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Yan
Yan
Finding Value Even If I Were the Last FriendFeeder... - http://blog.louisgray.com/2009...
November 23 - Comment - Share
Cristian Pascu
Cristian Pascu
The Future Is All About Context: The Pragmatic Web - http://www.readwriteweb.com/archive...
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Robert Scoble
Robert Scoble
I love FriendFeed but the fact that Bing and Google are making deals with Twitter and FriendFeed is yet another nail in why news makers will NOT support FriendFeed no matter how much we evangelize it. This is why if I were Paul Buchheit I'd spend every waking moment getting FriendFeed's feature set into Facebook as soon as possible.
October 22 - Comment - Share
A question: Does FriendFeed have to compete anymore? Is there any shame in coming 3rd or 4th? I know people who shoot with Fuji and Sony cameras, not because they are the best, but because they like it and it works for them. - Johnny Worthington
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But Robert - news makers have never supported Friendfeed-- - TechFuga
Good point. They don't bother since Fb owns Friendfeed. Remember, FF indirectly already has a deal with Bing becuase Fb has a deal with Bing. And FF is now indirectly owned by micrososft ( thier 15% stake in Fb, remember). I wouldn't worry so much. - Roberto Bonini
FriendFeed won't win... but there is no reason it should not even run the race. - Johnny Worthington
TechFuga: not true. I supported FriendFeed and I'm noticing a ton of action over on Twitter that, well, simply isn't happening here. http://twitter.com/scoblei... is just a taste. - Robert Scoble
Roberto, I was going to make that point also. FF is no longer an independent site battling for market share. They are a technology proving ground for FB with a vibrant community. ;) - Travis Koger
I finally removed the FriendFeed desktop notifier from my computer. It no longer updates in real time. It's a shame because it used to send me a notification within seconds of someone publishing on twitter or friendfeed - something that the desktop twitter clients couldn't even do because of Twitter API. - joebrooks
Johnny: the problem is that FriendFeed is going to be just a niche player. It's certainly not the dream community I once dreamed of. Not saying it won't be fun, but already the home page isn't the kind of things I care about. - Robert Scoble
And, Johnny, that realization is quite different than how I approached FriendFeed five months ago where I was demoing it to tech audiences around the world. - Robert Scoble
Do you not think friendfeed still wins for easy conversations though? You still couldn't have done this on twitter. I hate trying to talk to people on Twitter. - Simon Wicks
We are totally going to be niche... and I'm comfortable with that now. The coming issue which not many people talk about is the fact that all my social groups don't mix. I have 2 or 3 sets of friends, with different social norms and contexts. I like being in a few different places. Lumping them all on one service, and feeding them the different slices, is just to much trouble to manage for me. - Johnny Worthington
Err, Robert. You just said "I once dreamed of". Sure everyone wanted FF to succeed, but not everyone saw it becoming the next facebook, myspace or twitter (or even google). Where FF is now does not detract from its awesomeness, does not give us an excuse to ignore it and it continues to be, for many of us, the social platform of the future. Your dreams arn't everyone elses' dreams. - Roberto Bonini
Just a quick look at some of my lists and I notice that twitter in generally is about 6 minutes late, and sometimes are published out of order. Is that just my computer, or the same for everyone else? Being 6 minutes late to the conversation is not helpful. - joebrooks
No, but I saw it as being more important than it is today, which if you are truthful, is not all that important. And, sorry, it's not the social platform of the future. It might be the best feature set of today, but remember Pownce? It had more features than Twitter and was a niche player like FriendFeed is. What happened to it? - Robert Scoble
@Johnny, what if something like FB allowed you to categorize all your contacts into social groups... not just grouping them as you can now, but properly categorizing them and then determining which parts of your news feed is available to which category etc. I see the problem with FB contacts is that it is mostly the people you are really close to, which also dictates the type of... more... - Travis Koger
I don't think you're wrong... Owing to the overall decline in numbers and use, what you have been doing (and are doing now) is, in effect preaching to the choir. What I don't understand is why your so intent on telling them they are all going to hell. - J. Abdul-Qahhar
J. Abdul: it's part of my own grieving process. It's also just my personality. I invested a LOT of my career into FriendFeed and now I realize that it just isn't going to be what I was thinking it would be. - Robert Scoble
@Robert I appreciate that, and like a lot of other people I was right there with you... But at this point you are rubbing salt in the wound. - J. Abdul-Qahhar
Robert, I would say you invested your time into the idea of what FriendFeed could be, and that gave the idea a far amount of weight. When people look back at history and speak of the move to a real time web, your name will feature amongst the players. - Johnny Worthington
And for what its worth you and your brother are the reason I, and a lot of other people are here, so, some of this (this turn the whole thing is taking) is hard to watch. - J. Abdul-Qahhar
Wrong choce of words there Robert. I meant, "platform" as in something you build on. This is a feature set to build upon in future social networks. - Roberto Bonini
@Robert is FF becoming another Second Life: still alive but only for a few aficionados? FF is the tail of a long tail? :) - Roldano
@Robert I feel your pain Robert - how many of us in the industry have had that feeling about some technology or company we actually worked for years on. But who knows what Fb will do with FF yet - none of us can see the future in technology. Something game changing comes along and bang, an existin technoloy becomes useful aain - Arthur Coleman
Simon: for now, yes, it does win at conversations. That's one thing I will keep using it for. But that's like a sub feature of these things and it's only a matter of time before Twitter does comments. Facebook already has comments that work pretty well (albeit not as well as FriendFeed). - Robert Scoble
@Robert All that being said, I don't blame you one bit for needing to get it out of your system. Its just hard to watch. - J. Abdul-Qahhar
J. Abdul-Qahhar: yeah, but part of my brand is to tell the truth and not necessarily what you want to hear. I got a TON of shit from people on Twitter telling me to shut up about FriendFeed already. My brand is about what's next, not what is, and, I also live in public. Which means I'm a butthead sometimes and that's also part of my brand. :-) - Robert Scoble
BTW. Robert, thanks. You made me write that letter :) - Johnny Worthington
Roldano: if FriendFeed turns into Second Life (which is doing quite well, albeit without the hype) that would be very cool and probably the best possible outcome at this moment. - Robert Scoble
Johnny: that's why I keep telling you the way I see it. It might not be comfortable, but telling the truth ALWAYS builds stronger communities. Your letter demonstrates why. - Robert Scoble
IF bret and paul are to be belived, FF is not being orphaned by Facebook. There are new servers in the works, some work has been done to the code etc. i doubt money would be spend on new servers if FF was being left to die. I'm sticking around till we see what paul was hinting at. - Roberto Bonini
Roberto, saying new servers in FB world is just moving the FF code to a FB server. I don't think any money has been spent, just space/cpu provisioned on an already massive farm. - Travis Koger
Still - its an investment in FF's continued life. And i doubt they would do that, much less tell us about it, unless they were comitted to FF. - Roberto Bonini
FriendFeed can't die! Things are so easy to put into FF (Bookmarklet) that newsmakers don't have to make a huge effort to "support" it. - Nathan Snyder
Roberto: Travis is correct. New servers are just Paul's way of saying that everything is moving over to Facebook's datacenter. I'm sure they got some new toys, though, and that will help speed a little bit (FriendFeed is a LOT slower lately than it was a year ago) but my friends at Facebook say that not much, if any, engineering time is being dedicated to FriendFeed specifically. But I've said enough about that part and can't wait to see what Paul shows me soon. - Robert Scoble
would be good to organize persuasive reasons for FB to nurture development of FriendFeed in the pure form we enjoy today. Thinking there may be some $$ value just in terms of PR - both internal and external. What else beyond that? What might motivate Facebook to actively support more open-source development of the FriendFeed platform? Could it make good return on that investment as a monstrously successful good vibe buzz machine - "the next Mozilla project"? - Dan Freeman
Dan: open source community projects haven't seemed to go very far. Look at identi.ca. - Robert Scoble
true more often than not - some do - but no need get sidetracked debating open-source! The Big Question to brainstorm is: what pitch can Paul polish to persuade FB to sincerely support continued growth of standalsone "pure" FF project - Dan Freeman
Dan: the deeper problem for Paul is, where can he make the biggest impact on the world? Working on FriendFeed or working on Facebook? If I were him I would be 100% working on Facebook. - Robert Scoble
FF can compete if news orgs can realize the benefits. Best way to do that is to see a competitor utilizing FF tools, gaining traffic, or doing something that makes others say "I want that." - TheIndustryStandard
Another question for Paul: how can FF community help (even with the small but significant detail work - and bouncing spammers) ... what else? - Dan Freeman
Robert, I agree, I can see a time when Facebook will be the equivalent of the telephone directory (white pages etc). Facebook is definitely where a difference can be made, especially with Paul's openness agenda. - Travis Koger
"I would be 100% working on Facebook" - agree 100% - and Paul definitely has his work cut out for him there. Huge. - Dan Freeman
Why is FaceBook so hard to like, it's laborious, filled with the wrong applications (Games like FARM, Friggin MAFIA) and is not simple in ease of use terms. I use it but find I spend too much time trying to figure where things are than actually get something done. I must have a learning disability I guess. - Owen Greaves
Facebook is a nightmare when it comes usability. Looks like it was designed by a pack of monkeys with ADHD. - Tony C from fftogo
LOL @Tony - Roberto Bonini
Yeah, college students. (p.s. I am one (a college student, not FB dev)) - Kevin L
I don't mind the 'design' of Facebook, it is relatively clean, however the UX is where it is let down. - Travis Koger
Not sure I agree with you assessment. FF is a different animanl and integrating with FB is not something I need or want. - Poka Yoke from twhirl
IMO, fb needs to integrate ff feature set and provide much more fine grained control over privacy. I want to be able to have public, less public and private information. I want to be able to control who gets what information. For instance, if I share a funny link it's fine for anyone to get it including google/bing, but if I'm sharing my location info I might only want my family to be able to see that. - John
News makers using twitter kills the news makers. I don't think friendfeed was ever about Newsmakers looking for a platform. - Cjay
Cjay: every single newsmaker I know came here looking for it to be a new platform that would take Twitter on. RWW even used it to plan out their editorial in a private group here. When I choose a new platform I'm definitely looking to use it as a platform for newsmakers to discuss things. I saw FriendFeed as being a new kind of talk radio. Actually, what has captured everyone's interest... more... - Robert Scoble
The news makers platform is pure RSS. Twitter and friendfeed feels like the old belt clip pager from the 80's, a quick message here and there, but no way in hell that your going to convey any detail about any news using a platform like friendfeed or twitter. - Cjay
RSS channels are the "WAVE" of the future. Everybody has a channel, Google wave is a small ripple in a big pond..Google should have never told anybody about it until it was finished. Companies have been using this idea anyway on internal Lan/vpn for years... and all of a sudden Google comes out with wave, like its some holy grail. Change Facebook to Friendbook and call it done. - Cjay
but I digress...... - Cjay
Spot on Robert - Ryan Petty
I'll point out that today, FF features are in FB. The news stream is live (if you want it) I want the Status stream live, since I don't want apps in my stream and have made the status stream my default. FB is too cluttered, and the ads are pointless and annoying. I find FF far superior in terms of design, as I do Twitter, but I understand that ads are required for most websites to survive. I just wish that they would be nicer and less obtrusive (and that Friends would stop sending me Mafia Wars Requests) - Nathan Snyder
Robert Scoble
Robert Scoble
The one search company most likely to get purchased by Microsoft to crush Google that I saw in Cambridge UK? PrismaStar.
July 11 - Comment - Share
Reasons for saying that? - Ahmed
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Why? - Jim Connolly
why ? - Kashif Khan
"crush google", wow sounds interesting. - Rich Lazzara
I hope this is the same PrimaStar Robert is talking about - ashish
Rich: Google crush sounds more interesting - like the name of a drink. - Jim Connolly
Why? You'll have to see our Building43 video to see why. :-) But let's just say they did the search technology for several camera stores and the conversion rate went WAY up. Why is that? Because they offer a new way of searching things that really rocks. I can't explain it in text. Gotta show it to you. - Robert Scoble
looking fwd to it - Rich Lazzara
Primestar's AnswerOil UIX is a good fit for #Bing's decision support platform, combined with shopping cart & checkout optimization products from www.allurent.com would yield further eCommerce results. - Alexander Ainslie
I'm interested.Do they support dynamic search/ads via keywords/tags? I sent them a message, and like what I saw. Very feature driven search. - Mark Essel
Robert: direct link to the building43 video? - James Kuypers
Several people asked which product categories we support -- here's a site that uses over 1000: http://translate.google.com/transla... - Joshua Z. Tabin
(on the right-hand side of that translated page are some samples...) - Joshua Z. Tabin
Also, Mark Essel: YES, we do support dynamic search/ads via keywords/tags. :) - Joshua Z. Tabin
Thanks Joshua, great talking to you. - Mark Essel
Most likely to get purchased by Microsoft with the intent to crush Google, perhaps. But Microsoft intends a lot of things. Maybe they'll buy PrismaStar, then rebrand MSN, er, Live Search, er Bing, and the market will be less confused. - Andy Bakun
But Jessops the camera retailer is losing money: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/money... - Jelly Roll Morton
Jessops has been losing money as long as anyone can remember, which is hardly Prismastar's fault. The point is though that Jessops has a very good search tool with Prismastar's AnswerOil and has seen a substantial increase in its conversion rates since adopting Prismastar's technology. It could be Answeroil which has kept them going this long (nobody would have expected them to still be around in late 2009 eighteen months ago) - John S Cameron
John, did Jessops really see a substantial increase in conversion rates? I respectfully suggest that this is not a fact. Can anyone actually verify this claim? It is on record that Jessops are still around because HSBC Bank saved them, rather than because of their business performance. - Jelly Roll Morton
Posting from another feed: here is the prior art that someone was looking for on Interconnected Sliders : they existed back in 2004 in the public domain - download this FLA file for free and build your own interconnected sliders: http://www.senocular.com/flash... - Jelly Roll Morton
Mike Chelen
Mike Chelen to Mike's feed, Ubuntu, Ubuntu Linux, Cloud Computing, FLOSS: Free Libre OSS
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"A Eucalyptus system includes three high level packages: 1. eucalyptus-cloud - includes the front-end services (Cloud Controller) as well as the Walrus storage system. 2. eucalyptus-cc - includes the Cluster Controller that provides support for the virtual network overlay 3. eucalyptus-nc - includes the Node Controller that interacts with KVM (Kernel-based Virtual Machine) to manage individual VMs In a basic Eucalyptus setup, the system is composed of two machines (a front-end and a node). The front end runs both eucalyptus-cloud and eucalyptus-cc in this configuration, even though they communicate via network messages, making it possible to separate them in a more complex multi-host setting. The following diagram depicts a simple setup." - Mike Chelen from Bookmarklet
Robert Scoble
Robert Scoble
Terry Jones #1 http://m.kyte.tv/ch...
Terry Jones #1 http://www.kyte.tv/ch/6118/284759
December 3, 2008 - Comment - Share
There are four parts to this video. One of the most interesting developers and ideas for the RealTimeWeb that I've heard yet. I wish FriendFeed has this search engine's capabilities. - Robert Scoble
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Okay, you've got me hooked, RS. Gimme more, please, Sir! - James D Kirk
fascinating concept "Fluid Info": "database with a heart of a wiki" ... love his accent! Interesting to give user so much control w/o schemas, permissions, etc. Removes all the structure, limitations....wow - Susan Beebe
ok where's part 2 at? - Susan Beebe
Susan: Uploads from Spain are slow. - Robert Scoble
Faster than China or slower? - David Feng from IM
Sorry - wrong comment... I mean, commented to wrong person... - David Feng from IM
Gotcha! Time for some coffee although that hot chocolate does sound better :) - Susan Beebe
David: I think uploads in China were faster. But I think the hotel wifi sucks. Can't blame that on an entire country. :-) - Robert Scoble
Thanks Robert! And thanks for watching.... I'm a bit of a gasbag. - Terry Jones
Terry your ideas are amazing... ripping away the layers of db constraints to open up an evolutionary platform for information mining / sharing is simply AWESOME! My db structured brain is having a tough time computing the lack of structures, but my intuition tells me this is right for the future....neat data model design concept for sure! - Susan Beebe
Hi Susan. Thanks :-) BTW, there are permissions. You can have, e.g., a susan/rating attribute that you're putting onto things, and it's yours - no one else can detect/read/write/delete it unless you let them. OTOH, the underlying database objects have no owner. There are no permissions at that level. So you can put a rating (or anything else) onto any object (that you can find). No-one can stop you. So we're fully writable like a wiki, but with a permissions structure within the object (unlike a wiki). - Terry Jones
Ooooh got it!!! Ok so you're building a core data model (protected) with objects everywhere (open design) which are available to users who are presented with a highly customizable user profile (detect/read/write/delete ) that can call / manipulate said objects to create the user's *own* data set (which has multiple layers of permissions / attributes / tags? to control sharing, reporting and distribution of data) = fabulous! when can I have it? :) - Susan Beebe
Terry - is this something like entity/attribute/value? I did something like that a few years ago... but found it hard to do searching - equality in my thing was fine, but greater than, less than etc (ie: with a date range) were a bit harder. How have you overcome this? - Brad
@Susan. Yes, that sounds more or less right. Yes, your own data is on the objects, as it that of anyone else who wants to put something there. it's all combinable, searchable as you like. Plus you can organize multiply, simultaneously, and arbitrarily (simply by adding more tags to objs & searching). We'll do an alpha release in early 2009. - Terry Jones
@Brad. Dates are stored both numerically and textually. What gets searched on depends on the query. terry/seen > "Jan 22, 2007" is numeric, terry/seen ~ "Monday" is textual, etc. The query language is dead simple. It took me a lot of thinking to reduce everything to very very simple primitive operations and an easily parallelizable query language. - Terry Jones
BTW, there are 3 more parts to the video coming up... :-) - Terry Jones
Impressive demo and ideas. I was thinking about similar lines last week using CouchDB (a schemaless document database by Damian Katz). Also the views in FluidDB sound like views in CouchDB. I very much like the idea of sharing data and being able to annotate or enhance the original(!) data. This is Open Data on steroids. - Berry Groenendijk
Mindnumbing stuff. - Thomas Bøhm
@Berry Hi. I'm reasonably familiar with CouchDB. It's a very different animal. CouchDB is very focused on documents, and lays out complete documents (serialized JSON strings actually, plus BLOBs) efficiently on disk. FluidDB is not focused on anything :-) And its storage is not done by object, but is instead by attribute (or tag if you like). CouchDB used to not have permissions, but I think that's changing/ed. About views yes, agreed. I hope that makes it clearer. It takes a while to get. - Terry Jones
Part #3 is now up http://bit.ly/UteO - Terry Jones
Terry I think I am slowly getting my head around FluidDB. There is still one big problem. The way people tag things. Some people tag things with a x,y coordinates, others with a longitude and latitude, etc. You need consistent tag names (or metadata field names or whatever) to be able to effectively search data. Does FluidDB help you with this in any way? - Berry Groenendijk
Hi Berry. No, there's no help, and nor do I think there should be. Conventions evolve. They become consistent to the degree that it's important they are consistent. If it doesn't matter that you write color and I write colour, then it's no big deal. But if I write S.O.S. and you write S.O.B., it could be very important! - Terry Jones
There's a lot of evolutionary biology thinking behind FluidDB. Attributes will (implicitly) have fitness. Things that are useful will flourish, become trusted, be heavily used, and their owners will similarly gain. Other stuff will not. This gets at the question of spam too. What's spam? But that's another subject - also very important if you're going to build an information architecture that can survive its own success. - Terry Jones
Terry I like the way you think about these things. Just viewed part #4 of the interview. I am looking forward to the alpha release. - Berry Groenendijk
Eager to see Alpha product too! send me invite susan.beebe {at} gmail dot com - thanks! This is really inspiring / disruptive technology!! love it! makes my brain hurt in a GOOD way (i.e. un-doing all the overly burdensome architecture that was imprisoning my data!) :-) Terry is one smart cookie!! - Susan Beebe
How will you expire certain attributes? Similar to domain name management today, will you have leases on groups (or specific) attributes? This seems to be the way that you're going with the revenue model, and would certainly make sense after you've reached enough critical mass. When will you start allowing people to start reserving namespaces/attributes? - Davison
very neat project - mikehedge
@Terry - thanks. I built my thing on a standard relational db - Firebird, but everything was stored as text, so it was a bit difficult... :) So... how do you go about implementing "relationships"? ie: I have a video store, with all these videos, and this person rents these vids, so I'd like to send them an email when there's a new release in the genre that they've hired previously? Would love to talk to you more about this. Thanks! - Brad
@SusanBeebe - you know, that's exactly right! undoing the architecture! yes, sort of kinda..... :) and freeing one'self from the confines of relational theory... but see me other comment to Terry re relationships. Happy Days! :) - Brad
@Terry - sorry I can't stop thinking about this. In my thing, I maintained another table that aggregated all the various uses of a "thing". So at a glance, I could tell what the most used credit card was for purchases.... which state had the most sales etc.... this was a way to help the business owner make sense of all the data, and plan for the future. ie: Diners Club had like 2% of sales, yet attracted the highest fees - so that tells me get rid of Diners Club as a payment method? That sort of thing..... - Brad
@Terry - and all - I had better stop here - I could keep typing all night about this, and then miss the new year! :) So happy new year to everyone. And special thanks to Robert for bringing you to our attention. - Brad
Hi @Brad. Sorry for my slow replies - I don't get any notification of new comments here. I don't really use friendfeed (yet). I'm not sure exactly what @Susan had in mind with her "undoing the arch" comment, but that certainly captures the flavor. Re relationships, there is NO support for them. It's not a relational model. There's just a (conceptually) very simple architecture and laughably simple query language. You get to do analysis on your own CPU :-) Lots of tradeoffs there, of course. - Terry Jones
The Kyte videos seem to be dead. Am I just stupid or did they get deleted? - Steven Walling
The video still works for me. - Terry Jones
Robert Scoble
Robert Scoble
True FRIENDFEED addicts please check in:
August 11 from iPhone - Comment - Share
Here. - Damond Nollan
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Check..... - Amit Nangare
*raises hand* - MASTER OF THE OBVIOUS
here - Mel Buckpitt
yo. - Zee.
Present - Clifford Kennedy
Addicted... checkin' in - Rob Schieber
addiction check - Edgar Rodríguez
I checked in before you even posted this. - Akiva Moskovitz
here. - Luca Sofri
'sup - Nolan Alston
shuffles quietly at the back - Ivor Whitten
tap tap - Blackeyed P
I'm not an addict. I can quit any time I want. - ha3rvey (Ho)^3
jawohl. - Spidra Webster
I am here. How about you? - Robert Scoble from iPhone
HOORAH - Mistletoe Glen
Check Check - Robert Burgin
here - Ray H
sleepless in Kavala - Apostolos Tsompanopoulos
check - Amani
I'm here! - Bonnie Foster
HeRe! - Bruno Mertins
Whatup! - jamar78
Hooah! - Kevin Fox
Till they kick me out. - Tony, Paradox of FF
here but i can stop anytime - phil baumann
In! - Pon
Here! - Oracio
I'm not, uh, like an addict, or anything. I can quit anytime. yeah - jeff hammond
w00t! - Shane
hi:P - K.D.
