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Steve Ballmer shows off Windows 7 on TV with a huge MacBook pro in the background running, ehm, Windows 7. - http://thenextweb.com/shareab...
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ma LOL!
- Eta
la solita figuraccia alla MS...
- Mackley ॐ
anche allo SMAU... leggi questa cronaca http://www.lucasartoni.com/lavoro...
- Mackley ॐ
The graphic was created by The Today Show, not MS ... and in any case that's a plus for Windows 7 anyway: it runs legitimately on any machine you can pick up in a store. Let's see Jobs do an interview showing a ThinkPad running OS X in the background. He'd probably die before he let that happen
- Judah Richardson
Judah... Someone said something to me that stuck with me... Never do something you're not willing to continue supporting. The Genius Bar would be a whole new experience if I was stuck behind people with third party hardware.
- Johnny Worthington
I'm with Judah. This demonstrates MS's flexibility (or allows us to reflect on Apple's inflexibility). Maybe the next thing to do is improve WinMo some more and show a phone owner switching providers (or just having more than one provider as he/she travels).
- MiniMage TKDteacher of FF
ms is flexible their is no question. I really believe that Apple is not as flexible look at how Steve Jobs rules Apple his word is god
- Rob Cairns
Microsoft is a software company. Why should he care if his flagship product is featured on a Macbook. To look at it another way its telling that a product that purportedly comes installed with the "The worlds most advanced OS" still has so many users using Bootcamp to run Windows and is used as a selling point.
- Adi
FriendFeed update. Paul Buchheit wrote me and said he's been very sick the past few days. That might explain why he hasn't engaged the way we want. He also offered to do an interview with me to discuss the future of FriendFeed and what they are doing at Facebook soon. We're working that out, hopefully soon (but might not be until November sometime)
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I don't know if that's a good idea for you, Robert. You might be better off making a clean break from FriendFeed.
- Bruce Lewis
Thanks Robert, that's great news! Paul, hope you feel better...
- manielse (Mark Nielsen)
Bruce: FriendFeed=Facebook. So, I'm interested in what he's doing and I'm a big fan of Facebook's. Twitter needs some competition. The Fail Whale is getting to me.
- Robert Scoble
Another reliable update.
- ashish
I know it's a stretch but can we gather specific questions for Paul to answer?
- manielse (Mark Nielsen)
When other sites like twitter come out with new features, you want to be at the front of the excited crowd. FriendFeed will make you into that curmudgeon who's always saying, "So what? They did that two years ago at FriendFeed."
- Bruce Lewis
I guess the rusty wheel gets the oil...
- Cjay
Cjay: I've been working on this interview since before Facebook bought FriendFeed. :-)
- Robert Scoble
manielse: well, the interview isn't on 100% yet and now that I've talked about it in public who knows what will happen? But if it does happen of course we'll get you involved.
- Robert Scoble
Cjay: I might be a rusty wheel, but remember two things: 1. I put many many thousands of hours into FriendFeed before the sale, bringing my audience over here at great risk to my personal brand. Lots of "experts" like Mike Arrington told me I was wrong to do that. 2. I'm still here.
- Robert Scoble
OMGAWWWWW he still has "it"
- sofarsoShawn
oh im sorry Robert thats "The squeaky wheel gets the oil first" hehe, wasnt saying your are getting old or anything.
- Cjay
sofarso: I never lost it. :-)
- Robert Scoble
But yes I would agree that allowing and or resting your personal branding on a service thats based on a cloud application with it's roots depending on a social network model is very risky.
- Cjay
Cjay: actually it's not. It just looks risky.
- Robert Scoble
To those giving Scoble crap for being on FF, aren't you tired of that? You all have been doing that for at least a year. Enough. For us on FF, we'd love to see an interview, thanks.
- Eric @ CSTechcast.com
Paul, get well soon
- Shane
Well, I'm done for tonight. Thanks you Robert for the chat...
- Cjay
Good luck for the interview, Robert and thanks for the update. Hope Paul gets better soon.
- Mahendra (SkepticGeek)
Thanks everyone. I'm actually not "very sick" though, just "kind of sick" -- it's mostly messing up my sleep.
- Paul Buchheit
from iPhone
be well!
- Laura Norvig
Chicken soup - but stay away from those soul books ;) Hope you're up to speed soon, Paul.
- Micah Wittman
Looking at the time-scale, doesn't that actually answer the question? You don;t wait THAT long to deliver good news or to debunk a false rumour that killings your platform (well, Zucks platform).
- Jim Connolly
Paul - sorry to hear that! (it's 2:30 am here, I can empathize with your sleep problem)
- Susan Beebe
from BuddyFeed
Eric, sorry if it sounded like I was giving him crap. That wasn't my intention. I think Scobleizer has a serious career decision to make: http://ourdoings.com/ourdoin...
- Bruce Lewis
The problem i see is that social network cloud applications seem to live in peoples heads rent free.
