Peter Cattell

It already works with the iPhone .... just browse to bbc.co.uk/mobile/iplayer - Peter Cattell

You sure, peter? I just tried with my iTouch. - Roberto Bonini

It will only work in the UK I think but it should work with the iPhone - John Cooper

@Roberto... absolutely..I have my iPhone here, and tried it again to be sure. I dont know where you are but maybe it will only work in the UK??? - Peter Cattell

The first mobile device that iPlayer supported was the iPhone/iPod Touch back in March - and if you search back then there was a good deal of debate about them having chosen them to support first. Limitations are that it will only allow you to watch TV content over a wi-fi connection, not over 3G, they also don't convert all the programmes over to the iPhone/iPod Touch format. For those outside the UK, TV content on the iPlayer is limited to the UK - most radio can be accessed abroad though. - Richard Peat

I am in the Uk- Scotand. Anyone have any sucess with the iPod Touch? - Roberto Bonini

yeah, when you can get the program - it works wonderfully - Zee from WeDoCreative

just to prove it http://fuzzyshot.com/budgieuk/... - Peter Cattell

that's on the iphone btw - Zee from WeDoCreative

Ahh Right. Got it working now. Went to bbc.co.uk/iplayer and it redirected me. thanks for all your help guys. - Roberto Bonini

Works wonderfully. Watching Have I Got News For You. Funny. - Roberto Bonini

It blew my collegues at work away when I showed them an episode of Top Gear in the office ... the quality is exceptional - Peter Cattell

Yeah, I was really impressed with the iPod Touch/iPhone version when it first came out. I took a couple of pictures of the quality when I blogged about it back then. http://tinyurl.com/5gqbof Incidentally, a side effect of the way it is implemented with quicktime rather than running in the browser also means that if you have a video cable the iPod Touch/iPhone can show the picture on a normal TV. - Richard Peat

The quality is unbelivable. Pity we cant buy/rent/save the shows. - Roberto Bonini

Put iPlayer Downloader into Google... - Richard Peat

Thanks Richard. - Roberto Bonini

My son is a month behind you. Some days he's a little angel that brings us great joy. Other days he's teething. Enough said. :-) - Robert Scoble

Wait to you get to growth spurts... :) - John Worthington

2^3 = 8 - weblivz via twhirl

Oops, wrong coment!! My daughter is 1 also - she is the same. Kids are aging quickly these days :) - weblivz via twhirl

My first son turns 2 (years) in November... and my second one turns 2 (months) in August! It's not easy, in particular for mom, but you get many fantastic moments. - luca Filigheddu

Having 3 kids, I can tell you 2 things about the terrible twos: 1) they last from around 18 months to 42 months and 2) each successive child is worse. And pregnancy, when all is said and done is actually 10 months. - Sergio Cruz

Everyone will tell you they grow out o it, and "oh well, you are passed the worst" ... don't believe them... the terrible twos are replaced by the horrible 3s and then the dreadful fours..... it carries on into teenage... as long as you know the problems don't disappear, they just change, you will be fine :) - Peter Cattell

My son just turned three, and he seems to have forgotten to leave the terrible two's behind. :) - Sean Brady

OH, I know exactly what you mean!!! Hang in there. - Brad Nickel

It's the terrible three's you'll have to worry about - Shey

What Shey said. Two is NOTHING compared to three. - Cyndy

We raised 8 ... yup, eight and while they were / are definitely challenges, it was absolutely the most meaningful and worthwhile thing we've done in our lives. If you want to build a legacy, build it by shaping the little ones entrusted to your care into who they're meant to be ... check out somebody like Ray Guarendi (drray.com) for some useful ideas. - Bob Lozano

Yeah, threes are worse. But they're also a LOT more interesting. It's sometimes, but not not always true that each successive child is worse -- I think that depends on temperament and circumstance just as much as birth order. Just remember that your kid is doing what kids do. He HAS to. Childhood is tough. Your job is to try not to make his life any tougher than necessary. That's my philosophy anyhow. - Nathan Rein

AW! YAY!! ...can i come over for some cake? kthxbai - Mona N.

it's not so much the two's you have to worry about, it's the early three's. my oldest son is 4 and he's a ton of fun now. he still has his moments but that's life. enjoy it while it lasts though, it goes very quickly! - acedanger

I just keep thinking, "Man, he is quick, he is smart, he can destroy the whole house in minutes...what's going to happen when he's walking?" - Rah™

What Shey & Cyndy said. Threes are actually the age that should be called terrible. They have opinions! And they can voice them! Ack. ;-) - Lisa L. Seifert

