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LOL! A FriendFeed Cheerleader! - Matt Ruiz

I don't understand it either - Doubledown_inSL

If you don't understand FriendFeed then I must be really lost - Susan Beebe

Of course these are the same people who told me three years ago "Twitter is lame" so not sure I should listen to them. - Robert Scoble

Robert- what don't you understand? - Brett Kelly

Gimme an F! Gimme an R!.... - Jeremy Brooks

friendfeed will make sense a year from now - Doubledown_inSL

Robert - listen to your gut. :) - Matt Ruiz

Robert wants to know how to gain 100,000 followers in 3 minutes - Doubledown_inSL

Well that is a bit of a problem, it has a steep learning curve! - TobiasVerhoog.com

Brett: I don't understand how FriendFeed will beat Facebook. ;-) - Robert Scoble

friendfeed's learning curve looks like heaving boobies - Doubledown_inSL

LOL, nice. Easy to beat Facebook. Friendfeed is way safer, and can connect to other services. - Zachary TG

Brett: and I don't understand why being a cheerleader for something is bad, especially when I'm right. - Robert Scoble

And when you shake the iPhone app, it updates! (wait... no... that's not FriendFeed....) - Linda Mills

FriendFeed is like the new geocities - Doubledown_inSL

Does Friendfeed have to beat Facebook? - Kim Landwehr

Anyway, this is what happens when I get drunk with traveling geeks and Paul Carr. :-) - Robert Scoble

Sounds like everyone in London is going to be viewing this conversation soon. So, don't wonder, just look. - Martha

If the web tool is adding value to what you are doing, nothing wrong in being a cheerleader for it - Tejas Patel

London is asleep right now - Doubledown_inSL

Martha: I don't understand how to make Paul Carr understand. :-) - Robert Scoble

Doubledown: London is just getting started right now. - Robert Scoble

Robert, if you were a FriendFeed thought leader we would all cheer. - Dutch Driver

Let's all cheer for Friendfeed. Gooooo Friendfeed! - Asgeir

I don't understand it either, but I still love it. - Oracio

Twitter is lame. FF rocks. - CW™

I really WANT to like friendfeed more, just seems good in theory though - Doubledown_inSL

Oracio: I'd say something sexist right now, but even though I've had too many glasses of wine I won't. - Robert Scoble

Surely cheerleaders don't really understand what they're drawing people's attention to anyway ;-) - Katie Dob from iPod

The only reason I really have a FriendFeed account is to talk to you. Facebook has commoditized just about all the other 'niche social services' into a familiar interface for the masses. So as far as 'friend feeding' is concerned, there's really only one site shaping up to matter the most — and that's Facebook. For that reason, I don't see FriendFeed reaching past the early adopter crowd anytime soon. - Colin Anawaty

I've been trying to figure it out. As a result liking it more. That's normal. - Bob Morse

Robert lets go home , dont drink so much there :-))) - Johni Fisher

Robert: Don't let me stop you. Ha. - Oracio

Look what happened to jaiku, same will happen to Facebook. They will try to become something they will never be or beat, Twitter. - Zachary TG

You could be called worse things than cheerleader! - Rene Wirtz

Hey Robert - need any London restaurant recommendations? - Patrick Jordan

Colin: based on the reactions I've had in London I think the mainstream is coming within six months. This is how people used to treat me when I cheerleaded Twitter. - Robert Scoble

I just love logging on seeing interesting things role before my eyes :) - Asgeir

Patrick: no, we were eating dinner at the top of the BT Tower tonight and it was awesome. Even if I had to take some ribbing about my love of FriendFeed. - Robert Scoble

its a feel good kinda place.... - Bob DeMarco

Friendfeed wont be the shiznit until I can invite all of you into my vampire mob guild - Doubledown_inSL

Patrick: I'll post photos later, gotta go back to the bar cause Rocky is calling me. :-) - Robert Scoble

Bob DeMarco: That could be Friendfeed's slogan. lol - Zachary TG

Robert: perhaps you're right. I like some of FriendFeeds features and they are uniquely different, but is it enough? I'm not convinced... yet. - Colin Anawaty

