Jason, that just won't happen - identi.ca may crash, but as it grows, multiple sites will be built on the same system, sharing the same data. The data will be distributed, therefore it will be much harder to take down. - Jesse Stay via twhirl
That's so ludicrous it's hard to describe. First of all, the identi.ca code is designed to keep 2 nodes in sync.... Yeah, sounds like a great distributed system. Second of all, you'd have to re-create your account on a different node after identi.ca crashes. Third, a distributed Twitter would quickly become USENET 2, and become a spammers paradise. Read my post on why you don't want a distributed Twitter: http://blog.babelnote.com/2008... - Jason Carreira
yup, sounds like a good old fashioned windows vs Linux debate :) - Bwana McCall via fftogo
"I’m going to take a brief break from your food phobias today to tell you about my newest one. It lives in the freezer. It controls my mind, and at times, my spoon. And at the rate we’re going, it will be the very end of me. Or my waistline. Or my husband, as he leaves me for the Paris-dweller who envisioned this masterpiece." - Michael W. May via Bookmarklet
"This is not a sorbet for chocolate moderates. It’s for people who like chocolate to be all they can taste when they bite into something. And for the love of all that is bathing suit season, someone with better moderation than me, because I suspect it is no longer “light” if you eat it all." - Michael W. May via twhirl
i knew i should've bought some ice cream earlier today. - Cee Bee
I luv chocolate! (Having chocolate cakes right now) - Yuvi
minor bugs here. But the battery life definitely sucks with 3G. I had to reinstall the Pandora app after it wouldn't load. Some random browser close downs, sometimes the screen won't rotate horizontally on flickr. Little things, but definitely some bugs. - Thomas Hawk
Probably the worse problem is the battery! With all the power hungry applications and screen you lucky if you get 2 hours of usage on full charge! After a multitude of recharges your battery ability to hold a charge will diminish. I would bet that after 100 charges that 2 hours will go down close to 1 hour! But it is just guessing! Has apple released the battery statistics? Big problems for a 600 usd phone! Bad news for Apple branding! - Igor The Troll
How much does a replacement battery cost? And if you buy non OEM battery you will void your warranty! - Igor The Troll
Reinstalled the software. Still have incredibly long backup/sync times. Random crashes and reboots. I feel like I've gone back to Windows 3.0. This phone would not have succeeded if 1.0 was like this. - Steve P
Battery is not a software issue per se, though it can be optimized there. 3G and GPS really just tax the battery. It's the same on all 3G devices... - Jonathan Greene
I'm glad my contract isn't up until Nov. Hopefully they have all the kinks worked out. - Bryan Clark
I haven't fully road tested it yet but I was nearly caught out by a 20% left on your battery after an usual day of 8 hours disconnected from the USB lead... think Ill have to leave 3G off to see if that makes a difference and possibly Wifi when not in use.... didnt really have battery issues on Iphone 1.0 - David W
I didn't expect that from the hYpephone. Interesteing to know. Apple transforms more and more to Microsoft in the 90s. Still like Apple, but they going to eat up savings. Still the best computer company around - Ryo
totally agree ... I have applications that crash and my battery dies instantly - Nick O'Neill
The clear signal I am hearing here: don't buy the iPhone 2.0 in its current incarnation. This is why I never rush out to buy a new anything (not to mention wait in lines) -- wait for real world feedback from smart users. - Sean McBride
I tested and bought iPhone 1.0 on the first evening. It was the most bug free product (not just 1.0 product) I've ever seen. It lived up to its hype. Software 2.0 has taken it down several notches, hopefully temporarily. I am sure Steve Jobs is not happy atm. I expect at least one software update within the next 2 weeks. - Steve P
it still is better than all my other phones. - Robert Scoble
other than screwy GPS, seems to work ok. I'm going to see if a restore offers any relief. - Tom Landini
ok, let's speak about windows mobile? ;) - Dorian Tireli
Me and 3 other guys in the USA are still hanging on to our blackberries and kdding ourselves they are better than iphones so ha! - Cody Heitschmidt
robert you won't believe this but I'm actually enjoying the Treo 800W. It has a TON of tweaking, but if the battery life is acceptable, the BB may have reason to fear. N95 still best camera for non-slr-lugging. - Andrew Feinberg
