#hashtagsnotdead #twitter #friendfeed #scoble #killerfeature #hashtags - Robert Scoble from iPhone

Why? - Rami Taibah

FriendFeed added support in comments and links to realtime search. Wow. - Robert Scoble from iPhone

Notice how the two hashtags are handled differently. One goes to Twitter search. The other goes to Friendfeed. - Robert Scoble from iPhone

So, you're back from your blogging only for a week? Hope so! - John Wang

#WhatOtherKindOfMetaDataCanWeCramIntoTheMessageSpace - BryanSchuetz

John: I can't escape when FriendFeed ships three killer features in one day. Sigh. - Robert Scoble from iPhone

You've been wrong about a lot of things lately Robert. Hashtags are the best feature of Twitter - David Jacobs

David: and the worst. - Robert Scoble from iPhone

#squarespace ... oh wait. - BryanSchuetz

Unrelated to this: Robert you are so amazing. You handle a complicated conversation via IPHONE. XD - ming yeow

Ming: with Milan on my lap too! - Robert Scoble from iPhone

@BryanSchuetz - maybe these? - Tim Tyler

Has Winer commented on hashtags or real time search features today? - Mark

@mark lets have a look: #winerwatch - BryanSchuetz

Earlier he tweeted "when I have nothing to say I don't say anything" that might be a reference. I thought he would have been all over these new features. - Mark

this is a big win for FF #rockandroll - τorƍue

Dave is traveling in Europe so probable is missing much of today's news. - Robert Scoble from iPhone

Dave is back in the good old U S of A - Mark

Dave is going to get a lot of surprises when he lands ;) - Jorge Escobar

Robert - which iPhone app do you use for Friend Feed? - Monte Huebsch

He landed back on American soil earlier today - Mark

So you're saying hashtags aren't dead now because FriendFeed implemented a new feature? That reasoning is a bit off as they weren't dead for Twitter in the first place IMO. - Sonny Gill

I am out of my mind livid at the #moonfruit stunt - James Watters

Monte: I don't use an app. - Robert Scoble from iPhone

Why James? - Mark

Because of the future it portents, tons and tons of paid hash swarms for contests - James Watters

"portends" - James Watters

Now you're just making up big words that don't exist. - Mark

...btw sorry for interupting you at the cisco blog happy hour Robert :) - James Watters

Sorry Mark, so mad I'm typing faster than normal - James Watters

My theory is that Dave Winer is watching real time search for his name so maybe this will get him to comment #DaveWiner #DavidWiner #Dave - Mark

I know Seth Godin definately watches for his name #SethGodin #Bald - James Watters

Hmm, I wonder. #BeetleJuice #BeetleJuice #BeetleJuice - BryanSchuetz

I would love for someone to tell me that I"m just being touchy about paid # blizzards - James Watters

James: I will delete and block spam - Robert Scoble from iPhone

Even CNN has gotten into *liberal* use of hashtags :) http://friendfeed.com/cnnbrk... - Andrew Smith

Hashtags may not be dead but they have lost a lot of their usefulness - BCK

With search and track, why does one need hashtags? They'll find the reference no matter if it has a # - PXLated

That really is amazing! I'll have to start using #hashtags more. - Adam

PXLated: to make it easy to link to a search. For instance #PXLated links to a search for your name. - Robert Scoble

Don't understand the need for a hashtag to do that. I can search Scoble and get the same result. all the hashtag does is make it clickable. - Karoli

Karoli: it also adds explicit metadata to make this easier to search for in the future. For instance #wackyweirdsearch15 will now pull this item up. - Robert Scoble

I have known hash tags are alive and well all along. How? I frequent #hashtags HQ at http://hashtags.org - Garin Kilpatrick

I'd rather just have the ability to tag my messages with normal tags like you do on a blog so we're not polluting our messages - Jesse Stay

@JesseStay - why can't we have both? - Tim Tyler

Well, clicking on the #PXLated link didn't bring up squat. Hashtags just seem to take up space. - PXLated

PXLated: It picked up this item. - Robert Scoble

Tim, that's fine, but I want the ability to not pollute my content regardless. - Jesse Stay

Yes, it lists this thread but not my actual comments. Shouldn't it bring up any FF comment I've made? Or am I misunderstanding? - PXLated

And here I thought that Robert had given up on this cliche. :( - Alex Scoble

cool we love #hashtags - rob friedman

#Hashtags are not dead, but despite this enough people try to kill them by using them wrong, see this rant: http://friendfeed.com/infinit... - Garin Kilpatrick

Great way to tag threads you like. Slip that #hashtag into your comment. - Hutch Carpenter

also a great way to alienate newbies, Hutch. - Laura Norvig

@Monte I tried MotherFeed but it ended up being less convinient than the web site, which is, to date, the best FF app I saw - Jean-Charles VERDIE

James: the beauty of friendfeed is that searches can be limited to your friends, so bots that post spam will be excluded - Mike Chelen

Jesse: information encoded with a hashtag is part of the material produced by the author, and of similar stature and value to the rest of the content - Mike Chelen

I don't know if hashtags will alienate newbies Laura. Do they alienate newbies on Twitter? - Hutch Carpenter

Yes. I introduce social media to n00bs and they are intimidated by RT @ and #. I mean, it only takes a few minutes to teach people, but initially they are turned off by all the symbols and feel lost. - Laura Norvig

Twitter's only for those really comitted to Twittaddiction. - Murli Nagasundaram

Remember when you wanted to include information about what you were talking about so you'd put that information in what you were talking about by actually talking about it? hash tags are just another namespace where you need to duplicate your content to front load the service's search capability so that it works right (assuming it doesn't work right to begin with, or doesn't have enough data so that it can work well (I'm looking at you, twitter)). hash tags let you CLAIM the topic rather than trying to derive the topic from the content. They're like mini-titles. Does everything, down to each comment, need a title? And do titles on everything really let you find things easier? - Andy Bakun

Okay. I hope I can still use hastags here for twitter posts via Friendfeed. Not that a link is sent to Twitter for the FF-Search. I need hastags for postings I make to appear as Twiiter-hastags in Twitter... EDIT: Everything is good :) No link sent to Twitter...pfeeew :) - Ryo / Fuck Facebook

Real-time is dying because of #Hashtag linking in friendfeed and twitter. #Real-time is dead. Say hello to #Realtime. - Garin Kilpatrick