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Akiva Moskovitz
I'm sorry. - Akiva Moskovitz
ewwwwww - Shevonne
burn-in! How do I erase the last few seconds of my visual memory? - Aaman (Clone of FF)
HAaaaaaaaahahahahahaa!!!! - FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
APOLOGY NOT ACCEPTED AKIVA. THAT IS MY DAD UP THERE!! - Mona Nomura
@Mona The one on the left or right? - Shevonne
All three, Shevonne. :( - Mona Nomura
Oh dear... - Lindsay
Excellet Armeggedon referrence, Mona! - MVB (Curmudgeon of FF)
At least they're not fighting. - Sprague D
WTF is WRONG with YOU akiva??? - Carlos Ayala
wait...dont answer that. - Carlos Ayala
...and at that moment, kobayashi realized that this was not like any summer camp he had ever been to before... - .LAG liked that
...my EYES!?!? - JA Castillo
GOOD MORNING IT'S SUNDAY IN HELL - Akiva Moskovitz
i said.. DONT ANSWER! - Carlos Ayala
SORRY? YOU SHOULD BE!!! MY EYES!!! MY EYES!!! WHERE'S THE BLEACH?!?!? - ha3rvey, not a sweetheart
hahahaaaa..that's hilarious... - Zee.
Oh no! - Reuben Thum
O M G!!! - BEX
Akiva - you mean :) right? - Sparky
Sean, if only I knew. This was delivered directly to me fresh and hot. - Akiva Moskovitz
Wow, whatever you do, don't google "Asian guys at beach licking" if you want to find the Flickr account for this. No, seriously. Just...don't. o.O - tinypants - Hagitha of FF
hahahahhahahahahahlkasdaasdfsdfasllhahahahahahahaha - Alfredo
t-bills, anyone? - Anthony Citrano
Hahaha - Rodfather
oh. my. god. - Onur Gündüz
:) - ardiba
OH THE HUMANITY!! - Jeffrey Canton
مزیدی - Mil∂d
You rat bastard, Moskovitz. *applies mindbleach* - Steven Perez
there's actually some tongue skin contact there. i dont think this is a joke - Melissa Maskevich
Damn you! - Alejandro
Who puts pepperoni rings on sashimi? - Johnny Worthington
somebody make it stop.... - J. Abdul-Qahhar
DEAR GOD! - Michael Forian
It's whale mating season, apparently. - Will Higgins™
OH GAWD - nfan12 from Alert Thingy
oh the huge manatees!! - BEX
Oh, look at that: a new mental scar! - Rodrigo Jaroszewski
WEEEEEEEEEEEE - Anna Haro
Testing the myth that male saliva can cure gynecomastia. - Mattb4rd
Like the lady at SurvivalPhrases.com says in at least one Japanese lesson, "There is NO excuse..." - MiniMage TKDteacher of FF
The hippos! - nfan12 from Alert Thingy
NO NO NO NO! - Mathew™ one of a kind
This is the worst thing I've seen all year. - Aaron deMello
So I just now decided to show my mom how awesome FriendFeed is... - Josh Haley
cleaning out his belly button lint - sofarsoShawn
changed my life forever...I will always go to the beach with a a few chubby buddies after porking myself up for those bosoms ~ and this image is most definitely going in the ol' spank bank - sofarsoShawn
Horrible! Where can I find more pics? - Jemm
Unsee! Unsee! I've never seen sumo do that and I live in Japan!!! - Rick Cogley
No, no, no!!!!! - Alistair (alpinefolk)
whadahuh?????? - Live4Emma (L4S)
4p gays? - 阿石
ugly! - junrxu
Remember ! I bring quality product to Friend Feed !:) - Akiva Moskovitz
you know what would be funny: ok bear with me, if we blindfolded leather donut (you know the booby man) and...yeah fill in the blanks...something like this http://www.youtube.com/watch... - sofarsoShawn
QALITY IS JOB ONE. - Sparky
the Boob Meme is timeless: and this is A LOT of BOOB - sofarsoShawn
omg! - Midori
Corporate later decided they needed to be more specific about what constitutes a 'morale event'. - Akiva Moskovitz
PLEASE! TAKE THIS DOWN~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ - nfan12 from Alert Thingy
Oh, is that you in the picture, nfan12? - Rochelle
Did they re-write the policy to include or exclude A Rust Issue in the morale event category? - Sparky
OMG!!! That is just wrong... LOL - Drew Lucas
Boys will be girls. - david beckwith
Sir, randomly linking to your FriendFeed from one of my posts is oh wait you'll never see this because you're blocked for spamming. Thanks anyway, kaghazrangy. - Akiva Moskovitz
damn this picture just won't go away - you have forced me to hide it - William Harryman
Akiva, wasn't that pic taken at your last BBQ? - Paul
Every time I see this picture I smile. Their joy is infectious, like herpes. - Sparky
Paul, I surely do wish I had a beach in my back yard! - Akiva Moskovitz
Sparky, I'm going to have this blown up to poster-size and attaching it to the ceiling above our bed. That'll cause some infections! - Akiva Moskovitz
makes me want to grow a rack and diddle with my own, know what I'm saying? - sofarsoShawn
this. . . .this. . . ugh . . . so fucking wrong. - Peter Ghosh
Akiva - you can put anything you want above our bed. - Sparky
i've been trying to formulate a comment for this for days, but i just...can't. - joey
Sparky, including another bed? - Akiva Moskovitz
ahahahahahaha - DO ANYBODY NO MONIQUE
Oy vey! - Rubin Sfadj
The hand gently caressing Mr. Moobs belly button is a nice touch. A+, would click again. - Sparky
OMG! this keeps on appearing! - nfan12 from twhirl
SPARKY, THAT'S NOT MOOBS, YOU JERK. IT'S MOORS. IT'S A MISPRINT. - Akiva Moskovitz
My typo, my bad. *grasps Akiva's moor apologetically* - Sparky
is this a gay marriage argument? - Noah David Simon
No, it's just an argument. - Sparky
for what? genocide? - Noah David Simon
Feminine hygeine products. - Sparky
for men? they look like they are having a good time. l want a contract for nipple licking. now! - Noah David Simon
[looks innocent] - Akiva Moskovitz
What's sad is that this is the best of the best of the day for me. - Alex Scoble
It's actually an ancient Japanese tradition... - Rick Cogley
I'm going to miss you guys...hhehehehehee - sofarsoShawn
uhh.... - Eric Berlin
do not like - Chris Hofmann
They're just four guys and they're havin' a good time, havin' a good time, havin' a good time... - Akiva Moskovitz
What is wrong with that? It looks like Akiva has damn good taste! - Sparky
(taste, like the one guy is doing to the other) - Sparky
((HELP!)) - Sparky
(((too bad this won't get bumped again))) - Sparky
:blocks Akiva: :blocks Akiva again: :blocks Akiva again: . . . - John Craft
[courtsies] - Akiva Moskovitz
x_x - Anna Haro
What if he lactates? - Morton Fox
What in the heck are you people still doing in here? - Akiva Moskovitz
o_O - Pert
I still want to know the motivation here. is this a gay marriage argument? or are we already pushing group social contracts on friendfeed? - Noah David Simon
oh man this one keeps popping up on ma friendfeed,....must spread virus nao - Chris Hofmann
pop :) - Alfredo
Noah, or maybe it's not politically-motivated at all. Maybe it's just a really weird photograph. - Akiva Moskovitz
the guy on the right has a jelly roll. on his neck. ew. - Rick Cogley
This has to be some kind of animal house style frat hazing stunt. It disturbs me deeply, yet it is indelible. - Mattb4rd
OH YEAH THIS - Akiva Moskovitz
What the Hell? It's Back! - Rob Haas
I'm surprised no one's noticed old boy's red-framed glasses. - Akiva Moskovitz
oh right... the glasses are so important when three asian men are licking his nipples and all the comments are by people who think gay marriage has something to do with equality... when it has everything to do with taking protections away from children. the red glass glasses.... um yeah. chicken and Oklahoma with milk - Noah David Simon
I hate you. - Shey, Jamaican of FF
*trips over the power cord* - Josh Haley
Noooo not again - Simon Wicks
WHO DID IT? - Shey, Jamaican of FF
What? - Josh Haley
JEJFNOEJSNONONONO MY EYES - Neal Jansons
WHAT NO - Akiva Moskovitz
Rochelle! Make him stop! - Janet
::::BARF:::: - Adi
WHO BUMPED THIS? - Sparky
Well, you just did. - joey
AW!!!!!! - Rob Haas
Woah, I never noticed that 'thumb' sticking up in the bottom center of the photo before. - Akiva Moskovitz
That's no thumb... - Mike Nayyar
I just detected a great disturbance in FriendFeed, as if millions of voices cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced. - Akiva Moskovitz
Okay, maybe a few hundred voices. - Akiva Moskovitz
Oh, I just thought of an explanation: midichlorians! - Mike Nayyar
That is sooo sexy. :) - Diego Barros 
WAT. - Karl Knechtel
Every time I see this pop up I die a little bit inside. Then I masturbate . - Sparky
AUGHHHH DAMN YOU SPARKY - Haggis (Sean Loyless)
Sparky masturbating is like your grandmother watching that episode of The Little Rascals where they put on a play. Uh. What? - Akiva Moskovitz
And then the credits roll and everyone feels better. - Sparky
Next week, on a very special episode of Family Ties... - Akiva Moskovitz
Aaaaaaaaaaand Sparky takes it to a new level. - Josh Haley
Josh, welcome to Sparkletown. - Akiva Moskovitz
This is Sparkletown? - Mike Nayyar
WHO RUNS SPARKLETOWN? SPARRRRRRRRKY RUNS SPARKLETOWN. - Akiva Moskovitz
Hiro's most recent time travel journey did not lead him to Ando as he had expected. - Dennis O'Neil
KAO. - ocde.cn
Oh, that's a thumb...? - Rochelle
A THUMB?! I'm aborting my masturbation regime *immediately*. - Sparky
But what is he trying to contain with his hand?! - Akiva Moskovitz
hey! how'd you get hold of my vacation pix? - Nathan Rein
He's not trying - he's succeeding at containing our protagonists pannus. - Sparky
This thing always comes back and makes me laugh. - Derek Coward
Damn .. this thing is back? - Mattb4rd
Who pulled this thing back in the open!? - Michael Forian
Son of a bisque - Rahsheen ™, Coach Rah
HIDE! - David Cook
Make it stop! - Brian Bufalo
It hates us - Mattb4rd
HAAAAAAAAAAAY LOOK WHO'S BACK - Akiva Moskovitz
Some evil soul could start a "last comment wins" -contest in this thread... - Jemm
I believe you just did... - sofarsoShawn
This pic makes the baby Jesus cry... - Christian (Simply X)
oh noe zombies can be killed with a headshot...but what about this pic...it resurrects again and again - Chris Hofmann
gah - samantha
STOP IT!!! - Alejandro
OH FFS! - Bec Rowe @d0tski
lol bump bump bump - DO ANYBODY NO MONIQUE
WAIT WHAT WHY - Akiva Moskovitz
Nipplicious! - Internet's Tad
this photo warms the cockles of my... cockles. - Nathan Rein
I love the texture on his belly. Yes, this has bumped so many times I'm noticing textures. - Sparky
dear god, it will never die... - holly
die die die die - mjc
A part of me will never want it to die... - Mike Nayyar
Oh great, not what I needed to see right before bed. Thanks. ;) - adf
"My milkshake brings all the boys to the yard...damn right!...." - sofarsoShawn
حلال - Noah David Simon
Gah! Get out of my best of day!!!! - Carmen
What? - Rochelle
Participants were heard to say; "Om nom nom nom om nom nom nom nom om om nom nom nom" - Mattb4rd
Spring is SPRUNG. - Akiva Moskovitz
Oh man. Goodbye, morning wood. - Mike Nayyar
But hello morning... err morning... err what is this? WHHAT???A?A?A?A??AA? - Sparky
the image, whatever. what gets me is that 80+ people clicked the like button on this. - Mark Bockenstedt
NOOOOOOH NOT THIS HORROR AGAIN!!! - Dobromir Hadzhiev
Mark, you have uncovered the dark underbelly of humanity except in this case it isn't dark but is rather a pasty hue somewhere in the vicinity of undercooked flan. - Akiva Moskovitz
Now that I have liked it, I am hiding it. - Vijayendra (V-Mo) Mohanty
I wish there was a way to categorize posts so I don't have to see this first thing in the morning :) - petar vucetin
I wish there was a way I could make this everyone's avatar for a day. - Akiva Moskovitz
Akiva - you might not be able to make it everyones avatar, but you and I could certainly make it happen for ourselves. - Sparky
^(*^)%%! - Rochelle
GUESS WHOSE NIPPLES EXCRETE SWINE FLU MEDICINE - Akiva Moskovitz
He is the last great hope for mankind. - Mike Nayyar
The last great grope. - Akiva Moskovitz
Are you sure it's not a last great gulp? - Sparky
is this a gay marriage argument or swine flu? - Noah David Simon
Because awesomeness always floats to the top - Josh Haley
OMG HOT .. TM Mona :) - Mattb4rd
Looking at this makes me feel dirty. Safe for work though....not sure it should be. - sean808080
:DDDDDDDD - Rochelle
GUESS WHO'S ALSO NOT WEARING PANTS - Akiva Moskovitz
My money is on the dude in the back - Mike Nayyar
After seeing this image (again) I certainly am not wearing pants. - Sparky
Damn you all! Why does this image keep coming up over and over again? - Vijayendra (V-Mo) Mohanty from fftogo
Because Friendfeed is a dangerous place Vijay... - Sparky
Where is the darn hide button? - Louis Gray
I bet he's made of Wagyu beef. - Bec Rowe @d0tski
No one realizes, that's actually a woman. - Mike Nayyar
two months and still going strong, ouch - mike "glemak" dunn
THIS IS THE LICK THAT NEVER ENDS IT JUST GOES ON AND ON MY FRIENDS - Akiva Moskovitz
WHAT THIS AGAIN? YES. AGAIN, AND AGAIN, AND AGAIN. JUST HOW YOU LIKE IT. - Sparky
Remember, you go in a clockwise motion - Mike Nayyar
The only thing interesting on this entire site. - levinsontodd
I wish there was a delete button for my brain... - Jeff
Mike, except in the southern hemisphere where you go in a counter-clockwise motion. - Akiva Moskovitz
This thread never dies.... - anna sauce
oh gawd - hellonm
yes, is sorta yucky but funny lol - David Gross from email
LEAVE ME ALONE!!! - Alejandro
Here's my topless picture. - Akiva Moskovitz
I think Akiva just won the game. - Chris, Taskerrific Guy
Dammit. You just made me lose the game. - Akiva Moskovitz
YOU DID IT TO YOURSELF - Chris, Taskerrific Guy
This picture is why I can't FF at work. :P ;) - Internet's Tad
This picture is what stops FriendFeed from becoming mainstream. - Akiva Moskovitz
ROCHELLE! How long can he keep this up? - MiniMage TKDteacher of FF
This should be in the default noobie FF stream. Like the first thing anyone who signs up sees. If they stick around they're part of the family. - Internet's Tad
Perhaps this can replace the kitty pic on the start page for non-members! - Chris, Taskerrific Guy
I'm certain prop8 had nothing to do with Swine Flu - Noah David Simon
GUESS WHAT'S BACK UP - Akiva Moskovitz
Behind the scnenes footage of the mastery of a BassMouse mix. - Josh Haley
Although there are DJs that scoff at this method. - Josh Haley
GUESS WHO'S ACQUIRING TWITTER - Mike Nayyar
BSOD! BSOD! Cmon Windows..... Argh!!! - Danny Minick
Well, good morning to you, too! - Rochelle
THIS IS NOT A GOOD MORNING. THIS IS A GREAT MORNING. - Sparky
Why do Iget the feeling that this thread will last as long as Friendfeed exists. - Paul from twhirl
hahahah :-) bu ne lan - hussoloji
prop8 humor is a lot more sustainable online then it is in California - Noah David Simon
You know, he has very nice glasses. I think I want frames like his. - Sparky
keep the dialog flying. this thread lasts longer then legislative law without an election. gay marriage is a joke - Noah David Simon
This is the thread that never ends. - Internet's Tad
WHY GOD WHY - Chris, Taskerrific Guy
Every time you don't bump this, another Joss Whedon show gets cancelled. - Akiva Moskovitz
A man this happy can't be responsible for Firefly's death :( - Sparky
55% of Americans Support Carrie Prejean, Including Barack Obama - http://ff.im/2OGF4 - Noah David Simon
The other 45% support this photo. - Sparky
Guess how Obama plans to save social security - Mike Nayyar
Noooooooooooooooo, how have i still failed to hide this picture after so long!? - Simon Wicks
sorry, displacement activity cause of google downtime - esther ♥ ♫
WolframAlpha doesn't know what to do with this. - Josh Haley
But you and I do. Oh boy do we. - Akiva Moskovitz
"Love on Areolae Atoll." - Christopher Harley
what in the world???!!! - Basil Jackson from twhirl
OMFG! That's my brother - Shane
are you serious - Basil Jackson from twhirl
Every trendy topic needs to have an entry on this post. You know, for search purposes. - Josh Haley
Thanks for bumping this - Will Higgins™
Also, note that, after all this time, we finally have over 100 people liking this. Go Team Slightly Uncomfortable Pleasures! - Akiva Moskovitz
You are evil, Akiva. :-D - Steven Perez from IM
Hiding this now and forever. - m9m, Crone of FriendFeed
The gif that keeps on giving. - Mattb4rd
