 |
|
| FriendFeed is the easiest way to share online. Learn more » |
Bob Stemen › Likes
As video increasingly becomes a more prevalent way of delivering news and information on the web, I find myself getting fewer morsels of news and information. I don't want video, folks. I don't need 30 seconds' introduction and 30 seconds' wrap-up. I don't need talking heads: I want data and I want it in an efficiently delivered form.
Jon Ursenbach, Stephen Mack, Jacque and 49 other people liked this
I don't need theme music, either. Just give me the text, people. Just give me the text.
- Akiva Moskovitz
Exactly. Most of the time I don't even have sound on, so I get very little out of videos. Text and pictures is what I want.
- Jordan Hofker
Jordan, good point. I usually have music playing. So they expect me to turn down my music so I can hear them deliver news wrapped in their personalities? The nerve of some people!
- Akiva Moskovitz
I agree completely. It drives me nuts when article links bring me to video or audio presentations that lack text.
- RAPatton
Yes, lolcat pictures.
- Eric @ CS Techcast
Who wants to found a company that takes videos and automatically creates transcripts of them? I have no idea how that would even work but I want to make money off of it. Who's with me?!
- Akiva Moskovitz
There are services that will do that. I have looked into it for the podcast, but they are still pretty pricey.
- Eric @ CS Techcast
That's it then! Time to undercut the competition by providing an inferior product! How could this idea possibly go wrong? Who's with me?!
- Akiva Moskovitz
Akiva, there are companies out there like that.
- Rochelle
This also reminds me of another failure with video: it's not indexable.
- Akiva Moskovitz
There's also the annoying issue with video of not having the right player, plugin, updated version of blah blah blah. And it buffers or the sound is poor quality. I prefer words.
- Rochelle
Linux people are pretty much screwed when it comes to most video sharing formats.
- Matthew DeVries
If a video has more than 7 seconds of introduction, they've lost me. But the real nails on the chalkboard aspect of watching videos, which seems especially prevalent in screencasts, are the constant ums, uhs, ahs, and other verbal filler from people who clearly aren't comfortable conveying ideas orally. If you can't finish a sentence without using um to join two clauses together, or at least take the time to edit those pauses out, maybe podcasting or videocasting isn't your thing.
- Mark Trapp
I'm with you. I watch at most 1-2 web videos a week. Video is modal, I want text and images I can scan and either dig into or discard but make the choice to do either in a second.
- Sparky, a big deal
You know, it's amazing how much lip service has been paid to indexing video and audio, but those services never really took off. You really have to rely on the tags and descriptions of a video.
- Eric @ CS Techcast
I feel the same way (despite the fact that increase in internet video helps my company). Its annoying, invasive and incomplete and a total waste of my time.
- jcunwired
Mark, I agree. I'm down with screencasts (and have actually seen some really good ones) but if you can't get through it without stammering, then you need to write a script and stick with it.
- Akiva Moskovitz
U just saying this because you are Camera SHY
- Igor The Troll יִצְחָק
Well, that, too!
- Akiva Moskovitz
On the issue of indexation, the speculation is that Google's voice recognition, that we've seen in Goog 411 and with lesser success in Google Voicemail transcription, is to be tasked with parsing video for its textual content. It's a boon to the hearing impaired and could provide the grumpier among us with an alternative to viewing content.
- Christopher Harley
this is interesting to me as I'm trying to build up my own video show from the ground upwards. I guess some of it will depend on a few factors such as what they're covering (in my case, video gaming), what method of consumption they're aiming for (web, portable media devices, etc), when and where they're consuming.
- alphaxion
But video is a more effective way to force feed you commercials with your news. Which is why it's becoming prevalent.
- Kevin Pedraja
It's something that Joe Blogger with no budget can't necessarily do. Getting a talking head to look like a proper talking head isn't totally easy and often requires money for studio gear. Making a talking head requires both writing and ability to not stutter on camera. Hosting it without dumping it on youtube is expensive. Etc. So it's a secret way to stiff it to the smaller media properties.
- Wirehead
You don't need high quality equipment to produce a video, there's nothing wrong with using YouTube as the delivery vehicle (or any of the other free to low-cost video providers), and being able to clearly convey your ideas to an audience doesn't cost money. Take, for example, Matt Cutts: while he works for Google, he's using a regular Flip camera and hosting the videos on YouTube for...
more...
- Mark Trapp
I sometimes wonder if the inherent problems with video - that it's not indexable, that there are no automatic transcripts - are exploited by some people. Fringe wackos are more likely than the mainstream to post links to videos rather than text pages, IME.
- Andrew C
Automatic transcription will come to the web soon. It's already possible on pro editing software to search video by words spoken within it.
- Martin Bryant
from iPhone
@mark trapp exactly. I made my own green screen for less than £10 and I use consumer equipment (macbook, canon HF100, final cut express, samson C03U, a few desk lights, grand total = £1650 ish). Tho, I do take the time to write a script so I'm not umming and ahhing. The two most time consuming aspects are the writing and the video editing.
- alphaxion
I'm not a video person. If I can't skim it, I don't look at it.
- Mike Reynolds
+1 Mike
- Tyson Key
Thank You, Akiva. You said something out loud that has been bugging me.
- Kamilah Gill
Same here - I'm not generally a fan of video. Too much time. Much easier to read.
- Hutch Carpenter
I think this thread is depressing me.
- Eric @ CS Techcast
from iPod
I also do not want video. I think my attention span is too short.
- MiniMage TKDteacher of FF
Yeah, I like to read it too. I hate those popup ads that make you wait for the content. Die.
- Rick Cogley
Good news...
Dave Q, Amber, Random Time Lord, Kol Tregaskes and 20 other people liked this
I was 26 when I first got a girl pregnant, so I think that has some truth in it.