Its a social data sharing/discovery space to me. - Darren Stuart

London feels good, especially after some wine. :-) - Robert Scoble

Hi everybody, FF newbie doing his first "chat" comment here... cheering since a couple of weeks, though - Fritz Feger

meanwhile....i never saw the comments box move this fast - Bob DeMarco

we're all newbs - Doubledown_inSL

I am not new - Zachary TG

Zachary....i'll share the royalties with you - Bob DeMarco

FriendFeed smells like new car - Doubledown_inSL

FriendFeed is a community. 'Nuff said. - Jorge Escobar

lol. - Zachary TG

Doubledown_inSL: How does it? - Zachary TG

Zachary: thank you, I just passed 43,000 today. Wild. Where did all these nobodies come from? Jorge: shhhh, quiet, you don't want the celebrities to hear you, do you? - Robert Scoble

No idea, Oprah mush have said something. LOL. - Zachary TG

poor me...still in the blue nowhere of freindfeed - Bob DeMarco

HAHA! You do read me, Mr. Scoble ;) - Jorge Escobar

I still don't figure how to find unread comments in between all that masses of text... any hints? - Fritz Feger

Sorry, Operah must have said something - Zachary TG

Feger..just read every fifth one - Bob DeMarco

Love to know how many people on this thread aren't techies. Bet it's close to one. That's counting me. - Jeff Strank

Bob DeMarco: Like that is going to work - Zachary TG

Oprah. Opera. Oprah. Opera. ... I'm confused - Doubledown_inSL

I'm a techie - Zachary TG

hahhaa - Bob DeMarco

Bob, that's what I do, but it's usually the important comments I'm missing by this - Fritz Feger

Just put this convo in its own tab. You do use a tab-enabled browser, right? - Jorge Escobar

Doubledown_inSL: I mean that when Operah said something about Twitter, everyone got a Twitter account - Zachary TG

i'm a non techie...which explains why i am in the blue nowhere of friend feed - Bob DeMarco

Techie too... - Fritz Feger

Who's Operah? - Jorge Escobar

People didn't just join for Oprah, they also joined for her KFC coupon too! - Doubledown_inSL

oprah's big sister - Bob DeMarco

oprah winfrey, sorry, multi-tasking - Zachary TG

Wine... You have not seen the real London before you been to a few bars drinking Stout :)) - Asgeir

this is kinda like Plato in 1974 - Bob DeMarco

Asgeir: we've had stout. We've had whiskey. We've had wine. What else is on the menu? - Robert Scoble

I am using the opera web browser and talking about oprah winfrey. LOL - Zachary TG

No Ale, Robert? - Jorge Escobar

scoble...a few more and you will understand FriendFeed - Bob DeMarco

It connects people who like to talk. LOL. - Zachary TG

why must FriendFeed "beat" Facebook? - Brett Kelly

@Natalia, you already can see him in a surfer suit, no need to imagine - Jorge Escobar

Because it is easy - Zachary TG

Jorge: I have had ale too! And some cider. I'll post photos later and you'll see why this all matters. - Robert Scoble

Zachary...that explains it...nobody likes to listen - Bob DeMarco

That sounds more like it. Welcome to London. - Asgeir

Brett: so that Paul Carr will stop giving me heck about being a FriendFeed cheerleader. - Robert Scoble

LOL - Zachary TG

is this the end? - Bob DeMarco

Friendfed is better then Facebook, and will always be - Zachary TG

yeah..i am in the blue nowhere over there also - Bob DeMarco

Was nice to meet you and Rocky last night Robert. Albeit only for a minute as you were about to leave the bar :) - Simon Wicks

What matters is that I don't have access to your secret room, Robert. I hate it. :) - Jorge Escobar

I want access, he won't let me. LOL - Zachary TG

Bob: hopefully this isn't the end. But if it was the end I wouldn't be posting. My wife would be and it wouldn't be happy. - Robert Scoble

Robert - have Paul ask a question on the site through you and compare it to what he might see if he poses the same question through you on Twitter and Facebook. That might convince him. - Martha

Jorge: have I met you face-to-face? Only people I've met face-to-face get access to @secretscoble. - Robert Scoble

Martha: that's an unfair fight. - Robert Scoble

I know the rules, Robert. Doesn't mean I don't hate it. - Jorge Escobar

scoble...go over to my friendfeed...meet my fact and send me the key - Bob DeMarco

opps face - Bob DeMarco

Robert Scoble: Yes you have. I saw your profile pic, and you follow me on FriendFeed so you have seen my profile pic too. LOL. - Zachary TG

