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“Heading to poker at the pub. Do not pass go.”

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Do not collect 200 dollars. Good luck, Duncan! - Helen Somethingorothersky

Hope you collect $200! :-) - Lisa L. Seifert

Hope this doesn't end in jail. - Ontario Emperor via fftogo

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awesome. - Brian Daniel Eisenberg

duncan, this is "My Precious Meme" :) - Randy

That picture just captures the theme SO perfectly. - Ontario Emperor

I sense irony more, but it can work. :) - Helen Somethingorothersky

Brian, how ya goin? Hope all is well, haven't seen you on in a while. BTW: I should delete this, but this is a self test: if I can't take the piss out of myself, I shouldn't of others ;-) - Duncan Riley

*buys Duncan a beer* - Derrick

Derrick, less than an hour for pub poker for the first time since before Christmas. I'll tell them to charge the first one to you ;-) - Duncan Riley

Doing quite well thanks! Hoping 2009 is treating you well! Cheers mate! - Brian Daniel Eisenberg

hahahhahahahahhahaha - Mona N.

LOL, I think you misread Sarcasm for Pounce. Looks like you're about to attack! - Bwana

You have the best shaped head - Patricia

This needs a LOL cats caption - Kaia is Brand New, Bitch!

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"DIS IZ MAH SAD FACE" - Bryce

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FriendFeed Haters: You’re Doing it Wrong!

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Is this Scobez's sarcastic face? - Tad Goes to 11

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re: friendfeed's adolescence and indecision... is what you perceive as not knowing which way they want to go intentional? I've been thinking that way lately as a result of some of the things I've heard Bret Taylor say in conversations with Steve Gillmor and Scoble, and also Paul B. (EDIT:oops, sorry Ben G., not Paul B.) in the recent FFundercats podcast. Do they need to pick only one of the directions you've outlined? Might they just as well pick two or all three? - Jim Jannotti

Jim: they should build a platform that enables all sorts of weirdness and wackyness. They should never listen to the users. Why? Well, let's say I'm a Porsche owner. Now, ask me what I want. Let's see. Smoother ride. More leg room. Bigger trunk. Well, I just asked for a Volvo. - Robert Scoble

Tad: I wish I had time to do photomemes tonight. Sigh. - Robert Scoble

what if weirdness and wackiness are what we want? What if that fills a niche that no one else is filling? What if other social networks are not just narrow, but myopic? Or were you just being ironic? - Jim Jannotti

FriendFeed Lovers: You're doing it right! - chethan thimmappa

Scoble, don't you have a camera on your cell phone? mail2ff or pikchur will make meme cooperation more than possible - Rahsheen ™

There hasn't been many social sites that can capture & hold me for very long (beyond a month). If FF has done that (and it has) it is doing something right. This is the one for me. If you have a good understanding of how FF works, and you have done your part to try to participate by commenting & liking things, and friending people that share content you like, and it's not for you, oh well...go back to one of those ones I found boring. You'll be happier there. - April Russo

Jim, absolutely they could do a combination there in. I just wonder though if Paul and team know which ones though :-) I'm not saying they wont have an idea of direction, but I've heard Paul say before how FF has already gone in directions they didn't expect, so I see part of this as the site evolving. Still, ultimately you need to pin down your end game to hit the target - Duncan Riley

April, couldn't agree more. I spend more time here than any other service now, and like you I've never really been one to be easily captured - Duncan Riley

Rahsheen: that photo is of me showing an error message on Twitter. - Robert Scoble

Rahsheen: Jesse Stay took that photo right before I went into Twitter: http://picasaweb.google.com/je... - Robert Scoble

always ahead of the game Robert... - Robin

April and Duncan: I have a theory on why that is: because everything is decentralized here. The view, the moderation, etc. Very different from old-school BBS's. - Robert Scoble

I was just pointing out that participating in photo memes is super easy :) - Rahsheen ™

I still find it funny that I wore a friendfeed shirt into a pretty interesting meeting at Twitter. I should wear my twitter shirt into friendfeed just to be fair! - Robert Scoble

Rasheen: the photo seemed apt. Hit two memes: Scoble had the FF t-shirt on (which is how I found it in Google), and then the fail message on the iPhone tied into the "you're doing it wrong" part. Actually, matching like that isn't always easy. Hat tip to Jesse Stay on the pic as well (linked in the post with credit) - Duncan Riley

