Nick Wade - Likes - FriendFeed

Congrats Robert... best wishes to all - Rhys Amos

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Congrats. Now the fun begins!!! - Mike Shields

Awesome! - dstamand

Congratulations! - Stephan Planken

Congratulations! Welcome, Ryan! - Lance M. Brown

Awesome - RetiredTeacherD

Yay! Congratulations! - Jesse Stay

YAYAYAYAYAY! Congrats to you and Maryam!@#!@#! - drew olanoff

congrats Robert and Maryam, Welcome Ryan. - rick

Welcome to the world. - Dave Mora

Congratulations!!! - Mike Doeff

!!! - sean percival

Born 11:32. - Robert Scoble from iPhone

LOL He was keepin ya'll on yer toes. CONGRATS! - Danny Minick

Yay! Congratulations to you and your wife! Now off to buy RSS and iPhone - Lise

Congrats!!!!! - Mark Evans

Congratulations! - Kenneth

I hope you're well rested, Robert ... ;-) - Hieronymus Murphy

Congrats Robert! - Charlie Anzman

Congratulations! - 321

He looks like you. - Cjay

Congratulations! - Mahendra (SkepticGeek)

Congrats to you all - JanLawrence

Congrats Robert and welcome RSS! - Robb Brock

Congratulations! Happy Birthday Ryan! Lots of love to the whole family. - Jodi Church

SUBSCRIBED! - drew olanoff

Hello World! - CannonGod

Congratulations!! Welcome to the world Ryan!! :) - Laura Zickus

<rss> awesome! </rss> - sean percival

welcome to the new world little one! all hail our pink squirming screaming overlord! - bear (aka Mike Taylor)

LOL at CannonGod's comment. It's like he started a Wordpress blog. XD - Danny Minick

When does he start micro blogging? - Cjay

20.5 inches long. 7 lbs. 13 oz. - Robert Scoble from iPhone

nice alpha version. welcome RSS ! - Kaïs Miled

congrats!! welcome rss! - barbarars

Ryan is no longer in beta! LOL :D Congrats, Scoble! - Danny Minick

Congratulations :) - امیرعباس

RSS is finally here! Congrats Robert & Maryam - Dennis Jernberg

Congrats Robert... best wishes to all - joupy

Congratulations! - Aaman (Clone of FF)

Blessings, and the best Robert! - Nakeva Corothers

Cute! - Charlie Anzman

مبارک باشه Congratulations - هامد - Just Like that

Congrats!!! - Jim Williams

Grats! - Denverken

مبارکه رفیق رابرت . خدا حفظش کنه - جـوان ایرانی

If Dave Winer comes on here and claims to have invented RSS I will smack him. - drew olanoff

Congratulations! - joey

Congratulations and all the best. - Bryce Roney

Welcome Ryan!!! - Phil

Welcome Ryan :) - giuseppe c. | markgreene

Awesome. Congratulations! - John McCrea

Congratulations :-) - ѕнαнιη

Congratulations! - anna sauce

Congratulations :) Welcome Ryan :) - Mohamed Marwen Meddah

Congrats, Imagine where RSS and the web will be when he turns 30! - James Watters

Congratulations to you both. - Don McAllister

congrats Robert and Maryam :))))) - Conformist / V12.2 / 7.2L

congrats to the family!! - erik yuzwa

Welcome to RSS in Pubsubhub mode :) - Ouriel Ohayon

Congrats to you all!! We had our second child, a boy, on Tuesday. Enjoy!! - Alex Cordiner from iPhone

Yay! Congrats to you, but mostly congrats to your wife for doing all of the hard work. ;-) xo - Jennifer Leggio

Mazel Tov! - Robb Vaules

Congrats Robert....wishing all the best to your family.... - Carlos

Congratulations! Wow! Seems like we were there just the other day! Looking forward to your late-night feeds and tweets and blog posts! - Louis Gray

You rock! Congrats. Thanks for sharing. How's mum doing? - Steve Lacey from iPhone

congrats! and welcome ryan - Daniel Levine

Congrats Robert - It is a fine family.... - Simarprit Singh

"beautiful new baby" by Robert Scoble, photojournalist. I stepped away for coffee and bang! RSS - Brian Hendrickson

nice! - Josh Haley from iPhone

Thank you so much for sharing - Sherrie Belken

:) congrats - Shandiz

Born on Talk like a Pirate Day, too! Yarrrr! - Josh Haley from iPhone

congrads ms & mr scoble, :) - chaz2b

Thanks to the good Docs! - Keith Rowland

congrats!! ^_^ - Christine Lu

Congrats! - Mycaptain

Steve: mum is sleeping but got to hold Ryan. Instant love! - Robert Scoble from iPhone

Welcome, Guest dear to our world / Now the world is on your own - Conformist / V12.2 / 7.2L

that feels good - Brian Hendrickson

Gonna have to learn to operate that iPhone with one hand. - Keith Rowland

Congratulations! - Parth Awasthi

Congratulations. Hope Maryam iis doing well - Rachel Clarke

Congratulations! Wish him all the best! - philos

Welcome Baby Ryan!!! My baby Ryan (17 years!) and I are honored to welcome another superstar to our planet! Love, hugs, and lots of kisses to Baby Ryan, Mommy Maryam, Dad Robert and big brothers Milan & Patrick and of course Grandma!!! My guess on Ryan's arrival (predication) was only 23 hours off. I thought he would arrive on Friday, Sept. 18th at 11:45 pm. Love to all, Kelly & Ryan Kim - Kelly S. Kim

Congrats, Robert and Maryam. - Derrick

Congratulations Robert, and well done Maryam! You are truly blessed :) - Nicola Quinn

So happy for you Robert and Maryam. Yeay...another FF baby! - Mark Krynsky

Congratulations! - Surachart Opun

What a moment, eh? I remember when my daughter came into this world, it was so exciting there were no words for it. Congrats on your wonderful baby boy! - Michael J. Carrasquillo

Congratulations - testbeta

Congratulations! Welcome to the world, Ryan. :-) - Yvette Ferry

Congratulations Robert and Maryam! And welcome Ryan. If I was having a baby today, I'd begin a blog for him/her straight away as an online diary they could look back on when grown up. - Sandra Large

he's so cute... - Sinem Vural

Robert, Congratulations to you and Maryamie! - Mike Fruchter

Wow, congrats to all of you! - Paul Salzman

Congratulations to you both! - Forrest W. Kobayashi

Great news guys! All the best! - Chris Nixon

الهــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــی چقده ناز نازیه.اینو فارسی نوشتم مریم جان بخونن ....راستی به باباش که نرفته:)) خوشگلتره:)) پس به شما رفته - joupy

congratulations!! - Jeroen De Miranda

Congratulations to you and your wife Robert! - Randy

Congrats Robert! - Terry Jones

congratz and welcome RSS! - Jon Winters

Congrats Maryam :-) - Terry Jones

Felicitations and humble prayers for your new son. - Victor Panlilio

congrats and best wishes! - Mike Chelen

Congratulations Robert! Welcome Ryan! - Jeff P. Henderson

Congrats!! - Tan Kaiquan

congrats and best wishes to all. :) - Naor Mark

Congratulations - Meral Alabaz

I was a c-section six week preemie in an era when that was seriously life-threatening, they didn't know if I would make for the first week. It always gets me a see a c-section / preemie come howling into the world. Welcome, little guy! - Bob Morris (polizeros) from iPhone

Beautiful baby! Congratulations daddy man :) - Gary

:) Congrats Robert... best wishes to your family! Get her name in twitter and ff! - Business Blogger【ツ】™

Congratulations to you and Maryam! - Elwin Witzke

AmazinG!! congratulations :) - Nakul

cutie pie baby - Debby Bruck

Congratulations :) - Baard @ Pixum

Ryan, good to see you. - Burçak Çubukçu

تولدش مبارک ^_^ Congratulations! - ‎‎Emad

Warm wishes and congratulations. Love that you posted him crying. - Irene Koehler

Congratulation to all of you! All the best for baby ryan!!! - Arne Krueger

Congrats to both of you :) - zephyrlily

Congratulation....best wishes to all - Opium

woooow like :) - کلـیـشه

Congrats M. & R. - Giuseppe M.

