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Oh my this video of Hitler discovering FriendFeed's sale to Facebook NAILS it. Hillarious. http://www.youtube.com/watch...
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Whoever did that was on FriendFeed a long time. Appreciate all the humor!
- Robert Scoble
We still have Plurk, ha!
- Michael Ryan
This was originally form Mark Trapp: http://friendfeed.com/itafrom...
- Matt Mastracci
F'ing fabulous!!
- Larry Hawes
Plurk is just as worthless, especially with the hole Karma Bullshit.
- Matt Ruiz
Thank you, thank you: I'll be here all week! Be sure to tip your waitress; try the veal!
- Mark Trapp
The inside jokes are great, was LOL this morning.
- Willem (@wim66) ☠
Abso-effing-lutely hilarious :-)
- Ritesh Lal
Damn.
- MaryB, BrandingBroadOfFF
"We still have Plurk" haha
- Patrik Johansson
I have seen this vid with so many different sub titles, and its always hilarious.
- Jordan Patterson
OMG! Great!
- Jason Miller
"We Still Have Plurk!" Hahahahahahahahha!
- Hugh McCallion
Hysterical! (At first I thought this (FB swallowing FF) was bad for Twitter - but maybe Twitter will end up the real winner. (Such a depressing thought.)
- Matthew Blaisdell
Laughed so hard I cried.
- Erica OGrady
If FriendFeed got big independently, you would have FriendFeed spam just like you get poked or you get trash messages on Facebook. It's the nature of the beast.
- Michelle
Thanks for the humor. I needed to laugh today.
- Jeunelle Foster
Mark, I forwarded this to a friend - film school graduate, not a Friendfeed user. He loved it. Great job.
- John Craft
Ahahah excellent !
- Jacque
this meme never gets old
- Victor Barriga
hahahah
- Sinan İŞLER
Hahahaha!! That is hilarious!
- zephyrlily
Fwd: Facebook acquires FriendFeed. Interview with Paul Buchheit, cofounder of FriendFeed. - http://btre.blogtalkradio.com/74_2996... (via http://friendfeed.com/scoblei...)
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Well that was fast, Robert.
- Adam Reyher
Wow. I honestly did not see THAT coming....
- Carter Rabasa
Nice work Robert.
- Alex Calic
ya talk about real time news, thanks
- sean percival
listening
- Chris Saad
This is beginning to resemble journalism.
- Ian Tindale
im not sure its such a great thing facebook and friendfeed sitting in a tree.
- Eran Even-Kesef
Good job Robert
- Ruchit Garg
Definitely, I'm listening now. Wow! This is breaking news!
- Manu Ullas
hopefully this turns out okay, don't want friendfeed to get ruined. great interview, that was fast reporting!
- Dakota O'Neill
What are your thoughts Robert?
- Amani
WD mate
- Chris Saad
That was quick. Thanks robert.
- Akshay Dodeja
Hoping this will lead to an improved/cleaner interface for Facebook...I prefer Friendfeed
- Rick Bucich
so, so sad. I like(d) Friendfeed much more than facebook
- Francisco Kemeny
home run for FF.. Facebook will be able to give developers a treasure trove of data one thing that Twitter is dominating on right now. Twitter has a huge developer community but isn't managing that. Here FB is poised to be huge
- John Furrier
So classic that Robert has the first interview about this...Where's Louis? :)
- Anthony Farrior
Wow!
- Ideas At Random
I think FriendFeed can help Facebook more than the other way around.
- Manu Ullas
"very cool...."
- Carter Rabasa
How do they plan to mix the teenagers with the geeks?
- Jordi Soler
Amani: I am excited! Facebook has 800 employees and 300 million users. This makes both companies much more important.
- Robert Scoble
from iPhone
here was a comment on SiliconANGLE blog .. very funny .. "Hey, since we've copied almost every innovation you've had, guess you might as well play on the company softball team!"