Aw, nathan. :-) - Lisa L. Seifert

Walking is nothing. Wait till he figures out how to climb. - saeba

No Flash support on the iPhone means no awesome Godfather excerpts :-( - Mark Trapp

Works for me. Thomas, the reason it doesn't work on the iPhone is that the player is Flash, and of course, Flash doesn't work on the iPhone. - Josh Bancroft

Awesome Dave and great pick too! ;-) - Da-Chief

audio is very cool.. would be nice to be able to listen to favorited songs - Travis Parsons

The podcast connect betw NewsJunk and FriendFeed is complete, just published the Gnip interview through the API and it came through as an audio enclosure. Here's a screen shot. http://images.scripting.com/ar... - Dave Hussein Winer

Ah, I see it now on the web. Good point about it not working on the iPhone due to flash. - Thomas Hawk

I believe in America. Perfect first words for first audio post. - David Newman

Works! - Brian

hm. FF + audio = friendcast? - Frank Jurden

Worked for me in Safari, didn't with Firefox 3 on the mac (the graphic just disappeared) - Paul Haahr

Nothing of an mp3 visible on my iPod Touch - Robert van Bregt

Works fine with Firefox 3 on a PC with WinXP SP3. - Jeff P. Henderson

I'm on Firefox3 on a Mac, and it's working here. Very cool. - Phil Crissman

Nice one Dave. Working on my Mac in both Safari 3.1.1 and Firefox 3. - Larry Kless

Working here, FF3. - Antony Jepson

throw away apple stuff - it works perfect on latest (Diablo) release of OS2008 on Nokia tablets N800 & N810 - silpol

Works fine on Safari on OS X Leopard - Paul "Maverick" Denlinger

Workin' good on Firefox3 on Vista - James O'Malley

Dave, you are the best! This is terrific on XP Pro in IE7, nice UI, good navigation. I'm sure we'll all have Mike Arrington's voice chatting with us soon <vbg>. - Bill Claxton

Works in Firefox 2.0.0.14 in Ubuntu 7.10. This is pretty neat - Andy Breeding

Awesome! - americanm

Working good on Safari here. If this player can be included in the AIR clients like twhirl, I'd be all set! - Dave Senior

friendfeed should provide a link to the mp3 file then. That would work on the iPhone. - Josue Salazar

Working great for me. Safari on OSX 10.4.11 - Tsega Dinka

I'm having issues with flash player 9.x on FF 3.01 - Ricardo Rabago

It works in IE 7.0 with flash player 9.x - Ricardo Rabago

Funny we haven't seen more podcasts showing up in FF as a result of this feature. Should I start a podcast feed just for FF? - Dave Hussein Winer

Since you mentioned it I'll put a quick plug in. CS Techcast is pumped into Friendfeed via our RSS. Check it out. - Eric @ CS Techcast

Love the clip :) (FireFox 3 - works perfectly) - George Smith

Dave, check this room out: http://friendfeed.com/rooms/fe... - Kevin C. Tofel

Buffering forever, even after the load indicator is all the way across, but I've been having Flash problems since Firefox 2.x (now using 3.0 on XP)--never have been able to properly diagnose. :( - steplow is Steve

No issues with playback here. Wish it did a countdown of remaining length, though. - Tim Cooper

Closed and restarted: now it works--didn't change any other settings. Happens like that all the time. Weird. - steplow is Steve

Works fine for me on Firefox 3 + Flash 9 on WinXP. Bada-bing! - LouCypher

Once I click play, there seems to be no way to stop or pause the audio (other than turn the volume down)..otherwise it works great - Peter Cattell

glad i didn't wait - i was at the end of a ~150 person line! - Morgan

And then you wont be able to Activate it as all the servers are overloaded...big mess!!! - Peter Cattell

Yeah I am seeing lots of people having problems. We are at the San Francisco store. - Robert Scoble

Let us know what are the kinds of iphone apps that you liked :) - Muthu Ramadoss

Any word on how many are in stock? - Lois Gray

Tomorrow is another day. Sheesh. - David Risley

You're a brave man. - Jonathon

there seem to be plenty in stock but the computers are all down so we can't complete the sale yet. 20 minutes so far. Sigh. - Robert Scoble

How far back are you? - Jake (aka Jawee)

Jake we got in the first group. I am in the store right now. - Robert Scoble

Guess all us folks on the East Coast clogged up their systems before you even got in the door - Lois Gray

That's because they force you to activate on site. Sounds like a situation begging for a lawsuit. If I buy a phone I buy a phone. Why should I be forced to activate on site just because Apple and ATT want to fight the gray market? I call that collusion in treating customers as shit. - Paul "Maverick" Denlinger

