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Steve Rubel posted a message on Twitter

“I'm not blogging about TC50 or Demo. I am more interested in the technology that actually sticks. We won't know that this week.”

20 hours ago - Link

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Robert Scoble posted an entry on Scobleizer -- Tech geek blogger

Scoble Sucks

Saturday at 9:48 pm - Link

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Nice...gotta love the haters. - David Cook

Scoble...don't let the douchebags get you down. - Sean McGee

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Scoble backlash! You're taking it like a champ. - Pete Delucchi

am I wrong, or did you not just criticize only the WEBSITES that these companies put up? How does that make you anti-startup? - Nathan Rein

@Scobleizer So, if you don't review something favorably, you're a douchebag? So, all reviewers with high standards or differing opinions are douchebags? Bad form to review the reviewer. People and companies have to either accept a review or in isolated circumstances offer up a calm, rational counterpoint. Anything else is a bad pr move and impolite. - David van Sunder

it all worked out like you planned scobes, eh? - jeneane is in the house

As much as I like what you have to say, your recent post on start-ups was way off the bat. I don't think "you suck" but I do think the post was not a good one. - Candace Holly

Kevin: you aren't the only one to agree with me that the sites sucked too. Jeneane: I honestly didn't have any idea what the feedback would be. - Robert Scoble

Candace: which startup post? And what did you disagree with on it? - Robert Scoble

If these guys were smart, they'd listen to your comments constructively instead of taking it all personally. People can't be honest and constructive any more - that's what sucks. If they disagree, that's fine, but it doesn't make you a jerk for being constructive. I wish more of my critiques were as constructive as you made yours. - Jesse Stay via twhirl

The post; Startups: your web site sucks . I personally think winelibrary.tv is a ridiculous site. I also think the host of the show belongs on a bad infomercial late at night. It's just a site with a blog post and a video on the front page. And why compare tech related companies to a wine company anyway? Two different things. The post seemed to just say "this is why you suck" but there was no solution or even an offer of "here's how you can suck less". It's one of a few posts of yours I didn't like. - Candace Holly

@Jesse when you are involved with something like a startup anything said about it is personal, take Jason Calacanis and Mahalo. I'm not saying its right, I'm saying I understand. As far as your post Robert, if you're a journalist and you aren't getting hate mail, you aren't doing something right. If they spent as much time making sure your accusations were unfounded as they did taking shots at your level of credibility in the startup field (which is suspect btw) they would have nothing to worry about. - Aaron Krug

Why should anyone expect Scoble to stick up for them? Bad design is bad design. Sometimes getting your feelings hurt makes you wake up to things that need change. - Ben Rhudy

Aaron, I work for a startup - just started, and I would love for Scoble to write about us, good or bad. This is awesome exposure opportunity for each of them. - Jesse Stay via twhirl

What's important is that he's honest - if he were lying about us to make us look bad that would be a different story. - Jesse Stay via twhirl

It should be noted that Scoble's post is also now on Techmeme and each one of those startups is now getting traffic from that as well. - Jesse Stay via twhirl

Scoble, only advice: calm down, take a deep breath before talking. Remember there are real people on the end of your barbs. You've done a lot of good in promoting startups, don't fuck it up now. - Duncan Riley

Candace: OK, then I'll come up with some better examples. Winelibrary.tv is just one that is doing something interesting to me and keeps me engaged, both because it has interesting video as well as an interesting community. A better example might have been something like Evernote, Seesmic, MaxRoam, or Tripit, which are far closer to the usual Demo kind of things. - Robert Scoble

Duncan: there are real people on the other end, that is true, but they need to step up the game big time. To me Demo is the equivilent of the Super Bowl and these sites look like high school. Trying to pretend otherwise doesn't help this industry one bit. - Robert Scoble

@Jesse what startup do you work for? I know what you are saying with "no news is bad news", and of course any criticism from a guy who has been able to see so many startups could be used constructively. If you are talking exposure though, didn't these guys do the right thing then, since Robert wrote another post about it, getting them more exposure? I think the best idea is to focus on your product and the other things under your direct control (website), then the journalists come to you instead. - Aaron Krug

