I'm going to the "real" movies tonight. Tower Heist
- Tina Chase Gillmor
Netflix doesn't have 10% of the worlds movies, Obama needs to legalize piracy, then all the movies can just go up on YouTube or any other servers and you can get any movie for just paying $10/month through taxes
- Charbax
Amazon Prime type of yearly pricing should provide unlimited access to all ebooks, articles, text etc
- Charbax
Guess they started a bit earlier... time gets fuzzy. They came to birthday party for one of my daughters band mates which was around 2001. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki...
- Jerry Schuman
Hanson still performs - they've actually matured as a band -- they are not bad.
- John Taschek
I heard they were actually very talented musicians
- Jerry Schuman
Say, I've been pondering the role of journalists as so-called "experts", but they actually don't do anything other than report on things other people actually do. Is there actually the large disconnect that I think there is?
- Kevin Costain
@Kevin - I have that book somewhere at home too... be hard to find it I think.. :(
- Kevin Costain
There is no current business model for profitable newspaper publishing, and people say blogging the replacement. However, there is also no business model for bloggers, in general. Seems that news has a little problem.
- Michael Krigsman
@Micheal - indeed, the business model for that stuff may be worth investigation.. but I speak more of those in the technology industry (that make money by making technology work, or making technology) and those that report ABOUT it. The line that those that report and those that do it seems to be less delineated.. something is up there though I'm probably not articulating it well enough. :)
- Kevin Costain
Major manufacturers have ceased production of new motion picture film cameras; cinema as we once knew it is dead -- http://www.salon.com/2011...
- David Berry
my mac kernel panicked. rebooted, trying skype again
- Kevin Marks
I see allot of these BOLD statements about technology almost for the sake of being bold.. but where is the substance behind it? Are these people making these bold statements ever in the position to have to back these things up?
- Kevin Costain
Perhaps that will pass.. I guess the good thing is people's memories tend to be short.. and when they're locked into two and three year contracts, they won't remember this when it's time to renew.
- Kevin Costain
Check this out.. Gmail just gave me an obvious SPAM message.. I checked more details and it says "Important mainly because it was sent directly to you.". I'm thinking, that's not too strict if that's all they're checking.. :)
- Kevin Costain
gabe is commissioning stories for techmeme now?
- Kevin Marks
Copycats, easy and low cost to create Apps and get Distribution, more freelancers than Startups.
- cliveb
I think the arbiter of integrity is the sense they put truth and objectivity above money and personal gain
- Stephen Pickering
Kevin: Integrity is "are you what you seem?" So, if you are a criminal, and everyone knows it, you have integrity. Now, if everyone thinks you are a Rabbi, but you actually are a criminal, then you don't have integrity.
- Robert Scoble
Stephen: Indeed that is one nice definition of integrity.. but I'm more interested in what decides who does or doesn't operate with integrity?
- Kevin Costain
yeah - like Omar on The Wire - that dude had integrity
- Ankush Narula
someone flew a kite in the WSJ which gabe picked up. Maybe they were trying to get valuations down.
- Kevin Marks
Why is Steve getting more credit than Bill gates? Bill put a PC in the hands of villagers in developing countries. He put them in failing inner city schools. Steve Jobs put computers in the hands of the well-off.
- David Lloyd
I do know what it's like to live with integrity. Indeed, this is essential. But, when we have those out there and we lack personal involvement with these people. What helps me know that this person has integrity.
- Kevin Costain
I consider this more of a Klout thing. Klout being a measure of influence, right?
- Kevin Costain
Klout measures online popularity and topicality. I wouldn't go as far as saying it truly measures influence.
- Robert Scoble
But it gets us at least partway down that road.
- Robert Scoble
Eh. Bill Gates changed computing as much as Steve Jobs did - the love won't be the same for Bill because the Microsoft message has become about malware, "Product Activations", and sales channels
- Ankush Narula
the Mac was the first beige box... the PCs were metal before
- Kevin Marks
There is a reasonable chance Bill Gates will help erradicate Malaria and put clean water in villages in the Sudan. I know who I think changed the world the most.
- David Lloyd
It doesn't have to be pissing contest. They've both done great things
- Stephen Pickering
Sure. Popularity and topicality are not influence. I think something like tying honesty and integrity to an identity would give words of those with more of it, more weight.
- Kevin Costain
I've read Steve Jobs was a dick at times. +1 for him right there.... :)
- Kevin Costain
The greatest geniuses always have the greatest weaknesses. Without the dick part, you wouldn't have the genius part
- Stephen Pickering
I do consider Jobs a genius. If I had met and interacted with him, I'd probably know for sure.
