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Bret Taylor

Happy holidays from the FriendFeed crew! - http://blog.friendfeed.com/2008...

December 23, 2008 - Comment - Like - Share

Keiko Yamada, HealingBrush, Pelin Hazar and 292 other people liked this

Thanks to Kevin for another great logo... - Bret Taylor

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YAY! Snowmens! - Yolanda

Cool logo! :) - AJ Batac

I think they need scarves. They look cold. - Yolanda

Great logo! Simple and fun. - Brandon Titus

great :) çok sevdim bu logoyu :) - Burak Budak

Cool :D - Pedram

Kevin - that is an awesome logo!!!!! - Susan Beebe

A nice tribute to Bill Waterson :) - MVB (Curmudgeon of FF)

+102 for Bill Waterson references in picture Kevin or words Sinterclas - Steve C

cute but what happened to festivus this year? - Laura Norvig

Merry Christmas to the FriendFeed team. You guys rock! FriendFeed reacts quickly and you're adding wonderful features all the time (Thanks soooo much for the "edit" feature.) - Mitchell Tsai

Happy Festivus! - ◄ani625Ξ

Happy festive season to you all as well :) - Niki Costantini

Happy Holidays!!! - David Cook

love it~ - Sunny

Love!!! - BeeLing

Glad you like it! (And glad people picked up on the Waterson influence :-) - Kevin Fox

Merry Christmas! :D - Ron

Happy Holidays FF crue -- you've made this an excellent and memorable year for many of us. Facebook couldn't have done it without you! :) - Christopher Galtenberg

w00t you gave me the best online year in 15 years!!! ;p Thanks a lot, everyone, for what you've done here XD - ElijahBailey-Zu of FF <0,

Merry Christmas to all - Craig Eddy

Merry Christmas! - Svein Håvard Djupvik

Haha! I love horrified snowmen. Merry Christmas to FriendFeed! - Chris Lasher

Joyeux Noel a tout le monde! - Mathieu Ayel

Merry Christmas! Happy Holidays! - Anne Bouey

Feliz navidad a ti! - JA Castillo

Thanks! Happy Holidarys! Merry Christmas! - Bill Romanos

happy christmas, chanukah and kwanzaa. - D. Eda Goze

happy chrismas and a happy new year!!! - ethan meccage

That's when they loved us :( - Christopher Harley

Awwwww sniff - Kevin Fox

Happy holidays! Take good care of yourselves and... enjoy those days off! <o> \o, - ElijahBailey-Zu of FF <0,

Merry Christmas! - Ian May

Tks and love you all !!! - Renchin(Reina)

ahh, the good ol' days. - MikeAmundsen

Happy Holidays FriendFeers! <superbump /> - AJ Batac

cool!! - Ferzvladimir

*bump* - imabonehead

Sigh. Sometimes it is the little touches, like seasonal logos or easter eggs, that mark a site as a living project, and that you really miss when the developers have all moved on to something else. - Michael R. Bernstein

ای جان چقدر خوبه این - WALL.E

1 yıl geçmiş üzerinden bretim taylorum vay anasına dimi.. - Taylan GERDAN (Tylolhot)

sofarsoShawn

What are your thoughts on welcoming new followers in your tweets? Or just a weee bit excessive here?

January 4, 2009 - Comment - Like - Share

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Too much for me, but then everyone is different. - Raoul Pop

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I normally welcome people when I get over 10-15 followers .. but only say "Welcome followers.. Enjoy stalking me" - Tyler (Chacha)

I'm with Raoul. I'd have to unfollow, and I do not unfollow. Then again, I go to Twitter so rarely, and I follow so many that I might not notice. - MiniMage - HLtW

...holy moly! - JA Castillo

this was just one page... - sofarsoShawn

Well, you guys do understand that it's all totally automated, so there's no work involved. I think it's an excellent way to piss off your other followers on Twitter. - Michael Forian

freaking overload. - Todd Jordan

Its a quick way to get rid of everyone following you, thats for sure - Tyler (Chacha)

There is nothing wrong with it. Its a way to expose people to other people. - Mathew™ one of a kind

Stupid. Reward should be something else. - Robert Scoble

If you want to expose people to me, you have to tell me why they are interesting in the message. I'm not just going to go click on them. - Tyler (Chacha)

If that's all you've got to offer, I've got no reason to follow. - shaun mclane

although i would love it if new followers would tell me why they added me, cause it still puzzles the hell out of me! - Joelle Nebbe (iphigenie)

I think a lot of people don't have a specific reason. Maybe they found you from a friend or something. Some people just like to have a lot of voices - Tyler (Chacha)

What shaun said. Whenever someone follows me, I go to their page to scan and see if I should follow in return. When I see an entire page that looks like what you've shared here, I tend NOT to follow that person. Why not DM them with the "welcome" message? - Herb Hernandez

well, *there's* the use for DMs i've been looking for, if ever there was one. - idnan

too much - no need to welcome peeps. It would be a chore for me. Chore = no fun. I wouldn't follow someone who had all that crap in their timeline either. Just engage and if you make connections, let them come naturally. NO automated DMs please! - BEX

It's not my favorite way to thank people. It feels a little "loud" and impersonal. DM is my preference. - Melinda Augustina

I don't like tweets about follower numbers or follower welcoming - to me they are something halfway between bragging and noise - Joelle Nebbe (iphigenie)

I don't like tweets about followers, but what I truly and completely HATE is the auto-DM "welcome." I get them and want to instantly unfollow the person who sent it. - Joey Gibson

@gibson yeah I think I might switch that off, it seems so in genuine - sofarsoShawn

Well, it seems a bit automatic, so that's not particularly appealing to me. But every once in a while it's handy. You see something interesting and click it and you're glad you did. - Melinda Augustina

I agree with Melinda, it seems to be automatic. I would expect a few personal words about my blog, my tweets or somethings else. - Birger Hartung

I don't Tweet, but I do Deviant Art and FF, as well as Bloglog.. and I try to thank people, but a lot of the time I'm too busy checking out what other exciting things there are to see. I don't know if people get angry or upset over not being thanked, but I know that I don't, I didn't even realize it was a recommended action for the longest time! - arekayelle

Why would you thank people for following you? Do you also thank people who subscribe to your RSS feeds? They're following you because they want to see what you write. They're not your friends unless you actually know them. I'm not sure where people got the idea that Twitter was some sort of numbers contest or something, but if that's all you use it for, then why bother using it at all? - Otto

Rob Michael (Atmos Trio)

Do you put forth energy into monitoring who "blocks" "unfollows" or "hides" you? Some folks seem really on top of that.

January 5, 2009 - Comment - Like - Share

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...or maybe no one can see me... hmmmm. - Rob Michael (Atmos Trio)

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I see you. I don't care unless you tell me. - Robert Scoble

I don't. - Outsanity

I don't keep track of my follower count. - Andrew Trinh

Nope. I have my notifications turned off. - Mona Nomura

Nope. - Lisa L. Seifert

I don't think I would have the time to do that on a regular basis, but that's only me. - MedicalQuack

Frankly, I could care less. I can't control who likes or doesn't like my stuff, and I'd just assume not bother. - Helen Sventitsky

I don't either--I keep seeing dialog about people noticing that "so&so blocked me..." and can't help but wonder--How do you know (without going out of your way)--why do you care? - Rob Michael (Atmos Trio)

Nope, don't follow that at all. - Amit Morson

I don't really care who un-follows or who does. I like when people do follow me, but if someone un-follows it's their business and there's not much I can do to change their mind about it. - Jon, the Beartato of '10

I'm not even sure how I *could* track that even if I were interested. - Mattie Kenny

Energy put forth for who blocks you, or unfollows or hides you, seems like energy wasted... if you mention why you're doing it in a public fashion, I might care. Otherwise, there's better things to spend energy on, clearly. - Colin Charles from twhirl

I've only blocked three people on FriendFeed; one for using my feed content to spread crap about me, and two for other, more personal reasons. Again, it's the discretion of the user, and it's not my business as to why they do or do not. - Helen Sventitsky

As far as I know, there's no way for me to tell who blocks or unfollows me unless I keep a list of my followers and check against that list to see if everyone is still on there. - Rochelle

Didn't even know that was an option. But now that I do: nah. - Type Micah

I only keep track of who is following me so that I can follow them back. - Colide81 (James)

No. If someone chooses not to read me, they're probably wise. No one can please everybody. - Ontario Emperor from fftogo

I don't care - Amber, Random Time Lord

Nope, personal choice. - Adrienne Van Houten

I only noticed someone blocked me today on Twitter because someone was upset about my tweet and as I was attempting to reply Twitter told me I was blocked. - Andrew Trinh from Nambu

How can you check? - Adriana

I checked by following them, I knew I was following them before and wasn't at that instance. Twitter provided an alert saying I wasn't allowed to follow them any more. - Andrew Trinh

Roll call I guess---hellifiknow... - Rob Michael (Atmos Trio)

None whatsoever - Mike Fruchter

Didn't even know I could do it... :) - Jordi Soler

I review every single new follower and block folks who have no apparent reason to care about what I'm saying. I wish I could force their follow to be "private", so that their face doesn't show on my page and my follower count isn't incremented. The Twitter gods have not provided such a feature. (I don't care at all who unfollows or blocks me.) - Richard Soderberg

I've tried one or 2 things on Twitter but turned up them almost immediately. Basically no, not worried in the slightest, they have their reasons to unfollow I'll just carry on what I do. :-) - Kol Tregaskes

nope - MikeAmundsen

Who has the time for that and would want to use it that way? - Internet Strategist

Steve Rubel

Short URLs shared on Friendfeed now reveal the re-direct if you hover over them.

December 27, 2008 - Comment - Like - Share

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great find Steve - btw, would it be ok for to drop you an email? Just a short one don't worry - Zee.

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Like this. +5 more points for FF. - Amani

Steve, I love that I made a cameo in your post. I only wish my short URL was more inspired. - Scott Gatz

Finally! Yay! Wish Twitter had this a long time ago. That's the reason I never use full links that get converted. I change the www. to w3 .website.com and that way everyone can see the full link still and copy and paste it if they want to view the site. I got annoyed at clicking on duplicate TinyURLs. - Adam

@Adam, Just try out the grease monkey script, it will let you see all the tiny url's. http://tinyurl.com/5wduxf - Dennis Goedegebuure

Nice feature add. Keep them coming! - Eric @ CSTechcast.com

Nice feature enhancement!! - Susan Beebe

What Mohomed=genieyclo said! Thanks, FF crew. :-) - Lisa L. Seifert

One small nit. Does not work in comments. Try this link - http://tinyurl.com/5wduxf - Atul Arora

@Atul Arora Right! First thing I noticed. I also wonder with how many shortening services does it work with... - Nikos Anagnostou

This is awesome. Hopefully this can be added to twhirl too - Guy

This should be definitely exported via API - Alex Kapranoff

Finally! - Mr. Gunn

This is an awesome feature! - Nicholas James

Lovely! - Mitchell Tsai

I use the greasemonkey script tinyurl-ru at http://kapranoff.ru/friendf... but it only covers tinyurl.com and tinyurl.ru | Maybe we should do a community project that keeps updating that script with all those url-shorteners out there. | Alex, are you game? - ĎÚβĨŐÚŚ Dod

Is this a feature that friendfeed removed? Because it's not working in Chrome. - James Poling

I don't see any short URL's in FriendFeed anymore. all are automatically expanded. - Rahsheen ™, Coach Rah

http://bit.ly/vVvYi - James Poling

Jesse Stay

FriendFeed needs the ability to add "tags" to posts, so I can refer back to them later.

January 4, 2009 - Comment - Like - Share

Daniel Rowley, Mike Reynolds, Nicholas Chase and 25 other people liked this

Jesse: you can add a tag as a word in a comment. Here's my tag for this post, for instance: salt lake city jesse -- now go and search for any of those words and it'll pull up this post. - Robert Scoble

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i agree - Caroline

I guess you could do that Robert, but then you're polluting the text of the post. Tags should be meta, outside the content of the post. - Jesse Stay

Jesse: comments are meta. heheh. - Robert Scoble

i think friendfeed will do it well - ybs

Robert, comments are comments - do we want to be polluting those as well? Another thing FriendFeed needs is people-tagging, so you get notified if I want you to see something and you're following me. - Jesse Stay

I should add that Twitter needs these things too, but I've given up on Twitter doing anything revolutionary in a timely manner. - Jesse Stay

@Jesse: I am in strong belief that Twitter will add support for pics after a decade or few... then they'll start considering video support ;) - Jemm

Jesse: I agree with you, but sort of disagree too. I'd far rather have track than tagging of items or people. But I want those too. - Robert Scoble

Exactly, you're just right with this feature request. To really work on all this information you've got on friendfeed, we need tags. Comment's are great but not enough to refer back, even if their are searchable - Gilles Meiers

I agree that tags would be useful. - Andrew Kell

shelisrael1

Al Jazeera has a Twitter account to give the Gaza perspective on the current conflict. http://twitter.com/AJGaza

January 2, 2009 from Twitter - Comment - Like - Share

Daniel W. Crompton, Cee Bee, Ro (Lilyhill) and 32 other people liked this

Any other perspectives? - Rob Schieber

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I am following them but like you said, it's a one sided persepctive- - Enriqueta

Perspective? this is a one-sided cover influenced by a terror propaganda. - Nir Ben Yona

These ones reflects the real situation in Israel: http://twitter.com/fromisrael and http://twitter.com/QassamCount - Nir Ben Yona

I'm following this, the BBC, and listening to a lot of shortwave - David Parmet from twhirl

@DavidParmet I haven't seen a shortwave radio in YEARS. - Prolific Programmer

@NirBenYona everyone has a bias, the trick is to keep it in mind as you listen to it. - Prolific Programmer

I just blogged this and it started a separate conversation that I wanted to loop in here: http://friendfeed.com/e... - Robert Scoble

@Prolific Programmer: That's true if you refer to both sides reports. However the Al Jazeera network break the rules. Here's a Facebook app to add: http://apps.facebook.com/qassamc... - Nir Ben Yona

@Ben Yona Is your second comment sarcastic? - TunisianGuy

A little. - Nir Ben Yona

Peace is possible. - Rob Schieber

this is very interesting - Susan Beebe

@NirBenYona al-Jazeera is a lot better than most news outlets. They regularly have Israeli MKs alongside Hammas members. I can't say the same for BBC World or CNN International, which give the view that the Palestenians ought to be happy Israel's giving them the little sliver of land that is Gaza. - Prolific Programmer

If you are running Livestation (http://www.livestation.com) you can watch Al Jazeera English service and enter their real time chat room, even talking to a few reporters. Lots of shouting over there - Andrew Leyden

AlJazeera also created a place for people to submit events in Gaza as they happen http://labs.aljazeera.net/waronga... - Baher Al Hakim

@Prolific Programmer: presumably the BBC World stance is to balance out their domestic coverage (separately funded) which runs entire features without deviating from a pro-Hamas line - obsessively covering "deaths" (omitting the nature thereof) while ignoring the ongoing attacks on Israel. Hence the protests today in London all calling on Israel to ignore the aggression, rather than calling for Hamas to stop the attacks or disband. - James

Al Jazeera is a really good media outlet. - Marshall Kirkpatrick

very useful - Seltoon

al jazeera is a very good news organization. - Cee Bee

Robert Scoble

Robert is having a fun weekend with family celebrating my 44th birthday on Sunday. Thanks to everyone for the kind wishes!

January 17, 2009 from Facebook - Comment - Like - Share

Iggy Mwangi, Daniel W. Crompton, تنهاترین انجل and 101 other people liked this

Happy Birthday Robert! - Dave Gambrill

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Hey, we continue to celebrate a week apart. My son Doug beat you to 44 in December. I achieve 70 week from Sunday. Enjoying myself over that. - Dennis E. Hamilton from twhirl

Tomorrow's your b-day? Happy birthday, Robert! - Chris, Taskerrific Guy

Happy Birthday Robert! Maybe I should create a FriendFeed room for this? ;) - Michael Broukhim

Happy Birthday!! Does this mean you're taking the day off? - Devlin Dunsmore from twhirl

Happy B-day Robert! - Helen Sventitsky

Have a great birthday weekend! Hope it's geeky and fun! :) - Daynah

have a good one!!! - Richard Binhammer

no s#*t ... not only is my birthday the day after yours, I'll also be 44. Happy Birthday! - Jim: Now With Caffeine

Happy Birthday, Robert! I hope you and your family have a great weekend! :-) - Anna Haro

Happy birthday, Robert! Have a great one! :) - Dee S.