I'm thinking that eventually, it will have been hidden by every user on FriendFeed. It'll be the most hidden post in FriendFeed history. - Akiva Moskovitz
WHY WHY KEEP BRINGING BACK THE EYES THEY HURT ME - Neal Jansons from IM
Akiva - I refuse to hide this. It's like getting rickrolled, it sucks but it brings back all the humor from past experiences. - Jimminy
I like pizza - Noah David Simon
I feel the need to gouge out my eyes. - Chuck Adams
It's 'Best of Day' once more...Shooby doo lang lang - Josh Haley
why does this post not die? Akiva! You have made the most persistent FF post ever. - anna sauce
I can't imagine how this is sticking around...! - Jordan Hofker
It's the herpes thread of Friendfeed. - Paul from twhirl
Paul, you say that like it's a bad thing. - Akiva Moskovitz
Herpes (and this): the gifts that keep on giving. - Sparky
I wonder if the FriendFeed guys see this and say to themselves, 'Well, this isn't exactly what we had in mind when we started started FriendFeed.' - Akiva Moskovitz
I look at it and think, "Not again." - Steven Perez from IM
...NOM NOM! - sofarsoShawn
Actually Akiva, I'm getting a kick out of how this thread has just taken on a life of it's own. - Paul from twhirl
I put this pic on reddit, please vote! http://tr.im/lAof - Martin Sliacky
We need to keep this alive. - DO ANYBODY NO MONIQUE
Ok, that's it...LOL [hide] - Rahsheen ™, Coach Rah
Rasheen, he will be missed. - Sparky
Not this again. - Chris, Taskerrific Guy
wait that's too much nipple and it looks kinda like breast-feeding....good thing this is not facebook! - Freddie Benjamin
Freddie, they'd probably let it stay as long as they were also holocaust deniers. - Akiva Moskovitz
What holocaust? - Sparky
The ditch diggers' holocaust, Sparky. - Akiva Moskovitz
DAMN ROBOTS! - Sparky
Disgusting - Marcos Vicente
[courtsies] - Akiva Moskovitz
The lick that keeps on giving. Where's the "hide" feature? God, this just keeps on popping up. - Rick Cogley
YAATTAAAAAAAAAA!!! - Josh Haley
Is this a catholic priest/altar boy retreat? Yeah, I know. I can haz tiketz to Hell? - Mattb4rd
!!!!!!!!!!!! - Rochelle
I haven't seen this picture in a few days. There, that's better. - Sprague D
HELLO SOFARSOSHAWN - Rochelle
IS THIS WHAT SHE IS EATING? - Sparky
HAAAAAAAAAAAY MY OLD PALS - Akiva Moskovitz
Ocean of emotion. - Christopher Harley
NOT AGAIN. - Steven Perez from IM
My emotion is: confused. - Sparky
Hello again, gentlemen. - Rochelle
Just about the time you FF is getting some class .. Oh well we is what we is. - Brent - Loving Life
I can't believe after all this time some diligent FF'er hasn't dug up the identities (I said "titties") of this bunch and invited them to join the service that made them famous. Mitchell Tsai, get to work! - Sprague D
The one in the back is Leather Donut. - Sparky
This photo is better than Star Wars. - Akiva Moskovitz
+1 Akiva - Sparky
There is more excitement here than LOTR. - Pete Delucchi
IT'S THREE AND A HALF HOURS LONG AND ALL THEY DO IS LICK - Akiva Moskovitz
this thread needs at least 1000 comments imo. - DO ANYBODY NO MONIQUE
ISN'T THAT THE SELLING POINT AKIVA? - Sparky
This photo makes Sparky want to go Up. - Akiva Moskovitz
Oh no, it's at the top of the page again. - Tom Landini
Every time this appears in my stream, I want to let out a cheer. - DO ANYBODY NO MONIQUE
FLICKCHART DECISION: WHO DO YOU WANT LICKING YOUR NIPPLE - Mike Nayyar
They haven't moved in such a long time now. Must be comfortable. - Josh Haley
The guy on the right. Less stubble. - Roger Benningfield
HOW IS FLABBY FORMMED? - Josh Haley
WHAT THE HELL IT IS - DO ANYBODY NO MONIQUE
Josh, Sparky's cooking. OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO BURN - Akiva Moskovitz
DO ANYBODY HAVE NIPPLES? - DO ANYBODY NO MONIQUE
Went several days without seeing this! I knew it was to good to be true! - Paul from twhirl
We'll never let you down, Paul. - Akiva Moskovitz
My eyes are burning! Awwwwwwwwwwwwww! - darnell
All I can say is... WTF? - Bradley Farless
funky pic! - sickandtired
Ahaha! - Tanath
this does NOT taste like happy! - ed fry
I'm telling you Akiva, if FriendFeed exists a hundred years from now this thread will continue to appear. - Paul from twhirl
So I un-liked, but can't hide! Argh. - anna sauce
i think if you unlike and delete all your comments anna it'll go away, but hide in general would be nice too (this photo makes me smile every time it pops up so don't mind it)... - mike "glemak" dunn
Yeah I think I'll live :) - anna sauce
Didn't Tad have a Version of This? - Brent - Loving Life
SILENCE - Josh Haley
OH GOD NOT AGAIN - Chris, Taskerrific Guy
Ha ha! Inapropriate. - Haggis (Sean Loyless)
LULZ - "Joey"
one of the guys is fingering the lickee's navel. Hot or not? - Mattb4rd
Bliss. Madam, would you like some sum0 with your pr0n? - Rick Cogley
Paging Mr. Dobalina, Mr. Bob Dobalina. - Akiva Moskovitz
*sigh* This is never going away, is it? It's gonna end up like James Bond movies and Swedish meatballs - always existing in the same form. never diminshing, never forgotten. :( :( :( - Steven Perez from IM
It will go away, to be replaced with photoshops of the original. It's all part of the meme lifecycle. - Sparky
Now I'm even more depressed. - Steven Perez from IM
o rly? - David Gross from email
damn it, it's still here. - Alejandro
wow, it keeps going and going and going and going... can it beat the record or has it already? - David Gross from email
This is far from the record. We have another 900 to go to catch up with the "last word" thread. - Sparky
DO NOT WANT. - veo
OK, WANT. - veo
Pushover. - Sparky
I am too new on friendfeed to know anything about record comments.. I love gmail tho, puts all the comments in one threaded email and I can delete them all later in one shot or not if I choose.. - David Gross from email
well we should aim to beat the record.. i mean jeez there are tons of things that could be said about this.. like.. does it taste like chicken? - ed fry
I'm gonna have nightmares now. thanks ed. ;) - Alejandro
ok, in Japanese: "an, an, soko dame!" - Rick Cogley
What about in 1337speak? - Sparky
MMMMMMMMMMMM! Taste like sake! - Paul from twhirl
Lacking sweat glands, this is the only way Kyle could cool his body temperature down. - Akiva Moskovitz
Tough titty said the kiddy, but the milk's still good. (i'm sorry) - Internet's Tad
MY MILKSHAKE BRINGS ALL THE BOYS TO THE YARD - Chris, Taskerrific Guy
Everytime I see this picture I die a little inside... - Jorge Escobar
MILK MILK LEMONADE AROUND THE CORNER FUDGE IS MADE - Akiva Moskovitz
Jorge: That's the point. - Chris, Taskerrific Guy
covers eyes ....asks will this never end???? - martha
@Paul, @Akiva, @Tad - *shudder* *shudder* *shudder* !! :-) - Rick Cogley
there are four men. you need four @s. do you include yourself? - Noah David Simon
NO - Caroline
OH GOD WHY DID I LOOK AT HIS FEED MY EYES. - Caroline
wtf? - Tyler Gillies
Is that white stuff coming out of the one guy's ear? :P - Tanath
eww - David Gross from email
Not again! - Chris, Taskerrific Guy
Woah. I've never seen this post before. - Akiva Moskovitz
That is because you are old and fat. <secret handshake /> - Sparky
Why does this remind me of the strange neighbor that mowed his lawn once a week wearing nothing but a towel? - Brent - Loving Life
I LIKE COOKIES - Haggis (Sean Loyless)
haggis - stop that now ;) - mike "glemak" dunn
It keeps going and going and going.... - David Gross from email
I know of a cat who'd be totally down with meeting those guys. - sofarsoShawn
And this one is? - Akiva Moskovitz
Wow this won't die. - matthew john ernisse
Nor would we want it to. - Sparky
Why the hell is this back! - Mathew™ one of a kind
Gawd. Quit bumping this! - Internet's Tad
this is the thread that never ends. it goes on and on my friends - Tyler Gillies from email
Four old friends. I wonder whatever became of them. - Sprague D
Didn't they cover that in The Big Chill? - Akiva Moskovitz
I dont know, its just four guys on the beach.. :o) - David Gross from email
Four great guys on a beach. - Sparky
And they're just havin' a good time, havin' a good time. - Akiva Moskovitz
Don't stop me, don't stop me, don't stop me...hey Hey HEY! - Josh Haley
My iPhone how downloaded this image 100's of times now. That is an excellent use of AT&Ts network. - Sparky
The gift that keeps on giving - Rodfather
Don't worry, Taro. It will be your turn tomorrow! - Rick Cogley
I keep mixing the thumb and the belly button confused. - Sparky
@_@" - netrider11
give me my twitter account back or the nipples get it - Noah David Simon
How do we format the drive in FF where this picture resides? Or Amazon S3 bucket? - Jorge Escobar
After weeks of being stranded on a desert island the food ran out. Kyle offered himself as sustenance to the other castaways. - Paul from twhirl
Come, now; none of those guys have been missing any meals. - Neal Jansons from IM
This still makes me laugh everytime it gets bumped back up. - Simon Wicks
Why do you think the food ran out? - Paul from twhirl
Good morning.. Whats for breakfast? lol - David Gross from email
There is no end..... LOL - martha
MAKE IT STOP - Alejandro
It's like the song that never ends.. - David Gross from email
ok ? this is kinda grose - courtney rose
Grouse? - Sparky
Dont stop believin / Hold on to the feelin - Christopher Harley
And, somehow, this hasn't turned anyone gay, yet. Go figure. - Sprague D
how do u know?! - Nathan Rein
Haggis was asking for this........ - Simon Wicks
Yay! I mean NO! Wait, Yay! I CAN'T DECIDE! - Haggis (Sean Loyless)
THIS THREAD IS NOW CLOSED. - teh Dork Knight aka Kenny
closed?! - Simon Wicks
You can't close this thread. A lot of people say that this place is a Scoble-fest but, truly, it is this thread that is at the very heart of FriendFeed. - Akiva Moskovitz
And fax cat - Simon Wicks
I'm so disturbed by how much this guy looks like he's about to... erm... - Bec Rowe @d0tski
Gotta wonder where that hand is. - Akiva Moskovitz
OMG Akiva, I just got it... friends, feeding. It truly is the emblem of FriendFeed! - Sprague D
OMG this one came up again...LOL...I don't even know what to say... - Bill Heslin
will a nuclear holocaust will make this thread stop? - Noah David Simon
LET'S START A NUCLEAR WAR AT THE GAY BAR GAY BAR - Akiva Moskovitz
you know, just about the time I get this thing out of my minds eye... It pops back up. - J. Abdul-Qahhar
at least it is the nipples they are licking - Noah David Simon
hmm.. breastfeeding pic? lol - David Gross from email
I think it's more of a breast buffet David lol - Bill Heslin
Bill, a buffet? o rly? - David Gross from email
A man buffet. - Rochelle
ewww .. plenty to go round I guess - Zax Stevens
RT @AbbieNormal4207 @car4dave you are not going to happy until that image is burned into my brain are you???? LMAO - David Gross from email
we now have a homo erotic competitor http://ff.im/3M0xy introducing Neal and Elmo - Noah David Simon
Nothing can compete with this, Noah. - Josh Haley
I'm officially going to proclaim that this is the FF equivalent of Goatse or FFoatse if you will. Lets all refer to it as that from this point forward. - Mark Krynsky
Sparky has left 57 comments. The rest of you are slacking. Hop to it! - Christopher Harley
OK. - Steven Perez
OK? THIS IS GREAT! - Sparky
This is the 500th comment in this thread and my 20,000th comment overall. WHOO TWO GREAT MILESTONES THAT TASTE GREAT TOGETHER. - Akiva Moskovitz
You were watching this thread to make that happen. I can tell. - Sparky
Hahahaha.. congrats Akiva, and of course it was *this* thread. - Haggis (Sean Loyless)
Actually, no, it just happened to pop up so I decided to grab it while the grabbing was good. - Akiva Moskovitz
[courtsies] - Akiva Moskovitz
[clumsily gropes Akiva] - Sparky
Chrisitan just walked by and said "It's too early in the morning for Japanese titty licking." It's NEVER too early for Japanese titty licking. - Haggis (Sean Loyless)
THIS is the first thing I see here this morning? - l0ckergn0me
Chris, you just woke up? C'mon, man! It's 10:30! - Akiva Moskovitz
I knew he would break eventually - it's fitting that it's on this thread *now to find out how to hide a thread once you've commented....* - WorldofHiglet
As much as I am loathe to bump this post, I have to do it to say, You, sir, are a master. Well played, sir. Well played. This is why I take every opportunity to say, in my next life, I want to be Akiva. I've already called it! Don't anybody go getting any more ideas. - ♥patricia♥
I, for one, refuse to "bump" posts...it's very unseemly... - Live4Emma (L4S)
I wish FF-search allowed to do GROUP BY -aggregations so I could COUNT(*) who are the biggest *bump*ers. :) - Jemm
congratulations akiva :o) - David Gross from email
Well done on your use of the 20,000th comment, sir. A worthy cause, indeed. - Josh Haley
Nothing like moob hairs stuck in your throat. - Bec Rowe @d0tski
+1 ffoatse - Tyler Gillies from email
Akiva, I think you should start a FriendFeed room based on this pic. - Paul from twhirl
FriendFeed itself is the room I've created based on this pic. - Akiva Moskovitz
hihihihi! - Rochelle
it's a nice day for a stroll on thee beach.. - David Gross from email
I DON'T LIKE SAND THOUGH. - Sparky
Then what's that in your vagina today, Sparky? - Akiva Moskovitz
^^^^ Sparkles - Christopher Harley
^^^^ Me! - Sparky
NEVER FORGET - Akiva Moskovitz
Why? *sobs* - Janet
bahahahaha - Geoff Schultz
This is the pic/thread FriendFeed should use as an example for the Hide -function. - Jemm
Amazing, this keeps coming up :) and grossing me out every time - petar vucetin
Oooops, there it was again :) - Baard @ Pixum
Akiva, I could not forget THAT picture lol - David Gross from email
yaoi wowwie. - Joe Silence is not dead
3.5 months later and it's still popping up! Akiva, you've created a monster! - Tanath
I know, it's epic - Neal Jansons from IM
Huzzah! Beach blanket barf-off! - Akiva Moskovitz
Where? Can I bring Skype? - Sparky
Every time this pops back up I think I can hear these guys screaming NNNNOOOO not again - we will never live this down - an object lesson :D - martha
Why! - Joe Pierce
Wow they doing that for 15 months? LOL - David Gross from email
From 03/01/2009 and this still pops up on the first page of my home feed! Akiva what have you done sir!? :P - Nicholas Kreidberg
Who ARE those four frolicking on the beach? - David Gross from email
They are the four bearmen of the apocalypse. - Sparky
rofl - Neal Jansons from IM
*durrf* - Sparky
Some day My prince will come .... - Brent - Loving Life
Still great, after all this time. - anna sauce
7 hours since anna's comment? This needs a bump. - Jordan Hofker
Heck - even 7 minutes without a bump is too long Jordan. - Sparky
Tonight, we dine - IN HELL - Mike Nayyar
Mike, you'd have to wait, only 2 can dine at a time.. - David Gross from email
They're coming to rescue you! http://ff.im/41AnA - Christopher Harley
I'M ON TOP OF THE BOY, MA! ON TOP OF THE BOY! - Akiva Moskovitz
Man, this thing just keeps on resurfacing... :-( - cmiper
Let's end this awful Monday with some class! - Jorge Escobar
What kind of class? I'm not good at tests. - Sparky
You have no class, either, Sparky. - Akiva Moskovitz
I'm like FORTRAN. - Sparky
More like LISP. - Akiva Moskovitz
Yeth Thir! - Sparky
I laugh every time i see it hahaha - Geoff Schultz
Awwwwwww - Baard @ Pixum
IS IT TOO EARLY IN THE MORNING FOR THIS? I HOPE NOT. - Sparky
It IS too early in the morning for this sparky lol - David Gross from email
This post is a rather sparky lol. - Rochelle
THere should be an option to make this post sticky at the top of Friendfeed - Aaman (Clone of FF)
There is Aaman - just keep commenting! - Sparky
Makes me laugh everytime I see it. Such a happy yet silly scene by the sea. - Toby Graham
There is nothing silly about it. This is serious business. - Sparky
The more I see this, the more I like it. Not for the ironic nipple-licking, but because these kids are genuinely enjoying themselves. :) Carry on. - felicious
The four horsemen of the beachocalypse - Aaman (Clone of FF)
