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Anyone Still Using Friendfeed? - http://www.centernetworks.com/anyone-...

October 13 from CenterNetworks - Comment - Like - Share

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dreadful death.:( - Igor Poltavskiy

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:( - Yolanda

A slow, lingering death is the worst. - Greg Guitarbuster

article is pointing at Robert Scoble and Louis Gray, too. - Joe Silence

i'm not predicting the death of FF until they shoot it in the base of the skull. i actually use Facebook LESS post-acquisition. - Joe Silence

Maybe things were down in September because so many people went back to school? - Nine

NO, IT'S THE FFPOCALYPSE! SHUT DOWN THE SERVERS NOW!! :P - Joe Silence

Long Live FriendFeed - Chris Heath

LONG LIVE THE NEW FFLESH! - Joe Silence

FriendFeed is still the best place to 1) Aggregate all content from around the Web and 2) See others activity around the Web. Also, if you assume Facebook wins, piping content through here fills out your Facebook profile. So of course I'm still here. - Louis Gray

There you go, Allen. Straight from (one of) the horse's mouth. :) Louis is still here, still active and even interacting with you. - Curtiss Grymala

yep - i just saw a pic of his kid in a tshirt :) - Allen Stern

Yes - Alex Scoble

"Consultant Louis Gray appears to be using Google Reader to share content he finds interesting." Wait, I see him right up there.^^^^^ - Christopher Harley

why are folks abandoning? :( - ffcode

hate facebook, and scoble's prediction that facebook would be the next big thing! you just can't help those folks that just get there for the girl-boy thing...or for their friends and family, there is a lot of people doing it there and a great section of that isn't of any help when it comes to questions and tech stuff, it might be a big thing but compared to friendfeed it is... more... - ffcode

Guys, this is FriendFeed comment bait. The chart on CenterNetworks isn't that good either. :) http://siteanalytics.compete.com/centern... - Louis Gray

Ouch :p - Chris Saad

oh snap! Louis is just mad because Cal lost again last weekend - Allen Stern

Guys, this is not Friendfeed comment bait - The chart on Louis Gray isn't that good either :) http://siteanalytics.compete.com/louisgr... - Allen Stern

URLTLDR - Jay Cuthrell

Allen, October will be an up month for me. :) - Louis Gray

why did the twins get computers? **oh snap** LOL - Allen Stern

Me-ouch - nice work Louis about CenterNetworks! - Shane

still here. (been posting this a lot lately....) - Mike Nencetti

Still my favorite network. Why? - Jesse Stay

You know it would be cool if everyone left FriendFeed because then Louis and I would have the edge against everyone else that left it in the dust. It's still an awesome tool guys! - Jesse Stay

Using it every day - Christopher Galtenberg

I keep telling you guys: this internet thing is JUST A FAD - Ken Sheppardson

The chart on mine's going up, kind of: http://siteanalytics.compete.com/staynal... - Jesse Stay

nice Jesse - keep it up! - Allen Stern

Allen, I just hope that everybody stops blogging so I am the only one doing it. If you naysayers all stop FriendFeeding, that's fine too. Go have fun on your Twitter. :) - Louis Gray

I noticed a decline, but it really seems to be picking up lately, especially in the last week. - RAPatton

i thought we were all going to posterous? i booked a big coach bus to take us all over there! rubel is driving! :-P - Allen Stern

hahahaha "go have fun on your twitter" there isn't anything like friendfeed, no not even posterous... - ffcode

*fierce eye roll* - Chieze Okoye

In the old days this would have had hundreds of comments. - Robert Scoble from iPhone

Allen, no, we're all going to SocialMedian now - didn't you get the memo? - Jesse Stay

Robert, that's because your brother quit ;-) - Jesse Stay

it's really simple: I control what I see and respond to on FriendFeed. On Facebook others control what I see. - bear (aka Mike Taylor)

Robert, are you coming here to tell us again that nobody uses FriendFeed anymore because it's too noisy? - Bruce Lewis from fftogo

yup Robert i am with Bruce on this...:) - ffcode

If it's too loud, you're too old. - Bruce Lewis from fftogo

one of the reasons might be because FF team has moved on... - ffcode

WHAT? YOU GUYS ARE BEING TOO NOISY - Jesse Stay

I haven't noticed any big declines since the week or two after the Facebook announcements. Most of the people I interact with are still here... and I've subbed to new people... I don't know what that article is talking about. Seems like the article is a self fulfilling prophecy: let's say that everyone is leaving FriendFeed so that everyone will leave FriendFeed. Actually, it almost... more... - Lindsay is in 20-ten

kind of, though I've noticed most have changed exactly how they use it before and after the big sell, for example there are fewer imports of the particular services and more of personal blog RSS's, which I'm sure is due to who own the content issue - sofarsoShawn

ffcode, Paul Bucheit posted something just yesterday, as did Benjamin Golub. They're still using the site. - Jesse Stay

http://siteanalytics.compete.com/louisgr... - Chris Heath

moved on as in moved on to another projects are they still working on ff? - ffcode

jesse, but their activity has seen a drop, bret isn't doing much - ffcode

I've personally noticed a large drop among the usual people I subscribed to. My main feed was so dead I even had to ask if the real-time feature broke down. - sofarsoShawn

ffcode, they're working on the facebook code now... figuring out how to move forward while integrating the friendfeed features (iirc) - Chris Heath

oh okay... - ffcode

This makes me sad. :( - April Buchheit from iPhone

Great... Just when I was getting used to FriendFeed... So what's the new fad service? Outside of Google Wave and the still going strong Twitter/Facebook news, I haven't heard of anything new coming out lately. Maybe it's just me but I'm itching for more revolutionary free stuff. Posterous FTW though. :p - Fake Name

ffcode, they released Tornado server recently. I think that was a pretty significant activity - Jesse Stay

Fake Name, don't go anywhere... Long Live FriendFeed - Chris Heath

For the record, Allen, Cal didn't lose this weekend because they had a bye week. :) - Louis Gray

looooooooooooooool - Allen Stern

Still here...... - Iain Baker

i'm of the opinion that FriendFeed (the service) is of more value -- to me-- than FriendFeed (the community) and if the community goes off and disipates it will be a loss, but the service is still worth a lot to me - Chris Heath

April, please elaborate. - Bruce Lewis from fftogo

Louis, you mean a BYU week? Did you see how much BYU beat UNLV by? :-) - Jesse Stay

Ok, Chris. I'll hold your Feed up to that scrutiny. :p - Fake Name

agree with Judy... - ffcode

In answer to the original question: yes! :-) - Kol Tregaskes

Yeah - April can't just say she's sad and leave it at that :-) Does she have insider information we're not privy to? - Jesse Stay

this thread tops my best of day. - Mike Nencetti

I stopped pruning my FF feed to promote interaction and don't bother sharing with FF as much. I just post links through twitter now and upped my usage for facebook. I also stopped updating the rooms I started. - Alan Le

FF is still my favourite, although I'm quite. But that's due to other activities. - Ton Zijp

this is control, and you all who registered on ff need to be here ASAP...and we need to rebuild the conversations ETA a day at most... - ffcode

I'm still here. More active some days than others. But when we DO need to abandon the ship, why not try Cliqset? - Patrik Johansson

hahhahaaaa, yeah that'd be FriendFeed done right - sofarsoShawn

Yeah I read that article. I don't think it's better than FF, not close. But when FF goes down, maybe Cliqset could be something? - Patrik Johansson

Fake Name, what scrutiny are you holding my feed up to? Not sure what you mean. - Chris Heath

I use FF for aggregation, for discovery of interesting stories, and for following discussions. I never received much interaction with my own posts here. It's a mystery to me why people complain about FF complexity when Facebook is way more complex and less intuitive. Twitter is too simple, and therefore requires ridiculous hacks like RTs and @s. Unpopular Jaiku is better than Twitter.... more... - howard shippin

@Chris Heath, it was just a fancy way of saying I've subscribed to your feed. - Fake Name

btw oward, why is Jaiku better than Twitter? You didn't exactly clarify. Personally though...yeah, end of the day I either want a better RSS or a better RSS segmenter than anything else. FriendFeed is nice but it's still more of a lifestream than a Yahoo Pipes' Dream. - Fake Name

Fake Name, well that makes sense... i kind of thought you might have been putting me down in a sarcastic manner, but that makes sense too - Chris Heath

Haven't found anything to replace it with just yet, so yeah, I'm still here. - Steven Perez

To be honest, I have stopped listening to a lot of social media 'experts'. FriendFeed has always been about social interaction for me... After 1,000,345 stories on Twitter vs Facebook, it's getting old. Interaction may be down... but it may be the content, not the service. - Johnny Worthington

Good thread, my comment on the post here: http://alexschleber.posterous.com/my-comm... If FF goes away entirely, it would be a huge loss of the (Twitter) archiving capabilities. I still don't get why FF didn't go the full-on Twitter client route, they could have pwned TweetDeck with better groups, MUCH better persistence, etc. They could have ridden the Twitter hype wave all the way. Of course to make that happen, they would have had to optimize the Twitter use cases. - Alex Schleber

I like FF for everything it does that Twitter DOESN'T. I'm very glad they didn't just make it another lame Twitter client. How many of those do we really need? - Lindsay is in 20-ten

FB could easily inject thousands or millions of new users. The fact that they don't, and probably won't, sucks. I think ff was bought because it was seen as a threat, and now I fear it is being left to die. sigh. - Garin Kilpatrick

I think the 50 mio is a transfer payment to FF guys... They dont need anything and I dont think that they seen ff as a thread. - Atif UNALDI

pity, i was just starting to enjoy using friendfeed even though no body ever replied to any of my comments lol - Loc

@bluecockatoo / Lindsay, I wasn't saying that FF should ONLY be another Twitter client, rather the best, on top of also being the best for other services and FF discussion (different use cases). BTW, you may have noticed that FF was always at least 50% Twitter content. Why deny/fight reality, especially if that reality could have greatly bolstered FF instead of seeing it flounder and then having to sell out to Zuckerberg for the coding talent (AKA liquidation). - Alex Schleber

I've actually been spending more time here lately, still subscribing to interesting feeds - but also started looking for decent replacement. Expecting may be some time before I find one - no hurry .... - Dan Freeman

Uh yeaah bitch, I just signed up today, bow down and worship. - Gina

To the end - Wayne Sutton from iPhone

Yeeee - Joe Dawson

Garin, i suspect ff guys had facebook in mind when they were designing it... - ffcode

"While comparing Posterous to Friendfeed is like comparing a bagel to a piece of fish, ..." lol. But.. can't argue with the OP; it's a shame.. - thinkQuick

I still open up FF and leave it running all day long. - Chris Jackson

Yup, still using it. At the Mac FriendFeed still rules over Twitter. Slightly different story on the iPhone where Twitter is served by several superb third party clients, in particular Twittelator Pro, which drag me to the platform. On the Mac though it's a no contest. I'm staying in the hope that FriendFeed will see further updates. If this doesn't happen and if it rots on the vine then I'll consider other services. For now though FriendFeed seems the best there is out there. - JSLeFanu

have we passed 100 comments yet so Scobelizer will take note - Chris Heath

Chris: No, I mean, yes. - Bruce Lewis from fftogo

No, nobody uses FriendFeed any more. I certainly don't. - Mellissa

I still use FriendFeed, although I haven't been as active as I would have liked, as of late. :( - Tyson Key

I didn't want to respond to this yesterday but I think it's really sad that blogs\news try to put things into the Deadpool before they actually happen. Throughout my career I've seen this, X is dead and in many cases they still exist. Why does media (including blogs) feel it is there role to speed up or create a death? My view is that if they are still talking about it, it's normally still doing OK. - manielse (Mark Nielsen)

I especially liked how she called us idiots as we had it wrong this whollllle damn time. Oh yes, because she's in the superior position to make such a crude judgment call. Dumb fug. - sofarsoShawn

Shawn, who's she? and where did she say this? now i'm interested... - Chris Heath

Here we go, my Backtype's not importing so, Christina Warren wrote a thoroughly idiotic article for mashable: http://www.backtype.com/connect... & Louis G's take: http://friendfeed.com/louisgr... - sofarsoShawn

I do, but I wish there was a way of filtering what the Facebook app posts, e.g. no "@" replies... - David "Lefty" Schlesinger from Nambu

I use Friendfeed a lot more than Twitter because there is less noise and spam so it's fine if the numbers are low as long as they keep running it. I do spend most on my time on facebook because that's where my close friends and family are. It would be easier to be here if there was interaction on any of my posts. - Jason Williams from iPhone

@fake name (Twitter vs. Jaiku) ...It's not like I actually use Jaiku, but I see that it has threaded conversations. That's an improvement right there. - howard shippin

I find myself using friendfeed even more after the acquisition. I usually start conversations here and auto-post to twitter. I just seem to get more interaction here than twitter. I get a few @replies here and there on twitter but its usually my close friends. - Bryan Lee

Still here... - Carlos Sousa

so am i... maybe it's december, not friendfeed? students are back to their studies, business people realize that the quarter ends in september and so on... i've cut my browsing to minimum - no twitter, no facebook, only friendfeed - Kirill Bolgarov

Off topic: Do your Twitter updates come as fast as usual or are they late? Because mine are unusually late. Google Reader shares too. - rukku

Robert Scoble

Facebook is unusable? That's what I'm reading here. Well, please explain how 300 million use it then. Including my wife, my son, me, and ALL of Maryam's elementary school friends from Iran.

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I think most mean it's not as comfortable as FriendFeed. - Amit Morson

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I think some of the stuff I'm reading about Facebook is laughable. Really? I went over and used it tonight and the news feed is very similar to FriendFeed. The technology from here will fit right in. - Robert Scoble

Actually, Robert's right. FriendFeed's basically a superior version of the Facebook news feed. - Dennis Jernberg

I wish Friend Feed was keyboard navigatable though. Google Reader and GMail have spoiled me; making me think that web apps can be usable as well. I don't like using the mouse so much. - Travis B. Hartwell

It's gotten a bit easier since they started copying Twitter/Friendfeed...but its the third-party silly stuff that puts me off. Serious stuff was always better here in Friendfeed. - George Hall (Australia)

we are compatable, hell the wedding is over put the shotguns down and lets all party like geeks. go to bed. love you all. you may friend me at any one of these places as lisbethwest. gnite! - lisbethwest

George: I ignore all that stuff, it never bothered me. - Robert Scoble

When do do we get hear what the plan actually is? I have used the FF app in facebook from time to time. But the problem is facebook is clunky due to it's massive membership so I tend click back to here. Is FB really going to get faster? It be smart to have both running in tandem methinks no? - BairdWilliamson

Facebook is like the social housing estate next door. There are some decent people living there, and there are some pockets of nobs who will steal the hubcaps off your car and throw them through your windows while trying to sell some dodgy dvd's on the street corners. - Gilbert Harding

PS yoono makes it groovy and friendbar keeps it happy - lisbethwest

Almost everyone I know IRL uses Facebook, but increasingly grudgingly. - LogEx

I know millions of people who use four remote controls to watch TV. - Luca Sofri

It is not usable in the way that friendfeed is (I know there are problems) - Paul Kinlan

but facebook is soo complicated - Paul Kinlan

I'll go with the train. If the train heads to Facebook I suppose thats where I need to go as well :) I'm absolute certain that FF staff will have a great impact on the user experience of FB. Trying to be positive I also think it's a great thing that FB still strive to evolve. - Patrik Arwengrim

Facebook is ugly, looks like a corporate site and very slow and clunky, like a busy factory with adds at every corner - Thierry Lhôte

Baird: software takes months. Paul is right. But Paul, you can just ignore a lot of the complexity there. - Robert Scoble

hhahaha, sth. like that i thought this second too, Luca :) - Ronald

Facebook is unusable to do the things that FriendFeed can do - Anthony Feint

lol, the #1 excuse I hear for people migrating from FriendFeed to Facebook is the annoying applications on the home feed. You can edit those out of your view you know. Same for people you don't want to converse with (privacy settings). - Hugh Isaacs II

@Robert - I find Facebook extremely useful... for playing Mafia and FarmTown style games. Engagement is just difficult there. I'm not sure if it's the UI, the crowd I have there, or what, but I just don't get into a comfortable conversational groove there on FB the way I do on Twitter or here. - Mark "Rizzn" Hopkins

in fact, the four founders of Friendfeed recieved a trader bonus, for doing real-time search on Facebook, not changing Facebook to become Friendfeed - Thierry Lhôte

Robert - you're confusing number of users with ease of use. Millions of people of all ages used to be happy with their cellphones, but it wasn't until the iPhone came along that those people saw how usable a phone *could* be. - Andrew Terry

Anthony: like start a mob war? :-) - Robert Scoble

robert: I think it is hard to ignore the complexity, it took me ages to upload a phote once (or even find where to do it) - Paul Kinlan

robert: and there is no discovery... I love ff for its friend of a friend features and best of the day.... oh and my discussions. - Paul Kinlan

On Facebook i really only have my closest friends and family as "friends". I think i will not change that. I believe i am not the only one - Flynn (Michael A. Volz)

I think someone hit the nail on the head. The one thing really missing from the Facebook experience is the sort of engagement we have here at Friendfeed. - George Hall (Australia)

exactly - Flynn (Michael A. Volz)

robert: no sharing content is what im talking about. I actually don't personally know the people I follow on FriendFeed. many are influencers like yourself. This is where I get my news. On Facebook you have Friends not Followers - Anthony Feint

anyway, the key way to tell something is not friendly to someone, it is listening to that someone. That someone says it's not. You can't go and tell him he's wrong in what he doesn't like. - Luca Sofri

Anthony: that's changing and quickly. My Facebook looks exactly like FriendFeed. - Robert Scoble

Why are you using FF and Twitter and not FB then? Besides, they totally hid the applications so anything not out of the box is hard to get to. Advanced functionalities are hard to get to. It's the only site I can think of that I had to use the Help section to find stuff... - Eran Kampf from iPhone

@Anthony Actually Facebook has a following feature http://startupmeme.com/faceboo.... - Hugh Isaacs II