ووووی مبارکه، به مریم خانوم هم تبریک ما رو بگو - Zahra (raoros)

Congrats Robert and Maryam, Welcome to geekdom Ryan! - Andrew Wardlaw

Contrats!!! I'm so excited!! - Jannifer @wordsforliving

Congrats.That pic brings back memories of my own baby's birth only ten months ago. C-section baby boys rock! - Georgiana Comsa

Mazel Tov to you and Maryam. - Michael Markman

Congrats... a few more Scobles make the world a better place ;-) - Aad 't Hart

Congrats! - George Mitsopoulos

Congrats... and Welcome Ryan. Good to have you among us. - fatima

Congratulations! I - Michael Fidler

Wonderful news. Congrats. - Keri

Congrats Robert, and the best to you, Maryam, and of course Ryan! - Chris, Taskerrific Guy

Congratulations Congratulations !! - Farzad

Congrats - Sandeep Swaminathan

looking to to the same in 3 weeks - ROBIN SMITH

Congrats on the blessed event! :D - Joel Lovato

Congrats Robert and Maryam. Welcome Ryan !!!!!!!!! - Nir Ben Yona

Congratulations, Robert! - Mark Trapp

Congratulations to Robert and Maryam. - George Hall (Australia)

Right ON! I am so happy for you. I have 4 kids of my own and they are my greatest joys. Take care and I hope all goes so smooth for him and mom. - Robert Anderson

Congratulations! - J. Abdul-Qahhar

Daddy Scobleizer!!!!!!!!!! First things first....when will he be signed up for Twitter and FF? - krystyl

Congrats!!! - eric susch

welcome Ryan, it's a beautiful world - Michele Costabile

Congrats!! - Olivia Lovag

Congrats to the Scoble family from South Africa! Welcome to the world @RSS - Shaun Trennery

Good luck beatiful baby. - Oğulcan Selçuk Akbulut

Congrats, Robert! :-D - Kol Tregaskes

Congratulations Robert, and welcome Ryan! - Giorgio Zarrelli

Congratulations Robert and R.S.S.: "Hello World" Cheers! - Louis Trapani

warmest congratulations - Peter Holland

what a beautiful baby=)Congratulations=) - Candan Celik

Such a miracle and a blessing - Congratulations to you and Maryam and "big" brothers! - Marla Schulman

Congrats, Robert. Amazing pictures! - Jordi Soler

Congratulations to all of your family! Enjoy! - Ed Richardson

Congratulations ... enjoy! - Hitesh Parashar

Congratulations!!!! He's beautiful! Welcome little one! I'm proud to share a birthday with you! - Martha

Congratulations Robert and Maryam! Welcome to the world Ryan :-) - Rasmus Lauridsen

happy birthday BABY - ≤ M@RzI

Best congratulations!!!! :) - CantorJF

Congrat Robert. It is wonderful what this new media could do to share your joy! - Gianto Widianto

congrats! - Pradhap Nirmal Natarajan

Congratulations! - Steve Garfield

به به . قدم نو رسیده مبارک مریم جان . خیلی نازه :) - RokhSaare

Hope the baby and mum are well. Congratz. Happy Ied Mubarak =) - zʍıɔ

WoW,Congratulations! - atalmatal from MojiPage

Congrats on the blessed event! Welcome to the world, Ryan - Jazz Baker

Congratulations! - Jim: Dead Like FF

appena nato e già dal dentista? - paolo beneforti

Congrats :) - Maryam Ardakani from FreshFeed

He was delivered by a Blue Man? - paul mooney

Congrats Robert. It's allways a special moment. I still have my child birth in my memory! - Rui

What a happy day! A healthy new Scoble and mom. - Dave Winer

آخي ، بچته ؟؟؟ مبارك باشه تو روز به اين عزيزي به دنيا اومده ، بت نميخوره بچه انقدري داشته باشي شيطون - mohammad

My goodness, congratulations! - DGentry

Congrats! - Ivo Mortani

Congratulations!! and best wishes - Johni Fisher

congrats! - masstrovato

Congratulations! I hope everyone's ok?! - Holger Eilhard

حاجي خانومت ايرانيه جدي ؟؟؟ پس خيلي مباركه ديگه - mohammad

Congratulations, Scoble family! - Bill Scherer

wonderfull - braciolanet from BuddyFeed

Congratulations to you and your family Robert! A very handsome baby boy! Cant wait to see more pictures! - TiffanyCarr

Congratulations, Robert. - motownmutt

Congratulations! - :: Kim Sherrell ::::

congrats :) - £lham

مبارکه :) - خیزران kheyzaran

Congrats! - Roozbeh

Congrats to Robert and Maryam! - Bec Rowe @d0tski

WooHoo! My best to the whole family. I hope Maryam is getting some rest after all that hard work! - Robert Couture

Congrats to you and your fam, Robert :) - LANjackal

Ryan was born when the Berlin Marathon was finishing. Perhaps he'll be a long-distance runner. Congrats. - Carl Jacobsen

Congratulations to you and the wife, Robert! Job well done. I see he is gonna take after his Daddy! ;-0 ,hehe:-) - Duliece

One more congrats won't hurt, right? Thanks for sharing the pics. - Kevin Sablan

Congratulations :) - A35G

Congrats - Exciting & now the fun begins :-) - PXLated

Wishing you and yours the best on this wonderful day! Congratulations! - Steve

Congrats on the RSS feed update :) I hope you've pinged both rsscloud and pubsubhubbahubba ! - Ahsan Ali aka. Slick

Starting today. Sleep will be nothing more than a fond memory. :) Congrats. - Richard

Congrats! - Herb Hernandez from iPhone

Congrats! - YusufOzanTasdemir

Congrats Robert!! - Taehoon Kim

Congratulations! - Thomas Hawk

Congratulations to you both :) - 1x29

Congratulations to all! - malackey

fantastic !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! - michele ficara

Awe!! Congrats =) - Brodie Beta

Congratulazioni!! ^______^ - Andrea | amnesiak1978

congrats!! - Clarita

Congratulations to your whole family, Robert :-) - Mistletoe Glen

Welcome Ryan! Congratulations Robert and family! - Tim Probst from iPhone

Congratulations!!! God bless.... - Bob DeMarco

Congrats! - Jason Williams from iPhone

Congratulations Robert, Maryam and Milan! All the best to the four of you. - Eiso Kant

Congratulations :-) - Jalada

Congrats! Enjoy. - Jim Peake

Congrats - BeeLing

Congratulations!! - Paolo Leonardi

Congratulations, Robert and Maryam! - Helen Sventitsky

Congratulations! - John (a.k.a. dendroica)

Congratulations. - ashish

Congrats - Brian Appleby

oooww wonderfulll :)) - Ucandepik

Well done, my son's name as well. - Robert Kenney

Congratulations - Caleb Scribner

Congrats - Manuel Mas

Congrats! Best wishes to you, Ryan and all your family! - Lenny Post

congrats ^_^ - Furkan Tunalı

Conga Rats! - Michael R. Bernstein

Wonderful! Enjoy! - Alan Morris

Hello! - N.G. Gordon - RadarSync

Absolutely wonderful. Welcome to the world Ryan! - Loren Heiny from iPhone

Congrats :) - Hasan Al Shehabi

Congratulations to both of you. - Roberto Bonini

OMG Congrats to both of you, he looks healthy and promising. - Jeunelle Foster

Congratulations to everyone! He looks healthy! I am sure you must all be very happy! ;) - Altan Khendup

Congratulations! May your tribe ever increase in happiness, joy, and fulfilment. - trey pennington

Congrats! - Ben Parr

what would be ryan's reaction when he would read this post someday, so many folks who knew dad congratulating him! - testbeta

Congratulations! - Anne Bouey

hiya RSS! - Laura Norvig

Yah!! Congratulations. - Micah Wittman

Congratulations to the whole Scoble family! - WorldofHiglet

Congratulations to the whole family! Enjoy these most precious times. - Marylene Delbourg-Delphis

best wishes to all - Hamza Şamlıoğlu @TEAkolik

congrats Robert and Maryam - Kevin Tunis

Congratulations, Robert! - Sabri Küstür from FreshFeed

Wonderful. Best wishes to Ryan... - Mitchell Tsai

Congratulations to the whole family :) - Chris Saad

Congratulations - Samaneh

Congratulations. cute :) - FFTornado

Congratulations. First picture on twitter! - Cindy Makonin

I just came to make sure you were getting a proper congratulations - Sherrie Belken

