Bill Jackson - Likes

That poor cat looks so confused. - Kendra <3 Three Lions

but it's so warm on top of the scanner! - DJF

Time for a cat scan! - Jemm

Iz I the right way up for printing? - Vicky

This is clearly not my cat. If this was my cat he's have one arm shoved down into the printer trying to tear up all the internal whirling bits with his bare claws. - Soup

LOL, Soup! - Kol Tregaskes

that is one adorable kitten! - Anna Lynn M.

<3 - Furkan Tunalı

Too Funny! Reminds me of the San Mateo Cat Shelter where one of the cats loves to sleep on top of the laster printer where the paper comes out... - Greg Lato

Kitty!!!! - Janice

keep trying! - Morgan Haley

FEED ME A CAT - teh Dork Knight aka Kenny

Kol, it is NOT impossible. And that's all I'm saying. - Steven Perez

Push harder - Josh Haley

LOL@Jemm - Merry Xmas FFeeders - AJ

آخی - یک بابک

Hehe, Steven. I won't ask. ;-) - Kol Tregaskes

Gosh, just noticed this post has nearly 150 likes! :-D - Kol Tregaskes

1 closer....hilarious! - Jeffrey Marsh

There we go 150 likes. :-D - Kol Tregaskes

I'm in ur faxx masheen -- sendin de faxxez.... - Stephanie Segel

I think you mean a LIVE cat… - Mistletoe Glen

thanks, i needed a laugh - chaz2b

FAXCAT IS NOT AMUSED - Karl Knechtel

iz dat some copycat? - bora "head" basman

LOL, now nearly 200 likes! :-) - Kol Tregaskes

Thats no fax machine, thats my new patented kitty juicer! - Threepwood

Just one more like... please. ;-) - Kol Tregaskes

it's over two huuunddreeeed - bora "head" basman

MOAR! - Pat Hawks

I need 9 copies please ! - Faraz Mullick

A cute cat :) - Mohammad Abdurraafay

Haha, Faráz. - Kol Tregaskes

Next target, 250 likes. ;-) - Kol Tregaskes

اخي...گناهي - noonii

Friendfeed loev faxcat :o - Karl Knechtel

;-) - Kol Tregaskes

Pussy by fax. What will they think of next? - Mattb4rd

X)) - Nia

OMGosh, next up is the 300 likes mark. Anyone care to join in? ;-) - Kol Tregaskes

Honestly, i'm not generally a fan of the Cat memes... But that is classic. - Alistair (alpinefolk)

You know this is the 7th most liked entry on FriendFeed ever: http://beta.friendfeed.com/search... !!! - Kol Tregaskes

Kol, this thread is pure genius. - Alex Scoble

But only almost 50 comments.. :) - Simon Wicks

Simon, there's not much to comment regarding the picture :) But meta-comments are more than appropriate! - Ivan Zuzak

Simon, yeah we need 1500+ comments now, who wants to start? ;-) - Kol Tregaskes

there we go then for the 1500+!! - Jaap Willem

1600+ to beat the FFundercats live chat thread. I think with this real time now on all threads we're going to see some truly epic comment numbers. - Simon Wicks

Ivan, no the picture speaks for itself. ;-) - Kol Tregaskes

OK, now it's the 4th: http://beta.friendfeed.com/search... - it's gonna take a huge effort to break the record of 452+ likes here: http://beta.friendfeed.com/imified... - Kol Tregaskes

OK, now this is the 3rd most liked entry: http://beta.friendfeed.com/search... :-D Crazy! - Kol Tregaskes

Too bad I am fresh out of likes of I would do it again. - JSNFLMNG

¡Excelente! - Marcos Vicente

I'm using this photo in the latest chapter of can haz murder - anna sauce

Hehe, Anna. :-) - Kol Tregaskes

One more for 350 likes, LOL. This is mental! :-) - Kol Tregaskes

Come on, 350 cats for a cat getting crushed? You guys are mean. :-P - Richard A.

I'd like again if I could :-) - Dobromir Hadzhiev

bump - Simon Wicks

Richard, LOL! - Kol Tregaskes

Awesomely funny! - Martha

Next target: 400 likes? ;-) - Kol Tregaskes

theres one more for you Kol - Toby Graham

Toby, you're very kind. :-) - Kol Tregaskes

Cute *_* - Sybelle

Hehe. - Kol Tregaskes

Just 6 more likes for the 400 then I'll leave you alone. ;-) - Kol Tregaskes

can you spare a cat 6 likes? - JSNFLMNG

sweet - Eric Hofmann

Haha, Jason, wow 406 likes, madness! :-D - Kol Tregaskes

Madness? THIS. IS. FAX CAT. - Mike Nayyar

Well 452 likes is the record, hmm I think that is pushing it. ;-) - Kol Tregaskes

Awesome. - Alex Scoble

this is underfaksink at its worzt - Petr Buben

Petr, I have no idea what you mean, but thank you. :-) - Kol Tregaskes

@Kol .. :] that, partially, might have been the purpose.... I don't know it exactly either. :] .. was I reflecting on a cat under the fax, and that it is hard to fax that way ... /?:] ... "underfaxing at its worst" .. - Petr Buben

Ah, OK, Petr. :-) - Kol Tregaskes

there ya have me ! :] .... see, to be honest with you, i saw this pic couple days ago, but i let it go, without posting it ..... what does that make me? :] - Petr Buben

:-) - Kol Tregaskes

OMGosh, just 23 more likes to beat this: http://beta.friendfeed.com/imified... ;-) - Kol Tregaskes

433 Like ! Wow ! - Like

Freemor, yes very cute! :-D - Kol Tregaskes

cute~ - Chan Pen

that's why is called a cat scan and not a cat fax. - Phil Maxwell

oh ... a scan. not fax?! .... it looked to me like she was faxink - Petr Buben

Just 5 more likes needed. ;-) - Kol Tregaskes

Try rolling the cat through a press first. Flat cats fit into the fax easier. - Bob Blunk

Fax, Petr. :-) - Kol Tregaskes

even a flat cat... faxes just can't handle the hair. You'd have to shave the cat first, else the hair will burn and stick to the drum... a mess! (I am extrapolating from transparencies, mind, i don't have access to a cat to test) - Joelle Nebbe (iphigenie)

Hehe, Joelle. This is now tied for the 'likes' top stop. One more then, hehe. :-) - Kol Tregaskes

Ok, over the top now. - Greg Guitarbuster

Hehe, Greg. Blimey! Erm, is that not far from 500 likes now? ;-) - Kol Tregaskes

Bloody marvelous, Kol. Wish I could like it again... too cute (and help u to 500 likes). - Roberto Bonini

I couldn't believe it when I logged on from the morning over posting it and saw it was at something 200 likes! You all have a strange fetish with cats and fax machines, hehe. ;-) - Kol Tregaskes

Am I the only one who saw this and their first thought was - My goodness did someone break that cats neck? It still freaks me out a little - Steve C

Steve, it does look a little out of place, but cats are pretty bendy. ;-) - Kol Tregaskes

They fax much better if you flatten them first. What? - Kevin Pedraja

LOL, Kevin. - Kol Tregaskes

i can also imagine the cat going there cause it is snug and warm - Joelle Nebbe (iphigenie)

Ey, it would be a tad warm on there, especially after a long working day. ;-) - Kol Tregaskes

Caption which needs to be said aloud: Uh Ohz, I'm totally FAXED! - sofarsoShawn

Hehe, Shawn. 10 more for the big 5-0-0. :-) - Kol Tregaskes

Countdown! 8 more now! - Mike Nayyar

bump for more likes - Josh Haley

bump - Roberto Bonini

One more!! :-) - Kol Tregaskes

I took mine away, too much pressure. - Steve C

Wow, there we go, 500 likes!! Thank you all!! :-D - Kol Tregaskes

I think Fax Kitty deserves a prize for that. - Kendra <3 Three Lions

меня, признаться, подзаебал этот кот - Парадокс Смейла

пиздец как! - getalifejerk

Kendra, absolutely. :-) - Kol Tregaskes

So we can put this post to rest now. :-) 505 likes final count, wow! :-D Good night all! - Kol Tregaskes

My like is the last one so far :) - 509 afaik - getalifejerk

did 3 people really un-like this? now at 506. wtf (edit: uh, oh, yeah, me and 2 + 506 others makes 509. dammit, jim, i'm an artist, not a mathematician) - ɐ ɯıʞ sıɹɥɔ

wish I could double like! - metalerik

Wish I could just like it at all. ;-) - Kol Tregaskes

This is also still on the Best of page. That must be the longest running best of post? :-) - Kol Tregaskes

But it's a cat being crushed... - Richard A.

برای چی این همه لایک خورده؟؟؟؟؟ - H.M.Nasrabadi

Hehe, Richard. - Kol Tregaskes

copy cat - gibilix

518 like! most liked post? - Lu Tao

ay yerim yaa çok tatlı kedicikk :)) - Arzu

Lu, yeah but a long way now. :-) - Kol Tregaskes

*bump* - Andre

Blew past 500 likes - LIKE!!!!! - Roberto Bonini

OMGosh, nearly heading to 550!! - Kol Tregaskes

So we know how many people use this site. - Richard A.

So that's what Paws Printing means. - Jack (a.k.a. Jeber)

Richard, we getting there. ;-) - Kol Tregaskes

Jack, hehe. - Kol Tregaskes

this thread is making history. - vijay

Indeed .. this is a most epic thread - Mattb4rd

Hehe. 9 more for 550! - Kol Tregaskes

8... - sofarsoShawn

7. ;-) - Kol Tregaskes

Actually only 5...cuz "You, Earl E Morningwood, yasin ghasemi and... 542 liked this" - sofarsoShawn

Who wants to bet how many likes this thead is going to get??? - Roberto Bonini

Gosh, no idea. - Kol Tregaskes

take some bets then come back in a year to check? - Joelle Nebbe (iphigenie)

:) - SokooteDel

Holy smokes .. this pussy cat is approaching 600 likes! - Mattb4rd

552 now, so there are some unlikes going on, hehe, oh well. Still an amazing amount of likes. :-) - Kol Tregaskes

560! - sofarsoShawn

And back down to 559. Hehe. - Kol Tregaskes

And how could anyone not love kitties after seeing this photo? - Susan Beebe

I liked it without reading this discussion - evidentially we have a lot of people who like the idea of faxing a cat! - Rich

Rich, yes, worrying, hehe. ;-) - Kol Tregaskes

564! - sofarsoShawn

I think we'll have to recruit more ffeeps before this record will ever be broken - JSNFLMNG

maybe a good way to clone cats :) - Roberto

Hehe, Roberto. - Kol Tregaskes

This surely couldn't hit 600 likes, could it!? - Kol Tregaskes

It could! Keep bumping it up! - imabonehead

It will :) - Roberto Bonini

My next cat post: http://beta.friendfeed.com/the-fun... - Kol Tregaskes

Wow, not even 600 Likes? Feh. ;-) - j1m

No yet. Close though. :-) - Kol Tregaskes

Stuck on 581. - Kol Tregaskes

Most liked FF post ever? - Kristian Salonen

One of the best funny cat pictures I've seen! :-) - John Collis

Kristian, it appears to be. Hehe, John. - Kol Tregaskes

ای بابا این پیشول بی خیال نمی شود، بابا پاشو برو دنبال یه بازی دیگه ، از هفته پیش تا حالا تو فکس ولو شدی حوصله ات سر نرفته، پاشو اقلا بپر رو کیبوردی چیزی - Maryaminaa

11 more to 600. ;-) - Kol Tregaskes

داداش كوتاه بيا، مي خواي ركورد بزني!؟ - Exir

هستم بره این کامنتتو ترجمه کنه اکسیر ! :))) داره از فضولی میمیره الان ! :D - Shayan

Hehe, 6 more likes. :-) - Kol Tregaskes

Need 1 more like, by my calculation, to get to 600 - Josh Haley

Another unlike then, back down to 598. :-) - Kol Tregaskes

it's 598+3, at the moment ;-) - Andre

There we go, 601!! Wow, can't believe it. :-D Thanks everyone!! - Kol Tregaskes

3 people un liked :( - Roberto Bonini

I think there have been made unlikes over the last week, oh well. - Kol Tregaskes

too many likes, the kitteh is burning up..stop the madness...;) - JSNFLMNG

Haha, Jason. - Kol Tregaskes

614!!!!! - sofarsoShawn

Whoa! :-) - Kol Tregaskes

man! ..Kol is gaining ... and I saw that pic one day before Kol posted it :X ..and i let it go! :[)] - Petr Buben

Petr, who's he? - Kol Tregaskes

omg, this post passed 600 likes! - imabonehead

@Kol ..well the man .. Mr Photographer .. ok .. let me go there .. - Petr Buben

I see. ;-) - Kol Tregaskes

631 likes, amazing stuff. :-D - Kol Tregaskes

Day 11 and this thing's still going! - Phil Maxwell

Why fax yourself when you can get famous via FriendFeed? :-) - Willem (@wim66) ☠

whereas a cat *scan* is totally feasible - Megan Craig

Kol, congratulations, you won the Friendfeed Award for the most likes entry! - Jérôme Flipo

Kol is this from your rival: Squashy Cat Photography? - sofarsoShawn

Haha, Shawn. Have you really bumped this one again? ;-) - Kol Tregaskes

LOL I was actually looking at best of month and I thought I'm going to be clever :-) - sofarsoShawn

this makes me laugh every darn time I see it - Stephanie_Thankful

Who is this NShawnFW? ;-) - Kol Tregaskes

kitties do like to find new spots to nap :) - Maryam

LOL, now over 650 likes. - Kol Tregaskes

این هنوز در نیومده از لای این دستگاه؟ - Maryaminaa

Wow. this is good..... pleased, Kol? - Roberto Bonini

Pleased? About the number of likes? I'm happy regardless. :-D - Kol Tregaskes

So do we think it will go to 700 likes? ;-) - Kol Tregaskes

it will - Seltoon

what do you mean by "it" ? say "he" or "she". :) - Maryaminaa

Haha, I was referring to the entry. ;-) - Kol Tregaskes

lol - Maryaminaa

I see someone already posted 'Copy Cat' !! LOL Great picture - Kevin J Hatton

:-) - Kol Tregaskes

O HAI! I IZ WATIN FR COOPONZ, KTHXBYE. - Kris Roley

Neksnapper 3000 Kitten Eradicator - Kills Kittehs Dead - Mattb4rd

Hehe. - Kol Tregaskes

10 more likes for 700! :-) - Kol Tregaskes

7 more by my count! - Bec Rowe @d0tski

Oops, yes you're right, Bec. :-) - Kol Tregaskes

Isn't it illegal to fax a pussy? - aerobroken

It's really only social convention which regards it as inappropriate, same with Xeroxing it, like one does with their b__tocks. Wait are we still talking about cats cats here or... - sofarsoShawn

OMGosh 700+ likes now!! LOL. Thank you all 702 of you. :-) - Kol Tregaskes

Wow, not so bad huh? \u) - ElijahBailey-Zu of FF <0,

try harder! ; )) - Didier Lahely

Before faxing it, you have to flatten it out a bit. You're going at it all wrong! :-) - Rick Cogley

Caturday is tommorow ... Fax Cat on Saturday .. - johnpiercy

Must try this at home! - Anthony K. Valley ©

Bumping some old great posts. :-) - Kol Tregaskes

Now THAT is a classic! - Allan Besselink

you have to flatten it first!!! ;) - Neda S.

This is very good humor! - TrafficBug

Hey, we've hit the 700-like mark. :-) - Kol Tregaskes

just a couple thousand to go - JSNFLMNG

LOL - Smeerch

__awesome__ - Matteo Scotuzzi

and it got resurrected once again! - Joelle Nebbe (iphigenie)

I managed to do it once, but I don't think I'm going to do it again. The results were a little fuzzy. - Seth Greenblatt

Robert Scoble can be found here: http://www.friendfeed.com/scoblei... - Louis Gray

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I like the "Battle Fronts" on @scobleizer´s whiteboard - Torsten Eckert

apple propaganda HIDE - A.T.

Who is this Scobleizer that you speak of? Is he of the Tech Geek Clan? ;-P - Mathew A. Koeneker

Hmm...not surprisingly, I don't see Google Wave written anywhere :) - Mahendra (SkepticGeek)

My Macbook is a lot like that. Various stickers and Chris Pirillo's face. ROFL (The Cool Chris blue logo) - Danny Minick

both you guys work really hard, what's your uptime 99.9% ? it is mind boggling how both of you gray and scoble process so much data in such little times and then produce those blog posts, opinions, videos...now days louis/scoble can be found hanging to their iPhones when not in front of their computers, computers are having a bad time working with these guys...computers must be cursing them to make them work so hard - ffcode

FFCode, uptime exceeds 100% because multiple devices are involved. :) - Louis Gray

oh my bad :) - ffcode

The rust FW stickers amuse me - that's the FirstWorld Pharma logo http://twitter.com/fwpharma unless there is another company with an identical logo >.< - Sally Church

Sally: I'm surprised that anyone looking at this photo wouldn't recognize one of Adobe's "elemental" logos, if not the particular app it represents. Also, it looks quite different from the one you linked to. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... - Bill Jackson

yup but bill see the color it isn't dark grey, but you are right it isn't what sally said for W is smaller than F, and in fwpharma they are of same size and it miht not be FireWorks logo too. - ffcode

lol, what a ridiculous statement - Mark

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you still continue friendfeed ? I thought you decided to quit :P - Melissa Taylor

If Friendfeed was a funnel, Posterous is a trumpet. (Facebook is more trummel than fumpet) #slightlyforcedobjectmetaphors - goodmachine

Thanks for the fave, Robert. Svartling passed it onto me. - Kol Tregaskes

I still thinks that Posterous has the potential to take over some of Friendfeeds features. They have great developers too! The comment system is really great. - Svartling

And here is the link to this post (mine): http://pingmicro.com/how-pos... - Svartling

more lifestreaming features could come soon in some existing services - polou/indigo_bow

Yes probably. Lifestreaming are going mainstream. - Svartling from email

Hitler, holed up in his bunker, just found out about FriendFeed's acquisition by Facebook. He's not very happy about it. (Thanks to Matt Mastracci for the idea!) - Mark Trapp from Bookmarklet

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Wonderful! Great work!! - Peter

awesome job... - Gus

Thanks, guys. I couldn't have done it without feeling, at a base level, what's lampooned in the video. :-P - Mark Trapp

I could see that coming... - Dobromir Hadzhiev

"we still got Plurk" *COL* great stuff Mark - Dobromir Hadzhiev

BRILLIANT. - abacab

It's hilarious because right at the end when the text is about him going back to Twitter, he's actually talking about putting a bullet in his head. - abacab

Oh man, that was entirely unintentional, too. I don't think I've ever seen the original subtitles. - Mark Trapp

Haven't laughed this hard in a looooong time. - Ginger Makela Riker

epic mark "i even remember what it was like before scoble got here" - me too, good times :) - mike "glemak" dunn

That was better than I could have imagined. - Matt Mastracci

OMG I laughed so hard I cried. Well done sir! - Mark Krynsky

Well done. and all this time I figured you had no idea who the FFundercats were. Well done! I made all the parallels easily. - Josh Haley from iPhone

"That is bullshit. I've been a member since the site went public!" - Hilarious! :D - Meryn Stol