That and facebook is full of punk teenagers that I don't want to talk to ;) - Paul Kinlan

@Paul, Then delete them from your friends list, or don't add them. - Hugh Isaacs II

You choose your own friends on facebook, right? - TobiasVerhoog.com

also I do believe the UI on Facebook is terrible. It took me 5 attempts to try and create a page on Facebook and I still have to do a search for it when I want to view it - Anthony Feint

Robert, its all the poking and quizzes and other jejune stuff on Facebook - Aaman (Clone of FF)

Of course Facebook is usable. The point is what do you want to use it for. It was the one place where I could have family and close friends in a CLOSED network. I don't want the world and his missus to see my birthday party - sorry. Friendfeed is a completely different thing. Use it as a lifestream - have all sorts of friends/ acquiaintances/ whatever on there. They are not one and the same and I don't see how they can be. - sofiagk

@Aaman, block the quizzes from your home feed. - Hugh Isaacs II

Aaman: I've been on Facebook for a long time and I just ignore that stuff. No harm to me. - Robert Scoble

Facebook is cluttered. It's not a platform for sharing information and discussion. They're intended for two entirely separate purposes. That being said, I definitely am looking forward to what the FriendFeed team can do with Facebook. If real-time search is where they stop, it'll be hell. - Adam Reyher from Alert Thingy

On Facebook you choose your friends, just like here. Some differences, plus over there you have to decide whether you're going to be public or private up front. - Robert Scoble

So why you were then one of the sincerest ambassadors for FF and NOT FB? But taste changes... - Ronald

@Hugh what I was implying was that FF is open participation, so I am talking to you, I might not be following you but I am still talking to you; FB is open to 300 million users most of which I couldn't stop talking to me even if I wanted. Usage wise (from my perception) FB is closed to your personal groups, FF is discovery, the twain shall never mesh - Paul Kinlan

Robert Scoble was more interesting when he actually had a defensible opinion, rather than just went along with whatever the industry seemed to be doing and worked to egg people on. We remember those times, don't we? - Andy Bakun

I always laugh at people saying "what's the problem? Just do this, and it is ok". But the reason we use computers and software is we don't want to do this. We want to have things exactly the way we need them, not the way we need them if we just do this and this. - Luca Sofri

Facebook is not designed to be a public tool - think back to its roots. It's more of a private thing. If I am forced to use it like Friendfeed then I am deleting at least 80% of my info - sofiagk

@Paul, I think that's going to change with the FriendFeed acquisition. Facebook's aiming more for the public stuff instead of only focusing on close relationships now. - Hugh Isaacs II

cool, I used the word twain (evern if it is wrong) - Paul Kinlan

@sofiagk that´s exactly my point - Flynn (Michael A. Volz)

@sofiagk, Everything on Facebook is choice, I doubt they'll force you to be public, it'll probably be very tightly controlled. - Hugh Isaacs II

Think of the privacy settings. - Hugh Isaacs II

@Hugh, I would love FB to change to be more like FF but I can't see it happening, I would love to get to see the real-time search (someone said they just released it). - Paul Kinlan

sofiagk: I completely agree - Facebook was built for closed and private networks. Which is the complete opposite of FF. I don't want to setup complex privacy settings becasue I don't want my family to be inundated with php and coding articles. - Anthony Feint

If we are talking about privacy settings you might want to check out my FB app http://www.knowyourprivacy.com - Paul Kinlan

do i really want to search facebook? really? - Flynn (Michael A. Volz)

FB's great strength was for the private stuff. If I'm forced to choose between public and private, I'm going to stay private, because that's where my IRL friends are. Sorry, FFers. - James Myatt

@Michael A. "Flynn" Volz +1 - sofiagk

@Paul, I don't think Facebook plans to continue as just a closed network anymore, I think their goal is to cover all types of social interactions on the web so it's very likely they'll have FriendFeed like features. - Hugh Isaacs II

We use each tool to our own purposes but that doesn't mean that each tool is not better suited to a type of use. - sofiagk

@sofiagk, What's to say Facebook can't act as two tools instead of one? - Hugh Isaacs II

@hugh, the had better change their API to support that type activity then. - Paul Kinlan

@Paul, They already did. - Hugh Isaacs II

Hugh, I'm sure it can, but it's going to be really awkward. Like using a Swiss army knife to put shelves together and then skin a rabbit. - James Myatt

@James, Yea, I can't defend that, lol. - Hugh Isaacs II

@Hugh Isaacs II well if they are planning to open up then half of the apps are more or less redundant I would guess. You spend all of your time becoming something and then strip down to become something else? What's the point? I'm sorry I just don't understand what is the point with competing with twitter. Facebook vs Twitter is just a silly question, how would you compare them? Using some ff feature to make the stream on facebook better - sure I get that. - sofiagk

I think Facebook really need to sketch out what they're going to do with Friendfeed, and that might help people adapt to the idea better. At the moment, too much speculation and people really have no idea what to expect of this. - George Hall (Australia)

I've never beeon a big user of FF. I still don't quite get it. I use FB to keep in touch with people I know. As far as I can see FF is more for discovering stuff and discussing it with people I don't. Or have I missed the point? - Marc A. Price

@sofiagk, When you look at what Facebooks done so far, it seems like they just want all of the internets social interactions in one place. I mean it does sound silly but sticking to one thing is what killed off Friendster, Classmates, MySpace and so on. - Hugh Isaacs II

Marc, I think that is exactly the point - James Myatt

Being on FF is like publishing only things you want. With advanced privacy settings, you can just filter what to share on FB. BUT (a big but) I don't trust Facebook and I've seen it enabling stuff like alerts and configuration settings just because they had some error in their system. I don't share my private life on FF but I share family pictures, my personal details like my cell phone because I only allow people I know personally on FB. - Burak "cyrus" Bayburtlu

My biggest problems with using Facebook like Friendfeed are lack of friend-of-friend content (if someone else likes / comments on something, I don't get that in my feed), barriers to engagement (subscribing to someone you don't really "know" on FF is fine; sending a friend request to someone you don't really "know" on FB is not cool), and the fact that stuff falls down the feed too quickly because likes / comments don't bump it to the top again. - Tristan Seligmann

@hugh, they haven't changed their api at all, the status stream is a bit of a joke. - Paul Kinlan

@Hugh Isaacs II if they want to get all of social interaction in one place they have grossly misunderstood the nature of social interaction generally. People do not have ONE identity which they use to interact with EVERYONE. Rather we have MULTIPLE. I don't talk to my boss the same way as I talk to my friend. That's why I need multiple tools. So if there is only one on offer I will not use it. - sofiagk

@sofiagk i totally agree with that - Flynn (Michael A. Volz)

@sofiagk, that's what the privacy settings are for. In real life you don't take on multiple personas (well at least I don't think you do) so why do it on the internet? And in real life certain conversations are private, kept from others. You shouldn't require separate identities for that. - Hugh Isaacs II

And you can't expect them to know the perfect network for human interaction. The fact that they're trying gives me confidence though. It's like Googles goal to store all of the worlds information in one place, it won't happen but it definitely made some great products. - Hugh Isaacs II

@Hugh Isaacs II do you really trust facebook with the complicated settings and permissions and groups. I don't. I will agree with what @Burak "cyrus" Bayburtlu said above. I get what you are saying about trying. But at the end of the day Google has multiple product offerings. Facebook doesn't (for now). - sofiagk

Hugh, you do need separate places for that so that there's no risk of being overheard accidentally. - James Myatt

@sofiagk, I don't honestly. I'm defending them based off of idealism not favoritism. And yea, handling all of that stuff will probably end up in a million mistakes but it's a product, that happens. Also what's to say Facebook can't have multiple products? (That could be apart of this whole FriendFeed thing) - Hugh Isaacs II

@Hugh Isaacs II well - let's see what's gonna happen. Btw thanks for the lively chat a blog post is being drafted in my head as I type :-) - sofiagk

multiple products, like google does, that would be a really good idea. rename friendfeed and go on - Flynn (Michael A. Volz)

Your welcome, also if it's of any help, the maker of FriendFeed posted up something of reassurance http://friendfeed.com/paul... - Hugh Isaacs II

I think it makes more sense to have multiple "spaces" (work / private / whatever) in the same tool than arbitrarily dividing those up across multiple tools. - Tristan Seligmann

For example, most people would probably not create a Yahoo email account for emailing some people, and a GMail account for emailing others; they would just create two GMail accounts. - Tristan Seligmann

@Tristan, It's funny alot of people on FriendFeed are talking about migrating to Google Wave because of the whole Facebook thing, and in reality that's what Wave is going to do. - Hugh Isaacs II

All of the big companies whether open or not are aiming at owning your internet identity, they don't want separate identities because it doesn't define everything correctly. That's why Google has their profiles feature, why so many companies support OpenID, etc... It may not be something you're used to but over time it will just be one account per person, based on how social networking evolves. - Hugh Isaacs II

I bet even FriendFeed had that idea (Hint: Google, Facebook and Twitter log in feature). - Hugh Isaacs II

Carefully observe how someone communicates on phone call versus a face-to-face conversation. It's different—for one thing speaking in a louder volume on the phone. The medium influences the communication itself (but don't get me started on McLuhan ;) So multiple tools can help achieve a certain dynamic that would not have happened just by using another feature inside a single service/construct. That's certainly been my experience on FriendFeed. - Micah Wittman

@Micah Wittman +1 - sofiagk

@Micah, Wouldn't Facebook count as multiple tools in itself. You can have a toolbox, that doesn't mean all of it's contents equal one tool. - Hugh Isaacs II

Well, I guess this is more of a Swiss Army knife, but the analogy still applies. - Hugh Isaacs II

Hugh, typically, the same culture/available resources produce stuff under a certain paradigm. - Micah Wittman

@Micah, I doubt they'd just stuff all of your social interactions under one blanket. - Hugh Isaacs II

They've already separated all of my friends by relation. - Hugh Isaacs II

I mean, look at FriendFeed, I used the Facebook Connect feature to log in, but I don't interact on here as I would with my friends - Hugh Isaacs II

The last post I see from Robert on his FB Fan page is June 4th. Being a fan on FB is certainly not the same as subscribing here. If you tried to post all these comments on FB, they would take up 4-5 times more screen space. Like others, I use FB for private family and friends, and FF for subscribing to other public feeds. I like the differences. - Keith Rowland

Facebook is just really cluttered, and it's UI looses focus on so many fronts. Take the start page - i've missed events, birthdays and other stuff because its burried with a million things on one page. But that's where the people are. I - Shawn Roos

Or you are SO wrong here. People pretend they are using it - then their wife asks - btw, honey, how did you create that fan page about me? And he says - WTF? :) - Sasha Kovaliov

Apostol, lol :) The idea is that usability could have been much-much better! Right now it's a total mess and there is a lot of room for improvement. Yes, people use it everyday, but do they use all of it? - Sasha Kovaliov

@Sasha, do you use all of FriendFeed? (Example: Last.Fm, Brightkite, desktop notifications, google talk integration, etc...) - Hugh Isaacs II

Then why use people not using all of Facebook as an argument? - Hugh Isaacs II from iPod

FB is not unusable, but it is bloated. Tough to set things up the way that I want. Too many new toys/apps popping up almost in every second. I'm tired of hiding this, hiding that from the feeds - ilter

It's still pretty simple and pleasant to use provided you don't install any applications IMO :P. - James Stephenson

James: what about not being able to stop some favorite friends from installing any applications? :) - ilter

ilter: Ummm ... I guess you could start selecting your friends based on their Facebook Applications :P? That would be a sad, sad day... - James Stephenson

Maybe we need a seperate facebook application. Wait... are there ANY facebook desktop applications? AIR-free preferred (for now) :) - ilter

Throws a sheep at Robert. - Mark Davidson from BuddyFeed

Hat tip to this discussion and to @Hugh Isaacs II - I explain my point on facents and identities better here http://www.digital-era.org/renditi... (I know this is a shameless plug - Robert fee free to delete, I just thought it is relevant) - sofiagk

@sofiagk, I read your blog post and understand your argument but the same rule still stands. You only have one body. As with the friend list feature on Facebook you have social barriers that keep some people away from what others may see. I know it sounds foolish to push all of your social interactions under one service, but if that service can recreate the same personas you use in real life, the only argument against it would be ease of use, comfort and bugs. - Hugh Isaacs II

@Hugh Isaacs II with you all the way if we can find some way to meaningfuly separate functions and feeds - to actually control what info we send to whom. - sofiagk

@sofiagk, that's what I've been getting at this whole time. I mean I know Facebook in it's current state doesn't do a great job of controlling who sees what, but I'm sure they've been working on that. The FriendFeed acquisition is probably to cater to that. - Hugh Isaacs II

Facebook has lots of usability issue. For example, they hid all the apps in that ridiculous bottom toolbar making them less accessible. It took me a while to find that my events are now there... If you want to do anything a bit more advanced than the basic functions then you'll probably lost without their help site (took me a while to figure out how to set permissions to different groups... ). Facebook should be way easier to use... - Eran Kampf

@Eran, Windows does the same thing. Hides all of the apps in that ridiculous bottom toolbar. ^_^ - Hugh Isaacs II

scobble: it's close to unusable. - Gal Granov גל גרנוב

If its so good and usable... why do you use FriendFeed\Twitter? - Eran Kampf

@Eran, Facebook doesn't let me hold public conversations like the one we're currently having (which I think is bound to change). - Hugh Isaacs II

It's not unusable... it's TOO usable. Too easily gamed by spam apps, too visible to employers who want to block it, too easy for advertisers to target your feed and use your stuff. And way, way too cluttered. It's like the boardwalk in Atlantic City... I avoid it if I can but every so often I make the mistake of going and find that it hasn't changed. Friendfeed on the other hand has none of the crap, while it does have a boatload of interesting, engaged people. - Jim Iz Not on Ur List

well said Jim.... +1 - Kim

++++jim - BEX from iPhone

I totally (!) agree with Jim *thumbs up* - Ronald

@Jim, you know you can actually filter out the applications from your view, even keep them from posting on your wall. - Hugh Isaacs II

You are spot on, Robert. The proof is in the pudding. - thinkQuick

Hugh... yes, I know. But while facebook is very easy to begin using it requires a fair amount of effort to set up all that stuff and get the look/feel you want. For all the talk I've heard about how Friendfeed is difficult to figure out, I've never had that problem here. - Jim Iz Not on Ur List

@Jim, yea but FriendFeed is a very young website. I'm not content just knowing that I can't filter out which of my friends can see what. If FriendFeed lasted longer it would've probably gotten more complex and you would've lost interest, or it would've stayed the same and you would've lost interest. Either way judging from your comment I think you would've moved on to something new at some point (this is Facebooks attempt at being relevant to you). - Hugh Isaacs II

Hugh... I guess you missed the part of my comment that spoke about interesting, engaged people. I will not be losing interest in them anytime soon. In fact, I've been (and still am) on facebook longer than I've been here. I've never been that interested in facebook and still am not. It was just the opposite on FF. I was skeptical and used it very little at first but as the service (for... more... - Jim Iz Not on Ur List

Slow... Bogged down with apps... And who wants to refresh a page or discussion manually? Although it does allow me to stay connected with people I would have otherwise lost touch with. - Walt Ruppar from iPhone

@Walt, Facebook + Realtime experts = Facebook in Realtime. It's an assumption but not one without merit. - Hugh Isaacs II

Good to connect with friends of friends but do not like the stupid apps - Randy Allen Bishop

people who barely know the net are ALL on facebook. you know what i would like? friend group settings. think about it. post photos to your personal group, your online friends or something else entirely. and WHO KNOWS - with the smart people working for the boogie men, it might happen too! - Terry O'Fee

@Hugh yes I know it is coming... Just wanted to share my top three issues with #facebook and why I use it to help this wonderful R&D discussion... :) - Walt Ruppar from iPhone

I think Facebook is perfectly usable. I just can't use it for the same sort of things. Honestly, most people think Facebook is unusable because of all the applications that their friends use, and which those people are too lazy to block. There are some legit problems though, like the quiz applications which, literally, make new applications, so that they show up and you have to block... more... - Otto

Logging into Facebook means a 10-12 minute commitment just to catch up on a half-day's worth of communication. By contrast, I can get in and out of Twitter or Friendfeed in a minute or two if that's all I have. Facebook is just...heavy. - Ed Moltzen

I know people that work at Facebook. They're good people. But I have serious doubts about their abilities to make an interface that doesn't totally suck. Face facts, Facebook's interface absolutely blows. It is very difficult to do anything that you actually need to do. A good friend of mine is a teacher, and she stopped using Facebook because she didn't want to reject her students on... more... - Otto

I think FB is/has reached a level of importance as SOFTWARE that there needs to be detailed guides/documentation/tutorials. Think about it, most of FB's functionality is simply put out there for people to discover. When you sign up you aren't introduced to a 1/4 of what is available or provided any kind of best practices guidance. Software we buy for our systems generally comes with some type of manual or instruction. Most webapps like FB do not, you have to go to the community or hunt through the interface - Martin Johnson

It's not unusable but it is quite a challenge to new users. I wrote this post about how Twitter is the gateway drug to social networking. http://blog.adam-jackson.net/2009... - Adam Jackson

I may have to have two accounts on FB, one private and one public - outofmyarse

It might come as a shock to the designers out there but usability is not the most important aspect of an application. Facebook's success in the face of its sucky usability proves that. People are on facebook, and other on-line social networks, because they want to interact with the other members, not because of usability. - sjjh

Unnecessary to chew gum. But it's called billion dolar industry. - Burçak Çubukçu

The selling point of friendfeed is that it's a social interface utterly different from facebook. The default is open, shareable, aggregrates, and the UI isn't overridden with crud. - Mark Essel

there are more stranger things that people do, not everything could be explained, asked a wrong question. like say if there aren't any ghosts why more than half the world believe, if there is any god or isn't why are people theist/atheist. why men cut their hair both head/facial when they are there for sexual and heat exchange purposes at first places, you asked it out of your sentiment for facebook and i wrote it because i don't like facebook ;) - testbeta

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It was great. They made one of the less exciting books into a great movie. - thinkQuick

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April Buchheit

Fill in the blank: "Don't you people know that ________ is a sacred institution that should be taken seriously and should never be entered into lightly?!" (The funnier the better.)