definitely buggy but I think the battery life is typical of 3G devices. I've read reviews of the bold which complain about the same thing. - Judi Sohn
I love my crackberry...no need to "downgrade" to iPhone until it has AT LEAST the same core features I had before July 11th rollout. - Susan Beebe
My GPS just doesnt work at all! When i first got it, it found me. Once, and only once has it worked. Wont even find me by cell towers or anything, just sits and spins untill i quit out or stop it. Epic fail, not happy.. - Simon Wicks
Re: Battery life. Definitely not the case for all 3G devices. My Nokia E71 works all day and would work well into the next day as well. Similar case for many 3G phones I've tested - Didi Chanoch
xv6800 will go 2+ days, syncing Exchange & another account, frequent web use, on 3G. Granted, if iPhone were as thin as xv6800, I'm sure it could match it with a slightly less thin battery. I use "thin" in jest, xv6800. - Wade Dorrell
Oh oh, I'm going to have to rethink my planned purchase - Nitin Badjatia
I've also experienced some bugs. Mostly centered around some poor app performance, meaning crashes and what not, as well as lag times and some pretty uncomfortable reboots. All in all 2.0 is worth it for the apps, but needs stability patches for sure. - Andrew Dobrow
My Blackberry Thunder/Storm/Touchscreen battery lasts for days. Oh wait they still haven't released a touchscreen. - Cody Heitschmidt
guess i'll keep waitin', jb 1.1.2 apps still work great :) - videopixil via twhirl
like any Apple x.0 release. we are the beta testers :-) - Jamie
Anthony, you ever think downloading a song illegaly is like stealing a car (or anything else) or you totally missed his point. kid rock is a brick for stating this bullshit. - marcel weiss
@Marcel, You really think this is complete bull? It seems there is some validity to his commentary. I don't completely agree with it but I think it has merit. - Andy Lewandowski
What's the wealth limit for when it's OK to steal? $1,000,000? $10,000,000? - Richard Bradshaw
@Richard Bill Gates has to ask at what point is it no longer worth it to bend over to pick up a dropped $100 bill when he could be making more money in those three seconds working on a more important problem. Like I'm doing here. Oh. - Andrew Baron
There is absolutely NO validity to his point. No actual theft is involved when you copy a digital file of any sort that exists on the internet. It's only theft if some loss of property is involved. Meatspace items are finite resources - if you take one you create a loss. Digital items are infinite resources. You can't "steal" a number, which is what digital files are. This is a tired argument that obsolete industries continually trot out in an attempt to justify their lingering existence. - Tad Donaghe
Meatspace items can be secured from theft - locked, put up, garaged, etc. Some digital files, especially MP3s can NOT be secured. Attempts to protect digital "property" is fine with me, but the moment that a DRM scheme is rendered obsolete, the file it's protecting is no longer property. I "purchase" digital tracks because I can afford it. It's out of respect for the creator and to encourage continuing production. - Tad Donaghe
It's funny. I'm not sure it's meant to be much more than that. - Iain Baker
Agreed with Tad - you can't steal something that has infinite resources, like a digital file. What makes 'things' valuable are their relative scarcity. I'm not advocating not paying for digital music, but this comparison is completely bogus. The bottom line is that digital music can't and shouldn't be directly monetized like records or CDs. - J. Phil
this is great but kids with a sense of entitlement need more than this. They need a spanking to within an inch or their life because in the real world it translate to - Chris Conway
a winey brat who does not want to pay dues and the job market does not tolerate that sort of attitude - Chris Conway
end of last snowboard season but will be taking a week off in august - mike "glemak" dunn
A few weeks ago, went fishing. I try to do once a month. - Jim Kukral via twhirl
Take time out to do fun things every day and try to go AFK at least a couple times a month. Being self-employed is a great thing in this regard. - TDavid
Last November. It's tough when you're a contractor and don't get paid for days off. - Mark Krynsky
never fully "off" but sometimes "mostly off", last time was sunday - Scott Lockhart
@andrew off means you did no work related to your career, instead you may have got caught up elsewhere or had fun - Julian Baldwin
