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ffcode to ffcode's feed, All Things Google, Appetite, Android, 3G iPhone, building43

all geeks please leave a comment/like it so i can follow you i need people who talk about technology...thanks

October 7 - Comment - Like - Share

TrafficBug, Bob Morris (polizeros), Sam Him and 22 other people liked this

thanks patrick - ffcode

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just ordinary mom saying hi ;p - zʍıɔ

Please don't tell me this is what FriendFeed is turning into - Itachi

couldn't understand you mohomed - ffcode

thanks richard, milus, mike,zʍıɔ, mohomed - ffcode

need more folks who discuss technology - ffcode

Liked, but i think you got me already. ;) - Adrian Scicluna

No. - Louis Gray

You're already following me. - Dennis Jernberg

Left a comment :) - Junal Rahman

me too. - Nitin Nanivadekar

do you speak russian? - Одни подкастеры в стране

Одни подкастеры в стране no i don't know russian but would love to learn it..:) - ffcode

i'm a wannabe geek.....and anarchist....so be prepared for a mishmash of everything :P - Ⓐ ☠ slayerboy ☠ Ⓐ

Heh, love it. - Tenkely

i'm geek but Persian one :D - Lotus in Love!

I'm a geek. - Sweyn Venderbush

iLike - Hugo Poon

thanks to all - ffcode

+1 ;-) - progitto

Yup, I'm a geek. - Andy Cheng from twhirl

Bazinga! - Wang Yip

andy brudtkuhl

Diigo Learning Networks Is Very FriendFeed - http://getanewbrowser.com/2009...

September 29 from Bookmarklet - Comment - Like - Share

Sean Brady liked this

Any other Diigo users here? Let's Connect - http://www.diigo.com/user... - andy brudtkuhl

Dave Winer

ThirdVoice comes back, from Google. Guess we'll find out if the hellish nightmare cesspool materializes. (Bet it does.) http://paidcontent.org/article...

September 23 from Twitter - Comment - Like - Share

Ken Morley, Daniel Chow, Sean Brady and 7 other people liked this

At least there's an API so services like Disqus and Echo can - in theory - fold the sidewiki back into the comments. I've been very happy with Echo's ability to gather all the activity about a blog post back into the comments. The Third Voice is going to happen thanks to sites like this and Twitter whether we like it or not. We just need to be able to capture and save the content. - Leo Laporte

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It should be opt-in for the website. Otherwise Google is going to become a true pariah. - Dave Winer

I don't think you meant pariah, Google won't be shunned. - Matthew DeVries

Google is Evil! - Michael Pinto

It's not evil (I know you're probably kind of kidding, Michael). I do think Google looks out for its own interests more than it pretends to. Whenever you're trying to make something happen with some Google open thing -- gadgets, feeds, whatever -- and it's just not doing exactly what you'd like it to do, you can usually trace the snag for you back to some benefit for Google. - Amyloo

Amy, I don't throw the word evil around casually, but the problem here is that Google asked to be judged that way when it was a young and idealistic company. It was kind of an insurance policy that Brin took out, in case he lost control of the company, I guess. But they asked for that to be the basis of evaluation. A high standard that nowadays is laughable. A company that benefited... more... - Dave Winer

But I find Google's to be a particularly palatable type of evil, in that they seem to go out of their way not to blow up and destroy the competition, but instead foster it, push it, but keep them alive. From where I sit, they've learned how much the Big Three regrets blowing up Packard, AMC, Tucker, Studebaker, Overland, DeSoto, etc. If your goal is to keep playing, checkmate can't be your goal. - Matthew DeVries

I agree with Dave, this has to be opt in for the website otherwise I foresee a train wreck of abuse. - Gilbert Harding

Am I allowed to discuss your website with a colleague around the water cooler without asking your permission? - Stephen Judd

While Google is claiming that Sidewiki is a commenting tool, I don't really see it as such. It seems to me to be more of a bookmarking/recommendation tool. From a functional standpoint is is about the most worthless thing in terms of commenting. However, if I wanted to share a particular site/article, and include a quick snippet about why I like it I can see this being a great tool for... more... - Sean Brady

I think the opt-out is there isn't it? Can't you set up your website so that Google cannot index it and return it in search results? I thought there were ways to tag your pages telling the Google bots to go away. - Matthew DeVries

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claytoncubitt: Steve Diet Goedde, Los Angeles fires at night... - http://emmeffe.tumblr.com/post...

August 31 from Scrapbook - Comment - Like - Share

Ubqtous, MafiaX, Kol Tregaskes and 10 other people liked this

We're getting the smoke from this now...and the contact high. - ‘-.-’ Tutivillus Grift

Looks like Mordor. - dkb

Kamilah Gill

Word on the street is: Google Reader is where it's at! Forget that Streamy garbage! GReader is the closest thing to FF right now. Come join in, everyone! And someone remind me, where's the list of GR people? Kol?

August 14 - Comment - Like - Share

Sean Brady, Dobromir Hadzhiev, Pete Delucchi and 18 other people liked this

It's not perfect yet, but it's getting there! - Kamilah Gill

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I'm going to sound really dumb here but...I don't get it. Don't get how GR can be another form of FF... - Katie is STILL hungover

i keep forgetting to use GR, FF is still here. - Mike Nencetti

Way to early to start the stampede over there. I have a feeling it'll start getting exponentially lot more like FF by the end of this year. I did enjoy them being separate. :( - Adi

Kamilah, the thread is here: http://ff.im/6mh5s - Kol Tregaskes

Mark, are you sharing publicly? Can't seem to find you EDIT. nm, found you. just had to search for your regular name. - Kamilah Gill

It's working beautifully so far. - Vince DeGeorge

Do you define "garbage" as "not close to FF"? - Don Mosites

Yeah Google Reader will take over. Follow me here: http://l.clipotech.com/shared - Svartling

I just recently realized some new features of GR that make it pretty exciting. http://www.damondnollan.com/2009... If interested, you can follow me at http://www.google.com/reader... - Damond Nollan

Yes, sort of, Don. I'll admit, though, I didn't actually use Streamy. I watched the video, and I saw lots of people complaining about how buggy it is, so I was like, meh. No time for that. - Kamilah Gill

In Google Readers left column: Shared Items=Your friendfeed feed, People you follow=Home feed, Comment view is a new thing that's not excist on friendfeed, but it's the coolest thing: It's there it happens, there you see all the comments on shared items from those you follow. Google Reader=New Friendfeed. please come and join us. http://www.google.com/reader... - Svartling

@Kamilah got it. we weren't quite ready for the traffic, but we're cleaning it up for you. cheers :) - Don Mosites

Don, do you work for Streamy? :( I'm glad you didn't take offense. It's nothing personal. I apologize for my sort-of crude language. I'm sure Streamy works well for some things, but it doesn't seem much like FF. - Kamilah Gill

Eileen Rivera

My local bookstore has a message for Kindle users like me http://yfrog.com/b9dbpj

August 16 from Twitter - Comment - Like - Share

Sean Brady, Isaac Antwi and Carlton Hackett liked this

I really like that poster...very creative! lol - Carlton Hackett

Martha

So today, my mom and I went to the local dollar store and bought a crapload of school supplies, which we are boxing up and sending to an inner city first grade class. We are going to keep them in supplies this year. You don't need a fancy organized charity or even a Twitter drive to make a difference. Just Do It.

August 14 - Comment - Like - Share

Mathew A. Koeneker, Ritesh Lal, Nicholas James and 85 other people liked this

civic engagement! - Jason

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wow, that's awesome. - Marie drinks champagne

Way to go! - Geoff Schultz

Great idea. Although it could be a fun thing to organize and do with friends - but definitely bypass "the system." Sending email to "book club" now. - Amy℠

Thanks guys. It felt totally great to do! - Martha

AWESOME. Wish I could like this post 10,000 times! - Trish R

Dave and I had a blast buying school supplies last year: we got all the stuff we wanted and couldn't afford when we were kids... - FFing Enigma (aka Tina)

Very cool! Great idea. - Jeff P. Henderson

Good job, Martha and mom! - Eivind

School supplies for Zambian children: http://cecilysfund.org/ (Sorry, but I felt this was a good post to promote it.) - Eivind

Elvind - promote it away! Another thing my mom has been doing for years is making quilts, toys, handcrafts and sending them to an AIDs orphanage in South Africa. She and five of her friends send them to the kids and have sold the stuff stateside and have raised around $25,000 all on their own to send to the orphanages to help the kids. I am not that crafty, but I help with legal, graphic design and the selling of the stuff at their sales. Another thing she just does. There is so much that you can Just Do. - Martha

Great idea and my congrats. You are making a difference! Good show! :-) - Mathew A. Koeneker

Well done. - Kevin J Hatton

Excellent way to make positive difference in society. - ashish

Thanks for the nice comments! All boxed up and sent south! - Martha

Still loving this post. Hope others follow your excellent example. :-) - Trish R

Hutch Carpenter

Finding myself clicking 'Like' a lot more over in Google Reader. My FriendFeed-learned behavior.

August 16 - Comment - Like - Share

Tom Landini, Meryn Stol, Sean Brady and 2 other people liked this

Kol Tregaskes to Kol's feed, FriendFeed Talk, Google Reader, Appetite, All Things Google, TheNextWeb Forum

If you *had* to use Google Reader instead of FriendFeed what would you change about Google Reader? And what are the pros and cons of GReader as it stands now?

August 15 - Comment - Like - Share

Joseba Abaitua, Marshall Bose, joneilortiz and 45 other people liked this

For sure, Google Reader has likes and comments, you can share (reshare) whatever you see in your feeds to your followers and there are groups (well can you view by group though?) but there are no DMs and I'm finding the Comment View very chaotic and annoying, for example, I have to expand the post every time (would prefer at least a bigger preview of the post). What the comments system needs, for me, is AJ's very cool commenting highlighting that is on Cleaner FriendFeed. That helps my FF experience hugely. There is no duplicate detector either and lifestreaming is perhaps not the best. What do you think? #alternativetoFF - Kol Tregaskes

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I'd agree with all of those; they also need to clean up the management of your friends / contacts / groups / etc. The way that stuff interacts with GMail Contacts is still rather chaotic and confusing. - Tristan Seligmann

Personally I'd add GTalk/Chat support - S.D.Allen from IM

S.D. built in Gtalk support would be useful or simply made easy to 'DM' followerrs but perhaps this should be toggleable for each user. - Kol Tregaskes

A cleaner social interface, so I can manage my contacts, etc. as Tristan said. - phil baumann

The People You Follow view doesn't have to be the exact same as the Subscriptions view. If that interface could be tweaked to be a bit more socially-conducive, that may help. - phil baumann

I would like to see my friend's friends. - Damond Nollan

Sure optional is good. [?] - S.D.Allen from email

Agreed. Comment view is a mess. If they could get that cleaned up it would be a nice replacement. gTalk integration would be very cool. I have been adding more and more people to my Google Contacts thanks to Google Voice so it makes a lot of sense to have that contact list be my primary list for friends. That makes GR a particularly interesting FF replacement to me. - Sean Brady

better comments and grouping of friends...need a lot of work - Dobromir Hadzhiev

Dobromir, what is the issue with groups? I don't use but curious. - Damond Nollan

I do agree the comments could be better. I notice that in some cases, they are above the story and in others they are below. I wonder if Google is playing with comments now. - Damond Nollan

Google's in bed with the CIA collecting your personal data to eventually use against you. - sofarsoShawn

Some are saying Google Reader is almost a Twitter client even - http://www.educer.org/2009... - phil baumann

sofarsoShawn :) - phil baumann

I think that post is farrrrrrrr behind the ball with feedly already doing as much, however I see Greader becoming much more like friendfeed with its new social capabilities - sofarsoShawn

Agree, it's definitely looking more like FF. - phil baumann

@damond there are nonexistent :-) [friends grouping I mean] - Dobromir Hadzhiev

GReader needs a My discussions that only focuses on articles I've Starred, Shared, Liked or Emailed. If someone shares an article I've already read, I don't not want it to resurface. I still say Filtering is needed as well. I may want to auto-hide certain keywords. In Peoples Shared items, I may want to filter a certain RSS feed that they like but has nothing to do with me. Basically they need a way to cut some of the noise down. - manielse (Mark Nielsen)