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I'll start: "Don't you people know that eating bacon is a sacred institution that should be taken seriously and should never be entered into lightly?!" - April Buchheit

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Don't you people know that adding someone to your home feed is a sacred institution that should be taken seriously and should never be entered into lightly?! - Bruce Lewis from fftogo

Don't you people know that driving is a sacred institution that should be taken seriously and should never be entered into lightly?! - Harold from fftogo

Don't you people know that wearing a tiger suit is a sacred institution that should be taken seriously and should never be entered into lightly?! - Gary Burd

Twitter - Robert Scoble from iPhone

Amen, Gary! :P - April Buchheit

Don't you people know that The Macarena is a sacred institution that should be taken seriously and should never be entered into lightly?! - Brett Kelly

Don't you people know that gleeful irreverence is a sacred institution that should be taken seriously and should never be entered into lightly? - Eric Logan

Don't you people know that Journalism is a sacred institution that should be taken seriously and should never be entered into lightly?! (Blogger Joke) - abdellah

marriage - ydfeed

Don't you people know that Lego is a sacred institution that should be taken seriously and should never be entered into lightly?! - Kevin Fox

Don't you people know that coffee is a sacred institution that should be taken seriously and should never be entered into lightly?! - Kevin Fox

fat - ashish

Did someone say LEGO? (Not to prove Kevin's point or anything but LEGO should always be expressed in capital letters... oh and never is a plural) - Johnny Worthington

fart? - chaz2b

Don't you people know that hopscotch is a sacred institution that should be taken seriously and should never be entered into lightly?! - joey

Don't you people know that sacred institutions are a sacred institution that should be taken seriously and should never be entered into lightly?! - Stephen Mack

Harry Potter - thinkQuick

Twilight (also: Comic-con) - Kevin Fox

FFundercats - Josh Haley

My vagina. - DO ANYBODY NO MONIQUE

pig dancing - Kim Landwehr

Chutes and Ladders - Rahsheen ™, Coach Rah

+1 Monique! - joey

Don't you people know that FriendFeed is a sacred institution that should be taken seriously and should never be entered into lightly?! ;) - Bonnie Foster

Don't you people know that heaven is a sacred institution that should be taken seriously and should never be entered into lightly?! - Tony Ruscoe from fftogo

Don't you people know that the Internet is a sacred institution that should be taken seriously and should never be entered into lightly?! - Thierry R. Andriamirado

Toilet - Giorgio Burlini from iPhone

Don't you people know that the B.S is a sacred institution that should be taken seriously and should never be entered into lightly?! - Jayavasanthan J

Don't you people know that Festivus is a sacred institution that should be taken seriously and should never be entered into lightly?! - Benjamin Golub

Don't you people know that saying the planet Uranus is a sacred institution that should be taken seriously and should never be entered in to lightly?! - Alex Scoble

Scientology - Rob Sellen :o)

Cilantro. - Steven Perez from Android

lolcats - Rob Sellen :o)

Don't you people know that entering in to an argument with a Scoble is a sacred institution that should be taken seriously and should never be entered in to lightly?! - Alex Scoble

"Don't you people know that Pie is a sacred institution that should be taken seriously and should never be entered into lightly?!" - Rasmus Lauridsen

Monique's vagina. Oops, already said. - Rodfather

Don't you people know that McDonalds is a sacred institution that should be taken seriously and should never be entered into lightly?! Otherwise, the clown will eat you. - Wizetux

Don't you people know that your mom's coochie is a sacred institution that should be taken seriously and should never be entered into lightly?! - Joe Silence

Don't you people know that my schlongage is a sacred institution that should be taken seriously and would never enter into you lightly?! - Rahsheen ™, Coach Rah

Robert Scoble

Shhh, don't tell the spammers, SEO experts, the bots, or the social media experts, but I will follow anyone who comments here (on FF):

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No comment. (disabling comments on this thread - that would be funny :D) - Micah Wittman

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Micah: I'm already following you! :-) - Robert Scoble

is a like the equivalent of a comment? And by follow you mean on FF or on Twitter or on both? - Sean Scott

Sean: not really because if you comment I can see if I'm already following you. And, yes, I mean on FF. - Robert Scoble

Hello :) - Brandon Roeder

That's really awesome of you, Robert! - Harald Nesland

Spammers ruined email and now they are hitting Twitter in a major way. How can we stop this scum? - Chris Rodgers

Beau: I'm already following you. - Robert Scoble

Awesome. Hi Robert :) - Andy Parkinson

It's an ugly world when Scoble stops autofollowing. - Michelle MacPhearson

Did FriendFeed make you say this? - Social Nerdia

No love for SEO experts? AWESOME. - Than R

@robert i think we're already following each other on FF. :P - Sean Scott

Thanks for posting Robert. I enjoy reading your material. - Allen S.

Didn't send that one from Twitter. ;-) - Kathy Fitch

Are you openly admitting to being easy? - Lydia Sugarman

I am not a bot, I am a human being!!! - Daniel Buckley

@stevenmhall likes this -- thanks for your work. and the great green picture - steven

Nothing more to say - Mel Buckpitt

I already follow you, but interesting experiment - Cam

I just gave you "High Five"! Check it out: http://bit.ly/5sHMZ You should send me a gift back ;) - Louis Gray

✔ Thx for ☛ Follow :-) Good idea. I do not speak to those things anyway - RetiredTeacherD

SocialNerdia: no. - Robert Scoble

really? neat... - Jorge Chapa

Follow Sunday? ;) - Ideas At Random

LOL ... this is fun. - Richard Laksana

awesomesauce scoble p0wns again ;) - sam from twhirl

At least I'm not the only one who thinks SEO isn't everything. - Leon Bacud

Hmm… I may just be more active in FriendFeed. - Evan Hindra

The above is an actual DM spam I got today. :) - Louis Gray

Leon: if you abuse SEO types they send Google Hate your way, which, by the way, is the same thing as Google Juice. - Robert Scoble

neat idea! - Aloke Fernandes

So we get to be in the cool club? Yay! ;) - Vicky Teinaki

watching this list expand is more fun than anything on TV right now. - steven

But Robert what will all the Bots do without your input. - Pentaxfan

This is fun! lol. Follow me! @thehenry - TheHenry

Is Google juice akin to Google Kool-Aid? - Stefan Holmes

evangelizing aint ya - Luka

I think Robots get a bad rap ;) - Robert J Taylor from iPhone

What's this FriendFeed thing? Back to my safe, comfy home on Twitter. - Dan Grossman

I expected more comments, oh thats the idea :-) shhh everyone - Andrew Nimick

Is there something to be gained by following someone on both FF & Twitter? - Rob Michael (Atmos Trio)

WT?? @pogmohoin needs to be loved again.. now how did you do this cleanout again?? Australia Out.. - Pogmohoin

I'm already in but i wanted to get in the fun! - Fee501st

I just noticed that Scobleizer unfollowed but am glad it was for the above reason and he unfollowed a lot - Allen MacCannell

Cannot wait to see you (again) at Gnomedex after that sensational news panel at #140conf. You set the bar high for yourself there ;) - Maya

I am all flesh and bones Robert :D - Antonio Montero

Rob: FriendFeed is better. - Robert Scoble

Louis, NOW I know where all those are coming from. Time to blacklist you ;-) - Jesse Stay

Friendfeed FTW! - TheHenry

Not a bad filter at all. - Robert Anderson

Why would you want to follow me,i have nothing to offer but my ears to learn. - Paul Downing

Hi Robert, I'm a real person and would love to be followed. - Steve de Mena

What if the spammers, SEO experts, the bots, or the social media experts all comment here? - Andrew Trinh

Word up - Charlie Haims

Scoble smash Twitter spammer like Hulk! - Peter Hodges from iPhone

Dare I? - Spidra Webster

and then I will comment on whoever follows me here... - Alpay Erturkmen

Louis, I recently got the "high five" DM spam, too. So off-putting! - Robert J Taylor from iPhone

I just need to spend more time setting up FF so it is my friend that intercepts all my social media content but only from who I want to read! - Pentaxfan

Friend feed seems like mainstream to most serious ones? - jibzy

Friendfeed has it's strengths once you get it setup - Chris

@robert whether or not FF is technically better than <insertsocialnetwork> its really a question of said network reach - Sean Scott

Once a week I go through my followers and delete most/all of the spammers, but I only have like 50-60 so it's not hard to do. - Allison Warnock

Let's hope the spammers and bots and etc don't attack us here on FriendFeed next. I won't tell them if you don't. - Louis Trapani from iPhone

Sean: well, FF has better search, grouping, real time, a better community, and more. - Robert Scoble

Sean, you have to start somewhere! - Pentaxfan

Really Robert? Will you follow me here or Twitter - Kevin Krewell

Last time I checked I was human. - Luke™

What, even if I've got these hot videos where I ... Haha, not really ;-) - Katie Dob from iPod

Kevin: here. - Robert Scoble

I think you're already following me. - Danny Minick

In two years on Twitter I have never used any bots nor even tried to sell anything. I always look at profiles personally before following anyone and have never been concerned with how many are following me. - Gord Young

That's nice of you. - Michael Owens from iPhone

Why? - Stefano Maggi from iPhone

Yea, i dont want FF to get has "known" has twitter, I'm selfish - Fee501st

Mainly on Twitter myself, but everything updates to here + I tie in a couple things through here to Twitter. - Chris

Will you actually read my posts? - Kimber Scott

oh really :D - Sinem Co

See, cross posting that offer to Twitter is misleading - Kevin Krewell

It is fun to watch my follower ## on Twitter go between 200 and 230 it is a constant battle to see what I post. Just not that interesting at times! - Pentaxfan

Interesting project! Please follow us @streamfile :) - Kimmo Gläborg

Checking in here...hope we continue to follow each other, Robert! - Cathryn Hrudicka

Even if we write in Turkish? - Emre Güneş

@robert again not arguing with you. I think better community in your POV but from marketing / UX pov not yet. - Sean Scott

thank you - - pat o'bryan

I'm pretty sure I've commented here before Robert, but you don't follow me here or on Twitter. Not that I want you to under just for the sake of it... - Gurpreet

Today's secret password is "cheese". - Andrew Smith

And you don't have to read everything we say, my God we can't keep up with your feed! But it's nice to always be assured there will be something in my Friendfeed from Scoble. And more Scoble and more Scoble! - Keith Rowland

...only if you actually find my tweets interesting enough. - Gurpreet

It's Unfollow Sunday. Just purged all the bots, spammers, SEO/social media types from my own Twitter account. I never autofollow. Still got the "high five" DM spam, though... - Dennis Jernberg

Nice when you integrate Facebook and twitter and multiple accounts so you can read all at one place. I have to say I use Seesmic to read posts more than FF. - Pentaxfan

Count me in too, please :) - 1x29

bit bucket... here i come :) ps: scoble, what if we just "like" your post ;) - simran

@pentaxfan of course. not wanting to start a FF vs Twitter debate. just saying the glasses through which we judge better or superior are diff based on our interests. Plus in the end FB will take it all :P - Sean Scott

This is a sly way to get us to sign up for FF :) - valb00

Shhhhhhhhhh - candy from Nambu

@valb00 said it! - Dennis Jernberg

According to my following list, Scoble was the second person I followed after joining Twitter. A long time ago that was. - Stephen Sclafani

UX tip for FF. Be nice to be able to click on the comment link at the end of a comment stream. Having to scroll back up on these long threads breaks flow. - Sean Scott

Kimber: wait and watch http://friendfeed.com/scoblei... and see if I like any of your posts. I read a LOT and if you are posting interesting stuff I'll probably like it. - Robert Scoble

Sean: click twice on the time stamp and you'll get a window of just this chat and you'll see a comment entry area at the bottom. - Robert Scoble

Kurt: maybe! - Robert Scoble

Sean Scott: Click on the timeline (the '5 minutes ago' bit) :) - 1x29

You will end up following me anyway. They all will. :) - Matt G

But you're already following me here on Friendfeed, Robert. How is Twitter going to be different? - Mahendra (SkepticGeek)

FriendFeed is better, deeper, yet Twitter works better on the go - Majento

There's a lot to like about FF, except it needs a bigger community. Twitter is like the iPhone - for iPhone it's all the applications, with Twitter (and Facebook) it's all about the number of poeple. - Kevin Krewell

following me is good stuff :-) - N.G. Gordon - RadarSync

@Sean, that is why we are always looking for new and improved apps to operate at a better level with more consistency. Take it easy! I'm off to bed for my 5 hours of mediocre horizontal time out. - Pentaxfan

Hi Robert, you are obviously going to be following a lot more people. Thanks. - Rob Zachritz

And I return. (Just cleared my account so I can start afresh with friend lists) :) - BeauGiles

Is this an experiment? - Theresa Shin

so will you follow me too - aybars badur

Theresa: no, I do this from time to time and always find interesting people to follow. - Robert Scoble

FF hmmm about that... - Philip Small

Robert, you have lost a lot of followers. I have been watching all night. - TheHenry

I don't get the appeal of auto-following. I for one would not want thousands of updates showing up in my timeline. - Alex Knight

Twitter -ly ♪ and FriendFeed -ly ♪ livin' in perfect har-mony ♪♪♪ LOL Why can't we be friends ♪♪♪ - RetiredTeacherD

Just created a corporate FF account so you can follow our corporate Twitter at http:/www.twitter.com/senderok - Plug-in with anti-phishing icons for the inbox and photo business cards in the header pane - SenderOK

I'm here I'm here! :D just curious, what do you have against SEO and Social Media experts? - Celia

Really? BTW I'm just a regular geeky gal. - Teresa O

TheHenry: and I will lose even more this week. No biggie. I don't define myself by who follows me, especially if they are there just to get a follow back. - Robert Scoble

@Scobleizer is a man of his word - Charlie Haims

Zomg you has to follows me!! I r teh most important persons here!!! - Tom Vohs from iPod

Okay Scoble I'll bite... - SalvadorM

Joining the experiment - Jan Schultink

robert, you are a "pearl" under all the blogger,.........and i'm sure, you know that!!! sunshine and light to you from france, martin - martin

I'm awake and listening! - Graham Lawrence

To all those new to FriendFeed, remember to add your Twitter, blog, Flickr, YouTube, and other accounts so we can see all your stuff! - Robert Scoble

...and I was wondering where is my one-lost-follower...here on FF. - Danica Radovanovic

hello, I am an italian SEO expert :) - Roldano

I have nothing to say - Paul Denlinger

@Paul, I was going to say that. - Justin Yost

You should follow a game designer, Robert :) - Federico [Kurai]

Wait, does this mean I need to spend more time of friendfeed? - Shea from iPhone

Federico: I'm already following you. Roldano: I'm already following you too, but don't let it get out. - Robert Scoble

Shea: yes. This is where I spend most of my time! - Robert Scoble

That's encouraging - Keith - @tsudo

I cannot recommend following me, I rarely have anything interesting to say. - Shaun William

What's the catch? - Rory Conway

We're already facebook friends. And I think friendfeed friends too. But FF just hasn't hit critical mass yet. It'll be cool when it does. Nice job throwing another rock at the hornet's nest! :-) - Dan Becker

Rory: the catch is I might like one of your posts and then you'll have to deal with my other friends. :-) - Robert Scoble

I'm glad to know that you are still interested in hearing from us :), I'm @tsudo - Keith - @tsudo

scoble i like you man, but you're crazy - patrick

I applaud your mass unfollowing, but following back via FriendFeed comments seems inefficient (says me, the efficiency consultant). - Marina Martin

Dan: well, that's what Twitter gets for treating me like a lame early adopter that isn't needed anymore. - Robert Scoble

Cool - I'm in. Thanks Robert - from the land down under. - Monte Huebsch

Marina: you haven't discovered that FriendFeed has groups yet, have you? - Robert Scoble

patrick: crazy like a bat! - Robert Scoble

I need to better utilize FF groups. - Justin Yost

Ouch Robert! Telling it like it is to Twitter - Keith - @tsudo

Do you never get SPAM in FF? - RobinDotNet

You might regret that :-) But thank you - Stephen Baugh

Hi, i had created a new website name http://bit.ly/Od5Xx now please guide me in increasing traffic - mohammadhassam

Robin: I have only seen a handful of spams here. They are easily blocked and there are other defenses against them that I won't talk about here. - Robert Scoble

Are we not allowed to comment if you are already following us? - RobinDotNet

Are all those SEO types you're unfollowing now following me?! - Dennis Jernberg

@Justin, try this for a starting point for using groups http://www.knowthenetwork.com/blog... - Keith - @tsudo

Okay )) - Выпиши на листочек

Yet another comment, from an ordinary twitterer not a spambot. :-) - Joshua Lee

is this a bait to get more people to use friendfeed? ;-) - Ritu

Robin: I like all comments. I can see who isn't following me because their icons are white. Yours is blue. - Robert Scoble

speaking of spam, twitter seems like it's about 90% spam lately - Derek Chilcoat

Robert -- that's good to know. Those people are insidious. Will you ever tell us how to block them? - RobinDotNet

It'll be interesting to see who follows the leader to @schoolpr. - SchoolPR

The SEO experts, bots and social media experts don't have good content, and FF makes their crappy content easy to hide, and ignore, too. - Andy Bakun

Thanks @Keith - Justin Yost

Andy: bing! - Robert Scoble

Robert, was that an endorsement of bing? ;-) - RobinDotNet

SEO experts endorse bing. ;-) - Joshua Lee

@Justin (1 more) my friend Ken did a great post on groups as well http://www.changeforge.com/2008... - Keith - @tsudo

Why, oh why is my first thought to respond with "FIRST?" - Jon, the Beartato of '10