Good times! Enjoy! - Josh Haley

Happy Birthday and here's to many more (lifts martini)! - Susan Dennis

Just turned 44 myself! Happy Bday. - BEX

Happy Birthday !!! - Nir Ben Yona

~~~ HAPPY 44TH BIRTHDAY ROBERT !!! I hope you have a really fun birthday and get lots of cool new toys!! :D - Susan Beebe

Best wishes on the day! Looks like its gonna be a very decent day in HMB tomorrow! :-) - Bo Stern

Happy Birthday, Robert!! - David Cook

Ahh...what to do? Robert said there was no need to wish him a happy b'day, but I do this for others; why should I exclude him? and everyone else is doing it...I know; happy Scoble's birthday, fellow FriendFeeders! - MiniMage - HLtW

Happy Birthday, Robert!! Hope you enjoy your day and weekend. :) - Lindsay is in 20-ten

Happy birthday. - Eric @ CSTechcast.com

Happy 44th ... hey we almost have the same birthday :) - Robert Couture

Happy Birthday! have fun with the family...that's what it's all about. - Troy Malone

Wow you're 44?! Time is damn good to you!! Happy Birthday and stay unplugged before Maryam drags you to a place with no cell service! ;) - Mona Nomura

Happy Impending Birthday! - deusdiabolus

Already 44? Happy Birthday and wish you a webfull of 44th year ;) - Ozkan Altuner

Happy 44! - webosapien (Burcu Tüzün)

Happy pre-Birthday, Robert. I wish you many, many more. :-) - Mathew A. Koeneker

Happy Birthday, Robert! So glad you're having fun with your family. Cheers! - Cathryn Hrudicka

Excellent! Happy Birthday Robert. It's already Sunday here :) - Ange Recchia/angesbiz

Happy Birthday Robert! - Holger Eilhard

Happy birthday - Duncan Riley

Happy Birthday ^__^ - Nia

Happy Birthday - Charlie Anzman

Scobleizer, Happy Birthday! - Mike Fruchter

Many Happy Returns and blessings to you Robert! - Melanie Reed

Happy Birthday Robert. Hope the coming year is a great one. - jjprojects

Happy Birthday - Sharron Field from twhirl

Happy Birthday - Kyle

I thought you were 34, have a great day! - paul mooney

Happy Bornday - rokhayakebe

Happy Birthday! If you were in Atlanta it would have been a snowy (predicted) birthday, not to mention a kewl place to celebrate in, home to Coca-Cola, CDC, Lockheed Martin and our very own Ted Turner's creation CNN. :-) [edited] - Moushumi Kabir

Happy 44 !!! - Rocky

Happy birthday! - Morton Fox

May I say Best Wishes on your Day... - bcultral

Happy Birthday, Robert! - Heidi Jeffers Thibodeau

Happy birthday! - Naser Farzinfar

Happy Birthday! - mandyvan

Happy Birthday - Leslie Poston

Happy Bday Robert! - Kelly Johns

Happy B-Day!! - Jeff P. Henderson

happy birthday I am offering you a like as present :) - Loic Le Meur from twhirl

happy bday!! - ::Kristen::

Have a Happy!!! - Seth Greenblatt

Have the best birthday ever! - jcunwired

happy bday - Zafarali

Happy Birthday Robert, Have a Great Weekend! - Michael Fidler

Happy birthday old man!™ - Larry Kless

Happy Birthday, Robert! Have a great day. - Andrew Terry

happy bday! - Zafarali

S dnem Rozhdeniya! (happy b-day!) - Olga Rasulova

Happy birthday! - Darren Heydon

Happy Birthday! - Pankaj from twhirl

You're 44? Herzlichen Glückwunsch Robert! - Gaby K. Slezák

A happy Birthday to you from old Europe - Donald Townsend

Congrats to your 44th! You look much younger though! :-) - Alex

Congrats! - Alan Kodzasov

Happy birthday :) - Carolyn Chan

happy bday! - Zafarali

Happy Birthday! - Ladybug Heather

Happy Birthday. Great seeing you in Las Vegas. - Steve Garfield from twhirl

Happy Birthday! - Didi Chanoch

Happy Birthday Robert! - Nicholas James

Cumpleaños Feliz! - Steven Livingstone-Pérez

Happy Birthday! (isn't it Prager's as well) - Marcus Beagley

Happy birthday, Robert! - Thierry R. Andriamirado

Happy birthday! Thanks for being the real first adopter and showing the rest of us new ways and places to explore. - Heather

Happy birthday Robert! Keep up the good work your'e doing! - Marc van Waardenburg

Happy birthday! - Robert Banghart

Happy Birthday Robert!!! The Queen sends her birthday wishes too :) London, United Kingdom - Justin Stevens

Happy Birthday Robert (Man, you're just a kid ! :) - Charlie Anzman

happy birthday - Travis Parsons

Happy birthday! • From Moscow, Russia - Alexey Ivanov

Happy birthday Pal!!!! - Thomas Hawk

Happy birthday. - Svartling

Happy birthday Robert! - Martin Bryant

Happy birthday, dude! - Michael VanDervort

Happy birthday, dear Robert! Happy birthday to you! :) - Lora Lufark

Many happy returns. - Mike Lewis

Happy B-Day, Robert. - Michael R. Bernstein

Happy Birthday, Robert! - ravi karandeekar

Happy Birthday from the island of Montreal! - Michael Forian

Happy Birthday to you. - Marcel Janus

Happy Birthday Robert! Enjoy your day! - Laura Zickus

Wait. I thought you were 10 years older than me. Then I realized you were 10 years younger!! Now I find out you're my age? I am suddenly hopeful! Yes we 44yr- olds can! .......Hey Robert, seriously, I wish you another 56 healthy years. Happy Birthday! ♫ - Ed Shahzade /NextInstinct

Happy Birthday, Robert!!!! :) - Molly, Time Traveller

Happy Birthday! http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3493... - glfceo

Happy Birthday Robert. - Daniel Rowley

Happy Birthday! - clp

Wishing you a great one Robert. Thanks for all you do for the Internet. I loved your interview with Seth Godin, you 2 were great together. - Jeremy Campbell from twhirl

@Jeremy Campbell - do you have a link to that interview? - Peter Warnock

Happy Birthday! Hooray for 1965! (My birthday is still a few weeks away, in March.) - vicster is...

Scobleizer, time to CELEBRATE-You have so much ahead of you, b/c what's behind you was great!! Thanks for all the great insight!! - Harold Cabezas

Happy birthday Robert! - Andrew

Happy Birthday Robert! - Parth Awasthi

Happy B1rthday Rob3rt - iSteeve

Happy Christmas Robert! (Didnt wanna say the same thing as everyone else) :) - Simon Wicks

happy bday robert - MG Siegler

Happy Bday!! - Sarah Perez

Happy Birthday! Have a wonderful year until the next :) - Pilgrim Five

winckel

New 17" MacBook Pro - world's thinnest laptop - http://arstechnica.com/news...

January 6, 2009 from Bookmarklet - Comment - Like - Share

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Me wants! - Robert Scoble

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I can never shake the idea that thinnest = fragile. But my 17 inch notebook is too heavy and I hesitate to carry it around, so I understand the attraction. I *wish* someone made a 15" again with a 1920x1600 res screen again, I'd buy *that* - Joelle Nebbe (iphigenie)

What use is any 17 inch laptap? Too big to be portable and too small to be a useful desktop. - Brian Sullivan

meh.... - Live4Emma (L4S)

Do not want. - Michael Forian

No thanks. - Mona Nomura

Brian, 17" works find as a useful desktop if the resolution of the screen is good - Joelle Nebbe (iphigenie)

thin is in! no new Mac Pro announcements? :( - Ryan

Joelle -- not for me-- a 20" is the minimum I find useful - Brian Sullivan

@Joelle Dell makes a few 15" with 1920x1600 - Kenton

This might push me to 17". - Jeremy Brooks

is their audio?? - Gregg

@kenton do they? excellent news! IBM/lenovo used to but they stopped, because screen size seems to be what people buy, not resolution (that's why you cant find a 17" LCD monitor at 1920x1600 Or even a 19". As you can guess i dont like pixels i can see) - Joelle Nebbe (iphigenie)

Yeah, can't say this is on my list to buy - Benny Wong

@joelle I think you need to go to the Studio line with a 256MB video card. Nice screens too, very similar to new Macbooks for colour and contrast. - Kenton

found them - shame there's no higher graphics card option, but that's a pretty neat package for the price. --tip toes out of hijacked mac topic-- - Joelle Nebbe (iphigenie)

0.98 inches. Shorter is the new better? - Chris Messina

This photo should be SO PHOTOSHOPPED. :) - Susan

@Chris...it's not the size of the ship but the....oh nevermind. - Live4Emma (L4S)

Keynote here > http://events.apple.com.edgesuite.net/0901oua... - winckel

a laptop that large makes no sense to me. and the price makes even less sense - Cee Bee

Its the anti-netbook! - Aaron deMello

Not for me. Tiny low priced netbooks are hot and apple introduces a $3000 17 inch laptop. Go figure. - Shannon Carver

Maybe SUVs will make a comeback too. - Steve Rubel

As long as a laptop is portable, I could give a crap about how thin it is. Rather have more function, lack of limitations, good performance, connectability as a priority. Wouldn't kick it out of bed though. - Kevin Leroux

Title's wrong... it's the "world's thinnest 17" laptop", not the "world's thinnest laptop." - Wade Dorrell

Size matters... - Ken Gillam

Kol Tregaskes

The Pills Are Alive With The Sound Of Music :-) / photocillin

January 18, 2009 from vi.sualize.us/koltregaskes - Comment - Like - Share

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koltregaskes posted a new favorite picture: - Kol Tregaskes

Excellent pun title. - Scott of Two Countries

Very creative idea for a photo. - Bob Gannon

Mo Kargas

Plucky Kids Save Drowning Puppy | Western Observer - http://www.westernobserver.com/plucky-...

January 15, 2009 from Bookmarklet - Comment - Like - Share

tinypants - Hagitha of FF, Janet, Darren Heydon and 22 other people liked this

:) - directeur

:)) - Anna Haro

:) - saeedeh from NoiseRiver

Tamar Weinberg

Crews hoist ditched plane from Hudson River - Yahoo! News - http://news.yahoo.com/s...

January 18, 2009 from Bookmarklet - Comment - Like - Share

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"With both engines out, Higgins said, flight attendants described complete silence in the cabin, "like being in a library." A smoky haze and the odor of burning metal or electronics filled the plane." - Tamar Weinberg

The plane came to a stop. The captain gave a one-word command, "Evacuate." - Tamar Weinberg

I can't even imagine this. Years ago I met my cousins best friend whose parents were the sole surivors of a plane crash many, many years ago. I've never asked, but their story has to be astounding. These people are so fortunate to have survived this! - Adriana

mashable

Downloads Finally Coming to YouTube Videos? - http://mashable.com/2009...

January 16, 2009 from Mashable! - Comment - Like - Share

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Robert Scoble

Internet Explorer 8 is 6,000x better than IE6, but it still bugs me. Google Chrome is the future. Here's why:

January 11, 2009 - Comment - Like - Share

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1. Google Chrome is way faster. - Robert Scoble

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2. Google Chrome is a rethink. IE8 is a bug fix. - Robert Scoble

3. Google Chrome has one box. IE 8 has two. - Robert Scoble

Google Chrome is very light weight (including the UI) - Vaibhav

4. Google Chrome works better with Google Reader and other AJAX sites. - Robert Scoble

5. IE8 has too many menus and icons. Gives a real cluttered feel. - Robert Scoble

IE's been a glorified bug fix since MS relabeled it from Mosaic, Robert - no secret there. :) I'm loving Chrome. - teleken

WebKit is a really good rendering engine. I've always secretly wished IE8 would use WebKit as their rendering engine and scrap IE rendering, and somehow incorporate ActiveX and all of the IE features into it, since WebKit is open-source, not tied to a specific competitor (as opposed to Gecko and Firefox) and is fast and stable. – Have to agree about Google Chrome as well. It's a great browser. As much as I love Safari, I wish Chrome would come to Mac sooner :) - Mark Bao

6. Google Chrome's search integration is magic. Start typing something and it figures out what you want. IE8 waits for you to finish, then brings up a boring web page. - Robert Scoble

Any others? - Robert Scoble

When it finally works on a Mac, perhaps I'll believe you ;) - Jeff

If it didn't bug someone it wouldn't still be Internet Explorer. - Josh Sharp

Looks like WebKit is the future, all mobile browsers have started using it. - Vaibhav

Google Chrome and FLASH don't get along! - paul mooney

Now I just wish Chrome worked better with Flash, or Flash worked better with Chrome. - Dennis Jackson

Google Chrome is focused on internet. IE seems to mix to much other junk in - Mike Scott

By the way, I wrote this whole item in IE8 running on Windows 7. If you are still going to use IE, please do get IE8. It is much better than previous versions. - Robert Scoble

Not a big fan of IE or Chrome... I'll stick with FireFox. - Steven Sanders

Google Chrome is slick...but I still like the simplicity of FireFox. - Charlie Flowers

I love Google Chrome, I just wish the addon's started rolling out. - Michael Fidler

Because the browser is a commodity... Connecting (correction - Deep Integration) with Google's cloud based services is the secret sauce. - Brian Roy

Charlie: simplicity of Firefox? You've gotta be kidding, right? I love Firefox because of its complexity! (Plugins keep me there a lot of the time). - Robert Scoble

I still need to play with Chrome in order to form an educated opinion. I'm just too hung up on Firefox still. :P - Korey

Timely thread. I literally installed Google Chrome on my home computer within the last half hour (hey, I'm slow at these things - I'm not trendy). Just poking around a bit now, liking the speed. StumbleUpon support is an issue, but I'm reading up on it and other stuff. Just read Sarah Perez's post on privacy. - Ontario Emperor

I h ave never been a fan of ActiveX. The fact that several websites still rely on it versus better technologies irks me and I refuse to use them. - Jason Shultz from twhirl

hope they add the tabs preview to Windows 7 when you hover over the taskbar chrome icon - Vaibhav

Paul: Google Chrome gets along fine with Flash here. What are you experiencing? - Robert Scoble

Yeah, I have to admit, IE8 is a pretty good browser, relatively speaking (relative to IE7 and IE6.) Renders my pages a ton better than previous versions. - Mark Bao

Flash slows down Chrome for me pretty significantly, sometimes to where it's not even usable. Maybe it's just my computer. - Dennis Jackson

How is IE6 a basis for comparison to anything anymore? Totally agree about Chrome. - Bob Starr

loved chrome until I found out it wasn't compatible with my Roboform. I'm lazy and not too security conscious. - BEX

IE 8 was supposed to be more compliant with standards, but it breaks a lot of websites which work in IE7, FF, Chrome. (Scratching my head) - Vaibhav

Amen on the 'IE mixing other junk in' thought. I hate typing a hostname into it & it tries to hit a UNC or whatever the heck it's doing... - Steven Byrnes

Chrome has a whole list of niggling problems and has had since day one -- they just never seem to get fixed. I like the speed and simplicity but Chrome will become the next IE unless Google starts paying attention to detail. - Brian Sullivan

Chrome lets you create 'desktop applications' that don't get lost in all of those tabs and don't waste space with the address bar! - Jon Issler

I use Chrome from time to time, but it just feels wrong when I do, I think I'll be sticking with Firefox. - Randy

I am with Vaibhav on "webkit is the future as well" - Peter Finn

Val: Privacy is dead. I really don't care. - Robert Scoble

Chrome's biggest shortcomings right now are password security and the lack of plugins/extensions... Have to give Firefox a nod for having those two nailed! - Jon Issler

I think Chrome is Google's paid service platform... http://www.johnworthington.me/... - Johnny Worthington

Google Chrome is like FireFox back when it was Phoenix: Sleek, sexy and satisfying. Beta 2 adds autocomplete, profiles and a Greasemonkey style scripting. - John Rubier

Chrome has built in Task Manager.... anyone? ..... alright, never mind. - Vaibhav

@Dennis check your fans. If your on a laptop the fans and/or exhaust may be blocked with dust. that happened to me on my laptop, any flash video slowed my laptop down. realized one day (after reinstalling windows and still having the problem) that my fans had a lot of dust. used compressed air to clean them out, problem solved. happy laptop! - Jason Shultz from twhirl

One thing I know I liked about Chrome: The web-comic! http://tiny.cc/9Ck9L - Korey

I'm amazed at how many flash/chrome issues there are. Ive never had any? - Mike Scott

Looking forward to chrome coming out for the mac - Kevin Whalen

I still see that firefox is the future! unless google chrome will be a 100% organic software http://snipr.com/9u3ld - Mark Guadalupe

I love firefox and plug-ins, but does Chrome need plug-ins? I thought their deal was to run current and next-gen online applications better, which will likely preclude the need for the plug-ins we firefox users can't live without now. - Bill Garrett

Robert, I really like Chrome too. The universal address/search/history bar is the future of browsing. There are only a small % of sites that do not work with Chrome... usually old school corporations, such as ones that I have to pay bills online at. Grr. Works 99.8% of the time for me otherwise. - Brian

I just installed the Windows 7 beta. I fired up IE 8 and it didn't correctly render a nonprofit's Web site I administer as a volunteer (www.spauldingcenter.org). IE 8 didn't correctly render some of the CSS. I installed Chrome and Chrome got it right. IE 8 is obviously not yet ready for release. - Rod Bauer from twhirl

I love Chrome and it is my default browser now. In fact all my flash problems in Firefox and IE went away in Chrome (video paused many times during playback, audio kept going). They are both memory hoars. Maybe a problem with too much Flash on websites? The lack of plugin support is very troubling. - Chris Mayer

I'm keen for getting mac version of chrome too, though its going to be interesting to see how they're gonna handle interface - Mike Scott from IM

Re: 6. The search bar autofill? Err FF has that too for recently visited sites. If you get an Add-On it'll do the potential sites too. - Adam

Google Chrome may be nice, but there was an "Epic Fail" on my system when Chrome decided that it was the default browser (out of four browsers) and would not directly allow me to un-check the Default-Browser checkbox. It was quickly removed. - Robert Miller

I don't care about Internet Explorer any more. I switched to Firefox + Foxmarks, and solved a nagging problem - synchronization of bookmarks across multiple Windows *and* OS X machines - that the 'softies *still* haven't managed to solve, despite wasting a few developer-centuries on Live Mesh. - Pat Rice

Love Chrome. Use it whenever I can. It does have problems with some sites, and I'm always having problems with flash crashing in it. - cjmart

Kind of ironic that Chrome and Firefox and both performing much better for me under Windows 7. The beta Chrome release is really sweet. - Charlie Anzman

@Pat: I use live mesh to sync my bookmarks between machines all the time. Add your favorites folder to mesh and you are good to go. Mesh for mac is available too. - Chris Johnson

Google Chrome doesn't know what's RSS!!! FAIL - carrotmadman6

I feel like people are debating the relative merits of tn3270 emulators... - Brian Roy

I like the speed/lightness of Chrome, however i dont think it will be big anytime soon with anyone other than techies. Doesnt run many addins/plugins etc... Unlikely any enterprise will adopt it either. Its a great reference app. - Chris Johnson

Chrome certainly is clean and renders fast, but until the experience can be customized via extensions like Firefox, there is no one way I can make it my primary. I just loaded Win. 7 on my laptop and the only thing I ported over from any of my other machines was my FEBE. - George Rogers

Important point for me is that Chrome opens more of the monitor for the content on the page, not for toolbars that i do not need while browsing a page. no loss of functionality without the toolbar. - Jeff DiStanlo

I wonder how many people even know what tn3270 is used for :) I know I do all too well. - Patrick Allmond

+++ on this. FoxMarks is awesome. Just wish FoxMarks had an iPhone browser sync also :( - Patrick Allmond

Any Flock 2.0 users here? If Chrome comes out for the Mac, I may take a look as well - but Firefox/Flock has been great for me for now. - Erich Miller

@Robert: Maybe simplicity wasn't the right word..."ease of use" might be a better term. I think that FF's layout is not as radically different from the browsers I grew up with (IE & Netscape), as Chrome seems to be...maybe that's why I find it simpler to use. Having said that, Chrome is by no means complex, just not as intuitive as FF. As you mentioned, the plug-ins add to the ease of use. It seems you can get a FireFox plug-in for anything. - Charlie Flowers

BTW, have you tried FF's AutoPager plug-in. That thing is amazing! It "automatically loads the next page of a site inline when you reach the end of the current page for infinite scrolling of content"...it's perfect for things like Twitter, Google, and yes it works for FriendFeed too. :D - Charlie Flowers

I'm using Flock 2.0 on both Mac and Windows. I've uninstalled Chrome -- didn't care for it much since Flock does everything I need it to. - Victor Solanoy

:hits the Googles to figure out what the Flock you guys are talking about: - teleken

IE8 (and Firefox) offer a lot of tools to supplement your browsing experience. Chrome just gets out of the way. I'm not sure one or the other is a fundamentally superior approach. - Toph Tucker

Installed Flock for all of 5 minutes. Sticking with Chrome, thanks. - teleken

ctrl+t takes forever on IE8, and for what? A blank tab. I like Chrome's approach - Andrew Smith

Firefox's is simple and extendable. Firefox' strength comes from its pluggability and ease of developing new plugins. Chrome needs to beat that. - Angsuman Chakraborty

Chrome needs to support Linux before it can even think of replacing Firefox. Chromium port of Chrome on Linux isn't very stable. - Angsuman Chakraborty

firefox plugins are the new activeX. there's too much functionality i use for me to shift *now*. i *do* like chrome, though. - moogs

I like moving tabs into new windows, but does crashes alot w/ Flash - Da

7. If one tab crashes, all the other tabs are unaffected. Let's see ANY other browser do that. - Nathan Chase

i think i'll stick with firefox. so much more you can do with it.. - Terry O'Fee

Chrome is fast (unlike IE), has a very minimal UI (also unlike IE), and you can move tabs to other windows. I have never been able to get Firefox to open new tabs next to the tab they're opened from, instead of at the far right, plus I don't really care about extensions. Plus, I've never had any issues with Flash. The only problem is that my school email won't work in Chrome (but that's minor). Chrome wins for me. - imperator3733 from twhirl

Robert - how is the performance of IE8 compared to Chrome and Firefox? Personally, I'd be using Chrome if I had my add-ons and greasemonkey scripts. I love Chrome's mult-tasking / memory management - very nice - Susan Beebe

@Imperator, Firefox's UI can be slimmed down, and you can fix the tab issue with Tab Mix Plus. Also, Firefox 3.1 is faster than Chrome. - Tanath

how bout: Chrome is CSS compliant? IE8 isn't, I know this by experience - Duncan Riley

@Nathan -- as far as I know, IE8 separated tabs into different processes first.... - Toph Tucker

I think FriendFeed should put a comment button at the bottom of the comments... that said, Opera is the fastest, but it has a few shortcomings. I use FireFox or Chrome depending on what PC I'm at. Some sites only work in IE. - Gus

Google Chrome uses your screen real estate more efficiently - Aad 't Hart

Chrome focuses on the web and not on the browser and that's what a browser's supposed to do. - Rohit