@Dobromir You can group friends in the contact manager, and decide which groups can comment on yr shared items (odd functionality that I don't see a use for). But yr right, no way right now to group the list of "People you follow" - Chuck Falzone

Import feeds to shared items (e.g. my own twitter feed, my own delicious bookmarks, etc.); add GReader shared item feeds as "people you follow" instead of regular subscription; overhaul public shared items page - allow folks to comment on items from right there, provide a blurb and a link instead of entire shared item; a tool to find contacts from FF/FB/Twitter who are sharing and... more... - Chuck Falzone

I dont think I COULD use any one service as a replacement for friendfeed, so the only thing google reader could do for me there would be to BECOME friendfeed. Then someone else would have to be Google Reader because, just like with facebook - I use it and friendfeed in different ways already - Slappy Line

Does commenting put the article back into the unread portion of the feed? I feel like the comments get lost. You need visit comment vie to see if an article received additional comments. This makes it difficult to have a conversation about the article - Fraser Thompson

I may have missed it above but there is duplicate detection, you will see when multiple friends share the same feed item. I agree with the others on the Comment UI (hard to read, can't tell what you've already read, not sure it's scalable with separate threads on the same item, etc), and Contact management. - LogEx

I agree with Kol on GReader. Their is potential there, however after having the FF experience it falls far short of what I've grown to expect and want when sharing and commenting on things. - Bluesun 2600

Damond, you need to use groups if you want your followers to comment on your shares. If there are not in any group they cannot comment. - Kol Tregaskes

LE,, does the dup detector work in the RSS feeds? And from one folder to another? - Kol Tregaskes

I notice the dupe detection mainly when I'm viewing All Items, or the aggregate People You Follow. - LogEx

I think that greader needs groups like here at FF. Some way for articles to share comments with those not being followed by yourself already. Making discovery easier, and discussions more dynamic. - Bluesun 2600

Groups are there but you cannot view by group yeah. :-( - Kol Tregaskes

Can you filter on GReader like we can with FF's saved searches? - Kol Tregaskes

How about a vanity search on GReader comments? - Kol Tregaskes

I'm reasonably optimistic... the speed of recent changes indicates to me that the @googlereader team recognizes the opportunity created by FriendFeed's uncertain future and is geared up to make improvements. I don't think it would be a FF on its own, but integrated better with some other Google services it could become quite powerful. - LogEx

Are there any timestamps on comments? - Kol Tregaskes

I really wish I didn't need to expand the article in Comments View to show the share/like line. Pointless. - Kol Tregaskes

One thing I like about the Comment view is that, unlike FriendFeed, is shows more comments before and after the expand link. I wish FF would show at least 2 comments at the bottom of threads. 3 ideally. - Kol Tregaskes

Yes GReader needs a "My Discussions" page. And real-time Comments view. - Kol Tregaskes

Kol, you should do a radio show or something and explain all of this... ;-) - Jannifer @wordsforliving

I rather just blog about it. ;-) Maybe that'll be my first post here: http://ff.im/6DiAr - Kol Tregaskes

I would make it work like Friendfeed - Jeff (the マクダジ of FF) from iPhone

Google Reader is dreadfully slow for mr because I have 1,000+ friends. - Robert Scoble from iPhone

1. As all you guys said, the comment system is too bad: hard to read, hard to update, limited to only your friends. 2.The contents you read are based on random shared items by people you follow rather than on a theme (like ff groups do). This would make me overloaded by irrelevant information. 3. google reader is way far from real-time, e. g. for a subscription of a twitter RSS feed, the lag is significantly noticeable and timestamps in greader are wrong. - yezi from fftogo

needs a better visual interface. as it currently is, its too 'busy' - George Hall (Australia) from BuddyFeed

They are two totally different things. I don't see how one could replace the other - Chris Johnston

the fact that what you read is in a frame. Unlike with Friendfeed when one scrolls down the header remains {Gmail, Agenda, ...} which, for me on the netbook or even the 15" screen laptop I use leaves even less room for the news themselves. - lelapin

open, open, open.. currently you have to be in reader to access comments, likes. etc you ONLY get your friends comments, comments don't appear in your shared feed, there is no API, and you can't embed your content (posts, groups or user summary) back on your blog/site to get a single source for comments etc.. oh yeah and the search sucks (compared to friendfeed), you can't search comments. They seem more like a quick "hack-on" instead of an integrated solution!! - Chris Myles

We need permalinks for our notes, comments and shared items. That's about it :) - Svartling

See this image that explains how to use Google Reader as friendfeed: http://pingmicro.com/this-im... - Svartling

svartling.. sorry but I have to strongly disagree!! Yes it *looks* like they have the same functionality.. but it's the subtle differences and lack of flexibility/api that kill it for me!! Maybe if you combined reader with GFC (or Wave) and search you might start. For example.. I'm on a site and I want to see if there is already any activity (comments etc) that I can join in on.. with... more... - Chris Myles

Yes I miss the embed features too. They are really cool. The other things you are talking about I had never used. - Svartling

Not only are they cool, they are VERY powerful!! I protyped a more flexible Google Friend Connect (GFC) clone in a half a day using post embeds (via the API) and groups. - Chris Myles

Sounds interesting. - Svartling

Well, the comments sync with blogs is my word - Francisco Espinoza from BuddyFeed

Mashable

Google Chrome OS Screenshots? - http://mashable.com/2009...

August 15 from Twitter - Comment - Like - Share

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mrshl to mrshl's feed, CloudNotes

Read, Write & View: 6 Ways Evernote Fails and the 1 Reason I Don't Uninstall It - http://rwv.blogspot.com/2008...

August 14 from Bookmarklet - Comment - Like - Share

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"The problem with Evernote is that it is absolutely horrible at taking notes." I agree with all of this. - mrshl from Bookmarklet

mrshl to mrshl's feed, CloudNotes

Official Google Reader Blog: A flurry of features for feed readers - http://googlereader.blogspot.com/2009...

August 12 from Bookmarklet - Comment - Like - Share

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The "Send To" feature works as advertised, but unfortunately the links all look something like: //feedproxy.google.com/~r. So instead of the actual link or a shortened link, we get a Goo-link which is hideous, but does indeed re-direct to the proper source. - mrshl from Bookmarklet

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I agree the URL is pretty hideous. Added a new Sendto for Diigo which worked very well. I think it is a good idea, although better with the true URL. BTW... the shortened URL option when you create a custom sendto uses Bit.ly - Sean Brady

Sean, please tell me how to add sendto item for Diigo. Thanks. - Roger Chen

Regarding the the feedproxy.google.com links, they;re coming from the feed (which must be using FeedBurner for click tracking). Reader just uses whatever the feed has as the item permalink (and does not follow redirects). - Mihai Parparita

Roger: http://www.diigo.com/post... and you can replace ${short-url} with just ${url}. - Sean Brady

Mihai: That is good to know. Does anyone not use feedburner :) - Sean Brady

Sean, thanks. - Roger Chen

mrshl to mrshl's feed, CloudNotes

ToDo - Add to your homepage - http://www.google.com/ig...

August 12 from Bookmarklet - Comment - Like - Share

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One of iGoogle's new "social gadgets" is a simple collaborative to-do list. - mrshl from Bookmarklet

Chrome: dmtnt12

Like this status if you are using Chrome right now :)

August 12 - Comment - Like - Share

Alessandro, Varun Mahajan, Chris Jefferies and 11 other people liked this

Robert Scoble

So, who is leaving FriendFeed?

August 10 - Comment - Like - Share

Internet Strategist, sofarsoShawn, Mitchell Tsai and 154 other people liked this

And go where? Back to Twitter or...Facebook? - Manuel Mas

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no idea yet.... see what happens. - Rob Sellen :o)

I have nowhere else to go. No where else gives me the high level of interaction that FF does. - Mel Buckpitt

Same FriendFeed as before, I'll still use. - Ben Parr

Of course if Paul hands me a few hundred shares of stock ... just kidding. Sigh. - Robert Scoble

I was going to ask how you felt about the purchase, but now I see - acedanger

Depends how much it changes. - Andrew Leyden

Why leave? - Mike Shulman

+1 Mel - I am gutted and don't know what to do if the main FF site closes - Matt Hooper

Why would I leave friendfeed? This place works well enough for me. - Talon Lardner

Manuel: back to my blog and Twitter, probably. I'm playing around with Facebook but it doesn't quite do it for me. - Robert Scoble

I'm sticking around unless there's some sort of mass exodus which I don't see an immediate reason for. - Mike Elliott

Not leaving 'til it closes, and I'm certainly not going to facebook or twitter even then. - Jim in Real Time

I'm sad, but I'm sticking around. I'm hoping others do to. At some point, the fuss will die down. - Helen Sventitsky

Mike: because I expect it will get shut down eventually if it doesn't get invested in, and if it gets no new features it will fall behind Google Wave and other projects. - Robert Scoble

This feels like that HBO Documentary about Brooklyn Dodgers going to LA haha. - Manuel Mas

And, actually, Google Wave seems to be the most obvious thing for me to try out from now on. - Robert Scoble

I will stick around until they move the features I like from friendfeed onto facebook. - Bryan Lee

Isn't it a bit early to make decisions? Has there been an announcement that I missed that FF is going away? Even if it isn't where else is better at this point? - Tad

I'm not going anywhere Helen...When it goes it goes...I'm sitting tight on the ship - Bill Heslin

there used to be a kind of message board system ages back with FB. disppeared one day never to return, lets hope this will bring something of that back, who knows.. - Terry O'Fee

I can't wait to try out wave. ;o) - Rob Sellen :o)

Waiting and watching. Robert, I know you have a discussion tab on FB but its not the same. ;) - Melanie Reed

How soon before google wave becomes available to the early adopters/public? - Bryan Lee

Mashable just published a How To Take Advantage of FriendFeed's Unique Features. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA. A little late for that, no? - Stephen Pickering

didn't you just just say "FriendFeed is dead. I will keep using it until Paul unplugs the last server, which could be years" ? or i'm missing something - Liviu Barbat

I'll stick around to the bitter end. - Dave Metzener

Robert: Earlier in the day you were excited for both FriendFeed & Facebook. It didn't sound like you were leaving FriendFeed. What changed? Why not stick around to see what happens? - Jill Elswick

Bryan: I heard they weren't handing out beta access to non-developers until September. Cold be wrong but that's what I heard - Mike Elliott

I'm in wait and see mode. It would have to be absolutely sucked in by FB for me to leave it completely. - pea

Robert, if you believe this is a good deal for both FF and FB - why are you leaving? - George F. Snell III

When should we cue in Titanic's last song by the band as FF sinks below leaving us all behind? - Manuel Mas

Why leave now? Until it is changed or killed, it still works just the same. - Jeff P. Henderson

Same assessment as you, I'll stick around but I need to find an option B now. I guess I'll go wherever Louis Gray recommends - Alberto Saavedra

I plan on sticking around for a little while longer. Not ready to jump ship yet. - David Finch

Melanie: yeah, real time really has me going. I will wait until I get a better sense from the FriendFeed team about what will be done here. I just am not getting the right signals from the team that there will be any investment in this. If that's the case, I'd rather invest my time somewhere else. Google Wave. Ning. Vanilla on Building43. Twitter, now that I got rid of the spammers. Etc. - Robert Scoble

I'll watch and see what happens. IF I feel that it would be useless to stay, I'll leave the site. - TeraDyne Azurepaw

I think the features of FF will be incorporated into FB (guilt free) and FB profiles will be more tied into FF. That's about all we'll see... - Gus

Scoble: Ning?!?! Really? - Manuel Mas

Manuel: hey, Pirillo is over there. :-) - Robert Scoble

I'm staying here until something else catches up. - Bruce Lewis

Robert, I can definitely see the value of your invested time on any service, but for the average user, what is the downside of sticking around here as long as the site still exists? - Jeff P. Henderson

hmm, ning. unexpected, but understandable - Alistair (alpinefolk)