- John Furrier
Nice strategic move - Interesting to see how this will integrate and looks in 12 months
- Alex Vermeule (@alexve)
to be honnest I was predicting google offer, then facebook preceed google on this, they are doing well, now rarding FF this is great, the sucess is to know when to pass to something else, the future will make the abtle wave, facebook rude for all geek it is time to code.
- abdellah
You rascal Robert, bet you had wind about FriendFeed and FaceBook merger before today? Yes? Have not used either SM apps. much UNTIL Twitter locked my account. May have been a fortunate mishap as it turns out. Getting to know the beauties of both apps. =)
- SashaKane
Awesome. Thanks.
- M. Kong
Should be so very interesting.
- Adam
Robert wastes no time on the reporting. CNN needs reporters like this.
- JonInteractive
Not sure I am so jazzed about it....but congratulations to the FF crew.
- Kreg Steppe
Honestly, I won't get used to following Robert Scoble in Facebook. Seems out of place to me.
- Jordi Soler
Wow! I was not expecting that.
- Devon Govett
Letter 'F' affinity and alliteration merger, classic playbook move.
- James Watters
Did I hear someone laugh in the background when you asked about FF users being disappointed?
- Paul Saarinen
Agreed Jordi
- Rick Bucich
A good interview Robert.
- Thomas Hawk
Thanks Robert! - shared and linked over on Phreadz : http://tech.phreadz.com/v...
- kosso
Robert, mind if I transcribe this? (Unless someone else already has.)
- Bruce Lewis
from fftogo
Congrats on getting this story Robert. I agree--this is great, realtime journalism!
- Sunshine
No mention of twitter?
- Ivan Kirigin
Hahahaha...all that time you invested over here on FF paid off today! LMAO
- Francine Hardaway
Francine: just watch what happens now. :-)
- Robert Scoble
from iPhone
do you have a small amount of FriendFeed shares Robert?
- Torsten Eckert
NOOOOOOO. Damnit! I am praying that Facebook doesn't wall up Friendfeed. I was starting to build a site around Friendfeed :(
- beersage
beersage: as Facebook is trying to break their users into a more public world, I doubt that you really have anything to worry about there.
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
Starting to listen to this now. Hoping you are right, Rob.
- beersage
I hope so to. But regardless, I think that it was in reality necessary for FriendFeed to sell to really put the technology in front of a sufficient number of eyeballs. Facebook is probably the best acquirer that FriendFeed could have. (I would have not felt the same had FF been acquired by Google)
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
The thing with Friendfeed though is how I can share things outside of a 'wall.' I prominently feature the FF widget on my site. I'm just concerned of losing that capability as I was tinkering with delivering a new site w/ content primarily running through my Friendfeed account. I am to this day unable to do much outside of the wall. I am unable to subscribe to Fan Page updates in Google reader for instance. That is what concerns me about FB acquiring FF given my goals.
- beersage
Robert sounded quite breathless in that interview. Thanks Robert.
- Roberto Bonini
Great interview great Job!!
- Kevin J Hatton
Wow! I'm in shock. I can't wait to hear this interview.
- Micah Wittman
from iPhone
This deal was about getting Paul and the team and nothing else
- Stephen Pickering
@stephan, are you serious? FB is buying a concept, a technoloie, a structure, a content and a user list
- abdellah
now how could a team that left google resist under a unique perception system, where the leader vision is upon any thing
- abdellah
Unconvincing Paul Buchheit, the team is more exited of being part of bigger story - logical for them to move on
- patrickdh
They want a way to turn their white pages into a yellow pages and the only guy on Earth who knows how to do it, is Paul
- Stephen Pickering
It was only about the technology and the people. Most people are on also FB anyway.
- James Myatt
My guess is that Paul got a tooooooooon of options and will soon be the No.2 guy at Facebook
- Stephen Pickering
Glossing over of that "short term" question by the FF boys. It just seems more about the individuals at FF than it does the users of FF. "Their (Facebook) long term goals" Nice interview, Robert!
- Melanie Reed
Well, it looks as if pass-through of FriendFeed Likes, Comments, etc. to Twitter is down. Will it be for good? Did Twitter do this in response to the acquisition? Or is it just a regular (though curiously timed) hiccup?
