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Classic. - DO ANYBODY NO MONIQUE

Your poor kids...when they grow up and find out how you sold them out they might exact revenge! Or they'll just be the coolest kids ever. - Josh Haley

totally renaming you Louis Gray, Mommyblogger. lol - Erin @queenofspain

Cute kids. - Give 'Em DBizness

Should be default Google Image result when searching for "twins" :) - Mark Krynsky

@Erin, that would be awesome. :-) - Louis Gray

@Louis, is your wife aware of this? http://friendfeed.com/e... - Mark Krynsky

That is cute, love the hats! - Sally Church

Yes, but do you have the LouisGray.com onesies??? - http://jessestay.smugmug.com/gallery... - Jesse Stay

Haha Nice Photos - To Google Forever hah. - Ray Marr aka Knatchwa

most adorable SERPs ever! - sean percival

@Mark, she certainly has seen it now! Thanks a lot. :-) - Louis Gray

Those pics are so cute. They are full of personality already! - Trish R

awesome * 2 ! - Mattb4rd

Is that the latest from Google Labs?? Babies delivered by email? Great no more morning sickness, and mood swings! I'm sure it's still in beta... - Daan

+1 Daan - Voyagerfan5761 from fftogo

The expression on Matthew's face in the 3rd pic! (At least, I *think* that's Matthew.) - Yolanda

=D - David Cook - 2010!!!

These twin-geeks have played all web yet.:) - Igor Poltavskiy

My favorite baby geeks! - Daynah

hey these cuties showed up again! :) - Susan Beebe

ha! love it! - Marco(aureliusmaximus)

These are architected to resurface every three weeks. It's a feature, not a bug. - Louis Gray

babypimping.com - the way to beat the economy slowing! HAAH - Allen Stern

Don't let them find these when they're older and Google is the new Evil Empire that everyone hates. ;-) - Jared B. Luther

cuteness overload. - DO ANYBODY NO MONIQUE from fftogo

with kids this cute you know louis is "Feeling Lucky" ohhhhhhh bad joke alert! - sean percival

I felt like I was taking too long to read this post. I got anxious about what else I was missing! - David Smith

@David LOL, I tend to get carried away once I get going. I rarely write posts under 1000 words ;-) - Alexander van Elsas

I can see maybe connecting with old school chums. But I don't really see its use in business, and I have an 18-year-old daughter who's made it clear it's HER TURF. Seems to me we've got plenty of other places to play -- here, and associated spaces, plus blogs, plus LinkedIn, which is big-ish in St. Louis. And in my field, I really like AdGabber. - MaryB, BrandingBroadOfFF

I'm with you, most people I know are on it and active members, been trying to avoid it. Not 100% sure why, just never got into it. - maxim shevertalov from twhirl

i don't like any other sites,i got an account 2 an it's boring,lmao - amy

I'm an FB user, but only minimally. I mostly use it to keep in touch with friends long since lost. But actually logging in... not much, I get my updates and such via an imaginary friend setup here at FF and also I get updates in SocialThing, consequently I almost never log straight in to it unless I need to reply to someone, so as long as they don't lock anything off from access, I could care less about it. - nick carrasco

The rest of the planet doesn't seem to care much about facebook either. So you're definitely not alone. - Luis Figueiredo

I am still a member over at Facebook - but purely to remain connected with old school friends. - Jonathan Beckett

I stay for the Scrabble, pure and simple. - Kevin C. Tofel

I like to have my FB pge automatically updated by other apps like Twitter, Last.fm etc. so I don't actually have to go to FB and do anything. That way it looks like I'm somewhat active to people who are interested and I don't have to bother. - Todd Brunner from twhirl

I do like the FB private video mail, especially to connect to friends who are on FB & noplace else. - Brian Rendel

I don't, but I also don't give a flying fcuk that you don't give a flying fcuk - in the same way that you don't give a flying fcuk on my views on Bebo, Google, Seesmic et al, for sure - Ivan Pope from twhirl

i don't use it much but we're out of the demo - watch a gen y interacting w/ their tribe sometime on fb - they're it - mike "glemak" dunn

I agree. I tried to use for marketing purposes, it failed miserably. Then I tried to use it for fun and it was worthless. - J Allen