- Cjay
Hope you feel better, Paul.
- Kol Tregaskes
That will be an interesting interview, thanks for posting this update.
- Dan Morrill AKA Techwag
Can't wait for the interview!! Thanks to you and Paul for keeping us updated!!
- Rosemary Sorg
:?
- CW™
Robert, you will never leave FriendFeed as long it is here:)
- Patrik Johansson
+1 Patrik
- manielse (Mark Nielsen)
Robert, do you think Twitter is too unreliable or do you think the competition is healthy?
- John Cass
Feel better soon, Paul!
- Ruchira S. Datta
The walrus has eaten the oysters: http://bit.ly/nJrdl
- Michael Slattery
I think I just had a Geekgasm - did Facebook just bring back the Live Feed??? (breathe, Jesse, breathe)
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Is it Friendfeed esque?
- Eric @ CSTechcast.com
More info: http://developers.facebook.com/news...
- Otto
It is FriendFeed esque.
- Mitch
Yes, and once you select it it stays that way - awesome!
- Jesse Stay
It's such a beautiful butterfly!
- Jesse Stay
No, I don't think it's FriendFeed like at all. The live feed is the same as what they had already. They introduced the new "News Feed", which is what's different. The new "News Feed" is basically everything from the live feed that people are actively talking about. The only FF-like thing about it is the auto-introduction of new stuff without refreshing.
- Otto
It's not refreshing real time for me, I have to refresh and then I see new posts. Maybe they're still working on some issues?
- Jorge Escobar
Otto, Jorge, maybe you're right. Previously, "Live Feed" was FriendFeed-esque. They had a FriendFeed-like feed at one point.
- Jesse Stay
Yes, I noticed that LIVE FEED is on, I love it I must say.
- Owen Greaves
I think their "real-time" is more like the search.twitter.com real-time, i.e. it'll tell you you have 'x new posts' --- FriendFeed continues to reign in this space
- Jorge Escobar
Actually, it is auto-refreshing. Jorge, no, it's not the "x new posts" thing it had before. If you're not seeing it yet it hasn't rolled out to you yet.
- Jesse Stay
You'll see the "View Live Feed" link above if you have it
- Jesse Stay
Ya, it is scrolling just like FriendFeed
- Owen Greaves
That is a step in the direction I want to see, the real-time services
- Owen Greaves
I'm finding the new News Feed is more interesting. Basically, it's just the content that is being liked/discussed. Easier to find conversations, but I'm not sure it's a good thing that it seems to be the default view...
- Otto
It says "View Live Feed" -- except it's not live.
- Jorge Escobar
Jorge, click the "View Live Feed" link
- Jesse Stay
Click on View Live Feed and then it will
- Owen Greaves
yup, clicking it. Nothing. Go back to News Feed and I see an icon that I have 3 new ones on the live feed. Argh!
- Jorge Escobar
from IM
Sweet!!!!!
- Owen Greaves
I was just saying on Twitter FriendFeed technology being used on Facebook. Facebook is going to go more and more real time.
- Rob Cairns
Live feed cool
- Chris Penner
What about comments? Do you see those popping up as well?
- Jorge Escobar
from IM
Comments are real-time, but don't send it back up to the top - I wish it did. It's just a bit buggy, too.
- Jesse Stay
It will come, they are at least headed in the right direction. Look out.
- Chris Penner
Jesse yes a bit buggy but a step in the right direction
- Rob Cairns
Ah! See, I just a had a refresh with Mark Krinsky and then it went dead. I had to refresh to see Jesse's post on "Looks like Friend Suggestions are real-time as well"
- Jorge Escobar
from IM
Now if only there were place to find the items I've 'liked'....
- Rob Michael (Atmos Trio)
But I like this implementation where people choose the information overload or the digested version
- Jorge Escobar
from IM
Jorge, yeah - it's still a little buggy
- Jesse Stay
I'm finding FriendFeed Buggy today, sometimes my comments load and sometimes they don't!!!
- Owen Greaves
is there a way to hide certain types of events on the live feed yet, like friendings and group joining (ie "X has become a fan of Y"? It clutters things up. I thought the prior implementation of it balanced this well, but at present it's either all, or a dated digest...
- Bill Kinney
I wish there were a way to view all the game app updates only, and another view that had everything *but* all the game app updates.
- Tony, Paradox of FF
Tony, you may be able to do something with the filters on the left - not sure if you can filter by app type though (I doubt it)
- Jesse Stay
Unfortunately you can't, the lists you create yourself are sortable only by people, not by app.
- Tony, Paradox of FF
Tony, you can sort by specific app updates though
- Jesse Stay
True, though not really the same thing as what I'm thinking of. Maybe one day.
- Tony, Paradox of FF
What I mean is, If you've become a fan of say "Mafia Wars", you can add updates that come from the makers of that app to a list yes. But that won't include updates that your friends have made using that app. Requesting assistance with missions and what not.