- Alex Schleber
twitter dow!!
- abdellah
Alex, my Facebook posts have been going through FriendFeed to Twitter today. :)
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
How did you record the phone conversation with Paul Buchheit? I went to BlogTalkRadio.com but... it‘s not clear at all :-(
- Florin Grozea
Florin, rough transcript here: http://friendfeed.com/brlewis...
- Bruce Lewis
I have a few choice words. @#%&. That is all.
- Zachary TG
To do this call I used BlogTalk Radio's Cinch: http://cinch.blogtalkradio.com/
- Robert Scoble
dugg: http://digg.com/tech_ne...
- Gaith
Thanks for this, Scoble.
- mp3WatchWorld
this is why your own personal website is always more important than friendfeed, Twitter and all the rest. that's never going anywhere
- Terry O'Fee
from BuddyFeed
The Nicolas Cage Movie Plot Generator - http://www.cracked.com/topic...
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i still haven't settled this internal debate i have with myself over nic cage: is he a bad actor... or does he just choose bad movie projects?
- .LAG liked that
Nicolas Cage was in Matchstick Men with Sam Rockwell who was in Frost/Nixon with Kevin Bacon.
- Thomas Hawk
.LAG, after watching Con Air, which most guys insists is a *great* movie, I'm going to say it's a combo of both. Ozer, this is hilarious.
- Admiral Anika
He gets credit for choosing Raising Arizona.
- Trish R
I think it's B. He was brilliant in Leaving Las Vegas and Wild at Heart and ...
- Patrick Jordan
Maybe his career profile is representative of that of the average guy in any field: a mix of clouds and sun.
- Micah Wittman
I think he just gets sent bad scripts period. He isn't on the A List anymore so no-one is offering him the good stuff anymore and he is only being sent the dreck. He has to pay the bills somehow so he is picking something out of the crap pile that he doesn't mind doing too much.
- Mark O'Neill
thanks @Anika, i think you're right. Con Air is great when you're a frat boy, living in a house that smells of beer, urine, sweat and puke...other than that, it sucked. .LOLz
- .LAG liked that
@Patrick: that's why i'm so unsettled on my opinion of this guy. on the one hand some of the movies he's in are so bad, worse than B-movies, that you get the feeling he's just there because he's having a blast getting paid money to do stoooopid stuff. and then he turns in oscar-worthy performances flicks like Leaving Las Vegas and Adaptation. he's enigmatic, for sure.
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++Thomas Hawk LOL
- BEX
@ LAG Maybe he's taking the MIchael Caine route - think he just admitted he took most roles for either money or location or both :)
- Patrick Jordan
@Patrick: then he's living a charmed life. traffic in make-believe and fantasy. see the world. work with beautiful women. make a lot of money. good for him! i'd apply for that job if i could.
- .LAG liked that
I'll settle it for you: he sucks shit, he was lucky to actually choose a few good movie pics
- sofarsoShawn
+++sofarsoshawn
- BEX
LAG i think he generally picks bad movies. Although having never seen him in an awesome movie the bad actor consideration is a valid point.
- Nicholas James
He's a total victim of Ben Affleck Syndrome.
- teh Dork Knight aka Kenny
Lord of War = Good Film.
- teh Dork Knight aka Kenny
LOL
- Roberto Bonini
he is a bad actor who often chooses bad projects, but he is not above choosing a good project and making it suck.
- Jim Is Not Smart
Good Luck Scobleizer! - http://thomashawk.com/2009...
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Wow, great article
- Glen Mistletoe
I met Robert at last year's IFA in Berlin for a short walk around the show floor. He's great guy and I wish him and his new venture all the best. And I agree that he should get back together with Rocky. I don't think they are done with their work yet...
- Holger Eilhard
Robert has a long history of personal resiliency, so I am thinking that this is just a minor setback. I too want to wish him well.
- Brian Sullivan
M, forwarding ..
