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Robert Scoble posted a message

“On Oct. 20 I had 20,000 followers. Today? 20,963. I don't usually care about followers, but that is Twitter-style growth!”

Tuesday at 7:07 pm - Link

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I predict Jason Calacanis will be here soon to have a contest for FriendFeed followers. - Robert Scoble

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He's on here and is one of the recommended initial follows. - Stupid Blogger (aka Tina)

heh. I'd be happy to make it to 50 - Alan Simpson

You're like those Swatch-watches back in the 80's...EVERYone had to have one. - Josh Haley

I'm happy if I have toys to play with, I love Social Media and the cool information that's floating round. I just enjoy sharing with people. I did discuss yesterday - with a friend I'm working on a stealth project with - that I really want people I know to subscribe more than I care about the anonymous masses subscribing. My father and a couple of my best friends read my blog, and they are the people I write it for. Now if I could just get them to follow my Twitter or FriendFeed... :) - Daniel W. Crompton

I just passed 21,000. Wild. - Robert Scoble

Lucky fellow :) - Robin Monks via IM

Thats a big growth in 15 hours. Might want to get it checked.. - Simon Wicks

I think I've heard of this.. Elephantitis of the Followers Gland.. - Angelo Rodrigues

wow! 21,000 amazing! I am about to hit 800 and twitter's growth is simply wild - Susan Beebe

Robert Scoble posted a message

“I'm giddy, interviewing Matt Mullenweg tomorrow and Mercury News and Facebook execs on Monday. What should I ask?”

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It's like a race through media land. Matt runs Automattic, which does Wordpress.com and Akismet. Mercury News is Silicon Valley's newspaper. Facebook? This little FriendFeed competitor. :-) - Robert Scoble

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"When can I sync my Facebook friends' contact information with my iPhone's address book?" Maybe if people keep asking, they'll relent. - Mark Trapp

"Maybe if people keep asking, they'll relent. - Mark Trapp" . . . Wow. A pig just flew by my office window. - John Craft

Ask the Mercury News people how they plan to change their business model and stay profitable as they, and other print media, move away from printed media. - Mark VandenBerg

"I would just love to know what they think of FriendFeed, if they feel their app is 'too heavy' in comparison, whether it makes many aspects of Facebook superfluous, and if they have any plans for a leaner and meaner Facebook to compensate for the heaviness that keeps many of us away (and makes FF feel so comfortable in comparison)." - Christopher Galtenberg

For Matt: How does Matt see blogging evolving in the face of tough economic times and web 2.0 consolidation? Does it go the way of Geo Cities? Does it fall off due to micro-blogging and life-streaming? Will Automattic develop a highly targeted display ad network using wordpress blogs? For Facebook: How do you get to profitability? And when? - AJ Kohn

"If you could be a tree..." (no?) - techPR

For Mullenweg: What i like about MovableType is it doesn't handcuff you to Perl, so you can integrate it with your platform. Are there any plans to allow Wordpress to operate outside of the PHP ghetto? - .LAG

"If you could have any superpower, what would it be?" - Zee. Just Zee.

Zee: Mullenweg already has superpowers. :-) - Robert Scoble

Ask Facebook what their target demographic is, and whether they see FriendFeed as a different market. - Chris White

"Ask Mercury News if they concur with Rupert Murdoch's recent statement that "we are moving from news papers to news brands" http://friendfeed.com/e/69c4d5..., and what that means for news brands like theirs... And whether unaffiliated organizations like AP gain more or less power in a world where news brands need to provide more customized news." - Christopher Galtenberg

Hi! I'd like you to ask facebook to open up their "phone book" for export to iPhone address book. Why would users want two address books, and why would users not have the right to "remember" a friend's phone number locally? - Mason Lee

Oh, please: For Matt Mullenweg, ask about Automattic's long-term plans for Intense Debate. Is this a platform for some sort of unified World-of-Wordpress login? Something which ties together self-hosted WordPress, WordPress.com -- perhaps even bbPress? Do they have it supporting Yahoo IDs yet? It was failing at last attempt. - Chris Baskind

I'd love to know if Matt will allow a FF widget in my sidebar on wordpress.com. I've been waiting ages. Please, please please ask. Pretty please. Thanks Robert - Roberto Bonini

Ask Matt what he is going to do about the incoming links section on the wordpress dashboard. the google links works less effectively than technorati ever did. its a shame. i want to see inbound links from the console. but how? - James

