! - Joey Gibson

One that's always fun is, how do you define faith? - Ladybug Heather

you should join the scripture discussion room on ff! - Jason Wyttenbach

Heather: I'll add it to my list, thanks! Jason: I'm already in The Gospel room (http://friendfeed.com/thegosp...). Where's the Scripture room? - Mark Trapp

I like the "Ask a Catholic" idea, and will look for that! - Kathy Fitch

when I first talked to the rabbi about converting, I asked him if I had to believe in G-d, and I was prepared to say that it was something I couldn't do if my conversion would make me a hypocrite. But he said that if I came to him and said I *knew* G-d existed, he would no more advice me to convert than he would if I came to him and said I knew G-d *didn't* exist. [felt the need to omit the "o" in this comment, out of respect for my rabbi, and Jews, and my conversion.] - edythe

Mark, do you listen to the Catholic Insider or Daily Breakfast podcasts? - joey

edythe: that's interesting, and different from the starting position one's supposed to have before formally converting to Christianity. joey: I don't have the patience to listen to podcasts. - Mark Trapp

Whoa Mark, that's interesting, indeed! Good luck in your spiritual journeys. They will be interesting, I can vouch for that. And for your blog, maybe you could touch on "intelligent design" principles. And a good site is 'Reasons to Believe'. I think it's http://www.reasons.org (forgive me if that URL is wrong. In which case, you can simply Google for it) - Pandu ● IT Optimizer from fftogo

Yay, I learned something new about a cool friendfeeder. Tis nice when to jump back and feel the same stuff. - Mathew A. Koeneker

I learned early on in my days of FriendFeed to not mess with Mark on issues of Christianity and Catholicism. I've learned a lot from him and his blog on the subject continues to illuminate. It's good stuff. - Akiva Moskovitz

I'm going to do a clean install, good opportunity to get rid of the baggage that has accumulated over the years. - LogEx

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I did an upgrade but then again mine was only two weeks old. - Nation Hahn

I'll wipe and install over my main boot drive, though I have separate Time Machine and clone disks (I'll keep the Leopard clone around for awhile, just in case). I'm going to try to minimize the number of apps I install initially, then only install others as I need them. - LogEx

Interesting to note that adjusting my Flash settings made it into the top three list of non-app customizations. - LogEx

No AIR. Silverlight only if I come to realize it's absolutely necessary for some essential site or service. - LogEx

Avoiding apps that can't be installed with a simple drag to the Applications folder. I don't tend to like apps that embed themselves into system folders, or that create daemons that I can't easily see and control. - LogEx

Feel the love, Jen, and buy yourself a Mac :-)) - winckel

I'm feeling it. Or is it PC hate I'm feeling. I may go over to the other side next time I buy a new laptop. - Jen (SquirrelGirl) from iPhone

dO IT! - Nation Hahn

Hmmm.......hate comes from the dark side.......love is all Mac :-)) - winckel

My wife says nay, I say yea. - Eric @ CSTechcast.com

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Nah. - LB - all new for '10!

Nope !!! - Eric Logan

No. - John (a.k.a. dendroica)

No. Try fritos instead. - Miss Elle

sure! - BEX

Yes - Nation Hahn

WTF not? - Rahsheen ™, Coach Rah

WRRRRRRYYYYYYYYY - Mike Nayyar

yes - Geoff Schultz

you betcha! - holly

Yes. - Ayşe E.

yes... to stay true to my roots - T. Brent, technopeasant

No. - Michelle Martinez from iPod

Hell's to da NO - jamar78

what kind of chips? - sofarsoShawn

YES! And make mine a PBB - that's peanut butter and BACON! - Bill Sodeman

They could be Lay's or Ruffles style. Maybe even Kettle style. - Eric @ CSTechcast.com

i say no - Cee Bee

Maybe pretzels, but potato chips just don't sound right with PB&J. - LB - all new for '10!

Against. - Louis Gray

absolutely.....also found out mayonnaise on peanut butter and banana sandwich is good - Ken

no. but give me ripple chips with cheese whiz on a fresh bun instead. yum! - Nathalie, Dreamer of FF

Sure, why not? - Michael McKean

I say yes! I prefer chips. My wife puts Fritos ON her PB&J. - Alex Hellstrom

YES - kartik vaithyanathan

I say NO but my S.O. and his boys LOVE it. - Katie is Frittering

Yeah then do it especially if they're kettle. - sofarsoShawn

+1 sofarsoShawn - Kim Landwehr

No - David Cook - 2010!!!

yes, naturally. - edythe

Oh, yes. - Rubin Sfadj

That would be a definite yes :) - Ken

Sure - you need the crispy. - m9m, Crone of FriendFeed

yes. - edythe

why would you defile potato chips this way? NO - MiniMage TKDteacher of FF

Trader Joe's sells a candy bar that is a layer of peanut butter, a layer of jelly, and a layer of potato chips. Then the whole thing is dunked in chocolate. - Rochelle

That is why other people are rich. They come up with these ideas. - Eric @ CSTechcast.com

YES. - Bill Sodeman

Bora, are you going to try to make it to NN10 next year? I hope you do. It would be nice to meet you. - Admiral Anika

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I'll do my darnedest! Vegas, baby! - Bora Zivkovic

Yay! Do you know @unstableisotope? She's a scientist (also her husband @FreeRadical). Both of them also attend and have been my go to people for what goes on in the science panels. Mainly because they can explain stuff to me in layman's terms. - Admiral Anika

I think my picture should be the logo since my name is Nation. - Nation Hahn

Are you going to go Nation? There is always a nice meet-and-greet with that year's candidates and they have a pretty cool Camp Wellstone panel too. - Admiral Anika

hot chocolate!!! - anna sauce

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coffee - Jim in Real Time

beer - Amber, Random Time Lord

Waßer! :) - directeur

Russ - Peter Hoffmann

water:) - Mycaptain

Water. - Bonnie Foster

Water. - John E. Bredehoft

Water. - Ayşe E.

we're drowning here - anna sauce

Against my better judgement, Coffee - Helen Sventitsky

LOL, anna! - directeur

Coffee, cap + 2 sugars - Glenn Slaven

But sugar ruins coffee, Glenn :/ - directeur

water. but i want Mountain Dew, dammit. - Joe Silence disconnected

@directeur Maybe for a really good espresso, but I find I need the sugars in the coffee I get from around here :) - Glenn Slaven

lemon rind in high quality espresso is da bomb. - anna sauce

Limeade. - Steven Perez

raspberry juice - Mitchell Tsai

Mitchell you're so healthy! - anna sauce

water - Bren -- Designated Driver

water - Michael W. May

coffee - anna sauce

Coffee (and Holy Hell! You look like one of my Ex Wives) - ‘-.-’ Tutivillus Grift

Have we had this conversation before? I was never married to you Tutivillus, that I can remember. - anna sauce

Orange juice. - Steven Perez from IM

Kona Blend. - Eric @ CSTechcast.com

Diet Coke. - LogEx

Water - Katie is Frittering

No. We haven't been married, and Yeah, we may have twittered this convo. Brain is weak this day... - ‘-.-’ Tutivillus Grift

Cuba Libre - Willem (@wim66) ☠

@Tutivillus Yup She sure does!!! holy hanna! to a T wouldn't you think? - The Catz Meow

this feed is going to be everlasting:) there is different answer any time:) - Mycaptain

Mycaptain, back in the day I thought this would be a cute meme, and nobody ran with it, and so I'm running with it and just enjoying it as a "my-meme" lol - anna sauce

hunting down coffee. - anna sauce

irish breakfast tea - Brett Kelly

Chilean Cabernet Sauvignon. mmmmmm Deep, rich, yet soft flavours bursting with fruits with just a taste berry and a subtle touch of gentle oak. - Kevin J Hatton

Lemonade, it's quite tart :P - Zulema ◕ ◡ ◕

phew, finally got a latte - anna sauce

I just finished a cowboy coffee. - Glen, Bespectacled Elder from iPhone

coffee right now. it's that time of day. if i had my druthers i'd have some dark chocolate to go with. - sean808080

Water. - Nation Hahn

Kevin, nice... too early here PST but I will keep it in mind! - anna sauce

Ouch. I'm sorry dear. - Nation Hahn

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oh no! :( - Joe Silence disconnected

damn... - Zee.

no! wtf? - Jim in Real Time

WTH???? - Jorge Escobar

Ouch, sorry to hear. =( - ronin

time to start the job search sounds like - Logan Lindquist

To say that sucks is probably an understatement. - CAJ, somewhere else

Damn, Tina. - Derrick

whoa! this is so sudden! wtf??? - vijay

Sorry to hear that. Time to update LinkedIn, I guess. - Michael R. Bernstein

oh no! I'm so sorry. - Rachel Lea Fox

Oh...that bites. I'm sorry to hear it. - ‘-.-’ Tutivillus Grift

Would the cut equal less than unemployment? If so, go for the layoff. - ‘-.-’ Tutivillus Grift

sorry to hear that Tina. - Bill Kinney

Sorry. When will this happen? - Tom Landini

Sorry to hear that. :-( - John (a.k.a. dendroica)

Oh no! I'm sorry. - joey

Yeah, pretty out of the blue. Taking the contract would put me about $400 a month ahead of unemployment (both before taxes) and in theory I could work elsewhere while doing it. It's the finding work that's the question: unemployment is high around here. - FFing Enigma (aka Tina)

Looking at my calendar, I realize I started with this company 3 years ago almost to the day. Don't know what that matters, but it just struck me. - FFing Enigma (aka Tina)

Oh yuck.... - Katie is Frittering

Oh crap. So sorry. - Ken Kennedy

Very sorry to hear that, Tina. - Glen, Bespectacled Elder from iPhone

Aw that sucks! I'm sorry that's happening. - vicster is...

:( - Pete Delucchi from iPhone

:( - Roldano

crap. double :(( - ɐ ɯıʞ sıɹɥɔ

I'm so sorry :( - Jennifer Dittrich

unlike - Georgia Diehl

What?? Damn. Maybe time to re-examine that going out on your own thing? - Yolanda

Sorry to hear, it's a domino effect happening everywhere! If you can at least take the cut and go part time. better than having nothing. - orionstarr

=( Sorry - Shevonne

Sorry to hear, Tina. :( - Tyson Key

When i got let go from last design job, I pleaded! I said cut my pay etc. I even made less than the other designer(s) and said cut one of them not me. Still didn't work. Desperate times! - orionstarr

That really is tough dear. - Nation Hahn

:( - xero

Yolanda, I thought about that too (the whole going out on my own thing), but I don't know about it yet. I don't want to to websites or design or coding, I'm not good enough at it to be competitive. Ditto photography... - FFing Enigma (aka Tina)

That sucks! In regards to the 3 years thing, is it possible some benefits change then and they are being cheap about it? - Justin Korn

That sucks Tina. :-( Hope you find something quick. - Jordan Hofker

Ugh. I am so sorry. - Heather Solos

i am so sorry Tina :(( - خیزران kheyzaran

sorry to hear this news. - .LAG liked that

The shock of of sudden uprooting alone is terrible. :( Tina - Micah Wittman

:( - Dimitrios Diamantaras

Oh, no. :( - Rochelle

I too am sorry to hear this Tina. Its one thing if you can see it coming...quite another when you don't. Good luck Tina, I hope this gets resolved for you quickly. Start making moves girl. - Carlos Ayala

You said it from the start. Fuck. Sorry you are going through this. I hope things get better for you starting right....NOW. - Morgan Haley

Not really, Justin. I took a bit of a benefits cut by staying with the company once Boss bought it from the previous owner: I liked the working environment enough that it was worth it. Luckily my health insurance is through Dave's job (but unluckily he works in the newspaper industry). - FFing Enigma (aka Tina)

Brush up the resume and start looking before it all comes crashing in. Easier to make a lateral move... Good luck! xo - Fossil Huntress

Ugh, so sorry - Rodfather

:( - Jimminy Fuller

Oh, no. So sorry to hear this, Tina. Hope you find something wonderful soon. - LB - all new for '10!

