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It is very easy to come international student to Turkey:) - Bahaeddin [ MacinLife ]

ilk resimde o kadar mac'in yanında fişe takılı olanın bir bilgisayar olması çok ironik değil mi? - Buğra Bayrak

If Twitter is really about who you follow not who follows you as you have often suggested, why should it matter? - Brian Sullivan

Brian - the value of Twitter for you, as an individual, is absolutely about who you follow rather than who follows you. However, the "juice" or the potential business value is much more about who follows you. It all depends on your intended outcome of using Twitter. - Fried Curdys

But Robert has many times in the past indicated that he doesn't care who follows him just who he follows and has chastised those that think otherwise. His continuing jibes and tirade against the SU list seems somewhat hypocritical. - Brian Sullivan

I shot this with my Canon 5D MKII. Unfortunately I have to manually focus and everytime I do that the noise from me manipulating the camera gets transfered to the video. Sorry about that. Still learning how to use this new equipment. This is the kind of video we'll be doing more of for Building43.com. - Robert Scoble

I shot this in 1080p on my Canon, brought the file into iMovie, saved it out at a lower bit rate, uploaded it via TubeMogul.com which pushed it over to Blip.tv. Pretty good quality for on camera microphone. I was using a fixed 24mm F2.8 lens. - Robert Scoble

Kevin is on Twitter at http://www.twitter.com/kevinma... and here on friendfeed at http://friendfeed.com/kevinma... - Robert Scoble

I look forward to this integration as well.. maybe over the weekend - Sardar Mohkim Khan

I hope to make a lot more "how to" videos for http://www.building43.com -- what do you think? Do you like these? If so, we'll do more from other companies too. - Robert Scoble

more more more! - Nitin Gupta

Hi Robert - also note that we published details of the Portable Contacts +OAuth API for Google contacts today: http://googlesocialweb.blogspot.com/2009... - Kevin Marks

Considering the room we were in was just fluorescent lights, the colour came out pretty well. Nice camerawork. - Kevin Marks

really cool video. I tried friendconnect on my blog, but because of my small blog community, it didn't show much friends, so I uninstalled it. But watching this video makes me want to install it again :) - Xavier Vespa

Kevin: this camera (the Canon 5D Mark II) rocks. The more I use it the more I fall in love with it. Only problem is it's a bit tough to manually focus and that also causes audio "clicks" to be generated. I'll work on that, we're getting external microphones for these. Both Rocky and I have a 5D MKII now. - Robert Scoble

interesting, Blip was displaying the MP4 file up to now. In the background it was transcoding to Flash. Now it's playing the Flash and the quality isn't nearly as nice. The full MP4 is here: http://blip.tv/file... -- much better quality, if your computer can display it. - Robert Scoble

I've had friendconnect on my blog for a while, it's been great. Google chatback is great for interacting with visitors to the blog, too. - Iain Baker

It's nice to watch an interview where the image is so sharp. - Richard A.

Can everyone play the MP4? If so, this quality freaking rocks!!!! Check this out if you can play it: http://a1.video3.blip.tv/0020000... Richard, you ain't kidding! It's amazing that I can shoot and deliver this quality now from an SLR that isn't even optimized for video! - Robert Scoble

The quality is really good but the shallow DOF is a bit of a problem when viewing Kevin's laptop screen. - Yuval Atzmon

Yuval: yup, and that's with a 24mm F2.8 lens. Makes it hard to focus, too, because the screen is too small to see properly (you can't focus through the lens, because the mirror is up to allow light to go to the sensor). I'll get the hang of it, though, and I'll also play around with fstops to get more depth of field. - Robert Scoble

In the flash video version I can see jumps when the camera is moved fast. Will try mp4 version. Edit: The download took serious time, server had a low bandwidth... quality of the video is great, but I still have horizontal and angular cuts when camera moves back and forth between his face and the laptop screen. Might be because of my refresh rate and/or DirectX-graphic card version though. - ilterocktive

Watching the mp4 feed via Silverlight 3 beta 1 which now supports mp4 video, playback, quality very good, but agree about shallow DOF issue. - Martin Duffy

Kevin: we will try to do more, especially as we construct building43.com since we have two camera and Rocky does editing but I have tried to do this several times and it is pretty tough to justify/do. Why? One reason I get the access I do is because I don't take much time. Doing this would require a lot more time and access to the interviewee's computer. Not to mention editing time, which costs money. Keep in mind I am mostly playing around right now until we get building43 up and running in May. - Robert Scoble