I'm not a bot :-) - Nir Ben Yona

Jon: I want to respond with "penultimate." :-) - Robert Scoble

Even me??? - Kevin Arth

Can't imagine this won't end in a big mess... - Justin Howard

Nir: I know you aren't a bot. That's why I follow you. - Robert Scoble

wwooww :) - Emre BAHADIR

So far not a spammer has shown up. - Robert Scoble

commented! - Jeremy Lane

I think scoble is on Twitter just to get people to read friendfeed. :-) - Joshua Lee

Joshua: no. I'm here to talk about the 2010 web. :-) - Robert Scoble

This is some elaborate mind game, I'm sure:) - Aaman (Clone of FF)

Can we put some restriction on bots . means use some software who block them - mohammadhassam

Joshua, i liked your Bing comment :-) - Majento

and the 2010 web is.... friendfeed! - Joshua Lee

Thank you, Sir. I'm impressed. :) - Kevin Arth

Joshua: the real time web is only one part of the 2010 web. - Robert Scoble

Ah, I think you may already be following me, but just in case... - Ranger Craig

Nice - Fred Morales

Thing I don't like is that FF doesn't have a very good topic when the primary line is directed at twitter. There may or may not be a link to something after FF part. Which means FF becomes a bit of a treasure hunt. I like FF for commentary but I hate the initial post. - Justin Howard

SPAM. :) - Jason

BACON :-) - Stephane Tsacas

Even your archnemesis? - Erik K Veland

Mona :-) - Majento

Mmmmm. Bacon. - RobinDotNet

Erik: I would even follow Mike Arrington, yes. :-) - Robert Scoble

Keep your friends close, but keep your enemies closer? - RobinDotNet

what are some other examples of 2010 web, Robert Scoble? - Joshua Lee

Ok Robert I got it ;) - Roldano

Count me in :) http://www.twitter.com/stanley... - Stanley Tang

Robert: Thanks mate, interesting and probably efficient idea. I'll do the same for quality content, tired of those "I just used whateveryoucallit.com to gain 300 new followers right now!". - Nir Ben Yona

whateveryoucallit.com domain name is already taken :-] - Stephane Tsacas

Hi Robert, I had to do the exact same thing to nail all the twit spam I was getting. Hope you get it all sorted! - James Brown

Even as we sit here, my iPhone dings with new follow e-mails from spam/marketing people. Sigh. - RobinDotNet

Stephane: LOL, probably. I took this line from Chris Brogan's "Twitter Etiquette Guide". - Nir Ben Yona

Robin: on Twitter, though, right? - Robert Scoble

wow been fascinating watching this exercise :-) - Peter du Toit (S.Africa)

So this is like a captcha? - Dylan Verheul

also on twitter? - Sinem Co

The joys of not being internet famous means I can check out followers personally, block where required and I've only ever got about 2 DM spam. But with the volumes that Robert gets, it's obviously not possible. - Rachel Clarke

TwitterEtiquetteGuide.com is available ;-) - Stephane Tsacas

I think Twitter needs something like captcha to keep the bots to a minimum, IMHO. - Dennis Jernberg

Nope, I'm just following here. - Robert Scoble

But feed your Tweets in here and what's the difference? - Robert Scoble

OK, thanks :) - Sinem Co

Hi Robert, I've been following you quite some time, and what you do here is very open and brave too, congrats! - Kaan Bingol

This must be a plot to move everyone to FriendFeed ;-) - Masatake E. Hori

Masatake: plot #458. - Robert Scoble

Great thanks for the offer and follow - Stephen Brown

Masatake: I think you're right. :-) - Joshua Lee

Robert -- yes, on twitter. It seems the more you tweet, and the more people you communicate with, the more spammers follow you. Hoping for auto-follows I guess (I disappoint them in that regard.) - RobinDotNet

No offense, but what is the utility of being "followed" by someone who already follows tens of thousands? - Derek Pangallo

Good way to filter, you know the spammers don't actually read anything or participate - Justin Luey

Derek: why don't you see http://friendfeed.com/scoblei... and see just how many people I touch. - Robert Scoble

What is the utility of being "followed" by someone who doesn't tweet and who follows thousands? What do they do, sit at their terminal and watch the tweets go by all day long? - RobinDotNet

hi Robert u r already following me how r u? - Gaith

I dont get it. - Andru Edwards

yeah? I think most spam bots have the AI to search for such threads! - Rohit

Derek: or how many people I interact with. Check here: http://friendfeed.com/scoblei... 28,000+ comments. - Robert Scoble

oh, hi there! - Jeremy

Gaith: doing fine, gotta work on my videos, but thought I'd do this instead. - Robert Scoble

Robin: I'm guessing the mass followers rarely take a look at the flow - it's about being able to talk about the numbers - Rachel Clarke

No - Michael Fidler

Yes - Michael Fidler

follow me on twitter please... - Özgür D. Cyric

First day on Friend Feed and Robert Scoble is available. What a welcome.... Carey@holisticdds - Carey O'Rielly

What will you do when the spammers/SEOs infest Friendfeed, as they will, or do you believe this is better crowdsourced and will be able to hold against the hordes? - Aaman (Clone of FF)

Rachel -- But numbers alone don't mean anything. Are they that shallow? That must be a stupid question. - RobinDotNet

Is this going to be the 'most-commented-ever' post on Friendfeed? 240+ already! - Mahendra (SkepticGeek)

Aaman: FriendFeed is FAR more defendable against spam than Twitter is. - Robert Scoble

and how would this benefit people who follow Robert Scoble? - Seyfi Erol

Mahendra: probably not. - Robert Scoble

That seems like a good idea, but I think you're already following a lot of these people - Carlton Prest

Seyfi: why don't you follow me and see how it goes? - Robert Scoble

I've gotten 4 follow e-mails since my first post here from people I don't want to follow. Do the bots start running right around midnight? - RobinDotNet

Mahendra, you're not following the threads in Russian (that's my only hint) :D - Micah Wittman

Robin: oh yes. But I'm never sure what's worse. the people who just want to talk about the numbers or the people they may be able to impress. - Rachel Clarke

Aaman - Friendfeed doesn't make link-tracking easy, so it's less interesting for spammers to infest. - Mahendra (SkepticGeek)

Is this a test of interaction or more likely a sort of audience verification? - Gilgamesh

Robin, it's 9am ! - Stephane Tsacas

Gilgamesh: it is what you want it to be. For me I followed you. - Robert Scoble

If twitter is noise, and FriendFeed is conversation, Robert Scoble followers are their own discussion. It's like using an entirely different website. - Carlton Prest

Rachel, that's a good point. Is Facebook the same way? I joined that and suddenly got all these people I've nothing in common with who want to be my friend. Creepy. - RobinDotNet

@Micah: Oh, good I don't read Russian! :) - Mahendra (SkepticGeek)

Scoble: you convinced me! (thought you just needed self-validation, sorry) - Derek Pangallo

Derek: heh, yeah, I am watching this, among other things running across my screen. - Robert Scoble

Robin: Facebook is the same but I think to a lesser extent - it's harder to find people I think. But still got a load of friend requests that I ignore as I don't know them - Rachel Clarke

Robin: you mean like people you went to high school with and didnt' like adding you on FB - Derek Pangallo

I already do. what i mean is if we don't keep FF, Twitter limited to our interests, wouldn't it be garbage we already try hard to get rid of. Or how far can we extend our interests in life or amount of information we consume? - Seyfi Erol

Derek -- I mean people I really have NO connection with at all. I've only friended a couple of people I work with, and 2 other real friends. I'm getting friend requests from people I don't know at all. - RobinDotNet

Seyfi: you haven't discovered FriendFeed's groups and lists yet, have you? - Robert Scoble

I got a Russian-speaking follower on Twitter. I didn't follow him because I don't understand a word he tweets. - Dennis Jernberg

Mahendra, And I've been told http://translatorize.com has successfully translated all 6000+ (oops - update: 7000+) comments http://friendfeed.com/ideali... from Russian to English :) - Micah Wittman

Thanks Robert! - Jan Ignatius from iPhone

Seyfi: you can separate your friends into lists. That way you can keep your quilting buddies separate from your football ones etc. - Robert Scoble

I'm the spammer u follow alrdy HA! - Rich Weaver

Did you know that Facebook has started selling parts of itself to the Russians? At end of May, they sold 1.96% stake of Facebook to Russia's Digital Sky Technologies for $200M. - RobinDotNet

Robert: I shouldn't have underestimated you. You probably have started much longer comment threads on Friendfeed before. - Mahendra (SkepticGeek)

Mahendra, Robert, I agree, FF has been very good at keeping out junk - Aaman (Clone of FF)

Micah: Uh, wow! - Mahendra (SkepticGeek)

Mahendra: I have. I gave away $5,000 once and got more than 1,000 comments on that. But that cost me a lot of cash. Can't afford to do that again. - Robert Scoble

DST is run by Alisher Usmanov who is closely tied with Putin. You feel ok to that, but re-read the company's user agreement where it says it can share all of your info with third parties. Of course, it's irrelevant to this thread, but I thought it was interesting. - RobinDotNet

Robert: I think your Twitter follow is worth more than that? - Mahendra (SkepticGeek)

Even if it's a lame comment and I don't actually say anything? Woohoo! FF looks interesting anyway,,, - Matt Harward

Yes, Matt! :-) - Robert Scoble

I'm @odie on twitter - Odi Chi

FF is interesting assuming the topic is FF... and/or Scoble's next devilishly clever stunt to generate FF comments - John Hardy

John: there are lots of interesting topics here on FriendFeed. Did you know you could search by them based on number of likes? Click "Advanced Search" and try. - Robert Scoble

John: Nope. Twitter's 'bout Trends, FF's 'bout Friends. - Mahendra (SkepticGeek)

Very bold, I like it, are you going to keep the people you follow under 2000? - Joe Dawson from iPhone

Tell me the newest best way to use FriendFeed! - Shoichi

I notice that one of the prolific thought-leadering traffic drivers I follow on twitter basically tweets everything he reads, before he reads it. This has lead to spam a few times. disappointing. - Derek Pangallo

I'll not tell anyone ;) - PaperDoll

I hope I am interesting enough to be followed! lol - Carlton Hackett

Some of the reactions to what you're doing are pretty interesting, Robert. - ha3rvey (big appetite)

Social media experts? What are those? - Alasdair Munn

But what if someone doesn't want you to follow them :) ... It's not me.... - Amit Nangare

lmao - Andy Ghozali

woww! that is a lot of comments. - Sumanth Kolar

Joining bandwagon. - mwydro

Yo Robert: a man has to do what a man has to do, so one surfer to another: go for it! - Geer

Here here! A good cleansing is good, now and then... Starting fresh is the way to go, get all of that nonsense out and maintain a core group of people for solid conversation! - Brian Partridge

Great taking the tour w/ you, Levar Burton & @VegasBill during CES 09 at the Atomic Testing Museum. I would appreciate the follow back. Thanks Robert! - Chris R

There is change in the air... - Zack Brandit

Chris: I'm already following you, no need to beg! :-) That was fun times, wasn't it? - Robert Scoble

You've got to admit anyone who's on friendfeed instantly gets more exposure since it nicely imports people's public @ reply's anyway? - Matt Randles

I'm a ff fan;) - Cheray Bressler from iPhone

Thanks for following back on Twitter Robert. Cheers from Las Vegas! - Vegas Bill

I'm pretty sure we're friends here, only just wish there was a easy way to check... and if there is, that some one will let me know.... - Grant Bierman

this is such a classic move! well played. - laura

So why can't SEO people be tech as well? Actually requires a good tech aptitude. - Paul M Evans from iPhone

I'd like to see how many comments this one gets :) and i'm assuming you mean follow here on friendfeed. - Bhowmik Shah

Make sense, Scoble :) - Grant Laird Jr

Just out of curiousity, why are there fewer spammers and bots on FF compared with Twiitter? Is it because they haven't discovered FF yet? - Sally Church from iPhone

there are occasionally spammers on FF but I think they mostly get handled quickly vs Twitter where more than occasionally clusters of spammers just follow each other... - Shannon Clark

Choose wisely :) - Ozkan Altuner

Go FF its the Best - Robert Wheeler

followww meee - Thomas Christory

Scoble-plicity .-) - Del_

I use TweetLater to vet new followers. Helps get rid of spammers fast. - Bob Morris (polizeros)

Wow! I've never seen so many people comment on Friendfeed as much as this! - Armand

Yo! peteryared on twiter :) - Peter Yared

This is #scoble at server irc.friendfeed.com I beleive ;-) - Stephane Tsacas

Your biggest fan and follower in Cambridge, UK. Thanks for the DuoFertility video. Great as ever. - Philip Baddeley

Fantastic, I want to be followed :-) - Antonio Correnti

What if your already following me? Do I still need to comment here? - CW™

Sally: I don't explain spam defenses in public. I don't want spammers to figure them out. But there are quite a few defenses against spam here. - Robert Scoble

Refollow me on Twitter! @carloscomputers - carloscomputers

nice one - Ken Post Jr

I was surprised about the spammer comments, until I started getting female nude model followers and I'm a women. Maybe a nude male model but not Sparkle or Hootie McBoob - Corrine Pearce

Corrine: hope you don't see that here on FriendFeed. - Robert Scoble

Why are you doing this? You have one of the best listening audiences on twitter! Is there a point to prove that we will post here or go to wefollow? - David Cole

Now those not on FF will miss this one;) - JP Holecka - Jaypiddy

David: actually that's not true. Most of the Twitter audience I had has moved over here. - Robert Scoble

I'm intrigued and will watch with interest -- and hey, you're always interesting. Well worth the follow! - Don Tamihere

real-time on FF is awesome - nchenga

David: and I can prove that. Twitter's audience has become less and less engaged lately. - Robert Scoble

Wow, powerful shift by Robert Scoble, I'm really interested in seeing how this works for you Scoble. I slept through all the big news here tonight. - Jimminy Fuller

Always up for your social explorations Robert. - JP Holecka - Jaypiddy

And you're not even halfway through the unfollowing process. :) - Ken Brady

wao, let's good. - naokits

Interesting experiment. This is probably one the most commented feedfriend threads in history! - Menno te Koppele

Plus, David, if you all are listening, you are listening because of my ability to find cool stuff. Mostly that's been because of FriendFeed over the past 18 months. Now I've seen how ascerbic Twitter's spammers have gotten on my accounts. - Robert Scoble

agree, it's an interesting experiment. - nchenga

Menno: actually it's not. There are many 1,000+ comment threads here. - Robert Scoble

Here's a search with all 1,000 comment threads displayed: http://friendfeed.com/search... - Robert Scoble

Interesting. This is going to boost 1000 egos for sure :-) - Freddie Benjamin

So will it be a matter of just trying to say ahead of the spammers by jumping from one early adopted social network to another? - JP Holecka - Jaypiddy

JP: no. I am not leaving Twitter. I AM, however, deleting all their accounts so I will no longer be passing them juice. - Robert Scoble

I wonder how will your FF homepage look like after this. - ahmet bulent

Does this make you anti-social media? - Cory Brown

To follow commenters from here on Twitter will be a lot of work for you Robert. Or do you have some magic tool that helps? - Tibor Holoda

