Robert O'Callaghan - Likes

LOL! A FriendFeed Cheerleader! - Matt Ruiz

I don't understand it either - Doubledown_inSL

If you don't understand FriendFeed then I must be really lost - Susan Beebe

Of course these are the same people who told me three years ago "Twitter is lame" so not sure I should listen to them. - Robert Scoble

Robert- what don't you understand? - Brett Kelly

Gimme an F! Gimme an R!.... - Jeremy Brooks

friendfeed will make sense a year from now - Doubledown_inSL

Robert - listen to your gut. :) - Matt Ruiz

Robert wants to know how to gain 100,000 followers in 3 minutes - Doubledown_inSL

Well that is a bit of a problem, it has a steep learning curve! - TobiasVerhoog.com

Brett: I don't understand how FriendFeed will beat Facebook. ;-) - Robert Scoble

friendfeed's learning curve looks like heaving boobies - Doubledown_inSL

LOL, nice. Easy to beat Facebook. Friendfeed is way safer, and can connect to other services. - Zachary TG

Brett: and I don't understand why being a cheerleader for something is bad, especially when I'm right. - Robert Scoble

And when you shake the iPhone app, it updates! (wait... no... that's not FriendFeed....) - Linda Mills

FriendFeed is like the new geocities - Doubledown_inSL

Does Friendfeed have to beat Facebook? - Kim Landwehr

Anyway, this is what happens when I get drunk with traveling geeks and Paul Carr. :-) - Robert Scoble

Sounds like everyone in London is going to be viewing this conversation soon. So, don't wonder, just look. - Martha

If the web tool is adding value to what you are doing, nothing wrong in being a cheerleader for it - Tejas Patel

London is asleep right now - Doubledown_inSL

Martha: I don't understand how to make Paul Carr understand. :-) - Robert Scoble

Doubledown: London is just getting started right now. - Robert Scoble

Robert, if you were a FriendFeed thought leader we would all cheer. - Dutch Driver

Let's all cheer for Friendfeed. Gooooo Friendfeed! - Asgeir

I don't understand it either, but I still love it. - Oracio

Twitter is lame. FF rocks. - Uncle CW™

I really WANT to like friendfeed more, just seems good in theory though - Doubledown_inSL

Oracio: I'd say something sexist right now, but even though I've had too many glasses of wine I won't. - Robert Scoble

Surely cheerleaders don't really understand what they're drawing people's attention to anyway ;-) - Katie Dob from iPod

The only reason I really have a FriendFeed account is to talk to you. Facebook has commoditized just about all the other 'niche social services' into a familiar interface for the masses. So as far as 'friend feeding' is concerned, there's really only one site shaping up to matter the most — and that's Facebook. For that reason, I don't see FriendFeed reaching past the early adopter crowd anytime soon. - Colin Anawaty

I've been trying to figure it out. As a result liking it more. That's normal. - Bob Morse

Robert lets go home , dont drink so much there :-))) - Johni Fisher

Robert: Don't let me stop you. Ha. - Oracio

Look what happened to jaiku, same will happen to Facebook. They will try to become something they will never be or beat, Twitter. - Zachary TG

You could be called worse things than cheerleader! - Rene Wirtz

Hey Robert - need any London restaurant recommendations? - Patrick Jordan

Colin: based on the reactions I've had in London I think the mainstream is coming within six months. This is how people used to treat me when I cheerleaded Twitter. - Robert Scoble

I just love logging on seeing interesting things role before my eyes :) - Asgeir

Patrick: no, we were eating dinner at the top of the BT Tower tonight and it was awesome. Even if I had to take some ribbing about my love of FriendFeed. - Robert Scoble

its a feel good kinda place.... - Bob DeMarco

Friendfeed wont be the shiznit until I can invite all of you into my vampire mob guild - Doubledown_inSL

Patrick: I'll post photos later, gotta go back to the bar cause Rocky is calling me. :-) - Robert Scoble

Bob DeMarco: That could be Friendfeed's slogan. lol - Zachary TG

Robert: perhaps you're right. I like some of FriendFeeds features and they are uniquely different, but is it enough? I'm not convinced... yet. - Colin Anawaty

Its a social data sharing/discovery space to me. - Darren Stuart

London feels good, especially after some wine. :-) - Robert Scoble

Hi everybody, FF newbie doing his first "chat" comment here... cheering since a couple of weeks, though - Fritz Feger

meanwhile....i never saw the comments box move this fast - Bob DeMarco

we're all newbs - Doubledown_inSL

I am not new - Zachary TG

Zachary....i'll share the royalties with you - Bob DeMarco

FriendFeed smells like new car - Doubledown_inSL

FriendFeed is a community. 'Nuff said. - Jorge Escobar

lol. - Zachary TG

Doubledown_inSL: How does it? - Zachary TG

Zachary: thank you, I just passed 43,000 today. Wild. Where did all these nobodies come from? Jorge: shhhh, quiet, you don't want the celebrities to hear you, do you? - Robert Scoble

No idea, Oprah mush have said something. LOL. - Zachary TG

poor me...still in the blue nowhere of freindfeed - Bob DeMarco

HAHA! You do read me, Mr. Scoble ;) - Jorge Escobar

I still don't figure how to find unread comments in between all that masses of text... any hints? - Fritz Feger

Sorry, Operah must have said something - Zachary TG

Feger..just read every fifth one - Bob DeMarco

Love to know how many people on this thread aren't techies. Bet it's close to one. That's counting me. - Jeff Strank

Bob DeMarco: Like that is going to work - Zachary TG

Oprah. Opera. Oprah. Opera. ... I'm confused - Doubledown_inSL

I'm a techie - Zachary TG

hahhaa - Bob DeMarco

Bob, that's what I do, but it's usually the important comments I'm missing by this - Fritz Feger

Just put this convo in its own tab. You do use a tab-enabled browser, right? - Jorge Escobar

Doubledown_inSL: I mean that when Operah said something about Twitter, everyone got a Twitter account - Zachary TG

i'm a non techie...which explains why i am in the blue nowhere of friend feed - Bob DeMarco

Techie too... - Fritz Feger

Who's Operah? - Jorge Escobar

People didn't just join for Oprah, they also joined for her KFC coupon too! - Doubledown_inSL

oprah's big sister - Bob DeMarco

oprah winfrey, sorry, multi-tasking - Zachary TG

Wine... You have not seen the real London before you been to a few bars drinking Stout :)) - Asgeir

this is kinda like Plato in 1974 - Bob DeMarco

Asgeir: we've had stout. We've had whiskey. We've had wine. What else is on the menu? - Robert Scoble

I am using the opera web browser and talking about oprah winfrey. LOL - Zachary TG

No Ale, Robert? - Jorge Escobar

scoble...a few more and you will understand FriendFeed - Bob DeMarco

It connects people who like to talk. LOL. - Zachary TG

why must FriendFeed "beat" Facebook? - Brett Kelly

@Natalia, you already can see him in a surfer suit, no need to imagine - Jorge Escobar

Because it is easy - Zachary TG

Jorge: I have had ale too! And some cider. I'll post photos later and you'll see why this all matters. - Robert Scoble

Zachary...that explains it...nobody likes to listen - Bob DeMarco

That sounds more like it. Welcome to London. - Asgeir

Brett: so that Paul Carr will stop giving me heck about being a FriendFeed cheerleader. - Robert Scoble

LOL - Zachary TG

Friendfed is better then Facebook, and will always be - Zachary TG

is this the end? - Bob DeMarco

yeah..i am in the blue nowhere over there also - Bob DeMarco

Was nice to meet you and Rocky last night Robert. Albeit only for a minute as you were about to leave the bar :) - Simon Wicks

What matters is that I don't have access to your secret room, Robert. I hate it. :) - Jorge Escobar

I want access, he won't let me. LOL - Zachary TG

Bob: hopefully this isn't the end. But if it was the end I wouldn't be posting. My wife would be and it wouldn't be happy. - Robert Scoble

Robert - have Paul ask a question on the site through you and compare it to what he might see if he poses the same question through you on Twitter and Facebook. That might convince him. - Martha

Jorge: have I met you face-to-face? Only people I've met face-to-face get access to @secretscoble. - Robert Scoble

Martha: that's an unfair fight. - Robert Scoble

I know the rules, Robert. Doesn't mean I don't hate it. - Jorge Escobar

scoble...go over to my friendfeed...meet my fact and send me the key - Bob DeMarco

opps face - Bob DeMarco

Robert Scoble: Yes you have. I saw your profile pic, and you follow me on FriendFeed so you have seen my profile pic too. LOL. - Zachary TG

You didn't explain that the fight needed to be fair - just effective. - Martha

I am also a Friendfeed cheerleader :). It simply rocks. Cool features, super stable. It's the best - alfred westerveld

Jorge: you just gotta meet me and buy me a beer. :-) - Robert Scoble

i wanna be a FriendFeed cheerleader - Bob DeMarco

Robert Scoble: Yes you have. I saw your profile pic, and you follow me on FriendFeed so you have seen my profile pic too. LOL. - Zachary TG

