I think I should be worried. My 3 yo just asked me, "Mama, why is that (edit!) man pointing at Barack Obama?" How does my 3yo recognize Obama from behind? o.O
- Admiral Anika
I call Scoble by the nickname "that" all the time
- Steve Rubel
LOL I fixed it. This heat is making me drop words all the time.
- Admiral Anika
People recognize Michael Jordan's silhouette too - remember the cologne logo?
- Daniel J. Pritchett
"How does my 3yo recognize Obama from behind?" - I remember reading about a study that found that you are actuallly more likely to recognize someone from behind.
- John Craft
Barack: Wow, look at the way that guy points. He should be president, not me. Who is he? No, never heard of him. I know an Alex Scoble. Are they related?
- Slappy Line
Social Obama looking at a Social Robert Scoble's picture? This one is great!
- Thierry R. Andriamirado
++Adrian Malone "Caption: "Unfollowed. O. Here's Why;______"
- Robert Higgins
Security Briefing: Anything goes bad during your Presidency, well... just "Blame Scoble" -that guy on the screen. Oh yeah, he's a huge geek that tweets so much the Twitter servers crash often, thus the famed "fail whale" image shows up. :) hehe!
- Susan Beebe
from iPhone
The Internet Wants YOU. - says Uncle Robert.
- Blackeyed P
When I see so much people gathered around a demo, it reminds me of how people gathered around Steve & Steve with their first Apple computer (at least as in Pirates of Sillicon Valley). This technology let's hope it'll one day have a price like that of a TV and that everyone can have one of these in the living room. Good bye coffee tables.
- Gubatron
Instead of having tea.. I will spend my whole evening playing with the table.. :)
- Hameedullah Khan
It's a great pickup line. Well, at least it worked at Gnomedex. :-)
- Robert Scoble
I've look at those and it seems like you could replace 95% of the apps they run on them with a random iPhone game you would have more fun on it.
- Sam Pullara
scottkarp: I'm sorry Twitter search is a joke. Can't search further back then a few weeks. It's not just about real-time, it's a permanent record. - http://twitter.com/scottka...
Twitter needs to technically fix the search instead of decorating it.
- ashish
from iPhone
Maybe they could acquire a third party search service...
- Ken Sheppardson
Maybe they could just start taking this shit seriously?
- Andy Bakun
my tweets have disappeared off the public search timeline since the DoS attacks. Twitter's a free service and customer service reflects it...
- Sherrie Rose
Twitter has been a joke for two years. Problem is too many people enjoy using it. It's a shame people didn't move away from twitter. Pity for those people.
- Richard A.
Totally agreed. I had a personal hash-tag for so many tweets just so that I could maintain some records.All are gone now :(
- Sujay
Despite all the problems I do like that I can narrow my search geographically. That is something I wish I could do with FriendFeed. I would also like to search for new friends geographically.
- Skyler Call
Question: Why would anybody need to search twitter back more than a couple of weeks? I don't see how Tweets hold any value for that long. Do you save all your SMS Text messages too?
- Otto
Otto wins! If it's something worth saving, blog it, or put it somewhere that's yours, not Twitter's, or Tumblr's or anyone else's. Oye...
- Mike Lewis
Why are you sorry that a product you're not responsible for is a joke?
- Trent Hamm
If Twitter does come up with a good search functionality, then I want the ability to purge my tweets after some period of time. I don't want my messages being permanent records.
- Otto
What Twitter did to their search earlier in the Spring was a huge surprise to me as I used it regularly. The changes they made did not raise much of a huff then, so my read was that few people understand and make use of these search capabilities. While the friendfeed search has room for growth which we may not see now with the buyout, it is clearly one of the main reasons I decided to make this my social media home.
- Richard Reeve
Once in a while I think to myself how much data does the Internet want to keep, and why does it matter. Wouldn't it be better if there was a national library online that wasn't putting a load on the Internet from keeping so much useless data (which Twitter mostly has, BTW...)
- David Libby
My sense is that the dross is an inevitable by product, and what one might consider dross might be valuable to another for very different reasons, some of which we might not even recognize yet. Regardless of the system, I'm for archiving the entire unfolding transcript...
- Richard Reeve
Is FF search really much better? Trying to find things older than a few days or weeks is damn near impossible.
- Brian Sullivan
Brian, while FF only returns about 630 or items back, once you apply searches by keyword, that is more than enough to get you back all the way to the beginning of your Twitter, etc. record kept within FF. And that is the value, Otto, that before you could use Twitter as a very handy, "self-tagging" (by way of your tweet context) bookmark repository, etc. Sometimes you do want to find out what (specific) people said during a given conference, during a major event, sentiment trends over time, etc. etc.
- Alex Schleber
@Otto42, agreed that you should be able to opt out for privacy reasons, then again, you already sort of can by protecting your updates (granted that won't get your old tweets out of Twitter Search & FF, etc. databases).
- Alex Schleber
I liked the video so I took a look at his site. Also interesting so I check out his book. Looks good (& I've got an Amazon gift certificate), so I go to order... and it's not available for Kindle. Huh.
- Karen
I'm waiting for the FaceBook app for the Android phone. I thought I heard it was in the works.