- Tony, Paradox of FF
Facebook's Live Feed is auto-refreshing just fine for me. I'm using Safari for Windows. BTW, I hide all those annoying games. ;)
- Dennis Jernberg
toddogasawara: Tweetie 2 vs. Echofon (free) - Twitter Apps for iPhone - Guess Which One I Prefer http://bit.ly/132eqt - http://twitter.com/toddoga...
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Wow my FriendFeed e-mail is back. Since Paul moved it to new servers e-mail notifications are almost real-time. Thanks guys!
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Who says the FriendFeed team isn't working on FriendFeed any more? :-)
- Jesse Stay
Jesse, was the change-over confirmed somewhere?
- Micah Wittman
Micah: http://friendfeed.com/paul...
- Jesse Stay
Jesse, I was there too :) The wording seemed to mean it was in progress.
- Micah Wittman
Micah all I know is that something just changed. I'm getting notifications as they happen now - that was several minutes or more difference before.
- Jesse Stay
No new servers yet. Paul just put in some improvements to the email notifier yesterday to make it more efficient.
- Benjamin Golub
Benjamin ah - cool. Still confirming my point that you guys are still improving the service. Thanks Benjamin, Paul, Brett, et. al.!
- Jesse Stay
lets ALL hope that FB becomes sooooooooo efficent !! :)-
- Peter Dawson
Thanks for the update, Ben :)
- Micah Wittman
Bing made a deal with Facebook and Twitter. Yet another reason why I'm moving more of my usage every day over to those two systems.
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Maybe they will give Twitter some additional capacity.
- Mike Nencetti
Makes sense, since MS is already trying to integrate those services into their Xbox service as well.
- Aram Zucker-Scharff
Fan me at http://facebook.com/stay :-) I'd love to get more people following me on that account.
- Jesse Stay
Usage of Bing has slipped, don't know why it's great!
- Stock Market Club
I agree.
- Oracio
Jesse the spammer. I already fanned you yesterday! :-)
- Robert Scoble
Stock: I do most of my searching on the iPhone. Google rules there.
- Robert Scoble
Yeah - I just realized I totally spammed you with that. Sorry, wasn't thinking :-)
- Jesse Stay
If Facebook and Twitter also cut deals with Google I'm OK with it. If its an exclusive for Bing Its concentrating too much control in too few hands. If this gives Microsoft exclusive control of search over the two big social networks then it kind of speaks for why social networks need to be decentralized. If Google gets totally shut out I'm left wishing they'd saved FriendFeed from FB. FF is a superior approach to FB and Twitter and with Google's servers and marketing it could have been big.
- Ed Millard
yeah, nice remark Mike
- ffcode
Thank you to my 50,002 followers. Look through my followers here and compare to my Twitter followers and what do you notice? I see fewer spammers. Fewer bots. Fewer social media experts. Thanks for joining me on FriendFeed! It has been an awesome two years!
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FFFTW!
- Cjay
YAY!
- Jannifer @wordsforliving
Down with bots, spammers, and social media gurus! Up with geeks! A big thumbs up on behalf of my fellow FriendFeed fanatics.
- Dennis Jernberg
I love geeks and FriendFeed has them in droves.
- Robert Scoble
from iPhone
are u going somewhere ;p
- zʍıɔ
You're welcome ;-) A question though, where do you think we geeks will congregate next? I'm thinking that since Facebook now owns the Friendfeed devs, FF will eventually starve to death... hopefully not.
- Roberto Teixeira
But I notice a lot of users interact on FF via Twitter not directly on FF. Also FF faces tough competition from the likes of Posterous and Tumblr which offer more functionality with similar ease of use as FF.
- Roger
Roberto: Not so long ago this very FF post from scobleizer would get something about 300+ likes and 150+ comments. Sadly, FF users are surely looking elsewhere.
- Arvind
FF is ok, but its not the be all and end all Robert.
- Micky
Arvind: yup. Foursquare! :-)
- Robert Scoble
from iPhone
Friendfeed wins
- ashish
I too think that friendfeed is still a winner... people that left just filtered themselves out of my conversations. They are no longer discoverable here to me. Their loss (imho)
- Chris Heath
Your welcome :). Friendfeed really really is awesome
- alfred westerveld
Yes Robert and Friendfeed is massively technically superior - Makes it even sadder that the platform here's being ignored by the new owners.
- Jim Connolly
Still the best place for discovery to me despite less interaction.
- Eric Logan
Robert - I love the community and friends here on FriendFeed. I am so happy I was on FF in early 2008 and got to experience it's wild and wooly growth path. Chatting with you and all these cool geeks is really fun. I've learned TONS from you guys and I truly appreciate the friendship too! :)
- Susan Beebe
I agree, way less marketing gurus and spammers =)
- Brodie Beta
Wewt! We are awesome, especially me </ego>
- Danny Minick
In my experience, I've been using ff more rather than less since the fb aquisition. I don't see why I would migrate to another community ATM. To me, Friendfeed is king. :) King of social media, that is.
