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不过我的 SSH 也开始极度不稳定... 靠
即使这样 FriendFeed 上的人也很少
- coolxll
是啊, sigh
- Rat2
现在很少人用Friendfeed,以前的活跃分子全去Twitter了。
- Steve Chou
No，主要是不翻墙用Twitter的方法远多过FF的方法，甚至还有部分不知道FriendFeed的，毕竟被Facebook收购之后名气也不大
- coolxll
from IM
API不好开发应用也是一方面，噪音比较多，UI过于复杂，功能过多才是Friendfeed要害。
- Steve Chou
其实FF用起来，会话啥的远比Twit 方便
- coolxll
from IM
至于ff.im 对于很多人来说也是一个问题
- coolxll
from IM
就是聊天很方便，可惜Friendfeed没坚持下来
- Steve Chou
其实Friendfeed上建立起来的关系比Twitter更好
- Steve Chou
因为不被墙的话，必然大量的人转过来，其实当初墙推得时候，上手FF并没墙，不过后来连 iTweet 这样的都墙，FF当然没法幸免了
- coolxll
from IM
FF我现在主要是邮件订阅每日最佳的
- coolxll
from IM
其实我以前有阵子是中文区活跃度第二名，后来也慢慢懒得用了，打开全是from twitter,其实FF比Google wave 好多了
- Steve Chou
from Twitter 也是没办法的事情，毕竟方便，不过可以把 From Twitter 的全部隐藏掉嘛
- coolxll
from IM
觉得比较活跃的同学有 @sogook 和 @baiyssy @madcat87（就是小鹅同学）
- coolxll
from IM
去掉 就没的看了，其实FF作为聚合体和聊天工具真的是最好的，FF被收购了 大家都很失望
- Steve Chou
隐藏之后，如果被评论或者 喜爱过 还是会显示出来的，我觉得蛮好的。
- coolxll
from IM
只是我们花的这么多时间交流的东西 有一天全部都会没了 听所facebook只维护一两年而已。
- Steve Chou
什么意思，不明白
- coolxll
from IM
到时候FF的服务器会全部停用
- Steve Chou
感觉FF这样的交流模式 有点类似 Plurk，虽然 plurk 我没怎么用过
- coolxll
from IM
大家讨论热烈。。。我只有在twitter屎掉的时候才会到FF唠叨hiahia～～
- owhimsical
same here
- Steve Chou
我觉得FaceBook 会给一个合理的交代的，不可能像饭否那样，饭否很杯具的，我记录的东西就没了。。。至少通知一下呢。。我好备份啊
- coolxll
from IM
早就通知了 只是不好备份
- Steve Chou
有吗？ @netputer 他备份的
- coolxll
from IM
其实FF还不如卖给Twitter
- Steve Chou
我觉得卖给Twitter不好啊。
- coolxll
from IM
起码还有可能保持完整和独立性
- Steve Chou
ff聊天比gtalk还是有意思一点 呵呵
- Steve Chou
哈哈，刚才订阅了 很多 FF订阅。。 主动更新的人太少了
- coolxll
from IM
以前最活跃的Robert Scoble,Mona现在很少上Friendfeed了
- Steve Chou
其实我就是用GTalk在聊FF。。。而且还是在 老鼠的地盘上。。。 卖给 Twitter 就能完整和独立吗? 未必啊。。而且Twitter本身的命运还不可知呢
- coolxll
from IM
始终还是觉得twitter比较有前途
- Steve Chou
外国人看的比较少。。Twitter 现在不像微博客啦。。
- coolxll
from IM
FF确实过度强大了...
- Rat2
@coolxll 现在不是老鼠了咯, XDD
- Rat2
而且和群众交流太多了 每个人都有不同的需求，ff全加上了
- Steve Chou
是海王星人吗？ 偶知道火星小姐 Ms.Tina
- coolxll
from IM
FF相对不怎么刷屏。。Twitter聊天太恐怖了。
- coolxll
from IM
所以一般也不在Twitter聊天，最烦的就是RT回复者
- Steve Chou
另外我上Twitter官方网页，刚才也出现过我没订阅过的陌生人的推，很神奇 @SteveChou
- coolxll
from IM
@coolxll 嗯, 海卫一, Triton
- Rat2
API有问题了
- Steve Chou
@SteveChou RT回复是公害啊
- Rat2
真恨不得所以客户端全部改官方RT
- Steve Chou
+1
- Rat2
知道怎么把gmail chat放回Inbox不？
- Steve Chou
现在也不稳定。。另外 RT 不可能消灭嘛。。除非像这边一样关键字过滤。。不允许出现。。囧。。
- coolxll
from IM
-1.。hiahia～～
- owhimsical
有Move to inbox 的。。那个按钮。。
- coolxll
from IM
@owhimsical 哟, 大菜也乱入了... XD
- Rat2
是么 找了好久没找到
- Steve Chou
啦啦啦啦我是来捣乱的～～
- owhimsical
围观中
- 阳阳猪
@coolxll 可否截个图看看 找不到啊
- Steve Chou
你也来了
- Steve Chou
话说我不出现在twitter的friends timeline里了，没人能看到我的推了
- 阳阳猪
什么意思？
- Steve Chou
就是你登陆twitter看不到我最近发的推，但有我profile有，还有 @tuite_tips 也是的，应该有一些帐号同样命运吧
- 阳阳猪
@stevechou 你加我Gtalk 吧。。。就是这个id。。
- coolxll
from IM
图片传不上FF嘛。。。一直Processing
- coolxll
from IM
@SteveChou 嗯, 也加我吧 li.Rat2 a Gmail
- Rat2
@coolxll 还是用邮件传吧, 要么就得改全局设置了...
- Rat2
初步判断twitter目前是延时
- 阳阳猪
都加了
- Steve Chou
好快///
- Rat2
Pic 就看这个吧 http://i49.tinypic.com/16hl1l3...
- coolxll
from IM
发现GTalk也没法传文件，算了。。不过FF真的好实时啊。。
- coolxll
from IM
关键问题是用FF 比用Google Wave负担小不少。。暂时用不上GW那东东
- coolxll
from IM
@coolxll 内牛满面
- Steve Chou
不跑题了 @ratoo 你的SSH 哪家的啊，言归正传
- coolxll
from IM
其实FF只加几个交流多的朋友，拿来做公开版Gtalk还是不错滴
- Steve Chou
我的啊, 问别人借的
- Rat2
我是说哪里的？ 日本还是美国?
- coolxll
from IM
看来人还是蛮多的啊
- Baiyssy
看来这条可以上Best of the day了
- Steve Chou
哦, DreamHost 的, 有点不稳定所以我现在换到 FreeU 了
- Rat2
看到菜小同学了
- sG
A good example... Truth vs. Marketing. Which is reality? :)
T. Brent, technopeasant, Alex 'BuckyBit' Covic, David H. Chu and 70 other people liked this
How I feel... vs. how I present how I feel. :)
- Louis Gray
Louis, you look like you're a twenty-some year old college student in the first picture versus an adult.
- Jimminy
Woah:s
- Sardar Mohkim Khan
No he does, but I think it's also time you get some sl... Sleep is a waste of time for the unproductive. I don't think you've been unproductive lately get some sleep.
- Jimminy
I'm looking left. I'm looking right. Back. forth. back. forth. In the space between truth and fiction I am playing PONG.
- Micah Wittman
lol this is classic - and very brave of you to post ;)
- Chris Saad
Brave, indeed. The arched brow says everything. :)
- Mark Evans
*nods to Holden* :)
- Micah Wittman
The first is my "old Twitter default avatar face". :)
- Louis Gray
And Jimminy, one benefit of ignoring jetlag and working both time zones... Four meals! It's dinner time again!
- Louis Gray
The one on the left looks like Louis "poor college student" Gray and the right is the CEO of blah-blah company.
- imabonehead
Louis, I just ate my 4th meal without jetlag or working in two time zones, benefit of not sleeping more than 4 hours a day.
- Jimminy
I need to change your advisor photo on http://socialtoo.com/about... now
- Jesse Stay
Make sure it is the second one then, Jesse. I always hated that other photo you took. It just won't die.
- Louis Gray
What are you saying about my photography skills? :-)
- Jesse Stay
In the left one, Louis looks Vulcan. :->
- Kurt Starnes
Of course, I could use this one: http://friendfeed.com/jworthi... or this one: http://friendfeed.com/lasse...
- Jesse Stay
Jesse makes me wonder abt @guykawasaki pic in your socialtoo about page is it the left or rght pic of Guy ;)
- Sudha Jamthe
wait. is that a bib in the first pic? :)
- Christian Anderson
Here are some others: http://www.ibtimes.com/content... :-)
- Todd Hoff
Now he's been to London we're seeing the emergence on the world circuit of the true LG (face) brand.
- Thomas Power
I thought that first shot was your inspector Clouseau impersonation.
- Mark Krynsky
That's my #didntsleeponthejet look, Mark.
- Louis Gray
Ok...but can you say "Does your dog bite" with a French accent for me anyways?
- Mark Krynsky
Let's turn this into a meme! I just posted my "truth vs. fiction" here: http://friendfeed.com/got-mem...
- April Russo (app103)
The first pic looks like that of an Apple developer who's just got his iPhone app rejected from the App store.
- Mahendra (SkepticGeek)
Haha, superb!
- Kol Tregaskes
is it much like turning up for an executive type job interview in t-shirt and jeans or in a suit. You're the same person underneath.
- Ian May
they might be both marketing avatars - left youtube vs right linkedin - lol
- barbarars
Obviously BOTH are reality. The right one is not a stunt model is it? ;-)
- Kristi Colvin
It was an honour to photograph you Louis, hopefully something for you to remember your London trip by
- John Cassidy
Boom-Boom-Wow
- Cheyenne
We all try to show our best side to the outside world, particularly when it's with regard to business. But is it really disingenuous to show a happy face any more than it would be to show a scowl? Neither represents you or the collective us 100% of the time. Does this mean we need a chart with all our moods on it to greet potential clients? :) I do like the arched brow. hehe
- Sheryl
Sorry to say this, Louis, but I will attempt to run away if I see someone coming to me bearing that smile you have on the second photo. I'd be like, "Darnit, here's another salesman wanting to pressure me into buying some thingamajig again..." No offense, Louis. But even for marketing, I really think you can do without the oh-so-friendly smile :-)
- Pandu ● IT Optimizer
from fftogo
Both!
- Dan Morrill AKA Techwag
Louis is a pro smiler :)
- Steve Chou
Both - but the guy on the couch looks like more fun ;)
- beautiful world
lol! XD
- 'Like' robot (frɐnc)
Anybody knows how to tweet using SMS?
Cause even I had verified my cellphone already,it doesn't tell me anything to update status via this phone.
- Steve Chou
from fftogo
If you're in the US, text your tweet to 40404.
- Ryan - @magicofpi
I am in China,some people told me we can't get notification since it didn't support SMS here,but we can update.
- Steve Chou
from fftogo
Any idea for the NO. to tweet in other unsupported countries?
- Steve Chou
from fftogo
Let me check - I think you were right, you can tweet but not get notifications.
- Ryan - @magicofpi
Yeah, from Twitter support: "If you're not in the US, Canada, Germany, or Sweden use the international long code instead: +44 7624 801423. If you're using this number you will be able to send messages to Twitter, but you will not be able to receive them."
- Ryan - @magicofpi
I just had a problem if it will charge this SMS tweet update as a foreign short message,it is kind of expensive to tweet thru sms,heheh
- Steve Chou
from fftogo
€ 0.16 in NL
- Peter
It charges about 1 yuan per international text message.Then a SMS tweet update is ten times coster than usual text messages.
- Steve Chou
from fftogo
it's 5 Rupees per SMS in India... dats 5 times costlier dan d usual txt! :-(
- Aditya Deo
btw, Steve, consider urself famous man... i googled "tweet to sms" & ur page is 17th result out of 375000 results... pretty popular, eh?!! :-)
- Aditya Deo
In India, you can use http://smstweet.appspot.com/ to send tweet through regular SMS. regular STD SMS charges apply
- Mayank
经过我的大脑短时间内高速运转得出这样一个结论，目前 friendfeed 中文圈幸存者可大体上分为两类:一类是像我这样不折腾O疼，肾上腺激素分泌过盛的心理障碍患者;另一类是像 OF 同学那样身居国外人肉翻墙的超级猛男(女?)。欢迎骂楼，我会在手机短信端含情脉脉的注视着你们。
蛋疼+1
- Roger.Wei
人肉翻墙是用翻还是不用翻？（我晕，反应过来了）
- Olive Fee
掰掰手指就数的过来几个人你还分类，不过他们那个研究设计的小组人好多阿
- ThenWang
芸窗是什么情况
- Olive Fee
蛋疼人肉翻墙猛男
- Roger.Wei
哦哦，疯人院，之乎者也，之乎者也……
- Olive Fee
Friendfeed啥時解封
- lion
想問問牆內有沒抄襲Friendfeed的網站
- lion
没有吧，ff的技术含量很高的。
- Haitai
我是来尾行某人的。
- Zhou
Friendfeed估计Facebook终止之时都还没解封
- Steve Chou
FFtogo解封了？
- Steve Chou
Zhou 兄看上谁了？
- Roger.Wei
现在都得开个Puff称才能上FF
- Steve Chou
@ Steve Chou收費的?
- lion
免费的 有时速度还可以
- Steve Chou
啥版本，我的不行
- lion
就是上puff上下个免费版 很久没上过FF了
- Steve Chou
我比较卑微，两类都不算。
- 小硕同学
都懒得改了 还是twitter方便
- Steve Chou
我还是来冒个泡吧...
- Rat2
就是经常发贴的某人阿。
- Zhou
哦，死机同学要小心了 开始有尾行的了 XD
- Roger.Wei
尾行成功后可选择两种行动
- Olive Fee
尾行3据说是不错的游戏啊，可惜没玩过
- Roger.Wei
单纯的说3啊,我更想试试3P（跟两个女性）
- Roger.Wei
唉，那叫双飞。
- Zhou
呃，突然大脑短路 没有想起双飞这个专用名词
- Roger.Wei
世上没有不变的原则，FF上没有不跑题的帖子
- ThenWang
翻墙控。但不怎么用FF。
- panchunxiang
小声的告诉楼上的楼上的楼上……，我正在操练尾行3.无奈的是，总被发现。
- panchunxiang
无聊来看看
- junrxu
说漏了，Friendfeed上还有为数不少的一些无聊者，只是……无聊上上的同学大多出镜率不高，偶尔才冒冒泡，以致于常常被忽略了
- 遇见你就死机
我是 无聊者，偶爾來看看
- lion
有心在墙外 希望不要被墙内大哥注视... 话说今年夏天回国的时候挺紧张怕被海关拒绝入境...后来想想有什么怕的啊 拒绝入境了我好直接申请难民居留....
