Tac Anderson

agent smitten - Mo "Killer Bee" Kargas

i watch the Movie. awesome - Mahdi Ebrahimi

چه طوری میشه از اینا شر کرد؟ - ناباور

آه بیگیرش - bbn30

Freakin' owch. - Bec

I love this scene so much!! - Kol Tregaskes

Yes! That is all - Brandon Titus

این ایجنت اسمیت نماینده لنگی هاست و نیو هم که استقلالی تیر، اوه اوه، چجوری هایی اسمیت؟ - thousanddots

@thousanddots : دقیقن، دقیقن - mehdi ufgvn

چی میگی اسمیت؟ لنگ؟ - thousanddots

عجب عکسی! - ترناس

No she was just stupid. You can tell most the time just by looking at them. And they are going to try out having the internet on planes. That's the latest I have heard. I highly doubt the FAA will allow people to have the option of using their phone in flight. Before you leave the gate one of the main reasons why you can't have it on is because it is a communication device and we don't know who you are talking to or what about. You never know who is planning to do what! - BrandyLea Photography

That's a bad idea. I'd hate to have to throw someone out the door at 30,000 feet. Unless someone has invented a cone of silence I haven't heard about? - Brian Norwood

I was just going to let her try and then figure it out on her own that she couldn't get any service but the girl I was flying with told her that she couldn't use her phone. I wanted the entertainment! lol! - BrandyLea Photography

The whole ban on communication/electronic devices is just another example of knee-jerk security that has no basis in fact. A link between electronic devices and plane crashes has never been found...in fact it was disproven in the one or two accidents in which it was suspected as the cause. - Alex "Maverick" Scoble

Didn't Mythbusters do a whole episode about this? I think what they found was inconclusive, mostly because the FAA wouldn't let them do their test in while in flight (rightly so, I suppose.) - Haggis (Sean)

@Louis, Why? - Jeff P. Henderson

some of the best photos are taken while driving. - Thomas Hawk

@Jeff, because I think those things are less intrusive than other non-banned activities, and because I only do them if I'm stopped (intersection) or not around other cars. I think these new rules are silly. Given how much time we spend in cars, we shouldn't need to be disconnected. - Louis Gray

@Louis, I have no problem with people talking or texting while stopped at a light. I'm glad you use some common sense. What I do have a problem with is some jackass driving in the fast lane during rush hour going 50MPH with a cell phone glued to their ear and trying to take notes, totally oblivious to those behind and around them. That is who these laws are for. - Jeff P. Henderson

Another reason to use mass transit - you can play with your iPhone all you like. - Jason Kaneshiro

Louis, I trust that you would still drive responsibly. But would everyone? I am sure the lure of a near-real-time SMS conversation would cause people to attempt to drive and text at the same time. It probably happens all the time. - J·Phil·Glockner

Good - Ryan

I don't like banning of phones in vehicles. What's next? No radios? Those are distracting. Or, how about a navigation system? I'd rather see them stop people for driving in the passing lane, running lights, not using turn signals, and blocking intersections (not stopping by the stop line) then go after all phone users. Fix the other stuff first please. - Becca

+ A LOT, Becca. I was just thinking that myself... - Lisa L. Seifert

Can't agree with Becca more. Have watched more people drive off the (main part of the) road messing with Nav systems ... Either all or none? - Charlie Anzman

I'd offer anything that distracts both eyes and hands simultaneously should be banned while driving. - Jason Kaneshiro

I know a few drivers that should be banned from driving - Charlie Anzman

i have a GPS and i've texted while stuck in traffic. the GPS is dangerous to use while driving, there's no way i'd text. still i wonder if on those occasions i'm checking the traffic on my GPS will i get pulled over. i use my GPS to talk on my phone too - Faboo Mama

I don't even use the phone while driving... - Mavericks of Troy, NV!