- 'Like' robot (frɐnc)
Me, I'm sticking with FF for the foreseeable future. I'm even going to do my part to promote it, at least to my (right now) 1K+ Twitter followers.
- Dennis Jernberg
Friend Feed is the Future Robert and you just may be our Faithfull leader! :)
- PeaceMakersInc
Word.
- Gary
Thank you, Robert. I have learned quite a bit from you-and you have created/moderated some tremendous discussions/issues. Best wishes to you and your family.
- Harold Cabezas
LOL. I agree. I have 413 followers on Twitter. When I ask a question, I get no responses. Same here. Does nobody like me?
- Zachary TG
zachary check their subscriptions against their subscribers and you might have an answer there
- ffcode
yup! there is a decline...don't know what friendfeeders are upto...foursquare might not be the complete answer
- ffcode
I'm still here. I tried doing the Google Reader thing. While it's a great reader, I think it SUCKS as a social platform. I still use it, but I don't expect as much out of it as I used to. FriendFeed and posterous are what I like best for what I do. Facebook is getting a little chaotic for me. I've made lists, but I think I need to start pruning... LONG LIVE FRIENDFEED!
- Kimber Scott
U do like normal folks like us, who does have a life, like having hobbies such as movies, taking pictures, making jokes and listening 2 old radio jokes on the Internet lol...and wondering why spell check doesn't work somedays
- polou/indigo_bow
Has it really been 2 years? OMG that was fast.
- Elliott Ng
ROFL! No bots; just wait! The bots are coming, they always come.
- Brandon Smietana
In twenty years I would be surprised if the bots were not more human than the humans. "Statistical Natural Language Processing: When Humans Fail the Turing Test", coming to a research journal near you!
- Brandon Smietana
The Dirty Little Google Voice Secret - http://marktrapp.com/blog...
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From Mark. Blog.: "If you use Google Voice, have an iPhone, or are interested in smart phones, you’re probably aware of the ongoing spat between Apple, AT&T, and Google over network neutrality and Google Voice on the iPhone. If you’re like me, you don’t really care who’s to blame for why you can’t use Google Voice on your iPhone: they’re probably all at fault. You may not be able to use a shiny application for Google Voice on your iPhone, but you can use relatively new or unknown features of AT&T and Google together and against them and wind up saving a nice chunk of change in the process. This is for all phones, not just the iPhone, but if you’re an iPhone user, I’d say it’s not a bad consolation prize."
- Mark Trapp
from Bookmarklet
Worth keeping in mind if I have a long distance call coming up :D
- Daniel J. Pritchett
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Glee, the TV show, is often extremely surprising. The adults are even more vicious than the kids...I'm sure there's an indictment of society in there somewhere.
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billbarhydt: Wow is right! RT @Katrinskaya: WOW. Cartoonists react to Obama's Nobel: http://bit.ly/4y0720 #fb - http://twitter.com/billbar...
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T-Mobile Pulse review over on Engadget Mobile! - http://www.engadget.com/2009...
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So @google, while you're injecting Chrome goodness into IE, can you take a pass at infiltrating Safari so I can install Google Toolbar?
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Me needs it too.
- Igor Poltavskiy
You want to use sidewiki, don't you?
- Jesse Stay
I was annoyed about this today.
- Veronica
Jesse, it's not a matter of "want". It's a matter of finding if all browsers can support the same functionality.
- Louis Gray
Safari really isn't built to be extensible. The only real hooks happen though framework injection and other less-stable methods. IE is built on top of COM, making it somewhat modular. There are hooks up and down the browser stack. I've looked into what it would take to bring our stuff into Safari and it's not easy. You can do a "virtual sidebar" in HTML, but that's about it. It's a pretty complex area, but anyone interested in details can always ping me.
- Matt Mastracci
FWIW, this is the only way I know of to get full browser integration in Safari: http://www.culater.net/softwar...
- Matt Mastracci
There are a few different ways, but the concept is basically the same: http://tsybulin.livejournal.com/46264... SIMBL (and most Snow Leopard-enabled Safari plugins) use the Scripting Additions/helper app method. It should be noted that even Apple uses a similar helper app method to load the Flash plugin.
- Mark Trapp
Mark, thanks for that reference. It adds a few extra techniques I haven't seen before (although they are all variations along the lines of "inject code into Safari" :)).
- Matt Mastracci
That's correct: there is no officially supported way to modify Safari itself (Apple/WebKit only sanctions modifying the document via content-type plugins) so you're left with code injection. But hey, toh-may-toh, toh-mah-toh. You say code injection, I say extending. :-P Some developers, like Agile Web Solutions, do it pretty well to the point where I'd challenge a regular user to find something off about the process.
