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- Alex Calic
New Yelp iPhone app is also out. There's a cool easter egg (Augmented Reality feature). Here's how to do it:
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Download the new Yelp app (came out yesterday). So you shake your iPhone 3 times. That activates a feature called Monocle. A message should come up if you activated it. A blue box will come up saying "the Monocle has been activated." It will create a button in the top right corner. Now you should be able to look at the bars, restaurants, etc. Only works on iPhone 3GS.
- Robert Scoble
waiting Robert.... :)
- Sampad Swain
You point it at businesses, or down the city block. I'll try it right now.
- Robert Scoble
Yep! Works. Took a few tries to get it to activate. Some of the places it shows me have been closed for ages though, guess I need to update Yelp for the area.
- Otto
That sounds so cool. Would love to see a video demo of it Robert!
- Alex Calic
I wonder why it's an easter egg. That sounds great.
- Daniel Ha
I just did it. Very cool. I hear this feature was added for me. I really love it!
- Robert Scoble
from iPhone
Daniel: probably to get it through the iPhone store approval process faster.
- Robert Scoble
from iPhone
Raises the question of whether they would have rejected it if they'd known about it. Or did Yelp tell the reviewers about it?
- Jan Dawson
Very, very cool! Just tried it out. There's not a lot on Yelp near by work (kind of an industrial area), but I did get it to find the nearest restaurant. So cool! :-)
- Josh Bancroft
awesome!
- Marshall Kirkpatrick
as long as Yelp allows iPhone users to rate on the fly.. previously had to sync first (not smart)
- Sam Levin
can anyone grab me a screenshot of this? i want to write about it
- Marshall Kirkpatrick
I do love beating TechCrunch with news! :-)
- Robert Scoble
from iPhone
Yes, Mr. Scoble, you beat RWW, TechCrunch, AND Mashable! Damn.
- Ben Parr
I can't get it to work... :(
- Larry Roth
We need a Yelp for Federal, State and Local government services.
- Chris Stevenson
Too bad nobody will ever see it 'cause you mentioned it here and not on your blog ;-)
- Ken Sheppardson
I just posted a photo on my friendfeed account.
- Robert Scoble
from iPhone
Installing
- Stephen Pickering
The instructions sound like World of Warcraft.
- Steve Rubel
You android lovers will see that 'Layer' reality browser does the same as Monocle
- Wayne Bentz
Yelp also just launched their Palm Pre app in the Palm app store. No augmented reality that I can find :-(
- Ken Sheppardson
Yelp doesn't seem to have much support for Canadian business according to some reviews
- Alex Knight
Marshall, I just blogged a screenshot. Will be on www.tinyscreenfuls.com as soon as Posterous gets it there.
- Josh Bancroft
Stupid 3GS. You guys think you're so cool. Easter eggs, harumph! *mumble grumble*
- Sarah Lane
Yay it works in Canada too!
- JP Holecka - Jaypiddy
Nice idea but in my case the locations seem to be about 180 degrees off - i.e. showing behind me instead of in front - but may be down to a fuzzy GPS location or something - will have to keep trying
- Jan Dawson
I wonder why it was "secret", ... undocumented API usage or just to create marketing buzz ?
- Kooleido
Kooleido: I hear it was added at last minute.
- Robert Scoble
from iPhone
Damn, nothings happening. I've shaked it :(
- Stephen Pickering
No iPhone 3G love because no compass? Phooey. :P
- Cheryl Jones
Installed It! Works Awesome! Would definitely use it on my next lunch hunt in Downtown
- Kooleido
Got it to work--just took a little more shaking...was worried I was going to put my phone through the ceiling!
- Larry Roth
Kooleido, how'd you get it to work. I've installed and shaken, but nothings happening
- Stephen Pickering
Oh--and very cool
- Larry Roth
Stephen shake in long and hard strokes.
- Robert Scoble
from iPhone
I hate that the iPhone 3G can handle all this new stuff, but Apple insists that you need the 3Gs. Qik on the jailbroken 3G has been awesome!
- Elijah Nicolas
@Elijah Nicolas The 3Gs is for the built in compass that is required for augmented reality to work.
- JP Holecka - Jaypiddy
lol if it was added for you Robert it would show the cutest girls in the area instead
- Sherry Reynolds
Didn't I hear that Apple had an embargo on AR apps til next month?
- Brian O'Connell
Very cool, thanks for the info. It appears you have to be logged into Yelp though the app before the monocle option will appear.
- Patrick Looney
just posted about it http://www.readwriteweb.com/archive... good job finding it first Robert!
- Marshall Kirkpatrick
1st sentence typo in your post Marshall ;o)
- Alex Calic
Couldn't get it to work by "shaking it" but I got it to work by moving my iPhone up and down 3 times in a vertical motion. Pretty damn cool.
- Doug Rice
Marshall, how do you get that camera view? I can't seem to get mine to work. I've shaken and shaken
- Stephen Pickering
Well, thats slightly cool.
- Sean Oliver
Stephen, you should probably just keep shaking. In publish, with lots of people around. :) No, I don't know. I don't have a 3Gs so I don't have a compass so I don't have the Yelp AR.
- Marshall Kirkpatrick
Holy crap. It really works.
- David Sharpe
Unreal... landscape and portrait works.
