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If you want an invite or have invites to give away check the 'Great Google Wave Invite' thread here: http://ff.im/91M9R EDIT: Or try this for invites: http://googlewaveinvites.com/ - Kol Tregaskes

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mmastrac - Matt Mastracci

127ajr I wish we didn't have to keep our gmail names. - Californian

jeromeflipo - Jérôme Flipo

taylanaydinli. i have 0 contacts at the moment so this is a useful thread for me:) - Taylan Aydınlı

roshan.ramachandran - Roshan Ramachandran

Added you all. Taylan, well you have at least one now. ;-) - Kol Tregaskes

Wait, Google Wave gives you an email address? Super awesome! - Nick Humphries

Nick, well it's your Gmail address but with @googlewave.com instead of @gmail.com (or @googlemail.com) - Kol Tregaskes

I'd like one. hmnunes@gmail.com - HN from iPhone

HN, post here instead: http://ff.im/91M9R - Kol Tregaskes

Kol: That's pretty neat. Wish it was shorter like wave.com or gwave.com (Google owns gwave.com anyway) or something. - Nick Humphries

i think this @googlewave.com email address is a temporary thing during testing. after it goes live you should be able to just use it with your google account. at least that's what i think:) - Taylan Aydınlı

@gwave.com doesn't seem to work. - Kol Tregaskes

any you give me an invite? - Goofy2

See the first comment, Goofy2 - Christopher A Carr

tks in advance for an invite !http://scr.im/3fg - arnet

Goofy2, post here: http://ff.im/91M9R - Kol Tregaskes

andrewterry2.0@googlewave.com - Andrew Terry

please an invite =/ m.furkantunali [\at/] gmail.com - Furkan Tunalı

Furkan, post here instead: http://ff.im/91M9R - Kol Tregaskes

Thanks, sorry. - Furkan Tunalı

if only you could bold an announcement in FF like you can in Wave :D [oh, and my username on Wave is the splendiforously original "adamlasnik"] - Adam Lasnik

selcuke@gmail.com .thx - Selcuk Ergin

bkoknar@gmail.com davetiye lütfen - morkedipatisi

Guys, please read the title and the first comment. This is not a request for invites. This is for users who already have an account and want to share their account name. For invites see this thread: http://ff.im/91M9R - Kol Tregaskes

My Wave ID is erier2003@googlewave.com. Feel free to add me and we can Wave! - Eric Geller

skitcherboy@googlewave.com - Ahmed

don.bonaddio@googlewave.com - Don Bonaddio

kevinawhalen [at] googlewave [dot] com - Kevin Whalen

ismaileski@gmail.com - ismail eski

none of my 6 invitees received it .... 8 hrs & counting. Wats the avg time invites take to come thru..? - Roshan Ramachandran

Roshan, it seems completely random. - Kol Tregaskes

terry.donaghe - Internet's Tad

sscott@googlewave.com - Spencer

damondnollan@googlewave.com - Damond Nollan

farzaam.net@gmail.com - farzaam

Still don't really know what this is (Or Google Voice for that matter). This is like high school all over again. The cool kids are ignoring me! - James Ferguson

myturkey@gmail.com - Varol AKSOY

bjtitus@googlewave.com - Brandon Titus

i have no juice...consultfab@gmail.com - Bryan R. Adams

i'm with the google wave woudl be really cool, if i had people to wave at crowd. jviddy@googlewave.com - Jamie Vidamour

Everyone, read the title and first comment. This is NOT an invite thread! - Kol Tregaskes

my plan didn't work. still trolling for an invite at dzinrgeek@gmail.com - amarquart

Blimey. I must be going mad, is it not clear that this is NOT an invite thread. For invites see here: http://ff.im/91M9R - Kol Tregaskes

Not sure if anyone else woudl find it useful, i'm going to add a load of you as friends and create a wave just to try stuff out in. Feel free to remove yourself from the wave or use it as you feel. Also feel free to add anyone else you think might want to be in on it - Jamie Vidamour

Shockingly, I am robdiana@googlewave.com - Rob Diana

Gasp! :-) - Kol Tregaskes

I'm pavels.romanovskis@gmail or maybe pavels@googlewave.com please see which one works - Павел Романовский

ajbatac@googlewave.com ;) - AJ Batac

dahiicocuk@gmail.com thanks:) - dahiçocuk

bcl.lee@googlewave.com - Bryan Lee

jtyost2@googlewave.com - Justin Yost

thehenrydandrea@googlewave.com - TheHenry

m Q efeoge . com . tr - efeöge

joshbegin - Josh Begin

bluecockatoo@googlewave.com - Lindsay

keith.kleverideas for me. - Keith Bennett

abrudtkuhl@googlewave.com - andy brudtkuhl

I don't have one. - Chris, Taskerrific Guy

yipwang@gmail.com if anybody wants to add me, perhaps someone can 'wave' me into a circle on wave? :P - Wang Yip

nevski264a@googlewave.com - outofmyarse

i'm: shaynorulz@gmail.com - the Kol rocks! - shayne catrett

Thanks everyone. - Kol Tregaskes

destek [at] afyonblog [dot] com - mustafa03

ericloganvanman@googlewave.com Thx, Kol - Eric Logan

chrisofspades at googlewave.com - chrisofspades

I guess I'm kamilah.gill or kamilahgill. Where do I see it? - Kamilah Gill

Add me to your google wave contacts and send me a wave hello jmnewhart@googlewave.com - Jesse Newhart

Woo hoo! - Moved to Facebook from fftogo

Congratulations, Kol! :) If you come across anyone else with extra invites, let me know! :) jason (dot) a (dot) castillo at the gmail - JA Castillo

osmanungur@googlewave.com dont hesitate about add me.. - Osman Üngür

scobleizer@googlewave.com - Robert Scoble

monamail@googlewave.com :) - Mona Nomura

alexishope@googlewave.com - Alexis Hope

galtenbergs at same - Christopher Galtenberg

ksheppardson - Ken Sheppardson

faithx5@googlewave.com is me. :) - Jandy, ConcertMaven of FF

zholmquist@googlewave.com - Zach Holmquist

Added, thanks. :-) - Kol Tregaskes

Kamilah, you are kamilah.gill. You can find this if you click on yourself in the Contacts sidebar. You address (like everyone) is shown there. - Kol Tregaskes

sewimsizbilgin@gmail.com - sewimsizbilgin

emirhanizmir at gmail dot com thank you :) - Nutella Ferrero (emirhan)

melihguney [at] gmail dot com thanx a lot - Melih Güney

fatmazehra@gmail.com teşekkürler - FZ

I am still needing one! - Zachary TG

rmorrill@googlewave.com - Dan Morrill AKA Techwag

The invite thread is here: http://ff.im/91M9R. - Kol Tregaskes

vezquex@googlewave.com - Vezquex: God of FF

Ok got you all loaded in to google wave - nice list thanks Kol! r/d - Dan Morrill AKA Techwag

No worries. :-) - Kol Tregaskes

gdearing@googlewave.com - George Dearing

I'd like to be invited : natoorenet@gmail.com - MeŤi

Meti: http://ff.im/91M9R .. invites are not in this thread - Wang Yip

libyano@gmail.com plz - Saeed Ashour

Afcontact@gmail.com with my eternal recognition! - Arnaud Fischer from iPhone

lardissone@googlewave.com - Leandro Ardissone ⍨

stevencains@googlewave.com - Steven Cains

guilhermedarosa@gmail.com =( - Guilherme da Rosa

mikefruchter@googlewave.com - Mike Fruchter

ilker@live.no - irasare ® from iPhone

trappermark@googlewave.com - Mark Traphagen

jeffisageek@googlewave.com - (jeff)isageek

donothaveanaccount@googlewave.com :( - Mo Kargas

This thread is now live in an embedbed public wave in Google Wave. - Kol Tregaskes

Patrick@googlewave.com - Patrick

fatihkurtoglu@gmail.com - M Fatih Kurtoglu

aksenova.katerina@gmail.com - Prometa

Have someone placed invites in places like inviteshare.com? - TrafficBug

impressive. :) - Miguel Wickert- Pineiro

chicagorachelbaker@googlewave.com - Rachel Baker

Thanks everyone. - Kol Tregaskes

lukather77@googlewave.com - Lorenzo Strambi

flexdaddy[at]googlewave.com - Eric Price

google wave invitation zihnibabuz@gmail.com - Zihni Babuz

I am at empoprises at googlewave dot com. And no, I do not have any invites. - John E. Bredehoft

John, added you. :-) - Kol Tregaskes

krynsky...on there. - Mark Krynsky

johnacraft.com@googlewave.com - John Craft

Ehi, I need an invitation... Feel free to mail me at napolux@gmail.com ;) - Napolux from twhirl

empty1 - Matt Thompson

ninthart at googlewave dot com - Brad Brooks

Great!! Add me as well....haroldcabezas@googlewave.com Look forward to connecting there, I think Google Wave is great. - Harold Cabezas

guilhermegom@googlewave.com - guilherme

mine is here: http://mailhide.recaptcha.net/d... - onur özen

Thank you all. - Kol Tregaskes

I need Wave invite :) - Naceron

doubleletter@googlewave.com - Ahsan Ali aka. Slick

zoolcar9@googlewave.com - LouCypher

canuckmackem@googlewave.com - Simon Tracey

kevin.j.gamble@googlewave.com - Kevin Gamble

commenting from the embedded thread - Mr. Gunn

fuk and i am still @gmail.com !!!! - viki saigal

000.cacarr@googlewave.com Finally. - Christopher A Carr

sniffle - Karoli

Karoli: is that your google wave nick or are you sniffling? :) - Ahsan Ali aka. Slick

I'm sniffling because I don't have a google wave nick. Despite two invites, there is still nothing in my inbox. I am not in with the in crowd. :( - Karoli

Karoli -- It appears as if there's a batch of emails going out now. Keep checking. - Christopher A Carr

thanks, I will! - Karoli

hanten@googlewave.com - Ben Hanten

john.worthington.aac@googlewave.com - Johnny Worthington

I still don't have an invite :/ mattb4rd@gmail.com - Mattb4rd

finally got my wave! :-) qtbrowneyes☺googlewave - browneyes

YAY!!!! I'm wavin' at you! karoli.kuns@googlewave.com - Karoli

I am vimoh.writer - Vijayendra (V-Mo) Mohanty

<- Waves hello! :) I'm at holger.eilhard@googlewave.com - Holger Eilhard

hello holger, can you pls send me invite? fatihkurtoglu@gmail.com - M Fatih Kurtoglu

Invite came today! I'm jalada@googlewave.com. As part of the second/third 'Wave' of people getting invites looks like I don't get any to share out. - Jalada

M Fatih Kurtoglu: Sorry, I don't yet have any nominations to give out... - Holger Eilhard

I'm brominet at google, dot com. - Brome

http://scr.im/wfgw - Wins Fern

jvjannotti@googlewave.com - Jim Hearts FF

Hey, I'm in too ! :)) tagyboy@googlewave.com - fwed

Just got my invite this morning as well. FF embed seems to be working fine. I've tried the Wolfram Alpha robot but didn't get it to work yet. - François Dongier

Thanks, Kol. Nice list. - Wins Fern

librarysupporter@googlewave.com in my wave. :) - MLx

Glad to see more and more people getting in. What we're waiting for is proper group support (a few weeks hopefully) then let the games begin! :-D - Kol Tregaskes

Anyone have a spare google wave invite to send to me? email me at zaldor at gmail ! TY! - Les Zaldor

that is a test from the wave that has this thread embedded. - Nathalie, Dreamer of FF

Hey cool, Nathalie. :-) - Kol Tregaskes

how does one find that thread within wave? - Jim Hearts FF

Search for the term "friendfeed", you might have to put "with:public friendfeed" - Kol Tregaskes

Mine is OH WAIT I DON'T HAVE ONE >:( - Danny Minick

please send one! + strefrextor %& gmail /( com =? - Musa

If I had wave I would add you, but seeing as I don't, I won't :( - Simon Doyle from Nambu

woland783 - Alessandro

i'm francois.dongier in googlewave as in gmail - François Dongier

eclips115@googlewave.com - Lindsey is Fierce!

markwilson12@googlewave.com - Mark Wilson

seanloyless@googlewave.com - Haggis (Sean Loyless)

amyb1961@ - oh wait, that's right, I don't HAVE it yet! - Amy℠

avandos08@googlewave.com - Harold

jasonw22@googlewave.com - Jason Wehmhoener

tlhote@googlewave.com - Thierry Lhôte

jmortonscott - Jason

this is great! - Kenyth

Phew! I've just added y'all above [hope you don't mind :)] I'm adrianglave at googlewave dot com :) - 1x29

rowlikeagirl{at}googlewave. com. Whew, I just added all the contacts here. That wasn't too tedious! - rowlikeagirl

ronin.ben@googlewave.com - ronin

susan.beebe@googlewave.com :) - Susan Beebe

svartling@googlewave.com Please add me? :) - Svartling

I'll have some juice as well yannrs@googlewave.com - Yann Ropars

I see there are lots or new people on Wave. Keep em coming. :-) - Kol Tregaskes

orchid8@googlewave.com - Call me Bronco

jimminyfuller@googlewave.com - Jimminy

sedairenguozmen@googlewave.com - seda irengü özmen

adrianculici@googlewave.com - Adrian

quackofdawn@googlewave.com - Quackofdawn

Waving from GWave. - Wins Fern

brodiebeta@googlewave.com =) - Brodie Beta

pascal.sijen@googlewave.com - Pascal Sijen

ancyru8 [at] googlewave.com Finally got myself an account! - Andrew Trinh

krz9000 [@] googlewave.com - Chris Hofmann

Mine is mrfabbri@googlewave.com - Marco Fabbri

I am bhowmik[at]googlewave[dot]com. - Bhowmik Shah

laura.botts [at] googlewave.com - Laura Lou Who

sarper [at] googlewave.com - Sarper Sılaoğlu

al86shaw [at] googlewave.com - Giraffes Up In The AIr

ryan.hirsch [at] googlewave.com - Ryan

tosh54 [at] googlewave.com - Peter Hoffmann

laura.norvig@googlewave.com - Laura Norvig

Im not begging for one ,,,, - johnpiercy

I will as soon as I get one WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHH! - Martha

banane@googlewave.com <-- writing this from wave. neat! - anna sauce

marco.nunez@googlewave - FINALLY! like i said on twitter - i feel like the kid who got a nintendo 1 christmas too late when everyone had already beaten super mario bros! - Marco(aureliusmaximus)

denise.straessler@googlewave - stupid me had no idea i wouldn't be able to select a different name ..... - denise

Thanks everyone! :-) - Kol Tregaskes

kendrak@googlewave.com - Kendra <3 Three Lions

rjccviii -at- gmail dawt com - Richard Lawler

mdfidler [at] googlewave [dot] com - Michael Fidler

Arnaud dot Fischer at gmail dot com if anybody is happy to share an invite with me... Thanks so much! - Arnaud Fischer from iPhone

mine is bansode@googlewave.com - Gaurav Bansode

I'm allanpartridge@googlewave.com ... feel free to add me too (boring talking to self) - Brandon

diegomorelli76@googlewave.com - diego morelli

m.furkantunali@googlewave.com - Furkan Tunalı

churchsg - Sally Church

subject.zero@googlewave.com - Danny F Santos

fredcy@googlewave.com - Fred Yankowski

Lots more, cool! :-) - Kol Tregaskes

tapiokulmala@googlewave.com - Tapio Kulmala

george.moga@googlewave.com - George Moga

activescott@googlewave.com - scott willeke

glemak (at) etc... - mike "glemak" dunn

bjmccormick [at] googlewave [dot] com - rotarychainsaw

genetwilliams on the wave - Gene Williams

asif328462@googlewave.com - Asif

quantum.yorkie@googlewave.com - Moved to Facebook

chacha102@googlewave.com - Tyler (Chacha)

I really don't feel like adding 200 people my my contacts... - Tyler (Chacha)

I only have three contacts so far, feel free to add me so I'm not so lonely =) jon.with.no.h.leibowitz - Jon

dzinrgeek@googlewave.com - amarquart

Well, there are quite a few people already! Mine is catalani.ryan [at googlewave dot com]. - Ryan - @magicofpi

s.velcam02@googlewave.com ;) - Sergio Vela Camacho

daryl.hunt@googlewave.com - Daryl Hunt on FF

nothing@googlewave.com. To everybody: Can some one offer me Wave? - Nitin Nanivadekar

I want it too omikheev@gmail.com - Kaspar Minosiants

i am eugenemah@googlewave.com - Imabug

startoestudio@googlewave.com - Martha

omgplzstfukthx@googlewave.com :-D - April Russo (app103)

richij@googlewave.com - Richi Jennings

niguel.valley@googlewave.com - Valley

Is there a compiled list of search strings for GoogleWave? It will be very helpful as the number of waves increase in inbox - Wins Fern

gladstone@googlewave.com - Gladstone

@Wins Fern: some of them are presented here: http://smarterware.org/3729... - George Moga

solymos.gellert@googlewave.com bernadett.csajbi@googlewave.com - SoGo

Well, I finally got to surf the Wave experience. Currently drowning. bubbleofneon@googlewave.com - Mark H

Cool, Mark! :-) - Kol Tregaskes

ciropellegrino at gmail.com :) - Ciro Pellegrino

i have no idea. lol. i think it's izacharytg@googlewave.com - Zachary TG

Yes, kevendones@googlewave.com :) - Keven

i'm suezanne at googlewave.com - SuezanneC Baskerville

logicalextremes@googlewave.com - LogEx

ersinkoc@googlewave.com - Ersin KOÇ

soner.gonul@googlewave.com - ★ Soner Gönül

yonderus@googlewave.com - Yusuf Önder Us

minmax2k [at] googlewave [dot] com - Mark Jepsen

In case there is still someone with spare invitations: piotr.byzia at gmail.com - Piotr Byzia

walt i tried to add you but it says your address is invalid :( - mike "glemak" dunn

Finally made it on to Wave, add me and say hello - azs.gmu@googlewave.com - Aram Zucker-Scharff

ivanfilios@googlewave.com - Iván Abrego

Wow. Thanks Kol!!! Here's mine for all ya'll to add - walt.ruppar@googlewave.com - although I just added like 150 of the above. While also deleting my pity pleads for an invite... ;-) - Walt Ruppar

shedali@googlewave.com - Franz Sittampalam

Terror@googlewave.com Add me! - Yiğit

andyzweb@googlewave.com - Andrew Euell

emrephalanx@googlewave.com - Emre BAHADIR

gardnerscot@googlewave.com - Scot Gardner - Scot Gardner

micahbear78@googlewave.com - MicahBear78

aleahey@gwave.com - Andrew Leahey

Got mine...thank you Trish...Now what?...lol...wheslin@googlewave.com - Bill Heslin

rss.ems@googlewave.com - Rıza Selçuk Saydam

robertfreeze@googlewave.com - Robert Freeze

fatihkurtoglu@googlewave.com - M Fatih Kurtoglu

marybaumcreative@googlewave.com -- Thanks, Trish! - MaryB, BrandingBroadOfFF

nzbuu1 [at] googlewave [dot] com - James Myatt

dtp [dawt] jer [at] googlewave [dawt] com - Jeremy (cropmarks)

I'm mightyfib(at)googlewave(dot)com Please feel free to add me.. :o) - Jeannette Høvring

Thanks, George. The list is getting longer. Wow. - Wins Fern

dannyrowley@googlewave.com - Daniel Rowley

ajkohn2006@googlewave.com - AJ Kohn

oceangray.net@googlewave.com - Muhammet K. (oceangray)

voxefx@googlewave.com - Vox

pengwen.not.penguin@googlewave.com - Parvez Halim

bansode AT googlewave DOT com - Gaurav Bansode

very kool - (jeff)isageek

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Looks like a place where a geek could propose someone... - Jemm

reminds me of a scene from Matrix 2... - Glenn Batuyong

You can click on the image and use it as your wallpaper too (just in case you don't know) - AJ Batac

Is Obi-Wan there, trying to shut down the tractor beam? - ‘-.-’ Tutivillus Grift

'Kill the Gibson!' Heh - Ian Dexter Marquez

Nice Ian. You know; long, long ago, my Internet handle was Crash Override, in honor of that movie. - Curtiss Grymala

No 2001 jokes? C'mon, people. - Andrew C

Nice! - Anand Sharma

Like the Matrix scene :) - `aziz´ Alihan ÇETİN

it is like the matrix .... - johnpiercy

Very pretty. - Jason Nunnelley

So where did the picture come from? - Kamilah Gill

I feel a new sketch book drawing coming on ^^^ :D - Micah Wittman

Kamilah, somewhere here http://www.socwall.com/. My current wallpaper. - AJ Batac

Am I *that* transparent? :P :) That is a really cool image. I'll give it away... Micah guessed right. I had to use a new technique (new to the sketchbooks, anyway) to capture this image... - Kamilah Gill

How about a CC (or other copyleft) license so we can use and cite this in presentations? - Chris Lasher

I guess we now know where some of the Matrix style came from in real life, eh? @Curtiss: That old handle of yours sounds so cyberpunk that I'll probably have to use it as the title of a cyberpunk novel... ;) - Dennis Jernberg

I want one:) - Michael Fidler

for me at first glace it looked like the MCP from maybe Tron 2 - Shawn McCollum

It looks like the birthplace of Skynet. - TrafficBug

@Dennis - In case you weren't aware, the handle Crash Override is from the movie Hackers with Jonny Lee Miller, Matthew Lillard and Angelina Jolie (with Fisher Stevens as the evil corporate hacker and Penn Jillette in a small role as his assistant). Although much of it was ridiculous from a technology perspective, it was still a really fun movie with a fantastic soundtrack (the soundtrack itself actually has two sequels). - Curtiss Grymala

@Curtiss Grymala - Hackers! great movie! the "Rainbow Books" HA! - shayne catrett

Training courses and DVDs will be offered soon. Stay tuned! - Shey, Jamaican of FF from iPhone

i'm really liking the Wave.. - shayne catrett

I asked for an invite and did not get any!!! :( - Jodiann Walker

so tempted :) - Rhys Amos

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I'm sorry, it's worse than I thought yesterday. I'm writing a blog about it. Be up shortly. - Robert Scoble

The people who commented on my blog motivated me. In a bad way. Heheh. - Robert Scoble

I don't have a google wave account, so can't tell ya. - imabonehead

I'm letting you first adopters sink your time into it and waiting to hear what you think, before I spend any time with it. Not impressed with what I have heard so far though. - Jeff P. Henderson

Wanna try it out, but I don't have an invite. - Mike Dotta

I nearly love it - Ahsan Ali aka. Slick

I think it has a bit of a way to go, then I'll love it - Nicholas Orr

Jeff: it's worth checking out. There is SOME value here, but not as much as the hype made us all believe. - Robert Scoble

I think Google Wave isn't and won't be a great public communication tool. But it does have potential when it comes to collaboration within teams. In the long run it could give apps like Campfire a run for their money. - Abhijeet Mukherjee

Would love an invitation. Seems a marketing scheme rther than soft launch - Mark de Kock

I would had an opinion if I had it :) - Ata İsmet Özçelik

Do we have to comment on GOOGLE WEAVE to call you an idiot? j/k - RAD Moose

I don't love it - don't hate it - mostly I'm just puzzled as to what the best use cases are & with many of the UI quirks (and I would argue outright errors) - Shannon Clark

No invite yet. Lots of blog posts saying how it's going to change the world...but then the next sentence is that they haven't tried it yet. ?? - Jesse P. Luna

I finally figured out what I hate about it, though. It's based on email and makes the email metaphor even worse (And slower!!!) - Robert Scoble

I was in the Dev Sandbox version of Google Wave awhile ago, and it felt like I was in a really out of control AOL Chat room in the early 90s. - RAD Moose

I don't think I like the public waves, nor do I like being added to so many (testing) waves injudiciously. It's okay for now because I understand everyone wants to test it out, but I would prefer 1-1 or 1-few conversations instead. The best test is to _use_ it for something other than talking about Wave itself :) - Ahsan Ali aka. Slick

Mark: it's not incredibly stable yet - so it is very much a dev preview - Nicholas Orr

Google wave is awesome if only I could get it! Even if I sent an invite request few hours after presentation months ago , still no invite received :( - Dema from iPhone

i have an invitation coming, from a friend. however, since it is not here yet, all i can say is their strategy for creating demand and buzz is absolutely stellar. must confess i am not immune, i feel that when my invite "trickles" through, i will indeed be quite fond of it. disclaimer: i have ADD & love noise. a lot. - (dot)lizard kelly

I'm just starting to get it - but am online with it and very motivated to see if it's as awesome as the Googlers and community believe it is. It's fascinating to say the least, from what I've seen so far. I'm open to connect with others on the Preview via hollingt@googlewave.com - Tony Hollingsworth

Would love to experiment, was too busy when invite op came by, what's the best way to get one now? Robert, how's the baby? Pics were sooo cute. :) Best, Dave - dave_blogworld

Here's some ammunition for you Robert http://krynsky.posterous.com/google-... - Mark Krynsky

For such a strong platform, they totally bombed their marketing campaigns. Until you actually play with it, it's nearly impossible to understand what the heck they've created. - Sean Power

Holy shit, Scoble's back? - Matthew DeVries

I love the ambition and the real time capabilities, but I am cautious in terms of its utility. It will take some getting used to. - Louis Gray

I love that I am IN it, I have not yet actually used it tho... - Andrew Littler

I hate that I have no invite yet. - jcunwired

Given the big boom in traffic I got the last two days, Scoble, I assume yours has been immense. Front page of Slashdot, on Der Spiegel, you led TM yesterday. Nice job. - Louis Gray

Google Wave is mediocre, so it can't neither be loved or hated. Being mediocre is the worst thing you can do since it most often leave people indifferent. - rick

I can see ways in which it can be beneficial. I just don't see a public social network expanding from it as a service. It will find it's place and loyal userbase. Just like FriendFeed did. - Mark Krynsky

Though I haven't got invite yet but I still think when it is done and public for all of us there will be a lots of application which will make it more intuitive and useful. well for example twitter is not that much fun without its related apps. is it ? - Sunny (The Geek Lord)

I think it is too early for any assumptions - Sunny (The Geek Lord)

The protocol seems cool. - Mason Lee

From the video I couldn't understand what all the fuss was about. So far I can't find an invite, so as of right now I have to totally agree with you - RickMeasham from iPhone

I've try it, it seems cool but i need to test more the integration of external contents. - Roberto Scano

Wondering if it will replace Basecamp and Skype. If I could put those together it would be a major step for our company. Outsourcing to India is all of a sudden very easy because of "Rosy" the translation tool That's powerful. Didn't get a first day invite but look forward to testing it for our organization. - Brandon

Wave is baby at the moment and not even in beta version. So too early and useful for anything. While studying the protocol, it is indeed very intuitive - Sunny (The Geek Lord)

Brandon, there are a couple tools to allow conferencing from inside Wave, a gadget from Ribbit and I think Twillio has a robot or something. - James Williams

Anybody here written a wave server? - Mason Lee

Mason: I don't think so - Sunny (The Geek Lord)

If Google is the only wave-server game in town, it'll be kinda lame. They already read all my email. - Mason Lee

James: To combine the collaborator and the IM client would be big news for us. The promise is there but I still don't know if it's feasible. We will write all the todos and deadlines in BaseCamp and then move to Skype so it can be discussed. Doesn't seem very efficient and Wave seems to be the missing link. - Brandon

By the way here in Sydney where Google Wave is being developed we've had a couple of user groups at the Googleplex in Pyrmont. See hashtag on Twitter #gwsug - a couple of tweeps worth following are @domesticmouse @pamelafox @purserj @harrisony - they're deep dive and I believe have written a "wave server - Tony Hollingsworth

Robert, write more blog posts. :) - ryanhuff

I think it's our job to celebrate innovation and shots at leaps forward. It shouldn't matter so much that a product doesn't live up to the hype right now. The original web browser sucked, PINE sucked, my Tandy TRS 80 sucked, my first iPhone was a mess. But now, my email is great, my web browser is fast and full-featured, and my laptop is small and more powerful than ever. The iphone is... more... - Morgan

I hate it because... I don't get an invite. - Jackie

++1 Morgan - Sunny (The Geek Lord)

Morgan: Hear, hear. - Mason Lee

Here's a post from Sydney's local newspaper about the Wave team here: http://www.smh.com.au/technol... - Tony Hollingsworth

I think the product is too young to tell if it will be understood by user; and we as potential user need some time to understand the possibile uses of the product...I have an account, and I was in the dev sandbox, I think it's a briliant object... but still it's too young to tell. - andrea

It is a definitely interesting product. However, I need more than 1 other person to have it to see if I really know how it will function. - beachpig

It's dumb. I had it months ago. totally stupid. Then again, I don't like web based services. I only run desktop apps and despise Google stuff out of totaly control. so wave is dumb. email is better. - Adam Jackson

Andrea: I agree. I think the robots and gadgets people have developped/will develop will help better define the user experience. - James Williams

I haz not had wave yet!!! - Roberto Bonini from iPhone

I will tell you what. This is a lot better than using Google Wave. - Robert Scoble from iPhone

for this purpose yes it is - the only way it would happen in Google Wave is if we were all in a group that you sent it to :) - Nicholas Orr

How does it compare to MS-Office Groove? Not that I've used it, but it got pushed to my work machine, and the explanation of it given by it's own help sounds like what Wave was trying to do too. - Matthew DeVries

Google Wave seems too bloated... but we will see - joe

I think GW just takes some gettinmg used to and U need to make sure you kow what U use it for, it is NOT just another new kind of 'multimedia collaborative mail chat'. - oliver gassner

guess one should differntiate between the WAVE technology (protocol) and what everybody now is moarning about - the collaborative mail chat thing they build to demonstrate its capabilities. Looking back it might have been a good idea to take a well known application to get the potential transportet. but now people are rating this application instead of the technology WAVE which has an enourmous potential! Its push´n´pull on steroids - and thats what makes a difference. - psanner

Have not tried it, but real time collaboration looks promising. I wonder if it fits the way people are comfotable working - Michele Costabile

Still waiting for my invite to arrive from google, must be on a slow boat from china - Daryl Hunt on FF

Has potential for closed groups of people that all use wave. Further adoption depends on integration of legacy systems IMO. - bishoph

Slower than email, and just, well slow. I'd imagine it'll speed up a bit when 3rd party federation servers take the load off a bit. Even with the quirks worked out, it'll still just as exiting as email. When blogs start integrating Wave THAT's when things will really get started. If they deliver what they're promising it's going to bring about a new generation of social networking. - Philip from iPhone

I hate google - Farshad

I manage the IT for 5 people. Our biggest problem is making sure everyone sees what they are suppose to see. The idea that I can install Google Wave on a local server, and only have those 5 people in that instance is exciting. The Google Wave you are all trying ISN'T Google Wave, it's a free-for-all test of it the protocols. If you expect it to be another social media site, then you... more... - Johnny Worthington

I've reproduced this thread in a public wave: https://wave.google.com/wave... - You're live in Google Wave too. :-) - Kol Tregaskes

I haven't been able to test it. But shouldn't we all wait before we judge? I mean, it's relative new. I think people will start to find ways of how to use the service in a good way later on. - Patrik Johansson

Patrik, agree. It's a very early version of a protocol. I think it's an amazing start and has lots of potential. I'd like to see groups added and some control of what waves you are receiving. But don't forget you can use the protocol and place it in your own site, so we can have a FF that looks like GWave. ;-) - Kol Tregaskes

This is the Internet, Patrik. It's not about being right, just first... - Johnny Worthington

Johnny: Hehe yeah you're right:) Kol: If we could use Wave as FF I think it would be awesome! - Patrik Johansson

I mentioned this on today's show. If I can run my own instance, I could almost create my own 'realtime BBS'. If I could create my own network with just a select group of people (say movie buffs or photographers) to exchange files and talk in real time... WOW. We all go one about social networks controlling what we say and owning our content. If I could set up my own sites, free from rules or ToS... WOW x2 - Johnny Worthington

No comment!! If anyone is generous to send me a free invite, pls send to victed at yahoo.com Thank you :-) - victed from iPhone

google wave looks exciting, however the slow release to developers is making other current real-time standards like PSHB and SUP more attractive for immediate building - Mike Chelen

I have an invite and I've used it somewhat and I suppose I'm lucky I'm not a blogger who adds everyone on earth to every tool that I use in the hopes that I can parse all the noise, because I immediately saw the value in Wave. Rule number 1 of Wave: Don't talk about Wave. Seriously. The second you stop involving yourself in 20 concerrent waves about does Wave work? how is this looking?... more... - Chieze Okoye