- Daniele Beta
Brian, I don't think of this as a setback for him at all. I think of this as a new and better opportunity for him. Like a lot of magazines Fast Company I'm sure was hit hard in this recent downturn. Robert needs certain things to thrive best. Rocky was a first rate editor. Robert's time is best spent doing what he does which is out and about interviewing people and having someone like Rocky to edit his stuff was important. Robert will do better someplace that is growing rather than cutting back.
- Thomas Hawk
Robert you might want to tuck that away for your eulogy. Quite a tribute.
- Todd Hoff
Todd: Thomas is one of the best people I know, it's a real honor to have him as a friend.
- Robert Scoble
We all know Scoble will be a-ok in the days, weeks and years to come. I'm sure we're going to hear news about this awesome new service that pays by the kilobyte of awesome video you post, meaning Scoble will become very, very wealthy...
- Mike Nayyar
Great post Thomas - I'm also looking forward to his next venture ...
- Patrick Jordan
A very good article that helps us remember how much he contributes to our community.
- Jonathon
Mike: actually that's a very interesting idea! :-)
- Robert Scoble
Very nice post on Scoble. I've never met either of you, but from your descriptions I can tell that you both are exactly how you come across online. And that is most definitely not a bad thing :-)
- Rene Wirtz
We have to wait until SXSW? You're killing me! Whatever he does you know it's going to be good.
- Bruce Lewis
Good luck Scoble. We met at a Social Media Club event in Phoenix a few years back and I have been following you ever since. Looking forward to your new adventures.
- John Seiferth
Amen! You've got lots of helpers if you ever need them!
- Scott Loftesness
What a wonderful article, and the pictures at Flickr were enjoyable as well. I wish the two of you would do a photowalk in San Diego so I could meet both of you in person!
- Laura Zickus
Best of luck to you! May your next chapter be profitable to you in every possible way!
- vicster needs a nap
Great post Thomas!
- Kenton
That was a great summary of Scoble. I'm sure his next adventure will be something to watch.
- Jeremy Brooks
The sentiment here about Robert (and folks like TH too) are right on - the level of transparency, integrity and work ethic we see sets the bar high for leaders in a community (a network of micro communities, as it might be put better). Think about Paul Harvey. An endearing, tireless pioneer who reached his community with the media/technology of his day for 70+ years. Scobleizer's journey, I believe, has just begun.
- Micah Wittman
more time to spend with the Sean McBrides of the world. lucky "fast company" to be rid of a man and his destructive politics.
- Noah David Simon
Really, really nice piece Thomas
- Charlie Anzman
Fabulous post Thomas!! WOW!!!!!!! Lovely, moving and very well documented. Robert is an amazingly passionate, intelligent, smart and uber-technical guy that really has an astounding work ethic that never fails to deliver value in everything he does!! - you captured that very well with this blog post. :) Personally, I -like you- think he should link up with Friendfeed. that would be a PERFECT fit and a complete win-win relationship; however, I'd be concerned that FF might be too small for him.
- Susan Beebe
Facebook just shot a HUGE hole in yellowpages.com's business model. Why? Think about your phone books.
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especially since it transfers engagement
- Mrinal Desai
Facebook now has BOTH a "white pages" for people and a "yellow pages" for businesses. BOOM. Huge shift underway in business. Will take five years to play out, but remember this moment in time. It's huge.
- Robert Scoble
huh?
- Katy Pearce
LOL if thats what works then people will stop creating Groups like "lost my phone need numbers" which are probably the largest number of groups on there.
- Hardeep Singh Dang
Didn't Google Maps / Local do that years ago?
- andy brudtkuhl
What's a phone book?
- David
interesting.
- AJ
Phone books? They arrive here. I put them in the closet. I throw them out, untouched, when the next one arrives.
- Ian May
Phone books go straight into the recycling bin.
- LogEx
Ian: now imagine what you can do with a good yellow pages in Facebook and location.
- Robert Scoble
I'm enjoying the Events portion of FB because I can import to my iCal for local goings on.
- ursi
That's a good one, from a business model POV. Didn't see that coming...
