Steve Rubel - Likes - FriendFeed

Merry Christmas to the FriendFeed team. You guys rock! FriendFeed reacts quickly and you're adding wonderful features all the time (Thanks soooo much for the "edit" feature.) - Mitchell Tsai

Happy Festivus! - ◄ani625Ξ

Happy festive season to you all as well :) - Niki Costantini

Happy Holidays!!! - David Cook

love it~ - Sunny

Love!!! - BeeLing

Glad you like it! (And glad people picked up on the Waterson influence :-) - Kevin Fox

Merry Christmas! :D - Ron

Happy Holidays FF crue -- you've made this an excellent and memorable year for many of us. Facebook couldn't have done it without you! :) - Christopher Galtenberg

w00t you gave me the best online year in 15 years!!! ;p Thanks a lot, everyone, for what you've done here XD - ElijahBailey-Zu of FF <0,

Merry Christmas to all - Craig Eddy

Merry Christmas! - Svein Håvard Djupvik

Haha! I love horrified snowmen. Merry Christmas to FriendFeed! - Chris Lasher

Joyeux Noel a tout le monde! - Mathieu Ayel

Merry Christmas! Happy Holidays! - Anne Bouey

Feliz navidad a ti! - JA Castillo

Thanks! Happy Holidarys! Merry Christmas! - Bill Romanos

happy christmas, chanukah and kwanzaa. - D. Eda Goze

happy chrismas and a happy new year!!! - ethan meccage

That's when they loved us :( - Christopher Harley

Awwwww sniff - Kevin Fox

Happy holidays! Take good care of yourselves and... enjoy those days off! <o> \o, - ElijahBailey-Zu of FF <0,

Merry Christmas! - Ian May

Tks and love you all !!! - Renchin(Reina)

ahh, the good ol' days. - MikeAmundsen

Happy Holidays FriendFeers! <superbump /> - AJ Batac

cool!! - Ferzvladimir

*bump* - imabonehead

Sigh. Sometimes it is the little touches, like seasonal logos or easter eggs, that mark a site as a living project, and that you really miss when the developers have all moved on to something else. - Michael R. Bernstein

ای جان چقدر خوبه این - WALL.E

1 yıl geçmiş üzerinden bretim taylorum vay anasına dimi.. - Taylan GERDAN (Tylolhot)

Louis Gray

Video Demo: How to Use Lazyfeed for Real-time RSS Feeds By Topic - http://www.louisgray.com/live...

July 23 from louisgray.com - Comment - Like - Share

Daniel Rowley, roamin, Amani and 46 other people liked this

brilliant video on Lazyfeed now I am going to use it properly - Thomas Power

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True, Holden. I try to use my fake voice. :) (You haven't heard the voice-overs on the twin videos?) - Louis Gray

why is LazyFeed invite only? - Damir Zubović

Damir, LazyFeed is invite only because I am not in charge. Ethan and Claire know I would like to open it up to everyone. - Louis Gray

Tnx for info. Greetings from Slovenia. - Damir Zubović

Your password's too short :-P - Jesse Stay

the word "password" is too short? - Louis Gray

:) :) - Damir Zubović

Louis, yes. - Jesse Stay

BTW, what screen capture software are you using? - Jesse Stay

I hand-coded my own screen capture software using a derivative of Objective C, mixed with .Net and AJAX, Jesse. - Louis Gray

Louis, I need an iPhone app then - will you build me one? - Jesse Stay

but seriously, what screen capture software did you use to make that? - Jesse Stay

Snapz Pro X: http://www.ambrosiasw.com/utiliti... - Louis Gray

Very nice - thank you sir. - Jesse Stay

More video demos == good, btw - Jesse Stay

Impressed that you hand-coded the capturing, I wouldn't know where to start - Joe Dawson from iPhone

We're honored to be your first guinea pig for the screencasting :) You should do this often. - Ethan Gahng

greta video - got straight to the point :) - Riaz Kanani

Hi Louis Thanks for the heads up about Lazyfeed. I have tried to register but it needs an invitation code. Can you or anyone in your network please let me know what I should put in? Thanks - Jane Finch

Very well done, I now have a better understanding of how it works. Anymore invites? Thanks - Mo Hall

why doesn't Lazyfeed have a feed for FF? - Thomas Power

Thomas, Lazyfeed's founders are just now getting to understand FriendFeed better. Maybe with time. - Louis Gray

cool thank you - Thomas Power

LazyFeed looks great.! Thanks for this video Louis, super interesting (I like your fast pace too). Would love an invite if you have 1. - Rob Michael (Atmos Trio)

Hi, thanks everyone for your interest in Lazyfeed. We are excited to tell you that we will be releasing more invite codes via Twitter today. To receive your invite, please follow @lazyfeed on twitter and we will DM you an invite code. This invitation will expire midnight PST. Thank you! - Lazyfeed

I will have to check this out. I admit that the point of it was not immediately obvious the first few times I used it. - Bill Kinney

Louis, thanks for this wonderful quick tutorial. I am off to experimenting with Lazyfeed now. I wonder how you use it in conjunction with GReader, since I also find you sharing lot of stuff on GReader as well. - Mahendra (SkepticGeek)

Awesome demo, finally got a chance to watch it. - Bill Kinney

Love lazyfeed so far, but it won't connect with my Twitter acct even after I set up and click connect - only Flicr, etc..Anyone else have this issue. - Liza

Liza - I've just tried connecting your twitter to my lazyfeed and it seems to be successfully bringing tags like lazyweb, trip, techkaraoke, etc. Please try again. Thanks. - Ethan Gahng

Now that is GREAT customer service, Ethan. Thanks.. I want to learn more about lazyweb and ppl interacting from lazyfeed. Seeing it from my google dev friends. Any ideas? - Liza

Very nice video here. I will use this to share with all my people. Thanks Louis. - Amani

Louis Gray

Adding to the 1980s photo meme: Here are my 1983 and 1985 contributions. :-)

January 10, 2009 - Comment - Like - Share

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Awesome Louis! :) - Nicholas Kreidberg

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H-O-T - Mona Nomura

Nice bowtie!!! I LOVE bowties. - Mattie Kenny

Don't make me pull out my 1980s Speedo pics! - Jesse Stay

Awww... :)) - Anna Haro

Look at that young go-getter! - Mo Kargas

LOVE. - Derrick

omg. so cuuuuuute - Erin @queenofspain

Cute photos. :-) - Håkan Dahlström

Wife says, "Oh no, not the little nerd photos." Oh yeah, where is her FriendFeed account and photos? Hmmm? - Louis Gray

haha so confused, half nerd, half cool kid, ya thats louis - sean percival

اینجا رو =))) - 1Fathi

Louis: She's got her defense sorted out with no account eh? :D Maybe if you're in for a bit of risk taking.... post hers! :D - Mo Kargas

Love these. That first one is so fantastic. - Ayşe E.

Yep, that fist pic is so much WIN. :D - Anna Haro

OMG that first one is tooooooo cute! - Adriana

*bump* - Rodfather

It is definitely you ;) - Alp

Both great pics - Mo Kargas

Awesome! The bowtie is perfect!!!! - Rachel Lea Fox

you look very smart even then - Thomas Power

One of mine, from '81, I think http://twitpic.com/27xn - Rob La Gesse

that first pic is absolute 100% undiluted WIN Louis! - Parth Awasthi

Bump for good times. - Mark Krynsky

yes a geek - Thomas Power

Louis Gray

Family Togetherness Time

July 1, 2008 from email - Comment - Like - Share

Kimitake, Johnny Worthington, M. Serdar Kuzuloglu and 106 other people liked this

Look at them sleeping. So daggone cute! - Hutch Carpenter

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Looks like Dad got a bit of schwag, too... :) - Mark Dykeman

awesome! - Thomas Hawk

Where are the FF onesies?! :-) - JA Castillo

The FF onesies are way too big. My "biggest" kid is five pounds. When these guys get 3-6 months, let the schwag wagon roll. - Louis Gray

FFTwins FTW! - Brian Daniel Eisenberg

Link bait! :) - Andrew Baron

@Louis you are such a product pimp ROFLMAO .. god love ya and yer family :) - Steven Hodson

awwwww - Michelle Trent

Do they have FF accounts yet? - Johnny Worthington

aww gorgeous :) and the babies too! - Allison

LOL that is alll kinds of win - Mona Nomura

I've always thought it's important to establish brand awareness early on. Good job ;-) - Jonathon

So, what are their domains and RSS feeds? I need to add them as imaginary friends for now. - Rob Diana

Peace. That's the word that comes to my mind :) - directeur from NoiseRiver

good thing they are always this happy. right! - Tim Connors

I want that shirt! - James Hull

totally got a cool idea for new schwag... two items: for new Moms, a friend feed shirt with slots for easy feeding of infants... and for new Pops like Louis, nipple with bottle attachment inserts with one nipple coming out of the first f and the second nipple coming out of the second d... saweet! - Rob Reed

FF schwag and twins! best picture of the day! - Sarah Perez

Cute as a button. Akiva you crack me up. :) - Mathew A. Koeneker from fftogo

@Rob Reed: Awesome! - April Buchheit

Kinda wished I had some FF schwag to wear with the newborn on the way. - Randy Hall

The first marriage on FF cannot compete with this. - Russellreno

Congratz. - Bill Bittner

Mega awesome ;) Congratulations to you and your family, like the Friendfeed t-shirt ;) - Mario Olckers

Tiny... little... eentsy... lumps of yum. There, my estrogen has officially shown itself. - Carla Thompson

No way - they have FF onesies??? How do I get my hands on one of those? - Jesse Stay

The Gray family Babies!!!! Sarah and Mathew look sooo cute in your arms! and sooo tiny my goodness!!... still LOL @ Rob's wacky comment..whoa! - Susan Beebe

cool beans! workin on those biceps! - TheMacMommy from twhirl

So cute! - marinka239

bring on the schwag, very cool pictures indeed - Dobromir Hadzhiev

Bump for good times - Jesse Stay

Mark Krynsky

FriendFeed User Locations - Google Shared Map - http://maps.google.com/maps...

November 19, 2008 - Comment - Like - Share

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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

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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 -- Designated Driver

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)

I've read the instruction and still don't see the button thing to add myself. I'm feeling pretty stupid right now. -

@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

Thanks Mark! I see it all now. -

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.. - Uncle 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

MG Siegler

The typical 2:30 AM Lady Gaga listener

July 26 - Comment - Like - Share

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re: http://friendfeed.com/parisle... - MG Siegler

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nice glasses, very Jack Benny. thick framed black glasses are really fashionable in England right now - Mark

Pa-pa-pa-poke her face! :) - Mona Nomura

is this a poker face? - sean percival

Can't read my poker face. - Mark

*BUMP* - Jay Cuthrell

You look like jack benny - Mark from iPhone

Akiva Moskovitz

Happy baby is happy!

September 8 - Comment - Like - Share

A Meshkatian, paniaguai, Zulema ◕ ◡ ◕ and 107 other people liked this

Babby! - LB - all new for '10!

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She needs a caption. - LB - all new for '10!

Wow. I think you need to make a set of Audrey mood icons. That one is definitely "happy". - Spidra Webster

I wish I was that happy :) - Jason Nunnelley

May I put this picture on my blog (with a link to this FF post) - Dave Winer

Dave, sure. :) Paste a link here when you're done, please. - Rochelle

I took this right when we were paying at the store today. She was in SUCH a good mood. - Rochelle

SQUEEEEEE!!! - Josh Haley from iPhone

Dave, I'm fine with it as long as she isn't turned into an LOLcat. - Akiva Moskovitz

*melt* - Johnny Worthington

This is so staged. You injected her with Happy didn't you. - Sparky

OMG. <3! - Ayşe E.

:-D - Jason Huebel

Akiva, of course not. But it's okay to make sure. :-) - Dave Winer

http://www.scripting.com/stories... - Dave Winer

Awesome, Dave! That's fantastic. - Akiva Moskovitz

Totally. Thank you. :-) - Dave Winer

this is wonderful :) - Alexis Hope

Great picture, Akiva. :) And I found this pic via Dave's blog! - Louis Gray

I LOVE THIS PICTURE! - Fa La La La Lindsay

Louis, *I* took it! :) - Rochelle

IM SCREAMinnnnnnnnn - johnpiercy

Yeah, oops: forgot to give credit where credit's due. They were out shopping today and Rochelle e-mailed me this photo with the title: DADA! Because not only is that what she calls me but also because she's a huge Duchamp fan. - Akiva Moskovitz

Akiva: violating the rights of female photographers. - Sparky

Rochelle, Rochelle. It's still a great picture, even if it is in Akiva's feed. :) - Louis Gray

Awww. Mine iz growed. - Chris Baskind

My heart is gonna go splodey. <3 - Yolanda

Baby! - MASTER OF THE OBVIOUS

<3 - Yolanda

*bump* - MASTER OF THE OBVIOUS

The happiest baby I've ever seen! - Charlotte M

How can you call that angel a challenge?! - Matthew DeVries

Oh, you haven't seen her at 3AM. :) - Rochelle

How did she look _after_ the gdgt? :) - Jemm

<33333 - अभिषेक(Abhishek) Das

Happy Babby :P - Molly, New Ears :P

Robert Scoble

Tonight is the beginning of the end of the "geeks-only" phase of FriendFeed. Now that Guy Kawasaki is here the marketers will start showing up.

