"Didn't have really high expectations when I saw such a cheap price of $9.95 for an early bird steak dinner. The steak was so bad though that it wasn't even close to being worth it for me. I'm not…" - Allen Blair
“Has anyone else jumped on either Plurk or Indenti.ca ? Twitter still has most people but the conversation is dying there as people can only really use the web page to stay up to date. Thoughts on the future of micro-blogging / status update services?”
I'm on both. identi.ca is weird. There's no good way to find people. Plurk = ugly but I like the timeline feature. - Johnny Baker
I just wish twitter could complete it's upgrades and have things running fast and easy - it would even take the pressure off feeling like I have to use friendfeed like twitter/microblogging... - Tony
I have accounts on all, but Twitter is still king because as Tony says, it still has the most people. I have been able to find a good number of church leaders to follow, however, I would like to see a way of being able to track tweets that are ministry related and have good ministry ideas, comments & discussions without wading through all the usual "eating a sandwich" type of posts.. - Allen Blair
It's like a whole new device... I didn't have a lot of the connection problems, but things like application updates working correctly and sync / backup times going from over an hour to less than 5 minutes are huge. - Jason Carreira
I have the 2.1 firmware but now the charger for the car does not work. Other people having this problem? - Julio F ~ @SocialJulio
Better in terms of responsiveness, but I still get no reception in my house and the Twitter app crashed on me yesterday. Jury's out for a few more days in my case. - Jason Kaneshiro
Duncan, I still have no bars on my iPhone; the screen freezes very often; and the screen goes blank several times a day! Apple: 'I love your shiny gizmos' and don't want the 'Apple to fall' -- so, help us before the apple-cart is upset. - Mala
Nothing too noticable on mine, and the apps still dont update properly. Though, an improvement now is I can delete on iPhone and iTunes will reinstall the app at sync. That is something. - Kenley Neufeld
Mine has crashed once, but other than that has done great. Runs faster than before by a long shot. Especially when loading contacts. - Allen Blair
Has anyone noticed that it's easier to tell which podcasts you started listening to? - Andrew Warner
I should upgrade today. Good to hear it's an improvement. - Thomas Hawk
I haven't had a chance to update yet but I have to say I've never had a problem with long backups. It's always been two or three minutes with about 13GB on there. I always thought it just backed up changes since the last backup. - Martin Bryant
Wow, two months and you still don't read your SMS'.
Reception wise has been an big improvement for me (Optus, Melbourne). A friend of mine was unable to get reception in his house before 2.1, now gets full bars. - Mike Brown
Duncan - How's the power consumption? - Jim McCusker
My car charger works and the battery life seems a bit longer. - Amani
If you are in "The Junction" Sunday School class and haven't signed up for text message updates, please take a moment and register your cell phone. Thanks. - Allen Blair
Oh sweet heaven! Sinus problems on a jet flight are horrible! I did that once & thought my head would literally explode. - joshua m. neff
Been there, done that on a flight back in February. Had a double ear infection after 4 days of not being able to release the pressure in my ears. The muffled hearing about drove me nuts. - Allen Blair
Ouch! Are you at least done with flying for the day now? - Karen Mohler
Daynah - are you the pilot then? ;-) Sorry to hear that Veronica! - Matt Harwood
Well you could be on a small plane, sitting on the window seat with a 400 pound man next to you that constantly farts for a 6 hour flight while you have no room to move around and have to keep your left leg up because there's no place to put it on the floor. (Not that this happened to me or anything.) But I feel for you. That sucks! - David Cook
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So sorry, I know the pain. Even worse is sinus pressure on an 8 hour international flight. - Jon Price
Jon: I have WritingPad. It's not as robust as Swype. I also disagree it's not faster. - Robert Scoble
there appears to be no connection between WritingPad and Swype. interested to see how this competition plays out. lawsuit? - Jon Price
Robert: how more robust? not really seeing it in demos and write-up. WritingPad poor on words that share characters in same row. - Jon Price
Jon: much more support for gestures like doing double characters and doing other stuff like better spelling correction. I need to play with both more to give you detailed list, though. - Robert Scoble
I've also used WritingPad. Swype looks better to me. It's awesome! - Dawn
Ha, so that's what I read about FF command line... I like it, but he... I like command lines... - Egon Willighagen
@brandon: yes - activites (i said smart tags before - oops). but i'm not sure they have the same 'angle.' seems like (since i've not tried Ubiquity) is user interface and that activities is a programming interface. - MikeAmundsen
this is yubnub done right. heck someone can make a simple bridge to yubnub :). What will be "dangerous" about this Ubiquity is its viralness. People will immediately shares commands. Hopefully not worm and viruses. - Akhmad Fathonih
Just installed Ubiquity and love it. I've not used IE for years and don't plan to. - Brett Nordquist
I installed it last night and I just love it, go on Moz crew!!! - darussol
IE8 makes all the websites I visit look like complete crap. If they're asking developers to use tags in their HTML so that IE8 will think it's IE7, that can't be a good sign. - Aaron Myers
I've been using YubNub and Slickrun for many months -- I'm not sure yet that Mozilla Ubiquity is a significant step forward. - Sean McBride
What Mozilla's Ubiquity ? Any link to share? - Arjun
UbiQ blows my mind away. Have been playing around with it all day. Just hoping that they imprve usability in the coming versions.