- Drew Lucas
Check out our Yelp AR layer inside of Layar Reality Browser ... Android. http://www.GoWeb3D.com
- Dave Elchoness
Scoble, I just published on Mashable: http://mashable.com/2009...
- Ben Parr
Doh! mashable wins with the most link-baity headline again.
- Marshall Kirkpatrick
Putting up a video on Gear Live.
- Andru Edwards
we have video too :P
- Jennifer Van Grove
@Marshall - We still love you guys, your article's great. :D; @Robert, props. Total props.
- Ben Parr
@Robert thanks it's fun http://bsu.gr/4414782
- briansugar
I made a screenshot here: http://www.flickr.com/photos... It takes a few tries to turn on the option though!
- Daynah
posted about this on Obsessable and my blog. We'll see if Techmeme grabs it and actually puts this FriendFeed thread first, or if they just ignore it until TechCrunch covers it lolz http://www.obsessable.com/news... & http://www.sampletheweb.com/2009...
- C. K. Sample III
ah Marshall got it up first on a notable blog... http://www.readwriteweb.com/archive...
- C. K. Sample III
I got it to work and man, is it sweet! So smart.
- Leslie Fishlock
Shake the darn thing 3 times :)- they say that break dancin was learnt , robbing hubcaps of a movin car in NYC.. so lets so what the new thing will be by the time th iphone has all the motion sickness activiated apps !!
- Peter Dawson
just got word of a THIRD app with AR live in iTunes store! http://www.readwriteweb.com/archive... I'd say it's official: AR apps have come to the iPhone!
- Marshall Kirkpatrick
I already had 2.0.2, but I'm downloading 3.0 now. I'm not thinking it's going to work in my office, but we'll see.
- RobinDotNet
Ok, that's really cool. It even works sitting here in my office at home.
- RobinDotNet
Downloading now. I am absolutely fascinated by the idea of augmented reality!
- Victoria Harres
This is pretty cool but the shake 3 times thing doesn't work too well
- Jason Wehmhoener
from iPhone
This is fantastic, just activated Monocle. For those having trouble, its best to move/raise and lower the iPhone 3 times vertically instead of just shaking it. I was shaking mine like a madman until I tried the vertical move.
- Bryan
[Video] Yelp iPhone Augmented Reality Application http://blip.tv/file/2524950
- Steve Garfield
very cool - I can't believe stuff actually shows up near my house on the bay - sweet :)
- Susan Beebe
Damn, guess I'll have to upgrade to the 3GS now.
- Damon Cortesi
I am using the app in Indianapolis to find a restauant. As I guessed the augmented reality is cool but not very useful. Other than to help figure out which direction to walk in.
- Robert Scoble
from iPhone
Argh. I wish I had wifi here so I could download it. A trip to Starbucks might be in order.
- Ha3rvey (F please!)
killer in nyc
- mike "glemak" dunn
from iPhone
dang it - iPhone 3G...
- Jodi
iPhone 3G... not in the States... meh
- Johnny
It's innovative and that's awesome, but I think this type of interface will be a passing gimmick until more advanced image processing is built into the mobile device. My thoughts on what does matter about it here - http://bit.ly/12wtcY My $0.02.
- Alex Hawkinson
shake your iPhone 6 times, that activates GoogleVoice
- HansVanRock
Pretty damn cool. Thanks for the heads up
- Jim Goldstein
from iPhone
I just got this going on my friend's 3Gs. I don't even know what to say. That is freaking incredible! Makes me want a 3Gs *just* for that feature!
- Michael Lynton
Just tried this. Awesome! Too bad I'm in a po' dunk town with nothing to do. :)
- BRҰANSAҰS
Amazing, how on earth did you find it! It's still 6:00 am, perhaps I'll Yelp for breakfast
- Nalin Perera
Wow, I'll have to say this is phenomenal. Wish I'd had this on my trip to D.C. a couple weeks ago. Yelp just made an incredibly useful app even more useful. I've seen a lot of developers working on this technology lately but it looks like they beat everyone to the punch.
- Mike Elliott
screen capture of it in action http://twitpic.com/fklr4
- mike "glemak" dunn
I just got the yelp AR to work, and I am staying tonight in a hotel, so I went to my window, and held the camera to the window and it was able to show me reviews of the businesses right across the street from me! I am in love with yelp all over again!
- Colide81 (James)
Can't get it to work! Shook long and hard!
- UniqNYC aka Jeff
from iPhone
This youtube video should help you learn how to get it Islandwoo, I think its in how you shake it, I tryed several ways but after I watched this video I did it like the guy in the video and it worked. http://www.youtube.com/watch...
- Colide81 (James)
Yeah, you've got to learn to shake it just right! :-)
- Nalin Perera
Fwd: Facebook acquires FriendFeed. Interview with Paul Buchheit, cofounder of FriendFeed. - http://btre.blogtalkradio.com/74_2996... (via http://friendfeed.com/scoblei...)
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Well that was fast, Robert.
- Adam Reyher
Wow. I honestly did not see THAT coming....
- Carter ♥ HTML5
Nice work Robert.
- Alex Calic
ya talk about real time news, thanks
- sean percival
listening
- Chris Saad
im not sure its such a great thing facebook and friendfeed sitting in a tree.
