Paul Rawlings - Likes

zaloom! - Kevin Johnson

If we are really cool we'll get on this list http://friendfeed.com/search... - Robert Scoble

Kevin is first, who will be last? I just want to be the penultimate commenter! - Robert Scoble

first and last words are all that matter on the FF. - rob friedman

Okay. Everyone stop NOW! - Kevin Sablan

great. now FF is going to be filled up with those annoying ass people that comment "FIRST!" on everything. - Enrique Gutierrez

ok - Shawn Snodgrass

Aw crap, I could sit here all night waiting to be last, so may as well comment now. - Sharon McPherson

8th! - rob friedman

Any worthy FF thread will engage interested parties enough to read most of the comments. - iTad

Do I get bonus points if I end up being the thread killer? - Kevin Johnson

Kevin you could always delete your 1st comment. :) - rob friedman

Kevin! Yes, and we're having a great time watching this. It will get old fast, but for now it's really fun! - Robert Scoble

Dang it I am 5 min too late. So I guess it is like posting on a blog post, you always want to be first. - Jeff

Hey Enrique.. that would suck. Oh... LAST! Oh Jeff... Last. - Ted Bradford II

That's why these threads just go on and on and on... people just want to have the last word. ;-P - Chris Heath

Chris: I don't want the last word. I want the penultimate word. :-) - Robert Scoble

Nope, I like the riffng of the conversation. Jump in anywhere. Enjoy the free flow of ideas and worry not about being seen by the scanners. Those who take the time to expand the thread have such a richer experience. - michael sean wright

if i wasn't so tired i'd play that out Chris (as my last post was truly in jest). Late here in East TN. Gonna go tip a few cows and call it a day. - Ted Bradford II

Ted: so was mine ... didn't you catch the winky tongue? (i'm on cape fear so i'm soon to bed as well) - Chris Heath

Good point, unless you're actually using the RT chat aspect of FriendFeed, I guess... - Andy Werner

I actually come back 5 days later to make comments so I can have the last word. Everyone has already forgotten what the conversation is about by then. - Jeff

Chris- I did, but needed a segue into a cow tipping joke... cause I've never done so before. I do know this, tomorrow I will use the word 'penultimate' and dazzle family and friends. Hope alls quiet on the Cape bro. These storms have been a biotch. Annnnnnd Jeff just trumped us all. Tell him what he's won Enrique... nite all. - Ted Bradford II

Second to last is always visible on my screen. :) - Bwana ☠

Clever way to get the most commented upon comment on FF ever.... - Barak B

Ted, if you haven't dozed off- i'll have you know that the coastal winds tend to keep a lot of the storm systems at bay- if you're close enough to the water - a mile or 5 inland can make a big difference some days - and spot t/storms can be localized around here big time - for instance yesterday it rained (for a short period) at my house while i was at work 5 miles away getting no rain - only knew cuz the ground was wet when i went home for lunch... ok - it's really time for sleep now - g'nite FriendFeed - Chris Heath

so in other words, last is not least? - Julie Bovee Hill

Barak: check out this idea for a long thread (still nowhere near the longest on friendfeed, but the idea.. ) http://friendfeed.com/ajbatac... - Chris Heath

Chris: Yes, that is a good one too. This is better though and I predict with end up with more comments. - Barak B

Yay! I am last as of now :) - Amit Nangare

lets see how long this lasts for! :) - Paul Kinlan

Another one of these? From Scoble this time? Wow. BTW, last post. - Chris Charabaruk

I will be the penultimate commenter! - Garin Kilpatrick

That way I can be the ultimate one. - Chris Charabaruk

Nope. - Barak B

friendfeed should allow for "liking" comments so top comments can be the ones shown, no matter the chronology. And allow the users to watch comments by likes, threaded or chronologically. - Charbax

A blatant attempt at gaming the FriendFeed statistics for no real useful purpose... Oooh, can I be last, Please Please!!! - Peter Kelley

No, Peter, you may not be last. That's my position. - Chris Charabaruk

Last Post!!! - Richard Hurt

well, the last comment is always changing, isn't this like having your 5 nanoseconds of glory? - Liviu Lica

This thread is now closed. - Ruud van Wijngaarden

No, NOW it's closed. - Chris Charabaruk

Or is it? :) - Liviu Lica

Perhaps now... - Garin Kilpatrick

I would give it another 2 hrs or so. - Jeff

thats me! :) - Roshan Ramachandran

based on what you say, it easier to simply click like :-) - Orli Yakuel

:) - Michael Fidler

"Comment on a friendfeed item"? which one? ;) - Thierry R. Andriamirado

Are trying to go for the longest comment thread again? - Amit Morson

Amit: no, most times one post gets hidden. - Robert Scoble

In a different timezone you can have the advantage :) - Rene de Vries

Okay, people, nothing to see here. Just walk on. This is the last comment. It's all clear now. - Ruud van Wijngaarden

What if you write backwards? Does that help? - Kieran Daly

Okay, people, nothing to see here. Just walk on. This is the last comment. It's all clear now. says Ruud van Wijngaarden - Julian Edward

It would be nice if we could pick the number of comments shown at the top and bottom, I'd like to see the first 3 and last 3 for example. - Kol Tregaskes

I usually read all the comments of something I'm interested in. I don't just read the top and bottom ones so I don't care where I come in. I comment on what I want to because I want to say something. It's nice if the original poster reads/responds to it, but not absolutely necessary. Most of the time the most fun/interaction comes from other commenters. - Molly

:) says Michael Fidler - Julian Edward

Sounds like an online auction...Is there any deadline? Then I'll prepare my winning speech 17,3 sec beforehand. - Zack Brandit

I'm not falling for your postbait, Scoble! Oh wait...crap. - caj needs a haircut

Cow tipping - That's Funny - Brent - Yes I am

Good point. - Jack Boyle

I feel sorry for the cows. And the grass. I am weakhearted I guess. - Ruud van Wijngaarden

I guess I misunderstood. You were talking about that fat waittress in Crazy Mick's Breakaway Cafe, weren't you? - Ruud van Wijngaarden

