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Brunch in Sunnyvale with Yahoo's Glen Campbell and Google's Erica Joy Baker. Yum.
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Is that a sculpture? EDIT: I think I'm looking at chicken wings.
- Anika
The waffles were the best part. Promise.
- Louis Gray
So how was it, what did you guys talk about?
- Stephen Mack
Mostly, we just talked about TiVo, and Glenn showed off the new Yahoo! phone to compete with Android and iPhone.
- Louis Gray
Why can't it be just Erica Joy and Glen Campbell - we've all been on FriendFeed for over a year...
- Mona Nomura
Mona, it's because this was sent by e-mail and automatically goes to Twitter. I will change for you, ma'am.
- Louis Gray
Are those grits in the middle of the plate? Are you sure you didn't bop over to Tennessee for breakfast?
- DGentry
Louis, sounds fun. Next one, bring the twins and I'll bring my kids, and let's have a play date! It'll be utter chaos for whatever restaurant we choose... :)
- Stephen Mack
No silly - like just Glen and Erica Joy. Why does it have to be Yahoo!'s Glen and Google's Erica? I like FriendFeed because unlike Twitter, we're all just people, not so and so from x and x.
- Mona Nomura
Amusingly enough this friendfeed post is already in the top 10 Google results for "yahoo phone"
- DGentry
Licklider the Seed-planting Antichrist and yOUR Privacy - http://www.clusterflock.org/2009...
Peek was worth a peek - http://www.scripting.com/stories...
Time for gov't workers to do a Citizen Services Summit - http://www.cnewmark.com/2009...
Starting Findory: The end - http://glinden.blogspot.com/2009...
Confessions of a Generic Magazine - http://thepiratesdilemma.com/the-art...
Micropayments for news: The holy grail or just a dangerous delusion? - http://www.niemanlab.org/2009...
"That is a really great point, David — sharing (in other words, redistributing) the content is a crucial part of social media, and disconnecting people from that by putting up pay walls means effectively shutting down a really fundamental aspect of online behaviour."
- mathew ingram
The Social Media Revolution | Six Pixels of Separation - Marketing and Communications Blog - By Mitch Joel at Twist Image - http://www.twistimage.com/blog...
The Social Media Revolution | Six Pixels of Separation - Marketing and Communications Blog - By Mitch Joel at Twist Image - http://www.twistimage.com/blog...
All the news you can produce: 'Citizen journalism' goes (semi) pro - The Globe and Mail - http://www.theglobeandmail.com/life...
Doggy Dropped It Stencil Art In San Francisco - http://laughingsquid.com/doggy-d...
Apple Rushes Out Apple TV Update To Cure Disappearing Content - http://www.techcrunch.com/2009...
Jacob Appelbaum & Donald Knuth Demonstrate The Recursive Homeboys Principle - http://laughingsquid.com/jacob-a...
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Google Wave vs Twitter at conferences | FreshNetworks Blog - http://blog.freshnetworks.com/2009...
Google Voice Quick Reference Guide | Cool Geex - http://www.coolgeex.com/google-...
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Apple Has No Sense Of Humor. Luckily, Google Does. - http://www.techcrunch.com/2009...
IBM’s Steve Mills on RealTime - http://www.techcrunchit.com/2009...
My 23 year-old sister signs up for Twitter, cancels. "Saw no point in the account."
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From this evening. Another thrilling Friday night.
- Louis Gray
Whenever I am on Twitter my gf never fails to remind me how stupid and pointless she thinks it is
- Holden Page
So someone in *your* family doesn't grok Twitter either. My brother says he'll never even set up a Twitter account at all; he sees no point either. Apparently these people see the words "What are you doing?" above the text box and think it's nothing but the Facebook status update without Facebook. Some people just don't get it at all...
- Dennis Jernberg
In *my* family (asterisks per Dennis), most of them use Facebook. Nobody else uses Twitter at all.
- Louis Gray
in my family everyone uses Facebook as well, my mom has a twitter account, she never touches it, she thinks it is dumb.
- Holden Page
Sure enough, Facebook is exactly what everybody in my family but me uses, too! Well, I'm on Facebook too, but I don't use it like they do. For one thing, I don't play any of the games; I hide them instead. And none of them has even heard of FriendFeed...
- Dennis Jernberg
hahaha that is epic!! Twittter got dissed by Ms Gray :D
- Susan Beebe
My family is the same. Twitter is pointless to them. There's so much more than just status updates to them.
- Jesse Stay
Well, I don't get Twitter either. Anyone want to explain it to me?