That sux, Tina. Maybe you can find someone with complementary skills to partner with on your own thing. - Kevin Pedraja

I'll be honest, I'm not all that interested in a lateral move or staying in this industry if I have the option, but the question then becomes where to go if I don't stay where I am. I'd love to get back into training again but I don't know that I can after being out of it for 3 years... - FFing Enigma (aka Tina)

Shit... - Helen Sventitsky

sorry tina. lots for you to process... you're a talented person so just decide what you want and then go get it. i believe in you. - Trish Haley

I'm so very sorry to hear that. I hope you'll get things sorted soon :( - Niki Costantini

Sorry to hear that! :( - Bo Stern

چرا حاجي ؟ - mohammad

Damn. I may have to swallow that low offer I received this week :S - LANjackal

Oh no! - DGentry

Alright, EVERYONE has to keep their fingers crossed that I hit a jackpot in Vegas now, mkay?!?? =D - FFing Enigma (aka Tina)

sorry :-( - YoYo_P

Sorry to hear this Tina. Hope you win big bucks in Vegas! - AJ Batac

Damn. I'm sorry to hear that, Tina. - pea

&%*$ sorry Tina : ( - Marco(aureliusmaximus)

haji tavakolet be khoda bashe. - mohammad

Sorry to hear this news. Rooting for you in Vegas, though. :) And it's a cliche, but sometimes these things happen for a reason. You know, when one door closes, another opens. Will be keeping good thoughts for you. - Joe Bonner

Sorry *HUGS* my advice (if it matters) take the contract while you look for both contract and F/T work and let the universe help you figure it out - Bastard Operator From FF

:( - mjc

Oh NO! :( - Gunny doesn't side-hug™

Sorry to hear that Tina - it really sucks (like this year hasn't been trying enough!). After the news settles in your brain will start doing it's thinky-thing and things will get moving. There are so many people here that you can bounce ideas off...((hugs)) - WorldofHiglet

Sorry to hear that ... :-( - Rene Wirtz

So sorry! - Katy S

How awful. Boo hiss. - Richard pancakhaus Walker

Getting laid off is the new black! Not really, but someone said that when it happened to me and it's kind of true. All the coffee shops during the day are filled with us. Come make friends...and learn about all the unemployment tricks. If it helps, everyone I've met in the past 5 months has found new opportunities and are happy. - Jess

What sort of work do you do? What sort of work are you looking for in the future? - Scott Magdalein

My current job is (was?) a mismash created as the result of me filling in where it was needed over the years. I do Linux server admin, Oracle admin, Lotus Domino admin, and Lotus Notes development; I don't do any of it exceptionally well, just good enough. If I leave here I don't intend to stay in the same technologies (or even in tech at all), but other than that I have no clue. - FFing Enigma (aka Tina)

ugh. :( - Wirehead

Sounds like you're not really digging what you're doing anyways. Look at this as an opportunity for change. Change is usually good. :) - Mr Saturday Morning NFG

I'm ambivalent about what I do but enjoy who I do it for. Perhaps to be more specific: I don't like what I do enough to be willing to do it for another company (and honestly, I don't have the credentials necessary for another company to hire me to do what I do now). - FFing Enigma (aka Tina)

That bites! Can anyone help Tina find a new gig? - Shane

DO ANYBODY NO HOW TO GET PAID FOR FRIENDFEEDING?!? - FFing Enigma (aka Tina)

1UP Tina (and if you find out, lemme know?)! - Derrick

Ouch... - Neal Jansons

here's a secret: you don't have to be *GREAT* to make money. "good enough" is oftentimes good enough to make a living. not saying you should stick with tech if that's not where your heart is. but don't let "i'm not great" keep you from doing something. - tiffany

I agree, I'm terrible at everything. Oh, but I don't make any money. I guess that is not helpful. Good luck. - Andrizzle Gizzle

Tiffany, it's not even a matter of being good enough: I'd have to go get several certifications to get hired doing what I do now with another company just to meet the minimum qualifications. I don't enjoy it enough to do that. - FFing Enigma (aka Tina)

That really sucks. Sorry to hear it. - Ethan

I am so sorry to hear this news, Tina. I wish you the best in deciding what to do and then pursuing it. - Anne Bouey

Thanks for the kind wishes all, and I'm sorry for the language. Sometimes, though, foul words are really the words I'm looking for. This is one of those times... - FFing Enigma (aka Tina)

I totally fucking know what you are fucking talking about. Fuck yeah. Sometimes the fucking fucks is all the fucking fuck that fucking allows the fucks to fuck the fuck fuck. Right? Fuck Yeah! So you go girl. Cut loose! - Morgan Haley

Ouch. That sucks. - James Myatt

Crap. What kind of work do you do / want to do? I know you were dealing with a couple of servers before (and DNS setup stuff) and that it was somewhat technical. Depending on what you're looking for I could check my network. - mikepk

I'm so sorry. :( - David Cook - 2010!!! from fftogo

I appreciate it Mike, but I'm going hold off for just a little bit. I'm not really certain what I want to do or even if 'want' can come into the picture in this economy. I'm more than willing to telecommute if need be, but moving isn't an option. - FFing Enigma (aka Tina)

So sorry, Tina! :( Hope this means an even better opportunity for you around the corner. - Ayşe E.

Ow! - MASTER OF THE OBVIOUS

:( - Steven Perez

:( - Tracy Benham

I'm really sorry to hear that, Tina. I hope you get a brainstorm as to which way seems the best way forward. And I hope something really cool you'd very much like to do drops in your lap. - Spidra Webster

Sorry to hear that and hoping something even better comes along for you. - adf

*don’t like* this - Stephanie_Happy2010!

Take the cut and start looking...big breaks always start this way. - claudio alegre from iPhone

Fuck fuck fuck. Here's looking at you. FF has got your back. Looking for a job as an oil tycoon maybe? - Mike Nayyar

Tina, you're smart and and you have a good network, one way or the other you'll land on your feet. The short-term uncertainty is teh suck though :( - LogEx

I took a full time job and lost 40% in pay for the same company; sad thing is that I do a LOT more work now... - acedanger

Sorry to hear Tina......that really does suck! - Bonnie Foster

Sorry to hear that Tina. Hope the rest of your time gets filled quickly with rewarding freelance projects or similar. - Patrick Jordan

Tina: I noticed you said you don't have the credentials to perform your current job for another company ... are you sure about that? Nearly all employers value experience doing something over raw qualifications. You might want to test the waters first before making that assumption - LANjackal from IM

:O - Josh Haley

Oh ouch… I'm sorry. :-( - James (!?)

Because my current job duties were so varied and scattered about, LANjackal, I never became proficient enough at any one thing to warrant a position in another company without credentials. And to tell the truth, I'm ok with that; the biggest reason I enjoyed my job was because of where I worked, not because of what I was doing. I don't enjoy Notes/Domino/Oracle enough to want to do them at another company. I've got 10 long days to mull everything over in Vegas, so hopefully I'll come up with something =) - FFing Enigma (aka Tina)

Oh, and James: LOVE your display name =D - FFing Enigma (aka Tina)

Tina: OK, I hear you. I was just asking. - LANjackal from IM

Aww, thanks, Tina. And again, I'm sorry. Here's hoping that something better's on the way for you. - James (!?)

Bummer. Good luck. Do you have any other companies/people in mind that you'd like to work with? If you connect with me on LinkedIn, you can look through my LinkedIn contacts to see if there's anyone where you might like to work... (or I can e-mail you some PDFs). I can also look through my 2nd & 3rd level contacts to see if anyone's interesting. - Mitchell Tsai

:( sorry to hear that - BeeLing

Wow, that's terrible! G-d willing, something better will come from this. - David C. Cooper

Oh, damn...so sorry to hear that, Ms. Tina. :( - JA Castillo

Very sorry for you, Tina. Hope this becomes a new beginning for some better opportunities in the future. All the best. - Mahendra (SkepticGeek)

Sorry, Tina. I agree with claudio...I would take the PT contract, spend free time looking for a new job (I have faith you'll find something you like!), and give them 2 weeks notice when the next gig is rdy2go. - Hao Chen

:-( sorry to heat that... - Live4Emma (L4S)

Oh no, sorry to hear this, Tina! :-( - Kol Tregaskes

Sorry to hear to that, Tina. - Andrew Terry

Sorry Tina :( Are you sure that your company can do that? Are you the only one with this problem or are involved also some collegues? - Roberto from fftogo

:-( I'm sorry, Tina. That really is the massive fucking suck. Hmm... hey, Morgan! Do you know whether women get severance whores, too? http://ff.im/3tgPa - Ladybug Heather

Roberto, there are currently only 2 people at my company: Boss and myself. All of my main job duties revolve around handling our biggest client, so the offer to got part-time contract is so I could take care of their issues when they arise. Boss handles most of the remaining clients But they are all smaller contracts. - FFing Enigma (aka Tina)

Sucks. - Michelle

Time to find something else then. - Richard A.

oh that sucks...sorry to hear the bad news - (jeff)isageek

:( I'm so sorry, Tina. - Michelle Martinez

Sorry to hear Tina, not to worry because if you are strong peeps will find and love you work - Braden Douglass

Sorry, Tina. :( - Mathew A. Koeneker

Do not like. :(((((( Good luck with everything. :( - rowlikeagirl

Sorry to hear it. Solidarity! I too was let go not long ago. Good luck. - Eric @ CSTechcast.com

:( - Grant Bierman

Solidarity: I had to go on furlough two days a week starting several weeks ago. Effectively a 40% pay cut. - DGentry

Boooooooooooooo! Ssssssssss! That sucks, I'm sorry Tina. Chin up, you'll get through it. - You. from iPhone

So sorry to hear about that Tina. :( So not cool - Alex Scoble

Full sympathy Tina -- go pro skating? - Stephen Mack

LOL! Stephen, I'd have to be able to skate well for that to be an option. I'm good at hitting and controlled falling, but skating isn't my strong point just yet. - FFing Enigma (aka Tina)

"Pro" just means they pay you, not that you're good at it though! - Stephen Mack

Well, then that takes roller derby out of the question, no one gets paid in flat track derby. Actually, we all pay dues to be on the team... - FFing Enigma (aka Tina)

And the roller derby t-shirt sale profits go to? - Stephen Mack

They go into the team fund, which pays for renting out the place we have our bouts. It's a new team, no cash right now. Our league is setup as a non-profit, though, so once they have enough capital to cover expenses then profits from our bouts and merch sales will be donated to a local charity (we're actually in the process of picking one). EDIT - I just realized, that might mean that my monthly dues are tax deductible. Dunno... - FFing Enigma (aka Tina)

I see. Ah well. There may be more to explore with the pro skater angle that. Warped Enigma World Skating Tour? - Stephen Mack

layoff, you will have more time for tweeting, like me. Come to kosovo, like me. Life is cheap here. 50Cents for a Cappuchino. - James Michael Mike DuPont

Don't give up, Tina. The trick is to turn the set-back into an opportunity. I know for a fact that if I hadn't been laid off at a point in time, I would be still stuck in a crappy cable-tv company instead of where I am now. - Adrian Scicluna

James, that is very tempting, I'll have to add it to my list of inexpensive places to live =) Actually, if I were willing to move I'm actually now capable of moving to Argentina: even this li'l bit of contract cash would be enough to set Dave and me up comfortably in Cordoba. Hrm.... - FFing Enigma (aka Tina)

Very sorry to hear this, Tina. - Kamilah Gill

dat Sux da Big Kahuna!! - Billy Warhol

Sorry about the surprise/shock. After the initial shock wears off, do your best to look at the opportunity that has presented itself to you. Namely is there any way you can leverage your time to discover greater value/pay for your efforts? - Mark Essel

:-( I missed this post. Sorry to hear it Tina. Maybe now is the perfect time to become an entrepreneur? :-) - Jason Huebel