Fine, I'm in - Don Bonaddio

am I last yet ? - Julian Edward

Nope - Jérôme

no - mjc

Yeah, you were last. Congrats. - Ruud van Wijngaarden

In ur timezone, stealin ur commentz, kthxbye :) - Peter Kelley

ok, I'll hold on to last place for visablity! - PaulJohnson

I was going to add something witty, but i got nothing. sorry.... - Mike Nencetti

No problem. Participating is more important than winning, we say in the Netherlands. - Ruud van Wijngaarden

It's the long-tail of real-time - zeroinfluencer

Excellent point David ;) - Don Bonaddio

Being last has one drawback. It makes you a thread-killer. I'm not sure some of us like being that. Sometimes I'd rather see the discussion keep going. - George Hall (Australia)

Do like the suggestion made earlier that there should be bonus points for being the thread-killer... - George Hall (Australia)

but who wants to be last? - mcvictor

Ok Robert, please close this thread now. ;) - Meryn Stol

I disagree, and I'll tell you why below... - FFing Enigma

We already did this thread, I'll post the link right after Tina's rebuttal - Rah-PM 2012

You don't really believe that Robert. Content is key! :-) - Mathew A. Koeneker

But if I post last, I'm first in the thread on Twhirl! Double win! ;-) - Julie Barrett from twhirl

amazing - David Gross from email

Always happy to be last .... but it probably won't last :) - Charlie Anzman

llllllaaaaasssssstttttt - mjc

You'd be right Charlie :P - Jay

And there is nothing I hate more than reading that first comment that childishly claims "First!" and nothing more. "Last!" (until the next comment comes along) - Jim Espinoza

By the way, I'm the last commenter in a very participated thread recently started by Robert Scoble, but that didn't gain me almost any new follower. I'm fine with this though, as I'd find silly being advantaged for being the last commenter ;-) - Opensource Obscure

Agreed :) - Fabian De Simone

How do I stick my comment to the bottom so that it will always be last? :) - Jeff Sayre

How long can this go on? - Tom Landini

Last! ...for now - Scott

So this if why Scoble goes nuts over realtime feeds - he can be the first to comment. - Tom Landini

Well, every comment gets to be last for at least a couple of seconds. Or fractions of a second with RT. - The original Kevin

If you want to understand the power of last you need to read this thread http://friendfeed.com/mikenay... - WoH: Minding her Steves

"There is no final solution. There is no last word.” ~ Carlos Fuentes - Sharon McPherson

First is way better, because the last post can always change :) - Tim McDougall

http://last.fm - Garin Kilpatrick

Easy to be first, harder to be last. Kind of like trying to win a silent auction, you always have to go back - Lorraine Ball

but what if it took me a while to find the discussion, and i still want to be last? ;-) - Courtney Engle

Firs...Last. - Rob

@Rob - in yo' face! - JoEllen

The one who will comment after me is so stupid I would'nt like to be him :P - stanjourdan

Yoink! - Zach Lytwyn

112 comments - but there can never be last comment, can there? Unless there is a FF limit on the number of comments - Paul, is there a limit? - WoH: Minding her Steves

The current last comment is the next penultimate comment. - Brian Sullivan

Not everyone is on here to market themselves to infinity. Why people, other than people who actually make money off of exposure, insist on wanting the most friends on ff/fb/ms/tt is beyond me. Not everyone is a Scobilite! Yes I did just make that word up... where do I copyright it? lol - Jason Williams

Didn't someone blog about tinyurl's dominance a while back - about how they have too much power. Might have been Gillmor or Winer - Bwana ☠

Winer. I don't think they have too much power - Steve Gillmor

I'm going for last. - Derek Markham

I've got last:-) - Francine Hardaway

I'm the ultimate thread killer, so I win. - JCunwired

instahide - Edward Zwart

How can we compete against Robert - Peter Meng

Peter: why compete? Just come in last! :-) - Robert Scoble

ok - Kevin Johnson

Just checking. I heard this thread was closed, so I wondered if commenting still works. - Ruud van Wijngaarden

For the love; Robert please kill this tread so I will stop getting email. ;) - Jeff

wow that's pretty rad :-) - Patphelan

@Jeff, it's not spam if you opt in ;-) - Kevin Johnson

wonder what the value of posting on page length increments are... as people page down your comment is visible ;) - offbeatmammal

Jeff: do you still get email if you hide a thread? I bet you do. That sucks. Now I know why I don't turn on email notifications. - Robert Scoble

There is no last. - Mobius Loop - Robert Couture

to infinity and beyond - Jonathan Grimes

Kevin: i did not say it was spam. I put the smiley face indicating my partial joking nature. but only partial. - Jeff

Robert: I could not figure out how to disable comments for particular post. It is really not a big issue since I have gmail, but I do think this post may never die. - Jeff

@Jeff - same here - noworries - Kevin Johnson

- Rob

This. Will. Never. End. - Michael Forian

Pay me $10 and I'll delete this thread. (Future friendfeed monetization technique). Sigh. - Robert Scoble

Your comment is always the last! look at mine :) - Luis Benavides

Welcome to the neverending thread :) - Garin Kilpatrick

Garin: I'll delete it before it ends. :-) - Robert Scoble

Robert: That would be a shame. You'd be up $10 at least though :) - Garin Kilpatrick

The last shall be last - Peter Meng

There can be only one. - Kevin Johnson

I seem to be last on many of Steve Gillmor's posts @techcrunchit, the kiss of death to many a conversation. I should be so lucky here. - Aron Michalski from fftogo

A good way to stop? - Scoble puts in his penultimate comment Kevin Johnson says zaloom! - Julian Edward

Yes, you should be so lucky :p - Jesse Newhart

I'm going to change my FriendFeed ID to "145 more comments" - Mark Traphagen

Getting a piece of the pie... :) - Jan Ole Peek

I've often found myself to have the last comment. It hasn't benefited me yet that I've noticed...let's try that again. - Mike Lewis

first is forever....last is a very transient honor indeed. - guruvan (Rob Nelson)

and being both is probably meaningless, but I'm still going to claim it - Kevin Johnson

Do others ever get more than 2 comments on their posts? :) - Cameron

I'm lucky to get 2. - JCunwired

Doing it!! www.radarla.com - Drew Lucas

So, if you are last and then someone comes behind you, should you re-comment to be last again? - T.S. Elliott

Probably so T.S. but it won't last long ;) - guruvan (Rob Nelson)

