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Instead of blocking Google maybe they should put up some more cell towers so I will ALWAYS have 3G coverage everywhere. But no. It drops like a mofo. - Robert Scoble

And they charge my family more than a car payment for our mobile phones (and a nice car at that!) - Robert Scoble

Can you imagine if you downloaded Firefox or something on the Mac, and it said "This application is unavailable because it duplicates the functionality found in Safari on Mac OS X". - Mark

such a short-sighted move by Apple/AT&T. Google will just go to a web-app and AT&T will still lose. - Seth Gray

I guess it is time that we all throw away our iPhones and move to the Google phone. - Wizetux

I had to send my iPhone back as I had no coverage where I live (UK O2) and had to stay with Orange instead. Maybe it wasnt such a bad thing after all? - Julia Ault

How much is that nice car payment? Would you mind sharing average cost per iphone per month? Do you think most iphone users are paying much more than $100 per month? - Charbax

Palm Pre/Sprint EVDO FTW! :) - jcunwired

At&t will never change as long as you all just keep complaining but continue to tollerate the service. If you really didn't like it, then you would cancel your contract when they come up, and move to a different service. But you all seem to want the latest greatest version of the phone, which puts you in a new contract before your old one is up. Just like At&t want you to do. *Edit* you are the consumer, you hold the final say on whether you will use or purchase the product a company is selling. - Wizetux

well said Wizetux. - Mark

for all MG Siegler's complaint's, if apple announce a new AT&T Iphone in a years time he will still buy one. We can't help ourselves. - Mark

Mark: yeah, that is the problem. So far my iPhone has been worth putting up with AT&T. But I'm definitely looking into Android. - Robert Scoble

This does not look like free society. - ashish from iPhone

Perhaps you should consider that Apple may be the evil one blocking your iphone apps? Surely Apple is making just as much money if not more money on each iphone sold on the AT&T exclusivity. - Charbax

My guesstimation is that Apple is making $1000 per iphone sold on AT&T's network. Anyone have the real numbers? Consider that an iphone costs only $150 to manufacture in China. - Charbax

@ashish: Free society? why doesn't it? You had the choice to buy the iPhone. You wouldn't buy a speed boat if the only river you had access was only three feet deep because the experience of the boat would not be the same. So because you continue to use a phone on a service that was not designed nor looks like is being developed to handle the phone, that is your ultimate choice. - Wizetux

Recent comparisons have been very forthcoming in the outrageous additional $ you iPhone owners spend over the course of two years. It must really be an amazing device to put up with the difficulties. That, or just diehard ifanboys? - jcunwired

How bout this, a class action lawsuit for bad quality on AT&T. You need to have a bunch of people document the bad quality of the AT&T service, then do a class action lawsuit that allows you to unlock your iphone for free to use it on any other network. - Charbax

I finally activated my iphone today but I am on the O2 network and its just wonderful. - Mark

A really good reason why I don't own an iphone: AT&T - Karma Martell

@Charbax. It is not that easy. Not all of the US carriers use the GSM network. You can already unlock your phone, and move it to T-Mobile. But to use the phone on Sprint or Verizon, would require you to put in a whole new chip that works on the CDMA network. - Wizetux

This is why as soon as I get an update offer/contract is up, I'm moving to an Android phone - David Kettler

Shoot, I guess I'm lost... wrt AT&T and Google Voice, they're blocking the functionality? (Sorry, geek but a little slow somedays.) - Kirsten Davis

Wizetux, a class action lawsuit would let you all be able to wave the early cancellation fee and other such costs while still being allowed to unlock your phone to use on T-Mobile if you want. - Charbax

All along, telcos and phone manufacturers have failed to "get" the Net - from dialup days, to WAP, to the way cellphones had Web access kludged in as a crude afterthought until the iPhone. Google Voice doesn't even threaten anything except their SMS overcharging: you still use their airtime for all your calls, and still need to pay rental+data to access the service! But no, in the telco mindset change=threat=bad. - James

Well they spent tens of billions putting up these cell phone towers and employ hundreds of thousands of people worldwide, so, naturally they want people making PAID phone calls :) - Mark

@Mark - I think they spent all that money on "infrastructure improvements" to their game room at HQ. What other reason for so many iPhone complaints that misallocation of funds? ;) - Bryan Zirkel