@Scobleizer: The big crowd is not even at Friendfeed yet and you are already leaving? Someone will be by in a few minutes with a drink. Please help yourself and stick around for the conversation. You will be greatly missed should you choose to leave so soon. - David Damore

Social Media is a set of tools--I appreciate the connections I make, but I'm not getting too emotionally worked-up about the tools changing. FF probablywon't function as my Social Media hub much longer. - Rob Michael (Atmos Trio)

I like it here, so I'll hang out as long as possible. - sean percival

Not making any set plans yet, but keeping my eyes and ears open. - Martha

And when Google buys Twitter, won't that be interesting - Stephen Pickering

Bruce: have you played with Wave yet? I'm wondering how good that is? I gotta get an invite. Off to beg someone cooler than me. :-) - Robert Scoble

I will continue to use it until it closes down in its current form. - ashish

Google/Twitter vs. Facebook/FriendFeed - Stephen Pickering

+1 ashish - Liviu Barbat

I'm a little pissed that we haven't heard much from our other "rock stars". Where the hell are they? This concerns them, yet I can hear a pin drop. I think there secretly plotting. Roflmao - Jeunelle Foster

I don't want to but if it eventually goes down the way everybody's predicting it will then i'll have to look for alternatives :( .......by the way where do i beg for Wave invites :) - Bhowmik Shah

I'd bet Microsoft buys Twitter before Google does. - Gus

I haven't played with wave yet, but from what I've seen it's got potential. FriendFeed's got polish. - Bruce Lewis

I wasn't planning on going anywhere, but I guess I'll be spending more time on Social Median. Perhaps someone should start putting together a decent buddypress site? - Aram Zucker-Scharff

I might leave only because I quit facebook - I hate the mindset, the shallowness, and am afraid (make that certain) those people will come here - Aaman (Clone of FF)

Gus: Microsoft and Twitter deserve each other. They are both somewhat buggy and don't come up with new features very often. ;-) - Robert Scoble

I think I'll be heading back to Twitter until Google Wave is publicly available - Aaman (Clone of FF)

Robert: Since at the end of the day all these platforms are businesses and have to eventually make money does it make sense to keep investing time and effort into building communities on them when they can sell/merge at any time and dismantle the tools that keep the community in place? it seems like the portable community concept of something like Google FriendConnect now makes more... more... - Mike Elliott

The other rock stars are drinking. :-) - Robert Scoble

If Facebook had an easier way of connecting with people but not showing them all the personal stuff I'm willing to show to my close friends (and the stuff my friends post about me), I don't think I'd need anything like FriendFeed or Twitter. - Edward Coffey

Robert: I've played with Wave and I wouldn't really put it in the same category as FriendFeed at the moment. It's not really about sharing and conversing in mass form IMO. Its really conversation with maybe 20 people or so but its much more difficult to focus conversations about shared content. Let everybody know when you get an invite and your address so we can add you! :) - Brandon Titus

I'll stick around until the end. - Mathew™ one of a kind

It kinda proves a theory I have about us all being reduced (if I can use that word) to channels. I don't think social networking will go away, but as the internet and deals increase, so does the noise. Don't worry Scobe, you still show up in our Google reader every morning!! - professor daddyo

Man, what are we going to do without these discussions like this? - Stephen Pickering

Mike: No community is permanent. It's worthwhile to participate even if it's temporary. - Bruce Lewis

@Gus, Well MS has large stake in FB so I'm not sure about that. I'll stick around here till it peters out. The tech news rooms here are top notch. - Adi

I don't use FF much other than for private rooms, so I'll stay for those. Whatever other activity I have (which is sporadic and generally not personal) will also remain. - Cheryl

I'll stick around until they pull the plug. - Morton Fox

Leave friendfeed? what's the alternative I'd really like to know. Is it facebook? - Tate DA FF MVP

I'll stick with it as long as it's here and people are still active. FF4L!! - Cassidy

What is the next thing? Where do we go now? Not FB! But where? - Michael Liss

I heard it's MySpace - sean percival

I'm staying until the end as well. - Mitch

I won't be deleting my account, but signing in and commenting? No. No real point to continue putting data into a service that is gonna get unplugged anyway. Guess we just have to return to blogs and twitter. - BCK

quick! everybody back to MySpace!!! - acedanger

what? leave and create a better version of Twitter? or start FriendsterFeed? - Andy Sternberg

The downside for me? I invest time in things that WILL BE not that are. That's always been what keeps my interest and now that I know that FriendFeed probably will not be, even if it takes five years to totally die, I've lost a great deal of interest in it. - Robert Scoble

Michael: I don't think anyone knows today where to go next, because there's no good substitute out there. We can only hope that the next destination will be obvious before they pull the plug. - Bruce Lewis

With the price of bandwith/computing halving every year, there will be a new one of these popping up pretty quick - Stephen Pickering

I'll just go to twitter. I have a facebook account but I hate it. Facebook is the walmart of the web. - Darrel Davis

Should we move to where?? haha - harri78son

I'll be here until something actually changes for the worse - Dennis O'Neil

harri78son you could come back over to my blog and we could setup JS-Kit Echo. :-) - Robert Scoble

Damn now I need a drink :) - Jeunelle Foster

I hate fb. Don't like tweeting. Guess I'll be keeping up with my feeds without the fun ff distractions :( - BEX from iPhone

That's right, Scoble is the catalyst for these longer threads anyway, so it might as well move to his JS-Kit - Stephen Pickering

Robert, that's a pity. I'm lucky to deal in things that only get more interesting as they get older. - Bruce Lewis

I'm torn. What are our options? - Kelly Mitchell

yeah~ definitly! @Jeunelle foster please come down, - harri78son

I see now...This whole thing was a ploy to get everyone visiting Robert's blog! I am outraged! :P - Brandon Titus

Brandon: OK, we can go over to YOUR blog. Got Echo? :-) - Robert Scoble

Bruce: Very true. I've tried to get into FaceBook but it's hard to get the clean conversation feed along with lifestreaming content. It just seems to be full of distracting noise even with the ability to filter with lists. - Mike Elliott

I'm here till the end. - Nolan Alston

Robert, the same could be said about Flickr, they haven't had much inovation since Yahoo bought them, but people still use the service in droves. - Jeff P. Henderson

Don't worry Kelly, a new one of these will pop quickly, if they kill this - Stephen Pickering

Kelly: we don't need to leave tonight. Let's trash the house first! :-) - Robert Scoble

HAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHA - Stephen Pickering

Brandon, that's funny. At the Boston FriendFeed meetup, everybody else had learned about FriendFeed through Scobleizer. I was the only one who found him through FriendFeed. - Bruce Lewis

I'm leaving my account here for now but I'll be removing all my feeds. - Got80s

I have no idea where to go... - Johnny

Let's make the longest thread in FF history - Stephen Pickering

Anyway, for the rest of today at-least I reckon I'll be off FriendFeed - real conversation is being drowned out by the echoes of this deal. - Edward Coffey

Damn it. Why is Arrington always right! - Stephen Pickering

Jeff P. Flickr is different Yahoo bought them for their user base. Facebook bought Friendfeed for their features. - Bryan Lee

Got80: why do that? Who cares if your feeds are going in here? - Robert Scoble

Edward: that is true. It caught us all off guard and we're still processing it. - Robert Scoble

Kind of huge things in this time,.hmmm - harri78son

Facebook bought FF for Paul Bucheit - Stephen Pickering

I'm staying here until there is a reason to leave. Though I don't hold out hope they'll keep the service alive forever... obviously, I'm always enjoysthin.gs too, but it's not quite the same. I REALLY can't see myself using facebook as much as FF though. - Ted Roden

I need an adult beverage. then I'll trash the place... - Kelly Mitchell

I despise FB. Please let them not just trash FF. - Adam Webb

Considering the free Google Wave protocol implementation and ejabbered work together, it shouldn't be too hard to quickly build a FF type service that's scalable. Combine that with EC2 and S3 and you could probably get a lot of runway before funding is needed. Robert, I think the next service you switch to should be part owned by you, considering I bet a lot of the traffic here was originated from you evangelizing. - Chip Ramsey

Bryan: it's worse than that. I'm hearing that Facebook bought FriendFeed for its team. Google Superstars. Makes Zuckerberg get out his wallet. - Robert Scoble

Where will be the next pasture Mr. Scoble? - Rami Taibah

Stephen: lol. Yes, the 50 million dollar man. But seriously, there's no doubt what they really want is the tallent. - Brandon Titus

I'm gutted about this, but I knew that Virb account would come in handy eventually... sorta... maybe... - Linda Mills

Holden, yeah, but it doesn't make sense to invest energy here when its eventually going to die anyway - Stephen Pickering

I'm new on FF so I wonder, are people leaving FF because you'll have to use FB to participate? - Christopher Doiron

Stephen: not only for Paul. The guy who started Google Talk is at FriendFeed. So is the guy who started Google Maps. - Robert Scoble

Among other ex-Google superstars. - Robert Scoble

Robert your not processing anything from what I see..Your just gonna dump it...thanks...makes us All feel so much better....Salt in a wound? - Bill Heslin

Christopher, it's that the FriendFeed team's new bosses will turn priorities away from the site we love. - Bruce Lewis

They'll probably cannibalize FriendFeed... nom nom - Kelly Mitchell

funny how many people are joining friend feed on the news of this acquisition. i'm seeing lots of my twitter followers starting to join. - mark silva

Go where, do what? - frankiecarl

I say its WAAAYYY too early to speculate what will happen to friendfeed next. Let the drama of today die down. - Bryan Lee

Yeah lets all get drunk and start a fight. This whole thing is hilarious to me. Funny how media can start a panic. I ain't goin no where, I like to coloring. - Jeunelle Foster

Bill: I said I won't leave until I hear more from the team. Why must you always be a drama queen? - Robert Scoble

Kelly, I wish they would absorb FriendFeed, but despite the talk I don't think openness and Facebook are compatible. - Bruce Lewis

Robert, Ex-Google Superstars is how I see it too. I don't see big plans for FF the sense was we were the last thing on their minds. - Melanie Reed

Can't help being an attention whore, its what I'm good at :) - Jeunelle Foster

Okay so we sit tight and wait and drink. lol - Kelly Mitchell

but there is no time to wait a special direction on internet, It's too fast!! - harri78son

Kelly: My analogy for this is like the female praying mantis luring the male for sex, then it bites its head off. You can see the pic in my story http://bryansays.com - Bryan Lee

I'm in the eyewear business and so I always know how to make a spectacle of myself :) - Jeunelle Foster

Bruce: I agree. Wouldn't it be feasible for them to simply keep the two properties separate then? FriendFeed would be the open/public portion of Facebook and Facebook could stay closed and keep its current private user base. - Brandon Titus

Bryan, pretty graphic and right on the money. - Kelly Mitchell

Why shouldn't he pull out his wallet. FB needs to monetize. The ex Google Rockstars know just how to do that - Stephen Pickering

I'll stick around and see what happens, but might not bother so much with another 'social' web site again. - Grant Bierman

:) I am what I am Robert...I'm A DRAMA QUEEN? LOL that's funny....even though I'm a much better queen than you I still wuvs ya...Still processing all this as everyone else is...Sorry...might be shooting from the hip and I shouldn't - Bill Heslin

Am I the only one excited to see how Facebook integrates FF? I have hundreds of FB friends that I know personally, yet know nobody that I am "friends" with on FF or Twitter. FB has my friends but I'd love FF's functionality. - Chris Nunz

There's this optimistic talk about keeping FriendFeed around as R&D. I'm skeptical about it. - Bruce Lewis

I'll leave FriendFeed as soon as there's somewhere to go to; currently, I'm not convinced there is. - Tristan Seligmann

Also when you are hanging with the Master of the Universe for four hours, its sort of like Bill Clinton going to Korea. Kind of influences you. - Stephen Pickering

