"As most organizations know, hiring the wrong people for the wrong job can be extremely costly. It is even more costly if you assume everyone knows how to leverage social media for your business purposes and with your audience of suppliers, employees and customers. Be careful what you ask for." - Jay Deragon
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Man, Jason, you've been railing against GM for days now! Did they do something to you when you were a kid? - Richard Klein
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I bought--what should've been--a lemon from them once. - Valley
you have to put them all on their knees in the corner and push to read Atlas Shrugged http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A... until they _may_be_ start to understand :) - silpol
It's like a race through media land. Matt runs Automattic, which does Wordpress.com and Akismet. Mercury News is Silicon Valley's newspaper. Facebook? This little FriendFeed competitor. :-) - Robert Scoble
"When can I sync my Facebook friends' contact information with my iPhone's address book?" Maybe if people keep asking, they'll relent. - Mark Trapp
"Maybe if people keep asking, they'll relent. - Mark Trapp" . . . Wow. A pig just flew by my office window. - John Craft
Ask the Mercury News people how they plan to change their business model and stay profitable as they, and other print media, move away from printed media. - Mark VandenBerg
"I would just love to know what they think of FriendFeed, if they feel their app is 'too heavy' in comparison, whether it makes many aspects of Facebook superfluous, and if they have any plans for a leaner and meaner Facebook to compensate for the heaviness that keeps many of us away (and makes FF feel so comfortable in comparison)." - Christopher Galtenberg
For Matt: How does Matt see blogging evolving in the face of tough economic times and web 2.0 consolidation? Does it go the way of Geo Cities? Does it fall off due to micro-blogging and life-streaming? Will Automattic develop a highly targeted display ad network using wordpress blogs? For Facebook: How do you get to profitability? And when? - AJ Kohn
For Mullenweg: What i like about MovableType is it doesn't handcuff you to Perl, so you can integrate it with your platform. Are there any plans to allow Wordpress to operate outside of the PHP ghetto? - .LAG
"If you could have any superpower, what would it be?" - Zee. Just Zee.
Zee: Mullenweg already has superpowers. :-) - Robert Scoble
Ask Facebook what their target demographic is, and whether they see FriendFeed as a different market. - Chris White
"Ask Mercury News if they concur with Rupert Murdoch's recent statement that "we are moving from news papers to news brands" http://friendfeed.com/e/69c4d5..., and what that means for news brands like theirs... And whether unaffiliated organizations like AP gain more or less power in a world where news brands need to provide more customized news." - Christopher Galtenberg
Hi! I'd like you to ask facebook to open up their "phone book" for export to iPhone address book. Why would users want two address books, and why would users not have the right to "remember" a friend's phone number locally? - Mason Lee
Oh, please: For Matt Mullenweg, ask about Automattic's long-term plans for Intense Debate. Is this a platform for some sort of unified World-of-Wordpress login? Something which ties together self-hosted WordPress, WordPress.com -- perhaps even bbPress? Do they have it supporting Yahoo IDs yet? It was failing at last attempt. - Chris Baskind
I'd love to know if Matt will allow a FF widget in my sidebar on wordpress.com. I've been waiting ages. Please, please please ask. Pretty please. Thanks Robert - Roberto Bonini
Ask Matt what he is going to do about the incoming links section on the wordpress dashboard. the google links works less effectively than technorati ever did. its a shame. i want to see inbound links from the console. but how? - James
Roberto: there's a ton of those kinds of things I want on wordpress.com. Will focus on what Matt thinks will be the future of wordpress.com. - Robert Scoble
Mistakes made, lessons learned from them by examples. - imran
for SJMN - do they consider the SJMN "the voice of Silicon Valley" or are they just another "big City newspaper" ? . can they reveal some stats on their online version like who "reads" or "feeds" - Geographically, what content etc. - SnakeDoc
Robert: Thats interesting too. When one looks at how Windows Live as a whole group of services has re-imagined itself as a social network of sorts. Will wordpress re-imagine itself along similar lines???? - Roberto Bonini
In my mind, wordpress is awesome because it's extensible. The plugins make it great. So why doesn't wordpress.com let bloggers use them easily? Perhaps they could set up an app store like the iphone's, let users buy plugins and then split revs with developers. - mike
Thats a great idea mike, to expand the existing upgrade selection. Gets my vote. - Roberto Bonini