I think Facebook is a good tool. Maybe if you are Dave Winer you don't need it. - Vic Podcaster

May be user error, but FaceBook didn't seem as useful as hoped. I thought it'd bring cool convos together. I still have to hunt. - MiniMage TKDteacher of FF

I've been a Facebook user till recently when they decided to disable my account. Here is the link to the whole saga http://friendfeed.com/e... - Vic Podcaster

It was a great way to communicate with close friends and family while 5000 miles away - Sally Church

No me too. I never liked facebook - Svartling

Facebook started off with excitement, and ended up with apathy. FF started with curiosity, and has ended up with real social interaction. I know where i'm spending my time... - Iain Baker

You're clearly not alone. I have yet to sign up. - Tsega Dinka

One of the many reasons why I have little use for Facebook. No other major site cares much about psuedonyms, and given Facebook's history of privacy problems, I'm don't trust them with much. - LogEx

Kind of BS in my opinion that they disabled Vic Podcaster's account for this. - Thomas Hawk

Terms of Service are only useful if they are reasonable and even-handed in applying them. If they can't explain why, they shouldn't. - Andrew Feinberg

Why do they have to explain why? It's their ball and they'll take it home. If you don't like the rule don't use the site. It's that simple. - Adrienne Van Houten

If you can't explain how you are applying your own terms of service, either you aren't following them or need new terms of service. - Andrew Feinberg

I'm perceiving a shift in social networks and forums, more people using their names instead of fancy pseudonyms. Maybe I should say "names" without presuming that they are the person's real name. - Jack (a.k.a. Jeber)

Facebook is a joke for this reason, on your birthday you obviously get a few messages. I hadn't spoken with some of these people in a while so I got involved with them. I received two warnings about my conduct and I backed off from talking! Incidently Louis I see that we share the same birthday from your profile! - Joe Dawson

@Ryo I still really enjoy what Facebook offers, I get benefits from other sites but the majority of my friends are active on Facebook! - Joe Dawson

There's nothing wrong with pseudonyms and there are lots of reasons to use one, not just 'hiding'. Don't ask why people use Facebook, it's simple. People use Facebook because people use Facebook. Momentum, name recognition, user base, and it's a good product. - David Knight

I've already cut back a lot from using it so I won't care if they eventually delete my alias. One more reason to move to A|N only - Divided By Zer0

But hey, many have been calling it Fakebook for a long time. - Daniel Schildt

Despite what they say about aliases, it does seem to be very hit and miss - I know of one person who is on as "Troubled Pink" and has been for a while, whilst others seem to get locked out pretty swiftly. - Richard Peat

as they should, identity is really important - Jeremiah Owyang

When I joined FB a year ago, it was as "Somerset Bob" - a pseudonym I wanted to use as I built a new online persona based around my revamped blog. After three weeks I was duly suspended until I changed it to my real name (Bob Kingsley). It rankled then, and still does to a certain extent - especially as I, too, see FB users who are using obvious pseudonyms. It's been the only social networking site that's made a fuss. - Bob Kingsley

Agree with Jeremiah and David. Keep it real, Facebook :-p - Jamie

Jeremiah: The policy should be applied evenly. Check this out http://tinyurl.com/6mz2zo now tell me what do you think? BTW Vic Podcaster is the real name I use in real life. - Vic Podcaster

David: Agree with you totally. - Vic Podcaster

I can't wait to check this out, haven't seen it yet today. However, I have to reboot before I can hear it... because Vista thinks it knows better than me which Sound card drivers works better. On SP1, and I still think Vista sucks. Again.. dying to see what is so great about this. Great article, spectacular demos are great to get someone interested in the product, but the full product still has to be great to continue using it (I assume why Macs are doing so well). - Tim Hoeck

Look at computer games... I'll download tons of demos because they "look cool", but I only continue to play a handful. - Tim Hoeck

Nailed it, microsoft has some amazing technology that the general public knows nothing about. They have some of the worst pr/advertising strategy I have seen in a long time, an incredible waste of money. - adolfo foronda

Yeah. Bad call. - Mitchell Tsai

I disagree. It was absolutely the right call. If someone steals my intellectual property, I should just buy it back since the other version is cooler? Problem is that it went on way too long. - Cyndy