- Eran Even-Kesef
Good job Robert
- Ruchit Garg
Definitely, I'm listening now. Wow! This is breaking news!
- Manu Ullas
hopefully this turns out okay, don't want friendfeed to get ruined. great interview, that was fast reporting!
- Dakota O'Neill
What are your thoughts Robert?
- Amani
WD mate
- Chris Saad
That was quick. Thanks robert.
- Akshay Dodeja
Hoping this will lead to an improved/cleaner interface for Facebook...I prefer Friendfeed
- Rick Bucich
so, so sad. I like(d) Friendfeed much more than facebook
- Francisco Kemeny
home run for FF.. Facebook will be able to give developers a treasure trove of data one thing that Twitter is dominating on right now. Twitter has a huge developer community but isn't managing that. Here FB is poised to be huge
- John Furrier
So classic that Robert has the first interview about this...Where's Louis? :)
- Anthony Farrior
Wow!
- Ideas At Random
I think FriendFeed can help Facebook more than the other way around.
- Manu Ullas
"very cool...."
- Carter ♥ HTML5
How do they plan to mix the teenagers with the geeks?
- Jordi Soler
Amani: I am excited! Facebook has 800 employees and 300 million users. This makes both companies much more important.
- Robert Scoble
from iPhone
here was a comment on SiliconANGLE blog .. very funny .. "Hey, since we've copied almost every innovation you've had, guess you might as well play on the company softball team!"
- John Furrier
Nice strategic move - Interesting to see how this will integrate and looks in 12 months
- Alex Vermeule (@alexve)
to be honnest I was predicting google offer, then facebook preceed google on this, they are doing well, now rarding FF this is great, the sucess is to know when to pass to something else, the future will make the abtle wave, facebook rude for all geek it is time to code.
- abdellah
You rascal Robert, bet you had wind about FriendFeed and FaceBook merger before today? Yes? Have not used either SM apps. much UNTIL Twitter locked my account. May have been a fortunate mishap as it turns out. Getting to know the beauties of both apps. =)
- SashaKane
Awesome. Thanks.
- M. Kong
Robert wastes no time on the reporting. CNN needs reporters like this.
- JonSupermurray
Not sure I am so jazzed about it....but congratulations to the FF crew.
- Kreg Steppe
Honestly, I won't get used to following Robert Scoble in Facebook. Seems out of place to me.
- Jordi Soler
Wow! I was not expecting that.
- Devon Govett
Letter 'F' affinity and alliteration merger, classic playbook move.
- James Watters
Did I hear someone laugh in the background when you asked about FF users being disappointed?
- Paul Saarinen
Agreed Jordi
- Rick Bucich
A good interview Robert.
- Thomas Hawk
Thanks Robert! - shared and linked over on Phreadz : http://tech.phreadz.com/v...
- kosso
Robert, mind if I transcribe this? (Unless someone else already has.)
- Bruce Lewis
from fftogo
Congrats on getting this story Robert. I agree--this is great, realtime journalism!
- Sunshine
No mention of twitter?
- Ivan Kirigin
Hahahaha...all that time you invested over here on FF paid off today! LMAO
- Francine Hardaway
Francine: just watch what happens now. :-)
- Robert Scoble
from iPhone
do you have a small amount of FriendFeed shares Robert?
- Torsten Eckert
NOOOOOOO. Damnit! I am praying that Facebook doesn't wall up Friendfeed. I was starting to build a site around Friendfeed :(
- beersage
beersage: as Facebook is trying to break their users into a more public world, I doubt that you really have anything to worry about there.
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
Starting to listen to this now. Hoping you are right, Rob.
- beersage
I hope so to. But regardless, I think that it was in reality necessary for FriendFeed to sell to really put the technology in front of a sufficient number of eyeballs. Facebook is probably the best acquirer that FriendFeed could have. (I would have not felt the same had FF been acquired by Google)
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
The thing with Friendfeed though is how I can share things outside of a 'wall.' I prominently feature the FF widget on my site. I'm just concerned of losing that capability as I was tinkering with delivering a new site w/ content primarily running through my Friendfeed account. I am to this day unable to do much outside of the wall. I am unable to subscribe to Fan Page updates in Google reader for instance. That is what concerns me about FB acquiring FF given my goals.
- beersage
Robert sounded quite breathless in that interview. Thanks Robert.
- Roberto Bonini
Great interview great Job!!
- Kevin J Hatton
This deal was about getting Paul and the team and nothing else
- Stephen Pickering
@stephan, are you serious? FB is buying a concept, a technoloie, a structure, a content and a user list
- abdellah
Unconvincing Paul Buchheit, the team is more exited of being part of bigger story - logical for them to move on
- patrickdh
now how could a team that left google resist under a unique perception system, where the leader vision is upon any thing
- abdellah
They want a way to turn their white pages into a yellow pages and the only guy on Earth who knows how to do it, is Paul
- Stephen Pickering
It was only about the technology and the people. Most people are on also FB anyway.
- James Myatt
My guess is that Paul got a tooooooooon of options and will soon be the No.2 guy at Facebook
- Stephen Pickering
Glossing over of that "short term" question by the FF boys. It just seems more about the individuals at FF than it does the users of FF. "Their (Facebook) long term goals" Nice interview, Robert!