Sayeth guy-who-waits: If only this were Total Recall. - Rick Cogley
Be-Bumpity-Bump-BUM-BUM-BUM-BUMP. - Christopher Harley
and grind - Mattb4rd
This photo looks so much better in iPhone 3.0!#!~ - Akiva Moskovitz
Seriously dude. What do I have to do to get rid of this disgusting picture!? Doh! Now I've just pushed it back to the top... yuck, I'm so sickened. - Jason Nunnelley
I love this image, because I have no clue why it's happening. Randomness FTW!! - Jimminy from twhirl
Oh, there's nothing random going on here. - Christopher Harley
Yay, so there is no Randomness that's even better, I think. - Jimminy
Versatile. Irresistable comfort. Ergonomic. - Akiva Moskovitz
You ROCK :D - martha
What about their rocks? - Sparky
STOP IT ALREADY!!!!' - Caroline
Stop what? [innocent look] - Akiva Moskovitz
losing. will. to. live. - Joe Silence is not dead
2 hours without a bump? Clock in night crew! - Christopher Harley
mission accepted - Tyler Gillies
It's still daytime here in Japan. But to these guys, the night is young. - Rick Cogley
nothing like a stroll on the beach on a friday morning :o) at least it stopped raining.. - David Gross from email
If I stumble, they're going to eat me alive! - Chris, Taskerrific Guy
They don't look like they would eat you alive. Lick you perhaps. - Sparky
Dear disturbing pic of chubby nipple lickers... Please go away. - J. Abdul-Qahhar
GO AWAY - Alejandro
I am getting tired of seeing this pic.. - David Gross from email
neither i am. - Orçun the Nucro
Tastes like marzipan. - Christopher Harley
This is the last time this photo will appear in FriendFeed. - Akiva Moskovitz
Happy saturday on the beach! - Aaman (Clone of FF)
I'm just thinking of all the new folks coming to friend feed and see this and wonder just what the hell did I get into anyway? And why in Gods name can't I spell Friend correctly the first time - GRRRRRR - Brent - Loving Life
Can't believe I never hit 'like' on this! Consider the situation rectumfied. - Bec Rowe @d0tski
Oops! I hope I didn't just bump this up again... ;-) - Sprague D
I hope you didn't. - Mladen Srdić
oh for goodness sake! - Jim Hearts FF
Tis bumped for Jim's sake of goodness. All Hail, Jim! - Christopher Harley
Only 156 licks. I mean likes. 600 Comments. Wow. - Mattb4rd
Good morning :o) - David Gross from email
LOL - Toby Graham
It's just so refreshing to see genuine juvenile humour at work. These kids are no different from any other, I think it's a great happy image, given all the other shite happening in this world on a daily basis. For those that are too pompous and prudish, 'up yours with brass knobs' - ImJustCreative
up +607 - sG
I really do not need to see this on a Monday morning.. lol - David Gross
Oh, David, you do! - Christopher Harley
1000 comments or bust!!!! Can we do it? - Paul
YES WE CAN! - Noah David Simon
Yes we can? - Jordan Hofker
Every time I see this photo, I leave FF for a couple hours. THANKS FOR MAKING ME GO BACK TO WORK - Jered Hofker
No problem! - Jordan Hofker
*bump* ;-) - Jason Huebel
*dump* - Sparky
Baaaaarely. - Jordan Hofker
*sage nod* - Sparky
*bumped for comic relief* - Jimminy
THANK YOU JAMES - Chris, Taskerrific Guy
Michael would have liked this one.. - David Gross from email
MJ is the Fifth to this party. - Christopher Harley
Chris H: That gives me an idea. - Jimminy
I'm scared of any idea conjured by this pic and my comment. - Christopher Harley
Chris: This is what the idea was nothing to scary. http://friendfeed.com/jimminy... - Jimminy
This again. - Sparky
Sparky is present 83 times in this thread. Can we get notice of number 100? - Christopher Harley
Sparky? - Noah David Simon
Are you trying to accuse me of artificially bumping this monstrosity? I would never! - Sparky
Lunchtime :o) - David Gross from email
As the Grunts say in Halo, "Ok Ok, I'll share the nipple!" - Chris, Taskerrific Guy
There's a whale RIGHT THERE!!! - Steven Perez
THERE'S A WHALE RIGHT THERE! - Christopher Harley
bahahahaha - Geoff Schultz
I'd rather be on the beach.. - David Gross from email
What the hell? - Ethan
I agree with Christopher, definitely a whale right there. - Ethan
NEEEEEEEPLES! - Chris, Taskerrific Guy
LEEECKING! - Sparky
And thus ends Pride Weekend. - Akiva Moskovitz
I don't think pride is ever over for these guys. - Sparky
The morning has broken - Aaman (Clone of FF)
Good Morning Everybody :o) - David Gross from email
Sup DAWG its MOOB WEEK ON FF!!! "wait what its mob week not moob week?" - Geoff Schultz
thts just NASTY! - TenyJ Williams
Commenting in epic post! - Chris, Taskerrific Guy
You know, I could sure go for a beach vacation. - Sparky
sorry had to do this - 6 is my favorite number and I turn 50 this year :) - Janet
To add to what Janet said, "6=5+1". - Jimminy
*Bump* - Jimminy
two bumps actually - Mattb4rd
AAAHHHEEEEEE! - martha
Ack! Not again! - John (a.k.a. dendroica)
Happy Friday! - Aaman (Clone of FF)
After many shots and beers the party took an unusaul twist.... - Paul from BuddyFeed
Why hasn't this been bumped in so long? - Sparky
I'm guessing the hangovers that lingered yesterday. - Jimminy
Dontya just hate Mondays? - David Gross from email
I thought I had seen this for the last time. But I had to see it, so now I bump it back to the top :P - Ethan
This is a BEAST!!!! - Jimminy
That moment was saved forever. http://img.skitch.com/2009070... - Christopher Harley
Wow. 666. Nice! Actually, the reason Asashoryu is getting a divorce ( http://ff.im/4T0UA ), is because he wants to spend time with this lot. - Rick Cogley
Thank goodness it's not 666 any more. - Sparky
As my final act before going to sleep. *bump* ;-) - Jason Huebel
good night everybody :o) - David Gross from email
So tempted to hide it, but it's funny! >.< - Tanath
@chumworth check out THESE nipples lol - David Gross from email
The guy in the back not licking is like "haha I'm in the picture" - Jordan Hofker
Jordan, 'I'm just happy to be here!' - Akiva Moskovitz
wow, how many times do i have to "Hide" this before it sticks? - Joe Silence is not dead
this is back again? - Lokei Atikus™®
And again, and again. - Sparky
Is this supposed to turn me on? Cuz it's not. But I AM laughing ...again. - Brad Williamson
If this turns you on you should seek medical help. Or at least seek these guys on a beach. - Sparky
I would say it's things like this that make me love FF, but you guys might get the wrong idea? - Jered Hofker
Two months later and my eyes still haven't recovered from this...THING! - Adrian Scicluna
I don't think it's a thing so much as an abomination - Brent - Loving Life
Abominations are things. Just...bad things. - Neal Jansons from IM
The MOOBS of HELL rise once more. - Jimminy
Good night everybody #hive - David Gross from email
Hive? - Sparky
To this day, the pic still comes back. Just like Herpes. :D - Danny Minick
Although unlike herpes this photo is fun to share with friends. - Sparky
I would rather go to http://woot.com and buy the Acer Aspire One for $259.99, I do not care that it is a refurb.. but what would I do with two laptops? Maybe #hive knows? hmm.. - David Gross from email
What's this? A real question in this thread? Two extra laptops? Make them fancy digital photo frames. - Jordan Hofker
Reason #696 why the Internet can grant you immortality. ;-) - darnell from BuddyFeed
I can't believe this thing is still floating around Friendfeed. These poor guys... ha ha ha - Bradley Farless
ah-CHOO! - Bec Rowe @d0tski
Oopsie..... - Baard @ Pixum from iPhone
I thought about commenting to bring this back to the top, but then I decided not to... - Internet's Tad
Who in the hell posted this thing?! - Akiva Moskovitz
At least it's Friday - Jorge Escobar
This thread will never die. - Ethan
ever... - Jenny Morman
paint it! - Aaman (Clone of FF)
thank god it's friday, my boss is a bitch.. - David Gross from email
I want laughing asian man to be my boss. Or my bitch. Wait. CONFUSLZED - Sparky
I am so happy in the Hive! Follow @HiveMindMovie and love forever! #Hive - David Gross from email
OMG EPIC. Nipple Spam! - Haggis (Sean Loyless)
*hides it AGAIN* - Joe Silence is not dead
I shall never die! - Chris, Taskerrific Guy
Seriously. Whoever posted this should be banned from FriendFeed for LIFE. - Akiva Moskovitz
I'm too lazy to come up with a witty reason to bump this. - Sparky
Akiva, they shouldn't be banned because I think they must be retired. - Jimminy
It's fadi.... Ooops I guess not. :) - Jimminy
Who is Doug Trench? See http://tinyurl.com/HMDTrench @HiveMindMovie #hive - David Gross from email
When Sumo's fall in love---#wrong - Bret Rowe
it beats Bruno - Tyler Gillies
@SeanMcGee sorry about the spam, this thread is sorta spammy.. I get the messages in email perfect for replying with any message because it then gets posted on twitter and facebook.. I do not do it all the time, look at my other posts in this stream.. - David Gross from email
Lactating, males last resort to save ourselves, now that they can create sperm in labs. - Jimminy
will this ever die? - sean percival
Please never put a hold on the comments for this. How shall it be bumped, then? - Josh Haley
This must always get into the top of my feed at least once a day. - Jon, the Chilled Beartato
This is the thread that never ends, yes it goes on and on my friend. Some people started feeding it, not knowing what it was, and they'll continue feeding it forever just because...This is the thread that never ends, yes it goes on and on my friend. Some people started feeding it, not knowing what it was, and they'll continue feeding it forever just because...This is the thread that... more... - David Gross from email
who cares about the 14 year old girl Sarkozy was pointing at http://ff.im/56ANm - Noah David Simon
I love you moobs. - Jimminy
Sometimes love comes around. :3 - Danny Minick
It is too early in the morning for this.. - David Gross from email
It's never too early in the morning for this. - Sparky
aaahhhhhh my eyes my eyes it's too early :O - martha
Just thought I'd swing by... - Ian May
mother's milk LOL - Igor The Troll יִצְחָק
eww lol - David Gross from email
This might be a good one to close comments on. That way it'd stop coming back. - Kenton
Akiva, what say ye? - Jorge Escobar
It can't be closed it is the immortal moobies. - Jimminy
My lips like sugar? - Danny Minick
This thread makes me want Friendfeed to have an option for large threads to load 10 of x comments, rather than load x more comments. - Sparky
I definitely agree, Sparky, but I'd like both, "View x more comments - View last 10 comments" is what I'd love to see. - Jimminy
Perhaps have it show up just after the 'x more comments' if x > 25 or something. - Sparky
Well, what do we have here? - Mladen Srdić
I'm feeling lucky... - Jorge Escobar
Are you feeling lucky Jorge? LOL - David Gross from email
Think about random slurping sounds. - Mattb4rd
Mooooooove'n back up to the top. - Geoff Schultz
wow~ long commnet need shrink it - HealingBrush
Noah, post Troll Boobs here LOL - Igor The Troll יִצְחָק
This image always helps me get lucky. - Sparky
It's "Bump Friday" - Paul from BuddyFeed
speaking of nipples - Noah David Simon
This is my high school senior photo, by the way. - Akiva Moskovitz
Your plastic surgery since has been a smashing sucsess. - Sparky
It's a nice day for a romp on the beach.. #hive - David Gross from email
*bump* - Ronald
LOL, I didn't realize there were Moskovitzes with Asian ancestry. ;) - Victor Ganata
Akiva, what you doing drinking Milk? LOL - Igor The Troll יִצְחָק
Bumped for Steve 'Fat Balls' Perez. - Akiva Moskovitz
yeap, first place in google, for Akiva LOL http://images.google.com/images... - Igor The Troll יִצְחָק
A legacy. I has it. - Akiva Moskovitz
You lose, Akiva - WorldofHiglet
oh hai - Geoff Schultz
This started in March? Feels like forever - Aaman (Clone of FF)
@Aaman: Let's keep it going into Winter, when this summerly picture will provide us with warmth. - CannonGod
Whyyyyyyyyyyyyyy T_T - Jered Hofker
Jered: because he cares. - Sparky
Ok, I know I need sleep now, because this is kind of hot. o_O - Jimminy
Hahahahahaha!!! I just did a seach for "Obama" on Friendfeed, and this is the second item that shows up. - Victor Ganata
:-)) - Anna Haro
Man there isnt enough time in the day, it's that time already.. How about a dip in the ocean before bedtime.. - David Gross from email
oh hai! - Geoff Schultz
WHY DOES IT KEEP COMING BACK!!!! GA!!!! - Mathew™ one of a kind
Better yet, *why not*? It's so awesome it has to stick around. - Jordan Hofker
These guys need to get there own Sprite commercial. :D - Jimminy
I want to win a MacBook! http://tinyurl.com/HMPrizes @HiveMindMovie #Hive<http://twitter.com/home...> - David Gross from email
Wow, nipple lick got spammed! - Rochelle
Wow, David Gross, why do you keep spamming this thread, this is the third or fourth time you have done such. - Jimminy
Here's some Monty Python SPAM http://www.youtube.com/watch... :o) - David Gross from email
everytime someone posts I get an email so sometimes I post something different.. that was only my second #hive post.. - David Gross from email
It is not like this is a serious thread LOL - David Gross from email
this is a super serious thread - Geoff Schultz
I have 89 :( emails since july 10th.. that includes the ones I sent. - David Gross from email
gmail comes in handy, it keeps all the email in conversations, 100 messages at a time but because the subject " :( " it will not filter out so they dont go to inbox. - David Gross from email
*THOUGHT FOR THE DAY...* Women are like phones: They like to be held, talked to, and touched often. But push the wrong button and your ass is disconnected. - David Gross from email
all this oral stuff is just begging the question of when do they start with the money shots? - Noah David Simon
THE THREAD IS 12% BETTER NOW. - Sparky
I just use this image as a way to announce crap. no one really pays attention to my feed... except my enemies. so when I have something important to say I tell the Asian Titty lickers. it is my strong belief that this thread needs it's very own domain name. something like http://xrl.us/TittyLickers - Noah David Simon
This thread is hereby closed. - Akiva Moskovitz
Nooooooooo - don't close it! - Sparky
You mean old man! - Christopher Harley
Leave it open!!!! - Christian (Simply X)
If you close it, I can just see the thousand reshares that will ensue. FF will soon stand for Fat Asian Feed. - Victor Ganata
Wouldn't that be FAF? - Sparky
Just a reminder, tomorrow is "Lick A Man Boobs Friday." So everyone go out and find a guy who want's his man boobs licked. - Paul from BuddyFeed
How you close a thread? doya have to delete the post? - David Gross from email
@David only Akiva can. Bump. - Jorge Escobar
I posted this http://friendfeed.com/kmeelah... about this thread, and no-one saw it... - Kamilah Gill
LONG LIVE THE MEME THAT IS THIS. - Sparky
You know, every time this pops up, since FF hides the middle of the comments of which there are 804 or so, I see Akiva say "I'm sorry." at the top. It makes me wonder about how some things are just not possible to apologize for! - Rick Cogley
wow, I can't believe tomorrow is Friday :o) no, wait, somewhere in the world it's ALREADY Friday :o) - David Gross from email
It's already Friday in Japan. - Rick Cogley
Thanks Rick, thats what I thought.. does that mean I can start with the #followfriday on twitter or do I have to wait till it is Friday here in NJ? would be funny to post it from this post LOL all my friendfeed goes to twitter.. - David Gross from email
Titty Ham, mmm!!! - Jimminy
David - yeah, you can get an early start. - Rick Cogley
Rick, I am not good at lists or #followfriday but there are lotsa good people in this thread. - David Gross from email
the thing that strikes me about this (aside from the obvious) is after seeing this thing pop up like 35-40 times since March its just occurred to me that I don't have any (guy) friends that a) would lick my nipples b) would lick my nipples for a photograph. Maybe I should get out more... - J. Abdul-Qahhar
