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The Future of the Social Web: In Five Eras - http://www.web-strategist.com/blog...
Rajif Krobat, Baytech, Björn Klose and 106 other people liked this
Interesting stuff...thanks for sharing
- Hugo Guzman
Great info! I agree fish where the fish are :)
- Peter du Toit (S.Africa)
Agree on the whole. I always find these categories a little artificial: Really "Forrester-speak". :) I think the recommendations are the most interesting. I'd make a separate post out of that.
- Meryn Stol
You say it yourself: "What’s interesting isn’t this vision for the future, but what it holds in store for brands, " . I'd like these recommendations to be fleshed out with concrete first steps to take. Doesn't have to be more than links to relevant resources.
- Meryn Stol
Meryn The recommendations are fleshed out in the actual reports. Our clients (brands) have access to see them.
- Jeremiah Owyang
Hmm ok... Then I'll need to get the details elsewhere I guess. :)
- Meryn Stol
There will be a give and take between communities and brands. The thing is, Facebook doesn't have a competitive alternative that users could go to. In my report, we suggest that active communities could define specs for products, and bid MULTIPLE companies to build it.
- Jeremiah Owyang
good stuff Jeremiah, enjoyed and some good thought provokers there for the future
- Richard Binhammer
Nice paper but really expensive for young people. $750 means $41 for page.
- Alp
Great information, understanding the future's potential is more important than ever on the social web.
- Maria Reyes-McDavis
Interesting, but very general and hard to apply. I see companies more as å provide of tools/stage for conversation, aka the gold rush mining vs selling tools
- Anders Dahlberg
Alp, Many of Forrester's clients are large brands who have a subscription. We're still sharing a great deal on this blog, and have given the report to bloggers to cover, so there's value to be had there.
- Jeremiah Owyang
Jeremiah (and the team), a great piece of work and, I imagine, a labour of both love and loathing at times! I have been very interested in this area as I have looked at the shift in skills to deliver social media activity changes from one of basic coding knowledge to much more human, interactive skills.
- Paul Fabretti
Fantastic article! I found it SO intriguing that I've even printed it out!
- J. D. Ebberly
"How Brands Should Prepare" is a great bit of information. Jeremiah, it would be nice (i'd be reading) if you expanded in future blog posts about the "How Brands Should Prepare".
- frank barry
That's likely to be a research report I'm thinking about writing Frank
- Jeremiah Owyang
Probably correct in assuming that most online social networks will neither spawn nor solidify to the point of being considered ‘affinity groups’ with the level of cohesion, unified budgetary authority or organized implementation capability of NGOs, churches, or employee aggregations. Even in the era of social commerce. I hope I’m wrong.
- A Mitchell
Great post, understanding the future's potential is more important than ever on the social web.
- Vlad Hrouda
Just found this... great stuff!
- Gerd Leonhard
@ninthart I'm using Safari 4 mostly on my Mac. Google Chrome is way better on PC, so don't use it much there.
Why all the hate on Safari? I never have issues, but then I tend to keep less then 20 windows open, the rest I dump to Firefox or Camino.
- sean andersen
I beachball constantly with Safari when it comes to Flash... I blame Adobe more than Safari, but the experience is still terrible
- Bwana ☠
@Bwana Agreed, the Adobe flash memory leaks also effect Firefox/Camino, but with Chrome it only takes out the one page (tab) not the entire program.
- sean andersen
Which is why Chrome for Mac can't come fast enough :(
- Bwana ☠
Use Google Docs To Collect Data with Form | SolSie.com - http://solsie.com/2009...
Howard Ross, Jim Braux-Zin, Bob Morris (polizeros) and 4 other people liked this
Cool technique to collect data with a Google spreadsheet. I gotta try this.
- Robert Scoble
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Looks like a simple solution which is good
- AdPanda
good web forms is also at http://wufoo.com
- pb:
Only 3 forms for free at wufoo. Google Docs Forms are truly free and allow to easily produce xls files. They remains basic still.
- Jim Braux-Zin
10 Best Ron Artest Quotes Ever on Video - http://www.blazeoflove.com/2009...
AdPanda liked this
He's a mental case/ticking time bomb :)
- AdPanda
Twitter Crowns Bit.ly As the King of Short Links; Here's What It Means http://www.readwriteweb.com/archive...
AdPanda, Daniel Rowley, Wayne Sutton and 18 other people liked this
Analytics, analytics, analytics. Precisely - or should I say precise.ly (sorry).
- Michael Turro
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Thanks for the nice write up on Bit.ly! btw, about the time this went to live, Nick over at Tweetmeme was showing me stats on Bit.ly doing the official passing over there of TinyURL. All in all, quite a successful Bit.ly day. Rex Bit.ly Community Mgr.