May be when there are basic extensions available for Chrome then it will be fair to compare with Firefox. For now, I don't see Chrome that useful, even though it's clean, a bit faster and provides more screen space. After a couple of days of using Chrome, I switched to Firefox as I felt less productive without the powerful extensions in Firefox. - Amar Shah

When Chrome has an extension like Better GReader, TabMixPlus, and NoScript, then I'll switch, but FF has everything I need with the extensions. NoScript is about the ONLY addon I absolutely need to use for security of my computer. - Ⓐ ☠ slayerboy ☠ Ⓐ

You can install extensions on the Chromium Builds! Go for it! - Will Higgins™

love chrome as much as the next guy, but it does crash sometimes over simplest things, like downloading sth from gmail or greader. & it's not just one tab that goes - it all goes & only one comes back, either gmail or greader... - siggimus

Chrome also crashes when importing Firefox Bookmarks, which makes it awkward to switch. But yeah, I would still use Firefox over IE 8. - Todd Brunner from twhirl

my mother understands the search-thingy-box in chrome. - Svensonsan

@scobleizer I think this would have made a good blog post. Would have been easier to read you view points. The discussion could then have happened on friendfeed. Too many comments to read properly - Sidharth Dassani

Chrome and WebKit are the future - just hope there's still room for Firefox. Remember how Firefox became Firefox? - Mona Nomura from fftogo

I agree. Chrome focuses on opening fast, which is critical for impatient people like me. Firefox and IE are way too slow. - Richard Crocker

WebKit can do CSS3 gradients, and I have only seen it in WordPress for creating actual images with gradients. Chrome is the future indeed! Extensions? heh, I use javascript bookmarklets to do my bidding! Chromes bookmark manager is more powerful than I expected. Passwords can be imported from FF but there is no backup option yet. - Web20Critic

Chrome is really promising, but still incomplete imo. Being a web developer, I have deep connections with firefox plug-ins like FireBug (with Yslow), dev. toolbar and a couple more. But looking at the future, I think the final round of the browser wars will be between Safari and Chrome (ofc IE will still have at least 50% market) because Firefox gets slower and more agonizing with every new release, and lacks the support Apple and Google offers for Safari/Chrome - Onur Cengiz

If chrome crashes, report it! Make a note of what you were doing and blog it, microshare it, post it on the chromium blog etc. This way all of us can help make it work for us! Nice thread for tech support, Mr Scoble! - Web20Critic

7. Because Chrome has a new and improved version every week/month/quarter (depending upon the distribution channel) whereas IE version comes once in 3 years. - Varun Mahajan

Robert: How did you get IE8 on Windows 7??? The installer refused to run when i tried. - Roberto Bonini

Roberto: it came with Windows 7. Or so I thought. I already had it loaded on this machine before I upgraded. - Robert Scoble

Robert Scoble

If you want more followers on Twitter and friendfeed here's what to do:

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1. Stop begging for followers. It turns off all the interesting people. - Robert Scoble

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2. RT smart people's stuff but add onto it with a good comment. - Robert Scoble

3. If you have something smart to say, say it to someone directly like "Hey @techcrunch you should check out the new Palm Pre." - Robert Scoble

I now await the inevitable flood of "RTs" of this message ;-) - Warren

4. Send wine or other bribes to people who make lots of noise. - Robert Scoble

Sounds like someone's running low on wine :) - Eric Florenzano

5. If you are friends with a real celebrity bring them around at blogger/twitter parties. Make sure you get them to follow you and remember your name. All good twitterers have iPhones or other phones that they can tweet from. - Robert Scoble

6. Put your twitter and friendfeed addresses on your business cards. - Robert Scoble

7. Talk shit about Eric Florenzano. :-) - Robert Scoble

Ok, well that's *someone's* blog done for tomorrow, then! :) - WorldofHiglet

8. Follow people back if they add value. 1938media has added 1,000 new followers since he started following everyone back. - Robert Scoble

What kind of wine goes with bribe? Did you ask GaryVee while in Vegas? - Dave Cadoff

9. Talk shit about that Scoble dude. Yeah, me. Sometimes it gets a link and a follow. Especially if you teach me something while you are calling me an idiot. - Robert Scoble

LOL *hands Robert a bottle of wine* Please add the "don't pout or make a twitter fuss when you notice someone drops you. Insecurity isn't a attraction" - Sprite

10. Be interesting. Craig Newmark got hundreds of follows in first evening (I was the first to follow him) after I tweeted about him. Why? Because he was interesting already. - Robert Scoble

Remember it's not about the followers - it's about the relationships. Your purpose of having many followers should be so you can build relationships with as many of them as possible. - Jesse Stay

11. Do something sensational like tatoo your twitter address onto your face. - Robert Scoble

BTW, (real-life) relationships then bring more followers - Jesse Stay

Wine? Bribe? Anything will get noticed. Better yet, put a custom label on it and include your Twitter address on it. - Robert Scoble

Liked for the 'talk shit about Scoble'. Also, Scoble, do you accept Mead? - Will Higgins™

12. Hang out with Jesse Stay. Better yet, bring him to Twitter's headquarters for an interview (that's what I did and it worked). - Robert Scoble

I've tried to do everything on this list, but the tattoo isn't going to work. I've already branded my twitter address onto several steers. - Mike Nayyar

13. Stalk Guy Kawasaki until he calls the cops on you or follows you. - Robert Scoble

14. Get naked. Take pictures. Include your Twitter address. - Robert Scoble

er - we've seen most of your body, Robert, so where's *your* tatoo? - WorldofHiglet

15. Tweet from a burning plane. - Robert Scoble

16. Tweet from jail. - Robert Scoble

17. Tweet your marriage proposal. - Robert Scoble

Robert, so you're saying I got you more followers? - Jesse Stay

18. Tweet you are dying. - Robert Scoble

19. Be a member of congress, or better yet, Barack Obama. - Robert Scoble

This would loose me followers. Trust me on this. It would also get me a few lawsuits I think. :D - MarkCarras

this is going to go on for like...days...isn't it :P - Erin @queenofspain

#18 is reasonable, as long as you don't actually die. Lowers your productivity. - Ken Brady

Jesse: hanging out with you made me far cooler than I was previously. - Robert Scoble

If I'm gonna get naked, I've got to have some sort of revenue coming in. At least enough to buy a netbook with. - MiniMage - HLtW

Write a FriendFeed post about how to get others to follow you - Jesse Stay

20. Get your picture on the Twitter blog. (Actually that didn't work that well because they didn't include my Twitter address). Heheh. - Robert Scoble

be yourself and those that fit with you will follow? or at least seem a certain way for that audience? - David

21. Tweet while having sex. Or getting drunk. Or, better yet, doing both. - Robert Scoble

Robert, no, I must say I became much cooler hanging out with you - Jesse Stay

Will: Mead? Absolutely! - Robert Scoble

Jesse: that's what you think. Ask your real friends and they will probably tell you otherwise. :-) - Robert Scoble

22. get on Leo Laporte's show and have him order his listeners to follow you. He did this last Sunday to my son and you should have seen the followers roll in. That dude has POWER!!! - Robert Scoble

Robert, I asked them and they said you're the man - Jesse Stay

23. Get @garyvee to take you wine tasting. Tweet it. - Robert Scoble

24. Write a book about Twitter. - Robert Scoble

naked pictures drunk sex and dying. got it. Oh, also, be Barack Obama. ANything else? - Erin @queenofspain

25. Get Chris Brogan to say you are smart. - Robert Scoble

Be hot and make sure your avatar shows it - Chris Saad

WTF how pathetic do u have to be tohave this desire to be followed.Ppl follow u cuz they find u interesting & if not they will dump u period.Being a Personal Ball washer is just lame to get to have followers.be sure to hold ur ground. - Baba

26. Get into an argument with @techcrunch. - Robert Scoble

I've mentioned my Twitter account on The Tech Guy but I think my last name throws people. :D - MarkCarras

27. Question @loic's Frenchness. - Robert Scoble

Go to breakfast with @techcrunch and he tweets about it randomly - Chris Saad

"Have Scoble say you are interesting." Just worked for a few people I am going to "try follow". - Dean Clark

Erin, welcome to Twitter ;-) - Jesse Stay

28. Be like Baba and call everyone who worries about being followed an idiot. Or 28B. Agree with Baba. Personally, he's right! - Robert Scoble

Tell any blogger they're wrong - Jesse Stay

29. Claim you are above this stupid game. - Robert Scoble

Quit Twitter, come back after 2 months - Jesse Stay

All bloggers are wrong at least every few posts. Especially me! :D - MarkCarras

30. Follow more interesting people. That's why I've said for a year now it's most important who you follow, not who is following you. What I really was trying to say there is if you want better followers you've got to follow better people. - Robert Scoble

lol Jesse. Twitter? What's that? I thought I was learning how to sell a shamwow - Erin @queenofspain

What kind of wine are we talking here? - Chris Poirier

Mark, you bet, but we are all type-A personalities. We hate to be told we're wrong and will defend it to our dying day. :) - Jesse Stay

31: Give away something. Hold a contest. - Robert Scoble

Launch a great Twitter service and stick your twitter name in the footer - Chris Saad

32. Invite Louis Gray over for dinner. Make sure he brings his twins. Take pictures. 1000 extra points if you bring shirts for the twins with your Twitter address on them. - Robert Scoble

be in a warzone and don't die - Simon T Small

33. Do something outrageous for followers. - Robert Scoble

Start a thread going on and on about it on FriendFeed :) - Chris Saad

imagine what'd happen if you had sex with Obama on a burning plane heading for a warzone, whilst drunk, and piloting the plane? - Simon T Small

@Simon ROFL too funny - Chris Saad

34. Chris Saad is right. Speaking of Chris, if you party with him in Amsterdam you'll get more followers. Oh, and if you are the guy who wrote http://www.twittervision.com you'll get more followers. - Robert Scoble

Take a pic down a girls shirt and post it on FF. - David

Not 'Chris Saad' robert - @ChrisSaad :D - Chris Saad

Get in with the Mommy Bloggers and #GNO Tweeps - Jesse Stay

35. Get your Twitter address on CNN. UPDATE: Hey, Chris Saad here you have to put http://www.friendfeed.com/chrissa... heheh. - Robert Scoble

Good call Jesse, I was going to say piss off the mommybloggers , but getting in with them works too...lol - Erin @queenofspain

I've had 2 new FriendFeed followers just from this thread. - Jesse Stay

Follow Garry Vee (don't ask me to spell his full name out at this time of night, please?) what kind of wine goes with Twittering. *lol* Well, Gary Vee is THE wine expert on Twitter. :P - Molly, Time Traveller

be Robert Scoble - Simon T Small

36. Jesse Stay found a new one: comment on lots of friendfeed threads! - Robert Scoble

@simontsmall post your Twitter feed here http://twitter.com/simonts... - Simon T Small

Erin, it is my goal to be King of the Mommy bloggers - Jesse Stay

Follow just 1 online multi-level marketer and you'll has a ton start following you - Paul Povolni

I buy dinner for anyone who comes to my area and contacts me through Twitter...and is following me. :D - MarkCarras

I find that not following people back increases the rate at which I gain followers - Simon T Small

Simon: being Robert Scoble is pretty hard. You've gotta keep coming up with new ways to find followers. It's easier to call him an asshole on twitter. Even better, call him, TechCrunch, 1938media, JasonCalacanis, Guy Kawasaki, and a few other people assholes. - Robert Scoble

37. Jeremiah Owyang found this one: stop Twittering. - Robert Scoble

I'm amazed I don't get called an asshole more often. I think this should be my New Years Resolution. :D - MarkCarras

38. Follow someone, then when they don't follow you back, call them out on it and say they are lame. - Robert Scoble

Robert: haha! I'll try it now :) - Simon T Small

39. Come up with a new Twitter game. Get it retweeted by Chris Brogan. - Robert Scoble

Make a real funny stream on Friendfeed, but better yet put it on your blog so SEO really gathers people to it and put your Friendfeed/Twitter handles right in the post - Ian D. Nock

40. Pay Magpie to spam everyone with your Twitter address. - Robert Scoble

41. Go to Gnomedex. - Robert Scoble

Oh don't tell people to talk shit about you. It's kinda sad to see people talking crap about you, then when you're some place they are, they turn all fanboy. - Admiral Anika

Robert: wait, not change in plans, I don't hate those people, damn it! - Simon T Small

No one gets to be King of the mommybloggers until I deem it so dammit - Erin @queenofspain

42. Hang out with @newmediajim at the Inauguration. - Robert Scoble

I figured it out before Jeremiah: http://staynalive.com/article... - Jesse Stay

43. Hang out with Hillary Clinton in Davos (my dream). - Robert Scoble

Erin, but I thought you were the Queen of Spain - Jesse Stay

44. Come up with a new set of rules for Twitter behavior. - Robert Scoble

Oh boy, Mr. Scoble. I hope you are not Tweeting while getting drunk and having sex... Poor Mommy and son... Some things need to stay sacred. Do you really want the world at large to know what you are doing at all times? Quit goofing and send us more tech info we enjoy. Great videos from CES by the way. I even got my partner to come and watch some of them. Thanks for the good stuff! - Colleen

45. Get more followers on Facebook then get them all to join you on Twitter. - Robert Scoble

46. Be @god. Even better. Be @god and hand out beta invites to something cool coming soon. - Robert Scoble

Colleen: I didn't say I use all these ideas. But I've seen them work on other people. :-) - Robert Scoble

Don't forget the with @mchammer part - Jesse Stay

Give a talk at a geek event and make sure you give out your Twitter name for feedback - Chris Saad

47. Twitter the birth of your new baby (high risk, if you aren't there mentally during contractions you might see your iPhone thrown across the room). - Robert Scoble

Pay @MrTweet to recommend you to everyone - Chris Saad

48. Tweet exclusive Apple news before anyone else does. - Robert Scoble

49. Be the first to retweet a big earthquake tweet. - Robert Scoble

Got any more? - Robert Scoble

Throw popularity out the window and somehow measure influence (stay tuned) :) - Chris Saad

Make a list of ways to get more followers. - Scott Kingery

change your name to your @twitter handle - Simon T Small

Chris: hah, even better, have so many followers already that you break MrTweet. :-) - Robert Scoble

50. Post cleavage pictures of yourself with your Twitter name plastered on the picture CLASSY! - Mona Nomura

Ustream the birth of your new baby (even higher risk, but at least you have proof): http://www.ustream.tv/blog... - Jesse Stay

51. Follow everyone then unfollow as soon as you get a follow - follow that? - Mona Nomura

Chris: Influence is gold, like it, am tuned - Simon T Small

This post alone lets me see the value of FriendFeed over Twitter for conversations. Glad the list above isn't documentation of your personal twitter conquest, but a record of some of the looneyness of Twitter follower greediness - Paul Povolni

52. Move to SF and go to every. single. Tweet-up! YAY HOW FUN! - Mona Nomura

Be Warren Buffett or similar. - Moushumi Kabir

Scott: I don't know that this list helped me that much. But, how about a list of things that will get rid of followers? I bet that one would work better. - Robert Scoble

53. Set text alerts for Brightkite and follow all the huge Tweeter's comings and goings - show up and SUBTLY introduce yourself so you'll be name dropped. Keyword = SUBTLY - Mona Nomura

54. Go to every single conference and shamelessly pass out your Twitter in lieu of email! - Mona Nomura

Streak at the Supebowl with your twitter name on your front and back(side) - Simon T Small

Be a default on FriendFeed - Jesse Stay

Nice to see this list here instead of scattered across oblivion---I mean Twitter... - Rob Michael (Atmos Trio)

use http://search.twitter.com to find people that like what you like, @reply them and RT their stuff. :) - Simon T Small

Jesse: that only used to work. There are no defaults on friendfeed anymore. In fact, if you don't have any friends it won't recommend anyone to you. - Robert Scoble

Name drop as much as you can and do whatever it takes to get written up on ValleyWag (wow, I've learned a lot in six months!) - Mona Nomura

Get Robert Scoble to tweet that he can't believe what's going on at your birthday party even though it was a tame house party with friends - Chris Saad

Tell people to NOT follow you. I mean it. Don't. - Andrew Smith

Get your name on Alltop - Jesse Stay

another posting sponsored by Palm *yawn* - Dieter Schwarz from Nambu

Post a bajillion pictures of your kids, pets, and more kids. - Mona Nomura

Make sure you participate in every. single. Robert post and name drop him as much as possible. ;) - Mona Nomura

Mona, great one - Kids, Dogs, and Kittenz - Bacon, too - Jesse Stay

@Dieter if a post was sponsored by anyone scoble would let u know - trust me - Chris Saad

Go to every. single. event and take + post as many. pictures. as you can w/ the "famous" people and PING.FM THOSE PICTURES! - Mona Nomura

Here's a novel idea - Have something interesting to say and focus on producing value instead of your follower count :) - Chris Saad

Mona, Facebook and Flickr tag them as well - Jesse Stay

Always respond to people with an "@" ie: @scobelizer WOW this thread RULES - since you never know what Google's indexing! - Mona Nomura

Dieter: Huh? If anything this post would be sponsored by Seagate. You can follow them at http://friendfeed.com/seagate (Seagate sponsors my video show, not my friendfeed account). - Robert Scoble

Mona: 'post famous pictures' Love it. Works a charm on facebook. - Simon T Small

i have a new one: use Browser bugs to greet your blogvisitors with their twittername http://is.gd/eMdF @andreasklinger - Andreas Klinger

Chris: having something interesting to say? No, that couldn't work, could it? I'd rather talk about my followers. :-) - Robert Scoble

Retweet this thread (no, that's not a request, it's an idea) - Jesse Stay

Robert: U do both so its all good :) - Chris Saad

Chris Saad: yer talkin crazy with that last one. Focus on content? Insanity. - Scott Kingery

55: Dieter reminded me of one more: talk about products that already have Twitter accounts. When I talked about HR Block they followed me. So did Ford. So did Zappos. - Robert Scoble

56. Don't auto-DM followers just follow them back or RT their next tweet - Damian Holmes

Get a tshirt made with your twitter name on it... - Luke Harvey-Palmer

Find a unique thing that you can help another Twitter user on - the bigger the user, the better. Fix their problem. - Jesse Stay

So did @HeavyAsHell Oh wait, that's my site. :D - MarkCarras

57. post a comment to a robert scoble FF feed - Damian Holmes

Luke: T-shirts are so common. How about shoes? Jeans? Underwear? Don Box used to have his company logo on underwear. Called them "Boxer shorts." I still remember those, even though I've forgotten all the lame Tshirts I've ever gotten. - Robert Scoble

Only a slut is going to be able to advertise well with branded underwear - MiniMage - HLtW

Compete for the most followers on Twitter - didn't Leo and Calacanis do that at one time? (or am I getting the contenders wrong?) - Jesse Stay

58. write your twitter name on your eyelids then go to a tweetup or large tech conference - Damian Holmes

MiniMage: not true. Don Box is no slut. He now runs a team at Microsoft. - Robert Scoble

Spam FF with your useful knowledge - WorldofHiglet

Be an early adopter - be one of the first, get in early, and build a follow base early - Jesse Stay

Another one? Take pictures of Twitter users and follow them. They almost always follow back. - Robert Scoble

I aint never heard of Don Box, and that means I didn't see that underwear! ;). No, seriously, I concede, but I had to make a retort. - MiniMage - HLtW

This thread is my bucket list. - Eric Florenzano

I think a good way to make more friends is to live an interesting life. Life is a journey. You meet people just around every corner. Twitter happens to be one of them. - Helge V. Keitel

Build up and help out a non-A list, but up-and-coming A or B list Twitter user or blogger. They will be more appreciative (it's those people that like the shirts and swag). - Jesse Stay

Tweet something like this: "I'm looking for funny people to follow, do you know any?" - Robert Scoble

Never sleep - Jesse Stay

#ces09 hash #mwsf09 tags #cwc09 use #sxsw09 them #snl as #jackiepetersspawn much · #gaza as #hiphop possible #burritos every #dubstep other #microblogging word = KEY (relevance matters not) - Mona Nomura

Get @gapingvoid to use your twitter address in one of his cartoons (he designed my business cards and you would be amazed how well that works). - Robert Scoble

@Mona use a hot suggestive silhouette as your avatar - that alwasy helps too - Chris Saad

Mona you are *so* followed - Jesse Stay

Take Louis Gray to a Vodka bar. You might not get any followers, but you will have a good time and he doesn't drink so you'll have a safe drive home, too! - Robert Scoble

follow A, B, C, D, E, F, X and Z listers - Damian Holmes

Create a custom T-shirt with "I Love Your Stream" (mine) on front(or your own words) and your Twitter name on back. I did it with @crypticfragment at zazzle.com. Still waiting for it. I didn't put twitter name on back though, should have, but not trying to gain HUGE followers, just the ones that would like to hear about furniture,interior design and eco home stuff! I put: twitter:FTW, on the back. - Leslie Carothers

Robert, not to mention get on the front of Valleywag - Jesse Stay

I keep hiding this but it doesn't stay hidden. :( - Mona Nomura

Follow the Top 500 in your City then Top 500 in your Country that's at least 500 follow backs - Damian Holmes

Jesse: I find that I get a lot of followers by keeping the A list on the A list. Who wants to deal with those assholes if they fall onto the B list? - Robert Scoble

I'm with @garyvee & how he encourages us to *execute the best YOU* - don't try to be anyone else but the *best* you... your passionate self. Peeps who resonate with you will follow. And for sure add value, retweet good resources, build peeps up, thank those who comment on your blog & RT you. - Mari Smith

58. Post to a list to get people to follow you. such as the one explaining how to get people to follow you... - Sheraz Mahmood

ROFL Robert! - Jesse Stay

share links to awesome blog posts - Simon T Small

Sheraz Mahmood I just tried that, thought i'd do something, but 10 minutes later and nothing *cries* - Simon T Small

59. Be the center of the universe...the rest will follow - Sheraz Mahmood

Unnecessarily talk about iPhones. - Mona Nomura

Start browser wars. - Mona Nomura

Re-Tweet all of Tech Crunch's posts. - Mona Nomura

Start Steve Jobs rumors - Mona Nomura

Name drop Hollywood celebrities even if you don't know them. - Mona Nomura