- 麦克.疯
No lists feature on my account still.
Roberto Bonini, Curtiss Grymala, Tyson Key and Alix Whitmire liked this
Same here...
- Tyson Key
Is it US only now on that 5 percent users?
- Steve Chou
from IM
Mine either.
- Curtiss Grymala
I had lists enabled earlier in the week, way over this side of the world - and having more fun with them than Wave
- Chris Loft
@Chris You are in US?
- Steve Chou
Clearly, the advanced concept of "Lists™" doesn't appear to exist outside of the US... ;)
- Tyson Key
off to check
- Roberto Bonini
Nope. no sign of any lists.
- Roberto Bonini
FriendFeed User Locations - Google Shared Map - http://maps.google.com/maps...
A.T., Jack DeWitt Smith, Daniel Rowley and 84 other people liked this
Roll call...this can be great if we all participate. Add yourself to this shared map. I created a placemark on the 2 major intersections near where I live.
- Mark Krynsky
or just list location...I'll start...Chatsworth, CA
- Mark Krynsky
I would but I won't
- Outsanity
near Chicago
- LogEx
How do I add myself?
- Mo Kargas
Grayson, GA
- Rahsheen ™, Coach Rah
Puyallup, WA
- Bren -- Not Grinchy
Mo, I'm a newb to the shared maps stuff, but I turned on collaboration and allowed anyone to edit the map. There should be an edit button and then you can add a placemark.
- Mark Krynsky
erm...Adelaide, SA, Australia
- Mo Kargas
Sydney, Australia.
- Andrew Trinh
Yeah, I don't see how to add anything to the map
- Rahsheen ™, Coach Rah
But you already have Rahsheen.
- Andrew Trinh
Well it's working because I see others are adding themselves...Make sure you are logged into your Google account.
- Mark Krynsky
After most have put their placemarks on, don't let anyone edit it because there's always someone out there waiting to fuck shit up.
- Andrew Trinh
This guide may help http://local.google.com/support...
- Mark Krynsky
@Andrew...good point. I just changed it from public to unlisted which only makes the map available to those with the URL.
- Mark Krynsky
Even so, last time we had the Confessions account details on FF it was tinkered with.
- Andrew Trinh
I added mine, but in the process of learning I think I nudged the Sydney, Australia points off a little. Sorry.
- Rob Haas
Ok, think I did it!
- Bec Rowe @d0tski
Robert bought me a new house in the northern suburbs.
- Andrew Trinh
@Bec...nice. You are the first brave female on here.
- Mark Krynsky
Cool idea, Mark! I was thinking something like this would be fun the other day. Duly added myself - or at least the nearest big intersection. ;)
- Jandy, ConcertMaven of FF
Mousing over the usernames shows your Google profile info...cool.
- Mark Krynsky
I marked a bus stop near my house. But not TOO near. :)
- Nine
If you haven't yet...go add FriendFeed to your Google Profile...it will then auto-discover and allow you to add a ton of other profiles you have.
- Mark Krynsky
Thanks for the profile tip - I hadn't updated it since I moved here!
- Jandy, ConcertMaven of FF
Added myself. Verona, Italy
- Stefano
Added. Sydney, Australia
- Jay
Added. Doha, Qatar.
- Mohamed J
Thanks guys. This is coming along nicely. It's great to have as a resource to see where everyone is from. Hopefully this can become a standard feature on FF one day.
- Mark Krynsky
Canterbury, Melbourne, Victoria added
- Duncan Riley
Athens, Greece added, too :)
- George Tziralis
Added.
- Atul Arora
Ace idea, I've added mine in Kent, England.
- Kol Tregaskes
There's no spot for "Hell, Eternity" ... *sigh* I'll have to give in to my worldly location...
- Kyle Brady
Added, Near Paris, France
- Olivier Castets
Asia's letting the side down
- Toby Graham
added, North London, UK
- Rory
Current count: 13 US, 11 Europe, 3 Australia, 1 Middle East. Happy to see many others add themselves overnight. Hoping more will continue this.
- Mark Krynsky
Done ! Waterloo Belgium
- Jacopo Gio
Added myself!
- Haggis (Sean Loyless)
Hey Robert Haas - We're apparently neighbors. - edit. Okay maybe not, unless you live at the airport. XD
- Haggis (Sean Loyless)
@Jill, make sure you are logged into your Google account and then click on the edit button above the list of names already on the map. You will then see the pushpin in the upper left hand side of the map.
- Mark Krynsky
Great idea!
- Alan Le
Added. Seems like there are a lot of us in the Bay Area...we must do a get together at some point.
- Neal Jansons
@Neal yea, we really need a FriendFeed meetup. I might be up there for Web 2.0 in March...or we can have one at SXSW if a large number of us are going. Let's plan and get the Upcoming page going.
- Mark Krynsky
Am I the only FriendFeeder in VA?
- Aram Zucker-Scharff
@Mark Not gonna make SXSW, but am definitely down for working on an FF get together. March is long enough away to make sure plenty of people have time to plan ahead. I added you on Upcoming so we can start coordinating it. Anyone else interested/want to help set this up?
- Neal Jansons
Maybe we can talk Paul & Bret into letting us invade the FF offices for a meetup in conjunction with Web 2.0? That would be sooooo cool!
- Mark Krynsky
Oooh, now that's a really great idea.
- Neal Jansons
I'm there :)
- Alejandro
Yay Alejandro...first South American..and my old stomping grounds in Argentina no less :)
- Mark Krynsky
Added!
- Shey, Jamaican of FF
Neat. Added.
- Rodfather
Added.
- michael sean wright
Alright Shey! We finally have a Canadian...let's see if your fellow compatriot Mark Wilson joins the fray.
- Mark Krynsky
@NiceFishFilms, your pushpin seems a bit off up there in Russia. Dana Point is thousands of miles from there :)
- Mark Krynsky
Oh, I see now...you added 2. You're a pushpin litterbug :)
- Mark Krynsky
Added..
- CW™
Another snowflake pushpin *waves to Shey*
- Micah Wittman
whoo hoo! Canadian snowflakes FTW!
- Shey, Jamaican of FF
Added.Hi from Russia.:)
- Igor Poltavskiy
How do I add myself again? How do I add my ff to my gmail account?
- Amani
Done
- ♥patricia♥
Cairo, Egypt
- Hayk H.
reykjavik, iceland
- siggimus
Cologne, Germany
- Holger Eilhard
Carcavelos, Portugal
- Ricardo Vidal
Added New Jersey but boy, it took a while to get the Pin logo on the screen, not so obvious
- Sally Church
London EC1 UK
- Joe Dawson
Added
- Michelle Martinez
Added
- Bwana ☠
Pinned! sheesh this just cost me 1/2 hour of time as I scrolled thru all the folks :)
- bear (aka Mike Taylor)
Except for Bret, there are no FriendFeeders on the penninsula between San Jose and San Francisco. So much for Silicon Valley early adopters.
- Ryan Kuder
Added! I'm the first in The Netherlands :-)
- TobiasVerhoog.com
Added. First in Japan!
- rawwell
I think I added me. HOpe it worked
- Amani
added!
- matthew john ernisse
This is truly awesome!
- Mathew™ one of a kind
Cluelessness alert! I'm not seeing how to add my pushpin!
- Hutch Carpenter
For some reason whenever i use google maps in creation-mode, it defaults to some other maps I've used, not the one I'm trying to access - ah, figured it out. Had to de-activate some other collaborative maps
- anna sauce
Added. What a great way to see who's on FF in Austin, TX!
- Carter Rabasa
Added myself in Shenzhen,China.
- Steve Chou
courtenay, canada - http://friendfeed.com/ernieya...
- ernie yacub
added me. Coimbatore, South India
- vijay
Added Bangalore, India.
- Mahesh CR
Added
- Glenn Slaven
Added
- Youngmin Kim
I'm added now, too.
- Kamilah Gill
Nice! I'm the only active FriendFeeder in Montreal: Quebec represents FF! I could be a French Canadian FF ambassador or something. =)
- ElijahBailey-Zu of FF <0,
Added
- ThenWang
Added
- James Myatt
Added. I am now an icon :^)
- Nick B.
Added =)
- ChaCha Fance
Added.
- Bonnie Foster
Looks great in Google Earth! (from Paris)
- Liviu Barbat
Added
- Michael Fidler
Added. Antananarivo, Madagascar
- Thierry R. Andriamirado
Finally me too :) Greetings from Ankara Turkey :)
- Burçak Çubukçu
Bump for the good times.
- Mark Krynsky
Once you guys get access to Twitter's lists, don't forget to stalk the FriendFeed team. http://twitter.com/louisgr...
zʍıɔ, Barak Hachamov, Shea and 6 other people liked this
I made a list that will make their "stalkage" very easy.
- Louis Gray
Can't wait the list goes live here in China.
- Steve Chou
Still a dead link for me. Booo
- Simon Wicks
i'm poking my little toe into the list waters first - building some personal lists and seeing what others have created
- bear (aka Mike Taylor)
I'm so loving the folks who have made public lists. Only problem I can see is that there will be quite a bit of crossover--same folks on numerous lists. Still, I love the one click follow of presorted lists. Very useful, fun to play with and explore.
- Kathy Fitch
If you follow a presorted list, do those people show up in your home feed as well?
- Jordan Hofker
Jordan, no, they don't, unless you are already following them. You have to click on the list to read that list's stream. And, you can follow a list without following any of the individuals on it, which is awfully nice, I think.
- Kathy Fitch
What, they don't feed their tweets through to FriendFeed?
- Bruce Lewis
Kathy, that sounds perfect. Can you select individuals out of the lists to follow, then?
- Jordan Hofker
Jordan, yes--and that's really useful. You can follow a whole list that someone else has devised, or you can follow individuals that you discover on another list, or you can pick and choose individuals to add to your own lists. Really nice that you can follow someone via a list without following them in your general stream.
- Kathy Fitch
Welcome Ryan!
Debra Moore, فری ویل, HealingBrush and 572 other people liked this
Congrats Robert... best wishes to all
- Rhys Amos
Congrats. Now the fun begins!!!
- Mike Shields
Awesome!
- dstamand
Congratulations!
- Stephan Planken
Congratulations! Welcome, Ryan!
- Lance M. Brown
Awesome
- RetiredTeacherD
Yay! Congratulations!
- Jesse Stay
YAYAYAYAYAY! Congrats to you and Maryam!@#!@#!
- drew olanoff
congrats Robert and Maryam, Welcome Ryan.
- rick
Welcome to the world.
- Dave Mora
Congratulations!!!
- Mike Doeff
!!!
- sean percival
Born 11:32.
- Robert Scoble
from iPhone
LOL He was keepin ya'll on yer toes. CONGRATS!
- Danny Minick
Yay! Congratulations to you and your wife! Now off to buy RSS and iPhone
- Lise
Congrats!!!!!
- Mark Evans
Congratulations!
- Kenneth
I hope you're well rested, Robert ... ;-)
- Hieronymus Murphy
Congrats Robert!
- Charlie Anzman
Congratulations!
- 321
He looks like you.
- Cjay
Congratulations!
- Mahendra (SkepticGeek)
Congrats to you all
- JanLawrence
Congrats Robert and welcome RSS!
- Robb Brock
Congratulations! Happy Birthday Ryan! Lots of love to the whole family.
- Jodi Church
SUBSCRIBED!
- drew olanoff
Hello World!
- CannonGod
Congratulations!! Welcome to the world Ryan!! :)
- Laura Zickus
<rss> awesome! </rss>
- sean percival
welcome to the new world little one! all hail our pink squirming screaming overlord!
- bear (aka Mike Taylor)
LOL at CannonGod's comment. It's like he started a Wordpress blog. XD
- Danny Minick
When does he start micro blogging?
- Cjay
20.5 inches long. 7 lbs. 13 oz.
- Robert Scoble
from iPhone
nice alpha version. welcome RSS !
- Kaïs Miled
congrats!! welcome rss!
- barbarars
Ryan is no longer in beta! LOL :D Congrats, Scoble!
- Danny Minick
Congratulations :)
- امیرعباس
RSS is finally here! Congrats Robert & Maryam
- Dennis Jernberg
Congrats Robert... best wishes to all
- joupy
Congratulations!
- Aaman (Clone of FF)
Blessings, and the best Robert!
- Nakeva Corothers
Cute!
- Charlie Anzman
مبارک باشه Congratulations
- هامد
Congrats!!!
- Jim Williams
Grats!
- Denverken
مبارکه رفیق رابرت . خدا حفظش کنه
- جـوان ایرانی
If Dave Winer comes on here and claims to have invented RSS I will smack him.
- drew olanoff
Congratulations!
- joey
Congratulations and all the best.
- Bryce Roney
Welcome Ryan!!!
- Phil
Welcome Ryan :)
- giuseppe c. | markgreene
Awesome. Congratulations!
- John McCrea
Congratulations :-)
- ѕнαнιη
Congratulations!
- anna sauce
Congratulations :) Welcome Ryan :)
- Mohamed Marwen Meddah
Congrats, Imagine where RSS and the web will be when he turns 30!
- James Watters
Congratulations to you both.
- Don McAllister
congrats Robert and Maryam :)))))
- C o n f o r m i s t
congrats to the family!!
- erik yuzwa
Welcome to RSS in Pubsubhub mode :)
- Ouriel Ohayon
Congrats to you all!! We had our second child, a boy, on Tuesday. Enjoy!!
- Alex Cordiner
from iPhone
Yay! Congrats to you, but mostly congrats to your wife for doing all of the hard work. ;-) xo
- Jennifer Leggio
Mazel Tov!
- Robb Vaules
Congrats Robert....wishing all the best to your family....
- Carlos
Congratulations! Wow! Seems like we were there just the other day! Looking forward to your late-night feeds and tweets and blog posts!
- Louis Gray
You rock! Congrats. Thanks for sharing. How's mum doing?
- Steve Lacey
from iPhone
congrats! and welcome ryan
- Daniel Levine
Congrats Robert - It is a fine family....
- Simarprit Singh
"beautiful new baby" by Robert Scoble, photojournalist. I stepped away for coffee and bang! RSS
- Brian Hendrickson
nice!
- Josh Haley
from iPhone
Thank you so much for sharing
- Sherrie Belken
:) congrats
- Shandiz
Born on Talk like a Pirate Day, too! Yarrrr!
- Josh Haley
from iPhone
congrads ms & mr scoble, :)
- chaz2b
Thanks to the good Docs!
- Keith Rowland
congrats!! ^_^
- Christine Lu
Congrats!
- Mycaptain
Steve: mum is sleeping but got to hold Ryan. Instant love!