I don't have time for this...I'm too busy liking stuff - Alex Scoble
Yep count me in!! - Guillaume Foutry
Present and accounted for. - Colette
Here - TonyatMATC
Present - Mike Doeff
It is amazing to see how fast these discussions fill up. - Damond Nollan
Present - Olympia Scott
yep! - Sets Turan
Howdy. - Daniel Morgan
Present. - Alonis
Sir Yes SIr! - Robert Kenney
not an addict, but check in often - Göze Sencer
I'm only addicted to the email service - joebrooks
As always :) - Paul Buchheit
wassup - Alejandro
here - Ken Kennedy
Yup, that would be me =) - FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
here - Matt Ruiz
Here Here! - Benjamin Golub
was going to be, but not anymore - Lo
here - ebru
here - Eric Logan
Here!!! :P - Chris Zlatis
Snorting a line of FF as I type this. - Penguin It's Cold Outside from fftogo
++ - jacek
Phew, still here ... - Tom Horn
I'm not here LOL - Robert Szabo
Here I be -/ - Chris Loft
I'm Free - kenneth glenn
Damn: a lot of addicts here still! - Robert Scoble from iPhone
Well, I *was* an addict until yesterday. - Rishabh Mishra (p248)
alive and well. - Tyler Molamphy
present - Jeff Weber
yes we R - Johni Fisher
Hey, I can stop whenever I want. No, really. - Tom Landini
I'll leave kicking and screaming. - Andrew Smith
It's a trap!! - Micah Wittman from iPhone
---...--- - constantinos alexacos
Where else are we going to go? - Christian Burns from iPhone
Yep, here - LANjackal
Check - Jesper Lind
So addicted I said I was addicted twice. < g > - Rob Schieber
Hello everyone. - Ryan - @magicofpi
always here! - Marco Ramirez
Hip hip... - Gary Gannon
Still here! - Lee Watters
Still around :) - Sean Powell
Always here! - Louis Gray
staying put until they kick us out. - michael sean wright
still not here :D - Robert Szabo
*cough cough* - John Ladd
I am here. Isn't it now FACEFEED? - Francine Hardaway
Here! - OnuRC
I love that Bret, Paul, and Kevin checked in. They probably are looking at their screens and asking "what do we do now?" how about ship some new features before Facebook overlords take you off to do bigger things? - Robert Scoble from iPhone
I feel sorry for all you addicts. My use of it is purely social. - Bruce Lewis
Not an addict but I like it. - Joao Alves
I got the papers in my glove box....you ready to make a beer run? - Morgan Haley
Is Friendfeed a safe place to bring new friends? - Christian Burns from iPhone
I'm here - and staying here until Paul and Bret kick me out the </door> - AJ Kohn
yup. Guess I am. - Mark Interrante
+1 happy user... till now - giuseppe c. | markgreene
What am I doing? I don't even know. - Suzanne
Here!!! - Felipe Aneudi Campana from iPhone
Here for now... - Travis Tasset from iPhone
That hitler thing was amazing. That is all. - James Watters
present. - Trish Haley
Yo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! - Stephen Pickering
What of it. - Rochelle
"So, Who are you?" "very cool, very cool" - Stephen Pickering
what? - Nine
Just my luck. I got to this party about a month ago and NOW they decide to sell. - Ian Paul
FF4EVR. :D - David Vasileff
02:10 am and still here :-) - Willem (@wim66) ☠
Yo ¡Aquí! - David Austria
present - Albert Maruggi
presente - Eric Gagne
Not sure I'm an addict yet but I'm here and working on it. - Paul Goldsmith
I'm checking out not in. Friendfeed is on its way out kind ladies and gentlemen - Mark Essel
Here ! - DAL from iPhone
Checking in! - Marci Golub
Checking in - Richard Gallo
Present! - MsJosay
Here and ready for duty sir! - David Damore
I survived the night. - Frankie Warren
Hello - Sue
Present - Joshua Kahn
I do like FF and use it almost every day. Wouldn't it be great if FB either left it alone so we can continue to use it as "professionals," or somehow incorporate it into a more "mature" version of FB that didn't have all the annoying, time-wasting apps, games, etc. I'd much prefer a totally customizable FF "wall." - Cathryn Hrudicka
I think FFundercats HO!!!!! would have worked but I'm here anyways. - Jimminy Fuller
here! - Greg Louderman
are there fake friendfeed addicts? - acedanger
Oh I'm still here :) - Owen Greaves
here - John Kitchen
Hello? - Vaughn
you betcha - Rick Bucich
holy crap, looks like master and commander ;-) - Aad 't Hart
Not an addict but still here. - Brandon
hello from a german FRIENDFEED addicted :-) - Simon Zeimke
On in real time - Mike Lizun
Money rules! Money rules! Money rules! The world doesn't change! - ¡amFrancesco!
O HAI - Ambar Pansari from iPhone
Not an addict, but defiantly a user. Wish there was a desktop client though. Or TweetDeck integrated it. - Michael
:) - Joe
Present! - Denverken
Aye, Mon. - Gordon Swaby
PRESENT - Kamilah Gill
Check - Jason Heppler
It's nice seeing new comments drop down, sexy as fuck, bye friendfeed *snifs* - Gordon Swaby
president - Dennis O'Neil
Aloha - Nathan
Where else would I be? Facebook? Pfft ... - Kevin Mohr
Bueller, Bueller, ........ Bueller - manielse (Mark Nielsen)
Yeah, I'm here - outofmyarse
Sorry I was late.. I have a note from my parole officer. - Mike Shulman
Sir, YES, Sir! - Mycaptain
I CAN QUIT ANYTIME!!! - Jim in Real Time
here - Rahul Gupta
just getting started - Patrice Vizzone
Aye! - Joshua
hello there - Murilo Terrabuio
Here, I am - Luca Ciccarelli
Sorry I'm late. I was on Facebook. It works on a cellphone. - Paul Puri
here - Gary Prechtel
Present! - Diego Barros 
I'm not here often, but when I am... it's a happy place indeed... I hope they don't take away my fix! - Robyn Miller
Hey Robert - got a separate thread for people who have a healthy, positive relationship with FriendFeed? - Edward Coffey
Check - tristan
Marco! - Tomy Thomson
it's gonna take 11 years for FaceBook to catch up to where FF is now....isn't that how tech "progress" works? - Marg Uerite
Ahoy - Brett Kelly from iPhone
aye - chaz2b
Ere I am in Aust standing up with my right hand raised yelling out HERE! - Bob Heath
Count me in. - Sebastian
Present - Charlie Anzman
Knock on wood! - Giorgio Zarrelli
Check - Erik Boles from iPhone
What's the qualifier for addict? If you believe the MacLean researcher, addiction is a choice! - Sally: ice cube
I MEAN IT!!! ANYTIME!!! - Jim in Real Time
O Captain, My Captain ;) - Stuart Miniman
hey! - Imran Jafri
yes - Steve Mott
I'm here. Now what? - Christian Collins
Actively fighting addiction to anything on a daily basis, but I'm still a FriendFeed fan! (I'd have been here sooner but I've been staring at Phoebe Cates pics for longer than I realized.) - Mark "DerBingle" J
Thank you Robert Scoble to be here. :) BTW is this looks interesting for FF replacement? : http://streamy.com/ ? May be... I'll try it to see. :) - Claude LaFrenière
Checking in! - MVB (Curmudgeon of FF) from fftogo
Count me in too please! - RobinDotNet from iPhone
raises hand! - Bhowmik Shah
not addicted but perhaps in a state of advanced 'like' - Threepwood
Yeah. Going to miss this if it morphs into something else for real. - Robert Anderson
I need my FriendFeed! - Brandon Titus
I really Need Friendfeed! - TheHenry
Ya, that's me. - Sweyn Venderbush
Yo. - James (!?)
HOOAH. or something - mjc
Here. At the Rack proctoring an exam. - Stuart Rath
here - Bluesun 2600
Everybody sing: "They tried to make me go to rehab I said no, no, no " - Laurent
•_•*b - videopixil from Nambu
check - Jaica Kinsman from iPhone
Here! - Michael Hocter
yo! - tomit
Why should I? Whats in it for me? You doing some sort of survey of people to send out the police to do a "Safety Check" on when the site is shutdown? - Uncle CW™
hola! - Oğuz Serdar
Aren't we all here? I guess that's the point why we adopted Friendfeed, while others just "heard about it", isn't it? - Wolfgang G. Wettach
What is the differential diagnosis for this condition? - Matthew DeVries
and many of us in Europe are sleeping. - Luca Sofri
better late than never. - Brian Daniel Eisenberg
Some of us in the USA are just busy, too. - Duncan Blake
Man, this check-in line is pretty darn long... must be Southwest. heh - Daynah
<raises hand> - Jack (a.k.a. Jeber)
please excuse me while I pretend to be one of your guys - Kirk
I'm not addicted, I'm just a social FriendFeeder. - Joe Pierce
here i am - v per vitzbank
check 1,2 - Wayne Sutton
Here. - Bill Scherer
Here - Bora Zivkovic
.-.. --- --. --- ..- - - constantinos alexacos
hello - echostreamer
Eccomi, presente! - Alessandro
checking in from Tejas - George Dearing from BuddyFeed
Finally turned the corner. - Liza
trying to figure out how to use it... - Ted Kinzer
There sure are a lot of people in here. It's a good thing Robert got the big room with extra chairs. - RobinDotNet from iPhone
Reporting! (My next blog entry will be called "Social Media Is My Crack".) - Dennis Jernberg
present. - Jim Halligan @jim
Roger, Roger! - Jim Bergman
late but here - Heather Solos
Yo. - Steve Lowe
all present and accounted for sir ! - John Wallace from BuddyFeed
Nah, I'm too busy posting #badjokememe stuff. - Ladybug Heather
I am in. - Gabe Taviano from iPhone
Present. - Christopher A Carr
Depends. - Nick Humphries
Not an addict yet, but I'm starting to work on it. - Alex Hellstrom
I'm working hard to get an addiction. - Minu Nianda
never left - Josh Haley
Robert, Now that you have us all here (or some of us), what are you going to do with us? - RobinDotNet
Here I am... sad but I am! - ¡amFrancesco!
Hiya. Still here. Don't plan on leaving for the foreseeable future. - Jason Huebel from iPhone
still here - echostreamer
here - Holly is Happy from iPod
I'm here, but is this FF or FB? - Dana Fosburgh
Guilty as charged. Use FF more than any other social network, including Twitter. - Larry Hawes
I can stop anytime I want... - mikepk
I can stop mikepk anytime I want... - Akiva Moskovitz
holy cow that is a serious list...oh yeah here and dear!!! - Braden Douglass
the real time chat feed is simply amazing and what makes FF phenomenal! - Travis Tasset
I tried to get addicted but none of my friends could afford it. Now I just have bad dreams about Scoble. - Mr Saturday Morning NFG
Merhaba! - Barış (beyn.org)
here, too. - browneyes from iPhone
Yep. - joey
Here...and cloaked with sadness... - Anthony K. Valley ©
True. What will happen to FF now? - Barış (beyn.org)
Alright - Rodfather
Roger that - Rob Fahrni
(from Streamy) - Marcos
yo - Gus
cello! - Joe Silence
You called? - Jeunelle Foster
you called? - pea
reporting in. - Randy Shapiro
ola. - anna sauce
hello my name is Kim and I'm a Friendfeedaholic - Kim Landwehr from BuddyFeed
1st Step - Thomas Page
True FriendFeed addicts don't need to report in. :P - Tad
yep - The Letter M
true friendfeed addicts are there.. always ;) - alphaxion
Tad: and yet you did! - Joe Silence
Chiggity-Check! - Richard Merritt
Still following Robert the Wise. - Phil Boiarski
that's a *boolean true* - Peter Renshaw
check - Tim Ake
I'm here. FriendFeed will have to leave me, before I leave it. - Tyson Key
ayo... - Lipanantsi
Fashionably late ...BOOYA! - Rich Weaver
Chris Martin checking in - Chris Martin
Present - Craig Eddy
present but in 12 step for addiction - Criz
'Ere - Darren Heydon
yo ho ho! - Ferdinand Perez
I'm an addicted lurker. Does that count? - ax0n
Solid Copy - Drew Lucas from iPhone
Checking in by phone while on vacation. :) - CAJ, somewhere else from iPhone
here. anecdote: a friend of mine just signed up for FF this evening. apparently the FriendFeed hype of the last 24 hours pushed him over the top. leaves me wondering whether FF has actually gained users today?it would be a crafty way of marketing the service. I'll wake up tomorrow to discover that there was a problem with the paperwork and the FriendFeed team have had a change of heart. - JSLeFanu from BuddyFeed
late, but present - George Deane
Present and accounted for - John Pfaff
hello hello - shaun mclane
yo yo yo. ladi-dadi. - berchman
"raises hand" - Brian Appleby
i have been locked out of twitter since first attack on friday so just got into friendfeed and loooove it! - Alannah Ryane
We are truly the coolest bunch on the internet. - Raphael, Raphael
·[▪_▪]· - Desirade
Whats up? - AJ Batac
Present and accounted for! :-D - Amy Flynn
Hello, my name is Pete, and I am a FriendFeed addict. Will there be cookies and coffee at this 12-step meeting? - Pete Delucchi
Here stopped over on my way to Brightkite. - John C Ferron
I'm a Facebook junkie - Molly, New Ears :P
Yo. - Neal Jansons
Hi. - Trent Olson
is this a load test/friendly dos attack? :p - ௸ (k2g)
I'm not as active on FF as I used to be but I'm back. - Bob Gannon from iPhone
more than 2 days ago - Alistair (alpinefolk)
Little late but yes, I am still here. So to speak. - Martha
I'm new but i like it... - Jose Antonio Trujillo
Count me in even though I was just starting to get hooked. I guess it's time to find a rehab and get all sobered up until the next relapse with some other new addiction. Isn't life grand? - Usman Bashir
addict.. - Peter
Define addict. - Carl Black
Here too, lol - Ange Recchia/angesbiz
ANYTIME!!!! - Jim in Real Time
addict: currently 02:53 and I've failed to even start this weeks script because I've been messing about on friendfeed ;) - alphaxion
Not exactly addict but very close. - ashish from iPhone
03:01 in the morning in the UK and I am here! - Travis Koger
Since we are logging time its 5:05 AM in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia and I am here too. :) - Usman Bashir
Travis get some sleep! - Arleen Anderson
Aloha! - Peter Liu
guten tag! - imabonehead
hmmm. - Carlos Ayala
hello hello - Tate DA FF MVP from BuddyFeed
define addict :-) - Duane-PreppyDude
Gonna miss you honey. This is Facebook for adults - Alan Morris
Is it just me or is the FF interface just plain usable? Clean! Uncluttered! Simple!. - Alan Morris
Check is in the mail. - Louis Trapani from iPhone
Wow Peter, Are we all that crazy for friend feed and twitter? - Marilyn Jansen Lopes
Aloha! Mahalo Robert... now WHAT IS the plan??? - Arleen Anderson
Hello there. this is today's last....go to bed now. - Carloe Stamp
present - Alex Scrivener
Allo - Jan Ole Peek
selamat pagi,, bon dia ,, good morning=)) - zʍıɔ
^_^ - HealingBrush
I could be an addict if there was an app for my phone like one for the winmo! - Andy Ghozali
Presente - patrick
Checking In.... - Chris Jackson
Not quite addicted yet here. - Mike Pennell
Where's Holden? Maybe celebrating his birthday early. - Myrna
Yes SIR!! - Mark Guadalupe
Present! - Adam Turetzky
Reporting for duty SIR! - Jack Humphrey
Checking in. - John (a.k.a. dendroica)
¡Presente! - Luis D. Santos
On it constantly! - Tobin Truog
West Coast evening shift reporting for duty. - Kryptic
Connected across all social media.Who needs open social? - Lori Laurent Smith
Here! - David Cook
addicted for sure - Gersham Meharg
hola. - Sean Oliver
talk about a name and shame list... - Nathan Vingoe
Yo! - Walt Ruppar
Count me as an addict. - Joey Gibson
Till the servers shut down and they boot us off forever. - Haggis (Sean Loyless)
check - Kate
Always here! - Michael Cuff
need more, need more friendfeed than any one has needed before - Robert Higgins
Present. - Lucas
I am present and accounted for...well present anyway - Keith Murray
Here! - Barry Owens
You rang? - JA Castillo
I'm not sure is "being addicted to lurking on FF" counts, but I'm chiming in. - Christian (Simply X)
I JUST joined and am trying to figure it out. - Janine Nickel
I quit everytime I go to bed - Jeff (the マクダジ of FF) from iPhone
check. It rocks - Richard J Placide
I'm checking in from 37k feet on a Delta flight with GoGo Internet. If that's not addict I don't know what is. :D - Jay Cuthrell
Jay, you win ;) - Jesper Lind
oh hey, look, the added an "add comment" link to the end of the comment list. Huzzah! - Brett Kelly from iPhone
++Jay. I was going to do the same thing yesterday but I didn't want to pay the money. - David Cook
David -- this was a $9.95 session but you can get them for $7.95 and there are also 25% off coupons if you do online check-in prior to your Delta flight. That's an incentive for folks to use that service and offload kiosk use at the terminals. Very savvy marketing by the folks at GoGo and Delta combined. - Jay Cuthrell
Present and accounted for - johnpiercy
Yo Scobey! I like Dave Winer's thoughts on user owned tech companies ... been thinking similar things. - Jason Cronkhite
Scobey Scobey Doooooooooooooo! - Jason Huebel
check. - Justin Korn
here - Steve C
Ozgur reporting - Özgür D. Cyric from iPhone
Present - Herb Hernandez
Me too - Peter Hollard
Junkie - Genaro Bardy from iPhone
Seems like there's not much point being a FF addict, now. Bummer. - Kathy Fitch
Checking in! - Glenn Slaven
whatup! :) - simran
Still here :) - 1x29
Here as always. - Jeff Smith
Here. - Parth Awasthi
Do you even have to ask? - Johnny Worthington
Aquí! - Miguel
moi. - amygeek
Are we doing anything today? - Shea from iPhone
nano nano - Eran Even-Kesef
ok, I'll play - chrisofspades
yes master - Weird Shanghai
:) - Susan Beebe from iPhone
I like this list of people, good crowd - Jack DeWitt Smith
Yo. (And what is the point of this thread and why are we all saying Yo?) - Bob Morris (polizeros)
Howdy! - Bec Rowe @d0tski
And if you're a *real* FF addict, comment twice. - Dennis Jernberg
Robert. What's up? :D - DO ANYBODY NO MONIQUE
Arrrr!! - Adrian
Here at 06:55 A.M. from iPhone. - Pasquale Grimaldi from iPhone
late, but check and still here. - Rocky
No matter how many times "ff!" is met with "??" I still preach. - Garin Kilpatrick
Another one for the books - Greg Birch
Sup dawg I be in your feed, checkin in - Geoff Schultz
Hey. - Kevin Pedraja
I'm late, sorry. :) - jcunwired
well, it's 12:12 a.m. and I'm perusing FF from my iPhone via BuddyFeed before turning in. so yeah, I guess I count. "Here!" (raises hand) - Don Faulkner from BuddyFeed
Here - Paola Bonomo
Here..from Shanghai - Marc Dong
My name is John, and I am a FFolic.. :-) - John Serra
Here from Hong Kong! - Dan Van Hoy
Here - Musa Yılmaz
Good morning from Finland. I'm here again. - Tapio Kulmala
Can't stay away. - Tanath
Checked in ...How can I check out - Sriks7
Sorry I am late - Emre Öktem
Becoming more so. - Travis B. Hartwell
Present - Sandra Large
Here here... - Alemsah Ozturk from iPhone
here.. - Chris Myles
Hello I am here! - Chris Bellinger
hmm. Friendfeed response rate running about three times as good as a banner ad and about as good as a well placed Adword. - Steve Wilhelm
Am I too late? I've been out crying at my personal Friendfeed funeral :-( - Jannifer @wordsforliving
Ci sono - zuck from fftogo
Just woke up and saw this thread. Addicted ? I guess so... - Jacque from f2p
✔ I'm not addicted. I can quit any time I want. I just don't want to. ;o) - RetiredTeacherD
still lovin it - Mark Sorsa-Leslie
Teacher: Awesome checkmark ;) - Fajar Nurdiansyah
Yes it does ! :) - Veda Informatics
Oh I'm late, just spend to much time at Streamy - Michael Zehrer
:) - M F
merhaba - Sinan İŞLER
Here I am, having my first coffee in the morning. - Federico Bolsoman
wazzzzup - Andrew Salnikov
Breakfast FFeeding.... - David Peacock
Wof Wof, WOF ! - valerio fiandra from iPhone
addiction check! - ӊooқ
First site I launch - Patrik Arwengrim
checked in - Sarper Sılaoğlu
All present and correct! - Paul M Evans
Présent! (for how long?) - Zackatoustra
here I am - nessuno
I send newbies straight to FriendFeed as the base for all of their online activities. I wonder how it will change. - Sally Albright
I'm here - Mackley ॐ
ata ata hoglo hulu - Dan H. Racek
[DEAN HOLMES] - Dean Holmes
I recommend FF to some of my clients, and there are some companies and nonprofits with presences here—not like Twitter, but I'll be curious how that will be affected when FB takes over more. Most have FB fan pages, groups and/or causes, too. - Cathryn Hrudicka
Still here.......as always. - Iain Baker
Still here, but I don't know until when - Roberto from fftogo
Here I am - l'Ego di Gigi
Because.....? - Andrew Terry from iPod
checked! - Federì
yup - Thomas Power
Wassup? - Winston Teo
in - paniaguai
howdy! - Nir Ben Yona
I can give it up any time. I swear. - Matt G
Here! - Brome
Hey i'm in the hospital and I still checked. - Steven Cogswell from iPhone
Me definitely one of these. :-) - Kol Tregaskes
Trying to keep the addiction low. - Muthu Ramadoss
Buongiorno - alex
Just another one. - M. Elena
What are we checking in for? Just to start a long thread? - Adam Helweh
in - MobilAdam
Where's duty free? - Paul Downing
sorry i'm late :) - Doruk Bayer
Late, but here I am. - Filippo Ronco
Not an addict but I'm here anyway :-D - Graham Lawrence
Reporting for duty. - Mark H
Here I am! Would you collect 50M$ to "buy-back" FF? :) - Marco Dal Pozzo [mdp]
I hope I'm not an addict... ;-) Oh, well. - Hanna Wiszniewska
вписался - Alex Kapranoff
I'm here - Nick Bristow
8 hours later? i passed it! - Avi Joseph
yop! - zooz
привет чятег! давайте зохватим этот тредик? - Махатма Бугоганди
Yeah, me too. I just saw the request to have a comment link at the bottom of the comments from one of your friends just yesterday and here it is. I'd say they are listening. Thanks FF. - Keith Rowland
ЧАТЕГ МЫ ТЕБЯ ЗАХВАТИМ!!!111 - кесапмриот
заходит чувак к Scoble, а там чатег - $this->
Boom - Simon Wicks from iPhone
это наш чятег камон - кесапмриот
а сколько у них тут каментов? - Махатма Бугоганди
Давайте дадим чувакам ссылку на истинный чятег, пусть бояццо - кесапмриот
пиццот - кесапмриот
Свободу попугаям! - Кеноби с кемпа
НАПИШИ ЗДЕСЬ ДВЕ ТЫСЯЧИ КАМЕНТОВ И ФРЕНДФИДИК ОСТАНЕТСЯ БЕСПЛАТНЫМ!!! - кесапмриот
zdrastvitze! - anna sauce
check! - Maxim Getman
КТО ВСЕ ЭТИ ЛЮДИ??? - Нервный гик
Right Here! - Ümit Orhan
present - Tamara
http://friendfeed.com/ideali... MORE THAN 7000 COMMENTS IN SOVIETFRIENDFEEDIK - кесапмриот
ОНИ ПРИШЛИ В НАШ ФРЕНДФИДИК! - кесапмриот
слабаки, до нашего чатега им ещё работать и работать - Нервный гик
Да здравствует народ Чятега. Скобл мы следим за тобой™! Let our friendfeed alone! - ideali
это не тру чатик - Нервный гик
^^ KAKIE VASHI DOKAZATELSTVA? - Zen Zero
кстати, все помнят, что у Даши сегодня день рождения? - Махатма Бугоганди
The view is better from here - Anthony
ЧО, БУХАЕМ? ДАША ПРИВЕТ - кесапмриот
Ин совьет унион чатег чатит тебя - кесапмриот
они виноваты сами. пускай теперь терпят. - ideali
о, зайка пришол! - Махатма Бугоганди
здравствуй Зайка. ты кого сегодня сделал счастливым? - Махатма Бугоганди
*facepalm* - Alex Kapranoff
Дашенька, в этом уютном подобии чятега мы поздравляем тебя! - ideali
All your base are белонг ту ас - кесапмриот
Дашенька ушла в салон красоты, но я ей передам обязательно! - Махатма Бугоганди
路过：） - K.D.