Rami: I don't know. That's why I'm talking with you. I just know I won't continue to invest my time in something that will soon get no more investment. That's not who I am. I will hang out with Louis Gray until he finds something cool. By the way, someone gave me Google Wave already, thanks! - Robert Scoble

This should be a reality television show. This is where the real drama queens will come out to play. - Jeunelle Foster

Leo's going to need a new show, TWIF - Stephen Pickering

This week in Facebook - Stephen Pickering

Anyone here ever feel like we're just being tossed around from website to website by the big players? - Christopher Doiron

Thanks Kelly :) - Bryan Lee

Chris, Yep - Stephen Pickering

Bruce: I disagree with you about Facebook and openness. They are a lot more open than they used to be and are MUCH more professional and friendly than, say, Twitter is. - Robert Scoble

Robert, I look forward to your review of Wave. - Bruce Lewis

Openness and Facebook are not one and the same.... polar opposites. Bah humbug. - Kelly Mitchell

Yup the big dogs are sitting back laughing at this whole thing - Jeunelle Foster

It doesn't necessarily have to be "R&D" but really a completely separate product. Something like YouTube is to Google. Although that's a terrible analogy...I guess the products are too similar to keep separate. - Brandon Titus

I'd pay-per-view to see Scoble and Sebastian Bach fight - Mattb4rd

The Chinese government is much more open than it used to be. It still doesn't meet my standards. - Bruce Lewis

Bruce: also, Zuckerberg is seeing the real money is in search. So he HAS to be open to really do great there. - Robert Scoble

Robert: Any chance you could share your Wave address? - Brandon Titus

Did anyone get a chance to see Youtube HTML 5 Demo? - Stephen Pickering

Brandon: I don't have my own address. Someone gave me theirs so can't share. - Robert Scoble

Zuckerberg doesn't make money from other companies' search engines, so he's still limiting what data can go out. I see FB getting more open about what data they take in. - Bruce Lewis

Bruce: Wave is very geeky. I think the UI has a lot of FriendFeed's problems x10. We'll see how that first impression sticks. - Robert Scoble

And Wave will only be as good as how many users it has - Stephen Pickering

I guess what I'm trying to say is even if you don't think your time here is an not an investment ;anymore in anything Robert...We still, or at least I do, consider your input valuable. And if you were to jump ship too soon, I think we would all lose something. So, even if things don't look good...please hang around..That's what I meant to say... - Bill Heslin

Where will I go? Probably no where. Friendfeed was the first time I really got to feel like I found a home. Other places don't interact and blend multiple social services like Friendfeed does/did. Just as plenty of other people have said, I'm waiting for Google Wave at this point. I'm already a Google whore, might as well wait for the Wave to come through. - Matthew Horton

Bruce: data that goes out can be embedded on blogs and websites and interact with things. Also, if you get into Google's search engine you can get a LOT of traffic, which then you can monetize on your own service. - Robert Scoble

Not necessarily nailing the coffin shut yet here. Going to hang around and see what develops....what seems likely at the moment may be a totally different thing tommorow :O) - Jack Wilson, K4SAC

I am leaving at midnight. 2 accounts will be deleted, mine and one I manage for another site. - April Russo (app103)

Robert: Hope you enjoy Wave! The UI is definitely way off for content sharing (at least in my first impression) and more suited for group communication for the very scenarios they threw out in the demos. Get much beyond that, or have too many people and the system starts to break down. Obviously, the underlying Wave infrastructure could be used to create something similar to and better than Friendfeed. - Brandon Titus

Yeah, the cool thing about Wave is the problem they solved with the protocol. Not really their UI implementation. I think there are huge opportunities with both Open Social and the Wave protocol. - Chip Ramsey

OK, I have been out of touch and I guess I missed something. I see nothing wrong with staying with all the feeds I am tied to! - Dave Sickmeier

April, please don't delete your account. We lose interesting history when people do that. - Bruce Lewis

I'm sticking around. - Nation Hahn

There is no Facebook and no FriendFeed, it is now called TwoFacedFriend... - Kelly Mitchell

Bill: I'll be around but probably a lot less. Actually I was thinking that this was good timing. We have a new baby due in September and my other son is just starting to learn to talk, so want to spend more time hanging around with the family. - Robert Scoble

I am gonna wait it out. If the community as a whole migrates I will go with them, but I don't want to overreact. - Neal Jansons

it's time to have another serious look at Plaxo. There are some very clever people there too, I believe?! - Matt Hooper

Truth is, being addicted to FriendFeed isn't a good lifestyle. - Robert Scoble

Well said Robert - Kelly Mitchell

April: why so sudden and why delete accounts? I don't get that. - Robert Scoble

As you should. Family is much more important than any of this. And now I have to go fix my wig! LOL - Bill Heslin

depends what they do with the service - I like friendfeed and facebook so I think it will probably work okay for me - Nick Stone

Brandon: oh, oh. You said it "Wave doesn't scale." Not good. - Robert Scoble

FF also has good tools for using it in moderation -- best of day, week, which you can get by email. Lists help. - Bruce Lewis

I have been spending most of my time on Brightkite. It's a smaller community and more fun. A better alternative than twitter or facebook. - John C Ferron

Robert, and yes when he does that (Money in Search), it will change the playing field in lateral ways across the Internet, especially in ePortfolios and other like applications that don't need to be walled gardens - Melanie Reed

Your right, Robert, but you would eventually learn to moderate your use, and a service like this is going to be needed - Stephen Pickering

so much DRAMA - Kevin Pruett

Kevin, the Drama is warranted - Stephen Pickering

And Leo and Dick Debartolo are on the wine train, missing all this...I envy them...lol - Bill Heslin

Will there ever be an app that just leaves facebook out of the equation - we could only dream - Ryan Gerritsen

i'm leaving, watching from twitter would be a better option for me. - rama mamuaya

I am not likely to invest time in another community that I don't have a stake in. If I contribute it will be because I have a personal interest and am part of the team that runs the show. That is the only way I will feel comfortable investing my time & energy into it. - April Russo (app103)

If we could get the other "Rock Stars" who are obviously having a "virtual prayer meeting" somewhere to get together and talk about what changes they wish to see and what they would like to see develop for social media, Twitter, Facebook, Friendfeed and now this Google Wave, we would probably all feel a little better as we might be able to see down the dark cold tunnel but they're out... more... - Jeunelle Foster

i think that I'll keep posting to friendfeed until it fully integrates with facebook - Carlos Leiva Burotto

Did you guys see Dave Winer's URL shortner, http://rp.ly? Genius. - Stephen Pickering

Jeunelle: Rizzn and Louis Gray and I did a podcast earlier where we talked through some of our feelings. It was very, um, theraputic. - Robert Scoble

hahaha I must of missed it, I'll dig it up. A bit quiet still though. Haven't heard peep from Chris Brogan and all them other STARS - Jeunelle Foster

Louis's blog post was classic. - Bruce Lewis

Man, I can understand Louis' feelings. Look how much he and Scoble have put into this - Stephen Pickering

I'll continue to use FF until there's reason not to. I'm patient enough to see what happens to it. What's the hurry? - Cathryn Hrudicka

I just started on Friendfeed. It can't go away! - Paul McElligott

Lets start FeedFriend - the Bizaro friendfeed minus Facebook integration - Ryan Gerritsen

Well, I was rather hoping for some sort of joint deal between Twitter & FF... I'm not sure if I'll stick around in FF or not. I'm definitely not a fan of Facebook - Tim Bergman

Paul, that's what so frustrating. Just given time, we know it would have caught on - Stephen Pickering

I'm staying... - Luis

Thanks for feeding the flames, there, Scoble. *WHAT* on earth is so scary about all this? - Brad McCrorey

Brad, FF has died. Scoble made this thing. And what does he get out of it? Nuttin - Stephen Pickering

Was this the Exit Strategy? I don't see how FF makes money right now? - Keith Rowland

Stephen: I got you all as friends. - Robert Scoble

:-) - Stephen Pickering

This really SUCKS because when you don't have great "developers" to put something together like FriendFeed, you're really just gonna have to either take it up the ass or commit suicide. I'll hang myself 1st with all my clothes on :) - Jeunelle Foster

Jeunelle HAHAHAHAHHAAHAHHAHAHAHAHAH - Stephen Pickering

I'm wherever good, smart peeps are ('cuz I'm not smart enough). I don't invest much in tools - it's the people I care for. I'm not gonna abandon FF now but I understand that we'll need a way to foster the kind of community that got fostered here. Nothing lasts forever - and that's mostly a good thing in the long run. - phil baumann from Android

i'll be here until either the bitter end or something else comes along ... i'm really hoping that the ff-team will turn facebook into more of what it was before the apps came along... i think that's when FB really took a downward turn for me - Chris Heath

I follow the Cheese! - Rich Weaver

Venues like this will come and go, the whole social media landscape is in a constant state of flux I don't see why so many are up in arms. The life cycle of all the current venues are short and most of the leaders are nearing the end of their lives as we know it. But fear not, many new shiny toys will be bestowed upon us to play with. Now let's be social again! (ps. I'm sure we've seen NOTHING yet!) - Paul Monaco

Tweet: the cheese is in Zuckerberg's office! :-) - Robert Scoble

And for anyone that wants to know why I am deleting my account and not just moving away and leaving it to rot like i would normally do...just read the policies of facebook. Anywhere I have an account with data I don't want to be exploited commercially, in a way that exploits me personally, I'd delete it just as fast if the service were bought by facebook. - April Russo (app103)

Zuckerberg is Master of the Universe. He spent 4 hours with Paul Friday. That would have an effect on anyone - Stephen Pickering

I know I am able to post status updates in Facebook to "Everyone" now, but when will we be able to search these open status updates? - Kevin Whalen from iPhone

I can't wait till my mom gets one of my "Queenie" updates....that's gonna b fun...lol.. - Bill Heslin

Kevin, when God, ie Mark Zuckerberg, says you can - Stephen Pickering

I love FF but I think this is a great move. If FB takes the best ideas from FF and they open it up theres is so much potential for a great community. - Gary Gannon

Definitely see what happens... Not looking forward to Facebook turning this into a free-for-all like Facebook :-) - Maria Reyes-McDavis

Gary a potential for $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ - Stephen Pickering

Not going anywhere for the time being. I'm not a big Twitter fan, and unless FB makes some big time changes, it just doesn't do it for me. Will be listening for any other social media that might come round the bend. - Bonnie Foster

We are getting tired of all those constant platform changes, aren't we? - Harald Felgner

Harald Yes! - Stephen Pickering

I say we all leave Facebook instead. - Larry Roth

Herald and Stephen, Yes! More and different is not always better, just more and different. - Melanie Reed

I can't leave Facebook. I have too much built up there. And that won't do anything anways. It will just be a small blip to them. - Mathew™ one of a kind

so what content aggregator in the absence of FF? - WarLord

My apologies if this has already been asked, but Robert you are very close the FF team. You had no idea this was coming? - Ben Hanten

I'm not leaving. I like FriendFeed and Facebook. - Kimber Scott

Ben: not one iota. I did sense that they were struggling to figure out how to compete, but didn't think they would sell. Paul always told me he didn't want to sell. - Robert Scoble

Robert - I'm confused - on the one hand you've said this is such a great thing for FF as well as FB - but on the other hand you also say you're leaving FF because of of it. Why - if this is such a great thing for FF? - Matthew Blaisdell

WarLord: there isn't a good aggregator. That's why it's stupid to delete your feeds. - Robert Scoble

OK, a friend talked me down. He told me I'd be saying sorry for starting this post by the 400th comment. He's usually right. So, instead of saying sorry, I'm going drinking. See ya in the lobby in 10 minutes! - Robert Scoble

I may be dense about this, but why would you leave until you saw which way it was going? - Jerry Kidd

Good question, Jerry. I wanna know this, too. - Brad Williamson

Robert, I think he struggled with it, but 4 Hours with Mark is a big persuasion - Stephen Pickering