- Rex
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Ari, FF did, invest in ff.im for own urls; now if only I could convince them to put it to full use, as in http://ff.im/2uBFP
- ianf ⌘
URL shortening provides traffic tracking, but the introduction of such concentrated points of failure will come back to haunt us in a few years when the disappearance of a service takes millions of links down with it. I am not sure that the traffic tracking is worth it - I would rather let the web retain its integrity. Even within the current rule of the 140 characters format there are...
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- Jean-Marc Liotier
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Do any of these shorteners produce the same URL for duplicate links being shortened. Actually, WTH hasn't Twitter created it's own so that content would always stay integrated? And links could be cached a la Google search giving the links permanent results and Twitter search some juice. www.twit.tr?
- Gregg Scott
@Gregg, when Twitter sells to Google (or MSFT), it'll be left to the buyer's engineers to figure this sort of thing out. I think people are still confusing Twitter with a technology company... :) (It's really all about social psychology and smart branding)
- Alex Schleber
I've been using bit.ly manually on my corporate twitter posts for quite a while. By entering the API key into Splitweet, it would automatically shorten URLs that way and link it to my account. Is there any chance of posts shorted automatically via twitter.com being linked to your own bit.ly account, for easy tracking? Users could pop their API key into their twitter settings page.
- Caspar Aremi
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Damn everyone is getting ejected from the Lakers/Rockets game.
AdPanda, Jim Zafrani, Chris Charabaruk and 3 other people liked this
I was afraid SF would turn MG into a hippie, instead we get a frat boy!? :P
- sean percival
It's okay MG I'm supposed to be blogging as well but I'm watching the game
- Jesse Stay
I can live blog the game.
- MG Siegler
Liked for discussion. Keep it up, guys!
- Chris Charabaruk
Actually that would be nice MG - I don't have cable so I'm having to watch some guy's UStream of it. Looks like Rockets lost anyway. Sigh...
- Jesse Stay
can we setup a webcam to watch mg watching the game?
- sean percival
@techcrunch says Google is in the late stages of buying Twitter. http://www.techcrunch.com/2009...
老巫, Cem Ozkaynak, Alice Daer and 38 other people liked this
Hrm.
- Ted Roden
So they can kill it? or would they actually promote it?
- Karoli
Twitter by Google would be AMAZING. Just sayin. Seems like a perfect fit to me.
- Brandon Titus
Wow. Facebook seems to be in such a disarray last couple of days - CFO out, leaked memo etc. Don't think this news would be going very well at Facebook HQ.
- Atul Arora
I don't believe the rumors. So it probably is true. :-)
- Robert Scoble
Who cares, twitter is obsolete now :-D. Twitter itself made sure of that.
- Richard A.
Cool. Maybe they'll give it the Jaiku treatment.
- Ken Sheppardson
what about douglas bowman? google as a boss again, after everything said. that would be awkward.
- Deniz Eda Goze
Question is, will they keep Twitter's buggy code-base, or go with the superior, app-engine-based Jaiku code and keep the user base?
- Jesse Stay
it makes total sense for Google to buy Twitter. It's the one piece of search Google doesn't own yet - real-time.
- Nathan Chase
interesting. They bought Jaiku and didn't really do much with it. You know someone has to be buying Twitter...they have no business plan from what I have seen.
- Ⓐ ☠ slayerboy ☠ Ⓐ
althought if that's true...my android phone is smiling :P
- Ⓐ ☠ slayerboy ☠ Ⓐ
Do you really think Twitter would allow it. If the two people in charge (I held back on what I really wanted to call them) really do have innovative ideas then the last thing they would want to do is sell it.
- Richard A.
Sound familiar?
- Johnny
Why? didn't they buy Jaiku? What have they done with that? Are they looking at combining jaiku and twitter together? I'm wondering if that's the plan, especially with Google Latitude and the "wtf do I do with this" of it for those that don't have anyone else that uses it. If this is true, goodbye identi.ca, you're toast. And facebook might as well kiss themselves goodbye too.
- Ⓐ ☠ slayerboy ☠ Ⓐ
Google bought Jaiku back in the days when there was still a slim chance a better feature set might win out over massive network effects. Once it was obvious functionality or openness (i.e. Identica) weren't going to be enough to get folks to leave their friends, it was too late. In "internet years" we're now a decade down the road, Google seems to have integrated the Jaiku folks into their general talent pool, pushed out the open source JaikuEngine, and that prior purchase is really no longer material.
- Ken Sheppardson
I'll believe it when I see it ... how many times did we go through this with Digg.
- AJ Kohn
Oh, I can't see Google buying Twitter, but I don't think the fact they already own Jaiku would have anything to do with that.
- Ken Sheppardson
PLEASE! MAKE TWITTER GO AWAY! IT'S AWFUL!!!
- Brad Williamson
If it's true, take the cash and run!
- Robert Scoble
I didn't notice this was an old rumor. Too many rumors about Twitter lately.
- Robert Scoble
This seem more realistic. It's google who should buy twitter, not apple.
