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Rafe Needleman posted a message on Twitter

“Doing what I do and not having an iphone is like not having a web browser. I give up! On way to store today.”

July 27 at 9:52 am - Link

Peter, Charlie Anzman, Sacca, Sherman Hu and 9 other people liked this

Last I heard, they were sold out everywhere today. Might want to call ahead and check. - Kevin C. Tofel

Apple iphone availability page showed inventory last night for some stores today. We'll see. - Rafe Needleman

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hmm - i see - Allen Stern

I was told yesterday by the local store they only took orders with a 2-3 week delivery. - LPH

good luck! i recommend walking in and saying "DO YOU KNOW WHO I AM?" :) - h1ro

they r selling 16gig iphones at stonestown sf. still 2 hr+ line. feh. - Rafe Needleman via fftogo

steve jobs, are u paying attention? in-store activation for iphone is a horrible mess. very un-apple. - Rafe Needleman via fftogo

Very funny. Hope you are able to get your iPhone! - Gail Bronson

You get one? I waited two hrs today on Long Island for my brother, but we got it. - Steve Rubel

Good to know Stonestown has them...was thinking of hitting Union Square this week. - Hutch Carpenter

michael arrington posted an entry on TechCrunch

Friendfeed v. Twitter: Half The Followers In Five Months

July 5 at 9:51 pm - Link

HECTOR ARTURO, Philip Ryan Johnson, spharmonic, Sumit Chachra and 33 other people liked this

We must save The Twitter. - Ed Shaz/NextInstinct

Honestly, what does Twitter offer me that Friendfeed doesn't already take care of? The benefit of twitter was the ability to have mass conversations and those are near impossible. FF is so much easier to track. - tsudohnimh

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I'll tell you a BIG difference: friendfeed seems to take itself very seriously. This can help facilitate a certain type of conversation, which has its place. I feel like twitter gives me space to say whatever I want, without it falling flat. - rambn

i don't see why it's one or the other. they both work in different ways and have a different reach. twitter can perhaps work to enhance friendfeed. it doesn't work so much the other way around, as friendfeed just offers more flexibility not to mention the ability to write more than a limited amount of words like i'm doing now. - Cee Bee

Cee Bee, I'm guessing if you play a lot of zero-sum games, you tend to see the world as one "x vs. y" after another... - Karim

I agree that the Twitter dudes are too lax at sensing user dissatisfaction. The relaxed California attitude, (Twittering about soy lattes after being down all week), is foolish. And the arrogance of listening to their $15,000,000 VC friends telling them 'don't worry about current defections, there will be a crowd there when you get there', is equally foolish. It was the excellent attitude of the original shop 2 years ago, that got them here. - Ed Shaz/NextInstinct

Man let this whole FriendFeed vs. Twitter thing go! They don't even compete in the same space. FriendFeed has a completely different objective. FriendFeed benefits from Twitters or other services. I can't believe you are even comparing the 2. I'm getting tired of all these Twitter vs. FriendFeed comparisons. The more people who join Twitter, FriendFeed doesn't care, in fact it benefits. FriendFeed is like those multi-service instant messaging clients. - Michael Narciso

rambn: Twitter gives you the space to say whatever you want without anyone listening. :-) It's no place to have a conversation. Half life of conversations on Twitter are about four minutes. On FriendFeed? A conversation can go on for hours. - Robert Scoble

BUT!!! One of the real ills of society, indeed the latest generations, is the lack of staying power and loyalty. A shallow, superficial, impatient human condition serves none of us well. There are terrific hardworking inspired people inside Twitter. And perhaps Evan, Biz, and Jack had to shut out the signal for the noise, But they do need a better sense of reality. This ain't new. - Ed Shaz/NextInstinct

Robert, in other words FriendFeed is like a newsgroup or forum conversation...but feels broader in cross-section. Twitter is more positional - people do not converse, they simply state positions. - Craig Thomler

how many of those followers on FF are overlapped with followers on Twitter though? I know Im one of them, relatively late to the twitter game but got on to FF fairly quickly after it launched. - Devlin Dunsmore via twhirl

I think it shows more of a trend in which twitter was an early entrant and the space slowly took off whereas FF joined the space after services like twitter paved the way. - Devlin Dunsmore via twhirl

I find it amusing how people always come back to number of followers. I think we have already established that FF is great for having a conversation and Twitter is great for starting one but how many people do you want to talk to at one time? Even if you have 50,000 friends on FF. How many of them actually actively participate in what YOU have to say? - Dedric

Deborah Micek posted a message on Twitter

“@shermanhu exactly! Just say no 2 da mold! & most dont know Einstein was home schooled & he turned out pretty well”

April 19 at 3:39 pm - Link

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