- Melanie Reed
Well, it looks as if pass-through of FriendFeed Likes, Comments, etc. to Twitter is down. Will it be for good? Did Twitter do this in response to the acquisition? Or is it just a regular (though curiously timed) hiccup?
- Alex Schleber
twitter dow!!
- abdellah
Alex, my Facebook posts have been going through FriendFeed to Twitter today. :)
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
How did you record the phone conversation with Paul Buchheit? I went to BlogTalkRadio.com but... it‘s not clear at all :-(
- Florin Grozea
Florin, rough transcript here: http://friendfeed.com/brlewis...
- Bruce Lewis
To do this call I used BlogTalk Radio's Cinch: http://cinch.blogtalkradio.com/
- Robert Scoble
dugg: http://digg.com/tech_ne...
- Ali
Thanks for this, Scoble.
- mp3WatchWorld
this is why your own personal website is always more important than friendfeed, Twitter and all the rest. that's never going anywhere
- Terry O'Fee
from BuddyFeed
Thanks to Spotify, I am enjoying Echo and the Bunnymen. Good stuff.
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Still can't use Spotify
- Bwana ☠
:(
- Josh Haley
Still have no idea what Spotify is.
- Anika
Love Spotify, not in the US yet though.
- Jessica Lares
Very jealous Louis- can't wait for a good software music offering (have never liked iTunes). Pleasantly surprised with some of your musical interests (Deadmau5, Underworld, Armin, etc.)
- Alex Calic
Alex, I enjoy great music. Much more here: http://louisgray.com/music/ and here: http://www.last.fm/user...
- Louis Gray
just seeing your music page for the first time... that just rocks- checking out KavaTunes now!
- michael sean wright
Will definitely check it out. I'd add Sander Kleinenberg to the list :p - he's also fun to follow on Twitter
- Alex Calic
How does Louis have access to Spotify if he's in the US? :)
- Travis B. Hartwell
Press Beta, Travis. (2 days in and love it)
- Louis Gray
whatever. I'm fine. NOT AT ALL JEALOUS.
- Que Sarah Sarah
:-)
- Jesse Stay
Dang. I need to write in my blog more so I can to be "press" too. :)
- Travis B. Hartwell
Travis, yes, you should
- Jesse Stay
Louis, it's mean you won't give it to me (even though I'm your wife) because you don't want to hear my music. :-(
- Kristine Gray
LOL - I love that Kristine is on here now :-) Louis, yeah, why won't you let your wife have a copy?
- Jesse Stay
Wait - what type of music do you like, Kristine?
- Jesse Stay
Jesse, I don't have invites, otherwise, maybe I would "let her" have one.
- Louis Gray
Doesn't yours, Holden? Oh yeah. :)
- Louis Gray
You don't need a invitation. just sign up with a U.K mail address and connect via a U.K vpn and it will work. I am in Mexico and i can use it without any problem and for free of course. There is also a way to use the premium service without paying but that i will not share for obvious reasons.
- Avatar X
from FriendFooV2
I also like the Echo app for Last.FM when you want a more online radio experience. Otherwise i just use my Zune Pass most of the time.
- Avatar X
from FriendFooV2
This is not available in Canada. :-(
- Moobie
Jesse: So what should I write about? :) I've already got an entry in progress doing a pre-release review of Peter Seibel's Coders at Work. What else?
- Travis B. Hartwell
Travis, anything. It's good to just write at least semi-regularly. Speak what's on your mind. I often keep a list so when I don't have something to write about I can refer back to.
- Jesse Stay
My goal is usually at least twice a week, but I should probably still be doing more. Twice a week is sufficient for most, though.
- Jesse Stay
Hint: I know why Twitter favorites don't get any engagement: no one can see them unless you visit that persons' favorites.
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I use favorites for Bookmarking tweets to check out later when I'm out of the office. Way better functionality for it than engagement based on how Twitter's platform is set-up relative to FriendFeed.
- Alex Calic
personally i find it too hard to favorite a tweet at least in tweetdeck. there is no simple one click method. you can do it easier at twitter.com, but i rarely use their website.
- Justin Long
I use Twitter favorites to bookmarks tweets when I'm mobile and send the feed to FriendFeed
- Peter Warnock
Robert, Not true. Take a look at http://favstar.fm/users... and start exploring.
- Tim
Anyone else can visit http://favstar.fm too, and search for your screen name to see a bunch of info around who's favoriting you.
- Tim
WOW Amazon just bought Zappos, TechCrunch and @sarahcuda is reporting. http://www.techcrunch.com/2009... My reactions:
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Zappos is a great company. $890 million in stock.
- Robert Scoble
Very cool for both companies. Zappos is one of the best companies I've ever seen the insides of.
- Robert Scoble
Should be great for AMZN stock price long-term with the similar customer-centric focus
- Alex Calic
Loved your vids on Zappos; they have higher mark-ups than normal amazon offerings as well
- James Watters
Press release: http://bit.ly/2x4bv
- Robert Scoble
Thank you robert i broke you the news minutes before it broke so your welcome lol
- nathan
That's great to hear since they are both amazing companies.
- Oracio
It should be trending on Twitter soon. Thanks Robert :)
- wiredgnome
That reminds me... I need shoes.
- Michael Turro
This can mean only good things for Amazon
- Robert
What does this mean for Zappos culture?