- Chris Jackson
This thing makes me think how much mobile app dev of soc net tools will drive (and, actually for someb is already driving) smartphone sales. It's obvious, but this makes it so clear. Thnx
- Alberto D'Ottavi
from fftogo
This is why I hate the app store so much. Cool app, massive delay in getting it to market. Why do I have to download this crap through Apple? Why can't I download through FB directly? Frankly, all developers of "free" apps should release through Cydia, so those of us with jailbroken phones don't have to put up with Apple's BS.
- Otto
I hope Spotify release their app on Cydia if Apple rejects it. What a great reason for millions of people to jailbreak their phones. :)
- Jamie Cansdale
Looking forward to this, three weeks until available?
- Joe Dawson
Taking ages isn't it! I've been refreshing the app store a couple of times a day hoping for it to arrive. Dont even use Facebook that much, just wanna play with the update :)
- Simon Wicks
this is super cool. i love all the amazing little details like the lego man raising his arms before they first hoist the FF logo! and many more.
- Christopher Chung
Your summer project was to make a two-minute stop-action Lego video?
- Rebecca Sun
Pretty neat. That probably took a lot of work
- Kamilah Gill
Chris, if you ever come up with a good story and want to take a week off of work to do a longer one, let me know. ;) Just be prepared for much tediousness... (but it's well worth it!)
- Dan Hsiao
"Annoyed by ads in Gmail? Here’s how to get rid of them. It has been discovered that by simply adding two sentences to the end of an email you can trick Gmail into hiding all ads."
- Martin Bryant
from Bookmarklet
Just curious, will quoting "I enjoy the massacre of ads. This sentence will slaughter ads without a messy bloodbath." fool AdSense too, or at least force it to display public service ads?
- Sebastian
It's certainly worth a try, Sebastian!
- Martin Bryant
You know, this isn't working for me. I was joking above, but it only works for me if I email me. I put the phrase in my signature line thinking that if someone replies to me, gmail would still recognize it in my reply and continue to block, but that doesn't appear to be the case.
- Kevin Arth
"Toshiba has announced it will be launching a 64GB SDXC card, which they claim will be the world's fastest and largest SD card. The card boasts write speeds of 32MB per second and read speeds of 60MB per second, and is compliant with the latest SD memory standard. In addition to the 64GB SDXC, Toshiba also announced they would be releasing two more storage cards: a 32GB SDHC card and a 16GB SDHC card – and importantly, both offer the same speeds as the 64GB SDXC."
- LANjackal
from Bookmarklet
Un;less i start taking 100meg shots , 64Gb is Waaayyyyyy too much
- Roberto Bonini
What about HD video cameras that record to SD? :P
- LANjackal
from IM
Or backing up my 60GB PS3 :) As long as reliability is the same or better, then bigger is almost always better... you'll always have a bigger backup on your card of stuff you've already offloaded.
- LogEx
Wayne: The good news - In the nativeapp there is no captcha :-)
- Barak Hachamov
Told you Scoble, its truly an amazing app!
- Blonde 2.0
They named a feature after you. Nice compliment. Who's tried it and what do you think?
- Michael Fidler
Michael - I've been on it for about 5 months and love it. It took a week or two of use to start seeing the really interesting stuff bubble up and it’s only gotten better since. The thing for new users is you’ve really got use it to see the magic. But if you’re interested I can highly recommend it, especially if you’re already using a feed aggregator then this is that on steroids....
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- Richard Zaragoza
Lately I've found that quite a few clients are still running IE6!! They've updated since the discovery but IE6 made it quite hard to proof certain web projects because of it's rendering bugs...
- t i n y m
Don't forget IE7. It's just barely better than IE6.
- Matt Mastracci
Many companies feel that moving from IE to an alternate browser (Mozillla) is not worth the investment/ IT/ training. Big mistake in my opinion.
- David Lanning
Our web dept is allowed to use Firefox (and other browsers for testing) but the company doesn't "officially" like everyone using them. They're very much Microsoft fans & don't believe IE is bad in any way... To them us web geeks are just complainers when it comes to IE.
- t i n y m
Matt's right: IE7 is a clunky POS as well. The only thing good about it is that they fixed a few CSS bugs, bumped up the GC thresholds, and fixed the PNG transparency issue. Oh, and they somehow managed to build tabs into the chrome using C++/win32 code and *still* made them freakishly slow to render.
- Joel Webber
There are a lot of complex reasons why people *can't* upgrade (IT policy, legacy intranet apps, etc). But the reason so many people don't think it's worth the trouble is that we all bend over backwards to support it, and we simply don't *try* features that would perform poorly on IE. It's slow enough on the apps that are out there, but what people often don't think about are the apps and features that never see the light of day because they're unimplementable on that foul monstrosity.
- Joel Webber
Every version of IE should die horrible obsolete deaths. Unless of course you enjoy re-writing everything you code for the web. Seriously, has anyone ever did any html which displays perfectly the first time on all browsers including IE on the first shot?
- Fry Ink
IE's a BROWSER?? Isn't that the same for example? /sarcasm
- Robert Sanchez Jr
We have had our Application Control software blocking it for 6 months now
- Simon Bryan
Joel, have seen and heard people *justifying* that if you make things ok for IE6, they'll run like anything on modern browsers- so much for not trying features that'll perform poorly on IE6. I think the proper way to get around this problem is to get the usage % to such a dismal low that lethargic sysads will have no option but to finally invest their 'savings' from an era of not developing applications for modern browsers, into upgrading them.
- Ashish Tiwari