12 mins * 500 people = > 4 days - Hao Chen

the message for the 2.0 upgrade showed up in my iTunes after I did a sync this morning. I ran the process and after about 30 minutes it failed putting the iphone into recovery mode. it says to restore, but it is trying to restore 1.1.4. I saw a message earlier in the process saying that it was upgrading the firmware so it seems odd that it would try to put 1.1.4 back on the iphone. anyway, my attempts to restore give me a error 20, unknown error, each time. i now have a pretty brick.... - Mark Heringer

no, the credit card system is down. Our salesperson just rebooted hers. - Robert Scoble

i remember similar issues on 1.0 launch ? Din't apple learn anything from that ?? - Raza via Alert Thingy

12 minutes, that's all (edit: I misread)? I just got back from an hour long purchase! AT&T's servers were unresponsive in addition to iTunes crapping out. - Robert Haas

Robert: 29 minutes and counting. I am still trying to get my credit card approved. - Robert Scoble

Waiting almost 3 hours in store now thanks to ATT servers. It's the pits. - Tom Landini

Don't you think you'll be able to just walk in and buy one this afternoon? - paul mooney

At this rate, the line from 6am will still be there this afternoon - Robert Haas

Paul not at SF there are 500 in line and the first 20 people haven't completed their sales yet. - Robert Scoble

It took me about 1.5 hours after the line started moving to get in the store. The were about 50 people in line in front of me. - Phil Glockner

It's official, the Twitter fail whale has gone to work for iTunes - paul mooney

I guess this would be a bad time to DDOS AT&T? - xero

I'm hearing that at some AT&T stores, they are letting customers take the phone home to activate, as the whole system is down..worldwide! - Peter Cattell

Robert, I just saw an article on cnet news about you on the apple store! http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023... - George The Writer

In the UK this lunch time, all systems were down so they were letting customers take the phone away without completing a credit check, without allocating a phone number and without activating the SIM cards. And it still took around 15-20 minutes per person. So I've got one but it's not working yet... - Tony Ruscoe

The husband has been waiting now for almost 4 hours. - Cyndy

The boss waited for about 6 hours since about 2 this morning up in MI. But, he was one of the first people in and out. - Candace Holly

Here in Sheffield (UK) we queued for 20 minutes this morning and were then told all O2 stores were understocked. And then we found out one of the stores in town got some more stock at lunch time so we walked straight in and waited in the six-person queue for just 20 minutes. I guess we're super lucky in the UK (for a change). - Tony Ruscoe

Over here, first person activation took 38 minutes. He's outside now doing a TV interview. - Glenn Batuyong

Robert, did you see this one yet? http://tinyurl.com/5rh7rv - David Cook

That's it. I'm waiting for 4G - Charlie Anzman

damn i was afraid of this. - Jason Kaneshiro

People are having massive problems everywhere. - Gary Bacon II

I only care about the 2.0 software, the hardware and 3G coverage isn't enough for me to upgrade the phone and to spend more money. I've been loving the apps over the past 24 hours <3 <3. - Eric Rice

mine bounces between that and saying itunes cannot complete your request - Jay Martinez via twhirl

I would advise against upgrading at the moment.... at the end of the process, iTunes has to contact some activation servers, and I think these servers are melting!! The Apple support forum is alive with guys saying they have a bricked iPhone!!! I think it will be OK when things have calmed down! - Peter Cattell

iTunes screenshot: http://skitch.com/tiborp/xigq/... - Tibor Paulsch via twhirl

WTF?! ITunes keeps switching messages now: now 1.1.4 is up to date.. - Tibor Paulsch via twhirl

I now have a brick. At the end of the update process I got an unspecified iTunes error. Not only do I not have a 2.0 iPhone. I don't have a phone of any sort. - Howard Keziah

You need to update iTunes to version 7.7 to get the new firmware. - Dan MacTough

Dan, I just did, and now when I click Update it offers to install 2.0, whcih I said OK to. Wish me luck! - Dave Hussein Winer

Good luck! - Dan MacTough via twhirl

2.0 is fantastic. The typing is monumentally better. - Akiva Moskovitz

Did it yesterday morning without a hitch, so you should be fine. I think you're generally going to like the new software and App Store. I'm not happy that you can't trial apps. Gotta put up cash and take a chance. - Kevin C. Tofel