- MySoftChoice.com
Arrington needs to be careful about throwing around terms like 'late stage' which is then immediately amended to 'early stage' if he wants to be taken seriously as a reporter/journalist.
- Gregg Scott
Gregg - you're kidding, I hope.
- Anthony Citrano
Better google than apple.
- Ryan Dadey
I promise not to talk about friendfeed or Twitter for a week, but you need to help. Click here and tell me the most underhyped tech:
Seventh Point, Franc, a rememberer, Jorge Barba and 85 other people liked this
The most underhyped tech is the emerging social web - and the tools that make it possible. Lijit, Feedjit, JS-Kit, AddThis, ShareThis - these widgets will turn sites/blogs into the distributed social web
- Chris Saad
Twitter plays a part - it's the status updates, FriendFeed does too, it's the Facebook news Feed - they are not the same thing though and one does not replace the other
- Chris Saad
Good luck...that's impossible.
- Mark Krynsky
My favorite underhyped site would be TheSixtyOne http://www.thesixtyone.com/ ( Last.fm + Digg like features )
- arjo
I'm developing the most under hyped tech... cos no one knows what it is yet. Watch this space ;)
- Justin Vincent
Java is the most underhyped tech because most people are using it to actually get things done
- Peter Kelley
I think Geni is underhyped.
- Mike Doeff
My favorite underhyped company is GupShup, which stands for "chit chat" in India. They got to 20 million users in two years. Twitter took more time to reach that many users. http://www.smsgupshup.com/ CEO is Beerud Sheth. Why haven't you heard of them? Because they built SMS systems for India that many are calling the Twitter of India (they use SMS, because that's what most people in the Indian market use, most aren't on the Web).
- Robert Scoble
Anything and anyone in and around "rural WiMAX" deployments in North America
- Jay Cuthrell
Mike, that's funny, because I had dinner with David Sacks, CEO of Geni tonight.
- Robert Scoble
Change your word for 'goal': 'goal' has 70% success rate, so use "promise", which has 98%. ~ Bill Bartmann
- Özgür Yüksel
Not truly underhyped, but can't believe they are cutting jobs at flickr. Sharing photos; beauty, humor, creativity, via inspiring imagery in a social network is a more valuable resource than ever at a time when we are spending more and more time reading zillions of words online! ;-)
- Elizabeth Good
Elizabeth: Flickr never figured out how to make money or bring more users into the Yahoo family. That's what happens.
- Robert Scoble
Mike: Agree about Geni - it is really a great site
- Peter Kelley
Robert, wow - that's a coincidence. Did he mention anything about a Geni iPhone app? They really need one.
- Mike Doeff
Maybe online multiplayer games in browsers? People go crazy about the "live web" with FF etc, but some of these games have 100,000's of users playing at once, in browsers.
- Nick Lothian
Mike: I'll ask him tomorrow.
- Robert Scoble
Thanks Robert.
- Mike Doeff
Sad, I still hope flickr gets it right, but I don't know about the economic (or tech) end of nuttin;! Just a happy tweeter. Thanks for all your good work!
- Elizabeth Good
Um... I would like to know about printing services. Everything from Apple's iPhoto book printing and Blurb to corporate printing services and Moo cards.
- Johnny
I knew it would be hard for all of us to think about things that aren't Twitter or friendfeed. :-)
- Robert Scoble
Well I did. Do I get a prize?
- Elizabeth Good
Diego: I think you are the first person in history to actually try to claim that the iPhone is underhyped. :-)
- Robert Scoble
In what language? :-) Now seriously, I am interested in technology fostering real-time collaboration - beyond real-time sharing. Or simply framing the ff and tw platforms for such. I am also interested in social marketplaces. Any talk, thoughts, interviews, discoveries about these would be interesting to hear about.
- Jose Arocha
Nokia e71: Great Phone, it just works
- Peter Kelley
If you want a trip for scenery and to talk about printing technology... http://www.printingforless.com/scenery...
- Jay Cuthrell
Online storage for Podcasting and file hosting... From the point of two guys doing it with practically no budget. Maybe a profile on Leo's TWiT Cottage?
- Johnny
Jay: my first interview at PodTech was with Printing for Less. Did you know the founder there was my mom's car mechanic? True story.
- Robert Scoble
Robert: That's a very small world indeed. And a great segue into a "Then and Now" episode opp.
- Jay Cuthrell
Peter: it's been awhile since I hyped up a Nokia phone. I like the N79 I have, but I'm really waiting for the N98.
- Robert Scoble
PeopleBrowsr.
- Gregg Scott
lol!. Ah yes, that underhyped iPhone...now where did I hear of that? I think I knew someone once?
- Elizabeth Good
I think FreeBSD and VB.NET. Both awesome technologies (though on different spectrums) and both don't get nearly enough attention.
- Anthony Papillion
How about the tools the next generation are using eg my 11yr old who spends the entire day on stardoll.com 30 million+ members, blogging, forums, commerce, social network?