- Ian May
Fail.
- Jamelle
When you FIRST got a girl pregnant Ian? Wow, you must be so proud of yourself.
- jcunwired
.................
- Alix Whitmire
I'm proud of my eldest son, yeah. :)
- Ian May
Oh, I've only ever got one girl pregnant. She was my wife at the time too.
- Ian May
Wondering No More [McCain can't use a computer because of his POW beatings] - http://www.freerepublic.com/focus...
Alex Scoble, Ontario Emperor, ComicList and 2 other people liked this
"The reason he doesn't send email is that he can't use a keyboard because of the relentless beatings he received from the Viet Cong in service to our country. From the Boston Globe (March 4, 2000): McCain gets emotional at the mention of military families needing food stamps or veterans lacking health care. The outrage comes from inside: McCain's severe war injuries prevent him from combing his hair, typing on a keyboard, or tying his shoes. Friends marvel at McCain's encyclopedic knowledge of sports. He's an avid fan - Ted Williams is his hero - but he can't raise his arm above his shoulder to throw a baseball."
- Craig Eddy
from Bookmarklet
So, all you ELITISTS on the Left who are soooooo concerned that McCain doesn't send e-mails, how about a big glass of STFU
- Craig Eddy
There are alternative input devices. For example, I use a pen and on-screen keyboard. Sorry but he shows no interest in technology.
- LPH™ and his dog P™
Forbes from 2000: "In certain ways, McCain was a natural Web candidate. Chairman of the Senate Telecommunications Subcommittee and regarded as the U.S. Senate's savviest technologist, McCain is an inveterate devotee of email. His nightly ritual is to read his email together with his wife, Cindy. The injuries he incurred as a Vietnam POW make it painful for McCain to type. Instead, he dictates responses that his wife types on a laptop. "She's a whiz on the keyboard, and I'm so laborious," McCain admits."
- ComicList
I want a President to be at least as computer literate as my 12 year old nephew. If that's elitist you sure set a low bar for the guy with the launch codes.
- sergiooo
We aren't living in a James Bond movie. If whatever the President inputs the launch codes fails, it's not the President's job to rewire the box and make it work.
- ComicList
and there you go. picking on the dude and he didn't want to come out and say the truth. Obama would of kicked FDR's wheelchair. now these pricks want to say he lied because he uses blackberrys. this is so low.
- Noah David Simon
Sorry to be a contrarian, but Stephen Hawking uses a computer and he can't use his body at all.
- Alex Scoble
“I'm tired of both sides of the aisle spreading hate and fuming about hot button issues. I don't want to hear anything about lipstick on a pig, Palin/abortion, Obama being the messiah, and McCain being too old. I want actionable items. I want something that I can believe in...”
Dobromir Hadzhiev, Bob Stemen, Charlie Anzman and 18 other people liked this
Um, if that's what you're looking for, this is NOT the place to be LOL
- Mona Nomura
lol what is that suppose to mean? okay Got it.
- Kyle Lacy
Kinda long but from Steve Isaacs: http://friendfeed.com/e...
- Mona Nomura
There's plenty to believe in if you don't mind being a massive pessimist ;-)
- ·[▪_▪]·
I'm not saying I don't want to talk about it.. I'm saying that all this extreme bullshit is not conducive when it comes to the development of this country. Both sides are guilty of this.
- Kyle Lacy
I can't think of any other way to put this, so here it is: politics isn't about actionable items and it isn't about what's good for the country. My jaded point of view? It's like a magician's trick: our attentions are being focused on the election so we don't pay attention to what the other hand (i.e. the government in power) is doing.
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
I feel that is more of a conspiracy theory than anything else Tina
- Kyle Lacy
Kyle: Read the entire thread, dude lol.
- Mona Nomura
I'm not saying it's organized or anything. Just that the nit picky election crap distracts us completely from the actual government process: it's the "oooh, shiny!" syndrome. What coverage have you seen of any recent legislation that wasn't slid in between (or tied to) election coverage?
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
Mona: I'm too ADD
- Kyle Lacy
Ok Kyle, I'll take the bait, what issues matter to you?
- Daltonsbriefs
It's repetition of rhetoric, happens once every four years. 'Discuss' -> vote -> forget -> 'discuss' -> vote -> forget.
- Mona Nomura
A friend and i were talking about this last night. A real problem is getting a message across in an age of short attention spans. So what ends up happening is bursts of outrageous claims. Many times, in the hopes that it doesn't cause people to dig further so they just accept them as stated.
- ·[▪_▪]·
You called for actionable items. They are presented there. But if you don't want to read - then uhhh ok.
- Mona Nomura
I'm reading it right now.. forgive me?
- Kyle Lacy
+1 RobotFace
- Kyle Lacy
Good luck with finding that through all the crap people like to spew about.
- Mathew™ one of a kind
Forgive you for what, dork? LOL
- Mona Nomura
McCain was a POW. That's some pretty recent news. :)
- ::Kristen::
lol thanks Kristen @Mona Not reading your link.
- Kyle Lacy
By the by, this is a zero-sum game: only one can win. It's nice to discuss and debate, but there will be one President, from one Party. One must lose. We cannot all get along because, in the end, one group will impose its will on another.
- dkb
@dkblanar imposing will just causes problems. We all have to live together. Good leaders negotiate and compromise to reduce conflict. They don't impose on the losers to simply make them spiteful and angry.
- ·[▪_▪]·
AMEN!
- Jeff P. Henderson
Voting is violence expressed through other means. Considering it as anything else is naive. It would be nice to think there are no winners or losers, but ... there are. The past eight years is direct evidence of how winners profited whilst losers watched, impotent.