- Mark Trapp
Functionality that requires a toolbar is doomed to a niche audience anyway.
- LogEx
Yep...
- Rahsheen ™, Coach Rah
LogEx - It's true. On top of that, you can only have so many toolbars before you no longer have a viewport in which to actually look at Web sites.
- Curtiss Grymala
No-one needs Google toolbar anyway. Only people soft headed enough to fall for every geegaw thrown at them as "Useful". It has no real use beyond feeding info back to Google. Everything else can be accomplished without it.
- Gilbert Harding
I find the Google Toolbar to be incredibly useful, to the point where features that it has are actually keeping me from switching to Google Chrome. Google Bookmarks is the biggest one, but Sidewiki is pretty useful too. The AutoLink and AutoFill tools come in quite handy as well. Also, I detest the single box for both URL and Google Search in Chrome, and find the browser unusable because of that, but that's a different thing altogether.
- Otto
Really Otto? Oddly enough, the fact that combining the address bar and search bar isn't standard in other browsers is the main reason I cannot stop using Chrome. I just end up typing my search terms into the address bar on those browsers too, with mixed results.
- Dan Crum
+1 Dan. I do the same thing.
- Curtiss Grymala
me too
- vadimka
Dan: Yes, the integrated bar makes it difficult for me to explicitly tell the browser when I want to search vs. when I'm entering a URL. I frequently search for domain names to find info about them. Chrome interprets this as me wanting to go to the domain, which is not my goal. I cannot use Chrome as long as it has this misfeature.
- Otto
+1 Otto. I like smart apps. But Chrome is a smart ass :-)
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can’t stand this new Shakira track. Why does she sing in an Irish accent? (and the howling…) - http://zee.me/status/204
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The video is better!
- Alex Sauceda
oudiantebi: Microsoft announces ad-supported Office Starter 2010 http://bit.ly/3qKxKB (via @Avibm) this will make less people switch to open office - http://twitter.com/oudiant...
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Ad-supported Office, using the same technology as Clippy. "It looks like you're writing a letter. Here's a list of places where you can buy envelopes and stamps and sealing wax."
- Andy Bakun
this will make less people switch to open office? ORLY?
- Joe Silence is ashes
I'm not sure it would decrease use of Open Office. Ads are annoying. Microsoft Works didn't have ads. The replacement will. To get rid of the ads for free, they can use Open Office.
- SuezanneC Baskerville
egg sack early
- Joe Silence is ashes
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I thought, that showstopper is something, which prevent product from release (critical bug, etc)...
- gloomy deranged pervert
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On my whiteboard is "battlefronts." IE, who in the tech industry is taking over the castle. Who do you think is? Join me live:
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IE, Apple is taking over the castle from Nokia in the mobile phone space. Twitter is making a strong move on the social networking castle that Facebook owns.
- Robert Scoble
Ustream and Blip.tv are trying to get into YouTube's castle but keep getting shut out.
- Robert Scoble
Is Twitter storming Facebook's castle or is facebook storming Twitter's?
- Peter Kelley
Peter: I think Facebook is losing castle rooms to Twitter and it pisses Facebook off.
- Robert Scoble
Zoho and Google are trying to take ground away from Microsoft Office.
- Robert Scoble
Also is Mahalo building their own castle or storming someone elses?
- Peter Kelley
twitter are the horde slowly taking over the outlying areas of facebooks domain
- bear (aka Mike Taylor)
So is SocialText and Atlassian and Jive and others.
- Robert Scoble
apple is going to be losing ground to both android and pre on different slices of turf IMO
- bear (aka Mike Taylor)
FIOS is taking over cable and satellite. My iPhone is making my Windows desktop irrelevant.
- Brett Nordquist
Mindtouch is storming the sharepoint castle
- Christian Burns
from iPhone
Gowalla is taking BrightKite's castle
- Peter Kelley
Anyway, the question is, where do you see entrenched "winners" under attack by new companies or ideas.
- Robert Scoble
Peter: FourSquare is doing a better job of doing that than Gowalla is.
- Robert Scoble
FIOS is a non-issue until they lose the "higher market" feel - i.e. it won't be in my working class neighborhood for another 2 years
- bear (aka Mike Taylor)
Wordpress is storming the Blogger castle.
- Brett Nordquist
But Gowalla is in the game.
- Robert Scoble
Louis Gray is taking over the Robert Scoble castle.
- Cristo
Anything related to keeping data tied to a physical location is dead. Freedom of mobility has stormed the castle and is now dancing in the courtyard as it burns down around it.
- Adrian Pike
Android from the iPhone, in the next 2 years
- Christian Burns
from iPhone
gowalla has just elbowed both twitter and foursquare out of the spot at the gate that is brightkyt
- bear (aka Mike Taylor)
Bing to Google
- Ankush Narula
from iPhone
Brett: Wordpress is almost an entrenched player now. Squarespace is the one trying to take away Wordpress share, isn't it?
