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20 GWave Invites -- leave 'em.

October 31 - Comment - Like - Share

Michele Masina, joy003, oliv21 and Holden Page liked this

hi,pls,joy003 at gmail dot com,thank you! - joy003

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andry.peng [at]gmail dot com,thanks! - andry

scabrcom at gmail, thx:) - Igor Poltavskiy

johnnicolly at gmail,thx u!! - Johnnicolly

good,please to, berobertaa # gmail.com ,thanks... - Robertaa

if still have,please send a invite to me ,heqy.he at gmail .com,thanks! - heqy

if still have,please send a invite to me, thanks , hamidreza.mazlaghani@gmail.com - Hamid Reza

mbriquet at gmail dot com thanks - brqt

Hi Mike - could you please send me one invite, my email is ric4p5 at gmail Thanks - jose manuel

denek08@gmail.com , thank you - parasol

hamid.azimy [at] gmail , thanks! :) - Hamid the Great

Hi, can you send one to masinamichele[at]gmail.com? Thank you! - Michele Masina

Would love one if you still have them... scotthuston {at} g m a i l dot com - Scott Huston

remi.pages (at) gmail.com - Remi pages from FreshFeed

Thx - Remi pages from FreshFeed

All have been nominated/invited. Still got a few left. - Mike Kogelman

brandonmccall at gmail dot com. Thanks! - © b e e n s w a n k

Sent to brandonmccall -- next? :) still got 6. - Mike Kogelman

but i didn't receive anything yet :( hamid.azimy@gmail.com ... - Hamid the Great

Hi Mike,still have?please send to hendrypeng at gmail dot com,thx! - hendrypeng

Hamid, they call them "nominations" which typically means anyone I invite will get theirs in the next batch google sends out. I am not sure when that will be exactly. - Mike Kogelman from iPhone

OK! Thanks dude! :) - Hamid the Great

Hi :) I'll be glad to receive an invitation. my email address: javid.e@gmail.com - NightW01F

Thanks Mike! - © b e e n s w a n k

Would love one if you have any left - Many Thanks - kr.doyle@gmail.com - Kevin Doyle

i think this is a long shot but could you invite me? Thanks! scott.j.emerson[at]gmail[dot]com - Scott Emerson

if u still have would be so nice :) angelicefrim@gmail.com thanks.. - ♪♫ halil ♪♫

prophotorental at gmail dot com please - Stepan Mazurov

Kol Tregaskes to Kol's feed, Invites, Google Wave, Google Wave Developers

The Great Google Wave invite thread. Anyone who wants an invite post your Gmail address here and anyone who has invites available please use to invite the people on this list. There are also a bunch of requests in the Invites group here: http://friendfeed.com/invites

October 1 - Comment - Like - Share

سیدیونس, Adrian Poermandya, jz0f and 134 other people liked this

I have a few but holding them for a few people who have already asked me. I'm at kolint [at] googlewave [dot] com btw. A pain I know but if you can, could you update your comment when you have an account or just delete your comment. Ta! :-) EDIT: Try this site for invites: http://googlewaveinvites.com/ - Kol Tregaskes

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ysabelegaspi at gmail dot com. thanks! - Ysabel Legaspi

Kol, my man...I love you, you do know that right? :) jazzjeppeATgmail.com - "Jazzperous" Isaksson

I would like to have one => nessuno.no.luogo at gmail dot com <= :) thank you - nessuno

crap, wrong email...:) jazzjeppeATgmail.com - "Jazzperous" Isaksson

havaslash att gmail dott com thanks :) - Jay

bryce@bryceroney.com if you have a spare :) - Bryce, Low in Sodium

chaz2b2@gmail.com thank you, :) - chaz2b

oceano70 [at] gmail.com - thank's! - ӊooқ

adrian[dot]scicluna (at) gmail[dot]com - Ade

lameei (at) gmail (dot) com - Mostafa Lameei

fanning[dot]steve(at)gmail[dot]com - Steve

(You're really enjoying this, aren't you?) :P - Ade

williswee@gmail.com :) - Willis Wee

manantsoa.david(at)gmail(dot)com - Thanx - Manantsoa

nikicostantini[at]gmail.com :) - Niki Costantini

gloriouslywired@gmail.com Thank you! - Tanya S

Hehe, Jesper. :-) - Kol Tregaskes

tibor.holoda@gmail.com Please! ;) - Tibor Holoda

http://scr.im/jaden Pretty please with a cherry on top :) - Dan Hersam

can i haz en invyte? boycaught-at-gmail.com - .LAG liked that

Please pretty please - wishfully.thinking [at] gmail [dot] com - Harini Saladi

daemith@gmail.com - Лиова

could you please send me an invite as well please email saysunnykapoor@gmail.com - Sunny (The Geek Lord)

If anyone has one to share - martin (dot) starfighterpilot (at) gmail.com :-) - Martin Bryant

tagyboy@gmail.com thanks - fwed

slayerboy [AT] gmail [DOT} com - Ⓐ ☠ slayerboy ☠ Ⓐ

pkhannah@gmail.com - Paul

krz9000[@)googlemail.com i can haz? - Chris Hofmann

yok2504 [at] gmail.com - Sinan İŞLER

melanie.langenhan at googlemail.com - Melanie Langenhan

mdoeff at gmail dot com - Mike Doeff

sadoyle AT gmail DOT com if anyone has a spare invite I would be thrilled. - Simon Doyle from BuddyFeed

rubin dot sfadj at gmail dot com - Rubin Sfadj

grant.bierman at gmail dot com - Grant Bierman

If anyone has a spare one to share........ magic.mridul@gmail.com - mridul

how do we track who got invited & who didnt? - Roshan Ramachandran

magicofpi at gmail dot com for me, please! - Ryan - @magicofpi

kim.landwehr@gmail.com - Kim Landwehr

Roshan, maybe those who got invited could put an X before their email... or delete their comment altogether. - Ryan - @magicofpi

amnesiak1978 [at] gmail.com - Andrea | amnesiak1978 from iPhone

Ryan, yep I've suggested something like that in the first comment above. - Kol Tregaskes

blackice912@gmail.com - thanks in advance. :) - Brad Butner

Ah, yeah, I might've missed that... at least we're on the same page. :) - Ryan - @magicofpi

flaimo [@] gmail.com - flaimo

i guess i am superiphi at gmail - Joelle Nebbe (iphigenie)

marco.marengo [at] gmail.com - gib

aucimen(at) gmail.com (thank youu) - Alper Umut Çimen

EnforcedData@gmail.com (Thanks so much!) - Danny Minick

agentezerozerokappa [at] gmail - ced

hugo.Miguel.Nunes@gmail.com. Thx - HN from iPhone

ceterelealtdileyt[at]gmail(dot)com --Thank you already now - YunusYAMANER(CITRIL)

mguttler@gmail.com - thanks - Matt G

nicolaquinn@gmail.com :) - Nicola Quinn from Nambu

mahendrap[at]gmail.com - Mahendra (SkepticGeek)

somebody who has it please send a message to me too thanks. - Mahmood Padura

petegilbert@gmail.com if anyone has any free! - Pete Gilbert

s8726319@gmail.com , thanks for your invite ! - nancy kao

libyano@gmail.com - Saeed Ashour

and hey, if you haven't already, please sign up here: https://services.google.com/fb.... Better to do it now than later... can't hurt :) - Adam Lasnik

photografr@gmail.com - Chris Nixon

000.cacarr@gmail.com - Christopher A Carr

zekaikiran@gmail.com - Zekai KIRAN

thomas.power@ecademy.com - Thomas Power

arnet.92@gmail.com - arnet

cristian {DOT} vidmar {AT} gmail {DOT} com - thanks in advance! - Cristian Vidmar

selcuke@gmail.com please .thx - Selcuk Ergin

scabrcom at gmail dot com - Igor Poltavskiy

geert.conard@gmail.com - Geert CONARD

krisu0100 [at] gmail.com - Kristian Salonen

Are people on this list getting invites or at least been told they have an invite on the way? You might have to be patient, it could take a long time for one to come through. - Kol Tregaskes

Adam, yep agree. Maybe because I did that (month ago though) helped me get mine through from Vijay so quickly! - Kol Tregaskes

junal53@gmail.com - Junal Rahman

cmiper@gmail.com - cmiper from iPod

lostmoya@gmail.com - David Young

gtpinfobox[at]gmail[dot]com... plzzz, can i hav one invite *makes puppy face* - Gtp19

matthias.debus [at] gmail [dot] com - Thanks! - Matthias Debus

pls send me an invite on dharmubaba[at}gmail{dot]com - Dharmesh

Have you got a Google Wave invite? Please send me one! selcuke@gmail.com :) - Selcuk Ergin

