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Yahoo Hires Former Twitter Chief Architect Blaine Cook
July 16 at 3:44 pm - Link
Soon we'll see if it is Blaine Cook to blame for Twitters failures (if Fire Eagle fails as well) or Twitter overall. - Justin Korn
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instead of a fail whale, we'll get maybe a sad frown clown when yahoo goes down? - Jason Shultz via twhirl
Time for Yahoo to make a Failhoo graphic - xero
Unfortunately Yahoo and these early-stage projects won't live long enough for this side-by-side comparison with Twitter - Jason Carreira
I hope he does well and improves FireEagle...no fail whale please! - Susan Beebe
Folks... Blaine is hellacious competent! Seriously doubt any one of you will eat their shorts when this proves out true. I'd have him on my team ANY time. - Gerald Buckley
I don't have enough technical knowledge to judge Blaine, but his departure didn't make Twitter better, did it? Re Yahoo's long term viability, even if Microsoft or 7 Eleven or whoever takes over Yahoo, I don't see these projects gettting killed. - Ontario Emperor via fftogo
Ontario, apparently, according to the latest twitter status blogs, his leaving has paved the way for improvement (if you read between the lines). - Jason Carreira
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Google: Where Companies Go To Die
July 16 at 4:54 pm - Link
Is Google stalling or inhibiting the innovation? If they can't do it (lack of bandwidth), don't even let others do it.. Acquire it.. Kill it. Before it becomes pain or yet another disruptive tech to deal with. A typical CEO stratergy? - Umesh Kakkad
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به به :دی - Maziar
منو با خودت بخور - Ali Atashin
لایک برای کامنت علی اتشین، واقعا منو با خودت بخور :)) - خیزران
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Rainy protest on Flickr - Photo Sharing!
Rainy protest on Flickr - Photo Sharing!
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處女瀑布, Virgin Waterfall on Flickr - Photo Sharing!
處女瀑布, Virgin Waterfall on Flickr - Photo Sharing!
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流水 on Flickr - Photo Sharing!
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yawn on Flickr - Photo Sharing!
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لایک واسه شکوفه‌ی گیلاس - RAMIN ИІΜΑЯ
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5 reasons to avoid iPhone 3G - Free Software Foundation
5 reasons to avoid iPhone 3G - Free Software Foundation
July 13 at 2:06 pm - via Bookmarklet - Link
Apple, through its marketing and visual design techniques, is manufacturing an illusion that merely buying an Apple makes you part of an alternative community. But the technology they use is explicitly chosen to divide people into separate digital cells, and to position Apple as sole warden. When your business depends on people paying for the privilege of being locked up, the prison better look and feel luxurious, and the bars better not be too visible. - Anthony
Apple is Jobba the Hut for sure... - Mark Forman
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APOD: 2008 July 13 - A Dark Sky Over Death Valley
APOD: 2008 July 13 - A Dark Sky Over Death Valley
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Love to see pics of the Milky Way; hope that light pollution doesn't kill it though. :( - Kevin C. Tofel
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why the heck did someone drag that rock all the way out there?? - Ňicķ
Czar, this is an awesome find! - Mona N.
The wind dragged the rock Nick. I had this exact picture as a desktop background for a long time. - Bjorn Tipling
Kevin C. Tofel, you can still see it, just not close to the cities. Go out into the woods or away from the resorts in some place like Hawaii and it is there and is amazing - RAPatton
God, that is awesome. - Ayşe E.
reminds me of the stars from the deck of a ship in the middle of the Atlantic - Earl E Morningwood
The "Astronomy picture of the day" (APOD) site is very cool. Some gorgeous pictures of our wonderful universe. And to think that when I was age 6-15, I often got bored with the world... The internet is so cool! - Mitchell Tsai
That's incredible - Corie "Viper" Jones
That's awesome. This really makes me wish I had multiple monitors to span it across. When you follow the link the image is huge! - Robert DeBord
freaking awesome. i tried to take some pictures like this over the Grand Canyon this year, but didn't get anywhere near this... wow. - Anthony Citrano
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The A-List Is Dead, Long Live The A-List
July 13 at 12:41 pm - Link
Interesting read, didn't even realize what the A-List was until reading this. I agree that the A-List isn't going anywhere but when I joined FriendFeed, I found myself going to less blogs and sites simply because all the interesting news and data comes to me in the form of mass community interaction. Love where this is going. - Michael Narciso via NoiseRiver
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“How do you know someone is smart? I've been thinking about that this morning and looking back at all the conversations I've had and one common theme is smart people talk to you about ideas, not about celebrities.”
