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the dentist? Wow! Have a great one, Steve. - Valeria Maltoni

Happy 4-0. I think I can still recall that one, vaguely :) - Patrick Jordan

@Valeria - yes and what she found was not good! - Steve Rubel from email

Have a great day .. ugh... young man - Charlie Anzman

Happy birthday, Steve! - Thierry R. Andriamirado

Many many happy returns of the day Steve! Here's to many more years of your awesomeness. - Karthick

Happy Birthday, Steve! :-D - Kol Tregaskes

Much easier to go to one spot to conduct searches and get back results. - Steve Rubel from email

Looks interesting. Would be more useful if it's available on the Linux shell - not entirely sure how it's useful on the web though? - See-ming Lee 李思明 SML

ok i take it back. perhaps useful on mobile. possibly actually good for accessibility access. interesting. It's always interesting to see #innovation with text-only UI. But seriously is there a Linux shell equivalent? Sometimes I use lynx to serve on my netbook and I wish that I have a better alternative. - See-ming Lee 李思明 SML

Steve, but if it's just a tab in your browser, how is that different from having a tab pointing to google.com? Don't get me wrong, I'm a big fan of text-based interfaces. I'm just wondering the benefit here other than the cool/nostalgia/geek factor of it being text-based. - Akiva Moskovitz

Because you can conduct any search right from it. Try B then your name - Steve Rubel from email

I love the idea of a "Personal Content Database". I always thought of FriendFeed as an aggregation site, but it sounds better as a personal content database. - Matthew Lang

Me too Matthew. I use it that way to some degree. - Steve Rubel from email

Is there a way to get a friend feed onto a personal web site? - Peter Fletcher

Thanks for posting this Steve. And Dawn, are you deliberately ironic? Regardless, this post is for those who may not have the time to engage actively here, but will still benefit from being part of the service. - Hutch Carpenter

@Peter - try this: http://friendfeed.com/embed - Brian Daniel Eisenberg

Thanks Brian. - Peter Fletcher

Nice work but a lil late on this BNO - sofarsoShawn

Peter, you can also embed an individual thread on your site by copying the code from the "Share" link - Rahsheen ™, Coach of FF

Oh, Dawn, that's rich cause I blocked you for bringing vapid, banal, and inconsequential stuff to friendfeed a while back. All you have to do is look at all the items from the Google I/O conference to see just how wrong you are: http://is.gd/HaUQ - Robert Scoble

"Personal Content Database" is quite apt (especially if we could have our service icons back) - When working in twitter and waiting for twitter's page to refresh a new post, it is quicker to jump to FriendFeed, because the post is there instantly. - Chris Loft

@rahsheen thanks for the tip. - Peter Fletcher

BS, Robert. You blocked me because I'm not one of your sycophants but actually challenge your assumptions, motivations and actions. Like when I said you were neglecting your blog, you retaliated against me, but just two weeks later, Arrington said the same thing and you took that seriously. But I'm just a female, right Robert?...somebody you keep calling stupid, even though I'm sure my... more... - Dawn

Amen to that! - Calvin Ayre

Dawn, I think I love you. - cecily

Dawn: you don't even have a clue about why I blocked you. It's cause you were arguing religion and politics and had no clue who Ralph Reed was and then you followed it up with the lamest posts on global warming I've seen that it made me wonder why I was arguing with someone so clueless (and I forget there were a few other things you were arguing about). So much for that high grade point average. By the way, I don't remember Mike Arrington ever talking about that stuff. - Robert Scoble

BTW: I unblocked her for some reason, I still don't know why. Oh, yeah, my brother stuck up for her and so far I've seen just the lamest additions to the community, like this one here. If friendfeed's discussion is vapid, banal, and inconsequential IT IS OUR FAULT. So, Dawn, this one is on you. Good riddens, I say. - Robert Scoble