- Robert Scoble
Christian: I agree.
- Robert Scoble
squarespace is showing wordpress how to be a better hosted service -- *with their own product!*
- bear (aka Mike Taylor)
Ankush: I don't agree that Bing is really disrupting Google that much yet. It's a nice thought, though, and it is a fun fight to watch, so I agree there.
- Robert Scoble
Robert: I still see a lot of Blogger blogs, but you're right. SquareSpace is making a big move.
- Brett Nordquist
this is why i like friendfeed
- T. Brent, technopeasant
Rackspace is taking place of Amazon in hosting :)
- ashish
Spotify trying to sneak up on iTunes/Amazon/Pandora
- Ankush Narula
from iPhone
In location services I see Yelp making big moves into a place that Google owns right now, at least in my mind.
- Robert Scoble
Ashish: shhhhh.
- Robert Scoble
We need something to take a bit away from WordPress - too much insecurity stuff in the press recently
- Jalada
Ankush: we think alike, I had that on my whiteboard already.
- Robert Scoble
rackspace still has a pricing misconception demon to shake loose
- bear (aka Mike Taylor)
Are Wordpress and Drupal different castles?
- Peter Kelley
I love the cool ads on free squarespace blogs. Makes me think of blogspot in 2002
- Christian Burns
from iPhone
I wish Rackspace would give me a huge amount of storage to host my blog, pictures and music, but make it affordable and easy to access from any device with internet.
- Brett Nordquist
drupal is being stormed by mindtouch - now that is a sleeper-awakening fight
- bear (aka Mike Taylor)
Brett: how is http://rackspacecloud.com not doing just that?
- Robert Scoble
Google is moving against Twitter by adding contextual streams to web pages via Scoble's favorite tool: SideWiki
- Ankush Narula
from iPhone
Mike: that's an interesting one. I don't watch mindtouch that much, I should do an interview with them.
- Robert Scoble
@bear: On Intranets or more generally, there are a lot of Drupal sites out there
- Peter Kelley
Robert: Checking that out now. Did not know about it.
- Brett Nordquist
Ankush: I don't agree there, but that's one to put on the board as a potential disrupter.
- Robert Scoble
Windows Mobile 6.5 was found dead in the moat.
- Brett Nordquist
peter - on the intranets - but that means they will bust out when the open-source side catches up with what they have commercially developed
- bear (aka Mike Taylor)
robert - mindtouch is moving in all the right places and in the proper direction ;)
- bear (aka Mike Taylor)
Robert: give it a year regarding Bing -MS know how to commoditized better than anyone (as u know!)
- Ankush Narula
from iPhone
Got Brizzly on your whiteboard? I think they're up to something
- Jalada
First you have to define who's in the castle that is being taken over.
- Alex Scoble
yea, brizzly is looking at their feature set getting over shadowed by twitter doing a "me also" update
- bear (aka Mike Taylor)
Jalada: I need a whole whiteboard on Twitter clients. Damn, did you see Tweetie 2.0 yet? You should, it's going to take over the iPhone app space for Twitter clients.
- Robert Scoble
Mike: it will be interesting to see what Seesmic does about Tweetie 2.0.
- Robert Scoble
Oh, Tumblr and Posterous are also disrupting Wordpress and Blogger.
- Robert Scoble
Robert: Seen the coverage of it. Can't wait to get my hands on it. We're re-engineering our iPhone app at Twitterfall too, it's sure to give us some ideas ;-)
- Jalada
robert - :/ yea
- bear (aka Mike Taylor)
VMWare/Spring Source are taking over the RedHat/JBoss castle
- Peter Kelley
For that matter what about threadsy? They are surely capable of disrupting the webmail market if marketed properly
- Ankush Narula
from iPhone
Posterous is fantastic and i'm using it to replace Flickr in some areas.
- Brett Nordquist
I predict tumblr and posterous merging by the end of the year - they are just too awesome to fight each other
- bear (aka Mike Taylor)
Ankush: I heard threadsy had some performance issues, have they been ironed out?
- Jalada
Microsoft Office Web tries bringing in the battering rams, but isnt doing much right now against the heavily fortified walls of Google Docs
- Kevin Traver
Mike: I have some ideas, but they require you guys to become curation tool before Tweetie gets there.
- Robert Scoble
Last.FM is storming the Pandora castle.
- Brett Nordquist
glassfish+(scala,jpython,jruby) is owning the bare RoR scene
- bear (aka Mike Taylor)
Kevin, I see Google Docs as breaking over the castle wall into Microsoft territory right about now, actually. :-)
- Robert Scoble
robert - yes, we need to become the goto place for both current and historical data flow
- bear (aka Mike Taylor)
Cloud computing is like a fog that's obscuring the view between castles. When the fog lifts, no telling whose castle will be left standing and who will be crushed.