Welcome :))) - Flynn (Michael A. Volz)

congrats;) - خاتون

Congratulations to the Scobles! - Carlton Prest

Congrats Robert! - Jorge Escobar

congratulations, Robert and Maryam. - Valeria Maltoni

congrats! - Daniel Brusilovsky

WOW - what a miracle - congrats! - Mark Harai

Congratulations Robert & Maryam! - Rodrigo Jaroszewski

Congrats from Italy, Ryan! - Federico Bolsoman from iPhone

Congratulations Robert and sorry for delay, Best wishes - erfan

He is crying: "I want an iPhone". Felicitations! - William Mougayar

May he be blessed throughout his life! God bless you, Robert and Maryam! - Melanie Reed

CONGRATS!!!!!!!!! - Greg Ness

congrats :) - Erdinc [bilimdiyari.com]

Congrats Robert & your family :) - Sampad Swain

what a beautiful little guy! congratulations! rock on! - B.L. Ochman

great day, congrats - imran

Wow congratulations to both you and Maryam you must be so proud :) - David Richardson from Android

Congratulations - Eric Logan

Wow, Congratulations, Robert and Maryam!! Ryan looks beautiful.:-) - Cathryn Hrudicka

Congrats man. That's so awesome. - Give 'Em DBizness

Happy Babbie Day! - Jack (a.k.a. Jeber)

Congrats! - Zachary TG

Congrats! I wish a long and healthy life. - Muammer Okumuş

Robert, you newest addition is too freaking adorable. I hope you and Maryam are doing well. Congratulations! Here's to a long, prosperous future! - Mike Nayyar

Welcome, Ryan - you picked a good family! - Matthew Blaisdell

congrats to you and Maryam! And welcome, RSS! - Joshua Allen from fftogo

congrats!!! Welcome to Ryan - Dario Salvelli

Congratulations to you and Maryam! E benvenuto Ryan! - Marco Fabbri

Congrats! :) - Emmanuel Anumonwo

Congratulations! - mlazopoulou

Such auspicious times... Welcome, Ryan! - Red Label

O HAI, Ryan! Congratulations to Daddy and Mommy, too! - Ladybug Heather

What's Ryan's Twitter address? - MVB (Grinch of FF) from iPod

قدم نو رسیده مبارک!congratulations - Jan Valjan

Congrats, best wishes. :) - Hunt

حوزه جان بیا در گوشش اذان بگو - مـــــــــمد

woohoo! congrats! - Tyson

That is a wonderful moment! All the best to momma, baby and the family! - Mary Gilmour

Congrats Robert! Welcome Ryan! - Garin Kilpatrick

Awesome, Congratulations Robert and Maryam! And welcome to the world Ryan. - Mitch Baldwin

Happy parenting! Congrats! - Natallini

Groovy + one geek on the planet - Yann Ropars

Congrats!!! Robert - Steve Chou

To the proud Papa.....Congratulations!! - Bonnie Foster

http://www.youtube.com/watch... - kevin fitts

Congratulations Team Scoble. Best of good wishes to all of you. - Morrie Johnston

Congrats Robert and family!!! Welcome Ryan :) - buvanesh

congrats Robert! - Joshua Guffey

Congratulations! RS - Sean Kelly

Congrats :D - Emre Misvaklı

Congratulations. he's so cute :) - Armando Grati

Beautiful! - Ryan Sholin

Congratulations - Kreg Steppe

Congratulations! - Gordon Saunders

Congratulations! - موسوی Hamid Reza میر

Congrats Robert....How amny more before you have your baseball team :-) - Alex Marrow

Seriously, Best whishes.............God Bless...... - Alex Marrow

Mazal Tov! - Raanan Avidor

All the best! Fun Times!!!! - Jim Turner

congrads now the fun starts, beautiful baby - Debra Moore

congrads ! - ★ Soner Gönül

Congrats and Best Wishes! - Tracy Benham

Looks like the baby's first trip to the dentist - Steve Borgman

Welcome, Ryan! Congrats, Robert! - Thierry R. Andriamirado

it's all about the tools, baby! - Dan Parsons

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Robert: I certainly can't, as it's merely another part of my day-to-day job. And a small one at that. I do try to interact with as many as I can on behalf of our company, but tens of thousands would likely warrant dedicated person/s (for us, anyway) - Nick Wade

I don't say *you* can't; I say *I* can't. I can't even keep up with the 400+ I follow. - Mistletoe Glen

Another thing I have a hard time explaining to friends. Tools & different personalities make a difference. Everybody has different styles, preferences and purposes. - phil baumann

Robert, you're a machine though! ;-) - Richard H

Maybe with 3 or 4 screens I might have a fighting chance, but tens of thousands would make my head spin. - Dave Martinez

practice helps to learn and develop the most efficient methods for your usage requirements - Mike Chelen

I believe following tens of thousands and interacting is possible. Still would like that seat for a few minutes. - Doug McCaughan

mixero sounds interesting for the groups/filtering stuff - i could see that being a helpful tool - waiting on my invite... - Nicholas Orr

Well, Mr. Crunch's accusations aside, I think the real question is whether or not you have time for anything else. - Mike Shields

Fire up your camera. We'll all sit by you. - Kreg Steppe

Always good to see video of how you do socialise to this number (and still are able to have a conversation as well as broadcasting one way which is the predominant style for those with large followings.) - Tom Tubbs

post some video of how you do it, Robert. - Chris Duffy

Yes, all of those famous videos, how about a day in the life of Robert Scoble. - Chris Patterson

How do you find the time to do it while doing your own work? Doesn't it get in the way sometimes? - Alvin

I think it's cool that some people interact with thousands. It is obviously a skill that requires work and a social media passion. If I was at the tech forefront - I'd love to do it just like the scobelizer - maybe it would even just come naturally. - Ron Hagenhoff from Nambu

I'm w/ Kreg.. make a video and show us how you manage your time and apps. - Ben Rodrigue

FriendFeed lists, TweetDeck groups, Techrigy SM2 monitoring - Susan Beebe

Scoble talks about how he tweets here - http://www.kyte.tv/scoblei... - Mike Bracco

Let the tools do the hard work for you. Real, functioning search is key. - Louis Gray

According to Chris Brogan, a meaningful online presence "might take as much as an hour to two every day," so there's hope for those of us who aren't Robert Scoble. http://friendfeed.com/chrisbr... - Bruce Lewis

Thinking there is a difference between interaction and attention: http://thomasknoll.info/post... Besides, Scoble, you're an anomaly. - Thomas Knoll

I interact with tens of thousands of customers all day, but I give them my attention one at a time. I think most people confuse the two. - Thomas Knoll

I would certainly love that seat. I'd also watch 'A day in the life of Robert Scoble' too! - Alex Hellstrom

Robert, if they don't like your cologne they can sit next to me *giggle* - Arleen Anderson

with the right tools, tens of thousands perhaps. hundreds of thousands? at what point does it get tough both theoretically and in practice I wonder? surely the tools can evolve further... - chad calease

I guess I just must be boring to you. You never notice my twits. Oh, maybe there's another reason. If you were *really* following me...... - Hummie

Oh, weird...just realized this makes me impacted by my own blog post and the Brandon Heath song -- give me a heart for the ones forgotten -- see...you have some incredible opportunities awaiting you....and I ask....what are you missing, Mr. Scoble? http://blog.hummiesworld.com/2009... - Hummie

Robert, has your feeling on this changed now that you have culled the number of people you are following on Twitter to 1400? - Doug McCaughan

web pages and printed word have allowed interaction among large numbers of people in the past as well, now the quality and speed of communication have also increased - Mike Chelen

Of course, the version I uploaded does not include my own entries but instead has the iPhone entry as an example. My local copy uses "from:lph" so I can see my entries and add comments quickly. (e.g., this comment is added through steroidfeed.html and not through the site. - LPH™ and his dog P™

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If Adrian Veidt had FriendFeed instead of just satellite TV, this is totally how he would have read it. - Andrew C

There is a danger, Chrome has trouble with this many connections to FF. - LPH™ and his dog P™

I borrowed it here, LPH. http://friendfeed.com/louisgr... - Louis Gray

I've changed this file a bit so that a fourth column is available, and this holds a rowspan of my own entries. This makes tracking easier. - LPH™ and his dog P™