Ahh, community. - τorƍue

#4 Bacon - sofarsoShawn

Yeah, right, Robert. I'm so lame that Louis Gray announced both on his blog and on FF that I'm a great person to follow. And you're comment about Ralph Reed just once again shows your bigotry against Christians, lumping us all in one basket - that far right fundamentalist basket that you once belonged to and now despise. I never did belong to it. I'm Catholic, not "born again." I've had... more... - Dawn

Btw, two people have DM'd me that Scoble is best ignored. I can't do that. Being the target of repeated and consistent defamation by Robert Scoble isn't the same as Joe Blow FFer calling you an idiot. Robert's words carry a lot of weight in the tech world. I've asked Robert privately and politely to back off and as you can see, he's refused to do that. I not only have the right to defend myself, but I have a duty to my present and future investors and to my future employees. - Dawn

FriendFeed's usefullness to me would increase 100% if I could automatically filter out every post with "friendfeed" in the title. That way I could get rid of the constant yapping about how great it is, and actually use it usefully. - Ian Betteridge

Bump for the good times. - Mark Krynsky

This is a post from last may! The situation has totally changed since then - DC Crowley

"even though I'm sure my IQ is higher than yours. Were you valedictorian of your high school? Or graduate magna cum laude? Did you get a graduate degree with honors" wow that means even i don't qualify :( - ffcode

Direct from google...meaning Blogger? - Garin Kilpatrick

Yes Garin - Steve Rubel from email

Why should you abandon FriendFeed just because they were acquired? The features are still the same, the friends are the same. It's certainly doing a disservice to the FF team as they work on a FB integration. If all leave FF due to new owners, then there's nothing left to integrate. I'm staying until they pull the plug (but frankly not sure if I want to join FB). - Nils Sandin

I think its true, quite a few people are posting less then they used to and some have stopped posting here all together. But I think that says more about the users than it does the service they have all but abandoned. If the development team behind FF had some how managed to keep the sale to Facebook a secret, most of those people would probably still be here. - J. Abdul-Qahhar

Nils: because I invest my time on systems that WILL BE not that "ARE." The FriendFeed team has already been moved to other projects, so we won't be seeing new features. I like FriendFeed and will continue to come here, but I am spending my time on systems that are getting active development and that will be improved in the future. Twitter, for instance, has 75 people working on it. Facebook? 200 engineers and 1000 employees. But, seriously, I go where the geeks go and they are here less and less. - Robert Scoble

Robert so where are you now? Where do you spent your time? Where are the geeks now? - Roldano De Persio of FF

Roldano: I'm here and on Twitter, mostly. But the geeks have spread their usage out, and it's hard to see any one place they are coalescing. Facebook usage is definitely higher, so are things like Posterou s. But Twitter seems to be where the kinds of people I like to talk with are hanging out. - Robert Scoble

Well I'm not moving until FF moves. It's a shame people have left or use it less. :-( - Kol Tregaskes

wow, interesting. I like Posterous, but can't see it as a replacement for FF - If anything I want to use FF more! - Alistair (alpinefolk)

Agree. I'll only move if I have to. What's changed after the FB buy-out? Nothing so far. Sure, we're not going to get any new features but I'm quite happy with what FF provides. More importantly the community is still here, all my new friends. If they ALL move somewhere else then I'll go there but they all seem to be sticking around thankfully! If the geeks are leaving then that leaves us normals then, right? :-) - Kol Tregaskes

Twitter is no alternative to FF. There are some pretenders but they are no where near FF atm. - Kol Tregaskes

FriendFeed and Posterous are totally complementary. Twitter and FF less so. - Bruce Lewis

The growth of Posterous is most likely due to the fact that it sets itself up as a hub "pushes" content out to other services (bringing traffic back), while Friendfeed essentially pulls info in and has to build its own internal traffic (I know it can post content but most don't seem to). - That said, Friendfeed has the best social aspect of any service that I use. - Alistair (alpinefolk)

Alistair, that's the best summary I have heard yet. - Steve Rubel from email

Posterous is a fabulous content blaster :) whereas FF is a fabulous content aggregator! - Susan Beebe