- dkb
Congress has been mostly out of session of late, Tina. From what I've heard on NPR they haven't done anything of late.
- Alex Scoble
There's only one side that imposes their will on the other...and I'll let you guess which side I think that is. And I almost started this comment with "actually."
- Alex Scoble
The congressmen and women I met with two months ago said that Bush and his administration is blocking most of their ideas (both republicans and democrats said that). They can't wait to get someone new in.
- Robert Scoble
Alex, what about your local government? If you keep up with local news, how much coverage is your local or state legislation getting in comparison with this one national election?
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
@dkblanar Ever heard of a little thing good sportsmanship? The past eight years are the result of a Rove-inspired divisive party plan. It was intentional and has shown to be a successful strategy to win but disastrous for our Country. To consider it "violence" is perpetuating the issue. It isn't naive to expect that you not push me to the side simply because i came in second place. Next time, you might be the loser. Everything will simply work better when we all work together.
- ·[▪_▪]·
I can't watch the local news...it's just so painful. I get my news from Yahoo news and NPR. And trust me, NPR doesn't just cover the election.
- Alex Scoble
I like my new puppy. She is totally actionable.
- Oldengrey (Jay)
Here's my new puppy: http://flickr.com/photos...
- Todd Hoff
Here's my puppy: http://www.flickr.com/photos...
- Oldengrey (Jay)
So cute!
- Todd Hoff
+1 todd
- Oldengrey (Jay)
Kyle: Renewable Energy. Obama leads. McCain votes against it. And also: McCain is old.
- David Lynch
Thing is, I don't truly believe anything any of them say.
- Ian May
The lipstick thing was funny (woops) Tina Fey was funnier
- Charlie Anzman
I vote Republican specifically so that "new ideas" in government are more likely to get vetoed or not funded. Government doesn't solve domestic problems - it's just one group of people who strive to tell everyone else what to do.
- Rob Sterling
Dabbleboard - Interactive whiteboard for drawing & team collaboration - http://www.dabbleboard.com/
gmarketer, Lu Tao, Dave Donohue and 8 other people liked this
"Dabbleboard is a powerful interactive whiteboard that's actually easy and fun to use. With a revolutionary new interface, Dabbleboard gets out of your way and just lets you draw."
- Steve Rubel
from Bookmarklet
yeah great tool - a little buggy at times but definitely one of the best out there.
- Zee.
I have been looking for this application. Thanks Steve
- Bob Stemen
from twhirl
Have you looked at Papershow? http://tinyurl.com/5txtvo Out in US in January, UK next month. (I'm slightly biased on this one!)
- Jane Rowe
Geraldo Rivera Takes a Spill! - http://www.youtube.com/watch...
  |
CW™, Charlie Anzman and Bob Stemen liked this
Awesome - He's still reporting from the eye 2 AM ET
- Charlie Anzman
sfo, united, middle seat. guy next to me has a large pizza. flight attendants all appear to be recently deceased.
Aaman (Clone of FF), Nirav Tolia, Kevin Johnson and 5 other people liked this
sfo, united, aisle seat, guy next to me twitter about something or other. flight attendants are hot-hot-hot!
- Jeff Eddings
SFO in the restaurant waiting to board a plane to LA after having my afternoon flight cancelled. Sucks.
- Robert Scoble
MySocial 24x7 - Firefox Companion for FriendFeed - http://mysocial247.com/
Bob Stemen, Svartling, Hisham هشام and 4 other people liked this
Anyone use this? Recommend it?
- Zee.
from Bookmarklet
Used it for one day, then disabled it ... can't remember why, though.
- Mladen Srdić
yeah, same actually - but it looks awesome. May give it another shot.
- Zee.
didn't work for me either, I think it was the slow updates or something
- Gaby K. Slezák
Thanks for the share, but... "MySocial 24x7 Bar 0.5 could not be installed because it is not compatible with Firefox 3.0.1."
- Czar
disabled it
- Fred Grott
@Gaby, yeah same. If you want to try it out & it's saying its not compatible - try this http://lifehacker.com/355973...
- Zee.
Had used it, was good for filtering by services. I think i just preferred being on the site though.
- Nick
i completly forgot to check this out when i first saw it a long time ago. Maybe it's time now?
- Svartling
@Svartling naa...i installed & uninstalled. But give it a shot if u like.
- Zee.
... not compatible with Firefox 3.0.1
- Long Nguyen
The protestors loaded in to interrupt McCain, regardless of what side you're on, are deplorable.
Brent Schlenker, Stellina, Evan Brown and 10 other people liked this
Indeed
- John Denver
agreed - poor taste.
- Morgan
Agreed. In that I include the "protestors" who dropped sandbags from an overpass onto moving vehicles and the morons who had stockpiled buckets of urine and weapons to disable vehicles. Of course their real goal is to get arrested so that they can scream brutality.
- Soulhuntre
from twhirl
Who let them in in the first place?
- Andrew Feinberg
People have the right to protest, but there's also the common decency of letting someone be heard...... That said, it was kind of funny....
- Chris Reed
@Chris I think common decency is not high on their priority list
- John Denver
"People have the right to protest" -- not inside a private gathering, they don't
- Craig Eddy
this was a great example of Prince Barak's supporters.
- Tony Kanzia
I like to think that the choice of choosing a president is a public matter.
- Chris Reed
Indeed it is, Chris. But the confines of the convention building are not particularly public.
- Craig Eddy
People have a right to protest, but not the way they did.
- Mol, Time Warping
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki.... You remember, like that whole Boston Tea Party thing?
- Karim
Karim, there is no way you can justify interrupting a private event
- Craig Eddy
On the deplorability scale I think it's not quite as bad as credentialed press having their faces slammed to the curb.