Damn. How many have you had Robert? LOL - Jorge Escobar

Zachary...exactly - Bob DeMarco

LOL - Zachary TG

Jorge: I lost count. - Robert Scoble

Twitter is lame... but I still wouldn't listen to them :) - Tim Hoeck

i wish i had a bigger screen like all you techies - Bob DeMarco

I only have three 30" and an iMac with a 24" - Zachary TG

:: Doing hypnosis to Robert :: Tomorrow, when you wake up, you'll remember we met the day before. Snap! - Jorge Escobar

wooooooooooo - Bob DeMarco

Bob: I'm stuck in London with a 15-inch MacBook, no big screen. Jorge: funny! - Robert Scoble

Someone Please make the bad mental image of Scoble in a cheerleader's uniform go away!!! - Bastard Operator From FF

And I haven't had anything to drink - Jorge Escobar

yeah...well i am stuck in delray beach - Bob DeMarco

LOL, I do not even have a laptop, just lots of iMacs. And a crappy netbook. One of the first - Zachary TG

We stopped at 123 comments, lol - Zachary TG

Gooooo FF! Robert is like the captain of the football team here. - Tracy Benham

Robert..do you look like the Hulk when you are drinking? - Bob DeMarco

All the time is more like it, lol - Zachary TG

Robert, indeed it's time to change the avatar - Jorge Escobar

I second the motion - Zachary TG

don't do that...i won't be able to find you..since i can't get in the secret room - Bob DeMarco

lol - Zachary TG

Zachary...do you think if i get a cool image like Robert I could pop out of the blue nowhere? - Bob DeMarco

I think Robert is a goner. He must be snoring, his face in the counter. - Jorge Escobar

Not really. I wouldn't describe his avatar as cool. - Zachary TG

Bob: you don't want to see me angry. You either Jorge. :-) - Robert Scoble

is the ripley guy here yet? - Bob DeMarco

LOL, he forgot about me. LOL - Zachary TG

Any plans for Cambridge? - Philip Baddeley from iPhone

Philip: survival as we punt on the Cam. - Robert Scoble

Oooo... my knees are trembling, Robert. LoL. BTW, you should be Qik'ing this right now. - Jorge Escobar

Yes you should - Zachary TG

Jorge: no we shouldn't. :-) - Robert Scoble

HAHAHA - Jorge Escobar

What cell do you have Robert? - Zachary TG

could be jail - Bob DeMarco

A great time to bond with your community, and you throw it away? - Jorge Escobar

Zachary: in London I'm carrying an iPhone and a Nokia N79. I also have a Palm Pre but it doesn't work here cause Sprint didn't turn on the International plan. - Robert Scoble

This has to bee the fastest amount of comments on any post on Friendfeed - Asgeir

Cool. Too bad I don't have a Palm Pre yet, they aren't in Canada yet. Stupid Bell. - Zachary TG

Jorge: have a beer and bond. Heheh. - Robert Scoble

just shows you what can happen when people get lonely - Bob DeMarco

Will do, after I process all the wine I consumed over the weekend ;) - Jorge Escobar

Bob: I'm not lonely. Just had lots of wine and beer. - Robert Scoble

i meant those of us that are not drinking and in london - Bob DeMarco

How hard is it to get people to visit a website? Like mine - Zachary TG

Bob: that's no excuse. Have a beer and find someone to share it with! - Robert Scoble

Robert, when's the next time you're in NYC? - Jorge Escobar

Jorge: I want to visit again soon. Lots of cool stuff happening in NYC, but not sure when I'll be there next. - Robert Scoble

I'm sorry, London England or London Canada?........ - Zachary TG

London England - Mark

ook - Zachary TG

AKA Best City in the World - Mark

Zachary: come on! Would I really be talking about London, Canada? - Robert Scoble

Aight. I'm right here in Union Square. Have a great time and hopefully we'll meet P2P. - Jorge Escobar

Is that why he is Drunk, because he is in wine countru - Zachary TG

Zachary: no wine country around here. Just a great city. - Robert Scoble

test - Bob DeMarco

London is great at night, but try working there thru the week. AWFUL - Mark

Robery Scoble: Sorry, I live in CANADA. WHAT IS WRONG WITH LONDON, CANADA? - Zachary TG

Be back later, gotta upload photos. - Robert Scoble

The man who tires of London, tires of Life. - Ian May

what the heck..friendfeed through me out - Bob DeMarco

LOL, haha - Zachary TG

Bye all, follow me on Twitter, I'm @ZacharyTG, and go to my tech site, http://whittv.wordpress.com - Zachary TG

Now that was tasteless - Jorge Escobar

I think someone needs to photoshop your icon and change the hulk hands to some green cheerleading pompoms - Tamara

Zach: Plenty wrong with London, Ontario Canada. Its exactly too far from Toronto, Niagara, Windsor and anywhere else you would want to go to do something on a Friday night and get home at a decent hour :) - Luke Kilpatrick

How did this conversation go from FF to alcohol consumption to where the best city in the world is? Ahhh, its because of number 2! Have fun all! :-) - Brandi Madrid

I think this is true - Bruce.d.Stewart

Ian May I love that: he man who tires of London, tires of Life. Very true - Asgeir

It was Samule Johnson who said "When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life" in 1777 - Ian May

Robert, I'm not sure the cheerleader outfit would suit you... :-) Cheers in the UK. - Ken Stewart | ChangeForge

Ken: I can cheer "rah, rah, rah" along with the best of them. :-) - Robert Scoble

You mean that Oprah isn't a web browser named after a web browser? ;) /me ducks - Tyson Key

Scobleizer in Lycra.. .I don't think so :) - Rhys Amos

Mind you, Samuel Johnson seemed to be a man of much higher intellect, than Boris, who is a bumbling, bungling what-ho public schoolboy twat type. - Ian May

I think the little white socks are hot, Robert. - Oldengrey (Jay)

Tyson, LOL! - Ken Stewart | ChangeForge

Pompoms? ;-) - iconic88

Damn I wish I had some pompoms! *giggle* Give me an "F" "F" it again! What's "F F" stand for? FriendFeed! Robert! Those gloves in your avatar should be able to shake things up enough! - Arleen Boyd

FF is cool! - Randy Allen Bishop

It's not a food bank? - John D Reasor

FF has way less spam, and supports actual conversations, choir - Ian Orekondy

+1 Ian. The signal-to-noise ratio is much easier to handle on FF than on other sites. (Yes, @Twitter, we're talking about _you_. Again.) - Bill Sodeman

Bill, yes, for sure! - Myrna

Robert, @secretscoble? Why not just DM. Hey are you going to sleep tonight? - Myrna

Everyday, I discover the power and flexibility of Friendfeed. - ashish

Myrna: yes I'm going to sleep now. Enough craziness for one evening. - Robert Scoble

I wouldn't say you were a cheerleader, more a bell ringer for the service - Joe Dawson

Growing up on IRC and AIM, somehow Twitter seemed natural and familiar, while Friendfeed has taken me outside of my comfort zone. Which is exciting! - Mike Chelen

It's kinda weird. So what is Friendfeed about? It seems to me that everyone just subcribes and never does anything else. - Chip

Robert, you're *always* a cheerleader for something. When I first started reading you, it was TabletPC (happy days!). And there's nothing wrong with that - you're a natural enthusiast. The only time it ever gets to be a problem is when you forget that whatever you're being enthusiastic about isn't the right way for everyone. - Ian Betteridge

You are doing with FriendFeed what you do with anything you love, talk about it all the time, get people engaged, then stand back and let them figure out how to use it for themselves. Whats to understand? ^_^ - Dan Morrill AKA Techwag

Great. Now I've got a mental image of Scoble in a short skirt and pedal pushers, carrying pom-pons. (You don't really have the legs for this look, by the way.) - John Craft

John, that's an image I really didn't want at lunch time :) - Ian Betteridge

Oh, those whingeing Poms in ol' Mother England...ignore them and keep on cheerleading. - George Hall (Australia)

How do I block all of John Craft's thoughts from making visuals in my head? :-) - James Schipper

See http://siteanalytics.compete.com/twitter... - Atul Arora

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Wow. This is why I follow you. For stuff like this. - Dave Winer

Dave - comes with all the usual disclaimers - this is from compete.com, does not include twitter clients etc... - Atul Arora

If this is true, it's good news. It means the Twitter leaders can come home, and we can all roll up our sleeves and figure out what Twitter is really for. Maybe they'll start working with us instead of looking to celebs for the vision of their future. - Dave Winer

What's really amazing is I was driving through Virginia last week and every radio and TV station it seemed was talking about Twitter. This shows just how hard it is to get normal people to participate in the geeky world. - Robert Scoble

@Dave, QFT. - Scott Ohlemacher

So much for the hockey stick growth? - Mike Doeff

Growth is slow across most subdomains - http://www.compete.com/m... - You may need to register to see this. - Atul Arora