The only "right" move AT&T ever made was making a monopoly everywhere they could. - xero

@Wizetux: Even unlocking it isn't enough: the iPhone doesn't support 3g on the 1.7GHz frequency T-Mobile uses in some areas ("UMTS1700"), so you'd only get 3g on a subset of their 3g network coverage. Then again, I find EDGE reception rare in the UK, and 3g rather patchy; I'm often reduced to GPRS anyway, whether on Vodafone or O2. I did find AT&T much, much better while I was in the US last summer. - James

It's a flat rate anyway, so with or without Google Voice you pay exactly the same amount to AT&T. Except international calls, but there are so expensive that I doubt that many would do them with AT&T's plan. And then you can use Google Voice through their (crappy) web app right now, so I really don't understand what AT&T is loosing with Google Voice support on the iPhone. - Oliver Bouchard

Questions - Since the carriers control all these features (Daring Fireball is reporting it's all AT&T blocking, not Apple) what makes everyone think Verizon (or AT&T) won't do the same to Android handsets? And, what makes ya'll think the Verizon network could handle all the data traffic associated with an iPhone, it's not been tested? And, I have both Verizon voice/data plans and it isn't much cheaper (if at all) than AT&T/iPhone so why the complaints about the price? - PXLated

@wizetux I meant with AT&T and Apple partnering to ruin the Iphone experience. - ashish

Just going to drive more and more to jailbreak or make the Android more enticing - Christian Burns from iPhone

Christian - Why Android more enticing if carriers control what can or can't run on their network? - PXLated

AT&T was only mildly annoying during original iPhone and even iPhone 3G. But since the 3GS came out, I have bcome nothing but more and more angered towards them. Give me an iPhone on Verizon LTE. - Andru Edwards

Andru - Why do you think Verizon would be better/different? (see my previous questions) - PXLated

Google made a really smart move by having the Google Voice app available on jailbroken iPhones. - Zulema ◕ ◡ ◕ from iPhone

Robert: They probably are lost for words :) - Amir

Perhaps AT&T is just the first to make this move... - © b e e n s w a n k

The dropped calls and feature restrictions have me looking elsewhere too. I moved to the iPhone on launch because I was frustrated with my smartphone at the time constantly crashing and I was willing to take the risk on a new platform. Now that I have the iPhone I can see so many things I want to do with it, but yet some of the best ones are blocked or have restrictions that have me... more... - Loren Heiny

Loren: Those are the same reasons that I gave up my iPhone 3G and my contract with AT&T. - © b e e n s w a n k

AT&T screwed it up with the iPhone. Robert: Yep. They are making all the wrong moves. - Amir

Same reason I refuse to purchase a Kindle - controlled content. - © b e e n s w a n k

PXLated - I don't really care about app blocking. I mean, it's annoying, but I understand it. Whatever. What I want is coverage all over, less dropped calls, and a company that doesn't have to "get prepared" for iPhone users to use freaking MMS messaging. Those are just signs of a poor network infrastructure. - Andru Edwards

Andru - Verizon isn't any better though, I can take you many places you won't get even one bar on Verizon and many where there isn't even a signal. One of those spots is just a mere 10 miles outside a major metro area. And that's a phone signal. EVDO signals are even worse. So, not sure Verizon would be any better overall than AT&T. - PXLated

Maybe the wrong move but it was very predictable. - Kim Landwehr

AT&T PR got back to me and said to call Apple. - Robert Scoble

Not surprised that the PR dept passed the buck. - Karma Martell

Robert I really hope you get to the bottom of this. PLEASE keep pushing them because this is ridiculous that this app is not on the iPhone. I really think this is AT&T telling Apple no. Phil Schiller already approved GV Mobile! I sent "Steve" and email... here's a copy: http://post.ly/1efR - Ken Wiesner

This is a prime example of the failure of Government regulation. Competitive capital is discouraged and afraid to move into this space because of things like the Telecom act of 1996 that privatized the risk and socialized the reward. Anytime government can move in to an industry and wipe out returns, Capital won't move in and provide the competition we need. - Stephen Pickering

I HATE AT&T but I can deal with it long enough to have my iPhone. As soon as Apple goes to a second carrier, I'll be there too. - Dane Deasy

The newer "other options" are beginning to tempt me away from the iphone...AT&T get a clue - Gordon Montgomery

Gordon, you aren't the only one... http://www.tuaw.com/2009... - Ken Wiesner

Leo Laporte

Google Wave - http://wakoopa.com/softwar...

