@Mike, nice to hear from you again, it’s been awhile. Yes, I am over at DaPo chats, etc quite a bit though more as an observer lately. Maybe Scoble is actually Lieutenant Commander Data (from Star Trek) in disguise.

@Bill, agree on the simplicity bit. Although what’s simple to me may not be so simple to a Joe Blow who doesn’t know what a feed is.

I noticed a trend lately, the best marketing ploy for your startup is to get someone like Scoble, Arrington, Winer, Wilson, etc to gush about it. In 2006/2007, it was Facebook, Twitter in 2007, now FriendFeed in 2008. With all the hype on FriendFeed now, it feels like Facebook and Twitter have jumped the shark?

About the average internet user, at the very least I would say that there are perhaps 100 million to 200 million worldwide who have multiple social network memberships (assumes 10-20% of global users have multiple memberships). If we then further assume that only 10% of these have a significant presence on more than one site, then the net is 10-20M distributed-type users.

While that is a lot (10-200M), the numbers really don’t matter now. Decentralization is occurring. Many kids today have both MySpace accounts and Facebook (once they hit high school or college). Not everyone is a Scoble, but one could argue that most people will use the internet in a social way and that no one site will cover all of their needs.

Lastly, about Scoble and his 16,000 peeps, I personally believe that Scoble is really and audio-animatronic robot and that his brain is advanced form of Artificial Intelligence (AI) — with the current AI version limited mostly to short messages of 140 characters or less