July 13 at 10:32 am - Link
Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie would certainly agree! - Emotion Tad
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What about people who share stupid ideas? Like Free Enegery, most conspiracy theories, many political statements, etc etc... - Emotion Tad
Robert, I like this and totally agree :) - directeur via NoiseRiver
Tad: even those people are still smarter than people who tell you about what Britney Spears did last night. - Robert Scoble
You could replace "celebrities" in that sentence with "names of people". In other words, it's ideas and concepts that are important, not egos. Even "nobodies" can have egos. Narcissism shuts out the world beyond the self, we can't learn if we are always holding up a mirror, never looking beyond it. - Jason Wehmhoener
My dad once told me that even the dumbest person in the world can teach you something because he probably knows something you don't. - Jason Shultz via twhirl
Smart people listen more than they talk. - Randy Hall
To me the smart people are those that make a well-reasoned argument for and idea and then do two things. 1. Have the guts to put it out there to the world and 2. Have the guts to change their mind if they're wrong (or hold their ground when they know they're right) - Morgan
I think it all depends on the topic you're discussing. I'd say someone is smart if she can engage with you on the discussion and make you think about it from a different angle. - Bruno Pedro
Jason: it's one thing if I tell you "Doug Engelbart had dinner at the Ritz last night." It's a whole nother thing if I tell you "Doug Engelbart told me that xxxx idea is interesting and he's working on making that better." - Robert Scoble
I absolutely agree, Randy. - Jack Carlson
Duncan for example is a smart guy, but still talks about celebrities, so it's possible to do both and still be smart - Dobromir Hadzhiev
Which reminds me I need to talk to you about an 'idea' at blogher. ok. not really...more about which cam to get for the conventions. lol - Erin Kotecki Vest
I agree... This is especially obvious here in LA... although sometimes the celeb mention is the nature of the business -- or at least mention of -- as Calacanis would say -- "webebrities." - Andy Sternberg
Jason: that's true. I have yet to meet someone who is able to communicate (I have a friend with a mentally retarded son who isn't able to communicate, so we'll leave him out of this) who I couldn't learn something from. Randy: exactly. When I fail as an interviewer it isn't because I'm listening, it's probably cause I'm talking. - Robert Scoble
Andy: when you talk to the smartest people in Hollywood they talk to you about ideas. Trends. People's work. They don't talk about "I saw Tom Cruise at dinner last night" or "did you see what they said about Oprah in the tabloids?" - Robert Scoble
Robert: I agree. The point I was trying to make is that we can learn something from almost everybody, even those who we may think know less then us. - Jason Shultz via twhirl
I think one can be smart and still talk about "Weird Al" Yankovic, because he's smart. - MiniMage via NoiseRiver
Dobromir: Duncan's best work is when he talks about ideas. That's why I love Duncan, cause he tells me who has the most interesting ideas, and he's very willing to debate ideas (I've debated a few with him). - Robert Scoble
I think people can be both highly intelligent and pretty stupid at the same time. Robert Anton Wilson said it better than I can, "When dogma enters the brain, all intellectual activity ceases." And that doesn't apply to just religious dogma - any kind including political, scientific, cultural, etc. - Emotion Tad
Robert Anton Wilson++ - Jason Wehmhoener
this is a cool thread! we need a lightbulb "intelligence meter" on FF - users vote on how smart you are based on your posts... bulb gets brighter with more votes! - Susan Beebe
Susan: fantastic idea! Now that's smart. - Bruno Pedro
I have a theory that being smart is simply a matter of the attention that you give somthing. Granted, Nobel Prize winning physicists dont grow on trees. - Roberto "Maverick" Bonini
smart to me is someone who knows what they know but more importantly knows what they don't know - too many intelligent people who never make it to smart because they are too busy broadcasting what they know - Marco (aureliusmaximus)
That would give credence to the old saying “if smarts was electricity that boy couldn’t light up a 10 watt bulb. “ - Earl E Morningwood
Social media is about inclusion, don't alienate too much with your labels and boxes - Michael W. May via twhirl
I've found smart people treat being smart like fight club: rule number one is you don't talk about being smart. Rule number two is you don't talk about being smart. To Jason Wehmhoener's point, smart people don't spend their time making a point of how they're wrapped up in smart things or "look what a good person I am for talking to x or doing y." - Mark Trapp