One can argue that FF built it's traffic on aggregation of other traffic. It pulls in feeds of content on other services, while very minimally introducing new, interesting content to the web. Whereas Posterous introduces new, rich, interesting content by making it easier than ever to post. Autopost actually *reduces* how much traffic comes back to Posterous, because we allow you to post to other places. (this is just speculation. There are two sides to this game, and Posterous focuses on NEW content) - Sachin Agarwal

Robert, how is this post controversial? - Holden Page

And Robert, you don't seem to be the leader in tech anymore. By your comments above, you seem to be simply a follower. A bit depressing I must say - Holden Page

Posterous and FF go perfectly together for me. I also use Google Reader, though mainly to share (I haven't given or gotten many comments there). As for Twitter (my main addiction, even more than coffee), FF has entirely replaced bit.ly for me, for one thing. I use all four together. - Dennis Jernberg

I have to agree with Susan Beebe: I'm not sure how one could consider FF and posterous to be direct competitors, where one could fully replace the other. FF solves the problem of using the best tool for the job (blogs for writing, photo sharing sites for photos, etc) and aggregating everything into one place. Posterous solves the problem of updating different sites with the same content. Really, posterous's killer feature is the email-to-post functionality without having an account. - Andy Bakun

@Sachin, does duplicate posting of content penalize you on Google? I have heard that it can for blogs, say. - Steve Rubel from email

i really need to work on all of those things, u heard of Blastoff yet? - Maria Boggiano

@Maria, no what is it? - Steve Rubel from email

nice job Steve - Zee.

I have been using Evernote since it's inception and it is still a must-have app on my desktop. - BLOGBloke

Love Evernote's syncing features. Still wished it looked and behaved more like Google Notebook. - mrshl

Agree! Looking forward to your post. - Herb Hernandez

have any of you guys running windows seen the recent beta release of evernote? I've never been a fan of the windows UI so I'm really stoked to play around with it more. http://blog.evernote.com/2009... - metalerik

I love Evernote! - Jesse Stay

evernote is awesome, i'm starting to use it a lot more...i just wish they'd add/change some features to the desktop app. - Scott

still think its not going to survive? - Zee.

@Zee. Nope. I am a total convert. I came around and have been spending time wih their team too. - Steve Rubel from email

Very true. I like evernote. - Abi

Great app! Having an iPhone now makes it even more usable. Love it. - Tibor Holoda from iPhone

True. I use it as contacts, apart from guy Kawasaki's 14 uses. - Nitin Nanivadekar

I pretty much mention Evernote to everyone I know. wonderful app that keeps getting better. - jbrotherlove

welcome to my world :) evernote rocks - tevfik bülent öngün

I think Evernote has one of the greatest business models I have ever seen. - Kevin Traver

I just wish the app wasn't so clunky...especially when dealing with massive notebooks. - Matt Snoulten

Does anyone use Evernote for tracking todo's? - Steve Rubel from email

Steve, I use it for to-do's - Abi

@Abi, on the iPhone too? In one notebook, how? - Steve Rubel from email

I use evernote desktop client (windows) with syncing to my online account. Dont have an iphone . - Abi

Evernote 3.5 beta has a new screen. Earlier it was so difficult to navigate. - Nitin Nanivadekar

I use evernote's clipper to even capture screenshots. Not just copying to evernote but also Copy images to clipboard and use it across various other applications (email,presentations,documents etc). Helps a great deal in my job. - Abi

I wish there was an apps for android... - fwed

Tracking To-Do's is not effective on Evernote because it does not have alarm or a future driven trigger. - Nitin Nanivadekar

What do you use Evernote for? Tracking todos? Lists? - David Berrebi from iPhone

Evernote USED to be awesome. It is just OK now. They jumped the shark with 3.0 - George Gray

is it some sort of theme? cleaner and simpler themes are always the best - testbeta