кетайцам напалм привет - кесапмриот
нитрогай кетайца, у него там коммунизм, ему тяжело - Махатма Бугоганди
then ? - alper*
чо сразу нитрогай, я превед передаю - кесапмриот
превед кетайцам - Нервный гик
И так чятег, пока Скобл не поговорит с нами представителями СовиетФрендфидика, все мои записи теперь можно читать в этом тредике. Пользуясь случае передаю Парню Бухайту и его команде большой привет, в связи с тем что [He can has sleep naw]. - ideali
превед кетаец! давай сегодня сделаем тебя счастливым! - Махатма Бугоганди
а кто такой Скобл? - Нервный гик
кстати да - Махатма Бугоганди
И ещё десять твоих друзей тоже сделаем счастливыми, китаец, у нас сегодня акция - кесапмриот
Мой Мир, вернись уже - кесапмриот
в чатег призывается Цукенберррггг! - кесапмриот
Greetings from Australia. Im here :-) - Aussie_Camper
кто такой Скобл. и вообще, объясните мне плз про звезд американоязычного френдфидика - кто там есть кто? - Махатма Бугоганди
зырьте, как притихли гики - кесапмриот
фтыкают в кириллические интернеты - кесапмриот
кто все эти люди™ ? - brain
у них там ночь, они спят еще. вот проснуцца - прифигеют - Махатма Бугоганди
Triple check - Geer
не там а здеся. звёзды американоязычного френдфидика здеся. давайте их спросим - кесапмриот
фаак, точно ночь - кесапмриот
а чо удобно. утром мы говорим, вечером они - кесапмриот
их спрашивать бессмысленно - сейчас они спят, а когда проснуцца, комменты уйдут далеко вверх - Махатма Бугоганди
а мы ещщё напишем - кесапмриот
хоть тысячу каментов-то мы им сделаем сейчас? - Махатма Бугоганди
а чего там делать - кесапмриот
для тех кто в контексте урбаншипа канешн - кесапмриот
All your base are belong to us - brain
дурик - кесапмриот
I am here Jedi master. - Steve de Mena
про этого Скобла статья в википедии есть. он евангелист. работал в мелкософте и в фаст компани. известный блоггер. - Махатма Бугоганди
кстати, можно обсудить вчерашник эпиктредик тут - кесапмриот
я уже спрашивал у Зайки, кого он сегодня сделал счастливым, но он молчит - Махатма Бугоганди
Митрич, этот скобл? http://be.wikipedia.org/wiki... Яндекс выдал - кесапмриот
here - Ahmet Soyata
точно! поэт, пародист, переводчик. известный блоггер. - Махатма Бугоганди
я вчера был в издательстве, с меня сведения об авторе просят. давайте, говорят, напишем, где учился, что генеральный директор. и что известный блоггер. - Махатма Бугоганди
пиши что генеральный блоггер - кесапмриот
here I am - Vedran Rudelj
да ладно! - кесапмриот
blessed are the sick - fo sho
Бесков, не ругайся - Махатма Бугоганди
мафия засыпает просыпаются гики - кесапмриот
а можно получить профессию известного блоггера? какие экзамены сдавать надо? какую специализацию лучше выбрать - микроблоггинг или аудиоподкастинг? - Махатма Бугоганди
*где можно получить профессию* - Махатма Бугоганди
экзамены надо не сдавать а принимать - кесапмриот
тогда все скажут вот блоггер и будут хлопать хлопать - кесапмриот
а кто сертификат дает, что экзамены принимать можно? - Махатма Бугоганди
настоящий генеральный блоггер можно афтограф и ещё экзамен хачу здать - кесапмриот
сам себе выдай что как маленький - кесапмриот
юноше, обдумывающему жутьё - кесапмриот
себе полайкай! (с) - Махатма Бугоганди
только щас понял, что мы в тредике у Скобла разговариваем. Скобла, привеееет! - кесапмриот
ой чатег - payalnik
паяльник привеееет - кесапмриот
давай Скоблу сертификат выпишем? - Махатма Бугоганди
сертификат "русский блоггеръ"? - кесапмриот
известный блоггер - Махатма Бугоганди
пусть с али поразговаривает. будем щитать што экзамен и сертификат сразу опа и выпишем - кесапмриот
в псто призывается Фил, рисовать сертификат для Скобла - Махатма Бугоганди
Checked-in - Ozkan Altuner
согласен. экзамен принимает Зайка, сертификат рисует Фил. роли распределены. - Махатма Бугоганди
чорт. я опаздываю. убежал. сделайте, пожалуйста, тысячу. я буду иногда появляться. - Махатма Бугоганди
привет всем в этом чате - Химия и Жизнь
только до 7 тыщ ему всё равно не дорасти - Химия и Жизнь
привет этому чатегу. в прошлый раз не участвовала, но тут грех не поддержать. - Teinett
ээ, зачем второй чатик сделали? - Один дяденька
показать американцам, где раки зимуют - Химия и Жизнь
кстати, вы в курсе, что сегодня Россия играет с Аргентиной в Москве - отборочный матч на ЧМ-2010? сегодня в метро будет ЖЕЕЕЕЕЕЕСТЬ - Teinett
http://ff.im/6urbH - Скоблу привет - кесапмриот
пока они спят - nundesign
О, кукуц пришол - кесапмриот
сегодня в метро на машине не поеду ок - кесапмриот
and here! - Arnaud Fischer
Here! - Simone Tedeschi
а кто-нибудь хоть раз катался в метро на машине? в рекламе это показывают, а реально? хотя бы слышали что-нибудь про ваших знакомых? - Teinett
Фесйбук, где наши деньги? Мы ёрлиадоптеры, дай нам тоже бабла! - Химия и Жизнь
me too, me too! Facebook baaaad, friendfeed gooood!! :-) - Chris Pantazis
Скобла, защити наши интересы! - Химия и Жизнь
не не слышали - кесапмриот
О, греки пришли. Греки привееет! - кесапмриот
girls, send your photos here -> - Химия и Жизнь
let's chat!!!!1111111oneoneeleveneleven - Химия и Жизнь
но только чтоп по-русски - Химия и Жизнь
а ещё кстате можно всем дружно переименоваться в "Robert Scoble" - кесапмриот
сиськам да! - кесапмриот
кстати, IM пропускает 90% сообщений. :( как вы следите за этим чатегом? - Teinett
МОНЕТИЗАЦИЯ - Махатма Бугоганди
по русски не катит, они там не поймут - кесапмриот
как как, из веба - кесапмриот
МОНЕТИЗИРУЙ @ ЛАЙКАЙ - кесапмриот
а работа стоит? - Teinett
Чятег вы молодцы! - ideali from iPhone
Guys, you russians are best! - Химия и Жизнь
Австралийцы призываются в пост, где Бацек? - ideali from iPhone
опять русские с балалайками наперевес - Один дяденька
руски блоггир привет - кесапмриот
с блаблаблайками - Химия и Жизнь
Митрич сегодня Скобл будет счастливым когда прознает силу Чятега. - ideali from iPhone
БАЛАЛАЙКАЙ - кесапмриот
Ждем на машабле статью "после слияния с фейсбуком в уютный френдфидик ломанулись русские" - $this->
это напоминает мне одну историю про Сосидко - Химия и Жизнь
не помню - кесапмриот
это что еще за на? - Непротивлени Злу Василием
I'm still here. You won't get trid of me that easily. - James Myatt
а ты не был на канале #2ch - Химия и Жизнь
это не на! это чятег! - кесапмриот
привет чятег! - Sergey Juchkov
Старый добрый френдфидиик - кесапмриот
ыч - Billy
Фил по вашему указанию прибыл. Чо рисуем? - Ph
привент ивангелистам - Непротивлени Злу Василием
Скобла и Митрича - кесапмриот
менья зовут Иван Гелист - кесапмриот
И чо они должны делать? - Ph
а ты почитай тредик) - кесапмриот
Фил, рисуй все подряд :) - Sergey Juchkov
Скобла привеет! - кесапмриот
Вот еще, тредики читать! Я настоящий Friendfeed Addict - я пишу и рисую, а не читаю. - Ph
русиш фантастиш скоблз - Непротивлени Злу Василием
Скобл - это чувак с самым большим на данный момент количеством friends of в Френдфиде. - $this->
dı rırı dı rırı dı rırı cant touch this :P - Sinan İŞLER
сериаладдер штоле? - кесапмриот
ну значит мы пришли в нужное место - кесапмриот
чятег, превед! - тут не место для
Наскоблил себе друзей. - Ph
Руски френдфидик выходит на международную арену - кесапмриот
Have I accidentally clicked a translation button or something?!? - Nicola Quinn
массфрендер, масс его - Непротивлени Злу Василием
Скоблогер - кесапмриот
中文用户 飘过 :) - Roger.Wei
транслейшен ему, смотрите - кесапмриот
^^^ гыгыгы - тут не место для
Дебютирует так сказать - Непротивлени Злу Василием
Учу албанскому - кесапмриот
from Russia with Love - $this->
hello - Ru Viljoen
интересно в каком словаре можно перевести с русского массфрендер - Непротивлени Злу Василием
На ифоне этот тредик не справляецо уже, и я перестал понимать кто чо говорит, когда кругом Скоблы. Чуть не проехал свою станцию. - ideali from iPhone
чего и добивались - кесапмриот
нет, не сериаладдер, просто популярный чел. - $this->
Придёт настоящий Скобл и зобанит всех! - кесапмриот
да не важно кто что говорит, Скоблись - Непротивлени Злу Василием
Грядёт настоящий Скобл - кесапмриот
от скобла слышу! - кесапмриот
Один чувак пришол в чятег и говорит я известный блоггер кто тут тру на первый второй рассчитайсь. А ему говорят чувак у тебя сертификат есть что ты известный блоггер? Вот иди Зайке экзамен сдай потом приходи. А Зайка стоит такой с топором и улыбается. Щас думает счастливым его сделаю. - Махатма Бугоганди
ты кого скоблом назвал? - Непротивлени Злу Василием
Yeah still kickin - Dobromir Hadzhiev
А другой чуваг пришол в чятег и говорит mi sami ne mestnie chekin pozhaluisto - кесапмриот
Holy moly - ◄ani625Ξ
I'm hererererererererere - FFTornado
всем учить русский! - Непротивлени Злу Василием
Скобла знаишь? - кесапмриот
Кого ищё знаишь? - кесапмриот
каждый день в зеркале вижу - Непротивлени Злу Василием
албанский - Sergey Juchkov
learn albanian! - Sergey Juchkov
oh, now it's all water, all water... - K.D.
i can speak albanian ok ok - кесапмриот
время от времени прорываются addicts забавно - Непротивлени Злу Василием
@pozorro, на сертификат отдельно опубликуй, как нарисуешь! - nomoretears
они оскоблевают чо - кесапмриот
аддикты чятега - $this->
do you know the longest thread in friendfeed is in Russian?:)) link http://ff.im/2OQex - K.D.
если забанить - с кем трепаться? - Sergey Juchkov
Почему каждый использованием Роберт Scoble как зовут? - Matthew Horton
ЧО СКАЗАЛ САМ ПОНЯЛ ДА - кесапмриот
Nice Russian Robert, Bulgarian isn't far off, be happy to teach you :-) - Dobromir Hadzhiev
it's very smal thread in russian - Sergey Juchkov
гугл транслейтерс камон - кесапмриот
Google Translate тебе в помощь - Непротивлени Злу Василием
Болгария привееет - кесапмриот
here is the link http://ff.im/2OQex - K.D.
привет и добър ден :-) - Dobromir Hadzhiev
я так думаю веселье только начинается - кесапмриот
@dobata hello - Sergey Juchkov
партизанщина сплошная - Непротивлени Злу Василием
Здравей, България! Как ви времето? :) - nomoretears
линкер, все ещё впереди - Sergey Juchkov
@grantape да без разницы, nevermind - Непротивлени Злу Василием
Он придет и молча забанит всё. - Махатма Бугоганди
Вавилонская башня, realy ((= - brain
I'll still be around as long as this site exists. - Neurario
Polacy? - Sergey Juchkov
Да я полиглот прям - кесапмриот
Češi mají jedno? - Sergey Juchkov
хрена тебе. это я польский и чешский знаю :) - Sergey Juchkov
Here, Mostly! - Kreg Steppe
@sergey morning @nomeratears мрачно...чакаме слънцето - Dobromir Hadzhiev
@Dobromir 早上好！：） - K.D.
wombata misserious - fo sho
ОМГ. На меня подписался китаец, который тут в чятеге разговаривает! Чувак, тебе зачем? - Махатма Бугоганди
он руски учит я думать - кесапмриот
here I am ! - Giovanni Cappellotto
各位早安 - Roger.Wei
вдруг и ты взаимностью ответишь... - Непротивлени Злу Василием
а иероглифы можно копипастить из википедии - кесапмриот
А, он сразу же и отписался. Сириалэддер? Может, у него скрипт? - Махатма Бугоганди
да можно из постов чувака повыше - Непротивлени Злу Василием
Доктор, у меня скрипт. - Махатма Бугоганди
приссал - кесапмриот
(я ушел на час) - Махатма Бугоганди
доктор, выньте скоблу - кесапмриот
汗，上面的Robert都是假的_ _!!! - K.D.
vi a ze chempionz - fo sho
亲眼目睹的事情，有一年过年，深圳梅林一个邮局，很多人排队寄钱回家，有个民工等着等着睡着了，抓在手上的几张钱撒了一地，保安就过去叫醒了他，让他小心钱，他说没办法，连续加了几个晚上的班，眼睛都睁不开了，保安马上和VIP室的 ... - Непротивлени Злу Василием
НЕПИЗДИ! - кесапмриот
Митрич, ему байки интересны. - Sergey Juchkov
I'm alive :) - Dimitar Tsonev
Скобалайзер мод он. - Непротивлени Злу Василием
Ехал Скобл через Скобл. Видит Скобл в Скобл Скобл. Сунул Скобл Скобл в Скобл. СКОБЛ СКОБЛ СКОБЛ СКОБЛ! - Кеноби с кемпа
what's with all the Russian? Can I have a large Calzone please? - MercyFlush
я запутался в своих двойниках. - Sergey Juchkov
终于发现了，这些人都是专业的”俄国闪客“！！！ - K.D.
кальсоны себе сам надень федя - кесапмриот
就看这楼刷刷的升啊 - 拓 | wavesand
надо двойников забанить. пойду забаню - кесапмриот
Большой Калзоне и счёт товарищу! - Один дяденька
Скобл сломал Фэйсбук! У меня пароль не принимается и не ресетится. :( - nomoretears
моя китайская сущность скобла, ты о чём там иероглифируешь? - кесапмриот
страна СКОБЛЯНДИЯ - Непротивлени Злу Василием
Russians! - Jacque
Аре югангстерс? Нот ве а рашенз ага ага - кесапмриот
King Midas 2.0 — breaks every startup he touches - fo sho
БЛЯЯЯЯЯЯЯЯЯЯЯЯЯЯЯЯяяяя - brain
Линкер - не надо - Sergey Juchkov
чего не надо? - кесапмриот
о, наконец-то просыпаются. "рашнз! рашнз!" - кричали они и прибегали смотреть и тыкать пальцем. - Teinett
Türkler sohbet! - Sergey Juchkov
ещё чуть чуть и нас по телевизору покажут! Течкранч привеееет! - кесапмриот
может им еще вприсядку станцевать? - Непротивлени Злу Василием
главное не заблудиться по дороге - Sergey Juchkov
и медведя показать? - Непротивлени Злу Василием
просто НЕ НАДО - Sergey Juchkov
MEDVEDEV - Sergey Juchkov
SGUSSCHYONKA is the brand new real thing - fo sho
Будет ли комментарий самого Роберта по поводу творящегося здесь пиздеца? - Никита Бегун
EDuHAR POCCuR - кесапмриот
SNEGUROCHKA - Sergey Juchkov
DED MOROZ - Sergey Juchkov
DEAD MOROZ - Sergey Juchkov
TOPOL-M - Sergey Juchkov
Пользуясь случаем хочу передать привет своей маме. Hi, mommy! - Кеноби с кемпа
SATANA-22 - fo sho
Wow I was so confused before I started mousing over your names guys. - Neurario
Теперь в подарок иностранцам дарят не только воду и матрешек, но и балалайки с ГУСЛЯМИ. - Teinett
Скобл хотел видеть аддиктов? Скобл их получил. - Ph
Yes I have revealed your secret mwahaha. =) - Neurario
Введем новое слово в обиход инстранцев: GUSLI - Teinett
Такой сиртификат пойдет? http://friendfeed.com/pozorro... - Ph
чятег!?? - Ня!
замолчали чото аборигены - кесапмриот
скоро тыща каментов - кесапмриот
кто посмел замолчать? - Sergey Juchkov
it's hide time. Enjoy yourself. - Luca Sofri
Эй! Разбудите там главного Скобла, у него в камментах русские! - Ph
ТРУ РАШН СКОБЛЗ - Непротивлени Злу Василием
@Лёля, нет, только Скобл - Sergey Juchkov
404 других пользователя/-ей оценили этот материал - Sergey Juchkov
hide,hide,hide,hide,hide,hide,hide,hide,hide,hide,hide,hide,hide,hide,hide,hide,now~~ You guys are playing with Robert's name :( - K.D.
А есть же игра такая Скобл, не? - кесапмриот
hide yourself K.D. :) - кесапмриот
wow LONGEST post I've seen on ff 8) ...checking in too! - 'Like' robot (frɐnc)
Дайте им ссылку на лонгест пост. А то эти ламеры думают на этот. - Sergey Juchkov
This post is goes to hided posts folder - Jacque
панислаась! - кесапмриот
@ocurro, it's not longest. Longest is 7k comments long. %) - nomoretears
на самом деле они нам наш чятег засрут если ссылки давать - кесапмриот
Robert Scoble, Robert Scoble and 404 other Robert Scoble liked this - brain
проснулись черти - Sergey Juchkov
тогда не надо давать :) - Sergey Juchkov
Crazy russians! - sottovoce
да пофиг что думают, каждому не расскажешь - кесапмриот
ИХ ЖЕ ТУТ ТЫЩИ! - кесапмриот
Это хромой. Вы знаете, это, верно? - Matthew Horton
it's small post. - Sergey Juchkov
I still love it. - Paul Kinlan
i just unhide, and I see the true Robert is coming :) - K.D.
@ocurro Check in: http://friendfeed.com/ideali... - post with 7020 comments. Russian comments. - sottovoce
strange thread. what went wrong? - massagin
WE ARE ALL THE TRUE ROBERT - кесапмриот
@Robert Scoble sorry. Уже спалил. - sottovoce
сам ты странже - кесапмриот
schizofriendic delirifeed - massagin
The cake is a lie - brain
lol: 7020 coments - longest post. - Sergey Juchkov
Доктор, я Скобл. - кесапмриот
НАПИШИ ЗДЕСЬ ДВЕ ТЫСЯЧИ КАМЕНТОВ И ФРЕНДФИДИК ОСТАНЕТСЯ БЕСПЛАТНЫМ!!! - кесапмриот
Следующий! - Ph
а вот если китайский френдфидик придет в наш чатег будет уже не так весело - Непротивлени Злу Василием
Интересно - топикстартер подписался на получение комментов на почту или нет? - Sergey Juchkov
Серьезно. Качество> количестве - Matthew Horton
Gotcha! Scoble's discovered his nature - this situation looks much alike Agent Smith's multiplication )) - massagin
hide time... enjoy - Armando Grati
НА АЙФОН - кесапмриот
^^^^^^ like - Sergey Juchkov
АГЕНТЫ СКОБЛЫ - кесапмриот
all your base are belong to us - 13pm
Scobble Agents - кесапмриот
怎样用假名的呀？ - 陈浩小贤
Тема эта должность была ясна. Давайте не будем принимать его. - Matthew Horton
怎样用假名的呀! - кесапмриот
Чо пытается нам донести некто Хортон? - кесапмриот
here i am and using the all new add comment feature :) - Ali
что-то о качестве и количестве - Непротивлени Злу Василием
о должностях ещё - кесапмриот
ну раз просит не принмать, не будем отказывать, чтож - кесапмриот
и всё типа по теме - Sergey Juchkov
тема ясна чо - кесапмриот
Here I am - wolly
The theme of the post was clear. Let us not take it. - brain
Фигасе! ) - 4shir from fftogo
Word. - Charles LePage
^^^ оценил/а - Кеноби с кемпа
Сочи привеееет! - кесапмриот
@matthewhorton -What do you want to say? - Sergey Juchkov
@matthewhorton write in english pls, i don't understand your russian - Непротивлени Злу Василием
up^^ - Nazer
i don't understand russian - Sergey Juchkov
Таким образом весь русский френдфидик перезнакомится. Тусовочка лопнет - кесапмриот
ЧМОГЕ ЧАТЕГГГ!!!!! - Двадцать
that thread is crazzy : P - 'Like' robot (frɐnc)
Yes please to Google Translate integration. - Kol Tregaskes
merde alors! - Tom Horn
\o/ - Jemm
наивные. гугл транслейт ага ага - кесапмриот
пусть переведёт "чятег" - кесапмриот
какая гугля транслята? - Sergey Juchkov
я видимо так и не узнаю чо имел ввиду Хортекс - Непротивлени Злу Василием
http://translate.google.com - Он работает лучше, чем вы думаете. - Matthew Horton
Google Scooble - кесапмриот
will echo have this? - Mark Essel
@matthewhorton мы знаем, что он работает плохо (а теперь переведи себе обратно, дурик:)) - кесапмриот
@matthewhorton давай все же на английском, моя твоя не понимай - Непротивлени Злу Василием
Это делает работу плохо, но работает достаточно хорошо, чтобы понять. - Matthew Horton
а давайте агитировать алиенов в одноклассники и вконтакт? - кесапмриот
*waiting for real Robert Scoble* - nomoretears
@matthewhorton speak englich please - Sergey Juchkov
we don't understand your barbaric language! pls speak English here - 13pm
какая тема чятега? - Двадцать
}{O}{O CMешНo - кесапмриот
I'm real!!!! - Sergey Juchkov
I will gladly. Robert is asleep, I'm sure. Now please stop this. People are getting very annoyed. :-) - Matthew Horton
И общение с иными мирами френдфидика - Непротивлени Злу Василием
если анноит - вали отсюда мудак. - Sergey Juchkov
I don't know if I'm a true FF addict, but I'm here nonetheless ;) - Peter Kruit
О как! Кого-то уже забодало. - Teinett
а eщё мoжнo мeнять английскиe бyквы в русских словах (фиг nepeвeдeт) - кесапмриот
Так, не надо тут на алиенов бычить - кесапмриот
@Matthew Horton НИВАЗМОЖНА - Непротивлени Злу Василием
red dawn - bopm
I sense the inspiration for an April Fool's Day gag... - Neurario
Ехал Скобл через Скобл, видит Скобл в реке Скобл, Скобл Скобл Скобл Скобл... - 13pm
@matthewhorton Just hide post :) Use the power of frf) - кесапмриот
А вообще, кажется, не хватает еще парочки Хортонов для полного счастья - 13pm
Задолбало? Дави на "блок"! - Двадцать
НА АЛИЕНОВ НЕ БЫЧЕТЬ - Непротивлени Злу Василием
АЛИЕНЫ НАШИ ДРУЗЬЯ - кесапмриот
unicode power! - bopm
МЫ ПРИШЛИ С МИРОМ - кесапмриот
наконецто алиены видят не кракозябры а чтото неведомое хохо - кесапмриот
Привет, кстати. - Я б сделала аборт
babushka force! - bopm
кревед - bopm
КРЕВЕДКИ! МЫ ВАС НЕ ТРОНЕМ! СОЛДАТ РЕБЕНКА НЕ ОБИДИТ! - Двадцать from IM
11 друзей Скобла - кесапмриот
@matthewhorton let me hug you, we are friends, we do no wrong, juss bring happiness to people around, join us in rejoice! - fo sho
oh those Russians. They turn every topic into "chateg". - 13pm
check - Marco Fabbri
Тэш, я скучаю! - Кеноби с кемпа
Это не настоящий чатик - Anton Volnuhin
Ты не чатег! - и ничего общего
@Maieutic Rejoice of what? - Matthew Horton
and don't believe these Scobles, they're not real. But we are - 13pm
у нас в ебурге солнышко наконецто - Двадцать from IM
millomì - Francesco Cugurra
@juchkov, дизреспект. -1. - nomoretears
Haha, I /was/ beginning to wonder when Scoble had started speaking Russian - Ahsan Ali aka. Slick
But HE IS RUSSIAN - 13pm
ugh, Мы все знаем, вы все фальшивые. - Matthew Horton
Девочки приходите в чятег - кесапмриот
I'm here! - ★ Soner Gönül
Они выучили слово «chateg»! Чуваки, еще несколько тысяч комментариев, и они научаться великому и могучему - fxf
Мэтью нас раскусил! - Кеноби с кемпа
Да! Чтоже делать! - кесапмриот
Я ТОЖЕ СКОББЛ - Химия и Жизнь
юхууу!!!))) а если еще весь чатег перечитают!!!! - и ничего общего
ДАВАЙТЕ ПАНИКОВАТЬ - Непротивлени Злу Василием
KGB WATCH CHATEG - fxf
ПАНИКААААА - кесапмриот
ААААААААААААААААААААААААААААААААААА - и ничего общего
START PANIC IMMEDIATELY! - Химия и Жизнь
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!PAAAAAAAAAAANNNNIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIICCCCCCCCCCCCCCC!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! - кесапмриот
LET'S PANIC! Uiiiiii!! - Кеноби с кемпа
chateg panic! - Sergey Juchkov
SCOBBLE FACEBOOK KGB CHATEG - Химия и Жизнь
Don't believe Horton. We're real. And he's fake. - 13pm
CHATEG HAS U!!! - и ничего общего
Тыща каментов ок! - кесапмриот
Checking in. - Robert Miller
А А А А А А А А А А А А А А А А А А А А А А А А А А А А А А А А А А А А А А А А А А А А А А А А - Химия и Жизнь
Checking out! - Sergey Juchkov
Регистрируемся на рейс. Всем Чекин! - кесапмриот
PRIVYEEET ROOOBIII - кесапмриот
поскоблите чатег - Химия и Жизнь
фигота какаято - кесапмриот
Ладно, я только в нетрезвом состоянии уделять достаточно внимания, недостаточно для того, чтобы верить или укусить вас - Matthew Horton
Hello chateg! - Sergey Juchkov
давайте лучше поговорим о чом нибудь хорошем - кесапмриот
LOL Robert. :) - Robert Miller
чтобы верить или укусить вас - кесапмриот
IN SOVIET RUSSIA CHATEG PANICS YOU! - Двадцать
Hortex не надо меня кусать - Непротивлени Злу Василием
опять Хортон тутфту несет непонятную - Sergey Juchkov
POSKROBLITE CHATEG - и ничего общего
укусить нас - Sergey Juchkov
как там Аскарчик, протрезвел ли после вчерашнего эфира? - кесапмриот
ВСЕ ЯСНО МЭТЬЮ ПЬЯН - Непротивлени Злу Василием
пьяный он видите ли. алкаш. - Sergey Juchkov
пусть у русских пить учится - Sergey Juchkov
а, вспомнил, игра называлась Скрабл - кесапмриот
VODKA DRINK DRINK DEBOSH - fxf
АЛИЕНЫ НЕДРУЖЕСТВЕННЫ! ХОТЯТ КУСАТЬ НАС! - Химия и Жизнь
и работать после этого - Sergey Juchkov
Robert Scrabble - Химия и Жизнь
Кто притворяется говорящим по-русски Меттью Хортоном? - Двадцать
НЕТ НЕ Я - кесапмриот
ВЕРЬ! @ КУСАЙ! - fxf
НЕ Я - Sergey Juchkov
Matthew Horton, please stop drinking in chateg - Непротивлени Злу Василием
НЕТ ТЫ - кесапмриот
Ладно, водка хороша. Я люблю пиво. Сталь Резерв FTW! - Matthew Horton
Америца сейчас вся спит. Где-то в 17:00 по москве там начнется рабочий день. Вот тогда нас всех запалят. :) - $this->
beer - good! - Sergey Juchkov
ГазМяс! - кесапмриот
НЕТ МЫ - 13pm
у нас есть еще 3 часа - Sergey Juchkov
Это он по сталь резерв какую-то марку подразумевает? - Непротивлени Злу Василием
даже два - кесапмриот
МЫ — МЯСО! МЫ – ГАЗ! - fxf
тоже ничего так :) - Sergey Juchkov
ЭТОТ ЧАТЕГ ОБОБРЕН УПЯЧКОЙ - Непротивлени Злу Василием
надо притаиться, а потом КАААК ПРЫГНУТЬ! - Химия и Жизнь
кукуц пригласи скобла в яндекс - кесапмриот
ПОПЯЧТЕСЬ @ КУСАЙТЕСЬ - и ничего общего
всем лежать два саса!!!!! - Sergey Juchkov
Robert Scoble has subscribed to Robert Scoble's feed. Robert Scoble, Robert Scoble and Robert Scoble liked it. - 13pm
зачем он в яндексе? скоблить будет? - Sergey Juchkov
нет слов! - Maria Podolyak
надо призвать Полумрака в чятег - кесапмриот
Ready to serve! - Anders Dahlberg from iPhone
3 часа за скобление! Да вы оскоблитесь! - Teinett
у меня чатик неимоверно тормозит - Химия и Жизнь
ВАС ВСЕХ ЗАБАНЯТ111 - 13pm
Я потерял интерес в данный момент. Я буду скрывать, как и любой другой. Это хромой, что вы захватили этот. Пивные правила. Спокойной ночи. :-) - Matthew Horton
скоблите, скоблите - они золотые - и ничего общего
I am here.. - Burak S. Vanlı
Да, Мэтью, это хромой. Мы старались все скрыть, но ты пришел и обнаружил это. Прости. Таковы уж пивные правила. - 13pm
here too :) - Ali Bahşişoğlu
Buradayım :) - Burçak Çubukçu
опять алиены - Химия и Жизнь
Все, надоело. Когда настоящий скобл придет - скажите. - Ph
Вы все упоротые! Вас всех забанят!!! - и ничего общего
Метью родил новый мем, не подозревая о том. Это хромой, но таковы Пивные правила. - Двадцать from IM
@burcakcubukcu merhaba - Sergey Juchkov
Рекламная пауза - кесапмриот
это хромой! get in da car! - Химия и Жизнь
I'm here from Italy :) - Ale♫nastrorosa
ola - Durukan Duru
пойду пообедаю что-ли пока скобл не проснулся - Sergey Juchkov
hello Italy! - Sergey Juchkov
Hi Roberts! - 13pm
Hi Robert :)) - Fatih Küçükbaltacı
Пойду покурю что-ли пока скобл не проснулся - кесапмриот
Anseo - Ken Power from iPhone
Говорят, тут всех банит Скобл. Скобл проснулся и боится правды!!! - кесапмриот
Hey Robert! - Berk D. Demir
Hi my name is Rasmus and I'm an addict - Rasmus Lauridsen
Скобл - Мицгол! - кесапмриот
Да сражу же видно кто тут настоящщие аддикты - Двадцать from IM
CICITMVI - FlyMeToTheMoon
СИСИтмВИ - fxf
про сиси я понял, а дальше? - Непротивлени Злу Василием
всех не забанишь! - Антискобл
ну что, ЭПИГ ЧЯТЕГ или день пропал? - Двадцать from IM
CHATEG AGAINST BLOCKING RUSSIAN SCOBLES! - Антискобл
window, over wing please :P - Yunus Tunak
SCHITO? - Двадцать from IM
More than a friend of FriendFeed, was starting to use it as a full lifestreaming platform and loved it. It's made a whole lot of other sites make sense. - achean
Hi, I'm Bette... I don't know if I'm an addict, but I can't stay away... I keep checking, just to see if something's new... and I cry if I get no responses to a post. Is that addictive behavior? :D - Bette Cooper
балалайка - Нервный гик
His name is Robert Scoble! His name is Robert Scoble! His name is Robert Scoble! - Я б сделала аборт
водка - Нервный гик
матрёшка - Нервный гик
ПОМНИМ! СКОРБИМ! - Антискобл
матрёшка - Нервный гик
нет, не так - Нервный гик
... и скоблим тоже... - mikolka
PERESTROYKA - Нервный гик
буржуинцы начинают просыпаться. Я начинаю паниковать/ - Двадцать from IM
CHATEG COMES WITH PEACE - Антискобл
мы пришли с миром - Нервный гик
самовар - и ничего общего
was that really Robert Scoble ? or hacked ? - и ничего общего
No. Impersonated. By several. - Dennis Jernberg
NAZDOROVIE! - Двадцать from IM
Кстати, если писать что-нибудь типа «Апруе ылцц оррке валдов», то особой разницы они не заметят. - Я б сделала аборт
Апруе ылцц оррке валдов! Апруе ылцц оррке валдов! Апруе ылцц оррке валдов! - fxf
Бедный, бедный гугл-транслейт. - fxf
Yup, I have blocked all the impersonators now. You will still see them, but I don't see them and they no longer can comment on any of my items. - Robert Scoble
Present. - Dean
Yep Addict here :) - Russell G
Check :) in - Connee
addicted. - Miketrevis
горшочек, вари! - off with her head!