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What?! - Ryan Massie

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I'm waving too. :) dev sandbox - mjc

I think I'm going to cry. - Ryan Massie

Leo did a google wave demo either the same day or a day or two after the IO conference ... http://odtv.me/2009... - Chris Heath

the demo is kind of weak since it's like the legally blind leading the blind, but still cool and interesting nonetheless - Chris Heath

Jealous, expecting a review - Kim Landwehr

Want. - Mark "Rizzn" Hopkins

Just downloaded Wakoopa - Acoustic Randall

Leo is gonna get all of us on Wave. - Robert Scoble

Review! - Manuel Mas

I so want to install a wave server for the school I work at. I can see this revolutionizing the way we communicate. - Ryan Massie

I signed up for an invite hopefully I will get one of them when they are start rolling out in September - Tyson Williams

tyson, there's only 100K invited in that first round in september, and the invite request form has been open since the day they announced wave - i wouldn't place any bets on you being in that first 100k if you just requested now, especially since the recent news cycle has brought attention to this fact again... - Chris Heath

just sayin' - Chris Heath

Leo: do you have any "sources" to get us all Wave? - Amir from iPod

Me would like. - Kol Tregaskes

wakoopa is a special idea for social media - Ahmet Soyata

can't wait till it launches! - The Tech Canuck

Marshall Kirkpatrick

it's really hard to find new, good podcasts. Just went through 2 pages of search results here at FriendFeed and didn't find anything I wanted to listen to more than Stack Overflow and twit. Those i already knew about. :( What's your iTunes podcast window look like? hint hint, suggestions?

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Geeks and God for Drupal CMS and general technology implementation - Peter Kelley

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I don't see the ReadBurner podcast on there. FAIL. :-) - Louis Gray

humorous: http://youlooknicetoday.com/ - Paul Arterburn

Have you tried Mur Lafferty or Scott Sigler? - Ha3rvey (not Akiva)

try out one of the shows at http://randomchatter.com - they have movie, tech, and other topic-centric podcasts - nice guys - Nathan Chase

Buzz Out Loud isn't too bad. - Jared B. Luther

I enjoy BOL too. Been a fan since the beginning. However, if you're looking for something different, try On Digital Media http://odmcast.com (shameless plug ;-) - Steven Hatch

john cleese, stephen fry, kevin smith, Andrew Denton. Get to it!! - thomasrdotorg from twhirl

awesome, thanks for all the suggestions! - Marshall Kirkpatrick

NOVA Science Now, Scientific American, The Naked Scientists, the Pragmatic Podcasts, Hanselminutes, SE-Radio (though I skip most of them), Core Intuition, Late Night Cocoa, Mac Developer Network, Grammar Girl - DGentry

NPR's All Songs Considered, NPR's Science Friday, Magnum in Motion - Sam Grover

No Agenda. - MVB (Curmudgeon of FF)

I like the BBC news podcasts.... - Mitch

I love BOL (Buzz Out Loud)...also Loaded, Twit, The Social Geeks (of course), Diggnation, Grammar Girl, The Answer Bitch, LostCasts (when LOST returns that is), ReadBurner, CNET TV, CNET Mailbag (Molly Wood is damn funny) and the occasional Tekzilla and Security Now. - Sarah Perez

BOL is great, CNET has some damn good podcasts. - Aram Zucker-Scharff from twhirl

FFundercats??? Ho??? - Her Lindsay-ness

Good call Lindsay, FFundercats, HO! Go grab it. - Aram Zucker-Scharff

My one must-have podcast is Danny Sullivan's SearchCast: http://dailysearchcast.com/ - Matt Cutts

I listen to the Gillmor Gang (I'll be on tomorrow at 1 p.m. from China, by the way) and TWiT. Otherwise I "snack" on other audio shows here and there. - Robert Scoble

NY Times Front Page, Wall Street Journal Tech News Briefing (both are good first thing in the morning), NewsGang Live / Gillmor Gang. Leo Laporte has a few good ones like TWiT, MacBreak Weekly, Windows Weekly, Security Now. - Rolf Schewe