I should state that the fourth column is an embed so that I can add comments, photos, files, etc. - That code is similar to the one on my personal blog: http://www.layneheiny.com - LPH™ and his dog P™

SteroidFeed 1.01 is now available: http://friendfeed.com/lph... - LPH™ and his dog P™

Really cool! - matiasjajaja

hey i like this! - Susan Beebe

Have fun Susan - LPH™ and his dog P™ from iPhone

Interesting use of Iframes for this, gonna play with this, really cool LPH and his Dog. Thanks! - Dan Morrill AKA Techwag

Thanks! I'm trying it out now. - Mark "DerBingle" J

Let me know Susan, Mark, and Dan. - LPH™ and his dog P™

Ah! I like. Thanks. - Christopher A Carr

You are most welcome Christopher Carr - LPH™ and his dog P™

Trying this on a 1024 x 768 resolution, 12-inch notebook - and it is fine with all four columns. - LPH™ and his dog P™

OK - so are you asking - can I span this across multiple monitors? -- because Elvis used to watch multiple t.v.s at the same time. - LPH™ and his dog P™

(Veidt's TV setup: http://skew.dailyskew.com/uploade... ) - Andrew C

that's great! - PaperDoll

Keep it comin' :) - Charlie Anzman

I have made a meme of friendfeed embeds here: http://ff.clipotech.com/ - Svartling

Svartling - yes - your setup is nice. I've gone back and forth between 3 and 4 columns. My desktop setup can handle 4 but the notebook (1024x768) can only handle 3. Therefore, http://www.steroidfeed.com is only sitting at 3 right now. I'm also missing the instructions on how to make changes for anyone not familiar with FF. - LPH™ and his dog P™

Yes I was thinking of make 3 columns but I decided to make it 4 because my web stats shows that most visitors have a resolution at 1024x768 or higher. Maybe I will change to 3 columns. Hmm.. - Svartling

Really appreciated man, one of the best things for my following attitude - Amiroo ™

I guess this answers my question from the previous thread. Blogging is back as a way to feed content to realtime networks - Mark

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Real-time networks don't have much value without content generated externally. - Matt Mastracci

I disagree matt, most days Robert will write a one line statement or rhetorical question on friendfeed and stimulate a 10-500 comment thread on here. - Mark

I'm back in style! Let's hope this happens to flannel shirts because I'm not giving those up either. - LA Snark

@Mark - discussions around 140 character snippets can only go so far. Without tl;dr articles, it's nothing more than a cocktail party discussion. - Matt Mastracci

O-R-L-Y... haha... I used to respond with that to annoy my old roommates. Hmmm... I don't live with them anymore. Maybe it worked too well? - Bryan Zirkel

well I enjoy them anyways. - Mark

"That hub has now moved for me to FriendFeed and for most other people to Twitter or Facebook." Be careful in generalizing, Robert. Perhaps the alpha-geeks that make up your particular audience have moved to these services (I include myself in that group) but remember that that doesn't translate across the whole population. For example, a recent survey indicated that 74% of Canadians were still unaware of Twitter (http://bit.ly/iiWOg). - Dave Fleet

Fleet: Your comments is a bit weak. Because we know that only a small percentage of Americans are aware of (or actively use) Twitter/FF/etc, perhaps Scoble should have said, 'most other [microblogging] people'. Or 'most other people who are engaged on online discussions.' That 26% of Canadians surveyed are aware of Twitter is probably meaningless, from a statistical standpoint, of what Robert is trying to say. - Jason Miller

One of my frequent contacts in Israel is named Orly. But I can't imagine how you'd know her. - Lo

Blogging will always be around. And I really enjoy things like Twitter as a way of finding interesting articles by other like minded individuals. Honestly, to me, the concept that bogs were 'done' made little sense to me. - Katie Metzelaar

I'm with you on the Friendfeed Helvetica theme. Is blogging back for me? No. It was never in for me, as it's not my primary job function - however Twitter, Friendfeed, and less so Facebook - increasingly have relevance (to both professional and personal life) - Nick Wade

Long ago (circa 2005-2006) a link from Scobleizer.com or Techcrunch would send thousands of people to my site. I was linked to by both sites in the last month and barely saw a blip - although many came under "direct" and Google which could have been your RSS feed. Nowadays, though, a link from twitter.com/mashable or twitter.com/garyvee can send thousands of readers. That's part of the... more... - Steve Rubel

❝Off topic: it's weird to comment a Scoble's post now: it's like partying in his house while he's away❞ - Jérôme Flipo

Yep! :) - Susan Beebe

Agree. Twitter has re-ignited my desire to blog (although I used to blog racing, but that's here nor there). 140 characters is enough to make the occasional statement, but not enough to share logical, well-conceived thoughts. - AllisonWagda

Were is the option to upgrade my XP "crappy version" to Windows 7 "crappy version" (I'm pretty sure that neither "home", "professional" or "ultimate" accurately applies as a modifier to the OS running on MY box :-) - Paul W. Homer

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Snow Leopard being $29 is spin; it's valid if you had Leopard. Let's say that's 70%... that leaves 30% with a different & more mysterious pricing structure. (I couldn't find it on http://www.apple.com/macosx) - Wade Dorrell

@Wade that's a very good point - andy brudtkuhl

Someone left this comment on the post: "I have a MacBook and a PC. I’ll definitely be downloading the Windows Vista Service Pack for free. But there is no way I am paying $29 for the Snow Leopard service pack.. It’s time for Apple to start doing some development and release a new OS not just Service Packs." - andy brudtkuhl

It's an interesting point - andy brudtkuhl

You have to buy the full retail version of Snow Leopard if you don't have Leopard. That will be $129, like previous upgrades. - Ian Betteridge

@Ian yea that's correct... The point though is less about price and more about choice. I don't even know which version I'd be able to upgrade to or pre-order - andy brudtkuhl

I haven't heard that Apple is going to change their pricing structure. They always come out with 2 versions of the OS: the client and the server. The only other variable that determines how much you're going to pay is how many licenses you need. For the client, you can get a single license or a family pack. For the server, you can get the 10-client edition, or the unlimited edition. So, not dead-simple, but not that mysterious, and nowhere near as convoluted as Windows' multiple crippled versions. - Victor Ganata

Victor - great points however apple does a great job making the licensing clearer even on the packaging - andy brudtkuhl

Also, at least since Tiger came out, Apple has always allowed you to upgrade to the next major version for a small fee if you bought your Mac within a specified time frame before the release date. I guess the new thing is that this time, all you need is a pre-existing version of Leopard. - Victor Ganata

One thing that looks encouraging though: did Microsoft really get rid of their ultra-lame Home Basic edition, that has almost no features? - Victor Ganata

@Victor Home Basic is not being sold retail, but it's not gone, according to http://www.winsupersite.com/win7... - Wade Dorrell

@Victor Also note that tomorrow PC makers will announce what the upgrade pricing is for new PCs bought tomorrow... see here: http://www.microsoft.com/windows.... Could very well be $0... and that is a bit confusing... whereas Apple charges $10 to go to Snow Leopard if you buy a Mac today, that is simple. - Wade Dorrell

hopefully it's 0.00... But I would just hold off on getting a new PC unless you absolutely need until it ships in October - andy brudtkuhl

You think all that's confusing, you should be in Europe. - Ian Betteridge

@ian yea that blog post from M$ said something about that... i assume it's even worse ?? - andy brudtkuhl

@Ian - also why.. because of EU's lawsuit? - andy brudtkuhl

Basically, MS is not selling upgrade versions of Win7 in Europe - you have to buy a full retail copy. They're blaming the EU judgement for this, although the Competition Commission says that's crap and they don't have a problem with MS selling upgrades. However, to make it even MORE confusing, MS is having a "limited time" offer where you can buy a full copy for what's effectively upgrade price! - Ian Betteridge

@Ian. What Microsoft have said is they haven't tested the upgrade process from Vista to Windows 7 on the E version. So their choice is either to delay the launch until they have or simply not sell it. - Russ

Why are the Iranian protests taking place? It is more than the elections and alledged fraud. Maryamie tells us stories of family friends and relatives who were killed or punished by the Iranian government over the years (the photos here show her mom, my dad, and my step mom). Their families couldn't say anything. Her dad used to run the telephone company in Tehran. She won't let me tell the details in public. Even decades later. That alone says volumes. - Robert Scoble

