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"We do not have Safari plugin and we do not have plans to make one right now." - Alex Iskold

"As soon as Google enables extensions on the Mac, the GetGlue plugin should work." - Alex Iskold

"We had to make some tweaks to a few stickers and you are finding that. Its based on the feedback and our observation of how people engage with the system. Overall this should feel better. And one thing I can promise you - there will be more stickers for you to unlock ;)" - Alex Iskold

"What would you want to get? Like what would be exciting?" - Alex Iskold

"I am glad we are at least willing to re-visit paid content, I think this is the simplest model, that has worked for a century. We all pay for quality stuff and quality content is still scarce, it's the subpar content that is abundand. I hope we converge on the world where major newspapers are syndicating best relevant bloggers and have a model where they are able to pay them and at the same time, they pay their own journalists." - Alex Iskold

"Jeff, my take is that the only way local papers can compete is by generating highly relevant, high quality local content. This content is as scarce as any other content (I am not talking about crap, but quality content). Why wouldn't you want to pay for that? I think the model holds, what does not hold is scale, but really the scale was never the same for local newspapers. I think Fred is right, and at the very least, this model needs to be explored." - Alex Iskold

It's making me dizzy but i like it! - Steve Rubel

Yeah, one reason we're all having trouble, IMHO, is we all kept following more people until we reached an equilibrium where everything was just fast enough for us. The new design knocks us off that equilibrium. I'm unfollowing en masse and plan to add back in keyword filters as necessary. - Ken Sheppardson

Got this at home, but need to finish Six Feet under season 5 first. - Alex Iskold from Glue

@4 Bob, this is a really interesting and important point that you are bringing up. I think that it is worth a separate post, but briefly, I think that it might not be that straightforward. there are plenty of smart people who are able to learn complex concepts in other disciplines, but not excel in the others. I think that there are 3 categories - small category of people who can just wrap their minds around anything, those who memorize things mechanically and then there are those who are capable of grasping certain things well but not others. Categories 2 and 3 are not fixed. It seems to me that since software is intangible, the category 3 is larger and category 2 is smaller. - Alex Iskold from FriendFeed MT Plugin

@Alex This reminds me of a conversation a little while ago about how "liberating" it was switching to Mac and to the iPhone, which I completely agree with. What's liberating about it is that one of the major bi-products of the digital revolution, as you've pointed out, is "fewer (physical) products". I was looking around my house the other day doing a little new years house... more... - Steffan Antonas from FriendFeed MT Plugin

@4 Bob, this is a really interesting and important point that you are bringing up. I think that it is worth a separate post, but briefly, I think that it might not be that straightforward. there are plenty of smart people who are able to learn complex concepts in other disciplines, but not excel in the others. I think that there are 3 categories - small category of people who can just wrap their minds around anything, those who memorize things mechanically and then there are those who are capable of grasping certain things well but not others. Categories 2 and 3 are not fixed. It seems to me that since software is intangible, the category 3 is larger and category 2 is smaller. - Alex Iskold from FriendFeed MT Plugin

"So true. iPhone is the best gadget I've ever used. I love it in an unhealthy way. And I am not a gadget person." - Alex Iskold

"So true. iPhone is the best gadget I've ever used. I love it in an unhealthy way. And I am not a gadget person." - Alex Iskold

"So true. iPhone is the best gadget I've ever used. I love it in an unhealthy way. And I am not a gadget person." - Alex Iskold

"Hi Charlie, This is good conversation on important topic. A couple of things: - There is a question of what exactly is being annotated. Several formats address the issue in a different way. AB Meta is focused only pages that are about things. RDFa and other semantic standards offer a way to embed semantic meta data into pages. So do microformats but in a more limiting way using CSS classes. Andraz from Zemanta and a few other folks have been working on semantic tagging. All of the above refers to publisher annotating the pages. At AdaptiveBlue we believe that getting publishers to annotate is not easy, because of the lack of direct benefit to them. This is why we developed technology that recognizes stuff in pages in a top-down (algorithmic) way. Regardless, whether the page is annotated by the publisher or content is recognized the next question is what do tools do with this information? StockTweets wants to link to their site, but another stock service might want to link elsewhere...." - Alex Iskold