July 28 from iPhone - Comment - Like - Share

Akash Sharma, Ozer Wrzl (EN), Martynas and 140 other people liked this

I'm showing Six Flags tomorrow...lol - sean andersen

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*doffs hat in respect to the passing of the time of geeks* - WorldofHiglet

So what's next? - Kevin Arth

yeah but unlike twitter, I'm not so sure internet marketers would feel successful on FriendFeed with everyone blocking them - Ⓐ ☠ slayerboy ☠ Ⓐ

Now on to Google Wave! - sean andersen

And the spammers too, I guess. Great.. - Citronella

And ghost posters / commenters. - Ben Hanten

Slayerboy: good marketers won't get blocked. I really appreciated getting cuts in line at Six Flags because of their Twitter contest. - Robert Scoble from iPhone

Good marketers aren't most marketers :) - Brett Kelly

Brett: only good ones will survive here. - Robert Scoble from iPhone

Or they will drown. - sean andersen

Only if Guy likes it will they come. Friendfeed.alltop.com and all that. - Pete Delucchi from iPhone

Robert: I don't mind good marketers, as long as they're genuine. Too many of them (particular the "social media marketing gurus") are just unforgivably obnoxious and fake in their attempts to pimp their own garbage services/blog. So, I really hope you're right :) - Brett Kelly

Bad marketers on FriendFeed will survive in search results. Do a search for a couple of terms like 'canon 135mm' and you'll see plenty of entries that are just links to people selling the lens. You're not going to block them all. I don't see that as a big problem, but I suspect they'll be successful enough there to keep them coming. - Edward Coffey

Start? I've been here for a loooong time. A few of my 'marketing' friends have been too. - AJ Kohn

Marketers phase has already started in Turkey. Friendfeed is generally used by them, or I think like that... - Sabri Küstür

we need like a freindfeed costranostra to keep the peace, and make things just poof into the ethersphere - Robert Higgins

so wish i was a freindfeed coder and i could merge with the stream and provide some community services... :AKA Hiro Protaganist - Robert Higgins

@Robert: +1 for Snowcrash reference. - AJ Kohn

I'm in Marketing, and I've been here from the beginning. Are you slandering my craft, Mr. Scoble? :) - Louis Gray

Louis: you don't work for a big brand. When you sell your souls and work for a big brand let us know, OK? ;-) - Robert Scoble from iPhone

Robert, wait, don't you work for a big brand? - Jesse Stay

Jesse: sssshhhhh. - Robert Scoble from iPhone

"Now on to Google Wave! - sean andersen" Exactly. Unless the FF core team is over there on the sandbox right now, doing all they can to start the scrambling scrum RIGHT NOW, the big GWave will assimilate all. At least until the assimilation wave after that. FF has maybe a one year window -- if that -- to make it's move, whatever that might be, starting right now. - michael silverton

Citronella - I like that the spammers are vaporized almost instantly here. Decent built in tools for group reporting. - BairdWilliamson

If I got here before Guy and I'm geekless does that give me any special designation? - Kimber Scott

michael silverton: Wave sandbox already looks like Gmail. I bet when they release it, it will be Gmail 2.0. I hope Bret & co. are studying it close... - sean andersen

Kimber: you are geeky because you were here before...whether you like that designation or not :) - WorldofHiglet

Louis has more than *one* soul? Or is this a left-foot, right-foot thing. Colour me confus`ed :D - Micah Wittman

LOL! Well, I guess I could be called an amateur geek... - Kimber Scott from email

Pot. Kettle. Black. - Gilbert Harding

@silverton, agreed that FriendFeed has a limited time window to figure out what it wants to be when it's all grown up.. in other news, can't believe it took Guy this long to show up here to play. Nothing wrong with a little marketing, especially if it's of the "Moving the Freeline" variety.. +1 Gilbert, LOL. - Alex Schleber

If I were Guy, or the head of any company, be it a camera shop or whatever, whenever I had a little free time, I'd tweet out, "Hey, I'm going to be on FriendFeed for an hour or so, answering any questions about Alltop, telling you about its features, advantages, and benefits, come join in!" or something like that. That's a vertical that feeds off Twitter and really enriches both platforms, utilizing them both for their strengths. - Stephen Pickering

With Leo, Steve Rubel, and Guy K now all here .. this landscape is about to change ... agreed. - Charlie Anzman

I'm reading Crossing the Chasm, only 18 years after it was published. Can I blend in as a "marketer" now? - DGentry

Well hopefully communities will coexist in open social media, we aren't defined by what or where we login to right? It's just information we share, the platform is merely a pipeline. The communities need to exist beyond the platforms - Mark Essel from iPhone

<LOL> - Allen Harkleroad

Say it isn't so Joe! It will be interesting to watch the transformation, will FriendFeed go to the dark side or will it make a stand :) - Owen Greaves

true.. true.. - Cesar Sanchez

So, do you think the population will tend to shift to more casual people than the creme de la creme people. I feel so, since there are only the innovative, open-minded people on FriendFeed right now; and I think the change is pretty near. - Yiğit Arda Türkoğlu

Marketing guys have always been here. The difference... tactics and respect. That being said change is always happening and even still I'm not sure Friendfeed will hit the critical mass Twitter has with marketers. The friendfeed brand will likely be defined differently than Twitter and attract different people. Time will tell. - Jim Goldstein from iPhone

why? can't marketing guys and geeks get along? - kakuei

No. We cannot get along. This war has been waged for too long, and too much blood has been spilled. Most of us no longer even remember why we are fighting, but it doesn't matter. Victory is all that matters. - DGentry

The marketers are already here, but most of them are totally clueless about how friendfeed works. They somehow think they can dump their stuff here and it will get "found" and when that doesn't work, they just go back to twitter. The ones that do understand how it works either feel it is too much damn work to fake being real to be worth it, or they are the real deal and it works quite well for them. - April Russo (app103)

April: I think there's some cost-benefit analysis going on there. There's a smaller crowd at FF and it takes a lot more work. Plus, most people here are marketing jaded. - Trent Hamm

The craft of marketing. That's priceless. - Big K

Guy is a marketer, sure, but also a geek. Geeks phase ends when the Celebs show up. - Garin Kilpatrick

well if they start selling, just dont click "like" or "comment" and they will drop off the page in minutes - Mark

I think some marketers are already here..but anyway, you think Guy being here will change things much? - Rob Sellen :o)

Robert, you might have to make a stand for geeks everywhere. Prepare yourself. - Joe

Robert, "Wanna learn how to get 1,000's of Friendfeed friends in no time. Click here http://somespammylink.com to learn my patent pending, amazing, fantastic, game-changing, and revolutionary way to gain residual income through the magic of your Friendfeed friends." Don't click yet, I was just brushing up! - Sean Powell

I'm so honored to have read this message from scoble. I'm grateful for our "geeks only" days that we've all shared! LOL - Jason Pollock

No Kidding! Welcome Guy Kawasaki, who ever your are. - Houseofmax

Yes I agree - Randy Allen Bishop

thats unfortunate, but who is GuyK? - echostreamer

When the marketer wagon shows up I'll be going private. - Geoff Schultz

Yeah, Jim Goldstein sez it: those of us from the dark side that stumbled into these sweet precincts have kept a low profile... sorta like taking your hat off when you go to church ; > - Thom Kennon

he's actually been here awhile, just not posting, mr scoble - chaz2b

Some ppl cannot be stopped. Like me! Not geeky enough, a girl, too wall st. Watch out, cause tenacity wins every time. - Liza

well then lets learn from Twitter and not follow every stupid command that celebrities give us to rocket them to the top of friend feed. BOYCOTT ALL CELEBRITIES ON FRIEND FEED to save this from becoming the punchline that twitter. save the whales, then save friend feed plez :) - echostreamer

Jason Pollock liked this, that is HILARIOUS! He posts the most redundant links on Twitter...a notorious spammer. At least Guy admits what he does, still somewhat annoying. Not sure why Leo Laporte was mentioned, I don't see him fitting that GK mold at all. - Benjamin Taylor

In retrospect ... it seems to have been a hit and run for now ?? Hoping not. Would be great to see him actively engaging here. A LOT to offer. Marketing crowd? ... No worries - There's always 'block, tackle and hide .....' here - Charlie Anzman

Robert, I think this is such crazy talk, you're a marketer too ;) - Jeremiah Owyang

Umm, I'm pretty sure that Guy is also a geek. Regardless of what his cool cred is...then again his cool cred is totally geek cool cred. - Alex Scoble

LOL Robert. What is wrong with you. I lol'd. - DO ANYBODY NO MONIQUE

Guy Kawasaki does have magic initials, I will give him that. - Garin Kilpatrick

Post, Kimber added you as a friend on Goodreads. We need you to confirm that you are, in fact, friends with Kimber. To confirm this friend request, follow the below link: http://www.goodreads.com/friend... &utm_medium=email&utm_source=invite - Kimber (kimberscott.art@gmail.com) - پـرستووو from email

doh! - Jonathan Blundell

Oh god the end of the world is near :) - Daryl Hunt on FF

Well now with the FB acquisition this post just seems like a jab in the eye. Poor FF. - Fa La La La Lindsay

Robert Scoble

Is Yelp first US Augmented Reality app on iPhone thanks to secret feature? Turn it on here: (via http://friendfeed.com/scoblei...)

August 27 from iPhone - Comment - Like - Share

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How to do this: http://friendfeed.com/scoblei... - Robert Scoble from iPhone

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Installed it, works awesome! - Kooleido

Thanks Robert! - JP Holecka - Jaypiddy

Just tested it in Vancouver BC, and it works here too. - JP Holecka - Jaypiddy

Do they have one for android? - Srikanth

Pocket Universe will overlay constellations over a live view of the night sky; that sounds like "augmented reality" to me, and that application has been out for a while. I don't know why people keep claiming that the Yelp thing is the first. - Glen Campbell, esq.

I've got Poket Universe, and love it. But it's not a live video overlay, it's just a bitmap of the sky. Which makes a lot of sense when you're out using it in the dark. - Steve Feinstein

I thought there was one of the planetarium apps that had a live video overlay—they were discussing it at #gnomedex - Glen Campbell, esq.

see also TAT augmented ID [etc...] http://ff.im/75zuX - ewing2001akaNicomedy2010

After lots of shaking (and starting to think I'd been hoaxed!) I got it to come on and it works - very cool :) - David Meredith from iPhone

Kevin C. Tofel

http://twitpic.com/fls17 - For those who asked: yes you can do a clean install of Snow Leopard .

August 28 from Twitter - Comment - Like - Share

Carlton Prest, Brodie Beta, Rodfather and 2 other people liked this

Robert Scoble

What happens when I can't sleep? I sign up for Posterous. I blame @steverubel for this since he pushed on me most of yesterday to do it.

August 24 from Twitter - Comment - Like - Share

Jeroen De Miranda, Kol Tregaskes, Ho John Lee and 19 other people liked this

http://scobleizer.posterous.com/ - Robert Scoble

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I don't like how it posts everywhere. I gotta think about how I'll use that. - Robert Scoble

yay! it's about the time,, i should check my posterous too,, been away for a while ;p - zʍıɔ

Robert: Welcome! If you don't like duplicity, just cancel the auto-post. - Nir Ben Yona

nobody took scobleizer at posterous before? I thought you always register your name on new web services as they show up, because of cybersquatter. - fakedave

fakedave: I try to get it on most services, but sometimes I miss one. - Robert Scoble

After every visit with Steve Rubel you need to have a visit with Jeremiah Owyang to put you back on track ;-) IMO Posterous decentralizes the conversation. - Jesse Stay

28 subscribers already! u go robert (^^;) - zʍıɔ

And I'm writing my next Posterous entry as I read this. (Oh yeah: I subscribed and left a comment. ;) - Dennis Jernberg

@fakedave : chris messina beats him on this.haha! - zʍıɔ

Malvina: Chris beats me on everything. - Robert Scoble

enough already, another way to post stuff to all the destinations that are out there, sheeeeezzz :-) - Alexander van Elsas

Posterous also provides a way to control and delegate the posting activity to other email addresses - its just a pity it uses the delegated's services config by default with no option to use the delegator's instead - so the distribution is not maintained according to the blog but according to who makes the post instead - both options would be perfect - Nicholas Paul Gordon

Nicholas -- we've been talking about adding this capability as a 'group profile' that you can set up for a particular blog. It'll be coming in a future release. - Garry Tan

how are you liking it so far? i signed up, but have yet to really use it. - frank barry

Robert, you can easily control the flow. Here's how i do it: all mails go to posterous+facebook@posterous.com. The Feed linked into FF via RSS import. Once FF picks it up. it sends these to Twitter. This avoids dupes. - Steve Rubel

The problem with Posterous to FriendFeed is that you'll need to reshare it again if you want to import to any FF groups. After a lengthy trial of Posterous I found FF to be more powerful in the end :-\ - CannonGod

I just realized yesterday that friendfeed@posterous.com only forwards to FF. cool stuff. - Gus

Robert Scoble

Steve Rubel's life is on this:

August 23 from email - Comment - Like - Share

Robyn Hawk, Craig Sheldon, Jeremiah Owyang and 29 other people liked this

It is a LaCie IAmAKey -- it is an 8 gig USB key that is encrypted with TrueCrypt. - Robert Scoble from email

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Steve Rubel is a genius! - Eric

Who is smarter Steve Rubel or Robert Scoble? - Eric

I love that USB/key. What is the make of it? - MikeonTV

Rubeleizer - Eric

You can't open a door with that. Useless :)) - Burçak Çubukçu

Nice carpet. - Ahmet Alp Balkan

looks like this is it! http://www.lacie.com/ca... - MikeonTV

What is "his life"? - Kahlil Lechelt

I have that exact key, bought it after Steve posted about it on his Posterous. - Jim Graham

Don't lose your keys - does he have a fix for that too? - Jesse Stay

Actually, it's even better if you encrypt it with BitLocker to Go. Totally seamless TrueCrypt - Omar Shahine

That means if he loses it... - Nicholas James

If I lose my keys there go the nuke lock codes! - Steve Rubel from iPhone

I am such a groupie I am over at Scobles and I bought one - Francine Hardaway from BuddyFeed

'You have to turn your key, sir!' - Akiva Moskovitz

@Francine "Scobles" hahaha - Brandon

Blogged on it here: http://louisgray.com/live... (Steve Rubel introduced me) - Louis Gray

Everything about this pic makes me think it was taken in the 70s except for the gadget and clear resolution. - beersage

Yet, Burçak yet ... http://www.youtube.com/watch... - Shawn McCollum

Remove the shit had :D - internettin abi

I'm sure he has a backup of his life though. - ilter Kalkanci

Robert Scoble

Just announced that @stevegillmor 's "Gang" will be aired at http://www.building43.com/realtim... Thursdays at 1 pm via http://friendfeed.com/realtim...