- David Eedle
Fire is underhyped. I've just don't get to read much about it lately. It was pretty hot a few million years ago but now people just take it for granted.
- Jay Cuthrell
Or maybe Le Chatelier's principle as applied to the economics of ODM in the consumer handheld market... that's underhyped too.
- Jay Cuthrell
Robert, you're at the bleeding edge... instead of trying to hype up something that's just not there yet, why not speculate for us what you see in the future as web 3.0 or even what you see as web 2.5? Perhaps you could tell us based on what you've seen, what you feel is missing and should be created to move us to the next level?
- Chris Aldrich
What about Ning?
- Bob McAllaster
There are lots of Facebook apps, and Connect apps out there
- Jesse Stay
Mail, and the mail address, is seriously underhyped. It is an amazingingly well design foundation, that's still a big part of all new services. Wherever you sign up, you always need at least email. Unique identifier in a box, and a lot of possibilities to come from that. I would like to know how many mails are sent every day from services like your favourites - or Facebook for that matter.
- Joakim Jardenberg
medicine
- rob friedman
Anything having to do with "contact aggregation". chi.mp, for example, is sort of heading in the right direction, but isn't there yet. Plaxo could be well positioned to do it, but isn't for some reason. And if there are any other players out there I don't know about, they're most likely underhyped.
- Grey Drane
How about checking the Israeli scene in the meantime? http://www.go2web20.net/#tag:is...
- Orli Yakuel
foldier - of course - my startup. RSS reader meets social networking, meets microblogging. http://www.foldier.com
- Michele Ursino
@scobleizer as a suggessition, here's a challenge :) don't hype up friendfeed or twitter, but tell us (/hype us) about the "ways" in which people are using these two technologies to change their lives / businesses / morals / etc...
- simran
oh yeah... and of course, do tell more about virtual worlds... and what IBM is doing with them... and whatever happened to SecondLife hype... me thinks there is gold in there somewhere...
- simran
Umap, kartoo, any analytical tool
- Estelle Metayer
Windows Mobile 6.5 & 7. And the possibility of Microsoft and Verizon working together on an iPhone killer.
- Chris Charabaruk
Android. It's got its growing pains, but I think its distribution in the next couple of years will surprise a lot of people. I suspect that Android will be most people's first smartphone OS.
- Stefan Moluf
At last! Robert Scoble decides to take a break away from this :p... how about a week of ShareThis?
- Sardar Mohkim Khan
deep brain stimulation seems underhyped to me http://www.iplant.eu/implant...
- Christopher Harris
Most underhyped tech would be "context sensitive conversation" Anybody successful at that would see his enterprise surviving for the next 30 years.
- ThinkEzy
Take a look at the sleek and cool socialect.com. I bet you are going to like the Geo-tagging features. Being pilot-tested in tiny Kathmandu, Nepal right now :-)
- Freddie Benjamin
i rekon this is one of the best question scoble's asked... prompted his "smart user base" to point out numerous other things... :) btw, i think biotech is underhyped too... oh, and take a look at some bleeding edge technologies, such as "the real time virtual earth"... wave your hand outside your window, and see it in real time on google earth... possible? should be (hint: webcams all over the place?)... surely someone is looking at stuff like that too...
- simran
This week it's definitely www.xero.com - takes the world's most boring and arcane practice (bookkeeping & accounting) and makes it useable, sexy and simple for small businesses.
- Brian MacSweeney
I think innovid is totally underhyped. This company is the future of video content, allowing Integration of brand advertising into video, transforming it into an interactive experience for viewers to engage with. http://www.innovid.com/
- Nir Ben Yona
Visual Basic .NET
- Zian Choy
The most under hyped topic having the most impact for the US tech industry and all of the US media industry is discussed in a FreindFeed room. http://friendfeed.com/rooms... . It's called the National Broadband Plan and is underconstruction now at the FCC.
- Debi Jones
e-Ink
- Shailesh S. Khandekar
Pen & Paper.. still rocks...
- Sebastiaan van den Akker
Semantic Web apps
- William Mougayar
Apple Products :)
- AlpB.
Seesmic Desktop for Twitter
- Ryan Gerritsen
FF needs to begin to apply a formula to comments much like they do the regular feed so i can read the most RELEVANT, CONTEXTUAL, and INTELLIGENT comments, instead of all 66
- stanleyyork
The semantic web and apps like Ubiquity.
- Martha
Inductive chargers for all (y)our gadgets like the eCoupled charger for the iPhone or Wildcharge for several cell phones. No wires!
- Gaby K. Slezák
Green desktops. For example, the cherry pal was a great way for beginners to purchase a small sized desktop with a Linux distribution already installed and working. While incremental, the technology does not get much attention. Go green :)
- LPH™ and his dog P™
Deep Packet Inspection. The network really can watch everything you do. Sometimes it is for Good (watching for malware), sometimes definitely evil (looking for violations of government censorship , or for reasons to charge you more money), and sometimes just invisible (watching for clues to better target ads to you).