YES! Robert, you hit it right on the head. It's decentralized. I am one of those people that feel more comfortable in a chatroom on irc with an auto-admin bot that op's everyone than Myspace or Facebook, or even better, my own decentralized chatroom, hosted on my own PC, as part of a rogue underground P2P network. And I thrive in the middle of what some people would call chaos, disorder, insanity, or anarchy. (and I noticed that most that can't handle environments like that usually make the most drama) - April Russo

April, Robert agree to a point. It's a safer,more friendly version of IRC, but it does tap into those raw conversations many of us use to have there. - Duncan Riley

Why does it say that Robert Scoble has long since left FF? - Tanath

Nice job on this post Duncan, extra points for the cool Scoble photo! :) - Susan Beebe

I liked the Sarah Lacy quote. She says FriendFeed is being "myopic and naive" by relying on "bloggers" instead of "real people" to spread the word. If FriendFeed is to ever "go mainstream" you must appeal to hockey moms and Joe Sixpack, like LinkedIn, Twitter, and Facebook. (Of course Facebook started off only for kids, Twitter was originally for internal use only at Odeo, and LinkedIn only makes money by selling subscriptions to salespeople and recruiters, but I digress.) - Karim

Where's the evidence that it's being used beyond first adopters, I see no anecdotal stuff supporting the assertion. To the contrary the first adopters are taking up an even greater proportion of the space to sell product. No one in main street is using it, they're on facebook. - Donovan Slennon

Donovan, FB isn't particularly 'main street' either. People I went to high school and college are on it, but none of the 40+ people I know. - Stupid Blogger (aka Tina)

Drilling down into her original blog post (http://www.sarahlacy.com/sarah...) she seems really upset that FriendFeed is not returning her calls or emails. How do you expect to ever become a success without sucking up to Sarah Lacy, FriendFeed? "This is not an ego thing," she assures us. But she has a show that reaches "millions and millions" of people and frankly you are all idiots for not taking advantage of that. </sarcasm> - Karim

Scobez: It only takes a minute or two to snap a pic and post it. :P :D - Tad Goes to 11

Donavan, most of the people even responding on this thread aren't in my first adopters list. That's proof alone. Take a look at my friend list, you won't see too many tech types or first adopters in it. - Duncan Riley

Karim, I met Sarah at Gnomedex, I actually like her, although honestly I didn't think I would before I met her. It's a glib comment from her, and maybe a small part of the analysis is slanted because of it; but I didn't mention it in the post because I don't think its the underlying cause of her misunderstanding of FriendFeed. I really think, as I started in the post, that FriendFeed is the new Twitter in terms of being an easy target to pick on. Unlike Twitter in 2007, I don't think it's deserved with FF - Duncan Riley

And Donavan, you want further proof: look at the people taking shots at FF...the common thread is that they are nearly all first adopters themselves. This isn't a trendy first adopter site by any stretch. It may have been for 5 minutes, but most have gone now - Duncan Riley

yeah well the beginning to me sounded like her argument was "Louis Gray is so right" and FriendFeed is too complicated, it needs to be dumbed down for the masses if it wants to go mainstream -- then it turns into this WTF WHY WON'T YOU RETURN MY CALLS? I AM FRIENDS WITH ZUCKERBERG! DON'T YOU REALIZE I CAN MAKE YOU OR BREAK YOU? rant, at which point her business advice seemed a *touch* disingenuous -- to me, anyway. ;-) - Karim

Proof - step outside with a notepad and poll 1,000 passers by on the sidewalk. Maybe 3 have heard of it. My guess is zero or 1. And it's not changing. FB not mainstream is just deluded. - Donovan Slennon

Lookin' good, Robert! That was taken with my iPhone - I wish I had taken that with my nicer SLR so you could see the website that was giving the error. :-) That picture is irony, on so many levels! Robert - do you remember what I asked them there? I asked if they were going to have a manual approval process on apps, similar to Facebook's. We now know why that's important. :-) - Jesse Stay