Sorry Rob:-) - Michael Fidler

1 - Robert Kenney

2 - Robert Kenney

This is the Seinfeld of FF....the post and comments about nothing. I wonder what the record is for the most comments on FF? - Jeff

As a fine-art platform, as a painting, do you think anyone would be interested in a full-screen image feed animated by Judith Supine? http://www.flickr.com/photos... - stephen harlow

He who comments last... - Abbas Haider Ali

comments as: - Kevin Johnson

Tag- Im it - Ryan Gerritsen

not anymore you're not ;) - guruvan (Rob Nelson)

zaloom! - Kevin Johnson

for one moment I could imagine that every comment was Kevin Johnson and his "zaloom!" - WoH: Minding her Steves

ANd so I do and then another and another :) Fun huh. - Raymond Marr aka Knatchwa

not really... but hey... whatever - Chris Heath

So to comment or to like a FriendFeed item is to promote it.. and to promote the promoter. Great great great! - Thierry R. Andriamirado

173rd!! - Mark Traphagen

Controlled noise... - Joe Dawson

Indeed it is official :) But not for long let me bask in it's glory for a moment hahaha. - Raymond Marr aka Knatchwa

It was fun while it lasted. - Ruud van Wijngaarden

It's over now - no need to post any more comments - Julian Edward

Okay, Thanks. It was taking too much of my time anyway. - Ruud van Wijngaarden

Nicholas: Except this thread is far more epic :) - Garin Kilpatrick

back again...to claim last place! - Zach Lytwyn

Good for you Zach! - Ruud van Wijngaarden

Cannot. Let. This. End. - Robert Couture

Have. To. - Ruud van Wijngaarden

hit hit hit - Hans Mestrum

Kol: Cool idea, it would be neat to be able to choose how many of the first and last comments were visible. - Garin Kilpatrick

Last - Michael Fidler

I like most anything distilled...information, bait...(distilled bait...is that like the worm at the bottom of the mezcal?) - guruvan (Rob Nelson)

The difference would be that in this case the worm will stay on the bottom. No matter what. - Ruud van Wijngaarden

I reckon it'll be Ruud van Wijngaarden - Julian Edward

I am not quite sure about that. But willing to accept it. (Wait! You just called me a worm? The most underrated but valuable animal on the planet, that brings us fertile ground and eats dead stuff? It is a nice compliment, but might be a bit much). - Ruud van Wijngaarden

No, No! - I didn't mean you worm. Although as you say they are useful beings. I do hope you'lll be in heroic position of last commenter! This is a case of the last shall be second. (Kevin Johnson being first of course). Scoble is penultimate we would hope. I'm aiming for 5th to last! - Julian Edward

Yesterday somebody asked: 'if you pass the number two in a race, which place are you in?' and I answered wrong. Passing the last one in this race will be hard... - Ruud van Wijngaarden

The last comment shall be mine! :) - Garin Kilpatrick

Woot, last comment. ;) - Jimminy, CoG of FF

mine - Michael Fidler

NOPE - Jimminy, CoG of FF

Mmmm. I always hoped I would be last. - Ruud van Wijngaarden from email

I think it is hard to be first and even harder to be last.. just look at this thread.. http://ff.im/1hqgl - David Gross

Last comment? - Jeff P. Henderson

you mean Twitter Gar1n? You were talking on TWITTER WEREN'T YOU! LIAR "friendfeeed Garin" pfttttt still the same bi-polar - sofarsoShaw BAZINGA!

Interesting comment, SFSS, very interesting indeed. So interesting, in fact, that I think that nothing further needs to be added to this thread. Ever. - WoH: Minding her Steves

אתם כל כך מלא חרא, אבל זו בעיה שלך, לא שלי :-) - David Gross from email

actually i don't know how not to be the last commenter :) - İ. Emre Kutlu

Me too.. - David Gross from email

If only I could puncture the depths of Scoble's scratch-the-surface brain fart, techno-vangelizing, then I'd actually care WHOLE HEARTEDLY about this meaningfully retarded thread. - sofarsoShaw BAZINGA!

The only way this thread can be made even more ridiculous and anachronistic is to move it to identi.ca.. Myspace would work, too. - Tal Shafik

Interesting ;) - Alex

And since you can't guarantee being last unless you are the originator of the thread or can convince the originator to end comments (but since Robert is AWOL that is unlikely) -- you better be first. ;-) - Brian Sullivan

Stuff - Jonathan Hardesty

Okay, admittedly being the last IS visible...but who REALLY wants to be the thread-killer? - George Hall (Australia)

apparently, some people http://friendfeed.com/ajbatac... http://friendfeed.com/silas21... http://friendfeed.com/mikenay... (notice 2000+ comments!) - Chris Heath

I think I remember commenting on one of those threads...and it's STILL going???? - George Hall (Australia)

Hey, this one's from May... it's about to hit its own anniversary! - Chris Heath

I'm surprised this only has a little over 200 comments. - Jason Williams

201 - David Gross

213 ? Original Zlaloom! + 212 more comments including this one. The last one. - Julian Edward

don't be so sure about that... there's lots of people who like to be thread killers or last... just wait and watch - Chris Heath

yes - that's very true - Julian Edward

Sage words Robert - Sage words indeed! - PaulJohnson

See??? I told you! - Chris Heath

yep - you were right - Julian Edward

It doesn't seem to work in the long term. - Ruud van Wijngaarden

That is a very neat app. It will be useful in places you do not know, but also, as it pushes updates, in places you do know as well. Definitely a must-have app for Android! - Steve Farnworth

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Seems like a bit of work to set all the channels, the settings for each friend, etc. - is there an app that would know all your preferences and apply them for you? Or is that one's wife? - tom matrullo

It comes with a few default ones, but you need to get your own feeds based on your preferences. Did you watch the video? - Robert Scoble

Tom: it's not much work. Did you watch the video? - Robert Scoble

It all looks very intuitive. Tell you what, it would be killer on something like a hotel kiosk for users without smartphones. - Steve Farnworth

Robert - I was thinking of you and 400 friends - each one requiring a specific setting. I'm nearly through the vid - it''s very rich - love the idea of having job info from CL coming in. Also, fantastic for GPS, no? - tom matrullo