August 22 - Comment - Like - Share

Daniel Rowley, Ben, keith feighery and 35 other people liked this

recordings? - Panayotis Vryonis

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meh - Mattb4rd

It looks like with this announcement, Michael Arrington is now back on FriendFeed: http://friendfeed.com/michael... - Jesse Stay

During the workday? - Jeff Harbert

Robert, could you please explain the hard- and software-setup using for the live-stream? - HansVanRock

Hans: We haven't announced the hardware and software we are using to stream the Gang yet, but for starters it's powered by NewTek Tricaster. - Steve Gillmor

Looking forward to this, and would like to hear about the tech too - Kevin Marks from Android

I'll be asleep on the other side of the world. Let us know when you get the RSS feed up, Steve :) - Edward Coffey

Plans on a downloadable file? I don't think the boss would appreciate me walking around the store with headphones on. :-) - Larry Walker

Clicking the embedded viewer works at any hour in any part of the planet. - Steve Gillmor

Very cool. Thanks Steve. - Larry Walker

Let us know when the bootleg mp3 download gets posted on Friendfeed - Christian Burns from iPhone

RSS please unfollow. - Christian Burns from iPhone

Cool, so I just need to write a script to click that link and record the stream so the file is waiting for me when I sync my MP3 player. Modern technology makes it so much easier than when we had to use clunky old VCRs to record things! - Edward Coffey

you'll be able to download the MP4 as soon as Google fixes a bug they're working on. - Steve Gillmor

Excellent, thanks Steve. (which bug?) - Edward Coffey

Bad Hair Day uses RSS. http://badhair.us/rss.xml - Dave Winer

. @edwardc I am sure the mp3 will be available on the gilmor gang bootleg feed - Christian Burns from iPhone

if everyone insists on bootlegging, then won't worry about Google fixing the bug - Steve Gillmor

no bootlegger me....just need something that will play on my iphone after the fact. :) - Karoli

No bootlegging here either, just need something to show up in iTunes (automatically) with the rest of the podcasts. - PXLated

sounds like you will have at least a few options. I'm not planning to release audio only, so you'll need to either get a blindfold or go bottleg - Steve Gillmor

well, we'll give it a try, see how it rolls. - Karoli

Will there be official 'Gillmor Gang' blindfolds available in the Building 43 gift shop? - Cliff Gerrish

No audio only - Booo! - PXLated

Wait - logo'ed blindfolds at $15/pop is intriguing to m :) - Rob La Gesse

Building 43 GG blindfolds $30 - Steve Gillmor

oh I see Cliff already got there - Steve Gillmor

I'll take 2. it's a bargain these days. :) - Karoli

It's not quite RSS, but it feels the same... - Cliff Gerrish

Option earplug accessories for just 19.95 (plus separate shipping and handling) - Rob La Gesse

John Lennon wore our Firesign Theatre Not Insane button. - Steve Gillmor

Bravos, good to have the show back after your holiday. @stevegillmor are you inviting Leo to play along? - Dave Martin

Curious Steve - Why no audio only? - Seems simple enough to do. - PXLated

Close your eyes - even easier :) - Rob La Gesse

If its video that is released, its video I will take! - Phillip Molly Malone

Can I get a pair of "driver"-style GG blindfolds, please? - Robert J Taylor from iPhone

Attention wise, video is much more expensive than audio. I don't have the money to devote an hour of my eyes and ears to the gill or gang at this time. - Christian Burns from iPhone

Christian, I think what they're saying is that you can put the MP4 on your playback device and listen to it and ignore the video component. I know that works on iPods and iPhones. - Dave Winer

Dave, you are as unproductive as you've ever been. What I've said is that RSS is in the process of being disrupted by micromessaging, and no amount of name calling is going to change that. Your attempts to reinvent RSS will not get traction if you continue to slime the messenger. And having this discussion here underlines how partisan your attacks are. - Steve Gillmor

The message above is out of context because Dave Winer deleted the message to which I am responding. I thought about saving his message and reprinting it below where only the owner of this thread could remove it, but figured it wasn't worth it. This is also why I never respond to anything in a thread Dave owns unless I don't care if it gets erased or the context removed. - Steve Gillmor

Where's the Winer Watcher when you need it? - Matthew Gifford

mmm, popcorn! - Laura Norvig

The iPhone has a bug that will not allow you to download over the air for consuming later mp3s or mp4s unless they are an enclosure to an RSS feed. - Christian Burns from iPhone

once Google fixes their bug (Wednesday) you should be able to download via RSS. - Steve Gillmor

Steve, the msg you're referring to was here just a few seconds, I realized it'd provoke the kind of response it has, and decided I didn't want to go there. Re being unproductive, I've had a cold this week and have been unable to do dev work, but I'm feeling better and expect to releas some new software this week. Don't expect TC to cover it, as usual. Finally Steve as you know the <cloud> element has been in RSS for eight years, hardly a retrofit. - Dave Winer

http://scripting.com/2001... - Dave Winer

So did google fix their bug yesterday? Any idea what the Gillmor Gang RSS feed is? - Christian Burns from iPhone

Thomas Hawk

My 16,000th Photo Uploaded to Flickr - http://www.flickr.com/photos...

September 14, 2008 from Bookmarklet - Comment - Like - Share

Rui, Slade Publishing, David Cook and 194 other people liked this

16,000 down, 984,000 to go. - Thomas Hawk from Bookmarklet

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Not long to go! - Andrew Trinh

And what a fine one it is! Congrats - Michael Fidler

it'd definitely going to take me a while to get to a million. I'm publishing about 200 photos to flickr a week right now and at this pace it will take 92 years to get there. I'll get the pace up to 400-500 a week in the future though. Better technology should make processing easier and someday my kids will be grown and I'll be able to quit my day job and focus on this even more. The best photos have yet to be taken. - Thomas Hawk

When I think about this I realize your best days are ahead of you. - Russellreno

That is a great photo - Darin aka iGoByDoc

What's your shot/publish ratio? I mean, on average how many shots do you take to produce those you publish? - Yuval Atzmon

atzmon, I probably average about 2,000 shots a week that I shoot. And I'm probably processing 300 or so of those a week at present, so I'm probably keeping about 15%. The other 85% never get processed and are kept in my archives. I'm trying only to process and publish the shots that I think meet a certain quality criteria. - Thomas Hawk

You upload a lot more than I do. I have about 40,000 pictures but only about 2000 uploaded. Mostly because I have not gotten around to processing more. =) - Jauder Ho from twhirl

Wow and Congrats!! - Vox

Dude, you're a machine. - Zee.

Jauder, the good news is that processing will only get easier in the future. I've watched it get better with each successive Adobe release. Lightroom 2.0 is the best processing tool yet. It's not necessarily faster per se though because with more tools there are yet even more ways to tweak a photo hence even more time. But the tools to speed things up are coming too. auto geotagging, better anti dust tech, faster processing speeds, easier online tools with faster broadband are all around the corner. - Thomas Hawk

16,000 ?? Yikes. Cool number. Congrats. - Charlie Anzman

big numbers don't mean squat - Ivan Pope from twhirl

big numbers means someone (Thomas) is dedicated to his art. He is pretty talented as well! - Michael VanDervort from twhirl

Perseverance furthers. - Michael Markman

This photo is total awesome. It is made even more awesome by the knowledge that there are 15,999 more photos just as awesome as this one. EDIT: This photo is now my desktop background. :) - Rishabh Mishra (p248)

Congrats! - J. McConnell

beautiful, congrats! - Carmen - Happy 2010!

Awesome!! Keep going Thomas!! beutiful work... YOU are such an inspiration... thanks! - Susan Beebe

congrats Thomas! - Shey, Jamaican of FF

Damn that is all kinds of awesome. - Mattb4rd

<3 - Nicholas Kreidberg

Wow, quite an accomplishment! - Jeff P. Henderson

Great job Thomas. Keep it up. - Andrew Smith

Congratulations.. keep going! we'll be watching :) - Juan Pablo González

Congratulations Thomas! - Holger Eilhard

Congrats & cheers TH. Your images confirm, you are, indeed, sui generis. - Dave Martin

Beautiful shot! Congrats for achieving this landmark! - Muhammad Ahmed

Amazing image ,,, TH ... - johnpiercy

Always loved that quote " The best photos have yet to be taken. - Thomas Hawk" - johnpiercy

Congrats, I even don't think I took so many photos in my life. :) - Ferhad Fidan from fftogo

@thomas: Yahoo should be giving Flickr to you for free. You'd do a great job with it. And it would be historical: the first user-generated (company) acquisition :))) - Alberto D'Ottavi from fftogo

Beautiful!!!! - Rafael Montilla

awesome!! - Rhoda Meek

For 1M images you could do a multi-part movie (1080p) miniseries averaging an hour per episode. - Jay Cuthrell

wow from last year, I'm almost at 29,000 photos uploaded to flickr now. - Thomas Hawk

And only 971,000 to go ... :P - Rene Wirtz

That's Awesome! - John Holzer

Keep 'em comin' Thomas! - Charlie Anzman

I guess the metier of 'photo editor' is kaput...or, at least, greatly altered.... - Chris Gulker

You know they are going to delete your account without warning once you hit 999,999, right? :) - Ace

Ace, I hope not, I'd be so pissed. Actually I think alot of what gets me so upset about all the content/account deletion issues is that I really do worry that it actually will happen to me. Flickr staff hates me and they'd *love* to delete my account. I worry that I'll wake up one morning and everything will have been nuked. I suppose that's why I'd like to see them enact the ability to... more... - Thomas Hawk

Holyshit! You have taked just couple of photos... - k00pa

Why your flickr page says 28,974 items ? - k00pa

Because this post is from September last year k00pa :) - Simon Wicks

@Chris Gulker. Someday I hope to work with a photo editor. God knows I need to. I like to think of my Flickrstream today more as the raw material in a lot of ways for future projects. A good photo editor adds tremendous value to shaping a photographer's imagery. - Thomas Hawk

Bret Taylor

Record messages to your FriendFeed from your phone with http://www.friendboo.com/ (uses the new FriendFeed API!)

July 20 - Comment - Like - Share

John Wright, Nicholas James, Sylvain Nadeau and 58 other people liked this

Implemented by Paul Kinlan: http://friendfeed.com/kinlan - Bret Taylor

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You can see other people's messages at http://friendfeed.com/friendb... - Bret Taylor

Is Boo a common word in the UK for this kind of thing or is this a copy of Audioboo.fm from Bestbefore.tv? if you have an iPhone you can do this using the Audioboo iPhone app and adding the feed to Friendfeed. Horses for courses. - Leo Laporte

You can also add a cinch feed to FriendFeed and record your messages over the phone, no internet connection required: http://cinch.blogtalkradio.com - Jesse Stay

hnnn... BLOCKed in China. - xiawinter

It is cutting me off after a few seconds, which is unfortunate because I was ready to humiliate myself. Right after a short pause. - RAPatton

if friendfeed had an iphone app... they could be nice button on your app... - Yann Ropars

UK and US only as of now! - Krishnamoorthy

very cool idea - Gerd Leonhard

Bret, so why don't you give a try with http://ffsms.com ? It would be great to see you post about it. - Alp

Casey

Casey is eating copious amounts of hummus. Mmmmm hummus.....

August 16 from Facebook - Comment - Like - Share

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Thomas Hawk

Trap - http://www.flickr.com/groups...

August 16 from Bookmarklet - Comment - Like - Share

Sean J. McGrath, Uncle CW™, Andy Bakun and 11 other people liked this

15 Aug: Rep. Leonard Boswell (D-IA) claims that President Obama told him "he's willing to be a one-term president if that's what it takes to get health care and energy reform," reports Radio Iowa. Said Boswell: "The president (said), 'I'm not going to kick the can down the road.' And he said that and I said, 'Well, that's something I'm kind of used to from southern Iowa, you know. I know about kicking the can down the road.' And he said, 'No, if it makes me a one-term president, I'm going to, we're going to take it on because the country is in need of us taking this on.'" Today: President Barack Obama's administration signaled on Sunday it is ready to abandon the idea of giving Americans the option of government-run health insurance as part of his ambitious health care proposal. - Thomas Hawk

Leo Laporte

Leo's Full Subscription List - http://www.google.com/reader...

August 15 from Google Reader - Comment - Like - Share

Robb Fulks, Sergey Petrenko, tim dreyer and 18 other people liked this

Just 125? ;) - Jesse Stay

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I'm working on the assumption that Leo knows all the people who everyone else looks for to blog off. He has the direct sources :) - Johnny Worthington

:-)) Jesse ,thx Leo - Johni Fisher

Marta, you might want to click on Leo's list above, and then put a comment - Shari Weiss

That was interesting Thanks - milesg

thanks for the compilation :) - sɹǝɥʇɐǝɟʞɔɐןq

That's quite an RSS list there. Will definitely take a look at some of these feeds! - Randy Shapiro

thanks for sharing - Brian Appleby

how do I comment on an item in the reader list? - Chuck Kahn

Paul Buchheit

Twinkle Twinkle Little Star

August 15 - Comment - Like - Share

Renchin(Reina), Niranjan, siva s and 46 other people liked this

Sure, pick on the stars: http://www.amazon.com/Twinkle... - Jesse Stay

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cauuuuuuute - sofarsoShawn

Awesome photo - Steve Lacey from iPhone

I love the second picture. Awesome! - Kevin Fox

agreed, that second shot is just beautiful!! - Rachel Lea Fox

Such joy! - Anne Bouey

Cute!! - Charlie Anzman

That second photo is amazing! :-D - Ladybug Heather

MG Siegler

Remember when I made this? Can't wait for this functionality to come to FriendFeed. Hot Dog Stand here I come!

June 30 - Comment - Like - Share

Cupcake Jenni, ravi karandeekar, Tyson Key and 68 other people liked this

MY EYES ARE BLEEDING - Eric Eldon

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woah - tell me you're still not using this...its quite possibly the ugliest thing ive ever seen. - Zee.

That's like an outfit from The Fifth Element - Jay Cuthrell

Now I'm craving Hot Dogs - Jesse Stay

i call it eggplant orange juice with blood. - MG Siegler

for healthy vampires - Eric Eldon

I feel bad for your monitor that has to serve that up...haha - Mike Bracco

MG, maybe we should save you the trouble and make one that looks like this for you. We'll call it parislemon. - Dan Hsiao

i think that may cause a FF revolt. or vomiting. - MG Siegler

Absolutely love the color scheme! :) - Jon, the Chilled Beartato

lol it's festive. My Gmail is bright green and orange. LOVE - BEX

ya lets myspace up this bitch! - sean percival

Paul -- hey you listenin'? hhaha! don't ya love those colors! LOL (Dan - good idea!, do it!! haha) - Susan Beebe

Oh My GATO!! - Zulema ◕ ◡ ◕

No - Jorge Escobar

Looks like a box of Crayola's just threw up. : ) - Mike Doeff

Cool - Andrew

It looks like I designed it. That's not a good thing. - Ethan

I would go out of my mind by the end of the day. LOL - Drew Lucas

Painful. - Anne Bouey

*sheepish laughter* heh, that's just, er, wow. - Rick Cogley

This is a beautiful work of art. Bravo! Encore! - Sarah Lane

i aim to please. - MG Siegler

Just looking at that might give you colon cancer. - Gary C

Or keep you away from gmail long enough to be productive on the task at hand. - Mitch

B to the U to the M to the P http://www.techcrunch.com/2009... - Jay Cuthrell

FriendFeed has themes now. http://www.flickr.com/photos... - Robert MacEwan

much harder to ugly this up, but i tried http://friendfeed.com/parisle... - MG Siegler

looks like helvetica to me... :) - Jim in Real Time

did u build it yet? lol - Phillip Grady Jr

literally brilliant way to push people to use gmail... ;) - Marc Mulhern

Mona Nomura

@nrek As much as I love Google, they don't understand social. Google Wave is a clustermess. Like all the Twitter clients on crack.

