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Louis Gray
@fourlittlebees, nothing I ever do will make you happy. This I know. Good thing you have trade show schwag as a second-tier replacement.
Veronica
My favorite comeback to anything is "If by [original insult/idiotic thing said here] you meant [usually the exact opposite] then yes."
Robert Scoble
Turn Your Point-and-Shoot into a Super-Camera [Camera Hacks] - http://lifehacker.com/387380...
This is why I love Lifehacker. Great article about hacking your digital camera. - Robert Scoble
I am going to try this for sure. RAW mode would be excellent. - jason burton
Danie Ware
@agitproper you're a proper git, if I may say so - still got lots of other fun stuff to discover and play with anyhow ;-)
Shel Israel
@scobleizer I think the acquisition would have put MS in a worse position. Now I think Yahoo's doomed. Each wanted the wrong outcome.
I agree - Yang is going to be fighting for his job and MS stockholders are breathing a sigh of relief - at least the smart ones... - Morgan from twhirl
Disagree. Yahoo's only play in search was Search Monkey and opening up the Yahoo! Social Graph. No way that would happen in an MSFT merger. As long as Yahoo guys can survive the shareholder lawsuits and and remove whatever dysfunctionality has kept them from doing this before, they have a slim chance for survival. - Elliott Ng
Louis Gray
I Think Cringely Is Off His Meds Again - http://www.pbs.org/cringel...
Oh man... Cheesy, huh? - Todd L. Gilbert
what meds was he taking? lol - Fred Grott
Gotta love when Gruber takes apart somebody's article - Jeduan Cornejo
Louis Gray
Why do we need social media role models? - http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r...
They give me something to aspire to I guess!?! - Joe Dawson from Alert Thingy
"I am not a role model." - Charles Barkley - Hutch Carpenter
Veronica
Possibly the greatest picture I have ever taken: http://www.flickr.com/photos...
Veronica
Eating a burrito from the taco truck in the beautiful afternoon sun is probably the best lunch break ever. Now I need a siesta!
John McCrea
Can Lifestreaming and Aggregation Go Mainstream? - http://therealmccrea.com/2008...
They can and will. After all, what is the Facebook news feed, and is that not mainstream? - Louis Gray
Thanks, Louis! I do not believe that Facebook qualifies as a lifestream aggregator. Facebook is (currently) a walled garden that just recently added some external feeds. Facebook is largely self-contained and easy and avoids the friction problem associated with helping regular users understand that they can bring together the content they create all over the place into a lifestream. - John McCrea
chartreuse
killtina on Who else thinks the DC Madam was murdered because of what she knew? - http://reddit.com/info...
"we should really just legalize prostitution." - chartreuse
Louis Gray
The ever expanding gap between early adopters and mainstream users - http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r...
This is spot on: people are just barely getting the concept of myspace and facebook, now the early adopters are 2 to 3 steps ahead of them. (You won't see mainstream tweeting for at least another year, yet twitter is so passé already). It used to be that early adopters were just thinking of jumping ship when the mainstream caught on. - Mark Trapp from Alert Thingy
Have to agree. No offense to the FF guys, but the FF hype is incredibly premature. Whether or not there will ever be mainstream adoption is very much in question and even if there is that time is a ways off. Things have gotten awfully loud here in the echo chamber.... - JonathanJoseph
Matt: that's not true (that early adopters don't pay the bills). There's lots of misunderstandings of the role of early adopters here, though. Think about it. If we were back in 1977 we'd be having the same discussion about personal computers and why only geeks would buy them. If you came to that conclusion back then you'd be dead wrong. Just like now. - Robert Scoble
The thing is, you can't JUST have early adopters. You need them, then some middleware people who aren't as geeky to see the potential, who then evangelize it to the mainstream. Taste Tribe leaders, I suppose. You need all three groups to make something ubiquitous, like personal computing. - Rob LeFebvre from Alert Thingy
@Scoble, Exactly I was just writing up that in 2002, when Flickr launched, the average user saw no need to have a site to share all their photos here we 6 years later and everyone's grandmother uses Flickr (ok, exaggerating, but you get my point). in 5 years time when the average folks will be getting the bulk of their media from the interwebs, a FF style service will be important. - Sean Reiser
Scoble: Try telling that to the early adopters of Betamax, HD-DVD, minidisc, etc. There are technologies that fail, plain and simple. I don't think Twitter or FF will be around in a few years but something else might. - Shawn Farner from twhirl
@Scoble That's not at all a valid comparison. At some point, everyone had to have a computer whereas there's very little chance that Twitter/FF will rise to that level of necessity. - JonathanJoseph
Early Adopters and Beta apps are just the blueprint or Outline for the eventual product. Take RSS for example. It doesn't matter what you use to harness it as long as you use it to be more productive. Really it looks like everyone is fussing over their favorite tree and which tree is better when what counts is the FOREST the trees are in... - Anthony Farrior
I've always known that I had AADD (adult attention deficit disorder) but I havev evolved my opinion that MOST of the folks highly involved with technology suffer from this. Today with SOOOoooo many new tools and technologies it is even more difficult to maintain a focus. This jumping around makes that gap widen even quicker. What do the rest of you think? - 2WheelTech
Early Adopter idea is limiting. Communities and personal styles are also important. FF might be mainstream for bloggers, yet early adopter for techies. Facebook is mainstream for college kids, but early-adopter for age 40-45 Harvard alumni (only 2-3%), and out-of-the-rader for general public. Out of my ~1200 Yahoo! Mail addresses, 93 on Facebook, 10 on Twitter, and 0 on FriendFeed. And Facebook seems to be post-mainstream (aka old news) for the bloggers here. Track early adopter/mainstream vs community. - Mitchell Tsai
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