- Robert Scoble
from iPhone
Welcome, Guest dear to our world / Now the world is on your own
- C o n f o r m i s t
that feels good
- Brian Hendrickson
Gonna have to learn to operate that iPhone with one hand.
- Keith Rowland
Congratulations!
- Parth Awasthi
Congratulations. Hope Maryam iis doing well
- Rachel Clarke
Congratulations! Wish him all the best!
- philos
Welcome Baby Ryan!!! My baby Ryan (17 years!) and I are honored to welcome another superstar to our planet! Love, hugs, and lots of kisses to Baby Ryan, Mommy Maryam, Dad Robert and big brothers Milan & Patrick and of course Grandma!!! My guess on Ryan's arrival (predication) was only 23 hours off. I thought he would arrive on Friday, Sept. 18th at 11:45 pm. Love to all, Kelly & Ryan Kim
- Kelly S. Kim
Congrats, Robert and Maryam.
- Derrick
Congratulations Robert, and well done Maryam! You are truly blessed :)
- Nicola Quinn
So happy for you Robert and Maryam. Yeay...another FF baby!
- Mark Krynsky
Congratulations!
- Surachart Opun
What a moment, eh? I remember when my daughter came into this world, it was so exciting there were no words for it. Congrats on your wonderful baby boy!
- Michael J. Carrasquillo
Congratulations
- testbeta
Congratulations! Welcome to the world, Ryan. :-)
- Yvette Ferry
Congratulations Robert and Maryam! And welcome Ryan. If I was having a baby today, I'd begin a blog for him/her straight away as an online diary they could look back on when grown up.
- Sandra Large
he's so cute...
- Sinem Vural
Robert, Congratulations to you and Maryamie!
- Mike Fruchter
Wow, congrats to all of you!
- Paul Salzman
Congratulations to you both!
- Forrest W. Kobayashi
Great news guys! All the best!
- Chris Nixon
الهــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــی چقده ناز نازیه.اینو فارسی نوشتم مریم جان بخونن ....راستی به باباش که نرفته:)) خوشگلتره:)) پس به شما رفته
- joupy
congratulations!!
- Jeroen De Miranda
Congratulations to you and your wife Robert!
- Randy
Congrats Robert!
- Terry Jones
congratz and welcome RSS!
- Jon Winters
Congrats Maryam :-)
- Terry Jones
Felicitations and humble prayers for your new son.
- Victor Panlilio
congrats and best wishes!
- Mike Chelen
Congratulations Robert! Welcome Ryan!
- Jeff P. Henderson
Congrats!!
- Tan Kaiquan
congrats and best wishes to all. :)
- Naor Mark
Congratulations
- Meral Alabaz
I was a c-section six week preemie in an era when that was seriously life-threatening, they didn't know if I would make for the first week. It always gets me a see a c-section / preemie come howling into the world. Welcome, little guy!
- Bob Morris (polizeros)
from iPhone
Beautiful baby! Congratulations daddy man :)
- Gary
:) Congrats Robert... best wishes to your family! Get her name in twitter and ff!
- Business Blogger【ツ】™
Congratulations to you and Maryam!
- Elwin Witzke
AmazinG!! congratulations :)
- Nakul
cutie pie baby
- Debby Bruck
Congratulations :)
- Baard @ Pixum
Ryan, good to see you.
- Burçak Çubukçu
تولدش مبارک ^_^ Congratulations!
- Emad
Warm wishes and congratulations. Love that you posted him crying.
- Irene Koehler
Congratulation to all of you! All the best for baby ryan!!!
- Arne Krueger
Congrats to both of you :)
- zephyrlily
Congratulation....best wishes to all
- Opium
woooow like :)
- کلیشه
Congrats M. & R.
- Giuseppe M.
ووووی مبارکه، به مریم خانوم هم تبریک ما رو بگو
- Zahra (raoros)
Congrats Robert and Maryam, Welcome to geekdom Ryan!
- Andrew Wardlaw
Contrats!!! I'm so excited!!
- Jannifer @wordsforliving
Congrats.That pic brings back memories of my own baby's birth only ten months ago. C-section baby boys rock!
- Georgiana Comsa
Mazel Tov to you and Maryam.
- Michael Markman
Congrats... a few more Scobles make the world a better place ;-)
- Aad 't Hart
Congrats!
- George Mitsopoulos
Congrats... and Welcome Ryan. Good to have you among us.
- fatima
Congratulations! I
- Michael Fidler
Wonderful news. Congrats.
- Keri
Congrats Robert, and the best to you, Maryam, and of course Ryan!
- Chris, Taskerrific Guy
Congratulations Congratulations !!
- Farzad
Congrats
- Sandeep Swaminathan
looking to to the same in 3 weeks
- ROBIN SMITH
Congrats on the blessed event! :D
- Joel Lovato
Congrats Robert and Maryam. Welcome Ryan !!!!!!!!!
- Nir Ben Yona
Congratulations, Robert!
- Mark Trapp
Congratulations to Robert and Maryam.
- George Hall (Australia)
Right ON! I am so happy for you. I have 4 kids of my own and they are my greatest joys. Take care and I hope all goes so smooth for him and mom.
- Robert Anderson
Congratulations!
- J. Abdul-Qahhar
Daddy Scobleizer!!!!!!!!!! First things first....when will he be signed up for Twitter and FF?
- krystyl
Congrats!!!
- eric susch
welcome Ryan, it's a beautiful world
- Michele Costabile
Congrats!!
- Olivia Lovag
Congrats to the Scoble family from South Africa! Welcome to the world @RSS
- Shaun Trennery
Good luck beatiful baby.
- Oğulcan Selçuk Akbulut
Congrats, Robert! :-D
- Kol Tregaskes
Congratulations Robert, and welcome Ryan!
- Giorgio Zarrelli
Congratulations Robert and R.S.S.: "Hello World" Cheers!
- Louis Trapani
warmest congratulations
- Peter Holland
what a beautiful baby=)Congratulations=)
- Candan Celik
Such a miracle and a blessing - Congratulations to you and Maryam and "big" brothers!
- Marla Schulman
Congrats, Robert. Amazing pictures!
- Jordi Soler
Congratulations to all of your family! Enjoy!
- Ed Richardson
Congratulations ... enjoy!
- Hitesh Parashar
Congratulations!!!! He's beautiful! Welcome little one! I'm proud to share a birthday with you!
- Martha
Congratulations Robert and Maryam! Welcome to the world Ryan :-)
- Rasmus Lauridsen
happy birthday BABY
- ≤ M@RzI
Best congratulations!!!! :)
- CantorJF
Congrat Robert. It is wonderful what this new media could do to share your joy!
- Gianto Widianto
congrats!
- Pradhap Nirmal Natarajan
Congratulations!
- Steve Garfield
به به . قدم نو رسیده مبارک مریم جان . خیلی نازه :)
- RokhSaare
Hope the baby and mum are well. Congratz. Happy Ied Mubarak =)
- zʍıɔ
Congrats on the blessed event! Welcome to the world, Ryan
- Jazz Baker
Congratulations!
- Jim Is Not Smart
appena nato e già dal dentista?
- paolo beneforti
Congrats :)
- Maryam Ardakani
from FreshFeed
He was delivered by a Blue Man?
- paul mooney
Congrats Robert. It's allways a special moment. I still have my child birth in my memory!
- Rui
What a happy day! A healthy new Scoble and mom.
- Dave Winer
آخي ، بچته ؟؟؟ مبارك باشه تو روز به اين عزيزي به دنيا اومده ، بت نميخوره بچه انقدري داشته باشي شيطون
- mohammad
My goodness, congratulations!
- DGentry
Congrats!
- Ivo Mortani
Congratulations!! and best wishes
- Johni Fisher
congrats!
- masstrovato
Congratulations! I hope everyone's ok?!
- Holger Eilhard
حاجي خانومت ايرانيه جدي ؟؟؟ پس خيلي مباركه ديگه
- mohammad
Congratulations, Scoble family!
- Bill Scherer
wonderfull
- braciolanet
from BuddyFeed
Congratulations to you and your family Robert! A very handsome baby boy! Cant wait to see more pictures!
- TiffanyCarr
Congratulations, Robert.
- motownmutt
Congratulations!
- :: Kim Sherrell ::::
congrats :)
- £lham
مبارکه :)
- خیزران kheyzaran
Congrats!
- Roozbeh
Congrats to Robert and Maryam!
- Bec Rowe @d0tski
WooHoo! My best to the whole family. I hope Maryam is getting some rest after all that hard work!
- Robert Couture
Congrats to you and your fam, Robert :)
- LANjackal
Ryan was born when the Berlin Marathon was finishing. Perhaps he'll be a long-distance runner. Congrats.
- Carl Jacobsen
Congratulations to you and the wife, Robert! Job well done. I see he is gonna take after his Daddy! ;-0 ,hehe:-)
- Duliece
One more congrats won't hurt, right? Thanks for sharing the pics.
- Kevin Sablan
Congratulations :)
- A35G
Congrats - Exciting & now the fun begins :-)
- PXLated
Wishing you and yours the best on this wonderful day! Congratulations!
- Steve
Congrats on the RSS feed update :) I hope you've pinged both rsscloud and pubsubhubbahubba !
- Ahsan Ali aka. Slick
Starting today. Sleep will be nothing more than a fond memory. :) Congrats.
- Richard
Congrats!
- Herb Hernandez
from iPhone
Congrats!
- YusufOzanTasdemir
Congrats Robert!!
- Taehoon Kim
Congratulations!
- Thomas Hawk
Congratulations to you both :)
- 1x29
Congratulations to all!
- malackey
fantastic !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
- michele ficara
Awe!! Congrats =)
- Brodie Beta
Congratulazioni!! ^______^
- Andrea | amnesiak1978
congrats!!
- Clarita
Congratulations to your whole family, Robert :-)
- Glen Mistletoe
Welcome Ryan! Congratulations Robert and family!
- Tim Probst
from iPhone
Congratulations!!! God bless....
- Bob DeMarco
Congrats!
- Jason Williams
from iPhone
Congratulations Robert, Maryam and Milan! All the best to the four of you.
- Eiso Kant
Congratulations :-)
- Jalada
Congrats! Enjoy.
- Jim Peake
Congrats
- BeeLing
Congratulations!!
- Paolo Leonardi
Congratulations, Robert and Maryam!
- Helen Sventitsky
Congratulations!
- John (a.k.a. dendroica)
Congratulations.
- ashish
Congrats
- Brian Appleby
oooww wonderfulll :))
- Ucandepik
Well done, my son's name as well.
- Robert Kenney
Congratulations
- Caleb Scribner
Congrats
- Manuel Mas
Congrats! Best wishes to you, Ryan and all your family!
- Lenny Post
congrats ^_^
- Furkan Tunalı
Conga Rats!
- Michael R. Bernstein
Wonderful! Enjoy!
- Alan Morris
Hello!
- N.G. Gordon - RadarSync
Absolutely wonderful. Welcome to the world Ryan!
- Loren Heiny
from iPhone
Congrats :)
- Hasan Al Shehabi
Congratulations to both of you.
- Roberto Bonini
OMG Congrats to both of you, he looks healthy and promising.
- Jeunelle Foster
Congratulations to everyone! He looks healthy! I am sure you must all be very happy! ;)
- Altan Khendup
Congratulations! May your tribe ever increase in happiness, joy, and fulfilment.
- trey pennington
Congrats!
- Ben Parr
what would be ryan's reaction when he would read this post someday, so many folks who knew dad congratulating him!
- testbeta
Congratulations!
- Anne Bouey
hiya RSS!
- Laura Norvig
Yah!! Congratulations.
- Micah Wittman
Congratulations to the whole Scoble family!
- WorldofHiglet
Congratulations to the whole family! Enjoy these most precious times.
- Marylene Delbourg-Delphis
best wishes to all
- Hamza Şamlıoğlu @TEAkolik
congrats Robert and Maryam
- Kevin Tunis
Congratulations, Robert!
- Sabri Küstür
from FreshFeed
Wonderful. Best wishes to Ryan...
- Mitchell Tsai
Congratulations to the whole family :)
- Chris Saad
Congratulations
- Samaneh
Congratulations. cute :)
- FFTornado
Congratulations. First picture on twitter!
- Cindy Makonin
I just came to make sure you were getting a proper congratulations
- Sherrie Belken
Welcome :)))
- Flynn (Michael A. Volz)
congrats;)
- خاتون
Congratulations to the Scobles!
- Carlton Prest
Congrats Robert!
- Jorge Escobar
congratulations, Robert and Maryam.
- Valeria Maltoni
congrats!
- Daniel Brusilovsky
WOW - what a miracle - congrats!
- Mark Harai
Congratulations Robert & Maryam!
- Rodrigo Jaroszewski
Congrats from Italy, Ryan!
- Federico Bolsoman
from iPhone
Congratulations Robert and sorry for delay, Best wishes
- erfan
He is crying: "I want an iPhone". Felicitations!
- William Mougayar
May he be blessed throughout his life! God bless you, Robert and Maryam!
- Melanie Reed
CONGRATS!!!!!!!!!
- Greg Ness
congrats :)
- Erdinc [bilimdiyari.com]
Congrats Robert & your family :)
- Sampad Swain
what a beautiful little guy! congratulations! rock on!
- B.L. Ochman
great day, congrats
- imran
Wow congratulations to both you and Maryam you must be so proud :)
- David Richardson
from Android
Congratulations
- Eric Logan
Wow, Congratulations, Robert and Maryam!! Ryan looks beautiful.:-)
- Cathryn Hrudicka
Congrats man. That's so awesome.
- Give 'Em DBizness
Happy Babbie Day!
- Jack (a.k.a. Jeber)
Congrats!
- Zachary TG
Congrats! I wish a long and healthy life.
- Muammer Okumuş
Robert, you newest addition is too freaking adorable. I hope you and Maryam are doing well. Congratulations! Here's to a long, prosperous future!
- Mike Nayyar
Welcome, Ryan - you picked a good family!
- Matthew Blaisdell
congrats to you and Maryam! And welcome, RSS!
- Joshua Allen
from fftogo
congrats!!! Welcome to Ryan
- Dario Salvelli
Congratulations to you and Maryam! E benvenuto Ryan!
- Marco Fabbri
Congrats! :)
- Emmanuel Anumonwo
Congratulations!
- mlazopoulou
Such auspicious times... Welcome, Ryan!
- Red Label
O HAI, Ryan! Congratulations to Daddy and Mommy, too!
- Ladybug Heather
What's Ryan's Twitter address?
- MVB (Grinch of FF)
from iPod
قدم نو رسیده مبارک!congratulations
- Jan Valjan
Congrats, best wishes. :)
- Hunt
حوزه جان بیا در گوشش اذان بگو
- مـــــــــمد
woohoo! congrats!