By the way, I'm following everyone who has participated on this so far. Why? Because only geeks would be online on a Saturday night and I want to follow all the geeks. So, everyone here has at least one follower on friendfeed. - Robert Scoble

write a dramatic post about a family from Romania with a child with down syndrome and ask people to donate money. - Simon T Small

Robert: You'll need to unfollow me, its 6pm Sunday here in Aussieland, so I'm not a commited geek sorry - Simon T Small

Robert: Gotta do something while Windows 7 downloads :) - Scott Kingery

Haha!! So busted - very good point re your last comment, Robert. Thank goodness for fab understanding spouses is all I say. hehe - Mari Smith

60. Get on FriendFeed and Twitter super early and become de facto popular. And yes, #32 is a must. - Louis Gray

Robert: were not all in Silicon Valley - its 16:30 in China - (awaiting the flames or unfollows - which is worst?) - Damian Holmes

... and always listen to Scoble! Ha-ha. Robert, we admire you! - Alan Kodzasov

Another tip: Don't live in Australia nearly NOBODY here is on Twitter - Simon T Small

Compliment the crap out of "A-listers" and always laugh at all of their jokes. Make sure to add at least seven exclamation points. ie:"LOL!!!!!!!!!!" to stand out from the crowd. - Mona Nomura

Note: above only works if you participate in every. single. one of their posts on both Twitter and FriendFeed! - Mona Nomura

Mona: absolutely! :-) - Robert Scoble

Robert: 5:30 pm in Tokyo. I'm pretty much just getting going for the day. :-) - Ken Brady

Say something that makes a 200 + comment thread ;) - videopixil

When you send bribes, make sure to research. ie: LG doesn't drink but Robert likes wine. Subtly ask for preferences so they'll get something they actually _like_ <--KEY. - Mona Nomura

Use Tweetdeck and apply filters to see subjects you are expert in. You'll notice lots of people look for advice in certain fields so you can reply and show your expertise. I notice those people you help are happy and more likely to follow you even if you don't follow them. - Luca Filigheddu from fftogo

Have a sense of humor! - Mona Nomura

@videopixil Of course, that applies to most things Scoble says. - Ken Brady

@tkpleslie says," Ask people like @scobleizer sincere question about whether Nokia's new phone works for people, like me, that wear hearing aids when's he's in Japan in middle of your night at the actual Nokia conference where phone is being intro'd for first time. He did respond,nicely,but did not follow so I guess it doesn't work too well. - Leslie Carothers

Send Mona lego art wrapped in bacon. Oh wait, that'll get you friendfeed follows. - Yuvi

better yet. take Robert AND Louis to a Vodka bar - Erin @queenofspain

OMG iPhones are SO 2008. Becoming a Palm, Pre, and Nova fanbois = FUTURE - Mona Nomura

@Mona Humor is key. What better length at which to be witty? Any longer than this and most of us become dull. - Ken Brady

Robert, I kinda bagged you, with a positive spin, it got me on openzap 'today's best' http://openzap.com/ - Simon T Small

Crap, #palm #pre #nova #followme #ILOVEROBERTSCOBLE!!!!!!!!!! - Mona Nomura

This was before I really understood as @marismith says, that true value in twitter for me is having followers and following those people with intersecting paths because, like in real life, that's how interesting real conversations have a chance to develop into fuller, deeper, more lasting relationships. - Leslie Carothers

Robert, It's Sunday Morning in Loviisa, Finland ;) - Helge V. Keitel

Leslie: I did follow you here on friendfeed. I still haven't been able to find out if it works well for hearing impaired. I'm sure it does, though. The speaker phone on that device is pretty darn good. - Robert Scoble

Speak in SAT verbiage at all times to make yourselves sound smarter. - Mona Nomura

Never admit: ay kin knot reed end rite... :( - Mona Nomura

This is a great list Robert, I love making new friends. All those awful things people are saying about you must be wrong - aren't they? -] - Chris Loft

Post YouTube clips of classical music to make yourself seem more cultured. - Mona Nomura

Share everythign popular on digg because if it's on digg, it MUST be cool. - Mona Nomura

stop following people who post about following and follow people who don't try... - Ryan

mention yourself on Scobles friendfeed (@mattrendo) - Matt Rendo

Keep up with memes since everyone wants to hear what's been repeated on the web a trillion times without contributing a new opinion. ie: CES looks cool. - Mona Nomura

All great points. I've always hated requests for follows. I'm only attempting something like it for charity. In that instance, those who do the same should be very clear about WHY they want followers in the first place. Otherwise it looks like you're just in it for yourself. - Brandon Mendelson

@mattrendo, already been said up there! But you FAIL since you forgot the hashtag: #scoblizerrulesOMGWTFBACON. - Mona Nomura

Chris Loft: everything said about me is absolutely true! :-) - Robert Scoble

So it's true that you have huge... giant... socks? - Chris Saad

Thanks for the follow here on FriendFeed, Robert. I know this is where you interact. But,because home base for me is Twitter, I never saw your follow here until I went to comment on this thread! It's too much for me to constantly go back and forth and also keep up with work, life,friends and family.How do you guys do it? Thanks, tho, Robert,for letting me know. I learn from you ALL the time. - Leslie Carothers

I really am not obsessed with more followers. Sure I appreciated them as much as the next person. It is not a popularity contest for my use case. Hence, I will never be a "Top 100" person on Twitter. ;) - Rodney Rumford

If it's on the Internet, it is ALWAYS true, Robert. ;) - Mona Nomura

Try to explain yourself out of being a geek when you really are - Jesse Stay

I am indeed a failure, all the more reason to follow me... and that BACON Mona N. mentioned - Matt Rendo

Get Robert Scoble to Foreward/Afterword your book for you - Jesse Stay

@Jesse I'm incapable of explaining myself out of being a geek. Better to embrace it. - Ken Brady

61: Add on to a Robert Scoble numbered list with an incrementally interesting item. - Steve Garfield

Bacon IS the future, Matt! - Mona Nomura

#monanisaddicatedtohashtags :P #simonlikeshashtagstoo - Simon T Small

Is this the biggest thread ever on FriendFeed? - Eric Florenzano

Get Rodney Rumford to Foreward/Afterword your book for you - Jesse Stay

This is an EPIC thread. Thank you Robert and THANK YOU INTERNET! - Mona Nomura

62: Follow Steve Garfield in a Scoble numbered list - Jesse Stay

bacon - http://www.browniepointsblog.com/2008... - Matt Rendo

#WWRD - videopixil

I wonder how long it will take Friendfeed to add comment ratings like Digg? - Simon T Small

Hey Mr. Scoble! You make it sound like a bad thing to be online on a Saturday night. -Mr. Geek ;-P - Eddie Soto

Refrain from hijacking someone's thread by digressing with bacon - Focus, Matt. FOCUS! - Mona Nomura

Hilarious thread BTW!! - Eddie Soto

Content is king!!!!!!! (Mona see, 7) - Amit Morson

See... Me=failure A sense of humor seems to attract followers too. - Matt Rendo

Memorize this entire thread by EOD Monday and recite it back to Robert - on video! - Mona Nomura

Re-Tweet all 264 lines Googleplex times - or until the FailWhale / FailRobot appears. - Mona Nomura

Talk about how much you love Twitter and Facebook. - dont' forget the hashtags: pound facebook pound twitter. - Mona Nomura

Jesse. OK. Now I am smiling man... lol. By the way thanks for writing the afterword for my twitter book: Twitter as a Business Tool. - Rodney Rumford

Deem yourself a Social Network Expert and write a bajillion blog posts on "How to Use Twitter for Business" - Mona Nomura

Oops. Sorry Rodney. Bad timing... :) - Mona Nomura

Be consistently random - wait, no, then they will unfollow you :( - Matt Rendo

Always use emoticons as disclaimers! - Mona Nomura

What is this thread about?. I forgot by the time I read to the end of it. - Jim Bednarz

Bash on mattrendo - Matt Rendo

Always use *this* emoticon: :-) - WorldofHiglet

Have foot in mouth moments. Oh, wait... - Mona Nomura

63: Profit!! - Aaron Baer

Be a spam artist - Matt Rendo

Follow everyone posting here - Sheraz Mahmood

back up your success with nothing more than 140 characters - Sheraz Mahmood

I've noticed that people who start a controversy, especially with a high profile person, get an immediate boost in followers. You'd think it would backfire but it seems to have the opposite effect. Maybe it's the trainwreck factor? People curious what on earth will be said next? - Liz

Apparently posting on Scoble's Friendfeed works... 6 followers in the last few minutes. - Matt Rendo

Woah. 278+ comments. Impressive! This is definitely one that will stick on FFholic for a while. - Phil G

You forgot to add being Karl Rove to the list: http://twitter.com/KarlRov... - Roberto Bonini

Wondering is anybody will read all these comments. I do believe if twitter doesn't get it together, that a large group will flock out to another destination. ala: Poof! - Dave

Hey @scobleizer, your post would have been more appropriate on a blog. - Klaus Alexander Seistrup

Post photos of cute puppies on FriendFeed. - Amit Morson

To get followers, jump into a Tweetchat "room", get into the convo, follow folks then tell them in the chat room that you are following. For the "Happy09" chat, there were tons of people in there. Better yet, start your own chat/chat meme! - Jesse P. Luna

@ reply like crazy to let the person know you followed them ie: @Scobleizer HI I FOLLOWED YOU FOLLOW ME BACK repeat until FailWhale/FailRobot shows up. - Mona Nomura

Well, that's starting to work . . . anyone else getting lots of new friends? . . . and I didn't have to insult anybody. I think I might have to post one of my classical video clips for Mona http://www.youtube.com/watch... - Chris Loft

Leslie, the N series work v well with the hearing impaired, but the iPhone works even better from my experience FTW! - Sally Church

One thing that annoys me: people who discuss their follower numbers on twitter. Its just not interesting! I just subscribed to someone and unsubscribed the next day as 4 tweets were about passing 10000 - I'm very glad for you but it is just noise in my feed. Now I understand the feeling - I was amazed the day 100 people followed me (it is all relative :) ) - but it is not necessary to tweet about it. - Joelle Nebbe (iphigenie)

I was going to send you some Swiss wine Robert, but I was told it doesn't travel well, so drank it myself. Just so you know, it was good :-) - Paul Shadwell

I'm paling up with several here, in spite of what Mr. Scoble says about Saturday night geeks. -Mr. Geek ;-P - Eddie Soto

Participate in a Robert Scoble's friendfeed conversation on Saturday night, have him follow you, post the screenshot of him following you - Bertrand Doux

On the subject of more followers, arrrrrgh! *runs screaming from room.... * - Sally Church

Tweet about Windows 7(or something equally as interesting), which I'll be doing a lot of in the coming days, It's installing as I type this! - Kevin Lloyd

Tweet, but don't tweet too much because people apparently don't want to hear from you (or is it just me! ;)) THAT much! :) - Christopher Kusek

I'm using Windows 7 right now! I've posted tweets and videos of it on YouTube - check it out! http://friendfeed.com/e... - Will Higgins™

Paul, what's that about swiss wine not travelling so well? It travels beautifully (but you need to get the good ones). It is so hard to find outside Switzerland because the swiss tend to drink all of it. - Joelle Nebbe (iphigenie)

Liz, I thought that was really funny cos it's Sunday evening here. I'm not some z-list geek sitting here wasting my time on a Saturday night. -[ - Chris Loft

point 4 above is shameless self-plug :) but entertaining :))) - A.T.

64. Comment on a Robert Scoble list at 2:21 AM in bed becausse you could not sleep - Tyler (Chacha)

65. Plan to write a blog post on thisentry in the morning - Tyler (Chacha)

66. Fail at placing a space between in this and entry on a scoble list ( iPod recognizes Scoble as a word and auto completed it) - Tyler (Chacha)

You guys are awesome by the way. - Tyler (Chacha)

Tattoo your twitter/friendfeed address on other people. - Kevin Leroux

lmao!!! great one Robert - Kaysha

get stuck on a bus in death valley in the middle of the night with robert scoble. - Christine Lu

Follow an obscure norwegian and get incoherent conversations about whales, blåbærsyltetøy, and the semantic web;) (which may make people curious.. or unfollow you actually..) - Thomas Bøhm

Get up at 6 am on Sundays if living in Europe because otherwise you miss Robert Scoble's craziest moments and most interesting threads = people *damn* I should have never slept in! - Gaby K. Slezák

A real one: Upload a sexy picture on your profile or your twitter bg !! - İbrahim Uzun [ j ]

Claim that Scoble and Techcrunch are simply manufactured entities by a mysterious corporate power using Coke vs. Pepsi tactics to polarize the masses in an effort to conquer the world. - Bob Starr

RT @scobleizer Robert this is good advice, except I don't see any reference to bodacious tat-tas. ;) - John Craft

RT @scobleizer Robert wow, your post generated so many comments, is this the most number of comments from a single tweet in Twitter history? Can anyone confirm? - Alvin

Sorry not Twitter, this is from FriendFeed :) - Alvin

67. write about stuff you are enthusiastic about and that's only covered by a handful of people yet (like virtual worlds, metaverse) and shamelessly reveal that you are enthusiastic about that in one of the most commented on @scobleizer threads ;-) - Gaby K. Slezák

stop reading half way but say it was awesome anyway - Stephen Breen

You forgot about having a whole lot of time on your hands! - John D Reasor

yet still looking busy kthxbai - Thomas Bøhm

Stop caring who follows you! - Elias Bizannes

I can't scroll to the bottom ;-) This list is hilarious! Robert, I'm glad you have been taking notes this whole time! - ChangeForge | Ken Stewart

Do NOT use the phrase "social media" in your Twitter bio. - Frank Scavo

"16. Tweet from jail" ahahahahahahaha :) - Lucio

I knew I should have tweeted from the back of that police van on the stroke of new year's eve, watching the fireworks. And walking away. Walking. With a big grin on my face. We'z not dus photoz. Doh. - Chris Loft

Write an "unofficial biography of Robert Scoble" and have it published? ;) - Tyson Key

Post a picture of you with someone famous... http://tinyurl.com/8xbcds - geekazine

“Scoble's law of unfollows: for everyone who you get on Twitter that says they will unfollow you will get 87 new followers.” http://tinyurl.com/9oahwc - Tapio Kulmala

Talk about the versatility of bacon - BACON - crisp, tasty BACON - BEX

Just noticed this is a very dude-heavy thread (not all but mainly) and that I mainly subscribe to guys on FriendFeed. But on Twitter I have about 60/40 men/women Following mix, I think. It was the comments about ta-tas and sexy profile photos that made me realize the difference. - Liz

Lock Robert Scoble, Mona N, Jesse Stay, Louis Gray, Jason Calacanis and Techcrunch in a room. Only release them when they've retweeted every single of your tweets and told all their followers to follow you! - Nicholas James

nope its nun of the above; .they are just hacking into your FF account;If you really want more followers on Twitter and friendfeed this is what you do, its...aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah.they got me. - tomartomartini

Set up a low-wage tweet farmer in China. - Richard Sprague

Use Jennifer Aniston's cleavage as your avatar. - Jim Mitchem

omg I go to bed and you people KEEP GOING. unreal. - Erin @queenofspain

Yep .. I think this has reached the most active discussion .. ever (It past Dave Winer's post which is most discussed in past 30 days) - Tyler (Chacha)

Come on people! We need to reach 500 comments! - Tyler (Chacha)

Tweet unto you as you would like to be tweeted. - iamkhayyam

Create a Robert Scoble fan blog and title it Mr. Awesome. :) - Bill Romanos

69. start a list and slowly move out of it as other members of the community move in to pick it up (there is no 68) - you are now running things without even being there. - Valeria Maltoni

Be a more interesting what Robert? :p oh and maybe follow the fastest top ten commenters here. - mrsha

I am reading this in friendfeed on my iPhone and immediately regretting my decision to tap "read more..." I made it through the first 12 then began skimming and my thumb began sobbing... - John Reynolds

I don't remember any friendfeed item getting more than 300 comments. I think this is now the new high water mark. Wow! - Robert Scoble

Or: Post a “If you want more followers on Twitter and friendfeed here's what to do:” tweet :-) - Marco Massarotto

Not being in this comment stream is so embarrassing. Wait, so is BEING in this comment stream! - Tom Guarriello

i wonder if you did it all wrong, would you really get no followers... - Joelle Nebbe (iphigenie)

Joelle: if you did it all wrong you would still get followers but they just would be all spammers. - Robert Scoble

Robert - define spam... Is this post spam? - Brian Roy

Comment on the longest thread in Friendfeed history. - Mike Lewis

You're right! I forgot about the spammers :D - Joelle Nebbe (iphigenie)

it seems pretty simple: post interesting things, interact thoughtfully, and be patient - Kelly W.

70. When all else fails, make interesting crap up about Robert, Gary, Brogan, etc.. - Todd Jordan

It isn't how many follow you... it is the quality of those you follow. But... that makes it hard to keep score and determine who is "winning". - Brian Roy

patient? I want 1000 followers and I want them now! ;) (actually, I am with Kelly on this one) - Joelle Nebbe (iphigenie)

How to get Robert et al to follow you - http://friendfeed.com/e... - Todd Jordan

Commentate on sports during the game or politics during debates. - Nicki Laycoax

Put a nice Twitter Icon on your blog like mine http://marketingtechblog.com - Douglas Karr

You know... Chris Brogan liked a post of mine and retweeted it letting everyone know... it ended up bringing me about 800 new visitors in the span of 2 hours. There's definitely something to be said about being seen with the right people. :) - Steven Sanders

Hey Robert, say something positive about each of us today? Really be a boost. - Todd Jordan

AVG works just fine for me under Windows 7! - Dave Oliver

Todd: you all are beautiful. And smart. That's why I am following everyone on this thread. - Robert Scoble

It's simple, but just do two things (in order): 1. Create good content. 2. Market that content in an intelligent, non-spammy way. - Daniel Miessler

Daniel: marketing part is what we're really talking about here. How to/who to/when to/where to/what to market. - Todd Jordan

OMG this is STILL alive?! WOW - Mona Nomura

Keep it going!!!! - Tyler (Chacha)

I'm wondering at how many comments this will start crashing browsers - Joelle Nebbe (iphigenie)

That said: Talk about Twitter and FriendFeed all day every day. Don't forget to include: "I AM A SOCIAL MEDIA EXPERT" in all of your profiles. - Mona Nomura

Make special badges that scream your self proclaimed title. You know, kind of like flair? Or girl/boy scouts? - Mona Nomura

@Mona - heck yeah, huge % of new followers claim to be soc media experts. - Todd Jordan

Todd- FAIL. You forgot Rule #163. NAME DROP. @scobelizer (I'm just namedropping but really addressing Mona... err @monaaa) - Mona Nomura

Not call anyone out but I think it should be: " I AM A SOCIAL MEDIA SLUT!1!" ;-P - Mathew A. Koeneker

Mathew - CRAP you stole my thunder... I'm working on a blog post entitled "How to know if you are a social media slut"... thanks! - Brian Roy

Brian - I hope that comes after: "10,000 Ways to Effectively use Twitter for Business" - Mona Nomura

I wish FF would timestamp comments. It'd be interesting to know how this conversation flowed...or jumped around. - Liz

Mona - pretty sure those two are the same post... No? - Brian Roy

Liz: Just hang out over the little convo balloon to the left of the comments. It shows you how long ago the comment was left. :-) - Lisa L. Seifert

Be serious at ALL times since analyzing Social Networks with charts and graphs is THE FUTURE! - Mona Nomura

Announce your twitter address after saying the pledge of allegiance over the school intercom system. - David Rose

I drunk tweet all the time, and it doesn't help. People just email you AA invitations. - Alex Wilhelm (FF BLOWS)

+1 Mona! I'll make a video of this :D - Yuvi

Since you are all here... I was wondering. Have you seen my car keys? - Brian Roy

Another would be to make a Bacon Fan Club Room. - Nicholas James

Will find out soon if becoming a social media diva pin-up acquires more followers :) - Nicola Quinn

PLAY with your followers and build a community of FANS. Start a meme, host a trivia session (@linnetwoods), do fun thematic Blip.fm sets (@jesseluna, @Dave_Malby), start a fun-spirited smackdown battle with another Twitterer (@Dana_Wilhoit and @SeanAMcAlister). UStream and play Wii while you're lightly toasted with a fun friend (@queenofspain) - Jesse P. Luna

Start your own threads using all and only Robert's suggestions. Originality means nothing, it's all about being a Robert clone! - Mona Nomura

Be imperfect, fragile, human - someone everyone can relate to. - Tomi Itkonen

Participate in memes where you can post old pictures of yourself from 70s, 80s or 90s. - Larry Kless

71. Create a list that combines Sex and Windows http://friendfeed.com/e... - Tyler (Chacha)

Hate on someone enough for them to write about you. It worked for Sean Hammons (Clicky) and Techcrunch.......... - Alex Wilhelm (FF BLOWS)

i'm afraid some of those won't quite give you the right kind of followers - Joelle Nebbe (iphigenie)

entertain! - kosmar

I'm wondering if everyone who has commented here is at least following each other now. - Nicola Quinn

Nicola - no. I think I have a block on my account that I can't figure out. ;) - Jim Mitchem

Oh dear Jim, that doesn't sound good. Just managed to subscribe to you so that's ok then. - Nicola Quinn

Nicola Quinn: I have not had one new follower from this, but I did have an entertaining conversation. - MarkCarras

There Mark, you've got at least one :) - Nicola Quinn

@nicola you followed me :) - kosmar

I tweet from jail on a regular basis - Alan Simpson

Kosmar, I did! You following me? - Nicola Quinn

@Scobleizer so far I tweet from party, wc, roadtrip, first minutes of the new year, wc again, meeting, boring meeting, boring presentation, wedding, engagement, hospital... I think I am on good track !!! - Alemsah Ozturk

Talk like you are deluded into thinking the iPhone and Apple computers are superior machines. - Mark Stahler

Help Robert getting 400 comments or any other all time high on friendfeed! - Gaby K. Slezák

Wow. 400. - Robert Scoble

Here's the 401st for good measure! I kinda use Twitter and FF to keep up with new, and record ideas and thoughts for myself, but if some people out there find a common ground with me, that's very cool! I think too much is placed on these online friend / follower counts overall tho... BTW, this comment is probably on the "How NOT to get more followers on Twitter or FF" list. :) Keep feeding me the knowledge Scobs! - AdPanda

You can order custom wine labels to bribe Scoble with at http://www.bottleyourbrand.com/ - Internet Strategist

Spell @Scobleizer correctly when trying to drop a name ... lol. - Robert Couture

Bump .... @charlieanzman. I can't believe this thread! - Charlie Anzman

Charlie - the sheer #s of comments or the fact that this is such a popular topic? - Susan Beebe