- Kevin Costain
This specific world required a new group of experts to translate what was happening. Then this world began becoming the the world around us all.
- Aron Michalski
Well, guys.. I have to run.. cheers.. thanks for the show today..!
- Kevin Costain
and when the money gets big enough, the old money types (all money types) take it for real. It becomes mainstream when the big dogs want a bite.
- Aron Michalski
Kindle has no apps because Amazon was holding off on their platform, waiting for Android. Change again to WebOS and they set the clock back another 18 months.
- Michael Mahemoff
More likely Oracle buys Palm for mobile strategy like SAP (funded by Android royalties)
- cliveb
Walmart otoh has a blank slate and apparently a mandate for acquisitions.
- Michael Mahemoff
The Amazon Android fork already has set them back in time. Will only get worse unless Amazon creates a full OS team to keep their fork relevent.
- manielse (Mark Nielsen)
a blank slate? is that one with no apps?
- Kevin Marks
Is Jeff Bezos trying to be the 'new' Steve Jobs?
- Moe Glitz
from iPhone
Bollocks, Kevin, there's no free market in communications. That's why we don' t have fiber connections at competitive prices
- Stephen Pickering
infrastructure evolves based on demand which also evolves
- Jerome Hughes
we have the worst of both worlds - local monopolies with no structural separation
- Kevin Marks
Through Motorola, Google will copy Apple by opening Google Stores, selling Google Phones, Tablets, Netbooks, TV's and everything Android
- Moe Glitz
from iPhone
The fork is the big issue which should be the real concern for buying the Fire.
- manielse (Mark Nielsen)
my mac.com accounts have stopped worked
- Kevin Marks
One week after Apple launches their next iPhone, Google will showcase their new Smartphone. Just how good is their latest Andriod Sweet sounding Software upgrade.
- Moe Glitz
from iPhone
All of this is a mute point. As soon as it is OPENED or Cracked it is a game changer. Barnes and Noble NOOK
- amarquart
From the Amazon website: "Your Favorite Apps and Games... Angry Birds, Plants vs. Zombies, The Weather Channel and more, plus a great paid app for free every day. All apps are Amazon-tested on Kindle Fire for the best experience possible."
- Alex de Soto
woohoo!! Amazon Android free apps. I got some of those in my Dell Streak 7
- Da
so why is Google adding 3rd campus in Seattle (840 person Bothell bldg)
- cliveb
This show always continues to amaze me. Packed with info and educated opinion. You guys rock! Sorry don't mean to applaud our own show but...
- Tina Chase Gillmor
Wait a minute. Windows 8 is focused on tablet use....
- amarquart
I don't even remember to charge the blackberry
- Kevin Marks
amarquart: exactly. It's far less interesting.
- Robert Scoble
One thing Rim does is product placement. Seems like every new movie and tv show the actors are using a Blackberry. Won't HTML5 help Rim hang on?
- Stephen Pickering
those Android IDEOS phones that Huawei's been selling like hotcakes in Kenya is probably optimized for long battery life
- Da
and minis (or at least the OS) ~ a good friend in that space says the best thing ever to happen to RIM is iPhone
- Jerome Hughes
facebook zero was aimed at that maket
- Kevin Marks
Scobleizer for nobel prize in black holes!
- cliveb
Just hope Robert doesn't disappear down one
- Moe Glitz
from iPhone
hmm, I dunno though, in the most of the world, Microsoft's still pretty unanimous with computers. It might be a no-name box but it runs on Windows
- Da
companies in the business of herding cats
- Jerome Hughes
I'm glad I have no Klout. I'd rather learn a language to communicate with someone else in the world than know the t shirt preference of a 20 something in a mall...
- Aron Michalski
his Klout score is zero but he's in everyone's circle, he's the most interesting man in the world
- Da
follower spam! not a fan of sharing G+ circle
- cliveb
If the iCloud goes social by allowing all iOS users to share their photos, music and other forms of media. Couldn't Apple be a Social Player
- Moe Glitz
from iPhone
I helped a friend with a problem (how would that effect my score if I didn't send them a promoted link?)
- Aron Michalski
Everyone wants to collect your most personal details with intimate fidelity, to sell more and more shit you don't really need << bad mood about this today.
- Michael Krigsman
great shot of Steve chuckling, Tina!
- Jerome Hughes
We need centralization to build markets and consolidate customers, but at some point it's too much. Question becomes, what is that breakover point where it becomes bad.
- Michael Krigsman
Scoble looks like he's in a Peter Gabriel video...