Matthew: I expect that the engineers will get put onto Facebook. So, if the smartest people are working on Facebook and not on FriendFeed, why would I stay here? Why wouldn't I start moving my work and social graph and all that over to Facebook? - Robert Scoble

LOL...there ya go Robert...I knew you would come around...Drink Drink!!! have a really nice cocktail... - Bill Heslin

The people I've come to know on FriendFeed are what I'd miss though, so I'd like to take my social graph with me wherever I might end up next. There's a business opportunity right there. - Aaman (Clone of FF)

Dunno if I'll leave the ship... - Wario

When I think about it - I found your post as well as the TechCrunch article via Google Friend Connect. So maybe it is time to join that Wave!? - Harald Felgner

Jerry: I said I was going to wait until I talk with the team more, but the things I'm hearing tell me they've already been bought to work on Facebook proper. So, unless someone tells me that's wrong, that tells me I should spend more and more of my time over on Facebook and not here. But my friend convinced me I'm being hasty and emotional. :-O - Robert Scoble

Mathew: Scoble said early on in this thread that he invests his time into emerging networks, not things that "are already here" I think thats why he will be moving on to the next big thing, like google wave or watchever new social network emerges out of this. I suspect that another startup will emerge to try and fill the shoes left behind by friendfeed. This is always the case. When napster left, you had morpheus and kazaa, then bit torrents. - Bryan Lee

Robert - Makes sense - except that it still doesn't seem like a great day for Friendfeed - if it just gets abandoned (by FB as well as by leaders like you...) - Matthew Blaisdell

Matthew: FriendFeed=Facebook. It's a great day for both. Cause I'll end up at Facebook either way! :-) - Robert Scoble

Anyway, these are just the emotional ramblings of someone trying to figure out how the world shifted today. Have fun! - Robert Scoble

clue to the denouement: where is the most valuable processing of this event. Right here. - Steve Gillmor

I'm just curious what new startup will roll into the limelight because of this announcement? - Bryan Lee

Robert, FriendFeed != Facebook - look at the quality of commentary/people here - Aaman (Clone of FF)

FriendFeed can stop improving right now, and I'll still stick around until something else catches up. Maybe that something else will be Facebook. I'll wait and see. - Bruce Lewis

I'm probably out. Back to open source for me at this point. Time to take another look and see how things have progressed with Laconica, JaikuEngine, NoseRub, and some of the other secondary options. I may also go crawling back to Twitter. Given a choice between Twitter and Facebook... sigh... - Ken Sheppardson

++Steve Gillmor - Bruce Lewis

Ken you'll be back. - Steve Gillmor

I don't think FB will change it all so quickly. But I do like Laconica, too. - Monique Hodgkinson

Steve you're making it hurt worse! ;-( - Stephen Pickering

Monique: It's not about rapid change, it's about where to invest effort. I don't really have any interest in investing my time and energy on Facebook... so why wait? - Ken Sheppardson

stephen how so - Steve Gillmor

I don't know where to go :( - K.D.

I'll make up my mind when I figure out what better alternative there is to Friend Feed. - Anthony Teegarden

Because we know FF has died - Stephen Pickering

Steve: Yeah, you're probably right. I appreciate the work Bret, Paul, Benjamin, et al have done, and I was really looking forward to where they were taking things... before they were taking it to Facebook. - Ken Sheppardson

I think I will just stay on twitter, because I can't stand facebook. - Tomy Thomson

Stephen: FF has died? Well, then, how am I typing to you? - Robert Scoble

Tomy, why change? You can listen to the Beatles and the Stones! - Stephen Pickering

Ken: it's all good. they're moving to a radically larger playground, and they can't afford to abandon those who appreciate them - Steve Gillmor

They will keep FF just will make it better - Johni Fisher

Choose I meant - Stephen Pickering

Please stop with FF has died chatter! - Bryan Lee

I'll wait to learn more before making any decisions - Herb Hernandez

Robert, well, metaphorically. Whether its a few months or a year - Stephen Pickering

Tomy: Twitter is like Facebook but without likes and comments. Oh, wait, Facebook is a lot like FriendFeed already. I just commented on Louis Gray's item there. Oh, and there's applications. We can play games! :-) Herb: I'll try to go see the team next week. I'm also interviewing Yelp. - Robert Scoble

But Steve, what if the larger "playground" turns out to be very different from the one pitched to them? What if the FF team finds that their vision isn't shared after all? - Bruce Lewis

Robert, ok maybe you are right. Maybe it will be like the R&D. That would be great! - Stephen Pickering

Stephen: are you trying to get on the Gillmor Gang? We seem to kill things before they are really dead there too. - Robert Scoble

Hey Robert , you make friendfeed slower ! I guess you should leave here really x) - Melissa Taylor

Anyway, I'm going drinking. For real this time. - Robert Scoble

Robert, HAHAHAHAHAHHAHAAHHAHAHAHA - Stephen Pickering

they can go build it again. but zuckerberg has been wanting this for some time - Steve Gillmor

need to wait what will happen to FF - Toni @ NavinoT

I'm planning on easing out of Friendfeed in the next couple of days, so I can get the contacts of people I know on here and who's opinions I value. - Jon, the Beartato of '10

Pickering: RSS is dead, not FF - Steve Gillmor

Steve, oh yes, If I were him, I would pull out all stops to get this team. I totally understand from a business perspective, all perspectives - Stephen Pickering

business is design - Steve Gillmor

HAHAHA great comeback Steve. On that note I think I'll have a beer. :) - Bryan Lee

Steve, OK, I'll keep the faith that maybe Scoble's idea that this could be a Facebook R&D could happen. That would be great!!!! - Stephen Pickering

Steve, did you see the post about this being an opportunity for Google Reader? I think it was by Jorge Escobar. - Bruce Lewis

Reading through all this is hilarious. We really should have a social media reality show Robert - Jeunelle Foster

no bruce, how so - Steve Gillmor

Jeunelle, Robert went drinking :) - Stephen Pickering

So he ain't all that. Just kidding hehehehe :) - Jeunelle Foster

He was saying Reader has most of the features of FF, and this could be their chance to expand and fill the niche FF filled: http://friendfeed.com/social-... - Bruce Lewis

disagree bruce GR has no explicit contract with users - Steve Gillmor

Contract or contact? - Bryan Lee

Wave might be boosted, but has similar immaturity at the social graph level - Steve Gillmor

I don't understand the part about the contract. - Bruce Lewis

If Ning is 750m why FF is just 50m ? - Johni Fisher

users consciously contribute metadata to FF - Steve Gillmor

Do we want Google to buy Twitter? - Stephen Pickering

@Steve @Bruce, here's the post http://jungleg.com/2009... -- it's a crazy idea but GR could make an extra effort and put up a better web experience - Jorge Escobar

I like FriendFeed, a lot, but too few of my friends use the service to make it really useful. So I guess I'll leave. - Adam Washington

Adam, stay, if even only for the aggregating features - Stephen Pickering

You are testing us Scoble. - Özer (Wrzl) Dölekoğlu

YES he's sitting in the back laughing while drinking Peppermint Schnaps - Jeunelle Foster

Scobles outta here. He went to get a life! hehehehehehehe - Stephen Pickering

totally staying....this really is just the beginning....and, i just built FF into all of my Intro to Soc sections!!!! - Chad Gesser

I thought you said you'd hand in there until they turn the last server off. What changed your mind? - Paul Chaney

Speaking of Google. What was the point of them buying Jaiku and doing nothing with it? - Bryan Lee

I'll at least stay for aggregation and extending 140 character tweets, and pray maybe it will become Facebooks R&D, but I know that's a longshot - Stephen Pickering

I should get a life too but alas the temptation is too great for "attention whoring" - Jeunelle Foster

Jeunelle HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH - Stephen Pickering

hehehe lol - Jeunelle Foster

Regarding the "team's plans", I really don't expect to hear anything from Bret, Paul, et al. At this point I'm happy to let the Facebook (i.e. the non-FriendFeed) folks try to convince me that they're ready to do things differently. That involves more than just hiring a team. - Ken Sheppardson

Well, maybe Paul can influence Mark not "to be evil" - Stephen Pickering

those who think FB has any choice but to go down the FF road are not thinking this through - Steve Gillmor

@Stephen, I was alternating between friendfeed and twitter (stones and beatles, respectively :P) but I don't see the point in staying with a dying technology, which unfortunately is where friendfeed is headed. The tech of friendfeed itself will hopefully live on in facebook. I really think facebook has become a slightly less obnoxious version of myspace, and that's being nice. - Tomy Thomson

Steve, Oh, I totally understand. It was genius of them. Proves how Mark is indeed Master of the Universe - Stephen Pickering

Steve, self-interest does not guarantee anything. People and companies can act irrationally. - Bruce Lewis

So Steve, do you see two separate properties indefinitely? Or does Facebook just slowly start too look more FF-like, then one day they redirect friendfeed.com to facebook.com? - Ken Sheppardson

yes bruce take twitter for example - Steve Gillmor

But Paul could end up being a great influence on Mark - Stephen Pickering

not indefinitely Ken, but long enough to transfer enough value to avoid making twitter look like the good guys - Steve Gillmor

Steve, will Google buy Twitter? - Stephen Pickering

you're "VERY excited" about the deal, but plan to leave friendfeed? why, exactly? i don't get it... - Shawn C. Reed

dunno, don't really care - Steve Gillmor

*eye roll* thread is getting to the point where it's too long and people are now asking questions that have been answered thrice.....Lock down time. - Matthew DeVries

ff was the important value, not twitter - Steve Gillmor

Steve, why didn't Ff take over FB? Yeah Facebook has the money, but it's the inferior product. - Matthew DeVries

Oh sure, who do you want in your office, Ev or Paul Bucheit? Paulllllll! - Stephen Pickering

Stephen, didn't the TechCrunch article say that the FF team would be split between two bosses, neither of which was Mark? - Bruce Lewis

matthew who says they didn't - Steve Gillmor

That's right. Paul may end up running that thing, or at least be No.2 - Stephen Pickering

@ Robert: The majority of apps on FB are useless imo. Every time I log on I get bombarded by 'add your relative' and 'blackjack' app requests. And don't get my started on the quizzes and other BS. Ah well, I will join your fan page on facebook! - Tomy Thomson

ff has been running dev for a year - Steve Gillmor

Wow - isn't this jumping to conclusions? No one has said anything's going away, nor do we know what they're doing to do with it. Stick around, wait to see what happens, then jump. Nothing's happened yet - I think it will all be for the better in the end and you'll know where to go when the FF Team says Jump. - Jesse Stay

Kurt, he's gonna sit on it for a while, see what shakes out - Stephen Pickering

jesse skip to the bottom for the apology - Steve Gillmor

The FF Team hasn't let us down yet, have they? I still trust them - only when they break that trust do we jump. - Jesse Stay

@Scobleizer I've been on Google Wave for about a week working on an interesting idea I have for it. It's very promising but its very alpha right now. You won't find it worth your time just yet. - Noah White

jumping is bullshit, no place to go - Steve Gillmor

Ah - sorry Robert - didn't see the clarification towards the bottom. Thanks Steve. - Jesse Stay

Jesse, you still in the Boston area? - Bruce Lewis

Why rush to judgment? Even if the "team's plans" are off-base, what's the base? And what's off? Experience, resourcefulness, respect for users and smarts under fire all matter more than "plans." Wait & keep seeing. - Doc

What the hell? Just because someone buys FriendFeed everyone has to ditch it? ABORT SHIP, ABORT SHIP! Doesn't really make sense so soon. Has anything changed yet? Is it the end of the world? Don't just leave because everyone says they will either. Stick around, the ship is still afloat. - Nick Humphries

the doctor is in the house - Steve Gillmor

But, if they did pull the plug, with bandwidth and computing halving every year, there would be another one of these pop up in no time - Stephen Pickering

I don't see a point in leaving Friendfeed until the doors close on us... if and when that happens. - Alex Knight

Actually facebook is the most popular rss reader of all time :) - Christian Burns from iPhone

Bruce, we just left today. I'm actually in Niagara Falls, NY right now. Just finished watching a beautiful view of the Falls at night. - Jesse Stay