I feel bad for not listening to TWiT very much while everyone else does. It is in my podcatcher but I almost always listen to it part way and then move on. The podcast is a lot of fun, but it just feels like BOL got the same things already and talked about them days earlier. I have a lot of podcasts (I do love NPR and I've found a number of great book world and fiction podcasts) and I'd rather listen to something new. - Aram Zucker-Scharff from twhirl

Aram: I understand that. I don't get to all of them either. usually I just listen to the ones that get talked about on Twitter or FriendFeed. Speaking of which, http://www.fastcompany.tv is my video podcast. - Robert Scoble

These are all great suggestions -- I just scarfed up a mess of them and added them to iTunes. Thanks! - Mitch Wagner

If you're not already listening to This American Life you're missing the best radio show ever. Fresh Air is good, too. And Wait Wait Don't Tell Me. - Leo Laporte

gdgt - rob

NPR is all sorts of awesome. I second "Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me!" - Amy H.

TED Talks (video) always has great stuff - Virtual Bird's Eye from twhirl

If you like listening to non-work related podcasts (i.e. NOT tech), check out The Moth. Also This American Life. - Aaron Uhrmacher

"WFMU's Best Show On WFMU" is HILARIOUS! I also like Studio 360 and many of the ones mentioned above. - Brad Williamson

In the same vein as WFMU are the podcasts from RESONANCE FM, "the art of listening" - Brad Kligerman

Oh my - where's NPR's "Wait Wait, Don't Tell Me", and NPR's Car Talk, and Leo's "Security Now!" podcast? And if you're not only twisted, but actually sprained, check out Merlin Mann's podcast "You Look Nice Today". - mamapadawan

If you are into Social media, PR and communication, then check out For Immediate Release (FIR). Shel Holtz and Neville Hobson host this bi-weekly podcast and it is without a doubt the best communications podcast out there. - morten saxnaes

NPR's Wait Wait and This American Life make it to my podcast list. I'm learning Danish too, and there is a great podcast called "CopenhagenCast" that is a great learning tool for the language. - Guy Martin

Check out The Bugle and Sex Talk with Jimmy Stewart! - Wes Hoogenboom from iPhone

Skeptics Guide to the Universe is excellent, one of the best podcasts out there. Also, Seminars about Long Term Thinking is often great. - Gersham Meharg

Savage Love (sex and relationships, about 35 minutes, weekly), Memory Palace (quirky history stories, about 5 minutes, published irregularly), 60 Second Psych (short stories about psychology, published irregularly), and I love, love, love Tank Riot (kind of indescribable--runtime 1 hour+, published every two weeks or month or so by three guys in Wisconsin), and also one called Copper Robot by some guy named "Mitch Wagner." - Mitch Wagner

Totally Rad Show is pretty funny. - Siddharth Mitra

Nice idea...................... - Kevin J Hatton

The Moth, The Memory Palace, Wait Wait Don't Tell Me, The Dinner Party Download, The Sound of Young America, Obsessives (video by CHOW), Studio 360, TED (audio or video), Third Coast International Audio Festival, Current Vanguard (video), Frontline WORLD (video), World Cafe. - Rekha Murthy

The autoblog pod cast, and the truth about cars (although they are daily now, that could disappear) - rosenbaaron

If you want some nuanced humor, check out and listen to the backlog of You Look Nice Today. - Charles Englert

PodCastle, Escape Pod and PseudoPod for fantasy, sf and horror respectively. - Deborah Fitchett

http://www.maximumfun.org/shows... , http://www.wnyc.org/shows... - Micah Wittman

Mac OS Ken is my newest podcast subscription. Truly awesome. - mamapadawan

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Om Malik

Why We Are Cautious About Google’s Wave http://gigaom.com/2009...

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Introducing Typekit « Use REAL FONTS On Your Website - http://blog.typekit.com/2009...

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So here’s the situation: Every major browser is about to support the ability to link to a font. That means you can write a bit of CSS, include a URL to a font file, and have your page display with the typography you expect. For designers and developers, this is a significant step forward. No longer will you need to trap your content in images or Flash just to express yourself visually. Pages will be more usable, accessible, and indexable. This is a massive upgrade for the web. - Brad Williamson from Bookmarklet

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NOTE: If you like this article, make sure to join the "Media News And Analysis" group... http://friendfeed.com/media-n... - Brad Williamson

This is a revolutionary evolution in website design. - Brad Williamson

I'll have to take a look at this - Lindsey is Fierce!