Smart people usually start talking by conditioning everything - and the first condition is for them to say they are not an expert ... - LPH™
How do you know that someone isn't smart? - Michael J. Cohen (mjc) via twhirl
Smart folks understand questions are important, they are not afraid to admit ignorance and appreciate that learning is a process not an event. - Dave Martin
LPH: hmmm, the ultra smart like Douglas Engelbart (who really is the true visionary I've spent time with) just paint pictures in your mind of how the world will be someday. He never said he was expert at something, just talked about how this new world would work. I could listen to that guy for hours. At 82 he's easily the smartest person I've met. - Robert Scoble
Michael: that's an interesting question. The biggest way I've found? The only skill not smart people have is in ripping down other people's ideas, or, worse, trying to rip down other people altogether. - Robert Scoble
Robert, put it another way: smart people talk about the world that could be, not that the world that is? - Mark Dykeman
"No one who cannot rejoice in the discovery of his own mistakes deserves to be called a scholar." - Donald Foster - Roberto "Maverick" Bonini
Smart people simply can get the job done faster and pay attention to the hidden details that others would miss. I still don't know how to best test for it, though. - Ben Parr
smart people are visionaries, humble and most likely pious too. Take a look at the peoples who are deemed as being smart. These are some of the comman attributes of these type of people.! - Peter Dawson
I think it can go both ways-Charlie Rose talks about both-ideas are great, but what is with the people behind those ideas - that's very interesting! I also think its a natural human instinct to talk about others - it depends on the context. "I saw Tom Cruise last night" is the lowest common denominator. Inquiring about the dynamic of Shell's latest barrage of public vitriol and the work ethic of others in the Valley are spurned from natural human curiosity that we all share, whether we ask it or not. - james svenson
+1 for Paul - Steven Hodson
Robert: ”Smart” here as different from ”Intelligent” – I have one story that will help us out here to identify a smart person. I had a friend at high school that knew he was not that intelligent, but he was smart: - he used to research old exams to see what the previous year tests would possibly cover on the upcoming exams. He used to collect all class notes from the top “dedicated” colleagues that were willing to share the notes. He would then select the top 10 of about 20 topics that could come up on the exams. This guy passed always and with the minimum needed to advance. What he did in my opinion was that he OPTIMIZED all his capacity to achieve one goal and that as it. He knew his weakness so well that he found ways to overcome them. He went from high school to university and to MBA: he travel to Europe for about a year and returned to get the job he wanted. - Joao
@susanbeebe: I dunno, I'd feel pretty hurt when the system took away my lightbult entirely. - MiniMage via NoiseRiver
@regila: all this for a "bob"? ;-) - directeur via NoiseRiver
I remember my dad once telling me what Eleanor Roosevelt said... "Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people." - Brian Sloane
the first sign that someone is really smart... they will tell you they're not but they will show you they are. - Scott Lockhart
I'm not saying I'm particularly smart, but I truly find celeb gossip one of the most uninteresting things I can think of. - Ian May
I think that smart people are the people that get things done. Imagine two people that have never heard or met each other and both of them come up with the exact same brilliant idea. One person brings the brilliant idea to a reality, while the other person doesn't. Which person is smarter? - possible248 via NoiseRiver
Plug for the "highfalutin" room: http://friendfeed.com/rooms/hi... if you want to talk about things with depth - Ňicķ
maybe true...but everyone is smart in their own right. you might be a social media whiz but not know anything about putting in kitchen cabinets. I'm a firm believer that everyone has their sweet spots in terms of knowledge. The really smart ones, just take the time to expand that sweet spot so it's more than just a spot and more like an area. - Don Martelli
@donmartelli: Well said... - Michael Narciso via NoiseRiver
I think a smart person can talk about both. That way he/she can converse with all people and not make anyone feel less smart than them. - Adrienne Van Houten
Adrienne: I agree with that. But smart people never start out that way. - Robert Scoble
What an awful generalization. That's how I know when someone is smart. When he doesn't make an implied generalization like "stupid people talk about celebrities". - Jay Cruz