- Michael Turro
Is that price right? $890 million? They had a billion in yearly revenues, right?
- David Damore
http://blogs.zappos.com/ceolett... is Tony's letter. Michael: I'm wondering what it means for Amazon. David: yes.
- Robert Scoble
Perhaps a more transparent Amazon?
- Michael Turro
Michael: I sure hope so!
- Robert Scoble
Why was the valuation so low? is it a low margin business? Shouldn't the valuation have been some multiple of sales?
- David Damore
David: retail is ALWAYS low margin.
- Robert Scoble
I never would've thought it would happen...wow indeed.
- John Blanton
Here is one of the many articles on the topic: http://www.earthtimes.org/article...
- wiredgnome
@Scobleizer: Thannks for the link. reading it now
- David Damore
people shouldn't worry about the culture changing -- amazon bought shopbop.com and it has not changed a bit -- only for the better.
- Patricia
This is part of the evolution of business. I know there will be a lot of worried Zappos employees, but they shouldn't, this will help them in a long run. Other companies, like DSW, I am sure were looking at the Zappos model and wondering how they can capitalize on it.
- Erik Boles
David Damore - $890 million in stock, not raw money. you usually see a lower # on stock as it has a strong growth potential.
- Erik Boles
Excited overall but the one line in Tony's letter is a bit concerning "For Zappos, our vision remains the same: delivering happiness to customers, employees, and vendors. We just want to get there faster." Faster does not equal better.
- Jose Castillo
zappos means nothing to me - I live in Europe. But what an amazing video by Bazos. Low margins need economies of scale.buyin Zappos makes sense to me
- DC Crowley
Jose: the thing is, they laid off people last fall. They also don't have Amazon's brand. Everyone I know uses Amazon. Not everyone I know uses Zappos. This makes both brands better.
- Robert Scoble
@Eric Boles: Thanks. *Interesting.
- David Damore
Favorite line so far, actually a partial line: "... unless they bake us cookies and deliver them in person."
- David Damore
Just knew we would see the S word in there somewhere. [The S word is... synergy].
- David Damore
David: I wonder how the cultures will clash, though. Zappos is very transparent and fun. Amazon, closed and not so much fun. I wonder which culture will win?
- Robert Scoble
Hopefully they find a happy medium
- Robert Burgin
@Scobleizer: Sounds like they will have separate cultures. Can both cultures coexist? Me thinks yes. 75% on the upside.
- David Damore
Did this all break after the closing bell today?
- David Damore
@Scobleizer -- Zappos is tightly focused on culture and customer service, which has done them very well, I think Jeff will be able to help them move to the major presence they need to be. I don't see a conflict, I think Amazon can teach them a thing or two about business, and maybe, if the timing is right and people are open, Tony can teach zappos a thing or two about culture and loving your job
- Erik Boles
Yahoo Finance has the first article in headlines as "Amazon buys retailer Zappos in $807 million deal at MarketWatch (Wed 4:32pm)"
- David Damore
I once ordered some brown shoes and they sent black from the same style. When I complained they sent me the brown pair and let me keep both and included a $10 discount
- Mark
Thanks @scobleizer Just caught wind of the acquisition and it sounds like a good match to me despite the culture differences. Culture will take a hit, it's inevitable but hopefully Amazon will bring some interesting elements to the table to balance things out. One of my favorite photography sites http://www.dpreview.com was purchased by Amazon and at least outwardly the site has only improved.
- Rick Bucich
@Robert Scoble ...Any word if this is going to be a Dell/Alienware style merger.. or an outright purchase?
- John Blanton
John: looks like an outright purchase, but who knows? I gotta go do more homework.
- Robert Scoble
Hope Amazon doesn't screw them up - All my female relatives just rave about Zappos.
- PXLated
@Robert Scoble I would hope they let Zappos keep their brand/branding but it's just like you said yeah too early to tell at this point.
- John Blanton
Robert: Agreed, but I hope the desire to grow too fast doesn't kill the service - then it just becomes Amazon Shoes - granted, it will make a ton more money but at what cost to the end user. Should be interesting to watch unfold.
- Jose Castillo
@Robert Scoble ...according to this.. http://blogs.zappos.com/ceolett... .. Amazon will be the only shareholder yet Zappos is retaining their independance... So it's just like the Dell/Alienware merger.
- John Blanton
Ever hear of augmented reality iPhone apps? You will. Tons of examples are up on Google: http://www.google.com/search...
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I really need an Iphone for stuff like this. Sadly I can count on two hands all my close friends I actually have and on one hand the number of people I ever call, so its not worth the cash :(
- Mark
Mark: I own an iPhone for the web, not for the phone.
- Robert Scoble
Both VentureBeat and ReadWrite had some good coverage on it last Weds
- Alex Calic
That's a good point Rob, you just pull it out when you are in queues or on the train etc?
- Mark
Mark: yup! Alex: URLS!!! :-)
- Robert Scoble
Yet another small step on the way to the Technological Singularity :)
- Victor Ganata
Venture Beat: http://venturebeat.com/2009...
- Robert Scoble
actually it was TechCrunch: http://bit.ly/urz3M & RWW http://bit.ly/15smnQ I was thinking about
- Alex Calic
These apps are awesome and the 3.1 OS seems to make good part to AR
- Musaraign
You will see many more on Android, because more Android phones are out than iphone 3GS (which is the only type of iphone that supports it) http://www.youtube.com/watch...