For example search.twitter.com is down about 5.5% - Atul Arora

Maybe now the infrastructure can catch up with the userbase and get rid of fail whales. - Morton Fox

What's weird is that this isn't really a "geeky" thing. Teenagers across the land text daily and that's all this really is, except to a larger audience. Wonder what is keeping that relationship from connecting? - Michael Turner

did the facebook changes have an effect? - Robert O'Callaghan

also scoble is on friendfeed now and that must be 50% of the traffic ;-) - Robert O'Callaghan

@O'Callaghan That's actually a good point. I'd like to be able to compare this to tweets made from apps and third party pages that use the API. - Scott Ohlemacher

Thanks: Atul - Charlie Anzman

It's not the number of users, it's the engagement that matters. - Matt Robson

Twitter grows 1043% in 3 months and it plateaus for a month, big deal; there's got to be some absorption. LinkedIn actually lost 400,000 visits, where's the panic over that? - Tom Gray

FriendFeed will beat Twitter one day - Michael_techie

@ Tom Gray - given all the media coverage, there was an expectation that Twitter would continue its spectacular growth. It is a bit of surprise that it plateaued for a month (as measured by compete.com) and its much bigger competitor Facebook grew faster than it did. - Atul Arora

Go figure! weird... - Susan Beebe

Oprah talked about it, everyone that needed to know about it learned about it, now there's no one else. Twitter can only grow so far. My Mom and Dad would never use it nor have reason to use it, yet they use Facebook. - Jesse Stay

Friendfeed only had marginal growth in May as well. http://siteanalytics.compete.com/friendf... - Shéa Bennett

I think the use case and interface are still a bit puzzling to the average Joe, at least compared to Facebook. - Laura Norvig

No worries. It is just digesting the wave that came with Oprah & Co : after a few tries, it takes months (as an individual) to figure out a use, and come back for more. Who can say that he/she starting twittering and coming back to twitter every day since he signed up ? It will start growing again soon. Agreeing with @ Michael Turner : the DNA of Twitter is very similar to mobile texting, except that it's public. Therefore it will reach mass adoption sooner or later. - Roald Sieberath

Eat your heart out, we aren't in Virginia anymore! - Robert Scoble

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Looks beautiful - Billy Fung

As a former San Franciscan, now in Virginia, that stings. I wish I could get some good, affordable dim sum. - Mark Stout

@Mark: If you get to the Bay Area and want *really good*, *very affordable* dim sum, you need to go to El Cerrito's Asian Pearl: http://www.yelp.com/biz... - Roger Jennings

Oh yeah? We're getting great weather on the north shore of Massachusetts too. Yesterday we were actually able to go to the beach wearing short-sleeved shirts. Soon we'll even be able to wear shorts! - Bruce Lewis

@Roger Jennings - Thanks. My own faithful on Stockton St. in SF is no more. When I'm back next I'll check out yours. And would love to find one here in VA, but alas. - Mark Stout

Was at twin peaks last night, heading to delores park now - Andy Bakun

@biggraybeast - funny you should mention dim sum since I just had some today in Richardson, TX (N.Dallas) http://twitpic.com/6u3bi - Dangergirl

mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm DIM SUM is my favorite kind of food! yumm! - Simply Teeeya

@Dangergirl hah i click on this post to see something about my new home, SF, and see someone mention my old home town and where I went to high-school, Richardson, TX... nice - Zac Bowling

can't wait .. another 3 weeks until I can officially enjoy sf afternoons full-time - Beth Kanter

Ha - you were in spittin' distance from my house there Robert. - Hutch Carpenter

Hutch: really? Damn, you had a nice view today. - Robert Scoble

That is one of my absolute favourite places in the city. Especially on beautiful day. Thx for sharing. - Mylene Valencia

Lots more photos here: http://www.facebook.com/album... - Robert Scoble

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The use of 2 lines in their $? - Jesse Stay

I thought this was funny. I saw this on a whiteboard at Facebook's new headquarters (really nice offices, by the way). Some other things: - Robert Scoble

They hired the chef away from Google. The food was awesome. If you get a chance to have lunch at Facebook's cafeteria, take it! - Robert Scoble

Impressive how I can see the stuff that's erased behind the secret sauce. I wonder what THAT is. - Brian Daniel Eisenberg

Almost all the offices were open plan (no walls, sit at a desk). It reminded me a little of Zappos, but without the wildness. They need a little more craziness there, but it's fun that people were riding these cool two-wheeled skateboards around (called Wave boards). Never seen that at any other corporate headquarters. - Robert Scoble

The "Mega Mustard Man" above is a sign on one of their conference rooms, most of which have funky names. - Robert Scoble

What was the purpose of your visit Robert (if you don't mind my asking)? - Brian Daniel Eisenberg

They had very cool graffitti that was painted on the walls in the old headquarters. Only a few pieces of that survive, now framed and put on the walls. - Robert Scoble

funny - good image for someone like Seth Gordon to use in a presentation sometime :) - Oded

Brian: I was there to do several interviews for http://www.building43.com , which opens June 11. - Robert Scoble

excellent! can't wait to see what you have in store for us. - Brian Daniel Eisenberg

How long has facebook been in this HQ? - Luke Kilpatrick

Brian: it was an awesome day. I was supposed to only have a couple of minutes with Zuckerberg and he stuck around four four questions. - Robert Scoble

Luke: just about a week or so. Not very long. - Robert Scoble

excellent. did you ask him if they figured out that thing we were talking about a while back? let's call it beacon v.next aka the veritable gold mine... *sigh* - Brian Daniel Eisenberg

Very interesting you shared all the photos on Facebook. Wasn't expecting that, Robert, but maybe I should have. - Louis Gray

More videos and photos from Facebook here: http://blog.facebook.com/blog... - Robert Scoble

Looking forward to June 11th, should be some great content coming to building 43! - Luke Kilpatrick

Robert, was there an announcement in the descriptions of those photos? Or am I slow at catching a certain date? - Jesse Stay

Louis: one of the interviews was with the Facebook Pages team and they taught me how to make a cool page. Uploading photos was one of the tricks they taught me. Please become a fan of mine at http://www.facebook.com/scoblei... - Robert Scoble

Just saw you posted it above too - is that an announcement? :) - Jesse Stay

Jesse: yes, but it's been out in public before. - Robert Scoble

Did they say anything about ever allowing you to merge your private and public profiles? I'd like to be able to make my private profile public if I want, and have more friends than the 5k limit as well. - Jesse Stay

looks good :P - Zafarali

looks tasty - Zafarali

I would love to have the opportuniy to visit Facebook or Google, or even my Mecca....Apple. These campasses sound amazing - Michael Jones

Ripstik is what they ride around. You can see what it's like here: http://www.facebook.com/video... - Robert Scoble

The offices had a LOT more activity today when I visited than in this video. - Robert Scoble

I'm trying to figure out if I should go ahead and try and do a serious push for all my Facebook friends to go over to my Facebook Page. Or if Facebook is going to let me interact between the two and make it easy to port friends from one to another I'd rather wait. - Jesse Stay

I also like that the photos I got of Mark Zuckerberg, founder and CEO, were in front of a Swiss flag. There's a bit of metaphor there because Zuckerberg is trying to push Facebook to be much more open. - Robert Scoble

Jesse: they said there are more features coming, but wouldn't tell me what they are. - Robert Scoble

Robert, I wish I could get that out of them - I have tons of people asking, local news and media people out here. They're getting frustrated as well. - Jesse Stay

Vanity URL too - any idea when they're open to the public? - David Owens

Secret Sauce = FriendFeed ;) - Nicholas James

what's the average age of facebook employees? 21? - Davide D'Incau

Davide: it's pretty low, but I'm not sure what the actual age is. Zuckerberg is 25. - Robert Scoble

Robert - Thanks for sharing this! - Jim Connolly

BTW, that almost looks like code for some sort of book indexing code - are they going to get into the book business? Going against Amazon??? - Jesse Stay

Robert Scoble, The Spymaster ;) - Jacque

r u sure ur allowed to post this? is mark zuckerberg going to come to ur house and delete all ur files now? lol! - Jason Pollock

Robert: is there a way to link your accounts - scobelizer and your more "private page" [old account]? I can imagine it would be a bit of a pain to duplicate content across both. - Angus Burton

Jason: don't ask, don't tell. ;-) I was pretty sure that this wouldn't disclose anything actually secret. Plus PR was standing next to me when I shot the picture. - Robert Scoble

I put everything (email addys, socmed sites, blog, etc.) on my axon.tel page and then put axon.tel on everything else. I think this TLD will be invaluable as a personal brand hub. But I'm a net.slut so what do I know? Anyone who hasn't figured out how to use spam filters isn't someone whose email address I need. --Ax - Alan Chamberlain

It's an interview with Steve Broback who runs the conference running the interview. - Robert Scoble

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@anamitra's gig: he's working on the commercial products on Twitter. - Robert Scoble

You can watch all the Tweets live from the Twitter Conference here: http://search.twitter.com/search... - Robert Scoble