Robert, from what I can gather, at least a decent slab of the sites you're talking about are pre-release in that they'll be launching new sites post DEMO/ TC50 etc. just give them a little time and credit. Sure, some don't get the marketing aspect, but I'd bet not all of them are like that - Duncan Riley

Aaron http://staynalive.com/articles... - we haven't launched yet but you'll hear more about it this week. I can already say that our website isn't very good right now either though. (but then again, we haven't launched yet, nor announced much about it) - Jesse Stay via twhirl

Duncan: OK, fair enough. I'll look at all 70 again at the end of the week. I'll also compare them to TC50 and I'll be just as harsh on them. But, many of these companies have spent months preparing for Demo, and way more than $18,000 (Shel Israel and other demo coaches tell me that companies often spend more than $100,000 preparing for, and bringing their teams to, Demo). So, to spend that kind of effort to have a Website up that doesn't even work is inexcusable. - Robert Scoble

Our total expenditure for Mobilize will be about 2k - but we're working our asses off true bootstrap style! I've wasted plenty of $ (mine & others) in previous ventures. Not this time. - Dean Terry

@Jesse thanks for the link, I look forward to seeing more soon. As far as the site goes, you're right. The same defense you made could be made for the Demo companies as well, as there is actually an embargo on writing about them until Monday(as you know), so I think we could safely wait until after their Demo debut to pass this kind of judgment. If Duncan is right about many companies having new sites after as he stated a few comments above here Robert may have jumped the gun. - Aaron Krug

@Duncan I hear what you are saying about the pre-release deal, but when you say some companies don't get the marketing bit, you can add those companies to the list that WILL FAIL. Marketing is as or more important than the product itself, and you know it. Robert may have jumped the gun here but the point still stands. Marketing matters. - Aaron Krug

Scoble is the Simon Cowell of Social Media.. he's going to tell it like it is, whether you like it or not, either you can build a site, or you can't .. there is no use in half-assing it :) FYI, anytime I see a site that is not in English, the first thing I do is look for country flags. - Tim Hoeck

My comment on the blog: Unfortunate events, looking forward to your next post on this. Even an investigation in the topic could be done as it'd disseminate facts from the parties as it seems the situation is somewhat doing a ricochet by bringing up old stories, I think that storyline will effectively be settled in a definite and decisive way. To the best thinker -Zu - [ zu ]-eBailey

Bring some more intel! I'm somewhat of a researcher and the story seems interesting enough it made me imagine some kind of a social-web-documentary-document, where every posts related to the topic could be disseminated by all, with fact-checking and the like, anyways... ;p - [ zu ]-eBailey

wow, well if companies "often spend more than $100,000" going to Demo, assuming they spend similar money going to TC50, that kind of torpedoes the whole "TC is the side of Truth and Justice because they don't charge startups" argument. (Not that anyone was buying Arrington's argument that the fee constituted "payola" anyway.) - Karim

Karim: actually that's a good point and one that I wish Shipley had made better in her blog post. She decided to knock my ego down a few sizes instead of explaining this and making her conference look better. Oh well, my ego always needs a knock and I don't have any interest in either of these conferences. - Robert Scoble

My honest opinion of your piece was that it looked like you were locking arms with Arrington and Calacanis to destroy Demo. I think the over-the-top bombast and timing makes it smell a bit, if you know what I mean, esp. since you're an adviser to TC50. I would like to think that you look at the startup itself and don't favor one or disfavor another because of how they choose to launch. Your post is a bit jarring to me, actually. Seems to me like you could have made the point about the websites not being good without making the leap that the companies and products themselves are bad and basically screaming to the world that Demo is going to suck. Sorry, but it LOOKS like you're taking sides against certain startups just because of politics. I've always respected and trusted your opinions. I hope that's not the case. - Dawn

I think the kicker was many posts about how Demo sucked that you were posting. Everybody knows you're associated with TC, so it looked obvious even if it wasn't intended. - Patricia