Wow, Robert. That truly does speak volumes! Thank you for sharing all these interactions. Like you, I truly appreciate our freedom of speech even more now. - David Cook

Thank you to you and your family for sharing! - Dan Douglass

yes - no decent young company I've worked for shared their business model/s before actually starting it/them. That doesn't work really well. Perhaps BNET forgot the story of Google. There's plenty of a google-esque comparison in Twitter's rise. Makes sense that @ev and @biz tweet about being at Google from time to time. - Nick Wade

Interesting concept. But open to many privacy issues. Seems like this would soon be blocked from most of the corporate offices. - Amit Mehta

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Rather than helping them, "Unite" may get Opera banned from corporations... - Joel Bennett

If it can't open a port on your firewall/NAT using UPnP it routes all traffic through Opera's servers, with no encryption at all. This includes share passwords, file lists and file contents (as they get sent back and forth).From a network admin PoV we'll probably adding the final binary to our exclusion policies on all our machines and blocking the proxies, unless Opera change their habits and actually provide some for of central management capabilities so we can just turn Unite off separately. - Russ

I haven't actually tried this out yet, but the concept reminds me of Wirehog created by the Facebook founders back in the day....allowing friends to share files with each other via the web browser. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... - Brian Sloane

That said, I've tried to deploy Opera in a Corporate environment and their MSI is so broken that it doesn't install correctly anyway. - Russ

Wow - great picture - Jesse Stay

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Another terrific picture! - Alex Hellstrom

To be honest, I frequently forget to look at both sides of the equation during periods of violence. - Bob Blunk

Bob: A good thought - I wonder how many of those riot police really would rather be on the other side? - Alex Hellstrom

he could be performing a judo hip throw. video is probably needed to verify the picture. - sɹǝɥʇɐǝɟʞɔɐןq

@Alex i wondered about the same thing. They are in a profession where most of the times they have to probably go against their choice to perform their duty. Not an easy task i must say. - Bhowmik Shah

Coming from the tail end of the hippie generation I suppose causes me to seek out the other side, especially in times of violence, I'm loving this pic, and what wre seeing from younger generations in Iran. - jcunwired

They're both Iranians: brothers, countrymen. I'd love to see the greens prevail, but I hope the violence doesn't last. - Chris Baskind

Is still Love making the world going round? - Bita

i would love to see this image travel through the media. - MikeAmundsen

I saw the previous images of this scene and was trying to figure out if he WAS helping or not. - Kreg Steppe

Police in Iran charged at protesters using their motorbikes, in a bid to break up a street rally. One policeman crashed his bike during the charge and was helped to safety by protesters. An Italian journalist caught the incident on his mobile phone. Video courtesy of Corriere della Sera TV @ http://news.bbc.co.uk/2... - Chris Zlatis

Keep up the great job Robert, you are helping to report what is going on better than our own state run media. - Russ Jackson

Now this is an amazing photograph, serving as a great reminder that humanity is capable at once of both terrible and great things. I hope it is one of assistance, much as that very moving video above showed. - Nick Wade

the video is great, too. shows that, even at crazy times, there are good-hearted people acting to protect anyone in need. i wonder how often this has been happening over the last few days. - MikeAmundsen

Good luck, Mamoot! - Ayşe E.

I saw these images last night, and I'm heartened to learn that the protesters were in fact helping this guy :) Thanks Mamoot! - guruvan (Rob Nelson)

Mamoot, stay strong. Stay safe. You will prevail. - Uche Ogbuji

Good luck to you in your fight for your rights. I hope you are successful and may God keep you safe! - Californian

Marmoot we are with you! - Francine Hardaway

@mamoot: be safe. there are many ways to resist; some very subtle. time is always on your side. - MikeAmundsen

WOWOWO that is awesome!! that is a good guy for sure! - Susan Beebe

sɹǝɥʇɐǝɟʞɔɐןq: watch http://www.youtube.com/watch... and you'll see that they really are helping the cop. - Chris, Taskerrific Guy

@mamoot Good luck and stay safe. - imperator3733

thx Chris Zlatis & Chris Charabaruk = WIN for the video links. - sɹǝɥʇɐǝɟʞɔɐןq

This one has my vote for the Pulitzer... - John Fenzel

I bet the guy in green got a beating once he got the policeman to the safety of the riot police - Viran

They look like family. - Garin Kilpatrick

It's great to hear that you are safe Mamoot. Keep demonstrating for what you believe in. We all support you. - Brian Daniel Eisenberg

:( - Exir

Thnx Robert for Support, We Will Win - میر امید موسوی

Stay safe, Mamoot - Marci Golub

@Mamoot we are all watching and care very much about your freedom! - Ryan Petty

Look, has everybody forgotten that CNN operates in an American context? Twitter is global. #CNNfail is inevitable, it always has been. If you want international news, read the Financial Times, read The Economist, look at the Freakonomics blogs, and increasingly turn to real-time sources (although they are in their infancy). - Nick Wade

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Both CNN & Fox suck these days. They care more about pushing some BS political agenda than actual news reporting. - Thunderwing from twhirl

Thunderwing: many people think they've sucked for a long time. Real-time sources like Twitter are bringing the rest of the world to a doorstep that formerly had no such view. It's a fact that Twitter is also full of crap, as it is in it's infancy, but perhaps that leaves the door open for improvements, a partner ecosystem that mines the good stuff for a given niche in each case, and so on. I think this is some of what Scobleiser and others are on about. - Nick Wade

@Nick, seriously. Did we all wake up and somehow the world as we know it no longer exists? - Patricia

CNN has never provided a world view. It is a distinctly Americanized filter. And while NPR is far from perfect and balanced, comparing Twitter to NPR in terms of the global perspective it *can* provide is far more accurate. I thought CNN performed precisely as expected given the mainstream culture that permeates a traditional news organization today. - Ken Camp

Citizen journalism vs journalism. Why can't both co-exist w/out bashing the other? - Mona Nomura

Ken; exactly. Mona; I reckon they can. - Nick Wade

Abby - I agree, but at 56 I accept that I've been fed a blinkered world view my entire lifetime. The only way to get a comprehensive and balanced view is to go get it yourself from whatever sources exist. American media cannot and will not ever deliver that. - Ken Camp

Ken, that's the only way you're ever going to get the info you want, or need. We've all been raised to trust organizations to go out and get the news for us. Now people can search, filter and repost in ways that we ( I'm 54 ) never could before. Mainstream News is addictive, and slightly euphoric. The images I'm getting from Iran aren't from agencies, their from people. I set the parameters now. ( that sounds so vain ). Any way.. http://friendfeed.com/news-ch... - Wallace

Wallace - Great points all. Our culture in the US has socialized us to be spoon fed information that's filtered. We've always had to research for ourselves to get the full story. Too many of us don't make the effort to do that, but today's tools make that both more practical and easier. I'm 56 and find my hunger for details and the real story is far greater now than when I was a boy. I... more... - Ken Camp

If you rely on one "news" service, then you are living in the dark. The only problem with Twitter is you can't really confirm who a person is, or what they are reporting. It's very easy to fake and spoof, and don't be surprised that state-run intelligence are posting fake tweets. - Spencer

I don't know about CNN Domestic, but CNN International appears to have been doing a lot of Iran election coverage without it turning into a 24/7 focus. (I am hoping the Tehran bureau is getting some sleep when I'm not hearing Christiane Amanpour or seeing footage of massing people...) - Starshadow Rivaulx

i've seen similar headlines before... the article mentions that $3 million is a drop in the bucket for Dell, but i'm not sure it's that big :-D a decent quarter for Dell is $15 billion in sales. $15 billion / 90 days = ~ $166.666 million /day. divided by 24 hours in a day, Dell has sales of almost $7 million *per hour.* :-D so total (cumulative) sales through Twitter over the last couple of years (since 2007) is maybe 30 minutes of a single typical day on their web site Dell.com... - Karim

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Karim: Great analysis and dose of reality. - Ken Camp

Ya, ok. Why can't Dell just go bankrupt. I honestly can't stand their company, so sorry Leo, who swears by the company. Go Apple. - Zachary TG