- Tomi Itkonen
Here's what you can do with your old useless phonebooks: http://www.dailyhack.net/2009... ... there must some recycling project we can do with our old useless yellowpages.com website! ;D
- Charlie Flowers
Phone books have been obsolete for a while now, wondering why I even keep one at home. I never use yellowpages.com's website, Google Maps does everything I need.
- Oliver
I don't use the phone book, I check online (say, anywho.com) and look up a number using a service that doesn't require me to log in and doesn't potentially keep track of the numbers I look up in a fashion that's tied to my actual name.
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
I agree with most commenters -- yellow pages for people that are active online users has been dead for years. I don't see any actual shift here.
- Brian Sullivan
Haven't used phonebooks for almost 10 years. Between Yahoo-To-Go and Google Maps, I haven't needed it. My now 3 yr. GPS tells me everything I need and so does the GPS/Live Search on my phone. Why would I go to Facebook to look up numbers?
- Admiral Anika
Robert, after you have a day to think about it, you'll see this is not significant. Local info is already readily available via the open web.
- LogEx
Brian: you aren't thinking enough. This is HUGE. Look at Google Latitude. What is missing? Businesses!
- Robert Scoble
Well, at least I can tear Facebook in half!
- Morgan Haley
Eh? I find businesses via GMaps/Latitude all the time. And sorry, there's no way I'm going to "friend" my local sub shop. It sounds like a good idea...but the spam factor I expect to be atrocious. Businesses don't behave well in the social graph, as of yet.
- Ken Kennedy
+1 Morgan!
- andy brudtkuhl
Robert: remember I have experienced your immediate "this is huge, this is going to change my life and everybody else's" responses to "new" technology in the past. You have been right occasionally but mostly you have been wrong.
- Brian Sullivan
I still don't see how this will make a huge shift. Sure maybe 1/3 of fb users might use it from time to time but Google has been doing this for several years now..
- Adam Snodgrass
Anyone video this so we can watch it ourselves?
- Simon Wicks
I disagree with Robert. This probably isn't that huge.
- Zach Underwood
Now I get it. Facebook will become the über-directory of all data. Hidden from GoogleBots; invisible to Google search. In the future, browsing the web equals logging into Facebook and viewing its content stemming from the user's profile and social graph. Cue "Also sprach Zarathustra". Heh.
- Tomi Itkonen
"In the future, browsing the web equals logging into Facebook and viewing its content" - Prodigy, CompuServe, and AOL say "Great plan!"
- John Craft
I just carried my yellow pages from the doorstep to the garbage without unrapping it, like I've done for the past 5 years
- Francine Hardaway
from twhirl
I've thought of facebook as pretty boring for the past few years. I still log in several times a week though to check the facebook mail and approve friend requests that's about it really though. It sort of freaks me out when I log on though and people start trying to chat at me.
- Thomas Hawk
+1 John
- Todd Hoff
everyone's missing the point here --- imagine you are walking/driving around looking for the next hangout to hit or something to do with the family and you fire up the old smartphone and search for "free kid's entertainment in peoria." if businesses are correctly utilizing local search/business listings, the top ten search results on any search engine oughta be chock full of IYP listings AND facebook entry for your local "free kids petting zoo," etc... there's no reason facebook and IYP can't co-exist.
- Michelle
@Michelle never once have i thought about opening up facebook on my iphone to find something to do.. Why would you when you can just google it? or check yelp? or ask on twitter?
- andy brudtkuhl
"Why would you when you can just google it? - Andy, on another post FB was referred to as a "Social Network Operating System." Imagine a FB response to Android - instead of Google being embedded in your phone, FB is.
- John Craft
On 2020, a book is published on Facebook *only*. The title will be "From Spank Me To Elect A President - How Facebook Conquered The World".
- Tomi Itkonen
I help publish a small yellow pages directory in our town. We have a 60%+ senior population & design our book around this. We can compete with the much larger Qwest book because ours is developed with our community in mind. I can see light in the tunnel & where facebook is going with this but I still think there will be room for specialized local info & search.