"Don't worry, we still have Plurk." - too funny. - Meryn Stol

That is f'ing fabulous. Thanks for making me laugh instead of cry. - Larry Hawes

Too funny! I did wonder if I was going to cry but I managed to make it to the end without losing it. Too bad I can't share this with anyone IRL. - Daniel J. Pritchett

funny and sad at the same time. only peeps who have been here for the last 2+ years can totally relate. :( - Merry Xmas FFeeders - AJ

WHY DOES THAT FAT KID KEEP SHOWING UP IN MY FEED?!#~ - Akiva Moskovitz

What's so funny is I've seen this hitler remix so many times, but I've never seen the real movie it's based on, it will be interesting to see how I'll perceive it. - Ray Cromwell

the real movie is good - mike "glemak" dunn

I just saw this on TechCrunch, neat. My favorite comment: "not original - stolen from this: http://www.youtube.com/watch... this was posted a few months back after the Blue Bulls won the S14 Rugby championship (Southern hemispheres champions league (soccer equivalent) rugby" http://www.techcrunch.com/2009... - Daniel J. Pritchett

Thanks for putting that together--that was really cool. - Rob Michael (Atmos Trio)

Daniel: the TechCrunch comments are great; a community of Buzz Killingtons. Everyone's a historian! - Mark Trapp

Great work Mark! So many great references. - Mike Doeff

that was awesome. FFundercats MOW hilarious - Alfredo

Mark, this is great... Unfortunately after seeing this I am beginning to feel a bit bummed - Bindu Reddy

Very funny! I think I got most of it, but *alas* I don't know who/what the "Fat Kid" deal was. I must've missed that phase of FF. - Mark "DerBingle" J

Mark: consider yourself lucky. If you really want to know, it's this: http://friendfeed.com/akiva... People have been bumping it for months. - Mark Trapp

Oh...THAT fat kid. Yes, I'm sorry I asked! - Mark "DerBingle" J

I had to go immediately to the pic of Phoebe Cates... I just had to! http://friendfeed.com/mvanden... - Mark "DerBingle" J

Mark has actually found the silver lining: NONE of us will ever have to see that fat kid again. ;) - John Craft

AWESOME! Truly awesome. - Alex Scoble

That's what you think, John. Sean Haggis has already posted it to Facebook. - Akiva Moskovitz

well done, sir - Caroline

I love this so much- great job - anna sauce

Really well written, and the timing is great. - anna sauce

This is awesome! Very well written. :-D - John (a.k.a. dendroica)

Mark, you did this? Very creative and funny. - Myrna

..especially the plurk comment but only people who used plurk and left would get that one. - Myrna

Myrna: yes I did. Thanks guys for all the great comments: had no idea this would blow up this big. - Mark Trapp

Almost 16k views already! Nice! :) - Michael McKean

Clearly an ironic MOW on your behalf. - Pete Delucchi

Classic! - Jeff P. Henderson

Really well done. Good work. - Jordan Brock

I'll wait for the Techno Viking remix. - Andrew Leyden

Thank you for expressing our global angst. - Robert Miller

Mark let me also say that this is the best thing I've seen in ages. Very well done! - Andre P. Siregar

Great work Mark - Mitch

Never thought I'd say this, but... I agree with Hitler. Well done. - Lo

like like like like like - anna sauce

I just realized that you were the assembler of this video. VERY good! - John E. Bredehoft

And go where? Back to Twitter or...Facebook? - Manuel Mas

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no idea yet.... see what happens. - Rob Sellen :o)

I have nowhere else to go. No where else gives me the high level of interaction that FF does. - Mel Buckpitt

Same FriendFeed as before, I'll still use. - Ben Parr

Of course if Paul hands me a few hundred shares of stock ... just kidding. Sigh. - Robert Scoble

I was going to ask how you felt about the purchase, but now I see - acedanger

Depends how much it changes. - Andrew Leyden

Why leave? - Mike Shulman

+1 Mel - I am gutted and don't know what to do if the main FF site closes - Matt Hooper

Why would I leave friendfeed? This place works well enough for me. - Talon Lardner

Manuel: back to my blog and Twitter, probably. I'm playing around with Facebook but it doesn't quite do it for me. - Robert Scoble

I'm sticking around unless there's some sort of mass exodus which I don't see an immediate reason for. - Mike Elliott

Not leaving 'til it closes, and I'm certainly not going to facebook or twitter even then. - Jim: Dead Like FF

I'm sad, but I'm sticking around. I'm hoping others do to. At some point, the fuss will die down. - Helen Sventitsky

Mike: because I expect it will get shut down eventually if it doesn't get invested in, and if it gets no new features it will fall behind Google Wave and other projects. - Robert Scoble

This feels like that HBO Documentary about Brooklyn Dodgers going to LA haha. - Manuel Mas

And, actually, Google Wave seems to be the most obvious thing for me to try out from now on. - Robert Scoble

I will stick around until they move the features I like from friendfeed onto facebook. - Bryan Lee

Isn't it a bit early to make decisions? Has there been an announcement that I missed that FF is going away? Even if it isn't where else is better at this point? - Chrimmus Tad

I'm not going anywhere Helen...When it goes it goes...I'm sitting tight on the ship - Bill Heslin

there used to be a kind of message board system ages back with FB. disppeared one day never to return, lets hope this will bring something of that back, who knows.. - Terry O'Fee

I can't wait to try out wave. ;o) - Rob Sellen :o)

Waiting and watching. Robert, I know you have a discussion tab on FB but its not the same. ;) - Melanie Reed

How soon before google wave becomes available to the early adopters/public? - Bryan Lee

Mashable just published a How To Take Advantage of FriendFeed's Unique Features. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA. A little late for that, no? - Stephen Pickering

didn't you just just say "FriendFeed is dead. I will keep using it until Paul unplugs the last server, which could be years" ? or i'm missing something - Liviu Barbat

I'll stick around to the bitter end. - Dave Metzener

Robert: Earlier in the day you were excited for both FriendFeed & Facebook. It didn't sound like you were leaving FriendFeed. What changed? Why not stick around to see what happens? - Jill Elswick

Bryan: I heard they weren't handing out beta access to non-developers until September. Cold be wrong but that's what I heard - Mike Elliott

I'm in wait and see mode. It would have to be absolutely sucked in by FB for me to leave it completely. - pea

Robert, if you believe this is a good deal for both FF and FB - why are you leaving? - George F. Snell III

When should we cue in Titanic's last song by the band as FF sinks below leaving us all behind? - Manuel Mas

Why leave now? Until it is changed or killed, it still works just the same. - Jeff P. Henderson

Same assessment as you, I'll stick around but I need to find an option B now. I guess I'll go wherever Louis Gray recommends - Alberto Saavedra

I plan on sticking around for a little while longer. Not ready to jump ship yet. - David Finch

Melanie: yeah, real time really has me going. I will wait until I get a better sense from the FriendFeed team about what will be done here. I just am not getting the right signals from the team that there will be any investment in this. If that's the case, I'd rather invest my time somewhere else. Google Wave. Ning. Vanilla on Building43. Twitter, now that I got rid of the spammers. Etc. - Robert Scoble

I'll watch and see what happens. IF I feel that it would be useless to stay, I'll leave the site. - TeraDyne Azurepaw

I think the features of FF will be incorporated into FB (guilt free) and FB profiles will be more tied into FF. That's about all we'll see... - Gus

Scoble: Ning?!?! Really? - Manuel Mas

Manuel: hey, Pirillo is over there. :-) - Robert Scoble

I'm staying here until something else catches up. - Bruce Lewis

Robert, I can definitely see the value of your invested time on any service, but for the average user, what is the downside of sticking around here as long as the site still exists? - Jeff P. Henderson

hmm, ning. unexpected, but understandable - Alistair (alpinefolk)

@Scobleizer: The big crowd is not even at Friendfeed yet and you are already leaving? Someone will be by in a few minutes with a drink. Please help yourself and stick around for the conversation. You will be greatly missed should you choose to leave so soon. - David Damore

Social Media is a set of tools--I appreciate the connections I make, but I'm not getting too emotionally worked-up about the tools changing. FF probablywon't function as my Social Media hub much longer. - Rob Michael (Atmos Trio)

I like it here, so I'll hang out as long as possible. - sean percival

Not making any set plans yet, but keeping my eyes and ears open. - Martha

And when Google buys Twitter, won't that be interesting - Stephen Pickering

Bruce: have you played with Wave yet? I'm wondering how good that is? I gotta get an invite. Off to beg someone cooler than me. :-) - Robert Scoble

I will continue to use it until it closes down in its current form. - ashish

Google/Twitter vs. Facebook/FriendFeed - Stephen Pickering

+1 ashish - Liviu Barbat

I'm a little pissed that we haven't heard much from our other "rock stars". Where the hell are they? This concerns them, yet I can hear a pin drop. I think there secretly plotting. Roflmao - Jeunelle Foster

I don't want to but if it eventually goes down the way everybody's predicting it will then i'll have to look for alternatives :( .......by the way where do i beg for Wave invites :) - Bhowmik Shah

I'd bet Microsoft buys Twitter before Google does. - Gus

I haven't played with wave yet, but from what I've seen it's got potential. FriendFeed's got polish. - Bruce Lewis

I wasn't planning on going anywhere, but I guess I'll be spending more time on Social Median. Perhaps someone should start putting together a decent buddypress site? - Aram Zucker-Scharff

I might leave only because I quit facebook - I hate the mindset, the shallowness, and am afraid (make that certain) those people will come here - Aaman (Clone of FF)

Gus: Microsoft and Twitter deserve each other. They are both somewhat buggy and don't come up with new features very often. ;-) - Robert Scoble

I think I'll be heading back to Twitter until Google Wave is publicly available - Aaman (Clone of FF)

Robert: Since at the end of the day all these platforms are businesses and have to eventually make money does it make sense to keep investing time and effort into building communities on them when they can sell/merge at any time and dismantle the tools that keep the community in place? it seems like the portable community concept of something like Google FriendConnect now makes more... more... - Mike Elliott

The other rock stars are drinking. :-) - Robert Scoble

If Facebook had an easier way of connecting with people but not showing them all the personal stuff I'm willing to show to my close friends (and the stuff my friends post about me), I don't think I'd need anything like FriendFeed or Twitter. - Edward Coffey

Robert: I've played with Wave and I wouldn't really put it in the same category as FriendFeed at the moment. It's not really about sharing and conversing in mass form IMO. Its really conversation with maybe 20 people or so but its much more difficult to focus conversations about shared content. Let everybody know when you get an invite and your address so we can add you! :) - Brandon Titus

I'll stick around until the end. - Mathew™ one of a kind

It kinda proves a theory I have about us all being reduced (if I can use that word) to channels. I don't think social networking will go away, but as the internet and deals increase, so does the noise. Don't worry Scobe, you still show up in our Google reader every morning!! - professor daddyo

Man, what are we going to do without these discussions like this? - Stephen Pickering

Mike: No community is permanent. It's worthwhile to participate even if it's temporary. - Bruce Lewis

@Gus, Well MS has large stake in FB so I'm not sure about that. I'll stick around here till it peters out. The tech news rooms here are top notch. - Adi

I don't use FF much other than for private rooms, so I'll stay for those. Whatever other activity I have (which is sporadic and generally not personal) will also remain. - Cheryl

I'll stick around until they pull the plug. - Morton Fox

Leave friendfeed? what's the alternative I'd really like to know. Is it facebook? - Tate DA FF MVP

I'll stick with it as long as it's here and people are still active. FF4L!! - Cassidy

What is the next thing? Where do we go now? Not FB! But where? - Michael Liss

I heard it's MySpace - sean percival

I'm staying until the end as well. - Mitch

I won't be deleting my account, but signing in and commenting? No. No real point to continue putting data into a service that is gonna get unplugged anyway. Guess we just have to return to blogs and twitter. - BCK

quick! everybody back to MySpace!!! - acedanger

what? leave and create a better version of Twitter? or start FriendsterFeed? - Andy Sternberg

The downside for me? I invest time in things that WILL BE not that are. That's always been what keeps my interest and now that I know that FriendFeed probably will not be, even if it takes five years to totally die, I've lost a great deal of interest in it. - Robert Scoble

Michael: I don't think anyone knows today where to go next, because there's no good substitute out there. We can only hope that the next destination will be obvious before they pull the plug. - Bruce Lewis

With the price of bandwith/computing halving every year, there will be a new one of these popping up pretty quick - Stephen Pickering

I'll just go to twitter. I have a facebook account but I hate it. Facebook is the walmart of the web. - Darrel Davis

Should we move to where?? haha - harri78son

I'll be here until something actually changes for the worse - Dennis O'Neil

harri78son you could come back over to my blog and we could setup JS-Kit Echo. :-) - Robert Scoble

Damn now I need a drink :) - Jeunelle Foster

I hate fb. Don't like tweeting. Guess I'll be keeping up with my feeds without the fun ff distractions :( - BEX from iPhone

That's right, Scoble is the catalyst for these longer threads anyway, so it might as well move to his JS-Kit - Stephen Pickering

Robert, that's a pity. I'm lucky to deal in things that only get more interesting as they get older. - Bruce Lewis

I'm torn. What are our options? - Kelly Mitchell

yeah~ definitly! @Jeunelle foster please come down, - harri78son

I see now...This whole thing was a ploy to get everyone visiting Robert's blog! I am outraged! :P - Brandon Titus

Brandon: OK, we can go over to YOUR blog. Got Echo? :-) - Robert Scoble

Bruce: Very true. I've tried to get into FaceBook but it's hard to get the clean conversation feed along with lifestreaming content. It just seems to be full of distracting noise even with the ability to filter with lists. - Mike Elliott

I'm here till the end. - Nolan Alston

Robert, the same could be said about Flickr, they haven't had much inovation since Yahoo bought them, but people still use the service in droves. - Jeff P. Henderson

Don't worry Kelly, a new one of these will pop quickly, if they kill this - Stephen Pickering

Kelly: we don't need to leave tonight. Let's trash the house first! :-) - Robert Scoble

HAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHA - Stephen Pickering

Brandon, that's funny. At the Boston FriendFeed meetup, everybody else had learned about FriendFeed through Scobleizer. I was the only one who found him through FriendFeed. - Bruce Lewis

I'm leaving my account here for now but I'll be removing all my feeds. - Got80s

I have no idea where to go... - Johnny

Let's make the longest thread in FF history - Stephen Pickering

Anyway, for the rest of today at-least I reckon I'll be off FriendFeed - real conversation is being drowned out by the echoes of this deal. - Edward Coffey

Damn it. Why is Arrington always right! - Stephen Pickering

Jeff P. Flickr is different Yahoo bought them for their user base. Facebook bought Friendfeed for their features. - Bryan Lee

Got80: why do that? Who cares if your feeds are going in here? - Robert Scoble

Edward: that is true. It caught us all off guard and we're still processing it. - Robert Scoble

Kind of huge things in this time,.hmmm - harri78son

Facebook bought FF for Paul Bucheit - Stephen Pickering

I'm staying here until there is a reason to leave. Though I don't hold out hope they'll keep the service alive forever... obviously, I'm always enjoysthin.gs too, but it's not quite the same. I REALLY can't see myself using facebook as much as FF though. - Ted Roden

I need an adult beverage. then I'll trash the place... - Kelly Mitchell

I despise FB. Please let them not just trash FF. - Adam Webb

Considering the free Google Wave protocol implementation and ejabbered work together, it shouldn't be too hard to quickly build a FF type service that's scalable. Combine that with EC2 and S3 and you could probably get a lot of runway before funding is needed. Robert, I think the next service you switch to should be part owned by you, considering I bet a lot of the traffic here was originated from you evangelizing. - Chip Ramsey

Bryan: it's worse than that. I'm hearing that Facebook bought FriendFeed for its team. Google Superstars. Makes Zuckerberg get out his wallet. - Robert Scoble

Where will be the next pasture Mr. Scoble? - Rami Taibah

Stephen: lol. Yes, the 50 million dollar man. But seriously, there's no doubt what they really want is the tallent. - Brandon Titus

I'm gutted about this, but I knew that Virb account would come in handy eventually... sorta... maybe... - Linda Mills

Holden, yeah, but it doesn't make sense to invest energy here when its eventually going to die anyway - Stephen Pickering

I'm new on FF so I wonder, are people leaving FF because you'll have to use FB to participate? - Christopher Doiron

Stephen: not only for Paul. The guy who started Google Talk is at FriendFeed. So is the guy who started Google Maps. - Robert Scoble

Among other ex-Google superstars. - Robert Scoble

Robert your not processing anything from what I see..Your just gonna dump it...thanks...makes us All feel so much better....Salt in a wound? - Bill Heslin

Christopher, it's that the FriendFeed team's new bosses will turn priorities away from the site we love. - Bruce Lewis

They'll probably cannibalize FriendFeed... nom nom - Kelly Mitchell

funny how many people are joining friend feed on the news of this acquisition. i'm seeing lots of my twitter followers starting to join. - mark silva

Go where, do what? - frankiecarl

I say its WAAAYYY too early to speculate what will happen to friendfeed next. Let the drama of today die down. - Bryan Lee

Yeah lets all get drunk and start a fight. This whole thing is hilarious to me. Funny how media can start a panic. I ain't goin no where, I like to coloring. - Jeunelle Foster

Bill: I said I won't leave until I hear more from the team. Why must you always be a drama queen? - Robert Scoble

Kelly, I wish they would absorb FriendFeed, but despite the talk I don't think openness and Facebook are compatible. - Bruce Lewis

Robert, Ex-Google Superstars is how I see it too. I don't see big plans for FF the sense was we were the last thing on their minds. - Melanie Reed

Can't help being an attention whore, its what I'm good at :) - Jeunelle Foster

Okay so we sit tight and wait and drink. lol - Kelly Mitchell

but there is no time to wait a special direction on internet, It's too fast!! - harri78son

Kelly: My analogy for this is like the female praying mantis luring the male for sex, then it bites its head off. You can see the pic in my story http://bryansays.com - Bryan Lee

I'm in the eyewear business and so I always know how to make a spectacle of myself :) - Jeunelle Foster

Bruce: I agree. Wouldn't it be feasible for them to simply keep the two properties separate then? FriendFeed would be the open/public portion of Facebook and Facebook could stay closed and keep its current private user base. - Brandon Titus

Bryan, pretty graphic and right on the money. - Kelly Mitchell

Why shouldn't he pull out his wallet. FB needs to monetize. The ex Google Rockstars know just how to do that - Stephen Pickering

I'll stick around and see what happens, but might not bother so much with another 'social' web site again. - Grant Bierman

:) I am what I am Robert...I'm A DRAMA QUEEN? LOL that's funny....even though I'm a much better queen than you I still wuvs ya...Still processing all this as everyone else is...Sorry...might be shooting from the hip and I shouldn't - Bill Heslin

Am I the only one excited to see how Facebook integrates FF? I have hundreds of FB friends that I know personally, yet know nobody that I am "friends" with on FF or Twitter. FB has my friends but I'd love FF's functionality. - Chris Nunz

There's this optimistic talk about keeping FriendFeed around as R&D. I'm skeptical about it. - Bruce Lewis

I'll leave FriendFeed as soon as there's somewhere to go to; currently, I'm not convinced there is. - Tristan Seligmann

Also when you are hanging with the Master of the Universe for four hours, its sort of like Bill Clinton going to Korea. Kind of influences you. - Stephen Pickering

Rami: I don't know. That's why I'm talking with you. I just know I won't continue to invest my time in something that will soon get no more investment. That's not who I am. I will hang out with Louis Gray until he finds something cool. By the way, someone gave me Google Wave already, thanks! - Robert Scoble

This should be a reality television show. This is where the real drama queens will come out to play. - Jeunelle Foster