Nathan Rein, you are wrong Scoble said they suck, not only the websites: "I just visited every one of these companies. Boy do they almost all suck (at least their Web sites and if their sites suck, I can’t believe their products are going to do much better)" from http://scobleizer.com/2008/09/... - Loic Le Meur

You know you gotta love the ones who put THOUGHT into their attacks. They're my favorite. Take Dan Hau: "Talentless, fat, annoying, douche-bag". I mean, how many synapses had to fire for that articulate line of reasoning to be spewed forth? I say this; Oh yeah, well Dan? YOU SMELL FUNNY. So there. - Avery Tingle

yes, how scandalous, I can't believe he drew all eyes on something that sucks! Witty man is playing with our emotions there. - xavier vespa

Duncan Riley posted a message

““One thing DEMO has completely F*&ked up: Embargo times. The list is out there, anyone could write about any company there, and yet the startups + PR folk all have Monday embargo times. I can't write about a pile of companies despite everyone knowing about them. Dumb””

Saturday at 9:13 pm - Link

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oops... - Jesse Stay

Jesse, it's beyond stupid. I can't write about the companies I have briefs on, but anyone else can (when I say I can't, I respect embargoes, ethical thing for me). Having said that, I haven't got briefs on all of them, I'll do some digging tomorrow :-) - Duncan Riley

Louis Gray shared an item on Google Reader

Scoble Sucks

Saturday at 10:17 pm - Link

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lol, one of the great things about El Scoble is his apparently thick skin. He is well aware that popularity is its own punishment :-) - Slippy Lane

HAHA. "el Scoble". Nice one. - Roberto Bonini

Great way to promote startups. See who has the balls to fire back. - Rodfather

Robert Scoble posted an entry on Scobleizer -- Tech geek blogger

Startups: your web site sucks

Saturday at 12:11 pm - Link

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I went over some of the sites.. some deserve that, but others.. i think little bit more time spent on their site (e.g. the site mentioned not to be in english .. see the little UK flag?) and others that actually solve a problem.. yet they are focusing on their target market and if you're not i.e. embedded VoIP you won't get the value prop. Yet i agree that towards DEMO they could figure out that non-typical-targets will have a look at the site and prepare for that - Naor

Naor: most people don't give anything more than 10 seconds. Sorry. First impressions matter. - Robert Scoble

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I agree.. but who's 10 first seconds? of prospect? or media? - Naor

Remember that companies showing at DEMO cant make their new stuff public until after they present so some--not all--of these bad sites are just placeholders. - Steve Wildstrom

... don't take me wrong.. i would have changed the first page for the DEMO period knowing i'll get visitors outside my target markets.. yet.. most of the real tech start ups unfortunately lack this kind of thinking - Naor

Steve: that's no excuse for a bad Website. Especially when you know the list comes out two days before your presentation so lots of people are visiting. - Robert Scoble

Naor: both. Ever look at eye-track research from real customers? I have. You can even put analytics on your Web site and look at the bounce rates and such. I bet all these sites have extremely high bounce rates. (people who hit "back" on their browser to escape the pain). Also, if you don't cover what pain points you solve on your site, what makes you think you'll show up in searches on Google for those pain points when people are searching for them? - Robert Scoble

i'm taking each company and try to analyze their target markets and its targets' 'net behavior... in some cases I saw that (mainly B2B) they are not search-engine initiated (from talking with potential customers and analyzing web stats) e.g. eu. telcos, security comps., network h/w comps and some others. In many cases they reach the site due to some early interest in the specific company typing its name directly, looking for specific information and not but searching for "pain points" on google - Naor

ok - i don't like to be at the position of defending those comps. lol :) just to put a note that there are different approaches in different markets - Naor

Naor: well, we'll disagree then. That's fair. Would love to know which of these companies sites you think are brilliant? - Robert Scoble