- Aron Michalski
people use twitter, people don't use google+
- Mark Vaske
G+ devrel advice set up a circle just for Scoble (only go when u hv time)
- cliveb
Zuckerberg on G+ follows Marks's law of twitter: if you tweet you lose followers; if you're retweeted you gain followers. By not posting, no-one unfollows Zuck
- Kevin Marks
Not posting public and not posting aren't the same thing. It's possible Zuckerberg has posted, just not publicly.
- James Williams
What Google is doing is building a cloud operating system, and the value proposition is the integration of all the parts, with a Social Network being just one part
- Stephen Pickering
Counting only posts is not the same as counting all interaction.
- James Williams
Peter Norvig's researchers and machine learning are all over G+
- cliveb
Posts + comments should be used as a measure against tweets
- Brian Sullivan
but unless google releases figures like twitter just did, that would be hard to compare
- Kevin Marks
any thoughts about the WSJ article on Zynga? "We're an analytics company masquerading as a gaming company." Different goal makes for different business plan?
- Aron Michalski
It's not so much search as it is getting content onto their system as oppossed to a competitor's cloud system that is closed off from the open web
- Stephen Pickering
Kevin, I don't think +1s are conceptually the same. I plus +1 things that I agree with, not necessarily things I want to save for later (I have a Favorites circle for that).
- James Williams
Herman Caine seemed the most Reaganesque to me. He was cool.
- Stephen Pickering
G+ is like scanning a newspaper rather than having a channel on 24/7
- Aron Michalski
I tried their exporter out when talking about microformats with Sarah Perez this week, and was surprised how few g+ posts I'd made
- Kevin Marks
Danny, I just figured out why Elliot wanted real names.com
- Keith Teare
what happens when netflix looses starz?
- Mark Vaske
Bartz proves enterprise CEOs mismatched for Consumer Web
- cliveb
Prodigy > AOL > Yahoo! > Facebook > ?
- Alex de Soto
robert can you mute, I'm getting echo from you
- Kevin Marks
Here's a question: who do you take an established community and port them over if they don't respond to social gold stars?
- Aron Michalski
Don't solve problems, don't fix anything, do something cool
- Stephen Pickering
...and here's the part of the show where we provide major SV company's lots of free advice! You're welcome
- Tina Chase Gillmor
There are plenty of users(targets) who don't play games, don't check in, don't collect stickers ("grown ups"?) how do you bag them and get them into your universe? Purchase?
- Aron Michalski
There are smart, valid people in coach. Spending 3 times more to sit in the front of the plane to get to the same fucking place is just...dopey.
- Aron Michalski
In the early days, that was true because to be on FB, you originally had to be a college student.
- James Williams
I'll take a fat seat anytime the rich stay home. It's nice to be able to reach into your own pants pocket and pull out something (which is hard to do in coach without dislocating your shoulder...)
- Aron Michalski
Kevin he is saying that apple is driving the usage that brings notifications back to the hardware...
- Mark Vaske
Apple didn't invent multitasking....Android and WebOS had it first.
- James Williams
Danny carriers don't control apple software unlike android
- Mark Vaske
Thanks - told him the other day I didn't realize forever would mean 20 &(#($ years
- Tina Chase Gillmor
so absolute control and no choice is better.
- Aron Michalski
There are multiple app stores on Apple. There is Cydia and OpenMarket.
- James Williams
well, Apple had it in 1985 when Andy Herzfeld wrote switcher, but i know what you mean
- Kevin Marks
Why did he get so dang sick in the first place? He's too young. However, people do retire as they approach 60. Could he just be ready to work on the UFO?
- Colleen
from iPhone
@coldbrew I am given to bouts of wild enthusiasm
- Francine Hardaway
I'm still one of the crazies thinking that personal servers will rule the roust once everyone understands decentralization and simple server management.
- coldbrew
Like Apple being kind of "too big to fail" - the currency of IT universe?
- #Robert Redl
We can still use load balancers on AWS but our app servers will be on-premise.
- coldbrew
That perception of perfection is what people called Jobs' "reality distortion field," which is an amazing part of his legacy for Apple's brand.
- Tom Guarriello
...and he's been aroound long enoughto set the bar very high
- Tina Chase Gillmor
"Great directors are the ones who don't have to say anything -- you know what I am saying?"
- The Ghost of Library Past
coldbrew, agreed once tacit knowledge becomes the new IP
- cliveb
That quote was used to calm down shareholders
- Moe Glitz
from iPhone
Let's parrot out of context quotations...
- coldbrew
"When it's ready" is the Apple mantra
- Kevin Marks
Sometimes I'm scared for Scoble for saying the things he does, but what he says is quite interesting.