Roberto: there's a ton of those kinds of things I want on wordpress.com. Will focus on what Matt thinks will be the future of wordpress.com. - Robert Scoble

Mistakes made, lessons learned from them by examples. - imran

for SJMN - do they consider the SJMN "the voice of Silicon Valley" or are they just another "big City newspaper" ? . can they reveal some stats on their online version like who "reads" or "feeds" - Geographically, what content etc. - SnakeDoc

Robert: Thats interesting too. When one looks at how Windows Live as a whole group of services has re-imagined itself as a social network of sorts. Will wordpress re-imagine itself along similar lines???? - Roberto Bonini

In my mind, wordpress is awesome because it's extensible. The plugins make it great. So why doesn't wordpress.com let bloggers use them easily? Perhaps they could set up an app store like the iphone's, let users buy plugins and then split revs with developers. - mike

Thats a great idea mike, to expand the existing upgrade selection. Gets my vote. - Roberto Bonini

For Facebook: How do they intend on reaching more users if their site ain't optimized for slower connections? I've got 2mbps in Pakistan which is pretty expensive for lots of ppl to afford here and sometimes facebook takes it's own sweet time to load up on my connection too. Just imagine for ppl with slower connections? Many ppl still use dialup here! So does facebook have any plans to have a 'lite' version for developing nations instead of having ppl turn to other social networks instead? - Eldon via fftogo

Ask Facebook execs when they're going to expand their business offerings - last I heard there was some internal strife about this. - Jesse Stay

For Facebook: Why do they hate freedom?</angry> - Chris Charabaruk

+1 Mark Trapp - When will Facebook allow sync with my friends' contact info? Why do they prevent true networking like this? what is the point? ;) - Susan Beebe

Robert Scoble published a video on YouTube

QIK|Streaming video right from your phone

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Yikes! These converted like crap. Choppy choppy choppy unwatchable. Good think the original qik video is available. - Bryan Nystrom

sounds li-- ---s hajahaja---hahaaj---hajaj. Lots of ---- and --- ---- 2.0 jubilation --- ---. hahah-- ---ahaja. - James Shamenski

Matt Cutts posted seven messages on Twitter

“@dreisiebzig , it will take a little while before everybody sees it. I'd give it a day or so.”

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“thanks all for the joshu pointer. Guess I could have tried this new high-falutin' Google that's so popular with the kids these days. :)”

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Robert Scoble posted a message on Twitter

“@markhhsp even better, I filmed a video of what @wingdude showed me. Really cool stuff for Twitter and Friendfeed users. Can't wait to talk.”

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when are you gonna post the video.. nxt wednesday? - Devakishor

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Yeah. It's embargoed until then. - Robert Scoble

So excited about the VholdR for our travel fit show - - Tracy Benham

Tease. Of course, I've already seen it more than once. In real life. - Louis Gray

Oh yeah - he's a client of mine :-P - Jesse Stay

Robert Scoble posted a message on Twitter

“I'm off to see UserVoice and 12Seconds.tv in Santa Cruz. What a stunning day here along the coast. Crystal-clear skies.”

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Pics or it didn't happen :D - Mo Kargas

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I love 12seconds. I won their daily challenge the other day. It's addictive and there are so many different ways to make those 12seconds of video count. - Martin Bryant

"Crystal-clear skies". Wish we had that here in the Central Valley ;-) http://tinyurl.com/63xb6h - James Hoang

Jealous! - Chris W

Been playing with 12seconds.tv; a solid "garage" startup. - Kenley Neufeld

I've submitted a request for an invite but have not gotten an invitation. My enthusiasm must have gone over 12 seconds :-) - James Hoang

It was a nice day today. It's starting to get chilly these days - Rodfather

Robert Scoble shared an item on Google Reader

Am I A Google Reader Over-Sharer? Are You?