- Tyson
That is a wonderful moment! All the best to momma, baby and the family!
- Mary Gilmour
Congrats Robert! Welcome Ryan!
- Garin Kilpatrick
Awesome, Congratulations Robert and Maryam! And welcome to the world Ryan.
- Mitch Baldwin
Happy parenting! Congrats!
- Natallini
Groovy + one geek on the planet
- Yann Ropars
Congrats!!! Robert
- Steve Chou
To the proud Papa.....Congratulations!!
- Bonnie Foster
Congratulations Team Scoble. Best of good wishes to all of you.
- Morrie Johnston
Congrats Robert and family!!! Welcome Ryan :)
- buvanesh
congrats Robert!
- Joshua Guffey
Congratulations! RS
- Sean Kelly
Congrats :D
- Emre Misvaklı
Congratulations. he's so cute :)
- Armando Grati
Beautiful!
- Ryan Sholin
Congratulations
- Kreg Steppe
Congratulations!
- Gordon Saunders
Congratulations!
- Hamid Reza
Congrats Robert....How amny more before you have your baseball team :-)
- Alex Marrow
Seriously, Best whishes.............God Bless......
- Alex Marrow
Mazal Tov!
- Raanan Avidor
All the best! Fun Times!!!!
- Jim Turner
congrads now the fun starts, beautiful baby
- Debra Moore
congrads !
- ★ Soner Gönül
Congrats and Best Wishes!
- Tracy Benham
Looks like the baby's first trip to the dentist
- Steve Borgman
Welcome, Ryan! Congrats, Robert!
- Thierry R. Andriamirado
Are most Friendfeeders are going to switch to Twitter in the end? Lots active FFers are now almost tweeting only.
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If FriendFeed were to exist today, my primary conversation engine would probably be Facebook.
- John E. Bredehoft
But eventually will be gone,and most of us don't like to be active on the FB walled garden.
- Steve Chou
I'll use FriendFeed til the end, but Twitter will be my backup. Will never use facebook.
- imabonehead
Friendfeed is now my Twitter backup.
- Steve Chou
I'll continue to use both
- Shane
Oops, I meant "cease to exist." Although search doesn't seem to exist at the moment...
- John E. Bredehoft
Anybody knows the FF end time?
- Steve Chou
15 minutes.
- Mike Nencetti
Nice answer.:)
- Steve Chou
lol. btw. Who considers Windows Live Spaces as a possible way to replace ff?
- 'Like' robot (frɐnc)
not a chance.
- Steve Chou
hah why is that Steve? it makes a good job by having native integration of IM and all those Windows Live apps. Plus, everybody has a hotmail :)
- 'Like' robot (frɐnc)
Not everyone love to use live app,not me.
- Steve Chou
Facebook does a better job on this,plus we got other aggregators.
- Steve Chou
Switch to Twitter from FF? Nope, two different services. GReader is the closest alternative but it's a long way off being FriendFeed. Facebook is not an option.
- Kol Tregaskes
Definitely not me. Twitter is the last thing I'll consider of using regularly, for it just fail in presenting a structured discussion. In that regard, Plurk is better, though I don't know if Plurk will ever survive. Yes, I do use Twitter occasionally. My updates (sent by ping.fm) gets sent there too, and I check it out from time to time just in case someone replied. But I don't do that religiously.
- Pandu ● IT Optimizer
from fftogo
I use Twitter now more and more after using Friendfeed quite a while,the best thing on Twitter is you don't see the noise you don't want,only see the timelines from people you follow,Friendfeed can do the same via settings,but its complicated for most people.The deadly simple UI of Twitter is no doubt of the winning factor.
- Steve Chou
首款 iPhone 硬键盘出现 - http://apple4.us/2009...
Fun
- Steve Chou
300 Million and On - http://blog.facebook.com/blog...
Facebook now have 300 million users.
- Steve Chou
300 Million and On - http://blog.facebook.com/blog...
Facebook now have 300 million users.
- Steve Chou
Reader2Twitter - Sync Your Google Reader Shared Items to Twitter - http://reader2twitter.appspot.com/enuser
Nice tool
- Steve Chou
I am trying to understand why friendfeed is so amazing. The real time popping up is really a great feature to have.
IMO, the 2 killer features of friendfeed are: #1, discussions. #2, anything you "like" is seen by your friends, leading people to discover interesting new people
- Joshua Allen
Well. There must be something that stopped Friendfeed as popular as twitter. I am still trying to figure it out. After first glance, FriendFeed is much better than twitter, but.... Twitter just gets hotter.
- Jian Shuo Wang
The reason that Friendfeed is not hot as Twitter is it had too many features and a complex UI
- Steve Chou
This is exactly what I am thinking about. But the follow up question will be: why people don't like features?
- Jian Shuo Wang
Friendfeed started later, and continues to grow while Twitter is leveling off. http://visitmix.com/Opinion.... I think Twitter is in trouble, unless they fix some problems
- Joshua Allen
Hmmm... Not sure. Is Twitter likely to go to trouble, or it has gone to trouble?
- Jian Shuo Wang
Check out this article just posted on Gawker: http://gawker.com/5355645... and compare to the post I linked 2 comments ago (that post has links to other posts about Twitter troubles).
- Joshua Allen
FriendFeeders: do you get any value out of me importing my Twitter Favorites in here? Should I keep doing that?
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I ask because they seem to be too much and rarely get engagement.
- Robert Scoble
from iPhone
I do :-)
- Alexander van Elsas
your favourites arent necessarily my faves.. all the time..
- Tyson
One thing is that here they are searchable.
- Robert Scoble
from iPhone
Nope. I would prefer not to see them.
- Louis Gray
yeeeezzz...please keep it Robert;p
- zʍıɔ
at least i do see them here.. i probably wouldn't otherwise apart from that aggregator site you link out time from time.. then i just see if you've fave'd one of mine.. which i dont think you have yet.. :P
- Tyson
Not me, I would prefer that you used FF more ;). (But I do look at them occasionally)
- Travis Koger
Louis: why not? They often are the same as stuff you've liked in Google Reader except mine are usually faster.
- Robert Scoble
from iPhone
@Robert, I often use them as a hb to go somewhere. I may not engage upon return, but they do provide me value
- Alexander van Elsas
I do prefer a like on FF.. dont know if theres that much exciting stuff coming out of twitter thats not already here..
- Tyson
Nope.
- Steve Chou
Alex: but couldn't you just visit them on my Twitter account at http://twitter.com/scoblei... ?
- Robert Scoble
from iPhone
Steve: why not?
- Robert Scoble
from iPhone
I can visit your fav tweets if I want,but right now there is not a single way to add fav tweet to rss reader since there is no rss feed there.But tweets do have.
- Steve Chou
Louis, you are one of the people I favorite the most. Entire list is here: http://favstar.fm/scoblei...
- Robert Scoble
from iPhone
Robert, I understand the analogy and I know what you are trying to do. But to me, a Google Reader share is a share of the content directly, while a tweet is essentially a share of a share.
- Louis Gray
Robert: prefer pure FriendFeed
- Geer
Robert, I understand that - and I have nothing against you favoriting my stuff, like I don't ask folks to stop RTing my stuff, even though I don't RT.
- Louis Gray
Louis: I disagree and often the Tweet says more than the blog's headline.
- Robert Scoble
from iPhone
But so far I am becoming more convinced this form doesn't fit into FriendFeed.
- Robert Scoble
from iPhone
Essentially, I see the practice of favoriting tweets as your trying to substitute the hard work you did with creating a searchable likes and comments database in FriendFeed. With the acquisition making people wary, yourself included, you're looking to recreate the experience.
- Louis Gray
Man, one or two of your twitter favorites are normal.. not annoyed and not hard to track :)
- FFTornado
I do not believe that Facebook's acquisition of Friendfeed makes Twitter more alluring. I recognize your trimming of your list has made it more valuable for you, but the many issues that were there before remain.
- Louis Gray
Louis: yeah, I am playing around. Most of what I was liking here in FriendFeed was Tweets anyway.
- Robert Scoble
from iPhone
Which is why I say I get you and understand you 100%, even if I am not a fan of this experiment.
- Louis Gray
The thing is a lot more people I want to track are on Twitter and now that I have hand followed over there I see I would be missing a lot if I kept doing only FriendFeed.
- Robert Scoble
from iPhone
Robert: You see,your tweet favs didn't get much likes below as your other stuff,plus its almost full of your profile page.
- Steve Chou
I figured this would be a good way to bring new good stuff into FriendFeed but it doesn't look like many are getting anything out of it.
- Robert Scoble
from iPhone
i think its also because they come in in herds. Unfortunately they're not real time, so they come in in batches of 10 at a time. Also, I think most Twitterers would prefer it if you retweeted, they get more recognition that way. I'm happy with whatever though really.
- Zee.
Perhaps you need a feed of your favs that at least 10 other people have faved too. ;-)
- Tim
Zee: I can't do that many RT's though. It sucks that Twitter is so bad for sharing.
- Robert Scoble
from iPhone
Robert, I actually think you should gather it someplace else, like a webpage in your blog or something (cause Twitter has problem from time to time and it's hard to see all of your saved tweets). Your favorite list on twitter is basically one of my news source. (the other one is my own twitterstream)
- Orli Yakuel
@Robert yeah, i get what you're saying for sure
- Zee.
@robert Dont use Twitter as much for aggregation. I use ff more;-)
- Alexander van Elsas
Robert, please keep doing everything on FF that you are - I get tremendous value from it and try my best to pass it along. I watch what you do here very closely.
- Marshall Kirkpatrick
and did I say btw - thanks, I appreciate it!
- Marshall Kirkpatrick
I appreciate your stuff !!!!!!!!
- martin
Robert Scoble = "big mouth strikes again" ..............and i LOVE your 'mouth'
- martin
I'm with you Marshall, would just prefer that FF is the hub rather than twitter!
- Travis Koger
Robert the information you send to FF has been filtered many times and hence only really useful information ends up here. By importing your TW favs they are highly credible from you but not like the actual Tweets that you have read and personally liked etc for a new person on the block like me your info is great
- Ian Wright
from BuddyFeed
*hide* isn’t working yet for single rss-sources? ouch.
- kosmar
I appreciate it. Actually, I learned a few interesting things via your Twitter favs that I would have missed otherwise.
- Sebastian
yes, please
- fansnap
Yes, please
- Roberto Bonini
Yes!
- Alex Kapranoff
I hide them unless they get likes/comments. Since setting it up that way, the S:N ratio has increased to where they're useful.
- Bruce Lewis
yes, and appreciated!
- CBlohm
there is always hide option, and occasionally they seem to be quite useful. so keep doing it please. and thanks for asking, i wish moreelses did that...
- Özgür D. Cyric
Yes, please.
- Donna
Please do keeping importing them here. Much easier to browse and search.
- Antonella Stellacci
Please keep at it! It save me at least a couple hours out of my own personal time to chase for the good stuff and I can't invest that time every day.
- Marco ILLESCAS
Your FF stream is good, keep the Twitter favs Robert.
- Jeremy Campbell
from twhirl
I get value out of them.
- Jimminy
I like it but please "like" it if on FF and only favorite it if they're only on Twitter. I prefer not to have double content.
- Jesse Stay
from iPhone
I always RT my twitter favorites by bringing in my favorites' RSS feed into Yahoo Pipes and append "RT @" to the front and then post it in Friendfeed for Retweeting. You can clone my pipe if you want. http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes...
- Bryan Lee
What about making a separate group in FF for your twitter favorites.
- Bryan Lee
I get a lot of value out of it!
- Jannifer @wordsforliving
Yes, continue - appreciated and valuable.
- Dave
nice reading...and Scoble you again on wordpress.com? your name is in their list http://en.wordpress.com/feature...
- testbeta
please keep doing - I don't always respond but I often use them - you are a major set of eyes on the latest things web
- Arthur Coleman
today your favourites rock!
- Tyson
iLoveit
- Fer Isella
There's a lot of @xyz stuff in your Twitter import which is often not too interesting. If addressing one person, maybe contact them directly?
- Tim Tyler
Yes I do. I'm getting tired of twitters limits and issues.
- Captain Jack
yes - it's another RSS backup, that also is searchable. i find so much more info in Friendfeed than searching Twitter :-)
- Courtney Engle
Interesting answers-I was pondering doing the same thing today. Keep 'em.
- Harold Cabezas
Hours away from my friend's wedding at 4, I get spotted wearing a tux. Don't tell anybody or show them these pictures.
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rowlikeagirl, Yolanda, TrafficBug and 88 other people liked this
Here in West Hollywood, my best friend of 18 years and his boyfriend are getting married. So yes, I get to be a groomsman at a gay wedding - prop 8 or not. Should be awesome.
- Louis Gray
Your secret is safe on the Internet
- Kevin L
Looking dapper, sir.
- Haggis (Sean Loyless)
and you appear to be about 30 feet tall
- Allen Stern
Sharp
- Johnny Worthington
Have fun! Nice tie/waistcoat
- anna sauce
I invited Derrick to the bachelor's party last night, but he couldn't come, because he had a date. :)
- Louis Gray
You guys are in charge. Make sure not to look at or show anyone these photos.
- Louis Gray
Nice tie! I won't tell anyone :)
- bev
Hello handsome :) I think you will get a lot of fun tonight especially with the most wonderful hairstyle is the world :D have fun dude!
- FFTornado
PS... I think that's a bag of awesomesauce tied up with a HELL YEAH bow :)
- Johnny Worthington
Doesn't one normally wear a bow tie with a tux?
- Oniony
You are teh hawtness, sir!
- Ladybug Heather
Oniony- you can wear a few diff. kind of ties.
- anna sauce
cool Louis!
- metalerik
A force to be reckoned with!
- Micah Wittman
I do know the two grooms! Congrats you crazy two, and have fun Louis. Give them my best.
- Derrick
Swanky! Nice, Louis, very nice!
- Alex Scoble
I hear there are other pictures ;-)
- Jesse Stay
Sharp
- Wayne Sutton
from iPhone
have fun and enjoy ..
- johnpiercy
It was a fantastic ceremony. One of the best weddings I have ever seen. It was traditional Jewish themed, so I am wearing a yarmulke to match the vest and tie. Lots of great friends from my teenage years.
- Louis Gray
from iPhone
Louis, I own a yarmulke as well - my wife brought it for me when she visited Israel
- Jesse Stay
Lookin' sharp, Louis!
- Ayşe E.
Spiffy, Mr. Gray.
- imabonehead
I wish I could like this twice.
- Chris Baskind
"Don't tell anybody," he tells everybody. ;)
- Dennis Jernberg
Can't wait to see the pics.
- Derrick
I won't breathe a word, Louis.