@Naor and @Scoble: Unfortunately, many businesses today slap together a website willy nilly, because they don't appreciate what the web can really do for them. To them, a website is nothing more than a path towards looking legitimate to outsiders. - Sean McGee

robert, you should ask people to send you their homepages and once a week do a post with a bunch of links and your 10-second impression of their website! - Deva Hazarika

Sort of an American Idol of web sites? - Ernie Oporto

hahaha Ernie, that's a *great* idea. With Robert Scoble as Simon Cowell. "That was absolutely dreadful." "Not in a billion years." "A bunch of deranged chimps running FrontPage on Windows Me could have done a better job." :-D Eventually, of course, this will lead to the Web 2.0 version of William Hung. :-D - Karim

even family builder scoble?? - Will DeLuca

Why are the web sites bad? Because the spent their entire marketing budget $18,000 to get to this conference. - Lorraine Ball

Will: there are so many geneaology sites. What makes that better? - Robert Scoble

Lorraine: word. - lezionidistile

So am I to assume using the "Scoble Theory" that no one should be watching FastCompany.TV? That was certainly pretty bad out of the gate. - Allen Stern

Robert - Agree with this one and glad you posted it. Video is an integral part of everything now (Try to convince a few of my EX clients of that). Marketing is just as important (in some cases more important) than the product or service itself. I've often wondered who should get paid more, the coders, or the genius marketers that put a product above the rest and contributed directly to the valuation. - Charlie Anzman

I'm SO glad I didn't pay $18.5k just to have Robert tell me my Website sux. I think I can get that service for free, right Robert? :) - Elliott Ng

The value of genealogy sites aside, I dig their "all in" social app strategy... it was an aggressive move, they made a strategic decision and they're leveraging it better than the other guys. Also, 395 monthly active users < 982,965 monthly active users (geni vs familybuilder) =P - Will DeLuca

I think, he's damn right. They should hire some guys who know website design. - Ryo

Robert Scoble posted a message on Twitter

“I'm going through all the startup websites from Demo. Boy do their Web sites really suck, or what? Amazingly bad. The whole group of them.”

Saturday at 11:33 am - Link

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It's the classic power curve: Good ideas are oft swamped by dismal execution. Guess that's why they have Demo; to find them. - Dion Hinchcliffe

I'm a fan of making a designer a founder or at least offer an equity stake in order to get decent design (app & site) with no / tiny budget. Highly recommended. - Dean Terry

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the problem with giving a developer equity is that it's hard to get them to do the work. i think the idea should be judged by the idea, not the website. a website is the easy part. a bad idea can never be adjusted. - Patricia

Looking for compelling mobile ideas in the Demo group - seen any? - Dean Terry

-500 points for any website that doesn't gracefully degrade with Javascript off (are you listening, http://www.awindinc.com/ ?) - Chris Weiss via twhirl

it's so early for mobile. - Patricia

This, opposed to many of the entrants last year at TC40 - where they had simply amazing web design and really really crappy ideas. - Mark "Rizzn" Hopkins

Patricia - it's early for some things, others remain to be seen. We are going to demo at gigaom Mobilize so we'll find out soon :-) - Dean Terry

Dean: I haven't seen any companies here that really made me want to try their products out and I visited all of them. - Robert Scoble

Mark: well, I know of at least a couple companies going to TC50 that will show off next week (I am under embargo) that made me go "wow." None of these gave me that kind of feeling. - Robert Scoble

This whole business is an extortion racket (I've paid). Mike has 100 companies in his demopit at 10k each. I hope they see value. - Jay Tannenbaum

Are you kidding, Robert - now I'm looking through the companies listed at DEMO, and now I know you aren't doing anything but blatantly pimping TechCrunch out of some mis-guided loyalty to Mike. There are some real interesting ideas in here as well as some startups we've covered before at Mashable. You are *literally* judging books by covers. Discounting every company out of hand for no reason other than you like the venue of the opposition better. Brilliant analysis, I must say. - Mark "Rizzn" Hopkins

Mark: that's all I have to work on this weekend. I'll link to you guys when you have something from Demo that looks good. But these sites almost all suck. - Robert Scoble