Wednesday at 2:55 pm - Link

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Sorry if I share too many things. I wish I could share more, actually. There are so many cool things coming through my reader lately. - Robert Scoble

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Not at all. I love seeing all that cool stuff in my feed each morning from you. Lots of stuff I'd never otherwise come across. - Evan Sims

I don't think it's a question of over-sharing. If I'm subscribing to your shared items, I know what I'm getting myself into. If anything, my willingness to follow your feed is a sign of over-consumption on my part. I can always drop a feed or block your shared items. Ah, the power of controlling the news I read. Gotta love new media. - Mark Martinez

How do you do it? I had to give up on GReader and full FriendFeed and now just have a single iGoogle home page w/ Twitter, FriendFeed, and about 20 RSS widgets. Any more than that and I can't get anything done :) - Patrick Lightbody via IM

Totally concur with Mark - Christopher Galtenberg

I agree with Mark as well. If you're tuning in to somebody's feed, you're there for a reason. Whether or not they cater to your informational bias is your problem, not theirs. The only type of sharing I really can't endure comes from those who use this medium as a personal status update and appeal for emotional attention. That's a very different motivation than that of news/info junkies, whose interests focus on the world around them/others (rather than their own attention needs). - V for Veselka

"If I'm subscribing to your shared items, I know what I'm getting myself into." Exactly. RSS is opt-in, not opt-out, and in "list view" there's no such thing as too much. I probably put only 30-50 items per week into mine, but the only complaint I've had was my wife: "stop sharing stories in FRENCH!" - John Craft

I knew someone would put it better than I could. John nailed it with "opt-in, not opt-out". That's the theme of this social media .. dare I call it a revolution? I dare. - Mark Martinez

I share occasionally. And I never tire of the stuff you share, Robert. - Robert Couture

Keep on sharing. I don't spend much time with Google Reader lately. I let you do the work. So, I'm definitely not an over-sharer. I'm not a hair over-jeller either, or am I? - Bill Miranda

I guess that the more of us that share stuff via GR, the more dupes are likely to happen? - Ian May

Im a GReader addict, i share what i think others will find interesting. I'm trying to use the FriendFeed share thing instead though, as you can direct it to certain groups of people instead. - Simon Wicks

I have a high standard for sharing, and share very little, but very good "stuff". (At least, I think it's good). - Robin Monks via IM

Two days ago, I wasn't an over-sharer. But this discussion has reignited my GR interest, and now I'm afraid I may be becoming one... - kris. nuttycombe

The bar set here is awfully low. If you follow any topic or industry closely (let alone multiple topics), you're probably seeing 1000-2000 feed items per day. And anything over 20-30 shares is oversharing? That's like saying turning on the TV for 15 minutes is being a couch potato. - Mark Trapp

I don't subscribe to your GReader share for several reasons. First, although the stuff you share is interesting, not all of it is relevant to me. Second, I already subscribe to your friendfeed, and the liking system is a good way to filter through it. Third, a lot of your stuff shows up in my GReader anyway via others on my list. Feel free to share as much as you like; there are ways to filter out the noise (via social recommendation). And, as mentioned before, your GReader is *opt-out*. - Gerard Barberi

Robert Scoble posted a message

“At Santa Cruz's NextSpace coworking doug Qik videos at http://www.qik.com/scobleizer”

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I hear I will join 12seconds.tv tonight -- its headquarters is here. - Robert Scoble

I just want to say "hey, dude." :-) - Robert Scoble

My college buddy Jeremy is co-founder and CEO at NextSpace. Tell him "Koot" said hi. - Ryan Kuder

yo! Santa Cruz! - Beth K

Dare Obasanjo posted a message on Twitter

“Outlook is the number one RSS reader used to read TechCrunch according to http://bit.ly/J1fS Wow!”

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Yeah, I was surprised myself. I just assumed that Google Reader would come before Outlook. - Mark Martinez via twhirl

Says something for the deployment of Outlook 2007 too. Hmm. - Dennis E. Hamilton via twhirl

Robert Scoble published a video on YouTube

QIK|Streaming video right from your phone

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Robert Scoble posted an entry on Scobleizer's Recent Qik Videos

http://qik.com/video/594457

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Robert Scoble posted a message on Twitter

“@Zsavonne http://www.retaggr.com is pretty cool, I signed up for that too.”

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signed up! - MikeAmundsen

Yep is nice... use it for a while now... pretty complete - Aad 't Hart

Robert Scoble posted a message on Twitter

“@jjprojects yeah, I should be filming some stuff. Will have a ton of video to post tonight. @onlineteacher I'll wave as I go by! :-)”

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Robert Scoble posted a message on Twitter

“My 3D business cards from http://www.snapily.com/ look awesome! You can make your own from your own 2D photo. Conversation starter for sure!”