For Facebook: How do they intend on reaching more users if their site ain't optimized for slower connections? I've got 2mbps in Pakistan which is pretty expensive for lots of ppl to afford here and sometimes facebook takes it's own sweet time to load up on my connection too. Just imagine for ppl with slower connections? Many ppl still use dialup here! So does facebook have any plans to have a 'lite' version for developing nations instead of having ppl turn to other social networks instead? - Eldon
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the best uninstaller software is one that can remove MS Windows from desktop! :D - Shibi
I used to use it,but I still need ccleaner to clear the registry after using it,so I uninstalled it at last. - daisylinbluez
I still use it. First time I was able to use it to remove a 30 day trial and then reinstall the trial with a fresh 30 days sold me on it - James Herbert
The problem with GPS would be that you'd have to have the maps preloaded. That's a lot of spaced used up on a device with limited room (when you consider all the other content). A camera would be nice though. I should qualify that... A *good* camera. - Jason Huebel
I could do w/o the camera. A GPS logger to help geotag pictures taken with a real camera would be nice, though. - Alex von Halem
Darn, just bought the itouch yesterday for gift - now camera?? - jlt
I certainly would but there two simpler things I want too: microphone (for voice recordings) and bluetooth - Nikos Anagnostou
What if they also added 3G and a microphone. And you could make calls with it... Oh, wait... - Mark VandenBerg
Interesting range of responses. Personally, the camera would be nice as I like taking pictures and GPS+Wifi would be great for the various geo apps available. - Jauder Ho
would YOU buy Lively in this economic environment? they're probably just avoiding the headache. - Brian Ries
google would *never* absorb and suffocate a small startup that could potentially distract eyeballs from their properties. That would be evil. - Chris Hollander
Mattie, hmmm...other than the desktop thing, it does not keep you tied to all-knowing Google, something which a paranoid nut like me feels happy about. Perhaps, this post can probably explain it better. http://tinyurl.com/2vrjaa - JazJaz
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I stay with Google Reader. There is no advantage. Have to agree with Mitch and Mattie. - Ryo
Please try the latest beta version for a week. - JazJaz
Flock Browser is far superior or if not I will agree wit Greader, Friendfeed and Twhirl :) - Ian Cleasby
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One really good reason to use a desktop reader is that some of them can monitor pages that don't have a feed and alert you to any changes. Essential feature for keeping ALL of your software up to date. Additionally, there are feeds you can't subscribe to in Google Reader, because they require authentication, and unfortunately that's not something Google Reader supports. - April Russo
I like Google Reader too, but I am an administrator on 3 forums and have to subscribe to feeds for the admin boards, and that requires a reader that can accept a username & pass to log me in to access the nonpublic feeds. I also like having popup notification when new posts are made on these forums, so I can quickly delete spam within 30 seconds of it being posted. - April Russo
feedly is messy. google reader has toomany limitations and is visually all screwed up. i don't understand why newsgator doesn't make an rss reader similar to netnewswire. feeddemon isn't horrible, but it could be so much better. netnewswire is probably the best i've tried and continue to use. only for mac, but the best thing is that it's free. - Cee Bee
Cee Bee: Is there a specific part of feedly you find messy? - Edwin Khodabakchian
Excuse my novice-ship, but one condition I enjoy about feedly is that it allows me to both upload to my twitter and my friendfeed accounts, almost simultaneously, and the luxury of sharing it with other g-friends. Now, if feeddemon can do all of this, I'm sold.Sold I tells ya!! - Terence Washington
edwin -- i have over 600 subscriptions and found it a bit of a nuisance to navigate in the small space on feedly as well as view other people's shares. this goes the same for google -- it tries to fit too much into one space (notes, shares, suggestions, options, etc) whereas with a stand alone program like netnewswire, i can have all the options, settings and other gadgets for different functions not only in a separate tool bar, but menu as well leaving the dedicated rss reader to do what it does best - Cee Bee
cee bee - thanks for the feedback. I will pass that to the design team. - Edwin Khodabakchian
used to use that when I didnt have a Mac , it is a good one - johnpiercy
For those of you who don't know already, FeedDemon is the (slightly) lesser cousin of NetNewsWire. They both share the same parent - Newsgator. - JazJaz
Just started using this yesterday, and I'm convinced. I LOVE this app. - Flora
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Unfortunately I think any app has to be benchmarked against Google Reader. If not, it's nothing more than an RSS scraper. - Glenn Batuyong
have been using this when a) i had to pay for it and b) google reader did not exist. and still love it. if only for sentimental reasons .... - denise