And, Mark, I visited every Web site and linked to everyone (which is something that even Demo itself didn't do) so you can judge my words yourself. Which sites do +you+ think are brilliant? If you disagree with me, let's have a conversation about that! - Robert Scoble

those sites really are pretty remarkably useless... - Nathan Rein

I don't see how you can make judgments about stuff you haven't seen and can't see since you'll be at TC50. Stuff like hardware maker Awind, and their presentation equipment or facial recognition stuff BlueLava's I Love Photos... you can't test either service out, and thus can't say it all sucks. It bias is showing, no matter how much you deny it. - Mark "Rizzn" Hopkins

Mark: I'm making a judgment about their Website. Not about the products themselves here. Was I not clear? Damn, I didn't say "their service sucks." I said "do their Web sites really suck?" - Robert Scoble

I'll link to the best reviews of what gets actually introduced to Demo this week. I take it you're going? I look forward to seeing what you like and what you think has value. - Robert Scoble

I'm really not getting why you panned a lot of these sites. You say there's no use for things like http://www.openacircle.com/ No use to whom? Have you ever worked with people in multiple locations? This seems like a killer app. Sometimes I really don't get who Silicon Valley people are trying to convince. - Mark Trapp

Mark: explain why you'd try this product just based on their home page? Nothing there makes me understand the pain it solves. Or how it's different from, say, Google's Docs and Spreadsheets or Zoho which does supposedly the same thing. What does it DO? What pain does it solve? Do you really get excited by visiting that site? You're a better man than I am. - Robert Scoble

Man, like this: http://www.radiantlogic.com/ma... You wrote it off because there are too many words. If what they're selling works, this is genius. What are you rating these things on? These actually solve real world business needs and aren't toys like Twitter and Qik. - Mark Trapp

Mark: if you think that style of site actually convinces anyone that their product is better, then you're a better man than I am. - Robert Scoble

Mark: toys like Twitter or Qik? Hmmm, is that the latest slam? Excellent. I'll have to remember that. By the way, I was on a panel with enterprises yesterday and you should have heard what they said about tools like that. GE just adopted Zoho and I interviewed their guy yesterday at http://www.kyte.tv/scobleizer too. Also, look at the interview I did with Cisco's CIO when it's up on Monday. What does she talk about? All sorts of video stuff. - Robert Scoble

Robert -- can you point to any site or style of site that convinces anyone their product is better? - Brian Sullivan

Yeah I looked at that Radiant site for 10 seconds before I hit the back button. The stock looking photo, too many buzzwords and cookie cutter design didn't hold me. If I send someone a link, I shouldn't have to tell them where to look or dig to explain what the site is. I think a good example is a lot of the Mac software sites: http://www.flyingmeat.com - Paul Reynolds

Wow, GE adopting Zoho is hot! That is really neat to hear. Looking forward to the Cisco CIO interview... Video is great for business. We need video conferencing so bad it hurts (employees are located everywhere)... wishing this was more mainstream than it is... getting there - Susan Beebe

I don't really see Open a Circle as competing with Google Docs, but with WebEx and Acrobat Connect. Business collaboration with Google Docs or Zoho aren't really turnkey collaboration tools: it's more "here we have an series of apps. Figure out how to shoehorn it into your workflow." Does Zoho even offer video conferencing? And really? Qik? What business need does video streaming from a cell phone solve? - Mark Trapp

@Brian Sullivan: http://iscrybe.com made me think their product was awesome and that I would use it all the time...well, now that I have a beta invite, I used it maybe twice...I did not find it practical, and their product didn't live up to the expectations I got from their site. - Sean McGee

Brian: compared to the game site on Demo, Kongregate got me into it and fast: http://www.kongregate.com/ Compared to the productivity stuff, Evernote got me in and hooked: http://www.evernote.com/ Compared to the travel stuff on Demo http://www.tripit.com got me into it. Do you see anything that comes up to the bar of these three companies on the Demo site? I don't. But to be fair gotta wait until Friday to really judge the utility of these things. So, let's meet back on Friday. - Robert Scoble

