I recorded the entire session and will have it up at about 9 a.m. Pacific Time at http://scobleizer.blip.tv (there are six pieces so I can get the whole thing up on HD video).

I loved reading this article, so rich with imagery! =) Thank you. @AndreaTannouri the @HolisticMamma

I am a new fan (of yours). Beautifully written in a way that I didn’t know you could write. Artful, technological prose.

This article makes very little sense.

Eric: here’s the transcription:

New friendfeed coming in the morning at 9 a.m. Pacific Time.

It’s new.

Shiny.

And takes the microblogging world forward in a compelling new way.

What an overblown, florid, self-indulgent piece of hyperbolic BS!

The new Friendfeed system goes online on April 6, 2009 at 9:00am PDT. Friendfeed begins to learn at a geometric rate. It becomes self-aware at 2:14am PDT, April 29th. In a panic, they try to pull the plug…

“I dive in and swim in the current, swooping from swirl to eddy, then into direct communication and back to the world I’ve left behind for a moment. ”

That was a beautiful sentence, captures the essence like no technical spec ever can.

And you make a wonderful point about the embargo, never heard it being spoken of that way.

Wonderful post….thanks!

FriendFeed is already yesterday’s news.

Robert I expect you will move onto the next thing by the pm.

Will be hard to get the attention of the mainstream away from Twitter. Will they change their name to something cool???

I am reminded of Mischke: http://bit.ly/IT6ob

I have no idea what any of this article means. It makes no sense.

Standing by, on the ready, T minus 5 hrs and counting…

I am wondering when 75% of access to twitter and friend feed come from mobile smartphones that have web browsers who this new twitter real-time bus will affect LBS consumer mobile applications.

Seems to me that the Mobile Hybrid solution of using one mobile framework such as rhomobile to allow app to be dev using web code while still being able to access gps might be the best play for some twitter like service start ups.

I think the next Twitter if there is such a thing will be integrated with GPS/LBS.

The-next-big-thing is coming at us today, apparently, and the thing after that will come at us in a few months, and the one after that in a few weeks, and the time between each next-big-thing will keep decreasing, until there is a next-big-thing coming at us about as fast as microblog posts come at us now. And I’m exhausted already.

Ouch! Even Gillmor doesn’t think Scoble is a journalist or a technologist.

Brilliant Scoble, you just made my afternoon!

Wow Mr. Gillmor, I’ll second the comment that I didn’t know you could write like that. Very well done and inspired. You could write excellent mystery novels (this is a complement). And thank goodness somebody else remembers The Beatles! Check out “Revolution Take 20″. – kc

Steve Gilmor on Techmeme? What is this? “Only the beginning” indeed!

Is it going to help or hinder those of us that use Microblogging in a mobile way? To we need even more powerful devices with even bigger screens?

Wait, I thought Techcrunch no longer honored embargoes….

http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/12/17/death-to-the-embargo/

I too need more to make sense of this post. It’s beautifully written indeed, but where’s the beef? What on earth does it mean? Where’s my link to more…

You’ve succeeded in creating curiosity and I’m anxious to figure it out, so all-in-all, brilliant post indeed.

Heh, that’s what I got out of it too.

So what, Steve is using ghost writers recruited from the pool of unemployed Bush administration speech writers?

Unreadable and self-indulgent nonsense once again from Steve Gillmor.

Wrong. It is an awful article. It is very unclear and vague. Can anyone translate this rubbish into a plain English?

yeah me too.

Aside from baroque loveliness, why exactly is this announcement important?

I’ve been experimenting on how to keep Twitter and Facebook separate, but Scoble’s twitter stream is basically FriendFeed now, and I don’t want that to happen with my stream. I’m actually excited to see what FriendFeed is going to offer! T-1.5 hrs!

Thanks. Makes much more sense.

The whole point of communication is to deliver a message. You sir, failed.

Ok I just listened to several different versions of Get Back by the Beatles, and there was no trilling.

You guys here at tech crunch dont actually have any fact checkers do you?

Thanks Robert for the reminder about when and where the new release will appear. I was getting lost in the Warholian hyperbole. It was a nice reading any way

Thanks for the announce.

I feel like I just watched the final episode of Battlestar Galactica with the Beatles playing Dark Side of the Moon as the soundtrack while they were watching the Wizard of Oz.

But on that note, I can’t wait to see what this wormhole all means.

Scoble: it *sucks* to be pointed to a link that starts a video and spitting sound to my headphones without having to press “start”. kktnxbye

Agreed. I’m afraid Steve’s brain operates on a higher plane to mine. I haven’t a clue what he’s talking about.

What a fantastic post. Fairly sure this is the first time I’ve read a tech related blog post that included references to The Beatles Apple rooftop “last show.” Well done.

Steve Gillmor needs an editor.

This is a windy and pretentious posting for something about which we know nothing. An editor would moderate the writer’s ego and need to pee first on the fire hydrant.

Steve, Lovely fan dance. But didn’t the raised lettering on the white cover herald a moment of dissolution, the instant when the utopian dream turned into all-too-human bickering and recrimination? Everything afterwards, Beatleswise, was kind of a letdown, wasn’t it? Nick

W T F is he talking about can someone translate this piece of BS into English?

Rubish. This artcle is complete rubbish.

i remember reading an arrington-impassioned case for saying screw the embargos not too long ago. why the change of heart?

is this a belated April Fools post?

remember that magical thing called Worldwide Telescope that Scoble said “made me cry”?

Ha. You guys need to get your head out of Google’s cloud….

Groovy shit – but i wonder what this will mean to the quasi-real time (neartime) ecology currently tethered to twitter. Could memes evolve from loosely-coupled eddies of free flowing information and grow into larger whirlpools of semisynergistic distributed strands of structured data?

Will stay posted…

Wow, looks like this blog has gone down hill since Michael stopped writing.

For a moment there I thought it was some type of automatically created for FriendFeed.

Maybe a point would be nice, or a reference to exactly how the new FriendFeed works/looks? How about commentary on the author’s thoughts about microblogging rather than all this waffle that goes nowhere. I think I’ve seen less backtracks and turnarounds in a Joel Splotsky post.

I didn’t love reading this article, I didn’t know what the hell he was talking about.

And besides, Arrington made it very clear that embargos are crap, and should never be respected.

Just tell us what the heck you know! Stop trying to be an artist!

I thinks scoble is the only person who uses friendfeed

As usual, garbage. This is a clear example of someone thinking they are more qualified to do their job than they are.

How do you have an article on a new friendfeed which mentions the competion (twitter) more times than the company you’re touting? How do you write an article on a subject which has no context for those reading to understand?

I’ll tell you what this means for the “social media community and by extension enterprise computing”… absolutely nothing until at least 12PM EST. Even then I doubt it’ll be of any benefit.

‘Waffle’ is too kind.

This post should be entered in one of the bad-writing contests. It could be a contender.

Seriously, this is indulgent writing at nearly its worst.

Now that we’ve read Leena Rao’s posting about the FriendFeed UI changes, writing like this…

“We’re seeing a new Beatles emerging in this new morning of creativity, a series of devices and software constructs that empower us with both the personal meaning of our lives and the intuitive combinations of serendipity and found material and the sturdiness that only rigorous practice brings. The ideas and sculpture, the rendering of this supple brine, we’ll stand in awe of it as it is polished to a sparkling sheen.”

…is sheer rubbish and peer-preening.

[...] Steve gilmore echoes that in his post. [...]

Exactly what I thought. TechCrunch, bad at obeying their own rules.

I read this post in awe of the beauty of the web and the surreal talent of the writer. By the middle of the post, I wept openly. Then I choked my dog for not being as flowery a writer as this guy.

How I long for a service that can capture the ethereal moment when the dog’s essence passed from his lungs, through my hands, to eternity — an eternity none of us knows yet all of us possesses. Perhaps if Friendfeed 2.0 had existed just minutes before my eyes grazed the supple prose of this nurturing post, I would have found sweet release in the delicate flower of their new-age tweet. And my sweet partner pooch would still grace the contours of our gentle and violent earth.

Oh well. Off to the pet store for a replacement.

Hahaha this is the worst article I’ve ever read in my life – how old is the writer though? If he’s less than 12 we’ll give him a break.

“i remember reading an arrington-impassioned case for saying screw the embargos not too long ago. why the change of heart?”

Right hand not talking to the left.

I dislike the pros of this article. very annoying.

This is one of Gillmor’s better efforts. The gap I have trouble jumping over is the ??? step where we somehow aggregate 140-character tweets into a wondrous form of ant-colony insight.

The irony of the Gillmor post is that it is precisely this sort of communication that couldn’t possibly be enhanced or augmented by a cloud of tweets.

This was the cheesiest piece of trite that has ever been posted on this site. What a load of crap.

I thought TechCrunch has sworn off all embargoes?

Indeed of the 2 crowds the poets and the efficient communicators, I stick with the latest.
anyway it may still be true that sthg interesting is appearing just… now. Agree with Eric: irony has that Gillmor litterary style goes against hard rigourous discipline of short & to the point.
Remember Mark Twain “sorry for this long letter I did not have [/take] time to write you a short one”.

I’m not sure I get what you (or Steve for that matter) mean – but I think Steve was just saying that he’s really excited about a friendfeed redesign. I don’t know where you get “semi-structured distributed data” from.

Steve

Did you just seriously compare a website user interface iteration to a “Kennedy press conference”?!?!

I thought Tom Wolfe had written this.

So rich in … well, something.

My favorite riff: “the incredible rhythm trills of Lennon on the roof in Get Back.”

“15 journalists, technologists, and Robert Scoble”..

does this mean Scoble is neither a journalist nor a technologist?

i hate gillmor’s articles.
please make it stop. it makes me want to avoid TC.

This is a great ripping apart of Steve’s guff.

http://www.bit-tech.net/blog/2009/04/06/new-friendfeed-is-coming-its-the-future/

By a far more talented writer.

My thought as well. I was hoping someone was going to mention that.

Haha. That was my favorite part of the article. Nice subtle dig!

My father, along with millions of others, is on the verge of losing a pension he’s worked his entire life for and you imbeciles are erupting over a slightly newer way to tell your friends you have no life.

[...] read with some surprise Steve Gillmor’s grand poetic soliloquy this morning on the revolutionary effect the new Friendfeed design would have on enterprise [...]

[...] am pimping FriendFeed because they have just rolled out a revolution. And I like revolution. I especially like revolution that makes Twitter sit up and take notice. If [...]

[...] read with some surprise Steve Gillmor’s grand poetic soliloquy this morning on the revolutionary effect the new Friendfeed design would have on enterprise [...]

completely unreadable nonsense.

[...] read with some surprise Steve Gillmor’s grand poetic soliloquy this morning on the revolutionary effect the new Friendfeed design would have on enterprise [...]

I’ll bet you meant “disillusion”, as in “I was disillusioned by …”.

“Dissolution” means “being dissolved”, which could work but it’s a stretch.

Cool man, but what is Steve smoking? How did Scoble emerge as Techcrunch translater?

Touché, Chris Weagel.

Interestingly, my comment should have read “some type of automatically created *s p a m* created for FriendFeed”, it appears that the comment system removes that naughty(???) word.

this article is marvelous — infinitely better than Friendfeed.

[...] at Techcrunchit Steve Gillmor waxes rhapsodic with a deluge of ill considered metaphors that he must have snapped [...]

Steve, you’re presuming people are flocking to the FriendFeed model.

They’re not.

I would have been more impressed with a haiku.

[...] first thing I read this morning was Steve Gillmor’s piece in TechCrunch where he swooned so romantically, his writing was so fantastically beautiful, all I could think of [...]

[...] 7, 2009 · No Comments Steve Gillmor’s Techcrunch post on the revamped FriendFeed was so incredible that I felt it needed a little commentary. A [...]

Hi Steve,

Interesting writing style. Very much departed from that of other writers on this blog.

However, it is clear that some of your readers may not know that “fourth estate” in “the common concerns expressed about the permanent loss and funding of the fourth estate” refers to “the fourth estate of the realm” i.e. journalists/press. It is antiquated English, after all.

That aside, I reckon this paragraph really threw a lot of people off

“What’s exhilirating is that the vague assumptions, arrogant exploits, twinkling of an ephemeral joke, they all are being ratified in a swirl of innovation that is dazzling in its ability to masquerade as superficial and childish. How strange it is to see major corporations act like teenagers while jousting for position in the transition. The dynamics of cloud computing have unleashed a paroxysm of hardball…”

You have to understand that TC is a quick-read for several people and not bed-time reading. Some people just don’t have time to read articles twice to understand the meaning, hence the vitriol spouted in the comments.

Don’t take it personal. Just take the advice on board

Niyi

[...] isn’t just that site any more, it’s a communications method. Dave Winer has it right. Steve Gillmor has it right. The geeks in you already started thinking about Yammer and SocialCast and Blellow and [...]

We already do need more powerful devices with better memory management…

The Friendfeed IM interface is the closest mobile experience I’ve had to the old Twitter realtime IM with Track and the easiest to send threaded comments while on the move.

This is a terribly written article, no matter which way you look at it (as tech news or poetry — you pick). What a bunch of self-indulgent claptrap.

Social Media Adoption in the Enterprise…

Steve Gilmore’s post on the new FriendFeed UI has shaken loose a variety of responses.  Personally, I did not care for the post because it didn’t convey much information.  Rather, it is a breathless and somewhat florid love letter to Twitte…

Yeah, I guess poetry has no purpose, Music is too complicated, Art is basically meaningless self indulgent non-representational scribbling and photography should be limited to mugshots. Just read the crawl at the bottom of the screen and you will be fed a nugget of semi-digestible “truth” and you can get back to American Idol. Shut your brains off and climb back into your SUV. Block letters are great for road signs; some other paths are better served by different maps.

[...] covers a private viewing of the new FriendFeed. Notice anything funny in the first line of their article: On Friday the [...]

No. Not really.

[...] Twitter isn’t just that site any more, it’s a communications method. Dave Winer has it right. Steve Gillmor has it right. The geeks in you already started thinking about Yammer and SocialCast and Blellow and [...]

[...] We’re seeing a new Beatles emerging in this new morning of creativity, a series of devices and software constructs that empower us with both the personal meaning of our lives and the intuitive combinations of serendipity and found material and the sturdiness that only rigorous practice brings. The ideas and sculpture, the rendering of this supple brine, we’ll stand in awe of it as it is polished to a sparkling sheen. (full article here) [...]

[...] We’re seeing a new Beatles emerging in this new morning of creativity, a series of devices and software constructs that empower us with both the personal meaning of our lives and the intuitive combinations of serendipity and found material and the sturdiness that only rigorous practice brings. The ideas and sculpture, the rendering of this supple brine, we’ll stand in awe of it as it is polished to a sparkling sheen. (full article here) [...]

This might signal the end of Web 2.0 and the start of the next phase. RSS was one of the backbones of Web 2.0 and twitter (micromessaging) could be the backbone of the next phase.

I believe in it, but I’d like to see the benefits of FriendFeed in 140 characters or fewer.

[...] Steve Gillmor has a way with words. The article is worth reading just for Steve’s near poetic writing style. Oh yeah and if you’re interested in Steve take on the new FriendFeed redesign then you should also read it. Only the Beginning [...]

[...] realizing they’re voting so it’s easy enough to power a digg type site with twiter. As Gillmor further rambled, capturing the moment via twitter could turn into something beautiful and organic. That should be [...]

What is going on here? Let’s keep the comments on topic, kids.

Twitter has moved past / consumed RSS? Aren’t they still serving different markets? I get my actual news through RSS, and updates about my friends from Twitter.

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