If you're happy and you know it clap your hands (and please send me a Wave Invite) zacrabah@gmail.com - ZacRabah

docdemon at gmail.com. - Dennis Jernberg

keyboardbreaker at gmail.com - Iain Baker

alperekiz at gmail.com - Alper

sercanvirlan@gmail.com hey who invites me ? - Sercan Virlan

mfelat at gmail dot com - mesut felat

dajdavies at gmail.com - Andy Davies

aydogdu13 -_at_- gmail.com - Ugur Aydogdu (jnbn)

bahaid at gmail.com - Kilian

arwengrim@gmail.com i'd love an invite! - Patrik Arwengrim

niman24atgmail.com - Stian Torgersen

i'm waiting for months please an #invite m.furkantunali [\at/] gmail.com - Furkan Tunalı

matteocampofiorito@gmail.com - Matteo Campofiorito

I would love to have one: patrik.bjorn.johansson AT gmail DOT com :) - Patrik Johansson

yunust at gmail please.. thanks.. - Yunus Tunak

could you send invitation to koraym /@/ gmail .com address please ? =) Thank You! - siniradam

ludwig.gatzke [at] gmail.com Thank You! :) - Ludwig

veovix [at] gmail [dot] com - I'll be your best friend!! :) - veo

jmatalon - Jacque

yildirayatas (at) gmail (dot) com - Yıldıray Ataş

bkoknar@gmail.com - morkedipatisi

fsakbas@gmail.com - F.Selçuk AKBAŞ

paulasimoes [at] gmail [dot] com - paula simoes ☃

inkoola#gmail.com - qibo

a7med.magdy[at]gmail[DOT]com - Ahmed Magdy (Pr0fess0rX)

chrisloft@chrisloft.com - great idea Kol, fingers crossed -/ - Chris Loft

pamirg@gmail.com - Pamir Gündüz

angelo.mariano@gmail.com please invite me - Angelo Mariano

melamerito@gmail.com :D - Andre Fvini

Thanks and i want one ,my mail is: bao3.cn[at]gmail.com - 黑莓极至

ibgeronimo[at]gmail[dot]com - jan geronimo

soulruins[at]gmail[dot]com THX!!! - Philip from BuddyFeed

cristianconti -at- gmail.com - Cristian Conti

hndrk.nmnn@gmail.com - Thank you! - Hendrik Neumann

piotto [@] gmail.com thank you a lot!! - Matte

wilka.hudson@gmail.com - cheers muchly! - Wilka Hudson

newelvin [at] gmail.com - Thank you! - Elvin

This isn't working...over in the UK we have decided it's all a late April Fool's joke. - Pete Gilbert

buckflow@gmail.com please ;-) - Alistair (alpinefolk)

I want one. (.==@, @==^) siva@rs^gmail.com - siva s

darkiself@gmail.com pls. - Ergin

yassersouri@gmail.com - میکرودامپ

@Kol, the invitation process seems to be based on nominations. For example, everytime someone nominates/invites you, you get bumped up the queue for an account until you're at the top and you get sent an invite by the team - Ysabel Legaspi

mdfidler[@]gmail.com Thanks Kol! - Michael Fidler

Ysabel, ah I see, So lots of people must have nominated me. Darn, so a few users I have nominated could be waiting a looooong time. :-( - Kol Tregaskes

kicha1978{@}gmail.com. Thx :) - Krishnamoorthy

Please nominate me? petegilbert@gmail.com :) - Pete Gilbert

soxgal@gmail.com - gracias! - Sally Robinson

mdduru > gmail dot com - thanks in advance. - Durukan Duru

I would love to help! jesi.nieves at gmail dot com - Jesi from iPod

anil(at)anileren.com - Anıl Eren

cjj1019 [at] gmail.com thanks - telefan

itslebigz_at_g mail com thank you!! - Le Big Z

emailforhelp.thomson@gmail.com please please and thank you - Richard Thomson

vince.degeorge AT gmail.com - Thank you! - Vince DeGeorge

philoglot(A)gmail(*)com, pleeease. :) - Rodrigo

emailforhelp.thomson@gmail.com please - Richard Thomson

vahid.archography@gmail.com - Solaris™

gdalziel@gmail.com - Glenn Slaven

need invite:) selcuke@gmail.com - Selcuk Ergin

Late to the party, but would love one demoncatch@gmail.com - Alan Simpson

rfavini[at]gmail[dot]com, thanks in advance :D - Roberto

chiara.silvestri@gmail.com - candy

saghee1@gmail.com - I need an invite too, tanx - Saghee

oskarnrk@gmail.com - thanks! :D - Oskar NRK

ronin.ben@gmail.com - ronin from iPhone

tosh54 at gmail.com Thanks! - Peter Hoffmann

if that voting system is right I'm very annoyed. I asked for an invite months ago, now all the numpties are all over it I'm not going to get a look in. It's like I've been sat at the front of a shop queue and everyone's just walking right past me into the shop. I am British but I detest both queuing and waiting, so this is pretty tough going - Toby Graham

koukopoulos at gmail.com - Kostantinos Koukopoulos

librarysupporter@gmail.com pretty please? - MLx

Oooo yes please jon.pittock@gmail.com - Jon

Pretty please with sugar on top? OneLuvGurl@gmail.com - April May

i'd like an invite if anyone has one to spar. i'm wardseward(you know the rest). thanks! - Ward Seward

any generous soul: afcontact@gmail.com THANKS!!! - Arnaud Fischer

deniz.gurbuz@gmail.com thanks mate!! - Deniz Gürbüz

cabvolt@gmail.com thanks in advance and toodlepip and all that.. - sean808080

possible248@gmail.com :D - Rishabh Mishra (p248)

I'd love a Google Wave invite. cindy.stanford [@] gmail.com - Cindy Stanford ~ hci from fftogo

Can I play too, please? nzbuu1 [at] gmail.com - James Myatt

alessandro.minin gmail and all the other stuff - scriptabanane

greg.smithsa@gmail.com - thanks ! - Greg Smith

vinod1980 at gmail dot com please send me one. - vinod

please send me inv. : mustafayasinhalici@gmail.com - Mustafa Y. Halici

Not yet. Im still waiting. - Robert from email

same :( - Jay

bobonline at gmail.com - Bob Wilson

Like most other people, yesterday I wasn't aware of that I «needed» a Google Wave invitation this badly...but now I am!!! quackofdawn at gmail dot com - Quackofdawn

Please I want a invite :( jesi.nieves at gmail - Jesi from iPod

Pleaaaase.... Hmgn@sapo.pt thx - HN from iPhone

darius.mdev at gmail.com - Matthew DeVries

jpiercy@gmail.com - johnpiercy

mertheper@gmail.com thanks ! - mert

.... danielsoar at gmail.com - Dnl

Please invite me: marklayton at gmail.com - Mark Layton

marco.bonomo@gmail.com thanks! - Marco Bonomo <radel>

hbemisschurtz at gmail... hope to wave with education in mind .. thanks, Kol;) - Holly Rae, FFer from BuddyFeed

alideemir(@)hotmail.co.uk - Ali Demirci

jason (dot) a (dot) castillo at the gmail - JA Castillo

daryl@learnscapepro.com - Daryl Hunt on FF

cih95.exe (at)gmail (dot) com Please Invite - wincih (NET ÖKÜZÜ)

I would love an invite. barryowens(@)gmail.com - Barry Owens from iPhone

Invite tehKenny, plz parkingstones(@)gmail.com. - teh Dork Knight

jokin.lacalle (at) jakintza.net - Jokin Lacalle

Anyone have an invite to share? whumesatgmaildotcom Thanks. - Will-Pastor of FF

If there's any left: christopher.owen at gmail.com - Christopher Owen

Send one to rutger.blomatgmail.com. Thanks - Rutger Blom

aamanlamba@gmail.com - I had a wave sandbox, but seem to have forgotten my password and they've got poor support, Google-style - Aaman (Clone of FF)

Memememememe!!! hedwyg at gmail dot com - Ladybug Heather

I'd really love one - Wave is the coolest! - MaryB, BrandingBroadOfFF

invite please. zlatko.zivlak@gmail.com - zlatko zivlak

link2future (@) gmail.com - Sahandram

jordanpw at gmail - Patrick Jordan

aloneart@gmail.com - yakoo

peace.apple@gmail.com Thanks! Arigato!! - Shoichi from iPhone

andrea DOT romoli AT gmail DOT com - Andrea Romoli

alain DOT geenrits AT gmail DOT com or alain AT geenrits DOT net (Google apps hosted) - alaingeenrits

farzaam.net@gmail.com - farzaam

rmorrill@gmail.com thanks, although probably too late. - Alternating Reality Books

weaver423@gmail.com - Tony, Paradox of FF

butriga at gmail dot com - Angelo

norba1@gmail.com - TheNorba

logical.extremes{at}gmail{dot}com - LogEx

If you have any left, please can I have one? (tyson.key@gmail.com). Thanks. - Tyson Key

would love an invite - liechti@gmail.com - Martin Liechti

I am vmnayyar@googlewave.com - Mike Nayyar from iPhone

brian.j.krueger@gmail.com - Brian Krueger - LabSpaces

me too? ctaloi@gmail.com - Christopher Aloi

On the off chance - onegear1972[at]gmail[dot]com - 1x29

Please^^ dahiicocuk@gmail.com - dahiçocuk

miiisagh[at]gmail.com - Misagh

jagrap at gmail.com - RAPatton

jordanbrock@gmail.com - Jordan Brock

i don't think there is anymore left but theaob[@]gmail.com - Onur Baykal

Let's try this too: ilmondodieta (at) gmail (.) com - Eta from FreshFeed

this thread is spammers paradise but [shedali at gmail dot com] - Franz Sittampalam

