“Friendster keeps sending me email reminders for people's birthdays, but what it's really reminding me of is that I should delete my Friendster account.”
For some favorite pics from the past 3 days, try http://friendfeed.com/mitchell.... My teeth are super-lousy with very weak tooth enamel. If I don't take care of them, my next dentist visit has 4-6 cavities. :-( - Mitchell Tsai
I *JUST* saw the same sign at a bar in Key West last week. - Gary Bacon II
Saw this at the opening in LA (and I seriously think one of the signs in the movie was Arial). But cute, anyway. The font jokes were flying that night. - Michael Herf
Loved this movie, I think it's surprisingly accessible even for non-typography nerds. - felix
Kevin and I are going to Antarctica this winter so we thought we should add some movies to our research! - Rachel L Fisher
Our Winter, their Summer, I assume... :-) Being stuck in Antarctica in their Winter sounds fun from a survivalist point of view, but might get old after a day or two. - Brian Johns
Great. Now we can't hide your Twitter updates without also hiding your FF updates. There's a trade-off for everything! :-) - Josh Bancroft
I gotta get an invite /code to ping.fm. Anyone have any? Let me know at evanstj (at) gmail. - Tim via Alert Thingy
@Tim - Tell them to use beta code "pingyoulater" so they can get in on the beta action! - Spinn
Josh, I don't think you understand - I've completely removed my Twitter account link from here to keep from reposting the same stuff unnecessarily. This makes things better for everyone, not worse. Ping.fm is becoming an indispensable "native updates" tool. If you use both Twitter and FriendFeed, you need to use Ping.fm to post the same thing to both places (and then, potentially remove Twitter from FriendFeed). - l0ckergn0me
Can I ask sort of a dumb question as I try to to unify my online world? I can see how ping.fm will help me send the same message to various networks, but how are most of you then reading all the responses afterwards? Aren't we stuck having to go to six different networks to read all the various and separate responses? - Neil Kramer
I've been waiting for this as well. Awesome! - Joanmarie
Chris, I understand what ping.fm does, and what you're doing. Partly, I'm giving you a hard time. And partly, I'm making the argument that Twitter is just as good a "native updates" tool - a place to write - as ping.fm. This is why I love FriendFeed - I don't have to care, and be on the same tool, to get updates. Let us know how it goes! - Josh Bancroft
Neil, I don't think that's a dumb question -- mainly because I've been asking it myself lately. :-) Maybe we need a reverse ping.fm to get all of those updates in one place. I've considered using friendfeed to make a bunch of "imaginary friends" to add their services, but that will take a long time. So.... I dunno.... It is an issue. - Joanmarie
Thanks! I just did the same. The other thing I just did was to remove Tumblr from Ping.fm -- I'm going to use Tumblr primarily for images, video and audio and put them and an occasional text post there directly. So far everything is making it across as I want it to Facebook too. I have the Ping.fm and Tumblr apps installed there. It was a bit wacko figuring out how to glue everything together correctly - and be able to do it from my iPhone. Swurl can have it all however it gets there. Now -- about WordPress :). - Jeff Evans
i had already removed twitter from ff - ping.fm rocks! - Dieter Schwarz
What web page or app (for OS X, Ubuntu, & Windoze) reads all I'm following on Twitter, FF and indenti.ca ? Facebook I can do direct. - Jeff Evans
Agree ... but haven't figured out a good SIMPLE way to reply to a "tweet" using ping.fm ... FF comments stay "in house" - Christopher Perry
Not bad reply tweet in friendfeed,twitter is also a social web service. - Chris Qie
Thank gawd someone finally sees the light - Steven Hodson
I'm trying the same thing, but now I have to browse my microblog sites (twitter, pownce, identi.ca) sites manually in order to see replies. Unless I take the time to bring in all my friends to FF. - Bill Bittner
My name is Bwana, and I approve this message - Bwana McCall
I didn't add FriendFeed to Ping.FM, only Twitter. I guess it is the reverse situation, but works. - David Risley
I tried updating Friendfeed from Ping.fm using the @ff but it didn't work. - Steve Rubel
so just a sec, does that mean no more responding via friendfeed to twitter if everyone does this? We'd have to visit both sites no? - Zee from WeDoCreative
No way. Thanks for the major education session. I just checked out Ping.fm for the first time and - this should be good. I wish I could give this a triple 'like'. - Sonciary Honnoll
"Start Uttering
Call your local Utterz number to record, listen and reply
Send video, pictures and text to
public: go@utterz.com
private: private@utterz.com