Scoble, does that guy ever sleep? - darnell via Nambu

Donovan, first, it seems like it's a little bit of an assumption to say FriendFeed *wants* to go mainstream right now. Maybe they're focusing on scaling, or features, or stuff Twitter failed to implement before the Fail Whale became the laughing stock of the interwebs for months. Second, my point was that neither Facebook nor Twitter were *created* as things that were intended to appeal to a mainstream audience. They focused on providing a cool service to a very small audience. Mainstream came *later.* - Karim

Third, how fucking big does your ego have to be to tell some of the brightest coders in the world that they need to stop building cool stuff and talk to you and your "millions and millions" of readers? - Karim

Fourth, even if they want to "go mainstream" right now this second, how helpful is that kind of interview going to be, particularly when the journalist in question is on the record as saying your service is too complicated for ordinary mortals, that it has "done nothing to reengage" her as an "inactive user," and that she's not sure her audience of "millions and millions" cares about the service anyway? - Karim

To say that FB and Twitter weren't created to go mainstream is wrong. Of course they are/were. Every day they don't cross the mainstream divide, the wider the divide becomes. Twitter survived and thrived because of superb utility to members, virality and network effect and it still has a very long way to go. Brightest coders in the world they might be but who cares. Unfortunately FF does alot of things nicely but not 1 thing really well which is what every service needs for a compelling use case. To say they might not want to go mainstream now is giving them far too much leeway (sic). - Donovan Slennon

Donovan, Facebook was originally restricted to members of Harvard College only. The original idea was called "HarvardConnection," then "ConnectU," which is still limited to colleges and universities (they settled out of court with Facebook). "HarvardConnection" is clearly not a mainstream World Domination Plan. - Karim

Donovan "step outside with a notepad and poll 1,000 passers by on the sidewalk." the same was once true for Twitter AND Facebook. Twitter in particular was long the exclusive domain you attribute to FF, and I'd argue more so. I agree with Buchheit when he compares the growth cycle to Twitter: early days, just before the boom. Every service has to start somewhere. BTW, if we're all early adopters and FF is fucked, why are you using it? ;-) - Duncan Riley

Twitter was slapped together in two weeks as tool to be used internally at Odeo. When they started thinking other people might find it useful, they thought almost all the updates would be SMS (hence the limit). If the original architecture had been designed for the mainstream, I doubt anyone would have heard of a Fail Whale. - Karim

Duncan lets face it FF has got more in common with Technorati user profile than FB. For the record Twitter is doing better but won't go mainstream which equals double digit awareness in the market. FF's awareness in the market is actually declining as people give it a try and leave never to return which equals terrible virality. They can feature-up to the hilt but they still have to do 1 thing better than anyone that's broadly useful and I don't see it. I use the service b/c it's a good news filter for what the early adopters are saying, which together with Techmeme is my key source for tech. - Donovan Slennon

Donovan, you asked me to back my contention, I ask the same of you. Nearly all public figures show FF leveling off (like Twitter did) or in one case thriving. One set of stats shows a drop, and from a crappy service at that. Twitter has gone mainstream, turn on CNN or Fox or even MSNBC. FF is earlier in the cycle. I could be wrong forward, but either way it's far too early to call dead - Duncan Riley

Cool, lets see, will be interesting. - Donovan Slennon

Donovan, happy to play, and if I'm wrong, I'll be the first to admit it. - Duncan Riley

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What Happened to Ross McCall and Jennifer Love Hewitt?

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Jennifer is with ME now. Thank you very much. - Amani

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Jobs owes Apple and its customers more than a hormone imbalance

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Yeah, Steve. How dare you not show up with AIDS? - Akiva Moskovitz

It's ALIENS! - Eric @ CS Techcast

agree with Steve on the disclosure part and SEC disclosure rules. I touched on this in some earlier posts. Even beside a legal obligation, there is a moral obligation to let share holders know that your CEO is unwell and unable to completely do his job - Duncan Riley

Same caveats as apply to the first part of Duncan's piece. When were those pictures taken? Also should be noted that Scoble's source at the yogurt store was obviously not being straight with him, cause if that's Jobs before he lost the weight... - Dave Winer

A hormone imbalance is a plausible side-effect of having part of your pancreas removed, and some weight loss (usually associated with dumping syndrome) is expected after having the Whipple procedure. Fact is, we went through all these arguments and speculation 6 months ago, Apple chose to bury their heads in the sand and hope speculation would stop. Bad choice. - Warren