"Yeah, its def not simple. It seems to me that a lot of the infrastructure that was solid in the past is now in question. I am hoping that we are evolved and smart enough to quickly adapt new laws and regulations that makes sense and actually in modern times." - Alex Iskold

"Thats awesome, you rock! :)" - Alex Iskold

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what exit? :-) - John Furrier

280 Exit 4B - Alex Iskold

alex you have much pull - sean "liked" the fact that you are going to at some point in the future make a post - that's power! - Allen Stern

I know sometimes this power scares me. - Alex Iskold

Please be gentle with all that power. :) I am especially curious to understand how Microsoft intends to develop the entire field of Semantic Web technologies. Is there a brilliant guiding vision or are they only poking around? - Sean McBride

Your brain. - Robert Scoble

you might put some thought into a session or ignite talk that you want to share. and maybe a tasty alcoholic beverage for late night sipping. - mike harrington from twhirl

"“Why do I have to get a yahoo account to be part of RWW visitors community? Ridiculous!”" - Marcin Grodzicki

Yeah I hate to setup new profiles! The most services is kind and gives you just a couple of fileds to enter but yahoo! Nope... :( - JegerPhil - Phil from NoiseRiver

please feel free to let us know about any stories you'd like to see on RWW here in FF, we'll take a look at all ideas! - Marshall Kirkpatrick

@Marshall Hope you had a great trip. Here are pictures from my 2-week trip last month. http://friendfeed.com/e... - Mitchell Tsai

Respectfully disagree, Alex. There is no semantic search with traction currently. Waiting around for one that does could put it behind the pack. - Carla Thompson

One has to wonder if they would ever buy Google. - Devlin Dunsmore from twhirl

yes. - Alex Iskold

pretty sure it is, feedburner screws the numbers from time to time - Dobromir Hadzhiev

"Fraser, I do not remember when was the last time that I was so excited about discovering new music. I buy a lot of it via iTunes at least once in a couple of weeks and I peak stuff that I really like from the stream of NEW. But the 4 songs that I bought from the last album I listen to over and over again. There are magical bits about them that I can't pin point, but I love them." - Alex Iskold

"Good thoughts, as always, Fraser :) I have two distinct points about this 1) Its not really about what is the right way. Increasingly it is more about what makes people happy. People are going to consume information in heterogenous, odd ways that make them happy. 2) The idea of pulling different conversations into 1 place is a solid one. In programming there is a concept of Model-View pattern, where a model is an underlying data set and the view is one way for looking at the data. We have evolved to the point where distributed conversation on the web is the model, and each of us is looking for an individual view - a lens, or perspective through which to view it. We need aggregators that aggregate and let us seamlessly emit thoughts back that end up at the right places across the web. The problem? Its hard to do technically and there is little incentive because fundamentally every business wants to be the owner of the bits." - Alex Iskold

"This is not a proprietary fork. Simply, this is light-weight format that has a chance to be used by people." - Alex Iskold

"Hi Andy, Can you please point out what specifically in Dublin Core exist to support basic everyday things? Also, the book.author or wine.winery format is meant to exactly extend things in the right way." - Alex Iskold

"Hi, We said that either dc.creator or book.author is supported. Frankly, people find book.author much more simple and understandable compare to dc.creator when talking about books. The language matters. We already have specific semantics and instead of re-inventing it with commonly shared obscure terms, we should use concepts that we use in our everyday life. this will make publishers more amicable to publish meta data." - Alex Iskold

"Hi there, While meta tags are indeed 1-1 we have plans to expand this into microformats, and then you will be able to express more than one thing per page." - Alex Iskold