Sure its AT&Ts servers...http://friendfeed.com/e/02963e... - ThePicMan

I have a fine 2.0 brick. http://www.flickr.com/photos/s... - Dave Hussein Winer

the message for the 2.0 upgrade showed up in my iTunes after I did a sync this morning. I ran the process and after about 30 minutes it failed putting the iphone into recovery mode. it says to restore, but it is trying to restore 1.1.4. I saw a message earlier in the process saying that it was upgrading the firmware so it seems odd that it would try to put 1.1.4 back on the iphone. anyway, my attempts to restore give me a error 20, unknown error, each time. i now have a pretty brick.... - Mark Heringer

I love the way I feel so supported by Apple. What the fuck am I supposed to do now? This is a phone. I pay real money for the thing. What's the plan APPPPPPLE? Hello. No I don't feel like waiting on hold, uhhh, and I don't have a fucking phone to call you with if I did. - Dave Hussein Winer

Looks like the upgrade worked, but the Activation servers are getting hammered. That's where the process is falling down and there's no excuse. Apple should have learned from the first launch. Ugh. Glad I did this yesterday. - Kevin C. Tofel

Ouch. Big bad mark for Apple on the 2.0 launch. I feel bad for the folks who bricked themselves in pursuit of bragging rights. I was just one error message and a dozen warning tweets from having a brick myself. Try a Summize search on "iPhone activation" for current news. - Michael Hussein Markman

Dave send Apple a Tweet! ;-) - Igor The Troll

Don't try. I did and I can't get activated now on my phone - Francine Hardaway via twhirl

So now I have successfully run the recovery process on my iphone after the initial 2.0 update failed, but I get the message that I am unable to contact the iTunes store... - Mark Heringer

??? "This version of iTunes (7.6.2) is the current version." How come I don't get to have fun too? - Ryan MF

I'm getting the same thing as you Ryan. It only seems to be happening in California and a couple foreign countries. - Grant

Try now. Working for me too. - Nick Humphries

Woo Hoo! Me too! - Adam Turetzky

Applications is there - but the App Store is currently unavailable. No word on when it'll be open, really. Friday morning at 8am, I'd assume. - l0ckergn0me

I have probably hit Check for updates 100 times now:) - Grant

I have just checked (In the UK) and it still says 7.6.2 is the current version - Peter Cattell

Oh, It's only available for Macs at the moment - Grant

Got it in Switzerland via Software Update. Installed, all fine, no apps yet. That "Look for iPhone and iPod touch Remotes?" setting is there too. - John Samuelson

i have it via update but the actual page just went 7.7 temporarily before switching back - MG Siegler

Don't check the site, check Software Update. - Nick Humphries

Doesn't work for me on XP in Cali in software update or in iTunes - Grant

awesome! i thought there was an article quoting 9am PST for the app store tomorrow... i'm having trouble finding it now though. anyone know what i'm talking about? - Frankie Warren

The App Store is not yet available but iTunes 7.7 is (for Macs only) - Grant

@frankie http://venturebeat.com/2008/07... - MG Siegler

Works for me in the UK. Now running iTunes 7.7. - Paul Grav

I will download this later, had iTunes running this morning and didn't get a prompt! - Joe Dawson

Thanks MG! - Frankie Warren

I'm not getting it either, I gave up. I'm in KS though, not CA. - ChaCha Fance

are you running windows - Grant

I got it through software update, no app store yet, no difference yet actually. - Justin Luey

iTunes 7.7 on my mac here in Italy. No problems, no big news. App store is still to come. - Federico Fasce via twhirl

why can't Apple ever release a simple small update to their software instead of forcing me to download a 61MB file? Its very tough on people living in low bandwidth countries. - Rahul Das

got 7.7.0.43 for windows via website download. Check for software update via itunes wasn't working. No firmware update available for the phone though. - Robert Seidman

Downloading it now off the Apple site - Grant

Installed!!! - Grant

The website may say the download is 7.6, but it's actually 7.7 that comes down. - Simon Bisson

Loved that post, made me ROFL because of all the truth!! - Paul

Yep making FF look even more useful!! ;) - Paul

grazr sucks, we get it - Tyler Gillies

Robert: I bet some use of other services APIs that provide XMPP and sms will do the trick, the base thing is already here :) - directeur

i think XMPP or at least some sort of IM service is very important in a "2.0" service. SMS not so much. i don't really like that, but then again i don't have a qwerty phone so thats probably why - Tyler Gillies

Excellent comment. Top-notch production from his brain. - possible248

Tyler: there are millions of people who can only communicate with other people via SMS or voice. Think about that market. And, yes, Grazr sucks and we all knew it because none of us were using it, but I was trying to explain why we weren't using it so they could improve and eventually have the same problems that Twitter's having right now. - Robert Scoble