August 10 from Twitter - Comment - Like - Share

Jeff (the マクダジ of FF), anna sauce, Red Label and 16 other people liked this

The user side of Wave is indeed a mess. My hope is that they have a server that makes realtime easy to implement for others that can do some truly cool things with it. - invariant - farewell FF

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aw :( I have quite enjoyed Google Wave? Have you actually played with it, or are you coming at this after seeing demos and that sorta thing? - Adam Lasnik

Demos - it's too busy!! - Mona Nomura

No two people ever agree on design. Facebook is good? Microsoft? Somehow they got share (and then some). If Wave delivers the goods soon enough compared to other options, they have a fighting chance. - LogEx

After playing with it, I agree its full of clutter. It's cool for a group of people and various conversations amongst friends but not a solution for public streams and a massive social network. - Brandon Titus

Wave is meant for group of people and conversations among friends (Wave = email if it were developed now is what they kept saying when they introduced it). - Chieze Okoye

Google understands social as well as anybody else, it's just that geek engineers ideas of social behavior are well, a little different - Chad Albert

Patching up pieces and forcing them to talk to each other is not social. That's like...XP. - Mona Nomura

wait, did you just analogize Google Wave to WINDOWS XP (Microsoft's most successful OS to date) in an attempt to show how big a fail Google Wave is? Come on, Mona. You can do better than that. - Chieze Okoye

And what are we using as a yardstick in this conversation? A pre-alpha product that most people here haven't even used? We could talk about actual launched products and say, that, for instance, Orkut is a fairly successful SNS in certain markets that proves that Google *does* understand social. - Chieze Okoye

I didn't want to say ME because that's kinda rude - Vista wouldn't make sense because they didn't build it from scratch. Actually, the analogy was for pulling all these services together and trying to make them talk to each other. - Mona Nomura

Who said Google was a social company? They're an advertising company through and through ;) - Andru Edwards

That's not fair. Wave hasn't even shipped - and it's an incremental tool. - l0ckergn0me

Who said anything about needing to be fair? Look at all the components and how they are trying to be 'social' - aside from the Google evangelists (...I love the employees Adam, Roshan, Chieze, Erica, et al.) how are they being social? Oh, Orkut? What's that? - Mona Nomura

ME would have been a much stronger analogy as I would say XP is actually an example of a fairly well done integration of many disparate technologies (at least from the user's point of view). - Chieze Okoye

also, I am definitely not a Google employee. And I do like their products, but honestly, I think most of your comments re: Google and social (at least the ones based on Wave) are premature at best and misguided at worst (mainly since there's no product around for you test and come to the conclusions based on). Well, unless you're hiding a dev account in there somewhere that you didn't tell us about. 8^P - Chieze Okoye

Um, ok http://images.google.com/images... See? Twitter clients on crack with a little bit of Flock. I don't know why people are excited about it (from a user perspective) - Mona Nomura

*shrug* I don't know, Mona. As someone who is constantly on 40-50+ message long event and project planning email threads, I would kill for even a tiny bit of the promise of what Google has with Wave. I guess I saw how it can take what I do in Gmail and allow me to do it 100x better with collaboration, whereas you seem to be looking at it from a completely different angle. - Chieze Okoye

btw, just to check 2 things: were you being snarky re: Orkut or do you not know what it is? and have you seen the Google Wave announcement video? - Chieze Okoye

They are an advertising company, and they do things in that part of the company's best interest. - Andru Edwards

Mona, I felt the same way when I first peeked at the interface. But having used it extensively at work, I've either gotten used to the UI or it's a lot less daunting when you're actually using it or both :). The real-time in *conversation* is far more useful (if a bit freaky) than I ever would have imagined. It's much closer to the way people actually *talk* when they're in a room... more... - Adam Lasnik

Son of a bitch - this is a busy topic... should have replied here. Twitter > FF in my brain. #Fail - Enrique Gutierrez

As an underlying protocol, I think Wave is *incredibly* powerful. The first few iterations of the UI (including ours) will be (justifiably) rough around the edges until the user/developer community gets comfortable enough with the technology that they know what to do with it. - Aaron D'Souza

Are waves public or private? Will they be indexed by search engines and viewable by anyone? - SuezanneC Baskerville

Adam - thank you for that explanation. Can't wait 'til it's public beta (which answers your question too, Suezanne?) - Mona Nomura

With the federated architecture, I can imagine different entities building sites with a social networking layer and familiar UI on top of Wave, with open interfaces between each other. Sort of pick your favorite skin. I can see the line between social networks and collaborative tools blurring. - Christopher A Carr

The ultimate goal is a suitable hive-mind substrate. ;-) - Christopher A Carr

Ok, Ryo. - Mona Nomura

Oh, no? It was a statement you made w/out reason. So I just agreed - easier that way ;) - Mona Nomura

a "collaborative tool" is different than a "social network". Thats like calling Basecamp a social network. The common thread is that whether it's collaborative or social, they are both built for communicating. - Adam Helweh from BuddyFeed

Basecamp is not a collaborative tool - it's useless LOL. Have you tried Google Sites? It rules and it's FREE. - Mona Nomura

I'm glad someone else said it first. For a second, I thought I was just getting slow. - Tinu Abayomi-Paul

Mona, Basecamp is not the best of tools nowadays, but it is definitely considered a place for teams to collaborate (or at minimum... communicate). Not sure how you have been using it, but I have used it for projects with clients for a couple years now. - Adam Helweh

For conventional project management - products, specifically, it may suffice (I prefer Visio) but for projects with mass collaborators and multiple contacts involved, it's awful. I like HighRise but completely baffled as to why HighRise and Basecamp don't talk to each other. Bizarre. - Mona Nomura from iPhone

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We've been acquired by Facebook! We are really excited about joining the Facebook team. (Note: FriendFeed will continue to operate - see the blog post for details) - Bret Taylor from Bookmarklet

514 more comments

Boom. - Louis Gray

Grr! - directeur

Woah... - Brandon Titus

Uh. Well, that's the end of that. - Akiva Moskovitz

Argh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! - Roberto Bonini

What does this mean for FriendFeed, Bret? - Kol Tregaskes

Lame. - Mark Trapp

great title bret. well played. - MG Siegler

WOW - Bindu Reddy

Congrat! So, what does this mean to your team and to FF in general? - Dilip Dand

wahhhhhhhhhh - Myrna

maaaan - Jamie

wowow - Harry Wolff

congrats - brainno722 (Peter)

Nooooooooooooo - Mushin

Wait... seriously? - Ken Sheppardson

oh, noooo - Tanju Yildiz

Congratulations to the friendfeed team. I know this is huge for y'all. Please don't let us spoil your parade as we weep. - Ladybug Heather

Seriously?!? ..... - sebastian☆rocket brother

oh boy. - Carlos Ayala

I am hoping this will lead to nice integration for cross posting! Currently using Twitter App on FB to post and I hate those ff.im links that end up on Facebook. - Ivan Zlatev

it was good while it lasted, Friendfeed. :( - holly

division by zero - Onur Cengiz

OMG - \(*_*)/

"FriendFeed.com will continue to operate normally for the time being. We're still figuring out our longer-term plans for the product with the Facebook team." Those are NOT encouraging things to read as a FF user. - Scott of Two Countries

gratz - Ali

My heart is sinking as I type this. Please tell me that it isn't a late April Fool's joke. :( - Tyson Key

Wow, it's true!! - Kevin Whalen

Big news! I second Kol & dilip's request for what this means for the team and FF's future. - Brandon Titus

O_o - Joe Silence

So it IS true. - Hector

Nicely done Bret - Jennifer Van Grove

Congratulations btw, guys! - Kol Tregaskes

Sniff... not sure if I'm excited about this. But I have enormous respect for the FriendFeed team... so, I assume they believe in the move as more than an exit strategy. - Michael Leggett

Congrats, Bret. - Jordan Hofker

This is just horrible - Matthew DeVries

Congratulations, I suppose. A bit worried Facebook is going to ruin everything though. I'm not fond of Facebook, to say the least. - Irma Vermaat

Um. - Barry Mitchelson

Oh my... Hopefully FriendFeed won't vanish and good luck :) - Tarmo Aidantausta

Do we call it FaceFeed? FriendBook? - Tyson Key

Oh no.... - Ben Hanten

What does mean for us? - Rich from iPod

Terrible fit. - Matthew DeVries

damn here it is... :( - Edgar Rodríguez

FriendFace!!! (i love it crowd) - Bahriye

*waits for wall-to-wall ads and constant spambots* - Joe Silence

Die. - Zio Bonino

Congrats - Zoltan Szendro

I dont want FF to end - Fee501st

Wow - Shevonne

Oh mon dio ! - Umar

What did you do? WHYYY! - Zachary TG

Ostregheta. - Reloj

Congrats guys, in a bittersweet sort of way. - Hutch Carpenter

guess there's no way of denying this anymore :( - BCK

Just another lesson in why you shouldn't put your love and trust in a company...... - Matthew DeVries

Oh no! - Erdinc YILMAZEL

Congrats, but I hate Facebook. - Zachary TG

I like Friendfeed and I do not like Facebook. Gratz to you guys though, I think. - Mark Sorrell

"Oh shit..." came to mind immediately. :( - Tyson Key

Scott, yep not encouraged by that comment. :-( - Kol Tregaskes

Congrats on the deal, best wishes to the FF'ers in helping facebook get it together! - Sean O'Connor

This could get exciting, especially concerning twitter :-P - Malte Steckmeister

Congrats for Friendfeed team, but I'm seriously worried for us :((((((((((( - Roberto

Congratulations... I'm sure this is pretty exciting for everyone at FriendFeed... We're all looking forward to where it takes you! - Nathan Chase

And FriendFeed was just getting popular. Not any more. - Zachary TG

Wow - Rodfather

*Sobs* - Tyson Key

wow - Jack Wilson, K4SAC

to the dump - Zachary TG

Wow, very disappointed - Randy Pollock

come on. Bret, facebook is so closed. so different from Friendfeed. besides that. Congrats to the team - Edgar Rodríguez

As am I - Zachary TG

machecazzo - Sba

VERY disappointed. - Joe Silence

horrible decision - Randy Pollock

Booo. But, you know, congrats. - Chris Nixon

i'm not sure i'm happy about this. - Taylan Aydınlı

OMG WHAT HAVE YOU DONE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! SH*T - Alp

Congrats for u guys... probably too bad for us ;-( - Laurent

God, I can see FB shutting down FF just like Six Apart shut down Pownce. - DarknessFalls

arg. - Aron Michalski

Good for you, don't know for all of us - Cristian Conti

@#$& that's all I have to say. For now. - Zachary TG

Facebook should have been aquired by Friendfeed. Why they hell would you give up your better product to a worse one? Did none of you give a shit about this service to begin wiht? - Matthew DeVries

Congrats! - Alix Whitmire

Coolest web 2.0 site I've ever seen & used. I hope things don't derail. Ads will be coming soon, which is fine, but.... then what 's next? Please no quizzes! - Ben Hanten

Who would have thought that after Facebook were shamelessly being "inspired" by FriendFeed, the inevitable would have happened? - Tyson Key

I'm pissed off. I wan to throw away the whole Internet : - DarkBls

Congrats! - Moushumi Kabir

Congrats guys. :) - Meryn Stol

Congratulations. This is awesome for you and for Facebook. - Mike Sego

mommy? - Josh Haley

Hey guys, keep in mind that Facebook is blocked in workplaces across the nation. 250 million casual users commenting about last night's party does not intelligent conversation make. - Hector

FFail - rael

What will happen to my 92 subscribers? - Zachary TG

yes you have just failed at failing, no it is not a double negative. - Bahriye

Tragic. - Shannon

I really can't see how FB would buy FF only to shut it down. There are way too many innovations and features FF has that FB honestly needs. I'm looking forward. - Harry Wolff

congrats! - Jay from ViewPoint

here come the comments - Zachary TG

Congrats? Everybody who's saying Congrats doesn't know what he's saying. Go to hell. - Zio Bonino

Yeah, quizzes are EVIL! - Tarmo Aidantausta

Wow. - Zachary TG

Oh, this does not make me happy. Not at all! I've stayed off of Facebook intentionally and FriendFeed is my favorite social network. This is like when the Red Sox traded Babe Ruth to the Yankees. :>( - Larry Hawes

i have stopped using FB for the most part and liked FF alot more. now FF will go the way of FB. screwed again. - Joe Silence

Congratulations. Enjoy the new challenges of acquisition, and I'm looking forward to the result! - Wade Dorrell

Berge Gazen beat your score in Mafia Wars - Berge Gazen

Feedface or Facefeed? - Fee501st

FUCK THAT ! [Anyways good job guys ^^] - TiTi

Enjoy your fat paychecks, guys. You've sold us out. - Akiva Moskovitz

Bravo Bret! Been following your successes ever since we had the opportunity to work together on the YellowPages.ca / Google Maps Canada deal. Congrats! - Sebastien

I wished it was Google or even Yahoo!, instead... - Tyson Key

i really hope ff stays as it is. fb is kinder carder while ff is a great tool. - jkkmobile

Facefucked or Fuckfeed? - Matthew DeVries

Not sure what to make of this. It could eiter be a big win or a huge fail. - dorn

It could have been Microsoft, which would have been worse for everyone. :( - Tyson Key

Can I take this opportunity to say I HATE facebook? - Alex Scrivener

seems the only ppl happy here are the ones in the biz or who stand to profit from the merger. - Joe Silence

I guess we should get ready to get poked by our supposed friends and have various shit thrown at us? Plus 5,000 requests by apps that nearly all suck. - Joey Gibson

There is zero way this could have been a win for anyone, but the now rich founders. - Matthew DeVries

duh - aybars badur

I HATE facebook - Pedram

this is simply awful. - Joe Silence

If I have to go to FB to use FF then it's a lost cause - Randy Pollock

Painful. And apparently I completely misunderstood what FF was trying to accomplish both technically and as an organization. I guess Facebook must have dangled a pretty big bag of money in front of them. - Ken Sheppardson

FriendFeed is Dead! Long Live FriendFeed! :/ - Tyson Key

Awesome. Please fix Facebook email :) http://fudge.org/too-muc... - Jay Cuthrell

Facebook is going to acquire the web! - l'Ego di Gigi

To me, FriendFeed is like Porsche and Facebook a Kia. I'm curious to see which will become which.. - Moushumi Kabir

Oh noes! - Burcu Dogan

Congrats Bret! - Robin Dindayal

I will reserve judgement, i don't like or use FB but if FF maintains it's current goodness i don't care who cuts the checks. - Steve C

I hope this doesn't turn into an APP filled hunk of crap. I love FriendFeed, it was the untouched gem of microblogging. I don't want Mafia Wars invited in my FriendFeed!!! Congrats on the sale though. - Jay Farmington

Where's the "dislike" option? - Gregor Morrill

+1 Gregor - Tyson Key

accipicchia che pessima notizia - massimo mantellini

I SEE WHAT YOU DID THERE!!! -_- - Bahriye

I just realized this is like when K-mart bought Sears ... - DarknessFalls

/ponders the meaning of "FriendFeed.com will continue to operate normally for the time being." - Philipp Lenssen

And I will officially be leaving FriendFeed today. - Michael Forian

omg - John μller

@Philipp: until the new masters start flexing their muscles and bringing in their own people to enforce their own vision. - Joe Silence

I read the blog post and one statement stands out to me "FriendFeed.com will continue to operate normally for the time being." The time being. This is not just bad, I think it may be #FAIL - berchman

Such great news! - Steve Rubel

Not sure what to think of this. - Matthew Speicher

where is dislike button ? - Osman Üngür

OMG! - Zac Bowling

now where did I put my twitter password - Randy Pollock

big mistake :(( - emresezgin

I suppose it will be called FriendFace? http://www.youtube.com/watch... - Phil Harrison