- WorldofHiglet
hi Louis, wish you can have a look at this: http://reader2twitter.appspot.com
- kang
You need a tie with a FriendFeed logo or something
- Outsanity
I just thought of a new nickname for you: LL Cool Gray. :D
- Haggis (Sean Loyless)
:D good one, Sean!
- WorldofHiglet
Awesome.
- jan geronimo
Gay wedding with a tie,fun
- Steve Chou
LOL 'Swanky' Great pic, you do look 30 feet tall!
- Harold Cabezas
who is that guy? He almost looks scared about the tux!
- Chris Myles
With the suit on, Louis looks like he works for a federal agency. :P
- imabonehead
@imabonehead, u r right, it reminds me of agent mulder of x files
- TrafficBug
Sending an "atta-girl" Mrs. Gray's way
- MiniMage TKDteacher of FF
I am a boring egotistical baaahhhssstttaaarrrdddd but my favorite tweets are not: http://twitter.com/scoblei...
Ayşe E., Robert Rose, Jeunelle Foster and Carlton Prest liked this
Yes you are. I see you dropped me out of your FF. Well one day yau'll will want me real bad. bwwwwaaahhhhhh. Dude I don't take any of that shit personal. I'm still following you cause I know I am guaranteed a good time, you bad boy you :) You're the only one I know who makes this damn place half as exciting until I show up :)
- Jeunelle Foster
couldn't help noticing that a lot of your favorites are mentions of you. Doesn't help your case about being an egoist :)
- Tac Anderson
I also fully agree with Tac......hehehehehhehe
- Jeunelle Foster
Yeah im tired of your mightier than attitude i only tolerate it because your so damn cute. lmmfao
- Gary Prechtel
and yet I also agree with Gary....bwwwaaaaahhhhh
- Jeunelle Foster
hey jeunelle dont move in on my man. hahahahahhahahahaha
- Gary Prechtel
@Robert, why you keep Tweeting your twitter fav all the day,I heard you tweet it like over ten times.
- Steve Chou
Rob is married, I'm too late. I don't touch married men, he's off limits to me. I do have some honor you know :)
- Jeunelle Foster
Would like you to enjoy a bunch of things Fresno,Ca has to offer pics are awesome. First the blossom trail is in its final month of tours which are amazing..Plus Sugar Pine railroad is great pics plus dinner folk singing and a train ride and singing in the Yosimite outback with a band of cowboys after a steak dinner. Couldnt be better
- Gary Prechtel
Steve because most Twitter users only check in every day or so.
- Robert Scoble
from iPhone
I didn't drop anyone out of FriendFeed. Not sure where that came from.
- Robert Scoble
from iPhone
@Scoble Yes,maybe that's why twitter can ignore noise much better than friendfeed.but you know,i'm a daily heavy user.:-)
- Steve Chou
I just like that you put three "r's" in Baaaahhhhssstttaaarrrddd.... Maybe you could change your avatar to Kirk screaming....
- Robert Rose
Hold on let me check and see if your green hulk avatar is still in my subscribers.
- Jeunelle Foster
NEWS FLASH - Robert is still following little ole me. He just changed his green hulk avatar to a more black and white avatar. No wonder I didn't see it. I miss the green hulk avatar. I use to have fantasies about you busting through my computer with that green avatar. Oh well. Nothing last forever I guess. BUMMER
- Jeunelle Foster
Just got tickets to see Coldplay and Jay-Z live!...freakin' excited.
Steve Chou, Kol Tregaskes, Ryan - @magicofpi and 7 other people liked this
two awful acts in one!
- Raphael, Raphael
I USED TO RUUUULE THE WORLD.
- Derrick
riiigghtt.... Raphael.
- Zee.
Great,love these guys.
- Steve Chou
you lucky bum!
- imabonehead
Any other recommends? :-)
- Steve Chou
20 Must-Have Bookmarklets For Your Web Browser - http://www.makeuseof.com/tag...
That's a lot of bookmarklets.
- Steve Chou
下载国际版Skype，也要完整版的，只下载一个在线安装版本，还是会到Tom Skype的下载版本
国际版和Tom版有何区别？
- Steve Chou
Skype对于TOM在线监控聊天信息向用户道歉http://www.google.com/search...
- No Deceit
Feels great back on Friendfeed.:-)
Tyson Key and James Stratford liked this
It's good to see you back on today Steve!
- James Stratford
By passing the GFW in China via VPN. Great to see you guys again.
- Steve Chou
Tweeting :)
Itachi, Alfredo, gmarketer and 270 other people liked this
Funny!
- Robert Scoble
too true
- James Miao
Hey, I can tell those Mark Zuckerberg prongs haven't started working yet. ;-)
- Robert Scoble
A good reminder that it could have been a lot worse.
- Christopher Galtenberg
Heh
- Charlie Anzman
Hey! I resemble that remark!
- Chris Messina
funny and true :)
- Ali
Very clever.
- Nicholas Kreidberg
LOL
- Steve Chou
from fftogo
apparently you can trade some symbols and numbers for letters and it's FFing
- Katy Barrilleaux
I love that!! :D
- Susan Beebe
from iPhone
ReTweet what the middle one said 4/5 WooHoos
- Zax Stevens
LOL :D
- zsafwan
That is *exactly* why FF will become more mainstream than twitter.. try explaining how to tweet to your parents (who are finally comfortable with email)!
- Chris Myles
Go Chris!
- Charlie Anzman
ROFL!
- Darren Heydon
Haha! I have this on my facebook :)
- Joe Dawson
from iPhone
: D
- Taylanov
Awesome!
- Ladybug Heather
Haha!
- muratt
ahahha! brilliant
- Jacque
That's about right.
- Josh Haley
thats funny lol.. where did u find it
- Nicholas Skinner
that's *agent_x* cartoonist from sunny queensland, aus ~ http://twitter.com/agent_x :)
- Peter Renshaw
I just noticed you posted my comic. Thanks. I keep them all here if you are interested - http://www.agent-x.com.au/
- agent x
agent x, I like you. Bookmarked.
- Dennis Jernberg
Will ff still update new features after the acquire?
Tyson Key liked this
conversations on ff is the best among all websites.
- Steve Chou
from fftogo
I don't think so, may be some experimental one's just to add them later to facebook
- Mostafa Lameei
They've already added new features since the acquisition...
- Tony Ruscoe
Which is?
- Steve Chou
from fftogo
v--- That one ---v
- Jemm
I think im gonna miss friendfeed when its gone one day.
'Like' robot (frɐnc), James Myatt, Iván Abrego and 2 other people liked this
:-)
- Steve Chou
from fftogo
wish facebook won't let the good stuff of ff just pass away.
- Steve Chou
from fftogo
maybe i had to turn to twitter when ff is gone eventually.don't like facebook too much.
- Steve Chou
from fftogo
After few days using @Google Wave,I got 147 new waves in my inbox,and each wave have tons of new messages, totally overwhelmed. #googlewave
Confusing, isn't it?
- Ozkan Altuner
Yes,lot of confuse,maybe Google wave won't be a hit as it seems.
- Steve Chou
from fftogo
Still don't have a clue, what to do (and/or can be done) with it
- Ozkan Altuner
Plus it is slow,buggy,unstable,so complicated to use,I don't think its gonna be a Twitter killer anymore.
- Steve Chou
from fftogo
New blog post: you are SO unfollowed! http://scobleizer.com/2009... I'll follow on FriendFeed anyone who comments here:
Ozer Wrzl (EN), Jens Christian Freund, Harold Cabezas and 157 other people liked this
Follow me!
- TheHenry
TheHenry: I already am! :-)
- Robert Scoble
Please don't unfollow me!! :)
- Carlo Nasuti
Very interesting approach Robert. If it is working for you that is awesome though. Hope all is well. Give Roc a big hug for me.
- C.C. Chapman
Yo...
- MVB (Grinch of FF)
Not too much unfollowing please.
- Tim
i'm in
- Tai Hsia
Can you follow me?
- Giorgio
ok I'll allow you
- Derry O Donnell
What's going on here?
- Andru Edwards
I think you're already following me Robert.
- Andrew Leahey
well ok )
- Denverken
Lead, follow, or get out of the way.
- Robert Kenney
[comments here]
- Nick Humphries
I will comment here! :)
- John Ptacek
Great blog appreciate all of your "likes" that I would not have noticed before. Thanks for all the time you spend educating us.
- Gary Prechtel
auto-follow always seemed like a bad idea. people can always msg you but your stream will get totally cluttered if you dont do a little bit of housekeeping.
- William Kapes
"baby I'm a star" -Prince (off purple rain)
- Michael J. Carrasquillo
novel approach, seems sound
- Danny Ayers
Consider me available for following. :-)
- Eric D. Wilson
Okay, I'll bite..
- Tanya
Bring it Scobleizer.
- Todd Pringle
I agree, Twitter is much better this way.
- Ryan W
I appreciate your work, and your passion for social media.
- Evan Travers
sounds simple...
- Mateo Yadarola
Scoble follow me baby
- Jadito
Oh you are getting quite a response here!!!! I'm commenting so you'll follow me but the thing is you're going to LIKE following me because you'll learn all about Sedona through tons of videos and you'll love it so much you'll want to pack your camera and head out here! =)
- SedonaTV
Thanks for the mentions, Robert (and you know I'm not commenting just for the follow - I just like to follow you, which is what counts!)
- Jesse Stay
Actually Robert, now I've seen you've tidied up your twitter, I'll probably follow you there again too. :-)
- Tim
hey follow me scoble
- Andy Jenks
Meh, who cares really, not like you read everyone you followed. Plus unfollowed you anyways, not like you have to say that's interestined except friendfeed spam.
- Steve
joining the crowd - good move Robert.
- Adam
follow me
- Tai Hsia
welcome to Boulder
- Andrew Hyde
@scobleizer just created the most important tech follow list on Twitter.
- Christian Anderson
aww shucks, and here I was thinking it was just me who you unfollowed.
- Jess Sloss
I underwent the same situation, Robert - I unfollowed almost everybody on Twitter who duplicated their accounts here on FrF. I got a tempest of fury for this action. web3 is too personal still ))
- massagin
Scoble in Boulder = Trouble.
- Jim Halligan @jim
I feel fortunate that you're still subbed to me on FF. I haven't even noticed whether you unfollowed me on Twitter. But you following me, still hasn't gotten me the chicks. :P Always fun seeing your posts, long as you don't block me, it doesn't matter if you follow me or not. :)
- Arlan Koizumi
I did the same thing some weeks ago after avoiding twitter because it got too noisy. It was instantly better. But in the mean time I started to use FF more and I like it better here so I hardly go near twitter now.
- Murray Barton
You already follow me here on ff, which i use more than twitter.
- dthree
What's up?
- Kevin Whalen
from iPhone
Hey Robert, so for following >1,600 is it that right way taken by Philtro and Filttr?
- Martin Adamek
I'm glad you mentioned Loic, he caught a lot of flack for doing this earlier.
- Steven Cains
Hey Robert - fight the tweetspam !
- Michael Neale
Don't think you are following me on Twitter anymore..please do and best regards
- Karma Martell
I'm still trying to figure out the following... so I'm watching how you do it scoble.
- Matthew Schrock
Good plan. I'm looking forward to your results. I'm trying to figure out all these social media elements. I would appreciate your Twitter follow.
- David Stanley
hope this new approach works for you!
- timepilot
Oh, so now you are only easy on FF.
- James Watters
Odd internal response, I don't follow everyone who follows me cuz of the very noise you talk about. And, there's no good reason for you to follow me since I'm unlikely to deliver news of interest to you. And yet, here I am, posting on FriendFeed so you have the OPTION of following me, a stranger who is not the same kind of SMART as you. Who'd have thought...
- Della Mauler
Interesting statement about original content value of FF independent of twitter. Twitter is where you keep your noise level down...
- James Watters
This seems like asking for trouble to me, Scoble. But, it's your time and bandwith to do with what you will. Since only a handful of people (by that I think I mean just one) follow me on Twitter, it's pretty easy for me to weed out the bots. The people I follow are my internet nerds (mostly the Rev 3 crew) so I know their interests are in line with mine. Hit me up for some edifying conversations about Lost and video games, Robert.
- Jeremiah Green
Here you go Robert! [also via twitter: @Scobleizer Therefore: only approx. 1.7 million "active" human @Twitter users contribute 50%+ of all activity, right? #engagement] Regards, @AAinslie
- Alexander Ainslie
The green avatar is so disturbing mate. :)
- Jordan Windebank
I'll lead, you follow. So where are we going?
- Tom Sheppard
I was sad to see you unfollowed me, but now you may follow me again, so all will be well in the world.
- Jodi
following the leader...
- John Munro
You're still following me - does that mean I'm a smart feller? ;)
- Brett Kelly
so glad I mail Robert a business card every month :)
- Christian Anderson
Della: the thing is here I can follow you and put you into a list and watch you less frequently than some of my other people. So everyone wins. But only here on FriendFeed. :-)
- Robert Scoble
Some of us have been doing this from our start. Kind of cool, eh? But our numbers don't grow quickly so we were tagged as "slow." Nice to see you catch up with us! Also, this may shock you, there sre folks who follow and communicate with only 3 folks on twitter and they are HAPPY! Imagine....
- lynda spangler
Yay. Now he will follow a librarian.
- Joe
Follow this dot!!! .
- Bwana ☠
I've long thought the entire Twitter "etiquette" of always following who follows you to be a bit of a folly. I'm following 114 at the moment, and the stream still moves too fast for me to keep up with.
- Darren Landrum
Comment!
- anna sauce
ok
- Vasu Srinivasan
Good test, count me in... I don't follow tons of people, I follow a few prolific Scoble-types and the rest are more focused in areas I'm interested in.
- David Ziembicki
I'm not following tons of people, just a select few. More to follow on FB when facebook has completely integrated Friendfeed-funcionality. ;-)
- Wolfgang G. Wettach
I only follow people I know or have something interesting to say, did you really have 160000 people that said something worthwhile???
- Gerard van Schip
Well I commented via your Blog so instead of repeating myself I'll link to comment http://disq.us/1ms9
- Keith - @tsudo
Gerard: everyone says something worthwhile once in a while. The trick is to see it when it happens. Here on FriendFeed, by the way, you have a better shot because good stuff usually gets liked and commented on, so it pulls up higher into my view.
- Robert Scoble
come join us here folks http://ff.im/6dUHN xxx
- Mark
Okay. But will you read and comment on my stuff?
- Mellissa Claus
Robert, I posted this after Loic's decision and it looks like it will need another update. http://www.knowthenetwork.com/blog... I think there is value in stating your follow policy.
- Keith - @tsudo
cool
- Zach Cheatham
Hello?
- Vicky
following all the discussion of you unfollowing everyone on twitter has made me think about doing the same thing and starting fresh.