I'm a little scared that I've this has gotten more than 800 comments and almost 200 likes over nearly five months and I still haven't clicked "Hide." - Scott of Two Countries
It's just a bit of fun. I mean watching how many comment, not the picture content (although I suspect that is all that was too!) - Ian May
DUNG! DUNG! - Akiva Moskovitz
I mean, the Law & Order noise. - Akiva Moskovitz
DOINK DOINK - FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
heh. Back again. I have no clever saying this time. - Danny Minick
This is clever on its own. - Sparky
2/4 are wearing glasses - sofarsoShawn
The resurrection of the nipple lickers. - Deepti
meat balls - Noah David Simon
Personally, I'm starting to love this thread...despite the pic at the top. lol - Christian (Simply X)
میلاد - M.S
میلاد - Arash Irani
LOL, just looking through my likes to show my dad something - Toby Graham
Woah. Forgot all about this. - Akiva Moskovitz
ALWAYS! - Sparky
you lose - WorldofHiglet
On this day of frost in Alaska, time for some summery love:) - Aaman (Clone of FF)
you're right, Amanda, I shouldn't have googled that phrase! - MiniMage TKDteacher of FF
I count a four-fer there. - Sparky
Nothing says cool and refreshing on a hot summer day then licking man titties. - Paul from BuddyFeed
Here some Antisemitism Milk on Wikipedia! I hope you like the Beast! http://www.igorthetroll.com/blog... - Igor The Troll יִצְחָק
Allright, you guys ready to shoot "mirth and girth"? - Rick Cogley
For the life of me, I'll never understand the emotion people have around this picture for or against. There's no nudity at all, not even implied nudity. Less dude nudity than a beer commercial or cigarette ad, yet there are people who really really really hate this picture. - Matthew DeVries
I found a way to get a Tit Theme, and it involves this picture. - Jimminy
Tit theme? - Sparky
*cough* - Simon Wicks
I still love this stupid post. Call me sick. - Christian (Simply X)
You're sick. - Akiva Moskovitz
Imagine if Scoble introduced this pic/thread to the new gaggle of his Friendfeed Followers - Aaman (Clone of FF)
Thank you, Akiva! :D I take that as a complement every time I hear it. lol - Christian (Simply X)
This picture in this post shows what can happen when something escapes from the lab into the wild. - Spidra Webster
I AM A FORCE TO BE RECKONED WITH. - Akiva Moskovitz
Akiva, Noooooooooooooooooooooo! - Danny Minick
Don't make me say it again. - WorldofHiglet
You mean :) right Danny? - Sparky
By replying to your comment, I am only reviving this thread. :( - Danny Minick
Has u seen mah bukkit? - Bec Rowe @d0tski
No, I haz not seen seen yur bukkit... I thought this thread was closed.. - David Gross from email
omg 666 - mike "glemak" dunn
ah sean - of course my bad, for me it was 666 but i block a ton of folks ;) - mike "glemak" dunn
interesting. - Josh Haley
I just shoved a rodent in my ass. I can't get it out. call an ambulance - Noah David Simon
Or call these guys. They seem like they could help. - Sparky
PARTY'S OVER, BOYS. BREASTFEEDING ISN'T ALLOWED ON FACEBOOK. - Akiva Moskovitz
LOL - OMG, that's so true it hurts...... - Matthew DeVries
no!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! - andy brudtkuhl
SAY GOODBYE TO THIS WONDERFUL PICTURE - Jordan Hofker
There's more stuff to be all "NOOO" about right now, Dave.... - Kamilah Gill
That looks like breast feeding: BANNED!!!! - John (a.k.a. dendroica)
This gets its own Fan Page. - Christopher Harley
This thread must have been part of the deal...It has to be..This can never die...lol - Bill Heslin
Whenever Facebook buys a competitor it often causes spontaneous man-titty licking. - Mattb4rd
This needs to be bumped. Especially today and for so many reasons. - Jason Huebel
Welcome facebookers - this is Friendfeed - Aaman (Clone of FF)
this is like the goatse of friendfeed - Nathan Rein
Friendfeed will never die as long as this thread remains open - can someone please also cross-post it to Facebook? - Aaman (Clone of FF)
Come join us, and we'll do THIS to you. Whenever you want. - Rick Cogley
The first picture posted to Akiva's FB page. Seems about right. :D - Haggis (Sean Loyless)
Oh. Dear. God. - Mark "DerBingle" J
oh that damn fat kid! Why does he always show up in my feed! - Geoff Schultz
mmm.. MILK! Its good for you! ; ) http://bit.ly/a9Fs - David Gross
Tandem Nursing: It's easier than you think! - Bec Rowe @d0tski
Hahahaha! It's like a telethon. And after Joey Bishop goes off stage, they flash this picture on the screen. "Won't you think of the CHILDREN?" - Spidra Webster
It's been a while, hope the magnetism still prevails... - Aaman (Clone of FF)
I just had to bump this once more... gives me a whole new excuse to go look at Phoebe again! - Mark "DerBingle" J
Hmmm, where do you think they're from? My guess is Japan... - sofarsoShawn
domo *arigato*<http://www.google.com/search...>for the milk.. :o) - David Gross from email
Zombie thread! - Sparky from iPhone
Does sumo pr0n violate the Facebook TOS? Muahhaahhaaaaaaa! - Rick Cogley
DO ANYBODY NO WHY THIS KEEPS GETTING BUMPED? - Mark "DerBingle" J
NO, I DON'T NO. - Sparky
You use the phrase 'good work' so loosely there. - Sparky
How does this not have over 1000 comments yet? - Josh Haley
I think we should use this thread for the next ffundercats chatroom. - Josh Haley
... ...? - Mark "DerBingle" J
That would be great! - Matthew DeVries
The way you do it is post the next show, post a link to here, and then lock commenting. - Matthew DeVries
wow, those guys are still on the beach? - David Gross
People are getting lazy...1000 comments by September or you all lose the game! - Josh Haley
Wait, there was a game? I thought we were just bumping this to add to the overall absurdist trauma in the collective psyche? - Neal Jansons from IM
I haven't seen moobs in a while, I was beginning to forget what they look like. - Jimminy
Nice Glasses. - Ian May
Why hasn't this been bumped in over a day? *bump* - Jimminy
Rumor is that this isn't bumping up anymore so I'm trying it out. - Rochelle
It bumped - Matthew DeVries
MOOBIES!!!! Wait wut was I doing? - Jimminy
The bumping algorithm includes things like novel people posting to it, in addition to thread age, and rapidity of comments. If the same 3 people are talking in a thread, it quits bumping because it's obviously a closed tea party. - Matthew DeVries
He said tea party. - Mattb4rd
Can't unsee this. - Matt Hilton
Yes you can unsee this. You just need to cheesegrater your eyes and the memory cortex of your brain. - Sparky
Come here and I'll show you. - Sparky
but waiter I didn't order the man boobies today - Noah David Simon
How does this work, again? - Aaman (Clone of FF)
Cool. Stir handles this post without crashing, giving it an edge over other Friendfeed apps. - Rob Haas
That. is. awesome. This post has now become a benchmark by which to measure the abilities of applications. - Victor Ganata
And some people think this post is worthless. It has worth, I tell you. Worth!@ - Akiva Moskovitz
You should really go through and moderate the off-topic posts Akiva - Matthew DeVries
LOL MDV - Josh Haley
>.< - Danny Minick
ALMOST TO 1,000 - Sparky
Oh good lord, now people are going to posting that Dragon Ball Z quote. - Matthew DeVries
9000?!?! (sorry I had to) - Neal Jansons from IM
Seriously? This is going to go to over 9000? Will FF survive that long? - Mark "DerBingle" J
Has Robert Scoble liked this yet?:) - Aaman (Clone of FF)
Somehow I missed this bumping back up to the top. I'm glad I clicked through to see it again. Poor Akiva! - Ladybug Heather
Why p[oor Akiiva? She will be famous for this one :o) - David Gross from email
LMAO!!! David, Akiva is a lady? - Jimminy
When will this ever leave my feed :( haha - Nicholas James
NEVAH!!! - Jason Huebel from iPhone
ALWAYS!!! - Sparky
Jimminy, I guess I just assumed.. Akiva is usually a woman's name in Hebrew.. - David Gross from email
David, huh? Tell that to Rabbi Akiva (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki...) which is where the name comes from. - Rochelle
Akiva's a boy! He's not a girl! He's a boy! - Christopher Harley
LMAO, I'm surprised, that David never this belief sooner here. - Jimminy
Wishful thinking, perhaps. - Akiva Moskovitz
Why are my private beach photos on Akiva's feed? - Mike Nayyar from iPhone
Mike, I think it's because Akiva felt like sharing a picture of the back of his head, like always.(guy on the far right) - Jimminy
Totally can't be me, Jimminy. No kippah. - Akiva Moskovitz
I forgot, also you're a very handsome guy(saw the wedding images), I don't understand why you don't like to share your face. Rochelle is a lucky lady. - Jimminy
Jimminy, it's an irrational phobia. No different than people who are afraid of heights, spiders, clowns, or Canada. - Akiva Moskovitz
Oh, and thanks! You sly dog, you! - Akiva Moskovitz
I say again. WTH! - Give 'Em DBizness
Akiva, now I'm LMAO at the fear of Canada. People are actually afraid of Canada, or just the fact they don't know if they're British or French? - Jimminy
I don't think even Canadians know that difference. - Akiva Moskovitz
Leave Canada out of this. - Sparky from iPhone
Canada is cold a lot - Ian May
"When you do it, rub his belly. He likes that." - Rick Cogley
*punches veo in the antennae* - Sparky
If Friendfeed had sound .. this thread would be all licks and slurps - Mattb4rd
Sorry Akiva, I think it was the display picture.. I have known male and female Akivas.. Oh and by the way guys I am not afraid of Canada LOL will be there this weekend.. Dave Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach<http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes...> - "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." - David Gross from email
close to a 1000 on this one - sean percival
1000 TONIGHT! - Christopher Harley
You guys so crazy, I'm going to get 1000 - Jimminy
ummm....? - Marissa
I popped the 666 cherry and I will get 1000 also. - Jimminy
If it gets to 1000 will Akiva lock it so it can sink from our feeds forever? Please?!? - WorldofHiglet
I think locking this post would be un-FriendFeedian. - Jason Huebel
This is the immortal post everyone who uses the service must see it so WoH it just wouldn't be good to lock it. - Jimminy
Not everyone see's it, only the people with true class do. - Sparky
It keeps on going and going and going.... - David Gross from email
In the Hall of Great Posts at the FriendFeed museum, this shall be hung high on the wall with pride. - Johnny Worthington
I'M THE ROCK AND ROLL CLOWN.. AND I LIKE COCAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAINE - Haggis (Sean Loyless)
*Wispering to Murderface* "Seriously man, I do... A LOT of cocaine." - Matt Stoddard
It is now September 1st, and this has not reached 1000 comments. I am sorely disappointed. Yet, for some reason, I am uplifted by the smile of this young man, who was fortunate enough to have such great friends that fateful day on the beach. - Josh Haley
Quick let's add some comments... Gee that guy on the far left is not really getting into the swing of things is he? - Travis Koger
Travis... bear in mind that we don't know what "main chubby guy's" right hand is doing, or where it's doing whatever it's doing... - Mark "DerBingle" J
BUT WE CAN INFER WHAT "MAIN CHUBBY GUY'S" HANDS ARE DOING. BOTH OF THEM. - Sparky
@Mark, of interest (well not really) is the location of Front Left guy's left hand. - Travis Koger
Bump for documentation. - Josh Haley
Let's do the bump - Ian May
You're hurting the Google http://ff.im/7KPH3 - Christopher Harley
ipod, apple, mac, Steve Jobs - Josh Haley
Is there any thread on FF that has more comments than this one? - Spidra Webster
Scoble had one where he was offering money. - Akiva Moskovitz
Yes, Spidra http://friendfeed.com/search... It's part of an elite club.... - Kamilah Gill
They're Baaaccckkk LOL - martha
The photo of Akiva in the jacuzzi with the Texas A&M cheerleaders would be so much more popular. Now if only someone would post it. - Christopher Harley
Comment number nine hundred and eighty something. - Christopher Harley
You Lie! - Aaman (Clone of FF)
that's disturbing... - CherryBazaar Photography
Hoo boy, now I gotta wake up to ill-advised family photos and sumo pr0n both (cross post from ill-advised family photos). - Rick Cogley
Comment number nine hundred and ninety something. - Christopher Harley
956 - AJ Batac
What AJ? - Jimminy
I love Moobs. - Jimminy
I cheated and stole 1000 because the moobs are so amazing. - Jimminy
I GOT 1000th COMMENT! - Sparky
I HATE FF EVEN MORE NOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! - veo
Oh wait, 999 more. I failed. Oh well, I got 1002-1003. THAT MAKES ME 2 AND 3 BETTER. - Sparky
LOL, Akiva or someone is deleting comments, so it's at 999 now. LOL - Jimminy
I get 1000 again. - Jimminy
Because the post should never hit *1000* - Jimminy
999 - veo
1000! Horray! - veo
this photo .. will this ever disappear from the Web? :s - Sardar Mohkim Khan
Really sorry, my finger slipped and I bumped this - Johnny Worthington
Oh whew! For a moment I thought this was gone forever... but I FOUND IT! - Mark "DerBingle" J
I think it is a little cold to be playing on the beach.. - David Gross from email
OMG, this is back?! - Sparky
Noooooooooooooooooooooo! Posted March 1st and we are still enduring the wrath! "Akiva's posts, now with more staying power than ever before!" - Nicholas Kreidberg
YAY! OVER 1000 COMMENTS BLAAAARGBLBLLB - Josh Haley
bu nelan böyle - abdulrezzak kapıkolları
I second that. - Ian May
Motion? Yeah, this picture would be better as an animated gif. - Jordan Hofker
This thread bumps more often than I do. - Sparky
AGAIN?!?! - Andru Edwards
Of course it's coming up again. It's our favorite quadrology of happy Asian men. - Sparky
Happy Birthday Bump! - Josh Haley
lol, i love when this shows up. - DO ANYBODY NO MONIQUE
This doesn't show up, this show's you up. - Sparky
Leaked: OS X 10.7 Default Wallpaper - Danny Minick
It's still here! (Breathes a heartfelt sigh of relief!) - Mark "DerBingle" J
Happy Birthday, Mark Vandenberg! http://ff.im/96VuI - Josh Haley
Woah, this just appeared and my first instinct was to click Like. - Akiva Moskovitz
Excellent instincts. - Josh Haley
Akiva has the instincts of the chosen people. - Sparky
Oh, you must mean the Google Wave users. - Josh Haley
Clearly. The Way of Google has taught Akiva well much as it has taught the jolly Asian man as shown by his cheery demeanor. - Sparky
He's happy alright. - Jordan Hofker
Jordan - does our Jolly friend need to appear again in the Gamer Lounge? I think he does. - Sparky
hahaha oh wow - Chris, Taskerrific Guy
"This is getting on my tits", he said - Ian May
That means you like it, right? - Jordan Hofker
How could you not like it? - Sparky
Good morning everybody :o) - David Gross from email
You gotta be kidding. - Mine Ekim
Yes, he's kidding. - Christopher Harley from iPhone
THIS IMAGE IS NEVER KIDDING. - Sparky
mmm.. yummy :o) - David Gross from email
OMG Why?!?! - SmallCapVoice
Because it's awesome! - Sparky
It feels like Groundhog Day whenever I see this. - Andru Edwards
Except that unlike Groundhog Day this is AWESOME! - Sparky
This thread was how I discovered Akiva. ROFL... Y.M.C.A.! BUMP BUMP BUMP BUMP! GAZE AT IT! DON'T LOOK AWAY! >:O I SED DON'T LOOK AWAY!!! ... ^_^ - Danny Minick
You have nothing to fear - I never look away. - Sparky
Saturday fun - Aaman (Clone of FF)
Opps... my finger slipped - Johnny Worthington
AGAIN!! - Bhowmik Shah
Here's another cool pic :o) http://ff.im/9x6Qo - David Gross from email
I love when this rolls up. It's my favorite. - DO ANYBODY NO MONIQUE
please let this die! ;-) - pea
Eeeek! HIDE! - April Buchheit
This will never die. Never. - Victor Ganata
This photo IS FriendFeed .. om om om nom om om mmm om nom mmmmm - Mattb4rd
جاپونی های همجنس باز - آرش خان
Sirhan K. - Jimminy
(ôآرش ، مثل پاپ به من می رسد ؛ - David Gross from email
Ahhhh...mammaries :-)) - Anna Haro
I really wish I could 'like' this again... - Sparky
Me, too, Sparky. Oh look, inadvertent bump. - Ayşe E.