Beau at liening . us - Beau "Slick Foot" Liening from iPhone

mark.d.vandenberg at gmail - MVB (Curmudgeon of FF)

neternity@gmail.com and i promise to send a wave of 100,901 twitter followers to your doorstep each of whom will have averaged 1 tweet in their existence - this might not get me an invite but surely it will get some notice - must have that something special - my google wave invite special sauce ingredient is twitter juice PS Not to be construed as an offer, not valid in any of the 53 US states, do not try this at home, caution: contents are hot. - Ross Button

Please Please Please Please ( mhd.badi@gmail.com ) Please Please - FFTornado

Purdy Please! (expecting [dot] rain) - Jeremy Kunz

please?:) msnoulten@gmail.com - Matt Snoulten

jamar78@gmail.com if its not too late... - jamar78

ueritemarg@gmail.com - Marg Uerite

andrew@leahey.org if you please, will give back to this list - Andrew Leahey

tmcclanahan@gmail.com - Teel McClanahan III

Please, and thanks in advance.. mightyfib@gmail.com... - Jeannette Høvring

please send me one...thanks! http://scr.im/webgirltj - Terry Johnson

jasonw22 at gmail - Jason Wehmhoener

ahrob19[at]gmail.com ... here is to dreaming of a wave!! - Amani

Thanks zsafwan at gmail dot com - zsafwan 

Thanks pengwen [dot] not [dot] penguin [at] gmail [dot] com - Parvez Halim

If there's any left! kahlanmnel at gmail dot com - tinypants - Hagitha of FF

dahiicocuk@gmail.com thanks:)) - dahiçocuk

fsakbas@gmail.com - F.Selçuk AKBAŞ

griffith.pt@gmail.com thank you in advance! - Marco Jardim

prosman@gmail.com - Osman Erdoğan

semihmasat ( at ) gmail.com - Semih Masat ™

rkshinobi@gmail.com Thanks :D - RK

ageor7 at gmail dot com, thanks :) - Alexandros Georgiadis

juanpg at gmail dot com, thanks as well! - Juan Pablo González

citro06 at gmail.com, thanks! - Citronella

batduccio at gmail dot com - thanks - batduccio

braden.douglass [at] gmail [dot] com - Braden Douglass

vjf111@gmail.com - Thanks - Vincent Fry

charbax@gmail.com Thanks!! Wave is revolution! - Charbax

kreg.steppe (at) gmail dot com .. Please? - Kreg Steppe

jianyuan [at] gmail - thank you! - Jyuan

francois dot granger at gmail dot com - François Granger

Anyone have already a wave invite?. I'm a developers anxious to take a look at wave. jmiguel.rodriguez at gmail.com . Thank you very much in advanced! - jmiguel rodriguez

trentono gmail com...thanks in advance, mysterious stranger... - Trent Olson

Russellreno at Gmail.com - Russellreno

stevebryson@gmail.com - Karma will bless you abundantly. Thanks! - eEditor

slowfinger at quidtum.it, please. - Slow

michelle.girl2fall4[at]gmail[dot]com I really didn't want one till everyone started talking about it! - Michelle Marie Miller

ernbstn [invite] gmail.com - Eren BOSTAN

bob.morris@googlewave.com. Have a few invites, also, please add me as contact - Bob Morris (polizeros)

Hey bob morris, can you invite me ? tagyboy at gmail dot com ! - fwed

apleyden (at) gmail.com - Andrew Leyden

myturkey AltGr + Q gmail.com - Varol AKSOY

@Bob Morris please! (above) - Slow

what a long list! steve at sharpers dot com please! - Steve

this list seems hopeless, but I'm firstname.lastname@gmail.com - Laura Norvig

WTB: Google wave invites, will trade for 200 gmail invites :) chatman31@gmail.com - Man Of Chat

manielse[at]gmail[dot]com thanks! - manielse (Mark Nielsen)

Plz. Invite me on Google Wave. Am i on a HIGH? - Nitin Nanivadekar

bizsumpark182@gmail.com; I still don't know what to think about it, but I really want to test it out. - Mathew™ one of a kind

Welcome an invite at jackstone3643@googlemail.com. Thanks. - Jack Stone

Hey! sappho at gmail, thanks in advance to anyone who send it out. - Priscila Zanuzzo

vincentxcode@gmail.com - Vincent X

tamara.weinstein@gmail.com Thanks for the thread Kol! - Tamara

paulwhit@gmail.com - prz? :) - Paul Whitaker

lol at this point i gotta think that by the time an invite makes it this far down the list i may already be at the top of the official invite list but doesn't hurt to try right? marco [dot] nunez @ gmail - thanks! - Marco(aureliusmaximus)

I'm also trying. As Marco said, it doesn't hurt :) iamclem at gmail. thanks! - Clément Simon

Hello, I would love to have a google wave invite too. ilteris@gmail.com thanks! - ilteris

hell, why not: jamiesmind@gmail.com - Jamie Mack

Please!! jrblazespam at gmail dot com - Jeff

Oops! You said gmail address: marybaumcreative (at) gmail. Although I run marybaum@marybaum.com through gmail servers too. - MaryB, BrandingBroadOfFF from email

mc@audiocloud.org (Google Apps account) - Cloud

mrtbzkrt at gmail.com thanks - Aquacultural (Mert)

alan.le at gmail.com - Alan Le

nursel.zdemir@gmail.com - nursel

ibrahimuzun /// gmail.com - İbrahim Uzun [ j ]

robynahawk - you know the rest! ;-b this is me - always late to the party! - Robyn Hawk

Here I am super duper late. sound [dot] of [dot] dust [at] gmail [dot] com. I know the email is a pain. - Faraz Mullick

Looking for wave invite to use in Vegan centered site hook a vegge brother up, jtwilkins *AT* gmail *DOT* com - Josh Wilkins

Invite me please mthwsnd01@gmail.com - Ned Garcia-Mathews

gah, I'm so late but I need one. kmward (at) gmail (dot) com - Kate

I'm at jwilliams [at] live [dot] com but with the length of this thread I'm not holding my breath. Lol - Jason Williams from iPhone

jacopo.paoletti@gmail.com - Jacopo Paoletti

payne.lucius@gmail.com please? C-: - Lucius Payne

gattoo at gmail dot com - Nitin Nanivadekar

brallsplp@gmail.com much appreciated - Brian

amitnangare@gmail.com thanks.... - Amit Nangare

demircancelebi@gmail.com - Demircan Celebi

onur[et]sharebus.com - OnuRC

itsmyjoyride @ gmail . com - Mac Sharp

adolfo at nerdstlaker .com please - adolfo foronda

barijaona ... gmail ... com - Barijaona Ramaholimihaso

mike.hellers at gmail.com thanks. - Mike Hellers

Wow, with all the people here, the chances of getting one is slim. Still, there's no hurt in trying... phoenix713[at]gmail[dot]com - Eduardo Ruiz

wordsforliving@gmail.com - DRAT! I'm last in line! - Jannifer @wordsforliving

niguel[dot]valley@gmail[dot]com - Valley

LOL, One could build a good spam email list from this post!!!! - Brian

stan.thieman at gmail.com - Rodzilla

louisrbourque@gmail.com - an invite would be greatly appreciated, and I'll pass it on! Thanks - Louis Bourque from iPod

can you send me invite for google wave to i.igors (at) gmail (dot) com - Igor Krstev

If any kind soul has an invite to spare, it would be gratefully received and shared on once GOOG get around to inviting me in. :-) The key piece of information belatedly being andy.bold@gmail.com kthxbai - Andy Bold

Looking for one myself at alexscrivener (at) gmail (dot) com - Alex Scrivener

sopmac21379@gmail.com - Ivan Campos

erdem.g ⓐ gmail - Erdëm [virtus] GULTEKIN

lara.ak@gmail.com - poker face

looking for an invite - ritup2@gmail.com - Ritu

axin.on [att] googlemail [dott] com - Achim Brueck

Wow, thanks in advance! ryanpc@gmail.com - Ryan Christensen

I would love an invite： xiatwo[at]gmail.com - Dalek

christopher.hewlett@gmail.com Thanks! - Chris

tom@thomashawk.com - Thomas Hawk

Thank you very much! tkpglobal@gmail.com - Leslie Carothers

wow.... even Thomas Hawk doesn't have an invite yet or atleast seems like it... I feel better now :) - Amit Nangare

I would definitely appreciate an invite, if you have one to spare... bette.cooper@gmail.com - Bette Cooper

etoelle@gmail.com - Please and thank you!!! - Erica Toelle

I'd love one but I can't even get subscribers on here so I anticipate failure. :-( scurran24@gmail.com - Simon Curran

silverhage@gmail.com - Thanks everyone, really looking forward to trying google wave. - Silver Hage