smart people think through questions and give full answers. who talks to you about angelina jolie? i agree anybody asking scoble about that is "not as intelligent," but probably nice people...unless they have no idea who you are....maybe they ask you these questions: "is veronica belmont really cute in person? or is kevin rose really a ladies man?" however, smart people are not always smart in all aspects of their lives... - Pokai
"Smart people talk about ideas. Common people talk about things. Mediocre people talk about people." -Jules Romains - Joe Lencioni
@Jay: You spelled know wrong. - Daniel Smith
For the record, that was a joke ;) - Daniel Smith
Thank's @Daniel Smith - Jay Cruz
You know when someone is smart when they know what they're talking about and they have a good understanding. "Smart" people grasp things better and/or have ideas. - Kevin Porter via twhirl
Smart is not about opinions ("Stupid ideas"). You can be smart and have different beliefs. I'm wondering if they are "smart" conversations or just engaging conversations. I'm much more interested in sharing ideas than sports scores, gossip, or transitory circumstances. - Barb Gonzalez
Ugh. Most of these comments seem to prescribe behavior to those who are "smart" - one of the only commonalities I've ever seen of truly smart people is that they make their own rules. To say they only talk about X not Y or they listen more than they talk or any other behavioral observation misses the mark with me. Smart people don't subscribe to other peoples' ideas of what they should be. - Lucretia Pruitt
Smart people realize how little they know but have no need to try and convince others that they know a lot. - Dossy Shiobara
Scoble, no one is "smart" or an "expert." It doesn't really matter at all. The only thing that matters is how people preceive someone to be. My blog, http://onlyjames.com/ is constantly growing, so I believe people to think I am smart. Then again, I might be a complete nutcase. :D - James Mowery via twhirl
I think you can define smart a few different ways as well. I think the question you're really asking is "How to determine if someone is INTELLIGENT?" - David
I have noticed that they seem less likely to urinate in their pants than the general population - Seth Shapiro
I wish I understood this. - Michael Markman
Takes a long time of knowing someone and seeing how they react under differents sets of circumstances. People are smart in some ways, but not in others. - Francine Hardaway via twhirl
When I hear the word "celebrity" I now think of Sarah Austin's Pop17 which come to think of it Robert, you have never acknowledged that I know of. Her site is about a new kind of celebrity. For her, and for me, the interesting celebrities are people who become famous because of their outstanding work. And she does not attempt to ask about shallow tips or favorite colors, but rather about their work. The people she tends to interview are micro-celebrities small in size, but important. - Andrew Baron
Smart people don't brag about how they can recognize smart people. - Rutger Blom
I enjoy people who talk about other change-makers in the world. People who point me towards amazing & influential musicians, dancers, physicists, politicians, chefs, etc... Sometimes the geek-world is a little heavy on ideas. I enjoy hearing about the life history & paths of unusual chemists, religious leaders, and environmentalists. Just as some of my friends have more "aesthetic sense" than others, some are unusually attuned to remarkable people, and some to innovative ideas. - Mitchell Tsai
smart people just know - Pokai
@ Scoble, once again you've hit a collective nerve with this thread. it goes back to what makes us human? "i'm not human without you"- Desmond Tutu re: Umuntu http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U...) communities like friendfeed should be a place where we explore these types of questions, there is enough pablum out in this world already, thanks for pursuing this line of questioning. - Nice Fish Films
I have an idea in that I'd love to get Britney Spears on Twitter - I think that would do wonders for her career. ;) - Jesse Stay
Is smart a measurement of intelligence or emotional quotient? One's intelligence is measured and quantified, like it or not, whether intelligence is synonmous with smart, that maybe another question. One can have emotional quotient as well i.e. street smarts and it too is measurable. Intelligence is not dribble. Intelligence, for me, is the generation of ideas with vision followed by implementation. Intelligence has many forms as well albeit plasticity or crystallized. Good nature versus nurture question. - ka3drr
I'll answer with this: the people's intelligence that I most desire and respect are the ones who are able to bring reality to the "out of the box" ideas they have. Plenty of people can speculate, but very few have the competence to bring a good idea to the rest of us. - Tony