clean your glasses. - Ian May
I APPROVE OF THIS. - veo
*If* the Tech people have all left (as if) ...*then* where have they gone? - JSNFLMNG
Bump for the good times. - Mark Krynsky
this has got to be the hottest pic on the internet.. - David Gross from email
#iGottaCrush on this thread. I love when it comes up. I always try to like it again. - DO ANYBODY NO MONIQUE
>.< CURSE YOU MONIQUE! - Danny Minick
How the EFF does this keep getting bumped?! Is there no limit?! - Rahsheen ™, Coach Rah
We certainly hope there isn't a limit... - Sparky
Thinking of Josh *bump* - Spidra Webster
There's a UFO in this picture ;o) - sofarsoShawn
Sadly it's behind the main focus of the photo. - Sparky
looks like a nice day on the beach :o) - David Gross from email
Welcome back, asian nipple lickers! - Jason Huebel
Who here hasn't licked a asian nipple or 2? - Matthew DeVries
This guy. - Jordan Hofker
On Fark, there was this one thread, that just kept growing and growing. On Fark, it was a single page per thread. And you could post images and gif inline. Well the thread wouldn't die, people just kept posting. I forget which one it was. Anyway, it got so monsterous, that few people going to read/post to it per day (which was only a handfull) accounted for 1/3 of the server load of the site. They eventually had to cull that thread. - Matthew DeVries
I think everyone who has participated in this thread has 'culled' themselves privately. - Akiva Moskovitz
ah - now that's the way I like to start the week! - bear (aka Mike Taylor)
This is how I always start my week. - Sparky
Licking asian nipples? I suppose that's one way to make your Monday brighter. - Jason Huebel
Not this again :D - Gunny doesn't side-hug™
The other week I googled my name, and this was one of the images that came up. I tired again this week, but it wasn't there. - Mike Nencetti
What an honor Mike. I wish Google would associate me with greatness like this. - Sparky
oohh nipples :o) - David Gross from email
Happy Wednesday! - Sparky
what a day.. at least tomorrow is friday.. :) - David Gross from email
I just opened my laptop to show my mom a picture of Audrey and she saw this. She said "Is that man in the middle supposed to be Akiva?" - Rochelle
He wishes - Johnny Worthington
+100 rochelle! - Jorge Escobar from IM
*dead* - Akiva Moskovitz
Akiva himself takes post# 1K69 baby! - Matthew DeVries
Wow, this just keeps rollin'! - Chris, Taskerrific Guy
It sure has some rolls. - Sparky
good night everybody :o) - David Gross from email
Sweet dreams, dear friends. :-) - Anna Haro
Friday, lunch time, in this side of the world :))) - MobilAdam
yes, lunchtime here too.. this pic looks like a Happy Halloween from Hawaii card.. lol :o) - David Gross from email
I still want to know where I can get those snazzy red frames. - Sparky
Happy Halloweenie guys :o) - David Gross from email
well played, David Gross. - Vezquex: God of FF
A Jack O'Mantern - Spidra Webster
Nice. - Jay Cuthrell
((. )( .)) - Spidra Webster
What with all the copycat images this has inspired I hope our muse continues to stick around and not get lost in the shuffle of so many knockoffs. - Sparky
SHUT UP SPARKY!!!!!!!!!!!!1111111!!!! - Andru Edwards
I refuse to shut up about the glory that is this thread. REFUSE. - Sparky
Yes, Vezquex, I'm jealous of those guys, it is warm there, nothing like a warm beatch.. - David Gross from email
I'm jealous of so much more! - Sparky from iPhone
Yes, Sparky, they do not know how good they have it there frolicking on the beach while we freeze up here.. Hard to believe it is only 49 degrees, feels like 29.. I bet it's at least 85 degrees on that beach. - David Gross from email
I'm betting 95 on that beach... - Sparky
exactly what's the origin of this meme? Anyone? #smlask - See-ming Lee 李思明 SML
The origin is the meme of fun...just fun...and a perfect meme it has been.... - Bill Heslin
Good night Sparky :o) - David Gross from email
miodio - vtanner
Anyone who doesn't appreciate this thread is clearly not developing a FriendFeed iPhone client because this is a great stress test case. (It crashes BuddyFeed, by the way.) - Akiva Moskovitz from iPhone
Also it exercises the crap out of your thumb trying to scroll down to the bottom of it. - Akiva Moskovitz from iPhone
Do you need to appreciate the pic in order to appreciate the thread? - Travis Koger
If I un-collapse this thread, will it break my computer? - Eivind
Every time this thread gets a bumped, god kills a kitten - Matthew DeVries
Matthew, you may have given some people more reason to keep bumping this thread. - Victor Ganata
How does it give you thumb exercise? Whatever you're doing, why don't you either use the keyboard or switch to Linux so you can middle-click the scrollbar to jump to where you want? :P - Tanath
He's talking about the iPhone. - Josh Haley
actually this thread does not bother me because I get it in email and gmail groups them and starts new thread after every 100 comments. I have it autoarchived so I do not have to see on phone lol and just see when I look at my ffeed label in gmail. - David Gross from email
Isn't it a wonderful day :)) - MobilAdam from fftogo
wow, I cant believe it's midnight already.. g'nite everybody :o) - David Gross from email
Come on, stop it. =) - Flavio Santos
No, don't stop it. - DO ANYBODY NO MONIQUE
Nothing will stop this. NOTHING! - Sparky
I think this photo will live on even if Friendfeed is gone. - John (a.k.a. dendroica)
Oh, this. Also, I lost the game. 2 for 1! - veo
DAMNIT VEO, NOW I LOST THE GAME TOO! - Sparky
I WIN! (and lose) - veo
And again we have won. And lost. - Sparky
MOOBIES, HOW I WILL MISS THEE! - Jimminy
And another Monday finally comes to an end... - David Gross from email
LICKING NIPPLES NO LESS - Sparky
*bump* just cuz - Jason Huebel
GNAH! MY EYES! - Jeremy (cropmarks)
Ah... the good stuff in life just lasts forever, doesn't it? - Ladybug Heather
indeed it does - DO ANYBODY NO MONIQUE
What is the white thing behind the back guys neck? - Sparky
Damn you. - Andru Edwards
I miss the 'ol fun summer days. - Anna Haro
I wish FriendFeed - Aaman (Clone of FF)
this - Kyle Johnson
Good night everybody :o) - David Gross from email
Good morning everyone :)) - MobilAdam
up - denizoktar
Happy Sunday! - Kyle Johnson
This image makes *any* day happy! - Sparky
yes, isn't it a lovely Sunday afternoon? :o) - David Gross from email
Quite lovely, yes, although a bit nippish. - Chris, Taskerrific Guy
Gaysian love is beautiful! - Kyle Johnson
I'm thankful for Friendfeed, my Friendfeeding peeps, and rebumped crap like this photo. Happy FFanksgiving everyone! - Kevin Fox
I haven't seen those tits in months - Noah David Simon
Neither had I. - Sparky
Nagyon kedves ember melle, nem? - David Gross from email
Look... Its not funny any more ahahahahahahahahaaha stop it! - J. Abdul-Qahhar
I just realized that I never Liked this. For shame! Corrected now. - Kamilah Gill
Kamilah has redeemed herself thusly. - Sparky
This truly is the post that will not die. - Lindsay
herkese iyi geceler (time to learn some Turkish) - MobilAdam
de MERDE! Quelle ROBERTS j'ai Tringle, il faut me branler! (and some frank-a-is) - sofarsoShawn
The more times I see this, the less I'm inclined to believe that Akiva really is sorry! - Mark "DerBingle" J
I choose you, Nipple-Licker! - Chris, Taskerrific Guy
disgusting :s - ★ Soner Gönül
I don't know what's going on over here (http://friendfeed.com/chinese...) but they've got you guys beat. - Akiva Moskovitz
disgusting? HOW DARE YOU, SIR! That is j-love! and it's beautiful (in it's own way.. a way that shouldn't be seen in public) - Kyle Johnson
this is probably the most popular feed of 2009 in FF. lol. - Bora Mesut PALAS
I think the one where Robert Scoble gave away money easily beats this one, but this post has staying power. ;-) - Jason Huebel
I think that Chinese at FF post was a marriage proposal thing. They were all trying to bump the guy's photo so that it would be the first thing his girlfriend would see when she logged onto FF. - Kamilah Gill
This is *just* what my Friday needed. - aden
Kamilah, that's possible but, for some reason, they link to this post, too. - Akiva Moskovitz
Probably comparing thread lengths just like you just did. - Kamilah Gill
Yay, it's back! That other thread is great too, the mix of languages is neat to see - Lo
Seems awfully cold for them to be out on the beach like that today. - John (a.k.a. dendroica)
I think that they're generating their own heat. - Akiva Moskovitz
Strength (and warmth) in numbers! - Sparky
HAPPY HANUKKAH! - Kyle Johnson
I can't get enough of that wonderful Duff! - Chris, Taskerrific Guy
This image just brightened my day. This should give you an idea of just how badly my day is actually going. - Sparky
You can lick my nipples Sparky... any day - Johnny Worthington
It's always sunny where these guys are. Always bright, happy, and smiling with a chance of drool... - Akiva Moskovitz
"smiling with a chance of drool" just made my new top 10 phrases of the day list. - Sparky
I would rather be on the beach right now.. - David Gross from email
I think I only went to the beach once this past year - Ian May
Hmmmm, the gentleman in the middle has a double chin, whereas the gentleman front right has a double neck. - sofarsoShawn
But only in the back. It's like a brain pouch, for storing extra brain. Or saliva. Saliva pouch. - Sparky
Sparky, that sounds more yucky than the original nipple sucking picture was.. - David Gross from email
Leo Laporte
Embarrassing photo meme. That's me on the left, DJ Jack Friday on the right.
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Well played, sir! - Josh Haley
Wow Leo, that's vintage and precious. - RODNEY OLIVER
Whoo, Leo! Way to mix it up with the common folk! - Akiva Moskovitz
That photo is WIN! - Eric @ CSTechcast.com
When is that Leo? I'm guessing 1978 or so? - Michael R. Bernstein
Slow and clear.. and with a blue vest - Rhys Amos
Woah...he MEMED! respect - MiniMage TKDteacher of FF
Dear Leo, I love you to death, however, please let your darling daughter know Monaco is not an island off the coast of France and yes, Monte Carlo is the capitol. My daughter is the same age and we are starting to shop college's as well. I wish you the best of luck finding a school that suits her well. I was an exchange student as well and found it the best experience ever! - Jennifer Ragde
Okay, now my computer politically correct daughter is telling me this was not the correct way to state my opinion as I should have commented on the photograph. I'm really sorry, I love to listen to your broadcasts, but I really am computer retarded so please forgive me if I have transgressed in any manner. I can't even upload photographs without her help! Really, you don't look dapper,... more... - Jennifer Ragde
I do believe Steve Jobs was in the process of creating the Macintosh then? This is '70s right? - Danny Minick
LOL Jennifer and +1 for your daughter. :) - Josh Haley
You look so dapper, Leo!! - Mona Nomura
go leo! - sean percival
That's awesome - Jesse Stay
lookin good .. - Saad Kamal
Outstanding, Mr Laporte. You can see the in dream there. Potential and promise sporting a tank-top. - Dan Biddle
Those pants look like they may be restricting blood flow a little bit... Also, sweet chalk board! Haven't seen one of those in years! - Mark
I hardly recognised you. It maybe your outfit but you look older in this photo - Kevin J Hatton
Taken at a radio station? (based on blackboard notes) Wait. BLACKBOARD??? Wow. :) - CAJ, somewhere else
Jack looks like wolverine. - Harold Benfield
Excellent sweater vest there, Leo! - John Lutz
That's on handsome man! lol - Melissa Goetsch
Leo, you were one hot stack if pancakes back in the day!! - Erik Boles
Not to nitpick or anything, but Monaco is the name of the state and the capital city. Monte Carlo is just one of city's administrative areas :) - Dorian
It's 1985 or 1986. I was 28 or 29. And an utter dork. - Leo Laporte
This vintage is good stuff! - Jackie
not vintage but funny - http://www.flickr.com/photos... - Mike Bracco
Okay. Leo you rock! Let me get that out of the way. But you look like Susan Boyle in this photo. Sorry, someone had to throw it out there. ;-) - Oracio
LEO: if this was a family photo I think it might make it on to the hilarious site that aggregates awkward family photos: http://awkwardfamilyphotos.com/ must check this out! :) - Mike Bracco
Not a family photo - it's a work photo. That's from KLOK-FM San Francisco. - Leo Laporte
Leo: I know, I was just saying if it was :) - Mike Bracco
What's that funny lookin thing in the background? - Daniel James
Daniel.. I think that is what was known as a monochrome display. They were all the rage back then apparently. - Rhys Amos
Your hair wasn't even real back then! :P - Kreg Steppe
I think his hair looks better now - Jim Hague
Dear Dorian, I stand corrected. I was just stunned that someone thought Monaco was an island. When I was in high school (when Dinosaurs roamed the earth, ha ha!), we had to memorize the world in geography. I guess times have changed. - Jennifer Ragde
LOL, I took all those old photos of me and hid them deep! - Lillian Banchik
OMG I just found this... *DEAD* - Johnny Worthington
Oh wow, totally 80s, fer shure. :P - Mol, Santa Claws
You must have respect for wives. That they could see anything other than the geeks we looked like in those days makes you believe in clairvoyance. Of course now you would qualify as a silver fox. - JR Holmes from Nambu
You looked smart and confident :) Great photo! Thanks for sharing! - mahjongmi
Mona Nomura
How the FUCK does Google let Facebook acquire FriendFeed for any amt of $? GOOGLE U R A BIG FUCKING LOSER. Absolute #FAIL. -@davemcclure
I'd rarher see it go Google any single day - Dobromir Hadzhiev
I think Google is putting their bets on Google Wave. - John Wang
I'm just happy for the FriendFeed team and Google Wave is clusterf*ck. - Mona Nomura
I'm happy for the team. I'm indifferent for us (the users). Can't really say how I feel, as I don't know what their plans are for FF now. As for Google Wave. Yes, it's a huge mess right now. It's a great idea, and I love that it's pure HTML5 instead of Flash, but the current sandbox is just complete chaos. - John Wang
Robert Scoble
Oh, Twitter, is this lame or what? http://www.techcrunch.com/2009...
I wish they'd fix their technology instead of doing lame manuals. Search is broken. The MONEY IS IN SEARCH! Fix that and businesses will show up. Oh, and why not just feature cool apps like http://www.twitpay.me ? That's what will drag in new businesses to Twitter. - Robert Scoble
Apparently he doesn't care what we think. :D - Internet's Tad
robert i understand @jack is doing a payment system now, sure that would be tied into twitter as well. - sean percival
Twitter for Dummies? - Dylan Richardson
Sean: Jack better hurry it up, cause TwitPay is there. - Robert Scoble
Dylan: yeah, sigh. Why is a platform vendor doing that? And I thought Twitter was so simple that anyone could "get it." - Robert Scoble
Well they want to try and get the millions of peopel who sign up and do sod all to get more involved. - Mark
Mark: you don't do that with text. You do that with VIDEO and a CLASSROOM and EVENTS. The text on this page has ME bored to tears and I'm paid to read it. - Robert Scoble
Not sure that a "Twitter 101" wouldn't be a bad idea for some segments of the population other than business, like educators looking to integrate it into their courses. - Michael Ritter
Luckily I bet they had someone like a Community Manager or someone else write this manual, while the engineers can work on making Search better and in general the service better :) - Sam Houston
Robert, yeah - the leaked docs suggest they passed on anything with twitpay.me as a business model. I love what twitpay.me is doing (and I believe I was one of the first to feature them on LouisGray.com) - Jesse Stay
How can you charge for that? Its all over just Google it .. Maybe it should be Google 101 Hey Google my Idea. Lets see if some suckers buy it. - Dylan Richardson
Sam: if there really was a Community Manager why don't they fix the Suggested User List to become something more like http://www.wefollow.com or http://www.alltop.com and get out of the business of trying to tell businesses how to use the platform. Does Google have a doc like this? Lame. - Robert Scoble
I'm actually a little jealous of twitpay.me - it's exactly what me and a couple other friends were going to launch when I went off on my own into entrepreneurship. Our product was going to be called Pokket. - Jesse Stay
robert, shot you a quick DM! - Tristan Walker
Scoble ...maybe it's too simple. In a way, this may be a good thing for Twitter: by defining what constitutes "best practices" on their system, they'll help everyone understand how their platform can be useful. Sort of like setting boundaries for your small children in order to help them grow. - .LAG liked that
Tristan: DM me here on FriendFeed. Twitter's DMs suck compared to those here on FriendFeed. - Robert Scoble
LAG: the thing about a platform is that you build it and you let the market decide how to use it. Twitter keeps trying to control their community. Go and fix the spam problem. Go and fix the search problems. Go and fix the DM problem. Go and fix the group problem. Go and fix the communication problem with developers. THEN come back and tell us how to use Twitter for business. Geesh. - Robert Scoble
i agree btw, im assuming they pushed this out before search upgrade due to pressure from investors/press - sean percival
Robert: I'm with you on this one. One of the things about Twitter is that you don't need a guide. You just dive right in. Doesn't this defeat the purpose? - Amir from iPod
Scoble ...touche. you're right, maybe they should fix the glaring problems first. <sigh /> - .LAG liked that
Don't even understand how that's making money. - Daniel Brusilovsky
Sean: did Google ever publish something like this? Did Apple? What a lame idea. Focus on making the technology rock and roll. Leave the hype to the professionals. :-) - Robert Scoble
Twitter is still mostly as it was two years ago. Third parties are doing all the innovative stuff with services like FuelFrog and apps like Seesmic and UberTwitter. Fix search, add groups, and offer Twitter for domains. - Jeff Harbert
Daniel: more and more I'm convinced that Twitter doesn't have a clue how to make money. - Robert Scoble
Daniel: I'm more and more convinced that Mark Zuckerberg is the genius here and that Ev and Biz aren't. - Robert Scoble
Of course, you've heard my complaints on this. :-) I feel the same about Google Reader though - I wish Google Reader would fix their issues before launching new stuff as well. - Jesse Stay
Robert: I agree. 1 billion dollars in revenue? Where did they pull that number out of? - Daniel Brusilovsky
And, exactly what Daniel said. :-) They don't have a clue at writing software, either, btw. - Jesse Stay
Twitter the company stinks. Twitter as ecosystem rocks. - Meryn Stol
I kinda agree that Twitter101 is lame. Using Twitter is pretty straight-forward. Now, for some reason I feel that I am missing something in my use of FriendFeed and wish I could find a FriendFeed 101 or a blog post or something to just flip the switch and make me see what I am really missing. - RAD Moose
Good idea. - Eric Rice
Should have just licensed O'Reilly's Twitter book and put it up instead! - Gregg Morris
Gregg: exactly. - Robert Scoble
Robert: Would have been prettier too! - Gregg Morris
Robert, if it were up to you, how would you handle the spam problem? - Jeff Harbert
Who the hell is advising those guys anyway? Doesn't Facebook have Andreessen and a few other heavy hitters? Who do Ev and Biz have? - Gregg Morris
Jeff: first, make "block" systemwide. That will let me clean my own search out. Second, let me whitelist my searches, show me search results from ONLY my friends. Oh, wait, I have that on FriendFeed already. Third, let me filter by metadata (location, time, who retweets, etc). Fourth: let the crowd "verify" accounts. I'd love to go through my 100,000 people and mark accounts that I know are accurate and I'd love to let other people do that too. - Robert Scoble
Robert: I won't go with you on the "lame" part but I was just discussing search and spam with Shel over lunch today and certainly agree that this needs to be enhanced significantly for Twitter to remain relevant ***edit*** scratch remain, I mean enhance relevancy. Right now we're turning to partner tools (ok, maybe that's good enough, provided those partners deliver the goods). Twitter... more... - Nick Wade
Nick: I keep waiting for Twitter to fix its technology. They have consistently taken the low road through architectural decisions. It's why I push FriendFeed so hard to my friends. The technology here is so much better. - Robert Scoble
scoble - something to consider (i dont know the right answer) - maybe what twitter has is fine for kim kardashian, oprah and the other celebs and regular users? - Allen Stern
Allen: that is something to consider, yes. But based on the celebrity Tweets I'm following most aren't getting that much out of it. Trent Resnor, of Nine Inch Nails, even deleted his account this week. See the geeks were just two years ahead of the celebrities. They are going to realize they are screwed by Twitter too (especially the ones who aren't on the Suggested User List -- if you... more... - Robert Scoble
Robert: I'm in the camp of Friendfeed offering different and in some cases better technology - but it too has it's downsides. As that (overhyped IMO) discussion about Matt Ruiz's penis-post showed capably. BTW - Shel's still using the naked conversations business card, in an unrelated but cool word-play segueway. I thought it was rather cool. - Nick Wade
Nick: interesting you brought that up. I hid that post and it went away and if I really was offended I could block that person, which would penalize them by keeping them from showing me more of that kind of stuff and they would disappear from my search. Personally I'm more offended by #tcot than I am by a naked man, but maybe that's just me. - Robert Scoble
good point robert about ego-numbers - - Allen Stern
Robert: I'll have to check what #tcot is, but I've some other ideas for Friendfeed I hope they'll implement - us having to tag to each other in "comments" drives me bonkers for example. We should be able to reply and see a threaded conversation here. Newest replies float up (or down, your preference) along with their preceding string. I suspect the current Ajax implementation can't handle this scenario, but good chat - dinner is on the table - until next time :) - Nick Wade
Robert, manuals in general r pretty useless 4 me! They do a disservice 4 me! Go & explore or go and search 4 an interactive videos done by others about the Twitter service! - polou/indigo_bow
... i mean how hard is it to write 140 characters, press the reply button, follow people and add RT @user when retweeting?! Their first plan of their business model should be adding features and acquiring all popular Twitter clients that they can possibly get their paws on which will enchance the service and add FriendFeed-type options - thats when Twitter will become useful: When I can... more... - Nicholas James
Hmm, I like 2 see Twitter fix problems first be4 acquiring anything! - polou/indigo_bow
They need to acquire Tweetdeck and Bit.ly at least whilst they are at it ;) - Nicholas James
polou: I have a bug on my account and I still see the fail whale every now and again. I'd like them to fix 1 problem mainly the bug on my account haha ;) - Nicholas James
Twitter hating is lame. - Chris Spizzirri
Robert: I think that you are right with spam, search, etc.. but it seems that twitter has also a big engagement/retention problem: people hear about twitter on TV, radio etc... They come to the homepage and a lot of them fall of the cliff. This is a harder problem them google and apple because twitter requires a behavior change...it is a new concept and they have 30s-2min to try to grab... more... - Edwin Khodabakchian
I just bumped into this video http://brainstormtech.blogs.fo... interesting interview - Edwin Khodabakchian
Twitter should make use of their time and aquire http://twitpic.com and http://twitpay.me. - Amir from iPod
We don't NEED the guide. Twitter WANTS to give us they guide. The community is too controlled. - Amir from iPod
The spam is the problem. Why do they get users to do all the leg work and manually work out who gets blocked and who gets in the search feed? Friendfeed has it better. - Amir from iPod
Just because you understand Twitter and know how to us it, doesn't mean everyone does. I talk to people every day who have absolutely no idea how it works or how to use it. If they decided to give it a try, most of them would gravitate to Twitter to find out how, so this does makes some sense. - Gilbert Harding
Gilbert: But there really isn't much to learn about Twitter. It is what it says in big letters on the homepage. But I understand exactly what you are saying. There are still many who don't know twitter. - Amir from iPod
That is soooo lame. How to use Twitter. i've heard it all. Plus all of the marketers can help you learn to use Twitter. - Ben Hanten
Twitter 101 just made countless social media consults redundant. - Steve Wilhelm
@Steve Wilhelm Good, such consulting is a lame excuse of a career anyway. - Joe
Louis Gray
Why Don’t People Update Software? - http://theappslab.com/2009...