You know what? Given that it's money just sitting there on the table, and given that they're proving that Twitter can be a channel for revenue, I'm all for it. Good on ya, Dell. - Chris Brogan

I agree Chris. Good on Dell for finding a good business use for Twitter. I just want the dollar value kept in real perspective and not blown out of proportion myself. - Ken Camp

The real value of social media tools like twitter may be to brand, customer service, and sharing information. Those type of activities are hard to quantify, but they're important nonetheless. I don't know of any companies that would turn down an extra 3million dollars in sales for little additional cost/overhead. - Mark Essel

yeah my point was "perspective," not "twitter sucks." Dell has a lot of sales & marketing -- web ads, print ads, mailed brochures, etc. i have no idea whether Twitter is a more or less efficient medium for sales as compared to, say, the email messages i get from our Dell sales rep. that's actually a more interesting question to me: given that Dell can email or tweet 600,000 people with nearly the same amount of effort, which results in more sales? - Karim

Didn't mean to imply that you did Karim. Just that dollars headlines are head fakes when it comes to the real value of business presence within social media: 1) knowing the customer, and 2) having the trust of the consumers. - Mark Essel

News Corp's MySpace refused to comment on Thursday on a report the previous day that said the online social network will fire a "massive" number of employees. The online social network is preparing to lay off as many as 500 of its 1,600 workers, the TechCrunch blog reported on Wednesday, as it cuts costs while trying to stay ahead of growing competition from rival Facebook. - Leo Laporte

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It's looking more and more like MySpace has had it's fifteen minutes of internet fame. - Eoghann Irving

I never 'Got' MySpace. Every page I looked at there was just too damn slow. Full of images that are too big, inane comments from a million and one and 'friends, that run down and down and down and down the page. The whole thing projects a naff, amateur image that just shouts "I don't care enough to do this properly with a proper website so you'll just have to make do with this crap'. - Gilbert Harding

*My* space was always far larger, broader and deeper than MySpace. Their time has passed. - Ken Camp

When exactly did MySpace miss that left turn at Albuquerque? Its like there were the Internet one night and then fell off the face of the earth the next. - Tony

They never adjusted the changing landscape of social media, and developed the reputation for having the most amateurish UI look & feel, which to this day they have never overcome. A site redesign might have saved them, but since they've been lapped by other sites, I think they're done for. - G. Sigh

Yep because it hac a great platform for conversation. - Madhav Tripathi

Madhav is right. See Scobleiser's feed for a list of conversations beginning last night about Twitter, on FF. Twitter has the brand caché and the mojo. FF has the filters and conversations. Let's see Twitter bring those together. - Nick Wade

BTW, Facebook is more than capable of holding these conversations. It just seems nobody cares to over there (if you're too busy playing Mafia Wars or looking at college party photos, then it's not really a surprise) - Nick Wade

Google Wave - Sid Burgess

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1. W3C Web Standards Compliant Code -- 2. Social Networking APIs / Social Media Integration (i.e. Twitter / FriendFeed / Facebook / etc) -- 3. Git / GitHub for Version Control -- 4. Open Source CMS Solutions (i.e. WordPress / Drupal / etc) -- 5. Open and Accessible Analytics systems (i.e. Google Analytics, Mint, or similar) - Michael Owens

err, often its not the tool but how you use the tool... I'm looking at you Flash! - Matt Searles

It would depend on each individual business - Patricia

WordPress, Analytics, Mint (haveamint.com), Facebook Connect, BLIP.TV OR Vimeo - Adam Jackson

Wordpress, Thesis Theme, Disqus Plugin, Friendfeed, Feedmingle... - Arne Krueger

WordPress & Thesis theme, Twitter, FriendFeed, Disqus, some OpenId provider(s) - Jeroen De Miranda

A knife. It's the most versatile tool there is. Allows you to cut right through the BS and cut chunks off of spit roasted meat. - Todd Hoff

I like Todd's answer. - Happy

Web 3.0 & cloud computing + my Leatherman multi-tool :D :D - Ronald

Again, it does depend on the customer's needs, but I think #1 Michael Owens gave a pretty accurate answer. - Happy

i like michael owens answer - this is it! - Arne Krueger

Wordpress, Apture, Zemanta, FriendFeed, Woopra - Eric Logan

Depending on the business' needs, the best recommendation is to go with a platform that gives you all the features you need and none of those that will simply distract from your strategy. Suggest folks check out social collaboration via Groupsites @ www.collectivex.com. - Carissa Caramanis O'Brien

Add some visual computing to the mix for more engaging content like real-time avatars and animation with CrazyTalk: http://www.reallusion.com/crazyta... - John Martin

I just got some PR email about Rackspace Cloud. Could that be it? :-) - Todd Hoff

I would go with Wave - Julian Hoffbauer

Maybe we should wait until 2010 to find out, and while we're waiting, build 2009 web sites. - Andy Bakun

I use wordpress on a purchased/ hosted domain, friendfeed, google friend connect, disqus. That's just my simple blog example, unfortunately the template could use some sprucing up. I'd like all the functionality, but to look less Scoble clonish - Mark Essel

It's still in private release, but Notable (www.notableapp.com) is becoming a real life saver for giving feedback on web sites/applications. - hunter

Specific tools should be dependent on the tech team (e.g., size, existing skills). More important are the business's attitude to engage and delight their stakeholders. - Bill L

Idk, I don't think its about the tools, I think its about what you want to do with your site, and then what tools you use depends on that and like.. your skill sets, and all that good stuff.. for my personal sorta business e I'm looking at C4D, After Effects, Photoshop, Flash, and final cut studio.. seems like a code editor probably goes without saying? - Matt Searles

Depends on the business. Depends on their customers. It's all relative. - Andy McIlwain

Drupal 7, textmate, cssedit, mamp and git - Michael Harp

Andy: it's not... it's about a different, new way to communicate/work/live - for all the businesses! for me, it feels like we are in the middle of a revolution! - Arne Krueger

I never felt like this before! i was running my own software company with 30 people in 2000 and was just wondering!) i have now the same feeling, like i had maybe ;-) starting doing business with computers in 1988 at the cowfarm of my father in east germany! - Arne Krueger

Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP & Wordpress - am I answering the question correctly Robert? or is this type of setup assumed? - Chris Heath

Robert: can't make your event tonight - Son's 8th grade graduation.. have a great event - John Furrier

the <marquee> tag - Jeremy Toeman

YouTube... have you seen how this agency used YouTUbe to build their site? Very Creative. http://www.youtube.com/watch... - Chip McComb

Wordpress, Flip Mino, Vimeo, Friendfeed, RSS (it's not dead) - Chris Pugh

1. Google Analytics/Woopra. 2. Google's Social Gadgets (or Wave integration when it's out). 3. Version control (my choice is Git w/github) 4. Pushing the browser envelope, use HTML 5 & CSS 3 whenever possible, use standards compliant code. Do cool stuff that sets you apart. 5. Open up your data (if applicable) with some kind of data feeds or apis. - Brandon Titus

Definitely XML libraries to read/write feeds and APIs - Raj Advani

I do both: ASP.NET with Expression and some Flash, but we also use PHP, Drupal, Wordpress, mySql, and even some Coldfusion (yuck!) - Ric Johnson

Of course depends on the customers of the individual business. What industry are we talking about? Are their customers even on the net? I can name more businesses than not, where if I start talking about a new flashy web-site I will get thrown out of the office asap. - Peter Efland

For #web2010 1. Social Identity (Connect) 2. PaaS design (Cloud) 3. Activity Streams (Realtime) 4. Git 5. Open Analytics - Alberto Saavedra

I'm planning to use Windows Azure, ASP.NET MVC, Silverlight, and Visual Studio 2010. - Jeff Weber

Pen, Paper, Photoshop, Text Editor, and a browser. - Andrew Smith

business rules, pen, paper, brain, computer - pk

Drupal, Wordpress, Twitter, Blip.tv, RSS - Chris Wills

I use Wordpress, Friend Feed, Disqus, YouTube, and Google Friend Connect on the web pages and then to supplement the pages and features - I use FaceBook, Twitter, Linked-In, Digg, and Delicious. The first 5 are key to connecting the web page/blog socially; the supplements are to enhance those features. - Robert Freeze