ci penso :D - tiracconto
Checked. - Smeerch
Пуськи бятые! Глокая имериалистическая куздра штеко будланула бокра, и теперь курдячит бокренка, а вы тут чятег развели! - off with her head!
vabbe', eccomi - punkwithgun
+1 - Borgognoni
@scobleizer As far as I can see you have blocked not only the impersonators (who renamed themselves back the moment they found out you have a problem with this) but most of the folks who chatted there. - Махатма Бугоганди
@meatreach yes, see next thread. Scobble becomes anti-Russian. - Never Impersonate You
here too:) waiting for my mission :) - abdellah
Please only comment here in english, so everyone can understand what you write. The thread was started in english... - Flynn (Michael A. Volz)
Maxatma: well, that's just too bad. I speak English. Sorry. People who don't speak English really don't have any business commenting on one of my items, except in rare cases. - Robert Scoble
Why you, Robert Scoble, don't block users from Spain or Italy? China or arabic countries? Those users that comments on non-English languages? - Never Impersonate You
I'm an addict so I'm here. - Francesco Passannanti
@Robert, in fact they do speak English. But they also do make fun of Friendfeed and everything that's going on there. You can block them or take part in this fun. ;) - Махатма Бугоганди
Epic SUCCESS - Mark
I'm here! - Bastian
Here! - Martynas
Go & Come ! - JohnDu™
here i am - Howard Trickey
Use it every day. - Nils Sandin
Very nice topic. - sottovoce
кисо куку ;) - тут не место для
Maxatma: I have enough noise in my life. I don't need to have more. - Robert Scoble
Epic success in banning innocent people - Never Impersonate You
Checking in - Johnny Chadda
What if I'm only a friendfeed addict in my current personality? My other personalities don't even use computers, apparently. - MλTT
@scoblezier, really? Why this census of the population is not noise? - Never Impersonate You
Never: no, it's not noise. What's noise is going off topic on a thread. I'm very close to blocking you too. Keep it up. - Robert Scoble
here! - Nilesh
Addicted but it's a love/hate kinda thing. - sean808080
Here! - Danli
I prefer FF over twitter and facebook, but all my friends are on twitter and/or facebook. Maybe facebook will get it right this time now that it has acquired FF. If they simplify it a bit more without removing functionality. Then I would spend a bit more time on FB. Lets hope all goes well with the merger. If not I'm jumping ship and going over to Google Wave. oh wait, I'm going to go with Google Wave regardless! ;-) - Captain Jack
Bu arada Russian friends Turkiye'ye selamlar gonderiyor. - ideali
Red 5, standing by - Danny F Santos
ideali: can you speak English please? Thanks. - Robert Scoble
Yep - Giorgio Burlini from iPhone
for 6 words, this post sure got a lot of mileage. What now Scoble wan kenobi? - shaun mclane
Oh, check FF.. doh FarceBook... my fingers are crossed in hope. - Greig
Me! Me! - DGentry
@scobleizer i can speak english and i beg you to remove bann from all russian friendfeeders, because we are all from it-community, working in internet companies and we came with peace, you asked for feedback from friendfeed addicts — we show you how really it is being frf addicts, we change names, we chat, we making things that are not serious. Why so serious? Unlock people, they are not bots, they just playing the game of real addicts and have fun. Common. - ideali
shaun: I started this post to demonstrate that a lot of us are still here and aren't likely to leave. At least not quickly. So, life goes on after FriendFeed gets acquired by Facebook. Point proved. - Robert Scoble
Robert He says ; Our Russian friends say to hello to Turkey - Osman Üngür
Osman :) - Ergin
Beyler, bana bir sey anlatin, bu kadar ciddi olmaya ne gerek var? Translation: Guys, why so serious? - ideali
Good morning, Robert! - Hector
here - Maitani
ideali: have them send email to scobleizer@gmail.com and I'll unblock anyone who says they weren't impersonating me. - Robert Scoble
Hector: good morning! I need coffee. - Robert Scoble
@robert yes they (we will) stay here, I think tat the migration process will take time and after reading @Paul Bucheit, I think that what we all are trying to get even if we don't say it explicitly is to preserve a kind of intimacy (beeing a part of the Huge faceBook community) don't mean that FF community will preserve their intimacy, why should a community be a plan one, (let imagine a community as a set of sub-community) that all. - abdellah
Wow!! So many likes and comments; is it a record Rob? - میر «عرفان» موسوی
@scobleizer thank you, for understanding. be cool, guys we just want have fun here a little. Take care. - ideali
Er-fun, This is the largest list of comments I've ever seen on FF... but no idea if it's a record or not - Roy Herrod
@harfehesaab, it's far from record - off with her head!
whenever you're ready - patrickdh
the record is in our russian community, guyz. - ideali
Roy: it's not even close to being a record. It's nice to see that there's still a nice group hanging out here, though. - Robert Scoble
Totally addicted - Fernando Parra
"fax a cat" has 711 likes : http://friendfeed.com/funny-p... anything else top that? Is there a ff record page? - JSNFLMNG
so is this part of the regular Scoble-cull? :p - Iwan
totally addicted - zsafwan 
Yes We Do :) - Jan Friman
right here, right now - Hakan İyice
@Iwan --hahaha "we could be so lucky" lol - JSNFLMNG
There is no addiction, only habitual sin :) - Mike Shields
@harfehesaab Уes, it is a Яecord for sиre ! .) - obz
Here - Chris Riewe
Just for the record, yes and loving the "add comment" at the bottom.. it was a long way to scroll back up otherwise. - Rhys Amos from iPod
I'm here captain! ;-) We may be on a dying ship, but I'm glad to have sailed with her. :-) - darnell from BuddyFeed
Хотела остаться в стороне. Но тут такая "пьянка"! Всем привет в этом чатиге:) - Неформат
I feel like such a slacker checking in about 12 hours later. You caught me the one night I go offline early. - Rob Diana
Present And Accounted For - Roberto Bonini
check - Mark Zip
I do. - dstamand
Slow response from me, but still ... - Christian Bolstad
@Robert RE "I have enough noise in my life. I don't need to have more" - isn't it a lot of noise having 26K subscriptions and 46K subscribers on your frf account? I'm kind of surprised - you create a community that large around yourself, yet when you see a new and unusual activity you just block it right away. - Махатма Бугоганди
Good morning from the east coast! - Domingo Rogers
Maxatma: when people impersonate me I have no patience. Sorry. - Robert Scoble
present and accounted for - Shawn Roos
Checking in. - Warner Crocker
here - Tracy Benham
I am in, of course!! - Ronald
Still figuring it out, but liking it - Rob Fisher
'morning and checking in from Washington, DC. - Ken & Kiyomi
Here. - Joe Bonner from fftogo
Here. - Joe Bonner from fftogo
Red october checking in - James Tenniswood
@Robert, patience? Who's talking about patience? It's about curiosity, not patience. When something strange and unusual happens around you, you can either try to stop it or try to see what it can develop into. You choose to stop - and it stopped. Well, not stopped - just moved to some other place. And do you really know what it was and what it was about to bring you? - Махатма Бугоганди
Pow! - Rolf Schewe
+1 to Maxatma :) - Connee
why so nervous? - Connee
Глядико, чатег) - Кто здесь?
Late to the party but here all the same. - Pete Gilbert
+1 to Maxatma too - Shareli
оО - Monk Albino
Oh Captain, My Captain! - Dan van Moll
yes sir. - James Macgill
please don't go - Zach Scott
here i am! - barbarars
check. - Brian Sloane
hi. i can get a note from my wife and kids. - Thom Kennon
here - saskia
I love the fact that I can't read a good amount of the comments here :) FFAddicts without Borders - guruvan (Rob Nelson)
Check - Marco Massarotto from iPhone
да, чатег однако ) - Pavel Rogozhin
here - ahmet bulent
as requested - Al Pasternak
in the process of getting addicted...yo - Chad Gesser from BuddyFeed
Yo addiction as per requested Sir. - Zax Stevens
ну пиздец понеслась - Dolgiy-Rapoport
Here.. yay! - seda irengü özmen
Check - Eric Johnson
There!, Am I wrong or they added "add comment button" at the end of comments? - Antonio Correnti
Guilty as charged :). Hope FF will continue to kick ass, even after being acquired by Facebook. - alfred westerveld
I don't think of it as an addiction though I do get severe withdrawal symptoms for taking a long hiatus.. hmm - Wang Yip
@Паша, чятег был утром, но потом проснулся топикстартер, пришел и молча забанил всех™. - Махатма Бугоганди
here - timepilot
hola - spiros
Hello! - Chris Luckhardt
howdy - Brandon Ball
My middle name is belated. - Benjamin Taylor
Do I need to state my first name (Hi Robert - My name is Laurie and I am a friendfeed addict! "Hi Laurie" :)))) - Laurie DesAutels
I'm here - Michael_techie
I'm getting there. - Spencer
word. - Ron Wening
Japan here! はい！ - Rick Cogley
here - imran
not sure if I commented already but I will add onto the pile. - beersage
pick me! pick me! pick me! - .i.m.a.r.s.o.r.a.m.a.
oups !!! - Polluxe
comment number 1287... - Yann Ropars
This is trying to become the longest thread in the history of FF, eh? Nice show of hands, definitely good numbers! - Bora Zivkovic
Wut? Oh, HERE! - Noah Gray
Last, but not least - Paul Brannan
Here I am from Italy :-) - catepol from iPhone
from Italy too ;-) - Andrea Colaianni
I;'m currently in Rome, Italy - Danica Radovanovic
Nobody from Russia here already? - Кто это тут у нас
Here I am. - Evan Travers
Addiction came in again, I raise my hand. - ElijahBailey-Zu of FF <0,
Here - and hoping that any changes here are for the better - that nothing goes backwards. - Courtney Engle
Walmartization of friendfeed now in progress - imran
Если все забанены, то хто ето пишетъ? - Кто здесь?
Present - TheDiva Rockin
Hello and goodbye. - Carlton Prest
Party's not over yet? :) - Sasha Kovaliov(.com)
I'm here, until the bitter end :p - Patrik Johansson
Well, there is another party here in Chinese and Persian languages :)) Welcome joining! http://ff.im/6uezi - K.D.
Here we are! ;) - Сергей Мартынов
Большой чятег, однако! :] - Сергей Мартынов
Nice to see so many languages. - E-Advocate Network
Better late than never! - Sherry BakerBrio
Here! - David Sharpe
I'm here - Amit Morson
here. - felix
what was that again? - Karthik Sridhar
Ой, да это маленький чятег оказывается. 1300 всего. У нас-то 7000 было :) - Сергей Мартынов
Hey, this chatroom appeared to be quite small - only 1300 messages :) We've done 7000 in our Russian thread ;) - Сергей Мартынов
Present. I'm here in Chile. - Roberto Arancibia
@Сережа Мэ Come to join our chatroom:) http://ff.im/6uezi - K.D.
In the house. Long live FriendFeed. - Joel Zehring
presente! - Alex Sauceda
What is this 'Russian' thread you speak of? ;) - JSNFLMNG
It was already mentioned here - check this out: http://friendfeed.com/search... - Сергей Мартынов
@yogar thanx, I'm coming to visit you ;) - Сергей Мартынов
Im back! - Lee Kent
Present from Romania - cata b
Present. - xero
İşsiz güçsüz bir sürü adam işte. Dağılın olm. (No, I'm not addicted, I'm just watching) - ilter
Тук! - Valentine Valov
I'm always login in friendfeed - Edgar Rodríguez from iPhone
ehy guys! - marc
me! - prezzemolo
Greetings from Bulgaria! - Valentine Valov
:O) - Jeanne
I'm here all the way from South Africa! I dig this service and I'm not quite ready to give it up. Regardless of the news about the acquisition, this remains an awesome service. - Paul Jacobson
I'm new to ff but find more valuable information here than anywhere else! - Janet Crance
Hello! Here I am! - Maria Gabriella Quadri
Oh hello there! - Jaremy Rich
Here - 1Co from iPhone
+1 - gerri A. from iPhone
Present! - April Buchheit
here too - Flavio
not addicted yet :) - vinod
presente - Eric Gagne
Not addicted to Friendfeed too, but I really like it. More than twitter, perhaps because of the overview on smalltalk. - Melanie Langenhan
Me! - Satya
Here! - Anne Bouey
Me too! - Tudor Bosman from Android
ok, now what? shall we dance for you? - Trent Shields
You can dance if you want to. - Neal Jansons from IM
Check - پلانگتن
I probably qualify. - Fa La La La Lindsay
Count me in - Andrei M. Marinescu
I'm here. Still :) - Svartling
yes, we can dance, we can dance, everybody look at your hands! - .LAG liked that
if i leave a comment means I am an addict? - Nikos Anagnostou
1360 is that all out of a so called million hmmm ... must be more like 100,000 users in reality then - Thomas Power
if if I "liked" - does it make me an FF addict ? - Peter Dawson
aye! - vino
I am not a true addict but I checked in to be part of the record :) - میر «عرفان» موسوی
I find FF the most useful of my social networks. - Leigh Marriner
Checkin in - Bryan R. Adams
Got other things to do too :) - Richard Hill
hmmm.. - Krishnamoorthy
Addict? Neh. Loyal, now-more-than-a-little-concerned user? Yeh! - Anthony Citrano
Well, sure. Yeah, fine. Count me in. - Jason Pontin
Just arrived. Is this the way to the next cliff? - goodmachine
Guilty - Ian Wright from BuddyFeed
Still? - Tyler Hurst
a little bit. - Vincent van Wylick
Hollah - Greg Santos
I'm Thaths and I am a FF addict! - Thaths
Check me in... - Alb.
present. - Marco
Check. - vic from iPhone
burada ;) hier, here,voilà... - Bengi Kılıç
Present - Dave Martin
Here :) - Holly Rae
I'm late. But Mom got 75. Count me in though. - Ton Zijp
Those Russian impersonators made fun much resembling dance macabre. Feasting friendfeed's transition? ) - massagin
I'm here scoble! - Jason Pollock
presente - Eric Gagne
Hi. - Mark Aitken
hmmmm - John Ruth
I'm a friendfeed addict and I'm here! - Bryce Campbell from iPhone
Here! - Bill Thomas
Here! - Steffan Antonas
Still here - Transcribe It Quick
Here - Shannon
I'm NOT addicted! - Joelle Nebbe (iphigenie)
I dedicate this song to friendfeed addicts :) http://www.youtube.com/watch... - ilter
reporting for duty - Jason Miller
check. a little late. by i'm addicted, i swear!! - Mike
Whoops. I am a little late. But I came didn't I? LOL. Yes, sir. - Zachary TG
ping - Sameer
Here. - Araceli
Here. - Iván Abrego
Been without a computer for a couple of days. The horror! I'm here. Finally. - Julie Barrett from twhirl
touch down - Африки
right here - Arash Nightwatcher
✔ - Majento
amilateamilate??! - Sarah Lane
word - Fee501st
New fan but longtime subscriber. - Steven Zenith
is this thread a record ? - johnpiercy
Present! - Gary Gifford Jr
Hello! - dthree
I don't know how I rate my addiction relative to others, but I shared Hitler's reaction upon hearing the acquisition news (despite happiness for Paul and Bret) - Chris Duffy
@johnpiercy check it yourself: how many therads have more than 7k comments http://friendfeed.com/search... ) - massagin
it's my soc media glue. - John Czwartacki
Half here. - Eddie G
Holla. The only way I can keep track of the flowers in all these blessed walled gardens. - saltpeter 【ツ】
I'm new, but I am here - Ethan
yessir. - Nathan Chase
Present! - Ludwik C. Siadlak
I been Scoblized - again! - Kevin Laverty
Hope this deal preserves FF's power and usability. FF:FB::Mac:Windows. - David Lounsbury
check - Drew S
Count me in. - Nick B.