Reports are that Hasbro offered $10 million but were turned down. So I think not a good business outcome for them but probably better than paying more than $10 million - Brian Sullivan

Cyndy: The "way too long" is a big part of the bad call. Poor decisions. - Mitchell Tsai

i wonder if there's any truth at all to the 10m figure cited at RWW. seems incredibly hard to believe that they would really turn that down. - Deva Hazarika

Good point Cyndy, but would this really hurt Hasbro financially? I guess it's not about the money, just protecting the product. - Dennis Jackson

@Dennis - They have all the time in the world to make it better. People will still play (and would probably pay to play). @Cyndy is exactly right - took too long, made them look bad. - Jeremy Toeman

Lame move, Hasbro. :( - Nathaniel Payne

yeah, this sucks... that was the only app I really liked and used - Shawn Duffy from twhirl

another thing that makes hasbro look stupid is that their iPhone app crashed often, and now can't launch at all. Their's gonna be a helluva pissed post in the App Shop in a matter of minutes. - Marko Bon

awesome... I lose more females because I refuse to play. ha ha ha - Noah David Simon

:( I loved that game, now no need to sign onto FB. - clarke thomas

http://simonstudiotheatre.blogspot.com/2008... SCRABULOUS MAKES ME ITCH! - Noah David Simon

@Cl Attr -- is there a price per month or per year that you think DOES make sense for a brand like Hasbro to charge the FB crowd for their self-made app? I think that number exists, and I think that's the whole point of watching this space for the last 12 months ... - Marko Bon

... if not the "whole point," at least a particularly crucial one ;) - Marko Bon

I wonder how Literati on Yahoo Games continues on unchallenged by Hasbro... - C. K. Sample III from twhirl

time to play chess... - Noah David Simon

Facebook didn't kill scrabulous. The owners pulled it. - Jonathan Beckett

Re: "Literati" Not familiar with that game but I strongly suspect Hasbro came down hard on Scrabulous because of its name - SCRABulous (and possibly the board design, though I'm not sure what its legal status is)... Those folks have a trademark to defend, after all. (Crappy way to handle the whole affair, tho). - Jules

I'll admit that I tend to use folks as filters - why I don't use a feed reader, actually. I get better passive advice on what to read thru FF and Twitter. Not everything that any one person writes is going to be spectacular - but when several people whose opinions I respect share something, it tends to be worth reading. - Lucretia Pruitt

My information filter are my GReader friends primarily and then twitter and friendfeed friends - Nikos Anagnostou

My brain - Frédérick 2 Baro from twhirl

You are. You make it easy for me to understand the relevance and essence of Web 2.0 tech. - Tokyo Dan from twhirl

Who replies "me" is a bit arrogant, who says "you Robert" is too much deferent. Filtering is [or should be] a process, not a person. Isn't it? - Markingegno - Donato

The little voices inside my head ;-) - Jemm

i would like to know it, because the information that i have are already filtered and i can't avoid. :D - Felter Roberto from twhirl

Why is it arrogant to be one's own filter? I read a lot of sites each day (both liberal and conservative, scientific and psychological, artistic and technological), compare points of view, consider my own views, and filter the information I receive accordingly. Should I trust others to do this for me? The real question is whether or not we are "open systems," capable of accepting information that counters our own viewpoints and beliefs. - William Harryman

Not filters, faucets. - Amit Morson

I think "filter" is the wrong term and it is leading to some "ick" responses. I'm with Harryman. Also, I see Robert as a connector (since he's analyzed in the piece), not a filter. Also, the degree to which Scoble points to things that I have an interest in changes as our respective interests and attention change over time. I find myself adding other connectors to my sphere of connection, although I still keep an eye on Robert. I think that is a social phenomenon. - Dennis E. Hamilton from twhirl

@William - I mean it's impossible for anyone to read anything is written in a day by millions of blogger. You can see only a small part of the tale. You have to adopt some kind of filters, being them human or not. From the other side, you can't rely on them, or on another person, neither he is called Scoble, :) you have to use your brain. My two cents. - Markingegno - Donato

Experts in their respective fields. No-one can make sense of everything. - Meryn Stol