There's a house? - Doc

Steve, is that Doc Searls? - Stephen Pickering

of cards - Steve Gillmor

hover over the name stephen - Steve Gillmor

Jesse, if anybody can persuade me (us?) that Facebook is going to be good for the FF team it's you. Maybe write a blog post or something. - Bruce Lewis

Don't get so close. - Doc

unfollow please sidney - Steve Gillmor

Doc, Calacanis recommended your book to his audience on THis Week in Startups. Can't wait to read it! - Stephen Pickering

I just left facebook a couple weeks ago - hope friendfeed doesn't devolve into quizzes and walled gardens - Doug Holton

It's the Gillmor Gang in a perpendicular universe. - Doc

yes it is - Steve Gillmor

and about fucking time - Steve Gillmor

Stephen, make sure it's the *new* 10th anniversary edition of Cluetrain. Both it and the old one are being sold. 8 extra chapters in the new. - Doc

No doubt, Steve - Christian Burns from iPhone

I'm in it to win it. FF isn't shutting down tomorrow or next week. But it's funny to me that so many dicuss the content... It's the connections made with others that are in jeopardy, not the LOLCat photos... - MVB (Curmudgeon of FF) from fftogo

Because of Quantum Wave effects there are an infinite number of Universes, some of which The Gillmor Gang is still broadcasting - Stephen Pickering

Bruce, I'll be working on a post really soon. Also, Louis Gray and I are going to record a phone call about it tomorrow, which I think should prove useful. I've got a lot of knowledge about Facebook, and he does about FriendFeed. - Jesse Stay

we never stopped stephen - Steve Gillmor

Heheheheheheheheh - Stephen Pickering

JFC, I was gonna go to bed, and here we are. Wherever this is. Do we all really live in Scoble's butt? - Doc

Doc comes through with yet another metonym: the perpendicular universe (= FF). - Nick in Manila

I would have had something out sooner but I've been driving a car all day. :-) - Jesse Stay

no it's Marshall McLuhan's butt - Steve Gillmor

Is this SRC? - Doc

Kurt, oh yeah, I totally get that and so does Scoble, but you've got to understand his short term hurt. Look at how much energy he put into this thing, and what did he get? Nuttin - Stephen Pickering

You mean McLuhan is in Scoble's body? He's in the movie Being Robert Scoble? - Doc

Nonsense Stephen he gets paid in attention every single time - Steve Gillmor

Social relay chat? - Christian Burns from iPhone

No who's on first - Steve Gillmor

Scoble Relay Chat. - Doc

the medium is the message - Steve Gillmor

OK, OK, Steve. I admit, I listened to Dave Winer's chat this evening about it - Stephen Pickering

yeah I read the liner notes instead - Steve Gillmor

Confessions of Stephen and Steve - Jeunelle Foster

And the medium is the network? - Stephen Pickering

Are we paying Scoble now? Are we his excreta and are those a form of currency? - Doc

as richard manuel used to say the check's in yr mouth - Steve Gillmor

Doc, HAHAHAHAHHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHA - Stephen Pickering

I thought it was "the check is coming in your mouth." Just looking for accuracy here. - Doc

no, doc it's a contraction of 2 of the 3 promises - Steve Gillmor

I forget what the 3rd is - Steve Gillmor

I'll love you in the morning? - Doc

could be - Steve Gillmor

Well, it's almost morning here. I'll tape this show and watch later. G'night or g'morning, all. - Doc

Goodnight, Doc! - Stephen Pickering

I was wondering how long this would take to happen. Soon as I saw FF being purchased by Facebook I knew you would bolt. Not 100% surprising. - Christopher Mercer

Part of beauty of FF: all their shows are taped. And yet open ended. - Nick in Manila

It depends how much FF changes. No reason to leave until and unless it gets annoying. - Igor Goldkind

It's "I'll respect you in the morning." - Sean Gallagher

Oh, I'm not leaving. Hell, I even still have a myspace account. It's just a question of engagement - Stephen Pickering

Good night all. Tip for Jeunelle: You get more attention if you make your feed public. Make a group for your private stuff. - Bruce Lewis

they'll have to scrub this one pretty good before they shut it down - Steve Gillmor

Maybe Jeunelle doesn't want attention. - Sean Gallagher

Hell, they keep Orkut going. Storage and bandwidth keep getting cheaper. Might as well keep this going - Stephen Pickering

Orkut! The favorite social network of 9 out of 10 Brazilians. - Sean Gallagher

And 9 out 10 of the best looking women! - Stephen Pickering

True. - Sean Gallagher

@scobleizer that means half of the total activity on friendfeed will be reduced - Sidharth Dassani

Maybe if Facebook hadn't stolen all Scoble's data, he'd stop worrying and learn to love them. - Sean Gallagher

Actually even os Brasileiros are coming over to FB - Stephen Pickering

My mother is on Facebook. The end is nigh. - Sean Gallagher

"Maybe Jeunelle doesn't want attention" - says who? I only stepped away to pour me a nice glass of Sauvengion Blanc", and thank you Bruce for the advice I'll look into that tomorrow. After all tomorrow is another day. Twiddly Dee - Jeunelle Foster

there is no reason to leave. I seriously doubt facebook will kill it. - Logan Lindquist

What's the record number of comments? - Stephen Pickering

Logan, I hope your right - Stephen Pickering

Maybe if I blog my twitter of Scoble's FriendFeed and then link it from Facebook via a Digg of a del.icio.us bookmark, it will create a singularity and this thread will have never happened. - Sean Gallagher

What about Identi.ca? - Jerry Heiselman

Sean, you may even create a time machine! - Stephen Pickering

Can someone comment on what April Russo said about Facebook content policy? Seems like a very important piece of the puzzle. - metalerik

I wouldn't worry about it. The markets will take care of it. If Facebook becomes evil, the masses will fork somewhere else. We're in the age of Openness - Stephen Pickering

I will only leave friend feed if it becomes a facebook clone. I can't stand facebook but I still use it cause my friends and family use it, but if friendfeed becomes annoying like face book then I see no point in staying here. - Colide81 (James) from iPhone

James, Touche - Stephen Pickering

You know Sean maybe smarter than he looks....hmmmmm :) and what's with that bird head? - Jeunelle Foster

Quote of the Day: "Microsoft and Twitter deserve each other. They are both somewhat buggy and don't come up with new features very often. ;-)" - Robert Scoble - Diego Barros 

It's a starling fledgeling. The perfect symbol for social networking-- it eats whatever you give it, then poops on you. - Sean Gallagher

That's what I want to reincarnate as....an angry poopin bird - Jeunelle Foster

Just reading all the news about FF and FB. Disapoints me personally, biz wise nice job. Um not a huge FB user so I don't know what my plans are yet. Like you wait a bit and see.... - Bryan Thatcher from iPhone

I hope FF doesn't go away and fold in to FB. I don't need FB. It's like bringing a machine gun to a knife fight. - Diego Barros 

I won't leave FF until they make me or there's no community left. Whichever comes first. - FFing Enigma (aka Tina)

We'll never get to talk to Robert Scoble again. :-( - Jannifer @wordsforliving

Well, it's made me think twice about vesting too much into any one service (so has the demise of tr.im). I use Facebook, Twitter, Livejournal, and FF all pretty equally, so I guess I'm not feeling this as much as some. - Bill Kinney

on to Google Wave. - Jason Wilson from BuddyFeed

Jannifer, Yes we will on his JS-Kit Echo commenting system he will put on his blog. It's real time like this - Stephen Pickering

I'm leaving. Google Wave, Twitter, Reader will plenty suffice now. Farewell, former friend. - Californian

Oh Stephen - I'm not sure what that is... but it won't be like Friendfeed. :-( - Jannifer @wordsforliving

At some point I imagine I will. I have no interest in joining facebook. When I do depends on what facebook does with ff. - Quasar

I'm sticking around till FB screws it up. But I was keeping FF separate from FB because most of my FB friends are my born-again Christian relatives who won't like the controversial stuff of mine that makes it onto FF's news feed. Still, I'm going to look for other similar sites. Posterous is one. - Dennis Jernberg

I really want a Google Wave invite now.. - Peter

I'm not leaving but I'm not moving to Facebook. The main thing for me is to keep the contacts I've gained from FriendFeed and hope we all can meet on another similar service somewhere somehow. - Kol Tregaskes

Ditto what Kol just said. - LogEx

ditto on the Google wave invite - Kim

you hit the nail on the head there Kol - Kim

Maybe. But i really want Google Wave invite. - ★ Soner Gönül

It's hard to say at this point. The only thing that's changed is who pays the server bill. Ask me in a week. And yes, a Google Wave invite would sure go a long way to make this better for me. - Dale

Joined Posterous. http://jbug.posterous.com Wouldn't mind a Google Wave invite, though... - Dennis Jernberg

Me too, Dennis. :-) - Kol Tregaskes

I don't leave if Facebook doesn't make something dramamatic to FF - Kristian Salonen

I will wait and see. - Matt G

Leaving a favorite site isn't always a conscious decision for me. The cool site loses its cool and you just kind of drift off. - Dale from email

Oh yeah, and I added my Posterous blog to my FriendFeed feed, so you'll be seeing whatever I post there in your home feed here. That is, if you subscribe to me here, or if one of your subscribers likes or comments. Me, leave? Not yet! ;) - Dennis Jernberg

I'll be sticking around just a little while longer. - April Russo (app103)

I'm here for the duration - Charlie Anzman

I'm loyal until they make it worth me leaving. - Jesse Stay

I'm here until they slam the gates shut. But I am hiding all your BS posts about it being a good thing :) - jcunwired

If you want to be sure that I quit Friendfeed you have to see my burial. I will never quit while being alive! :-) - Kolja

I'm staying but it's like when you know that the company you work for has been bought by someone else and might close it, you lose motivation and start looking for another job, it's hard to invest time and energy if there might be no future. Not that the future of FF was guaranteed before but now it does not look good at all. - M F

I'm heading to Plurk! who's with me? *tumbleweed* - Iain Baker

Like I said before, I'm staying here until the end. - Mathew™ one of a kind

Friendfeed is two totally different things: the original RSS aggregation service, and a social network service/community. Lifestream.fm is a reasonable replacement for the former. As to the latter, it's the people, not the tech they're using, that makes FF special. I've benefited greatly as a 'consumer' here, reading posts - if that continues on Facebook, it will probably get me to... more... - SteamCentral

i'll be around until it becomes unbearable, probly until it's been damaged badly by FB style feature creep and riddled with ads and spammers. oh, and absolutely stupid censorship policies. that'll be a real killer. - Joe Silence is ashes

not leaving. NEVER hoho I haven't left FB nor friendser. - 'Like' robot (frɐnc)

The CloneFeed group has given me some interest. It gives some hope in case FF really goes away or merges badly with FB. I like FB but just don't want to fully mix the two activities/audiences. - manielse (Mark Nielsen)

Go to posterous. Here is mine: http://pingmicro.com/ - Svartling from iPhone

I'd rather keep my Friendfeed as my "professional aggregation" and Facebook as personal stuff. I blog, tweet, etc. stuff that a lot of my friends could care less about. And I post stuff to Facebook that isn't interesting or relevant to clients / followers. - Gregg Le Blanc

Google Wave is what I am looking for. The problem with moving to Facebook is that I use it for close friends and family so things like comments and pics etc that I post to it I would not want to have available to all of the contacts I have on FF at the moment. Mainly because I like to separate those I know from those that I converse with if that makes sense. I loved that on FF I could... more... - Travis Koger

Whilst I am not 'leaving' FF, I will not be investing anywhere near the type of interaction I have done previous to yesterday's announcement as I just see it as wasted time. - Travis Koger

I have to wait & see what, I don't want to lose the community; where do I go? This feels like Pownce all over! - clarke thomas

not me. - Edward Barnieh

Nope, not yet. I still dream about FF and FB to coexist. I think Facebook is even more boring now, after this announcement. Anyone else feels this way? - Patrik Johansson