here. - Scratch5150
Here and accounted for... - Brad
thread of the century. - Raphael, Raphael
presente - Eric Gagne
701 and counting - Julie Williams
i'm here too - Mehmet Fatih YILDIZ
Homer says "Mmmmm .. FriendFeed" - Gary Etie
Check :) - Stijn
There's got to be a prize for doing this! Here! - timedalkat from Nambu
1451st! :) - Eric Geller
1452nd! :P - L'avvocatessa
I can stop whenever I want. Oh, wait... - dario
Here. Or did I check in yesterday about this time? - MaryB, BrandingBroadOfFF
I always am coming back for more... And each time longer than the one before - Bryce Campbell from iPhone
Yes? - Steve Lynch from twhirl
auuu, pa ovo jos traje? - Danica Radovanovic
Here I am. - Andrea Beggi
One more. - Laura_aka_Fujiko from fftogo
Started a "Save FriendFeed" Facebook group, because I love irony ... http://www.facebook.com/group... - Paul Holmes
Checking in 23 hours later, which probably makes me the semi-addict that I am - Eric Berlin
Do I have to check in every 60 minutes? - Louis Gray
I'm checking in again. - DGentry
Louis: you can if you want! I heard you can drink a Diet Coke once a day if you check in! - Robert Scoble
that I don't understand at all - Mark
are you checking to see who has left since the FB purchase? I'm staying here! - Katy Barrilleaux
I just expanded this thing, what a fun ride! - Cassidy
What if I drink a Diet Coke every 60 minutes? Then what? - Louis Gray
presente - Eric Gagne
Yes! I'm 23 hours late. :s That doesn't make me an addict. Damn. :( - Faraz Mullick
so only a few % of rob's followers on here responded? - Mark
Just logged into Friendfeed in the last 24 hours. This seems a lot cleaner than Twitter for certain. I'm an organization freak! - David Kolln
Mark: I have 46,000 followers, but the usual thing is only a percentage of them show up on any week. - Robert Scoble
That's sad - Gianluca Neri from iPhone
I'm sure this is part of Scoble's plot to poll all the people who really read his posts, and unfollow the rest. So I raise my hand. - Shivanand Velmurugan
Just a wannabe. Not an addict (yet). - Carole Hicks
It might also be a way for me to filter down my "following" count (diff (my followers, scoble)) are the only people I really need to follow. Those that scoble follows, I can safely unfollow and use Scoble as my social media filter :) - Shivanand Velmurugan
Roflmao Om Shiva you are destroying us :) - Jeunelle Foster
Loading this thread on the iPhone uses 1% battery life lol - Mark from iPhone
check - Joe Dawson
pardon the arrogance but it really sucks this great forum of sharing will turn into a myspace humdrum. Now I have to find another SM where first adopters and well informed techies won't haft to compete with general "noise" - earl wallace
check. getting close to 1500! - Jordan Brock
Hey - Colin Hendricks from iPhone
How you doin'? :-) - Red Label
Wow... long list! I'm here :) - Frank Da Silva
So, does anyone know the number of actual Friendfeed subscribers? Buehler? Buehler? - Martha
Now that's an excellent question. - Dennis Jernberg
Only 15 more comments to go and this thread will make it into the 1500 category http://friendfeed.com/search... - Jay Cuthrell
Well, here's a comment I can later delete and rob the owner of 1500! - Matthew DeVries
I just mention the 1500 mark since it was such an iconic query to see... that and the 500 Likes club of FF posts. It's pretty exclusive stuff... but it's also sobering to note that the subject matter required to get to these levels isn't always a uniform mix of cares/concerns. - Jay Cuthrell
When I heard the FaceBook news, I tried to quit FriendFeed and I couldn't... I'M HOOKED - The Web's Wendell Wittler
i clicked the "1488 more comments" and my computer nearly exploded. and yes, i am using an amiga 500. - jack
Now that I have instructions (thanks LouisGray) and figured out my Bookmarklet! I am LOVING the ease of use! addict - not quite... - Robyn Hawk
you're addicted to deez nutz - skunkman62
LOL - skunkman62. It's all good, the sun is still shining. - Harold Cabezas
Is this the location of the next FA (Friendfeed Anonymous) meeting? - Cynthia Holladay
LOL - Cynthia - nfan12
Monkey #1496 reporting in, sir. For true ADDICT status, I'd say the cut off is the first hour. The rest of us are wannabes. ;-) - michael silverton
ANY! FLIPPING! TIME! - Jim in Real Time
fftogo ftw - Josette Torres
asdf - Benson Miller
FriendFeed user even before Robert Scoble joined the bandwagon - Shakeel Mahate
I'm a true addict - Jorge Escobar
wow! that's a big social - 1500 some ! :] - Petr Buben
I'm a true FriendFeed addict. - Evaristo
i am japanese! - psychedesire
yeah ! - MisterQ
Sir yes sir ! - Christopher Yeo
present - Laura Norvig
Still here. Its not really a problem yet. - Eric Logan
Here, 1500 comments or so later. - Gus Cuddy
OK I'll check in now that the thread is up to 1500+... - Stephen Mack
yo joe! - Wally Punsapy
I'm just trying to figure this out. Will I get used to i?? - Janet Frasier
holy friendfeed...this thread hasn't died yet? Point made Robert. - shaun mclane
I didn't "check in" yet.. - Tim Hoeck
It's not an addiction until there's an intervention. - Bill Sodeman
Some of us addicts will refuse any intervention. Especially by Facebook. ;) - Dennis Jernberg
I like it!!! I really, REALLY do : D - Ellen Spencer
Actually, I lied. I am not a die-hard friendfeed fan. I desperately want to be but have just not been able to get into a good "feeding" rhythm. Maybe I need to add some more friends - Anant Gairola
Present. - Vijay
:) - Nick Soden
here - Robert Freeze
here I am - Danilo Paissan
all on board - Save As : Panos
actually I am addicted to twitter more. I use friendfeed a lot none the less. - Volkan Özçelik
count me :) - Meriç Dağlı
Presente - Ruben Sanchez from Android
i'm in - Anton Noginov х
Add me from Cambridge, UK and DuoFertility the fertility monitor - Philip Baddeley
have we broken the FF comment limit yet ? - David Pascoe
I'm in. - Peter Smulovics
naa-ahaa ... i have seen threads with 4k, 10k+ comments .... right here, on Friendfeed. - Petr Buben
Présent - Harscoat
1537...checking in... - Bob DeMarco
Here - Keith
I don't need to be addict. I'm just here, everyday, absorbing so many geeky info :D There's no place like FF - Lysender
I'm still with ya, Robert. Whatever FB paid for FF, it wasn't enough! - Donald C. Lindsay
New here, but learning. Tips for best use? - Barbara Langham
@bdlangam From my perspective the #1 tip in this category is: Explore and define "best use" for yourself. Despite potential "finishing" impression of some productive consolidations in this collective-collaborative cognition space, the emergent #cognosphere is still WAY too nascent to assert anything other than initial impressions. March to the beat of your own drum; build your own... more... - michael silverton
yeah sorry, late. was at Shambhala Music Festival, I know tardy, sorry... - sofarsoShawn
I'm getting hooked, still figuring it all out - Michele McGraw
I think I do. Not enough contacts to make a impression. - Michael Schlag
Better late than never.. - Ginger Kenney
here - Brady
Late but here. - Kolja
Not addicted enough, obviously... - Daniel W. Crompton
trying to get addicted - OakleighVermont
Definitely addicted. Not sure I want to stop using just because FB bought it. - Rick Cogley
checking.. - Leandro Ardissone ⍨
I'm the 1500th visitor. What did I win? - Ruben
Robert-I'm listening - Dean Holmes
Here we be! - Gary Dale Cearley
Still going on , uh? - Marco Massarotto
*bumps* the Scoble curve: bi-polar maybe? - sofarsoShawn
Hello. My name is Morgan and I'm a FF addict. So who do I have to blow to get a fix? :-) - Morgan Haley
Elo govna - Eric @ CSTechcast.com
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What's with the fists, Paul? :) - April Buchheit
congrats Paul - Zee.
I thought it would make a funny picture April. - Paul Buchheit
Secret backyard meetings FTW. :) - EricaJoy
What? No lawyers in suits? Mark's setting a pretty low bar on the dress code for this sort of thing...:) - Tomas Remotigue
Our lawyers were wearing shorts actually -- no air conditioning at their office on Sundays I guess. - Paul Buchheit
Zuckerberg's the only one from FB who could be bothered to show up? - Andy Bakun
American big business such a formal affair - Robert Higgins
Contrary to popular misconception, lawyers don't actually enjoy wearing suits. Haul us into work on a Sunday, and we'll definitely be dressing comfortably. :) - Brian Chang
Andy, the person on the left is Vaughan Smith from Facebook. Sanjeev (the fourth FriendFeed founder) is not pictured because he was boarding an airplane. - Paul Buchheit
Paul, that's so awesome. FB's an awesome company to do business with. - Jesse Stay
Congrats. Happy for you guys. - Tsega Dinka
Must have been exciting, congrats. - sean percival
Congrats, and thanks for having us here. Much success in whatever comes next. - Chris Baskind
Yeah, wishing you guys all the best, its been good fun hanging around here thanks!! - Mel Buckpitt
Congrats to you guys! - Jack Wilson, K4SAC
Congratulations you guys!!!! I love the Teak Conference Room table :) - Susan Beebe
Hey Paul congratulations - FriendFeed has been leading the way since its inception. Are the photos you've posted copy-protected or could I use them in a story on the deal? - Mitch
Mitch, feel free to use the photos. - Paul Buchheit
where's the ...friendfeed shirts then?? ;o) - Rob Sellen :o)
SWEET!!! Congratulations! - Chad Lester
...congrats.can't wait to see what happens with both FF and FB as a result of this. - .LAG liked that
Please try to keep Friendfeed like it was if they let you. Either way, congrats on the financials! - Josh Haley from iPhone
Congrats and best wishes for the future. - Jeff Stannard
For $50m you could at least have hired a photographer who doesn't shake so much. :) - Rodrigo Jaroszewski
FF was the cutting edge whereas FB is quickly becoming the mainstream. Unfortunately, the mainstream does not necessarily equal innovation and pushing the envelope. We all suffer when innovation is chilled. But on the other hand, congrats to the FF crew. They made their money! - laosan
Congratulations guys! - Diego Barros 
I think the Tiger suit would have been more appropriate! But hey....shorts in a backyard is pretty cool too. - Drea Lester
Congrats! - Christopher Golda
Whatever the outcome, Friendfeed is terrific. Congratulations. - ashish
LOL, click through if you want to see pics of newly rich geeks in casual wear.. -> - Alex Schleber
Hahaha! Funny Alex.. - Bill Heslin
congratulations! keep the innovation coming... - ozlubling
VERY happy for you guys. Possibly even owe you one or two. Are we getting FriendPhone next?? Think Mark should seriously think about 'Friendbook' :) - Charlie Anzman
Congratulations to you and your team. - Maria Niles
just showed the pictures to my students and they were like, "they look like normal people!" Congrats on the deal, onward and upward! - xxx xxxxx
Congratulations, Paul -- to you and everybody at FF. - Eric Johnson
Congrats Paul, Bret and the rest of the team, this is awesome news! The big question on everyone's lips is: Who gets to have http://facebook.com/paul? :) - Fenn
Congrats, and thanks for taking us all on such a terrific ride! Big ups. :) - Pete Delucchi
You've done a great job! You deserve this and more... Congrats! - Ricardo J. Valle
now this is what a deal term meeting should look like - file under inspirational - - mediaeater
Congratulations to everyone at FF. Whose house was the deal made? - seman
I am sad .. !!! I do not know .. why .. for me its not good news - Nayan
Congratulations! - Made Adi
++Mark - David Cook
Awesome! Congratulations! - michael silverton
hey, congratus Friendfeed team!!! - K.D.
+Lindsey - Kamilah Gill
I call this pic... "Six Happy Dudes & 1,000,000+ Pissed-Off FriendFeeders" - Brad Williamson
BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!! - Mathew™ one of a kind
Looks like Mathew™ has found a UI bug by flooding contiguous characters. - Jay Cuthrell
I don't get the negativity - did no one realize FriendFeed was a business? The object of a business is to sell eventually (either privately or publicly). We should be celebrating their success. This is a huge win for them, as well as Facebook. I personally think it's a huge win for the "loyal users" as well. So now we stab them in the back when they do something huge? - Jesse Stay
Not to mention we know *nothing* about what this will mean for both services. These guys haven't let us down yet, have they? - Jesse Stay
Congratulations to all of you!! - Steve de Mena
The FB/FF deal rocks. Total win for users and developers. - Steve Gillmor
Facebook announces the acquisition of FriendFeed http://facebookmania.net/en... - Vincenzo Piromalli
Congratulations guys.. and good luck! ;) - Vincenzo Piromalli
Congratulations Paul. I hope for nothing but the best for you and FF. - Martha
We should start a PhotoShop meme on this. - Ben Hanten
Millionaire meme - Bill Heslin
Lindsey, I'm with you completely. Bad timing. Too bad there weren't photos of money being thrown in the air. - Ben Hanten
++Ben - David Cook
Congratulations Paul, you should have got more, but I guess $50m is nothing to sneeze at. Have a great wedding anniversary too, I'm sure you both deserve it. Much happiness - :) - Chris Loft
Congrats! The hard work paid off - Becca
Those are the kind of business meetings I could get used to - no suits... but selling to Facebook? Hmmm... Good for someone of course but I suppose we'll see where this ride takes us. - Ken Stewart | ChangeForge
congrats on building an amazing product and incredibly passionate community! I was mad at first, but then realize that the technology was most likely sold, not the community. I'm hoping ff community will stay somewhat untouched and features that have been built into ff will be ported to fb. - Derek Coatney
Congratulations, FriendFeeders! I'm anxious to see what changes this will bring. FriendFeed is my favorite site to visit, so hopefully y'all will find a way to maintain the FF spirit somehow. - Keith Pelczarski
No matter the type of big change, there are those who will not like it, often simply because it's change. I for one am very pleased that two of the services I use most are joining forces, and am eager to see the new developments that come of this acquisition. Congrats to EVERYONE on the FriendFeed team. You all deserve it! You've done a great job with a small company. Now lets see what you can do with a large one :) - guruvan (Rob Nelson)
Nicely put, guruvan. - Anne Bouey
What I wonder is ... a 50-million dollar deal and no one has a camera capable of taking a clear photo? :P - Nicholas Kreidberg
Congratulations - Steve C
@Jesse Stay re: "the objective of business is to sell eventually" : Ummm, the objective of many businesses is to become profitable by providing a valuable experience to their users. Businesses that feel they can't do that are the ones that sell. - Shane Gibbons
LOL! ♫ ♫ "ooh, take the money and run"!! ♫ ♫ ;) - Vincenzo Piromalli
Congratulations to everyone involved. Well done. - Darius Dunlap
This is a very sad day in friend feed history. It is horrible because I like friend feed for how it's different from face book. I use facebook but I find it really annoying and I wouldn't use it if my friends and family weren't using it. So if Friend Feed becomes another facebook then i donno if I will keep coming to friend feed. - Colide81 (James) from iPhone
Grats. :) - Joshua Schnell
Congrats to the FF staff, but you'll have to pardon my lack of exuberance. I have mental pictures of being forced to use the FB UI and it makes me sad =( - FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
Very happy for the Friendfeed team. These pictures say it all. - Christian Burns from iPhone
Congrats -- may the FF UI stay alive! - RateBrain
Where are the photos of everyone celebrating? No beer or champagne? - Shane
Great match-up guys ! The Fabulous Friender Boys ! - Let's see some integrated mashups and extensible apps and FF UI. Given Google and Twitter a run for their money... Looks like they are going to have to "hook-up" now ! - Mike Schmidt
Congratulations Paul and the team! Hopefully we'll still get the same simple UI for FriendFeed. I'm sure however that no matter what you do, things will turn up nicely. - Ovidiu Predescu
Enjoy! - Paul Mayne
NOOOOO! I _LOVE_ friendFeed and this will change it forever. Yeah - this will improve Facebook. Great deal guys - I can not wait to see how this works out - Ric Johnson
Congratulations! :) - İdris Cin
hayırlı olsun - Sinan İŞLER
:O :( - ★amin.m★
congratulations to both parties. intuitively, it feels like the right move. - ray
Congratulations guys :) - Yalcin Parmaksiz
So the deal was done at night in someone's back yard. Weird. - Andy C
Congrats Paul, Bret and the rest of the FF team. Your smiles are priceless!! - Mohamed J
Hayırlı işler... - Onur Selek
Congratulations gentlemen! - Mutimba
Congratulations Paul. Yes, I do hope Friendfeed users and community are "treated right". - Paola Bonomo
shit all FF VC's and CO-FOUNDERS! YOU DID THE SHIT! you can safely accept all spam "app" invitations on FB. - Ahmet Alp Balkan
Ahmet: I'm disappointed to even be on the same service as you and I really can't wait until you leave. - Robert Scoble
Congrats! Maybe you'll make FB usable again... - Eran Kampf from iPhone
cngrtlti.ons I hope you will understand what i mean! - Atif UNALDI
Great vibe :) - Sharel from FriendFeed API Example
@Scobleizer: Come on you're a genius and can not realize future of FF? Turkey was one of important countries which is using FF! They asked no one about this! We hate fcking morons and stupid people on facebook, and I'm sure that this post will be real, just read it: http://ff.im/6pRmM - Ahmet Alp Balkan
But Ahmed you are still being an ass about it, trying to rain on their good times. Go find a hole under the bridge where you belong. You can be sad and not have to come out all bitchy about stuff. Clear thoughtful comments instead of going all into "fuck you" mode. - Rasmus Lauridsen
OK, that's great. I hope you can be successful at Facebook Dev Team and enjoy spending that money. - Ahmet Alp Balkan
Ahmet: I hope this helps with your inquiry -> http://friendfeed.com/about... - Clifford Kennedy
@Clifford, haha LOL. - Ahmet Alp Balkan
Bilseydik biz alırdık :) - Hamdi Yaman
wohoo, lets celebrate that ff owners for selling the land they have hired us - now we have to find another place - MobilAdam
very nice FF! Amazing team! - @RecruitingDiva - Sangeeta Narayan
valla kelepire gitmiş, fotoğraflardan belli.. - Mücahit Yılmaz
Who took the pic? - Marco Massarotto from iPhone
@MobilAdam + 1. - Ahmet Alp Balkan
@Mücahit +1 :D - Hamdi Yaman
böyle önemli bir iş için fiyat açıklanmadı ama 50 milyon $ deniyor. Bu kadar lakayt bir ortam olur mu yau. Uzaktan baksan gençler eğleniyor dersin - Fatih Hayrioğlu
Şİmdi yorumları okumadım ama çok kişisel bişi söyleyeceğim. Bu gençlerin milyon dolarları çeviriyor olması durumuna şaşıyorum. Bizim memlekette bu seviyeye gelecek mi veya? Kaç sen uzaktalar bizden bu gençler? - mustafa can
Bizim şirket sahipleri konunun belli saatler arasında, belli kıyafetlerle ofiste oturmak değil, yapılan işin niteliği olduğunu analdıkları zaman gelir tabii. Ama bence bu gavurların dediği gibi "When the hell freezes over". - özlem ercan
bu postu türkçe commentlerle doldrmak süper fikir.. sarcasm diil ciddiyim - MobilAdam
Bakmayın böyle güldüklerine arkada buyuk yatırımcılar olmasa batar gider bunlar..Adamların yatırımcıları işi biliyor... - Zeki Pehlivan
tebrikler.congratulations.gratuliere !!! - muratt
Sorry but as an FF user, I've just tried to express my thoughts about this acquisition: http://fc07.deviantart.com/fs46... - İbrahim Özdemir
Congratulations! :) - Ruben Sanchez
Great result Paul. In such a short time, millions of users, 1 new interface and a marriage with internets' celebrity. This is a period which you should write down to make it as an on-line business case. You people are really wise businessmen. Nice job, congrats! :) - Olcayto Cengiz
Not happy happy congrats bullshit from me-I used FF. - frankiecarl
Frankie, a lot of us use FriendFeed and are concerned about where things are going from here. As I said in my comment above: I'm happy for the staff but displeased with who they chose to sell to. I'm perfectly capable of feeling both emotions at the same time. - FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
@Tina ++++ - Shevonne
wonderful so normal so ordinary so simple - Thomas Power
MZ looks like he has just returned from the gym - Joe Dawson
These guys represent the most talked about entreprises (Ok even more so by geeks in the case of Friendfeed) and they're still in their 20s. We're talking millions of dollars and look how relax they look and casually they're dressed. - lelapin
Awesome, nice to see they are actually in fact human still. - Robert Schultz
Congratulations, Paul! - Bill Sodeman
Great photographs showing the very reason why 99% of all people start their own business - money! Well done and good luck for the future. - David Jagger
this is so great! congrats paul! im really happy for u guys! - Jason Pollock
congratulations guys! - Liam Daly
congratulations from me, too! mind to stay (y)ourselves. ;) - Valentina*
L-O-V-E the attire, guys. Did you end the evening with a nice barbecue and a dip in the pool? - Giulia B.