He was the ad guy at Yahoo. So, Broback asked him what Twitter is going to do with advertising. - Robert Scoble

He thought of customers at Yahoo as partners. "We are at a stage where nothing has been ruled out and we don't have any bias in any one direction." - Robert Scoble

He says that once in a while in the tweet stream they see something that looks like an ad. Oh, you mean like, "host your website on Rackspace?" ;-) - Robert Scoble

Nice Robert. Too bad there are no links in FF comments. - τorƍue

Now getting to some meat, hopefully. "We haven't been that unique and worthwhile for [commercial users]." - Robert Scoble

There's lots of interesting things they could do, he says, around how they filter things that come in. - Robert Scoble

Categories, types of businesses. Ahh, they ARE thinking about how to get onto Google's table. Do a search for "Palo Alto Sushi" on Google. Now imagine how a list like that could be used by Twitter. - Robert Scoble

Broback is asking about StockTweets and is wondering if more of those kinds of vertical services are coming. - Robert Scoble

Anamitra is talking about mining Twitter for, say, airline fare data. Looking to solve consumer problems with commercial data. - Robert Scoble

"We can't do all of them," in regard to all the cool stuff. - Robert Scoble

Next 12 months: "what is not on the roadmap is a TV show." - Robert Scoble

I think the automation market is huge. One page, 10 Tweet addresses, does 10 different things for you when you follow them. No messaging, just automate parts of your life as it relates to that organization. - Chad Harris

That got applause from audience. - Robert Scoble

He didn't give many specifics on roadmap, though. - Robert Scoble

Twitter needs online grouping like Friend Feed so 3rd party apps auto update (like tweetdeck and seesmic desktop) if you are away from your PC, or PC dies, all your groups are gone. - Darin aka iGoByDoc

Darin: it's clear that Twitter is going to add that, or something similar, soon. The Twitter team yesterday said they are working on something that will solve that problem. - Robert Scoble

Now talking about demand generation, aka Dell's Twitter account that sells millions of dollars worth of equipment. - Robert Scoble

Curious to know how much value they're putting on Apps and Enterprise markets. - phil baumann

Robert, that is good to hear... Thanks! - Darin aka iGoByDoc

phil: sounds like a lot. That's where @anamitra sees the early money. - Robert Scoble

idea for twitter grouping (mostly for twitter clients for now, could be stored on twitter.com later via api) : opml import/export of groups. - Sylvain Carle

Ahhh, he finally got the small business religion I've been preaching. Says that small businesses, like a cookie shop, need to be able to tell their customers things in real time "new batch of cookies is ready." - Robert Scoble

Broback is talking about a bakery that already has a machine that Tweets when the bread is done. Also there's a device that you can put in your plant bed to Tweet when they need water. - Robert Scoble

Even simple stuff. "Click here and we will message your wife with some Men are from Mars crappolla twice a week and message you what wonderful things you said to her to cover you when you come home" We are too busy to even tell people we love them, who is to say auto messaging is insensitive? - Chad Harris

Speaking of busy crap! I gotta hop. - Chad Harris

and yet the main source that makes all these great ideas possible doesn't make any money - Amiroo ™

robert: you mean http://www.bakertweet.com/ - Robert O'Callaghan

also my bee hive tweets via @beehiveyourself - Robert O'Callaghan

the small business thing is huge, in our part of the world it would be nothing short of a revolution for them - Peter du Toit (S.Africa)

Agree with the small biz angle...but how to monitize that? what service/facilitation would Twitter provide me that I'd pay for. What can Premium Twitter provide me that Free Twitter can't? - phil baumann

I agree with @thomasknoll: IMHO Customer Service *is* Marketing #140tc This is the secret sauce at my employer. - Robert Scoble

He says that lots of Twitter team members have worked on services that have grown very fast and Twitter is faster growing than they've seen in previous jobs. - Robert Scoble

Social Media has not invented conversations. Customer Service has always been better at conversing with the customer than the marketing department => building relationships is marketing.. - Yann Ropars

@jasonp107: Show of hands at #140tc reveals most of the room went through the "twitter bounce" - join, but don't really USE until later. (Yup, I got in in November of 2006 but really didn't use it until March of 2007). - Robert Scoble

Hah! - Robert Scoble

"at least three out of every five people who sign up for a Twitter account bail within a few weeks" (see Nicholas Carr:http://www.roughtype.com/archive...). How times have changed! - Andrew Trinh

That account is real: http://twitter.com/tombo - Louis Gray

What does a web service need to do to get people to use it more fully? Anybody have an example of a site that counters the phenomenon shown in this cartoon? - Bruce Lewis

Bruce: I can think of a bunch of things. But I'm not going to give Twitter free consulting. They already stabbed me in the back once and don't need to do it again. :-) - Robert Scoble

I'm looking for free consulting for me, not twitter. - Bruce Lewis

Bruce, OK: provide a game to get people into using it. Even Google got me into blogging. Why? The more I blogged the more power Google gave me. 2. Make it seem lame if you don't do things. 3. Start with a great community that will show people what is great participation. 4. Don't take shortcuts to try to grow quicker (Twitter did). 5. Reward participation. How did Twitter stab me in the... more... - Robert Scoble

6. Make it easy to participate. It's easier to comment here than it is to comment on my own blog. Think about why that is. - Robert Scoble

That really helps. I'm probably not going to give you any less abuse than before, but you're awesome. - Bruce Lewis

well done - Ryan Gerritsen

i'd agree with those suggestions to improve twitter. however, hasn't the Neilsen Online analysis of "60% twitticide" been debunked because Neilsen only counts web visitors, not all the other ways to use twitter (SMS, IM, desktop clients, oAuth apps, etc)? i'd really like to see some customer churn and loyalty numbers from twitter to settle this. actually it would be possible to use the twitter api to construct some aggregate intel... - Bob Hitching

Bob: Neilsen went back and looked at the numbers again and found they were correct. I totally believe the numbers they reported. - Robert Scoble

fair enough... Neilsen must have used the Twitter API to check their numbers, i think that would be the only way anybody outside of Twitter could measure their SMS and IM usage. good on Neilsen if they did that. - Bob Hitching

The numbers that they gave seem to coincide with my limited experience of my followers behavior. - guruvan (Rob Nelson)

Link? - Evan

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there should be the odd web designer in the valley somewhere. - Zee.

I would recommend that they first think what kind of content they want to have online. Product information is good bet, but what other things they should share to people? What about history of company? Telling stories make people feel more sympathy to company. (And yes, I could have some recommendation for those designers but I have to look from my bookmarks first...) - Daniel Schildt

Given the economy they need to consider only 2 things right now: 1) how do I acquire customers; 2) how do I keep the customers I get (return business/upsell) - That should be the only purpose of the site. HOW they get there is what a good creative can help them with. - Brian Roy

SWOT analysis, strategies evaluation, objectives setting, execution planning. In that same order - Marcello Del Bono

engagement, loyalty, turn customers into sales-people. 'social-ize' your products - MikeAmundsen

Make sure your website is tested on all platforms, loads quickly, gets to the point and is attractive without being gaudy. Showcase your work in the most attractive manner possible, but keep in mind who your key customers are; What kind of glass they make (art?, Practical?, sheets for artists?) will determine how they market. One thing they teach you in an MBA is that you can't just sell a product, you have to market to a customer- the first q they should ask themselves is who do they want as their customer - InPerpetualMotion(Gina k)

Evan: It is: http://www.southbayglassco.com/ - Robert Scoble

My tips? First, think about how people are using Google to find you. Put those search terms in your title tag. Second, put a simple sentence about what you do for customers and how you are different from your competitors. Include those same search terms. Put that at the top of your page. After that, start a blog, make it personal. Add some stories of what you do. Tips for customers who are looking to hire you. That, too, will help you with Google. - Robert Scoble

It doesn't tell me their story. Doesn't give me any reason why I should pick them over any other glass company. - Alex Scoble

outsource it to asia for low cost upgrade, get a top notch result, can hook u up - imran

Agree with Alex. I want to know what makes them great, even without saying "we are better than everyone else." Maybe teach us something about glass. People may think a certain way about glass, but if we have a better understanding of what goes into giving us the product, we may gravitate towards them. - Evan

forget the Web site... how's the glass? perhaps that is the problem... - Jon Price

Make sure the fundamentals are covered. Easy to find address, phone number, other corporate info (you'd be amazed how many sites blow this). Make it easy for a customer to get in touch from every page--the moment they find what they want they can get in touch with the company and order it or get more answers. Another bit of advice is one page = one product. Get them into google on each individual item. Sitemaps are also important and good header tags. - Andrew Leyden

Marketing is more imp than product, right hand rule, unless u sell oil/gas - imran

I didn't find them on yelp. Might want to encourage customers to start some entries. I didn't see any customer reviews. There's no tag line. I like to see something about good prices, good work, leave the place clean, on time, that sort of thing. The examples of their work are too big and there are no descriptions of what makes their work good. - Todd Hoff