Doh! That's what "entrepreneur" means! Recently laid off! Thanks, Jason! Much catchier than "consultant" :) - Richard pancakhaus Walker

Tina - Would you be interested in applying for this Continental Airlines position? http://ff.im/6S4bZ Continental is my favorite airline & has been making good efforts to relate to their customers. Their rep "CO Insider" has been very active on the FlyerTalk forums, and it feels to me like they "get" internet communication better than any other US airline. "CO Looking to Hire Facebooke'r/Tweeter/Social Media Guru" [Weatherboy, FlyerTalk Forums - 8/15/09] - Mitchell Tsai

I just read this post - you say "My current job is (was?) a mismash created as the result of me filling in where it was needed over the years." - I'm in the same kind of position and also in layoff jeopardy. No one appreciates the glue until it's gone. I'm sorry. - Amy℠

{selects "don't like" and clicks mouse} - Bryan R. Adams

In an effort to test various energy saving and waste-reducing methods, McDonald’s is evaluating 10 prototype “green” restaurant locations. The restaurant is treating the 10 locations as “learning laboratories,” said McDonald’s Vice President of Corporate Social Responsibility Bob Langert, in a Q&A with DailyFinance. Energy savings and waste reduction are central to McDonald’s corporate social responsibility strategy, [...] - Chris Baskind

We have 1 in town here in Cary. - Nation Hahn

"We come to this same log every time, each time it's something different. A boat. A spaceship. A car. A horse. A road. An eagle. They say we adults need to teach kids how to grow up, but really I think it should be the other way around." - Anna Haro from Bookmarklet

Beautiful picture and comment. - Nation Hahn

:-)) - Anna Haro

you find the best stuff on Flickr, Anna! - Laura Norvig

Thanks, Laura! :-)) - Anna Haro

That's charming! - Anne Bouey

"How many special edition Bugatti Veyrons are there? There's the Pur Sang, the Bleu Centenaire, the Sang Noir and Fbg by Hermes, not to mention the countless examples that have either been painted gold or chrome by bored sheiks who've spent too much time in the sun. The targa-fied Veyron, otherwise known as the Grand Sport, has been around a lot less time than its closed roof counterpart, but it's about time the open roof Bug got a special edition of its own. Enter the Grand Sport "Sang Bleu" that's being unveiled by Bugatti this weekend in Monterey." - imabonehead from Bookmarklet

reshared to the Supercars room as well -->- http://friendfeed.com/superca... - vijay

cool, thx. Forgot I was subscribed to Supercars. :P - imabonehead

Sexy, sexy. - Nation Hahn

sexy is veyron. - vijay

Many promoters of health-care reform believe that people have an intrinsic ethical right to health care—to equal access to doctors, medicines and hospitals. While all of us empathize with those who are sick, how can we say that all people have more of an intrinsic right to health care than they have to food or shelter? Health care is a service that we all need, but just like food and shelter it is best provided through voluntary and mutually beneficial market exchanges. - Meryn Stol

Mackey can kiss my white ass. - Nation Hahn

And go where? Back to Twitter or...Facebook? - Manuel Mas

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no idea yet.... see what happens. - Rob Sellen :o)

I have nowhere else to go. No where else gives me the high level of interaction that FF does. - Mel Buckpitt

Same FriendFeed as before, I'll still use. - Ben Parr

Of course if Paul hands me a few hundred shares of stock ... just kidding. Sigh. - Robert Scoble

I was going to ask how you felt about the purchase, but now I see - acedanger

Depends how much it changes. - Andrew Leyden

Why leave? - Mike Shulman

+1 Mel - I am gutted and don't know what to do if the main FF site closes - Matt Hooper

Why would I leave friendfeed? This place works well enough for me. - Talon Lardner

Manuel: back to my blog and Twitter, probably. I'm playing around with Facebook but it doesn't quite do it for me. - Robert Scoble

I'm sticking around unless there's some sort of mass exodus which I don't see an immediate reason for. - Mike Elliott

Not leaving 'til it closes, and I'm certainly not going to facebook or twitter even then. - Jim in Real Time

I'm sad, but I'm sticking around. I'm hoping others do to. At some point, the fuss will die down. - Helen Sventitsky

Mike: because I expect it will get shut down eventually if it doesn't get invested in, and if it gets no new features it will fall behind Google Wave and other projects. - Robert Scoble

This feels like that HBO Documentary about Brooklyn Dodgers going to LA haha. - Manuel Mas

And, actually, Google Wave seems to be the most obvious thing for me to try out from now on. - Robert Scoble

Isn't it a bit early to make decisions? Has there been an announcement that I missed that FF is going away? Even if it isn't where else is better at this point? - Tad

I will stick around until they move the features I like from friendfeed onto facebook. - Bryan Lee

I'm not going anywhere Helen...When it goes it goes...I'm sitting tight on the ship - Bill Heslin

there used to be a kind of message board system ages back with FB. disppeared one day never to return, lets hope this will bring something of that back, who knows.. - Terry O'Fee

I can't wait to try out wave. ;o) - Rob Sellen :o)

Waiting and watching. Robert, I know you have a discussion tab on FB but its not the same. ;) - Melanie Reed

How soon before google wave becomes available to the early adopters/public? - Bryan Lee

Mashable just published a How To Take Advantage of FriendFeed's Unique Features. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA. A little late for that, no? - Stephen Pickering

didn't you just just say "FriendFeed is dead. I will keep using it until Paul unplugs the last server, which could be years" ? or i'm missing something - Liviu Barbat

I'll stick around to the bitter end. - Dave Metzener

Robert: Earlier in the day you were excited for both FriendFeed & Facebook. It didn't sound like you were leaving FriendFeed. What changed? Why not stick around to see what happens? - Jill Elswick

Bryan: I heard they weren't handing out beta access to non-developers until September. Cold be wrong but that's what I heard - Mike Elliott

I'm in wait and see mode. It would have to be absolutely sucked in by FB for me to leave it completely. - pea

Robert, if you believe this is a good deal for both FF and FB - why are you leaving? - George F. Snell III

When should we cue in Titanic's last song by the band as FF sinks below leaving us all behind? - Manuel Mas

Why leave now? Until it is changed or killed, it still works just the same. - Jeff P. Henderson

Same assessment as you, I'll stick around but I need to find an option B now. I guess I'll go wherever Louis Gray recommends - Alberto Saavedra

I plan on sticking around for a little while longer. Not ready to jump ship yet. - David Finch

Melanie: yeah, real time really has me going. I will wait until I get a better sense from the FriendFeed team about what will be done here. I just am not getting the right signals from the team that there will be any investment in this. If that's the case, I'd rather invest my time somewhere else. Google Wave. Ning. Vanilla on Building43. Twitter, now that I got rid of the spammers. Etc. - Robert Scoble

I'll watch and see what happens. IF I feel that it would be useless to stay, I'll leave the site. - TeraDyne Azurepaw

I think the features of FF will be incorporated into FB (guilt free) and FB profiles will be more tied into FF. That's about all we'll see... - Gus

Scoble: Ning?!?! Really? - Manuel Mas

Manuel: hey, Pirillo is over there. :-) - Robert Scoble

I'm staying here until something else catches up. - Bruce Lewis

Robert, I can definitely see the value of your invested time on any service, but for the average user, what is the downside of sticking around here as long as the site still exists? - Jeff P. Henderson

hmm, ning. unexpected, but understandable - Alistair (alpinefolk)

@Scobleizer: The big crowd is not even at Friendfeed yet and you are already leaving? Someone will be by in a few minutes with a drink. Please help yourself and stick around for the conversation. You will be greatly missed should you choose to leave so soon. - David Damore

Social Media is a set of tools--I appreciate the connections I make, but I'm not getting too emotionally worked-up about the tools changing. FF probablywon't function as my Social Media hub much longer. - Rob Michael (Atmos Trio)

I like it here, so I'll hang out as long as possible. - sean percival

Not making any set plans yet, but keeping my eyes and ears open. - Martha

And when Google buys Twitter, won't that be interesting - Stephen Pickering

Bruce: have you played with Wave yet? I'm wondering how good that is? I gotta get an invite. Off to beg someone cooler than me. :-) - Robert Scoble

I will continue to use it until it closes down in its current form. - ashish

+1 ashish - Liviu Barbat

Google/Twitter vs. Facebook/FriendFeed - Stephen Pickering

I'm a little pissed that we haven't heard much from our other "rock stars". Where the hell are they? This concerns them, yet I can hear a pin drop. I think there secretly plotting. Roflmao - Jeunelle Foster

I don't want to but if it eventually goes down the way everybody's predicting it will then i'll have to look for alternatives :( .......by the way where do i beg for Wave invites :) - Bhowmik Shah

I'd bet Microsoft buys Twitter before Google does. - Gus

I haven't played with wave yet, but from what I've seen it's got potential. FriendFeed's got polish. - Bruce Lewis

I wasn't planning on going anywhere, but I guess I'll be spending more time on Social Median. Perhaps someone should start putting together a decent buddypress site? - Aram Zucker-Scharff

I might leave only because I quit facebook - I hate the mindset, the shallowness, and am afraid (make that certain) those people will come here - Aaman (Clone of FF)

Gus: Microsoft and Twitter deserve each other. They are both somewhat buggy and don't come up with new features very often. ;-) - Robert Scoble

I think I'll be heading back to Twitter until Google Wave is publicly available - Aaman (Clone of FF)

Robert: Since at the end of the day all these platforms are businesses and have to eventually make money does it make sense to keep investing time and effort into building communities on them when they can sell/merge at any time and dismantle the tools that keep the community in place? it seems like the portable community concept of something like Google FriendConnect now makes more... more... - Mike Elliott

The other rock stars are drinking. :-) - Robert Scoble

If Facebook had an easier way of connecting with people but not showing them all the personal stuff I'm willing to show to my close friends (and the stuff my friends post about me), I don't think I'd need anything like FriendFeed or Twitter. - Edward Coffey

Robert: I've played with Wave and I wouldn't really put it in the same category as FriendFeed at the moment. It's not really about sharing and conversing in mass form IMO. Its really conversation with maybe 20 people or so but its much more difficult to focus conversations about shared content. Let everybody know when you get an invite and your address so we can add you! :) - Brandon Titus

I'll stick around until the end. - Mathew™ one of a kind

It kinda proves a theory I have about us all being reduced (if I can use that word) to channels. I don't think social networking will go away, but as the internet and deals increase, so does the noise. Don't worry Scobe, you still show up in our Google reader every morning!! - professor daddyo

Man, what are we going to do without these discussions like this? - Stephen Pickering

Mike: No community is permanent. It's worthwhile to participate even if it's temporary. - Bruce Lewis

@Gus, Well MS has large stake in FB so I'm not sure about that. I'll stick around here till it peters out. The tech news rooms here are top notch. - Adi

I don't use FF much other than for private rooms, so I'll stay for those. Whatever other activity I have (which is sporadic and generally not personal) will also remain. - Cheryl

I'll stick around until they pull the plug. - Morton Fox

Leave friendfeed? what's the alternative I'd really like to know. Is it facebook? - Tate DA FF MVP

I'll stick with it as long as it's here and people are still active. FF4L!! - Cassidy

What is the next thing? Where do we go now? Not FB! But where? - Michael Liss

I heard it's MySpace - sean percival

I'm staying until the end as well. - Mitch

I won't be deleting my account, but signing in and commenting? No. No real point to continue putting data into a service that is gonna get unplugged anyway. Guess we just have to return to blogs and twitter. - BCK

quick! everybody back to MySpace!!! - acedanger

what? leave and create a better version of Twitter? or start FriendsterFeed? - Andy Sternberg

The downside for me? I invest time in things that WILL BE not that are. That's always been what keeps my interest and now that I know that FriendFeed probably will not be, even if it takes five years to totally die, I've lost a great deal of interest in it. - Robert Scoble

