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I think you just validated your assumption. - Omar Shahine

Chris, there's a lot of noise on your Twitter feed in FF -- many @ replies most people could care less about. I'd expect that many of your FF subscribers have hidden your Twitter entries. - Daniel Dulitz

Doesn't that seem like a FF problem then? I mean, Twitter experimented with tuning the reply noise. Maybe FF would do the same? - Christopher Sacca

What sort of reaction were you expecting to this post? - Doug

On Twitter and FB there were a lot of laughs, shares, complaints, corrections that it should be 6 days, etc. Just a lot more interaction. It just feels like early on, when I only had a few subs on FF, there used to be a lot more interaction. I feel like Dulitz is probably most right, but there is no way for me to tune the replies down. Both Twitter and FB seemed to get that and filter on them to audiences who might care. I wish we could do the same here. - Christopher Sacca

I think the interactivity in FF has been segregated into many small conversions after FF implemented the groups. - imabonehead

That is likely a factor too. Agreed. - Christopher Sacca

What is a day? Is it the same for all? Large or small? ;-) - Mathew A. Koeneker

I'm agnostic, so I don't have much to say other than that statement is funny. :) - imabonehead

Christopher, lot of the big names (and others, too) on FF totally ignore anything being cross-posted from Twitter. I learned this a while back. If you really want interactivity from FF, you have to post *to* FF, and not just feed it from somewhere else. I was saddened by this, but that's what it's turned into. - Joey Gibson

Chris, it's an FF problem for you (and probably a big reason why FF never took off), but for me it's a selling point. The FF userbase is different than the FB userbase. I subscribe to people on FF for their insight first, and only secondarily for entertainment. I think the average FB comment is very different, more fluffy, less serious. For a good social platform, I think the insight-driven folks and the entertainment driven folks need to balance. I don't know how to get that in FB. - Daniel Dulitz

Christopher: I've noticed a decline in engagement too, but funny enough, every time I bring it up I get engagement again. :-) - Robert Scoble

It is because there is a crowd following you Robert. - Mathew A. Koeneker

I haven't noticed any fall off on FF. - Internet's Tad

Well, I thought it was funny. - Jack (a.k.a. Jeber)

You get engagement when you talk about engagement declining on FriendFeed, because everybody here is interested in FriendFeed. Probably fewer people are interested in project management jokes; sorry. - Bruce Lewis

You must be buddies with Rob Sellen. - Rochelle

LOL Rochelle - Jeff (the メガマクダジ of FF) from iPhone

I think I can now confidently state that I now only get engagement when Scoble comments on my stuff. :) - Christopher Sacca

dude, you should be honored when he comments on your posts. :P - imabonehead

Heheh. I didn't start commenting on this until after you got engagement. - Robert Scoble

Made me chuckle - Herb Hernandez from iPhone

Daniel, you nailed it. For me, FriendFeed is a superior interface for reading discussions about issues and news stories of interest to me and my contacts. So far I've found Twitter to be nice for reading status updates and witty epigrams, but bad for having substantive discussions. When I see a "Twittery" post on Friendfeed or vice versa, I don't know what to do with it. - Doug

Steve Rubel is a genius! - Eric

Who is smarter Steve Rubel or Robert Scoble? - Eric

I love that USB/key. What is the make of it? - MikeonTV

Rubeleizer - Eric

You can't open a door with that. Useless :)) - Burçak Çubukçu

Nice carpet. - Ahmet Alp Balkan

looks like this is it! http://www.lacie.com/ca... - MikeonTV

What is "his life"? - Kahlil Lechelt

I have that exact key, bought it after Steve posted about it on his Posterous. - Jim Graham

Don't lose your keys - does he have a fix for that too? - Jesse Stay

Actually, it's even better if you encrypt it with BitLocker to Go. Totally seamless TrueCrypt - Omar Shahine

That means if he loses it... - Nicholas James

If I lose my keys there go the nuke lock codes! - Steve Rubel from iPhone

I am such a groupie I am over at Scobles and I bought one - Francine Hardaway from BuddyFeed

'You have to turn your key, sir!' - Akiva Moskovitz

@Francine "Scobles" hahaha - Brandon

Blogged on it here: http://louisgray.com/live... (Steve Rubel introduced me) - Louis Gray

Everything about this pic makes me think it was taken in the 70s except for the gadget and clear resolution. - beersage

Yet, Burçak yet ... http://www.youtube.com/watch... - Shawn McCollum

Remove the shit had :D - internettin abi

They nailed it. now allI I need are real friends on here :) - Jamie

Agreed: the messaging/DMing/private or group sharing is really well done. - FFing Enigma (aka Tina)

FriendFeed beta works great on the browser...but is/will there be a mobile client? I use PockeTwit like crazy more than the web.... - Jef

mysql acdtually... now hosted on one linux box with 2 gig's of ram :) - simran from twhirl

Michah, yes. What's our black sheep gonna be now? Google? Doesn't feel good either. :( - Meryn Stol

wait hotmail is still around! - Dobromir Hadzhiev

Techmeme is about who has done the best articles in the PAST. Not about who has legitimate news to break tonight. It also is NOT about linking behavior. None of these articles got any links. Techmeme's algorithm decided on the ranking based on past behavior. Unfair? Hell, life isn't fair. I just love pointing this out so you know that Techmeme isn't about news, it's about popularity. - Robert Scoble

Who cares about the Palm Pre? - Scott Loftesness

Scott: a lot of people do. Plus Palm forced Adobe to hold the news until tonight. Adobe told me about every other announcement but said that one of its partners had forced it to hold the news until 9 p.m. Sunday night. - Robert Scoble