To everyone thanks from PR, waiting for the wave richietj77@gmail.com - Juan R Perez

Erenkumcuoglu@gmail.com thanks in advance. - Eren Kumcuoğlu from iPhone

Please, gwydion[at]oletros[dot]com - Iñaki Rodriguez

/me is tired to see this post at the top of his home :) - fwed

giving out my invites -> http://brudtkuhl.com/want-a-... - andy brudtkuhl

I'd love an invite. I was sort of expecting to get one from Google, as I have been in all of their other betas, but to no avail :( carlton.prest@gmail.com - Carlton Prest

jamesrhull {at} gmail - James Hull

prguy85 at gmail - Manuel Mas

If anyone has a Google Wave invite to share I would like one. ampptt (at) gmail - Robert Anderson

I so want one... drusoicy <at> gmail.com - Andru Edwards

I'd like one, too. ha3rvey at gmail - Ha3rvey (more more more)

sd11208 at gmail thanks. - Stalyn☂

d.patti (at) email.it thanks! - Davide Patti

mithandir at gmail dot com - Marius Quadflieg

Pretty please. richardlusk at gmail - Richard

like it,allwell at gmail dot com - coze

fatmazehra@gmail.com - FZ

Plesae send an invite! jwatson820@gmail.com - Jonna Watson

damn, the pretty please guy will get one for sure, that steve guy @hotmail.com is likely last on the list - but we all will get one if that scobilizer guy notices that we are all here and asking and so cul cuz we are all on friendfeed - maybe if we twitter too it might help - hello google !!!! - Ross Button

how do we know which ones are sent? I'm just doing my own thread. - Vezquex: God of FF

sculptor [at] gmail.com thank you!) - Habi

teekotkl [at] gmail.com thank's! - Teeko

Yes please.... cherkoff at gmail ;-) - James Cherkoff

joe.azzara@gmail.com - Joe Azzara

all good now - metalerik

tukonx@gmail.com thanks! - Chris Reichow

asif328462@gmail.com ...thanks in advance for an invite... - Asif

koaxil@gmail.com thanks a lot! - коаксильчег

lifeofjim@gmail.com thanks in advance! - James Campbell from iPhone

at gmail dot com I'm suezanne - SuezanneC Baskerville

tateblaze @ gmail dot com - Tate DA FF MVP

christophe.ceccon AT gmail.com thanks a lot! - Christophe Ceccon

who have wave invite ? - Sinan İŞLER

right everbody write self mail but who have ?! :D come on google !!!!!! see the ff :D - Sinan İŞLER

gecici@oceangray.net - send please. - Muhammet K. (oceangray)

joe.dawsons@gmail.com x - Joe Dawson

If someone can send an invite to azuckerscharff@gmail.com I'd be much obliged. I'd really love to check out Wave. - Aram Zucker-Scharff

plzzz libyano@gmail.com - Saeed Ashour

ggelardi at gmail dot com, thanks in advance - giorgio gelardi

Thanks Krazy! john dot mcgeehan at gmail dot com - John McGeehan

gobozov@gmail.com Thank you - Kaspar Minosiants

timepilot68 at gmail dot com, thx!! - timepilot

1jsr86@gmail.com .. Thanks! - Yourmagz

Shmoetheho [at] gmail dot com -- much appreciated! Will reciprocate. - Mike Kogelman from iPhone

halilazak at gmail dot com i ll be happy to try wave .. thanks.. - ♪♫ halil ♪♫

If anybody still has one, I'd be happy to have one if you wouldn't mind. zach @ zachflauaus.com - Zach Flauaus

cargun [at] gmail dot com, please wave me... - Cem ARGUN

thattalldude [at] gmail [dot] com - Shawn Kirsch

pbeugnot@gmail.com - Pierre Beugnot from Android

sd11208 at gmail dot come - Stalyn☂

marcojperez@gmail.com - Marco

brnwatkins at gmail dot com - Brian Watkins

vizpix at g mail dot com TIA! - daviza

nixnet [at] gmail [dot] com - Paul Nixon

I have an Audible Credit for someone that wants to shoot me an Invite .. - johnpiercy

Audible Credit for a GW invite jpiercy@gmail.com - johnpiercy

slippy.lane@gmail.com would like an invite ... and some friends, lol - Slippy "Threadsbane" Lane

plz send me too - kanidor [at] gmail [dot] com - thx - Rydhold

proglot at gmail dot com - Vadim Smelyansky

ourhomeplanet@gmail.com - Nick Soden

I would love an invite if anyone has an extra! startoestudio@gmail.com - Martha from BuddyFeed

Would like one if there's one to spare. :) rowlikeagirl [@] gmail.com. - rowlikeagirl

billgiltner at gmail.com - bill giltner

kr.doyle@gmail.com - Many Thanks! - Kevin Doyle

blogbloke@gmail.com Please send the Blog Bloke an invite. Thanks muchly! - BLOGBloke

I would love one sweyn3 [at] gmail [dot] com - Sweyn Venderbush

kidlay16 [at] gmail [dot] com thank - Larry T. Ruiz

jlarche [at] who else? [dot] com. Thanks!!! - Jeff Larche

jason.charnov@gmail.com THX!!! - Jason

scottph at gmail.com - Scott Phillips

This is probably futile, but it can't hurt: SphereCat1@gmail.com. I'll love you forever! Or at least for a week. Whatever. - Billy Doyle

boqing@gmail.com |Thx! - shallop

coffeenated@gmail.com - DO ANYBODY NO MONIQUE

rivahratt@gmail.com - Stephen

rpa4email@gmail.com - Robert Couture

meemmtype at gmail dot com Thank you! - Jonathan Kong

paul.mccord [@] gmail dot com - Paul L. McCord Jr.

I would also like an invite if anyone has one -> aaron915 at gmail.com - Aaron Berman

I'll take one if you can give it...desktopsbyduck@gmail.com - RICHARD E. MOORE

id love an invite - allen074 - at - gmail.com - thank you - Allen Stern

john.seals@gmail.com - John Seals

one for feeling.zen@gmail.com please! - Jason

I've been too busy to get on FF the last few days....figures something important happening and I missed it! I knew about Google Wave but didn't know there would be a thread to post a request. In any case, better late than never, I'd love an invite at madeliene2007 at gmail.com. :) - Bonnie Foster

I've been on Twitter all day trying to get one, I'd love it if my day can end by me finally getting an invitation :) I'll be sure to send some invites to other people in this thread! andryou@gmail.com - andryou

re.renus@gmail.com somebody please send me a invitation... ^_^ : ) - ‎‎Emad

johnsr4@gmail.com PLEASE! - John Rath

wimmulder@gmail.com. Am really excited to try this out for a collaborative research project I'm working on. Hoping someone has an invite to spare! - Wim Mulder

giuliocc@gmail.com . Keen to see if we can shake M$'s cage about messaging and collaboration. - Giulio Campobassi

Would love an invite - jonathonc at gmail.com - Jonathon

cygnion at gmail.com woah mate. - hellonm

ericsizemore at geeeemaill - thank you! - Eric Sizemore

john.kitchen@ Thanks in anticipation!! - John Kitchen

Ryan.Singer@gmail.com Thanks! - Ryan Singer

ebruerdem@gmail.com please invite me:) - Ebru ERDEM

Adding to the list -- john.spyers at gmail.com - John Spyers

mishef [@] gmail dot com -- Thanks! - techWALL

Would realy like to get an invite: mithandir at gmail.com - Marius Quadflieg

legrand at gmail.com — Thanks! - Mathieu

sajidahinakhan at gmail - Sajida H Khan

fatihkurtoglu@gmail.com - M Fatih Kurtoglu

wiivanil (at) gmail.com - Ivan Carlesso

thailunn (at) gmail.com thanx ! - Taylan Kılıç

VitaArdiyana (at) gmail (dot) com, Thanks before Kol. I will delete my comment when i have my google wave account. - Vimala Vita

Just digging into the comments now but let me begin by saying that you did an incredible job with this thread Kol, 473 (474 after I post) comments! - Nicholas Kreidberg

Google Wave : Could anyone invite me ? : jean.charles.blondeau[at]gmail.com Thanks - Jean-Charles

zybler <AT> gmail.com - Hao Wooi Lim

Would appreciate an invite. joe@joeperrin.com (Thanks!) - Joe Perrin

selyay@gmail.com thanx - olmayanaergi

can anyone please invite me? I'd love to have a play with wave! ian@ianrathbone.com - Ian Rathbone

Would LOVE an invite. bizservicesbroker at gmail dot com - Wazza T

gladstone at gmail.com - Gladstone

takuhito.sotome (at) gmail.com - takuhito from iPhone

killahkrew (at) gmail (dot) com - Sebastian

cornelius<DOT>toole<AT>gmail<DOT>com - Cornelius Toole

Please pretty please....jazzjeppe AT gmail.com - "Jazzperous" Isaksson

Please... luthiano [at] gmail [dot] com - Luthiano Vasconcelos

nico[dot]morgan[at]gmail.com - many thanks! - Nico

imran3000(at)gmail.com......thanks - imran

An invite would be much appreciated: daveholmesprojects (at) gmail.com Thanks. - David Holmes