Better yet, move to Dubai, your friend will be sold out in a month or so - imran

Start a blog and a short video show on YouTube. Write the most basic posts about glass company themes. go to Yahoo Answers and answer every questions related to glass/windows. - Jason Calacanis

Selling your friends isn't very friendly. - Todd Hoff

Follow/learn from Jcal, Arrington, Scoble's marketing lifestyle - imran

I'd volunteer to help your friend - most businesses have fundamental biz development issues - they need to develop referral systems, focus on client education, reactivate dead leads, develop backend email system w/frontend free ebook optin above the fold answering most common client questions, and personalize the website with owner profile. It's cold and not that informative. Position... more... - Vicki Flaugher

Robert- I would be happy to send an complete analysis / recommendation. It sucks watching a good business fail with a bad site. I have some business basics articles I can narrow them in with, I know translating all this "net jargon" is hard for most brick and mortar businesses. - 123socialmedia

Thanks for all the tips, I just forwarded this. - Robert Scoble

they are struggling not because of their web site - this is for sure. They need to focus on their overall integrated sales/marketing strategies: like partnerships with contractors, etc; cross-marketing, referral-based incentives. People in general do not purchase these types of services because of the nice looking web site - period. There are few simple things that could be done to beautify their web site, even they will somehow drive folks to this web site-will not lead to more closed business- more needed - glfceo

more content, should have a unique page for every major glass company out there. a page for every major style of glass/glass doors.Should have a nice section that can be used as a resource by potential customers to draw them in and generate a lead. Also all the META info for the homepage(and i imagine every other page) needs a revamp. - sean percival

Answer three questions before you start: 1. Who am I talking to? 2. What do I want from them? 3. What do they want from me? - Michael Markman

also the mom and pop stuff is always very hard, ive done about 200 ecommerce sites, mostly for small companies like this. their focus is always on the biz first and website last, today it and in some cases it should be the other way around. - sean percival

Scobleizer, I guess it depends on their budget. If they have some budget allocated to improving their website, they should hire a consulting firm specializing in web and graphics design, like Emily Chang. However, if their budget is limited, they can search for students at nearby universities and see if any student designers will take it as a student project, or even have it as a class project competition. - imabonehead

Nothing says personal like some raw videos going up now and then showing some aspect of the business. Be it some cutting taking place and the owner talking about the business somewhat. Once it's genuine and not a "well I saw someone say to do this so let me do this" kind of thing. You would know what I mean, Robert. I think. - Evan

I'd like to see an http://www.englishcut.com style site go up for them and think that could work well. Of course using the web effectively might not translate well into business for a glass company...The other question is how effectively are they exploiting other avenues of advertising. Are they going the extra mile to get and maintain good word of mouth solicitations from current/past customers? Etc. - Alex Scoble

selling glass during real estate troubles is interesting way to to target potential customers with sense of humor - A.T.

also, making search on google maps with string "glass near 63 Washington Street Santa Clara, CA 95050" (remove parethesis before search) and zooming out shows how many glass ships around -- I don't know what they are counting for... - A.T.

they don't appear on page 1 of google results for "santa clara glass." lot of drilling down to find them using maps, and they have NO reviews. on web site, gotta scroll down to find out "What we do." also, glass product named "Windows 95" does not inspire confidence - Karim

They need to do more then an overhaul of their website. They need to work on SEO and targetted traffic such as through PPC campaigns. Plus wouldn't offline marketing be more effective for them? - Nicholas James

The good news is, they can do a lot more. Be compelling. Details. Engage. It's about motivation from the client-side. Go beyond the website with the "service or products that are offered... Offer something of value and show it. Talk about it. Be seen... - kilbuda

I would say that the bottom line comes down to storytelling. If I can go to their site and learn about them - what is their story? how did they get into the glass business? what makes them great? - I will gain an emotional connection and they've got my (and many others') business. Tell me the story of the process, let me gain the knowledge and make me feel like an insider because I know the terms and processes and don't feel like a fool when I call. That will make me a customer too. - Shawn Kelley

I sent a lengthy e-mail to your fastcompany addy. Please forward to your friend. :) - 123socialmedia

Before the glass company invests a lot of time, effort, and money into upgrading their Web site, they should run a small PPC (Google Adwords is your best bet) campaign to test the waters locally (under product/service related keywords like auto glass, glass windows, etc.). They can direct the Google ads to specialized landing pages that provide a call-to-action for the visitor - a small... more... - Drive Thru

Let's put internet aside for a sec (did I say that?). Seems to me they're lacking focus. Wikipedia tells me that Santa Clara has 100k pop. with median household income 76k$; yet, the showers seem quite expensive. Are they targeting the local market or also neighboring counties? Who are their customers cies or households? Before revamping their website, I think they should review their positioning. The most surprising is that they present themselves as subcontractors, maybe that's where they should start? - Zack Brandit

my company 9 consults projects like this. have him email me and we'll do it pro bono. patricia@whatis9.com. - Patricia

Wow, way to bump up an old FF post! - Tamar Weinberg

Great thread. Good advice here for any company. - Roberto Bonini

Is this an unforeseen consequence of the "New Great Advanced Search"? Thread Necrophilia? - Matthew DeVries

Four months ago Alex Scoble and Shawn Kelley talked about this business needing to do more storytelling. That was before FriendFeed added geoRSS support and added some real-time enhancements. Today they could add a FriendFeed widget to their site and send photos of the jobs they do with locations, live reporting like at http://friendfeed.com/scoblei... - Bruce Lewis from fftogo

Matthew, I thought the same thing. I'm not sure I like that given my discussion that current FF content is being ignored. - Tamar Weinberg

Not sure a web site can fix a struggling business otherwise we could do a killer design for the auto makers :-) It would be a lot cheaper... - Tom Foremski

Welcome to the home of the spirit of consumerism ;) - InPerpetualMotion(Gina k)

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Is there something special happening or is it just that time of year? - xero

Its the one day in the year when Regent Street and Oxford Street are pedestrianised. - Jack Tams

check out http://blog.show-and-stay.co.uk/2008... - Robert O'Callaghan

Sweet video. - Nation Hahn

what recession? - Frank Scavo

Frank: I'm wondering the same thing, but I saw a LOT of people but only a small number of bags. - Robert Scoble

UK VAT (Sales tax) has been reduced by 2.5% & it's the official start of London's holiday shopping season. There will be a large number of visitors from Europe, the Pound hasn't been doing well against the Euro. - Steven Cains

Hope you're having fun in London - I'm not going up to the smoke this year, as I'm keeping my Christmas shopping local. - Vicky

I wonder what the SF and NY stores are like today? Would be an interesting comparison. - Robin Barooah

Like I said in the post below.... drugs may have a lot to answer for in this video lol - Allison

He scared me last year. This year I'm seriously concerned - Lisa

I watched the whole video, thinking it would get better.... it didn't. - Cynthia Kasper

thanks for a great challenge ed dale. I'm only on lesson... 8 :( but i'm gonna finish and i've already learned a ton!!! thank you thank you - washwords from twhirl

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ha ha ha. there's.... google notebook. lolol - washwords from twhirl

This guy got....balls (?) - ZoekmachineGuru from twhirl

hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha - Robert O'Callaghan

ROFL.... - DirkF from twhirl

more London meet-ups are a great idea. Today's went well and was well attended. I hope we can keep this going, maybe once a month? - Linda

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Sounds good to me, Linda. More on this in the post just below this one (or just above - they seem to keep moving about) and in Andy's comment to it. - Isha (Marysia)

Marysia - the conversations move to the top of the page when a fresh comment is added. - Linda

aha! (lightbulb moment) - thanks, Linda! - Isha (Marysia)

I'm going to talk about this post a lot more over on FriendFeed at http://www.friendfeed.com/scoblei... -- participate in the conversation there. - Robert Scoble

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So, Rob La Gesse now you lose all control of the conversation. See how this happens? Now I'll comment on your things twice: once in Google Reader (I used the note feed to post the comment above to all my readers there) and now I can talk on FriendFeed all about what you said here. - Robert Scoble

Here's his points with my counter point: >He loves everything new on the web and often tells us how great it is. MY RESPONSE: I don't love everything new on the Web. I have a folder of more than 10,000 emails from PR people in the past two years. Most of which I've never talked about anywhere. Why? Because they don't deserve getting passed onto you. I read a lot of blogs, follow a lot of conversations, and try things after the earliest of early adopters try things out. I wasn't the first to use FriendFeed.. - Robert Scoble

>>Maybe FriendFeed (but I think that lasts another three months for Scoble, tops). RESPONSE: Rob, tonight, guaranteed I'll never comment on his blog ever again and will always respond here on FriendFeed. That will last a lot longer than three months. - Robert Scoble

>>And like any other "Sales Pitch" - people need to know how it will help them. RESPONSE: Absolutely true. Our new show, called WorkFast.TV, will be VERY FOCUSED on productivity and helping people get more work done. Tools that don't reach that bar will be discarded and won't make the show to waste your time. We'll have lots of experts on to make sure that the best stuff gets on, and also that only stuff that actually helps people gets on. - Robert Scoble