- Paul Blasman
from iPhone
But Microsoft's castle is so big they still aren't worried. :-)
- Robert Scoble
Paul: Cloud Computing is just a tool to get over the wall. :-)
- Robert Scoble
bear - I think Groovy/Grails are doing a better job of storming the ROR castle and many other web framework castles besides
- Peter Kelley
cloudcomputing allows you to take the battle off the ground and just go *around* the others
- bear (aka Mike Taylor)
Robert: It's a magical tool that everyone says is great, but then find it's too small to get over big walls.
- Jalada
peter - hmm, then i'm not watching enough Groovy/Grails shops to get wind of that - i'll have to adjust
- bear (aka Mike Taylor)
is Netflix on your whiteboard?
- Brett Nordquist
Brett: no, but it is now.
- Robert Scoble
rssCloud/Hubbub? Not companies though...
- Jalada
Jalada: that's like Cloud Computing: a tool to help you get over the wall.
- Robert Scoble
jalada - IMO that's a minor battle between what type of pipe to use - only internet plumbers are worried about that
- bear (aka Mike Taylor)
Robert: Redbox is pretty cool too. Used it before?
- Brett Nordquist
Brett: No, and I haven't used Roxio yet either.
- Robert Scoble
Google Analytics is taking over Omniture (maybe already taken over going by Omniture's Q1 earnings)
- MadhuIyer
One night DVD rentals for a buck. Red Box always seems busy no matter where I see them.
- Brett Nordquist
Redbox is for those that don't know what's good for them
- Christian Burns
from iPhone
Oh and Fake Carol Bartz taking over Fake Steve Jobs
- MadhuIyer
Madhulyer: oh, I SO agree with that!
- Robert Scoble
verizon realizing before at&t that limits on the data flow just hampers profit increases
- bear (aka Mike Taylor)
Although @shitmydadsays is kicking both of their asses.
- Robert Scoble
according to my kids, the iPod Touch is replacing the Nintendo DS
- Brett Nordquist
I'm liking where Boxee is going with webtv. could be what appletv had hoped to be.
- michael sean wright
Boxee taking over tivo?
- ashish
Brett: I agree with them, it's certainly a threat Nintendo/Sony need to tackle
- Jalada
Yeah, Boxee and Bittorrent are definitely changing TV for a new generation.
- Robert Scoble
Renting physical media is not going to put a crack in anyone' wall.
- Paul Blasman
from iPhone
Jalada: This year we'll spend more in App Store games from Apple than games from Nintendo.
- Brett Nordquist
Hulu is taking over paid cable
- Christian Burns
from iPhone
Google's archers try to fend off some incoming twitter boats
- Kevin Traver
but this proves to be difficult because the water in the moat is very unstable due to Google Waves
- Kevin Traver
Brett: us too. And Xbox.
- Robert Scoble
Kevin: Google Wave is super slow for me today. And totally unusable. I don't know about people who like it. I think they are all nerds. :-)
- Robert Scoble
Google Wave is to far out on the horizon - it still has a chance to sink itself or run up on the reef of complicated-UI
- bear (aka Mike Taylor)
This Friendfeed thread is taking over my social life!
- Brett Nordquist
I think they're handing out a new Wave (aha..) of invites today, slowly.
- Jalada
FriendFeed will take over something I hope
- Jay
Robert - yep, wave is for early adopter nerds
- bear (aka Mike Taylor)
Jay: Can it still do that now it belongs in Facebook's castle?
- Jalada
Google Wave is just taking over people's ability of effectiveness...
- MadhuIyer
Jalada: How about..? FriendFeed should take over everyone's homepage.
- Jay
FriendFeed is a realm that joined the Facebook Castle so they could get some troops garrisoned inside their operation
- bear (aka Mike Taylor)
This castle analogy is brilliant
- Jalada
Mike: gearing up for pushing Twitter back over the wall. :-)
- Robert Scoble
Some of Google's guards cautiously watch Wolfram|Alpha in the distant horizon.
- Kevin Traver
Robert - yea, they saw the oncoming battle and decided to join forces
- bear (aka Mike Taylor)
/me wonders if Robert has enough new ideas for interviews and articles yet
- bear (aka Mike Taylor)
Yeah, I was just checking to see if there was some wall breach happening that I wasn't familiar with.
- Robert Scoble
Kevin - and laugh
- Peter Kelley
some of these battles are good ol' "dig under the walls and let it slowly collapse" fights, while others are storm-the-gates assaults
- bear (aka Mike Taylor)
Robert: At WordCamp Seattle two weeks ago, I was surprised to hear how many people were still on blogging platforms other than Wordpress. Assumed everyone was on WP already.
- Brett Nordquist
Brett: Yeah, that's wacky. What were the most popular non-Wordpress ones? Any idea why they are still on those?