Why? Just curious ;-) - Brad Williamson

Elgan sums it up nicely http://www.computerworld.com/s... - Steve Rubel from email

is there a way to see it even if it's not enabled for you? - Zio Bonino

I'm sorry but Facebook lite hasnt news feed in real time. - Kaspo

Screenshot/link? ^^ - James Kuypers

@James and @Zio - do you guys need access? I have invites. - Steve Rubel from email

I'd love to try it. my email is eiochemipensavo at gmail dot com (thank you in advance) - Zio Bonino

Facebook lite doesnt need invite. http://lite.facebook.com/ - Kaspo

kaspo: thank you, it's enabled only to some people in the states. - Zio Bonino from IM

@Zio Bonino. It's enable only for english version. - Kaspo

whoa, thanks, it DOES WORK :) - Zio Bonino from IM

it looks way better! - paolaki

it's even usable, methinks :) - Zio Bonino

Still, I prefer clean sheet. - Nyan Min

@Nyan - me too - for now. - Steve Rubel from email

Meet my expectations. - ChiliMac

(rolls eyes) This happens every single event and every single keynote. You have some delighted and many others who buzzed themselves up. The smarter thing to do is be neutral and see what shows up. - Louis Gray

Totally agree: people talking about Tablets, about an online version of iTunes "à la Spotify"... and what do we get? An iPod Nano with a camera? - Jordi Soler

SCIENCE. - Josh Haley from iPhone

Obviously some cool stuff, but this is the first iPod announcement I haven't thought "Oooh, I really want get me one of these." - Jared B. Luther

The speculation about an Apple tablet came from an analyst who admitted it was just speculation. But that was enough for lot of people to bank on it as if it were a fact. If Apple had to deny every incorrect rumor, it'd have to hire its own PR agency just for that. Still, I don't think the event was a fail because it was pretty huge that Jobs ran the show himself. - Ed Moltzen

Yeah, Steve's recovery was the best part. But you have to admit there was so much buzz for this one that one can't help but feel disappointed. It feels as if the "Apple era" is starting to fade... - Jordi Soler

Expectations are by definition personal. If yours were low, this event exceeded them. If yours were high, this event was underwhelming. Whose fault is it if the hype is high? Apple's? I don't think so. I'm impressed with the number of things they announced today. - Stephen Mack

whetes my portable reality distortion field?! - thegeniusfiles

The headline from the press release for the event should be APPLE SHIPS JOBS 2.0 - Steve Rubel from email

*It feels as if the "Apple era" is starting to fade... * - hahaha.. love that.. - Andy Connell

I didn't think it was a fail. I thought it was pretty solid. Sure the only thing I was excited about was iTunes, but that is only because I'm not getting another iPod since I have an iPhone. But, I can see the things that people would be excited for. - Mathew™ one of a kind

metalerik: I have thousands of contacts in Gmail. They go out of date at a pretty rapid rate. For some reason people keep their Facebook contacts up to date. - Robert Scoble

oh ok, makes sense especially at those numbers. Plus, my friends don't have access to my gmail contacts to keep their info up to date. That circles back to mixing different kinds of friends on one service. - metalerik

Facebook is a great addition to any address book, but not a replacement. Once everyone has facebook it will replace the address book. Almost everyone has a phone number, but tens of millions of people are still without facebook in North America alone. I admit this is rapidly changing as Facebooks user base continues to rise. - Garin Kilpatrick

The problem is Facebook is currently a closed Network so you can not searh it's content from Google so not really a good address book if you ask me. - Rob Cairns

Rob, it's an address book for your friends, not the white/yellow pages. - Andre P. Siregar

Palm thought of this when they developed Synergy for WebOS. This was a big advantage over other mobile OS. Then Facebook developed the 3.0 app for iPhone while not committing to enhance their app on WebOS (http://www.palminfocenter.com/news...). No more advantage for WebOS - Andre P. Siregar

I'm in 100% agreement with this. I use a Blackberry, but feel the same way. People keep their info up to date on Facebook for the most part and it sync's to my phone. So do events and birthdays. LOVE it. - frank barry