A very simple, clear and (IMHO) accurate reflection on whats going on over at Twitter... after trying to launch a Unified Communications platform for 2 years with almost no take up, having too many users is definitely preferable - Peter Cattell

@robert good point. what do you mean some people can only communicate via SMS? meaning they're on their phone the majority of the time? Don't phones support IM? - Tyler Gillies

Seems obvious to me, but a different perspective nonetheless. Systems are supposed to be built with the user in mind. This includes adoption as well as load and performance. His comment highlights a golden principle: proper planning definitely helps with implementing a system, but contingency plans are even more important for unexpected issues. From my comfy chair, it seems like Twitter had very little contingency in mind from the outset. My $0.02. - Bwana McCall

Tyler: Series 60 Nokia phones suck for Web usage. You really need to sit next to a teenager who texts all the time. There are hundreds of millions of people who have series 60 phones. You think the millions who get a new phone every month in China are getting Blackberries or iPhones? Um, no. - Robert Scoble

I land on Grazr frontpage and what do I see, this post at the top of the list :) Maybe soon, the page will start moving! - AKs

wow robert, w/ friends like you etc... the guy leaves a thoughtful comment on the difference between launching a startup & building for scale re: twitter & you leverage that into a rant about the shortcomings of his company's offering - his comment was excellent - i'm all for constructive criticism, but why did he deserve your backhanded compliment howitzer pointed at him like that? - mike "glemak" dunn

Bwana: Twitter's team is the first to admit that now. They had four developers, none of whom had built a system with serious loads before. Now they have a different team with different skills and they'll solve the problem. If they fix it before a legitimate competitor comes along and does it better then they'll be just fine. Who could compete with Twitter? FriendFeed. Microsoft? Google? Facebook? But the only one I see users getting even somewhat excited about as a Twitter competitor is FriendFeed. - Robert Scoble

@Tyler: Not everywhere... Here I don't have IM in my phone and noone does :( See? I'm not american or european, or asian... - directeur

problem is that FriendFeed's founders, on Gillmor Gang on Friday, said they had no interest in cloning Twitter's features. So, Twitter is safe until someone like Microsoft or Google figure it out. - Robert Scoble

And if they were interested or planned to do you think they would have told you? - Brian Sullivan

"Twitter is safe until someone like Microsoft or Google figure it out" ? Isn't Jaiku almost the same thing? - directeur

@brian, probably - Tyler Gillies

>why did he deserve your backhanded compliment howitzer pointed at him like that? Because I think other entrepreneurs can learn from him about why he didn't get what he wanted, which was clearly a successful business. He can learn from it too. - Robert Scoble

Directeur: >Isn't Jaiku almost the same thing? Very close. But their UI and experience sucks. It's slow, and not easy to use like FF is. - Robert Scoble

Robert, the real competitor to Twitter would be one that is able to absorb it's user base. Jaiku and Pownce have the features, but not the community. I don't think it'll take a huge player like Microsoft or Google to do that. Who could have predicted Twitter's impact from a side project at Odeo? :) I'm still taking the position that FriendFeed currently compliments Twitter and I don't think it could replace it. I do believe Jaiku and Pownce are going to benefit from months of fail whale. - Bwana McCall

Robert: By UI, you mean their web-UI ? (I like it myself :) ) but aren't you mostly using twitter with IM? - directeur

@robert i think jaikus UI is sexy, it could stand to be faster though, and maybe have DM. but hey its still sleeping. When android comes out, i think it will be a different story. - Tyler Gillies

Scoble, What kind of cam is that in your pic? My guess is a XHA1, G1... - Anthony

Anthony: that's a Sony. I forget the model number. We're now using Panasonics. - Robert Scoble

thanks for the reply, appreciate it...I asked you on your blog as well, so ignore that...any reason you prefer the sony/panasonic...i ask cux i am now using an XHa1 wit a fixed lens - Anthony

Bwana: Thanks! I just remembered to delete my Pownce account ;-) - directeur

Robert, after reading the post, I'm perplexed by your decision to title the post in such a misleading way, the post isn't about the great twitter architecture comment it's about you ripping Grazr to shreds. I'm sure you're points are valid, but it seems bad form to mislabel your own post so egregiously. What were your intentions? - Jennifer Van Grove

Jennifer: the whole point is that the market already ripped Grazr to shreds. The CTO admitted such and said that he'd rather have Twitter's problems than a perfect architecture. I was trying to help the CTO out by letting him know why his service didn't take o