- (jeff)isageek
not unless we beat you in the Ashes
- Mark
Nice post Robert, and no surprise it's an improvement. ;o) I have seen it for me too.
- Rob Sellen :o)
1 thing I find Robert still worth following @Scobleizer when I am not on friendfeed & on my Hootsuite or PeopleBrowsr. therefore not much affected, not much 2 bother me, ego not gone at all. luv your post Robert it is a frank posting
- polou/indigo_bow
Follow me Robert, I promise I'm not annoying. :) @cluteman
- Greg Clute
from iPhone
You've piqued my curiosity.
- Kathy
Robert, thank you! I follow you and enjoy your "likes" and your energetic takes. I also enjoy your Building43 interviews! I am a constant FriendFeed user now. Thank you!
- Tobin Truog
This made me realise I must be more active on FF and comment/post more :-).
- Mats Pettersson
I think I'll give FriendFeed a go! Never tried it, but looks easy and I need to understand the interwebs better. @CodeSamurai_Com
- CodeSamurai
butt-kissing is not a prerequisite for being followed, he will follow you anyways :D
- Mark
Count me in! (Please??)
- Ricky Maveety
lol @mark. ;o)
- Rob Sellen :o)
You can follow me, but since you follow a lot of people, you probably can't pay attention to the stream of tweets.
- Alex Knight
Alex..that's the WHOLE point he did this... ;o)
- Rob Sellen :o)
IMHO 1,647 is still way too many people to follow.
- Alex Knight
I will NOT get baited into ... ah CRAP. I follow very few people on twitter, mainly only to find info from Android developers (my topic of choice). If you mention anything about the food you are currently eating, etc.. you will probably not be followed. If you post 80,000 times a day, you will not be followed, since Twitters interface sucks (not so for FF). Also, no offense to other social users, but if you resend your FF/FB/<insert other social site here> entries to twitter, I probably won't follow.
- Tim Hoeck
http://socialspark.com/blogs... Chris Pirillo is Scum.
- Mark
good move IMO
- Joanna Nicol
Love the post, love the response.
- Chris Rogers
from BuddyFeed
nice hanging out at with beach w/ you last week! follow moi!!!
- Raina Lee
I always feel like scoble's following me
- Rodney J Woodruff
from iPhone
Don't forget your Dunbar number, Scoble! There are only so many people you can have meaningfully connect with online.
- Steve Lynch
from twhirl
Mark is right. No butt kissing. Ew.
- Robert Scoble
"I always feel like, somebody's watching me..."
- Wizetux
Comment!!!! Ohh wait but you already follow me...
- Amit Nangare
Follow me, if you aren't already....please. Thanks,
- Steve de Mena
here is my comment ZOL
- Shane Gibson
Comment? What kind of coomment, Robert? :-)
- Mitch Featherston
Whoop there it is! On Twitter @jimgoldstein
- Jim Goldstein
from iPhone
Oh..Oh... Mr. Kotter...Mr Kotter..follow me!
- Scott Booher
Glad to see you're writing more than 140 characters on that blog. Doesn't that feel liberating? Maybe we should be allowed character# based on your metric for powerful/smart/newsmaker
- Noah Bloom
You already follow me here on FF, for which I thank you. So, I'll just say thanks for the phone call the other day. :)
- Jeff Harbert
I'll take a follow!
- Jeff Weber
@shaunhess
- Shaun Hess
Ok, so follow me again and I will follow you back. Thanks!
- Audrey
Robert - I fail on most of your criteria so I'm not expecting you to follow me. The thing is I don't care if you follow me back - this is social media and everyone has their own choice. I choose to follow you because you entertain and inform me. The relationship is 100% one way and I am more than happy with that!
- Pon
Robert - Last night at GDGT Party the person at the Blackberry booth said: 1) She had 'heard of Twitter, never friend feed' uses neither 2) Is SCOBLE is coming tonight 3) Wow, your Blackberry is really "archaic" and find out when contract lets you upgrade. F-D UP? Booth babes need primers.
- Liza
Interesting theory... people who comment more apt to contribute?
- Mark Philpot
I know someone else who tried this strategy last year, with similar results. I've been debating it. Once I got over 3K followers on Twitter life just got weird. Started to spend X amount of time every day blocking porn spam.
- Patricia F. Anderson
Liza: yeah, sorry for not coming to the party. I went and saw Obama's CTO instead.
- Robert Scoble
Steve Lynch: my Dunbar number is higher than yours is. :-)
- Robert Scoble
Nice summary Robert on the whole Unfollow thing, but would it be too repetitive if I re-post on my FF?
- Keith Rowland
What is the best friend feed aggregation strategy of non-friend streams (eg RSS, twitter, etc)? Imaginary friend per service, then add to lists? Multiple services per imaginary friend or 1 to 1? Or add the services to a group? What are the considerations?
- John Brown
Keith: you can repost anywhere you like, thanks!
- Robert Scoble
I'm in!
- Craig Shipp
still wondering how you are able to handle such a big load of subscribers here and e.g. so many followers with twitter o_0. I am already (sometimes) lost with the few i got till now. Lately with one sweep almost 40 to 50 contacts in twitter disappeard and i have no clue why ... boah, how are you handling the noise? Hell, with so many ppl in, you might have a terrific noise? Or you wear just good headphones ;)?
- Ronald
I very much agree that being choosy is the key to Twitter. I'm not nearly on the scale that you are, but in my experience, freely following people (whetther they follow me or not) and then mercilessly cutting back on them over and over again results in a kind of darwinianly better and better signal to noise ratio.
- Tim Maly
Touche!
- Steve Lynch
from twhirl
Count me in
- Johnny
Hi Robert
- Randy Allen Bishop
Liked the blog post and totally agree. I've been meaning to do something similar. What I do is occasionally prune and then add some "better" replacements, so my total is always 2000 follows.
- Bora Zivkovic
I don't see how anyone can manage so many users without groups. Then again, with groups you could just make an "ignore" group.
- Oscar M. Cantu
from iPhone
Great blog post. I totally agree on the noise level. I figure I have blocked a few hundred accounts on Twitter, and my noise level has dropped dramatically. Thanks for the follow!
- Tony "Frosty" Welch
Hello Hello!
- Sam Goldfield
Robert - I figured you were in DC from FF, but she had NO IDEA what a CTO is. Point is, she was eager to give you a Blackberry, but not me, and I wish I had a Scoble costume to pretend for 5 minutes.
- Liza
@Robert I think you are starting another mass follow again.
- Steve Chou
from fftogo
Steve: that's not the problem. As long as spam doesn't enter the system I can deal. Keep in mind here I can choose how I follow. I can put you all in a folder that I never look at, if I wanted to.
- Robert Scoble
my feelings were hurt that you unsubscribed to me on twitter, but i agree with your methods
- Brian Appleby
I'm in!
- Chris Rossini
Brian, yeah, but I follow you here. So there.
- Robert Scoble
really doesn't matter as long as i can follow you, that's the beauty of these services
- Brian Appleby
How did you come to follow so many to begin with? I get annoyed with ppl and unfollowing is easier than sifting through their garbage constantly.
- R1CC1
Autofollow was a horrible idea to begin with.
- David Chieng
I kind of tired to keep an eye on who follows me now,the ones I'm following is much more important.:-)
- Steve Chou
from fftogo
Whoa lots of comments I'm following you longtime lol
- Edgar Rodríguez
from iPhone
Robert: we need more intelligent spam-follower-filtering on Twitter! We need to fix this.
- Steve Lynch
from twhirl
@David +1 I think auto follow is such a bad idea to begin with,and people like Robert now even need to pay to unfollow these people.
- Steve Chou
from IM
How much did SocialToo charge for running the unfollow script?
- Shane
I'm in!
- rich brant
from iPhone
I heard its 25 dollars.
- Steve Chou
from IM
I've always been very picky in who I follow on twitter. I follow 40 people, and I can't guarantee that I see every single tweet. I don't scroll back usually, unless it's my "Real Life" column in Tweetdeck that couldn't fit on my screen.
- Tom Ribbens
My birthday is also January 18th, therefore you must follow me Robert! ;)
- Chris Luckhardt
from BuddyFeed
Thanks Steve! $25 is pretty reasonable. Wonder if anyone else will be jumping on the bandwagon
- Shane
Haha....I also threw the devil horns for Scobleizer...that should count for something. ;) http://www.flickr.com/photos...
- Chris Luckhardt
from BuddyFeed
OK, let's try it! And what about Twitter?
- Alexei Zheglov
Thanks for your post. Last time I checked you follow me here on FriendFeed. OK not to follow me on Twitter.
- Pilgrim Five
Smart way to clean house.
- Jeremy Chone
u have already subscribing me although i am just a-staying-at-home mum =)). thanx scoble. u are really a nice geek. haha!
- zʍıɔ
Let's do it.
- Kate
this is like an awesome commentfest
- Edgar Rodríguez
You can follow me, but I never say anything. Oh.. wait....
- James Macgill
follow me!
- Tate DA FF MVP
from BuddyFeed
Sometimes the tortoise beats the hare after all... building organically based on getting to know people and interactions tends to avoid the ghastly spammers, seo peeps and bots
- Sally Church
Tap, tap... is this thing on?
- Yanik Falardeau
This is the best place to follow you. On twitter you only see post headlines, but friendfeed is where the conversation takes place.
- Michael Fidler
Ah crap. You're already following me :)
- Jason Nunnelley
I'm outside your sphere, but bootstrapping is bootstrapping right?
- Travis Bedard
Tuesday night for the first time in 2 months I UNfollowed everyone on Twitter who wasn't following me. Since you had UNfollowed me, yup I unfollowed you. My Twitter account is so /FUBARed! It only goes to page 506 to show who I'm following and after that it is BLANK! I don't even know if they show in my Home stream. So Robert, I value what you say. Know I can tweet profusely - but it's as @replies to others with the occasional micro-blog thrown in. Question, what DID I do to cause you to UNfollow me?
- Arleen Anderson
I hope you'll follow me...
- Shane Tilton
Follow me, eh?
- Joey Gibson
Trying to fill out those dropped Twitter follows?
- Jamie Elgie
Scoble: Have you convinced Guy Kawasaki against his "follow everyone that follows you" mentality?
- Kevin Pruett
please do what you must to have the most effecient feed mr scoble, the random will still creep through the cracks, ;)
- chaz2b
I still haven't really adopted FriendFeed, but I will get interesting here in time if you follow me.
- Lance M. Brown
How are your cleanup efforts coming along?
- Jennifer Ruggiero
Oops - I also meant to ask, Robert: how are you managing to follow the couple thousand that you are now re-following on Twitter? You must be using groups, I guess...any other methods? I find ~500 people to be a near max in terms of how many folks I can fully read.
- Lance M. Brown
Following your inspiration, I unfollowed almost 100 people last night and blocked about 1000 spammers, cam girls, MLM marketers, and the like. Twitter is more like it was a year ago, its almost like I gave my Twitter account an enema and it worked. Thanks for the original idea.
- Mark Edwards
Excellent!
- Don Strickland
Robert, I started out only following those I know and those I am genuinely interested in. I've only followed back a few of the people who've followed me. I have a second account that I decided to experiment with. I followed about 700 people on there. It has had about double the followers of my main account consistently. I am about to try some new tricks there with an auto-follow script I'm writing but I think I will stay the course with my main account.
- Paul The Raven
Robert, I tried the "follow everyone" (almost) method for a short time - then I'd unfollow about once-a-week. Now I try to schedule a "follow new" once a week. TweetDeck's group feature makes following lots of folks bearable. So does FF, but you've been saying that for-ever!
- Kathy E Gill
I am just taking it slow.
- Rick Cogley
from iPhone
Hey.
- Kreg Steppe
I will follow you if you follow me (Genesis)
- Keith Barrett
I may not be smart, but I'm smart enough to follow you!
- John Pfaff
It occurred to me (and surely to someone before me), that different definitions of "following" might be a big factor here. If I'm following someone, it means I'm following along with their updates. But others might see themselves more as becoming part of a person's "following". Not that they are necessarily reading the person's stuff, but they are willing to be considered part of that person's inflated Twitter posse, as part of the influence-trading aspect of Twitter.
- Lance M. Brown
Robert, I think that the biggest thing that changed is not that you were "wrong" (to follow everyone) before but that the Twitter population has changed so much. A year ago, pretty much everyone on Twitter was real, and interesting - now there's so much automated gaming the system going on that the signal to noise ratio has gotten unbearable. So I think anyone who cares about more than...
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- Matthew Blaisdell
I can't imagine how it would happen technologically, but it would be great if there was a way to ditch followers who weren't actually reading your tweets.
- Lance M. Brown
Enjoyed recent posts and look forward to more from you! Keep it up.
- One Degree Connected
I don't want to be left out please!!
- Jannifer @wordsforliving
Your most active followers are on FF. No loss.If you really wanted to make a bold statement you ought to have blocked all of your followers and started from scratch.
- Benjamin Taylor
Been a while since I put you and Shel On the record...Online
- Eric Schwartzman
blah.
- imabonehead
Good article Robert. I honestly enjoyed the perspective. I found the same to be true, but on a much lower scale, of course ;-)
- Ken Stewart | ChangeForge
i'm in!
- Criz
I don't get it - so now you are using Twitter kinda like a normal person, and its some kind of miracle that it works better?
- Nick Lothian
I'm impressed you can keep up with 1600 people. I have trouble enough with the little amount I have. I did find that making FriendFeed imaginary friends and putting them in groups for those I'd like to read occasionally (but not on a regular basis) has helped a lot
- Tamara
Follow....how about some promotion!
- Bob DeMarco
i'm in
- Joshua Smith
from twhirl
9/11 Was an Inside Job
- bill giltner
Stop it, or I will have to get a restraining order.
- Sriks7
In my mind I'm important enough to follow ;-)
- Jonathan Callahan
Hello Robert....Whatever your favorite genre is...http://listen.grooveshark.com/#...
- Michele Lorito-Chase
Looks like you have a lot of work to do following everybody.
- Corbett Barr
now i'll have to write something interesting...
- Robert Littlejohn
me! i offer nothing but the warm feeling of having accepted a ff reject.
- Marco
ok. so how will you filter the noise now
- Kfir Pravda
Ooo, I've won the lottery. You'll follow me now. Wheeee! (how do you have the time to go through all of the names by hand? VA assistance?)
- Peggy Dolane
Great :)
- Baard @ Pixum
Interesting trend on twitter - I always wondered what sense it made to follow tens of thousands of people, too much noise. I'm finding it hard enough to follow 2900 (looking to cull even that down as I mostly tweet about 30 people!)
- Tia Singh, Life Coach
211th comment: WTF
- Geer
Good :)
- ★ Soner Gönül
I like your ability to influence so many people. I'm following you (mostly here - on FriendFeed) because it's one of the ways to learn how you do it (but, please, do not follow me if you do not see anything you could learn from me :-).