- coldbrew
The rationale is psychological..."we have to be in the tablet business...it's growing too fast for us to miss out..." Not sound, but understandable.
- Tom Guarriello
OS protection....The more people use IOS devices, the more irrelevant the others become.
- Karoli
"It takes more time to make a fake" but they are all rushing these products
- Mark Vaske
Steve Ballmer told everyone that a HP Windows Slate would be out soon. That quote came 3 weeks before Steve Jobs showed the iPad.
- Moe Glitz
from iPhone
HP had a bigger vision than copying the iPad - webOS was meant to be used across many products and form factors
- Ankush Narula
The iphone was definitely a life saver during my last European trip. Great GPS, awesome camera, amazing communication with friends from all over the world and the Time Out app was brilliant.
- Nir Ben Yona
It hasn't happened because the Android OS doesn't seem to perform consistently across devices
- Ankush Narula
idk about that, apple has the most developers, and they control and make the best hardware...
- Mark Vaske
capacitive touch changed lots of things
- coldbrew
kevin yr audio keeps building up as you are silent can u switch toheadphone?
- Steve Gillmor
Well, I''m not a dev today, but tomorrow, who knows?
- Francine Hardaway
I can produce the show, switch shots and chat at once! well.... sort of...
- Tina Chase Gillmor
Yes the brain can only do one thing at a time (generally) but the brain does it much faster than a computer. The computer has to be able to multitask in order to keep up with the brain
- Eric de Oude
@francine - I doubt steve g is doing much dev stuff either, but that doesnt mean you cant get in it. Its $100
- Mark Vaske
Multitasking over rated, talking on cell phones, watch drivers
- cliveb
Where is the Android version of the ipod touch?
- coldbrew
Wish Apple would make better speakers for all of their products
- Moe Glitz
from iPhone
I have a feature phone with a low cost carrier, and a ipod touch for voip at home.
- coldbrew
@ Moe hardware speakers arent meant to be awesome...
- Mark Vaske
@Robert - Exactly. External audio is better audio
- Mark Vaske
Sorry I only caught the end of this, stuck in Honolulu airport. Mahalo, Aloha over and out :) Will have to watch the recording...sounds like it was great.
- Charlie Isaacs
Waiting for the famous call. I hear John Borthwick (a Venture Capitalist from UK) will be on the call today along with most of the usual suspects.
- Robert Scoble
I guess I'm gonna go out and work on tweeting something worth responding to...
- Aron Michalski
Mainly follow Sports, Tech and News Streams
- Moe Glitz
from iPhone
gesture bleed from service to service, have been seeing some such things on #FB for a long time "x and x are now friends" though possibly more privately
- Jerome Hughes
For many years it was the absolute best way to communicate in realtime internationally without additional charges.
- Aron Michalski
So crazy to be frightened of the medium. Was it Doc Searls who talked about the silliness of considering monetizing your front porch? Same thing. Blame the front porch if someone is conspiring on it.
- Amyloo
they will create chaos here if they cut communications off when they think they should. what?
- Tina Chase Gillmor
An API for Google Maps that shows zombies where the riots are occurring?
- Aron Michalski
Most teenagers can't afford a Smartphone, but they can afford a cheap Blackberry.
- Moe Glitz
from iPhone
is Blackberry going to further lose business users by association with rioters?
- Kevin Marks
Klout shout give points for shutting up. Our fearless leader often says that what is not said can be more important.
- Aron Michalski
Robert only cares about filtering because he has a million friends. Under 1000, who cares?
- Vezquex
Scoble is a hoarder. It's an interesting realm to be in, data hoarding but it's not for everyone. Or for that matter, most any individual other than Scoble.
- Aron Michalski
surely K counts babbling against you, etc.
- Jerome Hughes
He doesn't have access to my stream, as he stated a while back that he doesn't care. He lost my vote and access to my data.
- Aron Michalski
I don't look at his either. One less filter needed.
- Aron Michalski
Trying to decipher what Steve just said about Google Search and Twitter.
- Darren
More people does not equal more interesting!!!
- Aron Michalski
More interesting people equals more engagement.
- Aron Michalski
if you built NYC from scratch it would be like Brasilia
- Kevin Marks
If you built NYC from scratch again it would suck and not be NYC.
- Aron Michalski
Twitter hasn't evolved organically in over 2 years. If they were, they wouldn't have moved against the developer community that made them such a success story.
- Darren
I just realized how utterly and completely fraught with jargon these weekly talks are. I live in two worlds. Most of my friends would be sure this is a different language.