Leo's going to need a new show, TWIF - Stephen Pickering

This week in Facebook - Stephen Pickering

Anyone here ever feel like we're just being tossed around from website to website by the big players? - Christopher Doiron

Thanks Kelly :) - Bryan Lee

Chris, Yep - Stephen Pickering

Bruce: I disagree with you about Facebook and openness. They are a lot more open than they used to be and are MUCH more professional and friendly than, say, Twitter is. - Robert Scoble

Robert, I look forward to your review of Wave. - Bruce Lewis

Openness and Facebook are not one and the same.... polar opposites. Bah humbug. - Kelly Mitchell

Yup the big dogs are sitting back laughing at this whole thing - Jeunelle Foster

It doesn't necessarily have to be "R&D" but really a completely separate product. Something like YouTube is to Google. Although that's a terrible analogy...I guess the products are too similar to keep separate. - Brandon Titus

I'd pay-per-view to see Scoble and Sebastian Bach fight - Mattb4rd

The Chinese government is much more open than it used to be. It still doesn't meet my standards. - Bruce Lewis

Bruce: also, Zuckerberg is seeing the real money is in search. So he HAS to be open to really do great there. - Robert Scoble

Robert: Any chance you could share your Wave address? - Brandon Titus

Did anyone get a chance to see Youtube HTML 5 Demo? - Stephen Pickering

Brandon: I don't have my own address. Someone gave me theirs so can't share. - Robert Scoble

Zuckerberg doesn't make money from other companies' search engines, so he's still limiting what data can go out. I see FB getting more open about what data they take in. - Bruce Lewis

Bruce: Wave is very geeky. I think the UI has a lot of FriendFeed's problems x10. We'll see how that first impression sticks. - Robert Scoble

And Wave will only be as good as how many users it has - Stephen Pickering

I guess what I'm trying to say is even if you don't think your time here is an not an investment ;anymore in anything Robert...We still, or at least I do, consider your input valuable. And if you were to jump ship too soon, I think we would all lose something. So, even if things don't look good...please hang around..That's what I meant to say... - Bill Heslin

Where will I go? Probably no where. Friendfeed was the first time I really got to feel like I found a home. Other places don't interact and blend multiple social services like Friendfeed does/did. Just as plenty of other people have said, I'm waiting for Google Wave at this point. I'm already a Google whore, might as well wait for the Wave to come through. - Matthew Horton

Bruce: data that goes out can be embedded on blogs and websites and interact with things. Also, if you get into Google's search engine you can get a LOT of traffic, which then you can monetize on your own service. - Robert Scoble

Not necessarily nailing the coffin shut yet here. Going to hang around and see what develops....what seems likely at the moment may be a totally different thing tommorow :O) - Jack Wilson, K4SAC

I am leaving at midnight. 2 accounts will be deleted, mine and one I manage for another site. - April Russo (app103)

Robert: Hope you enjoy Wave! The UI is definitely way off for content sharing (at least in my first impression) and more suited for group communication for the very scenarios they threw out in the demos. Get much beyond that, or have too many people and the system starts to break down. Obviously, the underlying Wave infrastructure could be used to create something similar to and better than Friendfeed. - Brandon Titus

Yeah, the cool thing about Wave is the problem they solved with the protocol. Not really their UI implementation. I think there are huge opportunities with both Open Social and the Wave protocol. - Chip Ramsey

OK, I have been out of touch and I guess I missed something. I see nothing wrong with staying with all the feeds I am tied to! - Dave Sickmeier

April, please don't delete your account. We lose interesting history when people do that. - Bruce Lewis

I'm sticking around. - Nation Hahn

There is no Facebook and no FriendFeed, it is now called TwoFacedFriend... - Kelly Mitchell

Bill: I'll be around but probably a lot less. Actually I was thinking that this was good timing. We have a new baby due in September and my other son is just starting to learn to talk, so want to spend more time hanging around with the family. - Robert Scoble

I am gonna wait it out. If the community as a whole migrates I will go with them, but I don't want to overreact. - Neal Jansons

it's time to have another serious look at Plaxo. There are some very clever people there too, I believe?! - Matt Hooper

Truth is, being addicted to FriendFeed isn't a good lifestyle. - Robert Scoble

Well said Robert - Kelly Mitchell

April: why so sudden and why delete accounts? I don't get that. - Robert Scoble

As you should. Family is much more important than any of this. And now I have to go fix my wig! LOL - Bill Heslin

depends what they do with the service - I like friendfeed and facebook so I think it will probably work okay for me - Nick Stone

Brandon: oh, oh. You said it "Wave doesn't scale." Not good. - Robert Scoble

FF also has good tools for using it in moderation -- best of day, week, which you can get by email. Lists help. - Bruce Lewis

I have been spending most of my time on Brightkite. It's a smaller community and more fun. A better alternative than twitter or facebook. - John C Ferron

Robert, and yes when he does that (Money in Search), it will change the playing field in lateral ways across the Internet, especially in ePortfolios and other like applications that don't need to be walled gardens - Melanie Reed

Your right, Robert, but you would eventually learn to moderate your use, and a service like this is going to be needed - Stephen Pickering

so much DRAMA - Kevin Pruett

Kevin, the Drama is warranted - Stephen Pickering

And Leo and Dick Debartolo are on the wine train, missing all this...I envy them...lol - Bill Heslin

Will there ever be an app that just leaves facebook out of the equation - we could only dream - Ryan Gerritsen

i'm leaving, watching from twitter would be a better option for me. - rama mamuaya

I am not likely to invest time in another community that I don't have a stake in. If I contribute it will be because I have a personal interest and am part of the team that runs the show. That is the only way I will feel comfortable investing my time & energy into it. - April Russo (app103)

If we could get the other "Rock Stars" who are obviously having a "virtual prayer meeting" somewhere to get together and talk about what changes they wish to see and what they would like to see develop for social media, Twitter, Facebook, Friendfeed and now this Google Wave, we would probably all feel a little better as we might be able to see down the dark cold tunnel but they're out... more... - Jeunelle Foster

i think that I'll keep posting to friendfeed until it fully integrates with facebook - Carlos Leiva Burotto

Did you guys see Dave Winer's URL shortner, http://rp.ly? Genius. - Stephen Pickering

Jeunelle: Rizzn and Louis Gray and I did a podcast earlier where we talked through some of our feelings. It was very, um, theraputic. - Robert Scoble

hahaha I must of missed it, I'll dig it up. A bit quiet still though. Haven't heard peep from Chris Brogan and all them other STARS - Jeunelle Foster

Louis's blog post was classic. - Bruce Lewis

Man, I can understand Louis' feelings. Look how much he and Scoble have put into this - Stephen Pickering

I'll continue to use FF until there's reason not to. I'm patient enough to see what happens to it. What's the hurry? - Cathryn Hrudicka

I just started on Friendfeed. It can't go away! - Paul McElligott

Lets start FeedFriend - the Bizaro friendfeed minus Facebook integration - Ryan Gerritsen

Well, I was rather hoping for some sort of joint deal between Twitter & FF... I'm not sure if I'll stick around in FF or not. I'm definitely not a fan of Facebook - Tim Bergman

Paul, that's what so frustrating. Just given time, we know it would have caught on - Stephen Pickering

I'm staying... - Luis

Thanks for feeding the flames, there, Scoble. *WHAT* on earth is so scary about all this? - Brad McCrorey

Brad, FF has died. Scoble made this thing. And what does he get out of it? Nuttin - Stephen Pickering

Was this the Exit Strategy? I don't see how FF makes money right now? - Keith Rowland

Stephen: I got you all as friends. - Robert Scoble

:-) - Stephen Pickering

This really SUCKS because when you don't have great "developers" to put something together like FriendFeed, you're really just gonna have to either take it up the ass or commit suicide. I'll hang myself 1st with all my clothes on :) - Jeunelle Foster

Jeunelle HAHAHAHAHHAAHAHHAHAHAHAHAH - Stephen Pickering

I'm wherever good, smart peeps are ('cuz I'm not smart enough). I don't invest much in tools - it's the people I care for. I'm not gonna abandon FF now but I understand that we'll need a way to foster the kind of community that got fostered here. Nothing lasts forever - and that's mostly a good thing in the long run. - phil baumann from Android

i'll be here until either the bitter end or something else comes along ... i'm really hoping that the ff-team will turn facebook into more of what it was before the apps came along... i think that's when FB really took a downward turn for me - Chris Heath

I follow the Cheese! - Rich Weaver

Venues like this will come and go, the whole social media landscape is in a constant state of flux I don't see why so many are up in arms. The life cycle of all the current venues are short and most of the leaders are nearing the end of their lives as we know it. But fear not, many new shiny toys will be bestowed upon us to play with. Now let's be social again! (ps. I'm sure we've seen NOTHING yet!) - Paul Monaco

Tweet: the cheese is in Zuckerberg's office! :-) - Robert Scoble

And for anyone that wants to know why I am deleting my account and not just moving away and leaving it to rot like i would normally do...just read the policies of facebook. Anywhere I have an account with data I don't want to be exploited commercially, in a way that exploits me personally, I'd delete it just as fast if the service were bought by facebook. - April Russo (app103)

Zuckerberg is Master of the Universe. He spent 4 hours with Paul Friday. That would have an effect on anyone - Stephen Pickering

I know I am able to post status updates in Facebook to "Everyone" now, but when will we be able to search these open status updates? - Kevin Whalen from iPhone

I can't wait till my mom gets one of my "Queenie" updates....that's gonna b fun...lol.. - Bill Heslin

Kevin, when God, ie Mark Zuckerberg, says you can - Stephen Pickering

I love FF but I think this is a great move. If FB takes the best ideas from FF and they open it up theres is so much potential for a great community. - Gary Gannon

Definitely see what happens... Not looking forward to Facebook turning this into a free-for-all like Facebook :-) - Maria Reyes-McDavis

Gary a potential for $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ - Stephen Pickering

Not going anywhere for the time being. I'm not a big Twitter fan, and unless FB makes some big time changes, it just doesn't do it for me. Will be listening for any other social media that might come round the bend. - Bonnie Foster

We are getting tired of all those constant platform changes, aren't we? - Harald Felgner

Harald Yes! - Stephen Pickering

I say we all leave Facebook instead. - Larry Roth

Herald and Stephen, Yes! More and different is not always better, just more and different. - Melanie Reed

I can't leave Facebook. I have too much built up there. And that won't do anything anways. It will just be a small blip to them. - Mathew™ one of a kind

so what content aggregator in the absence of FF? - WarLord

My apologies if this has already been asked, but Robert you are very close the FF team. You had no idea this was coming? - Ben Hanten

I'm not leaving. I like FriendFeed and Facebook. - Kimber Scott

Ben: not one iota. I did sense that they were struggling to figure out how to compete, but didn't think they would sell. Paul always told me he didn't want to sell. - Robert Scoble

Robert - I'm confused - on the one hand you've said this is such a great thing for FF as well as FB - but on the other hand you also say you're leaving FF because of of it. Why - if this is such a great thing for FF? - Matthew Blaisdell

WarLord: there isn't a good aggregator. That's why it's stupid to delete your feeds. - Robert Scoble

OK, a friend talked me down. He told me I'd be saying sorry for starting this post by the 400th comment. He's usually right. So, instead of saying sorry, I'm going drinking. See ya in the lobby in 10 minutes! - Robert Scoble

I may be dense about this, but why would you leave until you saw which way it was going? - Jerry Kidd

Good question, Jerry. I wanna know this, too. - Brad Williamson

Robert, I think he struggled with it, but 4 Hours with Mark is a big persuasion - Stephen Pickering

Matthew: I expect that the engineers will get put onto Facebook. So, if the smartest people are working on Facebook and not on FriendFeed, why would I stay here? Why wouldn't I start moving my work and social graph and all that over to Facebook? - Robert Scoble

LOL...there ya go Robert...I knew you would come around...Drink Drink!!! have a really nice cocktail... - Bill Heslin

The people I've come to know on FriendFeed are what I'd miss though, so I'd like to take my social graph with me wherever I might end up next. There's a business opportunity right there. - Aaman (Clone of FF)

Dunno if I'll leave the ship... - Wario

When I think about it - I found your post as well as the TechCrunch article via Google Friend Connect. So maybe it is time to join that Wave!? - Harald Felgner

Jerry: I said I was going to wait until I talk with the team more, but the things I'm hearing tell me they've already been bought to work on Facebook proper. So, unless someone tells me that's wrong, that tells me I should spend more and more of my time over on Facebook and not here. But my friend convinced me I'm being hasty and emotional. :-O - Robert Scoble

Mathew: Scoble said early on in this thread that he invests his time into emerging networks, not things that "are already here" I think thats why he will be moving on to the next big thing, like google wave or watchever new social network emerges out of this. I suspect that another startup will emerge to try and fill the shoes left behind by friendfeed. This is always the case. When napster left, you had morpheus and kazaa, then bit torrents. - Bryan Lee

Robert - Makes sense - except that it still doesn't seem like a great day for Friendfeed - if it just gets abandoned (by FB as well as by leaders like you...) - Matthew Blaisdell

Matthew: FriendFeed=Facebook. It's a great day for both. Cause I'll end up at Facebook either way! :-) - Robert Scoble

Anyway, these are just the emotional ramblings of someone trying to figure out how the world shifted today. Have fun! - Robert Scoble

clue to the denouement: where is the most valuable processing of this event. Right here. - Steve Gillmor

I'm just curious what new startup will roll into the limelight because of this announcement? - Bryan Lee

Robert, FriendFeed != Facebook - look at the quality of commentary/people here - Aaman (Clone of FF)

FriendFeed can stop improving right now, and I'll still stick around until something else catches up. Maybe that something else will be Facebook. I'll wait and see. - Bruce Lewis

I'm probably out. Back to open source for me at this point. Time to take another look and see how things have progressed with Laconica, JaikuEngine, NoseRub, and some of the other secondary options. I may also go crawling back to Twitter. Given a choice between Twitter and Facebook... sigh... - Ken Sheppardson

++Steve Gillmor - Bruce Lewis

Ken you'll be back. - Steve Gillmor

I don't think FB will change it all so quickly. But I do like Laconica, too. - Monique Hodgkinson

Steve you're making it hurt worse! ;-( - Stephen Pickering

Monique: It's not about rapid change, it's about where to invest effort. I don't really have any interest in investing my time and energy on Facebook... so why wait? - Ken Sheppardson

stephen how so - Steve Gillmor

I don't know where to go :( - K.D.

I'll make up my mind when I figure out what better alternative there is to Friend Feed. - Anthony Teegarden

Because we know FF has died - Stephen Pickering

Steve: Yeah, you're probably right. I appreciate the work Bret, Paul, Benjamin, et al have done, and I was really looking forward to where they were taking things... before they were taking it to Facebook. - Ken Sheppardson

I think I will just stay on twitter, because I can't stand facebook. - Tomy Thomson

Stephen: FF has died? Well, then, how am I typing to you? - Robert Scoble

Tomy, why change? You can listen to the Beatles and the Stones! - Stephen Pickering

Ken: it's all good. they're moving to a radically larger playground, and they can't afford to abandon those who appreciate them - Steve Gillmor

They will keep FF just will make it better - Johni Fisher

Choose I meant - Stephen Pickering

Please stop with FF has died chatter! - Bryan Lee

I'll wait to learn more before making any decisions - Herb Hernandez

Robert, well, metaphorically. Whether its a few months or a year - Stephen Pickering

Tomy: Twitter is like Facebook but without likes and comments. Oh, wait, Facebook is a lot like FriendFeed already. I just commented on Louis Gray's item there. Oh, and there's applications. We can play games! :-) Herb: I'll try to go see the team next week. I'm also interviewing Yelp. - Robert Scoble

But Steve, what if the larger "playground" turns out to be very different from the one pitched to them? What if the FF team finds that their vision isn't shared after all? - Bruce Lewis

Robert, ok maybe you are right. Maybe it will be like the R&D. That would be great! - Stephen Pickering

Stephen: are you trying to get on the Gillmor Gang? We seem to kill things before they are really dead there too. - Robert Scoble

Hey Robert , you make friendfeed slower ! I guess you should leave here really x) - Melissa Taylor

Anyway, I'm going drinking. For real this time. - Robert Scoble

Robert, HAHAHAHAHAHHAHAAHHAHAHAHA - Stephen Pickering

they can go build it again. but zuckerberg has been wanting this for some time - Steve Gillmor

need to wait what will happen to FF - Toni @ NavinoT

I'm planning on easing out of Friendfeed in the next couple of days, so I can get the contacts of people I know on here and who's opinions I value. - Jon, the Chilled Beartato

Pickering: RSS is dead, not FF - Steve Gillmor

Steve, oh yes, If I were him, I would pull out all stops to get this team. I totally understand from a business perspective, all perspectives - Stephen Pickering

business is design - Steve Gillmor

HAHAHA great comeback Steve. On that note I think I'll have a beer. :) - Bryan Lee

Steve, OK, I'll keep the faith that maybe Scoble's idea that this could be a Facebook R&D could happen. That would be great!!!! - Stephen Pickering

Steve, did you see the post about this being an opportunity for Google Reader? I think it was by Jorge Escobar. - Bruce Lewis

Reading through all this is hilarious. We really should have a social media reality show Robert - Jeunelle Foster

no bruce, how so - Steve Gillmor

Jeunelle, Robert went drinking :) - Stephen Pickering

So he ain't all that. Just kidding hehehehe :) - Jeunelle Foster

He was saying Reader has most of the features of FF, and this could be their chance to expand and fill the niche FF filled: http://friendfeed.com/social-... - Bruce Lewis

disagree bruce GR has no explicit contract with users - Steve Gillmor

Contract or contact? - Bryan Lee

Wave might be boosted, but has similar immaturity at the social graph level - Steve Gillmor

I don't understand the part about the contract. - Bruce Lewis

If Ning is 750m why FF is just 50m ? - Johni Fisher

users consciously contribute metadata to FF - Steve Gillmor

Do we want Google to buy Twitter? - Stephen Pickering

@Steve @Bruce, here's the post http://jungleg.com/2009... -- it's a crazy idea but GR could make an extra effort and put up a better web experience - Jorge Escobar

I like FriendFeed, a lot, but too few of my friends use the service to make it really useful. So I guess I'll leave. - Adam Washington

Adam, stay, if even only for the aggregating features - Stephen Pickering

You are testing us Scoble. - Özer (Wrzl) Dölekoğlu

YES he's sitting in the back laughing while drinking Peppermint Schnaps - Jeunelle Foster

Scobles outta here. He went to get a life! hehehehehehehe - Stephen Pickering

totally staying....this really is just the beginning....and, i just built FF into all of my Intro to Soc sections!!!! - Chad Gesser

I thought you said you'd hand in there until they turn the last server off. What changed your mind? - Paul Chaney

Speaking of Google. What was the point of them buying Jaiku and doing nothing with it? - Bryan Lee

I'll at least stay for aggregation and extending 140 character tweets, and pray maybe it will become Facebooks R&D, but I know that's a longshot - Stephen Pickering

I should get a life too but alas the temptation is too great for "attention whoring" - Jeunelle Foster

Jeunelle HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH - Stephen Pickering

hehehe lol - Jeunelle Foster

Regarding the "team's plans", I really don't expect to hear anything from Bret, Paul, et al. At this point I'm happy to let the Facebook (i.e. the non-FriendFeed) folks try to convince me that they're ready to do things differently. That involves more than just hiring a team. - Ken Sheppardson