I do agree with your proposal but only for personal (F&F) use. Most of my corporate contacts are 40+ age and they're still getting used to the Facebook stuff (I'm living down south Equator Line, and it's more likely a cab driver had a Facebook account that a senior o C level manager -with the exception of people working in IT departments of course-). Hopefully they'll update their phones frequently too so that I won't have to track them down all the time. - Marco ILLESCAS

I agree with Scoble that Gmail is really missing the boat here. - Steve Rubel

Robert Scoble: If you set up the Google Sync on the iPhone as described here: http://www.google.com/mobile... then only the contacts in your "My Contacts" on the contacts list in GMail gets synced. It does take a little bit of initial setup to work well, but after you get it set up, it works brilliantly. When I sync my Facebook to my iPhone, the photos and such that I put on the phone then get auto-synced back to GMail as well via the Google Sync. Very clever. - Otto

Well, as otto just said, I'm using Google Sync for iPhone. Any changes i make are instantly synced back to Google. Its also easaier to manage and merge contacts from Google's interface and sync them back to the iPhone. More groups would be a nice addition ( instead of having to search for contacts not in the synced group). - Roberto Bonini

Syncing groups would be a *fantastic* addition to Google Sync. The iPhone supports contact groups natively, it just doesn't offer any interface to put contacts into groups by default (you can find apps that will do this in the app store.. ABContacts Lite comes to mind). - Otto

Oh, one more thing that's very cool about Google Sync: It'll sync your Google Calendars to the calendar app on the iPhone. You can choose which calendars to sync, and Google Contacts recently added a birthday/anniversary feature, making an automatic calendar out of your contact's birthdays and such. That syncs to the iPhone as well. - Otto

Nope. I can say definitively that Facebook will never be my address book, nor will any other online service. I may have bits and pieces on various networks, but to hold the master/superset, I trust only native access on a device I own and control. (not to mention how horrifying it would be, to me and my family and friends, to cough up my entire social graph to be pimped out for commercialization all in one place) - LogEx

Facebook is not search able by Google. The content inside Google is closed. So how is this going to be an address book? Until they make the content searchable that will not happen - Rob Cairns

I've been using Google sync for about a month now, ever since I got Google Voice and it's worked flawlessly so far. I'm amazed at how fast it pushes updates to the iPhone. It's almost instantaneous. I haven't tried the FaceBook integration yet and I'm reluctant to do so since I don't see any real benefit at this point. - Mike Elliott

With this script (from Googler Brad Fitzpatrick) http://brad.livejournal.com/2398409..., you can sync your Facebook contacts with your Google Contacts. It works perfectly (merging existing contacts), it's very fast, very secure (Google API). Just awesome. - Jérôme Flipo

Plaxo is a good alternative too. True, not everyone is there, lacking the network effect Facebook has. But integration with Address Book or Outlook is great and I find that people also maintain their info up-to-date. Thanks for those who mentioned the Google Sync, still using MobileMe and didn't want any additional sync to break everything. Might try it. - Paul Papadimitriou

Yeah, I have a Plaxo account. A lot of my friends do too, but they never update their Plaxo information. In the end it's more than just the technology. People actually _use_ Facebook. Facebook is wise to capitalize this and strategize towards being your portal on the internet. It's something that Plaxo could never dream of. - Andre P. Siregar from email

Interesting topic because I had just migrated over from my OutLook/Palm combo to a Google Contacts (Gmail) / iPhone combo. The reason why I wanted to do this is because I think it is finally time to move my contacts from a physical machine to the cloud. The sync between Google Contacts and Calendar with the iPhone via Google Sync is quite seamless and I am getting to like it more and more everyday. - Christopher Yeo

I use gmail/blackberry combo - the sync is almost perfect. Rather than use Highrisehq - I'm now trying to improvise gmail contacts+labels to do the same thing. - Jose Paul Martin

Jose, the problem is that you can't search for contact groups, i.e you can't list contacts that are in two different groups/labels - e.g search for [group:(work AND nyc]. You can't do that either in Facebook. If you have a workaround for Google Contacts, please share! - Jérôme Flipo