- Charbax
Just watched a video on one... these look pretty dang cool!
- Darin aka iGoByDoc
I have another video coming out shortly that shows one coming this week.
- Robert Scoble
In Snow Crash, Neal Stephenson referred to users of pervasive augmented reality as gargoyles. They always had half of their attention focussed on the supplementary details their rig was presenting.
- DGentry
Yeah, it's what Marketing People Like, haha http://bit.ly/IsgfD
- anna sauce
Super nice link Christopher Carr, what is the resolution of The Wrap 920AV? What I really hope is for such AR glasses 1. Not to disturb at all with viewing the world around you, crashing into things all the time because of AR would be a pretty bad thing 2. Needs not to hurt or damage vision in any ways, thus needs to be very much in focus, very visible and not painful to the eye at all.
- Charbax
Here's another example, coming out this week. http://ff.im/5gPbU "Near You."
- Robert Scoble
Don't diss stuff like this. My non-geeky spouse uses the augmented reality apps to map walking routes for exercise. He NEVER walked before he got an iPhone. NEVER. Between livestrong apps and these, he's lost 40 lbs, on track to be at perfect weight in 20 more.
- Karoli
We just had a couple posts on that today at SA. http://siliconangle.com/ver2... and http://siliconangle.com/ver2...
- Mark "Rizzn" Hopkins
Here's another app, this time for New York Subway stations: http://friendfeed.com/dbarefo...
- Robert Scoble
Apostol: that might be true, but there's something going on here which is very useful.
- Robert Scoble
There's definitely something going on in AR, I'm looking forward to seeing what people do with it in time. Right now a key limitation is GPS accuracy in metropolitan areas: you need consistent <1 meter accuracy to do truly awesome things in AR (i.e. point at an object and get information on it) and we're not really there yet.
- Raj Advani
The GPS accuracy limitation is why all the AR apps coming out right now have more to do with navigation (finding a place) than information (getting information about a place in front of you).
- Raj Advani
You said you'll be putting a video up of one coming out soon. Where can we see it?
- Richard South
Richard: here: http://ff.im/5gPbU -- it's not quite augmented reality because it doesn't put the camera underneath, but it's about the same as the others I've seen so far.
- Robert Scoble
What is something that pisses you off about the 2010 web (or, if you are @karaswisher "Web 3.0")?
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Navel gazing, slimy SEO guys, MLM crazies, and twitter spam! Elitism
- Susan Beebe
Everything is ad supported; I'm not allowed to pay for services I want to use.
- Pat Hawks
That we spend so much time trying to name it, argue about who coined it, and that we don't plain swim in the glory of the moment.
- lisa padilla
Agree with @Lisa.
- phil baumann
That Web Hosts (like 1 and 1) are having trouble getting to Web 2.0!
- Dr_ßob
Did I fall asleep? Is it 2010 already?
- Brian Sullivan
that there are so many great things to be done, but each browser supports different technology of that neat stuff. like Safari & css animation and css gradients
- Dana Dowell
Brian: if you want you can call it the "new web." I have a 2010 car, so figured I should be driving the 2010 web too.
- Robert Scoble
what does 2010 web mean?
- Tony C
The whole real-time-ness sometimes makes me feel like I'm missing/missed something! :)
- Roy Herrod
lack of open integration interfaces of some very popular platform (examples: LinkedIn, Ning) - need this to integrate with WordPress, Twitter, and possibly in the future with FriendFeed)
- Jeroen De Miranda
people who call themselves "gurus". Especially if it says it on the background of their twitter page.
- Mike Bracco
true data and identity portability, real business models around micro/niche-segmenting
- Alex Calic
Roy: you can click the time stamp for a popup window (click it twice, actually) then you can participate in real time on a single thread.
- Robert Scoble
That the version numbers are mostly pointless, I personally like the idea of the years because it is much more descriptive of the next step and will be better for the history. The 2006 web is very different than the 2009 web and the 2010 web.
- Luke Kilpatrick
Clutter.
- Andy McIlwain
Search has barely changed in 10 years. Google isn't the best engine, it's the least bad engine.
- Bob Blakeley
Tony: I wrote a post about it here: http://scobleizer.com/2009...
- Robert Scoble
Robert: Thanks!
- Tony C
When I feel like I miss stuff because of the real time-ness. Trolls and all the 'gurus' who are using the mediums for their own selfish betterment without really contributing anything real.
- Aaron Hood
That sometimes a truly great idea will get lost in the chatter.
- Carissa Caramanis O'Brien
The naming convention needs to be relevant what we are trying to achieve in terms of functionality and standards, that way we can define success/failure
- Alex Calic
Social media expert spam.
- phil baumann
Totally Agree with @andymci - Clutter ... it's so time consuming to find out, what its all about!
- Arne Krueger
Robert Scoble: yeah thats usefull but I mean more along the lines of when I'm away from here, come back and see lists of stuff that happened whilst I was away... then quite often I can't be bothered to trawl back through it all! - So maybe better phrased as 'Sometimes theres TOO much content'
- Roy Herrod
Alex and Luke, see the third comment.
- Pat Hawks
Pat Hawks, more than a month ago I gave everyone the choice of pay or ads on my site, and so far everyone's sticking with ads.