Robert, how many of the 100k do you think you'll still be following when you are done? - RobinDotNet

~~~> Robert!! Follow me back again. [a] I'm a real fan of the @Scobleizer... and [b] I'm much nicer than some of these sassy bloofers. ;) - Kim Sherrell

1,100 - Robert Scoble

That's good to know. - George Hall (Australia)

So what if you have all 58k + comment on here? And you have to keep everyone! And your plan is foiled, sir. Okay give or take 10k for the neglected abandoned twitters and the spammers. Btw, you're already following me on both twitter and here. But come on, you're not really. : / - Lise

That's cool. I am finding the spammers too much to manage these days myself. - JP Holecka - Jaypiddy

I promise I want tell them - Noel Kelly

Because I can't keep myself from doing math, that's 1.1%. - RobinDotNet

Lise: I see you a few times a day, but you're right. Heheh. - Robert Scoble

Are you trying to make a point about FF v Twitter? I have spammy things to say about my amateur photography, potential homelessness, and run-ins with public-run health system in the US. Isn't all Twitter spam--just spam you want? :) - Dean Hall

the auto-refresh on this thread is mind-blowing, fun to watch - nchenga

Do you ever worry about SM burnout Robert? How do you pace your self? - JP Holecka - Jaypiddy

Interesting to note many of most commented threads are in languages other than English. Can we suggest FF has a better international appeal than Twitter? - Kaan Bingol

Good idea, as you say, stop juicing up the spammers - it'll be interesting to see the stats once you've finished. - Andrew Piggott

Dean: your Tweets aren't spam. I might keep you. Heheh. - Robert Scoble

I only followed people who were interesting to me, otherwise it is like trying to find a needle in a haystack of brain dumps. - Daniel Durrans

Exactly. So I expect to be cut. And considering I'm in a crowd of close to 60k, it'll be the same thing. - Lise

There should be a counter in front of the comments... - Willem Karssenberg

okay seriously ? - Asankhaya Sharma

What sort of comments do you want Robert? - Travis Koger

Lise: actually no. On FriendFeed I can absorb quite a few more people than on Twitter thanks to Groups. - Robert Scoble

a good cleansing is wise once in a while :) Power to the (real) people. - Benjamin

Travis: I'm already following you. - Robert Scoble

Lise: and because FriendFeed's search engine is better here too. - Robert Scoble

Robert, yeah I know. Thought you might have meant for your secretscoble twitter account ;) - Travis Koger

It's kind of like a giant SM break up Robert. *Oh the hearts you are breaking...* - JP Holecka - Jaypiddy

I'm fairly selective about who I follow and I follow so maybe you will follow me back! - Richard Cunningham from iPod

Robert, care to explain how you use groups in this kind of context? Because I don't get the point of following people who are then placed into a "I don't read this much" kind of group. How do you use groups so that you're (1) not overwhealmed, and (2) actually read what people are saying? - Ian Betteridge

How many people do you expect to end up with, Robert? What is a reasonable number? - Lise

You don't have to follow me on Twitter. I think the FriendFeed party palace is mighty fine. - Josette Torres from fftogo

(Not that I'll probably see your response, btw - something at the bottom of 350+ responses is effectively buried until FF has better threading tools. Which I'm sure it will, some day.) - Ian Betteridge

@Ian I believe that it may come in Google Wave. - JP Holecka - Jaypiddy

@Daniel - ditto, and for me it is generally development related also. Robert - I know you have to try and keep up with everything going on in the social media space, but I'm always surprised when people follow so many others as it must be extremely difficult to find the wheat in amongst all the chaff. - Donald Matheson

Robert: I did not know about that search trick. Thanks! - Menno te Koppele

Why? - Scott Hanselman

looks like a lot of comments - Rory Partalis

Ian: a "I don't read this much" kind of group is awesome for serrendipity. Also, anyone who I find there who is high value gets quickly moved to a smaller group. - Robert Scoble

What? Are you saying you're not following me already...? ;-) - Jarno Peschier

Lise: on Twitter? Less than 2,000. I can't follow more. - Robert Scoble

Done. :) - Smeerch

Jamo: I am already following you. Scott: why not? I am already following you too. - Robert Scoble

Robert, it might be a problem for me re-gaining your following as my tweets are not 100% English only (whether that means trying to speak English or no English at all ;). How do you deal with occasional non-English tweeters? As that's clearly a noise for you. - Tibor Holoda

if only twitter were as engaging as FriendFeed has become, and as instantaneous as things like this comment thread, then maybe I would use it more. Hence why I'm all for unfollowing who you conceive as uninteresting; and if that includes me, then so be it! - Nick Soden

Tibor: I just skip over most of them. Sometimes I translate them to see if I was right. - Robert Scoble

It is my hope that I provide you with something as interesting as what you provide me with. Either way, I will continue to peruse your posts with interest. - James (!?)

hmmm - imran

Hi, I'm still newish to this social media thang - but good on you for taking a stand. - Jus

Do you prefer night owls? Because what about all the poor people in SV who went to bed at a decent hour and missed your post? Bummer for them, huh? - RobinDotNet

I'm back from picking my wife up at the airport and ran across this on my way back to sleep. - nuBound CEO - Mark

shhhhh - Luigi Filograna

Robin: heh, all the real geeks in SV are still up. - Robert Scoble

Interesting idea. I firmly believe SEOs are working day and night to figure out FF. - Ian Ceicys

Ian: I bet they are too since FF is starting to pull better on Google than Twitter is. - Robert Scoble

I am such a sheep. @markmeyerphoto - Mark Meyer from iPhone

I have nothing interesting to say, don't follow me. - burc sahinoglu from BuddyFeed

what about me? ... sniff - Andy Ghozali

Me me me ;) - Alemsah Ozturk from iPhone

looking for owls? - Dave Senior

Well I am out for the night. Good luck on your mass un-follow Robert. I look forward to your report on the results. - JP Holecka - Jaypiddy

Robert, this is looking like a long thread already. :) - Robert Miller

Andy, Alemsah, and Dave, I'm already following you. - Robert Scoble

Do you consider FF to be less spammy if you are trying to find your new Twitter "friends" here? - Dušan Šimonovič

Dusan: are you a spammer? - Robert Scoble

lmao on here you are, not on the big T tho nevermind I will follow you there too, been a fan.... - Andy Ghozali

why? - Tolga Akmazoglu

bold and yet gutsy move...love the trending topic already! - Feersum Engine

:) - Ruchit Garg

Follow on FriendFeed or Twitter? :P Or Google Rader? :P - Qbat

Türkçe ne diyor arkadaş ? - Sinan İŞLER

The wild and woolly blogosphere is replete with all sorts of good stuff. Hard to follow 500 people, let alone 1000. I applaud you for trying to take the reins. - Jack B

hey there - deadmanwriting

And will you unfollow me if I send a DM ;)? - Sudar

I don't get it - Sheldon Levine

Qbat: I'll follow here on FriendFeed. Sheldon what don't you get? - Robert Scoble

Sudar: no, if you send me DMs here, that's good. - Robert Scoble

How long is the unfollow process going to take? And do you think FF will have as much noise as Twitter? - Duc Nguyen

So it's Twitter DM that you don't like? - Sudar

Sudar: right. - Robert Scoble

I'll make one comment and raise you two more. :) - Bryan Lee from iPhone

And will you follow me? don't know if you ever have, but I am following you on twitter. - Jus

Hey, Thanks for following me - Michael_techie

Would love your company, Robert. - Daniel Zarick from iPhone

Even worse is Twitter DM spam, of course. - Dennis Jernberg

It funny you put spammers, SEO experts, bots, social media experts all in one bucket. What are you implying? Btw, I'm none of these... - Peter Chee

.. and it works!! Just got a mail saying Robert is following me now... :) - Sudar

Peter: I did that to piss off the SEO experts. :-) - Robert Scoble

This makes me realise that posting from Twitter as opposed to "to twitter from FF" allows the Twitter stream to grow on the back of FF comments ! otherwise not : as in my case - what do you think Robert ? FF to Twitter ? Or FF aggregating all your tweets ? - Nicholas Paul Gordon from iPhone

Nicholas: shhhh, you are discovering my secrets! I'm doing more and more from FriendFeed lately. - Robert Scoble

I comment and you follow me. Its totally worth it - Arvind

Do I have to follow you too? :) - Mobilepax

Arvind: even better I was following you before. Mobilepax: no. I really don't care about followers. Inbound is more important than who is listening to you. - Robert Scoble

and does that mean I have to write in English from now on :) - Mobilepax

Awesome. I'm the 439th commenter. :D - Jhay Rocas

Mobilepax: no. I translate interesting posts to English. - Robert Scoble

More than 400 comments in about 2 hrs. Not bad. I wonder if there'd be nearly as many twitter responses/mentions. - Franz Binder

Franz: no way. Not even close. - Robert Scoble

Nice one - it's cool that you give friendfeed (and all the commenters of course ;-) much kudos. - Alex Vermeule (@alexve)

If you just follow everyone in this thread, won't you just wind up with noise from 'engaged' people. I mean, does this solve the problem? - Missionary Broadcasting

Good thing its 4am and my car alarm went off, otherwise you wouldnt follow me! I had to look up a video online how to break the key fob apart becuase aparently its battery leaked and was self activating the panic switch. Damn VWs! a replacement key is only like 150 bucks!! - Charlieray

Missionary: no. You have not discovered that FriendFeed has groups and MUCH BETTER search. - Robert Scoble

Its funny that if you say "SEO" on twitter its an instant 10 followers - Charlieray

A friendfeed promotion experiment? - John Mandia from iPhone

What is a comment? - Meriç Dağlı

I'd rather follow you on Friendfeed, Robert. Your tweets get cross posted here anyway, and there's a much greater sense of engagement in that conversation than there is over at Twitter. - Andrew Terry

John: no. Meric: you just made one. - Robert Scoble

John: I've been promoting FriendFeed for 18 months. Where have you been? - Robert Scoble

FF rocks :o) - Cowan Group

Everyone that "follows" you really does know you love FF. So did you build a tool to follow everyone back that comments on here or are you seriously going to manually follow people back? - Peter Chee

Theres 451+ comment here, do you really follow *everyone*? - Fajar Nurdiansyah

woohoo! I'm in :P - Tim Bergman

Because I am up at 1:20 a.m. PT, why not... I must be your target audience then. - Georgiana Comsa

It must show you how many people enjoy engaging with you Robert, with the number of people posting here. - Steve Farnworth

Amazing to see the comment thread to this entry expand constantly in real time. - Christian Bolstad

Peter: I've manually followed everyone on this thread so far. - Robert Scoble

Peter: although to be fair I've already followed quite a few people who have commented here. - Robert Scoble

Hi, you are already following me. My solution to get rid of spammers on Twitter is to block them, that is what I do. If everyone started blocking them, I think things would improve - Asgeir

Are you going to sleep tonight, or watch the fun?:) - Aaman (Clone of FF)

is that enough to get followed? - Ouriel Ohayon

do I accumulate credit, maybe towards an afterlife? You are already following me :-) - Anindya Chatterjee

really anyone? :D - Francesco Marconi

What about the SEO experts who accidentally find this feed? - phil baumann

Robert, but you're following commenters here, not on Twitter, right? Not that i care about Twitter that much, as for me it's just a pipeline. FF and FB are conversational platforms for me, or the places i hang out these days. - Tibor Holoda

Aaman: Sleep? some of us are just starting the day. We're waiting for the US to go to sleep so we can talk about you ;-) - Rachel Clarke

Spammers being blocked doesnt do anything as they are hoping for that 1 in 100 hit of someone clicking that link, eventually they get banned and create a new account. - Charlieray

the term SEO expert is a crock of shit - Charlieray

like that's gonna work... - thinkingpot

I hope you like hype machine loved tracks. - Neil Godfrey

FriendFeed is better only if U want feedback and have the time to check it out. - Marko Dvornik

Hello from the UK... - robkeynes

Marko: not true. It's better because it has very little spam. It's better because it has a better search engine. It's better because it has comments and likes. It's better because it's an aggregator. And more. - Robert Scoble

you don't have to follow back. but i'll take the chance to say great work with building 43. - Alexandre Gamela from twhirl

where's the 'hide button'??? :-D - Massimo MaxKava Cavazzini

Massimo: right up top. Heheh. Alexandre: thank you! - Robert Scoble

After 6 months out of the social media loop I came back to a whole bunch of follows that I either couldn't remember who they were or why I had followed them - how can that be relevent? So, I culled my follows back to less than 200. I'm now just looking to find the signal amongst the noise. - Colin Walker

What about FriendFeed? Is there any @notsecretscoble too? - Ludwik C. Siadlak

Friendfeeding for Scoble to follow me while on vacation in Montauk. There is something wrong with me. - Mitchell Schneider

:) - امیرعباس

Mitchell -- you just don't want to miss the fun. - RobinDotNet

robkeynes -- nice to see you up and about - RobinDotNet

Ludwik: no, because here I can just start a new list of users. - Robert Scoble

Well, this has been fun to watch, but it's almost 2 a.m. and I have to be very smart tomorrow morning, which is easier when I'm not too tired, so everyone have a great [whatever comes next in your time zone]. - RobinDotNet

Robert, I'm trying to understand this follow/unfollow strategy you are applying as Napoleon Bonaparte on a battle field ;) Interested to know the result - Thierry R. Andriamirado

pushing this thing to its limits just to see what happens? interesting. - livefast

I really do think the way Twitter has changed in the last few months, with all the media attention, certainly begs for it to be used differently now. - Nicola Quinn

SEO what?! :) - Kobayashi

Wow that's a whole lot of people commenting in the last 2 hours, Rob - How many of the new people you are following from this list are NEW to friendfeed? (estimate?) - Roy Herrod

i'm new! - Luigi Filograna

Roy: 40% - Robert Scoble

Does this constitute a comment or are you looking for some insightful commentary on the state of new media? ;) - Iwan

40%? This must have turned out to be one of the biggest promotions in FF history, even if it wasn't intended that way. BTW, I'm new to FF too. - Dennis Jernberg

guess it's good to clean up the list once in a while. - shadow

Ha ha, nice.... So any major ramifications from the mass unfollow? - Alistair (alpinefolk)

Alistair: other than losing about 1,000 followers so far? No major ramifications. - Robert Scoble

Robert, I'm coming out with a project in the Continuing Medical Education field in the next weeks so if you are interested, I wouldn't mind if you will follow me :-) - Marco Fabbri

Won't tell anybody, specially Seo people, ssshhhh..... - Giorgio Burlini from iPhone

No comment ... :) - Charlie Anzman

Too late. - Alex Gonzalez

You had me at don't tell the spammers... - Sean Kelly

I think it's a hoot. Now I'm wondering whether to reverse my recent move towards following more, not less. I do believe that from my experience so far FF is more attuned to building/maintaining community than is Twitter. - Des Walsh

Great move Robert - I like it a lot - Robert Davies

Des: on FriendFeed you can do both strategies at the same time. You can follow a lot more in one list while following even fewer in another. - Robert Scoble

Des - Once more people re-engage in the conversation here, they'll realize the continuing outright potential of Friendfeed. I still some here before I read my e-mail - Charlie Anzman

Hi Mr Scoble, I'm with you (but on a smaller scale) I unfollowed about 150 users on Friday, felt good! I pretty much hang out in FF now at my home page and my groups - Lee from iPod

wow...just wow :) Robert, you have many fans !! - Hayk H.

Good luck on hiding from the bots, they have ways of finding people.... :) - Chris Holm

well, who am I to refuse such a nice offer? here I am!!! - niccolò vecchia

Good to hear! I have only ~2000 followers, but I can't follow more at the moment due to Twitter's follow limit rule. - Martin Lindeskog

I can't resist. skeptical, however. - thinkQuick

Robert maybe the effort to get to 1 million is too great?? LOL Look forward to being in special company - Wayne Mansfield

lol! ;-) - auro

Following for the sake of it - Rudi

follow, unfollow. it's all work... - punkwithgun

Great way to test the chemistry between FF and Twitter. I like it. - E-Advocate Network

Robert - I'am definitely not a spammer when it comes to broadcasting anything to people, who doesn't want to hear it :) but I do sometimes respond (mostly on twitter so @reply) to some tweets not aimed on me, but that's what everybody actually asks for when publicly broadcasting anything. - Dušan Šimonovič

Lovely. - Kevin Montgomery

Scoble is a superstar :) - Peter

Woohoo. :) - mjc

Enjoy your tweets - Keith Humphreys

Domo arigato, Mr. Roboto. Himitsu o shiri tai. (Secret secret. I've got a secret.) - Rich Puskarich

Welcome! - Bob Stewart

Shhh...don't tell anyone but I'm neither of those (the spammers, SEO experts, the bots, or the social media experts,) though, I like the heck out of the concept of this thread... - Vincent Wright

@euaneggs :) - Euan Rowlands

Good idea about the unfollow. It was an interesting experiment whilst it lasted but given your lifestyle I'm sure most Twitter messages just passed you by. I never DM'd you however, it was nice to think that I had the option if I wanted to. Anyway I've been on FF for ages now, and what I need is a good FF app (for pc), any ideas anyone? - Nick Bristow

Nick: I just use a browser with FriendFeed. - Robert Scoble

Only 530 comments so far? Come on people you are not even trying. - John Cooper

FIRST... well almost - Rhys Amos from iPod

oh,i'm 538? - M∂hmood

hello hello! - May Wong

I am really curious to check the result of this experiment... - Alessandro Galetto from twhirl

why are you doing this again ? - startup ticker

To confuse you. - Robert Scoble

LOL - nice one Robert. - Darren Rowse

Lol! that dude definitely sounds confused :-) - Freddie Benjamin

:-) well done - Johni Fisher

Knock three times on the ceiling if you want me. - Gilbert Harding

Nice! Subscribe me!!! ;) - stakhov

cool~ - kang

promise? - David Semeria

well i'm only bemused, is that close enuff ? - startup ticker

so quick~ - kang

I'm interested to see how this turns out for you. - Brandon Eaker

talk about noise! - Miles Media

550 commants!!!! wtf? - Rob Sellen :o)

Good to know. Scoble is a superstar. - jaspio

@Rob Sellen, did you see the comments on the most recent ffundercats podcast entry. http://friendfeed.com/ffunder... Over 1000 in a very short period of time. Although I expect that this post will also get up to those levels. - Travis Koger

Ah Scoble allways busy. - erwin blom

NOTICE: I am closing comments here because I gotta get some sleep. I'll consider doing this again sometime. Sorry if you didn't get in, but see you tomorrow night. - Robert Scoble

Robert Scoble

If you had ONE startup to tell @aplusk 's 3 million followers about, what would it be? My answer here:

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Other than FriendFeed? Aloqa. I think that is going to be big.Aloqa is a mobile platform and is how lots of businesses will get on iPhone and Android. - Robert Scoble from iPhone

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I would tell @aplusk about @Wantsa. I haven't told you about it yet, but i know it's going to be big. Like, big big. - Colleen

Obviously, GOGII (my employer). Our app textPlus is on fire and the stuff we're building on top of boring SMS is freaking amazing. Our founders did JAMDAT (sold to EA), so we're loaded with mobile wizards. Plus, I'm hiring a Teen Ambassador to mentor to properly serve our entire community. /rant done. - drew olanoff

Collen: what does that do? - Robert Scoble from iPhone

Nice this is blow-mind following techniq. - Compuworki

Hi Robert! Check out http://www.linkedstore.com ...we build social stores for everyone..a good idea to open business easily, helps ppl out..Argentinean startup THANKS!!! - Agustin DL

Why, @offbeatguides of course! They're normal people who travel, and they want something to help them enjoy their travels more! ;-) - Ask Offbeat Guides

aahh and it's free - Agustin DL

I would never ever want to talk to any of his followers, dear lord, omg, where's the Tylenol. - James Watters

@Robert - wantsa (www.wantsa.com) is a recommendation engine... operates much like a search engine does, only it lives within social networks like Facebook, Ning and others. People recommend businesses, services and people, and businesses have the opportunity to post offers (deals, discounts etc) that come up when a user searches for a product. Not only does the business get to... more... - Colleen

Aloqa has a fatal error in their sigup for other phones :-( - Amit Morson

I would have to say @Pelotonics since it's what I've been working on everyday all day for the past year. We have a online project management solution (very crowded space, I know), though we have an eye towards integrating the tools you use for your personal productivity into the group setting. Like Evernote, Google Docs (we're going to be the first company to be able to truly push GDocs into the corporation), etc... - Daniel Marashlian

The GetVocal (http://getvocal.com) Surf-By-Tel voice browser allows you to surf the web with only your telephone and your voice! Their voice portal technology dynamically converts any website's HTML code to speech on-the-fly making our solution perfect for mobile professionals and/or visually impaired customers. - Chris Matthieu

Texas Tribune http://newsosaur.blogspot.com/2009... - Jay Rosen

Amit it is Android only so far. iPhone coming in next month. - Robert Scoble from iPhone

Link: http://textPlus.GOGII.com - drew olanoff

I'd tell them about http://gangplankhq.com. One of the best kept secrets outside Phoenix. - Tyler Hurst

Posterous - Noel Gomez

TwitSnaps, Robert...In another one month's time we are going to do something remarkable with http://twitsnaps.com. - K N Ajit Narayan

i will probably get a ton of backlash against this one....but im mega bullish on @foursquare - Tristan Walker

Yea, I'm loving @Foursquare - Daniel Marashlian

Colleen, how are services/companies joining the Wantsa network? Are they user entered or do they get entered from Wantsa? - Daniel Marashlian

Tristan: Foursquare has a lot of potential but I don't know that it delivers. - Robert Scoble from iPhone

Actually, I will have to wait for a Windows Mobile version, if they are planning one. - Amit Morson

Robert, agreed...still early. But if done right, it can change the way we think about LBS. Execution heavy, but im a believer. Smart guys steering the ship - Tristan Walker

Jay: that is interesting, I will be in Texas in a week and we should go and see them. - Robert Scoble from iPhone

what do u think is missing from it? - Tristan Walker

Next time you're in the Marina del Rey area, come see the GOGII/textPlus team, I should be out there for my regular week at a time sessions on off chemo weeks soon. - drew olanoff

Tristan: more locations. - Robert Scoble from iPhone

@Daniel It can happen either way. There;s a suite of managed services and businesses can do it themselves as well. Visibility is based on the amount of money they are willing to pay wantsa for the lead/survey etc (the biz tells wantsa what it is worth to them to get that lead) and a portion of that amount is donated to the charity of the user's choice, without a penny coming from the user's own pocket. - Colleen

@Daniel @Robert, Wantsa is currently an App in Facebook (but the UI needs updating), has launched on the 4real.com social network and is currently in talks with Ning's biz dev director to place us as a Family app with core integration coming down the pipe in the next 6 months (estimated) - Colleen

But Robert, you can input locations into the system as well. A pain, certainly but theyll figure it out soon enough. - Tristan Walker

I tweeted this - my favorite would be Better World Books (@bwbooks) an online bookstore (http://betterworldbooks.com) which raises money for literacy worldwide via used book sales, esp of books donated to local libraries - highly successful business model, does good many times over, mission driven (oh and funded by Good Capital here in SF) - Shannon Clark

5G Cell Phones which everyone will have soon http://www.5gcellphone.info - Jeff Grant

FourSquare is aiming to be the unofficial AddressBook in the cloud. Notice that when you friend someone they get all of your contact info and vice versa? Perty smart. - drew olanoff

drew i agree....the service at scale will be REALLY powerful for small businesses as well. This is the kind of LBS theyve been looking for - Tristan Walker

Jeff: Wow, that is the way forward! Are those currently available? - Daniel Marashlian

@foursquare - it just feels right and it feels like it has plenty of potential to grow organically and become a great resource for so many different avenues - Kathleen Forden

Aloqa needs some pricing info. If I have to make a call on that, I usually figure it's too expensive. - Kathy Fitch

The register for later announcements about other phones froze for me, as well. (Of course, their system is probably getting bombarded, right about now, so . . .) - Kathy Fitch

The others sound great, but @aplusk 's followers need to be aware of TribeHQ http://www.tribehq.com - a micro-blogging platform (not twitter) that has evolved the micro-blogging concept. In essence, different professional groups (tribes) - eg nurses, engineers, florists, teachers, embalmers connect with others in their occupation, with the tribal buzz, and enter into direct... more... - Paul Jacobs

DM me on Twitter for contact info for Texas Tribune if you need it, Robert - Jay Rosen

Robert, I'm surprised you didn't mention any of the recent partnership/acquisitions by Rackspace. What do you like there (that you can talk about). - Michael Fidler

I would let him know about @GoldMail. GoldMail is software that allows business people to quickly and easily create personal and powerful voiceover visual messages by making slides from virtually any content (including PowerPoint slides, PDFs, Text documents, and photos) and recording their voice over them. They then send a link to their message using any email service or post it online. - Kathryn Leuenberger

@aplusk is all about the democratization of media, so http://TweetReel.com - (Sharing video on Twitter with the 3GS) Plus, it's my start-up ;)! - Colin

Michael: I am a fan of JungleDisk. Great backup to the cloud. - Robert Scoble from iPhone

Kathryn: funny I have a video of Goldmail's founder I am working on. - Robert Scoble from iPhone

Scoble, I signed up for a Rackspace Cloud Site Friday, mainly because of you, and their service is anything by fanatical. It's terrible. And I'm not complaining just to complain. I owned a Furniture store for years, so I have a lot of respect for people who own and run businesses - Stephen Pickering

Robert, WideTag Inc http://www.widetag.com , we're building the next Internet, the Internet of Things. Any devices, from you Smartphone, toward your laundry or your car, will be interconnected, a Machine2Machine new comunication era. Our WideSpime infrastructure can deliver 16k/sec transaction per single core, something in near-realtime. - Luca Perugini from iPhone

FriendFeed, by far - LANjackal

Www.openyet.com the answer for finding business hours - Greg Birch from iPhone

Is FriendFeed a startup? It's been starting up for a looong time now. ;-) - Kol Tregaskes

reprap.org - Francesco Balducci

I love tokbox ! - johnpiercy

I forgot to leave my suggestion before. I see a lot of new startups here, but if I was going to suggest one, it would be posterous. - Michael Fidler

Holy crap the spammers are on froendfeed is nothing sacred - Mark from iPhone

I'm not sold on these location based services. Maybe in SF it's ok. I suppose this is a bit like Augmented Reality. - thinkQuick

It's November 2009, there's no spam on friendfeed and @aplusk is making a magazine on Http://GreenerMags.com and sharing it with is 10 million friends. - GreenerMags from iPhone

Well, if @aplusk is all about the democratization of media, then maybe an open source app for making media - www.celtx.com ? - Mark Kennedy

How about http://www.kickstarter.com? - Arvind

rhetorically: do @aplusk's followers really care about tech or cutting-edge sites, or are they more or less celebrity gawkers? btw, aloqa looks very interesting. it's time to start making the Web better on mobile devices - .LAG liked that

Annoys me on my iphone when I go to sites and it takes me to a gimped baby mobile version of their site - Mark

I'm excited about Aloqa - Johnny from BuddyFeed

Liking this for the acknowledgment that Twitter followers has an aspect of traditional media reach. Which it does. - Hutch Carpenter

why is he called Aplusk? - Mark

A+K - Mike Doeff from iPhone

Tell them about Etherpad. - raphaeL

Why not tell them about something that is both a startup as well as something good for this planet? My vote is for @Jolkona (http://www.jolkona.org) (Note: I have no affiliation with them) - Trevin

Thanks to everyone who posted here. I'm having great fun exploring all of these sites and services. - Kathy Fitch

@realDVORAK says my recommendation is a crock. Say it here bub and give us YOUR suggestion! - Robert Scoble from iPhone

Let the clash of the titans commence..... popcorn anyone :) - Jim Connolly

Does Dvorak even use FriendFeed? Thought he was a Twitter guy these days? - Jim Connolly

Robert, you know that @realDVORAK is not actually John C. Dvorak right? John is @therealDVORAK - Steven (optionshiftk)

Good spot Steven. - Jim Connolly

Oopppsss, didn't know that. Thanks! - Robert Scoble from iPhone

Robert: Are there any fake Scobles? - Jim Connolly

Yeah, I just barely caught it.. it was convincing though, especially with the poser using the term "crock" which is a typical Dvorak phrase. - Steven (optionshiftk)

Robert - what about Blackberry users - we can't switch to Friendfeed 100%....Any suggestions? And can't give up bberry. OOPS - meant to post this to previous thread...But seroiusly, help for bberry friendfeed users...? - Liza

Jim: there are a few inactive ones. - Robert Scoble from iPhone

Robert: I thought there had to be a few out there somewhere. - Jim Connolly

@scobleizer - Blown away by such substantive engagement! Challenge your base with an opportunity to show off in front of an audience that they can relate to! Here's the rub - googling for a list of startups is both naive and futile, and would hardly expose sentiment. This seemingly simple question energized the base and satisfied the questioner's true intent - to query a group of early... more... - tony felice

thinkQuick

Vanity subdomains are cool. Hopefully Twitter and Friendfeed will enable them at some stage. - http://thinkquick.posterous.com/vanity-...

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thinkQuick

Tweeting from email to Posterous then via FF makes staying within the 140 chars a bit tricky. - http://thinkquick.posterous.com/tweetin...

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thinkQuick

iPhone app request : For each person I follow, how many recent Tweets have there been from each? - http://thinkquick.posterous.com/iphone-...

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thinkQuick

Autoposting is getting tricky. My Posterous feeds FriendFeed and Tumblr. Then FF feeds Twitter. This is only the beginning - http://thinkquick.posterous.com/autopos...

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The unchangeable default Posterous theme is just too boring. I now use Posterous to post to Tumblr. - http://thinkquick.posterous.com/the-unc...

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Louis Gray

The Twins Take One Or Two Steps. Does That Count as Walking? - http://www.youtube.com/watch...

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Sorry about the sideways filming for the first half. My mistake, of course. - Louis Gray

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Doesn't matter Louis. This is Beautifully Cute. :) - Matt Ruiz

Haha! I heard you say BING! LOL They're starting. Still in that stage where they haven't yet found more value in moving forward on feet than on bums and knees. So adorable!!! - Sheryl

Bing! It's not Google. - Louis Gray

They're so cute. And I think that counts as walking. <3 - pea

Walking (beta) - Geoff Schultz

Sarah is wearing her FFundercats outfit, Bill. Yes. - Louis Gray

Bing! Yep, that's walking. No auto-orient with iPhone video? Oh well. I am betting that is a common mistake. - thinkQuick

That is not iPhone video. It is my wife's Casio. I often take vertical photos, and orienting for best picture is common. - Louis Gray

Yes, they are walking! Be glad it's just a couple steps now; soon you'll be chasing them everywhere! - Anne Bouey

FFunderbabbies! That's awesome! Pretty close on the documenting the walking there. Keep up the good work! - Josh Haley

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What is the best movie car chase or chases?

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The French Connection, hands down. - James (!?)

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Ronin... http://www.youtube.com/watch... - Michael Hocter

Bourne again has some good ones. - Kol Tregaskes

Ronin for sure, follwoed closely by the fight/chase scene in Matrix Revolution. - Admiral Anika

Surprisingly, for someone who likes car chases, I don't recall them too well. The most recent ones that come to mind are the racing scenes in Fast & Furious and the freeway attack/kidnapping in The Kingdom - LANjackal

I like the Matrix Reloaded one. - mridul

I'm being serious here, but BAD BOYS 2 has the single best car chase scene, takes place on the bridge. - Roger @ CineVegas

BULLITT with Steve McQueen - Billy Warhol

+1 ronin - Marco

speed 1 - Demetrios the Traveller

Speed. - Mathew™ one of a kind

Ronin - .LAG liked that

another vote for Ronin here - martha

Catch that Beast - insanely long "We need this movie to be half an hour longer, just ad car chases" syndrome - David Miller

Blues Brothers - Glen, Bespectacled Elder from iPhone

The ones in the Transporter movies. - Rahul Das

The French Connection - Nick

Gosh, can't remember Ronin very well, must watch it again. - Kol Tregaskes

what mridul said: matrix reloaded, oh yes! - esther ♥ ♫

The latest Matrix? - Daniele Di Gregorio

I love the fact that the credits of The Blues Brothers lists 273 stunt drivers - Glen, Bespectacled Elder

I'd have to say "Bullet" & "Ronin" are tide in my mind for best chase scene. - Bluesun 2600

Mustang vs.Charger, with Steve McQueen as Bullitt, is tops in my book! - CJ Guest

Just watched Ronin on Youtube, Umm!! kinda lacks action when compared to Matrix Reloaded but never seen that kinda driving before!! Hard to choose between Ronin and Matrix Reloaded though, it's girl on bike v/s girl on the wheel. I say Trinity (in that shiny leather outfit) beats the blonde. - mridul

for the record: Ronin is REAL bad ass skilled driving, Matrix Reloaded is mostly CG crap! record book closed :) - Marco

Matrix 2, followed by Bourne 2. - Roberto Bonini

Ronin is #1, but the French Connection is a close 2 - Davis Freeberg

Ronin by a mile - Steve

matrix - a L e X r A y

Ronin followed by the original Italian Job (http://www.youtube.com/watch...) Something about mini coopers jumping from rooftop to rooftop that is just awesome :) - Robert DeBord

Sorry, but you're all wrong :). This is the best car chase ever shot http://www.youtube.com/watch.... 9 minutes, one single take, no speeding up, no special effects, no blocked street, excessively dangerous and perfectly illegal. It's also an amazing tour of Paris. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... for more. - Jérôme Flipo

Diamonds are Forever - Josh Haley from iPhone

every time this question comes up, i am the only person who mentions the jetcar/bike chase at the end of "THX-1138." :-) - Karim

another vote for Ronin... either one of the 2 car chase scenes in that one edge out French Connection. - Jim Iz Not on Ur List

If you didn't click my link, Jeremy Clarkson said C'était un Rendez-vous "makes Bullitt look like a cartoon". Now, go watch it and let me know your new opinion :) http://www.youtube.com/watch... - Jérôme Flipo

clicked it. that is cool. - Marco

Cool vid. Seen it before and still contend French Connection best, if only because of its back-story. - James (!?)

one expects the driver to get out of the car at the end of "C'était un Rendez-vous" and pull some dead pigeons out of the radiator grille. :-D - Karim

Taxi (French version) - Keith Hollingsworth from iPhone

yeah Matrix Reloaded, Ronin, and Bourne series all have some excellent chases. I haven't seen Bullit or French Connection YET. Hear good things. - Nathan Chase

Ronin and French Connection. - TVTechGrl

Bullitt with Steve McQueen - Larry Roth

Bourne trilogy for me, Ronin was good also, maybe even the Italian Job. - Travis Koger from iPhone

The Blues Brothers. - Ton Zijp

Bullet - MVB (Curmudgeon of FF)

Ronin. - Mycaptain

Gone in 60 Seconds. Eleanor. (surprised it took this long to get a mention) - chrisofspades

BULLITT. - Steven Perez

French Connection & Ronin tie for me. - Pete Delucchi

Bourne Identity drive in the classic mini and the opening chase scene from The Transporter are very good. - Alex Scoble

Bullitt, Ronin, French Connection. - AJ Kohn

Gone in 60 Seconds and Matrix Reloaded.. - Varun "Maverick" Pitale

Bourne Supremacy>Orognal Italian Job> Matrix Reloaded - Vemana Madasu

Ronin is the best because it is real! Matrix is nice too but it is special effects - Amir

Another vote for Blues Brothers here! - Mellissa

Death Proof. - J. Abdul-Qahhar

http://www.youtube.com/watch... - bnoise

The Matrix - Reloaded and yes, Tarantino's Death Proof || I also love French Connection! - Frank Da Silva

Terminator / L.A. River - Marg Uerite

While 'C'etait un Rendez vous' isn't strictly a movie chase scene, it's a great drive. My vote is for Ronin though. It's pretty much what you think of when you think of modern car chases. - Will Higgins™

Ronin, because it was real cars. - Andrew Leyden

The Blues Brothers - thinkQuick

Ronin and the Bourne movies - Norbert Evenich

Dandy Dan and his gang chasing Bugsy and Fat Sam in Bugsy Malone. - Mark H

Ronin without doubt. - Faraz Mullick

Transporter - Bora Mesut PALAS

Ronin by a landslide - Bwana ☠

I hate to say this because the movie itself is absolutely terrible but.. The scene in Bad Boys where the cars are flipping over the Ferrari.. OMGWTFBBQ.. I think CGI is the way to go with car chases.. - Can Koklu

French Connection, Ronin, Bourne movie had a decent one. - David J Lowe

The Bourne Identity had the best one IMHO, though the one in Bourne Supremacy came close to beating it. Ronin was fantastic too. Michael Bay puts together some entertaining ones, even if they are over the top - the chases in The Rock, Bad Boys, and Bad Boys 2 are definitely fun to watch. - Eric P