- Karim
I hate to say it a lot of the Democrats who are protesting aren't being very respectful, but I know some may say why should they show respect if McCain doesn't show respect to America. *rolls eyes*
- Mol, Time Warping
So John McCain dropping napalm on the Vietnamese is justified, but someone NON-VIOLENTLY interrupting a speech can *never* be justified. Hmmm.
- Karim
@Karim Exaggerate much?
- John Denver
John, and the exaggeration was? Did I get it wrong and it was high explosive instead of napalm?
- Karim
@Karim what ever happened to being respectful? And not all the protests have been non violent at the RNC. Protests should be peaceful and without violence.
- Mol, Time Warping
@Karim How exactly can you compare the acts of a few extremists with the job that a soldier performs during a time of war?
- John Denver
John, just so I understand you, the "extremists" are the ones who protest non-violently, and the moderates are the ones who drop bombs on people. Did I get that right?
- Karim
Evernote. Why it will make it & 20 Awesome Ways to Use It. - http://www.inquisitr.com/2179...
Kol Tregaskes, Alexei Tolkachev, Jason Carreira and 55 other people liked this
Yes folks, with a little bit of help from you guys. This is officially my first post for The Inquisitr.
- Zee.
Probably the biggest "wow" application of the year for me.
- Chris Baskind
Duncan: anyway I can get you to link to my video where the Evernote CEO demonstrated it? http://fastcompany.tv
- Robert Scoble
I second, third, and fourth this! Evernote is - without a doubt - one of the best Desktop + Web apps out there today.
- Sharon Rosen
@Robert - that's my bad actually. I never got round to bloody inserting it...Should only take a second to do
- Zee.
oh, or Zee? :-) Congrats on your post!
- Robert Scoble
@Robert cheers! Lets get that video added. And guys, if you like the post - then pls check out my blog at http://www.proproductivity.com!!
- Zee.
Scoble, added
- Duncan Riley
congrats on your first post Zee - Inquisitr FTW!
- Morgan
hey, cheers Morgan. I just hope people get a lot from it.
- Zee.
love Evernote -- App, Web and Mobile, its just a very smart implementation
- Todd Bremner
from twhirl
Haven't gotten around to start using this, but great ideas for use in the post.. thanks!
- Tim Hoeck
I use it on the web/mobile web and like it, but I really wish they made a version for Tiger users...
- Stellina
Evernote is a winner.
- Chris Rossini
I predict Evernote offers native voice transcription within a year
- Wayne Schulz
I wonder how many times your blog post will be 'clipped to Evernote'? Quite a few I would bet!!
- Mel Buckpitt
@Zee good job and @Duncan props on letting giving people a chance to guest post.
- Roger Kondrat
Playing with Evernote for the last few minutes. Looks supercool...
- Nikhil Dandekar
Roger, the offer is always open if anyone else would like to write the occasional post.
- Duncan Riley
I love it more and more each day.
- Mathew A. Koeneker
20 great ways to use Evernote by @wedocreative: http://www.inquisitr.com/2179...
Marcel van der Laan and Bob Stemen liked this
I downloaded Evernote but haven't yet used it
- Ian May
Evernote for Mac users, be sure to check for updates. We just released a new version.
Bob Stemen, Dennis Jackson, Warner Crocker and 8 other people liked this
Thanks for a great interview. Based on it, I got it for my iPhone. It looks cool and can't wait to try it out.
- John Budnik
I like this... though, it would be nice if the videos were higher quality than youtube. :(
- mjc
I also really like Evernote. I tried it out for the iPhone when it came out but quickly dumped it because I couldn't figure out what the point was. Then I started watching how other people used it--it's now on my first page on the home screen.
- Derick Valadao
from feedalizr
I would like to see Tiger OSX support :-)
- Karthick R
The unlimited power of social media is bound by my human limitations « Alexander van Elsas’s Weblog on new media & technologies and their effect on social behavior - http://vanelsas.wordpress.com/2008...
Bill Romanos, Alemsah Ozturk, Charlie Anzman and 15 other people liked this
great article; especially the 7 bullet points.
- linkman77
His blog is a must read, I'm glad you enjoy it as much as I do.
- Mike Fruchter
Thanks guys, really appreciate it :-)
- Alexander van Elsas
I'm digesting this post now, will add some thoughts on it later today. Thank you Alexander :)
- Mike Fruchter
Great, I'll be looking forward to that ;-)
- Alexander van Elsas
Rebkin, thank you for you nice compliment
- Alexander van Elsas
My consumption is the complete opposite. I feel like I always have to be engaged and involved in social media, this has been the case on Friendfeed for me for the past 5 months. I feel that the constant river of content will pass me by, if I am not their to participate in it immediately, either by liking or commenting or sharing. In the beginning I was very focused on consuming massive...
more...
- Mike Fruchter
,comment on and like as well. It's only as of lately I am realizing that this river will still be here, with or with out me, and that I can jump in at any time. I don't have to be first any more, I can start to sit back watch and lets things marinate a while.
- Mike Fruchter
Mike: I completely agree with you albeit on a much smaller scale.
- Jon-Paul Bussoli
Jon-Paul, did you feel that the river was becoming too overwhelming? I'm curious now :)
- Mike Fruchter
subscribed :)
- Tim Hoeck
ditto Tim - Thanks Mike for the 'find'. It's always changing.
- Charlie Anzman
Mike thank you for your explanation. It's good to see that we all take different and similar approaches to deal with this. I tend to use Google Reader to follow people closely (they need to blg of course). But I use other type of aggregators (such as FF) more like a river I dip in. Works best for me. There is always great content to be found and it helps me discover new people.