Michael: I don't think anyone knows today where to go next, because there's no good substitute out there. We can only hope that the next destination will be obvious before they pull the plug. - Bruce Lewis

With the price of bandwith/computing halving every year, there will be a new one of these popping up pretty quick - Stephen Pickering

I'll just go to twitter. I have a facebook account but I hate it. Facebook is the walmart of the web. - Darrel Davis

Should we move to where?? haha - harri78son

I'll be here until something actually changes for the worse - Dennis O'Neil

harri78son you could come back over to my blog and we could setup JS-Kit Echo. :-) - Robert Scoble

Damn now I need a drink :) - Jeunelle Foster

I hate fb. Don't like tweeting. Guess I'll be keeping up with my feeds without the fun ff distractions :( - BEX from iPhone

That's right, Scoble is the catalyst for these longer threads anyway, so it might as well move to his JS-Kit - Stephen Pickering

Robert, that's a pity. I'm lucky to deal in things that only get more interesting as they get older. - Bruce Lewis

I'm torn. What are our options? - Kelly Mitchell

yeah~ definitly! @Jeunelle foster please come down, - harri78son

I see now...This whole thing was a ploy to get everyone visiting Robert's blog! I am outraged! :P - Brandon Titus

Brandon: OK, we can go over to YOUR blog. Got Echo? :-) - Robert Scoble

Bruce: Very true. I've tried to get into FaceBook but it's hard to get the clean conversation feed along with lifestreaming content. It just seems to be full of distracting noise even with the ability to filter with lists. - Mike Elliott

I'm here till the end. - Nolan Alston

Robert, the same could be said about Flickr, they haven't had much inovation since Yahoo bought them, but people still use the service in droves. - Jeff P. Henderson

Don't worry Kelly, a new one of these will pop quickly, if they kill this - Stephen Pickering

Kelly: we don't need to leave tonight. Let's trash the house first! :-) - Robert Scoble

HAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHA - Stephen Pickering

Brandon, that's funny. At the Boston FriendFeed meetup, everybody else had learned about FriendFeed through Scobleizer. I was the only one who found him through FriendFeed. - Bruce Lewis

I'm leaving my account here for now but I'll be removing all my feeds. - Got80s

I have no idea where to go... - Johnny

Let's make the longest thread in FF history - Stephen Pickering

Anyway, for the rest of today at-least I reckon I'll be off FriendFeed - real conversation is being drowned out by the echoes of this deal. - Edward Coffey

Damn it. Why is Arrington always right! - Stephen Pickering

Jeff P. Flickr is different Yahoo bought them for their user base. Facebook bought Friendfeed for their features. - Bryan Lee

Got80: why do that? Who cares if your feeds are going in here? - Robert Scoble

Edward: that is true. It caught us all off guard and we're still processing it. - Robert Scoble

Kind of huge things in this time,.hmmm - harri78son

Facebook bought FF for Paul Bucheit - Stephen Pickering

I'm staying here until there is a reason to leave. Though I don't hold out hope they'll keep the service alive forever... obviously, I'm always enjoysthin.gs too, but it's not quite the same. I REALLY can't see myself using facebook as much as FF though. - Ted Roden

I need an adult beverage. then I'll trash the place... - Kelly Mitchell

I despise FB. Please let them not just trash FF. - Adam Webb

Considering the free Google Wave protocol implementation and ejabbered work together, it shouldn't be too hard to quickly build a FF type service that's scalable. Combine that with EC2 and S3 and you could probably get a lot of runway before funding is needed. Robert, I think the next service you switch to should be part owned by you, considering I bet a lot of the traffic here was originated from you evangelizing. - Chip Ramsey

Bryan: it's worse than that. I'm hearing that Facebook bought FriendFeed for its team. Google Superstars. Makes Zuckerberg get out his wallet. - Robert Scoble

Where will be the next pasture Mr. Scoble? - Rami Taibah

Stephen: lol. Yes, the 50 million dollar man. But seriously, there's no doubt what they really want is the tallent. - Brandon Titus

I'm gutted about this, but I knew that Virb account would come in handy eventually... sorta... maybe... - Linda Mills

Holden, yeah, but it doesn't make sense to invest energy here when its eventually going to die anyway - Stephen Pickering

I'm new on FF so I wonder, are people leaving FF because you'll have to use FB to participate? - Christopher Doiron

Stephen: not only for Paul. The guy who started Google Talk is at FriendFeed. So is the guy who started Google Maps. - Robert Scoble

Among other ex-Google superstars. - Robert Scoble

Robert your not processing anything from what I see..Your just gonna dump it...thanks...makes us All feel so much better....Salt in a wound? - Bill Heslin

Christopher, it's that the FriendFeed team's new bosses will turn priorities away from the site we love. - Bruce Lewis

They'll probably cannibalize FriendFeed... nom nom - Kelly Mitchell

funny how many people are joining friend feed on the news of this acquisition. i'm seeing lots of my twitter followers starting to join. - mark silva

Go where, do what? - frankiecarl

I say its WAAAYYY too early to speculate what will happen to friendfeed next. Let the drama of today die down. - Bryan Lee

Yeah lets all get drunk and start a fight. This whole thing is hilarious to me. Funny how media can start a panic. I ain't goin no where, I like to coloring. - Jeunelle Foster

Bill: I said I won't leave until I hear more from the team. Why must you always be a drama queen? - Robert Scoble

Kelly, I wish they would absorb FriendFeed, but despite the talk I don't think openness and Facebook are compatible. - Bruce Lewis

Robert, Ex-Google Superstars is how I see it too. I don't see big plans for FF the sense was we were the last thing on their minds. - Melanie Reed

Can't help being an attention whore, its what I'm good at :) - Jeunelle Foster

Okay so we sit tight and wait and drink. lol - Kelly Mitchell

but there is no time to wait a special direction on internet, It's too fast!! - harri78son

Kelly: My analogy for this is like the female praying mantis luring the male for sex, then it bites its head off. You can see the pic in my story http://bryansays.com - Bryan Lee

I'm in the eyewear business and so I always know how to make a spectacle of myself :) - Jeunelle Foster

Bruce: I agree. Wouldn't it be feasible for them to simply keep the two properties separate then? FriendFeed would be the open/public portion of Facebook and Facebook could stay closed and keep its current private user base. - Brandon Titus

Bryan, pretty graphic and right on the money. - Kelly Mitchell

Why shouldn't he pull out his wallet. FB needs to monetize. The ex Google Rockstars know just how to do that - Stephen Pickering

I'll stick around and see what happens, but might not bother so much with another 'social' web site again. - Grant Bierman

:) I am what I am Robert...I'm A DRAMA QUEEN? LOL that's funny....even though I'm a much better queen than you I still wuvs ya...Still processing all this as everyone else is...Sorry...might be shooting from the hip and I shouldn't - Bill Heslin

Am I the only one excited to see how Facebook integrates FF? I have hundreds of FB friends that I know personally, yet know nobody that I am "friends" with on FF or Twitter. FB has my friends but I'd love FF's functionality. - Chris Nunz

There's this optimistic talk about keeping FriendFeed around as R&D. I'm skeptical about it. - Bruce Lewis

I'll leave FriendFeed as soon as there's somewhere to go to; currently, I'm not convinced there is. - Tristan Seligmann

Also when you are hanging with the Master of the Universe for four hours, its sort of like Bill Clinton going to Korea. Kind of influences you. - Stephen Pickering

Rami: I don't know. That's why I'm talking with you. I just know I won't continue to invest my time in something that will soon get no more investment. That's not who I am. I will hang out with Louis Gray until he finds something cool. By the way, someone gave me Google Wave already, thanks! - Robert Scoble

This should be a reality television show. This is where the real drama queens will come out to play. - Jeunelle Foster

Leo's going to need a new show, TWIF - Stephen Pickering

This week in Facebook - Stephen Pickering

Anyone here ever feel like we're just being tossed around from website to website by the big players? - Christopher Doiron

Thanks Kelly :) - Bryan Lee

Chris, Yep - Stephen Pickering

Robert, I look forward to your review of Wave. - Bruce Lewis

Bruce: I disagree with you about Facebook and openness. They are a lot more open than they used to be and are MUCH more professional and friendly than, say, Twitter is. - Robert Scoble

Openness and Facebook are not one and the same.... polar opposites. Bah humbug. - Kelly Mitchell

Yup the big dogs are sitting back laughing at this whole thing - Jeunelle Foster

It doesn't necessarily have to be "R&D" but really a completely separate product. Something like YouTube is to Google. Although that's a terrible analogy...I guess the products are too similar to keep separate. - Brandon Titus

I'd pay-per-view to see Scoble and Sebastian Bach fight - Mattb4rd

The Chinese government is much more open than it used to be. It still doesn't meet my standards. - Bruce Lewis

Bruce: also, Zuckerberg is seeing the real money is in search. So he HAS to be open to really do great there. - Robert Scoble

Robert: Any chance you could share your Wave address? - Brandon Titus

Did anyone get a chance to see Youtube HTML 5 Demo? - Stephen Pickering

Brandon: I don't have my own address. Someone gave me theirs so can't share. - Robert Scoble

Zuckerberg doesn't make money from other companies' search engines, so he's still limiting what data can go out. I see FB getting more open about what data they take in. - Bruce Lewis

Bruce: Wave is very geeky. I think the UI has a lot of FriendFeed's problems x10. We'll see how that first impression sticks. - Robert Scoble

And Wave will only be as good as how many users it has - Stephen Pickering

I guess what I'm trying to say is even if you don't think your time here is an not an investment ;anymore in anything Robert...We still, or at least I do, consider your input valuable. And if you were to jump ship too soon, I think we would all lose something. So, even if things don't look good...please hang around..That's what I meant to say... - Bill Heslin

Where will I go? Probably no where. Friendfeed was the first time I really got to feel like I found a home. Other places don't interact and blend multiple social services like Friendfeed does/did. Just as plenty of other people have said, I'm waiting for Google Wave at this point. I'm already a Google whore, might as well wait for the Wave to come through. - Matthew Horton

Bruce: data that goes out can be embedded on blogs and websites and interact with things. Also, if you get into Google's search engine you can get a LOT of traffic, which then you can monetize on your own service. - Robert Scoble

Not necessarily nailing the coffin shut yet here. Going to hang around and see what develops....what seems likely at the moment may be a totally different thing tommorow :O) - Jack Wilson, K4SAC

I am leaving at midnight. 2 accounts will be deleted, mine and one I manage for another site. - April Russo (app103)

Robert: Hope you enjoy Wave! The UI is definitely way off for content sharing (at least in my first impression) and more suited for group communication for the very scenarios they threw out in the demos. Get much beyond that, or have too many people and the system starts to break down. Obviously, the underlying Wave infrastructure could be used to create something similar to and better than Friendfeed. - Brandon Titus

Yeah, the cool thing about Wave is the problem they solved with the protocol. Not really their UI implementation. I think there are huge opportunities with both Open Social and the Wave protocol. - Chip Ramsey

OK, I have been out of touch and I guess I missed something. I see nothing wrong with staying with all the feeds I am tied to! - Dave Sickmeier

April, please don't delete your account. We lose interesting history when people do that. - Bruce Lewis

I'm sticking around. - Nation Hahn

There is no Facebook and no FriendFeed, it is now called TwoFacedFriend... - Kelly Mitchell

Bill: I'll be around but probably a lot less. Actually I was thinking that this was good timing. We have a new baby due in September and my other son is just starting to learn to talk, so want to spend more time hanging around with the family. - Robert Scoble

I am gonna wait it out. If the community as a whole migrates I will go with them, but I don't want to overreact. - Neal Jansons

it's time to have another serious look at Plaxo. There are some very clever people there too, I believe?! - Matt Hooper

Truth is, being addicted to FriendFeed isn't a good lifestyle. - Robert Scoble

Well said Robert - Kelly Mitchell

April: why so sudden and why delete accounts? I don't get that. - Robert Scoble

As you should. Family is much more important than any of this. And now I have to go fix my wig! LOL - Bill Heslin

depends what they do with the service - I like friendfeed and facebook so I think it will probably work okay for me - Nick Stone