- DGentry
stuff on code.google.com such as their chart API's and stuff... the stuff that powers the stuff that powers many web apps
- simran
I second the nokia E71 comment... own it and love it, awesome phone. Robert you mean Nokia N97 right ?
- Kashif Khan
It's time to hype micropayments again. A lot has changed since the last hype cycle.
- Bruce Lewis
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Skitch.com :)
- Cris Pearson
Thank the gods, I was going to have to unfollow you if there kept being 30 Likes daily about yet another twittool. I'd say IPV6 or HTML5, since they touch a lot of things but aren't hyped anywhere beyond fairly small circles so far. That, or email clients: where in the world is a desktop email client that is simultaneously powerful, but also truly user-friendly? Email runs the world, but clients are still typically poor UI (compared to browsers).
- Shane Curcuru
Robert, can you ask David Sacks when GEDCOM imports will be added? No way I am re-typing years of research that my family has developed.
- Lee
Lee: I'll try to find him today. Hopefully he's still here.
- Robert Scoble
The mobile platform called Symbian...
- Kasper Sorensen
Zee has some links to the World Superhero Registry. Obviously you should go undercover. http://friendfeed.com/zee...
- Kevin Kuphal
pixelpipe, mybloglog, backtype
- Bryan R. Adams
VB.Net? Seriously? I must say, real .NET programmers use C# :-)
- andy brudtkuhl
me, I'm the most underhyped tech and have been since '88. After you of course.
- D Lets
semantic web
- mike "glemak" dunn
The JASEzone! http://www.jasezone.com
- Keith
http://www.scorple.com is fantastic. seriously.
- chrisofspades
How about EVERY web provider/server in the USA would /have to/ carry a code, leading to the top of the government /agency/ies/, and when the very major disaster or emergency strikes, these webpods would become functional and spring on EVERY screen in the country? ..maybe location aware for lesser events .... http://friendfeed.com/alerts24 ----upd---- because if there is an earthquake in my town, i want web application that would shake my monitor and chair BEFORE the REAL shaking starts :]
- pb:
Watching you on Strategy Room's Gadget and Games right now and you talked about FF so...you broke your promise. But I'm glad you did because that's how I found out about FF just now. Awesome interview. Learned more about the Flip Ultra HD Cam from your insights too.
- Joe M.
Augmented reality as seen in this GE site are pretty cool. http://ge.ecomagination.com/smartgr...
- Andrew Smith
Also wondering if smart home technology has moved any further than the x10 stuff from a while ago.
- Andrew Smith
I agree with Shane @TheASF, HTML5 doesn't seem to be getting much hype. But also have to thank @jworthington for opening the printing door.
- Rick Bucich
HTML5, 3D rendering, high performance JS, and how the browser -- behind the scenes -- is turning into a very different and more useful thing than it was 5 years ago.
- Daniel Dulitz
Urban Informatics and Biomapping.
- Eric Rice
Robert, you are exposed to a lot of technology and innovations that the rest of us aren't and you surround yourself with the movers and shakers of tech when the rest of us don't have that opportunity. You've got a unique perspective on where it's all headed. So my challenge to you is to chronicle what a day in the life of an "early adopter" is going to look like in 2 years, or 5...
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- Lindsay
feedly - you know about them already but they are doing great things..
- Riaz Kanani
Google App Engine, PhoneGap. I am not sure that they are under hyped but they have big growth potential. When the Palm Pre is out, I think that there is an opportunity for someone like you to drive the IPhone SDK 3 vs Palm Pre SDK and see if the open web approach taken by Palm can stack up against the native approach taken by Apple - a kind of Channel 9 for these technologies.
- Edwin Khodabakchian
Can anyone calculate the ratio of people who responded with a technology/tech movement vs. specific software apps? I'm too lazy to do it, plus I think it would be an interesting dataset.
- Eric Rice
Augmented Reality and what it means for everyday life, learning and future gaming. Geo-tagging photos/media crossed with social media. 3D printing/manufacturing.
- JoEllen
+10 Dave.
- Nir Ben Yona
@Lindsay what kind of hardware will we carry around in 2 years?.my take: 4-8 inch display. all else will be in the cloud around us. .... 10 years? - nothing. ..... images, information will be directly fed into our brains, into our eyes, senses ... WE will be in the cloud/s :] ..... high upthere
- pb:
saw a Ted talk on Ushahidi, a mashup created by Kenyan for Africans, worth hyping
- Kim Landwehr
Chairs are a very underhyped technology. The difference between a great office chair and an average one is huge. Spread the word! The same goes for multiple huge monitors.
- Kevin
Gravity. It's awesome. Whoever invented it must be rich!