- Cristo
It's not fun when you sign up and have no friends / people to interact with...and all the interesting people only talk to each other. All my friends didn't "see a point" until they built their own network(s). Just sayin'
- Mona Nomura
My wife is also that way, btw - I may *just* be able to get her to join FourSquare though.
- Jesse Stay
Social media circle jerk.
- Cristo
Jesse, it took a lot of work, but i got my gf to join FriendFeed haha
- Holden Page
As if Twitter is some brilliant thing that only a certain so-called tech crowd gets.
- Cristo
My sister has known that I've used Twitter for several years now. Whenever I brought it up, that was her reaction, "Don't get it. Don't see the point." She created an account a month or so ago and she's totally into it now. When I asked her what made the difference, she shrugged and said she wasn't sure. "Your friends started using it, didn't they?" I asked her. "Yes." heh. :D
- pea ♥ fierce as a woozle
Why don't you guys go have this conversation on Twitter? :)
- Cristo
Pfff. Cristo, you know full well twitter can't deal with the c word. :)
- Micah Wittman
I will make the bold prediction that most of my brothers and sisters will never join or use Twitter. I have one brother that does, occasionally, but the rest will never, ever use it. There's no point when they can get the same thing from Facebook and more.
- Jesse Stay
Mona - nailed it! :)
- Susan Beebe
Re Mona: I myself didn't even bother to sign up for Twitter till this last June, when I discovered an existing online songwriting community I belong to had a Twitter presence. That's when I set up my account and started to use Twitter. Then I found that some of the NaNoWriMo offshoots I take part in also had a Twitter presence. That was the beginning. Since then I've built up a much...
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- Dennis Jernberg
my girlfriend has no interest in it either. she uses facebook for all her net communication needs and is quite happy...
- Terry O'Fee
I got all my friends to sign up for Twitter, all found it pointless. So, I really don't get the point either. I'll delete mine too. :D
- Faraz Mullick
This is why I am on most social networks.
- Robert Scoble
from iPhone
Only a few of my real-life friends are even on Facebook, and the ones that are rarely update. The social web can be pretty disappointing sometimes.
- Michael Slattery
from iPhone
Most everyone I know is on Facebook now, with a few exceptions that refuse to use much of anything on the internet except for youtube and blogs. Nobody gets the point of twitter, especially with facebook/friendfeed offering the same type of communication options, if not more. However, the nice thing about twitter/friendfeed is that it's searchable. The other day I was watching the events from Fort Hood unfold on twitter. I couldn't do that easily on facebook. That's where twitter shines.
- Ⓐ ☠ slayerboy ☠ Ⓐ
My Second Life avatar started on Twitter in the good old days, when everyone you followed followed you back. But my real life account has about 20 followers, so it only really works as a reader - and that rocks.
- Michael Slattery
from iPhone
second life.. i read books like snow crash, get excited and find SL nothing like it ;)
- Terry O'Fee
If new users have no followers and fail to get the reader part, of course they stop. And the statistics confirm that.
- Michael Slattery
from iPhone
I do agree. It is really difficult to convince someone to use twitter. And even if I do, they don't stay active on the service. They too state "I don't see any point in the service". Often are the times when they are convincing me it is nothing but a blog platform with 140 characters limit.
- Amit
I've learned that it's not a good idea to try to convince friends to join Twitter. Unless they get it, they will simply annoy you with Facebook style Tweets. Better to seek out Twitter users who have learned the knack of posting interesting Tweets.
- Jimmy Walker
If she doesn't get it, or anyone else for that matter, be glad they're on their way. Twitter never worked for me either and I'm happily not participating as well.
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
I just realized I've been forgetting to tell them to start by following interesting people and not even think about posting their own tweets for the first little while (Robert's advice) - I wonder if that would make more of a difference.
- MaryB, BrandingBroadOfFF
from iPhone
My 25 year old brother said the same thing.
- Rochelle
My family is a Facebook family as well.
- Trish R
She's ahead of the curve. Take note.
- EBrewer
I see Twitter as another information portal, and a social channel (albeit limited). For those things it's great. I don't use facebook all that much, but it's good to chat with old friends to say howdy and share current happenings. I'm me no matter what social hub I'm on, but the local laws/rules/community etiquette fits my preferences better in some virtual hangouts.
- Mark Essel
from iPhone
My daughter of about the same age also got and shortly thereafter canceled a twitter account.
- SuezanneC Baskerville
Twitter is useful as a minimalist news broadcasting system. Twitter is worse than useless as a medium for conversation. I mostly use Twitter in combination with Topsy searches to pluck off the most interesting news stories of the day on selected topics. Without Topsy, I would stop using Twitter entirely because of the information overload.