Well my interest is piqued.I just hope it's not some sIFR type dealio (not in terms of flash, but in terms of heavy JS resources required) - Mo Kargas

Sorry for my stupidity, but what's sIFR? P.S. Nice use of the word "dealio" - Brad Williamson

Scalable Inman Flash Replacement (http://www.mikeindustries.com/sifr) It embeds font data in a flash file to render custom typefaces. Uses a weighty font file embedded in a flash SWF, and Javascript. Quite heavy - Mo Kargas

IIIIIIIII gotcha. Thanks for the explanation, Mo ;-) - Brad Williamson

No, this is even heavier. You link to the whole font.Oh, and the only reason Typekit matters, is they'll take your money and promise to make sure you legally have the rights to use the fonts you want. Yeah, that's right. It's all about the benjamins. - Joel Bennett

So it's not worth it Joel? It might only be reasonable to use if you want to use a font on the whole site - Lindsey is Fierce!

@Joel Sounds like a pretty reasonable business model to me. - Brad Williamson

Kevin C. Tofel

Perfectday to be blogging from the deck. For once, the farmers aren't working with the loud tractors. http://twitpic.com/58dxc

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Robert Scoble

Bruce Perens - A Cyber-Attack on an American City - http://perens.com/works...

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Scary stuff, maybe we all should join our local ham radio clubs? - Robert Scoble from Bookmarklet

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Would going completely wireless solve this kind of problem? (not that we really can) - Justin Long

not seen/heard/read much of anything about the recent hack on America either... coincidence? Even my wife perked up at the last B.Willis/Die Hard flick saying; "Holy S&%t, someone could do that pretty easily couldn't they"? Well... sure seems that way. - Ted Bradford II

Yup, it's a complex world, and too much of it presumes electricity and bandwidth. In terms of geek disaster planning, the fallback is RFC 1149, which is waaaay too slow for emergency services. http://www.blug.linux.no/rfc1149... - Shane Curcuru

I'd prefer RFC 2549 http://tools.ietf.org/html... - coldbrew

What disturbs me is that most of the so-called cybersecurity proposals involve increased centralization and kill-switches, rather than decentralization and independent systems. - Robin Barooah

Agreed. I work for a large healthcare provider and centralization has been the mantra for the past 10yrs. Not that it doesn't have its place but when you are talking EMRs and medical imaging....wow, its kind of scary. - Eric

Very interesting perspective. I think that more services should be required to test services operating in 'partioned' mode. - Will Hawkins

@coldbrew: no, 1149 is more useful: in an emergency situation, who cares about the extra QOS levels in 2549? Plus, those QOS and other levels introduce more dependencies besides pigeon food and good weather. - Shane Curcuru

I'd like to add 'IP over Airborne Particulate' (i.e. smoke) as a new RFC (possibly 4-1-10?). - coldbrew

I've always envisioned a future of non grid power supply and non grid communications network(fiber optics, telcoms gone), each dwelling supplies his own engergies and linkup/radio/microwave to comm. Each dwelling can tie into a system to give their excess energy to those more in need but their is not power company as is the case today. People link into different services from around the... more... - Monique

I got my ham license after Katrina but found it hard to get into---it's not very asynchronous and I'm not too into hardware hacking. - Emil Sit

I've been a licensed amateur radio operator for over 35 years, I was helping with communications after Hurricane Andrew, where there were NO communications at all, no road signs, no trees, let alone cell towers for communications. There was amateur radio! It has improved since Andrew, and Katrina showed this. I use CW (Morse Code) and still love this form of communications. So when all Cyber Communications go down, I will still be able to communicate world wide - by radio! Robert WE4B - HamRadioActive

Robert Scoble

Epocrates CEO shows me how his company's app is improving the world (video here): - http://www.fastcompany.tv/video...

