1:00 Mike Arrington, Robert Scoble, Gabe, Mark, Andrew, announce their presence.
1:25 Discuss what people want to talk about, not bowl games
2:00 Mike Arrington is not sure what he wants to talk about
3:00 Mike mentions the iPhone stands out for him when asked, "What stands out for you for the year?"
3:40 Everyone but Robert Scoble hears an echo, then the echo goes away
4:00 iPhone is talked about, Mike says Android "isn't selling very well."
5:00 Facebook platform continues to explode Mob Wars most popular app
6:00 People are using applications a lot and Mike believes platform is important and mentions a payments platform is not available, yet PayPal is working
7:00 Talks about opening up platform
7:30 Scoble says growth of Twitter is interesting
8:00 More and more celebrities are on Twitter, yet it's still a relatively small audience
8:45 Mumbai was posted
9:31 Average person would not sort through all the tweets on Mumbai
10:00 Does not know if Twitter will create a filtering tool
11:30 Scoble is having an event 21st of January about real time Twitter
12:00 Gang discusses news is becoming real time
13:00 Scoble says, "the problem with real time is separating the news from the noise."
14:00 Massive information overload makes RSS look like slow day at beach
15:00 FriendFeed compared as a filtering environment
15:45 Can real time get quicker than Twitter
16:00 Scoble says, "In the future when we have real good data" and discusses how filtering will help us find info faster
17:00 Scoble talks about trashing Techmeme
18:00 Talking about tweets appearing on memorandum and that sites need to put up news as early as possible
19:00 Scoble says, "more interesting content is happening on Twitter and FriendFeed."
20:00 Scoble talks about his FriendFeed item getting on Venturebeat
20:45 Gang discusses finding information quickly, discussed it's not a game.
21:00 Andrew says this changes access to this information everything
23:00 Scoble talks about Tweetdeck or Twirl and say he spends every waking moment on this, saying he's an addict.
24:00 Questioning if FriendFeed is healthy for Scoble, and he claims it's a hobby.
25:00 Scoble is working on Yahoo Pipe
25:30 Scoble says he puts up more content this week
26:00 Calacanis shows up and says Scoble is a product evangelist
27:00 Calacanis says, "you have to get paid Robert"
27:41 Calacanis wants Scoble to do something of substance
28:00 Argument between Calacanis and Scoble
29:00 Calacanis tells Scoble to, "go old school"
30:00 "I love FriendFeed and Twitter"
32:00 "Twitter is not a place for serious work" is said
33:00 Video blogging is discussed, "few people can make a living out of it"
33:30 Calacanis says, "cocktail parties are great"
34:00 Calacanis says, "97% of people who blog are copying"
35:00 Scuffle among the gang
36:00 Calacanis says, "these are the most unimportant stories" and mentions other news that's important
38:00 Scoble says, "having filters is a good goal" and "the idea of using the number of followers as a way to judge whether a tweet is stupid."
39:00 Scoble says, "It's not the number of followers that makes the Tweet authoritative, it's the content of who wrote it."
41:00 Gang discusses Techmeme
43:00 Scoble argues that the "number of followers is not an authority thing" and someone is authoritative about what you write.
44:00 Gang continues to discuss followers
45:00 Filtering by users is discussed
46:00 Scoble claims he likes that
47:00 Discussing Scoble as a celebrity as the Brad Pitt of FriendFeed

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