Desideratum: an app that would say "here there are no Starbuckses" - tom matrullo

just watched the video at the gym. I wonder why he said he wasn't allowed to say that he was working on the iphone version? Then he said it was obvsiouly coming to iphone but he couldn't officially say it was. That was a bit odd. - Mark

Mark: yeah that was a PR plan being exposed. Companies want to be able to give TechCrunch exclusives. - Robert Scoble from iPhone

Very smart idea and nice interview! Shall be interesting to see if it picks up. Might be too much for the average app user addicted to his 101 latest app games? - Antonella Stellacci

"Paul Rawlins, make be a brew" reminds me of the first words Alexander Graham Bell spoke on the phone, "Mr. Watson, come here. I want to see you." - Charlie Barone

Don't know what a "Boo" is? Ask Mr. Alexander Graham Bell! - Charlie Barone

I was planning the first message to be "Ahoy hoy" but I said test I think :) - Paul Kinlan

Pros? Real time comments. Aggregation of comments about your content from social networks. - Robert Scoble

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Cons? Noise. Also FriendFeed's real time comments not yet integrated (they promise those to come "soon"). - Robert Scoble

Checking it out via Friendfeed... this comment should just automagically show up, yes? EDIT: Oh, grunnocks. Should've RTFP in my haste to go 'first'. - John Field

We sit down for a video with Khris Loux, CEO, where he explains how this will change comments for bloggers and other publishers and we also talk about the impact this could have. - Robert Scoble

Keep us posted on how you like it. Looking forward to see Echo in action. - Louis Gray

John: unfortunately not yet. They are working on FriendFeed comment integration. That will take a few more weeks. - Robert Scoble

Louis: Building43 has Echo running now so you can comment there and try it. - Robert Scoble

How does it compare to disqus? - andy brudtkuhl

Thanks Scoble. Yeah, shouldn't have been so itchy-fingered. - John Field

andy: Disqus isn't real time. Disqus looks old. On the other hand, I think JS-Kit needs to come up with more ways to control noise. - Robert Scoble

Did I hear Scoble say... noise? What day is it? - Bwana ☠

Oh, I've always been concerned about noise. I'm just less adverse to it than other people. - Robert Scoble

Nice concept, but appears to be very very alpha. - Daniel Sims

Daniel: when you're the first everyone gets to see the bugs. Yeah, there are a few. I'm sure they will get fixed in real time now there is some real load on the page. - Robert Scoble

There seems to be some glitches that just turned up - we're on it :) - Chris Saad

fyi in ie7 the b43 site (home and story pages) takes a very long time to load and basically "freezes" for a bit before finishing loading. it seems to stick on the echo piece from what i can tell. - Allen Stern

BTW we are starting to use GetSatisfaction for support - would love feedback here too: http://getsatisfaction.com/jskit - Chris Saad

Haha, my friend, you forget: You're using IE7. XD - Sam Goldfield

sam - guess what - i try to live like a normal average internet user - helps me when i review services, provide consulting and run my startup - if you live like an early adopter geek but hope to reach the mainstream with your service, ur mistaken :) - Allen Stern

Oh, no, I totally understand. I'm an early adopter in nature, but if I'm testing something I'll always check cross-compatability and loading times. For extra comfort, I test my projects in my DS web browser. :D - Sam Goldfield

I want. - Bwana ☠

Bwana: To get Echo, go here and click "Reserve Now" http://js-kit.com/echo/ - khrisloux

Did that on day 1 :) - Bwana ☠

Allen: in that case, how's IE6 working out for you? :-) - Robert Scoble

I'm not so sure I like the idea of comments from noisy environments (ala Digg, Reddit) appearing with the content generating them. On the other hand, seeing who's talking about the content on Facebook or Twitter or FriendFeed would be fine. There's gotta be some real good noise filtering there for this to work well. Threading too, in other to keep the conversations from multiple sources together and sane. - Otto

(i am watching the video next) But - how is it more "real time" than disqus? - andy brudtkuhl

I've never felt that Disqus was real-time by any means, although it probably depends on the site where it's implemented. Echo seems to be on par with FriendFeed for "real-timeness", for what it's worth. - Tyson Key

it is also one of the first services after http://ff.amplifeeder.com to use friendfeeds oauth services - Paul Kinlan

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Just fixed a bug with it too - sorry my fault. - Paul Kinlan

does the service work for people outside the US and UK ? - Wang Yip

If you can use Skype out it should work, we will be introducing SIP support soon for VOIP - Paul Kinlan

It is streaming from our server - Paul Kinlan

cool that is good to know, I only learn't about the limit today - Paul Kinlan

Hi Sean, I will look into it, it shouldn't be repeating after the tone and it shouldn't be a male voice - Paul Kinlan

Ok I tried it, its kind of hard to understand the person in the beginning, - Kim Landwehr

We will most like get some professional voice talent to record our prompts for us - Paul Kinlan

My feedback ~ http://ff.im/5u4Bk ;) - CannonGod

Need to be able to playback items via the iPhone web app for ff. Guess that will need to take place on ff's side. - Sullivan

Sure, it is the lack of flash on the iphone, we do store the mp3 and link to it on our site. - Paul Kinlan

is that an official "sign in with friendfeed" button or something you guys just put together? - chrisofspades

Friendfeed made that button, so I think it is the official one for now. - Paul Kinlan from email

good to know. - chrisofspades

Maybe include a link to your site where we can get to the mp3 link from the iPhone interface. - Sullivan

Man, i can't wait to see other implementations over the coming months - Zee.