You didn't explain that the fight needed to be fair - just effective. - Martha

I am also a Friendfeed cheerleader :). It simply rocks. Cool features, super stable. It's the best - alfred westerveld

Jorge: you just gotta meet me and buy me a beer. :-) - Robert Scoble

i wanna be a FriendFeed cheerleader - Bob DeMarco

Robert Scoble: Yes you have. I saw your profile pic, and you follow me on FriendFeed so you have seen my profile pic too. LOL. - Zachary TG

Damn. How many have you had Robert? LOL - Jorge Escobar

Zachary...exactly - Bob DeMarco

LOL - Zachary TG

Jorge: I lost count. - Robert Scoble

Twitter is lame... but I still wouldn't listen to them :) - Tim Hoeck

i wish i had a bigger screen like all you techies - Bob DeMarco

I only have three 30" and an iMac with a 24" - Zachary TG

:: Doing hypnosis to Robert :: Tomorrow, when you wake up, you'll remember we met the day before. Snap! - Jorge Escobar

wooooooooooo - Bob DeMarco

Bob: I'm stuck in London with a 15-inch MacBook, no big screen. Jorge: funny! - Robert Scoble

Someone Please make the bad mental image of Scoble in a cheerleader's uniform go away!!! - Sean Reiser

And I haven't had anything to drink - Jorge Escobar

yeah...well i am stuck in delray beach - Bob DeMarco

LOL, I do not even have a laptop, just lots of iMacs. And a crappy netbook. One of the first - Zachary TG

We stopped at 123 comments, lol - Zachary TG

Gooooo FF! Robert is like the captain of the football team here. - Tracy Benham

Robert..do you look like the Hulk when you are drinking? - Bob DeMarco

All the time is more like it, lol - Zachary TG

Robert, indeed it's time to change the avatar - Jorge Escobar

I second the motion - Zachary TG

don't do that...i won't be able to find you..since i can't get in the secret room - Bob DeMarco

lol - Zachary TG

Zachary...do you think if i get a cool image like Robert I could pop out of the blue nowhere? - Bob DeMarco

I think Robert is a goner. He must be snoring, his face in the counter. - Jorge Escobar

Not really. I wouldn't describe his avatar as cool. - Zachary TG

Bob: you don't want to see me angry. You either Jorge. :-) - Robert Scoble

is the ripley guy here yet? - Bob DeMarco

LOL, he forgot about me. LOL - Zachary TG

Any plans for Cambridge? - Philip Baddeley from iPhone

Philip: survival as we punt on the Cam. - Robert Scoble

Oooo... my knees are trembling, Robert. LoL. BTW, you should be Qik'ing this right now. - Jorge Escobar

Yes you should - Zachary TG

Jorge: no we shouldn't. :-) - Robert Scoble

What cell do you have Robert? - Zachary TG

HAHAHA - Jorge Escobar

could be jail - Bob DeMarco

A great time to bond with your community, and you throw it away? - Jorge Escobar

Zachary: in London I'm carrying an iPhone and a Nokia N79. I also have a Palm Pre but it doesn't work here cause Sprint didn't turn on the International plan. - Robert Scoble

This has to bee the fastest amount of comments on any post on Friendfeed - Asgeir

Cool. Too bad I don't have a Palm Pre yet, they aren't in Canada yet. Stupid Bell. - Zachary TG

Jorge: have a beer and bond. Heheh. - Robert Scoble

just shows you what can happen when people get lonely - Bob DeMarco

Will do, after I process all the wine I consumed over the weekend ;) - Jorge Escobar

Bob: I'm not lonely. Just had lots of wine and beer. - Robert Scoble

i meant those of us that are not drinking and in london - Bob DeMarco

How hard is it to get people to visit a website? Like mine - Zachary TG

Bob: that's no excuse. Have a beer and find someone to share it with! - Robert Scoble

Robert, when's the next time you're in NYC? - Jorge Escobar

Jorge: I want to visit again soon. Lots of cool stuff happening in NYC, but not sure when I'll be there next. - Robert Scoble

I'm sorry, London England or London Canada?........ - Zachary TG

London England - Mark

ook - Zachary TG

AKA Best City in the World - Mark

Zachary: come on! Would I really be talking about London, Canada? - Robert Scoble