Guys, try this: http://googlewaveinvites.com/ - Kol Tregaskes

System Messages Invite Status: 17559 invite requests in the system. 7 invites confirmed as received by requester. 199 invites claimed as sent from giver. - oliv21

andyzweb@gmail.com - Andrew Euell

laetSgo{at}gmail{dot}com... can't wait !!! have to :-( - laetSgo

Me me me ... sam@lavacoms.com - Sam Stone

lhasa(dot)jack(at)gmail(dot)com !! Thanks!! - Jack Lhasa

sd11208 at gmail dot come - Stalyn☂

mifajunior@hotmail.com - Michel from iPhone

romanzolotarev@gmail.com - Roman Zolotarev

mehrdad_network@hotmail.com :( thanks - Mehrdad Nayeb

ozcelik@gmail.com - gökhan özçelik

khawro@gmail.com - Konrad

jazzjeppeATgmail.com - "Jazzperous" Isaksson

reza.ahmadi.co[AT]gmail.com - سینه سرخ

hurstel[AT]gmail.com - hurstel

srikyada at gmail dot com - Srikanth

How does anyone know if someone has already been invited? You could go back and edit your comment when you receive an invitation, but since that takes days, it could be ages before you know. - marziah

siavash [dot] tehrani [at] Gmail.com ... thanks - خان دایی سیا

evansims at gmail dot com. Thanks! - Evan Sims

@marziah If you receive a second invite you could fwd the invite link to another person here :) - Bicentennial (Franc)

psiketto AT gmail DOT com. thanks. ;) - Andrea | pSiko

ali.aliakbary@ (Gmail.com) tnx - Conformist بـی نظرگـاه ™

ayoubi [at] gmail [.dot.] com - Soroush Ayoubi

msnoulten@gmail.com please?:) - Matt Snoulten

alex.kh58@gmail.com if I get an invitation I'll... - Amin

karmacomincAT gmail dot com Thanks !! - Karma Martell

Hello I would like a google wave invite. my email is philliptombs@gmail.com - ZOD

much appreciate a kind invite: foistudy@gmail.com - reedman

doauto [@] gmail.com - neswell

MR.foolish @ gmail.com PLEASE - Joe

ace0cc AT gmail.com <3 - Colby

got an invite today, so I deleted my comment above. Thks anyway. - François Dongier

I'd really appreciate an invite. 4 phlebas at google mail dot com - Sung W. Lim

praveenvasudevis at gmail dot com. thanks! - Praveen Vasudev

I've had three nominations already and still no invite :( What's up with that Google? :( - RK

zerdale @ gmail.com - Ayhan Kocak

eric77lv@gmail.com - Eric M.

vdoria92@gmail.com - Vincent D'Oria

I've not even had a nomination, RK. At google dot com I'm suezanne , in the event anyone wants to make a nomination. I've asked before on friendfeed. It's kind of humiliating to beg. - SuezanneC Baskerville

i have decided that if i do indeed get an invite, i will decline, forward my gmail account to windows live and put ie back as my default browser and i will bing it - Ross Button

@Ross: why punish yourself for something you didn't do? :) - François Dongier

I just want some google love; just like the rest of us do; but n,o they wave at us as they have their private, invite only party; thumb to nose, fingers a waving - that's the google wave; we need a tshirt - Ross Button

al86shaw@gmail.com :) Not expecting anything, but thanks anyway! - Giraffes Up In The AIr

kosmoh@gmail.com - Константин

vixted at gmail.com Thank you. - victed from iPhone

stefan.grosz at gmail.com thanks very much. - Stefan Grosz

mattb4rd@gmail.com - Mattb4rd

time2die4u@gmail.com - thanks a lot - time2die

stefigno @ gmail . com -thanks. - Stefigno

fabiocurzi @ gmail . com - Fabio Curzi

silaoglu@gmail.com - Sarper Sılaoğlu

hossini.h@gmail.com - حسن حسینی

salah201085@gmail.com can i have an invitation plz - salah

refugee_an@Hotmail.com Thanks!!! - China Internet Rumors

Send to me plz ,,, mxina.com {a} gmail {dot} com - Mohammad Sharifi

Has anyone received their invite? I haven't yet. - Rodrigo from email

I'd love an invite to Google Wave pls. non-geeky bf got one before me! that's just not cricket.. hehe :) icetigerza (at) gmail - Kim

Hello, if there's any invite left, you'll make me more than happy ;-) matthieu.beauval [at] gmail [dot] com, thank you ! - matthieu beauval

If there are still invites left daryl@learnscape.com.au - Daryl Hunt on FF

Of all the people posting here the chances of me getting an invite are slim but I'm still willing to try. If someone wants to shoot an invite over to jcallahan126@gmail.com I'd REALLY appreciate it. - John from iPhone

khawro at gmail.com - Konrad

Aww Did I miss the Wave of invites? Come on Kol... Hook me up! :) - Walt Ruppar

It looks like it, although you might be able to use the hyperlink on the front of the Wave homepage to request an invitation, if it's still available. - Tyson Key

Google Wave Anybody? I needz one plz... walt {dot} ruppar {at} gmail [dot] com - Walt Ruppar from iPhone

dsenior at the gmail - Dave Senior

I'll give this a try: j.linkola at gmail - anyone have invites left? - Jussi Linkola

Anyone can provide a Google Wave invite? bmtrocks@gmail.com - Brian

Hi guys I realy Waiting impatiently, but still have no invite... can anybody sent me invite please please simplisityzehra@gmail.com thanks in advance - Zehra

firatdemirel at gmail.com just needs an invite for Gwave. Thanks. - Fırat DEMİREL

Does anyone have an invite to share? Can you send it to v9y.rec at gmail.com please? Thanks. - Vinay | विनय

Can somebody send an ivitation to terror@gmail.com . Thanks in advance. - Yiğit

Please send an invitation to me at trivedi.knz@gmail.com. I got tired waiting. - Kandarp Trivedi

I'll be glad to invite others on this thread once I get mine. Thanks in advance.. Keep the thread alive. - Kandarp Trivedi

rodgerdb@gmail.com ha oh man am I late to this thread =( Here's to hoping! - Rodger Ballard

really need one, would be so grateful thacker90184@gmail.com - brandon

I want Google Wave invite too, please sent it to: ric4p5 {at} gmail [dot] com Thanks - jose manuel

If anyone has invites, could I have one please? tekked - gmail.com - TechKid

Thanks in advance mgkbull(at)gmail.com - Bull

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

teeeya@gmail.com - Anyone with a sparee invite and feeling generous! (thank you thank you thank you in advance!!!) :D - Simply Teeeya

Anyone with a spare would be my hero! Someone bought out my buddy who was going to give me one. robert@idealfusion.com - Robert Coombs

antonyat AT gmail DOT com If anyone sends me an invite, I thank you greatly - if I receive an invite, I'll make sure to return to this thread :). - Antony Jepson

Heh :d Majid.aligol@live.com Heh :D - majid

Please send invitation to me: aminsabeti@ Gmail. Com - Amin Sabeti from iPhone

If anyone has a spare invite - please send me one: crystaleagle@gmail.com -- many thxs :) - Frank Da Silva

Hooman.Moeen [at] Gmail [dot] com - هومن معین

omega_fire2004 [ at] yahoo [dot ] com - alirz

ragcaoili {at] gmail [dot} com - Robert Agcaoili

I have Google Wave invites available anyone interested let me know - Kim Landwehr

kingnightstar@gmail.com plz send me google Wave invites - MΞĦЯDДD

Id like an invite - Robert Agcaoili from email

Still waiting for an invite. :-( - MicahBear78

amir60@gmail.com - amir farahani

COULD SOMEONE SEND ME AN INVITATION: EMAIL: khoshzaban.s@gmail.com - benedict

I am really desprate for this!!!! email: khoshzaban.s@gmail.com - benedict

Could you invite me to wave please? I will invite anyone you want after i get invited! khoshzaban.s@gmail.com - benedict

vickywoozy@gmail.com Thanks a lot~ - vickywoo

hozhabr.s@gmail.com - Hozhabr

gabelerner@gmail.com thanks! - gabegabe

Can I Get one keroque@gmail.com Thank You !! - Prasad Panthanghi

crying.loser@gmail.com - random person

karmacomincATgmailDOTcom Muchas Gracias - Karma Martell

simoneau.louis@gmail.com Much thanks if anyone has any! - Louis Simoneau

seaverq@gmail.com - Mr.Seaver

Still need an invite, please. msnoulten@gmail.com - Matt Snoulten

rl_chap@hotmail.com ... feel so left out without wave! - Richard Lishingman

maxphoto85 [at] gmail [dot] com, thanks. - Max Batsyn

leonid.vladimir [@] g m a i l . c o m Thanks a lot - Leonid Vladimir

jdblaich[@]gmail dot com -- much appreciated. - jimbo99

Got one from Trish a couple days ago. Now, looking for folks to wave with: marybaumcreative (at) googlewave (dotcom). - MaryB, BrandingBroadOfFF

scott.j.emerson[at]gmail[dot]com Thanks - Scott Emerson

If you have any more invites, I would love one. - Wayne Ramlogan

milad2h[@]hotmail[dot]com thanks - Milad

pantra2006 (att) gmail (dott) com pleaseeeeeeeeeee - مـهــــMEHRــــر

hii can you send me one google wave invit...thanks in adv. ....47.abhishek@gmail.com - abhishek

khengolak@gmail.com - ░Ehsαn░

Erick Schonfeld

Obama would have gotten more mileage if he declined the Nobel Peace Prize and said that he needs to earn it first.