- Bruce Lewis
from fftogo
Not enough solutions to problems caused by Web 2.0 ( search issues, time shift and real time issues, privacy issues, identity issues)
- Francine Hardaway
+1000 Francine!
- Susan Beebe
What it may be doing to our sense of time. Do we truly understand where we're going with "real-time" technologies?
- phil baumann
LACK . OF . TOOLs for FILTERING noise! Signal is a constant struggle to hone in on. Real Time web requires constant maintenance. Like caring for an infant child~! overwhelming, too much info. Constant fear that i'll miss something "BIG" and important. More pressure to KNOW EVERYTHING and publish / post about asap.
- Susan Beebe
Roy: oh, I've been living in the "too much content" world for years now. Heheh. I think the next year's big trend will be filtering. I gotta show you what I'm doing with friendfeed's filters (aka saved searches). Maybe next week after I get some sleep.
- Robert Scoble
is it realy worth, to spend all the time here - everyday couple of hours??? i can't answer now - because to pay my bills i have to do something else...
- Arne Krueger
I feel like I need an enterprise class SoMe Portal to manage all my feeds, followers/friends, tagged content, keywords, filters, search terms, reputation mgmt feeds, etc - based on PRIORITY sorting, of course
- Susan Beebe
Arne: if your ROI isn't good, you need better filters. I feel like that often, too.
- Robert Scoble
So much disorganized content. FriendFeed helps with this but not with the fragmentation of friends. There are so many networks, it's difficult to get everyone on the same page. It's almost a full time job to keep track of everything.
- Brandon Titus
conversation is often too decentralized / splintered. also there's more "me too" duplication of content and need for filters to weed out the gold from the noise.
- C. K. Sample III
I don't feel like I "own" my data. And by that, I mean a physical copy. With Blogger, I could FTP my posts to my own server. With FriendFeed, Twitter, Facebook, Flickr, Google, etc. it's mainly all stored on their servers. To get a copy for myself, I'd need to use their APIs to grab a copy. Otherwise, if they go down permanently, it's all lost in the cloud. (Apart from online caches and backups in other services.)
- Tony Ruscoe
+1 Susan: the lack of filters is a huge annoyance.
- Sarah Perez
+1000 Susan. Yes and more yes. Still too difficult to separate new ideas from the many loops and riffs on the same. Peter Morville was all over this years ago and I still think it's a primary issue.
- Sarah Kennon
Social marketing experts.
- Nick Wade
Social marketing experts --- I am equating that to the ol' Y2K experts! self-proclaimed wizards of hot air
- Susan Beebe
I hate people that take advantage of software developers
- Jesse Stay
Noise, way too many services and a lack of proper integration of the usable ones. OK, glad to have FriendFeed and i am using it upmost now, but some friends still not ... so segmentation of contacts is another drawback for me. More grouping and filtering options with apps and services abroad of FF, in order to build way more different 'streams' of interest...and...i would really feel glad to meet some of you guys this year here in Germany e.g. @CeBIT or so ;) :D
- Ronald
Susan: good analogy, self-proclaimed experts of for example, nothing more than useless Twitter MLM schemes, and are worth about a dime for a phalanx of them. I collect about a phalanx per day.
- Nick Wade
Lack of understanding/ignorance. Coincidentally, I did a blog post just today on this: http://patriciahandschiegel.tumblr.com/post...
- Patricia
The lack of standards/standardization between browsers/video/mobile platforms/ISPs/hosts,developer tools, etc etc. We call this capitalist enterprise, but it also holds us back.
- Karma Martell
Fragmentation. I never know where to post somthing (Twitter, FriendFeed, Facebook) and I never know where to comment (on the source blog, reply to tweets, comment on FriendFeed or Facebook). Sharing stuff makes the fragmentation even worse. If a handful of people share something I've written, trying to keep up with the conversation is a nightmare. Back in the old days, people would just email a link to the original copy to all their friends. That used to keep the conversation in one place.
- Tony Ruscoe
Robert: thank you very much... you are more then right!!! after discovering - time to filter has to come. but staying focussed is really one of the biggest issues for me... so many interesting people, so many new ideas! everytime i check back - i get lost in another amazing topic!!!
- Arne Krueger
Tony: services for this (disqus, backtype, ff) are getting better and more common
- Arne Krueger
Something that pisses me off: the physical location of everything I create or receive is actually somewhere else, and I can do nothing if one of the services I use stops working.
- Francesco Balducci
The general lack of vision in such an embryonic and feverishly creative environment as the 2010 Web - where are you Vannevar Bush?; the lack of innovation in social media content filtration ('traditional' search engines can't keep up) or in other words how do I find my signal in all of this noise and once I've found it, how do I connect it with all my other signals and stop that...
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- Andrew Eglinton
The name 2010 web. I just like the natural progression to 3.0.
- Mark Powell
1% true expertise, 99% uninformed opinion and self-marketing for marketing sake. Need better ways to sort through it and find the credible resources.
- Scott Booher
@mark powell the 'natural progression' is fine to an extent, but what happens when you get to Web 6.0, 7.0 etc? It'll look more like a Police Academy franchise than a great feat of humanity.