Robert: "I will tell you what. This is a lot better than using Google Wave." is the epitome of what you're doing wrong. Honestly. Stop trying to use it like you use FriendFeed and start trying to use it like you use Google Docs and BAM, you'll see it. - Chieze Okoye

Chieze: is there anything different or better compared with google docs? - Mike Chelen

well, the thing that I like about it is that it combines the ease of collaboration of GDocs with the basic (sorta) paradigm of email/IM to improve the conversation part of creating a document. In GDocs, the communication with your colleagues/friends part of collaboration always took a back seat to the creation part. In Wave, I think it pretty successfully melds the two. - Chieze Okoye

That said, neither facet in Wave independently (communication or creation) is as good as the two tools that exist now (Gmail and GDocs) but combined, it makes a lot of stuff easier. Specifically the kind of email threads centered around a central idea or final product (group report, list of who's bringing what to which party when, etc). - Chieze Okoye

Love it. Even at this preview stage, I'd hoped for greater control over the Inbox - after all, it's supposed to be "email, invented today" - so, in its current form, it's not ready for mainstream/widestream adoption, but with a bit of polish from the usability experts, it's going to redefine how inter and intra organisation communication and collaboration takes place. - Andrew Terry

And also, there's tremendous ability to keep Waves on topic (specific tools and actions available to remove thread-jackers and/or their non-sequiturs, add people as they become pertinent, remove people as they become unrelated, etc), instantly provides value to me over emails. There are definitely shortcomings and rough edges, no doubt, but the potential is quite clear when you know where to look. - Chieze Okoye

Chieze: might address a few gdocs issues- that tracking revisions becomes difficult with many edits, and the lack of a realtime api. interesting, thanks - Mike Chelen

Yeah, good point Mike, I hadn't even considered the API issue. As far as your first point, the revision part of Wave (playback mode) is already (to me) superior than the one in GDocs in terms of allowing me to follow all the changes that went into a document/Wave. With some more granularity and control (rollbacks, diffs between non-successive states, etc), it will be nigh perfect. - Chieze Okoye

its not what i expected it to be, not from google, i guess they are mortal too. - imran

for me it looks like groupware done right. Because it will really elevate in a corporate envirement when there is a office integration and you can make all you're office stuff in a colaborative way with all office products with all mayor plattforms and with people outside the intranet - mosta from AndFeed

there is a alternative server called pygowave where you can get a test account. It has not as much features bud you can run it yourself - mosta from AndFeed

Does the invite have to go to my gmail address? Or can I get one at M8R-v2hjnm@mailinator.com ? - Justin Goldberg

haven't tried it yet. - Thomas Hawk

can only tell that once my close friends join in...till now just experimenting. From the discussions that i saw till now, learning curve is pretty slack for G-Wave...all the new terms, bots, not to mention the inconsistent behaviour. But then its only a preview.. :) - Roshan Ramachandran

Still waiting for my invite. It's been two days since someone invited me so they must be really backed up sending them out. - Mike Doeff from iPhone

with my limited use of WAVE...huge potential once more extension are built integrating with other Google services and offerings...using iGoogle page to consume information it would be nice to choose items and insert them into a WAVE for collaborative discussion / work related = GAnalytics extension would make it efficient to discuss metrics - shayne catrett

FriendFeed != Google Wave - I think that's why you're frustrated. You're trying to solve a problem it wasn't meant to solve. - Jesse Stay

In hindsight, I'd say the biggest problem with Wave is the way they decided to roll it out. If they'd simply given invites to groups of people who actually have a reason to try to work together and collaborate on real projects...rather than 100K unrelated developers/early adopters/pundits... I think much of the unwarranted backlash could've been avoided. - Ken Sheppardson

Ken, but then Robert would be complaining of why he hasn't gotten a Wave invite yet ;-) - Jesse Stay

Yeah, you just can't win, can you? ;-) - Ken Sheppardson

Ken: I use more collaboration software than anyone I know, so I'm pretty qualified to try this stuff out. - Robert Scoble

Andrew Terry: the problem is that the email metaphor is very unproductive. THAT is what I hate about Google Wave!!! Thank you for identifying it. There are far better metaphors for collaboration. Oh, and I get a lot more done in Google Docs than I ever will in Google Wave. Why? Because documents are a far more productive collaboration metaphor than email is. - Robert Scoble

Shoot! I wish I had a Google Wave invite so I could try it out for myself! Hope it doesn't take too long to get one. - Jannifer @wordsforliving

Jannifer: you already have FriendFeed. Wave will make you say "meh." Oh, OK, I can watch you type in real time and see just how bad a typist you really are. - Robert Scoble

If someone can send me an invitation I'll tell you if I hate or love it ;) napolux@gmail.com - Napolux from twhirl

Robert: Yes, having FriendFeed does remove a lot of the wow factor of Wave. The real power is in the apps(gadgets and robots) which besides the featured gadgets is uncharted territory. - James Williams

I'm dying to get my hands on it. Everytime I get a new email I'm hoping it's my invite - Mark Hendy

Robert: But don't we have to find a replacement for FriendFeed? FriendFeed is the best, but how long will it be here? :-( - Jannifer @wordsforliving

I think Wave has a story for FF's threaded comments(IMHO it has a story for most of FF). What it needs is roles on a Wave so that I can allow ppl to reply to a blip that was created from one of my social media actions yet disallow them from deleting anything but their comments/replies. Also being able to have my "personal social media wave" be updated when I comment on someone else's "social media wave" would be nice so I that all parties can own that interaction. - James Williams

Am I the only one who is SERIOUSLY concerned about the power Google has over our lives and businesses? Do we really want to keep giving them more and more access to what we do? I know they can compile it anyway but we can at least not make it so easy for them. I have had access to dozens of Google Analytics accounts. When Google is responsible for 50-70% of the traffic and 50-70% of the... more... - Internet Strategist

I don't love it or hate it. It's still smoke and mirrors until we get a chance to put our hands on it. It has potential, for good and for bad. How we use it will determine which prevails. Until we use it, it's just a phantasm. - Ken Camp

Hard to say since no one has actually seen it yet. - Glen Mistletoe

I have not used it, but I have a question - Should Google have waited little longer to polish it? because if people don't like it or they don't get invites they are likely to forget it ? If Google wave was from other company say xyzwave, people would not have created such a hoopla. To Non-geek public :What I am feeling is that majority of people don't have any idea what Google wave is and those people are likely to complain without fully understanding it. - ashish

I agree completely with Ashish. - Red Label

Reviewing Wave now is like reviewing the iPhone without any apps. It's just a platform. - Steven Cains

It's the frame of a house that could be quite something. - Aron Michalski

you're an idiot lol jk ;) however the whole debate has got me thinking about how i use twitter and i have decided to change my approach cheers! twitter(at)locspoc - Loc

I'm certain I'd love Google Wave if: a) Google thought I was cool enough to have it; and b) I had it. - Karoli

I don't know how to feel about Google Wave! - Chris, Taskerrific Guy

Can someone send me an invite to wave please americanm at gmail.com - americanm

i requested them but still didnt have the invite.. please some one invite me : viralavatar at gmail.com - Daniele - Viralavatar

Feels like IRC/iChat/Friend Feed - Eric_T

Robert: Have you tried wave out with any of the Building43/Rackspace folks on project work? A team of 3 or 4 people or so? Anything work related? I'm not trying to be snarky, I'm genuinely curious how it's worked out for you when it's with a group tying to create something collaboratively vs general tire kicking stuff. - Ken Sheppardson

I think Google Wave is going to be one of those Google products that never really takes off. - Steven (optionshiftk)

I think I should at least try it before forming an opinion, and since nobody has saw fit to invite me, I can't do that at this time. I think your request for opinions is a bit to early for most of us. - April Russo (app103)

My ocean is flat. No wind, no waves. - MiniMage TKDteacher of FF

I'm still waiting for someone to invite me. But from what I'm seeing wave is more like a framework for people to build upon, not a user application itself. - Sung W. Lim

@Sung - that's basically my conclusion as well (http://macrolinz.com/macroli...) and a few people seem to agree with me that the beta is really more about figuring out what the UI should actually be for that framework than just polishing the UI they currently have. Most people are too caught up in the hype though and don't know what they're looking at and so get disappointed pretty fast. - Lindsay

+1 to Lindsay. Also, there will be many UIs but it will take time. - Ahsan Ali aka. Slick

Robert, far from idiot, but you really surprised me Thursday (too fast & decisive), digesting the new post. - Majento

I'm bullish. It seems like a lot of noise now, but when I saw the demo I saw how much more useful it could be for certain types of communication. - Adam Loving

Option #3: Did you not get an invite to Google Wave? - Michael Pinto

Would love to express an opinion but didnot get an invite even though I applied some time ago a bit sad being as I live in Australia and Wave is being developed here. - Daryl Hunt on FF

I would comment Robert but as I didn't get an invite to Google Wave, I can't. - Sandra Large

Even if you use it for its intended purpose (collaboration among a pre-selected group of people), Google Wave still needs a lot of work. - John E. Bredehoft

You should do a public wave with this question, and add the poll extension so people can vote and comment at the same time - Jesse Stay

Tag me when you do though so I know you did it. :-) - Jesse Stay

like, want to try more usual conversation stuff before being sure, but like the embedding, sharing, etc - immaterial

never got a chance :( - testbeta

Still waiting to try it out. - Paul L. McCord Jr.

Robert, thanks for opening the discussion. I really would like to read about more evidence and facts about the experience, rather than opinions without a foundation or whining about not having it. - Luis Valdes

+1 Sung and Lindsay. Actually, this isn't even a beta, it's an alpha preview. - Chieze Okoye

If you try to use wave as a replacement for facebook, twitter or friendfeed it's not going to work. Lots of people want it to be the revolution in social media when in fact its aimed more at private communication. as a way to communicate between a few friends it's fantastic although it still needs some work. Just remmeber its a replacement for email and im - Jamie Vidamour

I'm using it and like it. Yes, it needs work but the potential is there. I like that I can add apps to it and that I can use it with some of the same tools in basecamp. - Johann Lohrmann

It's okay Robert and has potential especially for collabortory working together. However, whether or not the general public is going to drop e-mail and IM and use this instead is a moot point, as its not easy to 'suss out' - Sandra Large

@Sandra I don't think the basic useage is any more complicated than email, people probably just need to have their hand held through a simple example conversation with one or two others & they'll be able to use it - public waves & advanced features can come later if needed - immaterial

just did! i'm: shaynorulz@gmail.com - shayne catrett

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what's your googlewave.com addy? - Jesse Newhart from email

I'm curious to hear what others think about the "real-time" type...what if some things were said that weren't meant to be said? - brainno722 (Peter)

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Real time behaves like a voice conversation. if you make a mistake, it's out there immediately, but so is your ability to correct. I can see the risk, but the potential benefit is intriguing. - Kevin Arth

So the question is... wouldn't it just be faster to call someone instead of watching them type? - Louis Gray

I am having to train myself not to interrupt people when I see them typing out thoughts. I'm bad at that in real life as well. - Daniel J. Pritchett

call yes, as further extension are developed which will hopefully produce more dimensions of collaboration, complex ideas/thoughts/processes/discussions will be effortlessly digested and distributed? - shayne catrett

@louis yea that's why you have video conferencing built into wave :) - andy brudtkuhl

So it's not for the faint-hearted...I can see users being overwhelmed at first...it took me a while to get used to ffeed with the real-time feature...then I learned to use lists...perhaps google wave will provide that soon? - brainno722 (Peter)

@louis - Yes. - phil baumann

I like the real-time type... reminds me of my BBS days. You can get a lot of emotion through when you're typing in real time that doesn't show when you're just reading finished notes... much like face to face conversation. That's an element that has been missed in most of our online communications since the WWW came about. As for the phone, some of us are more comfortable typing than talking. I know I am. My brain is in my fingers. - Lindsay

I think Wave should just be called OMFG. - phil baumann

It's pretty cool. It's clearly not a 1:1 email replacement but much more. To get the most out of it.... it's going to require a shift in approach. I don't buy Scoble's take that its hype. It's new and has rough spots, but the productivity issues will be smoothed over as the overall community develops tools to make it more productive. It's a great start. - Jim Goldstein

@louis the realtime typing seems to be more of en eye candy function but in the right situation could be handy particularly in a collaboration discussion. - Jim Goldstein

use that feature which disables real time typing :) should be more of an intranet tool than internet, businesses would find it interesting - testbeta

totally agree with @testbeta - just needs a white board wave extension! - shayne catrett

I agree, I like the idea but I still haven't figured out whether it is a solution in search of a problem or not. - David Slavick

discovering Five Guys Burgers + a job behind a keyboard = new tire around my waistline - shayne catrett

hehe... well - I had a big salad at lunch. If you're going to eat junk food - make it free of synthetics. - Courtney Engle

Holden, although I understand your spirit there... how does the extra $100 change your life? In my opinion, $200 is the same as $400 in the same way that $1700 is the same as $2100. Do you work five more hours at your job or 10 more? It's non-consequential. What makes the difference is does this become something you need, and will you pay for it? - Louis Gray

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Goes from a no-brainer at $200 to a "ehh... do I REALLY need it?" at $400. - ronin

I like it--moving us closer to the world where paper is quaint, antique, a hobby. The problem with the price moving ever higher seems to be that it starts to enter the realm where one could just buy a little laptop. Why this and not that? - Kathy Fitch

I agree with both points. $200 is the sweet spot although they'd probably hemorrhage losses for a while. But $400 isn't a terribly large chunk of change when it comes down to it. Think of the Kindle. That only does print material (and a small selection at that) primarily. This does web only. The web opens a lot more opportunities than a book reader. - Zach Flauaus

And as the price keeps going up, it's going to have to be something really special if Apple really are unleashing the iTablet soon... #Inevitable-iTabletComment - Andy Bold

$400 means it's competing with netbooks and low-cost notebooks - a crowded market if ever there was one. - invariant - farewell FF

looking good. looking good - Ritu

What does it do? - Johnny Worthington from iPhone

Surfs the web. - ronin

the price doubling is quite a variation. :P - Joe Silence is not dead

Wow. $400 dollars is outrageous. And I am going to assume that some idiot will forget about Canada? - Zachary TG

as previous post on this item "if i can casually throw this in a backpack WITHOUT the screen getting F.U.B.A.R., then me wants one very much! - You (edit | delete)....price not a factor if that is solved. - shayne catrett

buy the time it gets to market like when? October, the rumoured apple table will kill it STONE DEAD. - Weird Shanghai

msi already has a tablet out in akihabara japan, i looked at it today it is slightly smaller, but has a keyboard. same price - Robert Higgins

I'll buy it!!!! *waves arms wildly* looks slick,,, drooools - Susan Beebe

Looks nice, but I *knew* they were never going to hit their price points. Although I guess it's good to set really hard goals. - mikepk

I love the "the rumored apple tablet will kill it" stuff. Does anyone remember how long Apple's been rumored to be about to release a slate/tablet/umpc/netbook/tablet PC? - Joel Bennett

I would like one, but US$400 is NZ$700, so if Apple tablet comes in at rumoured US$800, then NZ$1400 is way out of most peoples league - hate it. - Geer

I'm a bit surprised of no Bluetooth in the specs. The lack of BT for keyboard and A2PD plus the price hike really has limited my lust for this device. - manielse (Mark Nielsen)

SGD575. Hmm.. Now that I have the iPhone, I wonder if I really need this? Hmm.. - Winston Teo

For $400 USD I think its a great price - Nicholas James

$400 USD is to top of the price point that I believe most people will be willing to pay for a device that will be used to surf the web while watching TV. As any new product, including the yet to be announce Apple iTablet, the price will go down after the initial release and the TechCrunch gets some of its R&D back. I wouldn't be shocked to see the price drop to $350 after 3 or 4 months. - Casey Russell

1 USB port? Really? One USB port… - Remo

ronin said it best (3rd comment) "Goes from a no-brainer at $200 to a "ehh... do I REALLY need it?" at $400" - Chris Heath

Remo, to be fair, the crunchpad is designed to be held. Having USB cords in the way really hampers the way the design is intended to be used. I experienced this experience with the Raon Everrun. - manielse (Mark Nielsen)

Boy, that looks a lot like an Etch a Sketch! - Scott Hanley

I live in Salt Lake City Utah, and am currently visiting Franklin, MA (in between Boston and Providence) for the next few weeks. - Jesse Stay

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Portland, dorset, UK. ;o) as Alex will attest to. :o) - Rob Sellen :o)

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Monterrey, MX - Enrique Flores

Pickering, Ontario, Canada. - Chris, Taskerrific Guy

Calgary, Alberta, Canada - Laurie Desautels

I live in Lehi, Utah and work in Orem, Utah. I've lived and worked in a 4 letter word most my life. - Brad McCall

Red Deer, Alberta - Micah Wittman

Smithfield, NC - Damond Nollan

Toledo, OH. But you already knew that. ;) - Mark Pannell

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Grimsby, in the good old rainy U.K. woohoo! - Kat Musselwhite

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West Palm Beach, Florida - KristenCarr

Baltimore, MD - Dennis O'Neil

I live in Goldsboro, North Carolina and was born in Queens, NY and lived in Brooklyn as well-sallycat 1208 aka sheila smith - sally cat

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I totally thought I commented on this already - Calgary Alberta. (then I said ooooh! another Calgarian up there) - Nathalie, Dreamer of FF

Edinburgh, Scotland (well I'm a French in exile!) - Arnaud Fischer

i am in nyc for now - Allen Stern

Tweeting from Costa Rica! :-) Regards!!! - José Trinidad

From Manchester, UK, but currently in Oxford, UK. - Andy Bold

London, UK - M F

Arlington/Alexandria, VA - S. Charles Balazs

I'm quickly realizing my audience is NOT Utah. :-) My previous Utah post net'd hardly any responses. - Jesse Stay

Silicon Valley, California. - DGentry

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Key West - Eric Logan

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dublin, ireland - Huseyin Savas

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Boston, MA. Currently sitting outside a post office in Needham, though. - Penguin It's Cold Outside from fftogo

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Another from Lehi, Utah here. I'm moving to Pleasant Grove next month though. :) - Travis B. Hartwell

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Lost Angeles, Sean? - DGentry

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My train is stopping in Chelsea, MA, but I'm not getting off here. - Bruce Lewis

Los Angeles, CA - Jack DeWitt Smith

I love all those outside the US that are commenting! I lived 3 years in Indonesia and 2 years in Thailand growing up. - Jesse Stay

Toronto, formerly of Bangkok and Bangalore. - Kamath (नमः)

Los Angeles, CA. - Jandy, ConcertMaven of FF

Puerto Rico. - Manuel Mas

Jar, Norway :) - Hanna Wiszniewska

New Delhi, India - Faraz Mullick

San Francisco, CA, USA - anna sauce

Napier, New Zealand - Lee

Oslo, Norway.. in Scandinavia, and no Scandinavia is not a country :P - kozmic

Dardenne Prairie, MO - Randy David

Cambridge, ON, Canada, but I travel all over as an Over The Road truck driver. - Robert Couture

Salt Lake City, Utah - Zach Holmquist from BuddyFeed

Colorado Springs, CO. - Eric @ CSTechcast.com

Eagan, MN - Bill Kinney

The Black Mining Hills of Dakota - Gus

Mean streets of East London, urban ghetto. lol - Badger Manuf. (Barnaby)

Grew up in Louisville, KY. In college in downtown Chicago, going into my junior year. Flying to Brooklyn to hang out with my brother. - Daniel Zarick from iPhone

San Jose, CA - Kiran Patchigolla

Xaghra, Gozo - Malta - Stephen Moon from iPod

Okay, now that I know where you're from (keep sharing if you haven't!), I want to know what you all do!: http://friendfeed.com/jessest... - Jesse Stay

Petriolo - Italy - Carlo Nasuti

I live in the western suburbs of Chicago. - Kathy Fitch

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A big hello from Istanbul ,Turkey - Haldun Uraz

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Copenhagen Denmark - Kevin Nordmand

Buenos Aires, Argentina. - Alejandro

Chapel Hill, NC (but born in Belgrade, Yugoslavia, now Serbia) - Bora Zivkovic

Düsseldorf, Germany - Wulffy

San Francisco, CA - Justin Korn

I'm from Brooklyn, NY and I think that this is a great idea! i want to do this too. - Jason Pollock

Austin, Texas. - Patrick Jordan

Tel Aviv, Israel. Where did you live in Thailand? - Majento

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Alexandria, VA - Kevin Whalen

I'll play along, Little Rock, AR - Grant Bierman

St. Augustine, FL - tomit from iPhone

Adelaide, Australia but only via DGentry - Peter Kelley

Majento, I lived all over. I spent a lot of time in various parts of Bangkok, as well as Buriram, Chiang Rai, Lampang, Khon Kaen, Khorat - Jesse Stay

i'm currently in the area of Philadelphia, PA - but i've also lived in various US States, Puerto Rico and Italy - bear (aka Mike Taylor)

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nisantasi, istanbul, turkey - Ozgur Uckan

Killeen, TX - Michelle Martinez

43551 - Matthew DeVries

We come from France! - Rahsheen ™, Coach Rah

San Diego, CA - Jack (a.k.a. Jeber)

The Outer limits of California. - Brent Smorgen Bleg

adana, turkey. - Oğuz Serdar

atrium marriott hotel, nyc - Myrna

Chapel Hill, NC USA - Charles Alden from twhirl

checking in from San Francisco, CA - Criz

Beaumont, TX - Bryan Lee from iPhone

Seattle, WA - Rochelle

SF,CA - but a nawlins girl at heart - Liza

I switched back and forth between NJ and NY - Milton Ramirez

North Mexico - 'Like' robot (frɐnc)

Fairfax, Virginia - BEX

Taipei Taiwan - MarkHirsch

Paris, France, EU - Liviu Barbat

Seattle Washington, home of hot breezy air this week. - Dan Morrill AKA Techwag

Encino, CA - Michael Hocter

Dubai/Sharjah, United Arab Emirates - Ahsan Ali aka. Slick

Chambersburg, PA (near Gettysburg) - Courtney Engle

Just saw the intro from Ben so I'm a new follower. (c: My wife and I are in Salt Lake, or more specifically Sugar House. Just a couple streets away from the park. - Tim Costantino

Orange County, CA (near disneyland) - Brett Kelly from iPhone

Chennai,India - Krishnamoorthy

dubai, uae - bob

San Francisco - .LAG liked that

Beaverton, OR - Alex Scoble

Bangalore, IN - Aaman (Clone of FF)

This one is from Kuna Idaho... Boise area! - Robert Freeze

Salt Lake City, Utah - Will King

Kent (South East England), UK. - Kol Tregaskes

Mumbai (Bombay) INDIA - Nitin Nanivadekar

Grenoble, France, Europe. - Zackatoustra

Don't you guys think that this information, altough not essential, should have its place in the bio? Think of geolocalized friendfeed, for instance. Quite not possible yet. - Zackatoustra

Chatsworth, CA - Mark Krynsky

Venice, CA - ɐ ɯıʞ sıɹɥɔ from iPhone

Disneyland - Peter Warnock

Porto, Portugal - Carlos Duarte

San Diego, CA - Bonnie Foster

Istanbul, Turkey - Jacque from fftogo

Bali, Indonesia - Fajar Nurdiansyah

greetings from Rome, Italy - Flavio

Amsterdam, The Netherlands - Willem (@wim66) ☠

Philippines - that's where I'm at. - jan geronimo

Amman, Jordan - zsafwan 

ISTANBUL:) - meliskaratay

UK! - Simon Wicks

Adelaide, South Australia - Mo Kargas

Cluj-Napoca, Romania - Mihai Secasiu

Pune, India - Mahendra (SkepticGeek)

Cobh, Cork, Ireland and soon Mobile Alabama :) - Paul OFlaherty

New York city for work and Great Neck long island for home - JMaultasch

I am in Lenexa, KS which is a suburb in the Kansas City, MO metro area - (jeff)isageek

NC State in Raleigh, NC. - Aaron Hood

I'm in Menasha, Wisconsin - Tasha Saecker

Edmonton, Alberta - Wang Yip

England, UK - Somewhere in the middle :) - Roy Herrod

Champaign, Illinois, USA - a lonely outpost surrounded by thousands of square miles of corn & soybeans. - Pat Rice

Impressively international list! I am Atlanta, Ga - Chris Rogers from BuddyFeed

SLC, Utah - Chad

Adelaide, sunny South Australia - Howdy - Chris Loft

Mostly US, I'd say. - Zackatoustra from IM

top o' the mornin' Robert, from Carlow, Ireland - Ken Power

HI Jesse from Lakeland, Florida and it is 85degrees today - Stephen Brown

Yankton, SD - Ben Hanten

Newcastle Upon Tyne, which is in the North East of England. - deakaz

Currently in Lancaster, OH. I'm from Coshocton. - Shane Tilton from BuddyFeed

Rural Iowa, fairly near Des Moines. I see cornfields and trees out my window. - Trent Hamm

Tampa, Florida! but you probably could have guessed that... - Sarah Perez

Turin, Italy - I thought that came through on the Geolocating tweets and brightkite - Nicholas Paul Gordon from iPhone

Tampa, Fl too! - Fox

Milan, Italy - amarantoblook

This is actually amazing. Not just US centric.... - Liza

Bulgaria - Dimitar Vesselinov

Roma, Italy - Roldano De Persio of FF

Delray Beach, Florida - Bob DeMarco

Ibrag, Malta - Adrian Scicluna

Boston - mikepk

Kansas City, Missouri - Tobin Truog

Seattle - Ben Reierson

Little Rock, AR - Keith - @tsudo

Jacksonville, FL - JA Castillo

Pasadena, Cali - Eric Berlin

Portsmouth, England. - Mark H

Austin, TX - bill giltner

Atlantic Beach, FL - shayne catrett

new paltz, ny - constance taft

central MA (not far from where Jesse is hanging out this month) - Stuart Miniman

Istanbul, Turkey - Bengü Boyacıgil

Rochester, NY (originally from Huntington Beach, CA) - Susan Beebe

Arlington, VA - Chris Abraham

Mountain View, CA - Stephen Mack

Chicago IL USA - Cyndi ~ @muchmorethanmom

Brandenburg, near Berlin, Germany - Solveigh Calderin

Small farm town in the central valley of California - J. Abdul-Qahhar

Slidell, LA across Lake Pontchartrain from New Orleans! - Tdubya

Antananarivo, Madagascar - Thierry R. Andriamirado

Thierry, wow - I think you are one of my most remote followers. - Jesse Stay

Chicago. IL - Johnny from BuddyFeed

Charleston, SC here - LeighaB

Wellington, New Zealand - Jamie Craig from Nambu

Newcastle upon Tyne, England. - Daniel Rowley

I also wonder how they are using social networks like Twitter, Facebook, and FriendFeed and will demo FriendFeed to them. What would you tell an MBA student? - Robert Scoble

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I'd tell them to read Steve blank's blog entry about becoming an expert in an area, then learning the business skills necessary to run "in a technology company it’s usually better to train a domain expert to become a marketer than to train an MBA to become a domain expert. " the post: http://steveblank.com/2009... - Mark Essel

Most of the students are doing sports marketing. - Robert Scoble from iPhone

I'd be interested to know if they use Twitter or other microblogging services. There's been a lot of talk among the youth media and education community that teens and college kids don't use Twitter. - Derek Baird

I'd suggest that they closely track the journals (blogs, etc.)in their particular areas that deal with IT. For instance, I've found Healthcare Informatics to be absolutely invaluable--it not only gives me a sense of how leaders in healthcare are using things like social networking, but also gives me best practices to point to when I'm making the case for introducing new features or exploring new territory. - Kathy Fitch

If they're doing sports marketing, they should look at cricinfo.com and of course espn.com - great way to drive engagement with fans, through detailed content - Aaman (Clone of FF)

They should surely be all over NSMN online. http://www.sportsmarketingnetwork.com/ - Kathy Fitch

it would be interesting to see what they think about leveraging these social media tools in today's business; and what there opinion for social media and business a decade from now. - esaarem

You're up on screen now. So behave! :-) - Robert Scoble

Word travels even faster now, so companies need quick response to PR incidents. - Bruce Lewis from fftogo

the 2010 web will be made of web sites that act like twitter and facebook, with a scannable "river of news" as the landing - Brian Hendrickson

As an example, it won't be enough for a sports marketer to stay on top of what mass media say about a team or athlete. They have to stay on top of opinions spreading through social media. - Bruce Lewis from fftogo

The main thing is that "2010 Web" concerns can not be an afterthought or an add on--this is where content lives now, so IT literacy, comfort, and confidence are absolutely essential, and awareness of online relationships and positioning must be constant. That said, it's not enough to chase every fad and fashion. A larger sense of goals and purposes is key, and online moves should be thought out carefully. - Kathy Fitch

Striking a balance between comfort with the emergent nature of the thing and recognition that you can influence the direction of that emergence--that's key. - Kathy Fitch

make sure your social efforts have clear ROI - shayne catrett

Probably need to expand your definition of ROI, though. Sometimes, fear of the flow of information (when it's trending negative, as it will) leads to poor decisions. So, there's the unintended consequence to consider. Case in point, the property management company in Chicago that is now infamous for suing a Twitterer whose negative tweet would otherwise have gone almost totally unnoticed. They could have taken that tweet and turned it in the other direction quite easily (and no doubt far less expensively). - Kathy Fitch

great email! best take away from it was "Chapter three will be the two-horse race of Microsoft and Google, with the inevitable emergence of a third and fourth player." .....IMO my $$$ is on Mahalo....rapid innovation....and all the other ingredients are brewing with them! - shayne catrett

My vote for a "third" player will be one of the social media sites, the one that winds up being the site where everyone converges. I don't know what that will be yet - they all have advantages and disadvantages. - Trent Hamm

Another pretzel contender... - FFing Enigma (aka Tina) from Bookmarklet

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really? beautiful? - Zee.