You - Francine Hardaway

FriendFeed subscriptions - Imran Hussain from feedalizr

FriendFeed works for me. - Vic Podcaster

I think it's hard not too hear the loud voices of the A-list bloggers and media-people. At the same time, information is only as valuable as when it can be put to practice. And that is completely up to you! - Vincent van Wylick

Can't say that I have one. Depends on topic. Frankly with the incredible splintering of the content flood these days I'm learning to trust someone I hadn't listened to in a while ... myself. One's own gut instinct rarely proves wrong ... so if it sounds like bullshit, it probably is. - Cathy Brooks from twhirl

ugh -- I despise Camtasia -- what a horrible piece of software. - Shey, Jamaican of FF

my work uses camtasia but I rather use screenflow on the mac. What are software on windows that can do screen recording like camtasia? - Wayne Sutton

OK - no offense but I ended up with a headache - from the sliding all over the place. - LPH™ and his dog P™

Yeah...motion sickness. He's got Camtasia zoomed in WAY too far. Camtasia is a decent piece of software, but its interface is a bit too rudimentary. - Bradley McSpinn

I love Adobe Captivate - Bwana ☠

Not to mention, he's got the audio settings screwed. If you're doing a mono recording, there's NO reason to do a 48 encode versus a 44.1. All it's going to do is increase your size. 44.1, mono at 64k is perfectly fine for voice. - Bradley McSpinn

Wayne - Wink would be my recommendation but doesn't work on MAC (just Linux and Windows) .... would something like Flowgram do? http://beta.flowgram.com/ - Mlibrarianus

Seconded, Bwana. It's a flawless piece, in my opinion. - Bradley McSpinn

Ah, sarcasm. - Phil G

@Bwana Captivate FTW - Shey, Jamaican of FF

Haha, that's awesome. I wish I was as smart as Steve. - Michael

snort! you made me spit my milk through my nose. No seriously, maybe they meant they need more revenue (from ads) in order to build features that would attract more traffic? Nah, they've got plenty of cash. They must just be complete idiots? or the reporter is? or both? - Jason Wehmhoener

Admitting that they aren't good and that users don't like them would be difficult. It's much better to blame it on some kind of chicken egg problem. - Paul Buchheit

Aaron - here's how I'm doing it http://marshallk.com/how-to-... - Marshall Kirkpatrick

Yeah, I want to know, too. - Francine Hardaway

Francine, see the link above, I'm just using Netvibes - Marshall Kirkpatrick

Consider using the OPML Editor for creating OPML files. It's kind a what it's designed for. :-) - Dave Winer

Hutch: here's one for you to ponder. If Seth is the smartest guy on the Internet (and I think he is), why isn't he on FriendFeed? : ) He also doesn't allow conversation on his blog posts! - Robert Seidman

not a big fan of the game, can't dance and can't finger dance either, very interesting viral model however - Lou Paglia

Robert - some people achieve guru status, at which point interactions aren't needed (but would be appreciated). I imagine if Warren Buffett started a blog, he'd dispense his wisdom and not bother with what people thought. Take it or leave it. And people would take it. Same with Seth. - Hutch Carpenter

Hutch, Seth is great with interacting. But he doesn't seem to think FriendFeed adds to the ecommerce stream (that's your thing, right? FriendFeed as ecommerce?). I agree with you completely on Buffett, or Gates and lots of other people too. - Robert Seidman

seth's aversion to comments and the most engaging forms of social media do surprise me, but he's a real family guy and probably is just trying to maintain some balance. - Fred Wilson

Fred - I would think comments are a manageable form of interaction. Blogger can engage as needed. But it's cool. Really not needed for what Seth does. - Hutch Carpenter

Fred, I agree but I see a lot of people write "rules for blogging" and really, there are no rules. I don't believe Seth gets away with lack of interactions because he has achieved "guru" status. I believe he achieved guru status because his ultimate focus was towards providing good content. Everything else is second. - Robert Seidman

I have several interviews with Tapulous at http://qik.com/scobleizer that you might enjoy. - Robert Scoble

Robert Seidman (not Scoble) - interactions aren't really ever "needed". But that is one of the philosophies of blogging. If I turned off commenting and didn't show up on FriendFeed, I'd still have a (very) small readership. Just a matter of how big the audience would be. - Hutch Carpenter