depressingly true... - Stephen Roberts
I still have no clue who these A-listers are that people talk about but I'm interested in ideas both from other people and also sharing ones I come across. Celebrities? Phooey, give me an original thinker any day. - Sally Church
Pop culture aficionados are not necessarily stupid. I think the smartest people can carry on a conversation about nearly anything, and like it or not popular culture is a great source of inspiration for many ideas. - Lindsey Smith
Hmmm, how about... Methinks "smart people" think about having conversations with people (aka "intellectual celebrities") with whom they can talk about ideas and... Sigh... It still goes back to Howard Bloom: http://users.ucom.net/~vegan/P... —I'm a Zen Buddhist, but I still do think "God" is fair... As in, I can brainstorm pretty well, yes, but I'd die in the Aussie outback if you put me there. :P - kwok heng
Thats a great observation. If only we could make those ideas a reality :) You are a fun guy to talk about ideas with. - Christian Burns
Is this where we talk about Paris Hilton ? - Eric Berlin
Eric: my niece says Sean Faris is hot. I don't even know who that is. Off to the Google for me! :-) - Robert Scoble
I think I have a trump card. go look at The Inquisitr..there's some pretty intelligent posts on there and, also talk about celebrities. You can tell someone you are talking to is smart by the way they treat the subject at hand and, how they deliver their portion of the conversation. - Candace Holly
Funny you should mention him, Robert. I'm working with a website, and he's one of our celebs on it. The odd part, for me, is that we have all of these B+ list celebs, and I don't know any of them. - Bradley McSpinn
I put it to you that smart people talk about people rather than ideas - Jim Yiapanis
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Jackass Reports on iPhone Line, Gets Called Jackass
Jackass Reports on iPhone Line, Gets Called Jackass
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Respect to the feisty geek. - Jonathon
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I remember when Eric started out as a cub reporter at KTLA; look how far he's come. - Aron Michalski
Is that Michaela Pereira of Internet Tonight and TechLive fame?!! Wow that takes me back... - Zach Underwood
wow, I think the thing is you should not have people who don't care about tech reporting on tech. that's like having a football brodcaster call a hockey game. - Greg Wilker via twhirl
As much of a jackass as he was, he was right. It's just a frakking phone, not the second coming of Christ. - Nicholas Sanders
Talk about wankers! I would have asked him, "Have you ever got laid?" LMAO - Igor The Troll
WTF, "Do you call this journalism?" Duh! - Igor The Troll
It was a whole lot funnier when Triumph did it in the Star Wars line - Chris Rivait
This is why I hate broadcast journalism. - David Cohn
when pushed on this being journalism he took the mic away, speaks volumes doesn't it - robert steburg
Let's see...I'll make fun of a guy who's been standing in line for a long time...yeah THAT will work well! Don't ask the question if you don't want the smackdown! That video is FUNNY! - Jeff Garlick
After wedgies in in K-12 and 4 years of college, THAT nerd has finally had enough!!! The follow up question to "Have you ever seen a girl naked" should have been, "Besides on the internet?" - Brian Norwood
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Thinking About Blackberry Apps
July 13 at 12:55 am - Link
I've found some unbelievable Blackberry Apps as I really dig into it. Just getting back from Paris I couldn't have enjoyed the city nearly as much without Google Maps and GPS. Just feels like there is so much potential for complete seamless integration with a Blackberry if more and more apps worked together. (Airline itineraries, scheduling, maps, etc.) Wondering if the Bold will push for more investment in the area of BB Apps or if people are just going to keep turning investment dollars towards Facebook and iPhone? Also interesting that I usually find the least dynamic/valuable portion of the Blackberry and the iPhone for that matter to be the menu screen. - Ricky Engelberg
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The Death of My Little Dead Dick
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I'm so not touching this one... - Mark Forman
Another grim milestone ... - Jay Tannenbaum
When passion fuels art, often the lifespan is short. A fine relationship, thankfully captured in images... - Aron Michalski
Interesting to-a Taiwanese and a mainland Chinese finding the space they need to explore in a familiar but yet non-Chinese space. - Mark Forman
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“Gillmor you here?”