- Hanna Wiszniewska
I would come up w/ a better vetting process.
- Joe
why would you do that?
- james
got to get a pic up so i can fit the criteria, I only follow 45 people and some of them are on thin ice ( Im lookin at you Scoble)
- James Hunter
"Where in The Net is Robert San Diego?" (cit.) :-)
- Luca Perugini
from iPhone
I'm not kissing your arse,but i do learn a lot listening to you.
- Paul Downing
@scobleizer why would you randomly follow people who comment in this post when you just got done knocking FFollo and having to unfollow a gazillion people on Twitter?
- Bryan Zirkel
Bryan: because I'm following people one by one and putting them into lists on my screen. Autofollowing means you aren't doing ANY of that thinking. Also, autofollowing will get you spammers, if they ever show up (and they will).
- Robert Scoble
@Robert: Read your blogpost and that's indeed what I look at to follow people too. No autofollow and even close friends have to tell something interesting for me to (keep) following. Friends who are new to Twitter (no tweets yet) get the benefit of doubt.
- Patrick Mackaaij
If you follow me, great, but if you don't I'll understand. :) And I ought to do some pruning myself...
- Grant Bierman
Let's give it a try. :0)
- Toma Kazakov
I still don't understand how you want to follow someone who just writes a comment over here. Well, this is not the first time. I did not understand why and how you followed 100k people. I find it hard to properly follow 100 people.
- Sumanth Kolar
Sumanth: obviously there are degrees of "following." When you read the New York Times, do you read the entire paper word for word? I don't. Same when I'm following. I only get random slices of some of my lists. Others, which have 500 people on them, get 100% read.
- Robert Scoble
I'm still here . . . although tired after teaching all day. Louis Gray came to my PR class at SFSU and WOWED the 50 students [except for one who thinks we are making too much of social media] We won't be following him.
- Shari Weiss
I like cheese!
- Paul Puri
Shari: Louis wows me too. Glad to see the class is getting into it.
- Robert Scoble
He he :)
- Richard Holas
I still like the "stranger stream" of Twitter vs "friend feed" of other applications. I don't feel the need to read all tweets from everybody - and tools let me check my fave tweeples. I think mass unfollowing destroys some of the social contract - Robert you are lucky because you are well liked and can do some risky things but companies for example (not Brands of One) would be in...
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- Laurel Papworth
As @charleneli predicted back in January, 2009 will be the year of de-friending on social networks. It's here.
- Mark Evans
Laurel: yeah, you have to navigate these waters carefully if you are representing a brand, that's for sure!
- Robert Scoble
you can put me on your boring list...
- Charles Tanton
i will not get followed back: not powerful, don't have a brand, not a news maker... but i kinda understand the reasons
- Dani Martínez
I still think it all goes into how you use twitter. If your using it as a communication tool it depends on if you are looking for broadcast or 2 way. Its interesting to watch as some of the bigger names turn back from the broadcast and go back to the 2 way.
- Luke Kilpatrick
@Robert so when you're taking in information from FF do you have a feed of several dozen/hundred "key" people and then categorize the rest, or are you mainly searching? Do you utilize groups at all or mainly just rely on what comes across your feeds? I guess I'm curious as to how you're using FF to collect information.
- Bryan Zirkel
I have found Twitter becomes noise rather than a conversation once the following/follower thing gets over a certain mark. I think this is the dirty little secret of Twitter - if it just turns into white noise, rather than a filter, then it becomes less than useful.
- Michael Liss
I'm interested in how we'll all feel over the next few years as social networks continue to change and more people and organizations get on them. Obviously, many of us are getting fed up with spammers and are unfollowing them on Twitter and Facebook. I am also having a hard time keeping up with new subscribers on FriendFeed because I know less about them from their profiles and have to...
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- Cathryn Hrudicka
BTW, I feel like I'm finding lots of interesting new people to follow from these discussions that Robert and others are holding on FF. Cool!
- Cathryn Hrudicka
Am I too late to comment and get followed?
- Hichame Assi
I'm definitely around :)
- KyNam Doan
Aren't you following me already? If not, you should be! LoL
- Thomas Ward
I'm definitely late to be followed. :D
- Faraz Mullick
I don't get it but ok :)
- Parvez Halim
LOL! I follow those I find interesting and which can give me useful information. And hope someone follows me for the same reasons.
- Flavio
Very interesting post - I've always thought that you guys who follow loads of people must get completely swamped by noise! Like you, I've found it useful to follow companies I use that have interesting products like Zoho and Evernote as a way of keeping up to date with their latest innovations. Excellent idea spelling out your "follow criteria" - it needs to become standard etiquette for social networks so that people don't get offended when they aren't followed back :) .
- David Meredith
aren't you doing the same thing here, that you did in Twitter? Choose carefully who you follow, filling your brain with pollution doesn't make you smarter
- Allison
Just finished reading the Mashable post on your unfollow exercise. It's attracting attention from all the other big names now.
- George Hall (Australia)
Very interesting indeed, I only to unfollow a few, cause I just never had auto follow on.. So now I just unfollow the ones I'm bored of..
- Jaap Willem
Seems like a good idea. Although Louis Gray also has a few valid points on his latest blog post why it might be a mistake http://bit.ly/19UKxk
- Silver Hage
I've never understood the auto-follow procedure on any social network. Even on Facebook, where it is obligatory, one can still lower the noise by simply hiding the updates of those who want to follow you, but perhaps also have little personal connection and therefore can be hidden.
- Noah Gray
It seems like the unfollowing was the easy part. Choosing who to follow again must have been a chore. I think it is crucial in twitter (and FriendFeed for that matter) to have a clear out every six months or so otherwise you get bogged down in an information feed you don't really care about.
- Chris Nixon
I can totally understand why you had to do this. I'm following 2700-ish folks on Twitter and I need 3 groups to manage it (using TweetDeck). I feel I am keeping up with most of my local community and the general tech community at large though I'm sure I'm still missing quite a bit of stuff from people who are not in the 3 groups. I also wonder how much more I can actually handle.
- Ken Seto
Um... well, I made something of myself, but then I didn't like what I made, so now I'm doing it all over again. Not sure how that fits with your criteria! Plus, I really don't have a brand or any influence to speak of. I do look great in boxers, however.
- Mark "DerBingle" J
OK, OK, changed my picture. Instead of a green clock (a clock is my personal brand) I put a picture of myself. A lot of people told me to do that....
- Bora Zivkovic
I am still looking for info on holographic technology being used for news delivery. Perhaps it's a technology that hasn't even been invented yet or is sitting on a shelf somewhere. What say you? http://specialdee.wordpress.com/2009...
- Denise
Hoping your new look account has had the desired effect. No need to follow me, I'm not the interesting type, I'll just be glad if your insights, links & content continues. Congrats & good luck
- JanLawrence
Here's what's interesting, Robert, I've noticed an uptick in followers even if you reply or RT or like someone's tweet, not just if you follow that person. Then again, perhaps that's the intent - if you like or RT someone's idea, that's a kind of stamp of approval.
- Aaman (Clone of FF)
Hej hej!
- Peter
The Scoble Pendulum.. How long till we go back to FOLLOW!! FOLLOW!!! FOLLOW!!!! ? :)
- Adrian Scicluna
I did a purge on Facebook for the same reasons a few months ago. It's under 300 and it's people I actually care about. I've come "this close" to running a purge on Twitter but haven't yet. Maybe this will spark me to do it. I've kept FF tight from the beginning.
- Rob Williams
moving from FB to FF ... fewer, longer, more meaningful threads. welcoming your follow. cheers
- marc calamia
ok, you´re following me already :-)
- Torsten Eckert
alright - follow me... - thx in advance Robert Scoble...
- Nilesh
All that commenting in the past counts for nothing?
- Kevin Gamble
Hey Robert... Great post... On FriendFeed, I increasingly put people without meaningful and valuable content on a separate feed that I rarely check... Its a more "sensible" way to unfollow, i think... I only unsubscribe if I get pissed at someone etc. I wish, FF gave users the option to only unsubscribe from comments and likes (but keep the main feed). This would be a good tool to control the noise...
- Onur Kabadayi
I agree with Robert (duh!). I very briefly made the effort of checking out the new follows and deciding whether to follow back. I think once I hit a thousand I shifted to a model of occasionally saying, "If you want me to follow you, talk to me." Hit two thousand and quit saying anything or checking followers. I don't care if they follow me as long as they either say useful things like real people or don't talk at all. I've never autofollowed back. This strategy works for me.
- Patricia F. Anderson
I have a large difference between people I follow (around 2000) and people who follow me (around 1800) - I choose people who are important sources of information. People choose me if they think I am an important source of information to them. I never thought it would have to be a one-to-one relationship as to who is useful to whom: some are informative, others are good listeners and learners. I learn from people I follow and I hope my followers learn from me.
- Bora Zivkovic
I also think that those of us who follow larger numbers of people don't use the stream in the same way. It is more dipping in and out of the stream, trusting that the important stuff will be repeated enough to float to the top, engaging with conversations of the moment. I wrote a blogpost on this earlier this year: http://etechlib.wordpress.com/2009...
- Patricia F. Anderson
Someone told me twitter can be separated into two types. (id say at least two)
- Kay Proskin
Scoble, I am beginning to think you are a cult leader :). Look at all these comments! I am using FF more and more these days... Useful for eGuiders.com that's for sure.
- Marc Ostrick
I'm not sure your following me.
- Amit Morson
Hey Scobie :D Follow me !
- paniaguai
I like Robert. He was one of the first people I followed on Twitter and brought me to FF. But I don't understand why people are desperate to have him follow them. Status? Some kind of virtual autograph?
- Tech Introvert
What the heck. Follow me if you like. I'll be as entertaining & informative as I can.
- Aaron Schaub
from iPod
Been considering doing the same. Your post just might be the flame that lights a fire you-know-where to get it done.
- @katebuckjr
Well done! Who need followers that aren't reading your tweets anyway.
- Sean Rasmussen
I just want a toaster!
- ZuDfunck
I'm considering doing same once I'm more confident in my use of FriendFeed. I RT'd this and it resonated with at least one of my followers.
- Tony Hollingsworth
'Hand-crafted personal network' is the meme of the moment, and whilst I can see the workmanship, where's the value going to be for you, Robert, in following this rag-tag (no offence people :) ) of folks from a gazillion different verticals. (OK, so they're mostly life scientists).
- Andrew Spong
I use to want to be Bob Dylan. Now I am not so sure.
- ZuDfunck
um.....
- Spencer
My take: you can't be an authentic, credible voice to your community if you let 'sex & dollars' spammers hang on to your coattails. Spam followers matter.... in a bad way. Allowing them to be associated with you diminishes your potential value to genuine followers. It's a pain. It takes time. It's worth doing. More on this, if interested: http://tr.im/vJwb
- Andrew Spong
I'll have mine to go.
- ZuDfunck
Hope to see more "old fashioned blogging", like it better than tweets. Tweets are bound to disappear into oblivion the moment they're posted.
- Willem (@wim66) ☠
"Spam followers matter.... in a bad way." - I certainly agree with this. I block pornbots just as quickly as they follow me. I'm less vigilant about the commercial follows, but usually they go away by themselves after a while.
- John Craft
You're already following me here (don't care about twitter tough), so i just hope you don't un-follow, even though you probably don't understand what i'm talking about most of the time, since it's in portuguese.
- Diego Sana
So what happened to the advantages to following so many people you always talked about?
- Bas
Thanks for connecting here, still learning all the advantages of FF
- carece
@Andrew Regarding spam followers and the idea that allowing them to follow you somehow dilutes your credibility, I just have to disagree. To me that places the burden on the wrong person. I don't have time to waste pruning those who follow me, unless they are overtly annoying.My stream is public, they can follow me anyway. What matters to me is that the spammers leave me alone. If they don't, I block them. If they keep quiet, I don't care.
- Patricia F. Anderson
What is important is not who follows me, but who *I* follow.
- Patricia F. Anderson
Follow me if you want, but I gotta warn ya, it's scintillating stuff!
- Pierce Presley
Funny my twitter feed is much noisier but I have been very selective on who I follow. I have tried to make the feed relevant and actionable. At times I post things that seem out of the norm on my twitter feed but that is mainly for the few people who follow me that don't get it but I am trying to keep up their interest level. I also control who follows me, yes this breaks the model but I think the follow everyone model was broken and reckless
- Richard Gallo
Am I interesting? Dunno. I'm often controversial, tho. ;) BTW, we met in person at a Pittsburgh Blogfest, but I really don't expect you to remember that.
- Eric Williams
Enjoyed the post. I just started Twitter a few days ago to get away from Facebook. I like friendfeed the best - can't wait until it becomes more mainstream.
- Robby Parker
Awesome move. Consider that my comment please :)
- Charlotte Barker
friendfeed is definitively more evolved that Twitter. Conversely, user bases of Twitter is still its real (and unique) point of strenght...
- Marco Castellani
Don't want you to follow me (unless you find my stream of interest) but it's quite interesting the number of people that comment to get you to follow!
- Ben Drury
Hey Robert! So, I would like to talk to you about a social media company I'm working with right now. They launched a few months ago and their trajectory and momentum is pretty amazing. Oh, and I started unfollowing the noise in my Twitter after I commented on your blog post.
- Gregg Le Blanc
I'm asking the same thing Bas asked... what about your video on the benefits of following so many people? I took a stab at that method of madness by starting to follow all kinds of people, and following anyone that followed me... but I always felt like I was missing good content from good people because of all the "spam". I started to use TweetDeck to create groups/columns for...
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- Timothy Federwitz
@Patricia - reminds me that I should probably review all my twitter followers and thin things down. :)
- JA Castillo
thanks
- Keith
I like conversing with interesting people. Sometimes that means commenting to get followed, @cogiva. ;)
- Eric Williams
Hi Scoble!
- Pete Gilbert
I did almost the same thing - unfollowed about 1000 from my 1500, no attention is way better
- Maarten den Braber
Couldn't agree more. It's about time we all grew up. BTW Don't follow me. :-)
- Gee Ranasinha
Robert what's the deal with Twitter?
- stockmanmarc
Your post makes good sense. I didn't auto-follow & still find folks to unfollow because their noise gets too loud.
- Debra Ellis
Very clever. I imagine the signal to noise is sooooo much better.
- Chris Brogan
I've been thinking about unfollowing a bunch twitter folks as well. I'll look at SocialToo again. My initial experience with SocialToo wasn't good. However, it was during their infancy.
- Ron Hudson
I don't blame you at all. Leo was all over that yesterday.
- Daniel B. Honigman
why would simply leaving a comment prompt you to follow me?