See: The Adobe CS3 bundle (Is CS4 any better?) - Ryan Massie
Because pain of update process outweighs benefits of having the latest version. - andrei_c
I almost always update. I can't stand not having the latest and greatest. I also usually ride the beta wave, too. - Akiva Moskovitz
You should just be able to opt-in to silent updates. I don't get what the big issue is. - Ryan Massie
+1 Akiva. Especially on the Mac, with Software Update to take care of things mostly automatically. My daughter won't run it, often for weeks at a time, and then she wonders why she gets weird symptoms on her mbp. (I'm sure Audrey will run hers when she goes to college - as will Matthew and Sarah - on her rolled-up piece of electronic paper that she connects with telepathically, or whatever we're using in 19 years.) - MaryB, BrandingBroadOfFF
FWIW, I think people got fed up with upgrade pricing, useless feature bloat, and upgrades that seemed to break more things than they fixed. - Gregg Morris
Ryan: Photoshop CS4 isn't worth paying to upgrade if you have CS3. - Nicholas James
I always update. Linux has package/software managers which make it easy to update. Even automatically. - Thierry R. Andriamirado
I update even when I shouldn't sometimes....like in the middle of a podcast episode. - Hunt
Hunt, totally with you on that. I update my dev environment when I am in the middle of coding a function, then try to work out why my code is broken. Upgrading/updating is like an obsession for me. - Travis Koger from iPhone
People are lazy, that's why they don't do it. - Hunt from BuddyFeed
Several reasons: 1) They don't know an update is available. 2) If it a manual process, people are just lazy. 3) Don't want to spend money on the update if they are happy with the present version. 4) Afraid of bugs in new versions of software. ( I usually wait a week or so when a new version comes out to make sure there are no major bugs discovered out of the gate). - Jeff P. Henderson
Because many updates are not real functional upgrade, but only some ads are refreshed. It's useless for us. - Zhou
If people got fed up with upgrade pricing, the future will be a bit annoying for them. Because almost everything is "free" on internet. They wouldn't even lift a finger without any sales, so upgrade pricing is the way. note: upgrades can be cracked too, that's the neverending story .) - bora "head" basman
Robert Scoble
WOW Amazon just bought Zappos, TechCrunch and @sarahcuda is reporting. http://www.techcrunch.com/2009... My reactions:
Zappos is a great company. $890 million in stock. - Robert Scoble
Very cool for both companies. Zappos is one of the best companies I've ever seen the insides of. - Robert Scoble
Should be great for AMZN stock price long-term with the similar customer-centric focus - Alex Calic
Loved your vids on Zappos; they have higher mark-ups than normal amazon offerings as well - James Watters
Thank you robert i broke you the news minutes before it broke so your welcome lol - nathan
That's great to hear since they are both amazing companies. - Oracio
It should be trending on Twitter soon. Thanks Robert :) - Amir
That reminds me... I need shoes. - Michael Turro
This can mean only good things for Amazon - Robert
What does this mean for Zappos culture? - Michael Turro
Is that price right? $890 million? They had a billion in yearly revenues, right? - David Damore
http://blogs.zappos.com/ceolett... is Tony's letter. Michael: I'm wondering what it means for Amazon. David: yes. - Robert Scoble
Perhaps a more transparent Amazon? - Michael Turro
Michael: I sure hope so! - Robert Scoble
Why was the valuation so low? is it a low margin business? Shouldn't the valuation have been some multiple of sales? - David Damore
David: retail is ALWAYS low margin. - Robert Scoble
I never would've thought it would happen...wow indeed. - John Blanton
Here is one of the many articles on the topic: http://www.earthtimes.org/article... - Amir
@Scobleizer: Thannks for the link. reading it now - David Damore
people shouldn't worry about the culture changing -- amazon bought shopbop.com and it has not changed a bit -- only for the better. - Patricia
This is part of the evolution of business. I know there will be a lot of worried Zappos employees, but they shouldn't, this will help them in a long run. Other companies, like DSW, I am sure were looking at the Zappos model and wondering how they can capitalize on it. - Erik Boles
David Damore - $890 million in stock, not raw money. you usually see a lower # on stock as it has a strong growth potential. - Erik Boles
Excited overall but the one line in Tony's letter is a bit concerning "For Zappos, our vision remains the same: delivering happiness to customers, employees, and vendors. We just want to get there faster." Faster does not equal better. - Jose Castillo
zappos means nothing to me - I live in Europe. But what an amazing video by Bazos. Low margins need economies of scale.buyin Zappos makes sense to me - DC Crowley
Jose: the thing is, they laid off people last fall. They also don't have Amazon's brand. Everyone I know uses Amazon. Not everyone I know uses Zappos. This makes both brands better. - Robert Scoble
@Eric Boles: Thanks. *Interesting. - David Damore
Favorite line so far, actually a partial line: "... unless they bake us cookies and deliver them in person." - David Damore
As an Amazon stock holder, I'm thrilled! :) Been a good week for me, owning AAPL and AMZN - Internet's Tad from fftogo
Just knew we would see the S word in there somewhere. [The S word is... synergy]. - David Damore
David: I wonder how the cultures will clash, though. Zappos is very transparent and fun. Amazon, closed and not so much fun. I wonder which culture will win? - Robert Scoble
Hopefully they find a happy medium - Robert Burgin
@Scobleizer: Sounds like they will have separate cultures. Can both cultures coexist? Me thinks yes. 75% on the upside. - David Damore
Did this all break after the closing bell today? - David Damore
Cool - Zachary TG
@Scobleizer -- Zappos is tightly focused on culture and customer service, which has done them very well, I think Jeff will be able to help them move to the major presence they need to be. I don't see a conflict, I think Amazon can teach them a thing or two about business, and maybe, if the timing is right and people are open, Tony can teach zappos a thing or two about culture and loving your job - Erik Boles
Yahoo Finance has the first article in headlines as "Amazon buys retailer Zappos in $807 million deal at MarketWatch (Wed 4:32pm)" - David Damore
I once ordered some brown shoes and they sent black from the same style. When I complained they sent me the brown pair and let me keep both and included a $10 discount - Mark
Thanks @scobleizer Just caught wind of the acquisition and it sounds like a good match to me despite the culture differences. Culture will take a hit, it's inevitable but hopefully Amazon will bring some interesting elements to the table to balance things out. One of my favorite photography sites http://www.dpreview.com was purchased by Amazon and at least outwardly the site has only improved. - Rick Bucich
@Robert Scoble ...Any word if this is going to be a Dell/Alienware style merger.. or an outright purchase? - John Blanton
John: looks like an outright purchase, but who knows? I gotta go do more homework. - Robert Scoble
Hope Amazon doesn't screw them up - All my female relatives just rave about Zappos. - PXLated
@Robert Scoble I would hope they let Zappos keep their brand/branding but it's just like you said yeah too early to tell at this point. - John Blanton
Robert: Agreed, but I hope the desire to grow too fast doesn't kill the service - then it just becomes Amazon Shoes - granted, it will make a ton more money but at what cost to the end user. Should be interesting to watch unfold. - Jose Castillo
@Robert Scoble ...according to this.. http://blogs.zappos.com/ceolett... .. Amazon will be the only shareholder yet Zappos is retaining their independance... So it's just like the Dell/Alienware merger. - John Blanton
:( "wholly-owned subsidiary" just takes a little longer for the culture to be borged. For 920million I suppose it was too sweet of a deal to pass up. I'd love to be proven wrong here, Zappos corporate culture really is something special (from my views of it). - Mark Essel from intelligent media manager test
Robert Scoble
Twitter heading off editorial cliff? (Scripting News). The choices that Twitter has made editorially are wrong and very poor. Sigh. - http://www.scripting.com/stories...
Great post Dave, keep pointing this out. - Robert Scoble from Bookmarklet
Isn't it the responsibility of an individual who they follow? It was my assumption from the start that the SUL is biased and effectively worthless to me. - SawyerTraining, Inc.
Interesting. I hadn't considered the potentially insidious effect the Suggested Users List could have. - Teri Gidwitz
Great post and i really liked the link to professional poker and Twitter. - John Ford
This was an excellent post and Dave is 100% correct - The SUL is total bullshit! - Jim Connolly
Wow. I guess I didn't realize the extent of this situation. Great post by Dave - very eye-opening. - Curt Mercadante
Refinement of the system by which it is determined who follows whom could represent the next great leap forward for social networking. As this SUL issue exemplifies, there's a ton of inefficiency in how these choices get made. The SUL will soon give way to subtler, more intelligent ways of sparking connections. The paradigm of each person having static, manually managed list of... more... - Joshua Maurice
the biggest challenge here is understanding that Twitter is turning into an editor/publisher; not just a provider. could be a slippery slope. - MikeAmundsen
You can see the sense in having a SUL -- some people get on Twitter and have no idea whom to follow. Maybe they'll follow no one and join the large percentage of users who never come back after signing up. So giving some recommendations helps people get involved. But it seems like just about the bluntest possible instrument for achieving that end. - Joshua Maurice
The SUL as it stands isn't all that useful. It would be more useful (to users) to have one based on a friend-of-a-friend type of algorithm. - John (a.k.a. dendroica)
The SUL is, sadly, not based on quality - It's based (according to Biz and Ev) on people they 'just happen' to like. - Jim Connolly
Wait a second, did I read that right? The people on the SUL are working in concert with Twitter to follow a code of conduct that Twitter approves of in order to be selected and remain on the SUL? WTF? I thought it was just a list of random people they thought would be interesting to new users. If commerce is involved as an end result doesn't this violate some laws too? Doesn't this also effect Twitter's Safe Harbor? - Adam Turetzky
Adam: I was kept off the SUL because I talk about friendfeed too much. - Robert Scoble
Sounds like bitter grapes from W(h)iner. Steven Johnson was put on the SUL and says he was surprised to have been selected. And Robert we know you don't really care because as you've said so many times it's not how many people follow you that counts it's how many *you* follow, right? - Sprague D
I'm not opposed to the SUL, but I think Twitter should be more transparent about how users are selected and they should probably be selected through a lottery system. - Peter Warnock
I think John (dendroica) is onto something with the "friend-of-a-friend type of algorithm." Let's try to keep the focus on this constructive question of how to advance social networks to the next level. We seem to be on the verge of being able to integrate semantically annotated content (the "what" of social networks) with the metadata about who, where, and when, and using all these to... more... - Joshua Maurice
Currently the SUL is a list, the next iteration will be a directory and later on natural and sponsored lists generated from keywords will be available to help new users start their Twitter experience, the ideal will be that the lists are ranked by quality but since this is difficult due to the number of profiles we will settle on popularity... sigh - Alberto Saavedra
Sprague: the number of followers does matter to many in society, as this post points out. By the way, why do you think I say that who you follow matters so much? Because your input will affect your output which will get you more followers. But my point is that you can either get followers by gaming the system (or having it gamed on your behalf like with the SUL) or you can get it by... more... - Robert Scoble
The whole idea of having some people you follow, and others you don't follow, will appear crude very soon -- I will want to see SOME data emanating from even the most "boring" people, and will want to filter out SOME data emanating from even the most interesting people. - Joshua Maurice
[deleting my own comment after regretting useless snarkiness] - Fred Yankowski
Seems a tempest in a teapot to me. Most don't even know the SUL is there. And others, like me, make a point of ignoring such lists assuming they'll be fluff and because they specifically don't want to read what everyone else is reading. Many websites routinely post Best Of lists and no one insists they divulge their editorial thinking or hints at dark conspiracies because they do so. So why the hubbub? (Unless of course, they get paid by those being ranked. Then, yes, absolutely, it should be made public.) - Bob Morris (polizeros)
Bob: the problem is that the SUL has artificially raised people's follower numbers. For instance, I've always had more followers on all social networks than TechCrunch. Including on Twitter. But when that account got added to the list it went from about 50,000 followers and today has more than 700,000 followers while I went from about 60,000 to about 95,000 today. So if you are a business that relies on audience (and you could say that about me) you are at a HUGE disadvantage if you aren't on the list. - Robert Scoble
I posted a comment on a TC article they wrote about twitter asking if the fact they are SUL does that influence the way they report about the company. My comment was promptly moderated into non-existence :0 - David Lloyd
Wish all these threads had ajax or something and I could drag them around in the order I want them. Make it happen please Robert! - David Lloyd
Mark: exactly. The SUL is a huge gift to media companies and certain people and they all know it and many have even changed the way they deal with Twitter. - Robert Scoble
When twitter grows exponentially some of these accounts are gonna have 5 or 10 million followers. That's a lot of $'s of value. - David Lloyd
ive said all along that certain blogs are able to pay at least one writers salary on the SUL bonus - Allen Stern
For me I guess it's a transparency issue. I don't care about getting on the SUL (I'm not that interesting), but I'd like to know what people and companies are doing to try and get on the list. - Eoghann Irving
Egohann: lots of people I know want to be on the list. I've heard that if you beg to get on the list, though, that you'll be blacklisted. I wonder how long it'll be before someone creates an account specifically to try to get onto the list. - Robert Scoble
"Sooner or later someone who they propelled to the top will do something bad." Dave Winer, 21 June 2009 - David Lloyd
I guess the concern is will people start doing "favors" to get on Twitter's SUL? Since there's no defined way to get on the list, it would be very easy to abuse that. You could end up with a lobbyist system almost. - Eoghann Irving
how does SUL figure into monetization of Twitter? both for Twitter owners and SUL account-holders? when money is linked to the SUL, how does that affect the content of those on the SUL? could you lose your place based on your content? does losing your place remove all your followers? does the content of SUL-ies get preferential search status? added reach outside Twitter? do these values go away if a SUL-ie is bumped off? - MikeAmundsen
Mike: no one knows because the SUL is totally at the whim of Twitter. - Robert Scoble
@Robert: if a SUL-ie pulls lots of followers, then is removed, i doubt the followers disappear. from my POV, this is another example of @Biz and @Ev not quite thinking through the implications of what they are doing. i admire their success. i'm happy for them. however, i think, as Dave implies, this is gonna turn ugly at some point. and i think Twitter may turn out looking bad in the process. - MikeAmundsen
mike they dont get removed - when i brought twitter the cupcakes to get on the list - i was told justine was removed yet she keeps her 500,000 followers - Allen Stern
plz understand that twitter is a marketing network, period. - Allen Stern
Twitter is used for marketing, but I don't think it's just a marketing network. There are a lot of people using it without any commercial interests at all. - Eoghann Irving
How do you apply editorial standards to something that lets you post things like: "I'm out of sugar" or "My toothbrush just fell in the toilet"? I think that we sometimes expect too much from social media sites.. - J. Abdul-Qahhar
@Allen: yep - totally makes sense. now i imagine some future scenario where someone on the SUL starts saying really bad things about Twitter (or anything else Twitter-folks care about). Ev/Biz can pull them, but they've already created a monster; can't put the toothpaste back in the tube; etc w/ the cliches. now multiply this by the number of folks on the list and that's millions of bad news threads in the blog-o-sphere. - MikeAmundsen
Mike - I call this "keeping the top on top" and Twitter isn't alone with this problem... - Allen Stern
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Ron Mueck is a London-based photo-realist artist. Born in Melbourne , Australia , to parents who were toy makers, he labored on children's television shows for 15 years before working in special effects for such films as Labyrinth, a 1986 fantasy epic starring David Bowie. Mueck then started his own company in London, making models to be photographed for advertisements. He has lots of the dolls he made during his advertising years stored in his home. Although some still have a presence on their own. Many were made just to be photographed from a par! ticular angle -one strip of a face, for example, with a lot of loose material lurking an inch outside the camera's frame. Eventually Mueck concluded that photography pretty much destroys the physical presence of the original object, and so he turned to fine art and sculpture. In the early 1990's, still in his advertising days, Mueck was commissioned to make something highly realistic, and was wondering what material would do the trick.... more... - David Cook from email
Whoa. - Derrick
Officially freaked out. - Steve C
Jeeze that head is kinda creepy :P - martha
Mueck is *awesome*. I saw a number of these at the Hirshhorn some years ago. Stunning. You can't believe how lifelike that sulking giant dude is (2nd pic). - Ayşe E.
I would love to see these in person. - Bryan Lee
Robert Scoble
How surreal is my life? I am sitting with @ev founder of Twitter.