yesterday... I went with my wife and some friend for a hike in the moutains. It's important to leave work from time to time. - Andrés David Aparicio via twhirl
Dont u think its a too much of mashup - trying to do a lot of thing at the same time. As they say too many cooks spoils the broth - Arjun
so what is going to be better? twitter failed people because it failed to be a non censored medium. how is YouAre going to be different? - Noah David Simon
So Many new services in the last few weeks, too many. - jjprojects
Yuvi: You've got the mettle. You'll do just as superbly anywhere. Perhaps find fewer people that you will be able to understand but trust me, you will survive that. I did; that too without FF. :) So keep those spirits high! Again, Best of Luck. - Parth Awasthi
Whatever college you go, do not forget to have Fun, not just study! lol - Igor The Troll
Last 17 hours Yuvi! Waiting your good news! ; ) - Erhan Erdogan
Folks - this isn't a big deal. I picked my college, and it's just that it'll be officially "make it so" day tomorrow. So, nothing exciting :) - Yuvi
dont say that yuvi - it's very exciting - college is important! - Allen Stern
@Allen: I guess college is exciting - just that an official "make it so - you're in that college" day isn't. And btw, Indian (especially TN) college life is absolutely nowhere similar to American/European college life. - Yuvi
Yuvi, "college life is absolutely nowhere similar to American/European college life. - " yeah thank God for small mercies, at least you learn in college and you cant outsource your dissertation/thesis write to India :)- - Peter Dawson
It seems that telecom companies are doomed. Either the current government jails them, or the next one jails them. It's all fine, because we hate them all, and we don't care what happens to them. - Amit Patel
Sucks to get such a public firing. :/ - Bjorn Tipling
I suppose it wasn't Shel's fault though. I think Robert set himself and Shel up for failure on the Fast Company Network. Two very bright guys who's work doesn't really translate that well to video. We all know what Robert is thinking because he thinks out loud all day long, and in all of that time spent, he's not really thinking about video. Its hard to be an expert at everything. - Andrew Baron
Bjorn, ironically it wasn't a public firing. That was my point. There are two views on whether a company should announce the departure of a person, and in this case FastCompany chose not to publicly announce the departure. Robert Scoble has stated his reasons for not doing so. - Ontario Emperor
But obviously it was public. They knew people would talk about it and then Robert chimed in with his public comments on a blog post and then reblogged that link on friendfeed. - Andrew Baron
And btw, "boring" is not a criticism to Shel who is not at all boring in my opinion, but rather that he didnt get the production support that he needed to create a buzz around the information that he was bringing to the table. - Andrew Baron
The problem was not getting Shel a producer to begin with. - Andrew Feinberg
I guess Shel is being quiet for a reason, i wouldn't like to have all this aired without having a say :\ - Chris Jones via twhirl
I never saw any of the FC stuff. Any of it actually worth 3 minutes of my time? - Sean-Michael Robinson
@Sanford, visually? I was glad to see you all sitting there but I dont believe the show did anything to take advantage of the visual medium. As I said in my tweet, very boring to watch. This was just an audio podcast, really. - Andrew Baron
Revision3 does the production and is paid a lot to do the video parts of the show. I spend a lot of time thinking about our shows along with the team at Revision3 and we will continue tweaking this. One reason we hired Revision3 is because I know I don't know how to do a good studio show. I thought we would have more than five shows to get to be ultra-high quality, but that was my mistake and it won't be repeated again. - Robert Scoble
its odd to see Shel or Scooble on FastCompany anyways, I mean why do i care about FastCompany, tradtional media mag dead, next - Dan Rockwell via twhirl
Sean: I have learned a lot from every guest on the show. Amazing no one talks about that. Sanford's show will teach you a lot about co-working. On this Friday's show will be David Allen who has started a productivity cult around his Getting Things Done book and methodology. That won't be boring, no matter how badly I suck. - Robert Scoble