Congratulations, guys!!!!!!!!! - Jess Lee

Oh. Hell. No. - CannonGod

Oh My God! They Killed FriendFeed! - Tyson Key

so the (once)new facebook homepage was actually the tip of the iceberg? - Onur Cengiz

It's a win/win! congrats all. - Alan Le

Time to roll your own Frienfeed clone. - Fırat Can Başarır

Congrats to you. - Evan Travers

Congratulations. I look forward to seeing what this new partnership means for users. - Aren Grimshaw

FF will surely be integrated into FB at some point? - Kol Tregaskes

damn Ken is spot on! +1000 Ken! - vijay

not good. - Jacque

Oh. My. Gosh. - Enrico Lamperti

Facebook obviously liked FriendFeed a long time ago. Why would they have copied so many features (feed item comments and the "Like" action, to name a couple) otherwise? It was only logical for this to happen eventually. Doesn't mean I like it, but acquisition is part of the game. I have the same feeling I did when SocialThing! was acquired by AOL, though. - Voyagerfan5761

"Relationship Status: It's complicated" comes to mind. ;) - Tyson Key

Wow, I finally sign up, and read this. This could end up being a very bad thing for FF fans: "Your FriendFeed friend just signed up on this poll, would you like to too?" - Brian Bommarito

sad... - Marvin

Congrats guys. And thanks for your continuos effort in helping promote and integrate web services, like mine, Wakoopa. That's awesome and I hope FB gets better because of it. - Robert Gaal

This will give FriedFeed the attention it deserves. Otherwise it would have been a geek thing forever. - Michael Netsch

Will there be a super poke feature launched tomorrow? - Matthew DeVries

aw, this sux!! Congrats to the Friendfeed team though! - acedanger

please don't merge logins!!! please - earlyadopter

They are deceived when they suffer themselves to be drawn after the image of things, without seeking for the true reason of them. - The Complex Days

I hope it works OK to you guys! - Rodrigo Jaroszewski

D: - Chris, Taskerrific Guy

+1 Netsch - I still like FF more but this finally legitimizes FF to the mainstream. - Daniel J. Pritchett

Friend request una beata fava. Pecunia non olet. - Federico Bolsoman

Yeah, I really can't wait to see what value the Ashton Kutchers and Oprahs of the world have to add to FriendFeed. - Akiva Moskovitz

Please tell me this is a delayed April Fools' Day joke. - Rochelle

Facebook & FriendFeed: don't cross the lifestreams! D:< - CannonGod

I guess this means I'll have toget a facebook account after all.... Hope the API stays up and running.... - Roberto Bonini

"Were rich B!tch!" - Chappelle - adolfo foronda

Another good thing: This ups the bar for Wave. - Wade Dorrell

What a bunch of greedy assholes. - Zio Bonino

So ? - Ercan Bülbül

Does this mean that we'll be seeing an influx of webcam spammers, a la Twitter? Along with abolishment of the rooms feature, crappification of the search feature, and more "privacy features" that really just put more nails in the openness coffin? - Tyson Key

:( - Pavlo Zahozhenko

Some people will do whatever their friends request........ - Michael Muller

I really don't see why people would be anything but excited about this Facebook freindfeed deal. Great news as far as I am concerned. The Friend feed team is going to go over facebook and make it that much easier to connect, share... isn't that what the social web is about? - Kevin Murray

I know a lot of people who use Facebook and enjoy it and that's fair enough. It's just not my cup of tea. The chaps from Friendfeed will get rich and the technology will get absorbed in Facebook but I can't see Friendfeed continuing in anything like it's present form. - Paul Nash

Don't be so negative, something good might eventually come of this... - Tarmo Aidantausta

The End. - Kaan Ertürk

Congrats! I know you all must be crazy excited right now. - Michele Lorito-Chase

chance for FriendFeed to become more mainstream... congrats FriendFeed team! - Jeroen De Miranda

Nothing could make me happier than if they integrated the good tools from FriendFeed into Facebook, which is where all my friends are. So a big "yay!" from me. - Ian Betteridge

happy for you guys, but not for all of us - Flavio

congratulations. this is going to be interesting. - Dave Beckett

I think I preferred the non-mainstream version of FriendFeed... - Tyson Key

I'm turning on my black shirt, my black trouser, my black socks, my black shoes. Although I probably must be happy for you. - Ton Zijp

NASTY NASTY BAD BAD. But we'll see... - Daniel Morgan

Game over. - stark

yeah removing feed also works. - Bahriye

Reminds me so much of Last.fm fall... - Marcos

Given that the FriendFeed team has never been anything but awesome & respectful of its community, I think it's unfair for people to assume that the Facebook acquisition is going to change that. - Jess Lee

Why in god's name are we flying over this shark?!?!?!?!??!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!??!?!?!??!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!??!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?! - Matthew DeVries

Facebook is like a giant who listens to nobody. Please keep your attitude but I don't think you will be able to do so. - Burak "cyrus" Bayburtlu

Noooooooo...... - Sung W. Lim

yeahhh - Çağrı Burak

NO - Cristian Conti

Congrats! That sucks. - Rutger Blom

Where is that evidence Jess? - Matthew DeVries

I don't know, Like it? or dislike it? - Ömer Balamir

What happens to all the content that we've created and imported here, and the associated metadata? Will all that disappear into the ether? - Tyson Key

If the FriendFeed guys can make FaceBook useful and responsive again, this seems like a pretty positive step! - Robin Barooah

Robin, the Facebook users don't want that I'm afraid. - Rutger Blom

I have big loss of data concerns. See http://ff.im/6pHjo Is there any way to archive all my FriendFeed posts, likes, comments, and pictures (friendfeed-media.com) off-line? Can some Archive.org-like snapshots of FriendFeed be made (Once a month starting Sept 2009)? I'd like to see the cross-links between my posts & other people's posts, even in 2020. - - Mitchell Tsai

Mitchell: the FriendFeed site is not shutting down. Your data will not go away any time in the near term future - we are committed to our users. - Bret Taylor

I just overheard a coworker mention FriendFeed. This is how the world ends... - CannonGod

kafa sayımı yapıp köyü satan ağalar geldi aklıma - Alper Ömer Esin

Then provide us with a way to easily make a back-up of all of our posts and all of the posts we have Liked and Commented on. - Akiva Moskovitz

Same question as Mitchel Tsai. How do I export my data? I don't want it to be handed off to Facebook. - Zio Bonino

Near term future? - Kol Tregaskes

I don't see good things coming from this. Although I like Facebook, I liked Friendfeed more. Partly because of the environment and the smallness of it. That is now going to be ruined. So, 10-1 odds that Friendfeed will be no more within a year after it gets intergrated into Facebook? - Mathew™ one of a kind

I doubt it Robin. Bret can only give us assurances about the "near future." Here's what I think will happen. Just like Twitter acquired Rael Dornfest and his awesome web services, Stikkit and I Want Sandy vanished (and so did he), Facebook will acquire all the talent from Friendfeed, shut this service down and Facebook will continue to suck. - Jim in Real Time

Same question as Mitchel Tsai. How do I export my data? I don't want anything to be handed off to Facebook. And I don't want to lose anything. - Zio Bonino

Congrats obviously, but im not sure about the feeling,, different user groups which can not integrate but collide.. hope there wont be an huge integration in the future. - Yunus Tunak

I'm happy for FriendFeed! But, at the same time a bit worried about the future. Hope you guys convince FB to not be evil too. - Vishal Verma

http://friendfeed.com/sunipey... - sunipeyk

Let's hope this is like Disney's acquisition of Pixar - wherein the Pixar guys ended up in control of the animation studio... - Robin Barooah from IM

Where the f*ck is this option to undo ? - Laurent

Odd that this thread gets modded? - Matthew DeVries

I seriously thought this was a joke. Looks like its not. I don't like it, sorry. - Michael Lynton

Does anyone want to start a bounty to purchase Facebook? ;) - Tyson Key

#FAIL #FAIL #FAIL #FAIL #FAIL #FAIL #FAIL #FAIL #FAIL #FAIL #FAIL #FAIL #FAIL #FAIL #FAIL #FAIL #FAIL #FAIL #FAIL #FAIL #FAIL #FAIL #FAIL #FAIL #FAIL #FAIL #FAIL #FAIL #FAIL #FAIL - Jacque

Congratulations! - John Craft

can't be, shouldn't be... - Kemal

It is! Change is inevitable, my friends. - Bill Sodeman

Jim, I'm less cynical than you - the FriendFeed founders wouldn't do this just in order to become 'talent' at FaceBook. - Robin Barooah

So will we be playing FriendFeed Mafia Wars at some point in the future? Ugh. - Alex Hellstrom

I feel if I should be wearing a black arm band. But I guess when I think about it.............. - Kevin J Hatton

Oh No! I don't like this at all :( - Peter

WTF! Horrible Bret, this the death of FriendFeed.. you know that right? - Uncle CW™

I still think Apple will acquire Facebook, Twitter Friendfeed and Google Twitter. - Thomas Power

Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo! - Stephen Francoeur

My condolences to all Friendfeeders! RIP! - Evgeni Leshtanski

AAAAwwwful! - carolh

I can't believe it! damn! facebook tos will apply to friendfeed too? should i start to move to another service? why anyone would think that facebook public is friendfeed public?! damn! friedfeed was my favorite! I can't understand this move! they want to kill friendfeed or what? - paula simoes ☃

"I bet I can find 1.000.0000 people who dislike this deal."...Welcome to FriendBook. - Jacque

Well, huge congraulations to you and your team, you deserve every success. To be honest I had presumed this would happen sooner or later - the only business model cool little startups have is to hope they get bought by someone bigger for their brains and technology. I'm going to be in San Francisco in a couple of weeks and was going to stop by your office to bring you a cake and thank you for a great product - maybe I still will if you're still there and there's still a FriendFeed! - Alex Lomas

The FF founders must have know this would be a very unpopular move. Most users I know here are not too fond of FB. - Rutger Blom

damn, damn, damn... - Kemal

One of the sadest news for Internet and web creativity :( - DarkBls

Woah woah... This is real? - Jason Huebel

"Your data will not go away any time in the near term future - we are committed to our users" There's a bit of a contradiction in your statement, Bret. Nice try though. - jcunwired

Now I can break my Internet plan at home. - DarkBls

Grats Bret and the rest of FF. To all the naysayers... Lets see what happens before we start bitching.... - Rasmus Lauridsen

wow!! dazed and confused!! - Roberto Arancibia

I don't hate Facebook, but for sharing things Friendfeed is MUCH MUCH better! - Mathew™ one of a kind

I wonder if that Ben Darnell guy who *just* left the Google reader team knew about this beforehand? Wonder what he's thinking now? (http://friendfeed.com/friendf...) - Daniel J. Pritchett

Just great. I'm certainly not very happy about this. Let's just hope FB doesn't ruin FF. Ugh. - Elena

Who cares? Nothing's gonna change in our pitiful lifes. - bluretina

:| - Amin BZ

This ties in nicely with the fact that you soon will have the opportunity to make your Facebook profiles public and get followers there. - Michael Netsch

чатег номер два - лето ближе с каждым днем

Congrats Bret! this is so great! many congrats!!! - Jason Pollock

That is capitalism for you. Luckely, there still good 'ol usenet. - Peter

Is it April 1st somewhere in the universe? - Robert Felty

#ROFLMAO Is there anything more important than money? It seems NOT #ROFLMAO - Lora Lufark

I don't mean to be negative but there's got to be a win-win logic to each merger&acquisiton. Audience high in only quantity is clearly not a win for friendfeed in the long term by considering its unique selling points. Let's wait and see who will benefit from friendfeed's death now. - ayca

It's all about the money. I would have payed a couple of dollars each month to use FF. - Rutger Blom

#DONTSELLMYFRIENDFEED - sunipeyk

Seriously, what is this? It's like Bret just announced that he's killed all your mothers or something. It could turn out good, it could turn out bad, but at the end of the day, who cares, it's just a website (I mean honestly, come on). I could see it going either way, but in the near term, this is a pretty big win for the FF team, so congrats guys. - Chieze Okoye

OMG! - keso

To be honest, my heart sank a little but I am happy to congratulate you and the team for building such a good brand. Well done. - Kevin J Hatton

I'm just surprised, that's all. I'm not saying this is a bad thing (it certainly isn't for the owners of FF). I'm willing to sit back and see what happens. - Jason Huebel

Wow, I specifically use friendfeed b/c it is not facebook. Sounds great for the friendfeed team, but not necessarily for friendfeed users. - Evan Parker

Born to be sold, like in the old "new economy" era. Remember the late nineties? - Federico Bolsoman

Sudden desire to check out Strands again... but hey, kudos on the incoming $$ for FF team - Leslie Poston

#DONTSELLMYFRIENDFEED - Kemal

This is wisdom. Bracing for Google Wave is a good idea............. - Kevin J Hatton

this is clearly a talent aquisition... why am i not excited about this? could it be because facebook has been blatantly stealing features from friendfeed shamelessly. Likes were clearly not an original facebook idea...realtime feeds is another i could go on... - Tate DA FF MVP

While I'm sad, because I suspect this means the best things about FF will disappear or I'll be forced to use FB in some way, if the buyout was for some awesome amount of money, I can't say I blame 'em for taking an offer -- I would. - Andy Bakun

I came to FriendFeed because I don't like facebook. Now the question is, will facebook become more like friend feed? or will they just take friend feed and turn it into facebook? - Tom Ray

FF could be a good R&D arm for facebook. - Andy Bakun

My biggest concern here is that FB has a completely different audience than FF. - Rutger Blom

Fucking morons. FriendFeed is doomed now. Think logically. Facebook has NO REASON to keep FriendFeed alive. It will simply take FF's best features, suck the life of out of it, then trash FF. Way to go, FirnedFeed, damn. - Jeremy Buff

Fail. - Big K

Big Fail! - OnuRC

This announcement should have been held off until the plans for Friendfeed were known. Regardless, this is *bad* for FF users. Best case: it continues on, but with stagnated feature development. Worst case: it's gone. - tollie williams

wtf ?! - Umut

I need to install "super PUKE" application ! - Bart LePoole

http://ff.im/6pQcu - Bahriye

FFail. - rowlikeagirl

I don't want my FF feed on Facebook :( I use both, but maintain both profiles separate - Leandro Ardissone ⍨

Sigh... Happy for the team if this is what they want, but baffled by the move. The users that are going to leave because of this will make FF a graveyard and the users it gains, well... Hello spam? Sorry, but I don't like it. - Vince DeGeorge from iPhone

JEREMY+++++1 - Ahmet Alp Balkan

Wow! - felix

Well, I guess it is time to dismantle my friendfeed. We all know where this is headed. So, so glad I didn't move all my rss feeds from greader to friendfeed like so many cheerleaders suggested. - Matthew Speicher

Jeremy +1 - F. Batuhan Icoz

so what's next? where should we go? - Flavio

It's been fun here. - Capn' One Eye - adrift

Dang, and just as I was starting to get used to how FF works. FF is useful on it's own. I hope this only improves FF's system, rather than having it disappear into Facebook's wake. - Don Faulkner

