I got the chance to meet the champion of friendfeed last night, Robert Scoble. For the few people who do not know Robert he is a Tech Geek Blogger at scobleizer.com who is working on a project called Building 43 for the Web Hosting company Rackspace. I personally endorse Rackspace because eduify.com is hosted in the rackspace cloud and they have been great for us! I was introduced to Robert through my cousin Luke Kilpatrick, who is a front end website engineer. Both Luke and Robert currently hail from Half Moon Bay.
Robert Scoble is a nice guy, and totally down to earth despite the fact that he is an Internet celebrity. Robert was voted one of the most influential Bloggers, and is the most subscribed to person on friendfeed. He is pretty big on Twitter too. The shirt he was wearing said “I’m wearing my twitter shirt.”
I was impressed by Scoble’s setup. He has the same 13” aluminum Macbook as me, across from a Macbook Pro, beside a giant vertical, 36”+ Mac Monitor, beside a Mac Mini, with an iphone in hand. If it was not for the Firefox, and Adobe posters on the wall I might have thought I was in an Apple store.
On the big screen Robert had his 3 main friendfeed lists displayed in real time. He posted a video earlier in the night that made the front page of Qik explaining how he does it. In case you did not see this video, Scoble organizes his friendfeed streams into three different web browsers, which he places side by side. One browser displays his Twitter friends who are on friendfeed, one displays friends he has found through friendfeed, and one displays friends he has organized into a list he calls “tech news makers.”
I use lists to make my stream more meaningful as well. One list I have created is favorites, where I put the coolest people I know on ff, like Scoble, my cousin Luke Kilpatrick, Guy Kawasaki, and other folks you can see in my Twitteroll to the right.
After a glass of wine and talking tech for an hour or more Scoble pulled out a new Nokia phone with a video camera that they sent him for free and we started livecasting.
We were in pretty good spirits and I talked a bit about working for Eduify.com.
Our livecast was pretty solid, although completely off the cuff. It was cool to watch Scoble do his friendfeed thing, and to have people responding and commenting in real time.
I told Scoble good job for getting the first post and he assured me that it was important to be either the first or the last, and wrote this post:
Just was talking to http://www.friendfeed.com/garin and we came to the conclusion that if you are going to comment on a friendfeed item you should either be first or last. Why? They always are visible. So, here’s your chance! 
There are over 180 comments on that thread as I write this, and it was cool to sit there and watch the first few shoot in, in real time.
Few people know how to generate conversation on-line like Scoble and it was a pleasure to meet him. I’m looking forward to when we meet again.
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