Does that mean FriendFeed Wave Robot/Gadget is around the corner? - Charbax

The question is, will other Wave servers be able to communicate with Google's Wave sandbox? If so, could someone else open up public access before Sept. 30? - Dave

That is cool but we have had this before with Cinch from Blogtalkradio. - Robert Scoble from iPhone

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How is this different from Utterli? - Rah-PM 2012

...oh yeah, Utterli, Utterz, forgot all about that... - .LAG liked that

Good quality, remind me what the use case is? - Buzz Bruggeman

What's the difference between this and AudioBoo? Oh, Btw, Robert, I couldn't find the NRU app on the app store. Do you know if its coming soon? - Stephen Pickering

Hmmm. Liking the transcription. - sarah browne

it is different from audioboo in that we are a service built upon Friendfeed, we are trying to push new content on to Friendfeed and allow people to easily disseminate their messages through what is very aswesome site (FriendFeed) - you get a heck load of meta data with friendfeed, such as likes and comments and we are planning to take advantage of that soon. - Paul Kinlan

Utterli dial-in doesn't work from the UK any more Rasheen. - alison gow

We didn't know about cinch, but it seems that works by posting the audio file via email, which there is a restriction on friendfeed about how many you can do, this uses the new FriendFeed API directly (which although it doesn't mean much) allows us to do some pretty cool stuff. - Paul Kinlan

And we hope to be super simple - using the sign-in with oauth you don't have to do anything to get started, all you do is dial in and leave your message :) - Paul Kinlan

And we are also trying to use this group as a distribution mechanism. - Paul Kinlan

Obviously FriendBoo is still in development, so consider the following friendly critique: - CannonGod

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Sound Quality - okay, phones aren't the best to record with but comparably this wasn't the best. I do like a phone-quality message, just the sampling was way too low. For a good phone quality, look towards iPadio. - CannonGod

Ease of Use - Very happy with calling in and entering PIN. Also the added advantage that any calls ended/disconnected are not recorded. This is good :) - CannonGod

Cool we were debating on where or not to send all send the recorded message regardless... we chose not to send it in the end. :) - Paul Kinlan

Social Networking - Obviously this is a service designed for FriendFeed users. I can have it post out to my Twitter through my standard FF settings, however it suffers the same of iPadio which is not being able to title your posts. Now while iPadio lets you change the default of your post, I would expect the creators of Vooices.us to allow me to verbally title my FriendBoo post. That would be rad as no-one yet does this! :) - CannonGod

Emailing Audio In - I've been using the Voice Memo app on my iPhone and emailing in updates to my Posterous account. It would be nice if there was an option to do this here, with the possibility of a higher bit rate quality on recording. This would also allow me to title my post other than the default. - CannonGod

FriendFeed Connectivity - I would like some control over where my posts can be sent, eg. Groups. This could be achieved if there was emailing options. This could also allow me to attach an image with my recording? That would be sweet :) - CannonGod

Cool so you would have two audio prompts, one for the title and one for the body? - Paul Kinlan

Conclusion - While I've mentioned using email a lot, that's only because it's easiest and why everyone else has done it. But as you guys have built a voice recognition system you should play to it's advantages and have it control any aspect I would consider typing. But to keep things still phone-based might I suggest allowing one to set up triggers using the keypad, i.e. post to a certain group - press 1# at end of call? I'm sure you guys are smart enough so you've probably considered most of these options. - CannonGod

@Paul: Something like that, so only the title is converted to text. You may also want to consider converting the whole dang thing to text and posting that as a comment (or series of comments) and get the jump on AudioBoo doing audio transcribing with SpinVox ;) - CannonGod

sure we need to workout what extra little features might make it in we were thinking of being able to set up tags but I like the groups idea more... not sure about transcription - spinvox isn't exactly cheap - Paul Kinlan

Probably better then if it's just the title that's transcribed. I know SpinVox allow a limited amount of free transcribing of about a minute, enough for a title. - CannonGod

Can I try it Paul? I'm always keen to try new ways of audio-breaking news via social networks and this sounds cool :) - alison gow

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Sure thing, just visit http://www.friendboo.com click Login and it should tell you how to work after that - if it doesn't then it is a bug and I will try and fix it asap :) - Paul Kinlan

It will auto post to our friendfeed group as well. http://friendfeed.com/friendb... - Paul Kinlan

I'll definitely give this a try again later :) - CannonGod

Jake: Cool, we would love the feedback - Paul Rawlings

Paul, I'd definitely like to give it a spin. Off to check out the site... - FFing Enigma

I would be glad to help as well. Enjoy me a good beta testing. - Cody Heitschmidt

FFing: cool just log in and follow the instructions - if any of it doesn't work give me a shout. - Paul Kinlan

Cody: excellent, if you login and spot any problems I am all ears :) spotted some issues already. - Paul Kinlan

Just one thing, if Caller ID is withheld we can't hook it up to your account so you won't be able to use it. - Paul Kinlan

Paul, seemed to work seamlessly for me. Few "noob" notes. 1. I am an idiot and tried to dial the zeros before the country code, I know I am an idiot but why put the zeros there. 2. It would be great if the robot english lady just told me to hung up once I am done, other than that seems sweet. - Cody Heitschmidt

Cody: thanks, To be honest, I didn't know if the number should use 00 or not. So should the number be 14153764128? - Paul Kinlan

thats what worked for me!! (no zeros worked for me!) (zeros didnt!) - Cody Heitschmidt

Cool just updating the page now :) - thanks - Paul Kinlan from email

Does this mean OAuth is live now? - Jesse Stay

OAuth is live! - Benjamin Golub

Yay! You guys are too fast - I'm not finished yet! :-) - Jesse Stay

Let me know as soon as you guys have an "official" sign in button I can use. - Jesse Stay

Jesse: we definitely will, I'll get some of the more artistic FriendFeed developers (read: Bret) on it right away - Benjamin Golub

I think I can at least have a very simple version working in the next week if you guys have that. - Jesse Stay

Of course, assuming Twitter doesn't break my entire app again. :-) - Jesse Stay

any hints on the non-web oauth flow? - bear (aka Mike Taylor)

Mike: non-web OAuth flow is coming but not available yet - Benjamin Golub

you just got my hopes up when you showed a curl command line above - bear (aka Mike Taylor)

The launch of a service like Google Voice is overdue. There's great open source convergent technology to control phone calls for some time, but no one serious has put a great service out there for free. I just wonder when Google Voice will be available in Brazil. - arnaldostream

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I'm also hoping that Google Voice will come to Mexico anytime soon, but I totally understand that phone companies will be against it. I agree with you that is long overdue. - Diego Espinoza V.

Telcos already have some issues to deal with, a service like Google Voice is just another (big or not). They'll most likely make deals with these phone service providers, another race, between telcos, to see which one gets more traffic. - arnaldostream

Clark: If I had a Google Voice number, I'd still keep my texting plan, because like you said, maybe some companies will start to complain about GV. - Diego Espinoza V.