Tweeting from UbiQ is a breeze, I'm guessing this is going to increase load on Twitter APIs like crazy! - Vinodh Nandakumar
I installed Ubiquity late last night, and yes, it does have the WOW factor for me as well. I want to see how easy it is to create commands, after viewing the vid. Nice work. - Henry Burger
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It sounds great for power users. I was also imagining a sidebar type app that would be suggesting things to do with stuff. Select an address and it would pop up a map and give you the option to email it. This way no need for new users to know text commands or have to think what might be the word to use. - John Cooper
Sidebar is a great idea...also "chaining" commands. What if i want to tinyurl something (or two) and insert into a twit (or email..). Also if you don't use gmail (gasp), launching the OS native URL handlers like mailto:. - Richard Goodwin
Ubiquity looks cool, but is very similar to what can be done with Quicksilver on Mac. - Martin Añazco
if you like ubiquity you'll be sure to love http://www.humanized.com/enso that's Aza Raskin's work before he joined mozilla, so you can see where the inspiration comes from :) - Chris Jones
watching the video for ubiquity @ mozilla labs now .... whoa - JohnBfromMemphis
I am yet to try out Ubiquity yet but your WOW has convinced me to check it out later ha! - Joe Dawson (beta)
Where do these smart people come from. Very cool. - Kenley Neufeld
this changes the way I can work... but what motivates me to change this way. - Stewart Rogers
Anybody found a FF Ubiquity command to subscribe to yet? - Grey Drane
help me, the editor is making me want to learn code. ARRRRRRGH! - tehKenny
It's addictive, much like 'Launchy'. - Vinay | विनय
Yeah I love ubiquity too! Wonder what 1.0 will be like! :D - JegerPhil - Phil
If you're running Ubiquity on Linux, I would advise NOT setting the hotkey to SHIFT+SPACE. Esp. if you're fond of capitalisation... - wyclif
@Martin Añazco ya, it reminds me of Quicksilver and the command-line, too. I really love it!!!! It creates an awesome workflow that leads to inspired power browsing. - barce
Ubiquity is frakking awesome. Its like having Quicksilver inside your browser. - CubFan
Thanks to your blog post about Ubiquity I began using it and can see how it will enhance my web experience - Joshua Oehler
iPhone app you say - I don't see it ? - Lee Whittaker
I guess FriendFeed didn't develop an app specifically for iPhone but I am FFing from iPhone right now and it Rocks. - Robert Scoble
Does it look different or is it just that the interface is so simple to begin with that it works out really well on the iPhone? - Benjamin Golub
The interface is very simple. I'm commenting now from my iPod Touch. - Louis Gray
Simple interface + iphone viewport meta tag = iPhone app! Just as Jobs intended. - Kevin Fox
I noticed that if you bookmark their main site onto your iPhone home screen they have a custom iphone icon that appears. They must intend on iPhone users using their main site. - Allen Blair
they need to optimize...i.,e they need bigger text and wrapping. right now you need to blow it up and then scroll left-right... - don loeb
The FF HTML is pretty simple, with a jQuery javascript app to add all the fun stuff on top of it. - engtech
Don, one thing that helps is browsing FF in landscape mode. - Kevin Fox
@robert scoble. how long has friendfeed been your homepage for? - Eric Eldon
I just want to know... for those of you crashing the party on Monday, are you stalking Scoble, or FriendFeed? And who's keeping track? - Louis Gray
Well, FF would be easier to stalk in this case, because it's location is fixed. :) - Chris White
Oh is there a flashmob converging on FF headquarters? i'll come! - Elliott Ng
Where is the East Coast Love? I need a plane... - Anthony Farrior
It looks nice on the iPhone, but I agree that it could definitely use some bigger text. I do not, however, have to scroll left or right.. - felix
Thanks for turning me on to FriendFeed. Love it... - Mitchell Tsai
Robert - Will that visit be on Fast Company? Let us know where - Charlie Anzman
hopefully FF will be faster than apple.com in creating an iphone-optimized version. can't believe apple.com and the iphone webapp directory there aren't iphone optimized yet. - Tim Connors
Tim, I predict that you will never see an iPhone-optimized version of apple.com and the iphone webapp directory as Apple is always talking about "the real internet" on the iphone. The big idea is to NOT have iphone-optimized versions as you don't need them. - Johannes Kleske