How's he doing? :) - Michael Forian
Surreal? Not sure. Awesome? I would say so. - Brandon Mendelson
Tell him how much you like Friendfeed! - Than R
what are you two doing? btw, total waste of twitter chars to say @ev, founder of Twitter. As if we don't get that. tell us the real scoop - melinda
Ask him how much he likes Friendfeed! - Brandon Titus
Ask him what their plan is on spam, please. - Vince DeGeorge
I'm sure he really appreciates you telling us of his presence via FRIENDFEED and NOT TWITTER! ;) - Michael Forian
so anything interesting in the pipeline? - Alistair (alpinefolk)
Did you offer him a cupcake? - Ken Sheppardson
Scoble, you take massive action to make it happen! And the best thing is that love it :-) So this all fun and no work - SurajLuke
I second this: ”Ask him what their plan is on spam, please“. Recently it's just too much spam. - Kenyth
How did this fortunate meeting come about? - Stephen Pickering
I'd like to know about the spam stuff too. - Katie Metzelaar
Ask @ev did the third party aps get new api limits, i.e. Tweetdeck? #Twitter - jacky
Please ask him when they're going to #fixreplies, as we were promised? - Sharon McPherson
ask him what they have against whales? why whales should be the icon for failure? - Ross Teasley
I'll bet Iran is dominating your discussions tonight. - Nick in Manila
Please, ask him about Twitpocalypse! - Roberto Arancibia
Name dropping! Ask him about verified accounts. - Benjamin Taylor
Or you could ask him how he is reacting to the fact that his service is now the go-to for breaking news in Iran. A historic day for them. But I'm sure asking about spam updates is important too. Geesh! - Mike
@ev must be marveling over the responses Robert is getting on FriendFeed over this! - Michael Forian
Tell him sorry I couldn't be there this time - Jesse Stay
We are at the Ritz firering and I was talking with my friend Luke about how Twitter is kicking ass over CNN and Ev said "what about Twitter?" I am trying to figure out how to give him shit about suggested followers. :-) - Robert Scoble
Ask him about the spammer strategy. - Eric @ CSTechcast.com
This is the night Twitter finally broke the back of MSM. Ev is oblivious? - Nick in Manila
Man, get your vid camera out, killer interview, if you can get it for building43 - Stephen Pickering
I'd love to see video of this that'd rock. and how could he not know about the Twitter>CNN thing!? - Katie Metzelaar
Please ask him why an early adopter like @ATX no longer shows up in Find People or Search- like it should (and used to). - Dean Kakridas
their is big monetization potential behind "suggested followers" imo - Brian Chappell
Qik the discussion. - Vince DeGeorge
and drop in to http://iran.twazzup.com/ to see iran/twitter action - Ross Teasley
I love that you posted this to FF (I would say instead of Twitter, but I can't tell for sure...) - Internet's Tad
It's incredible watching this discussion unfold in real-time. I really wish Twitter could do this... - Jonas Anderson
Tad - that's the beauty of all this. It doesn't matter any more where he posted it from. - Nick in Manila
to paraphrase Tina Fey "I want to go to there" - you lucky duck. - Kim Mears
Tell him Twitter is down ;) - John Rubier
While sitting with you did @ev tweet, "How surreal is my life? I am sitting with THE @Scobleizer"? - Don Strickland
Ask him how I can as a developer get my app listed in their featured App listing in the upper-right of Twitter - Jesse Stay
And ask him if Cupcakes help - Jesse Stay
I'm curious as to what he thinks about Google's microblogging search - Shawn Farner
Will you not stoop to any level Robert? lol! I would love to know about long term platform/architecture stability if you guys are still hanging out. - guruvan (Rob Nelson)
It is indeed a great life - Kaysha
Rob: he says they are shipping a ton of new stuff by end of the year and they always are working on the fundamentals. - Robert Scoble
Interested in the shipping a ton of stuff by years end. That's intriguing at the very least. - guruvan (Rob Nelson)
Ask him whether Twitterers are covering, inciting, or masking the story coming out of Iran. - Prokofy Neva
I'm also curious if evhead ever reads FriendFeed. - guruvan (Rob Nelson)
Rob: he has been reading it tonight. I showed him the Palm Pre with it on there (he hadn't seen the Pre before). - Robert Scoble
Ask him what blogs he reads - Jesse Stay
:-) You should teach him how to do searches on FF so he can really see what people are saying about Twitter. I should get me one of those Palm Pres -when I saw one jailbroken the other day with a "modprobe" line I was hooked - guruvan (Rob Nelson)
guruvan, you should have supplied a few sample ff-searchpaths right here, so Scoble wouldn't have to bother beyond clicking while @ev stirs at the outflow mouth agape. - ianf ⌘
why is that surreal? - Ouriel Ohayon
Robert's been a fairly outspoken critic of Twitter. (and it's management) It was kinda surreal - guruvan (Rob Nelson)
Robert: I can relate to that. - Jim Connolly
ianf: was the tail end of the conversation - not enough time (but you're right) -it's pretty late here in NY too. - guruvan (Rob Nelson)
Robert: Back in the 1970's, when he was living in London, Arnie (The Governator) - Visited the gym where I boxed. I was about 10 and he said "This kids gonna go a long way - he's got an attitude!" - Jim Connolly
Ouriel: it was very surreal because Twitter is on the cover of Time Magazine, is the hottest thing on the Internet right now, totally kicked CNN's behind yesterday in Iranian coverage, and @ev just pops up in my life unexpectedly. - Robert Scoble
I'm a bit surprise it's surreal for you Scoble. I think it's awesome and probably exciting, but not so far from reality you lives in. - Orli Yakuel
Orli: my life is surreal often, but I wasn't expecting to run into @ev in my backyard tonight. At least not at this moment in time. I think yesterday will be remembered as an important day on Twitter for a very long time. CNN is off the rails. - Robert Scoble
I guess this whole twitter experience is surreal for @ev too :) - Orli Yakuel
Orli: plus, I have been pretty damn critical of Twitter lately, which made our chance meeting even stranger and just a bit uncomfortable. Which added to the experience. - Robert Scoble
Robert: it's not that @ev is a complete stranger to the spam festival in his service, so I guess he has some sort of understanding to the critics around. - Nir Ben Yona
Doubly surreal for those of us with lower profiles, Robert. :) But in a good way. - Rachel Luxemburg
justine
Hanging out with the bit.ly puffer fish -- I kid you not!! - http://www.flickr.com/photos...
Hanging out with the bit.ly puffer fish -- I kid you not!!
That's kind of a messed up thing to say to someone. - Eric @ CSTechcast.com
OK, so now my comment makes no sense. I will not delete my comment though, but note, there is no context now. - Eric @ CSTechcast.com
Eric I saw it... and you are correct. - SAM
(jeff)isageek
I'M IN UR ENDWARS, KILLIN UR FORCES! - Alex Scoble
Ok - I wore your stupid thing. Where's my treat?? - Internet's Tad
Woof woof Time Life series woof woof also receive woof woof woof. - Laura Lou Who
His masters voice, in stereo... - Wallace
I'm Josh Haley from Houston Texas... and I'm Johnny Worthington from Bisbane Australia... pant pant pant pant pant WOOF! pant pant pant - Jim Hearts FF
hello ffundercats I have a few words for you - (jeff)isageek
I'm a MAC - (jeff)isageek
Leave Snoopy alooone!!! - Bwana ☠
Mariah Carey's music really speaks to me... - Johnny Worthington
I am calling to let you know who let the dogs out - (jeff)isageek
Pupcasting? - Johnny Worthington
It's like a shammy, it's like a towel, it's like a sponge... - Johnny Worthington
sir I am a dog you think i can take your order? - (jeff)isageek
it's led zeppelin, man! - Egyirba from twhirl
houston we got a problem...I am a dog and I am stuck in space - (jeff)isageek
Podcasting is rrrruff - Josh Haley
Hi, my name is Duke. Meet me in five for Grandpa Bush's baked bean recipe. - Janet
Gimme my WoofFeed ! - Ahsan Ali aka. Slick
Roll that beautiful bean footage. - Gunny doesn't side-hug™
Kol Tregaskes
Hehe! - Kol Tregaskes
wouldn't be surprised if it was inspired by RL :) - vijay
NOOOOOOOOOO - Stephanie Segel
I've never seen this one before. Poor Cookie Monster. - Erik Gulliksen
I wonder what he thinks of tracking cookies... tinfoil hat? - Jemm
Robert Scoble
At Monterey Bay Auarium RSS doesn't mean the same thing it does at @davew 's house. Here is photo and more: - http://ourdoings.com/roberts...
At Monterey Bay Auarium RSS doesn't mean the same thing it does at @davew 's house. Here is photo and more:
RSS means "Raw Seawater System." I am getting a private tour from Humberto Kam who runs the web team and does http://beta.friendfeed.com/montere... - Robert Scoble
I had a great time hanging out with you and thanks for the great exposure for the Aquarium's online efforts - Humberto - Monterey Bay Aquarium
i like to see google reader try and aggregate that lol - sɹǝɥʇɐǝɟʞɔɐןq
It was a great day. We got a great tour of stuff the public doesn't see. - Robert Scoble
It feeds something else entirely, but I love the Aquarium! - Michael Fidler
did you connect with my friend nicole at the aquarium? i told them to lookout for a scobble! - sean percival
The Aquarium has twitter & ff accounts. Cool! - Michael Fidler
Sean: nope but we were behind the scenes most of the day. - Robert Scoble
Michael: yeah, the Web team is very cool at the Aquarium. But then it is run by Packard's daughter. Yes, that Packard! She makes sure they are always using the latest stuff. - Robert Scoble
I can see their RSS feed pipe. - Bruce Lewis
Amber Mac
Hope they throw the parent(s) in jail for a bit to smarten 'em up - http://www.citynews.ca/news...
Duncan Riley
Lindsay Lohan takes the piss out of herself in new video - http://www.inquisitr.com/21954...
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Duncan Riley
There’s dumb, then there’s Twitter Dumb™ - http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r...
I like the ™ in the URL. Daring! :-) - Louis Gray
That's bullshit. I really feel for the developers of a site that get shut down like that. This could be precedent setting regarding API access depending on the outcome. Just goes to show you the need for new middle tier API services like Gnip. - Mark Krynsky
Speaking seriously, the changes are very negative to the developers. If you read the Google thread, you can see the change was very quick, and caught many of them off-guard entirely. It's got to have people thinking why they want to be part of the Twitter family. - Louis Gray
What Google thread? - Cindy from fftogo
I think developers need to think twice before committing to any startup sites' API moving forward. - Mark Krynsky
Also, I find it ironic that they just bought Summize. A site developed on the backbone of their API just like many of the ones they just screwed. - Mark Krynsky
Thanks for the link to the Google thread. - Cindy from fftogo
Mark, good point on Gnip - Duncan Riley
if this let's them make things more stable, then I am all for it. There is no point having cool third party services if your own site is down. - Scott Watermasysk
Dumb dumb dumb. Cutting off their nose to spite their face. - Jason Carreira
The twitter api was why I loved twitter. It's also why I hate twitter. - Alan Le
MG Siegler
Unablogger
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Sent from iPhone 3G - MG Siegler from email
i immediately regretted this picture - Eric Eldon
eric eldon writing up this scoop http://venturebeat.com/2008... - MG Siegler
That will definitely show up on Valleywag at some point -- completely out of context, of course. - Nathaniel Payne
@nathaniel - yes, it immediately brings to mind john battelle - MG Siegler
this photo requires a caption contest - best caption gets a cn sticker - Allen Stern
"MG, I told you, Podtech was acquired for less than ONE million dollars" - Allen Stern
Allen: Does it get much better than Uniblogger? - Dan Kaplan
Greatest photo title ever - Mike Doeff
"In a story that can only happen in the valley, apparently a wandering hobo broke the news today that PodTech had been acquired by ViewPartners." - Nathaniel Payne
Uniblogger. Pure genius. - Daniel Ha
somehow, i'm still regretting this picture 15 minutes later. oh well. pretty hilarious, anyway. - Eric Eldon
our team is now dean "the machine", MG "machine gun" and eric "uniblogger" - we're quite violent - MG Siegler
Eric, if the shoe (bomb) fits, then... - Elliott Ng
MG is that how you get your scoops? bring in the big guns? - Allen Stern
@allen - pretty much. we live in violent times... - MG Siegler
Ah, there's the Eric I remember from college. - Anthony Ha
Ladies and gentleman, this is how the news gets made. - Gabe Rivera
Dave Winer
OK, Jason Calacanis is a putz and a Rudy Giuliani wannabe, but every once in a while he says something that's right. Blogher fans should formulate an answer to this one when they make a big deal out of not enough women speaking at conferences. - http://twitter.com/JasonCa...
This is going to make me very unpopular but, *Like* - Paul Short
Bonus points for Dave labeling Calacanis a "putz" - TDavid
bonus points for saying Jason is right about something - Steve Gillmor from twhirl
There is tool called search that might lead you to the answer to this question since it has been covered multiple times to include Jason himself being answered directly in the past. - Michael W. May from twhirl
Jason flip flops? Today I blog tomorrow I do not want to blog! Now to blog or not to blog that is the question! LMAO - Igor The Troll יִצְחָק
What about bonus points for Rudy Giuliani!!?! - Dave Winer
nah, bonus points for the Yiddish - Thomas B from NoiseRiver
bonus points for 'he says something'! - Thierry R. Andriamirado
Duncan Riley
my private party starts in 3...2...1... :-) - Duncan Riley from Bookmarklet
:) - Yuvi
Duncan, change your domain name and you will see how Technorati is not capable of understanding that. I lost all my ranking when I changed the url... no way to tell this to Technorati :-( - Luca Filigheddu
Late night w00ts all around! - l0ckergn0me
Nice job! Now we all need Inquisi-tees! - Louis Gray
Like ... wow? - Charlie Anzman
Nice job Duncan! - Shey, Jamaican of FF
Congrats Duncan - no surprise. - Hutch Carpenter
Good stuff Duncan! Moving fast - Paull Young
Great stuff. congrats. - Harrison Wise
Congrats, Duncan. Inquisitr is a rocket sled. Sign me up for an Inquisi-tee too :) - Christian Anderson
Inquisitr is great, congrats. - Kerem Ozkan
Duncan Riley
Wow, this guy sounds like he knows what he's talking about :) - Bwana ☠
Nah, I thought he was totally clueless ;-) - Duncan Riley
Bwana- Just Awesome, great use of tech! would love a tutorial on what you are using to create that tutorial. - michael sean wright
Nice Fish Films - It's ScreenFlow http://www.varasoftware.com/product... highly recommended - Bwana ☠
Hey Bwana, I second that on the kudos for your video. Clear info, good pacing, great visual tour and nice to see you on screen too. Keep rockin'! - Larry Kless
yeah bwana. we want a meta tutorial - Brian Daniel Eisenberg
Bwana- thank you so much! downloaded it. - michael sean wright
LOL Brian, I'll put it on the list... I'll get a massive headache from the meta-ness :) - Bwana ☠
Loved the video, Bwana. What I really like is seeing how other people use different features of almost any service and why, or what their reasoning is for doing things the way they do. I've always been fascinated by that sort of thing and vids like yours are really cool in that respect. - Paul Short
Addendum: for anyone on a Windows PC who'd like to create similar screencasts, there's a (paid) program called Camtasia (google it) that does a similar job, though not nearly as elegantly. It'll get you by though. - Paul Short
Yeah, I use Camtasia and Adobe Captivate for windows based screencasts (day job).. both are highly capable - Bwana ☠
thanks Paul, I was about to ask that exact question.. I just didn't want to hear "get a Mac" :) - Tim Hoeck from NoiseRiver
Michael Gray
ok http://www.rim.com/careers/ is seriously the funniest legitimate corporate URL I have ever seen
LMFAO - fijidaddy
I hope this has a great story behind its creation. - Shawn Farner
the ceo probably asked for it and IT probably did it with a gigantic smile on their face. - jered reynolds from feedalizr
Corvida
Retweet @marshallk: news and analysis: Summize Likely Acquired by Twitter http://is.gd/NJM
It's really interesting to see Twitter (and Friendfeed) content become part of the wider search ecosystem. I've noticed that twitter and FF content has begun to rank highly for some google searches I've done - and it's being indexed very fast. Summize is a more niche search play, but it enables Twitter users to find contextual content, topic-focused content etc -- ie Twitter content is... more... - Richard from FriendFeed MT Plugin
This past few days I've been seeing friendfeed show up in Google alerts for my name and a few keywords I'm monitoring. These services are becoming more and more relevant by the day. - Paul Short
Chris Brogan
Bloggers Are Terrible Writers - http://deanhunt.com/blogger...