Difficulty with Twitter itself, actually. - Matt Snoulten

are you on Mac with Snow Leopard upgrade? if yes, better reinstall the apps - gianandrea

Nope, I was referring to the iPhone apps. - Steve Rubel from email

Maybe this is the problem: http://twitter.com/Twitter... - Holger Eilhard

I've stopped using twitter -- maybe that's the problem! ;P (well, I'm still feeding it from FF ;) - Norbert Mayer-Wittmann

hey steve , i was wondering where do you find all these weird news - Stelios Landrakis Jr

@Stelios it's because I am addicted to the Internet!!! No seriously, my iPhone. - Steve Rubel from email

Do they have wifi? - Anika

Been trying for just a couple weeks. It's steadily growing on me. - Micah Wittman

Best for mobile uploads w/ease. - Brenda Rothaupt

Posterous has really grown on me. Love it as a fun place to post media... stuff that I dont think my blog subscribers would really wanna have in their feeds daily, but stuff i still wanna share. essential part of my day ...Posterous is! - Cody Heitschmidt

Also insanely easy on mobile device. Something FF is still really lacking, imo - Cody Heitschmidt

Thanks to your entry I have discovered it and I like it very much. Thanks :) - Iñaki Rodriguez

I´mm having some problems with autopost. I use to publish to my blog when I just wanted to publish to posterous. But it´s my fault, I´m triying to learn - Javier Godoy

I love it. It's all that I use, for now. My blog is http://zacharytg.posterous.com if you want to know the top stories from Techmeme, Engadget, and Techcrunch. - Zachary TG

Make sure you install the PicPosterous app on your iPhone - instant posting of pictures and video. - Leo Laporte

If Posterous gets importing and likes, it's Friendfeed. - Steve Rubel

Steve except Posterous can get on Techmeme while FriendFeed can not. Sigh. - Robert Scoble from iPhone

I love posterous. - Andru Edwards

It's just ok, tried it, left it! - stephen pieraldi

Posterous is saving my life right now. I have four blogs all centered around lingerie and hosiery (two Posterous, one Blogspot, one Tumblr), a Facebook account related to these blogs, two Twitter accounts (one that acts as an RSS feed for the Blogspot blog and one where I tweet about lingerie/hosiery/personal life) a Friend Feed, two Flickr accounts and a YouTube account. There are many... more... - Lisa Norman

I've had much better results posting from ShareIn to Facebook/Twitter. The problem is how links are treated with Posterous. I'm thinking Facebook-FF will get it right eventually. - Phil Dunn

My wife, which is the least technically-inclined person loved it! She can now post not to one, but 2 different blogs without problems. Making it as simple as sending an email made all the difference. A great tool for someone who doesn't want to do a full-blown blog. I love it also ;) - Angel B

After all...you can only use a product so long until that shiny new feature comes along ;) - Nicholas James

@Jesse sort of. They get social, Google doesn't. - Steve Rubel from email

I've been using MyPhone+ and/or fex to sync my iPhone contact list with Facebook. Would be more useful if FB's terms of service allowed these apps to sync phone numbers and/or email addresses as well. Right now they'll sync names, photos, addresses, birthdays, etc. That's darned handy. - Otto

I was just trying to get on my page. Posterous just got Scobled... - Judd6149

I miss your posts on Scobleizer.com - Jesse Stay

I agree with Jesse, I don't really think you would've have taken Rackspace down. - Jimminy

I just like to have one home base to get all things Scoble. Posterous distracts from that. - Jesse Stay

Jesse, I agree how long has he been using Posterous, I've probably missed everything for several months - Jimminy

At the same time I do respect that you try out new services like this Robert. You're helping them out, giving them exposure, and experiencing first hand whether others like Steve Rubel are right regarding their switch to Posterous. I still think you're better off basing off Scobleizer.com though - you'll be back. Of course I've said the same thing to Steve Rubel so maybe I'm the odd one out. :-) - Jesse Stay