February 18 - Comment - Like - Share

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This is a great company and shows that technology can indeed improve the world for both rich and poor. - Robert Scoble

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http://www.epocrates.com/ is a medical app that helps doctors get the latest information about the diseases, drugs, and other things they need to give you a solid diagnosis. It also checks to make sure the doctor isn't prescribing you drugs that could dangerously interact. - Robert Scoble

yeah Web2.0 Apps + Social Networks can Change the World for the Better!! ;)) Rock On Robert!! Peace* - Billy Warhol

This is an awesome iphone app.Useful when away from the computer to check interactions. - rob

I have had Epocrates on my iPhone since I got the first iPhone. I love it - Francine Hardaway

I wonder when would all this technology become commonplace in Asian nations like India. - Arvind

Arvind: I have a second video coming that discusses that. There are a group of doctors who are bringing mobile devices with Epocrates on them to poor nations and giving them to doctors. That's why this technology is saving huge numbers of lives. - Robert Scoble

1 in 4 is an amazing number ! - Alensa

Andrew Wise

How-To: Use Your iPhone as a Wireless Laptop Modem - PC World - http://www.pcworld.com/article...

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l0ckergn0me

Installing purchased copy of iLife '09. Installing iPhone OS 2.2.1, too. What else needs updated around here?!

January 27 from Ping.fm - Comment - Like - Share

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Do you like the new iLife Chris? I love it! - TheHenry

The faces thing is very cool. - rob

I updated my phone, but what's different? - Francine Hardaway

Duncan Riley

I'm replying to an email on Facebook. I feel dirty.

January 5 from Twitter - Comment - Like - Share

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Why? Did you poke them as well? - rob

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Go take a shower, IMMEDIATELY!!! - Anna Haro

Ewwww - that's sooo 2006! - Internet's Tad

Or did you SuperPoke them? - Sparky, a big deal

DON'T DO IT! THEY'LL JUST REPLY BACK! YOU'LL REGRET IT! - Jeanine W.

set them on fire first - Donovan Slennon

As I said on twitter duncan- and I say this to all of the above "I was not rly joking about yr facebook snobbery- because its so mainstream, you early adopters eschew and denigrate it. shame!" - thomasrdotorg

I think I've just got to lie down and take it like a man. Facebook wins. I replied to two other emails after this. People I know in person, who I see every couple of months are now emailing me on FB, not direct. The world has gone completely insane, so why fight it - Duncan Riley

I just read two emails on Facebook but, since I didn't reply, I only feel a tad dusty. I don't care for the assumption that I actually check my Facebook on a regular basis. I'll check it when and if I goddam well please but if you want to reach me, send me a *real* email. - Laura Norvig

Sarah Perez

OMG, I'm still packing for CES...I should have started earlier #ces09

January 5 - Comment - Like - Share

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um, you're not there yet? - rob

nope, I leave in the morning! - Sarah Perez

btw: FriendFeed CES room: http://friendfeed.com/rooms... - Sarah Perez

Robert Scoble

I can't wait to see what Ryan Block does at MacWorld: http://live.gdgt.com/2009...

January 5 - Comment - Like - Share

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You say it like some kind of pantless gag is going to go down. - Matthew DeVries

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Maybe he'll break up with Veronica Belmont. That would send the internets into more of a tizzy than most anything that would happen at MacWorld or CES. - David Wilson

Matthew: Ryan and Peter were Engadget to me. So, I expect their coverage will be top rate. - Robert Scoble

I actually came to know them (their work) away from Engadget, interviews and articles. I long since came to trust their take on tech, and their predictions more than others who are considered the "best". Not to name any names. I didn't discover Engadget until they were just about out the door. - Matthew DeVries

I'm sure it will be excellent, as always. Looking forward to GDGT launching. - rob

I hope GDGT is cool, cause right now in my head when I see it, I hear Roscoe from The Dukes of Hazzard getting ready to chase the Duke boys yelling GIDGIT!!!!! and that just isn't pleasant. - Matthew DeVries

Thomas Hawk

The Good Times Stop Rolling: Vegas Meets the Recession - TIME - http://www.time.com/time...