Brandon: oh, oh. You said it "Wave doesn't scale." Not good. - Robert Scoble

FF also has good tools for using it in moderation -- best of day, week, which you can get by email. Lists help. - Bruce Lewis

I have been spending most of my time on Brightkite. It's a smaller community and more fun. A better alternative than twitter or facebook. - John C Ferron

Robert, and yes when he does that (Money in Search), it will change the playing field in lateral ways across the Internet, especially in ePortfolios and other like applications that don't need to be walled gardens - Melanie Reed

Your right, Robert, but you would eventually learn to moderate your use, and a service like this is going to be needed - Stephen Pickering

so much DRAMA - Kevin Pruett

Kevin, the Drama is warranted - Stephen Pickering

And Leo and Dick Debartolo are on the wine train, missing all this...I envy them...lol - Bill Heslin

Will there ever be an app that just leaves facebook out of the equation - we could only dream - Ryan Gerritsen

i'm leaving, watching from twitter would be a better option for me. - rama mamuaya

I am not likely to invest time in another community that I don't have a stake in. If I contribute it will be because I have a personal interest and am part of the team that runs the show. That is the only way I will feel comfortable investing my time & energy into it. - April Russo (app103)

If we could get the other "Rock Stars" who are obviously having a "virtual prayer meeting" somewhere to get together and talk about what changes they wish to see and what they would like to see develop for social media, Twitter, Facebook, Friendfeed and now this Google Wave, we would probably all feel a little better as we might be able to see down the dark cold tunnel but they're out... more... - Jeunelle Foster

i think that I'll keep posting to friendfeed until it fully integrates with facebook - Carlos Leiva Burotto

Did you guys see Dave Winer's URL shortner, http://rp.ly? Genius. - Stephen Pickering

Jeunelle: Rizzn and Louis Gray and I did a podcast earlier where we talked through some of our feelings. It was very, um, theraputic. - Robert Scoble

hahaha I must of missed it, I'll dig it up. A bit quiet still though. Haven't heard peep from Chris Brogan and all them other STARS - Jeunelle Foster

Louis's blog post was classic. - Bruce Lewis

Man, I can understand Louis' feelings. Look how much he and Scoble have put into this - Stephen Pickering

I'll continue to use FF until there's reason not to. I'm patient enough to see what happens to it. What's the hurry? - Cathryn Hrudicka

I just started on Friendfeed. It can't go away! - Paul McElligott

Lets start FeedFriend - the Bizaro friendfeed minus Facebook integration - Ryan Gerritsen

Well, I was rather hoping for some sort of joint deal between Twitter & FF... I'm not sure if I'll stick around in FF or not. I'm definitely not a fan of Facebook - Tim Bergman

Paul, that's what so frustrating. Just given time, we know it would have caught on - Stephen Pickering

I'm staying... - Luis

Thanks for feeding the flames, there, Scoble. *WHAT* on earth is so scary about all this? - Brad McCrorey

Brad, FF has died. Scoble made this thing. And what does he get out of it? Nuttin - Stephen Pickering

Was this the Exit Strategy? I don't see how FF makes money right now? - Keith Rowland

Stephen: I got you all as friends. - Robert Scoble

:-) - Stephen Pickering

This really SUCKS because when you don't have great "developers" to put something together like FriendFeed, you're really just gonna have to either take it up the ass or commit suicide. I'll hang myself 1st with all my clothes on :) - Jeunelle Foster

Jeunelle HAHAHAHAHHAAHAHHAHAHAHAHAH - Stephen Pickering

I'm wherever good, smart peeps are ('cuz I'm not smart enough). I don't invest much in tools - it's the people I care for. I'm not gonna abandon FF now but I understand that we'll need a way to foster the kind of community that got fostered here. Nothing lasts forever - and that's mostly a good thing in the long run. - phil baumann from Android

i'll be here until either the bitter end or something else comes along ... i'm really hoping that the ff-team will turn facebook into more of what it was before the apps came along... i think that's when FB really took a downward turn for me - Chris Heath

I follow the Cheese! - Rich Weaver

Venues like this will come and go, the whole social media landscape is in a constant state of flux I don't see why so many are up in arms. The life cycle of all the current venues are short and most of the leaders are nearing the end of their lives as we know it. But fear not, many new shiny toys will be bestowed upon us to play with. Now let's be social again! (ps. I'm sure we've seen NOTHING yet!) - Paul Monaco

Tweet: the cheese is in Zuckerberg's office! :-) - Robert Scoble

And for anyone that wants to know why I am deleting my account and not just moving away and leaving it to rot like i would normally do...just read the policies of facebook. Anywhere I have an account with data I don't want to be exploited commercially, in a way that exploits me personally, I'd delete it just as fast if the service were bought by facebook. - April Russo (app103)

Zuckerberg is Master of the Universe. He spent 4 hours with Paul Friday. That would have an effect on anyone - Stephen Pickering

I know I am able to post status updates in Facebook to "Everyone" now, but when will we be able to search these open status updates? - Kevin Whalen from iPhone

I can't wait till my mom gets one of my "Queenie" updates....that's gonna b fun...lol.. - Bill Heslin

Kevin, when God, ie Mark Zuckerberg, says you can - Stephen Pickering

I love FF but I think this is a great move. If FB takes the best ideas from FF and they open it up theres is so much potential for a great community. - Gary Gannon

Definitely see what happens... Not looking forward to Facebook turning this into a free-for-all like Facebook :-) - Maria Reyes-McDavis

Gary a potential for $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ - Stephen Pickering

Not going anywhere for the time being. I'm not a big Twitter fan, and unless FB makes some big time changes, it just doesn't do it for me. Will be listening for any other social media that might come round the bend. - Bonnie Foster

We are getting tired of all those constant platform changes, aren't we? - Harald Felgner

Harald Yes! - Stephen Pickering

I say we all leave Facebook instead. - Larry Roth

Herald and Stephen, Yes! More and different is not always better, just more and different. - Melanie Reed

I can't leave Facebook. I have too much built up there. And that won't do anything anways. It will just be a small blip to them. - Mathew™ one of a kind

so what content aggregator in the absence of FF? - WarLord

My apologies if this has already been asked, but Robert you are very close the FF team. You had no idea this was coming? - Ben Hanten

I'm not leaving. I like FriendFeed and Facebook. - Kimber Scott

Ben: not one iota. I did sense that they were struggling to figure out how to compete, but didn't think they would sell. Paul always told me he didn't want to sell. - Robert Scoble

Robert - I'm confused - on the one hand you've said this is such a great thing for FF as well as FB - but on the other hand you also say you're leaving FF because of of it. Why - if this is such a great thing for FF? - Matthew Blaisdell

WarLord: there isn't a good aggregator. That's why it's stupid to delete your feeds. - Robert Scoble

OK, a friend talked me down. He told me I'd be saying sorry for starting this post by the 400th comment. He's usually right. So, instead of saying sorry, I'm going drinking. See ya in the lobby in 10 minutes! - Robert Scoble

I may be dense about this, but why would you leave until you saw which way it was going? - Jerry Kidd

Good question, Jerry. I wanna know this, too. - Brad Williamson

Robert, I think he struggled with it, but 4 Hours with Mark is a big persuasion - Stephen Pickering

Matthew: I expect that the engineers will get put onto Facebook. So, if the smartest people are working on Facebook and not on FriendFeed, why would I stay here? Why wouldn't I start moving my work and social graph and all that over to Facebook? - Robert Scoble

LOL...there ya go Robert...I knew you would come around...Drink Drink!!! have a really nice cocktail... - Bill Heslin

The people I've come to know on FriendFeed are what I'd miss though, so I'd like to take my social graph with me wherever I might end up next. There's a business opportunity right there. - Aaman (Clone of FF)

Dunno if I'll leave the ship... - Wario

When I think about it - I found your post as well as the TechCrunch article via Google Friend Connect. So maybe it is time to join that Wave!? - Harald Felgner

Jerry: I said I was going to wait until I talk with the team more, but the things I'm hearing tell me they've already been bought to work on Facebook proper. So, unless someone tells me that's wrong, that tells me I should spend more and more of my time over on Facebook and not here. But my friend convinced me I'm being hasty and emotional. :-O - Robert Scoble

Mathew: Scoble said early on in this thread that he invests his time into emerging networks, not things that "are already here" I think thats why he will be moving on to the next big thing, like google wave or watchever new social network emerges out of this. I suspect that another startup will emerge to try and fill the shoes left behind by friendfeed. This is always the case. When napster left, you had morpheus and kazaa, then bit torrents. - Bryan Lee

Robert - Makes sense - except that it still doesn't seem like a great day for Friendfeed - if it just gets abandoned (by FB as well as by leaders like you...) - Matthew Blaisdell

Matthew: FriendFeed=Facebook. It's a great day for both. Cause I'll end up at Facebook either way! :-) - Robert Scoble

Anyway, these are just the emotional ramblings of someone trying to figure out how the world shifted today. Have fun! - Robert Scoble

clue to the denouement: where is the most valuable processing of this event. Right here. - Steve Gillmor

I'm just curious what new startup will roll into the limelight because of this announcement? - Bryan Lee

Robert, FriendFeed != Facebook - look at the quality of commentary/people here - Aaman (Clone of FF)

FriendFeed can stop improving right now, and I'll still stick around until something else catches up. Maybe that something else will be Facebook. I'll wait and see. - Bruce Lewis

I'm probably out. Back to open source for me at this point. Time to take another look and see how things have progressed with Laconica, JaikuEngine, NoseRub, and some of the other secondary options. I may also go crawling back to Twitter. Given a choice between Twitter and Facebook... sigh... - Ken Sheppardson

++Steve Gillmor - Bruce Lewis

Ken you'll be back. - Steve Gillmor

I don't think FB will change it all so quickly. But I do like Laconica, too. - Monique Hodgkinson

Steve you're making it hurt worse! ;-( - Stephen Pickering

Monique: It's not about rapid change, it's about where to invest effort. I don't really have any interest in investing my time and energy on Facebook... so why wait? - Ken Sheppardson

stephen how so - Steve Gillmor

I don't know where to go :( - K.D.