The telcos are probably partnering with Google, they still have to route the traffic anyway. - arnaldostream

But how do you feel having your voice going through Google as well, shortly they will send you ads based on the content of your call. - Roni Segoly

Great run through of the basics around Google Voice. I use it primarily as a disposable number for telemarketers et. al. - sean808080

I hope it will become available in the EU soon. - Șerban Dragoș

Roni Segoly: That's a good point, did you read the usage policy and the legal stuff yet? - arnaldostream

maybe shouldn't have spent the joint-savings and just taken it? - John Wang

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LoL - Amir

Well known viral marketing campaign. Check this blog post from 2 years ago: http://www.museumofhoaxes.com/hoax... - Stephen Mack

Davis - I'd say 50-50 odds. At least. - Andrew C (✓)

I'd go with 0.001% chance of being genuine. - Stephen Mack

its real, i read about it when it occured, :( - chaz2b

Chaz, what do you say about the same billboard appearing in different cities across the world? - Stephen Mack

many femmes scorned? - chaz2b

Heh! So they all happened to be married to Steven and use the same wording? - Stephen Mack

I find viral marketing ineffective. For instance in this case I don't know what they are marketing nor do a care. - Geoff Schultz {TF}

according to chaz - its real - Zee.

That's hilarious. I love Fffffound.com - Carrie

Digging around a bit more, commenters at http://adland.tv/content... cite a Gawker claim that it was for a CourtTV show called Parco PI. The blogger behind the billboard, thatgirlEmily (http://thatgirlemily.blogspot.com/ -- last updated in July of 2006), mentions Parco by name. Case closed. - Stephen Mack

nice find Stephen - Zee.

I drilled Emily a few times... - Outsanity

Wow! - .LAG liked that

Outsanity ...so, you mean: you're Steven? j/k - .LAG liked that

>>>Roger L. Sizemore Worst insult of the day - "Your dick went straight to DVD." - Russellreno

Almost a tweet - Mo Kargas

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news... :p - chaz2b

http://forum.planet-rugby.com/index...& :p - chaz2b

http://www.flatheadbeacon.com/article... - chaz2b

seems i could just go on, just cause this one billboard was viral, dont mean it hasnt been done, :( - chaz2b

I don't believe the daily mail and flatheadbeacon ones are real either. You're right it's possible that it's been done. I just find it very unlikely, given the cost. Why pay that much on revenge when you could just take the money? - Stephen Mack

Haha! :-) - Mathew A. Koeneker

Cool - Kevin J Hatton

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Very cool product. Would have been nice if they were clearer about what the product actually is on the home page - had to dig thru to the products page to know that it was a solvent you apply to a surface. Wasn't sure if the product was a solvent/coating or if it was in the marker. I would buy this. - The Fat Oracle

This product has been around for awhile, right? I could have sworn I've seen this stuff in non-web media. - Zach Landes

Zach, yeah I'm sure but very cool! :-) - Kol Tregaskes

Oh, definitely Kol. If I were building one of those trendy silicon valley offices (kinda like the one in the photo...)I'd totally have to add this. - Zach Landes

Or if I were a parent of a 3 year old. My sis & her husband just bought a house. They could so use this given my niece's affinity for crayons. - The Fat Oracle

the walls in the study rooms of our new library are like this. - Marie

nice! One of the walls of our conference room is coated with a material that makes it a whiteboard as well. Very handy - Tamara

It's uncomfortable while drawing in the conner - Tony

does it smell good? the paint. - Carolyn Chan

I really want this for my office! - Michele Lorito-Chase

I was looking at this just yesterday for the room we'll be homeschooling in. I'm excited to try it. - Heather Solos

Ironically, I just finished making a homemade white board with clear acrylic and some hardboard and some woodworking. If only I had know, I could saved a lot of work.... - Jim

This is so cool. I was actually talking with someone yesterday about having a room with whiteboard in my house. So this was very useful. THanks! - *Tiffany Diamond*

*drools* - Colby

just painted my dd's room with chalkboard paint. we're a little behind. - kelly

GOTTA get me some for my office!! link to order? Zee U mightAs Well make a few on this! *giggle* - Arleen Boyd

@Arleen If i had known there'd be this big a response.. :P - Zee.

Want! - Rick Cogley

Just wait til the late 2010s, when nanotechnologically-based paints appear. You will be able to paint computer screens onto any surface in your home. - J. D. Ebberly

I wonder how it compares with this one, which is 8x cheaper http://www.ronshomeandhardware.com/Product... - David Lynch

http://www.techcrunch.com/real-ti... is the CrunchUp. Stick around for the after lunch session. Very cool. - Robert Scoble

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i thought rubel said blogging was dead? :) - Allen Stern

Allen: Steve Rubel will bring his blog back after Friday. - Robert Scoble

wow nice - Allen Stern

Bill: I can't tell, agreed to an embargo, but you're already getting a preview. Just think about your blog now (or mine). :-) - Robert Scoble

Blogging was dead? - Ara Pehlivanian

Real Time is where it's at. - Robert Scoble

too bad sites like mine can't be ready to post about it :( - Allen Stern

Ara: have I blogged this week? If I had what is coming on Friday I would blog a lot more. - Robert Scoble

FriendFeed Pro? - Chris Saad

<pops thread out> - caj needs a haircut

Allen: embargoes suck. I know. But you should be one of the first sites to use this. - Robert Scoble

i dont even have an embargo robert - oh well, no worries - Allen Stern

Chris: no. Not FriendFeed Pro. Although if FriendFeed were smart they'd buy the company after Friday. - Robert Scoble

Data Portability Exporter 1.0 ? :-P - Allen Stern

blogging never died. Some things make it easier and better. http://posterous.com - Dj Skunk Diesel

Allen: there is a lot of data portability in what I saw, yes. - Robert Scoble

i think Data Portability is the future :D </obvious statement> - Chris Saad

Dj: it is going to be interesting to see how this changes people's approach to blogging and Tumblr/Posterous. - Robert Scoble

Dj: it is going to be very interesting to talk with Steve Rubel on Friday afternoon after the demo. - Robert Scoble

it's the first ever virtual blogging tool - you just imagine your posts and they appear! - Allen Stern