The Dark Knight "prisoner transport" chase was pretty awesome. - Steve Lynch from twhirl

The chase scene from Bullit is great. The chase scene with the crane smashing through buildings from Terminator 3 is a fave as well. - Jeremy Brooks

Great thread, gonna have to go back and watch a few movies. By the way, the horse chase in first Lord of the Rings was quite good :) - jcunwired

Blues Brothers hands down. Winnebago in a lake, police car lands INSIDE a semi, 20+ police car pile-up, army helicopters, nazis, what else do you need?! - Peter Ghosh

Blues Brothers & French Connection are tied in my mind for best, but I love the chase scene in "Day Watch" as well. - Jennifer Dittrich

So which Ronin chase is better, the Audi / Citroen / Mercedes chase or the BMW / Peugeot one later in the movie? - Andrew Leyden

RONIN. - Zafer Yılmaz

Ronin - Ahsan Ali aka. Slick

Ronin, for sure... - DAL

Ronin, The French Connection then Bullitt - David Monroe

l0ckergn0me

I was addicted to ____________ video game as a kid. http://www.youtube.com/watch...

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Jumpman Junior on the C64. Mastered it. - l0ckergn0me

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Street Fighter II... I cried every time Bison beat me. - Johnny Worthington

Combat --> Pac-Man --> Tetris -->StreetFighter - Admiral Anika

Archon: The Light and the Dark, Stellar 7 - Christopher A Carr

asteroids - MikeAmundsen

Donkey Kong - Derrick

Lode Runner for the Apple IIe (w/ level editor) http://www.youtube.com/watch... - Ubqtous

super mario brothers 2 and 3 - Bill Kinney

C64-> Boulder Dash/ DOS-> Blockout (kind of 3-D Tetris) - Citronella

Riddle of the Sphinx - Eban Crawford

LoZ - Victor Ganata

Any Infocom game. - Akiva Moskovitz

Archon, Dark Castle, Fool's Errand, Wizardry, Continuum, Enchanted, and so many more. - Kevin Fox

Asteroids; the arcade version! - Michael Fidler

Oh yeah. Wizardry (the first two) and all three Bard's Tale games. - Akiva Moskovitz

Oh crap. And more than that: Ultima. - Akiva Moskovitz

Bard's Tale and Ultima. Never even got close to finishing either, but damn...you could play for-freaking-ever. Ultima especially gave me a feeling of the world being so big. I wondered how it fit in a game. - Rahsheen ™, Coach Rah

Kirby and Donkey Kong Country series - Amber, Random Time Lord

The classics. Mario and Zelda. - David Cook

Joust - Mike Lewis

Parsec on TI994A - Steve C

Final Fantasy I on the NES. Just hearing the music from that game makes me almost cry! LOL - Carlton Hackett

The Legend of Zelda, bombing every inch of the map to find a secret passage was never more fun! - Mike Chelen

Ultima, Wizardry, Bard's Tale on the computer. Time Pilot, Dragon's Lair, 1942 in the arcade - Imabug

Jumpman was the best!! - Matt Griffin from iPhone

Megadrive's EA Hockey - Giraffes Up In The AIr

space invaders - (jeff)isageek

Galaga and Ms Pacman. - Yolanda

robotron I mastered. but also loved many others: defender, joust, Ms Pac Man, more... - Anthony Citrano from BuddyFeed

Donkey Kong - Hutch Carpenter

Phantasy Star 2 - Terence

SpaceWar! and Gorf (coin op versions) - Joe Silence

Breakout & Missile Command. - Mark Krynsky

Miner 2049'er, Galaxian, Galaga (good call ladies), Tempest (good call ladies), Missile Command, Defender, Dig Dug, Spy Hunter, Do Run Run, Gauntlet (4player), Gyrus, Robotron, Tron, i can go on and on. - Carlos Ayala

wow, how could i forget Defender and Joust?!? also Space Duel and Asteroids Deluxe! - Joe Silence

and Lunar Lander! - Joe Silence

Donkey Kong - Eric Logan

Tempest. - Aron Michalski from BuddyFeed

Tempest and some of Tron. - Joe from iPod

Not in the local arcade, but Crystal Quest for macs was the best. I still remember the game making cool noises during the math seminar in college. - Joe from iPod

I wanna find a Jumpman Jr emulator online or for Mac OS X. - l0ckergn0me

I was wokka for wacky wacky wacky...er, I mean wacky for wokka wokka wokka. Centipede was another. Missile Command on Atari. - MiniMage - HLtW

Lode runner, virtual racer, montzuma's revenge - Andy Bakun from Android

Here's a list of most of the games I played from age 3 through 30: http://designfoo.com/gamedes... - Kevin Fox

Sonic the Hedgehog 2 - Danny Minick

All games - Outsanity

Everything. I still am. - Faraz Mullick

Anything involving cars on the Commodore Amiga (Sniff! I miss my Amiga!!!!!!) - Adrian Scicluna

Space Invaders, Cat and Mouse, Joust, Mappy, Donkey Kong Jr. took most of my quarters. - Josh Haley from iPhone

centipede - Bren - Minister of Mayhem

Pacman & lots of others. - Ton Zijp

Manic Miner and Jet Set Willy on the ZX Spectrum 48 - Marlin Forbes

Atari - pong 1975, I guess that reveals my age. lol - aerobroken

Super Mario Bros. 3 - Christian (Simply X)

Ultima VII (I think). I remember even breaking down a door in frustration when the folks tried to stop me from playing it. - Vincent van Wylick

Hmm, as soon as I finished one addiction, I moved straight on too the next; it would be hard to pick a single game out of the line-up. Ultima VIII (never got to play VII until much later) certainly chewed up a lot of my time at one point, though. - Tristan Seligmann

Bug Blaster on the Acorn Electron. :-) - Kol Tregaskes

super mario land 1 - Kris

Railroad Tycoon. Hordes of the Deep Realm. Joust. Hack. - thinkQuick

Alex Kidd, Sonic and Goldeneye - Joe Dawson

Super Mario 64, when I was about 6. - Larry Hudson

Rastan - Jim from twhirl

5 games on 4 systems encompass my childhood -- Snoopy vs the Red Baron on the Atari VCS, Kane on the Acorn Electron, Wulfan on the Spectrum, the game with no name and Prince of Persia on early PCs. - Slappy Line

Pitfall. Atari. - Patrick Moran

Contra was King for me. Spread gun was a killer. - nesman89 from fftogo

You won't see this one often : Player Manager - Genaro Bardy from iPhone

Wonder Boy: Dragon's trap - Game Gear - Paris Carbone

NES: Megaman 2, LoZ SNES: Zelda, Super Mario Kart against the sisters, Killer Instinct, Donkey Kong Country are those that comes to mind. I was exchanging cartridges with my neighbor kids at the time for the NES and was renting weekly for 6-7 years there so.. lots of games. N64 of course Super Mario 64 and Blast Corps, strangely, was so addicting to me, was playing for hours. But my... more... - ElijahBailey-Zu of FF <0,

Load Runner: Apple IIe. - Eric @ CSTechcast.com

I Remember playing Super Mario World and Megaman Xtreme - nfan12

Amiga 500 - North & South, Cannon Fodder, Super Cars 2 and loads of awesome games from coverdiscs. Gameboy - Mario Land 1, Revenge of the Gator Pinball. First PC - Doom. PSX - Tekken 2/3, GTA,. - Steve

Arcade: Crazy Climber - Eric @ CSTechcast.com

Ys Book I&II for the Turbographx. Only RPG I ever solved. - James Hague

Donkey kong - Holly is Happy

StarCraft and Red Alert 2 were my addictions. I guess that shows how young I am. :P - Mathew™ one of a kind

Bombjack, Contra, Crystal Caves, Baldurdash, Gauntlet II, R-TYPE, Prince of Persia, Kings Quest, Super Hang-on to name a few - Mo Kargas

Ohh and also Earthworm Jim! - Mo Kargas

Boeing 747 Simulator on the Amstrad CPC-464 (Cassettes). (Sorry I forgot the game's name ;-(( ) - Thierry R. Andriamirado

Stephen Mack

Nicknames for the Google OS? "Goose"? "Gooz"? "Gos"? "Gosh"? "Gee-OS"?

July 8 - Comment - Like - Share

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Hype OS - Mo Kargas

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I think they are going for Chrome - Johnny Worthington

Gauze? - Stephen Mack

Chromos? - Stephen Mack

Google Chrome for Netbooks 2010, Home Edition Service Pack 1 - Matt Mastracci

COS? (Pronounced either "cuz" or "caus") - Stephen Mack

Remember GCOS - Honeywell's operating system? (Yes, Honeywell, like the thermostat company). It was nicknamed "God's Chosen Operating System", which is somewhat appropriate for Chrome OS as well. - Gary Burge

GoogOS - Marco

+1 Mo - Marco

I'm thinking "The Goggles" because they MIGHT do nothing... - The Web's Wendell Wittler

Wendell wins! - Stephen Mack

It is GeeZ. - Swaroop

Seems like it will just be called Chrome. - thinkQuick

Confusing to call both the browser and the OS by the same name, though. "I'm running Chrome." "Which one?" - Stephen Mack

there's gotto be a "chrome" in there too. Gchroz - spelled as "gross" - Swaroop

Gozer. Choose and perish. - Andy Bakun

Grome = Google + Chrome - Michael_techie

Both Andy's and Michael's submissions are terrific! - Stephen Mack

Zuul. There is no OS, only Zuul. (just to riff on Andy ;) ) - Neal Krummell

Bret Taylor

"Web 2.0 was created so that people could publish cute photos of their cats. But this same cat dissemination technology has proved extremely helpful for activists, who’ve turned these tools to their own purposes." - Ethan Zuckerman (http://www.ethanzuckerman.com/blog...)

June 21 - Comment - Like - Share

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haha awesome quote. - Geoff Schultz

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Nice. The Cute Cat Theory. From @EthanZ in 2007. Reading old blogs? Great find! - thinkQuick

I thought Web 2.0 was created to more efficiently deliver Porn - Sean Reiser

Bizarre. I was under the impression Web 2.0 was created for people to publish cute (and not so cute) photos of themselves. :) - Mona Nomura

Web 2.0 was created *for cats* to publish cute photos of themselves. - Amit Patel

Heck, a cat can program a robot, why not? http://www.youtube.com/watch... - Paula W

: ) - "Twitter lets Robert Scoble tell me what he’s doing 200 freaking times a day… but it also lets me know whether Egyptian activists have been released from the police station when they go in for questioning." - Sarah Miller

Cat dissemination technology. LOL. :) - guruvan (Rob Nelson)

Jim Connolly

Who's reading this feed right now? Say Hi!!

June 19 - Comment - Like - Share

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Hi! - Michael McKean

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hi - Nilesh

Hi Michael! I often wonder who sees my feed. It's good to get a snapshot. - Jim Connolly

Hi! :) - TheHenry

Nilesh: Just subscribed to your feed. Hi TheHenry ;) - Jim Connolly

yo - Josh Haley

Hi! - Rahsheen ™, Coach Rah

Hi! - Glen, Bespectacled Elder

Jim Connolly: subscribe yours 2.. - Nilesh

Hi. I was just reading your tech blog. And now I'm back here reading this. - Nick Prince

Hi Jim. - Paul

hi - Bren - Minister of Mayhem

this is a great experiment suggestion... - Nilesh

I'm subscribing to everyone who 'likes' this or comments. A great way to find real people, who participate. - Jim Connolly

Hello! - Parth Awasthi

Hello. - Derrick

Hello and greetings - DigitalAlan

I'm really surprised at how many people have responded. - Jim Connolly

Hi! - Jannifer @wordsforliving

No and you can't make me - Pfffft - Brent - Loving Life

I am as well :) - Niki Costantini

Hi!! - Adrian

hi - Shawn Rosko

howdy - Joe Silence

OK - I have about 1,300 subscribers on FriendFeed and got MORE people respond to this request, then I did on Twitter - Where I have almost 19,000 followers. Better engagement on FriendFeed! - Jim Connolly

Hi! - Morten Blaabjerg

And I refuse to participate as well. Nope ain't gonna do it. - Brent - Loving Life

Brent: Me too! - Jim Connolly

So, lets see - Just who is the Non Conformist in this group anyway? - Brent - Loving Life

Ok, maybe there is one more nonconformist about. - Brent - Loving Life

Hey - Eric @ CSTechcast.com

It almost seems like the more twitter followers you have, the LESS they engage - anyone else see that? - Jannifer @wordsforliving

I was already subscribed to almost all of you - that's cool. - Jim Connolly

Jannifer: Definitely! - Jim Connolly

agree with Jannifer Stoddard - Nilesh

Catch up with you guys later - time to give my son his breakfast (I'm in the UK) - Jim Connolly

I wonder why it's like that?? - Jannifer @wordsforliving

It's easier to engage on FriendFeed than Twitter. This may be the mob feed, but it's an organized respectable mob. - Nick Prince

Hii..:) - Orhan Öğüt

Hi :) - Bryce Roney

I refuse to participate in any organized mob. - Brent - Loving Life

Hi! - vijay

hi from shanghai - K.D.

lol Brent - Nick Prince

Who you callin' respectable? - Michael McKean

present - EvryDaydowners

Really - Respectable, why them are fighting words, er word. - Brent - Loving Life

Hello, another 'real' follower! - Mahendra (SkepticGeek)

I'm reading it Jim. - Paul Downing

Hi, I'm real, honest! - Tom Griffin

Good morning, I'm real too! - Paul Hackett

The feedback here has been amazing, thanks!! - Jim Connolly

Hi! - Stuart Gray

Hi! :-) - Kol Tregaskes

HI - Mehdi saberioon

O hai! - Bec Rowe @d0tski

Hi - thinkQuick

Hi - Seltoon

Hi! - David Faulkner

Hi Jim! - Brome

Hi!! Just subscribed after reading both posts about O2. - Chris Marshall

Hi - zsafwan 

Chris: Did you have a bad experience with o2 as well? - Jim Connolly

I have just gone through this thread and subscribed to everyone. Found some really interesting people too - wish I had done this weeks ago!!! - Jim Connolly

Hi - Bill from twhirl

Hi Bill - Your profile's empty - what kind of stuff you do do with FriendFeed? - Jim Connolly

Greetings everyone. - Robert Kenney

Hey there. Good morning from Chicago! - Curt Mercadante

Greetings from Brussels - Zack Brandit

Me, Hi - Roberto Bonini

Curt: I have a friend in Bloomington IL. Small world. - Jim Connolly

Zack: I used to go to Bussells / Bruxelles regularly. Love the old town (and the TinTin museum) - Jim Connolly

Hi, Jim, howdy? :) - Gilgamesh

Gilgamesh: Bonjour! - Jim Connolly

Buongiorno! Buenas dias! Gutentag! - Gilgamesh

Hi ;) - Nicholas James

Gilgamesh: I only speak English and French (my French is really poor.) - Jim Connolly

checking in - Mark Traphagen

Jim: I am only about 45 minutes from Bloomington. I live in a southwest "exurb" of Chicago. Great to meet you. - Curt Mercadante

Hi, there! - Leslie Carbone

Hello. - Alex Scoble

my right now but not your right now of course :-p - mike "glemak" dunn

Jim: never mind 'bout that, if you want to improve your French or start learning a bit of Italian or Spanish, just let me know, I'm often avalaible for a conversation :) (and my German is very poor, too) - Gilgamesh

Alex: You've dropped the 'domo' - Jim Connolly

Hola! - Jason Huebel

huhu :))) - Ronald

OPEN QUESTION: Do any of you use "Disqus' on your blog and if so, do you recommend it? - Jim Connolly

Good morning Jim. I enjoy your work. - Jim Moyta

O HAI! - Steven Perez

i came back. *raids your fridge and drinks the booze rider twice* - Joe Silence

hi - Tony C (Unrated)

greetings and salutations. - Aaron Hood

hola - john deragon

Hi - Robert Hafer

Hi - David Cook

John: Hi! I chat with Garnett Lee on Twitter occasionally. - Jim Connolly

Jim Moyta: Thanks!! - Jim Connolly

I've subscribed to everyone here. Some really interesting people. - Jim Connolly

Howdy! - Andrew

Hiya :-) - Paula

My first ever thread with 100 comments! (Watch out Robert Scoble!!) - Jim Connolly

Heya! - Randolph Potter

Hi!! - Jack (a.k.a. Jeber)

Hi. - AJ Kohn

Hi! - Jens Christian Freund

hi! - tehKenny, Dork

Hi!! - PWR

On the Internet "right now" is when you read it! :-) - Internet Strategist

Hi! - Kev

hi - Steve C

hi - docrivs

me again - for the 4th time today :) - BEX

hihi - mjc

Hi - richrecruiter

hiya - Kendra <3 Three Lions

HI! :) What's happening? - guruvan (Rob Nelson)

Me? - Tyson Key

@Jim Connolly - I use Disqus on one of my blogs, and haven't had many problems with it. It makes legitimate anonymous commenting a little easier, too, although I also run OpenID on that site/blog. - Tyson Key

RE: Disqus: If anyone has written about why they use it I suspect it would be either Louis Gray or Michael Fruchter. They both use it. I suspect they both have readers who are more technically inclined thinkers. Since I reach out to the general public, small business owners and less advanced bloggers I use CommentLuv, KeywordLuv, Twitter ID and subscribe to comments instead. - Internet Strategist

Wasup Jim...thnx for Sub'ing me :) - Roshan Ramachandran

Keith - @tsudo

What percentage of your real life friends would look at your funny if you mentioned Twitter?

June 16 from Twitter - Comment - Like - Share

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98% :-/ - Andy Bold

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95% for me - Keith - @tsudo

Friends? - MVB (Curmudgeon of FF)

a fraction would be interested, more would be confused, and some would just laugh - Keith - @tsudo

lol MVB, yes the real life kind. #meatspace - Keith - @tsudo

Who's looking at my funny? - Micah Wittman

75%, although the pastor at the church where my daughter attended elementary school has started a sermon series based on Twitter. See http://twitter.com/redeeme... So if people were awake during the sermon, they've heard of Twitter. - John E. Bredehoft

a sermon series on Twitter? That's new - Keith - @tsudo

I don't attend that church, so I don't know how it went. At least for the first sermon in the series, they tweeted during the service. - John E. Bredehoft

I am busy converting my Web friends to real life friends, and increasing that percentage. - Louis Gray

Louis, funny you say that. I've recently become in 2 local groups built around social media. Our local tweetup group LRTweetup.com and RefreshCA. I'm trying to do the exact same - Keith - @tsudo

20%ish? - Mona Nomura

Louis mind if I tweet your comment? - Keith - @tsudo

Not sure now - Shevonne

John see my post on it here http://ff.im/43QWG - Keith - @tsudo

Louis, nice tactic :-) - Andy Bold

what MVB said - Alejandro

0 - Alex Scoble

I am the geek in my circle of friends. they just smile and nod at most techy things I say or talk about. - Nathalie, Dreamer of FF

I'd say about 20% too. - Zulema ◕ ◡ ◕ from BuddyFeed

Keith, you may, of course. - Louis Gray

Come to think of it, I look at myself funny when I mention it. - Micah Wittman

99.9% - Mike Smith

I don't have any real life friends, but most people I interact with would. - Michael McKean

probably half of them would twitter a response to what I was saying while I was saying it. - Richard Lawler

75% but I think that is coming down all the time. - Kol Tregaskes

A rapidly diminishing percentage. I mention it to everyone. And it's all over the telly. - thinkQuick

All of them. I have NO geek friends. This requires fixing. - Bec Rowe @d0tski

100% - diego morelli

99.9% - Jamie

Maybe 25%. - DGentry

yep, 99% - Sean

Probably about half. It comes up in conversation and I feel odd talking about it with people who aren't users. - Ben LaMothe

"Real Life Friends" - that's so 90's rofl, na seriously the vast majority probably about 95% - DailyShite

Richard

What damn app does iPhone OS 3.0 Notes synk with?!

June 18 from Twitter - Comment - Like - Share

On the Mac - it syncs with Mail - in the Reminders folder. I think on the PC, it's Outlook. - thinkQuick

Louis Gray

iPhone 3.0 to the rescue. Found a bookmark, selected all to grab the URL, copied it, went to Mail, pasted it and sent it to my comp. Done.

June 17 from Twitter - Comment - Like - Share

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I literally called my wife to have her get a bookmark off the laptop (which is at home)... and then realized I had synched with the iPhone. Little things. - Louis Gray

This feature seems so simple. So basic. Yet we didn't have it, and now it is going to be super useful. - thinkQuick

Evernote? :D - Gunny Say RELAX ™

Brad Feld

looking for a code library to extra signature blocks from email. any hints / suggestions?

June 18 from Twitter - Comment - Like - Share

extract? - thinkQuick

Robert Scoble

My iPhone is being updated to 3.0. I hope it goes well. I'll have a Palm Pre and a Nokia at tonight's NYC Tweetup too.

June 17 - Comment - Like - Share