How can you possibly read all of this and get anything done? This is an example of FF overkill. - Scott Maentz

@Susan folks are now commenting for the fun of it. :) - Todd Jordan

Wow! I remember when this began as three items, then Scoble got all giddy and inspired and started this hilarious chain of absurdity. Well done Mr. @Scobleizer - Paul Povolni

Make sure to be a hater and nit-pick on every. little. thing. someone does online! - Mona Nomura

Take everything someone says as a personal attack and rant! - Mona Nomura

Complain about every. little. thing. - Mona Nomura

no Mona you are wrong. - Brian Roy

Change your display name everyday aNd mAkE sUrE tO tYpE LiKe DiS - Mona Nomura

Make sure to kiss a whole buncha *ss and name drop, name drop, name drop! - Mona Nomura

every 3rd comment should be "noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo oooooooooopooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo oooooooooooooopoopoooooooooooooooooooooooooo oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooppooooooooooooo oooo" wow... It is hard to enter that many o's on an iPhone. EDIT -> I put in spaces - apparently I annoyed Brandon... - Brian Roy

@Brian: Please edit your post so it doesn't break everyone's feed. I'd like to not hide this item. Thanks. - AJ Kohn

oh... Ok. It is hidden now. - Brian Roy

@Brian: Thank you. Greatly appreciated! - AJ Kohn

423 comments? :O - Will Higgins™

I think that I made a comment on this post but I can't find it. And Mona, you are cracking me up!! - BEX

I wonder if there is a limit to how many comments can be added to a post on FF - Susan Beebe

The funniest part about all this is that I've gotten a *ton* of followers for posting on this thread. Weird! I think once my programming-related FF activity resumes people will drop from my feed like flies :) - Eric Florenzano

Too bad I can't tweet the link (yet) -- of this 400+ comment -- I don't know how to call this. Not a Tweetversation by any means. A FFversation? Anyone come out with any sensible terms? - David Feng

I have some ideas, none of which are usable. - WorldofHiglet

subscribe to Friendfeeds for Twitter Celebs and read their Twitter hints... Start with Scoble.. - TechMama Beth Blecherman

I see "423 more comments". That's the most I have ever seen so far in FF! - Winston Teo

TechMama: that will work very well. Of course then you'll only be fed shallow news. The real good stuff is on the K list. They aren't on the bottom, so they have a few followers, but they really don't give a shit so they are very real and teach you stuff. Unfortunately they usually don't stay on the K list very long. They either get moved up pretty fast or they get put in rehab for social media addiction. - Robert Scoble

You don't. - David Spinks

What was this thread about? I forgot, AGAIN! - Jim Bednarz

Jim: me too, it's taken on a life of its own. Oh, yeah, it was about how to make money with friendfeed. Heheheh. Yeah, right! - Robert Scoble

Quick! Scoble's about to do a 'How to make money on friendfeed' post now. Looking for the hattrick ;~) - Ed Shahzade /NextInstinct

Ed: heheh. how to make money in friendfeed? Get a million followers. The money will come. Or maybe not. :-) - Robert Scoble

Robert: I guess you could charge for seminars on how to get a million followers ;D - Seth Greenblatt

Robert - Think you broke your own record with this one. 255 Likes and 437 comments ?! Guess nobody's embracing Friendfeed tonight :) - Charlie Anzman

Nobody's gonna read this, but I can't help observing that "I've got 10000 followers" is kinda like saying "I have 1000 books on my bookshelf", as if the number, not the content, is the important thing. - Mr. Gunn

Charlie .. his last one has 300 comments and over 300 likes I believe ... But this thread is 70 people away from reaching every single person on Friendfeed. (Given the 500 like rule) - Tyler (Chacha)

Better than the cover of Rolling Stone!! http://blog.twitter.com/2009... - Ed Shahzade /NextInstinct

ChaCha - Ya gotta love it. Now when he reaches everyone on the Internet ... :) - Charlie Anzman

Susan - Wasn't ignoring you ... just got lost in the middle of this ScobleChaChaMeMeWhateverItIs ... night all :) - Charlie Anzman

Most importantly, get followed by @scobleizer hope he retweets, likes and/or comments on your posts. - Christian Anderson

Christian: that's fair. I keep hoping you retweet, like, or comment on mine! :-) - Robert Scoble

Yikes, I see there are 442 "collapsed" comments that follow Robert Scoble's teaser! (I won't dare to "expand" them - it would take ages to read them all.) The subject clearly preys on people's minds... Scoble has a knack for hitting the right button! - Yule Heibel

I wonder if Mobile Safari would have such an implosion that the iPhone would shatter in my hands, if I tried to expand that thread. - MiniMage - HLtW

doing video works pretty well too :) - Loic Le Meur

great, robert, this is *really* pushing the limit :) - Alberto D'Ottavi

tweet about the size of Robert's ..... =X - Rachael Depp

whoa comment frenzy! @FriendFeed can you please build a Comment Quality filter before I attempt to make sense of all this user generated erm "content"? Now there's a question: how do we measure Comment Quality? - Bob Hitching

And then you hate IM... - Dario Salvelli

I was lucky enough to arrive at his 3rd or 4th point... it was amazing to see it happen on the fly, as I and other people jumped in. It was like a chat room or IM chat. - Simon T Small

Oh, and by commenting a couple of times on this post, I got 36 new twitter followers and about 6 new friend feed followers in 12 hours - Simon T Small

omg.. why isn´t there a comment link on the bottom as well ? Especially useful on the iphone. I forgot the witty remark that would ensure me thousands of followers by the time I finger-scrolled to the top and to the bottom again on this insanely long thread. Oh, well, at least my comments are seen sometimes.. hello ? - Thomas Bøhm

I do like how #1: Stop your bloody begging and whining for followers is still showing though. :-P - Mathew A. Koeneker

this is so last week... - Edward Zwart

Robert: You need to add one more. "Send Tweets from a Ferry when a plane crashes on the Hudson" like http://twitter.com/jkrums - Alex Sauceda

"Hudson-Plane" and the Web2.0 viralism response http://friendfeed.com/rooms... ; http://friendfeed.com/e... - ewing2001akaNicomedy2010

Re: 18., Tweet from the great beyond. INSANE follow numbers then. ;-p - mtlb

This is certainly quite interesting thread. I wonder how many Likes this will get. :D - Daniel Schildt

This thread has become a meme unto itself. As I once said, Robert Scoble plays social media like a virtuoso musician. FTW - Sheldon Steiger from twhirl

this stuff works for real! wow! - Siddharth Parmar

I felt like bumping the most discussed conversation ever on Friendfeed. Here ya go - Tyler (Chacha)

or tweet about this friendfeed-post! - bumping ;-) - Torsten Eckert

Become a Needle in a Haystack - geekazine

Have them join up on sprnch and watch them walk around in real time. http://sprnch.com/search_... - SpRnch

Robert Scoble

No one will talk with you on twitter or friendfeed. Here's 20 ideas of what you should do to get engagement/conversations going:

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1. Start a list of something outrageous. Tell some friends who seem to get lots of conversations going about it. Just tweet them with their twitter address like this: @scobleizer in the post. - Robert Scoble

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2. Comment on yet another Robert Scoble List - Tyler (Chacha)

2. Comment on other people's threads first. Say smart stuff. Be funny, cute, interesting, etc. Or, throw the "bacon bomb" into the comments. Don't know what the Bacon Bomb is? Ask Mona on friendfeed. - Robert Scoble

ehm.. show some tits? (for ladies) :p - Lucio

2. Slip @MrTweet a few bills every week. - Liz

Commencing rapid refresh - This should be interesting. - Enrique Gutierrez

Chacha: you're getting it. So is Lucio! - Robert Scoble

Be real. Be interesting. Be real interesting. - Ron's Home And Hardware

Add "what do you think?" - Andrew Smith

Robert is on a roll today. What did you have for breakfast??? - Joe Lima

3. Make an outrageous list so other people can comment on it to get followers - Tyler (Chacha)

Talk about getting Robert to follow you? - http://friendfeed.com/e... - Todd Jordan

Robert: Thanks for all these lists. I love the humor mixed with good tips. It's fun! - Mitchell Tsai

3. Follow people who seem to always get conversations going. This is very important on friendfeed because you'll get a sense of what works for them. And, you'll be the first to see the big conversations before anyone else. First post in friendfeed always is seen more. - Robert Scoble

Hello folks, today its I'm-Scoble-And-I'm-Going-To-Do-All-The-Talking day :) - Yuvi

:) - Lucio

4. Look at http://search.twitter.com and see what is trending. Comment about that. - Robert Scoble

@Scobleizer "lists" work for everything, blog posts, microblog posts, grocery shopping... They're effective for starting conversation and getting things done. If anything - that's the "gimme" in this list. - Enrique Gutierrez

I was SO tempted to comment "first!" when I saw this pop up at 43 seconds. Urge controlled. - Phil G

Ask a specific (appropriately geeky) question - Prunella

5. Look at "Best of Day" on friendfeed and ignore it. - Robert Scoble

be authentic... we can tell when you are fishing for attention... - Brian Roy

Robert: Are you making lists so people can meet each other and get followed? - Tyler (Chacha)

6. If you are talking about stuff on Techmeme you are too late. That news is always an hour late. Instead, use http://www.techfuga.com and get into the conversations that are happening now. - Robert Scoble

Agree with #2. You could also tell people you don't like Bacon. Mona will soon talk to you ;) - Nicholas James

7. Rif on something smart that one of the smart people say. Dave Winer, Tim O'Reilly, Steve Gillmor, etc. - Robert Scoble

Make a list of Top Tweets of 2008 and Send a message to everyone on that list telling them they are there. ;-) http://twurl.nl/tbo2ll - David Petherick

Chacha: I'm making lists because I'm playing with a new form that is enabled by both Twitter and friendfeed. I call it "interactive blogging." - Robert Scoble

8. Post a picture of bacon. But you've gotta put something unusual into it. A picture of Mike Arrington, for instance. - Robert Scoble

9. Teach people how to do something new. - Robert Scoble

10. Complaining that no one is paying attention to you on twitter or friendfeed might work. Once or twice. But then we remember that's all you do and that you aren't bringing any value. So, long term this will hurt you. Plus, there's always someone who is begging who has a better beg. - Robert Scoble

"Talk to me, like lovers do...." - Bora Zivkovic

Announce a list and let other ppl write it for you - Trung Ly

I think Jim Rome's advice to callers to his show (so they don't get 'run') applies: "Have a take, don't suck." - Patrick Jordan

11. Click "Like" on 100 new things that caught your eye. We do see that and we do notice that you're adding important meta data to the system. Even if we don't notice you'll have 100 new friendfeed items to comment on now. Just visit the "me" tab and then click on "Likes" over on the right side and you'll see them all. - Robert Scoble

12. Have sex with someone who always has lots of comments. Have Duncan Riley post pictures! - Robert Scoble

12. Follow more people. That is probably the fastest way. - Alex Wilhelm (FF BLOWS)

13. Get laid off. But have a great story. Even better? Start a room on friendfeed for people to talk with you about your future. - Robert Scoble

You forgot about re-tweeting this post :) - Jim Reynolds

Prunella gets it! It is easier to comment on things if you ask a question that is interesting! - Robert Scoble

Challenge a high profile Twitterer who is incapable of not responding to critique. You'll get at least a few Tweets back & forth, probably mostly negative but people will know who you are and either think you're an inspired rebel or an ass. - Liz

Don't participate in other people's threads but constantly complain how no one notices you! - Mona Nomura

What about also admitting ignorance? I find that helps. - Todd Jordan

14. Get someone who gets lots of comments to "Like" your item. This takes getting to know a few people and what they like. It also might mean giving them a phone call, sending them email, chatting with them on Facebook, or generally stalking them. Social media is great for stalking. I know everything that Guy Kawasaki and Tim O'Reilly are thinking due to social media. Hint, we're all egotistical baaahhhssstttaaarrrddddssss and we all look at our replies in Twitter. Just include @scobleizer in your tweet!!! - Robert Scoble

hahahhahahahhahahah!!!!!!!!!!!! <---laugh at all of Robert's jokes wiht a bajillion exclamation points to get noticed. Bonus points for wine! - Mona Nomura

Todd: you're onto something there. Chris Pirillo does this. He asks his followers tech questions. I do to. "How do you backup your stuff?" got lots of comments because I needed to know what's the best way to do it. I was ignorant on the topic and my followers taught me (and everyone else). - Robert Scoble

15. Say something outrageous like "Palm Pre kills the iPhone." Oh, wait, that's not outrageous, it's just a fact that hasn't been widely understood yet. Heheh. Seriously, take on Apple and you are almost guaranteed a conversation. You just gotta be prepared for the backlash. - Robert Scoble

Today's list is looking a lot like last night's list. Why 20? - Liz

Do you see why Mona gets more comments on her items than anyone else I know? Bing! Well, that and she posts GREAT pictures and little funny items. - Robert Scoble

Robert? Regarding number two: It's Bacon Explosion, not bacon bomb! - Mona Nomura

16. Post great pictures and funny little items like Mona. - Robert Scoble

17. Baby photos. Louis Gray. Enough said. - Robert Scoble

18. Tell a retweetable story. Chris Brogan has this down. Study what he is doing and do it better. - Robert Scoble

Robert - he stepped up his baby picture game and cartoonized his photos. He raised the bar!! - Mona Nomura

19. Hang out with people who get lots of conversations going. Go to lots of events where friendfeeders and twitterers hang out. Here's a list: http://upcoming.yahoo.com/user... - Robert Scoble

20. ignore the conversation starters and people with many followers and go do something more interesting instead. It's better to have something to Twitter and Friendfeed ABOUT rather than hang around here worrying about it. Go live your life, Social Media will be here when you get back with something to say. - Tim

Liz: if you do a list it doesn't matter how many items you promise as long as you get to the number you are promising. Something about lists is conversational. This is why magazines put numbers on their covers so often "7 ways to please your lover." Etc. Etc. If I were really smart I'd do a list like "7 ways Windows 7 will increase your sex life." Hah, that might be my next list! - Robert Scoble

Tim: having something interesting to say is NOT a prerequisite for getting people to comment on your items. I have many examples of proof. - Robert Scoble

20. Talk about Daft Punk and why they are or aren't the downfall of the next generation. - Robert Scoble

Post flamebait - Bwana ☠

It isn't Daft Punk anyway, they're just temps with masks. - Tim

Got any others? Seriously, if you aren't getting noticed here it's probably because you are posting things that aren't conversational. I'm watching tons of inbound from everyone on this list and looking for things to engage with. You can see the items that I like here: http://friendfeed.com/scoblei... - Robert Scoble

Too late Robert : http://friendfeed.com/e... - Tyler (Chacha)

I love talking about how Daft Punk, Radiohead, and Coldplay suck and are nothing but three piece suit rock made safe for wussys. :P - MarkCarras

True Robert, but at least you've gotten away from the computer and had a good time. This year I am going to dah dah! go outside and away from Social Media...live first, Social Media later. I am going to become the first Social Media Hermit (transitioning from Social Media Terrorist, as I am now). 2009 is about living your life...and creating it....which will generate FAR more ideas than monging around on t'Internets. - Tim

21. Practice - try talking to people in the real world. - Brian Roy

Is there an rss feed for Techfuga? - Cindyg

Cyndy? http://reque.st/1277 :) - Mona Nomura

Mona N. Haha...sweet! Thank-you - Cindyg

Daft Punk is definitely an innovator through its music and its marketing, whether one likes them or not - Bertrand Doux

I always hear 80's New Wave when someone shows me a song that shows how "Innovative" they are. Sorry. Homogenized, sterilized, and watered down for the for the masses. - MarkCarras

MarkCarras, looks like we are not on the same line. Meanwhile you can all enjoy here: http://tinyurl.com/8zlmap :-) - Bertrand Doux

22. Do a book report using FriendFeed: http://friendfeed.com/rooms... - B2B Specialist

Nice list, hard to follow in FF, with all these bullet points hijackers. - Jeremy Chone

Start a Room and Invite a ton of people to it, then post a ton of goodies over there and get BUZZZZZZZZ goin' on - Susan Beebe

Ok, these list are getting better and better. - Mathew™ one of a kind

23. Post something on Friendfeed poking fun at something that Robert Scoble has been doing lately. :P http://friendfeed.com/e... - Mathew™ one of a kind

I wouldn't consider the posts between the bullets as highjackers. It's all part of the conversation and makes it so much more interesting as an interactive list than just a list of 20 things thrown out for our consumption. - Ernie Oporto from Nambu

Make a post on your blog featuring this list - then get Mona mad at you for plugging your site (yummm...bacon) ;-) - http://www.listropolis.com/2009... - shaun mclane

Try and ignore how much like high-school the FF/TW popularity game is and get on with something interesting. Then FF/TW. - Chris Cotsapas

+1 Chris. Community is about quality and shared interests, not numbers. - Neil Saunders

S60 is the new iPhone! ;) - Tyson Key

Robert Scoble

I'll discuss the secret to getting to the top of the AllTop Egos page http://egos.alltop.com/ here:

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First, you've gotta have an ego. I haven't met anyone who doesn't have one, so I think we all qualify. - Robert Scoble

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2. At Microsoft when given a camcorder I aimed it at everyone else OTHER than myself. I discovered that if you want to be an egotistical baaahhhhsssttttaaarrrrrdddd you've gotta help other people's egos first. - Robert Scoble

Is it me, or is this egregious follower-baiting :-)? - Jason Wong

3. You've gotta find some way to get all the other egos on this list to talk about you. That ain't easy, but if you want to get onto this list it is a must. Let's discover some ways to do that... - Robert Scoble

4. Tell @techcrunch he's wrong. - Robert Scoble

I'm listening. :) - Trace Sharp

5. Give @guykawasaki a new marketing trick that he didn't think of. - Robert Scoble

6. Show @jasoncalacanis a way to make even more money. - Robert Scoble

Curious what the diff in traffic is from being at the bottom or top of an alltop category. I'm on alltop in a specific directory, but I barely get any traffic from them. - Douglas Karr

7. Bring a bottle of wine to @loic that he's never had before that he likes. (I did that with a wine from Sonoma and he said it was the first California wine he could get interested in). - Robert Scoble

8. Do something interesting with RSS and get @davewiner to like it. - Robert Scoble

This seems like the same list as before. I smell something fishy going on. - MarkCarras

Douglas: if you are really going to be egotistical you can't care about traffic. There's something that matters to egos FAR more than that. What is it? Whether or not you are talking about them. At Microsoft I NEVER looked at my stats. I ALWAYS looked at blog search engines to see what people were saying about me and about others. - Robert Scoble

9. Find out what people want, then do a friendfeed list about it. I noticed that everyone on Twitter seems to be begging for followers. So, I gave in and did a list of how to get more followers. - Robert Scoble

10. Say that the Alltop egos page is bullshit, because it is. Explain why and you probably will get looked at by Guy Kawasaki (he's the guy who decides who goes on this list). - Robert Scoble

Mark: there are some overlaps, yes! Bing. Bing. Bing! - Robert Scoble

the secret of getting on alltop: schmooze GK | the secret of getting on popurls: be high quality - thomas marban

11. Tell Kara Swisher who the next Yahoo CEO is. But you've gotta be right and you can't be Jerry Yang (she already talks with him nearly every day). - Robert Scoble

12. Be someone with a big ego. Bill Clinton, for instance. - Robert Scoble

I just thought I'd help you point out how retarded lists like this are and how much most bloggers just regurgitate the same info over and over again. There is nothing new under the internet sun it seems at times. - MarkCarras

thomas: schmoozing helps, but there are lots of people who schmooze like Buzz Bruggeman who aren't on the Egos page. To get on this page you've gotta have something more. You've gotta make Guy Kawasaki laugh. - Robert Scoble

Mark: NOW you are getting the handle on this ego thing. Keep going... :-) - Robert Scoble

13. Say something that Tim O'Reilly retweets. Repeat 200 times. That should get you onto this page. If you do the hard work and you don't get on, then you'll be credible when you say this list is bullshit. Which, of course, it is. But to get on the list you've gotta have credible proof. And you've gotta be both a big thinker and a big ego. - Robert Scoble

Cliffs Notes Version: #1, #3. Done. :-) - michael silverton

14. Be Mike Arrington. Oh, wait, start a famous blog. Yes, that requires staying up until 2 a.m. and blogging something interesting every day for a few years. Sorry, not too many shortcuts here. - Robert Scoble

I think I've been training for this all my life. - MarkCarras

15. Be Barack Obama's social media queen or king. - Robert Scoble

16. Make outrageous bets with John Dvorak. Win. Back when we bet on Obama vs. McCain Obama still hadn't beat Hillary. That said, John is wrong more lately than he's right. Speaking of which, getting on Cranky Geeks (his show) will help you get onto this page. - Robert Scoble

17. If everyone is talking about how big your ego is over and over you probably deserve to be on this page. I bet Guy is doing Twitter searches on the word "ego" to see if any good egotistical baaahhhsssttttaaarrrdddd's are out there. - Robert Scoble

18. Interview Guy Kawasaki. He's an egotistical baaaahhhhhsssttttaaarrrrdddd and he loves it when you pay attention to him and help him make money. Make sure you ask him about his book and Alltop. - Robert Scoble

19. Tell a billionaire what to do with his/her life. Or, even better, his/her company. - Robert Scoble

20. Make a small list of your favorite friends like Dave Winer did and include lots of people on the Alltop list onto it: http://www.scripting.com/stories... - Robert Scoble

No offense, but if I ever get on that list, I'm retiring from the Internet. - Enrique Gutierrez from twhirl

21. Insert your own megalomaniacal and unjustifiably self-important item into scobleizer's list polemically proclaiming a superior solution. Such as: create your own new Alltop knock-off using the words "meta" or "uber" and give RS userID #1 and exclusive First Post access. - michael silverton