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Gaming revenue in Clark County, which includes downtown Las Vegas and the Strip, is down 8.5% for the year, to $8.3 billion. But the revenue for October, the last month for which figures are available, is off an ominous 24.3% vs. the same month in 2007. Visitor volume is down 3% over last year, though the city's convention business is holding steady. The Strip's restaurants have seen a proportional decrease along with overall visitor traffic. David McIntyre, vice president of food and beverage at MGM Grand — which counts among its stable of high-end eateries such restaurants as Shibuya, Nobhill and a pair from French maestro Joel Robuchon — notes that visitors have become more careful with their dollars. "They're still going out to eat; they're just not spending as much money," McIntyre says. "They might not have that second glass of wine." (See 10 things to do in Las Vegas.) - Thomas Hawk from Bookmarklet

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Welcome back Thomas. I enjoy your economy stories. - Russellreno

thanks Russell. I just wish we could get some more positive economic stories. Unfortunately though I don't think we'll be seeing very many for a while. - Thomas Hawk

My boss just came back from LV for a wedding last week and said it was stunningly empty. - ronin

I've seen Vegas during slow times. It is very strange despite the great parking. Vegas is best served with a side dish of mass humanity and a dash of insanity. - Mike Lewis

The last thing people need in this economy is to gamble thier money away. I won't be going to Vegas any time soon. - David from twhirl

I would think that with the low price of gas, the Vegas casinos would be advertising in Los Angeles big time. They're not - or I haven't heard it. - Ontario Emperor

The hotels have dropped prices several times for CES, which is unheard of. It will be interesting to see what the attendance figures are for the show. I was going to attend, but at this point I can't justify the cost. Maybe 2010. - Chris Mayer

I'm in las vegas now. My flight was full and the hotel I'm at seems busy. And I'm definately ordering a 2nd glass of wine! - Tom Wentworth

Chris Brogan

Social Media is No Place for Robot Behavior - http://www.chrisbrogan.com/social-...

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I love the title. Great meme. - phil baumann

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It's the inevitable pollution of a simple service. I hate it too. - mikepk

Hehe. Go on, how many of you misread this as 'Robert' behaviour....! - WorldofHiglet

Been thinking about this in the last 10 minutes or so... my first perspective was that an auto 'thanks for following' without links was a good way to keep a personal touch.. I turned it on without thinking 'oh that's a nice touch' when i first started using Twitter earlier this year. I've never tried not having it on. So, for now I have turned it off and will see if it makes any kind of difference. - Wendy Peters from twhirl

I'm starting to see a lot of debt 'cleaner' folk on Twitter too. - emon hassan

Kevin C. Tofel

In preparation for 2009, I'm making a list of things that I've let hold me back in 2008. Number one has to be sleeping in all too often, which wastes an extra hour or two a day. Number two is procrastination. What are yours?

December 27 - Comment - Like - Share

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I should probably add number 3: making lists and then doing nothing useful with them. Have to change that. ;) - Kevin C. Tofel

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That's why I don't play the online FPS type games. ;) - Kevin C. Tofel

I'm bad with sleeping in as well. I'd have to add too many RSS feeds and commuting to work. - Brad Kellett

I'll get back to you.... - rob

mashable

50+ iPhone Apps to Enhance Your Photo and Video Experience ( http://mashable.com/2008... )

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Duncan Riley

Hot Air » Blog Archive » The outrage threshold on the Left - http://hotair.com/archive...

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as much as I agree with Dave Winer that Rick Warren is a bad choice, they have a point.... - Duncan Riley from Bookmarklet

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Actually the cartoon is based on a fallacy that Rev Wright said anything unsupportable in his sermons. It wasn't until he went on his press tour that he said anyhting that couldn't be supported. But there is some truth to what they're saying. There's no doubt that Obama's faith is political, not spiritual. - Dave Winer

The selection of Warren confirms my suspicions that Obama is going to be an effective president. What is his first act? Try to bring in the estranged conservatives that feel he is not like them. Cross the boundary etc. Well played Obama, although like everyone else I wish that Warren was pro gay marriage. - Alex Wilhelm (FF BLOWS)

Agree with Dave that Rev. Wright didn't say anything in his sermons that was so terrible when you listen to the offending lines in context. I also think the outrage over Warren is a similar situation. There is a tremendous amount of blowback over this when the fact is that any evangelical minister would have had engendered the same response, and excluding evangelicals from participation would have been a horrible political and divisive choice. - Karoli

So the old saying is true? If everyone is angry you obviously have done something correct? - MVB (Curmudgeon of FF)

When it comes to blending politics, religion, the right and the left I think so, yes. - Karoli

I had no idea God had died & left you, Dave Winer, in charge of the admission list to heaven by granting you with the ability to read the soul of another man. - R. Ferguson

@Mark For sure. In fact, if people are not mad, you can be assured of failure. Stir things up or give up. - Alex Wilhelm (FF BLOWS)