Robert, its not about you sucking. It's about the lack of visual value. Take the video linked to above by Sanford for instance. That video is weak on the visuals. And it takes SO LONG to get the info across. When watching the video, and listening to what you and your guests are saying, try to imagine what could go on top of their voice-overs in post to add another layer of depth and value to the experience. There is a moment of website b-roll for example. What else can you imagine visually from the video? - Andrew Baron
How many hours a day do you spend on Rocketboom? I heard you once say it is 12 hours a day for a few minutes of video. WorkFast is a live interview show like Charlie Rose. You don't see him doing lots of graphics either.. My guests can only give me an hour of their time. That is one reason I get such extraordinary guests. I don't ask for a lot of their time. I agree that such a treatment would be better, but would make a live video show very difficult to do without a huge crew behind the scenes. I will look for visual opportunities. Thanks for the feedback. - Robert Scoble
As a filmmaker I can tell you 1) yes the visual element is important and 2) maybe not in the way you think. Just having someone on camera for a while gives you a very good sense of who they are. Scoble's video's are fine and what makes them valuable is the immediacy. Maybe they get cut together someday by a doc filmmaker or Scoble himself but that's a different media object. My own interviews for the next film I'm putting up raw w/out editing for all to see. I think there's value in that. - Dean Terry
There is value in that for sure Dean. I think my suggestion does not exclude this value. 30 minutes of watching 2 or three guys sit in a chair talk is a lot like watching a reading for a play. But usually, when you add the set and enhance the work with sound and bring more visual stimulation to the scene, you wind up with a real opportunity to get the human element across, as well as showing and emphasizing visually the subject matter that is being discussed. - Andrew Baron
I quite enjoy the style the Robert produces. After all this is an interview with the people behind the technologies, not a PowerPoint presentation. Lots of visuals are not always a good thing, especially when the audio content is the major thing of intrest. - John Worthington
@john It certainly fits in the long tail. No questioning that there is a value for some people. - Andrew Baron
Wasn't I seeing tweets from others raving about how fucking "brilliant" or "funny" Shel was? Now he's yesterdays Web 2.0 trash? Man you guys are fucking fickle. - Daniel Spisak via twhirl
Andrew: understood. I'm sure you would agree there are meaningful added media elements and there are b.s. ones. Canned music and flying text are useless and zombie inducing. What would be interesting, but would take much more time in editing, is to spend a whole day with Scoble's subjects. Get them eating breakfast, driving to work, on conference calls, with their dog, etc. Then you get a more full portrait of the person, in addition to the ideas. (OK I'm biased, this is my approach) - Dean Terry
Andrew-Don't beat around the bush. Scoble is not a video guy. Not everyone is. Just because he has a zillion fanboys (and girls) here no reason not to speak your mind openly. Seems to me that Scoble's appeal is to geeks that think everything he fixates on for 5 seconds is the 2nd coming of Apple or to the CEO's that are getting a nice infomercial from the Scobleizer. - Mark Forman
@Dean, but what about the topic of conversation? Getting to know the person and what they eat for breakfast is one thing, but what about when they are talking about the things that are important to them? Like their work? Maybe some of that time visual information could be used to provide more depth and make the information more clear. - Andrew Baron
Mark: I never claimed to be a video guy. I am a conversation guy. I have conversations. Tomorrow with a couple of famous architects. The video is just so you can come along too. Not everyone will like what I am doing. That comes with doing media. Star Wars was given awful critiques, yet I still love it. I haven't seen anyone else do more than 1,000 video interviews online, though. There is a reason: criticism is easy: having extraordinary conversations is hard. - Robert Scoble
@Andrew agreed, but it would push production time ever further. I'm sitting watching (in ambient fashion) a History Channel production that took months to create. My last film took 3 yrs. All OK if timeliness is not an issue. Many tech interviews get stale very fast unless they are about very big picture issues (which, sadly, aren't as interesting to many). Personally I try and get people to talk about larger social issues, often just out of their comfort zone. These seem to have some lasting value. - Dean Terry