I'm leaving this comment via iPhone while driving home. - Nathan Chase

On the other hand ... not too sure any of this matters. Have people with no toys tailgating me every day?! - Charlie Anzman

@Jeff 50? Try 90. I remember a guy on the phone who used me as a pace car once. (This was when I was younger...) I kept speeding up and at around 90 MPH he realized what he was doing and abruptly slowed down! - Oliver Ortega Chua

we CAN'T drive and text in the southeast because we HAVE NO GAS. - jeneane 'the wink' sessum

It would seem that I have broken the law tonight? - Colby Olson

welcome to Australia! :-) - Duncan Riley

need to ban women putting on makeup, mascara in the vanity mirror...gawd i hate that! how about people reading magazines, newspapers. hey what about smokers...that ties up 1 hand for a good 10 minutes - Susan Beebe

I'm surprised it's taken this long. Five girls were killed here last year due to driver texting. - Cyndy

Would have to think the train accident was the immediate motivation ... even though it wasn't a car - Charlie Anzman

I feel like ramming drivers sitting in front of me at a green light that just turned but the driver in front of me didn't notice that the signal had turned green because he/she was texting. - Tokyo Dan via twhirl

Good - dan

There is a BBC report on the Transport Research Lab study into the effects of texting on driving at http://tinyurl.com/3mlq9w - Richard Peat

Here in the UK, we don't mess about with having one law to ban something when we can have three. Using a mobile phone (texting, talking, gaming, whatever) falls under "Driving without due care and attention", "Using a handheld microphone whilst driving" AND "Holding an active telecommunications device whilst in control of a motor vehicle". The first is a catch-all ruling, the second was brought about in the 70s to curtail the use of CB radio, and the last is a couple of years old. One would have been enough - Slippy Lane

Whoa. I better pull over. - Jay Tannenbaum

Hey, Slippy. I LOVE the way driving works in the UK. Doesn't eating whilst driving also fall under "without due care and attention?" And I REALLY love that you can be ticketed for being in the passing lane when you're not actively passing! Slower traffic move OVER, please! - Lisa L. Seifert

RAPatton and Mona H. - Michelle Marie Miller

Mark Wilson and Bwana McCall. - Shawn Farner

Patricia Hanrahan and Emma - RAPatton

Deepak and Jill O'Neill - Michael Nielsen

Mark VandenBurg http://friendfeed.com/mvandenb... and WarMaiden http://friendfeed.com/warmaide... - Alex "Maverick" Scoble

Deepak, Maxine - Pierre

*Way* too hard to just pick two. Sorry. - David Cook via twhirl

RAP again & edythe. Rahsheen, too, and several others. Rahsheen is often a laugh riot. I love his comments. - Kamilah Gill

Deepak and ... Neil Saunders. - PauloNuin

Jay Tannenbaum http://friendfeed.com/jaytanne... and Steve Spalding http://friendfeed.com/sbspaldi... - Steve Olson

Any two random people i'm currently following. - Amber aka SDA

Joe Perrin and AJ Batac - Aaron Krug

Me and Mona. - Monique

Banane (anna), KyleLacy, itblogger (alexscoble) Monasfeed, Rahsheen, RAPatton, Vox, etc etc etc etc - Nicholas Kreidberg

Louis Gray and Tsudonimh - ChangeForge | Ken Stewart

Michael Cohen & Tina - embee

Highly dependent on what you are looking for. For "tech" I would say Louis Gray and Sarah Perez. For "general" friendfeed goodness, Mona and Anna Haro. - Rob Diana

Deepak, Maxine, Michael Nielsen [oh damn - my four most connected connections are...] - Cameron Neylon

That's easy: Friends->Stats->People You Find Interesting - the top two are Jill O'Neill and Duncan Hull. - Richard Akerman

Josh Haley, Pete Delucchi, Cee Bee, Bren, Carmen, Mattie Kenny, Far, Carlos Ayala, Emma, etc, etc, etc (that's just off the top of my head). I can't pick just 2. And of course Akiva Moskovitz - Mark Wilson

Mona N & Hutch Carpenter - Atul Arora

Couldn't possibly pick just 2, lots of great people on here - Kol Tregaskes

If I go by my stats, Mona and RAPatton. - JMShoes

Michael W. May and Mark Wilson to name but two, but there are so many other greats! :) - David Young

Way too many to name....the "Night Crew" is pretty cool in general...Mona and Anna Haro are everywhere...Cee Bee, David Ward, Mark Wilson, Far, Josh Haley, Zee, etc, etc...too many to name! Lots of quality... - Live4Soccer

Stats say RAPatton and edythe. - Mark Trapp

9 and JMS. - Alix Whitmire

mate, no way i'm picking just two - this isn't what this is about. - Zee from WeDoCreative