Beauty is just as much about attitude and ability as it is about form. And yeah, his form ain't half bad... - FFing Enigma (aka Tina)

he's one bad mo' fo'....can't wait for UFC this Saturday! http://www.ufc.com/index.cfm LESNAR vs MIR - shayne catrett

YUP! Dave and I decided at the last minute we're going to host a fight party tomorrow night. - FFing Enigma (aka Tina)

Anderson Silva is the best! - (jeff)isageek

I certainly share concerns regarding tweet to win that co-opts users into marketers & spammers.It concerns me to see users bemoan the explosion of spam auto followers but naively see little wrong in generating excessive tweet to win posts themselves. - Emsquared from FriendFeed MT Plugin

and don't forget follow spam...email alert that you have a new follower...you can't resist to check the profile...then bam...profile background full of marketing or single update link...yada yada yada - shayne catrett

Yesterday I went surfing, thanks Luke Kilpatrick for taking me out in huge waves. It’s not as easy as it looks and I’m sore today. Oh, and this is a test of FriendFeed’s email feature. I just sent this to share@friendfeed.com and we’ll see if it goes up. - Robert Scoble from email

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So does this mean you're breaking your week-long FF/Twitter fast? ;) - Brett Kelly

Liked that you went surfing, but incredulous that it took you this long to try share@ - FFing Enigma (aka Tina)

Wow that looks like fun and share@friendfeed.com worked perfectly - Peter du Toit (S.Africa)

Just for a minute. This is a cool feature. - Robert Scoble

GREAT!!!!! - Ronald

so where is your iphone and video camera crew :p - Darren Stuart

If the yo dawg memeage wasn't DEAD <wink> there would be a surfing while you surf thing going on here =) - Micah Wittman

Darren: this was taken with Luke's Palm Pre. Who needs an iPhone? OK, I'm outta here. Just needed a quick hit of Real Time web to keep me going. I was starting to twitch there for a second. :-) - Robert Scoble

Very groovy Indeed! - MrGroove

I used the feature yesterday, it didn't work for me. I tried twice though. - Tibor Holoda

Awesome! - zedomax

Let's see some Scoble-diving - Danny

Did you go out at Mavericks? I hear that place legendary, and deadly! - dthree

How tall is that board? Or are you under 4 foot tall? :) - Patrick Jordan

at least Robert looks like a fish - Thomas Power

nice board Robert - Miguel Rodriguez

Tibor: it will only work properly if you're sending from on of the email addresses that you have on file and verified in your FF account. Double check and make sure you it was the correct address and that the same address shows as 'verified' in FF. - FFing Enigma (aka Tina)

Robert, try sending a voice memo to share@ from your new iPhone. The quality is amazing and it attaches in FriendFeed, just like photos. I'm told soon they'll stream straight from here as well. - Jesse Stay

Ha, Scoble doing Mavericks, um hum! - JimmyJet

Appears to be a longboard, has a wood laminate look. - JimmyJet

Tina: Thanks, but i did check that. Used two verified addresses of mine, none of them worked. Strange. - Tibor Holoda

Cool, don't give up, surf every day you can. You will love it! - Eduardo Sasso

That's a nice ride! And lol @ thinking any surfer would take a newbie to Maverick's. I doubt I could even swim out to the break at Maverick's, let alone ride any waves, but scoble's more badass than I. - Lo is a Quitter

Nice! I just came back from my first lesson in Pacifica, loved it! - Yousef

One of those 'tiny' waves at Mavericks http://bit.ly/qXFTT - JimmyJet

Robert! So this is like twitpic for FriendFeed? Yahoo! I gotta get this set up on my CrackBerry for the weekend! Mahalo dude! Enjoy the waves and keep practicing... for Hawaii! - Arleen Anderson

me surfing (http://picasaweb.google.com/stephan...). you know, just in case this becomes a meme. - Kelly Norton

Nice going! Open invite next time you're in Santa Cruz. We have a geek "dawn patrol" that goes every Friday morning before work. - Peter

The board is a 9'4' Jeff Hakman, Hawaiian Pro Design, it is a wood veneer, but real wood none the less. It is a Surftech epoxy wood series. Check it out - http://www.surftech.com/tech... - I took Robert out to the Half Moon Bay Jetty, it was supposed to be small but a great south swell hit at about 6pm. I tell the whole story here http://www.lukek.ca/?p=348 - Luke Kilpatrick

Peter: I would love to join the geek dawn patrol in SC, I try and surf SC once a week. Mind sending me a dm with details? I will do my best to bring Robert as well. - Luke Kilpatrick

I think that it is a Hakman board and a sweet one at that. :-) - Mathew A. Koeneker

Well I'll be darned, I thought from the pic it was a classic board. Thanks for the link and info Luke. - jcunwired

Rumor is (read it on TMZ) that the board in the pic is a short board. - Jack (a.k.a. Jeber)

Mathew: My mistake, the name is usually so covered with wax that I misspell it. I love this board and it seems to be the one in the photo of every person I take surfing with me, I think I have about 6 different people in the same pose as Robert with that board. - Luke Kilpatrick

Nice board, wetsuit and booties Robert - but Luke says you have a big stick, whats the connection? - Geer

awesome board - Bren, Not Grinchy

Geer: Surfing has its own language, that has never really been fully captured by the mainstream. A stick is simply a surfboard, a big stick is a long board (aka a board over 9ft). A common phrase is "wax up the stick and go catch some swell" which to many non-surfers wouldn't mean much but to a surfer its the best part of the day. - Luke Kilpatrick

Luke: you mean surfing like in these pics? http://picasaweb.google.com/giseke... - Geer

Geer: Sorry, didn't look too closely at your profile, Awesome waves! The ones at the Princeton Jetty last night were close to head high and closing out hard, those look just perfect overhead with nice offshores. Jealous! Send some of that swell, water and winds to CA please. @surfergrrrl, one of my best surfing buddies is goofy foot and insanely jealous that you NZ guys have Raglan. There isn't a left point break here of any quality for hundreds of miles. Santa Cruz is land of the right. - Luke Kilpatrick

I have been liking this website. http://www.surf-forecast.com/ - Mathew A. Koeneker

read somewhere there's a motherboard with a webcam - Peter Harris

Mathew: http://magicseaweed.com is also a good site - Geer

did i mention i live in maui hawaii? suckas ;) - Tyler Gillies

Kowabunga dude! - Mark Essel

I have never been surfing before. Something for my Bucket list, I guess - Kreg Steppe

Luke, tks. for board info. Scobleizer kicked off a great thread. Love the water, surf music, beach scene. - JimmyJet

Kreg: If you are ever in SF send me a dm or email. Always happy to take people out and get them worked on a bit by the pacific. - Luke Kilpatrick

I miss Robert on here, place seems quiet. - Mark

Btw, every time i look at the picture i see Robert with a giant banana ;) - Tibor Holoda

I see gdgt.com has launched but has crashed. Isn't it a rackspace account? - Mark

Mark: only live.gdgt.com is hosted at Rackspace. gdgt.com is not. http://www.whoishostingthis.com/gdgt... shows that. - Robert Scoble

Awesome Rob, the bit Rackspace hosts performs perfectly and the part it doesn't fails epically ;) - Mark

There is an account waiting for the taking their Robert. I remember the Apple coverage, the pages loaded INSTANTLY even with millions of users. - Mark

YES! i heard of Arrington surfing on his vacation to Hawaii....now @scobleizer ! Hell yeah...glad you had fun...hopefully this catches on as it is very therapeutic ....Surf off between tech leaders! - shayne catrett

Luke: Be happy to take you out in SC. @ replied you on Twitter too - Peter

or Marketing 2010 :-) - Todd Hoff

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I have (I was in AMA recently) - anna sauce

ew- marketing 2.0 - anna sauce

They are probably looking at the vast amount of 'gray space' at FF. Will ad's be there someday? - Mike Nencetti

:rant on: Marketing makes me laugh. It is always marketing firms that tell you whether marketing is effective or not. Yeah like someone who's entire business is marketing or marketing analysis is going to be straight with you. It is akin to asking someone "Hey is your job necessary?" :rant off: - Geoff Schultz

Geoff, do you think social media people are frank about the role of social media? - Cristo

Eh with everything there is a fair amount of "drinking the kool aid" but that is to be expected. The difference is that Marketers "role in life" is to make something appear more valuable than it is. So one should consider the source in terms of that. - Geoff Schultz

In all things there are good marketers and bad marketers but make no mistake, just having a good product doesn't mean it gets adopted. Marketing ensures that good products win. It can also help to make them appear more valuable or better in comparison, but it *is* a critical component to success. - AJ Kohn

So, 12 minutes after the original post, I think "how many?" just increased by "a bunch" ;) - Andy Bold

No Geoff, the marketer's role in life is not to lie. It's to communicate. - anna sauce

your marketing is only as good as your tracking and analytics...ask for case studies and real numbers... - shayne catrett

To your point, though, Robert, colleague of mine (a marketer!) had a testy conversation with some corporate marketers defending Twitter and responding to consumer issues. They just didn't get it. Few hours later one of them came by and admitted she didnt' get Twitter, and had been burying her head in the sand, and would make a new effort. It's a slow growth for some, and tools that are many to many seem very daunting, especially to those in the communication business. - anna sauce

shayne: Robert Rose, of CrownPeak just said that on stage and he's showing off a lot of good stuff along those lines. - Robert Scoble

Who said lie? One can easily alter perception without lying. But that doesn't necessarily mean it is the whole truth either. - Geoff Schultz

Marketers tell a story that people want to believe. That's not lying. But it does mean that you might stitch things together, leave things out etc. Fiction sometimes has the ring of truth. I'm not a big Seth Godin fan but his 'All Marketers Are Liars' is a good example of how this works. - AJ Kohn

Please don't invite the PR hacks to FF, I want to keep it as organic as possible before people start trying to figure out ways to game the system. - Davis Freeberg

Davis- I like your idea that this tool is pristine. - anna sauce

It's *very* fast! - Kol Tregaskes

I just searched for myself. It popped up with my home address and phone number - and convenient directions to my house. I find this a little disturbing. - Amy℠

MSN is still having issues with rolling out new brands: http://twitter.com/shaynor... - shayne catrett

lol - Allen Stern

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I thought you were the Friendfeed guy anyway - Hunt

I second Scoble on that! - darnell

looks like we've got a Wave going! - Craig Shipp

figures eh - Austin Garrod

WaveFeed? FriendWave? - Tristan Seligmann

it's fine here - kang

its up again - Johni Fisher

Damn you Scoble! :-) - Kevin Whalen from email

what on earth are you doing on a ship rob? - David Lloyd

what is your job Robert? i mean, your title, what do you do for a living. I don't mean blogging or twittering. What do your employers pay you do do? - David Lloyd

Mark, he works for RackSpace. EDIT: Read more at http://louisgray.com/live... - Rishabh Mishra (p248)

Mark: I am working on something that will come out on June 11 at http://www.building43.com - Robert Scoble

Doing what though? they are a web hosting company. What does he do? lol - David Lloyd

DONE - sean percival

Mark: you can see photos of what I was doing on the ship: http://www.flickr.com/photos... (We were visiting as part of a blogger embark that Guy Kawasaki arranged). - Robert Scoble

ooo how cryptically exciting, cannot wait! I wondered what you were up to travelling all over the world. - David Lloyd

"something that will come out on June 11 at http://www.building43.com - Robert Scoble" ----- that's my birthday in case you didn't know - shayne catrett

What do I do for a living? I tour the world interviewing business and tech innovators. Rackspace is paying me to do that because we're building a community of people who are fanatical about the Internet. Really why I'm paid is because I have relationships with many of the people who are building the most interesting web sites. Rackspace hosted YouTube before Google bought them. We are looking for more of those. - Robert Scoble

Happy Early Birthday. Imagine how cool it would be just do take a few days and go and hang out on a big ship? Shame the pesky real world has to go and spoil everything :p - David Lloyd

I blame spymaster...they need the firehose! - Nicholas James

SO is the hope that some of these big upcoming websites might consider using rackspace in the future? You kind of are recruiting big accounts? - David Lloyd

Update: http://status.twitter.com/post... they said they've fix it - its gone down again... - Nicholas James

I love how they called it a "fatal" software error. - David Lloyd

I also love the real-time updates on FF. When Google Wave comes out we will be able to see each other typing this nonsense in real time character by character!! - David Lloyd

Mark: Unless you hide the character by character option ;) - Nicholas James

drat! - David Lloyd

I wonder who will get the exclusive launch info about Building43. What it is etc. Maybe TechCrunch, or maybe GillmorGang - David Lloyd

My guess: Google Web Drive. - Jérôme Flipo

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G-drive would be sweet! - Kevin Whalen

My guess: Google.com is now self-aware. - Shéa Bennett

Don't forget it's also close to the birthday of the Facebook platform as well - Jesse Stay

PigeonRank - Shawn Farner

There have been too many signs recently: http://blogoscoped.com/archive..., http://blogoscoped.com/archive..., http://blogoscoped.com/archive.... - Jérôme Flipo

Interesting... - ElijahBailey-Zu of FF <0,

Time Warner is spinning off AOL (finally)..... but, no, no big news..... - Roberto Bonini

@Roberto Arrington hasn't been too keen on AOL in his posts, so I don't think he would qualify the spin-off (which we all knew about anyway) as "very very big news." He's choosy with his words. - Sam Harrelson

Big news is coming in 1 hours 6 minutes. - David Lloyd

+1 Kevin: should we expect a "big day with news", or "a day with big news"? - Jérôme Flipo

1 hour? Just in time for the Google I/O kyenote, which Matt Cutts can't wait to hear :) http://bit.ly/2d2Kil - Sam Harrelson

that Tablet PC / net book he's working on might be released? http://www.engadget.com/tag... - shayne catrett

Time Warner is spinning off AOL Yipeee.... - Chirag Chamoli

I suspect something from Microsoft and something from Google. As well as the AOL news. - Jamie

Please make it be a little dog that can do backflips! - Joe Dawson

Google launching a twitter competitor (before they buy twitter..) - Ouriel Ohayon

Wasn't there rumours of Google's Twitter competitor? Could well be that... - Iain Baker

umm Microsoft is buying Yahoo - andy brudtkuhl

Do you think Google I/O is more about engineering stuff, rather than new product? - Jérôme Flipo

I think the release of the CrunchPad. Or Google buying Friendfeed? :) - Marcel de Jong

from @dsiroker "Google is about to announce something huge in 10 minutes #io2009" http://twitter.com/dsiroke... - Sam Harrelson

Pressure, pressure!! http://friendfeed.com/scoblei... - Jérôme Flipo

This should be interesting. - Kevin Whalen from email

was about to leave muy office. But i can't anymore :) - Stanislas Jourdan

It's all about Lego! http://friendfeed.com/reto... - Jérôme Flipo

Bing is launching! - Nicholas James

seems to be a new open source communication product - Stanislas Jourdan

Dev account for attendees only: http://friendfeed.com/mattcut... - Jérôme Flipo

Name: Google Wave! - Jérôme Flipo

Google Wave - Stanislas Jourdan

Chrome for Mac ? Web Drive ? - David Berrebi

http://wave.google.com/ - Stanislas Jourdan

Google Wave ... wow - andy brudtkuhl

http://friendfeed.com/abrudtk... - andy brudtkuhl

Some vids are up on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch... - Sam Harrelson

"if they continue to grow at this rate - they will run out people on planet Earth by the end of the year." - Zee.

after that they can go for Mercury and Venus, I heard that the guys over there would love to twitter all the time... - Ahmed

5,990,000,000 to go... - Johnny Worthington

That's why they're targeting businesses. After they get all the people, that's where they get another 10%. - Kevin Fox

nicely put Kevin - Zee.

OMG THEY GANNA MAKE A DA MONIES - sean percival

so there goes cotweet and the others? this is one of the hard parts about opening up to developers like they have - and what i've said all along - building a business completely on twitter (or on any other biz) is a mistake and will lead to very upset people - Allen Stern

Yeah, good point Allen...it's a shame because cotweet is pretty darn impressive. Maybe a possible acquisition target...or if Twitter is planning on offering basic business tools, cotweet could be on a more advanced level. Who knows. But your right, it's a dangerous game building business tools on top of Twitter. - Zee.

Maybe they'll add the brand new, breakthrough, game-changing feature known as "Comment Threading" *rolls eyes* Die Twitter Die srsly EDIT: I say that as a heavy (frustrated) Twitter user myself - LANjackal

business tools = follower / messaging management and reporting service... - shayne catrett

@Shayne probably, but analytics is apparently high on the cards too - Zee.

Johnny - There's closer to 6.8 billion people on earth - Mitch

Allen, users will benefit from competition. Cotweet and all other can have unique features and stay. Zee, agree on analytics part. +I'm sure we will get DM spamming tools. - Sasha Kovaliov(.com)

I'm sure they will find willing customers. So many people depend on Twitter to market their businesses and blogs these days. I know several people who are ready to pony up just so their profile backgrounds can have clickable links. - Peggy Dolane

Hopefully, twitter will be dead by then, or at least morphed into something more useful for more people. - Kittyburgers

+1 to Kittyburgers. - LANjackal

man, a lot of twitter hate...i have grown to reall respect whats come of it. The API is what makes it though - Zee.

When all you care is about how many followers you have this is what happens. - Robert Scoble

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This is a trending topic on Twitter Search. Almost wholly spam. - Robert Scoble

I have no idea what is going on here... maybe twitter will auto ban anyone mentioning this word. - Eric Nakagawa

Damn follower-whores! - MλTT

See, this is why we can't have nice things :p Seriously, Matt is right. When you just do your thing the followers come, why bother growing them artificially? - Neal Jansons

Stupid "one word to explain everything ;) " - Ahmed

The whole followers number thing has gotten out of hand. I'm still more interested in learning from the people I follow. - Mary Wehrle

Followers are not all that important. It is more rewarding to follow the right people and know how to search twitter for information, as best as you can. Twitter could do with some more metadata for each post. - Lennart Olsen

Seriously, it should be about HOW MANY followers you have, it should be the QUALITY of the followers you have. Are they REALLY listening? - Sherra Scott

Lennart: you and I know that, but Twitter is now mainstream and those users don't really participate in Twitter. Look at Oprah. How many Tweets has she done? How many people is she following? Not many. And the new users of Twitter look up to her. So they will emulate her behavior. - Robert Scoble

For most of tweeps quantity matters not quality. As in their real life I suppose :) - Jacque

Did a social media marketer just suggest it's about quality and not quantitiy? whaaaa? - Eric Nakagawa

i wouldn't want all that noise. twitter gives me access to people i want hear from but normally can't. and friend feed lets me talk to them... at a distance - Marco

Robert: I agree with you completely. Twitter has become like the "Alternative" music on the top 10 songs in iTunes. - MλTT

why eat vanilla (twitter), when you can have any flavor you want (FF)? Once twitter became mainstream (i.e. the celebrities killed it) it started to dumb down. - Bob Blunk

Surely targeted Twitter followers is much more effective than random large quantities?! - PRBristolco.uk

I love Robert Scoble!!! - sofarsoShawn

Robert: True true. Having a large number of followers is beneficial of course for getting help with things, but... Maybe if people start using the saved filters on twitter.com they will realize it is better to reach those who are interested instead of everyone who is not. - Lennart Olsen

Some guy called Peter Parker (PeterParker01_) seems to be using it a lot - does this mean Spiderman gone over to the dark side?! - Kate

Link farming for the naughties - Ben

there's a lot of 'chatter' in that search query about TwitterHIT being a virus... anyone else think so too? - Chris Heath

It's hard to see how twitter will control this spammyness. It's all about quality, not quantity. A large following is useless if you can't get them to ACT. - Jonathan.Rivera

Definitely! - Nyan Min

I agree, what ever your uses of twitter, it's about quality. Take an example - there's no point in a feed for local news in Bristol UK having followers outside Bristol, as the news would be irrelevant to them - so why would they want to just amass folllowers?? And what value would someone from California into holistic therapy (for example) get from following that news feed anyway? - Nigel

Nigel: one reason is that directories like http://www.wefollow.com are using follower numbers to decide on relevancy. That might even be important to someone inside Bristol. - Robert Scoble

even though i don't get many requests....i enjoying blocking twitter accounts the best! i save the email confirmations i get then if your not interesting BLOCKage - shayne catrett

Twitter is as much about listening, if not more, than talking. For me out on the frontier a Wyoming, a nobody really, being able to see Robert Scoble's thoughts, as well as those of Chris Brogan, Guy Kawasaki, and so many other big idea guys, is like being welcome in their home to see what they're reading, watching, listening to, doing... heck they even engage in conversation with me... more... - shelli johnson

It's rifle vs. shotgun. I'll take a rifle please. - shelli johnson

Nigel - how about "home town news"? I follow local news from places I used to live, even though I haven't lived there for years. - Will King

Lol, this is funny! what is the next thing going to be What about promises like: Follow me and I make sure that 1000 follows you - Asgeir

The nirvana of being followed. In my case, if you want to follow me, knock yourself out. Doesn't mean I have to do anything about it, except block spammers, from which I derive a weird pleasure. - Rachel Clarke

This is totally stupid, I agree. What is also stupid is all of the fake followers the celebrities have. This might be all the greatest ever episode of Punk'd! - Bo Lora

I just got more than 2000 followers, now I can also follow more than 2000. And I can tell you it's fun! Of course you can't see all the tweets, but who cares… In this way I have the chance to find interesting people, and when that happens I put their tweet feed in friendfeed. Give it a try... - Jacob

Even the bots are stupid. No picture, no description and no link in the bio? Huh, why the hell would someone follow that? - Patrick Moorhead

Jacob: now you know why I find friendfeed fun. You can follow how ever many people you want. And you can even put them into separate lists! - Robert Scoble

It's a shame when so many people totally miss the real value of twitter. - Angela

Angela: well, Twitter itself caused that through the systems they built, the actions they took, and the PR they sought. Ask yourself, why is Oprah's account recommended while Leo Laporte's is not? Twitter WANTS you to miss the two-way nature of things. They don't want you to see Twitter as some place you're going to learn something. They are building an entertainment broadcast network. It's too bad, yes, but that's what is. Which is why I'm here instead of there most of the time. - Robert Scoble

Yuck. - Louis Gray

Leo Laporte, give me a break - he has one of the most recognise names out there. I know you love being on the Twit show, but come on :) - Asgeir

@Asgeir Only started following Leo in the past week or so... and only because Friendfeed exposed me to him, his show and some cool conversations.... Thanks again Robert Scoble. - David Damore

What do you get out of Twitter? It should be worth something. It should always be about quality. Whether you receive it or supply it. - Wilfredo Guerrero

Do I put twitterhit into search at twitter? When I try to click link posted it does a search of search here on FF. (I am on nambu app for itouch) - Brytne from Nambu

I wish that there was a wefollow for friendfeed - Thomas Hawk

It seems that nobody on Twitter (at least those who use this service) realizes that tools like these go against the idea of social networking, which is to find people of a similar interest. - Thomas Ward

@Brytne Just click link in Robert's post, should open twitter - Asgeir

That's what I am saying, it isn't opening anything other than searching the term search here in FF. Guess I don't get to play this game. - Brytne from Nambu

@Brytne That is strange - you could also just type TwitterHit into the search field in twitter to see - Asgeir

@asgeir thanks, think it is the app I am using. - Brytne from Nambu

Totally agree. What is the point of the numbers if no one cares who you are? - Kathryn Martyn

Site declares they aren't a scam, but requires your password for twitter, um no thnx. I dislike all those twitter spinoff sites. - Brytne from Nambu

Lets not pretend that friendfeed is perfect in this game, Kim Kardashian is subscribed to my feed, why? These tools are imperfect, worrying about who has more followers, subscribers, recommendations and why is pointless. - Patrick Boegel

Patrick, she may be following you because you follow her on Twitter and she did an auto-import. If not, she is hoping you will follow back. And notice that on FriendFeed, less than 1 percent did follow her back. - Louis Gray

A scam - Baard @ Pixum

Louis: definitely not following Ms Kardashian, just not my thing. Only reason she is not being followed back yet on FriendFeed is that migration has not occurred at any reasonable scale yet. - Patrick Boegel

I un-followed someone yesterday who used that TwitterHIT crap. Not the kind of person I want to be following anyway, if all they want is more followers. - Rochelle

One last point, by the numbers maybe 7-8% of the US population is using Twitter (per compete.com) it is a mainstream "name" but not a mainstream tool yet. - Patrick Boegel

@Patrick, @Louis I think Ms Kardashian is following everybody. I don't think it is because she is so interested in what everyone is up to, but rather to promote herself as a model. Is this the right place to do it? I don't see it - Asgeir

I found the whole "follow" experience on twitter odd to begin with. Case in point, yesterday I declared I needed to find my toenail clippers and lo & behold the LA Clippers started following me. What are they, a basketball team? I don't even know. Definately a fail. These sites are just a scam. (and now I leave this thread for fear of bothering people) - Brytne from Nambu

Asgeir: I get why she is following everyone to promote herself, I just don't think it matters, and people using silly follower "schemes" and devices to grow a list of followers based on no real strategy, well they will either drop off of Twitter quickly because they get bored and didn't gain anything by immediately having a Twitodex of 5,000 strangers they shared nothing with. Or they... more... - Patrick Boegel

@Brytne That is funny. I think a lot of users use search to find people to follow. - Asgeir

@asgeir thanks LOL I got quite a chuckle (as did my sports fanatic little brother) out of it. And I get that about the search and have done it myself. But I look at the content of the user before I deem them worthy of a follow. - Brytne from Nambu

@Patrick something good can come from connecting with random strangers, look at Twestival. I think it all depends on what you want from it. In an ideal world you should have some sort of plan, but I think for a lot of people they are happy to feel that they have a following - Asgeir

Patrick B: You can block Kim here on friendfeed. You do know that right? - Chris Heath

Check out this latest Twit Tip where the Follow Friday institution is questioned...http://ff.im/2Vow3 I then equate Twitter's significance to the hoola hoop http://ff.im/2VoMU - sofarsoShawn

@Asgeir, yes something good can come from following total strangers, 97% of the people I follow on Twitter I never knew before Twitter and 95% I have still never met in person. @Chris H, yes I know you can block on ff, but I don't care if she wants to subscribe to me, I'll let her manage her own information stream. - Patrick Boegel

I make recommendations for Twitter newbies to make connections. What's happened is that my Twitter stream is clogged now with HUNDREDS of tweeps recommending me solely for the purpose of my recommending them! UGH! I don't do that! Many of these tweeps recommend me over and over and over during the day to try to get my attention. They succeed in irritating me! I am migrating recommendations with comments to static page newbies can refer to anytime. - Arleen Anderson

Its Kinda vicious circle. When Kevin Rose was no. 1, nobody complained. Now when Ashton Kutcher is people are complaining. When someone will surpass him, he'll start whining too. - Abhishek

Yes, however, if any of us pretends to not have some guilt in a desire for followers, I think they are full of it... - Leif Hansen

There is still value there... you just need to be able to filter out the crap. More importantly this is nothing new. When there were a few thousand people using Email there was no spam... now the majority of email sent is spam. Filters will become more important than any other tool as usage grows. - Brian Roy

@Brian Roy I see the signs, but I really hope your predictions are wrong - Asgeir

@scobleizer: users of TwitterHit should measure their success over here: http://epenis.nl - Nick Wade

#FollowFriday @sofarsoshawn - sofarsoShawn

there should be a non profit that we all donate to that maintains a list of twitter users who provide value and we can all follow them and only them. signing up for services like this would get you banned from this list. and we can have our own little private twitter experience. it can even segregate the users into different channels for different topics. so you can subscribe to different lists. actually, that's a terrible idea. just throwing it out there. :-) - mike

Tools to filter down to just what you want (topics) are just as important as your Social Graph. It isn't context OR Social Graph... it is BOTH. - Brian Roy

I've half a mind to block everyone that comes up in this search ;-) lol! - guruvan (Rob Nelson)

Not a scam, but a stupid thing to do to get more followers. Just tweet inteligently and you'll get them "brainiacs"! :\ - Miladin Miladinoski

Robert following your cycle - love, love, love to Facebook, Facebook Sucks, love, love love to Twitter, Twitter Sucks, love, love, love to FriendFeed.....when's the next step? - Debi Jones

I believe that there are 12 Steps to this. - Stephen Borchert

Whew after reading through this entire thread, I feel like choking up a hairball. - Kay Designer

I added my response to your comments over on my home page. - Kay Designer

I have been getting a few @replies from TwitterHit today, hoping it's a trend that will end soon - Asgeir

THIS CONTEST IS OVER. THE MONEY HAS ALREADY BEEN GIVEN AWAY. I'm giving away $4,500 of my money. The contest will be here in friendfeed between now and Tuesday afternoon. Ends 3 p.m. Austin, Texas Time. Winner will be picked live on http://www.ustream.tv/studio at 4 p.m. Austin Time. Two ways to win: First way to win ($1,000). Leave a comment here. We'll pick one winner out of a hat randomly. Second way to win (Two prizes of $1,750 each). Leave a comment about how you will use the money (use only one comment here). I'll pick my favorite two messages and announce a winner on Tuesday afternoon. Good luck! - Robert Scoble

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Good way to keep us engaged Robert :) - bcultral

only that? too easy Robert! :) - directeur

Robert "Ben Stein" Scoble :) - Mattb4rd

Will it be tax free? :P - imabonehead

pinched nerve in back from military accident.. might be outta work for a bit. - WithoutInk

I'm in. - Paul Grav

Sweet awesome robert! - TheHenry

Simple is good. :) - Heather Solos

Robert, Ben Stein beat you to that game. Try and be first rather than a fast follower. :P - Lorin Olsen

What are the rules? International ok? :) - Holger Eilhard

I'll happily leave a comment here. - Aaron Crews

Congrads on the new venture:) - Rob Cairns

I'll take it in Canadian please .. - johnpiercy

Lets be honest- there are few people who literally put their money where their mouth is. Mr. Scoble you continue to impress me. And I have said this before the contest. - Alyx

I declare myself ineligible for the first way to win :) - Douglas Gourlay

Do you have to be an American? Cause I could use a new laptop :) Plus the USD>AUD exchange rate is pretty good at the moment ($1000 USD = $1500 AUD) - Bryce Roney

Cool ....I need new Laptop - Michael Holzinger

#43 - Brian Daniel Eisenberg

Prediction: this will be the most commented thread on FriendFeed ever (chance to win $1000). - Mike Doeff

be sure to let us on the detailed result of this new experiment of yours - Georgios Kasselakis

really? :) - K.Fatih Özçelik

oh...pick me pick me pick me :) - Stephanie Segel

Will you give me more if I say rackspace.com? - Jason P. Brown

woohooo! Anton like this. - Anton Johansson

c'mon fingers. find me in the hat. - Jason Kane

OK, I'm changing my comment to go for one of the $1750 prizes. I will offer to donate all of it to a mutually acceptable charity in exchange for an appearance with you and Steve on the Gillmor Gang. If Jason can buy his way onto Twitter, maybe I can buy my way onto the Gillmor Gang! - Kent

Are you still going to the XMPP meetup on tuesday? - J Allen

Good luck to everyone! - Amit Nangare

money talks :-) - Dobromir Hadzhiev

Leaving random comment here for $1000 yo! Can I get that all in pennies and not rolled up? Preferably in gallon milk jugs! - Jason Moffatt

I think Mike will be right - Henrik Johansson

I would use the money to 1. Donate and support our local Milwaukee tech community (events like web414.com, BarCampMilwaukee.com, and Bucketworks.org) and 2. purchase some more tech items (i.e. mac mini, video camera, webcam) to enhance and encourage more interaction with development and the tech community. - Sam Dodge

I'm in too ... - Leo

$1000 for a random comment. I suspect we'll have a record number of comments. But what kind of hat will you be pulling the name out of? Austin Cowboy hat? - Andrew Leyden

well, this is one way to get me to actually use my friend feed account =) - Travis

I'm echoing the earlier comments, free money + your reach = most commented thread. - Steven Cains

I could use it. Ill be out of a job in 2 weeks. - Armando

sweet. i like free money =) - Arin

Second way to win (Two prizes of $1,750 each). Leave a comment about how you will use the money (use only one comment here). I'll pick my favorite two messages and announce a winner on Tuesday afternoon. Good luck! - Robert Scoble

I'm game. But don't shoot me. - Steve Lowe

why would you do that? - Burçak Sayınsoy

is this part of the bailout? - Thomas Jelonek

Pick me! - Henry Irish

hook it up! - Zachary Poley

Robert , Congrats for Building43.com ! - Rocky

Open to anyone in the world. It's my money and if I get sued I'll make fun of you on Twitter. :-) - Robert Scoble

So let me get this straight, I just leave a comment here? Will this $1000 be reported to the IRS? :) - Craig Eddy

If ever there was money that could be used to buy gadgets guilt free it is Scoble money! - Joe Pierce

Building 43 sounds interesting. Can't wait. - Andrew Bashore

need cash for new company my wife and i are starting -- to help offset the cost of adopting our next child. - WithoutInk

all i have to say is, more cow bell please :) - Ivan Stegic

I LOVE RACKSPACE!! - CG

I'll talk about the contest later on http://www.ustream.tv/studio - Robert Scoble

Isn't this a nice way to test how scalable Friendfeed entries really are? :-) - Yuval Atzmon

Will use it to buy Arrington a hairpiece after the TIME article. - Mike

Please, no, you're better than Ben Stein (although that's not saying much) Are you trying for the most comments ever on a Friendfeed post? Because I can certainly see that coming. - The Web's Wendell Wittler

What kind of hat? - Geoff Schultz

Scoble--congrats to you and Rocky! Keep up the great work! - Joey Hayles

Neat! I'd spend the money fairly selfishly... on bandwidth bills for http://enjoysthin.gs - Ted Roden

How would I use $1750? Three words: Pay. My. Rent. - Stephanie Segel

Are friends and family excluded? - Tina Chase Gillmor

Oh well, why not! maybe the hat's lucky! - vanweerd

I'm just here for the cash. - Jim Mitchem

Nicholas - would like to work with you at Rackspace, was a senior systems design engineer for Sony Broadband SW Development + Broadcast Integration Division(s) SW Systems Integration and testing, also senior technical project manager on Google's infrastructure upgrade + Verizon's FIOS fiber-to-the-premises nationwide. I also spent ten years in post-production in hollywood as a senior tech support engineer / consultant to the stars. I like bad food, long hours and the warm glow from completing projects. - Nicholas Chase

Hmmm, how do you post a comment on FF...??? :-) - I Spy

Feel free to donate lol - hiphopgame

I would use the money, to help buy a mac for the family. We are in need of a new one, and right now our current one (a powerbook) is starting to die out. I already have some money saved up, but not enough. Thanks for doing this Robert! :) - Techno Todd

thanks for making friendfeed notifier go insaaaaaaaaaaaaaaane - Caio

I'll use the money to buy a laptop for my soon-to-college daughter, as well as to fund her scholarship searches& college visits this summer. She's leaning towards working in special education, continuing the volunteering she's done with her high school's Options Program (http://www.paulvi.net/academi...). - Craig Eddy