Yeah yeah, you worked hard, you got the payout, well done guys. Now. Down to business....where's OUR share? ;-) - Slappy Line
"Hi my name is Mark, I do $50m deals in my shorts!" - Simon May
Congratulations. I'm sad for us and extremely happy for you and your team. - Arleen Anderson
congratulations...can't wait to see the success of the collaboration! - Katy Barrilleaux
We better run away! - Constantine
Congratulations. I'm sure that this acquisition will be beneficial for both parties. - Volkan Özçelik
the one in the green shirt is hawt. just sayin'. - Jessie
eew, that causes diseases - Jim Norris
congrats Paul & evereyone ! - Thomas Mader
Is that Mel sitting on Paul's left? http://www.youtube.com/watch... - j1m
CHA CHING!!!!! - sofarsoShawn
congrats guys - well done!!! - Gerd Leonhard
supper! - Ahmet Koldaguc
Business is Business and we can only move forward with social-media applications as we herald a new interactive platform. Albeit thanks to the Mothers of all Mothers, Google. Frank Burns - frank burns
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FriendFeed accepts Facebook friend request - FriendFeed Blog
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We've been acquired by Facebook! We are really excited about joining the Facebook team. (Note: FriendFeed will continue to operate - see the blog post for details) - Bret Taylor from Bookmarklet
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Boom. - Louis Gray
Grr! - directeur
Woah... - Brandon Titus
Uh. Well, that's the end of that. - Akiva Moskovitz
Argh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! - Roberto Bonini
What does this mean for FriendFeed, Bret? - Kol Tregaskes
Lame. - Mark Trapp
great title bret. well played. - MG Siegler
WOW - Bindu Reddy
Congrat! So, what does this mean to your team and to FF in general? - Dilip Dand
wahhhhhhhhhh - Myrna
maaaan - Jamie
wowow - Harry Wolff
congrats - brainno722 (Peter)
Nooooooooooooo - Mushin
Wait... seriously? - Ken Sheppardson
oh, noooo - Tanju Yildiz
Congratulations to the friendfeed team. I know this is huge for y'all. Please don't let us spoil your parade as we weep. - Ladybug Heather
Seriously?!? ..... - sebastian☆rocket brother
oh boy. - Carlos Ayala
I am hoping this will lead to nice integration for cross posting! Currently using Twitter App on FB to post and I hate those ff.im links that end up on Facebook. - Ivan Zlatev
it was good while it lasted, Friendfeed. :( - holly
division by zero - Onur Cengiz
OMG - \(*_*)/
"FriendFeed.com will continue to operate normally for the time being. We're still figuring out our longer-term plans for the product with the Facebook team." Those are NOT encouraging things to read as a FF user. - Scott of Two Countries
gratz - Ali
My heart is sinking as I type this. Please tell me that it isn't a late April Fool's joke. :( - Tyson Key
Wow, it's true!! - Kevin Whalen
Big news! I second Kol & dilip's request for what this means for the team and FF's future. - Brandon Titus
O_o - Joe Silence
So it IS true. - Hector
Nicely done Bret - Jennifer Van Grove
Congratulations btw, guys! - Kol Tregaskes
Sniff... not sure if I'm excited about this. But I have enormous respect for the FriendFeed team... so, I assume they believe in the move as more than an exit strategy. - Michael Leggett
Congrats, Bret. - Jordan Hofker
This is just horrible - Matthew DeVries
Congratulations, I suppose. A bit worried Facebook is going to ruin everything though. I'm not fond of Facebook, to say the least. - Irma Vermaat
Oh my... Hopefully FriendFeed won't vanish and good luck :) - Tarmo Aidantausta
Do we call it FaceFeed? FriendBook? - Tyson Key
Oh no.... - Ben Hanten
What does mean for us? - Rich from iPod
Terrible fit. - Matthew DeVries
damn here it is... :( - Edgar Rodríguez
FriendFace!!! (i love it crowd) - Bahriye
*waits for wall-to-wall ads and constant spambots* - Joe Silence
Die. - Zio Bonino
Congrats - Zoltan Szendro
I dont want FF to end - Fee501st
Wow - Shevonne
Oh mon dio ! - Umar
What did you do? WHYYY! - Zachary TG
Ostregheta. - Reloj
Congrats guys, in a bittersweet sort of way. - Hutch Carpenter
guess there's no way of denying this anymore :( - BCK
Just another lesson in why you shouldn't put your love and trust in a company...... - Matthew DeVries
Oh no! - Erdinc YILMAZEL
Congrats, but I hate Facebook. - Zachary TG
I like Friendfeed and I do not like Facebook. Gratz to you guys though, I think. - Mark Sorrell
"Oh shit..." came to mind immediately. :( - Tyson Key
Scott, yep not encouraged by that comment. :-( - Kol Tregaskes
Congrats on the deal, best wishes to the FF'ers in helping facebook get it together! - Sean O'Connor
This could get exciting, especially concerning twitter :-P - Malte Steckmeister
Congrats for Friendfeed team, but I'm seriously worried for us :((((((((((( - Roberto
Congratulations... I'm sure this is pretty exciting for everyone at FriendFeed... We're all looking forward to where it takes you! - Nathan Chase
And FriendFeed was just getting popular. Not any more. - Zachary TG
Wow - Rodfather
*Sobs* - Tyson Key
to the dump - Zachary TG
Wow, very disappointed - Randy Pollock
come on. Bret, facebook is so closed. so different from Friendfeed. besides that. Congrats to the team - Edgar Rodríguez
As am I - Zachary TG
machecazzo - Sba
VERY disappointed. - Joe Silence
horrible decision - Randy Pollock
Booo. But, you know, congrats. - Chris Nixon
i'm not sure i'm happy about this. - Taylan Aydınlı
OMG WHAT HAVE YOU DONE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! SH*T - Alp
Congrats for u guys... probably too bad for us ;-( - Laurent
God, I can see FB shutting down FF just like Six Apart shut down Pownce. - DarknessFalls
Good for you, don't know for all of us - Cristian Conti
@#$& that's all I have to say. For now. - Zachary TG
Facebook should have been aquired by Friendfeed. Why they hell would you give up your better product to a worse one? Did none of you give a shit about this service to begin wiht? - Matthew DeVries
Congrats! - Alix Whitmire
Coolest web 2.0 site I've ever seen & used. I hope things don't derail. Ads will be coming soon, which is fine, but.... then what 's next? Please no quizzes! - Ben Hanten
Who would have thought that after Facebook were shamelessly being "inspired" by FriendFeed, the inevitable would have happened? - Tyson Key
I'm pissed off. I wan to throw away the whole Internet : - DarkBls
Congrats! - Moushumi Kabir
Congrats guys. :) - Meryn Stol
Congratulations. This is awesome for you and for Facebook. - Mike Sego
mommy? - Josh Haley
Hey guys, keep in mind that Facebook is blocked in workplaces across the nation. 250 million casual users commenting about last night's party does not intelligent conversation make. - Hector
FFail - rael
What will happen to my 92 subscribers? - Zachary TG
yes you have just failed at failing, no it is not a double negative. - Bahriye
Tragic. - Shannon
I really can't see how FB would buy FF only to shut it down. There are way too many innovations and features FF has that FB honestly needs. I'm looking forward. - Harry Wolff
congrats! - Jay from ViewPoint
here come the comments - Zachary TG
Congrats? Everybody who's saying Congrats doesn't know what he's saying. Go to hell. - Zio Bonino
Yeah, quizzes are EVIL! - Tarmo Aidantausta
Wow. - Zachary TG
Oh, this does not make me happy. Not at all! I've stayed off of Facebook intentionally and FriendFeed is my favorite social network. This is like when the Red Sox traded Babe Ruth to the Yankees. :>( - Larry Hawes
i have stopped using FB for the most part and liked FF alot more. now FF will go the way of FB. screwed again. - Joe Silence
Congratulations. Enjoy the new challenges of acquisition, and I'm looking forward to the result! - Wade Dorrell
Berge Gazen beat your score in Mafia Wars - Berge Gazen
Feedface or Facefeed? - Fee501st
FUCK THAT ! [Anyways good job guys ^^] - TiTi
Enjoy your fat paychecks, guys. You've sold us out. - Akiva Moskovitz
Bravo Bret! Been following your successes ever since we had the opportunity to work together on the YellowPages.ca / Google Maps Canada deal. Congrats! - Sebastien
I wished it was Google or even Yahoo!, instead... - Tyson Key
i really hope ff stays as it is. fb is kinder carder while ff is a great tool. - jkkmobile
Facefucked or Fuckfeed? - Matthew DeVries
Not sure what to make of this. It could eiter be a big win or a huge fail. - dorn
It could have been Microsoft, which would have been worse for everyone. :( - Tyson Key
Can I take this opportunity to say I HATE facebook? - Alex Scrivener
seems the only ppl happy here are the ones in the biz or who stand to profit from the merger. - Joe Silence
I guess we should get ready to get poked by our supposed friends and have various shit thrown at us? Plus 5,000 requests by apps that nearly all suck. - Joey Gibson
There is zero way this could have been a win for anyone, but the now rich founders. - Matthew DeVries
duh - aybars badur
I HATE facebook - Pedram
this is simply awful. - Joe Silence
If I have to go to FB to use FF then it's a lost cause - Randy Pollock
Painful. And apparently I completely misunderstood what FF was trying to accomplish both technically and as an organization. I guess Facebook must have dangled a pretty big bag of money in front of them. - Ken Sheppardson
FriendFeed is Dead! Long Live FriendFeed! :/ - Tyson Key
Awesome. Please fix Facebook email :) http://fudge.org/too-muc... - Jay Cuthrell
Facebook is going to acquire the web! - l'Ego di Gigi
To me, FriendFeed is like Porsche and Facebook a Kia. I'm curious to see which will become which.. - Moushumi Kabir
Oh noes! - Burcu Dogan
Congrats Bret! - Robin Dindayal
I will reserve judgement, i don't like or use FB but if FF maintains it's current goodness i don't care who cuts the checks. - Steve C
I hope this doesn't turn into an APP filled hunk of crap. I love FriendFeed, it was the untouched gem of microblogging. I don't want Mafia Wars invited in my FriendFeed!!! Congrats on the sale though. - Jay Farmington
Where's the "dislike" option? - Gregor Morrill
+1 Gregor - Tyson Key
accipicchia che pessima notizia - massimo mantellini
I SEE WHAT YOU DID THERE!!! -_- - Bahriye
I just realized this is like when K-mart bought Sears ... - DarknessFalls
/ponders the meaning of "FriendFeed.com will continue to operate normally for the time being." - Philipp Lenssen
And I will officially be leaving FriendFeed today. - Michael Forian
omg - John μller
@Philipp: until the new masters start flexing their muscles and bringing in their own people to enforce their own vision. - Joe Silence
I read the blog post and one statement stands out to me "FriendFeed.com will continue to operate normally for the time being." The time being. This is not just bad, I think it may be #FAIL - berchman
Such great news! - Steve Rubel
Not sure what to think of this. - Matthew Speicher
where is dislike button ? - Osman Üngür
OMG! - Zac Bowling
now where did I put my twitter password - Randy Pollock
big mistake :(( - emresezgin
I suppose it will be called FriendFace? http://www.youtube.com/watch... - Phil Harrison
Congratulations, guys!!!!!!!!! - Jess Lee
Oh. Hell. No. - CannonGod
Oh My God! They Killed FriendFeed! - Tyson Key
so the (once)new facebook homepage was actually the tip of the iceberg? - Onur Cengiz
It's a win/win! congrats all. - Alan Le
Time to roll your own Frienfeed clone. - Fırat Can Başarır
Congrats to you. - Evan Travers
Congratulations. I look forward to seeing what this new partnership means for users. - Aren Grimshaw
FF will surely be integrated into FB at some point? - Kol Tregaskes
damn Ken is spot on! +1000 Ken! - vijay
not good. - Jacque
Oh. My. Gosh. - Enrico Lamperti
Facebook obviously liked FriendFeed a long time ago. Why would they have copied so many features (feed item comments and the "Like" action, to name a couple) otherwise? It was only logical for this to happen eventually. Doesn't mean I like it, but acquisition is part of the game. I have the same feeling I did when SocialThing! was acquired by AOL, though. - Voyagerfan5761
"Relationship Status: It's complicated" comes to mind. ;) - Tyson Key
Wow, I finally sign up, and read this. This could end up being a very bad thing for FF fans: "Your FriendFeed friend just signed up on this poll, would you like to too?" - Brian Bommarito
sad... - Marvin
Congrats guys. And thanks for your continuos effort in helping promote and integrate web services, like mine, Wakoopa. That's awesome and I hope FB gets better because of it. - Robert Gaal
This will give FriedFeed the attention it deserves. Otherwise it would have been a geek thing forever. - Michael Netsch
Will there be a super poke feature launched tomorrow? - Matthew DeVries
aw, this sux!! Congrats to the Friendfeed team though! - acedanger
please don't merge logins!!! please - earlyadopter
They are deceived when they suffer themselves to be drawn after the image of things, without seeking for the true reason of them. - The Complex Days
I hope it works OK to you guys! - Rodrigo Jaroszewski
+1 Netsch - I still like FF more but this finally legitimizes FF to the mainstream. - Daniel J. Pritchett
Friend request una beata fava. Pecunia non olet. - Federico Bolsoman
Yeah, I really can't wait to see what value the Ashton Kutchers and Oprahs of the world have to add to FriendFeed. - Akiva Moskovitz
Please tell me this is a delayed April Fools' Day joke. - Rochelle
Facebook & FriendFeed: don't cross the lifestreams! D:< - CannonGod
I guess this means I'll have toget a facebook account after all.... Hope the API stays up and running.... - Roberto Bonini
"Were rich B!tch!" - Chappelle - adolfo foronda
Another good thing: This ups the bar for Wave. - Wade Dorrell
What a bunch of greedy assholes. - Zio Bonino
Does this mean that we'll be seeing an influx of webcam spammers, a la Twitter? Along with abolishment of the rooms feature, crappification of the search feature, and more "privacy features" that really just put more nails in the openness coffin? - Tyson Key
Some people will do whatever their friends request........ - Michael Muller
I really don't see why people would be anything but excited about this Facebook freindfeed deal. Great news as far as I am concerned. The Friend feed team is going to go over facebook and make it that much easier to connect, share... isn't that what the social web is about? - Kevin Murray
I know a lot of people who use Facebook and enjoy it and that's fair enough. It's just not my cup of tea. The chaps from Friendfeed will get rich and the technology will get absorbed in Facebook but I can't see Friendfeed continuing in anything like it's present form. - Paul Nash
Don't be so negative, something good might eventually come of this... - Tarmo Aidantausta
The End. - Kaan Ertürk
Congrats! I know you all must be crazy excited right now. - Michele Lorito-Chase
chance for FriendFeed to become more mainstream... congrats FriendFeed team! - Jeroen De Miranda
Nothing could make me happier than if they integrated the good tools from FriendFeed into Facebook, which is where all my friends are. So a big "yay!" from me. - Ian Betteridge
happy for you guys, but not for all of us - Flavio
congratulations. this is going to be interesting. - Dave Beckett
I think I preferred the non-mainstream version of FriendFeed... - Tyson Key
I'm turning on my black shirt, my black trouser, my black socks, my black shoes. Although I probably must be happy for you. - Ton Zijp
NASTY NASTY BAD BAD. But we'll see... - Daniel Morgan
Game over. - stark
yeah removing feed also works. - Bahriye
Reminds me so much of Last.fm fall... - Marcos
Given that the FriendFeed team has never been anything but awesome & respectful of its community, I think it's unfair for people to assume that the Facebook acquisition is going to change that. - Jess Lee
Why in god's name are we flying over this shark?!?!?!?!??!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!??!?!?!??!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!??!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?! - Matthew DeVries
Facebook is like a giant who listens to nobody. Please keep your attitude but I don't think you will be able to do so. - Burak "cyrus" Bayburtlu
Noooooooo...... - Sung W. Lim
yeahhh - Çağrı Burak
Congrats! That sucks. - Rutger Blom
Where is that evidence Jess? - Matthew DeVries
I don't know, Like it? or dislike it? - Ömer Balamir
What happens to all the content that we've created and imported here, and the associated metadata? Will all that disappear into the ether? - Tyson Key
If the FriendFeed guys can make FaceBook useful and responsive again, this seems like a pretty positive step! - Robin Barooah
Robin, the Facebook users don't want that I'm afraid. - Rutger Blom
I have big loss of data concerns. See http://ff.im/6pHjo Is there any way to archive all my FriendFeed posts, likes, comments, and pictures (friendfeed-media.com) off-line? Can some Archive.org-like snapshots of FriendFeed be made (Once a month starting Sept 2009)? I'd like to see the cross-links between my posts & other people's posts, even in 2020. - - Mitchell Tsai
Mitchell: the FriendFeed site is not shutting down. Your data will not go away any time in the near term future - we are committed to our users. - Bret Taylor
I just overheard a coworker mention FriendFeed. This is how the world ends... - CannonGod
kafa sayımı yapıp köyü satan ağalar geldi aklıma - Alper Ömer Esin
Then provide us with a way to easily make a back-up of all of our posts and all of the posts we have Liked and Commented on. - Akiva Moskovitz
Same question as Mitchel Tsai. How do I export my data? I don't want it to be handed off to Facebook. - Zio Bonino
Near term future? - Kol Tregaskes
I don't see good things coming from this. Although I like Facebook, I liked Friendfeed more. Partly because of the environment and the smallness of it. That is now going to be ruined. So, 10-1 odds that Friendfeed will be no more within a year after it gets intergrated into Facebook? - Mathew™ one of a kind
I doubt it Robin. Bret can only give us assurances about the "near future." Here's what I think will happen. Just like Twitter acquired Rael Dornfest and his awesome web services, Stikkit and I Want Sandy vanished (and so did he), Facebook will acquire all the talent from Friendfeed, shut this service down and Facebook will continue to suck. - Jim in Real Time
Same question as Mitchel Tsai. How do I export my data? I don't want anything to be handed off to Facebook. And I don't want to lose anything. - Zio Bonino
Congrats obviously, but im not sure about the feeling,, different user groups which can not integrate but collide.. hope there wont be an huge integration in the future. - Yunus Tunak
I'm happy for FriendFeed! But, at the same time a bit worried about the future. Hope you guys convince FB to not be evil too. - Vishal Verma
Let's hope this is like Disney's acquisition of Pixar - wherein the Pixar guys ended up in control of the animation studio... - Robin Barooah from IM
Where the f*ck is this option to undo ? - Laurent
Odd that this thread gets modded? - Matthew DeVries
I seriously thought this was a joke. Looks like its not. I don't like it, sorry. - Michael Lynton
Does anyone want to start a bounty to purchase Facebook? ;) - Tyson Key
Congratulations! - John Craft
can't be, shouldn't be... - Kemal
It is! Change is inevitable, my friends. - Bill Sodeman
Jim, I'm less cynical than you - the FriendFeed founders wouldn't do this just in order to become 'talent' at FaceBook. - Robin Barooah
So will we be playing FriendFeed Mafia Wars at some point in the future? Ugh. - Alex Hellstrom
I feel if I should be wearing a black arm band. But I guess when I think about it.............. - Kevin J Hatton
Oh No! I don't like this at all :( - Peter
WTF! Horrible Bret, this the death of FriendFeed.. you know that right? - Uncle CW™
I still think Apple will acquire Facebook, Twitter Friendfeed and Google Twitter. - Thomas Power
Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo! - Stephen Francoeur
My condolences to all Friendfeeders! RIP! - Evgeni Leshtanski
AAAAwwwful! - carolh
I can't believe it! damn! facebook tos will apply to friendfeed too? should i start to move to another service? why anyone would think that facebook public is friendfeed public?! damn! friedfeed was my favorite! I can't understand this move! they want to kill friendfeed or what? - paula simoes ☃
"I bet I can find 1.000.0000 people who dislike this deal."...Welcome to FriendBook. - Jacque
Well, huge congraulations to you and your team, you deserve every success. To be honest I had presumed this would happen sooner or later - the only business model cool little startups have is to hope they get bought by someone bigger for their brains and technology. I'm going to be in San Francisco in a couple of weeks and was going to stop by your office to bring you a cake and thank you for a great product - maybe I still will if you're still there and there's still a FriendFeed! - Alex Lomas
The FF founders must have know this would be a very unpopular move. Most users I know here are not too fond of FB. - Rutger Blom
damn, damn, damn... - Kemal
One of the sadest news for Internet and web creativity :( - DarkBls
Woah woah... This is real? - Jason Huebel
"Your data will not go away any time in the near term future - we are committed to our users" There's a bit of a contradiction in your statement, Bret. Nice try though. - jcunwired
Now I can break my Internet plan at home. - DarkBls
Grats Bret and the rest of FF. To all the naysayers... Lets see what happens before we start bitching.... - Rasmus Lauridsen
wow!! dazed and confused!! - Roberto Arancibia
I don't hate Facebook, but for sharing things Friendfeed is MUCH MUCH better! - Mathew™ one of a kind
I wonder if that Ben Darnell guy who *just* left the Google reader team knew about this beforehand? Wonder what he's thinking now? (http://friendfeed.com/friendf...) - Daniel J. Pritchett
Just great. I'm certainly not very happy about this. Let's just hope FB doesn't ruin FF. Ugh. - Elena
Who cares? Nothing's gonna change in our pitiful lifes. - bluretina
:| - Amin BZ
This ties in nicely with the fact that you soon will have the opportunity to make your Facebook profiles public and get followers there. - Michael Netsch
чатег номер два - лето ближе с каждым днем
Congrats Bret! this is so great! many congrats!!! - Jason Pollock
That is capitalism for you. Luckely, there still good 'ol usenet. - Peter
Is it April 1st somewhere in the universe? - Robert Felty
#ROFLMAO Is there anything more important than money? It seems NOT #ROFLMAO - Lora Lufark
I don't mean to be negative but there's got to be a win-win logic to each merger&acquisiton. Audience high in only quantity is clearly not a win for friendfeed in the long term by considering its unique selling points. Let's wait and see who will benefit from friendfeed's death now. - ayca
It's all about the money. I would have payed a couple of dollars each month to use FF. - Rutger Blom
Seriously, what is this? It's like Bret just announced that he's killed all your mothers or something. It could turn out good, it could turn out bad, but at the end of the day, who cares, it's just a website (I mean honestly, come on). I could see it going either way, but in the near term, this is a pretty big win for the FF team, so congrats guys. - Chieze Okoye
OMG! - keso
To be honest, my heart sank a little but I am happy to congratulate you and the team for building such a good brand. Well done. - Kevin J Hatton
I'm just surprised, that's all. I'm not saying this is a bad thing (it certainly isn't for the owners of FF). I'm willing to sit back and see what happens. - Jason Huebel
Wow, I specifically use friendfeed b/c it is not facebook. Sounds great for the friendfeed team, but not necessarily for friendfeed users. - Evan Parker
Born to be sold, like in the old "new economy" era. Remember the late nineties? - Federico Bolsoman
Sudden desire to check out Strands again... but hey, kudos on the incoming $$ for FF team - Leslie Poston
This is wisdom. Bracing for Google Wave is a good idea............. - Kevin J Hatton
this is clearly a talent aquisition... why am i not excited about this? could it be because facebook has been blatantly stealing features from friendfeed shamelessly. Likes were clearly not an original facebook idea...realtime feeds is another i could go on... - Tate DA FF MVP
While I'm sad, because I suspect this means the best things about FF will disappear or I'll be forced to use FB in some way, if the buyout was for some awesome amount of money, I can't say I blame 'em for taking an offer -- I would. - Andy Bakun
I came to FriendFeed because I don't like facebook. Now the question is, will facebook become more like friend feed? or will they just take friend feed and turn it into facebook? - Tom Ray
FF could be a good R&D arm for facebook. - Andy Bakun
My biggest concern here is that FB has a completely different audience than FF. - Rutger Blom
Fucking morons. FriendFeed is doomed now. Think logically. Facebook has NO REASON to keep FriendFeed alive. It will simply take FF's best features, suck the life of out of it, then trash FF. Way to go, FirnedFeed, damn. - Jeremy Buff
Fail. - Big K
Big Fail! - OnuRC
This announcement should have been held off until the plans for Friendfeed were known. Regardless, this is *bad* for FF users. Best case: it continues on, but with stagnated feature development. Worst case: it's gone. - tollie williams
wtf ?! - Umut
I need to install "super PUKE" application ! - Bart LePoole
FFail. - rowlikeagirl
I don't want my FF feed on Facebook :( I use both, but maintain both profiles separate - Leandro Ardissone ⍨
Sigh... Happy for the team if this is what they want, but baffled by the move. The users that are going to leave because of this will make FF a graveyard and the users it gains, well... Hello spam? Sorry, but I don't like it. - Vince DeGeorge from iPhone
JEREMY+++++1 - Ahmet Alp Balkan
Wow! - felix
Well, I guess it is time to dismantle my friendfeed. We all know where this is headed. So, so glad I didn't move all my rss feeds from greader to friendfeed like so many cheerleaders suggested. - Matthew Speicher
Jeremy +1 - F. Batuhan Icoz
so what's next? where should we go? - Flavio
It's been fun here. - Capn' One Eye - adrift
Dang, and just as I was starting to get used to how FF works. FF is useful on it's own. I hope this only improves FF's system, rather than having it disappear into Facebook's wake. - Don Faulkner
My big question to everybody here is this: What are the potential downsides / upsides to this acquisition? I mean on paper I just don't see what the pros OR cons are. I don't care for Facebook but I don't see how them acquiring FF is going to change everything. - Nicholas Kreidberg
furthermore they are 2 different things: I follow a lot of people here that are not in my facebook list, which is for IRL friends! - Flavio
I don't know where to go next either. I had just settled down to make imaginary friends for all my non-FF tweeps, etc. now, I'm not sure if I should bother. - Don Faulkner from IM
I hope friendfeed continues to operate normally but it does not look good. - ashish
integrate best features of ff to fb, then try to innovate in fb if possible, then kill ff... that's it, cheers, all the best. grrrr... - Kemal
niczak has good points. FF & FB aren't exactly competitors, but they aren't orthogonal either. Let's hope FB's smart enough to see the difference and improve both platforms. - Don Faulkner from IM
Nicholas: The upside for Facebook is they just bought an engineering team that's built many of the feature's Facebook's going to need to stay competitive. The upside for FriendFeed's engineering team is $$$ and the ability to build system for a wider audience. FriendFeed's user base is small enough that it'll either get absorbed into Facebook or move on, and FF will become a footnote on the Internet timeline. - Ken Sheppardson
Don, I don't think FB wants to maintain two platforms. - Rutger Blom
first tr.im (heard about it yesterday), now this. I wasn't a heavy tr.im user (yet), but sad to see it go, even if I think url shortening is silly. - Don Faulkner from IM
As FB said they're interested in the people and not in the site, what if the community will keep running FF without its current staff? - Flavio
Congratulations! - Sam Grover
Flavio, that's not very realistic I'm afraid, but I like the idea. - Rutger Blom
rutgerblom, I don't expect they do either, thus my angst over this. - Don Faulkner from IM
if there's a team willing to do it and money, and if we accept some ads as everywhere else, we could make a new FF without FB - Flavio
I have worked hard in avoiding signing up for FB. Does this mean I now automatically will be on FB by virtue of my FF account? - Tony Vota from iPhone
Tony, most likely - Rutger Blom
I'll have to go with Flavio's position too. Given this news (plus tr.im and who knows who's next), I'd tend to favor community supported or federated services for things like this in the future. - Don Faulkner from IM
I am purposely not on facebook because I don't really want to talk to people I have not talked to in 20 years. - Andy Bakun
God help us - Johnny
Once again. I'm happy for the FF team. They worked hard and now collect. That's fair. Wonder if they're sitting in a bubble pool drinking champagne while we cry out here ;-) - Rutger Blom
Congrat Bret!! :)) - Cihan Cepni
trouble is (from my perspective), that the philosophies of the two platforms are at odds. FB wants to bring people to the site and keep them there, while FF is a hub, bringing people in and then sending them back out. (That's part of why it's hard for the newcomer to understand, IMHO.) - Don Faulkner from IM
This almost confirms FF will disappear: http://www.techcrunch.com/2009... - Kol Tregaskes
Great point, Don. - Rutger Blom
+1 Don - Johnny
Does this mean I can throw someone a sheep on FriendFeed now? - Pinksy
I sure hope so, Rutger. I glad for their success too. I just hope there's a next best thing out there for us. - Don Faulkner from IM
Congrats all. Nice work, in spite of any naysaying out there. Keep up the innovation. - Tomas Remotigue
LOLI FFAIL - rael
lame. - andy brudtkuhl
This should be good news for Twitter. - Rutger Blom
post the picture to failblog... - Kemal
Quote «Taylor and Cox say that the Friendfeed product will live on independently, and eventually Friendfeed will be merged into Facebook. But the Friendfeed team is not being kept whole. Some employees will now report to Cox, others to engineering head Mike Schroepfer. In my opinion that means, long term, the Friendfeed product itself is unlikely to be a big priority.¶ But Facebook is... more... - Philipp Lenssen
+1 Kol for the techcrunch article! - Don Faulkner from IM
techcrunch: "Cox agreed, noting that Facebook is focused on being a platform and a service, and not just a destination site." I certainly hope so! - Don Faulkner from IM
Brilliant move by both Facebook and friendfeed. Congratulations!!! I have theories of what they have planned, but I doubt you would verify any of them. This is going to go so well with their SocialTV which they have been developing. I'm so happy for you! - Michael Fidler
Really saddened by this news. - Doug Beeferman
Noooooooooooooooooooooo! - LouCypher
I don't see what's so bad about it since no one knows right now what the outcome will be, everyone is just making assumptions that could possibly be wrong..... Might help just sitting back and seeing what happens first before complaining. - ChaCha Fance
Nooooooooooooooaaaaaaaaarrrrrrrghh! I´ve resisted getting a facebook acct for so long... - Thomas Bøhm
ChaCha, if everybody would do that there would not be much discussion would there? This is part of the fun. - Rutger Blom
I wonder how the discussion over on facebook would compare to this? - Don Faulkner from IM
Drat! - Gee Ekachai
congrats guys! - Elad
Don, I doubt there is any discussion going on there. They're too busy throwing quizes at each other. - Rutger Blom
Congrats, FF! I'm approaching the situation with cautious optimism. A lot of my friends only share stuff via the Facebook wall/feed, so if Facebook is able to make their feed more like the FF feed (i.e. good, instead of sucktacular) through this acquisition, it's mostly a win for me in the end. - Brian Chang
At least my Feedburner stats might go back to normal again. - Rutger Blom
/me pokes Rutger. (just getting in practice. ;) - Don Faulkner from IM
Where will we go for the FFunderCats, bacon memes, and angry artists fighting over photo reshares now? ;) - Tyson Key
Don, LOL :-) - Rutger Blom
If anybody has doubts as to what happens to the FriendFeed community or our stored information here, read this statement from Bret (in this thread) "Your data will not go away any time in the near term future - we are committed to our users". Now maybe you can see "whats so bad about it" and curb your optimism. Not good. - jcunwired
Congrats FF. Fix their live feed situation please. - Edward Barnieh
@josh: do you think FB will throw away all the crap people use? various quiz, pick 5 and so on? - Flavio
@jc: our data will not go away in the near future. what will be in few months? in a year? - Flavio
Let's see if you can do a bit better than just not being evil this time around. - Tim Tyler
Wooohooo!!, seems like we are being sent back to "good" old Facebook. Congrats Bret!! - Danli
Looks like I'm going to repeat the same thing many others did. My first reaction was "Oh my..." I have refused to join Facebook due to its philosophy while I have been with FriendFeed from the beginning for its. I'm sad and somewhat apprehensive. - Sean Leather
Congrats. I suppose this means the end of FriendFeed but hopefully a better Facebook. - Harry Toon
Hmm. Interesting. - Ralf Becker
Add me to the fearful group. - beersage
Please say that facebook.com will be shutting down, and the combined company will still be called FriendFeed... I bet it won't happen, though. - Tyson Key
"Regarding FB/FF - Here's how it's [probably] going to work. You will most likely have an account merge, all of the services FriendFeed supports will now be aggregated on Facebook, and all of your FriendFeed friends will be in a "list" on Facebook. The FF Groups will become Facebook Groups. The FF lists will become Facebook Lists." http://ff.im/6pNxq - Ozgur Uckan
Nothing like an early retirement payout :) - Owen Greaves
Congrat Bret - Nimaa
Panic attack. Congratulations, however! :) - בייַ מיר ביסטו שיין
Congratulations Bret. For me this merger makes a lot of sense. Facebook will provide the "quantity" of users, which friendfeed deserves :). - Karthick R
FriendFeed + Facebook... Oh noes FriendFace is coming (http://www.youtube.com/watch...)! Now sorry for that link, and seriously, thanks for your work, guys. Please don't let the spirit of FriendFeed to be blown away =) - Anton
СУКИ-СУКИ-СУКИ!!!! - Viktor
hey, that is great guys! interested to see how you integrate. - Brian Walsh
Mind blown. Never expected this. I'm also disappointed, yet optimistic at the same time. - Angus Burton
Kinda curious to see how this will all pan out...although i wouldnt want the friendfeed stuff just integrated into facebook. I feel like im among a group of people who i genuinely share interests with here...dont want to lost that. - Cassidy
Best case: Facebook will continue to support and develop FriendFeed. Worst case: this is great news for Amplifeeder. - David Gaw
aieeeeeeeeeee - Richard Akerman
FAIL. Facebook is the new myspace, and now friendfeed will become a part of that BS. Can't say I'm too surprised because eventually we all sell out. BTW I don't see friendfeed lasting more than the rest of this year, if that. The good news is that we can all be subjected to add 'Are you related to a monkey?' and Blackjack apps while having annoying personal ads on our profile pages. Fuck this shit. - Tomy Thomson
Well done, well deserved, I hope FB's means and infrastructures empower your guys to even better things. But if quizzes appear in "my" friendfeed, evil things will haunt you and your descendents for 3 generations. - Joelle Nebbe (iphigenie)
:( - Eph Zero
Well done Bret! - Alemsah Ozturk
♪ ♪ This is the end.... beautiful friends ♪ ♪ - All for design
Well, I don't see the point of sticking around here if I have accounts in both and this is going to get swallowed whole into Facebook anyways. Put simply, goodbye. - Micah Collard
It was fun while it lasted. - Mr. Gunn
NNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!! This place will be just like twitter... - The Count Rob
Congrats to the FF team - you've built a wonderful product! - Michael Nielsen
Whattttttttttttttttttttt??? - Nibi
The social community that has been behind FriendFeed creators have built a wonderful product. Only problem is, we don't have Zuck's checkbook :( - jcunwired
friendfeed is a beautiful product, only god knows what facebrook will do to it. Hopefully the ability to upload files (such as mp3s) will not be removed. Zuck is a tool. - Nibi
Congratulations. I'm sorry to say that I don't plan to move with you. - Lars Juhl Jensen
I don't like this.... - Zeki Pehlivan
"Like" to follow this thread. Not because I like what happened. I'm horrified. FF could disappear now. - Kamilah Gill
Same here, Kamilah. - Tyson Key
If FriendFeed had invented the "don't like" button, today would have been the day to press it. - Vishal Verma
and I just bought BuddyFeed for my iPhone this weekend. :( - Don Faulkner from IM
Oh, joy, Facebook's privacy policy is upon us! - Joris
WTF?? NOOOOO!!! Why do such good things have to be ruined by greed? Screw Facebook, and goodbye Friendfeed. - Jason R. Hunter
congratulations! - Loic Le Meur
Facebook is lucky to have such a talented group of people ... Congratulations FriendFeed! - Rob Kurrus
doesn't look like a bad joke, better be for the good then, but... Well congrats anyway guys, you did something AWESOME now let's see where Mark takes it - Dobromir Hadzhiev
That's too bad. Liked the openness if FriendFeed, and the lack crap that is on Facebook. Once FriendFeed dies, it will be Twitter only. - Mike D.