Jesse: it doesn't matter too much. People are able to find my stuff no matter where I post it. But I will start hooking things back into my blog. I've just been having some troubles there and want to wait until I get to Rackspace this week. - Robert Scoble

I also need to test out other services and see if there's a different usage model there than on my crusty old blog. - Robert Scoble

Sounds good - I'll find it regardless - it's just more work this way. :-) I'm being lazy, mostly. And yes, I agree it's good to test other services. - Jesse Stay

Sleep is a waste of time and unproductive. While you're snoozing, the rest of us will be plotting. - Louis Gray

Don't make a liar outta me, Louis. That was quite a few seconds more than 3! :) - Spidra Webster

My mistake, Spidra. My alerts are not yet Pubsubhubbub enabled. - Louis Gray

Ah yes - they are sub-Pubsubsububsbubsbub - WorldofHiglet

Robert, one watchout (at least I have heard) is to be weary of posting content 2x because Google will penalize you. That's why I decided just to make the jump. Also, ping Posterous to get into the themes beta. It's coming along. - Steve Rubel

Me too - Wayne Sutton from iPhone

Good news! How soon? - Michael Fidler

Could you post some screenshots? - Tomy Thomson

@Tomy not without their blessing. - Steve Rubel

yippiee... - zʍıɔ

Maybe he will listen to Scoble! - Steve Rubel

I think I should be worried. My 3 yo just asked me, "Mama, why is that (edit!) man pointing at Barack Obama?" How does my 3yo recognize Obama from behind? o.O - Anika

I call Scoble by the nickname "that" all the time - Steve Rubel

LOL I fixed it. This heat is making me drop words all the time. - Anika

People recognize Michael Jordan's silhouette too - remember the cologne logo? - Daniel J. Pritchett

"How does my 3yo recognize Obama from behind?" - I remember reading about a study that found that you are actuallly more likely to recognize someone from behind. - John Craft

Dude....look at those ears. It's like a fingerprint. - Rahsheen ™, Coach of FF

LOL @Rahsheen. I guess so. I just didn't think my kid has had the opportunity to see the POTUS from behind, like ever. - Anika

Actually, I can't recall having the opportunity either, but it looks like him to me :) - Rahsheen ™, Coach of FF

That's funny! - Robert Scoble

"That's the way, I like it" :) - Burçak Çubukçu

Guess what, daddy? It's Bawack Obama's birthday! - Adrian

Caption contest: "President Barack Obama ponders new Supreme Court nominee." - Steve Rubel

Caption contest: "President Obama was being briefed by the FBI today on the most wanted men in America .." - Matt Martin

Yes President Obama, my name is Robert Scoble, I currently work for Rack.. SQUIRREL!! - Matt Martin

Caption: "Are YOU following me on FriendFeed?!" - Jason Miller

Haha! Thats a good photo. - Nicholas James

Caption: "Unfollowed, O. Here's why: ___________" - Adrian

LOL Adrian....You win! - Bill Heslin

*dead* @Adrian. - Anika

Barack: Wow, look at the way that guy points. He should be president, not me. Who is he? No, never heard of him. I know an Alex Scoble. Are they related? - Slippy "Threadsbane" Lane

Adrian wins. disable comments. - chrisofspades

Disable comments! :) - directeur

Haaa haha haaa. :) - Micah Wittman

"Oh no! He's in my Twitter, and he's here too?" - John E. Bredehoft

Social Obama looking at a Social Robert Scoble's picture? This one is great! - Thierry R. Andriamirado

++Adrian Malone "Caption: "Unfollowed. O. Here's Why;______" - Robert Higgins

Security Briefing: Anything goes bad during your Presidency, well... just "Blame Scoble" -that guy on the screen. Oh yeah, he's a huge geek that tweets so much the Twitter servers crash often, thus the famed "fail whale" image shows up. :) hehe! - Susan Beebe from iPhone

The Internet Wants YOU. - says Uncle Robert. - Sarah is Novembery