I'll make up my mind when I figure out what better alternative there is to Friend Feed. - Anthony Teegarden

Because we know FF has died - Stephen Pickering

Steve: Yeah, you're probably right. I appreciate the work Bret, Paul, Benjamin, et al have done, and I was really looking forward to where they were taking things... before they were taking it to Facebook. - Ken Sheppardson

I think I will just stay on twitter, because I can't stand facebook. - Tomy Thomson

Stephen: FF has died? Well, then, how am I typing to you? - Robert Scoble

Tomy, why change? You can listen to the Beatles and the Stones! - Stephen Pickering

Ken: it's all good. they're moving to a radically larger playground, and they can't afford to abandon those who appreciate them - Steve Gillmor

They will keep FF just will make it better - Johni Fisher

Choose I meant - Stephen Pickering

Please stop with FF has died chatter! - Bryan Lee

I'll wait to learn more before making any decisions - Herb Hernandez

Robert, well, metaphorically. Whether its a few months or a year - Stephen Pickering

Tomy: Twitter is like Facebook but without likes and comments. Oh, wait, Facebook is a lot like FriendFeed already. I just commented on Louis Gray's item there. Oh, and there's applications. We can play games! :-) Herb: I'll try to go see the team next week. I'm also interviewing Yelp. - Robert Scoble

But Steve, what if the larger "playground" turns out to be very different from the one pitched to them? What if the FF team finds that their vision isn't shared after all? - Bruce Lewis

Robert, ok maybe you are right. Maybe it will be like the R&D. That would be great! - Stephen Pickering

Stephen: are you trying to get on the Gillmor Gang? We seem to kill things before they are really dead there too. - Robert Scoble

Hey Robert , you make friendfeed slower ! I guess you should leave here really x) - Melissa Taylor

Anyway, I'm going drinking. For real this time. - Robert Scoble

Robert, HAHAHAHAHAHHAHAAHHAHAHAHA - Stephen Pickering

they can go build it again. but zuckerberg has been wanting this for some time - Steve Gillmor

need to wait what will happen to FF - Toni @ NavinoT

I'm planning on easing out of Friendfeed in the next couple of days, so I can get the contacts of people I know on here and who's opinions I value. - Jon, the Chilled Beartato

Pickering: RSS is dead, not FF - Steve Gillmor

Steve, oh yes, If I were him, I would pull out all stops to get this team. I totally understand from a business perspective, all perspectives - Stephen Pickering

business is design - Steve Gillmor

HAHAHA great comeback Steve. On that note I think I'll have a beer. :) - Bryan Lee

Steve, OK, I'll keep the faith that maybe Scoble's idea that this could be a Facebook R&D could happen. That would be great!!!! - Stephen Pickering

Steve, did you see the post about this being an opportunity for Google Reader? I think it was by Jorge Escobar. - Bruce Lewis

Reading through all this is hilarious. We really should have a social media reality show Robert - Jeunelle Foster

no bruce, how so - Steve Gillmor

Jeunelle, Robert went drinking :) - Stephen Pickering

So he ain't all that. Just kidding hehehehe :) - Jeunelle Foster

He was saying Reader has most of the features of FF, and this could be their chance to expand and fill the niche FF filled: http://friendfeed.com/social-... - Bruce Lewis

disagree bruce GR has no explicit contract with users - Steve Gillmor

Contract or contact? - Bryan Lee

Wave might be boosted, but has similar immaturity at the social graph level - Steve Gillmor

I don't understand the part about the contract. - Bruce Lewis

If Ning is 750m why FF is just 50m ? - Johni Fisher

users consciously contribute metadata to FF - Steve Gillmor

Do we want Google to buy Twitter? - Stephen Pickering

@Steve @Bruce, here's the post http://jungleg.com/2009... -- it's a crazy idea but GR could make an extra effort and put up a better web experience - Jorge Escobar

I like FriendFeed, a lot, but too few of my friends use the service to make it really useful. So I guess I'll leave. - Adam Washington

Adam, stay, if even only for the aggregating features - Stephen Pickering

You are testing us Scoble. - Özer (Wrzl) Dölekoğlu

YES he's sitting in the back laughing while drinking Peppermint Schnaps - Jeunelle Foster

Scobles outta here. He went to get a life! hehehehehehehe - Stephen Pickering

totally staying....this really is just the beginning....and, i just built FF into all of my Intro to Soc sections!!!! - Chad Gesser

I thought you said you'd hand in there until they turn the last server off. What changed your mind? - Paul Chaney

Speaking of Google. What was the point of them buying Jaiku and doing nothing with it? - Bryan Lee

I'll at least stay for aggregation and extending 140 character tweets, and pray maybe it will become Facebooks R&D, but I know that's a longshot - Stephen Pickering

I should get a life too but alas the temptation is too great for "attention whoring" - Jeunelle Foster

Jeunelle HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH - Stephen Pickering

hehehe lol - Jeunelle Foster

Regarding the "team's plans", I really don't expect to hear anything from Bret, Paul, et al. At this point I'm happy to let the Facebook (i.e. the non-FriendFeed) folks try to convince me that they're ready to do things differently. That involves more than just hiring a team. - Ken Sheppardson

Well, maybe Paul can influence Mark not "to be evil" - Stephen Pickering

those who think FB has any choice but to go down the FF road are not thinking this through - Steve Gillmor

@Stephen, I was alternating between friendfeed and twitter (stones and beatles, respectively :P) but I don't see the point in staying with a dying technology, which unfortunately is where friendfeed is headed. The tech of friendfeed itself will hopefully live on in facebook. I really think facebook has become a slightly less obnoxious version of myspace, and that's being nice. - Tomy Thomson

Steve, Oh, I totally understand. It was genius of them. Proves how Mark is indeed Master of the Universe - Stephen Pickering

Steve, self-interest does not guarantee anything. People and companies can act irrationally. - Bruce Lewis

So Steve, do you see two separate properties indefinitely? Or does Facebook just slowly start too look more FF-like, then one day they redirect friendfeed.com to facebook.com? - Ken Sheppardson

yes bruce take twitter for example - Steve Gillmor

But Paul could end up being a great influence on Mark - Stephen Pickering

not indefinitely Ken, but long enough to transfer enough value to avoid making twitter look like the good guys - Steve Gillmor

Steve, will Google buy Twitter? - Stephen Pickering

you're "VERY excited" about the deal, but plan to leave friendfeed? why, exactly? i don't get it... - Shawn C. Reed

dunno, don't really care - Steve Gillmor

*eye roll* thread is getting to the point where it's too long and people are now asking questions that have been answered thrice.....Lock down time. - Matthew DeVries

ff was the important value, not twitter - Steve Gillmor

Steve, why didn't Ff take over FB? Yeah Facebook has the money, but it's the inferior product. - Matthew DeVries

Oh sure, who do you want in your office, Ev or Paul Bucheit? Paulllllll! - Stephen Pickering

Stephen, didn't the TechCrunch article say that the FF team would be split between two bosses, neither of which was Mark? - Bruce Lewis

matthew who says they didn't - Steve Gillmor

That's right. Paul may end up running that thing, or at least be No.2 - Stephen Pickering

@ Robert: The majority of apps on FB are useless imo. Every time I log on I get bombarded by 'add your relative' and 'blackjack' app requests. And don't get my started on the quizzes and other BS. Ah well, I will join your fan page on facebook! - Tomy Thomson

ff has been running dev for a year - Steve Gillmor

Wow - isn't this jumping to conclusions? No one has said anything's going away, nor do we know what they're doing to do with it. Stick around, wait to see what happens, then jump. Nothing's happened yet - I think it will all be for the better in the end and you'll know where to go when the FF Team says Jump. - Jesse Stay

Kurt, he's gonna sit on it for a while, see what shakes out - Stephen Pickering

jesse skip to the bottom for the apology - Steve Gillmor

The FF Team hasn't let us down yet, have they? I still trust them - only when they break that trust do we jump. - Jesse Stay

@Scobleizer I've been on Google Wave for about a week working on an interesting idea I have for it. It's very promising but its very alpha right now. You won't find it worth your time just yet. - Noah White

jumping is bullshit, no place to go - Steve Gillmor

Ah - sorry Robert - didn't see the clarification towards the bottom. Thanks Steve. - Jesse Stay

Jesse, you still in the Boston area? - Bruce Lewis

Why rush to judgment? Even if the "team's plans" are off-base, what's the base? And what's off? Experience, resourcefulness, respect for users and smarts under fire all matter more than "plans." Wait & keep seeing. - Doc

What the hell? Just because someone buys FriendFeed everyone has to ditch it? ABORT SHIP, ABORT SHIP! Doesn't really make sense so soon. Has anything changed yet? Is it the end of the world? Don't just leave because everyone says they will either. Stick around, the ship is still afloat. - Nick Humphries

the doctor is in the house - Steve Gillmor

But, if they did pull the plug, with bandwidth and computing halving every year, there would be another one of these pop up in no time - Stephen Pickering

I don't see a point in leaving Friendfeed until the doors close on us... if and when that happens. - Alex Knight

Actually facebook is the most popular rss reader of all time :) - Christian Burns from iPhone

Bruce, we just left today. I'm actually in Niagara Falls, NY right now. Just finished watching a beautiful view of the Falls at night. - Jesse Stay

There's a house? - Doc

Steve, is that Doc Searls? - Stephen Pickering

of cards - Steve Gillmor

hover over the name stephen - Steve Gillmor

Jesse, if anybody can persuade me (us?) that Facebook is going to be good for the FF team it's you. Maybe write a blog post or something. - Bruce Lewis

Don't get so close. - Doc

unfollow please sidney - Steve Gillmor

Doc, Calacanis recommended your book to his audience on THis Week in Startups. Can't wait to read it! - Stephen Pickering

I just left facebook a couple weeks ago - hope friendfeed doesn't devolve into quizzes and walled gardens - Doug Holton

It's the Gillmor Gang in a perpendicular universe. - Doc

yes it is - Steve Gillmor

and about fucking time - Steve Gillmor

Stephen, make sure it's the *new* 10th anniversary edition of Cluetrain. Both it and the old one are being sold. 8 extra chapters in the new. - Doc

No doubt, Steve - Christian Burns from iPhone

I'm in it to win it. FF isn't shutting down tomorrow or next week. But it's funny to me that so many dicuss the content... It's the connections made with others that are in jeopardy, not the LOLCat photos... - MVB (Curmudgeon of FF) from fftogo

Because of Quantum Wave effects there are an infinite number of Universes, some of which The Gillmor Gang is still broadcasting - Stephen Pickering

Bruce, I'll be working on a post really soon. Also, Louis Gray and I are going to record a phone call about it tomorrow, which I think should prove useful. I've got a lot of knowledge about Facebook, and he does about FriendFeed. - Jesse Stay

we never stopped stephen - Steve Gillmor

Heheheheheheheheh - Stephen Pickering

JFC, I was gonna go to bed, and here we are. Wherever this is. Do we all really live in Scoble's butt? - Doc

Doc comes through with yet another metonym: the perpendicular universe (= FF). - Nick in Manila

I would have had something out sooner but I've been driving a car all day. :-) - Jesse Stay

no it's Marshall McLuhan's butt - Steve Gillmor

Is this SRC? - Doc

Kurt, oh yeah, I totally get that and so does Scoble, but you've got to understand his short term hurt. Look at how much energy he put into this thing, and what did he get? Nuttin - Stephen Pickering

You mean McLuhan is in Scoble's body? He's in the movie Being Robert Scoble? - Doc

Nonsense Stephen he gets paid in attention every single time - Steve Gillmor

Social relay chat? - Christian Burns from iPhone

No who's on first - Steve Gillmor

Scoble Relay Chat. - Doc

the medium is the message - Steve Gillmor

OK, OK, Steve. I admit, I listened to Dave Winer's chat this evening about it - Stephen Pickering

yeah I read the liner notes instead - Steve Gillmor

Confessions of Stephen and Steve - Jeunelle Foster

And the medium is the network? - Stephen Pickering

Are we paying Scoble now? Are we his excreta and are those a form of currency? - Doc

as richard manuel used to say the check's in yr mouth - Steve Gillmor

Doc, HAHAHAHAHHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHA - Stephen Pickering

I thought it was "the check is coming in your mouth." Just looking for accuracy here. - Doc

no, doc it's a contraction of 2 of the 3 promises - Steve Gillmor

I forget what the 3rd is - Steve Gillmor

I'll love you in the morning? - Doc

could be - Steve Gillmor

Well, it's almost morning here. I'll tape this show and watch later. G'night or g'morning, all. - Doc

Goodnight, Doc! - Stephen Pickering

I was wondering how long this would take to happen. Soon as I saw FF being purchased by Facebook I knew you would bolt. Not 100% surprising. - Christopher Mercer

Part of beauty of FF: all their shows are taped. And yet open ended. - Nick in Manila

It depends how much FF changes. No reason to leave until and unless it gets annoying. - Igor Goldkind

It's "I'll respect you in the morning." - Sean Gallagher

Oh, I'm not leaving. Hell, I even still have a myspace account. It's just a question of engagement - Stephen Pickering

Good night all. Tip for Jeunelle: You get more attention if you make your feed public. Make a group for your private stuff. - Bruce Lewis

they'll have to scrub this one pretty good before they shut it down - Steve Gillmor

Maybe Jeunelle doesn't want attention. - Sean Gallagher

Hell, they keep Orkut going. Storage and bandwidth keep getting cheaper. Might as well keep this going - Stephen Pickering