Well, maybe Paul can influence Mark not "to be evil" - Stephen Pickering

those who think FB has any choice but to go down the FF road are not thinking this through - Steve Gillmor

@Stephen, I was alternating between friendfeed and twitter (stones and beatles, respectively :P) but I don't see the point in staying with a dying technology, which unfortunately is where friendfeed is headed. The tech of friendfeed itself will hopefully live on in facebook. I really think facebook has become a slightly less obnoxious version of myspace, and that's being nice. - Tomy Thomson

Steve, Oh, I totally understand. It was genius of them. Proves how Mark is indeed Master of the Universe - Stephen Pickering

Steve, self-interest does not guarantee anything. People and companies can act irrationally. - Bruce Lewis

So Steve, do you see two separate properties indefinitely? Or does Facebook just slowly start too look more FF-like, then one day they redirect friendfeed.com to facebook.com? - Ken Sheppardson

yes bruce take twitter for example - Steve Gillmor

But Paul could end up being a great influence on Mark - Stephen Pickering

not indefinitely Ken, but long enough to transfer enough value to avoid making twitter look like the good guys - Steve Gillmor

Steve, will Google buy Twitter? - Stephen Pickering

you're "VERY excited" about the deal, but plan to leave friendfeed? why, exactly? i don't get it... - Shawn C. Reed

dunno, don't really care - Steve Gillmor

*eye roll* thread is getting to the point where it's too long and people are now asking questions that have been answered thrice.....Lock down time. - Matthew DeVries

ff was the important value, not twitter - Steve Gillmor

Steve, why didn't Ff take over FB? Yeah Facebook has the money, but it's the inferior product. - Matthew DeVries

Oh sure, who do you want in your office, Ev or Paul Bucheit? Paulllllll! - Stephen Pickering

Stephen, didn't the TechCrunch article say that the FF team would be split between two bosses, neither of which was Mark? - Bruce Lewis

matthew who says they didn't - Steve Gillmor

That's right. Paul may end up running that thing, or at least be No.2 - Stephen Pickering

@ Robert: The majority of apps on FB are useless imo. Every time I log on I get bombarded by 'add your relative' and 'blackjack' app requests. And don't get my started on the quizzes and other BS. Ah well, I will join your fan page on facebook! - Tomy Thomson

ff has been running dev for a year - Steve Gillmor

Wow - isn't this jumping to conclusions? No one has said anything's going away, nor do we know what they're doing to do with it. Stick around, wait to see what happens, then jump. Nothing's happened yet - I think it will all be for the better in the end and you'll know where to go when the FF Team says Jump. - Jesse Stay

Kurt, he's gonna sit on it for a while, see what shakes out - Stephen Pickering

jesse skip to the bottom for the apology - Steve Gillmor

The FF Team hasn't let us down yet, have they? I still trust them - only when they break that trust do we jump. - Jesse Stay

@Scobleizer I've been on Google Wave for about a week working on an interesting idea I have for it. It's very promising but its very alpha right now. You won't find it worth your time just yet. - Noah White

jumping is bullshit, no place to go - Steve Gillmor

Ah - sorry Robert - didn't see the clarification towards the bottom. Thanks Steve. - Jesse Stay

Jesse, you still in the Boston area? - Bruce Lewis

Why rush to judgment? Even if the "team's plans" are off-base, what's the base? And what's off? Experience, resourcefulness, respect for users and smarts under fire all matter more than "plans." Wait & keep seeing. - Doc

What the hell? Just because someone buys FriendFeed everyone has to ditch it? ABORT SHIP, ABORT SHIP! Doesn't really make sense so soon. Has anything changed yet? Is it the end of the world? Don't just leave because everyone says they will either. Stick around, the ship is still afloat. - Nick Humphries

the doctor is in the house - Steve Gillmor

But, if they did pull the plug, with bandwidth and computing halving every year, there would be another one of these pop up in no time - Stephen Pickering

I don't see a point in leaving Friendfeed until the doors close on us... if and when that happens. - Alex Knight

Actually facebook is the most popular rss reader of all time :) - Christian Burns from iPhone

Bruce, we just left today. I'm actually in Niagara Falls, NY right now. Just finished watching a beautiful view of the Falls at night. - Jesse Stay

There's a house? - Doc

Steve, is that Doc Searls? - Stephen Pickering

of cards - Steve Gillmor

hover over the name stephen - Steve Gillmor

Jesse, if anybody can persuade me (us?) that Facebook is going to be good for the FF team it's you. Maybe write a blog post or something. - Bruce Lewis

Don't get so close. - Doc

unfollow please sidney - Steve Gillmor

Doc, Calacanis recommended your book to his audience on THis Week in Startups. Can't wait to read it! - Stephen Pickering

I just left facebook a couple weeks ago - hope friendfeed doesn't devolve into quizzes and walled gardens - Doug Holton

It's the Gillmor Gang in a perpendicular universe. - Doc

yes it is - Steve Gillmor

and about fucking time - Steve Gillmor

Stephen, make sure it's the *new* 10th anniversary edition of Cluetrain. Both it and the old one are being sold. 8 extra chapters in the new. - Doc

No doubt, Steve - Christian Burns from iPhone

I'm in it to win it. FF isn't shutting down tomorrow or next week. But it's funny to me that so many dicuss the content... It's the connections made with others that are in jeopardy, not the LOLCat photos... - MVB (Grinch of FF) from fftogo

Because of Quantum Wave effects there are an infinite number of Universes, some of which The Gillmor Gang is still broadcasting - Stephen Pickering

Bruce, I'll be working on a post really soon. Also, Louis Gray and I are going to record a phone call about it tomorrow, which I think should prove useful. I've got a lot of knowledge about Facebook, and he does about FriendFeed. - Jesse Stay

we never stopped stephen - Steve Gillmor

Heheheheheheheheh - Stephen Pickering

JFC, I was gonna go to bed, and here we are. Wherever this is. Do we all really live in Scoble's butt? - Doc

Doc comes through with yet another metonym: the perpendicular universe (= FF). - Nick in Manila

I would have had something out sooner but I've been driving a car all day. :-) - Jesse Stay

no it's Marshall McLuhan's butt - Steve Gillmor

Is this SRC? - Doc

Kurt, oh yeah, I totally get that and so does Scoble, but you've got to understand his short term hurt. Look at how much energy he put into this thing, and what did he get? Nuttin - Stephen Pickering

You mean McLuhan is in Scoble's body? He's in the movie Being Robert Scoble? - Doc

Nonsense Stephen he gets paid in attention every single time - Steve Gillmor

Social relay chat? - Christian Burns from iPhone

No who's on first - Steve Gillmor

Scoble Relay Chat. - Doc

the medium is the message - Steve Gillmor

OK, OK, Steve. I admit, I listened to Dave Winer's chat this evening about it - Stephen Pickering

yeah I read the liner notes instead - Steve Gillmor

Confessions of Stephen and Steve - Jeunelle Foster

And the medium is the network? - Stephen Pickering

Are we paying Scoble now? Are we his excreta and are those a form of currency? - Doc

as richard manuel used to say the check's in yr mouth - Steve Gillmor

Doc, HAHAHAHAHHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHA - Stephen Pickering

I thought it was "the check is coming in your mouth." Just looking for accuracy here. - Doc

no, doc it's a contraction of 2 of the 3 promises - Steve Gillmor

I forget what the 3rd is - Steve Gillmor

I'll love you in the morning? - Doc

could be - Steve Gillmor

Well, it's almost morning here. I'll tape this show and watch later. G'night or g'morning, all. - Doc

Goodnight, Doc! - Stephen Pickering

I was wondering how long this would take to happen. Soon as I saw FF being purchased by Facebook I knew you would bolt. Not 100% surprising. - Christopher Mercer

Part of beauty of FF: all their shows are taped. And yet open ended. - Nick in Manila

It depends how much FF changes. No reason to leave until and unless it gets annoying. - Igor Goldkind

It's "I'll respect you in the morning." - Sean Gallagher

Oh, I'm not leaving. Hell, I even still have a myspace account. It's just a question of engagement - Stephen Pickering

Good night all. Tip for Jeunelle: You get more attention if you make your feed public. Make a group for your private stuff. - Bruce Lewis

they'll have to scrub this one pretty good before they shut it down - Steve Gillmor

Maybe Jeunelle doesn't want attention. - Sean Gallagher

Hell, they keep Orkut going. Storage and bandwidth keep getting cheaper. Might as well keep this going - Stephen Pickering

Orkut! The favorite social network of 9 out of 10 Brazilians. - Sean Gallagher

And 9 out 10 of the best looking women! - Stephen Pickering

True. - Sean Gallagher

@scobleizer that means half of the total activity on friendfeed will be reduced - Sidharth Dassani

Maybe if Facebook hadn't stolen all Scoble's data, he'd stop worrying and learn to love them. - Sean Gallagher

Actually even os Brasileiros are coming over to FB - Stephen Pickering

My mother is on Facebook. The end is nigh. - Sean Gallagher

"Maybe Jeunelle doesn't want attention" - says who? I only stepped away to pour me a nice glass of Sauvengion Blanc", and thank you Bruce for the advice I'll look into that tomorrow. After all tomorrow is another day. Twiddly Dee - Jeunelle Foster

there is no reason to leave. I seriously doubt facebook will kill it. - Logan Lindquist

What's the record number of comments? - Stephen Pickering

Logan, I hope your right - Stephen Pickering

Maybe if I blog my twitter of Scoble's FriendFeed and then link it from Facebook via a Digg of a del.icio.us bookmark, it will create a singularity and this thread will have never happened. - Sean Gallagher

What about Identi.ca? - Jerry Heiselman

Sean, you may even create a time machine! - Stephen Pickering

Can someone comment on what April Russo said about Facebook content policy? Seems like a very important piece of the puzzle. - metalerik

I wouldn't worry about it. The markets will take care of it. If Facebook becomes evil, the masses will fork somewhere else. We're in the age of Openness - Stephen Pickering

I will only leave friend feed if it becomes a facebook clone. I can't stand facebook but I still use it cause my friends and family use it, but if friendfeed becomes annoying like face book then I see no point in staying here. - Colide81 (James) from iPhone

James, Touche - Stephen Pickering

You know Sean maybe smarter than he looks....hmmmmm :) and what's with that bird head? - Jeunelle Foster

Quote of the Day: "Microsoft and Twitter deserve each other. They are both somewhat buggy and don't come up with new features very often. ;-)" - Robert Scoble - Diego Barros 

It's a starling fledgeling. The perfect symbol for social networking-- it eats whatever you give it, then poops on you. - Sean Gallagher

That's what I want to reincarnate as....an angry poopin bird - Jeunelle Foster

Just reading all the news about FF and FB. Disapoints me personally, biz wise nice job. Um not a huge FB user so I don't know what my plans are yet. Like you wait a bit and see.... - Bryan Thatcher from iPhone

I hope FF doesn't go away and fold in to FB. I don't need FB. It's like bringing a machine gun to a knife fight. - Diego Barros 

I won't leave FF until they make me or there's no community left. Whichever comes first. - FFing Enigma (aka Tina)

We'll never get to talk to Robert Scoble again. :-( - Jannifer @wordsforliving

Well, it's made me think twice about vesting too much into any one service (so has the demise of tr.im). I use Facebook, Twitter, Livejournal, and FF all pretty equally, so I guess I'm not feeling this as much as some. - Bill Kinney

on to Google Wave. - Jason Wilson from BuddyFeed

Jannifer, Yes we will on his JS-Kit Echo commenting system he will put on his blog. It's real time like this - Stephen Pickering

I'm leaving. Google Wave, Twitter, Reader will plenty suffice now. Farewell, former friend. - Californian

Oh Stephen - I'm not sure what that is... but it won't be like Friendfeed. :-( - Jannifer @wordsforliving

At some point I imagine I will. I have no interest in joining facebook. When I do depends on what facebook does with ff. - Quasar

I'm sticking around till FB screws it up. But I was keeping FF separate from FB because most of my FB friends are my born-again Christian relatives who won't like the controversial stuff of mine that makes it onto FF's news feed. Still, I'm going to look for other similar sites. Posterous is one. - Dennis Jernberg

I really want a Google Wave invite now.. - Peter

I'm not leaving but I'm not moving to Facebook. The main thing for me is to keep the contacts I've gained from FriendFeed and hope we all can meet on another similar service somewhere somehow. - Kol Tregaskes

Ditto what Kol just said. - LogEx

ditto on the Google wave invite - Kim

you hit the nail on the head there Kol - Kim

Maybe. But i really want Google Wave invite. - ★ Soner Gönül

It's hard to say at this point. The only thing that's changed is who pays the server bill. Ask me in a week. And yes, a Google Wave invite would sure go a long way to make this better for me. - Dale

Joined Posterous. http://jbug.posterous.com Wouldn't mind a Google Wave invite, though... - Dennis Jernberg

Me too, Dennis. :-) - Kol Tregaskes

I don't leave if Facebook doesn't make something dramamatic to FF - Kristian Salonen

I will wait and see. - Matt G

Leaving a favorite site isn't always a conscious decision for me. The cool site loses its cool and you just kind of drift off. - Dale from email

Oh yeah, and I added my Posterous blog to my FriendFeed feed, so you'll be seeing whatever I post there in your home feed here. That is, if you subscribe to me here, or if one of your subscribers likes or comments. Me, leave? Not yet! ;) - Dennis Jernberg

I'll be sticking around just a little while longer. - April Russo (app103)

I'm here for the duration - Charlie Anzman

I'm loyal until they make it worth me leaving. - Jesse Stay

I'm here until they slam the gates shut. But I am hiding all your BS posts about it being a good thing :) - jcunwired

If you want to be sure that I quit Friendfeed you have to see my burial. I will never quit while being alive! :-) - Kolja

I'm staying but it's like when you know that the company you work for has been bought by someone else and might close it, you lose motivation and start looking for another job, it's hard to invest time and energy if there might be no future. Not that the future of FF was guaranteed before but now it does not look good at all. - M F

I'm heading to Plurk! who's with me? *tumbleweed* - Iain Baker

Like I said before, I'm staying here until the end. - Mathew™ one of a kind

Friendfeed is two totally different things: the original RSS aggregation service, and a social network service/community. Lifestream.fm is a reasonable replacement for the former. As to the latter, it's the people, not the tech they're using, that makes FF special. I've benefited greatly as a 'consumer' here, reading posts - if that continues on Facebook, it will probably get me to... more... - SteamCentral

i'll be around until it becomes unbearable, probly until it's been damaged badly by FB style feature creep and riddled with ads and spammers. oh, and absolutely stupid censorship policies. that'll be a real killer. - Joe Silence is not Santa

not leaving. NEVER hoho I haven't left FB nor friendser. - 'Like' robot (frɐnc)

The CloneFeed group has given me some interest. It gives some hope in case FF really goes away or merges badly with FB. I like FB but just don't want to fully mix the two activities/audiences. - manielse (Mark Nielsen)

Go to posterous. Here is mine: http://pingmicro.com/ - Svartling from iPhone

I'd rather keep my Friendfeed as my "professional aggregation" and Facebook as personal stuff. I blog, tweet, etc. stuff that a lot of my friends could care less about. And I post stuff to Facebook that isn't interesting or relevant to clients / followers. - Gregg Le Blanc

Google Wave is what I am looking for. The problem with moving to Facebook is that I use it for close friends and family so things like comments and pics etc that I post to it I would not want to have available to all of the contacts I have on FF at the moment. Mainly because I like to separate those I know from those that I converse with if that makes sense. I loved that on FF I could... more... - Travis Koger

Whilst I am not 'leaving' FF, I will not be investing anywhere near the type of interaction I have done previous to yesterday's announcement as I just see it as wasted time. - Travis Koger

I have to wait & see what, I don't want to lose the community; where do I go? This feels like Pownce all over! - clarke thomas

not me. - Edward Barnieh

Nope, not yet. I still dream about FF and FB to coexist. I think Facebook is even more boring now, after this announcement. Anyone else feels this way? - Patrik Johansson

Not me. I will be glad when all the people who say they are leaving do so my feed won't be full of people saying they are leaving. - Alan Simpson

What becomes of the broken hearted? - Joe Dawson

I'm staying on! - Charles Lau

FF is my first big social networking investment (or time) - I'll stay and then move, if forced. I'll certainly investigate other tools in an effort to fill any gap left by FaceFeed. - Jason Miller

I just saw that a woman's twittering her childbirth made the front page of BBC's world news webpage. I don't know to make of it, but I don't want to hang out at Twitter much anymore. - Mitch

Mitch: we Twittered our childbirth in 2007 and we will again in September, but probably not on our main account. - Robert Scoble

won´t leave!!! i LOVE friendfeed. @Mitch i know what you mean. So many stories and this is the one they picked? - Flynn (Michael A. Volz)

i think i'm stayin, and wait what's goin on facebook. i will feel upset if they dont allow the users to make their choice of using one or other site, but looks like they gonna force to use FB instead of FF :( - Dani Martínez

Not sure how on board with FriendFeed I ever was to begin with to be honest... - Gurpreet

FriendFeed will be fine - FaceBook is fine - and so is Twitter - I might check out AmpliFeeder, I suspect quite a few FriendFeeders will migrate there as the days go by. - Chris Loft

Not leaving FF but I can't wait till it's properly integrated with Facebook. Interesting thing: Wave's API is open so there's nothing to stop Facebook creating an app to make Facebook & Wave work great together. Not so much either/or as and... and..! - Matt Moran

Has anyone tried amplifeeder? edit: so far don't see any friending abilities though - metalerik

Why leave? But will be open to see other options - facebook doesn't (currently) provide to me what I get here. - amygeek

Facebook bought friendfeed http://adage.com/digital... - Rob Johnson

OH NO, I just finish moving all my stuff HERE! - Terence

Robert: I closed down my embeds today. Sad for my blog. - Mark Essel

I stay on FriendFeed, on Twitter, on Facebook, etc. - Emmanuel Gadenne

I won't delete my account, but as FF morphs into the ball of confusion that is Facebook, I won't be very active. - Jeremy Brooks

I will. No point sticking around when you know it is going to die sooner or later. With twitter you still have the hope.... - Davide D'Incau

I'll leave Facebook if FF gets harmed. And go back to Identi.ca... ;-) - Torrid Luna

Yeah, I'll probably leave Facebook too. If they're going to "steal" the FriendFeed functions and just let FF die, I will not have any sympathies left for Facebook. I'll go "all Google" or something. - Patrik Johansson

I'll stay on FF, FB and T, and BK, and other, BrightKite is not well utilised, is good even on beta. - Andy Ghozali

I joined posterous for blogging/lifestreaming and will continue to use twitter. I might go on facebook once in a while, which is what I was doing anyway. - Tomy Thomson

Robert: If you're looking for an awesome real-time discussion platform, you should migrate to Fluther. http://www.fluther.com - Ben

I'm staying put and watching the ship sink. I'd really like to believe that FriendFeed will have some longevity, but I won't hedge my bets. - Tyson Key

Steve Gillmor said "clue to the denouement: where is the most valuable processing of this event. Right here." so for now, FF looks like the space. - Barbara K. Iverson

I intend to stick around to see what Facebook have planned. I think the takeover has everything to do with the direction FB's been heading in lately, what with their open challenge to Twitter - Dennis Jernberg

I don't see it as leaving, but rather seeing the possibility that it might leave us. FF was and still is just about my favorite site and uberaggregatorthing that I ever saw.... - Rob Schieber