- Sean McBride
Mona's point is pretty much spot on. I kind of "imported" a Revision 3 forum network into Twitter, which led to FriendFeed, which had sort of a recursive bend back into Twitter, which led to finding Twitter recommendations, which then opened me up to following people from IRL, and then...ah crap. I've stopped using Twitter as much, though, because Facebook is where the people I CARE about really are. And in case you're wondering, I'm friends with Mona on Facebook ;)
- Mike Nayyar
I've hit a wall trying to get my friends to sign up for Twitter. It's like they've got an image issue. Whenever I try to explain it's value for news and as RSS replacement, people sort of stop listening. They're left thinking it's Facebook without the "fun stuff," which is lesser and redundant for them.
- Jeremiah Green
Is it fair to say that the tweets related to tech news that some folks think are so wonderful and important are primarily links to web sites, blogs, new articles, and so on produced by someone other than the tweeter? So far as I've seen, subscribing to, say, all the employees of a company doesn't produce much news about the company; instead you see posts about where the employees ate lunch and stuff like that. Of course I may just not be looking at the people.
- SuezanneC Baskerville
Unless you have a defined business strategy, there really is not much point to Twitter, unless you just want to connect for fun, which is under my business strategy :)
- Steve Borgman
Actually I don't see the point either, but I'm still here :)
- scott willeke
I keep a Twitter account just for a case of emergency, because it gets translated everywhere, and their mobile client is the lightest.
- 9000
Young people don't get Twitter so much.
- Hutch Carpenter
I see Louis is a trending topic on Twitter. This is not a good thing. http://twitter.com/#search...
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LOL
- Thomas Power
it's because of your crazy Friday nights, I'll bet.
- Jim Hearts FF
Verizon Droid almost enough to give up iPhone :: CHICAGO SUN-TIMES :: Andy Ihnatko - http://www.suntimes.com/technol...
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"This latest generation of Android hardware and software is Apple’s worse nightmare. They’ve discovered that over the summer, the sickly kid with asthma grew five inches and put on thirty pounds of muscle."
- Gina
iPhone ready to make its way to ‘The Shack’ this month - http://www.boygeniusreport.com/2009...
Starred items count in Google Reader - http://exde601e.blogspot.com/2009...
Does OAuth Have a Dark Side? - http://www.25hoursaday.com/weblog...
Google's Data Liberation Front (the Data Liberation Front) - http://www.dataliberation.org/home
"The Data Liberation Front is an engineering team at Google whose singular goal is to make it easier for users to move their data in and out of Google products. We do this because we believe that you should be able to export any data that you create in (or import into) a product. We help and consult other engineering teams within Google on how to "liberate" their products."
- Gina
Google Dashboard - http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009...
SnapNames: Apologies Shouldn’t Be Conditional, Especially When You Steal From Customers - http://www.techcrunch.com/2009...
Rebol Tutorial - Rebol’s Marketing must sit above a good Strategy - http://reboltutorial.com/blog...
Re: I got a DROID (Scripting News) - http://www.scripting.com/stories...
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"Okay, let's work on this. I'll set the site up right now. Dave"
- Dave Winer
FriendFeed has more bacon than a pig.
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Oink! Somebody is enjoying too much wine! LOL :D
- Susan Beebe
Susan: I was sober when I wrote these. Just having fun!
- Robert Scoble
from iPhone
Everything's better with bacon.
- dthree
did you know you can make a lot of money trading options, buying and selling stocks, buying foreclosed homes, using secrets to sell stuff online, ebay is a wonderland for making money, and then of course you can just get free money from the government
- Allen Stern
It's keeping me from getting the Swine flu from the rest of the family - keep it up! ;-)
- Jesse Stay
it is 3:23 am.
- Allen Stern
I wonder if Robert has seen me in the dress yet *sexy wink at Scoble*
- Johnny Worthington
from iPhone
more h1 than n1? :)
- sɹǝɥʇɐǝɟʞɔɐןq
Did someone say: B-A-C-O-N!!
- WarLord
I'm thinking of a Don Henley song. Can you guess which one?
- Donald C. Lindsay
You mean world peace right? <3 FWD: Bacon Brings World Peace and Why RSS is No Longer a Necessity - http://mona.posterous.com/bacon-b... (via http://ff.im/b7kGF)
- sofarsoShawn
Re: RSS, yet RSS/Atom are still the easiest ways to build a real-time content distribution system today
- Jesse Stay
Twitter lists, creators vs curators, and who owns the meta-data? (Laughing Meme) - http://laughingmeme.org/2009...
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