- Alexander van Elsas
Tim, Charlie, thx ;-)
- Alexander van Elsas
EverNote over OneNote - http://www.ghacks.net/2008...
Nicholas James, Bob Stemen, Peter Hoven and 15 other people liked this
Not sure I agree with that. The three features listed exist in both apps. OneNote was my constant companion in college. Perhaps he was just using it wrong?
- Jordan Hofker
I've tried both and ended up using OneNote more often. OneNote has synchronisation as well but I think it only works in corporate environments with Sharepoint.
- Alan Le
I am the same was as the author-onenote was just too big of a gun for most of my tasks. Evernote is a godsend
- Mitchell Hislop
from twhirl
I use Evernote more because my main work computer is a PC which I spend most of my day on, but whenever I travel I take a MacBook Pro with me. Evernote has all my notes no matter where I am. I can also send notes/pictures to Evernote with my blackberry.
- Adam Teece
from twhirl
Alan, OneNote syncing works great across your home network. I haven't tried it yet, but I'm thinking it would work nicely with Mesh as well.
- Jordan Hofker
I have setup WSS (the free SharePoint) on my home server and put my personal OneNote notebook there. Then I can easily access my notes from work and home.
- Jemm
interesting, thanks for the info Jordan and Joni
- Alan Le
Well I use both and I cannot decide; as I use windows mobile and web continuously I should prefer Evernote, but also OneNote has a WinMobile Client, and the Office integration is really impressive - and I need Office (Outlook in particular) in my daily job for sharing with the rest of my colleagues...
- andrea
By "home network" I guess I meant standard file shares. :-)
- Jordan Hofker
Been using OneNote for a while - I think it's a killer app. I like the interface, I can organize things the way I like. It's friendly and intuitive. BUT- although it is possible to synch it online with OfficeLive Small Business, it just doesn't work right. I wasted two days on this. So I switched to Evernote, which I installed 3 months ago and never used. I don't like the interface as much, but it was obviously designed for the user who doesn't have their own IT department. MS's real customer.
- Walter Feigenson
I've tried both and also G Notebook but prefer Evernote overall, it's just a little more intuitive for me and I like the UI.
- Sally Church
I like Google Notebook: http://www.google.com/notebook ; it works great for all kinds of stuff
- Ralph Poole
I've used both and was also quite addicted to TiddlyWiki for a while. I like the fact that Evernote can be used online and offline and that I can send stuff from my phone to it. My main complaint is that I can't format the notes very easily. If they would put in some kind of simple text editing (I would be super happy with Textile or MarkDown) then I'd be happy. Just to make tables and lists easily and format code snippets. It would be purely optional use for those who didn't need that functionality.
- Her Lindsay-ness
Evernote is good tool - I use it for fast web clippings and snippits and so on. The time line vew is great for that stuff and it does a good job of preserving the formatting of a web page. For almost everything else I use OneNote. Not only does it sync really well with my phone and with multiple collaborators but the organizational abilities kick Evernote's butt.
- Soulhuntre
Timeline view? what's that?
- Her Lindsay-ness
As a side note: OneNote sync works really well with home server or the built in file sharing in Windows. It also does a great job syncing with offline laptops and so on when they hook back up.
- Soulhuntre
oooh... cool. Thanks Soulhuntre... didn't know that existed.
- Her Lindsay-ness
Just trying Evernote now. It's pretty cool and I'm super-impressed it can search my hand written notes from the wacom tablet.
- Andrew Smith
Really like OneNote, but Evernotes ability to sync across computers, platforms and be web accessible makes it a winner. If only the search function could be used in other programs (are you listening Thunderbird?)
- Bob Stemen
Al Gore Places Infant Son In Rocket To Escape Dying Planet | The Onion - America's Finest News Source - http://www.theonion.com/content...
John Ruth, Igor The Troll יִצְחָק, Bob Stemen and 12 other people liked this
Ha!
- Steve Rubel
from Bookmarklet
Bwa Ha Ha! I love it!
- Mark Dykeman
Ya know, he created Superman.
- Haggis (Sean Loyless)
Gore-El?
- Andy Roth
Looks like he's putting his kid on the bbq.
- Barak B
That belly deserves it's own credits
- Michael W. May
from twhirl
I Am Not a Cow: Why I Don't Care About a Personal Brand - http://www.profy.com/2008...
Phil G, mike "glemak" dunn, Gaby K. Slezák and 16 other people liked this
There needs to be an "amen" choice, right up by "like."
- David Worrell
Mooooo :)
- Charlie Anzman
Amen David.
- Anna Haro
Interesting article. I'll admit, your view of it is not mine at all, but I've learned everybody has their own style and desires and if you don't remember that, well, then you just don't understand how people work.
- Ben Parr
I know Charlie. This one probably made you weep, didn't it? ;)
- Cyndy
my goal is to help the personal brand of those who say they don't care about their personal brands.
- Robert Scoble
Seriously - As time moves forward, the so-called A-list will come and go faster than previously. Money, to some extent, will be less influential on the web. It will be a long time before the multi-media play disappears if ever (IE: CBS's recent acquisition of CNET etc.). Brands ARE important for recognition and stickiness. It's up to you whether or not to work within others (which is...
more...
- Charlie Anzman
Cool comment by Scoble ... :)
- Charlie Anzman
"Success means being heard and don't stand there and tell me you are indifferent to being heard... You may write for the joy of it, but the act of writing is not complete in itself. It has its end in its audience. Writing is a good example of self-abandonment. I never completely forget myself except when I'm writing and I am never more completely myself than when I am writing." (To "A.) in 'Habit of Being', pg. 458 Flannery O'Connor
- michael sean wright
Above quote is not directed at anyone- just loved the reminder of the process of writing. Writing does indeed become completed when connected to audience. I really enjoyed the Profy.com post!
