DISQUS

Moral of the story: you get what you pay for...

The nice thing about the games industry is that you can never have too many, especially when it costs nothing for users to play. If they can bring something new or interesting (or both) to Facebook, they'll do fine.

Next time you write about a company, could you please drop at least one link to their website?

Here's another boredom buster: Pop Answers!
http://apps.facebook.com/popanswers/

This seems to go against their platform which relies on Google, and the fact that Google wants to push their own accounts on users as a competitor to OpenID.

If this doesn't convince people that Facebook apps are serious business, I don't know what will.

Links Nick, links! It's what makes the web!!!

I think it's safe to say that porting a Facebook app to Friendster is now a lot easier than it was before.

A ha ha I see someone changed the title of their post.

Cheer up, Zach. I never really bought the "spreading happiness & joy in peoples' lives" rap anyway.

I don't know why people are surprised about this. Sarah is like every other vapid talking head in the valley... promoting her book and her name more than actually trying to deliver a good performance. I was incredibly bored with the interview as a whole and everytime Zuckerberg sparked my interest with something exciting, she cut him off and brought the discussion back to superficial crap again.

SGN's Game Bar launched 2 weeks ago; it was open to developers a full week before Zynga's. Just ask SGN's partners.

So you don't work for Microsoft anymore and yet you are still causing them trouble? Can't you give them a break?

Awesome! Every one of those games is a serious copyright violation and ought to be removed by Facebook.

This is such ridiculous crap. I'm never clicking a link to this blog again.

Just to be fair and make a real comment, though, Scoble, whatever happens in the startup sector DOES NOT disrupt the industry. Startups make up a very very small portion of the tech industry and usually run on free or low-cost solutions.

If you want to talk about "disrupting" you have to look at the enterprise market and see if anyone in any IT position will honestly consider dropping a mature and total-control option like Oracle to use a limit service from Amazon. That's where all the money is at for providers like Oracle and MS, not the punks in SF bootstrapping worthless apps.

If the name "tumblr" has a shine, then all the other letters should have that shine too.

I can't believe how STUPID he is about this issue. And then when he gets a bunch of comments from people who disagree with him, he puts up a post asking if he should allow unmoderated comments, where he says the comments have been getting nastier. Well, if you are going to say stupid things, what do you expect? Hmm?

ideas* plural! seriously!

I love anything that gives me an opportunity to network with other web geeks in my area and hear new idea... I'll definitely be there!

Please tell me that you meant to link to
http://www.makemylogobiggercream.com/

The link you have now is NOT the same.

Elliott, are you getting the stock data from Yahoo! for free? Is there a limit on how many requests you can make?

It shows that being on the other side of the pond really limits your knowledge of the U.S. series and its cast.

The Office has been slated for 10 1-hour episode segments in the start of Season 4, meaning it's one of NBC's biggest shows (along with Heroes) and the viewership has been high. It sells a lot of DVDs and online episodes too. And if you ask me, the most recent episodes have been amazing. I think it has to do with the fact that the show has a huge team of writers, with different people writing different episodes, so the material doesn't get old fast. I saw every episode of the British original, and the difference is that the British one moved too quickly. A lot happened in two seasons and then it jumped 6 months ahead and the whole conclusion was done in 2 episodes. It was a great show but there was so much more that could have been built on. The US version moved through basically the same storyline in 3 seasons instead of 2, and filled in all that extra time with a lot more character development as it explored some characters that either weren't touched upon much in the British version or didn't exist there at all.

As for the success of the actors, Steve Carrell (Micheal) is in huge demand right now, with a couple of upcoming projects that I wouldn't play down (Dan in Real Life and Horton Hears a Who). Jon Krasinski (Jim) is doing movies too, though License to Wed didn't do well. Rainn Wilson probably shouldn't have gotten involved with The Last Mimzy at all; don't know if he has anything in the pipeline. I think it's safe to say that most of the actors won't have anything big after The Office, and Ken Levine's words are definitely right on the money, but The Office itself is a good show to be involved with right now, so if I were one of them, I wouldn't complain. I do think he may have been hinting to Rashida Jones in his writing, who played Karen in Season 3 and left promptly at the start of Season 4 to work on another show where she would have a leading role. It doesn't look like that's going anywhere for her, and I think she would have been better off if she had stayed on The Office for at least another season.

Robert, if you want to surround yourself with all 1 million of the fanboys & fangirls who idolize you, just make yourself a group on Facebook. That's the way to connect with your 'fans.' Leave friends for what it actually means; people you have made a connection with.

Your assumptions and language toward 20-somethings is really, really annoying. No, not all 20-somethings are trend whores. That should answer every one of your questions.

I think people are missing the point here... Digg is a primarily tech-focused community, and not all of the top 100 blogs on Technorati have to do with tech-topics. Some of the top 100 blogs would never make the frontpage of Digg, because their content would never appeal to the Digg community. Just because content is "good" does not mean it deserves Diggs... anyone who knows the Digg community will tell you that.