My big question to everybody here is this: What are the potential downsides / upsides to this acquisition? I mean on paper I just don't see what the pros OR cons are. I don't care for Facebook but I don't see how them acquiring FF is going to change everything. - Nicholas Kreidberg

furthermore they are 2 different things: I follow a lot of people here that are not in my facebook list, which is for IRL friends! - Flavio

I don't know where to go next either. I had just settled down to make imaginary friends for all my non-FF tweeps, etc. now, I'm not sure if I should bother. - Don Faulkner from IM

I hope friendfeed continues to operate normally but it does not look good. - ashish

integrate best features of ff to fb, then try to innovate in fb if possible, then kill ff... that's it, cheers, all the best. grrrr... - Kemal

niczak has good points. FF & FB aren't exactly competitors, but they aren't orthogonal either. Let's hope FB's smart enough to see the difference and improve both platforms. - Don Faulkner from IM

Nicholas: The upside for Facebook is they just bought an engineering team that's built many of the feature's Facebook's going to need to stay competitive. The upside for FriendFeed's engineering team is $$$ and the ability to build system for a wider audience. FriendFeed's user base is small enough that it'll either get absorbed into Facebook or move on, and FF will become a footnote on the Internet timeline. - Ken Sheppardson

Don, I don't think FB wants to maintain two platforms. - Rutger Blom

first tr.im (heard about it yesterday), now this. I wasn't a heavy tr.im user (yet), but sad to see it go, even if I think url shortening is silly. - Don Faulkner from IM

As FB said they're interested in the people and not in the site, what if the community will keep running FF without its current staff? - Flavio

Congratulations! - Sam Grover

Flavio, that's not very realistic I'm afraid, but I like the idea. - Rutger Blom

rutgerblom, I don't expect they do either, thus my angst over this. - Don Faulkner from IM

if there's a team willing to do it and money, and if we accept some ads as everywhere else, we could make a new FF without FB - Flavio

I have worked hard in avoiding signing up for FB. Does this mean I now automatically will be on FB by virtue of my FF account? - Tony Vota from iPhone

Tony, most likely - Rutger Blom

read carefully: http://blog.socialthing.com/2009... - Kemal

I'll have to go with Flavio's position too. Given this news (plus tr.im and who knows who's next), I'd tend to favor community supported or federated services for things like this in the future. - Don Faulkner from IM

I am purposely not on facebook because I don't really want to talk to people I have not talked to in 20 years. - Andy Bakun

God help us - Johnny

Once again. I'm happy for the FF team. They worked hard and now collect. That's fair. Wonder if they're sitting in a bubble pool drinking champagne while we cry out here ;-) - Rutger Blom

Congrat Bret!! :)) - Cihan Cepni

trouble is (from my perspective), that the philosophies of the two platforms are at odds. FB wants to bring people to the site and keep them there, while FF is a hub, bringing people in and then sending them back out. (That's part of why it's hard for the newcomer to understand, IMHO.) - Don Faulkner from IM

This almost confirms FF will disappear: http://www.techcrunch.com/2009... - Kol Tregaskes

Great point, Don. - Rutger Blom

+1 Don - Johnny

Does this mean I can throw someone a sheep on FriendFeed now? - Pinksy

I sure hope so, Rutger. I glad for their success too. I just hope there's a next best thing out there for us. - Don Faulkner from IM

Congrats all. Nice work, in spite of any naysaying out there. Keep up the innovation. - Tomas Remotigue

LOLI FFAIL - rael

lame. - andy brudtkuhl

This should be good news for Twitter. - Rutger Blom

post the picture to failblog... - Kemal

Quote «Taylor and Cox say that the Friendfeed product will live on independently, and eventually Friendfeed will be merged into Facebook. But the Friendfeed team is not being kept whole. Some employees will now report to Cox, others to engineering head Mike Schroepfer. In my opinion that means, long term, the Friendfeed product itself is unlikely to be a big priority.¶ But Facebook is... more... - Philipp Lenssen

+1 Kol for the techcrunch article! - Don Faulkner from IM

techcrunch: "Cox agreed, noting that Facebook is focused on being a platform and a service, and not just a destination site." I certainly hope so! - Don Faulkner from IM

Brilliant move by both Facebook and friendfeed. Congratulations!!! I have theories of what they have planned, but I doubt you would verify any of them. This is going to go so well with their SocialTV which they have been developing. I'm so happy for you! - Michael Fidler

Really saddened by this news. - Doug Beeferman

Noooooooooooooooooooooo! - LouCypher

I don't see what's so bad about it since no one knows right now what the outcome will be, everyone is just making assumptions that could possibly be wrong..... Might help just sitting back and seeing what happens first before complaining. - ChaCha Fance

Nooooooooooooooaaaaaaaaarrrrrrrghh! I´ve resisted getting a facebook acct for so long... - Thomas Bøhm

ChaCha, if everybody would do that there would not be much discussion would there? This is part of the fun. - Rutger Blom

I wonder how the discussion over on facebook would compare to this? - Don Faulkner from IM

Drat! - Gee Ekachai

congrats guys! - Elad

Don, I doubt there is any discussion going on there. They're too busy throwing quizes at each other. - Rutger Blom

Congrats, FF! I'm approaching the situation with cautious optimism. A lot of my friends only share stuff via the Facebook wall/feed, so if Facebook is able to make their feed more like the FF feed (i.e. good, instead of sucktacular) through this acquisition, it's mostly a win for me in the end. - Brian Chang

At least my Feedburner stats might go back to normal again. - Rutger Blom

/me pokes Rutger. (just getting in practice. ;) - Don Faulkner from IM

Where will we go for the FFunderCats, bacon memes, and angry artists fighting over photo reshares now? ;) - Tyson Key

Don, LOL :-) - Rutger Blom

If anybody has doubts as to what happens to the FriendFeed community or our stored information here, read this statement from Bret (in this thread) "Your data will not go away any time in the near term future - we are committed to our users". Now maybe you can see "whats so bad about it" and curb your optimism. Not good. - jcunwired

Congrats FF. Fix their live feed situation please. - Edward Barnieh

@josh: do you think FB will throw away all the crap people use? various quiz, pick 5 and so on? - Flavio

@jc: our data will not go away in the near future. what will be in few months? in a year? - Flavio

Let's see if you can do a bit better than just not being evil this time around. - Tim Tyler

Wooohooo!!, seems like we are being sent back to "good" old Facebook. Congrats Bret!! - Danli

Looks like I'm going to repeat the same thing many others did. My first reaction was "Oh my..." I have refused to join Facebook due to its philosophy while I have been with FriendFeed from the beginning for its. I'm sad and somewhat apprehensive. - Sean Leather

Congrats. I suppose this means the end of FriendFeed but hopefully a better Facebook. - Harry Toon

Hmm. Interesting. - Ralf Becker

Add me to the fearful group. - beersage

Please say that facebook.com will be shutting down, and the combined company will still be called FriendFeed... I bet it won't happen, though. - Tyson Key

"Regarding FB/FF - Here's how it's [probably] going to work. You will most likely have an account merge, all of the services FriendFeed supports will now be aggregated on Facebook, and all of your FriendFeed friends will be in a "list" on Facebook. The FF Groups will become Facebook Groups. The FF lists will become Facebook Lists." http://ff.im/6pNxq - Ozgur Uckan

Nothing like an early retirement payout :) - Owen Greaves

Congrat Bret - Nimaa

Panic attack. Congratulations, however! :) - בייַ מיר ביסטו שיין

Congratulations Bret. For me this merger makes a lot of sense. Facebook will provide the "quantity" of users, which friendfeed deserves :). - Karthick R

:( - goodmachine

FriendFeed + Facebook... Oh noes FriendFace is coming (http://www.youtube.com/watch...)! Now sorry for that link, and seriously, thanks for your work, guys. Please don't let the spirit of FriendFeed to be blown away =) - Anton

СУКИ-СУКИ-СУКИ!!!! - Viktor

hey, that is great guys! interested to see how you integrate. - Brian Walsh

Mind blown. Never expected this. I'm also disappointed, yet optimistic at the same time. - Angus Burton

Kinda curious to see how this will all pan out...although i wouldnt want the friendfeed stuff just integrated into facebook. I feel like im among a group of people who i genuinely share interests with here...dont want to lost that. - Cassidy

Best case: Facebook will continue to support and develop FriendFeed. Worst case: this is great news for Amplifeeder. - David Gaw

aieeeeeeeeeee - Richard Akerman

FAIL. Facebook is the new myspace, and now friendfeed will become a part of that BS. Can't say I'm too surprised because eventually we all sell out. BTW I don't see friendfeed lasting more than the rest of this year, if that. The good news is that we can all be subjected to add 'Are you related to a monkey?' and Blackjack apps while having annoying personal ads on our profile pages. Fuck this shit. - Tomy Thomson

Well done, well deserved, I hope FB's means and infrastructures empower your guys to even better things. But if quizzes appear in "my" friendfeed, evil things will haunt you and your descendents for 3 generations. - Joelle Nebbe (iphigenie)

:( - Eph Zero

Well done Bret! - Alemsah Ozturk

♪ ♪ This is the end.... beautiful friends ♪ ♪ - All for design

Well, I don't see the point of sticking around here if I have accounts in both and this is going to get swallowed whole into Facebook anyways. Put simply, goodbye. - Micah Collard

It was fun while it lasted. - Mr. Gunn

NNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!! This place will be just like twitter... - The Count Rob

Congrats to the FF team - you've built a wonderful product! - Michael Nielsen

Whattttttttttttttttttttt??? - Nibi

The social community that has been behind FriendFeed creators have built a wonderful product. Only problem is, we don't have Zuck's checkbook :( - jcunwired

friendfeed is a beautiful product, only god knows what facebrook will do to it. Hopefully the ability to upload files (such as mp3s) will not be removed. Zuck is a tool. - Nibi

Congratulations. I'm sorry to say that I don't plan to move with you. - Lars Juhl Jensen

I don't like this.... - Zeki Pehlivan

"Like" to follow this thread. Not because I like what happened. I'm horrified. FF could disappear now. - Kamilah Gill

Same here, Kamilah. - Tyson Key

If FriendFeed had invented the "don't like" button, today would have been the day to press it. - Vishal Verma

and I just bought BuddyFeed for my iPhone this weekend. :( - Don Faulkner from IM

Oh, joy, Facebook's privacy policy is upon us! - Joris

WTF?? NOOOOO!!! Why do such good things have to be ruined by greed? Screw Facebook, and goodbye Friendfeed. - Jason R. Hunter

congratulations! - Loic Le Meur

Facebook is lucky to have such a talented group of people ... Congratulations FriendFeed! - Rob Kurrus

doesn't look like a bad joke, better be for the good then, but... Well congrats anyway guys, you did something AWESOME now let's see where Mark takes it - Dobromir Hadzhiev

That's too bad. Liked the openness if FriendFeed, and the lack crap that is on Facebook. Once FriendFeed dies, it will be Twitter only. - Mike D.

Congrats, but concerned that FriendFeed and its tools may disappear. Merging the tools with Facebook seems impossible. - Mike Reynolds

Congrats guys (and gals) ! - Benjy Weinberger

So, what does the acquisition of FriendFeed by Facebook mean to us, users of both websites: Can I make a friend request from FriendFeed, and be approved for both, on one click - Reyna Carlos

Exciting news guys. I am actually looking forward to your collaboration with / work for FB. No matter what people may or may not like about FB, it does succeed in reaching a more "diverse" audience compared to most other Web 2.0/social web companies. Paired with your team's excellence in realizing features that succeed in pleasing the geekiest of Web 2.0 affine individuals, I think you are steering towards exciting waters :) - Mustafa K. Isik

*heart sinks* actually a bit of shock - I think that Facebook will leave Friendfeed as-is but I don't think there is hope for future innovation in Friendfeed since their best superstar team members will be pulled onto 'more important' Facebook issues... - Pon

And the metastasizing, walled-garden that is Facebook, continues to eat the Web. Bring on Google Wave. - Christopher A Carr

:-) + :-( very happy for the team, huge achievement, hoping to see export of innovation but not a shut down of this unique community and location - Majento

There goes FriendFeed down the toilet. well I WAS having a good day. until hearing this crap! - Scratch5150

Congratulations, and best wishes for your future together! :-) - Ruchira S. Datta

Wow, I was beginning to use Friendfeed as my defacto social site...Facebook is more for real life friends. They'll just take what makes Friendfeed great, add it to Facebook and slowly kill this site. - Manuel Mas

What is the big deal? I think it'll make FF bigger and better. You should be happy about that! - orionstarr

Somebody has to got pay for it. - orionstarr

I am disappointed. I don't want to have to go to Facebook to do what i do here. I can not imagine they will port over all the features we enjoy here. We lose a lot for only a slight benefit to Facebook. - Robert

It could be worse, myspace could've bought them lol... - orionstarr

Awful news for users but congratulations to you guys. Ideally, FB will run FF as a distinct service but I'm not hopeful. I don't want the diversity and noise that facebook brings - people doing quizzes on which movie star they resemble and playing silly games. I also wanted to keep my day to day social activity distinct from the targeted information and discussion I use FF for. - Rajit

Only just started taking a serious look at FF after hearing acquisition by FB. Sounds like I'm laggard rather than a leader in use of web 2.0 - ManojRanaweera

I think how Pon said it is what I'm feeling: *heart sinks*. - Andy Bakun

Congratulations, i am really happy for you guys!! :) - Mona Nomura

I'm not a Facebook fan, but can't begrudge the FF gang their chance to reap the rewards for all their hard work. However, it would be a shame if FB ruins the good thing we all have going here. - Ken Morley

So what now? a name change too? FriendFace? FeedBook? FaceFeed? god Facebook really sucks. oh well. Adds anyone? - Scratch5150

Congrats to the FF team... I hope the service doesn't disappear into a fold of light and heat. - Brandon

if all the things that make FF great are brought to FB then I'll be happy to use it - Mike Chelen

The community won't be there. Been on FB longer than any other, don't have nearly the relationship or sense of community there that I do here or on Twitter. - Karoli

Karoli: that is due to the effectiveness of the FF platform and interface, which help to join conversations and find interesting people more so than FB does - Mike Chelen

Mike: I suspect that FB wants FF for the search possibilities, not the community-building aspects. But we'll see. - Karoli

i guess congrats are in order, but I'm going to now go and remove everything I have that feeds into FF, and I have to ask -- do I have any rights over my archive? I have a private feed, and I have no interest in offering up my lifestream to the FaceBook data-miners. I hope the FF folks get what they hope for out of the deal, but my FriendFeed experience has been effectively killed. - RudĩϐЯaЯïan

I just learned about the FF acquisition by Facebook - WOW~! Congratulations Bret, Paul and FF team!! holy cow ........Mooooooooo! Where's the FF Acquisition Party? :) - Susan Beebe