- michael sean wright
Cyndy, I loved your post because I feel pretty much the same way. More to the point, I think there is a possibility of having personal brandS rather than simply my name = my personal brand. I don't know anybody who is the same person all the time, they change as their situation changes. Buying into a 'personal brand' puts you in a pigeon hole.
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
love your perspective on this cyndy - as for brand, i see your stuff as crisp & concise w/ a dose of wit - at least that is why i follow you, keep up the good work :)
- mike "glemak" dunn
Two-Hit Wonders: Spin Doctors - Spinner.com - http://www.spinner.com/2008...
Leslie Poston, Bob Stemen, Michael W. May and 7 other people liked this
"'Two Princes' (No. 7, 1992) **** 'Little Miss Can't Be Wrong' (No. 17, 1992) ******* Hemp sweaters and hacky-sacks stormed the charts in the early '90s, and these New Yorkers led the charge. Although the lasting success of frat-hippy peers Blues Traveler and Dave Matthews Band eluded them, you couldn't hit a kegger in 1993 without grooving to 'Little Miss' and its more successful twin sibling, 'Two Princes.' Bonus points to anyone who can tell the two apart."
- edythe
from Bookmarklet
I used to love these songs. I miss the 90s.
- Michelle Martinez
Anyone else have any Two-Hit wonders?
- Shawn Farner
Shawn, the internets and wikipedia have everything: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki...
- Mark Trapp
Saw them in concert three times.
- Clay Newton
Would Jimmy Eat World count as a 2 hit wonder?
- Clay Newton
shawn, if you go to the link, there's a ton.
- edythe
Ah, yeah... that's his patented 'nipple yank' move...
- l0ckergn0me
Two great tracks, pretty ok whole first album I think ...
- Patrick Jordan
Wow, thanks for the reminder. I just ran -- not walked -- to last.fm to listen to "Jimmy Olsen's Blues." My favorite Spin Doctors song is "What Time Is It?" I can't believe _Pocket Full of Kryptonite_ is from 1992. Damn. Eh.
- Kirk Kittell
Ugh, that Two Princes song was played every 10 minutes when I was in college. Barf! It was ok for the first week, but geez.
- Jim Kukral
Like the album, myself
- Michael W. May
from twhirl
Whoa, hey Clay! I still like Jimmy Eat World. Their new CD is pretty good. Listen to "Let it Happen". Awesome track.
- Shawn Farner
Evernote-cool iPhone - http://qik.com/video/129647
Carlos Ayala, MiniMage TKDteacher of FF, Matt Craven and 35 other people liked this
...app. Rocky and me agree that this is the most useful app we have seen so far.
- Robert Scoble
Yeah, I'm loving it so far.
- Corie
i think the iphone web app is better than the native app right now. surprising but true for me
- David Jacobs
from feedalizr
Use it every day. Excellent application & execution on multiple platforms.
- Dean Terry
david - why is it better do you think?
- Brooke Shelby Biggs
I wish the Mac-based application was a bit more solid, but if I had an iPhone, I would definitely love to have Evernote on it.
- James Mowery
from twhirl
They got 30,000 new signups (and even more downloads) the CEO, Phil Libin, told me this morning (since Thursday). Nice bump for a company that not many people have heard of before.
- Robert Scoble
I'm really enjoying my first few days with Evernote. A very natural addition to the iPhone.
- Chris Baskind
This is definitely one of or the most-used app for me so far as well. Really like the audio notes feature ...
- Patrick Jordan
brooke: native app type is smaller and you cannot rotate it into portrait view. Other than that I love Evernote
- David Jacobs
from feedalizr
The Evernote app seems to have weird spacing issues when creating a new note on my iPod touch.
- Mack D. Male
I've been using it almost daily for months since the beta and it has made a huge difference to my workflow. Once I get an iPhone I plan on scanning my shoe boxes of biz cards into it. It really is a super app on both my Mac and PC.
- Dom
How do you tell it to OCR text in an image? I feel stupid but don't see where to do that.
- Douglas E. Welch
from twhirl
Douglas - others may correct me, but I think you do not have to 'tell it' or do anything special to make OCR in images happen - it's just an in-built, automatic feature ...
- Patrick Jordan
Patrick: you are right. It just does it automatically. I just took a picture of a business card. A few minutes later I searched for the name of the person on that card and it found it and highlighted his name on the card. Very awesome.
- Robert Scoble
Thanks Robert - thought that was how it was supposed to be. And yeah, Evernote has been seeming very awesome to me ever since they launched the private beta for this version - great on the desktop, in a browser, on the iPhone, everywhere ...
- Patrick Jordan
Yep. I kept thinking it would show me the text as text in a field somewhere, but it just indexes it as part of the search. Cool
- Douglas E. Welch
from twhirl
I've been using it daily since beta too, one of my fav apps; I have personal, science and business notebooks, v cool tool.
- Sally Church
The only thing is that the iPhone app doesn't support the "zoom" or "email" features that the web does - key features in my mind, especially email.
- Tony
Is it just me or can one not edit pre-existing notes?
- Akiva Moskovitz
@akiva i noticed the same thing. i love the iphone app, but can't seem to edit existing notes, only view them and create new ones
- Brad Warren
Very cool Robert. Do you know if they will support speech recognition?
- Jim McCusker
I just reconnected my old LCD flat panel scanner. And I found if I use a custom invoke to the evernote app, it will automatically open with the scanned image in it! perfect.
- Phil G
This is my favorite app of this sort.
- Sean Oliver
up there with the best of them.
- Zee.
Great app, but my free account get blocked every month though :)
- Svartling
@J. Phil, how'd you do that?