The topic of comment deletion and control of where conversations can happen on FriendFeed or on original blogs (which this post started) is being discussed here: http://friendfeed.com/e... - Robert Scoble

lol - This feels very much like http://garfieldminusgarfield.net/ - Robert O'Callaghan

This is freaking awesome. Great way to bookmark things, collaboate on them, get them onto Twitter and, soon, FriendFeed. http://www.diigo.com - Robert Scoble

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I moved from diijgo back to delicious because delicious was supported by FF and diigo was not. What is the number one reason why diigo is better than delicious? - Thomas Hawk

You can get them onto Friendfeed now - they just added the feature a few days ago. - David Worrell

I've been using Diigo for months now. I don't use all the features, but I still think it's much better than delicious or magnolia, & I've been trying to convert all my friends...rather unsuccessfully :( - Jennifer Van Grove from twhirl

I tried Diigo. And I was impressed, but their Firefox extension isn't as good the Del.icio.us add-on. And that matters. A lot. - mrshl

I am skeptical that most of the commenters here probably work for diigo. I already use evernote.com and I love it, so why would I switch? http://www.evernote.com What do you think of that Mr. Scoble? - the constant skeptic

@Thomas, get the best of both worlds and set up auto-post to Del.icio.us from Diigo. That's what I do since a lot of services don't use my diigo stream but will use del.icio.us. My favorite feature of Diigo is the annotation stuff (highlighting stuff on the page and making notes). And the FireFox sidebar is quite nice and handy. Surprised Diigo is new to you, Robert! - Fa La La La Lindsay

I use diigo to keep bookmarks both on ma.gnolia and del.icio.us, I like both services for different reasons, I hate double let alone triple posting but that have suited me pretty well so far - Dobromir Hadzhiev

I downloaded the toolbar and it promptly crashed FF3 4 times I had to disable it :( - Sally Church

It's cute - but I am not goign to trust them with that much info. delicious has my bookmarks but the important annotations and clippings live in OneNote, on my own drive, backed up alone with my other data. Why build all that knwoledge into a website app I may or may not be able to ever extract it from? - Soulhuntre from twhirl

but someone answer this one question. What is one significant reason why diigo is better than delicious. - Thomas Hawk

@Thomas it's not directly better, but ma.gnolia is better than del.icio.us(microformats, community, design) del.icio.us is an old giant whitch has all of us locked because of it's popularity, haven't seen one new thing from them lately - Dobromir Hadzhiev

I used to use Magnolia but then the "bookmark this" marklet thingy stopped working and when I contacted them they blamed my browser (Firefox) there was no easy fix so I switched back to delicious. I'm all for new technology, but it has to be be better than the current iteration. So why again is diigo better than delicious? I need more than just it's the newest thing. - Thomas Hawk

yes the main reason I stayed with del.icio.us beside the exposure was the extension, but other than that ma.gnolia doesn't have issues and is pretty nice place to hang out, can disagre that the thank you mail is a neat feature. After all if you're happy with a service living in the past, fine I say thank God flickr isn't following the same path - Dobromir Hadzhiev

Thomas et al: the coolest part of this I've found is the annotation feature. It's like Word/Acrobat annotations where you can add sticky notes and highlights and such directly to pages you bookmark. I'm not too familiar with delicious (I use magnolia myself), and I'm not really into social bookmarking, so I can't really explain too much on that end. - Mark Trapp

Mento supports FriendFeed as well. (and Twitter, delicious, magnolia, Tumblr) And it supports custom screenshots with every bookmark (even works with Skitch) What makes Diigo better than Mento? (http://mento.info) - Bwana ☠

Bwana, so far, it's like Ma.gnolia with the ability to annotate a page on the page itself. It's a neat trick. - Mark Trapp

Some screenshots: http://www.flickr.com/photos... http://www.flickr.com/photos... - Mark Trapp

Ah I see, but will people have the patience to do this correctly? I could see some use in it - Bwana ☠

I work with clients who swear by similar features in Office and Acrobat. I could use this, especially since I can share my annotations with friends. Plus, it seems to have feature parity with Magnolia only zippier. I'm switching for the time being. - Mark Trapp

This is very cool for collaboration (as probably noted already by Robert). Question though, do you have to sign up for Diigo in order to view the annotations? - Bwana ☠

Playing with the "Diigoet " (essentially a toolbar) in Safari, and it looks like as long as you have that (or a Diigo toolbar), you can see all public annotations on a page. Interesting. - Mark Trapp

Ugh, ok. One can hope. - Bwana ☠

The toolbar also provides alexa type information regarding bookmarking: http://twurl.nl/l1maqe - Mark Trapp

so then the only reason to use diigo over delicious is so that you can view annotations? I'm not sure this is a compelling enough reason to switch. - Thomas Hawk

Find the ability to annotate and highlight useful. For me, it's worth switching. - Tom Landini

And while most of my tags are still one word, I do occasionally find the ability to use multi-word tags useful. Diigo lets me do that. - David Worrell

Wish this were in the form of a screencast video .. cell phone cameras aren't just ready to capture computer screens. - Amit Agarwal

Between Scoble and Gray, I now say 'morning' to my wife and spend the rest of the day playing with new (free) toys. Is something wrong with this picture? - Charlie Anzman

@Charlie: I don't know. sounds pretty good to me. What do you do at the end of the day? - edythe

@Charlie, why waste your morning like that? - Louis Gray

My daughter laughs at any cellphone given to her, Motorola, Sony, Nokia, she doesn't mind. - Amit Morson

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My son is a Google fan. Google image searches for cactuses and trains. Loves them. - Hutch Carpenter

Whenever Griffin (16 months) sees with my Macbook he comes over and tries to hit the keyboard. - Mike Doeff

Happy Father's Day to you, Pappa Scoble! - Mike Lewis from twhirl

You know, whenever I see an Apple product it usually fills me with cheer too! Happy Father's day to you Scobez - and to all other Fathers! It's GREAT to be a dad!! - Tad from twhirl

My daughters love PicLens searches (for kangaroos or birds etc. on flickr, smugmug, or whatever) - Alex von Halem

I'm confident its more Geek in the Genes, than Jobs' Voodoo Robert. That even I get all soothed at the first sight when i get home to my Mac is probably VooDoo Though :P - Parth Awasthi from twhirl

Whenever my 8 month old son is crying, the iPhone works every time - Brandon Wood

My 3 yr old grandson had me cut out and tape an Apple logo on his Vteck learning laptop for kids/ He call's it a Macbook correcting his mom when she calls it his laptop. - Al Degutis from twhirl

Scoble, do you use normal friendfeed.com on your iphone or any other version/address? - Jernej

I've had zero problems using friendfeed.com on my iPod Touch. Except for the fact that it does not refresh the feed - I have to manually refresh.I can even comment. I can't tell if this is a Safari problem or a iPod /iPhone one. - Roberto Bonini

jemej I just use normal FF on iPhone. - Robert Scoble

Happy Fathers Day to you Robert! - Laura

@scobleizer Happy Father's Day to you ;) My little girl is 10, Nintendo DS prodigy, laptop commandeerer par excellence, NeedForSpeed pro, she kicks my butt totally!!! ;) - Mario Olckers

Happy Father's Day. I have two kids with iPods, and a third clamoring for my old Nano when I upgrade. Eight-year-old has a Toshiba laptop, though. - Cyndy

thnx and happy father's day! - Jernej

My 3 year old daughter loves watching a YouTube Video I've bookmarked on my iPhone of a baby laughing. - Thomas Hawk

"Milan_Scoble liked this" -- what story was he reading? - Karim

Happy Father's Day, Robert! - Francine Hardaway

you do realize he's laughing because of what a joke the products are right? (ok sorry couldn't resist) - Allen Stern

Happy Father's Day Mr. Scoble. Just brought our fourth home today. - Gerald Buckley

Happy Father's Day! - Liana Lehua from fftogo

Kinda nice. If I had to cheer up a baby, I'd probably show a laptop running Linux. Come on, the baby might like Compiz effects. I mean, I do. :D Happy Fathers' Day. - Rishabh Mishra (p248)

possible248: I agree, no vista, no osx could win besides compiz :) - directeur

Happy Father's Day mate! - Joe Dawson

You do realize you could have shown him a shiny rock, right? - Soulhuntre from twhirl

20 years ago with my kids it was my key chain that engrossed them :-) He's probably laughing thinking, "You've got the OLD iPhone!" - Kevin Shannon

Here's a cool link for Milan & Dad http://www.lookybook.com/index... I even picked one for you: http://www.lookybook.com/mainpag... :-) so much fun for kids. - Orli Yakuel

Mekhi likes airplanes, via Live Image Search. Jefferson Airplane, especially. - Wade Dorrell