+100 Rob Schieber - Tyson Key

I will stay. Facebook will not Win. - TheHenry

Nope... I'll stay, even if I ride it to a bitter end. - Mark "DerBingle" J

depends. if they stay seperate services, i wont like the acquisition,but i'll stay. if they become 1 service, i'm out. and where is every1 going from friend feed anyhow. what else is there? - echostreamer

Will wait and see what happens with FB - Ted Kinzer

fb ruins everything. Have the Privacy policy "not "changed since fb came into the pic? Can they not build their own ideas instead of buying everyone else's? leave us geeks to play in our playground and stay in yours. greedy buggers. The second they pull a skanky fb move i'm out. bitches. - seastarerrin

I'm here till the ship goes down. - Lee Watters

Leaving no. Checking out other venues yes. - Martha

Just maybe Facebook will listen to the Friendfeed engineers in charge of user interface/usability starting with the type size and fonts. Not all marriages are made in heaven. Culture clashes are sure to pop up. - Alan Morris

I am leaving Web - Back to Telnet - Dominique Rabeuf

Dominique, too late. The web already assimilated it with the telnet: url schema. - Bruce Lewis

OK so only snmp/ssh - Dominique Rabeuf

Hell no, not leaving. Best service on the web. - Christopher Galtenberg from iPhone

gonna ride this one out to shore. - Sean Oliver

keep using FriendFeed till they pull the plug. Leaving the service will make it more likely that it will go away. - Cassidy from IM

hu? - Dries Grobler

back to blogs :-) - Mostafa Lameei

I was about to focus a little more on FF but since I heard about the purchase and read rumors about FF being integrated in FB and being shutdown and all this, I'm getting a little ... well.. undecided.. Just checked Streamy, didn't like it. If a.tinythread.com get's more development, this might be the next thing to migrate to. I'm sure not moving to FaceBook. I have my account, I have... more... - Dan van Moll

Minitel 3815 (?) - Dominique Rabeuf

Not interested in being part of Facebook. Goodbye, FriendFeed. :-( - TranceMist

I wish more folks would see the big picture. We need to focus on independent projects that are NOT part of the Google-Yahoo-Microsoft borg. As soon as a site gets absorbed it is time to find another independent site. Yes, I do realize that some may have actually been part all along and only pretending they were independent in the first place - especially if they were founded by... more... - Internet Strategist

As they were walking away he said to one of the ladies "I finally got one!!" genuinely excited about the accomplishment. I must have been the first one to take a magazine from him, maybe the first one to even answer the door. It was hard not to reward him for being so cute, even if I disagree with the practice of door to door evangelism. - Fa La La La Lindsay

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Oh my - I am actually kind of disgusted by that. I'm so happy for the young boy because he accomplished something that made his mom proud, and that made him proud and excited too. But on the other side, he was used for exactly that reason. Wow. Mixed emotions indeed. - Andy Bold

It was nice of you to do that though. =) - David Cook

++David :) I think I would have done the same. - Andy Bold

I used to be that little boy. :) It's like any other religion taught to you in your youth. Theocratic Ministry school skill set transfers in later life. I still admire and respect my mother despite the fact that I am not enamored with religion. per se. I do think that J W's overall are misunderstood and get a bad rap. - Eric Logan

Climbing the ladder to join the 144,000. I prefer the 72 virgins approach myself. - Brian Sullivan

I like to take comfort in knowing the overwhelming evidence is that people tend to figure out religion on their own as adults (at least in first-world countries). They aren't nearly as likely to just believe what their parents believed as it would seem. So I'd say giving him a sense of accomplishment was probably good, and he'll decide if he likes the religion in his own time. - Ben Reierson

What Andy said. I can imagine it being hard to watch young minds programmed with antiquated beliefs and values, especially in the uber-connected technology-infused information-rich existence that many young kids are exposed to at an increasingly earlier age. - Brian Daniel Eisenberg

It doesn't cost anything to be nice. ++Lindsay. - Josh Haley

1UP Josh. And Lindsay! - Rochelle

I'm not so sure about taking children door to door like that either, but another +1 for you for being nice. - Aaron Hood

Hey, if they want to bring him around young then it's my duty to prepare him for what's to come. - Valley

being able to live in a country where you can share your religious beliefs respectfully is a true freedom. Almost all religions will promote indoctrinating their young at the earliest ages. I accepted Jesus Christ as my personal Lord and Savior in the backseat of the family car when coming home from church when I was 5 -- even though I really don't practice any religion today and was in... more... - Thomas Hawk

That was really sweet. :) I'm not sure I would have done the same and I probably would have felt a bit guilty. Ah well... the problem now is that they've marked our house as an "easy mark" and they'll be back more often now. I had a friend in college who accepted a Book of Mormon just to get rid of a couple of LDS missionaries, but they harassed the hell out of him after that until he told them he was a pot-smoking atheist. - Chrimmus Tad

I personally think it is wrong of the family to do this to the child. I'm not saying they can't teach their beliefs to their children, but putting him on public display and using him to get their information to you just seems a bit scummy. I have also had extremely bad experiences with JW's so my view may be skewed. I just think they should give him foundation in their beliefs without... more... - Rachel Lea Fox

My experience with JW's is limited to the sole girl in my class whose mother was a JW. She would have to sit in the corner every time the class had our annual Christmas party because her mom didn't want her to participate. She cried pretty much every year through elementary school. She told me that her dad (divorced) would give her birthday and Christmas presents and her mom would throw them all away. Sigh. Never been a big JW fan. - Chrimmus Tad

Lindsay, no matter what your religious belief system is - you did a wonderful thing for the little boy. I agree with the other comments, he will find his way as an adult, the parents are just planting the seeds of what they know/believe/understand. Kudos nice lady! - Janet

I am not a big JW fan either. I would not have been mean to the child. I do not think I could. I would let the adults around know that using a child will not get to me. Gracefully, I would decline. To me it is their fault for bring a child to a battlefield--if you will. - Valley

My experiences with JW's were more malicious than Tad's. One time several snuck into a funeral of a teenager who had committed suicide (bf my one of my friends - why I was there) and scream from the balcony that he was going to hell till they were dragged out. My other issue was one who was going door to door and came upon my Great Grandmother about 6 months after her husband had died.... more... - Rachel Lea Fox

Nice, Lindsay. He'll always remember this, as well. I know I did when I was 5 and gave my first presentation. :) - Steven Perez

Rachel, if your great-grandma had lived in Seattle, I would swear that I knew her. I knew an elderly woman in that exact situation. Poor little lady. - Rochelle

Rachel: those would be outlier situations, because (a) we don't collect dues - never have, and that's been a point of pride since the 1870's, "no collection plate passed" - and (b) we don't believe in hell. Not saying that our religion doesn't have its share of assholes, but generally speaking, those instances would be news to the majority of us. - Steven Perez

steven is right with those 2 points and i don't think those people that yelled at the funeral were genuine jw's - Alfredo

Steven, you a Witness, too??? And Lindsay: thanks. That was a Very kind thing to do. Read them, too please. This months magazines are very interesting. - Roberto Bonini

Guilty as charged, Roberto. :) - Steven Perez from IM

Steven: Hello, Brother :) - Roberto Bonini

And as for the holiday thing, Tad, it's a lot like junk food. If you've always had it, you can't imagine living without some form of it. If you've never had it and been told all your life what goes into it, you can't imagine people eating such digsuting things. And if you've got one parent who doesn't want you to eat junk food and another who insists that you eat it, yeah, you'd be a pretty miserable kid, too. - Steven Perez from IM

Que pasa, Hermano Bonini? :D - Steven Perez from IM

Great. Just great steven. I never knew. :D - Roberto Bonini

Steven - we'll just have to agree to disagree. :) - Chrimmus Tad from fftogo

Good points Steven. Tad, of course. We don't force feed people. - Roberto Bonini

Steven & Alfredo, if the yellers weren't JW than they had it in for you because that is what they told the police, listed in their report my friends mother got. Not that this means it is true by any means, or if it was true they could have been modifying to add in their own ways to the religion. I do understand that, but that is a memory that has stuck hard in my memory. Not an easy... more... - Rachel Lea Fox

I agree with what you did. I'm an atheist but this boy was just doing what he was told and most definitely deserved your kindness. Doesn't hurt to take the magazine. - Jim Graham

I just love what Josh Haley said. +10 to him and Lindsay. Oh, and the rest of y'all are interesting, too ;) - joey

There are a lot of wisdom nuggets in this post. Carry on. - Russellreno

I'm split on how I handle that kinda stuff. Two Mormon guys came by one day, and were incredibly gracious when I turned down their sales pitch. I really admired how cheerfully they handled it. OTOH, I've had others (some JW, some plain ol' Baptists) who acted like I had just kicked a puppy when I politely turned them away. *That* irritates me... don't guilt trip me, dude. - Roger Benningfield

I agree with Thomas Hawk and would have to second Steven as to Rachel's experience being an outlier, based on what I know from having a family filled with different gradients of JW's practitioners where the primary variant is their individual personalities.The fact that there can be a civil discourse here on FF about a topic like this speaks volumes about this medium and its users IMHO. - Eric Logan

I always take religious propaganda when offered. At least it keeps it out of the hands of someone more impressionable. And I'm starting to build a collection of amusing stuff. :) (Also, +1 Eric.) - Karl Knechtel

Rachael - I'm on board with your experiences. My stepfather was a native Norwegian and all of his family came to the US and converted to JW except for him. So my stepfather was basically disowned. Then when he died, they were notified, but refused to attend his funeral. That, plus other experiences and a lot of obsessive research when I was a teenager turned me off of that religion as well as others. - Jannifer @wordsforliving

I also would have taken the literature and not gotten into a debate of any sort. - Jannifer @wordsforliving

Given the topic, I'm really impressed with how civil this discussion has been. FriendFeed community FTW! - Bruce Lewis

I suppose I didn't handle it too well, but in the (almost exact) same situation I got them to excuse themselves after telling me I was doomed. I'm sorry the kid may have been weirded out. - Richard pancakhaus Walker

"It seems like it’s time for online conversations to move to television. First, we heard that Twitter might in some way be included in not one but several TV shows, and now there’s a new TV series in the works, called Purefold, which will partly be based on input from FriendFeed." - Kol Tregaskes from Bookmarklet

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"Purefold is being developed by independent studio Ag8 in partnership with Ridley and Tony Scott’s newly launched entertainment division Free Scott, and it’s loosely based on Ridley Scott’s movie, Blade Runner. Unfortunately for Philip K. Dick or Ridley Scott fans, the series won’t be very closely connected to the movie or the book that inspired it, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep.... more... - Kol Tregaskes

I thought this was an April Fool, then I remembered the date. Bizarre! - Martin Bryant

Martin, no April Fools, see the FF group here: http://friendfeed.com/purefol... - Kol Tregaskes

Ooh - thanks Kol that's passed me by til now! - Martin Bryant

And you can find David Bausola, the creator on FF here: http://friendfeed.com/zeroinf... - Kol Tregaskes

I like this idea. Gonna have to read up on it. - Amani

Hah, makes even less sense than a Twitter TV show. Maybe the FFundercats will have a little interlude in it, where they extol the virtues of Denon Ethernet cables, bacon and various other things? ;) - Tyson Key

Tyson, really? Purefold sounds a great idea. - Kol Tregaskes

Aah, I only heard about it, just now... - Tyson Key

Tyson, haven't spoken to the FFundercats yet - how we use FFeed is going to spin their heads, I think. - zeroinfluencer

Ya David , you need a cameo or an up and coming actor or consultant. I am your guy!! - Amani

I can't wait to see what you guys come up with. - Johnny Worthington

Johnny - as a serious Friendfeed fan - what's your opinion on using Friendfeed for developing narrative projects? - zeroinfluencer

w00t!!!! - Derrick

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Congratulations! - Trish R

Mazel tov! - Akiva Moskovitz

Mazel tov! Do you have a name yet? I can't wait to see pictures! :) - Rochelle

Congrats! - Louis Simoneau

I would not be upset if you named him Akiva. - Akiva Moskovitz

congrats! - Costa Walcott

Why'd you take so long to tell us? (j/k) - Bruce Lewis

I love your IM status. - Ben Parr

hooray! Congrats! - Eric @ CSTechcast.com

Congrats...And Wow you just gave birth and your posting to FF...Your my hero.. - Bill Heslin

pics, or it didn't--uh, I mean congratulations - MiniMage TKDteacher of FF

Gratz! - Rob Haas

Wow, that's wonderful! You must be doing well! Congrats! - jcunwired

Congrats:) - Rodfather

Wow, Congratulations!!! - jamar78

Congrats! - *Tiffany Diamond*

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

congradulations, rest dont tweet, ;) - chaz2b

Congrats Tamar :-D - Mitch

Thanks everyone! Pics coming soon. :) - Tamar Weinberg

congrats! - sean percival

congratulations!! - Trish Haley

Congratulations! - Paola Bonomo

Awesome! We'll bring over scobleizer 3.0 in October for play dates! - Robert Scoble

Congrats! - Hunter

Congratulations! - Barry Owens

Congratulations! This is awesome! - Samar

Congratulations! - Leena

Mazel Tov.... and already FFing. That's quick. - Jason Mayoff

Congratulations! Don't blink, he'll be all grown up. - LeighaB

:D Happy Family! - Mistletoe Glen

Congratulations! - joey

Congrats, too~ - yagami

Of all the tweets one could ever post, this is by far the most beautiful. Thank you for sharing the moment with us so we could celebrate life with you. Congratulations! - Eric Traub

HOO-RAY!!!! Congratulations, Tamar. :) - Steven Perez

grats!!! - Joshua Schnell

yay! congratulations! - Bren -- feeling merry

Welcome to the club! Congratulations on the family addition. - Sally: baby flier

congratulations! - Brett Kelly

Pictures? Video? Weight? Name? - Robert Scoble

Mazel tov http://sphinn.com/story... - Sam Fefer

Horrray! - Erin @queenofspain

I will be there in September again. I can't wait to see your baby! And Milan needs more friends. And Scobleizer3.0 needs more mentors! :-) Enjoy every day, it goes so fast! - Robert Scoble

Mazel tov - Helen Sventitsky

Congratulations! - Jeremy Wiles from BuddyFeed

Congrats! - Geoff Schultz

Congratulations! Welcome to the world, little one. :) - Jandy, ConcertMaven of FF

Congradulations on the little one!!! - Megan B Carroll

Congratulations to you! Whooo! - WorldofHiglet

mazeltov! - Karim

Congratulations! - Mo Kargas

Congratulations! - Gambit Fauri

Congrats!!! - BeeLing

Congrats!! :) - Chrimmus Tad

So happy for you, yay! - Laura Norvig

I don't know you, Tamar, but you still get a mazel tov! (You're on my FF via other folks I follow.) Much health & happiness to you & your family..... - Alan Mairson

now I ved seen everything on Twitter! - Diva of Dish

Congratulations! - RAPatton

Yay new FF baby! - Haggis (Sean Loyless)

That was kind quick! W00t - Caroline

Wow! Congratulations! I believe it is picture time! (Waits) - Louis Gray

Congratulations !!! - Nir Ben Yona

damn. congrats to your and your family. - Cee Bee

congrats!!! this should be a first for FF - Rob Scoble will know... - Rahul Deodhar

First What? I Twittered and FF'd my son's birth 9 months ago (p.s. not to take away from you Tamar, Congrats!) - InPerpetualMotion(Gina k)

Congratulations Tamar! - Dobromir Hadzhiev

Congratulations :D - MoiN AnjuM

Congrats, Tamar! :-) - Kol Tregaskes

woot! - Michael Bailey

This is so cool, thanks much for letting us know, and so soon after the birth too! Gotta love microblogging on the internets! - jcunwired

Yay! So happy for you and your family. - Yolanda

Congratulations!!!!!! - Amit Morson

Yay!!!! - Steve Lowe

Awesome congrats! I like how you let us know that you, baby AND daddy are doin OK. We know how daddys have a hard time sometimes! LOL jk Congrats to all! - Manny

CONGRATULATIONS! Yay to the new family! - Anna Lynn M.

hey congrats! - (jeff)isageek

YEAY! - Shevonne

Woo hoo! - ha3rvey (Ho)^3

wow congrats! - Marco(aureliusmaximus)

wohooo! - Alfredo

Congrats! - Kate

Mazel tov! - cartoongoddess

Congratulations! - Heather Solos

Congrats!!! :) - Carmen

Wow Tamar, congrats! - Jorge Escobar

Congrats. Take care yourself and the baby =) - Praveen Vasudev

Congratulations! now get offline and start mommying, we'll still be here. - Steve C

Congrats! It's great to be a parent. - Steve E

Congrats!!! - Borislav Borissov

Congrats!!!! - Steve Rubel

Congratulations Tamar. That is wonderful to hear. Now, get some rest; you'll need it :) - Angie Haggstrom from twhirl

Congratulations !! be well and happy =) - Ruhani Rabin

congratulations! - Julie Barrett from twhirl

Oh Tamar, congratulations and I can't wait to see pictures! Btw what's BABBY's name? - Mona Nomura

Tamar, great news! Congratulations, mama. Best wishes to you and your family!! - Victoria Plautia

Congratulations!!! - Thomas Hawk

Yaaaay! - Karen from Nambu

Congrats! - Matt Cutts

Congratulations! - Michael R. Bernstein

Congrats, Mommy! - Mike Fruchter

Awesome. My sister just gave birth today too. - Nick Humphries

Congrats! :) - Eric Logan

woo, congratulations! - Imabug

congratulations! - Cristian

Wow! Congrats... - Bindu Reddy

YAY!!!! Congratulations! That's so awesome! - Josh Haley

Congrats!!! - Tracy Benham

YEAH! Mazel Tov! Now stop playing on Twitter! :) - Justin Korn

Mona, baby's name won't be announced until after the bris! - Rochelle

so what's his first computer going to be? - Zee.