I'll tell you what guarantees you won't be on it: Asking to be placed on it. Guy - Guy Kawasaki

Being close friends with Guy can't hurt. - Daniel Miessler

I really hate Alltop and unfollowed Guy Kawasaki on Twitter for his Alltop Spam. I hate Alltop mostly because of the Feedburner stats they try to aggregate and I hate it even more when Guy Kawasaki tried to get Twitterers to sign up for auto-tweeting Alltop "stories" via TwitterFeed. - Richard Metzler

michael: that is the way!!! :-) - Robert Scoble

Enrique: you have to have an ego to say that you don't want to be on the ego list. :-) - Robert Scoble

Just a small note. It took 26 minutes for Guy Kawasaki to comment on this thread. On a Sunday morning. Do you see how this works? :-) - Robert Scoble

i wanted to get on the ego list, anyone around here knows i should be but guy put on the seo page instead, oh well :) i'll follow some of these steps, maybe i can get dual all top citizenship - sean percival

I have an ego page... my blog... my startup's home page... As far as who else puts me on an ego page... I think I'll just focus on the stuff I can control and leave that up to them. - Brian Roy

@Scobleizer oh, my ego is massive, but if I had a list to go with, I'd quit for fear of combustion. - Enrique Gutierrez from twhirl

@seanpercival you're not on the ego list on alltop? the hell is that all about? the list is rigged, I say!! :P - Enrique Gutierrez from twhirl

i know what else must a man do? i have stickers made with my face and my biz cards are metal! thats it im getting zune guy to tattoo my avatar on his arm. - sean percival

These lists are both interesting and entertaining but the suggestions appear to be targeted at PR professionals or social media consultant wannabes. Most users of social networking tools don't have time to invest in being popular. They just want to find (or be found by) relevant information and participate in interesting conversations. Any advice for us? - scott anderson

Richard Metzler just got bumped to top of Alltop. - michael silverton

The key to having an ego is knowing that you're perfect - John Bellone

The key to having an ego is secretly knowing that everytime you open your mouth, you are right ... - Alemsah Ozturk

No Ego. I am all Id and Superego. - Martha

I will not be on Alltop's Egos page, but that's OK with me. I have named my blog EGO and have been blogging since 2002. EGO stands for I in Latin. I will soon start a new interview series of my podcast show with individuals who have rational egos and want to have a form of mutual exchange as a conversation with me, sharing their knowledge and ideas with my podcast listeners and blog readers. - Martin Lindeskog

It's not the 26 minutes that matter; it's the Attentional Capacity and Cognitive Behavior to notice such things in stride. Welcome to the Attention Economy. However, do not worry if you don't "get it" right away; unlike the brutalizing rush to the bottom of Industrial Capitalism; in the next stage of human expression, the handholding not only continues, it gets continuously and consciously better. Competitive advantage giving way to Uplift and Inclusion: fostering Cooperative, Collaborative Advantage. - michael silverton

Louis Gray

How investigative research happens in the blogosphere - http://www.scripting.com/stories...

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Point well made: Free Speech and citizen journalism.... - bcultral

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I never liked the term "citizen journalism" -- it only views it from one dimension, and makes it sound (to me at least) US-centric. The reporting job I describe here was very much an international effort, if it was done by citizens -- they were citizens of the world. How is that different from the reporting done by professionals, who are also citizens? - Dave Winer

Wait, what do microformats for HTML thumbnailing have to do with Watergate-style investigative reporting? The point about reporting seems reasonable, but this seems like a stupendously bad example, because everyone knows bloggers are all about jumping all over some technical arcana and getting all hepped up about whether you can or can not add attributes to a link tag in whatever. An infinitely better example would be Groklaw, or maybe source reporting of the Oakland riots or the plane crash in Denver. - ⓞnor

That's just plain silly. What difference does it make if the subject matter is thumbnails or break-ins. And everyone loves to cite Watergate, as if that happens every day in print journalism. More often, much more often, they kill stories because it would offend the publisher or a friend of the publisher. The real star of the movie was Ben Bradlee who let the reporters go wild. These days even the reporter, Woodward, is in bed with his subjects. You can't trust the journos to bite the hand that feeds them. - Dave Winer

Thumbnail formats are something you can investigate with your keyboard and web browser, and also don't really matter much. Political break-ins require you to go out there, pound a lot of pavement, talk to a lot of reluctant people, and take real personal risks to understand something that's way outside your own daily life, and they can be vital to uncover. I think there's a huge difference. Please note that I'm not actually disagreeing with you, I just think your example is really not very motivating. - ⓞnor

Come over to the discussion on the blog post. I just responded to this and someone else who said largely the same thing. Fact is we've tried doing the deep background digging, and even had sources (me!) and guess what happens -- no one stands. The problem is there isn't any courage *anywhere* -- we all just sit by and let the big companies push us around and don't do anything. When you try, you're out there on your own. Eventually you give up -- that's basically what I've done. - Dave Winer

Dave's outlined the process, now it seems everyone is just arguing about the subject matter of the investigation and it's relative importance. Probably not going to change peoples minds/positions until the subject matter is more mainstream. Groklaw was a good example though it's still obscure to most. - PXLated

Louis Gray

SocialToo Helps Prevent You From Auto-Following Spammers - http://www.louisgray.com/live...

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Yes! I was hoping for this! Thanks Jesse and Louis! - Phil G

Great idea! This makes autofollow much less awkward. - Daniel J. Pritchett

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TechCrunch's 5 ways to discover Twitter apps ( http://www.techcrunch.com/2009... ) sadly, they don't list us :(. But we do apps too.

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Tamar Weinberg

How to: Build a Social Media Cheat Sheet for Any Topic - ReadWriteWeb - http://www.readwriteweb.com/archive...

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Marshall Kirkpatrick writes an amazing guide on how you can find thought leaders in any industry. - Tamar Weinberg

Methodical and sensible - one path through the social media forest. Sure there are others, though it is wonderful when someone's done the exploring and mapping. Good share, thanks Tamar - Rob Kramer

Jemm

BBC NEWS | Venomous mammal caught on camera - http://news.bbc.co.uk/2...

January 9, 2009 from Bookmarklet - Comment - Like - Share

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"Large, and with a long, thin snout, the Hispaniolan solenodon resembles an overgrown shrew; it can inject passing prey with a venom-loaded bite." - Jemm from Bookmarklet

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It looks like the Dirt Shrew from "Weeds" - David Spinks

Striking resemblance to Ann Coulter. - Phil Boiarski

It's make me creepy - `aziz´ Alihan ÇETİN

@Alihan ÇETİN Ann Coulter does that to me as well. - MVB (Curmudgeon of FF)

lol . What's Ann Coulter case ? - `aziz´ Alihan ÇETİN

Jeremiah Owyang

I've refined the job survey (based on some of your feedback) here's what I'm planning on launching soon. The purpose? To help folk understand who's being hired and WHY http://spreadsheets.google.com/viewfor...

January 8, 2009 - Comment - Like - Share

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Do you think there are any missing questions, or anything needs to be revised? Please note this is a personal project, not with my employer. I'm trying to help the community. - Jeremiah Owyang

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I wonder if your numbers will end up different or similar to what we've been counting: http://www.readwriteweb.com/jobwire... - Marshall Kirkpatrick

I didn't know of that data, very interesting Marshall. - Jeremiah Owyang

I think your data is likely to be more granular but I bet they'll be complimentary, too. - Marshall Kirkpatrick

Great job Jeremiah. My boss says we should spread the word about this excellent survey, so here it is: http://www.readwriteweb.com/jobwire... - dougcoleman

Wow thanks Doug! - Jeremiah Owyang

can't wait for the results. - Tac Anderson

I recently dug up an article I wrote on theserverside.com back in 2001 titled "A J2EE Developers Perspective on Surviving the Job Crunch", which was well received and got more than 700 replies (this was before blogs, or YPN/Adsense :-$ ) Anyways lots of stuff I wrote in surviving Tech Bubble 1.0 still applies to surviving Global Meltdown Bubble 2.0. So hopefully this will help those who are searching: http://genechuang.blogspot.com/2008... - Gene Chuang

Tac thanks for being one of the first signups - Jeremiah Owyang

Robert Scoble

#ces09 Microsoft releases new tag system for cell phones

January 7, 2009 from email - Comment - Like - Share

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http://www.Microsoft.com/tag This is the coolest thing I have seen so far. You can add these color tags to things and any phone can read them. They released an iPhone app today! Free! - Robert Scoble from email

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Cool, if people will use it. Kind of like web slices, it has to be implemented. We'll see. - Eric @ CSTechcast.com

is that like those QR codes? - David

I like this idea. It's the same principle as scanning a supermarket barcode. We need more of this; Japan has it, after all! Thx for the post. - Allen S.

Interesting but do we really need another one? I have three of these apps on my phone already. Barcorama seems to be the most versatile but I doubt it will have MS's new stuff. These "Smart pox" systems have been around for years in Asia, do we really need to reinvent the system? - Kalidor

after looking at the site, it is like the QR codes, except colorful and by proxy hip - David

yeah, QR Code is already well established in Japan. - Toni @ NavinoT

Oh, neat! Just wish there was support for crappy old WinMobile devices like mine. (Mine runs 2003SE, and I can't afford to upgrade to something modern at this time.) - Chris, Taskerrific Guy

This was actually one of my startup ideas from a while back. Seemed inevitable. Print Biz card with QR (or QRcode like) and use the cameraphone to scan. Additionally you would never be without a business card if you had your phone since you could use the screen to display the code, the other phone takes a pic of your screen presto. - mikepk

also, you use the geo data in the phone to assign a location to when / where you "met" the person - mikepk

meta data gets attached by the very act of scanning - mikepk

chris, that was one of the things I thought was cool about this startup idea, you don't need a fancy phone (although it helps). Just snap a photo with cameraphone and email it to an online service to process. (or upload after the fact) makes it much more accesible. - mikepk

very cool spin to something that is already in wide use in Japan. Kudos to Microsoft for seeing the applications of this. I'm going to have to try this on my phone. - Bryan

the zune tattoo guy is going to need some more ink :-D - Karim

++ Karim LOL - Mona Nomura

Would this not be just like 2d bar codes that nokia has been doing for some time? http://mobilecodes.nokia.com/ Cool but not new for the masses just new for Microsoft possibly. - Sloan Bowman

I thought this failed years ago... - Bwana ☠

Hey, I was the second follower of their abandoned-looking @microsofttag account. This program looks cool but appears to be a typical MSFT rush job on all ends. Program launched a blank website, and when I tried to report the bug the form said "Special characters (< and >) are not allowed in full name." (Of course there are none in my name) - Carl Black

Another iPhone app from Microsoft. I grabbed it, but oh yeah - I don't have any of these brand new proprietary tag images around to try it out... - Josh Bancroft

Worked the very first time on a BB 8330 with what I thought would be an inferior photo. Very interesting. I think I'll try making a tag. - Dave Holle II

David: yes, these are like QR codes but that work much more accurately and can be far smaller than QR codes. - Robert Scoble

Here's a video demoing it: http://www.kyte.tv/ch... - Robert Scoble

I'd like quantification of accurate and smaller. QR codes can work with over 50% of it damaged, and I have once working that are 3/4'" on each side? I wouldn't mind seeing smaller if it becomes a standard. I notice MS's website doesn't have this info? What do they say? - Kalidor

What is the name of the iphone app? - Amani

Kalidor: the microsoft tags are smaller in size and can be read without special lenses on your cell phone. They seem to work a lot more accurately here. - Robert Scoble

Not sure what you mean by special lenses, the Moto V220 I got from Rogers for free (so you can imagine the quality) had no problem with those squares on salty posters in TO streets? Do some phones need wide angle lenses or something then? - Kalidor

Amani ... it's TagReader (you can also find via search on 'Microsoft') - David HC Soul

Absolutely cool, this thing rocks. Tried it on multiple tags and it is able to recognize most of the tags easily. With even 2 MP camera phone it works great. Now the question, how do I make my own tags?? - Deepak Sharma

Isn't this what ShotCode has been doing for at least the last two years? http://www.shotcode.com/home - Christopher Harley

Oh, please. QR code are exactly the same, they work perfectly well. No news here. And more: it seems that after a period of free beta, creating tag will cost you money. Oh, dear, QR codes are free, instead. Nice try. - Federico [Kurai]

Federico: they are not the same. Look into it. And not everything Microsoft does is evil. - Robert Scoble

I'm not saying that this is evil. Just I don't get how this is different from QR codes (except for the fancy colours). But, don't get me wrong, Robert, I'm happy for this idea. QR rocks in Japan, but never really made their way in the rest of the world. Maybe Microsoft will be able to get this technology to spread. I think it's great for games. - Federico [Kurai]

The Adobe TV demo of Flash doing this in a browser with a regular web cam is very cool. http://tv.adobe.com/#vi+f15... Long video but worth it. Jump to 41:00 min and 49:00min - Andrew Smith

Created my first tag, posted to blog, took unbelievably blurry photo with my iPhone from the blog page on notebook (hand shaking, balanced on lap & low light) it took me successfully in the Safari browser right to the page. Wonderful. I'm looking at incorporating this for a Sports Hall of Fame to link exhibits to a virtual archive with supplemental information.... this will integrate a Second Place of Learning" with a virtual "Third Place of Learning" so that the two can be combined into one experience! - David HC Soul

This is at least 7 or 8 years old technology. I have early versions of such cards laying in the bottom of boxes in my office somewhere. 2009 off to a rockin' start. - michael silverton

michael: old cue cat scans weren't designed to be used by blurry cell phone cameras. - Robert Scoble

I was thinking of printing bar code info on business cards that could be scanned by the G1 code reader. If this works, way cool! - Greg Birch

I'm impressed, I work in the sign industry and this could have some interesting applications if enough people start to use it. The dialer tag worked quickly even when blurry and slightly crooked. - Patrick Looney

mkay. but i'm sure you'd agree there's a fairly bright distinction between 'breakthrough' and 'refinement' right? why are we still awake? tomorrow will be a huge day! goodnight! ;-) - michael silverton

Robert: QRcode worked as a charm with my E61 camera, which is not the best around (2 megapixel, more blurry than the iPhone one). - Federico [Kurai]

I personally am a MS fan but have to say that in my opinion adding some colors doesn't really mean anything related to innovation. I think the size and ability to be read are depending on the resolution of the consumer device more than the underlying technologies and do you really think that changing the items from squares to triangles and adding some color could increase quality? Is there any academic paper about this issue? - Kivanc Toker

And why to market a total new product from scratch rather than working together with Nokia? Theye are already embedding 2d barcode readers to their new products supporting the 2 widespread 2d barcode technologies which are QR and Datamatrix. - Kivanc Toker

QR codes can be scanned, recognized, and stored while working offline. Microsoft tags require Internet connectivity, and they have to go through Microsoft server to be useful. It makes them only marginally better than cool, easy to type domain name. - andrei_c

QR Codes are also in many products in Asia. Here in Hong Kong almost all products from Nokia, Sony Ericsson and Japanese cosmetic brands have QR Codes on them. BTW: @Leather the Google project is called ZXing http://tr.im/36xc - Vinko

Can't get it to install on my non-fancy phone ;-) Guess I'll have to stick with QR codes for now! - Nick Jones

it requires an internet connection meaning the data in the tag isn't really stored in the tag itself whereas QR codes hold all the data in their respective code. it's color also so forget about kids using this to advertise their band's party on campus using their cheap black and white printers. - Stefan Constantinescu

@andrei_c, @Stefan The tags *could* hold all the data in the code; but less data is necessary if everything's routed through what's essentially a "tinyurl" service. I think that's what's going on here. I'm sure using tinyurl or another shortening service w/ QR yields a more legible QR code. A tag of any kind, QR or otherwise, is no good if it can't be read. - Wade Dorrell

But QR codes *can* be read. - Federico [Kurai]

@Federico These can be read too. But at what angles? In what lighting? On which camera, at which quality setting? What URL, a long one or a short one? All I'm saying is using a shorter URL probably increases the odds that the code can be read, and I should say, read quickly & easily, both for QR & this tech. - Wade Dorrell

CueCat, anyone? Still, it seems like an interesting take on QR Codes, and the 2D barcode "data pointer" concept in general. - Tyson Key

Very cool! - Matthew Bishop

Never had a single problem with the E61i camera (which is a pretty standard 2mpixel) in every lighting condition. The scan is fast and reliable. I really don't see the need to use a third party server just for a small increase in the reliability. Japanese are using QR for a long time now, it is an open and affordable technology. Microsoft is proprietary and less economic, with few appreciable advantages. - Federico [Kurai]

I like it, set up a few myself. Will put on my blog that i never seem to update. Showed a friend and he set his twitter picture to it which sends the user to his blog. Be interesting to see it around. - Simon Wicks

WARNING: PISSING & MOANING - Why must Microsoft pull this crap. There areW codes like QR which are used all over the world. Just because it hasn't caught on in America, Microsoft has to go and create their own tag that they can license for profit. This is why America is behind in tech coolness. Standards exist. Look at Japan, Finland, etc.. I'm envious of what they have and I'm pissed because it's the Microsofts of America that are preventing us from having this kind of tech. - Pete Barry

Pete, how does Microsoft Neapolitan ice cream "prevent" us from having somebody else's vanilla? :-) if Google was on top of things, they would have rolled out QR and *integrated it with AdWords.* Print ads that drive to website = $$$$. - Karim

[light bulb goes on over head] now if you'll excuse me, I have to go file a patent. lol - Karim

wow -- very cool. I wonder what's going on with Google's QR - Mike

I just wrote up my thoughts here - http://www.centernetworks.com/microso... - this is very disappointing -r eminds me of facebook connect - i really like where qr codes are going and now we get this new microsoft tag? - Allen Stern

@waded I agree and understand, however, as long as there are places like airplanes, trains, rural areas, foreign countries with expensive roaming, etc, routing through server is a deal breaker. We aren't going to have truly ubiquitous Internet access for at least a decade. And I don't even want to start on how this limits range of devices that can support tags. Basically, it rules out everything except smartphones and laptops with attached cameras. - andrei_c

I just tried it. It launches the IE browser on my phone (HTC Fuze) instead of the much better Opera browser. Make sure to uncheck the "Always launch IE" in settings to get it working with your default mobile browser. They should have made this the default, at least until they improve the mobile browser. - Jim Cahill

@yesthatkarim You are absolutely right. There are choices. My fear is that the general public will go with the one that is publicized and that will be MSFT Tag. There are a handful of QR code readers for the iPhone which I've tried out and they work great. I just tried to create a MSFT Tag to try their iPhone app and they required a login. That's a big FAIL. It's just sad to see some tech companies embracing openness while others keep their doors locked. - Pete Barry

http://www.microsoft.com/tag... for some discussion of QR vs. this tech. - Wade Dorrell

Benefits for end-users here: http://www.microsoft.com/tag... and publishers here: http://www.microsoft.com/tag... - Wade Dorrell

@andrei_c supposedly the application can store the scanned tag for later use in a disconnected situation; I read that somewhere on microsoft.com. - Wade Dorrell

There are some benefits to what Microsoft is doing; less space used for the same amount of data compared to QR/DataMatrix codes., tracking, lots of $ to push the effort. But the BIG problem I see is that Microsoft will be able to track all of these codes. QR and DataMatrix codes embed the ACTUAL data in the image. The Tag just embeds a code that the MS site uses to redirect the browser. Come on MS, just get behind a proven, public domain standard like DataMatrix. - Mark Simonds

Steven Hodson

The impossible dream – Social Technology - http://www.winextra.com/index...

January 3, 2009 from WinExtra - Comment - Like - Share

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I want to digest this post some more, but it relates closely to the project that @hardaway and I are working on here http://www.ushealthcrisis.com/ There are some parallels in your thinking around access to the pipes that apply to our health care issues too. - Karoli

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@Karoli .. great :) I don't feel totally like I was way off in left field on this - Steven Hodson

I don't think you were off at all; particularly on your thoughts about the system being as weak as the weakest link which is the lack of access to the network (and information) by many, especially those without the means to pay for it. - Karoli