- Simon T Small
dial2do
- Eric Standlee
Brain Machine Interface, BMI technology. Its the future and its here. I wrote a sci-fi around it, you can preview it for free at https://www.createspace.com/pub... - I have no shame.;D
- Monique
StumbleUpon. Yeah ti's established, but it's awesome and people don't talk about it much. Surprising but personalized on demand content delivery.
- Ryan Dadey
Nokia n810 tethered to an unlimited cellphone web connection via bluetooth or the europe only skype cellphone.
- Matthew Sauer
Are you in a head to head dual with @LeoLaporte . . . . prodded by John C D. ?
- Matthew Sauer
Believe it or not, the dentist chair. I was in one for a cleaning when the damn thing went haywire with a deep grinding noise, horrible vibrations, sounding like a jet getting ready to take off. They had to kill the power at the breaker box. Was later told they had to replace the motherboard on the chair. Who knew?
- Jim Espinoza
I know you had a family run-in with the Lindens, but Second Life still has a lot of participants, including a growing number of schools. And if you are looking for challenge and discovery, Second Life is not simply under-hyped, no, it's *regularly trashed* by The People Who Know Better. http://bit.ly/149JqH Are you one of 'em? Virtual worlds have so much potential ...
- Walter Neary
underhypped tech. http://www.vooices.us I suppose, but I am slightly biased.
- Paul Kinlan
clean water
- tagami
Robert - Hey no fair holding back on FF and twitter... what's up with that ? Is Arrington threatening "intervention" blog posts again ;)
- Susan Beebe
Rochester NY twitter peeps kept Time Warner from implementing greedy plan to implement "caps" on broadband usage with tiered billing structure which would have tripled most heavy users' monthly bills. NY Schumer and Rep Massa both defended our city. Time Warner backed off! Yeah for the power of Twitter and the people who use it!! :) Follow @JeffTWC - PR dude for Time Warner and @StopTWC as well
- Susan Beebe
PANDORA - I still love Pandora, love discovering music via Pandora. Last.fm is good too.
- Susan Beebe
@TweetStack - new iPhone app that effectively imported all my TweetDeck groups and provided rich powerful twitter client on my iPhone... amazing to have tweetdeck like features on the go now!
- Susan Beebe
@Techrigy SM2 - Reputation Management software (Radian6 is competitor). Techrigy is a small startup here in Rochester, NY that recently got TechCrunched when their product was noticed for tracking over 1 billion conversations online (actually now up to 1.5 billion). Techrigy's SM2 product is like Google Alerts on steriods - go get a freemium account and try it...awesome! @aaronnewman is owner and one of my co-Founders for the Social Media Club - Rochester NY. Also, @cbensen is community mgr / conf. speaker
- Susan Beebe
Focus on the B2B social apps, SEE THIS SLIDESHOW http://www.web-strategist.com/blog...
- Jeremiah Owyang
Because we (as humans) tend to overestimate short term technological change while under-estimating the long term, I think you'll find that today's underhyped tech is often that which was overhyped in the past. For example, Linux-on-the-desktop.
- Michael R. Bernstein
+1 Michael. The Linux-based desktop, in the age of Ubuntu and Android, is definitely going to make a big splash in the near future. Sure, there have been people saying that Windows netbooks are currently being preferred to Linux netbooks, but I think the tide will turn in the near future.
- Rishabh Mishra (p248)
The limitation of 3 apps on Windows7 based netbooks is going to drive that.
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
Search engines for sports, Broadway and concert tickets ;)
- fansnap
Second Life. Yes, really! Come back. All is forgiven! Think of it as another channel where you can store stuff. The groups are cool too.
- Prokofy Neva
OnLive - SaaS fits gaming even more than it fits enterprise. OnLive lets you play heavy games on a weak computer, it only requires a 6 mb connection
- Kirill Bolgarov
Robert, how do you manage to read and reply to all these comments?
- Kirill Bolgarov
Kirill: I have an iPhone and I type fast on it. :-)
- Robert Scoble
I am in Safeway now getting milk for the baby!
- Robert Scoble
pay per view blog posts
- Lisa Schwartz
@scobleizer How about 12seconds.tv? They are extremely fun and addictive. It's like Twitter but with video
- Shawn Hickman
Shawn: funny I was there today. Great team!
- Robert Scoble
I'm impressed with BlogTalkRadio's Cinch. I think there's potential there.
- Jesse Stay
How about Wolfram|Alpha [ http://friendfeed.com/leolapo... ]. Its not underhyped but you could add some of your own unique perspective
- Arvind
Disqus? Cross-site deep social links/discussions would be nice. I'd hoped Disqus was doing this.
- Jason Nunnelley
Wordpress! Love it so much as a cms
- carson mehl
Robert, this was the last drop, the previous one was my tiny paper-thin sony ericsson w880i fallen apart=) I'm getting the bloody iphone
- Kirill Bolgarov
from the really underhyped: Rejaw (Pownce Real Time derivation) now closing.. i mean, what is more underhyped than that? :P
- Avatar X
One technology that I feel doesn't get enough love is xmpp. Why is it that aol/msn/yahoo instant message networks still remain isolated silos which do not intercommunicate; we solved this with email over 30 years ago. If they implement xmpp, they can finally open up and offer a federated network.