Each to his own taste I guess -- none of the mentioned websites do much for me ( I haven't looked at any of the websites in the demo list either so I can't really compare - I take Robert's word that they suck). I am just thinking the time is past where a website is going to do any convincing of potential product quality any more. - Brian Sullivan

hmmm, so far i'm seeing digital rights management, social network groups/permissions, music recs and slingbox clone, nothing new - Deva Hazarika

genealogy, gift lists, and notchup clone job site... more of the same! - Deva Hazarika

hmmm http://www.mydesignin.com/ - they launched at Demo2007, now launching again at Demo2008, nice. - Deva Hazarika

Actually, Robert, you kinda did say their products would, by extension, suck. You spent what: 30 seconds, a minute maybe, on each site before making your pronouncement? I agree that first impressions matter, but seriously who's being unfair to startups now? - Chris Shipley

Wow Robert. Just wow. I'm stunned by your "analysis." If I analyzed startups for Guidewire the way you just did, I'd be out of a job. I'll take the bullet for not linking to the sites; I was cranking out work to get ready for DEMOfall yesterday and was admittedly messy in my publishing. But my hastiness pales in comparison to this feat. - Carla Thompson

carla, chris: definitely agree that the pre-launch website -> product will suck leap is a very big and unfair one - Deva Hazarika

Chris: we will look at the products separately and will look at the web sites again later this week. - Robert Scoble

Chris and Carla: you have looked at each of these companies. Why couldn't you include a sentence about what caught your eyes about them on your list? - Robert Scoble

We do just that in the program, which all attendees receive. And all of that information will be available on the DEMO.com site when the conference opens tomorrow night. - Carla Thompson

seems to me what Robert was saying is that, in this environment, when you have a high-profile launch, you want to have a decent website to go along with it. These websites don't succeed in doing what a startup's site should do. Their products might be great, but they're going to be written off by potential funders or customers because their public "storefronts" (front pages) are too confusing, ugly, boring, or uninformative to catch their attention. At least that's what I took Robert's point to be -- right? - Nathan Rein

... the point being that in an attention economy, part of your job is to grab attention. Aesthetics and good user experience design really matter. - Nathan Rein

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love Depeche Mode... my teen years were spent going to lots of these concerts!! love 'em! - Susan Beebe

++++++ for Outstanding Parenting Skills - Anna Haro

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My very first concert was a Depeche Mode concert during their Violator album. They are a legend, that's for sure. - Jesse Stay

I remember getting into a rather nasty argument with a local radio DJ at a party in Redding, CA about them circa '88. She hated them, hated everything about them, insisted that they were nothing but tape-backed Eurotrash frauds and refused to play them on her show at the Top 40 station at which she worked - never mind that "Strangelove" had become a rather huge hit by that time. I kept telling her how deep and meaningful their lyrics were and how influential and ahead of their time they (were). - Helen Is SOOO Not Of Troy

She wouldn't have it. As someone who's been a fan of theirs since '83, it's just been nice to see that history's proven their fans correct, and that they are still around, some would say, better than ever. - Helen Is SOOO Not Of Troy

been trying to get mine into Sonic Youth but they prefer the JoBros. Go figure - David Parmet via twhirl

I made sure to give the little dude some prenatal doses on NIN and Radiohead (well, ok - not JUST prenatal) - Marco (aureliusmaximus)

good man, good man. - ChangeForge via twhirl

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"It's a desktop organizer that looks like a fellow sitting on the john. Besides the spaces to hold pens and Post-it Notes, the figure holds adhesive tape in his hands as if it were a roll of toilet paper. As a special touch, the toilet itself can hold paper clips. The colorful guy has a magnet in his butt so the paper clips stick to it when you lift him up!" - Cee Bee via Bookmarklet

That rocks! - Mattb4rd

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so it farts out paperclips? - Allen Stern

WANTWANTWANTWANT...no...NEEDNEEDNEEDNEEDNEEDNOW - faboo mama

btw..my birthday's in nov. </hint> - faboo mama

Love it. You can send it to my PO box. That is all. - Stupid Blogger (aka Tina)