Congrats!! Is this your first one? - darnell from BuddyFeed

Wow. Grats! - Bradley Farless

Mazel tov! ^^ - pitlord

woohoo...congrats! - Dan Rua

grats! - Neal Jansons

Congrats Tamar, be sure to get him a Twitter account soon :) - Jeremy Campbell from twhirl

There's a bad Twitter + Boobs = Yummy joke in there Jeremy - Kevin Kuphal

What's his/her twitter username, Tamar? LOL - Jorge Escobar

Needs and email address first. littlenoob@techipedia.com, perhaps? :p - Neal Jansons from IM

Congrats! Impressive to be back on twitter within an hour :) - Thomas Bøhm

AWESOME! Congrats again. Best of health to you and your new little boy (and daddy too). :) - Dr. Apps from twhirl

Congratulations! Wonderful news! - Joie at Canned Laughter

Congrats. I was wondering what you have been up to and now I know. Enjoy every minute you can. - Amani

Congratulations! - Andy Tinkham

Awesome Tamar! - Hutch Carpenter

Glad to hear that Daddy is doing great. - MVB (Grinch of FF)

what a great Mom this boy has! His Mom is Tweeting his birth! We live in such great times . . . - Richard Sorrentino

Yay! - Ron Bailey

Congrats!!! - Dinesh Mohan Raturi

Congratulations! - Kreg Steppe

congrats!!!! enjoy, this is only the start of an amazing life journey. - susan mernit

CONGRATS!!! =D - David Cook

:-D - Pete Delucchi

CONGRATULATIONS!!!!! - Adriana

Robert, you're bringing Milan to NYC in October? Nice. :) - Tamar Weinberg

How did that rumor start? Nope, no Milan to NYC. - Robert Scoble

oh, no play dates then as I probably won't be traveling to anywhere in a long time! - Tamar Weinberg

Hey Tamar your baby is "liked" by over 220 people and it's just a few days into this world, not too shabby. - Steve C

Baby boy is resting on mommy's chest as she leans back on a chair updating her FriendFeed. As for the other questions... he doesn't have a name yet. His Bris will be Thursday and we'll name him during the ceremony. The only video the hubby took was me calling his great grandma while the doctor was yelling at me to put my phone down (no, I couldn't actually tweet that I was pushing. I did it as soon as I could!) ;) Weight: 5lb 14oz at birth. - Tamar Weinberg

Congrats! - Johnny

Congratulations!!! Awesome news. And yet I'm so freaked out that you're Tweeting an hour after giving birth. Good lord, rest a bit! - Dana Todd

Welcome to parenthood! Your FriendFeed time is now officially reduced. ;>) - Larry Hawes

haha Dana, I'm such a computer nerd/workaholic. I didn't even take a real maternity leave. - Tamar Weinberg

Congratulations! - Emee Pumarega

Wonderful... Congratulations on your new baby boy! - Mitchell Tsai

Wow Tamar! I had no idea! Congratulations! :) - Michelle Tripp

=O - Shevonne

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Bizzare - Mitch

There's a dress? - Michael W. May

Holly hooters, Batman! Can anyone say tacky?! - David Cook

Oh sweet hairy jesus, TITS - Jon, the Chilled Beartato

Wow... who in there right mind would wear that. - Kevin Whalen

My guess is that the boob job cost waaaaaay more than the dress. We're looking at cash here, folks. - Heather

Wedding dress? Fugly woman. O_O - Derrick

Oh, there's name for that in the UK. I saw it on TV. I can't think of it right now. - Rochelle

Chav! - Rochelle

Her bridesmaids must hate her... no good friend allows this... lol - Kevin Whalen

Oh my goodness! :o (and to clarify, that's not the good sort of oh-my-goodness, either) - Adam Lasnik

LOL. I reccon she's just had her boobs done and wants people to know. Also, +++++Rochelle. - Will Higgins™

Looks like something out of a crappy sci-fi movie. - Andy Bakun

where was this photo taken? St. Petersburg? - Nathan Rein

+1 Heather :D - zsafwan 

Why even where it! - aerobroken

Words Fail Me ... - Brent - Loving Life

DEAR GOD! I thought SJP's was bad in the Sex in the City Movie; this is a like mash up of bride to be & burlesque/pole dancer with the pasties - sofarsoShawn

Hate to be uncharitable, but what a way to ruin what could be a nice memory. Can't believe noone said anything. - Rick Cogley

Rick, maybe they did. - Rochelle

Absolute Garbage - Head Ov Metal

Chavtastic - Mel Buckpitt

This has got to be in Moscow !? EDIT: Nathan Rein is apparently my kindred spirit :) - Thomas Bøhm

Well, she's starting married life with 2 outstanding assets - in financial terms, I'd say she was over-exposed - Hugh Ashton

@Rochelle - yeah, "no good deed", you know. @Hugh - that's brilliant! - Rick Cogley

What dress? - Manny

I don't think the dress was intended to look like that. it looks like the top fell of. still.. classy... - D. Eda Goze

She's obviously left little to the imagination! - Tardid

You shouldn't try to avoid gravity like that...it still kicks you right in the ass at the wrong time. - Kris Roley

I really hope they were all too drunk to notice. I'm all about letting the girls hang out, but not at your wedding where people like YOUR FATHER and YOUR ELDER RELATIVES are all in attendance. Good lord... - tinypants - Hagitha of FF

:o - chaz2b

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OMG!! This just made the night for me! LOL Mind if I re-share? - Carlton Hackett

o_O - Alix Whitmire

what's this ? - 鸿蒙

well that would have been a shock eh lol - eric

fucking hell - Caroline

Get more icecream! - Jacob

"I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the darkness at Tannhauser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain…. Time to die." - Jim Norris

I don't like it when food threatens me. Or the invisible iguana under my bed. He's a real bastard. - Roger Benningfield

HELP! I'm trapped in a popsicle stick factory. - DGentry

I've seen this movie, and Bruce Willis is standing behind you with a lethal bombpop. - Peggy Gartin

Peggy, that is hilarious! - Jacob

HEE! - Felicia Yue

Most super large data centers now are being built in container trucks like this one, which can contain hundreds of servers and hundreds of hard drives. This truck was delivered to Rackspace's headquarters. Far faster than trying to transfer all that data via the Internet. ;-) - Robert Scoble

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What a great idea! - Simon Wicks

I've been inside of a Sun Blackbox...pretty impressive to say the least: http://www.sun.com/images... - Carlos Ayala

there's a data center near my office, which has a ton of these sitting outside, for some reason people believe the power is cleaner near the power grid HQ (not true) - clarke thomas

Carlos: yeah, I was at Sun earlier this week and got a peek into one. - Robert Scoble

Wonder when we'll start hearing about datacenter thefts? That's a high value target! - CAJ, somewhere else

Alan: I'm pretty sure they've already happened. I know a guy who builds security systems for container trucks and he says that a lot of them disappear every day. Usually the driver is involved in the theft, too, but its hard to prove. - Robert Scoble

you should never underrate the bandwith of a truck full of hard drives on a highway...only latency sucks :) - Jérôme

Robert, at least if a...what should we call it, Container Center? Anyway, at least if these are stolen they had to work at it. Government agencies losing laptops with important data is what frustrates me. - CAJ, somewhere else

You can see what Google's datacenter looks like in this video (it's all built with shipping containers like this one): http://www.youtube.com/watch... - Robert Scoble

We need Fiber to the house! Plain and Simple! - TonyatMATC

Distributed file systems seem to make more and more sense. Tho it's hard to sell the notion of spreading your data across a number of locations. - ɐ ɯıʞ sıɹɥɔ

@Jérôme - latency and jitter, unless using SSD drives :) I think it's pretty certain the servers are locked down during transit ;) - Robert J Taylor

@Jérôme (and I know you were meaning that the DC would be powered while moving, just funnin' ya :) ) - Robert J Taylor

@rjamestaylor :) - Jérôme

Robert - hey how much to "borrow" one of those very "cool" trucks? I just migrated Petersons.com Dev/QA env. to FLA and now I get to migrate that env. again! This time I wanna cool truck!! :) - Susan Beebe

TonyatMATC - there's already fiber to the house w/ Verizon FiOS. - clarke thomas

@clarke I mean Fiber to everyones house. Just like we built the interstates. FIOS is not where I live - TonyatMATC

Keep it real, everyone - Josh Haley

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the original and still the best! - Jim: Dead Like FF

The one true and only right Willy Wonka. EVER! - Ladybug Heather

Agreed, top notch actor - Mo Kargas

Original = Amazing!!! - David Cook

And whenever I see an old Gilda Radnor piece from SNL, I can see him grieving for her, and I'm sad for him. - Ladybug Heather

I have a semi-feral cat named for Gilda. Her brother was *fully* feral, so he is a barn cat now...named Gene Wilder - Bren -- feeling merry

So evil! - Michael Forian

Gene Wilder > Johnny Depp - Nathan Chase

this just made my day! thank you, sir - Dobromir Hadzhiev

You STOLE fizzy lifting drinks! - Yolanda

The snozzberries taste like snozzberries! - Charlotte M

We are the music makers and we are the dreamers of dreams. - rommy

candy is dandy but liquor is quicker - (jeff)isageek

you stole fizzy lifting drink! - (jeff)isageek

A WP article on Wilder, Radner http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn... - Micah Wittman

"Gene Wilder, now 71, rejects most of the scripts sent to him these days. "It's mostly stuff that they think I can make funny," he says. "I can't." - ouch :( - Josh Haley

Hell, even Mel Brooks can't write a funny script anymore. - Akiva Moskovitz

Akiva, yes. To quote Cole (and bend the lyric), "Where have all the funny cowboys gone?" - Micah Wittman

*bump* I love this. - Mark Krynsky

Hah! - Robert Scoble

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Win. - Tsali, The Native of FF

HEY! I RESEMBLE THAT REMARK, BUB! - John Craft

woops in my haste i dissed flickr. sorry flickr. - Kevin Murray

My wife would agree! - Brian Bufalo

Agree, John.. it hits a little too close to home ;-) - Holly Rae

Haha nice update! - Damien Basile

true - sure takes a lot of time if you let it - Mark Conrau

Man it looks like we're sliding down a social-negativity cone - Ymag

So true these days ! - Mike Schmidt

Where's the bathroom? :) - frankiecarl

And the fridge? ;) - Stanislas Jourdan

Friendfeed is the center of life! - ashish

Revised again: Fridge & Toilet Added: ;) http://i.friendfeed.com/0680b4e... - Kevin Murray

Facebook should rather be in a different universe altogether - sofarsoShawn

I agree with sofarsoshawn. take facebook out and its darn close. :) - timepilot

And Twitter would be in the lowest circle of hell ~ but yes,very close; though yes I just tweeted this - sofarsoShawn

@frankiecarl & stanislas - you can tweet FROM the bathroom or standing in front of the fridge... :-) - Rick Cogley

LOL - TheHenry

You mean, my life is normal? - Michele Lorito-Chase

exactly - Val Vladescu from IM

And where is this t-shirt? - Louis Gray

Agreed...I want this shirt! - Carlton Hackett

Brilliant - Dobromir Hadzhiev

Nice.... - Danny Bonthuis

Where do I join? - Christopher Harley

Good one! - Gianluigi Cuccureddu

Why no life? - Kristo Magno

why no arrow at least from flickr into friendfeed? - ian kennedy

Ian Kennedy, May be flickr is lazy,so it leaves that work to RSS and facebook Or one can say same about FF? - ashish

T-Shirt Waiting To Happen! :) - The Pageman

T-Shirt & Travel Mug (in case we actually leave the house) Did it @ Cafe Press: Please note 1) I'm not an artist so I hope you like the organic nature of it. 2) I'm not looking to make any $ on this, any proceeds will be donated to my favorite charity http://guardsmen.org Here is the link: http://www.cafepress.com/kevinmu... - Kevin Murray

OH. Thats sucks :( - TheHenry

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Yup, it's also at http://newteevee.com/2009... - Charbax

F*CK, that sucks a lot. - ElijahBailey-Zu of FF <0,

Hopefully Google can soon restore it with all my videos/views/comments/ratings/rankings. Thanks for your comments! I posted more details at http://charbax.com/2009... - Charbax

Thanks to all your help here on friendfeed! This problem is now Solved!! - Charbax

Too bad they're grannies. - Mona Nomura from Bookmarklet

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No. - Derrick

you call those grannies? Honey, you don't know grannies. - Laura Norvig

Derrick honey, you are biased. ;) Laura - those are totally grannies!! - Mona Nomura

Locks? I'm not sure I like the lock idea ;-) - guruvan (Rob Nelson)

Look at where the slider is positioned, people! - Mona Nomura

i like 'em. - ♥patricia♥

You have a sexy, sexy granny Mona. - Chrimmus Tad

Is it a worry that you had to call out the lock location? And as far as grannies go... they're alright :-) - Rob Kramer

Where's the t-back version? - AJ Kohn

those are plain ole' bikini underwear. These are granny panties: http://bp3.blogger.com/_svG_Pa... - Laura Norvig

@Laurie, Oh man. Those are serious granny panties! - ♥patricia♥

I'm thinking Mona likes the kind of underwear that covers her womanly bits with dental floss. [EDIT: Not that there's anything wrong with that. I bet she looks smokin' in em.] - Laura Norvig

+1 Laura - guruvan (Rob Nelson)

Speaking as a heterosexual male, I think these are great. - Tudor Bosman from email

Partial to the floss ;-) and LOL @ Rick - guruvan (Rob Nelson)

Rob, you do seem to have the physique to be able to wear floss appropriately... - FFing Enigma (aka Tina)

Or why where any at all? - Charles Alden

HA! I didn't mean for myself! - guruvan (Rob Nelson)

I've always liked the bikini cut... - matthew john ernisse

Charles: the seam in blue jeans can be quite irritating for some people, knickers help prevent that. - FFing Enigma (aka Tina)

With my luck I'd get the endless, spinning color wheel. - MVB (Grinch of FF) from fftogo

instructions, pffft...i dont need no stinkin instructions! - Carlos Ayala

++MVB!! LOL And Laura, those are horrific! - Mona Nomura

OHHHHH SNAP - Andru Edwards

*calls wife to ask if it's okay to "like" this* - ha3rvey (Ho)^3 from fftogo

Hahhahahha! Harvey! - Mona Nomura

I'm surprised Apple wasn't like, NOPE SORRY. "Objectionable content." Lawsuit. - Shawn Farner

Charles: Try riding a horse bareback while going commando. You'll become a believer (at least part time!) - guruvan (Rob Nelson)

Wow, Gizmodo faked the model shot. That's dedication to your craft right there. - invariant - farewell FF

Where's Leather Donut?...weighing in with his intuitive thoughts??? Myself: Granny nope :/ - sofarsoShawn

Me doing my LD impersonation: RAWR! - ♥patricia♥

Me doing my LD impersonation: easy & easy access double RAWR! - sofarsoShawn

Wow - I've seen this on a T-shirt, a doormat but THIS is awesome! - BEX

Awesome. - Sean Oliver

Bloomers = grannies - Outsanity

Plus, if they were granny panties, shouldn't a grandmother be in the photo? lol - Outsanity

1up Outsanity...but, ewwwww - sofarsoShawn

For Shawn to say ewwww I am terrified of reading Out's comment. So I will not loolllll! - Mona Nomura

You know you're going to... Your finger is just itching to click the more comments link, lol - Outsanity

I can slide it with open arms. :) - Alp

This beats all other iterations of the "slide to unlock" schwag... - Jon, the Chilled Beartato

Out, I am not loll! You're freaky deaky dude. And you guys are all missing where the actual slider is positioned. Cha-Chiiiing! - Mona Nomura from IM

Mona, I know you are hinting at something so but I've been rubbing my screen for the last hour trying to work it out and all Ive done is worn a hole....what am I doing wrong? - Threepwood

lollll!!!! Hahahahhahahahhahahhahahha!!!!! - Mona Nomura

I love that people on this thread mimicked another user's comments. That is just so great. And Laura- those grannies are criminal. - anna sauce

OK random comment, what is the nailpolish doing in the granny pants photo? - anna sauce

Anna!! I didn't even look at the granny-roos Haha! - Mona Nomura

Fantastic!! :D - Roberto from fftogo

notice how everything predicated with an "i" now a days....now iPanties...what's next...by golly? - sofarsoShawn

iWin7? lolll! - Mona Nomura from IM

iAn Ziering started it! - Joe Pierce

Its all nice but please get it off Celina Jaitley, she is yuck and she talks weirdly. Please photoshop it on someone else. Then I would enjoy it more. =P - Faraz Mullick

supper :) - Serkan URHAN

Mona these are not grannies, Laura's url was grannies. seriously! - anna sauce

These are TOTALLY grannies! - Mona Nomura

They dont' look granny like to me. I'm just sayin' - Joe Pierce

whatever you call them they look good on her :) - (jeff)isageek

@Jeff, yeah, but they'd look even better on her floor! Bah-dump, cha! Thank you, thank you. I'm here all week. - Joey Gibson

* _ * - yasin ghasemi

From what Kevin Smith told me, every woman has a pair of granny panties. - Steven Perez

MONA WINS THE HOLY FUCKING SHIT AWARD! - teh Dork Knight aka Kenny

I agree: NOT GRANNIES! SHEEEEESH!! I would call these normal undies :) - Zulema ◕ ◡ ◕

want - Baard @ Pixum

Is there an API for that? ;) - Jason Williams

Or just an Auto-Lock = Never setting ... - Patrick Jordan

Aren't those things always permanently on Auto-Lock? - Kittyburgers

The password is always TEQUILA - Moved to Facebook from fftogo

This would sell AWESOME in the Chicks with D*cks/ Wangs demographic (hermaphrodites/pre or /during op Trannies) market, so as to jump the lines at sporting venues etc. & YES they ARE GRANNIES! - sofarsoShawn

面白い。けど、パートナーがこれつけてたら大ウケしちゃって、Un-lockどころじゃなくなりそう（笑）。 - Sakurai.Catshop

それよりムードが・・・（汗）あはw　お初です。萠と申します。てきとーによろしくです☆ - Mona Nomura

これをつけているときはok.のサイン……いや待て、そもそも下着を肉眼で確認できるときは、すでにStartしてるよな……？ - 椎出啓

椎出啓氏：だと思われますw - Mona Nomura

@mona 初めましてです。monaさんのポストは、よくlikeされるみたいで、実はちょくちょくお見かけしておりました。 - Sakurai.Catshop from fftogo

ありがとうございます！レス、いつでも大歓迎ですよー　日本語打つ機会あまりないしw　てか最近日本語忘れ気味でヤバイです。かなーり・・・（汗）w - Mona Nomura

With my luck, they'd be password protected. - Robert Hafer

Mona, if these are granny undies, what exactly do you wear? lol - Daynah

Anna, apparently the nail polish is there to give perspective on how giant the panties are. Full story (towards the bottom of this post): http://metalia.blogspot.com/2007... - Laura Norvig

Liked 滑动解锁裤衩 XD http://is.gd/x2pF - sG

creative :-) - Rick Cogley

@Mona - ウケる。これ見たらなんもできないね。 - Rick Cogley

@Mona: checkout http://ipanties.weebly.com. They are real! - david braginsky

I do the same thing. - Rochelle

Yep. - Derrick

That's exactly what I do. I pay for my phone it's my right - Christian (Simply X)

I answer. - Nation Hahn

Same. Only I often just SMS/text back if there´s passed some time since the message was left. - Thomas Bøhm

super! - Ekin Acar

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Beautiful - Corvida

Coolest photos you'll see today. - Mike Seidle

@indymike Glad you like them but, http://twurl.nl/q4twtx I saved the best one for last. Coming soon. - Michael Fidler

The pic from sand level may be one of my all time faves. Amazing. - Thomas Tracey

Absolutely love the first one, thanks, Michael. - Kol Tregaskes

Great article. I think FB is about to destroy it´s service because they couldn´t buy twitter. Instead of accepting that there is room for two great services on the Internet, they are now on a steady course to destroy one service. In the war between FB and Twitter, there is room for new great services to grow. Maybe Friendfeed will be that service? - Frode Stenstrøm

exactly Frode, it seems as if Facebook are trying to be everything to everyone...which could easily be its eventual downfall. - Zee.

Seems FB´s trying to be an internet on the internet. Why would I want to do everything on one service and under one domain when the web is more and more connected (in an open manner) ? - Thomas Bøhm

I believe that's their strategy. For many people it makes negotiating the Internet simpler. Most people aren't tech geeks like us! - Gregg Scott

They have a classic strategy that is bound to fail. Companies start small and focued. (Anyone remember what FB´s strategy was at the start? :) ) then they grow and expand. In search of new revenue streams they broaden and loose focus. They become a general service instead of a pioneer and leave room for new companies to grow. Anyone remember what almost happened to IBM? How about Coca Cola? - Frode Stenstrøm

I'd been thinking this before FB announced any of this. I wrote Tremendous Tiwtter Ideas posts Part 1- http://twurl.nl/cpoj8w and Part -2 - http://twurl.nl/6g6yog that I hope @ev and @biz see. I think there's far more to Twitter than we're all really seeing. FB is extending the walls of the walled garden. - Ken Camp

Facebook reminds me of another big name that tried to expand and morph beyond its original offering. I'm talking about Yahoo!. Yahoo! went from the biggest name on the web (in search and in portal technology) to an also-ran in so many technologies. And this happened for many reasons - not least of which was the dilution of their original vision. Is Facebook intentionally trying to repeat the errors of Yahoo!? - Lorin Olsen

Such need for expantion is often based on the difficulty in saying no to a good idea. - Frode Stenstrøm

I seriously doubt any of their users (besides us geeks) have asked for the ability to access Facebook outside of Facebook. - Daniel Sims

yep, i would have to agree with you Daniel - Zee.