My friend (14) and I (15) are working on a subscription web service that we want to launch this summer and some additional runway and start-up capital would really be helpful. We do have some experience with this stuff -- we did iJailBreak (www.ijailbreak.com) a year or so ago and had millions of hits and a million downloads and a lot of coverage (Gizmodo, TUAW, Digg front page multiple times). - Ben Feldman

I want Robert's stimulus package. - Daniel Sims

This is my random comment for the random pick! - Mona Nomura from fftogo

Hi Robert - Pick me! :) - Susan Beebe

if i didnt know you, i would have un-friended you for a post like that. "i'm giving away money. details to come." Congrats on the new gig! - fansnap

If I win, I'll spend it all on ale and whores. I'm in need of both. - Onur Cengiz

$1,750? Ok, I'll give the half of it to a charity, that is: $875 — and the other half will be my contest's gift. My contest? The one who donates the most to that charity wins those $875. And yes, I'm serious :) - directeur

I don't know about the tax consequences. I'll try to find out. Basically this money is money Cisco paid to me and I'm just shipping it back out. So, this money will be counted pre-tax, I'm sure, and you'll probably need to pay tax on it. - Robert Scoble

First comment: Hope my comment gets chosen! - Kevin Poirier

Fabulous - Jon

Sweet! $1000 would be lovely - Vanessa Scanfeld

you can give away money in this economic times? ;) - Simon

I'd be using the money to finance my freelance work and get a half-way decent video camera. I'm working with a friend of mine on tooloftheday.de (nothing to see there yet) to produce videos of popular tools, tips, tricks, howtos, etc... - Holger Eilhard

Throwing my piece of paper into the hat. Crossing my fingers! - Troy Malone

man, my feed is going crazy... stop it guys :) - Ingo Di Bella

OK Robert, I'll bite and leave a comment here. - Herne

Second comment...I will use the money to buy as many clever domain names that I can in hope that one day, when you are creating your "next big thing" that you will have to purchase the domain name from me realizing that you had in fact, through me, had purchased these domain names in the first place. - Kevin Poirier

I'm also available for 1/2 time work for $185/week (Rails sites) http://tefflox.net/JesseCr... Thanks :-) - Jesse Crockett

Thats a internet first i guess, good luck to all contestants :) - Yunus Tunak

For the 1500, I will donate all proceeds to #smackdown. - Mona Nomura from fftogo

If I win: I will use the money to lend out some of it on Kiva.org, give my brother (12 years old) his own domain/hosting so he could start a wp-blog there and maybe buy Spotify premium =) - Anton Johansson

I would buy a new macbook pro with it. I have the old one, and Was hoping to buy the current one. I would then give the old one to my brother and I would use the new one! :) - TheHenry

I'm in!! - Danli

I would use it for the prizes I'm giving out daily on my twitter game @I_spy_treasure. Robert, you can win it back... (and so can anyone else...) - I Spy

Lasers. - Lasse Johnsen

I will use part 2 to donate to Kiva.org and match it with Cisco's matching gifts program - Douglas Gourlay

I would donate it to my homeless shelters. - imabonehead

I'm giving my winnings to congress to spend wisely : ) - Joseph

Congratulations to both you and Rocky on the new jobs. - Ron Schott

Count me in! Could use the extra $$ to buy a mac and see what all the hype is about. - Tim

I would create a company called One Laser Per Child. - Lasse Johnsen

This is my comment. I would use the extra $1750 to pay for me and Lindsay's trip to Gnomedex this year. It would probably be enough for us to come up and stay a few extra days in Seattle. - Internet's Tad

That'd put a dent in my taxes. Ugh, freelancing has its pains. - Andrew

nice! i could use some money :) - krist80

Would be silly not to comment... although I have nothing interesting to say right now. - Jen

umm..ok i'm in! - Michael Lemmon

Even I can manage that! - Jeremy Brooks

Everyone else is doing it... - Rochelle

Is there a third way to win? I'd use the money to offset part of the costs of moving to Portland in the spring. Moving from New York with next to no connections to see what it's like living on the west coast for a while. - Mark Trapp

Did I win yet? - Robert Collazo

Sadly, I'd use most of the money to pay bills, but in the spirit of ff, I'd take a smaller portion of it to play a similar game on my ff. - Randall Rodakowski

What I'd do with $1000? Get them converted to Euros :) Would most likely be spend on "offline" needs, like a new bathroom - dieck

I suppose spending it on crack and hookers wouldn't win the prize, would it? - Ian Betteridge

Feeling like a winner already. - Tsega Dinka

I will use the $1000 plus 119,000 more dollars to buy a spot on the Twitter "Suggested Users" page. - Sprague D

And you r giving your money away why? - Andrew Finkle

it'd go toward my first Mac - Jeff Mincey

118 comments in 17mins, progress report.. :) - Yunus Tunak

Count me in! - Wim Mulder

Interesting; I'd give a bit more than the the money to an unemployed friend for necessities(car repair, rent, food, getting back her phone with Nana Lemon singing Nena's famous anti-balloon protest song) in cash and perhaps a small gift - RAPatton

I would use the money to go biking in Tibet and give everything that's left to the Tibetians. - Henrik Johansson

Robert why are you giving away money - not that I am complaining- but curious! :) - Susan Beebe

I'm game - Ken Nicely

I'd spend mine on women, booze and a Mac. - Ed Hudson

I'd use it to stretch the time I can work for equity-only before our startup gets funded! (Why doesn't federal stimulus money go to something like this which actually creates jobs and innovation instead of banks and auto companies?) - Dale Larson

this should be interesting - Robert Accettura

The chances of winning Scoble's money are slim. But the comments are hilarious. Love them. - I Spy

This is easier than a lottery ticket! We must be in an experiment or something, knowing Robert. - Cesar Arevalo

Sure why not - Rodfather

I will use the money to go PyCon, learn new skills, network, mention how generous Robert Scoble is, and do a sprint to improve FriendFeed PyAPI--which, by the way, you should use to select the random winners from this thread. https://launchpad.net/friendf... Thanks in advance. - Chris Lasher

Clever way to show the power of friendfeed! - Emee Pumarega

For $1750: I would pay a portion of my wife's college tuition, buy my daughter a netbook, and my son a practice guitar amp. - Mattb4rd

Great idea! Count me in. I think you should give your money away monthly. - Grace Ciccone

I'm Here. Wow. I''ve thrown the laptop up on a 56" JVC LCD HD. Convergence! Just watched you on the Gillmor Gang. Feels like TV to me. It's great. Something's definitely happening. - Stephen Pickering

Love it...I'm in - gavin

that's not that much - Jesse Fornear

I'd spend the money on a new display, I really need one - Dobromir Hadzhiev

Not my first comment on a Scoble posting here, but first with a potential payoff. - Tom Landini

I'm in. How I will use the money? will buy server for XdbE project - Elmira Gazizova

With $1,000 I could buy all 57 Used & new "Naked Conversations" books from Amazon and still have enough to buy bottle service at the club. - Andy Fields

would like to be able to try new technologies while still being a student and on a student's income = ($0) - Shane Grant

Cool, count me in :-) I would use the money by buying 2 HTC Fuzes for me and my love. - Sarah Peterman

Count me in! (for the first way I guess :P). - Mauro Borione

What can I do to get your $$$ Robert? How about a virtual dance from my dogs? - Jeff

get Diabla my pit bull puppy hip surgery sooner rather than later - shayne catrett

haha, what is it all about? - Лёша, не обобщай

I would use the money to help fund a small-scale electronics lab, which has been a dream of mine for some time. It would serve as the perfect place to plot and create the robotic army that will eventually take over the world! Also it would teach me lots that would make me very attractive to an employer, or capable of creating a business of my own. - Daniel Bruce

It would be hard for me to decide how to spend the money. There is so much, yet so little, being given. Because I'm a crazy Linux-lover, I think I should take the selfless route and donate at least part of the money to various Linux/open-source programming projects. Though, I would have to be careful to make sure that the money is not wasted in the style that Jeff Atwood describes (http://www.codinghorror.com/blog...). - Rishabh Mishra (p248)

<cold><oddsized><red>here's my comment</red></oddsized></cold>. I've made my comment colored and differently shaped because supposedly those will get drawn before all the other regular looking comments. It's cold too because that's how the Knicks got Ewing first in the draft. - Todd Hoff

Well, I need a new kidney, and there just happens to be one available on Ebay for $1000. (The previous portion of this comment is an utter lie; both my kidneys are doing fine, I am gainfully employed, do not need the money as much as so many on this thread, but Mastercard would really love to have it.) Congrats and good luck with the new venture, Robert. - Phil Essing

Very cool! - Josh Haley

Hey as long as were giving away money - count me in ;) - Rob Jones

sweet, a thousands eh? converted to $ JMD that's 90k, groceries for 2 months:P - Gordon Swaby

i'd like to thank my good friends olasofia and tav for mentioning this opportunity to win $1000 randomly, and if gratitude to one's friends isn't enough, how about this: i will give the $1750 for the best answer to this question: now that there are 100,000 people paying attention, what single action can we all do next tuesday that has the greatest social impact globally? - happyseaurchin

For either amount, I would look to pay down some of my pressing debts and apply the rest towards a rainy-day fund. The 10% paycut I took three months ago has not helped things. - JA Castillo

I'm on spring break now and my school was nice enough to lend me a Canon 20D (a little old, but I'm still glad to have borrowed it). Usually, only people who are part of the after school photography club can take it out, and seeing that I'm not, I was quite lucky. They gave me a 28-135mm lens, which looked ok to me. It was the last lens they had available, so it was take it or leave it.... more... - Michael Forian

hmmm just leave a comment for a $1,000 dollars, not sure what to say... - Kevin Tunis

$1750 for a cheeky mobile app, any more would be telling - Yant

I'm here. pick me :) How would I use? I'll buy a netbook and some books. - Dogan Tuncer

i am somehow reminded of ben stein - Adam Singer

Testing the mix, testing, testing, one two, one two, - is this thing on? - Martha

I would use the money to do what I do with all of my money...support my wife through graduate school :p. Thanks for the opportunity, Robert. - Neal Jansons

Give it to Michael Forian! He seems so well-meaning! - RexEveryhting

Big Spender Robert. Who knew? - Michael Fidler

I'm feeling lucky. - Laura

Cool! I saw your new venture announcement (live) earlier on my old iMac, which I would love to replace. :) - Rob

I'm an unemployed community manager formerly of Silicon Valley. Hoping to spread new technology from NorCal to SoCal. - Kimberly

recently laid off, this would really help, *fingers crossed* - Nick

Pick me, I've got medical bills to pay-off. Boring I know, but it's really how I'd use any extra money. - Curtis Phillips

I'll donate the money to GM. Nah, forget it. I'll worry about it if I actually get it. - Hal

I will throw my virtual hat in the virtual ring for the not-virtual $1000. What is the other $3500 going toward? - Lindsay

Working on a little something in the review space with a friend of mine, $1000 could cover a bit of initial hosting. - Jack Bogdan

Hmm, adding that to a house down payment would be nice. I imagine there's others here that could use it much more, though. - Jordan Hofker

peace on earth..... - imran

Wow...a comment can win me $1000!?! - jamar78

Awesome. With $1,000, I'd use 50% to buy shares of F, GM, BAC, etc... and we'll have even more money to hand out. With the other 50%, we could also make 20 $25 loans at a Stanford MBA microfinance project, so the money recycles and has more impac (and have FFers decide which projects to support). Gumball Capital http://news.newamericamedia.org/news... or Kiva.org http://kiva.org Ideally we could even start a fund to support out-of-work FF'ers. - Mitchell Tsai

@scobleizer - please give me your money. if you do i will use it wisely to help pay for a macbook & if i get more than the random $1000 prize i will use it in a philanthropic manner - Chris Heath

I'm probably use the money for a new bed for son, and upgrade Shelly's computer - jamar78

I'd have to use it all to put toward the $1,900 deposit due next month for the Friends school for which we got an acceptance letter, on behalf of our 10 yo, earlier today since my partner's reaction was that all I needed to do was to go out and get a job Monday! We've tried public schs (& their lotteries) in Boston & DC and have come to this... If that wasn't pressing, I'd use it to put... more... - Angela E. Taylor

updated to say - please give the money to someone in need. If I were to have the money to give away, my choice would be to http://www.theanimalrescuesite.com. - BEX

Wait, in this economy, you giving away money?! - Adi Rabinovich

So...dear! Did you sign the cheque? Yes? Now send it to me! LOL - Lora Lufark

all your money are belong to us! - Geek Cowboy

It would be really cool if this money went to a charity in need, in increasingly tough times. - jjprojects

I'd use it to buy myself some time to finish a volunteer project I'm doing for my alma mater - making a website that is an archaeological cataloger and academic discussion space all in one. - Joey Brunelle

posting comment. crossing fingers. knocking on wood for good measure. - Anita

I'd use the money as a donation for my favorite charity, www.4everhomes.org, helping orphans and foster children get adopted. - Lynn Owens

I will use the cash to invest in a MacBook for my wife so she can be mobile and still do her school work and finish that degree finally!!! - Geek Cowboy

Well after the football team I support (Nottingham Forest) lost 5 -0 today I would spend the money on buying myselft a place in the squad. I can't be any worse than the current goalkeeper - Paul Bainbridge

I'd give the money to children of San Diego http://www.alphaproject.org/ - David Krug

I'm in - Jack Kendall

Putting my entry in the hat. Hope this is truly random because I don't have anything interesting to add! :) - Matt Baron

With $1750 I'd buy Canon PowerShot SX1IS 10 MP CMOS Digital Camera with 20x Wide Angle Optical Image Stabilized Zoom and 2.8-inch LCD @ $600, a 2nd Gen Drobo populated with four 1TB Western Digital Green Drives @ $849 via TwipPhoto and a GigaPan Epic 100 as soon as its available (probably about $500). All of this will support my GigaPanning habit: http://www.gigapan.org/viewPro... - Ron Schott

James (imabonehead) & Robert, $13,000/yr is allowed by gift tax limits,... so no tax if it's from Robert's personal money. - Mitchell Tsai

Great idea. I'm in. - Bill Romanos

I would use the $1750 to pay for the laptop that my daughter wants for her 11th birthday at the end of the month. She will be entering Jr. high next year and could use a faster more up to date computer than the 5+ year old hand me down desktop PC running Win2000 that she is presently using. - Jeff P. Henderson

i would be glad to invest it into a macbook pro... - Progresif Cem Gencer

Craziness. That kinda money could feed my voracious tech and gadget habit for quite a while. - Brooks Bishop

OK, I'm in. Though not for the money: I want to know waaaay more about Building 43! - Jordi Soler

I'd use the money to invite (pay for flight/hotel, etc.) someone really cool (Harold Varmus?) to the next ScienceOnline conference. - Bora Zivkovic

Building 43 and Rackspace FTW! - Bill Koslosky

I'll use it to buy 2 new monitors. 1 for tweetdeck and 1 for Alert thingy - Jeff (the メガマクダジ of FF)

Hi Robert. A noble venture to be sure. We would put the gift to use saving our art studio. The after effects of dealing with the Basin Complex Wildfire that burned Big Sur have left us in a precarious postiion. Truth be told, we'd rather have a big commission than the gift. Work is always better on so many levels. Perhaps we can bootstrap ourselves back to where we were and afford to offer the same gift to others in need one day not too far off--Pay it forward. Best wishes on Building 43 & thanks. - B.E. (BJ) Johnson

me I'd take my wife out to dinner and then seriously consider buying a MacBook Pro :) - Steven Hodson

I'm in for the $1,000 random drawing (because my $1750 answer would not be memorable - pay my bills). - Laura Norvig

Give half to charity, then spend the other half on upgrading my skills (educational resources) - Mo Kargas

What did I miss? - Rob Michael (Atmos Trio)

Do Canadians qualify? - Brian Sullivan

I just caught up with what the other money is for. If it was awarded to me I would use it to help a couple I know get started in Aikido. Their kids are in our kid's class, and they had been trying to find the finances to join for almost a year and had just figured out how to start and then the husband got laid off... They're having a hard time making ends meet and I know that they would... more... - Lindsay

What a cool contest, Robert. I can't wait to see how it turns out. - Glen Mistletoe

I'll donate the entire $1,750 to Phoenix Children's Hospital if I win. Same goes for the $1,000 if I win that one. - Aviv

paypal address to follow ...... :) Good luck with the new gig Robert - Charlie Anzman

With $1750 I would help that YouTube girl scout girl, Wild Freeborn, reach her goal of selling 12,000 boxes to send her whole scout troop to camp. Got to give the girl some credit for thinking outside of the box. - Tyler Brownfield

_/\_ Namaste (greetings) from India. This is simply awesome Robert. Would be great to win a cool 1000 USD. That's a lot of money in India. ;-) - Shinil Payamal

Here's my comment. I would use the money to fight against DRM - Marcos Marado from fftogo

My mother has been an avid Obama supporter doing a great deal of volunteer work before & after the election. She recently lost her job & wants to start something new. She will need an audience. Robert, I'd love to use your money to hire YOU to coach her on how to do that most effectively. - Rob Michael (Atmos Trio)

Money..! Will use the money to travel to India this summer, visiting, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki..., http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... with my family :) - Karthick R

maybe because I'm the first Italian to write about it :) http://www.fluxes.it/flussi-... - Andrea Contino

Haha a single thread from Robert turned us all (briefly I hope) into marketers :) - Mo Kargas

What the heck I'll throw in a comment...I would use the money to fix up the bathroom at my parent's house. - Amber, Random Time Lord

This comment is random. - Dave Roth

Great idea Robert! If I won I would take your portrait for free :-) - Bill Pennington from twhirl

Cheese and rice! This comment thread is giving FriendFeed Notifier a run for it's money. It's an interesting character study on what people will do with free money. Me? I'd pay the IRS & give to my favorite charities. - Anthony K. Valley ©

If this comment gets chosen at random, I hereby refuse the money (always test the exception conditions of any algorithm). If I win one of the other chunks, I commit to donate the money to @eff (EFF - Electronic Frontier Foundation - the leading civil liberties group defending your rights in the digital world). - LogEx

I thought I already commented on this? - Herne

And the other way to win? - Alex Scoble

I would find 17 worthy people under the age of 16, who are helping their community through volunteerism or have started businesses and give them $100 each to help them reach their goals. IMO, helping young people is the most noble thing those of us above the age of 40 can do. And I'd spend $50 on take-out dinner with my wife. - Scott Duffy

You win if you're last on the thread, Alex ;) - Josh Haley

here and ready to spend the money for new ipod touch :) - Nahnu

why? - Anthony Farrior

$1000 with which competitors can enter the bet would be google! - Harun R. Demirbaş

Hi Robert. I can haz $1,000 plz? kthxbye. - Joey Gibson

DONT PICK ME!!! </ reverse psychology> - Alfredo

If I win the prize money will go on my school fees and the rest will help me to buy a netbook with a full-size Scoble sticker :D you crazy! - İbrahim Uzun [ j ]

ROFL, Chris. - Alex Scoble

Money would help so much you have no idea. :) - courto

I'll use the money to send 2 teachers in my school district (Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools) to a technology conference somewhere to learn about Web 2.0 technologies. - Tim Cooper

If I win I'll use the money to buy a copy of Autodesk Maya 2009 Complete. Then build cool things. Thanks for the chance Robert. - Andrew Smith

pick.me - Bob Stewart

bring it on - jkkmobile

Hi, and who are you? Thanks Robert. - Daniel Buckley

Sounds good, here is one comment. - Grant Bierman

I would channel the money to ongoing biomedical research in the lab I work in (UCSF). - Pedro Beltrao

*wave* - Jan Schwenzien

How will I use the money? With pleasure, thank you Robert. - Tomi Itkonen

I will use the money to start my non profit and purchase educational/tech material for my son's school. Warm thanks Robert. - Yanik Falardeau

And as for what I would do, I'd build a new desktop pc (and switching my current one over to act as my media/web pc), buy a true dSLR and donate some to charity. And if there is any left over, pay back some minor 'loans', which I guess I really should do first... - Grant Bierman

Hi! İ m not speak english so not comment writing :D(ingilizce bu kadarmı berbat olur ya:II) Thx You Robert. - Mehmet Alp

Hey Robert, If I were to win the money would go to a project myself and a few other early stage entrepreneurs are starting to help get people who have lost their jobs back to work in the startup community. I know it wouldn't go very far but it'd get it kicked off. Otherwise just give us some help (which would be better anyway) and give the money to the guys who have to pay school fees or rent or buy food for their families. Their need is greater. anton@udoogoo.com if anyones interested in helping - Anton Mannering

Great.I'm in. - OnuRC

this post is going to get a hell of a lot of comments. - Thomas Hawk

Random is random, Chris. :) Thanks for the thought though. - Alex Scoble

Just another random comment. :) - Zian Choy

Why am I giving away the money? Because last week we did a job for Cisco where they paid us to do some videos. I am giving away my cut because what Cisco is doing is important to pay attention to without you worrying about whether I am paid off to say so. Also, I'm very fortunate to be in the position where I can do it. I thought about paying Jason Calacanis to buy some of his tweets, but thought that money could help someone out of work more. - Robert Scoble

liked - Yusuf Esenkal

I think you should give it all to Jason ;o) - Ken Morley

I would use one of the $1,750 prizes this way. I'm currently photographing people that ask me for money. I give them $2 for their portrait. Instead of the two dollars. I will use the the money to add $50 to each $2 (total = $52) to the next 35 people that I photograph as part of this project. After I photograph them for the $2 I will give them the extra $50 and tell them that it is from Robert Scoble and will document each person's story, photo and reaction in a blog post. - Thomas Hawk

i'd like to thank my mother, my father and all the people who helped me win this :p - Sofia Bustamante

interesting !! - Murat Can Demir

Hat off! - Alemsah Ozturk

Sounds good to me. - Herb Hernandez

I changed my mind. Give it to Thomas! ;o) - Ken Morley

Hmm I like Thomas' innovative idea - Mo Kargas

I couldn't tell you what I would do with $1750, but I do know I would give some away to good causes like my underfunded state school or the public school drama and music programs, and I would probably keep a little to save or update my home technology. - Steve Lowe

This is my first comment : Gods of Randomness, choose me ! - Alemsah Ozturk

how many others have signed up for Friendfeed to try and win $1000? Scoble, you should be a Friendfeed spokesman... :) - chelle

Best of luck with the new gig! Have fun at SXSW! - Trevor Little

I wonder how many new FF accounts this thread has been responsible for? Many first-time posters here. - Ken Morley

This is my second comment: I will gonna put your $1.750 to eBay tagged as “Robert Scoble's first FriendFeed Competition money“ and I'm gonna wait & see what happens :) - Alemsah Ozturk

Sounds fair to me. I'm in. - Henry Burger

Random rules - ted perlmutter

why not publish this on an indian and a turkish newspaper? this will def drive this post to records easily... and i am sure, i'll get the macbook pro this week with scoble's sponsorship... maybe i'll brand-name its alu-case with a thanksgiving note to scoble and his sponsor... time to start coding on textmate... - Progresif Cem Gencer

My niece in Mexico is on a partial sports scholarship at the university she attends. She's been supported by her mother who worked at a liquor store to help pay my niece's way. My niece's mom recently lost her job and fears she cannot financially support her daughter's education. $1,750 would pay for six months of university studies. If I were to win, that's where it would go. Good luck everyone. - Andrew

Thanks for the opportunity Robert. Good luck on your new gig! - andy

What would I do with the money? Well I'd put some towards my debt and paying my Mum's house bills. But I think my family could do with a nice break or trip away somewhere - my Mum hasn't really gone out since the death of my Dad last January! Time away from the house would do her the World of good right now. - Kol Tregaskes

Really? - Vinay | विनय

Hi Robert; good luck at Rackspace! My $1,750 would go toward my Rackspace bill of course (well, that would cover it for a few months)! - Binyamin Bauman

My second comment (for the 1K). This would go to the same niece...it's 3 more months of school. - Andrew

i dont want it... { reverse psychology } - Cem Öztürk

laykk! - Taylan GERDAN (Tylolhot)

My wife has put up with a lot of sacrifice as I've worked on http://ourdoings.com/ and money's been tight so I haven't been able to make up for what she's done. I'd use the money to take her somewhere special, and of course I'd share a picture/map of where we went here on FriendFeed. - Bruce Lewis

Oh for peats sake, it should at least be easier than winning the lotto. I'm in. - Eric @ CSTechcast.com

I'll comment and be random...it's a good day to be giving away $$$ :) I would use any money won here to help my friends who are in such horrible need right now. (the story is on the blog and all over my FF stream). I may be unemployed, but I have a roof over my head, food on the table and can make some $$ freelancing. My friends are hanging on by less than a thread, already stretched way too far. - Karoli

Hey man, I love money. Also, I have no job. Also, I will say some incitement here: LEO LAPORTE IS AN ALIEN - Mike Nayyar

Make me your AIG! On the cheap no less. - Tracy Viselli

Well here goes nothin'. thxbye - April Miller

I'm pretty random... I'm in. - Jamie Grove

I wish I could be at SXSW. - Christopher Knopick

i'm feelin lucky :-) - Cardeen Martinez

Interesting promo Scoble. Comment and win money. Cool - Sam R

so this is how you comment on friend feed.... - Noel Gomez

looks like i have a 1/300 chance of winning (right now). i'm predicting this number will diminish to 1/950. - Kevin Pruett

just to be safe.. - Cardeen Martinez

Count me in! - Aaron Draczynski

good luck :) - Ömer

I'll throw my name in the hat. - Chris Owens

Since my wife (school teacher) got laid off from her district on Friday, I'd use the $1,750 for tuition to help her get a Special Education certification, since districts are still hiring Special Ed. teachers. In turn, her continuing work will help pay for my son's tuition when he starts college in the Fall. My son wants to eventually become a lawyer so that he can influence policies that would ensure that people get a good education. - Glen Mistletoe

Sounds like a plan. Let's see if FF has scalability issues with their comments. - Michel Goldstein

Yea! I need some money! :) - emdot

Why, not... Thanks Scoble! - Jim Porett

Welcome to the ScobleCashMachine. Enter your comment. - Olivier FAURAX

Put my name in a small hat and draw from it. - Ken Worley

I'm in. - aykut

If I win then I'll donate 0% of my proceeds to charity. Even more than that, I'll DOUBLE it. - Cody Robertson

Trust me I am still looking for the details.... Can't find them! - Ricky

Who wouldn't want to win? - Tom Silk

This is my first year of trying to "make it" on my own, with a camera and no "real" job. Just trying to scrape by ... to be perfectly honest I'll use the money to help pay off some debt that I have acquired since I started, which has definitely been causing me headaches and frustration. My husband has been a gem, paying the majority of the bills since I make very little, and I want to be closer to breaking even with my debt so I can start to help him out. :) - Nicole Young

Scooby dooby doo! - Haggis (Sean Loyless)

new sponsor ? paypal ? - Gökmen Karasu

Hope the hat is a big one, this thread is getting pretty full. :-) How the money would be spent? Pay off some student loan debt and put a chunk in our 5 year olds savings account...he (as well as his entire generation) is going to need it by the time he's an adult. - cmiper

robert başkan parayı buraya getir. - bahadır canberk

Wow! I've outgrown my entry camera and this price is just what I need to be able to fulfill my dream; a Nikon D300! Please make my dream come true, Robert! - Graphfruit

Hit me, Fortuna. Papa needs a new MacBook. - Will Parker

robert are you a photographer - Dixon Hamby - Dixon Hamby

Geez, it's 2:10 am here in Berlin and you start just another interesting stunt. I will take the 1.750 US and pay a programmer to finish our "Virtual intelligent chatbot" project which offers affordable AI Avatars with personality for all kinds of virtual worlds like Second Life, Gaia, the web, Opensim etc. They'll be our 24/7 virtual workforce and a way to create immortal interactive portraits - Gaby K. Slezák

I like this idea. I'm talking with some friends this evening about how they'd each allocate $1750 if they were given this much money today to do anything with--most would share with friends and acquaintances that are going through tough tmes. One would help a friend who just closed down his company and is in need of dental work. Another would help co-workers whose hours have been cut... more... - Loren Heiny

I own Cisco stock. love that Co. - Christopher Mann

Count me in - Peter Szaro

a subject very interesting, congratulations in advance:) - Serkan Cura (XiLoNeN)

An interesting way to find out what the limits (if any) of FriendFeed comments are. Also: show me the money. - Richard Akerman

Damn Robert Scoble: I meant "overly engaged" this thread is off the charts! - bcultral

I'll get me some of that - Phil Coyne

It's very interesting to see how many new people your offer has attracted to friendfeed. - Anne Bouey

Great idea! Count me in. - Mike

A comment for the $$$ - Jess Gibson

this sounds fun. - Wesley Robin Guerrero

I'd like to win :) - Sam Houston

i will love you forever. and evah evah. money would be spent on a nice camera (i'm studying photography) and supplies. working with a 5 year old p&s is getting tiring. :) - shannon

How can anyone NOT click 'like' or comment? I definitely 'pLike' (the p is silent - btw) this thread. :-D - Sean Hanna

a stunt? sure, but I could use an extra $1k. count me in, scoble - Seth Long

If I win the $1750 it will be applied to my son's tuition as he starts college this fall. - Jess Gibson

Sure, why not! - Jasmin Patry

Is this stimulus money??? If so I'll use it to build infrastructure. There's a giant pot hole in our alley. I'll buy bags of cement and repair it myself. The neighbors will love me. - Greg

Who am I and what am I doing here? - Kris

I'm on it like white on rice. - Jay Lara

Wow, I'll take some money - I need hard drives for my Drobo. Seriously, I need to start up an emergency savings account. - Bryan Villarin

A chance to get paid to comment? Love it! - Ginger Kenney

First, here is the comment. Second, I would use $1,750 to travel back home to Russia where I have not been in five years with my toddler son so my grandmother who is very ill in her old age could see her only great grandson (who's 19 months old) before she goes, and so I could take a one dream portrait of them together. She's been a big influence in my life, and this would be the way to make the portrait and their meeting possible. - Ivan Makarov

Could really use some money to help plant some seeds for the future - Leonard Nelson

I'll buy an Iphone and with the rest put in my IRA to reduce my tax bill. Hey, helping economy and investing in business. Not bad. - Stephen Pickering

i would spend for my interrail trip.. - Yasin Müderrisoğlu

This is my lucky day, an email today said I won the UK lottery. - Bob Gannon

I'm going to buy half a Canon 5D Mark II. Or pay my bills. - Andrew Trinh

If i win, i triple win , because i live in a third world country (Argentina) and for every dolar y get $3,60 on our local currency, which is a good ammount of money here, for example, i could eat for 1 year or more :D - Ignacio Guerra

Ok. I would donate my winnings to the Bernie Madoff Defense Fund!@#$%^ - bcultral

I have dreadful luck when it comes to these kinds of things but I could really use this money. I have no car & desperately need to buy one. - Mattie Kenny from fftogo

Cool. And speaking of cool, PlanetHeidi.com is very cool. - dunsany

between building a new house, a new baby and a new job, I am sure I can put it to go use, btw congrats Robert on your new venture, I shall be keeping an eye on it. - Shane Wolsey

Cobble Sorter (anagram of Robert Scoble) = my random comment for the first part of the draw. - Daniel Rowley

Wow, there's like a lot of comments here! Great idea for publicity, Robert. Carry on... - Kevin Trotman

Watching Robert on Ustream right now. - John Rubier

$1000 USD goes a long way in Canada :) - Ryan

Thanks for sharing the wealth in more than one way - Matt Penning

I could have an actual vacation and pay down some more debt. - Todd Tripp

$1000 is mine! please? thanks Robert - planetMitch

1. my comment for 1k, 2. $1750 would be split into 3 gifts of $250 a piece to encourage the best new open source projects, and the other 1000 I would invest and reinvest in http://kiva.org , selecting entrepreneurs in third world countries to invest several microloans in. Its' a gift that, over time, can be reinvested over and over to benefit many! - David Silvernail

Take my hardworking wife on an overdue vacation - she supports me thru the IT bubbles. Thx hun! - mal

Probably will give it back to you, winning could be cool enough - Burcu Sarar

LOOKING for work but hand out will help - Ron

I'm in as well. - OyaD

C'mon Robert money or not now ya still benefit more with the insane publicity - Mrsth

well, we are curiously waiting the result, and also i'm in.. - Mücahit Yılmaz

Smart one - Heni Hazbay

Word Of Money. I am in:) - Yunus Arslanoğlu

I'll take it if your giving....it will go towards the camera fund! - Noelle Bell

I would use it to promote my tiny little super niche social news site http://HeavyAsHell.com The campaign would involve helping bands go DIY and avoid evil record companies. - MarkCarras