do bloggers need editors, then? like "real" journalists get? - Sarah Perez
So sad, but oh so true. - James Mowery from twhirl
@Sarah Perez I only wish all bloggers had their own editors. My eyes wouldn't bleed as much. - James Mowery from twhirl
totally agree ... I screw up all the time and have no editor - Nick O'Neill
Funny article. Very creatively written! A+, this is going in the school paper. - Phil G
Everyone should get busy: http://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/ - James Mowery from twhirl
i always thought i wrote ok. - Jason Shultz from twhirl
i've seen so many grammatical errors in "major" news websites that i don't see how they can look down on bloggers. - Jason Shultz from twhirl
Your wrong, I right real good and its there falt for making me puset while i try to blog. wtfomg, some ppl r dumb - Bwana ☠
Its funny how many of these rules are broken in a typical Scoble post? I do notice a few being broken, how about you? - Fred Grott
Fred: I break all the rules that the Social Media royalty give us. - Robert Scoble
Many authors are terrible writers, the same is true for many, not all, bloggers - Shey, Jamaican of FF
And its good ritten. - phil baumann
To everyone reading this—please learn the difference between "it's" and "its." It's really not that difficult! - James Mowery from twhirl
Are you speaking about me? - Chris Nixon
Lol, Phil... bad timing. - James Mowery from twhirl
I'm with Jason on this: it seems that the rules of grammar, spelling, and the like are being broken daily by the 4th estate. He who is without sin, etc. - Justin Whitaker
Some bloggers are terrible writers... which sucks when they have good stuff to say. From what I can see there is rarely such thing as a brilliant writer, just brilliant editors. (full disclosure: my wife is a magazine editor) - Scott Lockhart
For me, this is the writer's bible: http://www.amazon.com/Simon-S... - James Mowery from twhirl
I agree that bloggers often ignore the rules of good writing. As an English major, I find it very irritating. As Justin pointed out, though, "real" journalists are doing the same thing, which is something I find even more alarming. Why even bother getting a degree anymore? - Sam Guzman
Hilarious but pretty true. I think we should all (and by "we", I don't just mean bloggers) should always have a style manual or something right next to the desk. Obviously a lot of "professional" colleagues of mine don't, from what I've seen in some newssites. - Juan Carlo Rodríguez
Blogs give people more leeway than traditional media, of course, and you can break rules like Scoble says. Rule-breaking is great, as long as it's not sloppy. - Daniel Langendorf
Take a Zinsser and a Strunk-White and call me in the morning (http://www.librarything.com/work... + http://www.librarything.com/work...). - Kirk Kittell
@Daniel Langendorf Trust me, it can get very sloppy. But it is even more embarassing when Wired.com's bloggers have glaring errors. Again, they don't even know the difference btween "its" and "it's." I think it is pitiful. - James Mowery from twhirl
I unsubscribe to blogs that make consistent mistakes (you're/your, they're/their/there, etc.). It makes things unreadable for me. - Matt
James, merely knowing the difference between its and it's and your and you're and there, their and they're does not mean you will actually *type* the correct word. That editors don't catch it *is* pitiful, but that assumes all the Wired blog content actually gets edited -- I do not make that assumption. - Robert Seidman
If I could wave a magic wand, I would correct all misuse of the word "loose" when someone obviously means "lose." - DGentry
No spaces,after commas,is the most irritating for me. Why,why,why? - Paul Short
@ Daniel - I think you hit the nail on the head - "as long as it's not sloppy." Breaking the rules all you want - just make sure you pull it off and you still convey coherent ideas. - George Smith
I agree with Jason Shultz, I have found very serious grammatical and spelling errors in places like NYTimes and other "major" news services. It's the rush to publish that is causing all these errors. Also, I have seen major writers intentionally break some of these rules. And there is nothing wrong with that. :) - gregory
I totally agree with you on that, Paul. Those are SO annoying. I click away from any site that has that anywhere on it. - Chris Thomson
I thought the rule about split infinitives was relaxed, since it came from the old-world scholarly usage of Latin (and it wasn't possible to split an infinitive in Latin). - MiniMage TKDteacher of FF
@Robert Seidman, I am confident that the content on Wired.com's blogs is not edited. I mean, yes, I am being picky here, but you would expect that these folks would take the time to learn this stuff. Maybe I'm just too passionate about the English language. Yesterday, I was reading the CMoS for at least an hour and a half. It is still no excuse. - James Mowery from twhirl
So true. Well, for me at least. I try to write well, but then again my blogs in the past have always been personal, and just ramblings of how my week was. Nothing interesting. Ha. - Dennis Jackson
Most of the bloggers I follow are more accomplished writers than most mainstream journalists -- James Wolcott, Glenn Greenwald, Jim Lobe, James Fallows, Jeff Huber, etc. If they can't write, I don't read them. - Sean McBride
By the way, does anyone know of any reliable editorial services? I am looking to self-publish my first book (through Lulu.com), and I really would like to have it done right the first time. I might pull it off on my own, but I am not sure. - James Mowery from twhirl
As a brilliant writer, I'm finding it hard to relate to this... ;-) - Sprague D
Have any of you read a newspaper or cnn.com lately? Most bloggers do better than that. - mjc from Alert Thingy
The Apostrophe Protection Society - http://snurl.com/2t6v6 - gives helpful advice about putting that diddling little punctuation mark in its rightful place - but I guess people who don't realise they're using it incorrectly won't trouble to visit the site! - Bob Kingsley
Michael, who reads that crap anymore? I'm only kidding! :D - James Mowery from twhirl
Hah, these are great. It's also true that many of them have been around for many years -- since 1979 at the latest -- for whatever that's worth. http://www.shorttext.com/2wt2dn for the original sources. - Nathan Rein
Every now and then, one comes across a previously unencountered pre-internet viral. I hadn't previously seen this, so I consider it a net gain :-) - Slappy Line
I need an editor. I think everyone can benefit from having an editor. I still feel I'm a good writer, but the objective eye helps a great deal. - Cyndy
@Robert Seidman I completely agree with you. I *know* the difference between it's and its and their and they're - I mean, DUH, but I have typoed these things incorrectly before I'm sure. Re-reading a post helps, but sometimes your brain auto-corrects what you see. That's why copy editors are important....and sadly missing in the blogosphere. - Sarah Perez
Robert Scoble
I just blocked someone for begging for followers. I will unblock him in 48 hours.
Kevin Rose? ;-) - JA Castillo
does his name start with Nose? - Justin Korn
Begging for followers? - Aaron Myers
gasp! does his name begin with a K and end with a Rose? - Lise
I mean rhyme with "Nose" - Justin Korn
doubt it's Kevin, he's asking how to get rid of followers - clarke thomas
Seems ridiculous to beg for followers. All you have to do is be interesting, right? - Randy Hall
Your people, your rules! :) - directeur from NoiseRiver
yeah his name sounds like nose. - Robert Scoble
Scoble cracks me up. Keep up the good work! - Carlos Ayala
Wait, wait... is it Rose? :) - directeur from NoiseRiver
Ahahahah... ok I get it now. Quick, someone Digg Kevin's tweet and then we can all laugh at how lame twitter is when it buckles under the load of a Digging! - Paul Short
I would have made them stand in the corner and think about what they've done, but I guess I'm just old-fashioned like that. - Daniel Smith from twhirl
Im confused about this. For instance, I've noticed on many occasions where you basically say something like: "Come follow me over on FF, the conversation is over there". Isnt that the same thing? Trying to get people to come follow you? I dont mean to be critical, just trying to understand. - Andrew Baron
:D I unblocked him just to verify, and yes it was him!! - directeur from NoiseRiver
Somewhat relatedly, it's weird that I didn't think twice when Louis Gray asked us to digg a story for him. But in hindsight if it wasn't someone I knew, I would've considered it spamming/gaming digg. Interesting. - trextor
He needs another pole to broadcast actually, he won't participate in the discussions. I hate this kind of mentality. - directeur from NoiseRiver
Andrew I don't remember ever asking you to follow me. If I ever do, yes, that should earn me a block. There is a big difference between saying "here is a conversation" and "follow me." - Robert Scoble
Kevin pissed off the Friendfeed hall monitors. ;-) - Chris Baskind
directeur: exactly. This is my way of helping retard Twitter-style noise here. - Robert Scoble
LOL, I just submitted his tweet to Digg. - Paul Short
trextor: agreed. That is interesting to watch. - Robert Scoble
Aaron: you are always experimenting with my block button. I will call you director of block R&D. :-) - Robert Scoble
Robert, right. I blocked him before because of this actually. Look at his digg page for example. He submitted only 374 news on Digg ang got 364 popular. I don't know if we see the same thing, but it looks _wrong_ for me. - directeur from NoiseRiver
Robert: I'm directeur! Don't mess with my brand ;-) Aaron is just Aaron! And please follow me! oh wait, you're already following me! :) - directeur from NoiseRiver
I've seen a few people post follow me messages. I'm here to follow not be followed - LPH™ and his dog P™
I just blocked someone for being a total asshole. Can dish it but can't take it. Know what I mean? - Dennis Howlett from twhirl
What I don't like is all of his fan base coming over here not even knowing how to use ff, or caring to use ff, but just adding him simply because they like him. Sigh... I was back and forth on the reason you were blocking him, but I completely understand now. - Dennis Jackson from twhirl
I'm yet to block anyone. I think I just like being annoyed. - Mike Lewis
haha, I guess I missed the memo that we entered high school again. I need to brush up on my drama. - Danish Khan from twhirl
Scoble, did you also pass him a note after class? Does this mean you're not BFF anymore? - Matthew Mamet from Alert Thingy
OMG this is funny and ridiculous all at the same time! LOL - Susan Beebe
Susan, I'm seeing this exactly the same way, gotta love the friendfeed sagas - Dobromir Hadzhiev
Duncan Riley
I still love Techmeme, but lets highlight a failing in my own personal likes stakes. Louis' post on NoiseRiver to me is THE big discovery of the day, and yet it took me linking to it for it to hit Techmeme just now. (the other post linking in doesn't...got me beat).
of course, likes are subjective and personal, but what do we have on the top of Techmeme now? a TechCrunch story recycled and tarted up from part of a MSM story I read a day or two ago. Bonus take away: it never links back to the original story source... - Duncan Riley
Heh. This is how I found it hit Techmeme. Nice work, Duncan. Care to do the same for the Browzmi story, or should ask Allen Stern for a favor? - Louis Gray from NoiseRiver
Louis, lol. I just looked up your FF original post on Browzmi and asked the founder to convince me on it, I'm not so far, but only because it has been tried sooooo many times before. He seems nice, so I didn't want to rip it to shreds in a post that would have linked back, that I'm I still in remission from my serious case of Arringtondickitis :-) - Duncan Riley
Mate, I have had a very poor time of Wesmirch myself. I was even going to do a post on it. I have had stories up, anything upto two days before anyone else has picked up on them, yet, when Wesmirch gets onto it from other sites, mine does not even get a mention. Seems to be noise of the biggest, nothing else to me. I have emailed Gabe, but never get anywhere with it. - Ross Maguire
Hi guys - I promised Duncan some discussion on the Browzmi topic soon.. after sunday AM family time here - Travis Parsons
l0ckergn0me
Internet's Tad
Being reasonably optimistic, what do you think some of the technological milestones of the 21st century will be?
The 20th century had radio, flight, television, digital computers, atomic energy, eradication of many deadly diseases, the internets, etc etc... I'm convinced that the 21st century will top that and then some. - Internet's Tad
The leading tech advance of the 21st century will be the flabberication of ingodality. In other words, it's something that we can't even conceive today. Imagine a man in 1901 saying, "By the end of the century, a typewriter that doesn't use paper will be hooked up to a phonograph that doesn't use cylinders, and it will be connected to other typewriters and phonographs by a telegraph wire with no dashes, only dots. And the phonographs will play 'all your base are belong to us.'" - Ontario Emperor from fftogo
True, but folks back in the 30s were thinking about stuff awful similar to today's internet. Science Fiction writers have been right about a bunch of stuff. Remember Jules Verne? I agree with you but I think it's a good mental activity to try to imagine the future in an optimistic way. - Internet's Tad
I don't think I want a future as imagined by some of the sci-fi authors I like to read. ;) - Jack (a.k.a. Jeber)
Me either Jack - that's why I put in the optimistic disclaimer. ;) - Internet's Tad
But note that the people who were conceiving these things weren't business leaders, but fiction writers, or people who write things that aren't true. In the early 20th century, things such as interplanetary flight were crazy ideas that no "serious" person would ever consider. The New York Times once dismissed the idea of a flight to the moon, and didn't retract its condemnation of the idea until late July 1969. - Ontario Emperor from fftogo
Look at what scientists take seriously now - quantum teleportation, the idea that time isn't linear, the fact that gravity warps time and space, that matter may be made up of multi-dimensional strings, infinite parallel universes, and on and on. It's difficult to imagine sci-fi writers coming up with stuff a lot stranger than that! - Internet's Tad
Windows 2025 - Steven Hodson
Followed by "Windows 2025 sucks" messages. - Ontario Emperor from fftogo
Windows 2025 is sooo inferior to OS X Kitteh - Internet's Tad
Windows' will undergo a total rewrite, and perhaps rebranding. - Yuvi
We will get free WiFi all over the world - except that it won't be called WiFi - Yuvi
What will it be? Yuvi-fi? :D - Internet's Tad
Heads-up dashboard displays in cars. No need to take you eyes off the road to check your gauges. Fighter pilots couldn't fly without them. We shouldn't have to drive without them. HUDs will decrease accidents, I have no doubt. - Jack (a.k.a. Jeber)
immersive virtual reality. Think star trek, but delivered neurally as opposed to visually. - Duncan Riley
Not for me, Duncan. I've got too much weird s**t going on in my head as it is. :D - Jack (a.k.a. Jeber)
You could buy cadillacs a few years ago with HUDs I think. Never really took off though. Maybe a few more tech iterations. Duncan, I like your idea - I was going to try to be a bit more conservative, at least to most people's thinking... ;) - Internet's Tad
The 21st century is all about energy -- the basis of pretty much everything we think of as "progress." Petroleum will be pretty much tapped-out by mid-century. Unless there's some new technology that hasn't made the scene yet, oil -- and eventually coal -- will be replaced by a broad range of renewable energy sources. If we do it right, this will create new opportunities for developing nations currently unable to afford a modern energy infrastructure, as well as keeping our own lights burning. - Chris Baskind
Totally agreed Chris, but I think it's only the next few years that will be concerned with that. The bulk of the 21st century will be in the age after fossil fuels. - Internet's Tad
Galaxanet - Internet in space.. - Azeem
They already have that too, Azeem. I think that the latest space probes all call home through the internet. I'm not sure of the details though... - Internet's Tad
Yep, I'm pretty optimistic that we'll solve this Fuel problem in atleast 10-20 years. We better do. - Yuvi
I'm thinking less than that Yuvi - and yeah, we better! - Internet's Tad
And to think that I'll "probably" (just probably) live longer into that 21st century than most other FriendFeeders.... :P - Yuvi
@tad: Yeah but thats only as far as the farthest satellite from earth i guess.. im taking about something bigger the solar system or galaxy... hmm manmade transponders orbiting the sun could do that. i think i shud write a scifi book :-P - Azeem
Hehe - who would we talk to Azeem? :D - Internet's Tad
I hope you're right, Tad. It's going to be close. But if we get over the hump, widely available renewable energy will be transformative. It will level a lot of old power structures (and raise some new ones). And who knows? Maybe this will be the century everyone gets access to clean water. I'm in favor. - Chris Baskind
Yeah - I'm thinking you're right Chris. Sadly everyone could have access to clean water now if the world's governments desired it. We just need to all work together to help develop the technology that will make it inexpensive enough to overcome redtape, corruption, etc. - Internet's Tad
@tad: well we dont have to talk to humans.. probes could send data via packet data service.. or astronauts on asteroid can get messages that twitter server on mars is down :-P - Azeem
Gotcha Azeem. And I think that's exactly one of the things NASA is currently working on. :) - Internet's Tad
Politics free ways to save the earth so that the earth would stay longer to see all of the above... - Azeem
the 21st century big thing will be a brain interface to communicate with computers: typing on a keyboard even though an iPhone's..is so 19th centuriesque. - PF Thaler from fftogo
Google, not NASA, the military or economy, will become the most important entity on earth, especially for first contact with extraterrestrials. If aliens ever come here and want to know more about life on this little blue marble of ours, all they have to do is beam up Google's databases and study them. - Paul Short
PF - what about subvocalization as a start? I know that's being worked on... - Internet's Tad
tad, voice would be a good start.. But I have the feeling that Internet and brain are so powerfull..its just our senses that limit the quality of the interaction (ex brain and internet can multitask your voice just can't) - PF Thaler from fftogo
My first reaction to the question was "houseboats with WiFi," but I'm not sure that passes the optimism test. - Dave Bonta
Friendfeed - Mike Lewis
Russellreno
feedly: a more social and magazine-like start page - http://www.feedly.com/
feedly: a more social and magazine-like start page
I love Feedly. I gave up on GReader about 3 weeks ago because I spent so much time on FF. I tried many readers and I stopped looking at other readers after I found GR. Even GR became overwhelming so I stop using it. I am very visual, and Feedly put the fun back into feed readers. Now I switch back and forth between FF and Feedly. Well done. - Russellreno
thanks russell. we are early in the dev cycle and look forward to suggestions you might have on how to improve the concept and remove the rough edges. - Edwin Khodabakchian
@Edwin When I say "no thanks" to an article, how come it doesn't disappear when I refresh? - Shey, Jamaican of FF
@Shey must be a bug! I will track it down. thanks for the head up. If you run into any other problems like this, please friendfeed or open a ticket at http://www.getsatisfaction.com/feedly - Edwin Khodabakchian
I have to agree, Feedly is what I have been looking for. If I can figure out exactly what "no thanks" does, it will be even better. I'm afraid to click it for fear it will remove other things I actually want to read. - Rahsheen ™, Coach Rah
Thanks Edwin - Shey, Jamaican of FF
Earlier today I posted on Twitter that Feedly has replaced Netvibes as my start page. I've been using it instead of Google Reader as well. - Angel Smith
I agree completely with Russellreno on his choice of Feedly and FF( although I use twirl for FF). Feedly made me install Firefox 3.0 and actually use it : a huge milestone for me. A single desktop client app for all social media feeds would be awesome. - Emmanuel Anumonwo
tried using this - it started adding friends feeds to my google reader. Information overload! - Eric
NOISE central for blogs! LOVE it! - Susan Beebe
Eric, same problem here. I don't want all of my friends shared google posts right in my reader, that's what I have Friendfeed for. - Andrew Dobrow
@andrew in the what's new and the category pages, feedly will uses your friends recommendation *only* to filter the content so it should by no means feel like additional content. the feedly wall is slightly different in the sense that it aggregate everything. We are going to experiment integrating the feedly annotations with friend feed. If that works, we can start de-emphasizing the wall, at least for the more sophisticated users. thanks for the feedback - Edwin Khodabakchian
I like the concept of feedly but it hasn't quite worked with my brain yet. I like the flow of gReader more. - Jason Toney
I'm lovin Feedly, but I don't understand where the recommendations and annotations go? - MLx
Marianne - On the right of the menu bar is a + and down arrow. Click the down arrow to see More Categories. Your recommendations and Annotations are in there. - Russellreno
Mack D. Male
Lunch time! Quiznos.
mmm, Quiznos. Best gosh darned sandwiches out there! - Paul Short
It was quite tasty :) - Mack D. Male
l0ckergn0me
I just got back from Twitter HQ. Recorded this footage. - http://www.youtube.com/watch...
I just got back from Twitter HQ. Recorded this footage.
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laughs... so that's why Twitter is down! LOL - Daynah
I thought it looked like the Natural History museum with the Whale room. - Noah David Simon
Don't taze me bro! - Greg Hollingsworth
twitter needs to upgrade their hardware lol.... manila - Caroline
nerds can't figh.t hence we are lovers no fighters - Caroline
love it - J Allen
so that is y twitter is down alot, look at that old hardware :p - josh
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