Hao Chen

Neat! - Nicholas Kreidberg

Oh memories! Played that for years. - Katie via IM

Ah, now this would make me go out and get an iPhone. Love SimCity! - Mike Reynolds

I will instantly buy this application! - Matt DeLuca

NO WAY - Hao Chen

I may actually finally buy a game for the iPhone. - Akiva Moskovitz

Retro gaming - could be huge (crosses fingers for Starcraft) - Jason Kaneshiro

Neat. I'm buying this as soon as it appears in the App Store. Love SimCity. - Roberto Bonini

Hope this is good. I loved Sim City, and no other simulation game has done it that well since. - Steve Isaacs

Wow, this sounds cool. I'll keep an eye out on this one! - Holger Eilhard

wow, this is great. Now I will have to look for "simcity" in appstore every dat just like I already do for "qik" :)) - andrei_c

Wow America you got some catching up to do. * slurps nice cold can of wife beater * - Toby Graham

Yeah. What gives? I mean, I certainly do my part! Slackers.... - Mark VandenBerg

yeah, we are clean (argentina). - Leandro Ardissone

I was doing a best of day by date, trying to find the earliest date that worked. Nov 15, 2007 was the earliest for me. Then I kept going to the next day. Was kinda interesting to see the earlier entries. - Hao Chen

How important is this, anyway? I say... it's not. - Louis Gray

@Louis: It might not be important in the "things we should lie awake at night worrying over" sense but if FFHolic wants to position themselves as a FF information source then I say go ahead. - Daniel J. Pritchett

The main reason to use this right right now is to find rooms. How often do you find a popular conversation that isn't already on your front page? - Eric @ CS Techcast

Michael Arrington's FF account (http://friendfeed.com/techcrun...) is a great example: 13,000 followers, 28 comments all time. I realize that streaming all of his TC content into a FriendFeed profile adds *some* value to the network but his total lack of interaction with the community doesn't go unnoticed. Is he a good #2 for FFHolic stats? - Daniel J. Pritchett

+1 Daniel. - Joey Gibson

Yes, it encourages Friendfeed to be used like an feed reader instead of a conversation. Real FFholics would have a good balance of consumption and contribution. - Dion Hinchcliffe

Well, "Most Popular" in Middle School was based on how many people wanted to be your friend, or, how many people 'followed' you. Why should it be different here? FFHolic also has a "Most Active" for users and rooms that I find to be infinitely more valuable - Mark VandenBerg

I notice that Arrington's account has a pretty good record of starting conversations amongst FriendFeeders - that's good for the community. The fact that no one from TC appears to get involved in those conversations is what bugs me. If nothing else it's nice to have the posts there if we are in the mood to "Like" something we just read on TC via another reader. - Daniel J. Pritchett

Daniel - you say that (TC not participating) like it's a bad thing. ;) HA - Mona N.

+1 Mark. FFHolic differentiates between "Popular" and "Active". Both are useful metrics. - Daniel J. Pritchett

+5 it should be made relevant to you, not whether they blog or not, I mean just read/ RSS there blog for chrissakes - sofarsoshawn

can we change it so I become a most popular user? pretty please? how about giving bonus to users whose follower numbers is a small prime number? That would work - Joelle Nebbe

@Louis, important no, but if configured properly this could be a valuable list for people just starting out, looking for folks to follow, or even folks that don't even use FriendFeed. As it stands the list is pretty useless IMO. - Mark Krynsky

@Eric, re: "How often do you find a popular conversation that isn't already on your front page?" That assumes you're already a seasoned user who already follows lots of great people. This list would be more valuable to newcomers or those that want to learn more about the community who don't currently use the service. - Mark Krynsky

@Mark V, "Most Popular" isn't a title I recommend for this list. Perhaps itcan be renamed "Most Interesting". The only other list they currently offer is "Most Active" which has its own set of flaws as well. - Mark Krynsky

i don't believe that page encourages people to participate as well. it might draw people in due to the "brands" some of those people are associated with, but it doesn't give new regular users any idea of what is actually taking place on ff -- the richness of topics and discussions held by all of us. i hardly see most of those characters involved in interesting discussions on friendfeed and a few of them are downright blowhards. i think it should totally be changed to reflect a broader audience and scope - Cee Bee

Yeah both ffholic & FF's ranking of recommended people is skewed to those that have high #followers, despite how little they post, and we know how rewarding that can be, compared to the Monas and Rahsheens of the world! - anna awesomesauce