What kind of sick social experiment is this? :) - Oren Shomron

I'm in - Josue Fontanez

mmmmm, austin. i miss Trudy's, El Mercado, Magnolia, Wanfu, Kerbey, Chuys, Fonda San Miguel, Dog & Duck, Thundercloud, Waterloo, Amy's, Little City, Hut's, Green Mesquite. aw heck and Taco Cabana and Whataburger too! if i win, i'll spend it all on restaurants in Austin! - poxaV

pick me - Ryan

OK Robert, add me to the pool.... - Gregg

You can't win unless you play! Ok, I better start praying now.... :-P - Brian

My father-in-law is laid off and his unemployment eligibility runs out in about 4 weeks. No place around here is hiring, and $1,750 would be the equivalent of extending his unemployment benefits another 5 weeks. Thanks for the chance, Robert. - Civisi

:) - Orhan Yediyıldız

Hello, giving away your money randomly? I can comment for that. Best of luck to all! - Ronald Paul Corbin

Will you next tell us its limited only to Americans? I hate contests on the Internet, or anything on the Internet, that says "limited to the USA". The Internet is borderless... so should its contests and prizes - Colin Charles from twhirl

Thanks. I would use the $1750 to help my grandparents. My grandfather is 73 and my grandmother is 72. They just lost their 15 year home to foreclosure and are pretty much starting over with not a whole lot of time left. They are both on fixed income of SS and are now renting a house and trying to survive with the help of friends and family. When he as younger and had more money he was always the first one there to offer money to friends or family to help, even if it meant he went without something. - Jonathan Gotcher

Robert please consider partnering with (Facebook) Seattle's Seeds of Compassion 2.0: The Compassionate Action Network (Twitter: @SeedsCAN) -- this organization is building a supra global network of "Compassionate Action Networks" (a bunch of ex McCaw, Softies and CISCO) -- currently in the throws of leveraging Social Media and Seattle's creative communities (music, tech, film). Last... more... - dakini_3

I wanna buy a jet ski, that's my MONEY! - sofarsoShawn

Random commenting! I hope FF doesn't fail whale! - Zulema ◕ ◡ ◕ from BuddyFeed

If I won, the money would go into putting insulation in my daughter's room & closet. Any leftovers would help buy a gas stove & fridge. :D - Zulema ◕ ◡ ◕

My, there has been some very good comments about what people would do... And some very needy people out there. - Grant Bierman

Like most, it would be an unemplyment extension for me. As mine ran out, no jobs in the area, and times are tough. But hey, BUCK UP not DOWN! the only obstacles that exist are in your mind. - Ronald Paul Corbin

Crazy! Hope you are enjoying SXSW! I'm in Austin but can't attend it. - Head Ov Metal

I'll put some of the $$$ into donorschoose.org for some local classroom requests and the rest to fix up my car. - Pete Delucchi

comment left here - Brad Nickel

Count me in. - Keith - @tsudo

This is a cool idea. - Bluesun 2600

I would take the $1750 and go and get myself a root canal, so I could finally get out of pain. And if there was any left, I'd donate it at www.kiva.org - Bec Rowe @d0tski

Will comment for money, any time. - Dinah

Alright, I'm a sucker for free money so here goes... $1750 would be enough for me to buy an oven, sod my yard, and still be able to donate half to a charity. - FFing Enigma (aka Tina)

I wouldn't say "no" to $$ - Ted Louie

I could use $2,000 just to pay off my credit card. That's about it -

A $1000 would be geektacular. $1750 would buy my way into the cult of Mac. - Melinda

Monkey? - Penguin It's Cold Outside

Wow! Count me in! Sure could use that money to attend JavaOne this June. - Rom Feria

$1750: Others need the money more than me, I'm sure of that. But ... that said I'd give $500 to a local library or literacy charity. $500 toward my home down payment fund. $150 to a kidney charity (my daughter only has one kidney). $100 for flowers for the wife. $100 for a bike for my daughter. $200 for a brake job. $200 to send at-risk kids to a Giants game. - AJ Kohn

I would pay off our one remaining credit card and put some portion toward a down payment on a new car. In fact, I'd probably give a slice to the EFF as well. I haven't given to them regularly since my last layoff. - ha3rvey (needs soup)

why would you do that? It's a sort of social experiment? - Niki Costantini

Will invest the money in my new unique microblogging startup :) - X-Man

I wonder how many comments in this thread are their first on FF. Well I'm in. If I won money, some will go into savings and some will go to my favorite charities: Autism Speaks and Atlanta Boxer Rescue. - Carmen

yay first comment ever, though I suppose I should be commenting more - Wang Yip

Wow, a lot of people commented just while I was writing my own! For me, half the money would be for savings and health insurance while I'm still trying to get a job (recently graduated). The other half would be for the non-profit arts organization my friends and I just founded in our hometown, which has no supportive creative outlets for its youth. The money would help produce the tri-high school theatre competition we are currently planning and hope to put on soon. Great offer, Robert. - Kelly

One comment, coming up. - Michael R. Bernstein

Comment comment comment! - Andy DeSoto

my comment - Mathew Spolin

For $1750 I'll either blow it on more photo or computer equipment. Or sock it away in my kid's college fund since it'll probably cost more than half the organs in my body to pay for by the time he's of age. It's a tough choice. - ronin

I'm all for free money Robert! - Michael A. Baydoun

Who wouldn't comment for a chance ... lol ;) - Brandon

If I win the money I'm going to establish world peace & have tons of sexy bitches serving me grapes. - sofarsoShawn

I would finally upgrade components in my PC and pay off some of our upcoming wedding debt! - Shmoe

$1000 would be nice, but with $1750 I could do even more. Either way I would Pay It Forward http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... - R. Oglow

I'd put it on black - John Kitchen

A percentage would undoubtedly go toward the health care fund, unfortunately. I'd allocate some for art and film supplies and give away the remainder. I've seen several comments here mentioning worthy projects and needs that are certainly deserving of attention and support. Thanks for sharing, Robert! - Chris Weige

Circuit City lay off would use on BILLS, BILLS, and oh yeah BILLS - Ron

I want to win your money!!!! - Andrew

Wow. This is kinda cool. If I were to win anything at all from this, I would ask that the money be instead given to fellow FF'er Anika Malone because it breaks my heart that her and her family are having to go without hot water, a dryer, their stove...due to their gas being turned off. Hard times have struck too many good people right now. :( - tinypants - Hagitha of FF

400+ comments...wow! Guess 1000 bucks is motivation. I'd put the cash toward my photography efforts or go the boring route and invest it for now. - Justin Korn

Why would you do that? Anyway, here's my comment. - Saner Apaydın

The pure capitalist social media business model: simply pay users to come. - Michael Krigsman

It's so easy a caveman can do it!! - Fireman17

I would use the money to pursue my passion of creating LOLcats & bring endless joy to all the world forever. - sofarsoShawn

I sit here naked as I type. By the way, they're real, and they're SPECTACULAR! - Abbie Kendall

If I won, I would ... go to Disneyland! - Jerry Chacon

lol, great Seinfeld reference!! - Michael A. Baydoun

If I won the non-random cash prize, I'd use it for expenses while I was off work, recovering from my (upcoming) third brain surgery. - Abbie Kendall

I would love to use the money to stimulate the economy by purchasing a new hot water heater. Our current one is in need of being replaced. - Vaughn

Cool, this would help me stimulate the economy while I wait for my California state tax return. - Stephen Ip

Question: Is it one comment per way to win or one comment in general? I've made one comment above that says how I'd spend the money. Now I'll just be random: PURPLE MONKEY DISHWASHER - Bryce Roney

Okay, I'll play. I would return your money to you with a "let's do something better than this" remark. I would then ask you to actually read (reread?) the email I sent you about helping me get in contact with NPO's re: starting an OLPC-esque SMS-device project for said devices to be delivered in care packages around the world (via Red Cross, etcetera, etcetera) so that the poverty stricken and people in disasters could actually communicate with the world in real time. - trench

Good job ! - Alper

I am making this comment as the IT/Communications Director of FHL International, Inc.http://fhlinternational.org I want to feed babies of poor working and nonworking single mothers. I want to change the oil in their cars when they can't afford it or know how to. I want to feed their children good wholesome food. I want to give the refugees and the lost some hope for another day. If we spend it carefully and wisely we can make it stretch to cover a 3-4 outreaches and give you a write up. - Melanie Reed

random random random. macro lens, macro lens, macro lens. - Andrea Ewald

I would probably also tell you (via your infamous digits) why facebook sucks, why friendfeed pretty-much sucks, and why Twitter sucked but no longer sucks. And then I'd educate you on why we - yes, you and I (and Thomas?) - need to visit Turkey ( http://is.gd/7yQr ) and discuss these things further. Yes, k... logging back out now. Thanks. Make coat not war. - trench

@Robert as the IT/Communications Director, I would invite you to one of our events to cover it, put you on one of our videos and underscore the digital divide and what we can do about it. I would invite you to our UB cafe for the best pancakes in the world and have you look over our IT training provided by the IndyChristianGeeks in Indianapolis, Indiana and meet Dr. Thomas Ho, former... more... - Melanie Reed

Robert, I would also introduce you to my "boss", Merlin Gonzales, who started FHL International, Inc.: http://www.youtube.com/watch... - Melanie Reed

I'd use the money to pay off debt, and take some time this summer to work less and volunteer more. - Michael Kacer

What else would I do with some extra cash from Scoble? I'm thinking about making a difference via http://www.heifer.org/ and http://www.kiva.org - Anthony K. Valley ©

want the money for my project - Abubucker

hah!! most no of comments on FF so far I guess.... - Satya

Would love some money of course! I plan on using at least 3/4 of it to fund a new project I'm working on involving the iPhone and a web service. It would most likely go directly toward the cost of the project (registration fees, hosting fees, learning materials, etc.) - Brandon Titus

can you imagine if I actually won? - vijay

This is really cool. I love seeing all the people who would donate part or all. - Alix Whitmire

@qtbrowneyes - get in here :) We are making FF history. - vijay

wow, always new excitements here on ff, thx for fueling in! - esther ♥ ♫

That took a long time to scroll down here to make a comment. - David McDonald

Me FTW - Brian

Good luck with building 43—great name, great concept. - Dave

Great idea, Robert :) - Baard @ Pixum

Interesting experiment. Can't wait to see the final results. - Shamir Katsu

< insert winning comment here > =P - vijay

I'm spending my winnings on wine and women - Zik Daniel from twhirl

Great contest. I'll give it a go. - Michael Molinar from twhirl

Why, thank you kindly, Mr. Scoble. - Victoria Plautia

I'd use the money to get a new iPod Touch and maybe pay the rest to my medical bills. :P - Mol, Santa Claws

As far as how I would spend $1750: I'd love to say that I'm going to donate it all to a worthy cause like the EFF or the local mission, but I know I'll be selfish and just end up spending it in a blaze of glory at Fry's or during the next Woot-off. No point in trying to kid anyone here. - Michael Molinar from twhirl

Aargh too many comments to read them all - dK from Nambu

hi! :) - امیر؟

Half of that money would be enough for me! please send it to my Gmail account! :) amirapt.at.gmail.com I will be waiting :) - امیر؟

Cool way to gain money :) - Richard Holas

I can definately use some cash. :) - Shawn Whitmire

I am in! - Edwin Khodabakchian

I would spend all the money for entertainment :) - Sinem Co

$1,750 or $1,000? In any case it would be a good stimuli to open a startup in Belarus - Aliaksandr

Wow, popular contest! I would use part of it to buy the Rosetta Stone package to help me learn French. I'm taking time off between my undergrad and graduate degree, and I figure learning a foreign language would be a great use of my time. I would use the rest to help pay rent when I get my own place, I'm going to be a Congressional Staffer in D.C. and the living is expensive while the pay sucks! Thanks Robert. - Keenan

If i get the $1,750, i'd give the money as $100x10 and $50x15 AdWords Coupons to the people who searched for the website/blog on pageboss.com for promote their projects like sponsored by Scobleizer.. And if Scob gives me $1,000, i'd spend all of them with my sweetheart Sinem :D - N.Onur ATAHAN

I would use the money to buy a laptop for my wife, a Kindle for myself and one year worth of school for two children that we know and support in Nepal :) - Sam Grover

i need money :-) - Dan

:) If i am lucky enough, i'll pick a random comment on this thread to give this money + 1$. Just to see how loop can be created. - Guy Vander Heyden

One more random comment - sam b-r

I'm in too :) - Eray Korkmaz

1 Timothy 6:10: "For the love of money is the root of all evil." If that's the case Scoble bring on the EVIL! WHOOOOOO YEAAAAAHHAHH EVIL!!! - sofarsoShawn

Beautiful, beautiful link bait. ;) - Chris Nixon from BuddyFeed

Most commented post :) - Roman Zolotarev

Wooow this post will be the most popular post of all times :-) I'm in! - Ahmet Alp Balkan

$1750 would get me a DSLR and new macbook - Duc Nguyen

Wow, great idea to make new friends ;) (but a bit expensive?) - Pascal Hertleif

This is totally insane. I'd probably buy my mom the Palm Pre and 10% will go to charity (like always). - Nir Ben Yona

In a rich man's world! http://www.youtube.com/watch... ain't it sad! - sofarsoShawn

FriendFeed is affected! :-) - Oguzcan Sahin

I need a netbook for my projects :) - Hasan ÖKTEN

$1750: gonna buy my lover. don't you believe me? her name is gabrielle, check her out: http://www.realdoll.com/cgi-bin... - Okan Vardarova

That's a big hat you need... - Orli Yakuel

Yay! - Rich

I will by my wife a flight home so she can go and see her parents who she misses lots. Which means i'll have sole access to my (our) laptop instead of having to share it. I could just use the money to buy a new laptop but then i wouldn't get teh good sofa and control of the remote as well! - Jamie Vidamour

meow! - zenya isaychew

Let's see if I'm still the unlucky guy I used to be - Boubacar Balde from twhirl

I could be homeless soon, lost my job due to the economy, and getting unemployment that just doesnt cut it, I could really use the money to pay my rent, bills and feed my kitties, contact me via email Kyle.M.Weller+scoble@gmail.com or you could just hire me and I'll help you in any way possible, check my blogs, I could be useful. And I would return the favor 10 fold if I can, matter fact I'll search for 2 other people to help and blog about it/take photo's - Kyle Weller

I would keep half of $1750 and give the other half to the author of the comment I liked most, but only if he/she promises to do exactly the same. - stark

.I need a new Laptop - Selçuk Hoca

I`ll use 1000$ of the 1750$ to buy a lot of comments on FriendFeed :) - Vlad

I thought these kind of things happened only countries like mine which the goverment tries to build a begging culture just to keep the hope alive and dependent to the authority at the same time. Each reply begging for money is adding another brick on the wall of shame. And Bob, couldn't you find another way to publicize this? - M. Serdar Kuzuloglu

If I win I will invest it back for advertising! Just say my name 3 times on twitter like "Candyman". - Los Angeles Dj

So what would I do with the money? Half of it would go to the good cause. I want to create value for people and who other than the less fortunate, handicapped and so on deserve this? Right. The other would go to a business I'm building. One for the people, on that will change our lives fundamentally and is here to stay. - Kris

If I dont win this, i'll be happy to donate my time blogging or helping someone in any way right now, im jobless in Phoenix Arizona, I could do yard work or hook up pc's/fix pc's or help you with your website if I can - Kyle Weller

I'd invest half of it in Google Stocks, then the rest I would pay my rent, get kittie food, and try and advertise www.phoenixstickers.com with adsense so my girlfriend makes some money with it, its new and not very popular right now ;\ - Kyle Weller

Here is my comment : the best way to talk about something is to let people talk about, and 4500$ is a pretty advertising investment. but it is really interesting :) now the question is ; is there any way to gauge the effectiveness of word of mouth? good luck. - abdellah

Mmm....are u crazy Rob? :) Ok! I wanna a netbook give to me only 300$ ;) - Dario Salvelli

i'm in!! - scusanonsento

I'd give the money to Comic Relief (http://www.rednoseday.com/) to buy 250 mosquito nets for Africa. Two hundred and fifty saved lives? Bargain. - Robin Stacey

you are so generous robin you deserve to win :) - abdellah

why? - catepol

I don't need this money :) Because I'm still working. But you can donate to a charity organization if I win. - Süleyman Sönmez

I will spend the money attending game design workshops in when in San Francisco, to improve my theory about the use of game design techniques in social web applications (playfuldesign.org). - Kurai (ff)

@abdellah Hehe. Anything that stops someone from dying of Malaria is all right by me. Besides, it's simple economics. With $1750, no matter how I invest it, I can't do more that what 250 people could do with the rest of their lives. - Robin Stacey

you are right, so let resume (generous, logic, awesome, and with a sens of humor), let ask the question differently Robin : who has no reason to win the money win the money ;) (it seams that all have at least one reason) human are really amazing creature. (ps: me too) - abdellah

I agree, I'd buy a jet ski and have so much kick ass fun! - sofarsoShawn

i'm in is too easy :) - Valentin Sandu

se vinco devolvo tutto a Mantellini - Luca Sofri

Trying to overload the comment stream? - Örjan Lundberg

I am here~~~LOL - K.D.

l'uomo a cui appiopparono la santità - azael ماسيمو

I'll create a new world :] - Ahmet Kakıcı

yes please and I'll give half to my love oh and a bit to greenpeace - Julian Edward

if I win I will give $1 to everyone - Giulio Ardoino

great idea, Robert! hope i'll win it.. i'll pay for my flight ticket, so i can finaly see you:) - Martin

Dear Robert, sağa sola para saçmak yerine gidip bi türkçe kursuna kaydolsanda türkçe öğrensen olmazmı? Hem bu yorumu anlardın bak ne güzel. Paran çoksa işe yarar bişeyler yap canım. - Ahmet Karaca

Robert! :) - Anıl Eren from fftogo

If I win, I will use them to finance my trip to L.A. next August. - Fabio Cristi

I'm in. - Tiziano Caviglia

Count me in. - Alexander Arsky

of course, I'm in. - Lorenzo

I'm in :). - Demircan Celebi

I'm in :) - Rıza Selçuk Saydam

Ecchime. :) - Maxime

I'll take "I'm a Nigerian Prince" for $1000, Alex, err, Robert.! - Kevin Leroux

I have some debts.... and I have 11 sons... 34 grandchildren... 22 dogs... 16 cats... and I am a liar... a neeedy liar :-(((((((:-D).... GIVE ME CASHSHSHSHSHSSH... Ah... Goodmorning Mr Scoble - Daniel

I'd invest the money to my wife's startup that she starts next month. She'll be working around social media, blogs, photography etc. :) - Jemm

if i win i will spend it for go usa this summer. absolutely i'll visit you also :) - haluk

send all the money to germany :D - Carsten

whee! I'd use it to open my deli :) I see free lunches in your future *laughing* hell, I'd even dedicate a booth to you.. with a cool plaque and everything! - russa

This is going to be the longest thread ever - Manuela

I hope the money goes to someone that really needs it - Kyle Weller

Love to know your motivation for doing this Robert. Social experiment? See what people will do for money? You have a financial backing in Friendfeed & are aiming to stimulate usage? Either way, if I win, please donate the money to your favourite charity - Lindsay Davies

if I win I'll make a gift to my girlfriend - Ciccsoft

yo free money? I'm in! - danslarue

I would give it to a friend who is unemployed; buy a new computer, smart shirt and tie, give him his dignity & confidence back. It saddens me to see so many friends hurting right now. - Sally Church

I'll use the money by not using it (well, except for that 4pt escape clause written down below in the yet-to-be written contract between me and Mr. Scoble about the prize) - Daniele V.

oh, WOW! - Viditu

This is the FriendFeed equivalent to leftover pizza in the breakroom. I could certainly use some $ right now. - Phillip

I'd prefer *earning* that money rather than just typing in something non-sense to anyone besides me... (please exclude my comment from the lottery) - Kaan Ertürk

if I win I'll make a gift to Lehman Brothers - azael ماسيمو

I'd rather type in nonsense, can I have Kaan's spot? - sofarsoShawn

awesome robert!! are you part of pres obama's stimulus package? LOL! hope i win the random $1000 contest =) - Melissa Solito

I'll stay tuned :P - Tiziano Tassi

In regards to the first prize, I'm in. - Armin Talic

crazy guy you are! "You're only given a little spark of madness. You mustn't lose it." (Robin Williams) - Johannan Edelman

@sofarsoshawn: LOL! (Opps another spot now.. who wants it? Maybe I can start another thread to give away my spots) - Kaan Ertürk

I'm in too ;) - saicharan123c

So. this is my comment: I would use the money to buy a ticket to fly over to meet you and discuss if I could support you as some kind of correspondent over here in Europe (I'm in Germany). - Till

In regards to the second prize, I'd like to use the money to buy my brother and sister their first macs. I grew up on encyclopedia britannica CDs on Windows 95, they deserve Wikipedia on a Mac. - Armin Talic

@danslarue, "free money" these two word combined are more powerful then a TNT, if you can conceive or even think a second about a concept of "free money" then implicitly agree with the concept of "free work" and beside voluntary work they call it salvation . - abdellah

I would use the $1750 in part to purchase some equipment for the part time photography business (about $500). The rest would go to 2 friends who are hurting right now with Flagler County, FL's unemployment rate at just over 14%. - Jay Caruso

strange that no one, think to reverse the money to the 43 startup!! boys oh boys buy some action some part of this 43 startup may be it will be worth million :) - abdellah

At first i thought i'd start a similar thread and give the money i win :-) but, here's the truth... I'd use the money to pay the next month of dev, working with a partner on our hope to be successful web service. I'm jobless 9 months now, 3 months since we started pushing the idea forward, all done @ home. Will use the most to pay my bills, with the rest i'll buy dinner for some of the homeless people i usually ignore. - Majento

i need a new macbook)) - pets

advertorial? - elifile

really? - Moses

gonna go to hollywood - Ozkan Altuner

With this money, I am plannig to start a new company that develops social media applications. So if I win, I can give a job to you :)) - Aydın Kayacık

the entire amount of money will be used to help the local communities in eastern congo and sustain conservation of the virunga national park in congo. if you prefere, you can do it right away without giving me the money, visit www.gorilla.cd/blog for a one-time donation / all donation are tracked and transparent :) - giulio

Brilliant idea and very noble of you, Scoble! (Sorry...I should leave the humor to my husband, who does a much better job!) LOL! I would use all the money to buy as many Radio Flyer kids wagons and send them out free to those that win a contest similar to this one! (I get them wholesale because I am an authorized dealer, so that would stretch the budget a bit more). - Pat Graham Block

I'd spend the money for future trips: I have ever wanted to see the milky way from the earth or see the Northern lights. But maybe, I could put the money aside and spend it for a parabolic flight when I have enough money (that's another lifelong dream). I would also love to go on safari in Africa and see all the amazing animals in the savanna. But maybe I should rent a car and feel the American dream at Route 66? Ah Robert, your money lottery helped my thinking about all my dreams again. Thanks! :) - Timo Heuer

I would use part of the money to donate to some podcasters or webcomic artists who are selling things on their website, like T-shirts, mugs and stuff like that. And buy a couple of domain names. Things I already do when tax return time comes, only this time more. - Derek Coward

Each post you make will promote this thread more and more thus decreasing the expected value, with this rate a post made a few hours from now will probably have an expected value of a few cents. This will be a very nice data . - Tuna

I need a new woman, please Robert choose me! - Francesco Marconi

cool :) I would use $1750 to buy cabinet-type gas-control point for cottage - Igor

! - Jens Christian Freund

I would spend the money of webhosting running free-of-charge computing services for open drug development (using open source utilities), such as used in Open Notebook Science and sorts. - Egon Willighagen

what's up. - pastas9

I think we will use the money to develop a desktop application for facebook very simple, actually, but that still does not exist in optimal form. I thought with a friend, but, since we are both students, we need a bit of $ $ $ to get technical advice from someone for some parts that relate to writing code (I study Marketing, and my friend is the final year of a degree in computer engineering). - Tiziano Tassi

Okey I give in. Scoble, finally you made me signup for friendfeed - shafiu

i'm in. also if this a psyco socialexperiment... - FedericaB.

hahah interesting to see anyways .. how many comments on the one thread - Terry O'Fee

Alright. This is my first entry. Chances are that I won't win....but it is exciting waiting to see if you do. :-) - Thebluestbutterfly

1) I'll spend the money to end my fear for airplane: so I can travel again. 2) i will organize a free public movie show here in Milano, all people sits in the night to watch the screen in the spring air - FedericaB.

@FedericaBellag, interesting :) and what if it is just a plain and simple contest? it may be more "word of mouth advertising" tracking experiment then psyco social one. (love the smile face) - abdellah

Who wouldn't want to join FF for $1000? - Samuel Driessen

I will use the money for paying up my college fees and taking up a course related to VOIP. People like Craig and Vincent of Grandcentral (which I use for 3 years almost), pat Phelan and more VOIP experts keep pushing me to do something great in that area. Also, great its open to any1 iin the world. Most competitions are US ONLY, which is something I HATE BIG TIME. I m in India Mr.... more... - Hardeep Singh Dang

@samuel, no the question is are FF team ready to pay $1000 for any on who join!!! - abdellah

@abdellah ok, let's be tracked then! that's my face at the office ;-) - FedericaB.

I will save the money. I'm an italian student studying abroad (Master in Digital Library), and those money could just be useful. They could be also a way to go in Jerusalem, following my girlfriend. Anyway, goo viral Scoble ;-) - Aubrey McFato

I bet half of the money, the prize goes to the 1000th commenter. - funkyboy from Posty

notice : the headline is "win my money" not "take my money", so we have to make effort, it is not a "free money" it is a make effort and win, so remember it is not "take my money" :) - abdellah

im in :) - shaff

money, money, money - Cengiz Çatalkaya

Adopt me Robert! - Özer (Wrzl) Dölekoğlu

It's so hard to see whole of the comments. 620 including me now. :) - Meriç Dağlı

I would get an iron if I have been searching some water in the desert and I would be the ass part of the Voltran, when we have been arising it.... bacause I am so unfortunate - Lokman Köroğlu

.oO(i SHOULD be able to get D90...) - browneyes

you wanna DDoS FriendFeed :). I will use the money for a ff-contest when i pay people for the best comment. obviusly you can partecipate and win back your money. :P - enzo zadrima

nice ;) - nicolatbr

Let's add a comment to this. - bnoise

I'll donate some charities with 750$ of it. Buy a macbook with 999$ it, and set up a " First commenters win the buck. " contest via friendfeed. :) - Meriç Dağlı

It shouldn't be about the money? What kind of game is it? We still need to wait Is it somehow related to SXSW? - Aziz

Sure do wish I could be there at #sxsw - Gil Rodriguez

Hi, with that sum I would probably take a chance to stop and take time to smell the roses, at least for a while. - ziomau

nice way to see if there's a limit on the number of comments a ff post could get.. - Nicola Maggi

I could qualify for the $1,000, but not the $1,750 as I have two jobs. The only basis I could see is for a complete donation to an organization helping out of work people. We have a food pantry here in Beverly Mass called Bootstraps and a women's shelter in Gloucester, Mass called Wellspring that both would know just where that money could be best used. - Martha

Damn... money can do anything... - Eyal Shahar

I'll be practical when I win the money and invest it in the future....my childrens' education! - Kevin Dugan

@Eyal no, you can't win a contest even if you give money :) money don't do anything ;) - abdellah

@nicolas interesting question, and what do you think? does a thread have a comment limit or no? it all depend on the limitation, will this run eternally?no so there is a number of comment that people will post here it is a kind of buzz after the momentum there will be no comment let say there will be 50000 comment, FF are able to store such data. - abdellah

So being completely unbiased, with little if any interest, if I were Robert Scoble, handsome fella, I'd give the money to whoever stated first they would buy a jet ski due to the fact they are super fun! Oh, who knew, that's me! - sofarsoShawn

Great...I was juts talking over in TechCrunch that Robert does not need luck in his new venture "Building 43" and not it seems I am the one that needs luck to win the $1000 ....:) Thanks Robert Joao/TechFuga - TechFuga

a little is better than none. :) - Geyik Mühendisi

Well I started reading this thread, but I got a 1/4 way through & gave up, >650 comments, that's got to be some kind of record. What post does have the highest number of comments? - Glenn Slaven

Interesting... I guess there's nothing to lose by trying - Adi Sheleg

Ok, can't hurt to put one's name into the "hat"...p.s. good luck dude on the new gig... will be following closely... thinking cloud myself :) - Michael Lehman

Hmmmm. That is my comment - Darrell Bell

Commenting away in the Great Scoble Sweepstakes. - Warner Crocker

With $1750 I would spend half to get to next years SXSW which I am missing this year :-(. and the other half I would spend on sponsoring a deluxe drop in-childcare at the Austin Convention Center for the parent bloggers. - Emee Pumarega

I'm in too:) I would use the money for keeping an exhibition - Nia

Comment! This is the Robert Scoble Stimulus Package - Kreg Steppe

Spinning the wheel. FF FTW ;) - Daniel Krech

10% to charities of my choice, the rest to pay bills and allow me to keep working in the nonprofit sector. I'm at that level where I still need to do outside consulting to come out ahead at the end of each month, and $1600 would give me 4 months where I wouldn't need to get a consulting gig (yep, the budget is that tight) - Jeff Stern

The 4 minihawks would like to donate to their california school district to help offset the 1.5mm cutbacks. - Mrsth

I'm in too! - LJ Kyser

Of course MRSTH could use an overdue marathon weekend away with Mr. Hawk. - Mrsth

I can promise nice pics? - Mrsth

I'm in... - Halil Ahmet ÇAKIR

This thread will explode in 3, 2, 1... - Marta

I can upgrade to a macpro by winning :-P - Richard A.

wow this is the most comments/likes i've seen! - andy brudtkuhl

If I won either sum of money, I'd probably put it toward buying some camera gear, like a Nikon D90 and another lens. I have a couple family events that I'll be taking pictures at, and it'd be nice to have a D90 for them. :) I could go for a D700, but the D90 has video, so that's why I prefer it right now. - Cheryl Jones

@Jason H - Whether or not either of us wins Robert's money, I have a timeshare near Disney that I haven't had the opportunity to use in the past few years. If you can get yourself airfare, a rental car and park tickets, I'll be happy to let you use the week, no charge to you. The dates are October 24-31, 2009. - Sally: gift wrapper

if i win the $1000 or $1750 i would donate it to charity:water or some other water based charity. clean water is the catalyst to healthier and smarter communities - Damian Holmes

what r we copying Ben Stein now? - clarke thomas

Congratulations to you and Rocky on the new gig. - Aron Michalski

With $1750 I'd give money to the National Multiple Sclerosis Society, to help fund research for a cure and treatments so my mother and others with MS can have an improved quality of life. I'd also give money to the American Diabetes Association to help my father and others living with diabetes. I'd give some to @smallcanbebig to help needy families locally (Boston) and hope to have enough left over to take my son to visit his grandparents in FL. He's 6 mos. and they've only seen him once, at Christmas. - Sally: gift wrapper

Robert, I want your money. Do I have to work for it? - Aidha

I'm in. I wanne buy ı mac pro. - Rıza Selçuk Saydam

I'm in robert! - Junal Rahman

on that money is the side of the monte man. what's this it :) scoble iki dakka delikanlı ol lan paran fazlaysa git yardım kuruluşlarına, özürlüler, kimsesiz çocuklara ver mngoduum kapitalist pçleri. - Volkan Yılmaz ٩(●̮̮̃•̃)۶

hehe :P - Geyik Mühendisi

Yes please. The odds are way better here than playing the lotto - Christian Burns

I can't wait to see the effect of putting my name on this illustrious list of luminaries - David Gallagher

that's a smart way to get attention :) - PaperDoll

With USD1750 I could finally prove that friendfeed is not a complete waste of time... - Morten Josefsen

I would probably go for a D90 :-) - Nils Sandin

if you come to shanghai/China, we can have a dinner and go to bar :) - 赛林（土耳其）

I enter not because I need the money (I'd give it away too) but because me entering slightly reduces all of the rest of your chances to win. MUAHAHAHAHA - Nate True

My Scoble $1750 stimulus package spending plan: Give my son (the struggling Mac/iphone developer) $1,000 in "angel funding", get a Drobo ($500), and put $250 in my Grandson's (future Mac) savings account. - Al Degutis

Just for fun :) - Hassan

Pick me, pick me, pick me for the $1000 giveaway (if you don't pick me for the $1750 Scoble Stimulus). - Al Degutis

more people should do this. Many people or businesses could afford to give $1,000 - Lady Lovely Heart

i would donate some of it maybe half to a local worthy charity, the rest would go into a fund that would be used to encourage this type of activity. Conversation building, with the right questions a lot of solutions can be found by crowds - Tweet Feeds

My intent for the big prize would be to replace windows in my home with energy efficient ones. the ones in the house now are cracked from the house settling. they are the original 1959 windows, and they rattle every time a plane goes over the house. very distracting when we are trying to concentrate or stay warm - Lady Lovely Heart

I can haz money? - Bryan R. Adams

Big money. No whammies. STOP. | I would use the winnings towards upgrading my equipment (Mac Pro) since my current setup is pretty bad for video. I would sell my current MBP (2006 First Gen) and use the proceeds towards the new machine. I would pump out twice as much HD content with better equipment. Thanks for all you do Robert..I know whoever wins will make the best out of the cash. - Bwana ☠

Take my husband to the Grand Canyon for that honeymoon we never had--that's what I'd do with some extra cash. - joansjewels

I agree, nice way to get people engaged. - Gary Gifford Jr from Nambu

Show me the money! :) - Ale♫nastrorosa

actually, I don't want your money - Manuela

That's quite ingenious =) - Cry Zee Die Noh Mite

I'd buy a laptop so that I don't have to wait for the missus to get off the ruddy computer and let me have my go on it!!! - Andy

a nice way to test the limits of commenting feature on a bunch of real people just for US$1000. - 9000

I will use the money to buy $1 stocks in companies that will re-bound or will be more successful in the next 2-5 years due to the ongoing financial crisis. My choice will be guided by those companies that care, share and have flare for others...a community stimulus...hope others will join and build what the "financiers" could not. - Gordon Montgomery

It seems too easy, but.. here ya go! - Scott Breakall

You'll be my best crazy friend! *LOL* - Andrea Spedale

1. Cool 2. Travel for VC meetings so I can finally provide some solutions for RSS that we argued/discussed 2 years ago (delivery of premium content possibly over open channels) - Andy Beard

Random comment left. - domizianogalia

here I am :) - Fran

Yo Robert, did you give it away yet? Here's my chance to win! ;^) - Michael Bailey

@manuela, but personally I want more comment from you. - abdellah

awesome idea. by the way, how goes life without diet coke? - tracy

I'd use it to help an independent artist with their career. Rentals for video equip on shows and music videos with stories that would otherwise remain untold. - Frank Jonen

I'm in - Lucas Araujo from twhirl

I refuse to comment in this thread. - Akiva Moskovitz

How can I win? - Gloria Gordon

Woah! So is this part of the Scoble Stimulus plan? Anyways, if by some chance I did win the money I would use either towards moving out of my parents house later this year or put it towards my student loans. - Mathew™ one of a kind

@Akiva you also deserve to win., I insist please comment this thread please. - abdellah

If I lay my hands on this prize, I'll spent a night playing blackjack surrounded by hookers. I'd also buy a new Palm that Robert recommended lately and spend the remaining amount for ScienceDirect and Jstore subscriptions. - Alan Kodzasov

I'd use the money to go to Korea. - Mark Woodson

I would use the money to fix the economy. - Andy Bakun

Andy: you get it right, please fix that economy. - abdellah

Its enough to buy one toliet seat for the government :) - Roberto Bonini

Robert could fund nails and shingles for building a small seminar facility in the Adirondack State Park. - Jeff Archambeault

With $1750 I would buy a lot of toys for the baby we are waiting.... - roberto ferorelli

I count at least 6 references to "donate to kiva.org" so far. Pretty cool. That is what I was going to write, but looks like many other's beat me to it. But hell... If I got it, I would donate to Kiva.org. :) (make it 7 now). - Shannon Bauman

JET SKI! - sofarsoShawn

Sounds like a great idea. - Tyson Key

awesome idea. - Jessie

Give me $10,000 in unmarked bills or I tell Maryam your giving away $4800. - shelisrael1

joy and joyness! - Jenn Castro

Nothing special here, just want to pay some outstanding bills and get supplies for my 3mth old =) - Mat Finch

Quickly put in a reply while thinking about a smug way of spending 1.750... - Stefan Kolle

Yeah, I think I'll stick with the Kiva donation too. I'm pretty prolific there (a true believer), and have about that amount outstanding in loans, so the chance to double my Kiva loans in one go would be outstanding. - Stefan Kolle

is this gonna have like 1000+ comments? - Jorge Murillo

I'm bummed I couldn't get to SXSWi so I came to Robert's ATM machine instead. :) - Laura Zickus

in. - Richard Lawler

No comment :-P - Richard A.