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I sense he's on his way... The bird and the whale have worn out the most stubborn (myself included).Perhaps a puppet could show our wildlife friends a good time until he gets here... - Aron Michalski via fftogo
Yes he is here so is MA, JC and etc I have not found MC Hammer as of yet - Fred Grott
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Jeremiah Owyang posted a message
“The Marketing leadership teams at Pownce and Jaiku are missing a big opportunity this week, they should be aggressive in acquiring new membership with Twitter suffering. They should make some noise, demonstrate reliability/scalability, reach to key influencers, and host microblog meetups all over ”
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it's not jaiku priority for now I guess, as for pownce I couldn't agree more - Dobromir Hadzhiev
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they should. because i'm one of those Twitter only users who hasn't even caught on to Pownce or Jaiku. Twitter is like being in a relationship that you know is bad for you but can't leave. We sit around just waiting for them to fix it over and over and over again even though there are probably better fishies in the sea. what's up with that huh? heh. - Christine Lu
Jaiku is dead in its current form. Look out for the infrastructure to be implemented in Android. - Jamie
You gotta figure that there is major work being done on Jaiku to be Google's angle on the Twitter issue. With a strong integration with gTalk, some form of filter and track and the muscle of the Google servers, they could have a play that could give Twitter a run for the money, especially in it's current crippled form. - Aron Michalski via fftogo
Jaiku is not able to talk about reliability, as it was down for several days a while ago, I believe after their one and only database server lost it's hard drives. If they still don't have more infrastructure in place, the last thing they'll want is more users - Ewan
Not sure what is going on with Jaiku, but I figured Pownce would have done something. Even a lame attempt at a viral campaign will get them some publicity. Somehow Plurk got a lot of attention, but it has a UI that requires more attention than something like the simplicity of Twitter. - Rob Diana
Just wish Twitter get it all sorted. SMS, open API, nice UI, lots of applications to help usability. Setting up a new batch of followers would be a pain. While current problems may be related to existing code, for taking my share of hardware resources a clearly identified ad every 250 messages received wouldn't be a pain (for me). - AlexBowman
Agree, at the same time, Twitter should be highlighting all the tools in their ecosystem which help Twitter users - e.g. Status blog, Twiddict etc.; mmm re other comments, will Google take over micro-blogging with Jaiku (some day)? I don't want Google taking over everything - I'd like to have competition between the different providers etc. - Justin Guy Souter via twhirl
Christine is absolutely right: Twitter use is like a dysfunctional relationship. There are very few businesses these days that can consistently annoy and piss off their customers yet still retain them. User interface has a lot to do with it but the best thing Twitter has going for it right now is critical mass. I'd switch to something else if I knew enough of my Tweeps were using it as well. I don't, so I can't switch. - David Erickson
The lack of poaching by Twitter competitors gives the impression that they aren't so sure they could handle the new load themselves. So far I have not really seen a complete replacement for all of twitters features either. - Mark Nassal
What's interesting is that people speak of Plurk as a competitor and acceptable substitution, yet I don't really see anyone heading that direction and find that I'm happy right now with the parts of Twitter that work... - Marc Vermut
I've tried plurk, but not enough real talk over there at this point - Daltonsbriefs
Actually one of many things could replace twitter because it does not really add functionality that we didn't already have. the value of the twitter is the members and without twitter but with enough leadership, theoretically conversations could be transferred to 1.0 platforms such as BBS or even via email conversations with a predefined distribution list. It is not the tools that make the social network, it is the people in it. All we are really sharing is text, images, audio & video. - Dedric
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Waterfalls Display Opens on Harbor - City Room - Metro - New York Times Blog
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This is really cool! - Steve Rubel via Bookmarklet
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nice, wish I was in NYC to shoot this. -