- Jon
I though I understood AIM to be XMPP aware? (and um...skype should be in your list there! but there is a gateway for Skype: kakarta)
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
oh yeah, definitely Skype as well. They could implement Jingle and interoperate with Google Talk as well - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki...
- Jon
90% of my Facebook friends don't realize we can see all of their activities. I've seen mighty personal things come through my newsfeed. LOL
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A lot of my FB friends are still not aware that wall posts are for everyone and carry on rather lengthy (and personal) conversations in the "open"
- ɐ ɯıʞ sıɹɥɔ
ooh yes, examples are a must! =)
- Beau Liening
"I haven't seen you since high school but can I crash on your couch?" LOL
- Mona Nomura
"Since we haven't talked since college, this is probably a longshot but can you pick me up from the airport?" WTF LOL
- Mona Nomura
Oh, my bad! :-p
- Live4Emma (L4S)
I modified that behavior weeks ago, thank you very much!
- MiniMage
Another one I'm only sharing with you guys (on FF) "Did you see X? She was so ugly in highschool and look at her now."
- Mona Nomura
Wow, I'm looking through my feed, some of thse are so mean and catty. "Omg X has x# of kids. No wonder she's so unhappy." ... I mean seriously, people? I'm starting to delete some of my high school friends LOL
- Mona Nomura
It reminds us of what I consider the overriding flaw of social networks like FB. They assume that all friendships (what a bastardisation of the word 'friend' as well) are equal. They are not. I never use FB to communicate with my real friends. That's what the telephone and a night at the pub are for.
- David Eedle
Off topic but related... Private accounts on Twitter still appear in Twitter Search. So they are not private at all.
- Mike Reynolds
Mike - you are so right. I don't understand private Twitter accounts anyway. Why do people feel the need to privatize their megaphoning? LOL
- Mona Nomura
from IM
Not only that, but if they delete it, it remains in your feed, and any application has access to that information if you add the application :-)
- Jesse Stay
Mike, don't go saying that too loudly. I blogged about it a while ago and got torn a new hole. :(
- Chris Charabaruk
LOL! MONA! This is so true! My mom was on Facebook and saw a whole conversation between one of her girlfriends and someone else. Her girlfriend (who shall remain nameless) publicly announced that she was on anti-depressants because of the stress she was getting from going on the Somersizing diet. She though that she was sending private messages to her friend. *facepalm*
- Michael Forian
Mona, my twitter feed is public, but I understand why some people opt for a private feed. They just want to have an option to vent or share private info / feelings with a group of friends they trust. Kinda like a private e-mail list, I guess.
- Adam Lasnik
I'm lucky that practically all of the people I know from high school (and earlier) act sensibly on Facebook. I don't think the same could be said of the people I knew in college, though.
- Chris Charabaruk
Adam, sure, but in that case, why not use a private email list? Why limit oneself to 140 characters?
- Brome
Because there's less a feeling (from the sender) of imposition. If you invite your friends to follow you on twitter, they may feel some social obligation to do so, but you'll never know if they actually *read* what you write. So you can feel free to rant about even the most trivial things or ask the most silly questions, justifying to yourself, "Well, it's not cluttering anyone's...
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- Adam Lasnik
Sounds like cheap entertainment, don't stop the candid lifestreams.
- Will Higgins™
New Star Trek Pics Take You Back To Starfleet Academy - http://io9.com/5234845...
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WTF
- TheHenry
This was just waiting to happen.
- Vera Hannaford
Lots of people on Twitter are saying the the new FriendFeed looks like Twitter. Agree of disagree?
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disagree, the only thing the same to me is the real time aspect.
- Kim Landwehr
Disagree
- Soup in a TARDIS
It's trying it damnedest. Not quite there yet.
- Andrew Smith
I don't understand that, no it doesn't look like Twitter.
- Kol Tregaskes
Disagree.
- Martha
Twitter isn't realtime. They are nothing alike.
- Tinfoil 2.0
LE, exactly.
- Kol Tregaskes
I hope you slapped them firmly, good sir
- Mo Kargas
Mo, of course... virtually I mean. ;-)
- Kol Tregaskes
I'd say the new design is "inspired by" Twitter, but there are a ton of differences that make friendfeed much more interesting. Wait until the Twitterer's discover the power of filters, er, saved searches here.
- Robert Scoble
Well, i would like to change the bland gray background.
- Rob H.
And real-time, Robert. ;-)
- Kol Tregaskes
RobertH, yes, I can't believe FF have stuck to the horrible colour scheme. LOL.
- Kol Tregaskes
@R.Hass +1 FF desperately needs an eye candy customisation panel.
- Arawak
Disagree, respectfully.
- .LAG liked that
It seems to be following that Twitter look and feel, but there's more to do. I definitely prefer it over the older FF. I'll use this interface a lot more.
- Jay Caruso
any background they picked someone would have complained, kind of like the simple scheme
- Kim Landwehr
The new FF looks monotonous when there are lots of two or three line posts, most of them coming from Twitter - so often FF looks like a regurgitated Twitter feed. But when the FF stream has lots of longer posts, broken up with interesting pictures and graphics - then (IMO) FF looks more interesting and less twitter like.
- Chris Loft
Disagree. FF looks simpler, but shows more info. Twitter background images are noisy to me. And realtime is, as everybody says, real on FF.
- Eric Johnson
Visually, there is some resemblance, but only in the sense that there are limited ways of representing reverse-chronological information (Plurk doesn't count). But Twitter is one thing, FF is 100 things. There is no comparison.
- Tinfoil 2.0
It looks better than Twitter imo
- Thomas Krehbiel
If by the fact it is a page with some images and text on it, I guess it is similar, but the reality is that it's much much different.
- John Spyers
Twitter+Facebook I think. However better than those in term of look.
- Arafat Hossain Piyada
Not unless there was a Fail Whale sighting here. When Twitter's website enables real time threaded conversations, the ability to group friends/followers, sharing (retweets), and graphics that don't take forever to load, then I'll agree that FF might be slightly similar to Twitter.
- Sharon McPherson
Agree it's more like twitter. I like it. I like the fact I dont need a special program or add-on to use Friendfeed. I never got the hang of Tweetdeck.
- Mike Nencetti
I completely disagree. I think its easier to see that Plaxo is a copy of Frienfeed or vice versa. I don't know who came first.
- Rafael
Really. Check out Plaxo.com and Friendfeed. Its just the same!
- Rafael
well erm agree, for basic structure but not the actual look of the elements, or functionality
- tony cormack
The new ff has more of a twitter feel because the streams seem to have a structure more like Twitter. Instead of things being tabbed out with little icons indicating what service the text originated from, its just a stream of text with small user thumbnails to the left - just like Twitter is.
- Angus Burton
not exactly like twitter but it is FULL OF TWEETS LOL - twitter is easier to use, I dont come here often except from a twitter post by Scoble and others.. I think it is good to be a member even if I do not come because others can see my activity and connect from here even though I do not.
- David Gross
Twitter to me looks like 'Tweetdeck' or 'TwitterBerry' who uses the web interface? FriendFeed looks more like 37 Signals Campfire chat rooms without a list of 'who is in the room' and with persistence, sorting, and searching of room histories.
- Bret Piatt
Agreed sort of. Friendfeed is different than twitter. Which is a good thing. I think it is similar to twitter though.
- TheHenry
Oh, of course. I thought that the day of the Beta announcement. But how do they get it to run so much smoother and why is Twitter always slow and glitchy like its annoyed your even using the service?
- Stephen Pickering
Totally disagree, FF looks way better and works better toom
- cooper
For like a second. Then...
- Eric - Too Hot
The new FriendFeed is Twitter on Steroids.
- Garin Kilpatrick
It's just layer upon layer of awesome. Done!
- Anthony K. Valley ©
NOPE. Not really.
- Steven Perez
Ignorance leads to fun conclusions and statements
- LPH™ and his dog P™
@Rafael, Plaxo was the first webwide activity stream aggregator, launching in the summer of 2007.
- John McCrea
Disagree, Prefer FriendFeed
- Lu Tao
Disagree, as Kevin said, it resumed it "My response to that is there are many more differences between FriendFeed and Twitter than there are similarities."
- Zu from AOD
totally disagree. I am responding to your question. You don't have to scratch your head and track down what I'm talking about. Also, friendfeeders seeing this, know what we are both talking about... unless I'm making absolutely no sense at 1am. With twitter I feel like I'm talking to everyone, no one and a brick wall.
- BEX
The FF UI does look like Twitter's UI. And it has some of the same functionality. However, FF is a very different experience overall.
- xero
so?
- vijay
Agree. But so what?
- vimoh
FriendFeed is web based. Twitter doesn't have to be web based for the user and can therefore look a whole lot better than FreindFeed if the right application is used.
- Gilbert Harding
What is required is a decent application to use FF instead of using the web interface.
- Gilbert Harding
Let's be honest, web based forums are so last century,
- Gilbert Harding
Disagree. It looks the same in the very vague way that all social networking sites look the same.
- Aaron Hood
Agree, but it doesn't feel like Twitter...if that makes sense. It's like the difference between me and one of my brothers. We look similar, but we all do different things.
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
Agree with Alex... just logged in... the change was dramatic... but very straight forward and simple. I like it. Though I just took a Tufte seminar... so in comparison to those ideals this is a gradient rich frazzled mess of communication... ;)
- SAM
Agree that it has a similar feel to it and with real time, you won't want to subscribe to too many people
- Paul Nash
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