Seems like the tape shouldn't be in his hands, but(t) rather on a toilet paper dispenser perpendicular to the toilet. Or is that being anal? - Karim

No more puns for Karim. You are now on restriction ;-) - Stupid Blogger (aka Tina)

lol [slinks off to corner] - Karim

This would make a great addition to my cubicle - imabonehead

what a gas! hahahaha! - Susan Beebe

This is definitely an excretingly refreshing use of office supplies - imabonehead

That's hilarious but I don't think I'd EVER want that on my desk. - Trish R

Awesome. And I hate it when the paper clips stick to my rear too. - Josh Haley

OOOO! That would be great in my new office :) LOL! - Anna Lynn M.

cool - i´m sure this thing is vibrating too! ;) - Dieter Schwarz

LOL! Dieter: Why do need it to vibrate? /:D - Ron

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Coolness! Fame at last - however while the article is correct about the bug that happened last night, my account and this post were not victims of it. This video was favorited in part to breakup the endless politics in my feed and because well, the girls are hot :) See the friendfeed thread in question for details. http://friendfeed.com/e/30c186... - Soulhuntre via twhirl

how is there scandal? it's not like we're 12 watching it or @ least I'm not 12 LOL - Cecil Sandus

lol, 'huntre, I've left three comments to that effect back at source! - Slippy Lane

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“12 weeks' baby update: Sarah is 7 lb 9 oz and Matthew is 9 lb 15 oz. All is tracking as it should. Now - time for shots!”

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I hate shot time, my wife makes me do it because she goes into "protect baby" mode and wants to hit the doctor. - Shawn McCollum

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Oh boy, shots are not fun. My 3 month old just got her second batch of shots recently. I think it hurt me and her mom, more then it did her. - Mike Fruchter

We were lucky with the first set, he didn't seem to care at all. The more recent ones have NOT gone so well. - David Knight

Don't hesitate to pre-medicate with infant Tylenol. - Lisa L. Seifert

The shots are complete. Kids lived, and are at home, probably eating or sleeping. And that's a good thing. - Louis Gray

I don't know about the rest of you, but I really don't think it's a good idea to be drinking with your babies. Doing shots at that age will probably stunt their growth. Just my two cents. - James Ferguson

Don't get carried away with vaccinations. Much controversy. Do DPT and MMR and polio, but not the rest:-) - Francine Hardaway via twhirl

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Penny Arcade! - The Gabriel Effect

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That center panel had me freaking laughing in my cube - Geoff Schultz

me too. thanks for that :) - Kamilah Gill

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Could have sworn I liked this the last time I saw it... - Stupid Blogger (aka Tina)

Gabe broke your like button. - Geoff Schultz

That's why I always know key commands. - Stupid Blogger (aka Tina)

<3 - Pete Delucchi

http://www.penny-arcade.com/co... - Tim Hoeck

Love this comic. If you haven't read their older work, consider picking up their compilations from a book store or Amazon. http://www.amazon.com/Penny-Ar... - Ernie Oporto

Louis Gray posted an entry on louisgray.com

The iPhone's Missing Link: User Profiles

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Nice post Jesse! - Kyle Lacy

Thank you Kyle! - Jesse Stay

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New Adobe AIR App Delivers Live Video From FOX News

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Veritocracy = Digg + Techmeme (500 Invites)

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Hutch Carpenter posted an entry on I'm Not Actually a Geek

FriendFeed’s Progress Out of the A-Listers’ Garage

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Reshared, good work. - Daniel J. Pritchett

Man - Not happy about dropping off YOUR radar ... but I may share the piece anyway :) - Charlie Anzman

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Thanks Daniel - commented on your re-share. - Hutch Carpenter