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Bookmarked it. Thanks! Will need it when I relaunch my freelance business - Shevonne Polastre

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Do they have that horrible plastic ridged material on them? I hate the sound that stuff makes when you rub it. - Wizetux

Wizetux: yes. But I love them because they are tactile and cause conversations. - Robert Scoble

Pics or it didn't happen - Jesse Stay

snapily looks interesting, but biz cards aren't has-been enough to be retro cool yet. - Jon Price

Snapily is awesome! @scobleizer - have you checked out retaggr.com, for nifty online business (and social) cards? I think you'd really like it, considering how much time you spend online. - Nik

The print your videos feature is really cool - Jesse Stay via twhirl

Robert Scoble posted two messages on Twitter

“@mediafill I love it when entrepreneurs come by the house. I can see a lot more in a day that way. Would love to have you.”

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“Lots of fun entrepreneurs have been visiting me today. @WingDude was here earlier showing me something killer coming next Wednesday 4Twitter”

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Robert Scoble posted a message on Twitter

“@yarono is here from @Snapily and they just showed me this funny video about their new cards. http://tinyurl.com/5haghz”

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Robert Scoble posted a message on Twitter

“@marcbarros is here in the Scoble house showing me his very cool sports camera http://www.vholdr.com we're going to put it on RC helicopter”

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Robert Scoble posted a link

RSS Hat Meme

Wednesday at 10:06 pm - via Bookmarklet - Link

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RSS Hat Meme. As shot at the Chinese BloggerCon in Guangzhou over the weekend. - Robert Scoble via Bookmarklet

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Thats great, simple & elegant. - Nicholas Kreidberg

I want one that is for sure - John D. Lemke via twhirl

باهاش فید مغزمونو شیر میکنیم! بده که آخه! هیچی توش نیست! - Farzad Zamani

Soooo if I want to subscribe do I go up and push them in the head ? :D What would be cool is if you could scan the symbol with a mobile phone and get the bloggers feed - Mo Kargas

Mo: Closer than you might think http://www.techcrunch.com/2008... - David HC Soul

David, that's fantastic! Additionally, the last argument I need to finally purchase an iPhone. - Mo Kargas

WANT - Ariel Torres

I like it, how can i get one, scoble? - jimmy howe

I want one! - Michael Fidler via twhirl

I want as well. - Adam Helweh

Drew Olanoff has an RSS tattoo. Who's man enough to start that meme? - Louis Gray

I'll take an OPML hat. I look better in blue. - Mark Krynsky

ugggg, RSS overload - sofarsoshawn

Louis that is so tempting - wonder what my wife would say - Jesse Stay

Hotness. - Vera Hannaford

Every time I wear the hat I get a bar at the top that asks me if I want to wear it with Live Bookmarks, Google Reader or another outfit. - Kevin Leroux

@Kevin: ahah! - Jérôme Flipo

I so want one of those hats. Where can we get them? - Rob Diana

Nice hat. I wonder if it comes in newspaper. - Col. Tribune

You can contact @digitalboy at twitter for this hat :) - number5

I guess it has a QR-code pointing to the feed url at the back. Right? :-) - Panayotis Vryonis

WANT x5 or whatever. - Tamar Weinberg

This is my cap, pls follow me via Twitter @digitalboy. - digitalboy

OK...but where is the RSSmeme hat? - Shey

I Want!! - Sarah Perez

That is nice, I almost want to wear a hat now. - Aram Zucker-Scharff

I want one. - James Hull

@vista models the hat (which also comes in black): http://www.flickr.com/photos/s... - Robert Scoble

That'd be kind of a cool shirt. Does it exist? - Wade Dorrell

Why do I want this? Why? - tehKenny

Where can I get one? - Aad 't Hart

want - Richard Akerman

I think I just found @marshallk's Christmas present - Rick Turoczy

here is anothter. http://www.flickr.com/photos/h... - digitalboy

Dare Obasanjo posted a message on Twitter

“The one day I don't eat in the cafeteria I hear Drew Carey was there. LAME!”

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Dare Obasanjo posted a message on Twitter

“My XBox just got more useful overnight. Netflix streaming HD content to my TV FTW. Thanks Microsoft.”

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Robert Scoble posted five messages on Twitter

“@shelisrael Nice seeing you over the weekend in China, glad to hear the news about your new Twitter book #tville”

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“@lizmarshall lots of praise for today's call with Seth Godin from @dreaminaction -- will recording be put online so others can listen to it?”