Allen: I imagine that you appear and you do, how do you do that? :-) - Robert Scoble

oh i just bought guy's package - i have hired a team of allen's - for example, i am the evening shift allen (allen2.1 internally) - the night allen arrives at 11pm (allen 4.2 internally) - Allen Stern

Am I that far behind? Why is blogging dead, and by real time you are talking about more than live stream video? - ASKJDOG

Hmmm. Sounds like FF benefits from this. - Nick in Manila

Nick: FriendFeed might benefit, yes. JDOG: we are talking about real time text. Just like here. - Robert Scoble

Allen: you are cracking me up. So fun! =) - Miiko Mentz from iPhone

miiko - sometimes we all need to smile, that's my job as Allen2.1 - Allen Stern

Allen: personally I like the morning shift better. Since I'm in London I'll go to sleep now and wait for him to show up. - Robert Scoble

Got it: real time text stream = "blog." Blogging is dead; long live blogging!! - Tom Guarriello

remember when techCrunch said they were gonna break embargoes... you should, too - Marco

aah still in london! get off ff and have some fun - Allen Stern

Allen: I was off FriendFeed all day! - Robert Scoble

How can you bring something back that isn't gone. Have you seen the WordPress growth numbers? They have been very consistent and very impressive for many, many months. - Christopher Harper

Missionary: well, I have definitely left a lot of my blogging due to real time interactions like these, but I don't have page views to worry about. - Robert Scoble

Now ur both making me laugh. Good times! - Miiko Mentz from iPhone

Can we mere mortals watch it online - Mark

Mark: I don't know about video, but I'm sure that the second this gets announced it will be discussed on FriendFeed to death. - Robert Scoble

miiko - be nice or i get out the voodoo doll! - Allen Stern

Thanks Robert. I'm starting to "get it" just thinking how to implement this in my niche - ASKJDOG

I just add a lot of this other stuff to the blogging I'm already doing. Most savvy bloggers are doing the same thing. They sort of all fit together in my world. - Christopher Harper

it's after 3am in London - Ian May

somehow this feels like a test of the "tc50 and demo broadcast system" - im sure we will see more of these "oh hot damn i just saw x but i cant talk about it until y" posts come sept. - Allen Stern

Allen, why do companies talk to people about products and then tell them they must tell no one about it? I mean, since no one can talk about it, no extra excitement is generated? I don't really get it - Mark

Allen, gotta luv the voodoo doll. ;) - Miiko Mentz from iPhone

@Allen, to give the individual an opportunity to form an opinion and write a well thought out article when the service launches. - Darren

Mark, tomorrow's event will be streamed live. Hopefully it all goes smoothly. - Miiko Mentz from iPhone

Mark - embargoes give writers a chance to test and play before the tool goes live - so the posts should be better than just press release copy - i rarely ever mention a product before it goes live - scoble likes to build excitement about what he sees. i just wish that more companies learned that excluisves are bad for startups - Allen Stern

Thanks Allen - Mark

Mark: PR people tell me they use embargoes so that they can brief a large number of people without pissing anyone off. If I wrote about this stealth company tonight, for instance, lots of other journalists would get pissed off at the company. Some, like TechCrunch, even refuse to write about companies if they aren't given equal access. It also, like Allen says, gives writers a chance to produce videos and test out products so they can write more authoritatively about them. - Robert Scoble

So its largely to stop competing blogs, sites etc from complaining that Site X got earlier access than Site Y for example? - Mark

Robert/Allen, well said. Mark, in theory, yes. But it doesn't always work out that way. - Miiko Mentz from iPhone

So what was all the fuss Arrington was making last year about embargoes? Didn't he say he would violate every single one? - Mark

I can't wait to hear about it! - Joshua M

Mark: Arrington just said he reserves the right to break embargoes when he wants. Usually if the company deals with him straight up he'll agree to the embargo. What I hate are companies that give some people special deals. Apple does this all the time, which is why I never go to Apple press conferences anymore. - Robert Scoble

a good example of poor choices are YC startups - they go to tc/sent to tc/etc and miss so many more opportunities for coverage - works well for TC tho - they always get a HN frontpage. - Allen Stern

Hint? - Scott Williams from BuddyFeed

scott - he said "after lunch" so check which startups are presenting after lunch lol - Allen Stern

Thank you Backtype for bringing this to me. I can't wait to hear about whatever this is. - Steve Rubel

Robert how will we know when this thing your talking about is public? How will you update us? - Chris Saad

@Chris - you won't miss it. He will be on a unicorn that everyone is talking about. JK - looking forward to this - Steve Rubel

@Steve haha true - Chris Saad

So I wonder what this would mean for newspapers. - Michael from iPhone

Can't wait to hear more. I hope it's a tool to make it easy to aggregate content into blog posts -- that's what I've been wishing for lately. Sometimes I have up to ten browser tabs open to pull in all the urls, images, videos and quotes I want to include in a new blog post. - Andy Kaplan-Myrth

cool ... buzz .... buzzz!!! :) - Susan Beebe from BuddyFeed

It will be interesting to see what it is. Maybe my guest bloggers will cover the story. I am on a worklife summer break! Blogger since '02. - Martin Lindeskog

Robert Blogging has never gone away! Not in my book. - Technogran

Scoble, are you referring to LazyFeed ? - Ahsan Ali

We here at Posterous are looking forward to the announcement. Innovation is always great -- can't wait to see what's going down on Friday. - Garry Tan

Sounds a lot like LazyFeed: http://www.louisgray.com/live... - twitscoop

Lazyfeed sounds like a combo of feedly and backtype, with categories - Ahsan Ali

Blogging straight from my brain coming tomorrow! Hook me up! - Mike Buechele

@Michael For the love of gods, don't invoke Zobzee! - Sam Harrelson

All this is making me wish Friday comes sooner. For me it will be another 24 hours away as I presume @Scoble is referring to US PST. - Vinko

Robert! U R such a TEASE! *giggle* - Arleen Boyd

hmmm I wonder what this is.... - Marko Saric

I guess it's this: http://www.techcrunch.com/2009... ... The WordPress Jabber client - Marko Saric

No, the blog is not dead by any means http://lifestreamblog.com/should-... but Lifestreaming is almost a necessary component needed for supplementing them with the advent of real-time http://lifestreamblog.com/you-say... - Mark Krynsky

so TC has come out with 300 invites to LazyFeed (which are sadly gone), any going here? :P - Marlin Forbes