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Would that not be unpredecented? I'd consider it more of an insult to 'ole TNT Nobel himself to refuse it. - Mike Kogelman

Thomas Hawk

Mozy says that they will give you unlimited backup storage for $4.95 per month. So I've got maybe 12TB of data (mostly photos and music). I can't imagine they'd store all that (plus a rapidly daily growing image library) for only $60 per year. What's the catch?

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The catch, of course, is upstream bandwidth. It might take you a year to upload 12TB of data to Mozy; it took me more than a week to upload my 45G of data. - Glen Campbell

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i was thinking about this very thing this morning. My bet is that the vast majority of users use far less than you. Sort of like a long tail in reverse. With all of Mozy's users taken into account, the costs even out. - Roberto Bonini

Glen: whats your upload bandwidth like?? - Roberto Bonini

I'm not sure that's such a big catch. I've got uVerse fiber service which seems pretty fast. Even if it took a long time, as long as it was being done in the background and not disruptive it would seem possible to do. So I'd likely be unprofitable for Mozy but maybe a necessary unprofitability in order for them to market unlimited storage to more profitable accounts? I wonder if there is any fine print or anything where they'd renege on the unlimited storage offer. - Thomas Hawk

I wonder if I'd somehow be throttled by Mozy or AT&T if I tried to send them 12TB of data. - Thomas Hawk

I have 2.5Tb here. if i could fill up a few hard drives and send it to them, it would make much more sense. - Roberto Bonini

It would seem to make more sense initially to send hard drives in the mail like that to them Roberto, but I don't see mailing hard drives as an option with them. I don't think the service was designed with people like me in mind though so I'm wondering if it would be a pain in the ass to try and use it. Does anyone using it know how it works? Do you have to manually initiate uploads or... more... - Thomas Hawk

I have a 1Mbit upload connection. - Glen Campbell

You tell it what to include and it will do it on a schedule or whenever your computer is idle for some specified number of minutes. You can also set it to throttle your bandwidth. - Glen Campbell

does it synch folders, so if I move stuff around on primary storage will it also move it around in the cloud? - Thomas Hawk

Thomas: yeah, thats what I meant. Initially. Glen: Not bad. :) - Roberto Bonini

Unlimited accounts are for 'personal' use only. MozyPro is for business/commercial user: * Desktop Licenses: $3.95 + $0.50/GB per month. * Server Licenses: $6.95 + $0.50/GB per month. MozyHome, in the Terms, they don't seem to have any fine print that limits your storage, however they (of course) reserve the right to change their terms at any time. - Joel Tanner

Mine would be personal use... I think I might actually try it. It would be interesting to see how it went. Since I've got more personal storage than 99.999% of the people out there if they could do a good job with my stuff they could probably handle just about anyone. I suspect it might not go as smoothly for me though. Will have to give the idea some thought this week. - Thomas Hawk

Thomas - you might be interested in this thread: http://friendfeed.com/bluecoc... I have half a terrabyte on Mozy now. The "catch" is that you pretty much always have to have that box connected because if you accidentally sync when it's not connected it will mark the files as "deleted". They'll "come back" when you sync again but... more... - Her Lindsay-ness

it'd be much better to simply buy a new HDD every so often, fill it with a nice backup and send it off to an offsite data storage house. Have the HDD's in a rotation so that you get some of them back every month and you can plop them into a HDD caddy, check they're ok and update that backup. - alphaxion

Lindsey, that's a good thread. Thanks for sharing that. I forgot about that one of yours. It seems like maybe it's not as easy as one might think. Still I think I might check it out. $60 per year seems cheap. Assuming it doesn't hurt the performance on the machine. I really only use my Dell for storage and as a media center PC and do everything else on my Mac. It might make for a few interesting blog posts on the service if nothing else. - Thomas Hawk

Right now I do have drobos which replicate data and many of my files and offsite hard drives with family/friends with many of my images and music. I also have 30,000+ of my finished images stored on Flickr/Zooomr, etc. But my RAW files are not backed up as well as they should be right now and maybe Mozy could be just one more leg of a backup strategy. - Thomas Hawk

Thats for reminding me of that thread lindsay. Thomas: SmugVault?? - Roberto Bonini

I looked at smugvault when it first launched, and it was insanely expensive, at least it would have been for my storage needs. Best I could tell they were simply remarketing S1 and marking it up. I might be wrong though and maybe should revisit it. Do they let you store unlimited data for $60 per year though? - Thomas Hawk from iPhone

No, SmugVault charges S3 rates plus markup, as I recall. - Tristan Seligmann

Prices here: http://www.smugmug.com/price... Quick back of the envelope calculation. My 150gb's multiplied by 22 cents (0.22) = $33 plus $1 recurring charge = $34. - Roberto Bonini

I have backups on S3, but I'm selective because of price per GB per month. I also wanted a flat rate strategy to get virtually all my files without having to think too much about it. I recently tried backblaze and I'm sticking with it (for a year at least). Here's their policy on external hard drives: https://www.backblaze.com/edrive... . One thing that attracted me was that... more... - Micah Wittman

I think it would cost me over $2,000 per year to store all of my data at SmugVault. Too expensive. Especially when compared to $60 per year from Mozy. Backblaze is $60 per year as well for unlimited it looks like. I wonder which is better Mozy or Backblaze. - Thomas Hawk

It takes you a year to update a few gigs to Mozy, so 12TB would take a lifetime. - Mike Reynolds

hmmmm.. that's good to know Mike. A year for a few gigs? I wonder if that's at slow upload speeds or if the problem is more on Mozy's end. - Thomas Hawk

No it doesn't take a year... I uploaded about 250GB in 3-4 weeks (running in idle time when I wasn't home)... I have almost 500GB up there now... One thing to keep in mind though: I have had some issues on my box recently (freezing, locking up... not responding to anything but reboot) and have suspected it had something to do with the Mozy client. I haven't been able to pinpoint the culprit yet, but considering the stuff I had running when these issues happen it's a likely candidate. - Her Lindsay-ness

You're right, Lindsay, it wouldn't take a year: it would take 3 years. 250G every 3 weeks would be about 4.3 Terabytes annually, assuming you keep the uploads running at that same rate. - Glen Campbell

It doesn't "take a year to update a few gigs to Mozy" was the point I was refuting. Yes, Thomas has significantly more data to backup than I do or most people do, so it probably would take him a long time, most likely about as long as you derived, Glen. - Her Lindsay-ness

Nice to see some good comments for Backblaze; I have been leaning towards that service, but have also been reading up on two others: Livedrive ( https://signup.livedrive.com/ ) and CrashPlan ( http://www5.crashplan.com/consume... ). Livedrive looks really promising, despite it's higher cost. The FB, Flickr & SmugMug aspects of Livedrive, as well as file sync ability,... more... - JA Castillo

I left Mozy for Backblaze. Mozy was slow, it was difficult to see a file status, and I did have trouble with the connection. Backblaze also has unlimited storage at $5 month. Their UI is superior to Mozy and it backs up app data. - Russellreno

Russell did you find that Backblaze transferred files faster than Mozy did? - Thomas Hawk

The big gotcha at Backblaze is the high cost to recover files. It seems to me both services will only back up files on one drive, and will not find networked drives. - Russellreno

I didn't really notice a difference in transfer speed but I did not have a good comparison either. I did use Mozy with UVerse. Mozy might throttle the transfer speed. I suggest you do a trial with Mozy for one week then Backblaze for a week. That order would allow BB to continue after one week because I think you will like to better. Check the cost of recovery for both services. - Russellreno

@Russellreno - Mozy backs up data on more than one drive... I have it backing up data on 4 different drives on one computer. They're not network drives but 3 are external. - Her Lindsay-ness

Mozy uses EMC's Avamar as it's back-end. Avamar employs data de-duplication at the bit level and can definitely find commonality even in compressed images -- most certainly RAW. 2 of these just reduced our backup time majorly and turned 5-6 hour backup jobs into under an hour at the most after the initial backup. - Mike Kogelman

I love Backblaze. They also backup external drives - anything it sees as a networked drive on your system. As far as the cost to recover all the data in the event of a full system crash, yea, I'd rather pay anyone to get DVDs shipped out than to wait for 12 TB of data to come back down the pipe. - Criz

I'm all for backblaze.com, Criz (see my comment above) but as far as I understand it, backblaze allows firewire/usb connected drives but not NAS devices - "Network (NAS) drives, remotely mounted computers or volumes, or shared volumes do not get backed up." - Micah Wittman

hmmm.. seems like folks like backblaze more than Mozy. May have to give them the first shot. - Thomas Hawk