@Karoli I've still got a lot of thoughts on this so there will be more posts about Social Technology as I get them sorted out - Steven Hodson

you did not convince me. it'll happen sooner than you think. you can say i'm a dreamer, but i'm not the only one. - scott anderson

@Scott I truly hope you are right - the benefits would be incredible - Steven Hodson

@ana ma roopa don't know that I agree with the generalization in your comment. It certainly CAN spread ignorance, but that goes back to the question of who you trust and who you don't. Like any other medium, including television, newspapers, or face-to-face interaction, ignorance spreads with lack of critical thought and investigation. - Karoli

The only point of disagreement is the timeframe. If we don't all destroy each other first I think this will happen in our lifetime. If you consider the rate of change of the past 40 years as compared to the past 100, and then compare the past 100 to the past 1000 I think we can safely say we are seeing hyperevolution. Those things that we say won't happen in 10 years often are seen within 2 or 3. I give it 15 - 20 tops. GREAT POST! - Keith - @tsudo

nice article. sounded very passionate. i would say this only: social technology has existed on the web almost since its early days as a consumer platform. It's evolved and changed, but it's always been here. It is the user that has evolved. - Patricia

@Patricia I would be interested in hearing your thoughts on how this is the case. You can email me if you would prefer (steven @ winextra . com) - Steven Hodson

Steven, an excellent post. It makes me think (again) and I like that. I'm beginning to understand the complexity of the issue you are addressing. I think it is well worth a followup. You have triggered some thoughts I think I will be writing down in a post myself ;-) (comment via Disqus by Alexander van Elsas) - Steven Hodson

thank you Alexander. The conversation we had via Skype did help and I look forward to your thoughts on the idea. I know I still have more that I want to write about this because it isn't an all-in-one type subject so any input is greatly welcomed. (comment via Disqus by StevenHodson) - Steven Hodson

The fear factor for me with the kind of connectivity you mention is a privacy issue - "they" would always be able to know where I am if I am always plugged in and identified. I know it sounds paranoid, but... (comment via Disqus by Kathleen Seide) - Steven Hodson

Steven: Instead of saying a blanket 'this won't happen in our time' i think it is worth thinking bigger. In my children's lifetime of 10 years, we went from having a few early adopters with cell phones and web browsers to a huge percentage of developed world society having one or both. Companies are working to make at least basic mobile access available almost everywhere - My friend... more... - Steven Hodson

I appreciate the sentiment, Robert. I agree it's a noble aspiration, but I don't see it happening in our lifetimes. I see how far we've come though, as I remember the days when we learned that someday we'd be able to book our airline reservations on the computer, etc. It's quite fascinating, as is your view. Thank you for sharing it. (comment via Disqus by Lizz Harmon) - Steven Hodson

rather than address your point in the comments Phil - because they are interesting ones - I'll be looking at them in another post about Social Technology. thanks (comment via Disqus by StevenHodson) - Steven Hodson

wow .. thanks Adam ... I'm kind of at a loss of words. (comment via Disqus by StevenHodson) - Steven Hodson

We will probably always have divisions - that almost seems like human nature but with social Technology I they would be less stringent and less about classifications of people unlike what we have today. I grew up as well knowing the same as you - I have spent most of my life knowing that as well but just because we grew up with a certain class structure doesn't mean it has to be one that our grandchildren grow up with. (comment via Disqus by StevenHodson) - Steven Hodson

Steven - you are ahead of your time....that's all. Not sure what else to add other than I wish everyone saw things as clearly as you. (comment via Disqus by Adam Singer) - Steven Hodson

This is an important post. I only wish there were more posts like this. I like the triad of what social media isn't. Technology doesn't change the fundamental problems of being human. And yet we have always sought technological solutions to human problems. Religion is a technology (interface with God); government is a technology (automation of moral codes and mandates). Those solutions... more... - Steven Hodson

the reality you assume will not be realized in our lifetime is already real .. to a mystic, a yogi, anybody with developed awareness .. the whole tech dance is only about out-picturing what the mind can already do ... (comment via Disqus by gregorylent) - Steven Hodson

Robert Scoble

Nine ways Twitter could make money:

January 6, 2009 - Comment - Like - Share

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1. Look for affiliate revenues - Robert Scoble

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2. Exploit the spaces between content - Robert Scoble

3. Adopt a freemium model - Robert Scoble

4. Add Virtual Goods - Robert Scoble

5. Get recurring revenue, er, find a way to charge for subscriptions. - Robert Scoble

6. If you’re going to do advertising, get into creating ads that are viral and interactive. - Robert Scoble

7. Create “frequent tweeting” programs - Robert Scoble

8. Look for support, or tips, from your users. - Robert Scoble

9. Get outside your website. Try to sell schwag. Do events. Etc. - Robert Scoble

Pro features at some point would be nice. An enterprise version could work as well. - Mike Fruchter

Inserting geo-targetted ads on Tweets. - Mike Fruchter

Got any others? - Robert Scoble

what about truncated, collapsable/expandable threading? - David Lloyd

And maybe "Nine ways Friendfeed could make money" hehe - David Lloyd

Twitter should license their technology to companies for intranets. - Michael Gaines

TweetSense. Ad Tweets served BY Twitter, who has the best idea of your Tweet volume and subject matter. http://www.blindfiveyearold.com/tweetse... Lowest hanging fruit, contextual ads on the Twitter Search page. - AJ Kohn

What about platform support via dev tools? Encourage the ecosystem and make money at the same time? (Apologies, Robert, I replied on Twitter first.) - Tim Beyers

premium blogger services. Cool site integration tools with metrics. - Chris Baskind

10. add premium support for app developers. - Darren Stuart

Considering they have had 100% uptime for a few months, you have to think stability is fine now and they have their engineers beavering away on new features. Of course digg has 80 engineers and hardly ever seems to launch anything :p - David Lloyd

Thanks for this article Robert - bcultral

11. sell inhouse or managed solutions to companies for their own uses internally and sell federation CAL's so they can connect the internal solution to the wider twitter network so that specific users can tweet to the public. - alphaxion

Sell the entire background page to brands by the hour/day with some of the area being made available for discounts/offers. (You need something to benefit users too, not just Twitter.) ;-p - mtlb

I'm a little scared of the day all these FREE Social Networking sites CLOSE THE DOOR ON FREE, with all my data inside. - PaulFrankRizzo

good point..what is the answer Robert? - bcultral

Paul: I don't think free is going away. But I sure would pay for decent DM features, for instance. Lots of companies would pay for custom skinning features. - Robert Scoble

By following a brand's advertising account you consent to receiving ads from them. Add some profiling info to this and it could be a powerful tool to receive adverts on a users terms. - John Galpin

7.1> Post ad-tweets every half an hour from twitter account, which every twitter user will follow by default (have to follow by default). Make changes to API, so that people can't work around it and dodge this tweet. - | Balu |

freemium is definitely the way, one flavor or another. you don't want to kill the value of the network - quantity and quality - by driving away elements of it. plus for every paying site, there will always be a new free site up in less time it takes to say "bob's my uncle" - Pascal Bouvier

Create daily reports for similar types of tweets and licence that data to various companies, this will be user generated marketing report. - Shanthala Balagopal

Chris: in that case I hope they do all nine! Just kidding, but, seriously, these sites need to find a way to make some revenues or they'll go away. If you don't want them to find a revenue model you are NOT a good user of these systems. - Robert Scoble

ugh, can we please look at ways for twitter to make money without resorting to adverts? I'm pretty sure there's loads of ways, I've mentioned the one I have been bleeting on about for months now. How about you? Can you come up with ways to make money without going cap in hand to advertisers? - alphaxion

Phase 1: Twitter Phase 2: ??? Phase 3: Profit! - Alastair Montgomery

alphaxion: most of these are not about advertising. - Robert Scoble

Every local government needs to be on twitter, on their own twitter - and so does every state and federal government, police and emergency service - operated privately and 'independently' from the main twitter stream. - Chris Loft

care to comment about Obama and his 8 million strong email database taken into the Govt side? I am a community organizer and feel that email list belongs to the people - bcultral

Create a premium 'breaking news' service from data mining existing content and sell it to the old media. - Andrew Leyden

apart from 6 ;) Tho I'm addressing the others who are commenting rather than your suggestions. Trying to tease a bit of creative thinking out of people. I think it is a very healthy activity to get people working on ideas for how to make money and excluding the advertisers at the same time. - alphaxion

Chris: friendfeed has the same business model choices ahead of them to make too. - Robert Scoble

Selling my email address is NOT a way to make money. People will lose faith and/or start using phony emails for signups. - Michael Gaines

Alphaxion: #6 is actually about Context Optional, a company that creates very creative, viral ads. If you're going to do ads, that's the way to do it. - Robert Scoble

squeeze the advertisers...users should not have to pay for service ..other then paying to put up with advertisers and regulating and demanding subtlety - bcultral

Chris: hah! Actually most of the dating services are going to free models so they'll need to use some of these 9 too. - Robert Scoble

Robin: problem is that advertisers are going away. TechCrunch is hearing that this year could see some sites have 50% fewer ad revenues than before. So, you'll see more sites use these nine business models on you. - Robert Scoble

point taken - bcultral

How many users on FF at this point? - bravestface

Have Twitter subscribers pick a few products to "endorse", and have ads with their Twitter names attached to them. Then, give those users a discount based on # of clicks. - Michael Gaines

Robert: not forgetting that comps can simply sing up with an account and tweet updates from there, which is where inhouse and federation can be handy. New version release? An auto tweet to the public can be done - alphaxion

Chris: adsense is shit. Pays low CPMs. HotorNot makes $10 by selling virtual flowers. I'd love to be able to put a flower on your comments. Or something else. :-) - Robert Scoble

Turn "following" into a Multi-Level Marketing pyramid! - Rick Tuttle

very interesting discussion, robert. thank you! after 2 months of running Magpie (http://be-a-magpie.com), I can resume that #2 from your list works really well for both tweeps (they earn) and advertisers. - Jan Schulz-Hofen

the sale of commercial API keys so that software such as starteam or sourceforge could tweet out info automatically based on trigger events to both private and public twitter networks. - alphaxion

:) - bcultral

Charge for Groups feature ala Yammer - Sajida H Khan

They should Plax-ify Twitter and create a premium service to share and update full contact details between followers. - matt howard

Rick: I thought following already was a multi-level marketing pyramid! You should have seen my son on Sunday when we were on Leo Laporte's show. He told his 2,000 live listeners that they had to follow my son. He got 100 new followers in a couple of minutes. - Robert Scoble

I think you forgot data mining (which links directly into advertising model, and buzz campaign monitoring). In a nutshell they should have a look at us ;-) (heck, we already do #2 and what I mentionned above!) - twitscoop

bravestface: there are about 250,000 registered users of friendfeed (it's a guess based on available data). - Robert Scoble

cant we think SMS as a strong income model? - Sinan Ata

If you're a company trying sell/advertise via Twitter...I would expect them to pay. That way it doesn't piss off your standard user. The key is charging less than other competing PR firms. - CannonGod

How about a search engine. Soon there will be so many people and companies on Twitter (and similar sites) that people will want to search for those like they do for web sites. It's already frustrating trying to find people now as the current search is very limited. Add to that a similar model to AdWords that could generate money. Would be interested to see what other people think of this idea! - Joanna Butler

A variant on #5 - develop tools for professional/advanced use of twitter and charge for that level of service. Search / stats / archival tools. - Patrick Pushor

Joanna: http://search.twitter.com has tons of places to monetize. I'd pay $5 a month to be listed on top or have a "pro" icon next to my name, for instance. - Robert Scoble

Chris: there are quite a few that I don't even track. Hi-5, for instance. - Robert Scoble

Emphasis on 'could' - AJ Kohn

Robert: I'm with you on that! Once companies are using Twitter, they'd easily see the benefits of a pro listing. I have several clients who'd at least be willing to experiment that. - Joanna Butler

The key is for Twitter to charge advertisers and not users. For example, they could make a mint by placing sidebar ads (a la FB) and justifying $ rates relative to the most popular people followed - such as you, @LeoLaporte, @guykawasaki, oh, and 'That One.' - Jim Mitchem

@jim they would make orders of magnitudes more by selling their software, support of the software and access to their software instead of limiting themselves so badly with conventional advertising. - alphaxion

If you tell Toyota or Coke that their constituency is online with Twitter and they're following specific people, or trending topics - you know they'd pay through the nose for those precious few seconds. It's push vs. pull. - Jim Mitchem

@chris - that's cool, just don't snort coke and drive Trish in a Toyota concurrently. - Jim Mitchem

@chris their software is a product they can sell, the userbase is a compelling feature of that product.. "pay for our commerical API to add twitter support to your product and add the ability of your customers to share their going-ons with the network and stoke demand and interest"... - alphaxion

Chris: exactly. Done right, who wouldn't pay? - Joanna Butler

What's the source of the current online culture of entitlement? Users don't want paid subscriptions nor to suffer ads. The same view that powers online piracy. Shouldn't creative professionals and those who fund them be compensated? If not, there will eventually be a big drop in production. Ps- few companies even use internal IM or digital BBS to share institutional knowledge, I don't see enterprise Twitted as being very lucrative. - Colin Hessel

I pay for reliability and accountability - a free service owes me nothing, they can lose my data overnight, be unavailable whenever, disappear. A service I pay for comes with an SLA, some guarantees, etc. Plus, if you don't pay for it, or donate to it, one day it will be gone and you might feel sorry. - Joelle Nebbe (iphigenie)

I would pay for additional features = pro account (stability, groups, counter, threads etc in one interface)... but I am just an ordinary user... - Hanna Wiszniewska

ok, so maybe Toyota was a bad example http://tinyurl.com/99gkj7 - Jim Mitchem

enterprise version already exists look at http://www.yammer.com - Andrew Mueller

Great ideas Robert. Twitter execs will appreciate it but I still think no business model will exist until they are acquired. - Jeremy Campbell from twhirl

yes, i think acquisition was their business model - but the economic crisis did dash hopes of a gold-plated one so they are thinking about value added services now (through the buy-in of sandy it seems "concierge" style message parsing is one option they are looking at. If you can buy, book, plan, coordinate things semi automatically via twitter there is value in there) - Joelle Nebbe (iphigenie)

content partnerships, - imran

Following on from the discussion re FF UI - this discussion shows a BIG issue - I had to expand 95 comments to see Robert's original 9 (and was that the best way to publish the list?) and now I can't compress them! - Mark Warren

Mark: if you refresh the page they will be compressed again. - Robert Scoble

At the very least, show Google Ads on search - Varun Mahajan

I like the idea of selling aspects of the API as a SaaS. Also think they could very easily start charging consumers for Track and SMS. - Clay Newton

They would do well to add the ability to do very robust data mining. You can imagine providing a set of business intelligence dashboards to track and analyze customer sentiment as well as real time trend analysis. - Clay Newton

Virtual goods are a really solid idea as well. Look at what they are doing at Mahalo Answers. Mixes virtual $$ and real $. Twitter could easily implement a number of different levels here. They could also open up the API to provide even greater levels of functionality for app developers, essentially building a tiny-app framework. - Clay Newton

they should sell market info from mining their data, It's a great source of customer data - Tony Jones from twhirl

tony: you then get into the murkey problem of is it their data? By the same standard your ISP could sell their data on your usage. Is it ethical and would your customer base accept it? - alphaxion

I just posted the Social Networking Monetization Golden Goose idea yesterday at http://www.growmap.com/monetiz... - Internet Strategist

@alphaxion - Advertisers will always be in the mix and are inevitable, they should do just in a way that doesn’t interfere with individual tweets/updates. Unless Twitter has an endless supply of financing, they’ll have to go to outside sources, (like subscribers/advertisers). I don’t see Twitter though offering so much value as to make it worth paying for. Not enough features. (ESPN.com has its insider pay service and still runs a ton of ads on the site, so having one rev. stream doesn’t eliminate another.) - mtlb

Someone also mentioned a pay service for exclusive/breaking news on Twitter. First, I have Drudge for breaking news, but more importantly, part of the appeal of Twitter is that people like to feel they broke the news themselves. Why should Twitter or a select few decide what's breaking and what’s not and exclude the rest of the users from contributing to that? - mtlb

I would pay good money for the ability to punch people over the internet. - stretta

Make people pay to block other users! They'll get rich. - Rae21

I was reading this long list of comments and then the system did its hiccup/update thing and it all went away and I had to spend time looking for the damn thread again. Freaking annoying! - Rae21

@twitscoop Twitter data mining (strangely over looked) seems less like a business model then and more like a feature of the social network: transforming the data flow of one's social graph into usable information is why we stick around in the first place. Oh, I guess that does count as a business model. - Brad Kligerman

I've noticed a couple companies contacting me directly via Twitter when I have made noise about their products. Obviously, people say a lot of things on Twitter about products they use... I agree with Patrick Pushor; "develop tools for professional/advanced use of twitter and charge for that level of service". Twitter should send a rep. to companies to show them how to use Twitter to improve their own products and service, by using Twitter Search to find out what consumers are saying about their products. - Colleen

I wrote an article about twitter's fundamental problem yesterday. Essentially, all communication networks move toward being free. www.zachlandes.com - Zach Landes

FFing Enigma (aka Tina)

So, let me get this straight: the fact that on Monday morning I didn't want to come to work and posted as such, then read about Jobs' health and opted to not comment because I have nothing to add to the conversation, this is what makes me and by extension FF dumb?

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Seriously? The fact that I had nothing of insight or interest to add to a topic and opted to keep my Trapp shut is what makes me dumb? *shocked* - FFing Enigma (aka Tina)

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Tina: exactly. I didn't blog about it so I must be dumb too. - Robert Scoble

Is someone actually giving you a hard time about choosing not to get involved in certain conversations? Wah? - Helen Sventitsky

Who said that to you? - Mo Kargas

Tina: Do you really care... I mean if I have not made several people question my intelligence today I really haven't done my job. And I'm not being flip... I would be really really frightened if everyone's view of "interesting" was the same as mine (or vice versa). - Brian Roy

Not exactly, Helen. This wasn't said about or to me, it was about FF in general. It's someone that opts to not follow or respond to me but the assertion he has made is that everything on FF at 9:30 this morning had nothing to do with the Jobs' news and that is a prime example in support of the 'FF is dumb' hypothesis posited by yet another person earlier today (or perhaps yesterday). I like FF and apparently am apt to jump to its defense like a rabid dog. A dumb, rabid dog =D - FFing Enigma (aka Tina)

This horse isn't dead enough? - Admiral Anika

Who are these people and where exactly do they call you out? I personally have only a finite number of times I can say Whore and Moan together in a year, and didn't want to burn them all in the first week of the month. - Matthew DeVries

Surely the variety of topics is a sign that smart people are here? And Friendfeed isn't just a discussion tool, it's a information sharing service :) - Steven Cains

The internet this is SERIOUS BUSINESS. You can't have fun here. You can't talk about LOLcats or your day. Because, you know, they NEVER talk about that on twitter. Twitter is CHOCK full of amazing insight after amazing insight. In fact, we should stop using each other's names all together, it only promotes community and friendly banter. - Yolanda

Ya'll are sweet, but again this wasn't directed directly at me personally, more at FF and its reactions in general. However, as someone who posts very little tech and social media I figure I'm pretty representative of the 'noise' that's being discussed. I suppose the irony of my name has escaped some people... - FFing Enigma (aka Tina)