Friendfeed after Facebook http://ff.im/6q5EY - Ozgur Uckan

Wow thats cool! - AbZ from Nambu

RT @alirizaesin FriendFeed, R.I.P. Home tweet home!.. - Ozgur Uckan

Congrats to facebook. Now, Twitter is the best. - Ebru Baranseli

Congratulations to the FriendFeed guys on the Facebook Acquisition. Not a big fan of Facebook, so I hope my favorite Uber Aggregator, Realtime Social, Microblogging site of awesomeness is not entirely absorbed into the Facebook infrastructure. I wait with baited breath to hear what "normally for the time being" means ;). - Tom Horn

Can I now have comments propagate in both directions as far as Facebook/Friendfeed is concerned? - Piaw Na

*checks date*. Damn .. not April 1st, must be for real. While I'm happy for the FF team, since I guess this is what they wanted (congrats guys!), I can't help but think this is the beginning of the end for a great service and a vibrant community. There are reasons I don't spend any time on Facebook and do spend lots of time on FF, and some kind of "FF integrated into Facebook" just won't cut it. I hope this service will live on for at least a few more years. - Andrew Perry

Gratz to the FF team but as a user I'm not completely happy. In short, I like the FF team/product much more than I like the FB team/product. Best of luck to all. - timepilot

Dang! I've killed another site! Sorry guys... FF was doing fine until I started coming here again! Same with Pownce! Went there and liked it... went underground for a spell... came back and still liked it, so I stayed. A few months later... BOOM! I have the touch! (I'm thinking I'll start devoting a lot of time to Twitter... maybe I can kill that one, too!) - Mark "Godt Nyt Ǻr"

Все, блядь, пиздец! - ǝuǝƃnǝ

WOW - very happy for all of you :-) - Kishore Balakrishnan

Bret, congrats on the acquisition. You guys put in a lot of hard work to create this community. I just hope you learned the mistakes Pownce made, Jaiku etc, and ensured that you didn't sell out your community, but that you helped it evolve into something as great as this into something better. Good luck in future endeavors! - Mike Lewis

Oh yeah? Ok: take tour money and go to the hell. :-((( - Claude LaFrenière

Yay for you guys, I mean that seriously, I 'like' what this means for you personally, but -1000000 cool points for doing it with FB. Sad day. - Threepwood

Karoli: FF search is so useful because it is integrated with all the other great features that help to find relevant content. if FB wants to have a similar capability, they must also develop the underlying architecture. - Mike Chelen from IM

Sucks big time. - Drea

Sadness - Yasin Jason

I can't believe this happened - Johnny

Suggested name: FailFriend. :-((( - Claude LaFrenière

Friend facebooks feed (FFF) - Filiz Koyuncu

«Experience shows that those who never trust anyone will never be disappointed.» Leonardo da Vinci - Claude LaFrenière

So what exactly is going to happen? Is FF eventually going to disappear? Will it merge into the Facebook interface? Please don't do that - Ethan

Gimme my OPML export - Sriks7

Money is the root of all evil - Shakeel Mahate

shakeel, the reasons for friendfeed to join facebook are probably about other things besides money, since many of the FF staff left high-paying jobs to join in the first place - Mike Chelen from IM

Well I've thought about it, and I'll stick around until I start seeing that crappy Facebook logo, I only have 71 subscribers here, I hate to do it but I'll probably scrap the whole thing and start over somewhere else. still can't believe that shit. - Scratch5150

Congrats, team! It's bittersweet, though. - Anne Bouey

So now we will have FriendFeed blocked at work too. Darn. - Mark Scrimshire

"Your data will not go away any time in the near term future" is not exactly inspiring for the long term for those of us who came here to escape Facebook for a) it's walled garden and b) privacy concerns. Nice for the Founders to make a pile of cash but for the many of us, it feels like we got sold down the river. Sad. - Sally Church

This is tragic. Tragic. Tragic. - Ahsan Ali aka. Slick

cacarr: updates for FB have progressed rapidly in the past, count how many months since new features such as api calls and site redesigns have have been implemented - Mike Chelen from IM

I can't believe it either. I feel as if — for the moment — I am lost in the wilderness, adrift. - roamin

Congratulation to the FF team! You guys deserves this. I just hope that Facebook does not change the directions of FF. - Vinko

congrats, I'm happy for friendfeed... - amelia arapoff

Congrats you guys, well deserved. - Shey, Jamaican of FF

Congrats Bret! Hope the transition goes smoothly for you guys. - Cristo

I hope this means better integration: liking here will auto-like on fb and such :D if that's the case, I won't mind the ads *wink* *wink* - 'Like' robot (frɐnc)

Franc, cant stand facebook ads in their current format, hope they will be fixed eventually :P - Mike Chelen from IM

Grats, dont spend it all in one place..... - Robert Higgins

congrads. I think it will be good for BOTH companies. - Logan Lindquist

boo. - kelly

The Borg has struck. Alas. Prepare to be assimilated. (Will FB add my FF subscriptions to my FB friends list?) - Dennis Jernberg

Boo - Amit Morson

Logan: What do you mean by "both" companies? - Christopher A Carr

Now that you guys have $$$ you should swap out the not so very pleasing default avatar! - See-ming Lee 李思明 SML

Hope you guys enjoy your new jobs. Meanwhile we get to watch a great alternative to Facebook with a promising future go down the tubes. A really sad and unfortunate day. - Todd Holmes

BOO! Hiss! Mondays really do suck. - Dale

Congratulations to all the FriendFeed team. I hope you'll be able to keep the FriendFeed spirit up at Facebook. Kudos for all the great work you've been doing. - Paul Papadimitriou

Congrats and good luck.. - Can Koklu

Thanks for all the fish. Saving the so long... for now. - abacab

Goodbye FF, it was wonderful.. - Francesco Cugurra

I use FriendFeed and Facebook so it would be awesome to see FF features in Facebook. Congratulations! - krzychukula from IM

judging by the nearly 600 comments as i type this, including my own earlier one, FF could use a Don't Like button as well. or would, if we were going to be using it much longer. - kelly

Nice, i like to wish you all the best for your new job (and it's really hard, i know). I'm happy, but... don't let die FF!! - Seo (ignobile) Guru

Hope FriendFeed remains open. Love the spirit of FF - Bernaldo Barrena

Seriously, what a coincidence! Just on Saturday I claimed to be both twitter- and facebook-free. I loved FF product and personally helped to bring at least a dozen of my friends into the community. I'll stick around for a while though. - ǝuǝƃnǝ

This deal makes sense, now fb developers do not need to figure out how ff does it because they can just ask! Congrats facebook and ff! - Garin Kilpatrick

I suppose Facebook had to do it, with Twitter and Google Wave as competitor... - Alexander Kruel

обычные дела. http://www.youtube.com/watch... - ǝuǝƃnǝ

Congratulations Friendfeed :D - paniaguai

Ok. I'll quit friendfeed, so. Goodbye. Ciao - valerio fiandra from iPhone

I am noticing a lot of people going to re-esumate their lifestream.fm account now! - Flavio

I don't think FB acquiring FF is bad. But I don't think it's good either. We'll see. :-) In the meantime, keep up the good work! - Alexander Gieg

Oh shit. Love FF, hate FB. I'll NEVER, EVER merge my two accounts. I'd rather unsub from both than merging. I'll wait for the developments, and in the meantime look for an alternative. - Alliandre (la Ippe)

How long until ex-FriendFeed employees start jumping ship from Facebook? I wonder... - Tyson Key

Thomas Power still believes that Facebook/FF/Linkedin (2010) will be acquired by Apple (2011) and this is a transitional acquisition in the SN market cycle. The world is shifting to Mac, iTunes, iPhones and FB own the next generation. Apple have $29bn of cash on deposit price is not an issue. Google must jump for twitter while MS fiddle in the sticks with Yahoo. BillG will be back at the MS helm 2012. - Penny Power

:( Happy for FF people, sad for the service. Was going to move from fb to ff this week.. - Martynas

congrats! - Ronald

thts good!so i can workin both in my Fb online next - Arini dewi muchtaram

Flavio: never heard of lifestream.fm before, but I'm going to go check it out. I'll reiterate, though, that I'm now shy of any service like this, since it can disappear just as it's getting good. I heard about sweetcron.com last night (via http://ff.im/6pR2w). Maybe it's time to move from centralized to distributed again. - Don Faulkner

Just finished setting up my lifestream.fm at http://lifestream.fm/dfaulkner. Lifestream does what it says, and no more. FF's search blows lifestream away. FF is more flexible about adding source feeds, but lifestream does fine without the flexibility I suppose. FF still wins, or would, if I thought it would be sticking around. :P - Don Faulkner

Must See - Hitler blows up over Facebook / FriendFeed - http://friendfeed.com/dffrnt... - Ahsan Ali aka. Slick

Dave, I'm not happy. That video gave me some much needed comic relief .. after waking up to this news. - Ahsan Ali aka. Slick

good for you, bad for us - Zachary Earl Strader

I also hate facebook, not because of their silly quizzes and pokes, but because I suspect they would like to maintain massive user base as the determining factor in choosing a social network. I would love to switch to orkut as I use so many other google services, but I can't because nobody else does. That should not be my criteria.... I thought friendfeed would try to make social networks work together. - Ru Viljoen

I don't understand why everyone is so negative about the situation? - orionstarr

@orionstarr - it's like Starbucks buying your neighborhood coffee shop and saying it still cares about the customers. You know it's just not going to be the same as what you've come to love. - Robin Barooah

Presumably FF will go on the back burner - and the team will try and "fix" Facebook. - Tim Tyler

sad, sad, sad. - scott willeke

Congratulations! That's huge. I hope all is well. - Juan Bruce

bad bad bad - kakilang

bye bye friendfeed! - Jonathan Crossland

Why-eee!!! ??? What next? - Wayne Lewis

I've watched Facebook morph from a relatively organised and well implemented social networking tool into the hulking mess it is now - and I really, really hope that a similar thing doesn't happen here with the inevitable changes this will bring about. - Leslie Moore

Come on guys, out with the long-term game plan, this is tedious. - Andrew Eglinton

NOOOOOOOOOOOOooooooooooooooooooooooooooo, I mean Cool. - sofarsoShawn

Teach Facebook how to be FriendFeed. Let the small but fast teach the big but slow. Don't forget what Paul says - don’t be evil. - whatidiscover

Robert Scoble

RT @allnick FriendFeed Acquisition Price was $50 Million http://online.wsj.com/article...

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They got good quality people and company for really cheap price. - ashish

how much did they raise? - Allen Stern

Bargain of the flippin' century! Now I'm REALLY pissed! - Jim in Real Time

Can Friendfeed make Facebook profitable? If so, $50mn is cheap. - James

And now Facebook just launched a search that indexes EVERYTHING, including status updates: http://bit.ly/DEGiZ - Sam Houston

And the social community that helped make it great? A lot of lost time and data :( - jcunwired

Damn and I have $50M sitting in my cheque account. Should have acted sooner. - John Hardy

"... in a combination cash and stock offer, according to people familiar with the matter. The company paid roughly $15 million in cash, with the rest in Facebook stock that vests over several year" - incredible. - Liviu Barbat

that's 6 bionic, six million dollar men + 1 knight rider kitt (2000) car + 2 maximillion bionic dogs + the number of nintendo wii sports that sold in europe (source: http://www.afterdawn.com/news... ). but me personally, i'd just take the cash. ;) - sɹǝɥʇɐǝɟʞɔɐןq

Wow, seems to be a rather cheap deal...good buy for Facebook... - Suril Amin

This seems very cheap given the valuation that Twitter and Facebook command. There must be something internal to FriendFeed that we don't understand that made them decide to accept this offer. - Michael Liss

+1 Michael. - Liviu Barbat

Goooo Friendfeed! - Arnold Aranez

I am curious what the net is - Susan Beebe

Louis Gray

FriendFeed Blog: FriendFeed accepts Facebook friend request - http://blog.friendfeed.com/2009...

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As my son says: "sad face". - Fa La La La Lindsay

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arg. - Aron Michalski

This is *not* good - Jorge Escobar

My life has no purpose now - Josh Haley

Is this real ??????? Please ?? No ??? - Jacque

#cantbuymelove - directeur

Robert where are you ? - Jacque

this news sucks, if it's true. - Valeria Maltoni

What does Scoble think? A sad day in MUDville...or something...It does leverage FB to compete with Twitter and all the identi.ca federalist balkanizers. - Prokofy Neva

I guess this means the death of FriendFeed as we know it. - Jorge Escobar

I don't see a comment from Ken, vijay... what did he say? - Fa La La La Lindsay

Sorry... had my threads mixed up... I said this is painful. And apparently I completely misunderstood what FF was trying to accomplish both technically and as an organization. I guess Facebook must have dangled a pretty big bag of money in front of them. - Ken Sheppardson

You should get a cut! - Steve Rubel

Steve, too late for that. See if they can backdate me some options. :) - Louis Gray

New chart? - Liza

So... where to next, Louis? :-) - Ken Sheppardson

Ken, I think it's time for you to build the next big thing. - Bwana ☠

Thomas Hawk

Facebook Acquires FriendFeed???? WTF? - http://www.techcrunch.com/2009...