How do you manage this now? - Nitin Nanivadekar

May I just ask how you manage that massive amount of Data for photos and music? I've got like 200 GB on stuff and always have issues with the managing.. - Jaap Willem

I didn't have a great experience with Mozy. The app for Mac didn't work well, and after several weeks of running it had only managed to back up 5% of my files. A quick survey of various Mac forums confirmed that this was a common problem. - Luke Ibis

i'm thinking of trying BackBlaze for the long fact I have various machines. - Edgar Rodríguez

The service is good. I once thought it had lost everything bit I reinstalled the app and it recognised the stuff it had already done. You can start and stop a any time and it remembers. Inthe day when lightroom was flaky I got a fair few backups from Mozy. Check how much it would cost to ship that back to you though; might fill a few DVDs. Obviusly web restore is free but 12tb might... more... - Phill Price from iPhone

Phil: A moved file isn't uploaded the second time. BB just changes the directory. That was another selling point for me. - Russellreno

Personally, Comcast caps me at 250 GB a month. So that's a minimum of four months just to upload my photos. Then, should I ever need to recover, another four months to get it back. It's a great concept, but backing up to the cloud just isn't viable for large amounts of data. Currently I shuffle external hard drives back and forth to my desk at work. - Eric P

Thomas, you can always be pro-active about your doubts -- tell them and offer to give them an endorsement if you *are* happy in the end. Your concerns are justified, and I think they'll appreciate them and at least be straight with you as to whether they can afford your business :) - Richard ¿digame? Walker

Russell - I'm using Mozy not backblaze - but thanks - Phill Price

Invites: jimmylee1984

I have some hunch invites. let me know if anyone is interested.”

April 15 - Comment - Like - Share

I'll take one -- shmoe the ho [at] gmail dot com Thanks dude! - Mike Kogelman

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---------Mike Kogelman ,I have send one! DO you receive it? - jimmylee1984

plz — blacktears.bel@gmail.com - BlackTears

blacktears.bel@gmail.com is done - jimmylee1984

I did get it, thanks much! - Mike Kogelman

yes please! can you send one to shabibijunior@gmail.com - Jamieasp

shabibijunior@gmail.com is done - jimmylee1984

hey i dont have a lot of time to search the web since i am at internet cafes all the time... so i was wondering if anyone who gets an invite from this guy can in turn hook me up.... or if jimmylee has some extra ones PLEASE send me one I want to check it out.... Thanks my email is happy7383@gmail.com I would really appreciate the invite. - chutton

Hello My e-mail is mbiskin at gmail dot com . Could I get an invite please? Thank you very much - Murat Bişkin

Mike Kogelman

Noel Gallagher leaves Oasis over fallout with brother - CNN.com - http://www.cnn.com/2009...

August 29 from Bookmarklet - Comment - Like - Share

The band larger than the Beatles is no more. - Mike Kogelman from Bookmarklet

Jason Pollock

The twitterverse needs to speak loudly & clearly about ur support of @BarackObama's Health Care plan. WE NEED TO GET "#HC09" TRENDING!!!

August 20 from Twitter - Comment - Like - Share

No way. Keep government out of it. - Spencer

Yea, keep government out of it -- status quo is so much better! - Mike Kogelman

Steve Rubel

This is a really cool iPhone weather/time/RSS app called Glance. Check it out http://glanceapp.com/

August 3 - Comment - Like - Share

Daniel Rowley, Jeff P. Henderson, Jeff and 16 other people liked this

Looks nice. Apps like this should at least be free initially though. - Dusty Edenfield

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I agree with Dusty, nice looking app, but I'm not willing to spend $2 to test drive it. - Michael Koby

Completely disagree. App looks interesting, and a developer's time is worth a lot of money. - David Chartier from iPhone

I bought it for $2. Worth it. - Steve Rubel from email

Sacrifice your latte for the day. - Mike Kogelman

I would think a Lite version without the RSS feature might get more people to bite on the full version. You could also argue that $0.99 is the magical price for apps, especially for early adopters. It would be interesting to see if they get more downloads and more money for a $0.99 app versus the $1.99 app. It may look like splitting hairs, but I think it makes a difference. - Dusty Edenfield

Mike Kogelman

We're pullin for ya Adam -- Cancer cancels Beastie Boys' tour, postpones album - CNN.com - http://www.cnn.com/2009...

July 20 from Bookmarklet - Comment - Like - Share

"The Beastie Boys canceled all scheduled concerts and delayed their next album release while member Adam "MCA" Yauch is treated for a cancerous tumor in a salivary gland, Yauch says in a video statement to fans." - Mike Kogelman from Bookmarklet

Mike Kogelman

Police Invade Wisconsin man's property to pull down flag hun - http://digg.com/politic...

July 13 from Digg - Comment - Like - Share

"Dug up for surplus of common sense." - Mike Kogelman

Louis Gray

Want an invitation to Lazyfeed? There are 100 invites now with the code of "lazylouis". Offering only to FriendFeed buddies now. :)

July 10 - Comment - Like - Share

Anthony Farrior, V Mary Abraham, zeynep and 56 other people liked this

http://www.lazyfeed.com - code: lazylouis - Louis Gray

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After you guys get this for a while, I'll send to "that other network". - Louis Gray

Thanks! - James Hull

DONE! - Jenna Bilotta

Awesome, thanks. Got in.. - Micah Jefferson

Thanks so much! - Gus Cuddy

Thanks, I'm in. - William Spaetzel

Thanks, Louis, just joined. :-) - Kol Tregaskes

Thanks a lot Louis! - Sajida H Khan

Done - Steve Lowe

Thanks dude. Good look, and impeccable timing. It's like you knew I was opening my browser at that moment (Saw it at 0 seconds ago! :)) - Mike Kogelman

Thanks. Done :-) - catepol

After that lazy presentation, I'm not sure if I want to be THAT lazy :) - Bwana ☠

Thanks, Louis ... got in easily ... nice share. kj - Karen Jackie

Hmm, cannot seem to connect my Twitter account, says "error". :-( - Kol Tregaskes

So what is it? - Rochelle

this product is interesting.. but sort of confusing and kind of limited. hmm, I'll give it some more time. (i also couldn't connect my twitter account.) - Jenna Bilotta

Rochelle, it's real-time blog search by topic, not by author or source. - Louis Gray

Just signed up for it. Figuring it out as I go. This looks interesting. - Jon, the Beartato of FF

connected twitter, delicious and my google reader shared items blog...... now...time to be lazy - Bwana ☠

Just refreshed the page and it seems to have worked. - Kol Tregaskes

Sure. :) - pea ♥ fierce as a woozle

Thanks :) - Jemm

In - thanks Louis :-) - Andy Bold

Thanks! :-) - W. Brant Kesseler

Thanks Louis! - Patrick Jordan

thanks Louis ! Trying this right now - Jean-Charles VERDIE

Thanks! :-) - Bo Stern

thanks! this is a fun site - they make it so easy to get started. - Laura Norvig

thanks :) - امیرعباس

Just signed up...thanks Louis - jamar78

Thanks Louis! - ronin

Yep count me in! - Kevin J Hatton

I'd like an invite! - Jill O'Neill

Jill - code is lazylouis. URL is http://www.lazyfeed.com - Louis Gray

It keeps telling me that's an invalid code - Jill O'Neill

"This promotional code has expired. However, we will let you know through this email when we open as public. Thank you for your interest!" =( - David Cook

expired..too late FAIL - George Dearing

Dang. Sorry Jill, George and David. That's why I put it on FriendFeed 40 minutes before Twitter. Hmmm... - Louis Gray

Jesus Louis why not 300 or 400? They'll already gone. - Matt Ruiz

Unfortunately I don't keep a friendfeed window open at work, and I missed it. - DGentry

101??? For me??? Just kidding when can we expect more to be available? - Cody Heitschmidt

You gotta be kidding! I was late for techcrunch's and yours Louis. Is it really worth a hype around it? - Sasha Kovaliov(.com)

That's the second time today I missed it. I'm watching Arrington and Robert discuss friendfeed live right now. They're talking about the mob issue on friendfeed. This should be interesting. - Michael Fidler

dang it! too slow. - AJ Kohn

said expired :( - Bahriye

i'm going to setup a real-time search for Lazyfeed because every time I try a code it's expired - Wayne Sutton

mmmmmm Well it is Lazy alright........... - Kevin J Hatton

:( - Johannan Edelman

oops. expired. - Mitchell Tsai

What is lazyfeed? - Morton Fox

Ah crap.. missed it, that one looked good. Thanks anyway, Louis! - Tim Hoeck from Android

I'm working on getting more. :) - Louis Gray

while we wait, tell us what is it that everyone's clamoring for... - BEX

MORE! Like ~1000, so I will be able to make it this time :D Thanks Louis! - Sasha Kovaliov(.com)

i am waiting - Ali Demirci

:( the code has expires, please give me one - Francisco Espinoza from BuddyFeed

Im waiting :S - Francisco Espinoza

standing by. thanks for trying to round some more up. - metalerik

What is lazyfeed all about Louis? - LPH™ and his dog P™

LPH -- it is real-time powered blog search based on keywords, not sources. You want it. - Louis Gray