Great article and I think your right, a lot of Facebook users are not tech savy they use Facebook to communicate with their family and college friends and don't necessarily want everyone in the world to know of the communication. I can picture trouble in the future. - Kim Landwehr

Has anyone checked out Facebook's new friend pages? It looks like they're trying to become Friendfeed as well. I happen to like the more Twitter-like layout personally, but the Friendfeed look for the Friend pages feels all wrong.... - Kristine Lowe

Say it aint so Sean!!! - jamar78

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Dude - Chrimmus Tad

Five years of pictures, my entire music library, my videos, my portfolio, all my saved documents, tax returns, and pretty much my entire life. Gone in one format. :/ - Haggis (Sean Loyless)

Oh no... - Rochelle

Damn. - Admiral Anika

My heart goes out to you, man. It's happened to me, too. More than once. - Akiva Moskovitz

Oh geez.... =( - FFing Enigma (aka Tina)

ouch-- - Rob Michael (Atmos Trio)

:( - Penguin It's Cold Outside

I can get some of my pictures back from Picasa/Flickr/Facebook.. Most of my full albums are backed up on another drive, but my portfolio and documents are gone forever. I'm literally in shock right now. - Haggis (Sean Loyless)

Oh no :( That suuuucks. Do not like :( - Tamara

D: - Chris, Taskerrific Guy

aaaaaggghhghhgggghhh! - Jim: Dead Like FF

don't panic. Did you just format the drive or formatted and installed windows on top of it? - dario

My suggestion: Ensure you do backups from now on, and weekly. - Chris, Taskerrific Guy

been there done it got the t-shirt. Don't defenestrate the computer. It's not its fault. - Ian May

Fuck backups, I'm researching cloud storage from now on. This will never happen again. @Ian i'm not blaming the computer, it's complete user error. - Haggis (Sean Loyless)

holy crap that sucks. i did that when installing xp on my macbook pro via bootcamp, but *thankfully* that was only after I had it for ~2 weeks and didn't lose a whole lot. that totally blows. - Robert DeBord

suckage - xero

damn. damn. damn. - Jim: Dead Like FF

D: - Rodfather

User error or not, I am *so* sorry. Wow. Is data recovery out of the question? - Chris Baskind

SORRY SEAN - Amber, Random Time Lord

Nope.. Partition wipe, and installed the OS over the drive. No chance of recovery. My only hope is that I had an old version of My Docs saved on some random drive. - Haggis (Sean Loyless)

Actually, cloud storage could be considered backup. Wasn't Leo Laporte pimping cloud backups recently on TWiT? - Chris, Taskerrific Guy

I'm so sorry. :( - Laura wishes you peace.

OMG I feel like I just lost a family member or something.. I was so meticulous about all my docs and music.. perfect organization and some things which can never be recovered. FUCKKKKKKK - Haggis (Sean Loyless)

Haggis, so very sorry....I too have been there! - Janet

i'm sorry, thats one of life's current day worsts :( - chaz2b

This is also why I just started using Mozy a few weeks ago. Though, unfortunately, so far that service totally blows and has been a major pain just to get stuff uploaded. - Robert DeBord

:( - Derrick

Oh dude. That blows. I totally feel your pain. I did that once back in 2001. I lost so much stuff, I just sat there and cried and cried and CRIED. And then I bought an external drive enclosure, a 14Gb hard drive, and made myself a USB backup drive. I'm so paranoid now of losing any data that I back up all important files onto 2 different USB hard drives AND store backups on my webserver. - tinypants - Hagitha of FF

Oh no! - John E. Bredehoft

Damn, Sean. I feel so bad. Is there anything I can do? Foolish question, I guess. Damn. - Jim: Dead Like FF

It is not my fave but I have started using Google Docs more often to both work from different computers and to avoid a wipeout. - rob

:( - Steven Perez

That sucks!!! I'm sorry to hear that! - David Cook

Ouch! I feel your pain! - Michael Fidler

Sorry to hear. Is data recovery really out of the question? the OS by itself can't have sat over all the data. Or did this 'partition wipe' really hard-write 0s (or random) over the whole disk? - Andrew C

NO F-WAY!!!!! IF THERE WAS EVER A REASON FOR ALL-CAPS......!!!!!! - Martha

@Andrew I have no idea. I'm open for data recovery suggestions. - Haggis (Sean Loyless)

My condolences for your loss, Sean. I feel your pain, a few months ago, I lost my entire comic book collection to a flooded garage. 20 years of trawling through comic shop bins and obsessing about having complete collections of this and that... MY GOD, MY GOD, WHY HAVE YOU FORSAKEN MEEEEEEEE!. - Adrian

OH NO!!1 - Merry Xmas FFeeders - AJ

ALL OF THAT PORN IS GONE? OH NOES! - Mike Nayyar

Could the FBI find some of the files? (they do on TV!) - Janet

I'm trying the "TestDisk" open source recovery software right now.. it's scanning the partition and Lifehacker recommended it for people who "Accidentally erase their partition" - Haggis (Sean Loyless)

Janet, theoretically they could. They have the right tools to do it. They question is, would they? - Michael Forian

Gods please, please, please let me recover my docs folder.. I don't want to lose 8 years of photos. :( - Haggis (Sean Loyless)

Maybe for FBI newbie training purposes? So hoping you are able to recover your pictures. After my last loss my husband archives all files elsewhere. I couldn't tell you how much music I lost that I will never recover. - Janet

Music is also my worry.. I'm crazy paranoid about backing up my full albums, but there were a lot of singles that never made it to my music backup drive. - Haggis (Sean Loyless)

Sorry to hear that. - Grant Bierman

Good luck with that man :( - Shey, Jamaican of FF

:( Sorry. - adf

Terribly sorry to hear that man. Good luck with your recovery efforts. - Phil G

OMG, that sucks!! I am so sorry, man. - Jandy, ConcertMaven of FF

Haggis - so, so sorry. I can't vouch personally for the software referenced in the following, but read this forum suggestion in case it helps: http://en.kioskea.net/forum... - Micah Wittman

Ultimate Boot CD for Windows (free) http://www.ubcd4win.com/content... - includes these recovery programs: Free Undelete, Unstop Copier, Swiss Knife, Restoration, Recuva ... and more. - Micah Wittman

If you only deleted the partition try to recover the partition with Testdisk http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki... - Keith - @tsudo

I'm really sorry to hear this. I know the feeling my friend. I use a external USB w/ SyncbackSE backup and Carbonite. - Keith - @tsudo

Wow. Terrible news. Sorry, Sean. - Louis Gray

So the final word is nothing is recoverable. I tried but everything came out corrupted. I am now going through old hard drives in the hopes of finding and old version of anything. I do not have high expectations. I am about on the verge of tears thinking of everything I lost. - Haggis (Sean Loyless) from IM

so sorry - Mistletoe Glen

Just awful. - MaryB, BrandingBroadOfFF

Ouch. That sucks huge. Sorry to hear. - Andrew Smith

{{hugs}} - Jandy, ConcertMaven of FF

<runs and does my own backup/> Sorry man! Been there and it really sucks! - Mark Philpot

sorry to hear Haggis :-( you might wanna check out the cloud from now on - Dobromir Hadzhiev

Been there done that. Lost 7 years of emails, 3 years of pics. It was one of the most depressing events in my life. Sorry to hear that it happened to you :( - Paul Grav

I'm still in a bit of shock this morning. I kept waking up throughout the night hoping it was all some bad dream, but no.. it wasn't. To me, this is the equivalent to having your house catch fire, or a tornado blowing through. My most important things were saved on that drive. - Haggis (Sean Loyless)

oh geez. backups are crucial. sorry to hear it man! I had a loss of a year's worth of digital photos back in 2000 and I vowed it would never happen again - Nathan Chase

I signed up for Mozy and have it running now, so everything will now be "in the cloud." This will never, ever happen again. This is a fucking nightmare. - Haggis (Sean Loyless)

:-/ I can imagine - nouhad

THE Penguin/Perez Sex tapes?! - Matthew DeVries

http://www.forensicdata.ca/ - Matthew DeVries

Sometimes we need something other than "Like" when we feel your pain. I hope that some way, some how, somebody can help you find at least a partial solution. - Jim Espinoza

Yeah, we need an "I totally feel you, Dude" button. - tinypants - Hagitha of FF

It totally does feel like a house fire or tornado. I'm sorry Sean. - Keith - @tsudo

...sorry to hear about it. not certain, but if you a) didn't zero out the disk while installing the OS, and b) didn't completely fill it up with new data, you may have a chance. you might want to check with an outfit like DriveSavers. it may be expensive, but if there's stuff that you really need, why not have recovery experts take a look? i don't work for them or have any connection, but I've heard miraculous stories of what they can do. - .LAG liked that

=( - Shevonne

@LAG I don't have the kind of money for a professional recovery. I tried several different types of software last night, and while it was recovering files, they were all corrupted or damaged. MP3 files were starting halfway through and cutting off, images were garbled, and documents were filled with random characters. It's gone. - Haggis (Sean Loyless)

...well, then, here's a toast: to fresh starts, and backup plans. - .LAG liked that

I am a computer forensic investigator. It is likely that the majority of your data is still there. Windows doesn't really "wipe" even when you do a partition wipe. It may be a painful process to recover it though as the files will have to be individually carved from unallocated space. There are automated tools that do this but they are very expensive which is why professionals charge so much. - Kenya

How much does it run on average for data recovery? I think I would try to preserve the drive and save up for it. Or take up a collection ;) - joey

At least $500 to over a grand, depending on how bad the data was damaged. At this point probably pretty bad, plus I'd have to send it off and be without a secondary drive for who knows how long. I really don't know at this point.. - Haggis (Sean Loyless)

Price has come down then. I have a hard drive that died on me, that I put away somewhere safe, where I have pictures from my best friend who died in 2005.... I was quoted $3000 to recover the drive then. I'm keeping the drive in a safe until I have that kind of money to spare. - Matthew DeVries

That drive actually died though (you could hear the sound of a crashed head dragging across the platters), so I'm less optimistic for mine than I would be for you Sean. - Matthew DeVries

I'm so sorry. -hugs and makes cookies?- =[ - Colette

hate when that happens - andy brudtkuhl

30 people liked this? Someone's enjoying your disaster. - Rudy Amid

I don't take it as they're "liking" it rather than showing their support and sympathising with me. - Haggis (Sean Loyless) from IM

ouch, man. that's painful. :/ - holly

Sean, that happened to me once on a Windows install. I empathize. Won't even mention my own OS preference. - Phil Boiarski

kkkkkkk-kombo breaker. - Alfredo

You sure you don't want to try "RecoverMyFiles?" - jamar78

Nah.. I'm just going to move forward from here. It sucks I lost my PSD portfolio stuff, but my deviantArt profile has it on there.. Nothing that was really worth keeping other than nostalgia sake. It'd just be frustrating trying to piece together fragmented files. - Haggis (Sean Loyless)

Oh man! @syncplicity and drop box are awesome! Hope you work it out. You really may be able to recover some of it, I've seen crazier stuff! - Brian Bufalo

So sorry to hear that :( That's awful. I'd be cussing up a mighty storm if it were me. - Kamilah Gill

Congrats! - Simon Wicks

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Definitely congrats bud! - Tyler Hayes

Congrats! - zach 2.0 should be here to deprive me of sleep in june - Zach Scott

Congratulations! - Martin Bryant

Congratulations, Robert! - Jolie O'Dell

Congrats! - Raanan Avidor

Great news Robert, congratulations! - Bill Musgrave

congrats from all the family - Nick Halstead

Congratulations! - Atul Arora

right on man!!! just spent all weekend devoid of pc/bb/social sites etc with all my time spent on/with wife and our two kids (8 1/2 yr old son and 5 1/2 yr old daughter). BEST WEEKEND ever!!! Most incredible ride you'll ever take bro Congrats!!!!!!!!!! - Ted Bradford II

Congratulations to you and yours! Happy news :) - Andy Bold

Congratulations man ! - Yaron Orenstein

Congrats! - Teri Temme

Congratulations to you and your family! - TechFuga

congratz! :) - Meriç Dağlı

Robert - Best wishes to you and the family, from over the pond!! - Jim Connolly

Congratuluations! :-) - Maria Reyes-McDavis

Congrats and best wishes !!!! - Nir Ben Yona

congrats robert!!! scoblezier v3.0 :D - Apostolos Papadopoulos

congrats!! scoble 3D ;) - Charles Ying

Congrats Scoble :) - Roberto Bonini

Congratulations! Sounds like you're well on your way toward leaving a legacy. - Colleen O'Donnell Pierce

Congrats, best wishes to you and your clan. #MiniScobleizer3.0 :-) - Willem (@wim66) ☠

The theme from My Three Sons comes to mind. :) Congrats! - Kim Larsen

It's a boy! Congrats - Christian Anderson

Congratulations!! - Tom

Good ! Congrats - Christian

Congrats to the both of you! - drew olanoff

Congrats Scoble - Harmen

Awesome! Congratulations you're a machine!!! - sofarsoShawn

Nice one. Would appear you want a team of some sort. ;-) congratulations, Robert. Really great news. :) - Sheryl

Awesome Robert, congrats! - Allen Harkleroad

Congrats Robert then you don't have to buy that shotgun to keep all the boys off your porch :-P - Rasmus Lauridsen

Congratulations! Robert. that's really great news to start the week :) - Tweet Feeds

Congrats Robert! - Steve

did you already pick out a mac for the new baby? :-P - Allen Stern

One more and you got a basketball team! :-) - Dave Winer

Congratulations to the family! - Anne Bouey

Congrats! - Thomas Hawk

congratulations! - Lisha Sterling

Have you read Nick Hornby's About a Boy yet? If not I will send a copy as a shower gift. - Bill L

You got to choose a Persian name for Scobleizer 3.0, congrats - Shakeel Mahate

Congratulations! I love the numbering scheme. My parents did that too. - anna sauce

Congrats Robert! - Ryan

right on! - michael sean wright

CONGRATS ROBERT! Give him a name then register the domain immediately =) - Alp

Congrats! Boys born in September are awesome, I know this firsthand. :-) - Trish R

Congrats RB we need as many of these as you can manage - Thomas Power

hey congrats Robert! - (jeff)isageek

Congrats, Robert! - Andrei M. Marinescu

Congratulations! Two boys are twice the fun! - Martha

Congratulations Robert! - Diego Espinoza V.

Another boy? Wow. At least you have experience there... - Louis Gray

Felicitaciones - Alejandro

Congrats! - Brandon Mendelson

Congrats - while you're waiting, check out MiniScobleizer 1.0 here: http://www.iphonelife.com/blog... - Patrick Jordan

That's great news! You better get him a Friendfeed started... - Gregg Le Blanc

"Mini-Scobleizer 3.0" is a great name! - KyleHase from twhirl

Thanks everyone! - Robert Scoble

Congrats, Robert Scoble - rob

Congratulations :) - YusufOzanTasdemir

Congrats :) - Ozkan Altuner

Congratulations! - Herb Hernandez

Great news! Congrats. :-) - Rutger Blom

Congratulations Robert. - Daniel Rowley

Congratulations! - Nicholas James

Congrats & may he have your wit & warrior spirit!!! - Roney Smith

Congrats, Robert! :-) - Kol Tregaskes

Congrats to you and Maryam Robert! - jcunwired

Congratulations, Robert & Maryam :-)! - asiriusgeek

Congratulations. - Kevin Nordmand

congrats are you gonna install firewire to keep the kid updated on a daily basis I think they do that in the doctors office now. LOL - Gary Prechtel

I recommend naming him after a tree: Filbert - Gabe

Congratulations! - 321

Congrats, Robert! - Bret Taylor

Congratulations to you both! - Sharon McPherson

I can't wait!! - Mona Nomura

Congratulations! - George Hall (Australia)

Congratulations! - Michael Fidler

Congratulations - Russ Jackson

Congrats to the family! - Eric @ CSTechcast.com

Great news. My son will be a year in early September. Can't wait to see pics in the fall. - Sally: baby flier

Grats, man! - Neal Jansons

Congratulations Robert!! - Ken Camp

Congrats Robert! - atanas

congrats!!! - Loic Le Meur

Great news! congrats!! - Gerald Neo

Congratulations! - MaryB, BrandingBroadOfFF

Babies are just the coolest thing ever. One of my favorite things is that when they start talking, they love to point and say "BABY!" whenever they see anyone even a smidgen smaller than they are. Love that. - Kathy Fitch

Sheryl will want to squish a baby Scoble next time we're down your way. hehehe - Ken Camp

Congrats to you and your family! Wishing you the best. - Larry Roth

Congratulations Robert - you must be proud! - Jesse Stay

Congrats! Enjoy every second of the process! It's life-changing :) - Peter du Toit (S.Africa)

Congratulations - Violet Mae Lim

Three boys in this house. It's fantastical! Congratulations again, Robert. Even though it would mean one more web login, I'm holding out hope you'll utilize my social site for baby birth prognostication http://bebepool.com - we could all participate, it would be fun :) - Micah Wittman

On second thought, it might bring the server down :O - Micah Wittman

super-congrats, Robert!!! :))) - Alberto D'Ottavi

woot, congratulations. - Carolyn Chan

Very nice to hear, big congratulations! - Johan Mellberg from twhirl

Where are the ultrasound pics? BTW, congratulations. Maybe this one will defeat the Matrix. - Victor Panlilio

Victor: the doctor printed some out but I didn't shoot them yet. - Robert Scoble

COngrats ... - Amani

Adopt me Robert Scoble! - Alp

Congratz! - Thomas V. Fischer

Congrats!!! - Ravindran Navaneethan

Congrats dude! - imabonehead

Congrats!!! - Dobromir Hadzhiev

Congrats! For a moment I thought your 3rd clone is about to go public. :-) - Nenad Nikolic

Congrats! - Cristian

Amazing! Congratulations Scoble!! - Zee.