Yes, I do not think Steve wants, needs, or can lie about this. So, why not move on, and talk about technology and innovation. But yes, Apple without Steve, won't be Apple for long (they will just roll on their momentum). Nothing like a brilliant founder to keep the competitive edge. - Jeremy Chone

Dave, I'm not sure about the pics Steven has used, but I've got plenty of Jobs not looking well at Macworld last year in my Flickr account http://flickr.com/photos/dunca... Looking at the pics in the post though, I'm betting same time - Duncan Riley

I'd say the pics in the post are from the iPod Nano launch a few months ago, in comparison those photos on Flickr despite the grey stubble make him look reasonably healthy Duncan. - Warren

Warren, I haven't looked that closely, so I won't disagree. Only thing I'd note: doesn't he own any other clothes, because the dress is the same :-) - Duncan Riley

Non-issue. I know people who had hormone imbalances and had no clue. Millions of people go to work everyday with hormone imbalances, it's called menopause. SELL SELL SELL! - Bwana

Bwana, so you're saying that it's BS? Interesting, I couldn't find out a lot about it online. Oddly the only things I could find kept saying hormone imbalance= gain weight. That must be my excuse, and not the beer :-) - Duncan Riley

1UP Bwana - Akiva Moskovitz

hormonal imbalances can cause weight loss as well. Depends on which hormone. There are a lot of different hormones. Thyroid issues, for instance, can cause weight loss. - Spidra Webster

Duncan, it can be weight gain or weight loss. http://www.testsymptomsathome.... There's a bajillion different symptoms for it though. I believe this is why people don't realize they have it. - Bwana

I have a bunch of jokes on deck about Steve Jobs being estrogen dominant and demanding colorful iPods...but I'm holding them in... - Bwana

Bwana: I heard that he randomly fires people in the Apple offices on the thinnest of pretenses... wonder if that happens every four weeks or so? :-p - Warren

Oh Warren, this opens up the ultimate can of jokes :P - Bwana

Duncan: That's kinda like asking whether the members of Devo could possibly not wear yellow overalls and hats that look like freakin flower pots. Sure, they could, but then how would you know who they were :-p - Warren

Random thought: Maybe The Steve is letting the rumours go so he can continue to park diagonally in handicap spaces and claim that he now actually has a disability? :-p - Warren

Must...not....let...jokes...OUT - Bwana

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George Bush Foreign Policy 2000: Amazing

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Who's this guy? Where has he been the last 8 years? - Mo Kargas

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Mo, would have been nice to have had him back :-) - Duncan Riley

Perhaps the pretzel he choked on cut off the air and flipped his brain 179 degrees. -just saying. note: 179 != deep meaning. My fingers were just unaligned. Not gonna edit, though. - Mona N.

I wonder if people will look back at Obama the same way. - Akiva Moskovitz

I sure hope not, Akiva. I suuuuure hope not. - Mona N.

Akiva: Indeed - Mo Kargas

*sigh* - Rob Michael

Akiva - I worry about the same thing..... - George Smith

Akiva, when you say that stuff during the campaign speeches, you get sliced in half with eyebeams of yeswecan death. Here we go. - Bwana

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Akiva, I'd bet no, but I know likewise that on a lot of fronts he's going to disappoint a lot of people as well - Duncan Riley

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The Absolute Weirdest Thing You’ll See This Week….or Longer

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I nearly should run a name this post competition... I don't think I've ever sat through something and just been completely WTF'd to this level. - Duncan Riley

no, no. I probably don't need to be seeing this right before bed. I'll end up dreaming about it. Exploding banana masks in real life means it's time for beddy-bye. & lol Tad - Kamilah Gill

WTF WTF WTF - Rodfather

NNAAAASSSTTTTYYYYYYY - Shevonne Polastre

Is that the new multi-line Bananaphone? - Haggis (Sean)

Didn't see the word 'exploding' in the description and jumped out of my skin when the first one went off. - Stewart Heys

Somewhere someone is furiously masturbating to this. - Tad Goes to 11

Need I say its better than other types of bananas exploding all over his face? - Colby Olson

You know 18 months ago in Australia, when banana's went through the roof (we had a cyclone that wiped out the banana crops) this would be considered obscene as well :-) I can still remember paying $14 kg (about $9 US) for bananas. They're $2/ kg now. - Duncan Riley

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“I'm replying to an email on Facebook. I feel dirty.”