BEX, LPH, I've only played with it a little. By adding some of your own feeds of your choice (I added Twitter and delicious) it looks at your tags and hashtags and shows you related content. You can also add any tags representing any topic you might be interested in. It's a little hard to explain beyond that, but it has a very simple interface that encourages serendipitous discovery of content on specific topics. I like it! - Laura Norvig

Is FriendFeed supported? - LPH™ and his dog P™

LPH, FriendFeed is not a blog that is discovered by LazyFeed. - Louis Gray

Louis - can the RSS feed of FF though be used? - LPH™ and his dog P™

well, there's a generic "add a blog" where you can put any URL you want and I tried adding my friendfeed URL but I'm not sure if it's working. [EDIT: No, I'm pretty sure that doesn't work.] - Laura Norvig

Thank you for trying Laura! - LPH™ and his dog P™

it's all about tags. So, for instance, it doesn't bring in all my tweets, only those that I used a hashtag in. And the main "point" of bringing that in is to surface the fact that I might be interested in that tag and might want to see other items from all across lazyfeed with that same tag. - Laura Norvig

I tried it out. I have a more universal stuff finder thanks to zemanta and google search. It even comes up with contextual advertising. It's getting packaged into something distributable since Google and Twitter aren't necessarily interested in working together - Mark Essel from iPhone

out of invites :( want to hook a friendfeeder up? ;) - Tyler Gillies

The more I use this, I'm finding that it seems to be scraping a number of, well - 'questionable' sources for content. I'm hoping that they'll allow users to remove sources, vote things down, etc. in some fashion as things develop. It's a nice concept, but it definitely needs some serious refinement. - Dan Dashnaw

Do you think it is scraping the entire blogosphere? Or only blogs added by users? I can't tell. - Laura Norvig

I snooze, I lose. - Mark Krynsky

Bummer, I missed out. - Mark Evans

If you still have one I'll take one. That's what I get for working late. :) - James Stratford

late to the party, but would love an invite on next wave. - lew

All expired. let me know when more are available. - Amani

I'd like an invite :) - Kaan Şengül

quiero!!! (I want in spanish :-) - polycarpo

i missed :( - Arpit Kumar

Dave Taylor

Contemplating selling my 16gb iPhone 3g to fund an upgrade. Pristine condition: going rate is around $250??? Or can I get 300?

June 22 from Twitter - Comment - Like - Share

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You could likely get $300 at this point. - l0ckergn0me

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I have one of those too. If I could get 300, that would be sweet. Chris, where would you start, ebay? - Josh Haley

Wait for ultrasn0w. - Mike Kogelman

If you want to get today's real market go to Craigslist and you'll see a trend--just get ready to get low-balled on what your asking price is. - Bret Rowe

why are people buying them? .... - John Wang

Josh Haley

So hey, new iPhone 3Gs owners, let's see some full res pics from your new phone. Link here please:

conice-iphone-camera-zoom-attachment[1].jpg

June 19 - Comment - Like - Share

Daniel Rowley, Jeff P. Henderson, Elvira and 17 other people liked this

Come on, Amanda! Let's see a pic! I know you got your phone already! - Josh Haley

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Yes, please. - Mark Evans

And don't "mail" it since it scales it down. If you can upload it somewhere in all its glory, we would all be very grateful. - Josh Haley

Spotted the first video http://friendfeed.com/stevega... - Josh Haley

What type of photo would you like? I can have everyone in my vicinity remove their pants... - tinypants - Hagitha of FF

That'll work, Amanda, sure. :p - Josh Haley

Oh shit, how do I exit camera mode? LMAO - tinypants - Hagitha of FF

Big black button at the bottom? :p - Josh Haley

Shuddup. :P And thx. It's my first. Go gentle. - tinypants - Hagitha of FF

So iPhoners are rejoicing what G1 has had for a year? Is that picture real Josh? Are they really selling attachable zoom lenses for the iPhone? Cause that would be first iPhone feature that I'd have ever thought was cool and ahead of the competition. - Matthew DeVries

Matt, it's nice to blast except that half the features in Android wouldn't exist were it not for the first iteration of iPhone. Every carrier is still playing catchup to the elegance that is iPhone-ness. - Mike Kogelman

That attachable lens is a third party accessory. - ronin

The picture is a joke, yo. - Josh Haley

It's not a bad idea for a joke.....If these hand set makers fitted them with like a leur lock type system, the glass makers (zeiss, nikon) would shit themselves over the market they could get. - Matthew DeVries

? It's no joke, it exists: http://is.gd/16x1H - ronin

kind of silly for the 3G. The 3Gs is the one with autofocus. - Matthew DeVries

It's the 6x18 zoom lens for 15 bucks - http://friendfeed.com/dffrnt... - vijay

ronin is faster than me :D - vijay

Here, I just took this outside. It's overcast today: http://is.gd/16xeA - ronin

Ronin. THANK YOU! Was this uploaded or mailed (reduced)? - Josh Haley

Uploaded. - ronin

2048px × 1536px and roughly 1.4MB. Wow! Nice! - Josh Haley

It's a better cam than the 3G but obviously not the be all/end all of smartphone cameras. Still doesn't handle scenes with wide light range well: http://is.gd/16xi1 - ronin

Old 3G is only 1024px × 768px, and roughly 110k per pic. That's a big improvement. - Josh Haley

Although a quick run of that second shot through Photoshop makes it presentable: http://is.gd/16xG0 - ronin

Nice. Yeah, it was a bit on the dark side. Thanks again, ronin. - Josh Haley

Mike Kogelman

Cory Doctorow: We must ensure ISPs don't stop the next Google getting out of the garage -- Net Neutrality NOW. - http://www.guardian.co.uk/technol...

May 19 from Bookmarklet - Comment - Like - Share

But telcoms firms are all recipients of invaluable public subsidy in the form of rights of way and other grants that allow them to string their wires over and under our streets and through our homes. You and I can't go spelunking in the sewers with a spool of cable to wire up our own alternative network. And if the phone companies had to negotiate for every pole, every sewer, every punch-down, every junction box, every road they get to tear up, they'd go broke. All the money in the world couldn't pay for the access they get for free every day. If they don't like it, they don't have to do it. But we don't have to give them our sewers and streets and walls, either. Governments and regulators are in a position to demand that these recipients of public subsidy adhere to a minimum standard of public interest. If they don't like it, let them get into another line of work – give them 60 days to get their wires out of our dirt and then sell the franchise to provide network services to a competitor who will promise to give us a solid digital future in exchange for our generosity. - Mike Kogelman from Bookmarklet

Tudor Bosman

Ahem.

May 11 - Comment - Like - Share

Mike Kogelman, Rollz Chamberlain, Zac Garrett and 88 other people liked this

I am easily amused. - Tudor Bosman

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Ha! - Bill Heslin

http://twitter.com/flipzag... - Neil Kandalgaonkar

Admit it Tudor, were you 1) constantly refreshing until you got that, or 2) did you use Photoshop? :) - Louis Gray

at first I thought it said "gulpted johnson". Sheesh. - Rick Cogley

OK, about 10 years ago I drove past a community center with a sign out front advertising that they were hosting the "Hefty-Johnson wedding reception". I've been giggling about that ever since. - Big K

Nice. - Samblak

Hi, Dick Chiseler, nice to meet you. - Christopher Harley

Sorta like the "Full Ho" restaurant I used to live down the road from.. hehe. - Mike Kogelman

Mike, there's a Young Dong restaurant near me that makes me giggle whenever we drive by. My husband rolls his eyes at me every time I say, "Yes, please?" or "Make mine a double." I think I'm funny and that's really all that matters. http://friendfeed.com/fabooma... - Anika

heh - guruvan (Rob Nelson)

Chinese Restaurant and Bar in Downtown Portland Oregon 'Hung Far Low' http://www.google.com/search... - Aaron Baer

is this a clue to the missing piece of Michelangelo's David? - Derek Lords

Robert Scoble

THIS CONTEST IS OVER, PLEASE DO NOT COMMENT ON THIS ANY MORE. Thank you.

March 14 - Comment - Like - Share

Miles Laird, Roman Zolotarev, Zee. and 381 other people liked this

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, Low in Sodium

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!! - DanDan

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? - Alexey Ivanov

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? - Her Lindsay-ness

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... - Her Lindsay-ness

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

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

Love being crazy. Let's be a bit. If i won the money, I'd make my ideas and projects real. - Cem

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 @ CS Techcast

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 Campbell

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? - The Bohemian Penguin

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 (more more more)

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! - Mike Kogelman

$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, Low in Sodium

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 Rudolph

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, Time Warping

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! :) - اميــــــــــــــر

Half of that money would be enough for me! please send it to my Gmail account! :) amirapt.at.gmail.com I will be waiting :) - اميــــــــــــــر

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 t

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