Did you at least take a short break for Fathers Day ????? - Charlie Anzman

Charlie: yes, had a nice time with the family in Sausalito. - Robert Scoble

the thing I fear more is that I am like a 9 month old child - I also get this warm and fuzzy feeling when seeing a apple product *g* btw. happy fathers day (you are some weeks behind us in Germany, that's always confusing for me) - Timo Zimmermann

This makes me think about the next generation of kids who are really growing up around technology like the iPhone, Google, etc. Now it is a reality for a toddler to amuse himself with image searches and flash games in a way that was barely possible in my childhood, and not at all for the older generations (no offence) - Erin

Twitter as the ultimate source for breaking news... - Jerry Chacon

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I hope that they're false! - directeur

6.9 magnitude http://earthquake.usgs.gov/eqcente... - AJ Kohn

Major news outlets are carrying it. - Greg from twhirl

Major news outlets are carrying it. Except CNN. Fox news, Reuters, etc... - Greg from twhirl

Wow that's cool. Upto date information provided by Twitter. - Nick Defina

Reuters has it here: http://www.reuters.com/article... - Greg from twhirl

Odd that its not breaking on TV. Lots of coverage of Tim Russerts passing at the moment. Fox News had a two second blurb about the earthquake. Thats where I first heard it. - Greg from twhirl

The Epicenter was in Iwate-Ken. 6 on the ground there which is strong. Felt quite strongly here in Yokosuka, south of Tokyo but nothing too out of the ordinary. The TV stations have, as usual, broken regular coverage to give updates about perceived magnitude in the surrounding areas and pictures from cameras around the area. No damage or injuries are reported yet. - Stuart Woodward

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/eqcente... USGS info on quake. - Robert Scoble

Twitter, the ultimate source for fast news - as bad as they might be :( Hope for the best! - Holger Eilhard

Mahalo already has a page: http://www.mahalo.com/Japan_E... - Robert Scoble

Summize (shows anyone on Twitter talking about earthquake) on search for "Earthquake:" http://summize.com/search... - Robert Scoble

Summize (shows anyone talking about "Japan" on Twitter): http://summize.com/search... - Robert Scoble

2 minutes after you posted "seeing a ton of Tweets about earthquake in Japan", Twitter died! - Brian Henderson

Brian: ahh, that explains why fewer messages are coming through IM right now. It still seems somewhat up. - Robert Scoble

Japanese TV is talking to people at the local government office near the epicenter and there are no reports of any injuries though a water pipe has broken.. several aftershocks have been felt. TV is showing live pictures from a helicopter and it is a very rural area, no signs of damage at all. - Stuart Woodward

I just saw the news on CNN - Alejandro

Brief story posted to cnn.com six minutes ago... http://www.cnn.com/2008... - Spam

There more earthquakes in Japan than days of a week. Unless it is big like Kobe, do not report it. - Igor The Troll יִצְחָק

The TV coverage is now showing a few rural roads blocked by landslides. A few Isolated injuries are reported, traffic accidents, broken legs due to falls, people cut by glass. etc. - Stuart Woodward

It is fascinating to see the internet micro-blogger at work. Faster than a speeding bulletin. - Mindy Koch

we noticed the twitter activity as well and started a "guide" the quake: http://mahalo.com/Japan_E... - Jason Calacanis

I've got a few quake links at the top of this page (it's one of my old legacy things) USGS confirming 6.8 ... http://www.behindtheweather.com - Charlie Anzman

godzilla! - Noah David Simon

Homer simpson!!!! - Robert O'Callaghan

sad. I still can't over the China one... - Orli Yakuel

5 dead, more missing. http://tinyurl.com/56nm9j - David Sim

I'm excited to try Qik on my iPhone, too. - Liana Lehua

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Does it require a jailbreak or will it be on the iTunes App store? - Bwana ☠

it requires jailbreaking for now. - Robert Scoble

I love Qik, I just can't figure out how it's going to make money. - Dino

me neither - Virtualgoodz

I can see it monetizing its product in much the same way other video services are monetizing their products: either interstitial advertising or overlay advertising. - Mark Trapp

Cannot wait for Qik live on iPhone! Been waiting for a while. Didn't know if it would show up or not without a native Apple-made video function. - Andrew Dobrow

if i could just get invited to qik i would love it, looks awesome! btw, will they have a native app for iphone software 2.0 or do we *have* to jailbreak? - Ivan Stegic

I don't have an iPhone... too luxurious for the 3rd world. - directeur

Not worth jailbreaking my iPhone for... Maybe when they have an SDK app - Bwana ☠

Is the Nokia camera better than the iPhone? - Aaron Myers

That just might be the tipping point for me if I can run Qik and Flixwagon on an iPhone. I've already been promised one for Father' Day! - Larry Kless

No - hiuihi

The Nokia's camera is way better than the iPhone. - Robert Scoble

finally! neeeeeed qik for iphone!!! - Dieter Schwarz

I hope they will release their iphone app to general public very soon! - Leon Ho

this will be awesome, at last a good reason to join Qiiiiik! ^^ - Dan H. Racek

i want to see your qikroll...and please,please don't have it be repeated rick astley videos... - George Lee from twhirl

Huh? Though it didin't do video ( err, at least the software doesn't)? - Roberto Bonini

Its logical to assume so if its only avaliable as a hack. If Qik can SDK their app, thats the last of my hassles with the iPhone 3G gone. - Roberto Bonini

flixwagon are doing live iphone streaming too - http://is.gd/vUX. - Robert O'Callaghan

Needs a jailbreak. So not any better than Qik - Roberto Bonini

Agree. I believe this is already in the plans, and has been requested for some time. - Louis Gray

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At first blush, I would disagree. What could be more "profile-ish" than dozens of blog posts, tweets, photos, StumbledUpon items and more? I guess there's no downside to including it, but part of the beauty of FriendFeed is its simplicity -- and I'd hate to see that ruined. - Mike Keliher

I was thinking that just a moment ago when someone new subscribed to me...it's hard to figure out who they are, and why they've found you... - Trent Olson

Definitely agree. - Chris Rossini

Agreed, but let's not go crazy with it... Location, maybe age.... - Chris Reed

that will save the click to the user's twitter page - Dobromir Hadzhiev

I want to be able to add in my dailymugshot profile so people can see how FriendFeed addiction ages me ala Whitney Houston style! - Joe Dawson

AGREE. My usual process is to click over to their Twitter page and read their profile there. - Damon Cortesi from twhirl

Agree - Hutch Carpenter

Amen - told the same to Paul else its always the usual suspects - Mrinal Desai from twhirl

One alternative would be to have the opportunity to import profile data from somewhere...say openID or something. I do think ff needs access to profiles, but I don't think I need yet another place to create a profile. - Trent Olson

Fine import in, that's fine! FYI not everyone is going to be a twitter user. - Jeremiah Owyang

I agree, but make it smart! Import data if possible. Data Portability is the way to go :-) - Magnus Jonsson from Alert Thingy

I've been thinking this as well. Why not have more detailed optional info, a link to their profile could easily be ignored by those craving simplicity. - Leif Hansen

Ok, so if we want to import profiles from somewhere, what options would we like? - Trent Olson

what about having something similar to retaggr, where your avatar allows to supplement a lot of info about you, without having to peruse lots of pages? - Kara Carrell from twhirl

Definitely agree-not enough to see their feed icons and avatar - Mark Forman from twhirl

yes, importing is the way to do it! Have you thought about how much effort would be required to update ALL of your profile(s) if you moved, for example? - Thomas Ho from fftogo

of course some basic profile would be good but not another duplicate profile, rather an integration with a profile we could chose would be best, so a blog about page, linkedin or fb profile or even the basic ones of twitter or seesmic would be good - having to many diverse profile locations is such a waste in today's easily integrated online world - mike "glemak" dunn

sorry one more point - this is not about authentication but rather information right, so a good transparent about page or the public linkedin profile is what I've been looking at and sometimes flickr because I find you can get a sense of someone by the photos they publish - but maybe that's just me ;) - mike "glemak" dunn

Agree wholeheartedly that there is a need for profile info. If it's done by leveraging information from an existing source, the user needs to have the ability to specify the source, in order to control the messaging. - Andrei M. Marinescu from twhirl

AGREE - Mark Dykeman

agree! - Peter A. Mello from Alert Thingy

Agree! - Carla Thompson

agree! - sergiooo

Agree. Many things I'm inclined to share with the world don't necessary define me. Sometimes I share 'cause I believe others will benefit from something more than I would. So yeah, a proper place to better define myself would be nice. - Jim Stanger

Agree. Because there are people behind names like mine. - Dominic Jones

how about a room called 'about me?' that way you can opt in or not - sergiooo

AGREE Was just thinking the same thing this morning. - Marc Vermut from twhirl

If you hover with your mouse over someone's name, the profile pop-up gives a short profile plus an indication of whether that person has subscribed to you, rather like Twitter Karma but hundred times better ;) - Mario Olckers

Yes, a short profile would be of great help. kamla - kamla bhatt

mario - true but its not a profile, its the list of aggregated sites, so from there you can go look at one of the about pages of a blog or a true profile page like linkedin - mike "glemak" dunn

it would definitely be helpful to know a little more about people, but short profile - Carolina Velis