Andrew: I agree. It is why we do different kinds of shows. The one I am doing tomorrow with an architect that designed Los Angeles stadium will have visuals. But that is more like Rocketboom since it will be edited. WorkFast is a live conversation and putting in visuals is much tougher. - Robert Scoble
I agree with Andrew. I tried to watch several shows but it was like watching the radio. I think it's possible to be visually more interesting without a lot of work. And isn't that Rev. 3's job? - chartreuse
Realizing that I have not watched any scoble videos in a long time. I wish that I could add that upcoming GTD Video to my queue. - Christian Burns
Honestly, I am not a video guy and really don't know anything. But I was watching an old Charlie Rose episode on YouTube last night. For those that do know what they are talking about, is that not a two-camera show? If so, Robert - if you got two cameras on there for coverage, would you not be able to cut more together (without all the whiz-bang graphics stuff) but at least you could get some tight shots, etc... Again, I really have no clue about video, so this may be irrelevant. - Adam Bullied
"According to a 2007 poll of 1,500 people conducted by the Pew Research Center, 36 percent of 18- to 25-year-olds and 40 percent of 26- to 40-year-olds have at least one tattoo. Still, even Larry David was so haunted by the cemetery edict that he wrote an episode of “Curb Your Enthusiasm” in which he pays off a gravedigger to have his mother reburied in a Jewish cemetery despite a small tattoo on her behind.
But the edict isn’t true. The eight rabbinical scholars interviewed for this article, from institutions like the Jewish Theological Seminary and Yeshiva University, said it’s an urban legend. It was most likely started because a specific cemetery had a policy against tattoos. Jewish parents and grandparents picked up on it and over time, their distaste for tattoos was presented as scriptural doctrine." - edythe via Bookmarklet
"Andy Abrams, a filmmaker, has spent five years making a documentary called “Tattoo Jew.” In his interviews with dozens of Jews with body art, he’s noticed the prevalence of Jewish-themed tattoos — from Stars of David to elaborate Holocaust memorials, surprising since one reason Jewish culture opposes tattoos is that Jews were involuntarily marked in concentration camps." - edythe
Great story, but WTF is up with the post-processing on the pictures? They're awful! - Cecily Walker
And y'know, I'm not even remotely Jewish, but I'd heard about this taboo/tradition so much that I often wondered how Ami James (mentioned in the article) explained how he got around this belief. - Cecily Walker
I managed to pull that joke off at a friend's birthday last Friday night: some people who don't really know us asked my wife if this was her first pregnancy, which she answered 'yes', and I said, 'It's my third.' Everyone laughed and whenever she'd turn to look at me (laughing as well), I'd shake my head and laugh, too, but as soon as she'd turn away, I'd look at the others at the table quite grimly and nod my head. She'd look back and I'd shake my head again and laugh. Repeat 2x. G-d bless Eddie Izzard. - Akiva Moskovitz
svn status works, but it says it's not under version control. How to fix? - James Williams (willia4)
Also: isn't this one of the problems source control is supposed to freaking prevent?! If I wanted my code to be this fragile, I'd store it on a cassette tape along with Atari Basic. - James Williams (willia4)
I thought svn was supposed to handle a failed commit?! That was one of the main reasons the MS had when switching from VSS. There has to be something on the web about recovery. It shouldn't corrupt your working copy or the last repository revision. - xero
It didn't corrupt the working copy (all my code is there), but it is now in a state from which it will not commit my changes. I don't know how to fix it and the web isn't being helpful. - James Williams (willia4)
Can you roll it back out to the last revision and commit again? Been a while since I used svn, been using a proprietary and tfs for a while now. - xero
Any clues who wrote it? Do you still have the chain e-mail? My older computer died, and all my old e-mails are on a DVD backup. Too lazy to restore them... - Mitchell Tsai
Hutch: Wish I were in shape. Sigh... Started running again & I can only do a few miles. Once upon a time marathons were ok. Time to work up to road race. There was a 75-yr-old guy (now probably 85) who was always faster than me. My goal was to get faster times than him. Also met a guy 100+ who was gunning for the "olde