Bump! - Tyson Key

I'd love to say I'd do something altruistic with the money, but I'd invest it all in my startup (we're doing cool things with information and emotions online). In this economy every little helps :-) - jennielees

Out - Roberto Bonini

Awesome. Looking forward to what's next. - Andy Sternberg from fftogo

Yay, the Scobleizer Grand Prize Giveaway- Still more chances than the National Lottery! - Tyson Key

FriendFeed Scales! - Tyson Key

with $1,750, I would I would set up 7 performance art / photoshoots uptown here in Charlotte in the center of Bank Town at lunch time, wordlessly demonstrating some of the problems (as I see them) with our current corporate culture. I have the first one of these ready to go but don't the cash to set up the others (yet). If I only got the free $1000, I would buy some more studio lighting equipment (much to the chagrin of my roomy). - Shannon J Hager

Why? Why? Why? - Ashish Rangole

in - Roozbeh

Bella idea! :) - Daniele Aprile

It just goes to show you can't be too careful! - Timothy Griffin

with $ 1.750 I would buy a laptop + microphone + router for my parish and start broadcasting with kids. - Astrid Virili

Hey Robert, I think this is the most commented entry on Friendfeed. btw I don't want your money :) Cheers - cihanergur

just testing my luck :) - Deniz (bluesign) Edincik

sure, I'll play. as for how I'd use the money, I'd probably use it to help offset the cost of my lasik surgery. - chrisofspades

I would use the money to fund my own open source development work (within the php symfony framework) as well as supplement my wife's pending maternity leave. Realtors don't get paid maternity leave... Thanks! - Jon Issler

Scoble rocks, count me in! - Chris Pugh

I would use the money to assist my parents in their move back home closer to the adult children. They are currently existing on 18k a year, their Medicare and Secondary insurance cost them 10k. It would help buy their medications. - Janet

I'm sure that there are a lot of deserving people who need this money so best of luck to all. I would give this $ to my mother who had to sell her business after working so hard, cause she was diagnosed with lung cancer. Now she has to work for someone part time cause still sick, husband laid off in Florida, trying to pay off house, med bills, prescrip, barely making it & gov't no help cause not appv'd for Medicare cause married, what? so considering divorce just to afford medical bills & mortgage. - M.E. - monica Edwards

Here's my comment! I'll take my chances. I'm a poor college grad, I could sure use the cash. - Jessica

I've blocked u, so if u wanna get back on my list....:) - Koba Yaschi

This is really good. I'll buy a Nintendo Wii. :) Thx. - marrup -serkan-

I hope people that REALLY need it win ,,, good luck on the Contest Rob .. - johnpiercy

This has to be the most commented thread in FriendFeed. - Nicholas James

Here's the rundown with what I'd do with $1750: I want to do a Power Rangers fan film. No joke. Stop laughing. No really, you can stop now. Power Rangers has been on the air for the past 17 seasons, and it's finally getting canceled. This has inspired me to shoot a film short inspired by the show I grew up with. The $1750 will be invested to bump it up to looking professional. Scoble can be the Executive Producer! Don't pass up on that chance. Ok, you can stop laughing now, lol. - Lisa J

I want money - Tyler (Chacha)

Tuition for 2010 Iowa Summer Writing Festival courses, at Iowa Writers' Workshop. - Paola Bonomo

It would go into the funds I am raising to start a new print venture, tbnl, which will publish great, timeless stories (fiction & nonfiction) in a limited edition (subscriber only edition), a print-on-demand edition available for years and a digital ebook reader. Paying writers & artists on an ongoing, fair basis - Shannon Clark

I'd love to have some Scoble Dollars. They'd help fund my exit from technology to academia. - Tom Morris

Hi Robert, Congrats on new opportunity with bldg 43 Can I share your money with my 18 month old daughter AKA the Joy transmitter or perhaps I could drop it form the sky with my tandem paraglider over the Microsoft campus... - John Clifford

It's impossible not to comment - although if it wasn't Scoble saying this, I wouldnt bother to be honest, as I'd suspect a con ... - Ian

760 comments and counting... - Mike Doeff

I guess a SECOND MacBook would be nice… - Alexandre Testu

Is it for VAT? - Onur ALMIŞLAR

I'd use the money to buy crack. I mean books for children. Oh, wait, it's random... - Jules Morgan

Wow! I think I would invest them for developing an iPhone application - Nicholas

Hi Robert, my first comment on friendfeed, I couldn't resist the chance. You do know that Tuesday is St. Patrick's Day - I'll buy you a leprechaun hat from the parade in Dublin to celebrate! - Niall Sisson

Leaving Comment here. Hope it finds a good home. I would use the money to start a shelter for lost comments. - Joe K

No 419 scammers yet? ;) - Tyson Key

Mmmm... Money! €_€ - Kristian Salonen

Great! As this 'WTF' crisis in Madagascar is causing everything to be sooo difficult now! - Thierry R. Andriamirado

better try... - 252525

That's like a lottery :) I'm in ! - gareth【ツ】

I would put together a new computer, like to see BOINC running on a quad core. - Willem (@wim66) ☠

I'm in. Getting married next month and need the cash! - Nation Hahn

Great way to engage Robert! - Sampad Swain

I'm here! And I'd like to switch from PC to Mac... :D - Giovy

Hi Robert, this is very generous of you, thank you! I've been unemployed since last April so I could use the money for rent, food, bills, etc. I wish I could buy a nice little netbook with the money but maybe once I'm back on my feet I can make that happen. In the meantime, thanks for being so considerate to your readers! Best of luck with the new venture too. - Andy

Rackspace customer and big fan... Looking forward to this new venture! - Charlie Nichols Browning

Surprised you have fallen as low as this Robert. Still, been there and done that before so best of luck and best wishes with Rackspace. - Paul Fabretti

Um, awesome. - Nick Humphries

count me in - Edward Kimble

If I win, will post about the same in my blog and you'll be famous in India too (if you're not, that is). BTW your fan following can add upto 45 million Indian internet users (Smirk!). Now how about that Mr. Scoble? Game for it....Oh man, this is quirky fun! Keep up the good work Robert :) - Sampad Swain

I would use the money to fix _my_ economy. And by my economy, I mean I'd blow it all on strippers and blow. - Jon Ursenbach

The amount of comments in here is insane. What's the record for the FF entry with the most amount of comments ever? Because this one feels like a winner. - Brad Butner from twhirl

you lucky! in Italy we can's setup a contest like that one easily and free, we have to pay taxes :( - Maurizio ㊍ Mazzanti

If I won $1000, it would go to my first Mac since a Mac+ ! - Steve Ellwood

am still undecided on your real motive...... but then again, pecunia non olet..... ;) - denise

787 comments ?? wow!! Scoble u are the Brad Pitt of friendfeed... anyone else see the physical resemblence? - Cody Heitschmidt

Um, no, I don't Cody. Sorry. Scoble is taller. - Roberto Bonini

just leave a comment. well her's mine - Rachel Clarke

well its not identical I know Scoble is a little taller, but other than that Anfgelina could easily confuse the 2. - Cody Heitschmidt

I'm in! - «Weird & Sons»

eh what the heck, im in :) - ralphsaunders

This is interesting, but too many comments to read unfortunately. - Mitch

Sure, Robert. I'll take your money! Can never have too much! ;) - MVB (Curmudgeon of FF)

Simulate me, Scoble! - Robert Owens

That would be awesome, I could put the $$ towards my vacation to Kauai in August. Thanks Scoble, I promise to provide you photos from the vacation PF. - Pentaxfan

I'm bending the corner of my comment so it sticks out - Just Ken

pick me! Pick me! :) - Dania

This is great.. thanks Robert! =) - Timo Ukkola

I'm accepting anyone giving money. Details to come. - Terence

I'll buy whatever Apple is developing with that rumored 10 inch multitouch display.. - Peter

too much comments..pick me! - Magari sul Tardi

. - Smeerch

Jet ski, I need one - sofarsoShawn

... - Barbara-BlackCat

If I win this thing, I'll be most hated person on FF. god help me!. - Ozan Caglargil

For a small advance fee, I can take part... - Gordon Joly

i'm in, too.. - Sercan YILMAZ

You're not really going to write down all these names & pull them out of a hat are you? - Mrsth

I'll need a credit card that got no limit-cuz we all just want to be rock stars - Mrsth

Mrsth: I bet he'll find a script somewhere to pull all the usernames into a file, as only Scoble could do. :) Any amount of money would likely go towards my photography business, should I be chosen to win... it would be fun to put a portion of it towards prizes for the photowalks I'll be starting this summer in northern Vermont for area photographers and enthusiasts. - Bob M. Montgomery

Are you trying to create "the most commented thread" on friendfeed? Here's my comment however: what will I do with my 1750$? Probably I'll use them as a "microfound" for a webapp I'm thinking to... :P - Napolux from twhirl

814th post! - Tyson Key

I like free money. Was it already given away? - elroy

I'd like to say that I'd do something noble should I win but there's no nobility in ordering cases of wine and giving my liver a good workout. Plenty of enjoyment, though. - Mark H

I'm in! :) - Vlad Rafeyev

I would use it to not have an excuse for not recording my album. That is to say after 15 years of putting it off, I would stop procrastinating. - Vicky

wow for real? thats insane - ralphsaunders

I'm in and I'd probably put the money towards building my deck (not super exciting but still...) - Trevor

Starting to think I should post a reason why I want it... - ralphsaunders

I'm in! And I would use the money to buy my mom a present. She just turned 52 :) - Alex Kapranoff

I'm working on a funding for a research application for a semantic web project that I hope will become the next big thing (one of the next big things, anyway). If I succeed, you'll be the first person I ask to cover it! - Sam Kuper

Money, money, money, money ... MONEY! - Great Scott!

You guys do know that Scoble is essentially bribeing you to comment here? Large carrot and a small stick. - Roberto Bonini

Didn't stop you did it? - ralphsaunders

LOL. In my defense, I was performing a public service. *ducks* - Roberto Bonini

Hey I'm in. Is this the most commented entry in the whole of FriendFeed? I'm guessing that it will be. Anyone know what the previous record was? - Peter Kelley

I'd use the money to help get my wife's specialty dessert company off the ground: www.thesweettreatcompany.com - Michael Listberger

Can't wait to win your money... I'd use it to pay for some much needed camera gear and the rest of it to plan a trip to a city I've never been before so I could photograph it. I would love to be able to do something with photography, but it's tough working full time and going to grad school at night, all on my own dime. I don't have it as rough some people, but I've had to earn everything I have so I make no apologies for it. - Michael

Good luck sorting thru the 800+ comments :) If I won the money, I would repeat your experiment and give it all away (though I'm sure I would get no where near as many entrants as you) (P.S. It's not that I couldn't use the money, but I think it would feel good to help someone who needs it more than me). Good luck everyone! - Helen Hoefele

He won't notice if I comment twice, right? ;) Nah, I don't do that. But, holy crap! This is a lot of comments! - Mike Nayyar

now i'm not the only person on friendfeed who hasnt commented on this post!!! - sam from twhirl

I sure could use $1000. Would go straight to funding Taskerrific. $1750 would be even better, because I could get a new computer and a year's hosting, based on my current estimates. - Chris, Taskerrific Guy

I would use the money to fund my plastic drumming addiction. Hellooo pro drum set hacked to play Rock Band! - Chieze Okoye

So I wonder how many comments a FF post can handle? - gfurry

I would use the money to pay my taxes so the needy executives will still be able to get their bonuses this year. - gfurry

Hey Robert. Hard to say the best way to spend it without doing too much work to make it be most useful, but if it could be used to do something radical with what is going on with the Fed, I'm sure you know that Ron has a bill in Congress to Audit the Fed. Very soon things are gonna be way worse for us on this planet if things are not done to stop the insane people from making some really bad choices. So the money should go to someone willing to do something really radical to save our country from ending. - mikehedge

I would donate all the money to UNICEF and Kiva. - Jess Lee

Weird. I was just thinking about how I needed about $1750 in ones to sew together and waterproof in an effort to make myself an umbrella top to fix the one I ripped yesterday. So...yes, that's what I'll do with it. I'll even give you a free picture of it in exchange for your dollars! (Leftovers will be donated to credit card debt. :( ) - Brett

I would use the money to help pay for the permits I'll need to get a pet monkey for my internet video show. - Davis Freeberg

I'd start a community for my career, regulatory compliance in biomedical research. Right now there is not an effective way for my counterparts at universities, biotechs, government labs, private labs to communicate quickly and effectively. The result of this is organizations world wide continually reinvent the wheel. I'd like to create an up to date community with high traffic, and the ability to share files, policies, forms, etc. The project will go foward w/o the money, just more slowly. - Matthew DeVries

what is going on here? - potatohai

mortgage and beer, yo! - Adrian

I'll put the money into microlending; a good social/economic ROI. - Phil Wolff

I want to say something conservative like pay down my debt or put it in the kids college fund, but I'm going to go out on a limb and say that I would use the money to buy myself a bass guitar. Just something I've been wanting but don't have the discretionary income to afford it. - Eugene Huo

850+ Comments? That has to be some sort of record for friendfeed in just over 24 hours. - WiseYoda (aka Patrick)

Win money? Count Me IN! - Dave

I want to win money! - Matt Bebich

hi Robert Scoble :D yeah count me in! - OmniDragon

$4500 closer for next TED. Plenty of time to work on the invitation! jgx - Jennifer Green

Bring it on! Love your feed from SxSW! Now, send me the money! - Gene

OH good money for college... or to buy a new computer... - Laaabaseball

I want to win so that I can buy me a Macintosh,so count me in. - frank harvey

Hey, Rob help a sista out! Give me da money! - Jackie

saw you on Chris's live stream @ SxSW...free money count me in! - Jason

Money rocks - Shawn Farner

If I won $4500, I would install central heat and air in my house. You would make my life so much happier! - Auriette Lindsey

$1,750 would go to the nonprofit volunteer org I'm trying to get off the ground :P - Shawn Farner

Diapers for Newborns. $1750 split evenly to the most socially active on http://bebepool.com (my free web service enabling expectant parents to run their own baby pool contest). Most active meaning the 10 pools with the most participant guess entries Jan-Feb. I will paypal $175 to each winner and blog the results inclusive of the funds origin & any statements from the families impacted. I've seen the bebepool community show their own generosity (http://burnurl.com/YvHNL0 ), so would love to full circle it. - Micah Wittman

If I won the money, I'd give all of it back to you. Of course, I'd charge 100% interest. :P - Matthew Agra

Scoble the human Roulette wheel. - Rob

wow. must be the post with the most comments i've seen on friendfeed so far. - simonpure

With 1750 I'd do the ever boring "keep paying off the wife and I's credit cards" - Steve Boerner

Any and all the money I win will go for building this charity app we are planning. Every cent spent will be accounted for and would be posted on a web site (TBD). Additionally, we will be spending our own money and time on this. @scobleizer, please ping me if you would like more details. - Ashish Rangole

lame - Vezquex: God of FF

Behold, my comment. Hi Robert, I saw you at SxSW. - Michael Lee Wise

I'd put up the first Bldg 43 Billboard - http://tinyurl.com/1750-00 - Rob

Tipjoy $1 each to the first 1,000 or 1,750 (depending on prize) commentors in this thread who have a Twitter account. - Hao Chen

With $1750, I'd put up another "Win my money" post on FriendFeed, and see if people bite more or less than for your money. And then figure out why they liked your money more (social-networking experiment 2.0). - Ivan Zuzak

Robert kardes kusura bakma Ingilizcem iyi degil. 1750 gaymeyi bana verirsen sirket acarken kullanacagim. toparlarsak : $1750 + 10 000tl = design company :) - Uur

Interesting. :) /sits down and waits - PiDave

Emergency is an independent, neutral and non-political Italian organization, provides free, high quality medical and surgical treatment to the civilian victims of war, landmines and poverty. http://www.emergency.it/index... - Cristian Conti

If i won the money, I will write a easy to use friendfeed app for iphone :) - cem

very cool idea - Kate

$1750= Paying off my medical bills... no, not enough. Gas, food, rent... mmm, scratch that. Funding my craving for more, new camera equipment.... perfect. You, rightly feeling good for what you want to do,... priceless. - Kate

Here I am ! Only a comment ? - neurinux

I'm going to become father for the second time ! I'll use this money to search a new house whith more than 2 rooms ! - neurinux

mi piegherò al Dio denaro, ma almeno lo farò nella mia lingua madre :) - Tambu from twhirl

I will use the money to put towards a deposit on a flat. Currently I am living between my parents and my partner and daughters. I have two children from a previous relationship so will use the money for a deposit on a place which is central to both location - Joe Dawson

I'll use the money for a much needed, long overdue, 2 month break and go to India to relax from this hectic world… - Adi Sheleg

hard to win easy to spend. - ismail ünal

Scoble, fund me a startup! - Toni @ NavinoT

i'll use the money to get out of this place and start running my own business - Claudia

I'll fund prototype of my p2p language learning startup - Artyom

In case I win, I'll upgrade my networking status to "notworking" status. At least for a month. During that time, I'll have more time to make blog posts and enlighten self taught musicians and producers who are fighting to make music in their bedrooms. And I will buy some cookies for myself, in case I forget to eat - ilter

I'll get a haircut, and get a real job. - Adrian

I would donate the money to Warchild.com, whose cause is to give children in war zones around the world a peaceful future. - Alexander van Elsas

lascio un inutile commento pure io - Adamo Lanna

Sei un chiattone, bob. Simpatico, però. - jokerulez

Considering some people worrying about taxes, I'd just like to state that up here in Canada, lottery and contest winnings are not taxed. At all. - Chris, Taskerrific Guy

Sorry, I don't want money, we've got too much ! - Benoit Bourdin

Benoit: I'd be happy to help you get rid of some of your surplus, if that's really the case. ;) - Chris, Taskerrific Guy

In response to happyseaurchin's question above, I propose tiprojx http://tiprojx.wordpress.com/ ... If anyone reading this who has a twitter account tweets an idea for a (social change) project with one or more of the hashtags #tipme #tipshare #tiptodo #tipif ... a whole lot of new projects have the potential to 1. gain crowdsourced funding and 2. be collaboratively refined in the process. I'll split the money between my favourite tagged ideas posted before midday (GMT) next Tues 24 March. - Hannah Lewis

If I won $1750, I'd use the money to hire a local (Austin) freelance UI/dev to help me finish my social sports service (commi.sh) and pay for hosting for a year while we grow it. - Carter Rabasa

OMG. Robert Scoble jumps into "paid per comment". This is the end. My only friend, the end. - Davide Pozzi

ok, this is definitely a test for building43.com. does friendfeed run on rackspace? Rob, you trying a massive test of comments or live commentary, or something like that. i can bet you're analyzing this data on rackspace. you're making the new friendfeed search of organized live conversations/streams. - Reji

did i win? lol - Ivan Stegic

Another social experiment?!? Sure, I'm in for a little bailout money!!!! - Ferwin from Nambu

If I win I will hire someone to keep track of these little contests ppl like Scoble play from time to time.(since this kinda contests will be the newest #trend from now on) - Manoj

Comment 909 and counting. New pool ~ When will Robert break his own record. - Russellreno

910! - Tyson Key

Will Tomorrow be my Lucky Day? I will buy $1750 dollars of PowerBall tickets and then give 90% of the winnings to help feed children in Africa. - David Clements

This money could really help me in my current situation. Unfortunately I recently had a tumour removed from my bladder, which has really turned my life upside down. Overall, this has resulted in me having to miss and therefore finance two extra years at University. I’m currently 21 and studying BA Hons Economics at Newcastle University, England. I’m pleased to say that my health seems... more... - Daniel Rowley

Very funny! :D Did I win something??? :D - Matte

ain future economic prosperity! I would also donate $250 to Malaria No More: http://www.malarianomore.org/.... Thank you for the opportunity. - Daniel Rowley

wow..If I win I will buy a bike.. and travel around India... God bless me!! - sirishkumar

My dog needs a new leg. Thanks! CP - gimiento

If I win I will buy a ticket to SxSW next year and watch Scoble get totally wasted and take pics of legs with his camera... - Ross

Pick me, pick me. - Amit Morson

As for the $1,750 - I will donate it to the first children related cherish organization that approaches me. - Amit Morson

Hello World - Pierre Beugnot

With $1,750 I would be able to afford the flight back to Austria and support my dad who has to undergo his 3rd surgery and eventually also the 4th. - Verena Fuchs

I would sell it! =) honor would be enough for me... - Goktug Gedik

I would use the money to purchase a head stone for my mothers grave. - Ardail Smith

i would use the money for a long hot summer :) - Samuel Kreuzer

I'd buy $1,750 worth of green energy stocks, most probably geothermal - Fabio

Robert - I would use the money to buy good microphones to make an internet video series about Nerd Revolt. http://www.numeriklab.com/2009... I would then use them to document the 2009 Decibel Festival in September: http://dbfestival.com After that, who knows - but I promise to come up with something good! You can't document musicians without good sound :) Thank you, Erica - Erica Toelle

I would use the money to pay my out-of-state tuition! - Kevin Mohr

i would like it in a brief case... small unmarked bills please - ray parisi

I'd use $1750 towards a down payment for a first home. My wife and I recently had a son, and our apartment is shrinking at an alarming rate. - Chris Heald

i'll be a materialistic bastard. i'd pay my bills while still trying to search for a job in this life sucking, non-forgiving city. yup. that's what i would do. ramen noodles are no fun when you're not in college... - ultimate_loser

if i win this money i'll use to buy some equipments for the university, but not only for me. i'll buy two computers, one printer, and so we can do our university newspaper. this money will be a contribute for the free press, in a nation like italy, where every voice is subdued to the power. give us a chance! - Riccardo

Leave a comment here, and I can win. Ok, done. What's next? There's something about a second way to win, that looks like I need to state what I'd use the money for. Simple: to continue to make uplifting films, like I did this year for the 168 Project. Need to make a few payments still. The rest will go towards next year's film. - Mike Shields

Way too easy ;) - Gregg Wenger

I'd put it towards a computer and software I need for my new small business I'm setting up after 4 years off work with a broken back - Rob Bell

Mee Two :) , i'll use it for world Piece - Chirag Chamoli

Mike: watch http://www.ustream.tv/studio at about 4 p.m. today (Austin Time, which is about 2 p.m. Pacific Time) and we'll pick the winners live on that show. - Robert Scoble

I'd like to join this competition to make a chance for the money for my new developing start-up. Could use it for sure, development is costy these days! - Coen Jacobs

I'd use the money to pay for an artist to help me out on a Palm Pre/Windows Mobile app that I'm working on. - Alastair Maggs

If I won the money I would book one of those super cheap round trip tickets to Australia from LA (currently $598 RT) and then use my Flip camera to videotape people I met and ask them what they give thanks for (see http://givethanks.tv) I would also donate 5% of my winnings to my friend Hollis (http://friendsofhollis.com) who was in a bad accident last month. Her medical bills are mounting. Oh, and while I'm in Australia I'd ask people what they thought of Scoble. - TanjaB

Robert, great gesture! I would give all of the $ on your behalf to this worthy cause: http://friendfeed.com/e... - B2B Specialist

Took the challenge. Opened account from my couch with iPhone. Curious to get the rest of the story. - Georgiana Dearing

Generating metrics I presume Mr Scoble? - Stefan Szo

OK heres my comment! - Randy

OK, first the 'leave a comment here' bit - here it is. As to what I'd do with the money, my wife has been made redundant and two days later someone crashed into my car while it was parked - so I guess I'd put it towards replacing the car and rebuilding our lives. Actually that sounds a little melodramatic, it's only a car, but it would be useful. Unless of course UK residents aren't eligible for this in which case I guess I'll just sit at home and sulk! - Guy Clapperton

I'll switch SocialToo from Amazon EC2 to Rackspace if I win - Jesse Stay

Win money? No, thanks. but I DO wanna earn your money :). Send details to onno@media44.nl or visit http://www.media44.nl - MEDIAFORCE

$1750? My answer is simple. I would use it to help fund our movie. To purchase wanted equipment, better food for cast/crew, throw an awesome wrap party. Then, if we had any left over, we would use it towards our next movie. Also, you would get a free copy (format of your choice) and an Executive Producer credit. It'll be on IMDB and everything! This could be an awesome help for a trio of tired, driven, motivated filmmakers who want to change the game for movie-making. - Anthony Thompson

I would spend $1,750 on a iPhone App using fbConnect for my financial services startup which I otherwise wouldn't allocate a budget for. - Abhimanyu Chirimar

Gosh, there are a lot of comments. Is this a FF stress test? - Morton Swimmer

I'm in! - Simon Holliday

I would use the money for development of gCaptain 2.0 with the goal of dethroning the oldest magazine in continuous print, Lloyds List, from the maritime news sphere of influence. - gCaptain

I will hire a scholar to make my research few hours a day so I can follow your tweets!!! :D - Jesús

I'm in, what would I do with the money? well, I'm a teenager from Cairo, Egypt, and I plan to start podcasting during my vacation "first video podcast in Egypt" and work on my blog, I don't have enough money to buy an HD camcorder so I would use the money to buy that and get a domain name for my blog and go pro, and if there is enough money I would buy an iPhone. - Ahmed

I'd take the family out for a meal at the Gaucho grill http://tinyurl.com/3pc8ur - mike williams

I would give the money to this young man in his fight against hodgkins lymphoma. He is the nephew of my daughter's preschool teacher and I would do anything to help him out, but we don't have much. As a former soccer player, current coach and human being... my heart goes out to him and his family. Anything would help. http://tinyurl.com/cch2uy - Jason

Not yet in the position to give like you give, I do what I can. Giving spirits garner unselfish hearts! - http://budurl.com/ynkm - Carlo At Your Service

This is the most epic thread ever, i put off replying all weekend but i think its about time i joined in. I think if i won i'd propose to my girlfriend because id be able to afford a ring! Or, we'd go on a nice much needed holiday. - Simon Wicks

I'd give the money to Daniel Rowley (comment above). Seems like he has a genuine need. - Dustin Curtis

Interesting (and a few not so) comments. Most people are here for the easy money, leaving a random comment and then closing a tab. No blame here, since it's the rule of the game. Do you know that in order to permanently change the world you just need just a little bit compared to the big picture to get you over that hard to reach top? Well, that's what I would use it for, to get that jolt, break the barriers and climb over that first, impossible top. - Lorand R. Minyo

hey! easy game Mr Scoble :) I'm here :D - Guillaume

What a cool idea. I would definitely use the money towards taking another class. Assembly? Lernin is espensive. - sarajchipps@gmail.com

I'm in too - Judging by the entrants, I'll have better odds on winning the lottery - Shaf

I'll donate the money to AIG executives. - Filipe Marques

I would use the money to bid on Gaius Baltar's Robes at the Battlestar Galactica Auction in May. Those costumes get pretty pricy! ~Matt http://BSGcast.com - Matt

I'd use to money to stimulate the US economy by buying all your stuff - Magnus

I'd pay the 4000 I owe in tuition. I've paid off all but this last bit, so it'd be my first move. Still looking for a job... - Linda Margaret

I liked that :) - MobilAdam

I would use the money to buy a laptop. I bought one in December and was getting a friend from the US to bring it to me (I was in Dubai). The laptop was stolen from her luggage at JFK and I got no compensation. I was out 1500$, laptopless, and highly depressed because the euphoria of getting a new laptop was not realized. - Bhavishya Kanjhan

If I win the money - its going straight to helping my startup - creately.com get to Public Beta. We're so close and every cent counts! - Charanjit

Good way of generating a lot of comments :-) I'd use the money for reducing some debts... - Diego Zamboni

Whoaaaa, there. $4,500? Really? Boy am I glad I follow you on Twitter. Since when does money grow on tweets? If I ever had the good fortune of being plucked out of a hat, I'd spend all of it on the tuition bills that have racked up in my family name (mother, brother y yo). - amira

I'll make a social network for BitTorrent. - KN

Hm. Maybe I spend it on a Nikon D90 or a camcorder. - Stefan Michel

Money is the root of all evil, they use to say. But it can blossom into good things. - Nick Palffy

I would use the money to update my photography equipment and software. This would update my pet photography as needed - Randy Nacol

I am in - Bronchart

I would use the money to get my girlfriend @Tatty, who I met on Twitter, from Norway to the US so we can start living happily ever after. :) - Foul Bastard

Pay off the credit card and get a return airfare to the USA from Sydney! - Nathan Davies

Sounds crazy but why not :-) - Cyril Hanquez

I need 980 dollars to go to school to be a cheesemonger. So tired of waiting tables and am ready to pursue something I am passionate about. - Miles Laird

I'd use the money to take some time off with my daughter... - Fredrik Wennberg from twhirl

I'm saving to buy my first house later this year and working to start my freelance design business. - john

$1750...I would use them for a wonderful trip to San Francisco! Plane tickets from France and visit of the best web start-up / companies :) Enjoy!! - Guillaume

I'd have to assume I'd use the money to buy a Nikon D90, then hunt you down to thank you and take your picture with it. - Richard Finucane

How can I mute this thread? - Richard A.