Charlie - you're not off my radar! I see you all the time. - Hutch Carpenter

Just kidding man ... you're the bomb :) - Charlie Anzman

The "more active" (I can't stand calling it "popular", because that's not -really- what it is) users, I filter through others. If they post TONS of stuff, it can't all be good, and other people talking about it filters it for me. One of the best uses of FF's "friend of", imo. This way I only get the handful of Scoble et al posts a day that warrant further looks, for example, instead of drowning in all of them. - abacab

I'm seeing this trend myself. I'm slowly adding friends that are not even near the A-list. The quality of my reading has improved as a result. - Roberto Bonini

Roberto - Just wander over to the everyone tab. It's becoming more of a gold mine everyday! - Charlie Anzman

abacab: only one out of a hundred things I post here are my own. So, if you want to find interesting new people to follow who aren't Scoble my feed is a great place to start. Roberto: exactly. That's why I say you define yourself by who you follow. Follow smart people and you'll get smarter. Follow abusive people and you'll get more abusive. - Robert Scoble

thanks for taking this to the next level Hutch. I think it's an important progression/evolution for the site and as you say, one that is healthy for the FF ecosystem. - Morgan

I subscribe to every person on the new list. They are my FF A Listers. I also subscribe to Thomas Hawk and Scoble. - Russellreno

I'm a fan of Robert Scoble's FriendFeed stream. I may not do a lot of Likes, but he's got good stuff in there. And he gets good interactions on his posts, so that's interesting. But I am enjoying the broadening out of the experience here. - Hutch Carpenter

thanks to this post (i think) i'm getting a bunch of new subscribers - thanks hutch! i'm subscribing back. i like when i add a bunch of new folks - it's like a shiny new friendfeed. - Morgan

That's cool Morgan. I'm glad folks are finding you. - Hutch Carpenter

I love all the A-listers I've subscribed to, but my favourite time to visit FF is at night. I get to see lots of new faces and some really great content. And the more people I add, the more new people I find from their friends. - Evangeline

Good post, Hutch.. progression is happening as people get to know each other. I still like to check in on the "big dogs" (that's the name of my list), but I find more and more I enjoy FriendFeed for the fun, not for the technology/social intake. - Tim Hoeck

Jansie Blom posted an entry on Internet works - usability - SEO

Keep this in mind when writing content

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“hilarious tweet from @amyjane: "Above all, I pray that Bristol Palin's baby is healthy. But I also pray that it's gay and black."”

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Funniest. Thing. Ever. - WarMaiden

Colin Walker posted an entry on Colin Walker

Are we too demanding?

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Yes, we have gotten far too demanding. However, browsers are a well known arena and people will expect more especially if it comes from google. If Google had launched with plugin capability, you would be seeing much more praise. - Rob Diana

I agree, mostly. But I disagree with the notion that a public beta is so early in the cycle. A beta should be an essentially feature complete product put out to users so they can unearth bugs. No? So, aside from robustness and a bit of spit and polish, one should be able to judge a product from the beta. Google uses beta as it's get out of jail card free and I personally believe that this it is ridiculous. - more importantly, thoug this is a first version and that means much more interesting things to come. - felix

So maybe this should have been called an alpha. Still, let's face it, Google are a company in perpetuial beta ;) No doubt APIs will be announced in future but I still think it's better to get the core stable before exposing it to an amalgam of 3rd party code. - Colin Walker via fftogo

felix hits it on the head; people have forgotten what "beta" actually means in the software sense. Google did indeed release a beta browser. I have less problem with Google calling their stuff beta than I do most other companies putting out barely-alpha garbage and calling it "beta" so we go easy on 'em. - abacab

Allen Stern posted a message on Twitter

“hmm, guy wrote a long reply to my review of his startup, never once saying thanks or anything - oh well, he's a career coach”

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Are Twitter Conversations Dying?

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I never could understand how people followed conversations on Twitter... I always felt I was missing something that everybody else knew? - Jonathan Beckett

Were they ever really alive? It's hard to talk between more than two people on Twitter. - Stephen Shores

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The iPhone's Missing Link: User Profiles

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Copy of the comment I just posted in the site...There are very good reasons why profiles don't exist yet (and they may never exist)