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How big pocket do you have? :P - Qbat

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let us know how it goes... - bailey

Larsen: big, big pockets! And two of them plus one one my shirt. :-) - Robert Scoble

Why did you leave the conference? - Eric

Palm Pre as a backup! Should be other way round! Heheh, hope all goes well at the Tweetup. I'll be in NYC next week Monday! - Gaurav Patel

Eric: I just didn't make it out of bed today. Was very tired, the Building43 launch finally caught up with me. Plus I have a panel to do tonight and I have to be up early tomorrow to video StockTwits. - Robert Scoble

Robert, I hear folks are having issues with 3.0 update, AT&T servers overwhelmed, "activation" issues?! caveat emptor! - Susan Beebe

Susan: I hit the activation issue too, but just tried it again and it worked fine. Just a few more seconds... - Robert Scoble

Too bad there's no WebOS update today. I was hoping to see some of the niggles fixed to "combat" iPhone 3.0. *sigh* Have fun in NYC, Robert. If I had time to drive up from the Philadelphia area tonight, I would. - Kevin C. Tofel

Oh, my, I'm already in love with iPhone 3.0. After 30 seconds I can tell you that having search on the phone freaking rocks. I have thousands of contacts and this is a life saver. - Robert Scoble

When is FriendFeed having a conference? - Eric

Robert will you be writing and posting a Palm Pre review? I know you've been interested in it since January, but have not heard much on it from you. - jcunwired

I get "cannot connect to activation server" FAIL each time I try (at least 10x now). - Brian Daniel Eisenberg

Yeah I just got that message too. - anna sauce

taking robert's advice and re-installing - anna sauce

3X and still get error. - anna sauce

Palm Pre and iPhone are just pushing each other to update and bring more features to the table in a much faster timeframe. Great for us consumers. - Ron Wening

Finally! "Preparing iPhone for Software Update" - Brian Daniel Eisenberg

It was instantly impressive how different it was in so many little ways. And for an OS that was already fantastic. - thinkQuick

my update went fine even on my 4G iphone, disconnected iphone but a weird error message keeps popping up on my computer can't connect with this iphone error.... - Kim Landwehr

@Kim Landwehr: Sounds similar to error message I got (iPhone 3G). Find your .ipsw file and open it using iTunes. That fixed it for me. http://ff.im/46ruU - Ashish Rangole

Robert - glad to hear that the update went thru successfully for ya! awesome. My new 32GB black iPhone 3G S is getting closer! It's no longer in China, it's now in Louisville, KY!! w00t...tick, tock! Can't wait for the UPS brown truck to arrive! - Susan Beebe

updating iphone now. With mms, i'll have a 21st century phone at last - Ken Power

"Activation server" issue can be fixed by breaking internet connection (pulling the ethenet cord or turning wifi off) while firmware expands after the download. - Kirill Petrovsky

thinkQuick

At at Volere requirements training course with the book authors (the Robertsons)

June 14 from BuddyFeed - Comment - Like - Share

James and Suzanne signed my book. - thinkQuick

Robert Scoble

Facebook employees are openly arguing with Arrington about hate speech. Interesting. I'll chime in later here: - http://www.techcrunch.com/2009...

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The Facebook employees are wrong. Net (in the comments) who is a former employee stated it well. - Robert Scoble

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I'm so proud at Mike. - Orli Yakuel

totally agree. i can t understand why a Neo-Nazi group is more legal than a Breast-Feeding picture group. this is totally ridiculous and just proves the law is fucked up. Facebook should know it - Ouriel Ohayon

Also, the Facebook employees can't have it both ways. They already censor lots of people and things. To claim that they can't in this case is lame and inconsistent. They take down mothers who are showing themselves breast feeding, for gosh's sake. And now the employees are saying that they need to keep up this hate speech? Really lame, and I really like some of the employees who are... more... - Robert Scoble

Ouriel: exactly. Plus, freedom of speech and the first amendment are meant for governments, not companies. Companies don't have to follow the first amendment at all. And there are plenty of places you can put your hate speech, there's no reason that Facebook needs to support that. - Robert Scoble

Now, if Facebook had ALWAYS supported freedom of speech and the first amendment principles THEN I would agree with the employees. But they don't. The company is really screwed on this issue. - Robert Scoble

just wrote a comment on TC: "I am sorry but i don't get this, with all the american jews organization in the world, why has no one sued Facebook already? I don t agree that advertisers should show Facebook the way. The law should. Mike keep up !" - Ouriel Ohayon

Facebook seems to have a seriously skewed idea of free speech, and of what is and isn't acceptable. One of my friends is using a restricted version of the site because FB say she is 'offensive', yet all she has done is tell a few bawdy jokes. Apparently, if she was calling for whole groups of people to be killed, that would be ok. - Kate

So, what's the answer? Yes to boobs or no to Nazis. - Johnny Worthington

People mix Freedom of Speech with Anarchy of ideas. Freedom does not mean you can say whatever you want. The limit of freedom is when the right to exist to a group of persons is denied. - Ouriel Ohayon

Johnny: if you're going to argue freedom of speech I just want consistency. If you're going to remove boobs then you gotta remove hate too and be proud of that. On the other hand, if you're going to argue a vigorous defense of freedom of speech (I've done that many times in my career) then you gotta go all the way. Hint: spam is speech. Facebook removes that. Facebook is inconsistent and wrong because of its inconsistency. - Robert Scoble

Are you saying that if you want to engage in hate speech you just need to form a company and then you are exempt. - Marian Pike

Marian: no, I never even thought through that. I just am pointing out that Facebook is inconsistent and therefore it is NOT a vigorous defender of freedom of speech and is wrong in this case to be proud that it's letting the hate speech stay up. Lots of people totally misunderstand the first amendment and freedom of speech, including the three Facebook employees I see posting there. - Robert Scoble

Marian: I find it sad that Facebook pulls down all sorts of content all the time (they removed all my content for 24 hours and these three employees never said a word) yet they let this crap stay up. Inconsistency. That's why Facebook is wrong. - Robert Scoble

Robert, completely agree. I just thought I would just pose the question to the group because in some discussions around this issue that I have seen, some people tend to be good at expressing outrage without then expressing the solution. - Johnny Worthington

It is easy to censor images. Words are a whole different issue. Facebook have put themselves in a difficult position. - thinkQuick

Johnny: if it were my company I'd decide up front which road I'm going to go down. Either be a strict first amendment type and resist all attempts to pull down ANY content from the site, or say "we have community standards here and we'll pull down content for any reason, at any time, especially if that content pisses off some of our users." If they took either stance I'd be OK. - Robert Scoble

Freedom of speech has its own limitations. If someone will argue that calling: "Death to the red-head children of Virginia" is allowed by the name of the first amendment, then he/she has problems understanding Democracy boundaries. - Nir Ben Yona

Nir: even in USA freedom of speech has some limitations. You can't yell "fire" in a crowded theater, for instance. - Robert Scoble

Robert, wow, I didn't know the issue is that restricted... - Nir Ben Yona

Indeed. This is a sticky situation they are in... - Johnny Worthington

Nir: yup, there are lots of places where you can't say anything you want. Journalism students learn about those in media law. Also, go ahead and threaten death to the President and see what happens. - Robert Scoble

If someone write a comment at your blog that violates your readers and you know that as a result of that something wrong can happen, would you take it off? sure you would. It's practically the same. Freedom of speech is one thing, but if no one is there to take responsibility and control over some of the content, it can lead to a non reversible disaster. I'm actually concern about the situation, and I'm backing Mike on his posts 101%. - Orli Yakuel

In terms of FaceBook, surely, because of it's global reach, there should be some attempt to take into account thwe different laws surrounding freedom of speech and hate-speech around the world, and come to a balanced view? I know these groupd are blocked in Germany & Austria, where such talk is a criminal offence; shouldn't the existence of such laws, and International Law concerning genocide, be taken into account in framing policy regarding this? - Nigel

Orli: actually, in the past, I've taken a strong defense of freedom of speech. Lately, though, I've switched my stance and will take off a variety of speech. Just be consistent about it. Freedom of speech only applies to governments, anyway. - Robert Scoble

Nigel: again, it's consistency that matters. It's perfectly fine to say "we'll keep all content up unless it breaks a law around the world somewhere." Just be consistent, though. Don't take down some content and then say you're defending some principle by keeping other content up. - Robert Scoble

I absolutely agree with Mike on this one...what do other sites like Blogger or Digg do with this type of content? - Anthony Feint

Whether Facebooks censors something or not is up to them, they are a private company. I just wish they were consistent if you are going to use the Freedom of Speech mantra, then you need to apply it across the board and not pick and choose. - Kim Landwehr

I'm appalled to see people like Kyle responding to Arrington's post and saying: "I really don’t understand what’s wrong with hate speech. Of course hate crime is horrible (though really, is it any worse than ‘normal’ crime?), but I fail to see how speech can hurt people. I’m not even going to get into the difficulty of defining what speech ‘hateful’ and what isn’t." This guy doesn't... more... - Nir Ben Yona

By supporting those hate groups, Facebook literally empowers them, and once they'll meet outside of Facebook, it can (and will) lead to irreversible disaster. - Orli Yakuel

I need to seriously consider whether I can continue to use Facebook after seeing the responses to that article. - Donald Forth

Freedom of speech is like freedom of religion. Freedom of religion necessarily implies and includes freedom FROM religion as well. Freedom of speech means freedom from speech, it means I don't have to listen. While it is admirable that Facebook does not want to deny anyone anyone's right to free speech, it is well within Facebook's right to say, "Yes. You have a right to say whatever you like, just not on MY website. You are more than free to create your own hate based social network." - Marvin Price

If sites like Facebook and Twitter want to become "utilities" like electricity or the phone company, they need to figure out a way to remove themselves from the transaction. They're platforms. They're infrastructure. They should provide a system for users to exchange messages and content and for users to filter content as they see fit. They need to get out of the business of "owning" content and controlling what content can and can't be exchanged on their platform. - Ken Sheppardson

Suppose the phone company tried to determine what you could and couldn't talk about with your friends... - Ken Sheppardson

Has no one seen that fb has closed down a Muslim hate group today? Check it out www.theage.com.au in the technology section. "We disabled the 'I Hate Muslims in Oz' group because it contained an expilcit statement of hate." Why is this double standard allowed? - Travis Koger

Just to be clear I am not unhappy that they have closed the group, but why not close the neo-Nazi one also and at the same time proclaim that they are protecting free speech! - Travis Koger

Not the first time they have done this - the first time was on Ezra Callahan's note: http://www.facebook.com/reqs... - it's a shame most of the comments are now gone (due to notes' 100 comments at a time limit) - there were some classic and overwhelming displays of stupidity. - JIDF

Thanks for keeping this live Scoble. I hesitated for various reasons for a long time to say anything about this hoping that facebook would change their mind. But the seriousness of the matter made me change my mind. - net

The "double standard" is the result of the fact Facebook doesn't exist in a cultural, ethnic, religious or legal vacuum. Its standards reflect those of the employees, and those standards are always going to be in conflict with one group or another trying to use the platform. I can't really think of any belief system that doesn't have some inherent internal inconsistencies, so those... more... - Ken Sheppardson

Also of interest is how many Facebook employees "liked" the note (including Randi Zuckerberg, who recently threatened to abuse her power @ Facebook: http://www.thejidf.org/2009...) - JIDF

Someone should start a breast-feeding Nazis group and watch Facebook explode from cognitive dissonance. - Akiva Moskovitz

Please checkout/join/support: United Against Holocaust Denial On Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/reqs... - over 50,000 have joined in less than a month! - JIDF

@Akiva, I just blew Coke through my nose when I read your comment. Wierd image in my mind now of breast feeding neo-Nazis. - Travis Koger

[courtsies] - Akiva Moskovitz

I'm not too fond of the argument that hate speech is free speech. Free speech is supposed to do no harm. Hate speech is intended to incite harm. This is why it's illegal to shout "Fire!" in a crowded theater when there is no fire. - Scott Raymond

How much is the value of freedom for you? And who decides for you, what can be published and what cannot be published in the internet? For me as a Facebook user, of course, Facebook has the right to decide - I will and I have to accept their decisions and I will continue to use the service OR NOT! If these Hate Speech Groups/Pages are illegal in US - why are you dont call the Police?... more... - Arne Krueger

just joined: http://www.facebook.com/group... and if i find such groups - i will press the report button! - Arne Krueger

@Ouriel your context for use of Anarchy word suggests you used it in common vulgar *scarecrow* sense... I'm sorry to say but that's pathetic - Freedom vs Anarchy sounds too lame to me. - A.T.

You can prevent the speech, but none of us can change the heart where it grows. Only God can do that. Education (as in our systems) will only make a person smarter in the way that they already believe. Suppression will only force it underground. Oppression makes it gain adherents. Reason will get you into the "carriage in the Inner Circle" where you will go round and round without... more... - Melanie Reed

melanie that was epic - Tyler Gillies

The biggest question that needs to be asked it what makes denying the Holocaust hate speech? If they present their argument with facts then why is it considered hate speech? - Gavin

Robert, thanks for writing about this. I wrote a paper in my MBA class concerning this issue, and Im glad the discussion is still raging on. Facebook cannot have it both ways. You either monitor all content or none. Once you start removing some content, where do you stop? - Dani Klein

thinkQuick

How can @scobleizer possibly read his FriendFeed? http://friendfeed.com/scoblei...

June 12 - Comment - Like - Share

Jannifer @wordsforliving and Kol Tregaskes liked this

Friends lists and saved searches. ;-) - Kol Tregaskes

Yeah, that's what I figured. It's fun to watch his main feed auto refreshing. - thinkQuick

Thomas Hawk

Does Anyone Know How Windows Media Player Writes Your Star Ratings to Your Files? - http://thomashawk.com/2009...

How Does Windows Media Player Write Your Star Ratings

June 13 from Thomas Hawk Digital Connection - Comment - Like - Share

Davis Freeberg, Kol Tregaskes, Rene Wirtz and Charlie Anzman liked this

MP3 files have headers for that stuff. the ID3 tag, at a guess. - thinkQuick

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right, they do. My question though is why when I rate them in WMP as in the top example are they not showing when I use Windows Explorer to search for the file as in the bottom examp. - Thomas Hawk

I think WMP does NOT write it to your files. I found out a while ago. My media player database got somehow corrupted, é voilá: ratings were gone. - Daan

Ah. Just read your full post. Hmmm.. perhaps someone has coded a utility to sort out that problem. - thinkQuick

Kevin Whalen

New iPhone FriendFeed app: AlertThingy - FriendFeed Edition - http://appshopper.com/social-...

June 8 from Bookmarklet - Comment - Like - Share

Howard Baines, Matthew Speicher, Burak Arı and 10 other people liked this

"Following the success of our AlertThingy desktop client we have now gone mobile. We've gone back to our roots with AlertThingy for FriendFeed - iPhone Edition. This app provides the complete FriendFeed experience based on the new FriendFeed. Get your latest data stream; post comments, updates, links and photos; access groups and subscriptions; like and unlike items; hide and show items; subscribe to friends and search." - Kevin Whalen from Bookmarklet

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Downloading now. - Kevin Whalen

This isn't working at all for me - Rob Haas

Ok, uninstall-reinstall worked. Nice. About a couple minutes in and I think this may be my favorite FF iPhone app. If it replaces the iPhone page remains to be seen for me though. - Rob Haas

Not sure if I am missing it, but I can't figure out how to refresh the home feed. - Kevin Whalen

Ok, it doesn't handle more than one image per post (if there is more than one image, none are shown) and Youtube clips arent accessible at all. Back to the web app. - Rob Haas

Most of the friendfeed apps suck. I recently got a promo code from the developer of buddyfeed. It has been the best so far. Otherwise, I just use the web interface. - TheHenry

Writing from AlertThingy. Just clicked the "Wite comment" button. How was that missed? - thinkQuick from Alert Thingy

Hey guys, would really appreciate reviews and comments over at the App Store! :) We really want to spend time making this better. - Jeremy Baines

When I read Alerthingy, I thought there were family of products with that prefix. - ashish

You never know, there might be sometime soon ;) - Jeremy Baines

thinkQuick

Trying AlertThingy - FriendFeed iPhone app. It's nice. The spelling on this button is a worry though...

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June 9 from Alert Thingy - Comment - Like - Share

LPH™ and his dog P™ and Jeremy Baines liked this

Oooop!!! sorry! missed that will fix it ;) - Jeremy Baines

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Think you could look past that and give me a nice rating on my first iPhone app? :) - http://itunes.apple.com/WebObje... - Jeremy Baines

It looks really nice, Jeremy. I gave you 4 stars. One other note - when you are reading a specific post, I should be able to jump directly to that user's profile page - so I can follow them, etc - but I couldn't get that to work. I hope web links will work in the next version, too. - thinkQuick

Thanks and noted! - Jeremy Baines

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