Are you giving live updates here or just via video? - coldbrew

Only video, he's recording live so he can't chat. but he does read from time to time the kyte chat - Alejandro

Looks interesting. How can I get an account for SkyGrid? - Peter

looks good but only 2 invites for the scoblizer?!?!? fail! ;-) - Bill Pennington from twhirl

looks interesting, will be good to give it a closer look - Peter Efland

only 2? - americanm

2? wow... *goes to eat dinner* - Bwana ☠

I'm waiting impatiently to find out how to sign up for an account. - Russ Jackson

Looks interesting. - Nicholas James

Console support? PS3 or Wii browsers? - Bwana ☠

I can't play with it 'cos theres no signup. After all the teasing, that's a little disappointing. - Steve Lacey

What's even more annoying is there's nothing on their site to indicate it's a private beta. Lots of "why you should join" messages and a sign in, but nowhere to signup. - Steve Lacey

I agree the site is deceiving. :( - Russ Jackson

More invites please! - Steve

Agree, need invites! - Dominic Jones

Looks like a cool product. Don't know that I'm as psyched as Scoble but it looks worth checking out. - Brandon Titus

What is SkyGrid's approach to dealing with false/fraudulent information being sucked into the service? We kept asking that on the kyte chat but it never got addressed. - Chris, Taskerrific Guy

I am twisting Kevin's arm right now! Who should get an invite? (I have two so far). - Robert Scoble

Me? - Michael McKean

Me? - Amit Nangare

My news-junkie wife needs it. - Bruce Lewis

Probably not me; I'm interested but I'd probably not be able to put it to as much good use as some other people here. - Chris, Taskerrific Guy

I'll trade my top secret alpha invite to SkyNet for your SkyGrid invite. - Jerry Schuman

So how can I get invited to this? I'm looking forward to trying it out now. - Dane Deasy

I should get an invite. Media management student in Chicago, moving to Berkeley this summer to continue my education. - Daniel Zarick

same question as @Chris Charabaruk :3 wondering about false or malicious or misleading information getting on site - Kim Landwehr

@Steve, he said their new site will be up later today. On the About Us page look for a sign up request dealie. - Sprague D

Please! - Dominic Jones

Will the beta invites be available world wide? or US only? - Roy Herrod

Have him give out like 20 invites and you could invite everyone in this thread! What can twenty more users do? - Brandon Titus

they could each invite 2 more - Jonathan

Add me to the invite list please. ;-) - Kol Tregaskes

Well if they give each user invites then it probably doesn't matter who you invite, we'll just pass them around. Somehow I doubt they will though. - Brandon Titus

Techcrunch post is up: http://www.techcrunch.com/2009... Looks like you are given invites according to Mike. - Brandon Titus

What type of ads will be displayed? Text, static, banner, flash? - Jonathan Callahan

Brandon: Thanks for TechCrunch link. My internet is sucking so much right now I can't check out Scoble's video and I'm intrigued by this service. - Jalada

Is Kevin on FriendFeed (yet)? If not, you should get him to sign up, Robert, so he can participate in this discussion, too. - Chris, Taskerrific Guy

Jonathan: Looks like text in the Techcrunch screenshot. The space is big enough for flash or banner styles. - Brandon Titus

no way to sign up for future invites? but more importantly NO MESSAGE explaining that you have to be invited in on the site. EPIC FAIL. Even if I accept the invite premise, it should STILL be communicated on the front page somewhere. - Duncan Riley

signup link now live - http://www.skygrid.com/account... - Roy Herrod

Scoble beat Arrington with video. Score! - Sprague D

Sweet! Thanks Roy. - Brandon Titus

The new Skygrid site is up...damn Roy just beat me :) - Patrick Ainge

Wow. [EDIT: I thought there was going to be a lynching] - coldbrew

Robert, it would be interesting to know how many requests they got in the first hour following your video and TechCrunch's post. Can you follow up with Kevin and let us know? - Sprague D

I like that Rackspace shirt he's got in the video. - Brandon Titus

The team blog is password protected? - Brian Newman

Saw that too. It appears they weren't 100% ready for the FriendFeed crowd :P - Brandon Titus

signup is delayed, and blog is password-protected. . . lame - Peter Ghosh

Ahh the power of Friendfeed :) - Russ Jackson

They are just launching, give them a few hours to fix problems. So impatient! :-) - Robert Scoble

Robert: We're impatient because FriendFeed has spoiled us with real-time. ;) - Chris, Taskerrific Guy

I believe that Skygrid is suffering from what is commonly referred to as being Scobelized. - Russ Jackson

Very intrigued by the looks of this and will anxiously be awaiting it's public availability or an invite if I can happen across one somewhere. - John Spyers

did the about us sign up thing, got an email back thank me for my interest, hopefully by the time I get the invite I will remember what it is for, you should have warned them before hand Robert that they might get inundated with a lot of request, not sure if they were ready - Kim Landwehr

Blog password protected?? Whatever. Robert, I'd suggest you check a little more closely before you hype something like this. Weak. - Ken Kennedy

Would love to get an invite when you have a chance - Eric

Ken: I'll have them fix that later. They are in startup mode and something got messed up. I mess up all the time too. - Robert Scoble

I'd be interested in an invite once you have more than 2 - Justin Korn

LOL...ok, Robert. So the big news was to watch some video of yours, see the frontpage of a private invite beta, and a password protected blog? *shrug* That's not too "real-time web" impressive, sorry. - Ken Kennedy

Really interesting, to me, is the role that the quality of writing plays in the overall quality algorithm. - Kathy Fitch

Ken: I think many of us like the excitement. Even if all of Robert's hyped announcements don't blow your mind, he still has a pretty good track record. It's fun to get excited about "the next big thing." Now that we have lost Apple keynotes and possibly the showmanship of Steve Jobs, I'll take excitement about tech announcements any way that I can get it. - Chip Ramsey

Chip: How have we lost Apple's keynotes? They will have plenty more, just not as regularly schedule. - Brandon Titus

Could someone please help me out with an invite. I just got home, and I missed the announcement. DM me here, or at http://twitter.com/michael... - Michael Fidler

Brandon: I hope you're right. The media events have seemed focused and less prone to wild speculation, which takes away from the whole experience for me. I was underwhelmed by the iPhone 3 software event. For the next announcement, I would guess they are going to try to make streaming video on the new iPhone a huge deal when they could have approved apps for Qik and others many months ago. In contrast, the Pre UI and functionality seems very exciting. - Chip Ramsey

Hey everyone. Thanks for your interest in SkyGrid! As SkyGrid's member liaison of sorts, I can tell you we’re really focused right now on trying to connect SkyGrid with people who are passionate about business and financial news and information. If that sounds interesting to you please stop by our site and under the 'About Us' section, and submit your email with a few words on what interests you about SkyGrid...I promise you, your requests are being heard and aren't heading into some dark abyss! - Alex (SkyGrid)

Thanks for the response, Alex. Good to know that are requests aren't going unheard! - Brandon Titus

I started using SkyGrid yesterday and it has been great so far. I love the content, the features, and the ease of use to this point. Looking forward to continuing to try it out. - John Spyers

I just got my invite. It only took 3 days after I submitted an account request here: http://www.skygrid.com/account... - Alexander Grundner