Congrats, but concerned that FriendFeed and its tools may disappear. Merging the tools with Facebook seems impossible. - Mike Reynolds
Congrats guys (and gals) ! - Benjy Weinberger
So, what does the acquisition of FriendFeed by Facebook mean to us, users of both websites: Can I make a friend request from FriendFeed, and be approved for both, on one click - Reyna Carlos
Exciting news guys. I am actually looking forward to your collaboration with / work for FB. No matter what people may or may not like about FB, it does succeed in reaching a more "diverse" audience compared to most other Web 2.0/social web companies. Paired with your team's excellence in realizing features that succeed in pleasing the geekiest of Web 2.0 affine individuals, I think you are steering towards exciting waters :) - Mustafa K. Isik
*heart sinks* actually a bit of shock - I think that Facebook will leave Friendfeed as-is but I don't think there is hope for future innovation in Friendfeed since their best superstar team members will be pulled onto 'more important' Facebook issues... - Pon
And the metastasizing, walled-garden that is Facebook, continues to eat the Web. Bring on Google Wave. - Christopher A Carr
:-) + :-( very happy for the team, huge achievement, hoping to see export of innovation but not a shut down of this unique community and location - Majento
There goes FriendFeed down the toilet. well I WAS having a good day. until hearing this crap! - Scratch5150
Congratulations, and best wishes for your future together! :-) - Ruchira S. Datta
Wow, I was beginning to use Friendfeed as my defacto social site...Facebook is more for real life friends. They'll just take what makes Friendfeed great, add it to Facebook and slowly kill this site. - Manuel Mas
What is the big deal? I think it'll make FF bigger and better. You should be happy about that! - orionstarr
Somebody has to got pay for it. - orionstarr
I am disappointed. I don't want to have to go to Facebook to do what i do here. I can not imagine they will port over all the features we enjoy here. We lose a lot for only a slight benefit to Facebook. - Robert
It could be worse, myspace could've bought them lol... - orionstarr
Awful news for users but congratulations to you guys. Ideally, FB will run FF as a distinct service but I'm not hopeful. I don't want the diversity and noise that facebook brings - people doing quizzes on which movie star they resemble and playing silly games. I also wanted to keep my day to day social activity distinct from the targeted information and discussion I use FF for. - Rajit
Only just started taking a serious look at FF after hearing acquisition by FB. Sounds like I'm laggard rather than a leader in use of web 2.0 - ManojRanaweera
I think how Pon said it is what I'm feeling: *heart sinks*. - Andy Bakun
Congratulations, i am really happy for you guys!! :) - Mona Nomura
I'm not a Facebook fan, but can't begrudge the FF gang their chance to reap the rewards for all their hard work. However, it would be a shame if FB ruins the good thing we all have going here. - Ken Morley
So what now? a name change too? FriendFace? FeedBook? FaceFeed? god Facebook really sucks. oh well. Adds anyone? - Scratch5150
Congrats to the FF team... I hope the service doesn't disappear into a fold of light and heat. - Brandon
if all the things that make FF great are brought to FB then I'll be happy to use it - Mike Chelen
The community won't be there. Been on FB longer than any other, don't have nearly the relationship or sense of community there that I do here or on Twitter. - Karoli
Karoli: that is due to the effectiveness of the FF platform and interface, which help to join conversations and find interesting people more so than FB does - Mike Chelen
Mike: I suspect that FB wants FF for the search possibilities, not the community-building aspects. But we'll see. - Karoli
i guess congrats are in order, but I'm going to now go and remove everything I have that feeds into FF, and I have to ask -- do I have any rights over my archive? I have a private feed, and I have no interest in offering up my lifestream to the FaceBook data-miners. I hope the FF folks get what they hope for out of the deal, but my FriendFeed experience has been effectively killed. - RudĩϐЯaЯïan
I just learned about the FF acquisition by Facebook - WOW~! Congratulations Bret, Paul and FF team!! holy cow ........Mooooooooo! Where's the FF Acquisition Party? :) - Susan Beebe
Friendfeed after Facebook http://ff.im/6q5EY - Ozgur Uckan
Wow thats cool! - AbZ from Nambu
RT @alirizaesin FriendFeed, R.I.P. Home tweet home!.. - Ozgur Uckan
Congrats to facebook. Now, Twitter is the best. - Ebru Baranseli
Congratulations to the FriendFeed guys on the Facebook Acquisition. Not a big fan of Facebook, so I hope my favorite Uber Aggregator, Realtime Social, Microblogging site of awesomeness is not entirely absorbed into the Facebook infrastructure. I wait with baited breath to hear what "normally for the time being" means ;). - Tom Horn
Can I now have comments propagate in both directions as far as Facebook/Friendfeed is concerned? - Piaw Na
*checks date*. Damn .. not April 1st, must be for real. While I'm happy for the FF team, since I guess this is what they wanted (congrats guys!), I can't help but think this is the beginning of the end for a great service and a vibrant community. There are reasons I don't spend any time on Facebook and do spend lots of time on FF, and some kind of "FF integrated into Facebook" just won't cut it. I hope this service will live on for at least a few more years. - Andrew Perry
Gratz to the FF team but as a user I'm not completely happy. In short, I like the FF team/product much more than I like the FB team/product. Best of luck to all. - timepilot
Dang! I've killed another site! Sorry guys... FF was doing fine until I started coming here again! Same with Pownce! Went there and liked it... went underground for a spell... came back and still liked it, so I stayed. A few months later... BOOM! I have the touch! (I'm thinking I'll start devoting a lot of time to Twitter... maybe I can kill that one, too!) - Mark "DerBingle" J
Все, блядь, пиздец! - ǝuǝƃnǝ
WOW - very happy for all of you :-) - Kishore Balakrishnan
Bret, congrats on the acquisition. You guys put in a lot of hard work to create this community. I just hope you learned the mistakes Pownce made, Jaiku etc, and ensured that you didn't sell out your community, but that you helped it evolve into something as great as this into something better. Good luck in future endeavors! - Mike Lewis
Oh yeah? Ok: take tour money and go to the hell. :-((( - Claude LaFrenière
Yay for you guys, I mean that seriously, I 'like' what this means for you personally, but -1000000 cool points for doing it with FB. Sad day. - Threepwood
Karoli: FF search is so useful because it is integrated with all the other great features that help to find relevant content. if FB wants to have a similar capability, they must also develop the underlying architecture. - Mike Chelen from IM
Sucks big time. - Drea
Sadness - Yasin Jason
I can't believe this happened - Johnny
Suggested name: FailFriend. :-((( - Claude LaFrenière
Friend facebooks feed (FFF) - Filiz Koyuncu
«Experience shows that those who never trust anyone will never be disappointed.» Leonardo da Vinci - Claude LaFrenière
So what exactly is going to happen? Is FF eventually going to disappear? Will it merge into the Facebook interface? Please don't do that - Ethan
Gimme my OPML export - Sriks7
Money is the root of all evil - Shakeel Mahate
shakeel, the reasons for friendfeed to join facebook are probably about other things besides money, since many of the FF staff left high-paying jobs to join in the first place - Mike Chelen from IM
Well I've thought about it, and I'll stick around until I start seeing that crappy Facebook logo, I only have 71 subscribers here, I hate to do it but I'll probably scrap the whole thing and start over somewhere else. still can't believe that shit. - Scratch5150
Congrats, team! It's bittersweet, though. - Anne Bouey
So now we will have FriendFeed blocked at work too. Darn. - Mark Scrimshire
"Your data will not go away any time in the near term future" is not exactly inspiring for the long term for those of us who came here to escape Facebook for a) it's walled garden and b) privacy concerns. Nice for the Founders to make a pile of cash but for the many of us, it feels like we got sold down the river. Sad. - Sally Church
This is tragic. Tragic. Tragic. - Ahsan Ali aka. Slick
cacarr: updates for FB have progressed rapidly in the past, count how many months since new features such as api calls and site redesigns have have been implemented - Mike Chelen from IM
I can't believe it either. I feel as if — for the moment — I am lost in the wilderness, adrift. - roamin
Congratulation to the FF team! You guys deserves this. I just hope that Facebook does not change the directions of FF. - Vinko
congrats, I'm happy for friendfeed... - amelia arapoff
Congrats you guys, well deserved. - Shey, Jamaican of FF
Congrats Bret! Hope the transition goes smoothly for you guys. - Cristo
I hope this means better integration: liking here will auto-like on fb and such :D if that's the case, I won't mind the ads *wink* *wink* - 'Like' robot (frɐnc)
Franc, cant stand facebook ads in their current format, hope they will be fixed eventually :P - Mike Chelen from IM
Grats, dont spend it all in one place..... - Robert Higgins
congrads. I think it will be good for BOTH companies. - Logan Lindquist
boo. - kelly
The Borg has struck. Alas. Prepare to be assimilated. (Will FB add my FF subscriptions to my FB friends list?) - Dennis Jernberg
Boo - Amit Morson
Logan: What do you mean by "both" companies? - Christopher A Carr
Now that you guys have $$$ you should swap out the not so very pleasing default avatar! - See-ming Lee 李思明 SML
Hope you guys enjoy your new jobs. Meanwhile we get to watch a great alternative to Facebook with a promising future go down the tubes. A really sad and unfortunate day. - Todd Holmes
BOO! Hiss! Mondays really do suck. - Dale
Congratulations to all the FriendFeed team. I hope you'll be able to keep the FriendFeed spirit up at Facebook. Kudos for all the great work you've been doing. - Paul Papadimitriou
Congrats and good luck.. - Can Koklu
Thanks for all the fish. Saving the so long... for now. - abacab
Goodbye FF, it was wonderful.. - Francesco Cugurra
I use FriendFeed and Facebook so it would be awesome to see FF features in Facebook. Congratulations! - krzychukula from IM
judging by the nearly 600 comments as i type this, including my own earlier one, FF could use a Don't Like button as well. or would, if we were going to be using it much longer. - kelly
Nice, i like to wish you all the best for your new job (and it's really hard, i know). I'm happy, but... don't let die FF!! - Seo (ignobile) Guru
Hope FriendFeed remains open. Love the spirit of FF - Bernaldo Barrena
Seriously, what a coincidence! Just on Saturday I claimed to be both twitter- and facebook-free. I loved FF product and personally helped to bring at least a dozen of my friends into the community. I'll stick around for a while though. - ǝuǝƃnǝ
This deal makes sense, now fb developers do not need to figure out how ff does it because they can just ask! Congrats facebook and ff! - Garin Kilpatrick
I suppose Facebook had to do it, with Twitter and Google Wave as competitor... - Alexander Kruel
обычные дела. http://www.youtube.com/watch... - ǝuǝƃnǝ
Congratulations Friendfeed :D - paniaguai
Ok. I'll quit friendfeed, so. Goodbye. Ciao - valerio fiandra from iPhone
I am noticing a lot of people going to re-esumate their lifestream.fm account now! - Flavio
I don't think FB acquiring FF is bad. But I don't think it's good either. We'll see. :-) In the meantime, keep up the good work! - Alexander Gieg
Oh shit. Love FF, hate FB. I'll NEVER, EVER merge my two accounts. I'd rather unsub from both than merging. I'll wait for the developments, and in the meantime look for an alternative. - Alliandre (la Ippe)
How long until ex-FriendFeed employees start jumping ship from Facebook? I wonder... - Tyson Key
Thomas Power still believes that Facebook/FF/Linkedin (2010) will be acquired by Apple (2011) and this is a transitional acquisition in the SN market cycle. The world is shifting to Mac, iTunes, iPhones and FB own the next generation. Apple have $29bn of cash on deposit price is not an issue. Google must jump for twitter while MS fiddle in the sticks with Yahoo. BillG will be back at the MS helm 2012. - Penny Power
:( Happy for FF people, sad for the service. Was going to move from fb to ff this week.. - Martynas
congrats! - Ronald
thts good!so i can workin both in my Fb online next - Arini dewi muchtaram
Flavio: never heard of lifestream.fm before, but I'm going to go check it out. I'll reiterate, though, that I'm now shy of any service like this, since it can disappear just as it's getting good. I heard about sweetcron.com last night (via http://ff.im/6pR2w). Maybe it's time to move from centralized to distributed again. - Don Faulkner
Just finished setting up my lifestream.fm at http://lifestream.fm/dfaulkner. Lifestream does what it says, and no more. FF's search blows lifestream away. FF is more flexible about adding source feeds, but lifestream does fine without the flexibility I suppose. FF still wins, or would, if I thought it would be sticking around. :P - Don Faulkner
Must See - Hitler blows up over Facebook / FriendFeed - http://friendfeed.com/dffrnt... - Ahsan Ali aka. Slick
Dave, I'm not happy. That video gave me some much needed comic relief .. after waking up to this news. - Ahsan Ali aka. Slick
good for you, bad for us - Zachary Earl Strader
I also hate facebook, not because of their silly quizzes and pokes, but because I suspect they would like to maintain massive user base as the determining factor in choosing a social network. I would love to switch to orkut as I use so many other google services, but I can't because nobody else does. That should not be my criteria.... I thought friendfeed would try to make social networks work together. - Ru Viljoen
I don't understand why everyone is so negative about the situation? - orionstarr
@orionstarr - it's like Starbucks buying your neighborhood coffee shop and saying it still cares about the customers. You know it's just not going to be the same as what you've come to love. - Robin Barooah
Presumably FF will go on the back burner - and the team will try and "fix" Facebook. - Tim Tyler
sad, sad, sad. - scott willeke
Congratulations! That's huge. I hope all is well. - Juan Bruce
bad bad bad - kakilang
bye bye friendfeed! - Jonathan Crossland
Why-eee!!! ??? What next? - Wayne Lewis
I've watched Facebook morph from a relatively organised and well implemented social networking tool into the hulking mess it is now - and I really, really hope that a similar thing doesn't happen here with the inevitable changes this will bring about. - Leslie Moore
Come on guys, out with the long-term game plan, this is tedious. - Andrew Eglinton
NOOOOOOOOOOOOooooooooooooooooooooooooooo, I mean Cool. - sofarsoShawn
Teach Facebook how to be FriendFeed. Let the small but fast teach the big but slow. Don't forget what Paul says - don’t be evil. - whatidiscover
Dave Winer
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FB buying FF is bad news for FF users.
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Agree totally Dave - Roberto Bonini from iPhone
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Why do you think so Dave? - Tim Akinbo
10000% agree, its dreadul and the big boys like Leo and Scoble cant seem to see it! - Mark
Leo laporte says "This is a big step toward an open Facebook. This has been their goal all along: a distributed Facebook." What a Crock of SHITE - Mark
They bought the people! - Mark
yeah... but it is also a smart move, they got the team.. - Rob Sellen :o)
I'm trying to give the FF team the benefit of the doubt...but I'm having a hard time with it as well. - Ken Kennedy
Born to be sold, we were used to say in the new economy era. - Federico Bolsoman
They bought the people. We Stick with that. FF guys are Smart/fast and have deep Google knowledge - Marco Massarotto from iPhone
Woah. I step away from the computer for a couple hours and this is what happens? - Travis B. Hartwell
I agree an independent Friendfeed might be preferable for we few brave FF users. But the writing was on the wall. For most users it's Twitter or Facebook or nothing at all. Aligning with Facebook is smart long term thinking if FB is planning to open up as I am convinced they are. - Leo Laporte from BuddyFeed
Let's hope that FB doesn't block people from using the 'competeition' while on FF. - shelter watch
Seems everything's headed for an autumn war Facebook <> Google Wave - Jordi Soler
At first I like the idea of FF & FB, but now I'm starting to think it's bad for FF - Ray H
hmm, an open, new version of FB that uses all of what makes FF great would be nice. - Dusty Edenfield
Leo's got the right idea, and independence is a myth - Steve Gillmor
Well, how could it possibly be a good thing? - Fleagle
Agree, I'm not a Facebook fan although I try but.. I'd definitely take FF over FB anyday. - Sharon Dexter
I prefer a FriendFeed folded into Facebook versus a FriendFeed that quietly fades away, which is the direction this was going. - Mike Doeff
Totally agree - facebook is so tedious and slow. FF is wonderful. - Zphotogal
+1 mike - Riaz Kanani
We imagine FB with the SEO juice of FF, thus intercepting search traffic... - Marco Massarotto from iPhone
I can certainly see the best ideas from FF being folded into FB but not sure what that says about the future of this site and the data it contains - Keith Harrison
Except for the whole FriendFeed dying slowly in the obscure ghetto of the digirati part. As Mike said, FF in FB is better than no FF at all. FriendFeed users are far better off having it than watching it its gradual anemia grow worse and worse until one day it vanishes. - Curtis Schweitzer
While this may never happen, consider it a possibility - your entire FB feed now available in FF. - Tim Akinbo
It is really hard to see how FB will do more than incorporate staff and ideas from FF. FriendFeed's design of being a very open aggregator is very different than FB's walled garden ethic. I also think part of what attracted me to prefer FF over FB is the clean interface, as opposed to FB fire-in-a-bordello presentation style. I hope FB really listens on the UI side and not just on the aggregator side, or works just mines out the staff. - David Lounsbury
This is a good thing for FF and FB both. This will lead to a more open FB and steal Twitter's thunder. - Tim
"the writing on the wall?" ... that's just hyperbole, Leo. Paul Buchheit himself said in his interview w/ Scoble that they could have kept the service alive "for years"...there was no financial issue forcing this, like tr.im or something. And while I suppose there are those that believe the most popular site/music/art/people are always the best, I think that's both a shallow way of... more... - Ken Kennedy
Like 4 Ken - Marco Massarotto from iPhone
What I care about most is having a Facebook profile that is *actually* public, viewable by non-users. - Andrew Roche
I definitely DONT LIKE IT grmphhh ! - laetSgo
@andrew that's one thing FF team is very good at: climbing Google :) - Marco Massarotto from iPhone
DOnt like it either. I'm off to a self hosted http://sweetcron.com/ or wait for a http://kakuteru.com/ invite. - Mario Valente
One thing that can be said about social communities - its the people who build the product. Had we not given excellent feedback to FriendFeed developers in creating our perfect world FB wouldn't have had an interest. Its our fault. :( - jcunwired
i'll agree to wait this one out before being totally devastated about Facebook buying FriendFeed - Chris Heath
Let's leave "en masse" - Giorgio Burlini from iPhone
Motion carried, motion passed. - Zachary TG
Facebook is banned from my work computer. - m9m, Crone of FriendFeed
Live *open* BadHair podcast in 8 minutes. (347) 843-4661. Call in if you have a comment or question re FB/FF. Starts in 3 minutes. - Dave Winer
Wait and see ... - Kate Foy
It means you'll have to share. wahhhhh - Andrew Smith
I think it is a bad idea. I don't like to use Facebook except for frivolous reasons. FF has been good for reliable information. I suppose I'll stop using it so much now. We'll see. - Barbara K. Iverson
I want to see where this is going but definitely my favorite social site just got folded into my least favorite. - Braden Douglass
It depends entirely on what direction FF would have taken next (and what direction it will take Dave). Think most of us that have been around FF since almost the start (when it was a MUCH smaller place) miss that but this actually might be a good thing. - Charlie Anzman
Agreed if they lose the FF interface. - Wei-Yen Tan
If we put all our faith into a single platform or a single solution [Twitter/FB/Goog] then we lose touch with people, processes and where history is taking us. In this case, we’re headed more in the direction of where .tel and Identi.ca are stumbling, consciously or not: towards a non-web-centric, permission-based polycephalous set of systems, where discussions and messaging transpire... more... - A Mitchell
Google Wave is coming to replace all this stuff. And Google Reader will get more social features including item recommendations through comparing users likes, and so Google will win this. Good time to sell. - Charbax
Interesting convo we had there dave, thanks for letting us call in and participate. - Chris Heath
But the real question is who will take over who? Isn't there a possibility that FriendFeed will takeover Facebook! I hope FB make it work as I like the idea of FF but it doesn't have the critical mass of people talking about what I am interested in! - Phillip Molly Malone
Very bad I'm sure there will be some changes - Annika from Nambu
I agree it's probably bad news for FF users.FF has reliable info. I don't want it to become chatter. - Leigh Marriner
I'll admit to being a recent convert to FF but it was the best social site I have used yet (and I have used them all). I am sorry to see it lose it's independence. This will not end well for FF groupies. But my reading of the tea leaves is that FF options as a standalone service were not good. I guess this is a sign of a maturing market. Can a Larry Ellison acquisition be far behind? - Michael Liss
simply but clear - Gioia Feliziani
I agree with Dave's original assertion. I'm struggling to imagine the value Facebook could add to FriendFeed, and I can certainly imagine the downsides. Having an aggregator that sits independently on top of the commercial pile, while fleeting as a free service, is a valuable one. - Allred
disagree. - Gus
I have my suspicions too. But Facebook have been wanting to open up more for some time (e.g., they're eliminating regional networks), and I'm guessing they see FF as the key. I'm betting they'll fuse the two services soon. But let's hope they use FF to improve FB. But there's always a big chance FB will ruin FF. Stay tuned... - Dennis Jernberg
+1 for A Mitchell's insights. If tr.im and FF have taught us anything, it's that no matter how many open api's there are, a closed platform is still a closed platform, and it can disappear overnight. We need a decentralized yet federated way to do all that FF did (and more). If it's not decentralized, we don't have redundancy. if it's not federated, we lose community an conversation. - Don Faulkner from BuddyFeed
another +1, Don and A Mitchell. I just finished a blog post along almost exactly the same lines, Don...decentralization and federation are both key. Good news is, this is historically how things go...nerds only, then mainstream joins, but centralized (think AOL, Compuserve, Prodigy...services and email that couldn't talk to each other). As the systems mature, then value of decentralization becomes apparent. This week could actually be an important milestone in speeding up that process *here's to hoping...*. - Ken Kennedy
But Facebook buying friendfeed is great news for the 250+ million fb users! (And most ff users have fb :) - Garin Kilpatrick
It would have been better (slightly) if they were acquired by Twitter. I'm not a Twitter fan, but I think FF would bring more to twitter, it would be a better fit and the users and the interface would have a better chance at "integration" - Mario Valente
I've read its good for FF, it's bad for FF. It's better than being sold to google, it's better than being sold to twitter. Myriad variations on a theme, which leads me to conclude we haven't got a clue what the future will bring. - Mark
FB will better integrate FF than Google or others ever would -- one hopes. let's see what happens and go from there. Good news is that it will generate a ton of news for you peeps to report on. - Gavin Adams
It's simply time for a distributed story for this type of application. You shouldn't need to rely on any providers who can be down or might be bought. - Christian Scholz
"Google Wave is coming to replace all this stuff." And lock you into yet another platform owned by one company. - Ian Betteridge
@Ian...Wave is a federated, decentralized, (to be) open-sourced solution. It's complicated, but it's at worst an architecture lock-in (ie, it might be hard to move a large corpus of Wave-annotated data out of the Wave infrastructure). Unless Google is pulling a flat-out lying fast one...there won't be any reason why you can't run your "own" instance of Wave and connect to the rest of the Net. So not standard company lock-in. - Ken Kennedy
Ken, to be honest, I'll believe it when I see companies other than Google taking the code and running an equivalent service. Flat out lying? No, probably not. But "only able to do something useful if you're connected to Google in some way"? Probably. - Ian Betteridge
@Ian, I hear ya, but I've read enough of the technical specs to lay my money on the other side of that bet. - Ken Kennedy
At least Google is one company that's not likely to turn coat on its social community and sell out. - jcunwired
Really? I think the old Jaiku community would disagree with you on that. And the people who stored their bookmarks in Google Bookmarks, too. - Ian Betteridge
why? - Thomas Power
Sorry - I meant Google Browser Sync rather than Google Bookmarks. One is dead, the other alive and well(ish). But the point is that Google has a track record of killing or abandoning services when it suits. - Ian Betteridge
True, Ian. Google's "do no evil" doesn't keep them from killing things that aren't panning out for their world domination strategy. They're marginally more saintly than Facebook. - Sean Gallagher
Is it because of the Facebook ad approach that Dave W and Scoble are looking to jump ship on FriendFeed? - Sean Gallagher
Sean: I'm not jumping ship. But I will follow early adopters wherever they go. - Robert Scoble
Or Google Notebook. Even given that and Jaiku, though, which did do a blow to my faith in Google, I would rather a Google-FriendFeed than a Facebook-FriendFeed. Mostly because I think they'd let it do its own thing rather than assimilate it. They left YouTube pretty well alone. Oh well. - Jandy, ConcertMaven of FF
disagree with FF and LI nxt year bottled up inside Facebook this forces Google MS and Apple to get seriously social and start playing rather than just watching. Google-Twitter, Apple-Facebook versus Microsoft-Bing now that's a battle I want to (socially) watch with all you guys. Oh what fun. Can't wait. - Thomas Power
I'm not sure Facebook or FriendFeed are entities whose well-being I value so highly; users, I care about, and having FriendFeed developper work their magic, their talent and their stand for open standard to benefit 300M people sounds more important to me then having them spend more time tailoring the digerati's private network. I'm far for believing you can't improve FriendFeed, but I'd... more... - Bertil Hatt
@Bertil_Hatt: if there's one thing that FriendFeed isn't it's a private network. Facebook is the one who, on the other hand, operates like a "walled garden" or a private condo. - Miguel Caetano
Only if you believe the FF has a sustainable business model? - Gary Walter (gwalter)
FF is F'ed - Shivanand Velmurugan
Robert Scoble
Robert Scoble
Fwd: Facebook acquires FriendFeed. Interview with Paul Buchheit, cofounder of FriendFeed. - http://btre.blogtalkradio.com/74_2996... (via http://friendfeed.com/scoblei...)