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Robert Scoble posted a message

“Only in China is Californa Pizza Kitchen considered a "delicacy:" http://www.flickr.com/photos/s...”

Wednesday at 9:54 pm - Link

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Funny, in California, Chinese food is considered a delicacy... - Jeff P. Henderson

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So I've been underappreciating CPK all this time. - Morton Fox

Seeing Budweiser listed under "Imported Beers" and selling at a premium will change the way you look at things, too :-D - Karim

that's nothing, I went to a Carre Four pizza place in Shanghai - which was my local staffs hotspot. (near the big ferris wheel) - clarke thomas

Because pizza is expensive in China. - Lin

And what Americans consider "delicacy" is just plain food in Europe. - Amit Morson

Is that Pizza Hut on that list? - Matt Pfefferle

Perhaps. But only in the western half of the United States is CPK even considered pizza. - Dean Rodgers via twhirl

From what I understand, what we call Chinese food here in the U.S. really isn't. - Victor Ganata

@ Victor: Thats true with any cuisine - imran

Now that I think about it, CPK isn't really Californian cuisine, either. - Victor Ganata

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Matt Cutts posted a message on Twitter

“Must... stop... playing... with.. Gmail... Themes... http://bit.ly/JqLM”

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Still no themes on any of my Gmail or Google Apps accounts. If anyone listening has the power to make it happen, flip the switch for me :) - Benjamin Golub

None for me yet either... refresh, log out, log in,... *crickets* - Logical Extremes

I changed my GMail theme last night.When I got to the computer this morning, a grin crept to my face. Like a snowy morning... - Jorge Escobar

Bahh themes, I'm looking forward to the day where I can't stop playing with my Gmail SMIME integration... - Michael Zehrer

Matt Cutts posted a message on Twitter

“@thewiredserf, John Dvorak is a master link baiter, so I won't just go into a tizzy b/c he baits SEOs/Google. Others will though, I'm sure.”

Wednesday at 10:36 am - Link

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Robert Scoble posted a message on Twitter

“One visual that sticks with me from China: Going across Hong Kong border they scanned my temperature in 1/8th of a second. Wild.”

Tuesday at 7:13 pm - Link

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Do they still show your own full body image as you walk by? When SARS was on everyone's lips, it was interesting watching people go by... some wanted to stop and look, while MANY others wanted to race by without seeing for themselves. It gave new insight to me on the meaning of the cliche "whistling by the graveyard" and how prevalent the desire to hide from the truth is.... and just how wide spread the practice of ignoring symptoms of treatable diseases (until the disease is no longer treatable) might really be. - David HC Soul

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No, the lady walked over, aimed something that looked like a gun, then moved onto the next person in the car. It went so fast I didn't have much time to be freaked out until she was gone. Our driver explained that it was a new kind of thermometer that looked for SARS victims. - Robert Scoble

Too bad... I was fascinated by the image and where all the "hot spots" are - I was trying to decide whether the left side of my face seeming to be distinctly warmer than the right side had any significance when they asked me to move along as I was delaying the line a bit. - David HC Soul

You know how many moms would kill for a thermometer like that? That's even easier that chasing a kid to use that thermometer that goes in the ear. We sure have come a long way from the glass rod with the mercury that goes in the mouth for 5 minutes that was used when I was a kid. - April Russo

sars got that tech going .. disaster=progress - Gregory Lent

i commented on this elsewhere, but moms or anyone else can buy these things now. you can find cheap ones for less than $50, but that is unfortunately still several times more than a cheap drugstore digital thermometer, and the accuracy of the infrared thermometers tends to be only +/- 2 degrees on the cheap ones... you could tell if someone was REALLY feverish but not check for a low-grade fever reliably. - Karim

Yeah. That was fun! Seeing how fast the temperature readers work now... - Mitchell Tsai

I had a juvenile oral/anal quip ready to go but you ruined it when you indicated it was a scanner thingy. No joke for you! - Kevin Leroux

just a laser thermometre.. we have one at work for checking out the heat coming out the back of our servers and the temp coming out of our air con.. it's nothing new to the world, just somewhat odd they would use it on people when travelling. - alphaxion

Matt Cutts posted a message on Twitter

“@dr_pete, I agree it would be way cool if people could make their own themes. I would predict lolcat themes galore. :)”

yesterday at 12:33 am - Link

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and approx. 213 themes featuring penis in more or less subtle forms - Jemm