Everyone I subscribe to brings something interesting. No way could I pick a few even, much less just 2. - Yolanda

Grabbing the top two off my stats: Alan Le and Thomas Hawk - Jordan Hofker

I just looked at the list of people I'm subscribed to and wondered whether I could trim any of them. Answer? No. - Cameron Neylon

Anyone who recommends Thomas Hawk, Louis Gray, and Duncan Riley will get an automatic subscribe from me, cause they are my three top stats other than Techcrunch. - Robert Scoble

I refuse to pick just 2, here are some of my favorites: /orli , /andrewbaron , /monasfeed , /bitfaker , /molzy , /krynsky , /l0ckergn0me , /louisgray - Majento™

Social Network Law: Every social technology evolves until it recapitulates the horrors experienced in grade school. In this case, not being picked to play in any reindeer games :-) - todd

all you REALLY need is @nextbigfuture ... :-) - michael silverton via twhirl

http://friendfeed.com/shelnew1... and http://friendfeed.com/nicefish... oh yea and a ton of the other great people I follow including the old standbys like Duncan and Mona who don't need me pimping for them. - Steve Spalding

monasfeed l0ckergn0me - Matthew Davidson via twhirl

In the effort of not duplicating, I don't think http://friendfeed.com/kylelacy and http://friendfeed.com/vanelsas have been mentioned. - Tim Hoeck

Cee Bee and Steve Isaacs. Woot! I got a recommendation. Thanks Jordan Hofker. - Alan Le

Mike Fruchter and me ... Well, not exactly like that - Charlie Anzman

It's not fair limiting it to two. There are soooooo many smart (and fun) people now on FF ??!! - Charlie Anzman

All above.:) - Igor Poltavskiy

Only two?Oh, that's not fair! - Ranjani Ravi

ouch - Susan Beebe

Any sort of change is good. Nickels, Quarters, even pennies. - R. Alexander Spoerer

huh? - Marko Bon

good point Tina, FB is a totally bloated app for the web with altogether too much programming, while Friendfeed is like the winningest soapbox racer - slimmed down, sleek, and with all coded with all kinds of win - Pete Delucchi via fftogo

FF = myriad information flow; easy to manage FB = hot mess re: shared info management; personal info more customizable. And agree with Tina. FB is so EFin slow! - Mona N.

Facebook takes forever; FriendFeed is speedy. Facebook is bloated with useless applications and ads; FriendFeed is clean, simple, and streamlined. That's all I need. - Voyagerfan5761

I'm trying to avoid getting a person onto FriendFeed and being told that it looks like a watered-down Facebook. - possible248

Seriously? FF is about life streaming. Everything you do around the internet can be filed in here. FB is all about those stupid applications that are annoying and have no purpose anyway. :) - Justin Korn

But can't everything you do around the Internet also be filed into Facebook? - possible248

FB = interacting with people you know (or they know), FF = randomly picking people that look interesting and seeing what they have to say - Stupid Blogger (aka Tina)

FF has a killer search engine. - Robert Scoble

FB= Mindless, FF=Wisdom - imran

Do people actually exchange info on Facebook (not in groups)? - Mona N.

poke - Andrew Smith

FF's items can be linked to from blogs because the system is open here. - Robert Scoble

There's a community on FB? - Outsanity

No EFFING invites to play Mobster or Scramble. Ever! - Brian Norwood

That 2nd point Robert made is very important to me. I like being able to link easily. Don't have to sign in to see things. - Yolanda

FF doesn't spam the crap out of me. - Tac Anderson

FB has many more vampires - Jeremy Toeman

FF is for more mature crowd - imran

Currently, FF has many early adopters whereas FB is mainstream - imabonehead

FF doesn't confuse my sexuality from one page view to the next - Michael W. May via twhirl

Okay, the responses turned more towards the community. I'd like to emphasize that I'm wondering from a feature point of view. - possible248

Information management is easier (more intuitive) on FF. - Mona N.

on FF I see information from many sources, on FB I only see what my friends are doing - Michael J. Cohen (mjc)

FF: More people. More feeds. Tons of info. FB: personal connections to individuals that I know. - Christopher Welle

Founded by ex-Googlers vs founded by some random guy in college. - Gavin

friendfeed is esoteric and full of outbound coversation. Facebook is all about keeping things internal (apps) and more about social relationships. Totally different beasts, no? - GlennIsaac