Not me. I will be glad when all the people who say they are leaving do so my feed won't be full of people saying they are leaving. - Alan Simpson

What becomes of the broken hearted? - Joe Dawson

I'm staying on! - Charles Lau

FF is my first big social networking investment (or time) - I'll stay and then move, if forced. I'll certainly investigate other tools in an effort to fill any gap left by FaceFeed. - Jason Miller

I just saw that a woman's twittering her childbirth made the front page of BBC's world news webpage. I don't know to make of it, but I don't want to hang out at Twitter much anymore. - Mitch

Mitch: we Twittered our childbirth in 2007 and we will again in September, but probably not on our main account. - Robert Scoble

won´t leave!!! i LOVE friendfeed. @Mitch i know what you mean. So many stories and this is the one they picked? - Flynn (Michael A. Volz)

i think i'm stayin, and wait what's goin on facebook. i will feel upset if they dont allow the users to make their choice of using one or other site, but looks like they gonna force to use FB instead of FF :( - Dani Martínez

Not sure how on board with FriendFeed I ever was to begin with to be honest... - Gurpreet

FriendFeed will be fine - FaceBook is fine - and so is Twitter - I might check out AmpliFeeder, I suspect quite a few FriendFeeders will migrate there as the days go by. - Chris Loft

Not leaving FF but I can't wait till it's properly integrated with Facebook. Interesting thing: Wave's API is open so there's nothing to stop Facebook creating an app to make Facebook & Wave work great together. Not so much either/or as and... and..! - Matt Moran

Has anyone tried amplifeeder? edit: so far don't see any friending abilities though - metalerik

Why leave? But will be open to see other options - facebook doesn't (currently) provide to me what I get here. - amygeek

Facebook bought friendfeed http://adage.com/digital... - Rob Johnson

OH NO, I just finish moving all my stuff HERE! - Terence

Robert: I closed down my embeds today. Sad for my blog. - Mark Essel

I stay on FriendFeed, on Twitter, on Facebook, etc. - Emmanuel Gadenne

I won't delete my account, but as FF morphs into the ball of confusion that is Facebook, I won't be very active. - Jeremy Brooks

I will. No point sticking around when you know it is going to die sooner or later. With twitter you still have the hope.... - Davide D'Incau

I'll leave Facebook if FF gets harmed. And go back to Identi.ca... ;-) - Torrid Luna

Yeah, I'll probably leave Facebook too. If they're going to "steal" the FriendFeed functions and just let FF die, I will not have any sympathies left for Facebook. I'll go "all Google" or something. - Patrik Johansson

I'll stay on FF, FB and T, and BK, and other, BrightKite is not well utilised, is good even on beta. - Andy Ghozali

I joined posterous for blogging/lifestreaming and will continue to use twitter. I might go on facebook once in a while, which is what I was doing anyway. - Tomy Thomson

Robert: If you're looking for an awesome real-time discussion platform, you should migrate to Fluther. http://www.fluther.com - Ben

I'm staying put and watching the ship sink. I'd really like to believe that FriendFeed will have some longevity, but I won't hedge my bets. - Tyson Key

Steve Gillmor said "clue to the denouement: where is the most valuable processing of this event. Right here." so for now, FF looks like the space. - Barbara K. Iverson

I intend to stick around to see what Facebook have planned. I think the takeover has everything to do with the direction FB's been heading in lately, what with their open challenge to Twitter - Dennis Jernberg

I don't see it as leaving, but rather seeing the possibility that it might leave us. FF was and still is just about my favorite site and uberaggregatorthing that I ever saw.... - Rob Schieber

+100 Rob Schieber - Tyson Key

I will stay. Facebook will not Win. - TheHenry

Nope... I'll stay, even if I ride it to a bitter end. - Mark "Mr Bolivious" J

depends. if they stay seperate services, i wont like the acquisition,but i'll stay. if they become 1 service, i'm out. and where is every1 going from friend feed anyhow. what else is there? - echostreamer

Will wait and see what happens with FB - Ted Kinzer

fb ruins everything. Have the Privacy policy "not "changed since fb came into the pic? Can they not build their own ideas instead of buying everyone else's? leave us geeks to play in our playground and stay in yours. greedy buggers. The second they pull a skanky fb move i'm out. bitches. - seastarerrin

I'm here till the ship goes down. - Lee Watters

Leaving no. Checking out other venues yes. - Martha

Just maybe Facebook will listen to the Friendfeed engineers in charge of user interface/usability starting with the type size and fonts. Not all marriages are made in heaven. Culture clashes are sure to pop up. - Alan Morris

I am leaving Web - Back to Telnet - Dominique Rabeuf

Dominique, too late. The web already assimilated it with the telnet: url schema. - Bruce Lewis

OK so only snmp/ssh - Dominique Rabeuf

Hell no, not leaving. Best service on the web. - Christopher Galtenberg from iPhone

gonna ride this one out to shore. - Sean Oliver

keep using FriendFeed till they pull the plug. Leaving the service will make it more likely that it will go away. - Cassidy from IM

hu? - Dries Grobler

back to blogs :-) - Mostafa Lameei

I was about to focus a little more on FF but since I heard about the purchase and read rumors about FF being integrated in FB and being shutdown and all this, I'm getting a little ... well.. undecided.. Just checked Streamy, didn't like it. If a.tinythread.com get's more development, this might be the next thing to migrate to. I'm sure not moving to FaceBook. I have my account, I have... more... - Dan van Moll

Minitel 3815 (?) - Dominique Rabeuf

Not interested in being part of Facebook. Goodbye, FriendFeed. :-( - TranceMist

I wish more folks would see the big picture. We need to focus on independent projects that are NOT part of the Google-Yahoo-Microsoft borg. As soon as a site gets absorbed it is time to find another independent site. Yes, I do realize that some may have actually been part all along and only pretending they were independent in the first place - especially if they were founded by... more... - Internet Strategist

AJ Batac

Facebook sez, "Don't mind us, we're just whoring out your photos" - http://www.downloadsquad.com/2009...

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"All you have to do to prevent this is sign in to Facebook and click through to (get ready) -> Settings -> Privacy -> News Feed and Wall -> Facebook Ads -> Appearance in Facebook Ads and click "no one." Unless, of course, you want to be semifamous and have your picture used to push some garbage product or website without your knowledge. (note: when I tried to make this change just now, the site returned an error. oh, and it might not work in Firefox either due to a 'bug.')" - AJ Batac from Bookmarklet

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Nice... The coming Facebook backlash is going to be interesting to watch. I give it 1 to 1.5 years. - mikepk

And I was surprised to see my setting set to "Appear on Facebook Ads". x_x Go here---> Settings -> Privacy -> News Feed and Wall -> Facebook Ads -> Appearance in Facebook Ads and click "no one." - AJ Batac

Interesting ownership of content rules over there, heh? - Jason Nunnelley

My Facebook Ads page is blank. Maybe because I only have my stuff opened to friends? - Admiral Anika

I disabled my AdBlock Plus to view that page Anika. - AJ Batac

Ah, okay let me try that. EDIT: Thanks! That worked. I was already selected to not appear in ads. - Admiral Anika

Good! Mine was set to appear to friends initially. Changed it to "none". - AJ Batac

Just one more reason to ignore FB. - Jeff Stannard

Thank you. - Nathalie, Dreamer of FF

thanks for that tip. should be off by default, stupid thing... - Bill Kinney

Yet another reason I stay away from Facebook. Too many privacy horror stories. - Manny

bad fb. really bad. why the fcuk is this "opt-out" and not "opt-in"? - vijay

Because. - AJ Batac from iPod

heads up! ULTRA INTRUSIVE FACEBOOK ADS INCOMING! - vijay

read up on http://www.facebook.com/terms... - AJ Batac

I went to that part of the settings and this is the popup I got... "Worried about privacy? Your photos are safe. There have been misleading rumors recently about the use of your photos in ads. Don't believe them. These rumors were related to third-party applications, and not ads shown by Facebook. Get the whole story at the Facebook Blog, or check out the Help Center." - Tony, Paradox of FF

Third party content as in FB apps? Big difference there, eh? - Michael W. May

mrshl to mrshl's feed, CloudNotes

Reading It Later: Two years of Read It Later « Read It Later Blog - http://readitlaterlist.com/blog...

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One of my favorite Firefox extensions celebrates its past and looks to the future. - mrshl from Bookmarklet

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One extension I seriously miss being a Chrome user. - Sean Brady

i seriously am considering chrome again. but i'd miss RIL and shareaholic and (especially) lastpass - mrshl from IM

@mrshl, check out - http://www.shareaholic.com/tools... (true chrome support coming soon) - Jay Meattle

I run Firefox from my portable install on occasion to get my FF extension fix. I am way to addicted to the Omnibar in Chrome to stop. I did just realize the RiL has added some new features since I last looked at it. Will have to give it another look. - Sean Brady

Huh, I was noticing yesterday how I much prefer the way Firefox's Awesome Bar works. Why do prefer the Omnibar? - mrshl

Because when I start typing cnn it will pull up the full URl even though I have never been to the site on that computer before. It just seems to me to make the address bar almost like a bookmark manager in itself...for the whole of Google. - Sean Brady from email

One RIL weaknes is this: if you run Firefox on, say, a mac and another windows machine, the RIL bookmarks can get truly out of whack. I've taken to using Delicious with an RIL tag, and checking the Private option to track my read-it-later sites. - Steven W. Kelly

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Brett Kelly to Brett's feed, FriendFeed for Beginners

Serious question - why do I have so little activity on my feed? I try to be a good FFitizen, participating as I have the time, posting what seem to me to be moderately interesting (or completely benign) things. I admit that I don't post as many pictures or external links as others, but I don't feel like my feed is purely a collection of crap. :\

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And this isn't some sort of lame attempt to get pity comments/likes - I'm honestly looking for feedback here :) - Brett Kelly

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Follow more people, recommendations can be shared - Aaman (Clone of FF)

What do you mean by activity? - WorldofHiglet

I've tried to figure out the same thing (over time) and don't have any brainstorms about it. Sure, it helps to comment a lot on others' threads (to interact with people), but having good content on your own feed isn't enough. I'm as interested in the answer as Brett is. - Spidra Webster

I would say that the short updates on Twitter don't often encourage a response? (Just guessing) - Louis Gray

WoH, from his first comment, I infer activity = comments/likes - vijay

A few examples that make me gloss over it would be "Missing the mrs. and the kids :\" and "Finally heading home. Pretty damn tired." and "oh, hey dumprep.exe. sup." and "and you had better believe that The Bronx is on the speakers and they're turned *way* up." What am I supposed to do with those? :) - Louis Gray

Activity = comments + likes, yes. - Louis Gray

WorldofHiglet - for example, Johnny W can post a picture of his breakfast and receive several dozen comments. I'm not saying I want or expect that type of "activity", but I suppose that's what I mean. - Brett Kelly

Johnny has an established track record of interaction and humor in the community. This is something we don't get from you right away. - Louis Gray

I'm not justifying it. I don't post pictures of breakfast either. :) - Louis Gray

Louis - that certainly may be part of it, but I actually go out of my way to post here (and have it forwarded to Twitter) in order to encourage more "local" conversation here. A bit of a puny step, admittedly. - Brett Kelly

Right, and Johnny is an exceptional case - I was merely providing an example of what I meant by "activity" (and he has tons of it) - Brett Kelly

I understand that. It's not a Twitter v. Friendfeed issue. Typically, most of what I share includes links or photos. Text-only doesn't usually get a response unless I start off with seed comments. - Louis Gray

I think some of it is the amt of followers one has. Johnny may get responses to a bkfast picture, but the amt of people responding relative to how many are following is small. You may be getting the same ratio, but have a smaller pool of followers. - Spidra Webster

If Johnny = Funny Australian guy with beard who does FFundercats, and Scoble equals social media/blogger crazy guy who does everything to the extreme and contradicts himself once a week, what do you equal? :) - Louis Gray

That's another thing I've noticed recently (images garnering more interest) - probably due to the obvious visual "eye-catcher". - Brett Kelly