Matt Cutts posted a message on Twitter

“@briancarter , that's ponytacular! @tonyadams, do not downvote the pony! The pony no can haz desphinn..”

yesterday at 12:31 am - Link

Robert Scoble posted a link

tap tap tap ~ How to prevent the App Store from becoming the Crap Store

Tuesday at 6:48 pm - via Bookmarklet - Link

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"we’re getting to the point where the App Store is in jeopardy of getting destroyed because it’s being overrun with 99¢ shovelware, with an ever growing number of developers competing for a slot in the charts." - Robert Scoble via Bookmarklet

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I'd personally like to see developer fees to keep the crap away - Adam

The Top 100 free/paid lists would have to be replaced with something else. Maybe a Digg style system to get on the 'top' list? - Jim Bergman

If u think this is bad u should see the state of 3rd party open source freeware for the Nokia N810 over at maemo.org. - Tokyo Dan via feedalizr

@Adam, Developers do pay a one time fee when signing up. - Swaroop Hegde

80% of the apps on App Store are either shovelware or cloneware. - Mike

It's true that the App Store could degrade, but it's held up very well so far compared to, say, Facebook applications. Within days FB became a cesspool of crap and it's decreased the usefulness of FB significantly. - Ryan Twomey

This is why, with everything we are faced with that gives us a glut of choices, social trust and recommendation are so important as filters. I learn what iPhone apps to try from people in my network (real life and online), services like iPhone.iusethis.com, etc. And I try to provide the same filter of opinion and experience to the people who listen to/follow me. It's what the "Human Web" is all about. - Josh Bancroft

Ugh. I'm very bored with ppl crapping on the appstore. The past month I bought more than ever. Some at .99 (Ocarina -- such a cool app), others at 3.99 (Fieldrunners, addictive game like DesktopTowerDefense). All I know is the stuff is mostly stable, easy to update and install, and I never needed a fart joke app in the first place. What I really find the AppStore needs is some UI overhauls -- true for much of iTunes Store -- it's very hard to browse and find stuff with the UI. - Robert Denton

Lets just hope they don't try and implement any sort of Apple Certified Application branding. The store itself is great, but a certified application policy would just bring the whole thing down. Then application developers would have to most likely cough up a fee to be "certified" as trustworthy. Much like Facebook's current scheme. - Angelo Rodrigues

Fees do tend to weed out the good and bad apples somewhat though - Robin Monks via IM

getting facebook-ish? at own expense? welcome to fruity world :) - silpol

Robin: They do, but they also weed out those with money and those who don't. I'm sure though, that a lot of perfectly good applications don't have much in the way of monetary backing - Angelo Rodrigues

Once again, opinion becomes fact - Bwana

xangelo: True enough - Robin Monks via IM

Angelo and Robin, there ARE fees to get an app listed in the app store. $99 per developer. Do you think there should be another "tier" of certification and fees, or maybe the existing fee should be raised to "raise the bar"? - Josh Bancroft

Those are nominal fees though. It has no bearing on the quality of your application nor does it authenticate it. It just says "Hey, this is our cost to get your application listed". The fee we are talking about is speculative, but it relates to getting your application "certified" by apple. I personally don't think that such fee's should exist at all - Angelo Rodrigues

We are submitting the Borange social availability app to the store now and have decided we'll have to do a limited-time $.99 offering and only move to our target price when there's traction. It's hard to get people to notice something for $4.99 when there's near-infinite distraction there for free. - Mason Lee

Robert Scoble posted three messages on Twitter

“@dberube I'm back home in SF fighting jet lag and getting ready for a big day tomorrow, starting with a Seth Godin teleseminar.”

Wednesday at 10:09 pm - Link

“@TechFrog yeah, I saw PizzaHut on that list. In China PH is a fine sitdown style restaurant that is expensive for Chinese citizens. Hah!”

Wednesday at 9:57 pm - Link

“@cspag thanks for tweeting the Seth Godin teleseminar I'm doing tomorrow: http://tinyurl.com/6hvmfg”

Wednesday at 9:56 pm - Link

Robert Scoble published photos on Flickr

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Final pictures from China. Yes, Mike Butcher of TechCrunch UK and @vista are pictured here, along with some cool RSS hats. - Robert Scoble