Create an utter or join a discussion online. Use any combination of webcam, computer microphone and more" - Paul Buchheit via Bookmarklet
Interesting service, but what a name! - Paul Buchheit
I've forwarded this feed to MHmazidi and Alireza coz yesterday they were introducing this service to Persian community here on FF and MHmazidi said that it won't get popular unless poular people in the web.2. (such as Paul or Robbert) be there and use it:)and there we go... paul just introduced Utterz here:) http://friendfeed.com/e/244134... - shandiz
شاندیز هستن مسئول بخش روابط بین الملل دکترین - shirva
:)))من اولین باره ترجمه می کنم, اسمایلی باور کن - shandiz
Quick! Get Robert's nick. He'll surely talk about it. - AJ Batac
Ok:D forward to Robbert scoble/ scobleizer.what do you think of this service Robert? - shandiz
There's a lot to like about Utterz. I record audio using my Blackberry curve audio recorder which records in .amr format. I like being able to pause the recording and restart. Just attach it to an email and send to go@utterz.com. It converts it and posts is. Also, you can attach multiple files to one post. Photo and audio. Only one of each but still nice. And the RSS feeds into Friendfeed.http://friendfeed.com/e/65c6fe... - Kevin Shannon
Utterz? Is that some sort of web 2.0 milkman service? - Gabe Schaffer
forward to Robbert scoble/ scobleizer.what do you think of this service Robert? - mhmazidi
nice.. utterz now are playable within FF. - J. Phil
I'm liking Utterz more and more. Seeing this makes me realize you can attach more than one item to a post. Very nice. Lake Tahoe looks beautiful. - Kevin Shannon
I will buy a 3G iPhone. Most definitely. The #1 thing I do on my iPhone is participate in the Web, and having a faster one will be worth the expense. - Robert Scoble
Sorry, I won't be getting an iPhone now either. I didn't get one when they first came out and still not getting one. Maybe if someone wants to send me one to demo/test and write about I might be more inclined to consider the phone. - Paul W. Swansen
Yes unfortunately I will! But I actually might be saving $$, my AT&T plan is really high right now AND I get a 12% discount. Not sure if I'll get that when I get a new contract...I'll be going to an Apple store, not AT&T so I'm not sure they can make the same deals. - Kat
I currently have Verizon and a AT&T account. I have a Blackberry Curve as my phone right now with AT&T but I only use it for texting and email. Web surfing on the BB is not very good. I am getting the iPhone 3G to try and replace my BB for those needs as well as web surfing. The one thing I am pissed about is the text messaging is not included with the unlimited data plan so that's an extra $20 for that. Good thing I get 15% discount on my rate plan. - Andy Breeding
I took a wait and see attitude with the first release: I patiently waited a whole two days! Probably do the same this time. The link Scoble posted was about the Canadian iPhone release, though. I'd probably think about it a while if I was there. - Tom Landini
Nope not getting an iPhone. The author underestimates the power of an affordable, unlimited data plan that comes with the Instinct. Time will tell - Shey
I'll be hanging on to what I have. The iPhone didn't impress me the first time around. After what I went through with AT&T the last time, I'll never use them again. - Candace Holly
The bad thing is that I just broke my iPhone 2G bought in California (and jailbreaked) so I'll have to do something, but I don't know if I'll buy a new iPhone 3G; it's ridiculously expensive in Canada. - fbrunel
I dropped my 2g iphone a couple times and had to do the HW unlock the first time, so scratched the case a bit. I will probably end up getting the new one as I am really annoyed with the speed as well while on edge. Anyone interested in buying Ireland's 1st unlocked iPhone :) - simonpure
er, that was supposed to be, "I'm getting the cell phone hotspot (in the link)". Not to mention I get to stay on T-Mobile if I do! - Jesse Stay via twhirl
I'm considering getting an iPhone... I was 100% on-board, but Rogers' plans for it are dreadful, so I'm just a "maybe" now. Very disappointing. - Dave Fleet via twhirl
Italian plans aren't much better. Vodafone is giving 500mb x month and 900 minutes / txt messages for 99 EUROs. Don't know yet about the other carrier (TIM). :( - Simone
IPod Touch, yes. iPhone, no. I'll keep my BlackBerry for now. I had AT&T as a wireless provider once before, and I don't want to go through that again. - Harvey Simmons
best thing that ever happened to my combs was my iPhone. the faster the better :0 - Tim Aldiss
cone to think of it it's the best thing that ever happened to my 4 yr olds comms ;) - Tim Aldiss
nope... my N95 8GB still beats it in more ways than one. And, I'm lucky enough to have an "Old Blue" plan with inexpensive unlimited data on ATTWS. - thecolor
I won't even consider replacing my 1st gen iPhone until 3G is available in my area. By that time, the iPhone might be available through other vendors -- which would be a good thing for consumers. - Chris Baskind via feedalizr
Robert, you know my feelings about this one...keyboard, keyboard, keyboard. show the accessory, make it work WELL, and I'll show at&t the money. - Andrew Feinberg
Reminds me of the mantra of the Borg - Resistance is futile! Yep it is. - Roberto Bonini
I'm not getting a new iPhone because if the Gen 1 that I have works I want to save the $ boost in the actual plan if I can. - Tony
No, because I will not sign another contract with AT&T. I want my freedom from them. - Gerard Barberi via twhirl
going to party inline at the Thousand Oaks Apple store next Fri. AM. Join us! - Mark Sylvester
no I won't. And my blackberry is already ordered :-P - Marcos Marado
I've an eeePC with a mobile broadband adaptor. Works brilliantly for portable web. - David Sim
I live in Canada and I am *not* happy. Rogers is asking for a 3 yr contract and doesn't even order unilimted data for the high priced plans!!! They are taking both consumers and Apple for a royal ride eh? - Kamath via twhirl
Can't afford one. More specifically, things I want or need more keep taking priority over one. I guess it helps that I'm never more than five minutes away from an Internet-connected computer, and don't like monthly fees. - Garrett Guillotte
AT&T doesn't support 3G in my area, so I can forget it - Randy via twhirl
As soon as it works on Verizon. AT&T doesn't work in my parents house in Ohio. - Mitchell Tsai
I'm in India and it will be here probably next year for like $1000.. Forget it. - Muthu Ramadoss
I was going to until I read about Android and the barcode scanner. It may be a way off but this recession isn't going anywhere fast. And I know I can use that function everyday to search for the best deal and make whatever joint I'm in match or beat it if they want my business. Empowering. And AT&T just isn't offering a competitive plan. Plus, we have winter here and touch screens aren't charming in the winter. I can wait and will for a superior value. - Boo
I am looking for suggestions for guests to have on this weekly program that I am launching together with Joseph Smarr, David Recordon, and Chris Messina. - John McCrea
Robert Scoble, will you come on to our show to help people understand the pain associated with using lots of different social media tools in an era in which we (as vendors) have not yet delivered on the vision of data portability and interoperability? - John McCrea
Robert: Sweet! How about July 17 (when we shoot Episode 2)? (11:00am, Mountain View) - John McCrea
Sounds good, send me details in email. scobleizer@gmail.com to get it on my calendar. - Robert Scoble
Watching right now, really enjoying it, John! Congratulations - Matt Harwood
Although it's hard to say, I think I was a 'connector' here.. that makes me feel good. I want to get better at connecting people. A talent Louis Gray has in spades. - J. Phil
She makes a point. From a business point of view, we barely have weekends (I just checked office email on a holiday...), But from a mental health point of view, we need blocks of time to "reset". There's a reason labor leaders of the past fought so hard for shorter weeks. - Sprague D
still not sure how the week wasn't split into 4 days for the work week and 3 days for the weekend, how come 5 and 2? Isn't going halfway human nature? - Lou Paglia
@Lou, I'm with you -- I find 4 long days and 3 off is close to perfect. - Sprague D
Everyone needs down time. Unfortunate many individuals and most major corporations no longer recognize it. Even workaholics needs a break from time to time. - Charlie Anzman
Four long days then a three day weekend sounds good for those who want it, but I think that this idea risks putting us all in a position where workers who want to take their two days off back-to-back are frowned upon. In my experience, single days off spread throughout the week are useless- a single day off is enough time to either unwind or get your non-work related chores done, but not both. - Mike
yes. I need them. but think corps stick with 5-2 because schools do also. - Rob Williams
My life's goal is to live 6 Saturdays and a Sunday, and to bring as many people as possible along with me. - Craig Eddy
Also, I know my productivity drops as the workday continues, and by the 7th hour or so, I'm ready to go home. How productive would most people be during the last hour of a 10-hour day? - Brent Newhall
Absolutely. I need those days to catch up on everything non-work related I didn't have a chance to do during the week. I would much rather have 5 days of hard work than lightly spread work around over 7 days. - Jason Kaneshiro
That is a pretty big assumption that most people work in isolation. People work too much as it is, letting them control when they are off especially when it might not overlap their co-workers will only make things worse. - Scott Watermasysk via NoiseRiver