If your budget doesn't include an accomplished developer (send more work to those guys!), to get started effectively on the cheap: Squarespace, Twitter, Friendfeed, the Google suite (analytics, apps for your domain, connect, adwords, et al.), and probably Facebook (which seems to be working a lot better for business). - Brian Hill

If you have a developer, or are a developer, what David Cann has done with almost.at using the cappuccino framework looks very interesting... - Brian Hill

The mention of cappuccino reminded me: GWT (google web toolkit) for building scalable AJAX applications without cross-browser worries - Raj Advani

I use everything Eric Logan listed plus seesmic desktop to see your brands progress in realtime. Throw in disqus plus any smart phone to provide instant feedback to comments, questions/concerns - Anthony Farrior

Whatever tools a small company would use, it should be funded in this economy leveraging Kiva.org - Eran Even-Kesef

A great tool everyone has is the ability to tell a story. I would suggest that rather than build just a marketing site, or online community, or social network, that you take the tool of storytelling and use it to build a 2010 website. - Brendan Cosgrove

In no particular order: CMS: drupal (for industrial strength) or joomla (for ease of use)... sorry, but wordpress is brain-dead... round it out with some groovy core technologies: Wave/XMPP, RSS/Atom, and Ajax. - Fred Davis

Same as Jeff Weber looking at a .NET blogging platform instead of WordPress - been using GraffitiCMS. - Kevin Tunis

WP self-hosted, DIY Thesis Theme, FriendFeed (widget and embedded for real-time convo), Disqus w/ Facebook Connect and twitter connect, - my new blog has some of these elements now http://susanbeebe.com (so is yours Robert!) :) - Susan Beebe

I honestly don't care what the tools are, but whatever you build, make sure you have a mobile version of it and I don't mean iPhone only. Build the site and ensure it works well on the main 4 mobile browsers iPhone, android, S60, Palm and maybe Win mobile. - Keith Bennett

Adobe Dreamweaver, The Drupal Dream Theme Utility Suite Dreamweaver Extension, MyXoopsExtensions, Adobe Photoshop, and Flash - Chelsea Belle Goodell

Lots of good tech suggestions. I'll add HTML Canvas. But the key to success is understanding the value you are adding for your customers. Of course social networks are the latest example of this, but remind yourself again and again WHY you are here - to understand what value you add now, and how you can improve that over time. You need to find tools and design patterns that allow you to collect as much feedback, as quickly and easily as possible. - David Sky

less is more - Tyler Gillies from email

WordPress, Thesis Theme, Twitter, Youtube, Google FriendConnect - Marko Saric

Second Life, Metaplace, Typepad, Twitter - Prokofy Neva

Video!!! - Morgan

Only one mention of Silverlight. Too much bing-bing? - Nick Wade

I like Alberto Saavedra's answer. It's about the building block elements rather than the branded tool. He nailed it. - Neill Adamson

Imagination and then what ever tool gets the job done. Drupal and Wordpress allow businesses to get online quickly without the need for technical knowledge. - Darren Rollett

Darren - that may be a little exaggeration regarding Drupal's ease. - LPH™ and his dog P™

Agree w/ Michael Owens list. - Jason Cronkhite

Google wave - Amir

LPH - Agreed. Joomla is probably better for the none technical and a little easier to use. Although as Building43 shows you can acheive most things in Wordpress. - Darren Rollett

http://www.vooices.us for using your mobile phone to seamlessly talk to to a webpage. - Paul Kinlan

I am surprised nobody mentioned SMF (I have seen some amazing things done with it) - April Russo (app103)

I would also bet on Google Wave. - Martin Seibert

Navel gazing, slimy SEO guys, MLM crazies, and twitter spam! Elitism - Susan Beebe

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Everything is ad supported; I'm not allowed to pay for services I want to use. - Pat Hawks

That we spend so much time trying to name it, argue about who coined it, and that we don't plain swim in the glory of the moment. - lisa padilla

Agree with @Lisa. - phil baumann

That Web Hosts (like 1 and 1) are having trouble getting to Web 2.0! - Dr_ßob

Did I fall asleep? Is it 2010 already? - Brian Sullivan

that there are so many great things to be done, but each browser supports different technology of that neat stuff. like Safari & css animation and css gradients - Dana Dowell

Brian: if you want you can call it the "new web." I have a 2010 car, so figured I should be driving the 2010 web too. - Robert Scoble

what does 2010 web mean? - Tony C

The whole real-time-ness sometimes makes me feel like I'm missing/missed something! :) - Roy Herrod

lack of open integration interfaces of some very popular platform (examples: LinkedIn, Ning) - need this to integrate with WordPress, Twitter, and possibly in the future with FriendFeed) - Jeroen De Miranda

people who call themselves "gurus". Especially if it says it on the background of their twitter page. - Mike Bracco

true data and identity portability, real business models around micro/niche-segmenting - Alex Calic

Roy: you can click the time stamp for a popup window (click it twice, actually) then you can participate in real time on a single thread. - Robert Scoble

That the version numbers are mostly pointless, I personally like the idea of the years because it is much more descriptive of the next step and will be better for the history. The 2006 web is very different than the 2009 web and the 2010 web. - Luke Kilpatrick

Clutter. - Andy McIlwain

Search has barely changed in 10 years. Google isn't the best engine, it's the least bad engine. - Bob Blakeley

Tony: I wrote a post about it here: http://scobleizer.com/2009... - Robert Scoble

Robert: Thanks! - Tony C

When I feel like I miss stuff because of the real time-ness. Trolls and all the 'gurus' who are using the mediums for their own selfish betterment without really contributing anything real. - Aaron Hood

That sometimes a truly great idea will get lost in the chatter. - Carissa Caramanis O'Brien

The naming convention needs to be relevant what we are trying to achieve in terms of functionality and standards, that way we can define success/failure - Alex Calic

Social media expert spam. - phil baumann

Totally Agree with @andymci - Clutter ... it's so time consuming to find out, what its all about! - Arne Krueger

Robert Scoble: yeah thats usefull but I mean more along the lines of when I'm away from here, come back and see lists of stuff that happened whilst I was away... then quite often I can't be bothered to trawl back through it all! - So maybe better phrased as 'Sometimes theres TOO much content' - Roy Herrod

Alex and Luke, see the third comment. - Pat Hawks

Pat Hawks, more than a month ago I gave everyone the choice of pay or ads on my site, and so far everyone's sticking with ads. - Bruce Lewis from fftogo

Not enough solutions to problems caused by Web 2.0 ( search issues, time shift and real time issues, privacy issues, identity issues) - Francine Hardaway

+1000 Francine! - Susan Beebe

What it may be doing to our sense of time. Do we truly understand where we're going with "real-time" technologies? - phil baumann

LACK . OF . TOOLs for FILTERING noise! Signal is a constant struggle to hone in on. Real Time web requires constant maintenance. Like caring for an infant child~! overwhelming, too much info. Constant fear that i'll miss something "BIG" and important. More pressure to KNOW EVERYTHING and publish / post about asap. - Susan Beebe

Roy: oh, I've been living in the "too much content" world for years now. Heheh. I think the next year's big trend will be filtering. I gotta show you what I'm doing with friendfeed's filters (aka saved searches). Maybe next week after I get some sleep. - Robert Scoble

is it realy worth, to spend all the time here - everyday couple of hours??? i can't answer now - because to pay my bills i have to do something else... - Arne Krueger

I feel like I need an enterprise class SoMe Portal to manage all my feeds, followers/friends, tagged content, keywords, filters, search terms, reputation mgmt feeds, etc - based on PRIORITY sorting, of course - Susan Beebe

Arne: if your ROI isn't good, you need better filters. I feel like that often, too. - Robert Scoble

So much disorganized content. FriendFeed helps with this but not with the fragmentation of friends. There are so many networks, it's difficult to get everyone on the same page. It's almost a full time job to keep track of everything. - Brandon Titus

conversation is often too decentralized / splintered. also there's more "me too" duplication of content and need for filters to weed out the gold from the noise. - C. K. Sample III

I don't feel like I "own" my data. And by that, I mean a physical copy. With Blogger, I could FTP my posts to my own server. With FriendFeed, Twitter, Facebook, Flickr, Google, etc. it's mainly all stored on their servers. To get a copy for myself, I'd need to use their APIs to grab a copy. Otherwise, if they go down permanently, it's all lost in the cloud. (Apart from online caches and backups in other services.) - Tony Ruscoe