Since when has narrowly focusing on a topic that not everyone cares about considered "smart" anyway? - Victor Ganata

HA! I got you all beat! I didn't even KNOW that Jobs was sick. That makes me King of the Stoopidz. - Steven Perez

Victor, that's not smart. That's an expert =D - FFing Enigma (aka Tina)

I've obviously missed the boat on this one. But I 'liked' it to represent my vote for lolcats and photomemes. Meaninglessness FTW! - Jim: Now With Caffeine

I encourage everyone here who is pissed at what I wrote to consider that I'm not actually taking a position on whether or not Gabe Rivera is right: what I'm discussing is the lack of very good arguments to what Gabe Rivera has said about FriendFeed. On Saturday, I wrote about giving others the benefit of the doubt when they do things: in that spirit I wrote about a possible support for... more... - Mark Trapp

Mark, my frustration isn't with you, though it was in this instance brought up again by your post. And I definitely acknowledge that neither you nor Rivera were speaking of me personally. With that said, my frustration is with the assumptions that are being made. The assumption that everyone using social media sees the same items as newsworthy news, that people being personable and... more... - FFing Enigma (aka Tina)

Didn't someone already figure this out? 99% of EVERYTHING is crap. - Victor Ganata

You know, if these folks who think FF is dumb got together and followed each other... perhaps they would be happier with FF. Then, they could all sit around talking about only techy things. I'm part of the group of folks that is looking for a fun place to chat and share things. - Yolanda

This is FriendFeed, not TechFeed or SocialMediaFeed or BloggerFeed. The team could have chosen one of any number of names to convey what they felt was the real intent and *power* of this particular service, and in my single opinion they chose PERFECTLY. FF isn't about being the smartest or loudest or most prolific. It's about the members: the people who participate, getting to know them... more... - FFing Enigma (aka Tina)

+1 mona.... :o) - Rob Sellen :o)

Mark: according to my "best of day" page in friendfeed your theory that the "hate being at work" stuff is the story of the day is NOT true. It's not even on that page at all. Both Steve Jobs and the Twitter stuff are, though. Again, if you are following the wrong people you won't have as good a news page. - Robert Scoble

That is just ridiculous. I'm not going to spend all day talking about Steve Jobs health. Why? Because it is no ones damn business. Yes, I read the letter, yes I posted a link to it on Twitter, but I didn't go on about for the rest of the day. Hell, me and my boss talked about it for a couple of minutes and then went on for the rest of the day. Idiots. - Mathew™ one of a kind

To those who think FF is dumb, go jump in a lake. I do read some of the tech things, and I didn't learn about Steve Jobs until later today, because I was in bed for most of the day with a major sinus headache. FF is to me for friends to get together and talk about interesting things, whether it is LOLcats or where Robert Scoble is going for coffee. I love FF and unless there is something else that is better than here, I'm not moving. +1 Tina. :) - Molly, Time Traveller

+10 LOLMolly. - Robert Scoble

I know plenty of highly intelligent people that neither care about Steve Jobs nor anything he could possibly have to say. Steve Jobs is just not a part of their world. I don't own any Apple products, nor do I have any plans on buying any. Why would I care about what someone from a company I have no interest in, has to say about anything? How does that make me less intelligent if I don't? - April Russo (app103)

Robert: the "best of day" page shows individual posts that get lots of likes and comments, it doesn't show memes, like, aptly, the current "sarcasm picture" meme. Most, if not all, of these sarcasm pictures won't show up on the best of feed, but it doesn't stop them from flooding my view right now. - Mark Trapp

Unfortunately, until there is the ability for you to hide posts that mention 'meme' and me to hide posts that mention 'iphone' we will both have to rely upon hide to do the dirty work for us. - FFing Enigma (aka Tina)

*hugs LOLMolly* :D Tina is right, we need a "meme" tag or a memeRoom - Susan Beebe

mark trapp, good point on meme responses not showing up in the "best of" feature... but back to "TechMeme is utterly worthless to 99.9% of people." Wha?? - edythe

Polly, hey, he said it, not me: http://marktrapp.com/blog... - Mark Trapp

I don't mean to hijack this thread, but thanks Robert Scoble for giving me a +10 I feel honored. :) I also agree there should be a room for Memes or something like that. I love the memes. :) - Molly, Time Traveller

Tyler (Chacha)

There should be a way to combine several RSS feeds into a single one

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using friendfeed, you could create an imaginary friend, import all of the feeds you want into that account, and then subscribe to the imaginary friend's feed....voila - .LAG liked that

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or you can create a room in FF and do the same thing :) - WorldofHiglet

Try Yahoo Pipes. - Bryce Roney

@Higlet... true that! the benefit of the imaginary friend approach is that it would be private to the account that created it. a room can be shared, if setup that way. - .LAG liked that

www.feedjumbler.com - Jandy, ConcertMaven of FF

@jandy: cool share! - .LAG liked that

And this is why Friendfeed is smart. Problem... multiple solutions. - Louis Gray

LAG, can't remember where I found that. I've been using it on and off to create combined feeds for my site for a couple of years now. If you want to mask that it's a combined feed, run the feed URL it gives you through Feedburner. - Jandy, ConcertMaven of FF

Yeah @jandy, thanks for sharing. Bookmarked :) - Type Micah

http://xfruits.com - April Russo (app103)

Am going to explore those ff options as well because I love friendfeed. xfruits looks interesting, too! - Type Micah

xfruits is what I used before I came to friendfeed, to combine all my activities into a single feed, for use in a widget on my blog. It had some issues with the way it presented wakoopa entries though, so I was happy to find this site. - April Russo (app103)

I didn't even check the comments on FF for this. Thanks for the ideas guys - Tyler (Chacha)

Jeremiah Owyang

Who here is new to Friendfeed? Use this thread to ask questions, we'll do our best to support you as a community. welcome!

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I'm not new, but wanted to *wave* and say welcome to those who are =) - FFing Enigma (aka Tina)

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Welcome David - Jeremiah Owyang

I 'm not new but revisiting Friend Feed as I abandoned it. Hey all! - Jay Gilmore

I'd just ask few #Gaza tweeps to make a room on FriendFeed.. my guess they're new here - Pico Seno

Here is a PROs and CONs to using FriendFeed conversation: http://friendfeed.com/e... - B2B Specialist

I just signed up. I have been using Twitter but I'm looking for an easier way to follow conversations. Hoping Friendfeed will workout better. - Kent

A week new. Learning the ropes. Love the data concatenation though (across SM). thanks Jeremiah. - Jim Mitchem

Is a room for new FF members? That could be nice. - Amani

I think there is a room that gives a general introduction, and I know there's a room for user profiles (that gets sporadic use at best). But having a thread like this out in the wild for users to ask questions is always a good thing. - FFing Enigma (aka Tina)

pico, i set up a gaza room a couple of days ago, haven't used it yet. - ernie yacub

Pretty new, ca 1 month, heard about it a long time ago but never bothered with social networks (eg. twitter and facebook) , registered and got hooked on FF ! :) Not really a question though ... - Thomas Bøhm

GAZA room is now #gaza which connects with twitter group - ernie yacub

i am wat you could call a novice to the hole social networking joined up to the so called most ratted still trying to get to grips with it lol - eric

(Raises Hand) - Jesse Stay

Welcome new folks! If there's anything anybody needs, just ask! Don't be shy, everyone here is happy to help. - MVB (Curmudgeon of FF)

I like turtles - Josh Haley

Jesse - you have a question? - Amani

Amani, I have many questions - Jesse Stay

@jeremiah: generous and brilliant. you're putting the 'friend' into friendfeed. kudos! - .LAG liked that

Hi Jeremiah. Another new FF user here. - Greg Guitarbuster

hi everyone, im fairly new with a day or 2 of experience - Web20Critic from twhirl

Thanks LAG, and welcome! - Jeremiah Owyang

I am relatively new here and appreciate your reach out..I have found Robert Scoble approachable and have gained my greatest insight from Bill Romanos. This is a very important move on your part to assist newcomers...I have great respect for this offer of assistance to us newbies.. - bcultral

I also have a software that I have designed and I went broke having the prototype built by a firm in southern India. Ephrontech.com I want to change the world and I have been following this Vision for many years, starting in the jungles of Belize. High Tech Retribalization..the architect is a genius IT Solutions guy formally a IT manager at GE...I need direction!!!! Please point me in the right direction..SpokenWord.Tv - bcultral

I just absorb - bcultral

My Story: http://www.dailykos.com/story... - bcultral

Just joined--so why is this better or more useful that other services? - Parth

Joined a few months ago but never used it....trying to navigate through but love it so far! - Alison

Just politely chiming in. See, there may be some action happening around these parts. - Scott M Iseman

I am new to FF, I saw a "post" by Mr. David (Dave) Winer and now I would like to contact him, but I do not know how. I am Pat patrick.omahony@gmail.com. Is this the " - pomahony2

@Parth-I believe this service allows you to share and discuss in a deep fashion. It also allows you to discover and learn many, many new things. Even by just going to rooms or following people, your world will open up. I think the community and depth of info here separates FF from other sites. @Patrick - if you click on some people who have posted in this thread (including myself) and... more... - Amani

Patrick, go to his feed page, find his Twitter page and contact me that way (well if you're on Twitter). - Kol Tregaskes

I'm relatively new. Is there a way to shut off a certain person's specific feeds but not others (i.e. I want to see their blog posts but not their Flickr uploads, for example)? I'm assuming they haven't necessarily broken them into separate lists. - YieldBuild-Jason Menayan

Jason - hide an item, then click "hide other items like this one". You'll get choices about what to hide for a single person or service for everyone. - Hutch Carpenter

@Hutch - sweet, thanks! - YieldBuild-Jason Menayan

Wow, look at all the cool new people, awesome!! :) - Susan Beebe

Welcome everyone! :) - Mona Nomura

Took me minute to wrap my head around its value--now I'm kinda hooked. - Rob Michael (Atmos Trio)

If only I understood what "doing our best to support you as a community" means - bcultral

It means we don't know how to welcome you and answer your questions if you don't 1) say hello and 2) ask a question when you have it =) - FFing Enigma (aka Tina)

Jesse - What's your first question? - Amani

good response...What can I do to introduce a open portal software design that will bring live video social networking to the pc/tv/phone convergence? With tvs being built with a wi-fi chip and white space opening up under new FCC rulings? I have been trying to find a listening ear to this social enterprise... - bcultral

Hello - bcultral

I am one those "unknown" persons seeking to make a difference - bcultral

a prototype has been built - bcultral

For those new to friendfeed I put together a video that will help you discover its features: http://www.kyte.tv/scoblei... - Robert Scoble

Thanks for reminding me that I am already subscribed to the profound info source at ScobleizerTv..@bcultral :) - bcultral

Robin - your question is a bit complex. We must be patient to get a proper answer. - Amani

I am best friends with patience..I.know her/him well...thanks, I am encouraged...really - bcultral

As others commented I'm not "new" in ff but I still try to figure out how to best take advantage of it. I am extremely attracted to the all-in-one, rich-media concept. It will be interesting to see how it complements/competes with twitter. - Maurice Politis

I'm pretty new and I like it, but it's hard to keep up with. Sometimes I worry that I'm intruding on someone's conversation or something like that. I guess that's why it's here, though. - Amy Boyack

I had FF account for a year but have not used it much until Scoble passionately endorsed it over Twitter. I like the aggregated feature and threaded discussion. I'll use it more often. - Gee Ekachai

Hi welcome all new comers ... lets keep this thread "bacon free " please , all kidding aside .. if anyone needs help , I'll do my best to help . - johnpiercy

Hi, I joined both FF and Twitter a few months back and although I've got the Twitter bug but not really 'got' FF yet but I'm kind to play with it and meet people. - Steve Sponder

I'm relatively new to FF (joined in March, but came back last month) - with Twitter I had people who I knew personally and could grow my network and join conversations; seems a little harder to find followers on FF; maybe it's just me following too many big fish and not knowing smaller groups since my Twitter crowd (mostly storage industry) isn't here - Stuart Miniman

I am also new to FF. When/if I write a message - how can I see if - IF - anyone has answered it? Thanks. - pomahony2

If you are new to FriendFeed here is a nice conversation started by @jowyang - frank barry

I'm new to FF. I'm trying to get the hang of it. - Romey Louangvilay

Is there any way to find FF users by subject or interest? - Internet Strategist

Robert Scoble

I'm seeing a TON of new people on both twitter and friendfeed. Welcome and let us know if we can help!

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Great. - Roberto Bonini

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http://www.kyte.tv/scoblei... has a video about friendfeed that I did that shows you around. You might find it helpful. - Robert Scoble

Thanks for getting me more involved in both! - mrkeroppi

You helped already with the video you posted up on Kyte.tv (http://tinyurl.com/7spgrp) - I was a member before and I had tied in all my RSS and various social network feeds, but I didn't really use Friendfeed. Just felt like a knock-off to Google Reader if I'm honest. Now, I know it's a tool not to mess around with. Extremely powerful, easily one of the best ways to get news for myself outside of Google Reader and I will be certain to explore it further once my exams are done. - Gaurav Patel

Thanks - I would have probably waited on joining FF if not for your video. The idea of cross-SM concatenation is brilliant, even if it's not quite there yet - FF is my SM portal of choice right now. - Jim Mitchem

Hello :) that's a good video, I actually started coming here more often after seeing it - Sebastian

you can help by paying attention to the massacre in gaza - people on twitter are, but there is hardly any discussion here - why is that? - ernie yacub

was just watching it; gave me some new ideas on how to use FF - Donald Townsend

ernie: I don't comment on it for several reasons. For one it's such a hot botton issue that I know that engaging on that issue will cost me 80 hours and I just don't have the 80 hours to give. Plus, no matter what side I'm on, there will be people on the other side and I still have bruises from the Obama election that are still healing. Finally, it's not something I can do much about. I'd rather focus my energy on things that I can control and have some influence in. - Robert Scoble

Twitter is a great place to give your opinion without too much risk that you'll get dragged into a long conversation. Friendfeed is a much better place to have a long conversation, which changes the dynamic of what you will find useful to discuss here. - Robert Scoble

ditto for me as well Robert. first introduced to FF by ed dale, but finally took the leap after your encouragement. am grateful most days! - Gregg

One more thing: friendfeed is an aggregator, so if you care about Gaza and Israel, I would open a room here on that topic, and start posting tons of stuff to it. If you are blogging about it, I'd make sure your blogs are being aggregated here. Those topics will find people who will engage. It's just that I'm resisting because this is CES week and I don't have the time. - Robert Scoble

If any of you new starters are interested in video games, http://friendfeed.com/rooms... could do with the extra life :) - alphaxion

If I accidentally hide something, how do I unhide? - Rutger Blom

Rutger: if you realize your mistake in time you can just "undo" right there. But, hidden items are at the bottom of the page in a link. Just visit there and click hide again and it will unhide. - Robert Scoble

Robert: Thanks! - Rutger Blom

@Robert I'm liking your comments here... A room for each side probably will do more... - Pico Seno

I refer you to my FF post from this morning http://friendfeed.com/e... Like literally I'm picking up 2 followers an hour, and I have no clue why. I just know I haven't suddenly became interesting, important, or influential. I'm the same screw off I've always been. - Matthew DeVries

Matthew: I'm gaining more than 100 per day here (more than 1,100 since Arrington's intervention with me) and more than 200 a day over on Twitter. These things are gaining steam. - Robert Scoble

Robert, that's interesting. More new followers in twitter than FF. Have you noticed any changes in that trend? - Tapio Kulmala

Well yeah, but you say things people care about. People lining up to follow me? In the world view? Come on.... - Matthew DeVries

AND I haven't changed at all since friday. - Matthew DeVries

Matthew: people have this believe that the one who dies with the most followers wins. It's just a game at this point to collect more followers. - Robert Scoble

Robert, do you sleep? Seriously :) - Bwana ☠

not much last night. - Robert Scoble

I'm here because I saw your zillion posts on it. I like it! - Dave Gambrill

Robert: Really? Disappointing really - I'd rather have less than 10 interesting and informative people following me than 5,000 drooling idiots. I see enough of the later crowd on a daily and face-to-face basis to cover the "moron" category of my life. - Renee Hendricks

poor Robert :) Get some Zzzzzzzzzzzs! - Susan Beebe

Bullo: that's what I figure it is. But Twitter is growing remarkably quickly now. People are figuring it out and with Mr. Tweet and other directories, you are probably on one of those as an influencer to check out. - Robert Scoble

Well, I may be playing wrong, but after the first 5 or so I stopped playing the "Courtesy Followback" game and started actually looking at their content and blogs and interests and made an informed decision on following back. Damn near almost followed some kind crazy PETA scientist bomber - Matthew DeVries

Great initiative, thank you Robert! What I'd like to know is how many people forward their tweets to their friendfeed account. - Zack Brandit

Zack: I'm following about 6,000 here and a good percentage do. I hope people use friendfeed to aggregate their lives together here totally. We can hide things on the reading side if it gets to be too much. - Robert Scoble

Question - if you're subscribed to someone on FF, is it relevant to also 'follow' them on Twitter? Seems a bit redundant. No? - Jim Mitchem

Matthew: I quickly stopped the "courtesy followback" - and I do the same, check their profile, look at their website, etc. If people are offended, so be it. I really don't want to spend time reading about how your last bowel movement was or how cute your cat is. - Renee Hendricks

Susanne: That could become a horrible Mash-Up tweet as well. - Matthew DeVries

Matthew: Oh the horror! - Renee Hendricks

robert, u don't have to comment, you can like/rt, which you do a lot with other posts as do many of your colleagues, but curiously not about gaza which is immediate and critically important, especially for the people in gaza - they need to know that not everyone in the western world believes the msm propaganda. - ernie yacub

ernie: as opposed to their propoganda, right? Got it. This is why I stay out of this fight. Who threw the first missles? It wasn't Israel. - Robert Scoble

Here is a PROs and CONs to using FriendFeed conversation: http://friendfeed.com/e... - B2B Specialist

Careful Robert. This is a battle you don't want, I don't think. (even though i agree) - Jim Mitchem

robert, you are wrong, which is why you need to engage in the conversation, or at least read some history - gaza is a prison camp with 1.5 million people cut off from the world, food, fuel, work, money, etc by israel - most are refugees who were driven from their homes by israelis. - ernie yacub

gaza =/= hamas, who Israel is fighting. Don't want to get bombed, don't stand next to a guy wearing a hamas sticker. - Matthew DeVries

Seems we're quickly straying WAY away from the original topic - take it elsewhere ernie, sheesh - Renee Hendricks

What she said. - Matthew DeVries

well, he asked how to help us noobs - this one wants to pay attention to what's really needed from people like you who have the resources, tools, knowledge and experience to help prevent such atrocities - you were all excited about mumbai, why not gaza? - ernie yacub

Robert: I recently joined both friendfeed and twitter and with the help of my blackberry I'm becoming horribly addicted. I will admit that you were the first person I followed and I'm glad because I agree with your opinion that it's not about followers, but quality conversation. That said, I'm curious about how rooms work. You have any pointers? - Chris Brakebill

Robert: In case of an emergency would you call 911 or tweet? ;-) - Rutger Blom

Going through your video now...very helpful! - Alison

its getting strange when my mom's 65-year old best friend starts following me on twitter. How many a social media accounts lie dead after 1-2 posts? - karyn

Parents, grandparents and friends of parents may actually become a problem for many young users of Twitter, as karyn indicates. Might see an increase in private update accounts. - Ian Holton from twhirl

I posted a Diary on DailyKos mentioning Twitter and FriendFeed and got comments like "what isTwitter" I gave them Sarah_Palins twitter username and tauted this new means of information exchange. Will be doing a follow up posting later. today.http://www.dailykos.com/story... - bcultral

Thank you for subscribing to me, I never thought you would! - Web20Critic

Robert, is TON the measure of user body mass or the weight of their tweets/FF posts? Which leads to the next logical question: how much does a 140 character tweet weigh? The Guardian said 2 years ago that the entire internet weighs at most two ounces (60 grams)! http://www.guardian.co.uk/technol... - Micah Wittman

best think about friendfeed, still up now without the fourty minute delay that twitter is suffering from. - Richard A.

Pete Steege

Storage is the most important technology of the next 10 years - http://media.seagate.com/2009...

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I believe Holographic Storage will reveal the limitations of Digital - bcultral

Greg Schulz said it was the most important of the next 100. Data is everything. - BlueArc

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