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Facebook has acquired FriendFeed, we’ve learned. We’re gathering details now. - Thomas Hawk from Bookmarklet

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No. - Yolanda

anyone think this is true? - Thomas Hawk

wah!? The timing would be interesting for me because I just had a big "discussion" with a friend last week about how I won't join Facebook because it's not open like FriendFeed. - Ben Reierson

What. - joey

please GOD No!!!! - Edgar Rodríguez

What?!?! - Kevin Whalen

hrm. - michael sean wright

Crazy. - Eric Florenzano

Noo... please... don't let this be true! - Hector

To publish this and it not be true would be bad. - Kevin Whalen

I wonder if this means that photos of nursing women won't be allowed on FriendFeed anymore. - Thomas Hawk

Acquiring them as their R&D lab? - mikepk

any guesses on the price? Anything less than $100 million would mean that they sold it for too little. - Thomas Hawk

Boom! Direct shot to Twitter. - Jeff Beckham

Holy Fucking Cow. I don't want this. - Zio Bonino

Assuming it's true.... why would it happen? - Ryan - @magicofpi

I thought Google was going to acquire FF - Francine Hardaway

Not giving hits to the Techcrunch asshole, will wait for a responsible media outlet to cover - Gabriel

Well considering FriendFeed had investment rounds aroung $5m (If I remember correctly) a 20x return would put it around 100m, so that would be a good guess. - mikepk

WTF! - Carlos Ayala

If it's not true TechCrunch is not going to look good here. - Thomas Hawk

don't know if this is good or bad. i hate using facebook. - Dusty Edenfield

Screw You Arrington!! LOL - Edgar Rodríguez

If true this can't be good (at least not for FF users). - Brian Sullivan

daaaaamn - Tsega Dinka

So what does this really mean? - Michelle

I hope this is not true and Arrington dives in his own shit. (though it's kinda suspect that the friendfeeders haven't commented yet). - Zio Bonino

well if this is true, it'll be time to move on. i'll be able to concentrate on some of my projects, thats for sure. - Carlos Ayala

Oh god, please, no! - James Myatt

Arrington is definitely not the most trustworthy person in the world, but we'll see - Lawrence Oluyede

No! - Niki Costantini

i trully hope not :-(( - Del_

Well, so they bought they R&D department. Was about time. - Lars Trieloff

:( - ӊooқ

please keep the platforms separate. wow! - Stuart Miniman

Curious why so many think this would be such a bad thing? - Tsega Dinka

Not liking the sound of this so far... Hopefully it won't turn out like the Yahoo - Flickr marriage! - Jeff P. Henderson

Yahoo Flickr wasn't bad IMO - LANjackal

This is horrible news.... I can't believe they'd do this - Matthew DeVries

Maybe I don't know enough about FF, but what is everyone so bummed about? - Katie Wynne

^Exactly. The purchase in and of itself doesn't mean anything. Personally I'm happy, FB probably saved FF's ass financially speaking in the long run - LANjackal from IM

I think some think that it's a bad idea Tsega because FF represents a *vastly* superior content platform than Facebook and some might be concerned that Facebook would end up killing FF as we know it and trying to assimilate us all into their inferior product. - Thomas Hawk

You nailed it, Thomas. - Zio Bonino

there was no "long run" to save FF from financially. It's Founders are loaded. They had the luxury of ample financial backing to run it for a long, long time. It will be interesting to see their reasoning on why they did this if in fact it is true. - Thomas Hawk

For me, FF and FB have two separate purposes: FB is for communicating with my IRL friends and FF is for consuming and sharing content with everyone else, but then I've been on FB since it was select universities only, so maybe I have an outdated opinion of what FB is. They need to keep both products. - James Myatt

OMG this is terrible :( - Ale♫nastrorosa

http://blog.friendfeed.com/2009... - Thomas Hawk

Also, FB is blocked at work, but FF isn't. - James Myatt

+1 James - Daniel J. Pritchett

Thomas: I see where you're coming from. To me though, if anything, this will make facebook a better product over all and hopefully FF will remain what it is with more FB integration. - Tsega Dinka

once upon a time it was "don't be evil".. - Cristian Conti

Seriously, Is this true? OMG this would be the worst thing ever!!! This is a joke RIGHT??!! - Jannifer @wordsforliving

chances are FF will be nuked. There's not much in it for Facebook to run two separate networks. The wording that Bret chose to use on the blog pretty much paints that case in my opinion. FF is worth so much more for it's potential than for it's users and I think Facebook wouldn't care if they lost 100% of the current users if they get unfettered access to implement the best tech ideas into their current product. - Thomas Hawk

Jannifer, I wish it were. But it is true. You can read Brett's post here: http://ff.im/6pFNz - Dilip Dand

crazy crazy stuff. - Zac Bowling

yeah, the phrase "for the time being" is a scary one. - Ryan - @magicofpi

As in, "Friendfeed will continue to operate for the time being." - Ryan - @magicofpi

The team will probably be locked into a 2 year employment with Facebook while their equity fully vests and then will end up jumping ship. This acquisition will likely make Facebook a little bit better, but we probably lose FF in the process which is too bad. - Thomas Hawk

I was kinda hopin FriendFeed would open source some of their sauce but I guess now that's even less of a probability. - matthew john ernisse

I don't have a good feeling about this. :-( Why have two services with so many overlaps. FF will be integrated into FB in the long term. - Kol Tregaskes

Why is the worse company the ones in charge, that is where I'm just freakin baffled. Friendfeed is a better freakin product..... - Matthew DeVries

gee, i step away from my desk for an hour and all heck breaks loose - Imabug

you'd better delete any content (photos for instance) you posted in your feed that you don't want FB to own when they get their claws in. - Joe Silence

Matthew: FB had the $$$. - Joe Silence

When I look at how I used FB and how I use FF (which I am still new to) FBs purchase would actually suck in my world. I only use FB to keep up with my fam and friends and I don't do that very well because I loathe the interface. FF is fresh for a newer user like me. Adds a lot of value in terms of the knowledge sharing that goes on here. To think that this service would get sucked up by... more... - Michelle

Agree with many of the comments on here. I'm concerned Facebook will basically just take all of FriendFeed's great properties and fold it in the large kingdom that is Facebook. A great service, FriendFeed may just become FB's Twitter. (Funny, too, that we're mourning the potential demise of FriendFeed on FriendFeed. Kind of like the newspaper biz writing 1000s of articles about its own demise in its papers. - Keith Trivitt

But all my extended family is on FaceBook! Where do I hide now? - Ted Gilchrist

Keith - well, now we know what happens when Facebook gets jealous... - Ryan - @magicofpi

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Congrats Friendfeed, who are going to be acquired by Facebook http://blog.friendfeed.com/2009...

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

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

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

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

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

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

looking good. looking good - Ritu

What does it do? - Johnny Worthington from iPhone

Surfs the web. - ronin

the price doubling is quite a variation. :P - Joe Silence

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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A Google executive told me that something cooler than Wave is yet to come this year. OK now I am interested! But I am tortured. What is it?

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That does peak my curiosity! - Kevin Whalen

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You are a cruel, cruel man. Now we're all tortured - Keith Barrett

There going to buy friendfeed. - Shaun Hess

Yea. I feel like your friendfeed pic, not being able to figure what it is. - Lakshman Prasad

Must be pretty big.. very curious!! - Allan Jones

Geocities 2.0! - pourmecoffee

Maybe Google Chrome OS earlier than expected? - Manuel Mas

I wonder what that could be. - John (a.k.a. dendroica)

So they're already giving up on wave? - Colin

What is your Friendfeed picture anyway? I'm slightly confused. - Hunt

Whatever it is, Apple/AT&T will not allow it on the iPhone :o - Kevin Whalen

How can they be advertising something cooler than Wave when Wave isn't even out yet? - Lise

Colin: no. Wave is very important to Google. - Robert Scoble from iPhone

Wave 2.0? - TheHenry

I think I know, but I'm not allowed to say because it would violate an NDA. - Bryan Bartow

It's Google Surfboard - a wave add-on - Keith Barrett

Bryan: in that case do you agree? - Robert Scoble from iPhone

Wave is going to be awesome. Waiting on my sandbox access.. it will redefine communications on the net! - Tim Hoeck

Or how about Google Wave: Pacific. - TheHenry

Depends on their implementation of the idea. Personally, I'm more excited about Wave based on what I know about the two, which I admit is very little. - Bryan Bartow

I have a Wave sandbox, and it IS awesome! The announcement has to be related to the new OS or android - Keith Barrett

Keith, if it's what I'm talking about then it is neither. - Bryan Bartow

Bryan: hummmmm. Now I'm more tortured - Keith Barrett

In the interest of full disclosure, my information is two levels removed from the source. Google -> vendor -> me. Still, I trust the source and when the idea was told to me it sounded very plausible. - Bryan Bartow

I hope it's Google Base integration with Open Social widgets! - Mitch

A bit bigger than that, Mitch ;) - Bryan Bartow

@manuel I just came back from Win7 ship party and i am astonished that how many man years does it take make a OS. - Ruchit Garg

My team was actually asked to work on the project, but we unfortunately had to decline. It definitely would have been a cool project. - Bryan Bartow

Ruchit: I understand, just speculating. Yet considering it sounds like a Linux distro running Chrome, it does not sound all that impossible. - Manuel Mas

Maybe its the ability to call up contacts list when composing a message. That would be groundbreaking. :/ - jcunwired

Google Heath integration with Orkut? - Mitch

@Bryan: Is it a Netbook with Chrome OS with all the Google Apps built in. Something like a GPad? - Abhishek Tiwari

Chrome OS wouldn't be a real surprise. Even a Linux distro by Google wouldn't be a shock. Wonder what it could be... hmm... - ChristianWV

killer than wave??? how many of you think google wave is a path breaking one????? - hariharan kumar

Should be considerably easy for Google to accomplish since Wave is vaporware to the overwhelming majority of web users - even savvy ones who know about it. - Chris Duffy

cool is always relative. I have learned not to get too excited. It may be cool for you but not me. - Phillip Miller

I think you mean subjective - Mitch

hate you. :) - metalerik

It's going to be an anti-aging skin cream. It will be called the G-formula. - Tomy Thomson

When I first heard about Wave, I thought big deal, chat and email. But after watching the entire presentation, I see it could replace Email, IM, IRC, Forums, Blogs and their commenting systems, etc.. and put it all in your 'INBOX' - Tim Hoeck from Android

What about the Google Docs interface overhaul? http://googledocs.blogspot.com/2009... With the possibilities of GDrive ... - Kevin Mohr

Wave seems like another Orkut to me, so it wouldn't surprise me if there is something better coming. - Cristo

Google AdSense on the new Coca-Cola Freestye soda dispensers? - RAD Moose

@Abhishek Nope. Not hardware related if it's what I'm thinking. - Bryan Bartow

I'd be willing to bet it is mobile-related. - LogEx

Google shoul create a highly robust social media platform that integrates Google's products: profiles, mail, calendars, chat, voice, picassa, blogger, gReader, search, latitude, maps - that is what I would build :) - Susan Beebe from BuddyFeed

add Wave too, of course - Susan Beebe from BuddyFeed

I'm just going to call it gootopia (or should it be googtopia. hmm) - Micah Wittman from iPhone

Susan, I think that is happening already, bit by bit. Every month there are new capabilities and integration points. I'm optimistic on that front. - LogEx

Interactive TV? :P - imabonehead

I was dreaming about getting access to wave now something new and better?!!! - Mostafa Lameei

Mostafa: There's always something new and better coming from every front. - Manuel Mas

Logical - Google product integration has way more potential than they have currently in production now. I see layers of useful and revenue generating features and improvents. The potential roadmap I see for this is highly disruptive and needed. - Susan Beebe from iPhone

If I had to guess, I would say 1) some type of Youtube Appliance (=Apple TV done right) or 2) Google News 3.0 (shifting from news to a discovery engine). The TV thing is probably bigger and somewhere they have a big competitive advantage with Youtube. - Edwin Khodabakchian

USB plug in directly to right ear download contents of mental zipper - ready to upload to friends - PookyMedia

Another big opportunity besides realtime communication is media streaming so my guess is a Silverlight-like (RIA) platform with special focus on adjustments dependent on the device used for consuming and open enough that augmented reality innovations will play nice with current "standard" codecs - Alberto Saavedra

Google TV!!! Yes! - Susan Beebe from BuddyFeed

Google Web Drive, under the "Cosmo" codename. Read Blogoscoped or GOS. I think Ionut told me he expects Cosmo to be launch before Sept. - Jérôme Flipo from iPhone

Google Web Drive would be cooler, in a way..ve. - Nick Humphries

Antimatter Wave, aka Wavenot™ - ianf ⌘

Google buying FF?!! but something big too big have will for sure have a relation with Google voice. - abdellah

A time machine? - Allen Eskelin

"Google buying FF" - Noooooo! It will just get killed like some of the other high profile acquisitions they have made. - Travis Koger

@Allen I love the concept, @Travis google killed the app that were at their first stage of development, FF is 85% finished (mean completed) the rest 5% will be user innovation, so even if Google buy FF they will not change a line in the code or the architecture.now who is the firt to like this post?!! what did Greader this week? who from Greader left the office to go to FF? too many question!! - abdellah

but let be clear, all the above are just speculation. - abdellah

Nope Abdellah. Cosmo have been mentionned numerous times in official docs and in the code of some apps. - Jérôme Flipo from iPhone

@Jerome havn't understand what do you mean by Cosmo - abdellah

I think it's called "hype." - Carlos Eberhardt

It has to be quantum computing. all computation done outside of time and space. - Walter Logeman

I'm thinking Google Chrome with Native Client for super fast rendering of web applications (including Wave). - George Moga

Introducing Google Goo: Making the web squishy, coming late 2009. - DGentry

Won't be hard to be cooler than Wave. Yes, I'm not a big Wave fan: way too noisy, messy, unusable... Maybe I'll change my mind in the future but for now, I still don't get what we'll do with this stuff and I don't buy the idea. - Pascal Thivent

Okay, here are my predictions. First, let me say that being cooler than Wave will be quite hard because that's pretty awesome (do you have sandbox access Pascal? Because I'm sure that will change your mind). (1) Google TV - Never mentioned anywhere officially and would definitely be cooler than most others, however VEVO is somewhat similar. (2) GDrive/Cosmo/whatever they call it - would... more... - Californian

Google World Domination? - Amit Morson

This churn in applications wears me out! Where do you get the energy? - ZuDfunck

The amount of web-based applications being delivered from Google is amazing. There is so much potential in Google voice apps, Google Wave, which will put their social apps on steroids and now an OS. If they can leverage their brand and fan base into these other verticals; they will be a force to reckoned with and a huge target for anti-trust regulators... - Mark Harai

Google Cloud. In your pocket, on your desk, embedded ---anywhere, anytime at anyprice. - Thom Kennon

Wow Thom - that actually does sound VERY cool... - Mark Harai

I'm interested too!! - Alex Hammer

Probably something to do with a more direct Windows competition. If you look at Google's recent products, many of them are meant to replace Microsoft products. - William Mougayar from iPhone

A multi-platform OS is the only thing in my mind that could top Wave. Can't wait to find out for sure though what this will be! - Garin Kilpatrick

I bet it's the Gdrive after I've just paid for an extra 10GB storage on Google. Would be cool to be able to access all my files from any google app, so I could add a picture from picassa webalbum or embed a video of mine/ favourited without having to go to the other site and copy a URL. This would set it up nicely for google OS - Steven Horner from iPhone

It's a kind of gyro balanced 2-wheel personal transportation device, IT will change everything. The way we live, the way cities are built. - Ray Cromwell

Crazy. I wonder if it will read my mind and stream content related to my thoughts in real-time. - Dane

What!? Cooler than Wave. I'll give my left nut to find out what & to be a tester. - Brian Felix from iPhone

Whatever it is, I'm sure IT WILL BE BIGGER THAN THE INTERNETS! - Andy Bakun

It is a Google-branded reality distortion field developed in collaboration with Apple. The reality distortion field prototype is so strong that Eric Schmidt was forced to resign from the Apple board of directors, lest his field encounter that of Steve Jobs reulting in mutual annihilation in a devastating burst of pure energy. - thegeniusfiles

That's a really interesting idea, Gabe. It seems to go a bit against the drive that Google Apps will reduce the need for IT departments though, so I doubt it. - Californian

Google will be hiring people to come to your house and physically direct your searches. - Chris Baskind

This photo search thing? - Michael Q Todd

Google has created an OFF button for the internet and will demonstrate their magic later this year. After that, Google will solidify the world under one government known as the Google Wave Party. Then, SkyNet will be born and we will all be shocked and amazed when Google Androids storm through our neighborhoods, killing us all. - Bradley Farless

More exciting than Wave. Has got to be Tsunami - Sidharth Dassani

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