this is a good point, I'm totally fine with the 5 day week, but why M-F? I kind of like the 'flex-time' the us fed employees where you can get an extra day off every other week, but it is still confined to the M-F work week - nick carrasco
To me it's not about how much time, but how efficient you are with your time. Too many people working longer, not smarter. People need time away to recharge and bring life experience to work interactions. Do we need weekends? Yes. But we need more than that ... 60-80 hour work weeks simply don't pan out IMO. - AJ Kohn
Jeremy, I never would. It shouldn't be a one or the other proposition anyway...indeed, that's how the story in that direction happened. - Duncan Riley
Duncan is so talented on many fronts. Re: Excluding Techcrunch (or running out of space). Controversy sells. Mike Arrington is a master of the headline tweak, jab pull. It takes many forms. - Alex Hammer
thanks for including WinExtra duncan - I appreciate that - Steven Hodson
no probs Steve. As I mention in the post, if anyone has more ideas for page/ content let me know. Surely there must be a combination out there that will offer a quick look at a given topic that isn't being served by an existing service (the memes page here meets that for me...very handy) - Duncan Riley
"If the two mix in the stomach, compounds in the wine thwart the formation of harmful chemicals that are released when meat is digested." - Paul Buchheit via Bookmarklet
"he and his colleagues fed a group of rats one of two meals—either red meat from a turkey (a foodstuff shown by previous research to raise malondialdehyde levels in humans) or such meat mixed with red-wine concentrate. An hour and a half after the rats had eaten, they were killed." - is that the final meal a rat would request? - bob
"After the rats were killed, they were sauteed in a reduction of balsamic vinegar, garlic and shallots until just cooked through, and served with a Côtes du Rhône. The researchers reported the rats to be delicious, exhibiting no traces of malondialdehyde flavor whatsoever." - Karim
So the time elapsed between the first note and his first comment was 15 minutes. So Robert, did you gulp it down and ask her to do dishes? Were paper plates involved? :-) - Louis Gray
He never said he wasn't using his iPhone under the table. - Andrew Feinberg
Sounds like our dinner conversations - my wife has to pry the iphone away from me during dinner - Jesse Stay
They think they are providing a public service. What they don't realize is, its going to take a whole lot more than that to make me go get a life. - Russell Holliman
I just snorted with laughter, Russell. Look how fast we throw our heroin over here instead. : ) - Chris Brogan
Alright, Chris just made me do a spit take...thumping my arm, lookin' for a vein, LOL - Cheryl Allin
Maybe while you and the rest of the team are looking for Ahab, Chris... others will recognize FriendFeed has played the part of the Wright Brothers. It's a new age. - Louis Gray
As evidenced by this conversation, eh Louis? I used to disagree with you on this. Now I feel like you've been on to this since forever, and I'm just now catching up to it. - Chris Brogan
The truth is, Chris, is that this isn't an either/or, although "battles" are more fun. The answer is simply, both. That Twitter has made themselves a laughingstock is frustrating, because when it does what it is supposed to, it can be very useful. - Louis Gray
Different kind of conversation. Need to be careful with follow. Smaller voices get drowned out. Unlike @ (and I do mean @) Twitter. @ reply feature is *powerful.* - Barbara K. Baker
I wonder, though, how this whole scatter of media makes it all work? Feels like too many rabbit holes here, or maybe that's the beauty? Feels like we can go all over the place, never really catching up to all the conversations. Non? - Chris Brogan
Chris, there's no one right answer. The power of aggregation is to have multiple conversations come in one place. The power of diversification is to have many separate conversations tailored for a specific crowd in more vertical places. The best bloggers and social media users will participate and engage where the best conversations are, and leverage search or other tools to be aware. Given the # of hours in a day is limited, how you use your time is up to you. - Louis Gray
Begging the question, when will Summize dig into FriendFeed? - Chris Brogan
I am seriously sick of the "what will kill X" conversations... - Jennifer Leggio
Me too. I wasn't saying it like that. I really meant the whale graphic, not the app. I'm a Twitter nerd. What can I say? - Chris Brogan
fwiw, twitter's back up again. shortest twitter outage ever. - Russell Holliman
Chris - That comment wasn't directed toward you. :) - Jennifer Leggio
Me think Robert Scoble is scared of the Great White Whale! Remember what happened last time? The Whale got his foot, and now he limps with a wooden stump. Oh Scoble where is thy Whale who swims the great vast internetz. - Igor The Troll