- Laura Norvig
Congress isnt keeping you from having a flying car
- Christian Burns
Google following up on the outrage we all felt over that episode of This American Life is a smart move. Lets try and get some traction on this issue
- Christian Burns
Patent Trolling may kill so many Start-ups
- Moe Glitz
from iPhone
I just copied and pasted Gruber's actual quote: "Google seems to feel entitled to copy whatever it wants. Android copies the UI from the iPhone. Places copied data from Yelp. Google+ copies from Facebook. Their coupon thing is a clone of Groupon. And yet it’s Google that acts as though it has been offended when these competitors fight back."
- Alex de Soto
Companies deliver Jetsons Patents which they can never develop. But when someone else creates a product that has elements of that Jetsons Patent, the Jetsons Patent holder sues, even though they could never create such a product.
- Moe Glitz
from iPhone
Robert, will there be a new iPad HD version this fall?
- Moe Glitz
from iPhone
mining the vast anti-Apple developer vein
- Jerome Hughes
Why do you think that "look and feel" became a defense? It's because of the fact that code can be one line different, therefore not a complete rip.
- Aron Michalski
The apps we need will show up before the end of the day.
- Christian Burns
look and feel didn't succeed, it was actual code copying that got Apple/Microsoft into the lawsuit
- Kevin Marks
"ATTENTION ALL APPLE COMPETITORS: give up. signed, the Gillmor Gang PS- Resistance is futile.
- Aron Michalski
Not putting flash on the iPad leaves a huge opening that HP and Android can take advantage of. So much content is in flash, and content is king
- Stephen Pickering
Christian: the pad is mostly what I'm talking about, although even on phones the iPhone apps are generally better quality than Android ones too, but Android is doing "good enough."
- Robert Scoble
for now seems Spotify is social async, #TT is social realtime
- Jerome Hughes
now that you can upload all your stuff to Amazon and Google for free, it won't matter until Apple does it. It works great, except it maxes out your onboard RAM on Android phones. Desktop, big win.
- Aron Michalski
I'll try it agin with more people on it, but way less social than turntable. Though apparently listen on turntable, add to spotify is good
- Kevin Marks
Spotify is great on the go...but turntable is cooool
- Tina Chase Gillmor
I'm glad to pay working musicians for their art.
- Aron Michalski
fair enough. bit still, I dont need the cutesy ui, I like the radio fine ;) especially amazingradio.com for listening to brand new stuff which mainstream radio wont play
- kosso
I had pretty much given up on music, just listened to Pandora - and #TT surprised me, re-ignited my caring about music again, haven't felt that through spotify
- MarkDilley
I'm conjecturing on the idea of storing all your media on the cloud and the media companies wanting to only make media available so you can't steal it. At least not the increasingly lazy populace.
- Aron Michalski
TWiT shows are where I started (actually TechTV is where but... ) ... didn't discover this til later ;-) ... I have an interest in the legal issues with tech
- Xenophrenia
Google can address one of the biggest stumbling blocks today.. DISCOVERY, especially when it comes to how I can be contacted.. via a circle, via a VoIP call, via a Hangout etc etc etc. Combine webfinger with profiles and you're talking the directory of all directories.
- Jerry Schuman
Its still a mystery to me, few of my contacts use it and so it remains idle.
- Arnie Klaus
Twitter celebrated 5 years. Will Google+ do the same in 2016?
- Moe Glitz
from iPhone
I stop following people who do that - I'll follow your Twitter feed if I want to see you Twitter feed ;-)
- Xenophrenia
this is a great example of how I want to see a message... the message routing should be recipient determined.. not what the hell service I'm logged into.
- Jerry Schuman
Cross posting *everything* sucks, but cross posting *some* content across many networks can be useful.
- Chris Bray
Facebook killed our family blogging, g+ is going to bring it back
- Christian Burns
Chris: exactly, and copying and pasting doesn't take long.
- Robert Scoble
yes - it depends on how and where ... but many who do that only post in one place and forward it to everyone else
- Xenophrenia
I understand *why* they do it ... but just because you can doesn't mean you should ;-)
- Xenophrenia
I copy and pasted my blog post in, but the lost links made it less useful
- Kevin Marks
I tend to use #fb on the end of a Tweet to cross post to Facebook, #li to post to LinkedIn, I'd use #gp to cross post to Google+, but I use them sparingly and only when applicable.
- Chris Bray
solution... be a better noise processor
- Jerome Hughes
our 8 year old family blog has been silent for 2 years
- Christian Burns
google corp does need to learn, Danny pushback helps make that happen
- Christian Burns
Kevin, MSFT's 'GMail Man' is cringeworthy isn't it!