Orkut! The favorite social network of 9 out of 10 Brazilians. - Sean Gallagher

And 9 out 10 of the best looking women! - Stephen Pickering

True. - Sean Gallagher

@scobleizer that means half of the total activity on friendfeed will be reduced - Sidharth Dassani

Maybe if Facebook hadn't stolen all Scoble's data, he'd stop worrying and learn to love them. - Sean Gallagher

Actually even os Brasileiros are coming over to FB - Stephen Pickering

My mother is on Facebook. The end is nigh. - Sean Gallagher

"Maybe Jeunelle doesn't want attention" - says who? I only stepped away to pour me a nice glass of Sauvengion Blanc", and thank you Bruce for the advice I'll look into that tomorrow. After all tomorrow is another day. Twiddly Dee - Jeunelle Foster

there is no reason to leave. I seriously doubt facebook will kill it. - Logan Lindquist

What's the record number of comments? - Stephen Pickering

Logan, I hope your right - Stephen Pickering

Maybe if I blog my twitter of Scoble's FriendFeed and then link it from Facebook via a Digg of a del.icio.us bookmark, it will create a singularity and this thread will have never happened. - Sean Gallagher

What about Identi.ca? - Jerry Heiselman

Sean, you may even create a time machine! - Stephen Pickering

Can someone comment on what April Russo said about Facebook content policy? Seems like a very important piece of the puzzle. - metalerik

I wouldn't worry about it. The markets will take care of it. If Facebook becomes evil, the masses will fork somewhere else. We're in the age of Openness - Stephen Pickering

I will only leave friend feed if it becomes a facebook clone. I can't stand facebook but I still use it cause my friends and family use it, but if friendfeed becomes annoying like face book then I see no point in staying here. - Colide81 (James) from iPhone

James, Touche - Stephen Pickering

You know Sean maybe smarter than he looks....hmmmmm :) and what's with that bird head? - Jeunelle Foster

Quote of the Day: "Microsoft and Twitter deserve each other. They are both somewhat buggy and don't come up with new features very often. ;-)" - Robert Scoble - Diego Barros 

It's a starling fledgeling. The perfect symbol for social networking-- it eats whatever you give it, then poops on you. - Sean Gallagher

That's what I want to reincarnate as....an angry poopin bird - Jeunelle Foster

Just reading all the news about FF and FB. Disapoints me personally, biz wise nice job. Um not a huge FB user so I don't know what my plans are yet. Like you wait a bit and see.... - Bryan Thatcher from iPhone

I hope FF doesn't go away and fold in to FB. I don't need FB. It's like bringing a machine gun to a knife fight. - Diego Barros 

I won't leave FF until they make me or there's no community left. Whichever comes first. - FFing Enigma (aka Tina)

We'll never get to talk to Robert Scoble again. :-( - Jannifer @wordsforliving

Well, it's made me think twice about vesting too much into any one service (so has the demise of tr.im). I use Facebook, Twitter, Livejournal, and FF all pretty equally, so I guess I'm not feeling this as much as some. - Bill Kinney

on to Google Wave. - Jason Wilson from BuddyFeed

Jannifer, Yes we will on his JS-Kit Echo commenting system he will put on his blog. It's real time like this - Stephen Pickering

I'm leaving. Google Wave, Twitter, Reader will plenty suffice now. Farewell, former friend. - Californian

Oh Stephen - I'm not sure what that is... but it won't be like Friendfeed. :-( - Jannifer @wordsforliving

At some point I imagine I will. I have no interest in joining facebook. When I do depends on what facebook does with ff. - Quasar

I'm sticking around till FB screws it up. But I was keeping FF separate from FB because most of my FB friends are my born-again Christian relatives who won't like the controversial stuff of mine that makes it onto FF's news feed. Still, I'm going to look for other similar sites. Posterous is one. - Dennis Jernberg

I really want a Google Wave invite now.. - Peter

I'm not leaving but I'm not moving to Facebook. The main thing for me is to keep the contacts I've gained from FriendFeed and hope we all can meet on another similar service somewhere somehow. - Kol Tregaskes

Ditto what Kol just said. - LogEx

ditto on the Google wave invite - Kim

you hit the nail on the head there Kol - Kim

Maybe. But i really want Google Wave invite. - ★ Soner Gönül

It's hard to say at this point. The only thing that's changed is who pays the server bill. Ask me in a week. And yes, a Google Wave invite would sure go a long way to make this better for me. - Dale

Joined Posterous. http://jbug.posterous.com Wouldn't mind a Google Wave invite, though... - Dennis Jernberg

Me too, Dennis. :-) - Kol Tregaskes

I don't leave if Facebook doesn't make something dramamatic to FF - Kristian Salonen

I will wait and see. - Matt G

Leaving a favorite site isn't always a conscious decision for me. The cool site loses its cool and you just kind of drift off. - Dale from email

Oh yeah, and I added my Posterous blog to my FriendFeed feed, so you'll be seeing whatever I post there in your home feed here. That is, if you subscribe to me here, or if one of your subscribers likes or comments. Me, leave? Not yet! ;) - Dennis Jernberg

I'll be sticking around just a little while longer. - April Russo (app103)

I'm here for the duration - Charlie Anzman

I'm loyal until they make it worth me leaving. - Jesse Stay

I'm here until they slam the gates shut. But I am hiding all your BS posts about it being a good thing :) - jcunwired

If you want to be sure that I quit Friendfeed you have to see my burial. I will never quit while being alive! :-) - Kolja

I'm staying but it's like when you know that the company you work for has been bought by someone else and might close it, you lose motivation and start looking for another job, it's hard to invest time and energy if there might be no future. Not that the future of FF was guaranteed before but now it does not look good at all. - M F

I'm heading to Plurk! who's with me? *tumbleweed* - Iain Baker

Like I said before, I'm staying here until the end. - Mathew™ one of a kind

Friendfeed is two totally different things: the original RSS aggregation service, and a social network service/community. Lifestream.fm is a reasonable replacement for the former. As to the latter, it's the people, not the tech they're using, that makes FF special. I've benefited greatly as a 'consumer' here, reading posts - if that continues on Facebook, it will probably get me to... more... - SteamCentral

i'll be around until it becomes unbearable, probly until it's been damaged badly by FB style feature creep and riddled with ads and spammers. oh, and absolutely stupid censorship policies. that'll be a real killer. - Joe Silence disconnected

not leaving. NEVER hoho I haven't left FB nor friendser. - 'Like' robot (frɐnc)

The CloneFeed group has given me some interest. It gives some hope in case FF really goes away or merges badly with FB. I like FB but just don't want to fully mix the two activities/audiences. - manielse (Mark Nielsen)

Go to posterous. Here is mine: http://pingmicro.com/ - Svartling from iPhone

I'd rather keep my Friendfeed as my "professional aggregation" and Facebook as personal stuff. I blog, tweet, etc. stuff that a lot of my friends could care less about. And I post stuff to Facebook that isn't interesting or relevant to clients / followers. - Gregg Le Blanc

Google Wave is what I am looking for. The problem with moving to Facebook is that I use it for close friends and family so things like comments and pics etc that I post to it I would not want to have available to all of the contacts I have on FF at the moment. Mainly because I like to separate those I know from those that I converse with if that makes sense. I loved that on FF I could... more... - Travis Koger

Whilst I am not 'leaving' FF, I will not be investing anywhere near the type of interaction I have done previous to yesterday's announcement as I just see it as wasted time. - Travis Koger

I have to wait & see what, I don't want to lose the community; where do I go? This feels like Pownce all over! - clarke thomas

not me. - Edward Barnieh

Nope, not yet. I still dream about FF and FB to coexist. I think Facebook is even more boring now, after this announcement. Anyone else feels this way? - Patrik Johansson

Not me. I will be glad when all the people who say they are leaving do so my feed won't be full of people saying they are leaving. - Alan Simpson

What becomes of the broken hearted? - Joe Dawson

I'm staying on! - Charles Lau

FF is my first big social networking investment (or time) - I'll stay and then move, if forced. I'll certainly investigate other tools in an effort to fill any gap left by FaceFeed. - Jason Miller

I just saw that a woman's twittering her childbirth made the front page of BBC's world news webpage. I don't know to make of it, but I don't want to hang out at Twitter much anymore. - Mitch

Mitch: we Twittered our childbirth in 2007 and we will again in September, but probably not on our main account. - Robert Scoble

won´t leave!!! i LOVE friendfeed. @Mitch i know what you mean. So many stories and this is the one they picked? - Flynn (Michael A. Volz)

i think i'm stayin, and wait what's goin on facebook. i will feel upset if they dont allow the users to make their choice of using one or other site, but looks like they gonna force to use FB instead of FF :( - Dani Martínez

Not sure how on board with FriendFeed I ever was to begin with to be honest... - Gurpreet

FriendFeed will be fine - FaceBook is fine - and so is Twitter - I might check out AmpliFeeder, I suspect quite a few FriendFeeders will migrate there as the days go by. - Chris Loft

Not leaving FF but I can't wait till it's properly integrated with Facebook. Interesting thing: Wave's API is open so there's nothing to stop Facebook creating an app to make Facebook & Wave work great together. Not so much either/or as and... and..! - Matt Moran

Has anyone tried amplifeeder? edit: so far don't see any friending abilities though - metalerik

Why leave? But will be open to see other options - facebook doesn't (currently) provide to me what I get here. - amygeek

Facebook bought friendfeed http://adage.com/digital... - Rob Johnson

OH NO, I just finish moving all my stuff HERE! - Terence

Robert: I closed down my embeds today. Sad for my blog. - Mark Essel

I stay on FriendFeed, on Twitter, on Facebook, etc. - Emmanuel Gadenne

I won't delete my account, but as FF morphs into the ball of confusion that is Facebook, I won't be very active. - Jeremy Brooks

I will. No point sticking around when you know it is going to die sooner or later. With twitter you still have the hope.... - Davide D'Incau

I'll leave Facebook if FF gets harmed. And go back to Identi.ca... ;-) - Torrid Luna

Yeah, I'll probably leave Facebook too. If they're going to "steal" the FriendFeed functions and just let FF die, I will not have any sympathies left for Facebook. I'll go "all Google" or something. - Patrik Johansson

I'll stay on FF, FB and T, and BK, and other, BrightKite is not well utilised, is good even on beta. - Andy Ghozali

I joined posterous for blogging/lifestreaming and will continue to use twitter. I might go on facebook once in a while, which is what I was doing anyway. - Tomy Thomson

Robert: If you're looking for an awesome real-time discussion platform, you should migrate to Fluther. http://www.fluther.com - Ben

I'm staying put and watching the ship sink. I'd really like to believe that FriendFeed will have some longevity, but I won't hedge my bets. - Tyson Key

Steve Gillmor said "clue to the denouement: where is the most valuable processing of this event. Right here." so for now, FF looks like the space. - Barbara K. Iverson

I intend to stick around to see what Facebook have planned. I think the takeover has everything to do with the direction FB's been heading in lately, what with their open challenge to Twitter - Dennis Jernberg

I don't see it as leaving, but rather seeing the possibility that it might leave us. FF was and still is just about my favorite site and uberaggregatorthing that I ever saw.... - Rob Schieber

+100 Rob Schieber - Tyson Key

I will stay. Facebook will not Win. - TheHenry

Nope... I'll stay, even if I ride it to a bitter end. - Mark "Godt Nyt Ǻr"

depends. if they stay seperate services, i wont like the acquisition,but i'll stay. if they become 1 service, i'm out. and where is every1 going from friend feed anyhow. what else is there? - echostreamer

Will wait and see what happens with FB - Ted Kinzer

fb ruins everything. Have the Privacy policy "not "changed since fb came into the pic? Can they not build their own ideas instead of buying everyone else's? leave us geeks to play in our playground and stay in yours. greedy buggers. The second they pull a skanky fb move i'm out. bitches. - seastarerrin

I'm here till the ship goes down. - Lee Watters

Leaving no. Checking out other venues yes. - Martha

Just maybe Facebook will listen to the Friendfeed engineers in charge of user interface/usability starting with the type size and fonts. Not all marriages are made in heaven. Culture clashes are sure to pop up. - Alan Morris