- David Wescott
You're not going to change your mind and mass unfollow us are you?
- walidmREALTOR
Sup! :-)
- Jon Winters
I suspect it identifies you as a real person interested in dialog, David.
- Eric Williams
Followers are currency and you have plenty to spend
- Lee Odden
Bob, did you do anything on Twitter recently ? Did you massively refollow people ? Seems like you screwed up Twitter : down for a while... ;-)
- Enikao
Follow me! @carloscomputers
- carloscomputers
very cool timing with just before twitter goes down hard! well done Robert! @crbrowning
- Colin
@davidorban
- David Orban
I've followed you and have really enjoyed your posts. I think I would miss that
- Tom
Good to hear that your experiment has stopped the spam @lindsaydavies
- Lindsay Davies
ciao Robert!
- alex
Your ego is amazing. You make it seem like it is a special deal to be followed by you. I'm glad there are many very bright, talented people here who follow others, regardless of class, education, social status and not based on some snobbish criteria.
- RuthNH
DON'T follow me! I write in Italian :-)
- Lorenzo Strambi
Here I be
- Robert
Wow, this is a lot of comments. And kudos for following Followable people who have something interesting to contribute to your day. I'm glad you did it, because that means you'll find AND share more interesting things. This, in turn, makes you more followable too. Thanks for seeing the light, so to speak.
- ax0n
You killed twitter.
- Melissa Pierce
and now with twitter down, many will flock to here!
- Mark V. Fusco
Did this take down Twitter this morning Robert?
- frank barry
That must of taken a long time :-) I've always been a fan of twitter, but I must say they have struggled in the last few weeks. We are working with their API on a project and their seems to be an issue every other day that causes problems. Do they have what it takes?
- Chris Nadeau
I follow under 200 people and it's great. I can't imagine 1k+ . I add about three or four a month.
- Mike Janicke
I unfollow people when I find I ignore their tweets/updates. After reading your blog, I think we ALL need to be more judicious.
- Janet Barker-Evans
Is this why Twitter is down? LOL! Can't check to see if you unfollowed me. Hope not. You, Shel Israel, and Jeremiah Owyang were some of the very first people I followed way back before Twitter even had 100,000 people on the service. -- It's been a fun ride but, of course, the spammers always show up to make things difficult.
- Brenda Young
How do you really know if you should be following someone until you follow them for a while? Sometimes I don't start talking to someone until I see a common interest, then I tweet back and we start talking, but that could be months later. I don't follow everyone back, but I follow back those that interact. I will unfollow once I see that won't happen, or I don't like their tweets.
- Nadine Gilden
Twitter is victime of it own success, they have to re learn how to scal better, but more important they have to learn to share better.
- abdellah
looks like you'll need to follow at least 343 people LOL
- Shari Weiss
@Patricia I don't want potential followers to be put off by who is following me. I wouldn't want them to think I care more about have n+1 followers than I do about what they're going to see if they review who I've allowed to follow me. Not to cull spammers suggests I care more about my experience than theirs. To a great extent, the quality of their experience will determine the quality...
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- Andrew Spong
Friendfeed takes over for twitter finally?
- Thomas Resing
1600 ... isn't that a big number too? It could be you'll think again before you follow every one here :)
- Mario Gastaldi
Hi... do I get a follow?
- Jason Mayoff
If you are already following me. Will you double follow me? :)
- Brady
Still waiting for my Building 43 t-shirt. Not that I'm bitter or anything. ;-)
- Donna Tuttle
Respect your opinion Robert but we'll have to agree to disagree. Yes I despise all the FakePornSpamBots who follow me. I block as many as I can, but can't keep up. Our views differ regarding what is important to SEE! I treasure home Home stream! I read it, refresh, read, refresh and in minutes I have the pulse of the world... at least MY world! EVERYONE has something of value to share at some point. If I UNfollow tens of thousands, I will miss so much worthy of consideration.
- Arleen Anderson
Just another reason why it's good to diversify, I can still read your posts here. :)
- Luis Sandoval
Cheers!
- Jeff Wiant
Funny. I was catching up on news on Friendfeed for some odd reason. Great post; plenty for new and long-time users alike to consider there.
- Alex Howard
I'm still waiting for the ultimate tool to manage my followings - I can only manage to keep up with about 1/3 of those following me. I'd love to see something that can tell me what friends of mine also follow those that I am or those that are following me. Maybe it's out there and I missed it?
- TheDiva Rockin
Anyone interested in assessing the quality of their followers should check http://tweetblocker.com. It's pretty chastening. I aim to improve on my C rating. http://www.buzzom.com is a fun, fast way of decoupling yourself from non-reciprocal followers. You can select individuals to purge, or flush 50 random non-reciprocal followers at a time.
- Andrew Spong
Robert, your timing could not be better. ;-)
- Dave Martin
Great post, with perfect timing! Dang it, Dave Martin just took it off my lips.
- Vadim Lavrusik
I hereby rename this comment thread neoTwitter <waves at followers>
- Andrew Spong
/me waves
- Kevin Johnson
from iPhone
Awww, you gotta admit, saturation, the level of influence that you have, because of your high follower, count, is a tool of mass destruction. Seriously, did you think if you recommend an online service that people would not try it out? Was this an asassination attempt
- Peter Murphy
I'm glad i'm not the only one who misses /me actions from IRC, Kevin. ;)
- Eric Williams
With today's Twitter outage your timing is pretty stinking good, Robert. :)
- Chris Cree
Now to get the rest of the world to follow that same logic when it comes to follow/unfollow! I only started being more selective as Twitter (and everyone else) started getting aggressive with spammers or anyone that even remotely did a single spammy tweet. Now if only there were the same contact management tools available for the other social networks as with Twitter. No matter what though, I'll continue updating my status when I eat a peanut butter sandwich! (With Fluff of course!).
- Paul Monaco
Twitter couldn't handle the mass unfollow load, blew up...
- manielse (Mark Nielsen)
I've been followed by Robert Scoble :-)
- David Finch
Follow iPolitics
- Jacob Kobi Gamliel
Now I think that it is time to think about a way to make money using Twitter.
- abdellah
@Mark, +1. When in doubt, the default delegation of blame goes to Robert.
- Dave Martin
what is critical mass for twitter? Too few and nobody interacts, Too many and spam bots overwhelm, Is it 1K or 2K needed to get a real experience?
- WarLord
Hmm can you unsubscribe from "comment notification via e-mail" in FF on a *specific* topic? This one :-)
- Patrick Mackaaij
Of course I thonk it is a different experience if you hand follow reading each bio from the beginning then these mass purges are unnecessary
- WarLord
I thought you already followed me. lol
- Duane-PreppyDude
Not sure if you do, but here I am...
- Aron Michalski
I am intrigued how RT addict will RT now?!! (ps: FF please don't post this to my twitter)
- abdellah
I have been keeping my twitter account private a majority of the time lately b/c I am going through a divorce, but I really kinda like it. Have been reducing followers as well as the number I follow.
- Jackson Miller
You should follow me here in FF and on Twitter too!
- Karthi
hopefully most of us have proven our worth beyond commenting on this single thread
- andy brudtkuhl
I like the way you operate, Scoble. Thanks in advance for the follow!
- Dr. Frank Ramblings, Ph.D
Nice way of doing it...
- Charles
No need to follow me unless you are actually going to engage in conversation with me.
- Jeff Hurt
If you're already following and we comment, will you unfollow? *wink Hoping all is well your way!
- Dayngr
4&5 are my favorite! Those are big reasons I decide to follow someone too.
- Kelly Mitton
I'm lucky. Have never had Twitter spam. But then again I'm no Scoble either :)
- Lori Reed
I am the peanut butter eating bot
- Benjamin Spector
If you are already following me on ff does that mean I get a cookie or something? ;-)
- Tomy Thomson
I'll add my name to the list. I came back to FF after the Twitter DoS outage. Maybe Scoble broke Twitter by all his unfollowing. He was the "glue" holding Twitter together. :-)
- Tom Newman
Robert: Here's the bit you missed off the end of your title here: .... and put them in that group I don't read :-)
- Jim Connolly
Hi Robert, greetings from germany.
- Flynn (Michael A. Volz)
add me for your social media and the practice of law news!
- Rex Gradeless
Great post. I'm sure that some people might say that this kind of mass unfollowing will hurt Twitter, but I think it's just the opposite. Users who are following people they have no interest in just to pad their own numbers are diminishing the meaning of "following."
- Mark Denton
@Ulrichmargarita
- Ulrichmargarita
To stave off being unfollowed we need to comment here ya say?
- Jason
you are already following me here... perhaps you'll consider re-following me on twitter too
- t i n y m
I don't know how you ever did it the other way. I am not in the tech world near as much as I used to be, which wasn't a whole lot. I just followed some random people I saw on SMugMug-related people on here when I started. You were one of them. I had no idea who you were (and still don't :-), but you talked about Twitter a lot too, which got me on there as well. Both services have really...
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- James Schipper
Follow away!
- Ferdinand Perez
ok 400 jackpot
- abdellah
Quality over quantity in all things, including (perhaps especially) Twitter. Loved your friending methodology -- those are the same rules I've applied since being on Twitter. Posted them onto Posterous to share the love with credit to you: http://lorilaurentsmith.posterous.com/
- Lori Laurent Smith
it's not about unfollowing, it's about filtering...
- Barak Hachamov
I started out following everyone on Twitter.Then I got wise. When someone's stream becomes more noise than signal, that's when I consider unfollowing. I realize that threshhold is different for everyone, but I'll take "what I had for lunch" over a dozen bogus "marketing tips" any day.
- Julie Barrett
from twhirl
Well, I am trying to use FriendFeed more after watching Scoble's video on all those monitors he had up. I'm not a big consumer of information and don't own a TV but this online social stuff has been a perfect fit into my life because I can connect with people who are fountains of knowledge on a specific subject or are "human mashups". I like both!
- Adria Richards
Why !?
- Bertrand Soulier
from iPhone
I've been reading al of this unfollow bits, and this point of yours:
- Donna
Hey, I think that today you might make your point about FriendFeed being more interesting than Twitter. Hope you are well. Talked with @fransteps this morning and she is excited to work with you at Rackspace.
- Kami Huyse
hi
- George Desmyter
I would appreciate the follow, thanks!
- Jeff Reisdorfer
I've been reading all of this un-follow posts lately, and this point of yours in WHY you unfollowed: "#2 Because I personally care about everyone I am following their noise level is a LOT lower. ." Is exactly what I do. And now I am starting to understand Friendfeed more. and using posterous to do aggregate posts. So is this overload making more people sit up and think first? I think so. At least the intelligent ones.
- Donna
I love you Scoble! ;)
- Carol Levesque
with all due sycophantism :)
- jeff hammond
This is a great move, Robert. It's also a lot more human...I was almost convinced that you were the only person who could actually drink from the fire hose without choking.
- Steffan Antonas
That sounds fair. After this morning, I've renewed my love for FriendFeed and Tweetworks. Until the next DDos attacks, of course. I will miss the fake porn stars, but I did when I moved from L.A.
- Scott Pierce
Steffan; I agree...there is no way anyone else could do what Robert S. does. It's good to see him become human.
- Robert Jones
This has been my problem for about the past six months. I routinely go in and unfollow, get the noise level down to where I want it, and then end up following back a bunch of new people, some of whom I'm incredibly grateful to get to know. When I had track, it was a whole lot easier to manage the stream, but I suspect even that tool would now be out of hand. I have a set of rules for...
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- Karoli
hee hee. i am commenting not so much to beg your follow but what a clever pitch:)
- Tresha Thorsen
Robert - I have not read all 416 comments so if this was asked and you answered forgive me. What was the all of a sudden revelation that caused you to reverse stance on Twitter Followers?
- Jeff Vreeland
It's difficult to maintain and filter a list on all the social networking sites. I cannot even imagine maintaining the kinds of lists you must deal with, Robert.
- Jeremy Brooks
Dude, you broke Twitter! When you unfollowed all of your 100,000 the other day you pulled the rug right out from under it, so it fell down and now it can't reach its beer. :-)
- Robert Morrison
Actually I felt rather sad being fav'ed by you on FriendFeed then dumped.. But again. I get more from you from FriendFeed, so oh well, stop talking about Following and Get on more with Tech! :P
- Du Senyao Peter
Me Me! lol!
- Bill McGehee
i like the idea of importing favorite tweets into friendfeed. i haven't used that favorite feature much because i haven't seen any real use in it. thanks!
- Jonathan Blundell
When twitter is down I always wish I could tweet: checkout friendfeed. Nevertheless, how will following folk that leave a message here really improve the quality of your input? While I don't want to judge many of the fine folk on this thread, are they all that interesting? In other words, isn't this the start of the same problem you had on Twitter...
- Jon Mountjoy
what like here? this is a comment :)
- michelle harris
Barak - isn't filtering just unfollowing while pretending you're still following? ;)
- Matthew Blaisdell
Well to bounce back on your Twitter is down comment I think it is time to watch this video again http://www.youtube.com/watch... Hilarious!
- 77Agency
Robert, I'm glad you decided to stop auto-follow (finally). :)
- Veronica Sopher
I'm in
- Jeroen Sangers
from Nambu
works for mw
- Brendan Jackson
from twhirl
Robert, but why clutter your FriendFeed stream? This comment is not to get you to courtesy follow me on FriendFeed, think you've established you've changed your thinking. :)
- L.P. NEENZ FALEAFINE
OK, I have enough people to follow so I will close the comments on this thread. Thank you everyone, I will try to get to everyone today.
- Robert Scoble
Seems good twitter apps are all on the mac,&web apps are all ugly,is there any app with some taste like tweetie on a pc, name one pls!
You tried Seesmic Web?
- Manuel Mas
@Manuel I had tried Seesmic Web,doesn't like it too much,I can't even change the default font sets, fonts were so small.
- Steve Chou
from fftogo
Is there any other Twitter client had simplicity like twhirl?
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I had used tweetdeck and seesmic,but it's so complex to look and not so good to use,btw,i use pc,so tweetie doesn't work for me.
- Steve Chou
from fftogo
Why all the good twitter apps are all on Mac，PC is still a much larger market,right?
- Steve Chou
from fftogo
Give us an app like Tweetie on PC,all of the Twitter apps had such a bad taste.
- Steve Chou
from fftogo
@imagethief You can use @googlevocie ? I can't even log into that,says not available other than US.
Any time frame on making it available outside US and number porting?
- Manuel Mas
@Holden Really,is there a link for that?
- Steve Chou
from fftogo
Thanks
- Steve Chou
from IM
Then,what's the dif between those two levels?
- Steve Chou
from IM
Level3 is a company also.Isn't it called grand central?
- Steve Chou
from IM
@Holden Great story,thanks for your help.
- Steve Chou
from IM
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