+1 Susan: the lack of filters is a huge annoyance. - Sarah Perez

+1000 Susan. Yes and more yes. Still too difficult to separate new ideas from the many loops and riffs on the same. Peter Morville was all over this years ago and I still think it's a primary issue. - Sarah Kennon

Social marketing experts. - Nick Wade

Social marketing experts --- I am equating that to the ol' Y2K experts! self-proclaimed wizards of hot air - Susan Beebe

I hate people that take advantage of software developers - Jesse Stay

Noise, way too many services and a lack of proper integration of the usable ones. OK, glad to have FriendFeed and i am using it upmost now, but some friends still not ... so segmentation of contacts is another drawback for me. More grouping and filtering options with apps and services abroad of FF, in order to build way more different 'streams' of interest...and...i would really feel glad to meet some of you guys this year here in Germany e.g. @CeBIT or so ;) :D - Ronald

Susan: good analogy, self-proclaimed experts of for example, nothing more than useless Twitter MLM schemes, and are worth about a dime for a phalanx of them. I collect about a phalanx per day. - Nick Wade

Lack of understanding/ignorance. Coincidentally, I did a blog post just today on this: http://patriciahandschiegel.tumblr.com/post... - Patricia

The lack of standards/standardization between browsers/video/mobile platforms/ISPs/hosts,developer tools, etc etc. We call this capitalist enterprise, but it also holds us back. - Karma Martell

Fragmentation. I never know where to post somthing (Twitter, FriendFeed, Facebook) and I never know where to comment (on the source blog, reply to tweets, comment on FriendFeed or Facebook). Sharing stuff makes the fragmentation even worse. If a handful of people share something I've written, trying to keep up with the conversation is a nightmare. Back in the old days, people would just email a link to the original copy to all their friends. That used to keep the conversation in one place. - Tony Ruscoe

Robert: thank you very much... you are more then right!!! after discovering - time to filter has to come. but staying focussed is really one of the biggest issues for me... so many interesting people, so many new ideas! everytime i check back - i get lost in another amazing topic!!! - Arne Krueger

Tony: services for this (disqus, backtype, ff) are getting better and more common - Arne Krueger

Something that pisses me off: the physical location of everything I create or receive is actually somewhere else, and I can do nothing if one of the services I use stops working. - Francesco Balducci

The general lack of vision in such an embryonic and feverishly creative environment as the 2010 Web - where are you Vannevar Bush?; the lack of innovation in social media content filtration ('traditional' search engines can't keep up) or in other words how do I find my signal in all of this noise and once I've found it, how do I connect it with all my other signals and stop that... more... - Andrew Eglinton

The name 2010 web. I just like the natural progression to 3.0. - Mark Powell

1% true expertise, 99% uninformed opinion and self-marketing for marketing sake. Need better ways to sort through it and find the credible resources. - Scott Booher

@mark powell the 'natural progression' is fine to an extent, but what happens when you get to Web 6.0, 7.0 etc? It'll look more like a Police Academy franchise than a great feat of humanity. - Andrew Eglinton

The "2010 web" is a business model whereby the major players are profiting off the content of others, instead of creating it themselves. And the actual content providers are being linked up and tracked with every move they make and every comment they post. It's going to be interesting. Feels all Matrix like. :D - John

@John That's been going for years...or at least since the emergence of syndicated blogging. - Andrew Eglinton

Federal Regulation, specifically the Telecom Act of 1996, that has held back last mile bandwidth even though we have this invention called the Fiber Optic Cable most of which is dark on the backbone because we cant the bandwidth to the edges. - Stephen Pickering

People missing the forest for the trees -- a focus on technology and ignoring CONTENT. - Curt Mercadante

Twitter, Facebook and others have gotten in bed with Old Guard Big Money Media. Citizen journalism is all but extinct. The "mySpace Kids have taken over the message platforms. Thier brains are numbed by the gaming integration. Thank God Robert and others kept FriendFeed "The Place For the geeks and freaks - by the geeks and freaks." - Arleen Anderson

It is not the unevenly distribute future; it's the unevenly distributed access to monetarization. - Prokofy Neva

talking about the 2010 web and relationships like it's brand new. the tools have changed, but the basics to building relationships remain the same. Read "How to Win Friends and Influence People" it's all there - just without Twitter. - Morgan

Continually having to refine my speed reading skills and filtering out the crap for those nuggets! It ain't getting any easier..... - Geer from Nambu

The problem with 2010 web is that not enough people are participating in it and/or are gearing up to participate in the 2010 web. They're stuck in Web 1.0 especially businesses - Nicholas James

so true Nicholas. I was speaking on a panel about social media for HR professionals last night and only about 10% had a Twitter account. Education and evangelism is needed. People, especially the boomer generation (who still have their hands on the leadership and pocketbooks of these companies) aren't up to speed yet and it's a tough curve for many of them. - Morgan

@morgan and nicholas -- to assume that ALL users have to engage in the platform (internet) is a mistake. Only the 18-25 demo is most interactive, they have the "need" to express. I would never force HOW to use the web on anybody -- there are so many uses, all have value. I think if anything the idea that we all "have to have Twitter pages" will date quickly. Two years ago, all everybody... more... - Patricia

#followfriday for one. I don't even log into twitter on Fridays anymore - Adrian Scicluna

@patricia sorry - i miscommunicated. there is no RIGHT way to use the web. also, i agree with you. the tools that people are using today are just that, tools. technologies will change, people will communicate and relate differently. that is for sure. what i meant is that if there is a failing of the 2010 web is that it has not been inclusive. I disagree with you that not everyone needs... more... - Morgan

Ade, I thought Friday was #friendfeedfriday - Jesse Stay

As a matter of fact I'm finding myself shunning Twitter in favour of Friendfeed ever more. No @'s! No hashtags! Pity that most of my stream still involves one-way tweets from other people. No replies from those. - Adrian Scicluna

@morgan, agreed. but what constitutes value on the web in terms of tools is in the eye of the beholder -- some people, businesses, etc. simply don't 'need' social media or other tools etc. or want it, and that's ok too. That's the fun thing about the internet platform: customization. - Patricia

@patricia - i agree. that is what makes the web fun. i guess as a child of a parent who owns a small biz, who had to sit through years of hearing about how "if we could only afford to advertise on tv we'd be better off" it amazes me that now the tools are out there to connect with customers for free. the playing field is suddenly (in one arena anyway) leveled, where Fortune 100 brands... more... - Morgan

People who tell me how to make thousands of followers on twitter, so called experts and gurus on social media @Susan Beebe - filtering is what I'd like so much, it is so time consuming to find the really (for me) interesting things - Claudia

Waiting for a website to load because it has to fetch content using Javascript/Web Service. Either put it at the end of page or use server side to do the initial fetch and then javascript for updates. - Darren Rollett

Too much data, too little analysis/insight. - Pierre

That i never have enough 'space' on my desktop for all information, even though i got a bigger lcd, higher resolution ... - Ronald

That nobody has found a better way to data mine all the information better than the typical search engine. What ever happened to the personal agents that were going to dig through everything and only pull back the items relative to your interests? - Jim Lavin

the lack of ability for non-programmers to do data visualization easily - Lee

2010 Web? annoyingly bad term - Jonathan Crossland

I'm pissed off about the confusion between these terms, so allow me to clarify: The term 2010 web is great right now because it refers to the technology (namely real-time) that will go mainstream in 2010. The 2010 web will be relevant until 2011 at which point the 2010 web will be over but the evolution of the real-time "Live Web" that friendfeed is leading will continue. Web 3.0 is a... more... - Garin Kilpatrick

Didn't we already do all of this? We have had web servers in our homes for decades now. And the ability to serve any data we wanted to off of them? But I like having a server admin to call if my server crashes or there is an update that needs to be installed. i just wake up and post stuff. I use other peoples servers because I don't want to be bothered by all the repairing. I think we... more... - ✩ Juanita Chronowski

Juanita: You said "Frankly I don't care where anything is" which makes no sense, your entire post adds nothing to this conversation, and judging by your comment you seem to have little understanding of how the Internet works, never mind different stages of it's development. Two hours ago you tweeted "The past does not influence me" http://twitter.com/jchrono... I think you are going to have a very long search for work. - Garin Kilpatrick

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