Right. Images and links drive action. Text usually doesn't - Louis Gray

Louis - I equal occasionally self-deprecating, obsessed with his wife and kids, bad-joke-making code monkey. :) I like to think I'm "greater" than the sum of those parts ;) - Brett Kelly

Holden - I certainly try to (though, not blindly). I've actually pared down my sub list to people who seem to be active (meaning they comment/like on this site instead of just having their web life dumped here without ever visiting). If you (or anybody) would like to recommend some friends for me, I certainly wouldn't object! - Brett Kelly

Holden, you get comments on your text because you are always on and send one after another in a desperate cry for help. lol - Louis Gray

Holden: you post these lists of 5 people to your feed? I'll take a look :) - Brett Kelly

That'd be awesome, thanks! - Brett Kelly

Maybe I'll buckle down and finish that batch-unsubscribe tool for FF to gain some extra "community cred" :) - Brett Kelly

Awesome! Yeah, I was already subscribed to most of those folks, but I look forward to future banter with you, as well :) Did I mention that my son is also named Holden? You're the first person I've spoken to with that name (other than him), so it's kinda funny/weird :) - Brett Kelly

Well, he *is* named after that exact character :) - Brett Kelly from iPhone

Heard my name dropped so I thought I would check it out. Basically, it's time. It's all about time. I have been here for over a year and I have been extremely open and transparent. As you see me here is how you see me in real life. I am an unusual case as my time zones are completely screwed up compared to the US, and even the European timezones. The thing is I worked at it, almost to... more... - Johnny Worthington

Holden: We already are... but again, it's a lot to do with time. I miss a lot of Brett's content but I make an effort of reading his stuff when it pops up cause he has a few 'Look At This Person' Points in teh bank. - Johnny Worthington

thanks, folks... helpful to a new friend feedster... - T. Brent, technopeasant

I think your feed is fine... you're in my regulars list ... promoting you to my Watchlist now ;) - Ahsan Ali aka. Slick

If I were you Brett, I wouldn't be so quick to swallow what you've been told. This thread reads like a hundred that I've read over the past 16 months. The truth; FF is just another popularity contest that some will win and some will lose. For example, my feed has all kinds of funny, interesting, educational items posted everday. That does precious little to get any attention at all. Do I care? Fuck no. Why would I? I'm here because this is the funniest place on the interwebs. - Christopher Harley from iPhone

Brett: no piece of software or Internet "gadget of the moment" is going to make you "popular". (By posting a question like the one you did, I'm assuming that it is popularity that you are worried about). Don't join any type of social networking medium in the hopes of becoming popular. Join to both learn and share. If people don't follow you and you aren't "popular", there's nothing you... more... - ThatJimGuy

I'm with Jim...just be yourself and the rest will all fall in place. My thing is pretty much the same here. Share things I learn/discover and hope to learn more. - ScottW

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Preview of Evernote Windows 3.5 Alpha | 40Tech - http://www.40tech.com/2009...

July 29 from Bookmarklet - Comment - Like - Share

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A great early look at the completely re-written Evernote Windows client. With a download link to the Alpha build. Thanks to Steve Rubel's Twitter feed for the tip. - mrshl from Bookmarklet

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Downloading now. I wonder if the upgrade will make me jump to the new pay version once and for all. The windows client is one of the big downsides in my mind. - Sean Brady

I am impressed with Evernote's array of functions, but with both their Windows and Web clients there is a lack of polish that irritates me and keeps me from being a true fan. Daring Fireball's take on Evernote does ring true to me: http://bulgy.daringfireball.net/linked... - mrshl

Ok the UI on this new version is a big improvement. I really like the thumbnail view and this version does it well. I dont know if I am ready to commit though. Honestly after Google Notebook went away I have been in a bit of a online note taking rut. Maybe Gmail is good enough for my needs. - Sean Brady

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Daily Record of Events Makes Ubiquitous Capture a Snap - Capture tools - Lifehacker - http://lifehacker.com/5325424...

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Anything that makes notetaking faster, makes notetaking better. - mrshl from Bookmarklet

Blackberry: Kolja

Do you tweet using your BlackBerry? Never buy TweetGenius - even if it's cheap. The free ÜberTwitter and Twitterberry do a much better job!

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From the Tips Box: Idea Tracking in Gmail, Hotel Laundry Tricks, And Phone Bills - http://lifehacker.com/5323156...

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Gmail might be the easiest, most obvious notebook there is. - mrshl from Bookmarklet

Combine one of the Gmail+ addresses with a filter and the Quick Links from the lab and you have a great portable notebook for capturing all sorts of stuff. - Sean Brady

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The Diesel Sweeties theme for iGoogle - http://www.google.com/ig...

July 23 from Bookmarklet - Comment - Like - Share

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Almost makes me wish I used iGoogle. But it's so much worse than Netvibes, I can't make the leap. - mrshl from Bookmarklet

I was commenting on Twitter earlier that I just cannot get into any of the dashboard/portal pages. I miss the functionality of the actual apps. I do however, have Iron Man adorning the top of my page should I decide to use it. - Sean Brady

Jess Lee

Movie Monsters Size Comparison Chart - http://www.firstshowing.net/2009...

July 19 from Bookmarklet - Comment - Like - Share

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Includes Chucky, T-Rex, Stay Puff marshmallow man from Ghostbusters and the Cloverfield monster - Jess Lee from Bookmarklet

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http://fathom.lib.uchicago.edu/2... - Gregor J. Rothfuss

Chart is woefully incomplete without reference to Aliens (especially the queen) or Predator - LANjackal

The scientific accuracy of this chart is questionable. It looks like the Megatron silhouette is from the Transformer's cartoon. The 50 foot woman is crouching. And the line from Ghostbusters is "killed by a 100-foot marshmallow", which presumably doesn't include the hat. - Andy Bakun

In my head they were totally the wrong way around! I think they just got bigger the smaller I was! - Chris Lloyd

And who said size doesn't matter? - James Kuypers

Doug Cornelius

Twitter tipping point: More of my new followers are porn and spam than interested followers. Is the end near?

July 23 from Twitter - Comment - Like - Share

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It has been a while since I added a new friend back that added me. Almost all junk/spam. - Sean Brady

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100K users to get Google Wave on Sept. 30 - http://news.cnet.com/8301-27...

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"Waiting to get your grubby mitts on Google Wave? You'll have to wait just a little bit longer. While around 6,000 developers got their hands on Wave this Monday, a post on the Google Wave developer blog says that the company isn't planning to open it up everyday users until September 30th. At that time some 100,000 users will be let into the program. To be a part of that first run, users will have had to have signed up to use the service on Google's invite page." - LANjackal from Bookmarklet

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I won't be surprised if the only let invitees join for the first few weeks. Everyone will be raving for Wave. - Amir

::::crosses fingers:::: - tehKenny, Dork

September 30 is my birthday ! :D - Stanislas Jourdan

It's the day after mine :) - LANjackal from IM

Can't wait to try out wave. - Tomy Thomson

until then try http://www.ccbetty.com - adolfo foronda

Me please! really looking forward to wave. So many times during the week that I think to myself how something like wave would improve what I am working on. - Sean Brady

Setup a google wave dev room (public): http://friendfeed.com/google-... - Mark Essel

When I signed up, i made little joke...... knock, knock. who's there? i1nb. i1nb who. i1nb べた~r. little japanese katakana means beta. Google should just call it ~ . way cooler than tilda - Robert Higgins

Hey Google, If you're watching... bless me with a GWave account. Please! - Fernando Parra

you have to sign up, I signed up. I wrote something silly 2 them - polou/indigo_bow

Dave Winer

What a 140-char message looks like in RSS - http://www.scripting.com/stories...

July 19 from Scripting News - Comment - Like - Share

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One thing. Twitter's value isn't just in the messages, it is in the following/follower graphs. And all the metadata that sits outside the message. - Robert Scoble from iPhone

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But I like where this is going. - Robert Scoble from iPhone

Very clever. So would the 140-char message itself BE the link? So the mp3 would be accessed by clicking the message rather than a seperate URL taking up some of the 140 chars? - Mark

You've seen the Google Social Graph API though yeah? With XFN and FOAF it's easy to declare and determine relationships in a decentralized way. Right now it only works for public relationships though. - Brett Slatkin from email

Scoble, and the follower/following graph is the hard part - messaging + the format is nothing without a transport / platform that knows where to push those messages. And when like twitter you have users with 1+ million followers - that is a massive technical challenge that nobody has solved in a distributed fashion - Nick Halstead

People with 1-million-plus followers are going to have a hefty Amazon EC2 bill. As they should. (Or they can use Twitter, if they can find a way to pay for everyone who uses it.) - Dave Winer

that will go down well :) - Mark

Scoble the follower graph would be OPML as it always has been. - Dave Winer

Why is there a GIF screenshot of text on this page? - Andy Bakun

I was thinking "What can I do that would really piss off Andy Bakun?" and this is what I came up with. Just curious -- did it work? :-) - Dave Winer

Good way to show code - Mark

Is anyone going to build a tool that I can export who I follow on Twitter as OPML? - Christian Burns from iPhone

Christian - Ironically enough, I did something similar the other day for a diff reason. Completely random, über-beta, but - http://twitteravatar.appspot.com/apps... - Damon Cortesi

Why do you want an OPML for Twitter? Where do you want to import it? - Dave Winer

I think OPML could be good for importing Twitter to Snackr (The latest test version can be synced with Google Reader using OPML) I like using it for the casual glance @ the ticker tape while I work. It's not as immediate (feed refresh is slow) but it would cut down the time suckage if I still wanted to keep a slightly less frenzied eye on twitter. - BairdWilliamson

Really?! A spammer on FF? - Paul Puri

what spammer? ;-) - Chris Heath

Ooooooh.... Maaaagic! - Paul Puri

The first thing I noticed was how the surrounding XML seemed larger than the message itself. :) - Ray Cromwell

I wrote a quick and dirty OPML exporter for Twitter. I'll put a little polish on it in the morning and put it up as a web app. - Dave Winer

I may/must have missed something vital, but there's one thing I don't get. Since the ensuing Twitter-length RSS-item, message + envelope, is well above 140 characters, and thus can not be displayed as-is as an SMS (which, among other things, once was one of Twitter's killer features), why continue with that artificial limit at all? It's not as if the Cloud, be it RssCloud.org's or other, will not support messages where the <description> part is more than that. So what's the justification here? - ianf ⌘

Awesome TYVM Dave! - BairdWilliamson

SMS support for twitter is going to be a dead issue soon enough, glad to see people thinking about metadata and enclosures. I wish all url shortening services would go away, terrible idea which unfortunately got popular despite all the downsides. - Dave Evans

I barely use Twitter, but I always felt that the very audacity of building a SMS-length global instant messaging service was sheer genius. I understand the cellphone push never worked (or not for long) outside USA/ Canada and perhaps the UK. But the possibility of using SMS for input has a lot of merit whether Twitter streams are then delivered to cell phones, or not. - ianf ⌘

I'd like to see Twitter foaf'd out. - barce from iPhone

@Dave Evans. what makes you say that ("SMS support for twitter is going to be a dead issue soon enough")? In contrast to that, here's what one "VC from NYC" has to say about it: "I believe that Twitter's native implementation of sms is an important part of its success. The 140 character limit was driven by the 160 character limit of sms and the initial design of the service put sms... more... - ianf ⌘

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Twitter Gadget for Gmail - http://twittergadget.appspot.com/

July 18 from Bookmarklet - Comment - Like - Share

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That is awesome. The interface is way better than Twitter's (Maybe that reply, retweet, etc is a little too much). - Marcos

Awesome!!! - Ivan Zlatev

Looks nice, but with Seesmic's web option available I will be hard pressed to go back to Gmail for twitter. - Sean Brady

Blackberry: Lyndon Washington

Pandora 1.10 Released – Audio Quality Options & More - http://www.berryreview.com/2009...

July 16 - Comment - Like - Share

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I am downloading now :) - Lyndon Washington

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