- Robert Scoble
Brett - at PodCamp Philly last weekend almost everyone was asking how to use WordPress and if they should move from Blogger to WP (amongst the new blogger scene)
- bear (aka Mike Taylor)
Adobe Flash coming under attack from HTML/5 if the major players will stop their HTML/5 codec bickering. For example a Safari plugin to switch YouTube Video from Flash to Apple H.264 http://bit.ly/JlWVO
- Ed Millard
Robert: almost all I spoke with were on Blogger. A few on Typepad and many had created websites that were out-of-date.
- Brett Nordquist
Mike: I'm not surprised. Maybe still too difficult to roll your own WP install?
- Brett Nordquist
Ed - good one - yea, if the HTML/5 scene doesn't stop fighting they are going to cede all that work to Flash
- bear (aka Mike Taylor)
Brett - some of that plus also the latest security issues were a big concern
- bear (aka Mike Taylor)
Mike: Good point about security. Lots of talk about that as well. Still too many hurdles for the less technical.
- Brett Nordquist
Brett - agreed - I was pointing everyone to hosted solutions by asking them the question: Do you *really* want to become a SysAdmin as well as a blogger?
- bear (aka Mike Taylor)
Scobleizer's SUL taking over Twitter's SUL
- MadhuIyer
here's a challenge - let's talk about who's taking over what castle and *not* mention Twitter
- Dave Hodson
Madhulyer - and also true celeb's twitter lists taking over both of those SUL's
- bear (aka Mike Taylor)
Dave, wasn't Twitter mentioned in the first comment?
- Cristo
@Cristo - yup. I have Twitter fatigue; there must be other castles to storm out there
- Dave Hodson
Dave, I think I have castle storming fatigue.
- Cristo
I'm going to need some buffs if there's more castles to storm today.
- Brett Nordquist
/me puts down a fish feast and calls out for a table
- bear (aka Mike Taylor)
I think the Twitter fatigue is due to the fact that people constantly reference it. Sure it is growing, super cool, the-best-thing-eva, but what *else* is out there? How about the impact that a service like Aardvark is having/not having on Yelp for example?
- Dave Hodson
Dave: fair enough but let's see your ideas for castles being stormed that don't include the T-word anywhere? :-)
- Robert Scoble
@Scoble - as I said, Aardvark and Yelp. I've been using Aardvark for a while now and I think they might be on to something.
- Dave Hodson
Dave: that's actually why I started this post, to see if there's any other battlefronts out there. Turns out there are. As to Yelp: I don't see @vark as a @yelp killer. I'm not even sure they are battling for the same thing. Most of the questions on @vark that I get have nothing to do with restaurants or places or businesses.
- Robert Scoble
I think @vark could disrupt Yahoo or Google search, though, and take away some revenue.
- Robert Scoble
@Scoble - questions really depend on what you sign up for - I asked a question the other day about a good/quick place to eat near the Fillmore in SF and got several good replies right away. Yelp wouldn't really have helped me there. Plus the new iPhone app is pretty good. And not to be a total fanboy, but I really like the IM integration.
- Dave Hodson
Yeah, good point. I do love @vark, don't get me wrong.
- Robert Scoble
Surprised nobody mentioned the Kindle
- Brett Nordquist
Brett: good point!
- Robert Scoble
that atari thing my neighbours have is taking over my lightbrite.
- T. Brent, technopeasant
Brett - or the new tablets coming out (and not the apple one either!)
- bear (aka Mike Taylor)
Mike, who is making the new tablets? I've not heard much then.
- Brett Nordquist
Brett: there are a couple already out in EU by Archos. Gateway's tablet PC was leaked and there is the hopefully coming Crunchpad. Those are just off the top of my head
- bear (aka Mike Taylor)
Chrome is taking over someones castle. im not sure if its ie or Firefox
- Anthony Feint
How about on the SSD front, OCZ Vertex line vs Intel X25's
- Joe Hanink
Skype, cell and Google Voice are taking over traditional telco phone landline castle
- Susan Beebe
from BuddyFeed
Thanks for all the MindTouch mentions folks. Scoble, happy to talk again. It's been quite a while. Ping me and let's set something up. Happy to meet up when I'm in your neighborhood again.
- Roebot
Scoble, more on MindTouch here: http://www.youtube.com/watch... and also watch some of the demos to the right of the page here: http://www.mindtouch.com/Solutio...
- Roebot
Meanwhile, MySpace is M.I.A. and no one gives a shizzle!
- Danny Minick
more email management tips by @chrisbrogan http://www.chrisbrogan.com/more-em...
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Mind sharing what you've used?
- Andrew Trinh
from iPhone
Mobile Me should be the answer, but there are tons of developers who have some chip on their shoulder about it and implement their own crap or want you to use their preferred syncing service. Right now, I have Mobile Me, Dropbox, Google Apps (Contacts and Calendar) XMarks, and Hazel all working simultaneously to sync everything up.
- Mark Trapp
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