- Chris Bray
like with Apple - it's a religious type of thing ... people get a little crazy when they nearly worship something - Apple inspires religious experience according to science ;-)
- Xenophrenia
I wish Scoble hade a circle for posting to non noisy commentors.
- Christian Burns
node,js getting a lot of attention too
- Kevin Marks
Can Brands really target Three Streams?
- Moe Glitz
from iPhone
Christian: when I'm posting I'm almost always reading every comment, even when they come hot and heavy. But after say 30 minutes the chances I see it go down.
- Robert Scoble
Good to know, I also dont post unless I have something to add :)
- Christian Burns
August Capital, tho' I think it's sold out
- Kevin Marks
send them a huddle message . when u c the participants of the circle . @ the end u c an add to circle option so u can add all those people in the huddle to a circle,
- Abhijeet Desai
I search for Rackspace and I see that Robert and Ben Fisher +1'd the site
- Jerry Schuman
Interestingly that same "xxx Shared This" also seems to hook into my Twitter feed somehow since it identified a share from a contact that's not on Google+ yet...
- Chris Bray
they are working on it is what google said
- Abhijeet Desai
It'll be interesting to see how the fact that my Google+ and Twitter social graph is very different to my Facebook social graph (mainly tech/work rather than family/friends) affect these result promotions.
- Chris Bray
It’s a Chrome application that will silently build a small firehose of all the web services that you use online. It will show you some of these messages as HTML5 notifications.
- Jerry Schuman
Your mom on Facebook has never heard of Twitter or Google+
- Moe Glitz
from iPhone
there's now a right-wing plan to report Barack Obama for spamming twitter
- Kevin Marks
I actually think almost everyone now has "heard" of twitter, even if they don't use it
- Tina Chase Gillmor
I can guarantee that my mother knows about both Twitter and Google+. Primarily because I'm her son and we're connected on FB and she's actively involved in politics. She's also 72
- Jerry Schuman
(mental image of Kool-Aid guy with a Facebook tattoo breaking through a firewall)
- Ankush Narula
What Barack never mentioned Google+?
- Moe Glitz
from iPhone
Can someone explain the difference between search and track?
- Ankush Narula
twitter is now fail-whaling for me. did Obama DDOS it?
- Kevin Marks
Get rid of Xeni and you'll cut down on the cat photos ;-)
- Jerry Schuman
Anybody found a really good use for Sparks yet?
- Ginger Zumaeta
ankush... track was realtime push, search is just behind pull
- Jerome Hughes
may be but sparks is more like google news
- Abhijeet Desai
But sparks isn't nearly as good as google news - wish it was
- Ginger Zumaeta
If Google+ fails can you see them trying to buy Twitter?
- Moe Glitz
from iPhone
i doubt it will fail but they may plan to buy twitter anyways !!
- Abhijeet Desai
sparks is a placeholder at the moment - I think we're going to see something really cool there that uses search algorithms and filters based on your social interactions/profile
- Ankush Narula
Facebook missed out on purchasing Twitter
- Moe Glitz
from iPhone
Nice Steve Gillmor gave Amy Winehouse props
- cliveb
one of my friends at Google who codes for Apple just quit to build his own iOS apps
- Kevin Marks
Google should look outside and hire contractors that can kick ass with iOS.
- Alex de Soto
Google has 10 iPhone apps - I don't understand what Steve is alluding to
- Ankush Narula
Big companies create their own silos
- Arnie Klaus
Big G running a torrent of Android Hack-a-thons 3rd and 4th qtr
- cliveb
Steve has been playing Amy Winehouse at home all week
- Tina Chase Gillmor
the primary users of plus in its limited trial is alpha-geeks. I believe there is a general perception that IOS isn't for alpha geeks... that's Androids domain
- Jerry Schuman
Google got burnt by Apple holding up apps before; I bet Vic is still grumpy about that
- Kevin Marks
Jerry: most alpha geeks I know use iPhones. Android has that peception, yes, but only 20% of the Where 2.0 attendees had ANdroid. Everyone else had iPhones.
- Robert Scoble
Robert, I totally agree with you. It's also my experience but I can only imagine the discussion among product management on Google regarding platform priority.
- Jerry Schuman
I'm currently using an HTC Inspire and curse it daily
- Jerry Schuman
Noise: Betas are so 90s. I'm using Mac OS X Lion $29 "non-beta" now. Issues crop up daily but friendly geeks share their workarounds while we wait for an update from Apple.
- Alex de Soto
I thought it was a major mistake when they gave the example of:
- Jerry Schuman
there should be a way for your private messages to go to your priority inbox or something. but has to be a message from someone you want to hear from.