In my living room - I like television... in my car - I prefer radio. Just because I have a TV doesn't mean I don't want my radio to work in my car. Friend Feed is my TV - it's deeper, richer, requires more attention and time. Twitter is my radio - I'll sing along, drum on the wheel, but the static is getting annoying. It's time for them to up the signal. But meanwhile, FriendFeed/TV is rockin' it. - Lucretia Pruitt
I speak whale. Aeeeeeeeeewaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhooooooooooo. - Ryan Kuder
Ryan, well that was rude. There are women here, watch your language. :( - Bwana McCall
Didn't Moby Dick kill Ahab and the rest of the crew (except for ol' call me Ishmael)? It's been a long time since I read it, I could be wrong. - Kirk Kittell
I actually don't agree with this. There are countless concepts that, in order to be explained simply, rely on gross oversimplifications and generalizations that help the listener think they understand it, while actually giving them only enough understanding to explain it simply to someone else. - Kevin Fox
Wouldn't this statement then apply to the person who original explained it with the gross oversimplifications and generalizations? - John Worthington
Only sometimes. It may also be that you understand a complex completely but are unable to explain it simply because you're bad at gross oversimplifications, feel it's unethical, or feel that it's not really 'explaining' it. Interestingly, the opposite of Einstein's statement is true: It can be easy to explain something simply even if you don't understand it. - Kevin Fox
A similar adage I'm fond of: "We best understand how a something works by watching it fail". - Andrew Villeneuve
Perhaps a better statement would be: To pick the best oversimplification requires a deep understanding of the subject. :) - Brian
Do we know for sure that the iPhone 3G radio can handle faster HSDPA speeds? I'd guess it would but not sure that's a given. - Kevin C. Tofel
yes, it can kevin. the chips in the iphone 3g can go up to 7.2 Mbps i believe. - MG Siegler
That would be great if the do MG. Would let them keep pace with AT&T's network upgrades for the next 2 or 3 years before they switch to LTE from HSDPA. - Kevin C. Tofel
Well I think that they are pretty good for the cell network. I wish I could get an iPhone, but I am tied to Verizon with the rest of my family. - Daniel via twhirl
what happens when you get your wish and everyone jumps onto the friendfeed bandwagon? friendfeed goes down due to growing pains and everyone complains until we go to...what? indenti.ca? plurk? i'm riding out the storm with twitter. - Matt Musgrave
Matt: you must have not gotten the memo. FriendFeed's founders are two guys who designed Gmail and Google Maps. The designer designed Google Reader, Gmail, and other things at Google. Does Google go down? Even under extreme loads? Enough said. - Robert Scoble
yah yah yah - what else is new - greetings from Milan (that's Milan Italy. not Milan Scoble) - Marc Canter
I still get bummed when it's down. 8:30 PST is a looong time from now... :( - Sonciary Honnoll
No seriously, this is unfreakinbelievable! The level of downtime is nearing historic proportions! - Mario Sundar
this has to be peak usage time, why do they not wait until the middle of the night, there has to be a lower usage point that is more opportune for the upgrade - Lou Paglia
I expect many more FriendFeed users and many more identi.ca notices... those have been fast and furious this week too. - Lucretia Pruitt
the fact that they scheduled it during this time is just amazing to me.. WTF were they thinking? - Mark Williamson via twhirl
is that what they call down time now :-) - Duncan Riley
This is obviously not scheduled maintenance. As Lou said you don't schedule maintenance during peak usage hours. I don't think any of their "Scheduled Maintenance" is really that. - Michael Tefft
Michael - I saw a note on my homepage saying they had scheduled the down time for 6pm today... so this was scheduled - Mark Williamson via twhirl
The Twitter Out-of-Service message I just saw says they are preparing for the holiday (like is traffic expected to go up or go down you think?) - Dennis E. Hamilton
The nice thing about FriendFeed is there is plenty of stimulation above and beyond waiting for Twitter to come back to life. - Dennis E. Hamilton
i must be a sucker for an underdog. google's load handling is amazing and i suspect friendfeed would behave the same. there's just something about following a large number of people that makes twitter more appealing to me. maybe if we could collapse comments in ff? what i'm drawn to most about twitter is that i can quickly scan down the list of updates of people i follow. and the 140 characters forces bite-size updates for quick reading. - Matt Musgrave
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