I'll use it as a "Pay It Forward Ponzi Scheme" (In these crazy Maddoff days, it's about time we revert the wheel.) - Vivian Cohen- Leisorek

Hi Robert! I would use the money to put into a bank account. I will become a daddy within the next weeks and this would a be a 'scolar fund' for my first kid! - Bas van Breugel

Count me in. $1750 would go to the IWK Children's Hospital for Xboxes and Wiis. - M Langille

Great idea-- and I'd use the money to create workshops to bring younger and older gay men together to discuss the history of the AIDS epidemic in Philly. http://gayhistory.wikispaces.com - Chris Bartlett

What am I going to do with the $1750? I will reveal that secret in my second comment :) - Bari Hossain

Great idea Robert. I'd do four things: I'd pay for a ESPN360 season and play-off pass to watch NHL games over here in Europe. Then I'd hire a graphics designer to redo http://www.speakingenglishpodcast.com to have it not only appeal to learners but also sponsors. Third, I'd take my wife out to dinner and fourth I'd give the rest back to you - I wouldn't need it all and you have a family, too. - Sebastian Keil

Sure, count me in. - Barty

First of all, thanks for the heads up on "Free Money" also thanks for being such a great conduit. So throw my name into the hat please. I know I usually push for giving to Cancer foundations and etc. But am going to change it up a bit.... If I would happen to win the money there is hugely talented Photographer on Twitter that needs only $6,000 to sustain his enrollment at some artsy Ivy... more... - SashaKane

Seriously? I'll start a "Mini-ITXs" fund to replace all the desktops in my home with Mini ITXs. Power saving ftw! - Nimish Batra

I'd start a foundation dedicated to bringing the finance crooks to justice and redistributing the stolen funds from whence they came. - Alistair Knock

hmm...I'll rather invest it in gold. That's the least volatile thing these days. - Kunal Gangar

i would finally finish my thesis and rent a lot servers with mosso after that to incorporate a company dealing with enterprise mashups and cloud computing in germany - tmetschke

im in - Jason Walke

I would tell my boss he is a noob and that I quit my job and start my own business. - Gary Schubert

oh, and i'd also KILL for a macbook. but i'd probably go to school. but you should totally give it to someone who needs it more. - Miles Laird

simple way to enter :) - Cristian

Robert, I would probably spend the money in a relatively futile manner. Therefore, I'll let others who need it more have a chance at the $1,750 prizes. I'd be happy to be chosen randomly for the $1,000. Great initiative, by the way. - Antonio Cangiano

This is just what we need in order to launch AllRise.com: hosting + legal expenses +company registration fees. - Erez Eden

richard, by giving a way more money, are you ready? - abdellah

I'll give YOU $500 and give $100 to twitter (since I heard about it there). The first should make it easier for you to part with the money. The twitter donation will conclusively prove that they have a viable business model :) - Ebrahim Nalwala

Our band would use it to buy a PA system so that we could play anywhere/practice with proper sound. I`d treat this as a loan and donate the money in your name to the VH1 Save The Music Foundation. - Reuben Fortes

It would help me pay for my wedding in Ottawa in August, rather than having to borrow money! (PS nice way of getting people on FriendFeed!) - Paul Lomax

Robert, please pick me. I need the USD1000 to get myself an iPhone 3G (cost HKD6200.00 from Apple Hong Kong) so I don't have to borrow my girlfriend's, and the rest of the money, I will use to pay for all the data usage I will be using when testing review copies of iPhone apps. How can I be borrowing an iPhone to write iPhone app reviews? That is just ironic. - Vinko

I need to do something completely luxurious and pampered for a week. Oh, I would really like to take my brother along because it was his birthday two weeks ago and would like to surprise him. That's right, a very belated birthday present. Very much would be a surprise. How about a cruise out of Miami to the Caribbean or out of Los Angeles to Mexico? We need to see the water! Sure we have the Fountains at Bellagio but we would like to sail on an ocean. There it is. I have our bags packed and ready to go. - Vegas Bill

I need money for my first startup! - kunal jain

If you pick me I promise to spend 10% of it on other people before giving the rest away ... then perhaps the person I pick has to spend 10% on other people and give the rest away - crowd-sourcing-chain-money-making-people-happy kinda way ! - Nigel Cooke

Buy a nice camera for making better videos for my blog & invite my family having a nice evening at a greek restaurant - Wittkewitz News

Show me the money - TJ Polczyn

I would develop an innovative iPhone app using the money and when sales pick up, return the amount to you so u can run another contest. - iPhone Dev Guy

I am a poor student who really could use a new Laptop.. I will Ustream and take pictures of the unpacking so you know I didn't spend the money on beer ;) I could put SPONSORED BY SCOBLE stickers on the new machine. Please Scoble, I could really use this. Cheers, patrick. - patrick detlefsen

a new laptop to replace the almost 6-year old one would be nice for a developer. give me the other prizes, too and i'll donate 'em to schooling a kid in a 3rd world country! - moogs

*wonders* Do we have to leave two comments, one for the $1000 and one for one of the $1750? - Linden A. Mueller

Ok, Scoble if i get this money somehow, give my money to this student (patrick detlefsen) - Thanks - Junal Rahman

If you pick me, I will lend out the money via Kiwa.org - Henning

Well let's turn the wheel of chance :) - Fatih Arslan

So just in case, here's the second one. :) I would save it. We'll be making our second international move in two years in September, and this time, we'll be settling down. I would use it for part of our down payment on our first house. - Linden A. Mueller

Right now $1750 is worth $2700 Aussie (sounds a lot better) I'd ask Robert to JV with me and share how to turn that $2.7k into $270k in 6 months. If we didn't like each other after that we needn't continue to turn it into $27M. Jim Beasley (Twitter: whoisJimBeasley) - Jim Beasley

Would love to start an online business for my 7 yr old as a college fund!!!! Have the idea, just not the funds to start it!!! - Charles Bovard

I could use the money to pay some of my student loans that I had to take to study the one true thing worth studying, the Internet! - Shane Tilton

I would spend the money on bourbon and porn. - Kari Holtz

I'll use to finance our new project of social publishing with Friendfeed. Thanks for the opportunity. - Massimiliano Mancini

if I win: I'd give half of the money to Emergency (http://www.emergency.it/) to help their medical work in war areas. - andrea

Mmmmmm cash! :D - Michael Jones

In New Zealand his will go along way. Id use it for language resources for our indigenous Maori - Bradley Walker

I want I want! I will restore my VW 1974 with it! :-D true story: http://www.facebook.com/home... - Pierre Lapointe

I'd love to use your money to send kids with disabilities to CampASCCA.org! With the $1750, 3 children would get to go to camp this summer. Or, it would send maybe a dozen to a weekend camp this spring! Either way, I'd love to see you help these kids out. In this kind of economic environment, places like Camp ASCCA are the first to be forgotten ... that means the kids are forgotten, too. Thanks, Robert! - RD French

Before I reveal the secret of what I would do with $1750, I really need to know the secret - "Why are you giving away this money,Robert?" - Bari Hossain

Will use it finally upgrade my powerbook to a MBP so I can write an iPhone app as part of my CS Degree Dissertation. - Shaun Bohannon

$1175 to my all time favorite musician's (Diana Krall) chosen charity: Vancouver General Hospital's Leukemia Bone Marrow Transplant. Would use the rest to cover my tuition expense for a Nancy Duarte slide:ology seminar. Trying to figure out ways to tackle mindnumbing government PowerPoint decks. Happy St Patrick's Day! - Bud

With our terrible exchange rate here in the UK, I'll probably buy myself a week's worth of groceries with the prize money! Seriously though, I may treat myself to a video camera, so that maybe one day, I can be like my favourite technology evangelist! - David Swallow

I can't wait to read followup posts to your contest. I would invest the money in my children's college funds. - Erick Tyack

I think I will buy some books on how to get my daughter to sleep past 4AM... Seriously, any advice? :-) - James Marino

With the money I would invest in a Home Server to better provide for my familys digital needs ;-) The rest will be given to SOS childrens village - A good and worthy cause. - Ken-Tore

I will use the money to spend it to bloggers in germany to promote the german blogos- and twittersphere! They arn't as big and importnat as in the us, but they have the mbition for it, serious and current content... - Simon Rabente

The money will enable me to buy some much needed toys and gadgets that mortgage/wife/2kids/etc to not allow! - Matt Groves

I was thinking on how to win the money and then I read comments by others. I realised there are more ppl who need the money more than me. So good luck to everyone! and Robert, pls make sure the winner really deserve it. - Gerald Neo

If I won I would donate every cent to Red Nose Day (http://www.rednoseday.com/) to help children in the UK and Africa and I'll put up $200 of my own money (about 10% of my salary) into microloans through Kiva. - Peter Curd

Strike one for the South African - Iwan

I doubt this would be a winner, but I need a new set of effin tires. - Patrick Kay

I will use my winnings to purchase books to better understand how to use all the great social media tools out there and will also earmark a portion of the winnings to use to attend SXSW 2010. - Promising Projects

I'll use the money to finance bailing out of my apartment in light of this recession and my current status of gainful underemployment. :) - teleken

Cool! I'd love to spend it on a netbook and a good (web)cam and start using it to lifestream/share some nice events using kyte or qik. What's left after buying the gear, I would spend on tickets for events such as The Next Web Conference, Lifehacking Academy, etc. Btw: have fun at Rackspace! - Alex Vermeule (@alexve)

ok deal, you talked me into it - IrishWonder

it is really interesting to see how much "I" in this thread, ok if I (+1) - abdellah

Cool. So 80% of the dough goes on a Twitter API developer as I have a great project in mind. And the other 20% provides a stake for the blackjack table, for when we launch. Combined earnings will be sent back your way, so you can do this all over again. - Econsultancy

I'd put it towards my TED application fund! Made too many promises about speaking there one day soon... - Oliver

First I would buy an engagement ring for my lady and take her out on a romantic evening and propose her. And of course 300$ would go for a Wii. - Andy Gongea

Hi I have never won anything so i dont think i will win,but hope never dies so here i am.. - Dimi

Well I guess I'm another aussie hopeful for a random win. (@carljoseph) - Carl Joseph

My boyfriend got made redundant a while ago so I'd use the money to take him on holiday to get away from it all for a bit and help him refocus. - Katie

thats cool to hear...thanks for the competition.i will love to buy macbook... - Mohammed Moyeen

I'd use the money start my own website, free is good, but paid produces profit. My strong-points are creativity and commitment. I have nine years till retirement and I want to use them well. - Wallace

Hmmm... Give it to charity is the easy answer.. But I would find and elderly person who needs home renovations etc but cant afford it.. and then get someone down on their luck to do it and pay them.. Double the satisfaction and impact - Christopher Blake

Comment for one of the $1750 prizes. I will offer to donate the money to bail out some more fat cats living high on the hog, and give them a bonus to boot. - TJ Polczyn

Don't get pinched - wear green today! :) - Ricci Neer

If I won, I'd donate it to Comic Relief (http://www.comicrelief.com/). Cheers! - Graeme Coleman

I am saving money to go out of my usual work to start a startup, so it will be helpful for me in my saving and allow me to come out of my daily job soon. - Mohammed Moyeen

If I win I will twitter my followers and people in Seth Godin's tribe to find the most excting youth oriented project I can, then come back to you, Robert Scoble, and see how we can involve your followers in offering knowledge or connections to make the whole thing take off, good on you. - Sarah Farrugia

I would put the money to good use and kick start the economy with it... should work... - Alex Peshevski

wow! this is by far the longest thread i've ever seen! :) - David Clifford

I'll use the money as a super lucky contribution to http://www.TweetLuck.org, an initiative of my startup nonprofit, http://www.EpicChange.org. Tweetluck is raising funds to build a technology lab and boarding facility/orphanage for a school with which we're partnered in Arusha, Tanzania. The locally-run school recently performed #1 out of 117 schools in their district on national exams, and I can only imagine what's possible if we get the children at the school web access ;) - Stacey Monk

This is one way to get me to use friendfeed... I'd use the money to enter a poker tournament in vegas this week at MIX. (at least I'm being honest) - Jason

Wedding Ring deposit, new mac, or broker's fee to get the hell out of this apartment. Probably one of those three. I'm a huge fan of Kari Holtz's answer of bourbon & porn, but my early thirties have got the better of me and must try for something vaguely more responsible. - Travis

Hey, why about trying, great idea ! For the second part of the contest, i'd prefer to let more chances to people who really know how to make something really usefull and interesting with it ;) ! - Christophe Michau

I hope to be one of the lucky few. Happy St. Patricks Day! - ian ross

I wish I could come up with something clever or generous but other needs are too pressing. I don't even want to think about it really. Health insurance, upgrade to CS4 (priorities, right?), art supplies, new shoes, vet visit for the cats, whatever else I could squeeze out of it. But I would put some portion toward charitable use, or else use it to create something that I could give, because generosity deserves to be honored in kind. - Rebecca

I'll buy some of the gadgets Scoble is talking about... - Alexander Benker

In Malaysia, I'll give the money to the women's aid organization to fight discrimination, women are first to go in a layoff. - Carolyn Chan

#1 - love those comments who will equal a charity donation or repeat this experiment. Love the umbrella comment and the humor we geeks have (I am not in that camp). And am delighted to see all the marketing occurring. - Gee

Great idea. I'd probably put the money towards a good camera for a live video project I'm working on. - Alan Chamberlain

If I was lucky enough to win I would use the money to attend http://www.web09.org/. It would cover the cost of the airfare, accommodation, and registration fee. I would then be able to Tweet and blog about it so those who read me would get some benefit from me being there. Anything learned would be put to good use in the open source projects I contribute to. Unlike some of the others here, I can't be altruistic about this - I want to go to the conference and can't afford it! Charity begins at home after all - Elpie

It will probably help me to keep one of my employee, until we bounce back in our feet - Boubacar Balde from twhirl

I'm definitely in and I'd use the $1750 to buy my first macbook. - Robbin

I would use it as nice start for my first house loan ;-) A man has got to start somewhere doesn't he ;-) - Pieter-Jan Adriaensens

get lasik after reading all of these #CCCCCC comments on friendfeed! - Landon

What I would use the money for? Well, I have been eyeing up some netbooks and need to replace my aging television. So, this would pretty much go there in my lone attempt at reviving our moribund economy/ I'm doing my part to help us out of these troubled economic times! - Jason J. Thomas

Here is my initial entry comment. - Hal

I'd learn how to code in Cocoa, and create a salsa dance iPhone app :) - Tom Tubbs

Clever idea. If I win, I would put half the money in the bank, as my husband is currently unemployed; and would give half the money to my friend and her family, as her son & daughter-in-law were in a serious car accident in Oct. 2008 and my friend quit her job to help take care of her premature born grandson, 2 yr old grandson, so her own son can then take care of his now brain-injured wife. http://jennifersmiracle.blogspot.com/ - Traci Knoppe

Half to a couple of back bills, the other half here: http://bit.ly/6XTBn - Hal

My first comment didn't show up! REPLAY: With the $1750 I will expand my business working with energy and transformation in the area of money & prosperity (Money Reiki Healing) attuning people to their Source resulting in personal and planetary shifts around money and abundance. I will also donate a portion of the winnings to a few favorite charities (including Water is Life and Charity:Water). - Amy Flynn

Wow, Just needed that money to buy me a trip to the states at last! I'm from Paris and I just keep reading your feeds on twitter, ff etc... - anciaux

Should I win, any money would be invested in upgrading some piece of computer equipment, or a software purchase... and a celebratory dinner with my wife, of course. - Chris Grayson

Heads up, Twitter! I would put the money into real competition to Twitter. - David Baum

To quote Han Solo - "Got some old debts I gotta pay off with this stuff" - Cliff Forster

#2 - would use either amount to send a girl to computer camp, a program of the Montgomery County (MD) Commission for Women. This program is in its 10+ year and has a proven and remarkable outcome: inspiring junior high school girls to higher education. The program takes girls from lower expectation neighborhoods and sends them to the community college. Being on a college campus opens new visions for these girls. - Gee

I need yet another bicycle. Choose me! I promise not to give it to AIG for bonuses! - mrbrown

I'd put the cash toward a new unibody Macbook - I broke the screen on my Macbook Pro and it's difficult to use now because I have to us my iPhone as my screen (Jaadu VNC). I'll take care of my new Macbook, Robert, I promise. Please pick me? Please! - David Mozingo

I got married on last saturday, 14th ( http://trauung.steudtner.info sorry only German ) and I got a whole bunch of photos and videos. I would take the money and buy a new iMac to organize them and my videos too. Pictures will be published on that website. - Mayads

My cat has been very sick since late last Thurs. He's was jaundice, probably some level of renal failure - all likely diabetes. Been having to force feed him with a syringe because he wasn't eating on his own. I'd like to be able to use this money to offset the vet costs towards all this - doctor would like to run more tests but I can't afford it. This money would help with this. - Todd Perlmutter

I'll stimulate my economy. - Chris Dickerson

I will buy you a Twitter shirt. :P http://tr.im/twittershirt - Valentino Valdez

Howdy Scoble. I graduate University in July with an IT degree and am planning a Trip to South East Asia (Laos, Cambodia, Thailand, Vietnam) in September for a bit of fun and adventure. The money would greatly improve my trip. I'll blog the whole thing personally for you (I'll go to anywhere you suggest) and do my best to send you at least one ridiculous photo a day along with a video diary and a few interviews of people I meet along the way. - Michael Gross

Hoping for random. Clearly there are people who really need this. Don't know if you are trying to stress test ff or make us thankful for what we have, but both reasons are valuable. Not to mention the buzz for both companies and personal brand. Well begun. - Jack Frizzell

My kids, who've lost their mother, really need something positive. So I would use the money to redecorate their two rooms as a surprise. - Jorg Jansen

Thanks Robert. A great idea! I could really use the money to finance my startup "Big Red Zebra", the world's first truly useful Location-Based Service for Everybody (not just people with Smartphones, iPhones, Blackberrys). Check it out at http://www.bigredzebra.com - David

Ok, I bite. - ElbertF

If I won the $1750 - I would put $1600 towards a kick-ass web project I have been working on (code-named Daily Bird Feeder). Then, $100 would go to dinner with the wife to make up for the late nights I've spent working on the project. $30 would go to an action figure I have been dying to get. And $20 would then go to flowers for my wife, to make up for buying the action figure. - Michael Withrow

Buy the aging parents laptops, webcams and lessons so they can follow their grandchildren on twitter and facebook - Suzanne treloar

I will spend it all on me - on daft 'there is no way I would buy this under any other circumstances' things. - Alison

I would follow your example: I'd run a contest and ask my followers to choose how I would spend it. - Gail

Show me that money! - Alison

How about this.... My wife http://twitter.com/erincos... and I are expecting TWIN SONS in August. ANY contributions would be GREATLY APPRECIATED! - Jeremy Osborne

congratulation jeremy. - abdellah

That $$ would buy me a lifetime subscription to Fast Company!!!! - CJ

My dinosaur-like mind is inexorably on its way to extinction. It's been ages since I bought a new book. And reading online just doesn't satisfy that ancient craving. So if I win I'd use it to buy Kindle2 e-reader. The ultimate revenge of a deprived bibliophile. :) A little memento of my fabulous good luck, courtesy of you sir. The rest I will donate to a Philippine charity of my choice. Good luck to us all, if that were possible. :) - jan geronimo

Would like to take my wife to NY for our 15th Wedding Annv. - Timothy Love

Count me in. Can't work out if I should sound worthy or greedy, so shall be neither. - David Eedle

I'd use the money to start a software company for mobile devices with heavy lifting done in the cloud. - Jim Bergman

You got me Subscribe :). I will apply for a distance education in Actuarial Science at Leicester University. - Bruck Sewnet

I will not use this money for unmerited bonus pay - Craig

If I won the money, I'd pay for my GMAT & Grad School applications with it. That way, I'll hopefully be able to do the same kinds of contests soon. I'd also adopt two cats for my parents farm and pay for their cat food - you can't have a farm without cats! Lastly, I'd increase my number of Kiva loans. - Edwina

what is interesting in this thread, is the fact that there is more and more reason and ways to spend that money, now let please see for what "you can't spend this money". - abdellah

I'm just getting a project going that could be really helped at this early stage with some "free cash" to help complete the prototype. The idea is for an engine that aggregates content from originators and then filters and distributes it according to preferences to the consumer through a variety of touch points. Very focussed on one specific interest area. - Alex Guest

I'll place my bet for the $1750, although my chances are thin. Lots of things to do, get Dad treated, pay my bills et al. - Rajtilak Bhattacharjee

would like to get one of these for each kid http://bit.ly/pnbkv - meg colombo

I'll buy something amazing and the one who finds out what it is will receive it. Just a way to see if it is possible to get more comments than you do :o) - Zack Brandit

I will gift the money to my husband's business,( http://www.funketabla.com/ ) so that he can focus a little more on music and thus spend more time happy and not in a programming job that bores him. It's not much, but it'll pay for the upcoming Das Dhoom album. - InPerpetualMotion(Gina k)

Hate to admit it in public, but I owe parents, friends, and credit cards money borrowed while searching for another job. This would give me some breathing room and let me get some stuff done that I've put off, like fix the brakes on my car. - mark zero (Jason)

I will give the money to my 18 year old son. He's getting ready to enter college for the first time and needs it. - Lisa Saul

$1,750 will feed me for a year! :-) - Chinny

Mr. Scoble - Use of funds should I become one of your winners... ala Dave McClure and Y Combinator... I'd turn right around and invest it in equity positions in two local startups neither of which is mine. Should there be any kind of exit of either, I'd just keep plowing proceeds into local startups (we need early stage, non-debt seed capital in Oklahoma). - Gerald Buckley

these funds would help at a very diffcult time for my family would be a very big blessing for us - Diane Brixey

i would put the money in my future start-up. i really could use the money for. the main problem is that i have to wait for maybe 2 years, because of uni. so i could invest it at the beginning in something safe and could make more money for the start-up. - Alexander

Pool Table - Dale Fraser

Sadly, I would put this toward my taxes. My contribution toward the bailout I guess. A new tv or trip might be nice though since I'm not getting that Australia blogging job. - Dave

I would put the money in our twin boys college fund, which will be in inflation-adjusted treasuries for the next year or two. (PS: This is the most effective way to gather the most comments on a single thread in the history of friendfeed) - DGentry

OK, just give it to me already and quit all this fuss... - Garrido

Hey Robert! You finally got me to sign up for FF. If awarded the money I would finally get that Gibson Les Paul I've always wanted and go back in the studio to create my opus. - Kyle Shay

Split it into 495 $2 donations, for charities selected by fellow Friendfeed and Twitterers, with the remaining funds for a pizza while organizing the aforementioned discussion. - Mike Chelen

Count me in. I would blow the money on Tacos. No burritos. No Tacos. Well Tacos or Burritos. Just imagine me eating over $1000 worth of tacos/burritos. - Franklin Pettit

Fund small-scale Appropriate Technology projects in Africa where I live: http://mumena.blogspot.com/2009... - Rick Love

I would put the money to good use-- - Dennis Shlaen

First! Oh wait, maybe not. :) Boring but I'd use the money to get my 60,000 mile service on my car before it falls apart. Anything left over would go to paying down CC balances. I know, I'm dull... - Pete Smith

I need a new tv I'm a poor seminary student in new york with a family http://www.use.salvationarmy.org/use... - kevin

count me in! How to use 1750$: buy four cheap pocket cameras (200$ each), announce a "movie making contest" on the blog, give four cameras to best four ideas, take the movies, post on youtube & blog, make users vote, give first prize 950$. - Tudor Galos

Robert, Congrats on joining Rackspace & I'm eagerly awaiting Building 43!! I would use the prize money to fund my sisters education. - Roshan Ramachandran

I'd go for a piece of electronic equipment. I haven't owned a computer since a nice visit from an unknown burglar a year and a half ago. Luckily my work provides me with a nice Macbook Pro 15" but that doesn't really help much during the weekends. So I'd go for a 13" MacBook and then of course a round of Hero Rats (http://www.herorat.org) for the change. - René Clausen Nielsen

I would probably just blow it on bacon and slurpees. - Wallace Wilson

Hi Robert. I would use the money like Tudor, but I would get two good pocket cameras, the Sony pocket 1080p ones, not the Zi6 or the Flip. To take better quality videos. - Odi Kosmatos

Hi Robert, my intention isn't to partecipate to your contest but my comment is just to say that you are a genius. I appreciate this social experiment and on Sunday I have analyzed it in this post on my blog: http://tinyurl.com/c3rwxw. If I were to the place of the winner, I’d give this money to you because you really deserved it. The previous most commented thread on FF probably were Italian (http://tinyurl.com/8k64zg). Chapeau - Roberto

I will use the $$ to provide new clothes for my girlfriend who is a struggling actress and hasn't been able to add to her wardrobe in 5 years. I want her to feel pretty! - Christopher Fohlin

I would use the money to buy my wife a new camera lens. She's a photographer working for a community newspaper in Drippings Springs, Texas. - Will Burdette

G R E E D .... - Kai

I would use the money to jump start the economy as part of my stimulus-package plan - Mitchell Schneider

Not sure, but I'll try to heed the advice my grandmother used to give me when I got a dollar "Don't spend it on crap." - Steven Stark

There are things I want but nothing I need so I'd donate the money to Philabundance. http://www.philabundance.org/ - Bob Gannon

I will sponsor new web-service development at http://jumpidea.com - Roman Zolotarev

i would use the money to help pay for school - Shane Grant

I would use the money to get into photography. I have always wanted to but have never had the funding to do it. It would be great if I had the funding to get a decent body and a couple nice lenses. - Sweyn Venderbush

I'm in as well. Will use the money to get into iphone apps development - Arnaud Fischer

Woohoo! I'd buy either a home automation setup or a home server :D - Robert DeBord

Yes! I could use some green on St. P's Day! Would get that D90. - Kevin Crader

I will help @romanzolotarev. - Ivan Kuznetsov

I'd be holding the same contest with half of the money and enforce the winners to do the same, until the whole amount is spent. And i'd spend the other half for my pleasure. It would go like "$875, $437.5, $218.75, $109.37, $54.68, $27.34, $13.67, $6.83, $3.4, $1.7, $0.85". A series of 11 contests is better than one. - Ekim Nazım Kaya

Don't give us money, give us ideas ! - Ahsan Ali aka. Slick

If I came into any type of money this year it would go towards a trip to London to see my family and friends; and see my favourite band, Blur play live for the first time. Leftover cash to the Red Cross. My honest answer. - Chrissie M

I would use it to help fund a startup website to help diabetics find proper products to help manage their health and lifestyle - Erik Schmith

I would love to win. Would probably spend the money on one of two things: my 17 year anniversary is coming in early April, so a present for the wife is a necessity - thinking a nice hot springs overnight trip in Izu, south of Tokyo (where I live). Otherwise, I would also consider using the money to help bootstrap TechMiso.com, a new blog I co-founded and launched on Jan 1 with my good buddy Rich. - Scott Jarkoff

I want to win soo soo bad... lol... I would use the money as a deposit on an apartment so I can move out of the country and actually have High Speed Internet (cant even use a cellular card cause im so far in the country) Ive always wanted to start a blog and website but cant since Dial-up is sooo sooo slow... This would be the Happiest Day of my Life!!! :) - James Boyd

While thinking trough this all day since I've read about it, I think that I should spent it for 50/50 on my own project and on the stuff that you just don't get to while being a son of divorced parents. My computer upgrade is more than welcome, switch to Mac OS X would be greatly appreciated. Great action Robert, thanks for this opportunity from Holland! - Coen Jacobs

If this comment picked randomly, then goodbye to MacBook Pro...(paradoxal comment including 2 answers in one way.) - Olcayto Cengiz

Growing up, my parents would always tell me that considering the amount of time I spend on the web, I should be making money out it. But I desire that the content I put out there be free. Over the years I've spent a lot on pursuing this passion but never earned a buck out of it. Now would be a great opportunity to finally do so. I may not be the most deserving or the most in need out of everyone here but if I did win I'd do something nice for my parents and tell them it was courtesy of the Internet. - Michael Josh Villanueva

I would use the money to donate back to all of the open source projects that I have been using for the past 5 years. Many of the products that are produced are outstanding and need to be supported. - Anthony Schelling

I'll take Scoble to block. Actually; I would use the money to complete my dedciated streaming studio. While I have the mics & cams set, I'm still working on the furniture, and the servers for the encoding. Then I could be a guest on your show and show it off. - Keith Barrett

Will take a trip and visit you at your new project :) - Liviu Lica

I'll use the cash to attend sxsw next year, following the twitter feeds this year has proved its worth to me. I'll get you a beer in too, unless that seems coercive. - Simon Kirrane

I would use the Money to help my daughter who is 13, to Travel Europe this Summer as she has been selected to be a Student Ambassador Representing the US and The State of Kansas. A Life changing experience, for our young people to learn and experience other cultures. People to People select 40 top Students from each state to represent the US. This experience is to teach our young people... more... - Joyce

Count me IN for that - thanks dude! :-D - Lee Kitchen

Hey new friend I sure could use that money to repair some of the debt my bipolar wife has put our family in. Ever have any questions about what goes on in a max security prison, let me know. - Tom Lord

Both me and my SO need computer upgrades at home to better work from home but that's not very much money. Just don't have it. The rest would go towards savings or to fix the collapsed porch out back. - Paul Wade

Nice discussion thread. Any extra cash would go to my newly-widowed uncle, who found himself with a mountain of vet bills to pay after his dog, and only remaining companion, spent a week in ICU in an O2 tent. - Hooeyspewer

Hey Robert - I would use the money to pay some bills and refit the computer my kids use. Thanks for making the world interesting! - Tim Ake

It's a real and nice chance to win a pretty good amount of money, which can help me in making my dreams about lighting equipment for home studio to became true! :) - PWR

I would pay off my burning man debt. - Andrew Stein

This looks like its a record breaking thread. - Roberto Bonini

Count me in! - Alvin

i am an unemployed chef (since september) who blogs. in the interest of growing my blog, i would use $600 to buy a nikon d40 + tripod; $600 for a grocery gift card for ingredients; the remaining $550 would be split amongst a few uses: buying and setting up my domain name, blog features (restaurant and/or market reviews, culinary events, etc.), and html classes. whatever i lose in taxes will be taken out of this last portion ~ the first two are the most necessary right now. - Kayce Maisel

I would use the money as part of a down payment on a new car. I commute 100 miles a day and my car is dying at a most unfortunate time. Well, that's what I SHOULD do. I would probably buy some gadget like a Kindle and some books because my geek gene gets the better of me most days. - Amy Anuszewski

I would like to use it to buy a Mac Mini but I first have to deal with Wife Tax so I might be able to get a snickers bar. Love you honey! - Wesley Snider

I would buy a slice of taxes that I owe Barack Obama. - Chris Wallace

I'm in! - James Ferguson

I would use the money to finally launch my puppet sitcom. My seven month-old daughter already loves the live version, and it would be great to have the video version for anytime viewing. Plus I think lots of other people would love the show as well. It's like the Muppet Show but more "Seinfeld" and less "Lawrence Welk". But there will still indeed be musical numbers. - Mike Janicke

Can't really resist that can I now? I'll put it all towards the new startup incubator that I'm setting up. www.greenhouselimerick.com - Evert

I would give the money to my wife. She is trying to get custody of her son back. Thanks for the chance Robert! - Brian

I would use this to upgrade my camera. - Evan Travers

Oops almost forgot to leave a comment for the random drawing. :) - James Boyd

I would use the money to take my wife on a nice vacation for our anniversary. - Jonathan Gardner