Agree. - Chris Nixon

Agreed. - Holger Eilhard

Agreed. - Thomas Hawk

Agreed. Was thinking that a couple weeks ago. I tend to click on people's Twitter or blog link to find the "about" info. - Brian Daniel Eisenberg

Totally. If you go to twitter and see my reference to "nude Oprah" you would then be completely disappointed when you arrive at my blog http://tinyurl.com/582z7o I vote for a profile on FF. - Dan Covington

Agreed - Rubin Sfadj

DISAGREE . They should keep it simple and avoid feature-creep. - john conroy

I don't know. I tend to disagree. I want to get to know someone by what they feed, by how they comment, not by what they say in a profile. Not everyone can express themselves that way, but you can by what you feed, like and comment IMO. - AJ Kohn

Jeez, Jeremiah. You've got access to my photos, videos, two blogs, and all the feeds I read. - Christopher Harley

For now, you can always mouse over someone's name and see where it takes you. It's a good practice anyway because you can subscribe to their feed if you wish - Charlie Anzman

AGREE. Going over to the ever-slow twitter just for the bio is, err, slow. - Yuvi

Agreed.. Infact, I requested this before a long time.. http://friendfeed.com/e... - Jigar Mehta

Agree - I tend to hover over their blog button to see what the name of it is - Sarah Perez

Agree. Although Most Profiles don't really convey much directly, you can infer a lot from what the person is trying to paint. - Parth Awasthi from twhirl

Completely disagree. As someone said already, your stream is your profile. - Neil Saunders

Agree - Their blog URI is the main thing. - Franklin Pettit

It's especially bad when people don't have a blog feed to get an idea. - Cyndy

I agree. Making the profiles searchable would also add value - Mike Sansone

Agree :) - Maryam Ardakani

agree.... web links are most important - Stefan Hayden

yeah, I'm Definitely agree with you - Zahra HB

DISAGREE. A think max you could you a profile sentence a la twitter, but it's almost more fun to infer/learn facts about the person from what they like, blog about, read and listen to. - Cat Laine

Just for fun, I'd like to remind people that this is called FRIENDFeed. If you don't know who someone is, and you're not intrigued by what they've shared here, what would a little bio do to change that? - Mike Keliher

I would have to say that FF is more of an aggregator with some bells & whistles. Some of the others services (blogs or facebook for example ) tend to be the places I'd expect to go for more info. Maybe the ability to add a link to the profile you wan to people to see? - Joel Gray

agree...but, jsut need a link to a profile from linkedin, facebook, myspace, etc. all that i need to know is who is that person. w/o a blog (most have them though), it's hard to figure out from the screen name. - don loeb

Agreed. - Mohamed J from fftogo

Agreed... I sometimes wonder why this person wants to follow me. - Mike Wills

Not really. After all, FriendFeed links to many of the places where I have profiles - including a direct link to my LinkedIn profile. - Simon Bisson from Alert Thingy

FF is elegant enough as it is. I think that FF, as said above links to more that one place where my profile is stored. Which reminds me, it needs updating. Any tips?? - Roberto Bonini

AGREE! I've asked the FF team for this specific feature. Hope they're listening. :) - Don MacAskill

I like the basic simplicity of it. If you want to know more about them, go visit the blog page they linked. - TranceMist

It would actually be kind of cool if FF kept track on the things you share and comment on and then build a profile from it. It could be just as much about self discovery! How exciting! - Geoff Schultz

I like either reading in the Twitter bio or an excerpt from an About page from blog. Also, title and company from LinkedIn could be read. That alone might suffice. - Adam Darowski

Agree. For those who want to use it, a FriendFeed profile saves the trouble of digging through countless posts, tweets, etc. And if you don't want to use it, you don't have to use it. - Ontario Emperor

Would be nice if they could instead pull in your profiles on all your feeds and allow your to tab thru them - Robert O'Callaghan

Disagree. Not knowing who everyone is here on FF keeps it more objective keeps some from being influenced on how they may post. It gives newcomers a chance to be noticed without be 'overpowered' by the 'well-known' names which is very good. This is one of the reasons (Late adopter?? :) that I just re-opened my Linked-In account. - Charlie Anzman

Cut and paste is most notable here. - Steve Rubel

true, i brought that up as well, but that can be fixed via software update, no? - MG Siegler

MMS I would say is huge, especially for a "phone". You figure an app might help with that eventually or they'll include it in an update. A better camera would have been nice, but surely would have boosted the price. Cut and paste would be helpful, but probably not at the top of my priority list. Though would be cool no doubt. - Andrew Dobrow

@MG one hopes. But somehow it feels part of the UI - Steve Rubel

VIDEO!!!!!!!! - drew olanoff

How about a better camera. Nokia N95 has a 5MP camera. Apple still stuck with 2.0MP. It makes a HUGE difference IMHO. - Brian Daniel Eisenberg

I've never ever used cut and paste on any smart phone I've owned. - Bwana ☠

Sure ! GPS feature is nice, what about Inertial measurement unit ? Lots of apps to make with this hardware - Guy Vander Heyden

I vote for the fact that anything that Apple does produces an uneasy reaction in my stomach because of the fact that programming for it sucks? - Yuvi

Chris the iPhone has supported Groups for contacts since day one. I use the feature extensively - Jamie

@Bwana I have, for URL splicing - Wade Dorrell

If you want cut/copy/paste and video buy a WM device. AT&T Tilt - Admiral70

Video is a huge one for me, and along with single carrier insistence of AT&T is why this applehead does not have an iPhone - Leslie Poston

@Curtis: True, the megapixel race is ridiculous. However in this case, the argument for a 5MP camera comparable to the N95's is more for the quality than for the MP. The N95's camera is very high quality. So is the 5MP camera on the Sony Ericsson K850i (the phone I'll probably buy over an iPhone 3G, because the camera quality is more important to me; I have an iPod touch already). - Cheryl Jones

Gas prices in Europe actually go up higher too when they go up here. If you mean will our gas taxes increase to match Europe's, I doubt it. - Morton Fox

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that's a good point - I read that the tax rate there was 70% and in the US it was around 11% - acedanger

If I am not mistaken they also use a ton more diesel autos and unlike here their diesel fuel is less expensive rather than more expensive than regular fuel. - Marco(aureliusmaximus)

our purchasing power makes this unlikely. the US buys significantly more fuel than any European nation. this plus trade incentives makes it likely that the US can keep prices down relative to Europe... - Jeremy Toeman

I'm actually looking forward to car companies starting to build smaller, more efficient cars. I laugh every day at the herds of late-eighties Caprices, Monte Carlos and Town Cars with 20+inch rims I see around town. I noticed that the neighborhoods with these crazy cars have the highest gas prices. My big concern is that higher gas prices may seem to disproportionately affect lower-income people. - ha3rvey (business time)

Diesel is more expensive than petrol in Europe, but you get more mpg so it's cheaper in the long run. - Chris Nixon

It would be so great if the US would raise gas taxes and use the money for public transportation alternatives. The idea is also political suicide in the US and not at all likely to happen. - Jason Wehmhoener

Its all tax here in the UK on gas (Petrol)... We are suffering even with small cars. - Robert O'Callaghan

$11.53 a gallon at the moment in London - Phill Price

This really isnt a bad thing I don't think - krug

It can't happen soon enough. Next: we need fast trains. - TranceMist

laughs... so that's why Twitter is down! LOL - Daynah

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I thought it looked like the Natural History museum with the Whale room. - Noah David Simon

wow - Marco(aureliusmaximus)

Don't taze me bro! - Greg Hollingsworth

twitter needs to upgrade their hardware lol.... manila - Caroline

nerds can't figh.t hence we are lovers no fighters - Caroline

love it - J Allen

so that is y twitter is down alot, look at that old hardware :p - josh

Dilbert doesn't make me laugh very often but this one definitely did. - Carla Thompson

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awesome. - edythe

coooooooool! :D - Maryam Ardakani

So true - RAPatton

Well? *Is* the triangle thing mad at the tube? I really want to know. - April Buchheit

I think the triangle thing is reaching for the tube and the circle. Does the triangle thing represent FriendFeed? - ha3rvey (business time)

Which one's Amazon? - Kevin Fox

triangle man, triangle man, triangle man hates particle man...they have a fight, triangle wins, triangle man - George Lee

@George, Don't know ya but you're my new hero go THEY MIGHT BE GIANTS references. - Steve C

i've sat through my fair share of these... - Charles Hudson

LOL - John Samuelson

universe man, universe man... :-) - mathew ingram

Pwned by geometry... - Mark Forman

what's not to like ... - Ivan Pope from twhirl

@Steve haha...thanks! - George Lee

LOL - Traci Knoppe

I feel like this is exactly the day I had with a certain project. - Jason Toney

@Jason: :( blehhh. - edythe

aah! kind of like the report I gave on my project at college! - Rahul Das

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