From a feature point of view FB theoretically enables 3rd parties to create APPS that people engage in and share. That ship, it seems, has sailed, no matter what you say about the App toolbar at the bottom. At this point FB is a good agregator of your various degrees of separation, whereas FF is stronger for conversation and lifestreaming. - Marko Bon

FB renders less than + 3 into hearts, FF doesn't. - Mona N. via fftogo

can you get to proxify.com? doesn't that tunnel through for you? - Josh Haley

use the power of teh boobs ;) (facetiousness ftw) - Michael J. Cohen (mjc)

get your own laptop with an EVDO card. Thats what I do. - Thomas Hawk

I'm blocked on all those as well, but since the new Facebook is on www.new.facebook.com they have not blocked that id. As long as I'm still logged into it I can get on it from work! That's the biggest reason why I like the new Facebook. - Chris Rivait

+1 Thomas - cjmart

besides the usual blocking, we've got webwasher restrictions - 1 hr per day on all 'non productive' sites.. so it's 10 minutes for gmail, 10 minutes for Youtube, 10 minutes for FB.... etc etc - Kim

1UP Mr. Hawk :) - Michael J. Cohen (mjc)

good idea even if they dont' block things - Michael J. Cohen (mjc)

Whoa. Is anyone out there seriously considering buying a new computer and an EVDO card just to have access to MySpace, Facebook, and YouTube while at work? Let me get this straight. You have a job where they pay you so much that you can afford that kind of luxury (unimaginable to me, a lowly college professor, I'm sure I'll never even even be allowed to TOUCH an EVDO card) -- but they don't trust you to you control your own internet access?! Strange world we live in. - Nathan Rein

serious suckage. - Tac Anderson

Actually, Nathan, I don't care so much about not getting MySpace or Facebook. But, YouTube would come in handy sometimes. However, they are cracking down harder now on sites. I'm surprised I can still get to Last.fm or pandora.com... or here for that matter! And Thomas, I haven't been able to justify the monthly cost of the card. I am just not there yet. :) - Yolanda

What a deal, I'd love have people accept the challenge if I was that straightforward ;p - Zu aka ElijahBailey

If only that worked! - Joe Pierce

My kind of a deal. How about Guilty Gear, SF is kinda lame? - Mladen Srdić

I hear the match is still going on. - Andrew Trinh

Win-Win situation. I like it! :D - Ron

wait, Mona is not on that list??? WTF - anna

I agree. This page is not very useful. - Robert Scoble

Not so much A-listers as FF import-only-ers. I am a bit annoyed that they import only and never reply to comments. What is an A-list anyway? Show me a link to an A-list and the qualifications that got them there. - Josh Haley

It seemed appropriate in the "early days" of FF - when this list of folks vouched for the early adopter cred of the service, but now with the tons of user data that must be available this list is almost meaningless - best to just hide the recommended link til it IS useful. For instance - I dig Mashable, but the FF profile has only left 5 comments TOTAL, and the feed is just an RSS ghost feed - yet is recommended. - Steve Isaacs

why don't the recommended people change based on my current friend list? - Jonathan Jesse

Josh - The "A-List" is an actual definition - people who are writers for popular tech sites/blogs, weblebrities etc. I have nothing against them at all, but it's clear that the "recommended" is not generated by an engine searching for similarities or even activity on the site, but serving just as a roll call of people you MIGHT have heard of who have FF profiles. - Steve Isaacs

You know I compared yours to mine, and I get a totally different range.. a few A-List crossovers, but not like yours. http://www.flickr.com/photos/b... I think yours is a symptom of your popularity & fame and who you are linked to, and how many crossovers your friends have with A-Listeres... I think it's a valid question though, that there should be a weight for "activity ON FF" instead of just RSS feeds into FF - anna

It's probably derived from the number of subscriptions. - Vincent van Wylick

agreed, it's not on. - Zee from WeDoCreative

mine are different now - much more diverse, still folks i won't be subscribing to though - that is the point after all ;) - mike "glemak" dunn

do i need to write about this again? :) c'mon go read my posts about this on CN - it's a joke - in fact, people like Mona are supporting that lists ability to drive traffic to themselves - I could go on... here's my last post on this topic "ff doesn't care about mona" - http://www.centernetworks.com/... oh and it gets better - go look at how many of them actually participate - nearly zero. - Allen Stern