I'm still wondering, what can FriendConnect do for new blogs, not the static ones? - Toni @ NavinoT

Robert & everyone, I'm trying to listen in on these conversations for Building43. Regarding the comment about doing screencasts (time and cost), what if you could do both simultaneously? Robert, you could do your video for the live interaction effect while the demo/interviewee is processing the screencast and edited/voiced over later. Using something like Jing could achieve this but its just a thought. - Jason Cronkhite

Just enabled this on my site interested to see if it draws people into the conversation. Feel free to stop by KnowtheNetwork.com - Keith - @tsudo

Pardon the hijack, but I'd love to get people's recommendations for screenscasting software ... looking at SlideShare and Evernote.... - Richard Walker

Love the How To video, more please. Would be interesting to see Facebook Connect as a comparison, although guess its slightly different? ;-) - Steven Horner

@Richard - neither of those are screencasting software - andy brudtkuhl

nice, been using friend connect for a while, glad you got it working - Wayne Sutton

Underpowered, crashy, and HOT! What's the deal with that? We have almost given up on ours. We use it mostly for the music. Listening to music while our pics scroll by - but that's it really. We use NetFlix so we instant watch on the 360 and Blu-Ray on the PS3. I've thought about using an old mini or even putting the pictures and music on the PS3. - Bill

I've got a Mac Mini running Plex http://www.plexapp.com. Couldn't be happier. - Peter Kruit

Thanks - I've been trying to talk my wife into this and throwing away cable. I'll wait a bit longer. - Dave Blankenship

This definitely helped as I've been thinking about Apple TV vs. Mini for a long time. Is there anything on the mini that will do netflix streaming? - Alan Braun

With the amount of media already overwhelming me, I find my Roku amazingly reliable, great quality and cheap. I have enough on my list that I will not be able to watch in the next 3 years. - Jamie Ginsberg

I like my AppleTV w/ Boxee - kinda does what I want. It is a bit hot, but not bad. Have thought about switching to a Mini, but not really sure what that would get me? I really like that the AppleTV sync's music and photos instead of just streaming them. I also like that my Harmony One remote works fine with it. - felix

@Alan NetFlix streaming is available on the Mac now. My daughter's mini is not online, but I could check itlater. - Bill from twhirl

@Dave - my son and I keep making the same argument but my wife wants the DTV for the NFL - we get most Skins games locally anyway but she is afraid to give it up :) - Bill from twhirl

@Bill cool, I assume you mean stream netflix using a mini to the tv? if so, that is great...send me a replay @abraun on twitter - Alan Braun

Yeah, my Boss Lady will leave me before I talk her into giving up her college football & DirecTV dish. :o) Actually, I was cable free/Netflix only for several years until I met her (wished I had all these options back then!) - Paul Reynolds

Also: Understudy lets you watch Netflix Watch Instantly via Front Row as well. It's basically a stripped down, full screen web browser with remote support. - Paul Reynolds

Planning to go the route of the Mac mini media server + Boxee in another week. Getting giddy just at the thought of it. Any suggestions for how to best control the mini w/o a keyboard & mouse? Apple Remote & Front Row don't seem to give you full access to all your media (e.g., shows already downloaded via iTunes). I've been considering using a VNC iPhone app (e.g., Jaadu). - Andrei M. Marinescu

@Andrei: Official Boxee Remote for iPhone! http://blog.boxee.tv/2009... - Paul Reynolds

definitely Boxee, I have it setup on my Apple TV and it works like a charm. Do you have the latest version (0.9.10.5534) ? if not you should upgrade. The app store there is a great way to get more content directly pushed to you. - Arnaud Fischer

I have Boxee and Front Row, but also have Hulu bookmarked as the home page for Safari so I can get through that. I also have an EyeTV hooked up to the Mac Mini which lets me use the device as a Tivo from the TV stations that come through the house. Boxee remote on the iphone, and there is a VNC for the iPhone but bluetooth keyboard and mouse are nice to have. Also have 2TB external drives hooked to the mini filled with DVD rips - Andrew Leyden

Leo, absoluetly. I was mere minutes away from clicking 'buy' on my Apple TV, when I heard the news that Boxee was pulling Hulu off of it's network. That was a deal killer for me. Without Hulu, there is absolutely NO REASON to buy an Apple TV. Nevermind the fact that they will continue to send out firmware updates just to kill the Boxee service anyway. Mac Mini is the way to go. Too bad... more... - Fleagle