I am leaving Web - Back to Telnet - Dominique Rabeuf

Dominique, too late. The web already assimilated it with the telnet: url schema. - Bruce Lewis

OK so only snmp/ssh - Dominique Rabeuf

Hell no, not leaving. Best service on the web. - Christopher Galtenberg from iPhone

gonna ride this one out to shore. - Sean Oliver

keep using FriendFeed till they pull the plug. Leaving the service will make it more likely that it will go away. - Cassidy from IM

hu? - Dries Grobler

back to blogs :-) - Mostafa Lameei

I was about to focus a little more on FF but since I heard about the purchase and read rumors about FF being integrated in FB and being shutdown and all this, I'm getting a little ... well.. undecided.. Just checked Streamy, didn't like it. If a.tinythread.com get's more development, this might be the next thing to migrate to. I'm sure not moving to FaceBook. I have my account, I have... more... - Dan van Moll

Minitel 3815 (?) - Dominique Rabeuf

Not interested in being part of Facebook. Goodbye, FriendFeed. :-( - TranceMist

I wish more folks would see the big picture. We need to focus on independent projects that are NOT part of the Google-Yahoo-Microsoft borg. As soon as a site gets absorbed it is time to find another independent site. Yes, I do realize that some may have actually been part all along and only pretending they were independent in the first place - especially if they were founded by... more... - Internet Strategist

alt.friendfeeders ? - matthew john ernisse

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I say it's time to get some talented developers together to create our own site. People have been complaining about UI issues with FriendFeed for a long time. Now we can address them on our own. - Akiva Moskovitz

the backend is the issue Akiva. - Carlos Ayala

It will. Buy-outs like these don't happen and then everything stays status quo. Basically what I expect to happen is this: Facebook will absorb all of the best FriendFeed features which will make FriendFeed 'obsolete'. They'll expect us to join into FriendBook or FaceFeed or whatever you want to call it when FriendFeed will inevitably get shut down. - Akiva Moskovitz

If everyone was so good at reinventing the wheel, we'd have flying cars in our garages by now. - ‘-.-’ Tutivillus Grift

I guess Carlos is right. ): - Mladen Srdić

I am genuinely pissed about this. Maybe I have no right to be, but I am. - Michelle Martinez

To me, it feels like we've been sold out. I can't believe that they have this user base's best interests in mind here. - Akiva Moskovitz

me too michelle. - Carlos Ayala

I am totally disappointed myself. I can't stand Facebook... the only reason I have an account is for less-tech-savvy old friends and acquaintances to find me on the web. - Lindsay is in 20-ten

:( - Josh Haley

As a consumer of a service when changes are made you have the right to feel any way you want about it, including anger. You can even choose to stop using the service as I imagine some of the FriendFeed population will do. - matthew john ernisse

@Akiva - make a Ning site in the mean time?? Sigh... - Lindsay is in 20-ten

Today is a sad day... - Michael Forian

I'm reserving judgement until we see what happens. Right now it's just an announcement. I hope they keep the platforms separate, but have some kind of integration. What I don't want it having all my subscribers become FaceBook friends. I like the platforms separate. - Haggis (Sean Loyless)

this is pretty disappointing news. - holly

Now has Gn'R in my head ♪where do we go? where do we go now? ♫ - Andrew Smith

i had to check and make sure it wasn't april 1st... - Brian Ries

Apparently it's official now, as stated on their blog. - Mladen Srdić

"FriendFeed.com will continue to operate normally for the time being" sucks. That's what most worries me. - Arnaldo M Pereira

I'm going to miss Audrey babby most...... - Matthew DeVries

I'd reserve judgment. Beyond that congrats to the team which I'm sure made some good money off of this. - Nation Hahn

It's like we've all been told we have a terminal disease. They're not sure when we're going to all die but that we should continue to enjoy our lives before the time runs out. - Akiva Moskovitz

Going back to Fark? - Matthew DeVries

I'm glad none of the FriendFeed guys are subbed to me because then I'd have to block them. - Akiva Moskovitz

Ahhh...now I get it. Yes. This is bad - very bad. I despise (HATE) FaceBook - ‘-.-’ Tutivillus Grift

I have no doubts that at some point friendfeed.com will be no more. :-( - Kevin Whalen

From Titanic: "Gentlemen, it's been an honor playing with you tonight" - Peter Ghosh

this party is over now. - Joe Silence disconnected

This hurts far more than MJ dying.... - Matthew DeVries

Back to Twitter, I guess. - Rochelle

FriendFeed = Twitter, though. - l0ckergn0me

No, Friendfeed > Twitter - Matthew DeVries

Leo Laporte had that Twitter-fighter army thing a while back, you think he still has the keys? - Matthew DeVries

What a sad night I am having. - Liviu Barbat

I don't know about you guys, but the vast majority of my friends on Facebook don't give a crap what I do online. The ones that do are over here already anyway. This is good for the team, but bad for the audience here. - Jordan Hofker

They never gave a damn about their users. As evidenced by completely ignoring all input about changes. I guess the real question, is what did they do first, blow off expensive hooker's asses or buy Bentleys with spinners? - Matthew DeVries

Maybe Paul, Bret, and co. will take the money, leave the company, and start a new one. That will eventually be sold for the sweet tech to Facebook. Then rinse, repeat. (!) - Jordan Hofker

:( - edythe from iPhone

My boyfriend (who is in a state of protest and is now refusing to use FF) wants to know, does anyone know what computer language(s) have been used to create FF? He's guessing C# is involved. - Kamilah Gill

As far as I know, it's C++ on the back-end and Javascript up front. - Akiva Moskovitz

This is the most technical detail I remember seeing from Friendfeed staff: http://bret.appspot.com/entry... They make heavy use of Python, but I imagine there is also a fair amount of C/C++ in there. (I would assume more C than C++). - Jason Wehmhoener

Their use of MySQL is quirky, nonstandard, innovative, and obviously works. Facebook also has quite a history of bending MySQL and PHP into new, interesting and generally unrecognizable shapes. It's the wild and crazy world of distributed data + HTTP + pushbutton web. - Jason Wehmhoener

Regarding the languages FriendFeed's written in: "[...]pretty much all Python except for our search engine, which is Java." - Bret Taylor (c.f. http://friendfeed.com/friendf...) Not sure where people got C/C++/C#. - Mark Trapp

Speaking of pushbutton, this is definitely a good time to go reread Anil Dash's post about it: http://dashes.com/anil... You and I may not have a pile of ex-google cash lying around for a server farm, but it may not be necessary if we get pushbutton right. - Jason Wehmhoener

Thanks Mark. I should have guessed that since Google is pretty much a Python/Java shop. - Jason Wehmhoener

Yeah, Jason, I was thinking Google reader would be the next home. - Matthew DeVries

Thanks for the feedback, guys :) - Kamilah Gill

I was sort of expecting something with Reader too, but oh well. Reader has certainly been looking more Friendfeed-like recently anyway. - Jason Wehmhoener

Also, take a look at JS-Kit Echo, something Scoble's going on about right now: http://friendfeed.com/scoblei... - Jason Wehmhoener

Jason - thanks - I've been pondering JS-Kit Echo as a supplement / replacement (?) for Disqus on my blog - Susan Beebe

Is Pushbutton Web = PubSubHubbub? - Matthew DeVries

Jaiku? Just kidding. - Rubin Sfadj

Anil does a pretty good job of explaining it (it's a great article, go read it), but pushbutton is rss + pubsuhubbub + web hooks. Web Hooks were the least familiar bit for me: http://webhooks.pbworks.com/ and http://blog.webhooks.org/ - Jason Wehmhoener

Akiva is right. Anyone who has even a cursory knowledge of corporate takeovers knows the pattern that follows when a smaller company is bought out by a larger one. The same principle is at work here. - Steven Perez

GDGT? We all like gadgets. Like to a man, we all like some kind of Gadget. If we can just get them to change out that infuriating tiered threading system..... - Matthew DeVries

*cough* http://friendfeed.com/clonefe... *cough* - Jason Huebel

:( I just found out about this news a little while ago. It's like Jaiku all over again for me. I thought it was good news that Google bought Jaiku because I thought it meant Jaiku would get better and finally gain popularity. Unfortunately it ended up being the exact opposite. **sigh** Now I feel like this situation is worse because Facebook has a bad rep for messing with personal copyright and such. This doesn't sound good... - Cheryl Jones from iPhone

I've got a Google Group started, FFugees http://groups.google.com/group..., so at least we can find each other. - Kamilah Gill

LOL, FaceFeed for the win! - Tanath

louisgray.com? - Louis Gray

Livejournal!!!!!!!! - veo

Joined the Google Group as "Jezlyn" the name I originally wanted to use for FriendFeed. :P - Cheryl Jones

Google Reader is the future - Joe Dawson

Interesting thought, Joe, after all, Reader has (like facebook) borrowed more and more features from friendfeed over the last year or so. Still, I'd rather have a friendfeed. I personally think we shouldn't write friendfeed off just yet....but if it disappears, maybe someone else will step in and fill the void. - Slappy Line

http://drop.io/ maybe already have the needed real-time core. in the moment it's a bunch of drops, so with a small application to keep track of the created drops (by user, room etc.) it will be pretty close to FriendFeed. - Stoyan Zhekov

Another idea is maybe something like http://juick.com/ with a XMPP core. - Stoyan Zhekov

It's a magical web, FriendFeeders, ol' buddies. Let's go exploring. In real time. - Mark Trapp from Bookmarklet

I love Calvin and Hobbes. - Nation Hahn

Thought of this again this morning. I first posted this in response to the new FriendFeed experience, but now it's just as apropos after FriendFeed's acquisition. - Mark Trapp

That last C&H comic always chokes me a up a bit. Bill Watterson's philosophy was always great. - Matt Mastracci

good call Mark... i've seen enough acquisitions to know how this party is going to end... but there is always something new to be found rising on the horizon... very bittersweet - Jeffrey Marsh

I'll hang out for a bit....see where it goes. - Katie is Frittering

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that would be quite silly. (to leave in a rush) - Nathan Chase

Exactly Nathan. We're an organized people. I'm sure we can form a single file line and the last one out can shut the door behind them. - James Ferguson

what Nathan said - vijay

++ James lol! - vijay

Nope - Rodfather

I'm staying! - Nation Hahn

I'm not out the door until I'm pushed out. If the service continues to show the same level of excellence it has to date, I'll be here, no matter who owns it. If Facebook doesn't maintain this place and its promise, I (and others) will eventually drift away. (Of course, given the "press release," it feels like the death watch has begun. Part of that is just transition stuff, but I got a definite feeling of a rudderless ship from some of the press release.) - Scott of Two Countries

Agree with Scott, well put. - Steve C

I guess I'll wait it out. I don't know of any other services like this. And I am addicted to this. So until the massive influx of facebook kids occurs I'm toughing it. - Kevin Winn

i'm sitting tight. but as soon as it goes south i am in the wind. won't be the first time. - Joe Silence disconnected

oh, and you'd better delete any content (photos for instance) you posted in your feed that you don't want FB to own when they get their claws in. - Joe Silence disconnected

I'm just going to lay low like I have recently... and wait for the final verdict. - Brandon

I'm not leaving just yet. - Morton Fox

I see no reason to leave - - david

Not me. - pea

I'm not planning on fleeing but I am going to safety-check my parachute and ready a backpack full of MREs. - Spidra Webster

I plan on backing up or deleting things I don't want to lose or have available to Facebook to use as they see fit. I'd like to maintain the connections here from my sub list, too, somehow. And I'll be exploring other non-Facebook service options (Posterous seems a frontrunner as replacements go). Once that's done, it won't matter when the plug here gets pulled, and I can shut down the last of my account and walk away. - abacab

Not me. - Roberto Bonini from iPhone

I'm sticking around til the bitter end. - Martin Bryant

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