- Glenn Slaven
I have a canon scanner that comes with an ancient piece of software called "scangear toolbox" .. in the settings you can configure up to 3 custom tabs, that can call an application by name. I set up evernote as one and flickr uploadr as 2. Both work perfectly when scangear invokes the app.
- Phil G
That's cool, I'll have to try that
- Glenn Slaven
Most of my iPhone apps crash or stall a lot, and they have made my phone less reliable.
Neil Dunn, Jonathon, Juras Vetrau and 24 other people liked this
I installed Scrabble, Facebook, and that roller-ball game (can't remember the name). The apps stall frequently, and I can't even get back to my phone's main screen for about a minute. Hard resets didn't even work. Very annoying.
- Bret Taylor
I like the apps, but my phone is a lot more sluggish now, and I am starting to regret my decision to upgrade to the 2.0 software.
- Bret Taylor
Nope, I am on the original iPhone.
- Bret Taylor
I haven't had a stall or crash yet. I'm on the OG iPhone.
- Clay Newton
there seem to be some memory issues. I'm using the original iphone with 2.0 and have had many of the problems with crashes, etc. I just did a fresh restore (not from backup) and things seem a little better. Also, if you're having problems with apps starting and immediately crashing....try removing the app from your phone, and resyncing to itunes. It will reinstall it, and it should be fine. Some sort of security thing that's getting hung up.
- shaun mclane
It's buggy on the new phones too. Some apps behave better than others. Does the iPhone have preemptive multitasking? It might not.
- Steve Rubel
I'm using an original with 2.0 software. It crashes a lot, but the benefits are large. I was just driving around when I parked and opened up "Boxoffice", found out hellboy was playing near me, and now I'm posting to ff outside the theatre. The apps are making this a cooler though less stable world.
- Andrew
Interesting, I've installed about 10 apps on my 16GB iPod Touch and haven't noticed any problems at all. I have had iTunes 7.7 crash twice during syncing, but without any ill effects on either iTunes or my iPod.
- Michael Connick
In addition to everything said above, my battery life has gone to hell
- Dominik Hofmann
bret, i'm having similar issues -- i think i'm mostly chalking it up to the fact that i installed a fair number of apps, am messing around a lot, etc. think once i settle down, and the apps get a little better, life will be better. (hopefully)
- John Lilly
You know what this means right? iPhone == Windows XP. Perfectly fine until you install lots of crappy 3rd party apps.
- xero
@xero It feels more like iPhone=Treo 650 - way too many tip calcs, and a few crashes an hour
- shaun mclane
Appliances should not crash. A phone is an appliance imo. I really want an iPhone but the battery life issue and stability issues I've been seeing pop up have me rethinking.
- xero
I was having the same problem - even top rated apps were crashing everytime. I ended up performing a restore from iTunes and now everything works just fine.
- Phil Maxwell
agree ... Apps have been crashing frequently
- Nick O'Neill
Brett: just curious, did you go with the preview version on Thursday or the version via iTunes? If the former, you might want to check out: http://www.macrumors.com/2008...
- Robert Seidman
My battery life is terrible because I'm addicted to Aurora Feint.
- Amit Patel
My iPhone became unstable when I had too many text messages (I get monitoring messages for servers at work), http://mike.stoppelman.com/2008...
- Michael
thanks Bret, I was just looking for some reasons... http://friendfeed.com/e...
- Orli Yakuel
o thats bc your using the iphone, simply return it to the steve jobs home address for store credit.....dignity non-refundable.
- Anthony
Me too. The jailbreak apps were much more stable and useful; now I suppose they'll die off. Super Monkey Ball is the major cause of crashes on my machine; the Google app is #2.
- Daniel Dulitz
I'm noticing many hangups and sluggishness but I have nothing to compare it too (first iPhone). Monkeyball wouldn't start a couple of times either. Turning off and back on again resolved all problems.
- James Hull
I have found twitterfic and loopt to be the worse. Many times they will automatically restart my iphone. (gen 1)
- Tony
Wait, your phone is more sluggish even when you aren't running the apps? That's weird, because I thought the whole design was that apps couldn't run in the background, specifically to avoid impacting the user experience.
- ⓞnor
A complete restore definitely seemed to help. We'll see how it lasts...
- Bret Taylor
Apps are cool, but battery life seems worse.
- Michael Herf
I like Ivan's solution.
- David Jeske
Qik and Twitter goes to Congress - http://scobleizer.com/2008...
Bill Brandon, JimmyJet, Erhan Erdogan and 20 other people liked this
http://qik.com/video/125962 here's the follow-up interview I did on Wednesday, and a link to Aaron Brazell's coverage (including some of my articles) here: http://technosailor.com/2008...
- Andrew Feinberg
Thanks Andrew and Aaron for following up on this.
- Robert Scoble
I don't intend to leave the issue alone.
- Andrew Feinberg
Really following this. QIK and Twitter are two things that give members of congress the ability to get back some of that human quality. Makes it more than just seeing them in shades of black and grey.
- Dean Clark
Please, anyone who has any information on this that hasn't been published but wants it out, feel free to contact me privately.
- Andrew Feinberg
Indian Gov does live webcast from parliament. Is the issue here in US of individual congressman's sharing of live proceedings or more about the lack of control over the conversations it will start outside among people?
- Sudha Jamthe
wow finally the tech main stream media picks this up, , this hit the web a couple days ago!
- Tanya
Of course should Twitter and Qik be allowed. Politicians that use this kind of technology should be admired. Barrack Obama seems to use all available forms of modern technology. That's my man as new president although my vote doesn't count...