I`ll take some of that money :) - Steven Shvartsman

What would you like me to do with the money? - Simon Hicks

An Irish Toast on my favorite Holiday that is St. Paddy's Day: "Here's to the ones we love we love. Here's to the ones that love us love us. For all those that don't love us, F@%$ them and here's to us." I'd use the money to spend on friends & strangers drinking and eating on a random day enjoying the moment and making memories you'd never forget. - Lyn Graft

What a great idea Scoble! So sad I missed sxsw this year! I would use half the money to go towards a new lift for my step mother who has MS and I would use the other half to purchase a small fishing boat to go fishing with my boy who's birthday is this weekend. - Bryan

Robert, dude! You are awesome. Would use money to help find a teaching job! - Patty Pinkley

If you pick me I will put the money towards the trip to China I'm taking in July. - Kris

Better idea of what to do with the money - promote LTSP - Linux Terminal Server Project http://www.ltsp.org. Continue to bring low cost desktop solutions to the masses. - Erick Tyack

Robert, congrats on the new job. Look forward to seeing the new ways you are going to invigorate rackspace and the community. There are some great comments here already. This is a great thing you are doing, take care - Michael Bazzoni

Action Figures. I would use the money to buy lots and lots of action figures. And maybe a dwarf horse. - Aaron Linne

I would put that money towards buying a couple of iPod Touches and a Mac for three friend of mine. We've just finished a short, free game that took us two years to finish on evenings and some weekends, and are talking about trying to make a game for Apples platform in our spare time since we work so well together as a team. - Jonas Eriksson

This will kill FriendFeed. DO they have a FailWhale...? ;) - Frank Koehntopp

Pay 4 months rent. And, I swear I'm not trying to sound pious, but I'd donate to Food for Lane County, an awesome local organization that gives away food. - tracy

I'd do some traveling, getting to know new things is always great... - Fabian

$1750? I'll buy Facebook and sell to Twitter. - Bob Withers

I'd use the cash to pay back my employer all the time I spend reading Scoble's comments on FriendFeed. ha. - Jon Mason

Jumping into your hat. Randomly pick me. - Ben

I'll finally buy that wide angle lens that I've been hankering after for my Olympus E-400... - Peter Holloway

Hmm... $1750, eh? I'd buy a few of those unlocked Android phones to create custom firmware that does end-to-end encryption of calls... I've been wanting to do that for a while for fun. - Matt

I will use the money to help me get to OSCON. - Mike Canzoneri

I will buy an iMac for my local school who only have PCs ... boo. www.woolastonschool.com. They currently do basic animation with PCs but I would like to get some of the older kids using iStopMotion, FCP and possibly Motion also. Would be an honour to spend ALL the money on this. - Nick Pearce

Was laid off a month ago from my job at one of the big 4 record companies. In this down economy, seems like a good time to start a new business. I'd use the cash to help get my new business started. - SJ

Ha! Joined friendfeed just to win this! - Solomon King

I'll buy a new computer for my wife... now that she's a blogger and podcaster, I can't do anything on my computer anymore! Then I'll get a decent shared network storage device that makes a lot of sense for my expanding network. - Chuck Stanley

A chunk to charity and a chunk to fund some development on some crazy web thing I am cooking - Nigel James

$1,750 would go a long way in Africa! That's like 8 months salary for my small team! - Solomon King

I believe I would take a vacation to the Keys. - Ryan Dadey

Or wait, I could get two decent laptops for my developer and tech support guy! - Solomon King

I'll do my part in stimulating the housing market! I'm buying a house in a couple of months, and savings for the down payment. An extra grand or so would allow me to stop doing some work for other people, and focus on doing work for myself in the way of publishing my ideas, and creating web-apps that would be useful. Reading your blog posts has really got my excited to share my thoughts and ideas with the web. - Jim Rubenstein

I'm wondering if this is a test to see if FF can handle a few thousand comments in a short amount of time. May the winners enjoy what they get. - Matt Silva

I would continue my educational pursuit of an IT degree. Plus buy a few Xbox 360 games! Awesome way to use FF Robert! ;-) - Carlton Hackett

I'd buy the iPhone tablet that's being announced today. Good gosh, I hope it comes out today! - Robert Hinojosa

I'm looking for a new camera. I've been trying to take pictures of my son's Scout troop and swim team with an old Canon G3, and it's a real struggle to get any decent pics. I'd love to pick up a 40D and a lens or two. - D. Lambert

I would send my parents on a vacation and I would buy my wife a NEW HD Tivo - Andrew Yeager-Buckley

Debt reduction? - Lenny Post

I run a small business with two brands http://www.GeekLoot.com and http://www.PodGizmo.com, I will use the money to advertise on blogs and facebook. - Mike Down

Pretty cool news. I love this kind of capitalist competition. I've been reading your blog for about a year and I'm glad you're using it more now. I'm a college student, I think I would use the money I win to start a site which rewrites the Constitution and basically the entire American governmental system in a wiki, user-edited style. I've got a url that isn't taken picked out, and I just need some money to startup and learn html all the rest of that stuff. - Brian Wilson

Hello Robert, I will use the money to help create a web startup which will allow you (and other people of course) to use their fame and reputation to help promote other people who have talents, skills, experience, and a willingness to work, but who are not necessarily able to reach a wide enough audience on their own. The focus is to allow people who network with entrepreneurs to refer... more... - Ivan Lukianchuk

This is damn awesome, Robert! What would I do with some nice cash? I'd probably buy myself some new-to-me Canon camera gear, a lens or two (depending on price), and maybe some Alien Bees lights. Probably soup up my PC a bit more too. Either that, or just buy a MacBook Pro instead. At least that way I'd be able to edit photos and audio worth a damn haha.. :D I just REALLY need some extra money to be able to enable me to start doing what I love doing more, and a day-job less. :) - Lou

I'll use it to obtain my CISSP cert. There has to be a better way to reduce/eliminate these zombie bot-nets that are used for very bad activities! - Craig Macfarlane

Hello Robert, I would use to money to keep developing and expanding affordable wildlife photo workshops to some of the most amazing destinations in the US. You can see my last Yellowstone Winter Photo Workshop info here: http://wildnaturetours.com This workshop was very successful and managed to fit in both natural history of one of the most amazing places on earth with some spectacular photography (and video). I am in the processing of editing some of the content that will then be made available. Thanks. - Juan Pons

I would use the cash to buy some of the new netbooks with touchscreen to get some seniors online: grand parents deserve to enjoy the real-time web goodness too! - Mathieu Ayel

So with Scoble's latest post http://friendfeed.com/e... this thread is now closed. LAST! - sofarsoShawn

50D + Decent Lens, and a six-pack. - Than R

Donate it to charity - Allwin Agnel

I would use the prize money to stimulate the economy by purchasing a new MacBook Pro! :) - Matt O'Keefe

you are hardly last :P I'd use the money to put more down on a down payment for my first home :D - Jonathan

I'd help fund my husband's work on his first graphic novel and send his butt to Comic Con to pitch it to publishers :) The most empowering thing is to help other people reach their goals, and I like that this contest is all about that, so I'd pass that gift along. - Tiffany Monhollon

NIKON D90 for my wife... PS3 for me... the rest toward the house... - Jason Womick

Here's my entry. Thanks for the contest, Robert! - Paul Maez

hey Robert, great competition! I'd use the money to fund my startup creating mobile apps that offer powerful messaging possibilities, including gmail-style threaded messages for all kinds of networks. - Dirk

I'll use the money to pay for my certification in Cisco's Unified Computing System - Andrew Mitry

Good luck with the new direction, Scoble. - Mike Smith

I'd use the money to further my tech addiction. Too many gadgets, too little money...that's where you come in! - Paul Maez

I'd take my daughters to see their grandparents in Florida, upgrade to a (used) Intel Macbook, sign up for PHP training, and renew my NPR membership, Cheers, and thanks! - Jim Akin

I'm not going to even pretend that I would use it for charitable causes. A new MacBookPro and a 30 inch display. I'd then use it to start my development projects. - bjmac

Hey there, Robert. I'd use the money to finance my teeny-tiny iPhone game development company (basically a programmer and myself doing art and everything else). Cheers! - karchesky

I'd use the money to start my "LIFE IMPROVED" fund: personal use, philanthropy, and anywhere in between. The only stipulation is that it improves someone's quality of life. - Tamikka

I'd use the money to pay for the trip to meet you and get to spend a day in the life of Robert Scoble. - Jean-François D. Gauthier

Hey there Robert! I would use the money to either pay for my coming semester of college so I could actually finish....or I would upgrade some tech in my life (for example, acquire an HD video camera and various other tech for studio and/or podcast recording) - Gerardo R. Monreal Jr.

Oh man...new netbook, finally getting a smartphone, and renewing hosting on new blogs... Anything left after that will be split between my son's saving account (investing in the future) and probably the Dog's Trust charity. - Badger Gravling

How would I use the money? I need to purchase one of the new 24" iMacs to further my Design & Photography careers. - Herne

I will use the money to invest in myself and my future career. By that I mean make my side business of portrait photography into something more real and tangible rather than just a haphazard event. - Ryan

I would most likely spend the winnings on gifts for my daughters, a little something for my wife and (of course) a tech toy for myself. There's nothing more enjoyable than spending "found money". Cheers! - Kevin

Interesting idea, thanks! - Loïc Dumont

I will donate half to the local computers for kids program that helps underprivileged kids with access to to computers, education and the internet. It is a great program where soon I will be teaching parents about social networking so they can communicate with there kids in the same language. The other half, I'm helping pay for my wedding. - Chris Rippe

I could use to win the money to pay for my laser eye surgery so I can get the job I want in policing. - Jason

Hoping the luck of the Irish pulls through for me today - andi argast

I would use the money for my ceramics art studio. Part of the money would go to setting up a live 24/7 multi-camera stream where people can watch and learn. - Greg Ashbaugh

You rule! - Happy

top o' the mornin' to ya - (from boston>austin!) - clewellyn

We're having our third child in July, so I'd use the money to re-do our upstairs. The office will be a casualty. - Tim Trentham

Robert, I just returned from a Alexandria Rotary (alexrotary.com) Board meeting. I am hoping to go on a trip to Tanzania to work on a school called Peace House (http://www.peacehousefoundation.org). Funding is the hold up for me as part will come from the Rotarian and part from our club. If I win, I am definitely going as the amount that I will likely be responsible for is $1,500-1,700. - Craig Mische

We are hosting an event to celebrate the International Creativity and Innovation Day (April 21 which is Da Vinci's b-day). It is the first event within a telco culture. I'd use the money to buy some creative tech prizes for the day like CS4, an entry level Wacom product, a mind mapping subscription, SXSW 10 pass, etc. - Krystal

I would use the money to put a dent in the mountain of cc debt I have from a couple of failed ideas that I've poured money into. - Joel

($1,750) - Open a phonebook, randomly pick a name, follow that person 7 degrees out. Each degree of separation tell that persons story through audio interviews, video, writing, and online media. We need to remember life is interconnected and everyone has a story. - Tim Shisler

Hi Robert. I'd use the money to help fund construction of a computer that will reveal the Ultimate Question to Life, the Universe and Everything. It's a small start, but then everything's small in the light of 10 million years... - Andreas Strothmann

Everything old is new again---make it green on St Paddy's Day! - Carolyn Baehr

I would probably buy the most expensive meal I ever had.(6000 Chicken Fajitas) - JC Lima

Thanks for spreading the wealth out Robert! As for me, should I win the money, I would first take my wife out to dinner (priorities!), and put what's left toward software to help me in my fledgling freelancing work. - Sam Hetrick

Hmm... A shot at $1,000 just for commenting? - HackingNeflix

First Comment: Awesome idea, great way to draw attention to a great conversation - Jason DeBoer-Moran

Second Comment: I would use part of the money to get my SxSW travel fund off the ground for next year. The other part I would put towards paying off my travel to ETech this year. - Jason DeBoer-Moran

If I win, either way, I'll make a donation to kiva.org, and use the rest to invest in my business. - Phil Ripperger

Well, I fell in love this year and I'm saving money for an engagement ring. So I'll be using it for that! - Ben Pettit

My wife and daughter live in Ohio, and I took a career job in Virginia. It being difficult to sell a house in Ohio, I would put any and all moneys toward that goal. - Shawn Lockard

Sounds good to me - Austin Garrod

if i win the prize, I will spend my money to build a new and free web 2.0 web project (i will anounce it here) - Abdullah Özgün

and with the money, i would probably invest in getting a new computer for me and the family, the one i'm using now is 7 years old and i could barely start it up to write this - Austin Garrod

Very interesting to read some of the comments and start the conversation. I would use it to help offset expenses for bringing an 11yr old girl from Egypt to the Philadelphia Shriners for surgery. She suffers from arthrogryposis multiplex congenita (amc--multiple joint contractures and fixed limbs). For dolagy her knees are folded up around her shoulders with arms locked straight at her... more... - margaret chaidez

Lost my job last year after 3 yrs and checked my 401K yesterday and had a whole $77 in the account. Will use the cash for the mortgage and training. Thank you! - David L. Crooks

I'll be using the money to fly to the bay area to see if it's worth it to quit my job and follow my dream. - Mike

I will be using the money to travel around and report about it in a daily videoblog. - Jens Christian Freund

I would use the $$ to kick my fledgling start-up into gear. Even without your money would love to talk to you about it. - Philip

Marketing at its finest! Excellent idea Robert. - Simply Boulder

Roll the cash, baby! - Wisdom Works Group

I'd give every cent to my mom, who is struggling with her mortgage, so she wouldn't get behind. - Andrew Green

Free internet access for a year! - ReeltimeDVD

Hey, you are always creative... - Ömer Faruk Kurt

Really not sure what I'd use it for. Probably bills, but most likely I'd see something shiny, realize I have $$$ in my wallet and just spend it :) - Hal Thompson

I'll use the money to fund my random venture over the summer. - Hung

I'll use the money to buy a DSLR and attempt to learn how to be a photographer - Ryan

I have no idea what I would do with the money, but it would likely end up in a project for my kids school.... - Samuel DeVore

I will take 750$ and use it for my project and I will give 1000$ part back to you for another contest. Maybe I can win it again... :) - Ömer Faruk Kurt

Student loans, here I come :) - Sigoya

Pay for my trip to Japan, as well as entry into a Ironman race! - Chris Lewis

Does FF pay you to get them users? - Thomas Amberg

If I could be chosen to receive the $1750, I'd give it all to Kiva.org to support women entrepreneurs who need technology to build their businesses. the condition is that you join me for drinks/dinner at Presidio Social Club. - Lydia Sugarman

I would use it towards the downpayment for a new house J - Eber Irigoyen

I will use the $1000 to create a quick prototype of a friendfeed like social network (of course better, but can't tell you the secret yet) and put aside $750 to hosting at mosso for the next 7.5 months. - Jeffrey Yan

yes please - Christopher Bell

No whammies! No whammies. STOP! - Michael Pearson

I'd use the money to make my commute much greener - either for a good bike or an electric scooter. Additionally, I would purchase through a nearby vendor so the buy is also helpful for our local economy. - Paul Marino

Hurrah for free money. If i won the money i would take my wife to paris disney as were both disney nuts and are feeling very broke and in need of a holiday. Anything i had left woudl go towards my macbook fund - Jamie Vidamour

My wife is going back to school to become a physical therapist and I'm trying to update my resume/portfolio in case I need to look for a new job in web marketing, and we need new computers to replace the 6 y.o. desktop and 3y.o. laptop that gets daily BSoDs. - Benjamin Lipsman

Half goes to Heifer International and half goes towards paying down personal loans. :) - Rylan

with that money we would hire 4 programmers for 1 month in eastern europe to develop a product that would change the world of e-commerce ;) - Alensa

I would use the money to pay one of my brother's bills. The tech sector in MN is not in good shape. - Matthew McCowan

I wouldn't mind the money, I would put it in my pool of cash that I'm growing for a startup. Thanks for giving the chance! - Tim Broder

I'll use half the money to help me and my family pay some bills and get a small breather from the recession. I'll donate the other half to the jQuery project to help foster more development of their projects like jQuery UI and to help with their infrastructure costs. - Ralph Whitbeck

I would like to pay some pending bills, also I would like to share the money with a cultural association here in Costa Rica - Víctor

I would use the money to makeup for market losses on March 16th - srinivasufeed

I would use the money to hire a designer to design a good looking website for a Jewellery store site that I'm working for my wife. She's currently using blogspot along with google checkout(http://lajouels.blogspot.com/) and has being asking for a website for ages. - Praveen

I will fund my childrens picture book startup (http://www.memetales.com) and have 1. one of my cool illustrators create a super cool illustration of you or 2. have one of my writers include you as a character in one of my picture books. 2 cool offers - personalized just for YOU!! Imagine that !! You pick 1 or 2. (picking both would probably cost me as much as the prize money ;)) - Maya

With either of the prizes I would put a tiny bit away, and use the rest to buy some film equipment/time to finish my series about artists in the DC area called "The Form Appears". I'm guessing I should write something here about give the money to a non-profit doing amazing work for the planet, but honestly, it would just be used for my own artistic needs. - Emmett

I'd create the Scoble Blogger Scholarship. I'm just getting established as a pro blogger. I would use the money to invest in my business to take me to the next step. I would pledge to double the money this time next year and make it available to another blogger in a similar position, with the proviso that they would also continue to pay it forward. - Mike Cliffe Jones

probably would use it to knock of a bit of a 30k hospital bill. Or decorate my 5 yo daughters room. Nah .. definitely the room, if we can get the house lol - vanweerd

I'd get my 15 seconds of internet fame, and laugh at my fortune. I would not forget the little people. - Viajero

If I win, I'm going to donate the money to SproutPoint, a local non-profit org that helps business people refine their business plans, and seeds them with investment capital. The only way out of this recession is if we rebuild the economy with hard-working entrepreneurs. - Rob Stevens

I'd use it for a new MacBook, which of course I would use to spend lots of time following @scobleizer on twitter, friendfeed, and anything else - Chris Brakebill

though I should note I'm not as obsessive and creepers of a follower as that made me sound. just love the good content @scobleizer puts out - Chris Brakebill

Thomas: I am not paid by, nor compensated by friendfeed in any way. I push friendfeed because it's the best service out there. Period. - Robert Scoble

Tough times the last few months have forced us to cut contributions to our child's 529 college fund to a bare minimum. I'd use this to catch-up for her sake. - Bill Day

This must be the all time record for comments! Great idea. - Victor Ryden

i'm in for the $1k. i haven't read all the comments, but my two cents says give one of the other amounts to margaret! - Scott Sorheim

would use the $$ for much-needed computer upgrade - b Anthony

In case you're not following me yet on FF, find me here. - Scott Mace

Robert, agree with FF being the best service out there. Thanks for promoting it and thus getting more people involved and more great content shared and commented on. :-) - Kol Tregaskes

great. I will buy lots of books on Amazon :) - Maria Podolyak

I will pick today's winner with http://www.random.org live on http://www.ustream.tv/studio at 4 p.m. Austin Time (2 p.m. Central). - Robert Scoble

A new fire hoop I would buy. - Donovan Watts

I would probably use the money on a family vacation (or at least an upgrade to a family vacation). - Andrew Gorohoff

Great contest. I'm in. - Patrick Jordan

Wondering if this has broken a record for most comments on FF. /random comment - Rachel Walden

Friend feed should have a back to "topic", if the comments are huge like for this thread. :) - Swaroop

Will the winner need to contact you right away? Because I won't be able to watch at that time or anything. - Chris, Taskerrific Guy

@Rachel It hasn't. There's at least one thread with more comments. http://friendfeed.com/search... - Chris Lasher

If you choose me, I ask that Rackspace donate's the money directly to OLPC. Enable everyone! - David Lynch

Chris: no. I'll post the winners on friendfeed and have them email me. - Robert Scoble

If it's not too late, I'd love the extra funds; both sons need dental work and the employer's dental coverage is pretty slim. - Jill O'Neill

If I win, I would use the money to go see my son and granddaughter. - Sandra

Wow, Robert, this thread is incredible! I would use the money to pay for some improvements to my home and to pursue a nonprofit idea I'm trying to grow. - asiriusgeek

Count me in! Well ,I'll order Kindle 2 and plan a vacation to Europe! - Krishnamoorthy

If I win second prize, I will send money back to you! :) - Vlad Rafeyev

With $1750, I'd repair the windshield on our 2000 Impala and then pay off the remaining debt on our "overdraft protection" credit card. - Daniel J. Pritchett

This is great! I've been working on helping very small businesses (pizza shops, dry cleaners, bowling alleys, etc) use SM tools to promote with very little overhead. A lot of shops have gone out of business recently because they didn't know how to promote outside of the Yellow Pages. If I were to win, I'd use the money to help these businesses with some basic costs like reprinting a menu to mention their facebook fan page, some hosting for a blog or a webcam. I don't charge for my services. - Dave Ferrick

Robert, the $1000 would be nice, but having you visit my site plexav.com to see a demonstration would be even better. - Kenneth Stein

Lets see. I will use the money to move and integrate 12 different but related business entity websites that are in desperate need of integration. Then I will utilize FF and similar aggregation services to help gather the necessary expertise and tutorials to accomplish our optimization and social integration goals. After that I will provide you with a report on the process and results. - Eric Logan

My wife and I are a statistic, but we break the trend. We were "friends with benefits" in college and she got pregnant. I married her. Not because she was pregnant but because I realized that's what I wanted all along. This June we will have been married 9 years and we have 4 amazing sons between us. For our anniversary this June I want to re-propose to her and tell her I want to renew our vows for our 10th anniversary the following year. I love her so much and it's time she has some proper wedding photos! - George Clingerman

How I would use the money: I would have Robert donate the money to a charity, to be decided later. Or perhaps to low income student athletes in California who may have to 'pay to play' this year due to budget cuts. - Rodfather

Hmm. I haven't got a sob story that would make anyone sob on my behalf. And yet I would like to take your money, Robert, so very badly. If I were to win, I would be tempted to use the money for a good cause but ultimately, after putting away money for taxes, I would end up spending the remainder on fripperies and possibly airfare someplace that is not here. I would have a very good time (but nothing illegal!) and might even send you a post card. Or in your case, a tweet. I could do both, I suppose. - Carolyn Jewel

Hello Robert. If i win i'll use the money to hire a coder to create part of the platform for www.chartempire.com. - Frangino Lucarini

I'll donate the money to Our Lady of Perpetual Help (OLPH) food pantry in St. Louis, which has also become a facility that provides medical / vision care and training (in addition to feeding several thousand people each week) in the most hard-pressed neighborhoods in the metro area. We'll then use the money to improve the OLPH infrastructure (basic stuff - network switches, nics, etc.) that supports that medical / vision care, as well as the training. The labor is donated by local tech entrepreneurs. - Bob Lozano

With $1750 from @scobleizer, I'd pay for a little freelance graphic work to get the redesign of http://wiredjournalists.com rolling. - Ryan Sholin

Many people are saying they will donate to charity and this kind of stuff, but I will be honest. I will use about 150 to buy a new printer - I really need it for college, it is a pain to ask my neighbor to print stuff all the time. 450 will go to 6 months of my grandma's medicine fund, so I don't have to worry about it. The rest I will probably save to buy a Palm Pre when it comes out or something cool and amazing. - Kiko Cherman

I would use the $$ to make a dent in the pile of debt that is looming over my head and making my life hell!! Not a very exciting use of the money... but getting out of this debt would make a BIG difference in my life!! - Meredith

I would use the money to help fund the tools I need to take my startup to the next level. - William Spaetzel

With $1750 I'd finally get a laptop that wasn't owned by an employer. - Richard Byrne

To my new FriendFeed friend - always remember: "a friend in need is a friend in deed" but a "friend with money is the friend we need" - Huw Pendry

There's only one thing that's been on my mind that the money could go towards: An Open Source Command Center which will be named "0pie: Reb0rn". The current 0pie isn't doing so well, with a 40lb monitor that flickers in a way that really seizes you, and RAM that was considered top of the line when Megabytes were the highest feasible unit of measure. However! 0pie: Reb0rn will surpass... more... - David Wynn from fftogo

I'd buy something nice, like a vacation, for my mom. - John Piekos

I have a feeling this just made me an accesory to a crime. - Steve C

Nice! I would add the money to what I'm saving to buy a garage for my house. - Orville Chomer

I would GIVE the money to my former admin who's husband is hospitalized awaiting a heart transplant. - Bob Stewart

Hi Robert. Not one person above me said PLEASE I would like 2 win because........ can I remind everyone that manners cost nothing so may I be the first to say please count me in to your generous offer and Thanks - garth

I would give my fiance the money so she could register for real estate training. - Ryan

I would use the money to help buy monitors and computer to have a good setup to kickstart my graphic design freelancing career. I'm very poor and won't be able to afford it for YEARS. - courto

A thousand bucks is plenty. How would I use it? First I'm going to get myself a Flip Mino HD that I read about on your blog. I'm running the Mexico City Marathon in August and that Flip looks the perfect way to record my effort! I'll even get it in custom colours to match the Marathon blog I'm doing! That takes care of $200. Another $300 will get me the Canon SX1 instead of the SX10 I'm about to buy. The rest will go to the charity I'm raising cash for by running the marathon. - Gary

I'm from Costa Rica, I'm Sculpture from UCR, in case you think on me, I'll use that money to help me and my friends to get tools and work materials, maybe you can get some of our sculptures in spirit of fairness! :) - Mauricio

Hope everyone here for the money sticks around for the people! I would love to win the money - I would buy my first Mac ever, the new Mini looks amazing! Pick up a Kindle and some books and pay for our family vacation before the new baby arrives! I will also renew the domain and actually write on my secret identity's parody site. DM Tygerdave on Twitter if you need to know the site before you decide :) Thanks for doing this and pluging friendfeed at the same time! - David Knight

http://friendfeed.com/e... - Manuela

I would use the money to buy a new lens or two for my Canon - Marcus McCurdy

It's very generous of you to do this giveaway Robert! I'd use it to help keep my wife's new law practice wiith some additional marketing. She just got set up in her little office but is still working on building the business. She does Immigration law. Her Twitter handle is @mainstlawyer. - Jesse P. Luna

I would use it to pay for my Flight Instructor rating training. - Louis Bourque

i am in! i would use the other money to promote a new online project that i am working on that deals with the graphic design. thanks. - Ethan Bodnar

Hi, i'm Jose Daniel from Costa Rica, i work in web programming. I hope win the money to start a little personal projects. By the way, in this moment i have not job so would be nice the prize :) - Jose Daniel

I would use the money to start a company in my spare time - John Munro

I'd use it to help pay for my wife's medical school expenses - loans topping $250k... - Dave

If I win the $1750 I will buy me a Nikon D300. - Philipp Mertens

Want to create great conversation? Start giving stuff away! I would use the money to finally finish my iPhone development project by hiring some graphic designers to customize graphics for the program and then release it via a Scoble announcement! - Matthew Strickland

If I win the money I would use it to continue my studies in Reiki healing and teaching, so I could assist in healing people in these tough times. - Louise

Robert, if I win, I'll give half to the Charity Smackdown cause I'm supporting, Stand Up To Cancer (see: http://charitysmackdown.com/team_SU... ). The rest will help 'stimulate my local economy' - food from the green market, some purchases at local stores, probably pay the plumber to fix something that's been on the list for a while. - Howard Greenstein

Hey Robert- Thanks for the offer and I gladly accept the possibility of winning! Normally I am a giver and have been all my life, but this time, due to my financial situation, I have to be a receiver. So I would share the money with myself. But that will help along the road to be able to give back again. It's all good! Thanks to you for being a giver! - Candace Davenport

Congratulations. You made me log into FriendFeed this week. - maczter

Sweet. Free money! I'll take me some. - Jason Packham

With $1750 I'd use it to travel to California and try to get my startup in Y Combinator. Even if I don't, $1750 would be enough to fund my business in Mexico for 3 months! - Mariano

I'd use the money to jumpstart my new pseudo teleportation company. Details on the concept can be found here: http://pushingthepulldoor.blogspot.com/ - Rick Popko

You could just be my destiny! - Alejandra Luthmer

Robert, I'll use the $ to take a trip to SF to meet YOU! if you take me up on it I'll pay you for a few minutes of your advice :) - Francois

Robert, thanks for sharing... I'll take the money and give it to the hard working developers (2) of our Startup www.kontexto.com They deserve a bonus and due to the economic times and our need to be frugal we haven't given anyone extra $. These guys deserve a little extra for all their hard work behind the scene - David http://friendfeed.com/dclarke - David Clarke

If I win the money I will (1) give some to family members in need, (2) purchase a computer for myself (using a very, very old one), (3) save some for the future and (4) fund some acting career necessities, i.e. classes, etc. Thank you for this opportunity!!! - Cynthia Fellowes

You are very generous to be doing this. Ignore the haters!!! - Cynthia Fellowes

I'd buy an iphone to start doing dev work for cross platform (bb, symbian, etc) apps. - Ben Vear

If i would win id buy as many good engineering books as i can find ( The art of electronics, the art of computer programming, blodgett), Buy some propper tools like a good soldering iron, power supply, occiloscope and a microcontroller programmer, get loads of components and start learning to make cool electronics stuff. - Pim de Groot

i'd donate it to my dad's after school/summer program for inner city kids in toledo, kids unlimited. http://www.kidsunlimitedtoledo.org/ - john

I'll buy the arcadexl.com website on sale on sitepoint and then donate the adsense earnings to my Kiva account - Dave Nixon

If I won, I would use it to be able to get some of the gear that I've been looking at and try to learn how to develop on it. I've been trying to piece together the parts to be able to build a smaller linux computer to do what the droboshare does (the drobo's not as interesting if you're technically minded). As a student, that gear's hard to come by. - robbie nakamura

I would give up $1 greasy McChicken sandwiches and bump up to $2.50 Subway sandwiches--this might help me make better decisions--you know, more veggies for better brain power. :) - exoticat

I would use the money to buy a new Macbook and a Flip Mino HD! - Jon Victorino

When will it be Announced? - TheHenry

Congrats & Thanks for getting me started with FF !!! - sathya

Love it. I'd like to buy the world a coke> - Ben

Good Stuff! I do like the XML API - definitely a universal interface. - Terza

I'll pay a UI person to work on my pet project, i suck at it. - mehdi

If I win, I'll stimulate the economy by hiring someone to fix my roof. - Roy Jacobsen

I'm ready. I could use it to pay for ridiculous prescription costs. - Jen (SquirrelGirl)

I'll buy myself a Kindle 2 and give the rest to Rocky B. - Michael Krakovskiy

For $1750, a Kindle 2, some e-books to go with it, and maybe a nice Canon lens. :) - J Wang

If I won the money I would buy a HP MediaSmart home server. My wife and I just got married, and suddenly we have gigs and gigs of photos and videos that we want to keep forever. The idea of automatic, incremental backups gets me all aflutter. I love technology that makes life easier :) - Tony Fendall

I'd give $750 to my Fav charity, Mobile Loaves and Fishes, @MLFNOW, and Split the $1000 between my two children to start a college fund. - Karen

I could come up with no good reason - except that I probably would get myself the Wii and one more console and probably a NAS server - the rest (f anything remains) can go to some charity. Oh and get a drobo too if I can:) - Brijesh

I would use it to upgrade my teenage son's Mac and camera equipment for his stop-motion Lego movie. - MaDBooM

I would celebrate the crash of the GBP against the USD as I convert it over to spend in Harrods - Emma Dunstone

I will get myself a new laptop that doesn't take 10 minutes to start up, and by the way I'm a teacher that taught four sections of a "Thinking and Writing: A Blog of One's Own" at a state college, using (among other readings) your Corporate Weblog Manifesto and Scobleizer--I want to equip myself to further use social media for fun and education. - Tracy Mendham

I will spend the money on my wife and mother of our young kids. A day of pampering at a spa, new clothes, nice meal, etc. - Clif Mims

Robert, I would use the money to but my 17 YO daughter her first car....or at least a down payment on one.. Nothing fancy, just something to get around in. - Nick

I would use the money to buy a decent server and some memory upgrades for the Linux Lab we are setting up at a local community center. It's all donated hardware and will be used for computer literacy in the underprivileged North Charleston community. http://www.csclug.org/... - Dan T

A handful of Nikon SB-900's - chris tirpak

I believe in randomness :D, so if I get your money I will buy a "random" airplane ticket to a "random" country and blog about it - dimi3limb

Buy a used Canon 5D and a decent lens - Alain Breillatt

Hello! I'll take that money and buy half a laptop. - Anthony

I'd invest it in my startup - MixedInk! - Vanessa Scanfeld

I would tithe to Kiva and use the rest for my startup (change the world, baby!) - Toby Hede

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