Aight. I'm right here in Union Square. Have a great time and hopefully we'll meet P2P. - Jorge Escobar

Is that why he is Drunk, because he is in wine countru - Zachary TG

test - Bob DeMarco

Zachary: no wine country around here. Just a great city. - Robert Scoble

London is great at night, but try working there thru the week. AWFUL - Mark

Robery Scoble: Sorry, I live in CANADA. WHAT IS WRONG WITH LONDON, CANADA? - Zachary TG

Be back later, gotta upload photos. - Robert Scoble

The man who tires of London, tires of Life. - Ian May

what the heck..friendfeed through me out - Bob DeMarco

LOL, haha - Zachary TG

Bye all, follow me on Twitter, I'm @ZacharyTG, and go to my tech site, http://whittv.wordpress.com - Zachary TG

Now that was tasteless - Jorge Escobar

I think someone needs to photoshop your icon and change the hulk hands to some green cheerleading pompoms - Tamara

Zach: Plenty wrong with London, Ontario Canada. Its exactly too far from Toronto, Niagara, Windsor and anywhere else you would want to go to do something on a Friday night and get home at a decent hour :) - Luke Kilpatrick

How did this conversation go from FF to alcohol consumption to where the best city in the world is? Ahhh, its because of number 2! Have fun all! :-) - Brandi Madrid

I think this is true - Bruce.d.Stewart

Ian May I love that: he man who tires of London, tires of Life. Very true - Asgeir

It was Samule Johnson who said "When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life" in 1777 - Ian May

Robert, I'm not sure the cheerleader outfit would suit you... :-) Cheers in the UK. - ChangeForge | Ken Stewart

Ken: I can cheer "rah, rah, rah" along with the best of them. :-) - Robert Scoble

You mean that Oprah isn't a web browser named after a web browser? ;) /me ducks - Tyson Key

Scobleizer in Lycra.. .I don't think so :) - Rhys Amos

Mind you, Samuel Johnson seemed to be a man of much higher intellect, than Boris, who is a bumbling, bungling what-ho public schoolboy twat type. - Ian May

I think the little white socks are hot, Robert. - Oldengrey (Jay)

Tyson, LOL! - ChangeForge | Ken Stewart

Pompoms? ;-) - iconic88

Damn I wish I had some pompoms! *giggle* Give me an "F" "F" it again! What's "F F" stand for? FriendFeed! Robert! Those gloves in your avatar should be able to shake things up enough! - Arleen Boyd

FF is cool! - Randy Allen Bishop

It's not a food bank? - John D Reasor

FF has way less spam, and supports actual conversations, choir - Ian Orekondy

+1 Ian. The signal-to-noise ratio is much easier to handle on FF than on other sites. (Yes, @Twitter, we're talking about _you_. Again.) - Bill Sodeman

Bill, yes, for sure! - Myrna

Robert, @secretscoble? Why not just DM. Hey are you going to sleep tonight? - Myrna

Everyday, I discover the power and flexibility of Friendfeed. - ashish

Myrna: yes I'm going to sleep now. Enough craziness for one evening. - Robert Scoble

I wouldn't say you were a cheerleader, more a bell ringer for the service - Joe Dawson

Growing up on IRC and AIM, somehow Twitter seemed natural and familiar, while Friendfeed has taken me outside of my comfort zone. Which is exciting! - Mike Chelen

It's kinda weird. So what is Friendfeed about? It seems to me that everyone just subcribes and never does anything else. - Chip

Robert, you're *always* a cheerleader for something. When I first started reading you, it was TabletPC (happy days!). And there's nothing wrong with that - you're a natural enthusiast. The only time it ever gets to be a problem is when you forget that whatever you're being enthusiastic about isn't the right way for everyone. - Ian Betteridge

You are doing with FriendFeed what you do with anything you love, talk about it all the time, get people engaged, then stand back and let them figure out how to use it for themselves. Whats to understand? ^_^ - Dan Morrill AKA Techwag

Great. Now I've got a mental image of Scoble in a short skirt and pedal pushers, carrying pom-pons. (You don't really have the legs for this look, by the way.) - John Craft

John, that's an image I really didn't want at lunch time :) - Ian Betteridge

Oh, those whingeing Poms in ol' Mother England...ignore them and keep on cheerleading. - George Hall (Australia)