- Håkan Dahlström
It's all the more impressive some are using the technology because it's your political opponents who scrutinize these materials most closely and critically. I learned that lil' fact the hard way by blogging as a local elected official. Posting material adds hugely to the time and energy demands of elected office when you give your critics more material to work from. But the overall payoff is huge: a healthier democracy.
- Walter Neary
Maybe big media is getting ticked off and crying to the politicians. After all, some folks might decide they don't need to buy a paper/magazine if it's on Twitter, and the computer is competing with tv (at least, it's owning the tv where I'm concerned).
- MiniMage TKDteacher of FF
MiniMage: The process for getting access to politicians in the Capitol itself is convoluted and designed as a gatekeeper. There is currently no way for freelance writers or bloggers to get accreditation. Watch my full interview with Culberson http://qik.com/video/125962 at about 6 minutes to go and see what he means.
- Andrew Feinberg
@agfhome: I'm just not getting to your interview vid. I'm sure the problem exists between my keyboard and my bed (PEBKAB), since I can't recall going to qik before.
- MiniMage TKDteacher of FF
from NoiseRiver
Networks Don't Grow Forever -- Not Even Social Networks - http://feeds.harvardbusiness.org/~r...
Bob Stemen liked this
Heretic! Liar!
- Andy Wibbels
Franklin Pettit, simonpure, James Hull and 5 other people liked this
add posterous support please :)
Henry, Jay K, Refael Ackermann and 42 other people liked this
+1
- Quan Mengli
I want preposterous support!
- Andy Murdoch
I want posthumous support.
- Earle Martin
It would be really nice if posterous posts were imported with image thumbnails.
- Jason Wehmhoener
Yes, please... add posterous support! We'd love to do anything it takes to help FriendFeed add Posterous as a supported feed. You name the API, we'll make it happen in 48 hours or less. -garry (cofounder, posterous)
- Garry Tan
++
- Bem
showin' support
- mark rampton
Yeah yeah that would be perfect, especially the image / thumbnail !
- Chris Darling
Yes - photo, video, .mp3 and also : )) .doc and .pdf support please for only Posterous : ))
- Erhan Erdogan
+1
- Mark Interrante
YES please do this
- Rahul Krishnakumar
do it
- Vezquex: God of FF
Posterous is great. Please become an early adopter of what will change the world.
- Blaque Saber
Right on, Garry! I really enjoy using posterous for now. Keep up the great work. http://kenmat.posterous.com/
- Kenichi Matsumoto
+1
- Reder
I got a great responce to this post. Thanks :) Posterous rocks! http://friendfeed.com/e...
- Kenichi Matsumoto
+1
- Ross McKillop
Yes, I too would like to see posterous support on FriendFeed :)
- AlanLB
me tooo!
- browneyes
yay posterous!
- Stefan Winopal
Posterous is great, I add it as a blog but native support would be fantasticer
- Andy Roberts
Yup, I want :D
- Dave Pook
me wants http://andersabrahamsson.posterous.com (ITMT I have added it as Misc feed)
- Anders Abrahamsson
Yes, please.
- Zeph Green
+1 Posterous support, please
- Jon Price
I support this request
- Pierre-Philippe Martin
Posterous is awesome, please add support here :)
- Nick
++
- Chigie
Great - Yes, please do it!
- Sigalon
If twitter can be here, Posterous sure can.
- pankaj
methinks it would be really really nice :-)
- .mau.
+1
- Dieter Schwarz
I'd like to see Posterous added to the available services.
- Allison Kipta
Posterous should be added to Friendfeed - super easy to use. Native support would be perfect.
- dbush
+1 FriendFeed is my main social tool. I've subscribed to many Posterousb blogs, I need Posterous on FriendFeed!!!
- Eric Sausse
I want Posterous Support Please!
- Thomas Skavhellen
+1 yes please
- Christopher Black
Yes, add it please!
- Rubin Sfadj
Yeah, it would be so nice!
- Dino
Please add!
- Collin tAte
it would be great to have posterous added - especially with the multimedia aspect of most posterous entries!
- Amy Sample Ward
Pretty please! :)
- John Biesnecker
+1
- el_sime
thumbs up let's do this
- Ethan
+1 indeed!! Please
- Stephen
That would be AWESOME! Posterous + Friendfeed + Facebook all from my e-mail. PLEASE just do it.
- Jenna-Dee Detro
Ditto. Let's get posterous support.
- James
Please add posterous support :)
- Paul K
+1 - Let's go FF, get on board!
- Anthony Marco
+1 support would be great!
- Andrew Brennan
+1 :D
- Mathias Wiberg
Not yet done??? :)
- Myriam
support
- spharmonic
I second, third and fourth this - Posterous needs a proper feed!
- Dan Biddle
OHH yea, SwitchingGranny wants to see Posterous on FriendFeed
- Martha Garrett
+1
- Bob Stemen
Yes, please, posterous support would be nice.
- Hector Palacios
please add posterous support or provide the tools to blog on friendfeed :)
- karl dotter
YES
- Dan Haubert
I definitely need it - asap please :)
- Manuel
would you please!
- Yamil Gonzales
Any plans on adding Posterous?
- Majento
+++1
- Radiocarbon dating
Please add posterous support to FriendFeed :)
- Michael Air
yes
- caponjanavar
+1 !
- Brett Kelly
+1!
- emanuele strada
+1
- Adam Loghry
+1
- robert bale
+1 here too
- Matt Dell
+1! plz!
- Joselito Junior
Resurrection of a prehistoric FF post for a research. :) (Will be here: http://friendfeed.com/friendf...)
- Özer (Wrzl) Dölekoğlu
+1
- Matt Ruiz
+1 -- John Bigay
- John Bigay
Please add Posterous Support
- Philip May
Other ways to read this feed:
