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“@fourlittlebees, nothing I ever do will make you happy. This I know. Good thing you have trade show schwag as a second-tier replacement.”

May 6 at 2:34 pm - Link

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Veronica - Twitter

“My favorite comeback to anything is "If by [original insult/idiotic thing said here] you meant [usually the exact opposite] then yes."”

May 6 at 1:40 pm - Link

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Robert Scoble - Google Reader

Turn Your Point-and-Shoot into a Super-Camera [Camera Hacks]

May 6 at 11:02 am - lifehacker.com - Link

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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 - Twitter

“@agitproper you're a proper git, if I may say so - still got lots of other fun stuff to discover and play with anyhow ;-)”

May 6 at 10:54 am - Link

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Shel Israel - Twitter

“@scobleizer I think the acquisition would have put MS in a worse position. Now I think Yahoo's doomed. Each wanted the wrong outcome.”

May 3 at 10:55 pm - Link

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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 via 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 - Google Reader

I Think Cringely Is Off His Meds Again

May 2 at 5:33 pm - pbs.org - Link

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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

chartreuse - Reddit

killtina on Who else thinks the DC Madam was murdered because of what she knew?

May 1 at 8:46 pm - reddit.com - Link

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"we should really just legalize prostitution." - chartreuse

that was my very first thought when I read the headline this morning. - Steven Hodson

John McCrea - The Real McCrea

Can Lifestreaming and Aggregation Go Mainstream?

May 2 at 8:15 am - therealmccrea.com - Link

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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

My test for "mainstream" is when my "aged relatives" meaning, parents and those over 50 ask me about it. They know all about YouTube and the iPhone. None of them have a Facebook account, and I have fielded no questions about what it is. I think facebook is close, but hasn't hit mainstream in terms of useage. In my mind, "mainstream" means "majority" and you can't have that if only a minority demographic is involved. - Jason Kaneshiro

Louis Gray - Google Reader

Why do we need social media role models?

May 2 at 8:03 am - feeds.feedburner.com - Link

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Some things here for me to think about. - Edward Fein

They give me something to aspire to I guess!?! - Joe Dawson via Alert Thingy

Great beta testers, so I don't have to try out every new service. - Jason Kaneshiro

"I am not a role model." - Charles Barkley - Hutch Carpenter

Louis Gray - Google Reader

The ever expanding gap between early adopters and mainstream users

May 1 at 8:01 am - feeds.feedburner.com - Link

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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 via Alert Thingy

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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

Agree as well. I'm @ .edu and explaining Twitter is like pulling teeth. Most faculty are not just getting comfortable w/ platforms like Moodle/Blackboard to teach online. Throw Twitter in the mix and they think they need to choose....Bb or Twitter instead of saying " I can use these tools together " This is the challenge for all these new tools. You gotta convince mainstream to adopt and apply to life/career or whatever. Early adopters don't pay the bills mainstream does. - Matt Long

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 via 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 via 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 adopters are great "beta testers" to see if an idea is viable. But solid services must prove themselves with the mainstream - that is the best chance to pay the bills. It's arguably way easier to impress a bunch of geeks who are already into technology and hooked in 24/7. Now try to convince someone of a service's value who needs a really good reason to turn on the computer. - Jason Kaneshiro

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

I wrote a post about this very issue: http://davidadewumi.com/2008/0... just because a blogger wants something to be true (i.e. this product will succeed) does not make it so - David Adewumi

Veronica - Twitter

“Possibly the greatest picture I have ever taken: http://www.flickr.com/photos/e...”

May 1 at 10:36 am - Link

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Veronica - Twitter

“Eating a burrito from the taco truck in the beautiful afternoon sun is probably the best lunch break ever. Now I need a siesta!”

May 1 at 12:20 pm - Link

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