It's Friday. Who's the stealth company that's gonna "bring blogging back" and how are they gonna do so? - Brad Williamson

According to the presenter, Echo is the service: http://js-kit.com/echo/ - Brandon Titus

Thanks Brandon ;-) - Brad Williamson

I really don't like being forced to spam my tweetstream just to sign in for an Echo invite. I won't do it. Bad bad practice, guys. But fascinating service concept. - Nick in Manila

I understand scoble's statement now. I was all ready to shift 97% of my publishing off my blog and onto platforms like FriendFeed till I just saw how Echo and the new Disqus features are enhancing the conversation on the blog. It's dragging me back. - Nick in Manila

Glad to hear you will be blogging more Nick - FriendFeed and other services are fantastic for virality and discussions with your friends - We feel that Echo makes those services even MORE relevant while putting your blog back in the picture. - Chris Saad

Chris - interesting. This certainly isn't an either/or thing. Well, not any longer. Heh. - Nick in Manila

It rarely is :) Communication systems rarely go away - they only find their place - Chris Saad

loling at "blogging is dead" comments - Jeremiah Owyang

Just to confirm: you were referring to the pubsubhubbub demo at the real-time crunchup? - DGentry

Happy 4th of July! - Melissa Gonzales

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Hey! Could you send me an invite? - Tyler (Chacha)

Nope. I am only inviting people I've met face-to-face and who I want to follow. I'm already following you here on FriendFeed, though, which is even better. - Robert Scoble

that makes complete sense... so after your jaunt across the ocean head over here to Hawaii :-) - Crystal Clear

Isn't it a little rude to refer to hidden feeds? As they used to tell us at NSA, true secrets are those shared with no one. - Jack&Cleo

Jack, it is very rude to talk about a secret group, but that's one of the things I'm studying too. Humans are fun to study. SEO types are going crazy over trying to get into this account, by the way. - Robert Scoble

Robert, really, I'm just going to say this just once - repeatedly talking about your "secret feed" is ridiculous. It completely looks like an 11yo trying to grab attention and prove he's a "popular" kid. You admit it's completely rude to talk about hidden feeds, and yet you justify it because "I'm studying humans," which is another arrogant and incredibly rude thing to say (you do not refer to people as subjects, ever). Scoble, for someone with your accomplishments, I expected better character... - Ben Parr

Just open it up, let us follow @SecretScoble, but refuse to follow us back, whats the big deal? - Mark

They trade Scoble nudes like baseball cards in there. That's the word on the street. - Geoff Schultz {TF}

I can see your use of the secretscoble account to be very simalar to my use if twitter. I have started to put a cap on the people I follow, rather than blindly following everyone back, about 60% of the people in my twitter stream I have met in person, and about 20% are people I hope to meet. I have found I start missing things important to me if I go over 450. I do respond to every... more... - Luke Kilpatrick

Ben: sorry, every Twitter company is studying Twitter's users. Every single damn one. If that's rude to do, then go postal on all the Twitter developers. Mark: it's a big deal because I want to talk with a very specific audience there, not with everyone. I am studying how that changes my writing, or what I want to do. In my research of how normal people use the Internet they want... more... - Robert Scoble

Ben: and how will this make me more popular? Or prove to others that I'm popular? You have some weird ideas of how to prove you're popular. James: my secret group. Gotta go, the black suburbans are here. :-) - Robert Scoble

As a uk tax payer I'm helping to pay for your blogger holiday - can I get in ? - Adrian

Adrian: no. It's like the Suggested User List. Only less fair. - Robert Scoble

Hmmmm... I think I was following that account on my old @freddavis account... another hassle with Twitter never giving me my account back... add me as @fucktwitter, or just follow me here ;-) - Fred Davis

So in other words, you're finally experimenting with "the friends are the filter"... you know, the method that you were absolutely insistent wasn't as good as "follow everyone" a while ago? I'm not going to say "I told you so" but... I told you so :) - Ian Betteridge

Great friends can be the best filters and can allow you to get a much cleaner stream of what's happening than following everyone - same story with RSS feeds - I think Ian is quite right, but maybe you are onto something different Robert... - Robin Good

Robin, I think we're actually both right: a lot depends on what you're looking to use your feed for. Robert uses his quite differently to the way that I use it. I don't care about 99.99% of the stuff which comes up enough to need to know about it *right now* - Michael Jackson's death being a classic example. But there are certain things that I do want to know about now, and those tend to be the kinds of things that friends would pass on. - Ian Betteridge

You could do a quick mashup on your site that could authenticate with twitter and show the home feed for @secretscoble on that page to everyone, without them having to join. Couple of issues with that, though. It would also show tweets from people whom @secretscoble follows who otherwise have protected feeds. Also, basic HTTP authentication b/w your server and Twitter - not very secure. - sameer

just take screen shots from time to time if you want to make a point about what you are seeing there. then get your friends' permission, and write a blog post about it. - Laura Norvig

I would keep it that way scoble - polou/indigo_bow

@secretscoble yes it is - - Kevin Tunis

Bob Plunk have you been on the sauce? Just add the people he follows to your account and you have a replica of @SecretScoble. I promise you Robert is not saving all his pearls of wisdom for that twitter account. He isn't tweeting revelations that will change the world on his alternate account. It's just some experiment he is running on things such as how much attention people pay to invites. - Mark

kewl and best ; Scoble rox lol ; http://www.youtube.com/nicomed... [WE LIVE IN PUBLIC-participant, Sundance Film Price, imdb at http://www.imdb.com/name... ] nicomedy aka ewing2001 - ewing2001akaNicomedy2010

Until you figure it out, I'll use your SUL as a filter to find interesting streams I am not currently following. - Alberto Saavedra

Twitter should just display posts from everyone you are following in a stream, just like they should allow anyone to sample someones followers. Basic. - Steve Garfield

Yes you can let us see.. Read Friends "Timeline" section: http://support.autoblogged.com/forums... - CantorJF

I dont want to see it anyway!! - Matt G

Would you like to show that as a widget in your blog? I could code a wp plugin to do that. - Diego Sana

Screenshots? - Tyson Key

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