How do I block all of John Craft's thoughts from making visuals in my head? :-) - James Schipper

I agree that Microsoft is losing overall browser share, but I'd have to disagree on two things: (a) IE6 is not going away as fast as anyone would like (c.f. http://www.quirksmode.org/blog...), and ... - Joel Webber

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(b) Tying the browser to the OS is not the reason that it evolves slowly -- IE stopped evolving significantly after IE6 because Microsoft pulled most resources off the project. When IE7 *did* finally come out, most people who didn't have significant problems with old (usually intranet) apps upgraded. And IE8's picking up pretty quickly, again mostly from IE7 users (unfortunately *not* from IE6). - Joel Webber

Just like windows XP. - ashish

Although it is worth pointing out that tying IE6 into the OS (the shell, really) did create one gigantic problem that they're still paying for -- the fact that you can't install multiple versions side-by-side is why so many enterprises are stuck on IE6 (because their old intranet apps break on IE7 in many instances). If they had just created a sandboxed, standalone IE6 for these companies, everyone would be upgrading the primary browser to IE7, IE8, FF, etc. - Joel Webber

Interesting, but I think one of his premises, that IE lost share as a direct result of the integration into Windows, is flawed: Internet Explorer enjoyed a huge market share for several years, and was as high as 95% a few years after Windows 98 came out. It was only when someone came up with a viable alternative after Netscape imploded that it started losing its share. The integration... more... - Mark Trapp

I agree, out with Internet Explorer, and in with Firefox. IE should be based on Firefox before they die. - Zachary TG

It's not a thread about IE6 w/o a link to the overly judgmental (and somewhat safe-for-work) IE6 splash pages: http://designyoutrust.com/2009... - Josh Wills

I'd be fine with everyone upgrading to IE8, if we could get rid of IE6 somehow. IE8's no speed demon, but it's catching up to Firefox (WebKit browsers are still a lot faster in practical terms, at least for most of the apps I work on). The biggest problem with IE8, however, is that they keep refusing to implement a lot of really useful standards (e.g., Canvas), the absence of which are holding back new kinds of applications altogether. - Joel Webber

Why does it seem okay to develop an iphone app that doesn't work on other phones, or windows apps that don't work on linux, but it's not okay to develop web pages that don't work on ie6? - Amit Patel

I think we the USER is getting caught in the cross fire between the browser wars !! What is the point in creating a platform that isn't open to everyone..surely its best for us the all developers and users for platform applications to grow virally ….. things wont move forward all the while we’re caught in the cross fire….Surley you agree with that Matt ? - Click Trick Media

It's Nick Halstead, as seen on FriendFeed here: http://friendfeed.com/nickhal... -- I'm loving TweetMeme. - Robert Scoble

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One of a few videos from our trip to London. - Robert Scoble

What did you shoot that interview clip with, Robert? - Michael Kinney

My Canon 5D Mark II with a 24 mm F 2.8 lens. - Robert Scoble

very good - Thomas Power

Tweetmeme was one of the first WP plugins I installed on my blog :) - Susan Beebe

There's the link to Chris's spam! - Jesse Stay

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Only the one about gorillas is mystifying to me. - Stephen Mack from iPhone

this came across from @streko bit.ly/53RIJI - sam from twhirl

Stephen, much of what I have seen is very racist. Some of the avatars have swastikas. Kid you not. - Louis Gray

Looks like someone's gotten a bot to manipulate the system. - Jesse Stay

As Sam already pointed out above, @streko tweeted a link that explains what has happened: http://bit.ly/11pumZ - Gordon Saunders

I don't get it, what tool are you using? I'm seeing Miley Cyrus as the top trender - Matthew DeVries

Matthew, it looks like it's fixed now. Check out the link from Gordon for a screenshot from earlier. - Rochelle

Which one? No reply necessary. - Michael Fidler

I've come to mostly ignore the trending topics. They are very rarely the "trending" topic of the people I follow, and even more rarely a topic that I even care to divulge into. - Daniel Zarick

Louis, I saw that too. More colossal immaturity from 4chan. - Stephen Mack from iPhone

There has to be a better mechanism put into in place for the trending topics, it's way to easy to game. - Mike Fruchter

@Mike, there isn't much that can withstand the sheer number of /b/tards.. - mjc

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