I think twinkle is just as viral, I can't wait for more improvement on the twinkle-front. - karl dotter

Interactions aren't really ever needed when the content by itself is really valuable. But why do so many people make such a big deal about "the conversation" then? So on the one hand you want to say it is a big huge honking deal, but on the other hand not so much? - Robert Seidman

Robert - you mean like this conversation here? Who is this "you" kemo sabe? Conversations do matter, but all in context. Most of us are trying to figure stuff out, and it's a lot easier to do so by bouncing thoughts off others. If you're a lifelong student, conversations matter. If you're a professor, valuable content matters. And we're all a bit of both. - Hutch Carpenter

Hutch, conversations don't always (or even usually) matter in terms of ecommerce. We both may love these conversations, (and I surely do) but our love of them doesn't really mean much in terms of ecommerce. - Robert Seidman

Hmm...Robert...I'm thinking this is a conversation better held over on the e-commerce thread? - Hutch Carpenter

Back to the iPhone apps topic, analogy to FaceBook app first mover advantage falls short. FB has in-your-face viral features built-in (news feed, invites, shares, profile boxes, etc) which iPhone apps lack (as of now). iPhone app store has 3 things: #installs (doesn't translate to usefulness/quality/fun), user ratings (Apple does not allow sort by rating), and user comments which many people likely ignore. Seems like a smaller % of iPhone apps benefit from network effect, compared to FaceBook apps - Amir Gharaat

Amir, true, but then again iPhone apps have been available for a whole week! - Robert Seidman

But the game itself isn't that much fun. I have it, but I spend more time playing Aurora Feint when I'm in a line/waiting room/waiting for children at soccer/karate/gymnastics. - Cyndy

Also, a new poll shows that most Americans don't know what they'd do in hypothetical situations. Thanks, Onion News Network! - Brian Johns

Although it's aimed for laughs, the statement is more true than most imagine. - Roney Smith

oil is the next bubble - Bryan Thatcher from twhirl

oil is the current bubble. I'd bet on euros, defense equipment, or alternative energy companies as the next one. - Jonathan Tang

Nationwide Infrastructure development, they should green light nationwide light rail and solar and wind farms. Make solar and wind power mandatory on ALL new construction projects. - Jason Lowe

how about corn? - Nathan Rein

Thanks Leo.. WOW.. was about to upgrade ours here.. Once again the "CHIEF TWIT" Helped out "Da-Chief" from Corpsman.com.. BZ! - Da-Chief

Just make sure to de-activate plug-ins before upgrading then re-activating them one by one after the upgrade. - Leo Laporte

Good luck! Mine did the same thing when I upgraded too. - Margaret Kerr from twhirl

I've been having a problem with a FF comments plugin working with my 2.6 install and openbook II theme. it makes my javascript story scroller go wonky. - Jason Shultz from twhirl

this is why I probably won't upgrade until I get home. - Mike Hussein Cohen

Good tip once again LEO in my Guineapig....cheers - John Spencer

There's a small bug that permalinks with index.php are broken, and that you have to use permalinks with index.php. You know, just a minor bug that no pages or posts work. Oh and there's no workaround for windows hosts - Phill Price

used instantupgrade plugin to update, then couldn't log in. sigh. All fixed now, but still. - John LeMasney

I was considering upgrading, but I think I am going to wait a little while and see if there are any additional issues. - Pascal Sijen

I had no problems whatsoever... And btw if you read the general 3 steps upgrade documentation on wordpress.org u'll find they specifically say what Leo already mentioned - deactivate plugins, then post-upgrade reactivate one by one. - Jan Cifra

@Jan: Many plugins require adding code to the template, so having that plugin deactivated might crash the site, too! - James Joyner

Upgraded www.audiodesignlabs.com today and had no 'real' problems. I had a minor issue with the wp-print and wp-email plugins (clicking resulted in a 404), but those were fixed by updating my permalinks. So far so good... - Pascal Sijen

I just upgraded pixil.info hoping this wouldn't happen. I had an error the first time i ran the upgrade but it was because i forgot to copy over some files, user error! Everything else worked after that. - Noe Ruiz