Nikki Finke reported this via "a source." She's reliable but this news -- which would be a real tragedy -- is still unconfirmed even though several LA blogs (including one at the LA Times) reprinted...
- Andy Sternberg
Hahaha! what a nice surprise! Were you all just watching the everyone friendfeed roll by? As for Scoble, I have a feeling that he actually is the machine ourselves ;-)
- Andy Sternberg
I think Scobes is just gonna be the first of us to transcend into posthumanity. And then we'll get a blog post with a title like, "Woah! This is SOOOO cool! I'm crying!"
- Internet's Tad
I was told there would be free cake here...
- Brett Kelly
@Tad - too funny. I really think Scoble helps set a positive tone in this space.
- Andy Sternberg
@Julian it's true -- FF is the ultimate test of: can you leave a comment on a blog (or aggregator) AND remember to responsibly track it / come back to it in good time? I've failed many times in the past by leaving moderately provocative comments on blogs and then fading into the ether.
- Andy Sternberg
I'm in the same boat...actually you've one upped me with this post and all the comments here :)
- Jennifer Van Grove
from Alert Thingy
Funny, I was following Jennifer too (both before I saw this post), but she doesn't tell me anything about Google's new Android, so she isn't interesting either. Hope that helps.
- Robert Scoble
it's always a competition with you isn't it, @jbruin ;-p Try me in Scrabulous sometime.
- Andy Sternberg
weakness intended. like Julian said above -- it would only pan out on FF and in this stage of the rollout. I was surprised. Then again, I left a summize search open set to friendfeed when I left work and there were a couple hundred new results when I returned, so the buzz is only picking up among the broader microblogging community. Whore-fu that ;-)
- Andy Sternberg
Scoble: when people get all iPhone/Android-crazy it really tempts me to start-up the Face-fone rumor. You know, the handset that comes with a multi-touch super-poke proboscis.
- Andy Sternberg
[wipes trace of blood from lip] You win THIS round of Attention Whore-fu, Andy. But next time... next time I will link to ARRINGTON. [dramatic music]
- Karim
oh man it's harsh times here on FF, I didn't realize I needed to talk about Android to be interesting :), oh and @netzoo I'll take you down at Scrabulous...it's on...just not now @jbruin needs to finish a business spec for a top secret project
- Jennifer Van Grove
from Alert Thingy
Andy, now you're getting more interesting. Keep it up! :-)
- Robert Scoble
well, thanks. I did set the bar pretty low there. This is a very vacant call to arms though -- what if a microblogger SERIOUSLY needed to flag a tweet/post for urgency. should there be standards? I do hate those urgent flags in Outlook, etc, but still...
- Andy Sternberg
from Alert Thingy
Hi Andy. I "liked" 3 of your items. I'm sure as I have time to go through your FriendFeed stuff that I'll "like" more. Welcome to FriendFeed! ;-)
- Mitchell Tsai
you're not alone. then again, i've just recently become a "fan" of friendfeed. there's too much going on at times to capture meaningful content or contributions, but you have to start somewhere i guess.
- Cee Bee
Damn, it's fast. Very cool. Email photos straight from iPhone to FriendFeed. That is our nine-month-old son who just started crawling at a decent speed today. It was hard to get him to stay still for this photo. Too bad the camera in the iPhone sucks, but nice to know I can do this.
- Robert Scoble
I am more concerned about Milan's shirt. Is it true?
- Louis Gray
The shirt is not true. it says "I get my Good Looks from my dad." Luckily he looks a lot like his mom and not like me all that much. That said, he loves technology, so hopefully he's like his older brother, Patrick, and picks up on that (although I could do without another Apple fan in the house).
- Robert Scoble
Cool. But Mail2FF couldn't decode a MIME encoded subject line. No Japanese for now I guess. (Milan is so cute! BTW)
- Masatake E. Hori
Okay, you couldn't get a more adorable test subject...!!
- Lucretia Pruitt