- Patrick Looney
@John Are you suggesting a FB mobile operating system? that will never happen. In the meantime though - no one will use facebook to "find stuff"
- andy brudtkuhl
Phonebook is not the right analogy - this is bigger. Friend endorsements of business. When you see an ad online we have become cynical - are they telling the truth? But when your friends endorse a business as being valuable - well, that is about the best way you can promote a brand - period. That is where this all leads. Add localization into the mix and this becomes really powerful.
- Patrick Pushor
"suggesting a FB mobile operating system? that will never happen." - Not exactly - FB apps making up a PRE-like UI. Never? There are 150 million + people on FB, 2% market share would be a very successful phone.
- John Craft
@john there's no possible way you can correlate the number of people on facebook to mobile phone market share. I know people on Facebook who don't even have a computer.
- andy brudtkuhl
robert, i still don't get it. i type "business name" "san francisco" into google and then click on either a google map result or a yelp result to get biz info. not sure how facebook pages will change that for me or anyone else.
- Deva Hazarika
I can't remember the last time I used a phonebook. In fact I just threw a bunch of those old dead tree directories out a while ago.
- Ernie Oporto
from Nambu
@Deva Hazarika - So how do you chose between all the results you would get when you google "San Francisco" and "bakery"? On facebook, you would look for connections between friends you trust and how they have rated the results of such a search. All of a sudden you have a way of pruning search results that you trust. You do not get that from anything but a social network. Add localization as another search filter and this all becomes very powerful.
- Patrick Pushor
wth is a phonebook? I haven't used one in years except as packing supplies.
- Jason Shultz
from twhirl
@Patrick - sure, but that threatens yelp.com more than yellow pages imo
- Deva Hazarika
I get really annoyed when phone books show up on my doorstep. Really I think the internet in general has made phone books obsolete.
- Jason
somebody dropped one off on my doorstep the other day. I work from home so when it happened I tried to return it. The guy got mad at me for returning it.
- Jason Shultz
from twhirl
Save a forest Bell South. This time I disagree with Robert.
- Russellreno
What's a phone book?
- Richard Akerman
The real game changer is happening this month with the go-live of .tel, which will add social media features to web-less directory lookups. Impacts will be greatest for the billions who have mobile phones but no computer. Doesn't look like FB or Plaxo or mEgo et al have a .tel strategy. My website? "Just .tel me."
- A Mitchell
Paulo Coelho http://m.kyte.tv/ch...
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His blog: http://paulocoelhoblog.com/
- Tomi Itkonen
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Took about 20 hours of travel time. Yowza. Lots of snow. The people who run NGOs are a bit sour cause they are being hit by the economy.
- Robert Scoble
My cell phone doesn't work. I'll fix that soon, but if you are trying to call you won't get us.
- Robert Scoble
why are you avoiding the bbc?
- Darren Stuart
Haven't seen anyone really famous yet. Lots of execs. First event is in a few hours.
- Robert Scoble
is BBC and CNN hunting you? :)
- Mihai Secasiu
What will the BBC do to you if they get you?
- Al Briggs
Darren: I had to sign up for sessions. As it was I was five minutes late for the best sessions. Grrrr. That's OK, I have a few tricks up my sleeve and got into quite a few of the good ones. The real competition here is getting tickets to a great session. Arrington's sessions (I'm on one of those) were sold out in minutes.
- Robert Scoble
Al: they were trying to interview me. I wasn't in the mood, to tell you the truth. I'm jet lagged and in no good mood to say anything useful. Not that you can tell the difference from a regular day. Heheh.
- Robert Scoble
Did you get to touch base with Home or cell fone not working still.
- Baba
Baba: personally I'm enjoying being offline. I can call out on one of my phones, but the iPhone isn't working so inbound isn't working.
- Robert Scoble
Spotted on ZDNet's Apple Core blog: SumoPaint, a powerful Photoshop clone, completely Web-based. http://www.sumopaint.com/web/ Impressive!
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