- Laura Norvig
"HP TouchPad. Works like nothing else." - I was at BestBuy yesterday and both display units were uncharged and turned off - unlike the iPads in the next display
- Ankush Narula
Gray, the studio cat, reset some audio setting before the show and now is crying outside wanting to come in a mess up some other stuff
- Tina Chase Gillmor
G+ is Facebook but for people you're interested in. Unlike Twitter,engagement is confined to comments and likes which means the stream itself is less polluted and easier to find topics/information to converse around.
- Darren
Ales -I was feeling the same about the acceptance of plus. we're already well educated in Social
- Tina Chase Gillmor
Alex, good point. Perhaps we were just being taught to navigate the stream and learn some manners.
- Aron Michalski
2 things G+ needs to add/fix quickly before people get annoyed and move on: 1) only show the last 5 replies, minimizes the rest(user can expand all replies if they want), 2) stop pushing posts to the top when there is a new reply or at least make it an option
- Kenny
Kevin - the people who make all this noise are the Scobles, you, etc of the world, those people get put into a certain circle and I look at it when I want - I switch between stream types to see different info
- Kenny
Seems like Techmeme has slowed it's crawling down considerably.
- coldbrew
Kenny, sounds like you get some utility out of lists (or in this case circles) as also happens here
- Jerome Hughes
I need to confess...I'm having a Corona with lime right now. The weekend begins
- Tina Chase Gillmor
Jerome, yes. I just need G+ to allow me to watch select several stream at once, instead of one at a time, for example let me check off and watch my friends and family streams and not see the others until I want ot
- Kenny
Darren: The info eventually comes from people, so one has to trust the sources or the info is irrelevant.
- coldbrew
Kenny, until you can mix them, do you run multiple tabs for your faves?
- Jerome Hughes
people are a good locus of information; twitter allows non-human authorities to speak too
- Kevin Marks
I would argue more human, but there ya go.
- coldbrew
Jerome, no I just switch between them - kind of a pain right now
- Kenny
On G+, I think I've added about 100 people who have made a good comment - it's as simple as mousing over and adding them to the Following circle (and I've removed people just as quickly for too many crappy posts)
- Ankush Narula
You can add G+ search in Chrome, and i hear of extensions too
- Majento
"If winer didnt built it himself, it sucks" - that's what I'm getting.
- coldbrew
Kevin, That would be a clear circle for me in a folder/list/Flipboard sense with the newsbots in a circle and the respected commenters in another.
- Aron Michalski
coldbrew, the algorithm can leverage people for prioritization, reputation and ranking of the information.
- Darren
I gotcha say Gilmor seems more positive about G+ then any other Google product...I'm shocked
- Kenny
any comments on the gaming announcement?
- Aron Michalski
coldbrew: I think Winer gets frustrated with closed and centralized solutions - it just so happens that most of the popular services of the day are just that
- Ankush Narula
there was a gaming announcement? I thought it was just rumor?
- Kenny
It's a much better product than the last 5 they have presented, even if they are kinda parts of G+
- Aron Michalski
Darren: I suppose. But, I'm one of those people that doesn't like the algorithm, nor data mining. Personal preference, of course.
- coldbrew
There's no question that G+ is genius. It's completely changed my perspective of Google and their future. It's also changed how I think about their existing services.
- Darren
Everyone settle down now, G+ is a brand new service, they will work through these issues (sum might agree with it others won't), Twitter and Facebook all have gone through these issues and will still go through similar issue - It took years for Facebook to get to 750mil users - it will take a while for G+ to grow past these issues
- Kenny
I value Kevin and Steve's pointers more than a media source, more along the lines of an advisor or spiritual guide. I'm sure that sounds daft, but because they bring their personality and brains to the equation, it adds value to the post.
- Aron Michalski
more so than someone who is co-opted by a corporate plan (well, Salesforce has nothing to offer me professionally other than a day of employment next month).
- Aron Michalski
"We had to take our son to the urgent care for stitches for a cut on his face. The Dr used this glue and billed the insurance over $400."
- Christian Burns
"We had to take our son to the urgent care for stitches for a cut on his face. The Dr used this glue and billed the insurance over $400."
- Christian Burns
"I would let my boys, 5 and 7, play with my iPhone at bedtime, set the passlock, and set a 20 min alarm to put the device to sleep. Then they would be done, and I would just retrive it later after they were asleep. Be sure to set it to airplane mode so they can't call 911."