I think it should be renamed "Most of the people you see on every techy social network". If they've signed up they've got tons of followers regardless of whether they participate or help the community. How about a "Most VALUABLE" list? That could be the people who contribute the most direct posts, most comments, most likes... the people who keep FF worth revisiting and differentiate it from any old RSS aggregation service. - Lindsay Donaghe

i think it's because of this kind of stuff that a lot of people are missing on the true elements and features of this site. i get tons of people subscribing to me (as i'm sure many of you have also experienced) that just resort to using this service for their own blog feeds, lifestreams and twitter experiments without participating one bit in actual discussions. they see the model of some of the people in the photo above and think that's all there is to it. - Cee Bee

I agreed AND disagree. They sort of offer this already. I don't think necessarily they should change what they are doing, but if you're suggesting they should do a "total" popular category based on all factors on top of what they have, I agree. I also agree with a lot of the sentiment in the comments here. I'd think though that the real target should be FriendFeed who continues to recommend some of these people, putting them so high in the first place. - Duncan Riley

@Duncan, I'm fine if the logic I defined comes in the form of a 3rd list. I think it would be by far the most valuable. The current 2 are very lacking and don't offer great value as far as I'm concerned. - Mark Krynsky

FFholic's algorithm should be transparent.Ideally,open source. - Igor Poltavskiy

The problem with their algorithm is that these people gained huge followings because they were the default recommended people since the inception of FriendFeed. You signed up, then you were presented with these guys as who you should subscribe to. Basically, the follows don't mean anything. Now, I think FriendFeed recommends people differently, but those follows that these people got are still on the books. That whole section of ffholic is quite useless and boring unless they add in other variables. - ♫ Rahsheen™

Yes I did! - Mark VandenBerg

No you didn't - Nice Fish Films

Did too! - Mark VandenBerg

you most certainly did not. - Nice Fish Films

Look! It's right there! - Mark VandenBerg

You're all wrong. - Stupid Blogger (aka Tina)

oh, this is futile - Nice Fish Films

No it isn't. - Mark VandenBerg

I don't see anything. - Richard Walker via twhirl

yes it is - Nice Fish Films

Is not. - Mark VandenBerg

LOL, I can't believe I missed this earlier XD - Haggis (Sean)

You didn't miss it. - Michael W. May via twhirl

Yes he did! - Steve Craft

In fact I did. - Haggis (Sean)

Afraid not. - Michael W. May via twhirl

I'm not afraid of anything! - Haggis (Sean)

this isn't an argument! - Live4Soccer

No no no no.. Hold your head like this and go "WAH" - Haggis (Sean)

I could be arguing in my spare time! - Bill Sodeman

Yes it is. - Mark VandenBerg

No it's not. - Pete Delucchi

good morning.... - Live4Soccer

No it isn't - Brian Sullivan

Yes it is, INFINITY! - Ladybug Heather

Now you're just being silly. - Mark VandenBerg

No i'm not. - Haggis (Sean)

Yes you are. - Mark VandenBerg

You all need to stop it. We know who's right and it's not any one of you. - pea gives ♥ a bad name

No you don't. - Mark VandenBerg

No we don't, no we don't and it is all of us. - Brian Sullivan

Mona .... listened to it last night ... all I could hear from you Mona was laughing and giggling ... - johnpiercy

its queued up for the ride home. ho! - Carlos Ayala

Yay, Mona! I'll have to check this one out today - Sarah Perez

Mona, it was a great episode! - Stupid Blogger (aka Tina)

Feature request: 1 full hour of nothing but Mona giggling. - Mark VandenBerg

Subscribed. - Chris Nixon

Thanks Tina! And thanks everyone... When I laugh out loud you guys, I REALLY laugh out loud. :\ - Mona N.

Lego and Star Wars mini episode/FFunderbite imminent. - Josh Haley via fftogo

OMG Josh, I can't WAIT for that. But LOL @ us blabbing for hours about LEGO and Star Wars. ;) - Mona N.

Yay! That was a great episode. It was good to hear you, Mona! :) - Carmen

Listening for the first time ever - don't know how I haven't yet! - Shawn Farner

nice set. wore out the VHS growing up to this movie :) - Matt Musgrave

thanks, Matt. Yep, it's a classic! - Anna Haro

One of my favourite movies too and I love these! - Emma

Nice, I saw The Wizard of Oz a few days ago on TV. - Mike Reynolds

These are awesome! - Derrick

fav'ing some of these now - Lindsey

yeah, D, his stream is fun! - Anna Haro

Nadine, I wish I could argue against you, but I cannot. Not sure why it happens that way. - Rob Diana

I think the trend of socially inept geeks is starting to change, but for many years geek = lower levels of social interaction = poorly developed social skills. It's so much more accepted now to be a computer geek that those choosing that path will almost certainly have a better social base than those in decades past. - Stupid Blogger (aka Tina)

/me tips his hat in shamefor his fellow gender...i think u may well be right here Sarah. +100 points for cutting right to the crux of the problem - Mr.Tiggr

Tina: I sure hope you are right. I'm so sick of the kinds of comments I see on YouTube and Digg done by what seems to be 14-year-old boys. Unfortunately that reflects deep-set behaviors that are going to be tough to overcome. - Robert Scoble

Well, there's a difference between having a social skillset and exhibiting cultural behavior. 20 year old male CS majors are probably much more likely to have a properly working social skillset than their peers from 30 years ago. BUT, they're are also going to exhibit behavior that has been passed from one geek generation to another: it's learned online, gaming, etc. Those YouTube and Digg commenters are exhibiting a cultural behavior that now probably has very little correlation with their social skills. - Stupid Blogger (aka Tina)

Yeah unfortunately a lot of the time it becomes a less-than-brilliant situation especially when these folks (mostly guys) get together in real life, it becomes all about who can out-geek everyone else. yawn. - Scott Lockhart

i don't use it but always nice to have one more. Be prepared for my mission to bring unwrapp.com onto friendfeed Paul :) - Zee. Just Zee.

Finally! Yippee! - Anika Malone

Anyone has invite? - Igor Poltavskiy

how about viddler ? - johnpiercy

Hao RULES - Mona N.

I understand the weirdness, Lindsey. Very much a point of the pot calling the kettle #000000... oh wait.. - Matt Harwood

haha - Matt Musgrave

LOL - Monique via fftogo

hilarious - Anika Malone

rofl - Nicholas Kreidberg

ROFL! - Andrew Trinh

I want a shirt that says this - Lindsey

Why can't #000000 & #FFFFFF just live in harmony. Just like Stevie Wonder and Paul McCartney said http://tinysong.com/2mUx - Mark Krynsky

Actually they sang #3C2005 and #FCFFE7 - Jared B. Luther

y'all are nerds. - anna awesomesauce

yes we are anna :P - AJ Batac

Awesome hahaha! - Joe Dawson (beta)

I am #0000FF in nerdiness (but I think that being #0000FF is a french idiom :) ) - directeur

I'm glad I #ff0000 this. made me smile. - Chris Baskind

That reminds me of a joke: What is #000000 and #FFFFFF and #FF0000 all over? - Jared B. Luther

Back In #000000, hit the sack - Josh Haley

I nominate this for Friendfeed's nerdiest thread of all time. Nerds! - Chris Baskind

The #000000er the berry, the sweeter the juice - Shey

This needs to be a t-shirt. - Kevin Bondelli

WERE is hao? - Caroline

Pff, #000 > #000000 - Mo Kargas

+1 Mo - Shey

transparent !important; - Brandon

We elected a #000000 president, yay! (just trying to add my 10 cents) - Pete Delucchi

Life isn't #000000 and #FFFFFF. Just shades of #CCCCCC. - Jemm

the president is more #666666, since he's technically half #000000 and half #FFFFFF... unless you subscribe to the one #0-rule. .LOLz - .LAG

lol@.LAG - Shey

@Shey LOL I'm like, wow, kinda late for that, huh Seth? - anna awesomesauce

yeah, probably right...damn his face looks annoying there... Reminds of Eddie describing the fold in the magazine on Raw "here want me to stir it for you?" - Zee. Just Zee.

I know that alarm bells go off at Twitter if you're following many more people than follow you. Does anything happen in the reverse, if you're following many fewer people than are following you? - Ontario Emperor

HA! +1, Zee...GI Joe swimmin' underwater...and then a big brown shark came... - Dave

I'll wait until he starts tweeting something before I follow. - Hutch Carpenter

@anna: wasn't he at @sethgodin, the only guys on twitter with zillions of followers and who never follows back? This being said, I like what he writes generally :) - directeur

Well that didn't last long, looks like it's been deleted - Shey

Wow, that WAS quick. Maybe it was unauthorized. - Ontario Emperor

wow...that's strange - Zee. Just Zee.

That's too bad - I was rather in his corner, staying off of it. Wonder if he'll join everyone else again by abandoning Squidoo too. - Ciaoenrico

hmm - Hayk

Wake me when Seth becomes relevant again. To me, he's been mailing it in for a good while. Brilliant basis and thesis but it's been milk ever since. - AJ Kohn

Who is that? - Mona N.

Yeah, AJ, agreed. If Seth used micro-blogging, he'd blow most of his load with around 10-12 posts. - Christopher Galtenberg

mona, popular marketing dude/writer/speaker. - Hao Chen

Long overdue - Charlie Anzman

Will follow him and see what he has to say. - John-David Lusan

i've been told this could be a fake... - Zee. Just Zee.

read this http://sethgodin.typepad.com/s... he doesnt use twitter - johnpiercy

yeah, i remember that actually and hence my surprise when he apparently joined...he could have always changed his mind i thought - Zee. Just Zee.

Heheh, I'm doing a webinar on Thursday with Seth, so I'll find out if this is real. It sure doesn't look real. - Robert Scoble

doesn't use twitter wtf?! - Susan Beebe

Mona, you were kidding, weren't you? - Laura Norvig

i don't think she was Laura and besides he's famous but not that famous - Zee. Just Zee.

Bad time to admit I wouldn't know Godin from Adam? - MiɳiMagɘ (Sexy Scimitar)

See, more proof Seth needs to be on twitter - he's clearly not engaging his audience! LOL - Susan Beebe

It looks more like a Kool-Aid line to me:) Real or imaginary, it's a Kool-Aid line! - Roney Smith

don't use twitter much anymore - could care less - mike "glemak" dunn

@mike I actually use it more than I used to - Kyle Lacy

seth who? - David Parmet via twhirl

woah Kyle! - Zee. Just Zee.

Following. - Igor Poltavskiy

The owner of this twitter account has just posted...."PLEASE NOTE THIS IS A --FAN-- ACCOUNT FOR LATEST UPDATES ABOUT SETH'S NEW BOOK, TRIBES." - Zee. Just Zee.

Well, maybe he's a bit "five minutes ago" but once I stumbled upon him, it seems like I saw him everywhere. It coincided with me hearing about Squidoo (which is definitely five minutes ago), but I started hearing about all his books and seeing him scheduled to speak at conferences. - Laura Norvig

laura - yeah, he's like spam that way ;) - mike "glemak" dunn

"PLEASE NOTE THIS IS A --FAN-- ACCOUNT FOR LATEST UPDATES ABOUT SETH'S NEW BOOK, TRIBES" - Mike Reynolds

u r using system where yr opinion is always AFTER Steve Almighty plot ! muahahahaah!!!111 - silpol

Can we please permanently hide all Nickelback mentions on FF, forever? There should be an option for that. I wish I could insert blips and censored screens in every audio and video clip where Nickelback is mentioned. If I never hear of them again, it'll be too soon. - Raoul Pop

I'd rather eat my own uterus than listen to Nickelback, myself. - Helen Sventitsky

Nickelback is responsible for self cannibalization? Not going to listen to NB - want my body parts intact :) - jlt

I'd rather go back in time and eat my own self as a fetus so I had never been born instead of listen to Nickelback. - Steve Isaacs

lol @ helen. damn - Cee Bee

I don't know anyone who likes Nickelback. So who is it that is buying their crap and making them think they need to continue making music? - Katie

... you remind me of how I really am... - anna awesomesauce

katie - canadians and republicans - Cee Bee

@ Cee Bee: Ahhh. Makes sense why I don't know anyone who likes them :o) - Katie

I'd rather listen to jackals raping each other than Nickelback. - Haggis (Sean)

@Cee Bee, and country music listeners who mistake Nickelback for rock music. - Helen Sventitsky

I'd rather cut my arm off with a rusty teaspoon than listen to Nickelback. - Chris Nixon

"Rock Star" got to #1 in the UK while I lived there. Why? I don't know. People thought it was "funny", perhaps. And on Radio 1 they bleeped out the words "drug dealer". After which they would go back to pretending to be hip & edgy. Fail. - Alexander Carlill

I'd rather shit in my own mouth, and have it sewn shut with old guitar strings than listen to Nickelback. - Steve Isaacs

nice steve, nice. ha ha - Cee Bee

i guess i should be happy i have no idea who nickelback is. - Anika Malone

a Canadian here: I'd rather eat your toe jam than listen to Nickle-shit - Capn' One-Eye ☠

You can NOT escape Nickelback in the Canadian iTunes store. - Cecily

the singer is a total douche la rouche - Melissa Maskevich

Make it go away... - Tracy

douche la rouche! good one. - Kirk Skodis via twhirl

rrrrr they suck - orionstarr