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Why? Did you poke them as well? - rob

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Go take a shower, IMMEDIATELY!!! - Anna Haro

Ewwww - that's sooo 2006! - Tad Goes to 11

Or did you SuperPoke them? - Sparky

DON'T DO IT! THEY'LL JUST REPLY BACK! YOU'LL REGRET IT! - Jeanine Walters

set them on fire first - Donovan Slennon

As I said on twitter duncan- and I say this to all of the above "I was not rly joking about yr facebook snobbery- because its so mainstream, you early adopters eschew and denigrate it. shame!" - thomasrdotorg

I think I've just got to lie down and take it like a man. Facebook wins. I replied to two other emails after this. People I know in person, who I see every couple of months are now emailing me on FB, not direct. The world has gone completely insane, so why fight it - Duncan Riley

I just read two emails on Facebook but, since I didn't reply, I only feel a tad dusty. I don't care for the assumption that I actually check my Facebook on a regular basis. I'll check it when and if I goddam well please but if you want to reach me, send me a *real* email. - Laura Norvig

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“@thomasrdotorg yeh yeh ;-) I've just never really taken to a social network in a big way, so for me it's strange”

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Do Not Whip

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Won't be visiting that joint. - Steven Perez

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"do not use foot when asswhipping" - Jim Jannotti

If not for the caption, I'd be confused. Am I not supposed to whip people, not supposed to stick my foot up people's asses, or not supposed to be bending over on the floor waiting to be violated? - Victor Ganata

I'm actually going to print this out and hang it on the door of my office. I deserve one safe room in the house ;-) - Duncan Riley

o_O - Anna Haro

@victor: hilarious take! .LOLz - .LAG

lol, i've missed victor. - Corie

This is racist against DEVO. - Paul Montgomery

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I used to have a T-shirt that had "And God said:" Followed my maxwell's equations. "And there was light". Almost too nerdy for me to wear... almost. - mikepk

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Maxwell-Faraday FTMFW - Mo Kargas

I wonder what happened to that shirt? - mikepk

Mo, no doubt. - mikepk

Ahh takes me back to uni days, deriving those from first principles. Joy. - Mo Kargas

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“A warm day, in Melbourne, in summer. And I was just getting use to the rain and cold temps. Had to turn the central heating off again.”

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bwa ha ha ha ha ha ha ha - Lindsey in Love

Bump for the night crew, this is GOLD - Mona N.

Love love love. - The Bohemian Penguin

Pedomilhouse is the very definition of a meme. - tehKenny

Holy crap. 100% LOL. - Akiva Moskovitz

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Bye Bye iPhoto: Google Finally Releases Picasa for Mac

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For some reasont he picasa download link actually downloads the picasa web uploader installer - it won't install picasa for me. Anybody else have the same problem? - Kamath ॐ

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Kamath, noted that in the post. Same issue, and yet the splash screen says its the full version. Anyone have a direct link they can share? - Duncan Riley

Download.com has it, try this link http://www.download.com/Picasa... - Duncan Riley

Thanks Duncan, this seems to be the full download @ 17mb - Mel.Buckpitt

Thanks Duncan! - Kamath ॐ

Mel, it is, and works. I've got it open now. Lovin it at lot. The only question left is detaching iPhoto from other apps :-) - Duncan Riley

use it with more google service,or Picasa Mac cant support .Mac services. - Chris Qie

I'm lovin it also;its like meeting an old friend - Mel.Buckpitt

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China Targets Google, Baidu Over Porn

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haha, do you know ,Ducan, China internet users didn't always use Google or Baidu for looking for porn now. They are more and more interested in desktop software, eg. p2p tools like edonkey(not very popular in China) ,Xunlei(very popular P2SP software in China,) or BT, they are good at proxy soft tools to fu*k GFW. In fact ,most Chinese net.citizens can NOT found any good porn sites when long long years ago.so ,Why "China Government warned Google, Baidu and other.." ?? They just wanna get their "Christmas Gifts" ,Yes! Extort the Companies, alike that ,they had performance the same opera year by year, that may not news in China now. - Chris Qie

Chris, I have no doubt that your right. - Duncan Riley

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