- Andrew Eglinton
The "2010 web" is a business model whereby the major players are profiting off the content of others, instead of creating it themselves. And the actual content providers are being linked up and tracked with every move they make and every comment they post. It's going to be interesting. Feels all Matrix like. :D
- John
@John That's been going for years...or at least since the emergence of syndicated blogging.
- Andrew Eglinton
Federal Regulation, specifically the Telecom Act of 1996, that has held back last mile bandwidth even though we have this invention called the Fiber Optic Cable most of which is dark on the backbone because we cant the bandwidth to the edges.
- Stephen Pickering
People missing the forest for the trees -- a focus on technology and ignoring CONTENT.
- Curt Mercadante
Twitter, Facebook and others have gotten in bed with Old Guard Big Money Media. Citizen journalism is all but extinct. The "mySpace Kids have taken over the message platforms. Thier brains are numbed by the gaming integration. Thank God Robert and others kept FriendFeed "The Place For the geeks and freaks - by the geeks and freaks."
- Arleen Boyd
It is not the unevenly distribute future; it's the unevenly distributed access to monetarization.
- Prokofy Neva
talking about the 2010 web and relationships like it's brand new. the tools have changed, but the basics to building relationships remain the same. Read "How to Win Friends and Influence People" it's all there - just without Twitter.
- Morgan
so true Nicholas. I was speaking on a panel about social media for HR professionals last night and only about 10% had a Twitter account. Education and evangelism is needed. People, especially the boomer generation (who still have their hands on the leadership and pocketbooks of these companies) aren't up to speed yet and it's a tough curve for many of them.
- Morgan
@morgan and nicholas -- to assume that ALL users have to engage in the platform (internet) is a mistake. Only the 18-25 demo is most interactive, they have the "need" to express. I would never force HOW to use the web on anybody -- there are so many uses, all have value. I think if anything the idea that we all "have to have Twitter pages" will date quickly. Two years ago, all everybody...
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- Patricia
@patricia sorry - i miscommunicated. there is no RIGHT way to use the web. also, i agree with you. the tools that people are using today are just that, tools. technologies will change, people will communicate and relate differently. that is for sure. what i meant is that if there is a failing of the 2010 web is that it has not been inclusive. I disagree with you that not everyone needs...
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- Morgan
Ade, I thought Friday was #friendfeedfriday
- Jesse Stay
@morgan, agreed. but what constitutes value on the web in terms of tools is in the eye of the beholder -- some people, businesses, etc. simply don't 'need' social media or other tools etc. or want it, and that's ok too. That's the fun thing about the internet platform: customization.
- Patricia
@patricia - i agree. that is what makes the web fun. i guess as a child of a parent who owns a small biz, who had to sit through years of hearing about how "if we could only afford to advertise on tv we'd be better off" it amazes me that now the tools are out there to connect with customers for free. the playing field is suddenly (in one arena anyway) leveled, where Fortune 100 brands...
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- Morgan
People who tell me how to make thousands of followers on twitter, so called experts and gurus on social media @Susan Beebe - filtering is what I'd like so much, it is so time consuming to find the really (for me) interesting things
- Claudia
Waiting for a website to load because it has to fetch content using Javascript/Web Service. Either put it at the end of page or use server side to do the initial fetch and then javascript for updates.
- Darren Rollett
Too much data, too little analysis/insight.
- Pierre
That i never have enough 'space' on my desktop for all information, even though i got a bigger lcd, higher resolution ...
- Ronald
That nobody has found a better way to data mine all the information better than the typical search engine. What ever happened to the personal agents that were going to dig through everything and only pull back the items relative to your interests?
- Jim Lavin
the lack of ability for non-programmers to do data visualization easily
- Lee
2010 Web? annoyingly bad term
- Jonathan Crossland
I'm pissed off about the confusion between these terms, so allow me to clarify: The term 2010 web is great right now because it refers to the technology (namely real-time) that will go mainstream in 2010. The 2010 web will be relevant until 2011 at which point the 2010 web will be over but the evolution of the real-time "Live Web" that friendfeed is leading will continue. Web 3.0 is a...
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- Garin Kilpatrick
Didn't we already do all of this? We have had web servers in our homes for decades now. And the ability to serve any data we wanted to off of them? But I like having a server admin to call if my server crashes or there is an update that needs to be installed. i just wake up and post stuff. I use other peoples servers because I don't want to be bothered by all the repairing. I think we...
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- ✩ Juanita Chronowski
Juanita: You said "Frankly I don't care where anything is" which makes no sense, your entire post adds nothing to this conversation, and judging by your comment you seem to have little understanding of how the Internet works, never mind different stages of it's development. Two hours ago you tweeted "The past does not influence me" http://twitter.com/jchrono... I think you are going to have a very long search for work.
- Garin Kilpatrick
"Men r from Facebook, Women r from Twitter?" rpt gender+online activity: http://www.smartbrief.com/news... (no surprise: women spend more time/$ online)
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What an original title. :)
- Mona Nomura
Just imagine if you took out the male, tech set/heavy user out of the equation how much this would skew!
- Alex Calic
Has FriendFeed become much more active recently or is that just me?
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The activity has definitely picked up. I think its due to the Twitter OAuth support and easy import feature for Twitter and Facebook.
- Alex Calic
Whatever the reason is ... it looks like I'll be using it a lot more
- Nick O'Neill
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