Congratulations, Robert! - ♥patricia♥

Congratulations Mr. Scobble : ) - Mark Harai

Congratulations Mr. Scoble and Mrs. Scoble! :) - Tony C

Congrats Robert!! - Larry Hawes

Awesome, Robert! Congrats!!! - David Cook from fftogo

Congrats! And the other two Scobleizers are? - Kirill Bolgarov

Congratulations to both of you. - Michael Lehman

'grats!! - Julian

That's three Sept boys I learned about today, a friend is having twins. Congratulations!!! - Rick Bucich

Felicidades! - Janet

Auguriii!! - CantorJF

Congratulations to everyone involved. :) We were told that our second child was going to be a girl, the hospital staff were certain. You know what is coming — yep, it was a boy. It was the biggest shock of the night. The second biggest shock (a few moments earlier) was me having to deliver him at home with instructions over the phone from the emergency services. Good luck! :) - Chris Marshall

Congrats :D - Baard @ Pixum

Mazel tov! - Mitch Wagner

Sweet! Congrats! - Brian Bufalo

Congrats! - Gavin

""Hobbits", the pint-sized primitive human species discovered on an Indonesian island, may have interacted with humans, suggest researchers at a scientific conference." - Bill Romanos from Bookmarklet

Shit yeah, I've met 'em. - Anthony Citrano

If Oracle can figure out how to integrate MySQL into its product line, the product line will be formidable. - John E. Bredehoft

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Seriously, John. I mean, Oracle has a version for testing/non-production/educational use which of course some companies have co-opted for production. But having a legitimate Ora/MySQL hybrid out there that is open source, robust, and available for commercial use WITHOUT the stupid MSSQL Express 5 DB restriction would put them in a great position. - FFing Enigma (aka Tina)

Why do they need to integrate. I think they should leave it as a stand alone product line. Does MSSQL Express have a large market? Nothing close to MySQL. That is what Oracle should capitalize on, the current market share it has. But if you're talking about a desktop replacement used for local DB's they have some work to do. Mainly selling MS developers that its an alternative they should be using. - Thom Allen

I'm not saying they need to integrate, Thom (and honestly I'd rather they didn't). However, I think they will integrate at some point down the road, bringing in some of the Oracle features and a version or so later dropping some legacy MySQL support. Then again, I could be completely wrong... - FFing Enigma (aka Tina)

It's interesting to see where they try to take this. You know, as little as I know about this stuff. - Mike Nayyar

The technology isn't the challenge - it never is. The challenge is on the business end. What support model will Oracle offer for MySQL in the future that balances Oracle's needs vs. the needs of MySQL users? - John E. Bredehoft

(Really I was replying to John Bredehof) I think adding some enterprise features would be cool. I just hope they leave the drop dead simple installation and use alone. I just don't want them polluting something that works and doesn't need a crap of load of features that will never be used. Sort of swapping one set for another. But yeah, it will be interesting. - Thom Allen

Thom, sorry for the confusion, but I doubt that Oracle can leave MySQL's business model completely stand-alone. They'll want to Oracle-ify it in some way for synergy bla bla bla, but hopefully they won't price MySQL out of the reach of some users. - John E. Bredehoft

John, that is the cool part about MySQL, and the other product they now have, Java. These are staples in so many dev shops, so they are also acquiring a huge community. Oracle has never really been a community engaged company. They will have a lot of voices coming at them. I hope they are prepared. - Thom Allen

Well, all I know is what I would do if I were in charge of the MySQL arm. Leave the drop dead installation and simple use exactly as they are, realize the sheer number of open source apps that rely on MySQL and start talking to those developers. Find out which of the Oracle features would be a best fit for MySQL (I'm going to guess it's more on the db admin side but that's just me).... more... - FFing Enigma (aka Tina)

MYSQL will NOT become part of the Oracle's. MYSQL is open sourced code n Oracle does not have that as part of product strategy. I think we will see the raise of the middleware wars and cost of doing web apps will just go up ! - Peter Dawson

Thom, very interesting perspective on Oracle's level of community engagement. And you're probably right. I'm going to share this with a couple of people at Oracle that I know. - John E. Bredehoft

Peter, Oracle doesn't CURRENTLY have that as part of their strategy. Personally, I think buying Sun would be the weirdest move in the world if they didn't intend to move INTO open source. - FFing Enigma (aka Tina)

Thom, I posted your comment in a couple of Oracle groups http://beta.friendfeed.com/oow... - John E. Bredehoft

Thanks John, now I'm in big trouble :) - Thom Allen

Tina its the same as google buying a company/technology , and not promoting it.. rememeber jotspot.. @times its easier to aquire the competetion, rather then outmarket / outperform the competetion !! - Peter Dawson

Peter, what's your take on Oracle's acquisition of BEA (and of WebLogic)? Does that offer any parallels for what will happen with MySQL, or is there a 100% difference between the two situations? - John E. Bredehoft

John take a look at another comment .. http://friendfeed.com/e... - Peter Dawson

John, remember that BEA / WebLogis really reinforced the Tuxedo Transaction Processing Products .. tell me how will mySQL /Java reinforced middleware and cloud areas ? - Peter Dawson

Oracle is driven by sales and sales alone. The only thing I can see happening with MySQL is that you'll require a rediculously priced service contract to get any kind of support. I see this as the end of MySQL as a potential enterprise DB. - Kenton

"Oracle has never really been a community engaged company" - on what facts is this statement based? Oracle has one of the largest and most active dev communities in the world. - Justin Kestelyn

++1 Kenton, thats the sad fact// give another 4yrs and mySQL and apps running with them will soon be kicked off the cloud.. it will become a state of the monopolies of the middle tier once again ! - Peter Dawson

Justin, I've never seen Oracle do anything to engage the community outside of its own customer base. Give us some examples and I'll stand corrected. - Thom Allen

I'm not sure I understand the premise of your question; which "community" do you refer to? The MySQL community specifically? Java developers? Developers in general? - Justin Kestelyn

Why would Oracle keep developing MySQL? They have an express product: Oracle XE. MySQL is the biggest threat to their cash cow database business. Cash cow? Just ask anyone who has had to pay Oracle licence fees. - Peter Kelley

Wow, interesting. - Robert Scoble from Bookmarklet

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this means what? - Christopher Harris

So MySQL goes to Oracle and Oracle just got more interesting in cloud computing and datacenter wars. But not sure what it means, I need sleep to contemplate it all. - Robert Scoble

@robert yea if you're in the US you're up laaate - Christopher Harris

Yup, up late. - Robert Scoble

So Dave Winer tweeted this url (zdnet blog) http://tr.im/jdQg and there's not a single mention of MySQL in it... and in this NYTimes article there's only one mention at the end... Where's reporter asking Ellison what MySQL's future is with Oracle? - Chris Heath

Wonder what this means for MySQL, Open Office and of course Java? - KyleHase from twhirl

Liking as in "whoa! want to know more". - Neil Saunders

You know mysql has not been changed after the acqusition of Sun. But we are not sure what will be on the future. - Ahmet Alp Balkan from fftogo

Quite bizarre... but I guess it makes sense. Oracle has gobbled up so many companies to round out it's software verticals and diagonals. Buying Sun adds a hardware layer beneath their offerings pitting them head-to-head against DB2 on AIX (as if it's ever been a real threat). Should be fascinating to watch this evolution... - Ankush Narula

Then, there is just two big company about databases; MS and Oracle. - Arda Çetin

And a little PostgreSQL :) - Arda Çetin

And IBM, DB2 - Aaman (Clone of FF)

Frankly, I'm surprised this didn't happen years ago. - Craig Eddy

...and Firebird and SQLite - KyleHase from twhirl

Oracle has previously acquired other database products that it has kept alive -- the in-memory database TimesTen and the embeddable Berkeley DB. I believe both are doing well under Oracle's reign. I'm sure that Ellison and company will tweak MySQL with an upgrade path to the Oracle Database. - Anthony K. Valley ©

But will there be any change in the way MySQL is acquired? Will Oracle try to impose an Oracle support contract structure? I confess that I completely missed the MySQL aspect of this myself initially, but that part will make this Oracle's most challenging acquisition. - John E. Bredehoft

and sybase - Robert O'Callaghan

If Sun doesn't have MySQL. You think Oracle still buy Sun at this time? - Arda Çetin

Arda, there's a benefit from Oracle having its own hardware division. It's always looking for ways to increase its stack, and since it's now in the OS business, why not hardware also? Not sure of Java's true worth to Oracle, other than bragging rights. - John E. Bredehoft

I wonder if these Microsoft alike companies still exist in 10 years from now. - Rutger Blom

1. They did it in video. THAT is the way to respond. Not text. Video says MUCH MORE than text can. - Robert Scoble

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2. They went overboard with the response. They closed down the store and "sanitized it." - Robert Scoble

3. The CEO did it and repeated that nothing is more important that our trust. He demonstrated he understood the issue. - Robert Scoble

4. He thanked influencers for helping Dominos understand the issue and making sure that others knew about it. - Robert Scoble

5. He responded while the issue is still "hot." - Robert Scoble

6. He responded on YouTube, which is where the crisis started, not on their own video platform. - Robert Scoble

7. He communicated that there was "immediate" action including arrest warrants, and people getting fired. - Robert Scoble

Impressive. - Brian Daniel Eisenberg

He didn't look straight into the camera, however - as pointed out by Steve Garfield. - l0ckergn0me

8. He knows that the real problem is that they hired idiots and are "reexamining" all hiring practices. THAT is the best way to make sure you get a good brand. - Robert Scoble

9. He used personal language "it sickens me." Not marketing speak. - Robert Scoble

Interesting mix of being apologetic and totally pissed at the same time. Overall thumbs up from me. - Mike Doeff

10. He is working to "regain our trust." - Robert Scoble

Is there anything else he could have done to answer this crisis? - Robert Scoble

He didn't offer us a coupon to make us feel better. I didn't feel condescended to. - Kevin Fox

Good lead, Robert. Glad to see discussion around the response. - Valeria Maltoni

Now if he could just work on making the pizza not taste so bad. - Dave Roth

now is the best time to go to Domino's in Conover. clean as a whistle. - nesman89

Fantastic job, I thought. - Matthew Freeman

Ok, so how bout some back ground? - Matthew DeVries

I don't mind that he didn't look straight into the camera. That shows he isn't "slick" or "overcoached." - Robert Scoble

Yes, it would have been better if he had looked into the camera, but given that a teleprompter is an expensive item, and rigging a two-way mirror with a magnified view of a printed script is a hassle... I think the minor shortfall can be forgiven. All seven of Robert's points remain absolutely valid. - David Muir

Matthew: Here's the background: http://beta.friendfeed.com/thomash... - Robert Scoble

Textbook is the best way to go. Swift and done. Now in time, people will forget, crave cheap, fast, and delivered food, and it's over. - Mike Lewis

Very well handled. I agree with you, Robert, this will make its way into textbooks alongside Tylenol's response to the poisoning crisis three decades ago. - Stephen Mack

Matthew: I already posted a link to the background. http://beta.friendfeed.com/thomash... - Robert Scoble

Or here if you wanna go straight to the source: http://consumerist.com/5210648... - Stephen Mack

They just taught a lot of clueless PR people how to handle a crisis like this. Well done. - Inside Alaska

I think theyve been handling this like pros from the getgo. Good job - Rasmus Lauridsen

Pretty slick. Many can learn from it. - Katie Dob

The woman is also a registered sex offender apparently: http://ncfindoffender.com/details... - Zulema ◕ ◡ ◕

so far this year, that's, what, rats in the peanuts, perchlorate in the babby formula, prescription drugs in the drinking water, snot in the pizza... what was safe to ingest again? - Karim

Bravo, Dominos. Nicely done. Speak up or be spoken for. - kevin j higgins

But he's using a teleprompter. He's evil. - teh Dork Knight aka Kenny

tehKenny: I don't think he was. I bet that he was looking at some notes, though. It didn't come across like he was reading. For someone not experienced with a teleprompter you can not use one and not come across like you're reading. - Robert Scoble

Their response was appropriate and in a timely manner which is key now. - Christi

Anyone who has ever used a teleprompter realizes how hard it is to use one and how hard it is to look natural doing it. I bet he had someone off to the side of the camera he was talking to who was holding notes up to remind him what to talk. - Robert Scoble

I wasn't there, obviously, but watching the CEO look off-camera yet speak as if to a person made me think he was looking at a person to stay "real" and "personable" and not canned or offering a performance. - Bloom Seed

It's just pizza - Ari Braginsky

Carmen: "W" had a LOT of media training and a team of people to tell him how to do it. I doubt this CEO has had much media training. - Robert Scoble

rewatching it makes it clear that he's reading notes (his focus starts at top, moves down as recording proceeds). Still, though, comes across as a real person. Not everything needs professional actors, producers, makeup, sets...imperfect may be the new perfect, as far as communicating genuineness. - Bloom Seed

Comes across as very heart-felt, and almost makes me want to order with them (I'm not sure we have them here in this town)! Shouldn't they have added something like "We'll now be installing cams in all our kitchens streaming direct to Ustream, making us the ONLY food delivery you can trust to not mess your food"? :) - Philipp Lenssen

Philipp: well, that would certainly be cool but would be way beyond something they could deliver on in two days. - Robert Scoble

I mean, I'm not a big fan of Dominos, but this helps them establish themselves as giving a crap. Good PR move. - Mike Nayyar

Great video response straight from the company president. As for watching food getting prepared, the Papa John's locations that I've been to are open and you can basically see them making your pie. Not sure if Domino's has stores like that... - Doug

Carmen, it's the "polished" vs "timely" tug of war: http://fftogo.com/e... - Bruce Lewis from fftogo

solid performance-- came across naturally and believable, blend of professionalism and good ole fashion ass-kicking anger. It was smooth but not overly slick; no suit or tie and shot in store surrounding. Content was solid too, assuring customers everything that could be done was being done. One minor tweak: he doesn't appear to be looking directly at the camera. - mark ivey

I wonder if they thought about making it a response to "that video" on youtube to get the eyeballs needed to make this count.. - Tom Masiero

Ari - it's more than "just pizza" - it's the livelihood of 125k employees. We are focused here on a textbook response, but this is also a clear demonstration of the power of leverage that SM holds: two idiots can do major damage to the brand, the company, and by ultimately to the employees. Hat's off to Mr. Doyle and his advisers. - Bill Sanders

good response for sure, way to go - sean percival

Rewatched it and yes he is reading it. Regardless, I think it was handled pretty appropriately. - Jay Neff

good job. small nit: next time they need to move the teleprompter (or cue cards) either over or under the camera. - MikeAmundsen

Video is good if Good Messenger (which Domino's guy IS) But also put the incident on my radar screen, which hitherto I was unaware of. - JimmyJet

Wasn't aware of the incident but sure feel bad for the independent operator.. - MiaD

The woman in the Wendy's chili fraud case ended up sentenced to 9 years in prison and her husband (who bought the finger off a co-worker who lost it in an industrial accident) got 12 years. http://www.bluemaumau.org/wendys_... - Kevin Fox

I wish that he was looking at the camera instead of a telepromter. Just sayin. - Andrew Baron

Andrew: he's not looking at a teleprompter. I bet someone is holding a notepad with an outline on it for him. - Robert Scoble

I haven't had Domino's in a long time. But, I'm happy to see that they put up this Video response to the malicious destruction of their Brand and business practices. - rob friedman

good job. that was a classy way to 'avoid the noid.' - grant fox

Hey Robert, can I use some of your reasons in a blog post in writing up about the Domino's issue? - Kenneth

Kenneth: yes, feel free! - Robert Scoble

Thanks Robert! - Kenneth

"Everyone else is doing it right." Yeah, right. [What are the odds of that?] - Craig Brownell

I kept hoping he'd actually look into the camera. - James Miao

I agree with James. I was hoping that he would look at the camera like he's talking to his customers. I get that he needs to make sure he says exactly what needs to to said, but the way he kept looking away from the camera made it seem a little "stiff". - Kenneth

like when dirk diggler looked into the camera during his documentary. that was powerful stuff. - grant fox

Kenneth: that's a mistake someone who isn't media trained makes. I actually don't mind that because it makes it less slick. - Robert Scoble

My guess is that they're multiple cameras and he's looking at the expensive one - Bwana ☠

Robert: Really? If corporate heads are on camera, they should NOT look at the camera especially if they're not being interviewed? It looks natural not to look at the camera? You're definitely right...I'm not media trained. :) Looks like he was reading off of a script and didn't notice a camera at him. - Kenneth

Who was he talking to? The sound guy holding the microphone to the right of the camera? - Diego Barros 

Kenneth: the only time you should look at the camera is when you want to speak directly to the viewer. You are right that he should have been speaking directly into the camera. Knowing where to look is part of media training. A good PR team could have helped (IE, one that had worked a lot with video before) but I can't really blame him. I still have trouble figuring this out. When I was on the BBC it was very difficult to look into the camera (it was aplate on the wall). - Robert Scoble

i just have to say, that by him not looking in the camera, or really doing any of this before it seems adds to his character that he's a regular guy, not some PR trained monkey doing a dance for us. - rob friedman

I dunno, I think it's more important that the response seem unrehearsed. I'll bet he did it in one take. - Ken Morley

Well done Robert: not a surprise to see this crew recognizes excellence when they see it. Dominos did virtually everything right on this aspect of its response. having seen a few crises, this example is among the best. blogged it here: http://www.mediadeluge.com/post... - Christian Anderson

Just to let folks know: the teleprompters I am familiar with allow the newscaster or talking head to look directly at the camera AND read the script. The result is like a HUD (heads-up display) for those familiar with video games or jet fighters. - David Muir

Right David, but there are all kinds of "teleprompters" some low tech and some higher tech. the point is he was reading. It was okay, he did a great job in one take. It would have been better if he hadnt read it and looked directly at the camera, but because everything else was so well done, the reading gets a pass - Christian Anderson

Not a fan of their pies, but kudos to Dominoes for the forthright reply and apology for the miscreants who brought this upon them. Hope they rebound well from this. - JA Castillo

Definitely a canned response but still heartfelt and sincere. Plus we learned its a federal felony to stuff cheese up your nose on camera. Imagine what happens at McDonalds on a daily basis - now that's frightening. - Chris Sparno

Very lucky that they had a CEO that even was willing to talk for YouTube in the moment; let's not now criticize him for his media training, or none will ever have the guts to do it again. - Francine Hardaway

Rich: This is deadly serious for him. He's right to take it seriously and I'm sure he genuinely does. - Michael Krigsman

So the real question is, who feels comfortable enough to order Domino's this weekend? - Chris Bartow

I do Chris, even more-so now than before. This weekend will be the cleanest in the franchise's history :) - Bwana ☠

@Karim: "snot in the pizza... what was safe to ingest again?" Years ago, I ordered a pizza (not from Domino's) and was surprised to see a piece of broken glass in it — and this particular glass shard had part of the pizza company logo on it! When I phoned them about it, they replaced the pizza in record time; of course, they asked for the broken glass back, too, so I couldn't keep the evidence. - Victor Panlilio

Victor *shudder* i think i would have just given up eating pizza after that :-D - Karim

The comments on You Tube are negative I don't agree with them, what is your opinion abut them? (They say Doyle is not sincere) - Maurizio Goetz

Rule #0 - Youtube comments have the value of a single molecule of feces - Bwana ☠

+1 Bwana!! - guruvan (Rob Nelson)

His response was right on and pretty smart for doing it via a video. It's sad but we are at the mercy of people that prepare our food. :-( I kind of feel bad for the kids because what they did shows a complete lack of intelligence. It would be nice if they took responsible and apologized in some sort of public forum. - John McCullough

@John McCullough "we are at the mercy of people that prepare our food" and people who pilot the planes we fly in, treat our municipal drinking water, etc. I daresay we only appreciate them when things go horribly wrong. - Victor Panlilio

@Chris White "The founder of Domino's supports Right to LIfe and Operation Rescue, which IMO, is worse than putting farts on sandwiches" Really? Watch the video at http://www.abortionno.org/ and see if you can stomach the idea that we dispose of unwanted human beings so cavalierly. - Victor Panlilio

Victor, your comment as well as John's above you, reminds me of that line in Fight Club: "We do your laundry, cook your food and serve you dinner. We guard you while you sleep. We drive your ambulances..." - Aaron Kurtz

@Aaron - almost everything we take for granted in "civilized society" depends on the everyday goodwill (and conscientiousness) of anonymous others. I've always thought that we need to become more mindful of the benefits we daily receive from these enablers of our well-being. Count your blessings, etc. - Victor Panlilio

Victor, I couldn't agree more. - Aaron Kurtz

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