Allen: that list doesn't drive much traffic at all. Only a hundred per week at this point - Robert Scoble

The important thing to note is Rahsheen's face dominating the "Most Liked Videos" sidebar on FFholic. - Daniel J. Pritchett

and actually I don't know who comes from that list but in past month FF growth has been very slow. - Robert Scoble

haha DJP - Michael J. Cohen (mjc)

I don't know about in beta, but in FF "classic" that list changes depending on who you are subscribed to. I used it a bit in the beginning but I don't look at it now. - Laura Norvig

"only a hundred per week" - Robert, please stop now. 100 x 52 weeks (i give you the benefit of 100) = 5,200 you could hit with your "paid advertisements" like you did last week :) - Allen Stern

Allen - I had already seen your video on this - totally agree with it - I just thought with the launch of the two betas since that things might have changed. - Steve Isaacs

Allen: that number includes subscribers from all sources, not just that page. Also, out of 33 people who showed up today only two didn't tell me a Twitter address. So, FriendFeed didn't pull enough to care much about from a monetization angle. - Robert Scoble

If I were FF I would show popular friends of friends and weight it in favor of truly active FF users, to highlight the functionality of the site. Then over time would add commonality of likes and comments to really get some solid recommendations. - Steve Isaacs

Steve +1 - anna

+2 steve - Zee from WeDoCreative

agreed steve - that would be a much better system and help folks new to ff get exposed to true foaf power users vs "popular" subjective picks - only so much the algorithm can handle right now i suppose and for the most part i'm still pretty jazzed w/ the changes being implemented so far - mike "glemak" dunn

shows the abuse the term "recommended" has become- static lists, et al. - anna

The list does change per person, for instance, Mona is on my list. Not sure of the algorithm, but it should be based on popular/active FoaFers like Steven suggested. - xero

It *is* based on popular FoaFers. It recommends people that are popular among your friends based on subscriptions and that you currently don't subscribe to. A-listers keep showing up in your list precisely because they are a-listers: they are popular among your friends. Rather than coming up with a convoluted recommendation system that basically is "no a listers," maybe a more elegant solution would be to allow people to say "No thanks" and remove people from the recommended list, thus opening a recommendation slot to someone you might not have seen because they were popular user #31. - Mark Trapp

So my fix then would be to weight it in favor of being active on FF: making FF-native posts, comments, and likes and filter it based on that. - Steve Isaacs

Apparently it's not an issue, they just received a fed bailout... - Stupid Blogger (aka Tina)

$85B loan for 80% of the company - Louis Gray

"not an issue" my butt. the fed is going to basically have to toss out tons of cash to save a bunch of companies, and we will be feeling the effects of these for a LONG time, bailout or not - Michael J. Cohen (mjc)

Oh, I understand that MJC. I forgot to put /*wryface*/ in my comment above... - Stupid Blogger (aka Tina)

Doesn't the fed bailing out all these companies end up diluting our currency big time? Like if debit/credit cards didn't exist, we'd all soon all be shopping at Wal-Mart carting wheelbarrows full of worthless green stuff in order to buy the newest poisonous objects from China? - Victor Ganata

It's NOT a bailout. It's a bridge loan with 80% of the company as collateral. This means a buyout is close but AIG needs some extra cash to get to the finish line. Once the deal is done the loan has to be repaid. Why crash the company when a buyout may be a only a few days away!? - Kevin D. White

To put it in simpler terms: AIG just got a payday loan. - Kevin D. White

steve ,, Im a canadian firefighter for 28 yrs ,, I was in NYC for the Memorial in 2002 , We Will Never Forget ! - johnpiercy

How can you forget watching video like this? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v... - Chiara Lorè

Steve, kinda agree with you, especially since I took a flight from DC to CA that very morning and spent the day trying to track down a cousin who worked in the complex. But you also need to ask a simple question. How could a country that had the entire world behind it at the time manage to get the world against it so quickly. - Deepak

@Chiara you can't. But people don't talk about 9/11 like we used to. Some of that is healthy, but I worry people think it won't happen again because it's been so many years w/o an attack on US soil. I think about it every time I get on a plane (which is often). And often when I commu