@davewiner I think it's a bit of a stretch to characterize Obama's faith as political and not spiritual. An inaugural ceremony is not a statement of faith. It's a public pledge to the people of this country to serve them faithfully. That's all. - Karoli

Sarah Perez

Just bought a 16GB iphone for $199 (refurb)...the deal I was waiting for! screw you, iPod Touch...I'm moving on to the real thing :)

December 27 from Twitter - Comment - Like - Share

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Those are sweet deals AT&T has going ... - Patrick Jordan

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and by real thing you mean a contract that binds you to paying for mediocre internet youll most likely only use about 10% of the time, as well as adding a phone feature to the ipod you already have to charge twice a day...enjoy - Anthony

sarah buys the iphone, rips it open, and immediately jams in the friendfeed app :) - Allen Stern

If you use it wisely, you Only need to recharge it once - at night. - Roberto Bonini

10% of the time? Spoken like a non-owner. Even if she never makes a phone call, she's made a great purchase. - rob

Congrats Sarah..great move! I love my 16GB black 3G iPhone - the best EVAR! - Susan Beebe

I'm jealous. 16GB iPhone 3G costs around $800 in India. :( - Ramkarthik

O2 in the UK has the 16Gb iPhone contractless for £391.45 or $575 - http://www.o2.co.uk/iphone..... - Jez Arnold

Sarah Perez

You Can't Afford to Lose Mobile Readers - http://www.louisgray.com/live...

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Leo Laporte

Last.fm - http://wakoopa.com/softwar...

December 14, 2008 from Wakoopa - Comment - Like - Share

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or should I say, love. - Nicholas Kreidberg

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I like Last.fm, but I had to abandon it due to it's mediocre client for OS X. It used 100% CPU when nothing was happening, and it just wasn't worth it for my 1.25Ghz PowerBook. - Larry Hudson

agree with Larry, Pandora works much better on my iMac for some reason - alanoakes

Last,fm is good,but it didn't work well sometime.It only show up the songs I listened yesterday,I can't figure out why. - Steve Chou

I too have problem with #Last.fm I had not been able to get it to recognize the USB iMic that I have connected to my Mac for my external speakers. It used to work until one of the recent updates. - Vinko

Sarah Perez

Netvibes Founder Building iPhone-Like Operating System For Netbooks - http://www.techcrunch.com/2008...

December 9, 2008 from Google Reader - Comment - Like - Share

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Jeff Macpherson

I'm tired of darkness falling early.

December 8, 2008 from Twitter - Comment - Like - Share

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Me too. - David Wilson

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In two weeks the days will be getting longer and the nights shorter. Midsummer night is only months away. Think of that! - Leo Laporte

Look forward to longer day light...seasonal depression, it's not fiction - Ed Wood

I used to like it, now I do not! - Matthew Vaughan

I'm wishing winter were only two weeks long. It just started in earnest and I'm already so over it. - Filippo Dinolfo

Since I have to work so early I have to go to bed early. This is why I like the early darkness so I can experience night. - Paul L. McCord Jr.

At this season of THE WINTER SOLSTICE may reason prevail. There are no gods, no devils, no angels, no heaven or hell. There is only our natural world. Religion is but myth and superstition that hardens hearts and enslaves minds. http://www.ffrf.org/news... http://www.cnn.com/2008... - Gregg H.

~C4Chaos

MIT to Open Source Mobile Web Code - ReadWriteWeb - http://www.readwriteweb.com/archive...

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"Several months ago, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology created the Mobile Web Project in an attempt to provide up-to-date university information for its faculty, students and visitors over mobile devices. Early next year, Information Services and Technology (IS&T), the central IT department at MIT, and the team responsible for the design, development and maintenance of the software, plans to open source the code. The MIT mobile site offers a staff and student directory, a campus map, the shuttle schedule, an event calendar, class announcements for students, emergency information, and status updates for many of MIT's tech services." - ~C4Chaos from Bookmarklet

Open source isn't a new concept for IS&T. I spelled out why it was a good idea over 10 years ago when I worked there: http://web.mit.edu/wwwdev... - Bruce Lewis

Marshall Kirkpatrick

Google's Breaks iPhone App Rules - http://www.moconews.net/entry...

November 26, 2008 from Google Reader - Comment - Like - Share

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