August 10 from iPhone - Comment - Share
Well that was fast, Robert. - Adam Reyher
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Wow. I honestly did not see THAT coming.... - Carter Rabasa
Nice work Robert. - Alex Calic
ya talk about real time news, thanks - sean percival
listening - Chris Saad
This is beginning to resemble journalism. - Ian Tindale
im not sure its such a great thing facebook and friendfeed sitting in a tree. - Eran Even-Kesef
Good job Robert - Ruchit Garg
Definitely, I'm listening now. Wow! This is breaking news! - Manu Ullas
hopefully this turns out okay, don't want friendfeed to get ruined. great interview, that was fast reporting! - Dakota O'Neill
What are your thoughts Robert? - Amani
WD mate - Chris Saad
Hoping this will lead to an improved/cleaner interface for Facebook...I prefer Friendfeed - Rick Bucich
That was quick. Thanks robert. - Akshay Dodeja
so, so sad. I like(d) Friendfeed much more than facebook - Francisco Kemeny
home run for FF.. Facebook will be able to give developers a treasure trove of data one thing that Twitter is dominating on right now. Twitter has a huge developer community but isn't managing that. Here FB is poised to be huge - John Furrier
So classic that Robert has the first interview about this...Where's Louis? :) - Anthony Farrior
I think FriendFeed can help Facebook more than the other way around. - Manu Ullas
"very cool...." - Carter Rabasa
How do they plan to mix the teenagers with the geeks? - Jordi Soler
Amani: I am excited! Facebook has 800 employees and 300 million users. This makes both companies much more important. - Robert Scoble from iPhone
here was a comment on SiliconANGLE blog .. very funny .. "Hey, since we've copied almost every innovation you've had, guess you might as well play on the company softball team!" - John Furrier
Nice strategic move - Interesting to see how this will integrate and looks in 12 months - Alex Vermeule (@alexve)
to be honnest I was predicting google offer, then facebook preceed google on this, they are doing well, now rarding FF this is great, the sucess is to know when to pass to something else, the future will make the abtle wave, facebook rude for all geek it is time to code. - abdellah
You rascal Robert, bet you had wind about FriendFeed and FaceBook merger before today? Yes? Have not used either SM apps. much UNTIL Twitter locked my account. May have been a fortunate mishap as it turns out. Getting to know the beauties of both apps. =) - SashaKane
Awesome. Thanks. - M. Kong
Should be so very interesting. - Adam
Robert wastes no time on the reporting. CNN needs reporters like this. - JonInteractive
Not sure I am so jazzed about it....but congratulations to the FF crew. - Kreg Steppe
Honestly, I won't get used to following Robert Scoble in Facebook. Seems out of place to me. - Jordi Soler
Wow! I was not expecting that. - Devon Govett
Letter 'F' affinity and alliteration merger, classic playbook move. - James Watters
Did I hear someone laugh in the background when you asked about FF users being disappointed? - Paul Saarinen
Agreed Jordi - Rick Bucich
A good interview Robert. - Thomas Hawk
Thanks Robert! - shared and linked over on Phreadz : http://tech.phreadz.com/v... - kosso
Robert, mind if I transcribe this? (Unless someone else already has.) - Bruce Lewis from fftogo
Congrats on getting this story Robert. I agree--this is great, realtime journalism! - Sunshine
No mention of twitter? - Ivan Kirigin
Hahahaha...all that time you invested over here on FF paid off today! LMAO - Francine Hardaway
Francine: just watch what happens now. :-) - Robert Scoble from iPhone
do you have a small amount of FriendFeed shares Robert? - Torsten Eckert
NOOOOOOO. Damnit! I am praying that Facebook doesn't wall up Friendfeed. I was starting to build a site around Friendfeed :( - beersage
beersage: as Facebook is trying to break their users into a more public world, I doubt that you really have anything to worry about there. - guruvan (Rob Nelson)
Starting to listen to this now. Hoping you are right, Rob. - beersage
I hope so to. But regardless, I think that it was in reality necessary for FriendFeed to sell to really put the technology in front of a sufficient number of eyeballs. Facebook is probably the best acquirer that FriendFeed could have. (I would have not felt the same had FF been acquired by Google) - guruvan (Rob Nelson)
The thing with Friendfeed though is how I can share things outside of a 'wall.' I prominently feature the FF widget on my site. I'm just concerned of losing that capability as I was tinkering with delivering a new site w/ content primarily running through my Friendfeed account. I am to this day unable to do much outside of the wall. I am unable to subscribe to Fan Page updates in Google reader for instance. That is what concerns me about FB acquiring FF given my goals. - beersage
Robert sounded quite breathless in that interview. Thanks Robert. - Roberto Bonini
Great interview great Job!! - Kevin J Hatton
Wow! I'm in shock. I can't wait to hear this interview. - Micah Wittman from iPhone
This deal was about getting Paul and the team and nothing else - Stephen Pickering
@stephan, are you serious? FB is buying a concept, a technoloie, a structure, a content and a user list - abdellah
now how could a team that left google resist under a unique perception system, where the leader vision is upon any thing - abdellah
Unconvincing Paul Buchheit, the team is more exited of being part of bigger story - logical for them to move on - patrickdh
They want a way to turn their white pages into a yellow pages and the only guy on Earth who knows how to do it, is Paul - Stephen Pickering
It was only about the technology and the people. Most people are on also FB anyway. - James Myatt
My guess is that Paul got a tooooooooon of options and will soon be the No.2 guy at Facebook - Stephen Pickering
Glossing over of that "short term" question by the FF boys. It just seems more about the individuals at FF than it does the users of FF. "Their (Facebook) long term goals" Nice interview, Robert! - Melanie Reed
Well, it looks as if pass-through of FriendFeed Likes, Comments, etc. to Twitter is down. Will it be for good? Did Twitter do this in response to the acquisition? Or is it just a regular (though curiously timed) hiccup? - Alex Schleber
twitter dow!! - abdellah
Alex, my Facebook posts have been going through FriendFeed to Twitter today. :) - guruvan (Rob Nelson)
How did you record the phone conversation with Paul Buchheit? I went to BlogTalkRadio.com but... it‘s not clear at all :-( - Florin Grozea
Florin, rough transcript here: http://friendfeed.com/brlewis... - Bruce Lewis
I have a few choice words. @#%&. That is all. - Zachary TG
To do this call I used BlogTalk Radio's Cinch: http://cinch.blogtalkradio.com/ - Robert Scoble
Thanks for this, Scoble. - mp3WatchWorld
this is why your own personal website is always more important than friendfeed, Twitter and all the rest. that's never going anywhere - Terry O'Fee from BuddyFeed
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Zee. to Zee.'s feed, TheNextWeb Forum, The Next Web Europe
“Tomorrow’s Web Conference”: If you’re young and into technology…You. Must. Attend. - http://thenextweb.com/2009...
“Tomorrow’s Web Conference”: If you’re young and into technology…You. Must. Attend.
July 30 from Bookmarklet - Comment - Share
I wish - Johnny
I wish that :) - FFTornado
Robert Scoble
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iPhone app uses vision to solve Sudoku puzzles - http://www.viddler.com/explore...
iPhone app uses vision to solve Sudoku puzzles
July 16 from scobleizer's videos - Comment - Share
Take a picture of a puzzle in a newspaper and this iPhone app solves it. - Robert Scoble
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That's very cool. I've seen this technology working with Rubik's Cube as well. - Nir Ben Yona
Wow, that's actually pretty impressive. I don't really play sudoku, but it's always nice to have a freshly solved one on the coffee table to give the impression of intelligence! - Steve Farnworth
Thanks Peter! By the way, that was filmed next to the Pitt Building in Cambridge, UK. What's cool about that building? That's where the first academic publishing house was formed (Cambridge University Press). If I remember all the facts right, that is. - Robert Scoble
This is cool. But I still prefer manually.. to test your brain - Jeremy
very impressive, but - at the risk of sounding like a grumpy old man - where's the fun in having your iPhone solve the puzzle for you? - Andrew Terry
Robert: that's Pitt not Penn ;) http://www.cambridge.org/pittbui... - Oleg Podsechin
Andrew: I hate Sudoku games, so for me it's more fun to use technology. Heheh. - Robert Scoble
Oleg: oh, sorry about that. Gotta get sleep. - Robert Scoble
This is brilliant. more than the fact that it can solve the game i think i love seeing how technology is being used - Bhowmik Shah
Hang on a sec - I've just replayed the video.. once you've taken the picture, you are actually able to solve the puzzle yourself on the phone! That is super-cool! - Andrew Terry
Robert: no worries, it was great to have you over here btw. looking forward to the PrismaStar and Broadersheet videos. - Oleg Podsechin
Oleg: both of those videos should be up tomorrow. - Robert Scoble
Cool but I have to agree with Jeremy, manually is better - Cristian
Just installed the app (the video says "Sudoku Magic" but it's "Sudoku Grab" from the looks of it). Absolute best bit of this app is that it's a really good soduku app in its own right. The point-the-camera-to-solve is just an extra side benefit and a great way to source puzzles. No success yet using the camera on the 3G -- I have to manually update some of the numbers. Maybe the 3GS works better? - RickMeasham
@RickMeasham that isn't the one Scoble saw, the Sudoku Grab is a different (less clever) one. The Sudoku Magic one is coming out ASAP. - Peter Clark
here's the sudoku magic link: http://MagicSolver.com - Peter Clark
Here's the link for the Sudoku Magic application itself: http://itunes.apple.com/WebObje... - Oliver Lamming
Thanks Robert, Sudoku Magic, is now available on the App store! http://itunes.apple.com/WebObje... Emmanuel www.magicsolver.com - Emmanuel Carraud
Excellent work - good job guys. - Rahul Vohra
Yan
Yan
Google Wave - collaboration or chaos? - http://t0rxon.blogspot.com/2009...
July 26 from t0rx on... - Comment - Share
Robert Scoble
Robert Scoble
Box.net says they have better than Sharepoint 2010 today - http://www.viddler.com/explore...
Box.net says they have better than Sharepoint 2010 today
July 17 from scobleizer's videos - Comment - Share
huh? and the only thing Sharepoint is good for is document management and making consulting firms lots of money. The Sharepoint team trys to push it as an actual app server type solution to actually be all your websites, this makes all the developers I know shudder and other depts at MS smirk. - adolfo foronda
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We use SharePoint at my work. All I can say is...eh...but, the alternative for some time was Lotus Quickr. So at least we got the lesser of two evils. - Fleagle
I have a hat that is better than Sharepoint 2010 today... Though, on balance, I use 2007 every workday and it is currently the best solution for information consolidation that I have seen in my current workplace. It's good at what it does, but I agree with Adolfo - it is not all things to all people. And the time investment in getting it right and keeping it right is *heavy*. (But the same is true with all doc/information management systems.) - Andy Bold
Mark, Heh, one word on that - Twitter ;-) - Andy Bold from email
Nice to learn about these services from people passionate about them. - Steve Farnworth
I think if people were using Sharepoint only for doc management and the likes, it definitely is too heavy to consider and there are better solutions out there. However, Sharepoint Services plays well into MSFT's Visual Studio Team System strategy as an over-arching dev collaboration platform - they leverage Sharepoint in VSTS pretty well. Sharepoint is used transparently and powerfully in that platform. Would I want to use Sharepoint outside of VSTS? I don't know. - Kamath (नमः)
Their product may be better (I don't know if it is) but they lack an enterprise footprint, and enterprise reputation so the arguement pretty much doesn't matter. Yet. - Jeremiah Owyang
To those people who are calling Sharepoint a glorified document repository, I have to say (respectfully), you've never seen it used properly. Organisations that implement it straight out of the box, expecting to scratch their itch, get all that they deserve. I consulted at a UK bank that had a dedicated team in IT supporting the infrastructure and departmental content owners responsible... more... - Andrew Terry
SharePoint isn't just about the out of the box -experience, but customization through configuration and development is another part. As a developer on Microsoft-platforms, I'm not really impressed by the APIs and deployment experience in the 2007 -version (especially public web site), but I hope that has changed in 2010. - Jemm
So I got around to watching the video this morning. I'm not as convinced as hey are, yet, that this is a real Sharepoint killer. Jeremiah makes a good point re the footprint, and the hard sell to the enterprise is the cloud piece. See this week's Twitter events... There is also so much more that Sharepoint does that is useful to the enterprise. EG, 24 hours ago I was creating an issue... more... - Andy Bold
The footprint of the SharePoint isn't really a problem for most enterprises anyway. It's normal to dedicate several servers around it, if necessary. For some small companies that box.net -product could be a fine alternative, though. - Jemm
Box.net is awesome! I use it regularly, there is also a product called DocHost at www.idoccorp.com that is really great and works much more efficiently than Sharepoint - jamie swartz
Robert Scoble
Robert Scoble
Google Reader's shared item feeds now has a real URL. Here's mine: http://www.google.com/reader... -- more RSS ahead!
July 15 - Comment - Share
How to get it ? - Jigar Mehta
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Ok, I got it.. http://www.google.com/reader... is the page where you set the URL. Late but nice feature! - Jigar Mehta
This new features is cool, but do you guys no what is now the difference betweet "share" and "like" on google reader ? - Nicolas Gosset
I tried to replace my reader link in FF and found that FF is parsing for the old link format (http://www.google.com/reader...<user number>). - Tom Horn
Trying 2 find my URL...BRB... - CarolAnnB
http://www.google.com/reader... - CarolAnnB now on Google Reader - CarolAnnB
This is not a new feature. Its been there all along. I chose my name long long ago..You might want to check on your sources.. - Rohit
Rohit - Are you referring to Google Profile url's? This is new for Google Reader. - Kevin Whalen from email
Well sure, but this plus likes, following, etc is new for Google Reader. - Kevin Whalen from email
What about Google ads on this page? - Kris
Greader needs the realtime more than the real URL - Roberto from fftogo
no Kevin. I know the difference between my profile address and the shared reader page address. - Rohit
My shared items URL: http://www.google.com/reader... - take a look. - Liza
Robert - deja vu, but I thought this was available a month or so ago??? Here's mine: http://www.google.com/reader... - NOW, can we pls discuss Google's unfriendly Friend Connect. It is a bear to install, except on Blogger, as you have mentioned in the past. - Liza
scherbi's shared items: http://www.google.com/reader... - Bill Scherer
Mines just engadget mainly... I wont share... - Chris Lloyd
Hoping to get mored shared items. http://www.google.com/reader... - Amir
Isn't anyone else concerned that this gives away your gmail account address? That is, if your custom reader url is http://www.google.com/reader..., then your gmail address is necessarily someperson@gmail.com. That's why I didn't enable this in Google Profile before. Even though Google's spam filter if super, I'm not wanting to attract more spam. Am I being overly cautious here? - Chris Spizzirri
Naw, I am a complete whore, @cspizz - Chris Abraham
Wish it was shorter. Here's mine, though: http://www.google.com/reader... - Aaman (Clone of FF)
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Robert Scoble to Robert's feed, building43
Yahoo. Microsoft. Google. Why haven't you bought this Cambridge, UK company yet? Check out how they improve search! - http://www.building43.com/videos...
July 17 from Bookmarklet - Comment - Share
When I heard that PrismaStar has helped several retailers greatly increase their sales, I had to see just how their search technology did that. After seeing it I wonder why they haven't been purchased yet by one of the big search companies. - Robert Scoble from Bookmarklet
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More like, Amazon, why haven't you bought this company yet? - blake
its like asking why thye did not buy Like.com.. where is the ROI's ? - Peter Dawson
blake: yeah, that would be an obvious company to buy them too, but the patent they own could help a bigger engine even more. - Robert Scoble
Peter: what's the ROI of Bing.com taking another percent of market share? - Robert Scoble
Yeah, great video as always, an app like that applied to the web or search engine would be real innovation the kind that would get so much press you wouldn't need to spend hundreds of millions to advertise - Stephen Pickering
Google is more into replicating things at their end rather than spending money on buying. MS and Yahoo struggling with fixing the search, rather than improving it. - Veetrag
Robert, as a compliment, The video camera angles are working much better now. - Kreg Steppe
Veetrag, exactly, "Don't Solve Problems. Pursue Opportunities" - Stephen Pickering
Veetrag: that's not true. Microsoft has gone ahead of Google in quite a few areas with Bing. And Microsoft purchased several companies to do that (Powerset, Farecast, etc) - Robert Scoble
the CAPEX on bing has already been consumed (MSFT way) - so how can they divisfy ? at least MSFT . As for GOOG's . why assimulate something which really has services which is cross docking with Amazon ?? - Peter Dawson
I think its sick that they can patent this sort of thing. I bet there is prior art out there. - Luke™
Besides its utility, people want something to play with. The public would go crazy over those little sliders. it's like going to the fair or something - Stephen Pickering
Kreg: that's Rocky Barbanica, Building43 producer. By the way, this video is one of the most expensive we've ever done. Took us a week in UK to find this company and get excited enough to pull out our two HD camcorders. - Robert Scoble
Robert: I agree Powerset and few other purchases have been really good move but have those turned out well for MS. I would be happy to see some of powerset kind of features in Bing soon. - Veetrag
Apostol: we carry two $6,000 Panasonic camcorders. A lot more expensive than $200 Flips. - Robert Scoble
Veetrag: yes, those acquisitions have worked out very well. Search at Microsoft is finally gaining share and is impressing people. Have you used it? Video, shopping, and travel are all best of breed now (among the big search companies). - Robert Scoble
As #Microsoft already has #bing #Shopping http://www.bing.com/shoppin... which does somwhat similar to #Primastar #Answeroil solution and #MSFT has bought #Caio - Ashith Raj
Luke: I haven't seen any prior art, but the way the patent system works is those things will get decided on when there's a conflict. - Robert Scoble
Its a nice way to differentiate. - Jeff Stannard
Apostol: well, when you see the full resolution you'll see I don't agree at all. But we get better compression on the expensive videos because they are cleaner to start with. Also, by using two cameras you can edit and give a much more professional look. Believe me, I love low-cost video too (most of my career has been made with cheap cameras) but there's a place for the expensive stuff too. - Robert Scoble
@scoble I use bing regularly and for few days I switched my default to bing. Its very impressive and sure, would gain popularity too. - Veetrag
from what its shown in the video, its not a technological breakthrough, but using common search technologies to come up with custom solution for dedicated clients. Bing, Google are operating on all together different bigger space i.e. generic search. - Ruchit Garg
Another factor I like about Bing is, the traffic it is sending to my site. For an infrequent blogger like me, only source of traffic was Google. But Bing being able to index it proves that the cralwer is much better, indexing is better and thus results are better. - Veetrag
Ruchit: you didn't watch enough of the video. See how it could improve traditional search. - Robert Scoble
Ruchit: and, even if you were correct, the high value search customers are those who are buying things. It certainly could be used to improve the shopping areas on search engines, which would improve their profitability and usability. - Robert Scoble
I'm sure everyone who has commented here has also spent hours searching and re-searching through shopping and retail sites, and felt that growing sense of frustration that it's taking too long to find what you're looking for. If this gets implemented at *some* sites, those *without* it will certainly suffer.. I'd love to see this on Amazon... - Andrew Terry
@Scoble this app is kinda similar even if its only got one slider.. http://examples.adobe.com/flex2... I bet there are a bunch of flex apps with multiple "interdependent" sliders. - Luke™
Luke: if it only has one slider it isn't the same. :-) - Robert Scoble
@Apolsotol looks like lots of sliders there. - Luke™
with regard to the sliders on keyword searches, it would be super-cool if (on searches of, say 3 - 4 terms) it looked at the frequency of other keywords within your results and offered those related keywords up for you depending on your slider settings so that you further narrow or expand your searches. - Andrew Terry
I agree that this kind of weighted multi-parameter search specification and the monitoring that they provide is a major advance in search technology. Not sure whether anyone is already doing it, but the patent grant is a very good sign! - John W Lewis
It seems that http://www.Laptop.Bg is not the same. It looks as though it filters (on or off) on multiple parameters, but is not providing sequencing based on weighting of relative importance of those parameters. - John W Lewis
I don't understand why he's claiming that nobody else in the world can search/sort on multiple dimensions. I do that every day when writing SQL, using our in-house dev tools, when browsing newegg, ebay, mint, etc. They should NOT have been granted that patent. - xero
+1 xero - Todd Hoff
Does SQL alone allow sequencing based on weighted contributions from the values of multiple fields? - John W Lewis
@scoble I agree with your second comment that "the high value search customers are those who are buying things. It certainly could be used to improve the shopping areas on search engines, which would improve their profitability and usability". I just dont see why bing and google cannot do it using what they have today!. - Ruchit Garg
xero: the patent is for using two connected sliders. I don't remember seeing sliders in SQL Server. I don't remember seeing that UI used anywhere else on the Internet, either, but who knows? I'm not a patent attorney. - Robert Scoble