That partner was Palm. What's funny is that at least one of Palm's PR people worked at Apple. That's why I knew that Palm was the one, because only Apple PR people do shit like this. - Robert Scoble

why are you still reading techmeme? :-) - Duncan Riley

Scott: back to your question. The Palm Pre is the one device that beats Apple's iPhone in experience (I've seen them all). It is the one device I will stand in line for this year. - Robert Scoble

Duncan: :-) - Robert Scoble

Removed Techmeme from my feeds months ago.. - Matt Hooper

good to see palm are still going. i love my TX. i hate to see a company like that go under. - Terry O'Fee

I find that Friendfeed has taken the place of Techmeme in my "what's hot right now" searching - Bastard Operator From FF

So, O'Reilly's on board? http://biz.yahoo.com/bw... - Scott Loftesness

I can't wait for the Pre (v 2.0-- I'm not a 'ealry adopter-type') - Rob Michael (Atmos Trio)

tech websites talking about other tech websites .. hhahah it seems to be the norm these days.. - Terry O'Fee

Aaron: when I have news and know it I expect to get onto places where news is supposedly shared. - Robert Scoble

Am I wrong to take it that the first article on TMM does mention Flash on the Pre by way of saying " will be available on smartphones running Windows Mobile, Google's Android, Nokia S60/Symbian, and the new Palm operating systems. ". Maybe it's not such big news? - Jef

Jef: the first article has the news. All the rest do not. And even CNET couched it just in case it didn't happen. It's article was written on Friday. - Robert Scoble

Aaron: good point. But TechMeme usually tracks those places pretty strongly. Much more strongly than in the past. Oh, and now I'm on Techmeme as of 10:03. Goal achieved. - Robert Scoble

Aaron: complete indeed, I'm going to bed! :-) - Robert Scoble

Aaron: I think Gabe is having fun now. He just posted a PC World headline that had the news. - Robert Scoble

The Palm Pre doesn't exist yet right? So saying it will get flash is kinda meh. - Omar Shahine

Omar: from what I'm hearing the Palm isn't that far away. This stuff is important for developers especially since the Palm is going to be a very hot selling device. Developers care about technology decisions BEFORE a device ships so that they can build apps for it and have them out on day one. - Robert Scoble

Robert made Techmeme at about 10:15 Pacific. http://www.techmeme.com/090216... - Louis Gray

Honestly Robert, glib line aside, there's far better ways to get a tech dose.FriendFeed and Twitter are one outlet, combined with some select pics in terms of blogs. Techmeme got into farce territory last year when it became clear he banned and ranked down sites he didn't like. I've never believed in one person showing me what's going on, nor should you. Sub-feed at best for techmeme, until they renounce their selective ways, which from what I've heard, have gotten far worse now. - Duncan Riley

Duncan: Gabe insists only one person has been banned from Techmeme. - Robert Scoble

Robert, maybe if you wrote longer articles you might rate higher on TM. 127 words of analysis is not enough. - Paul Montgomery

Seriously Robert, the Pre is crap no matter how much you try and build it up. - Donovan Slennon

So, Donovan, have you actually used one? Robert has, and for that reason alone I suspect his opinion carries more weight than yours. - Ian Betteridge

too much news about mobile tech and not enough about photography on Techmeme me thinks. - Thomas Hawk

But I think an under reported piece of this whole story is how RIM is not a part of it. Blackberry is slipping further behind, which is very disappointing. - JT Perry

Since Scoble made it to Techmeme, albeit not as soon as he would've liked, can we now say that it IS about news? - coldbrew

JT, RIM was one of the mobile phone companies making the biggest gains in sales last quarter - so I'm not sure what you mean by "slipping further behind". - Ian Betteridge

coldbrew: funny, the article on top right now is not one with the Palm Pre news and I'm gone again from the headlines. Life still goes on... - Robert Scoble

that's why I follow you on twitter ;o) "breaking news as it happens!" - sofarsoShawn

Scoble, looks like you've been clustered below the VentureBeat post. - coldbrew

coldbrew: yeah, but if you're not a headline it really doesn't matter. Very very few people click on anything other than the headlines. - Robert Scoble

Is TechMeme even influential with people outside of Tech blog producers? I've only been to the site a few times and found it rather boring. So is there anything to suggest that it still helps form opinions or drives traffic? - Andrew

I'm not sure if this answers your question, Andrew, but here are some stats:http://www.avc.com/a_vc... - coldbrew

:-) - John μller

I wish that my iPhone could mimic safari so that people would stop sending me to their crappy mobile sites. - Paul Buchheit

Paul, there's a hack that uses Privoxy - check comment #24 at http://i.tuaw.com/2009... (I don't have an iphone so I don't know if it really works :-)) - John μller

Normally you think of web pages being faster to update than client-side software downloads. In this case though, Chrome updates near-weekly, much faster than Hotmail did. Another illustration that velocity and speed of iteration matter. - Matt Cutts

The fix was included in the latest Chrome update: http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2009... "Windows Live Hotmail now works. While the Hotmail team works on a proper fix, we're deploying a workaround that changes the user agent string that Google Chrome sends when requesting URLs that end with mail.live.com." - Ionut

"Normally you think of web pages being faster to update than client-side software downloads. In this case though, Chrome updates near-weekly, much faster than Hotmail did. Another illustration that velocity and speed of iteration matter." That's a rather naive statement. You think that Hotmail is a web page and you expect a service with hundreds of millions of users and thousands of... more... - Omar Shahine

3 times recharges, 3 times lifespan - MG Siegler

and again, more green - MG Siegler

chip on battery = code. wonder how long before battery gets "hacked" ;-) - Karim