- Christian Burns
"I would let my boys, 5 and 7, play with my iPhone at bedtime, set the passlock, and set a 20 min alarm to put the device to sleep. Then they would be done, and I would just retrive it later after they were asleep. Be sure to set it to airplane mode so they can't call 911."
- Christian Burns
So jack, I will be honest. It looks like you have taken the republishing of the Gillmor Gang too far. These older episodes are not cc licensed and should not be put up on archive.org now having an unauthurised iTunes feed called gillmor gang is flat out bad news. It's confusing for his brand. You should really name the feed something else.
- Christian Burns
I tend to agree with Christian, I think this might be one too much. That people are going out of their way to get a continuous incoming Gillmore gang, as a time-shifted podcast, should be a wakeup call to Steve. I will say right now, this is one podcast I would pay for receiving regularly, as a podcast.
- Robert
The old episodes I posted are all ones that were originally broadcast on Twit Live, so presumably cc. I only posted them after Steve/Mike(?) took http://gillmorgang.techcrunch.com down. I have renamed the RSS http://feeds2.feedburner.com/TheGill... to "Bootleg Gillmor Gang" and this should update the itunes title soon if it hasn't already. If Steve doesn't like the show on itunes he can click "Report a concern"
- Jack
According to itunes the Bootleg feed to more popular than the Newsgang feed (I don't know what that says though). Feedburner reports 200 subscribers to the above feed and 350 downloads of this weeks show (106 of the first part 250 of the second) and 546 total downloads. The link Mike posted to part2 of that show: http://bit.ly/info/2nhNLw has almost 3900 clicks.
- Jack
I am still gonna say nope to the Verizon iPhone rumor. Not till 2012. But an iPad that has CDMA and runs on Verizon would be much more likely. My wife would get one, and we could ditch home internet.
- Christian Burns
"After almost 2 years with an iPhone I just made re switch to Android via a Droid X. The default settings on android don't compare to the iPhone. But as a geek you can take advantage of the widgets, and custom launcher (launcherpro) makes it feel like this phone can be whatever I want it to be, instead of just what apple wants. Apple drives the innovation but android will mop up. The cost of android will continue to drop. Just wait till you can get a non dataplan android phone, wifi only without a contract. 2012 will also be the year of android as devices come to market that fill in the gaps, not phones, not pads, watches?"
- Christian Burns
"After almost 2 years with an iPhone I just made re switch to Android via a Droid X. The default settings on android don't compare to the iPhone. But as a geek you can take advantage of the widgets, and custom launcher (launcherpro) makes it feel like this phone can be whatever I want it to be, instead of just what apple wants. Apple drives the innovation but android will mop up. The cost of android will continue to drop. Just wait till you can get a non dataplan android phone, wifi only without a contract. 2012 will also be the year of android as devices come to market that fill in the gaps, not phones, not pads, watches?"
- Christian Burns
"After almost 2 years with an iPhone I just made re switch to Android via a Droid X. The default settings on android don't compare to the iPhone. But as a geek you can take advantage of the widgets, and custom launcher (launcherpro) makes it feel like this phone can be whatever I want it to be, instead of just what apple wants. Apple drives the innovation but android will mop up. The cost of android will continue to drop. Just wait till you can get a non dataplan android phone, wifi only without a contract. 2012 will also be the year of android as devices come to market that fill in the gaps, not phones, not pads, watches?"
- Christian Burns
"The closest thing I see right now is archive.org, and wordpress.com I would trust both of these entities to hang on as long as the internet is around or at least the next 100 years. In 50 years most of us will only be read by our desendants, unless like you, they have some historical relevance. My personal legacy plan will be import our wordpress into a wordpress.com blog one day, and host audio on archive.org. But for most people, Facebook is all they have, and one day their grandkids will pay facebook to mine the data of their ansestors."
- Christian Burns
"The closest thing I see right now is archive.org, and wordpress.com I would trust both of these entities to hang on as long as the internet is around or at least the next 100 years. In 50 years most of us will only be read by our desendants, unless like you, they have some historical relevance. My personal legacy plan will be import our wordpress into a wordpress.com blog one day, and host audio on archive.org. But for most people, Facebook is all they have, and one day their grandkids will pay facebook to mine the data of their ansestors."
- Christian Burns
"The closest thing I see right now is archive.org, and wordpress.com I would trust both of these entities to hang on as long as the internet is around or at least the next 100 years. In 50 years most of us will only be read by our desendants, unless like you, they have some historical relevance. My personal legacy plan will be import our wordpress into a wordpress.com blog one day, and host audio on archive.org. But for most people, Facebook is all they have, and one day their grandkids will pay facebook to mine the data of their ansestors."
- Christian Burns